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6904542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Krug | Barbara Krug | Barbara Krug (born 6 May 1956, in Leipzig) is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
At the 1978 European Championships she won a gold medal in the 4 × 400 m relay, together with teammates Christiane Marquardt, Christina Lathan and Marita Koch. Krug then finished fourth at the 1979 European Indoor Championships.
Krug, Lathan and Koch remained on the relay team for the 1980 Summer Olympics, with Gabriele Löwe replacing Christiane Marquardt. The team won the Olympic silver medal in 4 × 400 m relay.
Krug competed for the club SC DHfK Leipzig during her active career.
References
Sources
Dictionary of Women Worldwide. 25,000 women through the ages. Three volumes. Edited by Anne Commire. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 2007.
1956 births
Living people
East German female sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of East Germany
Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
Athletes from Leipzig
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Olympic female sprinters |
6904563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosstrees | Crosstrees | Crosstrees are the two horizontal spars at the upper ends of the topmasts of sailing ships, used to anchor the shrouds from the topgallant mast. Similarly, they may be mounted at the upper end of the topgallant to anchor the shrouds from the royal mast (if fitted). Similar transverse spars remain on steam ship and motor vessel masts to secure wire antennae or signal flag halyards.
Explanation
Any vertical structure like a mast is subject to dynamic swaying stress from wind, which levers immense force at the base of the mast. Such stress is countered through guy ropes which are diagonally supporting ropes from mast top to its base. These ropes share the load on the mast tops and communicate that force to the base structure.
The taller the mast, the wider a base is required for the guy wires so as to form an appropriate angular support against the sway the mast is exposed to. Yet, ships are fixed in their beam (width) and hence only a limited angle is possible for the guy-ropes to support very high masts. Thereby, the taller the ship's mast, the more narrow and unfeasible would be the angle between its support wires and its top. This is where a simple innovation like the crosstree helps to overcome such limitation.
The Crosstree serves as a fresh base to spread the next level of supporting guy ropes, thereby providing a stable height extension to the masts. Without the crosstree, the ship's mast would have been severely limited in height, in relation to the width (beam) of the ship.
Each crosstree serves to spread another level of holding ropes on a fresh wider spar so as to provide support to the next mast top section. Effectively, the crosstree allows to extend the height, mount yet another layer of sail shrouds and option more wind power to the ships. The crosstree also serves to spread the shroud tops.
See tops for the description of their purpose. On modern rigs the same function is provided by spreaders.
External links
Sources
Sailing rigs and rigging |
23579869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%27s%20Cellars | Kelly's Cellars | Kellys Cellars is a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, situated at 30 Bank Street in the city centre. Built on March 14, 1720, it is one of the oldest pubs of Belfast.
It sits in what used to be an alley way off Royal Avenue, but a few buildings were knocked down and now Kellys sits in a square beside Castlecourt, a major Belfast shopping centre. It provides pub food and traditional music sessions. It remains resolutely old-fashioned, with vaulted ceiling and elbow-worn bar and is crammed with bric-a-brac.
History
It was a meeting place for Henry Joy McCracken and the United Irishmen when they were planning the 1798 Rising.
The story goes that McCracken hid behind the bar when British soldiers came for him. In September 2004 the pub had a grand re-opening under new management.
In 2007 a blue plaque was erected on the site by the Ulster History Circle stating that the Society of United Irishmen met there during the period 1791 to 1798.
The influential nationalist politician Joseph Devlin was assistant manager of the pub in the 1890s.
Delisting and relisting
In February 2015 it was reported that the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland) proposed delisting 17 Belfast buildings, including Kelly's Cellars, subject to review by the Historic Buildings Council and Belfast City Council. The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society declared that "despite their present condition, all buildings currently proposed for delisting contribute to the value of Belfast’s fragile built heritage and are important resources to promote tourism, economic investment and social regeneration".
As part of the significant backlash against the proposal to delist Kelly's Cellars, an American lady, Meghan Finlay (née Rice) of Massachusetts, set up an online petition to stop it, based on the pub's historical significance. The petition attracted more than 2,000 signatures and brought to international attention the fight to maintain the listed status of Kelly's Cellars. The decision to strip the pub of its protected status has since been reversed.
On August 25, 2015 following the campaign victory, via their official Facebook page Kelly's Cellars released a statement of thanks to all who had supported their cause.
References
Pubs in Belfast
Grade B2 listed buildings |
17340986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Evans%20%28Welsh%20poet%29 | Daniel Evans (Welsh poet) | Daniel Evans (1792 – 28 March 1846), better known by his pseudonym, Daniel Ddu o Geredigion, was a Welsh language poet.
Life
Evans was born at Maesymynach, a farm in the parish of Llanfihangel Ystrad, Cardiganshire. He was the second of three sons born to a farmer, David Evans. Daniel Evans attended the grammar school in Lampeter, where he was taught by Eliezer Williams, before attending Jesus College, Oxford. He matriculated in 1810, and obtained degrees of B.A. (1814), M.A. (1817) and B.D. (1824). In 1817, he was elected by the college to a fellowship, which he held until his death in 1846, but he resided mainly in Wales.
Although Evans was ordained, he came to public attention as a poet rather than as a priest. He served briefly as chaplain of the Royal Military Asylum in Northampton, but resigned due to ill-health and returned home to his parents in Wales. He had no clerical appointments thereafter. In 1819, he was involved with the Dyfed Cambrian Society's attempt to revive the eisteddfod, and was also elected as poet to the London-based Gwyneddigion Society. Four years later, in 1823, he won two major poetry prizes at the Carmarthen Eisteddfod, one for and the other for . He had a particular skill for love and nature poetry. His collected works were published in 1830 under the title , with an expanded second edition in 1872 drawing on unpublished sources; a third edition was published in 1906. He wrote in classical forms as well as in modern style. Whilst Evans did write a few poems in English, these are regarded as of lesser merit than his Welsh poems. Though highly regarded in the nineteenth century, his reputation has fallen in later times.
Evans, who suffered from depression, committed suicide in Maesnewydd, Llanwnnen, Cardiganshire on 28 March 1846, and was buried on 1 April 1846 at Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire.
Works
Evans's writings included:
(1810)
(1819?) (a poem trying to persuade John Jones (Tegid) to remain in Wales rather than travel to the East Indies)
(1820)
(1822)
(1826)
(1826)
(1841)
(1845)
won Evans a silver medal and prize, presented by Thomas Beynon, a fellow poet, who was president of the Carmarthen Society of Cymreigyddion.
References
1792 births
1846 deaths
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
19th-century Welsh Anglican priests
Welsh-language poets
People from Ceredigion
Suicides in Wales
19th-century Welsh poets
People educated at Lampeter School
1840s suicides |
6904568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful%20World%20%28album%29 | Peaceful World (album) | Peaceful World is the eighth studio album (a double-LP) by rock band The Rascals, released on May 5, 1971. It peaked at number 122 on the Billboard 200 chart. The single "Love Me" reached number 95 on the Billboard Hot 100.
History
Vocalist Eddie Brigati left the Rascals in August 1970, with guitarist Gene Cornish leaving the following month. By October, a new lineup of the Rascals was assembled featuring original members Felix Cavaliere (vocals/keyboards) and Dino Danelli (drums), and several new players, including ex-Paul Butterfield Blues Band guitarist Buzz Feiten and vocalist Annie Sutton. Peaceful World was the first album featuring this new version of the band. It was also the Rascals' first album for the CBS/Columbia label, after almost six years with Atlantic Records.
Many of the songs on Peaceful World were jazz-influenced, as opposed to the "blue-eyed soul" style of the Rascals' heyday; the title track, in particular, was a long piece featuring improvisation and multiple extended solos.
Peaceful World was reissued along with The Island of Real on the BGO label in 2008.
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, critic Jim Newsom praised the album and wrote Peaceful World was "a wonderful blend of soul, jazz, and funk that never found an audience.. Despite its lack of commercial success, this was an artistic triumph for Felix Cavaliere... his ambitious album took the Rascals to the place Cavaliere had been headed over the course of the last couple of albums—but, sadly, the fans didn't follow." Robert Christgau admired the change of direction the album took to jazz, but also wrote; "Yet in the end the jazz musicians he's signed on—Fathead Newman, Joe Farrell, Pepper Adams, Ron Carter—aren't especially well-suited to popularize Coltrane and Pharoah and Sun Ra. And even if Felix were singing enough, he wouldn't be singing very good stuff—composition has never been his strength..."
In his review for the reissue of Peaceful World/The Island of Real, critic Thom Jurek wrote of the album " Peaceful World is a sprawling yet very focused collection of songs... The remarkable aspect of this gorgeous record is that it sounds vintage but not dated. The production is clean, the funk is in the cut, and the communication between musicians in the charts is tight."
Track listing
All songs by Felix Cavaliere; except "In and Out of Love" & "Icy Water" by Buzzy Feiten
Side 1
"Sky Trane" – 5:47
"In and Out of Love" – 3:13
"Bit of Heaven" – 3:30
"Love Me" – 3:48
Side 2
"Mother Nature Land" – 3:31
"Icy Water" – 4:31
"Happy Song" – 3:42
"Love Letter" – 5:27
Side 3
"Little Dove" – 6:30
"Visit to Mother Nature Land" – 5:04
"Getting Nearer" – 8:57
Side 4
"Peaceful World" – 21:25
Personnel
Felix Cavaliere – vocals, keyboards, marimba, organ, piano
Dino Danelli – drums
Howard "Buzz" Feiten – guitar, bass, background vocals
Annie Sutton – vocals
Linc Chamberland – guitar, horn arrangements
Gerald Jemmott – bass
Robert Popwell – bass
Chuck Rainey – bass
William Salter – bass
Hubert Laws – flute
Alice Coltrane – harp
Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
Garnett Brown – horn, trombone
Ron Carter – bass
Joe Farrell – flute, soprano sax, tenor sax
Molly Holt – background vocals
Buddy Buono – background vocals
Cynthia Webb – background vocals
Ralph MacDonald – bells, conga, percussion, shaker, talking drum
Joe Newman – trumpet
Ernie Royal – trumpet
Jon Robert Smith (born 1946) – saxophone
Ernie Wilkins – saxophone
James Green, Jerry Lee Smith - recording engineer
Bob Irwin - mastering engineer
References
1971 albums
The Rascals albums
Albums produced by Felix Cavaliere
Columbia Records albums |
23579873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Riche%2C%20Western%20Australia | Cape Riche, Western Australia | Cape Riche is a cape and rural locality in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. By road, it is 525 km south-east of Perth and 123 km north-east of Albany
Facilities in the locality include a boat launching ramp and a campground with flushing toilets and showers.
History
Cape Riche was named for Claude-Antoine-Gaspard Riche, a naturalist on Bruni d'Entrecasteaux's 1791 expedition who became lost for two days near Esperance.
Matthew Flinders aboard the Investigator charted the area in 1802 as part of his circumnavigation of Australia.
George Cheyne, a Scottish immigrant, took up land at Cape Riche in 1836, after arriving in Albany in 1831. He established a trading post which was often visited by American whalers. In about 1848, sandalwood cutters arrived in the area,
The Surveyor-General of Western Australia, John Septimus Roe, visited the Cape in October 1848 as part of this 1848–49 expedition and reorganised his supplies while staying with the Cheyne family. He left 4 days later to make his way to the Russell Range.
The Cheyne properties were later taken over by the related Moir family. The Cape Riche Homestead, also known as Moirs Property, was designed and built between 1850 and 1860 by Alexander Moir. It comprises a large group of spongolite buildings.
Bay whaling activity took place on the coast in the 1870s.
In the 1890s the schooner Grace Darling, provided supplies and delivered the mail on its monthly run between Albany and Esperance.
Flora and fauna
A number of botanists and explorers conducted plant collections in the area in the mid-19th century including Ludwig Preiss (1840), James Drummond (1840, 1846–48)
John Septimus Roe (1848) and William Henry Harvey (1854). Plant species which were formally described based on these collections included Moirs wattle (Acacia moirii), sheath cottonhead (Conostylis vaginata), tallerack (Eucalyptus pleurocarpa), autumn featherflower (Verticordia harveyi) and Bossiaea preissii. Ludwig Diels and Ernst Pritzel also collected plant material at Cape Riche in 1901.
Cape Riche is home to a number of rare flora species including feather-leaved banksia (Banksia brownii), Manypeaks rush (Chordifex arbortivus), Manypeaks sundew (Drosera fimbriata) and coast featherflower (Verticordia helichrysantha). The Albany/Cape Riche area is noted as a calving area for southern right whales.
Gallery
References
Towns in Western Australia
Great Southern (Western Australia)
South coast of Western Australia
Whaling stations in Australia |
6904575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%20Fellows%20Hall%20%28Covington%2C%20Kentucky%29 | Odd Fellows Hall (Covington, Kentucky) | The Odd Fellows Hall in Covington, Kentucky is located at the northeast corner of Fifth Street and Madison Avenue. It was constructed in 1856 by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge, and was the center of Covington's civic and political life for most of the Victorian era. When the American Civil War ended, victorious Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was honored with a reception there.
In 1900, the body of William Goebel, the only U.S. governor to be assassinated in office, lay in state there, as an estimated 10,000 people filed past.
In the 1950s, a roller skating rink filled the second-floor ballroom, famous for its -high ceiling suspended by a truss system.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was deemed notable as "one of the city's earliest commercial structures." The building was assessed to be "especially noteworthy in the method of construction. In order to accommodate large, unbroken interior spaces, iron tie rods were employed to support the floors. In addition to its architectural distinction, the structure is a well-known local landmark having served as the center for both civic and social activities in downtown Covington."
In May 2002, a major fire almost destroyed the entire building. It was reduced to its front facade, back wall, and a three-story column of smoke and charred debris. A new team has restored the hall, with its first tenant taking occupancy in March 2006.
References
External links
The Grand Banquet Hall
Photos of the interior of the restored building
Odd Fellows Hall rises from the ashes
Odd Fellows fire a profound loss
National Register of Historic Places in Kenton County, Kentucky
Odd Fellows buildings in Kentucky
Buildings and structures in Covington, Kentucky
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky |
23579896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadava%20Patidar | Kadava Patidar | The Kadava Patidar (also variously spelled Kadwa, Kadva) are a sub-caste of the Patidars in Gujarat. They are mainly found in North Gujarat and Ahmedabad. They were dependent on cash-crop agriculture and occupied a higher status than the less wealthy Leva Patidars. The name "Kadava" comes from "Kadi", a former district that existed during the Baroda State. However a popular belief among the community is that Kadava descend from Kusha, son of the deity Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana. According to Shah in 1982, the Kadva Patidars have received extremely little attention from scholars in comparison to Leva Patidars, which was part of a wider trend among scholars that ignored north Gujarat.
References
Indian castes
Social groups of Gujarat |
17341003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu%20Micro%2016s | Fujitsu Micro 16s | The Fujitsu Micro 16s was a business personal computer from Fujitsu that was launched in 1983, around the same time as the launch of the original IBM PC/XT. The Micro 16s used a plug in microprocessor board, and two models were offered, an Intel 8086 and a Zilog Z80 expansion board. Additional expansion boards with the Motorola 68000, Intel 80286 and Zilog Z8000 processors were also planned. Additionally it had a Motorola 6809 co-processor.
As operating systems one could choose between Concurrent CP/M-86 with GSX graphic extension, MP/M-86, MS-DOS, CP/M (for the Z80 board) and Unix.
It could support up to four 320 KB 5.25-inch floppy disk drives, and a hard disk of up to 20 MB.
It had advanced color graphics with 640x200 resolution with 8 colors per pixel, based on a Motorola 6845 video chip, and used an RGB color video monitor.
Up to 1152 KB of memory could be supported.
The Fujitsu Micro 16s series was discontinued in 1986.
See also
Kanji CP/M-86 (1984)
References
External links
Micro 16s at old-computers.com
Early microcomputers
Fujitsu computers
Personal computers |
23579907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20the%20Duration | For the Duration | For the Duration is a 1991 album by Rosemary Clooney, of songs popular during World War II. Clooney is accompanied by her usual small jazz group featuring Warren Vaché Jr., Scott Hamilton, and John Oddo, plus a string section.
Track listing
"No Love, No Nothin'" (Leo Robin, Harry Warren) – 4:00
"Don't Fence Me In" (Robert Fletcher, Cole Porter) – 4:25
"I Don't Want to Walk Without You Baby" (Frank Loesser, Jule Styne) – 3:59
"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter) – 4:08
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter) – 3:23
"Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer) – 4:28
"For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) – 4:06
"September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 4:19
"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 5:58
"They're Either Too Young or Too Old" (Loesser, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:14
"The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Warren) – 4:40
"(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" (Walter Kent, Nat Burton) – 2:29
"Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Sammy Cahn, Styne) – 3:48
"I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) – 4:18
Personnel
Rosemary Clooney – vocals
Warren Vaché Jr. – cornet
Scott Hamilton – tenor saxophone
John Oddo – piano
Chuck Berghofer – bass
Jim Hughart – bass
Jake Hanna – drums
Source:
References
1991 albums
Concord Records albums
Rosemary Clooney albums |
17341009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%E2%80%93Johnston%20House | Lucas–Johnston House | The Lucas–Johnston House (also known as Augustus Lucas House) is an historic colonial house in downtown Newport, Rhode Island.
History of building
Dendrochronology surveys were conducted on the house showing that the trees felled in its constructed were from Circa 1650, Summer 1714, and Winter 1759/60. An architectural and dendrochronology study concluded that "the house has two interior chimneys, but they are placed front to back rather than side to side [as was normal in eighteenth century Georgian style houses]... the rear chimney, with its kitchen fireplace, is the one with more age. The foundation walls appear to be of one unified build rather that parts of an earlier building combined with a later construction. Exterior walls, particularly on the north and west walls are studded construction and also have brick nogging. Both of these techniques are quite uncommon for Newport...There are a couple of strange datings ranging from 1618 to 1634...while nothing dating from the first quarter of the 18th century shows in the results, with the exception of a single felling of 1714."
History of occupants
It was the home to French Huguenot settler, Augustus Lucas, a slave trader and attorney, and later his grandson, Augustus Johnston, who was a Tory who served as Rhode Island Attorney General and is the namesake of Johnston, Rhode Island. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
See also
Oldest buildings in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Information about house
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic American Buildings Survey in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island |
23579910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reenard | Reenard | Reenard () is a townland in County Kerry, Ireland. It is located in the deep south on the Iveragh Peninsula on the southwest coast of Ireland opposite Valentia Island about 5 miles west of Cahersiveen. Reenard is connected to the Irish road network by a road crossing the N70 national secondary route at Point's Cross.
Reenard Point, located in the townland, is the mainland terminal for the car ferry to Knightstown on Valentia Island.
Railways
Valentia Harbour railway station was finally opened on 12 September 1893.
The station closed on 1 February 1960.
GAA
Reenard is known in Ireland for its GAA club which has historically supplied players to the Kerry senior football team.
Notable people
Jerry O Mahoney, Gaelic footballer
See also
Valentia Harbour railway station
References
Townlands of County Kerry |
17341011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%A4azzan%20%28surname%29 | Ḥazzan (surname) | Hazan, Chazan, Chasen, Hasson, and Khazan are all alternative spellings of Hazzan, a Hebrew word carried over into most other Jewish languages that refers to the cantor in the Jewish prayer tradition. The surname was commonly adopted throughout the Jewish diaspora. See also Hassan (surname).
Khazan is a Russian, Ukrainian, and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, and is a variant of the Hebrew 'Hazzan' and means cantor. When spelled Khazan, the name has typically been transliterated from Cyrillic characters (Хазан), suggesting people of Russian-Jewish descent.
Hazan is a Turkish and Romaniote Jewish surname, and is a variant of the Hebrew 'Hazzan' and means cantor. This variant is carried by the Romaniote Jews between Greece and Turkey.
People with the name Hazan include:
Abraham Chazan (1849–1917), Breslover rabbi
Adeline Hazan (born 1965), French politician
Al Hazan, American musician
Alon Hazan (born 1967), Israeli former association footballer, and head coach of the Israel national under-21 football team
Bella Ḥazzan (), Bohemian writer
Marcella Hazan (born 1924), Italian writer
Nachman Chazan (1813–1884), Breslover rabbi
Naomi Hazan (born 1946), Israeli politician
Samuel Hazan (born 1983), Israeli footballer
Shani Hazan (born 1992), Israeli model, singer, and Miss Israel 2012
Yaakov Hazan (1899–1992), Israeli politician
Yehiel Hazan (born 1958), Israeli politician
See also
Hazan, EMI recording name for Nazia and Zoheb 1980s Pakistan singers, The Hassans
References
Hebrew-language surnames
Jewish surnames |
23579929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazneen%20Ghaani | Nazneen Ghaani | Nazneen Ghaani is an Indian actress probably best known for playing the role of Ragini Juneja in Disney Channel India's sitcom, Kya Mast Hai Life. Nazneen acted as Gauri in The Hangman.
Ghaani appeared in many advertisements like Big Bazar Badal Dalo, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Star Plus on Mobile etc. She has done over 150 advertisements.
Filmography
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
The Hangman (2005 film)
Television
Kya Mast Hai Life as Ragini juneja
References
External links
1986 births
Actresses from Mumbai
Living people
Indian Muslims
Actresses in Hindi television
Indian television actresses
21st-century Indian actresses |
6904579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Province%20of%20Potenza | List of municipalities of the Province of Potenza | The following is a list of the 100 municipalities (comuni) of the Province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy.
List
References
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)
External links
Potenza |
44498838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq%20football%20rivalry | Iran–Iraq football rivalry | The Iran and Iraq national football teams are sporting rivals since 1962.
According to The Malay Mail, "Emotions are always high when Iran and Iraq meet on the football pitch".
The most recent match between the two teams was in World Cup qualifier on 27 January 2022 hosted in Iran, where Iran won the game by 0–1.
Origins
The rivalry is not such a football-inspired ill-feeling between the two, but more of geography, religion and history.
Iran and Iraq are neighbouring countries, sharing a long history. In contemporary era, especially during the reign of Saddam Hussein, the two countries had bad relations and fought the Iran–Iraq War for 8 years.
In 2001, for the first time in decades, an Iran-Iraq match was not held at a neutral venue.
In recent years, Iranian intervention in Iraq has taken a grip among Iraqis as Iran has funded and supported numerous militants inside Iraq and interfered politically. This led to the heated 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers the second phase where a large number of Iraqi protestors were seen celebrating victory over Iran in a 2–1 match.
Major tournament matches
1972 AFC Asian Cup
1976 AFC Asian Cup
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1996 AFC Asian Cup
2000 AFC Asian Cup
2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
2011 AFC Asian Cup
2015 AFC Asian Cup
2019 AFC Asian Cup
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
Matches
Source:
Statistics
Overall
Top scorers
See also
Iran–Saudi Arabia football rivalry
Iraq–Saudi Arabia football rivalry
References
International association football rivalries
Iran national football team rivalries
Iraq national football team
Iran–Iraq relations
1962 establishments in Asia
Politics and sports |
44498840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%20French%20legislative%20election%20in%20Guinea | 1956 French legislative election in Guinea | Elections to the French National Assembly were held Guinea on 2 January 1956, as part of the wider French elections. The Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally won two of the three seats (taken by Ahmed Sékou Touré and Saifoulaye Diallo) with the African Bloc of Guinea winning the other seat (Barry Diawadou).
Results
References
Elections in Guinea
Guinea
1956 in Guinea
1956 elections in France |
6904584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maumee%20High%20School%20%28Ohio%29 | Maumee High School (Ohio) | Maumee High School is a public high school in Maumee, Ohio, southwest of Toledo. It is the only high school in the Maumee City School District. Their mascot and sports teams are known as the "Maumee Panthers". They are members of the Northern Lakes League and their rivals are Perrysburg Yellow Jackets and Anthony Wayne Generals.
Maumee High School is one of only four high schools that have a Heisman Trophy on display, donated by alum Richard Kazmaier, who won it while at Princeton University.
Maumee High School was accused of assigning students videos by PragerU, a right-wing propaganda website, on October 20, 2020.
Notable alumni
Michael Graves (fighter), professional MMA fighter currently with Titan Fc
Robert Knepper, actor (who was on Prison Break on Fox)
Richard Kazmaier, football player (1951 Heisman winner who gifted trophy to high school); namesake of school stadium
Steve Mason, Southern California radio broadcaster
Bellal Joseph, trauma surgeon for Gabby Giffords after her assassination attempt
Richard Kazmaier Stadium
Richard Kazmaier Stadium is on the north side of the Maumee High School campus. In addition to football, track, and soccer, it hosts marching band, drum, and drumline competitions.
Maumee Performing Arts Center at Maumee High School
Thanks to donations from local businesses (Ed Schmidt Auto Group, Maison-Dardenne-Walker Funeral Home, the Andersons, the Buehrer Group, Fifth Third Bank, St. Luke’s Hospital, and the Maumee Rotary Foundation), a long-awaited theater was completed on the school campus. Prior to its construction, Maumee High was one of few in the region without a theater. Instead, productions commenced at other venues or Gateway Middle School, one mile away. They have recently performed such plays as Take Her, She's Mine, My Fair Lady, The Servant of Two Masters, Guys and Dolls, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz.
The Maumee Performing Arts Center at Maumee High School also served as temporary host to the Toledo Opera, Toledo Ballet, and others from late November 2007 through March 2008, after a fire closed the Valentine Theater.
References
External links
District Website
High schools in Lucas County, Ohio
Public high schools in Ohio |
20473336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo%20at%20the%201995%20Summer%20Universiade | Judo at the 1995 Summer Universiade | The Judo competition in the 1995 Summer Universiade were held in Fukuoka, Japan from 24 August to 28 August 1995.
Medal overview
Men's event
Women's event
Results overview
Men's event
60 kg
65 kg
71 kg
78 kg
86 kg
95 kg
+95 kg
Open class
Women's event
48 kg
52 kg
56 kg
61 kg
66 kg
72 kg
+72 kg
Open class
Medal table
External links
The Organizing Committee for the Universiade 1995, Fukuoka(FUOC)
Universiade
1995
1995 Summer Universiade
Universiade 1995 |
6904588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20Wildlife%20Center | Alabama Wildlife Center | The Alabama Wildlife Center is a wildlife rehabilitation and education center located in Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham, Alabama, United States. It is the largest such center in the state.
The center treats injured or orphaned native birds from across the state of Alabama from over 100 different species. Every year, AWC receives almost 2,000 avian patients.
The Alabama Wildlife Center's education program focuses on conservation education and the preservation of Alabama's biodiversity and avian resources. AWC's programming reaches over 30,000 people annually from Alabama and beyond.
History
The center was founded in Birmingham in 1977 by Anne Miller as an all-volunteer organization to meet the need for the rescue and rehabilitation of native Alabama wildlife. By 1981, Miller left her job as a zookeeper with the Birmingham Zoo to run the center full-time. In 1987, the state of Alabama, in recognition of the center's service, donated the use of a closed restaurant inside Oak Mountain State Park. Currently the state covers the cost of the building maintenance and most utilities, while the center is responsible for capital improvements and operating expenses.
The center was recognized as a "Best of the Road" destination in the 2006 edition of the Rand McNally road atlas.
Exhibits
While not all of the animals being treated at the center will be on display at once, visitors have the opportunity to observe many of the patients through one-way windows. The nursery, solarium and Backyard Wildlife Demonstration Garden are located inside the building. Adjacent to the main building are the Raptor Wing and Freedom Flight, where large birds on the cusp of release are housed. Nearby is the Treetop Nature Trail, where otherwise-healthy birds unable to be released into the wild may be observed in a natural setting along an elevated boardwalk.
External links
Official website
Slideshow from the Shelby County Reporter
Landmarks in Alabama
1977 establishments in Alabama
Wildlife rehabilitation and conservation centers
Animal welfare organizations based in the United States
Buildings and structures in Shelby County, Alabama
Tourist attractions in Shelby County, Alabama |
6904590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herdsmen%20of%20the%20Sun | Herdsmen of the Sun | Herdsmen of the Sun () is a 1989 documentary film by Werner Herzog.
The film explores the social rituals and cultural celebrations of the Saharan nomadic Wodaabe tribe. Particular focus is given to the Gerewol celebration, which features an elaborate male beauty contest to win wives.
Although the film may be considered to be ethnographic, Herzog commented that: "[My films] are anthropological only in as much as they try to explore the human condition at this particular time on this planet. I do not make films using images only of clouds and trees, I work with human beings because the way they function in different cultural groups interests me. If that makes me an anthropologist then so be it."
References
External links
1989 films
West German films
1980s German-language films
1989 documentary films
German documentary films
1980s German films |
20473357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B6lunda%20Specialist%20Hospital | Frölunda Specialist Hospital | Frölunda specialist hospital () is located in Frölunda, right next to Frölunda torg, approximately nine kilometres south-west of central Gothenburg. The hospital primarily operate with elective care, with specialist in otolaryngology, neurology, gynaecology, orthopedic surgery, medicine, dermatology, ophthalmology, surgery, and radiography. The hospital was inaugurated in 1968 as a local hospital for people living in Tynnered, Frölunda, and Älvsborg. Today, 190 people work at the hospital which is owned by Västra Götaland Regional Council.
The 17-storey building is high. The hospital occupies the bottom five floors; the rest are residential.
Hospital buildings completed in 1968
Hospitals in Gothenburg
Hospitals established in 1968
1968 establishments in Sweden |
6904597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20discharger | Static discharger | Static dischargers, also called static wicks or static discharge wicks, are devices used to remove static electricity from aircraft in flight. They take the form of small sticks pointing backwards from the wings, and are fitted on almost all civilian aircraft.
Function
Precipitation static is an electrical charge on an airplane caused by flying through rain, snow, ice, or dust particles. Charge also accumulates through friction between the aircraft hull and the air. When the aircraft charge is great enough, it discharges into the surrounding air. Without static dischargers, the charge discharges in large batches through pointed aircraft extremities, such as antennas, wing tips, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, and other protrusions. The discharge creates a broad-band radio frequency noise from DC to 1000 MHz, which can affect aircraft communication.
To control this discharge, so as to allow the continuous operation of navigation and radio communication systems, static dischargers are installed on the trailing edges of aircraft. These include (electrically grounded) ailerons, elevators, rudder, wing, horizontal and vertical stabilizer tips. Static dischargers are high electrical resistance (6-200 megaohm) devices with a lower corona voltage and sharper points than the surrounding aircraft structure. This means that the corona discharge into the atmosphere flows through them, and occurs gradually.
Static dischargers are not lightning arrestors and do not affect the likelihood of an aircraft being struck by lightning. They will not function if they are not properly bonded to the aircraft. There must be a conductive path from all parts of the airplane to the dischargers, otherwise they will be useless. Access panels, doors, cowls, navigation lights, antenna mounting hardware, control surfaces, etc., can create static noise if they cannot discharge through the static wick.
History
The first static dischargers were developed by a joint Army-Navy team led by Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory and fitted onto military aircraft during World War II. They were shown to be effective even in extreme weather conditions in 1946 by a United States Army Air Corps team led by Capt. Ernest Lynn Cleveland.
Dayton Granger, an inventor from Florida, received a patent on static wicks in 1950.
See also
Pan Am Flight 214
Precipitation (meteorology)
Electrostatic discharge
Triboelectric effect
Ground loop (electricity)
References
Electrical engineering
Electrodes |
20473372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9cile%20Gallez | Cécile Gallez | Cécile Gallez (16 May 1936 – 31 July 2022) was a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the Nord department as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1936 births
2022 deaths
People from Nord (French department)
Members of Parliament for Nord
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
Women mayors of places in France
French pharmacists |
6904608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Douglas | Sandra Douglas | Sandra Marie Douglas (born 22 April 1967) is a female English former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Career
Douglas was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. She competed for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain, where she ran her lifetime best of 51.41 secs to reach the semifinals of the 400 metres, before going on to win a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay, with her teammates Phyllis Smith, Jennifer Stoute and Sally Gunnell. Douglas also competed for England at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
International competitions
National titles
UK Championships 400 metres (1992)
AAA Indoor Championships 400 metres (1991)
References
1967 births
Living people
People from Chipping Campden
Sportspeople from Gloucestershire
English female sprinters
Olympic athletes of Great Britain
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Commonwealth Games competitors for England
Olympic female sprinters |
20473383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9leste%20Lett | Céleste Lett | Céleste Lett (born May 7, 1951 in Sarreguemines, Moselle) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Moselle department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
He has three sons: Jean-Francois, Philippe, and Alexandre.
References
1951 births
Living people
People from Sarreguemines
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
23579933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin%20B1 | Aflatoxin B1 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Aflatoxin B1}}
Aflatoxin B1 is an aflatoxin produced by Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus. It is a very potent carcinogen with a TD50 3.2 μg/kg/day in rats. This carcinogenic potency varies across species with some, such as rats and monkeys, seemingly much more susceptible than others. Aflatoxin B1 is a common contaminant in a variety of foods including peanuts, cottonseed meal, corn, and other grains; as well as animal feeds. Aflatoxin B1 is considered the most toxic aflatoxin and it is highly implicated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in humans. In animals, aflatoxin B1 has also been shown to be mutagenic, teratogenic, and to cause immunosuppression. Several sampling and analytical methods including thin-layer chromatography (TLC), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), mass spectrometry, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), among others, have been used to test for aflatoxin B1 contamination in foods. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the worldwide maximum tolerated levels of aflatoxin B1 was reported to be in the range of 1–20 μg/kg in food, and 5–50 μg/kg in dietary cattle feed in 2003.
Sources of exposure
Aflatoxin B1 is mostly found in contaminated food and humans are exposed to aflatoxin B1 almost entirely through their diet. Occupational exposure to aflatoxin B1 has also been reported in swine and poultry production. While aflatoxin B1 contamination is common in many staple foods, its production is maximized in foods stored in hot, humid climates. Exposure is therefore most common in Southeast Asia, South America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Pathology
Aflatoxin B1 can permeate through the skin. Dermal exposure to this aflatoxin in particular environmental conditions can lead to major health risks. The liver is the most susceptible organ to aflatoxin B1 toxicity. In animal studies, pathological lesions associated with aflatoxin B1 intoxication include reduction in weight of liver, vacuolation of hepatocytes, and hepatic carcinoma. Other liver lesions include enlargement of hepatic cells, fatty infiltration, necrosis, hemorrhage, fibrosis, regeneration of nodules, and bile duct proliferation/hyperplasia.
Aspergillus flavus
Aspergillus flavus is a fungus of the family Trichocomaceae with a worldwide distribution. The mold lives in soil, surviving off dead plant and animal matter, but spreads through the air via airborne conidia. This fungus grows in long branched hyphae and is capable of surviving on numerous food sources including corn and peanuts. The fungus and its products are pathogenic to a number of species, including humans. While toxicity of its products, aflatoxins, are explored throughout this article, Aspergillus flavus itself also exerts pathogenic effects through aspergillosis, or infection with the mold. This infection largely occurs in the lungs of immune compromised patients but infection may also occur in the skin or other organs. Unlike many mold species, Aspergillus flavus prefers hot and dry conditions. Its optimal growth at contributes to its pathogenicity in humans.
Biosynthetic pathway
Aflatoxin B1 is derived from both a dedicated fatty acid synthase (FAS) and a polyketide synthase (PKS), together known as norsolorinic acid synthase. The biosynthesis begins with the synthesis of hexanoate by the FAS, which then becomes the starter unit for the iterative type I PKS. The PKS adds seven malonyl-CoA extenders to the hexanoate to form the C20 polyketide compound. The PKS folds the polyketide in a particular way to induce cyclization to form the anthraquinone norsolorinic acid. A reductase then catalyzes the reduction of the ketone on the norsolorinic acid side-chain to yield averantin. Averantin is converted to averufin via a two different enzymes, a hydroxylase and an alcohol dehydrogenase. This will oxygenate and cyclize averantin's side chain to form the ketal in averufin.
From this point on the biosynthetic pathway of aflatoxin B1 becomes much more complicated, with several major skeletal changes. Most of the enzymes have not been characterized and there may be several more intermediates that are still unknown. However, what is known is that averufin is oxidized by a P450-oxidase, AvfA, in a Baeyer-Villiger oxidation. This opens the ether rings and upon rearrangement versiconal acetate is formed. Now an esterase, EstA, catalyzes the hydrolysis of the acetyl, forming the primary alcohol in versiconal. The acetal in versicolorin A is formed from the cyclization of the side-chain in versiconal, which is catalyzed by VERB synthase, and then VerB, a desaturase, reduces versicolorin B to form the dihydrobisfuran.
There are two more enzymes that catalyze the conversion of versicolorin A to demethylsterigmatocystin: AflN, an oxidase and AflM, a reductase. These enzymes use both molecular oxygen and two NADPH's to dehydrate one of the hydroxyl groups on the anthraquinone and open the quinine with the molecular oxygen. Upon forming the aldehyde in the ring opening step, it is oxidized to form the carboxylic acid and subsequently a decarboxylation event occurs to close the ring, forming the six-member ether ring system seen in demethylsterigmatocystin. The next two steps in the biosynthetic pathway is the methylation by S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) of the two hydroxyl groups on the xanthone part of demethysterigmatocystin by two different methyltransferases, OmtB and OmtA. This yields O-methylsterigmatocystin. In the final steps there is an oxidative cleavage of the aromatic ring and loss of one carbon in O-methylsterigmatocystin, which is catalyzed by OrdA, an oxidoreductase. Then a final recyclization occurs to form aflatoxin B1.
Mechanism of carcinogenicity
Aflatoxin B1 is a potent genotoxic hepatocarcinogen with its exposure strongly linked to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma, liver tumors, especially given co-infection with hepatitis B virus. These effects seem to be largely mediated by mutations at guanine in codon 249 of the p53 gene, a tumor suppressing gene, and at several guanine residues in the 12th and 13th codons of the ras gene, a gene whose product controls cellular proliferation signals. Aflatoxin B1 must first be metabolized into its reactive electrophilic form, aflatoxin B1-8,9-exo-epoxide by cytochrome p450. This active form then intercalates between DNA base residues and forms adducts with guanine residues, most commonly aflatoxin B1-N7-Gua. These adducts may then rearrange or become removed from the backbone all-together, forming an apurinic site. These adducts and alterations represent lesions which, upon DNA replication cause the insertion of a mis-matched base in the opposing strand. Up to 44% of hepatocellular carcinomas in regions with high aflatoxin exposure bear a GC → TA transversion at codon 249 of p53, a characteristic mutation seen with this toxin.
Prevalence of hepatocellular carcinoma in individuals exposed to aflatoxin, increases with co-infection of hepatitis B virus. One study estimated that while individuals with urinary aflatoxin bio-markers were at a threefold greater risk than the normal population for hepatocellular carcinoma; those infected with hepatitis B virus were at a fourfold risk; and those with the aflatoxin bio-markers and infected with hepatitis B virus were at a 60 times greater risk for hepatocellular carcinoma than the normal population.
Toxicity
Several aflatoxin B1 toxicity studies have been conducted on various animal species.
Acute toxicity
The oral LD50 range of aflatoxin B1 is estimated to be 0.3–17.9 mg/kg body weight for most animal species. For instance, the oral LD50 of aflatoxin B1 is estimated to be 17.9 mg/kg body weight in female rats and 7.2 mg/kg body weight in male rats. Still in male rats, the intraperitoneal LD50 of aflatoxin B1 is estimated to be 6.0 mg/kg body weight. Symptoms include anorexia, malaise, and low-grade fever.
Subacute toxicity
Subacute toxicity studies of aflatoxin B1 in animals showed moderate to severe liver damage. In monkeys for instance, subacute toxicity studies showed portal inflammation and fatty change.
Chronic toxicity
Chronic toxicity studies of aflatoxin B1 in chicken showed decreased hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 concentration, reduction in feed consumption and decreased weight gain.
Subchronic toxicity
Subchronic toxicity studies of aflatoxin B1 in fish showed fish to present with preneoplastic lesions, concurrently with changes in gill, pancreas, intestine and spleen.
Genotoxicity
Treatment of human liver cells with aflatoxin B1 at doses that ranged from 3–5 μmol/L resulted in the formation of aflatoxin B1-DNA adducts, 8-hydroxyguanine lesions and DNA damage.
Carcinogenicity
The carcinogenicity of aflatoxin B1, which is characterized by the development of liver cell carcinoma, has been reported in rat studies.
Embryotoxicity
Embryonic death and impaired embryonic development of the bursa of Fabricius in chicken by aflatoxin B1 has been reported.
Teratogenicity
The teratogenic effects of aflatoxin B1 in rabbits have been reported to include reduced fetal weights, wrist drop, enlarged eye socket, agenesis of caudal vertebrae, micropthalmia, cardiac defects, and lenticular degeneration, among others.
Immunotoxicity
Studies in fish showed aflatoxin B1 to have significant immunosuppressive effects including reduced serum total globulin and reduced bactericidal activities.
Risk management and regulations
Aflatoxin B1 exposure is best managed by measures aimed at preventing contamination of crops in the field, post-harvest handling, and storage, or via measures aimed at detecting and decontaminating contaminated commodities or materials used in animal feed. For instance, biological decontamination involving the use of a single bacterial species, Flavobacterium aurantiacum has been used to remove aflatoxin B1 from peanuts and corn.
Several countries around the world have rules and regulations governing aflatoxin B1 in foods and these include the maximum permitted, or recommended levels of aflatoxin B1 for certain foods.
United States (US)
US food safety regulations have set a maximum permitted level of 20 μg/kg for aflatoxin B1, in combination with the other aflatoxins (B2, G1 and G2) in all foods, with the exception of milk which has a maximum permitted level of 0.5 μg/kg. Higher levels of 100–300 μg/kg are tolerable for some animal feeds.
European Union (EU)
The EU has set maximum permitted levels for aflatoxin B1 in nuts, dried fruits, cereals and spices to range from 2–12 μg/kg, while the maximum permitted level for aflatoxin B1 in infant foods is set at 0.1 μg/kg. The maximum permitted levels for aflatoxin B1 in animal feeds set by the EU range from 5–50 μg/kg and these levels are much lower than those set in the US.
Joint United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
The FAO/WHO JECFA has set the maximum permitted levels of aflatoxin B1 in combination with the other aflatoxins (B2, G1 and G2) to be 15 μg/kg in raw peanuts and 10 μg/kg in processeds peanut; while the tolerance level of aflatoxin B1 alone is 5 μg/kg for dairy cattle feed.
Notable exposures
The discovery of aflatoxin B1 came on the heels of the widespread death of turkeys in England in the summer of 1960 to some unknown disease, at the time labeled "Disease X". Over the course of 500 outbreaks, the disease claimed over 100,000 turkeys which appeared to be healthy. The widespread death was later found to be caused by Aspergillus flavus contamination of peanut meal.
Twelve patients died of acute aflatoxin poisoning in several hospitals in the Machakos district of Kenya in 1981 following the consumption of contaminated maize. All patients also suffered from hepatitis.
Following outbreaks of aflatoxin contamination in maize reaching 4,400 ppb in the spring of 2004, 125 individuals in Kenya died of acute hepatic failure while some 317 cases in total were reported. To date this was the largest known outbreak of aflatoxosis in terms of fatalities documented.
References
External links
Aflatoxin B1
Aflatoxins
Mutagens
Male reproductive toxins
Teratogens
Fetotoxins
Spermatotoxins
Polyketides
Cyclopentenes |
6904614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6teborgs%20IF | Göteborgs IF | Göteborgs IF (full name Göteborgs Idrottsförbund) is a now defunct Swedish football club which was located in Gothenburg. They won the Swedish Championship in 1903. The club was founded in 1900 when the three clubs Göteborgs Velocipedklubb, Skridskosällskapet Norden and Idrottssällskapet Lyckans Soldater merged.
Achievements
Swedish Champions
Winners (1): 1903
Cups
Svenska Mästerskapet:
Winners (1): 1903
Footnotes
A. The title of "Swedish Champions" has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. Between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.
References
Defunct football clubs in Sweden
Football clubs in Gothenburg
Association football clubs established in 1900
1900 establishments in Sweden
Football clubs in Västra Götaland County |
17341012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Volaris%20destinations | List of Volaris destinations | This is a list of cities and airports that Volaris serves as of July 2022:
Destinations
References
Volaris Flight Tickets
Lists of airline destinations |
20473397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien%20Meslot | Damien Meslot | Damien Meslot (born 11 November 1964 in Belfort) is a French politician and a member of The Republicans. He represented Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2017. He has served as mayor of Belfort since 2014.
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
Politicians from Belfort
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Gaullism, a way forward for France
Mayors of places in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
6904621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20and%20Unity | Freedom and Unity | "Freedom and Unity" is the official motto of the U.S. state of Vermont. The motto was first adopted in 1788 for use on the Great Seal of the Vermont Republic. Ira Allen designed the Vermont seal and is often credited as its author. Allen's 1798 book The Natural and Political History of the State of Vermont cites many contributions by him to Vermont's founding but does not claim credit for the motto. Following Vermont's admission to the federal union in 1791, the legislature once more approved the use of the motto for the new state seal. Vermont's first governor, Thomas Chittenden, cited the state motto in his epitaph: "Out of storm and manifold perils rose an enduring state, the home of freedom and unity."
Meaning
There is general agreement that Vermont's motto is about the idea of balancing two seemingly opposite ideals: the personal freedom and independence of the individual citizen, with the common good of the larger community. Writer and Vermont resident Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) wrote the following about her adopted state: "the Vermont idea grapples energetically with the basic problem of human conduct – how to reconcile the needs of the group, of which every man or woman is a member, with the craving for individual freedom to be what he really is."
These two forces have mostly endured in Vermont's history, both freedom, and unity, expressing distinct parts of the Vermont identity. Vermont's motto is believed to have been the inspiration for Daniel Webster's famous Liberty and Union speech before the United States Senate. Use of the exact motto is found in two quite different political groups. The left-center Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) used the motto Freedom and Unity before World War II. In the United Kingdom, a right-center party, the English Democratic Party (not to be confused with the similarly named English Democrats Party) which seeks protection of English culture and opposing European unity, also uses the exact motto. The current national motto of Germany, adopted by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952, is also quite similar Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit translating as Unity and Justice and Freedom. The coat of arms of the Swiss canton of Vaud reads "Liberté et Patrie" - freedom and fatherland.
Uses and applications
By Vermont statute the motto Freedom and Unity is applied to the Great Seal of Vermont, the coat of arms of Vermont, and the flag of Vermont. The motto can be found above the central doors of the Vermont Supreme Court, and above the rostrum in Representatives Hall at the Vermont State House.
Tanzania
Tanzania's official motto is the Swahili phrase Uhuru na Umoja, which translates as "Freedom and Unity".
See also
"Stella quarta decima fulgeat", the state's official Latin motto
References
Crampton, William G. Webster's Concise Encyclopedia of Flags & Coats of Arms. Crescent Books: 1985. .
Duffy, John J., et al. Vermont: An Illustrated History. American Historical Press: 2000. .
Duffy, John J., et al. The Vermont Encyclopedia. University Press of New England: 2003. .
Potash, P. Jeffrey, et al. Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont. Vermont Historical Society: 2004. .
Zieber, Eugene, Heraldry in America: The Civic Armorial Bearings of American States. Greenwich House: 1974.
External links
Vermont Historical Society exhibition ''Freedom and Unity: One ideal, Many Stories
Vermont State Statutes describing application of the state motto
State mottos of the United States
Symbols of Vermont
New England
1791 establishments in Vermont
National symbols of Tanzania |
20473411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Boisserie | Daniel Boisserie | Daniel Boisserie (born 8 June 1946) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haute-Vienne department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
References
1946 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
17341013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Bunting%20Snowball | William Bunting Snowball | William Bunting Snowball (January 12, 1865 – September 27, 1925) was a Canadian politician. He was the eldest son of Jabez Bunting Snowball, a politician who became Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.
Snowball served as the Mayor of the Town of Chatham, New Brunswick for four terms. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada from the riding of Northumberland, New Brunswick as a Liberal in a by-election on October 1, 1924, but served for less than a year before dying suddenly on September 27, 1925.
Snowball was educated at Upper Canada College.
References
1865 births
1925 deaths
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from New Brunswick
People from Miramichi, New Brunswick
Mayors of Miramichi, New Brunswick |
6904627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrift%20Drug | Thrift Drug | Thrift Drug was a U.S. pharmacy chain founded in 1935 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The company was purchased by JCPenney in 1968, and was expanded greatly thereafter, serving as the flagship chain of JCPenney's pharmacy group. The chain did not hide its affiliation with JCPenney, as it had JCPenney catalog merchandise pickup centers inside many of its locations, as well as signs advertising "JCPenney Catalog Center". Stores also accepted the JCPenney credit card for purchases.
In 1996, JCPenney purchased Eckerd, another pharmacy chain. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) objected to the purchase on antitrust grounds, stating that ownership of Eckerd would give JCPenney a dominant position in the drug store business in the states of North Carolina and South Carolina through its ownership of Thrift Drug, Rite Aids in the Carolinas, and Eckerd. The FTC ultimately approved the transaction, but as a condition of approval, in 1997 JCPenney and Thrift were required to divest 14 Thrift drug stores in Charlotte and 20 Thrift stores in Raleigh-Durham, as well as all 110 Rite Aid locations in the state of North Carolina and that chain's 17 locations in Charleston. As a result, JCPenney divested 164 stores in the Carolinas. The divested stores were purchased by an investment group led by former Thrift Drug executives who left JCPenney after the Eckerd transaction. These stores became the Kerr Drug chain, using the name of a former Carolinas chain acquired by JCPenney in 1995.
After acquiring Eckerd, in 1997 JCPenney merged Thrift Drug and all other pharmacy chains into the larger Eckerd chain (now CVS Pharmacy and Rite Aid).
One enduring legacy of Thrift Drug was in the 1977 movie Slap Shot, when a Thrift Drug located in downtown Johnstown, Pennsylvania was shown in the background during a shot of downtown Charlestown (the town that Johnstown portrayed in the film), alongside other now-defunct retailers such as Woolworth (which still exists today as Foot Locker but closed their namesake chain in 1997) and competitor Revco (which was later acquired by CVS Pharmacy). Also shown was a location of Thrift Drug's nominal successor (through Eckerd) and fellow Pennsylvania pharmacy, Rite Aid. Due to Rite Aid's connection to Thrift Drug through Eckerd, Rite Aid, as well as CVS which also purchased many Eckerd stores, accept JCPenney credit cards despite having otherwise had no corporate affiliation with JCPenney.
References
Defunct pharmacies of the United States
Retail companies disestablished in 1997
Rite Aid
JCPenney
Retail companies established in 1935
Health care companies based in Pennsylvania |
6904628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omealca%2C%20Veracruz | Omealca, Veracruz | Omealca Municipality is a municipality of the state of Veracruz in Mexico. The municipal seat is Omealca.
Etymology
Omealca means place between two rivers in nahuatl, due to it being next to Blanco river and above a subterranean one.
Climate
Omealca's has a very diverse range of climates, as it is next to the state of Puebla and Oaxaca, meaning that besides having Veracruz's tropical climate, it also has Puebla's mountainous climate and Oaxaca's arid climate.
Municipalities of Veracruz |
17341018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20of%20Bahram%20Khan | Family of Bahram Khan | The Bahram Khan family () is a major political family from Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Family tree
The members of Bahram Khan family who have been active in politics are:
Khan Abdul Bahram Khan, the founder of the family
Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (1882–1958) ("Dr. Khan Sahib"), pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and a Pakistani politician, son of Khan Abdul Bahram Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988), also known as Bacha Khan, independence activist, son of Khan Abdul Bahram Khan
Abdul Ghani Khan (1914–1996), widely considered as one of the best Pashto language poets of the 20th century, son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Abdul Wali Khan (1917–2006), secular democratic socialist leader and opponent of the British Raj, son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Abdul Ali Khan (1922-1997), educationist, the youngest son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Nasim Wali Khan, politician and wife of Abdul Wali Khan
Asfandyar Wali Khan (born 1949), politician, son of Abdul Wali Khan
Sangeen Wali Khan (1959–2008), politician, son of Abdul Wali Khan
Aimal Wali Khan (born 1986), politician, son of Asfandyar Wali Khan
Lawangeen Wali Khan (born 1988), politician, son of Sangeen Wali Khan
See also
Pakistan
Pashtun people
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khudai Khidmatgar
Awami National Party
Political families of Pakistan
Pashtun people
Bahram Khan family |
20473425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Fasquelle | Daniel Fasquelle | Daniel Fasquelle (born 16 January 1963, in Saint-Omer) is a French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since 2007, representing the Pas-de-Calais department.
Political career
In parliament, Fasquelle has been serving on the Committee on Economic Affairs since 2009.
In the Republicans’ 2016 presidential primaries, Fasquelle endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy as the party's candidate for the office of President of France.
On 26 August 2017, Fasquelle declared himself a candidate in the leadership election for the presidency of The Republicans, but was deemed to have secured an insufficient number of sponsorships on 26 October and therefore considered ineligible.
Following Christian Jacob's election as LR chairman, Fasquelle announced his candidacy to succeed him as leader of the party's parliamentary group. In an internal vote in November 2019, he eventually came in fourth out of six candidates; the position went to Damien Abad instead.
At the Republicans’ national convention in December 2021, Fasquelle was part of the 11-member committee which oversaw the party’s selection of its candidate for the 2022 presidential elections.
References
External links
Daniel Fasquelle at the National Assembly of France
1963 births
Living people
People from Saint-Omer
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni
The Republicans (France) politicians
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of Parliament for Pas-de-Calais |
17341044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balch | Balch | Balch may refer to:
People with the surname
Albert V. Balch (1828–1915), American politician
Antony Balch (1937–1980), British film director
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Rear Admiral George Beall Balch (1821–1908), American naval officer
USS Balch (DD-363)
USS Balch (DD-50)
Herbert E. Balch (1869–1958), British archaeologist and caver
Jennifer Balch American wildfire scientist
John Balch, builder of the John Balch House (1679), in Beverly, Massachusetts
John Henry Balch (1896–1980), United States Navy
Joseph Pope Balch (1822–1872), American Civil War veteran of Rhode Island
Oscar B. Balch, American decorator who built the Oscar B. Balch House (1911) by Frank Lloyd Wright
Pamela Balch, president of West Virginia Wesleyan College
Reg Balch (1894–1994), British Canadian photographer and scientist
Robert Balch (born 1945), American sociologist
Stephen Balch, American scholar
Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747–1833), American Presbyterian minister
Thomas Balch (1821–1877), American historian
Other uses
Alternative spelling of Balkh, an ancient city in Afghanistan
Balch & Bingham, law firm in Birmingham, Alabama
Balch Cave in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, named for Herbert E. Balch
Balch Creek in Portland, Oregon, named for settler Danford Balch
Balch (crater), on Venus
Balch Fieldhouse, arena in Boulder, Colorado
Balch Hall, at Cornell University
Balch House (Cincinnati, Ohio), a registered historic building
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Balch Pond, on the Maine-New Hampshire border
Balch Springs, Texas
See also
Balché, mildly intoxicating Mayan drink |
6904629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Auderset | Alain Auderset | Alain Auderset is a Swiss Christian author of bandes dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) and is best known for his comics albums Willy Grunch, Marcel, and ROBI.
Biography
Born on 27 October 1968 in Grenchen, Switzerland, Auderset was converted to Christianity after reading the French comic magazine Tournesol as a child. Later, passionate for drawing, he studied graphic arts and began to draw comic strips. In 2001 he released his first book, Conventional Wisdom, which has been translated into six additional languages (German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Danish) since it was originally published in French.
His books ROBI (2005) and Willy Grunch (2008) have both won the International Prize for French Language Christian Comics at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Currently Auderset is self-publishing and claims he has sold approximately 110,000 copies of all his books.
Auderset is also a performance artist as well as a guitarist for the band Saahsal in which his wife Eliane is the lead singer. Since 2010 Auderset has been doing a stand-up comedy routine entitled "The Non-practicing Atheist," touring both in Europe and the Canadian province of Québec. During his last Québec tour in 2013 he was interviewed during a service at a church in Drummondville, QC, which was broadcast live through their website. He was also interviewed on CKZW radio in Montreal.
In 2012 Moondog Animation Studio in Charleston, South Carolina, raised US$117,534.00 through a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter to produce five pilot episodes of The life and trials of Willy Grunch, based on Auderset's stories and art. The five pilots were completed and released in early 2013, and further episodes are slated to begin production in late 2016 as part of an additional Kickstarter project.
Currently Auderset lives in Saint-Imier with his wife and their four children.
Bibliography
Alain Auderset, Idées reçues (Conventional Wisdom), Atelier Auderset, 2001
Alain Auderset, Marcel Book 1, Atelier Auderset, 2004
Alain Auderset, ROBI, Atelier Auderset, 2005
Alain Auderset, Idées reçues II (Conventional Wisdom 2), Atelier Auderset, 2006
Alain Auderset, Willy Grunch, Atelier Auderset, 2008
Alain Auderset, Les vacances de Marcel (Marcel’s vacations – Marcel Book 2), Atelier Auderset, 2010
Alain Auderset, Idées reçues III (Conventional Wisdom 3), Atelier Auderset, 2012
Alain Auderset, Marcel Book 3, Atelier Auderset, 2014
Prizes
Angoulême 2006: Special jury distinction for Idées reçues
Angoulême 2007: International Prize for French Language Christian Comics for ROBI pour les intimes
Albuquerque 2007 : ICCC2 People's Choice Awards – 1st, 3rd and 4th places
Angoulême 2009: International Prize for French Language Christian Comics for Willy Grunch
References
External links
Alain Auderset's website
Migros Magazine (Switzerland) Alain Auderset: la foi qui déplace les bulles
L'Est Républicain (France) La foi et l’optimisme
1968 births
Living people
Converts to Christianity
Swiss-French people
Swiss comics artists
Swiss Christians |
20473434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Metlich | Pablo Metlich | Pablo Arturo Metlich Ruíz (born 2 September 1978) is a Mexican former professional footballer, who last played as a midfielder for Atlético San Luis. Metlich made his professional debut with Tecos in 2002. He is of partial Serbian descent.
External links
1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Durango
Association football midfielders
Liga MX players
Tecos F.C. footballers
Lobos BUAP footballers
Indios de Ciudad Juárez footballers
C.D. Veracruz footballers
Mexican people of Serbian descent
Mexican footballers |
6904630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajay%20River | Ajay River | Ajay (/ˈədʒɑɪ/) is a river which flows through the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The catchment area of Ajay River is .
See also
List of rivers of India
References
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/mbErel.aspx?relid=147477
Rivers of Bihar
Rivers of Jharkhand
Rivers of West Bengal
Rivers of India |
20473437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Fidelin | Daniel Fidelin | Daniel Fidelin (born 25 May 1948) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Seine-Maritime department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Fécamp
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
Mayors of places in Normandy
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
The Republicans (France) politicians |
44498849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Assael | John Assael | John Assael (born 1950) is a prominent British architect. He is particularly known for his work at the Royal Institute of British Architects(RIBA) and for promoting good business practice within the field of architecture.
Early life and education
John Assael was born in Nairobi in Kenya. He spent the early years of his life in Africa but attended school in England from the age of 11.
He studied architecture at Oxford Polytechnic, which renamed in 1992 to Oxford Brookes University. He has a Master's degree in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of London. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Conservation Studies.
In 2017 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Design by Oxford Brookes University.
Career
John Assael is currently the Chairman and a co-founder of the London-based practice Assael Architecture.
Architecture
After qualifying as an Architect, he worked for several architectural companies until the age of 28, when he started his first practice.
In 1994 he founded the London-based practice Assael Architecture along with co-founder Russell Pedley. His practice was named Architect of the Year in 2016 at The Sunday Times British Homes Awards.
Professional
In 2019 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 2014 he had been elected to act as a national member of the RIBA Council, the governing body of the RIBA and was later appointed as Honorary Treasurer. He had previously held various other posts at the RIBA, including Vice President for Professional Services and was a trustee of the RIBA Board. He is a former chairman of the RIBA Journal.
He was an elected member to the Architect's Registration Board (ARB) where he has sat on the Prescription Committee.
He is a co-opted member of the Council of the Association of Consultant Architects.
He sits on the Executive Committee and has been a trustee of the Architects Benevolent Society since 2004. and was a judge for the annual WAN (World Architecture News) Awards.
Involvement in Higher Education
He been a visiting fellow at Oxford Brookes University since 2000. He is an external examiner at The Bartlett and London Metropolitan University and has lectured at Cardiff, Nottingham, Huddersfield, Manchester and Westminster Universities.
He holds the post of Master of Students at the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects
Notable work
21 Young Street
Queen's Wharf & Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
Great West Quarter, Brentford
Century Buildings, Manchester
Wallis House - conversion of Art Deco landmark on the Golden Mile, Brentford, London.
Ten Rochester Row
Tachbrook Triangle SW1, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London
Rainsborough Square, Farm Lane, Fulham
Osiers Gate
Lumiere Apartments, Former Granada Cinema, Clapham
Paynes and Borthwick Wharves, London
Quebec Way, Canada Water, London
Doddington Estate, Cheshire
Selected awards
The Sunday Times British Homes Awards, Architect of the Year in 2008, 2014 and 2016
Building magazine's Good Employer Guide, Winner 2014 and 2015
Architects' Journal AJ120 Business Pioneer of the Year in 2015
References
External links
John Assael interviewed by Adrian Dobson, Director of Practice at the RIBA
RIBA Council members at the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Board member profile at the Architects Registration Board (ARB).
ACA Council members at Association of Consulting Architects
Official website of Assael Architecture.
Living people
Architects from Oxford
Alumni of Oxford Brookes University
1950 births
People from Nairobi |
17341045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Malbone%20House | Francis Malbone House | The Francis Malbone House is a historic house at 392 Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island.
The house dates from 1760 and its design is attributed to Peter Harrison, a prominent architect of the period, responsible also for the Touro Synagogue and the Redwood Library, both important early Newport buildings.
In 1975 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
History
The building was constructed "in 1760 as a private residence for Colonel Francis Malbone (1728 - 1785), who made his fortune as a shipping merchant at a time when Newport Harbor was one of the busiest Harbors in the New World. He is believed to have smuggled merchandise into the house to avoid taxes. Subterranean passages found in the cellar have been traced to a subway leading to the pier where Colonel Malbone moored his fleet. This was a practice common in the Free Port of Newport, and one upon which many Newport fortunes were founded."
The British occupied Newport during the American Revolution "and seized the Malbone Estate. The mansion was used to store looted gold and treasures, leading to its nickname, "the treasure house.""
After the American Revolution, "the mansion was returned to the Malbone family who retained ownership until the early 1830s. After the death of Colonel Malbone in 1785, his son, also named Francis Malbone, who later became United States Senator, owned the estate until his death in 1809. In 1770, famed painter, Gilbert Stuart painted the portrait of the younger Francis Malbone and his brother Saunders, which now hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts."
In the early 1800s, prior to the building of the famous mansions on Bellevue Avenue, the Malbone House was one of the most opulent houses in Newport. It was owned from 1833 to 1838 by Colonel Joseph G. Totten of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. At that time, Colonel Totten was in charge of construction of Fort Adams and was also the senior Army engineer in the northeast. He sold the house in 1838 when he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Army.
Dr. James R. Newton owned the house in 1850 and built a brick office on the estate for his doctor's office, now known as "The Counting House".
The Francis Malbone house was restored in the early 1970s. The front door of the mansion features an Ionic doorway very similar to the Ionic portico of the Touro Synagogue. The floor plan features a broad central hall with flanking rooms on either side. The hall has a high divided arch, the stairs are fitted with ramped rail and twisted balusters. The stair landing is lit by a Palladian window. The front parlors feature plush paneling, a sign of wealth in colonial times. Two-story pediment mantels adorn the fireplace walls and a broken scroll tops the one in the northwest parlor.
In 1989, the house was converted to an inn, with nine guest rooms. In 1996, a "sensitively designed addition" was built, allowing the inn to expand to eighteen guestrooms.
See also
Southern Thames Historic District
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1758
Georgian architecture in Rhode Island |
20473438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Highways%20in%20Bihar | National Highways in Bihar | Bihar has length of 5,358 km National highways.
List of National Highways in Bihar
See also
National highways of India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Development Project
Transport in Bihar
List of National Highways in Bihar
:Category:National Highways in Bihar
References |
20473448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Garrigue | Daniel Garrigue | Daniel Garrigue (born 4 April 1948 in Talence) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Dordogne's 2nd constituency from 2002 to 2012 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He was the sole member of the Assembly to vote against the French ban on full length Islamic veils stating that, "To fight an extremist behavior, we risk slipping toward a totalitarian society."
In 1974, was a founding member of the Club de l'horloge.
References
1948 births
Carrefour de l'horloge people
Living people
People from Talence
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
United Republic politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
44498877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Robertson-Rodger | Sidney Robertson-Rodger | Sidney Bertram Robertson-Rodger (15 Jul 1916–7 Nov 1981) was an English painter notable as a War Artist, principally for his painting Bombers Escorted by Fighters on a Daylight Sweep over the Channel depicting the Battle of Britain. He was also known as S Rodger, SR Rodger or S Robertson-Rodger.
Childhood and education
He was born in Burgh Heath in the North Downs in Surrey, the son of James Nisbet Robertson RODGER a painter and antiques dealer, and his wife Margaret (Meg) Plumer KESWICK.
After completing final examinations at Malvern College (a senior school with sixth form) in the Malvern Hills he attended the private Byam Shaw School of Art (1934–1938) where he studied with Frances Ernest Jackson ARA (1872–1945) and Patrick Philips RI, ROI (1907–1976).
Military service
On the 1939 Register Sidney Robertson-Rodger is described as a "Camouflage Officer" living in Flat 17 Bolton Studios, Kensington, London. He received military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1940.
He painted as part of the large War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) during World War II. The WAAC bought his work. His key work, Bombers Escorted by Fighters on a Daylight Sweep over the Channel, is owned by the Ministry of Defence.
Family
Sidney Bertram Robertson-Rodger married Dora June Rossdale. They were married in the June Q of 1970
at St. Marylebone. Dora June (known as June) was the daughter of Dr. George Harold Rossdale M.D. Medical Officer of the Tropical Diseases Clinic of the Ministry of Pensions & Kate Alberta Woolf.
Career
According to his biography by Goldmark Gallery, he exhibited at two major painting societies in the Federation of British Artists (FBA): the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), and Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).
The gallery found little is known of what became of the artist's reputation and professional status after the war. It found that he kept on painting and exhibiting into the 1960s and beyond. Primarily a landscape painter, he wrote a significant article entitled "Painting the Open Landscape" during the 1960s.
Works
In his works he was also known as S Rodger, SR Rodger or S Robertson-Rodger.
Bombers Escorted by Fighters on a Daylight Sweep over the Channel
Man with donkey passing a house (possibly painted in Spain or Ireland)Oil on Canvas
Squadron DAF Libya (1940–45) Sketch/watercolour
North Africa campaign WW2 (1940–45) - Featuring Hurricane fighter planes over the merditerranean Sketch/watercolour
Wimbldon Centre Court - For 1965 Calendar (1965?)
Pair of nautical watercolours (1949)
Ramsgate (1975)
Cottage in ruins on headland
Seascape with lifeboat and crashed aircraft, oil on canvas, signed, 50 cm x 75 cm.
Kenton
References
External links
http://www.popscreen.com/p/MTYwODE2MDMw/CalendarArtworkJuneWimbledoncentrecourtSidneyRobertsonRodger
https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/semley-auctioneers/catalogue-id-srse10004/lot-5e7325d2-4583-4005-aac1-a3fb00f5edad
https://www.marks4antiques.com/apa/Sidney-Bertram-Robertson-Rodger-5a376
https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/special-auction-services/catalogue-id-srspe10168/lot-1199d16f-a149-416e-b0c6-a66500d1556d
https://auctionet.com/en/279844-sidney-robertson-rodger-landskap-olja-pa-duk-signerad-s-r-rodger
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/48812/page/15452/data.pdf
1916 births
1981 deaths
Alumni of the Byam Shaw School of Art
20th-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English male artists |
20473462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Mach | Daniel Mach | Daniel Mach (born December 5, 1955 in Perpignan — Perpinyà) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Pyrénées-Orientales's 1st constituency from 2002 to 2012 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He is the first politician to have spoken in Catalan in the National Assembly, saying:
'Senyora, els catalans són gent orgullosa, honesta i pacífica. La seva llengua és un dret i saben quins són els seus deures.'
"The catalans are a proud, honest and peaceful people. Their language is a right and they know what their responsibilities are."
References
1955 births
Living people
People from Perpignan
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
44498920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20Ladina | America Ladina | América Ladina () is a 2011 documentary film directed by and starring Israeli independent filmmaker, Yaron Avitov.
The film tells of the arrival and settlement in the Americas of Jewish-origin New Christians (Sephardic Jewish converts to Catholicism, also known as conversos in Spanish or anusim in Hebrew) in the sixteenth century, and the lives of the Sephardic Bnei Anusim (their assimilated descendants) today.
The documentary's title is a pun on the Spanish term for Latin America (América Latina), where "Ladina" is the feminine adjectival form of the noun "Ladino", a reference to the Ladino language, the traditional Judaeo-Spanish language of the Sephardic Jews.
Content
The Israeli filmmaker Yaron Avitov addresses on his film the context of the history of the arrival and settlement of Sephardic anusim to the Americas; and how their emigration from Spain and Portugal to the Iberian colonies in the New World in the sixteenth century was due largely to the unceasing religious persecution of Jewish-origin New Christians by the Inquisition back in Iberia, irrespective of whether they were sincere Christian converts or if they were indeed marranos (crypto-Jews secretly practicing their former Jewish faith as best they could behind closed doors).
The film presses on the issue that how this Jewish-origin population emigrated to the Americas from the sixteenth century (during the time of the Inquisition) should be studied thoroughly again.
Avitov is immersed in a multi-year investigation through South America and Central America in search of the motives, reasons and consequences of this immigration.
As the film progresses, the viewer not only discovers the origins of the Jewish-descended population of Latin America, but also the places where one can find the presence of their descendants today, and their impact, past and present, of these Sephardic anusim migrants and their Sephardic Bnei anusim descendants in the cultural landscape of Latin America.
Sephardic Bnei Anusim (descendants of these early immigrants) from 10 countries, including Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru in South America give their testimonials. Others from Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama in Central America are also interviewed.
The documentary takes us through time with the testimonies of these descendants, in remote places around Latin America where their Jewish anusim ancestors settled in the hope that it would give their children and later descendants the chance to live and prosper in a new free world, without fear from the persecution of the Inquisition, though the Inquisition eventually followed, resulting in an almost complete assimilation and absorption.
Five centuries after the migratory mission of their Jewish anusim ancestors, the success of their journey for survival is assessed, if not in the maintaining of the Jewish faith and culture, then at least in the perpetuation of their living descendants, who are more alive and numerous today than ever.
Avitov presents among other evidence of this historical episode facts and cultural vestiges which remain today, and which can be found embedded in the culture of the local peoples across the Americas, similar to traditional customs of the New Christian converts who came from Spain and Portugal fleeing the Inquisition. Today there are words, idioms, sayings (in Ladino) and even many customs that persist among these groups in the Americas, who practice these customs often unknowing that they originate in the traditions of their Jewish ancestors.
References
2011 films
2011 documentary films
2010s Spanish-language films
Judaeo-Spanish-language films
Sephardi Jews topics
Films shot in Florida
Films shot in Ecuador |
20473475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockava | Mockava | Mockava is a village in Lithuania six km from the border with Poland. The Mockava Railway Station is located northeast of Mockava in the village of Zelionka.
According to the 2011 census, the population of Mockava was 59.
Transport
Rail Baltica is running through the area. There is a break of gauge where the railway systems of the two countries meet. To speed up though traffic, a track gauge changing facility of the SUW 2000 variable gauge axle system has been installed to allow fitted trains to pass through the break of gauge at walking pace.
References
Villages in Marijampolė County |
20473478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Paul | Daniel Paul | Daniel Paul (born August 16, 1943 in Plourivo) is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency, and was a member of the Gauche démocrate et républicaine.
References
1943 births
Living people
People from Côtes-d'Armor
French Communist Party politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Politicians from Normandy |
44498929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20adonis | Suillellus adonis | Suillellus adonis is a species of bolete fungus described from Croatia. Originally described as a species of Boletus in 2002, it was transferred to Suillellus in 2014, based on melacular phylogenetic data. This apparently rare fungus is so far known only from the islands of Cres and Cyprus.
References
External links
adonis
Fungi described in 2002
Fungi of Europe |
17341050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Papasan | Jay Papasan | Jay Papasan is an American writer and business executive. He is best known for co-authoring, with Gary Keller, books such as The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, which both became a New York Times best-seller and a BusinessWeek best-seller, and The ONE Thing, which reached #1 on the Wall Street Journal business best-seller list. Papasan is the vice president of publishing and executive editor at KellerINK, the publishing arm of Keller Williams Realty. He and his wife Wendy are owners of The Papasan Real Estate Team. In 2014 he was named one of the Most Powerful People in Real Estate by Swanepoel Power 200.
Early life and education
In an interview Papasan recalled typing on an old manual typewriter when he was 12 years old. He attended the Harding Academy in Memphis, Tennessee, graduating in 1987. Papasan attended the University of Memphis where his roommate encouraged him to expand his vocabulary using word habits. After earning his degree in English and French, he traveled to France where he worked as a translator for two and a half years. Papasan was only allowed to work 20 hours a week which was the maximum allowed in the country for the visa he was on, and used his free time to write short stories. He returned from France to attend New York University, earning a Master's degree from its graduate writing program.
Career
After graduating from NYU, Papasan took a job as an editorial assistant at New Market Press. He then moved on to HarperCollins where he worked several years as an associate editor. While at HarperCollins, he started working with David Hirshey, a 10 year deputy editor at Esquire. It was with Hirshey that Papasan published his first best-seller, Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life by Mia Hamm.
Papasan moved from New York to Austin, Texas with his wife Wendy in February 2000. He freelanced while looking for work, eventually landing as a newsletter writer for Keller Williams Realty. He worked in various positions within the company, learning about the real estate industry and eventually learning that co-founder Gary Keller was planning to write a book. Papasan ran into Keller and asked him if he was aware that he had previously worked in publishing. He spoke with Keller about Keller's plans to write 14 books, showing him two books that he wanted to model on. After Papasan pointed out to Keller that he in fact edited those books during his days at HarperCollins, Keller hired him to help write and edit their first book together.
In 2003, Papasan founded KellerINK along with Gary Keller. The first book published by KellerINK was The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, a book authored by Papasan, Keller, and Dave Jenks in 2004. The book became a BusinessWeek best-seller. He co-authored a second book with Keller and Jenks in 2005. Titled The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, the book appeared on both the BusinessWeek best-seller list and The New York Times Best Seller list.
Papasan continued his writing career in 2007 when he collaborated with Rick Villani and Clay Davis on the book FLIP: How to Buy, Fix and Sell Homes for Profit. The following year he co-authored Your First Home, again with Keller and Jenks, and in 2009, the team wrote SHIFT: How Top Agents Tackle Tough Times, which was Nielsen BookScan's #1 Real Estate Book for 2009. The book also appeared on The Wall Street Journal Business bestseller list and The New York Times Business bestseller list. In 2011, Papasan worked with Buddy Norman to create Shift Commercial: How Top Commercial Brokers Tackle Tough Times. The third book in the "Millionaire" investor series, HOLD: How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for Wealth, debuted in 2012 on USA Today's bestselling book list.
Keller and Papasan published their first non-real estate book in April 2013, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The book reached #1 on the Wall Street Journal business bestseller list. It was also a bestseller on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Hudson Booksellers named The ONE Thing one of the five best business interest books of 2013. Papasan has been featured in publications including Forbes and Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership Review.
Papasan's freelance work has appeared in Texas Monthly and Memphis Magazine.
Bibliography
References
External links
Jay Papasan official website
Papasan Properties Group Website
KellerINK Website
American business writers
Living people
People from Austin, Texas
American real estate brokers
New York University alumni
University of Memphis alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
17341054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bandy (disambiguation) | Bandy is a winter sport.
Bandy may also refer to:
Bandy (carriage), a cart used in India and Sri Lanka
Bandy (surname), a surname
Bandy-bandy, a snake
Bandy Creek, Western Australia, suburb in Australia
Bandy Farms Historic District, United States
Bandy Island, Antarctica
Bandy, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
Dr. Robert W. Bandy House, historic house in the United States
"Bandy legs" or "bandiness"; see genu varum
See also
Bandi (disambiguation)
Band (disambiguation) |
23579937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20MercedesCup%20%E2%80%93%20Singles | 2009 MercedesCup – Singles | Juan Martín del Potro was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.
Jérémy Chardy won in the final 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 against Victor Hănescu.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
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Stuttgart Open Singles
Singles 2009 |
23579944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20Crusher | Head Crusher | "Head Crusher" is a song by American heavy metal band Megadeth. It was released on July 7, 2009, as the first single from their studio album Endgame. According to Roadrunner Records official website, a download of "Head Crusher" was available for 24 hours on July 7 (the availability of download ended the morning of July 8). The track was previously available for listening by calling Dave Mustaine's number, through the TheLiveLine.com, a service he launched that enables musicians to connect to their audience over the phone. The song was played live for the first time at the "Canadian Carnage Tour" on June 24, 2009. On December 3, 2009, it was announced on the official Megadeth homepage that "Head Crusher" had been nominated for "Best Metal Performance" for the 52nd annual Grammy Awards, the band's first nomination in 13 years, since "Trust".
Song meaning
This song is about the medieval torture device of the same name. Its lyrics portray a person who is taken underground where he is interrogated using a head crusher device to torture the answers out of him. It explains the effects it would have on one's body.
Music video
Two different versions of the music video were released in September, 2009: extreme and censored. Both were directed by Patrick Kendall.
To create the video, director Patrick Kendall created a scenario that blended elements of the 1987 film The Running Man with 2000's Gladiator to concoct a violent scenario to match the energy of the high-impact song. The synopsis is simple but effective: Mustaine is playing emcee (like Richard Dawson in The Running Man) on a show where hooded criminals in jumpsuits are brought into a ring, unhooded and exposed to a mixed martial arts battle to the death while the band plays on a raised platform.
"I was listening to the song, and I heard the line about 'prisoners,' and I thought about The Running Man," Kendall told Noisecreep. "So I went back and watched that and Gladiator again, and then I wrote the treatment, which added in some MMA fighting."
The "Head Crusher" video featured MMA Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter Jorg Oliveira, as well as other lesser-known grapplers. "All of these guys were either real fighters or they were people who trained and did this for a hobby," Kendall said. "The stunt coordinator wanted to make sure everybody had some skill in fighting to make it look as real as possible."
The video also starred actor Chad Bannon, who played Killer Karl in Rob Zombie's 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses, and appeared in 2001's Planet of the Apes. "I think he wanted to get out of acting and concentrate on fighting," Kendall said. "He's had a couple of mixed martial arts events and in one of his bouts he knocked a guy out in 20 seconds."
In the video, Bannon fought with a convict who is later unhooded and turns out to be female fighter Michelle Waterson. She then defeated Bannon and earned her release.
"She's one of the few female true mixed martial arts fighters that's also beautiful," Kendall said. "She actually does bikini modeling, and the idea was to have a really hot girl who really knew how to fight. Before we got her to come onboard, we were looking at all kinds of girls in L.A., but they were no Michelle Waterson. We flew her up the day before the shoot. She's actually a pretty good fighter and a lot of her fights end up in either TKOs or submissions. It's funny because Michelle actually clocked Chad a couple times during the shoot. Those were real kicks and he came out of there bruised."
The cast and band shot the video with Kendall on July 28 at a studio in Northern Los Angeles. While the shoot was exciting and filled with laughs, at times it was also grueling. Aside from all the rigorous fighting, the platform that Megadeth performed on ascended 20 feet in the air while the band played, and the musicians were tied down so they wouldn't fall off during scenes that were shot repeatedly throughout the day.
"They were up in the rafters where all the heat was, so they were all sweating," Kendall said. "It was probably a very unusual situation to perform in and be on camera, but Dave Mustaine was just great. Every time I'd ask him to do another take he was like, 'Sure, definitely.'"
In addition to being a team player, Mustaine was also a creative force for the video. He offered suggestions to Kendall, including having the state-appointed character look at Waterson with double vision as he's getting his head crushed. And, because of his background in Taekwondo, he corrected the director when there were technical problems with a fight scene.
"He actually called me out at one point," Kendall says. "Waterson did a 360 kick, and I cut to a close-up and it was a sidekick, not a 360. And Dave pointed that out and made me change the shot. He actually knew the kicks and everything, which was really helpful."
Personnel
Megadeth
Dave Mustaine – guitars, vocals
Chris Broderick – guitars
James LoMenzo – bass
Shawn Drover – drums
Production
Produced by Andy Sneap and Dave Mustaine
Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Andy Sneap
Additional recording by Dave Mustaine
References
External links
Megadeth's Official Site
Megadeth songs
2009 singles
Songs written by Dave Mustaine
Songs written by Shawn Drover
2009 songs
Roadrunner Records singles |
44498959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Gaviglio | Sam Gaviglio | Samuel Joseph Gaviglio (born May 22, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, and Toronto Blue Jays, and in the KBO League for the SSG Landers. Prior to playing professionally, he played college baseball for the Oregon State Beavers.
Amateur career
Gaviglio attended Ashland High School in Ashland, Oregon, graduating in 2008. He starred for his school's baseball team in his senior year; Gaviglio pitched to a 13–0 win–loss record with an earned run average (ERA) below 0.60, led Ashland High to victory in the Oregon state championship game, and was named the Class 5A Pitcher of the Year. The Tampa Bay Rays selected Gaviglio in the 40th round of the 2008 MLB draft, but he did not sign.
Gaviglio enrolled at Oregon State University to play college baseball for the Oregon State Beavers baseball team. As a freshman, Gaviglio pitched to a 10–1 win–loss record and a 2.73 ERA, and he was named a Freshman All-American. His sophomore year was limited by an injured hamstring. In his junior year, Gaviglio began the season with a streak of scoreless innings pitched. He ended the season with a 12–2 win–loss record and a 1.87 ERA. Gaviglio was named to the All-Pacific-10 Conference's first team, Louisville Slugger named him a second-team All-American, and he was named a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award.
Professional career
St. Louis Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals selected Gaviglio in the fifth round, with the 170th overall selection, of the 2011 MLB draft. He signed with the Cardinals, receiving a $175,000 signing bonus, rather than return to Oregon State for his senior year. He made his professional debut with the Batavia Muckdogs of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League. In 2013, Gaviglio pitched for the Palm Beach Cardinals of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, and had a 4–1 win–loss record and a 2.72 ERA in innings pitched. He missed months of the 2013 season recovering from a right forearm strain. After the season, the Cardinals assigned him to the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League.
In 2014, the Cardinals invited Gaviglio to spring training as a non-roster player. Gaviglio pitched for the Springfield Cardinals of the Class AA Texas League, completing the season with a 5–12 win–loss record and a 4.28 ERA in innings pitched. While his season began with a 5.42 ERA in his first 14 games started, he finished the season with a 2.90 ERA in his final 11 games.
Seattle Mariners
After the season, the Cardinals traded Gaviglio to the Seattle Mariners for Ty Kelly. On May 11, 2017, he made his major league debut for the Mariners against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Kansas City Royals
On September 1, Gaviglio was claimed off waivers by the Kansas City Royals. He was added to the active roster for the rest of the season and pitched at a 3.00 ERA over 12 innings.
Toronto Blue Jays
On March 21, 2018, Gaviglio was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for cash considerations. He was recalled by the Blue Jays on May 11. Gaviglio spent most of the season in the Blue Jays rotation, finishing with a 3–10 record over 24 starts and 2 relief appearances. He struck out 105 batters in innings. Gaviglio was designated for assignment on September 1, 2020, and released on September 4.
Texas Rangers
On January 30, 2021, Gaviglio signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers organization and was invited to Spring Training. In 5 games for the Triple-A Round Rock Express, he recorded a 2-1 record and 5.13 ERA.
SSG Landers
On June 4, 2021, Gaviglio’s contract was sold to the SSG Landers of the KBO League. He made his KBO debut on July 2 against the Lotte Giants, pitching 5.2 innings of 4-run ball with 2 strikeouts. Over the season, Gaviglio made 15 starts for SSG, going 6–4 with a 5.86 ERA and 70 strikeouts.
Los Angeles Dodgers
On January 28, 2022, Gaviglio signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He pitched in 17 games for the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers (nine of which were starts), with a 6–4 record and 6.35 ERA. He was placed on the injured list on July 23 and remained there the rest of the season.
Personal life
Gaviglio's brother, Gus, also starred for Ashland's baseball team. His long time girlfriend, also from Ashland, is Alaina Findlay. He is distantly related to former MLB player and manager Ralph Houk. , Gaviglio is married, with two daughters: Livia, born 2018, and Gianna, born 2020.
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
American sportspeople of Italian descent
Ashland High School (Oregon) alumni
Baseball players from Oregon
Batavia Muckdogs players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Gulf Coast Cardinals players
Jackson Generals (Southern League) players
Kansas City Royals players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Oklahoma City Dodgers players
Oregon State Beavers baseball players
Palm Beach Cardinals players
Quad Cities River Bandits players
Round Rock Express players
Salt River Rafters players
Seattle Mariners players
Sportspeople from Ashland, Oregon
Springfield Cardinals players
Tacoma Rainiers players
Toronto Blue Jays players
2017 World Baseball Classic players |
6904656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu-class%20destroyer%20escort | Isuzu-class destroyer escort | The Isuzu class destroyer escort was a destroyer escort (or frigate) class built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in the early 1960s. The latter batch (Kitakami and Ōi) were quite different from the earlier two vessels in their propulsion and weaponry, so sometimes they were classified as the "Kitakami-class".
This class was the first JMSDF surface combatant adopted shelter-deck design. Propulsion systems varied in each vessels because the JMSDF tried to find the best way in the propulsion systems of future DEs. The design concept of this class and the CODAD propulsion system of the Kitakami-class became prototype of them of the latter DEs and DDKs such as and .
The gun system was a scale-down version of the , four 3"/50 caliber Mark 22 guns with two Mark 33 dual mounts controlled by a Mark 63 GFCS. Main air-search radar was a OPS-2, Japanese variant of the American AN/SPS-12.
In the earlier batch, the main Anti-submarine armament was a Mk.108 Weapon Alpha. The JMSDF desired this American brand-new ASW rocket launcher earnestly, but then, it became clear that it was not as good as it was supposed to be. So in the latter batch, it was changed with a M/50, Swedish 375mm quadruple ASW rocket launcher. And later, Weapon Alpha of the earlier batch was also replaced by a Type 71, Japanese version of the M/50.
Ships
References
See also
Frigate classes
Frigates of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force |
44498971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemake | Freemake | Freemake is a software brand by Ellora Assets Corporation. It can refer to:
Freemake Audio Converter
Freemake Music Box
Freemake Video Converter
Freemake Video Downloader |
6904662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made%20to%20Love%20Magic | Made to Love Magic | Made to Love Magic is a 2004 compilation album of outtakes and remixes by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. It features a previously unreleased solo acoustic version of "River Man", dating from early 1968, and the song "Tow the Line", a previously unheard song from Drake's final session in July 1974. The compilation reached #27 on the UK Albums Chart.
Track listing
All songs are written by Nick Drake.
"Rider on the Wheel" – 2:38
"Magic – Orchestrated Version 2" – 2:45
"River Man – Cambridge Version" – 4:02
"Joey" – 3:04
"Thoughts of Mary Jane" – 3:39
"Mayfair – Cambridge Version" – 2:12
"Hanging on a Star" – 3:24
"Three Hours – Alternate Version" – 5:12
"Clothes of Sand" – 2:31
"Voices" – 3:45
"Time of No Reply – Orchestrated Version" – 2:47
"Black Eyed Dog" – 3:28
"Tow the Line" – 2:20
Notes
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 9 & 12 are stereo remasters from Time of No Reply; track 5 is usually titled "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" on other releases.
Track 2 is "I Was Made to Love Magic" from Time of No Reply, sped-up, with a posthumously added string arrangement by Robert Kirby
Tracks 3 and 6 are Cambridge-era dorm demos (spring 1968)
Track 7 is a different take than the version originally released on Time of No Reply (February 1974)
Track 8 is a different take than the version originally released on Five Leaves Left, and features Rebop Kwaku Baah on congas (March 1969)
Track 10 is a remastered version of "Voice from the Mountain" from Time of No Reply
Track 11 has a posthumously added string arrangement by Robert Kirby
Track 13 is possibly the last song Drake ever committed to tape (July 1974)
Personnel
Nick Drake performs vocals and Steel-string guitar on all songs, except where indicated otherwise.
References
Nick Drake compilation albums
Albums produced by Joe Boyd
2004 compilation albums
Island Records compilation albums |
44498992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duets%202001 | Duets 2001 | Duets 2001 is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson with former Sun Ra drummer Robert Barry, which, despite the title, was recorded live in 1999 at Chicago's Empty Bottle after having performed together only once before. It was released on the Thrill Jockey label.
Reception
In his review for AllMusic, Glenn Astarita states "Duets 2001 is a rousing success, as the duo embarks upon a series of mid-tempo swing vamps atop free bop-style dialogue and brisk interplay, thanks to Anderson's corpulent tone, limberly executed lines, and Barry's polyrhythmic swing beats."
The Penguin Guide to Jazz says "Barry is a powerful drummer, well used to marshalling the most chaotic and anarchic of ensembles, but here he can be quite delicate, and only a recording of this quality would have captured all of his quieter figures."
The All About Jazz review by Mark Corroto notes that "While this session is billed as an improvising occasion, the duo is anything but loose and no musical idea finds a dead end. It seems that for every action one player takes, there is the positive reaction by the other."
In an article for the Chicago Reader, Neil Tesser claims "I've been listening to tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson for about 30 years, and I can't recall a more joyful, liberated, lyrical example of his playing than his latest disc, Duets 2001".
Track listing
"Bouncing" - 13:05
"Speed Way" - 8:17
"Taps" - 8:46
"Off Blue" - 8:41
"We" - 6:20
"Dark Day" - 7:59
Personnel
Fred Anderson - tenor sax
Robert Barry - drums
References
2001 live albums
Fred Anderson (musician) live albums
Thrill Jockey live albums |
44498994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midalja%20g%C4%A7all-Qadi%20tar-Repubblika | Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika | The Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika (Medal for Service to the Republic) is a medal of the Republic of Malta. The medal is awarded by the President of Malta, with the written approval of the Prime Minister of Malta, for distinguished service to Malta. The award is presented to Maltese citizens and organizations, but may be awarded to foreigners on an honorary basis for service which merits recognition. No more than ten Maltese citizens may be awarded the medal over the course of a year. The medal may be awarded posthumously.
Recipients of the medal are entitled to use the post-nominal M.Q.R.
Appearance
The Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika is a five-pointed white enamel star wide with beveled rays between the arms of the star. The obverse bears the Coat of Arms of Malta on a gold colored metal disc superimposed over the star. The top point of the star bears the inscription 1975 in gold. The reverse depicts, in relief, a map of the Maltese Islands. The map is surrounded by a wreath. Below the wreath is the inscription Għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika (For Service to the Republic). The ribbon of the medal is wide half white and half red. When worn by a lady, the ribbon is fashioned into a bow.
See also
Orders, decorations, and medals of Malta
References
Orders, decorations, and medals of Malta |
6904668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%3A%20You%20Get%20What%20You%20Play%20For | Live: You Get What You Play For | Live: You Get What You Play For is a live album by rock band REO Speedwagon, released as a double-LP in 1977 (and years later as a single CD omitting "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie"). It was recorded at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in Kansas City, Kansas, the Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiel Auditorium in Saint Louis, Missouri and Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. It peaked at number #72 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1977. The song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, but has since become a classic rock radio staple. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.
The Japanese CD reissue, released in 2011, restores the album and songs to its original full length by including both "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie", which were omitted in the original single CD release due to time constraints. Sony Music also released the unedited double LP Epic master on its Legacy Label for Compact Disc in 2011 as well.
Track listing
All songs written by Gary Richrath, except where noted.
Side one
"Like You Do" – 6:43
"Lay Me Down" (Neal Doughty, Alan Gratzer, Terry Luttrell, Gregg Philbin, Richrath) – 3:34
"Any Kind of Love" – 3:33
"Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)" (Kevin Cronin) – 6:27
Side two
"Keep Pushin'" (Cronin) – 3:59
"(Only A) Summer Love" – 6:06
"Son of a Poor Man" – 5:25
"(I Believe) Our Time Is Gonna Come" (Cronin) – 4:46
Side three
"Flying Turkey Trot" – 2:34
"Gary's Guitar Solo"+ – 6:10
"157 Riverside Avenue (Doughty, Gratzer, Luttrell, Philbin, Richrath) – 7:35
"Ridin' the Storm Out" – 5:34
Side four Encores
"Music Man" (Cronin) – 2:29
"Little Queenie"+ (Chuck Berry) – 4:45
"Golden Country" – 8:12
Total length – 77:18
(+) Appeared on the original double-LP release of the album, but omitted from the original single CD release. They are included on the 2011 Japanese "remaster" two-CD release.
Personnel
Kevin Cronin – lead vocals (except on "Only a Summer Love"), rhythm guitar
Gary Richrath – lead guitar, lead vocals on "Any Kind of Love" and "Only a Summer Love"
Neal Doughty – keyboards
Gregg Philbin – bass, backing vocals
Alan Gratzer – drums, backing vocals
Production
Production as listed in album liner notes.
John Stronach - production, engineering
John Henning - production, engineering, mixing
Gary Richrath - production, mixing
Bruce Hensal - engineering
Pete Carlson - engineering
Jack Crymes - engineering
Kelly Kotera - engineering
Rick Sanchez - engineering
Mike Klink - engineering
Vartán Kurjian - illustration
Justin Carroll - illustration
Tom Steele - design
Lorrie Sullivan - photography
Charts
Album
Singles
Certifications
Release history
Notes
References
REO Speedwagon albums
1977 live albums
Epic Records live albums
Albums produced by Gary Richrath |
23579945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Mansoor%20Al-Amriki | Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki | Omar Shafik Hammami (, Umar Shafīq Hammāmī; 6 May 1984 – 12 September 2013), also known by the pseudonym Abu Mansoor al-Amriki (, Abū Manṣūr al-Amrīkī), was an American citizen who was a member and leader in the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab. A federal warrant for his arrest was issued in 2007. In November 2012, the FBI added Hammami to its Most Wanted Terrorists list.
Omar was raised in a Christian household with an American Protestant mother and a Syrian-born Muslim father. Hammami began to identify as Muslim in high school, after traveling to Syria and meeting his Muslim relatives, and proceeded to drop out of college. After moving to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and marrying a Somali-Canadian woman in 2004, he traveled with her to Egypt in 2005. He then abandoned his wife and infant daughter to join Al-Shabaab in Somalia in late 2006. They divorced, and by 2009 he had married a Somali woman and had another daughter.
Hammami served as a commander, propagandist, and recruiter. He was rumored to have been killed in March and July 2011 but later appeared again in videos. In December 2012, Al-Shabaab posted a rebuke online of what it called his "narcissistic pursuit of fame."
Hammami was killed by al-Shabaab militants on 12 September 2013.
Early life
Hammami was born to Shafik Hammami and Debra Hadley and grew up in Daphne, Alabama, with an older sister Dena. Hammami's father, Shafik, a Syrian Muslim, grew up in Damascus, Syria and moved to Alabama for college, later becoming a civil engineer. His mother, Hadley, is of Irish descent and was a former schoolteacher. The children were initially raised as Southern Baptist but also practiced Muslim culture at home. Finding her father too restrictive, Dena left the home at 16 and went to live with friends.
Hammami was president of his sophomore class at Daphne High School and was in the Advanced Placement program. Following his father's return to Islam, Hammami began to explore the religion. He grew flamboyant about his faith in high school, convincing his friend Bernie Culveyhouse to convert to Islam. He left high school early to start college. Friends in school thought of him as a leader.
Over time, Hammami grew increasingly religious. While in college, he became influenced by Tony Salvatore Sylvester, an American convert to Islam at the Masjid in Mobile, Alabama and Hamammi became a Salafi. He served as president of the Muslim Students' Association at the University of South Alabama. His theological stance caused him conflict with his father, who asked him to leave home in 2002. Hammami also dropped out of college.
Marriage and family
Hammami and Culveyhouse worked odd jobs. Together, they decided to move to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which had a large Muslim community. Soon, Culveyhouse married. Hammami became more aware of the US Invasion of Iraq and began to become interested in jihad as he followed the fighting in Chechnya. In March 2005, Hammami married 19-year-old Sadiyo Mohamed Abdille, a woman from Somalia whose family had fled in 2001 for Canada from the civil war which had been going on since 1991.
In June 2005, the two friends moved with their families to Alexandria, Egypt and the Hammamis' daughter was born there. The men wanted to study at Al-Azhar University but neither was accepted, and Culveyhouse decided to return to the United States with his family.
Joining al-Shabaab in Somalia
Through an Internet forum, Hammami met Daniel Maldonado, an American convert to Islam who was living in Cairo with his wife and two children. The two young men secretly made plans to leave for Somalia. At the age of 22, Hammami traveled to Somalia in November 2006 and apparently joined al-Shabaab soon after, as Mogadishu descended into war. He told his family he lost his passport, and his parents contacted federal officials to help him but were told the US did not have diplomatic relations with Somalia. He disappeared, and his wife took their daughter with her back to Toronto. She refused his request to join him in Somalia and, in 2007, got a divorce.
In October 2007, Hammami appeared publicly identified as "Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki" (the American) for the first time, giving an interview for Al Jazeera. Fluent in Arabic, with computer and organization skills, Hammami was noticed by his superiors. In a January 2008 letter, Al-Amriki explained al-Shabaab's goal to establish an Islamic caliphate "from East to West after removing the occupier and killing the apostates."
Hammami became a major leader in Al-Shabaab, "commanding guerrilla forces in the field, organizing attacks and plotting strategy with al Qaeda operatives, according to The New York Times. He was said to have directed an October 2008 operation in which Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali-American, blew himself up, the second known American suicide bomber." In 2010 United States officials said they knew of no other American citizen who had risen so high as Hammami in Al-Shabaab, although it had recruited nearly 20 Americans, many from the Minneapolis area.
For these activities, in 2007, Hammami was indicted in the Southern District of Alabama on terrorism violations. A superseding indictment was returned against Hammami in 2009 on terrorism violations for leaving the United States to join al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization. On 13 December 2007, a federal warrant for his arrest was issued by the United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama.
Al-Amriki revealed his face in a 31-minute video released 31 March 2009, and in recruitment footage posted to a Somali terrorist website on 5 April 2009. He said,
The only reason we are staying here, away from our families, away from the cities, away from candy bars [and] ice, all these other things is because we are waiting to meet with the enemy. ... If you can encourage more of your children, and more of your neighbors, and anyone around you to send people ... to this Jihad, it would be a great asset for us.
In the video, al-Amriki talks about preparations for an ambush and his attempt to "try to blow up as many of their vehicles as we can and kill as many of them as we can." After the ambush, al-Amriki praises a killed fighter. American law enforcement authorities have claimed that Somali-Americans from Minnesota also appear in the 31 March video. One of the Americans featured in the video is Shirwa Ahmed, known to have been among four people to die in suicide attacks in October 2008 against the United Nations compound, the Ethiopian Consulate and the presidential palace in Hargeisa. The two videos indicated that Al-Amriki had become a prominent figure for al-Shabaab in its effort to recruit Western Muslims to jihad. His family and friends remain shocked that he could have embraced this cause.
On 8 July 2009, al-Amriki released an audiotape on jihadi websites. Billed as a "response" to U.S. President Barack Obama's June 2009 Cairo speech to "the Muslim world," the audio message warned Muslims against being taken in by Obama's "charisma." In the message, al-Amriki affirmed al-Shabaab's allegiance to Al Qaeda and condoned the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States.
In September 2009 Hammami contacted his sister Dena by email, saying that he had married a Somali woman and had a baby daughter. He contacted his sister intermittently. She disapproved of what he was doing but did not want to lose touch altogether.
In January 2010 he uploaded a lengthy autobiography available on JIHADOLOGY.net entitled "The Story of an American Jihadi: Part One." The 127-page document deals with his evolution from Muslim convert to Salafi to jihadi; enlisting in the Shabaab, life in combat fighting off hungry lions and giant ants at night. While defiant in his opposition to American government, Hammami expressed a wish to have "a three-day visit to see my mom, dad and sister."
In April 2011, Hammami released two rap songs dealing with jihad. One song, called Send me a Cruise, praised martyrdom at the hands of US forces. The other song, Make Jihad With Me, was aimed at recruiting Islamic youth to join the al Shabaab movement.
False reports of death
In March 2011, Somalian government sources reported that Hammami had been killed during fighting in Mogadishu. Somali Defence Minister Abdihakim Mohamoud Haji-Faqi subsequently told the Associated Press that Somali officials did not have a body and that the intelligence reports had not yet been confirmed.
Long War Journal reported on 15 March that Hammami had not been killed as Somali officials had claimed, as he had released a videotape. As Al-Amriki, Hammami had released an Anasheed song, mocking the claims of his death.
In July 2011, the Sunatimes reported that Hammami had possibly been killed in a Predator drone attack in Jubba, Somalia. He was featured in a March 2012 video claiming that his life may be in danger from Al-Shabaab, arising from a dispute over interpretations of Sharia law.
Al Shabaab denied this, saying that it was surprised by the video and that Al-Amriki "still enjoys all the privileges of brotherhood." The group added that it was attempting to verify "the authenticity as well as the motivations behind the video" and that a formal investigation was underway. On 25 May Hammami posted an audio lecture online. In the 45-minute lecture, originally posted in January but removed, he criticized jihadist organizations with a local focus, likening them to a "cancerous tumor." He also called for all Muslims to unite in a "jihad of the entire 'Ummah'" under the banner of restored caliphate.
In November 2012, the FBI placed Hammami on its Most Wanted Terrorists list.
On 17 December 2012, Al-Shabaab posted a message on Twitter publicly chastising Hammami for releasing videos in a "narcissistic pursuit of fame." The tweet asserted that the group had tried to talk with him privately but in vain. Al-Shabaab claimed a moral obligation to reveal Hammami's "obstinacy".
On 9 May 2013, senior member of al Shabaab and militant Fuad Mohamed Shangole claimed that Abu Mansoor al Amriki had been killed by armed men loyal to the top al Shabaab leader Ahmed Godane in Rama-cadey area. Preaching at a mosque in Bula-Barde town of Hiran region in central Somalia, Shangole said that Abu Mansoor al Amriki was killed after men he dubbed to be "apostates" ambushed him. Shangole said after Omar Hamami was killed, a fight between extremist militias erupted where a number of al Shabaab fighters were killed.
However, the reports of al-Amriki's death were proven wrong when he was interviewed by Voice of America on 3 September 2013.
Death
Omar Hammami was killed on 12 September 2013, in an early-morning ambush by al-Shabaab militants in a village near the town of Dinsoor, south-west of the capital, Mogadishu. US administration officials in the embassy of Nairobi, Kenya investigated the validity of the reports of his death.
Hammami's death was eventually confirmed when the FBI removed him from their Most Wanted Terrorists list in November 2013. He was removed from the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice list in January 2014.
References
Further reading
Ackerman, Spencer. "'There's No Turning Back': My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist." Wired. 4 April 2013.
Ackerman, Spencer. "Rapping Jihadi Now Fears Terrorist Pals Will Kill Him." Wired. 19 March 2013.
Ackerman, Spencer. "Rapping Terrorist Accused of Not Writing His Own Jihadi Rhymes." Wired. 22 February 2013.
Ackerman, Spencer. "$5 Million Bounty Is Closest Rapping Jihadi Will Come to a Record Deal." Wired. 20 March 2013.
Berger, J.M. "Omar and Me." Foreign Policy. 16 September 2013.
External links
FBI wanted poster
FBI.gov
1984 births
2013 deaths
Assassinated Al-Shabaab members
American Islamists
American expatriates in Somalia
People from Daphne, Alabama
Converts to Islam from Protestantism
American people of Syrian descent
American people of Irish descent |
23579946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valvisciolo%20Abbey | Valvisciolo Abbey | Valvisciolo Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in the province of Latina, central Italy, near the towns of Sermoneta and Ninfa.
It is an example of rigorous Romanesque-Cistercian architecture, considered a masterpiece of that style in central Italy second only to the nearby Fossanova Abbey.
History
According to tradition, the abbey was founded in the 8th century by Greek Basilian monks. Some sources state that it was established in 1145 by the monks of Cistercian order, by monks from the Abbey of Fossanova. Likely damaged during the 12th-century invasion of Barbarossa, it was occupied and restored by the Knights Templar in the 13th century, who after the dissolution of their order were replaced first briefly by Augustinians, then again by the Cistercians in 1312-15. The abbey had some turnover in the early 17th-century, but ultimately remained Cistercian. The monastery was dissolved in 1807 but was re-settled in 1864 and is still extant.
According to a medieval legend, when the Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay was burnt at the stake in 1314, the church's architraves broke. The Templar influence can be still noticed today from several crosses with their characteristic shape, such as that in the rose window. During a restoration, a Templar palindromic Sator Square was discovered on a wall: it is the only known variant in which the letters form five concentric rings, each one divided into five sectors.
In 1411 the abbey passed into the hands of Paolo Caetani as commendatory abbot. In 1523 Pope Clement VII reduced it to the rank of a priory, and in 1529 it was further reduced to a secular priory. From 1600 or 1605 it was occupied by Cistercians of the Congregation of the Feuillants until 1619. Between 1619 and 1635 the premises were used by the Minims of Saint Francis of Paola. The Feuillants then returned and remained there until the suppression of religious orders enforced by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Pope Pius IX made two important visits to the abbey in 1863 and 1865, and by his order the community here was re-established, as a priory dependent upon the congregation of Casamari. The abbey continues until today to accommodate Cistercian monks of the same congregation.
Buildings
The interior of the church consists of a nave and two aisles divided by pilasters and columns. The walls are plain, according to the Cistercian taste. At the end of the north nave is the Chapel of Saint Laurence, painted with frescoes in the years 1586-89 by Niccolò Circignani, known as "il Pomarancio" on commission from Cardinal Enrico Caetani.
Over the main entrance portal a rose window can be seen. The cloister, located to the right of the abbey and looking onto the façade, has a brightly coloured garden.
The abbey is situated in a small valley known by medieval tradition as the valley of the nightingale.
References
Sources
Testa, Sonia, 2007: Abbazia di Valvisciolo, "Vallis Lusciniae" Ars et Historia. Grafica 87, Pontinia 2007.
Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century
Monasteries in Lazio
Cistercian monasteries in Italy |
6904674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina%20Jesionowska | Celina Jesionowska | Celina Jesionowska (later names Gerwin and Orzechowska, born 3 November 1933 in Łomża) is a Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 and 200 metres and, during the last part of her career, in the 400 metres. She competed for Poland in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Teresa Wieczorek, Barbara Janiszewska and Halina Richter.
Jesionowska also competed in three European Championships:
1954 in Bern, where she was eliminated in the 100 metres semi-finals, and took fifth place in the 4 x 100 metres relay with her team mates Marią Ilwicką, Barbarą Lerczak and Marią Kusion.
1958 in Stockholm, where she won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay with the same team, and reached the semi-finals in the 200 and 100 metres.
1966 in Budapest, where she was eliminated in the first round qualifiers for the 100 metres.
Throughout her career, Jesionowska was a competitor with the Central Military Sports Club "Legia" Warsaw (CWKS "Legia" Warsaw), through which she attained seven Polish championships:
400 metres - 1964, 1965 and 1966.
4 × 100 metres relay - 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960.
Cultural influence
In 1976, Jesionowska appeared in an episode of the TV series The Way It Was which showcased the 1960 Summer Olympics, in which she gained her bronze medal.
Personal bests
Jesionowska's published personal bests include:
100 metres - 11.8 seconds
200 metres - 23.8 seconds
400 metres - 55.4 seconds
80 meters hurdles - 11.0 seconds
Long jump - 5.85 metres
References
1933 births
Polish female sprinters
Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Poland
Living people
People from Łomża
European Athletics Championships medalists
People from Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Sportspeople from Podlaskie Voivodeship
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Legia Warsaw athletes
20th-century Polish women
Olympic female sprinters |
6904684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Helmet | Golden Helmet | Golden Helmet may refer to:
Golden Helmet (Poland), an annual Polish speedway event
Golden Helmet of Pardubice, an annual Czech speedway event
Kultainen kypärä, a Finnish ice hockey award given to the best player in Liiga.
Guldhjälmen, a Swedish ice hockey award
Casque d'Or (English: Golden Helmet), a 1952 French film |
23579950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane/Miller | Kane/Miller | Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc., now Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing, is a San Diego, California-based specialty children's book publisher of international titles. The company was acquired by the Educational Development Corporation in 2008.
History
Kane Miller was started as Kane/Miller Book Publishers in 1984 by siblings Madeline Kane and Sandy Miller as a small family business, specializing in publishing children’s books from around the world for the US audience. Miller had previously been involved with importing movies from outside the United States of America, and when he had his first child, he realized the cultural benefits of also bringing in books. The publisher found success in 1993 with Tarō Gomi's Everyone Poops, a Japanese language import that sold over one million copies and is now their best-known title. By 2000, the company closed its Brooklyn, New York offices to be based solely in San Diego, California. Both Kane and Miller retired by 2001. Kira Lynn was named the new head of the company shortly thereafter. The company was acquired by Educational Development Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2008, at which time the line was expanded to include new works by American authors.
Today, Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing, publish an assortment of board books, picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for readers from infants through middle schoolers, publishing well over 100 new books each year. Kane Miller books are sold by traditional bookstores and by the 60,000+ independent sales consultants of Usborne Books & More. They are not sold at Amazon.
Acquisition
By December 1, 2008 Kane Miller had been acquired by the Educational Development Corporation (EDC), the sole US trade publisher of the United Kingdom-based Usborne Books. According to Randall White, board chairman, CEO, and President of EDC, the integration of the two companies went smoothly. The move was well received within the publishing industry, and EDC expressed hope that it would increase sales. However, due to the late-2000s recession, sales in the 2009 fiscal year were somewhat decreased.
Products
The majority of Kane Miller's titles originate from publishers outside the US. Recently, Kane Miller began publishing stories from American authors as well, in order to diversify their offerings. The publisher's greatest commercial success was Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi, followed by Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Australian author Mem Fox which began its publishing run in 1985, and as of 2005 was nearing one million copies sold. Another top-seller was 2004's Guji Guji by Taiwanese author Chih-Yuan Chen, which sold 65,000 copies between 2004 and 2005. The company became the US distributor of the Anna Hibiscus series by UK-based Nigerian author Atinuke in 2010. Other Kane Miller top sellers include All Better! and Good as New by Henning Löhlein and Bernd Penners, the Shine-a-Light series, and Emma Yarlett's Nibbles series.
Sales
Kane Miller books have not been sold at Amazon.com since 2012. Like other books from Educational Development Corporation, they are sold to traditional bookstores and by their direct sales division Usborne Books & More. Usborne Books & More distributes books through thousands of independent consultants who sell directly to the consumer via home shows, direct sales, book fairs, and web sites. Since shortly after their decision to stop selling to Amazon, the company's total sales have increased significantly.
References
Book publishing companies based in California
Children's book publishers
Companies based in San Diego County, California
Publishing companies established in 1984
1984 establishments in California |
6904692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%20%26%20Company | Hakluyt & Company | Hakluyt & Company is a British strategic advisory firm. The company is headquartered in London and has subsidiary offices in New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Singapore, Mumbai, Chicago and Sydney.
Hakluyt avoids publicity, but is regarded as having a reputation for discretion and effectiveness among its client base. Hakluyt was founded by former officials of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The company has recruited several former British spies and journalists from The Financial Times.
The firm is chaired by Paul Deighton, and the other members of the board include managing partner Varun Chandra, Les Fagen, and Jean Tomlin.
Corporate governance
Hakluyt's international advisory board comprises senior figures with backgrounds in business and government. It is chaired by Niall FitzGerald, KBE, former CEO and chairman of Unilever, and its current members are:
M. S. Banga – partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and former chairman and managing director, Hindustan Unilever
Professor Sir John Bell – Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford
Sir Douglas Flint CBE – chairman, Standard Life Aberdeen
Dr Jurgen Grossmann – founder and shareholder, Georgsmarienhutte Holding GmbH
Muhtar Kent – former CEO and chairman, The Coca-Cola Company
Irene Lee – chairman, Hysan Development Co. Limited
Sir Iain Lobban – former director, UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
Trevor Manuel – former minister of finance, South Africa
Lubna Olayan – CEO and deputy chairperson, Olayan Financing Company
Sandi Peterson – former group worldwide chairman, Johnson & Johnson and independent director, Microsoft Corporation
Alfonso Prat-Gay – former minister of the economy and President of the Central Bank of Argentina
Sir John Rose – former chairman, Hakluyt & Company
Shuzo Sumi – former president and chairman, Tokio Marine Holdings and chairman of the board, Sony Corporation
Ambassador Louis Susman – former US ambassador to the UK
Ratan Tata, GBE – chairman emeritus, Tata Sons
The former president and chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation, Minoru (Ben) Makihara, KBE, served on the advisory board of the firm from 2004 to 2020.
References
External links
Companies based in the City of Westminster
Consulting firms established in 1995
Management consulting firms |
23579951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%20Trail%20Iron%20Bridge | Gateway Trail Iron Bridge | The Gateway Trail Iron Bridge is a historic camelback truss bridge on the Gateway State Trail in Stillwater Township, Minnesota, United States. The bridge has stood in three locations in Minnesota. Its main span was built of wrought iron in 1873—before steel became the preferred material for metal bridges—and erected in Sauk Centre in Central Minnesota. Designated Bridge No. 5721, it was refurbished and moved in 1937 to rural Koochiching County in northern Minnesota, where it became known as the Silverdale Bridge. It was relocated to its present site in east-central Minnesota in 2011 and renamed Bridge No. 82524. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 for its state-level significance in engineering. It was nominated as a rare example of a wrought iron truss bridge with ornamental detailing.
Description
The historic main span of the Gateway Trail Iron Bridge is a camelback through truss of pin-connected wrought iron. It spans in eight panels. Its bracing members are decorated with ornamental latticework. It originally had a wood deck but was given a lightweight concrete deck during the 2011 relocation to accommodate equestrian use. The side railings were retained from its 1937 iteration, though respaced according to modern safety standards. Although it was a visual departure from its historic appearance, cables were strung above the railings to protect horseback riders and bicyclists from being thrown off the bridge in the case of an accident.
History
The bridge was originally constructed over the Sauk River in the city of Sauk Centre. It was completed in 1873, accommodating horse and buggy traffic on the town's Main Street. At some point it was dismantled and put into storage in Sauk Centre.
In 1937 the bridge was taken out of storage and reassembled at , about two miles southwest of Silverdale in Koochiching County. There it carried Minnesota State Highway 65 over the Little Fork River. Steel, which had come into favor for bridges in the 1890s, was used for the new approaches on either end. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Bridge No. 5721" in 1998.
Within a few years, however, it was clear that Bridge 5721 was insufficient for the demands of modern traffic, particularly the logging trucks common in northern Minnesota. An analysis in 2006 determined that the bridge was insufficient for highway use but retained its historic design integrity and was a candidate for rehabilitation in a less rigorous context. The Minnesota Department of Transportation collaborated with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to determine possible new locations. One was identified on the Gateway State Trail where the rail trail intersected a county highway on a level crossing. Bridge 5721 was dismantled in 2009 and put in storage while the new site was prepared. In May 2011 the reassembled truss was hoisted into place. It now serves pedestrians, bicyclists, and horses much as it did in its first incarnation.
See also
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Minnesota
References
External links
Gateway Trail Iron Bridge
2011 establishments in Minnesota
Bridges completed in 1873
Bridges completed in 2011
Transportation buildings and structures in Washington County, Minnesota
Former road bridges in Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Minnesota
Pedestrian bridges in Minnesota
Relocated buildings and structures in Minnesota
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Truss bridges in the United States
Wrought iron bridges in the United States |
23579967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaw%20Gizewiusz | Gustaw Gizewiusz | Gustaw Herman Marcin Gizewiusz, or Gustav Gisevius (May 21, 1810 – May 7, 1848) was a Polish political figure, folklorist, and translator. He was married to a Mazur Polish woman, who encouraged him to become a political figure. He was born in Pisz (Johannisburg). From 1835 he was also an Evangelical-Lutheran pastor in Ostróda.
In the 19th century a Polish national revival begun in the areas of the partitioned state as well as in those territories that were lost to Poland before the partitions (Silesia, Farther Pomerania). In Masurian area - which was under Polish suzerainty until the 17th century - there was a Polish linguistic, though not yet widespread political revival.
The local Prussian authorities were hostile to the movement and, beginning in the 1830s, attempted to eradicate the Polish language from schools in Masuria. The authorities' efforts however failed to bring the effects expected by the Prussian state. The defending action of the Polish population during the first half of the 19th century was led by Krzysztof Celestyn Mrongowiusz and Gizewiusz who became involved in the movement to counteract Germanization in Masuria. He encouraged the Mazurs to maintain their Polish language and culture by publishing Polish-language texts for use in schools. He also recorded Mazurian folk songs which were later published in Oskar Kolberg's Dzieła Wszystkie. He died in Ostróda (Osterode). In his honor, Łuczany (Lec, Lötzen), his ancestor's hometown, was renamed Giżycko.
Further reading
Sławomir Augusiewicz, Janusz Jasiński, Tadeusz Oracki, Wybitni Polacy w Królewcu. XV-XX wiek, Olsztyn, Littera, 2005,
References
1810 births
1848 deaths
People from Pisz
Polish Lutheran clergy
Polish Lutherans
Polish folklorists
People from East Prussia
People from Ostróda |
23579971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanischer%20Schulgarten%20Burg | Botanischer Schulgarten Burg | The Botanischer Schulgarten Burg (7.5 hectares) is a botanical garden for students maintained by the municipal Schulbiologiezentrum Hannover organization. It is located at Vinnhorster Weg 2, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, and open weekdays.
The garden was established in 1927 to provide practical botany experiences to students. As of 1974 it became headquarters of the Schulbiologiezentrum Hannover, which also maintains schools in three other locations (Freiluftschule Burg, Zooschule Hannover, Botanischer Schulgarten Linden).
Its grounds contain a range of habitats including ponds, alder and birch groves, deciduous forest, and meadow, in which students can understand scientific and environmental topics. It also contains theme gardens as follows: genetics and evolution, herbs, vegetables, fruit, aromatic plants, geographic garden, sun and energy, small organic experiments, and insects. The garden's perennial nursery (1500 m²) raises plants for school gardens, including a tropical greenhouse (200 m²) cultivating rainforest plants.
See also
List of botanical gardens in Germany
References
Botanischer Schulgarten Burg
Schulbiologiezentrum Hannover
BGCI entry
Botanischer Schulgarten Burg
Botanischer Schulgarten Burg
Geography of Hanover
Tourist attractions in Hanover
Buildings and structures in Hanover |
6904717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Ludwig | Bob Ludwig | Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Bryan Ferry, Paul McCartney, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen and Daft Punk
resulting in over 3,000 credits. He is the recipient of numerous Grammy and TEC Awards.
Biography
At the age of eight in South Salem, New York, Ludwig was so fascinated with his first tape recorder, that he used to make recordings of whatever was on the radio. Ludwig is a classical musician by training, having obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in New York. He was also involved in the sound department at Eastman, as well as being principal trumpet of the Utica Symphony Orchestra. Inspired by Phil Ramone when he came to Eastman to teach a summer recording workshop, Ludwig ended up working as his assistant. Afterwards, he was contacted and offered work with Ramone at A&R Recording. Together, they did sessions on projects with The Band, Peter, Paul & Mary, Neil Diamond and Frank Sinatra.
After a few years at A&R, Ludwig received an offer from Sterling Sound, where he eventually became a vice president. After seven years at Sterling, he moved to its competitor, Masterdisk, where he was vice president and chief engineer. In December 1992, Ludwig left Masterdisk to start his own record mastering facility in Portland, Maine, named Gateway Mastering Studios, Inc. He, along with Adam Ayan are the two mastering engineers who work at Gateway Mastering.
Work
Ludwig's mastering credits include albums for many major classic artists, such as the Kronos Quartet, and rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Phish, Rush, Mötley Crüe, Megadeth, Metallica, Gloria Estefan, Nirvana, The Strokes, Queen, U2, Sting, The Police, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Beck, Guns N' Roses, Richie Sambora, Tool, Simple Minds, Bryan Ferry, Tori Amos, Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, the Bee Gees, Madonna, Richard Wood, Supertramp, Will Ackerman, Pet Shop Boys, Radiohead, Elton John, Daft Punk and Alabama Shakes.
He has occasionally undertaken larger projects, such as remastering the entire back catalogues of Rush, Dire Straits, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Rolling Stones.
Ludwig cites his most musically satisfying projects as: the CD reissue of Music From Big Pink (The Band), There's a Riot Goin' On (Sly and the Family Stone), Led Zeppelin II, Painted from Memory (Bacharach & Costello), Spirit (Jewel), Loreena McKennitt, and Ancient Voices of Children (George Crumb).
Ludwig remains an active influence in the music industry. As a judge for the 8th and 10th-14th annual Independent Music Awards, his contributions helped assist the careers of upcoming independent artists. Ludwig is active in the Audio Engineering Society and is a past chairman of the New York AES section. He was Co-Chair of the Producers and Engineers Wing for 5 years and is presently on the Advisory Council of the P&E Wing of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Awards and recognition
Grammy Awards
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|Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)
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APRS
2012: Association of Professional Recording Services Sound Fellowship - received 27 October 2012
Audio Engineering Society
2015: AES Gold Medal
References
External links
SoundStage! interview
1940s births
Living people
American audio engineers
Engineers from New York (state)
Grammy Award winners
Latin Grammy Award winners
Mastering engineers
People from South Salem, New York
University of Rochester alumni |
23579980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornea%20plana | Cornea plana | Cornea plana may refer to:
Cornea plana 1, an eye condition
Cornea plana 2, an eye condition |
23579981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Clooney%20Sings%20the%20Lyrics%20of%20Ira%20Gershwin | Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin | Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin is a 1979 album by Rosemary Clooney, of songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
Track listing
"But Not for Me" – 5:47
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" – 2:58
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" – 4:58
"Fascinating Rhythm" – 2:56
"Love Is Here to Stay" – 3:48
"Strike Up the Band" – 3:46
"Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Jerome Kern) – 4:24
"They All Laughed" – 4:05
"The Man that Got Away" (Harold Arlen) – 6:00
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" – 3:29
All lyrics by Ira Gershwin, all music by George Gershwin, other composers noted.
Personnel
Rosemary Clooney - vocal
Scott Hamilton - tenor saxophone
Warren Vaché - cornet, flugelhorn
Roger Glenn - flute
Cal Collins - guitar
Nat Pierce - piano
Chris Amberger - double bass
Jeff Hamilton - drums
References
1979 albums
Concord Records albums
George and Ira Gershwin tribute albums
Rosemary Clooney albums |
6904730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace%20Fiennes | Eustace Fiennes | Sir Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 1st Baronet (29 February 1864 – 9 February 1943), known as Sir Eustace Fiennes, was a British soldier, Liberal politician and colonial administrator.
Background
Fiennes was born in Reading, Berkshire, the second son of John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 17th Baron Saye and Sele and his wife, Lady Augusta Hay-Drummond, a daughter of the 11th Earl of Kinnoull. He was educated at Malvern College,
In 1894, Fiennes married Florence Agnes Fletcher née Rathfelder (from Constantia, Cape Town). They lived in Windlesham and Sunningdale and had two children: John Eustace (1895–1917, Battle of Arras) and Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 2nd Baronet (1902–1943).
Military career
Fiennes fought in the North-West Rebellion in 1885, was stationed in Egypt from 1888 to 1889, and took part in the expedition to Mashonaland in 1890. He was commissioned into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in 1895, and promoted Lieutenant on 29 April 1899. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Fiennes volunteered for service in South Africa, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 3 February 1900, serving in the 40th (Oxfordshire) company of the 10th Battalion. He left London the same day on board the SS Montfort. He was promoted captain in 1901, major in 1905, and lieutenant-colonel in 1918. He fought in Flanders and the Dardanelles during World War I.
Political career
At the 1906 general election, Fiennes was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury and with a brief interruption in 1910, held the seat until the 1918 general election. He was also Parliamentary Private Secretary to Winston Churchill (then First Lord of the Admiralty) from 1912 to 1914. Created a baronet in 1916, Fiennes left the Commons two years later to become Governor of the Seychelles and was then Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1921 to 1929.
Fiennes died in 1943 aged 78 and his title was inherited by his son who died the same year. His grandson, the famous explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, inherited the title on his birth in 1944. Through his grandfather the 16th Baron Saye and Sele, Fiennes is also related to the actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.
Notes
References
External links
Fiennes, Hon Eustace, Captain Oxfordshire Yeomanry. www.angloboerwar.com.
Leigh Rayment's : list of MP's by Constituency
Fiennes Family, 1100 – 2004
1864 births
1943 deaths
Military personnel from Reading, Berkshire
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
British Army personnel of World War I
Governors of the Leeward Islands
Eustace Fiennes
Governors of British Seychelles
Imperial Yeomanry officers
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
People of the North-West Rebellion
People educated at Malvern College
People from Reading, Berkshire
People from Sunningdale
People from Surrey Heath (district)
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars officers
UK MPs 1906–1910
UK MPs 1910–1918
Younger sons of barons |
23579994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Elizabeth%20railway%20station | Port Elizabeth railway station | Port Elizabeth railway station is a railway station, located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
In 1873, Prime Minister John Molteno of the Cape Colony commenced work on connecting Port Elizabeth to the developing national railway network, resulting in the station complex being located in the historic central district, near the harbour. The prosperity which followed the construction of railways to the interior earned for the port the designation of "the Liverpool of South Africa."
Passenger services operating from the station include:
Metrorail - operates frequent commuter trains to Uitenhage and the surrounding suburbs during weekdays, with a reduced service over weekends
Shosholoza Meyl - operates daily inter-city trains to Johannesburg and Bloemfontein. You can also get to Cape Town, Kimberley, Pietermaritzburg and Durban (by changing trains in Bloemfontein), to East London (by changing trains in Noupoort, Colesberg or Bloemfontein), to Mthatha (by changing trains in Noupoort and Amabele) or to Grahamstown (by changing trains in Alicedale)
Premier Classe - operates twice-weekly luxury trains to Cape Town via George and Oudtshoorn.
The Apple Express narrow-gauge tourist train to Avontuur operates from the separate station in Humewood Road near King's Beach. It departs regularly for Thornhill Village via a rail bridge over the Van Stadens River, the highest narrow-gauge rail bridge in the world.
See also
Donkin Heritage Trail
References
Railway
Transport in Port Elizabeth
Metrorail (South Africa) stations
Shosholoza Meyl stations |
6904737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachitomi | Rachitomi | The Rachitomi were a group of extinct Palaeozoic labyrinthodont amphibians, according to an earlier classification system. They are defined by the structure of the vertebrae, having large semi-circular intercentra below the notochord and smaller paired though prominent pleurocentra on each side above and behind, forming anchoring points for the ribs.
This form of complex backbone was found in some crossopterygian fish, the Ichthyostegalia, most Temnospondyli and some Reptiliomorpha. Primitive reptiles kept the complex rachitomous vertebrae, but with the pleurocentra being the more dominant. As a phylogenetic unit, the Rachitomi thus are a paraphyletic unit.
References
Prehistoric amphibians |
23579995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlynch%20Priory | Barlynch Priory | Barlynch Priory (also known as St Nicholas's Priory and sometimes spelled Barlich Priory) in Brompton Regis, Somerset, England was an Augustinian priory founded by William de Say between 1154 and 1189 and dissolved in 1537.
In the late 15th century the prior was John Chester, one of the sons of Alice Chestre who made donations to the church. In 1524 the priory was at its largest with nine canons.
The only visible remains are some fragments of walling attached to Barlynch farmhouse, which have been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 182). It has been added to the Heritage at Risk Register because of the risk of collapse.
Some of the stained glass from a Jesse window at the Priory is now in the St Peter's Church in Huish Champflower.
References
Augustinian monasteries in England
Monasteries in Somerset
Religious organizations established in the 1100s
Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
Scheduled monuments in West Somerset
12th-century establishments in England
1539 disestablishments in England
Structures on the Heritage at Risk register in Somerset |
6904740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Hermann%20Quincke | Georg Hermann Quincke | Georg Hermann Quincke FRSFor HFRSE (; November 19, 1834 – January 13, 1924) was a German physicist.
Biography
Born in Frankfurt-on-Oder, Quincke was the son of prominent physician Geheimer Medicinal-Rath Hermann Quincke and the older brother of physician Heinrich Quincke.
Quincke received his Ph. D. in 1858 at Berlin, having previously studied also at Königsberg and at Heidelberg. He became privatdocent at Berlin in 1859, professor at Berlin in 1865, professor at Würzburg in 1872, and in 1875 was called to be professor of physics at Heidelberg, where he remained until his retirement in 1907. His doctor's dissertation was on the subject of the capillary constant of mercury, and his investigations of all capillary phenomena are classical.
In September 1860, Quincke was one of the participants in the Karlsruhe Congress, the first international conference of chemistry worldwide. He and Adolf von Baeyer represented the University of Berlin in Congress.
Quincke also did important work in the experimental study of the reflection of light, especially from metallic surfaces, and carried on prolonged researches on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.
"Quincke's interference tube" is an apparatus used to demonstrate interference phenomena of sound waves.
Quincke received a D. C. L. from Oxford and an LL. D. from Cambridge and from Glasgow and was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 1885 he published Geschichte des physikalischen Instituts der Universität Heidelberg.
Quincke died in Heidelberg at age 89. It is believed that Quincke was the last living participant of the Karlsruhe Congress.
See also
Streaming current
Notes
References
"Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke". Who Named It? (Retrieved January 23, 2007).
1834 births
1924 deaths
19th-century German physicists
People from Frankfurt (Oder)
People from the Province of Brandenburg
University of Königsberg alumni
Heidelberg University alumni
Heidelberg University faculty
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin faculty
University of Würzburg faculty
Foreign Members of the Royal Society
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
6904746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20to%20Find | Hard to Find | Hard to Find may refer to:
"Hard to Find", a song by The American Analog Set from their 2003 album Promise of Love
"Hard to Find", a song by Codeine from the EP Barely Real
"Hard to Find", a song by The National from their album Trouble Will Find Me
"Hard to Find", a song by Skillet from their 2013 album Rise |
6904757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett%20Strommen | Garrett Strommen | Garrett Strommen is an American actor, entrepreneur, author, and visual artist born on October 8, 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Career
Before his big break in the movie I Dreamed of Africa with Daniel Craig and Kim Basinger in 2000, he got his start in Italy with school productions. He lived in Rome, for over 8 years where he attended St. Stephen's International School and went on to win the Reverend Wilbur C. Woodhams Medal for excellence in the arts. His father is Kim Strommen, who served as Dean of Temple University Rome's study abroad campus for 25 years and his mother is Genell Miller, a visual artist and art professor. In 2006 he graduated from the prestigious creative writing program at UCLA cum laude. He is currently the founder and president of Strommen Inc., a private language instruction and translation company and an angel investor in Rufus Labs. Acting roles include recurring roles in the TV drama 7th Heaven, an appearance as the victim in Cold Case and an appearance on Without a Trace. Recently, he was in an episode of CSI: NY, Heroes (TV series) and a cameo in "Dead of Night," a film based on the Italian comic book Dylan Dog.
He is fluent in English, Italian and Spanish. He likes painting and sculpting.
External links
Strommen
1982 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people |
23580000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20wing | Channel wing | The channel wing is an aircraft wing principle developed by Willard Ray Custer in the 1920s. The most important part of the wing consists of a half-tube with an engine placed in the middle, driving a propeller placed at the rear end of the channel formed by the half-tube.
Development
In 1925, Willard Custer had himself observed how very strong winds had managed to lift the roof of a barn. Custer realized that the high velocity of the wind created a lower pressure above the roof while the pressure remained high inside, literally blowing the roof off. This low pressure above/high pressure below is the same phenomenon that allows an airplane wing to provide lift even though in this case the barn itself was obviously not moving.
Custer studied the phenomenon, and by 1928 he had made the first models of a wing with a half-tube-formed section instead of the usual wing profile. This was patented in 1929. Development of the half-tube channel wing was then refined further, and on November 12, 1942, the CCW-1 (Custer Channel Wing 1) airplane was flying for the first time. Custer built additional experimental aircraft; the last one was CCW-5, of which a few were manufactured in 1964.
Functional principle
Custer's summary of his invention was that the key to the lift created by a wing is the velocity of the stream of air passing over the wing, not the velocity of the airplane itself: It's the speed of air, not the airspeed!
A wing functions because the air over the wing has a lower pressure than the air under it. The conventional aircraft must reach a significant minimum speed before this pressure differential become large enough that it generates sufficient lift to become airborne.
In Custer's channel wing the rotating propeller will direct a stable stream of air backwards through the channel. A propeller will at the low pressure side normally be supplied by air from all directions. Since the half-tube prevents air from being drawn from below, the air will be sucked through the channel instead. This creates a strong low pressure area in the channel, which again generates a lift.
Applications and limitations
The layout was not successfully proven in an aircraft for a long time, though Custer showed theoretically and experimentally that the principle was capable of vertical flight. Since they were built with conventional rudders needing some minimum airspeed to be functional, none of the aircraft designed by Custer were capable of full vertical takeoff, but instead were characterized as STOL (short takeoff and landing). The required runway for takeoff was very short, however, for the CCW-1, for the CCW-2, with a take off speed of as low as . Full vertical takeoff is theoretically feasible, but would require additional modifications and means of control.
Custer investigated both aircraft with pure channel wings as well as aircraft with additional conventional wings located outside the channels. The construction functions very well at relatively low speeds. At higher speeds, at high propeller RPM, oscillations would occur in the areas around the propeller, causing increased noise as well as creating long term destructive vibrations in the structure.
The twin engine layout featuring two channel wing features was the most tested configuration. The twin layout had a higher risk of loss of control during a single engine failure situation, and required very high nose up attitude for STOL flight compared to conventional twin engine aircraft.
Two of Custer's CCW aircraft survive. The CCW-1 is located at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum in Suitland, Maryland. The CCW-5, which was based on the Baumann Brigadier executive aircraft, is exhibited at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Pennsylvania.
Later, research performed by NASA concluded that the advantage in lift and field length performance achieved did not offset the layout's many deficiencies in climb and high speed ability, and problems meeting certification requirements for general aviation. The main issue is that the semi-circular beam wing configuration incurs increased profile drag and weight penalties over a conventional wing of the same lifting planform, and a common straight wing could provide almost the equivalent lift enhancement when exposed to the same slipstream-induced increased dynamic pressure.
Hybrid Channel Wing
From 1999–2004 A joint research project led by Georgia Institute of the Technology Research Institute in Atlanta was funded by Langley Research Center. Aircraft were tested using channel wing principle layouts with circulation control devices that leveraged the Coandă effect. Performance of the wing was increased, and angle of attack was lowered, reducing some of the drawbacks of the design. The resultant design has been patented.
Channel wing principle aircraft examples
References
Further reading
External links
Custer-Channelwing Website Archive
Another Custer Channel Wing Website
Video of Custer explaining his theories and actual flight footage
Pictures of the Custer CCW-1 National Air and Space Museum
Pictures of the Custer CCW-5 Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
Modern channelwing aircraft design Stavatti designed channelwing transport for the 2000s
Custer's Channel Wing
Aircraft wing design
Wing configurations |
20473482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%20Haley | Len Haley | Leonard Frank "Comet" Haley (born September 15, 1931) is a Canadian retired ice hockey player who played 30 games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings during the 1959–60 and 1960–61 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1951 to 1972, was mainly spent in the minor Western Hockey League.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
External links
1931 births
Living people
Brandon Regals players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Detroit Red Wings players
Edmonton Flyers (WHL) players
Hershey Bears players
Ice hockey people from Alberta
New Haven Blades players
Omaha Knights (CHL) players
Omaha Knights (USHL) players
San Diego Gulls (WHL) players
San Francisco Seals (ice hockey) players
Saskatoon Quakers players
Seattle Totems (WHL) players
Sportspeople from Edmonton
Tulsa Oilers (1964–1984) players |
6904767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky%20Walker | Nicky Walker | Joseph Nicol Walker (born 29 September 1962) is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for several clubs in Scotland and England. Walker was selected for many Scotland squads during the 1990s, earning two international caps.
Football career
Club
A product of Highland League club Elgin City, Walker signed for Leicester City aged 17. He didn't settle in the Midlands though, and returned to Scotland within the year, signing for Motherwell in 1981. Two years later he signed for Rangers, where he soon established himself as their first choice goalkeeper. The arrival of Chris Woods as part of the Souness revolution meant that Walker lost his place. Walker did play in the 1987 Scottish League Cup Final against Aberdeen, which Rangers won after a penalty shoot-out, while injuries to Woods the following season also meant Walker deputised in twelve games to earn a Scottish League title medal.
Walker joined Heart of Midlothian in a £125,000 deal in 1990. His time at Tynecastle developed into a see-saw battle with Henry Smith for the starting goalkeeping role, both men earning international recognition when in the Hearts first team but enduring significant spells on the sidelines. Smith eventually won the duel and, after a loan spell with Burnley, Walker moved to Partick Thistle in 1994 in a part-exchange deal for Craig Nelson.
Firhill proved a happy home for Walker, and he enjoyed his most consistent period in the West of Glasgow. When Thistle were relegated in 1996, his form was sufficient to earn a £60,000 move to high-flying Aberdeen. He left Pittodrie in 1999 after he was supplanted by Derek Stillie, winding down his career with short spells at Ross County and Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
International
Walker earned two international caps for Scotland, making his debut in a 1–0 defeat by Germany in 1993. His only other appearance was three years later, against the United States. Walker was selected as a reserve goalkeeper in the Scotland squad for UEFA Euro 1996.
Personal life
Walker's family company is Walkers Shortbread, based in the Speyside village of Aberlour, Morayshire, in north east Scotland. He joined the firm following his retirement from football, becoming a director.
References
External links
London Hearts Profile
1962 births
Living people
Footballers from Aberdeen
Scottish footballers
Scotland international footballers
Scotland B international footballers
UEFA Euro 1996 players
Elgin City F.C. players
Leicester City F.C. players
Motherwell F.C. players
Rangers F.C. players
Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Partick Thistle F.C. players
Aberdeen F.C. players
Ross County F.C. players
Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. players
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Association football goalkeepers
Highland Football League players |
6904775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeling%20%28book%29 | Reeling (book) | Reeling is Pauline Kael's fifth collection of movie reviews, covering the years 1972 through 1975. First published in 1976 by Little Brown, the book is largely composed of movie reviews, ranging from her famous review of Last Tango in Paris to her review of A Woman Under the Influence, but it also contains a longer essay entitled "On the Future of Movies" as well as a book review of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, by fellow The New Yorker dance critic Arlene Croce. In 2010, four film critics polled by the British Film Institute listed Reeling among their favorite books related to cinema.
Reeling is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
References
1976 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
Little, Brown and Company books |
23580010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheung%20Wah%20Estate | Cheung Wah Estate | Cheung Wah Estate () is a mixed TPS and public housing estate in Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is the first public housing estate in Fanling Town, consisting of ten residential blocks completed from 1984 to 1986. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 6A in 2004.
Houses
Demographics
According to the 2016 by-census, Cheung Wah Estate had a population of 13,109. The median age was 49.2 and the majority of residents (99 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.7 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$22,490.
Politics
Cheung Wah Estate is located in Cheung Wah constituency of the North District Council. It was formerly represented by Chan Yuk-ming, who was elected in the 2019 elections until July 2021.
See also
Public housing estates in Fanling
References
Residential buildings completed in 1984
Residential buildings completed in 1986
Fanling
Public housing estates in Hong Kong
Tenants Purchase Scheme
Housing estates with centralized LPG system in Hong Kong |
44498997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Simon%20%28gynaecologist%29 | Carlos Simon (gynaecologist) | Carlos Simon (Buñol, province of Valencia, 1961) is a Spanish clinical researcher, gynaecologist and obstetrician.
He was born in Buñol (Valencia). He is married and father of four children. His vocation was to become a doctor.
He became Scientific Director of Igenomix S.L. since the company was created in 2009.
He became Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Valencia (UV) in 2007, Associate Clinic Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Stanford University in 2013 and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas in 2014.
Career
He took a degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Valencia University (UV) in 1985 obtaining the qualification of Distinction Cum Laude and Extraordinary Degree Award. He obtained a Predoctoral Scholarship Holder at the Regional Ministry of Education, Regional Government of Valencia. Doctor in Medicine and Surgery at the Valencia University (UV) with Distinction Cum Laude in 1986.
He gained the speciality of Obstetrics and Gynaecology After approving the examination MIR in 1987 with number 116, and did his medical residency at the Obstetrics and Gynaecologist Department at the Clinic Hospital University of Valencia between 1987 and 1990, under the leadership of Professor Fernando Bonilla. He was Associate Doctor at this same department until September 1991.
In order to train as a researcher, he left his clinical place and got a Postdoctoral fellowship by the Ministry of Education and Science, General Foreign Subprogram, to do his training research in Reproductive Endocrinology in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at the Stanford University, California (United States) since 1991 until 1994.
After completing his clinical and research training and for the past 20 years he has focussed his career in the applied reproductive medical research and regenerative medicine.
In 2004, due to his groundbreaking work in Spain about stem cells, he was named Director of the Valencia Nodo of the National Stem Cell Bank placed in the Principe Felipe Research Centre, he was also named coordinator of the regenerative medicine area until 2007 and scientific director of the same centre since 2009 until 2011.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Stanford (USA), Yale (USA), Hong Kong (China) and Adelaide (Australia).
In 2011 Carlos Simón was honoured with the King Jaime I Prize of medical research thanks to a pioneering study about the endometrial receptivity alterations in human (ERA), one of the most important causes of infertility in the world.
He is a Corresponding Academician of the “Royal Academy of Medicine; Valencia", a member of “The Strategic Advisory Board of the Department of Development and Regeneration, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)”, counselor scientific advisor of “Ovascience (Boston)” and “The Advisory Board”.
He has a long-standing career as a Professor which goes from the College of Medicine at the University of Valencia to the Stanford University where he has worked as a tenured lecturer, Associate Professor and as a director and professor of national and international masters and post degree courses.
Honors and awards
National
International
Scientific production
Since 1991 he has contributed with his pioneering works to the research and clinical solution of the problems that produce infertility which is suffered by the 10% of the couples in reproductive age in the world. He has worked on the clinical demonstration and molecular mechanisms which control the deleterious effect of the high levels of oestradiol hormone changing the regular clinical practice and initiating the concept of “mild stimulation”. By employing the technique of microarrays he identified the transcriptomic sequences of the genes involved in the human endometrial receptivity, by publishing his discoveries in 20 papers as the first or last author, the former is the most quoted in the scientific journal Molecular Human Reproduction. The clinical translation of his results has led in a patent about the creation of a customized array named endometrial receptivity array (ERA) for the molecular diagnosis of the endometrial receptivity in infertile patients (Díaz-Gimeno P, et al. Fertil Steril. 2011). All the same, he has created a data base bank with free access about the endometrial receptivity managed by the University of Valencia. Finally thanks to the funding of an excellence project PROMETEO to research the origin of the endometrial stem cells in human, he has been the first scientific in discovering that the endometrial stem cells isolated are able to reconstruct the human endometrium.
Since 2001 his works in human embryology have allowed him to expand his research in the field of pluripotencial cells, resulting in the derivation, characterization, publication and registration in the National Bank of Stem Cells Lines. He was the pioneer of the diverting of the first human embryonic stem cell lines in Spain (Simon C et al., Fertil Steril 2005). He has participated with the lines VAL showing the lack of genetic diversity of the stem cells most often used in the world (Mosher JT et al. N Engl J Med 2009).
His works have been funded as a Main Researcher in 18 competitive projects conceded by governmental institutions at the national level (FISS, SAF...), 4 financed by the Valencian Ministry of Education including 2 PROMETEO (Project granted to prestigious scientists), 1 by the Basque Ministry of Industry and 16 projects of public bodies, international companies and American universities.
He has organized 14 international conferences and 1 national conference in Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine. He is a Scientists Consulter at the World Health Organization as a membership of the Human Reproduction Programme Scientific and Ethical Review Group since 1998 y Spanish representative at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
The scientific impact of his work is reflected in the publication of 408 articles published in international journals which bring an accumulated impact factor of 1.667,545. His works have received a total of 14.816 quotations with an average of 36 quotations per article. His H index is 68 and he has edited 15 books published in English, Spanish and Portuguese and 20 monographic notebooks, being one of the most prolific Spanish scientists. He has been Director of 33 doctoral thesis all of them with "Summa Cum Laude" qualification, including 5 excellence doctoral prizes and 4 European PhD. As an inventor, his research has resulted in 13 patents, bringing him to create the biotechnology company Igenomix SL. which currently has laboratories in Valencia, Sao Paulo, Delhi, Los Angeles, Miami, Dubai, New York City, Mexico DF, Montreal and Istanbul.
He has been a speaker guest in 474 conferences in national and international congresses.
All this has contributed Dr. Carlos Simón to become a prominent national and international figure in the assisted reproduction field.
Edited books
Simón C, Pellicer A, editors. Regulators of human implantation. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 1995.
Remohí J, Simón C, Pellicer A, Bonilla-Musoles F, editors. Reproducción humana. Madrid (ESP): McGraw-Hill Interamericana; 1996.
Rodríguez L, Bonilla F, Pellicer A, Simón C, Remohí J, editors. Manual práctico de reproducaó humana. Rio de Janeiro (BRA): Livraria e Editora RevinterLtda; 1998.
Pellicer A, Simón C, Bonilla-Musoles F, Remohí J, editors. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. Pathophysiology, prevention and treatment. Rome (ITA): SeronoFertility Series; 1999.
Simón C, Pellicer A, Remohí J, editors. Emerging concepts on human implantation. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 1999.
Remohí J, Romero J.L, Pellicer A, Simón C, Navarro J, editors. Manual práctico de esterilidad y reproducción humana. Madrid (ESP): McGraw-Hill Interamericana; 2000.
Simón C, Pellicer A, Doberska C, editors. Human implantation: recent advances and clinical aspects. Cambridge (UK): The Journal of Reproduction and Fertility Ltd; 2000.
Simón C, Pellicer A, editors. Proceedings of de 2nd international workshop on human implantation recent advances and clinical aspects. Elsevier; 2001.
Remohí J, Pellicer A, Simón C, Navarro J, editors. Reproducción humana. 2nd ed. Madrid (ESP): McGraw-Hill Interamericana; 2002.
Scheffer BB, Remohí J, García-Velasco JA, Pellicer A, Simón C, editors. Reprodução humana asistida. São Paulo (BRA): Atheneu; 2003.
Remohí J, Cobo A, Romero JL, Pellicer A, Simón C, editors. Manual práctico de esterilidad y reproducción humana. 2nd ed. Madrid (ESP): Mc Graw-Hill. Interamericana; 2004.
Simón C, Pellicer A, editors. Stem cells in human reproduction, basic science and therapeutic potential. London (UK):InformaHealthcare; 2007.
Simón C, Horcajadas JA, García-Velasco JA, Pellicer A, editors. El endometrio humano. Desde la investigación a la clínica. Buenos Aires (ARG); Madrid (ESP): Médica Panamericana; 2009.
Simón C, Pellicer A, editors. Stem cells in human reproduction, basic science and therapeutic potential. 2nd ed. London (UK):InformaHealthcare; 2009.
Simón C, Pellicer A, Reijo-Pera R, editors. Stem Cells in Reproductive Medicine, Basic Science and Therapeutic Potential. 3rd ed. London (UK): Cambridge University Press; 2013.
References
Endometrial data base
Labtimes
Valencia University
GFI
GFI
Specialists IVI
Researchgate
Linkedin
Carlos Simon Web
External links
Ivigen
Iviomics India
Igenomix Brasil
Igenomix
IVI
Stanford
1961 births
Living people
20th-century Spanish physicians
21st-century Spanish physicians
Spanish gynaecologists
Spanish obstetricians
Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
University of Valencia faculty |
23580011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldin%20Adilovi%C4%87 | Eldin Adilović | Eldin Adilović (born 8 February 1986) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
International career
Adilović made his official debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a December 2010 friendly match against Poland, his second and final international appearance.
Honours
Player
Željezničar
Bosnian Premier League: 2011–12, 2012–13
Bosnian Cup: 2011–12
Individual
Performance
Bosnian Premier League Top Goalscorer: 2011–12 (19 goals)
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Zenica
Association football forwards
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina under-21 international footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina international footballers
NK Čelik Zenica players
NK IB 1975 Ljubljana players
NK Ivančna Gorica players
NK Nafta Lendava players
FC Lustenau players
FK Mughan players
Győri ETO FC players
FK Željezničar Sarajevo players
Samsunspor footballers
Şanlıurfaspor footballers
Kayseri Erciyesspor footballers
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
2. Liga (Austria) players
Azerbaijan Premier League players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
TFF First League players
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
Expatriate footballers in Austria
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate footballers in Azerbaijan
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Turkey |
6904783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20to%20the%20Bars | Back to the Bars | Back to the Bars is a live album by rock musician Todd Rundgren, which was released as a double LP in 1978.
The album was recorded during week-long stints in New York City (The Bottom Line), Los Angeles (The Roxy), and Cleveland (The Agora). The music featured the best of Rundgren's most commercial work spanning seven of the eight solo albums released in the 1970s up to, but not including his most recent at the time. This effort was in place of rumors of a re-release of his out-of-print first two LPs, Runt, and Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren. The only offering from those were "The Range War", and the bulk of the material came from Something/Anything?, A Wizard, a True Star, Todd, Initiation, and Faithful. The finale included past and present members of Rundgren's Utopia: Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, John Wilcox, John Siegler, Ralph Schuckett and Moogy Klingman. Also joining in were the Hello People: Norman Smart, Greg Geddes, Bobby Sedita, and Larry Tasse. Special guest stars were Rick Derringer, Spencer Davis, Daryl Hall, John Oates, and Stevie Nicks.
Despite a hard push to replicate the success of Frampton Comes Alive!, Back to the Bars did not generate any significant singles or lift for Rundgren.
Track listing
All tracks written by Todd Rundgren; except where indicated.
Charts
Personnel
Sides 1 and 4 (except hello it's me)
Todd Rundgren – lead vocals, guitar, piano on "A Dream Goes on Forever"
Utopia:
Roger Powell – keyboards, synthesizers, vocals
Kasim Sulton – bass, vocals
John Wilcox – drums, vocals
Sides 2 and 3
Todd Rundgren – lead vocals, guitar
Moogy Klingman – piano
John Siegler – bass
John Wilcox – drums, vocals
The Hello People:
Greg Geddes – lead, backing vocals
Bobby Sedita – rhythm guitar, saxophone, vocals
Norman Smart – drums on "The Range War", vocals
Larry Tasse – synthesizer, vocals
Guest artists
Spencer Davis – harmonica on "The Range War"
Ralph Schuckett – organ on "I Saw the Light" Medley
Rick Derringer – guitar on "Hello It's Me"
Stevie Nicks, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Kasim Sulton, Spencer Davis – vocals on "Hello It's Me"
Technical notes
Hipgnosis – sleeve design and photography
Richard Creamer, Chuck Pulin, Kevin and Michael Ricker – live photography
Rob Davis – guitar technician
Paul Lester – liner notes
Tom Edmonds – mixing
Todd Rundgren – production, mixing
References
Albums with cover art by Hipgnosis
Albums produced by Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren albums
1978 live albums
Albums recorded at the Bottom Line
Albums recorded at the Roxy Theatre
Bearsville Records live albums
Rhino Records live albums |
23580012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Therriault | Gene Therriault | Gene Therriault (born January 31, 1960) is an American politician who served as a member of the Alaska Senate, representing the Q district from 2001 to 2009. He served as the Senate President from 2003–2006 and as Senate Minority Leader from 2007–2008. Previously he was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1992 through 2000.
References
External links
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1960 births
Alaska Republicans
Alaska state senators
Living people
Members of the Alaska House of Representatives
People from North Pole, Alaska
Presidents of the Alaska Senate
21st-century American politicians |
6904790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo%20Christian%20Schools | Toledo Christian Schools | Toledo Christian Schools is a non-denominational, co-educational Christian school in Toledo, Ohio.
Mission
Toledo Christian Schools working with Christian families, provides a college-preparatory Bible-centered educational program to educate, disciple, and prepare students to follow Christ and impact culture.
Academics
Classical Christian Education
Notable alumni
Matt Hammitt, Christian singer, songwriter and author
References
Christian schools in Ohio
Education in Toledo, Ohio
Private schools in Ohio |
23580013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg%20Leg%20%28album%29 | Peg Leg (album) | Peg Leg is an album by jazz bassist Ron Carter, originally released on LP in 1978 and released on CD in 1991 by Fantasy Studios.
It was recorded in November 1977 and prominently features Carter on piccolo bass. Often carrying the melody the instrument is a focus of 3 of the album's 6 tracks, while fellow bass player Buster Williams performs the conventional role of the instrument on those tracks. The rhythm section is completed by piano and percussion (on all but 1 track), and guitar on 4 tracks. The standard jazz-ensemble is further augmented, on all 6 tracks, by woodwinds (see below).
Carter uses a piccolo bass tuned a fourth higher than a normal double bass (low to high: A-D-G-C).
Track listing
All compositions by Ron Carter except where noted
"Peg Leg" - 8:08
"Sheila's Song (Hasta Luego, Mi Amiga)" - 6:14
"Chapter XI" - 5:41
"Epistrophy" (Thelonious Monk) - 7:33
"My Ship" (Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin) - 5:10
"Patchouli" - 7:06
Personnel
Ron Carter - piccolo bass, bass, percussion
Kenny Barron - piano
Jay Berliner - guitar
Buster Williams - bass (tracks 1, 3 and 4)
Ben Riley - drums, percussion
Woodwinds arranged and conducted by Robert M Freedman:
Jerry Dodgion - flute, piccolo flute, alto flute, clarinet
George Marge - flute, piccolo flute, oboe, clarinet
Walter Kane - flute, bassoon, clarinet
Charles Russo - clarinet, bass clarinet
References
1978 albums
Milestone Records albums
Ron Carter albums
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio |
23580016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandu%20Bandaranaike | Pandu Bandaranaike | Chakrawarthi Pandukabhaya Dias Bandaranaike (commonly known as Pandu Bandaranaike ) (born 31 August 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician. He was a Member of Parliament from the Gampaha Electoral District.
Born to the Bandaranaike family, his father was S. D. Bandaranayake, Member of Parliament from Gampaha from 1952 to 1989 and Dorin Dias Bandaranaike. He was educated at S. Thomas' Preparatory School and at D. S. Senanayake College. He worked as a reforestation officer in the State Timber Corporation, until he resigned in 1993 to contest the Provincial Council of the Western Province and was elected a Member of Provincial Council. In 1994, he was elected to Parliament from Gampaha. In 2009, he was appointed the Minister of Religious Affairs and later served as Deputy Minister of Indigenous Medicine.
He married Mrkalandalage Jeewani Namal Gunawardana, daughter of Air Chief Marshal Terance Gunawardana, former Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force. They have one son Chamith Praween Dias Bandaranaike.
References
Parliament profile
1962 births
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Alumni of D. S. Senanayake College |
23580018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romborama | Romborama | Romborama is the debut studio album by Italian electronic duo The Bloody Beetroots. It was released on August 21, 2009. Some tracks are taken from earlier Bloody Beetroots releases, for example "Butter" can also be found on the Rombo EP.
The track "Warp 1.9" reached number 23 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2009, the world's largest music poll. The track "Butter" was featured in a commercial for season 2 of MTV's Jersey Shore and in Fifa 09
To date Romborama has sold over 2,000,000 copies.
Track listing
"Romborama" (featuring All Leather) - 3:43
"Have Mercy on Us" (featuring Cécile) - 5:48
"Storm" - 3:43
"Awesome" (featuring The Cool Kids) - 2:33
"Cornelius" - 4:13
"It's Better a DJ on 2 Turntables" - 3:48
"Talkin' in My Sleep" (featuring Lisa Kekaula) - 5:29
"Second Streets Have No Name" (featuring Beta Bow) - 3:04
"Butter" - 4:35
"WARP 1.9" (featuring Steve Aoki) - 3:23
"FFA 1985" (featuring Sky Ferreira) - 3:23
"Theolonius" (King Voodoo) - 4:51
"Yeyo" (featuring Raw Man) - 3:32
"Little Stars" (featuring Vicarious Bliss) - 2:42
"WARP 7.7" (featuring Steve Aoki) - 3:57
"Make Me Blank" (featuring J*Davey) - 3:52
"House No. 84" - 3:53
"Mother" - 3:38
"I Love the Bloody Beetroots" - 5:32
"Anacletus" - 3:17
"Come La" (featuring Marracash) (bonus track) - 2:42
"Little Stars" (featuring Vicarious Bliss (Instrumental)) (bonus track) - 2:41
The song "It's Better a DJ on 2 Turntables" was secretly released unfinished under the alias of 'The Bollocks Brothers'.
References
The Bloody Beetroots albums
2009 debut albums |
6904807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Margetson | Philip Margetson | Major Sir Philip Reginald Margetson (2 January 1894 – 5 December 1985) was an Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police.
Military service
Margetson was educated at Marlborough and then went on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1915 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was promoted lieutenant on 25 December 1915, and temporary captain on 20 February 1916. He reverted to Lieutenant on 27 April 1916. In the 1916 King's Birthday Honours he was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in action. In January 1918 he became an instructor with an officer cadet unit as an Acting Captain. In 1919 he became second-in-command of the 1/4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (Territorial Force) (which was then part of the Army of Occupation) in the rank of Acting Major. On 1 January 1923 he was finally promoted to the substantive rank of captain, while serving as adjutant of the 1st Battalion. On 1 October 1928 he became Staff Captain of the 54th (East Anglian) Division, an appointment he held until 1 October 1932. On 1 January 1933 he became a Brevet Major.
Police career
On 31 December 1933, Margetson retired from the Army, transferring to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers. He joined the Metropolitan Police, entering directly as a chief inspector and taking the position of senior administrative officer at No.4 District (South London) headquarters on 1 December 1933. He was later promoted to Superintendent and took command of "R" Division (Blackheath). In August 1936 he was promoted to Chief Constable and became deputy commander of No.2 District (North London). In February 1938 he was transferred to the same post in No.1 District (West Central London), and in October 1938 to the same post in No.3 District (East London). In February 1940 he was promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner at "A" Department (Operations and Administration) of Scotland Yard and in August 1940 he was given command of No.1 District. In March 1946 he received the new rank of commander.
In June 1946, he was promoted to Assistant Commissioner "D" (Personnel and Training) and in October he transferred to become Assistant Commissioner "A" (Operations and Administration). In 1950, he applied for the vacant office of Commissioner of the City of London Police. The job went to one of his colleagues, Arthur Young, who had succeeded him as Assistant Commissioner "D".
In 1947 he was made an Officer of the Venerable Order of Saint John. He was created a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1948 New Year Honours and raised to Knight Commander (KCVO) in the 1953 Coronation Honours. In 1955 he was promoted to Commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John. He received the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) for Distinguished Service in the 1956 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Later life
He retired on 2 January 1957 (his 63rd birthday) and joined the board of Securicor, serving as chairman from 1960 to 1973, when he became honorary president. He was instrumental in the disarming of cash in transit security guards in 1964, having always disliked the idea of private guards carrying firearms.
In 1918, Margetson married Diana Thornycroft, daughter of Sir John Thornycroft. They had two sons; the elder was killed in action in 1943.
The National Portrait Gallery holds two 1957 photographic portraits of Margetson by Elliott & Fry.
Notes
References
Obituary, The Times, 11 December 1985
External links
Photographic portrait of Margetson in the National Portrait Gallery
1894 births
1985 deaths
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Scots Fusiliers officers
Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Recipients of the Military Cross
English recipients of the Queen's Police Medal
Metropolitan Police recipients of the Queen's Police Medal
People educated at Marlborough College
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
23580019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Robert%20Cummins | James Robert Cummins | James Robert Cummins or Cummings, aka: "Windy Jim" (January 31, 1847 – July 9, 1929) was an American criminal.
Cummins lived near Kearney, Missouri and rode with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War, most often assigned to follow "Bloody" Bill Anderson. A known horse thief, he joined up with the James-Younger Gang after the war and was involved in the train robberies at Winston and Blue Cut, Missouri. After the breakup of the James Gang, he became a farmer in Arkansas and actually tried to turn himself in several times, but no one believed he was really Jim Cummins. At the age of 63 he married Florence Sherwood and lived to an old age.
In 1903 he published a memoir of his time with the James-Younger gang, "Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself, The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and Their Comrades, Including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerrillas, By One Who Rode With Them: A True But Terrible Tale of Outlawry." He died in the Old Soldiers Home at Higginsville Missouri on July 9, 1929.
References
External links
1847 births
1929 deaths
People from Kearney, Missouri
James–Younger Gang
American outlaws |
23580022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nie%20Bichu | Nie Bichu | Nie Bichu (; 2 January 1928 – 20 April 2018) was a Chinese politician. He served as Mayor and acting Party Secretary of Tianjin.
Biography
Nie was born in Tianjin in 1928, with his ancestral home in Hunan Province. He studied at Yaohua School in Tianjin from 1935 to 1946, and graduated from Beiyang University (now Tianjin University) in 1950. He had four siblings, two of whom died early. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1948 and was a member of its 13th Central Committee.
Nie served as mayor of Tianjin from October 1989 to June 1993 and Chairman of Tianjin People's Congress from June 1993 to May 1998. When Tan Shaowen, Party Secretary of Tianjin, died in February 1993, Nie served as acting Party Secretary for a month before Gao Dezhan was appointed as Tan's replacement. In the early 1990s, he successfully lobbied the central government to allow Tianjin to implement housing reform after the example of Shanghai.
Nie died on 20 April 2018 at the age of 90.
References
1928 births
2018 deaths
People's Republic of China politicians from Tianjin
Mayors of Tianjin
Yaohua High School alumni
Tianjin University alumni
Members of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
6904812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botamochi | Botamochi | is a wagashi (Japanese confection) made with glutinous rice, regular rice (ratio of 7:3, or only glutinous rice), and sweet azuki paste (red bean paste). They are made by soaking the rice for approximately 1 hour. The rice is then cooked, and a thick azuki paste is hand-packed around pre-formed balls of rice. Botamochi is eaten as sacred food as offering during the weeks of the spring and the autumn Higan in Japan.
Another name for this kind of confection is , which the origin and the definition of is in argument but some people say uses a slightly different texture of azuki paste but is otherwise almost identical, it is made in autumn and some recipe variations in both cases call for a coating of soy flour to be applied to the ohagi after the azuki paste.
The two different names are, some people say, derived from the Botan (peony) which blooms in the spring and the Hagi (Japanese bush clover or Lespedeza) which blooms during autumn.
Botamochi is the modern name for the dish kaimochi (かいもち) mentioned in the Heian Period text Uji Shūi Monogatari (宇治拾遺物語).
The proverb , literally "a botamochi falls down from a shelf", means "receiving a windfall", "a lucky break".
The term is also used for a specific pattern of Bizen ware with two, three or five round marks, as if the marks of the small balls of rice cakes were left on the plate.
See also
Higan
Mochi
References
Wagashi |
23580024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20and%20Computing | Business and Computing | A Business and Computing is a dual degree program offered jointly by some computing and business schools. The program generally lasts four-five years instead of seven-eight years to complete separate the two degrees and results in the candidate earning both a Bachelor of Business degree and a Bachelor of Computing degree. Graduating Business and Computing students may choose to work on computing/technical matter, or enter the business world, or even enjoy the gray area between business and computing fields such as IT security officer, IT consultant, etc. Even though a majority of Business and Computing graduate from a single university, there are people who earn these degrees from different universities.
Degree Overview
A course which allows you to develop both technical skills and business knowledge. Learning and understanding technical computer skills in the systems analysis and software engineering, alongside gaining experience in finance, simulation and project management.
Covering computing subjects such as algorithms, software engineering, social implications of computing, data structure, operating systems and fundamental mathematics, with business subjects such as accounting, human resource management, business policy/communication, law, finance, marketing and organizational behaviour.
Earning you both a Bachelor of Computer Science degree and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.
Core Computing modules
Managing Information – Understanding the management techniques that are used to collect information to communicate it within and outside an organization, helping enable managers to make quicker and better decisions.
Information System – Understanding a set of integrated components which collect, store and process data, that can also deliver information, knowledge and digital products.
Software Engineering – Understanding the application that covers the technical aspects of building software systems, and also maintains management issues, including budgeting and directing programming teams.
Database Principles and Applications – Understanding the core technology and base of information system, that provides basic knowledge to help develop information systems which lays a good foundation for scientific research and subsequent professional courses.
Multimedia and Human Computer Interaction – Understanding the inter-disciplinary field which brings together physiology and computer science to understand people’s human’s interaction with technology.
Communications and Networking – Understanding the several type of networking, such as intranet, extranet and internet and how computers or devices connected to one another can exchange data.
Core Business Modules
Managing organisations – Investigating organisational behaviour and human resource management.
Management and Information Technology – Gaining knowledge in understanding the concepts, debates and issues in areas of change management, project management, and information technology management/systems development.
Universities
Business and Computing dual degrees are studied in only certain universities around the world, combined most commonly with computer science or Business Administration. Countries include the United States, United Kingdom, Canada Singapore, Ireland, Zimbabwe , Kenya and Uganda. Six universities that teach the degree are:
United States
Stanford Graduate School of Business located in California teaches MS in Computer Science/MBA degree which is a three-year course that will contain studying MBA courses in the first year, and both computer science and Business and in your second and third year.
New Jersey Institute of Technology located in New Jersey teaches BS in Computing and Business degree which is a four-year course that will contain both Computer Science and Business courses.
Canada
University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, both located in Waterloo, Ontario region jointly teaches Business Administration and Computer Science Double Degree which is a five-year course that will cover subjects from computer programming, operating systems at University of Waterloo to business communication and human resource management at Wilfrid Laurier University. A similar program is offered exclusively at Wilfrid Laurier University with lower admission requirements and automatic admission into co-op compared to the mandatory admission of the former program.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University located in Jurong West teaches Double Degree Programme Bachelor of Business (Information Technology) and Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) which is a four-year course teaching subjects from computing systems, computational thinking to strategic management, compiler techniques.
Saudi Arabia
http://www.psu.edu.sa
located in Riyadh in Prince Sultan University which is a four years course that will cover subjects from Computer and Business
Zimbabwe
University of Zimbabwe
Located in Harare; capital city of Zimbabwe. Offers Honours Bachelor of Business Studies and Computing Science (HBSCT) as a four year program. This is viewed as a highly prestigious degree program reserved for top notch students. Alumni of the HBSCT program have found opportunities as Systems Analysts, Software Development Management Posts in Commercial and Financial Services, Insurance, Banking and the Public Sector, IT auditors and Digital marketing specialists. Basically they become all rounders in their areas of interest; in business and tech related fields.
Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology located in Juja a town in Kenya. Offers Bachelor of Science Business Computing as a four year program.
References
Business education |
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