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23580183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia%20moirii | Acacia moirii | Acacia moirii, commonly known as Moir's wattle, is a subshrub which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It grows to between 0.15 and 0.6 metres high and has densely hairy leaflets. The globular golden-yellow flower heads appear from May to August, followed by hairy seed pods which are around 4 cm long and 5 to 6 mm wide.
Taxonomy
The type specimen was collected near Cape Riche by A.J. Moir in 1901.
Three subspecies are currently recognised:
A. moirii subsp. dasycarpa Maslin
A. moirii E.Pritz. subsp. moirii
A. moirii subsp. recurvistipula Maslin
Distribution
The species occurs on sandplains, undulating plains, hills and rises in an area between Eneabba, Manypeaks and Jerdacuttup as well as east of Esperance in the Cape Arid area.
See also
List of Acacia species
References
moirii
Acacias of Western Australia
Fabales of Australia
Taxa named by Ernst Pritzel
Plants described in 1904 |
44499167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston%20F.C. | Aston F.C. | Aston Football Club is a football club based in England. The club are currently members of the .
History
The club was established in 2006 and joined Division Three of the Midland Combination from the Birmingham AFA. They were promoted to Division Two at the end of their first season after finishing as runners-up. Another runners-up finish in 2011–12 led to the club being promoted to Division One. When the Midland Combination merged with the Midland Alliance in 2014, Aston were placed in Division Two of the new league. They made their FA Vase début in 2014 and were briefly confused for Premier League team Aston Villa by Soccerbase.
Aston left the league after the 2014–15 season and dropped back into the renamed Birmingham & District League. The club were champions of Division Six in 2016–17, after which they were promoted to Division Four.
Honours
Birmingham & District League
Division Six champions 2017–18
Records
Best FA Vase performance: First Round 2014–15
References
External links
Football clubs in England
Football clubs in Birmingham, West Midlands
Football clubs in the West Midlands (county)
2006 establishments in England
Association football clubs established in 2006
Midland Football Combination
Midland Football League
Birmingham & District Football League |
6905008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20Love | Movie Love | Movie Love: Complete Reviews 1988–1991 (1991) is the 11th and last collection of film reviews by the critic Pauline Kael and covers the period from October 1988 to March 1991, when she chose to retire from her regular film reviewing duties at The New Yorker. In the "Author's Note" that begins the anthology, Kael writes that this period had "not been a time of great moviemaking fervor", but "what has been sustaining is that there is so much to love in movies besides great moviemaking."
She reviews 85 films in this final collection. She gives rich praise to directors and performers she admires - in this collection for example, Pedro Almodóvar; 'Generalissimo Francisco Franco kept the lid on Spain for 36 years; he died in 1975 and Almodóvar is part of what jumped out of the box. The most original pop writer-director of the 1980s; he's Jean-Luc Godard with a human face - a happy face.' And Chet Baker in Let's Get Lost; " He's singing a torch song after the flame is gone; he's selling the romance of burnout." Perhaps pre-eminently in this collection she praises Brian De Palma's Casualties of War; "Some movies - La Grande Illusion, and Shoeshine come to mind, - can affect us in more direct, emotional ways than simple entertainment movies. They have more imagination, more poetry, more intensity than the usual fare; they have themes, and a vision. Casualties of War has this kind of purity." And she's cool to what she regards as second rate - Field of Dreams, for example, - 'That the film is sincere doesn't mean it's not manipulative.' Or The Rainbow: "The ads for The Rainbow feature a banner line, 'Ken Russell is the purest interpreter D. H. Lawrence could have hoped for.' In his worst nightmare."
The films she recommends include; Patty Hearst, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, True Believer, Scrooged, The Dressmaker, Dangerous Liaisons, Out Cold, Let's Get Lost, Say Anything..., Casualties of War, Ghostbusters II, Batman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, My Left Foot, Enemies, The Tall Guy, The Grifters, Vincent & Theo, Everybody Wins, L.A. Story.
Notably absent from this collection of reviews are the longer general essays on the films that Kael had written and included in past anthologies.
This book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers of the United Kingdom.
Movies reviewed
Bird
Gorillas in the Mist
Patty Hearst
Another Woman
Punchline
Madame Sousatzka
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Things Change
A Cry in the Dark
The Good Mother
Scrooged
High Spirits
The Dressmaker
Tequila Sunrise
Mississippi Burning
Dangerous Liaisons
Working Girl
The Accidental Tourist
Beaches
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Rain Man
True Believer
High Hopes
Three Fugitives
Out Cold
Parents
Cousins
New York Stories
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Dream Team
Crusoe
Heathers
Let's Get Lost
Field of Dreams
Scandal
Say Anything
The Rainbow
Miss Firecracker
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Vampire's Kiss
Dead Poets Society
Batman
Ghostbusters II
Casualties of War
My Left Foot
Penn & Teller Get Killed
A Dry White Season
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Breaking In
Johnny Handsome
Drugstore Cowboy
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dad
Fat Man and Little Boy
The Bear
Henry V
Valmont
Blaze
Back to the Future Part II
The Little Mermaid
Enemies
Driving Miss Daisy
Music Box
Roger & Me
Always
Born on the Fourth of July
Glory
Internal Affairs
GoodFellas
The Tall Guy
Postcards from the Edge
Pacific Heights
Avalon
The Grifters
Reversal of Fortune
Vincent & Theo
Dances with Wolves
Edward Scissorhands
The Sheltering Sky
Everybody Wins
The Godfather Part III
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Awakenings
Sleeping with the Enemy
L.A. Story
References
1991 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
E. P. Dutton books |
17341260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abia%20Nale | Abia Nale | Abia Nale (born 5 October 1986 in Sebokeng, Gauteng) is a South African football player who plays as an attacking midfielder.
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
People from Sebokeng
South African soccer players
Association football midfielders
Association football forwards
Cape Town Spurs F.C. players
Kaizer Chiefs F.C. players
Lamontville Golden Arrows F.C. players
Manning Rangers F.C. players
Mpumalanga Black Aces F.C. players
Maritzburg United F.C. players
Platinum Stars F.C. players
South Africa international soccer players
Sportspeople from Gauteng |
23580186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladen%20Lambuli%C4%87 | Mladen Lambulić | Mladen Lambulić (; born 9 July 1972) is a Montenegrin football manager and former player.
Playing career
Lambulić played for Radnički Beograd and Zemun in the First League of FR Yugoslavia, before moving abroad to Belgium and signing with Denderleeuw in 1999. He subsequently returned to FR Yugoslavia and joined his mother club Zeta in 2000. During the 2002 winter transfer window, Lambulić moved abroad for the second time and signed with Hungarian side MTK Budapest. He spent the next seven and a half years with the club, winning the Nemzeti Bajnokság I in the 2007–08 season.
Managerial career
After hanging up his boots, Lambulić started his managerial career at Zeta in 2014.
Honours
MTK Budapest
Nemzeti Bajnokság I: 2007–08
Szuperkupa: 2008
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Podgorica
Serbia and Montenegro footballers
Montenegrin footballers
Association football defenders
FK Radnički Beograd players
FK Zemun players
FK Zeta players
MTK Budapest FC players
FC Sopron players
Újpest FC players
Kecskeméti TE players
First League of Serbia and Montenegro players
Belgian First Division B players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate footballers
Montenegrin expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Montenegrin football managers
FK Zeta managers
FK Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje managers
OFK Petrovac managers |
20473741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Tian | Dominique Tian | Dominique Tian (born 14 December 1959) is a French businessman and retired politician who represented the 2nd constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2017. He has been member of The Republicans (LR) since the party was founded in 2015 as the successor to the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). In the 2017 legislative election, Tian lost his seat in a "surprise" upset by Claire Pitollat of La République En Marche! (LREM), who was a first-time candidate.
Tian also held offices at the municipal and departmental level. He first served the member of the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône for the canton of Marseille-Saint-Giniez from 1988 to 2002 as the successor of Jean-Claude Gaudin, before holding the mayorship of the 4th sector of Marseille, which encompasses the 6th and 8th arrondissements, from 1995 to 2013. Tian was later appointed First Deputy Mayor of Marseille under Mayor Gaudin from 2014 until 2020, succeeding Roland Blum. He retired from politics when he was succeeded by Socialist Benoît Payan as First Deputy Mayor under Mayor Michèle Rubirola following the 2020 municipal election.
Tax evasion conviction
In 2018, Dominique Tian was found guilty by a Paris court in a tax evasion lawsuit. He was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence. Tian filed an appeal and a new trial was ordered. In 2019, he was found guilty again and sentenced to a suspended prison sentence of 18 months.
References
1959 births
Living people
20th-century French politicians
21st-century French politicians
Sciences Po Aix alumni
French city councillors
Politicians from Marseille
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
The Republicans (France) politicians
Departmental councillors (France)
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
Mayors of places in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
French politicians convicted of crimes |
6905013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked%20%28book%29 | Hooked (book) | Hooked: Film Writings, 1985–88 (1989) is the ninth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, covering the period from July 1985 to June 1988. All articles in the book originally appeared in The New Yorker.
She reviews more than 170 films giving rich praise to the work of directors and performers she admires - in this collection for example, Robert Altman; Alan Rudolph - for his film Songwriter; Nick Nolte; Susan Sarandon; Melanie Griffith; Lesley Ann Warren; Steve Martin in Roxanne. And she attacks what she regards as second rate, for example, George Lucas, -"George Lucas should believe less in himself - he keeps trying to come up with an original idea, and he can't"; and the film Heartbreak Ridge - "It would take a board of inquiry made up of gods to determine whether this picture is more offensive aesthetically, psychologically, morally, or politically."
The films she recommends include:
The Best of Times
Dreamchild
Sweet Dreams
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Compromising Positions
My Beautiful Laundrette
Mona Lisa
Salvador
Club Paradise
Mike's Murder
Blue Velvet
She's Gotta Have It
Re-Animator
Something Wild
Hour of the Star
The Stepfather
Law of Desire
Raising Arizona
Brazil
Roxanne
Tampopo
Eat the Peach
The Witches of Eastwick
Wish You Were Here
Hamburger Hill
Hope and Glory
Weeds
The Dead
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Moonstruck
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
High Tide
High Season
Pass the Ammo
Hairspray
Matador
Beetlejuice
Masquerade
A World Apart
Bull Durham
The title refers to her film 'addiction'. "I got hooked on movies at an early age, (around 4 or 5 , when I saw them while sitting on my parents' laps), and I am still a child before a moving image. Movies seem to me the most mysteriously great of all art forms."
The book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
References
1989 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
E. P. Dutton books |
44499171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20comptus | Suillellus comptus | Suillellus comptus is a species of bolete fungus found in Europe. Originally described as a species of Boletus in 1993, it was transferred to Suillellus in 2014.
References
External links
comptus
Fungi described in 1993
Fungi of Europe |
6905018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking%20It%20All%20In | Taking It All In | Taking It All In is the seventh collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael and contains the 150 film reviews she wrote for The New Yorker between June 9, 1980, and June 13, 1983. She writes in the Author's Note at the beginning of the collection that, "it was a shock to discover how many good ones there were", as well as observing that only a very few of the movies she liked were box office successes - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tootsie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. She laments that, "in the '80s, films that aren't immediate box office successes are instantly branded as losers, flops, bombs. Some of the movies that meant the most to me were in this doomed group - The Stunt Man, Pennies from Heaven, Blow Out, The Devil's Playground, Melvin and Howard, Shoot the Moon, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean."
The collection starts up after a gap of a year, part of which Kael spent in Los Angeles and what she learned during those months is summed up in the piece "Why Are Movies So Bad?" This essay, (in which she takes on the Hollywood money men whose love of swift and easy financial returns she believed led to the too many truly bad films on show at the time), is also included in the collection. ( "Why Are Movies So Bad? Or The Numbers").
The book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
Editions
Henry Holt & Co., 1984, hardbound ()
Marion Boyars, 1986, paperback ()
1984 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
Henry Holt and Company books |
20473756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabienne%20Labrette-M%C3%A9nager | Fabienne Labrette-Ménager | Fabienne Labrette-Ménager (born 8 January 1961) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented Sarthe's 1st constituency from 2007 to 2012, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Biography
She made her entry into politics in 2001 while jointly becoming adjunct to the mayor of Fresnay-sur-Sarthe and counselor-general for the canton of Fresnay-sur-Sarthe.
At the time of the regional elections in 2004, she appeared on the list of UDF-UMP led by François Fillon. Although this list was beaten in the 2nd round, she was elected to the district council of the Pays de la Loire. At that time, she relinquished her appointment as counselor for Fresnay-sur-Sarthe.
Fabienne Labrette-Domestic was elected deputy on 17 June 2007 for the XIIIe legislature (2007–2012), in the 1st district of the Sarthe by defeating, in the second round, Françoise Dubois (PS) with 56.55% of the vote. She thereby succeeded Pierre Hellier (UMP) who did not seek re-election. She was a member of the commissions for economic affairs, for the environment and for the region.
References
External links
Official web site
1961 births
Living people
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians |
20473766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Hillmeyer | Francis Hillmeyer | Francis Hillmeyer (born September 9, 1946 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haut-Rhin department, and is a member of the New Centre.
References
1946 births
Living people
Politicians from Mulhouse
Union for French Democracy politicians
The Centrists 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
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians |
17341265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesi%20Shroff | Pesi Shroff | Pesi Shroff (b. 1965) is a former Indian champion jockey. He has ridden 5614 races and won 1,751 of them including 106 classic races and 29 Derbys. Born to a Parsi family, he began his career at 16 years old when he was licensed to ride by the Royal Western India Turf Club in Mumbai in the 1981. He won his first race on My Squaw.
Pesi had a long association with Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya having been a retainer for him for several years. Apart from Mallya, he has also ridden for leading owners of the Indian turf like M.A.M. Ramaswamy, Deepak Khaitan, and Khushroo Dhunjibhoy
.
To date, he is the only jockey to have piloted eight Derby winners at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, Mumbai and has ridden a classic winner in each of the five major racing centres of India.
On 31 October 2004, he retired from the profession to become a trainer.
Pesi is married to childhood sweetheart Tina (sister of Karl Umrigar) with whom they have had two children, Yohann and Anya. He also likes to play golf and is a cricket fan.
Career wins as a Jockey
References
1965 births
Living people
Indian jockeys
Parsi people from Mumbai
Sportspeople from Mumbai |
6905025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo%20School%20for%20the%20Arts | Toledo School for the Arts | Toledo School for the Arts is a public charter school in downtown Toledo, Ohio founded by former director Martin Porter. It was first sponsored by the Toledo Board of Education. In 2008 the school was chartered by Bowling Green State University. TSA serves over 700 students from any school district in Ohio in Junior Division (6th, 7th and 8th grades), and Senior Division (9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades). TSA's college preparatory curriculum integrates the visual, language, and performing arts. In addition to core academic subjects, classes are offered in dance, music, theatre, English language, humanities, and visual arts and include training and career development for students interested in pursuing professions in the arts. TSA students have been accepted to many of the nation's best colleges and universities.
First Friday
First Friday is a monthly event for the public with performances, demonstrations and exhibits of student work. The highlight of each year is Kaleidoscope, a performance and art exhibit that features student works from each department as well as student soloists. Students collectively participate in an average of 180 performances and exhibitions each year.
Community
TSA has "ARTnerships" with Toledo's major cultural institutions, including the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Toledo Ballet Association, Toledo Repertoire Theatre, and Ballet Theatre of Toledo. ARTnerships are community organizations that share TSA's vision.
History
The Toledo School for the Arts began operating in 1999.
In 2004, TSA moved to 333 14th Street, the former Willys Overland building located in uptown Toledo. In 2009 the school opened its own gallery to allow them the ability to hold art shows and sell student art throughout the year.
In 2008 TSA was awarded a No School Left Behind Blue Ribbon from the US Department of Education. In 2007 TSA was identified as one of the leading charter schools in the nation, and featured in the US Department of Education publication, Innovations in Education Reform. TSA has twice been designated a Bronze Medal School by U.S. News & World Report.
In 2016 TSA was named the number one charter school in Ohio by the website Niche, a website that ranks schools based on data and reviews. They were also named the 25th best school in Ohio by Niche.
In 2019 TSA unveiled an Ohio Historic Marker on the corner of 14th and Adams detailing the history of the building which was constructed in the early 1900s by the Willys Overland Company. During the unveiling the school announced plans to expand the historic building with an addition and increase student enrollment.
In 2022 the Toledo School for the Arts began groundbreaking on a major expansion.
Notable alumni
Crystal Bowersox
References
External links
School Website
High schools in Lucas County, Ohio
Bowling Green State University
United States
Performing arts education in the United States
Arts schools in the United States
1999 establishments in Ohio |
20473777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Banknote%20Printing%20and%20Minting%20Corporation | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPMC), () is a state-owned corporation which carries out the minting of all renminbi coins and printing of renminbi banknotes for the People's Republic of China.
CBPMC uses a network of printing and engraving and minting facilities around the country to produce banknotes and coins for subsequent distribution. Banknote printing facilities are located in
Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Xi'an, Shijiazhuang, and Nanchang.
The state-owned company, headquartered in Beijing's Xicheng District is the world's largest money printer by volume. With more than 18,000 employees, it runs more than 10 highly secure facilities for the production of banknotes and coins. Mints are located in Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, and Nanjing. The Shanghai Mint is the oldest and most important mint in China, having been founded in 1920 during the Beiyang era of the Republic of China. Shanghai, Shenyang, and Shenzhen primarily mint fiat coins for circulation. Nanjing primarily prints fiat banknotes, and also does coining of small quantities of non-fiat coins for coin collectors. High grade paper for the banknotes is produced at two facilities in Baoding and Kunshan. The Baoding facility is the largest facility in the world dedicated to developing banknote material
In addition, the People's Bank of China has its own printing technology research division which research new techniques for creating banknotes and making counterfeiting more difficult.
The CBPMC bases its production of currency on the macroeconomic planning of the People's Bank of China.
CBPMC reportedly produces currency for a number of other countries, including Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Brazil.
References
External links
Printing companies of China
Mints (currency)
Banknote printing companies
Government of China
Manufacturing companies based in Beijing
Banknotes of China
People's Bank of China
Bullion dealers |
17341279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshav%20Prasad%20Mainali | Keshav Prasad Mainali | Keshav Prasad Mainali () is a Nepalese politician. He currently belongs to Nepali Congress. He was the chairman of the Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party Nepal. He joined the Nepal Student Union in the late 1960s. He later became the president of the Nepali Congress Sarlahi District committee. He left the Nepali Congress, and founded the Chure Bhawar Ekta Samaj in 2006. This organization later became the Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party Nepal.
In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the party won 1 seat through the Proportional Representation vote. Mainali became the representative of the party in the assembly.
In 2010, Mainali was expelled from the Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party Nepal and he founded a new party, Chure Bhawar Rastriya Party.
References
Living people
Nepali Congress politicians from Madhesh Province
Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party Nepal politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nepalese political party founders
Members of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly |
23580188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ercan%20Durmaz | Ercan Durmaz | Ercan Durmaz (born August 16, 1965) is a Turkish-German actor.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
1965 births
German people of Turkish descent
German male film actors
German male television actors
Turkish male film actors
Turkish male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Istanbul |
17341286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magasa | Magasa | Magasa may refer to places in:
Greece
Magasa, Crete, a neolithic settlement
Italy
Magasa, Lombardy, a comune in the Province of Brescia |
20473778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Saint-L%C3%A9ger | Francis Saint-Léger | Francis Saint-Léger (born February 22, 1957 in Mende, Lozère) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Lozère's 1st constituency as is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement until the 2012 election, when the two Lozère constituencies were combined into one.
References
1957 births
Living people
People from Mende, Lozère
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 |
44499175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Playne | Caroline Playne | Caroline Elizabeth Playne (2 May 1857 – 27 January 1948) was an English pacifist, humanitarian, novelist, and historian of the First World War.
Early life
Very little is known about the personal details of Playne's life, as she left little of her own documentary evidence. She was born in Avening, Gloucestershire, one of two daughters of Margarettia Sara, a Dutchwoman, and her English husband, George Frederick Playne, a cloth manufacturer. Caroline was multilingual from childhood, speaking English and Dutch, while her later historical work suggests she also was familiar with French and German. Some time after her father's death in 1879, Playne moved with her mother to Hampstead, London, where she lived for the rest of her life. Margarettia died in 1905.
Playne's first foray into writing was as a romantic novelist. In 1904 she published The Romance of a Lonely Woman closely followed byThe Terror of the Macdurghotts in 1907, both novels published by T. Fisher Unwin under the name C.E. Playne. In 1908, Playne was elected an associate member of the University Women's Club.
Peace and humanitarian work
Caroline Playne formally approached pacifist work some time around 1905, and quickly became a committed activist and member of a wide range of organisations. She was a representative of the National Peace Council (NPC), created to support the action of the international court in The Hague, and in 1910 was a founder member of the Church of England Peace League, a member organisation of the NPC dedicated to "keep[ing] before members of the Church of England 'the duty of combating the war spirit. Over the following years she also became a member of the Hampstead Peace Society, the League of Peace and Freedom, and the Peace Society. Playne became a regular attendee and speaker at national and international peace conferences. In 1908 she took part in the International Congress for Peace in London, and on this occasion she met the Austrian pacifist Bertha von Suttner, of whom she later wrote a biography. Playne was present at an NPC meeting on 4 August 1914, which condemned the secret diplomacy of the British government in the years before the war.
At the outbreak of the First World War, Playne immediately became a committee member of the Society of Friends' Emergency Committee for the Assistance of Germans, Austrians and Hungarians in Distress, an organisation set up to assist citizens of those countries in Britain, including prisoners of war. She became heavily involved in this work, helping with accommodation and other needs for the thousands of "enemy aliens" who appealed to the Committee for help, while also taking up detailed committee tasks and financial scrutiny.
Alongside this humanitarian work, Playne joined the Union of Democratic Control when it was formed in 1914, hosting events for the organisation at her London home. She was also involved in encouraging personal correspondence between the belligerent countries; the tracing of missing persons; and translating German newspaper articles for British audiences.
Historical writing
During the war, Playne assembled a large mass of research on the conflict and events in London, including some 530 books and pamphlets. With the addition of her own voluminous diary observations, and encouraged by her friend, the writer Vernon Lee, this collection provided the material for her four major studies of the war and its causes: The Neuroses of the Nations (1925); The Pre-War Mind in Britain (1928); Society at War 1914–1916 (1931); Britain Holds On 1917–1918 (1933).
Both pioneering and idiosyncratic, Playne's historical work draws heavily on the emerging methodologies of social psychology to argue that the War represented a collective "neurosis" of the European mind. Preoccupied with "the mind and the passions of the multitude", Playne deployed a vast array of sources and quotations to critique European culture before and during the War, especially its nationalism, imperialism and militarism. She argues that the technological and social developments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries "disorientated" and "disjointed" European societies, and was especially damaging to the "mental calibre" of the cultural elite. Her work is particularly notable for emphasising the influence of mass media in shaping and directing public opinion, anticipating media studies by fifty years. Taken together, argues the historian Richard Espley, the four books can be regarded as a single "2,500 page meditation on the neurotic, militaristic failure of western culture".
Despite the originality of her approach to the study of the War, Playne has been neglected by later scholars. Where they are used, her books are largely drawn upon as sources for detail and reportage of the war years, rather than analyses in their own right.
Later life and death
In 1938, Playne deposited her research collection in the library at Senate House, London. Playne never married, and left no children. She died at Hampstead in 1948.
Works
Fiction:
The Romance of a Lonely Woman, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904
The Terror of the Macdurghotts, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907
Non-Fiction:
The Neuroses of the Nations, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1925
The Pre-War Mind in Britain. An Historical Review, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1928
Society at War 1914–1916, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931
Britain Holds On 1917, 1918, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1933
Bertha von Suttner, and the Struggle to Avert the World War, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1936
The four volumes on the Great War are also available in electronic edition, in a single ebook that collects them all:
Society in the First World War, GogLiB ebooks, 2018
References
External links
Caroline Playne: A Campaigning Life @ the Senate House Library, University of London
Works by Caroline E. Playne in the British Library Catalogue.
1857 births
1948 deaths
English pacifists
English non-fiction writers
20th-century British non-fiction writers
English women non-fiction writers
20th-century British historians
20th-century English women
20th-century English people |
6905026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20the%20Lights%20Go%20Down%20%28book%29 | When the Lights Go Down (book) | When the Lights Go Down: Film Writings 1975–1980 (1980), is the sixth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael.
Background
All material in the book originally appeared in The New Yorker. The collection begins with an appreciation of Cary Grant. " Mae West's raucous invitation to him - 'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?' - was echoed thirty years later by Audrey Hepburn in Charade: 'Won't you come in for a minute? I don't bite, you know, unless it's called for.' And then, purringly, 'Do you know what's wrong with you? Nothing.' That might be a summary of Cary Grant, the finest romantic comedian of his era: there's nothing the matter with him." . After the profile of Cary Grant the book contains reviews of movies of the second half of the 1970s - more than one hundred and fifty of them.
The book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
Critical response
National Post reported that the volume "sold in impressive numbers".
Matthew Wilder of City Pages wrote of Kael and offered "Her peak can be seen in the masterly collection When the Lights Go Down".
Jim Emersonon of Sun Times wrote Renata Adler's 7,646-word massive attack on Kael in the New York Review of Books", "...was ostensibly a review of Kael's 1980 collection When the Lights Go Down". He further offered that in her own The Perils of Pauline, Adler panned Kael's work on the volume when Adler wrote "Now, When the Lights Go Down, a collection of her reviews over the past five years, is out; and it is, to my surprise and without Kael- or Simon-like exaggeration, not simply, jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless. It turns out to embody something appalling and widespread in the culture."
The volume has been archived in the National Library of Australia.
Editions
Henry Holt & Co., 1980, hardbound ()
Henry Holt & Co., 1980, paperback ()
References
External links
1980 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
Henry Holt and Company books |
17341307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre%20Point%E2%80%93Cliffs%20Historic%20District | Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District | The Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District is a historic district in Newport, Rhode Island. The district includes a significant subset of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District, including all of the major Gilded Age mansions on the waterfront facing Easton Bay between Memorial Boulevard and Marine Avenue. The district is home to famous mansions such as the William Watts Sherman House and The Breakers, one of the largest houses in the area built by the Vanderbilt Family. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Historic districts in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island |
23580222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinicius%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201989%29 | Vinicius (footballer, born 1989) | Vinicius Galvão Leal (born August 12, 1989, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer currently under contract for Austrian side Union Sparkasse Pettenbach.
Club career
Debreceni VSC
Club Statistics
Club statistics
Updated to games played as of August 4, 2012.
References
External links
MLSZ
1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Porto Alegre
Brazilian footballers
Association football forwards
Debreceni VSC players
Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC players
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Brazilian expatriate footballers |
17341340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillipps | Phillipps | Phillipps is both a given name and an English surname. Notable people with the name include:
"Phillipps" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews.
People with the given name Phillipps:
Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle (1809–1878), founder of a Trappist abbey
John Phillipps Kenyon (1927–1996), British historian
People with the surname Phillipps:
Anthea Phillipps (born 1956), British botanist
Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps (1835–1857), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
Jack Phillipps (1898-1977), New Zealand cricket administrator
Martin Phillipps (born 1963), New Zealand singer/songwriter of The Chills
Roy Phillipps (1892–1941), Australian fighter ace
Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), English antiquary and book collector
Vivian Phillipps (Henry Vivian Phillipps, 1870–1955), British teacher, lawyer and Liberal politician
William Herbert Phillipps (1847–1935), South Australian businessman and philanthropist
William J. Phillipps (1893–1967), New Zealand ichthyologist
See also
Halliwell-Phillipps
Phillippe
Philips (surname)
Philipps (disambiguation)
Phillips (disambiguation)
English-language surnames
English masculine given names
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names |
23580224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machatas%20of%20Europos | Machatas of Europos | Machatas, son of Sabattaras from Europos, was a Macedonian proxenos of Delphians in late 4th century BC. As the inscription says: "the Delphians gave proxenia, euergesia (benefaction), promanteia (priority in consulting the oracle), proedria (privilege of reserved seats at the theatre), prodikia (the right to priority in a trial) to Machatas and his descendants, the same as it is given to every proxenos". The decree is issued by archon Hierondas and bouleutai (chancellors) Heraklidas, Eualkeus and Echyllos.
References
FD III 4:405 Delphi — 325–300 BC
A History of Macedonia: Historical geography and prehistory by N. G. L. Hammond v.1 (1972), p. 168
Upper Macedonians
Proxenoi
4th-century BC Greek people
People from Kilkis (regional unit) |
17341361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron%20Tornado%20Index | Baron Tornado Index | The Baron Tornado Index (BTI), also called Vipir Tornado Index (VTI) is a meteorological computer model. Its main usage is to determine the probabilities of a tornado inside a Tornadic Vortex Signature on the rear flank of a storm, to better alert potential high-risk areas for tornadoes and to easily track them.
With the help of NEXRAD weather radar data, mesoscale models and algorithms, the index is measured on a scale of 0 to 10. The higher the BTI value is, the more likely a tornado is on the ground. Shear markers from different colors are used depending on the scale above 2. Yellow markers are used for values between 2 and 3.9, Orange markers are used for values between 4 and 6.9 and red markers are used for values over 7.
The product was developed and is marketed by Baron Services of Huntsville, Alabama, and is a part of the company's VIPIR radar analysis product. The system is primarily used by television stations. The BTI first saw public usage in early 2008. WMC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Memphis, Tennessee was the first station to implement the BTI during the 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak on February 5, 2008 when tracking tornadoes over the Memphis and Jackson areas. The precise tracking of severe storms led WMC-TV in a significant viewer rating.
See also
List of BTI operating stations
References
External links
Baron Services official web site
Radar meteorology
Tornado
Hazard scales
Baron Services |
20473787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravensworth%20%28plantation%29 | Ravensworth (plantation) | Ravensworth was an 18th-century plantation house near Annandale in Fairfax County, Virginia. Ravensworth was the Northern Virginia residence of William Fitzhugh, William Henry Fitzhugh, Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee and George Washington Custis Lee. It was built in 1796.
Location
Ravensworth was located near Annandale, Virginia, south of Braddock Road, west of the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495).
History
Ravensworth was one of three mansions built on the large Ravensworth land grant; the other two were Ossian Hall and Oak Hill. William Fitzhugh, who owned significant estates in northern Virginia and also served in the Continental Congress and both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, was buried there in 1809. William Fitzhugh also had a townhouse in Alexandria at 607 Oronoco Street in 1799, which his family – in 1818 – lent to their cousin, Anne Hill Carter Lee, widow of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, and her eleven-year-old son, Robert Edward. Eleven years later, on 26 July 1829, Anne Hill Carter Lee died at Ravensworth.
Ravensworth then passed to Fitzhugh's son William Henry Fitzhugh, who died in 1830. William Henry Fitzhugh's childless widow, Anna Maria Sarah Goldsborough Fitzhugh, ran the estate until her death in 1874.
William Fitzhugh and Ann Bolling Randolph's daughter Mary Lee Fitzhugh married George Washington Parke Custis (Martha Washington's grandson) and became the mistress of Arlington House. Their grandson, Confederate general William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, inherited Ravensworth after the death of his great-aunt and lived there from 1874 until his death in 1891. In 1897 George Washington Custis Lee moved to Ravensworth after resigning as president of Washington and Lee University and lived there until his death in 1913.
When Mary Anna Custis Lee fled Arlington House in May 1861 after the outbreak of the Civil War, she stayed at Ravensworth briefly, but then moved further south for fear of inviting damage to the home. Both Union and Confederate forces took advantage of resources and location at Ravensworth; during 1863, in addition to Union forces foraging hay, partisan forces commanded by John S. Mosby once slept in a haystack there and at daybreak discovered they were in full view of a Union encampment. All three of the Fitzhugh estates were protected by orders from both sides throughout the war.
The house mysteriously burned on 1 August 1926.
In 1957, Dr. George Bolling Lee's widow sold the estate for development. That same year the remains from the Fitzhugh family cemetery, including those of William Fitzhugh and his wife, were removed and reinterred at the cemetery of Pohick Church in Lorton. The grounds later became the Ravensworth Farm subdivision, which today is a census-designated place also called Ravensworth. The locality's population as of the 2010 census was 2,466.
See also
Historic houses in Virginia
References
1796 establishments in Virginia
1926 disestablishments in Virginia
1926 fires
Annandale, Virginia
Buildings and structures demolished in 1926
Burned houses in the United States
Colonial architecture in Virginia
Custis family residences
Fitzhugh family residences
History of Virginia
Houses completed in 1796
Houses in Fairfax County, Virginia
Landmarks in Virginia
Lee family residences
Plantation houses in Virginia |
44499197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20Light | Liquid Light | Liquid Light is a New Jersey-based company that develops and licenses electrochemical process technology to make chemicals from carbon dioxide (CO2). The company has more than 100 patents and patent applications for the technology that can produce multiple chemicals such as ethylene glycol, propylene, isopropanol, methyl-methacrylate and acetic acid. Funding has been provided by VantagePoint Capital Partners, BP Ventures, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Osage University Partners and Sustainable Conversion Ventures. Liquid Light's technology can be used to produce more than 60 chemicals, but its first targeted process is for the production of monoethylene glycol (MEG) which has a $27 billion annual market. MEG is used to make a wide range of consumer products including plastic bottles, antifreeze and polyester fiber.
Company history
Liquid Light began operations in 2009 with seed capital from Redpoint Ventures after being co-founded by Kyle Teamey, Emily Cole, Andrew Bocarsly, Fouad Elnaggar and Nety Krishna. The company licensed technology developed by Bocarsly and Cole at Princeton University for electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals and subsequently began to develop additional technology for commercial implementation and to broaden the potential product offerings. After validating the technology at lab scale and beginning engineering scale-up, the company unveiled the first product, a process for making MEG, in March 2014 and subsequently won significant industry recognition including the CCEMC Grand Challenge, the CleanTech 100 Rising Star of the Year, and a #1 ranking in Biofuels Digest’s 40 Hottest Smaller Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. The company closed a $15 million series B round of investment in September 2014 from investors including VantagePoint Capital Partners, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Osage University Partners, Sustainable Conversion Ventures, and BP Ventures.
On January 10, 2017 Avantium announced its acquisition of Liquid Light for an undisclosed amount.
Technology
Liquid Light’s core technology is based on the principles of electrochemistry and electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. The process under development for production of MEG first converts carbon dioxide into a two carbon intermediate called oxalate or oxalic acid. Oxalate is then converted to MEG in separate process steps that have potentially lower costs of production than petroleum-based processes. Liquid Light has developed additional technology to make other products from oxalic acid including glycolic acid, glyoxylic acid, acetic acid, and ethanol.
See also
Carbon dioxide
References
External links
Company web site
Companies based in New Jersey
Chemical companies of the United States |
23580231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerdau%20%28river%29 | Gerdau (river) | The Gerdau is a long, left (western) source river for the Ilmenau in the north German state of Lower Saxony.
The river rises in the eastern part of the Lüneburg Heath on the northeastern edge of the Südheide Nature Park. From its source, which is located in the Brambostel Moor Nature Reserve, north of the 94 m high Faßberg, the Gerdau flows by the villages of Eimke and Gerdau towards Uelzen. South of Uelzen it merges with the Stederau to form the Ilmenau.
Tributaries
See also
List of rivers of Lower Saxony
References
Rivers of Lower Saxony
Lüneburg Heath
Rivers of Germany |
17341380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrio%20de%20la%20Concepci%C3%B3n%20%28Madrid%20Metro%29 | Barrio de la Concepción (Madrid Metro) | Barrio de la Concepción is a station on Madrid Metro Line No. 7 in the district of Ciudad Lineal.
It is also near the M-30 motorway and ten minutes from Madrid-Barajas Airport. The station opened to the public on 17 May 1975 with the second section of the line between Pueblo Nuevo and Avenida de América and was renovated in 2006 to change the vaults and walls.
References
Madrid Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1975
1975 establishments in Spain
Buildings and structures in Ciudad Lineal District, Madrid |
20473788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Vercamer | Francis Vercamer | Francis Vercamer (born May 10, 1958, in Lille, Nord) is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (as part of the Centrists) who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2002 until 2020, representing the Nord department, He is also the mayor of Hem, Nord.
Political career
During his time in parliament, Vercamer served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs (2002-2010), the Committee on Social Affairs (2010-2020), and the Committee on European Affairs (2009-2012).
References
1958 births
Living people
Politicians from Lille
Union for French Democracy politicians
The Centrists politicians
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
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
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians |
23580240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohana%20Dissanayake | Rohana Dissanayake | Disanayake Mudiyanselage Rohana Kumara Dissanayake is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1958 births |
20473797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%20Gilard | Franck Gilard | Franck Gilard (born November 1, 1950 in Riaillé, Loire-Atlantique) was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2017, representing the 5th constituency of the Eure department, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
He also belonged to the Club de l'horloge.
References
Carrefour de l'horloge people
1950 births
Living people
People from Loire-Atlantique
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
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
20473818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivicura | Chivicura | Chivicura was a fort erected in 1593 by the Royal Governor of Chile, Martín García Oñez de Loyola on the south bank of the Biobío River, to the west of the confluence of the Rele River with the Bio Bio, in what is now the commune of Santa Juana, Chile. It was in communication with the fort Jesus de Huenuraquí across the river securing the communications of the city of Santa Cruz de Coya in Catirai. Both forts and the city were destroyed by the Moluche in 1599. The name Chivicura means light stone, from chiv or shyv, light and from cura, stone.
See also
La Frontera (geographical region)
References
Buildings and structures in Biobío Region
Populated places established in 1593
Colonial fortifications in Chile
Fortifications in Chile |
23580242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weerakumara%20Dissanayake | Weerakumara Dissanayake | Weerakumara Dissanayake () (born 10 April 1971) is a Sri Lankan politician and former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He is a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and member of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
He was deputy minister of Ministry of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development from 2010 to 2015. In 2017 he left the National Freedom Front (NFF) to join the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
Political career
In the 2004 General Elections Weerakumara contested the Puttalam Electorate from the United People's Freedom Alliance and was elected. On 2 April 2018, Weerakumara was appointed as the State Minister of Mahaweli Development.
Electoral history
References
Parliament profile
Living people
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
1971 births |
20473822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%20Marlin | Franck Marlin | Franck Marlin (born September 30, 1964) was a Member of Parliament of the National Assembly of France. He represented the 2nd constituency of the Essonne département,
Marlin was born in Orléans, Loiret, and is a member of the Republicans.
On February 5, 2020, the newspaper Mediapart revealed "a mafia system" set up in the city of Étampes during Franck Marlin's term as mayor, and still active after his election as deputy. In 2021, the public prosecutor's office in Evry opened an investigation "for misappropriation of public funds, infringement of the freedom of access to a public contract, breach of trust and forgery". A search warrant was conducted on February 18, 2022 at the Etampes town hall.
References
1964 births
Living people
Politicians from Orléans
Radical Party (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (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
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
23580244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited%20Migration | Spirited Migration | Spirited Migration is the debut studio album by American doom metal band Dark Castle, released in 2009.
Track listing
References
2009 debut albums |
20473830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Scraire | Jean-Claude Scraire | Jean-Claude Scraire (born 1946) is a Québécois lawyer, separatist, nationalist and former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP). Since his dismissal in 2002, he has been working as a consultant on matters of development with various organizations and enterprises in Asia, Europe, and Quebec.
Biography
Jean-Claude Scraire ardent separatist advocating for the separation of Quebec from Canada was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1946. He worked with the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP) for 22 years, where he held the positions of Legal Counsel; Legal Affairs Director; Executive Vice-President, Legal and Institutional Affairs and Real Estate Investments; and Chief Operations Officer. He was appointed Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in 1995.
A member of the Barreau du Québec, he began his career as an attorney for a private firm specializing in commercial law. From 1974 to 1981, he held various management positions within the nationalist separatist Parti Quebecois administration, most notably at the ministère de la Justice.
He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fondation de l’entrepreneurship; Governor of the Regroupement des jeunes gens d’affaires; Governor of the Fondation du maire de Montréal pour la jeunesse. He is also a past member of the Association des gens d’affaires des Premiers Peuples; the Montreal Council on Foreign relations; the Cercle des présidents du Québec; the Association d’affaires Canada-Égypte; and the Quebec-Japan Business Forum, as well as of various chambers of commerce including the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, the Chambre de commerce du Québec, the Chambre de commerce française du Canada, and the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada.
He is the recipient of several awards including the Ordre du mérite from the Association des diplômés de l’Université de Montréal; the Award of Merit from B'nai Brith Canada; the Prix Dimensions from the Ordre des administrateurs du Québec, of which he was a member; the Prix Hommage Équinoxe from the Société des relationnistes du Québec; and the Jerusalem 3000 Medallion from the Montreal Jewish community. The development of the Quartier international de Montréal to which he actively participated—and of which the Centre CDP Capital is a major element, was the object of professional and public acknowledgment and recognition on numerous occasions.
In May 2002, after seven years at the helm of the CDP, he released his recommendations regarding the governance of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec: Modernizing to ensure a stronger future.
He attempted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in February 2006; Le monde juridique, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Spring 2006).
References
1946 births
Lawyers from Montreal
Living people |
20473833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%20Reynier | Franck Reynier | Franck Reynier (born 20 October 1965 in Montélimar, Drôme) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Drôme's 2nd constituency, and has been the vice president of the Radical Party since 2007.
He lost his seat to Alice Thourot of En Marche in the 2017 French legislative election.
References
1965 births
Living people
People from Montélimar
Radical Party (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians
21st-century French politicians |
23580245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmadasa%20Banda | Dharmadasa Banda | Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Dharmadasa Banda (7 February 1938 – 23 October 2010), known commonly as R. M. Dharmadasa Banda, was a Sri Lankan teacher, lawyer and politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former cabinet minister. He was a Basnayaka Nilame (Lay Custodian) of the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Devalaya.
Early life
Born in the village of Medagam Pattuwa in Bibile, his father was the R. M. Kiribanda was the Village Headman. He was educated at the Medagama School in Bibile, Ananda Sastralaya, Kotte and Zahira College, Colombo. Following his studies he returned to Bibile, gained an appointment as an English teacher and was elected Chairman of the Medagama Village Council.
Political career
Dharmadasa Banda entered active politics in the late 1964 as the chief United National Party organiser for the Bibile electorate, after his brother R. M. Gunasekera, the member for Bibile in 1960, was assassinated in 1964. He contested the seat of Bibile at the 1965 parliamentary election, as the United National Party candidate, and was elected to parliament, defeating Ronnie de Mel. He was defeated at the 1970 general election. Entering Ceylon Law College and qualified as an attorney-at-law. He contested and won in the 1977 general election and was appointed Deputy Minister of Textile and Handloom Industries by Prime Minister J. R. Jayewardene. Re-elected in the 1989 general election, he was appointed Minister of Agricultural Development and Research in the cabinet of President R. Premadasa. During his tenure he introduced the farmers’ pension scheme. He lost his seat in the 1994 general election and was re-elected in the 2000 general election, but lost the 2001 general election. Re-elected in the 2004 general election from the United People's Freedom Alliance, he served as Cabinet Minister for Additional Plantation Crops from 2007 to 2010.
His son Padma Udayashantha Gunasekara, served as a member of the parliament.
References
Former Minister Dharmadasa Banda passes away
External links
Humble Politician
1938 births
2010 deaths
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sinhalese teachers
Sinhalese lawyers
Members of the 6th Parliament of Ceylon
Members of the 8th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Agriculture ministers of Sri Lanka
Deputy ministers of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Alumni of Ananda Sastralaya, Kotte
Alumni of Zahira College, Colombo |
23580248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akmeemana%20Dayarathana%20Thero | Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero | Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Thero was born in Akmeemana, Galle. His mother's name is Siriyawathi and his father was Mr. Sumatipala. Thero was in parliament from 2004 to 2010.
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks
Jathika Hela Urumaya politicians
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1970 births |
17341413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark%20Henry%20discography | Ozark Henry discography | This is a discography of all releases by Belgian artist Ozark Henry.
Studio albums
EPs
Compilation albums
Live albums
Soundtracks
DVDs
Singles
Sunzoo Manley
As producer
References
Discographies of Belgian artists
Rock music discographies |
44499201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare%20nome | Hare nome | The Hare nome, also called the Hermopolite nome (Egyptian: Wenet) was one of the 42 nomoi (administrative divisions) in ancient Egypt; more precisely, it was the 15th nome of Upper Egypt.
The Hare nome's main city was Khmun (later Hermopolis Magna, and the modern el-Ashmunein) in Middle Egypt. The local main deity was Thoth, though the inscriptions on the White Chapel of Senusret I links this nome with the cult of Bes and Unut.
History
The Hare nome was already recognized during the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom as shown by the triad statue of pharaoh Menkaure, Hathor, and an anthropomorphized-deified depiction of the nome. It is known that during the 6th Dynasty its nomarchs were buried in the necropolis of El-Sheikh Sa'id.
The nome kept its importance during the First Intermediate Period and the subsequent Middle Kingdom; its governors were also responsible of the alabaster quarrying at Hatnub in the Eastern Desert, they owned exclusive offices such as "director of the double throne" and great one of the five", and also were high priests of Thot. Since the First Intermediate Period they moved slightly northward their official necropolis to Deir el-Bersha, where their remarkable though poorly preserved rock-cut tombs were excavated. During the Middle Kingdom the Hare nome was ruled by a rather branched dynasty of nomarchs usually named Ahanakht, Djehutynakht or Neheri. The last known among them, Djehutihotep, was also the owner of the most elaborate and preserved tomb of the Deir el-Bersha necropolis; he ruled until the early reign of Senusret III who is known to have put into action serious steps to minimize the power held by all nomarchs.
During the Second Intermediate Period the Hare nome assimilated the neighboring Oryx nome (16th of Upper Egypt).
Nomarchs of the Hare nome
Old Kingdom
This is a list of the known nomarchs, dating to the Old Kingdom. They were buried at El-Sheikh Sa'id.
Serefka (5th Dynasty)
Werirni (5th Dynasty, son of Serefka)
Teti-ankh/Iymhotep (6th Dynasty, perhaps Pepy I)
Meru/Bebi (6th Dynasty, perhaps Pepy I)
Wiu/Iyu (6th Dynasty, perhaps Pepy I; son of Meru/Bebi)
Meru 6th Dynasty, perhaps Pepy II, son of Wiu/Iyu)
Middle Kingdom
The following is a genealogy of the nomarchs of the Hare nome during the late 11th and 12th Dynasty (the limit between the two dynasties passes approximately along the third generation). The nomarchs are underlined. They were buried at Dayr al-Barsha.
References
Further reading
Nomes of ancient Egypt |
17341416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Friends%20Archeological%20Site | Old Friends Archeological Site | Old Friends Archeological Site (also known as RI—703) is an archaeological historical site in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
The site was added in 1995 to the National Register of Historic Places.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Archaeological sites in Rhode Island
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Jamestown, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
23580250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalith%20Dissanayake | Lalith Dissanayake | Lalith Chandra Buddhisiri Dissanayake (born 19 November 1955) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister. He is an alumnus of Dharmaraja College.
In October 2000 he was elected Deputy Chairman of Committees, a position he held until October 2001.
References
Alumni of Dharmaraja College
1955 births
Living people
Provincial councillors of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Deputy chairmen of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sinhalese politicians |
44499221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hamilton%20%28American%20football%29 | James Hamilton (American football) | James Hamilton is a former American football linebacker who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was often injured and did not record a single start in his two-year NFL career and only played in 16 games over the two seasons.
References
1974 births
Living people
American football linebackers
North Carolina Tar Heels football players
Jacksonville Jaguars players |
23580252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20B.%20Ekanayake | W. B. Ekanayake | Wilfred Bandara Ekanayake is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
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
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1948 births |
44499233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuufuli%20Uperesa | Tuufuli Uperesa | Tuufuli Uperesa (January 20, 1948 – June 21, 2021) was an American football offensive lineman who played one season with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Eagles in the sixteenth round of the 1970 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Montana and attended 'Aiea High School in Aiea, Hawaii. Uperesa was also a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Calgary Stampeders, Ottawa Rough Riders and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
He died of kidney failure on June 21, 2021, in American Samoa at age 73.
References
External links
Just Sports Stats
1948 births
2021 deaths
Players of American football from American Samoa
Players of American football from Hawaii
American football offensive linemen
American sportspeople of Samoan descent
Canadian football offensive linemen
Montana Grizzlies football players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Winnipeg Blue Bombers players
Calgary Stampeders players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
BC Lions players
People from Oahu
Deaths from kidney failure |
23580255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20Route%20209 | Ohio State Route 209 | State Route 209 (SR 209, OH 209) is an east–west state highway in eastern Ohio, a U.S. state. The western terminus of State Route 209 is at a T-intersection with State Route 83 approximately north of New Concord. State Route 209's eastern terminus is concurrent with the northern terminus of State Route 821 at Interstate 77 at its exit 41 in Byesville, just southeast of the Interstate's interchange with Interstate 70.
Route description
State Route 209 traverses a small portion of northeastern Muskingum County and a good part of the western half of Guernsey County. No segment of this highway is included within the National Highway System, a network of routes deemed to be most important for the nation's economy, mobility and defense.
History
When it was first designated in 1923, State Route 209 ran along its present alignment from its current western terminus at what was then designated State Route 76 (now State Route 83) north of New Concord to downtown Cambridge. By 1959, with the transferring of U.S. Route 21 onto a new alignment from Byesville north that passes to the east of Cambridge along what is now the alignment of Interstate 77, State Route 209 was extended southeasterly from Cambridge to its present eastern terminus in Byesville along the former alignment of U.S. Route 21.
Major intersections
References
External links
209
Transportation in Muskingum County, Ohio
Transportation in Guernsey County, Ohio |
23580256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20B.%20Ekanayake | T. B. Ekanayake | Thilakarathne Bandara Ekanayake (ටී. බී. ඒකනායක; 28 August 1954 – 6 December 2020) was a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
References
Sri Lankan actor-politicians
2020 deaths
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
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
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians
1954 births
Culture ministers of Sri Lanka |
20473845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%20Riester | Franck Riester | Franck Riester (born 3 January 1974) is a French politician who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne since 2020. A former member of The Republicans, he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
Riester was a member of the National Assembly for the fifth constituency of Seine-et-Marne from 2007 to 2018 and Minister of Culture in the Second Philippe government from 2018 until his appointment as Minister delegate attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
Early career
After a stint at accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Riester managed his family's Peugeot car dealership.
Political career
Member of the National Assembly
Riester was a member of the National Assembly from 2007 until 2018. During his time in parliament, he served on the Committee on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2007-2009), the Committee on European Affairs (2009-2011) and the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education (2009-2018). In his first term from 2007 until 2012, he was the UMP parliamentary group's youngest member. He was also the parliament's rapporteur on the 2009 HADOPI law.
In the 2009 European elections, Riester was the national campaign manager for Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party. During Sarkozy’s unsuccessful campaign for the 2012 presidential elections, he served as the party’s head of communications, along with Geoffroy Didier, Valérie Debord, Guillaume Peltier and Salima Saa.
In the Republicans’ 2016 presidential primaries, Riester endorsed Bruno Le Maire as the party's candidate for the office of President of France. When the primaries' winner François Fillon became embroiled in a political affair during his campaign, Riester publicly called on him to step down.
From June 2017, Riester co-chaired UDI and Independents group in the National Assembly, alongside Stéphane Demilly. He was subsequently excluded from the Republicans on October 31, 2017, alongside Gérald Darmanin, Sébastien Lecornu and Thierry Solère. In November 2017, he co-founded a new party, Agir.
Riester was a candidate for mayor of Coulommiers in the 2020 French municipal elections which he won in the first round with more than 50 percent of the vote, but entrusted the role of mayor to Laurence Picard.
Minister of Culture
Riester is appointed Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe on 16 October 2018. During his time in office, he announced in September 2019 a public broadcasting reform project aimed at creating "France Médias", bringing together France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde (Radio France Internationale and France 24) and the National Audiovisual Institute (INA). He also merged the Superior Council of the Audiovisual (CSA) and the Supreme Authority for the Distribution and Protection of Intellectual Property on the Internet (HADOPI).
As minister he attempted to prevent the demolition of the Saint-Joseph Chapel of Saint-Paul College in Lille.
Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness
On July 6, 2020, after the appointment of Jean Castex as Prime Minister, Riester is appointed Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Political positions
In January 2013, Riester was one of the two UMP deputies, along with Benoist Apparu, to publicly declare his support and vote for a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in France which had been proposed by the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
When director Roman Polanski won best directing for his film An Officer and a Spy at the annual César Awards in 2020, his cast and production team boycotted the ceremony after Riester said the success of a director accused of sexual violence would send the wrong signal in the era of the Me Too movement.
Personal life
Riester came out as gay in 2011, the first French MP to do so.
In March 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic Riester tested positive for COVID-19.
References
1974 births
Living people
Politicians from Paris
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Modern and Humanist France
Agir (France) politicians
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
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
Gay politicians
ESSEC Business School alumni
ISG Business School alumni
French people of German descent
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
LGBT legislators in France
LGBT mayors of places in France
Members of the Borne government |
23580257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandimithra%20Ekanayake | Nandimithra Ekanayake | Mahinda Nandimithra Ekanayake (born 26 December 1943 in Handala, Wattala) is a Sri Lankan politician.
Early career
Prior to entering politics in 1989, he held a number of positions with the Rural Development Department. At the age of 21, he worked as a rural development officer. He was ultimately promoted to district officer and subsequently served as the Chief Officer in charge of the Rural Development Training Center at Nalanda, Matale. During his time in the Rural Development Department, he became known as a writer and journalist. In 1984, Nandimithra joined the growing Sri Lanka Mahajana Party.
Political career
In 1989, after 23 years of government work, he entered politics. He was first elected to the parliament in 1989 as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidate in the Matale electorate. His first appointment was as the Minister of Forestry and Environment. After several years in that post, he took over political leadership of the Central Province as the Chief Minister. He was the deputy minister of higher education, and he pledged support to Opposition Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the 2015 presidential election. He is also an author and journalist who has written for many national newspapers and has written books on Buddhism.
References
1943 births
Ambassadors of Sri Lanka to Myanmar
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Chief Ministers of Central Province, Sri Lanka
State ministers of Sri Lanka
Local government and provincial councils ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the Central Provincial Council
Sinhalese politicians
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
44499237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Sharp%20Joukowsky | Martha Sharp Joukowsky | Martha Sharp Joukowsky (2 September 1936 - 7 January 2022) was a Near Eastern archaeologist and a retired member of the faculty of Brown University known for her fieldwork at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan.
Early life and education
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was the daughter of Waitstill Hastings Sharp and Martha Ingham Dickie, noted for aiding Jews escaping Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Joukowsky was educated at Pembroke College (B.A. 1958) American University of Beirut (MA 1972) and Paris I-Sorbonne (Ph.D. 1982).
Academic career
From 1982 to 2002 Joukowsky was Professor in the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art and the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her archaeological fieldwork has included work in Lebanon (1967-1972), Hong Kong (1972-1973), Turkey (1975-1986), Italy (1982-1985), and Greece (1987-1990). Joukowsky conducted archaeological fieldwork at Petra in Jordan for more than ten years, beginning in 1992. Her work, and that of Brown University, focused on Petra's so-called "Great Temple" during that time.
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was also elected as President (1989-1993) of the Archaeological Institute of America and was Trustee for the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She also serves as Trustee Emerita of Brown University.
Personal life
Artemis A. W. Joukowsky, her husband, was chancellor of Brown University (1997–98) and together they created the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University in 2004; the institute was first directed by Susan Alcock, who was succeeded in the post by Peter van Dommelen.
Honours
In 1993 Joukowsky endowed an annual lecture series in her own name for the Archaeological Institute of America.
She accepted the Yad Vashem award on behalf of her parents in 2006.
Selected publications
1980. A complete manual of field archaeology: tools and techniques of field work for archaeologists. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall.
1988. The young archaeologist in the oldest port city in the world. Beirut: Dar el-Machreq.
1996a. Early Turkey: an introduction to the archaeology of Anatolia from prehistory through the Lydian period. Dubuque (IA): Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
1996b. Prehistoric Aphrodisias: an account of the excavations and artifact studies. Providence (RI): Brown University, Center for Old World Archaeology and Art.
1998. Petra Great Temple: Brown University excavations, 1993-1997. Providence (RI): Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.
Cohen, G. & M.S. Joukowsky. (ed.) 2004. Breaking ground: pioneering women archaeologists. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2007. Petra Great Temple, Volume II: archaeological contexts of the remains and excavations. Providence (RI): Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.
References
External links
Petra Great Temple Excavations
Joukowsky Family Foundation
1936 births
Living people
People from Montague, Massachusetts
Archaeologists of the Near East
Brown University faculty
20th-century American archaeologists
American women archaeologists
20th-century women writers
20th-century American women
American women academics
21st-century American women
Pembroke College in Brown University alumni |
23580261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20Canada%20Cup | 1995 Canada Cup | The Canada Cup (aka Maple Cup) of 1995 was an international football (soccer) tournament, played at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 22 May 1995 to 28 May 1995.
Results
Canada vs Northern Ireland
Chile vs Northern Ireland
Canada vs Chile
References
RSSSF
RSSSF details 1995 matches
Canada Cup (soccer)
1995 in Chilean football
1995 in Canadian soccer
1994–95 in Northern Ireland association football
May 1995 sports events in Canada |
44499282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten%20Nielsen | Torsten Nielsen | Torsten Nielsen (born 5 March 1967) is a Danish politician and mayor of Viborg Municipality for the Conservative People's Party. Nielsen is state authorized Estate agent since 1992, and he was elected to the City Council of Viborg Municipality in 2009, and re-elected in 2013. Nielsen succeeded the former mayor, Søren Pape Poulsen, when he was appointed as the new leader of the Conservative People's Party.
References
1967 births
Living people
Conservative People's Party (Denmark) politicians
People from Viborg Municipality |
23580262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20H.%20M.%20Fowzie | A. H. M. Fowzie | Abdul Hameed Mohamed Fowzie (born 13 October 1937) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
He was injured while walking with a crowd in the Akuressa suicide bombing. He joined the National Government of Sri Lanka led by the United National Party as the Minister of Disaster Management.
See also
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
References
He stood for what is right and just
Lovable leader
Living people
Alumni of Zahira College, Colombo
Sri Lankan businesspeople
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
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
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Mayors of Colombo
Provincial councillors of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1937 births
Sri Lankan Muslims
Social affairs ministers of Sri Lanka
Survivors of terrorist attacks |
44499302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapagala%20fortress | Mapagala fortress | Mapagala fortress was an ancient fortified complex of the Anuradhapura Kingdom long before Kasyapa I built his city, Sigiriya. It is located to the South of Sigiriya and closer to Sigiriya tank.
It was built by using unshaped boulders to about 20 ft high. Each stone is broad and thick and some of them are about 10 ft high and about 4 ft long. It is believed that it was built before the time of usage of metal tools. Arthur Maurice Hocart noted that cyclopean style stone walls were used for the fortress, and square hammered stones were used for the ramparts of the citadel. However, his note suggests metal (iron) tools were used for construction. Excavations work in this areas found a few stone forges, which proved Hocart's claim on the usage of metal tools.
References
Further reading
Forts in Central Province, Sri Lanka
Kingdom of Anuradhapura
Buildings and structures in Matale District |
17341427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Maria%20Nocera | Paolo Maria Nocera | Paolo Maria Nocera (born July 25, 1985 in Rome) is an Italian former racing driver.
Career
Formula Renault
Nocera began his car racing career by driving in the Italian Formula Renault Championship in 2003; also competing in one race of the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0. For 2004 he stayed in the Italian series, but only finished twentieth in the drivers' championship in both this and the previous year.
Formula Three
Nocera first raced in the Italian Formula Three Championship in 2004. Staying with the Lucidi Motors team throughout his time in this formula, he finished thirteenth overall in his first year and improved to third place in the standings in 2005. Following an unsuccessful foray into the Formula Three Euroseries in 2006, Nocera returned to Italy for 2007 and won the F3 championship at his third attempt.
Formula 3000
In 2006, Nocera also drove in the Euroseries 3000 for Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella's team. He finished thirteenth in the drivers' championship.
GP2 Series
Nocera was recruited by the BCN Competicion team to drive for them in the 2008 GP2 Series season. However, he was released after one round of the championship in favour of Adrián Vallés, who had himself been replaced at Fisichella's GP2 team by Adam Carroll.
Formula Renault 3.5 Series
It was announced on August 25, 2008, that Nocera had signed for RC Motorsport in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, replacing British driver Duncan Tappy who had encountered budget problems. After a further two rounds of the championship, Tappy returned to the seat, and Nocera has not raced since.
Racing record
Career summary
Complete GP2 Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
References
Career statistics from driverdb.com. Retrieved on May 9, 2008.
1985 births
Living people
Italian racing drivers
GP2 Series drivers
Italian Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
Formula Renault Eurocup drivers
Italian Formula Three Championship drivers
Auto GP drivers
Formula 3 Euro Series drivers
World Series Formula V8 3.5 drivers
Prema Powerteam drivers
Cram Competition drivers
RP Motorsport drivers
RC Motorsport drivers
Scuderia Coloni drivers |
23580265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston%20Fernando | Johnston Fernando | Johnston Xavier Fernando (born 5 December 1964) is a Sri Lankan politician, former Cabinet Minister, Chief Government Whip and a current member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from the Kurunegala District. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. He is considered a leader of the Rajapaksa loyalist mobs that carried out violent attacks against peaceful protestors during the 9 May 'Black Monday' incident of the 2022 Sri Lankan Protests.
Controversies
Corruption
Johnston Fernando was arrested on 5 May 2015 in relation to the non-payment for goods worth more than 5 million rupees but was released on bail amounting to Rs. 25,000 and three sureties worth Rs. 2.5 million each. He is also being investigated on financial irregularities connected to Lanka Sathosa during his tenure as the Cooperatives and Internal Trade Minister. The bribery commission also filed a case against him for failing to declare assets and liabilities from 2010 to 2014.
In January of 2022 Johnston Fernando was acquitted from three cases filed against him by the bribery commission of Sri Lanka for allegedly employing CWE employees in electoral activities costing the state Rs. 40 million. The acquittal was attributed to a technical error in the indictment. However, on May 30th, 2022 the bribery commission filed fresh indictments on these same charges.
Violence and abuse of power
Johnston Fernando has a history of threatening, advocating for and engaging in violence, and his conduct and behavior has been deplored by many including fellow legislators. On 18th Nov 2018 Johnston Fernando took to violence in parliament where he and a few other legislators attacked, and assaulted police officers and parliamentary staff called in to protect the speaker of the parliament.
Threatening others including an MP
When the United National party MP Mujibur Rahuman mentioned Wasim Thajudeen a group of UPFA members including Fernando surrounded the MP obstructing his speech. It was claimed that the group made death threats to the MP. He was also alleged to have threatened anyone who touches Mayor of Kurunegala, Thushara Sanjeewa, about the wrecking down of archaeological grounds in Kurunegala.
2022 attack on peaceful protestors
Johnston Fernando encouraged violence against critics and peaceful protestors during the 2022 Sri Lankan Protests claiming "The problem is that the government is too lenient. If we kill one crow (anti-government protestors) and hang up their wings this will all end," . On 9 May Johnston and Mahinda Rajapaksa armed and incited loyalists to launch a violent against peaceful protestors that had occupied Temple Trees and Galle Face. Before the attack Fernando gave a speech claiming “There is something called Mynagogama in front of Temple Trees. Today, we will end that. Get ready. We will start the war!”. The attack was condemned as an act of state terrorism and incited mass retaliation against the Rajapaksa. The protestors organized a counter-attack that resulted in Johnston's vehicle being thrown into the Beira Lake alongside many of his supporters that carried out the attack. His office in Kurunegala and his residence in Mount Lavinia were also attacked and torched as part of the mass retaliation that followed.
Sri Lanka’s Attorney General on 16th of May directed the Police to arrest Johnston Fernando and 21 others and to produce them in court 22 for the attacks on the peaceful protestors on 9th of May 2022.
However, due to his political power, the police have failed to arrest him more than two weeks since the directive.
Portfolio
1991 – Councilor in Kurunegala Municipal Council (6936 Votes - 1st Place)
1993 – Minister of Health Ministry and Member of Wayamba Provincial Council
1994 – Candidate for the Parliament Election (40794 Votes)
1999 – Member of Wayamba Provincial Council (50489 Votes - 2nd Place)
2000 – Member of Parliament (94385 Votes - 2nd Place in Kurunegala District)
2001 – Minister of Spots and Youth Affairs Ministry (114845 Votes - 2nd Place in Kurunegala District)
2004 – Member of Parliament (112601 Votes - 2nd Place in Kurunegala District)
2009 – Minister of lands, land development and Armed Forces welfare
2022 – Minister of Highways and Chief Government Whip
See also
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
Notes
References
Sri Lankan Roman Catholics
Living people
Sinhalese businesspeople
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
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians
Trade ministers of Sri Lanka
Members of the North Western Provincial Council
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1964 births
Sports ministers of Sri Lanka
Alumni of St. Anne's College, Kurunegala
People from Kurunegala |
44499307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978%20United%20States%20Senate%20election%20in%20Tennessee | 1978 United States Senate election in Tennessee | The 1978 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 7, as a part of the Senate class 2 election.
Situation
Two-term popular incumbent Howard Baker, who had served as United States Senate Minority Leader since 1977, ran for reelection against first-time candidate and Democratic Party activist Jane Eskind.
Democratic nomination
Candidates:
Jame Boyd
Walter Bradley
Former State Senate Majority Leader Bill Bruce
Jane Eskind
James Foster
Douglas L. Heinsohn
J. D. Lee
Virginia Nyabongo
Charles Gordon Vick
In the primary, held on August 3, Eskind won in an open primary against eight other candidates:
Eskind – 196,156 (34.52%)
Bruce – 170,795 (30.06%)
Lee – 89,939 (15.83%)
Boyd – 48,458 (8.53%)
Bradley – 22,130 (3.90%)
Heinsohn – 17,787 (3.13%)
Foster – 10,671 (1.88%)
Nyabongo – 7,682 (1.35%)
Vick – 4,414 (0.78%)
Write-in – 147 (0.03%)
Republican nomination
Candidates:
Incumbent United States Senator and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker
J. Durelle Boles
Harvey Howard
Hubert David Patty
Dayton Seiler
Francis Trapp
In the primary, held on August 3, Baker easily emerged as the winner:
Baker – 205,680 (83.44%)
Howard – 21,154 (8.58%)
Boles – 8,899 (3.61%)
Patty – 3,941 (1.60%)
Seiler – 3,831 (1.55%)
Trapp – 2,994 (1.22%)
General election
Baker won with a 15-point margin in the general election, held on November 7:
See also
1978 United States Senate elections
References
1978
Tennessee
United States Senate |
23580269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Hook | Norman Hook | Norman Hook (1898 – 20 May 1976) was an Anglican dean in the second quarter of the 20th century. Born in 1898 he was educated at Durham University (St Chad's Hall) and ordained in 1921. Following curacies in Liverpool he held incumbencies at Enborne, West Norwood and Knutsford. In 1945 he was appointed Rural Dean of Wimbledon and became a Canon of Southwark Cathedral. From 1953 until 1969 he was Dean of Norwich. An eminent author, he died on 20 May 1976.
Arms
Notes
1898 births
1976 deaths
Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham
Deans of Norwich |
17341444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Margaret%27s%20Secondary%20School | St. Margaret's Secondary School | St. Margaret's Secondary School (SMSS) is a government-aided autonomous girls' secondary school in Bukit Timah, Singapore, under the purview of the Anglican Diocese of Singapore. It is the first girls' school in Singapore and often regarded as the oldest existing girls' school in Southeast Asia.
History
St. Margaret's School is the oldest girls' school in Singapore and the Far East. It was founded in 1842 by Maria Dyer, a missionary of the London Missionary Society. In 1853 the Society for Promotion of Female Education in the East sent Sophia Cooke to Singapore to became the Principal of what was then called the "Chinese Girls' School". Cooke would use her influence to persuade the Anglican chaplain to begin a mission there. The society paid Cooke's salary but she had to rely on fund raising to keep the school viable. She arranged for Christian services to be conducted in Chinese in the school grounds.
It was later known as the Church of England Zenana Missionary (CEZMS) School in Singapore, before being renamed St. Margaret's School.
The secondary section was split from the primary in 1960 and it moved into new premises along Farrer Road.
Identity & culture
Crest
The green background represents creation, of which we are a part. It stands for life and activity, creativity and growth.
The white band running diagonally across from the upper left-hand corner to the lower right-hand corner stands for purity in thought, word and deed.
The white cross represents the Christian mission of the school. Like a directional compass, it shows the right way to take and it points us to God's love, truth and provision.
Motto
Charity, Patience, Devotion
The school is named after Queen Margaret of Scotland who was known for many good qualities, among them, love (charity), patience and devotion.
Uniform
The school uniform is a one-piece dress which features a dark green polka-dotted top, a dark green skirt up to knee length and a dark green school tie with the school logo pinned at the bottom. There are also separate PE shorts, a shirt with different colours depending on different houses and a CCA skirt. White school socks with or without the SMSS logo can be worn. A name tag is worn. The only jacket allowed is the black school jacket or any plain black jacket, and earrings are restricted to plain studs of green, white, black, gold or silver. Hair accessories can only be dark green, white and black. Despite this, coloured top undergarments are not allowed - only white or nude colours are permissible.
Affiliation
St. Margaret's Secondary School is affiliated with St. Margaret's Primary School (SMPS) and Saint Andrew's Junior College (SAJC).
Academic information
Being a non-special programme secondary school, St. Margaret's Secondary School offers three academic streams, namely the four-year Express course, as well as the Normal Course, comprising Normal (Academic) and Normal (Technical) academic tracks.
O Level Express Course
The Express Course is a nationwide four-year programme that leads up to the Singapore-Cambridge G.C.E. Ordinary Level examination.
Academic subjects
The examinable academic subjects for Singapore-Cambridge G.C.E. Ordinary Level offered by the school for upper secondary level (via. streaming in secondary 2 level), as of 2017, are listed below.
Notes:
Subjects indicated with ' * ' are mandatory subjects.
All students in Singapore are required to undertake a Mother Tongue Language as an examinable subject, as indicated by ' ^ '
Normal Course
The Normal Course is a nationwide 4-year programme leading to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Normal Level examination, which runs either the Normal (Academic) curriculum or Normal (Technical) curriculum, abbreviated as N(A) and N(T) respectively.
Normal (Academic) Course
In the Normal (Academic) course, students offer 5-8 subjects in the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Normal Level examination. Compulsory subjects include:
English Language
Mother Tongue Language
Mathematics
Combined Humanities
A 5th year leading to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examination is available to N(A) students who perform well in their Singapore-Cambridge GCE Normal Level examination. Students can move from one course to another based on their performance and the assessment of the school principal and teachers.
Normal (Technical) Course
The Normal (Technical) course prepares students for a technical-vocational education at the Institute of Technical Education. Students will offer 5-7 subjects in the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Normal Level examination. The curriculum is tailored towards strengthening students’ proficiency in English and Mathematics. Students take English Language, Mathematics, Basic Mother Tongue and Computer Applications as compulsory subjects.
Notable alumni
Lee Lin Chin, TV Newsreader and presenter, SBS-TV, Sydney, Australia
Eunice Olsen: Former Nominated Member of Parliament; television presenter
Daphne Khoo: Fourth, Singapore Idol
Stephanie Sun: Singaporean singer-songwriter
External links
Official website
St. Margaret's Ex-Students' Association (SMESA)
References
Secondary schools in Singapore
Bukit Timah
Girls' schools in Singapore
Autonomous schools in Singapore
Anglican schools in Singapore
Schools in Central Region, Singapore |
44499347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Gradis | Henri Gradis | Moïse Henri Gradis (30 July 1823 – 23 January 1905) was a French businessman and historian.
Life
Moïse Henri Gradis was born on 30 July 1823 in Bordeaux.
He came from a family of prominent Bordeaux merchants who had flourished in the 18th century but were ruined by the French Revolution and the insurrections in Santo Domingo and Martinique.
His parents were Benjamin Gradis (1789–1858) and Laure Sarah Rodrigues Henriquès (1803–46).
In 1853 he married Claire Brandame (1835–1925).
Their son was Raoul Gradis (1861–1943).
Their daughter Emma Gradis married Georges Schwob d'Héricourt in 1889.
The Maison Gradis recovered, and by 1892 was selling sugar from several producers in Bordeaux, Nantes and Marseille.
Henri Gradis was deputy mayor of Bordeaux in 1864 and 1876.
He was also author of a history of Bordeaux and several other literary works.
His history of the 1848 revolution won praise for its accuracy and lack of bias.
Moïse Henri Gradis died in Paris in 1905.
He was succeeded at the Maison Gradis by his son Raoul.
Publications
Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (translation, 1847)
Réflexions sur le christianisme, suivies d’une lettre à un jeune Israélite (1847-1850)
Histoire de la guerre de 1870 (1870)
Notes sur la guerre de 1870 et sur la Commune (1872)
Histoire de la révolution de 1848
Judaïsme et christianisme (1874)
Notice sur la Famille Gradis et sur la Maison Gradis et Fils de Bordeaux (1875)
Introduction à l'histoire du peuple d'Israël ; judaïsme et christianisme (1876)
Polyxène, drame antique en 4 actes et en vers (1881)
Jérusalem, drame en 5 actes et en vers (1883)
Le peuple d'Israël (Paris, 1891)
References
Sources
1823 births
1905 deaths
Businesspeople from Bordeaux
19th-century French Sephardi Jews
Gradis family |
17341456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Religion | The Religion | The Religion is a horror novel written in 1982 by Nicholas Conde. It explores the ritual sacrifice of children to appease the pantheon of voodoo deities, through the currently used practice of Santería. The novel depicts the various deities and personas commonly seen in Santería, and it attempts to explain the connection and differences between Santería(white magic)and Brujeria (black magic). In essence, the novel shows that there is a difference between Santeria and Brujeria, in which Brujeria is the evil force in the novel, where as Santeria is a force for good .
This religion is huge, complex and living in our midsts. Sacrifices must be made to save the world, or so they believe. Anthropologist Cal Jamison intends to study 'Santaria' but finds himself hopelessly ensnared. Trying to help a NY cop discover the killers of several children, he gets in over his head and finds his 7-year-old son Chris is in jeopardy. What is the price needed to ensure good? Can he rescue Chris in time? Who are his friends and who are his enemies? Chilling!
The novel served as the basis for the 1987 feature film ''The Believers.
References
Horror novels
1982 American novels
American novels adapted into films
Works about sacrifice
Works about Santería
New American Library books |
17341465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauw | Pauw | Pauw (Dutch for "peacock"), de Pauw or DePauw are variants of a Dutch or Flemish surname and may refer to:
People
Pauw
Adriaan Pauw (1585–1653), Dutch Grand Pensionary of Holland
Jacques Pauw, South African investigative journalist
Michiel Pauw (1590–1640), Mayor of Amsterdam and a director of the Dutch West India Company
Pieter Pauw (1564–1617), Dutch botanist and anatomist
Vera Pauw (born 1963), Dutch football coach and former player
De Pauw / DePauw
Ayrton De Pauw (born 1998), Belgian racing cyclist
Bart De Pauw (born 1968), Belgian television producer, comedian and scriptwriter
Cornelius de Pauw (1739–1799), Dutch scholar at the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia
Gommar DePauw (1918–2005), Belgian traditionalist Catholic priest
Johanna de Paauw (1933–1989), Dutch jazz singer using the pseudonym "Ann Burton"
Josse De Pauw (born 1952), Belgian artist and actor
Henri De Pauw (born 1911), Belgian water polo player
Linda Grant DePauw (born 1940), American modern historian, retired university teacher, non-fiction author, journal editor
Lydia De Pauw (born 1929), Belgian politician
Moreno De Pauw (born 1991), Belgian racing cyclist
Niels De Pauw (born 1996), Belgian footballer
Nill De Pauw (born 1990), Belgian footballer
Noël De Pauw (1942–2015), Belgian racing cyclist
Roger De Pauw (born 1921), Belgian racing cyclist
Tony De Pauw, Belgian businessman
Washington C. DePauw (1822–1887), American industrialist of Indiana
Places
Named for Washington C. DePauw:
Depauw, Indiana, an unincorporated community
DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana
DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
See also
Pavonia, New Netherland, named for Michiel Pauw
Dutch-language surnames |
44499526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garvald%20Centres | Garvald Centres | The Garvald Centres are a group of six affiliated but independent Scottish charities offering creative opportunities and support for people with Special Needs and learning disabilities and who base their work on the ideas of the educator and philosopher, Rudolf Steiner. They operate in the Midlothian, Scottish Borders and Edinburgh area of Scotland.
Founding
The Garvald School and Training Centre was founded near West Linton in 1944 by Dr Hans Schauder, his wife Lisl and others who decided to join him after having worked for some years at the Camphill community in Aberdeen. Dr Schauder himself was of Viennese origin and had fled Austria some years previously as he came from a Jewish family. Connected with Anthroposophy, the medical and therapeutic work of Rudolf Steiner and with the group around Dr Karl König, he had been among the founders of Camphill. After working at Garvald for some years he opened his own practice in Edinburgh and developed his own method of counselling until meeting the Dominican friar, Lefébure, with whom he wrote his best known and pioneering work Conversations on Counselling.
The Garvald school later became simply the Garvald Training Centre and continued to grow and expand over time into six independent communities:
Garvald West Linton, the original community established in 1944.
Garvald Edinburgh, established in 1969, runs a bakery and confectionery delivering to whole food shops, delicatessens and cafés and private customers, which was featured in the short film Breadmakers produced by Jim Hickey and Robin Mitchell and directed by Yasmin Fedda in 2007 and won several awards. The Mulberry Bush Shop sells artisan gifts produced in their workshops as well as books, art materials and craft produced by other suppliers. Craft workshops include a glass studio, joinery, pottery, puppetry, textiles and hand tool refurbishment. In 2007 it opened the Orwell Arts building in the city, where the former Dalry Primary School had been.
The Engine Shed, an extension of Garvald Edinburgh founded in the 1980s.
The Columcille Centre has a range of programmes like Edinburgh All, Columcille Esbank, Music for All, the Library project, Columcille Hall that is also available for rental and the Columcille Ceili Band, which featured in the documentary "About A Band" by Jim Hickey and Robin Mitchell. In addition it hosts the Makers Markets.
Garvald Glenesk, a residential care centre established in 1998.
Garvald Home Farm, a Biodynamic farm associated with Garvald West Linton established in 1987
Garvald social therapy
The Centres draw their inspiration from the work of Rudolf Steiner, in particular his ideas on Social Therapy expressed through the type of opportunities provided, the approach and interdependence they try to create. It consists in giving structure and rhythm to member's lives, bringing people together to form a solid community through common activities or the celebration of events and by emphasising the quality of what the workshops produce so that everyone can take pride in achieving the best possible. The items produced should have a value or benefit to others rather than making things for their own sake.
They provide creative working environments focusing mainly on craft, catering, artistic skills and agriculture. Craft offers a wide range of possibilities for people to express creativity and be connected to nature, so there is much focus on different craft activities. In addition they engage in approaches such as the Talking Points methodology, which focuses on outcomes for service-users and carers and have themselves produced Talking Points tools which have been designed specifically for people with learning disabilities. In this way there is an opportunity for anyone coming to one of the Garvald centres to affect their environment, and the local and often wider community. They become needed by others and relied upon to sustain the creativity and range of goods, art and craft work. A range of therapies like Eurythmy, Creative Speech, Massage and varies other therapeutic arts are also offered.
In addition to providing structured and creative working environments the majority of their studios and workshops have an enterprise focus, returning income to offset running costs. The opportunities they provide help people to gain confidence, particularly school leavers making the transition into an adult environment. The workshops teach skills that apply in mainstream employment or help an individual develop creativity over a longer period.
They have experience in supporting people with a range of needs and syndromes including Autism, Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, Epilepsy, Prader Willi Syndrome and Dual Diagnosis as well as physical and communication difficulties. Members’ ages range from sixteen to the mid seventies.
References
External links
Garvald West Linton Homepage
Website: Garvald Edinburgh
The Engine Shed Homepage
columcillecentre.co.uk
Garvald Glenesk Homepage
Garvald Home Farm
An Approach Based on Anthroposophy
Charities based in Scotland
Organizations established in 1944
Educational organisations based in Scotland
Anthroposophy
Scottish people with disabilities
Therapeutic community
1944 establishments in Scotland |
17341486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipps | Philipps | Philipps is an English, Dutch, and German surname meaning "lover of horses". Derivative, patronym, of the more common ancient Greek name "Philippos and Philippides." Notable people with this surname are:
"Philipps" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews.
Busy Philipps (born 1979), American film actress
Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids (1939–2009), British peer
Kinga Philipps (born 1976), American actress
Rhodri Philipps (born 1966), eldest son of the current Viscount St Davids
Richard Philipps (1661–1750), British Governor of Nova Scotia
Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet (circa 1701–1764), Welsh Jacobite politician
Sir Owen Cosby Philipps (1863–1937), Knight of Justice of the Order of St John
Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford (1902–1993), only member of the Communist Party of Great Britain ever to sit in the House of Lords
See also
Philippe (disambiguation)
Philipps Baronets
Philips (surname)
Phillips (disambiguation)
Phillipps
English-language surnames
Dutch-language surnames
German-language surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names |
23580270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litvin | Litvin | Litvin (; ; ; ; ) is a Slavic word for residents of Lithuania, which was used no earlier than the 16th century mostly by the East Slavs. Currently, Litvin or its cognates are used internationally for Lithuanians (; ; ; ).
Meanings
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
In the 16–18th centuries, the term "Litvin" was mostly used by East Slavs to refer to all inhabitants of Lithuania, i.e. Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Several authentic sources, surviving from the Middle Ages, with expressed opinion of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania themselves proves that the Lithuanians (founders, rulers of Lithuania from the Gediminids dynasty) were those who spoke Old Lithuanian and originated from the cultural regions of Aukštaitija and Žemaitija, while their Eastern neighbours were Rus' people (Ruthenians):
Ethnic group in Ukraine
Litvins are a small ethnic group in the area of the mid-stream Desna River (northern Ukraine). The ethnographic or cultural studies about Litvins are poorly noted and are traced to the beginning of the 18th century. The poet-monk who published several cultural studies noted that Litvins, perhaps after an older pagan tradition, worked on Sundays and rested on Fridays. More notes about Litvins were provided at the end of the 18th century by historians of the Russian Empire and . According to Markovych, Litvins are a regional group such as Gascons in France or Swabians in Germany.
The name Litvin (Litvyak) owes its origin to political factors and is a demonym (politonym) referencing the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Litvins in the Chernihiv region (Chernihiv Oblast) call themselves Ruski, but not Moskals or Katsaps. They consider the term Litvin to be derogatory. According to the 2001 census, there were 22 Litvins in Ukraine.
Modern usage in Belarus
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the term "Litvin" has been adopted by some Belarusian nationalists to claim the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as Belarusian. This is an alternative to the demonym "Belarusians" which is derived from White Rus' and, therefore, implies that it is somehow less than the Great Russia. Belarusians like Mikola Yermalovich and Viktor Veras claim that the Grand Duchy was Belarusian and that modern Lithuanians are historical Samogitians (the term Samogitia translates as Lowlands of Lithuania proper) who, despite being "not Lithuanians", somehow managed to usurp the name "Lithuania" for themselves. In other words, these writers in contrast to Lithuanian linguists claim that modern Belarusians are the true Lithuanians referred to in historical texts and not modern Lithuanians. This theory is considered fringe and is not accepted by historians. During the 2009 census, 66 people identified themselves as Litvins in Belarus.
Adam Mickiewicz is considered by some Belarusians to be "Litvin", but is more often considered to be a Lithuanian.
Modern usage in Poland
The Poles still use the words Litwini and Litwa when referring to the Lithuanians and Lithuania respectively. While the Belarusians and Belarus are named as Białorusini and Białoruś respectively in Polish.
Modern usage in Ukraine
The Ukrainians nowadays refer to Lithuania as (Lytva) in Ukrainian, which is its historic name from the Middle Ages, and to the Lithuanians as (Lytovtsi). The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is called (Velyke kniazivstvo Lytovske).
See also
Prussian Lithuanians
Samogitians
Polish-Lithuanian identity
Litvaks or Lithuanian Jews
Tutejszy
Belarusian nationalism
References
External links
Litvin, I. "Our "Lost world". Selected pages of Belarusian history ("Наш "Затерянный мир". Некоторые страницы белорусской истории").
"Litvin" Belarusian folksong (Літвін Белорусская народная песня).
Baltic peoples
Demographic history of Lithuania
Ethnic groups in Ukraine
Slavic ethnic groups
Social history of Belarus
Social history of Ukraine |
17341516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth%20Friends%20Meetinghouse%2C%20Parsonage%20and%20Cemetery | Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse, Parsonage and Cemetery | The Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse, Parsonage, and Cemetery (also known as Portsmouth Friends Meeting House or Portsmouth Evangelical Friends Church) is a historic Friends Meeting House and cemetery of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), at 11 Middle Road and 2232 E. Main Road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
In 1638, exiled religious dissidents from the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded Portsmouth, the second oldest colonial community in Rhode Island. The Quaker community developed shortly after the community was founded.
The current meetinghouse was built around 1699–1700. The building was used as a Quaker house of worship and school. During the American Revolutionary War, British troops occupied the building. In 1784 the Moses Brown School was founded at the church. The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Currently, services are held weekly on Sundays at 10:30 am. and 7:00 p.m.. As of 2020, the meeting house is listed for sale.
See also
List of the oldest buildings in Rhode Island
Great Friends Meetinghouse
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Portsmouth Evangelical Friends Official website
Quaker meeting houses in Rhode Island
Cemeteries in Rhode Island
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Churches in Newport County, Rhode Island
17th-century Quaker meeting houses
18th-century Quaker meeting houses
1700 establishments in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
17341532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhilaration | Exhilaration | Emotions |
23580274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milroy%20Fernando | Milroy Fernando | Warnakulasuriya Milroy Surgeus Fernando is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
See also
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
References
1944 births
Candidates in the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
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
Social affairs ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
Sri Lankan Roman Catholics
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
44499554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20Together%20Again | Back Together Again | Back Together Again is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson with drummer Hamid Drake, which was recorded in 2003 and released on the Thrill Jockey label. They played together for more than 30 years, but this was their first duo recording. A bonus CD-ROM includes footage of three of the tunes along with interviews in which Anderson and Drake dissect the process of how the songs evolve and the different styles and approaches the two use.
Reception
Reviewing for The Village Voice in September 2004, Tom Hull said, "It feels like [Anderson]'s finally found his way. Master drummer Drake, who learned to play alongside Anderson's son when his family moved to Chicago, keeps the rhythms bubbling, getting a robust but subdued sound from his frame drums that keeps Anderson relaxed and generous."
In his review for AllMusic, Sean Westergaard states "Anderson can spin endlessly creative melodic improvisations on tenor, and Hamid Drake is every bit his equal on the traps and frame drums. It should be no surprise that this set is amazing. Both men are at the top of their game."
The All About Jazz review by Rex Butters says "Hamid Drake and Fred Anderson bring the fruits of their long association to bear and share that magic chemistry as a stunning document of just how much music two people can make."
The JazzTimes review by Mike Shanley notes that "The eight tracks are likely spontaneous improvisations, but each has a structural focus in rhythm and melody. Neither musician pushes at the other too aggressively, preferring instead to move in tandem."
In another review for JazzTimes, Chris Kelsey claims "This is a very solid, occasionally superlative session-proof positive that the best jazz coming from Chicago still has its roots in the AACM."
The PopMatters review by Patrick Sisson states "Back Together Again finally documents an amazing working relationship between two friends and musicians. With such stellar results, it’s almost more unbelievable that nobody has ever had these two record as a duet before."
Track listing
"Leap Forward" - 7:39
"Black Women" - 7:23
"Back Together Again" - 13:49
"Losel Drolma" - 5:49
"A Ray from THE ONE" - 9:03
"Louisiana Strut" - 9:30
"Know Your Advantage (The Great Tradition)" - 6:42
"Lama Khgenno (Heart's Beloved)" - 12:48
Personnel
Fred Anderson - tenor sax
Hamid Drake - drums
References
2004 albums
Fred Anderson (musician) albums
Thrill Jockey albums |
23580278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassim%20Faizal | Cassim Faizal | Mohamed Cassim Mohamed Faizal is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
1957 births
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress politicians
Samagi Jana Balawegaya politicians
Sri Lankan Moor businesspeople
Sri Lankan Muslims |
17341537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Owen%20%28theologian%29 | Robert Owen (theologian) | Robert Owen (13 May 1820 – 6 April 1902) was a Welsh theologian and antiquarian.
Life
Owen was born in Dolgellau, Merionethshire, on 13 May 1820. After being educated at Ruthin School, Owen attended Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1838. He obtained a third-class Bachelor of Arts degree in Literae Humaniores in 1842, with further degrees of Master of Arts (1845) and Bachelor of Divinity (1852). He was a Fellow of Jesus College from 1845 until 1864, when an allegation of immorality forced his resignation.
In 1843, Owen was ordained by Christopher Bethell, Bishop of Bangor. However, he held no position after serving as curate until 1845 at Tremeirchion. He was influenced by the Oxford Movement and corresponded with John Henry Newman, before and after Newman converted to Catholicism. Owen was a supporter of disestablishment of the Welsh Church, believing that this would help promote its catholic character. After his resignation, he retired to his estate at Vron-y-graig, Barmouth, and carried on his writings. He died, unmarried, on 6 April 1902 and was buried at Llanaber.
Works
Owen has been described by one biographer as having "a claim to be considered the most erudite of the nineteenth-century fellows of his college". He edited The Unbloody Sacrifice by John Johnson in 1847. His major works were An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology (1858), and Institutes of Canon Law (1884), written at the prompting of Walter Kerr Hamilton, who was Bishop of Salisbury. In 1880, he published Sanctorale Catholicum, or, Book of Saints (1880) which not only included a significant number of Welsh saints but was also the first such book to include "just men" of the Anglican church. He also wrote The Kymry: their Origin, History and International Relations, based on his study of Welsh history and philology, and a verse work, Pilgrimage to Rome (1883).
References
1820 births
1902 deaths
People educated at Ruthin School
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
19th-century Welsh Anglican priests
Welsh theologians
People from Dolgellau
19th-century Welsh theologians
19th-century Welsh writers |
23580281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piyasena%20Gamage | Piyasena Gamage | Ihala Medagama Piyasena Gamage (born 10 January 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister. He has been in parliament 1994, 2000, 2001, 2004, and 2010 from Galle district.
See also
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
References
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Living people
1949 births
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
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
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka |
44499563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20hypocarycinus | Suillellus hypocarycinus | Suillellus hypocarycinus is a species of bolete fungus found in North America. Originally described as a species of Boletus by Rolf Singer in 1945, it was transferred to Suillellus by William Alphonso Murrill in 1948.
References
External links
hypocarycinus
Fungi described in 1945
Fungi of the United States
Fungi without expected TNC conservation status |
23580284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihal%20Galappaththi | Nihal Galappaththi | Arachchige Nihal Galappaththi is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Living people
1954 births
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
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 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
23580287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandana%20Gunathilake | Nandana Gunathilake | M. D. Nandana Gunathilake (born 7 September 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He also contested for the presidential election under his previous party, the JVP.
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
United National Party politicians
1962 births
People from Panadura |
23580290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20scent | False scent | A false scent or false trail is an incorrect scent which may mislead an animal which hunts by smell, especially a hound. This may be the result of deliberate interference by a hunt saboteur or it may be a form of control by the master. Aniseed, a red herring or the entrails of a rabbit are commonly used for this purpose.
Metaphorical usage
In the first and second
editions of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Fowler uses the heading false scent to explain writing that causes the reader to second-guess: because the writer knows what is coming ahead, he may forget that his reader does not, and unwittingly "lay false scent" by writing something ambiguous that can only be disambiguated later in the text (for example "I looked at the man with the telescope, and watched him put the telescope away"). The reader, once he realises he has been distracted, must go back and rescan the sentence or paragraph to understand the writer's intended meaning.
References
Hunting |
44499608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabi%20Kiryat%20Ekron%20F.C. | Maccabi Kiryat Ekron F.C. | Maccabi Kiryat Ekron Football Club () is an Israeli football club based in Kiryat Ekron. The club plays in Liga Gimel, the fifth tier of the Israeli football league system.
History
The original club was established in 1962 and spent most of its years in the lower tiers of the Israeli football league system, rising, at its best, to Liga Bet, during the 1980s. In the Cup, the best performance by the club was in 1964–65, reaching the fourth round and losing 0–10 to Bnei Yehuda. The original club folded at the end of the 2007–08 season.
Re-establishment
In 2014 the club was re-established and was named after former Kiryat Ekron deputy mayor, Asher Okavi. The club registered to the Central division of Liga Gimel and played its first match on 19 September 2014, beating Hapoel Gedera 3–2 in the Cup.
Honours
Liga Gimel
Central Division champions:
1981–82
1998–99
Notable former players
Idan Shriki
Moshe Peretz
External links
Maccabi Kiryat Ekron Asher Israel Football Association
References
Kiryat Ekron
Kiryat Ekron
Association football clubs established in 1962
Association football clubs disestablished in 2008
Association football clubs established in 2014
1962 establishments in Israel
2008 disestablishments in Israel
2014 establishments in Israel |
23580292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandula%20Gunawardane | Bandula Gunawardane | Sumithra Arachchige Don Bandula Chandrasiri Gunawardane (born 15 March 1953) is a Sri Lankan politician, teacher and film prdoucer who is a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka for Colombo District, and a former government minister.
Early life
He was born in Mabula village, in Avisasalwella Electorate, Colombo District, Sri Lanka. His primary education was at Roman Catholic School in Mabula and for secondary education he entered to Rajasinghe Central College. He entered Lumbini College for his Advanced Level studies and entered to University of Sri Jayewardenepura after passing A/Ls in commerce stream.
Career
He was a tutor in the city which he started as a hobby while he was still in university. He successfully contested the 1989 parliamentary election as a candidate for the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna party, and entered parliament. He was defeated in the subsequent 1994 parliamentary election.
Gunawardena was the producer of the film, Suddilage Kathaawa, which won Sarasaviya Awards.
Personal life
He is married and has four children: a son, Sahan, and three daughters. In 2021, his daughter Randula was appointed Third Secretary to the Sri Lankan Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.
See also
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
Notes
References
External links
"කන්යාවි" අසභ්යයි? ගුවන්විදුලියේ තහනම්
Sinhalese politicians
Living people
1953 births
Lumbini College alumni
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
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
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Education ministers of Sri Lanka
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna politicians
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
23580293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna%20Honthy | Hanna Honthy | Hanna Honthy (born Hajnalka Hügel; 21 February 1893, Budapest – 30 December 1978, Budapest), was a Hungarian opera singer and actress.
Career
Hügel was born on 21 February 1893, in Budapest. From age 10, she was a ballet student at the Opera. She finished her training as a private student and learned acting with Szidi Rákos between 1914 and 1915, then from Ödön Bárdi between 1915 and 1917, and singing from renowned tenor Georg Anthes. After appearing as an actress in Pozsony, Fiume, and Szombathely by the name of Hanna Honthy, she returned to Budapest in 1920. In Budapest her first success came in the Blaha Lujza theatre. She appeared in numerous theaters during her career including the Vígszínház, Városi Színház, achieving fame as a 'prima donna'. Her critically acclaimed voice and acting talent bore fruit for many years. She was the member of the Fővárosi Operettszínház [Budapest Operetta] between 1925-1927 and 1949. She also appeared in film.
Filmography
Movies
Budapesti hangos filmkabaré (1931)
Régi nyár (1941)
Déryné (1951)
Díszelőadás (1955)
Bástyasétány '74 (1974)
TV movies
Csárdáskirálynő (1963)
Nyolcvanéves Cecília
Gallery
Sources
Gál Péter Molnár. Honthy Hanna és kora Budapest: Magvető, 1997. .
Hanna Honthy in the Hungarian Biographical Lexicon freely available online at mek.niif.hu
External links
1893 births
1978 deaths
20th-century Hungarian women opera singers
Hungarian film actresses
Hungarian stage actresses
Actresses from Budapest
Burials at Farkasréti Cemetery |
23580294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20Gunasekara | Earl Gunasekara | Earl Gunasekara is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and the Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries. He was a Member of Parliament elected from the District of Polonnaruwa representing the United National Party.
References
See also
Politics of Sri Lanka
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
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1960 births
Alumni of Kingswood College, Kandy |
23580297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Gunasekara | Edward Gunasekara | Edward Gunasekara is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government minister.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
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 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Deputy minister of Internal Affairs and Wayaba Developments |
44499637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage%20Retirement | Teenage Retirement | Teenage Retirement is the only studio album by American rock band Chumped, released on November 18, 2014, through Anchorless Records.
Background
The album is titled after the band some members played in prior to Chumped's formation. The album's sound has been compared to that of Superchunk, Nirvana, and Slingshot Dakota. A music video for "December is the Longest Month" was released in December 2014.
Anika Pyle discussed the album's title in an interview prior to its release:
Critical reception
Many critics gave Teenage Retirement favorable reviews, with Tom Breihan of Stereogum naming it "Album of the Week" on November 18. Josh Terry at Consequence of Sound considered the record "a strong opening statement of charming pop punk with airtight hooks and ripping guitar leads." Mischa Pearlman from Alternative Press described the album thus: "Chumped's debut album couldn’t really be called anything else—its 12 songs throb with both the naïve, reckless abandon of youth and the jaded, tired contemplation of old age." Pitchfork's Devon Maloney wrote that the album "finds that melodramatic sweet spot that made emo and pop punk hit so hard in the '90s and '00s." Zachary Houle of PopMatters felt it a "bonafide enjoyable album [...] Teenage Retirement feels constructed well as a whole." Kyle Ryan of Entertainment Weekly dubbed it "one of 2014's best musical surprises."
Track listing
References
External links
2014 debut albums |
6905037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demidov%20Prize | Demidov Prize | The Demidov Prize () is a national scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Originally awarded from 1832 to 1866 in the Russian Empire, it was revived by the government of Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast in 1993. In its original incarnation it was one of the first annual scientific awards, and its traditions influenced other awards of this kind including the Nobel Prize.
History
In 1831 Count Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov, representative of the famous Demidov family, established a scientific prize in his name. The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Sciences) was chosen as the awarding institution. In 1832 the president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Sergei Uvarov, awarded the first prizes.
From 1832 to 1866 the Academy awarded 55 full prizes (5,000 rubles) and 220 part prizes. Among the winners were many prominent Russian scientists: the founder of field surgery and inventor of the plaster immobilisation method in treatment of fractures, Nikolai Pirogov; the seafarer and geographer Adam Johann von Krusenstern, who led the first russian circumnavigation of the globe; Dmitri Mendeleev, the creator of the periodic table of elements; Boris Jacobi, pioneer of the first usable electric motors; and many others. One of the recipients was the founder's younger brother, Count Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato, in 1847; Pavel had died in 1840, making Anatoly the Count Demidov (note that Russia did not recognize Anatoly's Italian title of prince).
From 1866, 25 years after Count Demidov's death, as was according to the terms of his bequest, there were no more awards.
In 1993, on the initiative of the vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Mesyats and the governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Eduard Rossel, the Demidov Prize traditions were restored. The prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in natural sciences and humanities. The winners are elected annually among the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the tradition every year the Demidov Scientific Foundation chooses three or four academicians to receive the award. The prize includes a medal, a diploma and $10,000. The awards ceremony takes place every year at the Governor's Palace of Sverdlovsk Oblast, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The recipients of the Prize also give lectures at the Ural State University (Demidov Lecture).
Winners (1832-1866)
Winners (from 1993)
See also
List of general science and technology awards
List of biology awards
List of chemistry awards
List of mathematics awards
List of physics awards
References
Bibliography
(in Russian) N. A. Mezenin: Лауреаты Демидовских премий Петербургской Академии наук. Л., Наука, 1987.
(in Russian) Yuri Alexandrovich Sokolov, Zoya Antonovna Bessudnova, L. T. Prizhdetskaya: Отечественные действительные и почетные члены Российской академии наук 18-20 вв. Геология и горные науки.- М.: Научный мир, 2000.
External links
Demidov Foundation short history
List of all the winners of the full Demidov Prize
Demidov Prize and Demidov Lecturing at Lebedev Physical Institute web site
Physics awards
Chemistry awards
Mathematics awards
Biology awards
Awards established in 1993 |
23580300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham%20railway%20station | Soham railway station | Soham railway station is a station on the Ipswich–Ely line, serving the town of Soham in Cambridgeshire. The original station operated between 1879 and 1965. It was reopened in 2021.
History
Soham station originally opened on 1 September 1879.
On 2 June 1944, the station was destroyed in the Soham rail disaster, when a munitions train carrying high explosive bombs caught fire and blew up, killing two and damaging over seven hundred buildings. The driver, Benjamin Gimbert, and fireman, James Nightall, were both awarded the George Cross for preventing further damage which would have occurred if the rest of the train had exploded. The signal box, also damaged in the explosion which resulted in the death of signalman Frank Bridges, is now preserved on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.
The station was closed to passengers on 13 September 1965, but the line remained open both as a passenger route and for a heavy service of freight trains running principally between Felixstowe Docks and the Midlands.
Following many years of local campaigning, a new station was opened, on the same site, on 13 December 2021, with services operated by Greater Anglia.
Reopening
Since closure a local campaign had run to reopen the station. In February 2011 East Cambridgeshire District Council obtained funding for a study into a possible reopening.
In January 2013 Network Rail released a five-year upgrade plan, which included reopening Soham station as part of improvements to the Ipswich to Ely Line.
A Network Rail study concluded that building a new station on the existing infrastructure was feasible and that the current line could support an additional stop at Soham. Although Soham was unsuccessful in a bid submitted to the New Stations Fund second round, funding was obtained from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) and Cambridgeshire County Council to progress the next stage of design work with Network Rail.
Enabling works for the new station by Network Rail started in autumn 2020, and main construction started in March 2021. The station was opened in December 2021.
There are no current plans for direct services to Cambridge, but the CPCA has expressed support for the idea in a future phase of the project. Mayor James Palmer said "the delivery of Soham station gives us a much stronger case to go to Government and Network Rail and lobby for the reinstating of the Snailwell loop which will provide a direct service between Ely, Soham, Newmarket and Cambridge".
Facilities
The station has a single platform capable of accommodating a four-car train. A stepped footbridge spans across the railway to an existing right of way – as well as being future proofed for a potential second platform and lifts. The station also has a drop off and pick up point, cycle parking and a 50 space car park.
Services
The typical off-peak service frequency is one train every two hours in each direction between and via . All services are operated by Greater Anglia using bi-mode trains.
References
External links
Soham On-Line
Station on 1947 OS Map
Railway stations in Cambridgeshire
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1879
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2021
Railway stations opened by Network Rail
Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
1879 establishments in England
1965 disestablishments in England
Soham
Greater Anglia franchise railway stations |
6905042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going%20Steady%20%28book%29 | Going Steady (book) | Going Steady: Film Writings 1968–1969 is the third collection of film reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, comprising the years 1968–1969, when she first began her film-reviewing duties at The New Yorker and which covers, " a crucial period of social and aesthetic change at the end of the sixties."
The collection for the most part consists of reviews of individual films, but includes one long essay, (which appeared originally in Harper's Magazine), entitled "Trash, Art, and the Movies ", perhaps the closest Kael comes to a manifesto defining her personal aesthetics in regards to films. In the essay, Kael dissects, compares, and contrasts the merits of "trash" films that are nevertheless entertaining, as well as "art" films that are uninteresting. In doing so, Kael lambastes "art" films such as Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, concluding her treatment of that particular film by declaring: "If big film directors are to get credit for doing badly what others have been doing brilliantly for years with no money, just because they've put it on a big screen, then businessmen are greater than poets and theft is art." The essay is divided into ten parts, ranging from discussions of The Thomas Crown Affair to Petulia. Kael's overriding theme is to dismantle the intellectual pretences of those who deride films deemed to be "trash" on the basis of dubious aesthetic concerns, notwithstanding the entertainment appeal a particular "trash" film might possess.
Other notable reviews include Kael's treatment of the Norman Mailer film Wild 90, its relation to cinéma vérité, and the implications of that particular film-making technique.
This book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers of the United Kingdom.
Editions
Little, Brown, 1969, hardbound
Bantam, 1971, paperback ()
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References
External links
Contains the full text of Kael's essay "Trash, Art, and the Movies"
1969 non-fiction books
Books about film
Little, Brown and Company books
Books of film criticism
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books |
23580304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Astonishing%20Fury%20of%20Mankind | The Astonishing Fury of Mankind | The Astonishing Fury of Mankind is the debut studio album by French metal band Darkness Dynamite.
Track listing
All tracks by Darkness Dynamite
"Supernatural" – 3:17
"Hell Eve Hate" – 2:59
"Immersion Inner-Nation" – 3:54
"$15" – 4:33
"Chasing Inside" – 3:56
"A Simple Taste of..." – 0:59
"Vice!" – 3:19
"By My Own" – 3:17
"Dare I Say" – 2:56
"The Everlasting Grace of Mind" – 3:18
"The Astonishing Fury of Mankind" – 5:52
Personnel
Junior Rodriguez – lead vocals
Nelson Angelo Martins – lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards
Zack Larbi – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Christophe De Oliveira – bass guitar
Julien «Power» Granger – drums
Production
Engineered by Stephane Buriez (Guitars), Olivier T'servranex (Drums), Nelson Martins and Junior Rodriguez, at Elektricbox Studio, Lille
Mixed and mastered by Remyboy, at Ahddenteam Studio, Lille
References
Darkness Dynamite albums
2009 debut albums |
23580310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Joyce%20%28goldsmith%29 | Richard Joyce (goldsmith) | Richard Joyce (c. 1660 – c. 1737) was an Irish goldsmith. Joyce was a member of one of the Tribes of Galway and is credited with the creation of the Claddagh Ring.
In 1675 he left Galway to serve as an indentured servant in the West Indies but his ship was intercepted by pirates from Algeria who enslaved the entire crew. Joyce became the slave of a man in Algiers, said to be a goldsmith, who made him his apprentice.
In 1689 William III became King of England and enforced a request upon the Algerians to release all of his subjects enslaved in the country. Joyce's master offered him half the business and his daughter's hand in marriage if he stayed, but he refused and returned to Galway. There, he is said to have created the original Claddagh ring. Examples of his work from the time of his release to 1737 are still extant. He settled near Rahoon, then outside the town, married and had issue.
Joyce's role in the creation of the ring is somewhat debatable, in that goldsmiths such as Richard Joyce (fl. 1648) and Dominick Martin (died 1676) were already operating in Galway. However, his designs seem to have been the most popular at the time, and perhaps the basis of the present design, so he can be credited as its creator.
References
The mis-titled ‘Joyce’ tomb in the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas, Galway, James Mitchell, vol. 40, 1985–1986
Galway Goldsmiths:Their mark and ware, Jack Mulveen, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 46, 1994
"Claddagh Ring" in The Concise Oxford Dictionary, ed. Judy Pearsall, Oxford University Press, 2004
People from County Galway
Arabian slaves and freedmen
Irish goldsmiths
1660s births
1737 deaths
17th-century Irish people
18th-century Irish people
17th-century slaves
18th-century slaves |
6905052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68th%20World%20Science%20Fiction%20Convention | 68th World Science Fiction Convention | The 68th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Aussiecon Four, was held on 2–6 September 2010 in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The co-chairs were Perry Middlemiss and Rose Mitchell.
Participants
Guests of Honour
Kim Stanley Robinson (author)
Robin Johnson (fan)
Shaun Tan (artist)
Awards
2010 Hugo Awards
The 2010 Hugo Award statue base was designed by Nick Stathopoulos with laser etching by Lewis Morley and incorporating the Aussiecon 4 logo by Grant Gittus.
Best Novel: (tie) The City & The City by China Miéville and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Best Novella: "Palimpsest" by Charles Stross
Best Novelette: "The Island" by Peter Watts
Best Short Story: "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh
Best Related Book: This is Me, Jack Vance! by Jack Vance
Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm, written by Kaja and Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colours by Cheyenne Wright
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Moon, screenplay by Nathan Parker; story by Duncan Jones; directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who "The Waters of Mars", written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)
Best Professional Editor, Long Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Best Professional Editor, Short Form: Ellen Datlow
Best Professional Artist: Shaun Tan
Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, and Cheryl Morgan
Best Fan Writer: Frederik Pohl
Best Fanzine: StarShipSofa, edited by Tony C. Smith
Best Fan Artist: Brad W. Foster
Other awards
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Seanan McGuire
Aussiecon Four Make Ready Short Story Competition Award: Helen Stubbs
Site selection
The location was selected by the members of Denvention 3.
Future site selection
The members of Aussiecon 4 selected Chicago, Illinois, as the host city for the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, Chicon 7, to be held in 2012 in an uncontested election. With only 526 ballots cast, this election had the lowest turnout since records began to be kept in 1974. The voting breakdown was 447 votes for Chicago, 20 ballots expressed no preference, and there were 59 write-in votes for various sites.
See also
Hugo Award
Science fiction
Speculative fiction
World Science Fiction Society
Worldcon
References
Further reading
External links
Aussiecon Four site
Aussiecon LiveJournal
Worldcon official website
2010 conferences
2010 in Australia
2010s in Melbourne
21st-century Australian literature
Science fiction conventions in Australia
Worldcon |
6905057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmoth | Warmoth | Warmoth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cy Warmoth (1893–1957), American baseball player
Henry C. Warmoth (1842–1931), American attorney, Civil War officer, and politician
Logan Warmoth (born 1995), American baseball player |
6905066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholiota%20microspora | Pholiota microspora | Pholiota microspora, commonly known as Pholiota nameko or simply , is a small, amber-brown mushroom with a slightly gelatinous coating that is used as an ingredient in miso soup and nabemono. In some countries this mushroom is available in kit form and can be grown at home. It is one of Japan's most popular cultivated mushrooms, tastes slightly nutty and is often used in stir-fries. They are also sold dried.Nameko is a cold triggered mushroom that typically fruits in the fall months when the temperature drops below 10°C for the first time, and flushes twice a few weeks apart.
In Mandarin Chinese the mushroom is known as 滑子蘑; (Pinyin: huá zi mó) or 滑菇; (Pinyin: huá gū).
In Russia it is also consumed widely, and is known as (often sold as) "opyonok" (опёнок) or plural "opyata" (опята).
In America the mushroom is sometimes called a "butterscotch mushroom".
See also
List of Pholiota species
Touch Detective, a video game featuring Japanese character Nameko
References
Fungi described in 1929
Japanese cuisine
Strophariaceae
Fungi in cultivation
Fungi of Japan
Fungi of China
Russian cuisine |
23580320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Harkin | Paul Harkin | Paul Harkin (birth registered during first ¼ 1958) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1990s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Bradford Northern (two spells), Featherstone Rovers (Heritage No. 585), Hull Kingston Rovers, Leeds, Halifax (Heritage No. 1027), and Hunslet, as a , i.e. number 7, and coached at club level for Wakefield Trinity, Town Leagues Club, and Crigglestone All Blacks ARLFC.
Background
Paul Harkin's birth was registered in Wakefield district, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Playing career
International honours
Harkin won a cap for Great Britain while at Hull Kingston Rovers in 1985 against France.
Challenge Cup Final appearances
Harkin played in Hull Kingston Rovers' 9–18 defeat by Widnes in the 1980–81 Challenge Cup Final during the 1980–81 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 2 May 1981, in front of a crowd of 92,496, and played in the 14–15 defeat by Castleford in the 1983–84 Challenge Cup Final during the 1984–85 season at Wembley Stadium, London, on Saturday 3 May 1986, in front of a crowd of 82,134.
County Cup Final appearances
Harkin played in Hull Kingston Rovers' 7–8 defeat by Leeds in the 1980–81 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1980–81 season at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield on Saturday 8 November 1980, played (replaced by interchange/substitute Chris Rudd) in the 12–29 defeat by Hull F.C. in the 1984–85 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1984–85 season at Boothferry Park, Kingston upon Hull on Saturday 27 October 1984, played in the 22–18 victory over Castleford in the 1985–86 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1985–86 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Sunday 27 October 1985, played was man of the match winning the White Rose Trophy in Bradford Northern's 12–12 draw with Castleford in the 1987–88 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1987–88 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 17 October 1987, played in the 11–2 victory over Castleford in the 1987–88 Yorkshire County Cup Final replay during the 1987–88 season at Elland Road, Leeds on Saturday 31 October 1987, and played , scored 2-tries, and was man of the match winning the White Rose Trophy in the 20–14 victory over Featherstone Rovers in the 1989–90 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1989–90 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Sunday 5 November 1989.
John Player/John Player Special Trophy Final appearances
Harkin played (replaced by interchange/substitute Chris Burton) in Hull Kingston Rovers' 4–12 defeat by Hull F.C. in the 1981–82 John Player Trophy Final during the 1981–82 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 23 January 1982, played , and was man of the match in the 12–0 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1984–85 John Player Special Trophy Final during the 1984–85 season at Boothferry Park, Kingston upon Hull on Saturday 26 January 1985, and played , and was man of the match in the 8–11 defeat by Wigan in the 1985–86 John Player Special Trophy Final during the 1985–86 season at Elland Road, Leeds on Saturday 11 January 1986.
Family
Harkin is the younger brother of Terry Harkin, and the cousin of Kevin P. Harkin, both rugby league footballers.
References
External links
!Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk (statistics currently missing due to not having appeared for both Great Britain, and England)
Photograph "Harkin on the burst" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Paul Harkin scores" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Paul Harkin grubber" at rlhp.co.uk
(archived by web.archive.org) The Millennium Masters - Backs
Photos at flickr.com
Dobson keen to learn quick and help make a difference
(archived by web.archive.org) Rally Round the Robins
Rugby League: St Helens invest in tenacity
Rugby League: Keighley pack in the points: Wasyliw on target
League of Their Own
(archived by web.archive.org) Injury prompts retirement
Popular Harkin returns to Bulls
1958 births
Living people
Bradford Bulls players
English rugby league coaches
English rugby league players
Featherstone Rovers players
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Halifax R.L.F.C. players
Hull Kingston Rovers players
Hunslet R.L.F.C. players
Leeds Rhinos players
Rugby league players from Wakefield
Rugby league halfbacks
Wakefield Trinity coaches |
6905067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo%20Technology%20Academy | Toledo Technology Academy |
Background
Toledo Technology Academy is a public high school located in Toledo, Ohio. It is part of the Toledo Public Schools. It is located in the former DeVilbiss High School. Many students from surrounding suburban school districts, as well as private schools attend TTA. On November 27, 2013, TTA announced that they will accept applications from 7th and 8th grade in the next school year of 2014. Toledo Technology Academy students study manufacturing engineering technology integrated with an academic environment. TTA is a magnet school focusing on a manufacturing engineering technology curriculum. TTA offers an academic foundation, four years of science, mathematics, language arts, and three years of social studies education.
Track record
TTA began as a two-year program within a traditional high school. In 1997, a collaborative partnership was formed with the school system, teaching and administrative unions, area businesses and the United Auto Workers, and a four-year high school was opened. What was found at that time continues to be true today. Technology, manufacturing, and engineering continue to be one of Toledo's largest opportunities for growth. Our small and large manufacturers continually express an ongoing need for well-trained, high-quality, entry-level employees in trade, technical and engineering positions. Increasingly, these entry-level workers need more advanced high tech skills in addition to higher-level thinking/reasoning skills and teamwork experiences. Currently, 75% of the persons applying and/or interviewed for these positions are not qualified. Nationally and regionally schools are preparing only about 30% of this needed workforce. This information was gathered at the National Skill Standards Board meetings and continues to be true.
The mission of the original project was as follows: To support a four-year high school technical program related to Manufacturing Engineering Technology within Toledo Public School Systems known as the Toledo Technology Academy (TTA). TTA's instructional system uses project-based learning, allowing the students to have maximum decision-making responsibility. Skills are taught to support this process and technology is used to support all instruction. TTA provides a complete academic complement of courses for graduation and college entry. Weekly common planning meetings are held to incorporate and integrate instruction. Where appropriate, the academic course content is related to the manufacturing curriculum and vice versa.
Tech Fusion Team 279
Tech Fusion Team 279 is the FIRST Robotics team located at Toledo Technology Academy. It is open to all Toledo Public Schools students. The team is sponsored by Dana Holding Corporation in Maumee, Ohio. Team 279 had accomplished major achievements in the 21st century.
References
External links
District Website
School Website
High schools in Toledo, Ohio
Public high schools in Ohio
Magnet schools in Ohio |
6905083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Army%20Tank%20Brigade | 1st Army Tank Brigade | 1st Army Tank Brigade may refer to:
1st Canadian Tank Brigade
1st Army Tank Brigade (United Kingdom)
1st Army Tank Brigade (New Zealand) (1941–42, broken up to provide personnel and equipment for the 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade, New Zealand 2nd Division) |
20473850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20Albany%E2%80%93Rensselaer | Port of Albany–Rensselaer | The Port of Albany–Rensselaer, widely known as the Port of Albany, is a port of entry in the United States with facilities on both sides of the Hudson River in Albany and Rensselaer, New York. Private and public port facilities have existed in both cities since the 17th century, with an increase in shipping after the Albany Basin and Erie Canal were built with public funds in 1825.
The port's modern name did not come into widespread use until 1925; the current port was constructed in 1932 under the governorship of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. It included the largest grain elevator in the world at the time. Today the grain elevator is the largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River; the port has the tallest harbor crane in the state of New York.
The port has rail connections with the Albany Port Railroad, which allows for connections with CSXT and CP Rail. It is near several interstates and the New York State Canal System. The port features several tourist attractions as well, such as , the only destroyer escort still afloat in the United States.
Geography
The Port of Albany consists of roughly , including about 202 acres (82 ha) in Albany and 34 acres (14 ha) in Rensselaer. It is north of New York Harbor. From New York Harbor to the Federal Dam three miles (5 km) north of Albany, the Hudson River is an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. The Hudson has a deep water shipping channel across, and at Albany the river is across with a maximum fresh water draft and a mean range of tides of . The port is at sea level.
History
Since the founding of Albany in 1624 as a trading post, shipping has been important to its growth and prosperity. Furs (especially beaver), timber, and farm produce were important exports while European people and goods were shipped in. The Dongan Charter, which established Albany as a city, made Albany the exclusive market town in the upper Hudson River Valley. From its beginning, the port consisted of hastily built docks built every spring and destroyed every winter by erosion, flooding, ice, and tidal action. Three city-owned docks were established in 1766, the northern and southern ones later being expanded into wharves.
Many historically significant ships used Albany as their home port. Experiment left Albany in 1785 to become the second American ship to sail to China. In 1809 Robert Fulton's Clermont became the first commercially viable steamboat when it left Albany and sailed down the Hudson to the city of New York. In 1825 a long and wide pier was constructed from, and parallel to, Albany's shoreline. Along with two bridges the pier enclosed roughly of the Hudson River as the Albany Basin. The construction of the pier and bridges cost $119,980. The basin was located where the Erie Canal, constructed between 1818 and 1825, met the Hudson River. The basin could accommodate 1,000 canal boats and 50 steamboat moorings. Along the Erie Canal within the city's North Albany neighborhood private wharves and slips were constructed for use in the lumber trade, this soon became the large and prosperous Albany Lumber District of national importance. In 1860 Albany, along with nearby Watervliet and Troy, was the largest lumber market in the state. The Maiden Lane Bridge was constructed in 1871 over the basin to connect Albany with the east side of the river, it was open to railroad traffic only.
The Albany Port District was established in 1925 under New York law Chapter 192. This was only four years after the interstate compact that created the Port of New York Authority (later renamed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey). In 1932 Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled a modern port to replace the aging infrastructure of the Albany Basin and the lumber district along the Erie Canal in the North Albany neighborhood. The port was constructed on around on Westerlo Island in the southern end of Albany along with approximately across the river in the city of Rensselaer. The grain elevator at the port, built during the original construction in 1932, was the largest in the world and as of 2008 is still considered to be the largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
The area of Albany's original port (the Albany Basin) has been covered by Interstate 787 and the Corning Preserve (Riverfront Park) since the very early 1970s. In 1979 remnants of the basin wall were excavated from the preserve's lagoon by Phillip Lord working for the New York State Museum.
A Master Plan adopted in 2000 called for the port to be transformed into a container port, which led to the purchase of the largest harbor crane in the state. In 2002, the Port District Commission took the lead in the development of Albany's Riverfront Park in the Corning Preserve as part of a development to enhance Albany's access to the river. The port helped in financing the project and in the construction of two bulkheads which have seasonal floating docks attached. In a 2005 audit, the Office of the State Comptroller questioned the port's involvement in the construction and financing. Two issues raised were the port district's lack of authority to build docks for non-commercial use and that the port would receive no income for facilities it was financing. The port received $3.3 million in 2002 to upgrade and become a member of the Inland Distribution Network, a select group of ports that are used as satellite locations for the distribution of container cargo from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, resulting in less congestion at downstate ports and highways.
On December 9, 2003, the Dutch-owned ship Stellamare capsized at the port, killing three Russian crewmembers. The ship was hauling General Electric generators when it overturned. The United States Coast Guard determined that poor communication resulting from the supervisors speaking Dutch while the crew spoke Russian, with English being used as a relay, was a contributing factor to mismanagement of ballast tanks. In the early spring of 2008 a port employee was arrested for stealing copper. This in turn led to investigations of employee theft which resulted in the arrest of an operations manager and a maintenance foreman for larceny. In 2008 the port received two awards from the Railway Industrial Clearance Association. One award was for customer satisfaction and the other for being the most improved port in the United States for handling heavy lift cargo.
Future
The Port of Albany is replacing of wharvage at a cost of $7.6 million in 2008 and 2009.
In late March 2008 a proposal for a $350 million ethanol plant was approved by the Albany Port District Commission, but the project has been held up due to financing issues.
The site is scheduled as an offshore wind turbine tower assembly area.
Governance
The Albany Port District Commission is a New York State public-benefit corporation created by the state of New York to develop and manage port facilities anywhere in the cities of Albany and Rensselaer. The commission has five members, four of which are nominated by the mayor of Albany and one is nominated by the mayor of Rensselaer. The governor of New York then appoints them to three-year terms. The commissioners serve without pay, but are compensated for business related expenses. The General Manager of the port commission is Richard J. Hendrick. The commission is considered to be a unit of the city of Albany and is included in the city's financial statements. Any deficit in the finances of the port commission are assessed against both Albany and Rensselaer. In 1932 the state decided that any deficit assessment would be based on Albany owing 88% of the total and Rensselaer 12%. In 2017, the commission had operating expenses in the amount of $5.98 million, no outstanding debt, and a staff level of 55 people. In 2005 the commission had a staff of 35 employees: eight in administrative duties, five in maintenance, and 22 as part-time security.
Economy
The Port of Albany and the private companies located there bring to the Capital District's economy $428 million in direct spending and 1,382 jobs; in 2015 the Port was supporting 4,500 jobs across the state and contributing $800 million to the economic output of the region. The port has a U.S. Customs office as it is a port of entry. The Albany Port Customs District includes all of the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Delaware, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, and Washington; along with the parts of Dutchess, Sullivan, and Ulster counties north of 41° 42' N. latitude. The on the Rensselaer side of the port is site C of Foreign Trade Zone number 121. A significant amount of the port is part of New York's Empire Zone program, which gives port tenants breaks on state income tax along with various benefits and tax breaks from the city of Albany.
Connections
The Port of Albany is roughly east of Buffalo, south of Montreal, west of Boston, and north of the city of New York which makes it a location for regional distribution in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. As part of the Inland Distribution Network, the Port of Albany has a twice-weekly barge service to and from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey terminals. Shipments into the port can leave through many modes of transportation, including by truck and rail. Albany International Airport is 15 minutes away with cargo facilities. Canals allow for further water transportation on barges further into the interior of North America. The port also handles commodities that are not carried on ships. Grain, molasses, animal feed, wood pulp, and steel often go from inbound trains to outbound trucks.
Rail
The Albany Port Railroad (APRR), owned jointly by CSX and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail), has of track inside the port. The APRR ties into CP Rail's Colonie Mainline and CSX's Port Subdivision for rail traffic out of the port. Norfolk Southern has an intermodal yard at the port. CP Rail's Kenwood Yard is adjacent to the port. The North Albany–Erie Street Yard, also owned by CP Rail, is a few miles north of the port and still in the city of Albany. CSX owns two nearby yards: the Selkirk Yard is eight miles (13 km) south of the port, and the West Albany Yard is four miles (6 km) north.
Truck
Major Interstates in proximity are:
New York State Thruway, a toll-road (west from Albany it is Interstate 90 to Buffalo and beyond; south the Thruway is Interstate 87 to the New York Metro Area);
connects Albany to Troy, New York;
(south of Albany it is the Thruway, to the north the Adirondack Northway then at the Canada–US border it becomes Autoroute 15 to Montreal);
(west of Albany it is the Thruway, to the east toll-free until rejoining the Thruway on its Berkshire Spur and continuing to Boston as the Mass Turnpike);
I-88 connects Albany to Binghamton, New York.
Water-to-water
The Port of Albany is just south of where the New York State Canal System begins at the Federal Dam in Troy. The Erie Canal allows for water navigation to the Great Lakes, and the Champlain Canal connects the Hudson River to Lake Champlain. The Richelieu River/Chambly Canal then connects Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence Seaway and Montreal.
Facilities
The Port of Albany includes:
Deep water facilities located on both banks of the river;
two wharves: wharf length on the Albany side of the river is with four berths, and on the Rensselaer side the length is with one berth;
open storage yard;
Customs and U.S. Department of Agriculture offices;
Four transit sheds and two backup warehouses totaling of storage;
capacity grain elevator;
capacity bulk liquid storage between two terminals;
Heavy lift on-dock rail capability;
Super-sacking and debagging operation;
road salt depot;
scrap yard;
a capacity crane and a mobile harbor crane, which is the largest harbor crane in the state of New York.
Maritime services
Stevedoring operations at the Port of Albany are managed by Federal Marine Terminals, Inc. and Port Albany Ventures, LLC. The Hudson River Pilots Association handles pilotage on the Hudson River.
Tenants
The rent from the 32 businesses at the port in 2008 contributes $2.76 million in revenue for the port. As of 2015 there are 23 businesses in 21 buildings occupying 97% of the space available at the port. Tenants include Ardent Mills, Buckeye Partners, Callanan Industries, Cargill (the oldest tenant at the port), Cargill Nutrena, CCI Rensselaer, Durham School Services, Federal Marine Terminals, Gorman Brothers, Mohawk Paper, Newcastle Construction, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Normal Truck and Trailer, Rensselaer Iron and Steel, San Greco Construction, Upstate Shredding, Waste Management, Inc. of New York, Westway Feed Products, and W.M. Biers.
Cargo
Some commodities come through the port on a regular basis, others are special cargo for a limited time. Such limited time cargo includes subway cars shipped to Albany from Brazil in 2006 for six months and most recently subway cars from China bound for Springfield and Boston's MBTA, and diameter pipes with associated materials from Italy first shipped in May 2007. The pipes were for a long natural gas pipeline and included of material in about a dozen ships. In 2015 69 ships and barges called at the port, a 15% increase over 2010. Commodities shipped to or from Albany on a regular basis include:
Animal feed;
Cement;
Cocoa beans;
Grain (including corn and wheat);
Gypsum;
Ethanol;
Heavy lift items (including turbines, generators, heat exchangers, and rotors);
Liquid fertilizer;
Millscale and scrap metal;
Molasses;
Petroleum distillates (including diesel, gasoline, heating oil, and kerosene);
Salt;
Steel;
Sugar;
Wood pulp and logs.
Tourism
Along with commercial activities the Port of Albany has non-industrial uses along the river. A ship museum and a tourism cruise ship are docked at the Steamboat Square. Steamboat Square was, until 2010, named the Snow Dock for being where city trucks dumped into the Hudson River snow plowed from the streets. A PortFest was held in 2007 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Port of Albany-Rennselaer and the 10th anniversary of as a museum ship docked at Albany. National Maritime Day is celebrated with free trolley rides of the port and free rides aboard the Dutch Apple Cruise.
USS Slater, which is the only destroyer escort still afloat in the United States, sits at Steamboat Square near the foot of Madison Avenue. The ship is open from April to November to the public. The destroyer closes to the public from December to March and moves from the Steamboat Square to the port's Rensselaer side. In August 2008 part of the Japanese film Orion in Midsummer (scheduled for release in spring 2009) was filmed on board.
Dutch Apple Cruises, a private company which gives day cruises on the Hudson River and Erie Canal, also operates at the Steamboat Square. The city of Albany has a public boat launch and boat house along the Hudson in the Corning Preserve. The boat house and launch are used by the Albany Rowing Center, a non-profit rowing organization.
On the Rensselaer side of the Hudson is the Albany Yacht Club. The club was founded in the city of Albany in 1873 and is one of the oldest yacht clubs in the nation. In 1954 the club moved to the Rensselaer side and since 1971 has been at its current location just south of the Dunn Memorial Bridge. Facilities are open to the public at large and not just to members.
See also
Albany Convention Center
Capital District
Capital District Transportation Authority
History of Albany, New York
Hudson River-Black River Regulating District
List of North American ports
List of ports in the United States
New York State Archives
Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Port of Oswego
The Egg
References
External links
Hudson River Level at Albany, NY
Official Port of Albany Website
Official City Government Website
Return of the Experiment, painting by Len Tantillo
Hudson River
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23580327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Arundell%20%28of%20Trerice%2C%20died%201580%29 | John Arundell (of Trerice, died 1580) | Sir John Arundell (died 15 September 1580), of Trerice in Cornwall, was a Member of Parliament for Mitchell, Cornwall, in 1555 and 1558, and was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1573–1574.
Origins
He was the second son and heir of Sir John Arundell (1495–1561), of Trerice, nicknamed "Tilbury Jack" (or "Jack of Tilbury"), a commander of the Royal Navy during the reigns of Kings Henry VIII and Edward VI and twice Sheriff of Cornwall, by his second wife Juliana Erissey, daughter of James Erissey of Erisey and widow of a certain Gourlyn.
Career
He was a retiring figure for much of his life and less celebrated than either his father "Jack of Tilbury" or his son Sir John Arundell, nicknamed "Jack for the King". He was twice a Member of Parliament for the pocket borough of Mitchell, Cornwall, in 1555 and 1558, and was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1573–1574.
Marriages and children
He was married twice:
Firstly to Catherine Coswarth, daughter of John Coswarth and widow of Alan Hill, by whom he had four daughters:
Juliana Arundell (born 1563), who married Richard Carew (1555–1620), the historian of Cornwall, author of the Survey of Cornwall.
Alice Arundell (born 1564), wife of Henry Somaster (d. 1606) of Painsford in the parish of Ashprington, Devon.
Dorothy Arundell (born 1566), wife of Edward Coswarth of Coswarth.
Mary Arundell (born 1568), wife of Oliver Dynham.
Secondly he married Gertrude Denys, a daughter of Sir Robert Denys (died 1592) of Holcombe Burnell in Devon, by his first wife Mary Mountjoy (a first cousin to Lady Jane Grey and second cousin to Elizabeth I, Mary I and Edward VI through their common ancestor Queen Elizabeth Woodville]), a daughter of William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy (1478–1534), by his fourth wife Dorothy Grey, daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset. Gertrude survived her husband and remarried to Edward, Lord Morley. Her will is housed in the National Archives as "Will of Gertrude Morley, Widow of Trerise" 1635. By Gertrude he had at least eight children including:
Ann Arundell (born 1574), wife of William Carnsew of Buckelly (Bokelly).
John Arundell (born 1575), died in infancy
Sir John Arundell (1576 – c. 1656), eldest son and heir, of Trerice, nicknamed "Jack-for-the-King", MP for Cornwall and for Tregony and Governor of Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, during the Civil War
Thomas Arundell (born 1577) of Duloe, MP for West Looe, a soldier who served in the Netherlands.
Catherine Arundell (born 1580), wife of John St Aubin of Clowans (St Aubyn of Clowance).
See also
Arundell family
Notes
Sources
Vivian, J. L., ed. (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J. L. Vivian. Exeter: W. Pollard, p. 12, Pedigree of Arundell of Trerice
Tudor Place
Burke's Extinct Peerage (London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831)
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23580329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarana%20Gunawardena | Sarana Gunawardena | Bamunuarachchi Pathirannehelage Sarana Guptha Gunawardena () is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
References
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1964 births |
20473858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20de%20Ortega%20y%20Diez | Ricardo de Ortega y Diez | Ricardo de Ortega y Diez (10 August 1838 – 3 December 1917) was a Spanish general. He served as interim Governor-General of Puerto Rico during three periods of the Spanish–American War, and occupied various other posts. Born in Madrid, Spain, Ortega y Diez attended the Colegio de Infantería and became a sub-lieutenant at the age of 17.
From 1859 to 1860, he served in Africa obtaining the rank of captain. On 24 May 1873, he received the rank of lieutenant general and participated in several actions against Carlists. In early 1880s, he was the Director of the Central Shooting School, inventing a quick loader for rifles in 1889.
In 1892, he reached the rank of division general and returned to Africa the following year to work with the tribes of Melilla. In 1895, he served as Military Governor of Madrid. On 19 February 1896, he was named second corporal of the Capitanía General of Puerto Rico and Military Governor of San Juan. According to tradition, in 1898, just before the United States took possession of Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War, the last governor, Ricardo de Ortega, broke a colonial clock with his sword, thus marking the time and day in that Spain lost control of the island, as well as the loss of the last possession of Spain in the Americas. The clock is still kept in La Fortaleza.
After the Spanish–American War, he received the rank of lieutenant general in 1901. In 1903 he received the rank of Captain General of the Balearic Islands until 1910. That year he turned to the Reserve after 54 years of military service. He died in Madrid, Spain, on 3 December 1917.
References
External links
Important Figures of the War
Ortega's report
Spanish generals
Royal Governors of Puerto Rico
Spanish military personnel of the Spanish–American War
1838 births
1917 deaths |
6905096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Professor%20%28Gilligan%27s%20Island%29 | The Professor (Gilligan's Island) | Roy Hinkley, referred to as the Professor, is one of the seven castaways from the television series Gilligan's Island (1964–67); he was played by Russell Johnson. The character was originally played by John Gabriel in the pilot episode, but the network thought he looked too young to have all the degrees attributed to the Professor.
Character summary
The Professor's backstory identifies him as Roy Hinkley (though his actual name is rarely mentioned during the series), a high-school science teacher who was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His principal expertise was as a botanist, whose purpose in joining the ill-fated voyage that stranded the castaways was to write a book to be titled Fun With Ferns. His main function on the show was to devise many ways for the castaways to live more comfortably on the island. Many of his inventions (including a method for recharging the batteries in the ubiquitous radio) used coconuts and bamboo, both of which were in plentiful supply. Aside from his proficiency in science, he was also adept and well-versed in law, literature, social sciences, and the arts. Besides a list of degrees from various schools (including LSU, UCLA, SMU, and TCU) he provides in one episode, little was ever learned about his past and nothing was ever learned about his family. In several episodes, brief remarks are made on his past: in the pilot he is described as a research scientist and "well-known scoutmaster"; in another when a big game hunter comes to the island and asks the Professor what sports he took, the answer is "chess"; after kissing Ginger for a prolonged period (during filming of a silent movie), he claims that he was able to hold his breath during the kissing because he used to be a "scuba diver"; in another, when the castaways try to recreate who killed "Randolph Blake", the Professor threatens to "...cancel his subscription to the Science Quarterly". Also, in the episode "Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up?", the Professor states that he does "...hold a Masters Degree in Psychology".
The Professor was portrayed as the most neutral and level-headed character. He usually displayed more patience with Gilligan than the other castaways, and was often called upon to settle disputes. As a result, he often served as the leader of the castaways whom the others respected because of his great store of knowledge, although the castaways rarely mentioned this. For unexplained reasons—possibly for research purposes in writing his book (although titled Fun with Ferns, ferns may not have been its sole topic)—the Professor brought a large number of books on diverse subjects such as chemistry and anthropology of the South Sea Islanders on a three-hour pleasure cruise in Hawaii. On many occasions, he conveniently pulls out a book which has exactly the facts needed to fix or explain a particular problem they are having. In several episodes, electric power for phonographs or washing machines is generated by employing someone (usually Gilligan) to manually pedal, or turn, a pulley, which the Professor has engineered. Besides his white khaki suit he also has a pair of pajamas and a sports coat.
The Professor was also depicted as completely asexual. Russell Johnson has confirmed that it was the producers' intention for his character due to concern from the censors. Unusual for its day, the show includes a line where the Professor directly states to Ginger his lack of interest in either sex or romance. In the story, Gilligan is depressed, and Ginger tries to cheer him up. "Gilligan, you're the only man for me!" she says. "The Skipper is too old, Mr. Howell is already married, and the Professor is only interested in my mind!"
A running joke about the Professor was his ability to build nearly anything from coconuts and bamboo, yet he was somehow unable to repair the damaged Minnow, construct a seaworthy raft or find other means to leave the island. This was parodied in the sitcom Roseanne.
The show's producer, Sherwood Schwartz, answered this paradox in an interview, when he said that the Professor's behavior was logical and quite typical; people often ignore the obvious solution because of their own biases and preferences. "That’s true of mankind", said Schwartz in an interview with WABC radio's Mark Simone. "They can do except what they cannot do." However, the professor did try many times to repair the Minnow using available island resources, but they ultimately proved inadequate.
Likewise, in an interview with Larry King, Bob Denver explained that the Professor simply "had no talent for boat-building". This is the more logical answer, since the island was stated to be 1000 miles from civilization, and an inexpert repair would be risky on such a long journey. Furthermore, in an early episode, "Goodbye Island", he attempts to do so with a native tree syrup, which proves a disastrous failure that results in the Minnow being completely destroyed. (Also, earlier in the series, Gilligan and Skipper built a raft to sail for help; however, the island was revealed to be near a shark-filled area that made such a journey too dangerous for anything other than an actual boat or rubber raft.)
In popular culture
In the sitcom Roseanne, one of the characters playing the Professor stated after they crashed, "This hole on the boat defies all of my advanced knowledge. To fix it would be impossible ... now if you'll excuse me, I’m going to go create explosive fillings out of sand."
In the parody movie Back to the Beach, a character played by Bob Denver and obviously based on Gilligan mentions knowing "a guy who could build a nuclear reactor out of coconuts but couldn't fix a two-foot hole in a boat."
In "Weird Al" Yankovic’s song "Isle Thing" (a parody of Tone Lōc’s "Wild Thing"), he sings: "She said 'That guy’s a genius' / I shook my head and laughed / 'If he's so fly / then tell me why / he couldn’t build a lousy raft?
The end of the movie A Very Brady Sequel suggests that the Professor was the first husband of Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch (both The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island were creations of Sherwood Schwartz).
In an episode of the sitcom Friends, Joey buys a boat and starts wearing a boat captain's blazer and cap all the time. When Chandler enters the apartment and Joey asks him where he's been, Chandler looks at Joey's outfit and says that he was making a coconut phone with the Professor.
In The Sandlot (1993) Scotty Smalls is very similar to The Professor. He enjoys science and he's smart like Roy Hinkley.
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