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"Grand Expectations" received an average rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 25 reviews. |
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The Mitchell garrison was an important building in what was, at the time, North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay. Built in 1728 at the rear of today's Holy Cross Cemetery, adjacent to Riverside Cemetery on a bluff around above the Royal River, it was used as a stockade during the Indian wars. Despite its later usage, the term "garrison" refers to its architectural style. |
The home's first owner was Jacob Mitchell (–1744), a dean and a founder of the nearby Meetinghouse under the Ledge, which stood between 1729 and 1836. His son, Jacob III, also became a deacon there. |
A tunnel was built from the home's cellar to the river. The dirt path that looks like it leads to the water is actually the original stage road, formerly lined with elm trees. Mitchell's family lived in the house between around 1729 and 1799, when one of Mitchell's sons, David, owned it. It then became the home of the Whitcombs, whose name is preserved on a street off Princes Point Road. It was demolished about 1900, and the farm land was purchased in 1916 to be replaced by the cemetery. The cemeteries occupy what was the northern end of today's Smith Street. |
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Mount Pietra Ardena is a mountain in the Ligurian Prealps with a height of 1103 m. |
The mountain was also once called "Pietra Degna". |
The mountain is located in the Upper Tanaro Valley, on the Po Valley side of the main Alpine chain. It falls within the territory of the municipality of Garessio, of which it dominates the main town. From the mountain rises southward a ridge that, after losing altitude with the "Colletto del Pennino" (969 m), rises with two unnamed reliefs at 1049 m and 1025 m, and then joins the main chain at Monte Pennino (1272 m). The topographic prominence of Pietra Ardena is 128 m, and its lowest point is located at the Colletto di Pennino. Just north of the summit are some telecommunication antennas. A metal summit cross stands on the summit point. |
Pietra Ardena consists of rocks of Triassic origin. |
At the base of the mountain is a cave, long known among scholars for its entomofauna, and particularly for beetles. Also known as "Grotta del Falconiere" or ""Garbo del Pare"," it is located at an elevation of 680 meters and is around 20 meters long. |
The wooded area around the Pietra Ardena in the Middle Ages is said to have given refuge to Adelasia (or Alasia), daughter of Emperor Otto I of Saxony, and Aleramo, founder of the lineage of the March of Montferrat. The two, whose love was initially opposed by the girl's father, are said to have lived in those wild places working as charcoal burners until, thanks to the mediation of the bishop of Albenga, Aleramo was reconciled with his father-in-law. Historian Leandro Alberti, referring to the mountain by its ancient toponym "Pietra Degna", brings in support of this legend the remains of a cistern that were located near the summit. In 1871 librettist Leopoldo Marenco titled his opera "Il falconiere di Pietra Ardena" after the story. |
Near the top of the mountain the remains of trenches that the Savoy army built in preparation for the Battle of Loano in 1795 are still visible. |
Access to the summit. |
The summit of Pietra Ardena can be reached by trail from various locations. One of the routes starts from the historic center of Garessio, reaching the summit after passing through the "Colletto di Pennino"; it is also possible to ascend from Colle San Bernardo. |
While the ascent to the summit of Pietra Ardena is not of mountaineering interest, there are several rocky spires not far from it that offer climbing opportunities. The best known one is known locally as "La Madonnina" (or also as "Madonna di Pietra Ardena"); the first known ascent dates back to 1928 and was carried out by some members of the "Alpine Club" of Garessio. The pinnacle rises from the slopes of the mountain by about 30 meters and is made of solid rock of a calcareous nature. |
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Michaela Kaniber (14 September 1977) is a German politician of the CSU party. She has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2013, and the Bavarian Minister for Food, Agriculture, and Forestry since 2018. Tourism was also added to her ministry in November 2023 as part of the Third Söder cabinet. |
Helmut Brunner was Kaniber's predecessor as Minister for Food, Agriculture, and Forestry. |
Michaela née Brekalo was born in Bad Reichenhall. Her parents came to West Germany as guest workers from Yugoslavia, where they ran a Gasthaus in Bad Reichenhall. Her father came from the village of Prisika (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina), and her mother from Cista Provo (now Croatia). She did vocational training in tax and business consulting, and worked at a local tax office from 1996 to 2004, and in her family's catering business from 2005 to 2013. Kaniber met her future-husband Thomas at age 17. They married when she was 20, and have three children. She lives in Bayerisch Gmain. |
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Casablanca also known as Kasablanka, is a 2019 Egyptian action thriller film directed by Peter Mimi. The movie revolves around three friends Omar al-Murr, Orabi, and Rashid who form a gang called the "Sea Burglars." Their mission to rob ships. Set against a backdrop of excitement and suspense, the film takes viewers on a thrilling journey as the trio navigates the dangerous world of piracy and heists. |
In the context of World War II, the film unfolds in the bustling city of Casablanca. The trio's criminal activities lead them to confront the Mob after a large cargo of diamonds is stolen. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, the Sea Burglars find themselves entangled in a web of danger and intrigue. |
Despite mixed reviews, Casablanca garnered attention for its high-octane action sequences and suspenseful plot. The film's portrayal of friendship, betrayal, and daring heists resonated with audiences, making it a memorable addition to the Egyptian cinema landscape. |
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Daniel Mayer (1856 – 1928) was a German-born English musical entrepreneur. He was three times mayor of Bexhill-on-Sea. |
Mayer was born in Westphalia, to Gottschalk Mayer and Henrietta Heyman Mayer. They brought him to England at the age of two but sent him back to Germany to study in Coblenz, Cologne and Bonn. |
He returned to England in 1874. |
Mayer married Alice Allez, a British subject, in 1886, and was himself naturalized in 1892, at which time the family was living at 6 Maresfield Gardens, Belsize Park, London. They moved to Bexhill around 1895, from around 1905 living at Collington Manor. He was elected councillor for the town, and mayor in 1905 and again from 1911 to 1914, when he stood down, at least in part due to his German heritage, which was suspect despite their two sons enlisting with the British Army (Emil died from pneumonia in 1918 and possibly never left Britain). Mayer's mayoral portrait was removed from the town hall in 1915. |
He was a prominent concert director and musical entrepreneur in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, an agent for, amongst others, Anna Pavlova. He has also been described as a piano manufacturer. In 1896 he was granted a US patent for a resonator for pianos and other stringed instruments. |
He was concert agent for Nellie Melba and the flautist John Lemmone, and Ada Crossley, |
also Frieda Simonson, an eight-year-old piano prodigy, |
He arranged tours of Australia for |
In 1919 he shifted his operational base to New York and shortly after, visited Australia with Mischa Levitski, both adding some support to the establishment of a Sydney Symphony Orchestra, to which end Melba had contributed £200. The "man in the street" was not forthcoming however. |
Mayer married Alice Allez (1862 – 17 November 1912) of Colebrooke, Guernsey, in 1886. They had three children |
It is possible he was Jewish by birth, but not religious. In England he was associated with Christian Science and Freemasonry. |
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Jerome Bowers Peterson (1859–1943), was an American newspaper editor in New York City, as well as a consular official for the United States Department of State, and served as customs revenue appointee for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Peterson was a co-founding editor of "The New York Age" newspaper in 1887, and held a consular position to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela in 1904 to 1906. |
Early life and education. |
Jerome Bowers Peterson was born on September 12, 1859 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He was African American, and some records list him as "mulatto". He lived on Sullivan Street, and attended the Mulberry Street School in Manhattan, an African Free School. |
Peterson was a founding owner and editor at "The New York Age", a noted African American newspaper in New York City, working alongside editor Timothy Thomas Fortune, and his brother Emanuel Fortune Jr.. Ida B. Wells was invited by Peterson and Timothy Thomas Fortune to advance her anti-lynching campaign at the "New York Age" newspaper. In 1907, Fred R. Moore purchased "The New York Age" from Timothy Thomas Fortune and Peterson; and Peterson continued to work in an advisory role for the paper until the 1930s. |
Department of State. |
Charles William Anderson recommended Peterson to William Loeb Jr., the secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt, for a consular position in 1903 under the United States Department of State. Peterson worked as consul to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, from 1904 to 1906. He was succeeded in the consular position by James W. Johnson. |
Internal Revenue Service. |
He was deputy collector of Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under the leadership of Charles W. Anderson. He was appointed deputy collector in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1913. He retired from U.S. federal service in 1931. |
He died on February 19, 1943 in Brooklyn. His estate papers were archived at Yale University; and he has work at the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. |
He married in 1893 to Cornelia Steele White; she was the daughter of Philip A. White, a former member of the Brooklyn Board of Education. Together they had three children. She died in 1926 in New York City after surgery. |
His son, Jerome Sidney Peterson (1903–1987) worked for the New York City Department of Health, and later served as a medical director for the World Health Organization (WHO). |
List of J2 League football transfers winter 2023–24 |
This is a list of J2 League transfers made during the winter transfer window of the 2024 season by each club. |
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Clara Noble Malvido (10 September 1872 – 26 April 1946) was a Spanish lady and the wife of the poet Joan Maragall. |
Early life and education. |
According to the baptism certificate, Clara Noble Malvido was born at five in the morning on 10 September 1872, at No. 9 Bizcocheros Street, in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, as the daughter of Ernst Noble Barber, an English insurance broker who was visiting southern Spain on business when he met his future wife, María de las Angustias Malvido Nocedo, an Andalusian lady from Jerez. She was the third of seven children, including his older brother Ubaldo. |
Like most daughters of wealthy families of the time, Noble had an important cultural training, typical of the academies for young ladies that existed in the city and which also included "decorative" subjects, such as music (she played the piano) and the French and English languages, which she mastered both, the latter because of her father. |
Wife of Joan Maragall. |
The Noble Malvido family settled in Catalonia in 1885, but spent their summers in Puigcerdá, where Noble met her future husband Joan Maragall in the summer of 1888, when she was 16 years old, while he was close to 28. After three years of courtship, they married on 27 December 1891, in the "Santa Anna de Barcelona". The couple settled in a flat on Carrer Roger de Llúria, then Paseo de Gràcia. In 1896 they changed their house again to go to Carrer de Consell de Cent, and in 1899 to their final home, very close to where the Noble Malvidos lived, in Carrer d'Alfons XII, n. 79, current headquarters of the Joan Maragall Archive. They had thirteen children, six girls and seven boys: Helena (1893), Maria (1894), Eulàlia (1896), the twins Clara and Anna (1899) Josep (1900), (1902), Ernest (1903), Guillem (1905), Raimon (1906), Elvira (1907), Gabriel (1909) and (1911). |
On the same day of their marriage, Maragall, who had been working at "Diario de Barcelona" for just over a year as editor, received from friends the non-commercial edition of Poesías, a collection of his own work. The correspondence that they maintained was published for the first time in 2011 under the title "Letters of courtship" and with the edition of the Maragallista Glòria Casals. Soon these and many other later letters preserved in the Archive were published in the Digital Memory of Catalonia. In total, Maragall wrote 51 letters to Noble. The courtship letters between Maragall and Clara are crucial to understanding Maragall's process of entry into adult life (marriage and responsibilities) and recognition as a poet. |
Noble went through all sorts of ups and downs in her life: Brief separations from her husband when she went to Cauterets in the summer, her children's illnesses and then marriages, and the administration of her heritage, which allowed her to raise all her children and shelter them in their lives. Everything very fair, without luxuries or whims. |
Willie Noble Malvido (1874–1895), Clara's sickly brother who died at just 21 years old, is the protagonist of a fairly well-known poem by Maragall, "En la mort d'un jove" (In the death of a young man). |
Influence in Maragall's legacy. |
Her figure was fundamental in the poet's life and work. She tried at all times that family and social burdens did not interfere with Maragall's work as a writer. She was a discreet presence, quite silent, but attentive to everything that was happening around her. After the death of her husband in December 1911, Clara successfully took charge of carrying out the edition of the "Obres Completes de Maragall", which was published in 1912 by Gustau Gili, thus tying up his legacy: letters, documents, articles, a whole collection of material that had been kept for many years in the office on the ground floor of the tower and that would be the core of the future Joan Maragall Archive, later deposited in the Library of Catalonia. |
This Archive also preserves Noble's documentation, such as a personal diary, letters and photographs, account books, and household invoices; material that shows her personality and the role she played as Joan Maragall's life partner. Noble, her children and her descendants fought to perpetuate the poet's memory. |
Maragall's struggles with his personal anxiety sometimes impacted his loved ones around him, especially his wife, who thus developed a tendency to hypertension. In her later years, Noble's health became precarious due to hypertension, and she broke even more during the Spanish Civil War. Noble died on 26 April 1944, in Carrer Alfons XII, number 79 in Barcelona, in the family house in Sant Gervasi, which is currently the headquarters of the Archive Joan Maragall. |
Ubaldo Noble Malvido (1870 – 1919) was a Spanish football pioneer who played as a forward for some of the earliest Catalan clubs in existence such as "Barcelona Football Club". His younger sister was Clara Noble, the wife of the poet Joan Maragall. His cousins George and Royston Saint Noble, also played football with a Barcelona club, but with the official one. |
Noble was born in 1870 as the son of Ernst Noble Barber, an English insurance broker who was visiting southern Spain on business when he met his future wife, María de las Angustias Malvido Nocedo, an Andalusian lady from Jerez de la Frontera. He was the oldest of five children, Maria Luisa (1871–1951), Clara (1872–1944), and Willie (1874–1895), and like them, he was also most likely born in Jerez, Andalusia. |
The Noble Malvido family settled in Catalonia in 1885. Between 1885 and 1896 they lived first in La Rambla, Barcelona, and then in another house on the slopes of Tibidabo, in search of healthy air for a sickly son, Willis, who finally died in 1895 at the age of 21. Since he lived in La Rambla, he likely attempted to join the "British Club de Barcelona", located on "La Rambla dels Capuchins", but that club was a strictly British entity, so even though he had English ancestry, Noble was still rejected, as suggested by the fact that his name never appears in any of the line-ups of the British Club. |
His father had an office in "Plaça de Catalunya", no. 13, which later became a hotel and even later a warehouse. His uncle George, known as "brother electricity", was one of the main promoters of the installation of electricity in Spain. |
In 1892, Noble joined a group of football enthusiasts led by James Reeves that was promoting the idea of creating a well-organized football club. It remains unclear how they met, but it was most likely Noble who approached him after getting word that Reeves was recruiting members of "British Club of La Rambla" to play football. Together with Reeves and some other football pioneers in the city, such as George Cochran and the Morris (Samuel Sr. and Samuel), they formed the "Barcelona Football Club" in late 1892. |
This entity organized the first known football match in the city, which was held at Hippodrome of Can Tunis on 25 December 1892. It remains unclear if he played in this match. However, Noble did play on 12 March 1893, in the historic match between a blue and a red team, starting as a forward for the former in a 1–2 win. Noble appears in what is regarded to be the oldest photograph of a football team in Spain, which depicts these two sides before the match at Can Tunis. The caption of the photogravure of the 22 footballers published by Joaquim Escardó in 1906 gives him the initial "P", but then his own article refers to him as "O. Noble", so it seems that there was some confusion with the identification of Noble; however, the initials P or O not only do not suit Ubaldo, but also no one else from the Noble family of that time (Willis, George, or Royston). |
Noble played several training matches (Blues vs Reds) at Can Tunis, but due to the little statistical rigor that the newspapers had at that time, the exact number of matches and goals (if any) he performed is unknown. |
Noble married Elvira Milans Pigrau, and the couple had two sons, Ernest and Angels Noble Milans. Àngels went on to became a painter, marring Enric Prat de la Riba i Dachs, son of the former president of the Commonwealth of Catalonia. |
A collection of 7 letters of correspondence (1901 to 1907) between Noble and his brother-in-law, the poet Joan Maragall, were published in 2011 and then preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive, later deposited in the Library of Catalonia. He was known as "el tio Ubaldo" (uncle Ubaldo) by the sons of Maragall. |
Noble died in 1919, at the age of either 48 or 49. Both of his parents followed him to the grave shortly after, he in 1920 and she in 1921, so Elvira Milans, the widow of "Uncle Ubaldo", inherited the Noble-Malvido house. |
Nguyen's work belongs to the public art collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Singapore Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), among others. In 2023, he received the Joan Miró Prize. He has exhibited at international exhibitions and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Berlin Biennale and Manifesta, and a solo show at the New Museum. He is a cofounding member of the artist collective The Propeller Group and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. |
Early life and career. |
Nguyen was born in 1976 in Sài Gòn, Vietnam. He and his family emigrated as refugees to the United States in 1979, and he grew up in Oklahoma and then Southern California. Initially a pre-med student, he earned a BFA from the University of California, Irvine in 1999. As an undergraduate he developed an inclination toward collective artmaking as a member of a graffiti crew; this would solidify in his later work with The Propeller Group and solo projects with various ethnic communities. He continued his art studies at California Institute of the Arts under Daniel Joseph Martinez, earning an MFA in 2004. |
That same year Nguyen returned to Vietnam and settled in Ho Chi Minh City, in part out of a desire to understand and learn from his grandmother, who became a writer and published poet there at a young age. After the move, the country and its trials became a recurrent subject in his work. Nguyen's early exhibitions included solo shows at Voz Alta Projects (San Diego, 2004) and Galerie Quynh (Ho Chi Minh City, 2008), the 2006 Asia Pacific Triennial, and screenings at international and experimental film festivals. He cofounded the artist-run alternative space Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City in 2007. |
The Propeller Group. |
In 2006, Nguyen co-founded The Propeller Group (TPG) with artist Phunam Thuc Ha; they were joined by Matt Lucero in 2008. For roughly a decade, TPG was the focus of Nguyen's efforts with large-scale collaborative projects that bridged fine art and mainstream media, including online viral campaigns, film productions, television commercials and installation art. TPG's work often combined contradictory concepts and strategies: public and private, political ideology and branding, low and high culture. The collective was featured in a traveling retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2016) and selected for the Guangzhou Triennial (2012), Venice Biennale (2015), and surveys at the Guggenheim Museum, New Museum and SFMOMA. In 2017, Phunam and Lucero withdrew from the group; Nguyen is still associated with TPG. |
Critics describe Nguyen's individual projects as more personal, subtler and more ambitious than his work with TPG. They draw upon both his own family's experience and the stories of others—Vietnamese-Senegalese people, the Aboriginal Ngurrara of Western Australia, migrants in Marseilles and endangered animals, among others. His projects have remained collaborative, as well as participatory, directly engaging with communities to devise and enact narratives, intergenerational dialogues, personal accounts and performances. The resulting works have been noted for their reflective, multi-perspectival character, lack of didacticism and refusal to reduce or erase cultural contradictions. |
Since 2017, Nguyen has had solo exhibitions at institutions including the Asia Society, Joslyn Art Museum, Ulrich Museum, Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and New Museum ("Radiant Remembrance," 2023), among others; the New Museum exhibition was featured on the "PBS NewsHour" in August 2023. He has also shown at the James Cohan Gallery in New York and Galerie Quynh. |
Individual works and exhibitions. |
Collections and awards. |
Nguyen's work belongs to the public art collections of The Burger Collection (Switzerland), Carré d’Art (Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France), Colección Diéresis (México), Kadist, Kemper Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Singapore Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum, among others. He received the Joan Miró Prize (2023), a VIA Art Fund acquisition grant (2020), a Civitella Ranieri Foundation fellowship (2019), and an artist residency from Bellas Artes (2019, Bataan, Philippines). |
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2024 Prince Takamado U-18 Premier League |
The will be 35th season of the main competition for under-18 teams in Japan, the 14th after rebranding the competition to the current "Premier League" format, and the 3rd season with 24 clubs participating in the league. |
Changes from the previous season. |
The Premier League/Prince League play-offs gives an opportunity for teams to be promoted from the Prince Leagues (a conglomerate of regional leagues that forms the 2nd division of youth football in Japan). The 11th and 12th-placed teams of each division will be directly relegated. |
Participating clubs. |
As usual, the teams were allocated to each division by the JFA based on geographical positions. Yokohama FC U-18s was the only team to be relocated, switching from the West to the East on 2024, a year after relocating to the West. |
Promotion/relegation play-offs. |
Qualifies for the stage the 16 top-ranked teams of the nine Prince League divisions, with each region having its amount of qualifying slots predetermined by the JFA. They will be divided into four blocks, with their respective block winners (or 2nd round winners) qualifying for the next season's Premier League. |
Kanto's Prince League is the only one to qualify three teams from, whereas Tohoku, Tokai, Kansai, Chugoku and Kyushu qualifies two teams each, and just one each qualifies from Hokkaido and Shikoku. The play-offs will be played at 6 (1st round) and 8 December (2nd round). |
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Early life and education. |