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Eurípides Rubio | Medal of Honor citation | Medal of Honor citation |
Eurípides Rubio | Military decorations awarded | Military decorations awarded
Among the military decorations which Capt. Rubio earned were the following:
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Badge Combat Infantryman Badge 1st row Medal of Honor Purple Heart 2nd row National Defense Service Medal Vietnam Service Medalwith one bronze service star Vietnam Campaign Medal 3rd row Army Presidential Unit Citation Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation Vietnam Civil Actions Medal Unit Citation Badge Basic Parachutist badge
Foreign unit decorations
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Eurípides Rubio | Honors | Honors
The United States Army Reserve Center located at the Hato Rey sector of San Juan was named posthumously named Capt. Eurípides Rubio United States Army Reserve Center.
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Ponce was named in memory of Captain Eurípides Rubio.
The American Legion Post 142 in San Juan was named after Capt. Euripides Rubio.
Rubio's name is inscribed in "El Monumento de la Recordación" (Monument of Remembrance), dedicated to Puerto Rico's fallen soldiers and situated in front of the Capitol Building in San Juan.
His name is inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("The Wall") on Panel 12E, Row 044.
On November 11, 2008, the Government of Puerto Rico unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda an oil portrait of Captain Euripedes Rubio.
In 2017 Eurípides Rubio was posthumously inducted to the Puerto Rico Veterans Hall of Fame.
thumb|left|CPT Eurípides Rubio United States Army Reserve Center can be seen in the center green area surrounded by an urban landscape, in barrio Gobernador Piñero (in San Juan). |
Eurípides Rubio | See also | See also
List of Puerto Ricans
List of Puerto Rican military personnel
Puerto Rican recipients of the Medal of Honor
List of Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War |
Eurípides Rubio | References | References |
Eurípides Rubio | Further reading | Further reading
Puertorriquenos Who Served With Guts, Glory, and Honor. Fighting to Defend a Nation Not Completely Their Own; by : Greg Boudonck; |
Eurípides Rubio | External links | External links
Category:1938 births
Category:1966 deaths
Category:Burials at Puerto Rico National Cemetery
Category:Military personnel from Ponce
Category:Ponce High School alumni
Category:Puerto Rican Army personnel
Category:United States Army officers
Category:Puerto Rican recipients of the Medal of Honor
Category:United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
Category:People of the Civil Air Patrol
Category:Puerto Rican military officers
Category:Vietnam War recipients of the Medal of Honor
Category:United States Army personnel killed in the Vietnam War
Category:University of Puerto Rico alumni |
Eurípides Rubio | Table of Content | short description, Early years, Action in Vietnam, Medal of Honor citation, Military decorations awarded, Honors, See also, References, Further reading, External links |
Endothelium-derived relaxing factor | Short description | thumb|131x131px|Nitric Oxide (NO), the principal EDRF
The Endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) is a strong vasodilator produced by cardiac endothelial cells in response to stress signals such as high levels of ADP accumulation or hypoxia. Robert F. Furchgott is widely recognised for this discovery, even going so far as to be a co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine with his colleagues Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad. Nitric oxide (NO) is a key component in any EDRF as these compounds either include NO or are structurally in the form of NO. |
Endothelium-derived relaxing factor | Physiological Functions and production | Physiological Functions and production
thumb|362x362px|Anatomical cross section of an artery: the "intima" is composed of endothelial cells
EDRF serves various functions, of which the most common and topical are vasodilation and the prevention of platelet adhesion. EDRF also plays a role in the production of cyclic GMP.
EDRF is produced from L-arginine by an enzyme (endothelial nitric oxide synthase) that is dependent on calcium-calmodulin and NADPH - this occurs in the cardiac endothelium.
EDRF then diffuses to the smooth muscle in vascular tissue (vessels may be large or small), here it enacts endogenous vasodilation. Moreover, it serves the function of preventing sympathetic vasoconstriction - when the sympathetic nervous system, reacting to a situation perceived as dangerous, attempts to raise blood pressure through vasoconstriction.
The NO compound is also capable of reducing clotting in the blood stream due to its ability to prevent platelet adhesion and aggregation. |
Endothelium-derived relaxing factor | Related pathology | Related pathology
Atherosclerosis and hypertension are grave contributors in the group of pathological conditions under the umbrella of Cardiovascular disease. Among these conditions is also the disfunction of the endothelium, which given its properties of vasodilation when functional, can cause excessive vasoconstriction, thus leading back to hypertension. Another effect of this particular disfunction may also be excessive platelet adhesion, signifying a significant increase in blood clots, thus the promotion of a prothrombotic state. |
Endothelium-derived relaxing factor | References | References |
Endothelium-derived relaxing factor | External links | External links
Category:Nitrogen compounds
Category:Nitrogen cycle
Category:Vasodilators |
Endothelium-derived relaxing factor | Table of Content | Short description, Physiological Functions and production, Related pathology, References, External links |
British Columbia Highway 41 | Short description | Highway 41 is a very short cross-border spur in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary in British Columbia. At just , it is the shortest numbered highway in the province. It connects State Route 21 at the Carson Canada-U.S. border crossing to a point on the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) just west of Grand Forks (Almond Gardens). The highway was given the '41' designation in 1968. The reason the highway wasn't numbered "21" as a continuation of the Washington route, was because that highway number already existed in the Creston area. |
British Columbia Highway 41 | Major intersections | Major intersections |
British Columbia Highway 41 | References | References
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British Columbia Highway 41 | Table of Content | Short description, Major intersections, References |
Julia Sweeney | Short description | Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress and comedian. She gained fame as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1994. She played Mrs. Keeper in the film Stuart Little and voiced Brittany in Father of the Pride. She appeared in the Hulu series Shrill, the Showtime series Work in Progress, and the Starz series American Gods. |
Julia Sweeney | Early life | Early life
Sweeney was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Robert Mark Sweeney and Jeraldine "Jeri" Sweeney ( Ivers). Her father was an attorney and federal prosecutor, while her mother was a homemaker. She has an Irish Catholic background. Sweeney is the oldest of five children; she had two brothers, William Robert "Bill" Sweeney, and Michael Ivers Sweeney, who both died, and has a brother, Jim Sweeney, and a sister, Meg Sweeney.
As a child, she was drawn to imitating voices and inventing characters. She attended Marycliff High School and Gonzaga Preparatory School, where she appeared in a number of plays. She graduated with a double major in economics and European history from the University of Washington, where she was student body vice president and became a member of Delta Gamma sorority. After graduation, Sweeney moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as an accountant for Columbia Pictures and United Artists. |
Julia Sweeney | Career | Career
thumb|right|Sweeney speaking at the Atheist Alliance International Convention in 2008
In 1988, while still working as an accountant, Sweeney enrolled in classes with the improvisational comedy troupe the Groundlings, eventually being selected to be part of the troupe's Sunday Company. It was at the Groundlings that she began to develop characters, which she would later bring to the stage, film, and television. They include Mea Culpa, the title character of Mea's Big Apology (co-written by then-husband Stephen Hibbert), which won the Best Written Play Award from L.A. Weekly in 1988, and has been developed by Sweeney (in collaboration with Jim Emerson) into a screenplay; and the androgynous Pat. |
Julia Sweeney | ''Saturday Night Live'' | Saturday Night Live
At a Groundlings performance in 1989, Saturday Night Live (SNL) producer Lorne Michaels discovered Sweeney and offered her a spot as one of Saturday Night Live'''s featured players. She joined the regular Saturday Night Live cast the following year and remained with the show through four seasons, from 1990 to 1994. Her most popular character was Pat, whose impossible-to-determine gender was the basis for Sweeney's popular It's Pat! sketches on Saturday Night Live, and a later feature film of the same name, which was a critical commercial failure, costing $8 millionIt's Pat: Julia Sweeney's gender-bending character goes to Hollywood, but can he ... er ... she ... er ... er ... Pat cross over? , a September 1994 article from Rolling Stone> to make but grossing only $60,822 at the box office.
Monologues
God Said Ha!
After leaving the cast of Saturday Night Live, Sweeney returned to Los Angeles where, shortly afterwards, her career was put on hold by a series of personal traumas. Her brother Michael was diagnosed with lymphoma, and shortly thereafter Sweeney discovered that she too had cancer. Her brother did not survive the cancer. Throughout the ordeal, Sweeney told stories of her experiences in serio-comic performances at L.A.'s alternative comedy club, the Un-Cabaret, eventually developing the stories into a one-woman stage show called God Said Ha!, which debuted at San Francisco's Magic Theater in 1995.God Said Ha! moved to Broadway, winning the 1996 New York Comedy Festival's Audience Award, and a CD recording of the show earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album that same year. Miramax released a film version of the show in 1998, directed by Sweeney and produced by Quentin Tarantino. The film earned the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and was released on DVD in 2003. Portions of the monologues from Un-Cabaret were featured on episode 9 of This American Life (then known as Your Radio Playhouse) in January 1996. Since her initial monologue, she has appeared on three more This American Life episodes.Julia Sweeney search results at This American Life
In the Family Way
Sweeney's second monologue chronicled the adoption of her daughter from China. In the Family Way started on stage in New York City in early 2003 at the Ars Nova Theatre. The show was directed by Broadway stage director Mark Brokaw, before migrating to the Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles. Sweeney has also released a CD recording of In the Family Way and, in 2006, performed a 25-minute excerpt of the show at the Hollywood Bowl with a new orchestration written especially for her piece by composer Anthony Marinelli and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Letting Go of God
Sweeney's third autobiographical monologue is titled Letting Go of God. In it, she discusses her Catholic upbringing, early religious ideology, and the life events and internal search that led her to believe that the universe can function on its own without a deity to preside over it; as well as her becoming an atheist. Sweeney begins by sharing the account of when her mother told her that her birthday was really October 10 instead of September 10, and how traumatic it was to discover she was not a winsome Virgo but really a Libra."How Does A Person Go From Believer To Atheist?". NPR. November 22, 2013.
An audio recording of Letting Go of God was released on CD in 2006, and it was filmed live on stage in May 2007. The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 13, 2008, and the DVD of the show was released in November 2008.
Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider
After taking some years out of the limelight to be a suburban Chicago housewife and mother, Sweeney returned with a fourth monologue in which she riffs on contemporary politics and religion, among other topics. The performance was so popular that it sold out its original six-day run at the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, as well as a one-week extension.
Sweeney appeared at the 2019 CSICon put on by the Center for Inquiry (CFI), where she presented about half of the monologue for the conference attendees.
Other work
In a segment for This American Life in 1999, Sweeney describes one of her first jobs as a bartender's assistant, and how she began embezzling funds from her employer, and the consequences thereof.
In 1992, Sweeney worked with the rock band Ugly Kid Joe, performing in the music video for their hit "Neighbor" and contributing introductory audio for two tracks, "Goddamn Devil" and "Everything About You". The latter was on the soundtrack to the Lorne Michaels movie Wayne's World.
In 1994, she had a small role as "Raquel" in the movie Pulp Fiction; other film roles include Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Coneheads, Vegas Vacation, Clockstoppers, Whatever It Takes, and Stuart Little.
In 2000, she provided the voice of Wanda MacPherson in the short-lived The WB/Adult Swim animated sitcom Baby Blues. She was also the voice of Margo on the ABC animated series The Goode Family, Dr. Glove on Back at the Barnyard, Miss Tronica on Lloyd in Space, and Sheri Squibbles in Pixar's 2013 animated film Monsters University.
A veteran of live television, Sweeney made her mark on primetime television as a series regular on George and Leo and Maybe It's Me, and guest starred on 3rd Rock from the Sun, Hope & Gloria, Mad About You, and According to Jim. In 2004, she co-starred in two episodes of Frasier, as Frasier's blind date turned litigious unwanted houseguest, Ann Hodges. She had a guest role on Sex and the City, and served as a consultant for its last three seasons, as well as consulting on season two of Desperate Housewives. In 2019, she played a terrorist grandmother in season 6 of the American cop comedy series Brooklyn 99.
Sweeney met singer/songwriter Jill Sobule at a Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) conference, and performed together in 2008. They took the show, called Jill and Julia, on the road in 2009 and 2010, performing in New York, Denver and other locations. It was an autobiographical mix of music, stories, and commentary.
From 2009 to 2010, Sweeney was also part of the regular rotation of panelists for the NPR news quiz radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, in downtown Chicago. In 2021, Sweeney was cast in the third season of American Gods on Starz.
Sweeney has long pushed for acceptance of people who are not religious, and in 2019 she was appointed to be on the board of directors of the Center for Inquiry.
From 2019-2021, Julia Sweeney was a recurring character on Hulu's series, Shrill (TV series). She played the mother of Aidy Bryant.
Personal life
Sweeney is married to scientist Michael Blum. They live in Los Angeles near their daughter, whom they adopted from China.
Works and publications
Sweeney, Julia, and Zander, Christine. It's Pat!: My Life Exposed. New York: Hyperion, 1992.
Sweeney, Julia. God Said, "Ha!". New York: Bantam Books, 1997.
Barker, Dan and Sweeney, Julia. The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God Ulysses Press, 2011.
Sweeney, Julia. If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother.'' New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013. |
Julia Sweeney | References | References |
Julia Sweeney | External links | External links
From Letting Go of God
Julia Sweeney's 17 min Talk at TED Conference (Feb. 2006) Monterey, California
Saturday Night Live's Julia Sweeney interview from NPR
Julia Sweeney biography at BigSpeak.com Motivational Speakers
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Category:Actresses from Spokane, Washington
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Category:Gonzaga Preparatory School alumni
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Specialized dictionary | short description | thumb|French-language specialized dictionaries (synonyms, etymologies, etc.).
A specialized dictionary is a dictionary that covers a relatively restricted set of phenomena. The definitive book on the subject (Cowie 2009) includes chapters on some of the dictionaries included below:
synonyms
pronunciations
names (place names and personal names)
phrases and idioms
dialect terms
slang
quotations
etymologies
rhymes
lyrics
Dictionaries of idioms and slang are common in most cultures. Examples include (of French) the Dictionnaire des expressions et locutions, edited by Alain Rey (Paris: Le Robert 2006), and (of English) Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (8th edition, London: Routledge 2002). In the area of language learning, there are specialized dictionaries for aspects of language which tend to be ordinary for mother-tongue speakers but may cause difficulty for learners. These include dictionaries of phrasal verbs, such as the Oxford Phrasal Verbs Dictionary (2nd edition, Oxford University Press: 2006), and dictionaries of collocation, such as Macmillan Collocations Dictionary (Oxford: Macmillan 2010).
One of the most common types of specialized dictionary is what is often referred to in English as a technical dictionary and in German as a Fachwörterbuch. These dictionaries cover the terminology of a particular subject field or discipline. As described in Nielsen (1994), dictionaries of this type can be classified in various ways. A dictionary that covers more than one subject field is called a multi-field dictionary; one that covers one subject field is called a single-field dictionary; and one that covers a limited part of a subject field is called a sub-field dictionary. A technical dictionary that attempts to cover as much of the relevant terminology as possible is called a maximizing dictionary, whereas one that attempts to cover only a limited part of the relevant terminology is called a minimizing dictionary.
Specialized dictionaries can have various functions, i.e. they can help users in different types of situation. Monolingual dictionaries can help users understand and produce texts, whereas bilingual dictionaries can help users understand texts, translate texts and produce texts, as described in e.g. Nielsen (1994) and Nielsen (2010). |
Specialized dictionary | See also | See also
Lexigraf |
Specialized dictionary | References | References |
Specialized dictionary | Further reading | Further reading
Cowie, A.P. (ed.) (2009): The Oxford History of English Lexicography: Volume II Specialized Dictionaries, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Henning Bergenholtz/Sven Tarp (eds.) (1995): Manual of Specialised Lexicography. Benjamins.
Sandro Nielsen (1994): The Bilingual LSP Dictionary. Gunter Narr.
Sandro Nielsen (2010): "Specialised Translation Dictionaries for Learners". In: P. A. Fuertes-Olivera (ed): Specialised Dictionaries for Learners. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 69–82.
Category:Dictionaries by type |
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British Columbia Highway 395 | short description | British Columbia Highway 395 is a short provincial highway in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary of British Columbia. It is a cross-border spur that connects with U.S. Route 395 (from which it derives its number) at the Canada–U.S. border crossing near Laurier, Washington. Its northern terminus is at the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) near Cascade, about 20 km (12 mi) east of Grand Forks. |
British Columbia Highway 395 | Major intersections | Major intersections |
British Columbia Highway 395 | References | References
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Optic radiation | Short description | In neuroanatomy, the optic radiation (also known as the geniculocalcarine tract, the geniculostriate pathway, and posterior thalamic radiation) are axons from the neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus to the primary visual cortex. The optic radiation receives blood through deep branches of the middle cerebral artery and posterior cerebral artery.
They carry visual information through two divisions (called upper and lower division) to the visual cortex (also called striate cortex) along the calcarine fissure. There is one set of upper and lower divisions on each side of the brain. If a lesion only exists in one unilateral division of the optic radiation, the consequence is called quadrantanopia, which implies that only the respective superior or inferior quadrant of the visual field is affected. If both divisions on one side of the brain are affected, the result is a contralateral homonymous hemianopsia. |
Optic radiation | Structure | Structure
The upper division:
Projects to the upper bank of the calcarine fissure, called the cuneus
Contains input from the superior retinal quadrants, which represents the inferior visual field quadrants
Transection causes contralateral lower quadrantanopia
Lesions that involve both cunei cause a lower altitudinal hemianopia (altitudinopia)
The lower division:
Loops from the lateral geniculate body anteriorly (Meyer's loop), then posteriorly, to terminate in the lower bank of the calcarine sulcus, called the lingual gyrus
Contains input from the inferior retinal quadrants, which represents the superior visual field quadrants
Transection causes contralateral upper quadrantanopia
Transection of both lingual gyri causes an upper altitudinal hemianopia |
Optic radiation | Parts | Parts
A distinctive feature of the optic radiations is that they split into two parts on each side:
Source Path Information Damage
Fibers from the inferior retina (also called "Meyer's loop" or "Archambault's loop") must pass through the temporal lobe by looping around the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle. Carry information from the Superior part of the visual field A lesion in the temporal lobe that results in damage to Meyer's loop causes a characteristic loss of vision in a superior quadrant (quadrantanopia or "pie in the sky" defect.)
Fibers from the superior retina* travel straight back through the parietal lobe to the occipital lobe in the retrolenticular limb of the internal capsule to the visual cortex. Carry information from the Inferior part of the visual field Taking the shorter path, these fibers are less susceptible to damage. Damage caused is characteristically called "Pie in the floor" defect or inferior quadrantanopia.
*Note: In 2009, an anonymous medical doctor edited the "Optic Radiation" Wikipedia article and added the eponymous name "Baum's loop," referring to the dorsal bundle. Despite the information being unverified, this name subsequently entered scholarly articles and textbooks and persisted until three radiologists discovered the fabrication in 2020.thumb|140px|center|Right superior quadrantanopia. The areas of the visual field lost in each eye are shown as black areas. This visual field defect is characteristic of damage to Meyer's loop on the left side of the brain. |
Optic radiation | Function | Function
The optic radiation contains feedforward tracts that transmit visual information (from the retina of the eye) from the geniculate nucleus to the visual cortex, and also feedback tracts from the visual cortex to the neurons in the LGN that project to them. The function of the feedback from the visual cortex back to the LGN is unknown. The optic radiation is activated during working memory tasks. The optic radiations are usually unilateral and commonly vascular in origin. Field defects, therefore, develop abruptly, in contrast to the slow progression of defects associated with tumors. |
Optic radiation | Clinical significance | Clinical significance |
Optic radiation | Examination | Examination
Tracts contained within the optic radiation are examined as part of a cranial nerve examination. |
Optic radiation | See also | See also
Optic tract |
Optic radiation | References | References |
Optic radiation | External links | External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070512234857/http://www2.umdnj.edu/~neuro/studyaid/Practical2000/Q34.htm
A 3D model of optic tract and optic radiation
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Category:Thalamus |
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British Columbia Highway 21 | short description | Highway 21 is a cross-border spur in the Regional District of Central Kootenay in British Columbia. First opened in 1964, the highway travels northwest along the Kootenay River from its connection with Idaho State Highway 1 at the Rykerts Canada-U.S. border crossing to a point on the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) just west of Creston.
Approximately from its northbound terminus, Highway 21 comes to an intersection with Erickson Street as it enters Creston. At this point, motorists intending to travel eastbound on the Crowsnest Highway toward Cranbrook and the Alberta border can bypass Creston's main business district and connect to the Crowsnest at Erickson. Westbound motorists can continue on Highway 21 to its northern terminus. |
British Columbia Highway 21 | Major intersections | Major intersections |
British Columbia Highway 21 | References | References
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1981–82 snooker world rankings | short description | thumb|alt=Cliff Thorburn playing at a snooker table|Cliff Thorburn (pictured in 2007) took top place in the rankings.
thumb|alt=Steve Davis holding his cue stick, standing behind a snooker table|The 1981 World Champion Steve Davis (pictured in 2007) was ranked second.
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), the governing body for professional snooker, first published official world rankings for players on the main tour for the 1976–77 season. Before this, for each tournament the defending champion was seeded first, and the previous year's runner-up second.
Players' performances in the previous three World Snooker Championships (1979, 1980 and 1981) contributed to their points total. For each of the three years, the World Champion gained five points, the runner-up received four, losing semi-finalists got three, losing quarter-finalists got two, and losers in the last-16 round received a single point. Players without any ranking points were listed in order of their performances at the 1981 World Snooker Championship. Cliff Thorburn, the 1980 champion, led the ranking list, with nine points, having been ranked second the previous year. The reigning champion, Steve Davis, held eight points and moved from thirteenth place to second, while the 1979 winner Terry Griffiths, also with eight points, rose from fifth to third. Ray Reardon, who had been ranked first in each of the five previous lists since the establishment of the rankings, was in fourth place with seven points, the same total as Dennis Taylor in fifth. The WPBSA deducted two ranking points from Alex Higgins's total for his behaviour at Herringthorpe Leisure Centre, Rotherham on 24 February 1981. Higgins had arrived late for the second of an exhibition match against Davis, reportedly because he was playing Space Invaders.
The top sixteen players in the rankings were seeded into the 32-player first round of the main competition for the 1982 World Snooker Championship. Janice Hale, a snooker reporter for The Daily Telegraph, wrote that the system, with points accumulated across three years, gave established players an advantage. An article in Snooker Scene magazine discussing the ranking list for 1980/1981, which was compiled on the same basis as the 1981/1982 list, had also contained concerns about the advantage to established players, while arguing that no better alternative system had been proposed. Player and commentator Jack Karnehm, who had previously criticised the ranking system for not taking into consideration players' performances at tournaments other than the world championship, agreed that no fairer system had been proposed. Karnehm published a "Supreme Snooker League Table" based on percentage of won in nine tournaments during the 1980–81 snooker season, which was headed by Steve Davis with 66.67% of frames won across 29 matches, followed by Willie Thorne who won 61.54% of frames in six matches. This method, in Karnehm's own assessment, produced rankings "every bit as unfair and inconsistent as the official ratings list". |
1981–82 snooker world rankings | Rankings | Rankings
The professional world rankings for snooker players in the 1981/1982 season are listed below. Points gained in each of the three World Snooker Championships are shown, with the total number of points given in the last column. A "–" symbol indicates that the player did not participate in that year's championship.
+Snooker world rankings 1981/1982 Ranking Name 1979 1980 1981 Total 1 1 5 3 9 2 1 2 5 8 3 5 1 2 8 4 2 2 3 7 5 4 1 2 7 6 1 1 4 6 7 1 3 2 6 8 3 2 1 6 9 2 1 2 5 10 1 3 1 5 11 2 4 1 5 12 2 1 1 4 13 3 1 0 4 14 1 1 1 3 15 1 1 1 316 1 0 1 2 17 – 2 0 2 18 – 0 1 1 19 0 0 0 0 20 – – 0 0 21 – – 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 23 – 0 0 0 24 – – 0 0 25 0 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 027 0 0 0 0 28 0 0 0 0 29 – 0 0 030 – 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 032 0 0 0 0 |
1981–82 snooker world rankings | Notes | Notes |
1981–82 snooker world rankings | References | References
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Ron Mueck | Short description | Ronald Hans Mueck ( or /ˈmuːɪk/) (born Hans Ronald Mueck; 9 May 1958) is an Australian sculptor working in the United Kingdom. |
Ron Mueck | Biography | Biography
Born in 1958 to German parents in Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the family business of puppetry and doll-making. He worked initially as a creative director in Australian children's television shows like Shirl's Neighbourhood and Lift Off, before moving to America to work there in film and advertising. Most notably, he designed, performed, and voiced the character of Ludo in the 1986 Jim Henson fantasy film Labyrinth. He later collaborated with Henson again on the TV series The StoryTeller. In 1996, he was asked by Paula Rego, his mother-in-law,Willing, Nick, Paula Rego, Secrets & Stories, Kismet Films for the BBC, 25 March 2017. to make a small figure of Pinocchio for her group exhibition Spellbound: Art and Film, at the Hayward Gallery, London.
Mueck first came to public attention with his sculpture "Dead Dad". This portrayal of his recently deceased father—at roughly half-scale and made from memory and imagination—was included in the 1997 exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Mueck's first solo show was at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London in 1998. His high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature in the Millennium Dome, and later exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. Today it sits in the foyer of the Danish Contemporary Art Museum ARoS in Aarhus.
Between 2000 and 2002, Mueck was Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London. During this two-year post he created the works Mother and Child, Pregnant Woman, Man in a Boat, and Swaddled Baby and culminated in an exhibition in 2003.
Mueck's most recent major touring exhibition began at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris), in 2013, and travelled to Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires., MAM, Rio de JaneiroRon Mueck in MAM-Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (marking the biggest audience in the history of that museum), and São Paulo, exhibited at the Pinacoteca.Ron Mueck in Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
During 2016, Mueck exhibited at the Theseus Temple, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
In 2016 Mueck also received a major solo presentation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As part of the Hull UK City of Culture the following year, Mueck's works appeared as part of SKIN, at the Ferens Art Gallery, alongside paintings by Lucian Freud and Édouard Manet, and Spencer Tunick's photographs of his installation Sea of Hull. The exhibition features a new work, Poke, as well as Wild Man, Spooning Couple, Youth, Ghost, and Mask II.
In 2024 15 works were presented in a solo exhibition at Museum Voorlinden. The exhibition features, among others, En Garde (2023), Mass (2016-2017), Big Baby II (1996-97), Man in Blankets (2000), and Couple under an Umbrella (2013), which is permanently on display as one of the museum’s highlights.
In 2025, works including Mass (2016-2017) are presented as a solo exhibition at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art on Seoul, South Korea. |
Ron Mueck | Work | Work
Mueck's sculpture responds to the minute details of the human body, playing with scale to produce engrossing visual images (a style known as hyperrealism). Mueck spends a long time, sometimes more than a year, creating each sculpture. His subject matter is deeply private, and is often concerned with people's unspoken thoughts and feelings. |
Ron Mueck | Gallery | Gallery |
Ron Mueck | See also | See also
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Ron Mueck | References | References
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Category:Living people
Category:Australian people of German descent
Category:Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Category:20th-century Australian sculptors
Category:Australian male voice actors
Category:Australian contemporary artists
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Dragon Con | Short description | Dragon Con (previously Dragon*Con and sometimes DragonCon) is a North American multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place annually over the Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. , the convention draws attendance of over 80,000. It features hundreds of guests, encompasses five hotels in the Peachtree Center neighborhood of downtown Atlanta near Centennial Olympic Park, and runs thousands of hours of programming for fans of science fiction, fantasy, comic books, and other elements of fan culture. It is owned and operated by a private for-profit corporation, with the help of a 1,500-member volunteer staff. Dragon Con has hosted the 1990 Origins Game Fair and the 1995 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC). |
Dragon Con | History | History
Dragon Con was launched in 1987, as a project of a local science fiction and gaming group, the Dragon Alliance of Gamers and Role-Players (DAGR). It was founded by a board of directors including John Bunnell, David Cody, Robert Dennis, Mike Helba, Pat Henry, and Ed Kramer.
The name "Dragon" for the club was derived from Kramer's Dragon Computer, which hosted a local Bulletin Board System ("The Dragon") that initially served as a central hub for both organizations. The inaugural Dragon*Con flyers debuted at the 1986 Atlanta Worldcon, ConFederation. Within a year, Dragon*Con had been selected to be the host of the 1990 Origins convention, to take place at the Atlanta Hilton.
thumb|Cosplayers dressed as Spartans, inspired by the movie 300, at DragonCon
The 1987 inaugural Dragon*Con took place at the Pierremont Plaza Hotel, drew 1400 fans, and featured Guest of Honor Michael Moorcock, Lynn Abbey and Robert Asprin, Robert Adams, Ultima creator Richard "Lord British" Garriott, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons Gary Gygax and Toastmaster Brad Strickland. Miramar recording artist Jonn Serrie delivered his keyboard arrangements from within a real NASA flightsuit and Michael Moorcock performed onstage with Blue Öyster Cult's Eric Bloom, singing "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" and "Black Blade". Thomas E. Fuller's Atlanta Radio Theatre Company performed H. P. Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu, which was broadcast via radio live from onsite. The 1988 convention included guests Alan Dean Foster, Fred Saberhagen, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Gary Gygax, and Larry Elmore.
The convention grew rapidly. In 1989, it drew 2,400 fans (many to see Guest of Honor Anne McCaffrey), and the event had moved to the Omni Hotel and Convention Center. In 1990, the convention had doubled again, added a Comics Expo, hosted the Origins convention, this time with Guest of Honor Tom Clancy, and expanded to include the Atlanta Sheraton hotel. In 1991 the first "Robot Battles" robotic competition event was added to the list of Dragon*Con events, making it the second oldest robotic competition event in the world.
In 1993, Dragon*Con was the home of the Wizard Fan Awards.Wizard Fan Awards . Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
By 1995, when Dragon*Con hosted the North American Science Fiction Convention, attendance had grown to over 14,000 fans, and Dragon*Con was also hosting the International Starfleet Conference. In 1999, Dragon*Con's TrekTrak introduced the first Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant, an annual event that has since garnered national media attention.
In 2000, Ed Kramer ceased to have an active role in managing the convention, but still owned 34% of the company. In 2011, Kramer sued the organizers, leveling charges that he was not receiving his fair share of the con's profits.Simmons, Andria. "DragonCon faces appeal; Co-founder fights dismissal of case against event" Atlanta Journal-Constitution November 19, 2011 Kramer's relationship with the convention was fully severed in July 2013 in a cash-out merger, at which point the name of the convention and business officially changed to "Dragon Con" (replacing the asterisk with a space).
At the convention's 20th anniversary in 2007, there were 22,000 attendees, and the convention continued to grow, drawing 40,000 attendees in 2010, 57,000 in 2013, and over 80,000 in 2017.
On July 6, 2020, it was announced that Dragon Con had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a virtual event being organized in its place on the original dates. The event announced that it would return for 2021 with enhanced health and safety protocols; it would be capped at around 40,000 attendees, badges would only be sold online and not on-site, masks would be mandatory within indoor spaces, and the Dragon Con parade would only be open to those who hold badges. Some of the virtual features from 2020 would also be maintained, including a "virtual marketplace", and streaming content (including free content and a paid "DragonConTV" streaming membership). On August 17, it was also announced that all attendees must present proof of vaccination for COVID-19 or a negative test from within the past 72 hours in order to claim their badges.
+Dragon Con Date, Location, and AttendanceYearDateLocationEstimated Attendance1987OctoberPierremont Plaza Hotel1,4001988OctoberPierremont Plaza Hotel1,7001989October 6 – October 8The Omni Hotel & Convention Center3,2001990June 28 – July 1Atlanta Hilton & Towers, Atlanta Radisson6,9001991July 12 – July 14Atlanta Hilton & Towers5,2001992July 17 – July 19Atlanta Hilton & Towers6,1001993July 16 – July 18Atlanta Hilton & Towers8,0001994July 15 – July 17Atlanta Hilton & Towers, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta Civic Center11,0001995July 13 – July 16Atlanta Hilton & Towers, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta Ramada14,0001996June 20 – June 23Atlanta Hilton & Towers, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta Civic Center13,4001997June 26 – June 29The Inforum Convention Center, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta Civic Center18,0001998September 3 – September 6Hyatt Regency, The AmericasMart18,0001999July 1 – July 3Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta Merchandise Mart, Atlanta Apparel Mart19,0002000June 29 – July 2Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta Merchandise Mart, Atlanta Apparel Mart20,0002001August 31 – September 3Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis20,000+2002August 30 – September 2Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis20,000+2003August 29 – September 1Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis20,000+2004September 3 – September 6Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis20,000+2005September 2 – September 5Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton20,000+2006September 1 – September 4Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton25,000+2007August 31 – September 3Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton30,000+2008August 30 – September 2Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton30,000+2009September 4 – September 7Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton30,000+2010September 3 – September 6Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton30,000+2011September 2 – September 5Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza46,000+2012August 31 – September 3Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza53,000+2013August 30 – September 2Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart57,000+2014August 29 – September 1Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart62,000+2015September 4 – September 7Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart70,000+2016September 2 – September 5Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart77,000+2017August 31 – September 4Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart80,000+2018August 30 – September 3Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hilton Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart 1 & 280,0002019August 29 – September 5Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hilton Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart 1 & 285,000+2020September 3 – September 7Held Online due to the COVID-19 pandemic2021September 2 – September 6Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hilton Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart 1 & 242,0002022September 1 – 5Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hilton Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Sheraton, Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart 2 & 365,0002023August 31 – September 4Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hilton Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Courtland Grand Hotel (Formerly Sheraton), Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart 2 & 370,000+2024August 29 – September 2Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hilton Atlanta, Marriott Marquis, Courtland Grand Hotel (Formerly Sheraton), Westin Peachtree Plaza, AmericasMart 2 & 372,000 |
Dragon Con | Scheduled events | Scheduled events |
Dragon Con | Programming | Programming
thumb|Artist Don Rosa at the artist area of Dragon Con in 2009
thumb|Voice actors D.C. Douglas and Maurice LaMarche, Dragon Con, 2021
As of 2008, Dragon Con was a four-day event comprising approximately 3500 hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, and workshops, with over 30 specialized programming tracks that include writing, alternate history, art, anime, gaming, science fiction and fantasy literature, comic books, costuming, space, science, online media, independent film, podcasting, Asian cinema and culture, robotics, filk, scientific skepticism, Star Trek, Star Wars, Military Scifi Media, X-Files, apocalyptic themes, Anne McCaffrey's Pern, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, British and American science fiction television, dark fantasy, the Dragon Con Independent Short Film Festival, and general programming which specific Guests of Honor attend (e.g., Clive Barker's Lost Souls and Storm Constantine's Grissecon).
As of 2017, Dragon Con is a five-day event, beginning the Thursday before Labor Day.2017 Dragon Con attendance badge. |
Dragon Con | Music and film | Music and film
From its origin, music has also been a significant feature of Dragon Con, with performances by groups and artists such as Abney Park, Blue Öyster Cult, The Crüxshadows, Celldweller, Ego Likeness, I:Scintilla, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Bella Morte, Chick Corea, Edgar Winter, Emerald Rose, Ghost of the Robot, Godhead, Iced Earth, Voltaire, Jefferson Starship, The Misfits, GWAR, Man or Astroman?, The Bloodhound Gang, Spock's Beard, and Mindless Self Indulgence.
thumb|Audience for a 2011 Dragon*Con Panel
The Dragon Con Independent Short Film Festival presents the "finest independent short films of the fantastic". Awards are distributed for a number of categories. |
Dragon Con | Gaming | Gaming
Dragon Con hosts a variety of gaming sessions and tournaments. These include board games, miniature games, collectible card games, console games, live action and other role-playing games, tables hosted by gaming companies, and panel sessions. |
Dragon Con | Awards | Awards
In 1998, Dragon Con established the Julie Award, in honor of Julius "Julie" Schwartz, bestowed by a panel of industry professionals in honor of "universal achievement spanning multiple genres". Schwartz presented the award each year prior to his death in early 2004. The inaugural recipient was Ray Bradbury; additional recipients of the award include Forrest Ackerman, Yoshitaka Amano, Alice Cooper, Will Eisner, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Carmine Infantino, Anne McCaffrey, Jim Steranko, Peter David, and Paul Dini.
In March 2016, Dragon Con announced the introduction of "Dragon Awards", a fan-voted award "to recognize outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy literature, comics, gaming and filmed entertainment". The award process consists of a nomination step, where each voter can nominate one work of choice in every category, and a voting step where the nominated works are voted for to receive the award. The nominations and votes are collected electronically. Participation is freely available to everyone, without cost or requirement of membership. The finalist shortlist for the first edition of the awards was announced on August 11, 2016; the winners were announced on September 4.
Additional awards include the Futura Award, paying homage to the Fritz Lang masterpiece Metropolis; the Parsec Awards; and the Georgia Fandom Award, renamed in 2008 as the Hank Reinhardt Award, after its first recipient. |
Dragon Con | Parade | Parade
In 2002, Dragon Con began hosting a parade through downtown Atlanta, which ran from Centennial Olympic Park to the Marriott Marquis, and featured thousands of costumed participants.Dragon*Con Parade Information The parade is an annual event, televised by WUPA-TV and streamed online. |
Dragon Con | Economic impact | Economic impact
In 2015, Dragon Con attracted some 70,000+ attendees and had a direct economic impact of $65 million, as reported by the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. According to statistics provided by Georgia State University, Robinson College of Business, Dragon Con brought in over $21 million.
Dragon Con routinely raises funds for designated charities. In 2005, Dragon*Con raised US$20,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Charity efforts continued with US$104,000 sent to the Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency in 2016, including a US$50,000 corporate match. In 2013, fans voted in advance to determine the charities. From 2005 through 2012, the con raised and donated almost $224,000. |
Dragon Con | References | References |
Dragon Con | External links | External links
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William Burnett (physician) | Short description | thumb|Sir William Burnett by Sir Martin Archer Shee ()
Sir William Burnett, KCB, FRS (16 January 1779 – 16 February 1861) was a British physician who served as Physician-General of the Royal Navy. |
William Burnett (physician) | Early life | Early life
Burnett was born in Montrose, Scotland on 16 January 1779 and attended Montrose Grammar School. He was appointed surgeon's mate on board the Edgar soon after his arrival at Edinburgh to pursue his medical studies. Later he served as assistant-surgeon in the Goliath under Sir John Jervis, and was present at St. Vincent and the siege of Cadiz. He also served with distinction at battles of the Nile and Trafalgar. |
William Burnett (physician) | Prison hospitals | Prison hospitals
Between 1805 and 1810 Burnett was in charge of the hospitals for prisoners of war at Portsmouth and Forton. His diligence in his most arduous hospital duties recommended Burnett in 1810 for the office of Physician and Inspector of Hospitals to the Mediterranean Fleet. His health deteriorated and he returned to England towards the end of 1813; but in March 1814 he was able to undertake the medical charge of the Russian fleet in the Medway, which was suffering severely from fever. He combined with this the charge of the prisoners of war at Chatham, among whom a virulent fever was raging. On the completion of this service Burnett settled at Chichester as a physician until 1822, when Lord Melville offered him a seat at the Victualling Board as colleague of Dr. Weir, then Chief Medical Officer of the Navy. |
William Burnett (physician) | Physician-General | Physician-General
Later he became Physician-General of the Royal Navy (later renamed Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy) and introduced valuable reforms, including requiring regular classified returns of diseases from naval medical officers, urging the erection of, and largely planned, the Melville Hospital at Chatham for naval patients, and introducing more humane treatment of naval lunatics at Haslar.
In 1841, the naval medical corps testified their high regard for the benefits he had conferred on the service by presenting him with his full-length portrait by Sir Martin Archer Shee and a service of plate. He was largely instrumental in securing a better position for assistant-surgeons in the navy.
Burnett was an elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1833. He was knighted on 25 May 1831, appointed physician-in-ordinary to King William IV on 13 April 1835, and soon after created a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order. He was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Victoria in 1850.
Burnett retired in 1855 and was succeeded as Director-General by Sir John Liddell. On retirement he settled at Chichester, where he died on 16 February 1861.
Burnett Bay in the Northwest Territories, Canada was named for Burnett.Gazetteer of the Northwest Territories |
William Burnett (physician) | Burnettizing | Burnettizing
In 1839 Burnett was granted a British patent for Burnettizing, the application under pressure of an aqueous solution of zinc chloride to ropes, canvas and timber as a preservative. The Admiralty found the process to be effective but when Burnett attempted to diversify into business on his own behalf, particularly the supply of treatments for railway construction timbers, it was to the detriment of his naval career. |
William Burnett (physician) | Footnotes | Footnotes |
William Burnett (physician) | Publications | Publications
An Account of the Effect of Mercurial Vapours on the Crew of His Majesty's Ship Triumph, in the Year 1810 - William Burnett (1823) |
William Burnett (physician) | References | References
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Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai | Short description | Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (5 April 1901 – 31 August 1950) was an Indian mathematician specialising in number theory. His contribution to Waring's problem was described in 1950 by K. S. Chandrasekharan as "almost certainly his best piece of work and one of the very best achievements in Indian Mathematics since Ramanujan". |
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai | Biography | Biography
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai was born to parents Subbayya Pillai and Gomati Ammal. His mother died a year after his birth and his father when Pillai was in his last year at school.
Pillai did his intermediate course and B.Sc. Mathematics in the Scott Christian College at Nagercoil and managed to earn a B.A. degree from Maharaja's college, Trivandrum.
In 1927, Pillai was awarded a research fellowship at the University of Madras to work among professors K. Ananda Rau and Ramaswamy S. Vaidyanathaswamy. He was from 1929 to 1941 at Annamalai University where he worked as a lecturer. It was in Annamalai University that he did his major work in Waring's problem. In 1941 he went to the University of Travancore and a year later to the University of Calcutta as a lecturer (where he was at the invitation of Friedrich Wilhelm Levi).Raghavan Narasimhan The coming of age of mathematics in India, in Michael Atiyah u.a. Miscellanea Mathematica, Springer Verlag 1991, S. 250f
For his achievements he was invited in August 1950, for a year to visit the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, United States. He was also invited to participate in the International Congress of Mathematicians at Harvard University as a delegate of the Madras University but he died during the crash of TWA Flight 903 in Egypt on the way to the conference. |
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai | Contributions | Contributions
He proved the Waring's problem for in 1935 under the further condition of ahead of Leonard Eugene Dickson who around the same time proved it for
He showed that where is the largest natural number and hence computed the precise value of .
The Pillai sequence 1, 4, 27, 1354, ..., is a quickly growing integer sequence in which each term is the sum of the previous term and a prime number whose following prime gap is larger than the previous term. It was studied by Pillai in connection with representing numbers as sums of prime numbers. |
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai | References | References
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Playa Girón | Use dmy dates | Note: "Playa Girón" is also the title of a song included in the album "Días y Flores", by Silvio Rodriguez.
Playa Girón (; "Girón beach") is a beach and village on the east bank of the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), which is located in the province of Matanzas, on the southern coast of Cuba. It is part of the municipality of Ciénaga de Zapata. |
Playa Girón | Geography | Geography
Playa Girón is located in one of the largest wetlands in the world, the Ciénaga de Zapata (Zapata Swamp). The adjoining village of Girón was named after the notorious French pirate Gilberto Giron (c.1604).Rodriguez (1999), p.115 |
Playa Girón | History | History |
Playa Girón | Bay of Pigs Invasion | Bay of Pigs Invasion
In April 1961, Playa Girón was one of two landing sites for seaborne forces of about 1,500 armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attemptInfo on CIA website to overthrow the new government of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. Over 72 hours, fighting took place in many parts of the Cienaga de Zapata, Playa Girón being the last remaining area occupied by the invaders. Today, the Museo Girón is a small museum dedicated to the historical conflict. |
Playa Girón | Other | Other
Since 1962 the Campeonato Nacional de Boxeo Playa Girón amateur boxing tournament is held at the beach; winners have included Teófilo Stevenson and Juan Hernández. |
Playa Girón | Music | Music
The Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodríguez composed a song called Playa Girón, dedicated to the fishermen in a boat with that name in which he worked from 1969 to 1970. This song was later included in the album Dias y Flores (Days & Flowers), published in 1975. However, the Playa Girón theme has a double meaning. It refers to both the boat and the conflict won by Cuban government forces. Not to be confused with Prelude Giron, another song by Silvio Rodríguez that also addresses the issue of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Another possible explanation, suggested by the lyrics themselves, is that the song is a reference to the preludes of the infamous Quinquenio Gris, the Grey Quinquennial. |
Playa Girón | Gallery | Gallery |
Playa Girón | Bibliography | Bibliography
Rodriguez, Juan Carlos. 1999. Bay of Pigs and the CIA. Ocean Press. Melbourne. |
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