Yuri Alexandrovich Meshkov (,  (Yuri Alexandrovich Meshkov); October 25, 1945 – September 29, 2019)  was a Crimean politician. He was a leader of the pro-Russian movement in Crimea. Meshkov was the only President of Crimea from 1994 to 1995.

Yuri Meshkov was born on October 25, 1945 in Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine (now Ukraine) of a mother of Ukrainian origin and a Russian father of Kossan Cossacks. He grew up in Simferopol, where he finished high school. When he was about eight years old, the Crimea region was officially transferred from the Russian RSFS to the Ukrainian SSR. For his military duties, he served in the Border Guard. In 1967 (in some sources in 1977), he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Moscow State University. Until 1982, he worked as a detective and then as chief inspector in the district attorney's office. From 1982 to 1985, he spent time on the Skif scientific research yacht. After 1985 and until 1990, he worked privately as a legal consultant. At that time, he was also one of the heads of the "Memorial" department of the Crimean Illuminating Society "All-Union" and president of the Crimean kick-boxing Federation.

In 1990, Meshkov was elected deputy to the Supreme Council of Crimea (the parliament of the republic). There, he became the co-founder of the RDK (Republican Crimean Movement) party. In 1994, he headed the electoral block "Russia" for the Republican presidential elections, where he easily defeated Mykola Bahrov in the second round. Mykola Bahrov was at that time head of the Supreme Council of Crimea. In the second round of the presidential elections in Crimea in 1994, Meshkov won 72.9% and was elected only president of the republic.

Its main political program was to facilitate much closer relations with the Russian Federation until the possible reunification of Crimea with Russia. Mechkov tried to initiate a political-military union with Russia and completely ignored the positions of the Ukrainian government. He also tried to force the rotation of the Russian currency, issue Russian passports to the population of Crimea and even transfer Crimea to the same time zone as Moscow. Due to the unexpected resistance of the local opposition, Meshkov only managed to place his autonomous republic in the Moscow time zone. He also appointed the Deputy Prime Minister, Russian economist Yevgeny Saburov, who has practically become the head of government. He then said in confrontations with other government officials about the legitimacy of his designee that he did not even have a Ukrainian passport. Because of this, Yevgeny Saburov was forced to resign. After that, he managed to paralyze the work of the Supreme Council of Crimea.

In 1995, the Ukrainian Parliament repealed the Crimean Constitution and abolished the office of president on March 17, 1995. After some previous warnings in September and November 1994 on March 17, 1995, the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma , signed the law of Ukraine that repeals the amended Constitution of Crimea and some other laws of the Republic of Crimea, because they were contrary to the Constitution of Ukraine and jeopardized the sovereignty of Ukraine.

References

Prime Ministers of Crimea
1945 births
2019 deaths

Yuriy Meshkov


Benjamin Bayl is a Dutch and Australian conductor who works with symphony and chamber orchestras, opera houses and period instrument orchestras in Europe, Asia and Australia.

Early life and education
In 1997, Bayl was the first Australian to become Organ Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, and he later studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Colin Metters and George Hurst.

Career
In his earlier years he played basso continuo for Concerto Copenhagen, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, The English Concert, The Sixteen, Gabrieli Consort & Players and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts.

In 2006 he was appointed Assistant Conductor to the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer at the beginning of his career.

He is a founder and conductor of Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (formerly orchestra seventeen88), Artistic Director of Odissea Orchestra & Choir and was founder and Artistic Director of London's Orchestra of the City and Saraband Consort. He continues to work in Budapest and with the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin. He was also Assistant Artistic Director of the Gabrieli Consort.

He has made debuts in recent seasons with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Musikfest Berlinin the Berlin Philharmonie, and Ruhrtrienniale Festival), Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónicadel Principado de Asturias, Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano, Britten Sinfonia, The Hanover Band, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent, and the Scandinavian orchestras of Gävle, Umeå, Drottningholm, Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg, Sønderjyllands and Copenhagen Philharmonic.

In the world of opera, he has conducted for Opera Australia (Orlando), Staatsoper Berlin / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Fairy Queen/AscheMond), Opera de Oviedo (Agrippina), Royal Danish Opera (Don Giovanni), Den Jyske Opera (Così fan tutte), NorrlandsOperan (Le nozze di Figaro), Taipei Symphony Orchestra (La Clemenza di Tito), Teatro Comunale di Sassari (Carmen) and English Touring Opera (Ariodante). He also conducted Dido & Aeneas and Fairy Queen in Berlin, Split and Zagreb Summer Festivals, Handel's Acis & Galatea and Arne's Judgement of Paris at the Wigmore Hall, Gluck's Il parnaso confuso at London's South Bank Centre, and both Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Cavalli's Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne for Københavns Musikteater. In the world of oratorio he has
conducted the major works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart with both period and modern orchestras.

Benjamin has relationships with opera houses in Vienna, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Strasbourg, Copenhagen, and Sydney, with conductors including Gardiner, Maazel, Bolton, Bicket, and Hickox. He is Assistant Conductor and fortepianist for the new Deutsche Grammophon Mozart Operas cycle, having so far recorded Don Giovanni with Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Così fan tutte & Le nozze di Figaro with Chamber Orchestra of Europe, both with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Other collaborations include Otello with Daniel Harding and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Giulio Cesare with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le concert d'Astrée at Opéra National de Paris, and Gluck's Alceste with Ivor Bolton and Freiburger Barockorchester at the Wiener Staatsoper. He was also conductor-on-set for Juan, a new feature film based on Don Giovanni and directed by Kasper Holten.

References

External links
Conductor's website
Benjamin Bayl's profile at Crescendi Artists – an international artist management of reference for classical singers, instrumentalists, conductors, and choirs, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Benjamin Bayl's profile at Stage Door – one of the leading artists management agencies in the world and represents fine and well-known artists as well as new vocal talents who perform on the world's most prestigious stages.
BBC Muzic Artist Page
Conductor's YouTube channel
Bachtrack's Performer Page

Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
Australian conductors (music)
Living people
British male conductors (music)
1978 births
Musicians from Sydney
21st-century British conductors (music)
21st-century British male musicians
Organ Scholars of King's College, Cambridge

Benjamin Bayl


The Capt. Goodgame House is a historic house at 45 Highway 128 in Holly Springs, Arkansas.  Built in 1918, this single story wood-frame house is an unusual late and high quality example of a vernacular style of house architecture more typically seen in 19th century construction in the area.  It has a gable roof, and is clad in novelty siding.  A porch extends across the front facade, supported by plain chamfered posts.  The gable ends of the roof are extended, with full pediments, and the door and window surrounds are more elaborate than are typically seen in the area.  The interior of the house follows a standard central hall plan, but the detailing is again of a particularly high quality.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Arkansas

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1918
Houses in Dallas County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Arkansas

Capt. Goodgame House


Big Brothers Big Sisters is a non-profit federation with a focus on mentoring programs for youth since 1913. The Big Brothers Big Sisters movement in Canada provides services to 41,700 youth in over 1,100 communities.

Programs
Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies offer a range of mentoring programs to meet the needs of Canadian children and families. In the traditional one-to-one mentoring program, one youth and one adult mentor meet twice a month for at least one year. Big Brothers Big Sisters also operates group mentoring programs for teenagers and clubs for newcomer Canadian youth.

Impact
In 2013, the Boston Consulting Group conducted a research study on the impact of Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring programs. The study concluded that every dollar spent on Big Brothers Big Sisters results in a $18-$23 social return on investment based on increased earnings, charitable contributions, and volunteerism. In addition, former mentees described the mentoring relationship as a "transformational moment" that improved their confidence, happiness, and mental health.

History
The youth mentoring movement began in the USA in 1904, when a young New York City court clerk named Ernest Coulter was seeing more and more boys come through his courtroom. He recognized that caring adults could help many of these kids stay out of trouble, and he set out to find volunteers. He asked a number of his friends to spend some of their time – lending a hand to youngsters, starting with 39 volunteers. That marked the beginning of the Big Brothers movement. By 1916, Big Brothers had spread to 96 cities across the United States.

In 1912, similar events took place in Canada and the first Canadian Big Sister agency formed in Toronto. Closely afterwards, in 1913, the first Canadian Big Brother program began in Toronto. Both groups continued to work independently until 1977, when Big Brothers of America and Big Sisters International (in America) joined forces and became Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. In 2001 a similar merger occurred between the two Canadian organizations and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada was formed. Interest grew from outside North America, spurring the formation of Big Brothers Big Sisters International to help other countries get started and facilitate communications between countries running similar programs.

References

External links
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada - Mission/Vision
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada

Mentorships
Children's charities based in Canada

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada


United Nations Security Council Resolution 1943, adopted unanimously on October 13, 2010, after reaffirming all resolutions on the situation in Afghanistan and terrorism, including resolutions 1267 (1999), 1368 (2001), 1373 (2001), 1386 (2001), 1510 (2003), 1822 (2008), 1833 (2008), 1890 (2009), 1904 (2009) and 1917 (2010), the Council extended the authorisation of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operating in the country for a period of one year.

The resolution was drafted by Turkey.

Resolution

Observations
In the preamble of the resolution, the Council reiterated its support for the eradication of international terrorism. It determined that the Afghan authorities were ultimately responsible for maintaining order in the country and the assistance provided by ISAF in this regard. The Council recognised that advances in areas relating to security, governance, human rights, law enforcement, development, anti-narcotics, anti-corruption and accountability were all linked. Furthermore, it recognised the support of the international community for a phased transition of responsibilities from NATO to the Afghan authorities, and the role of the international community in training and supporting the Afghan National Security Forces. The United Nations, through its Assistance Mission in the country, would play a role in promoting peace and security.

Meanwhile, the Security Council was concerned about and condemned the increased violence and terrorism in the country by the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other groups, as well as stronger links between terrorism and the illegal drug trade. It urged greater efforts by the Afghan government to tackle drug trafficking. There was also concern at the high number of civilian victims of the conflict, caused primarily by the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other groups according to the council, while progress was noted in reducing civilian casualties by ISAF and other international forces. Additionally, the Council expressed concern at the use and recruitment of child soldiers by the Taliban, and the use of civilians as human shields was strongly condemned.

The Council acknowledged progress with security sector reform, though it determined that more progress was necessary with regard to impunity, strengthening judicial institutions, prison sector reform, human rights (particularly those of women and girls) and the rule of law. It also urged Afghan political parties to engage in political dialogue.

Acts
Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the authorisation given to ISAF to operate in Afghanistan was extended for an additional year, until October 13, 2011, with all states participating in the force authorised to use "all necessary measures" to fulfil its mandate. The Council requested further contributions towards ISAF in order for it to meet its operational requirements.

Meanwhile, the resolution emphasised the importance of strengthening the Afghan security sector and urged troop-contributing countries to continue training Afghan security forces. It welcomed the increasing responsibility of the Afghan security forces with the aim of a self-sufficient and accountable security sector. Finally, the Security Council was to be kept informed on developments in Afghanistan through the ISAF leadership and the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

See also
 War in Afghanistan (1978–present)
 List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1901 to 2000 (2009–2011)
 Operation Enduring Freedom
 United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
 War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

References

External links

Text of the Resolution at undocs.org

 1943
2010 in Afghanistan
 1943
October 2010 events


Uniform national swing, or UNS is a system for translating opinion polls, which give overall vote proportions, to expected eventual parliamentary seats in a constituency based first past the post system, as in the UK general elections. Under the uniform national swing, changes in the vote proportions (swing) since the previous election are assumed to be constant across all constituencies. By applying this change to the previous per-constituency based vote proportions, a prediction for which party would have the most votes in each constituency may be made, which is then counted and totalled for a final seat count.

Alternative methods exist, such as the proportional national swing system. However, UNS has proven acceptably accurate in the past, and so is commonly used in UK media for seat count predictions.

External links
 BBC seat calculator using UNS, for the 2010 United Kingdom general election

Political terminology

Uniform national swing


The Andaman Sea or Burma Sea  is a body of water to the southeast of the Bay of Bengal.  It is south of Burma, west of Thailand and east of the Andaman Islands, India. It is part of the Indian Ocean.

The sea has been used for fishery and transportation of goods between the coastal countries.  Its coral reefs and islands are popular for tourism. Many building were badly  damaged by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

The average depth of the sea is about 1,000 meters (3,300 ft). The northern and eastern parts are shallower than 180 meters (600 ft) due to the silt deposited by the Irrawaddy River. This major river flows into the sea from the north through Burma. The western and central areas are 900–3,000 meters deep (3,000–10,000 ft). Less than 5% of the sea is deeper than 3,000 meters (10,000 ft).  In a system of submarine valleys east of the Andaman-Nicobar Ridge, the depth is more than 4,000 meters (13,200 ft). The sea floor is covered with pebbles, gravel and sand.

Flora
The coastal areas of the Andaman Sea have mangrove forests and seagrass meadows. The mangrove roots trap soil and sediment.  They provide shelter and are a nursery for fish and small aquatic organisms. Their body protects the shore from the wind and waves. Their detritus are a part of the aquatic food chain.

Other important sources of nutrients in the Andaman Sea are seagrass and the mud bottoms of lagoons and coastal areas. Many aquatic species move from and to seagrass either daily or at certain stages of their life cycle.

Fauna

The sea waters along the Malay Peninsula favor molluscan growth. There are about 280 edible fish species belonging to 75 families. Of those, 232 species (69 families) are found in mangroves and 149 species (51 families) live in seagrass. 101 species are common to both places. The sea also has many vulnerable fauna species, including dugong, several dolphin species, such as Irrawaddy Dolphin and four species of sea turtles: critically endangered leatherback turtle and hawksbill turtle and threatened green turtle and Olive Ridley turtle. There are only about 150 dugongs in the Andaman Sea, scattered between Ranong and Satun provinces.

Volcanic activity

To the east of the main Great Andaman island group, is Barren Island.  Barren Island is the only presently active volcano associated with the Indian subcontinent. This island-volcano is  in diameter and rises 354 meters above the seal level. Its recent activity started again in 1991 after a quiet period of almost 200 years. The last eruption has started on 13 May 2008 and still continues. The volcanic island of Narcondam which is further to the north.  No records exist of its activity.

References

Other websites

Seas of the Indian Ocean
Geography of Thailand
Geography of Myanmar

Andaman Sea


Philip V (French: Philippe V;  1293 — 3 January 1322) nicknamed the Tall (French: le Long) was the King of France from 1316 until his death in 1322. He was also the King of Navarre (as Philip II) from 1314 until his death in 1322, and also the Regent of France during the interregnum between the death of his older brother Louis X and the birth of Louis' posthumous son, John I and also during the reign of the short-lived king.

Philip was the second son of King Philip IV of France and Queen Joan I of Navarre. As the second son, he never expected to become king. He was granted an appanage, the County of Poitiers, while his elder brother, Louis, inherited the French and Navarrese thrones. However, when Louis inherited the French  throne after his father's death in 1314, Louis gave the Navarrese throne to Philip and he became the King of Navarre as Philip II. When Louis died two years later in 1316, he left a daughter, Joan and a pregnant wife, Clementia of Hungary. Philip successfully claimed the regency. Clementia gave birth to a boy John who was immediately proclaimed after his birth king as John I, but the infant king lived only for five days.

After the death of his nephew, Philip immediately had himself crowned at Reims. However, his legitimacy was challenged by the party of Louis X's daughter Joan. Philip successfully contested her claims for a number of reasons, including her youth, doubts regarding her paternity (her mother was involved in the Tour de Nesle Affair), and the Estates General's determination that women should be excluded from the line of succession to the French throne. The succession of Philip, instead of Joan, set the precedent for the French royal succession that would be known as the Salic law.

Philip restored good relations with the County of Flanders, which had entered into open rebellion during his father's rule, but simultaneously his relations with his brother-in-law Edward II of England worsened as Edward, who was also the Duke of Guyenne, refused to swear homage to him. A spontaneous popular crusade started in Normandy in 1320 aiming to liberate the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors. Instead the angry populace marched to the south attacking castles, royal officials, priests, lepers, and Jews. Philip engaged in a series of domestic reforms intended to improve the management of the kingdom. These reforms included the creation of an independent Court of Finances, the standardization of weights and measures, and the establishment of a single currency.

In 1307 Philip married Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, with whom he had four daughters. The couple however, produced no male heirs, therefore, when Philip died from dysentery in 1322, he was succeeded by his younger brother Charles IV.

Philip as seen as one of France's greatest kings. Like his predecessors, he established a system of local militias under officers responsible to the crown. He also increased the efficiency of government machinery at all levels and checked the abuses of local officials. He also stabilized the country and kept France in peace.

1293 births
1322 deaths
House of Capet
Kings and Queens of France

Philip V of France


Mount Selinda is a village and mission station in the province of Manicaland in the eastern mountains of Zimbabwe. Its altitude is 1,100 meters.

Mount Selinda is on the very edge of the Chirinda Forest Botanical Reserve – the southernmost tropical rainforest in Africa. It is at the southern end of the Eastern Highlands mountain range which separates Zimbabwe from neighboring Mozambique. The Indian Ocean is about 400 kilometers away.

Flora and fauna

The Mount Selinda area is home to a variety of indigenous African flora, fungi, birds, butterflies, insects and reptiles. This is mainly due to being near the Chirinda Forest Botanical Reserve, which is protected by law.

Among the hundreds of indigenous trees found in Mount Selinda are: Red mahogany, Brown mahogany, Natal mahogany, Albizia, White stinkwood, Chirinda stinkwood, Ironwood and colossal specimens of strangling figs. The largest Red Mahogany tree in southern Africa stands at Mount Selinda.

Other smaller flora include thousands of specimens of the yucca-like Dracaena fragrans, numerous ferns, creepers, vines, epiphytes, montbretia, orchids and flame lilies.

Mount Selinda boasts a dazzling array of bird life, with Trumpeter hornbills, Livingstone's turaco, African pygmy kingfishers, Firefinches, Sunbirds, African green pigeons, Owls, Nightjars, Eagles and Bee-eaters.

The reptile population includes pythons, cobras, vipers, mambas, adders, chameleons, geckos, skinks and lizards. The endemic Marshall's pygmy chameleon, Rhampholeon marshalli, is found within the forest and at the forest margin.

The variety and brilliant colors of butterflies in the area is also noteworthy.

Agriculture
Avocadoes, tea, bananas, sweet potatoes, taro, citrus, pineapples, sugarcane, coffee, macadamia nuts are grown in the area. There are also commercial timbers such as eucalyptus, wattle and pine. Dairy farming is also a part of the agriculture.

References

Cities in Zimbabwe

Mount Selinda


Denis Richards OBE (10 September 1910 – 25 November 2004) was a British historian. He is famous for his work on the history of the Royal Air Force, including the three-volume official history of the service during World War II, which was co-written with Hilary St. George Saunders.

Richards came from London and was educated at Owen's School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1931 he graduated from Cambridge University with a double first in history. For the next eight years he was a master at Manchester Grammar School, teaching both history and English. From 1939 to 1941 he taught the same subjects at Bradfield College, near Reading, as a senior tutor.

War service then called him and he joined the RAF. Within a very short time he was ordered to report to the historical section of the Air Ministry. His staff eventually came to number 40, and he held the position of senior narrator from 1943 to 1947. He began to write the official history of the RAF during World War II when he was the senior narrator. It was eventually published in three volumes in 1953 and 1954. In 1947 he was promoted within the Air Ministry to a principal, a post in which he remained until 1950. Richards published in his lifetime more than a dozen books, half on RAF history.

After his time in the RAF, and whilst completing the official history, he became involved with Morley College in south London. He worked strenuously to raise funds for the rebuilding of the institution. The college benefitted from paintings he commissioned, and many young musicians later to find fame, took part in concerts he staged.

He had a number of hobbies, including snooker and golf. He was heavily involved with Hampstead Golf Club after joining it in 1951. He also engaged in voluntary work, chairing the Women's League for Health and Beauty for 22 years between 1966 and 1988 and also acting as a vice president of the Purcell School of Young Musicians from 1984 until his death. He continued to publish works into his old age, and he was awarded the OBE in 1990.

References

 The Guardian obituary

Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1910 births
2004 deaths
Historians of World War II
Air force historians
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
Writers from London
People educated at Dame Alice Owen's School
20th-century British historians

Denis Richards


The Last Town on Earth is a 2006 novel by American writer Thomas Mullen.  The novel explores events in the fictional town of Commonwealth, Washington in 1918 during World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic. The town agrees to quarantine itself from the outside world, hoping to escape the international epidemic of the flu. Phillip Worthy, the adopted son of Charles Worthy, the town founder, brings a lost soldier into the town. While he appears to be healthy, residents begin to suffer the flu, and start to turn against each other.

The politics of the Industrial Workers of the World, American Protective League, and the Four Minute Men, as well as the aftermath of the Everett Massacre, play major roles in the novel. According to the author's afterword, he created the fictional community of Commonwealth inspired by his studies of Gunnison, Colorado (which imposed a quarantine trying to prevent the flu) and the socialist communes in Washington state of Equality Colony, Freeland, and Home. Mullen also cited John M. Barry's 2004 book The Great Influenza as inspiration.

This novel won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 2007. The New York Times Book Review calls it a "remarkable first novel" and praises the novel's "brilliant series of plot twists" and "carefully detailed historical context".

References

2006 novels
Novels set during World War I
James Fenimore Cooper Prize-winning works
Novels set in Washington (state)
Industrial Workers of the World in fiction
Books about labour
2006 debut novels
Spanish flu in popular culture
Novels about influenza outbreaks

The Last Town on Earth


Meredith Merle Nicholson (March 11, 1913 – August 18, 2005) was an American cinematographer.  He worked behind the camera on low-budget films of the 1950s, hit television series in the 1960s, and comedies, dramas, and made-for-TV movies in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1953, Nicholson, along with his two sons and three other partners, created the company Panavision.  While working as an administrator there, he was able to take occasional quick jobs as a cameraman.  He was eventually forced out of Panavision in 1960, and devoted the rest of his career to filming.

Nicholson's first job as cinematographer was working for his friend Richard Cunha on Cunha's second film She Demons in 1958. This was followed by work on Cunha's Frankenstein's Daughter (also in 1958), and Missile to the Moon in 1959.  Nicholson is credited with achieving amazing results on these films, despite severe budget and time limitations.  Each of these films was shot in eight days or fewer.  This allowed time for Nicholson to also work on the film The Decks Ran Red at MGM.

After leaving Panavision, Nicholson joined the production crew of the television series My Three Sons.  He also was the cinematographer on the television series The Blue Angels and two films by Edgar Ulmer, Beyond the Time Barrier and The Amazing Transparent Man.  He later worked on the more obscure films Dangerous Charter, The Devil's Hand, and Escape from Hell Island.

Nicholson's work after these films was exclusively in television. He worked on the series The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, Get Smart, Batman, and The Invaders.  In the 1970s he worked on M*A*S*H, Get Christie Love!, Mork & Mindy, and The Odd Couple.  Nicholson continued to work in television until the late 1980s.  The last television series he worked on was My Sister Sam, which ended in 1988.

Nicholson died on 18 August 2005. He is survived by his daughter Linda Ahern and two sons.

External links

1913 births
2005 deaths
American cinematographers
Panavision

Meredith Merle Nicholson


The following is a list of the notable Regimental Marches for military regiments of the British Army. In addition, all regiments have additional pieces for slow marches, marches for mounted parades and pipe marches.

Units in 1940

Regular Army
Life Guards  :-    -					Milanollo

Royal Horse Guards  :-    -					Aida,  Duchess of Kent

1st King's Dragoon Guards  :-    -				The Radetsky March

Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)  :-    -			Rusty Buckles

3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards)  :-    -	Carabinier's March

4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards  :-    -			St Patrick's Day (former 4th Dragoon Guards had been the Royal Irish)

5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards  :-    -	Soldier's chorus (Faust), Sprig of Shillelagh

1st Royal Dragoons  :-    -					1st Dragoons, Soldier's chorus (Faust),

Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons):-    -				Walk: The Garb of Old Gaul
-    -				Trot: The Keel Row
-    -				Canter: Bonnie Dundee
-    -				Dismounted: Highland Laddie

3rd The King's Own Hussars  :-    -					(Quick) Robert the Devil

-    -	 (slow) The 3rd Hussars
4th Queen's Own Hussars  :-    -				Quick: Berkeley's Dragoons
-    -		                                                Slow: Litany of Loretto
7th Queen's Own Hussars  :-    -				The Bannocks Of Barley Meal

8th King's Royal Irish Hussars  :-    -				The Galloping 8th Hussar

9th Queen's Royal Lancers  :-    -				Men of Harlech

10th Royal Hussars  :-    -					The Merry Month Of May

11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)  :-    -			Moses in Egypt
12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)  :-    -				Coburg March

13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)  :-    -		none

14th/20th Hussars  :-    -					none

15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars  :-    -				Elliot's Light Horse

16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers  :-    -						St Patrick's Day (former 5th Lancers had been Royal Irish)

17th/21st Lancers  :-    -						White Lancers

Royal Tank Regiment  :-    -						My Boy Willie

Royal Artillery  :-    -					British Grenadiers, Keel Row, Bonnie Dundee

Royal Engineers  :-    -						British Grenadiers,  Wings

Royal Corps of Signals  :-  -                                           Begone Dull Care

Grenadier Guards  :-    - Slow: Scipio					Quick:	British Grenadiers

Coldstream Guards  :-    -	Slow: Figaro					Quick: Milanollo

Scots Guards:-    -							Quick: Highland Laddie
-    -							Slow: Garb of Old Gaul

Irish Guards  :-    - Slow:Let Erin Remember							Quick: St Patrick's Day

Welsh Guards  :-    - Slow:	Men of Harlech,                                                         Quick: Rising of the Lark

Royal Scots (Royal Regiment):-    -					Quick: Dumbarton's Drums
-    -					Slow: Garb of Old Gaul
-    -					When Royalty present: The Daughter of the Regiment (commemorating the birth of Queen Victoria, daughter of the regimental colonel, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn)

Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)  :-    -			We'll gang nae mair to yon toun, Braganza

The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)  :-    -			The Buffs

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)  :-    -			Corn Riggs are Bonny, Shall Trelawny Die?

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers  :-    -					British Grenadiers

Royal Warwickshire Regiment  :-    -					Warwickshire Lads

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)  :-    -			British Grenadiers, 7th Royal Fusiliers

King's Regiment (Liverpool)  :-    -					Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen

Royal Norfolk Regiment  :-    -					Rule Britannia

Lincolnshire Regiment  :-    -						Lincolnshire Poacher

Devonshire Regiment  :-    -						We've Lived & Loved Together, Widdicombe Fair

Suffolk Regiment  :-    -							Speed the Plough

Somerset Light Infantry	(Prince Albert's)  :-    -			Prince Albert's March

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)  :-    -			Ça Ira

East Yorkshire Regiment  :-    -						Yorkshire Lass

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment  :-    -				Mountain Rose, Mandolinata

Leicestershire Regiment  :-    -						Romaika, A Hunting Call

Green Howards (Alexandra PoW's Own Yorkshire)  :-    -		Bonnie English Rose

Lancashire Fusiliers  :-    - The Minden March

Royal Scots Fusiliers:-    -						Band: British Grenadiers
-    -						Pipes: Highland Laddie

Cheshire Regiment  :-    -						Wha wadna fetch for Charlie?

Royal Welch Fusiliers  :-    -						British Grenadiers,  Men of Harlech

South Wales Borderers  :-    -						Men of Harlech

King's Own Scottish Borderers:-    -					Blue Bonnets O'er the Border

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles):-  -				Band: Within a mile of Edinboro's Town
-  -				Pipes: 1st Bn: Kenmuir's On An' Awa'
-  -				2nd Bn: The Gathering of the Grahams

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers  :-    -					British Grenadiers, Sprig of Shilelagh

Gloucestershire Regiment  :-    -					Kynegad Slashers, Highland Piper

Worcestershire Regiment  :-    -						Royal Windsor

East Lancashire Regiment  :-    -						Lancashire Lads, The Attack

East Surrey Regiment  :-    -					Quick: A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky

-  -                           Slow: Lord Charles Montague's The Huntingdonshire March
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry  :-    -				One and All/Trelawny

Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)  :-    -				The Wellesley

Border Regiment  :-    -						John Peel

Royal Sussex Regiment  :-    -						The Royal Sussex

Hampshire Regiment  :-    -							The Hampshires, Highland Piper

South Staffordshire Regiment  :-    -					Come Lassies & Lads

Dorsetshire Regiment  :-    -						The Dorsetshires

Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)  :-    -		South Lancashires, God Bless the Prince of Wales

Welch Regiment  :-    -							Ap Shenkin

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment):-    -			Blue Bonnets over the Border, Highland Laddie

Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry  :-    -			Nachtlager in Grenada, Lower Castle Yard

Essex Regiment  :-    -							The Essex, Highland Piper

Sherwood Foresters  :-    -		Young May Moon

Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)  :-    -				The Red Rose

Northamptonshire Regiment  :-    -						The Northamptonshires

Royal Berkshire (Princess Charlotte of Wales) :-    -			Dashing White Sergeant

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment  :-    -				A Hundred Pipers

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry  :-    -			Jockey of York, Jockey to the Fair

King's Shropshire Light Infantry  :-    -				Old Towler

Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)  :-    -		Lass o' Gowrie, Sir Manley Power

King's Royal Rifle Corps  :-    -					Huntesman's Chorus, Lutzow's Wild Hunt

Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's  :-    -				The Wiltshires, The Fly be on the turmits

Manchester Regiment  :-    -						The Manchesters

North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)  :-    -				The Days We went Gypsying

York and Lancaster Regiment  :-    - ?

Durham Light Infantry  :-    -						Light Barque, Old 69th, Keel Row

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regt):-    -  Whistle o'er the lave o't,
-    -  Column: Blue Bonnets over the Border
-    -  Close column: Highland Laddie
-    -  Marching into barracks: Scotland the Brave

Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany's)  :-    -		Highland Laddie
-    -		Band: Blue Bonnets O'er the Border
-    -		Pipes: Pibroch O' Donail Dhu

Gordon Highlanders:-    -						Cock o' the North
-    -						Until 1932: Highland Laddie

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders  :-    -				Pibroch o' Donald Dhu, March of the Cameron Men

Royal Ulster Rifles  :-    -						Off, off, said the Stranger

Royal Irish Fusiliers  :-    -						British Grenadiers
-    -				combination of 			Barrosa, Garry Owen, Norah Creing, St Patrick's Day

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's):-    -		1st Bn The Campbells are Coming
-    -		2nd Bn: Highland Laddie

Rifle Brigade  :-    -							I'm Ninety Five

Royal Army Service Corps  :-    -					Wait for the Wagon

Royal Army Medical Corps  :-    -					Bonny Nell

Royal Army Ordnance Corps  :-    -				Village Blacksmith

Royal Army Pay Corps  :-    -					Imperial Echoes

Royal Army Veterinary Corps  :-    -					Village Blacksmith

Army Dental Corps  :-    -						none

Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers          - Lili Burlero

Territorial Army
Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry:-    -					 Garb of Old Gaul

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry:-    -					 Wee Cooper o' Fife

Lovat Scouts:-    -					 The Lovat Scouts

Scottish Horse:-    -					 The Scottish Horse

7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment:-    -					My Lady Greensleeves

London Scottish:-    -					 Highland Laddie

Liverpool Scottish:-    -					 Glendauruel Highlanders

1st Surrey Rifles-    -					Lutzow's Wild Hunt

Tyneside Scottish:-    -					 Highland Laddie

Units in 2008

 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - Radetsky & Rusty Buckles;
 Royal Dragoon Guards - St Patrick's Day
 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles - Young May Moon;
 9th/12th Royal Lancers - God Bless the Prince of Wales;
 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) - A Life on the Ocean Wave and Balaklava March;
 l4th/20th King's Hussars - Royal Sussex;
 15th/19th king's Royal Hussars - The Bold King's Hussars;
 16th/5th Queen's royal Lancers - Stable Jacket;
 15th Princess Mary's own Gurkha Rifles - Hundred Pipers;
 17th/21st Lancers - The White Lancers;
 22nd (Cheshire) regiment - Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie;
 Adjutant General's corps - Pride of Lions;
 Allied Rapid Reaction Corps - Fortune Favours the Bold;
 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - The Thin Red Line;
 Army Air Corps - Recce Flight;
 Army Benevolent Fund - Action Support; SSAFA - The SSAFA Concert March;
 Army Catering corps - Sugar and Spice;
 Army Legal Corps - Scales of Justice;
 Army Physical Training Corps - Be Fit;
 Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) - Highland Laddie;
 Blues and Royals - Grand March from Aida & The Royals;
 Brigade of Gurkhas - Yo Nepali;
 British Korean Veterans' Association - The Hills of Korea;
 Burma Star Association - On The Road To Mandalay;
 Central flying School - Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines;
 Civil Admin (MOD) - Soldiers First;
 St Dunstans - St Dunstans;
 Coldstream Guards - Milanollo;
 Corps of Royal electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Lillibullero;
 Corps of Royal Engineers - Wings;
 Corps of Royal Military Police - The Watch Tower;
 Corps of Army Music/RMSM - Blow Away the Morning Dew
 Devonshire and Dorset Regiment - Widecombe Fair, We've Lived and Loved Together and The Maid of Glenconnel;
 Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment - The Farmer's Boy;
 Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) - The Wellesley;
 Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles - Old Monmouthshire;
 Dunkirk Veterans Association - Dunkirk Veterans March;
 Fleet Air Arm - Flying Stations;
 Gloucestershire Regiment - The Kinnegad Slashers;
 Gordon Highlanders - Cock o' the North; 2nd
 Green Howards - Bonnie English Rose;
 Grenadier Guards - British Grenadiers;
 Gurkha Signals - Scotland the Brave;
 Special air Service - Marche Des Parachutistes Belges;
 Gurkha Transport Regiment - Wait for the Wagon;
 Gurkha Engineers - Wings;
 Gurkha Military Police - The Watch Tower;
 Highlanders - The Queen's Own Highlanders & Cock o' the North;
 Intelligence corps - The Rose and the Laurel;
 Irish Guards - St Patrick's Day;
 King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles - Lutzow's Wild Hunt;
 King's Own Scottish Borderers - Blue Bonnets Over the Border;
 King's Division - Bond of Friendship;
 King's Royal Hussars - The King's Royal Hussars;
 King's Regiment - The Kingsman;
 King's Own Border Regiment - John Peel & Corn Rigs are Bonnie;
 Life Guards - Milanollo;
 Light Division - The Light Division;
 Light Infantry - Light Infantry;
 Military Provost Staff Corps - The Metropolitan;
 Normandy Veterans' Association - Normandy Veterans;
 Parachute Regiment - Ride of the Valkyries; 7th
 Prince of Wales' Division - God Bless the Prince of Wales;
 Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire - Ca Ira and The Yorkshire Lass;
 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - The Farmer's Boy/The Soldiers of the Queen;
 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps - Gray and Scarlet;
 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service - QARNNS March;
 Queen's Royal Irish Hussars - St Patrick's Day, Berkeley's Dragoons and The Galloping 8th Hussars;
 Queen's Regiment - Soldiers of the Queen;
 Queen's division - The Queensman;
 Queen's Royal Hussars - The Queen's Royal Hussars;
 Queen's Own Hussars - Light Cavalry;
 Queen's Royal lancers - Scarlet and Green;
 Queen's Own Highlanders - Scotland for Ever & Cameron Men;
 Queen's Lancashire Regiment - The Attack & The Red Rose;
 Reconnaissance Corps - Away To The Mountain's Brow;
 Royal Air Force - Royal Air Force March Past
 Royal Air Force Association - RAF Association March;
 Royal Air Force Nursing Service - Skywards;
 Royal Air Force Police - Royal Air Force Police March Past
 Royal Air Force Regiment - Holyrood
 Royal Anglian Regiment - Rule Britannia & Speed the Plough;
 Royal Army Chaplain's Department - Trumpet Voluntary;
 Royal Army Education Corps - Gaudeamus Igitur & The Good Comrade;
 Royal Army Medical Corps - Here's a Health unto His Majesty;
 Royal Army Ordnance Corps - The Village Blacksmith
 Royal Army Pay Corps - Imperial Echoes;
 Royal Army Veterinary Corps - Drink Puppy Drink & A Hunting We Will Go;
 Royal British Legion - The British Legion;
 Royal Corps of Signals - Swift and Sure; Begone Dull Care; The Signaller.
 Royal Corps of Transport - Wait for the Wagon;
 Royal Army Dental Corps - Green Facings;
 Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - The Sphinx and Dragon;
 Royal GreenJackets - Huntsman's Chorus & The Italian Song;
 Royal Hampshire Regiment - The Hampshire;
 Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayreshire Regiment) - Whistle o'er the Lave O't and British Grenadiers:
 Royal Hospital Chelsea - Boys of the Old Brigade
 Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) - The Merry Month of May;
 Royal Irish Rangers - Killaloe;
 Royal Logistic Corps - On Parade;
 Royal Marines - A Life on the Ocean Wave;
 Royal Marine Commandos - Sarie Marais;
 Royal Navy - Heart of Oak;
 Royal Naval Association - Under the White Ensign
 Royal Observer Corps - Skywatch;
 Royal Pioneer Corps - Pioneer Corps;
 Royal Regiment of Artillery - British Grenadiers & Voice of the Guns;
 Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - New Fusilier;  The British Grenadiers
 Royal Regiment of Wales - Men of Harlech;
 Royal Scots - Dumbarton's Drums;
 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - 3DG's;
 5th Royal Inniskilling Guards - Fare ye Well Inniskilling;
 Royal Star and Garter Home - The Royal Star and Garter;
 Royal Tank Regiment - My Boy Willie;
 Royal Welch Fusiliers - The British Grenadiers;
 Scots Guards - Heilan' Laddie;
 Small Arms School Corps - March of the Bowmen;
 Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) - Come Lasses and Lads and The Days We went A-Gipsying;
 Strike Command - Strike Command March Past;
 Sub mariners - Up Periscope;
 Ulster Defence Regiment - Sprig of Shillelagh & Garryowen;
 Welsh Guards - Rising of the Lark;
 Women's Royal Army Corps - Lass of Richmond Hill & Early One Morning;
 Women's Royal Naval Service - Passing By;
 Women's Royal Voluntary Service - The WRVS March.
 Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment - Young May Moon & The Royal Windsor;

Notes

References

 Anon, A War Record of the 21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), 1914–1919, 1927/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2003, .
 Maj R. Money Barnes, The Uniforms and History of the Scottish Regiments, London: Seeley Service, 1956/Sphere 1972.
 C. Digby Planck, The Shiny Seventh: History of the 7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, London: Old Comrades' Association, 1946/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2002, .
 Band of the Royal Corps of Signals. Quick Marches of the British Armed Forces – audio recordings in four volumes

Regimental marches
British Army lists
British military marches

Regimental marches of the British Army


Lene Nielsen (born 31 August 1986 in Hvidovre) is a Danish curler. She was the skip of the 2014 Danish Olympic Curling Team.

Career
Nielsen played in her first international events in 2004, as an alternate for the Madeleine Dupont rink. Even though she was an alternate, she played many games. At the 2004 World Junior Curling Championships, the team finished 6th and at the 2004 Ford World Women's Curling Championship they finished in 8th. They finished in 8th place at the 2004 European Curling Championships.

Later that season, Nielsen was promoted to third on the team and they won a silver medal at the 2005 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival. She then played second on the team at the 2005 World Junior Curling Championships, where the rink finished 4th. At the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship, the rink finished in 10th.

The following season, Nielsen moved to play second for Dorthe Holm's rink. They won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Curling Championships and finished in 8th place at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Also that season, Nielsen skipped the Danish team to a bronze medal finish at the 2006 World Junior Curling Championships.

At this point, Nielsen left the main Danish team to form her own rink. At the 2007 European Curling Championships, she skipped Denmark to a bronze medal. At the 2010 European Curling Championships, she skipped Denmark to a 5th-place finish.

In 2011, Nielsen won her first World Curling Tour event at the International Bernese Ladies Cup. She also won the Danish national championships for the first time as a skip, which gave her the right to represent Denmark at the 2011 Capital One World Women's Curling Championship in Esbjerg. She and her team finished in fourth place after a close loss in the bronze medal game to Wang Bingyu.

She had another successful Euros when her Danish team finished 4th at the 2011 European Curling Championships.  She returned to the world championships in 2012 in Lethbridge, Alberta, but failed to reach the playoffs, finishing with a 5–6 record.

The following season, Nielsen's Danish rink once again finished 4th at the 2012 European Curling Championships. Her team made the World Championships again, but finished with a worse result, a 4–7 record.

Nielsen's rink played in their first Grand Slam event at the 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, where they won two games, but were eliminated before the playoffs. She skipped Denmark at the 2013 European Curling Championships, where they finished in 4th place for the third time in her career.

Nielsen skipped the Danish women's team at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where she was also the flag bearer for Denmark in the opening ceremonies. At the games, she led the team to a 6th-place finish with a 4-5 record.

Grand Slam record

Personal life
Nielsen is employed as an insurance underwriter.

References

External links

Team Lene Nielsen

Video:

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Nelson Harris is Baptist minister and a former mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, having served from 2004 to 2008. A Democrat, he was elected mayor in 2004 with 37% of the vote in a competitive four-way race against Republican Alice Hincker, Independent Delvis "Mac" McCadden, and Independent George A. Sgouros.  Harris had previously served on the school board and city council.

Biography
Harris holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Radford University and a Master of Divinity degree from Southeastern Theological Seminary. Harris has done post-graduate work at Princeton Theological Seminary and Harvard University. He teaches religion and philosophy at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke; and is currently the pastor of Heights Community Church in Roanoke (formerly Virginia Heights Baptist). Harris has also written or compiled several books about the history of Roanoke and the surrounding area. His books include the following titles: Aviation in Roanoke, Downtown Roanoke, Virginia Tech, The Norfolk & Western Railway, Hidden History of Roanoke, Stations and Depots of the Norfolk & Western Railway, Salem and Roanoke County in Vintage Postcards, Roanoke in Vintage Postcards, The Seventeenth Virginia Cavalry, and Greater Raleigh Court: A History of Virginia Heights, Norwich, Raleigh Court and Wasena. Harris has been published in the following periodicals and magazines: The Roanoker, Virginia Southwest, The Student, Log Home Living, Country Collectibles, and Historic Salem.

In 2003, Harris was named a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund, allowing for study and travel in Europe. In 2006, Princeton Seminary named him a Pastoral Fellow for his study in pastoral theology. In 2005, Harris was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Radford University. He later served Radford University as a member of its Board of Visitors from 2006 through 2010, having received a gubernatorial appointment to the board.

In Roanoke's May 2, 2006, municipal elections, Harris and then vice mayor Beverly Fitzpatrick backed a successful slate of three Democrats, running on an independent ticket dubbed "For the City" against the nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties.  The election ended the city's long running debate about the fate of Victory Stadium in favor of Harris' preference to replacing it with separate stadiums at Roanoke's two high schools.  The local Democratic party considered sanctions against Harris for supporting the independent ticket but differences were smoothed out by 2008.  Harris ran for re-election in the May 2008 municipal election but lost to former mayor and fellow Democrat David A. Bowers who ran as an Independent; two other Independents were also in the race: Anita Powell, and George A. Sgouros.

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Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home (c.1450s – 5 September 1506) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier, Lord Chamberlain of Scotland and Warden of the Eastern March.

Life
Lord Home was the son of Alexander Home, Master of Home and Agnes Hepburn, daughter of Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes, father of Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes.  He succeeded his grandfather Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home as Lord Home in 1492. He was a leading participant at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488, in the successful attempt to depose James III with his son James IV in 1488. Following the battle, he was made privy councillor and Lord Chamberlain to the underage King. In June 1497, with the Earl of Angus, he opened talks for the surrender of Perkin Warbeck at 'Jenyn Haugh'.

Marriage and issue
Lord Home married twice. Firstly, he married Isabel Douglas (div. 1476), and had one daughter with her, Anna Home, who married Sir William Cockburn of Langton (d. 1513 at the Battle of Flodden). Secondly, he married Nichola Ker, daughter of Sir George Ker of Samuelston and Mariota Sinclair, with whom he had issue:

Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home
George Home, 4th Lord Home
John Home, Abbot of Jedburgh
Patrick Home
William Home (d. 1516)
Andrew Home
David Home, Prior of Coldingham
Elizabeth Home, married firstly to Thomas Hay, Master of Yester, married secondly to James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran.
Mariota Home, married John Lindsay, 6th Earl of Crawford.
Nichola Home, married firstly to Andrew Herries, 2nd Lord Herries of Terregles (c. 1477 – d. 1513 at the Battle of Flodden), married secondly to Patrick Hepburn.

References

Sources
 Balfour Paul, Sir J., Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh 1904.

1468 births
1506 deaths
Court of James IV of Scotland
Lord High Chamberlains of Scotland
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Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home


Dwight Hamilton Baldwin (September 15, 1821 – August 23, 1899) was a piano manufacturer in the United States, famous as the eponym and introducer of the Baldwin Piano.

Born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, Baldwin began his career as a teacher of the reed organ and violin. He opened a music store in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1862, and became one of the biggest sellers of pianos in the Midwest. Along with inventor John Warren Macy, Baldwin created the first Baldwin piano in 1891, and introduced a grand piano in 1895. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of 78.

External links

Dwight Hamilton Baldwin in geni.com

Piano makers
1821 births
1899 deaths
People from Erie County, Pennsylvania

Dwight Hamilton Baldwin


SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an ore carrier on Lake Superior, carrying iron ore, which sank on November 10, 1975, at around 7:30 p.m. The ship was known for being the biggest of its time, weighing in at around 13,600 tons. The Edmund Fitzgerald was one of the largest "iron boats" working the Great Lakes. Nobody knows how the boat sank; however, it is very possible that the dangerously high weight of its cargo and the violent winds and waves caused the ship to sink. All 29 men aboard the boat died, and to this day, no bodies have been recovered. To remember the men on the S.S. Fitzgerald, a song was written by the Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot and titled The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The song describes the ship itself and touches on some theories on how it may have sunk; interestingly enough, the original song contained the following passage:

 When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya. At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in. He said Fellas, it's been good to know ya

This passage was proven to be false as a dive team sent in to recover the bodies found the main hatch to be in perfect condition. When informed of this, Gordon Lightfoot rewrote the verse to:

 When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya. At 7 p.m., it grew dark, it was then he said, Fellas it's been good to know ya.

References

Other websites
 News story from CBC
 SS Edmund Fitzgerald Online

Ships of Canada

SS Edmund Fitzgerald


Charles Jervis Gilman (February 26, 1824 – February 5, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from Maine, grandnephew of John Taylor Gilman and Nicholas Gilman.

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Gilman attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and pursued classical studies. He was graduated from Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Exeter, New Hampshire. He served as member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1851 and 1852. He moved to Brunswick, Maine and married Alice McKeen Dunlap, and continued the practice of law. He lived in the John Dunlap House, also known as the Gilman Mansion. He served as member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1854 and 1855. He served as member of the State Whig committee.

Gilman was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860. He was interested in introducing waterworks and other public improvements. He died in Brunswick, Maine, on February 5, 1901. He was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery.

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Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov (Ru:Алексе́й Константи́нович Скворцо́в) (9 February 1920 – 8 May 2008) was a Soviet botanist and biologist, a specialist on amentiferous plants—willows (Salix), poplars (Populus), and birches (Betula) as well as plants of the evening primrose family (Onagraceae). A.K. Skvortsov was, at the same time, well known in Russia as an editor in Priroda (Nature) Magazine (1971–2005) and author of many articles on botany, evolutionary biology, and Darwinism.

Career
A botanist of vast erudition, Skvortsov was a surveyor and contributor to many regional floras and a tireless collector of plant specimens. He collected at least 80,000 plant samples while walking across nearly all of the Soviet Union including the most remote regions of Russia and adjacent republics. He traveled in many other countries, including Northern and Central Europe, the United States, India, and China. The establishment of the Herbarium at the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow as a world-class depository with a vast foreign exchange program is largely due to Skvortsov's efforts. He also made additions to the living collection of the
Main Botanical Garden. His approach toward botany and evolution inspired him to undertake experimental work in plant introduction. Together with a team of colleagues and students, he successfully worked on domesticating and improving the taste of blue honeysuckles (Lonicera Section Caerulea). He also developed a cultivar of an apricot hardy in Moscow. Skvortsov played a role as a conservation advocate proposing and facilitating the establishment of a new national park in his homeland, Kaluga Oblast and Smolensk Oblast of Central European Russia. He cared about the natural heritage of his country, but also about preservation of the Russian language. He spoke out for high language standards in scientific publications.

Legacy
A.K. Skvortsov is commemorated in the naming of the following plants:
Festuca skvortsovii E. Alexeev
Salix alexi-skvortsovii A.P. Khokhr.
Legousia skvortsovii Proskur.
Circaea x skvortsovii Boufford
Potamogeton skvortsovii G.Yu. Klinkova
and others.

References

External links
 Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov (Biographic Essay). Translated and compiled by I. Kadis
 "Remembering Alexei K. Skvortsov – A Flora of China Author and Visiting Botanist" by Anthony R. Brach
 List of publications by A.K. Skvortsov
 Six articles by A.K. Skvortsov, translated
 Willows of Russia and adjacent countries. Alexey K. Skvortsov 1968, translated 1999

Further reading
Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov (to the 85th anniversary of his birth)
Yu.K. Vinogradova, A.G. Kuklina, M.G. Pimenov, A.K. Sytin, R.V. Kamelin, B.A. Yurtsev.
Bot. Zhurn. 2005, 90 (1): 125-137 (in Russian)
Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov (to the 60th anniversary of his birth and 35th anniversary of scientific and social activity)
G.M. Proskuryakova, B.A. Yurtsev.
Bull. MOIP, Otd. biol. 1980, 85 (4): 97-104 (in Russian)

1920 births
2008 deaths
Soviet botanists

Alexey Skvortsov


Mark Canterbury (born March 16, 1964) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in the mid to late 1990s under the ring name Henry O. Godwinn. He is also known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s as Shanghai Pierce.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1989–1992)
Canterbury trained under George South and The Italian Stallion before debuting in 1989 under the ring name "Mean" Mark Canterbury. He quickly formed a tag team with Dennis Knight wrestling under the name Tex Slazenger.

World Championship Wrestling (1992–1994)
In October 1992, the duo began wrestling for World Championship Wrestling, with Canterbury adopting the ring name "Shanghai Pierce". Dusty Rhodes suggested that Canterbury wear a mask because Canterbury's good looks could make him too likable for the heel tag team. They remained with the promotion until 1994, with Pierce forced to unmask on the January 29 edition of WCW Saturday Night after losing to Johnny B. Badd.

World Wrestling Federation (1994–1998)

Singles competition (1994–1995)
In mid-1994, Canterbury joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he was renamed "Henry Orpheus Godwinn" (the initials spelling "H.O.G."; his middle name "Orpheus" was never said on television) and given the gimmick of an Arkansan pig farmer who carried a bucket of "slop" to the ring, which he would throw upon his opponents. Canterbury was originally a heel, and assisted the Million Dollar Corporation on several occasions. When the leader of the Corporation, Ted DiBiase, was asked on an episode of WWF Action Zone whether or not Canterbury was a member of the Corporation, DiBiase insulted Canterbury. This inspired Canterbury to turn face by "slopping" DiBiase, and led to a brief feud between Canterbury and Corporation member Sycho Sid.

Godwinn engaged in a feud with the aristocratic Hunter Hearst Helmsley. The feud culminated in December 1995 in an "Arkansas Hog Pen match" that Helmsley won and after which Godwinn tossed Helmsley into the slop.

The Godwinns and Southern Justice (1996–1998)

In January 1996, Canterbury was reunited with Knight, who had been renamed Phineas I. Godwinn. The duo were portrayed as being cousins (later brothers) and were collectively known as "The Godwinns". The two were faces and were managed by Hillbilly Jim. They began to feud with the Body Donnas with Phineas having a crush on Sunny and signed her as their manager. They would beat the Body Donnas for the WWF Tag Team Championships. Eventually Sunny turned on them costing them their titles. The Godwinns feuded with the now heel Smoking Gunns, in losing efforts. In 1997, the Godwinns began a heel turn dropping Hillbilly Jim as a manager and picking up Uncle Cletus. The Godwinns quickly won the tag titles a second time from The Headbangers and began a heated feud with the Legion of Doom, which saw the team attempt to break Road Warrior Hawk's neck. They eventually dropped the titles to LOD in a match on WWF Monday Night Raw that had LOD's career on the line. Soon after that match they attacked and fired Cletus.

In 1997, in a rematch between The Godwinns and the Legion of Doom, Canterbury cracked his C7 vertebra when he fell on his head after taking the Doomsday Device. He was advised by doctors to rest for fifteen weeks, but returned to the ring in less than eight weeks.

In 1998, Canterbury entered the Brawl for All, a shoot-fighting tournament held by the WWF. He lost in the first round to Bradshaw.

Later that year, the Godwinns dropped their pig farmer gimmicks, now going by their real names and wearing sharp suits under the name "Southern Justice", the bodyguards of Tennessee Lee and Jeff Jarrett. Six months later, Canterbury herniated his C7 vertebra and pinched a spinal nerve, necessitating spinal fusion surgery. This came as a result of him returning to the ring too early after his neck injury. He eventually left the WWF and retired, due to the neck injury suffered in 1998.

Return to WWE

Deep South Wrestling (2006–2007)
In September 2006, Canterbury wrestled several tryout matches with World Wrestling Entertainment. On September 15, 2006, WWE announced that he had been signed to a contract.
He debuted in Deep South Wrestling on November 30 as a tag partner for Ray Gordy. Gordy was known as Cousin Ray and they both reformed The Godwinns. Since both Gordy and Drew Hankinson went to the SmackDown brand, however, Godwinn's role remained uncertain.

On May 19, 2007, the Wrestling Observer reported that Canterbury had been released from his developmental contract.

Survivor Series (2020)
On November 22, 2020, Canterbury returned to WWE together with Phineas I. Godwinn as The Godwinns, to take part in The Undertaker's retirement ceremony at Survivor Series. Several other members of the Bone Street Krew also appeared to pay tribute.

Return to wrestling (2021)
As Henry O. Godwinn, Canterbury has been making appearances wrestling for the IWC (International Wrestling Cartel) since the mid-summer of 2021. He wrestled on September 5, 2021, against Chase Gold and Ella Shae with a random tag team partner in Elizabeth, PA at their Unbreakable event.

Personal life
Canterbury lives in Monroe County, West Virginia, and has two sons, named Shane and Jordan. Jordan was accidentally shot by a high school friend and died on October 31, 2003, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. On November 9, 2011, Canterbury suffered two punctured lungs, thirteen broken ribs and a broken leg in a car accident.

In July 2016, Canterbury was named part of a class action lawsuit filed against WWE which alleged that wrestlers incurred traumatic brain injuries during their tenure and that the company concealed the risks of injury.  The suit was litigated by attorney Konstantine Kyros, who has been involved in a number of other lawsuits against WWE. US District Judge Vanessa Lynne Bryant dismissed the case in September 2018.

Championships and accomplishments
International Championship Wrestling Alliance
ICWA Tag Team Championship (1 Time) – with Crash the Terminator
Pro Wrestling Federation
PWF Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with George South and Texas Outlaw
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #106 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1996
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Worst Tag Team (1996, 1997) with Phineas I. Godwinn
World Wrestling Federation
WWF Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Phineas I. Godwinn
Slammy Award (1 time)
 Most Smelliest (1994) –  Tied with Duke Droese

References

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1964 births
20th-century professional wrestlers
21st-century professional wrestlers
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
People from Monroe County, West Virginia
Professional wrestlers from West Virginia
World Tag Team Champions (WWE)

Henry O. Godwinn