Andrés Díaz Venero de Leiva (1495 – 1578) was the first president of the New Kingdom of Granada, appointed in 1564.

Political rise to power

Venero de Leiva was born in El Castillo, a place near the port of Laredo, on the Cantabrian Sea. He was born to a noble family. He served as major convictor (a layman living in a college or seminary without being part of the regent community) in the Colegio de Santa Cruz in Valladolid. In 1548 he served as professor of higher and convictor Vespers and Santacruz Canons in the College of Valladolid. From there he was called to fill the position of prosecutor and judge of the Accounting Council of Castile in 1554.

In 1563 he left Spain for the Americas arriving in Bogotá (then called Santa Fe) in February 1564 where he was appointed as the first president of the Royal Audiencia of the New Kingdom of Granada between 1564 and 1574.

Governmental affairs

The government of President Andres Diaz Venero de Leiva was a milestone in the political and institutional life of the New Kingdom, not only because it introduced a new form of government, but because it excelled in administrative measures to affirm the presence of Crown and the prevalence of their interests with the group of commissioners.

Early actions

His first actions were aimed at reorganizing the Royal Court and try to improve the functioning of justice. He began by seeking harmony between the judges, hitherto engaged in quarrels and animosities of old data. He asked them to account for all convictions and legal expenses incurred in the last seven years for the mess and misinformation that showed he ordered officers from future registration of such data. And attracted the greatest sympathy to the Court imposing a higher work rate for the transaction of business dammed, some of the passions among the judges and others at the insistence of the litigants in attending the challenges. The effect of this measure was synthesized, in April 1565 by Mayor John Penagos in the following terms: "He encouragement to those who did not dare ask for fear (justice) and stopped with favors to those who wanted the alien" . By mandate of the Crown, Venero did the impeachment trial judge Perez de Melchor Arteaga and the entire staff under the Hearing, that is, reporters, camera clerks, receivers, attorneys and porters, on which weighed several charges; the judge found him guilty of excesses to function as a visitor in Cartagena. In the course of his administration, the president had to face high-profile court cases such as the soldier Francisco Bolivar, sentenced to death for various cruelties to the Indians and the murder of Jorge Voto for the children of the captain and conquistador Pedro Bravo de Rivera, Pedro and Hernan, who had the instigation of Ines Manrique, better known as Ines de Hinojosa. Venero described the crime as "the most heinous crime was committed in the Indies;" Tunja traveled with the case and issued its ruling that the chronicler Juan Rodriguez Freyle: "When Don Pedro confiscated the goods, the parcel as an informer, that was his, put it in the Crown, as it is today. slew the Don Pedro, his brother Hernan Bravo hanged at the corner of George Street Vote; and Dona Ines was hanged from a tree that was next to his door, which lives to this day, although dry ... "

Since the beginning of its mandate Venero de Leiva warned that ignored actual number of provisions and some had not even been published. New laws were violated in 1542 when the governors granted new permits for conquest, although this was a function of the Royal Court. The president attributed such outrages to the inexperience of the governors, they were not men of letters, to their condition and the remoteness of the hearing. So the judge sent as visitors Cepeda, Juan Lopez de Cartagena and Santa Marta, and Diego Garcia de Valverde tax for governor of Popayan. Control over the governors, the president said his opposition to develop expeditionary companies, among those not authorized are those of Diego de Ospina to the region of Antioquia and Diego de Vargas, who longed to find the coveted Golden on the Plains Orientals. As a result, the management Venero de Leiva (1564–1575) opened a parenthesis in the process of expansion of the conquest; considered necessary to curb the abuses of the conquistadores, both on the communities from which the Indians extracted dragged looting expeditions such as that performed in the people they conquered. Furthermore, it was essential to organize the space that had been conquered and lay the groundwork for colonization tasks. Result of such concerns was the founding pioneer of the Villa de Leiva, requested by several farmers who had recently arrived from Spain. The foundation, authorized by the president on April 29, 1572, left the city erectile guidelines to rely on the establishment of a layer of tenants who disputed the indigenous labor to the encomenderos of Tunja rivalry born too early between the two cities, as traders preferred to that for the quality and abundance of wheat crops.

Indigenous concerns

Venero de Leiva was concerned with improving the situation of indigenous subjected to all sorts of indignities by the encomenderos group, which ignored the protectionist provisions of the Crown. The first thing was to remember the current rules on the treatment should be given to the Indians and the penalties for public or secret sale of parcels. Then he commanded the judges to make "visits the earth" to find out, among other things, the relationship of indigenous encomenderos and individuals, as well as to learn or change the tax rates. Diego de Villafane was in the villages in the district of Santa Fe in 1564, toured Castejón angle Anserma Carthage in 1568, Juan de Hinojosa visited Popayán in 1569, Garcia Valverde went to Pasto in 1570 and Lopez de Cepeda to Tunja and Velez in 1572. The president and abolished the hearers some personal services of the Indians, that is, they lent to the encomenderos without pay in wages existed, banning the employment of Indians included in herding, domestic service and supply of fuels and forages. Although they tried to modify the personal services in agriculture, this did not prosper because the pressure of the encomenderos. In relation to work in mines, Venero de Leiva admitted he had not dared run at exactly the royal charters "because it was destroying the whole kingdom" because no "there was another metal coin or hire men but gold ", there would be real fifth and the Indians would not have the money to pay the tribute. Against the quantitative decline of the indigenous population, the president advised the king in August 1564, which introduced "black at moderate prices" so that "the mines and wealth of these lands are removed and with plenty of [...] more easily, so that it results in universally good of all of your growing real estate. " The slaves took to the mines were not able to replace indigenous labor and the president decided in September 1570 to regulate the work of Indians in mining.

Provided that this work had a voluntary basis, and that the Indians who would be employed as laborers should receive six grains of gold per day, plus food and tools, set the working day in seven hours, "from nine o'clock until four p.m., leaving them at this time to eat and drink as usual with "after the four had to teach them Christian doctrine, as in" the holidays to save "the Indians were prohibited engaged in different jobs and moving to different climates "those who are born and bred" encomenderos authorized rent their Indians, but in a proportion not exceeding one tenth of the tributaries of the parcel, and ordered that each "entry clearance" should be a mayor and a "natural defense".

The persistence of indigenous people continue to worship their ancient gods and encomenderos complaints about the shortage of priests made Venero de Leiva will manage the coming of 40 religious of San Francisco and Santo Domingo. Around the same time and with the support of the Archbishop Fray Juan de los Barrios, were built over 40 churches and missions founded schools and grammar classes, arts and theology. The president also took measurements on trade. Between 1564 and 1565 addressed the complaints of the merchants against the encomenderos debtors and ordered that the first could seize all the assets of the second, even taxes that they paid the Indians, as well as arms and horses belonging to " veteran knights, "as called themselves the debtors. In 1566 the president put into effect the principle that a monopoly of trade belonged to the Crown, as opposed to the councils of some cities, like Velez or Tocaima, which had jurisdiction in ports on the Magdalena River of those who had derived revenue.

Personal life and death

Venero de Leiva was married to Mary Ondegardo and Zarate, whose union had nine children. She may have contributed marginally in the administration. Freyle Rodriguez says: "I helped a lot to charity, because nobody was bereaved of his presence." However, the most serious charges were made to the president in his impeachment trial were related to the greed of his wife. Apparently, María intrigued before the court to favor in lawsuits to those who did get gifts, he served as intermediaries her maid Teresa Herrera, treasurer Pedro Fernandez del Busto and Fray Francisco de Olea. Among the beneficiaries of his "favors" included prominent figures such as the judge López de Cepeda and advance Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the first indications are called to have avoided trial for killing a neighbor sticks of Santa Fe, thanks to some emeralds presented to Dona Maria. On the other mess they also arrived through several newly discovered emerald mines of Muzo, formed a voluminous court record in 1574. This year, before the judge of residence Francisco de Briceño, a neighbor of Muzo denounced the president's wife for not having paid more than 50 "ouches and Canute," and three large stones valued at $1,500 pesos "good gold" that were kept by the defendant saying that "one was very good for His Majesty, the other to the Consejo de Indias, and the other to Ruy Gómez de Silva." After several statements recognized the innocence of the president and his wife, due to the withdrawal of the complainant Alonso Ramírez soda. His memorial said: "I hesitate to ask not to turn away now or at any time that Dr. Venero and property by reason of anything above the apartment which I swear to God and the Cross I do so for fear of not your justice will be done, but it just causes that move and to understand that the demand contained in I have no justice. " Venero de Leiva returned to Spain in late 1574 and was appointed to the Council of the Indies. He died in Madrid on July 1, 1578.

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1578 deaths
People from New Spain
Year of birth unknown
1495 births

Andrés Díaz Venero de Leiva


Thomas Chalmers Fisher (November 1, 1880 – September 3, 1972) was a professional baseball pitcher. The 5"10½", . right-hander played one season in Major League Baseball for the Boston Beaneaters in 1904.

Fisher made his major league debut in relief on April 17, 1904 against the Brooklyn Superbas at Washington Park. His first major league win came as a starter on May 10 against the Chicago Cubs at West Side Park. The score was 7-1. He pitched his first shutout five days later at Robison Field, a 1–0 decision over the St. Louis Cardinals.

He ended his season and career with a 6–16 record for the 55-98 Beaneaters.  Other totals include 31 games pitched, 21 games started, 19 complete games, 2 shutouts, 9 games finished, and an earned run average of 4.25 in 214 innings pitched. He struck out 84 and walked 82. He also played six games in center field, and in a total of 39 games played had a batting average of .212 (21-for-99) with 2 home runs and 8 RBI.

Fisher died in his hometown of Anderson, Indiana, at the age of 91.

Trivia
Fisher's nickname was "Red."

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Legacy of the Wizard, originally released in Japan as , is a fantasy-themed action role-playing platform game released for the MSX, MSX2 and Famicom in Japan and for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the United States. Legacy of the Wizard is an installment in Falcom's Dragon Slayer series, and one of only five Dragon Slayer games that were localized outside Japan. The game was an early example of an open-world, non-linear action RPG, combining action-RPG gameplay with what would later be called "Metroidvania"-style action-adventure elements.

Plot
The game chronicles the story of the Drasle family (an abbreviation for "Dragon Slayer"; though the characters are given the last name "Worzen" in the credits) and their attempt to destroy an ancient dragon named Keela that is magically entrapped in a painting within an underground labyrinth. To accomplish this goal, they must find the "Dragon Slayer", a magical sword that is protected by four hidden crowns. The player must use the unique abilities of each member of the family to regain possession of the crowns and destroy the evil Keela. Like many games of its era, the story of Legacy of the Wizard is explained almost entirely in the game's instruction manual.

Gameplay
The Drasle family consists of six members of three generations, plus the family pet, which resembles a small dinosaur. The player takes control of the members of the Drasles and their pet, sending them one at a time into the vast cavern filled with traps, puzzles and monsters, in search of the four crowns, while periodically returning to the family household on the surface to change characters and to obtain a password. Each member of the family, which consists of the father, mother, son, daughter, and the pet, has different strengths and weaknesses to contribute to this goal. Some characters have seemingly powerful strengths, but each is offset by proportionate limitations. For example, the father has the strongest attack power, but cannot jump as high as the rest of the family. The mother of the family has relatively weak attributes, but is the only one who can use specific magical items required to find one of the crowns. By discovering and utilizing each character's strengths, the player travels through the extensive dungeon, eventually fighting four bosses to gain the crowns.

The game's vast labyrinth has five major sections, four of which contain a boss who guards one of the crowns, and the fifth which contains the final boss. Each section has noticeably different characteristics and different background music, and was designed with one particular playable character in mind. The crowns cannot be acquired without the player utilizing the family members' specific skills to get through the sections of the dungeon. Therefore, each playable character must be used at some point in order to complete the game. For example, one section may be blocked with bricks that can only be destroyed by the mattock, so the player must use the character who can use the mattock to get through such an area. After all four crowns have been acquired, the family's young boy can use the magic of the crowns to find the Dragon Slayer, and then use the magical sword to slay the evil Keela.

The player will encounter an endless supply of monsters while running through convoluted passageways. Each character can fire shots of varying strength to defeat these monsters, but attacking uses up the character's magic power. Most of these monsters drop items when defeated, such as keys which can be used to open locked doors and treasure chests, bread which restores the player's health, potions which restore magic power, and sometimes poison which harms the player. Money can also be collected from defeated monsters, and then spent in shops and inns located throughout the dungeon.

The characters in Legacy of the Wizard must utilize several magical items in their quest. These can be acquired from chests or bought in shops that are sometimes located in very impractical locations. Item effects include restoring the character's health and magic power, boosting attack power or range, or environmental effects like enabling the character to fly or move special bricks. Some items can only be used by certain characters, and since accomplishing the goals requires the use of these items, it is up to the player to determine which character must be used to regain each crown. Acquiring these items and finding how to properly use them is the essence of Legacy of the Wizard.

Characters

 Xemn is a woodcutter and the head of the Drasle family household. He has the highest attack power of the playable characters, and is the only character who can use the magical gloves to move special blocks in the dungeon. He is listed as "Warrior" in the credits.
 Meyna is Xemn's wife. Her attacks are stronger than those of the children, but weaker than Xemn's. She is the only one who can use the magical wings, the magical key, and the crossbow. She is listed as "Wizard" in the credits.
 Roas is the brave son of Xemn and Meyna. He is the only one who can use the four crowns to find the Dragon Slayer, and is the only one who can wield the Dragon Slayer sword itself. His attacks are weak, and his main use in the game is to find the Dragon Slayer and to use it to defeat the final boss. He is listed as "Ranger" in the credits.
 Lyll is Roas's sister and the daughter of Meyna and Xemn. She can jump higher than the rest of the family, and is also the only one who can use the mattock to destroy special blocks in the dungeon. Her attacks are equal in power to Roas. She is listed as "Elf" in the credits.
 Pochi is the family's pet. It acts like a dog, but it is actually a monster from the underground dungeon. Its attacks are powerful, but its attack range is limited. It cannot jump very high, and can use very few magical items. Its most distinctive attribute is its relative immunity: the monsters in the dungeon do not harm it. Pochi can even stand on the monsters' heads, using them as stepping stones to reach places it could not normally reach due to its poor jumping ability. It is listed as "Monster" in the credits.
 Jiela is the grandmother of Roas and Lyll. She appears on the character select screen, but she is not a playable character. Her only use in the game is to supply the password needed to continue a player's progress in the game.
 Douel is the grandfather of Roas and Lyll. He was once a powerful wizard, who trapped the evil dragon Keela in a painting long ago. He is also on the character select screen, but he is not a playable character. His only purpose in the game is to accept the password so a player can continue the game.

Release
Dragon Slayer IV: The Drasle Family was first released for the MSX2 home computer on July 10, 1987, developed and published by Nihon Falcom. The game is sometimes misattributed to Quintet due to a reference in the game's ending credits, but composer Yuzo Koshiro has confirmed this is pure coincidence, since the company wasn't formed until two years later.

It was ported to the Famicom and released on July 17, a week after the MSX2 version. Based on the staff from the ending credits, the Famicom port was developed internally by Falcom. It was published in Japan by Namco and released two years later for the NES in North America by Brøderbund.

In 2008 the game was released for mobile phones in Japan.

Reception
1up.com called it a "hidden gem" for the NES.

References

Note

External links

 LSD4: Unofficial archive of Legacy of the Wizard & Dragon Slayer 4

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Streetsville (pop. 47,327) is a neighbourhood located in the northwestern corner of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on the Credit River. Although Streetsville occupies the west and east banks of the river, the majority is located on the west bank of the river.

A town prior to the 1974 amalgamations that formed the City of Mississauga, it seeks to keep a "small town" charm by retaining a variety of historical buildings and streetscapes. As part of this attempt to maintain a separate identity from the larger city, the names of two main Mississauga streets, as they pass through Streetsville, retain the names they had when Streetsville was an independent village: Mississauga Road and Bristol Road, which remain as Queen Street and Main Street respectively. Other main thoroughfares that pass through or near Streetsville include Britannia Road, Creditview Road, Eglinton Avenue, and Erin Mills Parkway.

History

Before 1800
The area surrounding the Credit River was populated by the Iroquois people up until the early 18th century, when it was taken by the Ojibwa. European settlers came to know them specifically as the Mississaugas, which eventually became the name of the area itself. By 1805, the Natives had either ceded or sold most of this land over to British governance.

Settlement

The beginnings of Streetsville are interwoven with the history of its founder, Timothy Street. Street was born in 1778 in the American colonies to a British Loyalist family. At the age of 23, he moved with his family from New York to St. David's, a settlement on the Niagara River in Upper Canada (as Ontario was then known).

In 1818, the British made a second purchase of   of land from the indigenous Mississauga peoples. Before it could be opened for settlement, the land had to be surveyed, and as was usual for the time, surveyors would receive a grant of land from the parcel that they surveyed as compensation for their work. Timothy Street, along with Richard Bristol, a qualified surveyor, applied for a contract to survey parts of the newly available land. As they did their work, Street quickly began to appreciate the immense potential for settlement along the Credit River, and made plans to erect both a saw and grist mill once his work was finished.

In April 1819, the surveyed land was opened for settlement, and the first settler in the area, James Glendinning, settled on a parcel of land along Mullet Creek. Timothy Street did build his saw and grist mills, using stones from Glendinning's land.

A large quarry of red clay lay on the west side of the village, encouraging the use of brick for construction.

In 1821, Streetsville's first general store, now known as Montreal House, was built, and still stands. Another landmark, Timothy Street's house, was built in 1825 and is one of the oldest brick houses in Peel Region.

In 1855, William Graydon and Peter Douglass built a large brick building, and sold it in 1859 to Bennet Franklin, a partner in Barber Brothers Toronto Woollen Mills. It became known as Franklin House. In 1910, under new ownership, the name was changed to the Queen's Hotel. Although it ceased to operate as a hotel when its public room was closed with the enforcement of the Canada Temperance Act, it continued to be used for commercial purposes. At present, it has been designated under the terms of the Ontario Heritage Act and protected by a heritage easement, and now houses a restaurant and a variety of small businesses and offices.

In 1858, Streetsville was incorporated as a village, with a population of 1500 people. The primary work was found in grist mills, sawmills and tanneries. Timothy Street's son, John, was the first reeve. For the next century, Streetsville largely existed as a long narrow village with all of its shops, three churches, the cenotaph and the library located on Queen Street, which ran between the Credit River and the railway track.

A century later, in 1951, the population of Streetsville had declined to 1,139 people. Then in 1953, two of the first suburbs in Canada, Vista Heights and Riverview, were built to the southwest and northeast respectively.  Vista Heights was notable because the town council made the unprecedented decision to require the developer to build a K-6 (kindergarten to Grade 6) elementary school. These suburbs and Vista Heights Public School opened in 1955, presaging the future rapid growth of middle-class suburbs in the area. Another suburban area that grew as a defacto expansion of Streetsville (not as development reaching out to it from the main urban area of Mississauga) is River Grove, which is centred along Bristol Road east of the Credit River and extends to Creditview Road; although this area was developed in the late 1980's, well after Streetsville's amalgamation into Mississauga.

1962 incorporation and 1974 municipal reorganization
As families moved into the new suburbs, the town's population grew rapidly. By January 1962, Streetsville's population reached 5,000, and it was incorporated as a town. The first mayor was Frank Dowling.

In 1968, the Town of Mississauga was created from Toronto Township absorbing the police village of Malton. Although Streetsville and Port Credit were excluded from this amalgamation, they were amalgamated in 1974 when Mississauga became a city.

Politics

Municipal
Streetsville is a member of the eleventh ward within the city of Mississauga . Representing the ward is Councillor George Carlson, who was elected Councillor of the eleventh ward in 2000 and was re-elected in 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2014. Carlson is a direct descendant of one of Streetsville's founders, Henry Rutledge (1797–1875) who also served as a local Councillor. Prior to the annexing of Mississauga, Hazel McCallion was the mayor of Streetsville (1970–1973) and was the township's last reeve (1967–1970). She was the fourth mayor of Mississauga and lived in Streetsville until her death on January 29, 2023 from pancreatic cancer.

Provincial
Streetsville resides in the provincial electoral district (riding) of Mississauga-Streetsville. The riding was created in 2003 after Mississauga—Erindale and Mississauga South were divided up. The riding was represented by Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament Bob Delaney. Delaney was elected in the provincial election of 2003, by defeating Progressive Conservative Nina Tangri by over 7,000 votes. In 2006, Delaney was appointed the Parliamentary Assistant to Minister Responsible for Seniors. He was re-elected in the provincial election of 2007 again, defeating Tangri by 11,155 votes. On January 25, 2010, Delaney was named Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Revenue.
As of July 26, 2023 this riding is represented by Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament Rechie Valdez, Minister of Small Business. (https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/rechie-valdez(110538))

Federal
Prior to 1993, Streetsville favoured the Conservative party with Progressive Conservative Bob Horner being elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1984 and 1988 federal elections. Since then Streetsville voters swayed towards the Liberals with the party winning the riding consecutively to this date. In 2000, Liberal MP Steve Mahoney defeated Alliance candidate Philip Leong in the Federal Mississauga-Streetsville riding and remained in office until 2003. Wajid Khan then took the riding in 2004 by beating Conservative Nina Tangri by 8,481 votes and continued onto a second term after defeating Conservative challenger Raminder Gill by 5,792 votes in 2006. During his second term, Khan served as a consultant to Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party on issues concerning the Middle East. Based on an ultimatum established by the Conservatives, Khan switched parties in 2007 and ran as a Conservative candidate in the 2008 elections. Liberal Bonnie Crombie defeated Khan in the election by 5,000 votes.

Demographics
As of 2009, Streetsville's population (whose census boundary includes surrounding areas such as East Credit and Erin Mills Central) stood at 47,327 with a 9.9% population increase between 2001 and 2006 and a subsequent 20% increase from 2006 to 2009. From 2006 to 2009, households also increased in number from 12,178 to 13,722.  The majority of Streetsville residences own their own homes (85%) with more than 51,000 residents holding a university or college degree. Also the majority of residences work within grey or white collar jobs versus only 27% of the population consisting of labour workers . Furthermore, the average household income of Streetsville residents amounts to $124,255 with only a 5.6% unemployment rate. In relation to religion, 41.4% of residents are Roman Catholics while religious populations such as Muslims (6.9%) and Anglicans (6.3%) are continuing to grow. Also nearly 48% of Streetsville residents are identified as visible minorities including predominantly East Indians, South Asians and Chinese. Subsequently, 53% of the population's main language is English while the region boasts many non-official languages such as Chinese, Arabic, and Punjabi. With homes averaging around 3.4 bedrooms, the average family consists of three people per home and has around 1.4 children. Streetsville's population has an average age of 38 with 33% of the population being between ages 25–44, 23.1% of the population are between the ages 45– 64 and 14.5% of the population being between the ages of 15- 24. Also among the population, 61.4% of residents are married while 29.1% are single and 9.5% are widowed or divorced.

Community

Streetsville as a Community Node
Streetsville is one of Mississauga's largest and most identifiable historical communities due to its suburban surroundings, which makes it stand out to a greater degree than former towns in older urban areas and is likely the reason for its nickname "The Village in the City". It still retains its historic main street and is home to many historical buildings. Streetsville is known as a Community Node, and therefore provides various resources applicable to a Community Node. The city of Mississauga focuses on Streetsville's urban structure to grow in existing and proposed services and the community infrastructure. As a Community Node, there are many things in Streetsville that are used on a day-to-day basis. This includes: local shops, restaurants, community facilities, entertainment, schools, parks, and an impressive housing stock that meets the requirements of new residents.

Bread and Honey Festival

In 1973 Streetsville held the first Bread and Honey Festival. This was an acknowledgement to the town's history and its involvement with milling as Kraft Canada and ADM Milling had well-established flourmills in the area. The festival become an annual event being held on the first weekend of June.  The festival is held at Streetsville Memorial Park. Some of the events include live musical performances, a carnival run, a consumers market, a pancake breakfast, and parade. The festival went on hiatus in 2020. It came back in 2022 as the Bread and Honey Street Festival and returning as a full festival in 2023.

Canada Day
Every July 1 at the Memorial Park dedicated to F.B. McFarren, the neighbourhood holds a local Canada Day celebration. There are various activities occurring throughout the afternoon, ranging from face-painting to dance performances. Local businesses sponsor and execute various performances throughout the evening and is then finished with a firework display occurring around 10pm.

Santa Claus Parade
The annual Mississauga Santa Claus Parade now takes place in Streetsville. The parade starts on Queen Street at Britannia Road and travels south through the village to disperse at various locations after the Church Street junction. The parade was founded in 1974.

Christmas Market

In 2016, the Streetsville BIA and City of Mississauga held its inaugural 'Christmas in the Village' Market in the Streetsville Village Square on the last weekend of November.  After a two-year Renovation in 2014, the Streetsville Village Square now includes a covered stage, the town cenotaph and outdoor seating for residents. The 'Christmas in the Village' Market includes food and gift vendors, live entertainment and the lighting of the towns Christmas Tree.

Sports

Ice hockey

The Streetsville and District Minor Hockey Association was established in 1946. Streetsville and seven other communities in the Toronto Township formed the Toronto Township Hockey League (TTHL) In 1962 the Streetsville and District Minor Hockey Association began to play in their new rink, Vic Johnston Community Centre. During the early years the Streetsville's Hockey team played under many names including, the Thunderbirds, Hounds, Tigers, Kings, and Panthers. In the 1967-68 season they left the TTHL. Streetsville iced five teams to play in the Tri-County A league of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) at the start of the 1968-69 season. That first season Streetsville won two championships. In the late 1980s, the President and late Bill Mann embarked on a name search for the Streetsville Rep teams. The name chosen was Tigers, and from that date on the name and team colours were adopted into the Rules and Regulations. The Tiger logo was designed and adopted in 1990 and has been incorporated into all tiger equipment, sweaters, pants, equipment bags, hats and jackets. The Tigers moved to the OMHA Central AAA league in 1991-1992 where they competed for four years. Since joining the GTHL, the Tiger teams have been very competitive winning two Divisional Champions, one Carnation Cup and one City Championship. 2006 the Streetsville Tigers Celebrated 60 years of hockey in Streetsville.

Streetsville had a successful Junior A hockey club the Streetsville Derbys which played in the Vic Johnson Arena. At the conclusion of the 2007 season, the Derbys moved to a new location, Westwood Arena, in Rexdale, Ontario. In 2011 with the Ontario Junior Hockey League's goal of contraction, the Derby's merged with the Cobourg Cougars.

Streetsville Thistles was a successful lacrosse club in the 1890s.

Vic Johnston Arena
The arena opened in 1961, and is used for hockey, skating and other community events.  It is an independent, non-profit arena.  In 2008, the arena received an $8-million-dollar renovation.

See also
Mississauga—Streetsville, electoral riding
Gagan Sikand, former MP for Mississauga—Streetsville
Nina Tangri, MPP for Mississauga—Streetsville
Streetsville Secondary School
St. Joseph Secondary School (Mississauga)
Hazel McCallion Senior Public School
Vista Heights Public School
Russell Langmaid Public School
F. B. McFarren Memorial Park
Billy Talent

Notes

External links

streetsville.ca - The Web Site in the City - Community Web Site

Neighbourhoods in Mississauga
Populated places on the Credit River

Streetsville, Mississauga


Table 19 is a 2017 American comedy film written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, from a story originally written by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass. The film stars Anna Kendrick, Craig Robinson, June Squibb, Lisa Kudrow, Stephen Merchant, Wyatt Russell, and Tony Revolori.

The film was released on March 3, 2017, by Fox Searchlight Pictures, receiving generally mixed reviews from critics and grossed $5 million.

Plot
Eloise McGarry attends her oldest friend Francie Millner's wedding. Originally maid of honor, she "dropped out" two months ago after her (now) ex-boyfriend Teddy, the best man and the bride's brother, broke up with her by text after two years together. Teddy is now back with his old girlfriend. At the reception, Eloise discovers she is seated at Table 19. As she considers leaving, a fellow guest named Huck offers unsolicited advice, and she decides to stay.

Eloise meets her table mates: Jerry and Bina Kepp, Facebook friends of the groom's father; teen Renzo Eckberg, whose mom is an acquaintance of the groom; Jo Flanagan, Teddy and Francie's childhood nanny; and Walter Thimble, the bride's cousin, who is out on parole. They discuss whether Table 19 is a "good table," Eloise telling them that she helped plan the wedding, and she knows Table 19 is for misfits.

As the newlyweds arrive and begin dancing, Eloise starts feeling insecure and dances with Huck, whom she kisses. When he refuses to sit with her, she realizes he is a wedding crasher and "Huck" is not his real name, and he leaves.

Although not bonding initially, they come together when Jo realizes Eloise is pregnant. With the table's help, Eloise confronts Teddy about dumping her when she told him about the baby. Teddy says he broke up with her because she said they would be ridiculous parents, leaving Teddy hurt and worried he would disappoint her. The argument ends with them accidentally destroying the cake and hastily covering it up.

Bitter and covered in cake, Table 19 changes clothes and moves to Jo's room to smoke pot and talk. Walter reveals he went to prison for stealing $125,000 from the father of the bride because a former friend conned him. Renzo came to the wedding in lieu of his junior prom, as his mom thought he could meet someone. Jo feels she has wasted her life and the children she cared for have forgotten her.

The table goes for a walk, and Jerry gives Renzo advice on how to pick up girls, while Eloise realizes Jo has terminal cancer and will die in the next year. Jo tells Eloise that if she has a daughter she should not name her "Jo" as it is a tough name for a girl. Bina admits to Jerry she came to the wedding to have an affair with an ex, who did not show. They fight, and she heads back inside with Walter.

On Jo's suggestion, the six try to find the wedding crasher Eloise met earlier. They learn "Huck" is actually the groom from another wedding. As payback, Walter steals Huck's wedding cake to replace the one they destroyed earlier.

Returning to the reception, Table 19 is visited by the bride and groom, who express genuine happiness that everyone there has attended. Francie and Eloise talk briefly, Francie apologizes that she was seated so far away from her, and Eloise decides to leave early. Francie then assures Jo she has not forgotten her, telling a brief but touching childhood story about Teddy, inspiring the table to see him differently. They track down Eloise, encouraging her to tell him how she really feels. As the core wedding party leaves on a ferry, she tries to apologize to him from the dock, but he is too far away to hear her.

Eloise, Walter, Jo, and Renzo return to the wedding hall for the last of the cake. In their room, the Kepps discuss their fragile marriage and reconcile before joining them. Teddy suddenly reappears, dripping wet from jumping off the ferry, and asks Eloise to repeat what she said. Eloise asks that they be willing to forgive each other and they reconcile, and the entire group dances to one last song.

A few months later, the Kepps have repaired their strained marriage, Jo has died of cancer, and the Kepps have taken in Jo's dog. Renzo has a girlfriend, and Walter refers to the other Table 19 guests as family. Eloise and Teddy are together and have had their baby. They mail birth announcements to their friends and family, including Table 19. The card reveals they had a son who they named Joe.

Cast
 Anna Kendrick as Eloise McGarry
 Craig Robinson as Jerry Kepp
 June Squibb as Jo Flanagan
 Lisa Kudrow as Bina Kepp
 Stephen Merchant as Walter Thimble
 Tony Revolori as Renzo Eckberg
 Wyatt Russell as Teddy
 Amanda Crew as Nikki
 Thomas Cocquerel as Huck
 Becky Ann Baker as Carol Millner
 Brad Oberhofer as Wedding Singer
 Andy Daly as Luke Pfaffler
 Maria Thayer as Infamous Kate Millner
 Andy Blitz as Notorious Donny Haczyk
 Rya Meyers as Francie Millner
 Margo Martindale as Freda Eckberg

Production
In April 2009, Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the film, with Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass set to direct their own screenplay. In October 2011, Jeffrey Blitz was brought in to rewrite the script and direct the film. On March 24, 2015, it was announced that Anna Kendrick, Craig Robinson, Lisa Kudrow, Stephen Merchant, Tony Revolori, June Squibb, Wyatt Russell, and Amanda Crew would star in the film.

Principal photography began in the Atlanta area on March 27, 2015, and ended on April 30, 2015. While the plot places the wedding at a resort on an island in the fictional "Lake Alma", in Michigan, filming took place on the Lake Lanier Islands, northeast of Atlanta and at The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds on Lake Oconee, southeast of Atlanta.  Other scenes were filmed in Douglasville, west of Atlanta. Foxhall Resort is one of the production sites of the movie. It was filmed in a venue called "Legacy".

Music
In February 2016, it was announced that John Swihart would score the film. Popular music for the film drew from 1980s new wave songs covered by the New York band Oberhofer, sounding as if they were performed by a wedding band. These cover songs were released as the film's soundtrack album.

Release
The film was originally scheduled to be released on January 20, 2017, before being pushed back to March 3.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 26% based on 113 reviews, with an average rating of 4.55/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Table 19 is marginally more entertaining than actually sitting with a table full of strangers at a wedding — although most screenings won't come with an open bar, which makes it a wash." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 40 out of 100, based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

David Fear of Rolling Stone magazine called the film "[a] tonally uneven mishmash of Wes Anderson quirk, John Cassavetes guts-spilling and The Breakfast Club, all of which somehow manages to dampen the talents of its crack ensemble cast." Owen Gleiberman of Variety magazine wrote that "[a]lmost everything that happens in this movie rings cloyingly false. It wants to make you laugh and cry, but you may be too busy cringing."

References

External links

2017 films
2017 comedy films
Fox Searchlight Pictures films
21 Laps Entertainment films
2017 independent films
American comedy films
Films about weddings
Films scored by John Swihart
Films set in Michigan
Films set on fictional islands
Films shot in Georgia (U.S. state)
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language comedy films

Table 19


Thomas Gracie (12 June 1889 – 23 October 1915) was a Scottish professional footballer and, latterly, a corporal in the 16th Battalion of The Royal Scots. He was the joint-leading scorer in the Scottish Football League in the 1914–15 season.

Career
He was born at 40 Edmund Street in Dennistoun, Glasgow, the son of Robert Gracie, flesher, and his wife, Harriet Bell.

Gracie studied bookkeeping upon leaving school before finding work as a meat salesman. He was concurrently playing Junior football for Shawfield, then Strathclyde, but in 1907 he was offered the chance to move into League football when approached by Airdrieonians, third-placed finishers the previous season. After short spells with Hamilton Academical and Arthurlie, he joined Morton in 1910.

In 1911, Gracie was selected as a reserve for Scotland's game against England at Goodison Park. Although he wasn't required to play, and would never gain an international cap, the journey proved profitable for him as he was signed by Everton at the game's conclusion. A season later he switched to the red half of Merseyside, signing for Liverpool in an exchange deal which saw Harold Uren move to Everton in exchange for Gracie and Bill Lacey. Unlike Lacey, however, Gracie was unable to establish himself in the Liverpool first team, making only sporadic appearances in his two and a half seasons at Anfield. When the opportunity arose to return to Scotland in 1914, he was glad to take it, admitting to feeling "unappreciated" in the south.

Gracie's destination was Hearts, manager John McCartney paying £400 for him as a replacement for the recently sold Percy Dawson. The Maroons were a rapidly emerging side and started the 1914–15 season with eight straight victories, including a 2–0 defeat of reigning champions Celtic in which Gracie scored, to become early league-leaders and title-favourites. Gracie was selected for the Scottish League XI in November 1914.

First World War
However, this streak coincided with the start of the First World War and the beginnings of a public debate upon the morality of continuing professional football while young soldiers were dying on the front-line. A motion was placed before the Scottish Football Association to postpone the season, with one of its backers, Airdrieonians chairman Thomas Forsyth declaring that "playing football while our men are fighting is repugnant". While this motion was defeated at the ballot box, with the SFA opting to wait for War Office advice, the noted East London philanthropist Frederick Charringtonn  was orchestrating a public campaign to have professional football in Britain suspended, and achieving great popular support for his cause. The prime tactic of Charrington's campaign was to shame footballing players and officials into action through public and private denouncement, and as Gracie was then the leading scorer in the side leading the top division in Scotland, he was an obvious target for the anti-football crusade, much to his distress.

Gracie's response, and that of 10 of his team-mates, was to enlist in Sir George McCrae's new volunteer battalion, joining en masse on 25 November 1914. The battalion was Edinburgh's second pals battalion and was to become the 16th Royal Scots and was the first to earn the "footballer's battalion" sobriquet. Military training was thus added to the Hearts players football training regime, although this didn't initially stop the side's progress, as they compiled a 20-game unbeaten run between October and February.

However, exhaustion from their army exertions, twice including 10-hour nocturnal-marches the night before a league game, eventually led to a drop in form, as several enlisted players, including Gracie, missed key games. Defeats to St Mirren and Morton allowed Celtic to usurp the Maroons and eventually claim the league title by 4 points. For Gracie, finishing as the league's joint top-scorer, tied on 29 goals with Ayr United's James Richardson was scant consolation.

Illness and death
Gracie however faced a far more serious problem – in March 1915 he was diagnosed with leukemia, a prognosis he had shared only with manager McCartney. Despite his illness and against medical recommendation he decided to continue to play with Hearts and train with his battalion, and indeed scored 4 times during that month. He was still with the battalion when they were sent south to Ripon in June for further training but within weeks he had succumbed to fatigue and was committed to hospital in Leeds for treatment, before being transferred back to Scotland.

Gracie died on 23 October 1915 in Stobhill Hospital in his hometown Glasgow and was buried at Craigton Cemetery. His death concluded a dark year for the Gracie family, who had also lost Tom's brother John and brother-in-law Tommy during 1915's hostilities.

References

External links
Profile at lfchistory.net
Appearances at londonhearts.com

1889 births
1915 deaths
Airdrieonians F.C. (1878) players
Arthurlie F.C. players
Men's association football forwards
British Army personnel of World War I
Deaths from leukemia
Everton F.C. players
Greenock Morton F.C. players
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
Liverpool F.C. players
Royal Scots soldiers
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Football League representative players
Scottish men's footballers
Shawfield F.C. players
Strathclyde F.C. players
Scottish Junior Football Association players
Footballers from Glasgow
English Football League players
McCrae's Battalion
Scottish league football top scorers
Deaths from cancer in Scotland
British military personnel killed in World War I

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The Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE), also known as a Graduate Diploma of Education (GradDipEd), is a one-year postgraduate course in several countries including Australia, Ghana, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Zimbabwe for existing bachelor's degree holders leading to become a qualified teacher.

The qualification is normally taught at a university or other higher education institution, though much of the course time is spent on placements in local schools. For example, in the Hong Kong programmes, most schools will have lesson time for about 20 weeks, and another 14 weeks (usually taken in 6 weeks for the first semester and 8 weeks for the second semester) for placements.

In Ireland, the former Higher Diploma in Education (H.Dip.Ed.) was renamed as the PGDE from 2007 onwards. It has since been superseded by the Professional Master of Education (P.M.E.).

The Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) is the equivalent of the PGDE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and historically in Scotland. Some universities, for instance Durham University award PGDE on successful completion of 120 University Credit Units (UCU) of a Master of Arts Education course (i.e., completing two years). The PGCE is awarded after 60UCUs.

See also
Professional Graduate Diploma in Education
Postgraduate diploma

Professional titles and certifications
Educational qualifications in Scotland
Teacher training

Postgraduate Diploma in Education


Consuta was a form of construction of watertight hulls for boats and marine aircraft, comprising four veneers of mahogany planking interleaved with waterproofed calico and stitched together with copper wire.  The name is from the latin for "sewn together".

The technique was patented by Sam Saunders of Goring-on-Thames and was first used on the 1898 umpire's steam launch of the same name. Having been restored, the steam launch Consuta was returned to service on the River Thames on 15 October 2001.

After opening the S. E. Saunders boatyard at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the technique was further used to build the crew and engine gondolas for HMA1 Mayfly, Britain's first airship. Later, the same technique was used to construct the hull of the Sopwith Bat Boat, the early flying boat that won the Mortimer Singer prize.

The technique remained in use until waterproof glues became available in the 1950s.

External links
 The Consuta Trust

References

Shipbuilding
Steamboats
Composite materials

Consuta


Gunno Dahlstierna (September 7, 1661September 7, 1709) was a Swedish poet

Biography
Gunno Dahlstierna whose original surname was Eurelius, was born in the parish of Ör (now part of Mellerud Municipality) in Dalsland, where his father was rector. He entered the University of Uppsala in 1677, and after gaining his degree entered the government office of land-surveying. He was sent in 1681 on professional business to Livonia, then under Swedish rule.

A dissertation read at Leipzig in 1687 brought him the offer of a professorial chair in the university, which he refused. Returning to Sweden he executed commissions of land-surveying directed by King Charles XI, and in 1699 he became head of the whole department. In 1702 he was ennobled under the name of Dahlstjerna. He wandered over the whole of the coast of the Baltic: Livonia, Rügen and Swedish Pomerania, preparing maps which still exist in the office of public land-surveying in Stockholm. His death, which took place in Pomerania on his forty-eighth birthday, is said to have been hastened by the disastrous news of the Battle of Poltava.

Dahlstierna's patriotism was touching in its pathos and intensity, and during his long periods of professional exile he comforted himself by the composition of songs to his beloved Sweden. His genius was most irregular, but at his best he easily surpasses all the Swedish poets of his time. His best-known original work is Kungaskald (Stettin, 1697), an elegy on the death of Charles XI. It is written in alexandrines, arranged in ottava rima. The poem is pompous and allegorical, but there are passages full of melody and high thoughts. Dahlstjerna was a reformer in language, and it has been well said by Atterbom that in this poem "he treats the Swedish speech just as dictatorially as Charles XI and Charles XII treated the Swedish nation." In 1690 was printed at Stettin his paraphrase of the Pastor Fido of Guarini. His most popular work is his Götha kämpavisa om Konungen och Herr Peder ("The Goth's Battle Song, concerning the King and Master Peter"; Stockholm, 1701). The King is Charles XII and Master Peter is the tsar of Russia. This spirited ballad lived almost until our own days on the lips of the people as a folk-song.

Works

The works of Dahlstierna have been collected by P. Hanselli, in the Samlade Vitterhetsarbeten af svenska Författare från Stjernhjelm till Dalin (Uppsala, 1856, &c.).

Editions

Notes

References

1661 births
1709 deaths
People from Mellerud Municipality
17th-century Swedish writers
17th-century male writers
Swedish-language poets
Uppsala University alumni

Gunno Dahlstierna


A financial forecast is an estimate of future financial outcomes for a company or project, usually applied in budgeting, capital budgeting and / or valuation. Depending on context, the term may also refer to listed company (quarterly) earnings guidance.
For a country or economy, see Economic forecast.

Typically, using historical internal accounting and sales data, in addition to external industry data and economic indicators, a financial forecast will be the analyst's modeled prediction of company outcomes in financial terms over a given time period.
For the components / steps of business modeling here, see .

Arguably, the key aspect of preparing a financial forecast is predicting revenue;
future costs, fixed and variable, as well as capital, can then be estimated as a function of sales via "common-sized analysis" - where relationships are derived from historical financial ratios and other accounting relationships. At the same time, the resultant line items must talk to the business' operations:- in general, growth in revenue will require corresponding increases in working capital, fixed assets (see, here, owner earnings)
and associated financing; and in the long term, profitability (and other financial ratios) should tend to the industry average;
see  for more detailed discussion, and other considerations; also Cash flow forecasting.

There is an extensive literature on the accuracy of analyst forecasts of revenue, profit and share price developments of companies. In general, this literature shows that analysts do not produce better forecasts than simple forecasting models.
(Additional to the above outline, for fundamental analysis, analysts often also use stock market information, such as the 52-week high of stock prices, to augment their analysis of stock prices.)

References

Budgets
Forecasting
Corporate finance
Management accounting

Financial forecast


Jacques Peyrat (born 18 October 1931 in Belfort) is a French politician and lawyer who was mayor of Nice from 1995 to 2008 and has been senator from the Alpes-Maritimes from 1998 to 2008.

Jacques Peyrat came from a military family that settled in Nice in 1946 where he studied law and letters. In 1947 at the age of 16 he joined the Rally of the French People (Rassemblement du Peuple Français, RPF), the political party that General Charles de Gaulle created that year.

In 1953 Peyrat enlisted in the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion of the French Foreign Legion. It was in French Indochina that he met and became friends with the French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Upon his return to civilian life, Peyrat united his social and professional interests. His presidency of parachute and aeronautical groups won him a silver medal for youth and sports.

In 1962 Peyrat began his political career, at first as a member of the National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNIP), and then in the breakaway Independent Republicans party of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, as a Nice municipal councillor. At the same time, he practiced law with a specialty in penal law.

In 1973 Peyrat rejoined the Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen's far-right party, and was a Front National deputy from 1986 to 1988, general counsel of the Canton of Nice 14 from 1992 to 1998 and regional councillor.

In 1995 Jacques Peyrat left the Front National and was elected Mayor of Nice with the slogan "Divers droite" (figuratively, An Alternative Right). He was reelected in 2001.

In 1996 he rejoined the RPR. Since September 27, 1998 he has been senator first with then RPR, then with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, UMP) from the Alpes-Maritimes. In 2002, Peyrat founded la Communauté d'agglomération de Nice-Côte d'Azur and became president of it.

He is also a member of the Superior Council of the Military Reserve (Conseil supérieur de la réserve militaire) and a member of the High Court of Justice (Haute Cour de Justice).

Sources

Entry to Jacques Peyrat in the French Wikipedia, translated from the French
City of Nice official biographical sketch

1931 births
Living people
Politicians from Belfort
Rally of the French People politicians
National Centre of Independents and Peasants politicians
Independent Republicans politicians
National Rally (France) politicians
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
French senators of the Fifth Republic
Mayors of Nice
Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion
French military personnel of the First Indochina War
Members of the Organisation armée secrète
Senators of Alpes-Maritimes
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic

Jacques Peyrat


DU-41164, also known as 1,2β-methylene-6-fluoro-17α-acetoxy-δ6-retroprogesterone, is a progestin which was developed by Philips-Duphar in the 1970s and was never marketed. It is a combined derivative of 17α-hydroxyprogesterone and retroprogesterone. The drug shows extremely high potency as a progestogen in animals; it was reported to possess 500 times the affinity of progesterone for the progesterone receptor expressed in rabbit uterus (Ki = 0.87 pM and 0.41 nM, respectively), and showed 600 times the progestogenic potency of subcutaneous progesterone when given orally in animals. The affinity of DU-41164 for the progesterone receptor was described in 1974 as "probably the highest reported for any steroid-receptor interaction". The drug showed no androgenic, anabolic, antiandrogenic, estrogenic, or corticosteroid activity in animals. Although highly potent in animals, DU-41164 produced little or no progestogenic effect at dosages of 50 and 200 µg/day in women, suggesting major species differences. A closely related compound, DU-41165, has been developed as a photoaffinity label for the progesterone receptor.

References

Abandoned drugs
Acetate esters
Diketones
Fluoroarenes
Pregnanes
Progestogens
Enones
Conjugated dienes

DU-41164


Simplicien Lucas, O.A.D., (Father Simplician, or ), (1683–1759) was a noted French genealogist and a friar of the Order of Discalced Augustinians at the priory of the Order, commonly called the Couvent des Petits Pères, attached to the popular Basilica of Our Lady of Victories in Paris.

He was born Paul Lucas in 1683. The details of his birth and early life have not survived.

He is noted for his work together with another friar of his monastery, Father Angel of St. Rosalie, on the revision of the monumental history of the Royal House of France entitled Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France et des grands officiers de la couronne, that had been initiated by an earlier member of the same community, Père Anselme or Father Anselm (died 1694). They took up the project after the death in 1713 of the second editor of the project, the nobleman Honoré Caille du Fourny, who had edited Father Anselm's notes after his death and published a revised edition in 1712.

It was Father Simplicien who published a further revision in 1726, following the sudden death of his mentor and collaborator, Father Angel, that year. He himself went on to publish several new volumes, completing the project.

Lucas died at the priory of his Order in Paris in 1759.

French genealogists
Augustinian friars
1683 births
1759 deaths
18th-century French Roman Catholic priests
French male non-fiction writers

Simplicien Lucas


(lit. "Majisuka Academy") is a Japanese television drama series about high school delinquents, starring members of idol group AKB48.

The first season aired in 2010 on TV Tokyo. A second season Majisuka Gakuen 2 was aired the following year.

The third season was set in a different continuity from the previous seasons and was aired on July 13, 2012.

In 2015, the series moved to NTV and the fourth season, which returned to the same continuity as seasons 1 and 2, was aired on January 19, 2015. On the same year, a fifth season was announced and for the first time will be aired exclusively on internet, by the streaming site Hulu Japan, because NTV will broadcast only the first two episodes (August 24), due to various scenes of violence, which does not justify full season showing on TV.

A special spin-off from the fourth and fifth seasons of the series, titled , is a prequel to season 4. It was the first to feature members of HKT48 as the main cast and was produced in collaboration with the rock band Kishidan. It was aired on November 28, 2015, on NTV at 25:05 JST and run for half an hour.

Another spinoff titled Kyabasuka Gakuen was aired in 2016. It was set after the events of season 4 and was an alternate continuity to season 5. In a departure from the fist fighting theme of previous seasons, it saw the cast opening and running a hostess club.

The latest iteration of the series is Majimuri Gakuen, aired in July 2018, which featured an entirely new cast and continuity and set at a different school.

Seasons

1st Season Cast

Majisuka All-Girls High School

Homeroom 2-C
Transfer Students
Atsuko Maeda as Atsuko Maeda
Nachu as Daruma Onizuka
Team Hormone
Rino Sashihara as Wota
Rie Kitahara as Unagi
Aki Takajo as Akicha
Moeno Nito as Bungee
Mika Komori as Mukuchi

Rappapa (Wind Instrument Club) - "Top of Majijo"
Yuko Oshima as Yuko Oshima, Rappapa Head
Mariko Shinoda as Sado, Rappapa 2nd in Command
Four Heavenly Queens
Haruna Kojima as Torigoya
Rena Matsui as Gekikara
Yuki Kashiwagi as Black
Tomomi Itano as Shibuya
1st Year Students
Sayaka Nakaya as Anime
Miku Tanabe as Jumbo
Rumi Yonezawa as Rice
Haruka Katayama as Showa

Other Students
3rd Year
Sayaka Akimoto as Chokoku
2nd Year
Minami Minegishi as Minami Minegishi, Student Council President
Kabuki Sisters
Tomomi Kasai as Ookabuki
Asuka Kuramochi as Shoukabuki
Sae Miyazawa as Gakuran
1st Year
Sanshou Shimai
Aika Oota as Love-tan
Manami Oku as Manamana
Miho Miyazaki as Myao
Mayu Watanabe as Nezumi
Erena Ono as Erena
Jurina Matsui as Center
Kumi Yagami as Dance
Kinmayu-Kai
Miho Wakizawa as Leader (Unnamed)
Mayu Co. as Unnamed Officer
Anzu Momoto as Unnamed Member
Anzu Ikehata as Unnamed Member
SHIN-YONG as Unnamed Member
Sonomi Miyahayashi as Unnamed Member

Yabakune All-Girls High School
Asami Hihara as School Gang Leader
Natsu Andou as Migiude (2nd in Command)
Amina Sato as Chiharu
Yukari Sato as Sanae

Other Casts
Eri Fuse as Yuriko Nojima (Majisuka all-girls school principal, ex-Rappapa Leader)
Masahiro Komoto as Yoshiro Maeda (Maeda's father)
Sawa Suzuki as Sachiko Maeda (Maeda's mother, ex-Yabakune Leader)
Toru Tezuka as Kiken (Majisuka all-girls high school doctor)
Susumu Kobayashi as Kuuki (Majisuka all-girls high school math teacher 2-C)
Minami Takahashi as Minami Ono

2nd Season Cast

Majisuka All-Girls High School

Rappapa (Wind Instrument Club) - "Top of Majijo"
Yui Yokoyama as Otabe, Rappapa Head
Atsuko Maeda as Atsuko Maeda, Rappapa 2nd in Command
The Big 4
Rena Matsui as Amakuchi/Chuukara/Gekikara
Sae Miyazawa as Youran
Minami Minegishi as Shaku (Ex.Student Council President)
Kabuki Sisters (Nou・Kyougen Sisters)
Asuka Kuramochi as Shoukabuki
Tomomi Kasai as Ookabuki
Nachu as Daruma Onizuka
Team Hormone
Rino Sashihara as Wota
Rie Kitahara as Unagi
Moeno Nito as Bungee
Mika Komori as Mukuchi
Aki Takajo as Akicha

Tsu no Ji Rengou
Mayu Watanabe as Nezumi
Jurina Matsui as Center

Other Students
2nd Year
Team Under
Rumi Tonezawa as Rice
Miku Tanabe as Jumbo
Sayaka Nakaya as Anime
Haruka Katayama as Showa
Team Fondue
Mina Oba as Toshima
Haruka Shimada as Docchi
Haruka Shimazaki as Kanburi
Suzuran Yamauchi as Tsuri
Miori Ichikawa as Lemon

Majisuka Graduates
Yuko Oshima as Yuko Oshima, Ex-Rappapa Head
Mariko Shinoda as Sado, Ex-Rappapa 2nd in Command
Haruna Kojima as Torigoya, Ex-Rappapa Big 4
Yuki Kashiwagi as Black, Ex-Rappapa Big 4
Tomomi Itano as Shibuya, Ex-Rappapa Big 4
Sayaka Akimoto as Chokoku

Yabakune All-Girls High School
Hadashi no Kai (Habu)
3rd Year
Tomomi Itano as Shibuya, Ex-Rappapa Big 4
Amina Sato as Chiharu
Yukari Sato as Sanae
Mayumi Uchida as Janken
2nd Year
Kumi Yagami as Dance
Mariya Nagao as Mariyagi
Sumire Sato as Sanshoku
Ayaka Kikuchi as Comeback
Ami Maeda as Mayuge
Sanshou Shimai Nimaiba
Miho Miyazaki as Myao
Aika Oota as Love-tan
1st Year
Kanon Kimoto as Miso

Other Students
Misaki Iwasa as Misaki
Shizuka Ooya as Shizuka
Haruka Nakagawa as Haruka (ハルカ)
Natsumi Matsubara as Natsumi (ナツミ)
Ayaka Umeda as Ayaka (アヤカ)
Tomomi Nakatsuka as Tomomi
Misato Nonaka as Misato
Reina Fujie as Reina
Sakiko Matsui as Sakiko
Haruka Ishida as Haruka (はるか)
Kana Kobayashi as Kana
Shihori Suzuki as Shihori
Natsuki Sato as Natsuki (ナツキ)
Natsumi Hirajima as Natsumi (なつみ)
Yuka Masuda as Yuka
Anna Mori as Anna (あんな)
Rina Izuta as Izu
Rena Kato as Rena
Rina Kawaei as Rina
Natsuki Kojima as Natsuki (なつき)
Marina Kobayashi as Marina
Wakana Natori as Wakana
Nana Fujita as Nana
Ayaka Morikawa as Ayaka (あやか)

Yabakune Graduates
Asami Hihara as Ex-School Gang Leader
Natsu Andou as Migiude (Ex-2nd in Command)

Sutegoro High School
Shiori Nakamata as Nakamata
Maria Abe as Maria
Anna Iriyama as Anna (アンナ)
Miyu Takeuchi as Miyu
Mariko Nakamura as Mariko

Others
Minami Takahashi as Police Inspector
Yuko Oshima as Yuka / Yuki Oshima

3rd Season Cast

Prison "HOPE"

Team Habu
Haruka Shimazaki as Paru
Yuria Kizaki as Peace
Mina Oba as Daasu
Kumi Yagami as Komimi
Rina Kawaei as Nanashi
Kanon Kimoto as Nantene
Maria Abe as Tetsuo
Haruka Shimada as Uruseeyo
Jurina Matsui as Nobunaga

Team Mongoose
Anna Iriyama as An'nin
Miyu Takeuchi as Miyu
Rena Kato as Shokakku
Miori Ichikawa as Sudachi
Suzuran Yamauchi as Bunker
Juri Takahashi as Messi
Mariya Nagao as Yagi
Anna Murashige as Jovijovich

Other Prisoners
Rie Kitahara, Shiori Nakamata, Yuka Tano, Karen Iwata, Mariko Nakamura, and Akane Takayanagi as Unnamed Prisoners

Prison Staff
Yoriko Douguchi as Prison Head
Yasuji Kimura as Nozomu Dedokoro, Prison Warden
Koiku Misawa, Tomoyasu Yamamoto, Daisuke Hibari, Yuichiro Suzuki, and Kenzo Fukutsu as Jailers

Others
Kazuki Fukuyama as Keita Yoyogi

4th Season Cast

Majisuka All-Girls High School
Sakura Miyawaki as Sakura Miyawaki, 2nd Year Transfer Student from Kagoshima

Rappapa (Wind Instrument Club) - "Top of Majijo"
Haruka Shimazaki as Salt, Rappapa Head
Four Heavenly Queens
Yui Yokoyama as Otabe
Rina Kawaei as Bakamono
Anna Iriyama as Yoga
Yuria Kizaki as Magic

Team Hinabe (2nd Year)
Juri Takahashi as Uonome
Ryoka Oshima as Kusogaki
Mion Mukaichi as Jisedai
Rena Kato as Dodobusu
Natsuki Uchiyama as Kenpou

Kamisori & Zombie (1st Year)
Nana Owada as Zombie
Mako Kojima as Kamisori

Other students

3rd Year
Rino Sashihara as Scandal (repeating 3rd Year)

2nd Year
Karen Iwata as Masamune
Chiyori Nakanishi as Busakawa
Mizuki Tsuchiyasu as Yosakoi
Yuiri Murayama as Dokuringo
Nana Okada as Katabutsu
Hikari Hashimoto as Muneatsu
Rena Nozawa as Perapera
Seina Fukuoka as Hidarī
Rina Izuta as Yanzuna
Saho Iwatate as Erinki
Wakana Natori as Ojou
Rina Hirata as Kurofune
Moe Goto as Uirou
Miyabi Ino as Meshiuma
Ayano Umeta as Umeta
Moe Aigasa as Yankee
Miki Nishino as Over
Miori Ichikawa as Lemon
Mitsuki Maeda as Dekakawa
Natsuki Kojima as Eikō
Manami Ichikawa as Sabasaba
Mayu Ogasawara as Biriken
Haruka Shimada as Shimada

Gekioko High School Nursing Department

3rd Year
Sayaka Yamamoto as Antonio, School Gang Head
Miyuki Watanabe as Coby, 2nd in Command

2nd Year
Akari Suda as Tsurishi
Marika Tani as KY
Kaori Matsumura as Zakoboss
Miru Shiroma as Shirogiku
Fuuko Yagura as Kurobara

Year Unknown (Most Likely 1st Year)
Nao Furuhata as Diva
Rina Kondo as Bukkomi
Kei Jonishi as Demekin
Natsumi Tanaka as 170
Anna Murashige as Siberia
Shu Yabushita as Kimotama
Kanako Kadowaki as Ibukuro
Anna Ijiri as Ijirī
Eriko Jo as Joe
Sae Murase as Tekitō
Mai Fuchigami as Otenki
Serina Kumazawa as Hamster
Airi Tanigawa as Handsome
Michelle Christo Kusnadi as Michelle

Casual Diner: Asobina
Minami Takahashi as Minami, Owner, Majisuka Graduate

Majisuka Graduates
Haruna Kojima as Kojiharu, Ex.Rappapa Big 4
Nachu as Daruma Onizuka, Housewife
Jurina Matsui as Center, Nurse
Mayu Watanabe as Nezumi

Yabakune All-Girls High School
Mariya Nagao as Gekkou, New Gang Head
Tomu Mutō as Tsun
Saya Kawamoto as Rookie

4th Season Gaiden
Episodes

5th Season Cast

Majisuka All-Girls High School
Jurina Matsui as Center, Transfer Student; She quit being a nurse after she saw the news of Salt killed by an assassin.
Haruka Kodama as Katsuzetsu, Transfer Student

Rappapa (Wind Instrument Club) - "Top of Majijo"
Haruka Shimazaki as Salt, Rappapa Head
Four Heavenly Queens
Sakura Miyawaki as Sakura Miyawaki, Vice-Rappapa Head
Yui Yokoyama as Otabe
Anna Iriyama as Yoga
Yuria Kizaki as Magic

Team Hinabe
Juri Takahashi as Uonome
Ryoka Oshima as Kusogaki
Mion Mukaichi as Jisedai
Rena Kato as Dodobusu
Natsuki Uchiyama as Kenpou

1st Year Students
Nana Owada as Zombie
Mako Kojima as Kamisori

Other students
Nana Okada as Katabutsu

Gekioko High School Nursing Department
Sayaka Yamamoto as Antonio, School Gang Head
Miyuki Watanabe as Coby, 2nd in Command
Akari Suda as Tsurishi
Marika Tani as KY
Kaori Matsumura as Zakoboss
Miru Shiroma as Shirogiku
Fuuko Yagura as Kurobara
Akari Yoshida as Red
Kei Jonishi as Demekin

Yabakune All-Girls High School
Megu Taniguchi as Head, Fifteenth generation General
Nao Furuhata as Snake
Mariya Nagao as Gekkou
Tomu Mutō as Kaibun
Saya Kawamoto as Rookie
Yuiri Murayama as Candy
Yuka Tano as Amon

Casual Diner: Asobina
Minami Takahashi as Minami, Owner, Majisuka Graduate

Majisuka Graduates
Rina Kawaei as Bakamono, Ex.Rappapa Four Heavenly Queens

Cameo appearance
Miyu Omori as Kaidan (ep.1), Cloud (ep.9)
Ayana Shinozaki as Donkame (ep.1)
Atsuko Maeda as Atsuko Maeda (ep.2)
Yuko Oshima as Yuka Oshima (ep.2)
Yuki Kashiwagi as Black (ep.2)
Mayu Watanabe as Nezumi (ep.2)
Haruna Kojima as Torigoya/Kojiharu (ep.2)
Miyabi Ino as Meshiuma (ep.9)
Ayaka Okada as Okamochi (ep.9)
Haruka Shimada as Okami (ep.9)
Karen Iwata as Anison (ep.9)
Rena Nozawa as Speak (ep.9)
Miki Nishino as Chicken (ep.9)
Miona Hori as Nogi Female Student (ep.10)

5th Season Gaiden
Episodes

Spin-Off Season: 0: Kisarazu Rantōhen

Shekarashika Joshi Shōgyō
Sakura Miyawaki as Sakura Miyawaki; In prior to change school to Majisuka All-Girls High School, her hair is a long ponytail before it was cut short. She also tried to avoid fighting other Yankee.
Haruka Kodama as Katsuzetsu; Always together with Sakura.
Rino Sashihara as Ageman, Show's ex. girlfriend. She was previously a former Majisuka student of Team Hormone's leader as Wota.
Chihiro Anai as Neji
Yui Kojina as Narushi
Riko Sakaguchi as Fukurotoji
Meru Tashima as Megaphone
Miku Tanaka as Otona
Natsumi Matsuoka as Oshiri
Nako Yabuki as Namaiki
Aika Ota as Ogi
Mio Tomonaga as Bōyomi
Mai Fuchigami as Chikoku
Aoi Motomura as Gōkyū
Madoka Moriyasu as Kakuni
Emiri Yamashita as Katakana

Kisarazu Yankee Corps
Show Ayanocozey as Show, Ageman's ex.boyfriend
Hikaru Saotome as Mimiuchi
Hitomi Saionji as Teigaku
Hoshi Grandmarnier as Taigaku
Shouchikubai Shiratori as Master

Kyabasuka Gakuen (2016)

Majimuri Gakuen (2018)

The story is set at Utopia Arashigaoka, a new town created by the real estate company Gosaki Land. In the Arashigaoka Gakuen private school, the students are divided into  and  statuses with a strict social hierarchy, with Aran Gosaki, also known as Kaiser (Hinata Honma), at the top as the student council president. Sayuri "Lily" Shimizu (Yui Oguri), a mysterious girl with formidable fighting skills, transferred to the school and become friends with Hina Asahi (Rin Okabe), Ikumi "Bara" Kuwabara (Mion Mukaichi), and Sumire Yamamoto (Narumi Kuranoo). Calling themselves the , they fight to put an end to the school hierarchy and Kaiser's tyranny, while also facing the impending threat from the Arechi Technical School led by Manji (Yumiko Takino).

Unlike previous installments, this season features co-educational schools and brawls between female and male students. Some of the male fighters are portrayed by real-life pro wrestlers and martial artists, such as kickboxer Yasuhiro Kido, pro wrestler Yukio Sakaguchi, and former Estonian sumo wrestler Baruto Kaito.

The series was adapted into a stage play, which was performed on October 19–28, 2018 at the Nippon Seinenkan Hall, Tokyo. The stage play returned to an all-female cast lineup, and with the exception of Yui Kojina of HKT48 and the guest stars, all the named characters were portrayed by AKB48 members. Nana Okada portrayed the main antagonist, Nero.

Majimuri Gakuen: Rai (2021)
In February 2021, it was announced that a second stage play, titled  would be produced and performed in the end of March. This stage play would be part of the seventh anniversary celebration of AKB48 Team 8, of which most of the series' main cast are members, and all the regular characters would be portrayed by members of that team.

The play is set two years after the events of the first stage play, when the Hana-gumi have become senior students and gone their separate ways. While Lily is still the highly respected leader of the Hana-gumi, Hina has become the new student council president under the name "Null" and Sumire has reinvented herself as  and formed her own group, the .

Majimuri Gakuen: Loudness (2021)
In July 2021, a third stage play was announced, titled , and will be presented as a combination of stage play and concert.

The play is set two years after the events of the drama, with Nero and König set to confront Null, who has become the leader of Arashigaoka Student council.

References

External links
First season official website
Second season official website
Third season official website
Fourth season official website
Fifth season official website
Stage play official website

2010 Japanese television series debuts
AKB48
TV Tokyo original programming
Nippon TV dramas
Japanese drama television series
2010s high school television series
2010s teen drama television series
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Japanese high school television series
Television series about teenagers
Stage play franchises
Hulu Japan original programming

Majisuka Gakuen


Parboiling (or leaching) is the partial or semi boiling of food as the first step in cooking. The word is from the Old French 'parboillir' (to boil thoroughly) but by mistaken association with 'part' it has acquired its current meaning.

The word is often used when referring to parboiled rice. Parboiling can also be used for removing poisonous or foul-tasting substances from foods, and to soften vegetables before roasting them.

Basic technique

The food items are added to boiling water and cooked until they start to soften, then removed before they are fully cooked.  Parboiling is usually used to partially cook an item which will then be cooked another way such as braising, grilling, or stir-frying. Parboiling differs from blanching in that one does not cool the items using cold water or ice after removing them from the boiling water.

Parboiled rice

Sometimes raw rice or paddy is dehusked by using steam. This steam also partially boils the rice while dehusking. This process generally changes the colour of rice from white to a bit reddish. This type of rice is eaten in the districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada of Karnataka state, in the state of Kerala, and in most parts of Tamil Nadu, Bihar, and West Bengal in India. West Africa and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora are also accustomed to parboiling rice. Parboiling helps in increasing the vitamin contents of the rice such as vitamin A. This could be helpful in regions where a generalised vitamin A deficiency leads to community health problems like night blindness, conjuctival xerosis, etc.

See also

 Blanching
 Parbaking
 Parcooking

References

Cooking techniques
Culinary terminology

Parboiling


Alfred Schieske (6 September 1908 – 14 July 1970) was a German actor.

Career
Schieske was born in Stuttgart, the son of a German father and a French mother. He studied acting with Willy Reichert made his stage debut at the Staatstheater Stuttgart at the age of 19. Afterward, he played in Heidelberg, Esslingen and Bochum. In 1940, he joined the Berlin Staatstheater, led by Gustaf Gründgens.

After World War II, Schieske first went to Cologne, then to Berlin in 1947, where he had an engagement at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, working there until 1950. He then worked at the Schiller and Schlosspark theaters in West Berlin, as well as in Düsseldorf, Recklinghausen and Jagsthausen. He also played guest roles at other theaters. In 1950 he played the role of camp commandant of Ravensbrück in the British film Odette.

Among the stage roles played by Schieske were Milota in König Ottokars Glück und Ende, Klesel in Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg, Oberst Henry in Wilhelm Herzog's play about the Dreyfus Affair and Phil Cook in The Country Girl by Clifford Odets. He played several roles in German productions of Shakespeare; Bolingbroke in Richard II, Clarence in Richard III and Sir Toby Belch (German: Tobias Rülps) in Twelfth Night. He played Vladimir in Waiting for Godot, Adam in The Broken Jug, Götz in Götz von Berlichingen and Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1961, in one of his most successful roles, he began playing Alfred P. Doolittle (Eliza's father) in the musical My Fair Lady, first in Berlin, then Hamburg.

Schieske's most important film role was in the 1948 DEFA production, the Blum Affair, playing Otto Bonte, a criminal investigator who saves a Jewish man falsely accused of a crime, saves him and brings the real culprit to justice. In the 1960s, he acted on television in adaptations of literary works, such as Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frißt and Jeder stirbt für sich allein with Edith Schultze-Westrum and Anneli Granget, based on Hans Fallada's novel, Every Man Dies Alone.

Schieske's son, Geriet Schieske (1945-2023), was also an actor.

Filmography

 Friedemann Bach (1941) - Wirt in Braunschweig (uncredited)
  (1941) - Kriegsrat
 Back Then (1943) - Bassist
 Meine vier Jungens (1944) - Fritz Martens - Werkmeister
 Der Puppenspieler (1945) - Jochen Henke
 Die Schenke zur ewigen Liebe (1945) - Hauer Fritz
 Affaire Blum (1948) - Kriminalkommissar Otto Bonte
 Berliner Ballade (1948) - Herr Schneidewind, Politischer Redner
 Quartet of Five (1949) - Professor Mangold
 The Beaver Coat (1949) - Wulkow
 Odette (1950) - Camp Commandant
 A Day Will Come (1950) - Oberst Schedy
 The Guilt of Doctor Homma (1951)
 Big City Secret (1952)
 Inspektor Tondi (1952, TV Short) - Inspektor Tondi
 The Merry Vineyard (1952) - Dr. Unkelhäuser (uncredited)
 Children, Mother, and the General (1955) - Fahrer mit der Flasche
 The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955) - Fahrer mit der Flasche
 Night of Decision (1956) - André
 Dorothea Angermann (1959) - Pastor Angermann
 Der Fehltritt (1960, TV Movie) - Barossy
 Jenseits des Rheins (1960) - Fritz Keßler
 Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frißt (1961, TV Mini-Series) - Hauptwachtmeister Rusch
 Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1962, TV Movie) - Otto Quangel
 Das Leben ein Traum (1963, TV Movie) - Rosauras Diener
 Überstunden (1965, TV Movie) - Opa
 Romulus der Große (1965, TV Movie) - Cäsar Rupf
 Das Kriminalmuseum (1965, TV Series) - Kriminalkommissar Huberty
 Der Richter von London (1966, TV Movie) - Simon Eyre
 Kollege Crampton (1967, TV Movie) - Professor Crampton
 Wo liegt Jena? (1967, TV Movie) - Probst
 Flachsmann als Erzieher (1968, TV Movie) - Dr. Prell
 From Mice and Men (1968, TV Movie) - Chef
 Die Wilde (1968, TV Movie) - Monsieur Tarde
 Bitte recht freundlich, es wird geschossen (1969, TV Series) - Joe Baxter
 Zehn kleine Negerlein (1969, TV Movie) - Sir Lawrence Wargrave
 Michael Kohlhaas (1969)
 Pippi in the South Seas (1970) - Innkeeper
 Under the Roofs of St. Pauli (1970) - Egon Mills
 Peenemünde (1970, TV Movie) - Winston Churchill
 Das Feuerwerk (1971, TV Movie) - Vater

References

External links

1908 births
1970 deaths
Male actors from Stuttgart
German male television actors
German male stage actors
German male film actors
German people of French descent
20th-century German male actors

Alfred Schieske


The Great Sandy Desert is a desert in the northwest of Australia, mostly in Western Australia. It is the second-largest desert in Australia (after the Great Victoria Desert). It covers about . South of the Great Sandy Desert is the Gibson Desert, and to the east is the Tanami Desert.

There are not many people living in the Great Sandy Desert. Most of them  are Aboriginal communities and mining towns. The Aboriginal people of the desert fall into two main groups: the Martu in the west and the Pintupi in the east. They both speak Western Desert languages.

The area does not get much rain, but even in the driest parts rainfalls rarely drop below . The rate of evaporation (how quickly the water dries up) is very high. Most of the rain comes from thunderstorms. Many drought years end with a monsoon or tropical cyclone. On average for most of the area, there are about 20-30 days where thunderstorms form.

Most of the plants growing across the Great Sandy Desert are spinifex grasses. Animals living in the desert include  dingos, red kangaroo, monitor lizards, bilbies, marsupial mole, thorny devils, bearded dragons and many other species of lizard.

The first European to cross the desert was Peter Warburton. He made the journey from Alice Springs leaving in April 1873 and arriving at De Grey Station in January 1874. When Warburton arrived, he was starving and blind in one eye. He thanked his survival on his Aboriginal companion Charley.

References

Deserts of Australia
Geography of Western Australia

Great Sandy Desert