Selema "Sal" Mabena Masekela (born August 28, 1971) is an American television host, sports commentator, actor and singer.

Life and career
Masekela was born in Los Angeles, the son of a Haitian mother and South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela. Masekela is also the older half-brother of Survivor: Cook Islands contestant Nathan Gonzalez. He was raised in Staten Island, New York in the same class with rapper Method Man and Carlsbad, California, where he attended Carlsbad High School. Masekela is the co-founder of Berkela Motion Pictures with Jason Bergh. When he was a teenager, Masekela's upbringing brought him to Southern California, where he was first exposed to surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding.

His career began as an intern at Transworld Publications in 1992, home of TW Snow, TW Skateboarding, and TW Surf magazines. He served as an NBA sideline reporter for ESPN during the 2003–2004 season. Masekela was co-host of The Daily 10, a countdown of the day's "top 10" entertainment stories, on the E! network until it was cancelled on Sept 27, 2010 (last show Oct 1, 2010). He was also host of both the X Games and Winter X Games on ESPN for 13 years but left in 2012 to work for NBC and NBC Sports Network through a contract with Red Bull Media House. He appears in the "Green" episode of Yo Gabba Gabba singing the song "Hello World" which aired on Nick Jr. on April 22, 2009.

In 2010, he was hired by ESPN to help as a correspondent in its coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. While working as a correspondent, Masekela was featured, with his father, Hugh, in a series of videos on ESPN. The series, called "Umlando - Through my Father's Eyes", aired in 10 parts during ESPN's coverage of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The series focused on Hugh and Selema's travels through South Africa. Hugh brought his son to the places where he grew up. It was Selema's first trip to his father's homeland.

A native of New York, Masekela travelled the world in his youth with his father, South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela. Masekela's own band, Alekesam, shares the name of his first film which chronicles his relationship with his father and their connection through music, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. Alekesam's music has been featured on Entourage and House of Lies, with their newest single, "All Is Forgiven", featured on the season four premiere of the Showtime hit. Masekela has hosted live events, including YouTube's Brandcast in New York and Paris, YouTube Live on Stage from the Kennedy Center and Google's Zeitgeist.

As part of NBC's coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Masekela was a features reporter for NBC's nationally syndicated Olympic Zone. He joined the Emmy Award-winning investigative series VICE on HBO as a correspondent and executive producer in 2015. That year, he also appeared in the remake of the cult classic Point Break.

From April 2016, Masekela appeared as the host and executive producer of VICELAND's docu-series, VICE World of Sports. The series took viewers all over the world to explore each location's people, politics and culture through sports. The series premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22. Masekela is also involved in the production company UX Entertainment. Based in Los Angeles, UXE specializes in film, commercials, music videos, and animation work.

In December 2022, Masekela announced his relationship with Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o. They broke up in October 2023.

Social initiatives
Masekela is involved in several social initiatives, and is the co-founder of Stoked Mentoring, an organization dedicated to mentoring at risk youth through action sports. He also serves on the advisory boards of The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto of South Africa, and The Skatepark Project, an organization dedicated to financing and building high-quality, legal skateboarding parks for kids. Masekela is also a strong public supporter of the Surfrider Foundation and Life Rolls On.

References

External links

Living people
American game show hosts
American infotainers
American television sports anchors
American television reporters and correspondents
African-American television personalities
American people of Haitian descent
National Basketball Association broadcasters
American people of South African descent
1971 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Carlsbad, California
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people

Selema Masekela


The National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC) is a former UK government agency, now privately owned as part of Ricardo plc, providing information related to chemical accidents (spillages and fires) to emergency services in the United Kingdom and other countries.

The NCEC is headquartered on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in the Vale of White Horse in Oxfordshire.

History
The NCEC was formed in 1973 as a government agency. On 1 March 1979 the Centre launched, in cooperation with the Home Office, its Hazfile computer database, made available to fifteen British fire services, listing over 10,000 chemical compounds; this was later replaced by the Chemdata system. A similar system in the USA is called RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances).

Function
Most chemical safety legislation in the UK covers the transport of hazardous chemicals by road. Companies carrying dangerous substances must comply with the legislation. The NCEC worked with the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) to develop a set of safety codes for carrying dangerous chemicals for National Intervention in Chemical Transport Emergencies Centres across Europe.

Chemdata
In the 1980s the NCEC developed the Chemdata hazardous material database, which was provided to British fire services for use in case of chemical accidents.

Chemdata lists over 61,600 safety data sheets (SDS) for dangerous substances. It is published in six languages.

See also
 European chemical Substances Information System (ESIS) and European Chemicals Agency
 History of fire safety legislation in the United Kingdom
 International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code, developed by the London-based International Maritime Organization (IMO)
 National Poisons Information Service (NPIS), provides much the same function, but for pharmaceutical products

References

External links
 NCEC official website

1973 establishments in the United Kingdom
Chemical accident
Chemical industry in the United Kingdom
Chemical safety
Cheminformatics
Defunct public bodies of the United Kingdom
Emergency management in the United Kingdom
Government agencies established in 1973
Health and safety in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Oxfordshire
Safety engineering organizations
Science and technology in Oxfordshire
Scientific organizations established in 1973
Toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source
Toxicology in the United Kingdom
Toxicology organizations
Vale of White Horse

National Chemical Emergency Centre


Carlos Alberto Blanco Pérez (born March 7, 1986, in Madrid) is a Spanish writer, academic and former child prodigy.

He is the author of "Conciencia y Mismidad", "Athanasius" and "La integración del conocimiento". In 2015 he was elected to the World Academy of Art and Science. and he is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Biography
Carlos Blanco began to speak when he was seven months old and by age two he learned to read. At eight he started to learn ancient languages, studying on his own Egyptian. He attended local state school in Coslada, "C.P. Pablo Neruda". In 1997, when he was eleven years old, he was admitted to the Spanish Association of Egyptology.

In May 1998, after getting the highest mark in the course on Egyptian hieroglyphs offered by the Spanish Association of Egyptology, he was regarded as the youngest Egyptologist in Europe and the youngest hieroglyphs decipherer in the world by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, and by age 12 he was named honorary member of "Fundación Arqueológica Clos" (Barcelona), giving his first lectures at "Museo Egipcio" in Barcelona. He was also invited to visit Egypt by the Egyptian Government and he was awarded a scholarship to study Arabic at "Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islámicos" (Madrid).

In 1999 he became popular in Spain for his interventions at Crónicas marcianas, one of the leading TV programs of the moment, where under the label of "superdotado" (in Spanish, name referring to highly gifted children) he spoke about science, philosophy, history and politics every week. He was invited for a second time to Egypt, where he was interviewed for "Good Evening, Egypt", and he went to Argentina, where he was interviewed by Samuel "Chiche" Gelblung in Buenos Aires.

In 2000 he got a scholarship to study at Westminster School, London, where he was interested in Russian, Chinese and Greek. In 2001 he was given a grant to attend lessons at University of Navarra (Spain). He took three degrees ("licenciaturas") at the same time: Philosophy (M.A. 2006), Chemistry (M.Sc.2007) and Theology (M.A.2007), continuing his studies on Russian and Chinese.

Blanco has been a member of the International Association of Egyptologists, "Sociedad Española Leibniz" and Asociación Española de Superdotados y con Talento.

As of 2009, he studies as a visiting fellow in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. As of 2011, he holds two doctorates: Philosophy and Theology. He is a faculty member of the Pontifical University of Comillas, a Jesuit institution in Madrid, where he teaches philosophy, and he is a founding member of The Altius Society, a global association of young leaders which organizes an annual conference at Oxford University.

Works
"Disco de Phaistos: Investigaciones para una traducción bajo un punto de vista gramático e histórico" (Coslada, diciembre de 1998; registro de la propiedad intellectual 80716, 16/02/99).
El nacimiento de la civilización egipcia (Coslada, 1999)
"Estudio comparativo entre el desciframiento de las escrituras jeroglíficas egipcia y maya", lecture read at the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona (September, 2001)
"El Éxodo: aspectos literarios, arqueológicos y teológicos" (Coslada, diciembre 2003; Estudios Bíblicos vol. LXII, cuad. 3).
"Leibniz y la teoría de la relación" Thémata n. 34, 2005.
"El concepto de creación en la teología menfita" (Coslada, 2005)
 Why Resurrection? An Introduction to the Belief in the Afterlife in Judaism and Christianity (Pickwick, 2011)
Philosophy and Salvation. An Essay on Wisdom, Beauty, and Love as the Goal of Life (Pickwick 2012)
 Filosofía, Teología y el Sentido de la Historia (Fundación José Antonio de Castro, 2011)
God, the future, and the fundamentum of history in Wolfhart Pannenberg
Conciencia y Mismidad (Dykinson, 2013)
El Pensamiento de la Apocalíptica Judía (Trotta, 2013)
Leonardo da Vinci o la Tragedia de la Perfección (De Buena Tinta 2015)
Grandes Problemas Filosóficos (Síntesis 2015)
The Integration of Knowledge
 Athanasius (DidacBook 2016),
The role of presuppositions in the social sciences
 La integración del conocimiento (Evohé 2018),

References

External links
El Mundo, 17-V-1998, Madrid, 24: "Un niño de 12 años de Coslada, el egiptólogo más joven de Europa"
"La vuelta al mundo del niño egiptólogo", El Mundo, 24-V-1998
 Interview for Telecinco, 1999
Interview for Telecinco, 1999
Interview, 2007
Interview for La Sexta, 2008
International Association of Egyptologists, 2004
Interview for La Vanguardia, September 1999
La Vanguardia 1999
Interview for El Pais
 Carlos Blanco's website

1986 births
Living people
Spanish philosophers

Carlos Blanco (writer)


Qatrun, Al Katrun, Gatrone, or Al Gatrun () is a village in the Murzuq District in southern Libya on the main road to Chad and Niger.  It has a filling station (gas station) and a Niger consulate office is located there. When the border checkpoint 310 kilometres south at Tumu is closed, travelers crossing into Libya from Niger report in at Qatrun.

The town was briefly captured by the National Liberation Army during the Libyan Civil War in July 2011. On 23 July, Gaddafi forces recaptured the city and continued south towards Al Wigh. The National Liberation Army later recaptured the village.

External links
Satellite map of al-Qatrun at Maplandia.com

References

Populated places in Murzuq District
Baladiyat of Libya

Qatrun


Karl Stegger (11 January 1913, in Aarhus – 13 April 1980, in Frederiksberg) was a Danish actor, who appeared in 157 films which makes him the second-most used Danish film actor after Ove Sprogøe.

He mostly appeared in comedy, but also had some serious roles e.g. as the vicar in Præsten i Vejlby (based on the Steen Steensen Blicher drama). He became famous in 1955 when he replaced Ib Schønberg as the father in the popular Far-til-Fire-film series (Father of Four). Later he appeared in several of the Olsen-banden-movies and the TV series Matador as Consul Holm.

Selected filmography
 The Crime of Tove Andersen (1953)
 The Son (1953)
 Paw (1959)
 Neighbours (1966)

References

External links

1913 births
1980 deaths
Danish male film actors
Actors from Aarhus
20th-century Danish male actors

Karl Stegger


Tis Money makes a Man: Or, The Good-Fellows Folly is an English broadside ballad believed to have been published between 1674 and 1679 by John Wade, and is located in the National Library of Scotland. It is best known for its first lines, "OO what a madness 'tis to borrow or lend, / Or for strong Liquor thy Money to spend" as well as its popular refrain, "Then make much of a Penny as near as you can, / For if that be wanting thou'rt counted no man."

Synopsis

Set often to the tune of "Digby's Farewell," this ballad details the plights of a good-fellow who spends most of his money in an ale-house, and in doing so neglects his wife and children. Historically, we can link him to the Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, since both can be described as companions fond of feasting, drinking, and general conviviality. The ballad's central theme is money, and it is used as a vehicle to explore the vices of drinking, commenting on the idea that a man who spends all his hard-earned coin on liquor is no true man at all. The ballad also explores issues of infidelity, since it is implied later in the ballad that the speaker forsakes the company of his wife for the company of the ale-house hostess. The tone of the ballad is moral and advisory in nature, since the speaker warns the listener about the dangers of alcohol, pleading that the listener heed his advice lest he end up like him.

References

External links
Textual Transcriptions of the broadside ballad Tis Money makes a Man: Or, the Good-Fellows Folly at the English Broadside Ballad Archive of UC Santa Barbara.
Audio Recording of Tis Money makes a Man: Or, the Good-Fellows Folly.

Scottish ballads
Songs about alcohol
17th-century broadside ballads
Year of song unknown
1670s songs

'Tis Money makes a Man: Or, The Good-Fellows Folly


,
a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda (),
was a Japanese judōka (judo practitioner) and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions. He was known as Count Combat or Conde Koma in Spanish and Portuguese, a nickname he picked up in Spain in 1908. Along with Antônio Soshihiro Satake (another naturalized Brazilian), he pioneered judo in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and other countries.

Maeda was fundamental to the development of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, including through his teaching of Carlos Gracie and others of the Gracie family. He was also a promoter of Japanese emigration to Brazil. Maeda won more than 2,000 professional fights in his career- though this claim has been disputed. His accomplishments led to him being called the "toughest man who ever lived" and being referred to as the father of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.

Biography
Maeda was born in Funazawa Village, Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, on November 18, 1878. He attended Kenritsu Itiu high school (currently Hirokou—a Hirosaki school). As a child, he was known as Hideyo. He practiced sumo as a teenager, but lacked the ideal build for the sport. In 1894, at seventeen years of age, his parents sent him to Tokyo to enroll in Waseda University. He joined the Kodokan Judo Institute the following year.

Formative years at the Kodokan
Arriving in the Kodokan, Maeda, who was  tall and weighed , was confused with a delivery boy due to his country manners and demeanor. He was spotted by judo's founder Kano Jigoro, and assigned to Tsunejiro Tomita (4th dan at the time), the smallest of the teachers of the Kodokan's "Four Heavenly Kings" (Shitennō), to illustrate that in judo size is not important. Tomita was the first Kodokan judoka and a close friend of Kano. According to Koyasu Masao (9th dan):

Although the weakest of Kodokan Shitennō, Tomita was able to defeat the great jujutsu champion of that time, Hansuke Nakamura.

With Soishiro Satake, Maeda formed the head of the second generation of Kodokan judoka, which had replaced the first by the beginning of the 20th century. Satake, at 175 cm and 80 kg, was unmatched in amateur sumo but admitted that he himself was not able to match Maeda in judo. Satake would later travel to South America with Maeda and settle in Manaus, Amazonas State, while Maeda continued traveling. Satake would become the founder, in 1914, of the first historically registered judo academy in Brazil. He and Maeda are considered the pioneers of judo in Brazil.

At that time, there were few graduated Kodokan judoka. Maeda and Satake were the top graduated professors at Waseda University, both sandan (3rd dan), along with Matsuhiro Ritaro (nidan or 2nd dan) and six other shodan (1st dan). Kyuzo Mifune registered at the Kodokan in 1903 and attracted the attention of Maeda, who commented, "you are strong and competent, therefore, you will certainly leave your mark in the Kodokan ..." Mifune went to learn under Sakujiro Yokoyama and later, already a celebrated judoka, Mifune said that Maeda's words were a great incentive, as he regarded Maeda with the greatest admiration, even though Yokoyama was his sensei (instructor).

According to Mifune, in 1904 Maeda lost to Yoshitake Yoshio by hane goshi, after defeating three adversaries in succession, but in a following tsukinami-shiai defeated eight adversaries in a row and was awarded the rank of 4th dan (yondan). Mifune also states that Maeda was one of the most vigorous promoters of judo, although not by teaching the art, instead generating recognition of judo through his many combats with contenders from other disciplines. Maeda treated experienced and inexperienced students alike, throwing them as if in real combat. He reasoned that this behavior was a measure of respect towards his students, but it was often misunderstood and frightened many youngsters, who would abandon him in favor of other professors.

Prelude to Kodokan's expansion
In 1879, Ulysses S. Grant, the former president of the United States, visited Japan. While in Tokyo, he attended a jujutsu presentation at Shibusawa Eiichi's home in Asukayama. Kano Jigoro was one of the jujutsuka present. At that time, jujutsu was just starting to become known in Europe and the Americas. Excepting literal circus acts, few non-Japanese had much chance of seeing or learning about the art. Even in Japan, judo and jujutsu were not considered separate disciplines at that time. Indeed, it was not until 1925 that there started to be clear differentiation of the names in Japan, and outside Japan, judo and jujutsu were not completely separated until the 1950s. However, as is the case today, due to Kano's inherent dislike of newaza (ground-fighting), Kodokan jujutsu/judo contained far less newaza than what was typically taught in a traditional "Koryu" jujutsu school. It would take ground-master Mataemon Tanabe 's multiple victories over the Kodokan's best fighters to force Kano into accepting newaza. For Judo's official manual, the Kodokan initially used the Butokukai's own manual for their newaza section- where Tanabe was a senior instructor alongside Hajime Isogai. Before newaza was fully integrated into the Kodokan however, Maeda had already left overseas. Out of necessity for dealing with Catch wrestlers, Maeda would only begin taking an interest in newaza while in London (he trained and toured with Yukio Tani as well as Tanabe/Seibukan students Taro Miyake and Sadakazu Uyenishi ).

In 1903, a senior Kodokan instructor named Yamashita Yoshitsugu traveled to the United States at the request of the Seattle businessman Sam Hill. In Washington, DC, Yamashita's students included Theodore Roosevelt and other prominent Americans. At Roosevelt's request, Yamashita also taught judo at the U.S. Naval Academy. Capitalizing on the publicity, the Japanese Legation to the United States asked the Kodokan to send more judo teachers to America, providing continuity to Yamashita's work. Tomita reluctantly accepted the task; Maeda and Satake embraced the opportunity.

Career

United States
Tomita, Maeda, and Satake sailed from Yokohama on November 16, 1904 and arrived in New York City on December 8, 1904.

Early in 1905, Tomita and Maeda gave several public demonstrations of judo. On February 17, 1905, Tomita and Maeda gave a demonstration at Princeton University when Maeda threw N.B. Tooker, a Princeton football player, while Tomita threw Samuel Feagles, the Princeton gymnasium instructor. On February 21, 1905, they gave a judo demonstration at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where Tomita and Maeda performed kata (patterns)—nage-no, koshiki, ju-no, and so on. At the request of the crowd, Maeda wrestled a cadet and threw him easily. Because Tomita had been the thrower in the kata, the cadets wanted to wrestle him too. Tomita threw the first (Charles Daly) without any trouble. However, Tomita twice failed to throw another football player named Tipton using Tomoe nage. Afterwards, the New York sportswriters claimed the victory for the cadets because Tomita was thrown, whereas the Japanese embassy staff proclaimed that Tomita had achieved a moral victory, on the grounds that he was a far smaller man.

A conflicting account provided by The New York Times on February 21, referring to Tomita as "Prof. Tomet," states that

In any event, later that year the U.S. Military Academy hired a former world champion professional wrestler, Tom Jenkins, instead of a judo teacher, a job Jenkins kept until his retirement in 1942.

The Japanese experts did better at the New York Athletic Club on March 8, 1905: "Their best throw was a sort of flying cartwheel," said an article in The New York Times, describing Maeda's match with John Naething, a 200 lb wrestler. "Because of the difference in methods the two men rolled about the mat like schoolboys in a rough-and-tumble fight. After fifteen minutes of wrestling, Maeda secured the first fall. Ultimately, however, Naething was awarded the match by pin fall." On March 21, 1905, Tomita and Maeda gave a "jiu-do" demonstration at Columbia University attended by about 200 people. Following introductions, Tomita demonstrated falls and throws, then Maeda threw the university's wrestling instructor. According to the student newspaper, "Another interesting feature was the exhibition of some of the obsolete jiu jitsu tricks for defense with a fan against an opponent armed with the curved Japanese sword." Translations were provided by chemist Jōkichi Takamine.

During April 1905, Tomita and Maeda started a judo club in a commercial space at 1947 Broadway in New York. Members of this club included Japanese expatriates, plus a European American woman named Wilma Berger. On July 6, 1905, Tomita and Maeda gave a judo exhibition at the YMCA in Newport, Rhode Island. On September 30, 1905, they gave a demonstration at another YMCA in Lockport, New York. In Lockport, the local opponent was Mason Shimer, who wrestled Tomita unsuccessfully.

On November 6, 1905, Maeda was reported visiting professional wrestler Akitaro Ono in Asheville, North Carolina; after this, Maeda was no longer routinely associated with Tomita in the U.S. newspapers. On December 18, 1905, Maeda was in Atlanta, Georgia for a professional wrestling match with Sam Marburger. The contest was best of three, two falls with jackets and one without, and Maeda won the two with jackets and lost the one without. According to the Atlanta papers, Maeda listed his residence as the YMCA in Selma, Alabama. After departing the U.S., Maeda moved to London where he fought wrestlers on the stages of music halls alongside JuJitsu pioneers Yukio Tani of the Tenjin Shinyo ryu, Taro Miyake and Sadakazu Uyenishi both of Yataro Handa's Senbukan in Osaka, known for its strong ground-fighting due to its close relationship with Mataemon Tanabe (whose protege ended up becoming head teacher at the Seinbukan).

Cuba, Mexico, and Central America

In 1908, toured Spain with Sadakazu Uyenishi. During November 1908, Maeda went to Paris, France, apparently to see his friend Akitaro Ono. From Paris, he went to Havana, arriving there on December 14, 1908, and his twice-a-day wrestling act quickly proved to be very popular. On July 23, 1909, Maeda left Havana for Mexico City. His debut in Mexico City took place at the Virginia Fabregas Theater on July 14, 1909. This show was a private demonstration for some military cadets. Shortly afterwards, Maeda began appearing at the Principal Theater. In a similar fashion to how the jujutsu pioneers in Europe did things, Maeda put on "all comers" matches against anyone willing to test their luck on stage. His standing offer was 100 pesos (US$50) to anyone he could not throw, and 500 pesos (US$250) to anyone who could throw him. The Mexican Herald did not record anyone taking his money.

During September 1909, a Japanese calling himself Nobu Taka arrived in Mexico City for the purpose of challenging Maeda for what the Mexican Herald said would be the world jujutsu championship. After several months of public wrangling, Taka and Maeda met at the Colon Theater on November 16, 1909; Taka won. There was an immediate rematch, and four days later, Maeda was pronounced the champion. It was later revealed that Taka was, in fact, Maeda's old friend, Soishiro Satake.

In January 1910, Maeda took part in a wrestling tournament in Mexico City. During the semifinals, Maeda drew with Hjalmar Lundin. This is a different result than Lundin recalled in his 1937 memoirs. Said Lundin, "Having been accustomed to handling the big Greco-Roman wrestlers with ease, the Jap thought he could do likewise with me, but in the first encounter I got the better of him, after which my confidence returned. I had no trouble then in winning the match. It was a surprise to the crowd and a set-back for Koma. He had been the hero all week, but as soon as he was beaten the fans, true to form, called him a bum."

In July 1910, Maeda returned to Cuba, where he tried to arrange matches with Frank Gotch and Jack Johnson. The Americans ignored him—there was no money to be made wrestling him, and much money to be lost if they lost to him. On August 23, 1910, Maeda wrestled Jack Connell in Havana; the result was a draw. During 1911, Maeda and Satake were joined in Cuba by Akitaro Ono and Tokugoro Ito. The four men were known as the 'Four Kings of Cuba.'

The Four Kings were very popular in Cuba, and the Japanese media were proud of the reputation they were bringing to judo and Japan. Consequently, on January 8, 1912, the Kodokan promoted Maeda to 5th dan. There was some resistance to this decision because there were those in Japan who did not approve of his involvement in professional wrestling. In 1913, Tokugoro Ito stayed in Cuba while Maeda and Satake went to El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. In El Salvador, the president was assassinated while Maeda was there, and in Panama, the Americans tried to pay him to lose; in response, they kept moving south. In Peru they met Laku, a Japanese jujutsuka who taught the military, and invited him to join them. They were then joined by Okura in Chile, and by Shimitsu in Argentina. The troupe arrived in Brazil before September 1914.

Brazil
According to Correio Paulistano Newspaper Maeda did a Judo demonstration at Teatro Variedades (Theatre) - Largo do Paissandu /Santos city at 24 September 1914. According to a copy of Maeda's passport provided by Gotta Tsutsumi, head of Belém's Associação Paramazônica Nipako, Maeda arrived in Porto Alegre on November 14, 1914,
 After appearing in Porto Alegre, Maeda and his companions moved throughout the country: on August 26, 1915, Maeda, Satake, Okura, Shimitsu, and Laku were at Recife; during October 1915, they were in Belém, finally arriving in Manaus on December 18, 1915. Tokugoro Ito arrived some time later.

On December 20, 1915, the first demonstration in Belém took place at the Theatro Politheama. The O Tempo newspaper announced the event, stating that Conde Koma would show the main jiu-jitsu techniques, excepting the prohibited ones. He also would demonstrate self-defense techniques. After that, the troupe would be accepting challenges from the crowd, and there would be the first sensational match of jiu-jitsu between Shimitsu (champion of Argentina) and Laku (Peruvian military professor). On December 22, 1915, according to O Tempo, jiu-jitsu world champion Maeda, head of the Japanese troupe, and Satake, New York champion, performed an enthusiastic and sensational jiu-jitsu match. On the same day, Nagib Assef, an Australian Greco-Roman wrestling champion of Turkish origin, challenged Maeda. On December 24, 1915, Maeda defeated in seconds the boxer Barbadiano Adolpho Corbiniano, who became one of his disciples. On January 3, 1916, at Theatro Politheama, Maeda finally fought Nagib Assef, who was thrown off the stage and pinned into submission by arm-lock. On January 8, 1916, Maeda, Okura, and Shimitsu boarded the SS Antony and left for Liverpool. Tokugoro Ito went to Los Angeles. Satake and Laku stayed in Manaus teaching, according to O Tempo, jiu-jitsu. After 15 years together, Maeda and Satake had finally split up. Of this last trip, little is known.

Maeda was still popular in Brazil, and recognized as a great fighter, although he only fought sporadically after his return. Around 1918–1919, Maeda accepted a challenge from the famous capoeirista Pé de Bola. Maeda allowed Pé de Bola to use a knife in the fight. The capoeirista was 190 cm tall and weighed 100 kg. Maeda won the match quickly. In 1921, Maeda founded his first judo academy in Brazil. It was called Clube Remo' and its building was a 4m x 4m shed. Later, it was moved to the Fire Brigade headquarters and then to the church of N.S. de Aparecida. In 1991, the Academy was located in the SESI and was run by Alfredo Mendes Coimbra, of the third generation of Conde Koma's descendants.

On September 18, 1921, Maeda, Satake, and Okura were briefly in New York City. They were aboard the Booth Line steamship SS Polycarp. All three men listed their occupations as professors of "juitso". After leaving New York, the three men went to the Caribbean, where they stayed from September to December 1921. At some point in this trip, Maeda was joined by his wife. In Havana, Satake and Maeda took part in some contests. Their opponents included Paul Alvarez, who wrestled as Espanol Icognito. Alvarez defeated Satake and Yako Okura—the latter being billed as a former instructor at the Chilean Naval Academy—before being himself beaten by Maeda. Maeda also defeated a Cuban boxer called Jose Ibarra, and a French wrestler called Fournier. The Havana papers attributed Maeda with a Cuban student called Conde Chenard.

Later years

In 1925, Maeda became involved with helping settle Japanese immigrants near Tome-açú, a Japanese-owned company town in Pará, Brazil. This was part of a large tract in the Amazon forest set aside for Japanese settlement by the Brazilian government. The crops grown by the Japanese were not popular with the Brazilians, and the Japanese investors eventually gave up on the project. Maeda also continued teaching judo, now mostly to the children of Japanese immigrants. Consequently, in 1929, the Kodokan promoted him to 6th dan, and on November 27, 1941, to 7th dan. Maeda never knew of this final promotion, because he died in Belém on November 28, 1941. The cause of death was kidney disease.

In May 1956, a memorial to Maeda was erected in Hirosaki City, Japan. The dedication ceremony was attended by Risei Kano and Kaichiro Samura.

Influence on the creation of Brazilian jiu jitsu
Gastão Gracie was a business partner of the American Circus in Belém. In 1916, Italian-Argentine circus Queirolo Brothers staged shows there and presented Maeda. In 1917, Carlos Gracie, the 14‑year-old son of Gastão Gracie, watched a demonstration by Maeda at the Da Paz Theatre and decided to learn judo. Maeda accepted Gracie and Luiz França as students, and the youth became a great exponent of the art and ultimately, with his younger brother Hélio Gracie, founded Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, modern Brazilian jiu-jitsu. In 1921, Gastão Gracie and his family moved to Rio de Janeiro. Carlos, then 17 years old, passed Maeda's teachings on to his brothers Osvaldo, Gastão, and Jorge. Carlos and Hélio are considered the founders of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Maeda's philosophy of combat
According to Renzo Gracie's book Mastering Jujitsu,
Maeda not only taught the art of jujutsu/judo to Carlos Gracie, but also taught a particular philosophy about the nature of combat based on his travels competing and training alongside Newaza specialized jujutsukas like Sadakazu Uyenishi, Taro Miyake, catch-wrestlers, boxers, savate fighters, and various other martial artists. The book details Maeda's theory - one common amongst the jujutsu pioneers in London and also common in boxing vs grappling matches that were popular in the 1800s- that physical combat could be broken down into distinct phases, such as the striking phase, the grappling phase, the ground phase, and so on. Thus, it was a smart fighter's task to keep the fight located in the phase of combat that best suited his own strengths. The book further states that this theory was a fundamental influence on the Gracie approach to combat. The approach included armed versus armed, armed versus unarmed, unarmed, standing (tachiwaza, 立ち技), kneeling (suwariwaza, 座技), and ground work (newaza, 寝技), close quarters (hakuheijugi, 白兵主義), and other forms of combat. It was employed by other proponents of judo ("Kano-ryu jiu-jutsu") who, like Maeda, engaged in challenge matches fighting overseas as JuJitsu spread internationally (e.g., Yukio Tani Taro Miyake in the United Kingdom from 1900/1904, Mikonosuke Kawaishi in France, and others).

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The Moses Fowler House is located at the corner of 10th and South streets in Lafayette, Indiana. The house is considered the finest example of a large Gothic Revival residence still standing in the United States. Upon his death in 1889, aged 74, Fowler had accumulated a fortune of an estimated three million dollars. Fowler and his wife, Eliza (1817–1902), were donors to various community interests, including Purdue University.

The house was built by Moses Fowler in 1851–1852. Locally harvested black walnut and white oak were used for the ornately carved woodwork. Italian immigrant craftsmen were brought via the Wabash and Erie Canal from New York City to execute the plasterwork ceilings in the north and south parlors. When completed it was one of the finest houses in Indiana. The designs for the house were principally taken from a copy of Andrew Jackson Downing's book The Architecture of Country Houses, c. 1851, which Fowler purchased while on a business trip in New York City.

Fowler originally came to Lafayette in 1839 from Circleville, Ohio, with his friend and business partner John Purdue (founder of Purdue University) and engaged in the dry goods business. The business lasted until 1844, when the duo parted to pursue different goals. Over the years a number of business pursuits made him very wealthy. These included the wholesale business, cattle ranching, the railroads, and banking.

Both Moses and Eliza are interred in Lafayette's Spring Vale Cemetery.

In 1902, upon the death of his grandmother, Moses and Eliza's grandson, Cecil G. Fowler (son of James and Eva Fowler), inherited the house and he and his wife Louise made it their residence. Cecil had followed his father and grandfather into banking but was also a developer. He partnered with Carl Fischer (developer of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway) to build the first luxury hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, which opened on New Year's Eve 1920. In 1916–17, the Fowlers moved out of the house while significant renovations and additions were completed. During this time a large Tudor-style formal dining room and living room were added, along with an indoor kitchen, laundry, garage, and servants quarters. The upstairs now included seven bedrooms and five bathrooms. These included a new guest bedroom, master suite, and servants bedrooms. Outside, a large Italian-style tiered patio with fountains, a reflecting pool, a tea house, and formal gardens were added. The Fowlers loved to entertain and were well known locally for the large and extravagant parties they hosted. In 1940, with their children grown, the Fowlers sold the house to the Tippecanoe County Historical Association.

From 1940 until 2015, the Moses Fowler House was the home of the Tippecanoe County Historical Association and used at various times as a museum, offices, and for collections storage.

In 2015, The 1852 Foundation (a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity) was founded through the generosity of Matt and Dr. Ann Jonkman. The 1852 Foundation purchased the Fowler House Mansion and from 2015 to 2018 completed over $1.3 million in restorations, repairs, code updates, and facility additions in order that the house could be open to and used by the public for tours and as an events venue.

Gallery

References

Further reading
Indiana Houses of the Nineteenth Century, Wilbur Peat, copyright 1962. pages 88.
Historic American Buildings Survey in Indiana, edited by Thomas M. Slade, copyright 1983, page 122.

External links

Tippecanoe County Historical Society
www.fowlerhouse.org Fowler House official website
Moses Fowler at Find A Grave
Eliza Fowler at Find A Grave
Cecil Gross Fowler at Find A Grave

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The Horseshoe Hills are a roughly crescent-shaped range of hills north of Manhattan, Montana in Gallatin County, Montana. They lie at  in the area between the southern Big Belt Mountains and the northern Bridger Range. The hills are bounded on the north by Sixteen Mile Creek (which begins in the Crazy Mountains), the first major tributary of the Missouri River. As they are in the rain shadow of the Boulder, Elkhorn, and Bull Mountains to the west, the Horseshoe Hills are notably dry, receiving  of precipitation annually. This is especially true on the southern and southeastern flanks, which are also in the rain shadow of the hills themselves. In the driest areas, Missouri foxtail cacti, plains prickly pear cacti, and yucca abound, as well as prairie rattlesnakes. Much of the hills are private property, but there is also some state, BLM, and National Forest land.

See also
 List of mountain ranges in Montana

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Kirchspielslandgemeinde Weddingstedt was an Amt ("collective municipality") in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Its seat was in Weddingstedt. In January 2008, it was merged with the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde Heide-Land and the municipality Norderwöhrden to form the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde Heider Umland.

The Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde Weddingstedt consisted of the following municipalities (with population in 2005):

 Neuenkirchen (1.044)
 Ostrohe (963)
 Stelle-Wittenwurth (486)
 Weddingstedt (2.321)
 Wesseln (1.352)

Former Ämter in Schleswig-Holstein

Weddingstedt (Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde)


George Robert Dawson (24 December 1790 – 3 April 1856), was an Anglo-Irish Tory politician.

Background and education
Dawson was born at Castledawson, County Londonderry, Ireland, the son of Arthur Dawson, who represented Banagher, Midleton and Newtownards in the Irish Parliament, and Catherine Tyrone. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became friends with Robert Peel, whose sister Dawson later married. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1811.

Political career
In 1812 Dawson served as Peel's private secretary during Peel's tenure as Chief Secretary for Ireland. He was elected Member of Parliament for County Londonderry in 1815, upon the death of the incumbent Member, William Ponsonby. He served under Lord Liverpool as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1822 to 1827 and under the Duke of Wellington as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1828 to 1830. In 1830 he was returned to Parliament for Harwich, a seat he held for two years, and sworn of the Privy Council. He again held office as First Secretary of the Admiralty under Peel from 1834 to 1835. From 1841 to 1850 he served as Commissioner and Deputy Chairman of Customs.

At Derry, in 1828, Dawson made an important speech in which he advocated Catholic emancipation; the following year, under the Tory government of the Duke of Wellington, the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 was made law.

Family
Dawson married Mary Peel, daughter of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, on 9 January 1816. He died in 1856 leaving five children, including Robert Peel Dawson, also an MP.

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was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today western Shizuoka Prefecture. Tōtōmi bordered on Mikawa, Suruga and Shinano Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was . The origin of its name is the old name of Lake Hamana.

History
Tōtōmi was one of the original provinces of Japan established in the Nara period under the Taihō Code. The original capital of the province was located in what is now Iwata, and was named Mitsuke – a name which survived into modern times as Mitsuke-juku, a post station on the Tōkaidō. Under the Engishiki classification system, Tōtōmi was ranked as a "superior country" (上国) in terms of importance, and one of the 16 "middle countries" (中国) in terms of distance from the capital.

During the early Muromachi period, Tōtōmi was ruled nominally by the Imagawa clan before coming under control of the Shiba clan. However, by the Sengoku period, the Imagawa recovered  Tōtōmi and effectively annexed it to Suruga Province. After the defeat of the Imagawa at the Battle of Okehazama, Tōtōmi was divided between the powerful warlords Takeda Shingen of Kai and Tokugawa Ieyasu of Mikawa. To consolidate his new holdings, Tokugawa Ieyasu constructed Hamamatsu Castle, which effectively became the capital of the province, although parts of Tōtōmi continued to be contested between the Tokugawa and Takeda until Shingen's death.

After the Battle of Odawara and the rise to power of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu was forced to trade his domains in the Tōkai region for the Kantō region instead. Hamamatsu was relinquished to the Horii clan and subsidiary Kakegawa Castle to Yamauchi Kazutoyo. After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tokugawa recovered their lost territories, and reassigned Tōtōmi to various fudai daimyōs.

During the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road from Edo to Kyoto passed through Tōtōmi, with post stations at several locations.  For defensive purposes, the Tokugawa shogunate forbid the construction of bridges on the major rivers (such as at the Tenryū River), which further led to town development on the major river crossings.

At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tōtōmi Province was divided among several feudal domains, which were assigned to close fudai retainers. Following the defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration, the last Tokugawa shōgun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu returned to Suruga in 1868 to rule the short-lived Shizuoka Domain, and the existing daimyōs in Tōtōmi were reassigned to other territories, mostly in Kazusa Province

After the abolition of the han system in 1871 by the new Meiji government, during the first wave of prefectural mergers (第1次府県統合 daiichiji fu/ken tōgō), the new prefectures in Tōtōmi were merged into Hamamatsu Prefecture, with enclaves of other prefectures/exclaves in other provinces being removed, so that Hamamatsu and Tōtōmi became basically contiguous. On August 21, 1876, Hamamatsu was merged into Shizuoka Prefecture, which by that time comprised all of Suruga and Izu provinces, to form an enlarged Shizuoka Prefecture; it reached practically its present-day extent in 1878 when a part of Izu Province, namely the Izu Islands, were transferred from Shizuoka to Tokyo.

Many former samurai of the feudal domains in Tōtōmi, now unemployed due to the sudden end to feudalism, were settled in the Makinohara region, where they developed the green tea industry. With the coming of the Tōkaidō Main Line railway, Hamamatsu developed rapidly into a major commercial and industrial center, especially in connection with the cotton and silk-spinning industries.

Districts under the Ritsuryō system
Tōtōmi Province consisted of twelve districts:

 In modern times part of: Hamamatsu, Horie (a fiefdom established only in the restoration) and many other feudal domains/shogunate/crown lands/prefectures 1868 → completely Hamamatsu Prefecture 1871/72 → Shizuoka Prefecture since 1876
 Aratama District (麁玉郡) – merged into Inasa District on April 1, 1896
 Fuchi District (敷知郡) – merged into Hamana District (along with Nakagami District) on April 1, 1896
 Haibara District (榛原郡)
 Hamana District (浜名郡) – absorbed Fuchi and Nakagami Districts on April 1, 1896; now dissolved
 Inasa District (引佐郡) – absorbed Aratama District on April 1, 1896; now dissolved
 Iwata District (磐田郡) – absorbed Toyoda and Yamana Districts on April 1, 1896; now dissolved
 Kitō District (城東郡) – merged with Saya District to become Ogasa District (小笠郡) on April 1, 1896
 Nagakami District (長上郡) – merged into Hamana District (along with Fuchi District) on April 1, 1896
 Saya District (佐野郡) – merged with Kitō District to become Ogasa District on April 1, 1896
 Shūchi District (周智郡)
 Toyoda District (豊田郡) – merged into Iwata District (along with Yamana District) on April 1, 1896
 Yamana District (山名郡) – merged into Iwata District (along with Toyoda District) on April 1, 1896

Bakumatsu-period feudal division
Generally, the kokudaka nominal income did not correspond to the actual income from a given village/district/province, and in addition there were some, especially non-agricultural, sources of taxable or direct income that were not always accurately represented in the baku/han kokudaka system of the Edo period.

Note: The kokudaka given in the table is the total from within & without the province, not restricted to the parts of the domain actually located in Tōtōmi.

Note: The following figures are taken from the Japanese Wikipedia article, the database and publication series used as the original source are given in the external links.

Highways
Tōkaidō – connecting Edo with Kyoto

Notes

References
 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005).  Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ;  OCLC 58053128
 Papinot, Edmond. (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha. OCLC 77691250
 Tōtōmi on "Edo 300 HTML"

External links

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903
 National Museum of Japanese History: 旧高旧領取調帳データベース (Database of feudal territories and their yields) at the end of the Edo period (or shortly after, see notes)/in the Meiji restoration; digitization of: Kimura, Motoi (1969–79): 旧高旧領取調帳, 6 Volumes, Kondō Shuppansha. Search mask by province, district, village [or town/station], domain/shogunate administration or other feudal territory, early-Meiji prefecture, income, 20th century LPE code (all non-numerical entries are given as full names incl. suffixes, e.g. 遠江国 for Tōtōmi Province, 佐野郡 for Saya District, 金谷宿 for Kanaya Station, 相良町 for Sagara Town, 浜松県 for Hamamatsu Prefecture, etc.; some villages/settlements were split between several lords/territories and therefore have several database entries with fractional incomes)

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In theatre, the master electrician (or chief electrician in the UK) is responsible for implementing the lighting design for a production drawn up by the lighting designer. This involves overseeing the preparation, hanging, connection and focusing of stage lighting fixtures.

This can be done on a show-by-show basis, or as a resident position of a specific theatre. The tool of the trade of the theatrical master electrician is the adjustable spanner or crescent wrench, used to secure stage lighting instruments from lighting positions in the theatre. This wrench is typically attached to the belt or wrist with a lanyard, which is important because the master electrician tends to work at great height, from ladders, lift tables, catwalks, or lighting trusses, where a falling wrench may hurt people or damage property below.

Duties
The master electrician supervises and is responsible for all other electricians working on any construction or installation project. Only the master electrician can pull the permits with the electrical authority, and they can only be registered with one electrical contracting company at any one time.
Other electrical duties performed by any electrician include:
 Inventory and repair and maintenance of all lighting fixtures, cables, effects, power distribution, dimmers, networking and lighting control consoles.
 Organisation and purchasing of all consumables including color gel, gobos, Sharpies, and gaffer tape.
 Planning and implementing of the cabling (circuiting) of lights and electric power distribution.
 Documenting and tracking of all circuiting, addressing, and system configuration in cooperation with the Lighting Designer.
 Patching assignments of the control console based on the paperwork generated by the lighting designer and the planned circuiting.
 Occupational safety and health of workers and operational decisions as the head of the electrics department.

Training, origin, and professional affiliations
Master electricians go through extensive on-site and classroom training, with work in more formal settings such as schools or colleges. The designation "master" is only given to electricians who can display extensive job knowledge and are tested to have an extensive understanding of the electrical safety code.

There are no formal certifications of the "theatrical title, master electrician", as there are in some of the more mainstream trades, but in March 2003 ESTA developed a certification process. Those who pass this rigorous test will become ETCP Certified Entertainment Electricians - and will be recognized as the industry's best. The stagehands union, IATSE, come close in that they offer apprentice and journeyman levels of certification. In the future, IATSE, or some of the larger local affiliations may form a more formal method of certification, which may include the title of master electrician. In the meantime, almost every production, from high school shows to Broadway uses the term to describe their primary electrician, regardless of their skill level or experience.

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The Christopher House is a stone masonry farmhouse at Historic Richmond Town in Staten Island, New York City. It is associated with two of the oldest Staten Island families. It was also used as a meeting place during the American Revolution, while being the residence of Joseph Christopher, a member of the Richmond County Committee of Safety from 1775-1776.  It was moved to Historic Richmond Town in late 1969 and restored for museum presentation from 1975-1977.

Construction
According to reporting by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967, the original section was built in 1756, and a section twice that size believed to be added about 1764. Current Historic Richmond Town institutional belief, based on extensive research by Loring McMillen, places those dates earlier, to circa 1720 for the original portion, with the addition from circa 1730.

The structure is built in the Colonial salt-box tradition and was originally situated in the section of Staten Island now called Willowbrook. While there, it stood on the brink of the treacherous marshes that covered a great portion of the Island, known as the great swamp. The building consists of two sections, with 22-inch thick native fieldstone walls with wood above. It is one and one-half stories tall, with a low cellar and gable roof.

Original Location
The structure was originally near 819 Willowbrook Road, Staten Island. The proximity of the homestead on its original property to the Groad Swamp of those days offered opportunities for escape, in case of surprise, for those who attended the clandestine meetings held in this house during the Revolutionary War.

Museum Interpretation
Current interpretive use of this building at Historic Richmond Town demonstrates daily farm life from the mid-to late-18th century. The house is furnished primarily for cooking demonstrations at this time, making use of a restored jamb less fireplace.

Inhabitants and Their Occupations
John Christopher (believed to have built the house but may not have been a resident), Farmer?
Col. Thomas Dongan, (grand-nephew of Governor Thomas Dongan), (1745-1757)
Nelly Haughwout (by 1761)
Joseph Christopher Sr. (by 24 May 1764)
Joseph Christopher Jr. (23 April 1825), Farmer/Cooper-Woodworker
David Decker (4 September 1827)
Thomas Standring (19 October 1852 – 15 February 1858), Hardware & Comb Manufacturer
Samuel Stansring (before 1962), Hardware & Comb Manufacturer
Mrs. Eugene C. Egan (before 1962)
Staten Island Historical Society (17 May 1969)

Call for Preservation
On September 13, 1966, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the Christopher House as a Landmark as well as that of the related Landmark site. The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of the law. Two witnesses spoke in favor of designation; there were no speakers in opposition. The owner of the property indicated to the Commission that he was in favor of the proposed designation. The building was granted New York City Landmark status on December 13th, 1967.

In early 1969 the History Committee sent a letter to Senator John Marchi asking for support to preserve the Christopher House. There was also a petition presented showing community support for the preservation of the house.

The community signed the petition, stating:

Whereas Vernon B. Hampton of Staten Island, New York, on a number of occasions through the years has urged the preservation of the Christopher House - a shrine of Patriotism during the American Revolution - Headquarters of the Staten Island Committee of Sarety, and a successful meeting place and shelter for General Washington's secret agents within enemy lines during the long war years of the struggle for American Independence, and
Whereas It is especially appropriate that Acquisition and Restoration of the Christopher House located near Willowbrook Road be implemented at this time in order to assure that the historic shrine shall be the focal point of Staten Island's observance in 1976 of the Bicentennial of American Independence, and
Whereas The significance of the shrine to Richmond County and the State of New York suggests that New York State acquire the Christopher House and a small parksite around it to bring the goal of preservation into actuality. Therefore
I am pleased to join with others in signing this petition and thus promote popular support for the Christopher House Preservation Movement and perhaps the formation of a Christopher House Association.

See also
List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Staten Island
National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, New York

References

Sources
 http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/CHRISTOPHER-HOUSE.pdf
 Franz, William. "Island Swamps Were Battlefield." Staten Island Advance 25 Apr. 1965. Print.
"Landmarks Commission Report" Reports on Building & Occupants. 13 Dec. 1967
 Mark Linsalata. "Historic House Gets Roof...," Staten Island Advance 28, Nov. 1977. Print
 Judy L. Randall. "Historic Richmond Town going Dutch" Staten Island Advance 15 Nov. 2005. Print

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Joseph Michel Sylvain Dupuis (; 9 October 1856 – 28 September 1931) was a Belgian conductor, composer, oboist, and music educator.

Life
Born in Liège, Dupuis was trained at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. After graduating in 1878, he was appointed to that school's faculty as a professor of harmony. In 1911 he succeeded Jean-Théodore Radoux as the director of the conservatory. Among his notable pupils were Charles Houdret and Joseph Jongen.

Dupuis worked actively as a composer during the early part of his career, but later became more heavily involved in his work as an opera conductor and music teacher. As a result, the majority of his works date from before 1900. In 1879 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Chant de la Création. In the 1880s he composed two operas, Moîna and Coûr d'ognon. His other compositions include several secular cantatas, the symphonic poem Macbeth, a concertino for oboe and orchestra, a number of choral works, and music for solo organ, piano, violin and cello.

In 1890 Dupuis was appointed to the conducting staff at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, and in 1900 he assumed the role of principal conductor at that house. He notably conducted that opera house's first productions of Götterdämmerung (13 January 1891), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (15 February 1902), Tosca (2 April 1904), Alceste (14 December 1904), La damnation de Faust (21 February 1906), Les Troyens (27 December 1906), Salome (26 March 1907), Fortunio (4 January 1908), Ariane et Barbe-bleue (2 January 1909), Madama Butterfly (29 October 1909), Elektra (26 May 1910), Feuersnot (16 March 1911), and Roma (15 January 1913). He also conducted numerous world premieres, including Ernest Chausson's Le roi Arthus (30 November 1903), Albert Dupuis's Martylle (3 March 1905), Albert Roussel's Symphony No. 1 Le poème de la forêt (22 March 1908), Pierre de Bréville's Éros vainqueur (7 March 1910), Cesare Galeotti's Dorisse (18 April 1910), and Vincent d'Indy's Le chant de la cloche (21 November 1912). He also conducted the premiere of the third and final revision of Isaac Albéniz's Pepita Jiménez on 3 January 1905.

Dupuis died in Bruges less than two weeks before his 75th birthday.

Honours
 1919 : Commander of the Order of Leopold.

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John "Jack" Rann (1750 – 30 November 1774) was an English criminal and highwayman during the mid-18th century. He was a prominent and colourful local figure renowned for his wit and charm. He later came to be known as "Sixteen String Jack" for the 16 various coloured strings he wore on the knees of his silk breeches among other eccentric costumes.

Life and crimes
Born near Bath in Somerset, England, he served as a postillion to a local woman and during his teenage years worked as a coachman in London. He soon became accustomed to living beyond his means, such as wearing expensive costumes for which to attend balls and galas of the city's social circles, and was constantly in debt as a result.

He began pick-pocketing with some success, eventually stealing watches and other valuables along Hounslow Road. Soon he became a highwayman and, although he was arrested several times on charges of highway robbery, six of his cases were dismissed due to lack of evidence as witnesses were unable to identify Rann.

During one trial at Bow Street, while wearing an unusually large number of flowers in his coat and his irons decorated with blue ribbons, Rann reportedly addressed the presiding magistrate Sir John Fielding, saying "I know no more of the matter than you do or half as much" when he was asked if he had anything to say in his defence.

He was finally apprehended after robbing the chaplain of Princess Amelia near Brentford in 1774 and held in custody at Newgate Gaol, where he supposedly entertained seven women at a farewell dinner before his execution on 30 November. Shortly before he was to be hanged, appearing in a specially made pea-green suit adorned by a large nosegay, he enjoyed cheerful banter with both the hangman and the crowd, then danced a jig, before being publicly executed at Tyburn at the age of 24.

An alternative (but of unsubstantiated provenance) account of John Rann's capture and given in Julius Jottings, Nr4. relates to his employ as a coachman by one William Julius, Secretary to the then Prime Minister, the Marquis of Rockingham. Julius was renowned for his well turned-out grey carriage horses, one of which was taken by Rann to hold up the Duke of Argyll at gunpoint whilst his master was attending a London theatre. The robbery was unsuccessful and Rann's pursuit by the Duke led to his identification and subsequent conviction. The Jottings were written by the Rev Dr Churchill Julius in 1901 when he was Bishop of Christchurch, in New Zealand.

In popular culture

A play about Rann, Sixteen String Jack, was a first hit for playwright William Leman Rede in 1823.  A novel based on his life, titled Sixteen String Jack, was published in 1841.

Sixteen String Jack features prominently in the English penny dreadful Black Bess; or, The Knight of the Road by Edward Viles (1866).

The production company for the HBO television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is named Sixteen String Jack Productions.

Sixteen String Jack is the headless horseman in the book "Jack's Head" by Siggy Shade. Where he is the main love interest.

Further reading
Andrews, Williams. Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. W. Andrews & Co., 1900.
Gatrell, V. A. C. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770–1868. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Thornbury, Walter and Edward Walford. Old and New London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places. Cassell & Company, 1881.

References

External links
Roads, Tolls and Highwaymen: Travellers in 18th Century England
A Book of Scoundrels: Chapter VIII – Gilderoy and the Sixteen String Jack, Part II Sixteen-String Jack, Part III A parallel: Gilderoy and Sixteen-String Jack

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The Naval Air Station Glenview (NASG) was a military air base in Glenview, Illinois.

History
The base began as Curtiss Reynolds Wright Airport in 1929.  The Curtiss Flying Service bought farmland in the Glenview region and opened the airfield as an alternative to Chicago's Municipal Airport. But the Great Depression, which started just nine days after the airfield was dedicated, reduced the need for another regular airport for Chicago. During the Depression, the main source of income for the airport was air shows.  However, in the late 1930s, there were also some commercial routes to and from the airfield.

In the 1930s, the airfield was used as a training  center for military airmen. In 1937, the U.S. Navy moved to the airbase. ("Although the airport managed to survive . . . the Great Depression, the navy's decision to relocate the Great Lakes aviation program to Glenview likely saved Curtiss Airfield." ) The United States Naval Reserve Aviation Base (NRAB) was the name given to the training unit. On November 1, 1939, the base was notified that the Department of the navy had approved a lease on the airport. When the United States joined World War Two, activity increased at the base. It became a major training base for training pilots water-related flying. This included training for aircraft carrier-based flights.

After the war, the base reduced its activities. In 1950, though, marines and naval personnel from the base were called up to fight in the Korean War. Later in the 1950s, and in the later decades, the base hosted various community events such as national model-airplane contests   In 1963, the Seabees became based there.  In 1971, the base was officially annexed by the village of Glenview.

During the Vietnam War, military activity at the base increased. This included serving as the receiving base of wounded personnel who were being taken to Great Lakes Naval Hospital for treatment.

In the 1980s, the base population grew. Military units present at the base included the u. S. Coast Guard's search and rescue unit for southern Lake Michigan.

In 1991, personnel from NASG took part in Operation Desert Storm.  But the end of the base had already been established years before, by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, in 1988. In 1993, the last NASG air show was performed before 70,000 viewers.  In August 1994, the last  KC-130 flight out of the airfield left for NAS Carswell, Fort Worth, Texas.

After the air station was closed, most of the facilities were torn down, and the area was converted to civilian use, including a prairie nature area, upscale housing, and a shopping district (Glen Town Center)centered around the old Hangar One, which was preserved and incorporated into a shopping mall, in a part of Glenview now called The Glen. The small, associated Navy Park and the rededicated hangar were opened in 2003. The old hangar is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Prominent people associated with the base
 Gerald Ford, president of the United States

References

Other websites
 The Glen Town Center - Shopping, Dining
 After foreclosure, Tabani Group buys Glenview's Glen Town Center | Crain's Chicago Business

Cook County, Illinois

Naval Air Station Glenview


is a composer, music arranger and film producer.

Summary
Yoshikawa was born in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture. During his enrollment at the University of Tsukuba, he was introduced to the Butoh dance group, Sankai Juku. Over more than thirty-five years, Yoshikawa has been an artistic director for Sankai Juku's music. Yoshikawa has produced music for news programs such as the six-part documentary, The Miracle Planet (Chikyu Dai Kiko) for NHK and for animated television series. In April 2014, Yoshikawa started music production for Baby Steps on the e-Tele anime slot at NHK Educational TV.

History
At three years of age, Yoshikawa started to learn to play the piano. He could listen to music on a hand-turned or electric gramophone imported from the United States by his great-grandfather. Yoshikawa was educated at the Sakaide elementary and lower secondary schools which were associated with the Faculty of Education at Kagawa University. At school, Yoshikawa used a tape recorder to record his piano and guitar compositions and performances. Whilst enrolled at the University of Tsukuba, Yoshikawa met Ushio Amagatsu, who was the organizer of Sankai Juku and a former member of the Kinkan Shonen piano trio.

In 1986, Yoshikawa, Takashi Kako, and Yasukazu Sato (Yas Kaz) became the directors of Sankai Juku. Since then, the troupe's work has been performed biennially at the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France. In 2002, Hibiki, Resonance from Far Away won an Olivier award for best new dance production and in 2006, Toki, a Moment in the Weave of Time won the grand prize at the sixth Asahi performing arts awards. In 2013, Sankai Juku won a Japan Foundation award.

Yoshikawa's signature work is the music for the 1987 NHK documentary series, The Miracle Planet. The program's main theme won an international prize at the 1992 JASRAC awards. The program won the 29th Director General of Science and Technology Agency award. Yoshikawa's music has been released on albums including Music for the Miracle Planet, A Dream of Akuaku, Kyplos and Taiyo no Matsuge (Lashes of the Sun).

Between 1984 and 1993, Yoshikawa was director of keyboards and music arrangements for the rock group, Yapoos, led by Jun Togawa and was associated with the production of their album, Yapoos Keikaku. Yoshikawa's song, Raja Maharaja, performed by Jun Togawa, was a hit on Minna no Uta.

Yoshikawa has produced ambient music for amusement parks including the Tokyo Sea Life Park (1989) and music for television programs such as News 11 and News 9 (between 1995 and 1999), News 10 (2001), Hello Japan (Ogenki Desuka Nippon Retto) (between 2003 and 2009) for NHK, and Together with Mew and Eep (Nyan Chu to Issho) (between 2003 and 2006) for NHK Educational TV. He has also produced sound tracks for animations such as Oz created by Natsumi Itsuki and music for the Anime cartoon, Kyo Kara Maoh! (2004). Yoshikawa has collaborated with artists such as Princess Princess, Agnes Chan, Yuki Saito and Sophie Marceau.
In 2005, Yoshika produced the DVD for the Steinberg TEK laboratory, Japan, Cubase music production software. Since 2010, Yoshikawa has been associated with marketing for the University of Tsukuba, including the song Imagine the Future. In 2012, Yoshikawa was a key note speaker at the 100th anniversary of foundation of the Sakaide Elementary School.

Selected works

Theatrical works
Sankai Juku
 Unetsu, the Egg Stands out of Curiosity (1986), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Shijima, the Darkness Calms Down in Space (1988), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Omote, the Grazed Surface (1991), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Yuragi, in a Space of Perpetual Motion (1993), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Hiyomeki, Within a Gentle Vibration and Agitation (1995), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Hibiki, Resonance from Far Away (1998), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Kagemi, Beyond the Metaphors of Mirrors (2000), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Utsuri, Virtual Garden (2003), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Toki, a Moment in the Weave Time (2005), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Kinkan Shonen (1978), Nihon Shobo Hall, Japan. (Re-created in 2005 at the Biwako Hall Centre, Shiga.)
 Shantala Shivalingappa (2007), Theatre des Abbesses, Paris.
 Tobari, as if in an Inexhaustible Flux (2008), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Utsushi (2008), a collage of previous works.
 Kara mi, Two Flows (2010), Theatre de la veille, Paris.
 Une Histoire D'ame with Sophie Marceau (2011), Theatre de Rond Point, Paris.
 Umusuna, Memories before History (2012), Opera de Lyon.

Film Soundtrack
 Robinson's Garden (1987)
- Berlin International film Festival, Reader Jury of the "Zitty" (1987), Locarno International Film Festival, Special Mention (1987)

Music for NHK television
 Weekend seminar (1985)
 Everyone's Songs (1985), opening theme for Minna no Uta
 Raja Maharaja (1985) performed by Jun Togawa for Minna no Uta
 Poketto no Nakade (1986) performed by Yuki Saito for Minna no Uta
 Shinpu san no Paipu Orugan (1986) performed by Agnes Chan for Minna no Uta
 Miracle Planet (1987)
 News 11 (1995) for News Watch 9
 High-Vision (1995), album.
 News 10 (2001)
 Nyan Chu to Issho (2003), Together with Mew and Eep
 Ogenki Desuka Nippon Retto (2003), Hello Japan
 Kyo Kara Maoh! (2004), Today's Demon King anime.
 Baby Steps (2014), e-television anime.

Discography

1980s
 Ura Tamahime (1985) Jun Togawa and the Yapoos (Alfa Records)
 Suki Suki Daisuki (1985) Jun Togawa (Alfa)
 Kyokuto Ian Shoka (1986) Jun Togawa and Unit (Alfa)
 Unetsu, the Egg Stands out of Curiosity (1986) Sankai Juku (Wave)
 Roninson's Garden (1987) sound track (EMI records)
 Miracle Planet (1988) sound track (EMI)
 Yapoos Keikaku (1988) Yapoos (Teichiku)
 A Dream of Akuaku (1988) Yoichiro Yoshikawa (EMI)
 Kyplos (1988) Yoichiro Yoshikawa (EMI)
 Shijima, the Darkness Calms down in Space (1988) Sankai Juku (Wave)
 Daitenshi No Yoni (1988) Yapoos (Teichiku)
 Music for The Miracle Planet (1989) Yoichiro Yoshikawa (EMI)

1990s
 Taiyo No Matsuge (1990) Yoichiro Yoshikawa (EMI)
 Omote, the Grazed Surface (1991) Sankai Juku (Wave)
 Daiyaru Y wo Mawase (1991) Yapoos (EMI)
 Oz (1992) (Victor)
 Yuragi, in a Space of Perpetual Motion (1993) Sankai Juku (Wave)
 I.R.I.A., Zeiram, the Animation (1994) Ova.
 "Hiyomeki, Within a Gentle Vibration and Agitation (1995) Sankai Juku (Wave)
 "Green Legend Ran (1995) Ova, (Pioneer LDC)
 Bastard (1996) sound track (Victor)
 Hibiki, Resonance from Far Away (1998) Sankai Juku (Wave)
 Umino Onritsu (1989) music for Tokyo Sea Life Park.

2000s
 Kagemi, Beyond the Metaphors of Mirrors (2000) Sankai Juku (IO-factory)
 Utsuri, Virtual Garden (2003) Sankai Juku (IO-factory)
 Toki, a Moment in the Weave of Time (2005) Sankai Juku (IO-factory)
 Unetsu (2006) Sankai Juku DVD (IO-factory)
 Kinkan Shonen (2005) Sankai Juku (IO-factory)
 Tobari, as if in an Inexhaustible Flux (2008) Sankai Juku (IO-factory)
 Kyo kara Mao! (2009) original sound track (BMG)

2010s
 Kara mi, two flows (2010) Sankai Juku (IO-factory)
 Umusuna, Memories before History (2012) Sankai Juku (IO-factory)
 Dreaming and Music Concert ~  Anpanman Hit Songs with Orchestra~ CD (2013)  (VAP)
 Baby Steps (2014) original sound track (IO-factory)

Amusement parks and concerts
 Tokyo Sea Life Park (1989)
 Seto Ohashi Expo, Shikoku Museum (1988)
 Saitama Expo Theme Pavilion (1988)
 Asia Pacific Ocean Expo, Saison Museum (1989)
 Panasonic Information and Communication Systems, TDC Bird Hi-Vision Theater (1992)
 48th National Sports Festival, music director (1992)
 Inter-Highschool championships, music director (1998)
 Yoichiro Yoshikawa Concert, Kagawa Prefectural Hall (2000)

Bibliography
 Opinel and Peacock Day Gentosha Literary Publications, a youth graffiti describing with a witty touch how the Sankai Juku World Tour started.

References

External links

 Yoichiro Yoshikawa anime at Media Arts Database
 Yoichiro Yoshikawa works at Oricon

1957 births
Japanese composers
Japanese film producers
Japanese male composers
Japanese music arrangers
Living people

Yoichiro Yoshikawa


Justice League: Throne of Atlantis is a 2015 direct-to-video animated superhero film featuring the DC Comics superhero team the Justice League, which is the 22nd film of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies and the fourth film in the DC Animated Movie Universe. The film is loosely based on the "Throne of Atlantis" story arc from The New 52 written by Geoff Johns and serves as a standalone sequel to 2014's Justice League: War. In the film, Arthur Curry, a half-Atlantean prince, discovers his heritage and aids the Justice League in preventing a war between the surface dwellers and the Atlanteans orchestrated by his half-brother Ocean Master. The film was released for download on January 13, 2015 and was released on Blu-ray and DVD formats on January 27.

Jason O'Mara, Christopher Gorham, Sean Astin, Shemar Moore, Steven Blum, George Newbern, and Melique Berger reprise their respective roles from Justice League: War, while Nathan Fillion reprises his role as Green Lantern / Hal Jordan from Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, Justice League: Doom and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.

Plot
While on patrol in the Atlantic, the entire crew of the nuclear submarine USS California is killed by an unknown attacker. At S.T.A.R. Labs, the Justice League's headquarters, Cyborg is given the news by Colonel Steve Trevor. He teleports to the sub via a Boom tube, finds hand prints on the hull and discovers that nuclear missiles are missing. Cyborg, Flash, Shazam, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Batman inspect the recovered California. Diana identifies the enemy as warriors from Atlantis, beings turned into underwater creatures by their king's mystical trident. Batman and Superman decide to meet Atlantis-expert Stephen Shin.

In Atlantis, Prince Orm and Black Manta meet with Orm's mother Queen Atlanna, where they argue over declaring war on the humans. Orm blames the Justice League for his father's death while Queen Atlanna blames Darkseid. Orm wishes to attack first, but Atlanna silences him and asks Mera to bring Arthur Curry (her other son) to Atlantis. Black Manta uses a craft disguised as a US Navy submarine to attack Atlantis using the stolen missiles to frame the humans. Batman and Superman locate Shin's home and his destroyed research. Superman finds a photograph of Curry and a letter revealing that Arthur is half-Atlantean. Shin meets Arthur, but he is killed by Atlantean soldiers sent by Black Manta. Arthur is blasted out of his collapsing house. Mera saves him and dispatches the soldiers using her hydrokinetic powers.

Citizens of Atlantis and Orm demand war following the attack on Atlantis, though Atlanna disagrees. Arthur wakes up with gills on his neck in underwater Atlantean ruins. Mera explains that Atlanna is his mother, though as a royal, Atlanna could not be with his father or Arthur. Now, Atlanna believes Arthur can help bridge the gap between the two worlds. Mera dresses him in the king's royal garb, though Arthur leaves wearing only the orange and green Atlantean bodysuit. They are attacked by the Trench at the surface. The creatures overwhelm Arthur and the League helps defeat the Trenchers. Black Manta reports to Orm that the Trench failed to kill Arthur.

When Orm and Atlanna argue over starting a war, she reveals that she knows he attacked Atlantis. Orm stabs her to death from behind and takes over as the new king of Atlantis. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Cyborg, Arthur, and Mera learn of Atlanna's death once in Atlantis. Orm (now using the mantle "Ocean Master") uses the trident to restrain the team in pods. The group is sent to be consumed by the monstrous Dark Trench while Ocean Master leads Atlantis' army to the surface. Arthur taps into the power of the trident to destroy his pod. With Superman's help, they save the rest and defeat the monster. A massive tidal wave conceals the Atlantean army's arrival in Metropolis. Superman saves John Henry Irons and Wonder Woman saves Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. Black Manta attacks Arthur and reveals that he wants to overthrow Ocean Master to take Atlantis for himself. Arthur summons a shark to attack him.

The League and Mera battle Ocean Master, with little success. Shazam is transformed back into Billy Batson, Flash, Green Lantern, and Mera are knocked unconscious, and Cyborg is almost impaled, electrocuted and disabled. Wonder Woman is incapacitated by the trident's electric energy while Superman is wounded because of its mystical properties. Batman saves Cyborg from dying by electrocuting him with a taser device. Ocean Master is about to kill Arthur when Cyborg broadcasts the video of Ocean Master confessing to his mother's murder for Atlantis' soldiers to hear. Arthur uses the distraction to defeat Ocean Master and convinces the soldiers to stand down - and to accept him as their king.

Arthur is crowned king of Atlantis with the Justice League in the audience. Batman suggests that they need to solidify the team, given the new threats, and Cyborg reveals plans for a watchtower. Arthur joins the League as Aquaman despite his dislike toward the name, before leaving with Mera to confront the Trenchers.

In the post-credits, Orm is incarcerated at Belle Reve and approached by Lex Luthor who has a proposition for him to consider.

Voice cast

Crew
 Andrea Romano – Voice director
 Sam Register – Executive producer

Reception

Critical reception
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of , with an average rating of , based on  reviews.

Scott Mendelson of Forbes felt that the film retrod old ground with Aquaman's origin story and paled in comparison to the Justice League episode "The Enemy Below", which featured a similar plot. However, Mendelson did praise "the choice to center on Aquaman as opposed to yet-another Batman-centric story", but overall felt "that Aquaman [was] the least interesting character in his own movie". IGN gave the film a 6.5/10 rating and stated that the film "falters in its second half, delivering an only somewhat enjoyable Aquaman movie".

For ToonZone.net, reviewer Ed Liu segregated his review into two sections: one for the "good news" and one for the opposite. For the positive, Liu said that "the quality of the animation is a nice cut above nearly all TV animation and falls just short of feature film levels", and praised the voice cast. For the bad, Liu said that "it's mostly downhill from there", referring to the flimsy motivations of the villain, the inconsistencies with the characters and the plot and the unnecessary inclusion of the Justice League. Brian Lowry of Variety gave the film a relatively positive review, stating that DC Universe Animated Original Movies "remain an area where DC consistently outclasses Marvel" and that "entries like Throne of Atlantis reinforce a sense that in the game of animation, anyway, they're leading the wave, not behind it".

Sales
As of October 2021, the film has earned $4,636,124 in domestic home video sales.

See also
 List of underwater science fiction works

Notes

References

External links

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Animated Justice League films
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Films based on works by Geoff Johns
Films directed by Ethan Spaulding
Films scored by Frederik Wiedmann
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The Andheri Sports Complex  also known as Shahaji Raje Krida Sankul is a multi-purpose facility located on Veera Desai Road in  Andheri West, Mumbai, India. It was built in 1988 at Rs. 30 crore for schools that lacked the necessary infrastructure to hold sports meets. The complex is used for both national level sports tournaments like squash, boxing, tennis and karate. The sports complex has an olympic size swimming pool and a diving pool with 4 diving levels. In 2016, it was redeveloped to include a modern football stadium in accordance with FIFA guidelines and known as Mumbai Football Arena.

Overview
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation opened  the World Cup cricket gallery for public viewing in January 2012. The gallery displays statues of the Indian players who were part of the teams that won the Cricket World Cups for India in 1983 and 2011. The gallery also showcases memorabilia like cricket kits, photographs  and cricket bats bearing autographs of prominent players since the World Cup event started in 1975. The gallery was inaugurated by legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar.

A number of Bollywood films have been shot in the complex and its stadium has been used for commercial entertainment programmes like the Star Screen Awards,
pop music concerts like those of Michael Jackson, who performed here on 1 November 1996 as part of his HIStory World Tour in front of 65,000 people. Bon Jovi also performed to a sold-out crowd on their 1995 These Days Tour.
Charity organizations also make use of the center. Actor Salman Khan  performed at a charity event at the center in October to raise money for the victims of the 2008 Bihar flood.

A football stadium called Mumbai Football Arena is the project which has been completed in time for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in 2017
The stadium hosted a celebrity charity match, termed as "Celebrity Classico 2016" on 4 June 2016. It took place at the Mumbai Football Arena, Andheri Sports Complex, to generate funds for charitable initiatives in which Virat Kohli and Abhishek Bachchan are involved. Bachchan didn't play in the match due to back injury and his team was led by Ranbir Kapoor. The match ended in a 2–2 draw.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to keep the ground only for sports centric events. They have started work on the turf towards creating a football stadium. The stadium will have a capacity of 18,000 seats.

Gallery

References

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James Benson (1845 – August 4, 1890) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

Biography
A native of Denmark, Benson joined the U.S. Navy from Yokohama, Japan. By June 20, 1872, he was serving as a seaman on the . On that day, he jumped overboard and attempted to rescue Landsman John K. Smith from drowning. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later, on October 10.

Benson's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
On board the U.S.S. Ossipee, 20 June 1872. Risking his life, Benson leaped into the sea while the ship was going at a speed of 4 knots and endeavored to save John K. Smith, landsman, of the same vessel, from drowning.

Benson left the Navy while still a seaman. He died on August 4, 1890, at age 44 or 45 and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett, Massachusetts.

See also

List of Medal of Honor recipients in non-combat incidents

References

External links

1845 births
1890 deaths
Danish emigrants to the United States
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Foreign-born Medal of Honor recipients
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Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (20 December 1784 – 21 November 1860) was a Count and later Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Biography
He was born in Bückeburg the son of Philipp II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, and his second wife Princess Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal (1761–1799).

He succeeded his father as Count of Schaumburg-Lippe on 13 February 1787, but due to his age his mother Princess Juliane acted as regent. However Landgrave William IX of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) occupied all of Schaumburg-Lippe except for Wilhelmstein, after invading it to enforce his claim to Schaumburg-Lippe based on Princess Juliane's supposed morganatic ancestry. The Imperial Court in Vienna however ruled in favour of Georg Wilhelm and ordered Landgrave William IX to withdraw, which he did after a two-month occupation.

Schaumburg-Lippe joined the Confederation of the Rhine on 15 December 1807 and was raised to a principality: Georg Wilhelm became the first Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. In 1815 Schaumburg-Lippe joined the German Confederation. Georg Wilhelm died at Bückeburg and was succeeded as Prince by his son Adolf.

Marriage and children
Georg Wilhelm was married on 23 June 1816 at Arolsen to Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796–1869); they had nine children:

Prince Adolf I (1817–1893)
Princess Mathilde (1818–1891); married 1843 Duke Eugen of Württemberg
Princess Adelheid (1821–1899); married 1841 Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Prince Ernst (1822–1831)
Princess Ida (1824–1894)
Princess Emma (1827–1828)
Prince William (1834–1906); married 1862 Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau
Prince Hermann (1839–1839)
Princess Elisabeth (1841–1926); married 1866 (and divorced 1868) Prince Wilhelm of Hanau and Horowitz, a morganatic son of Frederick William, Elector of Hesse.

References

 Otto Preuß: Georg Wilhelm, Fürst zu Schaumburg-Lippe. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 688 f.

External links
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1784 births
1860 deaths
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Thug Twinz is a 2009 album by rappers Layzie Bone and Big Sloan, released on Hi-Power Entertainment. A video was released for "Wring Me Out" featuring Thin-C.

Track listing
"Soundtrack of My Life"
"Better Get With It" (featuring Flesh-n-Bone & Thin-C)
"Everyday is the First of the Month"
"Give Me My Money"
"What I Wanna Do" (featuring Thin-C)
"League of Our Own" (featuring Bizzy Bone)
"Ready For War" (featuring Mr. Criminal, Malow Mac & Miss Lady Pinks)
"We Connected"
"Mo' Thuggin' & Bone Thuggin'" (featuring K.R.)
"Wring Me Out" (featuring Thin-C)
"Breathe Already"
"That Ain't Me"
"You're Not A King"
"We Loaded" (featuring Major James)
"Outro"

2009 albums
Layzie Bone albums
Collaborative albums

Thug Twinz


Alessandro Dudan (29 January 1883 – 31 March 1957) was a Dalmatian Italian politician and senator. As a member of the Autonomist Party, he rejected the unification of Kingdom of Dalmatia with the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

Early life and studies
Dudan was born in Vrlika, a small town which was a part of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, an administrative division (kingdom) within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Dudan spent his childhood in Split, where his family had established nobility for centuries and had given the city a mayor (Leonardo Dudan, mayor between 1848 and 1853). His father, Antonio, was one of the richest landowners in Dalmatia. His mother, Caterina Gazzara, belonged to one of the most prominent families of the Italian community in Split.

Participation in World War I
At the outbreak of World War I, Dudan fled from Austria to Italy. In Italy, he served as acting president of the Italian Pro-Dalmatia and advocated for intervention against the central powers. During that period he published a famous essay, which was imbued with irredentism and opened considerable historical and political debate in that transitional period.

When Italy entered the war, Dudan was appointed as a volunteer cavalry officer. He distinguished himself and was decorated with a Cross of War. A Fascist from the movement's beginning in 1919, he worked fervently for the maintenance-costs promises made to Italy in the Treaty of London, and was a member of the Italian delegation at the peace conference in Paris. At the news of the Impresa di Fiume, he left to become a legionnaire under Gabriele d'Annunzio.

Italian art history
Between 1921 and 1922, Dudan wrote: Twenty Centuries of Civilization: A Ponderous work of Art History in Italian Dalmatia. His work presented a comprehensive overview of the history of Dalmatia in relation to contemporary artistic events. In particular, Dudan deepened the connections between Dalmatian and Italian art. Historians who found this study important have included Adolfo Venturi, Bernard Berenson, Joseph Fiocco, Mario Salmi, and Rodolfo Pallucchini.

Politician
Dudan is directly linked to his "national border". He participated in the March on Rome, representing the Italian fascists of Zadar and Dalmatia. As Consul of the Militia, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1921 from Rome, and again in 1924 and 1929 as an at-large delegate.

Dudan was a Freemason, probably from his time in Vienna. In 1918, he was the master of the "Universe" gallery in Rome. During the meeting of the Grand Council of Fascism on 23 February 1923, he was among those who abstained from voting, believing in the incompatibility of Fascism and Masonry. Due to this, he was ejected from the Grand Lodge of Italy.

On 1 March 1934, he was appointed a senator of the Kingdom and was sworn in on 4 May that year. In his parliamentary work, he always reminded representatives not to forget Dalmatia.

At the outbreak of World War II, Dudan managed to finally achieve his dream: annexation of much of Dalmatia and the creation of the Governorship of Dalmatia. However, in 1944 Dudan was arrested and imprisoned in Padula and remitted to the High Court of Justice for Sanctions against Fascism. His senatorship was revoked on 28 December 1944.

Last years and death
Dudan spent the last years of his life working for Istrian-Dalmatian exile associations. He died in his house in Rome on 31 March 1957.

See also
Autonomist Party
Irredentism
Vrlika

References

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1957 deaths
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20th-century Italian politicians
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