The Tupí people were an important ethnic group of indigenous peoples in Brazil. Scholars believe they first settled in the Amazon rainforest. Later, they started to move to the south and settled on the Atlantic coast.

History
The Tupí people were living in almost all of the Brazilian coast when the Portuguese first arrived there. In 1500, their population was estimated to be 1 million people. They were divided into  tribes, each tribe numbering from 300 to 2,000 people. Some of these tribes are: Tupiniquim, Tupinambá, Potiguara, Tabajara, Caetés, Temiminó, Tamoios.

The Tupí had agriculture. They grew cassava, corn, sweet potatoes, beans, peanuts, tobacco, squash, cotton and many other crops.

European colonization
After the 16th century, the Tupí were assimilated, made to work as slaves, or killed by diseases such as smallpox or by Portuguese settlers and Bandeirantes (colonial Brazilian scouts). Except for a few communities, nearly all the Tupí were killed. Today, the descendants of the survivors live on Indian reservations or are part of the dominant Brazilian society.

Cannibalism
The Tupí were divided into several tribes which would constantly engage in war with each other. In these wars, the Tupí would try to capture their enemies to later kill and eat them.
They believed that they would gain the strength of the warriors they eat. The Tupí also ate the remains of dead relatives.

Cannibalism by the Tupí decreased after European contact and religious intervention. When Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish conquistador, arrived in Santa Catarina in 1541, for instance, he attempted to ban cannibalism.

Some scholars question whether the Tupí actually engaged in cannibalism. They do not think the sources that talk about cannibalism, mostly written by Europeans, are reliable.

Race-mixing and Cunhadismo

In the 16th century, the Tupi were the first group to have contact with the Portuguese. The Portuguese colonists did not bring many women, so miscegenation between Portuguese settlers and indigenous women started. The Tupi had a tradition, called Cunhadismo, of incorporating strangers to their community. The Indians offered the Portuguese an Indian girl as wife. Once he agreed, he formed a bond of kinship with all the Indians of the tribe. The settlers also adopted the Indian practice of polygyny.

The relatives of an Indian woman would have to work for her husband. If a settler had many Indian wives, he would have a large number of Indian relatives who would have to work for him. They would mostly have to cut wood and take it to the ships on the coast. Since there were not a lot of Portuguese women in Brazil, intermarriage made it easier for the Portuguese to colonize the country.

Influence in Brazil
Although most of the Tupí population died, a large population with Tupí-Portuguese ancestry occupied much of Brazilian territory. They continued the ancient Tupí traditions in several points of the country. Darcy Ribeiro wrote that the first Brazilians looked more like the Tupí than the Portuguese. The language that they spoke, called Nheengatu or Língua Geral, was based on Tupí.

Eventually, Brazilian society started to lose its Tupi characteristics. Língua Geral was replaced by the Portuguese language. Indian ways of making things were replaced by European ones. Brazilian Portuguese absorbed many words from Tupi.

References

Other websites
 Portugal in America

Native Americans
South American people
Brazil

Tupi people


Zhang Yue (; born June 1961) is a former Chinese politician, and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Hebei. A police officer by training, Zhang had a lengthy career rising through the ranks in China's policing system. He was dismissed from his position in April 2016 and undergoing investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Career
Zhang Yue was born in Guangrao County, Shandong and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1984. He graduated from the Beijing Public Security College () and Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party. Zhang began his career as a police officer in Beijing, and worked in the "illegal organizations" investigative unit of the Beijing police force. In 2001, Zhang became Deputy Director of Beijing Public Security Bureau, then became director of Anti-cult Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security in 2003.

In January 2008, Zhang was named director of the Hebei Public Security Department, and several months later also took on the office of the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Hebei, and a member of the provincial party standing committee. As the Hebei Zhengfawei chief, Zhang's was tasked with ensuring security for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in what became known as the "palace moat" project. Due to Hebei's strategic geographic location surrounding the Chinese capital, Zhang collaborated with his former colleagues at the Beijing Public Security Bureau to construct an extensive network of defenses around Beijing.

Apart from the "palace moat" project, Zhang did not have other significant achievements during his time as the police chief of Hebei province. His subordinates said that he was short-tempered and liked yelling at people with a "thick Beijing accent." Several people working in Hebei's police system filed petitions against Zhang for alleged misconduct, to no avail. At the onset of the anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping, many in the province felt that Zhang Yue's time was near and his colleagues began distancing themselves from him. It was said that even his driver did not want to drive him around anymore. However, despite the fall of his former boss Zhou Benshun, the provincial party chief, and various others on Hebei's standing committee, Zhang remained still.

Investigation
On April 16, 2016, Zhang was placed under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's internal disciplinary body, for "serious violations of regulations". Zhang was the fourth member of the Hebei provincial standing committee to be investigated in the corruption campaign, after Liang Bin, Zhou Benshun and Jing Chunhua

Zhang was married to Meng Li, a television host on CCTV-2, the main financial and economics channel of China's state broadcaster. It was said that through Meng, Zhang fostered ties with then Minister of Public Security Zhou Yongkang, who put Zhang's career on the 'fast track'. Zhang also became involved with business mogul Guo Wengui, Hebei politician Jing Chunhua (who was from the same hometown as Zhang), and State Security vice-minister Ma Jian. Guo had relied upon Zhang to acquire a large share in Minzu Securities of China from a state-owned bank in Hebei at far-below market value; Zhang was also said to have given orders to arrest Guo's business rival Qu Long, who was arrested by "illegal possession of a weapon" and eventually sentenced by a court in Chengde (under Zhang's jurisdiction) to 15 years in prison for financial crimes. Zhang was also said to have meddled in individual cases.

On July 28, 2016, Zhang was expelled from the Communist Party for violating the Eight-point Regulation, taking bribes for advancing the interests of others, carrying out "superstitious activities", using public funds to "wine and dine", dereliction of duty while carrying out an "important task", obstructing the investigation into his wrongdoing, and trading sex for money and power. On April 20, 2017, Zhang was convicted on charges of taking bribes worth 157 million yuan (~$24 million); Zhang expressed remorse for his crimes. On July 12, 2018, Zhang was sentenced on 15 years in prison and fined five million yuan for taking bribes worth 156 million yuan (~$24 million) by the Intermediate People's Court in Changzhou. Although he took a huge amount of bribes and "caused severe damages to the interest of the state and people," Zhang turned himself in, fully confessed, provided leads on other important criminal cases, and returned the majority of the bribes, which constituted mitigation of sentence, according to the court.

References

1961 births
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong
People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong
Political office-holders in Hebei
Politicians from Dongying
Living people
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese police officers

Zhang Yue (PRC politician)


Henry Adolphus London House is a historic home located at Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina.  It was built about 1895, is a one-story, three bay Queen Anne style frame cottage. It features a wraparound porch, projecting bay, and decorative wood shingles.  Also on the property is a contributing two-story barn.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina
Houses completed in 1895
Houses in Chatham County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Chatham County, North Carolina
Pittsboro, North Carolina

Henry Adolphus London House


Maneater Series is the name, logo and line look given to a series of made-for-television natural horror films on DVD produced by RHI Entertainment for the Syfy Channel, and distributed by Vivendi Entertainment. The Maneater Series logo and line look were created under the direction of Danny Tubbs, the executive director of creative services of Vivendi Entertainment. The deal, made in October 2006, stipulated that the first ten films would premiere on the US-based channel in 2007, but due to a pre-licensing agreement, the first six actually premiered in Canada on the video on demand channel Movie Central on Demand. Most of the early films in the series were filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

RHI has continued adding new films to the series, most of which are shown first on Syfy before being released to DVD. In 2013, the website was shut down due to technical difficulties.
The series was put on hold after 2011 because of RHI's financial problems but was then revived in 2013 with Scarecrow. Two more films were released in 2015.

As of 2023, all films in the series are available on the streaming service Tubi

Films

References

Film series introduced in 2007
Horror film series
American natural horror films
American monster movies

Maneater (film series)


The Global Custodian is a trade publication covering the international securities services industry. GlobalCustodian.com refers to the website of Global Custodian magazine, which provides daily news and events coverage of the securities services industry, particularly custodian banks, but also including fund administration, securities financing/lending, prime brokerage, private equity, derivatives and other related topics.

Published six times per year, Global Custodian magazine provides analysis and commentary on the latest news and events taking place in the international securities services industry. The magazine publishes a series of annual surveys. The magazine is the sister publication of The TRADE Magazine.

History
Founded in 1989 by Dominic Hobson and Charles Ruffel, the original focus of the magazine was on securities processing operations: articles that explore how shares trade and settle and are held. Its editorial scope has since expanded to include fund administration, securities lending and financing, prime brokerage and the infrastructure of the global securities industry (Central Securities Depositories or CSDs, International Central Securities Depositories or ICSDs, payments systems and other industry bodies and initiatives). The editorial content of the magazine is now also supported by industry-standard surveys that address how the performance of custodian banks, fund administrators, prime brokers and tri-party securities financing providers compare with each other and within individual markets.

With its news coverage and digital offering, Global Custodian's major awards evenings are among its offerings - with a London Custody awards evening in March and a New York dinner honouring the leaders in hedge fund administration and prime brokerage during November.

Global Custodian was one of the first publications covering the financial services industry to launch a video news platform, called GCTV. Since 2007, GCTV has released numerous documentaries about the securities services industry in addition to its regular online news coverage.

The GC Legends Page serves as the Hall of Fame for the securities services industry, listing those who have "made a difference" during their career.

In October 2015, Global Custodian appointed Jonathan Watkins as editor, joining from The TRADE. In 2018, Watkins and colleagues Daljit Sokhi and Richard Schwartz conducted a management buyout from previous owners Strategic Insight.

The publication is run out of London.

Surveys
Each issue of GC magazine contains one or more annual survey reports, which rate financial institutions in various sectors of the securities services industry. Industry surveys carried by Global Custodian include:

Agent Banks in Major Markets
Agent Banks in Emerging Markets
Agent Banks in Frontier Markets
ETF Administration
Hedge Fund Administration
Mutual Fund Administration
Prime Brokerage
Private Equity Fund Administration
Tri-Party Securities Financing

See also
Custodian bank
Securities Services

Professional and trade magazines
Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
Business magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1989
Magazines published in London

Global Custodian


MidBoss is an American video game and media production company that was founded by members of the GaymerX team as they expanded beyond GaymerX into other ventures, specifically Gaming in Color and 2064: Read Only Memories.

On March 26, 2018, Matt Conn stepped down as CEO of MidBoss after allegations of sexual abuse, underpaying workers, and workplace harassment. Cade Peterson was tapped as the new CEO in April 2018.

2064: Read Only Memories

2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk adventure game, released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, SteamOS, Linux and Ouya on October 6, 2015, and on PlayStation 4 on January 17, 2017. It was successfully funded for $64,378, via Kickstarter on December 12, 2013.

Gaming in Color

Gaming in Color is a documentary film that focuses on queer gamers and industry workers, and the movement to include LGBTQ characters and themes in video game narratives. This project also received funding through a Kickstarter campaign in May 2013, and was distributed by Devolver Digital into wide release on major platforms on May 19, 2015.

GaymerX
MidBoss was the governing body that ran the first three years of GaymerX, an LGBTQ-oriented gaming and geek culture, or gaymer, convention, with panels primarily focused on LGBTQ issues and debates in the gaming industry, founded by Matt Conn, before they became a 501c3 non-profit in late 2015. It was founded in February 2012 and launched its Kickstarter on August 2, 2012 with a goal of $25,000. It hit its goal within 5 days and ended up raising just over $91,000. The first convention happened on August 3 and 4, 2013 in San Francisco, California.

References

Video game companies of the United States
Companies based in San Francisco
Video game companies established in 2012
American companies established in 2012
2012 establishments in California
Video game development companies

MidBoss


Olga Taussky-Todd (August 30, 1906 – October 7, 1995) was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. She published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.

Early life
Olga Taussky was born into a Jewish family in what is now Olomouc, Czech Republic, on August 30, 1906. Her father, Julius David Taussky, was an industrial chemist and her mother, Ida Pollach, was a housewife. She was the second of three children. Her father preferred that, if his daughters had careers, they be in the arts, but they all went into the sciences. Ilona, three years older than Olga, became a consulting chemist in the glyceride industry, and Hertha, three years younger than Olga, became a pharmacist and later a clinical chemist at Cornell University Medical College in New York City.

At the age of three, her family moved to Vienna and lived there until the middle of World War I. Later Taussky's father accepted a position as director of a vinegar factory at Linz in Upper Austria. At a young age, Taussky displayed a keen interest in mathematics. After her father died during her last year at school, she worked through the summer at her father's vinegar factory and was pressured by her family to study chemistry in order to take over her father's work. Her elder sister, however, qualified in chemistry and took over her father's work. In "Red Vienna" of the day, the Social Democratic Party of Austria encouraged woman to pursue higher education, and Taussky enrolled at the University of Vienna in the fall of 1925 to study mathematics.

Career
Taussky worked first in algebraic number theory, with a doctorate at the University of Vienna supervised by Philipp Furtwängler, a number theorist from Germany. During that time, she attended meetings of the so-called Vienna Circle, the group of philosophers and logicians developing the philosophy of logical positivism. Taussky, like Olga Hahn-Neurath and Rose Rand, was one of the first women to join the group, which included Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Kurt Gödel and which was strongly influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Taussky is best known for her work in matrix theory (in particular the computational stability of complex matrices), algebraic number theory, group theory, and numerical analysis.

According to Gian-Carlo Rota, as a young mathematician she was hired by a group of German mathematicians to find and correct the many mathematical errors in the works of David Hilbert, so that they could be collected into a volume to be presented to him on his birthday. There was only one paper, on the continuum hypothesis, that she was unable to repair.

In 1935, she moved to England and became a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge University, as well as at Bryn Mawr College.  Soon after, in 1938, she married the Irish mathematician Jack Todd, a colleague at the University of London.

Later, she started to use matrices to analyze vibrations of airplanes during World War II, at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom.  During this time she wrote several articles that were published by the Ministry of Aircraft Production in London.  She later described herself as a torchbearer for matrix theory.

In 1945 the Todds emigrated to the United States and worked for the National Bureau of Standards. In 1957 she and her husband both joined the faculty of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. She also supervised Caltech's first female Ph.D. in Math, Lorraine Foster, as well as Hanna Neumann, Philip J. Hanlon, and Charles Royal Johnson.

Taussky retired from teaching in 1977, but continued her correspondence with other mathematicians regarding her work in matrix theory.

Awards and honors
Taussky received the Ford Prize for an article on sum of squares published in 1970 in American Mathematical Monthly. She went on to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna and an honorary DSc by the University of Southern California in 1988.

She was a Fellow of the AAAS, a Noether Lecturer and a recipient of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1978).

In 1993, the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) established a lecture series to honor the contributions to the field of linear algebra made by Taussky-Todd and her husband. In 2021, the Taussky–Todd lecture series was converted to the ILAS Taussky–Todd Prize.

See also
Latimer–MacDuffee theorem
Motzkin–Taussky theorem

Selected publications
 Olga Taussky, "How I became a torchbearer for matrix theory," American Mathematical Monthly. v. 95 (1988)
 Olga Taussky, "A recurring theorem on determinants," Amer. Math. Monthly. 56 (1949) 673-676.
 Olga Taussky, "Generalized commutators of matrices and permutations of factors in a product of three matrices," in Studies in Mathematics and Mechanics presented to Richard von Mises, Academic Press, NY, 1954, p. 67.
 Olga Taussky and John Todd, "Infinite powers of matrices," J. London Math. Soc. 17 (1942) 147-151.
 Olga Taussky, "Matrices C with Cn → 0," J. Algebra, 1 (1954) 5-10.
 Olga Taussky and John Todd, "Matrices with finite period," Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 6 (1939) 128-134.
 Olga Taussky, "On a theorem of Latimer and MacDuffee," Can. J. Math. 1 (1949) 300-302.
 Olga Taussky, "Sums of squares", American Mathematical Monthly. v. 77, 1970

References

External links
 Narrative overview
 Noether Booklet
 Noether Booklet

1906 births
1995 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
California Institute of Technology faculty
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States
Czechoslovak Jews
Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge
Bryn Mawr College alumni
Jewish American scientists
Scientists from Olomouc
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
Squares in number theory
University of Vienna alumni
Vienna Circle
American women mathematicians
20th-century women mathematicians
Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)

Olga Taussky-Todd


Park Chul-min (born January 18, 1967) is a South Korean actor.

Career
Park Chul-min began acting in his high school drama club at Chosun University High School, and though he majored in Business Administration at Chung-Ang University, he spent majority of his college years in theater circles. After graduating in 1988, Park joined the professional theater troupe Hyunjang (현장), and for 5 to 6 years he appeared in plays on Daehakro such as A Story of Old Thieves (늘근도둑 이야기) and Kim Cheol-sik of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 김철식).

After several years of doing bit parts onscreen, Park gained attention in 2004 for his roles in the film Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise and the period drama Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin. Since then, he has become one of the most prolific supporting actors in Korean cinema, most often cast in physical, comic performances in films such as Gwangju massacre drama May 18 (2007), romantic comedy Cyrano Agency (2010), monster movie Sector 7 (2011), and comedy satire Almost Che (2012).

In 2014, Park starred in his first major leading role in Another Promise (formerly titled Another Family), the first 100%-crowdfunded Korean film based on the real-life story of Hwang Sang-ki, a Gangwon Province-based cab driver and his legal battle to win compensation for his daughter Yu-mi's death from leukemia in 2007 at age 23, which he believes was contracted when she worked for four years at a Samsung semiconductor factory. Despite little media attention on the case, the Seoul High Court ruled in Hwang's favor in 2011; the ruling was the first case in which an individual won a suit against a Korean conglomerate.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Variety show
Law of the Jungle in New Zealand (SBS, 2017)
Talk Club Actors (MBC, 2013)
Film Culture Magazine VIP (MBN, 2010)

Theater
Thursday Romance  (2013-2014)
The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World  (2010)
A Story of Old Thieves  (2008-2010, 2014-2015)
Kyung-sook, Kyung-sook's Father  (2007)
Stones in His Pockets (2005)
Kim Cheol-sik of the Republic of Korea

Awards
2010 6th University Film Festival of Korea: Best Supporting Actor (Cyrano Agency)
2009 5th Golden Ticket Awards: Best Actor in a Play (A Story of Old Thieves)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Golden Acting Award, Supporting Actor (New Heart)
2008 5th Max Movie Awards: Best Supporting Actor (May 18)
2005 KBS Drama Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin)

References

External links

1967 births
Actors from Gwangju
South Korean male film actors
South Korean male stage actors
South Korean male television actors
Living people
20th-century South Korean male actors
21st-century South Korean male actors
Chung-Ang University alumni
South Korean Buddhists

Park Chul-min


Omi or OMI may refer to:

In business
 Optical Mechanics, Inc., a US telescope company
 Ottico Meccanica Italiana, an Italian company
 Original Musical Instrument Company, manufacturers of resonator guitars
 Open Music Initiative, a digital rights framework for the music industry.
 OMI Rotterdam, a foundation from Rotterdam

People
Omi (singer), Jamaican reggae singer
Omi (given name) Includes list of name-holders
, Japanese politician
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese football player
, Japanese actor
, Japanese footballer
, President of the Japan Community Health Care Organization
, Japanese singer and voice actress
, Japanese scholar and writer
, is a former Japanese football player
Yurie Omi, Japanese broadcaster (announcer)
Horace Ridler, professional freak and sideshow performer  known as "The Great Omi"

Places
 Omi Shrine, in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
 Ōmi Province, a former province of Japan
 Omi, Nagano, a modern village in Japan
 Omidiyeh Air Base, in Iran (IATA code OMI)

In science and technology
 HtrA serine peptidase 2 (symbol OMI), an enzyme encoded by the HTRA2 gene
 OMI cryptograph, a cipher machine produced by Italian firm Ottico Meccanica Italiana
 Oocyte maturation inhibitor
 Ozone Monitoring Instrument, on the AURA satellite
 Open Management Infrastructure, an open-source CIM/WBEM management server
 Marker beacon, a type of VHF beacon used in navigation. "Outer," "Middle," and "Inner" markers, grouped together as "OMI"
 Original Machine Interface, an instruction format used in the IBM i operating system.

Other uses
 Omi, an ancient Japanese hereditary title
 Ōmi Code, a collection of laws compiled in 668AD in classical Japan
 Omi, protagonist of the animated TV series Xiaolin Showdown
 Omi language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), a Catholic missionary order

Japanese-language surnames

Omi (disambiguation)


Philip Brunelle (born July 1, 1943) is an American choral scholar, conductor and organist. He is the founder of VocalEssence. In the course of an international career as a choral and opera conductor Brunelle has been awarded Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit and made an Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire as well as receiving Hungary's Kodály Medal, the Ohtli medal from Mexico, and Sweden's Royal Order of the Polar Star. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. John's University (Collegeville, MN), St. Olaf College, United Theological Seminary, and the University of Minnesota.

Life and career
Brunelle was born in Faribault, Minnesota and studied at the University of Minnesota School of Music. His father, an Evangelical United Brethren minister, died when he was 13. While still in his teens, Brunelle worked as a professional church organist, and at the age of 19 he became a full-time member of the Minnesota Orchestra as a pianist and percussionist. At the age of 25, Brunelle was appointed choirmaster of Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, a position which he has held since 1969 and which led to the founding of VocalEssence (originally called the Plymouth Music Series). In 1969, he also became the music director of the Minnesota Opera. During his 17 years with the company, he introduced many new works, including three operas by Dominick Argento under whom he had studied at the University of Minnesota.

References

External links
Interview with Philip Brunelle. A Prairie Home Companion (February 17, 2011)

American classical organists
American male organists
American male conductors (music)
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Place of birth missing (living people)
1943 births
Living people
Classical musicians from Minnesota
21st-century American conductors (music)
21st-century organists
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century American keyboardists
American choral conductors
Male classical organists
Ohtli Award winners

Philip Brunelle


The Smythe Division was one of the playing divisions of the National Hockey League (NHL).  It was formed in 1974, and was part of the new Clarence Campbell Conference. A conference is a group of divisions. The division was named after Conn Smythe, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1927 to 1961. In 1993, the league divisions changed, and most of the Smythe Division became the Pacific Division. The Smythe Division won the Stanley Cup six times.

Initial teams
The first teams that played in the Smythe Division were:
Chicago Blackhawks
Kansas City Scouts
Minnesota North Stars
St. Louis Blues
Vancouver Canucks
The Canucks were the only team moved from the old East Division.  The Blackhawks, Blues, and North Stars were moved from the old West Division. The Scouts were a new team. The Scouts now play as the New Jersey Devils. The North Stars now play as the Dallas Stars.

Other conferences and divisions
The new Patrick Division was also in the Clarence Campbell Conference.  The other conference was the Prince of Wales Conference. The East Division and the new Adams Division were in the Prince of Wales Conference. This was the first year for conferences in the NHL. The old West Division teams were moved into all of the new divisions.

Changes to the Smythe Division
In 1976, the Scouts moved to Denver, Colorado and started playing as the Colorado Rockies.
In 1978, the North Stars move to the Adams Division.

In 1979, the World Hockey Association (WHA) went out of business.  Four teams from the WHA join the NHL. The Edmonton Oilers and the Winnipeg Jets join the Smythe Division.

In 1981, the NHL changed the conference and division lineups. A number of teams moved to new divisions and conferences. The Blackhawks and the Blues left the Smythe Division for the Norris Division, which was now a part of the Clarence Campbell Conference.
The Calgary Flames left the Patrick Division, and the Los Angeles Kings left the Norris Division. Both teams joined the Smythe Division. The Smythe Division now had the following teams:
Calgary Flames
Colorado Rockies
Edmonton Oilers
Los Angeles Kings
Vancouver Canucks

In 1982 the Rockies moved to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey and started playing as the New Jersey Devils. They also joined the Patrick Division.
The Winnipeg Jets moved from the Norris Division to the Smythe Division.

The division lineup stayed the same until 1991, when a new team, the San Jose Sharks was formed in San Jose, California and joined the Smythe Division.

New conferences and divisions
In 1993, the NHL again changed the conferenes and divisions.  The Eastern Conference contained the Northeast Division and the Atlantic Division. The Western Conference contained Central Division and the Pacific Division.  The Jets were moved to the Central Division. All the other teams in the Smythe Division were moved to the Pacific Division. They were joined by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, a new team that played in Anaheim, California.

Stanley Cup victories
In 1984, the Oilers were the first team in the Smythe Division to win the Stanley Cup. They also won the Stanley Cup in 1985, 1987, and 1988. In 1989, the Flames won the Stanley Cup. In 1990, the Oilers won the last Stanley Cup for the Smythe division.

References

National Hockey League divisions

Smythe Division


The Bad Spellers are an indie-pop band from Tokyo, Japan consisting of husband/wife duo Tony Parmenter (guitar, vocals) and Yasuko Ichinomiya Parmenter (keyboards, vocals, toys).

Although officially forming in 2003, the two spent the following 2 years in separate countries, only able to write music together via the internet and on occasional visits. Before "officially" uniting in mid-2005, the band had been featured on a European net-release and 2 compilation discs.

In 2004 The Bad Spellers traveled to Canada to collaborate/record with Justin Langlois of The London Apartments (Universal Records/Beggar's Banquet Records). These sessions were released in March, 2005 to national (USA/Canada) distribution on Florida's Post*Records as "Fall in Love," a split EP with The London Apartments. Tony and Yasuko have since toured between Japan, the US, and Canada numerous times.

2007 saw the release of their first album, "Keep on Shining!", on Post*Records as well as the band's official legal marriage.  The band relocated to the United States in 2009, and currently resides in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States.  In 2012 the band embarked on what would be a successful crowd sourcing campaign to self-release a vinyl LP of "An Album Titled As Ourselves" in early 2013.

Discography
Albums:
Keep on shining! - POST015, 2007 Post*Records
An Album Titled As Ourselves - PCP001, 2013 Pop Co-op

Singles & EPs:
Fall in love - The Bad Spellers / The London Apartments, POST001, 2005 Post*Records

Compilations:
EP Club#5 - 2004 Asaurus Records
For Whom the Casio Tolls - ASA034, 2004 Asaurus Records
Post*Records & Friends present OLE! - POST011, 2006 Post*Records
Stone Soup - NPP001, 2007 Post*Records / Nonsense Records / Pinky Ring Records
GUTS - POST018/SBO003, 2008 Post*Records / Sleepy Bird Orphanage
The Greenbelt Collective Compilation 3 - 2009 GBC
The Starving Artist Compilation CD: Vol. 1 - 2011 The Starving Artist Collective
YOUTH CULTURE DUMMY - BETA023, 2012 Beta Snake Records

Download-only:
Girls Say Moshii net EP - RWB006, 2004 racewillbegin.com

External links
The Bad Spellers @ Bandcamp
Post*Records
Asaurus Records
RaceWillBegin @ archive.org
RWB006 @ archive.org

Sources
 CD review on buzzgrinder.com
 net-EP review on indiepop.it

Japanese rock music groups
Japanese indie rock groups
Japanese indie pop groups
Musical groups from Tokyo

The Bad Spellers


Jaap Egbert Doek (born May 1, 1942, in Emmen) is a Dutch jurist,  specialising in family and juvenile law. He is a professor of law at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he was the dean of the law faculty from 1988 to 1992. He is a deputy justice in the Court of Appeal of Amsterdam and he was a juvenile court judge in the district court of Alkmaar and the Hague (1978–1985).

International work
He was elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in February 1999 and, from May 2001 to the end of his mandate in February 2007, served as its Chairperson.

Doek was a founding member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) (serving as president in 1982–1984 and as vice president for developing countries in 1984–1992) and in that capacity was involved in the establishment of the African Network for Prevention and Protection of Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN). He was involved in the creation of Defence for Children International (DCI) in 1979 and the Dutch section of this organisation (1984). He was a member of the ISPCAN/DCI working group which conducted a large study on child labour (1994–1997).

He was a member of the Board of the International Association of Juvenile and Family Court Magistrates from  1982 to 1986. In 1999–2000 he was the president of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA).

Visiting professor
In 1993 he was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. In January to May 1999 he was a visiting professor at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.

Literary career
He has published numerous books and articles on various topics in the area of children's rights and family law in national and international journals.

Sources
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1942 births
Living people
20th-century Dutch judges
People from Emmen, Netherlands
Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
21st-century Dutch judges

Jaap Doek


Yedapadavu is a former village (township) in Mangalore taluk, Karnataka, India, that was divided into Badagayedapadavu (North Yedapadavu) and Tenkayedapadavu (South Yedapadavu). Yedapadavu now gives its name, as "Yedapadav" to the gram panchayat for those two villages. The village of Tenkayedapadavu is the main village for the gram panchayat, and is sometimes called "Yedapadavu". Yedapadavu was affected by the 2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka. The gram panchayat is about 21 km northeast of the city of Mangalore, connected via NH 169 (formerly NH 13).bh

Notes

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Yedapadavu


The PATH, known as Port Authority Transit is a 13.8 mile (22.2 kilometers) long rapid transit system in the northeastern New Jersey Cities of Newark, Harrison, Jersey City and Hoboken and Lower and Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. PATH trains run around the clock year around; four routes serving 13 stations operate during the daytime on weekends while two routes operate during weekends, late nights, and holidays. Its tracks cross the Hudson River through century old cast iron tubes that rests on the river bottom under a thin layer of silt. It operates as a deep level subway in Manhattan and the Jersey City/Hoboken riverfront; from Grove Street in Jersey City to Newark, trains run in open cuts, at grade level, and on elevated track.

Rapid transit systems in the United States

PATH Transit


A jack is a mechanical lifting device used to apply great forces or lift heavy loads. A mechanical jack employs a screw thread for lifting heavy equipment. A hydraulic jack uses hydraulic power. The most common form is a car jack, floor jack or garage jack, which lifts vehicles so that maintenance can be performed. Jacks are usually rated for a maximum lifting capacity (for example, 1.5 tons or 3 tons). Industrial jacks can be rated for many tons of load.

Etymology

The personal name Jack, which came into English usage around the thirteenth century as a nickname form of John, came in the sixteenth century to be used as a colloquial word for 'a man (of low status)' (much as in the modern usage 'jack of all trades, master of none'). From here, the word was 'applied to things which in some way take the place of a lad or man, or save human labour'. The first attestation in the Oxford English Dictionary of jack in the sense 'a machine, usually portable, for lifting heavy weights by force acting from below' is from 1679, referring to 'an Engine used for the removing and commodious placing of great Timber.'

Jackscrew

Scissor jack

A scissor jack use the mechanical advantage of a leadscrew and 4-bar linkage to allow a human to lift a vehicle by manual force alone. They are inexpensive and are common in manufacturer-supplied breakdown kits. The jack shown at the left is made for a modern vehicle and the notch fits into a jack-up point on a unibody. Earlier versions have a platform to lift on a vehicle's frame or axle.

Electrically operated car scissor jacks are powered by 12 volt electricity supplied directly from the car's cigarette lighter receptacle. The electrical energy is used to power these car jacks to raise and lower automatically. Electric jacks require less effort from the motorist for operation.

House jack

A house jack, also called a screw jack, is a mechanical device primarily used to lift buildings from their foundations for repairs or relocation. A series of jacks is used and then wood cribbing temporarily supports the structure. This process is repeated until the desired height is reached. The house jack can be used for jacking carrying beams that have settled or for installing new structural beams. On the top of the jack is a cast iron circular pad that the jacking post rests on. This pad moves independently of the house jack so that it does not turn as the acme-threaded rod is turned with a metal rod. This piece tilts very slightly, but not enough to render the post dangerously out of plumb.

Hydraulic jack

In 1838 William Joseph Curtis filed a British patent for a hydraulic jack.

In 1851, inventor Richard Dudgeon was granted a patent for a "portable hydraulic press" – the hydraulic jack, a jack which proved to be vastly superior to the screw jacks in use at the time.

Hydraulic jacks are typically used for shop work, rather than as an emergency jack to be carried with the vehicle. Use of jacks not designed for a specific vehicle requires more than the usual care in selecting ground conditions, the jacking point on a vehicle, and to ensure stability when the jack is extended.  Hydraulic jacks are often used to lift elevators in low and medium rise buildings.

A hydraulic jack uses a liquid, which is incompressible, that is forced into a cylinder by a pump plunger.  Oil is used since it is self lubricating and stable.  When the plunger pulls back, it draws oil out of the reservoir through a suction check valve into the pump chamber. When the plunger moves forward, it pushes the oil through a discharge check valve into the cylinder.  The suction valve ball is within the chamber and opens with each draw of the plunger. The discharge valve ball is outside the chamber and opens when the oil is pushed into the cylinder.  At this point the suction ball within the chamber is forced shut and oil pressure builds in the cylinder.

Floor jack

In a floor jack (aka 'trolley jack') a horizontal piston pushes on the short end of a bellcrank, with the long arm providing the vertical motion to a lifting pad, kept horizontal with a horizontal linkage. Floor jacks usually include casters and wheels, allowing compensation for the arc taken by the lifting pad. This mechanism provides a low profile when collapsed, for easy maneuvering underneath the vehicle, while allowing considerable extension.

Bottle jack

A bottle jack or whiskey jack is a jack which resembles a bottle in shape, having a cylindrical body and a neck.  Within is a vertical lifting ram with a support pad of some kind fixed to the top.  The jack may be hydraulic or work by screw action.  In the hydraulic version, the hydraulic ram emerges from the body vertically by hydraulic pressure provided by a pump either on the baseplate or at a remote location via a pressure hose. With a single action piston the lift range is somewhat limited, so its use for lifting vehicles is limited to those with a relatively high clearance. For lifting structures such as houses the hydraulic interconnection of multiple vertical jacks through valves enables the even distribution of forces while enabling close control of the lift.

The screw version of the bottle jack works by turning a large nut running on the threaded vertical ram at the neck of the body.  The nut has gear teeth, and is generally turned by a bevel gear spigotted to the body, the bevel gear being turned manually by a jack handle fitting into a square socket.  The ram may have a second screwed ram within it, which doubles the lifting range telescopically.

Bottle jacks have a capacity of up to 50 tons and may be used to lift a variety of objects.  Typical uses include the repair of automobiles and house foundations.   Larger, heavy-duty models may be known as a barrel jack.

This type of jack is best used for short vertical lifts.  Blocks may be used to repeat the operation when a greater amount of elevation is required.

Pneumatic jack

Air hydraulic jack
An air hydraulic jack is a hydraulic jack that is actuated by compressed air - for example, air from a compressor - instead of human work. This eliminates the need for the user to actuate the hydraulic mechanism, saving effort and potentially increasing speed. Sometimes, such jacks are also able to be operated by the normal hydraulic actuation method, thereby retaining functionality, even if a source of compressed air is not available.

Inflatable jack

An inflatable jack, lifting bag, or pneumatic lifting bag is an air bag that is inflated by compressed air (without a hydraulic component) in order to lift objects. The bag can be deflated to be reused later. The objects can be of a smaller load such as an automobile or it can be a larger object such as an airplane.

Air bags are also used by rescuers to lift heavy objects up to help victims who are trapped under those objects. There are three main types of lifting bags for rescue: high pressure, medium pressure and low pressure systems. Low-pressure bags are operated at 7.25 psi for high vertical lift in a large surface area but lower lifting capacities. Medium-pressure bags are operated at 15 psi. High-pressure bags which have higher lifting capacities are operated at pressure between 90 and 145 psi. Two air bags can be stacked together to provide a higher lift. It is recommended that no more than two bags can be used in a stacked configuration, the bigger bag must be the bottom one, and no other objects are inserted between the stacked bags. Incorrect use of stacked bags may result in a bag (or other objects) shooting out to create a dangerous projectile.

Strand jack
A strand jack is a specialized hydraulic jack that grips steel cables.  Often used in concert, strand jacks can lift hundreds of tons and are used in engineering and construction.

Farm jack

The farm jack also known as a railroad jack, high lift jack or kanga-jack was invented in 1905.  It consists of a steel beam with a series of equally spaced holes along its length, and a hand-operated mechanism which can be moved from one end of the beam to the other through the use of a pair of climbing pins.  Typical sizes for the farm jack are , and  referring to the length of the beam.

The jack's versatility stems from its use for such applications as lifting, winching, clamping, pulling and pushing.  It is this versatility, along with the long travel it offers and its relative portability, which make the farm jack so popular with off-road drivers.

Safety standards
National and international standards have been developed to standardize the safety and performance requirements for jacks and other lifting devices. Selection of the standard is an agreement between the purchaser and the manufacturer, and has some significance in the design of the jack. In the United States, ASME has developed the Safety Standard for Portable Automotive Service Equipment, last revised in 2014, including requirements for hydraulic hand jacks, transmission jacks, emergency tire changing jacks, service jacks, fork lift jacks, and other lifting devices.

See also
 Pallet jack
 Lift slab construction

References

External links

How to Jack up a Vehicle Safely.

Lifting equipment

Jack (device)


"Bart the Genius" is the second episode of the first season of The Simpsons, which was first shown on the Fox network on January 14, 1990. It was the first episode written by Jon Vitti. It was also the first ever episode to use the signature title sequence, as well as the first normal episode. The episode has Bart Simpson's experiences of life as a smarty-pants after he cheats on an intelligence test. It is the first episode that uses Bart's catchphrase "Eat my shorts." As the second episode was made, right after the bad animation of "Some Enchanted Evening," the future of the series relied on how the animation turned out on this episode. The animation proved to be more acceptable and production continued.

The episode starts with the Simpson family playing Scrabble. Bart plays the word "kwyjibo", which is not a real word.

References

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1990 television episodes
The Simpsons (season 1) episodes

Bart the Genius


In mathematics, an ∞-topos is, roughly, an ∞-category such that its objects behave like sheaves of spaces with some choice of Grothendieck topology; in other words, it gives an intrinsic notion of sheaves without reference to an external space. The prototypical example of an ∞-topos is the ∞-category of sheaves of spaces on some topological space. But the notion is more flexible; for example, the ∞-category of étale sheaves on some scheme is not the ∞-category of sheaves on any topological space but it is still an ∞-topos.

Precisely, in Lurie's Higher Topos Theory, an ∞-topos is defined as an ∞-category X such that there is a small ∞-category C and a left exact localization functor from the ∞-category of presheaves of spaces on C to X. A theorem of Lurie states that an ∞-category is an ∞-topos if and only if it satisfies an ∞-categorical version of Giraud's axioms in ordinary topos theory. A "topos" is a category behaving like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space. In analogy, Lurie's definition and characterization theorem of an ∞-topos says that an ∞-topos is an ∞-category behaving like the category of sheaves of spaces.

See also

Simplicial set

References

Further reading
Spectral Algebraic Geometry - Charles Rezk (gives a down-enough-to-earth introduction)

Foundations of mathematics
Higher category theory
Sheaf theory
Topos theory

∞-topos


Racket may refer to:

 Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime
 Protection racket, a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law
 Racket (sports equipment), a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and other racket sports
 Rackets (sport), a particular sports discipline related to squash played indoors in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, United States, and Canada.
 Racket (programming language), a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp
 Racket, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Gilmer and Ritchie counties
 The Racket (1951 film), a black & white film noir starring Robert Mitchum
 Racket (film), a 1997 film with Michele Placido, Tanya Roberts and Franco Interlenghi
 Racket (album), a 2007 album by Whitehouse
 Racket (Minnesota), an alternative news site in Minnesota
 The Racket (disambiguation)

See also
 Rackett, a Renaissance woodwind instrument
 Radne Raket 120, a lightweight single cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine

Racket


Elias Kent Kane (June 7, 1794December 12, 1835) was the first Illinois Secretary of State and a U.S. Senator from Illinois.

Early life

He was born in New York City, to merchant Capt. Elias Kent Kane and Deborah VanSchelluyne of Dutchess County, New York. Young Kane attended public schools, then Yale College, from which he has graduated in the year 1813.

Career
After he studied law and was admitted to the bar, Kane commenced practice in Nashville, Tennessee, and then moved to Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1814.

He became allied with Jesse B. Thomas, a slaveholder who had secured the job of judge of the Territory of Illinois. Like Judge Thomas and his rival Ninian Edwards, Kane was a delegate to the first state constitutional convention in 1818. At the convention, the Thomas/Kane faction unsuccessfully tried to add language permitting slavery in the new state (where it had been forbidden by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787). However, that proposal was defeated by a faction whose leaders included Baptist John Mason Peck, Methodist Peter Cartwright, Quaker James Lemen, publisher Hooper Warren and future governor Edward Coles. Kane claimed ownership of five people as slaves in 1820,

After an unsuccessful 1820 campaign for election to the 17th Congress which featured numerous letters in the Edwardsville Spectator concerning slavery, and which anti-slavery candidate Daniel Pope Cook won, Kane became Illinois' first Secretary of State, and served from 1820 to 1824. In that year, Kane led proslavery forces in the Illinois House of Representatives which attempted to call another constitutional convention, but was again defeated by a coalition led by Governor Coles, U.S. Representative Cook and religious leaders of many denominations.
However, fellow legislators twice appointed Kane to the United States Senate. He served from March 4, 1825, until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1835.

Legacy
His body was returned to the family farm in Randolph County, Illinois, but due to continued desecration of the family gravesite, he was reinterred in 1984 (a campaign led by  local funeral director, Michael McClure) in Evergreen Cemetery in nearby Chester, in a grave adjacent with that of his sometime political opponent and Illinois' first governor, Shadrach Bond. The Kane family gravesite includes that of his wife, the former Frances Pelletier (1799-1851), two children who died young, and four sons. One son, Elias Kent Kane, Jr. (1822-1853), served in the United States Army. One of Kane's daughters married Illinois governor William H. Bissell, a vocal opponent of slavery. Kane's father (of the same name) is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., having survived this son by five years and secured his namesake grandson's admission to West Point.

On January 16, 1836, the Illinois legislature formed a new county, Kane, and named it to honor the recently deceased Senator, Elias Kent Kane.

See also
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)

References

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Politicians from New York City
American people of Dutch descent
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was a  after Bunpō and before Genkyō.  This period started in April 1319 and ended in February 1321.  The reigning Emperor was .

Events of the Gen'ō era
After the abdication of Emperor Hanazono, Takaharu-shinno was proclaimed emperor. Nijō Michihira was Chancellor (kampaku); but the court remained under the direction of former-Emperor Go-Uda.  Prince Morikuni  was the shogun in Kamakura; and Hōjō Takatoki was the shogunate's chief minister (shikken').
 1319 (Gen'ō 1, 3rd month): Prince Kuniyoshi, the son of former-Emperor Go-Nijō, was named Crown Prince (tōgu).
 1319 (Gen'ō 1, 6th month): Konoe Tsunehira died.  He was Minister of the Left (sadaijin).
 1319 (Gen'ō 1, in the 8th month): The daughter of Saionji Sanekane became one of the emperor's concubines.
 1319 (Gen'ō 1, 12th month): Nijō Michihira resigned from his office as kampaku; and Ichijō Uchitsune became kampaku.
 1330 (Gen'ō 2, 5th month): Hōjō Tokiasu died.  Tokiasu was a high shogunate official (Rokuhara Tandai and Kitakata).
 1320 (Gen'ō 2, 5th month): Kujō Moronori died at age 48. He was a former Regent (sesshō'').

Related pages
 Kamakura period

References

Other websites
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

Japanese eras
1319
1320
1321
1310s in Japan
1320s in Japan

Gen'ō


Stoneacre is a small National Trust property in Otham, near Maidstone, Kent in southern England. The property is a half-timbered yeoman farmer's house dating from the 15th century, together with a small garden, orchard and meadows. The house is a Grade II* listed building.

History
The site overlies an outcrop of Kentish ragstone and from this the name is thought to originate.  Hasted's History of Kent mentions that during the reign of Edward II one John Ellys resided here.  A will from a century later records another John Ellis who died a wealthy man.  His son (also called John Ellys) built the hall house in the 1480s.  The steep slope and poor foundation led to problems with the north wing in the middle of the 16th century.  The cellars and ground floor had to be rebuilt in stone with buttresses to stop the slippage, as is visible today.  At this date high hall houses were going out of fashion and the opportunity was taken to insert and upper floor into the original hall.  The Ellys family continued to hold Stoneacre until 1725 when it was sold and occupied by tenants.

In 1920 the ruin was purchased by Aymer Vallance.  Aymer was a 58-year-old bachelor when he bought the property, but in 1921 he married Lucy Ada Hennell.  Aymer set about reconstructing the house to his vision of a Tudor yeoman's dwelling.  As a consequence of reopening the hall to its full height, two bedrooms were lost.  These were provided by an extension to the south with the library underneath.  The old single-storey scullery to the rear was removed and a 16th-century farmhouse which was to be demolished, North Bore Place from Chiddingstone Kent, was used to build a new two-storey wing westwards from the north end.  The new wing provided a servants' hall and kitchen below with two maid's bedrooms above.  In 1928 the property was presented to the National Trust. As of 2022, the site opened monthly until October.

Description

Exterior

The front of the house is the eastern elevation.  The north end has a stone built lower floor with a timber framed upper.  There is no jetty.  The central section has the main door and to its left the large hall window going from the foundation plinth to the eaves, the building is timber framed with rendered infilling.  This is the hall section, so there is no upper floor and hence no jetty.  A two-storey bay with jetty marks the end of the original hall; beyond is a brick-built lower room with a timber-framed upper floor.  In the upper floor is a 12-light window which was moved to the new structure.  Originally it had lit a bedroom on the 16th-century inserted floor.  On the western elevation, at the junction of the new south extension to the original hall, is an octagonal stair turret.  Moving northwards there is the original two-storey jettied quarters, the double-height hall with its reconstructed west window.  The original building is obscured from just beyond the screens passage by the 20th-century north wing.

The stair turret and west front of the north wing were brought from North Bore Place when it was demolished and therefore are original 16th-century work (dates on arches are 1547 and 1629) although incorporated into a 20th-century structure.

Interior

The main entrance door was restored by Vallance, but is original.  Through the door is the screens passage.  The framework of the screen is original, but the panels are by Vallance because the originals had rotted.  The hall itself is dominated by the roof, which is supported by a huge tie-beam carrying a crown post consisting of four engaged columns.  When the hall was divided the original central hearth was replaced by a brick-and-rubble chimney.  During Vallance's restoration work this was in turn replaced by a 15th-century fireplace from the George public house in Sittingbourne.  The chimney above is 20th century.

The drawing room or parlour formed part of the original house, presumably fulfilling a similar function as a private room apart from the hall.  The fireplace is from North Bore, and the stained glass is reproduction.  The curtains are original 1880s and rare enough to be noted as such in the guide book.

Above the drawing room is a solar with a similar, if smaller-scale, roof to that of the hall.  The oriel window dates from the restoration but is based upon the plan of the original.  Flanking the oriel are two original windows with rare slots to carry vertical shutters.

See also
Similar hall houses in Otham:
Otham Manor
Synyards

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

National Trust webpages on Stoneacre

National Trust properties in Kent
Historic house museums in Kent
Grade II* listed buildings in Kent

Stoneacre, Kent


Richard Cotton Carline (9 February 1896 – 18 November 1980) was a British artist, arts administrator and writer. During the First World War, Carline served on the Western Front and in the Middle East, where he travelled extensively through Palestine, Syria, India and modern day Iran and Iraq. Although known for his depictions of aerial combat painted during World War One, from the mid-1930s, his output as an artist was overshadowed by his numerous roles in local, national and international artists' organisations. Carline held strong anti-fascist beliefs and also worked to gain appreciation for African art, naive art, child artists and even promote the artistic merits of postcard images.

Biography

Early life
Richard Carline was born in Oxford, the youngest of the five children born to the artist George Francis Carline and Anne Smith (1862-1945). His brother, Sydney Carline and his sister Hilda were also artists, as was his brother-in-law, Stanley Spencer. Richard Carline was educated at the Dragon School and at St Edward's School in Oxford before studying art under Percyval Tudor-Hart at the Academie de Peinture in Paris and then in London throughout 1913.

World War One

During the First World War, Carline joined the Middlesex Regiment of the British army in 1916, before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, RFC, in 1917. He worked on wireless communications before he was tasked with developing camouflage designs for aeroplanes. From September 1917 until the spring of 1918 he was employed by the Air Ministry to paint large surveys of the front lines in France onto canvas, for which he established a studio close to the family home in Hampstead.<ref name=RCarTate>{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/carline-studio-interior-hampstead-t01914/text-catalogue-entry |title=Catalogue entry:Studio Interior, Hampstead 1918|access-date=30 July 2015|work=Tate}}</ref> After completing a course in aerial gunnery Carline was based, from July 1918, on the Western Front at Hesdin for six months. During this time he flew Bristol fighters in combat over the front lines.

Carline was asked to nominate artists to work as official war artists for the RFC. He nominated his own brother, Sydney, who was also in the RFC and had already been shot down once. In January 1919 both brothers were sent to the Middle East by the Imperial War Museum, as official war artists for the Royal Air Force with a brief to depict aerial combat. The brothers arrived in Port Said in January 1919 and then travelled to Ramleh where they were based with No. 1 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps. From there they moved to Jerusalem and began to travel around the region to visit other historical and archaeological sites, alongside their military duties. Near Aleppo they sketched the results of the RAF bombing raids on the Turkish airbase at Rayak. After some time in Beirut they returned to flying duties, with Richard making several flights over Jerusalem and Gaza which became the basis for his painting Jerusalem and the Dead Sea From an Aeroplane. In several of his aerial paintings, Carline showed the influence of the Cubist artworks he had seen in Paris before the war as he adopted unconventional perspectives to depict the ground below as two-dimensional and abstracted.

The brothers stayed in Cairo before moving to Baghdad where they remained until the middle of July when they went to Mosul from where the RAF were planning bombing raids against the Kurdish uprising. However, before that action, they were recalled to England for demobilisation and arrived home in November 1919. Although between them the brothers had enough sketches for twenty-five large paintings the RAF Section of the IWM had no funds left to acquire new paintings. Eventually the Museum paid Richard for three finished paintings and bought four from Sydney. The brothers were allowed to keep the 300 plus sketches they had made in the Middle East and these formed the basis of their successful Groupil Gallery exhibition in March 1920.

Inter-war years

In 1920 Richard was elected to the London Group. Between 1921 and 1924, Carline studied part-time at the Slade School of Art before teaching, on an occasional basis, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University until 1929, where his brother, Sydney, was Master of Drawing. Throughout 1928, he undertook an extensive lecture tour of north America. In 1931 Carline held his first one-man exhibition at the Groupil Gallery. The Carline family home in Hampstead became the centre of an artistic circle that included Henry Lamb, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler and John Nash. Carline's 1925 painting Gathering on the Terrace at 47 Downshire Hill, Hampstead depicted several of these and members of his family. In 1935, with Michael Sadler, Carline wrote a book entitled Arts of West Africa and organized an accompanying exhibition on the subject. Carline was active in the Artists' International Association and during 1937 and 1938 he spent time in Mexico and the United States on their behalf supporting various arts' projects. In the run-up to World War Two, in 1938, Carline was among the founding members of the Artists' Refugee Committee in Hampstead.

World War II and later life
During World War II Carline worked for the Air Ministry designing camouflage patterns for their aircraft and factories and wrote the Ministry of Aircraft Production's official report on industrial and aircraft camouflage. In 1943 Carline established the National Mural Council to promote the commissioning of murals by industry. In 1944 he had a role in founding the Hampstead Artists' Council and went on to hold senior posts in several artists' bodies. In 1946 he was the first Art Counsellor of UNESCO and was the UK Vice-President of the International Association of Artists. In both 1957 and 1963 he organized exhibitions of British art in China for the Britain China Friendship Association. In 1950 Carline married Nancy Higgins whom he had known for many years and who was an artist in her own right. The couple served as art examiners for the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate from 1955 to 1974 and travelled extensively in Asia and Africa in that role.

Published works
 The Arts of West Africa (1935), edited by Sir Michael Sadler
 Pictures in the Post, the Story of the Picture Postcard, Faber, (1959)
 Draw they Must (1968)
 Stanley Spencer at War'', Faber & Faber (1978)

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Judith Emilie Egerton (7 August 1928 – 21 March 2012) was an Australian-born British art historian and curator. She specialised in eighteenth-century British art and, particularly, the work of George Stubbs.

Early life and career
Egerton was born in Melbourne, Australia as the third of five children to Jean (née Muecke) and Keith Attiwill, a journalist. She was educated at Lauriston Girls' School and, from the age of 17, at Janet Clarke Hall, then the women's college of the University of Melbourne, where she read History and graduated with first-class honours in 1948. She married Ansell Egerton in 1949 (dissolved in 1974) and the couple emigrated to the United Kingdom, briefly living in Oxford.

When her husband became a Lecturer in Economics at Queen's University Belfast, she held the post of tutorial assistant in History. While in Belfast, she became a close friend of the poet Philip Larkin, who was then a sub-librarian at the university. The Egertons returned to London in 1956. While raising her two daughters, Egerton worked on the British Dictionary of National Biography and the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Later career
In London, Egerton came into contact with the watercolour specialist Dudley Snelgrove with whom she worked in the late 1960s, cataloguing the sporting art pictures being bought by Paul Mellon. It was during this period that Egerton became interested in the work of George Stubbs.

Egerton was appointed as a Research Assistant Grade I of the British school at the Tate Gallery in 1974, being promoted to Assistant Keeper Grade I by  1980. She was responsible for curating the exhibition George Stubbs, Anatomist and Animal Painter, which opened in August 1976, and concerned his anatomical drawings. Egerton wrote the catalogue raisonné on Stubbs, published by the Paul Mellon Centre in 1984, and curated the major exhibition on the artist which was held from 1984 into 1985 at the Tate and the Yale Centre for British Art in Connecticut. She remained at the Tate until 1988.

Egerton also worked on well-known British artists Joseph Wright of Derby and William Hogarth. She curated a show at the Tate Gallery in 1990 on Wright of Derby and worked with Hogarth expert, Elizabeth Einberg, on compiling a catalogue of the Tate's permanent collection of Hogarth artworks titled The Age of Hogarth. She also wrote Hogarth's Marriage-A-La-Mode, which was re-published by Yale University press in 2011 with an accompanying DVD narrated by Alan Bennett.

Egerton was employed by the National Gallery from 1988 to 1998 to revise the British school catalogue and became a senior research fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art from 1997 until 2007.

Archive
The Judy Egerton Archive was donated to the Paul Mellon Centre by her daughters in 2012.  It contains the research notes, correspondence and images she compiled during the course of her work on the publications and exhibitions concerning the artists Stubbs, Hogarth, Turner and Wright of Derby. The archive is available for public consultation.

Exhibitions
 Joseph Wright of Derby, Tate Gallery, 1990
 Stubbs, Tate Gallery & Yale Centre for British Art, 1984-5
 George Stubbs, Anatomist and Animal Painter, Tate Gallery, 1976
 The Age of Hogarth, Tate Gallery

Publications
 George Stubbs, painter: catalogue raisonné (Paul Mellon Centre by Yale University Press, 2007)
 The British School (National Gallery, 1998)
 D. Davies, F. Luard & J. Egerton, Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode (National Gallery, 1997)
 Turner: The Fighting Temeraire (National Gallery, 1995)
 Wright of Derby (Tate Gallery, c1990)
 J. Egerton & E. Einberg, The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709 (Tate Gallery with the assistance of J. Paul Getty Trust, 1988)
 J. Egerton & C. Newall, George Price Boyce (Tate Gallery, 1987)
 British Watercolours (Tate Gallery, 1986)
 British Sporting Paintings: the Paul Mellon Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Art, c1985)
 Stubbs: Portraits in Detail (Tate Gallery, 1984)
 George Stubbs 1724-1806 (Tate Gallery, 1984)
 The Ingenious Mr Seymour: James Seymour, 1702-1752 (British Sporting Art Trust, 1978)
 J. Egerton & D. Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Drawings c.1500-1850 (Tate Gallery for Yale Center for British Art, 1978)
 British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 (Tate Gallery for Yale Center for British Art, 1978)
 Drawings and Paintings by Sir Thomas Monnington PRA, 1902-1976 (Royal Academy of Arts, 1977)
 George Stubbs: Anatomist and Animal Painter (Tate Gallery Publications, 1976)

References

External links
 The Judy Egerton Archive, research papers at the Paul Mellon Centre

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Barnard's Star, also known as Barnard's Runaway Star, is a very low-mass red dwarf star approximately six light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus (the Snake-holder). It is very old, and moving relatively fast.

In 1916, the American astronomer E. E. Barnard measured its proper motion as 10.3 arcseconds per year. This is the largest-known proper motion of any star relative to the Sun. At a distance of about 1.8 parsecs from the Solar System, or just under six light-years, Barnard's Star is the nearest known star in the constellation Ophiuchus, and the fourth-closest known individual star to the Sun, after the three components of the Alpha Centauri system. Despite its proximity, Barnard's Star, at a dim apparent magnitude of about nine, is not visible with the unaided eye; however, it is much brighter in infrared light than it is in visible light.

Details
Barnard's Star has been the subject of much study, and it has probably received more attention from astronomers than any other class M dwarf star due to its proximity and favorable location for observation near the celestial equator. Barnard's Star is also notable as the target for Project Daedalus, a study on the possibility of fast, unmanned travel to nearby star systems.

At seven to 12 billion years of age, Barnard's Star is considerably older than the Sun, and it might be among the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Barnard's Star rotates just once every 130 days (compared with just over 25-30 days for the Sun). In 1998 astronomers saw an intense flare, showing that Barnard's Star is a 'flare star'. Barnard's Star has the variable star designation V2500 Ophiuchi.

The proper motion of Barnard's Star is 'sideways' relative to our line of sight to the Sun of 90 kilometers per second (km/s). The 10.3 seconds of arc it travels annually amount to a quarter of a degree in a human lifetime, roughly half the angular diameter of the full Moon.

The radial velocity of Barnard's Star towards the Sun can be measured by its blue shift. These measurements, combined with proper motion, suggest a true velocity relative to the Sun of about 140 km/s.

While Barnard's Star has the largest proper motion, the largest known true velocity of another star in the Milky Way belongs to Wolf 424 at 555 km/s.

Barnard's Star will make its closest approach to the Sun around AD 11,700, when it approaches to within about 3.8 light-years. However, at that time, it will not be the nearest star, since Proxima Centauri will have moved even closer to the Sun. Barnard's Star will still be too dim to be seen with the naked eye at the time of its closest approach, since its apparent magnitude will be about 8.5 then. After that it will gradually recede from the Sun.

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Barnard's star


Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquess of Arias Navarro (11 December 1908 – 27 November 1989) was the prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the Francoist dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.

Arias Navarro was a hardline politician and was involved in the White Terror, having signed thousands of death warrants during the dismantling of the Spanish Republic. Later, he was a more moderate leader during his premiership.

Early life
Arias Navarro was born in Madrid on 11 December 1908. He served in the Ministry of Justice since 1929 as attorney in Málaga and Madrid.

Francoist Spain

Arias was close to the right-wing sectors and joined the Francoist side during the Spanish Civil War. He was public prosecutor in the trials set up by the Francoists in Málaga after the conquest of the city. There, he earned the nickname the "Butcher of Málaga" (Carnicero de Málaga) for his role in the imposition of capital punishment to true or perceived sympathizers of the Republicans, In one of the harshest repressions following the Francoist victory, an estimated total of 17,000 people were summarily executed.

He married María de la Luz del Valle y Menéndez, without issue.

After serving in various positions, including Mayor of Madrid from 1965 to June 1973, Arias became Minister of Government (Minister of the Interior) in June 1973. After the assassination of Prime Minister (Presidente del Gobierno) Luis Carrero Blanco he was appointed his successor on 31 December 1973, a position he continued to hold after the death of Franco. Arias Navarro had the support of the Franco family, most notably Carmen Polo, and retained the post during the transition to democracy. However, the garroting of the Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich in March 1974 had already shown his aversion to political liberalization, while other events, including the executions in September 1974, the organization of the Green March in November 1975 by King Hassan II of Morocco, and the illness and death of Franco (which Arias announced on television), displayed his weaknesses and further eroded his authority.

Franco's successor as head of state, King Juan Carlos I, continued his appointment, so that it was his government (which included Manuel Fraga Iribarne and José María de Areilza) that instituted the first reforms, however unwillingly. He tried to continue Franco's late policies, opposing any change. After a lengthy power struggle, Juan Carlos forced his resignation on 1 July 1976.

The next day, the King granted him the hereditary title of Marqués de Arias Navarro (English: Marquess of Arias Navarro), together with the dignity Grande de España (English: Grandee of Spain). On his death, the title of Marquess was inherited by his nephew Miguel Ángel Arias-Navarro.

Arias was succeeded by Adolfo Suárez, named general secretary of the Francoist official party Movimiento Nacional in December 1975. In June 1977, during the first free general elections held since 1936, Arias joined the Alianza Popular, a right-wing party created by Manuel Fraga. He then led the Búnker group of hard-liners opposed to any reforms, along with the leader of the Francoist party Fuerza Nueva, Blas Piñar. Arias, however, never again occupied a relevant position in the later Spanish government.

Both left and extreme right attacked him, calling him by the nickname "The Old ".

Later years
In his first democratic election the party joined Popular Alliance (AP), led by Manuel Fraga, being senate candidate for Madrid, but was not elected. He died on 27 November 1989 when he was 80 years of age from an infarction, and was buried at Mingorrubio Cemetery in El Pardo. His wife died in 1997.

Spain and Portugal
According to the Spanish daily El País, files released by the US National Archives and Records Administration show that, following the left-wing Carnation Revolution coup in Portugal on 25 April 1974, Arias met with the United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert S. Ingersoll in March 1975 and offered to invade Portugal in order to stop the spread of communism. The report Ingersoll forwarded to the then-Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, on 18 March, stated that "appropriate steps" were being taken to ensure that "the events in Portugal did not cross the border into Spain."

Ingersoll went on to add that Spain wanted Washington to support Spain in the event of war, precisely at a time when the US was renegotiating the status of its military bases, and Arias wanted Washington to support Spain's future membership of NATO.

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The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is a collection of letters. This alphabet was originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Today, we use it to write the English language.

This alphabet evolved from the Phoenician alphabet.

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Laguna de Guayatayoc is a body of salty water in Argentina, located in the south of the Cochinoca Department, in the province of Jujuy.

The lake is almost united with the Salinas Grandes. Its surface area is highly variable, depending on the season and longer cycles of drought and humidity. In the puna ecoregion, summer (December–March) is the rainy season; hence the lake is largest in March and April. It covers an area of approximately  and is about  deep.

Fauna
Laguna de Guayatayoc is home to large populations of different varieties of flamingos, including James's flamingos, Andean flamingos and Chilean flamingos.

Landforms of Jujuy Province
Guayatayoc

Laguna de Guayatayoc


Babbila (, also spelled Bebbila) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located on the southern outskirts of Damascus to the east of the Yarmouk Camp. Nearby localities include al-Hajar al-Aswad, Jaramana, Sayyidah Zaynab, al-Sabinah and Yalda. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Babbila had a population of 50,880 in the 2004 census. The town is also the administrative center of the Babbila nahiyah consisting of 13 towns and villages with a combined population of 341,625.

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Towns in Syria

Babbila


A skolion (from ) (pl. skolia), also scolion (pl. scolia), was a song sung by invited guests at banquets in ancient Greece. Often extolling the virtues of the gods or heroic men, skolia were improvised to suit the occasion and accompanied by a lyre, which was handed about from singer to singer as the time for each scolion came around.  "Capping" verses were exchanged, "by varying, punning, riddling, or cleverly modifying" the previous contribution.

Etymology
Although Greek folk etymology connects skolion with δύσκολος 'difficult', the likeliest connection is with σκέλος 'bent limb, part' as joined verse or repartee. This use is comparable to Japanese renga 'linked verse'.

Background
Skolia are often referred to as 'banquet songs',  'convivial songs", or 'drinking songs'.  The term also refers to poetry composed in the same form.  In later use, the form was used in a more stately manner for chorus poetry in praise of the gods or heroes.

Terpander is said to have been the inventor of this poetic form, although that is doubtful. Instead, he may have adapted it for musical accompaniment. That these skolia were written, not only by poets like Alcaeus, Anacreon, Praxilla, Simonides, but also by Sappho and by Pindar, shows in what high esteem skolia were held by the Greeks.  "The gods of Olympos sang at their banquets".

The Epitaph of Seikilos, dated to the first century AD, found with the original music in the ancient Greek notation, is the oldest complete example of ancient Greek music. Although often referred to as a skolion, its context as a short tombstone inscription scarcely suggests such a characterisation. It is, rather, an epigram. The confusion about this piece in modern scholarship is due to the association made by the scholiast to Plato's Gorgias 451e between the epigram and the skolion.

Other uses
 At Balliol College, Oxford, the "Skoliasts" are the undergraduate Classics society.

See also

Sources
 Richard Reitzenstein, Epigramm und Skolion, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Alexandrinischen Dichtung.  Giessen (1893); Olms, Hildesheim (1970).
 Herbert Weir Smyth, Greek Melic Poets, (1900); New York, Biblo and Tannen (1963)
  Gregory Jones, "Non-Elite Origins of the Attic Skolia and the Birth of Democracy",  Abstracts of Papers for the Annual Meeting, American Philological Association (APA) (2005)
 Elena Fabbro, Carmina Convivalia Attica, Rome 1995

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Scott Oldershaw (born February 23, 1954 in Toronto) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed in the mid-1980s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He later became head coach at the Burloak Canoe Club in Oakville, Ontario, leading them to national titles in 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2007 and coaching Olympic gold medallist Adam van Koeverden and Olympic bronze medalist Mark Oldershaw. He continued his coaching career with the Canadian National Team, and was named national Head Coach in 2012.

He is a son of Bert Oldershaw, brother of Dean Oldershaw and Reed Oldershaw, and father of Mark Oldershaw, all of whom have represented Canada in the Summer Olympics.

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 Sports-Reference.com profile

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Kåre Gudbrand Kristiansen (11 March 1920 – 3 December 2005) was a Norwegian politician active in the Christian People's Party. Noted as a conservative within his own party, he was known to take controversial positions at odds with the prevailing consensus.

Kristiansen was born in Bergen, the son of a lay preacher. Both his parents were active in The Salvation Army. He started his professional life as a telegraph operator in the Norwegian railroad system, where he rose through the ranks.  A devout Christian all his life, he became politically active in his home community of Nesodden in 1951. He was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1965 and served in this capacity until 1968. He was elected to Storting, first as a deputy member in 1969 and as a full member from 1973 to 1977 and 1981 to 1989. He was chairman in the parliamentary foreign affairs committee from 1981 to 1983 and Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1983 to 1986.

He served as chairman for the Christian People's Party from 1975 to 1977 and 1979 to 1983. As a result of an internal dispute about how to cooperate with the Conservative Party, he resigned from the chair of his party and instead became parliamentary leader.

He stepped down from national politics in 1989 in protest against what he perceived as a change in course in the party's policy, but he remained politically active all his life, among other things by rejoining the municipal council of Nesodden, where he had started his political career.

Kristiansen stood his ground on a number of political issues, and his prominence within his party and in politics in general varied accordingly. He was a proponent of Norwegian membership in the European Union, advocated strong collaborative efforts with the Conservative Party and even the Norwegian Progress Party.  He was an ardent supporter of the State of Israel, and in 1994 he resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the prize to Yasser Arafat, whom he labeled "world's most prominent terrorist". He opposed Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip, to the point of refusing an invitation to join in an event that also featured moderate Israeli politician and chief rabbi of Norway, Michael Melchior.

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Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene is a biographical documentary film about Graham Greene, originally broadcast nationally in the US on PBS on March 29, 2013 and distributed internationally. It was directed by Thomas Patrick O'Connor and narrated by Derek Jacobi. Contributors and cast include Graham Greene himself, his wife Vivien Greene, Bernard Diederich, John le Carré, David Lodge, John Mortimer, Bill Nighy, John Perkins, Paul Theroux and biographers Richard Greene (no relation) and Norman Sherry.

References

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 Dangerous Edge at PBS

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Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene