Lone Pine International was a series of chess tournaments held annually in March or April from 1971 through 1981 in Lone Pine, California. The tournaments were formally known as the Louis D. Statham Masters, named after sponsor Louis D. Statham (1907–1983), an engineer and millionaire inventor of medical instruments who was also a Los Angeles based chess aficionado. The events were seven- to ten-round Swiss system tournaments, with entrance requirements that made them the strongest recurring Swiss tournaments in the U.S. in the 1980s. Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan served as the tournament director.

Summary

Tournaments

1971
The first Louis D. Statham tournament was open to all USCF masters (rated 2200+) and Experts (rated 2000–2199).
The field of 33 had an average Elo rating of 2190.
Grandmaster Larry Evans (USA) won the $1000 first prize in the seven-round event with the score 6–1.
Second place was a four-way tie among Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia), James Tarjan (USA), William Martz (USA), and Walter Browne (USA) with 5 points each.

1972
For the second year of the tournament, eligibility requirements were increased slightly.
Expert rating was required for juniors (under age twenty-one); adults needed to be masters.
The field of 35 had an average rating of 2262.
GM Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) won the $2000 first prize in the seven-round event with the score 6–1.
Second place was a four-way tie at 5–2 among James Tarjan, Anthony Saidy, Andrew Karklins, and Paul Brandts (all USA).

1973
The third year of the tournament, masters were allowed as well as any juniors with a rating over 2100.
The field grew to 48, with an average rating of 2322.
GM Arthur Bisguier (USA) won with the score 6–1.
Second–third places with 5½–1½ were Walter Browne (USA) and László Szabó (Hungary).
Next at 5–2 were Edward Formanek (USA), John Grefe (USA), and Tony Miles (England).

1974
In the fourth tournament, for the first time an Expert rating was not sufficient for entrance, even for juniors.
Also for the first time some masters were also excluded, as any player who was not a junior required a rating of 2250 or more or the FIDE International Master or Grandmaster title to qualify.
Despite the more stringent entrance requirements the field grew again to 53, with an average rating of 2310.
Walter Browne (USA and Australia) won with a score of 6–1, the first time the highest rated entrant (2612) was the victor.
Tied for second with 5½ points were Pal Benko and John Grefe, and next with 5 points were Larry Evans, Julio Kaplan, Kim Commons, and Andrew Karklins (all USA).

1975
In 1975 the eligibility requirements were increased again.
Entrants needed an IM or GM title or a rating of 2350 or higher (2250 for juniors) to qualify.
The field shrank slightly to 44, but included 22 GMs and the average rating increased to 2428.
The tournament was lengthened to ten rounds, which allowed it for the first time to be rated by FIDE.
(Previous tournaments had been USCF rated only.)
This made FIDE titles and norms available for the first time.
In order to enhance title and norm chances for the participants, some flexibility was introduced into the Swiss system pairings in the later rounds.
These adjustments led to some controversy, as a last-round pairing was disputed.
Norman Weinstein (USA) earned a GM norm, and Kim Commons (USA) and Alla Kushnir (Israel) earned IM norms.
Kushnir was the first woman to compete at Lone Pine and defeated GM Larry Evans in the first round.
Vladimir Liberzon of Israel won the $4000 first prize with the score 7½–2½.
Evans (USA) placed second at 7–3, and there was a six-way tie at 6½–3½ for positions three through eight among Walter Browne (USA), Florin Gheorghiu (Romania), Weinstein, Oscar Panno (Argentina), Miguel Quinteros (Argentina), and Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia).

1976
In 1976 the eligibility requirements were made slightly less strict, with the required rating for adult masters lowered to 2300.
The field increased to 57, including 11 GMs and 10 IMs, but the average rating dropped to 2371.
The event was returned to the seven-round length, and as a result was expected to be rated only by the USCF as it did not meet FIDE requirements for Swiss system tournaments.
In a controversial decision, FIDE made an exception to rate the tournament anyway.
Subsequent Lone Pine tournaments would be nine-round events and thus meet FIDE requirements for rated Swiss tournaments.
Former World Champion Tigran Petrosian (USSR) won the $8000 first prize, with a 5½–1½ score, the lowest winning seven-round score in Lone Pine history.
Second place at 5–2 was shared by Larry Christiansen (USA), Vasily Smyslov (USSR), Oscar Panno (Argentina), Miguel Najdorf (Argentina), Miguel Quinteros (Argentina), Tony Miles (England), Ken Rogoff (USA), Győző Forintos (Hungary), and Walter Browne (USA).
No FIDE norms were available at this tournament due to its seven-round length.

1977
The 1977 tournament had a number of firsts. For the first time, there was no clear winner. Also for the first time, a woman shared the top of the score card. The increase in the number of entrants in 1976 required that the qualification standards be increased in 1977, so the requirements were returned to those of 1975. The field of 48 had an average rating of 2410. Yuri Balashov (USSR), Oscar Panno (Argentina), Dragutin Sahović (Yugoslavia), and Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR) tied for first with the score 6½–2½.
Fifth and sixth place at 6–3 was shared by William Lombardy and Larry Christiansen (both USA). Gaprindashvili, the Women's World Champion, earned a grandmaster norm and would be the first woman to attain the grandmaster title.
Sahović also earned a GM norm. IM norms were earned by Jack Peters, Roy Ervin, and Ken Regan (all USA).

1978
The 1978 tournament retained the same entrance requirements and tournament format as 1977. The field of 68 was a record, with a greater number of international participants and an average rating of 2431. GM Bent Larsen (Denmark) won with 7½–1½, the best score ever in a 9-round Lone Pine tournament. The larger number of international participants made norm opportunities more plentiful than before, and the eleven norms achieved set a record for an individually paired Swiss or round-robin tournament. (The Olympiads are paired by team rather than individual.) GM norms were earned by Jack Peters, Vitaly Zaltsman, Ken Rogoff (all USA), and Peter Biyiasas (Canada).
IM norms were earned by Yasser Seirawan and Tim Taylor (both USA), Jaime Sunyé (Brazil), Jon Speelman (England), Haukua Angantysson (Iceland), Margeir Petursson and Helgi Ólafsson (both Iceland).

1979
Requirements were tightened in 1979, with an IM or GM title, USCF senior master (rating 2400+), or junior rated over 2300 required for entrance.
The field grew to a new record of 73 including players from 18 countries, and 27 GMs and 22 IMs.
The average rating was 2444.
Again there was no clear winner, with four players tying for the top score.  Svetozar Gligorić and Vladimir Liberzon became the first repeat winners, joined by Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia) and Florin Gheorghiu (Romania) with the score 6½–2½.
The newly created FIDE Master (FM) title was available for the first time.
Yasser Seirawan (USA) earned a GM norm; Walter Morris (USA), Jack Peters (USA), Joe Bradford (USA), Nick de Firmian (USA) and Paul van der Sterren (the Netherlands), earned IM norms; and Doug Root (USA) and David Strauss (USA) earned FM norms.

1980
In 1980, an International Master title was no longer sufficient for entry.
Eligibility requirements were increased to Grandmaster, adults rated over 2450, and juniors rated over 2350.
The average rating of the field of 43 jumped to 2487.
Roman Dzindzichashvili (Israel) won with the score 7–2.
Dzindzichashvili had emigrated from Israel to the U.S. the year before and would subsequently become a U.S. citizen.
Michael Wilder, Jay Whitehead, Doug Root, and Ron Henley (all USA) earned IM norms; Joel Benjamin (USA) earned an FM norm.

1981
The final Lone Pine tournament was held in 1981.
GM Viktor Korchnoi topped a field of 61 with the score 7–2 to win the $15,000 first prize.
Three grandmasters tied for second with 6½–2½: Yasser Seirawan (USA), Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands), and Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia).
The tournament included two Soviet grandmasters, Artur Yusupov and Oleg Romanishin, making it the first tournament aside from the Olympiads since Korchnoi's 1976 defection from the Soviet Union in which a Soviet player competed with him.
No U.S. players earned title norms at this tournament.

The 1982 Canadian documentary The Great Chess Movie included footage from the 1981 tournament throughout the movie.

References

 (the primary reference for all tournaments except 1981)

Further reading

 (crosstable and game scores from 1977)
 (game scores from 1979)

International chess tournaments
Chess in the United States
Sports in Inyo County, California
1971 in chess
Recurring sporting events established in 1971
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1981
1971 establishments in California
1981 disestablishments in California

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The siege of Maribor was a siege of present-day Maribor, then known by its German name Marburg, in the Duchy of Styria within the Archduchy of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire. In the siege that happened during September 1532, a local garrison and citizens defended the fortified town of Maribor against the overwhelming force of the Ottoman Empire, led by their Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Grand Vizier Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha. The Ottomans were marching south after their unsuccessful plan of the siege of Vienna, which was compromised at the siege of Güns where Ottomans have been delayed nearly four weeks.

Conflicts in 1532
1532 in Europe
Marburg
Marburg
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Battles involving Slovenia

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The Angostura Dam (officially known as the Belisario Domínguez Dam) is an embankment dam and hydroelectric power station on the Grijalva River near Venustiano Carranza in Chiapas, Mexico. The dam's power plant contains 5 x 180 MW, 3 x 310 MW Francis turbine-generators. The  tall dam withholds one of the largest reservoirs in Mexico of . Initial construction on the dam began in 1969 and foundation work in 1971. On May 8, 1974, the dam began to impound its reservoir. On 14 July 1976, the dam's first generator went online.

References

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Elgin Community College (ECC) is a public community college in Elgin, Illinois. It was founded in 1949 as part of Elgin Area School District U46. Community College District 509 was formed 17 years later in 1966, a year after Illinois legislators created the Illinois Community College System. Most of the District is in Kane County with portions in DeKalb, Cook, McHenry, and DuPage. The  District serves 300,000 people, 11,000 businesses, four public school districts, and 15 high schools.

Classes were originally held in the Elgin High School (now the Gifford Street School) but later moved a  campus developed on what was previously the farm colony of Elgin State Hospital.  On April 7, 2009, voters in District 509 approved a $178M bond referendum to finance the renovation and expansion of the campus.

History
Elgin Community College was founded on January 10, 1949, in Elgin, Illinois. A wing of Elgin High School housed the college, which was once a part of Public School District U-46. . Gilbert I. Renner was appointed dean in July 1950 and in December 1959, the college relocated from the high school to Renner Hall on East Chicago Street in Elgin.

The Junior College Act passed by the Illinois General Assembly on July 15, 1965, resulted in the formation of Junior College District 509. On April 12, 1966, the U-46 board approved to divest itself of ECC, allowing the college to become independent. The first District 509 board election, held on June 4, 1966, heralded the college's first seven elected trustees: Robert Hoffer, John Eshelman, Harry Blizzard, Paul Bolger, Richard Gromer, Joseph McCarthy, and Frieda Simon.

ECC continued to expand with a number of educational sites across its district, including the annexation of Public School District 300 into District 509. Other milestones included the implementation of ECC's first vocational/technical program—nursing—in June 1965; and earning accreditation from the North Central Association in March 1968.

To accommodate the needs of a growing college district, voters approved a referendum in April 1967 to purchase 100 acres from the city of Elgin for approximately $51,000 to build a new campus. After the Illinois Board of Higher Education approved the project, the groundbreaking took place on December 24, 1968, with the first phase of the campus, addressed as 1700 Spartan Drive in Elgin, opened in September 1970.
While the campus continued to grow, additions included a gymnasium and an Industrial Training Center. ECC reached a 10-year agreement with the city of Elgin in 1982 to renovate the site of a former Sears store in downtown Elgin for a second campus. The new Fountain Square Campus opened for classes in January 1983. Programs housed in this new campus included GED® test credential courses and English as a second language and adult education programs.

On April 7, 2009, voters approved a $178 million bond referendum for the college to build a new academic library and learning center, health careers center, and regional public safety training facility as part of its Facilities Master Plan. Part of the plan would involve closure of the Fountain Square Campus and relocating its programs to the Spartan Drive Campus and into a renovated building on Renner Drive that previously consisted of two light industrial buildings. Ground was broken for these new buildings in spring 2010.

First to be completed was the new multipurpose classroom building (now Building K) on January 26, 2011. The Renner Academic Library and Learning Resources (Building C) opened on January 27, 2012, and the health and life sciences building (Building A) opened on March 15, 2012. Other notable improvements included renovation of the original campus, including the Jobe Lounge; cafeteria; classrooms and laboratories; Building M, including the construction of a new greenhouse; and parking lots and streets.
Other changes to the Spartan Drive Campus included the extension of Spartan Drive to connect with Randall Road to the west, which opened on August 15, 2008. Spartan Drive from McLean Boulevard to Renner Drive reopened on June 8, 2010, following an extensive reconstruction project.

On May 21, 2014, ECC broke ground for the Education and Work Center at the Hanover Square Plaza, 6704 Barrington Road, in Hanover Park. The center is a partnership between Harper College, the village of Hanover Park, the Chicago-Cook Workforce partnership, and the state of Illinois. It offers day and evening classes, ESL, adult basic education, and career skills development. The center opened on August 21, 2014.

Elgin Community College completed the final project of its Facilities Master Plan, the Elgin Community College Center for Emergency Services, in September 2016. The 120-acre property features classrooms for public safety communications, emergency medical services, criminal justice, and fire science, as well as bays for training on police and fire equipment and fire truck storage. The center also includes a three-story burn tower and ponds for rescue diving and firefighter training.

Presidents
 Gilbert I. Renner (1966-1971) appointed dean in 1950
 Robert L. Appel Jr., EdD (1971-1975)
 Mark L. Hopkins, EdD (1975-1982)
 Searle F. Charles, PhD (1982-1987)
 Paul Heath, EdD (1987-1994)
 Roy Flores, PhD (1994-1998)
 Michael S. Shirley, PhD (1998-2006)
 David Sam, PhD, JD, LLM (2007–Present)

Academics
As mandated by the Public Community College Act (110 ILCS 805), Elgin Community College offers courses in liberal arts and sciences and general education; adult education courses; and courses in occupational, semi-technical, or technical fields leading directly to employment.

ECC's university transfer options include Associate in Arts, Associate in Engineering Science, Associate in Fine Arts (Art or Music), Associate in Liberal Studies, and Associate in Science degrees. The transfer program incorporates more than 25 major fields of study. The college also offers The Center for Advanced Studies, which consists of partnerships with Northern Illinois University, Judson University, Roosevelt University, and Columbia College of Missouri. These institutions have space on ECC's campus and allow students to complete baccalaureate degrees at ECC, online, or at their respective campuses.

ECC's Career and Technical Education programs include more than 130 degrees and certificates, including an Associate of Applied Science degree. The college also offers adult and basic education; high school equivalency instruction and testing; citizenship preparation; English as a second language (ESL); and workforce development for employers.

ECC has specialized transfer partnerships with more than 30 colleges and universities covering more than 100 college majors. ECC also partners with more than 100 schools in the Illinois Articulation Initiative.

Locations
ECC has four primary locations:
 Spartan Drive Campus in Elgin, Illinois

 Education and Work Center in Hanover Park, Illinois
 ECC Center for Emergency Services in Burlington, Illinois
 Streamwood Village Hall in Streamwood, Illinois

Student life
ECC has approximately 20 clubs and organizations that provide students opportunities to get involved and express themselves outside of the classroom. These clubs and organizations include Black Student Achievers; Organization of Latin American Students; Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society; Student Government Association; and United Students of All Cultures.

Students also have the opportunity to participate in leadership programs that encourage community service and volunteering. Some program examples are Students Educationally Receiving Volunteer Experience (SERVE) and Spartan Leaders. Other programs have included The Big Event, in which students participated in service opportunities for different agencies and organizations throughout District 509.

Transportation
The main campus of Elgin Community College in Elgin is served by Pace. Routes 546 and 549 provide bus service from campus to downtown Elgin and other destinations connecting with Metra service on the Milwaukee District West Line at Elgin station.

Arts and entertainment
The ECC Arts Center hosts touring artists and local theater and music productions in its two theaters—the 662-seat Blizzard Theatre and the more intimate 168-seat "black box" SecondSpace Theatre. Notable acts that have performed at the college include Victor Wooten, the touring production of "The Producers," Arlo Guthrie, and the cast of "Jersey Boys."

Sports
Student athletes compete in regional and national tournaments in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and in the Illinois Skyway Conference. ECC's intercollegiate athletics offer students the opportunity to compete, develop skills, and acquire leadership and teamwork experiences.

Men's athletics teams: baseball, basketball, golf, soccer, tennis.

Women's athletics teams: basketball, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball.

Notable alumni
 Cristina Castro (1998) member of the Illinois Senate
 Kenneth Hawkinson, president of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
 Sandro Miller, (2012) photographer
 Allen Skillicorn, member of the Illinois House of Representatives
 Michael D. Smigiel Sr., member of the Maryland House of Delegates

See also
Illinois Community College System

References

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Henry Turner Machin  (Born 26 November 1832 at Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. Died 25 April 1918 at Sherbrooke, Quebec)
was a senior bureaucrat in the province of Quebec.

He was the son of Reverend Thomas Machin and received his education at the Upper Canada College. He married Lucy Anne Hale, daughter of Edward Hale.

Machin was presented with the Imperial Service Order for his service as Deputy Minister of the Treasury of the Province of Quebec.   Additionally, he was appointed as the Quebec financial representative in an arbitration case between the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario. This case lasted for eleven years.

He is buried at Saint Peter Cemetery,
Sherbrooke, Quebec.

1832 births
1918 deaths
Quebec civil servants
Canadian Companions of the Imperial Service Order
Upper Canada College alumni
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Pinnochio is a 2022 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay by Zemeckis and Chris Weitz. The film, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, is a live-action adaptation of Walt Disney's 1940 animated film of the same name, which is itself based on the 1883 Italian book The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi. The film stars Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo, and Luke Evans with Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Keegan-Michael Key in voice roles.

Pinocchio was released on September 8, 2022, by Disney+. The film received negative reviews from critics.

Plot
A hobo cricket named Jiminy Cricket enters the home of an elderly woodcarver named Geppetto, accompanied by his pet kitten Figaro and pet fish Cleo, and finds that he has completed work on a marionette puppet he names Pinocchio. When Geppetto decides to retire for the night, he makes a wish on a star. A few hours later, the star magically brings Pinocchio to life and he is soon visited by the Blue Fairy, who tells Pinocchio that if he acts brave, truthful and selfless, he can be a real boy and she also appoints Jiminy the responsibility of being Pinocchio's conscience to teach him right from wrong. When Geppetto awakens and finds Pinocchio alive, he is at first shocked, but becomes overjoyed.

After a few days, Geppetto decides that Pinocchio should attend school and sends him there. However, Pinocchio is soon approached by a con-artist fox and cat named "Honest" John and Gideon as they convince him that he should live a life of fame in order to truly be a real boy, when they really want to sell him to the puppet master Stromboli in exchange for wealth. Jiminy, who finds Pinocchio with the help of a seagull named Sofia, convinces Pinocchio to continue going to school. Unfortunately Pinocchio is thrown out of school on account of being a puppet, so he decides to go to Stromboli's after all and Jiminy can't stop him when John places a glass jar over him.

At Stromboli's theater, Pinocchio befriends one of Stromboli's employees Fabiana and her puppet Sabina. Pinocchio puts on a good show for the crowd as they throw their cash to him, but Stromboli locks Pinocchio in a bird cage to prevent him from ever leaving, wanting to exploit Pinocchio for all he's worth. Soon, Stromboli's coach ends up freeing Jiminy from the jar and when he enters the coach, he manages to help Pinocchio escape when Pinocchio has him reach the keys to the lock on the cage by telling lies since that makes his nose grow. Geppetto, Figaro and Cleo go out to look for Pinocchio when he fails to come home for dinner.

Soon, Pinocchio is swiped up by a coach full of children driven by a charismatic Coachman, who is taking the kids to Pleasure Island, an isle where misbehavior is encouraged. When they reach the island, Pinocchio slowly gets disturbed by the amount of cruelty the kids commit, much to the bemusement of an unruly boy named Lampwick. When Jiminy, who got separated from Pinocchio again, makes it to the island, he soon finds out that the kids their get turned into donkeys and the Coachman sells them to the salt-mines with help from his fog-like henchmen. Pinocchio witnesses Lampwick get transformed himself at a pool hall and he and Jiminy escape the island before the Coachman and his goons can get them, but not before Pinocchio gains a donkey's ears and tail.

Pinocchio and Jiminy make it back to Geppetto's but find that he's not home because Sofia gave him a flyer of Pleasure Island to let him know where Pinocchio is and that he sold all of his clocks to buy a boat to go there. While trying to find Geppetto, Pinocchio reunites with Fabiana and Sabina, who tell him that Stromboli has been arrested and they have taken over his puppet show. They offer Pinocchio to join them, but Pinocchio declines, wanting to save his father, which makes his donkey parts disappear. Sofia pulls a rope for Pinocchio to hold out to the sea, where they soon find Geppetto in his boat. Just as they reunite, they are swallowed by a giant sea monster named Monstro. They take refuge in a giant boat in Monstro's stomach, and Pinocchio gets the idea to make him sneeze by starting a fire within him. The plan is successful, and Monstro sneezes them out, but he gives a chase that ends with him and the group crashing on dry land and rendering Geppetto unconscious.

Pinocchio thinks Geppetto has died, and despairs before Geppetto comes to and soon tells Pinocchio that despite being a puppet, he has proven himself to be a true boy at heart for all that he's done, and they depart for home as Pinocchio slowly transforms into a real boy. Jiminy then breaks the fourth wall before ending the film.

Cast
 Tom Hanks as Geppetto, a lonely and heartbroken but kind, elderly Italian woodcarver and toymaker who builds and raises Pinocchio as if he were his real son and wishes for him to become a real boy.
 Cynthia Erivo as The Blue Fairy, a wise magical fairy who brings Pinocchio to life, and promises to turn him into a real boy if he proves himself brave, truthful, and selfless.
 Giuseppe Battiston as Stromboli, an initially kind-hearted but later abusive, greedy, and arrogant Italian puppeteer, who intends to force Pinocchio to perform onstage in order to make money.
 Kyanne Lamaya as Fabiana, a former ballerina dancer and Sabina's puppeteer who works for Stromboli, as the result of a leg injury that ended her dancing career.
 Jamie Demetriou as the aggressive headmaster who throws Pinocchio out of school due to the latter being a puppet.
 Angus Wright as Signore Rizzi.
 Sheila Atim as Signora Vitelli.
 Luke Evans as the Coachman, the charismatic but cruel owner and operator of Pleasure Island, where trouble-making children are turned into donkeys and sold.
 Lewin Lloyd as Lampwick, a naughty, spoiled and mischievous boy whom Pinocchio befriends on his way to Pleasure Island. He is turned into a donkey on Pleasure Island.

Voices
 Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Pinocchio, an exuberant and endearing living wooden puppet carved by Geppetto, and brought to life by the Blue Fairy. He seeks to learn about right and wrong so that one day he will become a real boy.  Geppetto created him out of grief for the death of his young son, who had died long before the film's events.
 Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket, a cheerful, intelligent, wisecracking, optimistic and wise  anthropomorphic cricket, who acts as Pinocchio's "conscience".
 Lorraine Bracco as Sofia, a friendly seagull who befriends Jiminy.
 Keegan-Michael Key as "Honest" John, a deceptive, dishonest, illiterate, poor and greedy anthropomorphic red fox who cons Pinocchio. He is always accompanied by his mute, dimwitted and bumbling anthropomorphic cat friend who serves as the film's comic relief, Gideon.
 Jaquita Ta'le as Sabrina, Fabiana's puppet.

Figaro the Cat, Cleo the Goldfish and Monstro the Sea Monster also appear.

References

2022 movies

Pinocchio (2022 live-action movie)


Jean Pierre Vibert (January 31, 1777 in Paris – January 18, 1866 in Paris) was a French rosarian.

Biography

Vibert served as a young man in Napoleon's army.  Disabled by war wounds, he turned to gardening, and owned a hardware store.  His store was close to the rosarium of Empress Joséphine's rose hybridizer, André Dupont, in the rue du Four in Paris, from whom he became interested in breeding roses. In 1812 he sold his hardware store.  Soon afterwards, in 1813, he purchased land in Chennevières-sur-Marne for a nursery, where he hybridized roses, fruit trees, and grape vines for raisins.

He married Adélaïde Charlotte Heu (? – 1816) in 1805, with whom he had three children: Aimée, Adélaïde and Théodore.

When the pioneering rose hybridizer Jacques-Louis Descemet (1761–1839) was forced to leave his nursery after invasion by the British following the Battle of Waterloo, Vibert absorbed Descemet's nursery stock, 10,000 rose seedlings, and hybridizing records.  A month later, his 5-year-old daughter Adélaïde died; his wife Adélaïde died a few months afterwards.

Vibert was one of the founders of the Société d'Horticulture de Paris in 1827 (now National Horticultural Society of France).  He moved his nursery to Saint-Denis in January of that year.  He moved his nursery again in 1835, to Longjumeau, just south of Paris.  And again, in 1839, he moved his nursery, this time to a more southerly climate in Angers.

In 1851 Jean-Pierre Vibert sold his nursery in Angers to his foreman, M. Robert, who in 1867 dedicated to him the cultivar 'Souvenir de Pierre Vibert'.  Vibert retired to the Paris area, where he published articles about roses and grapes.

He died on January 27, 1866, age 88.

He created numerous cultivars, among which were 'Adèle Heu' named after his wife and 'Aimée Vibert' named after his daughter. He was particularly interested in spotted and striped roses.  His hybrids span all the classes in existence at the time, from the once-blooming albas, gallicas and damasks, to the newly introduced chinas, teas and noisettes.  He traveled throughout Europe to visit other rosarians, comparing cultivars and distributing new hybrids throughout Europe and to the US.  His many articles on rose hybridizing and culture were also of great importance to the development of rose culture.

Some of his roses :

Cultivars created or introduced by Jean-Pierre Vibert
 Aimable Rouge (1811)
 Armide (1816)
 Adèle Heu (1816)
 Blanche de Belgique (1817)
 Petite Lisette (1817)
 Duchesse de Berry (1818)
 Diane de Poitiers (1818)
 Jeanne d'Arc (1818)
 Daphné (1819)
 Fanny Bias (1819)
 Minette (1819)
 Agathe Fatime (1820)
 Duc de Bordeaux (1820)
 Duchesse d`Angoulème (1821)
 Ipsilanté (1821)
 Joséphine de Beauharnais (1823)
 Amélia (1823)
 Ombrée Parfaite (1823)
 Mousseux Ancien (1825)
 Pourpre (1827)
 Aimée Vibert (1828)
 Camaieux (1830)
 Donna Marie (1830)
 Zoé (1830)
 Cramoisi Picoté (1832)
 Hortense de Beauharnais (1834)
 Blanchefleur (1835)
 Quatre Saisons (1836)
 Agar (1836)
 D'Aguesseau (1836)
 Invincible (1836)
 Anaïs Ségalas (1837)
 Alain Blanchard (1839)
 Panachée Double (1839)
 Oeillet Flamand (1840)
 Cosimo Ridolfi (1842)
 Yolande d'Aragon (1843)
 Comtesse du Murinais (1843)
 De la Grifferaie (1845)
 Ambroise Paré (1846)
 Turenne (1846)
 Blanc de Vibert (1847)
 Joasine Hanet (1847)
 Sidonie (1847)
 Pélisson (1848)
 Soeur Marthe (1848)
 Béranger (1849)
 Nathalie (1849)
 La Ville de Bruxelles (1849)
 Zaire (1849)
 Adèle Pavie (1850)

Publications
 Observations sur la nomenclature et le classement des roses, suivies du catalogue de celles cultivées par J. P. Vibert á Chenevières-sur-Marne – Mme. Huzard, Imprimeur-Librairie, Paris 1832.
 Essai sur les roses. Des inconvénients de la greffe du rosier sur l´églantier et des modifications qu´elle nécessite –  Mme. Huzard, Paris 1824–30.
 Observations sur la Rose "Triomphe de Valenciennes" – In: La Revue Horticole, 3e Serie, Vol. IV, 1850 Paris, pp. 42–45
 Des anomalies du rosier – In: Journal de la Société Impériale et Centrale d´Horticulture. Vol XI (1865), Paris 1865,  pp. 343–50
 Catalogue des roses cultivées par J. P. Vibertà Saint Denis sur Seine – Mme. Huzard, Imprimeur-Librairie, Paris 1833.

References

External links
http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/vibert.html  A biography of M. Vibert by Brent Dickerson.  It includes a long list of roses hybridized by Vibert, including those introduced by others, excluding roses he introduced but did not himself hybridize.

Notes

Bibliography

1777 births
1866 deaths
French horticulturists
Rose breeders
French gardeners

Jean-Pierre Vibert


Safari is a 1956 British CinemaScope adventure film directed by Terence Young and set during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. It stars Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, Roland Culver, John Justin, and Earl Cameron, and was intentionally cast to attract an American audience—both the hero and the lead female character are Americans, played by American actors.

Plot
While American white hunter Ken Duffield (Victor Mature) is off leading a safari, Mau Mau rebels attack his farm, slaughtering the labourers and his livestock. Duffield's young son Charlie and Aunt May (Estelle Brody) defend their home against the mass attack but they do not know that their houseboy Jeroge (a corruption of Njoroge) (Earl Cameron) is actually a Mau Mau general. Inside the farmhouse, Jeroge murders Aunt May with a machete and Charlie is killed with May's rifle.

When Duffield returns to his destroyed homestead, the police have obtained information about Jeroge's role in the affair. Surmising that Duffield will use his hunting expertise to track down and revenge himself on the terrorists in general and Jeroge in particular, they escort him back to Nairobi and revoke his hunting licence until the situation and Duffield cools down.

Duffield spends his exile in Nairobi drinking and gathering information about Jeroge from his African friends. He gets his chance for revenge when the rich Sir Vincent Brampton (Roland Culver), accompanied by his flunky Brian (John Justin) and his young American trophy fiancée Linda (Janet Leigh), arrive in Nairobi. They are keen to hire Duffield to lead a safari so that Sir Vincent can kill a legendary man-eating lion named "Hatari" (Swahili for "risky" or "dangerous"). Duffield knows that Hatari resides in an area which Jeroge is known to frequent, and that Sir Vincent can use his influence to get his hunting licence back.

Setting off on safari with his boss boy Jerusalem (Orlando Martins) and Odongo (Juma), Sir Vincent suspects Duffield is not interested in hunting lions when he carries a Sten gun; Duffield explaining "you never know what kind of animals you may find". Sir Vincent has his suspicion confirmed when Duffield jumps out of his Land Rover to join the police in a firefight against the Mau Mau and is keen to extract information from the prisoners.

Duffield keeps his promise to bring Sir Vincent and his party to Hatari's turf in the land of the Maasai, where the audience witnesses a traditional Maasai lion hunt. But his plans face peril when a police radio report reveals that an unknown member of the safari is a Mau Mau plant. In addition, the obsessive Sir Vincent is determined to get sole credit for killing Hatari and therefore unloads Duffield's rifle, while Linda decides to take an excursion down a crocodile-infested river in a rubber dinghy. Another police radio report warns that 200 Mau Mau prisoners have escaped and are headed towards Duffield's safari to link up with Jeroge.

Sir Vincent is so obsessed with killing the lion that he fires at Duffield. In the midst of this situation, Hatari the lion appears on a ledge above Sir Vincent and pounces. Although the lion is killed it has fatally wounded Sir Vincent.

In a final scene, the group and local police, have to each take arms to defend themselves against an onslaught from Mau Mau attackers, and Duffield's sten gun is put to use.

Main cast

 Victor Mature as Ken Duffield
 Janet Leigh as Linda Latham
 John Justin as Brian Sinden
 Roland Culver as Sir Vincent Brampton
 Liam Redmond as Roy Shaw
 Earl Cameron as Jeroge (Njoroge)
 Orlando Martins as Jerusalem
 Juma as Odongo
 Lionel Ngakane as Kakora
 Harry Quashie as O'Keefe
 Slim Harris as Renegade
 Cy Grant as Chief Massai
 John Wynn as Charley
 Arthur Lovegrove as Blake
 Estelle Brody as Aunty May

Production

Development
Rhonda Fleming was originally announced for the female lead and the producers were hoping to get Humphrey Bogart to star.

Location filming in Kenya began in June 1955 before the film had been cast. Victor Mature had signed a two-picture contract with Warwick Films and he was assigned to the lead. He was meant to make Zarak but ended up making Safari first.

Shooting
Andy Worker said he had to get Victor Mature drunk before the actor would get on the plane as he was so afraid of flying.

Filming began 1 August 1955 in Elstree Studios in London. Five weeks later the unit transferred to Kenya for location shooting.

The film was shot on location in Kenya simultaneously with John Gilling's Odongo with the Zanzibar-born child actor Juma repeating his role as Odongo. In an interview in 1997, Janet Leigh recalled that the film's second unit was actually attacked by the Mau Mau.

The budget was £299,609 plus fees for Mature, Leigh, Allen and Broccoli.

Reception
The film premiered on 6 April 1956 at the Empire Cinema in London, and the reviewer for The Times was not very favourable, in a review titled "'Safari': An American film about the Mau Mau":

"Surely it is neither priggish nor pompous to find something disagreeable in the idea of so horrifying an episode as the Mau Mau terrorism in Kenya serving as material for a film whose purpose is solely to entertain – another film, made with a British cast on the same subject, has a purpose above and beyond that. Again, it is not intolerably insular to take the line that it is all wrong that an American, played by an American actor, should be the hero, and shown as the only one capable of dealing with the situation. Finally, there are those squeamish enough not to feel altogether comfortable at the sight of an elephant, a lion, and a rhinoceros being shot – it is to be hoped the scenes were faked – to give the audience a vicarious thrill. -- A film that leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth."

References

External links

 Safari at the British Film Institute

1956 films
1956 drama films
British drama films
Films set in Kenya
CinemaScope films
Films directed by Terence Young
Columbia Pictures films
Films about hunters
Films shot in Kenya
Films set in the British Empire
Films scored by William Alwyn
1950s English-language films
1950s British films

Safari (1956 film)


Gefle Idrottsförening, also known simply as Gefle IF, Gefle (, as if spelled Gävle), or locally Gif (), are a Swedish professional football club based in Gävle. The club is affiliated with Gestriklands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Gavlevallen since the 2015 season. The club colours are blue and white. Formed on 5 December 1882 as Gefle SK, the club have played fifteen seasons in Sweden's highest football league Allsvenskan, with the first season being 1933–34. The club is currently playing in Superettan, the second tier of Swedish football.

History

Gefle IF was originally formed as Gefle SK in December 1882 but changed the name to its current form only months after. The name "Gefle" is one of the old variations of spelling for the town Gävle which was used from the 1500s to the early 1900s. The multisports club mainly focused on winter sports during its early years, with rowing being their only summertime activity. In 1896 the club started having regular football training sessions under the guidance of an English accountant by the name of Robert Carrick. Born in England, he had grown up in Gävle but returned to his homeland for a few years as a student. There he had picked up the new sport which he brought back with him to Sweden and introduced at Gefle IF.

The club found early success at the turn of the century by winning one of the biggest swedish cups at the time, Rosenska Pokalen, three times. Due to high travel costs Gefle declined to participate in the other major swedish football tournament, Svenska Mästerskapet, during those years. Therefore, the clubs golden generation never got the chance to play against the nations other dominant team at the time, Örgryte IS from Gothenburg.

An ever-increasing number of football clubs were starting up in the early 1900s and Gefle were not able to maintain its dominant position among all the new competition. When the first swedish league Svenska Serien started in 1910 Gefle IF were not included and when they entered into the second tier of the league system in 1912–13 they finished dead last.

During the rest of the 20th century the club mostly moved up and down between the second and third level of the Swedish football league system. They only managed two short lived stints at the top level Allsvenskan, one in the early 1930s and one in the early 1980s. Between the 1979 and 1981 season Gefle IF and Brynäs IF merged and played under the name Gefle IF/Brynäs, but the merger split up again in 1982. In 2004 manager Kenneth Rosén was finally able to bring the club back to the top division after finishing second in the 2004 Superettan. Rosén had missed part of the previous season due to illness and after the club was promoted he again had to be hospitalized and died soon after. Long-time club servant Per "Pelle" Olsson immediately stepped in and took over as manager during the off-season and managed to keep the club at the top level. Olsson would remain as the manager until 2014 when he was announced as Djurgårdens IF:s new manager.

Supporters

Due to their status as a second or third division club the Gefle supporters were late starters in creating an organized supporters club. After some fledgeling attempts in the mid 1990s when the interest in traveling to away games increased, the "Sky Blues" was finally founded in 2001 as the official supporter group.

In 2009 Gefle IF caused controversy among its fans by changing the sky blue home shirt to white, the color which the club played in during its first 80 years. This caused groups of fans to boycott the singing sections of the home stadium. Eventually before the start of the 2011 season a compromise was reached where they kept the white shirt for their home kit but brought back the sky blue as their new away kit. Further compromise was then reached for the 2015 Allsvenskan season when a new sky blue and white striped kit was launched, inspired by the Argentina national football team. A decision that satisfied both the fans and the club.

Stadium
Gefle IF played at Strömvallen, built in 1923, for 92 years. On 30 May 2013 it was announced that the club had agreed with Gävle Municipality to build a new stadium in the Sätraåsen area of Gävle. The stadium, Gavlevallen, was ready for the 2015 season.

European Cups history

None of Gefle's appearances in European competition have been due to cup wins or their league positions (11th, 10th and 11th in the respective years). Instead they have qualified through the Fair Play initiative each time.

Players

First-team squad

Out on loan

Managers

 Robert Carrick (1900–07)
 Sven Klang (1933–34)
 Erik Nilsson (1935)
 Václav Simon (1945–46)
 Erik Norin (1960)
 Matts Larsson (1961)
 Sven Bergsten (1963)
 Sigge Parling (1965)
 Jörgen Stark (1970–71)
 Lennart Söderberg (1972–75)
 Peter Antoine (1976)
 Rune Karlsson (1977)
 Bo Andersson (1978–79)
 Leif Widén (1980–81)
 Stefan Lundin (1982–83)
 Björn Bolling (1984)
 Bo Andersson (1985–86)
 Lennart Söderberg (1987–89)
 Marek Skurczynski (1990–92)
 Stefan Lundin (1992–96)
 Pelle Olsson (1996–02)
 Kenneth Rosén (2003–04)
 Pelle Olsson (2005–13)
 Roger Sandberg (2014–2016)
 Thomas Andersson (2016–2017)
 Poya Asbaghi (2017)
 Johan Mjällby (2018)
 Marcus Bengtsson (2018–2019)
 Mikael Bengtsson (2020-)

Achievements

League
 Superettan:
 Runners-up (1): 2004
 Division 1 Norra:
 Winners (1): 2022
 Runners-up (1): 1995

Cups
 Svenska Cupen:
 Runners-up (1): 2006
 Rosenska Pokalen:
 Winners (3): 1899, 1900, 1902

Footnotes

References

External links

 Gefle IF – Official site
 Sky Blues – Official supporter club site
 Himlen är ljusblå – Supporter site
 Gefle Blue Boys – Ultras site

Football clubs in Gävleborg County
Allsvenskan clubs
Association football clubs established in 1882
1882 establishments in Sweden

Gefle IF


The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a media franchise and shared fictional universe that is the setting of superhero television series based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. Marvel Television released the first series in the universe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which began airing on ABC during the 2013–14 television season, and was joined by Agent Carter in the 2014–15 television season. Inhumans aired on ABC in the 2017–18 television season. Netflix's Marvel series began in 2015 with Daredevil and Jessica Jones, with Luke Cage releasing in 2016. Those series were followed by Iron Fist, the crossover miniseries The Defenders, and The Punisher in 2017. Additionally, the MCU expanded to Hulu with Runaways, also in 2017, and Helstrom in 2020, and expanded to Freeform with Cloak & Dagger in 2018. Marvel Studios—the production studio behind the MCU feature films—began releasing series in 2021 that feature greater interconnectivity with the films than these series.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is headlined by Clark Gregg in the role of Phil Coulson, while Hayley Atwell stars as Peggy Carter in Agent Carter, both reprising their roles from the MCU films. Anson Mount headlines Inhumans as Black Bolt. Charlie Cox is featured as Matt Murdock / Daredevil in Daredevil, while Krysten Ritter leads as Jessica Jones in Jessica Jones, which also introduces Mike Colter as Luke Cage, who later headlined Luke Cage. Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand / Iron Fist in Iron Fist and joins Cox, Ritter, and Colter in reprising their roles for The Defenders. Jon Bernthal stars as Frank Castle / Punisher in The Punisher, after being introduced in the second season of Daredevil. Runaways co-stars Rhenzy Feliz as Alex Wilder. Cloak & Dagger sees Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph as Tandy Bowen / Dagger and Tyrone Johnson / Cloak, respectively. Helstrom stars Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon as Daimon and Ana Helstrom, respectively.

Due to the nature of the shared universe, several actors appear in the series as characters that had previously appeared in other mediums, including: Gregg, who appeared as Coulson in the films Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, Marvel's The Avengers, and the short films The Consultant and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer, before appearing in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; and Atwell, who portrayed Carter in the films Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the short film Agent Carter, upon which the series of the same name is based, before appearing in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as well. Atwell is the first actor to appear in multiple MCU television series with her role in Agent Carter. All characters that have made appearances in other MCU media, such as the digital series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot, are noted.

ABC series

Netflix series

2015–2017

2018–2019

Young adult series

Adventure into Fear

Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon headline Helstrom as Daimon and Ana Helstrom, respectively. Helstrom was intended to be the first series in the planned Adventure into Fear franchise, which was intended to feature Gabriel Luna reprising his Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. role of Robbie Reyes / Ghost Rider in the canceled Ghost Rider series.

See also
 MCU television actors (Marvel Studios)
 Marvel One-Shots actors
 MCU film actors
 The Infinity Saga film actors
 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot actors

References

External links

 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Agent Carter at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Inhumans at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Runaways at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Cloak & Dagger at IMDb

 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Daredevil at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Jessica Jones at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Luke Cage at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's Iron Fist at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's The Defenders at IMDb
 Full cast and crew for Marvel's The Punisher at IMDb

Lists of actors by American television series
Lists of actors by crime television series
Lists of actors by drama television series
Lists of actors by science fiction television series
Lists of actors by superhero television series

Television series actors, Marvel Television

List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series actors (Marvel Television)


Misha Gabriel (born May 13, 1987), also known as Misha Gabriel Hamilton, is an American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is known for dancing mainly in the shows of Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson, and for his role as Eddy in Step Up Revolution (2012) and Step Up: All In (2014).

Life and career
Gabriel was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His mother, Irina Brecher, is a ballet dancer from Romania. Gabriel, who was raised in Larkspur, Colorado, began dancing at the early age of two years. He appeared with Janet Jackson for three years in a number of her videos, TV shows, and live performances. He also took part in shows by Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera, Chris Brown, Ne-Yo, The Pussycat Dolls, Hilary Duff, John Legend, Kylie Minogue, and Omarion.

He has worked in several American commercials and in the movies Jackass Number Two, Clerks 2, and Center Stage: Turn It Up.

Gabriel was selected as a principal dancer for Michael Jackson's This Is It concerts and was set to perform in all 50 shows scheduled for the O2 Arena in London, England. The concerts were canceled 18 days before the dancers were set to travel to London due to Michael Jackson's death. Gabriel was subsequently featured along with the 10 other dancers in the concerts' behind the scenes film, Michael Jackson's This Is It.

He then appeared in a major role, as Eddie, Sean (Ryan Guzman's) best friend, in the film Step Up Revolution (2012), directed by Scott Speer and Step Up: All In (2014), directed by Trish Sie.

He choreographed in:
 Justin Timberlake's live show FutureSex/LoveShow as a choreographer (2007)
Music video for BoA's single "Eat You Up" in 2008
In 2009, he was part of a planned This Is It series of 50 concerts by Michael Jackson to be held at The O2 Arena in London that was canceled because of Jackson's sudden death three weeks before the show's inaugural event. He was part of the backup dancers on Michael Jackson's This Is It
 The Pussycat Dolls' Doll Domination Tour
 The Cheetah Girls One World Tour
Sara Lee/High School Musical 3 commercial
 Raven-Symoné's "Supernatural" and Dancing With the Stars
 Justin Bieber's Never Say Never Tour
 SHINee's amigo

Personal life
Misha is good friends with actor Kenny Wormald. They grew up dancing together and have worked together as dancers and actors. Misha is also good friends with choreographer Travis Wall.

Filmography

Film
2006: Clerks II (credited as  )
2008: Center Stage: Turn It Up - as a Detroit dancer
2009: Michael Jackson's This Is It - as himself
2012: Step Up Revolution - as Eddy
2012: Boogie Town - as Matthew (post-production)
2014: Step Up: All In - as Eddy

Television
2015: It's Showtime - as himself (guest performer) on May 29, 2015, episode

References

External links

1987 births
American male dancers
American male film actors
American people of Romanian descent
Living people
Male actors from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
21st-century American male actors

Misha Gabriel


Alexander Wellington Croskery (19 December 1878 – 18 August 1952) was a New Zealand draper,  political activist and trade unionist

Biography

Early life and death
Croskery was born in 1878 in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, to Alexander Brown Croskery, (1838–1897), an Irish accountant and provision merchant from Downpatrick, County Down, Ireland, and Mary Ann Mortimer Thomson, (1850–1925), from Ballynahinch, County Down, Ireland. He had a brother, William Hugh Croskery. Croskery arrived in New Zealand with his parents in 1880. He attended Queen's College in Auckland, before working on a farm in Taranaki from 1894 to 1895. He then moved to Wellington, and in 1896 began work as a draper's assistant at James Smith and Sons. He married Emily Clark on 17 December 1902; they were to have ten daughters and three sons. The family lived in Newtown, where between 1902 and 1911 Croskery ran his own drapery and tailoring business in Riddiford Street, then about 1917 moved to Lyall Bay.

Career
Croskery helped to found the Wellington Retail Soft-goods Employees' Union in February, 1912, and served as its secretary. He also served as Secretary of the Wellington Butchers' Union, Secretary of the NZ Shop Assistants' Federation, and the Wellington Plumbers' and Gasfitters' Union, from their foundation until his death in 1952. Croskery worked hard to increase the union's membership, particularly in provincial areas outside Wellington, and supported the incorporation of all shop employees into one union. A capable administrator and advocate, he was a model arbitrationist union secretary. He had a meticulous approach to clerical and financial matters and invested union funds shrewdly.

From 1913, Croskery was closely involved with the Wellington Trades and Labour Council and its successor, the Wellington Trades Council, serving as an executive member from 1936 and as vice president from 1939 to 1945. He was also active in the political wing of the labour movement. He stood unsuccessfully for the Wellington City Council on several occasions, and contested the Wellington Suburbs electorate for the New Zealand Labour Party in the 1919 and 1922 general elections. He was a member of the Labour Party's national executive in 1937–38 and 1939–40, but he always put the interests of his union's members first.

In the 1930s, Croskery emerged as a significant figure in the national labour movement. In 1936 he became secretary of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, and the following year he played an important role in unifying the various factions to form the New Zealand Federation of Labour (FOL). He was a member of the Wellington Hospital Board from 1935 to 1941. He served as a workers' representative on the Court of Arbitration from 1937 to 1938. He later served on the Industrial Emergency Council and the Workers' Compensation Board. He became a member of the FOL's executive in 1942 and its vice president in 1943.

In 1945, he attended the World Trade Union Conference in London alongside many renowned trade unionists. In 1946, Croskery was elected President of the Federation of Labour, succeeding Angus McLagan; he held office until his death in 1952. He served as FOL President during a time of difficulty for the labour movement, including the formation of the rival New Zealand Trade Union Congress in 1950, the bitter 1951 waterfront dispute, and political opposition from a resurgent National Party. However, colleagues recalled his calm, steadying influence; mediation rather than confrontation was his style. He worked well with FOL Vice-president Fintan Patrick Walsh, and was an exemplary representative for the New Zealand labour movement overseas, serving as a delegate to the World Trade Union Conferences in London in 1945 and in Paris in 1949, as well as to the International Labour Organization's conference in Geneva in 1949.

Death
A dapper, well-dressed man who was always smoking a pipe, Croskery suffered from chronic bronchitis and emphysema in later years. He died in Wellington on 18 August 1952; Emily had died a year earlier. They were survived by nine daughters and two sons.

References

References

Further reading
Labour's Path to Political Independence: the Origins and Establishment of the NZLP 1900–19 by Barry Gustafson (1980, Oxford University Press, Auckland)

1878 births
1952 deaths
Local politicians in New Zealand
Wellington Hospital Board members
New Zealand trade unionists
New Zealand Labour Party politicians
New Zealand drapers
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1919 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1922 New Zealand general election
Welsh emigrants to New Zealand
New Zealand people of Irish descent
Welsh people of Irish descent

Alec Croskery


The Stratford Indians were a senior ice hockey team based in Stratford, Ontario. They played home games at the Classic City Arena.

The team was a member of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) and played in the OHA Senior A League. They won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as the league champions during the 1951–52 season.

The team continued into the national playoffs and won the Eastern Canada championship. In the 1952 Allan Cup for the national championship, they were defeated 4-games-to-2 by the Fort Frances Canadians.

References

Ice hockey teams in Ontario
Sport in Stratford, Ontario

Stratford Indians


Spray Network AB is a Swedish Internet company that runs the web portal spray.se. Spray was founded in 1995, was bought by Lycos Europe, but was sold to Allers in 2006.  spray.se has about 750 000 visitors per week.

In 2004 Spray bought the Swedish Internet service business from Tiscali. The telecom subsidiary, Spray Telekom was later sold to Glocalnet in 2007.

It is the owner of Spray Date.

References

External links
 Spray.se

Web portals
Swedish websites

Spray Network


Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group. The magazine began as a website in 1998. It ran as a print publication from 2002 to 2010 before converting to online-only.

History
The magazine was founded as a quarterly in July 2002 and was owned by Josh Jackson, Nick Purdy, and Tim Regan-Porter.

In October 2007, the magazine tried the "Radiohead" experiment, offering new and current subscribers the ability to pay what they wanted for a one-year subscription to Paste. The subscriber base increased by 28,000, but Paste president Tim Regan-Porter noted the model was not sustainable; he hoped the new subscribers would renew the following year at the current rates and the increase in web traffic would attract additional subscribers and advertisers.

Amidst an economic downturn, Paste began to suffer from lagging ad revenue, as did other magazine publishers in 2008 and 2009. On May 14, 2009, Paste editors announced a plan to save the magazine, by pleading to its readers, musicians and celebrities for contributions. Cost-cutting by the magazine did not stem the losses. The crux cited for the financial troubles was the lack of advertiser spending.

In 2009, Paste launched an hour-long TV pilot for Halogen TV called Pop Goes the Culture.

On August 31, 2010, Paste suspended the print magazine, but continues publication as the online PasteMagazine.com.

Content
Its tagline is "Signs of Life in Music, Film and Culture". Pastes initial focus was music, covering a variety of genres with an emphasis on adult album alternative, Americana and indie rock, along with independent film and books. Each issue originally included a CD music sampler but was dropped in favor of digital downloading as a Going-Green initiative. Featured artists included Paul McCartney, Ryan Adams, Blackalicious, Regina Spektor, The Whigs, Fiona Apple, The Decemberists, Mark Heard, Woven Hand, Milton and the Devils Party, Liam Finn, The Trolleyvox, and Thom Yorke. Many of these artists also contributed to the Campaign to Save Paste.

Album of the Year

References

Further reading

External links

2002 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
2010 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Entertainment magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2002
Magazines disestablished in 2010
Magazines published in Atlanta
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Online music magazines published in the United States
Quarterly magazines published in the United States

Paste (magazine)


The Union Station built in 1930 in Atlanta was the smaller of two principal train stations in downtown, Terminal Station being the other (the latter served  Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia (including the Nancy Hanks to Savannah), and the Atlanta and West Point). It was the third "union station" or "union depot" (usage varied in the 19th century), succeeding the 1853 station, burned in mid-November 1864 when Federal forces left Atlanta for the March to the Sea, and the 1871 station.

Overview
The station was located over the tracks between Forsyth and Spring Streets, three blocks west and one block south of the predecessor union stations. The site is the block immediately west of Five Points MARTA station.

Opening in 1930, the third Union Station served the Georgia Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line (previously the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad), and Louisville and Nashville (previously the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway). It replaced earlier stations on the same site.

Major trains and destinations:
Atlantic Coast Line -in partnership with L&N:
The Dixie Flagler – Chicago, via Chattanooga, TN, Nashville, TN and Evansville, IN; continuing south to Jacksonville and Miami, FL
The Dixie Flyer – Chicago, via Chattanooga, TN, Nashville, TN and Evansville, IN; continuing south to Jacksonville and Tampa, FL; shortened in 1965 to an Atlanta to Jacksonville ACL route

Georgia Railroad:
Trains to Augusta, GA for connecting trains to Atlantic Coast Line Railroad service (e.g., Palmetto) and to Southern Railway service (Aiken-Augusta Special)

Louisville and Nashville:
The Flamingo – Cincinnati, via Knoxville, TN; continuing south to Jacksonville, FL, via Albany
The Georgian – Chicago, via Nashville and Evansville
The Southland - Chicago, via Cincinnati, OH, Knoxville, TN; continuing south to Macon, then branching to various points in Florida. This train traveled to Terminal Station before going south to Trilby and Florida.

Additionally, the Georgia Railroad operated local service between Atlanta and Augusta.

After the tenant railroads of Union Station had discontinued all their passenger trains (the last such train operated on April 30, 1971, the day before Amtrak came into existence), the station was razed in 1972. Remnants of the platform may be seen behind the Atlanta Journal-Constitution building although construction of Underground Atlanta and MARTA largely obliterated the site.

References

Former railway stations in Georgia (U.S. state)
Union stations in the United States
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1930
Railway stations in Georgia (U.S. state)
Railway stations in Atlanta
Former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad stations
Former Louisville and Nashville Railroad stations
Demolished railway stations in the United States
Demolished buildings and structures in Atlanta
Railway stations closed in 1970
Buildings and structures demolished in 1972
Railway stations in the United States closed in the 1970s

Atlanta Union Station (1930)


Aleksander Robert Szeligowski (24 August 1934 – 4 May 1993) was a Polish composer, conductor, organist and pedagogue. He studied in Poznań and Warsaw, later working as assistant conductor for the Poznań Philharmonic. Son of Tadeusz Szeligowski, he is the author of numerous compositions for piano, female and mixed choirs and others.

Life and work
Aleksander Szeligowski was born in Wilno, Poland, on 24 August 1934. He was initially educated in the class of Mariana Ochalskiego where he began playing organ, then at the State Music High School in Lublin. Later he began studying at the State School of Music in Poznań where he studied composition and organ, and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he was a conducting student of Stanisław Wisłocki and Bohdan Wodiczko. He also studied composition under the guidance of his father, Tadeusz Szeligowski, graduating in 1959, and again in 1960 in the class of Joseph Pawlak. From 1964 to 1993 he worked at the National School of music in Poznań, where he lectured, among other disciplines, score reading, orchestration, composition and pedagogy of improvisation.

In the second half of the 1960s, he worked as assistant conductor for the Poznań Philharmonic, and conducted symphony concerts in Poznań, Lublin, Wrocław and Szczecin. In 1964 he became a member of the Polish Composers Union, becoming one of the authorities of the Poznań branch of this organization, and between 1965-1975 he worked with the Polish Television Centre in Poznań. From 1971 he served as Treasurer for the Poznań branch of the Polish Composers Union, ZKP (Zwiazek Kompozytorow Polskich), for several terms. He died in Poznań on 4 May 1993.

Musical works

Stage works

Sick cat, a fairy tale for children (1967)
Mite, opera for Children in 3 Acts (1970)
Kruszynka, opera for children (1970)
Bird's streets, a fable (1977)

Vocal and instrumental works

Allegro for cello and piano (1957)
Little suite for two violins and viola (1957)
Three psalms for choir, strings and percussion (1958)
Cycle for organ trios (1960)
Lament of Agadir. Poem No. 2 for strings and percussion (1960)
I'm sitting at the threshold [version I], a song for choir a cappella (1960)
I'm sitting at the threshold [version II], a song for mixed choir a cappella (1960)
Stojała lipeńka, a song for mixed chorus a cappella (1960)
Four Songs for Soprano and 17 Instruments (1962)
Four Songs to Poems of [Zbigniew Herbert] for soprano and 17 instruments (1962)
Three songs to words by Leopold Staff for soprano and instrumental ensemble (1963)
Wanderer, a song for mixed choir a cappella (1964)
Three psalms for choir, strings and percussion (1965)
Missa brevis [version II] for flute and organ (1965)
Six pièces for flute and organ (1967)
Song of our university for mixed choir a cappella (1969)
Humorous  miniature for mixed choir a cappella (1970–71)
Fugue for mixed choir a cappella (1971)
Seven stars for mixed choir a cappella (1972-1973)
Children's concerto in the Old Style for piano and orchestra (1973)
Atokamala, a joke, for mixed choir a cappella (1974)
With you, cycle songs to poems by Nikos Chadzinikolau for soprano and instrumental ensemble (1975–76)
Three songs, to poems by Julian Tuwim for mixed choir and orchestra (1975–76)
Dance preludes for mixed choir and percussion ad libitum (1976)
Sketches for 2 oboes and bassoon (1976)
Five proposals for 3 flutes and 2 vibes (1976)
Cantilena and fugato for 5 accordions (1976)
Seven songs for 2 and 3 voices a cappella, chorus girl (1977)
Rock me to swing for 3 voices, children's choir and instrumental ensemble (1978)
Sentences for 2 pianos (1978–79)
The december bells for mixed choir a cappella (1978–79)
Contrasts for alto and 7 instruments (1979)
Musical variety for soloists, speaker, choir and orchestra (1979)
Theme with variations for three female voices a cappella (1979)
Kuma for 3 female voices a cappella (1979)
The sea for mixed choir a cappella (1979)
Three songs about Warsaw for various a cappella chorus (1979)
Two Songs to Poems by Nikos Chadzinikolau for soprano and 7 instruments (1979–80)
Humoresque for female choir a cappella (1980)
Theme with variations for flute and strings (1981)
Typewriter for children's choir and instrumental ensemble (1981)

Works for solo instruments and orchestra

Concerto grosso for string orchestra (1950-1953)
Poem No. 1 for string orchestra (1957)
Concertino for piano and orchestra (1965)
Scherzo for orchestra (1966)
Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (1970)
Concerto for flute and orchestra (1970–71)
Waltz concerto for piano and orchestra (1971)
Concerto for horn and orchestra (1973)
Two cycles of works for young people for violin and orchestra (1976)
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (1979–80)
The question mark for soloists, reciter, chorus and orchestra (1979–80)
Small classical concerto for flute (or oboe) and instrumental ensemble (1981)
Ad Patrem for string orchestra, (1987)

Chamber music

A series of songs to words by Andrzej Partum for soprano and chamber orchestra (1961)
Vocalise for soprano and chamber ensemble (1963)
Suite for Flute Di 5 and String Quartet (1965)
Miniatures for trombone and piano (1965)
Miniatures for flute and piano (1965)
Miniatures for piano (1966)
Heroes of the Wielkopolska Uprising. Poem No. 3 for string orchestra (1966)
Miniatures for string quartet (1967–68)
Mythological Ode for flute and chamber orchestra (1968)
Triple concerto for one performer on the oboe, English horn, oboe and strings (1969)
Suite (children), for oboe and piano (1978–79)
Wielkopolska Bride for small band (1979)
Musica per otto for orchestra (1979)
Solo e tutti for Strings (1979)
Musica per archi (1979)
Musica di camera for 8 instruments (1979)
Two pieces for organ, sheet metal, percussion and strings (1980)
Little suite Szamotulska for piano and instrumental ensemble (1981)
Suite for string orchestra (1981)
Two humorous for flute (or oboe), bassoon and chamber ensemble (1981)
Miniatures for wind quintet and 2 percussion instruments (1987)

Instrumental solo pieces

Four aphorisms for piano (1954-1955)
Sonata for organ No. 1 (1955)
Scherzo for organ (1956)
Sonata for organ No. 2 (1957)
Missa brevis [version] for solo organ (1959)
For six for percussion (1976)
Album with pictures for piano (1978–79)
Three pieces for Piano (1979)
Allegro for accordion (1980)
A series of songs for children for piano for four hands (1980)
Little Children Sonatinas for piano (1981)
Variety of different sets for woodwind (1981)
Impression for organ

See also
Classical music
20th-century classical music

References

Attribution
This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article on the Polish Wikipedia. A list of all contributors can be found there at the History section.

External links
Profile: Aleksander Szeligowski at the Polish Music Information Center - Website

1934 births
1993 deaths
Polish composers
Polish conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
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Male organists
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Dr. Carlton Jones Lake (1923-1998) was an internationally known choral conductor and music educator.

Early life
He was born on July 20, 1923 in Kingston, Pennsylvania, of Welsh parents, the late Ellen Jones and Isaac Lake. He was raised in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania where he was surrounded by the choral traditions and festivals of Welsh culture. Dr. Lake had performed with his choirs throughout the world.

Career
He founded the All Philadelphia Elementary School Boys Choir in 1961 (which is now called Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale) and conducted that choir at the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales in 1968. He then founded the internationally known Academy Boys Choir (1968–1989), and the Performing Arts School of Philadelphia, from which he retired as director in 1985.  Dr. Lake led the Academy Boys Choir on international tours of Jamaica (1974), and London, Paris, the Netherlands, Austria and Wales (1972, 1977, 1983), including multiple appearances at the Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales. In 1972, the choir released an album and starred in CBS's Christmas Eve at Christ Church, which was repeated every year until 1977. They also performed for President Gerald Ford on July 4, 1976, at Valley Forge and Independence Hall as part of that year's bicentennial celebrations.

On February 25, 1974, whilst principal of Louis H. Farrell School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dr. Lake was brought before the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Human Relations Commission for racial discrimination against a teacher which occurred on February 20, 1974, in violation of section 5(a) of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act. Dr. Lake was subsequently dismissed from his role as principal shortly after this claim was filed with the Human Relations Commission.

Performances
Other highlights included performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra and guest conductor Claudio Abbado at the Academy of Music, annual performances of Arthur Honegger's A Christmas Cantata at First Baptist Church, and an all-boys production of Gilbert & Sullivan's one-act operetta Trial by Jury. Dr. Lake received the Doctor of Music degree in 1961 from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (now the University of the Arts). He was a founding Director of the Performing Arts School, Philadelphia College of Performing Arts.
Dr. Lake became widely known as an outstanding conductor of the Cymanfaoedd Ganu (hymn sings) throughout the Welsh communities of the Middle Atlantic States and was chosen to conduct the 57th Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu in Baltimore in 1988. He was the first American born conductor of this event.

Awards
In 1989 the Welsh Society of Philadelphia awarded him the "Robert Morris Award" for Distinguished Accomplishment in Music and Welsh Scholarship. He was also the recipient of "The Welsh Heritage Medal at the National Welsh Heritage Foundation.

Death
Dr Lake died January 6, 1998, at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.

References

External links
 Welsh Society of Philadelphia/

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Langhirano (Parmigiano: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about  west of Bologna and about  south of Parma.

Langhirano borders the following municipalities: Calestano, Corniglio, Felino, Lesignano de' Bagni, Neviano degli Arduini, Parma, Tizzano Val Parma.

Its most striking feature is the castle of Torrechiara. The town is also known as a major production centre for the Prosciutto di Parma.

Langhirano was the childhood home of soprano Renata Tebaldi, who is buried there.

International relations

Langhirano is twinned with:
 Cavaillon, France
 Espalion, France
 Tauste, Spain
 Nove, Italy

References

External links
 www.comune.langhirano.pr.it

Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna

Langhirano


A silver screen, also known as a silver lenticular screen, is a type of projection screen that was popular in the early years of the motion picture industry and passed into popular usage as a metonym for the cinema industry. The term silver screen comes from the actual silver (or similarly reflective aluminium) content embedded in the material that made up the screen's highly reflective surface.

History
There are descriptions of a silver screen being used in the presentation of films as early as 1897. Film exhibitor Arthur Cheetham used one for some of his later cinematograph Living Pictures presentations, "now shown on a new silver screen which brings the pictures out almost as well as electric light." The novelty of this screen was emphasised by Cheetham, and he later named his the Silvograph.

Reports mentioning silver screens don't appear in US papers until over a decade later. In 1909, the Lyric theatre in Smith St., New Jersey was "equipped with a new patent silver-coated screen". A 1910 article praises a new, silver screen installed at the Gem theatre in North Dakota, which is described as being "coated with aluminum or silver paint". As a result of this, "each picture stands out a great deal more distinctly than on the old screen."

The phrase's use as a metonym can be observed several years later. The New York Times reported on the "First National Motion Picture Exposition" which took place in 1916 and started with "a parade of the stars of the silver screen".

Akron, Ohio projectionist Harry Coulter Williams invented the vinyl plastic Williams Perlite screen in 1947. He had started experimenting with creating an improved screen by "painting a stout cloth with silver paint" in 1925. The Williams Perlite was marketed as an all-purpose, tear-resistant screen that was installed in many major movie houses of the day, including the rapidly expanding theaters built by Warner Bros of nearby Youngstown, Ohio. Williams' silver-painted screens were adapted for CinemaScope, VistaVision, and early 3D movies. They were advertised as providing "a brighter picture at all angles" with "top reflectivity at direct viewing" and "extra diffusion for side seats and balcony."

Metallic screens increased in popularity during the 3D film boom that occurred in the 2000s to 2010s.

Characteristics

Silver lenticular (vertically ridged) screens, which are made from a tightly woven fabric, either natural, such as silk, or a synthetic fiber, were excellent for use with low-power projector lamp heads and the monochromatic images that were a staple of early projected images.  Other silver screens are made by taking normal matte sheets and adhering silver dust to them; the effect is the same.

True silver screens, however, provide narrower horizontal/vertical viewing angles compared to their more modern counterparts because of their inability to completely disperse light.  In addition, a single projection source tends to over-saturate the center of the screen and leave the peripheries darker, depending on the position of the viewer and how well adjusted the lamp head is, a phenomenon known as hot-spotting.  Due to these limitations and the continued innovation of screen materials, the use of silver screens in the general motion picture exhibition industry has mostly been phased out.

Use in 3D projection

Silver lenticular screens, while no longer employed as the standard for motion picture projection, have come back into use as they are ideally suited for modern polarized 3D projection. The percentage of light reflected from a non-metallic (dielectric) surface varies strongly with the direction of polarization and the angle of incidence; this is not the case for an electric conductor such as a metal  (as an illustration of this, sunlight reflected from a horizontal surface such as a reflective road surface or water is attenuated by polarized sunglasses relative to direct light; this is not the case if the light is reflected from a metallic surface). As many 3D technologies in use today depend upon maintaining the polarization of the images to be presented to each eye, the reflecting surface needs to be metallic rather than dielectric.

Additionally, the nature of polarized 3D projection requires the use of interposed filters, and the overall image is consequently less bright than if it were being normally projected.  Silver lenticular screens help compensate by reflecting more light back than a "modern" screen would—the same purpose they originally served in the early days of motion pictures.

Other screen types

Each of these screen types continues to enjoy widespread popularity for both home and business applications:

 Aluminized screen
Similar to a silver screen, but using aluminium to coat the surface. Used for 3D films for the same reason as silver screens.
 Pearlescent screen
Similar to a silver screen, this screen has narrow viewing angles and a higher gain (the measure of reflected light), but it does suffer from color-shifts to red and a tendency to hot spot.
 Glass-beaded screen
This screen type also has a higher gain; however, the nature of its construction results in limited viewing angles and a loss of resolution since glass-beaded screens are retro-reflective, that is, their reflection is directed back toward the light source. The glass-beaded surface can develop noticeable dark spots with age or mishandling as the beads can wear off. It is popular in the amateur market.
 Gray screen
Also known as a high contrast screen, because its purpose is to boost contrast on projectors in viewing rooms that are not entirely dark, as the gray screen absorbs ambient light that strikes it better than a white screen does. Essentially, the screen only reflects the specific shades of red, green, and blue output by a trichromatic video projector, and absorbs the remainder. Therefore, the projected image is reflected normally, but other light is not. In doing so, the black level on the screen is maintained. Mostly used with digital projectors in non-commercial settings.
 Matte white screen
This screen provides the widest viewing angles while producing no glare and no hot spotting. These characteristics have made it the most common variety of screen currently produced and has allowed it to become the entertainment industry's standard.

References

Film and video technology

Silver screen


Raphael Montes de Carvalho (born September 22, 1990) is a Brazilian crime novelist and lawyer. His best-known work is the 2014 novel Perfect Days.

Montes was born in Rio de Janeiro on 22 September 1990. He studied at Colégio de São Bento, where he attended middle-school and high-school. He then studied law at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, graduating in 2012.

He debuted in literature in 2009, publishing in the police anthology Assassinos S / A: Brazilian police tales (Editora Multifoco), by the editor Frodo Oliveira and organizer Jana Lauxen. His first tale to win the pages of a book was "The Teacher" in volume 1 of the anthology. He also published in the anthology Beco do Crime (Frodo Oliveira and André Esteves) also in 2009, by the same Editora Multifoco.

In 2010, Montes participated in a contest from Brazilian publishing house Benvirá/Saraiva, in which his novel Suicidas was awarded second place. Saraiva published the novel under their label Benvirá in 2012. The gruesome themes present in the story and Montes' young age earned him widespread notoriety in Brazil.

In 2014, Montes published his second novel, Dias Perfeitos (Perfect Days), and as of February 2016, the novel has been released in 14 countries. Both, first and second books, had the rights sold to film adaptations.

The Village, his third book, is a fix-up horror novel throughout comics draws short stories of macabre characters are told.

The author's fourth book, Jantar Secreto (Secret Dinner), has divided opinions in 2016 when it was discovered that cannibalism was the main theme but both sides confirmed that it was the best book written by Montes.

Bibliography

References

External links

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James Mason House and Farm is a historic home located at Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The two-story stone house was built about 1809, and is a four-bay limestone building with a gable roof measuring 24 feet wide by 22 feet deep.  A two-story, concrete block residential addition was completed about 1900.  Also on the property is a bank barn (c. 1890) and corn crib (c. 1890).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

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Peggy is a musical comedy in two acts, written by British composer Leslie Stuart, with a book by George Grossmith, Jr. and lyrics by C. H. Bovill, based on Xanroff and Guérin's L'Amorçage.  It opened at the Gaiety Theatre under the management of George Edwardes, on 4 March 1911 and ran for 270 performances, starring Grossmith, Edmund Payne, Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray in the title role.  Ray left the production early in the run, to be replaced by Gladys Guy.  When the popularity of the show began to wane, Edwardes had a new role written for Connie Ediss.  The show also had a run in New York.

Songs included "Friville", "The Lass with the Lasso", "Three Little Pebbles" and "Ladies, Beware! (When the Lights are low)".  Critics praised Stuart's score but observed that the plot of the piece was thin.  But they concluded that this did not matter:
[T]here is "Teddy" Payne with his quaint twists of the eye and his delightful lisp. ...  Then there is that superlatively dressed young man, Mr. George Grossmith, jun. ... Are we interested in what he does? Of course not. We are interested in his airy, flamboyant manner of doing it.  As for those sexy ladies, Miss Phyllis Dare and Miss Olive May, que voulez vous?  We know they are going to fall in love with one or the other of the cast. ...  They will sing sweetly and dance deliciously, and we shall gaze on their beautiful faces and listen to their enticing voices and ... there are the beauteous houris. ...  What charms they possess and what charms they reveal! …  What care for a plot when such visions of delight are about?  Plot, indeed – be hanged...!  And that is just what Mr. George Grossmith, jnr. said to himself when he was concocting the mélange which Mr. George Edwardes, with the assistance of Mr. Edward Royce, scene painters, costumiers, wig makers, and so forth, has served up in such a magnificent and costly manner at the Gaiety.  'Do you think I wanted to trouble about such commonplace things as a plot? ... I was well assured that my ear would be saluted with tuneful melodies and bright songs, for is not Mr. Leslie Stuart the composer?

Synopsis

In a luxurious lounge at the New Hotel, London, the lovely Peggy Barrison heads a dainty band of manicurists, and Albert Umbles, a charming hairdresser, is an immense favourite with the ladies. Peggy finds herself hopelessly smitten with him, and he is also in love with her.  They are engaged to be married, much to the consternation of the frequenters of the hotel in general and of the Hon. Mr. James Bendoyle, M.P., M.F.H., in particular.  Bendoyle is the richest of all of Peggy's numerous admirers.  Determined to marry her himself, he hatches a plot to obtain her affections. Learning that Umbles has a rich Uncle in South America who has not been heard of for some years, but whose return is confidently expected, he bribes a former friend named Auberon Blow, who, having fallen on hard times is employed as a hawker, to impersonate "Uncle Monty" and to excite Peggy with a life of luxury to such an extent, that the supply cut off, she will turn to anyone who can afford her the means of continuing it.

This seems to be working splendidly, but the real uncle and his daughter arrive and realize immediately that there is an imposter.  Bendoyle invites everyone to Friville. Here everything is resolved: the gallant hairdresser forsakes Peggy for vaudeville artist Polly; Bendoyle marries Doris, the daughter of the real uncle, while "Uncle Monty" (actually Blow) and Peggy have become so fond of each other that they decide never to part.

Roles and original cast
Auberon Blow – George Grossmith, Jr.
Hon. James Bendoyle, M.P. – Robert Hale
Montagu Bartle of Buenos Ayres – Herbert Jarman
Aristide Picot – Arthur Atherton
'Phonso – Ernest Mahar
Marquis of Didsbury – Guy Struthers
Emil – Harry B. Burcher
Albert Umbles – Edmund Payne
Polly Polino – Gabrielle Ray (replaced by Gladys Guy when Ray left the production to marry)
Doris Bartle – Olive May
Peggy Barrison – Phyllis Dare
Diamond – Enid Leslie
Lady Florence Alister – Nancy Moore
Mrs. Ware-Wills – Ruby Kennedy
Ethel - Blanche Stocker
Miss Vooch – Madge Melbourne
Manicurists, Harem Girls, etc.

References

External links
Peggy at the IBDB site
List of London shows opening in 1911
Site includes a London cast list and production information for Peggy

1911 musicals
West End musicals
British musicals
Musicals set in London

Peggy (musical)


Captain John McDonell of Aberchalder (also spelled MacDonell; c. 1758-21 November 1809) was a soldier, judge, and political figure in Upper Canada following the American Revolution. He was elected as the first speaker for the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada.

Early years
John McDonell of Aberchalder was born at Aberchalder Lodge in Scotland, a son of Alexander MacDonell of Aberchalder. In 1773, he came to the Mohawk Valley of New York with his father and uncles.

In 1775, during the American Revolution, McDonell was commissioned in the Royal Highland Emigrants. On 1 August 1778, he transferred to John Butler's Rangers. For a time, he served as paymaster at Fort Niagara.

Postwar life in Canada

When the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution in 1783, McDonell settled with other Highlander Loyalists along the St. Lawrence River in Upper Canada. He was appointed to the land board for the Lunenburgh District in 1788 and later for Glengarry & Stormont in 1792. He was appointed to the Court of Common Pleas and the district Court of Quarter Sessions. He was also named lieutenant for Glengarry County in 1792. He played an important role in the local militia, commanding the Upper Canada Battalion of the Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment.

In 1792, McDonell and his brother Sir Hugh MacDonell of Aberchalder were elected to the Legislative Assembly representing Glengarry. John was chosen speaker. He was reelected in 1796, but was unable to attend until 1798 due to illness.

John McDonell of Aberchalder died of what was described as a "severe cold" at Quebec City in 1809. He was 51 years old and was serving at the time with the 10th Royal Veteran Battalion.

External links
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

John McDonell
1750s births
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Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
People from the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
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Daniel Gordon (June 2, 1821 – September 26, 1907) was a businessman, ship owner and politician in Prince Edward Island. He represented 2nd Kings from 1866 to 1873 and 5th Kings from 1876 to 1904 in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island as a Conservative member

He was born in Brudenell River, Prince Edward Island, the son of Henry Gordon, and was educated in Georgetown. Gordon taught school and then opened a general store in Georgetown, also establishing an import-export business. His firm eventually owned at least 15 ships. In 1851, he was named justice of the peace. He also served as chair of the local board of school trustees. In 1854, he married Bridget E. Kearne. In 1863, Gordon was appointed sheriff for Kings County. He served in the provincial cabinet as part of the Protestant coalition formed in 1877 but resigned with other Protestant Conservatives in 1878 which led to the failure of the coalition. In 1894, after the death of his first wife, he married Matilda McGougan. Gordon was leader of the provincial Conservative party from 1894 to 1903. He retired from politics in 1904 and died at his home in Georgetown three years later.

External links
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

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Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys, 3rd Baronet, (ca. 1658 – January 1714), Lord Clerk Register, PC, MP. He was, at Stonehaven, 21 April 1664, retoured as heir to his father, Sir Alexander Burnett, 2nd Baronet who had died the previous year.  The 3rd Baronet is the grandson of Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet, who completed the reconstruction of Muchalls Castle and the great-grandson of Alexander Burnett of Leys (died 1619), who completed the construction of Crathes Castle.

Career

Sir Thomas was a Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament for Kincardineshire between 1689 and 1707. In 1689 he subscribed to the Act declaratory of the legality of the Meeting of Estates summoned by the Prince of Orange, and was a signatory to the letter of congratulation him as King William II. In 1690 he was one of nine appointed to a Parliamentary Committee for the Plantation of Kirks and valuation of teinds, and one of four chosen as Lord Clerk Register. On the discovery of plots for the King's assassination, he was one of the signatories to the association in defence of King William.

He opposed the proposal of making an addition to the standing army, which parliament adopted; and in the same parliament, during the discussions regarding the colony of New Caledonia in Darién Province, when the question was raised whether the company's right should be made the subject of an address to the King or of an Act of Parliament, and the former alternative was carried by a majority of 108 to 84. Sir Thomas Burnett was one of the dissenters and protestors.

In May 1701 he was nominated, with others, for a peerage, but the King, being at the time ill, did not sign the patents, which subsequently lapsed.  In 1703 Sir Thomas made a protest against the Act allowing the importation of French wines and brandies as "dishonourable to Her Majesty, and inconsistent with the Grand Alliance in which she is engaged." His votes recorded in connexion with the Union are in favour of the first article and of the whole measure as carried.

On 13 February 1707 he was elected as a Member of the Parliament of Great Britain at Westminster, but he seems never to have presented his commission or taken his seat. On 21 May he was appointed a member of the Privy Council of Scotland, and in July appointed to the Scottish Court of Exchequer.

Acrimony

In his private life he was engaged in an unpleasant dispute, from 1695 to 1702, with the Earl of Sutherland regarding the affairs of the Arbuthnot family. The matter became very acrimonious and finally went to the Court of Session, the legal proceedings being reported upon by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.

Marriage and issue

He married while still under age, in 1677, Margaret (1662–1744), daughter of Robert Arbuthnot, 2nd Viscount Arbuthnot, by his spouse Elizabeth, daughter of William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal. They had sixteen (or even more) children.

Sir Thomas was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son and heir Sir Alexander Burnett, 4th Baronet. Of the other children:

 William of Criggie (now Ecclesgreig) (1683–1747).
 Robert, was made an honorary burgess of Aberdeen on 8 January 1689.
 Thomas (b.1686) was made an honorary burgess of Aberdeen on 8 January 1689.
 John (b. 1688) was made an honorary burgess of Aberdeen on 8 January 1689.
 Charles (b.1691; d.unm.), an advocate.
 Katherine (d.1749), married in 1702 Sir William Seton, 2nd Baronet of Pitmedden, M.P. (bap.6 Mar 1673; d.1744).
 Mary (d.5 Jun 1754), married in 1712 Sir John Carnegie, 2nd Baronet of Pittarrow, (1673–1729).
 Elizabeth (b.1692) married by contract in 1715 George Beattie, merchant in Montrose, Angus.
 Margaret (b.1696) married in 1721 James Ogilvie of Melros, Banffshire.
 Jean (b.1698) married in 1722 George Lauder of Pitscandlie, Forfarshire (d.bef August 1760), a younger son of Sir Robert Lauder of Beilmouth, Knt., M.P. (d.1709)
 Helen (b.1698) married Allardice of that Ilk.

References
 The Baronage of Scotland, by Sir Robert Douglas, et al., Edinburgh, 1798, p. 184 .
 The Family of Burnett of Leys, (with collateral branches), by George Burnett, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Aberdeen, 1901, pps: 78 - 86.
 Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970, p. 98.

External links
Official Burnett Website

1650s births
1714 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Scottish politicians
Shire Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland
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Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet


The Edge of Sadness is a novel by the American author Edwin O'Connor. It was published in 1961 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962. The story is about a middle-aged Catholic priest in New England.

Story
This drama revolves around Father Hugh Kennedy, a recovering alcoholic. In the beginning of the story Kennedy has returned to his home town (an unnamed New England seaport city that is the seat of a bishop, rather than an archbishop; it thus most closely corresponds with O'Connor's own birthplace of Providence, RI) to try to mend his professional career as a priest. He becomes involved again with the Carmodys, a wealthy family whose ancestry, like his own, is Irish and whom he has known since childhood. The story that unfolds is a tale of long hidden emotion and longing. It deals with friendship and loneliness, spirituality, and newfound hope.

External links
 Photos of the first edition of The Edge of Sadness

References

1961 American novels
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning works
Novels by Edwin O'Connor
Novels about Christian clergy
Little, Brown and Company books
Catholic novels

The Edge of Sadness