Georges, Count Jacobs de Hagen (born 1940) is a leading Belgian businessman.

Jacobs obtained a PhD degree in Law (1962) and a licentiate in economics (1964) from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He also obtained a MA degree in economics at the University of California (Berkeley, U.S., 1965).

Jacobs started his career as an economist with the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. in 1966. In 1970, he joined the UCB Group and has been chairman of the Executive Committee of UCB since 1987 until the end of 2004. Since January 2005 he is chairman of the board of directors of UCB Group and chairman of the board of directors of Delhaize Group. Georges Jacobs also serves on the board of directors of UCB, Belgacom, Bekaert, Spadel and SN Brussels Airlines. He is an honorary chairman of UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe) and a member of the Management Committee and honorary chairman of the Federation of Belgian Companies.

Jacobs is chairman of the Belgo-Luxemburg-Polish chamber of commerce, and a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce and the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium. He is also member of the board of Générale de Banque, IBM Belgium, Spadel S.A., L.I.V. N.V. (Groupe Carmeuse).

Sources
 Georges Jacobs
 Speech before UNICE (2001)

Belgian businesspeople
Living people
Walloon people
1940 births
Université de Namur alumni

Georges Jacobs de Hagen


Star anise (Illicium verum) is a spice plant which tastes like anise. The star shaped fruits are harvested before they start ripening.

Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum), a similar tree, is not edible because it is "highly toxic"; instead, it may be burned as incense in Japan.

Use as medicine
Star anise has been used in a tea, and the seeds are sometimes chewed after meals for digestion.

Star anise is grown in four places in China and harvested between March and May. It is also found in the south of New South Wales.

Flowering plants
Spices

Star anise


The Lady Lovibond (sometimes spelled Luvibond) is the name given to a legendary schooner that is alleged to have been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast of south-east England, on 13 February 1748, and is said to reappear there every fifty years as a ghost ship.  No contemporary records of the ship or its supposed sinking have been found.

The story goes that the ship was at sea on 13 February because her captain, Simon Reed (in some accounts named Simon Peel), had just been married, and was celebrating the occasion with a cruise. According to several accounts, the ship was bound for Oporto in Portugal. Despite the longstanding sailors' superstition that it was bad luck to bring a woman on board, Reed had brought his bride Annetta with him on the ship.

According to legend, the first mate, John Rivers, a rival for the hand of the captain's young wife, was pacing the decks in jealous anger.  While the captain, his wife and their guests were celebrating the marriage below deck, the first mate was seized with a fit of jealous rage. Casually drawing a heavy, club-like belaying pin from the rail, the mate walked softly up behind the crew member at the wheel and felled him to the deck with one crushing blow. Rivers then seized the wheel and steered the ship onto the treacherous Goodwin Sands, killing everyone aboard. A subsequent inquiry into the disaster recorded a verdict of misadventure.

The first supposed sighting of the phantom Lady Lovibond, on 13 February, 1798, was reported by at least two ships: the Edenbridge, captained by James Westlake, and a fishing smack. Its alleged 1848 appearance convinced local seamen that a wreck had occurred – they sent out lifeboats from Deal in hopes of rescuing the survivors. Captain Bull Prestwick allegedly sighted her in 1948 and reported that she looked real, but gave off an eerie white glow. There was no reported 1998 sighting.

The Goodwin Sands are England's most fertile grounds for ghost ships, and are also the location of the legendary island of Lomea. The Lady Lovibond shares the area with two other phantom vessels: a liner called the , and the Shrewsbury, a man-of-war.

Researchers George Behe and Michael Goss came to the conclusion that there are no reliable primary sources that mention the Lady Lovibond before a 1924 article in the Daily Chronicle. They speculated that the ship may have been a fabrication from the journalist, or based on a ship that sailed into view between 1914 and 1924. Behe and Goss speculate that stories about the ship may have been invented for Valentine's Day and there were similarities with the story from other fictional ghost stories.

References

Sailing ships
Kent folklore
Legendary ghost ships

Lady Lovibond


Frank Plicka (11 June 1926 – 9 December 2010 in Sydney, Australia) is a Czech-born Australian photographer, best known for his book Streets of Sydney, an extraordinary tour of Sydney, documented in black & white photographs taken over the last 30 years. This book depicts life in, and around Sydney streets, pubs, bars, galleries, and beaches.

Biography
Plicka was born in 1926 in the mining town of Kladno, former Czechoslovakia. His father was a miner, often unemployed and as many others at that time, could not give the family a decent living.

Starting a primary school meant a new happy life for Plicka. He finished school with best possible results, skipped high school and was enrolled in an elite school "Real Gymnasium" in 1937. After World War II, during which Czech universities were closed, he continued his studies at Charles University of Prague and graduated as a pedagog. Then until 1968, he was involved in sports professionally, coaching top Czech swimmers. In 1967, he was awarded a title Coach of the Year.

In 1968, after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he fled to Australia. He settled in Sydney, taking different jobs at different places, and started concentrating on street photography.

Besides Australia, he photographed one year in Africa (1970s) and three years in Asia (1980s). During the last 35 years, he finished three books. At present, only Streets of Sydney has been published.

During recent years, Plicka held several exhibitions in Sydney, but prefers private life and does not seek wider recognition.

Work

From early age, Plicka was involved in sports and his desire to catch all moments led him to sports photography. As a sports photographer, he photographed in six European countries, including Russia.

His trademark is candid black-and-white photography. He has been using different cameras during 65 years of work, but since 1952, he has been using Leica cameras, mainly his favourite Leica M3. He uses 35 mm and 50 mm lenses for his work.

Plicka has been processing his photos on his own from his beginnings. He changed from darkroom to digital/computer processing in 2004.

Works

References

1926 births
2010 deaths
Australian photographers
Czech photographers
Czechoslovak emigrants to Australia
People from Kladno
Charles University alumni

Frank Plicka


David Levine (December 20, 1926 – December 29, 2009) was an American artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in The New York Review of Books. Jules Feiffer has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th Century".

Early life and education
Levine was born in Brooklyn, where his father Harry ran a small clothing factory.  His mother, Lena, was a nurse and political activist who had communist sympathies.  He began to draw as a child, displaying a precocious talent that, at the age of nine, won him an invitation to audition for an animator's position in Disney's Los Angeles Studios.

Levine later studied painting at Pratt Institute, at Temple University's Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1946, and with Hans Hofmann.  Immediately following World War II, Levine served in the U. S. Army.  After his service, he graduated from Temple with a degree in education and completed his studies at its Tyler School.

Career
Levine initially hoped to be a full-time painter, but was often forced to subsist on illustration work from publications like Gasoline Retailer.  Nevertheless, he turned out a body of paintings, although many of these were destroyed in a fire in 1968. Levine's paintings are mostly watercolors that often depict garment workers, honoring his father's employees, and bathers at Coney Island. The paintings, in contrast to his illustrations, are "sympathetic portraits of ordinary citizens, fond and respectful renderings of the distinctive seaside architecture, panoramas with people on the beach." Levine, together with Aaron Shikler founded the Painting Group in 1958, a salon of artists with whom he gathered for fifty years to paint models. The group was the subject of a 2007 documentary called Portraits of a Lady, which followed their creation of simultaneous portraits of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

A job at Esquire in the early 1960s saw Levine develop his skills as a political illustrator.  His first work for The New York Review of Books appeared in 1963, just a few months after the paper was founded.  Subsequently, he drew more than 3,800 pen-and-ink caricatures of famous writers, artists and politicians for the publication.  Levine would review a draft of the article to be illustrated, together with photos or other images sent by the staff of the Review.  Within a few days, he would return a finished drawing that caught "a large fact about his subject's character"; "his brilliance lay in weaving [the article's] ideas with his own".  Only about half of Levine's caricatures were created for the Review.  Other work has appeared in Esquire (over 1,000 drawings), The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, New York, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Nation, Playboy, and others.

As a caricaturist for these publications, Levine distinguished his process from that of political cartoonists: "I could take time to really look it over and think about it, read the articles and so on. The political cartoonists don't get a chance. The headlines are saying this and this about so-and-so, and you have to come up with something which is approved by an editor.  I almost never had to get an approval. In forty years I may have run into a disagreement with The New York Review maybe two times." However, as his son Matthew Levine wrote in 1979, on at least three occasions The New York Times refused to print works it had specifically commissioned David Levine to draw for its op-ed page, including cartoons of Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, and former New York mayor Ed Koch.

In 1967, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1971. Levine's work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums around the world, and several collections of his paintings and drawings have been published by the Review and elsewhere, such as The Arts of David Levine, published by Knopf in 1978. In 2008, he published a book, American Presidents, featuring his drawings of U.S. Presidents over five decades, which was also the basis for an exhibit at the New York Public Library.

Reputation
John Updike, whom Levine drew many times, wrote in the 1970s: "Besides offering us the delight of recognition, his drawings comfort us, in an exacerbated and potentially desperate age, with the sense of a watching presence, an eye informed by an intelligence that has not panicked, a comic art ready to encapsulate the latest apparitions of publicity as well as those historical devils who haunt our unease. Levine is one of America's assets. In a confusing time, he bears witness. In a shoddy time, he does good work."

The New York Times described Levine's illustrations as "macro-headed, somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates" that were "heavy in shadows cast by outsize noses on enormous, eccentrically shaped heads, and replete with exaggeratedly bad haircuts, 5 o'clock shadows, ill-conceived mustaches and other grooming foibles ... to make the famous seem peculiar-looking in order to take them down a peg".  The paper commented: "His work was not only witty but serious, not only biting but deeply informed, and artful in a painterly sense as well as a literate one."  Levine drew his most frequent subject, former president Richard M. Nixon, 66 times, depicting him as, among other things, the Godfather, Captain Queeg, and a fetus.

According to Vanity Fair, "Levine put together a facebook of human history ... the durability of those Levine depicted, plus the unique insight with which he drew them, guarantees the immortality of his works". Levine's work, taken as a whole, had a leftwing bent, and he claimed still to be a communist, although people of all political persuasions came in for the same acid treatment in Levine's caricatures.  Levine said that "by making the powerful funny-looking ... he might encourage some humility or self-awareness".  Levine also described his purpose as follows: "Caricature is a form of hopeful statement: I'm drawing this critical look at what you're doing, and I hope that you will learn something from what I'm doing."

Last years and death
In 2006, Levine was diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye disease that leads to blindness.  While the Review continued to run Levine's older work, no new work appeared there after April 2007.

On December 29, 2009, Levine died at New York Presbyterian Hospital at the age of 83.  His death was caused by prostate cancer and a number of subsequent illnesses.  He was survived by his second wife, Kathy Hayes (whom he married in 1996), two children, Matthew and Eve, two stepchildren, Nancy and Christopher Rommelmann and grandchildren.

See also
List of caricaturists

Notes

Bibliography

External links

The David Levine Gallery, The New York Review of Books
"David Levine: American Presidents Exhibit in NYC", by Eric Reynolds
"Why Did The New York Times Kill This Image of Henry Kissinger?"
Levine and the New Yorker

1926 births
2009 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
Artists from Brooklyn
American caricaturists
Jewish caricaturists
Jewish American artists
The New York Review of Books
United States Army personnel of World War II
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews
Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

David Levine


Hugh Garner (February 22, 1913 – June 30, 1979) was a British-born Canadian novelist.

Biography

Early life
Hugh Garner was born on February 22, 1913, in Batley, Yorkshire, England. He came to Canada in 1919 with his parents, and was raised in Toronto, Ontario where he attended Danforth Technical High School.

During the Great Depression, he rode the rails in both Canada and the United States, and then joined the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. During World War II he served in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Career
Following the war, Garner concentrated on his writing. He published his first novel, Storm Below, in 1949. Garner's most famous novel, Cabbagetown, depicted life in the Toronto neighbourhood of Cabbagetown, then Canada's most famous slum, during the Depression. It was published in abridged form in 1950, and in an expanded edition in 1968. The Intruders, a sequel depicting the gentrification of the neighbourhood, was published in 1976.

Later in his career, he concentrated on mystery novels, including Death in Don Mills (1975) and Murder Has Your Number (1978).

His background (poor, urban, Protestant) is rare for a Canadian writer of his time. It is nevertheless, the foundation for his writing. His theme is working-class Ontario; the realistic novel his preferred genre. Cabbagetown is the best-known example of his style. His focus on the victimization of the worker reflects his socialist roots.

In 1963, he won the Governor General's Award for his collection of short stories entitled Hugh Garner's Best Stories. Garner struggled much of his life with alcoholism, and died in 1979 of alcohol-related illness. A housing cooperative in Cabbagetown is named in his memory.

Death
He died on June 30, 1979.

Works

Novels

Storm Below (1949)
Waste No Tears (1950) (as "Jarvis Warwick")
Cabbagetown (first published in abridged form in 1950; restored version published in 1968)
Present Reckoning (1951)
The Silence On The Shore (1962)
The Sin Sniper (1970)
A Nice Place to Visit (1970)
Death in Don Mills (1975)
The Intruders (1976; something of a sequel to Cabbagetown)
Murder Has Your Number (1978)
Don't Deal Five Deuces (1992; novel completed by Paul Steuwe after Garner's death)

Short fiction

The Yellow Sweater (1952)
Hugh Garner's Best Stories (1963; winner of the 1963 Governor General's Award)
Men and Women (1966)
Violation of the Virgins (1971)
One Mile of Ice
The Moose and the Sparrow (1966)
The Father (1958)

Prose

Author, Author! (1964; essays)
One Damned Thing After Another! (1973; memoir)

Biographical works

Steuwe, Paul, 1988. The Storms Below: The Turbulent Life and Times of Hugh Garner. Toronto: James Lorimer.

References

External links
 Hugh Garner fonds at Queen's University Archives

1913 births
1979 deaths
Canadian Anglicans
Canadian mystery writers
Canadian male novelists
Canadian male short story writers
British emigrants to Canada
People from Batley
Writers from Toronto
Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers
Toronto in fiction
International Brigades personnel
Canadian people of the Spanish Civil War
Alcohol-related deaths in Canada
20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian short story writers

Hugh Garner


The Near South Side is a community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

It is located just south of the downtown central business district, the Loop, which is itself a community area.

The Near South Side's boundaries (see map) are as follows: North—Roosevelt Road (1200 S); South—26th Street; West—Chicago River between Roosevelt and 18th Street, Clark Street between 18th Street and Cermak Road, Federal between Cermak Road and the Stevenson Expressway just south of 25th Street, and Clark Street again between the Stevenson and 26th Street; and East—Lake Michigan.

References

Community areas of Chicago

Near South Side, Chicago


Hayes Volcano is a stratovolcano in southwestern Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, 135 km northwest of Anchorage, that was not discovered until 1975. It is responsible for a series of six major tephra layers in the Cook Inlet region of Alaska. Hayes was mostly destroyed by at least six catastrophic eruptions between 3,400 and 3,800 years ago, and the average volume of these eruptions was 2.4 cubic km. In comparison, the volume of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was about 1 cubic km. The eruptions of Hayes Volcano during that time were the most voluminous Holocene eruptions to have occurred in the Cook Inlet region. There is currently no fumarolic activity present. The last eruption of Hayes Volcano occurred roughly 1,200 years ago. It is named after the adjacent Hayes Glacier.

Physical setting

Hayes Volcano is an ice-shrouded, glacially scoured eruptive center of Quaternary age composed
of pyroclastic deposits, volcanic breccia, and lava domes. Although the edifice of the volcano is
largely covered by glacier ice, parts of small lava domes, dome debris, and pyroclastic deposits project
through the ice at altitudes of 2,400 to 2,800 meters above sea level. The volcano is nestled within the Tordrillo Mountains, a rugged, glacier-clad mountain range, between the Alaska Range and Cook Inlet, that
is composed primarily of older plutonic igneous rocks. Most of the area is in high relief (greater than 1,500 meters) and supports an extensive complex of glacier ice that covers most of the mountainous terrain. The volume of perennial snow and glacier ice on Hayes Volcano is not known but is comparable to the ice volume present on Mount Spurr volcano (to the south), which supports about 67 km³ of ice and perennial snow.

Unlike the other volcanoes in the Cook Inlet area, Hayes Volcano lacks a well-defined cone, and deposits from eruptions older than the 4,400-to-3,600-year-old eruption are not known. The volcano is unusual in this regard because all other volcanoes in the Cook Inlet area consist of relatively voluminous assemblages of volcanic rock and debris that formed over many tens of thousands of years.

Historical eruptions

Historical eruptions of Hayes Volcano are not known and evidence of recent eruptive activity is not
apparent on the volcano. During trips to the volcano in 1999 and 2000, signs of volcanic unrest, such as melting of glacier ice, steaming, or discoloration of the ice surface by volcanic ash were not observed.

References

Active volcanoes
Volcanoes of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Mountains of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Mountains of Alaska
Stratovolcanoes of the United States
VEI-5 volcanoes
Volcanoes of Alaska
Holocene stratovolcanoes

Hayes Volcano


Galahad at Blandings  is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 31 December 1964 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood, and in the United Kingdom on 26 August 1965 by Herbert Jenkins, London.

It forms part of the Blandings Castle saga, being the ninth full-length novel to be set there.

Plot introduction
Lord Emsworth's idyllic demesne, Blandings Castle, is as usual overrun with overbearing sisters, overefficient secretaries, and the lovestruck; even worse, an alleged old flame has appeared, determined to put an end to the Earl's peaceful, pig-loving existence. All Gally's genius is required to sort things out satisfactorily...

Plot summary

Galahad Threepwood is in residence at Blandings Castle, and finds his brother Lord Emsworth, the ninth Earl, beset by the usual collection of woes. His sister, Lady Hermione Wedge, has not only hired a secretary (Sandy Callender) to mind his affairs, but has also invited Dame Daphne Winkworth to stay and, as Galahad discovers, to reignite an old flame and take up permanent residence as the next Countess.

Joining the house party are Tipton Plimsoll, a young multimillionaire who is engaged to Lady Hermione's daughter Veronica, and Lady Hermione's nephew Wilfred Allsop, a struggling young pianist who is in love with Emsworth's pig-girl Monica Simmons. Wilfred and Tipton had met in New York several days earlier for an evening of dinner, drinks, and imprisonment. (They also met policeman Officer Garroway, from The Small Bachelor.) Wilfred has been engaged by Dame Daphne to teach music at her girls' school, a prospect that Wilfred cannot refuse but is also anxious about, as Dame Daphne is intolerant of drinking among her staff.

Galahad's chief task at Blandings is to deal with sundered hearts, namely those of Sandy and her now-ex-betrothed Sam Bagshott. Gally has known Sandy for years, and was good friends with Sam's father "Boko" Bagshott, and is disturbed at their falling-out over a minor matter of a bet in the Drones Club marriage sweepstakes. Sam needs £700 to fix up his inherited family seat and sell it (to Oofy Prosser), and has drawn Tipton in the race for the next to be married. The other front-runners have dropped out, and Sam believes he has a sure winner, as Lady Hermione will not let Veronica lose her a multimillionaire son-in-law. Sandy, who knew Tipton from working for his uncle Chet Tipton in New York, believes that this engagement will go the way of all his others, and is upset at Sam for not selling his stake to a syndicate that has offered a firm £100.

If Sam would come down to Blandings, Gally believes, and plead his case with Sandy, all would be resolved. But when Sam does so, his first accidental encounter with Sandy proves disastrous: he chases her, she eludes him, and in giving up the chase he is confronted by the local constabulary.  Constable Evans informs him, and he discovers that he cannot dispute, that in leaving the Emsworth Arms he made off with Sebastian Beach's gold pocket watch. (Beach had left it with the barmaid Marlene to admire, and she had been showing it to Sam when he spied Sandy). Already grumpy from Sandy's rebuff, Sam deals with the accusation by punching Constable Evans in the eye and fleeing on the constable's bicycle.

When Gally hears of this, he insists on bringing Sam into the Castle, and decides that he should enter under the name of Augustus Whipple, noted author of On The Care of the Pig, Emsworth's revered reference work for the care and feeding of his prize pig Empress of Blandings. On encountering Emsworth at the Empress' sty, Sam diagnoses her malady as not swine fever, but instead intoxication (from the contents of Wilfred's flask, intended to steel him for proposing to Monica Simmons but dropped when discovered by Dame Daphne's son Huxley.) In gratitude Emsworth invites Sam to stay at Blandings, while a boosted Wilfred wins his Monica.

Meanwhile, Lady Hermione has learned from Emsworth that Tipton had lost all his money in the stock market crash and is now impoverished. She rushes up to London to instruct Veronica to break the engagement in a letter to be delivered by the next post. When Colonel Wedge receives Tipton, who is driving a Rolls-Royce and brandishing an £8000 necklace for Vee, he asks Gally to intercept the letter, which Gally is pleased to do. Gally goes a step further and gives the letter to Sam. On Hermione's return, when Beach informs her that the man who stole his watch is at the Castle impersonating Augustus Whipple, Gally threatens to deliver the letter to Tipton unless Hermione allows Sam to stay. Hermione tries searching Sam's room, but only succeeds in losing Wilfed his job with Dame Daphne, when her son Huxley discovers him singing in the corridor as a signal to his aunt.

Sandy confronts Galahad, but ends up persuaded by him to take Sam back. They find him locked in the potting shed, where he has been imprisoned by Constable Evans. Sandy frees him from the shed and they are reconciled. But not all the couples remain happy: Emsworth discovers the fatal letter in his desk, where Gally had hidden it, and has it delivered to Tipton.  Gally has hard work convincing Tipton that Veronica meant not a word of it, and Tipton phones Veronica and the rift is mended as quickly as made.  Tipton takes Wilfred and Monica Simmons up to London to gather Vee and head to the registrar's for a double wedding.

Not everything is wrapped up, though.  Emsworth is still in peril of matrimony from Dame Daphne, Sam still has to collect on his winning ticket, and the Law still looms over Sam's shoulder.  Sandy hears that another Drones Club member has won the sweepstakes, and Sam's stake is worthless.  Lady Hermione, having discovered that the letter was delivered and nullified, now announces her intention to expose Sam; Gally leads her to the library where he claims Sam is, and locks her in.  He rushes to Emsworth, to touch him for the thousand pounds before Lady Hermione can summon aid.

He finds Emsworth rattled and deflated.  In Monica Simmons' absence, young Huxley attempts to release the Empress from her sty.  Having morning head after her bender, she responds by biting the lad's finger. Dame Winkworth deems her dangerous and demands that she be destroyed; Emsworth calls her a fool and telephones the veterinarian to find whether there was any risk of infection to the Empress. At that Dame Daphne leaves the household. Hermione, finding that Emsworth has driven away Dame Daphne, exposes Sam, declares Emsworth to be impossible to manage, and leaves as well.

The ninth Earl is reluctant now to lend money to an impostor, but Gally reminds him that he has now been freed of the threat of marriage to Dame Daphne, and of the supervision of their sister Hermione, and that if he lends the money to Sam all his troubles will be ended, as Sam will take his secretary out of his life. Emsworth gladly does so, and peace reigns over Blandings once again.

Characters

 The Earl of Emsworth, the absent-minded master of Blandings
 The Hon. Galahad Threepwood, Emsworth's dashing brother
 Lady Hermione Wedge, Emsworth's short and dumpy sister
 Colonel Egbert Wedge, Hermione's doting husband
 Veronica Wedge, the Wedge's beautiful but simple daughter
 Wilfred Allsop, a nephew of Emsworth, a small pianist
 Empress of Blandings, Emsworth's prize pig
 Monica Simmons, Emsworth's pig girl, adored by Allsop
 Tipton Plimsoll, Veronica's wealthy American fiance
 Dame Daphne Winkworth, Emsworth's old flame, now headmistress of a girls' school
 Huxley Winkworth, Dame Daphne's unpleasant son
 Alexandra "Sandy" Callender, Emsworth's new, red-headed secretary
 Samuel Galahad Bagshott, son of an old friend of Gally, who loves Sandy
 Beach, long-serving butler at the Castle
 Constable Evans, the local policeman

Publication history

The first US edition dust jacket was illustrated by John Alcorn. The first UK edition dust jacket was illustrated by "Payne".

The US edition, The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood, is dedicated: "To Scott Meredith, prince of literary agents and best of friends". Scott Meredith was an American literary agent.

Adaptations

In 1992, the story was adapted as a radio drama in four parts in the Blandings radio series.

The sixth episode of the first series of the Blandings television series, "Problems with Drink", was based on Galahad at Blandings and first aired on 17 February 2013.

References
Notes

Sources

External links
 The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a full list of characters
 Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions, photos of book covers and links to used copies

Novels by P. G. Wodehouse
1964 American novels
1965 British novels
Simon & Schuster books
Herbert Jenkins books
Pigs in literature
British comedy novels

Galahad at Blandings


Man-Bat (The Werebat or Dr. Robert K. Langstrom) is a fictional Batman character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. He used to be a scientist until drinking a chemical that makes him turn into a half bat half man. His name can sometimes be confused with Batman.

The character has been featured in various media adaptations, such as feature films, television series and video games. He was voiced by Marc Singer in Batman: The Animated Series and Loren Lester in Batman: Arkham Knight.

Batman characters
DC Comics characters
Fictional characters introduced in the 1970s

Man-Bat


Demerara-Mahaica (Region 4) is a region in the north of Guyana. The regional capital is Georgetown, which is also the national capital.

The region has an area of 2,232 km². As of the 2012 census, 313,429 people lived there. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of Mahaica-Berbice to the east, the region of Upper Demerara-Berbice to the south and the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara to the west.

Regions of Guyana

Demerara-Mahaica


Per Olov Johan Djoos (born May 11, 1968) is a Swedish former ice hockey defenceman who played for the Detroit Red Wings and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League between 1990 and 1993. He most recently played in the Elitserien for Brynäs IF. He is currently coaching IF Sundsvall in the Swedish Allsvenskan. He is the father of former Detroit Red Wings defenseman Christian Djoos.

Djoos was drafted in the 7th round (127th overall) by Detroit in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft.

Professional career
Djoos grew up playing hockey for his hometown team in Sweden. His solid defensive play earned him local fame and looks from pro scouts. Djoos was drafted in 1986 by the Detroit Red Wings while still playing on his local hockey team. The Red Wings organization felt it best for him to gain more experience in Sweden before coming to America, and so Djoos remained in Sweden.

He was called up to Brynäs IF of the Swedish Elite League in 1988 and remained with the team for two seasons, scoring 18 points each season. The Red Wings wanted to see how his skills would translate into the North American game and so Djoos was brought over to America for the 1990–91 season. He ended up playing for the Adirondack Red Wings of the American Hockey League, but only managed to play 20 games before being called up to the big leagues. Djoos played 26 games for the injury ridden Red Wings, before being traded on March 5, 1991. Djoos was traded, along with Joe Kocur, to the New York Rangers for Kevin Miller, Jim Cummins and Dennis Vial, where he was sent to the Rangers' minor league club, the Binghamton Rangers, for the remainder of the season. Djoos helped lead Binghamton into the playoffs, eventually losing in the semi-finals.

In the 1991–92 season, Djoos played 50 games for the New York Rangers, picking up one goal and 40 penalty minutes. The following season, Djoos found himself back in the minors with Binghamton, where he had his best season to date, scoring 16 goals and 53 assists in 70 games. He also added 10 points in Binghamton's short playoff run. Djoos would also see his last of the NHL in the 1992–93 season, when he was called up to New York for six games, scoring one goal and one assist in that span.

International play
After finishing his career in North America, Djoos headed back across the Atlantic to play for Lugano of the Nationalliga A. Djoos again had a great season and helped Lugano in their short playoff run with 7 assists.

1994–95 would see Djoos back in the SEL playing for Västra Frölunda HC Göteborg. He would spend two short seasons with Frölunda before returning to his old team, Brynäs. Djoos would finish out his career with Brynäs, having his best season with them in 1998–99 when Djoos contributed five goals and 43 assists to lead the team in defensive scoring. Djoos retired after the 2002–03 season after seven seasons with the club.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

External links

1968 births
Living people
Adirondack Red Wings players
Binghamton Rangers players
Brynäs IF players
Detroit Red Wings draft picks
Detroit Red Wings players
Frölunda HC players
HC Lugano players
Mora IK players
New York Rangers players
Södertälje SK players
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Swedish expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Swedish ice hockey defencemen

Pär Djoos


Guido (von) List (born Karl Anton List; 5 October 1848 in Vienna – 17 May 1919 in Berlin) was an Austrian writer. His works were influenced very much by ideas of race. He was influenced by Arthur de Gobineau, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and others. He believed there was a global jewish conspiracy. He thought that the conspiracy threatened those he believed to be the Aryan race. He also believed that runes had magic power. His beliefs were not unpopular in Western Europe in the 19th century. He was an occultist. A contemporary of his was Houston Steward Chamberlain. Chambelain lived at the same time as he did. One of his successors was Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels.

Other websites
 The Guido von List website
 'Der Meister' Guido von List and the Controversy of 'von'
 The Armanen Futharkh: A Controversial Rune Row?
 Works by and about Guido von List in the German National Library catalogue
 Armanenschaft glossary
 Das Geheimnis der Runen (The Secret of the Runes) (German)
 Die Armanenschaft der Ario-Germanen (The Armanism of the Ario-Germans) (German)
 Die Rita der Ario-Germanen (The Rites of the Ario-Germans) (German)
 On the German Wotan Priestcraft (German)

1848 births
1919 deaths
Nazism
Occultists
Writers from Vienna

Guido von List


The Hillson Bi-mono was a British experimental aircraft of the 1940s. It was designed to test the idea of "slip-wings", where the aircraft could take off as a biplane, jettison the upper, disposable wing, and continue flying as a monoplane. A single example was built, which successfully demonstrated jettisoning of the slip wing in flight.

Design and development

In the 1930s, as take-off weights of aircraft continued to increase, designers grew increasingly concerned about the effects that these weights would have on take-off runs, and several designers investigated the concept of a "slip-wing", which could be jettisoned after take-off. Amongst the proponents of the "slip-wing" was Noel Pemberton Billing, the founder of Supermarine, who wrote several articles in the aviation press promoting the idea, either with a manned, reusable auxiliary wing, or a disposable or "scrap-wing". Blackburn Aircraft also investigated "slip-wings".

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, F Hills and Son, a light aircraft manufacturer based at Trafford Park, Manchester offered a design for a light fighter aircraft to the British Air Ministry. The fighter would be cheap to build and could be operated from small fields or open roads. To give the required take-off performance, the design was to be fitted with a disposable "slip-wing". While the proposal was not accepted by the Air Ministry, Hills and Sons decided to continue with the project as a private venture, and so built a scale test-bed, to prove the slip-wing process.

The test bed, known as the Bi-mono, was a small tractor monoplane with a fabric-covered steel-tube construction fuselage and a wooden wing. It had a fixed tailwheel undercarriage while an enclosed cockpit was provided for the pilot. The auxiliary wing was attached to the top of the cockpit canopy and to the lower wing by interplane struts. Two different upper wings were flown. The one used initially had a wingspan of  but the later, shorter wing's span of  was the same as that of the lower one. The aircraft was powered by a single de Havilland Gipsy Six engine.

The Bi-mono was not the only slip-wing project built by Hills and Sons, as they were also contracted by Pemberton Billing to build his PB.37 design for a slip-wing dive-bomber, with a pusher monoplane lower component powered by a 290 hp (216 kW) engine, while the manned slip-wing upper component was a tractor monoplane powered by a 40 hp (30 kW) engine. Construction work started on the PB.37 early in 1940, but work was abandoned in July 1940 when construction was almost finished but the aircraft was unflown.

Operational history

The Bi-mono, which carried no serial number or civil registration, made its maiden flight from Barton Aerodrome during 1941. Test flights were made both as a monoplane and as a biplane, with the shorter upper wing being chosen.  In order to avoid the potential hazards to people on the ground of dropping the wing, wing jettisoning tests were carried out from Squires Gate Airport, Blackpool, with the upper wing being successfully dropped over the Irish Sea on 16 July 1941. The test proved successful, with no great change in trim and a few hundred feet in altitude being lost when the upper wing was jettisoned.

The Bi-mono was subject to further testing by the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down from October 1941. The A&AEE found that the maximum speed of the biplane configuration was slower than the stalling speed of the monoplane configuration. Its landing characteristics were likened to a kangaroo.

Hills and Sons went on to further develop the slip-wing concept, flying the Hillson FH.40, a Hawker Hurricane fitted with a slip-wing.

Specifications (short upper wing)

Notes

References

 Ellis, Ken. "Back to the Biplane: The 'Slip Wing' and the Hurricane". Air Enthusiast, No 107, September/October 2003. . pp. 47–51.
 Jarrett, Philip. "Nothing Ventured...: Part 1". Aeroplane Monthly, April 1990, Vol 18 No 4. . pp. 204–206.
 Jarrett, Philip. "PB's Dream Machines". Air Enthusiast, Fifty-one, August to October 1993. . pp. 1–7.

1940s British experimental aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1941
Low-wing aircraft
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft

Hillson Bi-mono


电磁阀是阀门的一种,使用电磁线圈驱动。

电磁阀的工作原理
 通过对电磁线圈通电/断电控制管路的开启/关闭或改变流体(一般是压缩空气或者液体)流向(电磁开关阀)。
 改变通过电磁线圈电压/电流(一般为电流譬如4-20mA的直流电流)等参数控制管路中流体流量或流体压力(电磁调节阀)。

常見的用途
電磁閥用於流體動力氣動和液壓系統,控制氣缸,液壓傳動電機或較大的工業閥門。 自動灌溉噴頭系統還利用電磁閥與自動控制器。國內洗衣機和洗碗機用電磁閥來控制水進入機器。

電磁閥可用於工業應用的廣泛陣列,包括一般的通斷控制,校準和測試台,試驗工廠控制迴路,過程控制系統,和各種原始設備製造商的應用程序。

参考资料

外部連結
https://web.archive.org/web/20140407073548/http://www.mgacontrols.com/category/solenoid-valves/ illustrations of 2-way, 3-way, and pilot operated solenoid valves
https://web.archive.org/web/20140310224909/http://www.hnsa.org/doc/fleetsub/refrig/chap7.htm pp. 39–40. Solenoid valve illustration; breakaway pin / kick-off.
http://www.smc.eu/portal/WebContent/local/UK/Pneu_Book/Solenoid_Valves.jsp  Skinner valve, 1930s; magnetic path issues; wear; power; number of cycles
http://www.surmaq.com/html/cata/parker/contr/skinner.pdf pp. 128-131; tech details of design; different terminology; welded sleeve; valve sizing. Page 128: "Skinner Valve plunger assemblies, when appropriate, use floating top and bottom seals to enhance valve performance.  Floating seals permit the plunger to generate a larger actuation force to open against the pressure differential in the valve. This enables the valve to operate at higher pressure ratings." Material has implications for shading ring: copper is satisfactory for many materials, but it is unsatisfactory for coffee and urea; silver is satisfactory for those fluids. (pp 130–131.)

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/56783/Shading-Ring  discussion about shading coil
Design of Shading Coils for Minimizing the Contact Bouncing of AC Contactors,
http://everything2.com/title/Shading+ring
https://www.asconumatics.eu/images/site/upload/_en/pdf1/00022gb.pdf  More detailing information about solenoid and shading coil
http://relays.te.com/schrack/pdf/C0_v4bg_5.pdf  About relay design but includes relevant information

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电磁阀


Mike Keefe (born November 6, 1946, in Santa Rosa, California) is an American editorial cartoonist best known for his work at The Denver Post, for which he drew cartoons from 1975 to 2011. His cartoons are nationally syndicated, and have appeared in hundreds of newspapers as well as in Europe, Asia, and most major U.S. news magazines. He currently draws cartoons for The Colorado Independent.

He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

A former mathematician and automobile assembly line worker, Keefe was educated at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and attended Stanford University on a journalism fellowship. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Keefe was a juror for the 1997 and 1998 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism. His awards include the Fischetti Award, National Sigma Delta Chi Gold Medallion, and the National Headliner Award.

Keefe is the author of three books: Running Awry, Keefe-Kebab, and The Ten-Speed Commandments. He plays guitar and harmonica for the rock & roll band Falling Rock.

References

External links
 AAEC Bio for Mike Keefe.
 Mike Keefe's website.
 The Colorado Independent

1946 births
Living people
American editorial cartoonists
University of Missouri–Kansas City alumni
People from Santa Rosa, California
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners
Artists from California
The Denver Post people

Mike Keefe


The 2003 Melbourne thunderstorm was a severe weather event that occurred over the city of Melbourne, Australia, and surrounding areas of Victoria, from 1 to 6 December 2003. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology called the storm a "once in 100-year event".

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the storm formed at around midnight on the night of 2 December over Craigieburn, then grew in size as it moved in a south-easterly direction (the Bureau issued a severe thunderstorm warning based on their observations at 11.38 pm). The two hours from midnight to 2 am saw extremely heavy rainfall, with some areas recording more than 100 mm of rain in that time. The rapid rainfall caused flash flooding, which resulted in extensive damage to property.

A number of motorists were trapped on the roofs of their cars as chest-high floodwater accumulated under the Bulleen Road Bridge on the Eastern Freeway. They were rescued by Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade using two maritime response unit boats. Severe hailstorms caused thousands of dollars of damage to cars in the suburb of Lilydale. Rail company Connex Melbourne announced that flooding and power damage at Blackburn, Surrey Hills and Boronia railway stations would cause transport delays the following day. Victoria Police arrested two people in connection with incidents of looting in Fairfield which had occurred during the height of the storms.

See also
 Extreme weather events in Melbourne

References

External links
Photo Gallery, The Age.
STORMPLANET – Severe Event Reports
Radar loop of the storm over Melbourne

Melbourne thunderstorm
Melbourne thunderstorm, 2003
Melbourne thunderstorm, 2003
Natural disasters in Australia
2000s in Melbourne

2003 Melbourne thunderstorm


Novi Rock was a widely acclaimed rock festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which brought the latest currents in popular music to Slovene and Yugoslav audiences between 1981 and 2000. Igor Bašin wrote the book about the festival in 2006. The book takes an analytical look at the festival in the wider social context of the final decade of Yugoslavia and the first decade of independent Slovenia.

Bands that have played in the past include: Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, Moby, Nick Cave, Amebix, Swans, Crime & the City Solution, Disciplina kičme, Električni orgazam, Film, Lačni Franz, Haustor, Dorian Gray, Pankrti, Plavi orkestar, SCH, Rocket from the Crypt, Cop Shoot Cop, Destruction, Laibach, Darkwood Dub, The Stroj, Oysterband and others.

References

External links
Legende Novega rocka

Rock festivals in Slovenia
Recurring events disestablished in 2000
Music festivals established in 1981

Novi Rock


Spirit of place (or soul) refers to the unique, distinctive and cherished aspects of a place; often those celebrated by artists and writers, but also those cherished in folk tales, festivals and celebrations. It is thus as much in the invisible weave of culture (stories, art, memories, beliefs, histories, etc.) as it is the tangible physical aspects of a place (monuments, boundaries, rivers, woods, architectural style, rural crafts styles, pathways, views, and so on) or its interpersonal aspects (the presence of relatives, friends and kindred spirits, and the like).

Often the term is applied to a rural or a relatively unspoiled or regenerated place — whereas the very similar term sense of place would tend to be more domestic, urban, or suburban in tone. For instance, one could logically apply 'sense of place' to an urban high street; noting the architecture, the width of the roads and pavements, the plantings, the style of the shop-fronts, the street furniture, and so on, but one could not really talk about the 'spirit of place' of such an essentially urban and commercial environment. However, an urban area that looks faceless or neglected to an adult may have deep meaning in children's street culture.

The Roman term for spirit of place was Genius loci, by which it is sometimes still referred. This has often been historically envisaged as a guardian animal or a small supernatural being (puck, fairy, elf, and the like) or a ghost. In the developed world these beliefs have been, for the most part, discarded. A new layer of less-embodied superstition on the subject, however, has arisen around ley lines, feng shui and similar concepts, on the one hand, and urban leftover spaces, such as back alleys or gaps between buildings in some North-American downtown areas, on the other hand.

The western cultural movements of Romanticism and Neo-romanticism are often deeply concerned with creating cultural forms that 're-enchant the land', in order to establish or re-establish a spirit of place.

Modern earth art (sometimes called environment art) artists such as Andy Goldsworthy have explored the contribution of natural/ephemeral sculpture to spirit of place.

Many indigenous and tribal cultures around the world are deeply concerned with spirits of place in their landscape. Spirits of place are explicitly recognized by some of the world's main religions: Shinto has its Kami which may incorporate spirits of place; and the Dvarapalas and Lokapalas in Hinduism, Vajrayana and Bonpo traditions.

See also
Bioregionalism
Common Ground (United Kingdom)
Cultural landscape
Cultural region
Deep map
Genius loci
Landvættir
Nature writing
Parochialism
Psychogeography
Topophilia

References

External links

Common Ground (UK)

The arts
Cultural geography
Psychogeography
Landscape design history
Gardening
Landscape architecture
Environmental design

Spirit of place


Akshaye Vinod Khanna (born 28 March 1975) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi movies. He has received two Filmfare Awards and is the son of late actor Vinod Khanna. After studying in Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute in Mumbai, he made his acting debut in Bollywood in 1997 with the movie Himalay Putra. His next release Border (1997) emerged as a critical and commercial success, earning him the Filmfare Best Debut Award and a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Khanna became famous with starring roles in the musical romantic drama Taal (1999), the comedy drama Dil Chahta Hai (2001) which won him a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor, the romantic thriller Humraaz (2002) for which he was nominated in the Best Negative Role category, the romantic comedies Hungama (2003) and Hulchul (2004), the murder mystery 36 China Town (2006), the action thriller Race (2008) and the heist comedy Tees Maar Khan (2010), and he continued to draw praise for his performances in the 1999 romance Dahek, the 2002 psychological thriller Deewangee, the 2007 biographical drama Gandhi, My Father and the 2010 action thriller movie Aakrosh.

In 2016, after a four-year break from acting, he came back and played an antagonist in the action-comedy movie Dishoom and appeared as an investigative cop in two 2017 thrillers, the crime movie Mom and the murder mystery Ittefaq.

Actors from Mumbai
1975 births
Living people

Akshaye Khanna


Vermont has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a single at-large congressional district since the 1930 census, when the state lost its second seat.

There were once six districts in Vermont. Bernie Sanders (Independent) held the seat from 1991 until 2007, when he became a U.S. Senator. Democrat Peter Welch represented the state from 2007 to 2023. Becca Balint has represented this district since 2023.

Geography of Vermont
Verm

Vermont's at-large congressional district


A laminate trimmer (or trimming router) is a small version of a wood router, normally used to trim laminate such as Formica. It generally has a 1/4-inch collet. Typical laminate trimmers spin their bits at up to 30,000 RPM.  Some models provide variable speed control. Manufacturers of note include DeWalt, Ryobi, Porter Cable, Ridgid, Makita and RotoZip (Bosch).

Laminate trimmers evolved, as their name suggests, as a specialized tool for that particular trade. Veneers are typically cut oversize before being laminated to their wooden substrates.  A laminate trimmer equipped with a bearing-guided flush trimming bit can be used to cut the veneer to its final size.  The bearing guides the bit around the outside edge of the wood substrate, making a clean cut exactly along the edge. Laminate trimmers excel at this task due to their light weight and one-handed operation.

Laminate trimmers have evolved to the point where they are essentially fully functional miniature routers.  Apart from trimming and flushing, they can be used for jointing, rounding edges, chamfering, routing grooves and dados, dovetails, even mortise and tenons.  A modern laminate trimmer can perform almost any task that a larger handheld router can do, with the caveat that the smaller machine may be limited in the size of bit that can physically fit within its collet and the base plate.  Larger bits, e.g. those that fit a 1/2-inch collet or those with larger blade diameters than the laminate trimmer's smaller baseplate hole, cannot be used at all.  The reduced power of a laminate trimmer (3/4 to 1 hp, as opposed to a typical router's 1-3 hp) may also make it unsuitable for heavy-duty router work.

Some laminate trimmers are equipped with multiple bases for different types of routing work, and most support the use of an edge guide.

Some woodworkers keep a chamfer or roundover bit permanently installed in a small laminate trimmer, since these operations are so frequently performed on many projects.  This frees their main router (or router table) to do other types of work without having to constantly change between bits.

See also
 Router (woodworking)
 Biscuit joiner

Woodworking hand-held power tools
Cutting tools

zh:修邊機 (木工)

Laminate trimmer


The Type R "Mystery Ships" were a series of wire-braced, low-wing racing airplanes built by the Travel Air company in the late 1920s and early 1930s. They were so called because the first three aircraft of the series (R614K, R613K, B11D) were built entirely in secrecy.

In total, five Type Rs were built and flown by some of the most notable flyers of the day, including Jimmy Doolittle, Doug Davis, Frank Hawks, and Pancho Barnes, not only in races but also at air shows across the United States, and most notably, by Hawks in Europe.

Design and development
The environment in air racing at the time was one of give and take with the military. A civilian designer would take an existing aircraft design, modify it for greater speed and enter it in the race. Since the military already had access to the fastest and most advanced aircraft available, it was simply a matter of upping the horsepower on whatever aircraft they were using and the problem was solved. This led to the military completely dominating the air racing scene. In an effort to combat this, two Travel Air designers; Herb Rawdon and Walter Burnham undertook proving that a civilian aircraft built from scratch and designed exclusively for racing (as opposed to combat or passenger/mail service) could out-fly the military.

Under construction during 1928, the aircraft was kept under cover prior to the 1929 Cleveland Air Races, with the builders even going so far as painting the windows on the factory to keep the curious press from getting a look at it. The local Wichita paper picked up on the secret program, with one reporter even going so far as to scale a ladder to try to peek into the vents in the factory roof. The paper dubbed it the "Mystery Ship" and the name stuck with R (for Rawdon) added. Rawdon and Burnham both knew that to approach Travel Air CEO Walter Beech would be fruitless, unless they hit him with the idea just before the air racing season began, so they designed the aircraft in their spare time, without pay until they could get Beech to agree to build the type.

During an era when biplanes were still common, the use of a monoplane planform, a NACA engine cowl, and large wheel pants significantly reduced aerodynamic drag, creating a streamlined design. Construction of the fuselage and wings was based on a plywood structure with the thin wings braced with wires. The sleek, polished fuselage continued the shape and width of the cowl throughout, with the cockpit featuring a small windshield, set nearly flush with the skin. A turtle deck extended from the cockpit to the vertical tail creating a fairing for the helmeted head of the pilot.

The first "Mystery Ship", NR614K (Race No. 31), was designed for both closed-course and long-distance racing. NR614K had two sets of wings, a shorter set of racing wings, about  shorter in span and  narrower in chord than the set used for cross-country events. R614K was destroyed when it caught fire before the 1931 Thompson Trophy race. The plane has since undergone a complete restoration and now resides at the Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

The second Type R, NR613K (Race No. 32)  powered by a six-cylinder D-6 Chevrolair, manufactured by Arthur Chevrolet Aviation Motors Corporation of Indianapolis, Indiana. The six-cylinder air-cooled, inverted inline engine developed 165 hp at 2,175 rpm, and powered NR613K to a win in the Experimental class at the 1929 National Air Races. NR613K was later converted back to a radial-engined version by Florence "Pancho" Barnes. Paul Mantz later purchased the aircraft and used it extensively in film work. Years later, Barnes bought it back in an auction where other pilots made sure nobody bid against her. It is currently undergoing restoration in the UK.

The third Mystery Ship, NR482N (Race No. 35), was purchased by Shell for the use of Jimmy Hazlip and Jimmy Doolittle. NR614K's short wings were later purchased by Shell and were used, as required, on Doolittle's Race No. 400. NR482N also crashed and was a complete loss.

The fourth Type R, NR1313, purchased by the Texaco Company for Frank Hawks as "Texaco 13" became the most famous of the series, setting numerous long-distance records both in the United States and internationally. "Texaco 13" is now displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois.

A fifth Type R, 11717/MM185, was built at the request of the Italian government several years after the rest, after Hawks toured the European continent. After factory construction and testing, it was subsequently disassembled, shipped by boat to Italy and served as the basis for the Breda Ba.27 fighter. It was later scrapped. The last Type R was built by Travel Air after it had been absorbed by Curtiss-Wright.

Racing
The Model R series set numerous speed records for both pylon racing and cross-country flying, and were the most advanced aircraft of the day, by far outpacing anything that even the military could offer. On September 2, 1929, Doug Davis entered the "Mystery Ship" in the Thompson Cup Race. Davis won at a speed of 194.9 mph (one lap flown at 208.69 mph), beating the military entries, even recircling one of the pylons twice. Davis missed the second pylon of the course, circled back and while circling it again blacked out momentarily. Not knowing if he had missed the pylon again, Davis went around one more time, then continued on to win the race. This was the first time in the history of air racing that a civilian racer had outperformed a military aircraft.

Specifications (NR614K)

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Phillips, Edward H., Mystery Ship: A History of the Travel Air Type R Monoplanes (Historic Aircraft Series). New Brighton, Minnesota: Flying Books International, 1999. .
 Phillips, Edward H. Travel Air: Wings Over the Prairie. Egan, Minnesota: Flying Books International, 1994. .
 Taylor, Michael J. H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation . London: Studio Editions, 1989.
 Vorderman, Don. The Great Air Races. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1969. .

External links
 Phillips, Edward H.: The Scarlet Marvel: A History of the Famous Travel Air Type R Monoplanes, 2014 presentation at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, retrieved December 31, 2022

R Mystery Ship
1920s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1929

Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship


Psychokinesis or telekinesis is the supposed ability to change matter, energy, space or time by using your mind. It is often mentioned and performed in science fiction movies and video games.

Abilities
Psychokinesis is the word used to describe many different abilities. These abilities include:
 moving objects (this is called telekinesis; see below)
 changing the shape of objects (this includes melting or bending metal)
 influencing events
 healing
 teleportation (disappearing and reappearing in a different place)
 traveling through objects, like a wall
 changing an object into something else
 changing oneself into something else
 putting an energy field around oneself
 control of magnetism
 control of photons (light waves/particles)

Telekinetic abilities
 moving objects (move, lift, shake, vibrate, spin, bend, or break large and small objects)
 lifting oneself up off of the ground (including flying)

Elemental control
 Ability to control fire, water, air, and earth which air is already ready used during telekinesis
 You can use water and you can use it to control the blood on others or yourself

Age control
 with telekinesis and blood control you can become immortal or instant age change on command

Vibration
 With telekinesis you can send extreme vibration to an object like glass to shatter

Parapsychology
Science fiction

Psychokinesis


Worry is an emotion. It means that one feels stressful or he or she is panicking about something. It is felt as anxiety or concern about a real or imagined issue. Most people experience short periods of worry in their lives, but it is not normally a problem. In fact, a small amount of worrying may even have good effects, if it makes people take precautions or be more careful.

Emotions

Worry


An oblast is a teep o admeenistrative diveesion in certain Slavic kintras, includin some kintras o the umwhile Soviet Union.  The wird "oblast" is a loanwird in Inglis, but it is naetheless aften owerset as "area", "zone", "province", or "region". The lest owersettin mey lead tae confusion, acause the subdiveesion o "oblast" is cried "raion" that itsel is owerset as "region" or "destrict", dependin on the context.

Oblasts is a teep o admeenistrative diveesion o Belaroushie, Bulgarie, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Roushie, Ukraine, an the umwhile Soviet Union an the Socialist Federal Republic o Yugoslavie. Offeecial terms in successor states o the Soviet Union differ, but some still uise a cognate o the Roushie term, e.g. voblast (voblasts, voblasts' , ) is uised for Regions o Belaroushie, an oblys (plural: oblystar) for provinces o Kazakhstan.

References

Teeps o kintra subdiveesions

Oblast


St Peter's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Offord D'Arcy, Cambridgeshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.  The church stands adjacent to the East Coast Main Railway Line, overlooking the River Great Ouse.

History

The church dates from the Norman era in the 12th century, when the nave, chancel and north aisle were built. The chancel was rebuilt at some time between 1250 and 1270. In 1320 the south aisle was added, followed by the west tower and spire in 1380. The spire was rebuilt in 1860, and repaired in 1990. The church continued to be the parish church of Offord D'Arcy until 1978, when its functions were taken over by All Saints' Church in the nearby village of Offord Cluny.  Towards the time it was declared redundant, people had to take umbrellas into the church and the heating no longer worked.  After it was taken over by the Redundant Churches Fund (the forerunner of the Churches Conservation Trust), the church was made weatherproof, and limited services were held in the summer months. Drama productions were mounted, and a candle-lit Christmas carol service was organised. In 2004 a three-day arts festival was held in the church.  During 2007 the Churches Conservation Trust carried out a programme of improvements to the church.  The church continues to be used for occasional services, open days, craft fairs, and other events, including a film festival.

Architecture

Exterior
St Peter's church is constructed mainly of pebble and freestone, with dressings of Barnack limestone. Its plan consists of a nave with a clerestory and north and south aisles, a chancel and a west tower. The tower is in three stages standing on a splayed plinth. Its parapet is embattled with gargoyles at the corners. It is surmounted by a tall broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. On the west side of the tower is a three-light window dating from the late 14th century. In the top stage are two-light bell openings on each side. The clerestory contains four two-light windows on both sides. In the south wall of the south aisle are three two-light windows and a doorway dating from the 13th century. In both the north and south walls of the chancel are a 15th-century window and a 13th-century lancet window. The east window dates from the late 15th century.

Interior
The north arcade has three bays dating from the 13th century, with round-headed arches carried on square piers. The south arcade is in four bays with pointed arches. At the east end of the south aisle is a 13th-century piscina, and in the south wall of the chancel is another piscina from the same century. The monuments include 14th-century slabs in the north aisle carved with male and female figures. In the south aisle is a monument to Richard Nailour who died in 1616. It consists of an alabaster kneeling figure, flanked by Doric pilasters under an entablature with a segmental pediment. Also in the church is part of a 14th-century screen.  The two-manual organ in the west gallery was built in 1913 by Blackett and Howden of Newcastle upon Tyne, but it is no longer usable.  It is possible that the organ could be rebuilt at a cost in the order of £5,000. There is a ring of three bells, but they are no longer ringable. The oldest was cast in 1618 by Tobias I Norris, the next in 1620 by William Haulsey, and the third in 1676 by Christopher Graye.

See also
List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the East of England

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Grade I listed churches in Cambridgeshire
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The Everlasting Man is a Christian apologetics book written by G. K. Chesterton, published in 1925. It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' The Outline of History, disputing Wells' portrayals of human life and civilisation as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. Chesterton detailed his own spiritual journey in  Orthodoxy, but in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilisation. The author Ross Douthat credits that, "Chesterton's somewhat loosey-goosey outline of history doubles as the best modern argument for Christianity I've ever read. You have to give in to the Chestertonian style, but if you do, be careful—you might just be converted."

Overview
According to the evolutionary outlines of history proposed by Wells and others, mankind is simply another sort of animal, and Jesus was a remarkable human being, and nothing more. Chesterton's thesis, as expressed in Part I of the book ('On the Creature Called Man'), is that if man is really and dispassionately viewed simply as another animal, one is forced to the conclusion that he is a bizarrely unusual animal. In Part II ('On the Man Called Christ'), Chesterton argues that if Jesus is really viewed as simply another human leader and Christianity and the Church are simply another human religion, one is forced to the conclusion that he was a bizarrely unusual leader, whose followers founded a bizarrely and miraculously unusual religion and Church. "I do not believe," he says, "that the past is most truly pictured as a thing in which humanity merely fades away into nature, or civilization merely fades away into barbarism, or religion fades away into mythology, or our own religion fades away into the religions of the world. In short I do not believe that the best way to produce an outline of history is to rub out the lines."

Influence on C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis credited The Everlasting Man with "baptising" his intellect{surprised by joy}, much as George MacDonald's writings had baptised his imagination, so as to make him more than half-converted well before he could bring himself to embrace Christianity.  In a 1950 letter to Sheldon Vanauken, Lewis calls the book "the best popular apologetic I know," and in 1947 he wrote to Rhonda Bodle: "the [very] best popular defence of the full Christian position I know is G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man."  The book was also cited by The Christian Century in a list of 10 books that "most shaped [Lewis'] vocational attitude and philosophy of life".

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Dell is a private company that makes laptop and desktop computers and computer accessories. It was formed in 1984. It is named after Michael Dell, the CEO and creator of the company. Dell makes computers for businesses and home users, and they also make computer monitors and Printers. They used to make portable music players, called the Dell DJ, and PDAs too.

Their company is in Round Rock, Texas. In 2006, they employed over 78,000 people. Some of their computers have a Linux operating system. Most computers for consumer usage will come with Microsoft Windows.

History
Michael Delle — Founder of the Company.

Founded by Michael Delle, in 1984 in the city of Austin (Texas) as PC Limited, since 1988 — Dell Computer, after 2003 — Dell, Inc.

In 1987, Dell entered the European market, in 1994 they went to the market of the Asia-Pacific region. In 2005, Fortune called Dell "the company causing the greatest admiration in the United States" (in the world ranking Dell was third place). The growth rates of profit and sales volumes of the late 1990's to the early 2000's significantly exceeded industry indicators.

In 2013, Michael Dell at the expense of its own funds and funds provided by the investment company Silver Lake Partners, for $25 billion bought a controlling stake in the company from the exchange, 75% of the company passed under the control of Dell.

Mergers and acquisitions
Dell acquired Perot Systems, Ross Perot's IT infrastructure services company, for approximately $3.9 billion.

On October 12, 2015, the American corporation Dell signed an agreement to acquire EMC for $67 billion, which is the largest deal in the history of the IT industry.

On September 7, 2016, the acquisition of EMC was completed, the acquired EMC became part of the updated Dell Technologies Corporation as a subsidiary with the name "Dell EMC", moreover, it is planned to transfer Dell units involved in the sale of corporate servers to this business unit, data storage systems and some others related to the corporate market.

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Hieronymus Balbus (also called Girolamo Balbi or Accellini) was a Renaissance Humanist, poet, diplomat, and Bishop of Gurk in Carinthia, b. about 1450 in Venice; d. there, probably 1535.

He was a pupil of Julius Pomponius Laetus, the founder of the Roman Academy.  As a young man, he was reportedly of a quarrelsome disposition, and, for a time, led a very loose life. But in later years he was highly respected and came to be regarded as one of the most accomplished men of his day. In 1485 he was professor at the University of Paris. His overbearing manner here soon brought him into conflict with various scholars, and in consequence of the attack which these men made on his character, he was obliged to leave Paris in 1491. A few years later (1494), at the invitation of Emperor Maximilian I, he went to the University of Vienna, where he lectured on poetry, the Roman classics, and jurisprudence. He was again in Paris, for a short period, in 1495, and visited London in 1496, but resumed his professorship in Vienna in 1497. Here he became a member of the Danube Society, and lived on terms of close friendship with its founder, Conrad Celtes the Humanist, at that time professor and librarian at the University of Vienna. In little less than a year, renewed contentions with his colleagues forced him to quit Vienna. Balbus next went to Prague (1498), where he accepted a professorship that had been obtained for him by his Viennese friends. But his irregular conduct, scandalous writings, and disputatious temper soon drove him from the city. On leaving Prague he withdrew to Hungary (Pécs), and remained in retirement for a period of fifteen years, during which time he changed his manner of life completely, and even took religious orders. His subsequent career as an ecclesiastic was one of considerable distinction. He became provost of the Cathedral Chapter in Waizen, 1515, later also of that in Bratislava, and, for some years, held an important position at the Court of Hungary, where he was a tutor of the royal princes, and private secretary to the king, Ladislaus VI.

In 1521 Balbus appeared at the Diet of Worms as the ambassador of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, and attracted considerable attention by a discourse in which he protested against the innovations of Martin Luther, and urged upon the assembled princes the necessity of a joint undertaking against the Turks. Shortly afterward he was in the service of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, who, in 1522, designated him Bishop of Gurk, and sent him to Rome on a congratulatory embassy to the newly elected pontiff, Adrian VI. It was a part of his mission also to induce the pope to proclaim a crusade against Turkey. The address which he made on being received by the pope in a public audience, 9 February 1523, was well received in humanistic circles as a marvel of eloquence. Balbus remained in Rome for some time and was there consecrated Bishop of Gurk, 25 March 1523.

As a bishop, he was frequently absent from his diocese. One of his letters mentions that in the time of Clement VII he lived in Rome for some years in the papal palace and was much in the confidence of that pontiff. In 1530, though quite an old man, he accompanied Emperor Charles V to Bologna to attend the emperor's coronation. At Bologna he wrote his best-known work, De coronatione principum, which, on account of the views it contains on the relation of Church and State, was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 23 July 1611. Balbus was the author of many other works, including poetical, oratorical, and politico-moral writings which were edited by Joseph von Retzer (Vienna, 1791–92, 2 vols.).

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HC Valpellice Bulldogs, nicknamed "La Valpe", is a professional ice hockey team in Torre Pellice, near Turin, Italy. The team plays in the country's top division, Serie A. Serie A is also sponsored by Reebok, which provides free equipment and sportswear to the players.  Their current head coach is former NHL goaltender Tom Barrasso.

History
The region of Piedmont has a long association with winter sports due its proximity to the Alps and Valpellice Sporting Club was founded in 1934 as one of the earliest winter sports clubs in the region. It folded in 1957 when its main sponsors stopped funding. The club was restarted in 1962 under the name U.S. Valpellice in Serie C, the bottom rung of the hockey league. They won promotion to Serie B and then Serie A, the top flight, and enjoyed seven seasons during the 1970s. During the 1983–84, it was relegated to Serie B. The club's decline in fortunes continued with the team facing relegation to Serie C and ongoing tussles with the government bureaucrats over arena renovations. It again folded in 2000. Instead, the Presidents of Valpellice and provincial rivals HC Torino founding All Stars Piemonte, a move which proved to be unpopular with fans. The current HC Valpellice was refounded in 2003. In 2013 and 2016 they won the Coppa Italia.

Arena
Valpellice plays at the multipurpose Giordio Cotta Morandini Olympic Ice Arena, which was constructed from 2003 and 2006 after a flood partially damaged the old arena several years prior. It was not chosen as a venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics hosted in Turin, with the Palasport and the Torino Esposizioni being chosen to co-host ice hockey events.

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The Voreifel ("Fore-Eifel" or "Pre-Eifel") is the name of a settlement area in the southern part of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a term that grew out of the local speech.

The region of the Voreifel includes the towns and villages of Meckenheim, Rheinbach, Swisttal, the southern villages in Alfter, the western ones in Wachtberg and the northern villages of Grafschaft. Geographically it forms the southeastern foothills of the Zülpich Börde in the North Eifel, on the plateau between the rivers Ahr and Rhine. The landscape is defined by the wide valley of the Swist. To the east it is framed by the Kottenforst and Ville with the Rhineland Nature Park, to the west at the foot of the Eifel, the Rheinbach Forest and the Ahr Hills. To the southeast it transitions into the Drachenfelser Ländchen.

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Steven van der Hagen (Amersfoort, 1563 – 1621) was the first admiral of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).  He made three visits to the East Indies, spending six years in all there.  He was appointed to the Raad van Indië.  Van der Hagen protested against the harsh administration of the administrators, who wanted a monopoly on the clove trade and were willing to fight against their Spanish, Portuguese, English or Asiatic trade competitors in order to get it.  Laurens Reael and Steven van der Hagen wrote with disapproval on how the Heren XVII treated the interests and laws of the Maluku population.

Both argued that the company had no right to compel the natives of the Moluccas to sell their spices exclusively to the Dutch, unless the latter could supply them in return with adequate supplies of food and clothing at reasonable prices. They urged that it was better, in the long run, for the Dutch to content themselves with large sales and small profits rather than strive for a rigid and oppressive monopoly which aimed at small sales and big profits. Moreover, Laurens Reael and Van der Hagen, while prepared in the last extremity to use force against their English competitors in the Moluccas were reluctant to do so otherwise, for fear of unfavourable repercussions on Anglo-Dutch relations in Europe - a possibility that did not worry Coen. Finally they both considered that it might be unjust and unwise to exclude Asian traders, whether Chinese, Malay or Javanese, from the Moluccas by force.

Life
Steven van der Hagen was born around 1563 in Amersfoort and was brought up by an aunt, his father's sister, after his parents fled to the Southern Netherlands due to the Dutch Revolt.  Steven was given a good education which included Latin.  When he was ten he went to visit his father Andries van der Hagen in Bruges, and together they went to Ypres and Doornik to seek work for him. Steven began work at a silkworkers' shop on the market square, before returning to Ypres to receive further education from his uncle Willem van der Hagen.

Andalucia
At 12, Steven developed a great interest in Spain and (unbeknownst to his uncle) he traveled to Calais on foot to catch a ship there.  A ship's captain heard that Steven was not a Fleming and asked him if he had run away from home.  Once they got into conversation, Steven found out that five Antwerp merchants were traveling to Spain on this ship.  Steven made a good impression on one of the merchants, who thought him wellbred, and offered (under conditions) to take him to Seville with him.  For reasons of security, Steven did not use his surname so that nobody would connect him to his well-known uncle.

A few days later Steven was discovered by his cousin, who told him to go home, but Steven refused to give up his voyage because he had been beaten by his uncle.  The ship left within a few days on the easterly wind. Steven was taken on by a shopkeeper in linen in Sanlúcar, who had a troublesome and difficult wife. Steven stayed for two years, until he spoke Spanish well.  On a walk through Seville, he met one of the merchants who had brought him to Spain. Steven refused to re-enter his service and instead moved to Jerez de la Frontera.  On the way he stayed with a shepherd, who offered him goats' milk and cheese. In Jerez, Steven met Don Garcia d'Avila, who gave him accommodation in his palace. Steven watched bullfights in the market square and horse-mounted fights in the streets.

In 1578 Spain went to war with Barbary - a number of Dutch boats fought for Spain, but their crews returned dangerously ill and when they were being given the sacrament as part of their last rites, so that they could be buried in holy ground, Steven acted as interpreter.

Steven met a ship's captain from Medemblik, many of whose crew had died of diarrhea, and joined the crew for the return journey to Holland.  The ship took on a cargo of salt and set off in convoy. When Steven got back to the Netherlands, he returned to Amersfoort and heard that his mother had died and his father had remarried.

With the money he inherited he travelled to Italy. In 1587 his ship was lost in Cadiz in the raid by Francis Drake. He succeeded to get back to Hoorn and in 1589, he married Stephania van der Made in Amsterdam in a civil ceremony before the schepenen.  Their church marriage took place a few months later in Utrecht.

At sea
Merchant and pioneer of the so-called "Straatvaart" to Spain by Northern Netherlandish ship owners (1585–1593).  He is also known as a ship's captain, who as early as 1587 (on behalf of his clients from Hoorn) led a convoy of 120 last, 240 ton ships through the "straat" (straits).  This made it possible not only to transport heavier wheat cargoes, but also longer goods, like ships' masts.
Merchant on two ships to the Gulf of Guinea (July 1597 - March 1598).
Admiral of three ships of the Compagnie van Verre (1599–1601). In 1599 Van der Hagen landed on Madagascar - had he or other Dutchmen conquered it at this time, South Africa's history could have been very different. In 1600 the three fleets lying at anchor in Bantam decided to bargain and load pepper together. Steven van der Hagen sailed back to Ambon with 27 soldiers. The inlanders rather dealt with him than the Portuguese. Van der Hagen was allowed to build a fortification. In 1603 Frederik de Houtman returned from Ambon Island on a ship captained by Steven van der Hagen, surrendering the fort there to the Portuguese.

In the service of VOC

At the end of 1603 Van der Hagen was chosen as the admiral of the VOC's first fleet.  For two months his ships - despatched from Amsterdam, Hoorn and Enkhuizen - lay off the coast of England awaiting a favourable wind.  Van der Hagen was sent to sea, with secret instructions only to be opened after leaving port. On reading the instructions he became angry, since the "Heren XVII" (the directors) ordered him to fight the Spanish and Portuguese.

Other sources suggest it was the crew that became angry because they had not taken service to fight.

After six months at sea, on 30 May 1604 they sighted Cape of Good Hope.  Then they hijacked a Portuguese ship laden with ivory. On 21 September the ships arrived in Goa and one month later in Calicut, the city of the Zamorin. On 11 November Van der Hagen reached a political agreement to trade at Kozhikode and Ponnani and promised the Zamorin help against the Portuguese.  On the Indian coast were founded the Masulipatnam (1605) and Petapuli (1606) factory, aimed especially at getting a hold on the huge trade in cotton, spices, precious stones, and pigments. After a few weeks he reached Pegu and sold its sovereign an emerald.  The Dutch were fascinated by his wealth, but also by the crocodiles and white elephants in the kingdom. In December his ships arrived in Bantam, but sailed on to Ambon. With the help of local population Van der Hagen captured the Portuguese fort on Ambon (25 February 1605) without any shot, the first territory captured by the Dutch Republic in south-east Asia.

At the end of the year, one of the fastest sailing ships in Van der Hagen's fleet, the Duyfken, a yacht under the captain Willem Jansz, sailed to the south and discovered the north coast of Australia, which he thought to be connected to New Guinea. In the Gulf of Carpentaria, named after Pieter de Carpentier they went ashore. In 1607 Van der Hagen sailed to Mauritius, there he met with Cornelis Matelieff and ate a dodo, whose taste he noted was rather disgusting.

Back home he bought a house in Utrecht on the Oude Gracht. He spoke with the naturalist Carolus Clusius about the plants and animals he saw during his voyage; Clusius took notes in Latin which were published after his death in Caroli Clvsii Atrebatis Cvrae Posteriores, Sev Plurimarum non antè cognitarum, aut descriptarum stirpium, peregrinorum´que aliquot animalium Novæ Descriptiones: Quibus & omnia ipsius Opera, aliáque ab eo versa augentur, aut illustrantur von Clusius, Carolus, Leyden 1611.
In 1614 he sailed to Malabar and Goa to fight the Moorish pirates there.  He then left for the Red Sea for negotiations, and in 1615 sailed to the Straits of Malacca. In 1616 admiral Van der Hagen defeated the Portuguese at the Malay Peninsula.

Because of his dissatisfaction with the governance of Adriaen Maertensz. Block, Van der Hagen convened an assembly there. Block was replaced and Van der Hagen (perhaps temporarily) took over command of Ambon (June 1617). In 1618 he and his ship set off for Pulau Naira (or Banda-Neira), one of the Spice Islands.  At the end of the year he was appointed to the Raad van Indië (November 1614 - October 1619). Van der Hagen became the first councillor under the governor-generals Gerard Reynst, Laurens Reael and Jan Pieterszoon Coen.

Van der Hagen was painted in 1619, possibly by Paulus Moreelse.  In 1620 Van der Hagen lived either in Slot Zuylen on the River Vecht or on Bleyesteyn. He was buried on 25 July 1624 in Utrecht, having died of the plague. His direct descendants still live in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Australia. Streets in The Netherlands are named after Steven van der Hagen in a.o. Rotterdam, Amersfoort and Den Helder.

See also
 Pieter Both

Notes

Sources
 IJzerman, J.W. (1923) Cornelis Buijsero te Bantam. 1616–1618. Zijn brieven en journaal, met inleiding en bijlagen.
 Journael van de voyagie, gedaen met twaelf scheepen naar Oost-Indien, onder 't beleydt van den heer Steven van der Hagen, waer in verhaelt wordt het veroveren der Portugeesche forten op Amboyna en Tydoor. Mitsgaders de reyse van 't schip Delft, (mede onder des vloot behoorende) van Bantam near de kuste van Choromandel en andere plaetsen. Hagen, Steven van der / gedr. by Gillis Joosten Saeghman / 1664.

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 Website in oud-Nederlands over zijn jeugd
 Proefschrift over de Molukken "Historie van Hitu. Een Ambonse geschiedenis uit de zeventiende eeuw" door Ridjali, met details over Van der Hagen
 Website met details en onjuistheden

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Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (22 March 1902 – 23/24 April 1945) was a member of the German anti-Nazi resistance. He was executed in the aftermath of the failure of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

The von Guttenberg family originates back to 1149 in Franconia (northern part of Bavaria) in the southern part of Germany.  Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg studied law and history in Munich and graduated in 1929. In that year he married Therese, Princess Schwarzenberg. They had two daughters and one son.

Karl Ludwig von Guttenberg was a Catholic monarchist who started publishing the White Papers; Journals on History, Tradition and State (formerly called Monarchy) in 1934. Amongst its authors were Reinhold Schneider, Jochen Klepper, Ulrich von Hassell and Werner Bergengruen. The White Papers (in German: ) soon became an important organ and also a meeting place, through their publishers many various contacts, for the conservative opposition against the Nazi regime under Hitler.  Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg first introduced Carl Goerdeler and Ulrich von Hassell to each other in 1939.

In 1941, von Guttenberg was ordered to work in counterintelligence at the Foreign Affairs Office in Berlin through the help of Ludwig Beck. There, von Guttenberg worked under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and belonged to the social circle of Hans von Dohnanyi, Justus Delbrück, and Hans Oster.

After the failure of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, von Guttenberg was arrested by the Gestapo and interrogated under torture, apparently without result and he revealed no names of members of the resistance.

In the night between the 23 and 24 of April in 1945, Karl Ludwig von und zu Guttenberg was murdered by order of Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller.

The late politician and anti-Nazi resistance activist Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg was his nephew and the latter's son Enoch zu Guttenberg was a conductor and father of politician and businessman Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg.

References
 Maria von dem Bottlenberg-Landsberg, "Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg; 1902–1945; ein Lebensbild". Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2003, .

Further reading
 The German Resistance Memorial Center (Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand), Berlin www.gdw-berlin.de
 Weiße Blätter. Monatsschrift für Geschichte, Tradition und Staat (PDF scans).

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Siam Paragon is a shopping mall in Bangkok, the largest in Thailand. It opened on 9 December 2005. The mall is in the district of Pathumwan. It covers in an area of . More than 4000 cars can park in its parking lot. Siam Paragon is the first place in Thailand that have 26 glass elevators.

In addition to the stores in the mall, there are many other special locations. The mall has a multiplex movie theater. It has 15 large theaters One of the theaters has the largest screen in Asia. Also, more people can sit in that theater than any other Asian theater. Siam Ocean World (Underwater world) is an aquarium. It is the largest aquarium in South East Asia. The mall also has exhibition hall, Thai Art Gallery, an opera concert hall, a large bowling alley and a karaoke center.

There are also many different restaurants  in the mall.

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Caspar Othmayr (12 March 1515 – 4 February 1553) was a German Lutheran pastor and composer.

Othmayr was born in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, and studied in Heidelberg as a pupil of Lorenz Lemlin, among others. Later, he became rector of the monastery school of Heilsbronn near Ansbach. From 1548 on he was provost in Ansbach, but soon lost the position because of theological differences.

Othmayr is considered one of the masters of  melodic phrasing (Liedsatz) of the middle of the 16th century. The most important works were written from 1545 to 1550. He composed numerous hymns inspired by Martin Luther, and in 1546 wrote Epitaphium a Lutheri in memory of him.

His works are found in numerous collections of his time, as in Georg Forster's Frische teutsche Liedlein.

Othmayr died in Nuremberg in 1553 at the age of 38.

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