San Lorenzo (or: Villa San Lorenzo) is a town in the Tarija Department in Bolivia.

San Lorenzo is the administrative center of Eustaquio Méndez Province.  It is 2,001 m above sea leavel, on the left bank of Río Tojtiwaysho.  It is 15 km north of Tarija, the department capital.

San Lorenzo had a population of more than 3,000 people in 2007.

San Lorenzo was the home of Don Eustaquio Méndez.  He was one of the leaders in the fights for Argentina independence. The local museum Casa del Moto Méndez shows some of his personal belongings and weapons.

Other websites
Map of Province

Settlements in Bolivia

San Lorenzo, Tarija


The Cuevas de los Murciélagos are a complex of two volcanic caves on La Palma, Canary Islands. They are located at the Nacientes de Marcos y Cordero (springs of Marcos and Cordero) near the municipality of San Andrés y Sauces in the north of the island. Cueva de los Murciélagos I is located in an altitude of 1220 m, Cueva de los Murciélagos II in an altitude of 1000 m. Both caves have a length of 100 m. The access is not difficult. Though it is a descending tube it is good to walk. On the endpoint of the Cueva de los Murciélagos I is a small firepit in the soil which is slightly more complicated to access. In some areas it has a steep slope. It's a rather old cave where erosion caused by the years is evident, hence the debris is very abundant and they are large blocks of terrestrial material.

The caves host an important breeding colony of the Canary big-eared bat. In the 1980s the Cueva de los Murciélagos I become known as paleontological site where fossil remains of the La Palma giant lizard  (Gallotia auaritae) and the Trias greenfinch (Carduelis triasi) were unearthed.

References
Medina, A.L., J.L. Martín, I. Izquierdo, J.J. Hernández and P. Oromí: Cavidades volcánicas en la isla de La Palma (Islas Canarias) I. Descripción y consideraciones sobre su fauna. 7th Intemational Symposium On Vulcanospeleology, 1994:p 141–170
Fernández, O., R. García, F. Dumpiérrez, D. Gómez, F. Rodriguez: Las cavidades volcánicas del término municipal de San Andrés y Sauces In Volcania, Volume 9, December 2011:p 6–39

Paleontological sites of Europe
Caves of the Canary Islands
Lava tubes

Cuevas de los Murciélagos


Blood II: The Chosen is a first-person shooter video game developed by Monolith Productions and distributed by GT Interactive. Unlike the first installment, Blood, which was set in 1928, it takes place in the year 2028, so in addition to conventional weapons and magical items also incorporates science fiction technology, mostly falling under the cyberpunk genre, and elements of dystopian fiction. Much like its predecessor, the game contains a significant amount of graphic violence and black humor.

Video games

Blood II: The Chosen


Huguet de Mataplana (after 1173 – 28 November 1213) was a Catalan nobleman and poet. His name, also spelled Uget, is the diminutive form of Hug (also spelled Huc or Uc), which is the Occitan version of "Hugh" (French Hugues).

Huguet was the nephew of Ponç de Mataplana, who was attacked in a poem by the troubadour Guillem de Berguedà and whose death was later lamented by that same troubadour in a planh. Huguet's name appears in documents regularly between 1185 and his death. In 1197, for the first time in a surviving document, a woman, Sança, is named as his wife. He derives his name from the lordship he held at Mataplana near Nuestra Señora de Mongrony in the Ripollès. He was a frequent attendee at the courts of Alfonso II of Aragon and his son Peter II, figuring extensively in their royal charters. He was said to be a favorite of Peter.

According to the Historias y conquestas of Pere Tomich (1438), a late source, Huguet was present at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. He was wounded at the Battle of Muret the next year and died of his wounds a few months later. Peter II died at this battle. According to the Llibre dels fets of Peter's son, James I, Huguet was one of those who fled the field at Muret.

Huguet was the patron of the troubadour Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun. According to "Abrils issia", by Raimon, Huguet was an intimate and patron of joglars, the travelling performers of troubadours' songs. In another poem, "So fo el temps", Raimon describes in detail Huguet's sumptuous court at Mataplana. It has been suggested that Raimon was Huguet's teacher and grammarian. Of Huguet's poetic output, three tensos and one sirventes are conserved. He composed "En Blanchacet, eu sui de noit" and "En Diable, vos es per dar enoi", his two tensos with a Blacatz (or possibly with Blacasset), while the two were both young. His patronage of joglars did not stop him from attacking one Reculaire in the sirventes "Scometre.us vuoill, Reculaire". Huguet's most studied work is "D'un sirventes m'es pres talens", in which he abuses his good friend Raimon de Miraval for disowning his wife, Caudairenga. The sirventes comes with a long razo explaining the circumstances of its composition. Raimon has left a response.

Works
Works with Catalan translation

Sources
Riquer, Martín de. Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.

1213 deaths
12th-century Spanish troubadours
People of the Reconquista
People of the Albigensian Crusade
12th-century births
13th-century Spanish troubadours
Medieval Catalan nobility
12th-century Catalan people
13th-century Catalan people

Huguet de Mataplana


An electric match is a device that uses electricity to ignite a flammable compound. Usually, it is made of two wires. When an electric  current is applied to the two wires, they will ignite the compound. Electric matches are used when it is important to know the exact time at which the compound catches fire. Example uses include airbags, pyrotechnic devices (fireworks) and explosives.

Because they can be used to ignite explosives, some countries have trade restrictions on electric matches.

Electricity
Fire
Pyrotechnics

Electric match


Cardiac nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who suffer from various conditions of the cardiovascular system. Cardiac nurses help treat conditions such as unstable angina, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction and cardiac dysrhythmia under the direction of a cardiologist.

Cardiac nurses perform postoperative care on a surgical unit, stress test evaluations, cardiac monitoring, vascular monitoring, and health assessments. Cardiac nurses must have Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification. In addition, cardiac nurses must possess specialized skills including electrocardiogram monitoring, defibrillation, and medication administration by continuous intravenous drip.
Cardiac nurses work in many different environments, including coronary care units (CCU), cardiac catheterization, intensive care units (ICU), operating theatres, cardiac rehabilitation centers, clinical research, cardiac surgery wards, cardiovascular intensive care units (CVICU), and cardiac medical wards.

Certification for cardiac nurses
All cardiac nurses are registered nurses. In the past, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) offered certification in Cardiac Rehabilitation Nursing. However, ANCC has retired that exam, and the certification is no longer available, except to nurses who already have the certification and want to renew it.

the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) did not discontinue Cardiac certification.  The ANCC replaced it with the Cardiac-Vascular Nursing exam to earn Cardiac certification.
Cardiac-Vascular Nursing	RN-BC
Certified Vascular Nurse (retired exam)	RN-BC

See also
 British Journal of Cardiac Nursing

References

Novotny, J (2003). "101 Careers in Nursing", Springer Publishing Company.

External links
 Society for Vascular Nursing
 American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
 Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association

Nursing specialties

Cardiac nursing


George Newbold Lawrence (October 20, 1806 - January 17, 1895) was an American businessperson and amateur ornithologist (bird expert).

Lawrence counted birds for Spencer Fullerton Baird and John Cassin, and the three men wrote Birds of North America in 1858.

Lawrence left his 8,000 bird skins to the American Museum of Natural History. The Lawrence's Goldfinch Carduelis lawrencei was named for him by Cassin.

1806 births
1895 deaths
Businesspeople from New York City
American ornithologists

George Newbold Lawrence


The Indian Treaty Room (originally known as the Navy Department Library and Reception Room) is located in the East Wing of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. It was designed by Richard von Ezdorf, Draftsman for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Completed in 1879, it cost more to construct than any other room in the building at about $33.50 per square foot (total $55,675.00). The room has been used as a library, but today is primarily used for meetings and receptions.

The design of the room includes many nautical motifs, such as shells over the Italian and French marble panels; seahorses and dolphins in the cast iron railings on the second floor balcony; stars for navigation in the ceiling; and the compass in the center of the floor. The floor is the original English Minton tile floor. The room contains the only surviving original lighting fixtures in the building.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower held the first televised presidential press conference in the room in January 1955. It was subsequently used for presidential press conferences from 1955 until 1961. On September 12, 2001, the room was used to host the American Red Cross for an emergency blood drive so the White House staff could donate blood in response to the September 11 attacks. In 2001-2002, the room was used for the White House's Coalition Information Center, which coordinated media relations and relief efforts during Operation Enduring Freedom.

The name "Indian Treaty Room" was coined in the 1930s, and it is still not clear where it originated, despite extensive research. One theory is that it arose because the War Department stored papers there during the 1930s, including treaties with the American Indian nations.

The Bretton Woods agreements, the peace treaties with Italy, Hungary, and Romania after World War II, and the United Nations Charter were all signed in the room.

References

External links
 Indian Treaty Room, The Eisenhower Executive Office Building Tour, whitehouse.gov
 Photos of the Indian Treaty Room, National Archives and Records Administration

20th-century diplomatic conferences
Diplomatic conferences in the United States
Charter of the United Nations
United Nations conferences

Indian Treaty Room


"The Twa Magicians", "The Two Magicians", "The Lady and the Blacksmith", or "The Coal Black Smith" (Roud 1350, Child 44) is a British folk song. It first appears in print in 1828 in two sources, Peter Buchan's Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland and John Wilson's Noctes Ambrosianae #40. It was later published as number 44 of Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads. During the 20th century, versions of it have been recorded by a number of folk and popular musicians.

Synopsis
A blacksmith threatens to deflower (take the virginity of) a lady, who vows to keep herself a maiden.  A transformation chase ensues, differing in several variants, but containing such things as she becomes a hare, and he catches her as greyhound, she became a duck and he became either a water dog or a drake.  In the Child version of the ballad she does not escape, but in other common renderings, she does.

Motifs
In ballads, the man chasing the woman appears more often in conversation than in fact, when a woman says she will flee, and the man retorts he will chase her, through a variety of forms; these tales are often graceful teasing.

Francis James Child regarded it as derived from one of two fairy tale forms.

In the first, a young man and woman flee an enemy by taking on new forms.  This type is Aarne-Thompson type 313, the girl helps the hero flee; instances of it include "Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's Daughter", "The Grateful Prince", "Foundling-Bird", and "The Two Kings' Children".

In the second, a young man, studying with a sorcerer, flees his master by taking on new forms, which his master counters by equivalent forms.  This is Aarne-Thompson type 325, the magician and his pupil; instances include "The Thief and His Master", "Farmer Weathersky", "Master and Pupil", and "Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi".

Versions
The Roud Folksong Index lists 33 examples. though some are duplicates. Apart from earlier Scottish versions there are eight versions collected in the 20th and 21st centuries, five from England, three from Scotland, and one from Kentucky. The earliest was collected by Cecil Sharp in 1905.

Recordings
The song has been recorded (generally under the name "The Two Magicians") by a number of traditional folk artists, including A. L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick, and John Roberts, as well as folk rock and folk jazz artists such as Galley Beggar, Steeleye Span, Spriguns of Tolgus, Pentangle, and Bellowhead. It is also popular among neofolk artists, and has been recorded by Current 93 (under the name "Oh Coal Black Smith") and Blood Axis.  It was the inspiration for the first movement of Märchentänze by Thomas Adès, composed in 2020.

See also
List of the Child Ballads
Ceridwen

References

External links
The Two Magicians

Child Ballads
Fiction about shapeshifting
Year of song unknown

The Twa Magicians


A Bunsen burner is a common piece of laboratory equipment. It is commonly used for heating chemical substances, sterilization, and combustion. It works by burning flammable gas. It is named after Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, a German chemist. He made important improvements on an earlier burner invented by Michael Faraday.

The Bunsen burner can be adjusted to make a flame that is very hot without making much light. This allows seeing the different colors that various chemicals make when they are sprinkled into the flame.

Laboratory equipment

Bunsen burner


A botanical and horticultural library is a library specializing in the preservation and collection of literature and materials about plants.  The mission of many botanical and horticultural libraries is to make accessible and available to those who use it the information on this topic.

Botanical and horticultural libraries can be found in arboretums, botanical gardens, research institutions, horticultural societies, conservatories, governmental offices, colleges, and universities as part of a larger university library.

Typical users include members of various public gardens, students of the life sciences, researchers, and scholars.

Collections

The collections within these types of libraries cover such topics as flowers, grasses, trees, fungi, aquatic plants, weeds, algae, pests, and fertilizers.  The typical collection is composed of books, periodicals, and photo collections.  The types of materials depend on the types of patrons.  A public botanical garden library may contain books for children, nursery catalogs, seed catalogs, popular how-to publications, movies, and various other media resources.  At an academic library, there may be such archived materials, such as historical letters, autographs of famous botanists, plant lists, field notes, and reports of botanic expeditions.  Much of the collection in academic botanical and horticultural libraries includes work on the identification of particular plants.  Some libraries contain live specimens and preserved samples of plants, referred to as an herbarium.

Libraries may also hold highly specialized collections of certain species.  For example, The Orchid Library of Oakes Ames is devoted exclusively to orchids.  The collection is composed of more than 5,000 journals and books devoted to the classification and identification of orchid species around the world.

Patron types

Typical users include: members of various botanic gardens; students of the life sciences including botany, horticulture, agriculture, biology, herbology, turf grass management; researchers; and scholars.

See also

 Botany

External links of notable examples

Botany and Horticulture Library at Library of Congress
San Francisco Botanic Garden
Harvard University Herbaria
New York Botanical Garden Mertz Library
National Tropical Botanical Garden
Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library
The Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden
Arnold Arboretum Library
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Elisabeth C. Miller University of Washington Botanic Gardens
Eleanor Squire Library, Cleveland Botanical Garden
Helen Fowler Library of the Denver Botanic Gardens

Other external links
The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc.
European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group

References

Libraries by subject

Botanical and horticultural library


Shaun Edward Marsh (born 9 July, 1983 in Narrogin, Western Australia) is an Australian cricketer. He is nicknamed 'Sos'. He is a left-handed batsman with a first-class batting average of 40.

On 8 September, 2011, Marsh made his Test debut for Australia in the 2nd Test against Sri Lanka at Pallekele in replace of the unavailable Ricky Ponting. Thus far in the Australian innings, Marsh has scored 87* batting with Michael Hussey in a 148 run partnership.

Australian cricketers
Sportspeople from Western Australia
1983 births
Living people

Shaun Marsh


Potash is a generic term for a chemical compound. It means the mixture of potassium hydroxide and potassium carbonate left over in ashes. The wood was burnt to produce ashes, which were dissolved in water. The potash was then reacted with fat to produce soap.

Related pages
Potash alum

Potassium compounds

Potash


Stuffed peppers is a dish common in many cuisines. It consists of hollowed or halved peppers filled with any of a variety of fillings, often including meat, vegetables, cheese, rice, or sauce. The dish is usually assembled by filling the cavities of the peppers and then cooking.

China

The Cantonese version of stuffed peppers is part of a street food called Three Fried Stuffed Treasures (煎釀三寶), with stuffed peppers, stuffed aubergines, and stuffed sausage. Though with different vegetables and meat, the stuffing is all the same: dace fish paste. After assembling the fish paste, it is deep-fried. It is usually served with Worcestershire sauce, or can be served without sauce.

Spain
Stuffed peppers or pimientos rellenos are part of traditional Spanish cuisine, especially that of the region of the Basque Country. Usually piquillo peppers are used. The fillings might include Manchego cheese, chicken, or cod in a red sauce, with chicken likely being the most popular recipe.

India
Stuffed peppers (bharvan mirch or bharva hari mirch) is one of several stuffed vegetable (bharvan subji) dishes. It consists of bell peppers stuffed with cooked meat, potatoes, and onions and seasoned with chili, turmeric, coriander, cilantro, salt, and lemon juice. The peppers are then either browned in a tava (frying pan) or baked in an oven until the peppers are scorched.

Mirchi bajji or pakora is a chaat (street food) item and is a hot favorite during the monsoon and cooler months. In  Mumbai and western areas, the big green chilli pepper is stuffed with a roasted, spiced flour mix and fried. In the South, the big green chillies, similar to Hatch chili peppers, are dipped in a flour batter and fried. It may be accompanied by chutneys and sauces. In Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, some of the smaller but more potent chillies are also stuffed and fried, especially as a side to rice.

Eastern Mediterranean

Dolma is a family of stuffed dishes from Ottoman cuisine that can be served warm or cold. Some types of dolma are made with whole vegetables including whole peppers. Today, dolma are found in the cuisines of the Balkans, South Caucasus, Central Asia and the Levant, and the family cuisines of Sephardic and Iraqi Jews. Dolma dishes are found in Balkan, Caucasian, Arab, Israeli, Turkish, and Central Asian cuisine, and were historically part of the Ottoman palace cuisine. The word dolma, of Turkish origin, means "something stuffed".

North America

Stuffed peppers in American cuisine is a dish where bell peppers (often the green, yellow, orange, and red varieties) are typically filled with a stuffing such as ground beef, mixed with bread crumbs or cooked rice, eggs, herbs, and spices (especially paprika and parsley) and cheese. Recipes vary but often include hollowing out the peppers, boiling them, stuffing them, covering them with cheese, and baking or alternatively cooking them on the stove top at a slow simmer in canned tomato sauce until the peppers are soft. A sauce may be served with them, often a tomato sauce, but this, too, varies greatly.

Mexican and "Tex-Mex" cuisine has more than one stuffed pepper dish:

 The chile relleno, literally "stuffed pepper", consists of a roasted and peeled/skinned green pasilla or poblano pepper stuffed with cheese (traditionally queso fresco) and, occasionally, minced meat, covered in an egg batter, and fried. It is often served covered with a sauce, although the type of sauce varies widely. It is sometimes also served in a taco with rice, salsa and other toppings. This is also a popular offering at Tex-Mex restaurants in the southwestern U.S., but often cheddar cheese replaces the queso fresco.
 Jalapeño poppers are jalapeño peppers that have been hollowed out, stuffed with a mixture of cheese, spices, and sometimes ground meat, and then deep fried. The dish is common in Tex-Mex cuisine and less so in true Mexican cooking.

Guatemala
In Guatemala, the "pimiento" pepper is stuffed with shredded pork and vegetables.  As the Mexican version, it is covered with egg batter and fried.  It is served with tomato sauce or inside a bread bun.

Nordic and Baltic countries
 Nordic countries: Fyldte peberfrugter (Danish), Täytetyt paprikat (Finnish), Fylltar paprikur (Icelandic), Fylt paprika (Norwegian), Fyllda paprikor (Swedish).
 Baltic countries (Baltic States): Kimšti pipirai (Lithuanian) usually made with ground beef (or pork), rice, various vegetables and spices; Pildīti pipari (Latvian) and Täidisega paprika (Estonian) is  word phrase for "stuffed peppers".

Central and Southeast Europe

There are many names for stuffed peppers in the languages of Central and Southeast Europe:

Filana paprika or Punjena paprika (Croatian)
Speca të mbushur (Albanian)
Γεμιστά (Gemista) (Greek)
Punjena paprika (Bosnian)
Пуњена паприка (Serbian)
Filana paprika or Polnjena paprika (Slovenian)
Faszerowana papryka (Polish)
Gefüllte Paprika (German)
Töltött paprika (Hungarian)
Полнети пиперки (Polneti piperki) (Macedonian)
Plněná paprika (Czech)
Plnená Paprika (Slovak)
  Пълнени чушки (Pulneni chushki) (Bulgarian)
  Фаршированный перец (Russian)
  Фарширований перець (Ukrainian)
 Ardei umpluți  (Romanian)
 biber dolmasi  (Turkish)

The Hungarian variant, töltött paprika, is always made with Hungarian wax pepper, which has a distinctive taste somewhat similar to lecsó. Punjena paprika () includes a tomato sauce. In Bulgaria, stuffed peppers are usually eaten with yogurt. Another variety of stuffed peppers in Bulgaria is made with mixed white cheese and eggs instead of meat and rice as stuffing.

In Romanian cuisine stuffed peppers are usually prepared with bell peppers stuffed with ground meat (usually pork), rice, onion, and other vegetables and spices and then boiled in a sauce made from cream, tomatoes, and spices.

Traditionally in Bulgaria the filling is made of rice steamed in advance, onions, minced meat and spices, heat-treated and crammed into pre-cleaned, washed and riddled with needle peppers. After filling of peppers, they are put in a baking dish, water is added and the dish is baked in the oven. If raw egg is added to the cooled stuffing, filled peppers can be cooked in a pan, as the pods are boiled almost steamed.

Besides minced meat and rice, other fillings may be used, such as vegetables (for example leek) and rice, beans, or fresh cheese and eggs. The peppers themselves can be either fresh or dried. Dried red peppers are used especially in southeastern Serbia around Pirot and Dimitrovgrad, often in winter.

Stuffed peppers are often cooked by Romani people and is a popular dish in Romani cuisine.

See also
 List of stuffed dishes

References

Stuffed vegetable dishes
American cuisine
Mexican cuisine
Guatemalan cuisine
Romani cuisine
Balkan cuisine
Scandinavian cuisine
Lithuanian cuisine
Albanian cuisine

Stuffed peppers


Howell Marion Estes Jr. (or Howell Marion Estes II) (September 18, 1914 – July 2, 2007) was a general in the United States Air Force and commander of the Military Air Transport Service, later renamed the Military Airlift Command.

Biography
Estes was born in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, graduated from the United States Military Academy in June 1936 and began his military career at Fort Bliss, Texas. He was appointed platoon and troop commanding officer of the 7th Cavalry, and later was assigned to Headquarters 1st Cavalry Division, as aide to the commanding general. He entered pilot training school in June 1939. Upon graduation in April 1940, he transferred to the Army Air Corps and subsequently was assigned as a flight instructor at Brooks Field, Texas.

In August he was appointed commandant of cadets at the Brooks Field Advanced Flying School. He became director of flying for the school in July 1942 and was redesignated director of training the following year. In February 1944, he assumed command of Blackland Army Air Base, Waco, Texas. With the closing of Blackland, he assumed command of Lubbock Army Air Field at Lubbock, Texas, in July 1944.

In January 1946, Estes became chief of the Plans and Policy Branch, Operations Division, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), at Wiesbaden, Germany. He was named chief of the plans section, Operations Division in April and three months later was designated deputy assistant chief of staff, operations. In November 1947 he became assistant chief of staff, plans, at USAFE.

Estes returned to the United States and in June 1949 completed courses at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He was then assigned to March Air Force Base, California, where he assumed command of the 1st Air Base Group and shortly thereafter became deputy commander and chief of staff, 22d Bombardment Wing and later became commander of the wing. In January 1951, he became commander of the 44th Bombardment Wing at March Air Force Base.

During the Korean War, Estes was on temporary duty overseas from March to July 1951 as vice commander of the Far East Air Forces Bomber Command. During that time, he flew 25 combat missions over Korea with a total of 328 hours in B-29s.

He assumed command of the 320th Bombardment Wing at March Air Force Base in August 1951 and was named commander of the 12th Air Division in 1952. In October, as an additional duty, he was designated commander, Air Task Group 7.4, Joint Task Force Seven, for the overseas atomic test, Operation Castle. He relinquished command of the 12th Air Division in July 1953 and took active command of Air Task Group 7.4. During the operational phase of Operation Castle in 1954, he spent four months at the Pacific Proving Grounds on Eniwetok Atoll.

Estes was assigned as director of weapon systems operations, Wright Air Development Center of the Air Research and Development Command (ARDC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in July 1954. This directorate was transferred to the Office of the Deputy Commander for Weapon Systems, ARDC in August 1955, and became known as Detachment 1, at which time Estes became assistant deputy commander for weapon systems, Headquarters ARDC and commander, Detachment 1.

Estes was transferred to Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., as the Assistant Chief of Staff, Air Defense Systems, in August 1957, and was reassigned as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, in June 1958. In April 1961, Estes became the deputy commander for aerospace systems, Air Force Systems Command (AFSC), in Los Angeles, California, and in October 1962, he became vice commander of AFSC at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

In July 1964, Estes became commander of the Military Airlift Command (then the Military Air Transport Service) with headquarters at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Estes was presented the General H.H. Arnold Trophy, the highest military honor given by the Arnold Air Society, on April 26, 1967, for outstanding contributions to military aviation and aerospace programs.

He died at his Bethesda, Maryland home in 2007.

Education
1931 Graduate Hampton High School, Virginia
1936 Graduate U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
1940 Primary and Advanced Flying Schools, Randolph and Kelly fields, Texas
1949 Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.

Assignments

 June 1936 – June 1939: Various duties, 7th Cavalry and 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Bliss, Texas
 June 1939 – April 1940: Flying school, Love, Randolph and Kelly fields, Texas
 April 1940 – February 1944: Commanding officer, 23d Pursuit Squadron; commandant of flying cadets; and then director of training, Brooks Field, Texas
 February 1944 – June 1944: Commander, Blackland Army Air Base, Waco, Texas
 July 1944 – December 1945: Commander, Lubbock Army Air Force Base, Lubbock, Texas
 January 1946 – July 1948: Chief, Plans and Policy Branch; chief, Plans Section; deputy assistant chief of staff, operations; and later assistant chief of staff, plans, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces, Europe
 July 1948 – June 1949: Student, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
 June 1949 – February 1951: Commander, 1st Air Base Group; deputy commander and commander, 22d Bomb Wing; commander, 44th Bomb Wing, March Air Force Base, California
 March 1951 – July 1951: 98th Bomb Wing, Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, with temporary duty to Korea as vice commander, Far East Air Forces Bomber Command
 August 1951 – July 1953: Commander, 320th Bomb Wing and later commander, 12th Air Division, March Air Force Base, California
 August 1953 – July 1954: Commander, Air Task Group 7.4, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, with temporary duty on Eniwetok Island during operational phase of Operation Castle
 July 1954 – August 1957: Director, Weapon Systems Operations, Wright Air Development Center; assistant deputy commander for weapon systems with additional duty as commander, Detachment 1, Headquarters ARDC, and director of systems management, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
 August 1957 – March 1961: Assistant chief of staff, Air Defense Systems; and later assistant deputy chief of staff, operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
 April 1961 – October 1962: Deputy commander, Aerospace Systems (Air Force Systems Command), Los Angeles, California
 October 1962 – July 1964: Vice commander, Air Force Systems Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
 July 1964 – July 1969: Commander, Military Air Transport Service (later Military Airlift Command), Scott Air Force Base, Illinois
August 1, 1969 – Retired

Awards and decorations

Effective dates of promotion

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1914 births
2007 deaths
American Korean War pilots
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
Recipients of the Air Medal
Recipients of the Order of the Sword (United States)
United States Air Force generals
United States Military Academy alumni
People from Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
Military personnel from Bethesda, Maryland
Recipients of the Czechoslovak War Cross
Recipients of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal

Howell M. Estes II


"Evacuate the Dancefloor" is a hit song off the album of the same name by German music group Cascada. The single was released as the lead single of the album June 29, 2009, debuting at #1 on the UK singles chart. It was their third hit song in the United States on many music charts. The song also hit Top 5 in Canada, France and certain other countries.

2009 songs

Evacuate the Dancefloor