Helge Ingstad

Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America.
Helge Ingstad died at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo at the age of 101.
Early life.
Helge Ingstad was the son of Olav Ingstad (1867–1958) and Olga Marie Qvam (1869–1946) in Meråker, Nord-Trøndelag. His father was municipal engineer in Tromsø and held the title of factory supervisor. He was the grandson of lawyer professor, Marcus Pløen Ingstad. Helge and his family moved to Bergen in 1915 where he attended the Bergen Katedralskole (1915–1918), and after graduating cand. jur. in 1922 he took up a practice of lawyer in Levanger.
Career.
Helge Ingstad was originally a lawyer by profession, but, ever an outdoorsman, he sold his successful law practice in Levanger and went to Canada's Northwest Territories as a trapper in 1926. For the next three years, the Norwegian travelled with the local Indian tribe known as the Caribou Eaters. After returning to Norway, he wrote the bestselling "Pelsjegerliv" ("Trapper Life") about his time in Canada, published in English as "The Land of Feast and Famine" (Knopf, 1933).
Ingstad was the governor (Sysselmann) of Erik the Red's Land in 1932–1933, when Norway annexed that eastern part of Greenland. The Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague decided that the lands belonged to Denmark, and so the official Norwegian presence had to end. Following the verdict, Ingstad was summoned by the government to the job as governor of Svalbard (Spitsbergen and the surrounding islands) — a position suiting him uniquely, considering his profession of law and his experience in Arctic living.
Marriage.
During his years on Svalbard, Helge Ingstad met Anne Stine Moe, nearly twenty years his junior. She had read his books from Canada and Greenland with great admiration, and developed a crush on the explorer; she wrote to him, and after some time of correspondence and dating they were engaged, and married in 1941. In 1946, the Ingstads made themselves a home near the Holmenkollen area of Norway's capital, Oslo, where they spent the rest of their lives when not travelling the world. They had one daughter, Benedicte, who became a professor in medical anthropology at the University in Oslo. From her teenage years, Benedicte accompanied her parents on their exploration journeys.
Author.
Helge Ingstad was a popular author, whose books on his visits to remote parts of the world gained him fame in Norway. From Greenland he wrote "Øst for den store bre" ("East of the Great Glacier"), from Svalbard he wrote "Landet med de kalde kyster" ("The Land With the Chilly Coasts"). He also visited the Apache Indians of northwestern Mexico, from which he wrote "Apache-indianerne - jakten på den tapte stamme" ("The Apaches - The Hunt for the Lost Tribe"). After World War II he stayed for a period in the Brooks Range in northern Alaska among the Nunamiut Iñupiat, and afterwards wrote "Nunamiut - blant Alaskas innlandseskimoer" ("Nunamiut - Inland Eskimos of Alaska").
His 1931 book, "The Land of Feast or Famine", was republished by McGill University Press, in 1992, after being out of print for over forty years.
Viking settlement of North America.
In 1960, he discovered the remains of what later proved to be a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows at the northernmost tip of Newfoundland in Canada.
It is the only known site of a Norse or Viking village in Canada, and in North America outside of Greenland. Dating to around the year 1000, L'Anse aux Meadows remains the only widely accepted instance of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact and is notable for its possible connection with the attempted colony of Vinland established by Leif Ericson around the same time period or, more broadly, with Norse exploration of the Americas.
Archaeological excavation at the site was conducted in the 1960s by an international team led by archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad (Helge Ingstad's wife) and under the direction of Parks Canada of the Government of Canada in the 1970s. Following each period of excavation, the site was reburied to protect and conserve the cultural resources.
The settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows has been dated to approximately 1,000 years ago, an assessment that tallies with the relative dating of artifact and structure types. The remains of eight buildings were located. They are believed to have been constructed of sod placed over a wooden frame. Based on associated artifacts, the buildings were variously identified as dwellings or workshops. The largest dwelling measured and consisted of several rooms. Workshops were identified as an iron smithy containing a forge and iron slag, a carpentry workshop, which generated wood debris, and a specialized boat repair area containing worn rivets. Besides those related to iron working, carpentry, and boat repair, other artifacts found at the site consisted of common everyday Norse items, including a stone oil lamp, a whetstone, a bronze fastening pin, a bone knitting needle, and part of a spindle. The presence of the spindle and needle suggests that women were present as well as men. Food remains included butternuts, which are significant because they do not grow naturally north of New Brunswick, and their presence probably indicates the Norse inhabitants travelled farther south to obtain them. Archaeologists concluded that the site was inhabited by the Norse for a relatively short period of time.
Norse sagas.
Norse sagas are written versions of older oral traditions. Two Icelandic sagas, commonly called the "Saga of the Greenlanders" and the "Saga of Eric the Red", describe the experiences of Norse Greenlanders who discovered and attempted to settle land to the west of Greenland, identified by them as Vinland. The sagas suggest that the Vinland settlement failed because of conflicts within the Norse community, as well as between the Norse and the native people they encountered, whom they called Skrælingar.
Recent archaeological studies suggest that the L'Anse aux Meadows site is not Vinland itself but was within a land called Vinland that spread farther south from L'Anse aux Meadows, extending to the St. Lawrence River and New Brunswick. The village at L'Anse aux Meadows served as an exploration base and winter camp for expeditions heading southward into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The settlements of Vinland mentioned in the Eric saga and the Greenlanders saga, Leifsbudir (Leif Ericson) and Hóp (Norse Greenlanders), have both been identified as the L'Anse aux Meadows site.
Named features.
Helge Ingstad has two geographic features in North America named after him. In Canada, a small river, Ingstad Creek, flows into Great Slave Lake. In Alaska, the 1461-meter-high Ingstad Mountain in the Brooks Range was officially approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names on 19 April 2006. The name was suggested by the Nunamiut tribe in gratitude for Ingstad's efforts on their behalf.
During the last few years of his life, he worked on categorizing and annotating the large quantity of photos and audio recordings (141 songs) he had made while living with the Nunamiut in 1950. The effort resulted in a booklet, "Songs of the Nunamiut", with an accompanying CD containing the audio material. This is an extremely valuable contribution to the preservation of the Nunamiut culture, because it turned out that much of what he had gathered in the mid-20th century was now lost locally and was only preserved in his recordings.
Honours.
He was an honorary member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He also held honorary doctorates at the University of Oslo, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, and at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (in 1991; previously Knight 1st class in 1965, and Commander in 1970), Knight of the Order of Vasa, and he was presented with the Norwegian Red Cross Badge of Honour for his efforts in Finnmark during World War II. He received a lifetime government grant from the Norwegian government from 1970. He was the subject of a 1981 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary "The Man Who Discovered America", and subsequently appeared along with his wife in the 1984 NFB film, "The Vinland Mystery". In 1986, he was presented Arts Council Norway's honor award. , the fourth of the five s of the Royal Norwegian Navy was named after Helge Ingstad.
The inner main-belt asteroid 8993 Ingstad, discovered by Danish astronomer Richard Martin West at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile in 1980, was named in his memory. The official naming citation was published by the MPC on 24 June 2002 ().
The Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad Building on the St. John's Campus of Memorial University is named after him and his wife. It houses the University's Print and Mail Services.


Ossorya coat of arms

Ossorya is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Notable bearers.
Notable bearers of this coat of arms have included:


The Cry of the Weak

The Cry of the Weak is a lost silent film drama directed by George Fitzmaurice, scripted by Ouida Bergère and starring Fannie Ward. Astra Films produced and Pathé Exchange distributed.


B4U Movies

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The channel broadcasts a mixture of classic and contemporary Bollywood films.
There are 4 different versions of the channel available in the UK, North America, the Middle East and South Asia. Each version of the channel produces a quantity of local programming which reflects the culture and tastes of the local population of the Indian Diaspora. One such program (only shown on the South Asian version of B4U movies) is a talent contest for young actors, directors and screenwriters aged 7–15. The show concluded with the 4 finalists of the contest having their debut films premiered on the channel.


Deborah (given name)

Deborah () is a feminine given name derived from דבורה "D'vorah", a Hebrew word meaning "bee". Deborah was a heroine and prophetess in the Old Testament Book of Judges. In the United States, the name was most popular from 1950 to 1970, when it was among the 20 most popular names for girls. It was the 25th most common name for women in the United States in the 1990 census. It has since fallen in popularity. It ranked as the 780th most popular name for baby girls born in 2007 in the United States, down from 676th most popular name in 2006.
The name is Déborah in French, Débora in Portuguese and Spanish, and Debora in Italian and Czech.


List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Huntingdon County

This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Huntingdon County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available. There are 23 historical markers located in Huntingdon County.


The Forks, Winnipeg

The Forks () is an historic site, meeting place and green space in Downtown Winnipeg located at the confluence of the Red River and the Assiniboine River.
The Forks was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974 due to its status as a cultural landscape that had borne witness to six thousand years of human activity. The site's grounds are open year-round.
History.
6,000 years ago.
Numerous archaeological digs have shown that early Aboriginal groups arrived at The Forks site around 6,000 years ago. The digs conducted between 1989 and 1994 discovered several Aboriginal camps. Artifacts related to the bison hunt and fishing were unearthed. Evidence showed that Nakoda (Assiniboins), Cree, Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) and Sioux (Dakota) visited the site. Seasonal migration routes from northern forests to southern plains featured the Forks area as a rest stop, and the location became a key transcontinental trade link.
The Assiniboine River has followed its modern course for approximately 700 years. The Assiniboine River formerly met the Red River near the present-day mouth of the La Salle River.
1734–1760.
European fur traders arrived at the site and initiated trade with the local peoples, using the Assiniboine people as fur trade middlemen.
1738–1880.
Europeans arrived by canoe in 1738. La Vérendrye erected Fort Rouge, the first of a long line of forts and trading posts erected in the area. The Red River Colony and the forts were all established near The Forks. The area remained the hub of the fur trade up until the 1880s. At that time, grain production became Western Canada's principal industry and the main transportation for that industry was rail rather than waterways.
During the smallpox epidemics of 1781–1782, over half of the area's aboriginal population died. At this time over 1,000 Aboriginal men, women, and children were buried in The Old Aboriginal Graveyard at The Forks.
From 1760 to 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company competed for furs. Both companies used The Forks to store and ship supplies and furs. By 1821, competing fur companies were amalgamated into the Hudson's Bay Company.
1886–1923.
The rail yards of the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company, the Canadian Northern, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad and the Canadian National Railway were dominant facets of the Forks site, and this era is responsible for some of the buildings still standing at The Forks.
The Forks Market was formed by joining together the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway stable and the Great Northern Railway stable and Johnston Terminal was originally known as the National Cartage Building.
The Manitoba Children's Museum is housed in what used to be the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company's Buildings and Bridges (B & B) Buildings. Union Station is still in operation.
1870–1920.
Across the Prairies the Canadian government began actively promoting immigration, settlement and railway development in the late 1800s. The Canadian government erected two immigration sheds at The Forks, each accommodating up to 500 people.
The Forks today.
Since its designation in 1989, The Forks has contained public space for celebrations and recreation, an interpretive park, revitalized historic and new buildings containing shops and restaurants, as well as a skateboard park and historic port. The Forks attracts over four million visitors each year.
The Forks Market.
Beginning as two adjacent stables for competing rail companies, the horse stalls were joined together by a courtyard and bridges and became what is now known as The Forks Market.
The Forks Market features a six-storey tower with viewing platform, which is accessible by stairs or elevator and features interpretive panels with information on the site's history.
The market also comprises two storeys of vendors selling everything from fresh fruit, bread, meat, and wine to cigars and aromatherapy products to crafts and artworks from 300 local and Canadian artisans.
In mid-2016, the Forks completed a $2.5-million renovation of the food hall into a feature called The Common, including a new beer and wine kiosk.
Johnston Terminal.
Across the courtyard from the Forks Market is the four-storey Johnston Terminal building. Originally constructed in 1930, the terminal was a warehouse and freight-forwarding facility erected by Carter-Halls-Aldinger Company, and cost an estimated $134,700. After a substantial addition in 1930, the warehouse was at the time one of the largest in Winnipeg, containing over of usable space. It was occupied by National Storage and Cartage until 1961, and was leased to the Johnston National Cartage Company for the next 15 years. Vacated in 1977, the building was unoccupied until the redevelopment of the site into The Forks. The original developers, Artis REIT, continue to own and manage Johnston Terminal.
The building is now home to a variety of specialty boutiques and stores, offices, a café, and The Old Spaghetti Factory. The basement of the building hosts the Johnston Terminal Antique Mall, which features over 30 consigners and of new merchandise brought in daily.
Travel Manitoba Visitor Information Centre.
Travel Manitoba Visitor Information Centre – Forks Location is the visitor information centre for Manitoba, offering travel counselling and trip planning services. The centre also acts as a meeting point for the "6,000 Years in 60 Minutes!" Parks Canada interpretive program offered throughout the summer months.
Manitoba Children's Museum.
Located next to the Oodena Celebration Circle, the Manitoba Children's Museum is a non-profit, charitable children's museum featuring twelve permanent galleries. Originally opened at a different location in 1986, the museum's moved to its current building at the Forks in 1994. The museum is now housed in the former Kinsmen Building, which is the oldest surviving train repair facility in Manitoba, having been built in 1889.
The museum underwent $10 million in renovations in 2011, including the addition of the Buhler Welcome Centre.
Manitoba Theatre for Young People.
The Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP) is a theatre for children and young adults, located at the Canwest Performing Arts Centre in The Forks, Winnipeg. The location provides of space for the theatre to use towards its missions of producing entertaining professional theatre, providing training in theatre and portraying the experience of Canadian children.
MTYP's Theatre School offers Fall, Winter, and Spring sessions, as well as Spring break and Summer camps, including classes for children as young as three years old. MTYP offers free acting, performing and film training classes to Winnipeg's Aboriginal youth between the ages of 12 and 18.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
The Forks is the location of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (the first national museum outside of Ottawa). Its construction was completed in 2014.
The site for the museum is one of archaeological importance relating to First Nations history.
Inn at the Forks.
Inn at the Forks is a five-storey hotel located at the Forks. It has 117 guest rooms and suites, meeting and reception space for up to 200 people, fitness facilities, and features The Current Restaurant & Lounge and Riverstone Spa. The hotel features natural slate floors in the main lobby, glass vanities in the suite washrooms, heated floors, and a water wall in the spa.
The Inn at the Forks project was the first Canadian application of the "Redi-Maid" system that links ensuite occupancy sensors, lighting and mechanical system controls to staff PDAs with the goal of maximizing energy efficiency. The hotel was completed with a construction cost of $16 million in May 2004.
Winnipeg Rail Museum.
The Winnipeg Rail Museum is located at the historic Union Station adjacent to the Forks. It is home to the Countess of Dufferin steam locomotive, the first locomotive to enter Western Canada.
Outdoor features.
The Forks features numerous outdoor facilities, sculptures, and landscape features open to the public.
Arctic Glacier Winter Park.
During winter, the following skating rinks, trails and snow park structures are erected at the Forks.
In January 2008, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized The Forks as the home of the longest skating rink in the world. The 8.54-kilometre-long Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail on the Assiniboine River and the Red River is almost 1 kilometre longer than the previous record-holding rink. The 7.8-kilometre long rink on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario had lost its World Record title which it had held since 1971. Then in 2008 the rivers beat their own record which made the longest rink go to about 9.3-kilometres. The Rideau Canal still held the record for the "world's largest naturally frozen ice rink" by the Guinness Book of World Records because "its entire length receives daily maintenance such as sweeping, ice thickness checks and there are toilet and recreational facilities along its entire length". In 2013 the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail lost its record to the Lake Windermere Whiteway at Invermere, British Columbia, Canada.
The length of the skating trail at The Forks changes each year, depending on river and ice conditions, although a concerted effort is made to make it as long as possible. In the winter of 2010/2011, conditions on The Assiniboine River made it impossible to safely create skating westward, so the path extended instead south on the Red River. Essentially, the water level and the weather at the time of freeze-up will impact the way the ice forms (see frazil ice, for example), how stable it will be, and how smoothly it can be made for skating. Much of the local river ice in Winnipeg in the winter of 2010/2011 was too rough to form a skating surface. There is also a skating trail made overland which is not impacted by river conditions. There are also walking and ski trails running parallel to the skating trail.
"Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice" is an open competition endorsed by the Manitoba Association of Architects. Started in 2010, the first iteration of the competition saw five local architects building outdoor structures to protect people from winter weather. In 2011, competition was opened up to international participants and included work by Frank Gehry's firm Gehry Partners. The competition has been awarded a Downtown Merit Award from the International Downtown Association.
Assiniboine Riverwalk.
The Assiniboine Riverwalk follows along the riverbanks from underneath Esplanade Riel to the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building.
The Riverwalk is often closed due to river flooding in springtime. From the construction of the walkway to the summer of 2011, the walkway has been submerged beyond access for part of the summer for 16 out of 21 years.
Balance of Spirit Within.
"Balance of Spirit Within" is a granite stone sculpture weighing approximately 10 tonnes, and is located on the north side of the Forks Historic Rail Bridge.
Broadway Promenade.
The Broadway Promenade is a pedestrian walkway connecting the Esplanade Riel pedestrian bridge to Union Station and Broadway Avenue. Designed by Scatliff+Miller+Murray, the design incorporates two pathways which cross the site. One pathway re-established the historic Broadway/Provencher Boulevard connection, and the other is a winding pathway representing pre-European contact era.
Busk Stops.
There are often buskers in and around the Forks. Buskers perform at stations known as "Busk Stops". They are paid by donation, but are prohibited from suggesting donation amounts or requesting contributions. There is an annual competition called the "Scotiabank Busker's Festival" at which it is decided who will be allowed to Busk.
Esplanade Riel.
Named in honor of Louis Riel, Esplanade Riel is a pedestrian-only side-spar cable-stayed bridge which spans the Red River connecting downtown Winnipeg with St. Boniface, and it is paired with a vehicular bridge, the Provencher Bridge.
The Esplanade Riel is the only bridge with a restaurant in North America, and since July 2015 is occupied by Mon Ami Louis. Former leasees include Salisbury House, a local Winnipeg chain restaurant, and Chez Sophie.
Festival Park and Scotiabank Stage.
The Scotiabank Stage is an outdoor stage with adjoining greenspace, built along the Broadway Promenade.
In 2012, the signature events at the stage included Winnipeg's Pride Parade festival, Aboriginal Day Live hosted by APTN, Canada Day activities and the Folklorama Kick-Off.
Flood markers.
The posts on the canopy between the Forks Market and Johnston Terminal have bands on them to commemorate the peak water levels of major floods. Starting from the bottom of the posts, the bottom marker represents the 1950 flood, the middle marker represents both the 1852 and 1997 floods, and the top the flood of 1826. The flood line markers on one of the posts have historic plaques with information on the floods they represent.
The Forks Historic Port.
Positioned along the Assiniboine Riverwalk, the historic port offers river vessel docking and rental, as well as access to the Splash Dash Water Bus.
During times of flooding Splash Dash Water Bus employs a movable ramp and floating dock system that allows it to operate in high water conditions.
The Forks Market Plaza.
Located directly in between the Forks Market, and Johnston Terminal, the Forks Market Plaza features fountains, canopies, dancing programs, several open performance spaces and patios.
In the winter, the Plaza is home to an artificially cooled skating rink, under a canopy and lights.
The Forks National Historic Site of Canada.
The Forks National Historic Site of Canada is a 9.0 acre (3.63 hectare) park dedicated to "preserving and presenting the 6,000-year history of human presence and activity at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers", and is operated by Parks Canada.
The site features interpretive exhibits, sculptures, year-round walking trails, a dock, a canoe beach, a native prairie garden and a riverside amphitheatre for performances and events. Walking tours and presentations are offered throughout the summer.
Historic Rail Bridge.
Built in 1888, the rail bridge was abandoned and eventually converted into a lighted crossing for pedestrians, cyclists and skaters.
The mural on the side of the rail bridge is entitled "Jackson Beardy – Woodlands Group of Seven Tribute", and was painted in 2006 for Graffiti Gallery's Winnipeg International Mural Festival. The 30-foot wide and 20-foot tall mural pays tribute to Cree artist Jackson Beardy as well as the other members of the Indian Group of Seven.
Oodena Celebration Circle.
Oodena Celebration Circle is a natural shallow amphitheatre located between Johnston's Terminal, the Manitoba Children's Museum, and the Red River Riverwalk. "Oodena" is Cree for "centre of the city". Commissioned in 1993, the site was designed by the firm of Hilderman Thomas Frank Cramm. The location features sculptures, a sundial, interpretive signage, a naked eye observatory and a ceremonial fire pit.
The circular amphitheatre is in diameter and deep. The excavation for the site unearthed what is referred to by local archaeologists as "the archaic horizon", a 3,000-year-old layer of soil rich in artifacts.
There are 8 unique steel armatures that rest on cobblestone formations surrounding the bowl. Each armature points at a specific constellation, according to dates and times indicated on the panels surrounding the central stage. Sighting rings on the armatures identify specific stars within the constellations. The supporting cobblestone formations bear inscriptions of various legends about the stars their armatures focus upon. The amphitheatre marks the vernal and autumnal equinox and the summer and winter solstices. "The south armature features a shadow rod that casts solstice shadows on ground markers, the west armature is fitted with a wind sculpture, and the northeast armature features an aeolian harp." (Hilderman Thomas Frank Cramm – Oodena Celebration Circle)
The site has been used as a meeting grounds for such varied events as "No Stone Unturned", a free concert in honour of Manitoba's missing and murdered women, as well as the 2011 opening night location for THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival and as the meeting location for Winnipeg's Zombie Walk 2012.
Pan Am Games Monument.
The Forks is home to the 1999 Pan Am Games Monument. Located beside the Inn at the Forks, the monument recognizes the governments, companies and individuals who supported the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. The monument served as the flame cauldron for the games.
The 1999 Pan Am Games mainstage concerts were held at the Scotiabank Stage and Festival Park.
Peace Meeting Site.
The "Peace Meeting Site" is a landscaped resting area along the Broadway Promenade, featuring Aboriginal and European elements, notable for having two gigantic Adirondack chairs.
Prairie Garden.
The Forks has a Prairie Garden, which is a natural wild garden with over 10,000 plants in over 150 native plant species, including 38 prairie plants such as prairie crocus, wild iris, bergamot, purple prairie clover and wild columbine.
Public Orchard.
In collaboration with Winnipeg-CORE, the public orchard at The Forks contains 61 fruit trees including apple, apricot, cherry, pear, and plum, which the public can pick to eat from when the fruit is ripe. There are as many as 75 fruit bearing shrubs packed with all types of berries to pick from during the summer days.
There are also many education sessions through Winnipeg-CORE that are open to the public, as part of The Fork's Target Zero initiative.
Rail cars.
Just outside The Forks Market are two completely restored turn of the century rail cars. One car is for display, while the other is home to "Sugar Mountain Express", a candy store.
Skatepark.
Officially opened 30 June 2006, "The Plaza" is the largest urban skate plaza and bowl complex in Canada. Announced in 2005, it was built with money donated from the "J.W. Burns Family Foundation". The skatepark includes a skate plaza, and an 'bowl complex'.
The design features 'skateable' artwork, and is built to tolerate the regular use and enjoyment of skateboarders and cyclists. The park was also designed to integrate into the urban architecture of the city. It was designed by Landscape Architecture firm: van der Zalm + associates inc. of Vancouver, BC with key team members, New Line Skateparks and Scatliff Miller Murray as the local landscape architects.
"Skate Patrol" are experienced skateboarder staff members that tour the park from dawn to dusk to educate skaters on the park's etiquette.
In winter, this area features a small snowboarding facility.
In 2006, the park was visited by professional skateboarder Tony Hawk to shoot scenes for his movie release "Secret Skatepark Tour 3".
Variety Heritage Adventure Playground.
The Variety Heritage Adventure Playground is an educational play structure for children, featuring water park elements.
Wall Through Time.
"Wall Through Time" is a sculpture depicting the history of the Forks, which features two bronze shells and a limestone centrepiece. The sculpture is located on the western edge of a major North American archeological find.
Events.
The Forks hosts over 200 third-party and signature events throughout the year, most of which are free.
Canada Day.
Canada Day at the Forks is an all day event, with activities happening throughout the Forks grounds, and culminating in a fireworks show.
Salsa Sundays.
Salsa Sundays is a weekly event run at the Forks under the canopy during the summer, featuring free dance instruction and demonstrations set to live Latin music and DJ mixes.
Winnipeg International Children's Festival.
The Winnipeg International Children's Festival is a children's festival held annually at The Forks National Historic Park. Founded in 1983, it was held at Assiniboine Park, then at Kildonan Park from 1984 through 1989, and eventually moving to its present location in 1990. The festival is made up of over 30 acts, held over four days, totalling about 120 performances.
Future projects.
The following projects are part of the ten-year revitalization plan for The Forks.


Five-Company Agreement

The was an agreement signed 10 September 1953 between five major Japanese entertainment companies: Shochiku, Toho, Daiei, Shin-Toho, and Toei.
Although nominally it prohibited hiring away a cosignatory company's actors and directors, in reality intention of the agreement was to prevent actors from being hired away by Nikkatsu, which had recently begun making films. It was executed mainly under the leadership of Masaichi Nagata, then president of Daiei.
After the Second World War, Nikkatsu (which had been primarily active in the hotel business and such) began taking steps to return to movie production under president Hori Kyuusaku, constructing Tamagawa Film Studio (in reality, Nikkatsu Film Studio) and trying to hire directors and actors away from the five companies. To oppose this, those companies bound under Nagata's leadership agreed to the following:
In September 1958, with Nikkatsu (which had resumed film production in 1954) also participating in the agreement, it became the Six-Company Agreement; in 1961, it once again became the Five-Company Agreement with the dissolution of Shin-Toho due to bankruptcy. On 1 November of that same year, the five companies ceased to offer films for television, and restricted television performances of films with company-exclusive actors. Because of this, the five companies, as well as the TV stations, began to promote many actors in the new medium.
Deprived of shows with which to fill their schedule, television channels began to broadcast American films instead of Japanese films. As a distribution system had not yet been established, and there being little foreign money in public circulation at the time, the brokers known as "transporters" came onto the scene. The president of Pacific Ocean Television (太平洋テレビ "Taiheiyou Terebi"), Akira Shimizu (清水昭 "Shimizu Akira"), said to have been a politician's secretary, emerged as the ringleader. Given the demand for American films, inevitably the demand for organization of Japanese-side staff (production/scriptwriting/film development) rose; and, as at that time there were also points in which TV channels' knowhow was lacking, there became no work other than that in inferior circumstances, particularly voice acting in Japanese dubs.


Crossing of the Danube Cross

The Crossing of the Danube Cross () was a Decoration established by Prince Carol I of Romania by Royal Decree 617 on 23 March 1878 to award individuals for outstanding leadership and contributions in the Romanian War of Independence.
The crossing of the Danube was one of the key events in the campaign, and it was one of the six events selected by Prince Carol to be immortalised in the six paintings commissioned from Johann Nepomuk Schönberg, and Austrian artist and war-correspondent.
The Decoration was later awarded to very few individuals who were deemed to have proven great leadership.
The Decoration was named after the Danube River where the Romanian Army fought the Ottoman Imperial Army.
The Decoration was abolished during the abolishment of the Romanian Monarchy in 1947 and wasn't reinstated as a Dynastic Decoration of the Decorations of the Romanian Royal House by Former King Michael I.


Kasher (surname)

Kasher (hebrew: כשר) is a Hebrew surname meaning "fit" and in the common context, fit for consumption by Jews according to traditional Jewish law.
It may refer to:


List of Indiana state historical markers in Fountain County

This is a list of the Indiana state historical markers in Fountain County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Fountain County, Indiana, United States by the Indiana Historical Bureau. The locations of the historical markers and their latitude and longitude coordinates are included below when available, along with their names, years of placement, and topics as recorded by the Historical Bureau. There are 5 historical markers located in Fountain County.


Houston Cotton Exchange Building

The Cotton Exchange Building is a historic building located in downtown Houston. Built in 1884, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade commissioned local architect Eugene Heiner to design a three-story building on Travis Street at the corner of Franklin in Houston. In 1907, the building was remodeled and a fourth floor added. The Houston Cotton Exchange continued to use the building until it moved its operations to a new building several blocks away at Prairie and Caroline in 1924.
John Hannah and Jesse Edmundson, III purchased the Cotton Exchange Building in 1973. They restored the building and sold it in 1983. Preservation Houston acknowledged Hannah's restoration work in 1979 with a Good Brick Award.


Helen Naha

Helen Naha (1922–1993) was the matriarch in a family of well known Hopi potters.
Biography.
Helen Naha was the daughter-in-law of Paqua Naha (the first Frog Woman). Helen was married to Paqua’s son Archie. She was mostly self-taught, following the style of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law Joy Navasie (second Frog Woman). Her designs are often based on fragments found at the Awatovi ruins near Hopi. Her hallmark style was finely polished, hand-coiled pottery finished in white slip with black and red decorations. She would often take the extra step to polish the inside of a piece as well as the outside.
She signed her pottery with a feather glyph. This resulted in her being called “Feather Woman” by many collectors. Both of her daughters, Sylvia and Rainy (Rainell), as well as her granddaughter Tyra Naha are well known potters. Today, her medium to larger pots typically sell for several thousand dollars. She has been recognized by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts for her body of work through the creation of the Helen Naha Memorial Award - For Excellence in Traditional Hopi Pottery.
Naha was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


Cregg

Cregg is a surname of Irish origin. People with the name include:


Tarkhan (Egypt)

Tarkhan is an ancient Egyptian necropolis, located around 50 km south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile.
The cemetery was excavated in two seasons by Flinders Petrie. Tombs of almost all periods were found, but most importantly many belonging to the time of Egyptian state formation, the Early Dynastic period around 3100 BC. Petrie found more than 2,000 tombs, most of them simple holes in the ground belonging to common people. However, there were also several mastabas of the First Dynasty, decorated with a palace facade.
The most important finds include a tomb with many seal impressions belonging to king Narmer and one of the oldest dresses found in Egypt. The cemeteries of the later periods are called Kafr Ammar, although lying side by side with the earlier tombs. From a Roman period tomb came a Fayum mummy portrait.
Tomb 1060.
Tomb 1060 is the oldest and largest mastaba at Tarkhan. It was divided into several rooms, most likely used for storing burial goods, although little survived. In the middle was the underground burial chamber with four small side chambers not connected by doorways, but there were doors incised on the walls acting as symbolic chambers. The niches were painted red; only one niche, with a wooden floor, was unpainted. This might indicate a cult place for the deceased. Around the mastaba there was a wall. The name of the owner is unknown.


The Desert Man

The Desert Man is a 1917 silent film Western directed by and starring William S. Hart. It was distributed by Triangle Film Corporation.
A fragment or incomplete print exists.


Howard House (Palestine, Texas)

Howard House in Palestine, Texas was built in 1848 by Reuben A. Reeves, Texas State Supreme Court Justice, and justice of the Supreme Court of the New Mexico Territory. When Reeves moved away from Palestine in 1850, the house was purchased by local merchant George R. Howard. Attaining the rank of colonel from his service with the Tennessee State Militia, Howard also served with the Confederate States Army. As a civilian, Howard served in numerous state and local elected positions, including as mayor of Palestine. Upon the deaths of Howard and his wife, the house was inherited by their son Thomas S. Howard. The city of Palestine purchased the house as a museum in 1964. It was listed on the NRHP in 1993.
The Howard House Museum is owned by the city and furnished for a late 19th-century appearance. It is open for tours and special functions by appointment.


Torquil

Torquil is an Anglicised form of the Norwegian and Swedish masculine name "Torkel", and the Scottish Gaelic name Torcall. The Scottish Gaelic name "Torcall" is a Gaelicised form of the Old Norse name "Þorkell". The Scandinavian "Torkel" is a contracted form of the Old Norse "Þorkell". This Old Norse name is made up of the two elements: "Þór", meaning "Thor" the Norse god of thunder; and "kell" (in some variants "ketill"), meaning "(sacrificial) cauldron".
Scandinavian variants of the "Torkel" include: the Icelandic, Þorkell; Norwegian and Swedish "Torkil", "Thorkel"; the Norwegian "Torkjell"; and the Danish "Torkil", "Torkild, Terkel".
A variant spelling of the Scottish Gaelic "Torcall" is Torcull.
A similar Scottish Gaelic given name is Torcadall, which is also Anglicised as "Torquil".


Toxic!

Toxic! was a British comic that was published weekly from March 28 to October 24, 1991, by Apocalypse Ltd, with a total of 31 issues.
History.
"Toxic!" was the idea of Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill, Mike McMahon, John Wagner and Alan Grant. The aim was to provide creators an outlet for their work to be published with them retaining the rights and control of their work. This was in contrast to "2000 AD", which Mills had also launched in 1977. "Toxic!" was to be the main rival of "2000 AD", and would be in ful- colour throughout (as opposed to "2000 AD", which was still mainly published in black and white).
"Toxic!" was published by Apocalypse Ltd, an offshoot of Neptune Distribution based in South Wigston, Leicester. Neptune also owned Trident Comics which printed black and white comics by mainly new, unpublished creators.
The first issue of "Toxic!" was released in March 1991. "Toxic!" was initially dominated by Mills (Mills had rejected John Wagner's proposal for "Button Man" based on its supposed similarity to "Accident Man"; it later appeared in "2000 AD"). His "Marshal Law" strip was seen as the flagship title and as a character to perhaps rival Judge Dredd. Mills also wrote "Accident Man" (with Tony Skinner) and "Muto-Maniac" in the first issue, which was rounded out by a short strip by Alan Grant and Simon Bisley.
This first issue set the tone of "Toxic!" as it upped the levels of violence, bad language and general anarchic tone that Mills had felt was lacking in "2000 AD" at the time. The second issue saw Wagner and Grant's "The Bogie Man" strip start in an adventure called "The Chinese Syndrome". The strip did not fit comfortably with the others and "The Chinese Syndrome" stopped suddenly with issue nine, and a different story, "The Manhattan Project", started with issue eleven. The second issue also saw the launch of the love-it-or-loathe-it strip "The Driver" co-written and co-drawn by David Leach and Jeremy Banx, one episode of which resulted in a visit by the local constabulary to the offices of "Toxic!" after a complaint from an offended reader about "Toxic!" containing obscene material. Issue #15 saw the start of "The Dinner Ladies From Hell" written and drawn by David Leach, described as a cross between Dennis Wheatley and Robert Rankin.
This was not the only strip which suffered problems, "Marshal Law" began to miss issues, and some of the material replacing it proved not to be as popular. Some strips meant to be published by Trident Comics were even used to provide filler material. This hurt the title, as although it had sold well initially, sales were dropping, and it became clear that there were problems with Apocalypse paying creators. These problems meant many creators such as Mike McMahon saw work published which he had not been paid for. After 31 issues, the comic was canceled and shortly afterward Apocalypse went bankrupt. This meant many involved were never paid and some of those never worked in comics again.
Legacy.
"Toxic!" may have ended up being a failure but it proved a full colour weekly comic could be done. This changed "2000AD" as it was forced to change its format to mirror the full colour format of "Toxic!". It also gave some creators their first major break into comics, Mike Carey being one of several examples.
Several strips did go off to other publishers. Mills took "Marshal Law", "Sex Warrior" and "Accident Man" to Dark Horse, Wagner and Grant took "The Bogie Man" to Atomeka Press, and several other strips were recycled in "2000AD".
In September 2002 Egmont UK launched a boy's magazine entitled "Toxic", which has proven to be very popular, but apart from the title, there is no connection with the comic of the nineties. However, "Toxic" does contain some comic strips of the juvenile toilet humour variety.


Ohana (disambiguation)

Ohana is the sense of family in Hawaiian culture (spelled with an ʻokina as ohana). It can be also a Jewish surname.
Ohana may also refer to:


The Apostle of Vengeance

The Apostle of Vengeance is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Clifford Smith and starring William S. Hart, Nona Thomas and John Gilbert. A Kentucky-born preacher returns home from Vermont in order to settle a feud between two warring families.


Stanley letter

The Stanley letter is the title given to a letter written in 1831 by Edward Stanley (who later became The 14th Earl of Derby), then Chief Secretary for Ireland. This letter outlined his broad vision and a very practical proposal which helped the U.K. Government to establish legal basis for national schools in Ireland. The letter was written two years after the government led by The Duke of Wellington, in alliance with Daniel O'Connell, secured the passage and Royal Proclamation of the Catholic Emancipation bill. It was penned by the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Edward Stanley (later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as The 14th Earl of Derby) and was addressed to the 3rd Duke of Leinster.
The proposal in the Stanley letter was considered a policy experiment. As one commentator put it, "Ireland, as a colony could be used as an experimental milieu for social legislation which might not be tolerated in England where laissez-faire politico-economic policies were more rigid and doctrinaire." This was also true of other Irish initiatives involving the police force and health services. Stanley's framework involved the establishment of "a board for the superintendence of a system of national education" integrating key measures and educational conventions in place in Ireland such as the state-supported, mass system foundered on the denominational issue.
In line with the letter's suggestions, a Board of Commission of National Education was established which disbursed funds for school building and the hiring of teachers and inspectors and which provided grants for schools. The Board tried to mix Catholic and Protestant students by favouring applications for 'mixed' schools. However, in the years after the 1830s, different religious denominations begin to apply separately for control of schools. Even in 2010 approximately 1 percent of Irish schools (34 out of 3,279) are not under the control of a religious organization, with the remaining 99 percent under religious control.
The new policy was credited for spreading literacy, especially to the poor communities. By 1831, the national schools based on Stanley's model has enrolled more than 100,000 children, a figure that increased to almost 1 million within 40 years. Teacher training was also enhanced. For example, the paid monitors, the lowest grade teachers, were evaluated annually using the instructional materials used in schools.
The Stanley letter remains today the legal basis for all national schools in the Republic of Ireland, the predominant form of primary education in the country.


Jan Joest

Jan Joest, also known as Jan Joest van Kalkar or Jan Joest van Calcar (between 1450 and 1460 – 1519), was a Dutch painter from either Kalkar or Wesel (both now in Germany), known for his religious paintings.
Biography.
Jan Joest was practically unknown until 1874, when two men, Canon Wolff and Dr. Eisenmann, established his identity.
Not much of Joest's life is known beyond his paintings. He was the son of Heinrich Joest and Katharina Baegert, the sister of Derick Baegert, who was probably the first teacher of Joest. His greatest work, scenes of the life of Christ, were made between 1505 and 1508 on the high altar in St. Nicholai's Church in his hometown of Kalkar. Using documents found there, Canon Wolff discovered that, in 1518, Joest worked in Cologne for the Hackeney family, before leaving, most likely for Italy, where he saw Genoa and Naples.
Joest then returned North, and settled in Haarlem. It is possible that this is the same person as Jan Joesten van Hillegom that registered in the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1502 and who made a painting of St. Willibrord and St. Bavo for the Egmond Abbey. The last edition of Adriaen van der Willingen's work of Haarlem painters mentions the burial of an artist there called "Jan Joosten" in 1519.
Two of Joest's apprentices were Barthel Bruyn (his brother-in-law) and Joos van Cleve.
Karel van Mander's "Schilder-boeck" mentions an Ioan van Calcker (Jan van Calcar), living in Venice as a disciple of Titian in 1536–7. Karel van Mander further claimed that he illustrated the book of anatomy by Vesalius, and died in Naples in 1546.
Work.
Joest has been compared to David and Memling, but he more properly belongs to the school of Scorel. One of the features of Joest's work is the exquisite transparency of his coloring and the subtle and delicate modelling of the faces.
Twenty panels painted by him can be seen in the church at Kalkar. Other works attributed to Joest are in Wesel and Rees, as well as the "Death of the Virgin" in and "Life of Kleitz" Munich.


Delilah Jackson

Delilah Jackson (circa 1929 - January 12, 2013) was a cultural historian who specialized in collecting the history of black entertainers in Harlem.
Biography.
Jackson grew up close to the Apollo Theater in Harlem. She attended school at P.S. 157.
Jackson began to collect the cultural history of Harlem and black entertainers in 1975. She began her collection with recording oral histories of various women who had worked as chorus girls at the Cotton Club. Later, that same year, she created the Black Patti Project which brought programming to former entertainers who were now living in nursing homes. The project went on to work toward collecting oral histories from black artists. Not only was Jackson known for preserving history, she often befriended the artists she met and visited them in nursing homes as they grew older. Her collection of history helped create a historical context for the artists and their work, according to the "New York Amsterdam News". Over time, she amassed more 1,000 pieces of media that documented the work of black entertainers in Harlem.
Jackson curated a show at the Smithsonian in 1997 called "Paris, the Jazz Age." Jackson also lectured about entertainers from Harlem at Columbia University, the New School, the Schomburg Center and at the Smithsonian.
She was awarded the 2001 Flo-Bert Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Committee to Celebrate Tap Dance Day. In 2005, Jackson received the Tap Preservation Award from the American Tap Dance Foundation.
Jackson died in her home on January 12, 2013.


Network Television Marketing

Network Television Marketing or "NTM" was Pakistan's first private television slot. The company's productions first aired on Peoples TV Network (PTN, later renamed as STN) in 1990. In the 1990s, PTN entered into a three-year agreement with Interflow and created NTM
NTM produced plays, stage and music shows. Young artists including Yasir Akhtar, Sania Saeed, Atiqa Odho, Humayoon Saeed, Nadia Khan, Fakhr-e-Alam, and Khalid Anum became comperes and announcers. NTM also broadcast drama serials including "Kashkol", "Chand Grihan", "Dasht", "French Toast", series of telefilms "Tapal Cinema" and "Nadan Nadia".
In 1994, NTM launched the first ever pop chart show in the history of Pakistani media industry
'Music Channel Charts'. The pop chart show was directed and produced by Yasir Akhtar
and executive producer Ghazanfer Ali. MCC launched the careers of Najam Sheraz,
Shehzad Roy, Fakhar-e-Alam, Komal Rizvi, Nadeem Jafri and many more artists. Yasir Akhtar
produced and directed more than 60 music videos of different artists
who appeared in the show. After Music Channel Charts, Pepsi Cola started
a show with NTM called 'Pepsi Top of the Pops' which similar to the concept
of 'Music Channel Charts'.
In 1995, NTM started the first ever musical drama serial of Pakistan 'French Toast'.
Frech Toast was based on a life of a musical band. The drama serial was
in total of 7 episodes and it was directed and produced by Yasir Akhtar.
In 1995, NTM started another project, a new trend of musical telefilms
'Tapal Cinema'. The series was in total of six telefilms namely Rahain,
Titlee, Shehzadi, Zehar, Chand and Kashish. The project
was directed and produced by Yasir Akhtar. The approximate duration
of each film was 90 minutes and had different storylines.
This series of films launched the careers of Humayun Saeed,
Shamoon Abbasi, Javeria Abbasi, Zubair Abbasi and more.
In 1990, STN's broadcasting hours from 7:00 to 11:00 pm daily and 6:00 to 11:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays were purchased by NTM. NTM's viewership subsequently increased and the company commenced broadcasting during mornings. STN was also able to extend its coverage countrywide, beyond Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
NTM was closed down in 1999 as a result of financial difficulties.


Hannah Montana discography

Disney character Hannah Montana (portrayed by Miley Cyrus) has released one live album, twenty one music videos, five soundtracks, two remix albums and two greatest hits albums, along with 12 singles out of 46 songs.
Cyrus' first musical effort credited to the Montana character was on March 1, 2006, with seven tracks on the show's first soundtrack, which debuted at number one in the United States, and peaked in the top ten on the UK Compilations Chart. The second soundtrack, ', topped the charts in the U.S. and Colombia, the peaked at number one in Austria, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, the U.S., and Turkey, and "Hannah Montana 3" topped the "Billboard" Kid Albums and Top Soundtracks charts. The first remix album, ', peaked at number seven in the U.S., and the second, "Hannah Montana Hits Remixed", peaked at #103. The first live album, "Best of Both Worlds Concert", peaked at number one on the Top Kid Audio (now Kid Albums) chart. The fifth and final Hannah Montana soundtrack, "Hannah Montana Forever", was released on October 19, 2010, peaked at #11 on the "Billboard" 200.
20 songs have charted on the "Billboard" Hot 100. "He Could Be the One" has proved to be the most successful in the United States, peaking at number ten on the chart.


Lightning Romance

Lightning Romance is a lost 1924 American silent action film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Reed Howes, Ethel Shannon and Wilfred Lucas.


Dangerous Innocence

Dangerous Innocence is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film written by Lewis Milestone and James O. Spearing based upon the 1923 novel "Ann's an Idiot" by Pamela Wynne. Directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, the film starred Laura La Plante and Eugene O'Brien.
Plot.
On a ship sailing from England to India, Ann Church (Laura La Plante) meets young and dashing Major Anthony Seymour (Eugene O'Brien), falls in love and makes some innocent advances to gain his attentions. Ann is 19, but looks 15. The Major at first resists her advances because he believes she is that young, and later he holds back after learning that Ann's mother Muriel (Hedda Hopper) was his ex-girlfriend. Another passenger, Gilchrist (Jean Hersholt) who is a cad, takes advantage of Ann's naiveté and places her in a compromising position. To save her reputation, the Major proposes to Ann and she accepts. When they arrive in Bombay, Gilchrist gets even by telling Ann that the Major had had an affair with her mother, causing Ann to break the engagement. Angry, the Major follows Gilchrist off ship and thrashes him. As she prepares to return alone to England, the Major forces Gilchrist to admit to Ann that the relationship between the Major and Ann's mother was platonic and never romantic. The young couple reunite and are later married at sea.
Reception.
"The New York Times" writes that the subject of shipboard romances are "invariably appealing, especially when the heroine has youth and beauty and the hero is a British Major clad in a faultlessly cut uniform", offering that the film begins well and slackens at the end only because the heroine "is just a little bit too credulous, even for a girl who is much in love." They offer that viewers are apt to think of the Rudyard Kipling poem "An Unknown Goddess", because La Plante's character of Ann is younger than she appears and Eugene O'Brien's character of Major Anthony Seymour initially takes only a paternal interest in someone he believes a child. When he realizes her age his intentions turn affectionate, but become complicated when he learns that Ann is the daughter of an old sweetheart. They praise director William A. Seiter, writing that he "shows originality and imagination in his direction of a number of scenes." They also share that "Laura La Plante is quite effective as Ann", and that Eugene O'Brien "acts the role of Seymour with sincerity and restraint." They conclude that the film "is a photoplay which can be enjoyed because of the appealing love story and the pains taken by the producers to give an idea of the background, both aboard ship and in India."
Preservation.
With no prints of "Dangerous Innocence" located in any film archives, it is a lost film.


John C. Kleczka

John Casimir Kleczka (May 6, 1885 – April 21, 1959) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. He was the first Polish American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Early life.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kleczka attended the parochial schools. He was graduated from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1905. He took postgraduate courses at Catholic University at Washington, D.C., and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Milwaukee.
Political and law career.
He served in the Wisconsin State Senate 1909–1911. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912. He served as commissioner of the circuit court of Milwaukee County 1914–1918. He was a major judge advocate in the United States Army Reserves after the First World War.
Kleczka was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh congresses (March 4, 1919 – March 4, 1923) as the representative of Wisconsin's 4th congressional district. He did not seek renomination in 1922 but returned to the practice of law.
After retirement, Kleczka was elected circuit court judge in 1930 and served until his retirement due to ill health in 1953. He was appointed a conciliation judge and court commissioner by the circuit judges in 1957 and served until his death.
Death.
He died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 21, 1959. He was interred in St. Adalbert's Cemetery.


Ignatz

Given name.
Ignatz is a masculine given name which may refer to:


Honeymoon Hate

Honeymoon Hate is a lost 1927 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Luther Reed and written by Doris Anderson, Ethel Doherty, Herman J. Mankiewicz, George Marion Jr., and A.M. Williamson. The film stars Florence Vidor, Tullio Carminati, William Austin, Corliss Palmer, Shirley Dorman, and Effie Ellsler. The film was released on December 3, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.


Northern Star (Chartist newspaper)

"The Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser" was a chartist newspaper published in Britain between 1837 and 1852, and best known for advancing the reform issues articulated by proprietor Feargus O'Connor.
Foundation.
Feargus O'Connor, a former Irish MP forging a career in English radical politics, decided to establish a weekly newspaper in 1837. He based it in Yorkshire, one of the heartlands of the campaigns for an extension of the Factory Acts and against the controversial Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. He chose the name "Northern Star" in tribute to the newspaper of the Society of United Irishmen which was suppressed by the military in Belfast in 1797. Meetings were held in Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Hull; share capital was also raised from supporters in Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham and Rochdale. £690 was raised for the foundation of the "Northern Star", which was first published on 22 November 1837.
The newspaper.
The newspaper paid a stamp duty of 4d., despite O'Connor's protests that the tax restricted free speech. The "Northern Star" reported on chartist meetings throughout Britain and its letters page was host to lively debates on parliamentary reform. The paper led a campaign in support of the working class who suffered economically due to the introduction of new technology and falling wages (notably the handloom weavers). By September 1838 it had a circulation of 10,000, and by summer 1839 this had increased to 50,000, allowing O'Connor to make a personal profit of £13,000 by the end of the year. By the end of 1839, it had the second largest circulation in the United Kingdom. The desire for the paper was so great within the first four months of operation that a new two horse power steam printing engine was bought to cope with the demand
O'Connor used the paper to help propagate the essence of the movement, to achieve reform and the ideas of The People's Charter. O'Connor was imprisoned for 18 months in March 1840 for publishing 'seditious libels' in the paper's columns, yet in truth this was an attempt to imprison the leader of the Chartists and hence deflate the movement. The "Northern Star" continued to sell well, however, outstripping the 6,000 copies a week sold by Robert Hartwell's "The Charter" with a circulation of 48,000. Whilst in prison, O'Connor also used the paper as his means of communication with the Chartists.
From its start, "Northern Star" was a lively and innovative newspaper. It quickly abandoned the standard practice of devoting the front page to advertisements (O'Connor's weekly letter was prominent in the columns that took their place). Unusually for a provincial paper, each issue was published in various editions (sometimes as many of eight) tailored to different regions of the country. O'Connor presented copies of engraved portraits of Chartist heroes to regular readers, effectively pioneering newspaper "give aways". The "Star's" poetry column not only printed the work of radical heroes such as Shelley and Shakespeare but hundreds of contributions by the paper's working-class readers. Much of the credit for the astonishing success of the "Northern Star" is due to its publisher and general manager, Joshua Hobson, and the founding editor, William Hill, who was also a minister of the Swedenborgian New Jerusalem Church.
In 1845 O'Connor used the "Northern Star" to help launch the "Chartist Land Plan" (the National Land Company). The same year George Julian Harney replaced William Hill as editor of the paper. Harney increasingly used the paper to advocate his internationalist outlook, for example publishing articles by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. O'Connor disapproved, accusing Harney and his supporters of being "Socialists first and Chartists second". The relationship between the two men was often tense, but as Harney told Engels: 'I must do O'C. the justice to say that he never interferes with what I write in the paper nor does he know what I write until he sees the paper'. It was not until May 1850 that Harney finally resigned as editor of the paper, to concentrate on his other journalistic interests.
Sales of the paper declined as the interest in the Chartist movement fell, with weekly circulation being only 1,200 by the end of 1851. O'Connor was losing interest in the campaign and sold the "Northern Star" to Harney in April 1852, who merged it with the "Friend of the people" to form the "Star of Freedom". The latter appeared in a smaller format to "Northern Star" and to avoid the Stamp Duty printed no news. It survived only until December of the same year.
Literary references.
In "Mary Barton" (published in 1848), Elizabeth Gaskell describes a Sunday afternoon, in which Mary’s father John “sat smoking his pipe by the fire, while he read an old ‘Northern Star’, borrowed from a neighbouring public-house”.
Charles Kingsley’s 1850 novel, "Alton Locke", includes a radical newspaper, the "Weekly Warwhoop", owned by a Feargus O’Flynn, intended as representations of O’Connor and the "Northern Star".


Finke coat of arms

Fincke coat of arms (also Finckenstein coat of arms or Finke coat of arms) are a German coat of arms, also used in Poland. It is used by the German and Prussian Finck von Finckenstein family as well as the Lniski family from Elnis.
History.
It is the coat of arms that belonged to the German family Finke that joined the Teutonic Knights before 1400 and moved to Prussia.
Notable bearers.
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:


Mashriqi Arabic

Mashriqi Arabic (Eastern Arabic), or Mashriqi ʿAmmiya, encompasses the varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mashriq, including the countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Iraq, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar. The variety is sometimes referred to as "Eastern Arabic", as opposed to "Western Arabic" (Maghrebi Arabic or Darija) and includes Mesopotamian Arabic and Gulf Arabic, along with Egyptian Arabic, Sudanese Arabic, and Levantine Arabic. Speakers of Mashriqi call their language ʿAmmiya, which means "dialect" in Modern Standard Arabic.
Modern Standard Arabic ( "al-fuṣḥá") is the primary language used in the government, legislation, and judiciary of countries in the Mashriq region. Mashriqi Arabic is used for almost all spoken communication, as well as in television and advertising in Egypt and Lebanon, but Modern Standard Arabic is used in written communication. In Lebanon, where Mashriqi Arabic was taught as a colloquial language as a separate subject under French colonization, some formal textbooks exist.
The varieties of Mashriqi have a significant degree of mutual intelligibility, especially between geographically adjacent ones (such as Lebanese and Syrian or between Iraqi and Kuwaiti). On the contrary, Darija is very hard to understand for Arabic-speakers from the Mashriq, as it derives from different substrata.
It is widely spoken in countries west of Iran and east of Saudi Arabia, such as in Iraq and Kuwait. It somewhat differs from Peninsular Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.


Behar (surname)

Behar is a surname of Hebrew origin. Notable people with the surname include:


Seksan Prasertkul

Seksan Prasertkul (Thai: เสกสรรค์ ประเสริฐกุล, born 1949) is a Thai author who was awarded the title National Artist of Thailand in 2009.
Seksan became a student leader at Thammasat University and was active in the October 1973 protests against the military government of Thanom Kittikachorn.
Seksan is the author of poetry, stories, and his autobiography, was made into a movie, "The Moonhunter."
Early life.
Seksan is the son of a fishing-boat builder and a market vendor. He graduated from high school at Chonkanyanakul School in Chonburi province, and received an AFS scholarship. He was an exchange student at a high school in the United States in 1967 and 1968. On his return to Thailand, he gained admission to Thammasat University by his high scores on the nationwide university entrance exam.
Leading up to 14 October 1973.
Sulak Sivaraksa "initiated forums for students to discuss current social issues. Among those attending was Seksan", according to "Historical Dictionary of Thailand".
After the Thammasat University Massacre.
After the 6 October 1976 Thammasat University Massacre, he took refuge with the communist insurgents in northeastern Thailand. However, he found the insurgents to be very dogmatic and not at all sympathetic to the students' democratic goals. When the Thai government offered an amnesty to those who had fled, he surrendered in 1980 and returned home. He went to the United States for graduate study and received a doctorate from Cornell University in 1989. He has since taught political science at Thammasat University, where he is a well known and respected figure.
Works.
October, the people’s war")
Private.
He married Chiranan Pitpreecha. She won a SEA Write Award in 1989. The couple has since separated.


List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Philadelphia County

This is intended to be a complete list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Philadelphia County, as placed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
As of 2010, there were 244 combined Roadside (larger) and City (narrower) markers affixed on posts and Plaque markers affixed to buildings or structures in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, which is coterminous with the city of Philadelphia.
Latitude and longitude coordinates are given as provided by the PHMC's database.


SeSiSo Club

The SeSiSo Club was a political and cultural discussion group in Berlin in the 1920s. Its members were of diverse political affiliations. The club had no official existence: its name was derived from the surnames of its chairmen, Hans von Seeckt, Walter Simons and Wilhelm Solf.
The club's values were Enlightenment and Humanism. Meetings took place in the Hotel Kaiserhof with up to 400 participants, often members of the elite, discussing the issues of the time. The first meeting was on 2 January 1922 and the club continued into the 1930s.
Guests included Harry Graf Kessler, Otto Hoetzsch, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Sir Horace Rumbold (when he was British ambassador in Berlin), Ernst von Harnack, Arthur Zarden, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord and Paul Wolff Metternich.
Although the club had little political influence, during the time of National Socialism some of its members joined various resistance groups including the Solf Circle.
Bethmann Dinner.
On 29 November 1921 Seeckt, Simons and Solf entertained Walther Rathenau and Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord to dinner in honour of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, who had died on 1 January 1921 and whose birthday was on 29 November. The SeSiSo Club continued the tradition of a gala Bethmann Dinner every 29 November.
References.
Further references may be found in the (in German).


The Reality Era

The Reality Era was a period of professional wrestling within WWE which spanned from approximately 2014 to 2016. It coincided with the rise of social media and video-sharing sites, which allowed fans to share and discuss their knowledge of the inner workings of the promotion. During this time, WWE directly revealed some of its previously concealed secrets directly to viewers. WWE would receive some criticism for bringing elements of real-life events into its scripted programming.
Daniel Bryan storyline and initiation.
On the April 8, 2013 post-WrestleMania 29 episode of "Raw", fans expressed intense and vocal displeasure when possibilities of a third match between John Cena and The Rock (who already faced each other twice before) were suggested by the then-SmackDown General Manager Booker T. The increased prominence of Cena in major storylines has also been criticized by various media outlets. Conversely, fan support for Daniel Bryan began to rise as the year went on, with his perception compared to that of Stone Cold Steve Austin during The Attitude Era. Similar to the "What?" Chants associated with Austin, the "Yes!" chants among the fans of Bryan have become a cultural trend in the WWE — the chant even going as far as to being translated to “Oui! Oui! Oui” whenever WWE would hold televised events in Montreal in 2018 and 2019. Cena would later drop the WWE Championship to Bryan at SummerSlam, immediately after which began The Authority storyline. During the "Championship Ascension Ceremony" segment ahead of Cena and Randy Orton's impending championship unification match at , the fan's "Yes!" chants would force Cena to go off-script and acknowledge Bryan.
Batista made his return in January 2014 and won the 2014 Royal Rumble match. The negative reaction of the fans attending the event in Pittsburgh was so great that it was reported as one of the major news items coming out of the show, and described as the live audience engineering a "takeover" of the final two hours of the show. During the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between John Cena and Randy Orton, fans booed both men and chanted for Daniel Bryan, amongst other chants such as "this is awful". After the show went off the air, Batista (who had been presented on-air as a heroic babyface character) mocked Bryan and gestured his middle finger at the crowd.
On the March 10, 2014 episode of "Raw", Daniel Bryan would "Occupy Raw" until Triple H gave in to his requests. It would be on the March 24 episode the following week that Triple H would dub this point in time as the beginnings of "The Reality Era", with fans now being more knowledgeable and vocal about the product more than ever before, as well as being influential to its the changes. Bryan would go on to defeat Triple H, and later, Randy Orton and Batista in a triple threat match at WrestleMania XXX to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Breakup of The Shield and rise of Roman Reigns.
On the June 2, 2014 episode of Raw, Triple H announced his intention to continue the recently-reunited Evolution's feud with The Shield despite Batista quitting WWE to focus on his acting career. Later that night with The Shield in the ring, Triple H's "plan B" for destroying The Shield turned out to be Seth Rollins suddenly attacking stablemates Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns with a steel chair, signaling Rollins heel turn and re-alignment with The Authority. Much like what happened to John Cena, Roman Reigns would receive a heavy push to fan backlash. It was noted at the 2015 Royal Rumble that Reigns was receiving massive heat from the crowd.
Other notable occurrences.
At WrestleMania XXX, The Undertaker's undefeated streak of 21 consecutive victories dating back to 1991, would be broken by Brock Lesnar. Lesnar would go on to defeat John Cena at SummerSlam to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, winning his first WWE title in a decade.
World Championship Wrestling star Sting, who had previously been dubbed the "greatest wrestler to never wrestle in WWE", made his debut at the 2014 Survivor Series, helping Team Cena defeat Team Authority in a 5 on 5 Elimination Tag Team match and went on to have his first-ever match in WWE at WrestleMania 31 against Triple H. He would wrestle his final match against Seth Rollins at Night of Champions in 2015.
End of the era.
The Reality Era came to an end in the lead up to Payback in 2016, an event which was being touted as the start of "a New Era". At Payback, The Authority would officially disband as WWE Chairman Vince McMahon announced that Stephanie and Shane McMahon would run Raw jointly.


Cog Factory

The Cog Factory, formerly located at 2224 Leavenworth Street in Omaha, Nebraska, was a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provided a punk rock music performance space for the area. The facility opened in 1994 with bands Ritual Device, Sideshow and Mousetrap. Musician Conor Oberst began making public performances there in the 1990s. Cog Factory closed permanently in January 2002.
About.
Serving as the foothold for the Omaha punk rock, hardcore, ska, and indie scene for many years, the Cog Factory was an all-ages venue located in Omaha's downtown core near the historic Old Market. Founded by self described "DIY-Punk" Robb Rathe, the Cog Factory served as the launching pad for the careers of many Saddle Creek Records bands, as well as being a tour stop for national acts. Cog Factory also promoted shows at Sokol Auditorium when the draw was too large for its own club.
Structure.
The Cog Factory was a non-profit 501(c)3 organization run strictly by volunteers. All the proceeds from shows were used to cover the building expenses and payment of artists. Numerous volunteers tried keeping the club going until 2002, when Cog Factory ceased to operate. With all the original founding volunteers no longer operating Cog Factory after 2001, its original goal of providing an all-ages venue for every type of independent music free of discrimination started to erode. The club's organizational structure broke down, sufficient funds were no longer being earned, and the location was closed.
Legacy.
Footage of the venue is shown in the Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek documentary.


Nanzen-ji

, or Zuiryusan Nanzen-ji, formerly , is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Emperor Kameyama established it in 1291 on the site of his previous detached palace. It is also the headquarters of the Nanzen-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. The precincts of Nanzen-ji are a nationally designated Historic Site and the Hōjō gardens a Place of Scenic Beauty.
History.
Nanzen-ji was founded in the middle Kamakura period (1291, or Shōō 4 in the Japanese era system). It was destroyed by fire in 1393, 1447, and 1467, rebuilt in 1597, and expanded in the Edo era. A large complex, it has varied over time between nine and twelve sub-temples.
Zenkei Shibayama, who provided a popular commentary on the Mumonkan, was an abbot of the monastery.
Significance in Zen Buddhism.
Nanzen-ji is not itself considered one of the "five great Zen temples of Kyoto"; however, it does play an important role in the "Five Mountain System" which was modified from Chinese roots. is considered to be one of the so-called or "five great Zen temples of Kyoto", along with , , , and . The head temple presiding over the "Gozan" in Kyoto is Nanzen-ji. After the completion of Shōkoku-ji by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in 1386, a new ranking system was created with Nanzen-ji at the top and in a class of its own. Nanzen-ji had the title of "First Temple of The Land" and played a supervising role.
Notable structures.
Sanmon.
The temple's Sanmon gate was originally constructed in the 13th century, destroyed in 1369 at the order of the government, and reconstructed in 1628. The gate contains stairs to an elevated viewing area, which was the setting for a famous scene in the 1778 Kabuki play Sanmon Gosan no Kiri inspired by the story of the criminal Ishikawa Goemon who is said to have spoken of the beauty of the view (but who was executed prior to the construction of the current gate).
Hōjō.
The hōjō (abbot's quarters) of Nanzen-ji is notable both for its gardens and its art.
The garden of the hōjō is considered one of the most significant examples of "karesansui"gardens (rock gardens), and was built in the 1600s by Kobori Enshu. The garden mirrors natural forms, and is seventy percent gravel. It has been designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty.
The hōjō itself, also known as the Seiryo-den, was given to the temple by the Emperor Go-Yōzei. It contains a variety of important screen paintings on gold backgrounds, including two of tigers by Kanō Tan'yū. It has been designated a National Treasure.
Nanzen-ji Aqueduct.
Constructed in 1890 through the temple grounds to carry irrigation water from the Lake Biwa Canal.


The New Day (newspaper)

The New Day was a British compact daily newspaper published by Trinity Mirror, launched on 29 February 2016. It was mainly aimed at a middle-aged female audience, and was politically neutral. The editor, Alison Phillips, intended readers to get through the newspaper in under 30 minutes.
The first edition was distributed as two million free copies, and the target for regular circulation was 200,000. After a drop in purchases to just 30,000 copies per day, it was announced on 4 May in the same year that the last edition would be published two days later, just two months after its launch.
Launch.
"The New Day" was owned by Trinity Mirror, which also owns the "Daily Mirror", "Sunday Mirror", and "Sunday People". It was first published for free on Monday 29 February 2016, as the first new British national daily newspaper since the "i" in 2010, and the first new standalone title since "The Independent" in 1986. The newspaper, 40 pages long, was primarily aimed at a female audience between 35 and 55. It was edited by Alison Phillips, who had held the same position at the "Sunday Mirror" and "Sunday People". It was published by a staff of 25, most of whom were on short-term contracts or borrowed from the publishers' other titles. There were "five or six" columnists; unlike most newspapers they did not have set days on which they wrote. The paper had no affiliation with any political party, unlike many British papers, and was aimed at people who bought no other daily newspaper.
It established an online presence through social media as opposed to a website. Trinity Mirror chief executive Simon Fox said the paper filled "a gap in the market for a daily newspaper designed to co-exist in a digital age". Fox said that the number of people buying a daily newspaper had been declining by 500,000 a year, and those readers could be tempted to consider "The New Day".
Phillips eschewed traditional newspaper structures, saying the team had "started with a blank piece of paper" and a typical reader should be able to digest the entire content within 30 minutes. She aimed to differentiate the newspaper from its right-wing competitors the "Daily Mail" and "Daily Express", saying "We are speaking to modern families in the language they use and with the positivity about what they feel in their lives", and claimed that research favours balanced opinion. A press release issued by the publishers of "The New Day" stated that the paper would "...report with an upbeat, optimistic approach and will be politically neutral". A report in "The Guardian" suggested the paper could attract readers away from the "Mail" and "Express".
In Scotland, "The New Day" was sold only in Edinburgh. Fox believed that a separate Scottish staff would have been needed for it to be sold across Scotland, because it would have been dismissed as "too English" due to the differences in government policy between the two countries.
Cessation of publication.
Trinity Mirror had a decline in revenue and profit in 2015, and it was hoped that the new title would reverse that. Its first edition was distributed as two million free copies. Sales figures were to be kept secret, until April's figures would be published by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
After a two-week period costing 25p, the regular price was to rise to 50p, but the date of the rise was postponed slightly, eventually rising to 50p on Thursday 17 March 2016.
Fox aimed to have a regular circulation of 200,000. A further "Guardian" report on 20 March suggested the paper may only have been selling 90,000 copies per day. Later reports revealed that its circulation had been between 30,000 and 40,000.
On 4 May 2016, within 10 weeks of its launch, it was announced that the final edition of "The New Day" would be published on 6 May. A Trinity Mirror spokeswoman would not comment on claims that it was running at an annual loss of £1 million.
Roy Greenslade explained in "The Guardian" how "The New Day" had failed. He pinpointed the error of marketing a newspaper to people who dislike newspapers, and the short interval between the announcement and launch, which left insufficient time to advertise the product. On a practical basis, it was published early in the evening because it shared presses with the "Daily Mirror", thus it missed out on late-night breaking news such as Leicester City's shock win of the Premier League. Greenslade attributed all of the blame to Fox for green-lighting the idea.


List of years in Irish television

This page indexes the individual year in Irish television pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
2020s – 2010s – 2000s – 1990s – 1980s – 1970s – 1960s – 1950s


Sure Fire

Sure Fire is a 1921 American Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Hoot Gibson. It is considered to be a lost film.
Plot.
As described in a film magazine, easy going rancher Jeff Bransford (Gibson) returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and the hired men defended them with guns. He tries to borrow money to satisfy the mortgage but is unsuccessful. That night a robbery is committed on a neighboring farm with five thousand dollars stolen from Major Parker (MacQuarrie), and suspicion is thrown upon Jeff. After much hard riding and several stiff fights, the real culprits are apprehended and Jeff is vindicated. Parker had intended to loan Jeff some money to help with his difficulties. In return, Jeff saves the married Elinor Parker (Brunette) from running away with a worthless scamp and causing a scandal.


John Muir (South African naturalist)

John Muir (18 June 1874, Castle Douglas, Scotland – 3 August 1947, Riversdale, Cape Province) was a medical doctor, naturalist and cultural historian.
Education and career.
John Muir spent the years 1890-1892 studying Arts and Medicine at the University of St Andrews. He enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in 1892, obtaining a M.B. and C.M. in 1896, and an M.D. in 1902. In 1896 he came to South Africa and practised at Worcester, Strydenburg, Sterkstroom and Albertinia before settling in Riversdale. He collected plants extensively in the area as well as seeds found along the coastline. He retired in 1923 to devote himself to these interests as well as the study of shells. He donated his collection of driftseeds to Stellenbosch University in 1929 for which he was awarded an honorary D.Sc. As the recipient of a Carnegie Travelling Grant, he went abroad to study other collections of ocean-borne fruits and seeds. He presented his herbarium to the National Herbarium, Pretoria. At this time he developed an interest in folklore and historical objects and published a number of papers on the subject, besides contributing vernacular names of birds, plants and shells to the "Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal". He donated his collection of shells to the South African Museum, some particularly minute species exciting a large amount of interest. Besides his botanical writings, he contributed a number of articles to popular scientific and socio-historical publications, a fair portion of these written in Afrikaans. He is commemorated in the genus "Muiria" N.E.Br. and in many species such as "Leucospermum muirii" Phillips, "Erica muirii" L.Bol., "Leucadendron muirii" Phillips and "Conophytum muirii" N.E.Br.. His wife, born Susanna Steyn, is also remembered in "Protea susannae" Phillips and "Thesium susannae" A.W.Hill, while "Muiria hortenseae" N.E.Br. was named for his daughter, but is now lumped as a synonym of "Gibbaeum hortenseae" (N.E.Br.) Thiede & Klak. Vol. 17 of "Flowering Plants of South Africa" is dedicated to him.


Alonzo Saclag

Alonzo Saclag is a Filipino musician and dancer who is a recipient of the National Living Treasures Award.
Background.
Alonzo Saclag was born on August 4, 1942. A member of the Kalinga people and a native of Lubuagan, Kalinga province, Saclag taught himself of his people's traditions in the performing arts. He learned how to play traditional Kalinga musical instruments and Kalinga ritual dance movements without formal or informal instruction.
Saclag worked to revive the dying tradition of playing the gangsa, a type of Kalinga gong. Saclag lobbied for two years with the provincial government to grant funds to convert the abandoned Capitol Building into a museum. With support from the provincial government and other financiers, a branch of the National Museum was established in Lubuagan.
Saclag also campaigned for the promotion of Kalinga culture in schools in his community by engaging in talks with the institutions' administrators. He is instrumental in establishing the practice of children of wearing traditional Kalinga clothing for important school events as well as the teaching of Kalinga folk songs in schools. He also lobbied for the broadcast of traditional Kalinga music along with contemporary music in their local radio station. He also formed the Kalinga Budong Dance Troupe with the intent of promoting Kalinga dance to a wider audience.
Saclag was conferred the National Living Treasures Award in 2000. By 2016, he had established a village within his town, named Awichon, which aims to promote Kalinga culture to tourists.
Personal life.
Saclag is married to a woman named Rebecca with whom he has nine children.


Czewoja coat of arms

Czewoja is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families.


S-X production discography


The Little Snob

The Little Snob is a 1928 silent comedy film from Warner Bros.. Currently this is a lost film. It was released with a synchronized musical score and sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process, however there is no spoken dialogue.
Preservation status.
This film is presumed lost, as no film elements are known to exist.


Altyn Ay Medal

"Altyn Ay" Medal (Golden Moon) is a medal of Hero of Turkmenistan, a special decoration of a Hero of Turkmenistan.
Description of the medal.
1992-2014.
The Altyn Ay medal has the shape of a circle inscribed in a regular octagonal star formed by the angles of two squares (small and large) displaced relative to each other. The star is made of white gold and consists of 48 rays, decorated with 124 diamonds of various sizes. The total diameter of the medal is 44 millimetres. In the center of the medal, made of 958 gold, against the background of 17 sun rays coming from the center, there is a relief profile of President Saparmurat Niyazov made of white gold.
Since 2014.
In 2014, a new version of the description of the medal was approved. The medal has the shape of a circle inscribed in a regular octagonal star formed by the angles of two squares displaced relative to each other. The star is made of gold and consists of 48 sun rays, decorated with 128 diamonds of various sizes. The total diameter of the medal is 60 millimetres. The medal is made of 750 standard gold.


Castroville Historic District

Castroville Historic District is a United States historic district in Castroville, Texas. It includes the oldest parts of the city of Castroville and contains twelve designated contributing properties, including a Texas State Historic Site and numerous Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
History and significance.
Castroville was established in 1844 by Henri Castro, an empresario of the Republic of Texas, who brought several dozen European families from the Upper Rhine valley regions of Alsace and Baden to populate his land grant along the Medina River, some west of San Antonio. Long after its foundation the city retained a strongly Alsatian character, both in the continued common use of the Alsatian language into the mid-twentieth century, and in the Alsatian architecture that characterizes the community to the present day.
The oldest portion of the city, surrounded on three sides by a bend in the Medina River, was designated a United States historic district on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1970, in recognition of the old town's well-preserved colonial Alsatian architecture and unusual cultural heritage, for which it is known as the "little Alsace" of Texas. Castroville's was one of the first three United States historic districts to be designated in Texas.
The NRHP nomination specified twelve contributing properties within the district, including the Landmark Inn State Historic Site (an NRHP-listed site in its own right), St. Louis Catholic Church, and a number of private residences exemplifying the prevailing architectural style. Including some of these twelve properties, the district contains numerous Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks, many of them especially well-preserved residences of early colonists.
Architectural character.
The structures surveyed during the designation of the historic district, constructed between 1844 and the 1880s, share common architectural elements that mark the old town's Alsatian character. The oldest houses typically contain two rooms and a loft, with thick, stuccoed limestone walls, beams of cypress or cedar wood, and sloping, gabled roofs of tin or cypress wood shingles. A kitchen is typically either attached as a rear shed or built into a nearby free-standing structure. The houses are generally set close to the fronts of their lots, and many have full-width front porches.


National Observer (UK)

The National Observer was a British newspaper published from 1888 to 1897. It began as the Scots Observer and was renamed when it moved from Edinburgh to London in 1889. It was considered "conservative in its political outlook" and "liberal in its literary taste".
William Ernest Henley was the editor from 1889 to 1893, assisted by general manager James Nicol Dunn. Henley was recruited by Robert Fitzroy Bell, the major backer of the "Observer", and brought in young writers including Rudyard Kipling. The political line was that of Charles Whibley, assistant editor, a diehard Tory. Bell became discouraged by 1894, and sold out. Henley was succeeded by James Edmund Vincent, with Percival Parr as editor.
Writers of fiction published in "The National Observer" include Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, James Barrie, William Butler Yeats, and Rudyard Kipling.


Tip Toes

Tip Toes is a 1927 British silent film comedy-drama, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish and Will Rogers. The film is a loose adaptation of the stage musical "Tip-Toes", with the action transferred from Florida to London.
Plot.
Tip Toes (Dorothy Gish) and her two partners Uncle Hen (Rogers) and Al (Nelson Keys) have a struggling music-hall act. When they go for auditions, theatre managers are keen on Tip Toes as a solo, but do not want the men. Tip Toes turns down offers to go it alone out of loyalty to her fellows. In deep financial trouble, they decide as a last throw of the dice to book into a suite at a high-class hotel and put the story about that Tip Toes is a sophisticated heiress, while she tries to snag a wealthy gentleman. Tip Toes attracts the interest of a young peer, but the plans of the trio are constantly on the point of being undermined as Hen and Al get into a series of scrapes.
Production.
A writer was paid £2,000 to do a script but Wilcox threw it out. Paramount contributed only £20,000 of the production cost.
Reception.
"Tip Toes" was the last in a four-picture deal between Wilcox and Paramount to star Gish in British films. The earlier films ("Nell Gwyn", "London" and "Madame Pompadour") had all been relatively favourably received by contemporary critics; however "Tip Toes" appears to have attracted almost universally negative responses. "The Bioscope" dismissed it as "feeble", while "Variety" accused the film of being "not only a libel on Americans, but on American vaudeville and its artists".
The film lost money.
Preservation status.
No print of "Tip Toes" is known to survive, and the British Film Institute include it on their '"75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films. It is considered of great potential interest to silent cinema historians, not only as a prestige production involving star names, but to assess whether it really was a disastrous misfire justifying its terrible reception, or whether a modern perspective would view the film more kindly.


Delaney (surname)

Delaney is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic "Ó Dubhshláine", "Dubh" meaning black and "Sláine" for the River Sláine (Slaney). DeLaney is also of Norman origin. There is a branch of Dulaneys in the United States who trace back to a Thomas Delany. Thomas's son, Daniel, claimed to have been descended from Dr. Gideon Delaune, a Huguenot physician and theologian and founder of the Apothecaries' Hall. Hence, there are multiple discussions among genealogical circles as to the origin of Delaney since it can be anglicized Gaelic or anglicized French.
Over time a few names derived from the names "DeLaney" and "Ó Dubhshláine" including Delaney, Delany and Dulaney.


Faye Tso

Faye Tso (1933–2004) was a Navajo potter and herbal medicine healer. Her pieces are known for their nontraditional imagery of corn maidens, warriors, and dancers, whereas Navajo pottery typically has little decoration. Born in Coal Mine Mesa, Arizona, Tso was relocated with other Navajos to Tuba City, Arizona in 1974 because of a land dispute between the Navajo and Hopi tribes. She returned to dig her clay at Coal Mine Mesa, where she also gathered pinon from which she extracted the pitch resin used to coat and seal her Dineh pottery. Her husband and son are medicine men and use Tso's pots in their ceremonies.


Arazi (surname)

Arazi ( "Ărāzī", "Arāzī") is a Hebrew and Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include:


Pointed Heels

Pointed Heels is a 1929 American pre-Code early sound musical comedy film from Paramount Pictures that was directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring William Powell, Helen Kane, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, and Fay Wray. This film was originally filmed in color sequences by Technicolor, but today those color sequences only survive in black-and-white. One of these color sequences was the "Pointed Heels" ballet with Albertina Rasch and her Dancers.
The UCLA Film and Television Archive has a complete copy of this film with all color sequences, but has not released it to anyone. Turner Classic Movies airs the black-and-white television copy of this film. A print screened at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2009 contained the color ballet sequence. Universal owns the copyright and has not allowed a release of the restored version on TCM or Blu-Ray.
Production.
A silent version of the film was released in the United States.


Her Sturdy Oak

Her Sturdy Oak (also known as "The Clinging Vine") is a 1921 black & white silent American comedy film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and written by Elmer Blaney Harris. Released by Realart Pictures Corporation, the film stars Wanda Hawley, Walter Hiers, and Sylvia Ashton, with a supporting cast of Mayme Kelso, Leo White and Fred R. Stanton.
"Her Sturdy Oak" is considered a "lost silent feature" by the US Library of Congress.


The Lightning Express

The Lightning Express is a 1930 American Universal film serial, featuring the adventures of "Whispering Smith" (played by Al Ferguson). This serial is considered a lost film.
Production.
"The Lightning Express" was based on "Whispering Smith Speaks" by Frank H. Spearman.
Chapter titles.
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