Niania

Niania is a Polish comedy television series directed by Jerzy Bogajewicz, which aired on TVN from 10 September 2005 to 24 October 2009. It was based on the American original The Nanny licensed by CBS, which aired in the 1990s.
The title song "Niania" was written and composed by Andrzej Lampert.
Production.
The script for the series was based on the original version of the script written by Peter Marc Jacobson and Fran Drescher, the lead character (Fran Fine) in the American version. The title character in the Polish adaptation was played by Agnieszka Dygant. Each episode featured a guest appearance by a well-known figure from the world of show business, altogether nearly 300 celebrities.
The series was shot from 19 July 2005 to 25 February 2009 at the Farat Film recording studio. A total of 134 out of 147 original episodes were shot, which were divided into 9 seasons of 15 episodes each. The 100th episode of the series was produced in autumn 2008, which was an opportunity for the creators of the original to come to Poland. The series gained the recognition of Fran Drescher, as well as the main producer, Sony Columbia Pictures Television International, which evaluated the Polish adaptation as the version most similar to the original among all the licences granted.
The series' audience reached over 4 million viewers. Niania was twice awarded a Telekamera in the "best comedy series" category: in 2007 (197,947 votes) and 2008, and also came second in 2009.
In 2019, Polsat Television bought the exclusive rights to show the series from TVN. It aired on Super Polsat from 10 June 2019 to 8 February 2020, on Polsat CC Extra from 3 March 2020, and on Polsat Seriale and Polsat Café from 6 April.
Plot.
Franciszka Maj (Agnieszka Dygant), 30, loses her job at the bridal shop run by her would-be fiancé, Daniel Jarosiński (Wojciech Medyński/Artur Dziurman). As a cosmetics saleswoman she offers the goods at the Skalski family's house, at a time when the search for a babysitter for the children of a wealthy television producer, Maksymilian (Tomasz Kot), is on. She eventually gets the job, becoming the nanny of the widower's three children: the reserved Zuzia (Emilia Stachurska), the rascally Adaś (Roger Karwiński) and the shy Małgosia (Maria Maciejowska).
While taking care of the children, the employer and the nanny fall in love with each other. Their relationship is all the more difficult because they share class differences and views on various issues, and often cannot get along. The family is accompanied by a butler, Konrad (Adam Ferency), who often demonstrates greater shrewdness and intelligence than his employer. Maximilian's co-worker Karolina Łapińska (Tamara Arciuch), who unsuccessfully seeks Skalski's affection, is constantly the object of the butler's malicious jokes and insults.
Characters.
Main.
Franciszka Zofia Skalska (née Maj, born 23 December 1975) (Agnieszka Dygant) is a 30-year-old nasal-voiced woman, who works for Mr. Maksymilian Skalski as the nanny to his three children: Małgosia, Adaś and Zuzia. She is the daughter of Teresa and Stefan Maj and granddaughter of Apolonia Lipiec. After several years, she married Maks, to whom she gave birth to twins, Maria Magdalena and Franciszek Józef.
Maksymilian Maria Skalski (Tomasz Kot) is a 40-year-old rich TV producer who becomes a workaholic after the death of his wife Anna. He is honest, though sometimes distant and ironic. His feelings for Frania Maj developed, but the man tried to hide it. He is the son of Janusz and Elżbieta Skalski, brother of Joanna (Katarzyna Figura) and Aleks (Rafał Królikowski), and step-brother of Zdenka (Katarzyna Skrzynecka). His grandmother is Matylda Skalska (Barbara Krafftówna).
Małgosia Skalska (Maria Maciejowska) is Maks's oldest child. Initially shy and morbidly insecure, under Frania's influence she turned into a feisty, joyful girl – she started going to parties, dating boys, and making her first serious decisions, which she always shared with Frania. She married photomodel Michał (Zhora Korolyov).
Adaś Maks Skalski (Roger Karwiński) is Maks's son, with whom no nanny could make contact after his mother's death, until Frania Maj came along. He took an interest in girls, loved to mess around and tease his sisters.
Zuzia Skalska (Emilia Stachurska) is Maks's youngest child. She went to therapy because she was closed off and introverted. Thanks to Frania, she gradually opens up. The nanny is a source of maternal warmth for her, which Zuzia really missed after the loss of her mother.
Karolina Łapińska (Tamara Arciuch) is a 30-year-old business partner of Maks. She is elegant and classy, but stiff, pretentious and conceited. She did not like children and tried to hide it. She saw Frania as a rival in attempts to win Maks's affections. She despised Konrad for years, but a year after Maks married Frania, she married the butler and became pregnant with him. She is the daughter of a sailor and sister of Karol (Arkadiusz Brykalski), a doctor at the University of Gdańsk.
Konrad (Adam Ferency) is a butler. His father worked in the British embassy and was also a butler. He himself graduated from Jagiellonian University. An extremely intelligent and witty commentator on family life in the Skalski's house. Although he is Maks's employee, he is often like a father or a friend to him, always offering him advice. At first he is the only one to notice the feelings developing between Frania and Maks, so he makes subtle allusions to them. He is friends with Frania, for years he despised Karolina Łapińska, but a year after his boss married Frania, he married Karolina. In the last episode of the series it was revealed that they are expecting a baby.
Secondary.
Teresa Kwiryna Maj (née Lipiec) (Elżbieta Jarosik) is Frania's 50-year-old mother. Delighted with Frania's new job, she sees promising prospects. She dreams that Frania will settle down (she mainly sees Maks as her husband) and wants to have grandchildren. In an episode of bank robbery, Teresa talks about her hypoglycaemia, which explains why she eats a hearty meal or thinks about food in almost every scene. She comes from the town of Tłuszcz.
Stefan Maj (Marian Opania) is Teresa's husband and Frania's father. He is on a disability pension. His favourite pastime is watching television.
Apolonia Lipiec (née Bąk, born 1933) (Barbara Wrzesińska/Krystyna Rutkowska-Ulewicz) is Frania's grandmother. She watches over her granddaughter, sometimes excessively. She suffers from dementia. Her fiancé is Czesław (Stanisław Tym), a retired military officer.
Jolka Ząbkowska (Iwona Wszołkówna) is Frania's best friend since school times. She lives with her parents in Praga district, on Ząbkowska Street. Not very intelligent and not very bright, but nice and open. Unsuccessfully searches for a life partner.
Opening credits.
Opening sequence describes (with the main characters in animated form) the story of how Frania Maj went from being fired from the bridal shop by Daniel Jarosiński to becoming the nanny of the Skalski's children.
The animated opening sequence begins with Frania Maj walking into the bridal shop, only to be kicked out by an unseen Daniel Jarosiński. Then, she hitches a ride in a tram, crosses the bridge from Praga, Warsaw to Centrum and arrives at the Skalski's mansion. Maksymilian Skalski opens the door and observes Frania. Then, he pulls her inside and she falls into the flower pot. Konrad dusts her off and puts a cap on her head that reads Niania. Frania whistles for Małgosia, Adaś, and Zuzia and the four of them form a conga line. Karolina arrives at the door and Frania bumps the door with her hip to close it in her face. Finally, the Skalskis, Konrad and Frania gather on the couch for a group picture. Interestingly, above the sofa on the wall there is a stylized name of the broadcaster, TVN television. However, when Fran presses the camera's button, smoke emits from the camera, covering the entire group and the broadcaster's name in dust and messing up clothes.


Yashaswi

Yashaswi is a Sanskrit word that can be used as either a noun or a verb. It can also be spelt as Yashasvi or Yeshaswi. It means "eternal success or fame for eternity".
Naming a boy Yashaswi generally means wishing them to be victorious or glorious or famous or successful. Its feminine counterpart on the other hand is Yashaswini . Person with name
Yashaswi are mainly Hindu by religion. Name Yashaswi belongs to rashi Vrushik (Scorpio) and Nakshatra (stars) Jyeshta.
Yashaswi has its origination from the Sanskrit word "Yashaswin". The word was used frequently in blessings as "Yashaswi Bhava" during Vedic times by rishis and sages to bless kings.
This is one of the given names that prevails in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh as well as other states occupied by Hindu population.
Yashaswi is a name which is used by mainly Indians and other Hindu people, such as Nepalese, to name their sons.


Rajshri Media

Rajshri Media (P) Limited is a digital entertainment and new media arm of Rajshri Group. The Rajshri.com portal was launched on November 2006 by releasing online Barjatya-produced Hindi movie Vivah, followed by Hattrick, Life in a Metro and Blue Umbrella, among others. The company plans to reach its audience through all the four screens: Cinema, PC, Mobile, TV.
History of Rajshri.
On 15 August 1947, Tarachand Barjatya established Rajshri Pictures (P) Ltd., the film distribution division of Rajshri Group. Its first release was Aarti which was followed by the release of Dosti, a non star-cast film. Dosti was presented the National Award for the Best Hindi Film of the Year (1964) and it also won 5 Filmfare Awards.
Category.
Web and Mobile TV Shows.
Rajshri Media has taken initiatives in creating shows for both web and mobile. Akbar Birbal Remixed is India’s 1st show for the Web and Mobile. It has in total 90 episodes. 'Akbar Birbal Remixed' episodes are three minutes in length and are available in SMS, MMS, video and audio formats. The content will be released initially on web and mobile and subsequently formatted for TV, home video and Radio.
Video on Demand.
Rajshri Media is also offering Video on demand (VOD) services containing both streaming video and downloadable content to a devices such as a computer, digital video recorder, personal video recorder or portable media player for viewing at any time. The company offers a wide range of genres like Animation, TV Shows, TV Channels and Movies.


Songs of the Vilna Ghetto

Songs of the Vilna Ghetto is a compilation LP record featuring twelve Yiddish songs from World War II era. The songs were composed by the inmates of the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust and are sung by Nechama Hendel, Chava Alberstein, and Shimon Israeli with accompaniment from the CBS Israel Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Gil Aldema. The album contains an 8-page booklet with lyrics in the Hebrew language, photographs from the ghetto, and historical information about the songs in English. According to the liner notes, the recording "was prepared by the Yitzhak Kalznelson House of the Ghetto Fighters, at Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel, in co-operation with the Vilna Organisation [sic] of Haifa."


List of Indiana state historical markers in Franklin County

This is a list of the Indiana state historical markers in Franklin County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Franklin 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 12 historical markers located in Franklin County.


Stumbling on Happiness

Stumbling on Happiness is a non-fiction book by Daniel Gilbert. It was published in the United States and Canada in 2006 by Knopf, and has been translated into more than 30 languages. It is a "New York Times" bestseller.
Theme.
Gilbert's central thesis is that, through perception and cognitive biases, people imagine the future poorly, in particular what will make them happy. He argues that imagination fails in three ways:
Also, Gilbert covers the topic of 'filling in' or the frequent use of patterns, by the mind, to connect events which we do actually recall with other events we expect or anticipate fit into the expected experience. This 'filling in' is also used by our eyes and optic nerves to remove our blind spot or scotoma, and instead substitute what our mind expects to be present in the blind spot.
The book is written for the layperson, generally avoiding abstruse terminology and explaining common quirks of reasoning through simple experiments that exploited them.
Summary.
Stumbling on Happiness has six sections labeled Prospection, Subjectivity, Realism, Presentism, Rationalization, and Corrigibility. A summary of each follows.
In the Prospection section Gilbert contends that humans are most special because of their ability to imagine. Our large frontal lobes biologically distinguish us from other animals and the function of the frontal lobe is to help us imagine. However, our imagination often leads us astray, and the purpose of the book is to help the reader appreciate the shortcomings of imagination.
The Subjectivity section addresses the meaning of happiness and emphasizes that happiness is a subjective feeling. Gilbert says, “Evaluating people’s claims about their own happiness is an exceptionally thorny business.” No perfectly reliable tool exists to measure a person’s happiness. Instead researchers must rely primarily on the “honest, real-time report of the attentive individual”. Finally, given the imperfections in self-reported feelings of happiness, scientists must rely on the law of large numbers, namely, to ask many people the same question and compare their answers.
The Realism section explains that imagination suffers from shortcomings. The first shortcoming is a lack of accuracy or realism. Imagination relies on memory and perception, and both memory and perception are prone to omit important details and to add false details.
In the Presentism section, Gilbert addresses the second major shortcoming of imagination which is that it is biased toward the present. People project their current circumstance and values onto the future, but the future is often different enough from the present as to make such projections misleading. One phenomenon related to this problem is that wonderful experiences are most treasured on their first occurrence but typically less so on subsequent occurrences.
The third and final shortcoming is presented in the Rationalization section. People have a psychological immune system. They are prone to believe what benefits them and to disbelieve what does not benefit them. Gilbert says, “A healthy psychological immune system strikes a balance that allows us to feel good enough to cope with our situation but bad enough to do something about it”.
The Corrigibility Section shows that illusions of foresight are best addressed when a person trying to anticipate a future experience turns to arbitrary, other people for insight about their related experience. Cultural values tend to be perpetuated as memes and sometimes falsify claims about what would make an individual happy.
Reception.
Reviews of the book include:
In 2007, the book was awarded the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books general prize for the best science writing for a non-specialist audience.


The Warehouse (New Orleans)

The Warehouse, located at 1820 Tchoupitoulas Street, was the main venue for rock music in New Orleans in the 1970s. Concert posters from the early 1970s printed the name as "a warehouse". It was founded by the partners in Beaver Productions. The venue had an estimated capacity of 3,500.
It opened with a triple bill of The Flock, Fleetwood Mac and the headlining Grateful Dead on January 30, 1970. The members of the Grateful Dead were arrested on the venue's opening weekend for drug possession when police raided their hotel rooms. The incident was immortalized in the band's song "Truckin'," with the lines "busted down on Bourbon Street, set up like a bowling pin." On February 1, there was a "Bread for the Dead" concert to raise money for legal fees. The Flock could not stay but Fleetwood Mac and the Grateful Dead performed, and concluded with an almost 40-minute jam together on "Turn on Your Lovelight".
The Allman Brothers Band played many celebrated shows at the venue.
Jim Morrison's last concert with The Doors was at The Warehouse on December 12, 1970. The concert included the second and final performance of "Riders on the Storm". An early iteration of Kansas (now known to fans as "Kansas I") opened the show and sat in with The Doors. ZZ Top's live recording of "Jailhouse Rock" at The Warehouse was included on "Fandango!" (1975).
Talking Heads performed the last show at the venue on September 10, 1982. It was ultimately demolished in April 1989.


Cultural heritage of Belarus

The cultural heritage of Belarus includes both material and immaterial assets (valuables), in accordance with the Law on Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Belarus (2006).
Material historical and cultural assets, movable and immovable, include (Article 13):
These assets are classified as follows (Article 16):
Non-material assets, including traditions, rites, folklore, folk arts, and language, are classified as (Articles 14, 16):
The State Register of Historical and Cultural Values of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Дзяржаўны спіс гісторыка-культурных каштоўнасцей Рэспублікі Беларусь) and Databank are maintained (Article 8).
In 2007, a total of 4,811 objects of heritage were listed, of which 4,694 were material, including 1,655 architectural monuments, 1,125 historical monuments, and 57 art monuments.
Current 07-07-2020 objects of heritage list.
Code.
Every asset has a unique 10-character alphanumeric code of the following template: nnnAnnnnnn
The first character refers to its location
The second character refers to its type
The third character refers to its category (0,1,2,3)
The third character refers to its more detailed classification
Six last characters is zero-padded number of the asset in the order of its inclusion into the Register


Central Asian Arabic

Central Asian Arabic or Jugari Arabic (in Arabic: العربية الآسيوية الوسطى) is a variety of Arabic currently facing extinction and spoken predominantly by Arab communities living in portions of Central Asia.
It is a very different variant from others known in the Arabic language and, although it bears certain similarities with North Mesopotamian Arabic, it is part of the Central Asian family, an independent linguistic branch of the five mainly groups of the Modern Standard Arabic. There is no diglossia with Modern Standard Arabic.
It is spoken by an estimated 6,000 people in Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, countries where Arabic is not an official language, and reported to be declining in number.
In contrast to all Arab countries, it is not characterized by diglossia; The Arab ethnic group use Uzbek and Persian (including Dari and Tajiki) to communicate with each other, and as literary language; Speakers are reported to be bilingual, others speak these languages as mother tongue, and only few members of the communities now speak Jugari Arabic.
History.
It was once spoken among Central Asia's numerous settled and nomadic Arab communities who moved there after the fall of Sasanian Empire. They inhabited areas in Samarqand, Bukhara, Qashqadarya, Surkhandarya (present-day Uzbekistan), and Khatlon (present-day Tajikistan), as well as Afghanistan. The first wave of Arabs migrated to this region in the 8th century during the Muslim conquests and was later joined by groups of Arabs from Balkh and Andkhoy (present-day Afghanistan). Owing to heavy Islamic influences, Arabic quickly became the common language of science and literature of the epoch. Most Central Asian Arabs lived in isolated communities and did not favour intermarriages with the local population. This factor helped their language survive in a multilingual milieu until the 20th century. By the 1880s many Arab pastoralists had migrated to northern Afghanistan from what is now Uzbekistan and Tajikistan following the Russian conquest of Central Asia. These Arabs nowadays speak no Arabic having adapted to Dari and Uzbek.
With the establishment of the Soviet rule in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Arab communities faced major linguistic and identity changes having had to abandon nomadic lifestyles and gradually mixing with Uzbeks, Tajiks and Turkmen. According to the 1959 census, only 34% of Soviet Arabs, mostly elderly, spoke their language at a native level. Others reported Uzbek or Tajik as their mother tongue.
Varieties.
Giorgi Tsereteli and Isaak Natanovich Vinnikov were responsible for the first academic studies of Central Asian Arabic, which is heavily influenced by the local languages in phonetics, vocabulary and syntax.
The Jugari Arabic comprises four varieties: Bakhtiari Arabic (also called Bactrian Arabic), Bukhara Arabic (also called Buxara Arabic), Kashkadarya Arabic and Khorasani Arabic. The first three have their speakers spread across Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Khorasani came to be considered by scholars as part of the Central Asian Arabic dialect family only recently.
It is reported to be spoken in 5 villages of Surkhandarya, Qashqadarya and Bukhara. In Uzbekistan, there are at least two dialects of Central Asian Arabic: Bukharian (influenced by Tajik) and Qashqadaryavi (influenced by Turkic languages). These dialects are not mutually intelligible. In Tajikistan, Central Asian Arabic is spoken by 35.7% of the country's Arab population, having been largely replaced by Tajik. Bakhtiari Arabic is spoken in Arab communities in northern Afghanistan. Recent studies considered Khorasani Arabic (spoken in Khorasan, Iran) as part of the Central Asian Arabic family, and found that it was closely related to Qashqadaryavi.


Murrey

In heraldry, murrey is a "stain", i. e. a non-standard tincture, that is a dark reddish purple colour. It is most proximate in appearance to the heraldic tincture of purpure, but is distinct therefrom.
Overview.
According to dictionaries, "murrey" is the colour of mulberries, being somewhere between the heraldic tinctures of gules (red) and purpure (purple), and almost maroon; but examples registered in Canada and Scotland display it as a reddish brown.
The livery colours of the House of York in England in the fifteenth century were azure and murrey, as depicted on the shields of the Falcon of the Plantagenets and the White Lion of Mortimer, which are 2 of the Queen's Beasts.


British and Intercolonial Exhibition

The British and Intercolonial Exhibition was a small world's fair held between 15 December 1923 and 2 February 1924
in Hokitika, Westland New Zealand to mark the opening of the Otira Tunnel and the diamond jubilee of Westland Province.
The patron of the fair was the Governor-general John Jellicoe and vice patron the Prime Minister W.P.Massey.
40000 square feet were allocated for the exhibition.
Legacy.
A statue of "Summer" was erected to commemorate the exhibition, and is now outside
the .


Cornish Mexican Cultural Society

The Cornish-Mexican Cultural Society () is a society that tries to advance awareness of the historical and modern links between Cornwall and Mexico’s “Little Cornwall”, the area of Pachuca and Real del Monte in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico.
Background.
The municipality of Pachuca has a long history of gold and silver mining, but during the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821) much of the infrastructure was destroyed and many of the mines became flooded.
A group named the Real del Monte Company was formed in 1824 and arranged to bring mining equipment and experienced miners from Cornwall.
After landing on Mocambo beach, south of Veracruz, the miners took 14 months to struggle through swamps and rain forests to Real del Monte.
The Cornish brought cultural traditions that included football, wrestling and baking pasties.
Although the Cornish community shrank after the 1911 revolution, some Cornish names survive.
There are buildings and houses with European architecture, including Francis Rule's Methodist Church.
History.
The CMCS was founded in 2006. The objectives were to foster historic cultural ties between Cornwall and Mexico, particularly the municipalities of Pachuca and Real del Monte in Hidalgo, to enable cultural links to be reestablished between the two mining districts.
The driving force was the late Richard Williams, who had been visiting "Little Cornwall" in Mexico since 1998.
There were plans for society members to visit Mexico in July 2008 and retrace the route the original party took in 1825–26, reaching Real del Monte on Miner's Day.
In September 2008 Dave Evan and 30 other members of the association travelled to Mexico to explore the route taken by their ancestors.
Jean Charman, Mayor of Camborne, and the historian Richard Williams accompanied the group.
In 2008 the Cornish-Mexican Cultural Society helped arrange for Real del Monte and Redruth in Cornwall to be twinned.
The 3-day International Pasty Festival was launched in Real del Monte in October 2009.
Richard Williams, president of the Sociedad Cornish Mexicana, was among those present.
In May 2011 the society published "Mining a Shared Heritage: Mexico’s ‘Little Cornwall’", written by the specialist in Cornish mining migration, Sharron Schwartz.
It explored the historic links and the way in which families in Mexico and Cornwall are renewing those links.
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall visited Real del Monte on the Day of the Dead in 2014.
They visited the Pasty Museum, where the couple made pasties.
According to Stephen Lay, CMCS spokesman, "It's uncanny, the Cornish influence is abundantly clear even today – pasties are probably even more popular and widely produced than in Cornwall itself."


List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Sullivan County

This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Sullivan County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Sullivan 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 seven historical markers located in Sullivan County.


Carson County Square House Museum

The Carson County Square House Museum is located at the intersection of Texas State Highway 207 and Fifth Street in the city of Panhandle, in the county of Carson, in the U.S. state of Texas. The structure is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, and is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Carson County, Texas. It is the oldest house in the city.
Museum.
This white frame house was built in the late 1880s as a residence for a representative of the Southern Kansas Railway. Lumber to build the home was shipped in from Kansas. It is considered the oldest residence in the city of Panhandle. After a series of several owners, the house became the home of future sheriff Oscar L. Thorp in 1920, and remained a private residence until 1965. On that date, the structure was moved to its current location and restored as a museum.
Opening with only the square house in 1967, the complex eventually expanded to include multiple structures.
In 1966, the house was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
The museum was placed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Carson County, Texas in 1973.
Over 10,000 indoor and outdoor artifacts are on display. Sculpture is on display, as is art by local indigenous tribes. Other structures and exhibits include a train caboose, a windmill, a barn, a dugout shelter and art galleries, all focused on local history and current events Since 1999, Square House Museum has sponsored Line Camp program for young people, two weeks of educational and artistic actives for children ages 7–12.
The museum is entirely funded by Carson County and voluntary donations from the public.
It is a member of the Texas Association of Museums.
Hours, admission, parking.
Free to the public, donations accepted.
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. Holiday closings on New Year's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.


Abgarowicz coat of arms

Abgarowicz (armen. "Աբգարովիչ") is a Polish Coat of Arms of Wallachian origin. Borne by several families of the Polish gentry during the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, it is most commonly associated with three clans of Armenian origin: the Abgarowicz, Wartanowicz and Zachariasiewicz (or Zachariaszewicz).
History.
The earliest bearers of the coat of arms settled in Stanisławów (Ruthenian Voivodeship) in 1670. They received indigenate and their Wallachian coat of arms was accepted. Around 1730 Abgar-Soltan, an Armenian merchant, had two sons. One of them, Krzysztof Abgarowicz adopted the coat of arms' name as his surname. Descendants of the other son, Zachariasz, adopted the surname Zachariaszewicz.
Blazon.
Gules, knight Argent mounting a horse Argent.
Notable bearers.
Notable bearers of this Coat of Arms include:


Alice B. Russell

Alice Burton Russell (June 30, 1889 – January 1, 1985) was an American actress and the wife of director Oscar Micheaux, who appeared in six films directed by her husband.
The daughter of Mrs. M. J. Russell, she was born in Maxton, North Carolina and died in New Rochelle, New York. She was mentioned often as A. Burton Russell in credits. She produced three films by her husband and worked as miscellaneous crew in two films.
Russell and Micheaux married on March 20, 1926, in Montclair, New Jersey.
Filmography.
As actress:
As producer:
As miscellaneous crew:


Fort Douglas (Canada)

Fort Douglas was the Selkirk Settlement (Red River Colony) fort and the first fort associated with the Hudson's Bay Company near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in today's city of Winnipeg. Named for Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, founder of the Selkirk Settlement, the fort was built by Scottish and Irish settlers beginning in 1813. Completed in 1815, it was in the immediate vicinity (down river) of the North West Company establishment, Fort Gibraltar.
After the Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816, during the conflict between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, the fort was captured by the Métis and employees of the North West Company. The fort was soon retaken by Selkirk's men and there was a short period of relative peace. Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk lived at the fort during his visit to the Selkirk Settlement (Red River Colony) in the summer of 1817. It was later used as a trading post and was the residence of the Governor of Assiniboia. Following the amalgamation of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC) in 1821, the HBC's operations were relocated to the NWC's Fort Gibraltar, renamed Fort Garry. Fort Douglas remained the residence of the Governor of Assiniboia until it was mostly destroyed in the great Red River flood of 1826. A second flood in 1852 swept away remnants.
Today the site of Fort Douglas is located on Waterfront Drive in downtown Winnipeg, in Fort Douglas Park. As the heart of the Selkirk Settlement and the first significant structure in what is today Winnipeg's historic Exchange District, the site of the fort is the most important historical site in the district. The eminent Canadian historian Professor Chester Martin of the University of Manitoba, in 1924 described the site of Fort Douglas as "perhaps the most historic site in the prairie provinces."
References.
Letter from Chester Martin, Department of History, University of Manitoba, to Judge F.W. Howay, 16 April 1924. Library and Archives Canada, RG84, Series A-2-a, Vol. 1389, File HS10-10, Reel T-14155.


Hase-dera

 is the main temple of the Buzan sect of Shingon Buddhism. The temple is located in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The Main Hall is a National Treasure of Japan.
Overview.
According to the description on , which is enshrined at Hase-dera, the temple was first built in 686 and dedicated to Emperor Tenmu, who was suffering from a disease. Later, in the year 727, the temple was expanded by order of Emperor Shōmu and a statue of the eleven-faced Kannon was placed near the original temple that enshrined the bronze plaque. The temple has been burned down and rebuilt as many as ten times since the 10th century.
During the Heian period the temple was favored by members of the nobility, such as the authors of the "Kagerō Nikki" and the "Sarashina Nikki". Hase-dera was consistently popular with visitors, helped by the fact it was situated on what was then the route to the Ise Shrine. Later still, Hase-dera flourished as one of the centers of the reformed Shingon Buddhism, particularly after the arrival of priest Sen'yo from Negoro-ji in 1588.
The current Main Hall is a reconstruction of 1650 built using donations from Tokugawa Iemitsu. A covered wooden , 200 metres long, leads to the Hall from the Niō Gate. The temple is especially popular in the spring, when the 700 Chinese peonies that line the staircase are in bloom, and in the fall, when the leaves of the many maple trees in the temple grounds have turned red.
Treasures.
The designated Important Cultural Properties at Hase-dera include:


Medal for Heroic Deeds

The Medal for Heroic Deeds was instituted in Norway by royal resolution on 19 August 1885 and is awarded for honorable actions in saving lives or a comparable act. There was originally three classes, but from 1905 the medal has been awarded in gold and silver. To be awarded in gold the recipient must have committed an unusually notable rescue of life where the rescuer's life was put at risk. The medal is surmounted by the Crown of Norway and the adverse side features the portrait, name and title of the reigning monarch. At present the portrait is of King Harald V of Norway and the inscription reads «Harald den 5, Norges Konge» ("Harald the fifth, King of Norway"). The reverse features an oak reaf and the words «For edel dåd» ("For noble deed"). The ribbon is in the national colours of Norway: red, white and blue.


Pandanallur style

The Pandanallur style is a style of Bharatanatyam Indian dance. It is mainly attributed to Dance Guru Meenakshi sundaram Pillai (1869–1964), a dance guru who lived in the village of Pandanallur, in the Thanjavur district in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Teachers.
Meenakshisundaram Pillai, whose ancestors were nattuvanars, was a descendant from the Thanjavur Quartet, which comprised four brothers: Chinnaiah, Ponniah, Sivanandam and Vadivel. The works of these four brothers, who were court composers in the early 19th century in Thanjavur, form the main classical masterpieces of Bharata Natyam.
Baroda Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar (1916 - 2007), a disciple of Pillai, later established Tanjor Dance Music & Art Research Centre in Baroda, Gujarat. Thiruvallaputhur Swaminatha Pillai, also known as T.K.Swaminatha Pillai, was one of the leading disciples of Pillai. He learned Bharathanatiyam under the Gurukula of Pillai for more than ten years. He also mentored Ram Gopal, who became one of the pioneers of Indian dance in the west.
Pillai was said to have been trained by his uncle, Kumarasamy Nattuvanar. He trained several famous Bharata Natyam dancers, including Devadasis such as Pandanallur Jayalakshmi, Thangachi Ammal, Sabaranjitam, as well as people from other castes such as Mrinalini Sarabhai, Rukmini Devi, Tara Chaudhri.
After Pillai, his son-in-law Chokkalingam Pillai (1893–1968) became the doyen Guru of the Pandanallur style. His leading dancer-student was Mambalam Geetha. He trained other leading dancers such as G. Kausalya, Sucharita, and Indrani Rehman. He shifted to Madras and propagated his dance throughout the region.
Subbaraya Pillai (1914–2008), Chokkalingam Pillai's son, was the next leading Guru of the Pandanallur style. He grew up in the village of Pandanallur and was an apprentice under his grandfather and father. He trained leading dancers such as Alarmel Valli and Meenakshi Chitharanjan. His granddaughter Vanitha Rajasekar teaches dance in Valasaravakkam, Chennai-87 and other regions of Tamil Nadu.
Style.
The Pandanallur style developed a reputation for the emphasis on linear geometry that can be found in the "adavu" technique, and for its intensity and understatement in "abhinaya".
The Pandanallur style is renowned for its choreography, which include such highly regarded pieces as the Nine or Ten Tanjore Quartet "pada-varnams" . These works featured choreography by Pillai, who named the dramatic choreography "hands," and was also responsible for the "adavu" choreography for the "swara" passages.
Part of their heritage is the valuable jatiswarams (in "ragams Vasantha, Saveri, Chakravakam, Kalyani, Bhairavi"), which incorporate abstract "adavu" choreography.
Pandanallur style gives a lot of importance to abinayaha. Moreover, stamping the foot hard against the floor is discouraged in this style. Instead, slow movements are used to make the salangai (ankle bells) give out a lot of noise.
The strong Footwork whereby every Step is marked, is a result of one of the Arts Music main feature of exactness and accuracy to bring out the Rhythmic vitality as the Dancer is required to have a Natural Rhythmic Body of expression.
This Feature was mostly not possible to bring out by each and every one Student.


Kramer discography

This article presents the complete oeuvre of American musician, composer and record producer Kramer, including his work as a band member and collaborating artist.


List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Susquehanna County

This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Susquehanna County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Susquehanna 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 ten historical markers located in Susquehanna County.


Sandwich First Baptist Church

The Sandwich First Baptist Church, located in the Sandwich neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario, was established to serve a community of refugees who had fled slavery on the Underground Railroad. The congregation was founded around 1840, and the current church building was constructed in 1851. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1999, and continues to function as a church.
History.
Due to its proximity to the Detroit River, which served as one of the crossing points into Canada for the Underground Railroad, the Sandwich area served as a refugee settlement and housed many people who had fled slavery in the United States. Around 600 people of colour lived in the area as of 1827. While Baptists had lived in Sandwich beginning no later than 1826, the First Baptist Church was only founded in or around 1840. The congregation initially met in the homes of members and later in a small log cabin that was constructed in 1847. Madison J. Lightfoot, who had previously helped to establish the Second Baptist Church in Detroit, served as the congregation's first minister, and continued in that role until 1853.
Together with the Detroit Second Baptist Church and the Amherstburg First Baptist Church, the Sandwich church was a founding member of the Amherstburg Regular Missionary Baptist Association (ARMBA). Established in 1841 in Amherstburg, Ontario, the ARMBA (originally the Baptist Association of Colored People) sought to represent the interests of Black baptists and would later go on to organize extensive anti-slavery activities. By 1861, the association's membership had grown from 47 to over 1,000 congregants.
Following fund-raising efforts, the church was constructed in 1851 on a patch of land granted by Queen Victoria for the purposes of constructing a church and a graveyard. The labour force consisted of the able-bodied members of the community; many of them made bricks from the Detroit River's clay by hand, while wealthier community members bought bricks from the Robinette Brickyard. Trees from the area were also used as building materials. Though the cornerstone was laid in 1851, the building remained unfinished as of 1852, and church members had to solicit donations to complete its construction.
Like other Black churches along the Ontario–United States border, the Sandwich church provided social and political support for those fleeing slavery and racial oppression on the Underground Railroad. The church was heavily involved in activism against slavery: monthly anti-slavery rallies were held there, and local history recounts that refugees would use the church as a hiding place to evade slave-catchers. Although there is little concrete evidence of the latter (which is not unexpected due to the secretive nature of the work), architectural features of the church such as its many crawlspaces and a former trap door leading to the basement lend credence to these accounts.
The Sandwich First Baptist Church was recognized by the Ontario Heritage Act in 1995 and designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1999. It continues to function as a church while attracting visitors interested in its history; it is estimated that 14,000 tourists visited the site in 1996. In 2020, the church received a grant to finance the establishment of a museum dedicated to the Underground Railroad.
Description.
The church building is a small and "unpretentious" structure. It is similar in design to other early Black churches in Ontario, with a gabled roof and a rectangular floor plan, but distinguished by its use of brick as a building material. The church's wooden floors, ceiling, and wainscoting were fashioned by hand. In 1868, a coal-burning stove was purchased and installed.
A two-storey crenellated tower stands at the entrance of the church; this was not part of the original design, but was added in 1920 to replace the old wooden entrance which had fallen into disrepair. Other Gothic revival decorations, such as arches and pointed windows, were gradually added, and an extension was made to the rear of the church at an unknown date, though the main auditory hall was mostly left unmodified.


Jindai-ji (Tokyo)

is a　temple belonging to the Tendai school of Buddhism. It is located in Chōfu in Tokyo Prefecture.
History.
The foundation of Jindai-ji goes back many centuries. In the context of esoteric Buddhism (), the name of the temple refers to the saint of water, Jinja Daiō (). According to the temple tradition, the daughter of Sato Osaukon (郷 長 右 近) fell in love with a man named Fukuman (福 満) in the area. Her mother was against the marriage, so Fukuman prayed to Jinja Daiō, and the mother finally acceded to the marriage. In gratitude, the daughter is said to have founded the temple in Tempyō 5 (733) in order to pay gratitude and worship Jinja Daiō there. In the Jōgan era (859-877) the temple is said to have followed the Tendai school of Buddhism. The principle figure of veneration in the temple is the Amida Buddha.
Temple Grounds.
The temple is bordered in a semicircular shape by a hill to the northeast. A staircase leads to the temple and it is entered it through the temple gate (; map: 1). The original gate was lost in a fire in 1695 and was rebuilt in the Yakui style.
After passing the gate, the temple bell (, map: 4) can be see on the right, and ahead the main hall (; map: 2). The main hall was lost in a major fire in the middle of the 19th century, and was eventually rebuilt in the first half of the 20th century. In 2003 the roof was rebuilt, using copper plates in the shape of bricks, instead of actual bricks.
To the left of the main hall, and set back, is the " 'Gansandaishidō' " (; map: 3), which was popular in the Edo period, for praying for good fortune in life. In 1900, a group of sculptures of a seated Shaka Buddha with two companions made of bronze with gold traces () was discovered underneath the hall, for which a separate building, the Shakadō (; map: 5) was built. The group of sculptures, the " 'Three Hakuhō-Buddhas' " ( are named for the Hakuhō period (673-686.) from which they are dated. The sculptures have been designated as a National Treasure.
To the right of the main hall is the monks' quarters with the residence hall (map: A) and the guest house, known as "Accommodation for Sparrows" (; map: G). In the rear, where the temple rises, stands the small " 'Kaisandō' " (; map: 6), which is dedicated to the founder of the temple. The temple cemetery is further above and to the west.


Harald the Younger

Harald the Younger (from “Herioldus iunior”, how he is named in the "Annales Xantenses") was a Viking leader and a member of the Danish royal family. He has sometimes been mistakenly identified with Harald Klak, who was in fact his uncle and probable namesake. His brother was Rorik of Dorestad.
In 841 the Emperor Lothair I granted the isle of Walcheren to Harald and his brother as a fief ("beneficium") rewarding him for the attacks he had launched against Lothair's father, Louis the Pious, during the civil wars of the 830s. Since at the time Harald was a pagan, whereas the population of Walcheren was Christian, this incident is probably the basis for the contemporary historian Nithard's claim that Lothair placed a Christian population in submission to a group of Northmen and gave them licence to plunder the Christian territories of his enemies in the same year. Between 840 and 843 Lothair was engaged in a civil war with his brothers Louis the German and Charles the Bald, and Nithard records that Harald was present in his army in 842. Not long thereafter Harald died and his brother was forced to flee to the court of Louis the German, where he spent several years.
Although later sources unambiguously describe Harald as a pagan—Prudentius of Troyes, author of the "Annales Bertiniani", regarded him as a "persecutor of the Christian faith and a demon-worshipper" and his receipt of a benefice as an "utterly detestable crime"—he may have been baptised as a young man at the imperial court. Harald Klak and his family, perhaps including Harald, were baptised at Mainz in 826, with Lothair standing as godfather. Harald's son Godfrid Haraldsson and one of his nephews remained at the imperial court even after the elder Harald left. Since Godfrid remained allied with Lothair until the mid-840s, it is possible that Harald was his cousin who remained with Lothair after 826 and began raiding Louis the Pious's Frisian lands in 834.


Der Roiter Emes

Der Roiter Emes (, 'The Red Truth') was a Yiddish-language newspaper published from Riga, Latvia. The first issue was published on January 13, 1919. It was an organ of the Communist Party of Latvia. It was published three times per week. The newspaper featured frequent attacks on the bourgeoisie and the Jewish religious establishment. It ceased publication when the Bolshevik forces lost control of Riga on May 22, 1919.


Staffordshire Mercury

The Staffordshire Mercury was a weekly regional newspaper published in Staffordshire, England.
The publication was founded in 1824 by Thomas Allbut, with the Rev. Leonard Abington as its first editor. It was later renamed The Potteries Mercury at some point.
The paper became the North Staffordshire Mercury in March 1834 but returned to being named the "Staffordshire Mercury" in April 1845. The paper probably folded in May 1848.
The "Staffordshire Mercury"'s notable journalists include Edmund Rogers (1840s)


Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal

The Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal is a canal and set of locks linking Lake Saint-Louis and Lake of Two Mountains at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the very westernmost point of Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada. It is a National Historic Site of Canada.
The canal is located in the eastern channel of the Ottawa River around Perrot Island ("Île Perrot") where shallow rapids form a natural obstacle. It forms part of the waterway system that allows boating access from the Saint Lawrence River up the Ottawa River to the City of Ottawa, and even to Lake Ontario via the Rideau Canal.
The canal and locks are used today exclusively for recreational boating. The site is a popular tourist location that also offers mooring places, picnic tables, boat launch, and park land. Guided tours and interpretative panels are provided by Parks Canada. Together with the boardwalk and restaurants and cafes that line the canal, the site drew 181,000 visitors and 23,000 boaters in 2003, making it the second busiest canal and locks in Quebec. The dimensions of the lock are long, wide, and deep at the sills. It lifts boats by .
History.
Prior to the existence of the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal, there had already been since 1816 a canal and lock in the channel on the west side of Perrot Island, facing Dorion. But this canal was privately owned, with its owners therefore having a monopoly over the shipping going upstream. Other merchants, opposing the unfair practice, petitioned the government to build a public lock at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
The first plans for the canal were drawn up in 1831. But because of financial, administrative, and political setbacks, it would not be until 1840 that construction began on the canal. It was completed on November 14, 1843. The original locks were long, wide, and deep at the sills.
The canal and locks proved to be a major impetus to colonization and commerce. Soon after it opened, it was used by many people travelling upstream to settle in Upper Canada, and it attracted a large amount of commercial traffic. This, as well as the lock's approach that was difficult to navigate, necessitated a second lock. Following the recommendations of the Canals Commission in 1870, a second lock was built directly east and parallel to the first one, with work completed in 1882. The original locks were used less and less until 1909 when they were abandoned.
Since the completion of the second canal, the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal and the other canals of the Ottawa River were mainly used to transport wood to Montreal. This commerce flourished until 1919 whereafter the logging industry went into decline. From 1920 to 1963, shipments of sand, gravel and petroleum products became the principal freight transported. In 1914, electric lighting was installed, and in 1923, the gate mechanisms were electrified. But the railroad supplanted water transportation and the canal lost most of its importance. In the 1960s, a period of modernization saw the removal of many old service buildings, such as the toll collector’s residence and office, smithy, carpentry shop, storehouse, and tool shed. The lock’s old wooden gates were replaced with steel ones and in 1964, the old 1843 canal and locks were completely backfilled.
In 1972, the canal, locks, and banks were designated a National Historic Site and came under the jurisdiction of Parks Canada. Because of the canal's transportation and historic roles, it is managed in accordance with the Department of Transport Act and the Historic Sites and Monuments Act.


By the Shortest of Heads

By the Shortest of Heads was a 1915 British film starring George Formby as a stableboy who outwits a gang of villains. It was Formby's first film; he was aged ten at the time. The film is now considered lost, with the last-known copy having been destroyed in 1940.
Plot.
Formby played a stable boy who outwits a gang of villains and wins a £10,000 prize when he comes first in a horse race.
Background.
George Formby Snr was worried that his son, George Formby, would watch him on stage and begin a career on stage; he was against the boy following in his footsteps, saying "one fool in the family is enough". After a year of Formby working at a stables in Middleham, he was apprenticed to Thomas Scourfield at Epsom, where he ran his first professional races at the age of 10, when he weighed less than . In 1915 Formby Snr allowed his son to appear on screen, taking the lead in "By the Shortest of Heads". After completing the filming, Formby Jnr was sent to Ireland to continue his jockey training, as were the five horses Formby had purchased that year, which joined others he had previously bought.
The film is now considered lost, with the last-known copy having been destroyed in 1940.


St. Peters Canal

The St. Peters Canal is a small shipping canal located in eastern Canada on Cape Breton Island. It crosses an isthmus in the village of St. Peter's, Nova Scotia which connects St. Peters Inlet of Bras d'Or Lake to the north with St. Peters Bay of the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
In the vast majority of canals the flow of water is unidirectional. That is, the "high" side of the canal is always the same. St. Peter's Canal is unusual in that, due to the difference in the timing of the tides between Bras d'Or Lake and the ocean, during part of the tide cycle the Atlantic side is the higher, in other parts of the tide cycle it is the lake side. As a result, the canal requires special "double" gates, the only ones of their kind in North America. The usual canal lock has a gate at each end, each gate consisting of two swinging doors that when closed form a shallow 'V' shape, with the point of the 'V' pointing upstream. At the St. Peter's Canal lock each gate consists of four swinging doors which form a diamond shape when closed. In actual use the pair of doors which form the upstream pointing 'V' are used. No matter which side has the higher water level, either one pair or the other will be appropriate.
Vessels transiting the canal are limited by the size of the lock, which measures long, wide, draught and air draught of . A swing bridge over the canal has of clearance when closed and is operated from the bridge house on Grenville Street.
St. Peters Canal is the only working canal of national historic significance in Atlantic Canada and an important historic landmark for the Village of St. Peter's and for Cape Breton Island. St. Peters Canal is part of a nationwide family of over 900 national historic sites, including 9 operating canals.
Hours of operation.
Prior to 2013, the canal operated from November 1 to mid-May, weather permitting, on a 24 hours' advance notice requirement.
It operated seven days a week, from mid-May to mid-October each year, continuing with five-day-a-week operation (Monday to Friday) from mid-October to October 31. Through the early peak season (mid-June to mid-August) the canal was open for navigation from 8:00 am to 8:30 pm each day. The remainder of the peak season (mid-August to Labour Day) the hours were 8:00 am to 7:30 pm.
In 2013 season Parks Canada reduced service to three days a week from May 17 to Jun 23, expanding to seven days a week operation from June 24 to September 8 and two days a week operation from September 9 to 22 (extended to October 14, 2013). The daily hours of operation were also cut back, with closure at 6:00 pm each day until August 11 when the closing time fell back to 4:00 pm. St. Peter's Canal handles about 1,000 transits a year. By its own estimate, Parks Canada believed 15 per cent of those boaters would be affected by the reduced hours of operation. In December 2015 seven-day-a-week operation was restored to the May 10 to June 26, 2016 operation period.
Hours of Operation - 2021
June 1 to June 21, 2021
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday - Monday
June 22 to August 8, 2021
8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
August 9 to September 6, 2021
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
September 7 to September 11, 2021
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday - Monday
September 12, 2021 and after
Limited passage
Weekdays
902-535-2118
Schedule may be subject to change. For more information, phone 902-535-2118 or 902-295-2069.
Limited passage available by request. Call 902-535-2118 to schedule a crossing.
Check back frequently for the most up-to-date information related to the hours of operations for this season once visitor service restrictions have been lifted.
Boats must arrive 30 minutes before the canal closes.
Tie-up for transit is on the western wall of the lock approach.
Grounds open year-round.
History.
The area had long been travelled by the Mi'kmaq people who portaged their canoes across the isthmus. A "haulover road" across the isthmus established by French fur trader Nicholas Denys in 1650 predated the canal.
A feasibility study was conducted in 1825 into the possibility of building a canal. Construction began in 1854 and was completed in 1869, resulting in a channel measuring 800 m (2,600 ft) long and an average of 30 m (100 ft) wide. The canal passes through a 20 m (66 ft) high hill composed of solid granite, accounting for the 15 years for its construction. There can be a tidal difference of up to 1.4 m (4.5 ft) between Bras d'Or Lake and the Atlantic Ocean, thus a lock was designed to regulate water levels. The original works were designed to take vessels of 4 m (13 ft) draft but were deepened to 5.5 m (18 ft) between 1875 and 1881.
The St. Peters Canal saw relatively heavy use by commercial shipping in the 19th century and early 20th century, during an era of industrial expansion on Cape Breton Island.
Additions and renovations, widening the channel and lengthening the locks, continued until 1917. The canal eventually became too small for modern ships and has been used primarily by pleasure boats since the end of the Second World War. The canal continues to serve both pleasure craft and commercial vessels travelling to and from the Bras d’Or Lakes, with about 1,000 lockages recorded for the years 2003 and 2004. The canal was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1929 and was under the jurisdiction of the Federal Department of Railways and Canals and its successor, Transport Canada, up to 1972, when administration of the canal and associated property was transferred to Parks Canada, who continue to operate and maintain the site today. The Lockmaster's house built in 1876 is a "recognized" heritage building according to the Federal Heritage Building Review Office (FHBRO).
Parks Canada undertook a major project to restore both entrances to the canal in 1985. The St. Peters Canal is operational from May to October each year. The current swing bridge, installed in its present location in 2017, is the fifth bridge to span the canal; previous ones were installed in 1869, 1876, 1919 and 1931.
Swing bridge replacement.
The old one-lane swing bridge was constructed in 1936. The bridge was almost 80 years old and was nearing the end of its lifecycle. Routine inspections identified the bridge as needing some upgrades to meet current standards. Parks Canada considered continuing to perform repairs, but a full bridge replacement was deemed to be more cost effective. The old bridge still met all safety requirements and underwent regular bridge inspections to ensure public safety until it was replaced.
In August 2014 Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) issued a Notice of Preferred Procurement (NPP) for the design phase of a new swing bridge for the St. Peters Canal. According to Parks Canada external relations officer Maria O'Hearn, this step was the first in a three-year process that saw construction of a new two-lane swing bridge begin in 2016, with the new structure replacing the former one-lane bridge a year later. On 20 November 2014 this tender was awarded to Parsons Inc. of Gloucester, Ontario.
The project was estimated to cost $10 million (final cost closer to $16 million) and was overseen by Parks Canada, as the bridge is part of a national historic site. The new two-lane bridge was built adjacent to the existing one-lane structure. Contracts for the construction went out during the winter of 2016-2017 with the work beginning in March 2017. The new two-lane bridge opened slightly behind schedule to boat and vehicular traffic in mid-June 2017, with landscaping work to be completed during the summer that year. An official re-opening ceremony, with representatives of the Government of Canada, along with community members from St. Peter's and Potlotek First Nation, was held on November 16, 2017.


Omophagia

Omophagia, or omophagy (from Greek "raw") is the eating of raw flesh. The term is of importance in the context of the cult worship of Dionysus.
Omophagia is a large element of Dionysiac myth; in fact, one of Dionysus' epithets is "Omophagos" "Raw-Eater". Omophagia may have been a symbol of the triumph of wild nature over civilization, and a symbol of the breaking down of boundaries between nature and civilization. It might also have been symbolic that the worshippers were internalizing Dionysus’ wilder traits and his association with brute nature, in a sort of “communion” with the god.
Mythology sometimes depicts Maenads, Dionysus' female worshippers, eating raw meat as part of their worship; however, there is little solid
evidence that historical Maenads consumed raw meat.
The Dionysiac diet of raw meat may be more properly attributed to Dionysus himself, rather than his followers—he received sacrifices of raw meat and was believed to consume them, but his followers did not share in the consumption.
Orphism.
The Orphic mysteries originated as a ritual which focused on purification and the afterlife; the mysteries were based on the stories of Dionysus Zagreus.
Zagreus was the child of Zeus and Persephone, who was torn apart by the Titans in an act of sparagmos. After tearing Zagreus apart, the Titans devoured him, except for his heart.
His body was then reassembled; this may be reflected in the story of Pentheus, whose body parts were gathered together after his mother, aunt and other Maenads tore him apart in a Dionysic frenzy, and the story of Actaeon, who was eaten by his own hunting dogs. Because the dogs grieved so deeply after Actaeon's death, an image of him was made to comfort them. All three stories show a common motif of reassembly of body parts following sparagmos and omophagia, and this motif may have been significant for religious ritual.
In Orphism, worshippers took part in an Orphic ritual which reenacted the story of Zegreus, using a bull as their victim (poorer worshippers may have used a goat instead). They considered the ritual to be "commemorative" of events in their god's existence. In his article "A New Ritual of the Orphic Mysteries", Michael Tierney says that "... by sacramental re-enactment of the god's death, a hope of salvation for his worshippers was obtained."
Dionysus became associated with Zagreus, and the story of having been torn apart and eaten by the Titans was applied to him as well.
Omophagia was the focus of the Dionysiac mysteries, and a component of Orphic ceremonies. In its beginnings, Orphism was influenced by the Eleusinian mysteries, and it adopted stories from other mythologies as its own. The worshippers of Zagreus may have engaged in omophagia as an initiation rite.
"The Bacchae".
Euripides’ play "The Bacchae" focuses on the worship of Dionysus, including allusions to omophagia, and its companion sparagmos. In this play, the character Agave tears her son Pentheus apart while under the influence of Dionysus. Because Euripides depicts Agave as engaging in sparagmos, he likely intended for the audiences to assume she engaged in omophagia as well: additionally, the character Cadmus compares Agave's actions to the story of Actaeon, who was consumed by his own hunting dogs—this association further suggests that omophagia took place.
There is another possible instance of omophagia in "The Bacchae". At one point in the play, the maenads go into a nearby town and carry off the children; it is possible that the maenads then consumed them. In art and myth, this incident is linked to omophagia; however, Euripides may not have intended this meaning in "The Bacchae".


Eshkol

Eshkol () is a Hebrew language word meaning "cluster", usually of grapes. When not related to the Hebrew Bible and botany (where it can also mean "raceme", a region of a flowering plant's anatomy), it is normally associated with the third Israeli prime minister, Levi Eshkol.
Eshkol can refer to:


Metropolis in Asia

Metropolis in Asia is both a Roman era city and a vacant titular see located in the ecumenical Province of Asia, in what is today Tratsa, Turkey (near Tatarili) and Haidarli
City.
The "colonia" (Roman city), also called Pisidian Nikopolis, had its own "Geurisia" Council and at times minted its own coins.
It is probable that Metropolis was founded as a Hellenistic colony, as many names on inscriptions in the city have Macedonian names. The City was mentioned by Livy and Strabo.


Gryzima coat of arms

Gryzima is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.


Corneille de Lyon

Corneille de Lyon (early 16th century – 8 November 1575 (buried)) was a Dutch painter of portraits who was active in Lyon, France from 1533 until his death. In France and the Netherlands he is also still known as "Corneille de La Haye" () after his birthplace, The Hague.
Although he is well documented as the leading painter in this distinctively French style, because he never signed or dated his paintings very few identifiable works can be firmly traced as his, with the first one identified in 1962. Distinguishing his hand from the many other artists working in the same style is therefore extremely difficult, if not impossible; works tend to be attributed to him on grounds of quality alone.
Corneille's portraits are nearly miniature in scale, ranging from the size of a postcard to about 8" x 10". Corneille worked in oil paint on wood panels. The flesh areas are painted very thinly, while the greenish backgrounds are painted more thickly. Similarities with the work of Hans Holbein may point to the use of tracing frames by both painters. The Louvre in Paris and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are both good places to study Corneille's work. The Metropolitan has a portrait in the Robert Lehman collection, and another in the Jack and Belle Linsky collection, as well as six other works, some of which are not always on view. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has two works by Corneille and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has three works. His "Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman" has been in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon since 2014.


Goethe-Gesellschaft

The (Goethe Society), not to be confused with the Goethe-Institut, is a literary and scientific organisation to explore the literary work of the German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was founded in Weimar, where he lived, in 1885 by Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. It aims at "deeper understanding of Goethe's work and its relevance to the modern world and dedicated research". It publishes a periodical publication, the "" (Yearbook), first published in 1880 by Ludwig Geiger. The highest award is the Goethe Medal in Gold.
The Goethe Society has approximately 3500 members from 55 countries, approximately 8000 members are organised in 57 local associations. The Goethe Society of North America was founded in 1979. Members are interested amateurs, as well as scientists and institutions. Besides the Goethe Society in Weimar, many other groups are established both at home and abroad. Every two years, a meeting is organised in Weimar for lectures and discussions on Goethe. The present president of the is Jochen Golz.


The Devil Dodger

The Devil Dodger is a lost 1917 silent western film feature directed by Clifford Smith and starring Roy Stewart. It was produced and released by Triangle Film Corporation.


Dennehy

Dennehy is a surname of Irish origin. The original form in Irish is Ó Duineachdha, meaning descendant of Duineachaidh, who was a chieftain who fought the Danes in Limerick in 934. The name may mean "humane", or may mean "man from the fairy hills". Spelling variations include Denehy, Dennehey, Danahy, Deniehy, and Denahy. The name may refer to:


Vogue Theatre

Vogue Theatre is an Art Deco/Art Moderne styled building originally built as a movie house and is presently used as an event venue for the performing arts. Situated on Vancouver’s “Theatre Row", the building was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1990.
History.
The Vogue Theatre was designed by architects Kaplan & Sprachman. Construction began in 1940 and was completed in 1941. The Vogue has hosted such events such as Vancouver’s ComedyFest, Vancouver International Film Festival and Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
It was operated by Canadian Odeon Theatres until 1984, then by Cineplex Odeon, until its closure in 1987.
In 2010, the property`s owner, Gibbons Hospitality Group, announced intentions of restoring many of the original features of the Vogue and using it as an event space.
Architecture.
The Vogue Theatre is an example of Art Deco or Moderne architecture. The Vogue has been a National Historic Site of Canada since it was officially recognized by the federal government on November 20, 1993, under Historic Sites and Monuments Act. The interiors of the building are not officially protected. The Vogue is also a City of Vancouver heritage "A" building.
Exterior design.
The Vogue Theatre is crafted in the Art Deco style, emphasizing sleek lines and fluid contours. It has symmetrical façades, constructed in a mixture of textured concrete and terrazzo panels with wrought-iron screens. One of the defining features of Vogue is its large neon sign which is topped by silhouette of the Roman Goddess Diana.
Interior design.
The Vogue Theatre has 1,161 seats, with 614 on the orchestra level, 211 in the Dress Circle, and 336 on the Upper Circle. It has curved balconies and curved ceilings in the Art Deco style.
The Vogue has an elaborate modulated lighting system. The stage, made of black-painted maple, is equipped with a flying system 30 feet above the floor. The air-conditioning systems and ducts are concealed in the ceiling coves, which improves the acoustics of the theatre.


Maibelle Heikes Justice

Maibelle Heikes Justice (1871 — March 11, 1926) was an American novelist and screenwriter.
Early life.
Maibelle Heikes Justice was born in Logansport, Indiana, the daughter of James Monroe Justice and Grace E. Heikes Justice (later Grace Justice-Hankins). Her father was a lawyer and politician, and an American Civil War veteran. She was educated in New York City and Philadelphia, and spent two years with the military, for which she was given honorary rank of captain in the U.S. Army.
Career.
Justice was credited as a writer on over 40 silent films between 1913 and 1925, most of them shorts. Among her notable films was "The Post-Impressionists" (1913; Hardee Kirkland, dir.), a comedy based on her visit to the Armory Show that year. "The Song in the Dark" (1914) was about a blind canary and her blind owner.
"Her Husband's Honor" (1918, working title "The Gadabout") starred a fellow Logansport native, actress Edna Goodrich. She visited the "death house" at Sing Sing prison to research her screenplay for "Who Shall Take My Life?" (1917), a drama about the execution of an innocent man. In 1917 she was commissioned to write a movie about the World War I work of the Red Cross.
Justice published fiction in "The Cosmopolitan" and other national publications. She also wrote a novel, "Durand of the Bad Lands", which was adapted for film in 1917, and again in 1925.
Personal life.
Her sister Anne Shymer, a chemist and president of the United States Chemical Company, was among the passengers who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania" in 1915. Maibelle Heikes Justice died in 1926, aged 55 years.
Justice inherited a large portrait of a young Abraham Lincoln, "The Railsplitter" (1860), from her father. She donated it to the Chicago History Museum, where it remains on display.


Ajay Devgn FFilms

Ajay Devgn FFilms is an Indian film production and distribution company established by actor Ajay Devgn in 2000. Based in Mumbai, it mainly produces and distributes Hindi films.
In 2000, ADFF released its first film, Raju Chacha. The film starred Devgn and Kajol. Raju Chacha received mixed reviews but grossed at the box office.
In 2015, Devgn started a visual effects company, NY VFXWAALA.
History.
In 2000, ADF released its first film, Raju Chacha. The film starred Devgn and Kajol.
In 2008, Devgn co-produced the drama "U Me Aur Hum", which marked his directorial debut. Devgn also played the lead role in the film, sharing the screen again with Kajol. The film was written by Devgn himself and three other writers.
In 2009, Devgn released and acted in his home production "", which was directed by Rohit Shetty and also starring, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu and Mugdha Godse. The film was released on 16 October 2009. It was rated a hit in India, and is the ninth highest grossing Bollywood film of 2009.
In 2012, Devgn starred in Rohit Shetty's romantic action comedy film "Bol Bachchan", which was a joint production by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd and also featured Abhishek Bachchan, Asin and Prachi Desai in lead roles. The film, made on a budget of , is an official remake of the popular 1979 film "Gol Maal". The film was released on 6 July 2012 in around 2,575 screens worldwide with 2,700 prints. It received mixed reviews from critics but enjoyed a good opening at the box office. The film supposedly created a record for its advance bookings. "Bol Bachchan" has become one of the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time in India. Box Office India declared the film as a "hit" and it grossed worldwide.
That same year Devgn starred in Ashwni Dhir's romantic action comedy film, "Son of Sardaar", which was a joint production by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, also featuring Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha and Juhi Chawla in lead roles. The film was released on 13 November 2012. Whilst having competition with the Yash Raj film "Jab Tak Hai Jaan", "Son of Sardaar" managed to do very well at the box office worldwide. Box Office India rated "Son of Sardaar" as a hit, and an average grosser in the overseas markets. It went on to gross worldwide.
In 2014, ADF produced "Singham Returns" starring Devgn and Kareena Kapoor. In 2016 Devgn produced and starred in "Shivaay" which is to be the most expensive film of his production.
In June 2017, it's reported that ADF will make a Television serial based on the life of Baba Ramdev and his success with Patanjali Ayurved.
In late December 2017, ADF collaborated with Fox Star Studios to produce "Total Dhamaal" starring Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey, Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor .
In January 2018, ADF announced film "Helicopter Eela" that has Kajol in the lead role.
VFX.
NY VFXWAALA.
In October 2015, Devgn established visual effects company called NY VFXWAALA named after his kids, Nysa and Yug. Apart from home productions, his VFX team has been involved with many major films, such as "Prem Ratan Dhan Payo", "Tamasha", "Bajirao Mastani", "Mersal", "Dilwale", "Force 2", and "Simmba". The company won the Best Special Effects award at the 64th National Film Awards for the film "Shivaay" (2016).


Haughney

Haughney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


Jonas Arnell-Szurkos

"Jonas" Henry Arnell-Szurkos, previously "Arnell", born February 28, 1969 in Örebro, Sweden is a Swedish phaleristician. Since 2018 he is Amanuensis at the Chancery of the Swedish Royal Orders of Knighthood.
Biography.
Arnell-Szurkos was raised in Eskilstuna and has a degree of Bachelor of Education at Linköping University and a Bachelor of Social Science at Stockholm University. He has worked 2000-2012 at the Parliament Chancery of the Christian Democrats, mainly as Political Advisor on Education and Culture. Since 2019 he is the Head of Office for the Swedish Soldiers Homes Association,
He is Member of the Royal Swedish Society Pro Patria.
Phaleristics.
In 1998 Arnell-Szurkos created a website where he accounts for genuine and fake orders of chivalry, medals and fraternal organizations in Sweden, from 2012 complemented with a blog. He has lectured on phaleristics and commented phaleristics in media.
In 1999 Arnell-Szurkos launched a lobby campaign towards the MPs of the Parliament of Sweden to reinstate the Order of the Seraphim and the Order of the Polar Star for Swedish citizens as well as reinstating the dormant Order of the Sword and the dormant Order of Vasa. This contributed to his subsequent employment at the Parliament Chancery of the Christian Democrats.
Arnell-Szurkos has received several orders from former ruling dynasties for his work to support and promote genuine Imperial and Royal Houses and their orders of chivalry. He is also Associate Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (2013)
Since 2018 Arnell-Szurkos is Amanuensis in the Chancery of the Swedish Royal Orders of Knighthood. In 2018 he was co-founder of the Swedish Phaleristics Association elected as Accountant, in 2020 elected president.


Maison Cartier

Maison Cartier is a historic house in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on Place Jacques-Cartier in Old Montreal. It was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada on November 19, 1982.
It was constructed from 1812 to 1813 by mason Amable Amiot dit Villeneuve and carpenter Antoine Bouteiller. The walls, which are made of ashlar along with the dormers on the roof, are considered to be examples of Quebec's urban architecture in the early Nineteenth century. The first owners of the house were Louis Parthenais and Augustin Perrault.
The Maison Cartier was originally connected to the Nelson Hotel. Though it is located next to Montreal's oldest public monument - Nelson's Column - it was apparently named the "Jardin Nelson" for Wolfred Nelson, a Patriote in the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837, and the ninth Mayor of Montreal. Today a restaurant operates in the building.


Anne Hudson (literary historian)

Anne Mary Hudson, (born 28 August 1938) is a British retired literary historian and academic. She was a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1963 to 2003, and Professor of Medieval English at the University of Oxford from 1989 to 2003.
Early life and education.
Hudson was born on 28 August 1938. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, an all-girls state grammar school in Dartford, Kent. She studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree; as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree. She also undertook postgraduate research at Oxford, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1964.
Academic career.
From 1961 to 1963, Hudson was a college lecturer in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In 1963, she was elected a Fellow of LMH and appointed a Tutor in English. She also held positions in the Faculty of English Language and Literature of University of Oxford: she was a CUF lecturer from 1963 to 1981, a special lecturer from 1981 to 1983, held a British Academy Readership in the Humanities from 1983 to 1986, was a lecturer in Medieval English from 1986 to 1989, before being appointed Professor of Medieval English in 1989. She retired from full-time academia in 2003, and was made an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.
In addition to her university posts, she has held a number of senior appointments at the Early English Text Society: she served as executive secretary from 1969 to 1982 and its director from 2006 to 2013; she has been a member of its council since 1982.
Honours.
In 1976, Hudson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). She has twice been awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize by the British Academy; in 1985 and in 1991. In 1988, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
A Festschrift was published in 2005 in honour of Hudson. It was titled "Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson" and was edited by Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchison.


Armorial of British universities

The armorial of British universities is the collection of coats of arms of universities in the United Kingdom. Modern arms of universities began appearing in England around the middle of the 15th century, with Oxford's being possibly the oldest university arms in the world, being adopted around the end of the 14th century. The earliest granting of university arms was to King's College Cambridge by Henry VIII in 1449. Arms are still granted by the College of Arms to universities today, with new universities continuing to register arms, which has been seen as an attempt to appear more traditional or legitimate. As corporations, older university arms have historically been granted without a crest, however newer institutions use crests with mantling, including new colleges at older universities. The first crest granted to a university was to Leeds in 1905 while the first British university to be granted supporters was Sussex in 1962, although both Oxford and Cambridge have used angels as supporters and Cambridge has used the 'alma mater' emblem as a crest without these components being officially granted.
University and college arms often incorporate, or are simply copies of, arms of their founders or local authorities. At collegiate universities, constituent colleges may bear their own arms, such as at Cambridge and Oxford. Many older coats of arms were recorded by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies in "The Book of Public Arms" in 1915, which also recorded some coats of arms of constituent colleges, and by John Woodward in "A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry" in 1894. Most university mottos are not granted with the coats of arms, instead being added by custom by the institution, an exception to this being the arms of Imperial College London. Those universities in Ireland that existed prior to independence from the United Kingdom were granted arms along the lines of other British universities; these are listed separately below.


The Illustrated Police News

The Illustrated Police News was a weekly illustrated newspaper which was one of the earliest British tabloids. It featured sensational and melodramatic reports and illustrations of murders and hangings and was a direct descendant of the execution broadsheets of the 18th century.
History.
"The Illustrated Police News", first published in 1864, was inspired by "The Illustrated London News", which had been launched in 1842 and revealed that newspapers with illustrations could achieve high sales.
Its standards of illustration and tone were reminiscent of an earlier publication, "The Newgate Calendar", and the popular "penny dreadfuls". It gained a reputation for sensationalism during the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888.
Around the turn of the 20th century "The Illustrated Police News" ran numerous articles dealing with the "alien immigration question" that promoted xenophobic attitudes and paranoia amongst its mostly working-class readership.
"The Illustrated Police News" ceased publication in 1938.
In popular culture.
The 2011 film "" includes scenes in which characters are reading copies of "The Illustrated Police News".


Mirchi Music Awards

Mirchi Music Awards are presented annually by "Radio Mirchi" to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film music industry of India. The awards, given in seventeen different categories, were instituted to award the best of 2008. In 2010, the Southern edition of the awards – Mirchi Music Awards South was launched, to award the best of 2009. through which artists from the four South Indian film industries—Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam—are being honoured. In 2012, the Bengali edition of the awards – Mirchi Music Awards Bangla was launched, to award the best of 2011. The 2019 Mirchi Music Awards is co-powered by Smule, the world's largest music social network, and will have the winner of the Smule Mirchi Cover Star perform on stage at this prestigious event.
Jury.
The jury for both editions of the awards consists of several experts from the Bollywood music industry. Javed Akhtar, poet and lyricist, is the chairman of the jury. The other members are (listed alphabetically) music composers Aadesh Shrivastava, Pandit Sujit Ojha , Anu Malik, Lalit Pandit and Louis Banks, playback singers Alka Yagnik, Kailash Kher, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sadhana Sargam, Shankar Mahadevan, Sukhwinder Singh, Suresh Wadkar & Udit Narayan lyricist Prasoon Joshi, and directors Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Ramesh Sippy.
Special awards.
Lifetime Achievement Award / K. L. Saigal Sangeet Shehenshah Award.
The award was given to Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar in 2008. The award was renamed in 2009 as K. L. Saigal Sangeet Shehenshah Award, in honour of singer Kundan Lal Saigal. The award was given to Indian Playback singer K. J. Yesudas in 2010.


Crystal Springs, Nevada

Crystal Springs is a ghost town in the Pahranagat Valley region of Lincoln County, Nevada in the United States. The ghost town is located at the junction of State Route 318 and State Route 375 (Extraterrestrial Highway), just northwest of U.S. Route 93. It is a popular destination for passersby who want to visit the towns of Hiko and Rachel. The namesake of the ghost town, the Crystal Springs, lies nearby; it is a large group of marshes and springs along the White River. Crystal Springs provides irrigation for multiple nearby ranches and farms, some of which lie over 5 miles away from the springs.
The ghost town is marked as Nevada Historical Marker 205 (Crystal Springs).
History.
The earliest reported uses of the spring were by a Native American village. The springs provided water for people traveling the Mormon Trail.
In 1865, Crystal Springs was the first area in Lincoln County where mining grade silver ore was discovered. This led to Crystal Springs becoming the first county seat of Lincoln County from 1866 to 1867, although it was later replaced by Hiko.
Hot springs.
The Crystal Springs thermal spring has a water temperature of 81°F.


Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki

 was once considered to be the first professional Japanese animated film ever made. It was made by Ōten Shimokawa in 1917 to be shown in a cinema, in this case, in the Asakusa Kinema Kurabu, a theater in Tokyo managed directly by the film company Tenkatsu. It was preceded by Shimokawa's early work, and Otogawa Shinzo Gate of the Entrance from January 1917.
Production.
In 1916, Tenkatsu, or Tennenshoku Katsudō Shashin Kabushiki Gaisha ("Natural Color Moving Picture Company"), began experimenting with animation with the manga artist Hekoten/Oten Shimokawa. Shimokawa produced the animation by drawing with a chalk on a blackboard, redrawing as necessary to create the animation effect. Mukuzo Imokawa was a manga character that Shimokawa used in his manga.


Kibitsuhiko Shrine

Kibitsuhiko Shrine (), is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Okayama, Okayama in the Chūgoku region of the island of Honshu.
History.
The inner shrine was rebuilt in 1697, while most other buildings were reconstructed in 1936 after a destructive fire in 1930.
Kitbitsuhiko Shrine is the chief Shinto shrine ("ichinomiya") of Bizen Province. The enshrined "kami" is Kibitsuhiko-no-mikoto, who was the son of Emperor Korei.
The shrine is one of 50 national shrines of the lowest rank or .


Beit Harambam Congregation

Beit Harambam Congregation (, lit. "House of the Rambam") is a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1978, its membership is largely composed of Hebrew-speaking Israeli expatriates. Started as a basement minyan, the congregation purchased a small home in the 1980s, which was subsequently destroyed by arson in 2000. With significant funding from the Philadelphia Jewish community, the building was restored. The synagogue was further expanded with a larger sanctuary and a social hall, completed in 2011.
Name.
The congregation is named in honor of Maimonides, a 12th-century Sephardi scholar, philosopher, and halakhic decisor known by the acronym of his name, Rav Moshe Ben Maimon, as the Rambam.
History.
Beit Harambam Congregation was founded in 1978 as a Sephardi minyan by Rabbi Amiram Gabay in the basement of his house in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. Gabay is a long-time owner of a Judaica gift shop and art gallery in Philadelphia and also serves as a police chaplain. A native of Morocco who had lived briefly in Israel, Gabay sought to provide a place of worship for Hebrew-speaking Israeli expatriates in the community.
The congregation grew gradually, and members were able to buy a small house in which to hold services in the late 1980s. The furnishings, collected over time, included a simple wooden Torah ark, a long table and chairs for study sessions, and an assortment of bookshelves.
By 2000, the congregation had 300 members. In 2013, an estimated 250 to 300 individuals were active in the synagogue. As of 2013, Beit Harambam Congregation was the larger of two Sephardi synagogues in Northeast Philadelphia.
Arson attack.
On Shabbat, May 27, 2000, worshippers arriving for morning prayers found the synagogue gutted by fire. According to police, an arsonist had gained access to the interior through a back window, gathered up all the prayer books in a pile, and put a match to them. The fire was lit at around 4:20 a.m. The arsonist dropped two charity boxes in the yard during his escape.
Besides fire damage to the interior, half of the roof fell down. Firemen excavated four Torah scrolls which were "likely damaged beyond repair by smoke and water", and all of the synagogue's prayer books were rendered unusable. Fifty prayer shawls were also destroyed. The damaged Torah scrolls, prayer shawls, and other ritual objects were formally buried in August on the solemn mourning day of Tisha B'Av. Police posted a $10,000 reward for identification of the perpetrator, but no one was ever arrested.
The synagogue immediately began receiving support and funding from local and national groups and individuals. The American Jewish Congress donated $3,000 in June, which was earmarked for the purchase of new bibles and prayer books. The congregation received significant funding from the Philadelphia Jewish community, including the Jewish Federal of Greater Philadelphia, to rebuild. By 2002, the building had been restored.
With the growth of membership and activities, however, the congregation sought to expand its space. After a multi-year rezoning effort, the synagogue received the go-ahead to build a larger sanctuary and a social hall. As many members were skilled contractors or had jobs in the construction industry, they contributed their time and labor to the project. The expansion was completed in 2011 and was dedicated in 2012 in a ceremony attended by then-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Shlomo Amar.
Other incidents.
Nearly a year after the fire, vandalism was discovered on the synagogue's interior walls—including "swastikas, obscenities and dollar signs". The synagogue was in the process of reconstruction and members were conducting services in a rented storefront.
Leadership.
Rabbi Amiram Gabay has led the congregation since its founding. His son, Eli Gabay, serves as president of the congregation. In 2009, Rabbi Moshe Haim Arbiv was hired as assistant rabbi to help cultivate new members. Arbiv and his wife Leah had been doing outreach work with Israelis living in Philadelphia for several years through the Shehebar Sephardic Center of Jerusalem.
Synagogue activities.
Beit Harambam Congregation is an Orthodox synagogue. The prayer service follows the nusach of Edot HaMizrach.
The synagogue offers daily study sessions for men, weekly Tehillim groups for women, and classes and activities for children. Assistant rabbi Moshe Haim Arbiv leads classes at 5:30 a.m. before morning prayers and also after evening prayers. Arbiv and his wife Leah have also introduced pre-holiday workshops, holiday parties, and social events both in the synagogue and in neighborhood parks. The Arbivs were involved in the successful installation of an "eruv" for the community, and have also launched social services such as a "gemach" (free-loan society), meals for the sick, and help for new mothers.
Membership.
As of 2019, the majority of members are Hebrew-speaking Israeli expatriates. Most members are of Mizrahi descent, although some are Ashkenazi. According to a 2000 article in "The Philadelphia Inquirer", there were no membership dues and the leadership of the congregation did not receive a salary.


An American Widow

An American Widow is a 1917 silent comedy film directed by Frank Reicher and starring Ethel Barrymore. It is based on a 1909 play by Kellett Chambers. Metro Pictures produced and distributed.
Preservation.
With no copies of "An American Widow" located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.


John Yonge

John Yonge (c. 1465 – 25 April 1516) was an English ecclesiastic and diplomatist, who also served as Master of the Rolls from 1507 until his death.
He is not to be confused with his contemporary John Young (suffragan bishop in London) (1463–1526).
Life.
John Yonge was born at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1485. Probably the son of John Yonge, Lord Mayor of London (elected 1466), he was ordained in 1500 and held several livings (and the office of Archdeacon of Barnstaple) before receiving his first diplomatic mission to arrange a commercial treaty with the archduke of Austria in 1504, and in the Low Countries in 1506 in connection with the projected marriage between Henry VII and Margaret of Savoy.
In 1507 he was made Master of the Rolls, and in the following year was employed in various diplomatic missions. He was one of the ambassadors who arranged the Holy League in 1513, and accompanied Henry VIII during the ensuing campaign. He was on terms of close friendship with Dean Colet, and was a correspondent of Erasmus.
In 1514 he was made dean of York in succession to Wolsey, and in 1515 he was one of the commissioners for renewing the peace with Francis I. In the same year he became archdeacon of Barnstaple.
Yonge died in London on 25 April 1516. His effigial tomb monument is in the former Rolls Chapel, now part of the Maughan Library, King's College London.