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Virginia Falls Water Aerodrome is located on the South Nahanni River approximately upstream from Virginia Falls, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is open from early May until mid-October.
References
Registered aerodromes in the Dehcho Region
Seaplane bases in the Northwest Territories |
The Grand Jubilee of 1814 was a public holiday and celebration in the United Kingdom held on 1 August 1814. The event marked the 100th anniversary of the accession of George I, the first king of the House of Hanover, the 16th anniversary of Horatio Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile and the recent signing of the Treaty of Paris, bringing an end (briefly) to the Napoleonic Wars.
Celebrations centred on the Royal Parks in London. At St James's Park a new Chinese-style bridge (with pagoda) and a Temple of Concorde were built and a fireworks display was held. In Hyde Park a naval re-enactment took place on The Serpentine and in Green Park a naval arch and royal booth were constructed. The event was billed as "the largest fair, for every kind of amusement, that was ever known in this or any other country" and government employees were granted a public holiday.
Occasion
The jubilee was held to mark the centenary of the accession of George I, the first king of the House of Hanover, who came to the throne on 1 August 1714 (in the Old Style calendar). The event also marked the 16th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Nile and was a celebration of the recent signing of the Treaty of Paris that brought peace with France after more than a decade of the Napoleonic Wars. It was advertised variously as the Jubilee, the Grand Jubilee, the National Jubilee, the Universal Jubilee and the Grand National Jubilee. To mark the occasion a public holiday was granted to government employees.
St James's Park
The event was centred on London's Royal Parks, which were lit with lanterns during the night. The Prince Regent's personal architect John Nash was commissioned to design a Chinese-style bridge and pagoda across the canal in St James's Park. A "Temple of Discorde" was erected in Green Park which, by means of a mechanism designed by Sir William Congreve and under cover of firework display, transformed into a "Temple of Concorde". During the fireworks display aeronaut Windham William Sadler ascended in a hot air balloon and distributed favours and programmes onto the crowd below. Also a sign reading "PEACE" was illuminated. During the jubilee night Nash's pagoda set alight and at least one man, James Taylor, was killed.
Elsewhere
Queen Charlotte held "grand entertainment" at Buckingham House on the day of the jubilee, with new ornaments being provided for the occasion. A flotilla of boats paraded down the River Thames and there was a re-enactment of several naval battles against the French on The Serpentine in Hyde Park. In Green Park a "naval arch" was erected as a bridge between the park and the lawn of Buckingham House. The arch was decorated with the names of naval officers: Howe, Duncan, St Vincent, Collingwood, Broke, Saumarez, Exmouth and others. A royal booth in the park displayed the names "Nelson of the Nile" and "Wellington".
Printers produced numerous keepsakes for the event including depictions of its attractions, which was billed as "the largest fair, for every kind of amusement, that was ever known in this or any other country".
In Dublin, there was a "grand celebration" on the 12, 13, 15 and 16 August 1814, the changed date to accommodate the change to New Style dates. On the 12th, the foundation stone of the General Post Office, Dublin was laid by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth, attended by the Post-Masters-General, Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill and Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse. There was a fireworks display on St Stephen's Green; several trees were cut down to make the display more visible.
The Dublin-based medallist Isaac Parkes (1815–1859) struck a commemorative medal depicting George, The Prince Regent.
The Grand Jubilee was celebrated in Cork on 1–3 August, and Thomas Wyon the elder struck a commemorative bronze medal.
References
1814 in England
Centennial anniversaries
Public holidays in the United Kingdom
1814 in London
Royal Parks of London |
Haywood Community College is a public community college in Clyde, North Carolina. It is part of the North Carolina Community College System. Established in 1965, the college offers associate degree programs and online courses in programs such as forestry, fish and wildlife management, and professional crafts. The college's campus includes an arboretum, a mill pond, and a working gristmill constructed by students.
Haywood Early College High School
Haywood Early College (HEC) is a Co-op Innovative High School partnership between Haywood County Schools and the College. The partnership, created by state legislation, enables students to concurrently obtain a high school diploma and complete an associate degree program within four or five years. HEC is designed to blend secondary and post-secondary experiences in innovative ways. All HEC faculty members commit to ensuring every student is actively engaged, challenged, and supported in all classes, every day, to succeed in rigorous coursework. HEC's ultimate goal is for each student to successfully complete the early college program with his/her high school diploma, Associate degree, and continue on to a four-year university.
Arboretum
The Haywood Community College Arboretum is a arboretum located across the campus of Haywood Community College. It is open daily without charge.
The arboretum was laid out by Asheville landscape architect Doan Ogden for industrialist A. L. Freedlander, who donated the college's initial funding provided that the site's oak forest be preserved. An early inventory recorded 880 trees including 22 native species, many averaging 100 years old. Since then the arboretum staff has added further species of trees, shrubs, and ground covers.
Arboretum features include a rhododendron garden containing many varieties of rhododendron, conifers, dahlia garden featuring numerous varieties, fruit tree orchard, greenhouse, nature trail, and perennials.
References
External links
Official website
Clyde, North Carolina
Haywood Early College High School
Educational institutions established in 1965
North Carolina Community College System colleges
Two-year colleges in the United States
Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Education in Haywood County, North Carolina
Buildings and structures in Haywood County, North Carolina
Tourist attractions in Haywood County, North Carolina
1965 establishments in North Carolina |
Fazlabad (Maleki) (, also Romanized as Faẕlābād (Maleki) and Fazlābād) is a village in Fakhrud Rural District, Qohestan District, Darmian County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 144, in 44 families.
References
Populated places in Darmian County |
Rädda Barnen (Save the Children Sweden) is the name of the Swedish section of the Save the Children International.
The Swedish section was founded on November 19, 1919, by Ellen Palmstierna (chairman) together with writer Elin Wägner and Gerda Marcus (both active board members). Anna Kleman was also a founding member of the board and she would go on to lead the board.
See also
Social Venture Network
Timeline of young people's rights in the United Kingdom
References
External links
http://www.raddabarnen.se
Organizations established in 1919
Child-related organizations in Sweden
Humanist associations
Save the Children |
Taj Mohammed is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 902.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate Mohammed was born in 1981.
He was repatriated in 2006.
According to Washington Post reporter, Mahvish Khan, who visited Taj Mohammed in detention with habeas counsel, he learned English within his four years of detention.
Press reports
According to the Associated Press the allegations against Nasir, in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal,
was accused of being a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba -- The Army of the Pure.
Mohammed told his Tribunal: "I was a shepherd, and I never can even go out very much, and I was always with my goats on the mountain, These are all lies about me."
On June 15, 2008, the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.
Taj Mohammed
was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
Taj Mohammed reported being sexually harassed during his interrogations.
He reported that guards desecrated the Koran.
According to his McClatchy interviewer Taj Mohammed tried to retaliate:
According to the McClatchy profile of him Taj Mohammed was radicalized in Guantanamo and said he beat less religious captives.
The article said his lawyers, Paul Rashkind, was taken aback when told of these assertions, and questioned whether the McClatchy interviewer may have been taken in by an impostor.
According to the McClatchy interviewer, Taj Mohammed was mentored and given lessons in Arabic and the Koran by Yemeni captive Ali Abdullah Ahmed—one of the three men camp authorities reported committed suicide on June 10, 2006.
According to the McClatchy interviewer Taj Mohammed spent nine months in Camp four in 2005, the camp where "compliant" captives were allowed to mingle with other captives. He was, however, demoted when he slapped a female doctor.
ABC News reported on February 22, 2010, that Taj Mohammed was employed by the Agribusiness Development Team, a Provincial Reconstruction Team development project with participation from the US military.
He works as a translator. He is reported to be surprisingly fluent in both English and Spanish—learned in Guantanamo.
Namesakes
On January 16, 2010, the Department of Defense was forced to publish the names of the 645 captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.
One of the individuals on the list was named Taj Mohammed.
References
External links
The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part Two) Andy Worthington
McClatchy News Service - video
Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Living people
Bagram Theater Internment Facility detainees
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Year of birth uncertain
1981 births |
Glenn station (also known as Glenn/Robert G Holderness station) is a side platformed Sacramento RT Light Rail station in Folsom, California, United States. The station was opened on October 15, 2005, and is operated by the Sacramento Regional Transit District. It is served by the Gold Line. The station is located near the intersection of Glenn Drive and Folsom Boulevard. It serves primarily as a commuter stop, as it features a mid-sized parking lot.
Sacramento Regional Transit plans to add a second track to the station between Fall 2023 and Summer 2024.
Platforms and tracks
References
Sacramento Regional Transit light rail stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2005
Folsom, California |
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice is a 2022 biography about George Floyd written by Washington Post journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa.
Synopsis
The book uses the life of George Floyd and his murder by police officer Derek Chauvin as a lens through which to examine racism in the United States. It draws from interviews with Floyd's friends and family and members of his local community. Floyd's ancestors are discussed—they worked as tenant farmers during the Reconstruction era. Aspects of Floyd's life such as his parenting, drug addiction and convictions are covered. Race-related commentary about education housing segregation, incarceration, police brutality and terrorism in the United States is connected to the life of Floyd.
Reception
His Name is George Floyd was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction with the following citation: "An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown."
The book was also a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Nonfiction, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. Several organizations named it one of the top books of 2022, including TIME and Kirkus Reviews.
Kehinde Andrews of The Guardian praised the book's coverage of Floyd, saying that it "does not paint him as a saint but explains his flaws in the context of his experiences". Andrews approved of the authors' "valiant effort to use Floyd's story to educate society about the ills of structural racism", but suggested that they could have focused on a subject such as Breonna Taylor to draw attention to the lesser covered oppression of Black women in the United States.
In The Atlantic, Imbolo Mbue similarly praised the authors "for presenting Floyd as the complex character that he was". Mbue recommended the book as "expertly researched" and "a necessary and enlightening read", highlighting in particular passages that celebrate African American culture and "depict how much Floyd was loved and how much he loved back". However, Mbue criticized that the book could have "more pointedly" highlighted the "hypocrisy of governments and corporations and all manners of institutions" that showed support for the Black Lives Matter movements out of ulterior motives.
References
2022 non-fiction books
Biographies about African-American people
Books about African-American history
History books about the 21st century
Murder of George Floyd
Non-fiction books about racism
Viking Press books |
The Waterpocket Fold is a geologic landform that extends from southern Wayne through Garfield and ending in northern Kane counties of southern Utah, United States. The geologic structure, formed during the Laramide orogeny, is a south-southeast trending fold in which the east side is dropped relative to the west side. This monoclinal fold extends for nearly in the semi-arid plateau of the central part of the state. The structure defines the Capitol Reef National Park in southern Utah.
The feature can be observed in three scenic routes in the park. The park's Scenic Drive leads to a famous landmark known as the Golden Throne. The northern portion of the Waterpocket Fold lies north and east of the town of Fruita, west and just southeast of the Middle Desert. Utah State Route 24 crosses the fold east of Fruita. Notom Road runs south through Notom and runs parallel to the east (downdropped) side of the structure to its intersection with Utah State Route 276 just north of Lake Powell. The southern end of the structure extends to the Colorado River just southwest of Halls Crossing.
See also
Geology of the Capitol Reef area
References
External links
Photo gallery of the Fold
Geologic Maps and Images of the Waterpocket Fold, Remote sensing tutorial at USGS
Capitol Reef National Park
Landforms of Garfield County, Utah
Landforms of Kane County, Utah
Landforms of Wayne County, Utah
Geology of Utah |
USS Charles P. Cecil (DD/DDR-835) was a , the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Charles P. Cecil. She was launched on 22 April 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. C. P. Cecil; and commissioned on 29 June 1945.
Service history
Charles P. Cecil arrived at San Diego, her home port, on 20 November 1945, and almost at once sailed on a tour of Pacific duty which found her operating as part of Joint Task Force One in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, as well as supporting occupation forces with operations in Japanese waters. She returned to San Diego on 9 August 1946, and took part in exercises off the west coast until on 26 August 1947, when she cleared for her second deployment to the Far East. She touched at many Pacific islands as well as calling at ports in China, Japan and Okinawa before her return to San Diego on 5 May 1948.
Reclassified DDR-835 on 18 March 1949, Charles P. Cecil left San Diego astern on 4 April 1949, bound for Newport, Rhode Island, and assignment to the Atlantic Fleet. First from Newport, and from December 1950, from Norfolk, Virginia, Charles P. Cecil operated through 1960 with the Atlantic Fleet, taking part in midshipmen training cruises, periodic deployments to the Mediterranean, and the overhauls and refresher training necessary to maintain her readiness. She participated in a long list of NATO operations, in waters ranging from those north of the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. Her tours of duty with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean included one which coincided with the Suez Crisis of fall 1956, during which she took up watchful patrol in the eastern Mediterranean.
From January 1959, when she was fitted with highly complex electronic computational and tracking equipment, Charles P. Cecil concentrated on air defense experiments and exercises, contributing to the development of advanced techniques. Her training, however, continued to include the areas such as anti-submarine warfare and amphibious operations required of the versatile destroyer.
Charles P. Cecil participated in thirteen Mediterranean cruises, two Middle East cruises, and two Vietnam cruises; She was one of the first ships on the Cuban Quarantine Line in the fall of 1962, where she was the principal unit that challenged the B-36, a Foxtrot class Russian submarine and forced her to surface.
In 1963, Charles P. Cecil entered the New York Naval Shipyard for her FRAM I modernization. Her armament was optimised for anti-submarine warfare and she was redesignated DD-835 on 30 July 1963. Her yard period lasted until May 1964.
In July 1973 Charles P. Cecil was assigned to naval reserve squadron COMDESRON TWO EIGHT and homeported in New London, Connecticut.
Greek service
Charles P. Cecil was struck from the United States Navy's rolls of fighting ships on 1 October 1979 and subsequently sold to Greece and renamed Apostolis (D216) on 8 August 1980. She served with the Hellenic Navy until she was decommissioned in 1993. She was scrapped in March 2003.
References
External links
Gearing-class destroyers of the United States Navy
Ships built in Bath, Maine
1945 ships
World War II destroyers of the United States
Cold War destroyers of the United States
Vietnam War destroyers of the United States
Gearing-class destroyers of the Hellenic Navy |
Steinfurt () is a Kreis (district) in the northern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Bentheim, Emsland, district-free Osnabrück and the Osnabrück district, Warendorf, district-free Münster, Coesfeld, Borken.
Geography
The district is situated at the Lower Saxon border, north of Münster. The Ems river runs through the district from south to north. The highest point in the region is the Westerbecker Berg at 234 metres above sea level; the lowest point is Bentlage Castle at 32 metres.
History
In the middle ages and early modern period, Steinfurt was an independent county of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1806, it became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg and in 1815 it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
In 1975, the old district Steinfurt was merged with the district Tecklenburg, and together with Greven and Saerbeck from the former district Münster the current district was formed.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms combines elements from the coats of arms of the former districts of Steinfurt, Tecklenburg and Münster. The swan in the middle comes from the countship of Steinfurt, the centre of the district. The red bar around the swan symbolizes the clerical state of Münster, which lay around the dukedom of Steinfurt. The red water lily leaves were symbols of the dukes of Tecklenburg.
Towns and municipalities
Town Twinning
Steinfurt is twinned with:
Ealing
References
External links
Official website (German)
Corpus juris of the Principality of Münster / Steinfurt, Anholt, Gemen
Districts of North Rhine-Westphalia |
Providence Atoll is part of the Farquhar Group of islands in the Seychelles that are part of the Outer Islands. It lies southwest of the capital city, Victoria, on Mahé Island. The atoll consists of Providence Island in the north, Bancs Providence in the south, and an intervening fringing reef. Bancs Providence comprises four large and about six very small islands, but its size and shape appear to be dynamic. In 1967, it was said to be a single large cay with four smaller ones, in 1905 there were seven small islands and in 1882 it comprised three small islets.
History
The crew of the French frigate L’Heureuse, which was wrecked on its reefs in 1763, named Providence. It is so named because it was the salvation of the crew, who were able to survive on the island until they were rescued.
In 1846, Charles Pridham wrote that Providence had “been granted to an inhabitant of Mauritius who has established a fishery and planted cocoa-nut trees and makes a large profit from the sale of tortoiseshell etc. He employs about forty persons. Lepers are no longer sent here….These islands will bear a few years’ cultivation, but beyond the cocoa-nut tree little will remain of further promise. Those, however, who are shipwrecked on these isles, will find water and sufficient means of existence till chance or their own resources may relieve them”.
Providence was run as a copra island during the early 1980s up until 2006, when Cyclone Bondo destroyed most of the buildings and about 60 percent of the coconut trees.
Bancs Providence has never been permanently inhabited, though temporary huts of fishermen have been recorded as early as 1882.
Banc Providence is also known as Cerf Island, after Le Cerf, which was one of the ships commanded by Captain Nicolas Morphey, who sighted the island (or islands) on 30 July 1756.
Geography
The islands of Providence Atoll are small, coraline, and inhospitable.
The atoll has a length of on its north-south axis, and a width of about . The total area covered by the atoll is approximately . The aggregate land area, however, is only .
West of the atoll, the sea bottom plunges steeply to a depth of only beyond the fringing reef.
The closest neighbor of Providence Atoll is St. Pierre Island, west of Cerf Island.
Islands
There are two islands in Providence Atoll.
Providence Island
Providence Island is located in the far north of the atoll at . It is long north-to-south, and up to wide at its widest part. It has the shape of a kite. The land area is , with a coastline of .
Bancs Providence (Cerf Island)
Bancs Providence is located in the far south of the atoll south of Providence Island, at . The land area is , with a coastline of .
Demographics
Providence Island once had a small settlement in the middle of the island, at . It was inhabited by workers engaged in fishing and copra production, probably continuously from at least 1846 until late 2006, when six villagers inhabited the settlement.
In late 2006, Cyclone Bondo destroyed most of the buildings and about 60 per cent of the coconut trees. Following the cyclone, the island was evacuated on 26 December 2006.
Cerf Island has never been permanently inhabited, although temporary fishermens' huts were recorded on it in the 19th century.
Flora and Fauna
The huge area of reef flats attracts the largest population of grey heron in Seychelles. Large numbers of crab plover, whimbrel and other waders roost at the southern tip of Providence, Pointe Gustave. Black-naped tern and greater crested tern breed on Bancs Providence, discovered only in 2016 by ICS. Madagascar fody, probably introduced, is the only resident land bird. green turtles and hawksbill turtle nest on Providence and forage in adjacent waters.
Administration
Providence Atoll belongs to the Outer Islands District of the Seychelles.
Transport
Following the evacuation of Providence Island on 26 December 2006, an attempt was made to construct an airstrip on the island to serve the inhabitants in anticipation of their eventual return. Construction was abandoned, however, and the island has remained uninhabited. Airstrip construction later resumed, and an airstrip became operational on the island in 2020. The airstrip enables additional support for the surveillance of the area by the Seychelles People's Defence Force.
Providence Island has no jetty. The island is rarely visited by ships except by the occasional Island Conservation Society expedition or by an Islands Development Company (IDC) boat from Mahé.
Economics
Fishing and copra production took place on Providence Island probably continuously from at least 1846 until late 2006, when Cyclone Bondo struck. Economic activity came to a halt when the island was evacuated on 26 December 2006, and it has remained uninhabited since then.
An airstrip was constructed in 2022 and it is planned to open a small resort focused on fly-fishing and ecotourism in 2024.
Flora and fauna
Providence Atoll occupies an extensive bank of shallow water well known for its profusion of fish.
There are no mammals on the atoll, and the only land bird is the Madagascar fody.
Seabirds nest at Providence Atoll. Significant numbers of greater crested terns and black-naped terns breed at Cerf Island. There are also very large numbers of grey herons breeding in the largest heronry of Seychelles and small numbers of fairy terns.
Tourism
Providence Atoll is a famous fly-fishing destination
Shipwrecks
There are many shipwrecks at Providence Atoll, including records of a Maldivian mariner presence at the atoll from the 20th century, when a trading vessel from southern Maldives reached Providence Atoll after drifting in the ocean for weeks.
Image gallery
References
External links
National Bureau of Statistics
National Bureau of Statistics - Partial info on islands
Outer Islands (Seychelles)
Atolls of Seychelles |
Think Free is the ninth album by bassist Ben Allison. It was released on the Palmetto Records label in 2009.
Track list
All compositions by Ben Allison.
Fred
Platypus
Broke
Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Godzilla
Sleeping Giant
Peace Pipe
vs. Godzilla
Green Al
Personnel
Ben Allison – Bass
Jenny Scheinman – Violin
Shane Endsley – Trumpet
Steve Cardenas – Guitar
Rudy Royston – Drums
References
External links
BenAllison.com - Think Free
2009 albums
Ben Allison albums
Palmetto Records albums |
Leucocoprinus rhodolepis is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae.
Taxonomy
It was described in 2022 by mycologists Nathália U. Ferretti-Cisneros and Felipe Wartchow who classified it as Leucocoprinus rhodolepis.
Description
Leucocoprinus rhodolepis is a small dapperling mushroom with very thin white, unchanging flesh.
Cap: Up to 3.6cm wide, plano-convex with an umbo. The surface is white with a pronounced centre covered in pinkish-orange scales with a pink tint spreading across the rest of the cap and fading towards the margins, where the scales are sparse. At the very centre of the cap the scales are a darker greyish colour. The margins are very thin and straight or slightly decurved and plicate-striate striations run part way up the cap surface. Gills: Free, crowded to subcrowded and white. The edges are even or may be slightly serrated. Stem: 5cm long and 4mm thick with a slight taper up from the bulbous base that is up to 11mm thick. It is cylindrical or compressed with a slight curve towards the base and the surface is smooth and white to very pale greyish. The small, white stem ring is located towards the top of the stem (apical) and has striations on the underside. Spores: 6.9-7.8 (8.8) x 4.9-5.9 μm or 7.7 x 5.1 μm on average. Ellipsoid or rarely oblong with slight thick walls and no germ pore. Hyaline, dextrinoid and metachromatic, colourless in 3% KOH solution. Basidia: 17.6-20.6 x 7.8-9.8 (10.8) μm. Clavate, 2-4 spored.
Etymology
The specific epithet rhodolepis derives from the Greek rhodo meaning rose coloured and lepis meaning scales. This is in reference to the pinkish scales on the cap.
Habitat and distribution
The specimens studied were growing on solitary on soil surrounded by Caatinga desert vegetation near São José dos Cordeiros, Paraíba, Brazil. As of 2022, it was known only from this location.
References
rhodolepis
Fungi described in 2022
Fungi of the Caribbean |
"Champagne Showers" is a song performed by American EDM/electro hop recording duo LMFAO, featuring vocals from English singer-songwriter Natalia Kills. It was released as the second single from the album Sorry for Party Rocking (2011). This song was an international hit in New Zealand, Australia, France, Ireland and Austria, peaking #8, #9, #12, #15 and #18 respectively. This song was also in the Australian Top 50 for 27 Weeks and in the French Top 200 for 50 weeks.
Background
The song was reportedly inspired by a post-season holiday undertaken by Australian Football League (AFL) player Jude Bolton and several of his Sydney Swans teammates to Los Angeles during the 2010 post-season.
Music video
The music video for the song was uploaded to YouTube on June 8, 2011 and is a continuation of "Party Rock Anthem", this time emulating the movie Blade, the rave bloodbath scene specifically, instead of "28 DAYS LATER".
The video's introduction is quite similar to "Party Rock Anthem". An opening caption says Redfoo and SkyBlu have become shuffling zombies and are now in search of the perfect party in downtown Transylvania From Dusk Till Dawn. Redfoo and SkyBlu exit their vehicle in an empty car park and Redfoo opens out a map on the vehicle's hood. While arguing about their next destination, the shufflers are grabbed by an eccentric looking man, who pulls them behind the personalized Kia Soul. This time, they don't take it lightly and start to hit the stranger with the map. The "beating" soon ceases and the assailant is shown in full view. He recognizes the LMFAO crew, calling them the "shuffle guys". While the duo are justifying this nickname, the stranger appears to be day-dreaming yet focusing intensely on the shufflers. He invites them to a party, and after much persistence and also the promise of shots, LMFAO decide to attend this club.
The actual song begins, the video changes to the duo entering the club, and the viewer is shown that the guests are many of the original shufflers (including the Shuffle Bot and also Quest Crew – winners of America's Best Dance Crew, season 3) who are already busy party rocking. LMFAO join the dance-floor and the video alternates between shots of the dancers and shots of Natalia Kills. However, little do Redfoo and Sky Blu know that this party is hosted by a crew of blood-suckers who feast on their guests. This is made evident when one of the women bares her fangs and even more so when Redfoo cuts his finger while trying to open a champagne bottle – this grabs the attention of the vampires who begin to flirt with him. Natalia almost gets seduced by Redfoo, but then throws him to her vampires. The guys are oblivious to the attacking vampires and unknowingly manage to fight them off while dancing. However, they only realize the truth when the vampires form a demonic group behind them.
The next scene involves Redfoo, Sky Blu, the Shuffle Bot and Q running towards the exit. The door suddenly bursts open and Jesus of Hollywood (Kevin Lee Light) strides in wearing Beats by Dr. Dre. He presents the group with crates filled with bottles of "Holy Champagne", and they use these drinks against the vampires, creating a huge champagne shower, referring to the song name. The music video ends with the dancers party rocking in victory and Jesus of Hollywood high-fiving the entire crew.
Critical reception
Robert Copsey of Digital Spy UK gave the track 2 out of 5 stars, saying, "During our recent interview with LMFAO", the uncle-nephew duo not only described their new single as "the ultimate party song", but insisted that it would "change the way that people view champagne".
Track listings
Digital download
"Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills) – 4:24
"Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills) [radio edit] – 3:58
Digital remixes
"Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills) [Sidney Samson Remix] – 5:34
"Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills) [Quintino Remix] – 6:00
"Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills) [EC Twins & Remy Le Duc Remix] – 4:20
"Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills) [Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Tomorrowland Remix] – 4:38
"Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills) [Final DJs Remix] – 4:36
"Champagne Showers" (featuring Natalia Kills) [R3hab remix] – 4:48
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
LMFAO songs
Natalia Kills songs
2011 singles
Song recordings produced by GoonRock
2011 songs
Eurodance songs
Songs written by Redfoo
Songs written by Sky Blu (rapper)
Interscope Records singles
Songs about alcohol |
Kurt Werth (September 21, 1896 – August 25, 1983) was a German-born illustrator best known for American children's books.
Werth was born September 21, 1896, in Leipzig, Germany. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in Leipzig beginning in 1913. He studied there for two years before being drafted into the German army. After his two years of service he returned to the Academy. His professor was influenced by Cézanne, although the public wasn't yet aware of the new trend of cubism in art. At the Academy, Werth studied the new graphic techniques and tried them out as illustrations of literary works. After graduating, Werth began to illustrate books, the first being Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida which was well received.
Werth moved to Munich, Germany after graduating, to draw satirical cartoons for various Munich magazines. In 1928, he and his wife Margaret, a Jewish German, moved to Berlin, Germany so that she could become part of the City Theater. In Berlin, Werth continued to draw satirical cartoons for Berlin magazines.
With Hitler's increasing power, the magazines folded, and Margaret Werth, who was Jewish, was not allowed to work. In the 1939 the Werths emigrated to the United States where Werth found employment illustrating a Sunday column in the New York Times magazine.
Werth began drawing political cartoons for a wide number of U.S. magazines with a political bent once the U.S. became involved in World War II. After the war Werth began to illustrate children's books. One of his first attempts was Rosalys Hall's The Merry Miller. This attempt led to many other offers for illustrating work.
Werth became a United States citizen in 1947.
Werth states, "As a German I was certainly influenced by the tradition of exact and thorough training in drawing. This goes back to Dürer and even farther." He attempts to illustrate children's books in a "modern style". "Books have to be illustrated in our times. They should show the style of our times. Not all of them do it."
Kurt Werth died in New York City on August 25, 1983.
Awards
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1969 for McBroom Tells the Truth by Sid Fleischman
Golden Kite Award in 1973 for McBroom the Rainmaker by Sid Fleischman,
New Jersey Institute of Technology Award in 1971 for That Jefferson Boy.
Illustrated books
Higgledy-Piggledy Room; by Elizabeth Ryan. 1948
No Ducks For Dinner; story by Rosalys Hall. 1953
Once the Mullah; Persian folk tales retold by Alice Geer Kelsey. 1954
One Mitten Lewis; by Helen Kay, pseud. 1955
The story of San Francisco; by Charlotte E Cobden Jackson. 1955
An Elephant in the Family by James Playsted Wood; 1957
Danger in the Everglades by Frederick W. Keith. 1957
The year without a Santa Claus. by Phyllis McGinley. 1957
The thing at the foot of the bed and other scary tales. by Maria Leach. 1959
Stop It, Moppit! by Geraldine Ross, 1959
Noodles, nitwits, and numskulls by Maria Leach. 1961
Tony's birds. by Millicent Selsam. 1961
A tiger called Thomas. by Charlotte Zolotow. 1963
Hear ye of Boston. by Polly Curren. 1964
The luck book. by Maria Leach. 1964
The valiant tailor, by Kurt Werth. 1965
Sailor Tom, by Edna Boutwell. 1966
The legends of Paul Bunyan. by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht. 1966
McBroom tells the truth, by Sid Fleischman. 1966
McBroom and the big wind, by Sid Fleischman. 1967
The monkey, the lion, and the snake, by Kurt Werth. 1967
King Thrushbeard. by Kurt Werth. 1968
That Lincoln boy. by Earl Schenck Miers. 1968
One dark night. by Edna Mitchell Preston. 1969
McBroom's Ear, by Sid Fleischman; Kurt Werth. 1969
Lazy Jack. by Kurt Werth. 1970
Samuel Clemens. by Charles Michael Daugherty. 1970
How a piglet crashed the Christmas party, by Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder. 1971
McBroom's zoo, by Sid Fleischman. 1972
Herbert's stilts, by Hazel Hutchins Wilson. 1972
McBroom the rainmaker, by Sid Fleischman. 1973
Molly and the giant, by Kurt Werth; Mabel Watts. 1973
Dick Whittington and His Cat. by Eva Moore. 1974
The three beggar kings. by Rosalys Haskell Hall. 1974
The newcomers; ten tales of American immigrants by Joseph Raskin; Edith Raskin. 1974
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1896 births
1983 deaths
American children's book illustrators
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Artists from New York City
German children's book illustrators
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Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig alumni
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Banner Cross Methodist Church is situated in the district of Banner Cross in the city of Sheffield, England. The church stands on Ecclesall Road South, south-west of the city centre. The church and attached schoolroom as well as the boundary wall and gate piers are all Grade II listed buildings.
History
First church
Plans for a Methodist church in the Banner Cross district were formed in the early years of the 20th century when it was revealed that housing was to be built in the area. Prior to that Banner Cross had consisted mostly of farmland and secluded large halls and houses. In 1902 a group of trustees was formed to raise funds for a place of worship. Land was eventually purchased on Glenalmond Road, near its junction with Ecclesall Road South, and a church and school room was built at a combined cost of £3,034. The building was designed by the London architects George Baines and Son of Victoria Street and built by Charles Ward of Sheffield. It was opened on 27 June 1907 with the first minister being the Reverend W.H. Wheeldon. In 1921 a Church Extension Scheme was set up to raise funds for a larger place of worship on Ecclesall Road South next to the old church and on the same plot of land. By 1921 church membership had reached 200 and by 1928 £5,000 had been raised towards a new church.
New church is built
The architect of the new church was William John Hale who had previously built several churches and schools in Sheffield. The trustees authorised an overall budget of £10,000 for the church with £7,434 of this going to the builders W. Marlow and Sons Ltd. The official laying of the first stone took place on 21 April 1928 although on 30 June 1928 there was another stone laying ceremony organised by the Sunday School with 70 scholars taking part. The church was opened on 13 July 1929 with the dedicatory prayer given by the Reverend Richard Pyke. The old church was converted into a schoolroom and this enabled the Sunday school to expand and incorporate all its departments into one unit. A manse was built for the church in 1931 on Millhouses Lane and in 1937 a lecture hall was added to the church replacing an earlier wooden hut which had served the purpose for almost 20 years. During the Second World War one of the vestries was used as a library for the general public while the schoolroom was used as a Rest Centre. In 1962 the congregation was enlarged when the nearby Greystones and Montgomery Methodist Churches were closed.
Present day
The current minister at Banner Cross is Reverend Tim Crome, the 20th serving cleric since the church was established in 1907. Reverend Crome started his ministry at the church on 1 September 2012, taking over from Robert D. Lewis. The church is open daily for various activities such as Coffee Mornings, Parent and Toddler group, Lunch and Friendship group. Boys' Brigade, Youth Club, Bible study, Brownies, Rainbows and Girl Guides.
Architecture
The church is built in the Gothic Revival style and is constructed from coursed squared stone with red brick dressings around some of the more decorative windows. The main tower of the church has a monumental look about it which has been compared to The Cenotaph in London. The design of the building is different from Hale's earlier churches, with a move away from complex detailing to a more simple style characterised by bold massing and rigid geometry. The adjacent 1907 church which now serves as the schoolroom is built in the Arts and Crafts style from rock-faced stone and brick, with ashlars dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs.
References
Methodist churches in South Yorkshire
Churches in Sheffield
History of Sheffield
Churches completed in 1929
20th-century churches in the United Kingdom
Grade II listed churches in South Yorkshire
Grade II listed buildings in Sheffield
20th-century Methodist church buildings |
Tapi Mra is a mountaineer from India and the first person from Arunachal Pradesh to scale Everest. Mra belongs to the Tagin tribe from the Upper Subansiri district of the state.
Mountains climbed by Tapi Mra include:
Island Peak or Imja Tse, (6160 m), Nepal – 24 April 2007.
Mera Peak (6654 m), Nepal – 20 Jun 2008.
Mount Everest (8848 m) – 21 May 2009.
Uhuru Peak of Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m) – 19 February 2010.
Mount Kosciuszko (2228 m), Australia – 31 May 2011.
Mra went missing with his porter, Niku Dao, on 17 August 2022 while on an expedition to yet unconquered Mount Kyarisatam in Arunachal Pradesh; their belongings were found several weeks later.
See also
Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise
List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
List of Mount Everest records of India
List of Mount Everest records
References
Indian summiters of Mount Everest
Living people
People from Upper Subansiri district
Mountain climbers from Arunachal Pradesh
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Wan Xueyuan (; born January 1941) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He currently serves as the vice director of foreign affairs committee of 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Born in Huanggang, Hubei Province, Wan joined the Chinese Communist Party in June, 1961. He graduated from the department of naval dynamics of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1964.
Wan served as the secretary-general of the government of Shanghai. In September 1992, Wan became the vice governor of Zhejiang. From January, 1993 to April, 1997, he served as the Governor of Zhejiang. Between 1997 and 2006, he served as Vice-Minister of Human Resources and Social Security.
References
1941 births
People's Republic of China politicians from Hubei
Living people
Politicians from Huanggang
Governors of Zhejiang
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hubei |
Brazil cost ( ) refers to the increased operational costs associated with doing business in Brazil, making Brazilian goods and services more expensive compared to other countries. There are several factors that contribute to the extra cost, including:
High levels of public deficits;
The economy divided into cartels;
Inefficiency of public services;
Maintenance of high real interest rates;
Exaggerated net interest spread of financial institutions (among the highest in the world);
Excessive bureaucracy for importing and exporting, creating difficulties for foreign trade;
Low education levels and lack of qualified labour;
Excessive layers of bureaucracy (red tape), e.g., starting a company in Brazil takes at least 120 days;
High levels of corruption within the public sector;
High tax burden;
Expensive labour costs;
High social security costs;
Complex and inefficient fiscal legislation;
Economic instability;
High electricity cost;
Legal uncertainty;
High interest rates;
High crime rate, which adds extra security costs;
Underdeveloped infrastructure, including a deteriorated network for domestic shipping by rail, highway and coastal navigation*.
In 2007 transport costs consumed 13% of GDP, 5% more than in the United States. The high transport costs are exacerbated by the scattering of industry over Brazil's vast territory.
See also
Licence Raj
Fakelaki
References
Finance in Brazil
Corruption in Brazil |
The Emblem of Tibet is a symbol of the Tibetan government in exile. It combines several elements of the flag of Tibet, with slightly different artistry, and contains many Buddhist symbols. Its primary elements are the sun and moon above the Himalayas, which represent Tibet, often known as the Land Surrounded by Snow Mountains. On the slopes of the mountains stand a pair of snow lions. Held between the two lions is the eight-spoked Dharmacakra, represent the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism. Inside the wheel, the three-colored swirling jewel represents the practices of the ten exalted virtues and the 16 humane modes of conduct. The inscription on the swirling banner below is as follows: ("Tibetan Government, Ganden Palace, victorious in all directions".) The Ganden Palace, located in Drepung monastery was the residence of the Dalai Lamas until the 5th Dalai Lama. After the 5th Dalai Lama had moved to the Potala in the mid 17th century the Tibetan Government created by him in 1642 became known as the "Ganden Phodrang" Government.
It is the official emblem of the Central Tibetan Administration government-in-exile headquartered in Dharamsala, India. Along with their flag, the emblem is considered a symbol of the Tibetan independence movement and is thus banned in the People's Republic of China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region, which corresponds to the former area of control of the Tibetan government at Lhasa, as well as other areas in greater Tibet. The emblem is often seen printed in black-and-white and crimson-and-white variants, which is characteristic of the colors commonly seen in Buddhist iconography and dress.
See also
Flag of Tibet
Emblem of Bhutan
References
National symbols of Tibet
Tibet
Tibet
Tibet
Tibet
Tibet
Tibet
Chinese heraldry
Tibet |
The men's freestyle flyweight competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 11 to 14 October at the Komazawa Gymnasium. Nations were limited to one competitor.
Competition format
This freestyle wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, as adjusted at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Each bout awarded 4 points. If the victory was by fall, the winner received 0 and the loser 4. If the victory was by decision, the winner received 1 and the loser 3. If the bout was tied, each wrestler received 2 points. A wrestler who accumulated 6 or more points was eliminated. Rounds continued until there were 3 or fewer uneliminated wrestlers. If only 1 wrestler remained, he received the gold medal. If 2 wrestlers remained, point totals were ignored and they faced each other for gold and silver (if they had already wrestled each other, that result was used). If 3 wrestlers remained, point totals were ignored and a round-robin was held among those 3 to determine medals (with previous head-to-head results, if any, counting for this round-robin).
Results
Round 1
Bouts
Points
Round 2
Seven wrestlers had their second loss in round 2 and were eliminated, leaving 15 competitors to advance to round 3. Yoshida was the only wrestler left with 0 points.
Bouts
Points
Round 3
Four more wrestlers reached 6 or more points after taking a second loss in this round. Advancing to round 4 were 11 wrestlers, 7 of whom had 4 points and would be eliminated with a loss or tie. Chang and Yoshida each had only 1 point to lead the group.
Bouts
Points
Round 4
Five wrestlers were eliminated: Chimedbazaryn, Singh, and Grassi each had two losses; Niaz-Din had only one and Simons had not lost at all, but their accumulation of points from draws and wins by decision was enough to put them at 6 or more. Yoshida regained sole possession of the lead, staying at 1 point while Chang received a second. Three wrestlers stayed at 4 points, while Heidari moved from 3 to 5 with his tie.
Bouts
Points
Round 5
All four wrestlers that started the round with 4 points lost by decision and were eliminated in a three-way tie for 4th place. Heidari, who started with 5 points and had not lost any bout, was also eliminated because his win by decision gave him 6 points. Yoshida and Chang were the last two wrestlers remaining; they advanced to a final bout.
Bouts
Points
Final round
In a head-to-head final bout for the gold medal, Yoshida won by decision.
Bouts
Points
References
Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics |
Archaefructus is an extinct genus of herbaceous aquatic seed plants with three known species. Fossil material assigned to this genus originates from the Yixian Formation in northeastern China, originally dated as late Jurassic but now understood to be approximately 125 million years old, or early Cretaceous in age. Even with its revised age, Archaefructus has been proposed to be one of the earliest known genera of flowering plants.
Because of its age, lack of sepals and petals, and the fact that its reproductive organs (carpels and stamens), are produced on an elongate stem rather than condensed into a flower as in modern angiosperms, Archaefructaceae has been proposed as a new basal angiosperm family. An alternative interpretation of the same fossil, however, interprets the elongate stem as an inflorescence rather than a flower, with staminate (male) flowers below and pistillate (female) flower above. The discovery of Archaefructus eoflora supports this interpretation, because a bisexual flower is present in the region between staminate and pistillate organs. If this interpretation is correct, Archaefructus may not be basal within the angiosperms, rather it may be close to the Nymphaeales or the basal eudicots.
See also
Montsechia vidalii
References
Prehistoric angiosperm genera
Enigmatic angiosperm taxa
Early Cretaceous plants
Cretaceous angiosperms |
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew existed. The first book, The Field Guide, was published in 2003 and then followed by The Seeing Stone (2003), Lucinda's Secret (2003), The Ironwood Tree (2004), and The Wrath of Mulgarath (2004). Several companion books have been published including Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (2005), Notebook for Fantastical Observations (2005), and Care and Feeding of Sprites (2006). A second series, entitled Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, includes The Nixie's Song (2007), A Giant Problem (2008), and The Wyrm King (2009).
A feature film adaptation, also titled The Spiderwick Chronicles, was produced by Nickelodeon Movies and premiered on February 14, 2008; an accompanying video game was released in early February 2008.
Books
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Field Guide
The first book in the series was published in May 2003. It opens in Maine, where nine-year-old identical twins Jared and Simon and their thirteen-year-old sister Mallory move into the decrepit Spiderwick Estate with their mother, Helen. On the first night, they discover a secret library on the second floor using a dumbwaiter. They later discover that the library connects to the rest of the house via a hidden door in a hall closet. A brownie named Thimbletack, who has lived in the house for years, becomes angry with the Grace children when they destroy his nest inside the walls, and Jared is blamed for the ensuing havoc wrought by the brownie in retaliation including assaults on Mallory, Simon, and the trashing of the kitchen. Following a clue in the form of a riddle-poem, Jared finds Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You in a secret compartment in a trunk in the attic. The Field Guide is an old hand-written and illustrated book with information on different types of faeries in the surrounding forest. The novel ends as the Grace children make amends with Thimbletack by building him a new home out of an old birdhouse. Thimbletack then warns them that the book which they found is dangerous and was not meant to be in the hands of mortals.
The Seeing Stone
The Seeing Stone was published alongside the first book in May 2003. After the Grace children ignore Thimbletack's warning to destroy the Guide, Simon is abducted by a group of goblins who live in the woods surrounding the house. Thimbletack leads Jared and Mallory to the old carriage house where they find a "seeing stone" (a stone with a natural hole in it) which gives the wearer, in this case Jared, the ability to see faeries (called the Sight). After Jared and Mallory narrowly avoid being captured by the goblins, they go searching for Simon in the woods. On their way through the forest, they encounter a troll residing in the river by a decrepit stone bridge. Partially protected by the daylight, they are able to avoid it, but lose their fencing weapons. Then they find a single brown shoe belonging to Simon. After encountering a wounded griffin, they find the goblin camp and a plethora of prisoners hanging in cages made from refuse from the trees. While trying to rescue Simon, they meet a prisoner named Hogsqueal, a hobgoblin, who convinces them to help him escape in exchange for his help in rescuing Simon. Hogsqueal offers to spit in their eyes, which gives them the Sight without using the stone. Hogsqueal distracts the goblins from the children's escape and in return, Jared, Simon and Mallory attract the goblins' attention away from Hogsqueal and then flee, leading the goblins back to the troll. Jared convinces the troll to let them escape in return for leading the goblins to him to eat. After they arrive home, Simon convinces them to return to the now empty camp to release the rest of the goblins' victims and they take the injured griffin to the carriage house. After getting grounded by their scared and angry mother for worrying her and coming home late, they discover that Thimbletack, enraged at Jared's forceful taking of the seeing stone, has again become a Boggart and reverted to his mischievous ways.
Lucinda's Secret
Lucinda's Secret was published on October 1, 2003. The novel opens upon an argument among the Grace children on whether or not to destroy the Field Guide, Jared alone insisting that they keep it. They eventually agree to consult their Great-Aunt Lucinda, who is now staying in a psychiatric hospital and is the only person whom they know to have been in contact with Arthur Spiderwick, who was her father. When they ask her about Arthur, it is revealed that the last time she saw him was one day when she was a little girl, on which Arthur had set out from the house on foot and never returned. She is horrified that the Grace family is staying at the Estate, which she says is not safe, and even more worried when she hears that they have the Guide, believing her father to have taken it with him when he disappeared. Lucinda warns the children that they have to get out of the house with the guide. However, when Jared takes the book from his backpack to show her, it has been replaced with another book by Thimbletack. Once home, the Grace children decide to find out what happened to their great-great uncle, and set out from the Estate with a map of the area on which is written "September 14th. Five O'clock. Bring the remains of the book." On their journey they meet a Phooka: a creature that talks only in riddles. They finally reach a river grove inhabited by elves, who threaten to trap one of the children there unless the guide is given to them. The children flee, however, promising to bring the Guide as soon as they can. On passing by the Phooka again, one of his riddles leads them to think that Arthur is still alive, but imprisoned in Faerie with the elves.
The Ironwood Tree
Published on April 6, 2004. The family attends Mallory's fencing match at school. During the tournament, Jared finds a boy identical to him going through Mallory's bag. He transforms into a smaller child when Jared attempts to scare him with his pocket knife. When Jared and Simon discover that Mallory has disappeared, they search for her in an abandoned quarry, but wind up being kept prisoner by dwarves. Mallory is revealed to be sleeping in a glass-coffin dressed in medieval garb (similarly to Snow White), with the dwarves saying she is now immortal, so long as she stays in the coffin. Escaping their cage, the twins free Mallory and meet a strange creature, called a knocker, who tells them the way out by listening to the stones. They next see a huge metal tree, made by the dwarves, called the Ironwood Tree. After a narrow escape from the dwarves' mechanical dogs, they make their way out of the tunnel but have to hide before leaving. They secretly watch Mulgarath, a shapeshifting ogre who wants to rule the world, callously orders the death of the dwarves for having been tricked into not getting the Field Guide from Jared. The dwarves are mauled to death by the goblins and Mulgarath reveals that he had the Guide the whole time. The siblings escape just after Mulgarath leaves with his goblins and the weapons made by the dwarves.
The Wrath of Mulgarath
The Wrath of Mulgarath was published on September 7, 2004. The Grace children return from the quarry to the Spiderwick estate, only to find the house in ruins and their mother gone. Hogsqueal the hobgoblin informs them that the house was destroyed by the goblins who have kidnapped their mother and taken her to the palace of their fearsome master, Mulgarath the ogre. Accompanied by Hogsqueal, the siblings journey to Mulgarath's palace, an immense citadel made of garbage where they battle a legion of goblins. Mallory runs the leader through with her sword and is greatly traumatized by having actually killed a living sentient being. Nevertheless, she and her brothers defeat the goblins and discover Mulgarath's plan. The ogre has learned from the Field Guide that fresh cows' milk makes young dragons rapidly mature. He has stolen a number of cows and is using them to breed an army of dragons with which he plans to conquer the world. Byron, the griffin, successfully vanquishes the mother dragon and Simon kills the young ones. Infiltrating the palace, they find their mother and father held captive. They release their parents, but discover that their father is actually Mulgarath in disguise. Jared has Thimbletack wrap chains around Simon and Mallory to save them. The ogre brags of his plan and reveals that the Field Guide is underneath his throne, and Jared mockingly tells Mulgarath that he and his siblings have killed all the dragons. In a rage, Mulgarath flings Simon and Mallory out of the window but Thimbletack's chains hold, and they don't fall far. Jared stabs Mulgarath in the foot with Mallory's sword, then knocks him out of the window. Mulgarath falls and transforms into a swallow to escape, but is snatched and eaten by Hogsqueal.
The children return home, where Jared and his mother reconcile. Although Jared is expelled from school, he and Simon are enrolled in a private school. The Grace family meets Arthur Spiderwick, who had been living with the elves and so had not aged. He and his daughter Lucinda, now an elderly woman, share a poignant goodbye, and he turns to dust. With Mulgarath defeated, the Grace family is now free to live happily ever after.
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
The Nixie's Song
This story takes place in Florida, where 11-year-old Nick Vargas lives with his brother, Jules, his weird stepsister, Laurie, his father, Paul, and his stepmother, Charlene, in his father's housing development. Laurie has read the Spiderwick Chronicles and believes in faeries. Nick thinks she is "lame" and wishes she would leave him alone. After finding a four-leafed clover (which allows people to see faeries) he sees a nixie unconscious in his yard, which he and Laurie carry into a nearby artificial pond.
On the following day, the Nixie, named Taloa, gives Nick and Laurie the Sight and sends them to find her six sisters, who were separated when their pond was destroyed. They leave after a faerie fills Nick's father's car with sand to look for Taloa's sisters at her old pond. They find the pond dried, the surrounding forest burnt and the bodies of three of the nixies, accidentally waking up a giant, which they mistook for a hill. They flee from the giant, who becomes hypnotized and calm when it hears Taloa's singing.
The children decide to ask the authors of The Spiderwick Chronicles themselves for advice at a book signing, convincing Jules to drive them. Once there, they are disappointed when Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black don't believe them, but they then run into Jared and Simon Grace, who offer to help them gather useful information. Jared tells them about a giant expert who lived nearby and they plan to meet at his address. The place appears to be deserted, and after a quick incident with will-o'-the-wisps, the kids take several papers including a diagram of a giant trap. While the giant is hypnotized by the nixie's song, the three kids use a rope to tie the giant's foot to its neck. It thrashes around, strangling itself with the cords, leaving the kids horrified at what they've done. When the giant stops moving, an old man called Noseeum Jack ("Noseeum" due to his poor eyesight, and "Jack" being a reference to the story of Jack the Giant-Killer) approaches, revealing to be the son of the giant expert who met Arthur Spiderwick, and a giant slayer himself, killing the giant definitely. He explains that the giants sleep for 500 years at a time and all wake up at once, bringing panic and destruction to anywhere they go, and that soon all of Florida's giants would be waking up.
A Giant Problem
Nick and Laurie start taking giant hunting lessons from Noseeum Jack, which Nick finds pointless. One night, Jack shows up at their house when their parents are fighting and takes them to see a fight between two giants who had woken up too close to each other. He approaches one of them when it gets injured and is swatted away, hurting his leg. The kids help him to his house and, once home, Laurie gives Jules a keychain containing the four-leafed clover (which they no longer need, having been given permanent Sight by Taloa).
The next day they find a small faerie (who Nick has seen days before) playing with a message that Taloa had left for them, saying she had gone to look for her surviving sisters alone. They catch the little faerie, whom Laurie names Sandspur and assumes to be a hobgoblin, based on the Field Guide. Later that day, two giants start fighting near their house. They escape with Jules, who can see the giants, but most of the development is destroyed. They go to Jack's house for help, but instead meet Jack's son (simply called Jack Junior), who tells them that he's taking his father to live with him and his wife. Noseeum Jack apologizes to Nick for not helping them and tells him he kept something for them in his backyard, which Nick doesn't even bother to investigate.
That night, the family stays at a hotel where they try to come up with a plan and Jules shows Sandspur to his girlfriend, Cindy. Based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Nick thinks about the possibility of asking the merfolk to lure the giants to the sea, since they seem to be hypnotized by a nixie's singing. The kids sneak out to the beach, where they find that the mermaids hate land-dwellers and kidnap Jules, promising to let him go and sing the giants to the sea if the kids bring them a fish that has never been in their sea. They steal a tropical fish from Cindy's father's aquarium and race back to the beach. The mermaids are amazed that they completed the task and return Jules. Keeping their promise but intending to trick the humans, the mermaids sing for only a little while and to no effect before disappearing. However, Nick manages to tape their song in a tape recorder, which they intend to use to lure the giants themselves.
After getting Nick's model Viking ship from the hotel, they drive around a route provided by Sandspur of where the giants are, playing the mermaids' song. The giants follow the sound to the sea, where Nick drops the little boat (with the tape recorder) into the ocean. The giants follow it out to sea and the kids go back to the hotel where they find the Grace kids waiting for them with the news that the giants woke up all at the same time because they were there to kill something even worse.
The Wyrm King
The last book of the Spiderwick Saga, the story starts with the Vargas family going to a family therapist because of the children's latest strange behavior, which Nick's father thinks is caused by his remarrying. Meanwhile, sinkholes have been appearing everywhere throughout Florida, where small black serpent-like creatures are vaguely seen by Nick. Under the assumption that these sinkholes are caused by the creatures that the giants were supposed to destroy, the Vargas kids (plus Sandspur) meet up with Jared, Simon and Mallory at Noseeum Jack's house, which is now deserted and has a massive sinkhole in the front yard. After breaking into the house, they find more of Jack's annotations, which compare the hydra, shown as a group of intertwined wyrm dragons, to the legend of the Rat King.
Finally going to Jack's backyard, Nick and Laurie find what Jack had meant to give them: a small pool filled with lime and muck with Taloa and two of her sisters, Ooki and Ibi, whom Jack had captured some days earlier. Meanwhile, Mallory goes into the sinkhole to investigate, but finds herself unable to breathe and surrounded by the small snake-like dragons. They manage to get her out and put three of the creatures in a jar. They figure that the creatures produce methane, which makes the air around them unbreathable, and realize that these were the creatures that the giants ate in order to breathe fire (which they originally believed to be salamanders).
Seeing how fast the dragons can grow after feeding them a chunk of pizza, the children all drive to the beach in order to get the giants back to land so they can kill the dragons. The three nixies eventually agree to use their singing to lure the giants, and one of them is taken to the water with Nick and Jared in a surfboard (since nixies are used to freshwater, salt water hurts their skin). Before they can accomplish this, however, Nick is taken underwater by the merfolk, who tell him how they're glad that the land-dwellers are doomed and give him a magical cap in the process that allows him to breathe underwater. The nixies manage to get some of the giants to follow them to land, where they immediately start eating the small reptiles and fighting each other again. As the children drive away from the giants, their car falls into a sinkhole and only after some time do they manage to get out. A giant then attacks them, being saved by the showing up of Jack Junior, who suddenly decided to listen to his father and come help the children kill the giants (being surprised when they reveal him that killing giants is no longer their plan).
After dropping the nixies in a nearby pond (their reward for having sung to the giants), Jules, Laurie and Nick pass by Cindy's house and notice a large sinkhole close to it. When they go to warn Cindy and her parents, Laurie and Sandspur fall into the growing sinkhole and a tree falls on Jules's legs when attempting to rescue her. When Nick tries to help Laurie get out of the sinkhole, he finds that she still hadn't died from the methane exhaled by the dragons because Sandspur (who had grown to a huge size, revealing himself to be a spriggan) had been eating them, proceeding to eat Nick whole and only regurgitating him when Laurie drops rocks into the creature's mouth to make him sick. Nick and Laurie get out of the sinkhole and go back to meet Jack Jr. and the Grace kids, leaving Jules at Cindy's house waiting for an ambulance (being followed back by Sandspur, back in his small size, like nothing had happened).
Noticing that all sinkholes are connected, they come to the conclusion that the biggest hydra must be in the center, laying the eggs that hatch into the smaller hydras who wander through the tunnels. They notice that the giants are all going to meet that alpha hydra, and Jack Junior leaves to go kill it, followed by the children. There, they meet the giant multi-headed dragon, who had already started to kill the giants that had gathered to fight it. After hurting Jack Junior and the Grace kids, Nick has an idea and realizes it's up to him to save the day. Using the cap given to him by the merfolk so he could safely breathe, he goes into one of the tunnels with Jack's machete so to meet the hydra from below. When he gets there, instead of trying to kill the beast, he cuts the substance that keeps all the dragons together, thus making them separate from each other and easier for the giants to kill.
At the hospital, all the children get their injuries treated, Jules gets back with Cindy, Jack calls his father to tell him what happened, the Grace kids meet their father there and the Vargas family decides to all stay together. The Spiderwick Saga ends with the Vargas going home, being watched by a silent giant in the distance.
Accompanying books
Arthur Spiderwick's Notebook for Fantastical Observations, June 2005
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, November 2005
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Care and Feeding of Sprites, December 26, 2006
The Chronicles of Spiderwick: A Grand Tour of the Enchanted World, Navigated by Thimbletack, November 13, 2007
Characters
Humans
The Spiderwick Chronicles:
Jared Evan Grace – The protagonist and a 9-year-old boy. Jared is a brave and resourceful natural leader, shown to be good at creating plans. Due to his parents' divorce, Jared has trouble controlling his anger and is prone to flashes of violence that he later regrets. While at the beginning of the story he shows no hobbies or particular interests like Simon's love for animals and Mallory's fencing, he shows evidence of wanting to keep records of his experiences with faeries, making additional notes in Arthur's Field Guide and practicing his drawing, and is revealed to know a great deal about faerie lore in "Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles".
Simon Everett Grace – Jared's identical twin brother. At first Simon seems to be the near opposite of his brother. He keeps a tidy appearance, is said to enjoy reading, and loves collecting and caring for animals, particularly ones that he's rescued (his two pet mice had been caught in a trap in their apartment complex in New York). His other pets include cats, goldfish and eventually a griffin (Jared calls them Simon's "menagerie"). However, he also is shown to succumb to flashes of anger, particularly when defending a person or animal in a helpless state, twice in the story going out of his way to save the life of the griffin Byron, with no thought of his own safety.
Mallory Grace – Jared and Simon's 13-year-old sister and the story's heroine. She is an avid fencer who takes nearly every opportunity to practice, sometimes enlisting the help of an unfortunate brother. This skill comes in handy when defending herself against goblins in The Seeing Stone. She enters her brothers' adventures in the faerie world slightly reluctantly at first, but acts in later books as the occasional single-word-of-caution, and is quick to accept Jared's superior knowledge of the faerie world. She dislikes being caught unawares and "being bossed-around by faeries", and often lets herself show her deep affection for her siblings despite herself.
Arthur Spiderwick – The author of Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. He worked as a publicity artist and spent many years researching faeries by doing field work and by contacting other researchers (for example, for his entries on dragons and giants). His Field Guide eventually made him be seen as a threat by the elves, who ordered him to destroy it and imprisoned him for 80 years when he refused. Much like the Irish hero Oisín, who spent hundreds of years in the faerie world, Spiderwick also dies when he steps on the ground after being kept alive for more years than he was supposed to live.
Lucinda Spiderwick – The daughter of Arthur Spiderwick and the cousin of Helen Grace's mother, making her the Grace children's great aunt. She was abandoned by her father after he was kidnapped by the elves, never knowing where he'd gone and being raised by the Grace children's grandmother. In adulthood, she was attacked by Mulgarath's army and subsequently put in a clinic for the insane. Because she tasted the food of the faeries, she can no longer eat regular food, only being kept alive by the fruits given to her by the sprites she played with as a child.
Helen Grace – The mother of Jared, Simon, and Mallory, who is overprotective of them. She is strict at times, which stems from the pain of her divorce, but she can also be caring.
Richard Grace – Helen Grace's ex-husband and the neglectful father of the Grace children.
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles:
Nicholas Vargas - The main character, who has "stopped bothering" since his mother died and doesn't get along well with anyone. Like Jared, he also shows skills in outwitting the faeries and tricking them just as they trick humans. He's said not to be good at sports, but is able to kill a giant and the Wyrm King almost by himself.
Laurie Vargas - Nick's step sister, who truly believes in faeries, and first introduced Nick to the idea through a published copy of the Field Guide. She is disappointed when she finds that the faerie world is actually more dangerous and more real than she thought.
Noseeum Jack - An old giant hunter (named after Jack the Giant Killer) and the son of a giant-expert friend of Arthur Spiderwick's. He had the Sight, but is now almost blind, going to live with his son and daughter-in-law after getting hurt by a fighting giant. He lived in an old house protected by will-o'-the-wisps, having captured Taloa and two of her sisters and keeping them in a swimming pool.
Julian (Jules) Vargas - Nick's older "annoying brother", who spends all day surfing, stays out of his dad's way, and treats Nick like a kid. He eventually gets the Sight as well and helps the younger kids whenever driving is needed.
Paul Vargas - Nick and Jules' dad, owns a housing development and doesn't understand his kids, having remarried probably too soon, in Nick's opinion.
Charlene Vargas - Laurie's mom and stepmother of Nick and Jules, an "okay" person to Nick, although he wishes she wasn't around all the time. She suggests a break-up when the children start to act strange, but agrees to go back to Nick's dad in the end.
Cindy - Jules' girlfriend who also likes surfing. She is friendly and helps the kids after Jules is kidnapped by the mermaids. She gets grounded after she helps Nick and Laurie steal a fish from her father's aquarium.
Faeries
In the Spiderwick universe, faeries usually remain invisible or disguised to human eyes, who are generally not aware of their presence. However, a small percentage of humans have the ability to see faeries, commonly called the 'Sight', acquired naturally (for example, by being the seventh son of a seventh son or having red hair) or artificially (by looking through a holed stone or possessing a four-leafed clover). In the series, the Grace children receive the Sight when the hobgoblin Hogsqueal spits in their eyes, and the Vargas kids receive it when they are held under the water that a nixie had been soaking in.
They are portrayed as living many years, so many of the faeries encountered by the main characters also met Arthur Spiderwick and other long-dead humans in the past, without having aged. The species of fairies in the series are mainly taken from European mythology and folklore and Medieval bestiaries, including brownies, goblins, dragons, sprites, and elves, among many others.
The Spiderwick Chronicles:
Thimbletack - The Spiderwick Estate's Brownie, a fairy who guards the Spiderwick mansion but, if angered, can become a vengeful and nasty boggart. Later in the series he ends up stealing the Field Guide and hiding it, believing this will be for the better. However, at the end of the books he is ultimately friendly and apparently becomes friends with Hogsqueal. He is able to make himself visible and invisible to humans at will, though only when he has to; saying, "Now you don't see us, now you do, but only when we want you to."
Hogsqueal – One of Mulgarath's goblins who is actually a hobgoblin, the anti-hero of the story, changing sides depending on what fits his necessities at the moment. When Jared fails to kill Mulgarath, Hogsqueal saves the day by eating him while in swallow form, ending up staying with the children. Hogsqueal uses children's teeth as his own, claiming that he is the Tooth Faerie. He uses odd insults when addressing the children, Thimbletack and his own group of goblins, never calling anyone by their name. Tony DiTerlizzi reveals in his blog that Hogsqueal's first name was Horace in an early draft of Spiderwick, and that Hogsqueal is his favourite character in the series.
Mulgarath – An evil, shapeshifting ogre who wants to take over the world by using the information in the Guide to find out the weaknesses of humans and the many faerie species. The main antagonist of the series, he lives in a palace made of garbage, keeping an army of goblins (led by a redcap named Wormrat and temporarily featuring Hogsqueal as a soldier), dragons, and dwarves (before having the latter ones killed). Mulgarath dies in The Wrath of Mulgarath, eaten by Hogsqueal after being tricked in to taking the form of a swallow, making his army scatter and his spells broken.
Byron - A griffin saved by the children from Hogsqueal's gang of goblins, who were going to eat it. Simon took care of him and made him his pet. Resembling a hawks head with a lion's body, Byron often behaves like a cat, attempting to eat Hogsqueal and Mulgarath's dragons, and serving as a ride for the children and for Spiderwick.
River Troll – A troll who appears in The Seeing Stone. He lives in a nearby river, underneath local bridges. A reference to the many dumb trolls of faery tales, Jared tricks him into letting him and his siblings live and to eat the goblins chasing them. He is probably the same troll who ate Arthur Spiderwick's infant brother.
The Korting – The ruler of the dwarves. In The Ironwood Tree, he tricks Jared and Simon into being held prisoners, but keeps Mallory in a coffin to preserve her in time. He works for Mulgarath because the ogre had promised him they could rebuilt the world entirely in metal, making weapons for his army. After he gets the weapons, however, Mulgarath has his goblins kill all the dwarves.
Dragons - Their shape is similar to that of a snakes, and they are as fast as a whip. Their species is named by Spiderwick as the "European wyrm". Despite being poisonous, all of Mulgarath's dragons are eaten by Byron, who was badly injured during the process.
Goblins - Mischievous and grubby, goblins love smoke, fire, metal, a good bloodshed and a few tasty cats or dogs. Most species are born without teeth, so they make their own from such materials as glass shards, pieces of metal (except iron) and wood. Sometimes they use the teeth of other animals. They are unorganized and savage, only gathering themselves to an army (under the leadership of a redcap bull goblin named Wormrat) when Mulgarath takes power. After his death, the surviving goblins flee the area and go back to their small violent gangs.
Elves - Elves act as the authority in the faerie territory of Spiderwick's Estate. They are shown as humanoid, a group of them living in the forest, making their clothes out of leaves. They have enough knowledge of magic to keep Spiderwick alive for nearly 100 years, they keep Stray Sods around their forest so humans cannot reach it, and they somehow employ Byron to take Spiderwick to his family.
Phooka - On their way to the elves, the Grace kids find a phooka, a shapeshifter resembling a cross between a monkey and a black cat. It sits in a tree branch, talks in riddles and plays with its body shape in a way resembling the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. Although he doesn't seem to be related to the elves nor to Mulgarath and his army, he seems to be aware of the destiny of Arthur Spiderwick and his nephews, giving them advice in riddles.
Knocker - A strange creature who helps the children to find their way through the caves of the dwarves, in which it appears to live. It has batlike ears and a long finger similar to an aye-aye's, which it uses to tap stones, claiming that it can hear the stones speak.
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles:
Taloa - A nixie rescued by Nick and Laurie after her pond was destroyed by a fire-breathing giant. She gives them the Sight and demands that they find her lost sisters, eventually doing it herself and getting caught by Noseeum Jack. At the end, the Vargas kids keep their promise and deliver her and her two surviving sisters to a nearby pond.
Sandspur - A small trash-eating with a fondness for sand and a pang of constant hunger, Sandspur is caught by Laurie and Nick and kept as a pet. Despite his first attempts to escape, he accepts Nick and Laurie and follows them around even after they try to get rid of him. Although Taloa calls him a "hob" in The Nixie's Song and Laurie calls him a hobgoblin in A Giant Problem, he is later identified by Laurie as a spriggan in The Wyrm King when his hunger makes him swell up. He is therefore the only creature in the books (other than the Wyrm King and the humanoid insects from The Nixie's Song) whose species is not mentioned in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide. Despite this under Goblins in the Field Guide, there is a Goblin with a bottle on its back just like Sandspur. In the end of the book, he apparently is also able to use glamour to make himself look like a cat.
Giants - Hill giants are large humanoid creatures that can disguise themselves as small hills and mountains. They wake up all at the same time to control the hydra population by eating them in order to breathe fire, which they use to fight other giants. They are commonly attracted by the singing of nixies or mermaids.
Mermaids - Stubborn, yet loyal and true to their word, mermaids have amazing voices that can hypnotize giants and humans. They are not easy to strike a deal with, as they frequently want something in return and usually take people as hostages to ensure the deal is kept. They seem to be able to do some magic as well, as they owned a cap able to make humans breathe underwater (similarly to the caps worn by merfolk in fairy tales to walk on the shore).
The Wyrm King - Like the Rat King, the Wyrm King is a group of many wyrm dragons stuck together that devastate the land, creating sinkholes and millions of offspring. It is also compared to the Lernaean Hydra, the multi-headed snake from Greek mythology (ironically, the Wyrm King was killed by fire-breathing giants while the Lernaean Hydra was also killed with fire by Heracles and his nephew Iolaus).
Ooki and Ibi - Two nixies, the only surviving sisters of Taloa, who get captured by Noseeum Jack with her and eventually make their home in a new pond. They both accept to help Nick after he swears his life to get them a home, convincing Taloa to help him as well.
Manticores - Briefly seen by Nick in The Nixie's Song, a cougarlike creature with a barbed tail eating roadkill by the side of a road.
Dragonfly-faeries - After receiving the sight from Taloa, Hugo, Jared and Simon saw these small dragonfly-like creatures while riding on their bike. Like spriggans and hydras, these faeries are not mentioned in the Field Guide, probably not being known by Arthur Spiderwick. However, they may just be a subspecies of the sprite. Their favorite drink is Pepsi.
Writing
DiTerlizzi stated that, due to the collaborative effort he and Black put into the books, there is no individual credit as to who did the writing and who did the illustrations.
Adaptations
Film
A feature film adaptation of the series was released by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies on February 14, 2008. Directed by Mark Waters, it starred Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Martin Short, Nick Nolte, and Seth Rogen. It followed the basic overall plot of the five novels in the Spiderwick Chronicles series, but left out the majority of the plot from the fourth book and contained several major differences.
Television
On November 12, 2021, it was announced that a television adaptation was in development for Disney+. Production started in February 2022, with Kat Coiro joining as a director and executive-producer in May 2022; Coiro is set to helm the first two episodes. In August 2023, Deadline reported that the series was no longer moving forward at Disney+ despite having been already completed due to cost cutting reasons, it will be shopped to other networks. In October 2023, The Roku Channel had picked up the U.S. exclusive rights to the series, which will premiere in early 2024.
References
External links
Official website
Book series introduced in 2003
Works by Holly Black
Series of children's books
Fantasy novel series
2000s fantasy novels
High fantasy novels
American fantasy novel series
American novel series
American novels adapted into films
American novels adapted into television shows
Collaborative book series
Novels adapted into video games
Nixies (folklore) |
The Stotfield fishing disaster was the first of several fishing disasters of the 19th century on the east coast of Scotland. A storm struck the Moray Firth on 25 December 1806. Compared to the Moray Firth fishing disaster of 1848 or the Eyemouth disaster of 1881, the Stotfield disaster was small. However, although in other major disasters many more lives and boats were lost, the effect at Stotfield was arguably worse. There, the village lost its entire fleet of three fishing boats. More importantly, it lost all of its able-bodied men and youths in one afternoon.
History of Stotfield
Stotfield has now been absorbed into Lossiemouth but originally it was a small ferm toun in Moray that was established in the Middle Ages. The name Stotfield is derived from Stodfauld meaning in Old English, "horse field". The fact that the name is a form of English and not derived from Pictish or Gaelic names suggests that incomers settled the area. King David I of Scotland introduced settlers from other parts of the kingdom as a way of reducing the powers of the lords who had ruled large territories as independent provinces. Indeed, King David put down a rebellion by the Mormaer of Moray in 1130 and it is possible that Stotfield dated from shortly after this event. The English speaking inhabitants of the Lothians would most likely to have been the chosen settlers. It is notable that the tribe inhabiting the Lothians were Angles (originally part of the Kingdom of Northumbria). Stotfield's close proximity to the sea eventually led it to develop a fishing arm to its farming activities. By the early 19th century, it had three skaffie style fishing boats, each crewed by seven people.
Details of the boats
The early skaffie boats located on the Stotfield beach were small with rounded stems and raked sterns. They were two-masted with a tall dipping lug sail and a mizzen sail. Their short keel gave them good manoeuvrability in good weather, but they tended to be unstable in bad weather. They were usually crewed by around six people. Above all, though, they were light enough to be hauled up on to the beaches. The boats were un-decked and provided no shelter for the crew. Because of the vulnerability of the boats, they stayed only a few miles out to sea in full view of the land.
The storm
The fishermen reached the fishing grounds, just a mile or two off shore, quite early. The morning began calm, fair and mild but the wind began to strengthen as the morning progressed and by around mid-day the weather took a dramatic turn for the worse and the south-westerly gale drove the boats away from land and down the firth. Although the men were powerful oarsmen the ferocity of the storm overwhelmed all three boats. All 21 people, men and youths, were drowned; only women, young children and the elderly remained in Stotfield.
Those who perished
Boat 1
Joseph Young Snr, skipper
Joseph Young Jnr, son to above
Alex Young, also son to Joseph Young
William McLeod, Elder
John McLeod, son to above
Alex Edward Jnr
Robt Edward, brother to above
Boat 2
Alex Edward, Skipper
William Edward, son to above
William Edward Snr, brother to Alex Edward
John Edward, son to "Little" John Edward
William Baikie
James Edward, Boatswain
James Edward, son to above
Boat 3
James Mitchell, Skipper
William Crocket, cousin by marriage to James Mitchell.
John Young
John Edward Jnr, "Fixie"
Alex Main, from Nairn
James McLeod, from Nairn
John Edward Snr
Elsewhere
A weather diary kept at Gordon Castle, Fochabers, Moray, stated that the temperature at 8 a.m. on this day was 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, as the day progressed, the wind increased to hurricane force with trees on the estate being blown down. Later in the afternoon, the temperature dropped to 39 degrees Fahrenheit indicating the passage of a weather front. A schooner, Traveller, left Orkney early on this same day and ran into a huge storm. When the ship reached Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, she was forced to return to Orkney where she was wrecked on the island of Flotta with loss of life to crew and passengers.
The Aberdeen Journal wrote:. "On Thursday last (December 25. 1806), a most tremendous gale came on from the south-west. It began in the morning and continued increasing until about 11 o'clock, at which time it had all the appearance and force of a tornado. Its violence was severely felt in this city and neighbourhood... The accounts from all parts of the country represent the mischief done by this dreadful gale as beyond calculation - thatched houses unroofed barns and stables blown down: stacks of corn and hay scattered to the wind; and an immense quantity of large and valuable timber torn from the roots." (31/12/06). The late gale on this coast, we are much afraid, has been productive of more serious consequences than are yet ascertained. A number of vessels on this coast are still missing, and several fishing boats on the Moray Firth were driven out to sea in the violence of the gales and have not been heard of." (7/1/07)
In January the same newspaper wrote: "In addition to the melancholy accounts formerly received, of the damage done by the late gale, we have to mention the loss of several vessels on the coast of Caithness... Five vessels names unknown, ashore in the Orkney Islands, twenty to thirty men supposed to be lost... We hear from Elgin, that three boats belonging to Stotfield, were lost, containing 21 seamen, who have left 17 widows and 42 children, besides aged parents and other helpless relations to lament their fate. Liberal contributions are making for their relief." (14/1/07). "In addition to the melancholy accidents of Christmas Day, we are very sorry to state the following losses: A boat with three men at Burghead; one boat with seven men at Rottenslough, near Buckle; and a boat with seven men at Avoch in Ross-shire; many of them leaving widows and families." (28/1/1807).
The paper later reported: "We have much pleasure in mentioning, that a collection for relief of the widows and families of the unfortunate fishermen who perished in the tremendous gale of Christmas last, is to be made in all the (18) churches of this city, tomorrow (a national fast day; £190 3 11¾ was raised (11/3/07)... In the violence of that dreadful gale, the three boats of Stotfield, one boat of Avoch, one of Burghead and one of Port Essie, foundered. Thirty-seven industrious fishermen perished in the deep, leaving behind them 31 widows, 89 children and 56 aged parents or other relations, all ... by the fatal event, now rendered totally destitute." (25/3/07).
The paper carried this advert on 25 March 1807: "such fishermen as will settle at Stotfield, in the parish of Drainie, and county of Elgin and Forces, that a bounty of seven guineas a year will be given for three successive years to the first crew of seven men who shall occupy a boat there in fishing, for that space, according to use and wont. A like bounty of seven guineas a year for two successive years, will be given to the second crew of seven men; and a bounty of seven guineas for one year only, to a third crew of seven men who shall settle at Stotfield." It is unknown what response there was to this but it is certainly known that Garden brothers from the Buckie area settled in Stotfield at this time.
The minister of Drainie recorded in 1841 that of the total of £1075 13 0 collected for the Stotfield and Burghead Relief Fund, £35 remained to be distributed while there were still eight widows surviving.
Further afield, at Alnmouth in Northumberland, the storm burst through the coastal defences and caused the River Aln to change its course. Because of this the busy fishing harbour gradually silted up and the fishing industry disappeared. This demonstrated the extent and ferocity of this storm.
References
Ports and harbours of Scotland
Fishing in Scotland
Natural disasters in Scotland
1806 in Scotland
1806 disasters in the United Kingdom
Fishing disasters
Maritime incidents in 1806
December 1806 events
Lossiemouth |
Lisa Olstein (born 1972) is an American poet and non-fiction writer.
Biography
Lisa Olstein was born in 1972.
She grew up near Boston, Massachusetts. She received a BA from Barnard College (1996) and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She undertook additional studies at Harvard Divinity School.
She is an author of four books. Her first book of poems, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006). She won the Hayden Carruth Award. Her second collection, Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal. Shane McCrae selected her chapbook The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance for an Essay Press Chapbook Prize. Her most recent book of poetry, Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) she explores the complexities - beautiful and brutal - of our present moment. Pain Studies, a book of creative non-fiction is forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in 2020.
Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, LIT, and other journals.
Olstein has also worked with singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault in the band Cold Satellite.
Lisa Olstein currently teaches in the New Writers Project and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, and also directed the Juniper Initiative for literary arts in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Awards and honors
She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Writing Residency, and poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.
Poetry
Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)
The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance (Essay Press, 2016) http://www.essaypress.org/ep-72/
Little Stranger (Copper Canyon Press, 2013)
Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)
Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
Non-fiction
Pain Studies, Bellevue Literary Press, 2020
References
External links
Living people
21st-century American poets
American women poets
Barnard College alumni
Poets from Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
21st-century American women writers
American women academics
1972 births |
The Battle of Damascus or Siege of Damascus may refer to:
Siege of Damascus (634), a siege during the Muslim conquest of Syria
The Siege of Damascus, a 1720 play by John Hughes
Siege of Damascus during the Crusade of 1129
Siege of Damascus (1148), a failed siege during the Second Crusade
Siege of Damascus (1229), a siege during an Ayyubid civil war
Mongol invasions of Syria, 1260 battle of Damascus
Siege of Damascus (1400), a siege during the conquests of Tamerlane
Capture of Damascus (1918), during World War I
Capture of Damascus (1920), a siege during the Franco-Syrian War
Battle of Damascus (1941), during World War II (the Syria–Lebanon campaign)
Rif Dimashq clashes (November 2011–March 2012), during the Syrian Civil War
Battle of Damascus (2012), during the Syrian Civil War
Damascus offensive (2013), during the Syrian Civil War |
Tim Scott (born 1965) is a United States Senator from the state of South Carolina.
Tim or Timothy Scott may also refer to:
Sports
Tim Scott (American football) (born 1993), American football safety
Tim Scott (baseball) (born 1966), American pitcher
Tim Scott (footballer) (born 1971), former Australian rules footballer
Tim Scott (hurler) (1895–1972), Irish hurler
Others
Tim Scott (guitarist) (born 1971), British instrumental recording artist
Tim Scott (artist) (born 1937), British sculptor
Timothy Scott (actor, born 1955) (1955–1988), American actor and dancer, mainly Broadway
Timothy Scott (actor, born 1937) (1937–1995), American actor
Tim Scott McConnell (born 1958), American singer-songwriter, also known as Ledfoot |
Calling Dr. Luv is the third studio album by American industrial band The Electric Hellfire Club, released on September 3, 1996, by Cleopatra Records. The album is named after the Kiss song "Calling Dr. Love" and after their keyboardist The Rev. Dr. Luv who had recently died, which the album was dedicated to.
Track listing
References
1996 albums
The Electric Hellfire Club albums
Cleopatra Records albums |
Calgary Courts Centre is the largest court facility in Canada, and is in Calgary, Alberta. It was constructed by the Government of Alberta and provides over of court and office space.
History
Construction began in late 2004, and is now complete. Development of the east block began in the fall of 2007. It included a 700-stall underground parkade, an urban park, and the demolition of the Court of Queen's Bench facility.
The prime consultant for the building was Kasian Architecture and Interior Design Ltd working collaboratively with design architect Carlos Ott and is built by the Cana construction company with the security system being installed by Convergint Technologies. The structural engineering was provided by Stantec. The north tower's 24 floors stand high. The project had a budget of $300 million and hosts 73 courtrooms, judicial chambers, and facilities for 180 security personnel and approximately 360 government, library and external agencies staff.
See also
List of tallest buildings in Calgary
References
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Carlos Ott buildings
Courthouses in Canada
Alberta government buildings
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Alpharetrovirus is a genus of the family Retroviridae. It has type C morphology. Members can cause sarcomas, other tumors, and anaemia of wild and domestic birds and also affect rats.
Species include the Rous sarcoma virus, avian leukosis virus, and avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV). Not all animals that can infect develop cancer. The tumor caused by the virus is usually in the form of lymphoma and leukemia. It occurs after a long and latent process. The tumor cells formed consist of a single progenitor cell and are clonal. However, infection from retroviruses does not directly produce tumors, but only placement and recombination events leading to tumor cell formation.
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Alpharetroviruses
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Rudolf Hirth du Frênes (24 July 1846, Gräfentonna, near Gotha - 1 May 1916, Miltenberg) was a German painter.
Life
His father was a notary. Du Frênes was his mother's maiden name, which he adopted for professional use. At the age of fifteen, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, where he studied with August von Kreling. Four years later, on the recommendation of his teachers, he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and became a pupil of Hermann Anschütz. The following year, he joined a class at the studios of Arthur von Ramberg and worked there until the latter's death in 1875.
While in Ramberg's class, he met Theodor Alt, Johann Sperl and Wilhelm Leibl. In 1869, they came together to share a studio in Munich and formed the core of an artists' group that was later known as the "Leibl-Kreis" (Leibl Circle).
Around 1880, began a lengthy study trip which took him to Holland, Belgium and France where he visited all the major studios, galleries and museums. After five years, he returned to Germany, tied up his affairs in Munich and settled in Dießen am Ammersee.
The influence of Leibl on Hirth's work was substantial. Even when Leibl was influenced by Gustave Courbet that, in turn, influenced Hirth. And, despite Hirth's discovery of Frans Hals and the obvious influence on his work, his paintings after the dissolution of the Leibl-Kreis are generally considered to be less inspired than those done before. For most of his life, he supported himself by painting portraits, which occasionally rise to the quality of his early work. He later moved to Miltenberg, where he died, aged seventy. Many of his works can be seen in the Municipal Museum of Miltenberg.
Friedrich Hirth, the sinologist, and Georg Hirth, the journalist who created Jugend magazine, were his brothers.
References
Further reading
Wilhelm Petzet: Wilhelm Leibl und sein Kreis, (exhibition catalog) Prestel, Munich (1974)
External links
ArtNet: More works by Hirth du Frênes
1846 births
1916 deaths
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19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists |
Bongani Christopher Majola is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, an academic, human rights scholar, and the previous Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). He currently serves as the chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission.
Academic background
South African studies
Bongani Majola did his studies in law at the University of Zululand and obtained a Public Service Law Diploma in 1975, a Public Service Senior Law Certificate in 1977 and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1982. From 1982 to 1988 he was a senior lecturer and the Associate Professor of Law at the University of Bophuthatswana where he was responsible for teaching law courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Majola then became a professor and the dean of the law faculty at the University of the North from 1989 to 1996.
International studies
Majola obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. In 1990 he spent time at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., as a visiting professor, and in 1993/4 he was at Yale University as a research fellow.
Career
Early career
Majola's career began as an Administrative Clerk and Clerk of the Magistrate's Court from 1971 to 1974 in the Madadeni district in KwaZulu-Natal, where he conducted "mostly government clerical work including collection of revenue, population registration, writing reports and labour matters." His experience with criminal trials started in Madadeni when he was appointed the District Court Magistrate from 1977 to 1979, following which he was seconded to the Institute for Public Service Training at the University of Zululand as a magistrate and lecturer from 1979 to 1982 - which also coincided with his studies at the university. Majola served as a legal adviser to Theme Committee 3 of the South African Constitutional Assembly that was responsible for drafting the Constitution of South Africa in 1995.
Legal Resources Centre
After his academic career Majola moved to Johannesburg in 1996 where he was appointed the National Director of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), which is a non-profit public interest law organisation that defends poor and marginalised people in South Africa. During his time at the LRC he was involved with the Treatment Action Campaign in 2002 in relation to the "constitutional provisions dealing with the right of access by poor people to medical [health] care." In December 2000 Majola was elected to the board of the South African arm of the Open Society Foundations by billionaire and philanthropist George Soros. On the 21st anniversary of the LRC, Majola wrote an article about the significant contributions made by the LRC to the "development of a human rights jurisprudence and the strengthening of constitutional democracy" in South Africa.
United Nations
ICTR Deputy Chief Prosecutor
In January 2003 Majola left the LRC to become the Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the UN ICTR headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania. His work included supporting the Chief Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow in "the prosecution of suspects indicted for international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994." In a report by the Institute of Security Studies on the investigation and prosecution of international crimes, Majola wrote an article on the work of the ICTR and the challenges pertaining to the prosecution of persons accused of "genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes".
ICTR Assistant Secretary-General
After 10 years as the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the ICTR, Majola was appointed by Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, as the Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and Registrar of the ICTR. His role as Registrar was to support the organs of the ICTR, which are the judges, the Chambers and the Office of the Prosecutor. His duties also included being the head of the ICTR administration where he provided court management services, staff management, administrative support and Majola "handled related litigation within the UN internal justice system." Following the successful conclusion of the mandate of the ICTR and its subsequent closure in December 2015, Majola left his position as the Assistant Secretary-General.
South African Human Rights Commission
On 2 December 2016 President Jacob Zuma appointed Majola as the chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission. Majola's seven-year term commenced on 3 January 2017.
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The Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic or Mountain ASSR (; ) was a short-lived autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR in the Northern Caucasus that existed from 20 January 1921, to 7 July 1924.
The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was created from parts of the Kuban and Terek Oblasts by the indigenous nationalities after the Russian Revolution; however, Soviet rule was installed on this territory after the Red Army conquered the Northern Caucasus in the course of the Russian Civil War, and the former republic was transformed into a Soviet one. The area of the republic was over , and the population was about 800,000. It comprised six okrugs: Balkar, Chechen, Kabardian, Karachay, Nazran (Ingushetia), and Vladikavkaz Okrug (Ossetia) and had two cities: Grozny and Vladikavkaz. In addition, a special autonomy was provided to the Terek Cossacks: Sunzha Cossack Okrug, which included a large enclave in northern Ingushetia, and a smaller one bordering Grozny. Its boundaries approximated those of classical Zyx.
The ASSR did not exist in its original state very long. Already on 1 September 1921, Kabardin Okrug was split from the ASSR as separate Kabardin Autonomous Oblast, subordinated directly to the RSFSR. Next came Karachay Okrug, which was transformed into Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast on 12 January 1922; Balkar Okrug, which was merged with Kabardin AO into Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Oblast on 16 January 1922; and Chechen Okrug, which was transformed into the Chechen Autonomous Oblast on 30 November 1922.
By the Decree of the VTsIK of 7 July 1924, the remaining territory of the ASSR was partitioned into the North Ossetian Autonomous Oblast and the Ingush Autonomous Oblast. The Sunzha Cossack Okrug and the city of Vladikavkaz were directly subordinated to the VTsIK until 17 October 1924, when North Caucasus Krai was formed and integrated all of the former ASSR in addition to those two units.
In the 19th century, the best land in the region was given to Cossacks, Russian and Ukrainian military colonizers, while many natives were driven to the mountains. In 1920, the Soviet government decided to deport the Terek Cossacks and give their farms to the natives. A total of 34,637 individuals were deported to Vladikavkaz, Arkhangelsk and Donbas. Hundreds of families were later found to be supporters of the Soviet government. In January 1921, the forced resettlement of the Cossacks was stopped, and some families returned to occupy abandoned farms, but the densely-populated line of Tsarist-era military settlements was erased from the North Caucasus forever and the natives were free to occupy the fertile lands on the valley floors. In 1882, 24.7% of the Ingush lived in the mountains, but by 1924 only 2.1% did.
During the Cold War, many Western historians saw the disintegration of the Mountaineer Republic as a divide-and-conquer strategy by the Soviet government to keep the peoples of the Caucasus weak and subjugated to Moscow. The Soviet archives that became public in the 1990s have shown this not to be the case. The disintegration of the republic started in March 1921, just two months after its creation, when the leaders of Kabarda expressed their discontent at having been made part of the republic and cited the absence of economic links between the Kabards and other Mountaineer peoples. From April to June 1921, Kabarda held a congress at which 140 delegates, only 28 of the Bolsheviks, had overwhelmingly voted not just to become an autonomous oblast, but to also demand autonomous republic status. Joseph Stalin had to talk the leader of the Kabards, Betal Kalmykov, out of applying for a full union republic status.
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This page is an overview of New Zealand at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
New Zealand competed at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18–22 February 2015. A team of 18 cyclists (7 women, 11 men) was announced to represent the country in the event.
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New Zealand at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
New Zealand competed at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London, United Kingdom from 2-4 March 2016. A team of 19 cyclists (7 women, 12 men) was announced to represent the country in the event.
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The 2014 Men's EuroHockey Junior Championship III was the ninth edition of the Men's EuroHockey Junior Championship III, the third level of the men's European under-21 field hockey championships organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 20 to 26 July 2014 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
Turkey won their first EuroHockey Junior Championship III title and were promoted to the 2017 Men's EuroHockey Junior Championship II together with the runners-up and hosts the Czech Republic.
Results
Standings
Matches
See also
2014 Men's EuroHockey Junior Championship II
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International field hockey competitions hosted by the Czech Republic
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EuroHockey Junior Championship III
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is a cooking simulator for the Nintendo DS. It was released on July 20, 2006 in Japan.
Brief information
The software contains numerous Japanese recipes with step by step instructions, and the user can use the Nintendo DS's microphone for voice-recognition commands like turning pages. All the instructions are read out loud, while some instructions are video recordings showing how to do some tasks like chopping. It is possible to choose recipes based on a number of calories, the ingredients the user has and so forth. The simulator also keeps in memory what dishes the player has already made. It also features a timer. As a bonus, the Game & Watch game, Chef, can also be played in this DS title.
Reception
Shaberu! DS Oryōri Navi received an Excellence Prize for Entertainment at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival.
Sequels and spin-offs
Shaberu! DS Oryōri Navi gave birth to five sequels, with development split between Nintendo and Koei. Nintendo itself issued a Japan only sequel , an internationally released sequel in the 2008 titled Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat?, and the North America-only 2010 release America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking, based on the PBS program, America's Test Kitchen after Cook's Illustrated magazine helped the publisher to write the game.
Koei's releases are both Japan only, with the company releasing and .
Legacy
A musical remix based on this Nintendo DS title was used in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where it was heard in the Kirby Final Smash update. This was only heard on the Japanese version of the official website, but the song was added to all versions of Super Smash Bros. Brawl as one of the songs for the PictoChat stage.
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Touch! Generations
Video games developed in Japan
ja:しゃべる!DSお料理ナビ |
Van Kirk may refer to:
Theodore Van Kirk (1921–2014), United States Air Force officer and navigator
Van Kirk Farm, historic farm in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania |
The Galicia rugby union team is the national and/or representative rugby union team of Galicia. It is organised by the Galician Rugby Federation and has been active since 1999. In 1999 they made their international against Portugal.
Matches
Galicia rugby union team matches:
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Rugby union in Spain
International rugby union teams
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Ethemon lepidum is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Thomson in 1864.
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Convolvulus remotus is a herb in the family Convolvulaceae.
The perennial herb has twisted or twining and climbing habit. It blooms between September and December producing pink flowers.
It is found on floodplains and in gullies in the Wheatbelt, Mid West and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy-clay soils over sandstone or limestone.
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Plants described in 1810
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) |
"Happily Ever After" is the 11th television episode of the American Broadcasting Company's sixth season of the serial drama television series Lost and 114th episode overall. The episode was aired on April 6, 2010, on ABC in the United States. The episode was written by showrunners and executive producers Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender. The episode is centered on Desmond Hume.
In 2007, Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) undergoes Charles Widmore's (Alan Dale) experiment and interacts with his "flash-sideways" counterpart where Desmond, Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan), and Daniel Widmore (Jeremy Davies) experience visions of their actual-universe counterparts.
"Happily Ever After" was watched by 9 million American viewers and received acclaim by critics and audiences alike, and is widely regarded as one of the best episodes of season six.
Plot
2007 (original timeline)
After being shot by Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) in the episode "Dead Is Dead", Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) awakens to discover that Charles Widmore (Alan Dale) has brought him back to the Island. Desmond attacks Charles, who tells him the Island is not done with him, and that unless Desmond helps him, everyone he loves will be gone forever. He has his team prepare an electro-magnetic test, which kills a team member in the path of the toroids as they set up. Desmond is bound to a chair and locked in with the toroids as the test is run. After Desmond survives the test, he agrees to help Charles. As Charles' team leads him away, they are ambushed by Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), who takes a willing Desmond away with him.
2004 (flash-sideways timeline)
Desmond arrives in Los Angeles at the behest of his employer, Charles Widmore. After helping the heavily pregnant Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin) to get her luggage, Desmond goes to Charles' office. Charles informs Desmond that his son Daniel Widmore (Jeremy Davies), a classical musician, has invited the rock band Drive Shaft to perform alongside him that evening. The band's bass guitarist, Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan), has been arrested for possessing drugs, and Charles requires Desmond to collect and deliver him to Daniel's event.
Upon their meeting, Charlie tells Desmond that he recently almost died after swallowing a bag of heroin (As seen in "LA X"), and in his near-death state experienced an intense, blissful vision in which he was with a blonde woman. He causes Desmond to crash his car into a nearby marina, and while Desmond attempts to rescue Charlie from the water, he too experiences a vision, seeing Charlie drowning with the words "Not Penny's Boat" written on his palm. The two are taken to a hospital, where Desmond has a short series of visions of Penny (Sonya Walger), a stranger to him, during an MRI test.
After discharging himself from the hospital, Desmond apologizes to Charles' wife Eloise Widmore (Fionnula Flanagan) for being unable to ensure the attendance of Drive Shaft. Nearby employees are discussing the guest-list for Daniel's concert, and Desmond hears the name Penny mentioned. Eloise refuses to let him see the list, and warns him off of pursuing his inquiries.
As Desmond prepares to leave, he is stopped by Daniel, who tells him that he recently saw a red-haired woman in a local museum that he strongly felt he already knew and loved. Daniel states that after the encounter, he made a series of notes in his journal which a mathematician friend has identified as advanced quantum mechanics, a topic he knows nothing about. Daniel shows his notes which contain a graph with imaginary time on one axis, and hypotheses that the world as he and Desmond are experiencing is not their correct path, and something massive, like a nuclear explosion, has altered their realities. Desmond questions Daniel as to whether he intends to set off a nuclear bomb, to which Daniel replies he believes he already has.
Daniel tells Desmond that Penny is his half-sister, and tells him where he can find her. Desmond locates Penny running the steps of an athletics stadium, and introduces himself. After shaking Penny's hand, Desmond passes out. When he awakens, he asks Penny out for coffee, an invitation which she accepts. As his driver George Minkowski (Fisher Stevens) takes him to their meeting point, Desmond asks him to acquire the flight manifest for Oceanic 815, the flight which brought him to Los Angeles. When Minkowski asks why he needs it, Desmond responds, "I just need to show them something".
Reception
"Happily Ever After" was met with critical acclaim. Review aggregate website Metacritic gave the episode a score of 93 out of 100, indicating "Universal Acclaim". The score was up on the previous week's score of 72. Emily VanDerWerff of Los Angeles Times gave the episode a perfect score, calling it "a sublime episode of television." Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly also rated "Happily Ever After" perfect, deeming it "the episode we’ve been waiting for all season." IGN's Chris Carabott stated "while not necessarily on the same level as "The Constant" or even "Flashes Before Your Eyes", "Happily Ever After" does deliver many game changing moments that will alter the way we view the alternate universe from this point forward." Overall, he gave the episode a rating of 9.5. James Poniewozik of Time also praised the episode, stating "I am finally fully confident that [the alternate universe] means something, and this leaves me feeling very good about the remaining episodes."
In its original American broadcast, "Happily Ever After" was viewed by 9.45 million viewers and received an 18-49 Nielsen Rating of 3.8 and a share of 8% ranking second in its timeslot after American Idol.
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"Happily Ever After" at ABC
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Mühlhausen () is a town in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen.
Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and became one of the most important cities in central Germany in the late Middle Ages. In the mid-13th century, it became a Freie Reichsstadt, an independent and republican self-ruled member of the Holy Roman Empire, controlling an area of approximately and 19 regional villages. Due to its long-distance trade, Mühlhausen was prosperous and influential with a population of 10,000 around 1500. Because it was spared from later destruction, Mühlhausen today has a great variety of historical buildings with one of the largest medieval city centres remaining in Germany, covering a surface of more than 50 hectares within the inner city wall and approximately 200 hectares overall. There are eleven Gothic churches, several patricians’ houses and a nearly completely preserved fortification.
Johann Sebastian Bach worked as the city's organist in 1707–08. The theologian Thomas Müntzer, a leading person in the German Peasants' War, gave sermons here and was executed outside the city walls. John A. Roebling, the constructor of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Friedrich August Stüler, an influential architect in mid-19th-century Prussia, were born in Mühlhausen.
Mühlhausen is within the Thuringian Basin, a flat and fertile area, on the Unstrut river on the eastern edge of the Hainich hills.
History
Middle Ages
According to legend, in the 5th century Attila stayed at "Burg Mulhus" as a guest of his Thuringii allies before moving on to the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.
Within the north-eastern parts of the city centre around St. George's Church, sizeable archaeological finds have been made, relating to a large settlement of the Thuringii/Francia period (from the 6th to the early 10th century), which can be seen as the origin of the later city. Mühlhausen itself was first mentioned in 967 was part of a territory given by Otto II to his wife Theophanu. It belonged to the ab initio, i.e. there was no territorial lord other than the German emperor and the area was not the emperor's own property, so that it did not go to his son after his death but reverted to his successor as emperor, even if he was from another family. The emperors had a in Mühlhausen, which they often visited from Otto III to Henry III during the 10th and 11th centuries. The election of Philip of Swabia in 1198 ended with a homage in Mühlhausen, attended by Walther von der Vogelweide.
In 1135, Mühlhausen was first referred to as a villa which can be seen as the beginning of the evolution from a settlement to a city. During the early 12th century, the "old town" was set up around the along the , an important trade route between the Kassel and the Erfurt regions. The fortifications were erected after 1170, eventually including 52 towers. In the early 13th century, the "new town" north of Schwemmnotte river followed with a regular grid around St. Mary's Church and with as main streets. The Teutonic Knights received St. Blaise's Church (Divi-Blasii) in 1227 and St. Mary's Church in 1243 from the emperor, which ensured them influence in the city and high revenues. The largest monastery of Mühlhausen was the 1227-founded at , a Magdalenians monastery. It held large estates in the region and its buildings were demolished in 1884. The Franciscans came to the city in 1225 and built their monastery around today's Corn Market Church and the Dominicans established a monastery in 1289 near ; their church was demolished after a fire in 1689, only some walls remained. Jews have lived in Mühlhausen at least since the late 13th century; the runs parallel to in the new town. During the Black Death Jewish persecutions in 1349, many Mühlhausen Jews were killed.
In the mid-13th century, the citizens emancipated more and more from the emperor's rule. For example, Conrad IV had to concede the established wall between the city and the (emperor's court) and later in the 13th century, the citizens destroyed the court. From 1251, Mühlhausen was referred to as a and became the second most powerful city in Thuringia after Erfurt. The "Mühlhausen Law Book" (1224) is the oldest book of law in the German language and regulated the law of the city. In 1308/09, Mühlhausen allied with Erfurt and Nordhausen against the Wettins, who tried to get these three major Thuringian cities under their rule. The alliance lasted nearly 200 years and was successful. After 1348, Mühlhausen did not have to pay any more taxes to the emperor, so that its independence was complete. The three cities pursued their own territorial policy (e.g. by buying castles) to protect their trade routes against robbery, which brought them constantly into conflict with local nobles. Another aspect of the territorial policy was buying land and villages around the city, making use of any opportunity that presented itself, for example if local rulers (counts, monasteries etc.) needed money. Mühlhausen bought 19 still existing and 43 later abandoned villages and an area of in this way, covering the north-western part of today's district Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis. The villages had to pay taxes to Mühlhausen and were secured by the Mühlhausen , a moat of length with several towers () to observe the region.
The economic heyday between the mid-13th and the early 16th century was a result of long-distance trade with textiles, woad and other goods. In 1286, Mühlhausen had joined the Hanseatic League. By the mid-15th century it was one of the largest cities in Germany.
Early modern period
The Reformation brought disturbances to Mühlhausen. The monk and peasant leader from Reifenstein Abbey preached at St. Mary's in February 1523 for the first time, followed by Thomas Müntzer in August 1524. Both had not only religious demands (they were members of the Anabaptist movement) but also political ones, aimed against the privileges of the magistracies and their oligarchic rule over the city. The city council was deposed and replaced by an "Eternal Council" (). During the German Peasants' War 1524/25, the city's monasteries were looted and the Bildersturm devastated the churches. After the emperor's army defeated the uprising, Müntzer, Pfeiffer and other leaders were executed. Müntzer's execution on 27 May 1525 took place right outside the city. Furthermore, the city had to pay a fine of 40,000 guilders to the empire and partially lost its independence, because the Hessians and both lines of the Wettins (Ernestines and Albertines) were appointed to control the city government. By contrast to these three rulers, Mühlhausen remained Catholic and became a secret member of the Nuremberg League, an alliance of catholic territories in the empire, founded in 1538. After the three rulers realized that in 1542, the Reformation was introduced by force in Mühlhausen by Justus Menius. The Schmalkaldic War resulted in the defeat of the Hessians and the Ernestines by the emperor in 1547 and partially returned the city's independence. In foreign policy it had to coordinate with the Albertines and it had to pay taxes to the empire. After 1710, Hanover was Mühlhausen's protecting power.
Johann Sebastian Bach was organist of the church Divi Blasii from 1707 until 1708. Among the works Bach composed while living in the town was an elaborate, festive cantata, Gott ist mein König, BWV 71, for the inauguration of the new council in 1708.
Internal dissensions and destruction caused during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) helped in bringing about Mühlhausen's decline. In addition, Leipzig's rise as a trade fair town and new long-distance trading routes like also contributed by decreasing the city's trade and damaging the finances of the city. The German mediatization led to the formal loss (that had de facto already occurred) of Mühlhausen's independence in 1803, as the city became part of Prussia. During the Napoleonic Wars it was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 until 1815, when it became part of Prussia again according to the decisions of the Congress of Vienna.
Since 1815
After 1815, Mühlhausen was part of the newly created Prussian Province of Saxony, where the Mühlhausen district was established. In 1831, the Mühlhausen-born civil engineer John A. Roebling, later constructor of the Brooklyn Bridge, emigrated to the United States. The era of industrialisation and urbanisation reached Mühlhausen relatively late, around 1870, when the city was connected to the railway by a line from Gotha to Leinefelde. In 1892, Mühlhausen became an independent city district. In 1898, the municipal power station was founded and the tramway network started its operation in Mühlhausen. Major industries were textiles and engineering.
Between 1910 and 1917, the provincial hospital of Pfafferode was built on the western edge of the city, one of the largest hospitals in the Prussian Province of Saxony. The Great Depression after 1929 hit Mühlhausen very hard and led to massive unemployment. In 1935, the Nazi armament campaign resulted in the building of a large military complex with several barracks with the deliberate side effect of boosting the city's weak economy. The synagogue was damaged during the Kristallnacht in November 1938, but as one of only a few in Germany, it was not completely destroyed and still stands today. At the Pfafferode hospital, nearly 2,000 patients were killed or died during the Nazi period (Action T4), most of them were mentally or physically disabled. From 1944 to March 1945, a women's forced labour camp was located directly outside Mühlhausen (a branch of the Buchenwald camp), producing arms. The women were deported in April 1945 to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The US Army arrived in Mühlhausen on 4 April 1945 and the city was handed over without a fight. On 5 July 1945, the Soviet Army took over the city, which became part of the GDR in 1949.
In 1975, the 450th obit of Thomas Müntzer, the city was officially renamed Thomas-Müntzer-Stadt Mühlhausen. Müntzer and the German Peasants' War received a lot of attention from the GDR government and East-German historians; they referred to it as Frühbürgerliche Revolution (early bourgeois revolution) and included it in their Marxist conception of history. Many exhibitions were set up (including some of the museums in Mühlhausen and the Bauernkriegspanorama near Bad Frankenhausen) and events celebrating the historical connection took place. After German reunification, the focus on Müntzer and the Peasants' War ended. The city name was changed back to plain "Mühlhausen" in 1991.
After reunification, many factories in Mühlhausen were closed, leading to another deep economic crisis with high unemployment rates during the 1990s and early 2000s. On the other hand, the city's architectural heritage was rediscovered and the restoration of the historic city centre began.
Geography and demographics
Topography
Mühlhausen is situated in the flat landscape of the Thuringian Basin, a very fertile area covering the northern centre of Thuringia at an elevation of approximately 215 metres above sea level. To the north and west, the terrain gets hilly, whereas to the south and east lie wide agricultural areas, much like most of the municipal territory itself. Furthermore, there are two forests within the territory: the Stadtwald (as part of the Hainich) in the west and the Mühlhäuser Hardt between the Windeberg district and Menteroda. Both are broadleaf forests with beeches prevalent. The Hainich hills south-west of Mühlhausen became Thuringia's only National Park in 1997 because of their old near-natural beech forests. The highest hills within the Mühlhausen terrain reach approximately 400 metres of elevation. The main river crossing the city in northwest–southeast direction is the Unstrut. Furthermore, there are many small tributaries running from the western hills through Mühlhausen to the Unstrut like the Schwemmnotte, which is dividing the inner city.
Germany's accurate geographical centre is located only south of the city in the neighbouring municipality of Niederdorla, where a monument can be found at this spot.
Climate
The average annual temperature in Mühlhausen is .
With an annual precipitation of only , the climate in Mühlhausen is relatively dry, compared to other regions in Germany.
Administrative division
Mühlhausen abuts the following municipalities (all of them are part of the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis): Anrode, Unstruttal and Menteroda in the north, Obermehler and Körner in the east, Vogtei in the south and Rodeberg in the west. In the direction of Ammern (part of Unstruttal) there is no interruption in the build-up area, the Ruhrstraße forms an urban municipal border here.
The city itself (in addition to the core town) includes the following villages (population as of March 2021):
The former municipality Weinbergen which consisted of the villages Bollstedt, Grabe, Höngeda, and Seebach was merged into Mühlhausen in January 2019. In January 2023 Mühlhausen absorbed the village Hollenbach from the former municipality Anrode.
Demographics
Mühlhausen had approximately 10,000 inhabitants during the late Middle Ages around 1500, which made it the second-largest number within today's Thuringia, after Erfurt, the current capital. The early modern period brought stagnation to the city, so that the population was still 10,000 around 1800. Mühlhausen fell back behind the new ducal residence cities like Weimar, Gotha or Altenburg in this period and lost its former importance. Furthermore, the traffic routes changed during the 19th century and Mühlhausen lost its good connections. Industrialization started later than in other German cities. Nevertheless, the population grew to 14,000 in 1850, 23,000 in 1880 and 35,000 in 1910, which was a significantly lower rate of growth than in other cities of comparable size during that period of rapid urbanisation in Germany. By 1940, the population had increased to 42,000 and with German refugees from eastern Europe, the peak was reached around 1950 with a population of 52,000. Since that time, the population has decreased to 43,000 in 1988, 39,000 in 2000 and 33,000 in 2012 (the statistical adjustment during the 2011 Census led to a loss of 3,000 persons).
The average decline in population between 2009 and 2012 was approximately 0.38% p.a, whereas the population in bordering rural regions has been shrinking with accelerating tendency. Suburbanization played only a small role in Mühlhausen. It occurred after the reunification for a short time in the 1990s, but most of the suburban areas were situated within the administrative city borders, others were Unstruttal and Weinbergen.
The birth deficit was 203 in 2012, this is −6.1 per 1,000 inhabitants (Thuringian average: -4.5; national average: -2.4). The net migration rate was +1.2 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2012 (Thuringian average: -0.8; national average: +4.6). The most important regions of origin of Mühlhausen migrants are rural areas of Thuringia as well as foreign countries like Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.
Like other eastern German cities, foreigners account for only a small share of Mühlhausen's population: circa 1.6% are non-Germans by citizenship and 4.2% overall are classified as migrants (according to the 2011 EU census). Differing from the national average, the largest groups of migrants in Mühlhausen are Russians and Ukrainians.
Due to the official atheism of the former GDR, most of the population is non-religious. 19.8% are members of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and 10.3% are Catholics (according to the 2011 EU census).
Culture, sights and cityscape
Museums
There are several museums in Mühlhausen:
The Müntzergedenkstätte inside St. Mary's Church was opened in 1975 and shows an exhibition about Thomas Müntzer and various other items of cultural history.
The Bauernkriegsmuseum inside the Corn Market Church shows an exhibition about the Bauernkrieg (German Peasants' War) and its importance for German history.
The Museumsgalerie inside the All Saints Church hosts some art exhibitions: a permanent one with Thuringian art of different epoques and temporary ones of modern art.
The Museum am Lindenbühl exhibits the municipal history of Mühlhausen and the regional history of north-western Thuringia including natural history and archaeology.
The Wehrgang is part of the medieval city wall, accessible next to the Frauentor gate. It gives access to a large stretch of the city walls and the towers.
Cityscape
The historic city centre of Mühlhausen consists of three parts. Within the inner city wall are the old town (south of Schwemmnotte river around Untermarkt and St. Blaise's Church) and the new town (north of Schwemmnotte river around Obermarkt and St. Mary's Church). The former suburbiums of Mühlhausen are situated between the inner and the outer city walls. Like the inner city, they are of medieval origin, but in contrast from the core, this area was overbuilt often during the city's later history and today shows a mixture of old and new buildings. Within the inner city walls, most buildings date back to the Middle Ages. In the late 19th and the 20th century, the city grew into all directions and a relatively low density of buildings is typical for Mühlhausen, so that the built-up area is very large in relation to the number of inhabitants.
Characteristic for Mühlhausen's buildings is the predominant use of one kind of material – Travertine. It was found near the city in large quantities and is both light and solid, so that the Gothic churches with their filigree masonries and other important buildings could be built relatively cheaply. Nevertheless, many older citizens' houses were half-timbered constructions, with only the ground-floors made of stone.
Sights and architectural heritage
Churches and synagogue
Mühlhausen is primarily known for its large number of intact Gothic churches:
Inside the inner city walls
St. Blaise's Church is the main church of the medieval Old Town at Untermarkt. It was built during the 13th century in early-Gothic style and is one of the most important 13th-century church buildings in Germany. It was first mentioned in 1227. The Teutonic Knights, owners of the church, had it expanded after 1270 using architects/builders from Maulbronn and Walkenried. Johann Sebastian Bach worked here in 1707–1708 as organist. Today, it is the main Lutheran parish church of Mühlhausen.
St. Mary's Church is the main church of the medieval New Town at Obermarkt. It was built in the early 14th century in high-Gothic style and is Thuringia's second-largest church after Erfurt Cathedral, sporting Thuringia's highest steeple (). In 1975, the church was deconsecrated and is used as a museum today.
All Saints Church at Steinweg was built in the late 13th century and has been a museum since 1989.
St. Anthony's Chapel at Holzstraße was built in the 13th century and is a hostel today.
Corn Market Church at Kornmarkt was built as a Franciscanian monastery c. 1250. The monastery was abandoned in 1568. In 1702–22 the church was redesigned in the baroque style. The last service was held here in 1802 after which the church became a warehouse. Since 1975 it has been used as a museum.
St. James's Church at Jakobistraße was built in the 14th century and hosts the city library today.
St. Kilian's Church at Kiliansgraben was built during the 14th/15th century and hosts a theatre today.
St. Peter and Paul's Church between Steinweg and Mönchgasse was the church of the Dominican monastery, built in the early 14th century and demolished after a fire in 1689. Today, there are only a few walls remaining.
Outside the inner city walls
St. George's Church at Sondershäuser Straße was built in the 14th century and is a Protestant parish church today.
St. Martin's Church at Kiliansgraben was built in the 14th century and is a Protestant parish church today.
St. Nicholas' Church at Bastmarkt is a Protestant parish church and was built in the early 14th century in Gothic style as the largest church outside the inner city walls.
St. Peter's Church at Petristeinweg was built between 1352 and 1356 and is a Protestant parish church today.
St. Boniface's Church at Blobach was built in 1851 in Gothic Revival style and hosts a Catholic kindergarten today.
St. Joseph's Church at Karl-Marx-Straße was built in 1903/04 in Gothic Revival style. Today, it is the Catholic parish church.
Synagogue
The Mühlhausen Synagogue at Jüdenstraße was first mentioned in 1380. Today's building is of younger origin: it was established in 1840/41 after the emancipation of the Jews in Prussia. The Synagogue was damaged during the pogrom of Kristallnacht in 1938, but it was one of only a few in Germany that survived the Nazi period and World War II. In 1998, it was reconsecrated and it is in use by the Jewish Community of Thuringia. It is also open for visitors.
Secular buildings
The inner city walls were built during the 12th century with a length of , a height of and a thickness of . They are mostly intact, with the exception of the most of the gates, laid down during the 19th century to improve traffic access. The only existing gates are the Frauentor in the west (inner and outer one), out of an original total of 23 gates. Next to the inner Frauentor stands the Rabenturm, which is accessible via the Wehrgang-Museum.
The Rathaus (town hall) at Ratsstraße is unusual, because it is not located in a square, not even on a main street but more inside a city block. It stretches across Ratsstraße with an arch. It was built after 1310 and several times expanded on until 1596.
The Brotlaube (bread storage) is a large building at Obermarkt, first mentioned in 1304 and rebuilt after a fire in 1689. It was the market hall of the bakers. The façade mainly dates to 1722.
The Order of the Teutonic Knights had two courts in Mühlhausen. The one in the old town at Untermarkt was rebuilt in 1720 and hosts the superintendenture today. The one in the new town next to St. Mary's Church was rebuilt during the 16th century. It was the residence of Thomas Müntzer and later the birthplace of Friedrich August Stüler.
The Pfafferode Hospital is a large hospital complex within a park, built between 1910 and 1917 at the western edge of the city and is a typical example of the early-20th-century sanatorium architecture in Germany.
The Brunnenhaus Popperode is a small Renaissance building in the south-western periphery of Mühlhausen, built in 1614. The well was first mentioned in 1199 as part of the Medieval city's water supply.
There are also many architecturally interesting citizens' and patricians' houses within the centre of Mühlhausen, especially along the Steinweg street and at the Untermarkt square.
Economy and infrastructure
During recent years, the economic situation of the city has improved: the unemployment rate in the Unstrut-Hainich district declined from 21% in 2005 to 10% in 2013 with higher rates in the city than in the bordering rural municipalities. Still, Mühlhausen itself has one of the highest unemployment rates in Thuringia.
Agriculture, industry and services
Agriculture still plays an important role in the Mühlhausen region today. Approximately 55% of the municipal territory is in agricultural use, mostly for growing cereals and vegetables. The region is a centre of the food industry in Germany, especially in the production of conserves like pickles, sauerkraut, apple sauce, cherries and other fruits and vegetables. A well-known product is the Mühlhäuser Pflaumenmus (Mühlhausian plum jam), which has been produced here since 1908.
Production of textiles, machines and electrical engineering were major manufacturing industries in Mühlhausen. Nevertheless, most factories were closed after German reunification in 1990. Since that time, Mühlhausen has had some problems finding a new economic core. Compared to other cities in Thuringia, the economic situation is relatively poor. In 2012, there were only 23 companies with more than 20 workers in the industrial sector, employing a total of 1,800 persons and generating an annual turnover of €314 million.
As district capital, Mühlhausen is a regional service hub in retail, health care, cinemas, education, government etc. One of the largest employers was the Bundeswehr, but the closure of the barracks in 2015 lead to a loss of more than 800 jobs in the city. Tourism does not play an important role yet, although the city has many historic sights and the Hainich National Park is only away. In 2012, there were 52,000 overnight visitors staying for a total of 118,000 nights in Mühlhausen.
Transport
Mühlhausen is connected to the railway by a station at the Gotha–Leinefelde line, opened in 1870. There are some regional express trains to Göttingen and to Zwickau/Glauchau (via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar, Jena and Gera) running every two hours and some local trains to Leinefelde and Erfurt (unlike the express via Kühnhausen), running every one to two hours. Former local railway connections to Sondershausen in the east and Treffurt in the west were discontinued.
Mühlhausen is the largest city in Thuringia without a direct connection to the Autobahn. The Bundesautobahn 4 near Eisenach is to the south and the Bundesautobahn 38 near Leinefelde is to the north. The connection to the city is via the Bundesstraße 247 (which is the most important route) to Leinefelde in the north and Bad Langensalza (with further connection to Erfurt and Gotha) in the south, the Bundesstraße 249 to Eschwege in the west and Sondershausen in the east and secondary roads to Bleicherode in the north, Eisenach in the south and Küllstedt in the north-west. Municipal traffic is mainly via the ring road along the inner city walls, where the load is high on the eastern side at Kiliansgraben. Therefore, a bypass road east around Mühlhausen is in planning to keep the transit traffic out of the city. This is part of a larger set of measures to improve the connections of Mühlhausen by extending the B 247 between Leinefelde, Mühlhausen and Bad Langensalza.
The next local airport is the Erfurt-Weimar Airport, approximately to the south-east and the next major airport is the Frankfurt Airport, approximately to the south-west.
Biking is getting more and more popular since the construction of quality cycle tracks began in the 1990s. The Unstrut Trail and the Unstrut-Werra Trail are long-distance biking trails. Both connect points of touristic interest, the former along the Unstrut river from the Eichsfeld north-west of Mühlhausen to the Saale river near Naumburg, the latter on an abandoned railway track through the Hainich hills from Mühlhausen to Treffurt in the Werra valley.
The Mühlhausen tramway network was established in 1898 and discontinued in 1969. Since that time, there has been a bus network for local transport within the city and to neighbouring communities.
Education
There are two Gymnasiums in Mühlhausen: one state-run and one Protestant. There was a school of education in Mühlhausen until 1990, when it was merged into the later University of Erfurt.
Politics
Mayor and city council
The first freely elected mayor after German reunification was Hans-Dieter Dörbaum, who served from 1990 to 2012. Since 2012, Johannes Bruns of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has been mayor. The most recent mayoral election was held on 15 April 2018, and the results were as follows:
! colspan=2| Candidate
! Party
! Votes
! %
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Johannes Bruns
| align=left| Social Democratic Party
| 6,917
| 62.7
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Ines Goldmann
| align=left| Christian Democratic Union
| 2,042
| 18.5
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Charlott Zitschke
| align=left| Independent
| 1,489
| 13.5
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Björn Kirchner
| align=left| Independent
| 576
| 5.2
|-
! colspan=3| Valid votes
! 11,024
! 98.6
|-
! colspan=3| Invalid votes
! 155
! 1.4
|-
! colspan=3| Total
! 11,179
! 100.0
|-
! colspan=3| Electorate/voter turnout
! 27,957
! 40.0
|-
| colspan=5| Source: Wahlen in Thüringen
|}
The most recent city council election was held on 26 May 2019, and the results were as follows:
! colspan=2| Party
! Lead candidate
! Votes
! %
! +/-
! Seats
! +/-
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
| align=left| Volker Bade
| 8,453
| 18.7
| 2.3
| 7
| ±0
|-
|
| align=left| Citizens' List for Mühlhausen
| align=left| Stefan Sippel
| 8,266
| 18.3
| 2.9
| 7
| 1
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Social Democratic Party (SPD)
| align=left| René Seyfert
| 7,158
| 15.8
| 12.5
| 6
| 4
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Alternative for Germany (AfD)
| align=left| Ronny Hermann Poppner
| 6,806
| 15.1
| New
| 5
| New
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| The Left (Die Linke)
| align=left| Steffen Thormann
| 5,504
| 12.2
| 6.6
| 4
| 3
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)
| align=left| Micha Hofmann
| 3,827
| 8.5
| 2.2
| 3
| 1
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Free Voters (FW)
| align=left| Thomas Ahke
| 3,678
| 8.1
| New
| 3
| New
|-
| bgcolor=|
| align=left| Free Democratic Party (FDP)
| align=left| Bastian Boelecke
| 1,527
| 3.4
| 0.9
| 1
| 1
|-
! colspan=3| Valid votes
! 15,206
! 97.6
!
!
!
|-
! colspan=3| Invalid votes
! 373
! 2.4
!
!
!
|-
! colspan=3| Total
! 15,579
! 100.0
!
! 36
! ±0
|-
! colspan=3| Electorate/voter turnout
! 30,268
! 51.5
! 10.7
!
!
|-
| colspan=8| Source: Wahlen in Thüringen
|}
Twin towns – sister cities
Mühlhausen is twinned with:
Tourcoing, France
Eschwege, Germany
Münster, Germany
Kronstadt, Russia
Saxonburg, United States
Notable people
Yom-Tov Lipmann-Muhlhausen (? – after 1420), 14th century Talmudist
Joachim von Burck (1546–1610), composer
Johannes Eccard (1553–1611), composer and kapellmeister
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769–1857), scientist, doctor, draftsman and member of the first Russian sailing expedition around the world
John Adolphus Etzler (1791–1846?), American author, socialist theorist
Friedrich August Stüler (1800–1865), architect
John (Johann) August Roebling (1806–1869), civil engineer famous for the design of the Brooklyn Bridge
Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816–1853), botanist
(1807–1878), composer
(1811–1886), composer
Paul Mankiewitz (1857–1924), bank manager
(1926–1994), author
Werner Leich (1927–2022), Lutheran bishop
References
External links
Official city website
District website
National Park Hainich
Thuringia Tourism
Free imperial cities
Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
Members of the Hanseatic League
Holocaust locations in Germany |
Yambes is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea spoken mostly by older adults. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Ross (2005).
It is spoken in Yambes village () of Dreikikier Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.
References
Torricelli languages
Languages of East Sepik Province |
Piper sanctum is a plant in the family Piperaceae, endemic to Central America.
Synonyms
Artanthe sancta Miq.
Piper diandrum C.DC.
Piper dissimulans Trel.
Piper heterophlebium Trel.
Piper papantlense C.DC.
Piper venulosum Trel.
References
Prodr. 16(1) 330 1869.
The Plant List
Encyclopedia of Life
sanctum
Taxa named by William Trelease
Flora of Central America |
Caroline Jorge Magalhães (born 29 November 2005) is a Luxembourger footballer who plays as a midfielder for Standard Liège and the Luxembourg women's national team.
International career
Jorge made her senior debut for Luxembourg on 11 April 2021 during a 2–1 friendly win against Liechtenstein.
International goals
References
2005 births
Living people
Women's association football midfielders
Luxembourgian women's footballers
Luxembourg women's international footballers
Luxembourgian people of Portuguese descent |
The term gluteome is used to describe the entire set of all gluten-like proteins in grains, which consumption causes occurrence of clinical manifestations in celiac patients. These proteins include gliadins and glutenins from wheat, secalins from rye, hordeins from barley, avenins from oats and potentially homologues from other related grain species. Since not all grain storage proteins have been identified yet, the term gluteome often refers to the complete set of the known sequences of gluten and gluten-like molecules.
Alternatively, the word gluteome can depict the entire complement of grain-storage proteins in a single grain species at a given time.
The discipline of science dedicated to study gluteome is referred to as gluteomics.
Gluten |
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The molecular formula C6H5N3 (molar mass: 119.12 g/mol) may refer to:
Benzotriazole (BTA)
Phenyl azide
Pyrazolopyrimidine |
Miyamoto-cho is a pseudonymous neighborhood in Tokyo, the subject of an ethnographic study of urban life in the late 1970s and early 1980s undertaken by the anthropologist Theodore C. Bestor in his book and film, both titled Neighborhood Tokyo. It is most likely the area of Shimo-shimmei and Futaba in Shinagawa Ward. Both names can be seen in the opening of the film.
See also
Shitayama-cho, Tokyo
Neighborhoods of Tokyo
References |
Raymond K. Johnson (1901–1999) was an American cinematographer and film director. He directed more than twenty films, mainly low budget westerns, for Poverty Row studios such as Monogram Pictures.
After service in World War II Johnson joined camera unit at MGM's Hollywood studio, which he eventually came to head the department.
Filmography
North of Nome (1925)
All Faces West (1929)
Kentucky Blue Streak (1935)
Skybound (1935)
Suicide Squad (1935)
The Reckless Way (1936)
I'll Name the Murderer (1936)
Special Agent K-7 (1937)
Daughter of the Tong (1939)
Code of the Fearless (1939)
Fangs of the Wild (1939)
Two Gun Troubador (1939)
In Old Montana (1939)
Law of the Wolf (1939)
Ridin' the Trail (1940)
Covered Wagon Trails (1940)
Pinto Canyon (1940)
Land of the Six Guns (1940)
The Kid from Santa Fe (1940)
Riders from Nowhere (1940)
Wild Horse Range (1940)
The Cheyenne Kid (1940)
References
Bibliography
Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
1901 births
1999 deaths
American film directors
People from North Dakota
American cinematographers |
The AltRight Corporation is an alt-right organization based in Alexandria, Virginia. It began operations in January 2017, and runs the website "altright.com". The site claims to feature "the best writers and analysts" of the alt-right, and lists three founders: Daniel Friberg, Jason Jorjani, and Richard Spencer. Because of the involvement of Friberg and Spencer, the creation of the corporation has been described as "merger of the National Policy Institute, run by American white supremacist Richard Spencer, and Arktos Media, an antisemitic Scandinavian media platform." At the time of its formation, it was reported that the corporation had been created in partnership with far-right groups from Sweden. The organization's purpose was reported by NBC News to be to "unite global factions of the so-called alt-right", but it has also been described as intended to create a "more ideological Breitbart [News]".
The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the AltRight Corporation to be a hate group.
Departures
In September 2017, AltRight Corporation co-founder Jason Jorjani claimed that in 2016, funders "very close" to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, had offered him funding to "infiltrate" the alt-right, with the intention of convincing its leaders to drop their white nationalism rhetoric, and move away from race-based politics, and this is the reason he affiliated himself with Spencer and the alt-right.
Once the AltRightCorporation was founded, after spending months making speeches on behalf of the alt-right and public appearances with Richard Spencer, Jorjani said that influencing the movement was more difficult than he had thought it would be. He resigned from the AltRight Corporation in August 2017, shortly after the violence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jorjani has since written the one of the reasons for his leaving was that he "watched the corporation that was my brainchild turn into a magnet for white trash." He also said that Richard Spencer is "smart in the sense of the word 'smartass.'" and that Spencer had "pretty much destroyed the alt-right brand" by his emphasis on race and "all kinds of other stupidity."
In 2018 Arktos Media, which was co-founded Friberg, announced that it had also departed from the AltRight Corporation. With the departures of Jorjani and Friberg, Richard Spencer was the only co-founder left at the corporation.
In August 2018, Greg Conte, a close ally of Spencer, resigned from multiple Spencer-related positions he held, including one at the AltRight Corporation.
See also
National Policy Institute
References
Alt-right organizations
Companies based in Alexandria, Virginia
2017 establishments in Virginia |
Sherekinsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Maritsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Lgovsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population:
Geography
The settlement is located 57.5 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 63.5 km west of Kursk, 9 km north of the district center – the town Lgov, 2 km from the selsoviet center – Maritsa.
Climate
Sherekinsky has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).
Transport
Sherekinsky is located 12 km from the road of regional importance (Kursk – Lgov – Rylsk – border with Ukraine) as part of the European route E38, on the road (Lgov – Konyshyovka), 1 km from the nearest (closed) railway halt 575 km (railway line Navlya – Lgov-Kiyevsky).
The rural locality is situated 70 km from Kursk Vostochny Airport, 151 km from Belgorod International Airport and 273 km from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.
References
Notes
Sources
Rural localities in Lgovsky District |
Computer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the AGH University of Science and Technology (Kraków Poland) and edited by faculty members of the Departments of Computer Science and Automatics. The journal was established in 1999 and since beginning of 2012 is published quarterly. The editor-in-chief is Jacek Kitowski.
Scope
The journal publishes articles covering all aspects of theoretical and applied computer science problems.
Special issues
Occasionally the journal will publish special issues containing articles based on presentations at selected conferences.
Scoring by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Scoring assigned by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, as one of important factors used to evaluate research facilities in Poland, had following
values for Computer Science journal:
7.0 (from 2012)
6.0 (2011),
2.0 (2010 and before).
References
External links
Computer science journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1999 |
Bristol Boys is a 2006 film written and directed by Brandon David. Shot in Bristol, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts, the film is based on one of biggest drug busts of Connecticut's Statewide Narcotics Task Force, including the arrest of David's longtime friend Kevin Toolen in 2001. Will Janowitz and Max Casella of The Sopranos fame star in the film, as do Dean Winters and David Zayas from Oz.
Plot
The story revolves around Michael "Little Man" McCarthy and the rise and fall of marijuana dealers from Bristol, Connecticut. "The film is about a group of working-class guys trying to get ahead by selling drugs," said David, "and the value system they try to live by."
Inspiration
Director/writer Brandon David based the movie on the events leading up to and following a months-long investigation by the Statewide Narcotics Task Force which resulted in the arrest of 21 people from Bristol, Plymouth, Southington, and Thomaston. David's friends Kevin Toolen and Miguel Rivera were arrested in the bust. David says he hoped to write on the experiences of his friends and himself while transporting marijuana with Toolen cross country.
Several aspects of the movie are taken directly from the real life events, such as "Little Man" being ratted out by a trusted friend. "It is a shocking fact that a good friend of Kevin's was a DEA informant," David said, which was another motivation to make the movie. David did take creative license on some realities, such as making "Little Man's" mother addicted to OxyContin and dying of an overdose. Toolen's mother died in 2000 but had been suffering from leukemia. Also, the police informant's death in the movie is fiction. "There was no murder, but if I were the guy that ratted everybody out, I'd be concerned," said David.
David denies the movie is an attack on Bristol. "The biggest message I want to get out is I didn't make a movie about Bristol. I made a movie about something that happened to people I know," he said. However, he openly criticizes Bristol, calling it an "industrial wasteland."
References
External links
2006 films
2006 crime drama films
Films set in Connecticut
American crime drama films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
The MLS Cup ring is an award in Major League Soccer given to the winners of the league's annual championship game, the MLS Cup. Since only one Philip F. Anschutz Trophy is awarded to the team (ownership) itself, the MLS Cup ring offers a collectible memento for the players and team management to keep for themselves to symbolize and recognize their victory. Awarding a ring is traditional in sports in North America, as opposed to the majority of the world where a medal would be award to each individual team member.
Details
These rings are typically made of silver or white gold with diamonds. They usually include the team name, crest, and MLS Cup winning year. Normally the rings are manufactured by Jostens, a sports memorabilia company, although the 2017 rings were made by Baron Jewelry.
Value and resale
Replicas and copies of MLS rings are seen as valuable to sports memorabilia and soccer communities. The 2015 MLS Cup ring awarded to the Portland Timbers had a special Timbers Army ring that sold for $5,000.
Most MLS Cup rings
See also
Championship ring
NBA Championship ring
Stanley Cup ring
World Series ring
References
Championship rings
Championship ring
Championship ring |
Koty-Rybno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grajewo, within Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.
References
Koty-Rybno |
Joyita Mondal is the first Bengali trans woman who was a member of a judicial panel of a civil court and a social worker from West Bengal, India.
Early life
Mondal comes from a traditional Hindu household and suffered a lot of discrimination in her childhood because of her gender identity. She dropped out of school after class 10th. After, she slept at bus stands and begged on streets.
She moved to Islampur in Uttar Dinajpur district and worked for the upliftment of the transgender community. Simultaneously, she also completed her studies through correspondence and got a degree in law. In 2010, she was the first trans person from her district to get a voter ID.
Mondal also started her own organisation, Dinajpur Notun Alo (Dinajpur New Light), that is currently reaching out to and helping thousands of people in her district.
Career
Mondal is a member of the transgender community of West Bengal and works for the welfare and development of the community. In 2015, Mondal was involved with others in setting up a home for older people who were HIV positive and forming patients' welfare committees.
On July 8, 2017, 29-year old Mondal became the first transgender judge of a Lok Adalat from West Bengal, India. She attended office as judge of a Lok Adalat at Islampur in the North Dinajpur, where some of her first cases involved the recovery of loans made by banks.
References
Living people
Transgender rights activists
Indian LGBT rights activists
21st-century Indian judges
Indian transgender people
Transgender women
Scholars from West Bengal
Year of birth missing (living people)
Activists from West Bengal |
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) is a National Cancer Institute NCI-designated Cancer Center, founded in 1911 and located at NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP/CUIMC).
The HICCC has more than 250 faculty members, 12 core facilities, and eight research programs within three divisions.
Research
There are eight research programs at HICCC divided into three divisions. The basic research division includes programs in cancer regulatory networks and cancer genetics and epigenetics. Programs in the disease-specific division focus on breast cancer, hematological cancer, prostate cancer, and neuro-oncology. The population science division includes cancer epidemiology and prevention, control, and disparities.
The center is currently receiving over $33 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Patient Care
Patients are treated at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia. HICCC physicians treat more than 3,500 patients annually. There are over 200 clinical trials available to patients.
History
First opened in 1911 as the Institute for Cancer Research, it soon moved to its current location at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. HICC received its NCI designation in 1972, being promoted to comprehensive status in 1979.
After a 1998 merger, the campus name was changed to Columbia University Medical Center, remaining an academic medical center and becoming the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
In 2017, Herbert and Florence Irving gave a transformative $700 million gift to Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian to dramatically advance research and clinical programs for the treatment of cancer. In recognition of a lifetime of philanthropy, the Hospital and the University jointly renamed the campus to its current name, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
HICCC was previously led by Stephen G. Emerson, and the current director is Anil K Rustgi, MD, with Gary Schwartz as the deputy director.
Notable faculty
Stephen G. Emerson – director of the institute, researches stem cells transplants
I. Bernard Weinstein – professor of genetics and public health, credited with developing the field of molecular epidemiology
Siddhartha Mukherjee – professor of medicine, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, researches hematopoietic stem cells
References
External links
NCI-designated cancer centers
Hospitals in New York (state)
Columbia University
1911 establishments in New York City |
Citizens of the Universe, also referred to as 'COTU', is a guerrilla theatre specializing in 'found space' performances and is currently headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. There are branches of COTU also located in Orlando, Florida, Baltimore, Maryland, and Greenville, South Carolina.
COTU was founded in 2001 by James Cartee and Andrew Bryant in Greenville, South Carolina with core artist Dan A. R. Kelly, Jason Bryant and Traysie Amick. COTU's work ranges from original works and foreign language pieces to classics with a recent focus on films that have been adapted for stage.
In 2004, the group's production of Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business was banned from playing at Greenville Technical College.
In 2010, COTU adapted a business model where all showings became a suggested donation. This decision was made so that their work would be able to be available to anyone at any time.
Current core artists
James Cartee, Sam McCue, Tom Ollis, Courtney Varnum, and Bret Kimbrough
Show history
Ives in the Back of My Head (2001). A collection of David Ives one acts performed at the Handlebar in Greenville, SC
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (2002). performed at the Handlebar in Greenville, SC
The Tragedy (2003). An original piece by Dan A. R. Kelly that was taken to competition at the South Carolina Theatre Conference. Traysie Amick was given 'Best Actress' for her performance in the piece.
Equus (2004). Performed in a horse stable located in Cleveland Park in downtown Greenville, SC.
The Creation of the World and Other Business (2004). This show was banned by the President of Greenville Technical College where the show was being performed due to complaints from the community of Bob Jones University. COTU was performing the Equus show simultaneously with this production.
3/24: A 24 Hour Theatre Project (2005)
The Tragedy (2005). Performed at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park.
Trainspotting (2008). Performed at the World Famous Milestone Club in Charlotte, NC
Night of the Living Dead (2008). A 'Zombiewalk' was organized and timed to end in the parking lot of the performance space as the show ended
Fight Club (2009). Performed in a parking lot with lighting and sound elements provided by vehicles
Reservoir Dogs (2010). Performed in a warehouse in Charlotte, NC, this production won a Metrolina Theatre Association Award for Outstanding Special Technical Effect (Amanda Liles and Rebecca Brown) and Outstanding Supporting Actor (Tom Ollis). James Cartee won a 'Best Director' and Berry Newkirk won a 'Newcomer of the Year' (for Mr. Orange) Perry Award for their work.
Uncle Vanya (2010) James Cartee won a 'Best Costume Designer in a Comedy' and Annette Saunders won a 'Best Supporting Actress'(for Yelena Serebryakov) Perry Award for their work on Uncle Vanya.
Trainspotting (2010). James Cartee won a 'Best Director' Perry Award for his work.
GONZO: A Brutal Chrysalis (2009–2014). In 2010, GONZO was performed for a fund raising event for Shakespeare Carolina.
The Princess Bride (2011) Performed in an 80's dance club in uptown Charlotte, NC. This production won a MTA award for 'Best use of Space' in a comedy category.
Love Conquers All: A Quiet Evening with Sid & Nancy (2011). This is an original piece written by James Cartee. This production won MTA awards for 'Best Actor'(Berry Newkirk), 'Outstanding Director'(Nick Iammatteo), 'Outstanding Production', and 'Outstanding Supporting Actor-Male' (Tom Moody).
GONZO: A Brutal Chrysalis (2009–2014). In 2011, GONZO was performed for a full run at 'The Mill' in Charlotte, NC.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (2012). This show was directed again by James Cartee at the Chop Shop (NODA), a musical venue in Charlotte, NC.
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (2012). Performed in two music venues with two cast and live music in Charlotte, NC: the Chop Shop and Petra's Piano Bar.
GONZO: A Brutal Chrysalis (2009–2014). In 2011, GONZO was performed for a limited run at 'The Roux' in Charlotte, NC. After adding a multimedia element designed by the 'Holographic Biscuit' (aka, Adam Parrish), the show was performed at the New Orleans Fringe Festival. The performance took place at the St. Roch Tavern.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2013). Performed at a bar called the WineUp in Charlotte, NC's NODA district. This multimedia world premiere featured blocking that involved the audience seated on rotating chairs in the center of the action.
Titus Andronicus (2013) Jennifer Quigley directed this bloody Shakespeare piece on the back deck of the bar/ band venue, Snug Harbor (Charlotte, NC- Plaza Midwood).
The Queen City Fringe Festival (2013) COTU helped coordinate a fringe festival that occurred throughout several neighborhood in East Charlotte. It utilized 26 venues and had 110 performers. The Festival reoccurs every odd numbered year.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2014). Performed at the UpStage in Charlotte, NC's NODA district. This was a repeat performance from the previous year with only the two main leads returning and a larger budget.
The Big Lebowski (2014). Performed at the UpStage in Charlotte, NC's NODA district and Directed by James Cartee. This version offered a re-imagined dance version of 'Gutterballs'.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (2014). Performed at the UpStage in Charlotte, NC's NODA district and Directed by Megan Sky. This version offered a modern Commedia take with 16 original masks. Starring David Pollack, Amanda Liles, and Farrel Paules.
The Night of the Iguana (2014) Performed at the UpStage in Charlotte, NC's NODA district and Directed by Megan Sky. This version offered a set design of pallet walls. Starring Stephenie DiPaulo, Brian Willard, Nancy Gaines.
The Carolina Arts and Theatre Awards.(2014) COTU threw a Charlotte area arts awards. Performers included: Jill O'Neill, Johnny Millwater, Caroline Calouche, Mark Doepker, Alison Foster Johnson, William Jacobs, and Deana Pendragon as host with Megan Sky.
The End of the World Sampler Platter.(2014) This was a presentation of original works with the theme "...the end of the world". 14 plays were selected and 9 were produced.
A Disturbance in Whitechapel.(2014) An original walking, environmental show by James Cartee. The play took place on one city block of N. Davidson between 36th st. and 35th. The show found back alleys, shops, and bars to present a mystery loosely based on the Jack the Ripper killings. This show featured five possible endings that were determined by a card game amongst the killers at the beginning of the show.
T.V. Funhouse.(2014) An satirization of a block Saturday TV programming written by James Cartee.
Everybody Comes to Rick's (2015). Performed in monochrome body paint at the UpStage performance space.
1984.(2015) Dramatic Publishing's version of George Orwell's book, directed by Michael Anderson. This was the first show in COTU lineup of 'First Directors' programming. This was performed at the SEEDS flexspace.
GONZO: Fear & Loathing (2015) This is a sequel to Paul Addis' "GONZO: A Brutal Chrysalis." After discovering Addis had committed suicide by jumping in front of a BART train in San Francisco, Cartee decided to write two more sequels based on the life of Hunter S. Thompson.
Durang vs. Ives: The New Director's Night (2015) This was the third showing for 'First Directors'. This featured five David Ives pieces from 'All in the Timing' as well as Christopher Durang's 'The Actor's Nightmare'. This was performed at the SEEDS flexspace.
The Rocky Horror Show (2015) This was the fourth showing for 'First Directors'. Richard O'Brien's musical was performed at the SEEDS flexspace and directed by Avalon Rose.
The Lion in Winter (2015) Directed by James Cartee. This was performed at the SEEDS flexspace and ran at the same time as COTU's Beowulf.
Beowulf (2015) Directed by Megan Sky. This was an original, collaborative script performed at the Duke Energy Theater and ran at the same time as COTU's The Lion in Winter.
An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein (2015) Multiple directors. Performed at SEEDS flexspace.
Carolina Arts & Theatre Awards (2015)
A Disturbance in Whitechapel: The Ripper Returns (2015) Directed by Megan Sky. This was an original script by James Cartee featuring two storylines running simultaneously and five different ending from the previous year. This show ran once again in the NoDa Arts district.
Nosferatu: A Silent Experience (2015) Directed by James Cartee. This was an original script by James Cartee-based on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's 1922 classic. This show had one speaking part, with projected lines on the side of a building where it was performed – Salved Beauty NoDa.
The Woolgatherer (2015) Directed by David Pollack. William Mastrosimone's two person piece was performed at the former Carolina Actor's Studio Theatre space that had been shut down and abandoned for two years.
Seascape (2016) Directed by Stan Lee. Edward Albee's piece was performed at the former Carolina Actor's Studio Theatre space that had been shut down and abandoned for three years. The set consisted of draped canvas with sand over platforms to simulate dunes. Full body makeup was used on the actors portraying the lizards provided by Kenya Davis.
GONZO: A Brutal Chrysalis (2016) Directed by Tom Ollis. This piece was performed at two points during the year when two other original showings had fallen through (The Adventures of Mr. Marshall in Space and The Man in the Iron Mask) for various reasons. The first showing took place at the Barn located on Central Ave. in Charlotte, NC. A space connected to a business by the name of Pure Pizza who had just a couple of months beforehand been the catalyst for the HB2 "bathroom bill". The second showing was at the Duke Energy Theater. This was announced to be the last showing of this version of the show starring James Cartee in Charlotte. Unlike all previous versions, which utilized simple showings in found spaces or bars, this had a full theatre setting and lighting.
O'Brother Where Art Thou (2016) Directed by Courtney Varnum and James Cartee. This adaption of the Cohen Brother's film (itself an adaption of The Odyssey by Homer) was performed outside at NoDa Brewery.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2016) Directed by James Cartee. This adaptation of Douglas Adams' piece was performed at the Unknown Brewery.
Trainspotting (2023). James Cartee directs, at two venues in Lake Worth Beach, FL: Mustic Roots Kava and a shuttered burger restaurant.
References
External links
COTU's official website
COTU webpage with all current and former members
Theatre companies in Charlotte, North Carolina
2001 establishments in the United States
Regional theatre in the United States |
.sol can refer to:
sol (format), a file format for presenting solutions of mathematical programming problems
Local shared object
Solidity .sol source file for smart contracts that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine |
The Oahu elepaio (Chasiempis ibidis) is a monarch flycatcher found on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu.
Taxonomy and systematics
The Oahu elepaio was formerly considered as a subspecies of the Hawaii elepaio until reclassified as a separate species in 2010.
Description
This species looks very similar to the Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, but the white underside extends to the flanks and further up the breast, and the upperside - especially the head - is more rust-colored.
Threats
Avian malaria and fowlpox are widespread in the population and although it appears to have weathered the worst of it, it is threatened by a combination of these diseases and predation of nestlings, eggs and adult females by rats. In areas where rats are controlled, survival and nest success are higher.
Status
It is now restricted to an area of 47 square kilometers (18 sq mi) in the Koʻolau and Waiʻanae ranges, where a fragmented population of 1,200-1,400 birds occurs. It is listed as endangered. Recently completed surveys of populations in the Koʻolau range have unexpectedly revealed that the population has largely remained stable since surveys conducted in the 1990s. However, only about 20 individuals are left on the windward side of the Koʻolau range, with some valleys containing only a single elepaio. Without intervention, this population faces extirpation in the near future due to small population phenomena.
References
Conant, S. (1977): The breeding biology of the Oahu Elepaio. Wilson Bull. 89(2): 193–210. DjVu fulltext PDF fulltext
VanderWerf, Eric A.; Rohrer, Joby L.; Smith, David G. & Burt, Matthew D. (2001): Current distribution and abundance of the Oahu Elepaio. Wilson Bull. 113(1): 10–16. DOI:10.1676/0043-5643(2001)113[0010:CDAAOT]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
VanderWerf, Eric A.; Burt, Matthew D.; Rohrer, Joby L. & Mosher, Stephen M. (2006): Distribution and prevalence of mosquito-borne diseases in Oahu Elepaio [English with Spanish abstract]. Condor 108(4): 770–777. DOI:10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[770:DAPOMD]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
External links
Species Factsheet - BirdLife International
Chasiempis
Endemic birds of Hawaii
Biota of Oahu
Endangered fauna of Hawaii
Birds described in 1887
ESA endangered species |
Kam Zard (; also known as Kamar Zard) is a village in Dehrud Rural District, Eram District, Dashtestan County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 145, in 29 families.
References
Populated places in Dashtestan County |
The 2022 Wake Forest Demon Deacons women's soccer team represented Wake Forest University during the 2022 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The Demon Deacons were led by head coach Tony Da Luz, in his twenty-sixth season. They played their home games at Spry Stadium. This was the team's 28th season playing organized women's college soccer, all of which have been played in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Demon Deacons finished the season 9–7–3 overall and 3–6–1 in ACC ACC play to finish in ninth place. They were not invited to the ACC Tournament, but did receive an at-large invitation to the NCAA Tournament. As an unseeded team in the Alabama Bracket, they had a First Round match at , which they lost 2–0 to end their season.
Previous season
The Demon Deacons finished the season 16–6–0 overall, and 6–4–0 in ACC play to finish in sixth place. As the sixth seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Duke in the First Round before losing in overtime to eventual champions Florida State in the Semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. As an unseeded team, they defeated Harvard in the First Round before losing to Michigan in the Second Round to end their season.
Offseason
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2023 NWSL Draft
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Grand Central Terminal, a train station in Manhattan, New York City, has been the subject, inspiration, or setting for literature, television and radio episodes, and films.
Film and television
Many film and television productions have included scenes shot in the terminal. The MTA hosts about 25 large-scale and hundreds of smaller or amateur productions every year. Kyle McCarthy, who handles production at Grand Central, said, "Grand Central is one of the quintessential New York places. Whether filmmakers need an establishing shot of arriving in New York or transportation scenes, the restored landmark building is visually appealing and authentic." Especially during World War II, Grand Central has been a backdrop for romantic reunions between couples. After the terminal declined in the 1950s, it was more frequently used as a dark, dangerous place, even a metaphor for chaos and disorientation, featuring chase scenes, shootouts, homeless people, and the mentally ill. In the 1990 film The Freshman, for example, Matthew Broderick's character stumbles over an unconscious man and watches fearfully as petty crimes take place around him.
Almost every scene filmed in the terminal's train shed was shot on Track 34, one of the few areas without view-blocking structural columns.
The first filmed scene in which Grand Central Terminal appears may be the 1909 short comedy Mr. Jones Has a Card Party, while still under construction. The terminal's first cinematic appearance was in the 1930 musical film Puttin' On the Ritz, and its first Technicolor appearance was in the 1953 film The Band Wagon. Some films from the 20th century, including Grand Central Murder, The Thin Man Goes Home, Hello, Dolly!, and Beneath the Planet of the Apes used reconstructions of Grand Central, built in Hollywood, to stand in for the terminal. The Bollywood film Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna uses other American train stations standing in for Grand Central. Additionally, the terminal was drawn and animated for use in the animated films Madagascar (2005) and Wreck-It Ralph (2012).
Other films in which the terminal appears include:
The Breakdown (1912)
Going Hollywood (1933)
Hold Your Man (1933)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Spellbound (1945)
The Clock (1945)
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
North by Northwest (1959)
Seconds (1966)
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
The French Connection (1971)
Necrology (1971)
Superman (1978)
A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Escape from the Bronx (1983)
Falling in Love (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Chronos (1985)
Midnight Run (1988)
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Großer Bahnhof (1990)
Loose Cannons (1990)
The Fisher King (1991)
The Prince of Tides (1991)
Baraka (1992)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Hackers (1995)
One Fine Day (1996)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Armageddon (1998)
Godzilla (1998)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Men in Black II (2002)
I Am Legend (2007)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Arthur (2011)
Friends with Benefits (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
The Girl on the Train (2016)
The Commuter (2018)
John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019)
Notable documentaries about the terminal include Grand Central, a 1982 film narrated by James Earl Jones and featuring Philip Johnson and Ed Koch.
On October 19, 2017, several of these films were screened in the terminal for an event created by the MTA, Rooftop Films, and the Museum of the Moving Image. The event featured a cinematic history lecture by architect and author James Sanders.
Grand Central Terminal's architecture, including its Main Concourse clock, are depicted on the stage of Saturday Night Live, a long-running NBC television show. Warren and Wetmore designed The soundstage reconstruction of the terminal in Studio 8H was first installed in 2003.
Literature
Literature featuring the terminal includes Report on Grand Central Terminal, written in 1948 by nuclear physicist Leo Szilard; The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger; The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; Grand Central Murder by Sue MacVeigh, which was made into the eponymous film in 1942; A Stranger Is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark; and the 1946 children's classic The Taxi That Hurried by Lucy Sprague Mitchell. The infrastructure in Grand Central inspired the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and in turn, the film Hugo. The dangerous life of homeless men and women in Grand Central and its tunnels and passageways inspired Lee Stringer's Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street and Tina S.'s collaboration with journalist Jamie Pastor Bolnick in the autobiography Living at the Edge of the World: A Teenager's Survival in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station.
Art
Other works
Grand Central Station, an NBC radio drama set at the terminal, ran from 1937 to 1953. Among the video games that feature the terminal are Marvel's Spider-Man, True Crime: New York City, and Tom Clancy's The Division.
A Lego replica of the terminal is situated in Miniland USA, an exhibit at Legoland California. The cutaway model shows elaborate interior details of the station building.
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Notes
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Grand Central Terminal |
Du Bois( ) is a village in the southeast corner of Pawnee County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 124 at the 2020 census.
History
Du Bois was platted in 1886 when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Captain Charles J. DuBois, a railroad official.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 147 people, 66 households, and 39 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 84 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 92.5% White, 4.1% from other races, and 3.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.1% of the population.
There were 66 households, of which 25.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.5% were married couples living together, 3.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 40.9% were non-families. 34.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.92.
The median age in the village was 49.2 years. 21.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 2.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19.7% were from 25 to 44; 29.9% were from 45 to 64; and 25.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 53.7% male and 46.3% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 166 people, 76 households, and 44 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 87 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 98.19% White, and 1.81% from two or more races.
There were 76 households, out of which 21.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% were married couples living together, 5.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.1% were non-families. 35.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.89.
In the village, the population was spread out, with 22.3% under the age of 18, 2.4% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 26.5% from 45 to 64, and 24.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.5 males.
As of 2000 the median income for a household in the village was $26,250, and the median income for a family was $33,125. Males had a median income of $23,000 versus $14,375 for females. The per capita income for the village was $10,335. About 6.1% of families and 11.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.8% of those under the age of eighteen and 25.9% of those 65 or over.
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Villages in Pawnee County, Nebraska
Villages in Nebraska |
Hillsboro High School (HHS) is a coed public high school located in Hillsboro, Illinois, the county seat of Montgomery County, Illinois, in the United States. HHS is part of the Hillsboro Community Unit School District 3.
History
In 1920, it was determined that the existing city high school on Fairground Ave. was no longer acceptable. After reorganizing the school's district, the decision was made to build a new school. The contract for the building designed by architect J. W. Kennedy was awarded on June 22, 1920 at a cost of about $250,000. The construction of the "new" Hillsboro High School was begun in 1920, and the school opened in the fall of 1921.
Sitting atop a hill located at 522 East Tremont Street, the north-facing red brick building is surrounded by trees. Through the years, into at least the mid-1960s, the campus was often named as the most beautiful in Illinois.
In 1938, the gymnasium, sited to the south of the main building was commissioned with financing for the project coming in part from Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds.
The agriculture building was added in the 1950s to the east of the gym, and the library/cafeteria building opened in 1962 just southeast of the main building.
Academics
In 2010, Hillsboro High school had an average ACT score of 19.6 with a graduation rate of 95.4% (which is higher than the state average of 87.8%). Since 2010, the school has failed to meet federal education standards set by No Child Left Behind even though in some years the school exceeds some statewide figures. The average class size is 19.6, which is smaller than the Illinois state average of 21.2.
College prep
Hillsboro High has Advanced Placement programs in Calculus, Chemistry, English Literature/ Composition, and History . On the PSAE examination of 11th graders, Hillsboro scored in the 52nd percentile of Illinois schools with 49.1% of the students passing. This translates to a 26.4% college readiness score.
Departments & Programs
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HHS Departments (& Courses)
Agriculture
Basic Agriculture
Agricultural Science
Agricultural Mechanics
Agribusiness Management
Business
Keyboarding & Computer Apps
Information Processing
Accounting
Marketing
Consumer Education
Multimedia
English
English
AP English
Reader Response
Oral
Hilltop (Yearbook)
Mentoring
Family & Consumer Sciences
Home Economics
Foods & Nutrition
Child Development
Child Care
Adult Living
Living Environments
Fine Arts
Drawing
Painting
Design
Photography
Band
Chorus
HHS Departments (cont.)
Foreign Language
Spanish
Industrial Technology
Industrial Technology
Manufacturing
Building Trades
Mathematics
Algebra
Geometry
Calculus
Safety, Health & Physical Education
Driver Education
Sexual Education
Physical Education
Science
Physical Science
Biology
Microbiology
Genetics
Anatomy & Physiology
Environmental Science
Chemistry
Physics
Social Sciences
Western Civilization
American History
Sociology
Criminal Justice
American Government
Current Events
Special Education
Cooperative Programs
With Lincoln Land College
Certified Nurse Assistant Program
Okaw Area Vocational Center Programs
Auto Body
Automotive Mechanics
Commercial Art
Drafting/Computer Aided Drafting
Electronics
Food Service
Justice Corrections
Machine Shop
Office Technology
Power Mechanics
Welding
Student organizations & activities
Local Organizations
Band
Chorus
Homecoming
Prom
Rembrandt Society (Illinois Student Art Association)
Student Council
National Organizations
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Future Farmers of America
Key Club
National Honor Society
Interscholastic athletics & activities
Hillsboro High School sponsors teams known as the Hiltoppers that compete as members of the Illinois High School Association and the South Central Conference. The team colors are orange and black and the school mascot is the Hiltopper (a mountaineer with a pick and coil of rope ).
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Augy () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
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Sekolah Global Indo-Asia (SGIA) is an international school located in Batam, Indonesia. It is also a Cambridge International Examinations Center and an IB World School. The school offers IB Primary Years Programme for children in Pre-K until Year 5, Cambridge Checkpoint Programme for students in Year 6 - 8, and Cambridge IGCSE for students in Year 9 - 10. For the last two years of education, students take GCE A Level courses. Starting SY 2016 - 2017, students have the option to sit for the IB Diploma Programme instead of the traditional A Level. Students usually sit for the May - June examinations.
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Vasily Vasilivich Konovalenko (, koʊ-noʊ-VA-ɪŋ-koʊ; 5 July 1929 – 27 January 1989) was a Soviet artist, known for creating unique three dimensional gemstone sculptures.
Early life
Konovalenko was born in Petrovka, a village in east-central Ukraine on July 5, 1929 to a Ukrainian father, Basil Vasily Konovalenko (1900-1946), and a Russian mother, Galiguzova Theodosius Tikhonovna (1899 -?). He was the couple's fifth child and only son, and his documents listed him as "Ukrainian". After spending his first few years in Petrovka, the family moved to the mining center of Donetsk (which at that time was called Stalino), a larger and more cosmopolitan city in eastern Ukraine. The remainder of his childhood was spent there, with the exception of the two years of Nazi occupation, October 1941 through September 1943.
In 1944 at the age of fifteen, he began work in the Donetsk National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre as an apprentice set designer. Between March 1944 and June 1945 he was recalled to attend a factory trade school, a so-called FZO. (At that time in the Soviet Union, attending a trade school was compulsory. ref) In 1945 he moved to the Stalino Theater for Opera and Ballet and the following year he enrolled in the art and architecture school at Donetsk Polytechnic Institute where he received specialized training.
Between March 1949 and January 1950, Konovalenko worked in sculpture at the Stalino Regional Association of Artists. In October 1950 Konovalenko was drafted into the Soviet navy but he was discharged only five months later due to unspecified and unrecorded medical reasons. At some point during this service, he visited Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and he was taken by the artistic, historic and cultural environment of the city and he perceived career opportunities there. Shortly after his military discharge, he moved to Leningrad and he found employment with the prestigious Mariinsky Theater, then the Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Государственный академический театр оперы и балета имени С.М. Кирова). Konovalenko's engagement with the Mariinsky launched him on the path of his life's work.
The Tale of the Stone Flower
On April 25, 1957, the Mariinsky Theater opened Sergei Prokofiev's eighth and final ballet, The Tale of the Stone Flower, for which Konovalenko served as the lead set designer. (The Tale of the Stone Flower was premiered in 1954 by the Bolshoi Theater. The production proved to be a public disappointment and it was not produced again for another five years.) Among Konovalenko's many tasks for the production was the creation of a large malachite box as a prop. At this point he was not known as a gem carver but he had had sculptural experience as far back as his apprenticeship at the Donetsk National Theater. With the malachite box, Konovaleko would find his life's calling.
The Tale of the Stone Flower is based on the Russian Ural folk tale The Stone Flower by Pavel Bazhov. Briefly, the story takes place in the Ural Mountains of central Russia. The male lead, young Danilo, is engaged to the beautiful Katarina. Unfortunately the Mistress of Malachite Mountain tempts Danilo with a legendary stone flower. As a gem carver himself, Danilo becomes entranced with the stone flower and he sets out to make one of his own out of the beautiful black- and green-banded mineral malachite. In the process, Danilo becomes entranced with the Mistress of Malachite Mountain. After a long period in which Danilo developed extraordinary gem carving skills, he again professes his love for Katarina. Appreciating Danilo's honesty and loyalty, the Mistress of Malachite Mountain blesses the reunion. The blessed couple live happily ever after and Danilo becomes an extraordinary gem carver.
Konovalenko continued to work at the Mariinsky Theater for the next 16 years but at the same time he continued to hone his gem carving skills. Many of his pieces from this period are on display at the State Gemstone Museum in Moscow. During this period he also traveled extensively to visit mineral sources in the Urals, Siberia and Ukraine and to meet with geologists and mineralogists.
The State Russian Museum Exhibition
By 1971, Konovalenko's theatrical reputation was at its zenith, but his gem carving reputation was lagging because he had never had a public exhibition. Vasily's wife, Anna, decided that Vasily should be the focus of such an exhibition and that they should try to meet with authorities in Moscow toward this end. This was a bold approach, considering that they had no letter of introduction from party officials in Leningrad. That was bad enough but in addition the example of Vasily's work that they chose to present was an early version of Bosom Pals (Brazhniki), a rather ill-advised choice as it depicted three men carousing, definitely not the Soviet Realism style then favored by the Communist Party. Anna and Vasily were summarily dismissed and they returned to Leningrad, rejected but unscathed.
Two years later the couple decided to make a second approach and they returned to Moscow better prepared. Through mutual acquaintances, Anna obtained a meeting with Sergey Mikhalkov, a well-known and well-connected author. (Also the author of the lyrics of the Soviet national anthem.) They also brought two more-appropriate works, Warrior and The Tsar's Henchman. The meeting was a complete success — Mikhalkov loved the sculptures and he immediately contacted Mikhail Solomentsev, chairman of the Council of Ministers. Solomentsev also loved the pieces and within minutes he decided that an exhibition should be arranged and that it should be at the State Russian Museum in Leningrad. Solomentsev's position in the hierarchy was such that once he voiced his approval, everyone fell into line. An additional stroke of good luck was that the director of the State Russian Museum, Vasily Pushkarev, knew and admired Konovalenko's work.
At the end of 1973, ten sculptures, created between 1959 and 1973, went on display at the State Russian Museum. The exhibition was an unmitigated success. Within a week of the exhibition's opening, some 25,000 copies of the exhibit catalog were sold. The pieces in the exhibition included:
• Bosom Pals (Brazhniki) (1953)
• Fishing (1965)
• Grandma and Grandpa (1963)
• Ice Fishing (1968)
• Organ Grinder" (1967)
• Tea Drinker (1971)
• Tsar's Henchman (1970)
• Warrior (1961)
• Welcome (1959)
• Zemfira (1973)
"Persecution"
Unfortunately, by approaching the authorities in Moscow, who in turn worked directly with Pushkarev at the State Russian Museum, the Konovalenkos bypassed local officials in Leningrad, most notably Grigory Romanov, the most powerful Communist Party official in Leningrad. The Konovalenkos had inserted themselves in the middle of a long-simmering power struggle between Puskkarev and Romanov. Having been bypassed, Romanov was denied the opportunity to share the credit for the exhibition. One outward sign of his displeasure was that, even though he had been sent a special invitation to the exhibition, he did not attend. Romanov devised a plan to charge Konovalenko as a criminal, in spite of the fact that he had just been heralded as a national hero, and he engaged the KGB to investigate Konovalenko.
According to the letter of the law, Konovalenko was indeed guilty of three laws: he had been involved in buying and selling precious and semi-precious stones; if one were to take a cynical view, he had denigrated Soviet culture by the whimsical nature of his characters; and he was in possession of gold and silver. The KGB investigation was terrifying for the Konovalenkos. Some 1,500 (!) friends, associates and acquaintances of Konovalenko were interviewed in trying to gather evidence against him. Their house and workshop were damaged in a 12-hour long search.
The Konovalenkos had friends working behind-the-scenes to keep him out of prison and a compromise was eventually reached. He agreed to "donate" all 10 of the sculptures in the exhibit to the Soviet state, to move his family from Leningrad to Moscow, and to take employment there in the State "Samotsvety" (Gems) Museum. Ironically, at the same time, the American capitalist Armand Hammer offered to purchase the ten pieces in the exhibit for $150,000 each. Party officials declined the offer and the pieces are still today in the "Samotsvety" in Moscow. When the KGB investigation reached the desk of the Chief Prosecutor of the Soviet Union, he dismissed the case as being "cartoonish".
The Konovalenko's, however, began to fear that, if this had happened once, it could well happen again and they began to seriously consider finding a way to leave the Soviet Union.
Exodus
In 1974 at the "Samotsvety", Konovalenko began working as the director of the newly formed Laboratory of Small Sculptural Forms. Unfortunately he soon discovered that much of his work would consist of making pieces for Communist Party officials to offer as gifts to colleagues and friends. So in spite of the seemingly stable employment and living situations, he was not free as an artist and he realized that likely he never would be. The ultimate solution would be to emigrate from the Soviet Union, but Konovalenko himself had no basis for applying for an exit visa. However between 1966 and 1982, there was a mechanism for Jews to leave and Vasily's wife/widow was/is Jewish. The family applied under this program and in February 1981, their emigration visas arrived.
Vasily was on an airplane headed to Vienna the following day and the rest of the family followed him about two weeks later. The official intent of the Jewish emigration program was for emigres to go to Israel, but Anna's brother lived in New York City and it was decided that economic and artistic opportunities would be greater there. The family arrived in New York in April 1981.
Life in the United States
Several years earlier in Moscow, Konovalenko had met Raphael Gregorian, a Russian-born medical supplies dealer and he was the first person the Konovalenkos contacted in search of support. Through Gregorian, diamond dealers Michael Kazanjian and Jack Ortman were introduced to Konovalenko and the three agreed to sponsor him.
The contract that was drawn up called for Konovalenko to produce 18 works in two years. Still, there remained a gap in the plan - the display and permanent disposition of the pieces. Among Ortman's list of clients was Alvin Cohen, a Denver-based construction magnate, who was a trustee of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He was in the position to solve the remaining issue. Through the first half of 1983 plans were formulated for an exhibition to open in Denver on November 2 of that year.
There was however, a very unfortunate turn of events on September 1, 1983, when Soviet Air Force fighter jets shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL 007), a passenger airline en route from New York to Seoul. This was obviously a serious problem for the exhibition — an exhibition of Russian art produced by a Russian immigrant. A decision was made to delay the opening by some four months.
The Konovalenko sculptures went on display for the first time outside of the Soviet Union on March 15, 1984 to great acclaim. Included were Barrel Bath; Bosom Pals; Hunter on the Mark; Ice Fishing; In the Sultry Afternoon I; In the Sultry Afternoon II; Laundress; Mower; On the Stroll; Painter; Prisoners; Spring; Sauna I: The Thin and the Fat; Sauna II: Woman; Toper; Walruses and Wanderer (or Old Believer). Swan Song had broken en route and had to be virtually recreated from scratch.
Surprisingly, no one had given much thought to the disposition of the pieces following the exhibition. Given the popularity of the exhibition, the default solution was to simply extend the display and that was done incrementally until 1989. Several pieces were added — Grandmother; Bread and Salt and Gold Prospectors. Hunter on the Mark was moved to a private collection. As the years passed, thought was given to how the collection might be made permanent at the Museum.
Ortman had purchased the subscriptions of Kazanjian and Gregorian in 1984 and Cohen bought the entire collection from Ortman in 1989. Cohen subsequently donated all 20 pieces to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Foundation in 1999.
Vasily Konovalenko died on January 27, 1989, five days after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. Konovalenko is buried in the cemetery of the Russian Orthodox Convent 'Novo Diveevo' in Nanuet, New York.
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science Collection
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has far and away the largest public display of Konovalenko's sculptures in the world — 20 pieces. They include:
• Barrel Bath: An elderly man is enjoying a hot bath in a barrel, enveloped in a large towel or rug. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, agate, cacholong, red jasper, petrified wood, gold-plated silver, silver, sapphire and cloisonné. Height 22 cm.
• Bosom Pals: Three revelers singing boisterously. Two of the men hold instruments-a horn and a balalaika-and the third a punchbowl. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, jasper, green jasper, diamond, ruby, tiger eye, nephrite, rose agate, cacholong, gold, silver, gold-plated silver and cloisonné. Height 28 cm.
• Bread and Salt: An elderly man receiving guests with the traditional offering of bread and rock salt. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, white quartz, gray quartz, jasper, banded jasper, jade, banded onyx, calcite nodule, gold-plated silver, sapphire, opal and cloisonné. Height 27 cm.
• Gold Prospectors: Two prospectors and a burro, the only sculpture Konovalenko ever made with an American theme. The original clay model for this piece is in the DMNS collections. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, agate, Indian agate, jade, tourmaline, gold-plated silver, silver, sapphire, zebra jasper, jasper conglomerate, horn, dinosaur bone (fossil), sodalite, septarian calcite, cacholong, ruby and petrified wood. Height 34 cm.
• Grandmother: An elderly woman, seated outside, spinning wool. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, white quartz, rutilated quartz, amethyst, snowflake obsidian, jasper, aragonite, malachite, gold and petrified wood. Height 34 cm.
• Ice Fishing: A middle-aged man enjoying a winter day on a frozen lake. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, rutilated quartz, obsidian, tiger eye, agate, lapis lazuli, ruby, petrified wood, jasper, gold, silver, labradorite, serdolic agate and nundoorite. Height 24 cm.
• In the Sultry Afternoon I: An obese man gorges on watermelon while enjoying a cool soak on a hot afternoon. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, jasper, ruby, sapphire, agate, petrified wood, gold-plated silver and silver. Height 18 cm.
• In the Sultry Afternoon II: A buxom woman enjoys a cup of tea while soaking in a pool. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, rutilated quartz, sapphire, agate, cacholong, turquoise, lapis lazuli, gold-plated silver and cloisonné. Height 23 cm.
• Laundress: A woman is engaged in the mundane task of washing clothes. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, sapphire, agate, variscite, white jasper, pearl, malachite, pyrite, petrified wood, amethyst, aventurine and (goldstone). Height 12 cm.
• Mower: A man working a scythe in a rye field. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, rutilated quartz, black jasper, sapphire, agate, ruby, obsidian, snowflake obsidian, beryl, gold, silver, gold-plated silver and gold plate. Height 23 cm.
• On the Stroll: A couple strolling together, the young woman playing a balalaika and singing. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, chalcopyrite, sapphire, red jasper, white jasper, varicite, nundoorite, opal, lapis lazuli, onyx, goldstone, sapphire, gold and agate. Height 30 cm.
• Painter: A forlorn, yet proud drunk house painter. Materials: Jasper, black jasper, white jasper, sapphire, amethyst, quartz, snowflake obsidian, lapis lazuli, petrified wood and cacholong. Height 25 cm.
• Prisoners: Two prisoners building their shelter in a Siberian labor camp. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, ice quartz, jasper, zebra jasper, petrified wood, ruby, silver, sapphire and obsidian. Height 32 cm.
• Sauna I: The Thin and the Fat": A thin masseuse struggling with the literal and metaphorical weight of his overstuffed client. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, rose quartz, agate, obsidian, tiger eye, calcite, mahogany obsidian, petrified wood and cacholong. Height 24 cm.
• Sauna II: Woman: A woman of some leisure being pummeled with birch switches by a working class attendant. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, rose quartz, rutilated quartz, sapphire, agate, obsidian, jasper, aventurine, silver, gold-plated silver and petrified wood. Height 34 cm.
• Spring: A dapper young man singing and playing a balalaika. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, cacholong, zebra jasper, jasper, sapphire, obsidian, gold-plated silver, tiger eye and cloisonné. Height 25 cm.
• Swan Song: A bow hunter posing with the swan he has just killed. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, sodalite, tiger eye, red jasper, black jasper, obsidian, ruby, pyrite, sapphire, cacholong, gold and serdolic agate. Height 35 cm.
• The Toper:A Russian drunkard emptying the last drops of vodka into his mouth. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, quartz, gold-plated quartz, kalkanskaya jasper, blue jasper, ruby, malachite, tiger eye, silver, serdolic agate, sapphire, obsidian, agate and cacholong. Height 35 cm.
• Walruses: A couple "enjoying" a plunge into an icy pool. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, jasper, agate, calcite, obsidian, aventurine, jasper, rhodonite, silver and gold-plated silver. Height 24 cm.
• Wanderer (Old Believer): A member of a fundamentalist religious group, known as the Old Believers, that split from the traditional Russian Orthodox Church around 1660. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, rutilated quartz, cacholong or Kalmuck agate, amethyst, turquoise, malachite, red- and black-banded jasper, gold and gold-plated silver. Height 34 cm.
The 1988 exhibition in Colorado Springs, Colorado
There was an exhibition of six pieces in the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Included in the exhibit were Balalaika Player I, Fisherman I, Fisherman II, Ice Fisherman, Merchant and Tea for One.
The 2016 "Vasily Konovalenko: A Sculptor of Gems" Exhibit
Between June 1 and August 31, 2016 the first ever international exhibition of Konovalenko's work was held in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace, The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. The exhibition included forty works in gems, bronze, silver and enamel from numerous sources around the world. In addition there were more than forty graphic works, including theatric set designs, sketches for jewelry and gem-carving sculptures. Works from both his Soviet and American years were included.
Items were lent to the exhibition from the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the Museum "Samotsvety" (Moscow), the Russian State Precious Metals and Gems Repository (Moscow), the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (Colorado, USA), the Kazanjian Foundation and private collectors in the United States.
References
Further reading
Goldstein, Rochelle (1981). "The Art of Vasil [sic] Konovalenko". Jewelry Making Gems and Minerals. Oct 1981: 77-82.
Nash, Stephen E. (2012). "Oral Histories with Anna Konovalenko, March 26–30, 2012". DMNS Technical Report 2012-08. On file in DMNS archives, Denver, Colorado USA.
Nash, Stephen E. (2013). "Raphael Gregorian's Oral History about Vasily Konovalenko and His Works, Recorded on December 18, 2012, in Foster City, California."
Nash, Stephen E. (2014). "A Stone Lives On: Vasily Konovalenko's Gem Carving Sculptures at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science". Denver Museum of Nature and Science Annals: 6: 1-67, 15 Nov 2014.
Nash, Stephen E. (2016). "Stories in Stone: The Enchanted Gem Carvings of Vasily Konovalenko". The Denver Museum of Nature and Science and University Press of Colorado.
Robson, Roy R. (1995). "Old Believers in Modern Russia". Northern Illinois University Press.
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Eito is a village in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde, part of the municipality of Paul. It is situated 1 km southwest of Pombas, 2 km northeast of Figueiral and 15 km northeast of the island capital Porto Novo. Its population was 979 in 2010.
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Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916) was an artist of the Victorian era whose work consisted mainly of watercolor illustrations in children's books. These illustrations were strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, being highly detailed and haunting in content. Love and death were popular subject matter of Pre-Raphaelite art and something that can be seen in Eleanor Vere Boyle's work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, even called her work "great in design." However, even though she was one of the first woman artists to be recognized for her achievements, she did not exhibit or sell work often as it was not acceptable given her family's social status. Thus, she signed her works “EVB” to obscure her identity and quickly became one of the most important female illustrators in the 1860s.
Life
Eleanor Vere Boyle was born in Scotland on 1 May 1825, a daughter of Alexander Gordon of Ellon Castle, Aberdeenshire, a descendant of the Duke of Ancaster. She was raised as the youngest of eight children in the Scottish hills above the River Dee. She later moved to England and married Richard Boyle, son of the Earl of Cork and chaplain to Queen Victoria.
Boyle's fascination of nature strongly influenced her later work, which primarily consisted of garden books after her husband died. However, during her lifetime, up until she died in 1916, she produced, and was highly acclaimed for, work for children's books. Totaled up, Eleanor had written or illustrated twenty-one books in about a fifty-year time-span. All these works were inspired by many things in which Eleanor was fascinated: nature, but also fate, dreams and flowing water.
Principal works
Her fascinations and their influence were clear in her illustrations she created for the poet Tennyson's May Queen in 1852. Such fascinations were even more evident in her illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales in 1872, which was one of the earliest editions illustrated by an English person. It included twelve full color images and many other line drawings. Andersen had a definite dark side to many of his stories. With Boyle's ability to translate it into visual form with her own slightly sinister taste, this edition was made to be one of the most cohesive between illustration and writing. This cohesiveness set a new standard for the future illustration in Hans Andersen’s work. Some of the most highly acclaimed illustrations from this book include: "The Snow Queen," The Wild Swans," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbkinetta," "The Garden of Paradise," "The Fellow Traveller" (which inspired Tolkien's The Hobbit) and "The Angel."
Three years later, in 1875, Boyle created what is considered one of her greatest works, a retelling and illustration of the story Beauty and the Beast. This book includes ten full colour images. She is praised most for her unique take on the Beast. While this story has been illustrated many times, Boyle's version seems to be the first and only to be reminiscent of a sea-creature, with walrus-like tusks and flippers. This is different from the usual humanistic portrayal. Boyle veers away from all normalities of the character, lacking an upright position, human facial features and clothes.
Other notable works by Boyle are her illustrations in The Story Without an End and Child’s Play, as well as her illustrations and writings in Ros Rosarum Ex Horto Poetarum (1885). The Story Without an End is originally a German story by Friedrich Wilhelm Carové. It was later translated by Sarah Austin into English, and illustrated by Boyle. On the other hand, Child’s Play and Ros Rosarum ex Horto Poetarum were written by Boyle herself. In Child’s Play, she matched famous nursery rhymes with her illustrations, and in Ros Rosarum ex Horto Poetarum she wrote poems and created illustrations for them. Ros Rosarum Ex Horto Poetarum is subtitled "Dew of the Ever-living Rose, Gathered from the Poets' Gardens of Many Lands". It is one of the most highly acclaimed works by scholars and claimed to be culturally important.
Boyle continued to write, with a focus on nature, as she wrote and illustrated garden books. In the last thirty-two years of her life, she wrote and illustrated four: Days and Hours in a Garden (1884), A Garden of Pleasure (1895), Seven Gardens and a Palace (1900), and Garden Colour (1905). Her last work came eight years prior to her death: The Peacock's Pleasaunce (1908), a collection of twelve essays (considered belles-lettres) accompanied by eight of her own illustrations.
Other works
A Child's Summer (1853)
In the Fir-Wood (1866)
A New Child's Play (1877)
A London Sparrow at the Colinderies (1887)
A Midsummer-Night Dream (1887)
Sylvana's Letters to an Unknown Friend (1900)
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Patrick Irwin (1839 - February 6, 1910) was an Irish-American soldier who received a Medal of Honor for his action in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Irwin served as a First Sergeant in Company H of the 14th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He earned his medal for actions during the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia on September 1, 1864. Irwin attained the rank of first lieutenant before mustering out after the war. Following his death in 1910, he was interred in St. Thomas Cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Medal of Honor Citation
In a charge by the 14th Michigan Infantry against the entrenched enemy was the first man over the line of works of the enemy, and demanded and received the surrender of Confederate Gen. Daniel Govan and his command.
Date Issued: April 28, 1896
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Jerry Bradford Reynolds (born April 2, 1970) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants. He played college football at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Early years
Reynolds attended Highlands High School. He walked-on at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. As a freshman, he appeared in 8 games. As a sophomore, he became a starter at right tackle, missing the last game with a back bruise. He started 21 games over his final two seasons.
Professional career
Cincinnati Bengals
Reynolds was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round (184th overall) of the 1994 NFL Draft. On August 28, he was waived and signed to the practice squad two days laters.
Dallas Cowboys
On November 1, 1994, he was signed by the Dallas Cowboys from the Bengals' practice squad, after Erik Williams suffered a season-ending knee injury in a car accident. He was a backup player and was released on August 27, 1995.
New York Giants
On August 29, 1995, he was signed by the New York Giants to play guard and for depth purposes. The next year, he was moved to tackle. On February 11, 1999, he was released after only starting 2 games during his time with the team.
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Jacqueline Florence Olive "Jackie" Whitney (married name Williams; born 5 February 1943) is an English former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter. She appeared in three Test matches for England in 1966, in a test series against New Zealand. She played domestic cricket for Surrey.
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Sar Kand () is a village in Kahnuk Rural District, Irandegan District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 26, in 7 families.
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Black River Island is an island in Lake Huron. It is part of a series of shoals around the mouth of Black River and is NE of it. The island is included within the unincorporated community of Black River in Alcona Township.
The uninhabited rocky island is about long. Its area is less than one acre and varies with lake levels.
The shoals in the area are a boating hazard. The schooner William H. Rounds, carrying a load of coal, ran aground on the island in May 1905 and was destroyed. Further south the tugboat Loretta, carrying a load of chain, broke its propeller and caught fire in October 1896. The Ishpeming, a schooner carrying a load of coal, ran aground in November 1903. It was scrapped and abandoned. These are marked by buoys.
In the past, owners of the island have shown interest in selling it to wildlife organizations. The island is approximately 7 miles south of Scarecrow Island which is part of the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
References
Uninhabited islands of Michigan
Islands of Lake Huron in Michigan
Islands of Alcona County, Michigan |
Gölgelikonak () is a village in the Eruh District of Siirt Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 70 in 2021.
References
Villages in Eruh District
Kurdish settlements in Siirt Province |
Dean Gardens was one of the largest homes in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. At the time of its completion in 1992, the 32,000 square foot, 15 bedroom house was the largest in Atlanta. The former owner, Larry Dean, who made his fortune in software, spent $30 million on its construction, plus $1.5 million a year on its upkeep.
The 58-acre property then became a boondoggle of failed construction efforts, wasted resources and a chain of owners.
History
The house was first put up for sale in 1994, two years after its completion. Since that time, it attracted media notoriety for having gone unsold for 17 years. Reasons why it never sold include its so-called, "Liberace-meets-Napoleon design," which include pink themes, a Moroccan theater, 24-karat-gold sinks, a Hawaiian-art gallery, a 1950s-style dance hall, French Empire-style furniture, 13 fireplaces and a 24-seat dining room with a wall-sized aquarium called, the "Predator Tank."
Dean Gardens was sold in 2010 to Tyler Perry, the Atlanta-based entertainment mogul, for $7.6 million, down from its original asking price of $40 million. Perry demolished the home to build a more energy-efficient and sustainable residence. However he failed to build anything and sold the land for $9.2 million to Lennar. Lennar planned on building 70 homes, but due to land erosion and restrictions about building too close to the river, much of the land was unbuildable. Because it was not enough homes to turn a profit, Lennar canceled construction in February 2017, but not before streets and other landscape features had been built at a cost of nearly $13 million. In 2017, the property was for sale by Lennar, with 61 empty lots and 3 completed homes.
References
External links
Satellite map, Google Earth
Houses in Atlanta |
Munapirtti () is an island in the municipality of Pyhtää, Finland.
Villages
Hinkaböle
Malm
Munapirtti
Tuuski (De jure a part of Munapirtti)''
External links
The webpages of the island of Munapirtti, in Swedish and Finnish
Finnish islands in the Baltic
Pyhtää
Landforms of Kymenlaakso |
The 2010 European Tour was the 39th season of the European Tour, the main professional golf tour in Europe since its inaugural season in 1972.
Changes for 2010
There were many changes from the 2009 season, including six new tournaments; they were the Africa Open in South Africa, the returning Avantha Masters in India which had been cancelled in 2009, the Trophée Hassan II in Morocco, the Iberdrola Open Cala Millor Mallorca and the Andalucía Valderrama Masters in Spain, and the Vivendi Cup in France. Lost from the schedule were the European Open, the Mercedes-Benz Championship, the Johnnie Walker Classic, the Australian Masters, the Indonesia Open and the Volvo World Match Play Championship. There were also three fewer tournaments due to a partial realignment of the schedule with the calendar.
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2010 season.
Unofficial events
The following events were sanctioned by the European Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.
Location of tournaments
Race to Dubai
Since 2009, the Order of Merit has been titled as the Race to Dubai and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Euros. Earnings from tournaments that award prize money in other currencies being converted at the exchange rate available the week of the event.
Final standings
Final top 15 players in the Race to Dubai:
• Did not play
Awards
See also
2010 in golf
2010 European Senior Tour
Notes
References
External links
European Tour seasons
European Tour
European Tour
European Tour
European Tour |
Kobi Karp is a Miami-based architect and founder of Kobi Karp Architecture & Interior Design, which he founded in 1995. Karp has designed houses for NBA star Juwan Howard and for Barry Sternlicht, founder of Starwood Capital Group.
Career
Kobi Karp Architecture & Interior Design has designed projects around the world that have cost $36 billion to develop. Karp has worked on multiple luxury projects in South Florida, including the Astor & Edison Hotels as well as Palazzo Del Sol and Palazzo Della Luna, located on Fisher Island, which has the highest per capita income of any place in the United States. Other projects include the Four Seasons Private Residences in Fort Lauderdale, a building that includes 150 private residences and a 12,000 square foot home in Miami Beach.
Karp designed Monad Terrace, a 59-unit Miami Beach condominium that was designed to withstand a category 5 hurricane and a waterfront $38 million home on Biscayne Bay in Miami Beach. Karp also designed The Surf Club, originally built in 1930 and revamped in 2017. Other projects include a high rise in Fort Lauderdale and three 16-story towers in Tampa, Florida, which are planned for completion in 2027.
Personal life and education
Karp, originally from Israel, relocated to Minneapolis when he was young. He majored in architecture and environmental design at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology. Karp currently lives in Miami with his wife and two sons.
References
1963 births
Living people
20th-century American architects
University of Minnesota School of Architecture alumni
21st-century American architects |
Sarbinowo () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dębno, within Myślibórz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately south of Dębno, south-west of Myślibórz, and south of the regional capital Szczecin. The village has a population of 490.
Originally a West Slavic settlement, the village was first mentioned in 1261 as Torbarmstorp, a possession of the Knights Templar. By 1335 it was known as Tzorbensdorf in the Neumark region of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. In 1540 it fell to John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin. It was the scene of the Battle of Zorndorf, in which the Prussians under Frederick the Great fought the Russians commanded by William Fermor, on August 25, 1758. The battle was one of the bloodiest battles of the Seven Years' War. Zorndorf became part of the Province of Brandenburg in 1815 and the German Empire in 1871.
After Germany's defeat in World War II it became part of Poland.
References
Villages in Myślibórz County |
Hamad Al-Eissa () (born 1982) is a Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player who currently plays as a defender for Al Hazm.
External links
Saudi League Profile
1982 births
Living people
Saudi Arabian men's footballers
Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah) players
Al Shabab FC (Riyadh) players
Al-Ettifaq FC players
Al-Hazem F.C. players
Al-Tai FC players
Saudi First Division League players
Saudi Pro League players
Men's association football defenders |
Bethmale (; ) is a commune in the Ariège department of southwestern France.
Population
Inhabitants of Bethmale are called Bethmalais.
See also
Communes of the Ariège department
References
Communes of Ariège (department)
Ariège communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia |
The Voice of the Negro: 1919 is a collection of excerpts from African-American newspapers in 1919 that was collected and published by Robert T. Kerlin in 1920.
Background and publication
Robert T. Kerlin was a professor of English at the Virginia Military Institute. He felt that "to know anything about black people, one would have to read their press." In writing the anthology, Kerlin took extracts from African-American newspapers that had been published in the four months after the Washington race riot of 1919. Kerlin wrote that he tried to draw on "virtually the entire Afro-American press", which consisted of two daily papers, twelve magazines, and almost three hundred weekly papers. He grouped them into topics such as "the new negro and the old", black reactions to World War I, reactions to riots, lynchings, labor unionism, and Bolshevism, and "negro progress". The collection ends with several poems by black poets. The book was published in 1920 by E. P. Dutton & Company. The first edition was 200 pages long.
In 1922 Frederick German Detweiler published The Negro Press in the United States, a work that built on Kerlin's.
Reception
The North American Review noted the "ability and influence of the colored press" and its "remarkable" unanimity. They concluded that "whoever thinks that the negro is not foully abused will find Professor Kerlin's book wholesome, though unpleasant, reading." The American Journal of Sociology said that the collection merited "careful reading" by anyone interested in race relations. It felt that Kerlin succeeded in letting the press "speak for itself" and picking a representative sample of excerpts. Mary White Ovington, the chairman of the board of directors of the NAACP and an author, described the book as a "careful synopsis of Negro opinion" and concluded that "even the most diligent reader of the Negro press would be surprised at the comprehensive and able editorial matter that Mr. Kerlin presents."
In 1975 the scholar Theodore Kornweibel wrote that the book offered "about the best introduction to New Negro militancy through a wide variety of primary sources that can be found."
References
Bibliography
1920 non-fiction books
E. P. Dutton books
Books about race and ethnicity |
U.S. Marshals is a 1998 American action crime thriller film directed by Stuart Baird. The film is a sequel to the 1993 film The Fugitive. Written by John Pogue, it does not feature Dr. Richard Kimble (portrayed by Harrison Ford in the initial film); rather, it centers on United States Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard, once again played by Tommy Lee Jones. The plot follows Gerard and his team as they pursue another fugitive, Mark Sheridan, played by Wesley Snipes, who attempts to escape government officials following an international conspiracy scandal. The cast features Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood, and LaTanya Richardson, several of whom portrayed Deputy Marshals in the previous film.
The film was a co-production between Warner Bros. Pictures and Kopelson Entertainment. The score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
U.S. Marshals premiered in theaters in the United States on March 6, 1998, grossing $57 million in its domestic run. The film took in an additional $45 million through international release for a worldwide total of $102 million. The film was generally met with mixed critical reviews. The film was released on home video on July 21, 1998.
Plot
In New York City, two Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Special Agents are killed during a briefcase exchange in a United Nations (UN) parking garage. The murders are caught on a security camera, but the killer escapes with top-secret files.
Months later, Senior Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team capture a pair of fugitives in Chicago. Elsewhere in the city, tow truck driver Mark Warren is injured in a crash and arrested for possession of an illegal handgun, but a fingerprint check reveals he is federal fugitive Mark Roberts, wanted for the double homicide in New York. Aboard a prisoner transport flight with Gerard, Roberts thwarts an assassination attempt by a prisoner with an improvised firearm, but the bullet shoots a massive hole in the plane, blowing the would-be-assassin away to his death. The plane crashes into the Ohio River, and Gerard tries to rescue the surviving prisoners as Roberts escapes.
DSS Special Agent John Royce is assigned to join Gerard's team in the hunt for Roberts, whom they corner in a Kentucky swamp before he wounds Gerard and flees. Gerard suspects that Royce is concealing information about Roberts and the murders, while Roberts calls his girlfriend Marie Bineaux, explaining that he was a government agent until he was betrayed in New York. Returning to New York City, Roberts secures supplies from a Force Recon comrade and surveils Chinese diplomat Xiang Chen. Gerard's team questions Marie and tracks down the mechanic hired to hide the zip gun for the Chinese assassin on the plane, but find him dead, murdered by Chen.
Reviewing the parking garage security footage, Gerard discovers that Roberts' exchange with Chen was intercepted by the DSS agents, and that Roberts acted in self-defense and was wearing gloves, despite the DSS's claim that he was identified by fingerprints. DSS Director Bertram Lamb admits to Gerard and his senior supervisor Katherine Walsh that Roberts is Mark Sheridan, a former CIA Special Activities Division Agent suspected of selling U.S. State Department classified intelligence to the Chinese government. Chen was delivering money to Sheridan for the information when the DSS agents tried to apprehend Sheridan, who escaped with the documents.
Gerard's team tracks Sheridan to a cemetery where he catches DSS Special Agent Frank Barrows collecting a delivery from Chen, forcing Barrows to admit to a larger conspiracy to frame Sheridan. Marie arrives as Chen shoots at Sheridan, killing Barrows instead. Deputy Marshals Savannah Cooper and Bobby Biggs apprehend Chen, while Cosmo Renfro and Royce intercept Sheridan, who is forced to leave Marie behind. Royce, Gerard, and Deputy Marshal Noah Newman pursue Sheridan into a nearby retirement home. Finding Royce preparing to execute Sheridan, Newman is shot by Royce; Sheridan flees to the roof, and Royce gives false information to Gerard that Sheridan shot Newman. Swinging onto a passing commuter train, Sheridan escapes, and Newman dies beside Gerard en route to the hospital.
Determined to kill Sheridan, a vengeful Gerard and Royce track him onto a freighter ship bound for Canada. In a struggle inside a grain container, Sheridan nearly kills Gerard but relents, and Sheridan is critically shot by Royce. Gerard realizes that the gun used to shoot Newman was Royce's; Royce is the real mole in league with Chen, and framed Sheridan. Left alone to guard Sheridan's hospital room, Royce wakes him up to murder him, but is confronted by Gerard. When Royce pulls a gun from his waistband, Gerard draws his service weapon and shoots Royce dead. Sheridan is exonerated and reunites with Marie, while Gerard and his team depart to drink a toast to Newman.
Cast
Production
Filming
Filming locations included, Metropolis, Illinois; Bay City; Shawneetown; Chicago (all Illinois); New York; Benton, Kentucky; and at Reelfoot Lake, (Walnut Log) in Obion County, Tennessee.
Music
The original motion picture soundtrack for U.S. Marshals was released by the Varèse Sarabande music label on March 10, 1998. The score for the film was composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith and mixed by Bruce Botnick. Kenneth Hall edited the film's music.
Release
Home media
Following its cinematic release, the Region 1 Code widescreen edition of the film was released on DVD in the U.S. on July 21, 1998. Special features for the DVD include; interactive behind-the-scenes documentary – Anatomy of the Plane Crash; historical documentary – Justice Under the Star; feature-length commentary by director Stuart Baird; interactive menus; production notes; two theatrical trailers; three TV spots; and scene access. Additionally, a Special Edition repackaged DVD was also released on November 3, 2009. Special features include; a closed caption option; interactive behind-the-scenes documentary – Anatomy of the Plane Crash; historical documentary – Justice Under the Star; feature length commentary by director Stuart Baird; two theatrical trailers; and three TV spots.
In supplemental fashion, a VHS format version of the film was released on February 2, 1999. A restored widescreen hi-definition Blu-ray Disc version of the film was released on June 5, 2012. Special features include; two documentaries – Anatomy of the plane crash and Justice under the star; commentary by director Stuart Baird; and the theatrical trailer. An additional viewing option for the film in the media format of Video on demand has been made available as well.
Reception
Box office
U.S. Marshals premiered in cinemas on March 6, 1998, in wide release throughout the United States. During that weekend, the film opened in second place, grossing $16,863,988 at 2,817 locations. The film Titanic was in first place during that weekend, with $17,605,849 in revenue. The film's revenue dropped by 32% in its second week of release, earning $11,355,259. For that particular weekend, the film fell to 3rd place with the same theater count. The continuing success of Titanic remained unchallenged in first place with $17,578,815 in box office business. During its final week in release, U.S. Marshals was in 60th place, grossing a marginal $16,828 in revenue. U.S. Marshals went on to top out domestically at $57,167,405 in total ticket sales through its theatrical run. For 1998 as a whole, the film would cumulatively rank at a box office performance position of 36.
Critical response
Among mainstream critics in the U.S., the film received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 30% based on reviews from 43 critics, with an average score of 4.9 out of 10. The site's consensus states: "A rote albeit well-cast action thriller, U.S. Marshals suffers badly in comparison to the beloved blockbuster that preceded it." At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average out of 100 to critics' reviews, U.S. Marshals was given a score of 47 based on 20 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.
Barbara Shulgasser, writing in The San Francisco Examiner, commented in positive sentiment about the acting, saying, "The film's pacing is unimpeachable and good performances are delivered by Jones, Snipes, Irene Jacob as Sheridan's loyal girlfriend and, for brief moments, Kate Nelligan as Gerard's tough but lovable boss." Left impressed, Desson Howe in The Washington Post noted how "Every story beat is expertly planned and executed." Howe also praised director Baird, exclaiming how he "runs the show with a smart eye and a metronome ticking somewhere in his mind." In a mixed to negative review, Russell Smith of The Austin Chronicle bluntly deduced that, "Unlike Kimble, whose innocence and decency are known from the beginning in The Fugitive, Sheridan is a total cipher to both Gerard and the audience until deep into this two-hours-plus film. Ergo, we can't be expected to give a rat's ass what happens to him – and don't." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly opined that U.S. Marshals was "Lean, tense, and satisfyingly tricky."
The film, however, was not without its detractors. Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert, giving the film two and a half stars out of four, observed, "I didn't expect U.S. Marshals to be the equal of The Fugitive, and it isn't. But I hoped it would approach the taut tension of the 1993 film, and it doesn't. It has extra scenes, needless characters, an aimless plot and a solution that the hero seems to keep learning and then forgetting." In a primarily negative review, Mick LaSalle, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, called the film "a bad idea to begin with." He noted his confusion with the plot, remarking, "the movie tells us from the beginning that the fugitive is not quite innocent. He killed two fellow agents in self-defense. All this does is muddy the moral waters, making us queasy about the one guy we like. At no point is there ever a compelling reason to keep watching." Describing a mild negative opinion, James Berardinelli of ReelViews professed Marshal Gerard as exhibiting "only a token resemblance to the character who doggedly pursued Kimble in The Fugitive. As re-invented here, Gerard is a generic action hero; most of the quirks that made him interesting (and that earned Jones an Oscar) are absent. With a few minor re-writes, John McClane from the Die Hard movies could have been plugged into this role."
Dissatisfied with the film's quality, Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader said that it was "Not so much a sequel to The Fugitive as a lazy spin-off that imitates only what was boring and artificially frenetic about that earlier thriller; the little that kept it interesting—Tommy Lee Jones's Oscar-winning inflections, better-than-average direction—is nowhere in evidence." Stephen Hunter, writing for The Washington Post, reasoned, "It turns out to be one of those lame double-agent things where everybody's working for everybody else, the security of Taiwan (Taiwan!) is at stake, and it never quite lurches into clarity or acquires any real emotional punch. I didn't think the end of The Fugitive was so great either: Who wants to watch doctors fistfight on a roof? But by the time it winds down, U.S. Marshals has all but destroyed itself." Film critic Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide was not consumed with the nature of the subject matter, declaring, "To every hit there is a season, and a time for every sequel under heaven – no matter what narrative contortions it takes." She later surmised, "The minute Gerard mocks Royce's 'nickel-plated sissy pistol,' it's clear they're headed for a cathartic showdown, and anyone who can't see which member of Gerard's merry band might as well be wearing a 'Dead Meat Walking' T-shirt really shouldn't be allowed to operate complicated machinery."
Other media
Novelization
A novelization of the film, U.S. Marshals: A Novel, written by Max Allan Collins, was released on March 1, 1998.
See also
The Fugitive (1963 TV series)
1998 in film
References
Further reading
External links
1998 action thriller films
1990s chase films
1998 crime thriller films
1998 films
American action thriller films
American chase films
American crime thriller films
American police detective films
Film spin-offs
Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Films about miscarriage of justice
Films based on television series
Films directed by Stuart Baird
Films produced by Arnold Kopelson
Films scored by Jerry Goldsmith
Films set in Chicago
Films set in Kentucky
Films set in New York City
Films set on airplanes
Films shot in Chicago
Films shot in Kentucky
Films shot in New York City
Films shot in Tennessee
The Fugitive (TV series)
Films about the United States Marshals Service
Warner Bros. films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
Colin Harewood is a football coach from Barbados. He last coached the Barbados national football team.
Coaching career
Manager of the Barbados Under-17s in 2014, Harewood was pleased with the team's results despite them finishing bottom of the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifying stages, instead blaming the incessant heat for his two losses and one draw.
Losing to Trinidad 2-0 and beating Martinique 2-1 ahead of the 2017 Windward Islands Tournament, Harewood was pleased with the 2-1 victory, stating that his charges improved that match.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Barbados national football team managers
Barbadian football managers |
The men's welterweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The weight class was the fourth-heaviest contested, and allowed boxers of up to 147 pounds (66.7 kilograms). The competition was held from August 21, 1920 to August 24, 1920. 18 boxers from ten nations competed.
The gold medal bout between Bert Schneider and Alexander Ireland ended in a draw, but the referee ordered the exhausted boxers to fight an extra round.
Results
References
Sources
Welterweight |
Marjorie Hope van Heerden (born October 8, 1949) is a South African writer and illustrator of children’s books. Since the publication of her first children’s picture book in 1983, van Heerden has been published as an illustrator or writer/illustrator in 33 languages in Africa, Britain, Europe, Asia, Canada and the USA.
Biography
Born in De Doorns to Alex and Marina van Niekerk (née Botha), Marjorie grew up on a table grapes farm outside De Doorns in the Hex River Valley near Cape Town in South Africa. She matriculated from Rustenburg School for Girls in Cape Town in 1967, studied Fine Art for one year at Stellenbosch University, and then went to the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town for three years.
In 1973, she married Johann van Heerden and they had two children. In 2003, van Heerden started the South African chapter of the international Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), based in Los Angeles. In 2000, she and a friend also started the SCBWI chapter in Greece. She is currently the co-regional advisor of the South African chapter.
Awards and honors
Marjorie van Heerden won the 2011 W.B. Mkhize Award, given annually by the Usiba Writers’ Guild, for the Zulu version of Lulama’s long way home (Uhambo LukaLulama Olude), a picture book she wrote and illustrated, published by Giraffe Books. An imprint of Pan MacMillan.
In 2012, Marjorie and author Alex D’Angelo won the M.E.R. Award (one of the Media24 Books Literary Awards) for the best-illustrated children’s book published in South Africa. In 2011, they won for Goblin Diaries: Apprenticed to the Red Witch, published by Tafelberg Publishers (SA).
This was the second time she has been awarded this prestigious award - the first time was in 2008 when she won it with author Wendy Hartmann for Nina and Little Duck, published in 2007 by Human & Rousseau (SA).
Children's books
As writer and illustrator
Lulama’s Long Way Home, 2007 (also published in Portuguese and all 11 South African official languages);
The Authentic, Unusual, Alarming, Actual, Factual, Story Book (published in Afrikaans as Die Oorspronklike, Ongewoon Skrikaanjaende, Werklik Feitlike Storieboek), 2006;
The Adventures of Phepa and Itumelang, 2006;
Monde’s Present reworked second edition, 2005 (published in all 11 South African official languages);
Monde’s Present (based on the original story by Alexia van Heerden), 1997;
Lana’s long way home (published in Afrikaans as Lana se ompad huistoe), 1993;
A new bed for Alexia (published in Afrikaans as ‘n Nuwe bed vir Alexia), 1992;
Goodnight, Grandpa (published in Afrikaans as Nag Oupa), 1990;
Looking for a friend (published in Afrikaans as ‘n Maat vir Mayedwa), 1988;
A Monster in the garden, (a Peanutbutter story, published in Afrikaans as ‘n Monster in die tuin - ‘n Korrelkonfyt-storie), 1987;
Old enough, (a Peanutbutter story, published in Afrikaans as Oud genoeg - ‘n Korrelkonfyt-storie), 1987;
Father Christmas needs help (a Peanutbutter story, published in Afrikaans as Kersvader het hulp nodig - ‘n Korrelkonfyt-storie, 1987;
A tiger took me to the circus (published in Afrikaans as Sirkus toe saam met ‘n tier), 1986;
Die een groot bruin beer (Afrikaans), 1984.
As illustrator
Jim Henry, The Adventures of Willy Nilly and Thumper: Book Four– Charlie, the Cross-Eyed Crocodile, 2017.
Jim Henry, The Adventures of Willy Nilly and Thumper: Book Three – Stella Star, 2016.
Jim Henry, The Adventures of Willy Nilly and Thumper: Book Two – The Hermit’s Last Hairs, 2016 (also published in Spanish).
Jim Henry, The Adventures of Willy Nilly and Thumper: Book One - The Lost Treasure of Mount Methuselah, 2016 (also published in Spanish).
Leon Rousseau, StorieMuis: Boek 3-6 (in Afrikaans, together with illustrators Johann Strauss and Karen Ahlschläger), 2016.
Leon Rousseau, StorieMuis Omnibus (Book 2), 2015.
Leon Rousseau, StorieMuis Omnibus (Book 1), 2015.
Dianne Steward, Folktales from Africa (second edition), 2015.
Kiara Soobrayan, Blossoms of Scarlet, 2013.
Sunita Lad Bhamray, Grandma Lim’s Persimmons, 2013.
Leon Rousseau (collected by), four fairy tales in digital format on the Storierak online application store of NB Publishers (Afrikaans), (2013, published in 2012).
Leon Rousseau (fairy tales collected by), Storieman Omnibus 1 and Storieman Omnibus 2, 2012.
Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang, Ears Hear(English and Chinese), 2012.
Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang, Numbers Do (English and Chinese), 2012.
Ingrid Vander Veken (Dutch original translated into Afrikaans by Antjie Krog), Sam: ’n Ware verhaal van ’n dogtertjie en haar olifant, 2012.
Alex D’Angelo, Goblin Diaries: Apprenticed to the Red Witch, 2011.
Desmond Tutu, Children of God - Storybook Bible (one of 20 illustrators, commissioned from around the world), 2010.
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (the Afrikaans translation by André P. Brink, Die Avonture van Alice in Wonderland), 2010.
C.J. Langenhoven, Kootjie Totjie, 2009.
Jaco Jacobs, Bertus soek 'n Boek (Afrikaans), 2009.
Ndedi Okorafo-Mbachu, Lonng Juju Man, 2009.
Wendy Hartmann, Nina and Little Duck (Afrikaans translation: Nina en Eendjie, 2007.
Raffaelle Delle Donne, San Tales from Africa, 2007.
Dianne Steward, Folktales from Africa, 2007.
Gill Munton, A Yeti in Town, A Chinese folk tale (Explorers 3), 2007.
Mary Clanahan, Die Avonture van Phepa en Itumelang (Afrikaans translation of The Adventures of Phepa and Itumelang), 2006.
Nick Paul, Uncle James and the Delicious Monster (In Afrikaans: Oom Japie en die Monsterplant), 2005.
Leon de Villiers, Ek en My Monster (Afrikaans), 2004.
Arnold Rust, The Haunted Valley, 2004.
Wynand Louw, Mr Humperdinck’s Wonderful Whatsit, 2004. (In Afrikaans, Mnr Humperdinck se wonderlike Watsenaam, 2009)
Louise Smit, Professor Fossilus en die Dinosourusse (Afrikaans), 2004.
Katherine Paterson, The King’s Equal (Greek translation from English), 2001.
Vangelis Eliopoulos, The Three Teapots (in Greek), 2000.
Voula Mastori, In the Wizard's Hands (in Greek), 2000.
Ann Taylor, Baby Dance, 1999.
Thomas A. Nevin, The Zebra and the Baboon (translated into various African languages), 1996.
Thomas A. Nevin, The Mantis, the Girl and the Flowers of Namakwaland (translated into various African languages), 1995.
Dorian Haarhoff, The Guano Girl, 1995.
Michelle Holloway, Chloe’s Granny (Afrikaans translation:Naomi se Ouma), 1995.
Brenda Kali, The Story of Buddha, 1994.
Lesley Beake, Harry went to Paris, 1989.
Rena Schüler, Natie se Jubeljaar (Afrikaans), 1984.
Jenny Seed, Katie in die Goudvallei (Afrikaans), 1983.
Cecilia Saayman, Soetlemoen en Nartjie (Afrikaans), 1983.
Educational children's books
As writer and illustrator
Cave, 1998.
The authentic, true-to-life, unusual, alarming, actual, factual book (Bright Books Reader & Activity Book), 1998.
The Summer Book (Bright Books, Grade Two series), 1998.
The Autumn Book (Bright Books, Grade Two series), 1998.
The Winter Book (Bright Books, Grade Two series), 1998.
The Winter Book (Bright Books, Grade Two series), 1998.
The Spring Book (Bright Books, Grade Two series), 1998.
Frog, 1998.
Baobab, 1998.
The Cat Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Snake Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Goat Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Monkey Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Zebra Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Dog Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Mouse Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Owl Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Rabbit Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Donkey Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
The Chicken Book (Bright Books, Grade One series), 1997.
21 low-cost picture books for the Ntataise Trust, SA, 1994.
As illustrator
Mark Patrick, Today my doctor told me, 2009.
Nicole Levin, The Jungle Box, 2008.
Blessing Musariri, Secret of Rukodzi Mountain, 2008.
Margaret Mckenzie, Saving the Planet – 10 things you should know, 2008.
Nola Turkington, Alone with Jackals, 2007.
Maggie Bizzell, What Was That?, 2005.
Di Steward, The Monkeys in the Trees, 2005.
David Donald, Camp in the Wild, 2004.
Abby Wood, The Gardener’s Secret, 2004.
Wendy Flanagan, I am HIV Positive, 2004.
Beata Kasale, Treasure in the Garden, 2001.
Kathy Luckett, Sylve Sandalls & Nombulelo Sikhosana, Does your father snore?, 1999.
Afari Assan, Adefe and the Old Chief, 1999.
Sally Ward, Dorothy’s Visit, 1998.
Chris Wildman & Fatima Dike, Look what I can do, 1998.
Sue Guthrie, Mkulu and the Spider, 1996.
Ray Leitch, Nomathemba’s Fire, 1996.
Various authors, Thuli’s Mattress, 1996.
Sarah Murray & Rod Ellis, The old Man and his Hat, 1995.
Philip de Vos, Sproete en Snoete (Afrikaans), 1994.
Philip de Vos, Giere en Grille (Afrikaans), 1994.
Philip de Vos, Warrelwind se Kind (Afrikaans), 1994.
Marjorie van Heerden et al., Baba’s Plan, 1990.
References
http://www.harpercollins.com/cr-109575/marjorie-van-heerden
http://www.humanrousseau.com/Books/Find/Marjorie+van+Heerden
http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/vheerdenm.html
http://www.abebooks.com/Baobab-South-African-Edition-Marjorie-Heerden/10034338359/bd
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/books
http://www.nb.co.za/
External links
http://www.grafikon.co.za/
http://marjorie-van-heerden.blogspot.com/
http://southafrica.scbwi.org/
http://www.scbwi.org/members-public/marjorie-van-heerden
http://www.jacketflap.com/profile.asp?member=Marjorie
http://willynillyandthumper.com/
1949 births
Living people
20th-century South African women artists
21st-century South African women artists
20th-century South African women writers
21st-century South African women writers
South African people of Dutch descent
South African women illustrators
South African children's book illustrators
South African children's writers
South African women children's writers
Stellenbosch University alumni
Alumni of Rustenburg School for Girls |
Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 – April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter. From 1920 to 1968, Taurog directed 180 films. At the age of 32, he received the Academy Award for Best Director for Skippy (1931), becoming the youngest person to win the award for eight and a half decades until Damien Chazelle won for La La Land in 2017. He was later nominated for Best Director for the film Boys Town (1938). He directed some of the best-known actors of the twentieth century, including his nephew Jackie Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Elvis Presley. Taurog directed six Martin and Lewis films, and nine Elvis Presley films, more than any other director.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Taurog has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street.
Early life
Norman Taurog was born February 23, 1899, in Chicago, Illinois, to Jewish parents Arthur Jack Taurog and Anita (originally "Annie") Taurog (née Goldsmith). His father's naturalization records claim that Arthur was born in the Russian Empire in 1872 or 1873 and naturalized as a minor, while his mother was from New York. Later census records claimed that Arthur's parents were from Germany, and Anita's were from England. The couple were married in Chicago in 1896.
Norman became a child performer on the stage at an early age, making his movie debut at the age of 13 in the short film Tangled Relations, produced by Thomas Ince's studios. In the eight years until his next screen credit, he worked in theater, mostly off-Broadway.
Film career
In 1919, Taurog returned to the film industry as a director, collaborating with Larry Semon in The Sportsman (1920). In the coming decade, he made 42 silent films, mostly shorts. During this time, he developed his style, his forte being light comedy although he could also deal with drama and maintain complex narratives. In early 1928, he directed his first feature-length film, The Ghetto starring George Jessel, which was expanded in late 1928 with musical and dialogue portions directed by Charles C. Wilson for eventual release as Lucky Boy (1929).
In 1931, Taurog made his breakthrough, directing Skippy, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. In February 2012, Taurog's Oscar award statue sold for $301,973 at an auction in Beverly Hills. Taurog's nephew Jackie Cooper was also nominated for his acting performance; in his 1981 autobiography Please Don't Shoot My Dog, Cooper wrote that during Skippy's filming, Cooper could not cry on cue in a movie scene. Taurog then had a studio security guard pretend to shoot Cooper's dog behind a prop wall, to make the child actor cry. (While this autobiography was being written, attempts were made by Cooper's editor to get Taurog's version of events; Taurog declined to participate.) Skippy tells of the adventures of the eponymous hero, his antics and adventures with his friend Sooky as they try to come up with a license for Sooky's dog, save his shantytown from demolition, sell lemonade and save for a new bike. Based on a popular comic strip character, its sentiment, comedy and moral didacticism (common with movies of the time), added to a gritty realism made it a huge success, so much so that the studio immediately scheduled a sequel, Sooky, for the following year.
The next few years saw Taurog enter the third chapter of his career, as an established director who could work in a number of genres. He directed a series of well-received films, including If I Had a Million (1932), which showed his ability to work with an all-star cast—Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, and W. C. Fields. In 1934, he directed We're Not Dressing, starring Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and Ray Milland. In 1935, he directed the star-studded musical showcase The Big Broadcast of 1936 starring Bing Crosby and George Burns and Gracie Allen.
In 1938, Taurog brought all his skill and experience to bear with one of the liveliest and most successful adaptations of classic literature; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was an artistic and commercial triumph. The year also brought Boys Town, showing Taurog to be more than capable of sustaining a dramatic narrative and earning him another Academy Award nomination. It wasn't all success, though. Lucky Night (1939) starring Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor was a turkey, and while Taurog shot test scenes for 1939's cinematic extravaganza The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming was chosen to direct. Taurog was reassigned to work on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a change which he had little to no say in. However, Taurog went on to earn a Best Director nomination for Boys Town later that year, despite losing out on directing Oz. He did, however, helm the last of MGM's big pre-war musical showcases, 1940's Broadway Melody, starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell. He expanded his range into biographies, working with Mickey Rooney again, in the well-received Young Tom Edison (1940). He directed Judy Garland three times in the early 1940s, in Little Nellie Kelly (1940), the 'small-town-girl-gets-big-break' Presenting Lily Mars (1943), and the Gershwin musical Girl Crazy (1943).
After directing re-takes for a wartime propaganda film, Rationing (1944), Taurog entered new territory with a docudrama of the atom bomb, The Beginning or the End (1947). It was back to his metier of light comedy for his next couple of outings, The Bride Goes Wild with Van Johnson and June Allyson, and Big City, both in 1948. Remarkably, he also directed a third film that year combining the genres of comedy, drama and biography and dealing with an all-star cast; Words and Music was a fictionalized biopic of the relationship between Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. It starred, among others, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Mickey Rooney and Cyd Charisse. By now, Taurog had established a reputation as a director who was comfortable working in the musical and comedy genre, and who could be relied upon to work with slight material—qualities which would be useful later in his career.
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had been a double-act since 1946 and had made five films together, three Martin and Lewis top-liners, before Taurog directed Jumping Jacks (1952), regarded by many Martin and Lewis fans as the finest of their films. Taurog worked well with the duo and he went on to direct them in The Stooge (1953), The Caddy (1954), Living It Up (1955), You're Never Too Young (1954), and their penultimate film together, Pardners (1956). Taurog worked with Lewis alone twice more, in Don't Give Up the Ship (1959) and Visit to a Small Planet (1960).
In 1960, Taurog directed his first Elvis Presley film, G.I. Blues. This was a turning point for Elvis. Up until then, he had harbored ambitions of being a James Dean figure, playing brooding rebel roles in Loving You (1957), Jailhouse Rock (1957), and King Creole (1958). However, Colonel Tom Parker had different plans for the singer. G.I. Blues was Elvis's first film in two years, following his return from the army, and would set the tone for future films—a few girls, a few adventures, and a few songs along the way with weak plots and uninspired acting. When well-made, this was an entertaining, light-hearted formula and Taurog, now in his sixties, was an old hand at it. So impressed was Parker with his work that over the next eight years, Taurog directed Elvis in eight more films: Blue Hawaii (1961), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), It Happened at the World's Fair (1963), Tickle Me (1965), Spinout (1966), Double Trouble (1967), Speedway (1968), and Live a Little, Love a Little (1968). Although some were better than others—and some were almost identical—Taurog ensured that the films had pace, the comedy was delivered well, and the songs were well executed. Live a Little, Love a Little was his last film.
Later years
In 1968, Taurog retired from directing. He later taught at the University of Southern California School of Cinema and remained a board member of the Directors Guild of America. He owned a camera shop in Canoga Park, California.
Toward the end of his life, he became blind. In his last years, he served as director of the Braille Institute in Los Angeles.
Taurog died on April 7, 1981, in Palm Desert, California, at the age of 82. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
Taurog has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street for his contribution to the motion picture industry.
Taurog supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.
Awards and nominations
1931 Academy Award for Best Director (Skippy)
1938 Venice Film Festival Mussolini Cup for Best Film (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
1939 Academy Award Nomination for Best Director (Boys Town)
1960 Star on the Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures, dedicated on February 8, 1960, at 1600 Vine Street
1966 Laurel Award Nomination for Director, fourth place
1967 Laurel Award Nomination for Director, fifth place
1968 Laurel Award Nomination for Director, eighth place
Filmography
From 1920 to 1968, Taurog directed 180 films. The following is a partial list of his feature films.
1920s
The Fly Cop (1920) with Larry Semon
Lucky Boy (1929)
1930s
Troopers Three (1930)
Sunny Skies (1930) with Benny Rubin and Rex Lease
Skippy (1931) with Jackie Cooper
Newly Rich (1931) with Mitzi Green
Huckleberry Finn (1931) with Jackie Coogan
Sooky (1931) with Jackie Cooper and Robert Coogan
The Phantom President (1932) with George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante
A Bedtime Story (1933) with Maurice Chevalier
We're Not Dressing (1934) with Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, and George Burns
The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) with Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Dandridge and Glenn Miller
Rhythm on the Range (1936) with Bing Crosby and Frances Farmer
Mad About Music (1938) with Deanna Durbin and Herbert Marshall
The Girl Downstairs (1938) with Franciska Gaal and Franchot Tone
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) with Tommy Kelly and Jackie Moran
Boys Town (1938) with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney
1940s
Young Tom Edison (1940)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) with Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell
Little Nellie Kelly (1940) with Judy Garland
Men of Boys Town (1941) with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney
Design for Scandal (1941) with Rosalind Russell and Walter Pidgeon
A Yank at Eton (1942) with Mickey Rooney
Presenting Lily Mars (1943) with Judy Garland and Van Heflin
Girl Crazy (1943) with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
The Canterville Ghost (1944) co-directed (uncredited) with Jules Dassin
The Beginning or the End (1947) with Brian Donlevy
The Bride Goes Wild (1948) with Van Johnson and June Allyson
Big City (1948) with Margaret O'Brien
Words and Music (1948) with June Allyson, Perry Como, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Mickey Rooney and Cyd Charisse
1950s
Please Believe Me (1950) with Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker and Peter Lawford
The Toast of New Orleans (1950) with Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza and David Niven
Room for One More (1952) with Cary Grant
Jumping Jacks (1952) with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
The Stooge (1953) with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
The Caddy (1953) with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Donna Reed
Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954, TV special with 6 other directors)
Living It Up (1954) with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Janet Leigh
You're Never Too Young (1955) with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Pardners (1956) with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
The Birds and the Bees (1956) with George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957) with Jane Russell
Don't Give Up the Ship (1959) with Jerry Lewis
1960s
Visit to a Small Planet (1960) with Jerry Lewis
G.I. Blues (1960) with Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
All Hands on Deck (1961) with Pat Boone
Blue Hawaii (1961) with Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman and Angela Lansbury
Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) with Elvis Presley and Stella Stevens
Palm Springs Weekend (1963) with Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) with Elvis Presley and Gary Lockwood
Tickle Me (1965) with Elvis Presley and Jocelyn Lane
Sergeant Deadhead (1965) with Frankie Avalon
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) with Vincent Price
Spinout (1966) with Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares
Double Trouble (1967) with Elvis Presley
Speedway (1968) with Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra and Bill Bixby
Live a Little, Love a Little'' (1968) with Elvis Presley, Michele Carey and Dick Sargent
See also
List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
References
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1899 births
1981 deaths
Film directors from Illinois
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American male screenwriters
Jewish American writers
Writers from Chicago
Best Directing Academy Award winners
USC School of Cinematic Arts faculty
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Screenwriters from California
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Stony Head is an Australian Army artillery range and training centre in the local government area (LGA) of George Town in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The range locality is about north-east of the town of George Town. The 2016 census recorded a population of nil for the state suburb of Stony Head.
History
Stony Head is a confirmed locality.
The Australian Army has used the site as an artillery range since 1966. The Australia Government formally acquired the area in 1997. The host unit for the range was 16th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, an Australian Army Reserve unit based in Tasmania until 2013. Maintenance and facility construction is undertaken by the Royal Australian Engineers. It has also been used by the 2nd Force Support Battalion reserves and local Australian Army Cadets units.
In 1969 a dirt airstrip was constructed capable of landing Royal Australian Air Force Caribou transport planes that was later extended to accommodate the C-130 Hercules to provide supply missions to the range. It has been used occasionally by local flying clubs via arrangement with the military.
Geography
The waters of Bass Strait form the north-western and northern boundaries.
Public access to the coastal beach areas is possible but inland has a significant risk from unexploded ordnance. The public is discouraged from moving further inland and there is a fence built around the most dangerous part of the range with guard patrols during exercises.
The range includes the location , one of the points included in the Degree Confluence Project, which aims to visit and photograph all the points with coordinates of Y°0′0″, X°0′0″. The project was refused permission to visit this point, because of the danger of unexploded ordnance.
Road infrastructure
Route C807 (Beechford Road) passes the locality to the west. From there access is provided by an unnamed road.
References
Australian Army bases
Towns in Tasmania
Localities of George Town Council |
Leprocaulinus is a genus of phasmids belonging to the family Phasmatidae.
The Phasmida Species File lists:
Leprocaulinus digitatus
Leprocaulinus heinrichi
Leprocaulinus insularis
Leprocaulinus kaupii
Leprocaulinus lobulatus
Leprocaulinus mammatus
Leprocaulinus obiensis
Leprocaulinus sulawesiense
Leprocaulinus vipera
References
Phasmatodea genera
Lonchodidae |
The Hundred of Dalrymple is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia on the southern Yorke Peninsula. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Fergusson. Proclaimed on 20 June 1872, it is officially thought to be named after Dalrymple, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
The townships of Stansbury and Wool Bay, as well as the north eastern part of the modern bounded locality of Yorketown, are within the hundred boundaries.
Dalrymple substation, midway between Stansbury and Wool Bay at Hayward Corner, is named for the hundred.
Name
Officially it is thought to be named after Dalrymple, East Ayrshire, Scotland, but it may alternatively have been named after the father of James Fergusson, the state governor of the day, Charles Dalrymple Fergusson.
Local government
The District Council of Dalrymple was established in 1877, bringing local government to the entire hundred. In 1932 it was amalgamated along with the District Council of Melville into the District Council of Yorketown. Yorketown council was amalgamated with the councils of Central Yorke Peninsula, Warooka and Minlaton in 1997 to form the present Yorke Peninsula Council, which locally governs most of the peninsula.
See also
Lands administrative divisions of South Australia
References
Dalrymple
Dalrymple
1872 establishments in Australia |
Schleck is a surname, and may refer to a family of Luxembourgian professional road bicycle racers :
Johny Schleck (born 1942)
and his two sons :
Andy Schleck (born 1985)
Fränk Schleck (born 1980)
Other
Charles Asa Schleck, American catholic prelate
Schleck is the German for licking |
Linda Bailey Hayden (born February 4, 1949) is an American mathematician. She specializes in mathematics education and applications of mathematics in geoscience,
and is known for her mentorship of minorities and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
She is a professor and associate dean of mathematics and computer science at Elizabeth City State University.
Education
Hayden is originally from Portsmouth, Virginia.
She grew up interested in mathematics,
but because of segregation she could only read mathematics books from the Colored Community Library in Portsmouth by specially requesting them to be transferred from the town's main library.
She attended the public schools in Portsmouth, including I. C. Norcom High School. Through her participation in high school mathematics competitions, she won a scholarship to Virginia State University, a historically black university.
She graduated from Virginia State in 1970, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics, and earned a master's degree in mathematics education from the University of Cincinnati in 1972.
She completed a second master's degree in 1983 in computer science at Old Dominion University.
After this work she returned to graduate study in mathematics education, with Winson R. Coleman and Mary W. Gray at American University. She completed her Ph.D. there in 1988; her dissertation was The Impact of an Intervention Program for High Ability Minority Students on Rates of High School Graduation, College Enrollment, and Choice of a Quantitative Major.
Career
After earning her first master's degree in 1972, Hayden joined the mathematics department at Kentucky State University as an assistant professor.
She moved to Norfolk State University in 1976, and again to Elizabeth City State University in 1980. At Elizabeth City State University, she founded the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research, with the goal of increasing minority participation in environmental science.
Recognition
In 2003, Hayden won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, and US Black Engineer magazine gave her their Emerald Honors for Educational Leadership.
A former ice shelf in the Antarctic was named for her institution by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names. Hayden's accomplishments earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.
References
1949 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
African-American mathematicians
Virginia State University alumni
University of Cincinnati alumni
Old Dominion University alumni
Kentucky State University faculty
Norfolk State University faculty
Elizabeth City State University faculty
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
Mathematicians from Virginia
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
21st-century American women
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people |
Conference of Western Balkan States was a 28 August 2014 conference of heads of states and governments of Western Balkans region initiated by German chancellor Angela Merkel. An idea for organization of conference came in light of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I. It is the first conference in this framework and organizers expressed their desire to continue it in future with Vienna and Paris mentioned as a potential next hosts after Berlin (so called Berlin Process). Günther Oettinger confirmed at conference that event will be organised annually with Vienna as a host city in 2015 and Paris in 2016.
The German chancellor announced intention to organize a conference on 7 June 2014. Invitation for participation was sent to all the countries of South Eastern Europe including Croatia and Slovenia that were already members of the European Union at the time of conference.
The main intention was to show commitment for process of Future enlargement of the European Union, little progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia in that process and relations of Serbia with Russia in the light of International sanctions during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine.
During the Foreign Ministers’ segment, Albanian Foreign Minister Bushati underlined the importance of making this initiative periodical, as well as finding the right instruments to enable, in future years, the drafting and implementation of concrete joint projects in the region. In this regard Albanian delegation presented a document under the title "Albanian Working Paper for the Western Balkans Conference in Berlin", which is based in the vision of "a region in peace and well prepared to join the European Union, by guarantying a dignified living for all its citizens."
At conference was announced future visit of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama to Serbia. It will be the first meeting of this type between two countries after 1947 meeting of Enver Hoxha with President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito. However, an incident during a football match in Belgrade has cast doubt on this visit. Edi Rama eventually visited Serbia on 10 November 2014 to meet his Serbian counterpart but tempers flared when Rama said that Kosovo's independence was "undeniable" and "must be respected" and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić accused him of a "provocation".
Franz Lothar Altmann, expert on the Balkans, stated in his pre-conference interview for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that conference proves increasing importance of Balkan region, especially with respect to the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Regional activities before conference
Prime ministers of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Deputy Chair of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Council of Ministers of Bosnia Zlatko Lagumdžija met in Belgrade on 20 August to agree on joint projects that two countries will present in Berlin. Serbian delegation also announced its intention seek support for infrastructure project of modernization of the Belgrade–Bar railway.
On 25 August 2014 Prime ministers of Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania meet prior to conference in Croatian town of Cavtat. Prime ministers exchange views on infrastructure projects and other topics of common interest which may be discussed at conference.
Croatia announced its intention to seek support for construction of section of Adriatic–Ionian motorway along the coast conditional on it receiving EU funds for the Pelješac Bridge.
On 2014 Croatia Summit Aleksei Meshkov, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, said that European Union should not push the Western Balkan States to select EU or Russia.
Participants of conference
José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission
Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy
Günther Oettinger, European Commission Vice President
Angela Merkel
Sigmar Gabriel, Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and Vice Chancellor of Germany
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany
Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria
Reinhold Mitterlehner, Austrian federal minister of economy
Sebastian Kurz, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria
Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister of Serbia
Ivica Dačić, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia
Zoran Milanović, Prime Minister of Croatia
Vesna Pusić, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia
Ivan Vrdoljak, Minister of Economy of Croatia
Alenka Bratušek, Prime Minister of Slovenia
Karl Erjavec, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
Metod Dragonja, Minister of Economic Development and Technology of Slovenia
Milo Đukanović, Prime Minister of Montenegro
Igor Lukšić, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vladimir Kavarić, Minister of Economy of Montenegro
Vjekoslav Bevanda, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zlatko Lagumdžija, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Boris Tučić, Minister of Foreign trade and economic relations
Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania
Ditmir Bushati, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania
Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister of Macedonia
Vladimir Peševski, Deputy Prime Minister
Bekim Neziri
Hashim Thaçi, Prime Minister of Republic of Kosovo
See also
Berlin Process
Southeast Europe
Treaty of Berlin (1878)
Croatia Summit
Igman Initiative
Stabilisation and Association Process
Central European Free Trade Agreement
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
South-East European Cooperation Process
Regional Cooperation Council
Southeast European Cooperative Initiative
Russia in the European energy sector
References
External links
Final Declaration by the Chair of the Conference on the Western Balkans, Berlin, 28 August 2014
The EU integration Office of Serbia
Secretariat for European Affairs of Macedonia
Delegation of the European Union to Albania
2014 in politics
Diplomatic conferences in Germany
21st-century diplomatic conferences (Europe)
2014 in international relations
2014 conferences
Foreign relations of Croatia
Foreign relations of Albania
Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Foreign relations of Kosovo
Foreign relations of North Macedonia
Foreign relations of Montenegro
Foreign relations of Serbia
Foreign relations of Slovenia
International relations in Southeastern Europe
Enlargement of the European Union
2014 in Berlin
August 2014 events in Germany |
Macarostola thriambica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Sri Lanka.
References
Macarostola
Moths of Sri Lanka
Moths described in 1907 |
Cham Mehr or Cham-e Mehr () may refer to:
Cham Mehr-e Bala
Cham Mehr-e Pain |
Souk Tlet El Gharb is a small town and rural commune in Kénitra Province of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 22,416 people living in 3315 households. It lies along National Route 1, southwest of Souk El Arbaa and northeast of Kenitra.
References
Populated places in Kénitra Province
Rural communes of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra |
Paradisbakkerne ("hills of paradise"), also Helvedesbakkerne ("hills of hell"), is a group of hills in Denmark, located in the east of the island of Bornholm. It is situated approximately northwest of Nexø. The privately owned area consists of hilly, rocky landscapes with narrow rift valleys lined by almost vertical cliffs, making it popular for nature walks. Typically, the hills rise to a height of above the surroundings in a forested area which also has a number of small lakes and marshes. Midterpilt, above sea level, is one of the highest points. Although much of the area is now wooded, it was once covered with heather and low shrubs, making it suitable for grazing. Paradisbakkerne has a long cultural history, attested by numerous place names with their own legends and stories. These include Slingestenen, Linkisten, Ligstenen, Dybedal, Ravnedal, Majdal, and Gamle Dam.
Geography
Bornholm has varied natural features, such as Almindingen, Hammeren, Jons Kapel, Rytterknægten, and Dueodde. Paradisbakkerne rises within the eastern part of Bornholm's forest. It stretches across approximately in the eastern-central area of the island. The forest area of Paradisbakkerne is ecologically diverse, and contains a rich flora and fauna, including a number of rare amphibians and reptiles. There are many valleys from the north through the south, which give the whole area a hilly character. In addition to rift valleys, there is also evidence of the last ice age with glacial boulders and glacial striae. Rock piles, which previously served as landmarks and were visible from afar are now surrounded by forest. The geological formation in the area is granite. The landscape was once covered with heather, shrubs and other low vegetation before the twentieth century, but it has been forested and conserved since the 1930s.
Fauna, flora, and funga
The fauna reported by the European Environment Agency in the area, as well as in Almindingen and Ølene, include the invertebrates Dytiscus latissimus (a species of beetle), and Graphoderus bilineatus (a species of beetle in family Dytiscidae). The bird species recorded are Tengmalm's owl (Aegolius funereus), Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris), European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus), hen harrier (Circus cyaneus), corn crake (Crex crex), black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), common crane (Grus grus), white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), lesser grey shrike (Lanius minor), red kite (Milvus milvus), osprey (Pandion haliaetus), and European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus). The mammal species reported are Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii) and pond bat (Myotis dasycneme).
Fungi reported from the area include Amanita muscaria and Sparassis crispa.
Conservation
Since the beginning of the eighteenth century, much of the island has been afforested. Sheep grazing is permitted by the Regional Municipality of Bornholm in identified areas. Paradisbakkerne contains an extensive network of hiking trails. Tourists are permitted to walk on the roads and trails from sunrise to sunset in accordance with the Nature Protection Act. There is also a restriction on construction of any residential buildings and farmhouses within of the area of the hilly landscape. Berries, mushrooms, moss and flowers that grow along the walkways or trials of the conservation area only can be picked for use. Intersecting Paradisbakkerne in an east–west direction is a cycle path that crosses the entire island. There is also a bridle path that winds all the way around the circumference.
References
Forests of Denmark
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