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Zygaena is a genus of moths in the family Zygaenidae. Zygaena may also refer to: Sphyrna zygaena, the smooth hammerhead shark Zygaena dissimilis and Zygaena mokarran, synonyms of the great hammerhead shark, Sphyrna mokarran Zygaena blochii, Zygaena laticeps, Zygaena latycephala, synonyms of the winghead shark, Eusphyra blochii Zygaena lewini, Zygaena erythraea, obsolete names for the scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini Zygocranchia zygaena, a synonym for Galiteuthis armata, the armed cranch squid
Harp Township is one of thirteen townships in DeWitt County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 310 and it contained 136 housing units. History The earliest known pioneer to settle in Harp Township was Solomon Cross who erected a log cabin deep in the solitude of a forest of oak trees in 1830. The cabin was 16'x18', square and built of rough unhewn logs. The cabin stood fifty years before it was destroyed. At about the same time as the Cross family, Jesse Mulkey and his brother-in-law Baltus Malone located in the township after a long journey from Kentucky at what would become known as Mulkey's Point. Mulkey and Malone's stay in the area would be short, abandoning their cabin after just over a year's time. Soon however, Felix Jones took possession of the old Mulkey cabin and constructed the first orchard in the township. Mulkey's Point also contained significant evidence of Indian camps and hunting grounds. Many of the trinkets and items found were shown to visitors of another early township resident, J. W. McCord. 1831 brought many new faces to the township including Isaac Davidson who came from Tennessee, but his life in the township would be very short as he died that same year. Davidson became the first burial in the township. The exact date is lost to history, but it occurred in the month of October, 1831. Soon after that same month, William Cross became the second resident to pass on. William was a brother to Solomon Cross and was buried on section thirty-two. In 1832, Harp township had a happier first as it celebrated its first marriage in the township. Mary Cross accepted the proposal of Martin Dale despite her parents opposition, and the couple were married in 1832. Tyre Harp and Joseph Harp located their families on section twenty-nine in 1831. They came to the township from Overton County, Tennessee, but had lived a brief time in Waynesville, Illinois prior to settling in Harp Township. The first school in the township was taught from the home of Tyre Harp in 1836. The following year, Tyre Harp, Pleasant Smith and Dudley Richards contributed $110 towards paying for a six months school and erected the first schoolhouse, a x18ft foot cabin where Edom Shugert from Tennessee (who had also taught in Tyre Harp's home) took charge of the school. Tyre was also a shoemaker, crafting all of the shoes for his family. The Harp family was very prominent in the township, which is in fact named after their family. They are also credited with being one of the few families of the early settlers to remain permanent residents of the township. The first land entries recorded in the township are as follows: April 6, 1831, John Norfleet, entered W 1/2, N.W 1/4 Section 23, 80 acres. June 16, 1831, William Kincaid, entered, 240 acres, Section 24. July 8, 1831, William H. Brown, entered W 1/3, S.W 1/4. August 2, 1831, Parmenius Smallwood, entered W 1/2, S.W. 1/4, Section 33, 80 acres. July 17, 1833, Tyre Harp, entered E 1/2, S.W. 1/4, Section 29, acres. April 21, 1834, Gabriel Watt, entered N.E 1/4, S.E 1/4, Section 24, 40 Acres. January 3, 1835, J. Pue, entered S 1/2, S.E. 1/4, Section 36, 80 acres. One of the earliest camp-meeting grounds was on section 25 where Winding Clark held services in 1835. Families came from miles around to enjoy the village of cabins erected here. A platform constructed for the preachers and benches arranged of partially hewn logs helped to offer good cheer and spiritual inspiration. Reverend John St. Clair was present during this time. Jefferson Cross became the first justice of the peace elected to office in the township and Solomon Despain who located in Waynesville in 1830 before locating in Harp Township in 1837 became the first blacksmith to set up shop. Despain was also a Baptist preacher. Despain built his smithy on land owned by William Garrison Wright who had married Tyre Harp's daughter Leah in 1834. A second smithy would later be built near Wilson's mill in 1860 by a man named Leonard. The first road in the township led from Clinton, IL to Marion and was cut by Hugh L. Davenport. By this time the U.S. mail delivered to Clinton where township residents would commute, which was preferable to the longer trip to Bloomington, Illinois to the north. The Gilman branch of the Illinois Central Railroad passes through the township from east to west, entering on section 24, and leaving on section 30. Much litigation surrounded the railroad from people refusing to honor bonds because of non-compliance by the railroad company, one such matter brought by Thomas Snell on section 20 leading to the construction of a switch in the winter of 1882. Township veterans served in the Mexican War and in the Black Hawk War. William Harp, Charles Harp, Calvin Paine, Isaac M'Cuddy, David Beebe, Isaac Strain and Joshua Jackson all served in the Mexican War and William Garrison Wright served in the Black Hawk War. Geography According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Harp Township has a total area of , of which (or 89.73%) is land and (or 10.27%) is water. Harp Township includes part of Clinton Lake and Clinton Nuclear Generating Station. The North Fork of Salt Creek and Illinois Route 54 pass through the township as well. Unincorporated towns Birkbeck at (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Cemeteries The township contains these two cemeteries: Griffith and Willmore. Airports and landing strips Thorp Airport Demographics As of the 2020 census there were 310 people, 135 households, and 117 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 136 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 99.03% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.97% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.00% of the population. There were 135 households, out of which 35.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.30% were married couples living together, 10.37% had a female householder with no spouse present, and 13.33% were non-families. 13.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.09 and the average family size was 2.26. The township's age distribution consisted of 16.0% under the age of 18, 0.0% from 18 to 24, 34.8% from 25 to 44, 31.1% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 122.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.3 males. The median income for a household in the township was $76,518, and the median income for a family was $57,375. Males had a median income of $70,833 versus $61,250 for females. The per capita income for the township was $37,949. About 9.4% of families and 8.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.0% of those under age 18 and 45.1% of those age 65 or over. School districts Blue Ridge Community Unit School District 18 Clinton Community Unit School District 15 Deland-Weldon Community Unit School District 57 Political districts Illinois's 15th congressional district State House District 87 State Senate District 44 References United States Census Bureau 2009 TIGER/Line Shapefiles United States National Atlas External links City-Data.com Illinois State Archives Township Officials of Illinois Harp page on www.dewitt.ilgenweb.net Townships in DeWitt County, Illinois Populated places established in 1858 1858 establishments in Illinois Townships in Illinois
The 123rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 123rd Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and mustered in August 1862 for nine month's service under the command of Colonel John B. Clark. The regiment was attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, V Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May 1863. The 123rd Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out May 13, 1863. Detailed service Moved to Harrisburg, Pa., then to Washington, D.C., August 20-23, 1862. Maryland Campaign September 6-24, 1862. Duty at Sharpsburg, Md., until October 30. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15. Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863. Duty at Falmouth until April 27. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Casualties The regiment lost a total of 72 men during service; 3 officers and 27 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 41 enlisted men died of disease. Commanders Colonel John B. Clark See also List of Pennsylvania Civil War Units Pennsylvania in the Civil War References Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Lang, Scott B. The Forgotten Charge: The 123rd Pennsylvania at Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books), 2002. Attribution External links National and state flags of the 123rd Pennsylvania Infantry Military units and formations established in 1862 Military units and formations disestablished in 1863 Units and formations of the Union Army from Pennsylvania
Tahni Nestor (born 3 March 1991) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and North Melbourne in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. AFLW career Nestor recruited by Carlton as an injury replacement player midway through the 2017 season. She made her debut in the fourth round of the season against Melbourne at Casey Fields. She was delisted at season's end after having played three matches at AFLW level. In 2019, Nestor was drafted by North Melbourne. After playing nine games in two seasons at the club, she was delisted in June 2021. References External links Living people 1991 births Carlton Football Club (AFLW) players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Sportswomen from Victoria (state) Melbourne University Football Club (VFLW) players North Melbourne Football Club (AFLW) players
Stosicia fernandezgarcesi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Zebinidae. Description The height of the shell attains 4 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Cuba. References Espinosa J. & Ortea J. (2002) Descripción de cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Rissoinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Avicennia 15: 141-146 page(s): 144 fernandezgarcesi Gastropods described in 2002
Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga () is a 2023 Indian Hindi heist thriller film directed Ajay Singh produced by Amar Kaushik. It stars Yami Gautam and Sunny Kaushal with Sharad Kelkar, Indraneil Sengupta and Barun Chanda appears in pivotal roles. The film released on 24 March 2023, directly for streaming, on Netflix. Plot In the fictional Middle Eastern city of Al-Barkat, Ankit Sethi is the owner of a diamond insurance company who owes a huge debt as the company's workers had misplaced a client's diamonds worth ₹20 crores. He meets Neha Grover, a flight attendant, on a flight and is instantly attracted to her. They later go out on a date and Neha starts liking him as well. They begin a relationship and sometime later, Neha announces that she is pregnant. Ankit proposes to marry her and she accepts. They both are attacked by a pair of goons working for the client to whom Ankit owes the debt. Neha is severely injured, which leads to her miscarriage. Seeing no other way to pay back the huge debt, they both decide to pull off a robbery. Minister, Harish Sanyal would be smuggling diamonds from Al-Barkat to India by plane, which would be carried by a courier appointed by him and Ankit would accompany him. A cellphone with its back cover laced with the diamonds would be kept inside a briefcase which would be locked by a code number. Ankit strikes a deal with Sanyal's secretary to reveal the code number to him and in return he would give him half the diamonds. Once on the flight, Ankit and Neha put their plan on motion - Neha deliberately spills food on the courier's clothes while serving the passengers, and he heads to the washroom to clean up the mess. Seizing the opportunity, Ankit goes to retrieve the diamonds from the briefcase, but just then a group of masked terrorists arrive, announcing that they have hijacked the flight, and hold all the passengers hostage. The hijackers order the pilots to land the plane on Kullu and demand that Adil-Mir, a terrorist who is held up in a prison in Manali, be released immediately. Ankit pretends to be suffering from asthma and requests the hijackers to allow him to get his inhaler from the other compartment, so that he can secretly steal the diamonds. But before he can steal the diamonds, one of the hijackers senses that he is lying, and beats him up. When government officials contact the hijackers, they head towards the cockpit to talk to them on the telephone and Ankit again sneaks into the other compartment to steal the diamonds. He takes out the diamonds from the briefcase and puts them in his own bag. Just then, one of the hijackers arrives and discovers the diamonds. Before he can shoot Ankit, he knocks the gun out of his hand and they both engage in a brutal fist fight. The other hijackers also arrive and together beat Ankit and lock him up in the washroom. Just then, a man named Sudhanshu Roy, who claims to be the Flight Marshal, picks up the gun dropped by one of the hijackers, and shoots all of them down, supposedly killing them. The passengers are safely evacuated from the plane. The hijackers had attached a bomb to Ankit's body and the bomb squad arrive to diffuse it, but the bomb turns out to be fake. Moreover, the dead bodies of the hijackers are not found on the plane and Sudhanshu is found to be missing as well. It is revealed that the real Flight Marshall is Bhanu Yadav, who was unconscious throughout the flight, and that Sudhanshu was an impersonator. RAW officer Parvez Shaikh arrives with his team to investigate the matter and interrogates all the passengers. Bhanu reveals that he was served a glass of orange juice on the flight, and that he may have fallen unconscious after drinking it. Ankit finds out that the diamonds stolen by him are fake. It is revealed that Ankit had pretended to be in love with Neha so that he can receive her help in pulling off the robbery on the flight. It is also revealed that Neha had discovered the truth that Ankit was only using her for his own benefit. She had contacted her old accomplice, Sudhanshu, and they had together hatched the plan to carry out a fake hijacking of the flight and steal the diamonds themselves, to take revenge on Ankit. They had brought together a team including Jinu, Nikki and Abbas, who would board the flight posing as passengers and later wear masks and act as the hijackers, and Gaffar, who would make artificial guns for them. Neha would spike the drink of Bhanu, making him fall unconscious, and Sudhanshu, pretending to be the Flight Marshal, would replace the diamonds with fake ones, pretend to kill the hijackers by firing a blank bullet, and escape, while the hijackers would blend in with the passengers after removing their masks. Neha makes an anonymous phone call to Sanyal and pressures him to order Parvez to stop the investigation and cover up the matter, or else she would bring out the truth of him smuggling diamonds. The case is closed and it is brought in front of the media and the general public that there had indeed been a hijacking and Bhanu is hailed as a national hero for killing the hijackers. Neha forwards a text message to Sanyal's phone, which shows that Ankit had received the code number to the briefcase on his phone. Realizing that he had tried to steal the diamonds, Sanyal brutally tortures Ankit. Neha comes to visit Ankit at the hospital, where he is recovering from his injuries, and reveals all the truth to him, saying that her revenge is complete. Sometime later, Neha receives a phone call from Ankit, hinting that he is also planning to take revenge on her. Cast Yami Gautam as Neha Grover Sunny Kaushal as Ankit Sethi Sharad Kelkar as RAW officer Parvez Shaikh Indraneil Sengupta as Sudhanshu Roy Barun Chanda as Home Minister Harish Sanyal Sunil Palwal as Azhar/Jinu Varghese Ajeet Singh as Zaheer/Nikki Ahuja Ghanshyam Lalsa as Irfaan/Abbas Ansari Krunal Pandit as Bhagat - Minister's Aide Priyanka Karunakaran as Vinita Mathew Vishal Om Prakash as Inspector Trilok Aru Krishansh Verma as Manmeet Aashit Chatterjee as Adil Mir Shahid Latief as Omar Bin Kamaal Malik as Bhanu Yadav Robin Das as Gaffar Purnendu Bhattacharya as Pilot Release The film is released on Netflix on 24 March 2023. Music The music for the film is composed by Vishal Mishra. Reception The film overall received mixed to positive response from critics as well as audience. Dhaval Roy of The Times Of India rated the film 3.5 stars out of 5 and wrote "The plotline and the double jeopardy situation of a heist and a hijack make Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga an exciting watch. The story may not seem convincing, and the events often get convenient, but the slick treatment and direction will keep you hooked throughout." Umesh Punwani of Koimoi rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote "All said and done, Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga is clever but incomplete; it’s smart in new ways but dumb in some old ways." Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV rated the film 2.5 stars out of 5 stars and wrote "Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga, despite its taut and precise screenplay, is at best passable fare. The film takes some time to take off. When it does, it avoids deviations and stays firmly focussed on its course." Shubhra Gupta for The Indian Express rating the film only 1.5 stars out of 5 wrote "The quick-fire romance between our lead pair leads to hot dates, and rumpled sheets. Having got the preliminaries out of the way, the film dives into its real business, and for a while we stay with it." References External links 2020s Hindi-language films 2023 films Films set on airplanes Hindi-language Netflix original films
Cassia may refer to: Given name Cassia, Kezia or Keziah, a female surname of Biblical origin the female gentilicium name of the Cassia gens in ancient Rome Cassia or Kassia, Byzantine abbess and music scholar Cássia Eller (1962–2001), Brazilian musician Cássia Kiss (born 1958), Brazilian actress Cassià Maria Just (1926–2008), Catalan abbot Cassia O'Reilly (born 1996), Irish singer-songwriter Fictional characters Cassia, a fictional playable character in Heroes of the Storm Cassia Maria Reyes, the protagonist of the Matched trilogy by Ally Condie See also Cassia (disambiguation)
Cruze may refer to: Chevrolet Cruze, a compact car, and formerly a crossover SUV produced by General Motors. Chester Cruze, a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives James Cruze (1884–1942), silent film actor and film director See also Rupert D'Cruze, British conductor Cruz Cruse (disambiguation) Cruise (disambiguation) Kruse (disambiguation)
Xispia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. References Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Carcharodini Hesperiidae genera
Vogue (stylized in all caps) is an American monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers various topics, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway. Based at One World Trade Center in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, Vogue began in 1892 as a weekly newspaper before becoming a monthly magazine years later. Since its founding, Vogue has featured numerous actors, musicians, models, athletes, and other prominent celebrities. The largest issue published by Vogue magazine was the September 2012 edition, containing 900 pages. The British Vogue, launched in 1916, was the first international edition, while the Italian version Vogue Italia has been called the top fashion magazine in the world. As of today, there are 28 international editions. History 1892–1905: early years Arthur Baldwin Turnure (1856–1906), an American businessman, founded Vogue as a weekly newspaper based in New York City, sponsored by Kristoffer Wright, with its first issue on December 17, 1892. The first issue was published with a cover price of 10 cents (). Turnure's intention was to create a publication that celebrated the "ceremonial side of life"; one that "attracts the sage as well as debutante, men of affairs, as well as the belle". From its inception the magazine intended to target the New York upper class by "recounting their habits, their leisure activities, their social gatherings, the places they frequented, and the clothing they wore... and everyone who wanted to look like them and enter their exclusive circle". The magazine at this time was primarily concerned with fashion, with coverage of sports and social affairs included for its male readership. 1905–1920: Condé Nast Condé Montrose Nast purchased Vogue in 1909, three years after Turnure's death. He gradually developed the nature of the publication. Nast changed it to a women's magazine, and he started Vogue editions overseas in the 1910s. Its price was also raised. The magazine's number of publications and profit increased dramatically under Nast's management. It continued to target an upscale audience and expanded into the coverage of weddings. According to Condé Nast Russia, when the First World War made deliveries in the Old World impossible, printing began in England. The decision to print in England proved successful, causing Nast to release the first issue of French Vogue in 1920. 1920–1970: expansion The magazine's number of subscriptions surged during the Great Depression, and again during World War II. During this time, noted critic and former Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield served as its editor, after moving from Vanity Fair by publisher Condé Nast. In July 1932, American Vogue placed its first color photograph on the cover of the magazine. The photograph was taken by photographer Edward Jean Steichen and portrayed a woman swimmer holding a beach ball in the air. Laird Borrelli notes that Vogue led the decline of fashion illustration in the late 1930s, when it began to replace its illustrated covers, by artists such as Dagmar Freuchen, with photographic images. Nast was responsible for introducing color printing and the "two-page spread". He has been credited with turning Vogue into a "successful business" and the "women's magazine we recognize today", having substantially increased sales volumes until his death in 1942. In the 1950s, the decade known as the magazine's "powerful years", Jessica Daves became editor-in-chief. As Rebecca C. Tuite has noted, "Daves led a quiet charge for excellence during one of the most challenging, transformative, and rich decades in the magazine's history." Daves believed that "taste is something that can be taught and learned", and she edited Vogue as "a vehicle to educate public taste". While fashion coverage remained a priority, Daves also elevated the written content of American Vogue, particularly championing more robust arts and literature features. The Daves era of Vogue came to an end in 1962, when Diana Vreeland joined the magazine (first as associate editor, and then, following Daves's departure in December 1962, as editor-in-chief). The pair had opposed approaches to editing Vogue, and critics said that this led the magazine to a period of "extravagance, and luxury and excess". In the 1960s, Diana Vreeland was editor-in-chief, and the magazine began to appeal to the youth of the sexual revolution by focusing on contemporary fashion and editorial features that openly discussed sexuality. Vogue extended coverage to include East Village boutiques, such as Limbo on St. Mark's Place, and it included features of personalities like Andy Warhol's "Superstars". Vogue also continued making household names out of models, a practice that continued with Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Veruschka, Marisa Berenson, Penelope Tree, and others. In 1973, Vogue became a monthly publication. Under editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella, the magazine underwent extensive editorial and stylistic changes in response to changes of its target audience. Mirabella states that she was chosen to change Vogue, because "women weren't interested in reading about or buying clothes that served no purpose in their changing lives." She was selected to make the magazine appeal to "the free, working, "liberated" woman of the seventies. The magazine changed in terms of interviews, arts coverage, and articles. When this stylistic change fell out of favor in the 1980s, Mirabella was fired. Well-known fashion photographers for the magazine include: Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) Horst P. Horst (1906–1999) Regina Relang (1906–1989) Irving Penn (1917–2009) Henry Clarke (1917–1996) Richard Avedon (1923–2004) Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019) 1988–present: Anna Wintour leadership In July 1988 and after Vogue had begun to lose ground to Elle, Anna Wintour was named editor-in-chief. Noted for her trademark bob cut and sunglasses, Wintour attempted to revitalize the brand by making it feel younger and more approachable; she directed the focus towards new and accessible concepts of "fashion" for a wider audience. Wintour's influence allowed the magazine to maintain its high circulation, while staff discovered new trends that a broader audience could conceivably afford. Throughout her reign at Vogue, Wintour accomplished her goals to revitalize the magazine and oversaw production of some of its largest editions. The September 2012 edition measured 916 pages, which was the highest ever for a monthly magazine. Wintour continues to be American Vogues editor-in-chief. The contrast of Wintour's vision with that of her predecessors was noted as striking by observers, both critics and defenders. Amanda Fortini, fashion and style contributor for Slate, argues that her policy has been beneficial for Vogue, delivering it from what some critics had termed its boring "beige years". Although she has had a strong impact on the magazine, Wintour has been pinned as being cold and difficult to work with. Features Ten men have been featured on the cover of the American edition: Richard Gere, with Cindy Crawford in November 1992 George Clooney, with Gisele Bündchen in June 2000 LeBron James, with Gisele Bündchen in April 2008 Ryan Lochte, with Hope Solo and Serena Williams in June 2012 Kanye West, with Kim Kardashian in March 2014 Ben Stiller, with Penélope Cruz in February 2016 Ashton Eaton, with Gigi Hadid in August 2016 Zayn Malik, with Gigi Hadid in August 2017 Justin Bieber, with Hailey Baldwin in March 2019 Harry Styles, in December 2020 Noteworthy Vogue covers December 1892: The first cover of the magazine features a debutante at her début. July 1932: The first cover with a color photograph, featuring Edward Steichen's image of a swimmer holding a beach ball. August 1933: The cover features model Toto Koopman who is both bisexual and biracial. She portrays a woman that readers during the Great Depression would dream to be like. September 1944: USA Tent Hospital in France. Lee Miller as war correspondent for Vogue USA. May 1961: Sophia Loren covers the magazine, and is one of the first celebrities to do so. August 1974: Beverly Johnson becomes the first black woman to cover American Vogue. November 1988: Anna Wintour's first cover features Israeli model Michaela Bercu. May 1989: Under Wintour's control, Madonna became the first singer she put on a Vogue magazine, something that was considered "controversial", after an old-time-focus of models on their covers. April 1992: Vogues 100th anniversary cover featuring 10 supermodels namely Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, Karen Mulder, Yasmeen Ghauri, Niki Taylor, Elaine Irwin,& Claudia Schiffer, and is the highest-selling issue ever. November 1992: Richard Gere becomes the first male to appear on the cover, alongside then-wife Cindy Crawford. December 1998: Hillary Clinton becomes the first American first lady to cover the magazine. September 2012: Lady Gaga graced the cover of the largest edition of Vogue in history, weighing in at 4.5 pounds and 916 pages. April 2014: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West appear on the cover in one of the most controversial cover shoots for Vogue. Kardashian is the first reality television star on the cover and West is the first rapper on the cover. They are also the first interracial couple to appear on the cover of the magazine. August 2017: Zayn Malik appears on the cover, making him the first male Muslim to be on the cover of the magazine. September 2018: Beyoncé is given "unprecedented" total editorial control of the magazine's cover and feature. She hires 23-year-old black photographer Tyler Mitchell to shoot the cover, making him the first black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue in its 126-year history. December 2020: Harry Styles becomes the first male to appear by himself on the cover of Vogue. February 2021: Kamala Harris becomes the first female vice president to cover Vogue. She is the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president. November 2021: Adele becomes the first person to simultaneously cover the American and British editions of Vogue. February 2022: Hoyeon Jung becomes the first Asian to appear by herself on the cover of Vogue. August 2022: Emma Corrin becomes the first non-binary person to cover Vogue. Healthy body initiative May 2013 marked the first anniversary of a healthy body initiative that was signed by the magazine's international editors—the initiative represents a commitment from the editors to promote positive body images within the content of Vogue's numerous editions. Vogue Australia editor Edwina McCann explained: In the magazine we're moving away from those very young, very thin girls. A year down the track, we ask ourselves what can Vogue do about it? And an issue like this [June 2013 issue] is what we can do about it. If I was aware of a girl being ill on a photo shoot I wouldn't allow that shoot to go ahead, or if a girl had an eating disorder I would not shoot her. The Australian edition's June 2013 issue was entitled Vogue Australia: "The Body Issue" and featured articles on exercise and nutrition, as well as a diverse range of models. New York-based Australian plus-size model Robyn Lawley, previously featured on the cover of Vogue Italia, also appeared in a swimwear shoot for the June issue. Jonathan Newhouse, Condé Nast International chairman, states that "Vogue editors around the world want the magazines to reflect their commitment to the health of the models who appear on the pages and the wellbeing of their readers." Alexandra Shulman, one of the magazine's editor, comments on the initiative by stating "as one of the fashion industry's most powerful voices, Vogue has a unique opportunity to engage with relevant issues where we feel we can make a difference." Style and influence The word vogue means "style" in French. Vogue was described by book critic Caroline Weber in a December 2006 edition of The New York Times as "the world's most influential fashion magazine": The publication claims to reach 11 million readers in the US and 12.5 million internationally. Furthermore, Anna Wintour was described as one of the most powerful figures in fashion. Technological Google partnered with Vogue to feature Google Glass in the September 2013 issue, which featured a 12-page spread. Chris Dale, who manages communications for the Glass team at Google, stated: In the September 2015 issue, technology such as Apple Music, Apple Watch, and Amazon Fashion were all featured within the issues 832 pages. Economic Wintour's "Fashion Night" initiative was launched in 2009 with the intention of kickstarting the economy following the financial crisis of 2007–2008, by drawing people back into the retail environment and donating proceeds to various charitable causes. The event was co-hosted by Vogue in 27 cities around the US and 15 countries worldwide, and included online retailers at the beginning of 2011. Debate occurred over the actual profitability of the event in the US, resulting in a potentially permanent hiatus in 2013; however, the event continues in 19 other locations internationally. Vogue also has the ability to lift the spirits of readers during tough times and revels that "even in bad times, someone is up for a good time." The article states that Vogue "make[s] money because they elevate the eye and sometimes the spirit, take the reader someplace special." These fantasy tomes feel a boost during economic distress—like liquor and ice cream and movie ticket sales." Political In 2006, Vogue acknowledged salient political and cultural issues by featuring the burqa, as well as articles on prominent Muslim women, their approach to fashion, and the effect of different cultures on fashion and women's lives. Vogue also sponsored the "Beauty Without Borders" initiative with a US$25,000 donation that was used to establish a cosmetology school for Afghan women. Wintour stated: "Through the school, we could not only help women in Afghanistan to look and feel better but also give them employment." A documentary by Liz Mermin, entitled The Beauty Academy of Kabul, which highlighted the proliferation of Western standards of beauty, criticized the school, suggesting that "the beauty school could not be judged a success if it did not create a demand for American cosmetics." Leading up to the 2012 US presidential election, Wintour used her industry clout to host several significant fundraising events in support of the Obama campaign. The first, in 2010, was a dinner with an estimated US$30,000 entry fee. The "Runway To Win" initiative recruited prominent designers to create pieces to support the campaign. In October 2016, the magazine stated that "Vogue endorses Hillary Clinton for president of the United States". This was the first time that the magazine supported as a single voice a presidential candidate in its 120 years of history. Social The Met Gala is an annual event that is hosted by Vogue to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Museum's fashion exhibit. The Met Gala is the most coveted event of the year in the field of fashion and is attended by A-list celebrities, politicians, designers and fashion editors. Vogue has hosted the themed event since 1971 under editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland. Since 1995, Anna Wintour, who is Vogue's chief content officer and global editorial director, served as chairwoman of the Met Gala, and is the woman behind the coveted event's top-secret guest list. In 2013, Vogue released a special edition of Vogue entitled Vogue Special Edition: The Definitive Inside Look at the 2013 Met Gala. Vogue has produced about 70 videos about this event for YouTube exclusively, that includes pre-coverage, live reporting and post-event analysis. Met-related video content generated 902 million views, a 110% increase from 2021. Music In 2015, Vogue listed their "15 Roots Reggae Songs You Should Know"; and in an interview with Patricia Chin of VP Records, Vogue highlighted an abbreviated list of early "reggae royalty" that recorded at Studio 17 in Kingston, Jamaica which included Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, The Heptones, and Bunny Wailer. In addition to their coverage of historically significant artists, Vogue is a source for contemporary music news on artists such as Jay-Z, Eminem, Tom Petty, and Taylor Swift, as well as being an influencer that introduces new artists to the scene such as Suzi Analogue in 2017. Criticism As Wintour came to personify the magazine's image, both she and Vogue drew critics. Wintour's one-time assistant at the magazine, Lauren Weisberger, wrote a roman à clef entitled The Devil Wears Prada. Published in 2003, the novel became a bestseller and was adapted as a highly successful, Academy Award-nominated film in 2006. The central character resembled Weisberger, and her boss was a powerful editor-in-chief of a fictionalized version of Vogue. The novel portrays a magazine ruled by "the Antichrist and her coterie of fashionistas, who exist on cigarettes, Diet Dr Pepper, and mixed green salads", according to a review in The New York Times. The editor is described by Weisberger as being "an empty, shallow, bitter woman who has tons and tons of gorgeous clothes and not much else". However, despite the slight defamation of Wintour and Vogue magazine in general, the image of both editor and high-class magazine were not diminished. The success of both the novel and the film brought new attention from a wide global audience to the power and glamour of the magazine, and the industry it continues to lead. In 2007, Vogue drew criticism from the anti-smoking group "Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids", for carrying tobacco advertisements in the magazine. The group claims that volunteers sent the magazine more than 8,000 protest emails or faxes regarding the ads. The group also claimed that in response, they received scribbled notes faxed back on letters that had been addressed to Wintour stating, "Will you stop? You're killing trees!" In response, a spokesperson for Condé Nast released an official statement: "Vogue does carry tobacco advertising. Beyond that we have no further comment." In April 2008, American Vogue featured a cover photo by photographer Annie Leibovitz of Gisele Bündchen and the basketball player LeBron James. This was the third time that Vogue featured a male on the cover of the American issue (the other two men were actors George Clooney and Richard Gere), and the first in which the man was black. Some observers criticized the cover as a prejudicial depiction of James because his pose with Bündchen was reminiscent of a poster for the film King Kong. Further criticism arose when the website Watching the Watchers analyzed the photo alongside the World War I recruitment poster titled Destroy This Mad Brute. However, James reportedly liked the cover shoot. In February 2011, just before the 2011 Syrian protests unfolded, Vogue published a controversial piece by Joan Juliet Buck about Asma al-Assad, wife of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. A number of journalists criticized the article as glossing over the poor human rights record of Bashar al-Assad. According to reports, the Syrian government paid the U.S. lobbying firm Brown Lloyd James US$5,000 per month to arrange for and manage the article. In October 2018, Vogue published a photoshoot starring Kendall Jenner who had an afro-like style hairstyle which drew criticisms. Media Documentaries In 2009, the feature-length documentary The September Issue was released; it was an inside view of the production of the record-breaking September 2007 issue of U.S. Vogue, directed by R. J. Cutler. The film was shot over eight months as Wintour prepared the issue, and included testy exchanges between Wintour and her creative director Grace Coddington. The issue became the largest ever published at the time; over 5 pounds in weight and 840 pages in length, a world record for a monthly magazine Since then, that record has been broken by Vogues 2012 September issue, which came in at 916 pages. Also in 2012, HBO released a documentary entitled In Vogue: The Editor's Eye, in conjunction with the 120th anniversary of the magazine. Drawing on Vogues extensive archives, the film featured behind-the-scenes interviews with longtime Vogue editors, including Wintour, Coddington, Tonne Goodman, Babs Simpson, Hamish Bowles, and Phyllis Posnick. Celebrated subjects and designers in the fashion industry, such as Nicole Kidman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Linda Evangelista, Vera Wang, and Marc Jacobs, also appear in the film. The editors share personal stories about collaborating with top photographers, such as Leibovitz, and the various day-to-day responsibilities and interactions of a fashion editor at Vogue. The film was directed and produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. In October 2012, Vogue also released a book titled Vogue: The Editor's Eye to complement the documentary. Video channel In 2013, Vogue launched the Vogue video channel that can be accessed via their website. The channel was launched in conjunction with Conde Nast's multi-platform media initiative. Mini-series that have aired on the video channel include Vogue Weddings, The Monday Makeover, From the Vogue Closet, Fashion Week, Elettra's Goodness, Jeanius, Vintage Bowles, The Backstory, Beauty Mark, Met Gala, Voguepedia, Vogue Voices, Vogue Diaries, CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, and Monday's with Andre. Books Books published by Vogue include In Vogue: An Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine, Vogue: The Covers, Vogue: The Editor's Eye, Vogue Living: House, Gardens, People, The World in Vogue, Vogue Weddings: Brides, Dresses, Designers, and Nostalgia in Vogue. Voguepedia Launched in 2011 by Condé Nast Digital, Voguepedia is a fashion encyclopedia that also includes an archive of every issue of Vogues American edition since 1892. Only Vogue staff are permitted to contribute to the encyclopedia, unlike the VogueEncyclo—hosted by Vogue Italia—that receives contributions from anyone. As of May 9, 2013, the site was not fully functional; code still showed in search results and only certain search terms yielded results. Website Vogue has also created an easily navigable website that includes six different content categories for viewers to explore. The website includes an archive with issues from 1892 forward for those whom subscribe for the website. The magazines online are the same as those that were printed in that time and are not cut or shortened from the original content. Podcast Vogue launched the teaser for its podcast series on September 10, 2015. The magazine announced that star André Leon Talley would host the podcasts, and the inaugural twenty-one-minute podcast was released on September 14, 2015, featuring Anna Wintour. Talley commented that he had "been a longtime storyteller at Vogue and it's just another format for telling stories—as at Vogue, we love to tell the story of style, fashion, and what is absolutely a part of the culture at the moment", hence why the magazine has decided to create podcasts. Vogue App The app was introduced on April 26, 2016, as a way for the magazine to become more mobile friendly. The Vogue app displays content on mobile devices and gives people the ability to view the magazine content wherever they go. The app has new content every day and people can choose to receive content recommended just for their taste. In addition, the app allows one to save stories for later and or read offline. Lastly, the app provides notifications for fashion outbreaks and for new stories that are published pertaining to that viewer's particular taste. Vogue Business The online fashion industry publication was launched in January 2019. The new property aims at offering a global perspective on the fashion industry with industry insights. Although sharing the Vogue brand name, Vogue Business is operated as a separate business entity with an independent editorial team. In June 2019, Vogue Business launched the Vogue Business Talent, a platform that promotes vacancies from international fashion brands and companies with the goal to match professionals with their job opportunities. Other editions In 2005, Condé Nast launched Men's Vogue. The magazine ceased publication as an independent publication in October 2008, the December/January 2009 edition being its last issue. It was intended to be published as a supplement of Vogue, the Spring 2009 edition being the last issue of the magazine altogether. Condé Nast also publishes Teen Vogue, a version of the magazine for teenage girls in the United States. South Korea and Australia publish a Vogue Girl magazine (currently suspended from further publication), in addition to the Vogue Living and Vogue Entertaining + Travel editions. Vogue Hommes International is an international men's fashion magazine based in Paris, France, and L'uomo Vogue is the Italian men's version. At the beginning of 2013 the Japanese version, Vogue Hommes Japan, ended publication. Until 1961, Vogue was also the publisher of Vogue Patterns, a home sewing pattern company. It was sold to Butterick Publishing, which also licensed the Vogue name. In 2007, an Arabic edition of Vogue was rejected by Condé Nast International. On March 5, 2010, 16 international editors-in-chief of Vogue met in Paris to discuss the 2nd Fashion's Night Out. Present in the meeting were the 16 international editors-in-chief of Vogue: Wintour (American Vogue), Emmanuelle Alt (French Vogue), Franca Sozzani (Italian Vogue), Alexandra Shulman (British Vogue), Kirstie Clements (Australian Vogue), Aliona Doletskaya (Russian Vogue), Angelica Cheung (Chinese Vogue), Christiane Arp (German Vogue), Priya Tanna (Indian Vogue), Rosalie Huang (Taiwanese Vogue), Paula Mateus (Portuguese Vogue), Seda Domaniç (Turkish Vogue), Yolanda Sacristan (Spanish Vogue), Eva Hughes (Mexican and Latin American Vogue), Mitsuko Watanabe (Japanese Vogue), and Daniela Falcao (Brazilian Vogue). International editions British Vogue became the first international edition in 1916. The magazine celebrated its centenary issue in 2016 with a cover of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in her first-ever magazine cover shoot. On January 25, 2017, it was announced that the editor-in-chief, Alexandra Shulman, was to leave the magazine in June 2017, after 25 years. On April 10, 2017, it was announced that Edward Enninful will become the new editor-in-chief of British Vogue, the first male editor of the magazine in 100 years. Vogue Paris became the second international edition in 1920. The magazine celebrated its centenary with the release of their October 2021 issue, an archive-centric special, delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The magazine also opened a "Vogue 1920–2020" exhibition at the Palais Galliera. It also marked the last issue under Emmanuelle Alt, who exited the magazine in summer 2021. On September, it was announced that Eugenie Trochu became the Head of Editorial Content. In November, the magazine rebranded as Vogue France. Vogue New Zealand became the third (fourth overall) international edition in 1957. During its first years, it was edited from the British edition and in their later years from the Australian edition. It was published until 1968. Vogue Australia became the fourth (fifth overall) international edition in 1959. In May 2012, editor-in-chief Kirstie Clements was fired and replaced with Edwina McCann. Vogue Italia became the fifth international edition in 1964. On January 20, 2017, it was officially announced that Emanuele Farneti will become the new editor-in-chief, after the unexpected passing of long-time editor, Franca Sozzani in December 2016. In late July 2021, Emanuele Farneti, editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia announced his departure from the magazine after the September issue for 2021. In September, Francesca Ragazzi was announced as the magazine's Head of Editorial Content. Vogue Brasil became the sixth (seventh overall) international edition in 1975. Vogue Korea became the ninth (tenth overall) international edition in 1996. Vogue Taiwan became the tenth (eleventh overall) international edition in 1996. It has been led by editor-in-chief Leslie Sun since 2020. Vogue Mexico was published for the first time in 1980, becoming the sixth international edition, the Mexican edition last until 1994 when has to close because of the economic crisis, five years later, in 1999 it was relaunched under the name of Vogue México and Latinoamérica. In January 2012, it was announced that Kelly Talamas was the new editor-in-chief replacing Eva Hughes, when Hughes was named CEO of Condé Nast Mexico and Latin America. Vogue Greece became the thirteenth (fifteenth overall) international edition in 2000. It became the twenty-fourth edition when relaunched in 2019. In September 2018, it was announced that seven years after its closure, a rebooted Greek edition was in preparation, with Thaleia Karafyllidou as the youngest-ever editor-in-chief in the history of Vogue. Vogue Greece debuted on March 31, 2019, and is published under license agreement with Kathimerines Ekdoseis SA. Vogue Portugal became the fourteenth (sixteenth overall) international edition in 2002. Vogue China became the fifteenth (seventeenth overall) international edition in 2005. In November 2020, it was reported that Angelica Cheung, the founding editor of Vogue China, will leave the magazine on December 8 after 15 years. In February 2021, it was announced that Margaret Zhang was appointed as the editor-in-chief of Vogue China, at 27, the youngest editor of Vogue. Vogue India became the sixteenth (eighteenth overall) international edition in 2007. In early May 2021, it was announced that Priya Tanna, the founding editor of Vogue India, will leave the magazine after 15 years. In September 2021, Megha Kapoor was announced as the magazine's Head of Editorial Content. Vogue Turkey became the seventeenth (nineteenth overall) international edition in 2010. Vogue Arabia became the twentieth (twenty-third overall) international edition in 2016. In July 2016, the launch of Vogue Arabia was announced, first as a dual English and Arabic language website, then with a print edition to follow in spring 2017. On April 13, 2017, it was revealed that Vogue Arabia'''s first editor-in-chief, Deena Aljuhani, was fired, and a new editor was set to be announced.Vogue Poland became the twenty-first (twenty-fourth overall) international edition in 2018. In June 2017, it was announced that the Polish edition, Vogue Polska, was in preparation, with Filip Niedenthal as editor-in-chief. The local publisher, Visteria, signed a licence deal with Condé Nast. The printed magazine and its website launched on February 14, 2018.Vogue Czechoslovakia became the twenty-second (twenty-fifth overall) international edition in 2018. In February 2018, the Czech-language edition was announced. It premiered in August 2018 under license with V24 Media, and titled Vogue CS, it covers the Czech and Slovak markets.Vogue Hong Kong became the twenty-third (twenty-sixth overall) international edition in 2019. In October 2018, the Hong Kong edition was announced. It premiered on March 3, 2019, under a license agreement with Rubicon Media Ltd., with digital and print presence.Vogue Scandinavia became the twenty-sixth (twenty-seventh overall) international edition in 2021.Vogue Philippines will become the twenty-seventh (twenty-eighth overall) international edition. In January 2022, Condé Nast partnered with Philippines-based publishing company One Mega Group to launch the edition of the magazine in the country. The first issue will be released in September. The magazine appointed Bea Valdes as its editor-in-chief. Germany (1975–present) The magazine became the third international edition and was first published from 1928 to 1929. It became the sixth edition when relaunched in 1979. In December 2020, it was also announced that Christiane Arp will exit Vogue Germany after 17 years, after joining the title in 2003. In October 2021, Kerstin Weng was announced as the magazine's Head of Editorial Content. Spain (1988–present) The magazine became the seventh (eight overall) international edition in 1988. On January 11, 2017, it was announced that Eugenia de la Torriente will become the new editor-in-chief. In December 2020, it was announced that de la Torriente will step down from the magazine after three years. In September 2021, Inés Lorenzo was announced as the magazine's Head of Editorial Content. Russia (1998–2022) Vogue Russia became the tenth (twelfth overall) international edition in 1998. In July 2010, it was reported that Victoria Davydona will assume as editor-in-chief following Aliona Doletskaya's resignation. Davydova's appointment is effective immediately. On March 8, 2022, Condé Nast announced the suspension of all of its publishing operations in Russia, including the publication of Vogue Russia, as a reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Japan (1999–present) The magazine became the eleventh (thirteenth overall) international edition in 1999. In May 2021, it was announced that Mitsuko Watanabe will exit Vogue Japan at the end of the year, after thirteen years as the editor-in-chief, and that a successor has yet to be to be named. In January 2022, Tiffany Godoy was announced as the magazine's Head of Editorial Content. Thailand (2013–present) The magazine became the eighteenth (twenty-first overall) international edition in 2013. The first issue of the magazine sold-out. Editor-in-chief, Kullawit Laosuksri was the only male editor at the helm of Vogue at the time. Ukraine (2013–present) It became the nineteenth (twenty-second overall) international edition in 2013. In June 2012, it was reported that Ukraine will be publishing Vogue the next year. With Condé Nast International chairman and CEO Jonathan Newhouse saying, "Kiev is booming, and there is a strong market demand for luxury products and the experience Vogue can offer the reader." Singapore (2020–present) The magazine became the eighth (ninth overall) international edition in 1994. It became the twenty-fifth edition when relaunched in 2020. In March 1994, there were initial reports of Condé Nast planning to launch the first Asian edition of Vogue magazine in Singapore beginning in September, with the magazine being edited and designed by Vogue's Australia office in Sydney. It became the first Asian edition. It had an initial print run of 35,000 copies for distribution in Singapore, plus 10,000 for Malaysia and 1,000 each for Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. It was published between September 1994 and February 1998. In January 2020, it was reported that Condé Nast will be launching Vogue in Singapore via a license agreement with publisher Indochine Media. It was also reported that the launch will be in the fall of the same year with an English-language print issue, a website and presences on all relevant social platforms, including Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, with an editor-in-chief to be announced. The magazine officially relaunched in September 2020 with both print and digital versions of the publication will feature scannable QR codes, as well as AR and VR content. The inaugural print issue features three collectible covers, capturing Asian cover stars including Singaporean model, Diya Prabhakar; Chinese supermodel, Jū Xiǎowén; and Japanese actress, Nana Komatsu. Scandinavia (2020–present) The magazine became the twenty-sixth (twenty-eighth overall) international edition with its launch in June 2020. It was also confirmed that the magazine would be published in English, to be accessible worldwide, with Martina Bonnier being its Editor-in-Chief. In order to be more sustainable, the magazine announced to be published in an online form. In August 2021, Greta Thunberg appeared on the first issue of the magazine. Netherlands (2022–present) The magazine became the eighteenth (twentieth overall) international edition in 2012. It became the twenty-sixth edition when relaunched in 2022. In November 2011, the magazine was confirmed to debut in 2012 with Karin Swerink assuming the editor-in-chief role. In early July 2021, in an Instagram post to the publication's official account, Vogue Nederland editor-in-chief Rinke Tjepkema announced that the Dutch magazine would be shutting down, after almost 10 years. However, in October 2021, it was reported that the magazine would return to the Dutch market in February 2022. 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In the Frame was Dick Francis' fourteenth novel, published by Michael Joseph in 1976. Its US release was by Harper and Row in 1977. Plot Horse artist Charles Todd arrives on a visit to his cousin Donald just as the police are investigating the murder of Donald's wife in the course of a burglary, during which all the artworks in his home were stolen as well as a valuable stock of wine. Charles stays to look after Donald, who is traumatised into inaction and besides is being treated as a suspect by the police. At a race meeting later, he runs into the rich and flamboyant widow Maisie Matthews. who asks Charles to come and paint the ruin of her mansion, which recently burned to the ground. When he goes to inspect the site, he disturbs a man called Greene who claims he is inspecting the site for the insurance company. Charles' suspicions are raised when he learns that Greene was a sham and that Maisie had recently bought a horse painting by Alfred Munnings during a visit to Australia. Donald had also recently bought a Munnings in an Australian gallery, while on a buying trip for his wine business. Charles begins to wonder whether the paintings were forgeries which a gang steals back or, in Maisie's case, attempts to destroy (when they cannot find it) by burning down her house. With expense money provided by Maisie, Charles goes to stay in Sydney with a former art school friend, Jik Cassavetes, and his recent wife Sarah. The shop where Maisie bought her painting was only on a short lease and is already closed. However, there is a Melbourne branch of the company so Charles, Jik and Sarah go to that city for the annual races and to follow up leads. There they encounter other members of what looks increasingly like a highly organised criminal enterprise. Knowing by now that the gang is ruthless and violent, and that they have been tipped off whom to seek, Charles and his friends catch a flight to Alice Springs, where the art firm has another branch. There Charles encounters the expert forger Harley Renbo, but before he can do much more, he is seized by two thugs and thrown off a balcony. Surviving this, he flies with his friends back to Melbourne. Using the Melbourne Cup race as a distraction, they burgle the art shop and come away with evidence that the gang are engaged in a long-established international operation. They now fly to New Zealand in order to warn another collector whose name appears in the stolen files to be vigilant. By this time Charles has contacted the English police and asked them to follow up the leads with which he has provided them. Barely escaping yet another attempt on his life, Charles flies back to Australia with his friends, while the gang and their leader are arrested. Back in England, he ties up loose ends. Development Dick Francis constructed his plots to a recognisable formula. His protagonist has an interest in horse racing, meets injury with a phlegmatic acceptance of pain and is loyal to relations and friends. In this case Charles investigates the burglary out of compassion, to relieve the pressure on his traumatised cousin. Often, a talkative elder woman is featured in the novels; here it is Maisie, who plays more than a comical role, providing the initial clue and the finance to cover Charles' expenses. Though Francis' wife Mary always refused to be credited as co-authoring his novels, it became known that her share in them was often crucial. In the case of In the Frame she took up painting and so was able to provide all the technical detail for Charles and Jik's artistic work. The novel was broadly adapted for a TV movie in 1989. However, the detection is credited there to David Cleveland, the Jockey Club investigator of Slay Ride, and the action takes place in Germany, not Australia. References See also Book audio online, read by Tony Britton] 1976 British novels Novels by Dick Francis British crime novels Michael Joseph books
The Oak and the Reed is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 70 in the Perry Index. It appears in many versions: in some it is with many reeds that the oak converses and in a late rewritten version it disputes with a willow. The story and its variants There are early Greek versions of this fable and a 5th-century Latin version by Avianus. They deal with the contrasting behaviour of the oak, which trusts in its strength to withstand the storm and is blown over, and the reed that 'bends with the wind' and so survives. Most early sources see it as a parable about pride and humility, providing advice on how to survive in turbulent times. This in turn gave rise to various proverbs such as 'Better bend than break' and 'A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall', the earliest occurrence of which is in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (II.1387-9). It so happens that there is an overlap here with ancient Eastern proverbs. In its Chinese form, 'A tree that is unbending is easily broken', it is found in the religious classic, the Tao Te Ching, with the commentary that 'The hard and strong will fall, the soft and weak will overcome'. A similar contrast, though involving a tree of a different kind, occurs in the Jewish Talmud and is commemorated on the 2016 "Parables of the Sages" series of postage stamps from Israel. Old sources quote a sermon by Simeon ben Eleazar, who cites the proverb “May a man be flexible like a reed and not rigid like a cedar”. He then goes on the explain in the same terms as the Greek fable that, where a reed bends before the wind, the obstinate cedar is uprooted in the gale. Another Greek variant of the fable had substituted an olive tree for the oak. Though the tree taunts the reed for its frailty and yielding to every wind, the reed does not answer back. The wisdom of its behaviour becomes apparent when the tree is snapped in the buffeting of a storm. This was the version preferred by a group of 16th century fabulists who included the French author Gilles Corrozet (1547) and two Italians, Gabriele Faerno (1564) and Giovanni Maria Verdizotti. In Heinrich Steinhowel's 1479 edition of the fables a fir tree (tanne, Latin abies in bilingual editions) is the protagonist. This suggests that the fable has become confused with that of The Fir and the Bramble, in which another tree that trusts in its superior qualities is bested. However, that too appears independently in Steinhowel's collection as "The Thornbush and the Fir" (Der Dornbusch und die Tanne). Ultimately all these versions refer back to the ancient genre of Near Eastern dispute poems which also included the tamarisk and the palm as disputants, and the poplar and the laurel. Laurentius Abstemius had earlier written his own variant in his Hecatomythium (1490) concerning an elm and willow (de ulmo et silere) in which the former's roots are undermined by the stream until it topples in, which points the same lesson that those who "give way to powerful people are wiser than those who suffer a shameful defeat by trying to resist". Later interpretations When the fable figured in 16th century emblem books, more emphasis was put on the moral lesson to be learned, to which the story acted as a mere appendage. Thus Hadrianus Junius tells the fable in a four-line Latin poem and follows it with a lengthy commentary, part of which reads: "By contrast we see the reed obstinately holding out against the power of cloudy storms, and overcoming the onrush of the skies, its salvation lying in no other protection than a modicum of patience. It is just the same in the case of a just and balanced spirit, which cares not for invincible strength and defeats malice and other evils by patient endurance, and achieves great riches by the acquisition of undying glory—whereas boldness more often than not has its downfall." Geoffrey Whitney borrowed Hadrianus's illustration for his own Choice of Emblemes (1586), devoting one stanza of his poem to the fable and the second to its lesson: When Envie, Hate, Contempte, and Slaunder, rage: Which are the stormes and tempestes of this life; With patience then, wee must the combat wage, And not with force resist their deadlie strife: But suffer still, and then wee shall, in fine, Our foes subdue, when they with shame shall pine. Only an allusion to the fable appeared in the Cent emblemes chrestiens (100 Christian emblems) of Georgette de Montenay. But the context in which the artist has placed his illustration is the verse from the Magnificat, "[God] hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree" (Luke 1.52). Interpretations of the fable began to change after the more nuanced retelling in La Fontaine's Fables, Le chêne et le roseau (I.22). Here the oak has compassion on the reed's fragility and offers it protection, to which the reed politely replies that it has its own strategy for survival, "I bend and do not break". This is then put to the test when a storm breaks and brings the oak's "head that was neighbour to the sky" on a level with the roots "that touched the empire of the dead". Written in the autocratic time of Louis XIV of France, this was so successfully achieved that it appeared to teach the value of humility at the same time as suggesting that rulers may not be as powerful as they think themselves. So current did that sly interpretation become that Achille Etna Michallon's later painting of "The Oak and the Reed", now in the Fitzwilliam Museum (1816, see left), could easily be seen as a reference to the recent fall of the Emperor Napoleon I. In democratic times, the conduct of the reed came to be seen as cowardly and self-serving and the fable began to be rewritten from this point of view. In Robert Dodsley's collection of 1761 it appears as "The Oak and the Willow", in which the willow challenges the oak to a trial of strength in withstanding a storm. The oak puts up a heroic fight and, after it falls, condemns the willow's conduct as mean and cowardly. An 1802 American rhymed version of this draws the political conclusion even more strongly. Set "within the commonwealth of trees", it presents the two trees as sharing in its government. When a storm "threatens the constitution of the state", the willow cringes acquiescently while the oak goes down fighting, but will not acknowledge the willow as the ultimate victor. I am an Oak, tho' fall'n indeed! Thou still a vile and skulking weed, Rais'd by no merit of thine own, But by the blast that laid me prone. Say, if thou canst, what plant or tree, Except a sycophant like thee, Devoted to intrigue and strife, Who'd e'er prefer a dastard's life, Preserv'd by guile and crafty saws, To falling in a GLORIOUS CAUSE? Much the same point was made in Jean Anouilh's reinterpretation of the story in 1962. There the oak asks the reed if it doesn't find La Fontaine's fable morally detestable. The reed's answer is that the limited concerns of 'we little folk' will see them better through testing times than taking the moral high ground. When once again the oak falls in the storm, the reed jeeringly asks if he had not foreseen the outcome correctly. The tree's answer to the reed's envious hatred is simply, 'But I am still an oak'. This stems from the thinking behind another ancient emblem that appeared among the Emblesmes of Hadrianus Junius (1567). Placed before a version of "The oak and the reed" (which is there told of a rowan), it pictures an oak whose branches are stripped by a gale and has the title "The disasters of princes are unlike those of ordinary folk". It is accompanied by a quatrain that concludes "The prince disaster has impoverished/ Retains the honour of his lineage." Nobility of character too is the equal of high parentage. Artistic interpretations Since this is one of the rare fables without human or animal characters, the subject has been a gift to artists and illustrators. From the earliest printed editions, the makers of woodcuts have taken pleasure in contrasting diagonals with the verticals and horizontals of the picture space, as well as the textures of the pliable reed and the sturdy tree trunk. Among 16th century emblem-makers there was even a prescription for how the scene should be presented. According to Hadrianus Junius (1565), ‘The way the picture should be drawn is straightforward: in it, one of the winds is blowing with puffed-out cheeks, breaking up the huge trees in its way, pulling them up, uprooting them and flinging them around; but a patch of reeds survives unscathed.’ Other contemporary examples of this approach are in Bernard Salomon's illustration in Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien (1554, see above) and the Latin poems of Hieronymus Osius (1564). Some variations depend on the version of the fable that is being recorded. In the version by Samuel Croxall (1732), which was widely followed, the uprooted oak is floating downstream and enquires of a reed how it has survived the storm. In George Fyler Townsend's new translation (1867), the oak has fallen across a stream and asks the same question of the reeds there. But in John Ogilby's telling, the fable's meaning has a contextual undercurrent. His oak has been brought down by a conspiracy of all the winds and is asking for advice of a surviving reed. The moral drawn from its advice absolves the royalists in Restoration England of any blame for following it: Madmen against a violent Torrent row. Thou mayst hereafter serve the Common-weal. With the growing interest in landscape art, many French artists availed themselves of the fable's dramatic possibilities, including the illustrator Gustave Doré, who made two different woodcuts of a peasant struggling through stormy landscapes and another of a horseman unseated by the falling oak. Achille Michallon's landscape of 1816 (of which there is also a black-and-white print) is said to be inspired by the style of Jacob Ruisdael, but it also has aspects of the dramatic landscapes of French Romanticism. Later examples of this include treatments of the fable by Guillaume Alphonse Harang (1814–1884) and François Ignace Bonhommé (1809–1893), both dating from 1837. Jules Coignet's picturesque treatment in the Musée Jean de La Fontaine, also dating from the second quarter of the 19th century, is a study of different textures of light as it falls on the windswept reeds and the foliage of the fallen oak. This is dramatised even further in the Japanese woodcut version of the fable by Kajita Hanko, published at the end of the century in the Choix de Fables de La Fontaine, Illustrée par un Groupe des Meilleurs Artistes de Tokio (1894), which has an olive rather than an oak as subject. Contrasting light effects are equally the subject of Henri Harpignies's sombrely coloured drawing in the Musée Jean de La Fontaine and of the watercolour painted by Gustave Moreau about 1880. The turn of the century saw a statue of the subject by Henri Coutheillas exhibited in Paris. It is now in the Jardin d'Orsay in Limoges and contrasts a swaying female nude with the grizzled giant who tumbles at her feet as he clutches a broken branch in his hand. During the 20th century there were a number of prints made by prominent artists. They include Marc Chagall's etching from his La Fontaine series (1952), Roland Oudot's coloured woodcut (1961) and Salvador Dalí's coloured print of 1974. Musical Versions In the 19th century, the singer Pauline Viardot set La Fontaine's fable for piano and soprano and was accompanied by Frédéric Chopin in the concert they shared in 1842. The French fable was next set in 1901 by Jacques Soulacroix (1863–1937). In 1964 a Czech translation by Pavel Jurkovic was set for mixed choir and orchestra by Ilja Hurník as part of his Ezop, and in 1965 a poetic version by Peter Westmore was included as the last piece in Songs from Aesop's Fables for children's voices and piano by Edward Hughes (1930–1998). A purely musical interpretation of the fable appeared in Michael Galasso's incidental music for the segment based on the fable in Robert Wilson's production of Les Fables de La Fontaine for the Comédie-Française (2004). The piece was included in Annie Sellem’s composite project Les Fables à La Fontaine as well as performed separately and is one of the four segments from the production included in the film Les Fables à La Fontaine (2004) directed by Marie-Hélène Rebois. La Fontaine's text is additionally the basis of the tenth piece in Eh bien ! Dansez maintenant (2006), Vladimir Cosma's light-hearted interpretation for narrator and orchestra in the style of an 'undulating waltz'. During the 20th century there was a fashion for slang versions. One of the first appeared among the seven published in 1945 by Bernard Gelval which afterwards became part of the sung repertoire of the actor Yves Deniaud. It was followed in 1947 by the second volume of 15 fables célèbres racontées en argot (famous fables in slang) by 'Marcus', in which Le Chêne et le Roseau was included. While this keeps fairly closely to La Fontaine's text, Pierre Perret's 1990 rap version is a looser adaptation of the fable into a series of quatrains with a refrain in between. The mighty oak 'stacked like the Himalayas' talks down to the reed in its marsh where 'up there the winds whizz and down 'ere's rheumatiz' (En haut t'as le mistral en bas les rhumatismes) but his pity is rejected and the fate soon to overtake him foretold. Cartoons were eventually made of these versions and released on DVD under the title The Geometric Fables; "The oak and the reed" appeared in volume 3 of the series (Les Chiffres, 1991). Two groups from Quebec have made use of the fable more recently. The deathcore band Despised Icon recorded their version on the album Consumed by your Poison in 2002. The grunted lyrics parallel La Fontaine's narrative: the reed rejects the protection offered by the oak for its own pliable behaviour. After the storm 'The one who thought himself so strong now among the dead belongs' (Celui qui se croyait si fort réside maintenant parmi les morts). There is also a folk-rock adaptation by Les Cowboys Fringants recorded on their 2008 album L’Expédition. The lyrics emphasise how holding to one's point of view isolates individuals but seem to recommend the reed's strategy for survival in the words of the refrain that one must 'fall to rise again' (tomber pour se relever) repeatedly. There was also a hip hop dance version of the fable in France choreographed for three performers by Mourad Merzouki in 2002. References External links 15th-20th century book illustrations online Aesop's Fables La Fontaine's Fables Emblem books Fictional trees Literary duos ATU 275-299
Remigia Salazar (1805–1860) was a Filipina writer, editor and printer. She is known as the first woman in the Philippines to be an editor, the owner and manager of a printing press and a publisher. She was also the founder of the first newspaper in the Philippines (1846). References 1805 births 1860 deaths 19th-century Filipino women writers 19th-century businesswomen 19th-century newspaper publishers (people)
Jocara lutosalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Jocara. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1956. It is found in Venezuela. References Moths described in 1956 Jocara
René Vandenhove (20 January 1889 – 20 August 1972) was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1919 Tour de France. References 1889 births 1972 deaths French male cyclists
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Gordian I (; 158 – April 238 AD) was Roman emperor for 22 days with his son Gordian II in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors. Caught up in a rebellion against the Emperor Maximinus Thrax, he was defeated by forces loyal to Maximinus, and he committed suicide after the death of his son. Family and background Little is known about the early life and family background of Gordian I. There is no reliable evidence on his family origins. Gordian I was said to be related to prominent senators of his time. His praenomen and nomen Marcus Antonius suggested that his paternal ancestors received Roman citizenship under the triumvir Mark Antony, or one of his daughters, during the late Roman Republic. Gordian's cognomen ‘Gordianus’ also indicates that his family origins were from Anatolia, more specifically Galatia or Cappadocia. According to the Historia Augusta, his mother was a Roman woman called Ulpia Gordiana and his father was the senator Maecius Marullus. While modern historians have dismissed his father's name as false, there may be some truth behind the identity of his mother. Gordian's family history can be guessed through inscriptions. The name Sempronianus in his name, for instance, may indicate a connection to his mother or grandmother. In Ankara, Turkey, a funeral inscription has been found that names a Sempronia Romana, daughter of a named Sempronius Aquila (an imperial secretary). Romana erected this undated funeral inscription to her husband (whose name is lost), who died as a praetor-designate. French historian Christian Settipani identified Gordian I's parents as Marcus Antonius (b. ca 135), tr. pl., praet. des., and wife Sempronia Romana (b. ca 140), daughter of Titus Flavius Sempronius Aquila (b. ca 115), Secretarius ab epistulis Graecis, and wife Claudia (b. ca 120), daughter of an unknown father and his wife Claudia Tisamenis (b. ca 100), sister of Herodes Atticus. It appears in this family tree that the person who was related to Herodes Atticus was Gordian I's mother or grandmother and not his wife. Also according to the Historia, the wife of Gordian I was a Roman woman called Fabia Orestilla, born circa 165, whom the Historia Augusta claims was a descendant of emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus. Modern historians have dismissed this name and her information as false. With his wife, Gordian I had at least two children: a son of the same name and a daughter, Antonia Gordiana (who was the mother of the future Emperor Gordian III). His wife died before 238 AD. Christian Settipani identified her parents as Marcus Annius Severus, who was a Suffect Consul, and his wife Silvana, born circa 140 AD, who was the daughter of Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus and his wife Aurelia Fadilla, the daughter of Antoninus Pius and wife Annia Galeria Faustina or Faustina the Elder. Early life Gordian steadily climbed the Roman imperial hierarchy when he became part of the Roman Senate. His political career started relatively late in his life and his early years were probably spent in rhetoric and literary studies. As a military man, Gordian commanded the Legio IV Scythica when the legion was stationed in Syria. He served as governor of Roman Britain in 216 AD and was a Suffect Consul sometime during the reign of Elagabalus. Inscriptions in Roman Britain bearing his name were partially erased suggesting some form of imperial displeasure during this role. While he gained unbounded popularity on account of the magnificent games and shows he produced as aedile, his prudent and retired life did not excite the suspicion of Caracalla, in whose honor he wrote a long epic poem called "Antoninias". Gordian certainly retained his wealth and political clout during the chaotic times of the Severan dynasty which suggests a personal dislike for intrigue. Philostratus dedicated his work Lives of the Sophists to either him or his son, Gordian II. Rise to power During the reign of Alexander Severus, Gordian I (who was by then in his late sixties), after serving his Suffect Consulship prior to 223, drew lots for the proconsular governorship of the province of Africa Proconsularis which he assumed in 237. However, prior to the commencement of his promagistrature, Maximinus Thrax killed Alexander Severus at Moguntiacum in Germania Inferior and assumed the throne. Maximinus was not a popular emperor and universal discontent increased due to his oppressive rule. It culminated in a revolt in Africa in 238 AD (the exact month is unknown). After Maximinus' fiscal curator was murdered in a riot, people turned to Gordian and demanded that he accept the dangerous honor of the imperial throne. Gordian, who was about 80 years according to Herodian, eventually yielded to the popular clamour and assumed both the purple and the cognomen "Africanus". According to Edward Gibbon: An iniquitous sentence had been pronounced against some opulent youths of [Africa], the execution of which would have stripped them of far the greater part of their patrimony. (...) A respite of three days, obtained with difficulty from the rapacious treasurer, was employed in collecting from their estates a great number of slaves and peasants blindly devoted to the commands of their lords and armed with the rustic weapons of clubs and axes. The leaders of the conspiracy, as they were admitted to the audience of the procurator, stabbed him with the daggers concealed under their garments, and, by the assistance of their tumultuary train, seized on the little town of Thysdrus, and erected the standard of rebellion against the sovereign of the Roman empire. (...) Gordianus, their proconsul, and the object of their choice [as emperor], refused, with unfeigned reluctance, the dangerous honour, and begged with tears that they should suffer him to terminate in peace a long and innocent life, without staining his feeble age with civil blood. Their menaces compelled him to accept the Imperial purple, his only refuge indeed against the jealous cruelty of Maximin (...). Due to his advanced age, he insisted that his son be associated with him. A few days later, Gordian entered the city of Carthage with the overwhelming support of the population and local political leaders. Gordian I sent assassins to kill Maximinus' praetorian prefect, Publius Aelius Vitalianus, and the rebellion seemed to be successful. Gordian, in the meantime, had sent an embassy to Rome, under the leadership of Publius Licinius Valerianus, to obtain the Senate's support for his rebellion. The Senate confirmed the new emperor and many of the provinces gladly sided with Gordian. This event is sometimes dated to 2 April, but this is only based on a passage of the Historia Augusta, nowadays considered highly unreliable, that told about an eclipse presaging the imminent fall of the Gordians. Opposition came from the neighboring province of Numidia. Capelianus, governor of Numidia and a loyal supporter of Maximinus Thrax, held a grudge against Gordian and invaded the African province with the only legion stationed in the region, III Augusta, and other veteran units. Gordian II, at the head of a militia army of untrained soldiers, lost the Battle of Carthage and was killed, and Gordian I killed himself by hanging himself with his belt. The Gordians had ruled only 22 days, the shortest reign of any Roman emperor. Gordian was the first emperor to commit suicide since Otho in 69 during the Year of the Four Emperors. Legacy Gordian's positive reputation can be attributed to his reportedly amiable character. Both he and his son were said to be fond of literature, even publishing their own voluminous works. While they were strongly interested in intellectual pursuits, they possessed neither the necessary skills nor resources to be considered able statesmen or powerful rulers. Having embraced the cause of Gordian, the Senate was obliged to continue the revolt against Maximinus following Gordian's death, appointing Pupienus and Balbinus as joint emperors. Nevertheless, by the end of 238, the recognised emperor would be Gordian III, Gordian's grandson. Family tree References Sources Ancient sources Herodian, Roman History, Book 7 Historia Augusta, The Three Gordians Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus Joannes Zonaras, Compendium of History extract: Zonaras: Alexander Severus to Diocletian: 222–284 Zosimus, Historia Nova Modern sources Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1888) Potter, David Stone, The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180–395, Routledge, 2004 Syme, Ronald, Emperors and Biography, Oxford University Press, 1971 External links 159 births 238 deaths 3rd-century Roman emperors Crisis of the Third Century Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome Roman governors of Britain Deified Roman emperors Heads of state who committed suicide Suicides in Ancient Rome Suicides by hanging in Tunisia Antonii Gordian dynasty
Christopher Sheels (born , Mount Vernon, Virginia – year and place of death unknown), was a slave and house servant at George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia, United States. As a teenager, he worked as Washington's "body servant" in the presidential households in New York City, 1789–90, and Philadelphia, 1790–91. In September 1799, Washington foiled an escape attempt by Sheels from Mount Vernon. Three months later he was present at the former president's deathbed. Dower slaves Sheels was the property of the estate of Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757), Martha Washington's first husband. As widow, she was granted the lifetime use of one-third of the Custis Estate slaves, hence the term "dower" slaves. At the time of her January 1759 marriage to George Washington, the dower slaves numbered at least 85 persons. Under Virginia law, the legal status of a slave was traced through the woman, so all the children of an enslaved mother were also born slaves, no matter who the father was. Multiple generations of dower slaves were born at Mount Vernon. The July 1799 Mount Vernon Slave Census lists 153 dower slaves. While George Washington freed his 123 slaves through his 1799 will, the dower slaves remained the property of the Custis estate. Following Martha Washington's 1802 death, the Custis estate was settled, and the dower slaves were inherited by the four Custis grandchildren. Background Sheels was the son of Alyce (also spelled Alce), an enslaved spinner at the Mansion. His father may have been Christopher Sheldes, a white wagon driver, who worked at Mount Vernon until December 1773, and he is listed as "11 yrs. old" in the February 1786 Mount Vernon Slave Census. His grandmother, "Old Doll," was a cook at the Mansion, and had been among the original dower slaves who were brought to Mount Vernon in 1759. Will Lee had been Washington's "body servant" through the Revolutionary War, the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and at Mount Vernon. In April 1789, when Washington set out for New York City to be inaugurated as the first President of the United States, Lee was too ill to make the trip. The fourteen-year-old went in Lee's place, although Lee joined Sheels in the presidential household several weeks later. The two were related: Lee's brother was married to Sheels' aunt. Presidential households Following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, New York City served as the national capital from December 1788 to December 1790. Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789. The first presidential household consisted of about twenty servants, including seven slaves from Mount Vernon — Oney Judge, Austin, Giles, Paris, Moll, Christopher Sheels, and William Lee. Under the July 1790 Residence Act, Congress moved the national capital to Philadelphia for a ten-year period, while the permanent national capital was under construction in the District of Columbia. The Philadelphia President's House had a larger household, about twenty-four servants initially, including eight slaves from Mount Vernon — Oney Judge, Austin, Giles, Paris, Moll, Hercules, Richmond, and Christopher Sheels. Will Lee was never part of the Philadelphia presidential household. He was permanently returned to Mount Vernon, where he became the plantation's shoemaker. Following Austin's 1794 death, "Postilion Joe" (Richardson) joined the Philadelphia presidential household. Gradual Abolition Act With the 1780 Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Pennsylvania's government was the first to begin an abolition of slavery. But the state law was very gradual, and highly-respectful of the property rights of slaveholders. It freed only the future children of enslaved mothers. Every person enslaved in Pennsylvania before the law went into effect remained enslaved-for-life. Non-resident slaveholders could keep their slaves for six months while in the state. But, if those slaves were held in Pennsylvania longer than six months, the state law empowered them to legally free themselves. Philadelphia had functioned as the national capital during the Revolutionary War. When the Gradual Abolition Act was drafted, the federal government had a single branch – Congress – which met in the city. Pennsylvania specifically exempted Congressmen and their personal slaves from the 1780 state law. Ten years later, when the national capital returned to Philadelphia, the U.S. Constitution had been ratified and the federal government had three branches. Members of Congress remained exempt from Pennsylvania's Gradual Abolition Act, however, the law's effects on slaveholding officers of the Judicial and Executive branches remained unclear. Washington argued, privately, that his presence in Pennsylvania was solely a consequence of Philadelphia's being the temporary seat of the federal government, that he remained a citizen of Virginia, and Pennsylvania law should not apply to him. On the advice of his attorney general, Edmund Randolph, he systematically rotated the President's House slaves in and out of the state to prevent their establishing a six-month continuous residency. This rotation was arguably a violation of a 1788 amendment to the Pennsylvania law, but Washington remained unchallenged through his residency in Philadelphia. As the first six-month deadline approached in May 1791, Martha Washington took Sheels and Oney Judge on a two-day trip to Trenton, New Jersey, thus voiding their Pennsylvania residencies. Mount Vernon Sheels was permanently returned to Mount Vernon by January 1792, where he worked as a waiter, serving the family meals. Washington completed his second term as President in March 1797, and returned to Virginia. In September 1799, Washington discovered a note outlining an escape plan from Mount Vernon for Sheels and his fiancee. (The note proves that Sheels could read.) Washington foiled the escape. Three months later, Sheels was at his bedside when Washington died on December 14, 1799. As a dower slave, Sheels was not among the 123 slaves freed by George Washington under the terms of his 1799 will. Following Martha Washington's 1802 death, Sheels became one of the 153 dower slaves inherited by the four Custis grandchildren. There is no documentation of where he lived the rest of his life or when he died. See also List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon George Washington and slavery Samuel Osgood House – First Presidential Mansion Alexander Macomb House – Second Presidential Mansion President's House (Philadelphia) – Third Presidential Mansion References 1770s births 19th-century deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown Mount Vernon slaves People from Mount Vernon, Virginia Virginia colonial people People who were enslaved by George Washington
Andreas Okopenko (15 March 1930, Košice – 27 June 2010, Vienna) was an Austrian writer. Andreas Okopenko's father was a Ukrainian physician and his mother was Austrian. From 1939, the family lived in Vienna. After studying chemistry at the University of Vienna Okopenko was active in the industry. Starting from 1950 he dedicated himself increasingly to the literature. From 1951 to 1953, he created a literature magazine, in which he published works by numerous members of the Austrian avant-garde of that time. From 1968 until his death he lived as a freelance writer in Vienna. Okopenko was, from 1973 to 1985, a member of the Grazer author meeting and from 1999 until his death he was a member of the Austrian art senate. Honors 1965 Anton Wildgans price 1977 Austrian appreciation price for literature 1983 Literary award of the city Vienna 1993 Literary award of the Hertha Kräftner society (Grosshöflein/Burgenland) 1995 Golden honour medal of the city Vienna 1998 Grand Austrian State Prize 2002 George Trakl price Notable works Child Nazi , 1984 Affenzucker/Neue Lockergedichte , 1999 External links Literaturlandschaft Österreich: Andreas Okopenko Überblick über Texte von Andreas Okopenko im Internet ELEX - Der elektronische Lexikon-Roman Obituary, in Die Presse 1930 births 2010 deaths Austrian male writers Austrian people of Ukrainian descent Anton Wildgans Prize winners Theodor Körner Prize recipients Slovak people of Ukrainian descent
Post Office Building, Upper Montclair, also known as the Gumersall Building, is located in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Designed by the architect Francis A. Nelson, the building was built in 1918 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 1, 1988. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey References Montclair, New Jersey Government buildings completed in 1918 Buildings and structures in Essex County, New Jersey Upper Montclair National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New Jersey New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Neža Maurer Škofič (born 22 December 1930) is a Slovene poet and writer. She writes for children, young adults, and adults and has worked as a translator, journalist, editor and teacher. Neža Maurer was born in the village of Podvin near Polzela in 1930. She trained as a teacher in Ljubljana and taught in schools in Črni vrh nad Idrijo and Ilirska Bistrica and, at the same time, got a degree in Slavistics from the University of Ljubljana. She worked as a journalist and program coordinator for youth programs at TV Ljubljana and as a contributor and editor at numerous magazines and journals. She lives in Preddvor and, as a retired artist, continues to be a prolific writer and poet. In 2010 she received the Poetry Gold Medal for her life's work. Published works For young adults and children Poetry , 1970 Kam pa teče voda, 1972 Kako spi veverica, 1975 Kostanjev škratek, 1980 Beli muc, 1981 Kadar Vanči riše, 1985 Televizijski otroci, 1986 Uh, kakšne laži, 1987 Iskal sem kukavico, 1989 Bratec Kratekčas, 1989 Oče Javor, 1990 Muca frizerka, 1995 Kdo, 1997 Od srede do petka, 1997 Sloni v spačku, 1997 Kostanjev škratek, 1997 Velik sončen dan, 2000 Kdo se oglaša, 2003 Zajčkova telovadba, 2004 Pišem, berem A,B,C, 2005 Prose Čukec, 1978 Koruzni punčki, 1993 Zvesti jazbec, 1999 Dica Prstančica, 2001 Ti si moje srce, 2008 For Adults Poetry Skorja dlani in skorja kruha, 1969 Ogenj do zadnjega diha, 1973 Čas, ko je vse prav, 1978 U službi života, 1978 Tej poti se reče želja, 1984 Drevo spoznanja, 1987 Kadar ljubimo, 1990 Litanije za mir, 1991 Od mene k tebi, 1993 Leva stran neba, 1994 Wenn wir lieben, 1995 The veiled landscape, 1995 , 1997 Igra za življenje, 1999 Zbrana dela I.del, 2000 Zbrana dela II. del, 2003 Zmenek, 2004 Raj, 2007 Od mene k tebi, 2007 Na tvojo kožo pišem svoje verze, 2008 Piramide upanja, 2010 Sama sva na svetu – ti in jaz, 2010 Prose Zveza mora ostati, 1967 Dom za telohov cvet, 1999 Velika knjiga pravljic, 1999 References Slovenian women poets Slovenian poets Slovenian journalists Slovenian women journalists Living people 1930 births University of Ljubljana alumni People from the Municipality of Polzela
The Thomasville Public Library is located in Thomasville, North Carolina, United States. It is the second largest branch of the Davidson County Public Library system. Since its inception in October, 1928, the library has grown from one room in the corner of a Thomasville school housing a collection of 200 books to a independent structure housing more than 70,000 books as well as magazines and journals, non-print materials, public access computers, and meeting rooms that are generally free for public use. History In March 1928, the Davidson County government established a fund of $7,000 for the Lexington and Thomasville branches of the newly established Davidson County Public Library system. The first Thomasville Public Library opened on October 25, 1928. It was located in a room on the west side of the second floor of the Main Street School building. It housed 200 books. Over a few years, the library outgrew the space given to it at the Main Street School. It moved to two different storefronts in the commercial district of Thomasville between 1928 and 1938. At times throughout that decade the library had to limit checkouts to one book per person because the number of readers nearly equaled the number of books on hand. The people of Thomasville, understanding the usefulness of a public library, established a new and larger place for it. For twenty years Thomasville's City Hall housed the library in a wing specifically designed for it. From 1938 until 1958, the library served its community from there, also making use of the court room and meetings rooms when they were not being used by the city. As the library's collection and readership grew through the next twenty years from about 6,500 books to over 15,000, and as the city of Thomasville grew and required more space for its administration, the need for a dedicated library building became apparent. On April 20, 1958, Thomasville received that dedicated building. It formally opened at the new . building on Randolph Street. A majority of the funding for the building came from the Lambeth and Finch families of Thomasville. The first library structure owned by the county in its time, it had shelf space for 20,000 books and a maximum capacity of 60 people. As early as 1979, expansion was perceived to be necessary and, during the 1980s the library board of trustees began researching the costs associated with building a new structure. In 1987 they approached the county officials to request that they dedicate funds to the construction of a new library building. While the county did dedicate $300,000, money to complete the project was raised mainly by the community and local charities. Construction began in 1989, and in 1990 the library moved to its current location at 14 Randolph Street. Services Computer Classes Research assistance Public meeting rooms Public access computers Summer reading programs Ancestry.com library edition free Virtual Library Many of the electronic resources to which the Thomasville Public Library subscribes may be accessed from home using a library card PIN. Online services including reserving books, checking fines and due dates, changing contact information, and renewing checked out items. Other resources available remotely: NCLive – Search hundreds of journals CultureGrams Heritage Quest Literary Reference Center North Carolina Digital Library – Books, audio, and movies available for free download NCKnows – Free 24-hour live reference assistance References External links Davidson County Public Library Home Page NCLive North Carolina Digital Library NCKnows Education in Davidson County, North Carolina Public libraries in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Davidson County, North Carolina Library buildings completed in 1958 Library buildings completed in 1990 Thomasville, North Carolina
Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption () is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Genoa, in the Province of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy. This church was constructed during 1610–1624. The Baroque-style facade was added in 1932, design of the architect Piero de Barbieri; the sculptor Luigi Venzano contributed the facade statues of St. John the Baptist and St. Joseph, while the central relief depicts the Madonna. The interior was decorated across the centuries and includes works by Giulio Benso, Domenico Piola, Nicolò Barabino, and Gian Stefano Rossi. It should not be confused with the distinct Santa Maria Assunta also called Santa Maria di Carignano. Notes Roman Catholic churches completed in 1624 17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Nostra Signora Assunta Baroque architecture in Liguria Minor basilicas in Liguria
Macedonia is an unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia, US. References Unincorporated communities in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Accomack County, Virginia
The 1892 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1892 college football season. Led by J. J. Clark in his first and only year as head coach, the team compiled a record of 4–0. Schedule References Washington and Jefferson Washington & Jefferson Presidents football seasons College football undefeated seasons Washington and Jefferson football
Lynda Marie Scott is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party. Early life Scott trained as a nurse in Wellington and then became a doctor in Auckland. She worked as a geriatrician. For a time, she also served as a director of Blenheim radio company Marlborough Media, which owned Sounds FM and Easy FM. Member of Parliament Scott was first elected to Parliament in the 1999 election, winning the South Island seat of Kaikoura. She replaced Doug Kidd, a long-serving National MP who had opted to become a list MP. In 2002, she became National's spokesperson for health. On 21 July 2004, however, she announced that she would retire from politics at the next election, returning to her "first love", medicine. References Living people New Zealand National Party MPs New Zealand nurses Year of birth missing (living people) Women members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates New Zealand women nurses 21st-century New Zealand politicians 21st-century New Zealand women politicians
The Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama (¡HICA!) is a non-profit organization, created in 1999, which aims to improve the quality of life for Latinos living in Alabama. HICA was founded by Isabel Rubio. References External links Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama Hispanic and Latino American culture in Alabama Hispanic and Latino American organizations Non-profit organizations based in Alabama
The enchanted loom is a famous metaphor for the human brain invented by the pioneering neuroscientist Charles S. Sherrington in a passage from his 1942 book Man on his nature, in which he poetically describes his conception of what happens in the cerebral cortex during arousal from sleep: The "loom" he refers to was undoubtedly meant to be a Jacquard loom, used for weaving fabric into complex patterns. The Jacquard loom, invented in 1801, was the most complex mechanical device of the early 19th century. It was controlled by a punch card system that was a forerunner of the system used in computers until the 1970s. According to the neuroscience historian Stanley Finger, Sherrington probably borrowed the loom metaphor from an earlier writer, the psychologist Fredric Myers, who asked his readers to "picture the human brain as a vast manufactory, in which thousands of looms, of complex and differing patterns, are habitually at work". Perhaps in part because of its slightly cryptic nature, the "enchanted loom" has been an attractive metaphor for many writers about the brain, and has supplied the title for several books, including the following: . Published 1985 in Spanish by Salvat, with the title "El telar mágico: El cerebro humano y el ordenador" (The magic loom : Human brain and the computer). See also List of metaphors Computational theory of mind Mechanism (philosophy) Strange loop Notes This was Sherrington's understanding in 1942. It is now known that the brain is much more active during sleep than he realized. References Sleep Consciousness Metaphors Philosophical analogies
X Factor is an Italian television music competition to find new singing talent; the winner receives a recording contract with Sony Music., Mara Maionchi is the only judge who will return from last season, while Samuel, Malika Ayane and Sfera Ebbasta and is the new entry; also Alessandro Cattelan was confirmed as host. The thirteenth season was aired on Sky Uno and TV8 since September 2019. Sofia Tornambene won the competition and Sfera Ebbasta became the winning coach for the first time. Judges' houses The "Home Visit" is the final phase before the Live Shows. In this phase, the contestants who passed the "Bootcamp" had to perform one last time in front of their specific judge, in four different locations. At the end of this audition, the top twelve contestants were chosen. The eight eliminated acts were: Boys: Daniel Acerboni, Emanuele Crisanti (Nuela) Girls: Silvia Cesana (Sissi), Beatrice Giliberti 25+: Tomas Tai, Gabriele Troisi Groups: K_Mono, Kyber Contestants and categories Key: – Winner – Runner-up – Third place Live shows Results summary The number of votes received by each act will be released by Sky Italia after the final. Colour key Live show details Week 1 (24 October) Judges' votes to eliminate Ebbasta: Enrico Di Lauro - backed his own act, Mariam Rouass. Ayane: Mariam Rouass - backed her own act, Enrico Di Lauro. Samuel: Mariam Rouass - gave no reason. Maionchi: Enrico Di Lauro - gave no reason. With the acts in the sing-off receiving two votes each, the result was deadlocked and a new public vote commenced for 200 seconds. Mariam Rouass was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes. Week 2 (31 October) Judge's vote to eliminate Ebbasta: Enrico Di Lauro - gave no reason. Ayane: Marco Saltari - backed her own act, Enrico Di Lauro. Samuel: Enrico Di Lauro - gave no reason. Maionchi: Enrico Di Lauro - backed her own act, Marco Saltari. Week 3 (7 November) Judge's vote to eliminate Ebbasta: Lorenzo Rinaldi - backed his own act, Giordana Petralia. Ayane: Giordana Petralia - backed her own act, Lorenzo Rinaldi. Samuel: Lorenzo Rinaldi - gave no reason. Maionchi: Lorenzo Rinaldi - gave no reason. Week 4 (14 November) Judges' votes to eliminate Ebbasta: Seawards - backed his own act, Girodana Petralia. Ayane: Seawards - gave no reason. Samuel: Girodana Petrali - backed his own act, Seawards. Maionchi: Seawards - gave no reason. Week 5 (21 November) There was no elimination that week; the act with the fewest votes sang again in the final showdown in week 6. Week 6: Quarter-final (28 November) Judges' vote to eliminate Ebbasta: Davide Rossi - backed his own act, Giordana Petralia. Ayane: Giordana Petralia - backed her own act, Davide Rossi. Samuel: Giordana Petralia - gave no reason. Maionchi: Giordana Petralia - gave no reason. Judges' votes to eliminate Maionchi: Davide Rossi - backed her own act, Nicola Cavallaro Ayane: Nicola Cavallaro - backed her own act, Davide Rossi Ebbasta: Nicola Cavallaro - gave no reason. Samuel: Nicola Cavallaro - gave no reason. Week 7: Semi-final (5 December) Judge's vote to eliminate Maionchi: Booda - backed her own act, Eugenio Campagna. Samuel: Eugenio Campagna - backed his own act, Booda. Ebbasta: Eugenio Campagna - gave no reason. Ayane: Eugenio Campagna - gave no reason. Week 8: Final (12 December) References External links X Factor Italia 2019 Italian television seasons Italian music television series Italy 13 X Factor (Italian TV series)
Major Crimes is an American police procedural starring Mary McDonnell as Captain (later Commander) Sharon Raydor originally airing on the TNT network. A spin-off of The Closer, Major Crimes follows the activities of the LAPD Major Crimes squad, charged with solving high-profile crimes in the city of Los Angeles, along with the members of the squad. The show features an ensemble cast including McDonnell, G. W. Bailey as Lt. Provenza, Tony Denison as Lt. Flynn, Michael Paul Chan as Lt. Tao, Raymond Cruz as Det. Sanchez, Jon Tenney as FBI Liaison Special Agent (later Deputy Chief) Fritz Howard, and Kearran Giovanni as Det. Sykes, as well as Graham Patrick Martin as Rusty Beck. Major Crimes, created by James Duff and produced by Greer Sheppard and Michael M. Robin, was the highest rated scripted cable drama of 2012. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2012) The theme for the first season is fairness. Season 2 (2013–14) Jonathan Del Arco (Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Morales) and Robert Gossett (Assistant Chief Russell Taylor), previously recurring cast members, are now series regulars. Nadine Velazquez joins the cast as DDA Emma Rios, the prosecutor in charge of the Phillip Stroh case. Originally scheduled for 15 episodes, the season order was increased to 19. According to creator James Duff, the theme for season two is identity. Season 3 (2014–15) Jon Tenney is upgraded from recurring to regular status as Special Agent (soon-to-be LAPD Deputy Chief) Fritz Howard, but is only credited in the episodes in which he appears. Recurring guest stars include Tom Berenger as Sharon's husband Jack, Bill Brochtrup as Rusty's therapist Dr. Joe Bowman, Malcolm-Jamal Warner as SIS Lt. Chuck Cooper, Ransford Doherty as Coroner Investigator Kendall, Kathe Mazur as Deputy DA Andrea Hobbs and Laurie Holden as Special Operations Bureau (SOB) Commander Ann McGinnis. The theme for the season is expectations. Season 4 (2015–16) The theme for the season is courage. Season 5 (2016–17) Robert Gossett departs the series in the eleventh episode of the season, in which Asst. Chief Taylor dies in a courtroom shootout. The theme for the season is balance. The final eight episodes focus on connections. Season 6 (2017–18) Daniel Di Tomasso (Detective Wes Nolan) and Leonard Roberts (Assistant Chief Leo Mason) previously recurring cast members, are now series regulars. Jessica Meraz also joins the cast as Detective Camilla Paige, a new transfer who has a past with Provenza. Series star Mary McDonnell departs the series in the tenth episode, following Sharon Raydor's death from a heart attack. The themes for this season are faith, reason and risk. Ratings Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 See also List of The Closer episodes References External links Major Crimes episode guide at TNT.com Lists of American crime drama television series episodes
Mary Ware (, Harris; pen name, Gertrude Glenn; April 11, 1828 – May 25, 1915) was an American "southland" poet and prose writer. She contributed poems to various periodicals for more than fifty years. She also published a limited edition of her poems for private distribution. Early life Mary Harris was born in Monroe County, Tennessee, April 11, 1828. Her maiden name, Harris, was prominent in southern literature. Her parents were George and Matilda Roper Harris. He was a successful lawyer living in Madisonville, Tennessee. There were two siblings, brothers, Edmund and Bruce. Career In 1844, the father, retiring from the practice of law, removed the family from eastern Tennessee to Shelby County, Alabama, where the literary life of Edmund and Mary began. Eventually, Mary's first poem was entitled "When Nature Wreathed Her Rosy Bowers". Her first verses appeared in the Mobile Advertiser, in 1852. In 1857, Edmund established the Shelby Chronicle, in Columbiana, Alabama, which he conducted with success until he sold it to join the editorial staff of the Mobile Tribune. He died suddenly in Mobile, Alabama. After a season of mourning her brother, Mary started writing again. She used a pen name, "Gertrude Glenn". Her verses were published by all the leading magazines and periodicals of the South, many of which belonged to the Antebellum era. The South, published in New York City, contained her contributions for twenty years. Besides poetry, she wrote some intonating Native American legends, and a few romances. She was a favorite writer for children in Burke's Weekly (Macon, Georgia). Personal life In 1863, she married Horace Ware (died July 1890), who was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, but reared in the South. He was widely known as a pioneer in the development of the iron industries of Alabama and operated the Shelby Iron Company in Shelby, Alabama. In 1871, she was living again in Columbiana, but in 1883, Mary and her husband removed to Birmingham, Alabama where, surrounded by wealth and art, she spent her time in study and work. After the husband's death in July, 1890, Mary's home circle in Birmingham included four nieces, children of her brother, Bruce. She died in Birmingham, May 25, 1915, at the home of a niece. References Attribution External links 1828 births 1915 deaths 19th-century American women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers 19th-century American poets American romantic fiction writers Women romantic fiction writers People from Monroe County, Tennessee Writers from Tennessee Pseudonymous women writers American children's writers American women children's writers Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century
Rockpalast is a live album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, named after the eponymous music festival and TV show, it was recorded at on 19 November 2005 at the Live Music Hall in Cologne, Germany. It was also filmed for a Rockpalast TV special, but not all songs made the broadcast. It is only available to download on the band's official website, and cannot be purchased in stores. The performance relies almost entirely on Deadwing and In Absentia material, with only one older song making the set list. The performances of "Futile" and "Radioactive Toy" were later included as bonus material on the Arriving Somewhere... DVD. Track listing Personnel Steven Wilson – vocals, guitar, remixing Colin Edwin – bass guitar Richard Barbieri – synthesizers Gavin Harrison – drums John Wesley – backing vocals, guitar Reiner Kühl – live sound engineer Erik Nacken – producer Peter Sommer – executive producer Lasse Hoile – cover artist Carl Glover – designer Porcupine Tree live albums 2006 live albums
The complete discography of Big L, an American hip hop artist, consists of two studio albums, four posthumous albums, six compilation albums, two extended plays, three collaborative albums one live album, four music videos, and seven singles. His first album, Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous, was released in 1995. In the US, it peaked at number 149 on the Billboard 200 and number 22 on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Albums Studio albums Posthumous albums Extended plays Compilation albums Collaborative albums Live albums Singles Promotional singles Guest appearances Music videos References Hip hop discographies Diggin' in the Crates Crew Discographies of American artists
N. marginatus may refer to: Nannostomus marginatus, the dwarf pencilfish, a freshwater fish species found on the South American continent Nicrophorus marginatus, a burying beetle species See also
New Bussa is a town in Niger State, Nigeria. It is the new site of Bussa after the Kainji Lake dam set the previous location underwater. As of 2007 New Bussa had an estimated population of 24,449. New Bussa is the headquarters of the Borgu Emirate and the Borgu Local Government Area. Geography New Bussa sits at , and the original town of Bussa was located about 40 km North of New Bussa at (altitude 561 ft or 170 meters). References External links Populated places in Niger State
Yezovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Bogorodskoye Rural Settlement, Ust-Kubinsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2002. Geography Yezovo is located 75 km northwest of Ustye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ugol is the nearest rural locality. References Rural localities in Tarnogsky District
The women's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2014 Asian Games was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, Incheon, South Korea on 27 September. Schedule All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00) Records Results References Results Steeplechase women 2014 women
The Patrick O'Donnell House is the largest example of Italianate architecture in Charleston, South Carolina. It was built for Patrick O'Donnell (1806-1882), perhaps in 1856 or 1857. Other research has suggested a construction date of 1865. Local lore has it that the three-and-a-half-story house was built for his would-be bride who later refused to marry him, giving rise to the house's popular name, "O'Donnell's Folly." Between 1907 and 1937, it was home to Josephine Pinckney; both the Charleston Poetry Society and the Society for the Preservation of Spirituals were formed at the house during her ownership. It is a classic example of a side hall plan; the house has large, adjacent rooms on the south side with a piazza and a stair hall that runs along the north side of the house. A carriage house in the baronial style was added along the rear property line in 1888 by Thomas R. McGahan. In 1987, the house was for sale for $750,000, and the Preservation Society of Charleston considered purchasing it. The Society was interested in using the house as a museum house and as its headquarters, and the neighborhood initially supported the plans. Later, the neighborhood changed its position because of worries about parking, and the membership of the Society was split on the proposal. In April 1987, The Society dropped its plans. The house sold for $7.2 million in June 2007 to James Pallotta, a part owner of the Boston Celtics. At the time, the seven-bedroom, 9,700 square foot house's price was the highest ever paid in Charleston for a house. The previous record holder had been the William Gibbes House at 64 South Battery which had sold for $6.1 million in January 2006. The O'Donnell House retained that distinction until the sale of 37 Meeting St. in May 2009 for $7.37 million. References Houses in Charleston, South Carolina
McMillan is an unincorporated community in Luce County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located along M-28 within Columbus Township. As an unincorporated community, McMillan has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own but does have its own post office with the 49853 ZIP Code. History The community of McMillan was first settled in 1881 when the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway built a line through the area. A rail depot named the McMillan Station opened to serve the area. The station and the new community were named after railway executive and future Michigan senator James McMillan. At the time, the area was part of western Chippewa County until Luce County was created in 1887. McMillan received a post office on April 21, 1882. The post office has continuously remained in operation and is currently located at 22579 M-28 in the center of the community. McMillan recorded a population of 40 in 1887. The community benefited from the increased lumber industry, and the railway connected it to many other communities within the Upper Peninsula. In 1910, the community reached a peak population of around 300 and consisted of several general stores, hotels, saloons, sawmill, livery, and the Northern Cooperage & Lumber Company. When the lumber industry declined, the community's population reduced to about 200 by 1927, and many businesses left. In 1919, M-25 was designated as a state highway that ran through McMillan. In 1928, the highway was redesignated as M-28. The railway line remains active and is operated by Canadian National Railway but no longer contains a stop or railway station within McMillan. The Columbus Township Cemetery, also known as the McMillan Cemetery, is located in the community along County Road 415 just south of M-28. Lincoln School Around 1910, the McMillan School was built to serve its residents. The building was constructed in an unusual way, in which there are no windows on the front of the building. These were referred to as "blind walls" that were meant to control lighting in the corner classrooms. The building did not receive electricity until 1925. In 1916, the school merged with the larger Standard School system in order to better serve the rural population. The same year, the building also received a significant addition as the student population grew. Until 1922, the school served students up to the eleventh grade, as twelfth grade students had to complete their education in Newberry. In 1923, the school saw its first graduating class of four students. In 1932, the building was rebranded as the Lincoln School, although budget restraints still caused some students to go to Newberry. The school closed by 1973 and students were consolidated into Tahquamenon Area Schools in Newberry. The building was purchased and turned into a bottling company that filtered water from the nearby Tahquamenon River, although the original structure now remains vacant. Geography The community of McMillan is located within southeast Columbus Township in the state's Upper Peninsula about west of the village of Newberry. McMillan sits at an elevation of above sea level. Some areas surrounding the community are included in the Sault Ste. Marie section of the Lake Superior State Forest. McMillan is centered along M-28 and County Road 415 (known locally as McMillan Avenue). In addition to Newberry, other nearby communities include Dollarville to the east, Curtis and Helmer to the south, Seney to the west, and the smaller McMillan Corner directly to the south along H-33. Along with Newberry, McMillan has one of only two current post offices in Luce County. The McMillan post office uses the 49853 ZIP Code. The post office serves a much larger area that includes most of Columbus Township and Lakefield Township, as well as a very small northern portion of Portage Township in Mackinac County to the south and the eastern fringes of Germfask Township in Schoolcraft County to the west. The community is served by Tahquamenon Area Schools in Newberry, which has the largest area of any public school district in the state. The upper portion of the Tahquamenon River flows just north of the center of the community. The Columbus Township Hall is located in McMillan at 7459 County Road 415. Media WMJT 96.7 FM is an adult contemporary radio station that is licensed to McMillan and serves the Newberry area. Gallery References Unincorporated communities in Luce County, Michigan Unincorporated communities in Michigan Populated places established in 1881 1881 establishments in Michigan
Petriča () is a village in the municipality of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. References Populated places in Srebrenica
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a science fiction turn-based strategy video game developed by Black Lab Games and published by Slitherine Software for Windows and macOS on June 4, 2015. It is the second game in the Star Hammer series after Star Hammer Tactics. Gameplay Star Hammer is set in 2174 AD during a war between humans and a race of cephalopods called Nautilids. The game is a 3D turn-based strategy game that uses a simultaneous turn structure (WEGO) where opponents confirm commands and are then executed at the same time. Release Star Hammer was developed by Black Lab Games, a studio based in Perth, Australia. The Vanguard Prophecy is a follow-up to Star Hammer Tactics, a PlayStation mini and iPad game. An Xbox One version was released on August 26, 2016, and a PlayStation 4 version was released on September 2, 2016. Reception Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Patrick Baker of Armchair General summarized: "Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a very good game. It is fun, and involving to play and well worth the $19.99 price tag. The game can only be made better by adding a ship design module, a true scenario editor and a multi-player function." Matt Purslow of PCGamesN summarized: "Star Hammer’s combat systems are truly exceptional, but they’re trapped in a bland, forgettable campaign." Alex Connolly of Pocket Tactics summarized: "Aural nitpicking aside, and despite a distinct lack of multiplayer, Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a quiet gem." Richard Talbot of Wargamer said: "[...] overall I have so far really enjoyed Star Hammer. The game looks good and the WEGO turn system works really well. Star Hammer won best game award at West Australian Screen Awards. See also Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, the next strategy game by the same developer and publisher References External links Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy at Black Lab Games 2015 video games Black Lab Games games IOS games MacOS games PlayStation 4 games Science fiction video games Single-player video games Slitherine Software games Turn-based strategy video games Video games developed in Australia Video games set in the 22nd century Windows games Xbox One games
Thliptoceras is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was erected by William Warren in 1890. Species Thliptoceras althealis (Walker, 1859) Thliptoceras amamiale Munroe & Mutuura, 1968 Thliptoceras anthropophilum Bänziger, 1987 Thliptoceras artatalis (Caradja, 1925) Thliptoceras bicuspidatum Zhang, 2014 Thliptoceras bisulciforme Zhang, 2014 Thliptoceras buettikeri Munroe, 1967 Thliptoceras calvatalis C. Swinhoe, 1890 Thliptoceras caradjai Munroe & Mutuura, 1968 Thliptoceras cascalis (C. Swinhoe, 1890) Thliptoceras decoloralis (Warren, 1896) Thliptoceras distictalis Hampson, 1899 Thliptoceras epicrocalis C. Swinhoe, 1890 Thliptoceras fenestratum Aurivillius, 1910 Thliptoceras filamentosum Zhang, 2014 Thliptoceras fimbriata (C. Swinhoe, 1900) Thliptoceras formosanum Munroe & Mutuura, 1968 Thliptoceras fulvale de Joannis, 1932 Thliptoceras fulvimargo (Warren, 1895) Thliptoceras fuscociliale (Snellen, 1895) Thliptoceras gladialis (Leech, 1889) Thliptoceras impube Zhang, 2014 Thliptoceras lacriphagum Bänziger, 1987 Thliptoceras neotropicalis Schaus, 1912 Thliptoceras polygrammodes Hampson, 1899 Thliptoceras semicirculare Zhang, 2014 Thliptoceras shafferi Bänziger, 1987 Thliptoceras sinensis (Caradja, 1925) Thliptoceras stygiale Hampson, 1896 Thliptoceras umoremsugente Bänziger, 1987 Former species Thliptoceras elegans Guillermet, 1996 References Pyraustinae Crambidae genera Taxa named by William Warren (entomologist)
Loryma ambovombealis is a species of snout moth in the genus Loryma. It was described by Patrice J.A. Leraut in 2009 and is known from Madagascar (the type location is Ambovombe). References Moths described in 2009 Pyralini Moths of Africa
Tales from the Crypt is a 1972 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis. It is an anthology film consisting of five separate segments, based on the Tales from the Crypt short stories by Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, and Bill Gaines. The film was produced by Amicus Productions and filmed at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England. In the film, five strangers (Joan Collins, Ian Hendry, Robin Phillips, Richard Greene and Nigel Patrick) in a crypt encounter the mysterious Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson), who makes each person in turn foresee the manner of their death. It is one of several Amicus horror anthologies produced during the 1970s. Plot Intro While viewing old catacombs in the English countryside, five strangers stumble into a room with a mysterious Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson), who details how each of them will die. "...And All Through the House" Taken from The Vault of Horror #35 (February–March 1954). Joanne Clayton (Joan Collins) kills her husband Richard (Martin Boddey) on Christmas Eve. She prepares to hide his body, but is interrupted by a radio announcement of a homicidal maniac (Oliver MacGreevy) lurking in the night. She sees the killer (who is dressed in a Santa Claus costume) outside her home, but cannot call the police without exposing her own crime. After cleaning up the murder scene, Joanne attempts to phone the police (with the intention to make them believe the maniac killed her husband). However, her young daughter Carol (Chloe Franks) — believing the maniac to be Santa — unlocks the window and lets him into the house, whereupon he strangles Joanne to death by the fire. "Reflection of Death" Taken from Tales from the Crypt #23 (April–May 1951). Carl Maitland (Ian Hendry) abandons his family to be with his secretary, Susan Blake (Angela Grant). After they drive off together, they are involved in a car accident. He wakes up, having been thrown clear of the wrecked and burned car, and attempts to hitchhike home, but everyone he meets reacts with horror upon seeing him. Arriving at his house, he sees his wife (Susan Denny) with another man. He knocks on the door, but she screams and slams the door. He then goes to see Susan, only to find that she is blind from the accident. She says that Carl died two years ago in the crash. Glancing at a reflective tabletop, he sees he has the face of a rotting corpse and screams in horror. Carl then wakes up and finds out that it was a dream, but the moment he does, the crash occurs as previously seen. "Poetic Justice" Taken from The Haunt of Fear #12 (March–April 1952). James Elliot (Robin Phillips) lives with his father Edward (David Markham) across from the home of elderly dustman Arthur Edward Grimsdyke (Peter Cushing), who owns a number of dogs and entertains children in his house. While both the Elliots are snobs who resent Grimsdyke as a blight on their neighbourhood, James strongly detests the old man enough to conduct a smear campaign against him: first having his beloved dogs taken by animal control (although one of them returns to him), then persuading a member of the council to have him removed from his job, and later exploiting parents' paranoid fears about child molestation. Unbeknownst to James, Grimsdyke dabbles in the occult and holds a seance by himself to confer with his late wife. On Valentine's Day, James sends Grimsdyke a number of poison-pen Valentines, supposedly from the neighbours, driving the old man to suicide. Exactly one year later, Grimsdyke rises from the grave and takes revenge on James. The following morning, Edward finds his son dead with a note that reads, "HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY..YOU WERE MEAN AND CRUEL..RIGHT FROM THE START..NOW YOU REALLY HAVE NO.." with the final word represented by James' still-beating heart inside the folded end of the paper on which the note is written. "Wish You Were Here" Taken from The Haunt of Fear #22 (November–December 1953). A variation on W. W. Jacobs's short story "The Monkey's Paw". Ineffective, ruthless businessman Ralph Jason (Richard Greene) is close to financial ruin. His wife Enid (Barbara Murray) notices, for the first time, the inscription on a Chinese figurine in the couple's collection, which grants three wishes to the owner. Enid decides to wish for a fortune and, surprisingly, the wish comes true, but Ralph is killed, seemingly in a car crash, on the way to his lawyer's office to collect the money. The lawyer, Charles Gregory (Roy Dotrice), then advises Enid she will inherit a fortune from her deceased husband's life insurance plan; however, when he learns of the manner of the wish granted that she made, he warns her not to wish Ralph back since he remembered the consequences of a similar story in which a mother wished her dead son back, only to be horrified by his gruesome appearance and forced to use the last wish to send him back to the grave. Against Gregory's explicit advice, Enid uses her second wish to bring him back to the way he was just before the accident, but he is returned in his coffin, still dead, as his death was due to a heart attack immediately before the crash and caused by fright upon seeing the figure of "death" following him on a motorcycle. Once more, Gregory warns Enid not to make a final wish and just let Ralph rest in peace. As Gregory goes outside to get some fresh air, she uses her final wish to bring Ralph back to life and to live forever. When Gregory comes back inside, he discovers too late that Enid again went against his warning. Gregory points out to her that Ralph was embalmed and he is suffering from the effects of the embalming liquid. Enid tries to kill Ralph to end his pain but, because she wished for him to live forever, he cannot be killed. As a result, she has now trapped him in eternal agony and thus making her regret those last two wishes. "Blind Alleys" Taken from Tales from the Crypt #46 (February–March 1955). Major William Rogers (Nigel Patrick) becomes the new director of a home for the blind, and exploits his position to live in luxury with his German Shepherd Shane, while his drastic financial cuts on food and heating reduces the residents' quality of life. Rogers gets his comeuppance after he ignores the pleas of resident George Carter (Patrick Magee) to both make the living conditions more bearable and later to get medical treatment for fellow resident Greenwood, who then dies from hypothermia. Carter leads a revolt to subdue the staff before locking Rogers and Shane in separate rooms in the basement, and they then construct a small maze of narrow corridors between the two rooms. After two days left to starve, Rogers is released and forced to find his way through the maze for his freedom, getting past one corridor lined with razor blades once Carter turns the lights on; but Rogers finds his last obstacle to be a ravenous Shane who does not seem to recognise him. He flees back towards the razors, only for Carter to turn the lights off. Rogers is heard screaming as the hungry dog catches up with him and kills him. Finale After completing the final tale, the Crypt Keeper reveals that he was not warning them of what would happen, but telling them what has already happened: they have all "died without repentance". There is one clue to this twist in that Joan Collins' character is wearing the brooch her husband had given her for Christmas just before she killed him. The door to Hell opens and Joanne, Carl, James, Ralph, and Major Rogers all enter (Ralph enters first and is seen falling down into a fiery abyss). "And now, who's next?" asks the Crypt Keeper, turning to face the camera as he says "Perhaps...YOU?" The scene pulls away as the entrance to the Crypt Keeper's lair is in flames. Cast Wraparounds: Ralph Richardson – The Crypt Keeper Geoffrey Bayldon – The Guide "...And All Through the House": Joan Collins – Joanne Clayton Martin Boddey – Richard Clayton Chloe Franks – Carol Clayton Oliver MacGreevy – Homicidal Maniac Robert Rietti – Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited) "Reflection of Death": Ian Hendry – Carl Maitland Susan Denny – Mrs. Maitland Angela Grant – Susan Blake Peter Fraser – Motorist Frank Forsyth – Tramp "Poetic Justice": Robin Phillips – James Elliot David Markham – Edward Elliot Peter Cushing – Arthur Edward Grimsdyke Robert Hutton – Mr. Baker Manning Wilson – Vicar Clifford Earl – Police Sergeant Edward Evans – Constable Ramsey Irene Gawne – Mrs. Phelps Stafford Medhurst – Mrs. Phelps' son "Wish You Were Here": Richard Greene – Ralph Jason Barbara Murray – Enid Jason Roy Dotrice – Charles Gregory Jane Sofiano – Secretary Peter Thomas – Pallbearer Hedger Wallace – Detective "Blind Alleys": Nigel Patrick – Major William Rogers Patrick Magee – George Carter George Herbert – Greenwood Harry Locke – Harry the Cook Tony Wall – Attendant John Barrard – Blind Man (uncredited) Production Milton Subotsky of Amicus Productions had long been a fan of EC Comics' Tales from the Crypt and eventually persuaded his partner Max Rosenberg to buy the rights. The copyright owner, William Gaines, insisted on script approval. The budget of £170,000 was higher than usual for an Amicus production, and was partly funded by American International Pictures. Peter Cushing was originally offered the part played by Richard Greene, but wanted to try something different and played the elderly Grimsdyke instead. Filming dates Filming started on 13 September 1971 and finished in 1972. The film premièred in North America on 8 March 1972, and in the UK on 28 September 1972. Release Critical reception Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "It's put together something like the comic books, with the old Crypt Keeper acting as host and narrator. In the movie version, he is played with suitable ham by Ralph Richardson". Vincent Canby of The New York Times felt the film lacked style and was too heavy-handed in its morality. In retrospective reviews, Craig Butler of AllMovie said, "It has a certain magnetism about it that is hard to resist and which accounts for its enduring popularity. There's something about Crypt that makes even jaded viewers feel like they're kids sitting in their rooms late at night with the lights out, telling eerie tales with the aid of a flashlight." Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine rated it two-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that "the undercurrent of sternness is tempered by a truly bottomless roster of campy excess". Anthony Arrigo of Dread Central wrote, "The greatest strength in Tales comes not from the acting or directing – both of which are perfectly sound – but in the rich stories culled from the comics." Chris Alexander of Fangoria wrote, "[F]rom its first frames to its invasive final shot, this classic British creeper offers an unrelenting study in the art of the macabre." , Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reported that 90% of 21 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review, with an average score of 7.07/10. Home media The film was released on VHS in North America by Prism Entertainment Corp in 1985, then by Starmaker Home Video in 1989, and finally by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, under their Selections label, in 1998. In the UK, it was released on VHS in 1988 by CBS Fox Video, having been rated 18 without cuts by the BBFC. It was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on 28 June 2010. It received its first Blu-ray release from Shock Records distribution in Australia on 2 November 2011. The film, paired with another Amicus anthology, The Vault of Horror, was released on a double-feature DVD on 11 September 2007. Shout! Factory released the same double feature on Blu-ray on 2 December 2014. Points of interest Only two of the stories are from EC's Tales from the Crypt comic book. The reason for this, according to Creepy founding editor Russ Jones, is that producer Milton Subotsky did not own a run of the original EC comic book but instead adapted the movie from the two paperback reprints given to him by Jones. The story "Wish You Were Here" was reprinted in the paperback collection The Vault of Horror (Ballantine, 1965). The other four stories in the movie were among the eight stories reprinted in Tales from the Crypt (Ballantine, 1964). Richardson's hooded Crypt Keeper, more sombre than the EC original (as illustrated by Al Feldstein and Jack Davis), has a monk-like appearance and resembles EC's GhouLunatics. In the EC horror comics, the other horror hosts (the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper) wore hoods, while the Crypt Keeper did not. The earlier Amicus anthology film Torture Garden features a similar ending breaking the fourth wall. The screenplay was adapted into a tie-in novel by Jack Oleck, Tales from the Crypt (Bantam, 1972). Oleck, who wrote the novel Messalina (1950), also scripted for EC's Picto-Fiction titles, Crime Illustrated, Shock Illustrated and Terror Illustrated. A tie-in novel was also written by Oleck for the later Amicus anthology film The Vault Of Horror, released in 1973. Connections to the TV series "...And All Through the House", "Blind Alleys" and "Wish You Were Here" were all somewhat remade into episodes for the Tales From the Crypt television show. "Blind Alleys" and "Wish You Were Here" were both changed. "...And All Through the House" had the woman killing her husband so that she can take her daughter and live with her boyfriend. The episode ended with her daughter letting the axe-wielding maniac into the house as he quotes "Naughty or Nice" with the episode ending with the woman screaming. The Crypt Keeper stated that the daughter was not harmed because the escaped maniac “preferred older women... in pieces”. "Blind Alleys" was now "Revenge is the Nuts" and was about a beautiful blind girl (portrayed by Teri Polo) who comes to live at a house for the blind where the sadistic director (played by The Dead Zones Anthony Zerbe) tries to sexually assault her. In the end, she and the other residents take their revenge on the director in the same fashion as in the original story. "Wish You Were Here" is similar to the TV series' 7th-season episode "Last Respects" in that both borrow plot elements from W. W. Jacobs's classic short story "The Monkey's Paw" and both are directed by the original film's director Freddie Francis. Like many of the show's episodes, "Last Respects" uses the title of an existing story from the comics (Tales From The Crypt #23), but does not use the story itself. The statue from the film is reverted to the original monkey's paw in the TV episode, and the story now deals with three sisters who come into possession of it. One wishes for 1 million pounds, and she and the second sister are in a car crash where she dies, and her life insurance policy is for 1 million pounds. When the third sister wishes that the dead sister was the way she was just before the crash, she learns that she was actually killed by the second sister. In a form of revenge, the third sister gives her last wish to her sister, but she did not say which sister she wanted to give it to, thus beating the monkey's paw at its own game. The third wish is transferred to the dead sister, who comes back from the dead to kill the second sister. References External links 1972 films 1972 horror films 1970s British films 1970s English-language films Amicus Productions films British films about revenge British horror anthology films British serial killer films British supernatural horror films British zombie films Films about blind people Films about death Films about wish fulfillment Films based on American comics Films directed by Freddie Francis Films scored by Douglas Gamley Films set in England Films shot at Shepperton Studios Gothic horror films Hell in popular culture Live-action films based on comics Mariticide in fiction Metromedia Producers Corporation films Santa Claus in film Tales from the Crypt films Valentine's Day in films
Kevin Steuke (born 23 November 1992) is a German former professional footballer who played as a attacking midfielder. External links 1992 births Living people German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders 3. Liga players Regionalliga players Rot-Weiß Oberhausen players TuS Koblenz players SC Westfalia Herne players FC Kray players Footballers from Oberhausen
Pericles the Younger (440s – 406 BCE) was an ancient Athenian strategos (general), the illegitimate son of famous Athenian leader Pericles by Aspasia. Pericles the Younger was probably born in the early to mid 440s BCE, before 446 according to some scholars, but possibly as late as 440. He was admitted to Athenian citizenship by a special exception from his father's own law prohibiting citizenship to children of non-Athenian mothers. He served as Hellenotamias in 410 or 409, and as strategos in 406. He was one of six strategoi executed following the Battle of Arginusae for failing to pick up survivors in a storm (see Battle of Arginusae). Ancestry References 440s BC births 406 BC deaths Ancient Athenian generals Executed ancient Greek people 5th-century BC executions Athenians of the Peloponnesian War People executed by ancient Athens
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson (; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity. Selected filmography Actor Your Dearest Enemy (1916) When Four Do the Same (1917) Carmen (1918) The Ballet Girl (1918) The Seeds of Life (1918) Ferdinand Lassalle (1918) The Yellow Ticket (1918) My Wife, the Movie Star (1919) The Dagger of Malaya (1919) One or the Other (1919) Superstition (1919) The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers (1919) Countess Doddy (1919) The Howling Wolf (1919) The Merry Husband (1919) The Panther Bride (1919) The Oyster Princess (1919) The Woman at the Crossroads (1919) The Housing Shortage (1920) The Last Kolczaks (1920) The Secret of the Mummy (1921) Love at the Wheel (1921) The Wild Cat (1921) The Girl with the Mask (1922) Das Milliardensouper (1923) Niniche (1925) Circus Romanelli (1926) The Ones Down There (1926) The Divorcée (1926) At the Edge of the World (1927) Holzapfel Knows Everything (1932) So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (1938) The Leghorn Hat (1939) Men Are That Way (1939) The Unfaithful Eckehart (1940) The Way to Freedom (1941) We Make Music (1942) The Great Love (1942) Rembrandt (1942) Back Then (1943) Come Back to Me (1944) Viennese Girls (1945) A Man Like Maximilian (1945) Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1946) Ghost in the Castle (1947) The Court Concert (1948) Journey to Happiness (1948) Law of Love (1949) The Marriage of Figaro (1949) Professor Nachtfalter (1951) Torreani (1951) The Prince of Pappenheim (1952) When the Heath Dreams at Night (1952) Hit Parade (1953) The Rose of Stamboul (1953) Such a Charade (1953) Director The Yellow Ticket (1918) The Man of Action (1919) The Lady in Black (1920) The Secret of the Mummy (1921) Love at the Wheel (1921) The Girl with the Mask (1922) Das Milliardensouper (1923) Niniche (1925) The Dealer from Amsterdam (1925) The Queen of the Baths (1926) The Ones Down There (1926) Sword and Shield (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1926) The Divorcée (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1926) A Girl with Temperament (1928) Vienna, City of My Dreams (1928) The Circus Princess (1929) Black Forest Girl (1929) The Black Domino (1929) Hungarian Nights (1929) Danube Waltz (1930) The Woman They Talk About (1931) The Beggar Student (1931) Once There Was a Waltz (1932) The Blue of Heaven (1932) Distorting at the Resort (1932) The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel (1933) The Tsarevich (1933) A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1934) The Voice of Love (1934) The Blonde Carmen (1935) She and the Three (1935) Girls in White (1936) The Coral Princess (1937) Who's Kissing Madeleine? (1939) References External links 1884 births 1960 deaths German film directors German male film actors German male silent film actors Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany Latvian male silent film actors Film people from Riga 20th-century German male actors 20th-century Latvian male actors Actors from Riga
Multiplex is a comedy webcomic written and drawn by Gordon McAlpin which ran from 2005 to 2017. The comic focuses on the lives of the staff of the Multiplex 10 Cinemas and the movies that play there. Originally envisioned as an animated short, Multiplex is visually inspired by cut paper animation and vector graphics. Three print collections of the webcomic were released from 2010 to 1017. McAlpin's webcomic ended in April 2017, and the series is to be rebooted in the form of a stand-alone animated film, titled Multiplex 10. Synopsis Multiplex is a webcomic about the employees and customers of the Multiplex 10 Cinemas located in a fictional suburb of Chicago. The Multiplex 10 employs a large number of young adults and has a wide variety of customers: many of the strips revolve around how the staff interacts with their customers, while others deal with what happens with the staff after the cinema has closed. The series was set in real-time, and most strips include a date, making its many movie references more understandable. Characters The cast of Multiplex consists mainly of the staff of the Multiplex 10 Cinemas, with some of the customers having recurring roles in the comic. Some recurring customers include Björn Lager, an obese white middle-aged man akin to the Comic Book Guy, a "Creepy Loser" who once applied for a staff position at the Multiplex hoping to be able to meet some of the theater's female staff workers, and a "Stalker Boy" with an obsession for Melissa. Development McAlpin began posting Multiplex in July 2005. His brother Lawrence, a programmer, helped set up the website for him and later programmed the Multiplex iPhone app. When McAlpin began writing his webcomic, he liberally made use of the dynamic canvas size of webcomics, making his strips as long as they needed to be. McAlpin originally intended to create Multiplex as an animated short, but abandoned the idea and later decided to publish it as a webcomic. Visually, McAlpin was strongly influenced by cut paper animation and vector graphics, stating that "the flatness of it can be beautiful thing." The writing of Multiplex was inspired by Archie, South Park, Clone High, and sitcoms like The Office and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In an interview with Newsarama, McAlpin stated that he is not fond of reading webcomics online, stating that print comics have four times the detail that digital comics have. McAlpin has worked in printing and publishing for most of his life, and stated "I love the weight to books, the design, the texture of the paper, and especially the higher quality reproduction of the art." A collection of early Multiplex strips was released in print in 2010 under the title Multiplex: Enjoy the Show. McAlpin noted that his webcomic's 500+ strip archive could be intimidating, and that a paperback print collection would make it easier for new readers to get into the series. McAlpin funded the release through crowdfunding on Kickstarter, setting a goal of $7,500 USD and raising over $12,500. McAlpin later suggested that he may have been the first webcartoonist to use Kickstarter to fund a print release. The book was published in September 2010 by Chase Sequence Co. Two more collected editions have been released since. Multiplex ended its run in April 2017 and McAlpin began developing a stand-alone animated film, titled Multiplex 10. In order to fund the film, McAlpin raised over US$15,000 through Kickstarter. Multiplex 10 is set up as a prequel to the webcomic, featuring the characters as they appeared early-on. McAlpin also hopes to be running an animated series after releasing the film. Reception Multiplex: Enjoy The Show received a positive review from The Chicago Tribune, which praised McAlpin's work for its "extremely detailed frames and multifaceted characters." References External links The Triple Feature – A weekly podcast hosted by Alpin, alongside Tom Brazelton and Joe Dunn 2000s webcomics American comedy webcomics 2005 webcomic debuts 2017 webcomic endings Workplace webcomics
The atlanto-occipital joint (Capsula articularis atlantooccipitalis) is an articulation between the atlas bone and the occipital bone. It consists of a pair of condyloid joints. It is a synovial joint. Structure The atlanto-occipital joint is an articulation between the atlas bone and the occipital bone. It consists of a pair of condyloid joints. It is a synovial joint. Ligaments The ligaments connecting the bones are: Two articular capsules Posterior atlanto-occipital membrane Anterior atlanto-occipital membrane Capsule The capsules of the atlantooccipital articulation surround the condyles of the occipital bone, and connect them with the articular processes of the atlas: they are thin and loose. Function The movements permitted in this joint are: (a) flexion and extension around the mediolateral axis, which give rise to the ordinary forward and backward nodding of the head. (b) slight lateral motion, lateroflexion, to one or other side around the anteroposterior axis. Flexion is produced mainly by the action of the longi capitis and recti capitis anteriores; extension by the recti capitis posteriores major and minor, the obliquus capitis superior, the semispinalis capitis, splenius capitis, sternocleidomastoideus, and upper fibers of the trapezius. The recti laterales are concerned in the lateral movement, assisted by the trapezius, splenius capitis, semispinalis capitis, and the sternocleidomastoideus of the same side, all acting together. Clinical significance Dislocation The atlanto-occipital joint may be dislocated, especially from violent accidents such as traffic collisions. This may be diagnosed using CT scans or magnetic resonance imaging of the head and neck. Surgery may be used to fix the joint and any associated bone fractures. Neck movement may be reduced long after this injury. Such injuries may also lead to hypermobility, which may be diagnosed with radiographs. This is especially true if traction is used during treatment. Additional images References Joints Joints of the head and neck
Mount Nestor is a mountain summit located in Kananaskis Country in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. It is named after , a destroyer sunk in the Battle of Jutland during World War I. Mount Nestor is situated at the south end of the Goat Range along the west shore of Spray Lakes Reservoir. Nestor's east flank is within Spray Valley Provincial Park, while the west aspect is within Banff National Park, with the boundary line between the two parks running roughly north-to-south over its summit. The nearest higher peak is Old Goat Mountain, to the north. Mount Nestor can be seen from Alberta Highway 742, the Smith-Dorrien/Spray Trail. History The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1913 by the Interprovincial Boundary Commission. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1922 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada. Geology Mount Nestor is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Climate Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Nestor is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below with wind chill factors below . Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into the Spray Lakes Reservoir. See also List of mountains of Canada Nestor Peak References External links Weather forecast for Mount Nestor Mountain Forecast Spray Valley Provincial Park Alberta Parks Banff National Park National Park Service Nestor Nestor Nestor
Tiphia chareshi is a species of wasp belonging to the family Tiphiidae, subfamily Tiphiinae. The species is named after Mr.C.Charesh. Distribution and habitat It is observed in Tamil Nadu. Description Grows up to 5.9 mm. Median extension of clypeus is deeply emarginated. Mandible is without preapical denticle. Lateral side of pronotum has crenulated transdiscal groove. Marginal cell of fore wing equals second cubital cell in apical extension. Color is generally black with antennae beneath reddish brown, inner side of fore tibia and fore and mid tarsi yellowish orange; middle part of mandible and its extreme apex reddish brown; and fore wing hyaline. References Tiphiidae
Recollection is the final album from the band Superchick. It was a CD/DVD release and it came out on November 29, 2013. The album features five new songs, six original versions and five remixes of past hits. Track listing "Mister DJ" "Hope" "Sunshine" "5 Minutes at a Time" "This Is the Time" "Rock What You Got" [Fight Underdog Fight Mix] "Cross the Line" [Blockbuster Mix] "Hey Hey" "Stand in the Rain" [Symphonic Mix] "Beauty from Pain" "Pure" "We Live" "Hero" [Red Pill Mix] "Get Up" [Heelside Mix] "Barlow Girls" "One Girl Revolution" References 2013 albums Superchick albums Inpop Records albums
Bernadette Wegenstein (born 1969) is a Research Professor and director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She has written books on media theory including Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty. Biography She received a doctorate from University of Vienna in 1998 with a thesis "Die Darstellung von Aids in den Medien : semio-linguistische Analyse und Interpretation" ("The portrayal of AIDS in the media: linguistic semiotic analysis and interpretation") Copies of the thesis are held in WorldCat libraries. she subsequently became an Assistant Professor at the University of Buffalo. She is currently a Research Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, where she also directs the Center for Advanced Media Studies. Bernadette produced and directed her first documentary Made Over in America (Icarusfilms) about the television makeover show The Swan (TV series) in 2007. Her second film, See You Soon Again, which she co-directed with the Austrian director and producer Lukas Stepanik (The Cinema Guild, 2012) is a portrait of Viennese Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz in his efforts to pass on his story of survival to the Baltimore youth. She is currently in post-production with two feature documentaries: The Good Breast (working title), a feature documentary that interweaves the intimate stories of three breast cancer patients with the history and mythology of the breast. The film brings together her expertise on the history of the body and makeover culture with her passion for the character-driven cinéma vérité genre; and the documentary short, Devoti Tutti, is a neo-realist exploration of the little known breast cancer patron Saint Agatha of Sicily who was martyrized by her breast sacrifice in 251 AD. The film is an immersion into the devotional culture around the yearly celebration of Saint Agatha in Catania, Sicily. In her book The Cosmetic Gaze she analyzes the body as a medium of the gaze. This medium is best exemplified in Reality TV makeover shows, such as The Swan where contestants are made over and revealed with drastic changes. Bibliography Books According to WorldCat, the book is held in 284 libraries. Review: According to WorldCat, the book is held in 964 libraries Review: Review: Book chapters Journal articles References 1969 births Austrian women academics Johns Hopkins University faculty Living people University at Buffalo faculty University of Vienna alumni
Cricket at the 2019 South Asian Games was held in Twenty20 format in Kirtipur and Pokhara, Nepal between 2 and 9 December 2019. Cricket returned to the South Asian Games after a period of nine years. The men's tournament featured under-23 squads from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and senior squads from Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal. The women's event featured teams from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal. All matches in the men's event were played at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur. The women's event was played at the Pokhara Stadium. Medal summary Medal table Results Participating teams Men: Women: References External links Men's tournament at ESPN Cricinfo Women's tournament at ESPN Cricinfo 2019 South Asian Games Cricket at the South Asian Games Events at the 2019 South Asian Games South Asian Games
Simon Stringer is a departmental lecturer, Director of the Oxford Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, and Editor-in-Chief of Network: Computation in Neural Systems published by Taylor & Francis. Research Stringer and his research group develop biological computer simulations of the neuronal mechanisms underpinning various areas of brain function, including visual object recognition, spatial processing and navigation, motor function, language and consciousness. In particular, the study published in Psychological Review and Interface Focus 2018, the Royal Society's cross-disciplinary journal, proposes a novel approach to solve the Binding problem. Spiking neural network simulations of the primate ventral visual system have shown the gradual emergence of a subpopulation of neurons, called polychronous neuronal groups (PNGs), that exhibits regularly repeating spatiotemporal patterns of spikes. The underlying phenomenon of these characteristic patterns of neural activity is known as polychronization. The main point is that within these PNGs exist neurons, called binding neurons. Binding neurons learn to represent the hierarchical binding relationships between lower and higher level visual features in the hierarchy of visual primitives, at every spatial scale and across the entire visual field. This observation is consistent with the hierarchical nature of primate vision proposed by the two neuroscientists John Duncan and Glyn W. Humphreys almost thirty years ago. Furthermore, this proposed mechanism for solving the binding problem suggests that information about visual features at every spatial scale, including the binding relations between these features, would be projected upwards to the higher layers of the network, where spatial information would be available for readout by later brain systems to guide behavior. This mechanism has been called the holographic principle. These feature binding representations are at the core of the capacity of the visual brain to perceive and make sense of its visuospatial world and of the consciousness itself. This finding represents an advancement towards the future development of artificial general intelligence and machine consciousness. According to Stringer:Today’s machines are unable to perceive and comprehend their working environment in the same rich semantic way as the human brain. By incorporating these biological details into our models[...] will allow computers to begin to make sense of their visuospatial world in the same way as the [human] brain. References External links Oxford Foundation for Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, University of Oxford Living people British neuroscientists Academics of the University of Oxford Year of birth missing (living people)
Risto Uolevi Jalo (born July 18, 1962) is a Finnish retired professional ice hockey player and current general manager of Ilves in the Finnish Liiga. He played in the SM-liiga with KOOVEE, Ilves, and HPK between 1979 and 1998. He also played 3 games in the National Hockey League with the Edmonton Oilers during the 1985–86 season. Internationally Jalo played for the Finnish national team at several tournaments, including four World Championships and the 1984 Winter Olympics. In 2004 he was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame. He served as general manager of Ilves from 1999 to 2004, and again since 2017. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs International References External links Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio 1962 births Living people Edmonton Oilers players Finnish ice hockey centres HPK players Ice hockey players at the 1984 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players with retired numbers Ilves players KOOVEE players Olympic ice hockey players for Finland People from Humppila SHC Fassa players Sportspeople from Kanta-Häme Washington Capitals draft picks
Richard Penn Kemble (January 21, 1941 – October 15, 2005), commonly known as "Penn," was an American political activist and a founding member of Social Democrats, USA. He supported democracy and labor unions in the USA and internationally, and so was active in the civil rights movement, the labor movement, and the social-democratic opposition to communism. He founded organizations including Negotiations Now! and Frontlash, and he served as director of the Committee for Democracy in Central America. Kemble was appointed to various government boards and institutions throughout the 1990s, eventually becoming the Acting Director of the U.S. Information Agency under President Bill Clinton. Biography Early years Penn Kemble was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1941 and grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Colorado in the early 1960s, where he helped to organize a local branch of the Young People's Socialist League, the youth section of the Socialist Party of America. While at the University of Colorado, Kemble was influenced by the thinking of Alex Garber, a professor of sociology, who was a social democratic anti-communist. After moving to New York, Kemble stood out as a neatly dressed, muscular Protestant youth, in an urban political setting that was predominantly Catholic and Jewish. He worked at The New York Times but was fired for refusing to cross a picket line during a typesetters' strike. A leader in the East River chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, Kemble helped to organize a non-violent blockade of the Triborough Bridge during rush hour, to raise consciousness among suburbanites of the lives of Harlem residents. Political career From the middle 1960s, Kemble was active in the youth section of the Socialist Party of America, the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL). In the Party, Kemble's realignment caucus attained majority of the votes in 1968. His caucus included Paul Feldman, editor of the party paper New America and Tom Kahn, chief of the League for Industrial Democracy. Kemble was elected as the National Chairman of the YPSL, thereby becoming an ex officio member of the National Committee of the Socialist Party. Following its July 1968 National Convention the governing National Committee elected Kemble the new National Secretary of the Socialist Party, replacing George Woywod. He was also active in the Congress of Racial Equality. Kemble was Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America from 1968-1970. Kemble was a founder of Negotiation Now!, a group which called for an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam War. He was opposed to a unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. In 1972, Kemble organized a protest of the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, featuring a picket line of 76 Vietnamese. Kemble's protest infuriated its master of ceremonies, Bruce P. Cameron. In 1972, Kemble was a founder the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM), an association of centrist Democrats that opposed the "new politics" liberalism exemplified by Senator George McGovern, who suffered the worst defeat of a Presidential candidate in modern times, despite the widespread dislike of Nixon. Kemble was Executive Director of CDM from 1972–76, at which time he left to become a special assistant and speechwriter for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He remained with Moynihan until 1979. Concerned about the direct and indirect role of the Communist Party USA and of sympathizers of Marxist-Leninist politics in the US Peace Movement and in the National Council of Churches, Kemble helped found the Institute on Religion and Democracy. From 1981 until 1988 was the President of the Committee for Democracy in Central America (PRODEMCA), which criticized Marxist–Leninists in Central America, especially the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the FMLN in Central America; PRODEMCA was also referred to as "Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America". Beyond criticizing revolutionaries, Kemble lobbied Congress to support the Christian Democratic President of El Salvador José Napoleón Duarte, during the Salvadoran Civil War; he also argued that Congress should fund the Nicaraguan Contras, then engaged in an armed campaign against the Sandinistas, to pressure the Sandinistas to negotiate a peace treaty with more guarantees for the civic opposition. In his support of Congressional funding of the Contras, Kemble was one of the "Gang of Four" of prominent social-democrats or opponents of the Vietnam War; a second was a former antagonist during the Vietnam War, Bruce Cameron, and the others were Robert S. Leiken and Bernard W. Aronson. The Gang of Four differed from the Reagan Administration on some questions. For example, they supported efforts to transfer control of Contra funding from the CIA and Department of Defense to the Department of State's USAID; they also supported negotiations opposed by Reagan Administration "hard-liners" who wished to defeat the Sandinistas, according to Cameron. Kemble's 1980s Central American politics were unpopular among liberals and democratic socialists in the Democratic Party. He supported the Bill Clinton's campaign for the Presidency. During the Presidency of Bill Clinton, Kemble served first in 1993 as the Deputy Director and then in 1999 as Acting Director of the U.S. Information Agency. He was also made a special representative of Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright to the Council for a Community of Democracies initiative. In 2001, Kemble was appointed to the Board of International Broadcasting by President George W. Bush. He also became the Washington, D.C. representative of Freedom House; in his last years, he was especially involved in supporting peace efforts in the Middle East. He declined several offers of official positions in the Bush administration. However, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell appointed Kemble to be the Chairman of the International Eminent Persons Group on Slavery, Abduction and Forced Servitude in Sudan. Death and legacy Kemble died on October 15, 2005, at his home in Washington, D.C. after a year-long battle with brain cancer. He was 64 years old at the time of his death and was survived by his wife, two sisters, and his brother. Kemble referred to himself as a social democrat throughout his life. Footnotes References External links American democracy activists Members of Social Democrats USA Executive Secretaries of the Socialist Party of America New York (state) Democrats AFL–CIO people American trade union leaders Activists for African-American civil rights American political activists American social activists American speechwriters People from Worcester, Massachusetts Writers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania University of Colorado alumni Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C. Deaths from brain cancer in the United States 1941 births 2005 deaths
This is a list of properties and districts in Tift County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Current listings \|} References Tift Tift County, Georgia
Amon Bazira (sometimes referred to as Amon Kabunga Bazira; 1944–1993) was a Ugandan Pan-Africanist leader and an organiser who created an extensive intelligence network that was a clandestine component of the struggle to end the regime of Ugandan military dictator and president, Idi Amin. After helping to remove Idi Amin, Bazira served as Deputy Director of intelligence, and then as Director of Intelligence in Uganda in 1979. He produced a government report predicting that there would be a massive genocide in Rwanda that would lead to the collapse of order in Central and Eastern Africa, and proposed granting citizenship to Rwandan refugees and other displaced Africans in Uganda, as a means of preventing genocidal warfare. In August 1993, Amon Bazira was assassinated in between Nairobi and Nakuru in Kenya. Background and education Amon Bazira studied at Bwera Junior Secondary School then Nyakasura School in present day Fort Portal. He later joined Makerere University where he offered Philosophy, History and Law and graduating in 1970. Career Amon Bazira served as Member of Parliament for the then Kasese West Constituency between 1980 and 1985.He also served as the deputy minister for Lands, Water and Surveys in the Obote II administration, a position he occupied until the fall of this administration on July 27, 1985. Personal life Amon Bazira was married to Mary Bazira and is the father of Daniel Bazira Kashagama, who was appointed King of Busongora Kingdom. He was also father-in-law to Obiora Chinedu Okafor through his daughter Annette Atugonza. References External links The African Front website 1944 births 1993 deaths Ugandan pan-Africanists Assassinated Ugandan politicians Ugandan people murdered abroad People murdered in Kenya Makerere University alumni Ugandan prisoners sentenced to death Prisoners sentenced to death by Uganda Ugandan people imprisoned abroad Prisoners and detainees of Rwanda 1990s assassinated politicians
Nandiwali Tarf Pachanand is a village in Kalyan Taluka, Thane District, Maharashtra, India. It is located near the western coast of India, about 14 kilometres east of the district capital Thane, and 3 kilometres south of the taluka capital Kalyan. In 2011, its population is 36,163. Geography Nandiwali Tarf Pachanand is situated to the south of Ulhas River. It is located to the south of Kalyan, west of Ulhasnagar, north of Nevali Gaon, and east of Dombivli. It covers an area of 170.02 hectares. Demographics According to the 2011 Census of India, there are 9,087 households in Nandiwali Tarf Pachanand. Among the 36,163 residents, 19,095 are male and 17,068 are female. The total literacy rate is 82.82%, with 16,278 of the male population and 13,671 of the female population being literate. Its census location code is 552985. References Villages in Thane district
Björn Schierenbeck (born 12 July 1974) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. Career Born in Bremen, Schierenbeck made his debut on the professional league level on 22 February 1996 in the Bundesliga for SV Werder Bremen coming on as a 90th-minute substitute for Christian Brand in a game against Hansa Rostock. Honours DFB-Pokal: 1999 External links Living people 1974 births Footballers from Bremen (city) Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders German men's footballers SV Werder Bremen players SV Werder Bremen II players SpVgg Greuther Fürth players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players
Wang Dongming (; born July 1956) is a Chinese politician who has served since 2018 as the Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Originally from Liaoning province, Wang served as the chief of the General Office of the Central Institutional Organization Commission between 2007 and 2012, and the Communist Party Secretary of Sichuan province between 2012 and 2018. Career Wang was born in Benxi, Liaoning province in 1956. He took part in rural manual labour in Huanren County, Liaoning in the latter stages of the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution ended, he obtained a degree in philosophy at Liaoning University, then went to the city of Jinzhou to serve as local Communist Youth League chief. He then served as party chief of Suizhong County and then Dengta County, then vice mayor of Liaoyang. He obtained a postgraduate degree at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Party School. In 1997, Wang became a member of the Liaoning provincial Party Standing Committee, and also served concurrently as the head of the organization department of Liaoning. In September 2002, he became the deputy director of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party (vice-minister rank) and the director of the No. 2 Cadres department. In July 2007, Wang was appointed the chief of General Office of the Central Institutional Organization Commission, in charge of institutional reforms, holding the rank of a minister; he stayed in the role until 2012, when he was transferred to become party chief of Sichuan, succeeding Liu Qibao. Wang's appointment in Sichuan came at a sensitive time. Sichuan was known to be a power base of the former security chief Zhou Yongkang. Wang assisted party disciplinary authorities as political allies of Zhou were investigated and sacked. Wang accompanied Xi Jinping on his 2015 visit to the United States. In March 2018, Wang was elected as the Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Later he was appointed as the Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. He was a standing committee member of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and a member of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. On 7 December 2020, pursuant to Executive Order 13936, the US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on all 14 Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress, including Wang, for "undermining Hong Kong's autonomy and restricting the freedom of expression or assembly." References 1956 births Living people All-China Federation of Trade Unions Chairperson and vice chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress Chairperson and vice chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress Chinese Communist Party politicians from Liaoning Individuals sanctioned by the United States under the Hong Kong Autonomy Act Liaoning University alumni Members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the Standing Committee of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference People's Republic of China politicians from Liaoning Political office-holders in Liaoning Political office-holders in Sichuan Politicians from Benxi
Super League XVIII was the official name for the 2013 Super League season. Fourteen teams competed over 27 rounds, after which the highest finishing teams entered the play-offs to compete for a place in the Grand Final and a chance to win the championship and the Super League Trophy. Teams Super League XVIII was the second year of a licensed Super League. Under this system, promotion and relegation between Super League and Championship was abolished, and 14 teams were granted licences subject to certain criteria. For the 2013 season, all fourteen teams from the previous season will compete, including the Bradford Bulls, who were given a one-year probationary licence after going into administration and taken over by the Omar Khan consortium in the 2012 season. Geographically, the vast majority of teams in Super League are based in the north of England, five teams – Warrington, St. Helens, Salford, Wigan and Widnes – to the west of the Pennines in Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, and seven teams to the east in Yorkshire – Huddersfield, Bradford, Wakefield Trinity, Leeds, Castleford, Hull F.C. and Hull Kingston Rovers. Catalans Dragons are the only team based in France and are outside of the UK and London Broncos are the only team to be based in a capital city (London). The maps below indicate the locations of teams that competed in Super League XVIII. Dragons Broncos Vikings Saints Wolves Warriors Reds Hull Hull KR Tigers Rhinos Wildcats Bulls Giants Rule changes For the 2013 season, the Rugby Football League has introduced a number of rule changes, which will also apply to the 2013 RFL Championship and Championship 1 seasons. This follows trial runs of the proposed rules during Boxing Day friendlies between Leeds Rhinos and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Rule changes include changes to the advantage rule, scrummage, marker tackle ruling, plus various changes to the out of play (ball-in-touch, touch-in-goal and dead-in-goal) rulings. Results The regular league season sees the 14 teams play each other twice (one home, one away) plus an additional match, as part of the Magic Weekend, over 27 matches. The team who finishes 1st at the end of the regular season win the League Leaders' Shield. Table Play-offs Player statistics Top try-scorers Top try assists Top goalscorers Top points scorers Discipline Red Cards Yellow Cards End-of-season awards Awards are presented for outstanding contributions and efforts to players and clubs in the week leading up to the Super League Grand Final: The winners of the 2013 awards are: Man of Steel: Danny Brough (Huddersfield Giants) Coach of the year: Paul Anderson (Huddersfield Giants) Super League club of the year: St. Helens Young player of the year: Ben Crooks (Hull F.C.) Foundation of the year: Leeds Rhinos Rhino "Top Gun": Kevin Sinfield (Leeds Rhinos) Metre-maker: Jamie Peacock (Leeds Rhinos) Top Try Scorer: Josh Charnley (Wigan Warriors) Outstanding Achievement Award: Stuart Fielden (Huddersfield Giants) and Shaun Briscoe (Widnes Vikings) Hit Man: Danny Houghton (Hull F.C.) Media Television 2013 is the second year of a five-year contract with Sky Sports to televise 70 matches per season. The deal which runs until 2016 is worth £90million. Sky Sports coverage in the UK see two live matches broadcast each week – one on Friday night, which kicks-off at 8:00 pm and another usually on Saturday evenings at 5:45 pm, although for 2013, some matches between May and August will be scheduled for Monday nights, following the introduction during the 2012 season at 8:00 pm, filling the gap vacated by the summer break of Premier League football. The Monday night fixtures switched to Thursday nights from August 2013 following the resumption of the football season and also applies to the play-off fixtures. Regular commentators were Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson with summarisers including Phil Clarke, Shaun McRae, Brian Carney, Barrie McDermott and Terry O'Connor. Sky will broadcast highlights this season in a new show on Sunday Nights called Super League - Full Time, usually airing at 10pm. BBC Sport broadcast a highlights programme called the Super League Show, presented by Tanya Arnold. The BBC show two weekly broadcasts of the programme. The first is only to the BBC North West, Yorkshire & North Midlands, North East & Cumbria, and East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire regions on Monday evenings at 11:35pm on BBC One, while a repeat showing is shown nationally on BBC Two on Tuesday afternoons at 1.30pm. The Super League Show is also available for one week after broadcast for streaming or download via the BBC iPlayer in the UK only. End of season play-offs are shown on BBC Two across the whole country in a weekly highlights package on Sunday afternoons. Internationally, Super League is shown live or delayed on Showtime Sports (Middle East), Māori Television (New Zealand), TV 2 Sport (Norway), NTV+ (Russia), Fox Soccer Plus (United States), Eurosport (Australia) or Sportsnet World (Canada). Radio BBC Coverage: BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra (National DAB Digital Radio) normally carry one Super League commentary a week on Friday Nights. BBC Manchester will carry commentary of Wigan and Salford whilst sharing commentary of Warrington with BBC Merseyside. BBC Humberside will have full match commentary of all Hull KR and Hull matches. BBC Leeds carry commentaries featuring Bradford, Leeds, Castleford, Wakefield and Huddersfield. BBC Merseyside (AM/DAB only) will have commentary on St Helens and Widnes matches whilst sharing commentary of Warrington with BBC Manchester. BBC London 94.9 airs all London Broncos games home & away, mainly via online streaming only. Commercial Radio Coverage: 102.4 Wish FM will carry commentaries of Wigan & St Helens matches. 107.2 Wire FM will carry commentaries on Warrington & Widnes Matches. BCB 106.6 (Bradford Community Broadcasting) have full match commentary of Bradford Bulls home and away. Yorkshire Radio increases its coverage to air 50 games in the 2012 season. Radio Warrington (Online Station) all Warrington home games and some away games. Grand Sud FM covers every Catalans Dragons Home Match (in French). Radio France Bleu Roussillon covers every Catalans Dragons Away Match (in French). All Super League commentaries on any station are available via the particular stations on-line streaming. Internet ESPN3 has worldwide broadband rights. Starting from Thursday 9 April 2009, all of the matches shown on Sky Sports will also be available live online via Livestation everywhere in the world excluding the US, Puerto Rico, UK, Ireland, France, Monaco, Australia and New Zealand. List of Super League games available on Livestation.com References External links Official Site Super League XVII at Guardian
Sunaparant (,) was a Konkani newspaper in Devanagari script. Based in Goa, India, it operated from 1987 to 2015. It published a special magazine during the Ganesh Chaturthi annual festival. Sunaparant was started on 13 May 1987, after Konkani was made the official language on 4 February that year, after a prolonged struggle by Goans. History Chandrakant Keni, who was also editing Rashtramat, was the founder editor of the four-page Konkani newspaper started from Margao, the fort of Konkani movement. He was succeeded by Uday Bhembre and Raju Nayak, after which the black-and-white newspaper was shifted to the capital city of Panaji, with 10 pages and coloured edition in 2004. In Panaji, Sandesh Prabhudesai, Anant Salkar and Babali Naik were its editors. Nearly 28 years after its first edition, Sunaparant shut down on 1 August 2015, with the management attributing the decision to the escalating cost of bringing out the newspaper. References Publications with year of establishment missing Daily newspapers published in India Mass media in Goa Konkani 1987 establishments in Goa Newspapers established in 1987
Tighrinna, also known as Harit il Yhud (The Jewish Quarter), was a Jewish village located in the Gharyan District of northern Libya. Several hundred metres separated it from Menzel Tighrinna, where the Muslim population lived. In 1943 there were 343 Jews living in the village, which had two synagogues and Jewish cemetery. The population lived in caves. In 1943, the British occupied the region. Soon after, events in Palestine sparked rioting by local Muslims who looted and burnt of Jewish homes. This led to the depopulation of the village, with refugees fleeing to Israel between 1948 and 1951. References Tripolitania Villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict Historic Jewish communities
In the Time Before Llamas is an album by the Canadian alt-country band Cowboy Junkies, released in 2003. It is a live album, compiling tracks from two concerts in the United Kingdom. It was released only in the UK, where the 2000 live album Waltz Across America was not released, but is available as an import in other countries. Track listing Tracks 1-11 were recorded at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester on May 1, 1990. Tracks 12-17 were recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London on March 6, 1992. References External links Cowboy Junkies live albums 2003 live albums Live albums recorded at the Royal Albert Hall BBC Radio recordings
Hou Yu-li (; February 11, 1900 — June 23, 1989) was a Taiwanese cloth merchant and entrepreneur, known as a Tainan textile capitalist. He was one of the leaders of the "Tainan Gang" in the business community of Southern Taiwan, and alongside Wang Yongqing, the founder of Formosa Plastics Group, was known as Southern Hou & Northern Wang (南侯北王). Early life Hou Yu-li was born on February 11, 1900, in Erzhonggang (now Renli), Beimen, Tainan in Taiwan. His ancestors had been fighting for several years over the burial site of a mausoleum there. His father, Hou Chiang (侯江), was a subsistence farmer who died when Yu-li was four years old. He was raised by his mother, Lee Kua (李瓜), who had no formal education. Hou Yu-li was eight or nine years old when he was enrolled in the Beimen Public School, but dropped out barely a year later due to the family's financial troubles. By the time he was eleven years old, he was working four different jobs, earning small salaries to help his mother support the family. Business At 14, Yu-li was taken as an apprentice by his uncle Hou Ji (侯基) to work at his new clothing factory. After four years there he left the job to make his own living. When he was 20 years old and working as a cloth peddler, he married Wu Wu-hsiang (吳烏香) from Jiutougang, a neighboring village. In 1926, when he was 27 years old, he moved to Tainan City and reunited with some old relatives, though a year later they split up, with Hou Tiao (侯調) operating his own business, Hou Pai (侯排) continuing to innovate, and Hou Yu-li opening the Hsinfuancheng (新復興) cloth company. When Yu-li started out, he rented a house on Shanhang Street (now Puji Street), but he had a unique vision and was good at business, so after three years, he had enough money to buy a new house next to the Kaiju Temple, which was used as both a store and a residence. After five years, the annual turnover of Hsinfuancheng reached 350,000. In the 1930s, he became a leader among cloth wholesalers in the Tainan area. Two years after the creation of Hsinfuancheng, Hou Yu-li travelled to Japan. He used a bank employee as an interpreter to purchase directly from Japanese firms, saving the transfer costs of Taiwanese intermediaries. Later, Hou went to Japan alone without an interpreter. Although he didn't speak Japanese at first besides simple negotiation terms, working directly with Japanese cloth shops to purchase goods saved him a lot of money and created many new business opportunities. In 1931, a businessman surnamed Cai in Tainan downtown operated a weaving factory near Mazu Tower (Zhongxiao Street, Tainan City), which was badly managed and sought a transfer of ownership. Hou took the opportunity to buy the factory and changed it into a Hsinfuancheng textile factory that produced its own fabrics. Around 1935, in order to expand business opportunities, Hou Yuli went to Hong Kong and Xiamen to engage in cloth trade. As he was not familiar with business in those areas, he left with huge losses. Except for the reservation of cloth shops and cloth factory equipment, his capital was almost in deficit. It was not until shortly after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War that Hou's career came back to life. The war's outbreak affected the clothing industry greatly. The materials in the Japanese mainland were controlled and the black market prevailed. Hou took the opportunity to travel to Osaka to buy controlled materials and trade with them in Taiwan and Japan. The profits of those few years were extremely abundant. With his newfound earnings, Hou retreated from Japan and bought closed cloth shops, pieces of land in Tainan, and fish farms in Binhai, Beimen, Qigu and other places in the western district of the urban area. He managed fish farms as an enterprise and made greater income off of them than the land cost to rent. After the new government took power, it implemented a policy of "land to the tiller". All his Grade III cultivated land had to be released, except for the fish farm land. Later on, most of the fish farms would be re-zoned into urban areas (such as the western area of old Tainan City). In 1945, when the government of the Republic of China took over Taiwan, the Hsinfuancheng Textile Factory immediately returned to work, becoming Hou's golden chicken in the absence of other options. Hou also took the opportunity to devote himself to research, constantly improving the design and quality of his assets so as to increase the value of Hsinfuancheng products. In the 35th year of the Republic of China (1946), Hou Yu-li bought the house at No. 67, Section 1, Dihua Street, Taipei City, as the Taipei liaison office of the Hsinfuancheng Cloth Factory, and engaged in lending and interest taking, as well as making a number of corporate investments. Death Hou Yuli died in June 1989. References 1900 births 1989 deaths Businesspeople in textiles Businesspeople from Tainan 20th-century Taiwanese businesspeople
WGOK (900 AM, "Gospel 900") is a radio station serving the Mobile, Alabama, area with a Gospel music format. The station is under ownership of Cumulus Media. Its studios are on Dauphin Avenue in Midtown Mobile, and its transmitter is northwest of downtown. History The radio station in the early 1960s was located at 900 Gum Street right in the middle of a swamp. The station was part of the largest chain of black radio stations in the country called The OK Group. All of the stations in the OK Group had an OK at the end of their call letters. There was WGOK in Mobile, KYOK in Houston, and WBOK in New Orleans for example. There were other OK stations in the cities of Memphis, Tennessee and Baton Rouge, Louisiana among others. There was one White station in Alice, Texas with the OK reversed. It was called KOPY. Starting around 1959, the station WGOK was managed by Robert Irwin Grimes, Jr. He had been a radioman in the Navy, had served at Pearl Harbor on the and was there in Hawaii on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. In the early 1960s disc jockeys had names like Topsy Turvey, Miss Mandy, and the Reverend A. J. Crawford. The station was very popular and played rhythm and blues records as well as gospel records. Currently, it plays Gospel music. Ownership In 1999, the station was acquired by Citadel Communications Corp. (Lawrence R. Wilson, chairman) from Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting Co. Inc. (Robert Fuller, president) along with sister station WYOK for a reported sale price of $6 million. References External links Gospel 900 official website GOK Gospel radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1959 1959 establishments in Alabama Cumulus Media radio stations GOK
Fejervarya sakishimensis is a species of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. It belongs to the Fejervarya limnocharis species complex. Sources Matsui, Toda & Ota, 2007 : A new species of frog allied to Fejervarya limnocharis from southern Ryukyus, Japan (Amphibia: Ranidae). Current Herpetology, Kyoto, , no. 2, . http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dicroglossidae/Dicroglossinae/Fejervarya/Fejervarya-sakishimensis Fejervarya Amphibians of Taiwan Amphibians of Japan Amphibians described in 2007
Cowboys () is a 2013 Croatian comedy film directed by Tomislav Mršić and based upon Sasa Anočić's play, Kauboji. It was selected as the Croatian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Cast Saša Anočić as Saša Anloković Živko Anočić as Domagoj Strbac Matija Antolić as Juraj Krmpotić Hrvoje Barišić as Javor Borovec Ana Begić as Saša's sister Nikša Butijer as Post office clerk Nina Erak-Svrtan as Javor's mother Kruno Klobučar as Bruno Marić Ivana Rushaidat as Marica Krmpotić Rakan Rushaidat as Miodrag P. Osmanović Radovan Ruždjak as Ivan Horvat See also List of submissions to the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film List of Croatian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film References External links 2013 films 2013 comedy films 2013 directorial debut films Croatian comedy films 2010s Croatian-language films Croatian films based on plays Films based on works by Croatian writers
Category 4 cable (Cat 4) is a cable that consists of eight copper wires arranged in four unshielded twisted pairs (UTP) supporting signals up to 20 MHz. It is used in telephone networks which can transmit voice and data up to 16 Mbit/s. For a brief period it was used for some Token Ring, 10BASE-T, and 100BASE-T4 networks, but was quickly superseded by Category 5 cable. It is no longer common or used in new installations and is not recognized by the current version of the ANSI/TIA-568 data cabling standards. References Ethernet cables
Olga Nasedkina (born 28 December 1982) is a retired Kazakhstani volleyball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also part of the team that won bronze in the women's volleyball tournament at the 2010 Asian Games. References External links 1982 births Living people Kyrgyzstani women's volleyball players Kazakhstani women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Kazakhstan Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Kyrgyzstani emigrants to Kazakhstan Sportspeople from Bishkek Asian Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2002 Asian Games Volleyball players at the 2006 Asian Games Volleyball players at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan
Samar Deb (born 1 November 1963) is an Indian Bengali writer and poet. He was born in Coochbehar, West Bengal. He is the youngest child of Satish Chandra Deb and Sabita Deb. He is most known for his classic novel, Lohitparer Upakatha (2010). List of major works Yayati – A Collection of Poems (Published – 1986) Ek Yug Atmapratarana – Novel (Published – 2003) Amma Tera Munda – A Collection of Poems (Published – 2004) Ekti Golper Suluk Sandhan (Novel) (Published – 2006) Aalo Andhakar – A Collection of Poems (Published – 2006) Lohitparer Upakatha – Novel(Published – 2010) Neel Andhakar – Novel (Published – 2012) Amrita Jatra – Collection of Essays (Published – 2016) NRC র পর ও অন্যান্য গল্প (Published - 2023) References 1963 births Bengali writers People from Cooch Behar district Living people
I Am Sirat is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja and slated for release in 2023. The film profiles Taneja, a transgender woman in New Delhi, India, who is navigating a complex reality as she lives and works as a woman in her professional career and as a social media personality, while still holding the familial responsibilities of a son, rather than a daughter, in her relationship with her widowed mother. The film is slated to premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. References 2023 films 2023 documentary films 2023 LGBT-related films Canadian LGBT-related documentary films Films directed by Deepa Mehta Transgender-related documentary films Films about trans women 2020s Punjabi-language films 2020s Canadian films
Ridding is a surname, and may refer to: Charles Ridding (1825–1905), English cricketer C. M. Ridding (1862–1941), English scholar of Sanskrit and Pali Ernest Ridding 1927–2001), Australian eccentric Bill Ridding (1911–1981), English football player and manager George Ridding (1828–1904), English headmaster and bishop Laura Ridding (1849–1939), British biographer, suffragist and philanthropist William Ridding (cricketer) (1830–1900), English cricketer See also Riddings, village in Derbyshire, England.
The Magdalena alpine (Erebia magdalena) is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in North America from Montana, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico, and in Canada in a small part of the Willmore Wilderness Park, Alberta, and adjacent British Columbia, in Stone Mountain Provincial Park in northern British Columbia, and on an isolated nunatak in Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon. The habitat consists of rockslides near vegetation, at or above the treeline. The wingspan is 41–45 mm. The wings are black above and below. Adults are on the wing from late June and July. The larvae probably feed on grasses, sedges or rushes. Subspecies E. m. magdalena E. m. hilchie Kemal & Koçak, 2007 (northern Rocky Mountains, west-central Alberta and east-central British Columbia) Similar species Mt. McKinley alpine (E. mackinleyensis) References Erebia Butterflies described in 1880 Butterflies of North America
In set theory, an honest leftmost branch of a tree T on ω × γ is a branch (maximal chain) ƒ ∈ [T] such that for each branch g ∈ [T], one has ∀ n ∈ ω : ƒ(n) ≤ g(n). Here, [T] denotes the set of branches of maximal length of T, ω is the smallest infinite ordinal (represented by the natural numbers N), and γ is some other ordinal. See also scale (computing) Suslin set References Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite, Perspectives in Mathematical Logic, Springer, Berlin, 1997. Yiannis N. Moschovakis, Descriptive set theory, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1980. Trees (set theory)
Ugrekhelidze () is a Georgian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Mindia Ugrekhelidze (born 1942), Georgian judge and legal academic Tengiz Ugrekhelidze (born 1981), Georgian former football defender Vladimer Ugrekhelidze (1939–2009), Soviet-Georgian basketball player Surnames of Georgian origin Georgian-language surnames Surnames of Abkhazian origin
"Southside" is the debut single from American R&B singer Lloyd and features Ashanti. It was written by T. Hale, W. Morris, Tab and by producer Jimi Kendrix for his debut studio album, Southside (2004). It peaked at number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart, and peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. The remix featured rapper Scarface and Ashanti. The remix was released as the third and final single from the album. Music video The video was released in June 2004. The standard version was filmed in a narrative fashion, with Irv Gotti playing Lloyd's fancy-car-driving father figure and Ashanti as his love interest whom he courts cellularly. The theme of the video is based on the movie A Bronx Tale. Rapper Ja Rule also makes an appearance in the video. The remix version intercuts a street scene, with a shirtless Lloyd, a slightly gangsta-looking Ashanti, and a gruff-looking Scarface. It was located outside of a barber shop. It features clips from the original version also. "Southside" also peaked at number one on BET's 106 & Park. Lloyd and Ashanti performed the song together on its third straight day at number one. Chart position Weekly charts Year-end charts Release history References 2004 debut singles Lloyd (singer) songs Ashanti (singer) songs 2004 songs Def Jam Recordings singles Male–female vocal duets
Charles-Séraphin Rodier may refer to: Charles-Séraphin Rodier (mayor) (1797–1876), mayor of Montreal and legislative councillor of Quebec Charles-Séraphin Rodier Jr (1818–1890), his nephew, Canadian senator
Cornufer macrosceles is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It is only known from the Nakanai Mountains in the central part of the island. Only three specimens are known. Common name Ti wrinkled ground frog has been coined for the species. Description The original species description was based on a single specimen (the holotype, collected in 1956), a small adult female in snout–vent length. The holotype is a small female. Two males found in 1999 measure in snout–vent length. The overall appearance is slender. The head is moderately large and wider than the body. The snout is acutely pointed and elongate. The tympanum is visible, not concealed by the low, fleshy supratympanic fold. The fingers are slender and have greatly expanded and swollen terminal disks. The toe tips are moderately expanded. No webbing is present. The dorsal coloration is bright olive-green, with distinct brown patches on the dorsum. The venter is white. Skin is smooth apart from a few dermal tubercles on the head and the dorsum. Habitat and conservation Cornufer macrosceles occurs in rainforests at about above sea level (the altitude of the type locality is unknown). Specimens have been found perched on moss-covered branches of shrub-layer vegetation, about 1 m above the ground near a small mountain stream. They were well camouflaged in this habitat. Logging is prevalent in New Britain, but whether it is impacting the range of this species is unclear. References macrosceles Amphibians of Papua New Guinea Endemic fauna of Papua New Guinea Taxa named by Richard G. Zweifel Amphibians described in 1975 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Goldstar is a privately held event discovery service based in Pasadena, California that sells tickets to leisure activities such as live entertainment, theatre, concerts, dance, film screenings, and sporting events. The company serves markets in 26 metro areas including San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston, Seattle, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Sacramento, Portland, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia and Miami. It focuses on young people who may not ordinarily choose to go to live events, and custom-tailors content for its members based on preferences. Goldstar's business is both web and mobile-based and has membership exceeding 7 million. They have 4,000 venue partners. The current CEO is Co-Founder Jim McCarthy. History Goldstar debuted February 14, 2002 and was launched by e-commerce experts Jim McCarthy, Richard Webster and Robert Graff. The web site was the first to introduce user reviews and event ratings online for the live entertainment industry. In April 2011, Goldstar appointed Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Moriarty and Matt Coffin to the Advisory Board. In September 2011, Goldstar sold its 5 millionth ticket and introduced its patent-pending "Sit with Friends" feature. References External links Goldstar Online retailers of the United States Companies based in Los Angeles County, California Companies based in Pasadena, California Internet properties established in 2002 Ticket sales companies 2002 establishments in California
In the theory of radiative transfer, of either thermal or neutron radiation, a position and direction-dependent intensity function is usually sought for the description of the radiation field. The intensity field can in principle be solved from the integrodifferential radiative transfer equation (RTE), but an exact solution is usually impossible and even in the case of geometrically simple systems can contain unusual special functions such as the Chandrasekhar's H-function and Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-functions. The method of discrete ordinates, or the Sn method, is one way to approximately solve the RTE by discretizing both the xyz-domain and the angular variables that specify the direction of radiation. The methods were developed by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar when he was working on radiative transfer. Radiative Transfer Equation In the case of time-independent monochromatic radiation in an elastically scattering medium, the RTE is where the first term on the RHS is the contribution of emission, the second term the contribution of absorption and the last term is the contribution from scattering in the medium. The variable is a unit vector that specifies the direction of radiation and the variable is a dummy integration variable for the calculation of scattering from direction to direction . Angular Discretization In the discrete ordinates method, the full solid angle of is divided to some number of discrete angular intervals, and the continuous direction variable is replaced by a discrete set of direction vectors . Then the scattering integral in the RTE, which makes the solution problematic, becomes a sum where the numbers are weighting coefficients for the different direction vectors. With this the RTE becomes a linear system of equations for a multi-index object, the number of indices depending on the dimensionality and symmetry properties of the problem. Solution It is possible to solve the resulting linear system directly with Gauss–Jordan elimination, but this is problematic due to the large memory requirement for storing the matrix of the linear system. Another way is to use iterative methods, where the required number of iterations for a given degree of accuracy depends on the strength of scattering. Applications The discrete ordinates method, or some variation of it, is applied for solving radiation intensities in several physics and engineering simulation programs, such as COMSOL Multiphysics or the Fire Dynamics Simulator. See also Radiative transfer Thermal radiation Neutron radiation Bickley-Naylor functions References Radiometry Electromagnetic radiation
Chambatan-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Chambaţān-e Soflá; also known as Chambaţān-e Pā'īn) is a village in Cham Chamal Rural District, Bisotun District, Harsin County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 439, in 95 families. References Populated places in Harsin County
NGC 455 is a lenticular galaxy of type S? located in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 27, 1864 by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, very small, almost stellar." References External links 0455 18641027 Pisces (constellation) Lenticular galaxies 815 4572
Joseph Schipfer (8 April 1761 – 27 January 1843) was a German landowner and wine producer, today mostly known for his creation of the language Communicationssprache. He was born in Ransbach. Biography In his letter of 20 February 1840, titled "General Call to the Compassionate Humanity", Schipfer describes the suffering of the French inhabitants near the rivers Rhône and Saône and also provides a brochure on his "General Communication or World language (in German: Allgemeine Communications- oder Weltsprache)". Other brochures dealt with grammar and teaching materials for adults and children from 12 to 14 years of age. In the same letter he wrote a description of how the live burial could be avoided and also made a proposal for general charity and that the profits from sales of his Communicationssprache materials be donated to the above-mentioned French populated areas. He died on 27 January 1843 in . References 1761 births 1843 deaths Linguists from Germany Constructed language creators Speakers of international auxiliary languages
Golden Axe: Beast Rider is an action-adventure hack and slash video game available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was published by Sega, and developed by Secret Level. It is the first 3D entry in the Golden Axe franchise. The game was released in North America on October 14, 2008, in Europe on October 17, and in Australia on October 23. Gameplay Beast Rider is the first Golden Axe game in 3D as opposed to side-scrolling hack and slash. While this is a major shift in game style from the previous games, Beast Rider maintains many of the elements from the originals, such as magic and riding beasts, as well as sending the player on a quest to defeat Death Adder. Gameplay is divided into three types: Campaign, Challenge and Trials. Each mode allows for the collection of tribute, which is used to increase magic strength and unlock weapons. Armor is unlocked as one progresses through the story or Campaign. In the story mode of Beast Rider, the player controls Tyris Flare, an amazon from the original games. Through the story mode, the player is introduced to two non-player characters, Gilius Thunderhead: the dwarf, and Tarik the Ax Battler. Tribute is awarded at the end of each level based on the amount collected, which is then multiplied by the player's performance during the level, which also affects the player's Class or "grade" per level. Such multipliers include time, damage taken, dismemberment, and difficulty settings. Challenge mode plays the same as Campaign, including tribute and class at the end of each level. However, Challenge allows the player to replay any level previously completed in Campaign, in addition to using any armor previously unlocked and any weapon unlocked through the collection of tribute. Trials mode is the equivalent of the original's "Duel" mode, in which the player battles enemies of the selected level in an arena from that level. Each level becomes available in Trials after it is completed in the campaign. The player must complete ten waves of enemies, plus three bonus waves featuring gnomes, without dying. Like the Challenges, Trials allows the player to select various armor and weapons unlocked in Campaign or through the collection of tribute. Plot The main protagonist is Tyris Flare, a great Amazon warrior and defender of the Axirian Priestesses, a sect of dragon worshippers from the Isle of Axir. Tyris' skills in combat and magic are almost unsurpassed, but there is a danger rising over Axir that even she must fear. Death Adder's armies are on the move. They are after the power of the ancient Dragon Titan. It is rumored that even Death Adder fears something about the Titans, though nobody really knows what power they possess over this dark lord. If he gains control over man, woman and beast alike, it is unknown what will become of the world. Tyris uses sword and sorcery to stop him. Development The project's development began in mid 2005 as Secret Level simultaneously worked on a new game engine and toolset for the project. Most of the studio's directors were directly involved at this stage. The early progress was quick and impressive, leading Sega to move to acquire the studio on April 3, 2006. Secret Level was able to get in contact with series creator Makoto Uchida who praised the game production and gave his blessings to proceed with the project. As part of E3 2006, Sega issued a press release touting a new entry to the Golden Axe franchise for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A teaser trailer could also be seen during the event. During the summer of 2007, fans uncovered new art and sculptured models from the game. The October 2007 issue of Play magazine offered new details. The game was revealed to feature the return of Tyris Flare, the amazon warrior from the first installment of the series. With a heavy focus on riding beasts, the game received an M rating since dismemberments, decapitations and nudity are present. The magazine also claimed that the PlayStation 3 version was canceled and that the game would be an Xbox 360 exclusive. However, on October 19, 2007 Denny Chiu of Sega denied the Xbox exclusivity, stating "Completely untrue, it's coming to PS3 as well." While this game does only feature single-player, in a 2008 interview the senior producer stated that the second game in the franchise will feature co-op throughout. The 2008 issue of the annual "girls of gaming" put out by Play Magazine featured a number of images of Tyris. A postmortem of Golden Axe: Beast Rider by project producer Michael Boccieri, which appeared in the February 2009 issue of Game Developer, discussed the project's troubled development cycle. Reception Golden Axe: Beast Rider received "generally unfavorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN concluded, "This is a game worth avoiding like the plague, even if the classic remains deep and warm within your heart." GamePro called it "poorly designed and utterly mediocre," "a terrible game that feels like a slap in the face to fans of the original franchise." In an editorial titled "Dave talks Golden Axe", Play editor Dave Halverson wrote "The majority of these people (can't call them critics) either didn't complete a fraction of the game, don't understand game design, or just plain suck at games", and that "to score Beast Rider below a 7 is just irresponsible." References External links 2008 video games Action-adventure games Hack and slash games Fantasy video games PlayStation 3 games Sega video games Lua (programming language)-scripted video games Video games developed in the United States Video games featuring female protagonists Video game reboots Xbox 360 games Golden Axe Single-player video games
Surfeit of Lampreys is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1941. The plot concerns the murder of a British peer, a theme to which Marsh would return; the novel was published as Death of a Peer in the United States. Its title is a reference to the manner by which Henry I of England is said to have succumbed to food poisoning, as well as the surname of the first murder victim, and his family, who fall under suspicion. A stage adaptation by Owen Howell was revised by Marsh and staged in London in 1950, but was not a success. Plot New Zealander Roberta Grey is anxious to see her old friends, the Lampreys, after several years of separation. The Lampreys are minor aristocratic family whom Roberta knew in her native New Zealand. The Lampreys were always short of money due to their spendthrift ways, but their woes were always resolved with the timely death of a distant relative. Upon her arrival in London, Roberta learns from her the eldest Lamprey children, Henry and Frid, that the family is once again in dire financial straits, this time the worst it has ever been. Their father, Charles, desperately appeals to his older brother Gabriel Lamprey, Lord Wutherwood, for money. In order to soften Uncle G's normally stingy personality, the Lamprey children put on a charade acting out the biblical story of Jael and Sisera. Frid plays Jael and uses a skewer to mimic the tent peg Jael used to murder Sisera. The game does nothing to appeal to Uncle Gabriel and he angrily refuses to help his brother. Lord Wutherwood storms out of the Lampreys' top-floor flat and into the lift. He screams for his wife, Violet, to join him and one of the Lamprey twins accompanies Aunt Violet to the lift. Moments later, Violet begins screaming. Gabriel has been skewered through the eyeball and dies a short while later. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn and Inspector Fox investigate. The Lampreys hope to pin the murder on Aunt Violet as she is eccentric, into witchcraft and acts erratically after finding her husband's body. They converse in French to hide their plot but the constable supervising them also speaks the language and is aware of their every word. The Lampreys argue about the twins, Colin and Stephen, because both twins admit to being the one to accompany Aunt Violet to the lift. Roberta lies to Alleyn and tells him that Gabriel agreed to give his brother the money to pay his debts. Alleyn sees through her lies but is more interested in something else she said: that she heard the lift go down and come up before Violet screamed. The Lampreys are the obvious suspects as Gabriel's death ends their money woes and Charles now inherits the title of Lord Wutherwood. Gabriel's chauffeur, Giggle, and Violet's maid, Tinkerton, both have alibis as they were seen going down the stairs by the youngest Lamprey Michael and the doorman. Violet is also a prime suspect, but Alleyn thinks the Lampreys are pushing too hard in that direction. Violet insists that Gabriel's body be moved to their London house for viewing. Alleyn grants this unusual request reluctantly. Since Aunt V is not in her right mind, Henry and Roberta accompany her to the London house. On the second night there, Roberta and Henry wake up to find Aunt V roaming around the house with Gabriel's severed hand her pocket as part of a black magic ritual for protection. Moreover, Giggle is found murdered in his bed, having had his throat slit by a left-handed person. As Alleyn explains, Aunt Violet did not kill either Uncle Gabriel or Giggle, despite what things look like. Tinkerton manipulated Giggle into killing his employer to inherit a valuable parcel of land which Tinkerton hoped to secure for herself. She grabbed the skewer and handed it to Giggle. Tinkerton sent the lift, with Gabriel in it, down to the third floor where Giggle skewered him in the eye. She then sent the lift back up to the fourth floor which gave the appearance that Giggle and Tinkerton were on their way down the stairs before the murder occurred. Tinkerton was forced to kill Giggle because his conscience was getting the better of him. She also manipulated Violet into incriminating herself by convincing her to cut off Gabriel's hand and otherwise act unusual. Characters Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard Inspector Fox Nigel Bathgate Detectives Bailey and Thompson Charles Lamprey – the younger brother of Lord Wutherwood Imogen Lamprey – his wife Henry Lamprey – the oldest Lamprey child Frid Lamprey – the second oldest Lamprey child Colin and Stephen Lamprey – the twins Patricia "Patch" Lamprey – the second youngest Lamprey child Michael Lamprey – the youngest Lamprey child Roberta Grey – friend of the Lampreys Gabriel, Marquis of Wutherwood and Rune – Charles' older brother Violet Lamprey – his wife Lady Katherine Lobe – Charles and Gabriel's aunt Giggle – Gabriel's chauffeur Tinkerton – Violet's maid Baskett – the Lampreys' butler Grimball – a debt collector References Roderick Alleyn novels 1941 British novels Novels set in London Collins Crime Club books British detective novels
Brijmohan Lall Munjal (1 July 1923 – 1 November 2015) was an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of Hero Group. Early life Munjal was born on 1 July 1923 in Kamalia, undivided India, which is located in the Toba Tek Singh District of present-day Punjab, Pakistan. He came to Amritsar from Kamalia in 1944 at the age of 20 with his three brothers, Dayanand, Satyanand and Om Prakash. He started his career working in the Indian Ordnance Factories. Merchant and industrialist Once in Amritsar, Munjal and his brothers started a bicycle parts business. They later moved to Ludhiana, where in 1954, he founded Hero Cycles Limited and began making bicycle parts, starting with forks and then adding handles and other parts. In 1956, the Punjab government issued a license to manufacture bicycles. His company got this license and from here his world changed. With the financial support of Rs 6 lakh from the government and its own capital, Hero Cycles forayed into bicycle manufacturing by getting the status of "Large Scale Unit". The company had an annual production capacity of 7,500 cycles at that time. By 1975 it had become the largest bicycle company in India and in 1986, Hero Cycles was entered in the Guinness Book as the world's largest bicycle company. Hero Honda After the bicycle company he opened a two-wheeler company named Hero Majestic Company. In this he started making Majestic scooters and mopeds. In 1984, he signed a deal with Japan's big auto company Honda and from here his world changed again. Together with Honda, he set up a plant in Dharuhera, Haryana. On 13 April 1985, Hero Honda's first bike CD 100 came in the market. The Hero Group made such progress that by 2002, 8.6 million Hero Honda motorcycles had been sold and 16,000 motorcycles were being produced daily. Hero MotoCorp In August 2011, after exiting the joint venture with Honda Motors, the company was renamed as Hero MotoCorp, and the Hero Group decided to pay royalties to Honda Company in order to use the Hero Honda brand by 2013. The Hero Group was then able to export to countries where Honda already had business and Hero-Honda joint venture had not been allowed to sell goods. Personal life Brijmohan was married to Santosh and they have four sons (including Pawan and Sunil) and a daughter. He died on 1 November 2015 Awards Brijmohan Lal Munjal was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2005 in the field of industry and trade. Other major honors he has received include: Lifetime Contribution Award by All India Management Association in 2011 The Forbes India Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2014 References Indian company founders Indian billionaires Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in trade and industry Indian industrialists 1923 births 2015 deaths 20th-century Indian businesspeople 21st-century Indian businesspeople
Dannewerk () is a municipality in Amt Haddeby in Schleswig-Flensburg District, Germany. It is named after the historic Danish Danevirke fortification. References Municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Flensburg
Leonid Isakovich Manevitch (Russian: Леонид Исакович Маневич; April 2, 1938 – August 20, 2020) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mechanical engineer, and mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to areas of nonlinear dynamics, composite and polymer physics, and asymptotology. Biography Manevitch was born on April 2, 1938, in Mogilev (USSR, now Belarus). He received his M.S. with great distinction in mechanics (1959) and his Candidate of Sciences (PhD, 1961) and Doctor of Sciences (1970) from Dnipro National University. From 1959 to 1964, Manevitch worked on missile design as an aerospace engineer and head of the Stress Analysis Team under Mikhail Yangel at the Yuzhnoye Design Office. In 1964, he became an Associate Professor at Dnipro National University. His doctoral thesis was devoted to asymptotic and group-theory methods in the mechanics of deformable solids. He was promoted in 1973 to Full Professor in the Department of Applied Theory of Elasticity. After moving to Moscow in 1976, he worked as a senior research fellow and later as head of the Division of Polymer Physics and Mechanics at the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1984, he was appointed a Professor of polymer physics and mechanics at the Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Scientific activity Several of his works are devoted to the connections between physics and mathematics, and in particular, asymptotology. Manevitch made significant contributions to the theory of nonlinear normal oscillations in essentially nonlinear systems, to nonstationary dynamics of nonlinear oscillatory systems; to molecular dynamics and physics of polymers and composite materials. His research has numerous applications in various fields of mechanical science and engineering, polymer physics, and nanotechnology. Under his leadership, the Division of Polymer Physics and Mechanics became one of the world's leading research teams in its field. His team actively collaborated with leading research centers in the USA, Italy, France, Israel, and Germany. A detailed review of the scientific activities of Prof. L.I. Manevitch can be found in Publications L.I. Manevitch was an active participant at many Russian and international symposia, conferences and congresses. As a guest speaker he repeatedly appeared at seminars of famous universities in the USA, European countries and Israel. His scientific results are presented in 20 monographs and in more than 400 publications. Books Problems of Nonlinear Mechanics and Physics of Materials (book) Manevitch L.I.: Interaction of Physics and Mathematics. Moscow-Izhevsk: Izhevsk Institute of Computer Researches (2018) (in Russian). Manevitch L.I., Kovaleva A.S., Smirnov V.V., Starosvetsky Yu.: Nonstationary Resonant Dynamics of Oscillatory Chains and Nanostructures. Singapore: Springer Nature (2017). Manevitch L.I., Gendelman O.V.: Analytically Solvable Models of Solid Mechanics. Moscow-Izhevsk: Izhevsk Institute of Computer Researches, (2016) (in Russian). Manevitch L.I., Gendelman O.V.: Tractable Models of Solid Mechanics. Formulation, Analysis and Interpretation. Berlin, Heidelberg, London, New York, Springer (2011). Manevitch L.I., Smirnov V.V.: Solitons in Macromolecular Systems. New York, Nova Science Publishers (2008). Manevich A.I., Manevitch L.I.: The Mechanics of Nonlinear Systems with Internal Resonances. Imperial College Press, London (2005). Andrianov I.V., Awrejcewicz J., Manevitch L.I.: Asymptotical Mechanics of Thin-Walled Structures. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Springer (2004). Andrianov I.V., Barantsev R.G., Manevitch L.I.: Asymptotical Mathematics and Synergetics, Moscow, URSS (2004) (in Russian). Manevitch L.I., Andrianov I.V., Oshmyan V.G.: Mechanics of Periodically. Heterogeneous Structures, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Springer (2002). Andrianov I.V., Manevitch L.I.: Asymptotology. Ideas, Methods, and Applications. Dordrecht, Boston, London. Kluwer Academic Publishers (2002). Awrejcewicz J., Andrianov I., Manevitch L.: Asymptotic Approaches in Nonlinear Dynamics: New Trends and Applications. Berlin-Heidelberg –New York, Springer-Verlag. (1998). Vakakis A.F., Manevitch L.I., Mikhlin Yu.V., Pilipchuk V.N., Zevin A.A.: Normal Modes and Localization in Nonlinear Systems. New York: Wiley (1996). Andrianov I.V., Manevich L.I.: Asymptotology: Ideas, Methods, Results, M., ASLAN (1994) (in Russian). Manevitch L.I., Pavlenko A.V.: Asymptotic Method in Micromechanics of Composite Materials. Kiev, Vyshchaya Shkola (High School) (1991) (in Russian). Andrianov I.V., Manevitch L.I.: Asymptotic Methods and Physical Theories. Moscow: Znanie (1989) (in Russian). Manevitch L.I., Mikhlin Yu.V., Pilipchuk V.N.: The Method of Normal Oscillations for Essentially Nonlinear Systems. Moscow: Nauka (1989) (in Russian). Andrianov I.V., Lesnichaya V.A., Loboda V.V., Manevitch L.I.: Investigation of Strength of Reinforced Shells of Engineering Structures. Kiev-Donetsk, Vyshchaya Shkola (High school) (1986) (in Russian). Andrianov I.V., Lesnichaya V.A., Manevitch L.I.: The Averaging Method in Statics and Dynamics of Ribbed Shells. Moscow: Nauka (1985) (in Russian). Manevitch L.I., Pavlenko A.V., Koblik S.G.: Asymptotic Methods in the Theory of Orthotropic Solids. Kiev: Vysshaya Shkola (High School) (1982) (in Russian). Mossakovskii V.I., Manevitch L.I., Mil’tzin A.M.: Modeling of Strength of Thin Shells. Kiev: Naukova Dumka (1977) (in Russian). References External links Leonid Manevitch on Google Scholar (in Russian) Leonid Manevitch on MathNet Leonid Manevitch on MathSciNet Leonid Manevitch on ZBMath Leonid Manevitch on Scopus 1938 births 2020 deaths Soviet physicists Soviet mechanical engineers Soviet mathematicians Russian physicists Russian mechanical engineers Russian mathematicians Oles Honchar Dnipro National University alumni Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology People from Mogilev
The Gettysburg Armory is a former National Guard armory which is located in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. History and architectural features The 61x96 ft (44 ft high) Art Deco facility was constructed as a $43,331 Works Projects Administration project for the local National Guard unit (commanded by Lt Ralph C. Deitrick in 1933). The two-story building housed a garage and repair shop for military vehicles, a classroom, administrative space, and a drill hall. From the beginning, the Armory was used not only by the National Guard, but also by the local community, for sporting events and community meetings. In 1944, the Gettysburg Armory was used as a temporary German Prisoner of War camp while the official camp was being constructed on the Gettysburg Battlefield. Later the building was designated as a public fallout shelter by the National Fallout Shelter Survey. In 2010, the building was vacated by Battery B, 1/108th Field Artillery after a new readiness center was constructed in South Mountain. In 2013, the Armory was transferred to the private sector by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. References Armories on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Art Deco architecture in Pennsylvania Infrastructure completed in 1938 Buildings and structures in Adams County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Pennsylvania
Lewis Winnbert Shollenberger (October 12, 1916 – March 15, 1994) was a correspondent for United Press, CBS, and ABC in Washington, D.C., from 1940 to 1963. He covered the White House and the U.S. Senate as well as coordinated network coverage of presidential news briefings and debates. He went on to work for Radio Liberty, the Small Business Administration, and the Advertising Council. Early life Shollenberger was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Joseph H. and Edith D. Shollenberger. He had at least one brother, named Joseph. He attended high school in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He also took special courses at Ravensbourne College in London and at Grunewald Gymnasium in Berlin, before graduating. His first journalism job was with the Lock Haven Express newspaper. He married Florence E. Long in 1939. They had two children, Lewis Jr. and Carol. Early career He moved to Arlington County, Virginia in 1939 where he was able to get a job in Washington, D.C., with United Press. He left United Press in 1942 when he began working for CBS. For the first part of World War II he covered wartime conferences between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. In 1943 he joined the U.S. Navy where he served in Europe and North Africa as a Lieutenant (Junior Grade). CBS At the end of the war Shollenberger returned to CBS where he covered the White House and was a director and producer of special projects. He served in that capacity until 1961. On March 1, 1952, he was in the U.S. House of Representatives at the time of a terrorist attack by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. He was quickly on the air to report the attack. Shollenberger was the co-producer of the first transcontinental television program originating from San Francisco, California in 1951 and the first telecast of a Presidential Cabinet meeting in October, 1954. He had the distinction of cutting a president off air on live TV. In 1954, Dwight Eisenhower was making a paid political speech from Denver, Colorado and went over the time that had been agreed on. Shollenberger was not sure what to do so he ran a commercial before going back to programming. The next year, he was assigned to cover President Eisenhower's heart attack. By 1960, Shollenberger was named to coordinated network coverage of the first presidential debate between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. He was the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Radio and Television Correspondents Gallery and had been assigned by CBS News to cover VIPs and delegations at both political conventions during the presidential election. He was also a member of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. In 1961, he produced President Kennedy’s first live news conference broadcast. Later that year he left CBS to become a News Director for ABC. He stayed there until 1963. Radio Liberty In 1963, Shollenberger left ABC to become the executive director of Radio Liberty in Munich. He was hired by Howland Sargeant to replace Richard Bertrandias. His time at Radio Liberty did not go well. He did not have the international reporting background or decisive leadership style that the position required. After an independent audit of the Munich office, Sargeant let him go in 1966. Later career After leaving Radio Liberty, Shollenberger moderated one episode of the TV show Firing Line with William F. Buckley and Senator Barry Goldwater. He was then hired to be the director of the information office of the Small Business Administration, where he stayed until 1971. He then became vice president of the Advertising Council. He was with this group until his retirement in 1981. Memberships Shollenberger was a president of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the National Press Club, Sigma Delta Chi, the Radio Television News Directors Association, and the National Presbyterian Church. Later life Shollenberger was interviewed by the American Journalism Historians Association for its oral histories project. His son, Lewis Jr., died in 1986, and his wife in 1991. He moved to Hightstown, New Jersey during retirement. He died there in 1994. References 1916 births 1994 deaths American television reporters and correspondents 20th-century American journalists American male journalists Journalists from Missouri Mass media people from Kansas City, Missouri Pennsylvania State University alumni American Presbyterians United States Navy personnel of World War II United States Navy officers
Poison is a perfume for women introduced by Parfums Christian Dior in 1985. The popularity of the scent made it become a brand in its own right and resulted in the subsequent release of five flanker fragrances: Tendre Poison, Hypnotic Poison, Pure Poison, Midnight Poison, and Poison Girl. Concept By 1980, Dior was enjoying robust product sales in Europe. At the time, the company was one of the top two cosmetics companies in the region. However, they were not able to achieve the same level of success in the American cosmetics market, as they were ranked as the twentieth best selling cosmetics company in United States. In order to close the gap between Dior's sales on both sides of the Atlantic, the company's president Maurice Roger commissioned a blockbuster fragrance that would dominate the American market. Dior invested heavily in meticulous research and development. Dior developed a savvy marketing strategy based on the controversial name of Yves Saint Laurent's top-selling fragrance, Opium. The company wanted a name for the new fragrance that would generate massive publicity and, in turn, sales. In 1983, Dior licensed the name Poison. The scent After testing approximately 800 scents created by independent perfumers, Dior selected a bombastic fragrance created by perfumier Edouard Flechier. It was a scent unlike any other with notes of wild berries, sandalwood, musk, jasmine, orange blossom, coriander, vetiver, pepper, cedar, cinnamon, rosewood, plum, heliotrope, tuberose, vanilla, rose de mai absolute, cistus labdanum and opopanax. Bottle design The bottle was researched in depth. A unique bottle was crafted for Poison and designed to look like forbidden fruit. The color of the apple shaped bottle is a deep shade of amethyst, and the neck is gold with a crystal stopper. Marketing On its 1985 release, the brand ambassador for the fragrance was French actor Isabelle Adjani. She remained the face of the advertising campaign for several years. Awards Poison won a FiFi Award in 1987. Variants of Poison Tendre Poison In 1994, Flechier created a follow-up fragrance called Tendre Poison which he designed for a more youthful demographic. The spokesmodels were Paul Sculfor and Laurence Vanhaeverbeke. Hypnotic Poison Hypnotic Poison was created launched in 1998. Created by perfumer Annick Menardo the fragrance is an oriental vanilla scent. The top notes are plum, apricot and coconut with tuberose, jasmine, rose, caraway and lily of the valley middle notes. The base notes are musk, vanilla, sandalwood and almond. Spokesmodels for the fragrance include actors Monica Bellucci and Milla Jovovich. Most recently French actor Mélanie Laurent appeared in a commercial directed by David Lynch. Pure Poison Pure Poison was created by Carlos Benaim, Dominique Ropion and Olivier Polge in 2004. The fragrance is bergamot, jasmine, sandalwood, orange blossom, white musk and amber. In 2006, Dior released Pure Poison Elixir, an updated version of the fragrance, in a spray bulb mother of pearl bottle. The scent became more nuanced with the addition of cocoa bean absolute. The spokesmodel was Letícia Birkheuer. Midnight Poison In 2007, with John Galliano at the helm of the House of Dior, a fifth fragrance was added to the series. Midnight Poison was contained in a sapphire blue bottle. The scent was created by Jacques Cavallier, Olivier Cresp and François Demanchy. The top note are orange blossom and bergamot. The middle notes are rose. The base notes are patchouli, amber and vanilla. The spokesmodel for the fragrance is actor Eva Green. Poison Girl In 2016, Dior released another variant of the original Poison perfume called Poison Girl. Created by perfumer François Demachy, the fragrance comes in a clear, pink bottle. It has a top note of bitter orange, a Grasse and Damascus Rose heart note, and a base note of Venezuelan tonka bean. The scent also has sandalwood, tolu balm, almond, and vanilla. The spokesmodel for the fragrance is Camille Rowe. Further reading Diorissimo Dune J'Adore References Perfumes Products introduced in 1985
The 56th Infantry Division (; nicknamed Gekreuzte Säbel, 'crossed sabres', after the divisional symbol) was a German infantry division which fought during World War II. Formed in late August 1939, it participated in occupation duty in Poland before fighting in the Battle of France. The 56th spent mid-1940 in Belgium, then returned to Poland in the early northern hemisphere fall, fighting in Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The division spent the rest of its existence on the Eastern Front, participating in the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Kursk, suffering heavy losses in the latter. In late 1943 the division was dissolved and its headquarters used to form Corps Detachment D, which was destroyed during Operation Bagration. The headquarters of the latter was again used to reform the division in East Prussia in September 1944, but it was again destroyed in the Heiligenbeil Pocket in early 1945. History The division was formed on 26 August 1939 in Dresden, in the second wave of mobilisation, mainly from Saxon reservists in Wehrkreis IV. It included the 171st Infantry Regiment from the 24th Infantry Division, the 192nd Infantry Regiment from the 4th Infantry Division, and the 234th Infantry Regiment from the 14th Infantry Division. Assigned to the 14th Army in Poland, the division was tasked with collecting Polish stragglers. The division fought in the Battle of France in May 1940 against the British Expeditionary Force, remaining in Belgium after the fall of Dunkirk. Transferred to Poland in September, the 56th provided cadres for the formation of the 294th and 304th Infantry Divisions there. After taking part in the Invasion of France in 1940, it spent the remainder of its existence on the Eastern Front, mostly with Army Group Centre. One of its early commanders was Paul von Hase, later executed for his role in the Widerstand, the German resistance movement. Following heavy losses in 1943, the division was dissolved and its staff (along with remnants of Infantry Regiments 171 and 234) was incorporated into Korps-Abteilung D together with elements of the similarly depleted 262nd Infantry Division. This was itself largely destroyed to the west of Vitebsk when Third Panzer Army failed to hold the salient around the city during the Soviet offensive of June 1944, Operation Bagration. Korps-Abteilung D was reformed, once more as the 56th Infantry Division, in East Prussia on 10 September 1944. The Soviet East Prussian Offensive in January 1945 pushed Third Panzer Army west towards Königsberg, and the division was finally encircled and destroyed in the Heiligenbeil pocket, only around 250 men managing to break out westwards to Pomerania (the divisional staff, along with that of 18th Panzergrenadier Division, reformed as the staff of the Ulrich von Hutten Division, which participated in the Battle of Halbe). Commanders The following officers commanded the division: Major-General Karl Kriebel (15 August 1939) Lieutenant-General Paul von Hase (24 July 1940) Lieutenant-General Karl von Oven (15 November 1940) Major-General Otto-Joachim Lüdecke (24 January 1943) Lieutenant-General Vincenz Müller (15 September 1943) Major-General Bernhard Pamberg (1 June 1944) Major-General Edmund Blaurock (15 July 1944) References Citations Bibliography German language article at www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de. Retrieved July 3, 2007. 056 056 1939 establishments in Germany Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
Taylor Allderdice is the tenth mixtape by American rapper Wiz Khalifa, It was released on March 13, 2012. The 17-track mixtape was named after the high school which Wiz Khalifa attended. On April 20, 2022, over a decade after its initial release, the mixtape was re-released on streaming platforms, though alterations to some tracks were made. Critical reception Taylor Allderdice was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. Adam Fleischer of XXL gave the mixtape an XL, saying, "He seems to truly be talking about how he lives and what he knows, and isn't that what we ask from our rappers—to just spit what is real to them from their experiences, rather than something contrived? Plus, he's damn good at it." Sowmya Krishnamurthy of HipHopDX said, "Wiz genuinely loves nouveau fame and relishes his king-size rolling papers, spending "30 racks" on champagne and a wife with a "pornographic figure." "When you living this high/you can't be afraid of heights," he raps fittingly on "My Favorite Song." The prodigal stoner, deservingly, takes his spoils." Joe Colly of Pitchfork gave the mixtape a 6.3 out of ten, saying "Songs about pot are fine, they have their place, but he's reached the level of popularity that it's reasonable to expect something more." The mixtape was named the eighth best album of 2012 by Complex Magazine. That publication also named the track "My Favorite Song" which features Juicy J #36 of the best 50 songs of 2012. Track listing Sample credits "Amber Ice" contains a sample from "Yesterday Princess" performed by Stanley Clarke. "Mia Wallace" contains a sample from "Wave" performed by Oscar Peterson. "O.N.I.F.C." contains a sample from "I Remember" performed by deadmau5 and Kaskade. "Nameless" contains a sample from "Travelog" performed by Bugseed. "Never Been Part II" contains a sample from "Secret of the Forest" performed by Yasunori Mitsuda. "The Cruise" contains a sample from "Acura Integurl" performed by Frank Ocean. "My Favorite Song" contains a sample from "Sex Intelligent (Remix)" performed by The-Dream. "The Code" contains a sample from "Ginseng Woman" performed by Eric Gale. "T.A.P." used the beat from "Ridin' in the Back" performed by Amber London, Ethelwulf, and Denzel Curry. "Number 16" contains a sample from "Les Fleurs" performed by Ramsey Lewis. "Blindfolds" contains a sample from "The Last Unicorn" performed by Caravan. References External links Wiz Khalifa — Taylor Allderdice official mixtape Wiz Khalifa albums 2012 mixtape albums Albums produced by Jake One Albums produced by Lex Luger Albums produced by Harry Fraud Albums produced by Cardo Rostrum Records mixtape albums Taylor Gang Entertainment mixtape albums
A wig is a head covering made from human or animal hair, or a synthetic imitation thereof. The word is short for "periwig". Wigs may be worn to disguise baldness, to alter the wearer's appearance, or as part of certain professional uniforms. History Ancient and medieval use In Egyptian society men and women commonly had clean shaven or close cropped hair and often wore wigs. The ancient Egyptians created the wig to shield shaved, hairless heads from the sun. They also wore the wigs on top of their hair using beeswax and resin to keep the wigs in place. Wealthy Egyptians would wear elaborate wigs and scented head cones of animal fat on top of their wigs. Other ancient cultures, including the Assyrians, Phoenicians, Jews in ancient Israel, Greeks and Romans, also used wigs as an everyday fashion. In China, the popularization of the wig started in the Spring and Autumn period. In Japan, the upper classes started wearing wigs before the Nara period. In Korea, gache were popular among women during the Goryeo dynasty until they were banned in the late 18th century. 16th and 17th centuries After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the use of wigs fell into disuse in the West for a thousand years until they were revived in the 16th century as a means of compensating for hair loss or improving one's personal appearance. They also served a practical purpose: the unhygienic conditions of the time meant that hair attracted head lice, a problem that could be much reduced if natural hair were shaved and replaced with a more easily de-loused artificial hairpiece. Fur hoods were also used in a similar preventive fashion. Royal patronage was crucial to the revival of the wig. Queen Elizabeth I of England famously wore a red wig, tightly and elaborately curled in a "Roman" style, while among men King Louis XIII of France (1601–1643) started to pioneer wig-wearing in 1624 when he had prematurely begun to bald. This fashion was largely promoted by his son and successor Louis XIV of France (1638–1715), which contributed to its spread in Europe and European-influenced countries in the 1660s. Wig-wearing remained a dominant style among men for about 140 years until the change of dress, affected by the French Revolution, in the 1790s. Perukes or periwigs for men were introduced into the English-speaking world with other French styles when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, following a lengthy exile in France. These wigs were shoulder-length or longer, imitating the long hair that had become fashionable among men since the 1620s. Their use soon became popular in the English court. The London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the day in 1665 that a barber had shaved his head and that he tried on his new periwig for the first time, but in a year of plague he was uneasy about wearing it:3rd September 1665: Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but darst not wear it because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it. And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire for fear of the infection? That it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague. Wigs were not without other drawbacks, as Pepys noted on March 27, 1663:I did go to the Swan; and there sent for Jervas my old periwig-maker and he did bring me a periwig; but it was full of nits, so as I was troubled to see it (it being his old fault) and did send him to make it clean. With wigs virtually obligatory garb for men with social rank, wigmakers gained considerable prestige. A wigmakers' guild was established in France in 1665, a development soon copied elsewhere in Europe. Their job was a skilled one as 17th century wigs were extraordinarily elaborate, covering the back and shoulders and flowing down the chest; not surprisingly, they were also extremely heavy and often uncomfortable to wear. Such wigs were expensive to produce. The best examples were made from natural human hair. The hair of horses and goats was often used as a cheaper alternative. Several contemporary writings which have survived noted that some viewed men who wore wigs as looking deformed and emasculated. It especially attracted disapproval from Puritans, and during times of plague, it was said that wigs were made of hair of plague victims. Wigs required cleaning using fuller's earth, and the powder used to freshen it was made from low grade flour and scented with pomatum. 18th century In the 18th century, men's wigs were powdered to give them their distinctive white or off-white color. Women in the 18th century did not wear wigs, but wore a coiffure supplemented by artificial hair or hair from other sources. Powdered wigs (men) and powdered natural hair with supplemental hairpieces (women) became essential for full dress occasions and continued in use until almost the end of the 18th century. The elaborate form of wigs worn at the coronation of George III in 1761 was lampooned by William Hogarth in his engraving Five Orders of Periwigs. Powdering wigs and extensions was messy and inconvenient, and the development of the naturally white or off-white powderless wig (made of horsehair) for men made the retention of wigs in everyday court dress a practical possibility. By 1765, wig-wearing went out of fashion except for some occupational groups such as coachmen and lawyers. During this period, people tended to simply wear their natural hair, styled and powdered to resemble a wig. However, the trend revived extravagantly during the Macaroni period of the 1770s. Women mainly powdered their hair grey, or blue-ish grey, and from the 1770s onwards never bright white like men. Wig powder was made from finely ground starch that was scented with orange flower, lavender, or orris root. Wig powder was occasionally colored violet, blue, pink or yellow, but was most often off-white. By the 1780s, young men were setting a fashion trend by lightly powdering their natural hair, as women had already done from the 1770s onwards. After 1790, both wigs and powder were reserved for older, more conservative men, and were in use by ladies being presented at court. After 1790, English women seldom powdered their hair. In 1795, the British government levied a tax on hair powder of one guinea per year. This tax effectively caused the demise of both the fashion for wigs and powder. Granville Leveson-Gower, in Paris during the winter of 1796, at the height of the Thermidorian Directory, noted "The word citoyen seemed but very little in use, and hair powder being very common, the appearance of the people was less democratic than in England." Among women in the French court of Versailles in the mid-to-late 18th century, large, elaborate and often themed wigs (such as the stereotypical "boat poufs") were in vogue. These combed-up hair extensions were often very heavy, weighted down with pomades, powders, and other ornamentation. In the late 18th century these coiffures (along with many other indulgences in court life) became symbolic of the decadence of the French nobility, and for that reason quickly became out of fashion from the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. During the 18th century, men's wigs became smaller and more formal with several professions adopting them as part of their official costumes. This tradition survives in a few legal systems. They are routinely worn in various countries of the Commonwealth. Until 1823, bishops of the Church of England and Church of Ireland wore ceremonial wigs. The wigs worn by barristers are in the style favoured in the late eighteenth century. Judges' wigs, in everyday use as court dress, are short like barristers' wigs (although in a slightly different style), but for ceremonial occasions judges and also senior barristers (KCs) wear full-bottomed wigs. 19th and 20th centuries Due to the association with ruling classes in European monarchies the wearing of wigs as a symbol of social status was largely abandoned in the newly created republics, the United States and France, by the start of the 19th century, though formal court dress of European monarchies still required a powdered wig or long powdered hair tied in a queue until the accession of Napoleon Bonaparte to the throne as emperor (1804–1814). In the United States, only four presidents, from John Adams to James Monroe, wore curly powdered wigs tied in a queue according to the old-fashioned style of the 18th century, though Thomas Jefferson wore a powdered wig only rarely and stopped wearing a wig entirely shortly after becoming president in 1801. John Quincy Adams also wore a powdered wig in his youth, but he abandoned this fashion while serving as the U.S. Minister to Russia (1809–1814), long before his accession to the presidency in 1825. Unlike them, the first president, George Washington, never wore a wig; instead, he powdered, curled and tied in a queue his own long hair. Women's wigs developed in a somewhat different way. They were worn from the 18th century onwards, although at first only surreptitiously. Full wigs in the 19th and early 20th century were not fashionable. They were often worn by old ladies who had lost their hair. In the film Mr. Skeffington (1944), Bette Davis's character has to wear a wig after a bout of diphtheria, which is a moment of pathos and a symbol of her frailty. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century hairdressers in England and France did a brisk business supplying postiches, or pre-made small wiglets, curls, and false buns to be incorporated into the hairstyle. The use of postiches did not diminish even as women's hair grew shorter in the decade between 1910 and 1920, but they seem to have gone out of fashion during the 1920s. In the 1960s a new type of synthetic wig was developed using a modacrylic fiber which made wigs more affordable. Reid-Meredith was a pioneer in the sales of these types of wigs. 21st century The art of wigs became a billion dollar industry in the 21st century. Three main processes happen within the industry: the collection of material, manufacturing, and distribution. India is the main source of hair. It has been reported from time to time that for global human hair trade, women from the ASEAN region are being exploited. Hair from this region has a significant commercial value in the international market. Particularly in India, the women are forced by their husbands into selling their hair, and slum children were being tricked into "having their heads shaved in exchange for toys". Scrap pickers are another source of hair in India, these people find hair in miscellaneous places such as hair brushes, clothes, or in the trash. While manufacturing and processing mainly takes place in China, where the hair is sorted through and constructed into wigs, the final product exported abroad, with the top countries being the United States and the United Kingdom. Official use In Britain, most Commonwealth nations, and the Republic of Ireland special wigs are also worn by barristers, judges, and certain parliamentary and municipal or civic officials as a symbol of the office. Hong Kong barristers and judges continue to wear wigs as part of court dress as a legacy of the court system from the time of British rule. In July 2007, judges in New South Wales, Australia, voted to discontinue the wearing of wigs in the NSW Court of Appeal. New Zealand lawyers and judges have ceased to wear wigs except for ceremonial occasions, such as when newly-qualified lawyers are called to the bar. In Canada lawyers and judges do not wear wigs. Entertainment A number of celebrities, including Donna Summer, Dolly Parton, Sia, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Tina Turner and Raquel Welch, popularized wigs. Cher has worn all kinds of wigs in the last 40 years, from blonde to black, and curly to straight. They may also be worn for fun as part of fancy dress (costume wearing), when they can be of outlandish color or made from tinsel. They are quite common at Halloween, when "rubber wigs" (solid bald cap-like hats, shaped like hair), are sold at some stores. Wigs are used in film, theater, and television. In the Japanese film and television genre Jidaigeki, wigs are used extensively to alter appearance to reflect the Edo period when most stories take place. Only a few actors starring in big-budgeted films and television series will grow their hair so that it may be cut to the appropriate hair style, and forgo using a wig. In the theater, especially on Broadway, wigs are used to give a performer a fixed character. Nearly all women and many men do so not only for character design, but also to cover their microphone packs. Often the microphone pack goes on the actor's head, mainly to efficiently facilitate quick changes. An actor not wearing a wig needs to change their look every time they go on stage. The wig helps solidify the character's design; natural hair is different day to day. Convenience Wigs are worn by some people on a daily or occasional basis in everyday life. This is sometimes done for reasons of convenience, since wigs can be styled ahead of time. A common practice of wigs for convenience is called protective styling. Many use wigs to avoid damage to their natural tresses, or to create styles that may not be possible otherwise. They are also worn by individuals who are experiencing hair loss due to medical reasons (most commonly cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy, or those who are suffering from alopecia areata). Some men who crossdress as women wear wigs in different styles to make their hair seem more feminine. Merkin A merkin is a pubic wig often worn as a decorative item or for theatrical and fashion purposes. They are sometimes viewed as erotic and some designs are meant for entertainment or as a form of comedy. Image gallery Military wigs From the late 17th to early 19th centuries, European armies wore uniforms more or less imitating the civilian fashions of the time, but with militarized additions. As part of that uniform, officers wore wigs more suited to the drawing rooms of Europe than its battlefields. The late 17th century saw officers wearing full-bottomed natural-coloured wigs, but the civilian change to shorter, powdered styles with pigtails in the early 18th century saw officers adopting similar styles. The elaborate, oversized court-styles of the late 18th century were not followed by armies in the field however, as they were impractical to withstand the rigours of military life and simpler wigs were worn. While officers normally wore their own hair short under a powdered wig, the rank and file of the infantry was not afforded such luxury. Instead of wigs, the men grew their hair long and according to the prevailing fashion in a nation's army, hair was either allowed to grow long with simple modeling, as in the French army of the 1740s, or else was elaborately coiffured as in Prussian and British armies. In the case of British soldiers of the 1740s, contemporary artwork suggests that they cut their hair short, which was not the case. Instead, the men used tallow or other fat to grease the hair, which was then fashioned into pigtails and tied back into the scalp hair to give the impression of short hair. It was then liberally dusted with powdered chalk to give the impression of a powdered wig. Later in the century, hair was likewise tied back, greased and powdered, but false hair pigtails were adopted, kept in a tubular queue and tied back with ribbons to the soldier's own hair. The overall effect was that of a wig with a long tail and bow. The Prussian army took personal hairstyles to an extreme during the time of Frederick the Great, each soldier commonly having a long pigtail hanging down the back nearly to waist level. By contrast, in the 1780s Russian General Potemkin abhorred the tight uniforms and uncomfortable wigs and powdered coiffures worn by his soldiers and instigated a complete revision of both. Along with comfortable, practical, well-fitting uniforms, his reforms introduced neat, natural hairstyles for all, with no wigs, powder and grease, or hair-tying evident. Formal military hairstyles lasted until beyond the end of the 18th century and it was the French Revolution which spelled the end of wigs and powdered, greased hairstyles in modern, Western armies. Powdered hair and pigtails made a brief return during Napoleon's reign, being worn by infantry of his Foot Grenadiers and Foot Chasseurs of the Old Guard and the Horse Grenadiers of the Guard. Religious Judaism Jewish law requires married women to cover their hair for reasons of tzniut (Hebrew: "modesty or privacy"). Some Orthodox Jewish women wear wigs, known as sheitels, for this purpose. Wigs of those who practice Haredi Judaism and Hasidic Judaism often are made from human hair. In Modern Orthodox Judaism, women will usually wear a scarf, kerchief, snood, hat or other covering, sometimes exposing the bottom of their hair. One rabbi has declared that long wigs are inappropriate. Another said that it is preferable for a married Jewish woman to expose her hair than to don a wig, for the wig actually increases attraction in the public domain and encourages the notion that Halakha is both irrational and intellectually dishonest. Still another rabbi, who also spoke strongly against the wearing of wigs, said specifically, "You must go with a hat or kerchief on your head", but did not permit leaving hair "exposed". Most Orthodox women cover their hair, whether with wigs, hats or scarves. The rejection by some rabbis of wigs is not recent, but began "in the 1600s, when French women began wearing wigs to cover their hair. Rabbis rejected this practice, both because it resembled the contemporary non-Jewish style and because it was immodest, in their eyes, for a woman to sport a beautiful head of hair, even if it was a wig." Other options include: wearing a covered wig, called a shpitzel a covering, typically cloth, called a tichel another non-hair (and looser) head covering, called a snood a short wig mostly covered by a Tichel, but with (wig) "hair" showing on the forehead, sometimes also showing from the back, called a Manufacture In the 18th and 19th centuries, wigmakers were called perruquiers. There are two methods of attaching hair to wigs. The first and oldest is to weave the root ends of the hair onto a stretch of three silk threads to form a sort of fringe called a "weft". The wefts are then sewn to a foundation made of net or other material. In modern times, the wefts can also be made (a warp is the vertical thread of a weave, the weft is the horizontal thread) with a specially adapted sewing machine, reducing the amount of hand labour involved. In the 19th century another method came into use. A small hook called a "ventilating needle" or "knotting needle", similar to the tambour hooks used for decorating fabric with chain-stitch embroidery at that period, is used to knot a few strands of hair at a time directly to a suitable foundation material. This newer method produces a lighter and more natural looking wig. High quality custom wigs, and those used for film and theatrical productions are usually done this way. It is also possible to combine the two techniques, using weft for the main part of the wig and ventilating hair at the edges and partings to give a fine finish. Measurement Making custom wigs starts with measuring the subject's head. The natural hair is arranged in flat curls against the head as the various measurements are taken. It is often helpful to make a pattern from layers of transparent adhesive tape applied over a piece of plastic wrap, on which the natural hairline can be traced accurately. These measurements are then transferred to the "block", a wooden or cork-stuffed canvas form the same size and shape as the client's head. Foundation Depending on the style of the wig, a foundation is made of net or other material, different sizes and textures of mesh being used for different parts of the wig. The edges and other places might be trimmed and reinforced with a narrow ribbon called "galloon". Sometimes flesh colored silk or synthetic material is applied where it will show through the hair at crown and partings, and small bones or elastic are inserted to make the wig fit securely. Theatrical, and some fine custom wigs, have a fine, flesh colored net called "hair lace" at the front which is very inconspicuous in wear and allows the hair to look as if it is coming directly from the skin underneath. These are usually referred to as "lace front wigs". Hair preparation Natural hair, either human or from an animal such as a goat or yak, must be carefully sorted so that the direction of growth is maintained, root to root, and point to point. Because of the scale-like structure of the cuticle of a hair shaft, if some hairs get turned the wrong way, they will ride backwards against their neighbors and cause tangles and matting. The highest quality of hair has never been bleached or colored, and has been carefully sorted to ensure the direction is correct. This process is called "turning". For less expensive wigs, this labour-intensive sorting process is substituted by "processing" the hair. It is treated with a strong base solution which partially dissolves the cuticle leaving the strands smooth. It is then bleached and dyed to the required shade and given a synthetic resin finish which partially restores the strength and luster of the now damaged hair. Synthetic fiber, of course, is simply manufactured in the required colors, and has no direction. The wigmaker will choose the type, length and colors of hair required by the design of the wig and blend them by pulling the hair through the upright teeth of a brush-like tool called a "hackle" which also removes tangles and any short or broken strands. The hair is placed on one of a pair of short-bristled brushes called "drawing brushes" with the root ends extending over one edge; the edge facing the wigmaker (or properly called, boardworker), and the second brush is pressed down on top of it so that a few strands can be withdrawn at a time, leaving the rest undisturbed. Adding the hair Weft structured wigs can have the wefts sewn to the foundation by hand, while it is on the block or, as is common with mass-produced wigs, sewn to a ready-made base by skilled sewing machine operators. Ventilated (hand knotted) wigs have the hair knotted directly to the foundation, a few strands at a time while the foundation is fastened to the block. With the hair folded over the finger, the wigmaker pulls a loop of hair under the mesh, and then moves the hook forward to catch both sides of the loop. The ends are pulled through the loop and the knot is tightened for a "single knot", or a second loop is pulled through the first before finishing for a "double knot". Typically, the bulkier but more secure double knot is used over the majority of the wig and the less obvious single knot at the edges and parting areas. A skilled wigmaker will consider the number of strands of hair used and the direction of each knot to give the most natural effect possible. It takes generally six heads of hair to make a full human hair wig. Styling At this point, the hair on the wig is all the same length. The wig must be styled into the desired form in much the same manner as a regular stylist. Fitting The subject's natural hair is again knotted tightly against the head and the wig is applied. Any remaining superfluous wiglace is trimmed away. Hairpins can be used to secure the lace to the hair and occasionally, skin-safe adhesives are used to adhere the wig against bald skin and to better hide any exposed lace. Finishing touches are done to the hair styling to achieve the desired effect. Types of human hair wigs There are two basic kinds of hair wigs: The traditional machine stitched weft wig and the hand tied lace wig. The machine stitched wigs are still the most widely worn wigs today. The hair is sewn on a stretch weft material and come with back straps for adjusting to various head sizes. These wigs are typically pre-styled and lack any kind of realistic expectations. Lace wigs are quickly becoming one of the most sought-after wigs among wig wearers. The illusion of hair growing from the scalp is the feature that makes this wig the best of the best when it comes to wearing fake hair. These wigs are made with a French or Swiss lace material base. They are made as a full lace or partial lace front with a stretch weft back. Each hair strand is individually stitched into a lace material which creates the natural look of hair at the base. This is where the term "hand tied" originates. Hair type is the distinguishing factor in human hair wigs. Four main types of hair are used in manufacturing: Chinese or "Malaysian", Indian, Indonesian or "Brazilian", and Caucasian or "European". The majority of human hair wigs are made of Chinese or Indian hair, while European hair is considered the most expensive and rare, as most donors are from Russia or Northern Europe, where there is a smaller portion of hair donors to the market. Remy human hair is considered to be the best quality of human hair because the cuticles are kept intact and not stripped away; "strands retain their scaled natural outer cuticle." The preserved cuticles are also aligned in a unidirectional manner, which decreases tangling and matting. Also, the hair is carefully separated after collecting from the donor to ensure all the cuticles are of the same length. Notable wig designers Willy Clarkson, who created wigs for London's West End theatre productions Nina Lawson, who ran the Metropolitan Opera wig department from 1956 to 1987 Peter King, Bristol, United Kingdom Peter Owen, Bristol, United Kingdom See also Hair extensions Hair prosthesis Toupée References Further reading Egyptian inventions Fashion accessories Hairdressing History of clothing (Western fashion) Hasidic clothing Jewish religious clothing Judicial clothing
The Unleashed Blaze is an upcoming Hong Kong action film written and directed by Derek Kwok, produced by and starring Andy Lau. The film is a spiritual successor to the 2021 film, Raging Fire and stars Nicholas Tse returning in a different role while also serving as the film's action director. The film was first announced on 14 March 2023. Production for The Unleased Blaze officially began in October 2023. Plot As the reputation of the Hong Kong Police Force has reached its peak, Chief Commander Fong Wing-chau (Andy Lau) of Operations Department is about to face a double crisis both in the workforce and in life. It turns out the mastermind behind this crisis is his younger brother, Chow (Nicholas Tse). After encountering Chow again, Fong discovers that his brother has become a ruthless criminal who is determined to bring Hong Kong down into a major crisis. Fong is persistent in his duties and refuses to bow down to crime and fate has forced the two brothers head-to-head on opposite sides of the law. As the two in numerous battles and confrontations, many memories were brought which ignited burning rage and anger to both of them. Unbeknownst to them, everything is actually in the control of a dark, mysterious mastermind behind the scenes. Cast Andy Lau as Fong Wing-chau (方榮宙), chief commander of the Operations Department of the Hong Kong Police Force. Nicholas Tse as Chow (阿秋), Fong's younger brother who is a notoriously ruthless criminal. Michael Hui (special appearance) J_Black as Chow's underling. Carlos Chan as Fong's superior officer. Ray Lui Power Chan Kenny Wong Sammy Sum Mo Tse as Kan Sai-kit (靳世傑), a police officer. Jeana Ho as a police officer. Angus Yeung Tony Wu as a police officer. Henry Fong German Cheung Chaney Lin Bruce Tong Andrew Pong Kevin Tong Production The project was first announced on 14 March 2023 at the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART) to be a spiritual successor of the 2021 film, Raging Fire, the final film directed by Benny Chan, with Derek Kwok directing, Andy Lau producing and starring alongside Nicholas Tse, as part of Emperor Motion Pictures' upcoming film slate. Principal photography for The Unleased Blaze began in October of the same year. On 17 October 2023, the film held its production commencement ceremony at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal which was attended by Emperor Group chairman Albert Yeung, director Kwok, Lau, Tse and other cast members including Michael Hui, J_Black, Carlos Chan, Ray Lui, Power Chan, Kenny Wong, Sammy Sum, Mo Tse, Jeana Ho, Angus Yeung, Tony Wu, Henry Fong, German Cheung, Chaney Lin, Bruce Tong, Andrew Pong and Kevin Tong. At the event Lau and Tse, the latter also serving as the film's action director, states the film has begun shooting for four days of the opening action scene involves Lau in fighting sequences. filmmaking. Tse also stated that Lau was the one who came up the film's Chinese title () as a tribute to Benny Chan and continue on Chan's spirit of action, and Lau revealed that he had the idea when Raging Fire was released back 2021 and he wanted to continue on Chan's style of filmmaking since he starred in Chan's directorial debut, the 1990 film A Moment of Romance; at the same time, he has also thought about collaborating with Tse again for a long time so he gave a call to Albert Yeung. Lau and Tse will reportedly portray siblings who have a complicated relationship and are on the opposite sides of the law. On 23 October 2023, filming of a major shootout scene took place at Statue Square where Tse's character wields a minigun and fires it at prop police cruisers. After Tse's shot were completed, J_Black's shots were being filmed where his character also shot at the police vehicles and ending with a big explosion. The entire filming of the scene took up to four hours to complete. Ho and Wu, who portray police officers, were also present for the shoot. See also Andy Lau filmography References External links Upcoming films Hong Kong action films Hong Kong martial arts films Hong Kong police films Police detective films Emperor Motion Pictures films Films produced by Andy Lau Films directed by Derek Kwok Cantonese-language films Films set in Hong Kong Films shot in Hong Kong
Tinsel Dome () is a small ice-covered hill, 700 m, standing between Aureole Hills and Bone Bay on Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who gave this descriptive name. Map Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996. References SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer. Ice caps of Antarctica Bodies of ice of Graham Land Landforms of Trinity Peninsula
Geoff Martin (born 25 June 1958) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Notes External links Living people 1958 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players

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