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James Burrill Angell (January 7, 1829 – April 1, 1916) was an American educator and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Michigan, from 1871 to 1909. He represented the transition from small college life to nationally oriented universities. Under his energetic leadership, Michigan gained prominence as an elite public university. Angell is often cited by school administrators for providing the vision that the university should provide "an uncommon education for the common man." Angell was also president of the University of Vermont from 1866 to 1871 and helped that small school recover from its financial difficulties brought on by the Civil War. Throughout the war, he was the editor of The Providence Journal and was a consistent vocal supporter of Abraham Lincoln.
Angell served in diplomatic posts as America's minister to China from 1880 to 1881 and then to the Ottoman Empire from 1897 to 1898. On his mission to China, he was the primary American negotiator of the Angell Treaty of 1880 that curtailed the emigration of laborers to the United States, as well as a second treaty restricting the trade in opium. In the Ottoman Empire, he was responsible for the protection of American missionaries during the unrest following the massacre of Armenians. Angell was a member of a prominent Yankee family in Rhode Island, and many of his descendants became senior academics.
Early life
James Burrill Angell was born January 7, 1829, in Scituate, Rhode Island, the eldest of eight children of Andrew Aldrich Angell and Amy Aldrich, who themselves were distantly related; he was named after a former senator, James Burrill. The Angells had been a prominent family in and around Providence, Rhode Island, since its founding in 1636 by Roger Williams and his companion Thomas Angell. Though scant, there is evidence suggesting Thomas Angell's ancestors were relations of Henry I of England.
Thomas Angell's grandson had settled the farm where James was born in 1710, the same year he founded the Angell Tavern, where Scituate's leaders held town meetings after its incorporation in 1730, and where men such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and the Marquis de Lafayette stayed during the Revolutionary War. Angell's grandfather built an inn on the site in 1810, and Angell credited his boyhood interaction with the travelers who passed through for some of his later success, saying, "... the knowledge of men I gained by the observations and experiences of my boyhood in the country tavern has been of the greatest service. ... The eminent political speakers were always entertained at our table, and some of them were very helpful friends in my later life." The building burned down in 1862, and the land was later submerged during the creation of the Scituate Reservoir.
Education
Angell attended the local school until the age of eight, when his parents placed him with a Quaker tutor who taught him arithmetic and surveying. At twelve, he left home to attend a seminary in Seekonk, Massachusetts, in order to study Latin, but after one term went to study at the Smithville Seminary, where he stayed until the age of fourteen. Unsure what career path to take, he had worked on the family farm for two summers, and also unsuccessfully attempted to find clerk jobs with Providence businesses. When his father informed him that he had the financial means to pay for college, Angell decided to attend Brown University. A year too young to enroll, he went first to University Grammar School in Providence, where one of his instructors was Henry S. Frieze, who would later serve as acting president of the University of Michigan while Angell was abroad on diplomatic assignments.
In 1845, Angell began studying at Brown, which had a total of seven instructors on the faculty at the time. He graduated in 1849 and obtained part-time jobs working as an assistant librarian at the university and tutoring a boy whose eyesight prevented him from reading. In 1850, Angell came down with a cold and sore throat, but he refused to give his throat any rest from the daily exertion of reading aloud to his pupil. The resultant damage to his throat made extended speaking difficult for the rest of his life.
Travels
While Angell was recuperating, the father of his friend Rowland Hazard II, whose own grandson Rowland Hazard III would later be instrumental in the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous, suggested that Angell accompany Hazard on an upcoming winter tour of the South he was undertaking to help alleviate a lung ailment. The trip, which began on October 5, 1850, lasted seven and a half months and took Angell and Hazard throughout much of the South. The young men were introduced to the realities of slavery, including a whipping and a slave auction that Angell called "the most repulsive and disgusting spectacle we had ever seen".
Upon his return, Angell had planned to attend Andover Theological Seminary and take up a career as a minister. A throat specialist, however, advised him to avoid any work that would require extended public speaking, and he instead found work in the office of Ellis S. Chesbrough, the city engineer of Boston. His brief tenure there ended when his friend Rowland Hazard, still suffering from lung ailments, invited him on another trip, this time to Europe. The pair traveled first to France, arriving just three weeks after Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte had staged a coup d'état, then later to Italy and Austria. While in Vienna, he received a letter from Francis Wayland, the president of Brown University, offering him a choice of jobs as chairman of either the Civil Engineering or Modern Language Department, with a year and a half of continued study in Europe. He chose the latter, and went to Paris for several months to study French, then to Braunschweig, Germany to study German, finally returning home in the summer of 1853.
Professor and editor
When Angell began his tenure as chair of the modern languages department at Brown University, President Wayland was in the midst of reorganizing the university away from its traditional roots. Additional study was offered in areas such as modern languages and engineering, Angell's own areas of interest, and students were given greater freedom to choose elective courses. Extension classes were initiated to bring instruction to the wider community, and Angell gave lectures on his experiences in Europe and on the topic of education. Among his own students, Angell singled out as especially memorable two future U.S. Secretaries of State, Richard Olney and John Hay.
On November 26, 1855, Angell married Sarah Swoope Caswell, the daughter of Alexis Caswell, who was then a professor at Brown and became its president in 1868. Sarah's family was also long-established in New England, and she was a direct descendant of Peregrine White, the first baby born in Plymouth Colony. The couple had a son, Alexis C. Angell, on April 26, 1857.
Wayland grew frustrated with a lack of funding for his reforms and resigned as president in 1855, and his successor, Barnas Sears, reversed many of the reforms. The study of modern languages was de-emphasized, leaving Angell unsatisfied with teaching duties that were now limited to only one-year courses. He began writing articles for The Providence Journal starting in 1854 and took over full responsibility for the editorial pages in 1859. After the editor and part-owner, Henry B. Anthony, was elected to the United States Senate in 1858, he proposed that Angell replace him as editor. Angell resigned his professorship in 1860 to become the full-time editor of the paper.
Angell allied himself with the radical wing of the new Republican Party, and lent the paper's backing to the 1860 gubernatorial candidacy of abolitionist Republican nominee Seth Padelford, which failed when a coalition concerned about the economic effects of angering the South instead led to the election of fellow Republican William Sprague. In the presidential contest, Angell felt that Rhode Island's interests would be best served by the nomination of staunch abolitionist William H. Seward as the Republican candidate. But when the somewhat more moderate Abraham Lincoln was nominated, he put the power of the Journal behind Lincoln's candidacy, publishing favorable letters from his former pupil John Hay, who was by then working in Lincoln's law offices. In the end, Lincoln carried Rhode Island, 61.4% to 38.6%.
Angell ran the Journal for the entire Civil War, and briefly considered buying it to run as a non-partisan newspaper (an idea which Senator Anthony rejected), but the workload took its toll on his health. In August 1866, when the University of Vermont requested that he come serve as its new president, he accepted the offer and moved to Burlington.
University of Vermont
The Civil War had depleted the University of Vermont of students and the funds that came with them. When he assumed the presidency in 1866, Angell's primary responsibility was to improve both the size of the student body and the university's finances. He oversaw the integration of a state agricultural college formed following passage of the Morrill Act in 1862, which had introduced land-grant colleges in the United States. This effort faced resistance both from classicists worried about the influence of the new college on the quality of education and from farmers who doubted the university curriculum had much to offer them, but Angell was able to build enough trust between the groups that the integration went forward, and both the finances and enrollment began to recover; the latter grew from 31 in 1866 to 67 in 1870.
Angell traveled to state and county fairs around Vermont to attract publicity for the university and his fundraising efforts, and also secured donations from prominent alumni such as Henry J. Raymond, founder of The New York Times, and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Due to a lack of funds to hire professors, he personally taught the university's courses in history, rhetoric, German, and international law.
On May 8, 1869, the Angells had another son, James Rowland Angell, who later served as president of Yale University. On September 3 of that year, the University of Michigan offered Angell its presidency, following the resignation of Erastus Haven that June. He visited Ann Arbor with his wife, but he felt that he had a duty to complete his work at the University of Vermont and declined the offer. Michigan repeated the offer in 1871, his former teacher Henry S. Frieze having served as acting president while the regents searched for a permanent president. This time, Angell felt that the University of Vermont had made enough progress that he could leave it in good conscience, and he accepted the offer. He made a trip to Ann Arbor to deliver his inaugural address at Commencement on June 28, 1871, then returned to Vermont to complete the academic term before moving his family to Ann Arbor in September of that year.
University of Michigan
When Angell took over as the third president of the University of Michigan in 1871, it was the largest university in the country, with 1,207 students, 35 faculty members, and an annual budget of $104,000. But it was still more a collection of colleges than an expression of the "German model" of university that had been envisioned by its first two presidents, Henry Philip Tappan and the recently departed Haven. Over the next 38 years, Angell oversaw growth and innovation that led to him being called "the chief architect of the modern state university".
Unlike Tappan, Angell did not have an overriding vision of the future of education, but he introduced several changes early in his tenure, establishing a scientific course that no longer required Greek, dropping classics from the English course, and greatly expanding the number of elective courses. Michigan had begun admitting women the year before Angell arrived, one of the first large schools to do so, and Angell pushed for its continuation and became known as an advocate for coeducation for the rest of his career. Angell felt it was important for a president to teach courses, and he taught international law during his entire term.
Controversies
Angell's first decade in Ann Arbor was marked by several controversies. One involved his expressions of Christian piety in the course of official business, which drew criticism as aligning the state-funded university too closely with his personal faith. Detroit resident Stephen B. McCracken lodged a complaint in 1873 that said such Christian—and specifically Protestant—favoritism violated the state constitution, to the detriment of Catholics, Jews, spiritualists, and free thinkers. A state senate committee investigated and ultimately cleared Angell and the university, concluding that "the teachings of the university are those of a liberal and enlightened Christianity, in the general, highest and best use of the term." Angell recognized the need to make the Christian spirit he wished to cultivate more voluntary and less explicitly Protestant, first by dropping compulsory chapel attendance, then by hiring the university's first Roman Catholic faculty member, Eugene W. Hilgard.
The question of whether homeopathic medicine should be taught at the university had been debated for decades before Angell's arrival, and in 1873 the legislature passed a law appointing two professors of homeopathy in the medical school, despite the testimony of Angell and others that doing so would be a great mistake that might ultimately kill the entire department due to the hostility of the medical faculty towards homeopathy. The regents refused to appoint the professors, saying it was impossible to teach both types of medicine in a single department but they would establish a separate school to teach homeopathy if the legislature funded it. Funding for a separate school was provided in 1875, and the School of Homeopathy was created. In spite of his earlier opposition, Angell worked to find qualified professors and to ensure the school provided the best possible instruction, and it coexisted with the medical school until it was closed in 1922.
In October 1875, an audit of student laboratory fees in the chemistry department found a shortfall of $831.10, attributable to one of two professors, Silas H. Douglas or Preston B. Rose. Rose at first mortgaged his house to make up the difference, but later Douglas was also found to be responsible. Charges and countercharges were made among the two men, various regents, and President Angell. Douglas was Episcopalian and Rose was Methodist, and their fellow churchmen joined in a bitter public debate over who was to blame. A two-month investigation by the state legislature produced a 740-page report, and the case ultimately went to the Michigan Supreme Court, where Douglas won a judgment against the university in 1881. One historian wrote that "no one who examines the voluminous records of the struggle ... can doubt that the University would have been a far stronger institution ... had there been no Douglas-Rose controversy". The six-year fight affected Angell as well, with one professor saying he "was never quite the same" afterwards.
Growth of the university
During his tenure at Michigan, the faculty size grew from 35 to about 400; the student body from 1,100 to over 5,000; the annual budget from $104,000 to over $1,000,000. The following schools or colleges were founded during his tenure: Dentistry, Pharmacy, Music, Nursing, and Architecture & Urban Planning.
Concerned about the growing role of professionalism in collegiate sports and a loss of control by faculties over athletics on campus, Angell called for a meeting in 1906 of the presidents of the members of the Western Conference (now the Big Ten). At the Angell Conference, the presidents agreed to restrictions on the number of games, years of student eligibility, and ticket prices. An additional rule targeted Michigan football coach Fielding H. Yost's considerable outside income by requiring coaches be full-time employees of the university. In spite of Angell's efforts to institute more control, Yost convinced a majority of the regents to support him, and Michigan left the athletic conference for nearly a decade rather than abide by the new rules.
Diplomatic posts
Angell put his academic career on hold at several points in order to carry out a variety of diplomatic assignments, including serving as minister to the Qing Dynasty in China and the Ottoman Empire as well as negotiating maritime treaties with Britain and Canada. He remained president of the University of Michigan throughout, but took leaves of absence with acting presidents managing in his place.
Minister to China
In February 1880, Secretary of State William M. Evarts asked Angell to go to China to negotiate changes to the Burlingame Treaty that would reduce the flow of Chinese immigrants into the Pacific United States. Angell was nominated by President Hayes, confirmed by the Senate as minister to China and chairman of the treaty commission on April 9, 1880. Angell left for Peking that June with fellow commissioners John F. Swift and William Henry Trescot, and presented his credentials on August 16, succeeding George Seward. Henry S. Frieze was appointed acting president of the University of Michigan in his absence.
The commission negotiated two treaties. The first, formally called the Treaty Regulating Immigration from China and dubbed by historians as the Angell Treaty of 1880, allowed the U.S. to regulate and limit the immigration of Chinese laborers, but not to prohibit it outright. The second was a trade treaty that outlawed the trade of opium and set tonnage dues and tariffs to be the same for both nations. The treaties, collectively, were signed on November 17, 1880, and the other commissioners returned home, leaving Angell in China to fulfill his duties as minister. After a year, he decided to return to academia and left China on October 4, 1881, taking a trip through Europe and returning to Ann Arbor on February 24, 1882. Angell was succeeded in his post by John Russell Young. Most of the provisions that the Angell Treaty had secured were negated by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Scott Act of 1888, which placed much stricter bans on Chinese immigration.
Maritime commissions
In the fall of 1887, President Cleveland appointed Angell to a three-man commission, along with William L. Putnam and Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard, to negotiate with the British government regarding fishing rights off the coast of Canada, which had been a source of misunderstanding between Canada and the U.S. since they were first agreed to in the Treaty of 1818. The results of these negotiations, the Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty, was signed on February 15, 1888, but subsequently failed ratification in the U.S. Senate, whose Republican majority had objected to the formation of the commission in the first place.
On November 4, 1895, President Cleveland appointed Angell to the Deep Waterways Commission, along with John E. Russell and Lyman E. Cooley. The commission, created by Congress, was to negotiate an agreement between the U.S. and Canada regarding the creation of a waterway to allow ocean-going traffic between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. They undertook a feasibility study and forwarded proposals for further appropriations to Congress, but little was done, and it was not until 1959 that the St. Lawrence Seaway finally opened.
Minister to the Ottoman Empire
President McKinley asked Angell to serve as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire in April 1897, and he agreed on the condition he could return home after a year if he wished. Angell's nomination encountered brief opposition from Constantinople, first because of reports that he had accused Russia of fomenting unrest in the region, and then because Sultan Abdul Hamid II had confused Angell's Congregationalist faith with the Congregation of Jesuits, of whom he had a poor opinion. These objections were resolved by Angell's denial of the former report and clarification to the Sultan on the latter misunderstanding; the Senate confirmed him and he sailed to Europe on the SS Normandie in July, then on to Constantinople, where he presented his credentials to the Sultan on September 3, succeeding Alexander W. Terrell. The University of Michigan regents appointed Harry Burns Hutchins acting president in his absence, through October 1898.
The pressing issue facing Angell in the Ottoman Empire was the protection of American missionaries during the unrest following the massacre of Armenians that had been carried out over the previous two years, as well as compensation for damage to their properties they claimed were caused by both the deliberate actions and the inaction of Turkish forces. He was mostly unsuccessful on this front, except for negotiating a $50,000 surcharge on a warship the Ottoman Empire was purchasing from an American firm, with the understanding that this would be used to resolve the claims of damages (and which was eventually paid in 1901). Angell blamed this failure in part on the outbreak of the Spanish–American War causing American naval ships to leave the area and remove pressure on the Sultan.
Angell and his wife toured the Middle East from January to March 1898, visiting Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, Beirut, and Ephesus. President McKinley was disturbed by a request from Angell to send American warships to "rattle the Sultan's windows"; he feared it would lead to an event like the sinking of the Maine, and approached Oscar S. Straus about taking over the post. Angell himself was becoming discouraged by his inability to win concessions from the Turkish government and submitted his resignation in May. He had his final audience with the Sultan on August 5 and left his post on August 13, traveling home by way of Greece, Italy, Switzerland, and France.
Later years
Angell's wife, Sarah Caswell Angell, died on December 17, 1903. In 1905, Angell submitted his resignation to the Board of Regents, feeling that at his age, he may be losing the qualifications for his position, but the board refused to accept it. By 1909, he had been in office for 38 years and this time the Regents accepted his resignation. .
Angell's health began to decline while on a tour of Europe in the summer of 1911, when he suffered a stroke of paralysis in Germany following an exhausting excursion to Russia. He recovered sufficiently to return to Ann Arbor within a month, but his lingering weakness was blamed for a bout of pneumonia in September 1913. On January 24, 1916, he had a stroke that affected his eyesight, leaving him unable to read, and he grew weaker until he contracted pneumonia again. He died a few days later, April 1, 1916, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery on April 3, with a line of university students formed on each side of the streets as his funeral cortege traveled through Ann Arbor.
Legacy
Angell's historic legacy is based on the transition of Michigan from a small local state college to a major national University featuring state-of-the-art research. He was a transitional figure, maintaining the small-college paternalistic interest in the welfare of individual students, and endorsing the traditional small-college mission to promote civility and character building. He introduced a broader mission including admission by merit; coeducation; teaching large classes by lecture; and an increasing emphasis on graduate studies. He introduced a broad curriculum ranging from the humanities to the social sciences, sciences and engineering, as well as traditional and modern professional fields. He appealed to the Michigan public for financial support, and provided a model that was followed by other ambitious university presidents. His moderation, natural tact, and political astuteness strengthened his leadership role, and his diverse background in foreign languages, literature, civil engineering, and newspaper work facilitated his approaches to every major interest group in the state. However, Angell was not as dynamic or innovative as the younger generation such as Charles W. Eliot, Daniel Coit Gilman, and William Rainey Harper. By 1909 he was obsolete in terms of the state-of-the-art in world-class universities, and was even accused of provincialism, inbreeding, and complacency.
Notable descendants and relatives
A number of James Angell's descendants and near relatives rose to prominence in their respective fields, largely also in academia:
Son James Rowland Angell was president of Yale University.
Son Alexis C. Angell was a Michigan Law School professor and U.S. District Judge.
Grandson Robert Cooley Angell was chair of the sociology department at the University of Michigan and president of the American Sociological Association.
Nephew Frank Angell was a psychologist at Cornell and Stanford universities.
Son-in-law Andrew McLaughlin, married to Angell's daughter Lois (b. 1863), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.
Granddaughter Constance Green was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.
Grandson James Angell MacLachlan was a Harvard Law School professor.
Honors and appointments
Elected an associate fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1868.
Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1890.
Served as president of the American Historical Association from 1892 to 1893.
Honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Brown University (1868), Columbia University (1887), Rutgers College (1896), Princeton University (1896), Yale University (1901), Johns Hopkins University (1902), University of Wisconsin (1904), University of Vermont (1904), Harvard University (1906), University of Michigan (1908), and Dartmouth College (1909).
Regent of the Smithsonian Institution from January 19, 1887, to January 15, 1912.
Awarded the First Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure by Emperor Meiji in October 1909 for service to Japanese students.
Inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2008.
Commemoration
Angell Hall, one of the most prominent buildings on the University of Michigan campus, is named after him. Designed by Albert Kahn, it was completed in 1924 at a cost of $1 million, providing of classroom and office space.
Angell School, a kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, is named after him.
Angell School, a kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school in the Berkley School District, is named after him.
In 1910 sculptor Karl Bitter produced a bas relief depicting a seated Angell. It now resides in the lobby of Angell Hall.
A caricature of Angell by Ulysses Ricci's firm Ricci and Zari can be found carved on a corbel at the University of Michigan's Law Quadrangle.
The former University of Michigan honor society Michigamua renamed itself the Order of Angell in 2007, over the objections of some of Angell's descendants.
Sarah Caswell Angell Hall was a theater in Barbour Gymnasium (a women's gymnasium on the Michigan campus), named in honor of Angell's wife in 1905. The gymnasium was torn down in 1946.
See also
History of Chinese Americans
History of Rhode Island
History of the University of Michigan
Notes
Citations
References
Further reading
External links
Brown University biography of James B. Angell
Digitized Selections from the James B. Angell Papers, 1845–1916 at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
University of Michigan biography of James B. Angell
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Henry Clyde Day (August 26, 1899 – March 21, 1934) was a champion Arkansas hog-caller and right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who committed suicide after an unsuccessful operation to repair his throwing arm.
The "Hog-Calling Pitcher"
Born in Center, Missouri, Day grew up in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, which gave him his nickname. He was a colorful player who was known as the "hog calling pitcher" for his habit of making Arkansas hog calls while on the pitcher's mound – sounds that one newspaper described as "piercing yells." Also known for his screwball pitch and his eccentric personality, Day was described in his obituary as "a care-free, fun-loving figure who gave the game one of its most widely known characters."
Early career (1921–1930)
Day began his pitching career playing in the minor leagues for Joplin, Fort Smith, Little Rock, and Muskogee from 1921 to 1924. He made his major league debut in September 1924 with the St. Louis Cardinals, starting three games and going 1–1 in 17-2/3 innings with a 4.58 earned run average. In 1925, he played in 17 games for the Cardinals, four as a starter, with a record of 2–4 and a 6.30 ERA.
The Cardinals sent him to the minor leagues in Syracuse, and from there he signed for the 1926 season with the Cincinnati Reds, where he appeared in four games and 7-1/3 innings with a 7.36 earned run average. After being released by the Reds, Day spent the next five years in the minor leagues with the Syracuse Chiefs, Los Angeles Angels, Wichita Larks, Omaha Crickets, Kansas City Blues, and Minneapolis Millers.
In 1929, Day was the ace for the Blues (111–56), considered one of the best minor league baseball teams of all time. Day went 12–5 for the Blues, and his 2.98 ERA was second-lowest in the American Association. While playing for the Blues, Day was teammates with pitcher Max Thomas who went 18–11 that year and became friends with Day. Five years later, Day would visit Thomas in Kansas City, and Thomas would try unsuccessfully to save Pea Ridge's life.
Facing Babe Ruth
In 1931, Day got a second shot at the big leagues, playing in 22 games with the Brooklyn Robins—now known as the Los Angeles Dodgers. He went 2–2 with a career-low 4.55 ERA for the Robins. He played in his final major league game in September 1931 and spent the 1932 and 1933 seasons with minor league stints in Minneapolis and Baltimore.
Hall-of-Fame catcher Al López caught for Day in 1931. In an Associated Press interview, Lopez recounted a story about a 1931 exhibition game against the New York Yankees. "The fans had been reading about him being a champion hog caller, so they all started calling 'Yip, yip yeeee!' He strikes out the first hitter, puts the ball and glove down and lets out this call. He strikes out the next batter and does it again. Babe Ruth was on deck, and he gets a big kick out of it. He's laughing at this guy. Then he has Ruth with two strikes. It gets real quiet. The fans are hoping he'll strike out Ruth so he can yell again. On the third pitch, Ruth hits one a mile over the fence. Henry Clyde Day never did his hog call again."
Unsuccessful arm surgery
In 1932, Day pitched 145 innings for the Minneapolis Millers, going 9–8, but by 1933, Day's pitching arm was shot, and he was released by Baltimore in August 1933. Day reportedly "brooded almost continually" over the end of his pitching career. Desperate to revive his pitching career, Day went to the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for a delicate and expensive operation to restore his arm. Day told his family that he had spent $10,000 on the arm (), and he was "crestfallen" when the surgery proved unsuccessful.
Suicide
Aside from the deterioration of his arm, Day's life had been riddled with problems. His brother Lemmie was also a promising pitcher who had his leg amputated in 1922 and later died from "blood poisoning." In 1929, Day's mother committed suicide by drinking poison, and his father died of a heart attack in 1932.
In early 1934, Day's wife of eleven years gave birth to a baby boy, but Day was despondent at the loss of his pitching arm. Day reportedly turned to alcohol and in March 1934, traveled to Kansas City, "seeking treatment for lapses of memory." On March 21, while staying in the apartment of former teammate Max Thomas, Day slit his throat with a hunting knife. Thomas tried to stop Day but was pushed aside. His funeral in Pea Ridge was attended by more than 500 people.
Day was buried at the Pea Ridge Cemetery in Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
Notes
External links
Pea Ridge Day Obituaries
This Day in Baseball Article on Pea Ridge Day
MiLb Article
Clyde "Pea Ridge" Day - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
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The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust () is an Archaeological Trust organisation established in 1975 as part of the Welsh Archaeological Trusts.
The Trust is a charitable company (Registered in Wales, No: 1276976; Registered Charity No. 505609) whose principal objective is to educate the public in archaeology which it achieves by such diverse means as are allowed in its Articles and Memorandum of Association.
It owns, maintains and continually enhances the Regional Historic Environment Record, which includes information on more than 25,000 known archaeological and historic sites and monuments, and is a prime tool for education and research.
The Trust provides an archaeological planning service jointly funded by the Unitary Authorities and Cadw, Currently more than 22,000 planning applications are checked each year for implications to the Historic Environment. Actions are advised to ensure that proper assessments are carried out and appropriate measures implemented to ensure that Historic Environment interests are protected. As a result of potential conflicts of interest this area of work is separately staffed and funded and governed by a Code of Conduct approved by Cadw.
The Trust also provides general advice through its Heritage Management Services to a variety of institutions and organisations including the Forestry Authority, CCW, Statutory Undertakers, the Environment Agency, National Trust, and the Church in Wales. The Trust is also a reporting station for the Portable Antiquities scheme.
The Trust through its Projects teams undertakes assessments, evaluations, surveys, watching-briefs, building recording and excavations in South Wales and elsewhere. It has had extensive involvement with many major developments in the area. In addition Projects staff carry out area wide monument assessment and historic landscape characterisation works with the intention of improving the information and evidence base to support enhanced protection of the historic environment. The Trust has an active commercial archaeology team, based in a separate office in Newport. This is the location of one of the archaeological projects undertaken in Wales - the Newport Ship, which was excavated in 2002.
The Trust has also contributed to developing research agendas through publication of its work. It promotes knowledge and learning about the past through publication, displays, leaflets, lectures and talks and seeks to involve the community of southeast Wales in its work.
The Trust is a Registered Organisation with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and requires all employees, whether corporate members of the Institute or not, to adhere to the Institute's Codes and Standards as a condition of employment.
Notable people
Henry Owen-John, Deputy Director of the Trust 1977-1991
H.N. Savory, Chair of the Trust 1976-1984
Andrew Marvell, Director of the Trust since 2004
See also
Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
Dyfed Archaeological Trust
Gwynedd Archaeological Trust
Cadw
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Welsh Archaeological Trusts
Archaeology of Wales
References
External links
Website of the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust
Archwilio website to access the Historic Environment Records (HERs) of Wales (held by the 4 Welsh Archaeological Trusts)
Archaeology of Wales
Archaeological organizations
Historical organisations based in Wales |
The Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center is a former recreation center located in Detroit, Michigan. Opened in 1929, it was a hub for community enrichment programs for those who lived in the city, especially those who lived in the Brewster and Brush Park neighborhoods. The recreation center was closed in 2006 as a result of lack of funding and decrease in usage. As of 2015, the City of Detroit is planning a multi-use redevelopment for the site, complete with restaurants, residential units, and commercial space.
History as Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center
The Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center is much more than a community activities center. It is a building with a long illustrious history that served an underprivileged community for many years. From its early days as the only public library in a very poor neighborhood to its later years as an athletic center which was a home to athletes like Joe Louis.
The Detroit Public Library set up a branch on Hastings and Wilkins in 1913. Its purpose was to provide resources to poor immigrant neighborhoods on the outskirts of the downtown. A few years after the Hastings location was opened plans for a new permanent location to be built were in the works. The new location would be built west of Hastings and Wilkins on Brewster Street. The library was built of cut stone and beautiful brick. The building was finished and opened on May 15, 1917. The library was closed down only ten years later in 1927 due to a lack of use. The now eleven-year-old building was put up for sale and the public library was moved back to its original location on Hastings in 1928.
The 1920s saw an influx of black immigrants from the south moving into the surrounding communities of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. The Detroit Parks Department began to realize that this community lacked any real recreation center. This forced their hand to begin a $500,000 renovation of the old library into a community center. A brand new two-story wing added designed by George W. Graves, added classrooms, a swimming pool, boxing ring, and basketball courts. The existing library was then converted to an auditorium.
The Central Community Center officially opened its doors to the public in October 1929. 5000 people came out to the dedication on November 1 (Source 1) Mayor John C. Nagle spoke of the changing composition of the surrounding neighborhood stating, "I dedicate this building for the people of the city of Detroit, regardless of race, color or creed. I realize that much prejudice exists in Detroit, but a building of this kind will wipe it out"
The 1930s brought major changes to the surrounding community of the recreation center. Housing officials using government funding chose Black Bottom as the site of the new Brewster Homes. The Brewster Project began construction in 1935 when then First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt broke ground on the new housing development. Over the next 20 years the housing project would grow into the largest residential project owned by the city of Detroit. Primarily very low-income African American families would occupy the projects. The Brewster Homes would engulf the recreation center consisting of mostly low-rise apartment structures. It would not be until the 1940s and 50's that the larger apartment structure complexes would be added to the housing development. The towers alone were home to over 10,000 local residents and a majority of them used the recreation center as a place on entertainment, learning, and shelter.
The desirability to live in the Brewster homes began to decline in the 1960s due to a lack of maintenance and housing standards by the city. In combination with the construction of Interstate-75, which displaced thousands of black residents and wiped out the surrounding culture housed on Hastings Street the surrounding area began to move into despair. Crime increased and the surrounding community was in disarray. The Brewster Center was the only place of safety and shelter for a majority of the residents still residing in the housing development. It was not until 1969 that the recreation center was named the Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center. It was renamed in honor of Leon Wheeler.
Leon Wheeler was the cities first black recreation employee in 1919. Wheeler managed the recreation center from 1919 to 1945. In his tenure he established programs including swimming, boxing, track, tennis, drama, and dancing. Over 81 different clubs met at the center's six classrooms every day. The Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center was a place of safety and growth for thousands of children. It gave the children an outlet other than the streets through its athletic programs, and summer classes.
The recreation center grew harder to maintain in the later years. The center turned to donations from famous alumni such as University of Michigan and NBA star Chris Webber. Webber was responsible for donating a brand new gymnasium in the 1990s. By the mid 2000s the Brewster Projects were mostly abandoned. The center continued to offer programs but began plans to shut its doors in 2007. The recreation center officially closed it doors for good on August 25, 2006. Less than three years later the building was vacant and abandoned.
In the following years the abandoned building became home to a large homeless population. Metal thieves also ravaged the building for scraps as graffiti artists used the building as a blank canvas. After a series of fires demolition plans by the city began to take shape in 2013. After fighting for historical significance and renovation local community organizer, Donyetta Hill fought to secure the building and save it from the bulldozers. Interest in the recreation building has sparked new beginnings and a major renovation.
Redevelopment
Towards the end of 2014, the Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center was set to be torn down. The center had been closed for nearly 8 years, and the building was becoming worn-down and weathered due to the elements. However, Donyetta Hill organized several people, held meetings and gathered over 7,000 signed petitions. Donyetta did research for several months on Brewster Wheeler. She convinced the city of Detroit to preserve the building, and at the beginning of 2015, Mayor Mike Duggan announced a $50 million plan for the redevelopment of the center led by the Detroit City Council and city Councilwoman Mary Sheffield. The current plan is to develop the building into a restaurant, bar, and a community center while also building affordable housing on-site as well. However, due to a lack of space, the housing portion of the project is being relocated to another location within Brush Park.
The redevelopment of the actual recreation center is being spearheaded by Curt Catallo, owner of Union Joints restaurant group, and his partner K.C. Crain Jr., executive vice president of Crain Communications Inc. Catallo specializes in repurposing buildings, and this project presents a golden opportunity for him. He plans on incorporating the history of the building into the design of the restaurant, including the boxing ring and gym that Joe Louis once trained in. The restaurant is going to sit on top of the basketball court that the Harlem Globetrotters played their first away game on, and there will be a bar that is built where the boxing ring of Joe Louis used to be. Also, a Joe Louis mural is going to be incorporated into the design, and there will be a brewery built where the swimming pool was once located. Furthermore, the project will also include a kitchen incubator, culinary arts studio, catering space, community and meeting space, and outdoor event space. Once the redevelopment is complete, a few Detroit based clubs will be given space within the center to operate. The Detroit Chess Club will be given event space within the center, and Slow Roll Inc, a nonprofit weekly Monday night group bicycle ride, will be headquartered in the building. Finally, girls involved in the Alternative for Girls program, a program that serves girls who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, will have preference in the culinary arts training program. When the plans were first announced, construction was supposed to begin in 2015 with the project being completed by 2016, however, there have been delays, so construction is slated to begin in 2017.
This project will also be giving back to the community surrounding the Brewster-Wheeler Center by creating approximately 300 jobs, with 120 of them being full-time. During the construction, Catallo has agreed to have at least 51% of the construction staff be Detroit workers. Additionally, 40% of the restaurant workers will be Detroit residents with a goal of increasing that to 70% within four years after the restaurant is opened.
Notable people
Joe Louis, famed boxing champion, formerly trained in the basement of the Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center
The Harlem Globetrotters played their first road game at the center in 1932.
Sugar Ray Robinson accompanied Louis on trips to the Brewster Center before he moved to Harlem at the age of 14.
Eddie Futch sparred with Louis and Robinson at the Brewster Center, eventually becoming the trainer of Joe Frazier and multiple other boxers.
Emanuel Steward started his boxing career at the Brewster Center before moving on to train the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, Evander Holyfield, and Miguel Cotto.
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Buildings and structures in Detroit
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Peter von Poehl (born 31 March 1972) is a Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, musician and director
Career
Poehl was born in Malmö. In the early 2000s he collaborated extensively with Bertrand Burgalat and his label Tricatel, notably on Michel Houellebecq's album "Présence humaine" (2000). For the tour that followed the album, v Poehl cast a group of musicians in Paris that was to become A.S Dragon, the backing band of the label. Over the next two years, the group lent its services to artist such as Alain Chamfort, Depeche Mode and Burgalat himself. When the label's recording studio in Paris closed, v Poehl, went to produce records for other artists, many of them part of the French music scene, such as Doriand ("Le Grand Bain"), Lio ("Dites au Prince Charmant"), Florian Horwath ("We Are All Gold") Vincent Delerm ("Les Piqûres d’araignée") Marie Modiano ("Outland")
Albums
V Poehl's first solo album (Going To Where The Tea Trees Are) was released in 2006 by French label Tôt ou tard, followed by different indie labels around the world, such as Bella Union (UK), World's Fair (US) and Speak n' Spell (AUS). The album was greeted by critical acclaim and the featuring of several songs – notably "The Story Of The Impossible" – in cinema and advertising helped introduce v Poehl's music to a large audience. The album was followed by extensive touring, including supporting artists, such as AIR, St Vincent, Phoenix and Brian Wilson.
Follow up May Day was released in 2009. Just as v Poehl's debut, it was co-produced with Christoffer Lundquist and recorded at AGM in the south of Sweden. Again extensive touring followed the release, headlining and sharing the bill with artists such as Ben Harper, Wild beasts and Peter Doherty. He also represented Sweden at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
Big Issues Printed Small was released in 2013. It was recorded live in the studio with an 18 piece formation, featuring orchestral arrangements by Swedish musician Martin Hederos.
Sympathetic Magic was released in 2017.
Other compositions
V Poehl has equally composed soundtracks for films, such as Kristina Buozyté's "Vanishing Waves" (2012) and Valerie Donzelli's "Main Dans La Main" (2012), the highly awaited follow-up of "La Guerre est Déclarée" (2011), which also featured music by von Poehl.
Peter von Poehl has composed original music for Simon Backès' documentary about J.R.R. Tolkien's work and words (2014).
Discography
Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are (2006)
Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are
Tooth Fairy Tale
Travelers
Virgin Mountains
A Broken Skeleton Key
Global Conspiracy
Scorpion Grass
The Story of the Impossible
Tooth Fairy Tale Part II
The Lottery
Little Creatures
The Bell Tolls Five
May Day (2009)
Parliament
Dust of Heaven
Forgotten Garden
Near the End of the World
Carrier Pigeon
Mexico
Mexico Part II
Moon Shot Falls
May Day
Wombara
Lost in Space
Silent as Gold
Elisabeth
An Eye for an Eye
Big Issues Printed Small (2013)
Orders and Degrees
Lover's Leap
Pious Man
The Archaeologist
To the Golden Rose
Big Issues Printed Small
Pen Friend
Twelve Twenty One
This One's for You
28 Paradise
Sympathetic Magic (2017)
Grubbed Up Pt 1
Inertia
The Go Between
A Stack Of Fire Wood
Sympathetic Magic
Late Arrivals
King's Ransom
Tired Retainers
The Early Hours
Grubbed Up Pt 2
Elysium
Memories From Saint-Forget (2021)
External links
Official website
On the Tôt ou tard website
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Swedish composers
Swedish male composers
Swedish male singer-songwriters
Swedish singer-songwriters
Swedish guitarists
Male guitarists
Swedish people of German descent
1972 births
Living people
Best Original Score Guldbagge Award winners
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century guitarists
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21st-century Swedish male singers
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New Market Gap is a wind gap in the Massanutten Mountain in Virginia. The gap is located approximately in the middle of the range, dividing it into north and south sections.
U.S. Route 211 runs through the gap, connecting New Market in the Shenandoah Valley with Luray in the Page Valley. The Massanutten Visitor Center of the George Washington National Forest is off Rt. 211 in the gap.
References
Wind gaps of Virginia
Landforms of Page County, Virginia
Landforms of Shenandoah County, Virginia |
Hispania Clásica, known from 1914 to 1996 as Conciertos Daniel, is a classical music concert promotion agency active in Europe and in the Americas. The agency's primary base is in Madrid, Spain.
2008 is Hispania Clásica's centennial year. It was founded in Berlin in 1908 as Konzertdirektion H. Daniel by Cuban-born impresario Ernesto de Quesada. As World War I was beginning in 1914, de Quesada moved his agency to Madrid and renamed it Conciertos Daniel.
Ernesto de Quesada's youngest son, Ricardo de Quesada, heading the agency in Madrid after the death of his father in 1972, reorganized the agency in 1996 and renamed it Hispania Clásica; he has recently (2007) retired. One of the founder's grandsons, Enrique de Quesada, Jr. in Caracas, Venezuela, is the agency director for Latin America. Hispania Clásica also has offices in Mexico City and in Bogotá, Colombia.
Carlos Izcaray, the young Venezuelan cellist and conductor who was a subject of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International concern in 2004, and who was a 2007 fellow of the elite American Academy of Conducting under the direction of David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival and School, is one of the Hispania Clásica artists.
Hispania Clásica is a member of the European Association of Artist Managers (AEAA), which was founded in Paris, France in 1947.
Artists
The artists who have worked with the agency during its first ten decades include:
References
External links
Conciertos Daniel / Hispania Clásica Artists.
Conciertos Daniel / Hispania Clásica Photogallery.
Music promoters
Talent managers
Arts managers |
Kristín Anna Arnþórsdóttir (born 5 October 1965) is an Icelandic former multi-sport athlete. She was a member of Iceland's national teams in both football and handball. She was named the Úrvalsdeild kvenna Football Player of the Year in 1986 when she also lead the league in goals scored.
Football
Kristín played 99 league games for Valur, scoring 63 goals. She had a short comeback with Grótta in 1998, appearing in 4 games and scoring 2 goals. She played 12 games for the Iceland national football team from 1984 to 1994, although there was no active national team from 1988 to 1992. She started her career as a defender but later moved to the forward position.
Honours
Titles
Icelandic championship
1986, 1988, 1989
Icelandic Cup
1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995
Awards
Úrvalsdeild kvenna Player of the Year
1986
Úrvalsdeild kvenna Top Goal Scorer
1986
Handball
During the winters, Kristín played handball for several years, first for ÍR and later for Valur. She played 8 games for the Icelandic national handball team, scoring 18 goals. In 1993, she won the Icelandic Cup while pregnant of her second child.
Titles
Icelandic Cup
Winner : 1988, 1993
Personal life
Kristín's daughter, Ásta Eir Árnadóttir, debuted for the Icelandic national football team in 2019.
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Kristin Anna Arnþorsdottir
Kristin Anna Arnþorsdottir
Kristin Anna Arnþorsdottir
Kristin Anna Arnþorsdottir
Kristin Anna Arnþorsdottir
Kristin Anna Arnþorsdottir
Women's association football defenders
Women's association football forwards |
Bushley is a small village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district in Worcestershire, England. The church is dedicated to Saint Peter. At the 2021 census, the population was 372.
Bredon School is located to the north of the village.
History
William Dowdeswell (1721–1775), the Worcestershire MP from 1761 until his death, was brought up at Pull Court in Bushley. Racing driver Richard Seaman (1913-1926), also lived at Pull Court.
References
Villages in Worcestershire
Civil parishes in Worcestershire |
Zielony Dąb ("green oak") may refer to:
Zielony Dąb, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Zielony Dąb, Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland) |
Kamatyanahatti is a village in Belgaum district in Karnataka, India.
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Villages in Belagavi district |
The Rosh HaAyin North railway station is a suburban passenger railway station in Israel, operated by Israel Railways. It is situated in north Rosh HaAyin near the Kesem Interchange which is located at the intersection of Highway 5 and the Cross-Israel Highway.
The station has one side platform and one island platform serving a total of 3 tracks. As part of the Eastern Railway rebuilding project an additional side platform will be built at the station, allowing it to serve a total of four tracks.
Facilities at the station:
Wheelchair Accessibility
Ticket Machine
Parking adjacent to the station
Food and Drinks shop
Bicycle parking
Wi-Fi
Train service
Ridership
References
Railway stations in Central District (Israel)
Railway stations opened in 2003
2003 establishments in Israel |
Michael Arthur Newdow (born June 24, 1953) is an American attorney and emergency medicine physician. He is best known for his efforts to have recitations of the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools in the United States declared unconstitutional because of its inclusion of the phrase "under God". He also filed and lost a lawsuit to stop the invocation prayer at President Bush's second inauguration and in 2009 he filed a lawsuit to prevent references to God and religion from being part of President Obama's inauguration.
Newdow is an atheist and an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. In 1997, he started an organization called FACTS (First Atheist Church of True Science), which advocates strong separation of church and state in public institutions. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Secular Coalition for America.
Early life and education
Newdow grew up in the Bronx and in Teaneck, New Jersey, where his nominally Jewish family moved in 1960. He graduated from Teaneck High School.
After graduating from high school, Newdow attended Brown University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology in 1974. He told Brown Alumni Magazine that he can't remember ever believing in God, saying, "I was born an atheist."
He then attended the UCLA School of Medicine, earning his M.D. in 1978. He has worked as an emergency room physician at numerous hospitals, and holds medical licenses in California and several other states.
Newdow attended the University of Michigan Law School, graduating with a J.D. in 1988. He subsequently passed the bar exam in Sacramento County, California (District 3) and was admitted to the State Bar of California on July 29, 2002; he is still an active member there, as of August, 2018.
Litigation
Pledge of Allegiance
Newdow is best known for the lawsuit which he states was filed on behalf of his daughter against inclusion of the words "under God" in public schools' recitals of the United States' Pledge of Allegiance. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that the phrase constitutes an endorsement of religion, and therefore violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. However, the decision was later overruled by the Supreme Court of the United States on procedural grounds, citing that Newdow did not have custody of his daughter and therefore did not have the right to bring suit on her behalf, nor did he meet the Court's prudential standing requirements to bring the suit on behalf of himself.
Newdow filed suit again in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California regarding the same issue, but this time on behalf of three unnamed parents and their children. Citing the precedent set by the Supreme Court in the course of Newdow's previous suit, Judge Lawrence K. Karlton ruled that Newdow did not have standing to bring his lawsuit, but the other plaintiffs did have standing. Based on the previous ruling by the Ninth Circuit, the judge ruled that the pledge is unconstitutional when recited in public schools.
On March 11, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance in the case of Newdow v. Rio Linda Union School District. On page 60 of the ruling the court writes: "We hold that the California Education Code - 52720 and the School District's policy having teachers lead students in the recitation of the Pledge, and having those who do not wish to participate do so with impunity, do not violate the Establishment Clause. Therefore we reverse the decision of the district court holding that the School District's policy is unconstitutional and vacate the permanent injunction prohibiting the recitation of the Pledge by willing students." The court also ruled against Newdow in that he had no prudential standing to file a complaint in the first place. Senior Circuit Judge Dorothy W. Nelson joined Judge Carlos T. Bea in the ruling, but Judge Stephen Reinhardt dissented.
In God We Trust
In November 2005, Newdow announced he wants to have "In God We Trust" removed from U.S. coins and banknotes. In a November 14, 2005 interview with Fox News's Neil Cavuto, Newdow compared "In God We Trust" appearing on United States currency with racial segregation (specifically separate drinking fountains), saying, "How can you not compare those? What is the difference there? Both of them [whites and blacks] got equal water. They both had access. It was government saying that it's okay to separate out these two people on the basis of race. Here we're saying it's okay to separate two people on the basis of their religious beliefs."
In a 2006 interview on the day that the United States House of Representatives passed the Pledge Protection Act, Newdow told WERS-FM's David Goodman, "A few hours ago, the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States of America voted 260 to 167 to completely gut the U.S. Constitution of its separation of powers and violate numerous other clauses because they thought it was important enough to keep 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance. I don't think people would've done that for our political heritage or anything else. They did it because they want God in their government because it stands for a religious view that they adhere to, and they want to see that religious view espoused by government, which is exactly what the Establishment Clause forbids."
In June 2006, a federal judge rejected Newdow's Establishment Clause lawsuit on the grounds that the minted words amount to a secular national slogan, and do not dictate anyone's beliefs. Newdow stated that he would appeal the ruling, although Aronow v. United States was decided on the same grounds in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the lower court was required to return the same ruling, likewise the Ninth Circuit does not traditionally overrule previous Ninth Circuit rulings.
On December 4, 2007, Newdow argued before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit to remove both "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance (Roe v. Rio Linda Union School District), and "In God We Trust" from United States currency. The Ninth Circuit rejected Newdow's challenge. In a decision published March 11, 2010, the court held that its earlier decision in Aronow, which "held the national motto is of a "patriotic or ceremonial character," has no "theological or ritualistic impact," and does not constitute "governmental sponsorship of a religious exercise," foreclosed Newdow's argument. In an opinion concurring only in the judgment, even the extremely liberal Judge Stephen Reinhardt agreed that Aronow was controlling precedent.
Newdow also filed a lawsuit in federal court after Franklin Graham gave the invocation at George W. Bush's 2001 inauguration. The lawsuit claimed that inaugural prayer was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. It also was unsuccessful.
California textbook case
Newdow also represents California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials (CAPEEM), a group that has filed a lawsuit against the officials of California Department of Education and the California State Board of Education. The lawsuit challenges the teaching of biblical events as historical facts and was brought by CAPEEM, which was formed by Hindu parents in California. CAPEEM eventually settled the lawsuit for $175,000.
Obama inauguration
On December 31, 2008, Newdow and 17 other people, plus 10 groups representing atheists, sued Chief Justice John G. Roberts and others involved in the inauguration of Barack Obama in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking to prevent the Chief Justice from saying "so help me God." The Constitution specifically defines only this single oath of office of 35 words and does not include these four words.
The Associated Press ran several reports including one picked up by The Washington Post and many other affiliates that inaccurately stated that the suit was an attempt by atheists to prevent the President from saying "so help me God." The suits specifically state that an injunction is not sought against the president, but rather only against the Chief Justice.
In addition, in other courts the demand was to end all religious prayer at the inauguration based on the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which he had sued to prevent in the two previous inaugurations unsuccessfully.
Judge Reggie Walton refused to grant Newdow's motion for a preliminary injunction, saying that as a district court judge, he did not feel he had the authority to issue such an order against the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and that the inclusion of such words is an exercise of the incoming President's right of free speech; although the president's right to express his private prayer in words of his choosing was specifically not challenged in the lawsuit, Chief Justice Roberts was served with a demand notice. The outcome was that Mr. Obama did conclude with "So Help Me God" but the prompting was in the form of a query, indicating that this was his choice and not part of the constitutionally prescribed oath of office.
Newdow later reported that he would not challenge the denial of his preliminary injunction motion, but would appeal the case through the appellate court. In Newdow v. Roberts, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case, holding that Newdow's claims with respect to the 2009 inauguration were moot, and that he lacked standing to challenge the 2013 and 2017 inaugurations. In May 2011, the United States Supreme Court denied Newdow's request to hear the case. Justice Roberts response to Newdow's petition was to prompt Obama's "So Help Me God" with a question, "So Help You God?" to differentiate from the other 36 constitutional words.
Awards
In November 2002, Newdow was given the Freethinker of the Year award by the Freedom From Religion Foundation following the Pledge case. In 2004, he received the special Recognition Freethought Hero Award for his case to remove "In God We Trust" from currency. In May 2004, the American Humanist Association gave Newdow its Humanist Pioneer Award.
See also
List of atheists
References
External links
FACTS: The First Atheist Church of True Science
Restore Our Pledge of Allegiance -Michael Newdow's website promoting restoration of the 1954 pledge. Features historical information about the pledge and information about current legal battles.
Michael Newdow's Secular Coalition for America advisory board biography
20th-century American Jews
Jewish American atheism activists
American emergency physicians
American clergy
Brown University alumni
California lawyers
Lawyers from Sacramento, California
Teaneck High School alumni
People from the Bronx
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA alumni
University of Michigan Law School alumni
Activists from California
1953 births
Living people
Activists from New Jersey
Activists from New York (state)
21st-century American Jews |
Colin Cox (11 October 1922 – 1 January 1989) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Jamieson Oleksiak (born December 21, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed the "Big Rig", Oleksiak was selected 14th overall in the first round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Dallas Stars, the highest draft choice in Northeastern University's history.
Playing career
Junior
Oleksiak attended Northeastern University for one year and had 13 points on 4 goals and 9 assists and team-best +13 plus/minus. After his freshman season with the Northeastern Huskies, Oleksiak decided to return to the Canadian Hockey League for further development, and on July 25, 2011, the Saginaw Spirit announced that they had signed Oleksiak to an Ontario Hockey League contract, and on October 6, 2011, it was announced that Oleksiak had signed a three-year entry level contract with the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars. With the Spirit out of contention during the 2011–12 season, Oleksiak was traded to the title-contending Niagara IceDogs on January 10, 2012.
Professional
First stint with Dallas
Following the 2011–12 season, Oleksiak turned professional and was assigned to the Stars' American Hockey League affiliate, the Texas Stars, to begin the 2012–13 season. He tallied his first professional point on October 14 in a win over the Charlotte Checkers. He later scored his first professional goal, the game-winner, on October 24. Through the first 13 games of the 2012–13 season, Oleksiak tallied one goal and four assists to tie for the team lead in scoring among defensemen. He continued to produce as the season continued and quickly accumulated two goals and 10 assists through the next 25 games. As a result of his outstanding play, Oleksiak earned his first NHL callup on January 15, 2013. The callup was short-lived however as he was shortly thereafter reassigned to the AHL. Upon returning to the AHL, Oleksiak continued to shine offensively and was named to the 2012 AHL All-Star Game in Providence, Rhode Island. At the time of the selection, he led the Stars and ranked third amongst all rookies in assists with 20. He was also recognized as the AHL's Rookie for the Month of January.
Shortly after these selections, Oleksiak was recalled to the NHL level on January 31, 2013. He subsequently made his NHL debut on February 1 in a 4–3 win over the Phoenix Coyotes. Upon making his NHL debut listed at 6-foot-7, Oleksiak became the tallest player in Dallas Stars history to play for the team. Over the next five games, he averaged nearly 16 minutes of ice time but remained pointless. He eventually tallied his first NHL assist on February 13 in a game against the Calgary Flames but was reassigned to the AHL the following day. Oleksiak played five games for the Texas Stars before being recalled to the NHL level again on February 24. Despite playing just five games since February 1, he still ranked first among team defensemen in scoring and plus/minus (+20). Oleksiak played a total of 16 games for the Dallas Stars during the 2012–13 season, accumulating two assists, 14 penalty minutes and 11 shots. He struggled near the end of his time with the Dallas Stars and had two assists and a minus-5 rating. Oleksiak finished his first AHL season with six goals and 27 assists for 33 points through 59 games. He also participated in the 2013 Calder Cup playoffs where he tallied one assist through nine games. During the 2013 offseason, Oleksiak changed his Dallas Stars jersey number from 43 to 5.
Oleksiak participated in four preseason games with the Dallas Stars before being returned to the AHL for the 2013–14 season. He began the season strong, leading all Texas defensemen with three goals through the first 22 games of the season. Following an injury to defenseman Stephane Robidas, Oleksiak earned his first NHL recall of the season on November 30. He played in seven games for the Stars, collecting five shots and two penalty minutes, before being reassigned to the AHL on December 18. Upon returning to the AHL, Oleksiak helped the Texas Stars win the 2014 Calder Cup playoffs.
In the final year of his entry-level contract, Oleksiak dipped in production at the AHL level but tallied eight points through 36 games with the Dallas Stars in the NHL. For the first time, Oleksiak was named to the Dallas Stars' opening night roster for the 2014–15 season. He was one of six defencemen the Stars planned on relying on throughout the season. However, as injuries befell the roster, the Stars recalled numerous defencemen from their AHL affiliate through the season. Oleksiak scored his first career NHL goal on October 28, in the first period of an eventual 4–3 overtime loss to the St. Louis Blues. However, he struggled to continue to produce and was reassigned to the Texas Stars on December 11, after accumulating four points through 21 games. He recorded two shots on goal in one game with the Texas Stars before being recalled to the NHL level on December 13. He played one more game for the Dallas Stars before returning to the AHL on December 23. Upon returning to the AHL, Oleksiak recorded two assists through two games before returning to the NHL level on December 29. Throughout the months of January and February, Oleksiak and Jyrki Jokipakka split their time between the NHL and AHL. Oleksiak accumulated four more points with the Stars before returning to the AHL level in mid-January while the Dallas Stars were on break. Once the NHL resumed play, Oleksiak returned to the NHL level on January 26. He finished the NHL season with eight points through 36 games. On July 9, 2015, Oleksiak signed a one-year contract extension to remain with the Dallas Stars.
Following the signing of the contract extension, Oleksiak saw limited playing time during the 2015–16 season and was consistently a healthy scratch. He played in four of the Dallas Stars' first 20 games to begin the season. As he was waiver eligible, the Stars were reluctant to assign him to the AHL level. As the season continued, he recorded two assists and 37 hits through 11 games before being assigned to the Texas Stars on a conditioning assignment. At the time of the assignment, he had played one game since December 12. He skated in eight games for Texas during the assignment, recording one assist, before being recalled to the NHL level on February 1, 2016. Due to injuries to three of the Stars' top six defensemen, head coach Lindy Ruff opted to give Oleksiak, Kris Russell, Alex Goligoski, Johnny Oduya, and Patrik Nemeth longer minutes during games throughout March. However, he saw very little games during March and ended the season with two points in 19 games. Despite his poor performance, the Stars signed Oleksiak to another one-year contract on July 12, 2016.
Following the signing of the contract extension, Oleksiak experienced his first full season in the NHL with Dallas during the 2016–17 season. During the offseason, the Stars parted ways with veteran defencemen Alex Goligoski, Jason Demers, and Kris Russell, leaving an opening for Oleksiak to earn more playing time. He quickly made use of this opportunity and impressed head coach Lindy Ruff while paired with Esa Lindell in mid-October. However, he became a healthy scratch once again and missed nine games since October 20 before rejoining the lineup on November 10 as the Stars experienced a three-game losing streak. As he slowly became a mainstay in the lineup, Oleksiak began to bounce back from the previous season. He tallied five goals and one assist through 20 games before suffering a hand injury during a game against the Anaheim Ducks on January 13, 2017. He subsequently missed 13 games before returning on February 11 to play alongside Stephen Johns in a 5–2 win against the Carolina Hurricanes. Oleksiak finished the regular season with a career-high five goals and two assists for seven points through 41 games. On August 4, 2017, the Stars re-signed Oleksiak to a one-year, $964,688 contract.
Pittsburgh Penguins
Prior to the trade deadline for the 2017–18 season, Oleksiak was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a conditional fourth-round pick in 2019 NHL Entry Draft. At the time of the trade, he had tallied one goal and two assists through 21 games with the Stars. Oleksiak immediately established his role with the Penguins as the right-shooting defencemen on their third defensive pairing. Through his first 33 games with the Penguins, he averaged 17:18 minutes while playing alongside Justin Schultz. He also accumulated three goals and six assists while playing in every game since the trade, never sitting in the press box as a healthy scratch. As the season continued, he was used largely on the team's bottom defensive pairing alongside Ian Cole, Matt Hunwick, or Chad Ruhwedel. Oleksiak finished the 2017–18 with career highs in games played with 68 as well as points with 17. Despite playing just a little over half a season with Pittsburgh, Oleksiak ranked fourth on the club with 138 hits and tied for 10th in the league. His play with the Penguins helped them clinch a playoff berth and he made his post-season debut when they faced off against the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs. He played in all 12 games for the Penguins, tallying one goal during their series against the Washington Capitals. On July 12, 2018, Oleksiak as a restricted free agent, agreed to a three-year, $6.4 million contract extension with the Penguins.
Oleksiak returned to the Penguins for the 2018–19 season, his first full season with the team. When he played in his 200th NHL game with the Penguins on November 7, 2018, he had accumulated the same number of points (22) as he had with the Stars in nearly 100 fewer games. On December 19, 2018, Oleksiak fought Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson in the first period and was briefly knocked unconscious. He left the game and did not return. After evaluation, the team announced that Oleksiak had suffered a concussion as a result of the fight and would be sidelined from game action indefinitely. He was eventually cleared to play on December 29 but was not placed back in the lineup immediately.
Return to Dallas
On January 28, 2019, Oleksiak was traded back to the Dallas Stars by the Penguins for the same fourth-round draft pick in 2019 that he was originally traded to Pittsburgh for. Upon returning to the Stars, Oleksiak was in and out of the Dallas lineup as their seventh defenseman. He went pointless through 18 games and was a healthy scratch when the Stars met with the Penguins on March 23. As the Stars clinched a playoff berth, Oleksiak returned to the lineup while key players sat out of back-to-back games in order to rest. While playing as a third-pairing defenseman along with Taylor Fedun, Oleksiak tallied an assist on Tyler Seguin's goal to help the Stars clinch the top wildcard spot in the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs. Oleksiak was a healthy scratch for the first two games of their series against the Nashville Predators but earned some playing time in Game 3 in place of Fedun. In his 2019 post-season debut, Oleksiak recorded six hits through 10:45 minutes of ice time as the Stars lost 3–2. While playing alongside Ben Lovejoy, Oleksiak and the Stars eliminated the Predators in six games to advance to Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, Oleksiak suffered a lower-body injury and was replaced by Fedun for Game 1 against the St. Louis Blues. He remained out of the Dallas lineup for the remainder of their series and subsequent elimination.
Under a new head coach, Oleksiak saw increased playing time as a third-pairing defenseman along with Taylor Fedun. In the first week of the 2019–20 season, Oleksiak tallied two assists in the season's first four games. He was one of 17 defensemen with at least two primary assists in five-on-five play by October 18, 2017. Oleksiak quickly became one of the most active Stars player in the offensive zone as he helped dominate scoring chances with Miro Heiskanen in a top four role. After Heiskanen and Radek Faksa were taken out of the lineup due to injuries, Oleksiak began to play alongside Stephen Johns.
Seattle Kraken
On July 21, 2021, Oleksiak was selected from the Stars at the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft by the Seattle Kraken. Following the draft, Oleksiak was immediately signed to a five-year, $23 million contract by the Kraken. He also changed his jersey number from #6 to #24 as veteran defenseman Adam Larsson wished to use the number. Although Oleksiak was originally in COVID protocol, he was cleared in time to play in the Kraken's first regular season game on October 13. On December 18, after scoring one goal and nine assists, Oleksiak was again placed on the league's COVID protocol list. Oleksiak finished the 2021–22 season with a career-high 16 assists and 17 points. He also ranked second on the team with 182 hits and third with 86 blocked shots.
Following his career-best season, Oleksiak returned to the Kraken for the 2022–23 season. Despite missing four games due to a lower-body injury, Oleksiak led all Seattle defensemen in goal scoring by late November. On December 10, 2022, Oleksiak was suspended three games for a hit to Alexander Alexeyev during a game against the Washington Capitals. At the time of the suspension, Oleksiak had accumulated four goals and three assists to rank third amongst Kraken defenceman.
International play
Although Oleksiak was born in Toronto, his father holds US citizenship which allows Oleksiak to compete for either Team USA or Team Canada. Oleksiak represented the United States in the 2009 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament which finished in fourth place, but later decided he would represent Canada internationally.
Personal life
Oleksiak is of Ukrainian and Scottish descent. He attended school with both Dougie and Freddie Hamilton at Crestwood Preparatory College in Toronto, Ontario, before moving to the United States to pursue his career in hockey.
Oleksiak's youngest sister, Penny, is a competitive swimmer and Canada's most decorated Olympic athlete, having won a combined total of 7 medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards and honours
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1992 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Canadian people of Polish descent
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Chicago Steel players
Dallas Stars draft picks
Dallas Stars players
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
Niagara IceDogs players
Northeastern Huskies men's ice hockey players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Saginaw Spirit players
Seattle Kraken players
Sioux Falls Stampede players
Ice hockey people from Toronto
Texas Stars players |
União de Marechal Hermes Futebol Clube, commonly known as União de Marechal Hermes, is a Brazilian football club based in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro state. The club was formerly known as Sport Club União de Marechal Hermes.
History
The club was founded on November 5, 1915, as Sport Club União de Marechal Hermes, being renamed to União de Marechal Hermes Futebol Clube on May 13, 2000. União is named after the neighborhood they are located in, Marechal Hermes.
Stadium
União de Marechal Hermes Futebol Clube play their home games at Estádio Luso-Brasileiro. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 5,994 people.
References
Association football clubs established in 1915
Football clubs in Rio de Janeiro (state)
1915 establishments in Brazil |
"Native New Yorker" is a disco song written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell. It was first recorded in 1977 by Frankie Valli and released on his album Lady Put the Light Out. Later in 1977, the song became a hit single for the soul dance band Odyssey, reaching No. 3 on the U.S. disco chart. Odyssey's "Native New Yorker" also went to No. 6 on the soul chart and No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart.
The group recorded the song at House of Music in West Orange, New Jersey. Jeffrey Kawalek was the recording and mix engineer. Richard Tee played its signature piano track. Jim Bonnefond assisted on many sessions. Studio owner Charlie Conrad did additional engineering, and added additional instrumental solos to the original mixes to create extended dance versions. Sandy Linzer added Tommy Mandel on clavinet and played hair drum himself on the mix that would be released as a single, engineered by Billy Radice at Olmstead studios
in New York City.
"Native New Yorker" was also recorded by Esther Phillips in 1978, and Black Box in 1998.
It was later sampled by Rich Cronin's band, Loose Cannons, for their song "New York City Girls", as well as by the house music group, Kluster, in their song featuring Ron Carroll, entitled "My Love".
The tenor saxophone solo on Odyssey's recording is played by Michael Brecker. George Young was part of the horn section, where he played alto sax.
Chart history
In popular culture
The song is featured in an episode of Good Times, "That's Entertainment, Evans Style" (1978), as well as the films Eyes of Laura Mars (1978); 54 (1998); A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006); The Nanny Diaries (2007), a commercial for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014), Colin Quinn: The New York Story (2016), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). It also served as background music towards the end of the preliminary swimsuit segment of the 1981 Miss Universe pageant in New York City; it is typically played during lead-in segments of Good Day New York. The song opens the 3rd episode of season 3 of Pose (2021) entitled "The Trunk".
"Native New Yorker" is played after every New York City FC soccer game at Yankee Stadium.
Television personality Wendy Williams (as 'Lips') performed a rendition of the song on the fourth season of the American TV series The Masked Singer. Following her performance, multiple memes and reenactments were created.
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(Frankie Valli)
(Odyssey)
1977 songs
1977 singles
Frankie Valli songs
Odyssey (band) songs
RCA Victor singles
Songs about New York City
Songs written by Sandy Linzer
Songs written by Denny Randell |
Zdeněk Ondřej (born 2 August 1980) is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward who played with HC Bílí Tygři Liberec in the Czech Extraliga (ELH).
References
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Czech ice hockey forwards
HC Bílí Tygři Liberec players
Living people
1980 births
People from Jindřichův Hradec
Ice hockey people from the South Bohemian Region
HC Berounští Medvědi players
Long Beach Ice Dogs (ECHL) players
Idaho Steelheads (ECHL) players
Anchorage Aces players
HC Vítkovice players
Piráti Chomutov players
HC Dynamo Pardubice players
Orli Znojmo players
BK Mladá Boleslav players
Motor České Budějovice players
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in the United States |
The Atlantic Guards were a 19th-century American street gang active in New York City from the 1840s to the 1860s. It was one of the original, and among the most important gangs of the early days of the Bowery, along with the Bowery Boys, American Guards, O'Connell Guards, and the True Blue Americans.
Although engaging in street fighting, these gangs were generally less criminal in nature than their Five Point rivals, stopping "just short of murder", instead formed as nativist vigilante groups focused on protecting Bowery neighborhoods. It was common for Bowery and Five Point gangs alike to imitate (and sometimes parody) actual military companies and wear signature "uniforms" (e.g. the stove pipe hats and long black frock coats of the True Blue Americans). The Atlantic Guards wore a red stripe on their trousers.
A longtime ally of the Bowery Boys, they were referred to by journalist Carleton Beals as "Bill "the Butcher" Poole's Christopher Street thugs" and often warred with the Irish American gangs of the Five Points, most especially, the Dead Rabbits. This feud would continue throughout the 1840s and 50s, at the height of the Know Nothing movement, culminating in the Dead Rabbits Riot in 1857. The riot originally began with a Five Points raid on No. 42 Bowery, the headquarters of the Bowery Boys and the Atlantic Guards, in "celebration" of the Fourth of July. The Five Pointers showered the saloon with sticks and paving stone before moving on to the nearby Branch Hotel. The guests managed to hold off the mob until they were driven off by an estimated 300 Atlantic Guards and Bowery Boys. Fighting continued, however, and soon escalated into a citywide gang war lasting two days before order was restored by the New York State Militia under Major-General Charles W. Sandford.
In popular culture
The Atlantic Guards are referenced in the historical novels Andersonville (1993) by MacKinlay Kantor and The Coming Storm (2011) by Dominic Lagan.
References
Further reading
Beals, Carleton. Brass-Knuckle Crusade: The Great Know-Nothing Conspiracy, 1820-1860. New York: Hastings House, 1960.
Harlow, Alvin Fay. Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street. New York: D. Appleton, 1931.
Terrett, Courtenay. Only Saps Work: A Ballyhoo for Racketeering. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1930.
Former gangs in New York City |
Bestawaripeta is a village in Prakasam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Bestawaripeta mandal of Markapur revenue division.
Demographics
As per Population Census 2011 Bestawaripeta village has population of 7606 of which 3799 are males while 3807 are females. Average Sex Ratio of Bestawaripeta village is 1002 which is higher than Andhra Pradesh state average of 993. Population of children with age 0-6 is 780 which makes up 10.26% of total population of village. Child Sex Ratio for the Bestawaripeta as per census is 965, higher than Andhra Pradesh average of 939. Literacy rate of Bestawaripeta village was 79.09% compared to 67.02% of Andhra Pradesh.
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Villages in Prakasam district |
Jennifer Eileen Van Eyk is the Erika Glazer Chair in Women's Heart Health, the Director of Advanced Clinical Biosystems Institute in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, the Director of Basic Science Research in the Women's Heart Center, a Professor in Medicine and in Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai. She is a renowned scientist in the field of clinical proteomics.
Early life and education
Jennifer E. Van Eyk was born in Northern Ontario, Canada. She obtained a bachelor of science in biology and chemistry from the University of Waterloo in 1982. She received a PhD in biochemistry under the direction of Robert S. Hodges from University of Alberta in 1991. She conducted post-doctoral research at University of Heidelberg, University of Alberta, and University of Illinois at Chicago with R. John Solaro.
Career
Van Eyk began her academic career in 1996 as an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and she was promoted to associate professor and received tenure in 2001. She then left Canada to join Johns Hopkins University as the Director of the Proteomics Innovation Center in Heart Failure in 2003, and later Cedars-Sinai in 2014.
Van Eyk is a member-at-large and a council member of Human Proteome Organization, and the president of US Human Proteome Organization. She was a technical briefs editor at Proteomics. She served on the editorial board of Proteomics: clinical application and Journal of Physiology and Circulation Research. She currently serves on the editorial board of Clinical Proteomics. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research. and is a Fellow of the American Heart Association.
Research
She is an international leading scientist in clinical proteomics. She is the founding director of Cedars-Sinai Advanced Clinical Biosystems Research Institute, whose motto is “from discovery to patient care”.
She is co-editor of Clinical Proteomics: From Diagnosis to Therapy, an essential, important and impressive book in clinical proteomics and translational medicine.
Her list of publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1VsYqQYH8535l/bibliography/48183272/public/.
Awards
2023 The International Society of Heart Research, International President’s Lecture Award
2023 The Analytical Scientist Power List - Leaders and Advocates
2022 The Association for Mass Spectrometry and Advances in Clinical Lab (MSACL)Distinguished Contribution Award
2021 The Analytical Scientist Power List
2020 The Analytical Scientist Power List
2019 Human Proteome Organization Distinguished Achievement in Proteomic Sciences Award
2019 US Human Proteome Organization The Donald F. Hunt Distinguished Contribution in Proteomics award
2019 Canadian National Proteomics Network The Tony Pawson Proteomics Award
2017 The Analytical Scientist Power List: Top 10 Omics Explorers
2015 Human Proteome Organization Clinical & Translational Proteomics Award
2014 American Heart Association Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine Medal of Honor
2013 American Heart Association Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award
Recent Patents
Role of citrullination in diagnosing diseases (2021) US 11,105,817 B2
Biomarkers of myocardial injury (2021) US 11,041,865 B2
Correlated peptides for quantitative mass spectrometry (2019) US 10,352,942 B2
Citrullinated proteins: a post-translated modification of myocardial proteins as marker of physiological and pathological disease (2019) US 10,309,974 B2
Diagnostic assay for Alzheimer's disease (2017) US 9,678,086 B2
References
Living people
University of Alberta alumni
Mass spectrometrists
Canadian women scientists
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Year of birth missing (living people)
Proteomics
Proteomics journals
Proteomics organizations
Canadian physiologists
Cardiovascular physiology
Cardiovascular researchers
American Heart Association
American scientists |
The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Central and Eastern Europe (RPCEE) is a Presbyterian denomination in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine. It split from the Reformed Church in Hungary in 1998, and has 27 congregations.
The Károlyi Gáspár Institute of Theology and Missions (KGTMI) had started in 1992, but in 1997 the Consultative Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary expelled the seminary and all its students. The RPCEE was formed the following year, and adopted as its confessional standards the Second Helvetic Confession and Heidelberg Catechism, as well as the Westminster Confession, and Shorter and Larger Catechisms.
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Reformed denominations in Europe
Christian organizations established in 1998
Calvinist denominations established in the 20th century
Presbyterianism in Hungary
Protestantism in Romania |
Arthur Moore may refer to:
A. Harry Moore (Arthur Harry Moore, 1879–1952), American politician
Arthur A. C. Moore (1880–1935), ice hockey player of the Silver Seven
Arthur Claude Moore (1898–1978), Australian public servant and businessman
Arthur Cotton Moore (born 1935), American architect
Arthur Edward Moore (1876–1963), Premier of Queensland, 1929–1932
Arthur Moore (Manitoba politician) (1882–1950), Canadian politician
Arthur James Moore (1888–1974), Bishop of Methodist Church (Georgia, USA)
Arthur John Moore (1849–1904), Member of Parliament for Clonmel and Londonderry City
Arthur Moore (Tralee MP) (1765–1846), Member of Parliament for Tralee
Arthur Moore (labor leader) (1933–2013), American labor leader
Arthur Moore (racehorse trainer), Irish steeplechase trainer
Arthur Moore (rugby league), English rugby league footballer of the 1910s and 1920s
Arthur Thomas Moore (1830–1913), Irish Victoria Cross recipient
Arthur William Moore (1853–1909), linguist, folklorist and politician on the Isle of Man
Artie Moore (1887–1949), amateur wireless operator who received SOS signals from the Titanic
Arthur Moore (Royal Navy officer) (1847–1934), British admiral
Arthur Moore (Grimsby MP) (c. 1666–1730), Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby
Arthur B. B. Moore (1906–2004), Canadian church moderator and university administrator
Arthur Moore (priest) (1877–1954), Archdeacon of Norfolk
J. Arthur Moore (1891–1979), lumberman, farmer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
See also
Moore (surname) |
Lençóis is a municipality in the state of Bahia in Brazil. The population is 11,499 (2020 est.) in an area of 1277 km². The town has a well-preserved colonial atmosphere and is the starting point for treks into Chapada Diamantina.
Transportation
The city is served by Horácio de Mattos Airport.
References
External links
Municipalities in Bahia |
"Ballade pour Adeline" (French for "Ballad for Adeline") is a 1977 instrumental by Richard Clayderman, composed by Paul de Senneville. Paul de Senneville composed the piece as a tribute to his newborn daughter, Adeline. , worldwide sales of the recording have reached 22 million copies in 38 countries. It remains Clayderman's signature hit.
The French trumpeter Jean-Claude Borelly recorded his version in the early 1980s, which used the same instrumental backing track as the original recording.
Richard Clayderman performed a duet of the track with guitarist Francis Goya in 1999, and it was released on their studio album, Together. This recording also used the same backing track.
A new version of this piece was released on the Richard Clayderman studio album A Thousand Winds in 2007, to celebrate 30 years since the original release of "Ballade Pour Adeline." Clayderman was accompanied by a new string arrangement by Olivier Toussaint.
History
In 1976, Richard Clayderman (real name Philippe Pagès) received a telephone call from Olivier Toussaint, a well-known French record producer, who, with his partner, Paul de Senneville, was looking for a pianist to record a gentle piano ballad. Paul had composed this ballad as a tribute to his new born second daughter “Adeline”. The 23-year-old Philippe Pagès was auditioned along with 20 other hopefuls and, to his amazement, he got the job. "We liked him immediately", says Paul de Senneville, "His very special and soft touch on the keyboards combined with his reserved personality and good looks very much impressed Olivier Toussaint and I. We made our decision very quickly".
Philippe Pagès' name was changed to Richard Clayderman (he adopted his great-grandmother's last name to avoid mispronunciation of his real name outside France), and the single went on to sell 22 million copies in 38 countries. It was called "Ballade pour Adeline". "When I signed him", says Olivier Toussaint, "I told him that if we sell 10,000 singles it will be marvellous, because it was disco at that time and we could not bet on such a ballad being a winner..... We could not imagine that it would be so big".
Instrumentation
Originally composed for piano solo. The Clayderman recording features an accompaniment consisting of strings, keyboard, guitar, bass guitar, and drums. This tune has sometimes been attempted on the guitar too.
Structure
19 bars divided into three parts - A, B and A' (akin to extended binary)
Part A ranges from bar 1 to 10, B from bar 11–16 and lastly A' from bar 17–19
Phrasal structure
Introduction of two bars antecedent phrase (bar 3 to bar 6) consequent phrase (bar 7 to bar 10)
B short (first part of bar 11) short (second part of bar 11) long (bar 12) short (first part of bar 13) short (second part of bar 13) long bar (bars 14-16)
A' is simply a repetition of the antecedent phrase in A. It is played an octave higher.
Findings
The introduction mainly uses arpeggios to create the water imagery. The crescendo and decrescendo contribute to the contour of the piece. Lastly, the usage of semiquavers in the introduction quickens the pace of the piece, making it smooth and flow-like. The piece starts off sweetly with (I-IV-V7-I)x2. It is a simple T-PD-D-T style. Here the composer used the change in dynamics to emphasize the difference between antecedent and consequent phrase. Again, here the composer used semiquavers to add in different styles. To a certain extent the series of eight semiquavers may sound juxtaposing to the smooth/sweet mood created in the piece. In B again, the dreamy effect is emphasized with the introduction of the semiquavers. In bar 11, it starts from F and makes its way down by step. It creates direction both in the piece as well as in the phrase. Furthermore, it seems to be anticipating a climax. In bar 12, the descending tone is "quicken" as we can see a rapid decrease E-D-C-B in the right hand. This E-D-C-B phrase seems to be a little "extra" as the melody then goes back to E and continued with its original rate of movement downwards. Finally, the direction of the piece swings upwards into a full swing. It moved 3 octaves progressively within 2 bars and moved from G to G. The melody is accompanied by alternate accent on G and D in the left hand. The difference in its dynamics from p to ff as well as bring an octave higher than in A. The range of G has also expended to include more notes and add volume to C. the E in bar 3 was omitted and in bar 17 replaced by G. this "octave in the right hand" phenomenon extends for the whole of A' here.
Cultural references
Ballade pour Adeline was used as the demo song for the Casio CT-650, a keyboard manufactured by Casio in 1989.
This ballade was played as the theme piece of a Filipino program on the GMA Network from 1980 to 1996 Lovingly Yours, Helen, hosted by Helen Vela
Kingfisher Airlines India used Ballade pour Adeline as its signature tune for pre-departures and post arrivals.
The ballad is played repeatedly in the film Goodbye Berlin while the protagonists are on their road trip
The ballad is played during episode 21 of the German crime series The Old Fox (first broadcast November 24, 1978 on ZDF).
One recording of this piece served as the theme music of long-running (1979–2005) Swedish Radio gardening program .
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
List of number-one singles of 1978 (Spain)
References
External links
Listen to Ballade pour Adeline - Official version - on You Tube
The Delphine team - The official Clayderman Website
1977 singles
1977 debut singles
1970s instrumentals
Compositions for piano
Number-one singles in Austria
Number-one singles in Switzerland
Pop instrumentals
Pop ballads
Songs with music by Paul de Senneville |
Danièle Nyst (1942 – 3 April 1998) was a Belgian video artist.
She was born in Liège and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. She was music programmer at RTBF (Radio Television Belge-Francaise). Nyst worked in collaboration with her husband Jacques Louis Nyst from 1983 to 1995. The couple was based in Sprimont.
Their work was exhibited at various international venues, including the , the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, the International Festival of Video in Tokyo, the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Biennale de Paris and the Locarno International Film Festival.
She died in a car accident in Sprimont in 1998.
References
1942 births
1998 deaths
Belgian video artists
Artists from Liège |
Danijel Zlatković (; born 29 March 1996) is a Serbian football midfielder who plays for FK Timočanin.
Career
In January 2019, Zlatković joined OFK Sloga Gornje Crnjelovo in the First League of the Republika Srpska. Six months later, he moved to Borac Paraćin. In January 2020, he joined FK Timočanin.
References
External links
Danijel Zlatković stats at utakmica.rs
Danijel Zlatković at Srbijafudbal
1996 births
Living people
People from Paraćin
Sportspeople from Pomoravlje District
Men's association football midfielders
Serbian men's footballers
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
FK Spartak Subotica players
FK Bačka 1901 players
FK ČSK Čelarevo players
FK TSC players
FK Timočanin players
Serbian First League players
Serbian SuperLiga players
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Expatriate men's footballers in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
The Rohr Saddle (, el. 864 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian Alps, located in the Bundesland of Lower Austria.
It connects Rohr im Gebirge and Gutenstein and has a maximum grade of 84 percent. The pass road is the Gutensteinerstraße (B 21).
See also
List of highest paved roads in Europe
List of mountain passes
Mountain passes of the Alps
Mountain passes of Lower Austria |
Jaffar Khan (Urdu, Pashto: ; born on March 10, 1981) is a former Pakistani football player who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Khan came through the Pakistan Army F.C., and selected for the first team in 1998. In 2000, he kept a clean sheet in the PFF President's Cup final against Allied Bank in which they won 1–0. Khan helped them retain the trophy in 2001 until 2006-07 where he set a new goalkeeping record by not conceding a goal through 16 matches.
International career
Khan made his senior international debut in 2001, and replaced Haroon Yousaf as the captain of international team in 2003.
He was also called by the Pakistan national under-23 team, whom he took all the way to the final of the 2004 South Asian Games against India, where his string of saves gave Pakistan a 1–0 victory.
Like several players of Army FC, Jaffar Khan remained actively serving in the Pakistan Army as a Non-Commissioned Officer and during the 2007-08 season, he received a summons to join the UN peacekeeping operations in Congo. When he was away on military duty, Pakistan succumbed to one of their worst defeats, losing by 7–0 to Iraq.
In December 2009, at the end of the SAFF Championship in Bangladesh, Jaffar publicly stated his decision to retire from international football after a fallout with Pakistan’s Austrian coach György Kottán, but returned after regular call-ups following the next South Asian Cup. At the 2011 SAFF Championship, he conceded a single goal in the three matches all resulting in a draw, failing to register the qualification for the semifinal round.
Coaching career
Khan got an AFC License C and did a specialised goalkeeping course in Bahrain.
He was briefly appointed as goalkeeping coach for the Pakistan national team from 2014 to 2015. In 2019 following his retirement from football, he became the goalkeeping coach for his club. On August 2023, Khan was appointed as the goalkeeping coach for the Pakistan under 16 national team for the 2023 SAFF U16 Championship held in Bhutan.
Personal life
Khan was born in Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province into an ethnic Pashtun family. Like several players of Army FC, Jaffar Khan was still in service with the Pakistan Army as a Non-Commissioned Officer with the Frontier Force Regiment, and during the 2007-08 season was called up to service for UN peacekeeping operations in Congo.
Career statistics
International
Honours
Club
Pakistan Army
Pakistan Premier League: 2005–06, 2006–07
Pakistan National Football Challenge Cup: 2000, 2001
International
Pakistan U-23
South Asian Games: 2004
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Men's association football goalkeepers
Pakistani men's footballers
Pakistan men's international footballers
Pakistan Army officers
Pakistan Army F.C. players
Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
South Asian Games gold medalists for Pakistan
Asian Games competitors for Pakistan
South Asian Games medalists in football
Pashtun people |
Dichomeris citharista is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in southern India.
The wingspan is . The forewings are pale whitish ochreous, sprinkled with grey or fuscous and with the costa dark fuscous towards the base. There is an indistinct dark fuscous dot on the fold beyond one-fourth and one obliquely beneath and before this. The stigmata are small, black, accompanied with some ferruginous or fuscous scales, the discal approximated, the plical beneath the first discal, the second discal placed on a slender transverse fuscous fascia, sometimes ferruginous mixed and expanded anteriorly on the costa. The posterior area is more or less streaked longitudinally with dark fuscous. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled anteriorly and with the veins and termen darker suffused.
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Moths described in 1913
citharista |
Gale Products was a manufacturer of several products based in Galesburg, Illinois. The company started in 1937 assembling refrigerators from parts sent in from Waukegan, Illinois
The factory expanded making many other household products.
In 1941, Gale Products was acquired by the Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) to build outboard motors. After building over one million motors, the parent company OMC ceased boat motor manufacturing reusing the facility as the new headquarters and factory of Lawn-Boy lawn mowers.
Eventually, Lawn-Boy was sold to its competitor Toro where offices were moved to Minnesota and manufacturing was moved to other Toro facilities.
The factory was closed in the mid-1980's.
References
Galesburg, Illinois
Marine engine manufacturers |
Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and Commonwealth statesman and military leader. He served as a Boer General duning the Boer War, a British General during the First World War and was appointed Field Marshal during the Second World War. In addition to various Cabinet appointments, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and from 1939 to 1948. He played a leading part in the post war settlements at the end of both world wars, making significant contributions towards the creation of both the League of Nations and the United Nations.
This article is about Jan Smuts in the government of South Africa when part of the British Empire, from the Transvaal's defeat at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 until the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Smuts emerged from the Boer War as one of the foremost Afrikaner leaders. Working closely with Louis Botha, Smuts engineered the restoration of autonomy. Having won the elections to the restored Transvaal Parliament, Smuts and Botha proceeded to negotiate beneficial terms of unification.
Out of Their Hands
Back to the Day Job
The Second Boer War had irrevocably changed the face of South Africa, but, for Smuts, it was back to work as usual. Whilst Christiaan De Wet, Koos de la Rey, and Louis Botha toured Europe, hailed as conquering heroes, Smuts returned to his former day job, as a mediocre lawyer. Smuts was as restless in this capacity as ever, and yearned to take part in politics again. Alas for Smuts, the British dominance of South Africa since Vereeniging made it almost impossible for an Afrikaner, no matter how well versed in the English language or British thinking, to break through. More worrying for Smuts, many Boers disapproved of his, and others', leadership during the war: some wished for a fight to the death, whilst some wished that the war had ended after the fall of Pretoria.
Having seen the generosity of the British treasury in London, Botha came to the conclusion a unified South Africa, within the British Empire, would serve both Briton and Afrikaner well. However, Baron Milner was the enemy of the Afrikaner, being chiefly responsible for creating a British monopoly on government posts (called Milner's Kindergarten). He saw no place for Dutch-speakers in the government of South Africa. To counter Milner, and to unite the Afrikaners, the former generals of the Transvaal army, including Smuts, formed the Het Volk party in January 1905. The objective of the party was straightforward enough: self-government, and, ultimately, the creation of a unified South African state.
Changing of the Guard
In 1905, Milner's term as High Commissioner came to an end, and, for Smuts, it could not come a minute too soon. Milner was replaced by a more conciliatory man, Lord Selborne, who was in deep admiration of Smuts. Selborne was keen to discuss any manner of constitutional arrangement, but, without the backing of the Conservative government in London, Selborne could advance the process no further than Smuts could. Of course, the Conservative government was dependent upon the support of the British people, and that soon dried up.
Later that year, the Conservative government resigned, and was replaced by a Liberal one under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, which was later confirmed at a general election in February 1906. The new government was led by some of the more active anti-Imperialists in Parliament, including a few that had sympathised with the Boer republics in the South African War. Smuts recognised this opportunity, and set off for London as soon as he heard the news. When he arrived, he was astonished to find so much opposition to the Conservatives' policy in South Africa.
Smuts negotiated from a starting position of full self-government for the Transvaal within British South Africa. Whilst this was dismissed by the Conservatives as unrealistic and counter-productive, most Liberal politicians saw things Smuts' way. Campbell-Bannerman failed to understand the Afrikaners' refusal to work with Milner. Regardless, he was compelled to agree. The Liberal government had been elected partly on the back of opposition to the Chinese indentured labour that had saved the gold mines. Campbell-Bannerman realised that the Chinese workers could not be removed, for that would cripple the economy, and knew that the Afrikaners could never be outnumbered by the British in South Africa. Thus, he decided to pass the buck to the Afrikaners, under whose remit of self-government the miners would fall. He persuaded the cabinet to accept Smuts' demands.
Back in Charge
Election
In December 1906, a new constitution for the Transvaal was drawn up, under which an immediate election would find a government. This gave Het Volk two advantages. First, it was fighting an election according to a constitution that it had written. Second, it was fighting an election at a time at which it was the predominant force in Transvaal politics. Nonetheless, neither Botha nor Smuts, the two leaders took the task of election too lightly.
Across the Transvaal they toured, whipping up public support for their cause and their candidates. Botha was a natural-born politician, and the crowds loved him. Less popular was the shy and distant Smuts. Despite his quiet nature, and the controversies of the Boer War, Smuts was comfortably elected in the Wonderboom constituency, near Pretoria. Across the board, Het Volk had scored a massive victory. Botha became the prime minister, forming his government solely from Het Volk. Chief amongst his ministers was Smuts, who became both the Colonial Secretary and the Education Secretary: two of the top positions.
Ruling the Transvaal
Immediately, Botha set off on a diplomatic tour of Europe, taking advantage of his celebrity, and left Smuts in charge of the Transvaal. Smuts took a disliking to the bureaucracy, the discussion and the compromise of government. He saw action as the best response to crisis. Crisis came soon, in the form of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Calvinist movement pressed Smuts to take advantage of self-government, by making Afrikaans and Calvinism compulsory for schoolchildren. Although a Calvinist himself, Smuts had grown out of his former zealotry, and found that he could not agree with their aims. He wanted a secular state, and he wanted the next generation to be well versed in the English language, not Afrikaans.
Smuts was attacked for being irreligious, or even blasphemous, and the pastors of the Dutch Reformed Church campaigned heavily against Smuts. In the end, though, there was little that the church could do in the face of the government, backed by the Selborne administration in Cape Town. Smuts knew that, if there was one thing Afrikaners could do, it was to bear a grudge. The Reformed Church, counting three-quarters of Afrikaners amongst its members, could certainly wield great political power.
Gandhi
A great number of immigrants from other parts of the Empire flooded to South Africa. The two largest groups were Malays and South Asians. For the Afrikaners, this was a problem. They threatened to undercut European wages, and to take a slice of the wealth created by the mines. Smuts sought to clamp down on the stream of immigrants by any method necessary. He tore into the gangs that smuggled them into the country, limited Indian employment rights, and had each foreign worker register with the government. Opposing Smuts was an Indian lawyer by the name of Mohandas Gandhi.
Gandhi responded to the Transvaal's heavy-handedness with non-violent resistance, as he would in India years later. Smuts imprisoned the most vocal opponents in the Asian population, including Gandhi. The press was outraged, and caricatured Smuts as though he were another Paul Kruger: Crude, fierce, and unyielding. Smuts caved in to Gandhi's passive resistance, letting the Indians go but offering Gandhi no definite promise of concessions.
Incidents such as these were few and far between. Smuts' battle with the Dutch Reformed Church was more representative of his tenure in power. He knew how to fight fire with fire, but Gandhi got under Smuts' skin without so much as raising his fists. The Indian affairs aside, by 1909, Smuts had created a very strong government, backed by a booming economy. Nonetheless, the issue of Union was still as pressing as ever.
Creating a Country
Smuts' Vision
As it always had, friction developed and increased between the component parts of South Africa. After Vereeniging, a compromise had been reached on railway harmonisation and customs union, but, with its architect, Lord Milner, out of the picture, a new agreement had to be reached. Although treated, politically, as parts of one whole, the Transvaal and the three colonies could not be more dissimilar. All of South Africa's wealth came from the Transvaal, whilst the three colonies would have been destitute without the Transvaal's need for support services. Botha and Smuts held all the cards.
Smuts argued that there could be no South Africa without complete political union. During the war, Smuts had grown to despise the enmity of the British and the Boers, and to realise the futility of South African fratricide. Smuts made impassioned pleas to the Transvaal Parliament: "There is only one road to salvation, the road to Union and to a South African Nation".
For Smuts, union meant unitary. He had examined the failures of the American federal system, and was disappointed at its inertia and its great disparities. Not all parties were agreed. Smuts, having faith in his intellect and rhetoric, called for a convention to be held in Durban, where Briton and Afrikaner alike could be persuaded of his ambition.
Convention and Union
The summer of 1908-9 was stiflingly hot in Durban. Nonetheless, in October 1908, delegates from across South Africa braved the heat and humidity to attend Smuts' convention. Smuts had planned carefully his line of attack, tailored to the needs and demands of each delegate, and he was sure that he would succeed. He knew that compromise on all issues would be impossible, so he focused on the general principles, intending to leave more technical and less significant matters to the future South African Parliament.
The delegates, though, jealously guarded their own interests, and there were numerous disputes: On the powers of the provincial councils, the extension of the franchise, the location of the capital, the official language of the Union, and even the size of the standard track gauge. Smuts resolved these issues with careful wording, vague promises, and compromise.
The most hard-fought battles were between Smuts and the Orange delegates. Steyn and Hertzog were indomitable, and keen not to allow the Transvaal to dictate the general message of the Afrikaner people. Smuts was willing to compromise to achieve consensus. He agreed to create three separate capitals, at Cape Town, Pretoria, and Bloemfontein. He agreed to give Dutch equal status to English in the constitution. Nevertheless, Smuts could not concede on any of his broader point of Union. Steyn and Hertzog were opposed to any Union that would reduce the powers of the provincial parliaments.
Whilst Steyn and Hertzog could never accept such a conclusion, the other delegates already had. Gradually, over time, the resolve of the Orange delegates was worn down. The summer was drawing to a close, and the environment better set for conciliation. Smuts lay out his proposals in one final speech, drawing on the constitutions of a dozen nations, and argued passionately in favour of his ideal. In the end, the Orange delegates were forced to agree. They could not afford the Orange colony to become a footnote in South Africa, isolated from Smuts' grand ambitions. Besides, Steyn and Hertzog had secured many concessions that would compensate for the loss of sovereignty.
Smuts drew up a final draft, to which all the delegates agreed. The constitution was ratified by the Parliaments of the Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal. Natal even held a referendum, which was passed by a massive majority of the white electorate. Smuts and Botha took the constitution to London to be passed by the British Parliament. With the aid of more impassioned Smuts speeches, The Act of Union was passed. It was given Royal Assent by King Edward VII in December 1909. The Union of South Africa was born.
1900s in Transvaal
Jan Smuts
History of South Africa
Political history of South Africa |
Keith Wilfred Smith (24 February 1926 – 30 March 2008) was an English actor who is known for his roles in The Army Game and The Beiderbecke Trilogy. Smith also appeared in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as a manager of a Grot shop.
Smith also appeared in George and Mildred in the episode My Husband Next Door, on 1 November 1976 as the TV repair man taking away the Roper's TV set, in series 1.
Smith was a regular in the Q... with Spike Milligan.
He died in London on 30 March 2008 at the age of 82 from motor neurone disease.
Filmography
References
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1926 births
2008 deaths
English male television actors
English male film actors |
Korai or Karai (), also rendered as Korahi, may refer to:
Karai, Iran, Fars Province
Korai, Marvdasht, Fars Province
Korai-ye Olya, Khuzestan Province
Korai-ye Sofla, Khuzestan Province |
The 1953 Ionian earthquake (also known as the Great Kefalonia earthquake) struck the southern Ionian Islands in Greece on August 12. In mid-August, there were over 113 recorded earthquakes in the region between Kefalonia and Zakynthos, and the most destructive was the August 12 earthquake. The event measured 6.8 on the moment magnitude scale, raised the whole island of Kefalonia by , and caused widespread damage throughout the islands of Kefalonia and Zakynthos. The maximum felt intensity of shaking was X (extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Between 445 and 800 people were killed.
Earthquake
The earthquake struck at 09:23:55 (UTC) or 11:23:55 (local time); the Royal Navy vessels HMS Gambia and HMS Bermuda were among the first on the scene. In addition, four Israeli warships received calls for help coming from the island of Kefalonia and the ships headed to the island. The sailors provided emergency medical aid, food, and water. This was the first time Israel provided aid to a disaster-stricken area.
Although known as the "Great Kefalonia earthquake", damage was very heavy in Zakynthos' eponymous capital city. Only two buildings survived there; the rest of the island's capital had to be rebuilt. Argostoli, the capital of Kefalonia, suffered substantial damage and all of Kefalonia's buildings were flattened except for those in Fiskardo in the far north.
Damage
As well as causing major destruction on the two islands, the economic impact was far greater, and damage was estimated to have totaled billions of drachmas. Many people fled the island: some people temporarily moved to the capital, however the majority emigrated out of Greece entirely to countries such as Canada, USA, Australia or the UK, leaving both the islands and their economy in ruins.
On November 15, 1953 The Greek state issued a special set of 2 stamps dedicated to the earthquake. One stamp was of 300 drachmas value depicting the collapsing bell tower of the Faneromeni Church at Zakynthos. The other stamp, denominated at 500 drachmas, showed the damage to the famous De Bosset stone bridge at the Argostoli bay. The stamp set was issued in order to support financially the earthquake fund for the relief of those who had suffered.
An Italian mission of the National Fire and rescue Services (Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco) was sent to help people and save heritage artifacts.
Aftermath
Earthquakes still regularly affect the islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia, including several 2006 earthquakes in Zakynthos and others in 2003 and 2005. There were also several large earthquakes on January 26 and February 3, 2014, measuring 6.1 and 6.0 on the Richter scale. The epicenters of both were in Kefalonia at very shallow depths and caused damage in the island. On October 25, 2018 there was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast that damaged parts of the Zante port docks. Following that quake, there were more than 50 additional quakes over 4 magnitude in the Ionian Sea between the 25th and the end of October.
See also
List of earthquakes in 1953
List of earthquakes in Greece
References
Further reading
External links
The earthquake of Kefalonia in 1953 – Natural History Museum of Crete
Ionian Earthquake, 1953
Earthquakes in Greece
Earthquake clusters, swarms, and sequences
Ionian Earthquake, 1953
History of Cephalonia
August 1953 events in Europe
1953 disasters in Greece |
Camponotus americanus is a species of carpenter ant. The ant is above average in length with worker ants being long. Despite normally nesting in soil, it is known that the species may nest under stones, under litter, or in rotten logs.
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Insects described in 1862 |
(born Tokyo, 24 March 1978) is a Japanese former rugby union player. He played as wing and as centre.
Career
In 1996, after graduating from Kyoto Gakuen High School, Miki entered Ryukoku University, where he would play the All-Japan University Rugby Championship. He debuted for Japan on 20 August 1999, against Spain. He also took part at the 1999 Rugby World Cup, but did not play any match in the tournament. In 2000, Miki graduated from Ryukoku University and joined the Toyota Motors club. A year later, he played for Japan Sevens in the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens. In 2004, he moved to World Fighting Bull in the Top League and ended his international career after a disastrous European tour in 2004, in the match against Wales, at the Millennium Stadium, on 26 November. In 2005, Miki was called up to play for Japan Sevens in the 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens and moved to Honda Heat. In 2008, he moved to Sanyo Wild Knights. Miki retired as player in 2011 after playing the season for Panasonic Wild Knights.
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1978 births
Living people
Japanese rugby union players
Rugby union wings
Rugby union centres
Japan international rugby union players
Saitama Wild Knights players
Toyota Verblitz players
Mie Honda Heat players
Japan international rugby sevens players
Asian Games medalists in rugby union
Rugby union players at the 2002 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
1999 Rugby World Cup players |
Madelyn Pugh (March 15, 1921 – April 20, 2011), sometimes credited as Madelyn Pugh Davis, Madelyn Davis, or Madelyn Martin, was a television writer who became known in the 1950s for her work on the I Love Lucy television series.
Early life and education
Pugh was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to I. Watt Pugh, a bank treasurer, and Louise Huff. She had two older sisters, Audrey and Rosalind.
During her senior year at Shortridge High School, she was co-editor of the high school newspaper, along with her classmate Kurt Vonnegut. She graduated in 1938, two years before Vonnegut.
In 1942, she graduated from Indiana University's School of Journalism.
Career
Pugh became interested in writing while serving as Friday editor of the Shortridge High School daily newspaper in Indianapolis, Indiana with classmate Kurt Vonnegut. At Shortridge she also served as vice president of her senior class. Her first professional writing job was writing short radio spots for WIRE, an Indianapolis radio station.
When her family moved to California, she got work as a radio writer, first for NBC and then CBS, where she met Bob Carroll. Pugh credits some of her breakthrough as "the girl writer" to the war effort, which limited the pool of qualified male writers; she was frequently the only female writer on staff.
Early in her career, as a staff writer for CBS Radio in Hollywood, Pugh forged a partnership with Bob Carroll Jr. which lasted more than 50 years. Together they wrote some 400 television programs and roughly 500 radio shows. While the team was writing for The Steve Allen Show, they became interested in writing for Lucille Ball's new radio show, My Favorite Husband. They paid Allen to write his own show one week so they could focus on creating a script submission for My Favorite Husband. Under the supervision of head writer Jess Oppenheimer, the pair wrote Ball's radio program for its 2½ years.
Pugh and Carroll helped create a vaudeville act for Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, which became the basis for the pilot episode of I Love Lucy. Together with Oppenheimer and/or Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf, who joined the show at the beginning of the fifth year, the team tackled 39 episodes per season for the run of the series. Although they never won, Pugh and Carroll were nominated for three Emmy Awards for their work on the series.
Pugh and Carroll are credited with helping create the 'Lucy' character, which Ball played in one form or another for over 40 years. The pair also wrote episodes for The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show (aka The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour) and Ball's final series, Life with Lucy (1986).
The pair's other writing credits include work on the television series The Jane Wyman Show, The Paul Lynde Show, Dorothy, Those Whiting Girls, Kocham Klane (an I Love Lucy series remake in Poland) and The Tom Ewell Show. They also worked on the films Forever, Darling and Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Ball. They created and wrote the Desi Arnaz Productions series The Mothers-in-Law (filmed at Desilu), which starred actresses Kaye Ballard and Eve Arden. The two served for seven years as executive producers of the long-running television series Alice and occasionally contributed scripts, one of which was awarded a Golden Globe Award.
In September 2005, Madelyn Pugh Davis, who lived in California, released her memoirs, titled Laughing with Lucy, written with Bob Carroll Jr.
Personal life and death
Pugh was married twice, first to TV producer Quinn Martin on December 24, 1955, in Los Angeles, until their 1960 divorce. They had a son, Michael Quinn Martin. She later married Dr. Richard Merrill Davis in 1964, and they remained married until his death in 2009.
Pugh Davis died on April 20, 2011, aged 90, in Bel Air, California, and her ashes were in a place of honor on display in the Chapel columbarium, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Works and publications
Portrayal in popular media
Pugh was played by Alia Shawkat (younger) and Linda Lavin (older) in Being the Ricardos, a 2021 film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin.
Awards
Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll Jr.
1955, Emmy nomination for comedy writing, I Love Lucy
1970, Emmy nomination for "Lucy Meets the Burtons" episode, Here's Lucy
1979, Golden Globe as Producers for Alice
1990, Television Academy Hall of Fame award, I Love Lucy
1992, Writers' Guild of America Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Achievement
1999, "Loving Lucy" award, Lucy Convention
2001, UCLA Lifetime Achievement award
Madelyn Pugh Davis
1957, Los Angeles Times Times Woman of the Year Award
1957, Women in Communications award
1960, Kappa Kappa Gamma Outstanding Alumni award
1972, Indiana University Distinguished Alumni award
1996, Women in Film Lucy Award
1998, Indiana Broadcasters Award
2006, Paley Center for Media "She Made It!" honoree
References
External links
Interview, indiana.edu; accessed October 15, 2016.
Interview, emmytvlegends.org; accessed October 15, 2016.
1921 births
2011 deaths
American television producers
American women television producers
American television writers
Indiana University alumni
Writers from Greater Los Angeles
Writers from Indianapolis
American women television writers
Screenwriters from California
Screenwriters from Indiana
Shortridge High School alumni
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American screenwriters
21st-century American women writers |
Thomas Joseph O'Reilly (17 December 1875 – 22 October 1944) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A national school teacher from Scariff, Waterville, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) at the June 1927 general election for the Kerry constituency. He was re-elected at the September 1927 general election and at the 1932 general election. He did not contest the 1933 general election.
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1875 births
1944 deaths
Fianna Fáil TDs
Members of the 5th Dáil
Members of the 6th Dáil
Members of the 7th Dáil
Politicians from County Kerry |
Federico Tafani (born 12 December 1981) is an Italian footballer. He plays as a defender for Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Fabriano Cerreto.
References
External links
LaSerieD.com profile
1981 births
Living people
Footballers from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino
Italian men's footballers
AC Ancona players
ASD Victor San Marino players
AS Gubbio 1910 players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Men's association football defenders |
Lissocampus is a genus of pipefishes mostly native to the Indian Ocean. One species (L. bannwarthi) is only known to occur in the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez and one species (L. filum) occurs in the Pacific Ocean around New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. The remaining species are endemic to Australia.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
Lissocampus bannwarthi (Duncker, 1915)
Lissocampus caudalis Waite & Hale, 1921 (smooth pipefish)
Lissocampus fatiloquus (Whitley, 1943) (prophet's pipefish)
Lissocampus filum (Günther, 1870) (shortsnout pipefish)
Lissocampus runa (Whitley, 1931) (javelin pipefish)
References
Syngnathidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Edgar Ravenswood Waite |
Del squared may refer to:
Laplace operator, a differential operator often denoted by the symbol ∇2
Hessian matrix, sometimes denoted by ∇2
Aitken's delta-squared process, a numerical analysis technique used for accelerating the rate of convergence of a sequence
See also
DEL2, the second tier ice hockey league in Germany
Del, a vector calculus differential operator
Nabla symbol, the symbol used for the Del operator
∂, the partial derivative operator symbol
Del (disambiguation) |
The 1925 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington in London from 1–7 December 1924. Joyce Cave won the title defeating her sister Nancy Cave in the final. This championship was held in the 1924 but in the 1924/25 season so is attributed as being the 1925 event.
Draw and results
Section A (round robin)
Section B (round robin)
Section C (round robin)
Section D (round robin)
Second round
Semi finals
Final
Notes
+ Mrs. Winifred Kittermaster (née Miss Winifred Rotherham)
Susan Noel was only 12 years old during this tournament.
References
Women's British Open Squash Championships
British Open Squash Championships
Women's British Open Squash Championships
Squash competitions in London
British Open Championships |
Thorir Hund (Old Norse: Þórir hundr, Modern Norwegian: Tore Hund, literally "Thorir the Hound") (born ca. 990) was one of the greatest chiefs in Hålogaland. Tore Hund was one of the leaders of the Stiklestad farmer faction opposing Norwegian King Olaf II of Norway, later named St. Olaf. He was reported to have been among the chieftains who killed the king in the Battle of Stiklestad in 1030. He also served in the forces of King Canute the Great on several occasions.
Background
Thorir Hund was born at the beginning of the Christian era in Norway. He was both strongly independent and a devout pagan. Christianization of the country was not only a question of faith. Christianity was also a powerful political tool to subject the old chiefs and in the case of Hålogaland to establish rule by a king from the south.
Thorir was an influential man in the area of Hålogaland, his home being the island of Bjarkøy in Troms. He belonged to the upper echelon among the Norwegian coastal chiefs. He was a member of the Bjarkøy clan, one of the more powerful families in Northern Norway during the Viking Age. He was an accomplished viking, leading several expeditions towards Russia and the White Sea. He traded in Bjarmaland, today the area of Arkhangelsk in northern Russia.
The family of Thorir Hund formed alliances with the most powerful chiefs in Norway. His sister was married to Olve Grjotgardsson of . His brother, was also an important chief in Trondenes. He was married to Sigrid Skjalgsdatter, a sister of the powerful nobleman Erling Skjalgsson of Sola in Rogaland. Thorir Hund was married to a woman named Ranveig, about whose background little is known. They had a son called Sigurd Toresson, who later served as a sheriff during the reign of Harald Hardrada.
Career
Thorir opposed King Olaf's attempts to unify and Christianize Norway. He also held personal grudges against the king, after one of the king's reeves, Asmundr Grànkelsson, murdered his nephew . Thorir later avenged his nephew, but was sentenced to pay a heavy fine by the king, further contributing to his grudge against the king.
When Erling Skjalgsson was killed in 1028, Tore assumed leadership of the anti-Olaf faction together with Einar Thambarskelfir and Kalv Arnesson, the brother of Finn Arnesson. In 1026, he joined Canute's forces when they drove out Olaf and was named Canute's representative in Norway along with Hårek of Tjøtta.
According to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, when Olaf returned to Norway in the summer of 1030, Thorir was among those rallying against him. He and his men led the line against the king's army at the Battle of Stiklestad. The battle site was Stiklestad, a farm in the lower part of the valley of Verdal, north of the city of Trondheim. According to saga sources, Thorir was among those who gave Olaf his lethal wounds, together with Kalv Arnesson and Thorstein Knarresmed from Rovde in Sunnmøre. While earlier reports do not name the man who actually killed the king, the Heimskringla specifies Thorir, using a spear tipped with the javelin point that killed his nephew to thrust up below the king's mail shirt and into his abdomen.
After the battle, turning political tides soon went against Thorir. As Olaf's son Magnus, backed by some of Thorir's former allies, seized power, Thorir became a marginalized figure. According to Snorri, he may have left Norway for the Holy Lands, or he may have died. He never returned to Bjarkøy.
Legacy
The Tore Hund Monument, by Norwegian artist Svein Haavardsholm, was erected in 1980 beside the road to the church on Bjarkøy. The memorial honors both Thorir Hund and the Bjarkøy clan, who had their seat on Bjarkøy.
Tore Hund is a character in the Norwegian TV series Beforeigners.
References
Other sources
Fidjestøl, Bjarne. "Legenda om Tore Hund". In Festskrift til Alfred Jakobsen (Trondheim: 1987)
Krag, Claus. Aschehougs Norgeshistorie. Vikingtid og riksamling 800-1130 (Oslo: 1995)
Norse monarchs
Norwegian military leaders
White Sea
Explorers of the Arctic
11th-century Norwegian people
990s births
Year of death unknown
11th-century Vikings
Regicides
Germanic pagans |
The Minnie Stewart House, located at 1015 Euclid Ave. in Monmouth, Illinois, is the site of the formation of women's fraternity Kappa Kappa Gamma. The house was built by Judge James H. Stewart around 1865. Minnie Stewart, James' daughter and a student at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, founded Kappa Kappa Gamma in the house in 1870. Minnie and five other students planned the fraternity through meetings in the house. The group adopted the key as their symbol and ordered a set of gold key badges, which they wore upon the official announcement of the fraternity in October.
The fraternity was one of the first Greek organizations for women in the United States; in fact, it predated the use of the term "sorority" by twelve years. Women had only recently gained the opportunity to pursue higher education, and the early women's fraternities such as Kappa Kappa Gamma sprang from women's desires to organize themselves socially as men did through fraternities. While the Monmouth chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma shut down in 1884 after the college outlawed fraternal organizations, it has been reinstated and is currently active on the Monmouth Campus. The fraternity is still nationally prominent.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1989.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation operates the house as a historic house museum, with the downstairs rooms furnished in a Victorian style.
References
External links
The Stewart House Museum – Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Italianate architecture in Illinois
Houses in Warren County, Illinois
Museums in Warren County, Illinois
Historic house museums in Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, Illinois
Kappa Kappa Gamma houses
History of women in Illinois |
Cork City Park railway station was on the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway in County Cork, Ireland.
History
The station opened on 1 June 1885.
Passenger services were withdrawn on 1 September 1889.
Routes
Further reading
References
Disused railway stations in County Cork
Railway stations opened in 1885
Railway stations closed in 1889
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in the 1880s
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland closed in the 1880s |
Edward Southwell may refer to:
Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford (1738–1777), British politician
Edward Southwell Sr. (1671–1730), Irish politician
Edward Southwell Jr. (1705–1755), Irish politician |
Thietmar or Dithmar was a German Christian pilgrim who visited the Holy Land in 1217–1218 and wrote an account of his travels, the .
According to his own account, Thietmar and a group of pilgrims set out from Germany "signed with and protected by the cross". This would seem to indicate that he was a crusader, a conclusion accepted by Jaroslav Folda, but his account indicates that he was an unarmed pilgrim. From his work it can be seen that he was an educated man. He is sometimes called magister (teacher, German ), but the better manuscript tradition does not contain this word. He was probably a churchman from Westphalia and the leader of his group. He has been called a Franciscan friar, but the Chronicle of Nicholas Glassberger, written between 1491 and 1508, calls him a monk. Glassberger also wrote that he prepared his book for Pope Honorius III, although Glassberger may have inferred this from the text itself. He also associates the pope's receipt of the book with the preaching of the Fifth Crusade, which had begun under his predecessor, Innocent III.
Thietmar's travels coincided with the outbreak of hostilities associated with the Fifth Crusade. He landed in Acre in the early summer or fall of 1217, when the city was already host to armies from Europe preparing to battle the Muslims. The truce was broken during his stay in the Holy Land and in several instances he was in a place just days or weeks before it saw serious fighting. In spite of this, Thietmar does not mention the crusade in his book.
Thietmar's sojourn in the Holy Land involved two pilgrimages. The first was to see the icon of the Virgin Mary in Our Lady of Saidnaya Monastery in Syria. Starting from Acre, he went by way of Nazareth, Cana, Mount Tabor, Nein and Tabgha to Tiberias, from where he followed the south shore of the Sea of Galilee, crossed the river Jordan and went by way of Nawā, Maliḥa, Ṣanamayn and Damascus to Saidnaya. From there he returned to Acre. He does not say by what route, presumably because it was the same one.
In 1218, he set out from Acre on a second pilgrimage to Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai. His account of this trip is the most detailed description of a pilgrimage in the Sinai from the 12th or 13th century. From Acre he went south by the coastal road to Jaffa, then inland to Ramla, from where he headed directly towards Bethlehem. He avoided Jerusalem because the Muslim authorities were nervous about Christian pilgrims at that time. He and his party were arrested anyway and detained in the Asnerie, the former donkey stables of the Knights Hospitaller by the Church of Saint Stephen just outside the Jerusalem. They were released only through the intervention of some Hungarian Muslims known to one of his fellow captives. From there he continued on to Bethlehem, from where he made an excursion to Hebron before returning to Bethlehem. He visited Bethany, then Jericho, then crossed the Jordan, after which he says he visited Zoar and Ein Gedi west of the Dead Sea. Possibly he crossed the sea by boat, but more likely he was confused and in fact passed through Mount Nebo and Madaba before picking up the King's Highway. Guided by Bedouins, he followed this south through Heshbon, Rabba, Kerak, Shoubak, Petra, Mount Hor and the Arabah to Aqaba on the Red Sea coast. He followed the western coast passed Pharaoh's Island until coming to Saint Catherine's. Afterwards he returned to Acre, although he does not describe his return journey.
Thietmar's ('book of the pilgrimage') survives in full or abbreviated in eighteen manuscripts. An abbreviated version from a 14th-century manuscript of Basel was published in 1844 and again in 1851. A 13th-century copy from Ghent was also published in 1851. These texts belong to a later abbreviated and interpolated recension along with manuscripts from Munich and Berlin. Manuscripts more faithful to the original are found in Hamburg, Berlin, Rostock and Wolfenbüttel. An edition based on the Hamburg copy appeared in 1852. A third recension, intermediate in quality, is represented by a single manuscript in Wrocław. The later pilgrim Burchard of Mount Sion made use of Thietmar's text in his own work.
Editions
J. A. Sprecher van Bernegg, ed. "Magister Thetmars Reise nach Palästina und Egypten, in Anfang des 13. Jahrhunderts". In H. M. Malten, ed. Neueste Weltkunde. Frankfurt, 1844, pp. 184–193. It reproduces only the first part of the travel report: Acre, Mt Tabor, Damascus, Mt Carmel, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Mamre, Bethany, and Jericho.
T. Tobler, ed. Magistri Thetmari iter ad Terram Sanctam anno 1217. St Gall, 1851.
J. de Saint-Génois, ed. "Voyages faits en Terre Sainte par Thetmar en 1217 et par Burchard de Strasbourg en 1175 au 1225." Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique 26 (1851), pp. 19–58.
J. C. M. Laurent, ed. Magistri Thietmari historia de dispositione terre sancte. Hamburg, 1852.
A translation of Laurent's edition can be found in Denys Pringle, trans., Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187–1291 (Ashgate, 2012), pp. 95–133.
References
Further reading
13th-century German writers
Holy Land travellers |
A coffin home (; Japanese: ) is a temporary coffin depository where the coffins containing the cadavers of recently deceased people are temporarily stored while awaiting transport to the place of burial. The term is also loosely used to refer to bedspace apartments.
Yih-jong (義莊) literally means "mansion of righteousness" and originally referred to any charitable organization. These charities were typically established by prominent families to promote their standing in the community. The designation yih-jong was first used by Fan's Yih-Jong (范氏義莊), established by Song Dynasty imperial chancellor Fan Zhongyan in his hometown Suzhou. Emulating Fan's model, many prominent families founded yih-jongs between the Song and Qing dynasties to support their clansmen and local communities, offering charitable services such as orphanages, free schools, disaster relief, and mortuaries.
The name yih-jong eventually became a euphemism for "coffin home" or "morgue" by the late 19th century. This is because they were the de facto undertakers of dead people whose next of kin could not be found or were too poor to afford funeral services, and provided temporary storage and transport of the coffins and bodies of emigrants who desired burial in their place of origin. The establishment of Tung Wah Coffin Home in Hong Kong in 1875, named "Tung Wah Yih Jong" (東華義莊) in Cantonese Chinese, firmly entrenched this euphemistic use.
Coffin homes are primarily found in Greater China and places with substantial overseas Chinese populations. Most coffins that pass through the care of a coffin home are those of migrant workers who die in their place of work but who desired burial in their home villages. Coffin homes also provide temporary storage for deceased persons who are unable to afford a funeral or whose relatives cannot be located.
References
Culture of Hong Kong
Burial monuments and structures |
Little Yeldham is a small village in north west Essex, approximately one mile north east of Great Yeldham.
History
The Domesday Book of 1086 records Yeldham (now Great Yeldham and Little Yeldham) as being in the hundred of Hinckford and having a population of 40 households. The settlement is listed under four owners: Count Eustace (of Boulogne), Count Alan (of Brittany), Richard son of (Count) Gilbert and Ranulf brother of Ilger.
In 1818 the population was 221 with a Sunday School attendance of 56 children. By 1833 the population was 371 with a Sunday School attendance of 71 (31 males, 40 females).
Buildings
St. John the Baptist church stands on the east side of the village. The walls are of flint and pebble rubble and the roofs are tiled. The nave of the church was probably built in the 12th or 13th century, but the west wall was rebuilt in the 19th century. The chancel was rebuilt in the 15th century. There are two bells said to be by Miles Graye, 1674.
References
External links
Website for St. John the Baptist Church, Little Yeldham, part of the Upper Colne Valley Parishes
Villages in Essex
Braintree District |
The EADS Harfang, formerly known as Système intérimaire de drone MALE (SIDM, "Interim medium-altitude, long-endurance drone system") is an unmanned aerial vehicle used by the French Air Force, supplementing the RQ-5 Hunter.
Development
The French Air Force purchased its first drones in 1995, with multiple RQ-5 Hunter units. The IAI Heron was put on display at the 1999 Paris Air Show and generated some interest; a project to field a derivative was started two years later. On 9 September 2006, a prototype was launched for trials from Istres-Le Tubé Air Base. Trials by the Centre d'essais en vol followed, before transfer of the plane to Mont-de-Marsan Air Base
The drone was originally planned to be delivered to the Air Force for the summer of 2003 as a replacement for the Hunters, which were phased out in September 2004. A number of industrial setbacks delayed the delivery, notably that the satellite communication system did not conform with Air Force requirements. The drones were modified to satisfy the requirements, changing them from an "off-the-shelf" product into a custom plane built specially for the French Air Force. The plane and onboard computer are built by Malat, a division of Israel Aerospace Industries, based on the IAI Heron.
The French Air Force ordered three planes and two ground control stations. The SIDM entered service in June 2008 in the Drone Experimentation Squadron 1/330 Adour, in Cognac, a unit of the Centre des expérimentations militaires. A four-phase programme took place between 2008 and 2009:
instruction of the squadron in the use of the system
instruction of the operators in the sensors
C4ISTAR management and communication to upper levels
communication with ground forces
Design
The Harfang is composed of two main components: the drone and the ground control station.
Drones
The Harfang drone is an unmanned airplane propelled by a rear-mounted turbo-supercharged water-cooled flat-four engine, driving a pusher propeller. It features a flapped high wing with anti-icing system, and has a twin boom tail with two vertical surfaces. With a take-off mass of , the Harfang can carry a payload to height of for a duration of 24 hours.
The mission pack is a three-sensor sphere stabilised by gyroscope, mounted under the forward part of the fuselage. It contains optronic and IR sensors, a laser designator that doubles as a rangefinder, and a high-resolution, fixed echo suppressing synthetic aperture radar. The radar can be used to observe vehicle movement on the ground under any meteorological condition. The antenna is mounted on the centre of the body.
The Harfang carries an Inertial measurement unit with GPS recalibration, and a differential GPS that provides for automatic take-off and landing capabilities. In case of loss of communications, the drone follows a path that brings it back to its start point, while trying to re-establish contact.
The drone carries an IFF transponder and a flight recorder.
The Harfang lacks electromagnetic sensors and is wanting in terms of maneuverability. It is limited by bad weather, notably by icing or high humidity conditions.
Control station
The control station is composed of four modules, numbered M1 through M4:
M1 is the mission preparation station. It is based on a Mirage 2000 briefing station.
M2 is the command and control unit, used mostly during take-off and landing. Most of the mission is automated.
M3 is the data collection unit, receiving information through satellite communication
M4 is the military intelligence centre.
A line-of-sight link allows for direct communication up to 150 to 200 kilometres away. Longer ranges utilise a directional antenna and geostationary satellites. The Very High Frequency and Ultra high frequency communication relay provides for links to ground units and air traffic control.
Operational history
In 2007, the Harfang was deployed in Lourdes to provide security for Pope Benedict XVI.
In February 2009, the three Harfangs were sent to Afghanistan and deployed at Bagram Airfield, under Lieutenant-colonel Cyril Carcy. In late March or early April, drone number F-SDAY was damaged when it crashed due to freezing, and possibly to human or software error. Purchase of a fourth vehicle to replace F-SDAY is under consideration, while it is being repaired and redeployed in France for training.
In August 2011, Harfangs were deployed in the Libyan conflict.
France intends to replace the Harfang by 2014 with MQ-9 Reaper UAVs ordered in 2013.
On 5–6 June 2013, Harfang UAVs carried out their hundredth sortie during Operation Serval in Mali. Deployed since 17 January, Harfangs flew 1,600 hours during the day and night. From January 2013 to September 2013, the Harfang flew 2,000 hours in support of French operations.
As of 2016, Harfang drones were being used for homeland security missions in mainland France.
In early 2018, the French Air Force retired all of its Harfangs. In 2020, the three UAVs were delivered to Morocco, which had bought them in 2014 for $48 million.
Variants
Eagle 0 : prototype, first flight in 1998.
Eagle 1 : first production versions, first flight on 2 June 2003 in Israel.
Eagle MPR : naval version of Eagle 1.
Eagle 2 : larger version of Eagle 1 with a Pratt & Whitney PT6 turbopropeller.
Specifications
See also
List of unmanned aerial vehicles
References
Unmanned aerial vehicles of France
2000s French military reconnaissance aircraft
Harfang
Aircraft first flown in 2006 |
Henry I (died 14 June 1190) was Count of Tyrol from 1180 until his death.
Henry was a younger son of Count Berthold I of Tyrol and his wife Agnes(?), a daughter of Count Otto I of Ortenburg. In 1180 he succeeded his father as Tyrolean count, jointly with his brother Berthold II. After Berthold II died in 1181, Henry I ruled alone.
Henry married Agnes, a daughter of Lord Adalbero of Wangen and sister of Bishop Frederick of Trent. The couple had the following children:
Albert IV (d. 1253)
a daughter, who married Meinhard II, Count of Gorizia
Agnes, married Count Henry II of Eschenlohe (d. 1272)
Matilda, married Count Berthold III of Eschenlohe (d. 1260)
12th-century births
Year of birth unknown
1190 deaths
Counts of Tyrol
12th-century people from the Holy Roman Empire |
Bladen Lakes State Forest (BLSF) is a North Carolina state forest near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, US. It is managed by the North Carolina Forest Service. Covering about , it is the largest state owned forest in North Carolina. Bladen Lakes comprises three parcels of land and has a total of eight compartments. Adjoining the forest are Turnbull Creek Educational State Forest, Jones Lake State Park and Singletary Lake State Park. The vast majority of the forest is in the Game Lands Program, which is administered by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. There are several safety zones where hunting is prohibited or restricted (archery zones, hunting areas for disabled persons and still hunting only areas).
BLSF is a working forest, which means it is actively managed and creates its own income. Yearly revenues are generated through timber sales, pine straw sales and cooking of charcoal. It is an active partner in the Forest Stewardship Program contributing significantly to the regions clean water and air, protection of the soil, wildlife habitat, recreational resources and timber supplies.
The general public is invited to visit the forest and enjoy the scenery and multitude of landscape features, like the Carolina bays, pocosins, sand ridges, river bottoms and swamps. Horseback riding and camping at designated places is welcomed. Street legal vehicles can be used on the 100+ miles of roads and trails as long as these are not behind closed gates. There is a long list of other activities people can do at BLSF. Some use the lack of lights in the forest for star gazing at night. Several universities, community colleges and other scientific organizations have study sites within the forest boundaries. Several agencies and the military use the forest as training ground. Many activities other than hunting require a Special Use Permit, which can be obtained from the office free of charge during regular office hours.
External links
North Carolina Forest Service
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
Video about the making of Charcoal at BLSF
Restoring the Long Leaf Pine at Bladen Lakes State Forest with former Supervisor Michael Chesnutt
North Carolina state forests
Protected areas of Bladen County, North Carolina |
Johnny Ray Cardenas is an American college baseball coach and former catcher. Cardenas is the head coach of the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks baseball team.
Amateur career
Cardenas attended Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kansas. Cardenas then accepted a scholarship to play at Texas Christian University (TCU), to play college baseball for the TCU Horned Frogs baseball team.
Professional career
Cardenas was drafted in the 46th round (1,271th overall) by the Seattle Mariners in the 1993 Major League Baseball draft.
Cardenas began his professional career with the Bellingham Mariners of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League, where he batted .204 with two home runs. He was promoted to the Riverside Pilots of the Class A-Advanced California League in 1994. He hit .208 with one home run for Riversite.
Cardenas played 1995 season with the Port City Roosters of the Class AA Southern League. In 1996, Cardenas began the season with Port City, after batting .189 with 1 home run and 6 RBIs in 27 games with Port City, he was released. He played the rest of the 1996 season with the Oklahoma City 89ers of the American Association.
He was released following the 1996 season and signed with the Duluth–Superior Dukes of the Northern League. He batted .298 with six home runs and 39 RBIs during the season. He signed with the Chicago White Sox to play the 1997 season with the Birmingham Barons during the 1998 season. He hit just .200 with 8 RBIs in 17 games.
Coaching career
From 1999 to 2003, Cardenas served as the head baseball coach at Colbert High School in Colbert, Oklahoma. Cardenas then served as the head baseball coach at Greenville High School in Greenville, Texas for two years.
In the summer of 2005, Cardenas accepted a position as an assistant coach for the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks baseball program. He was an assistant for 3 years, and was named the interim head coach when Donnie Watson's contract wasn't renewed.
On July 9, 2008, Cardenas was named the head coach of Stephen F. Austin. Following the 2010 season, Cardenas was named the Southland Conference Coach of the Year.
Head coaching record
See also
List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches
References
External links
Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks bio
Living people
1970 births
Baseball catchers
Seward County Saints baseball players
TCU Horned Frogs baseball players
Bellingham Mariners players
Riverside Pilots players
Port City Roosters players
Oklahoma City 89ers players
Duluth-Superior Dukes players
Birmingham Barons players
High school baseball coaches in the United States
Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks baseball coaches |
The Archaeological Museum of Poros is a museum located on Koryzis Square in Poros, Greece.
The museum was built in the 1960s on a plot of land donated by the Koryzis family. The displays of the museum date from the Mycenaean era to Roman times.
The museum contains a notable collection of artefacts dug by the French Archaeological School in Troezen.
References
External links
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism / in Greek
Poros |
Jan Kriege (15 May 1884 – 3 August 1944) was a Dutch sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
References
1884 births
1944 deaths
20th-century Dutch sculptors
Dutch male sculptors
Olympic competitors in art competitions
People from Woerden
20th-century Dutch male artists |
Hans Christian Ulrik Midelfart (22 July 1772 – 1 December 1823) was a Norwegian Lutheran minister who served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly in 1814.
Hans Christian Ulrik Midelfart was born at Byneset parish in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the son of a parish priest. He served as minister in the parish of Beitstad in Nord-Trøndelag from 1802 to 1814. He became pastor at Skogn in Levanger during 1814, and held this office until his death in 1823.
He represented Nordre Trondhjems amt at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814. He became a member of the Constitutional Committee, and was regarded as belonging to the independence party (Selvstendighetspartiet).
References
1772 births
1823 deaths
19th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy
Clergy from Trondheim
Norwegian priest-politicians
Fathers of the Constitution of Norway |
Horst Kuttelwascher (6 October 1937 – 26 July 2016) was an Austrian rower. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics. Helmuth Kuttelwascher, also a rower, is his brother. Together, they won a bronze medal at the inaugural 1962 World Rowing Championships in the coxless four event.
References
1937 births
2016 deaths
Austrian male rowers
Olympic rowers for Austria
Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for Austria |
Ecnomiohyla, commonly known as fringe-limbed treefrogs or marvelous frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. This genus was erected in 2005 following a major revision of Hylidae. The ten original species in this genus (E. rabborum and E. sukia are later discoveries) were previously placed in the genus Hyla. The generic name Ecnomiohyla comes from Greek ecnomios ("marvelous" or "unusual") and Hylas, the companion of Hercules.
Description
Members of Ecnomiohyla are moderately sized to very large frogs with distinctive scalloped fringes of skin on the outer edges of their limbs and relatively immense hands and feet. They are found in the canopies of wet forested highlands of southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia. They are capable of gliding using their webbed hands and feet.
Species
The genus currently includes 12 species,
The AmphibiaWeb lists the same species but also includes Rheohyla miotympanum in this genus.
See also
Flying frog
References
Hylinae
Amphibian genera
Amphibians of Central America
Amphibians of South America
Taxa named by Jonathan A. Campbell
Taxa named by Darrel Frost |
The 2023–24 Slovenian PrvaLiga is the 33rd edition of the Slovenian PrvaLiga since its establishment in 1991. The season began on 22 July 2023 and will end on 18 May 2024.
The winners of the league qualify for the first qualifying round of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League. The runners-up qualify for the second qualifying round of the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League, with the third-placed team entering the first qualifying round. The ninth-placed team qualify for the PrvaLiga play-off against the runners-up of the 2023–24 Slovenian Second League. The bottom-placed team are relegated to the 2024–25 Slovenian Second League.
Teams
Olimpija Ljubljana entered the season as defending champions after winning their third title in the previous season. Gorica and Tabor Sežana were relegated at the end of the previous season. They were replaced by Aluminij and Rogaška, who joined the remaining eight teams this season after promotion from the Slovenian Second League. Aluminij returned to the first division after a one-year absence, while Rogaška made their PrvaLiga debut.
Stadiums and locations
Managerial changes
League table
Results
First half of the season
Second half of the season
PrvaLiga play-off
The ninth-placed club will face the second-placed club from the 2023–24 Slovenian Second League for the final place in the following season's PrvaLiga.
Statistics
Top scorers
References
External links
Slovenian PrvaLiga seasons
Slovenia
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Steven Seidman (born October 17, 1948) is a sociologist, currently professor at State University of New York at Albany. He is a social theorist working the areas of social theory, culture, sexuality, comparative sociology, theory of democracy, nationalism and globalization.
Education
Seidman received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Brockport in 1972, his M.A. from the New School for Social Research in 1977 and his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1980.
Career
After earning his doctorate he taught as assistant professor at New Mexico State University from 1980 to 1983 before starting his current tenure at SUNY Albany, where he became associate professor in 1986 and full professor in 1992.
To date his books have been translated into French, Chinese, Korean, Romanian, Persian, Turkish and Spanish, Polish:
Selected works and publications
Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory (1983)
Jürgen Habermas on Society & Politics (1989)
Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates (1990)
Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830–1980 (1991)
Postmodernism and Social Theory (1992)
Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (1992)
The Postmodern Turn (1994)
Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmodern Era (1994; 2nd edition in 1998, 3rd edition in 2004)
Social Postmodernism (1995)
Queer Theory/Sociology (1996)
Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Sexual Politics (1997)
The New Social Theory: Contemporary Debates (2001)
Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2002)
Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life (2002)
The Social Construction of Sexuality (2003)
Sex and Society (to be published)
References
American sociologists
1948 births
Living people
20th-century American Jews
State University of New York at Brockport alumni
University of Virginia alumni
New Mexico State University faculty
State University of New York faculty
Jewish sociologists
21st-century American Jews |
Tiago Nuno Amaral Da Silva Lemos or Tiago Lemos is a Portuguese footballer.
Tiago Lemos was born on 26 September 1977 in Lisbon. He started his career in 1994 when he joined G.D. Estoril-Praia from the youth academy.
External links
* zerozero.pt
1977 births
Living people
Portuguese men's footballers
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
C.F. Estrela da Amadora players
Nea Salamis Famagusta FC players
Cypriot First Division players
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Footballers from Lisbon |
S. R. Kathir is an Indian cinematographer in the Tamil film industry. He is a member of the ISC. He is known for his collaborations with M. Sasikumar, Samuthirakani, and Gautham Vasudev Menon.
Career
Kathir has worked on films including Kattradhu Thamizh (2007), Subramaniapuram (2008) and Naadodigal (2009), often collaborating in ventures by directors Sasikumar and Samuthirakani.
Filmography
Awards
Best Cinematographer at Boston international Film Festival (2022) - Jai Bhim
Best Cinemotographer Vijay Awards (2009)
Best Cinemotographer (2008) - Subramaniapuram
Best Cinemotographer Anandha Vikatan awards (2016) - Kidaari
References
External links
Living people
1978 births
People from Coimbatore
Tamil film cinematographers
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"The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry" or "The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry" is a traditional folk song from Shetland and Orkney. A woman has her child taken away by its father, the great selkie of Sule Skerry which can transform from a seal into a human. The woman is fated to marry a gunner who will harpoon the selkie and their son.
"The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry" is a short version from Shetland published in the 1850s and later listed as Child ballad number 113. "The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry" is the title of the Orcadian texts, about twice in length. There is also a greatly embellished and expanded version of the ballad called "The Lady Odivere".
Shetland version
"The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry" was collected from a lady from Snarra Voe, Shetland, and 7 verses from its transcription were published by Capt. F. W. L. Thomas in the 1850s. It was later included in Francis James Child's anthology, and catalogued as Child ballad number 113.
Alan Bruford has noted that "silkie" is an anomalous spelling for "selkie", and in other ballad specimens, the mythical being instead of being a "great" selkie is rather a "grey" selkie.
The ballad begins:
A synopsis is as follows: A woman, nursing a baby, laments that she does not know the child's father or where he lives. A man rises up to tell her that he is the father, and that he is a silkie — a shapeshifter that takes the form of a man on the land and a seal in the sea, and that he lives on a remote rocky island called Sule Skerry. He gives her a purse full of gold, takes his son, and predicts that she will marry a gunner who will shoot both him and their son.
Orkney version
There are Orkney versions which place the heroine's setting in Scandinavia, opening with the line: "In Norway land there lived a maid".
"The Grey Selchie of Shool Skerry" was published by R. Menzies Fergusson in Rambling Sketches in the Far North (1883), changing its title to "The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerrie" in the second edition, Rambles in the Far North (1884).
The same 14-stanza version with some spelling differences, entitled "The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerry" was printed in the 11 January 1934 issue of The Orcadian newspaper. It was later reprinted by Finnish folklorist Otto Andersson, who also collected a traditional ballad tune for it.
This version contains an exchange in which the seal-groom's marriage proposal is declined by the Norwegian nurse. The selkie makes the same fateful prediction as in the Shetland version, that the woman will marry a gunner, who will shoot both the selkie and their son. It further supplies the grim conclusion that the gunner brings back a gold chain which she recognizes as the one that was given to her son to wear.
Lady Odivere
A cognate to the "Grey Selkie of Suleskerry" includes "The Play of Lady Odivere" ("The Play of de Lathie Odivere"). This piece is a dramatic ballad in style, over 90 stanzas long. And it may be in large part a piece of contrived fiction by Walter Traill Dennison, mish-mashed into a kernel of a traditional ballad, in the estimation of modern folklorist Alan Bruford.
Here, the Lady Odivere is in peril of being burnt at the stake for adultery by her husband, when she is rescued by San Imravoe, a selchie who is a jarl of high degree in his realm.
Ballad tunes
The original tune was preserved by Andersson, who heard it sung by John Sinclair on the island of Flotta, Orkney. Andersson said, "I had no idea at the time that I was the first person to write down the tune. The pure pentatonic form of it and the beautiful melodic line showed me that it was a very ancient melody that I had set on paper".
The best known tune today is non-traditional, having been written by Jim Waters in 1954. Child was interested only in the texts of the ballads he collected, and Jim explains that the tune was "just the best I could do as a way to get a fine ballad sung". Over the next two years, he introduced the ballad to the Boston area at a time when "hootenannies" filled the Great Court of MIT on a weekly basis (before recorded folk songs were widely available). Jim Butler added the song to his repertoire, according to his notes, in October 1954, on a page labelled "MITOC Supp.", being the MIT Outing Club addition to his typewritten Child Ballads. Butler taught the song to several people, including Bonnie Dobson. This is the tune that Joan Baez popularized as "Silkie" in the early 1960s.
Although Jean Redpath disparaged Water's tune as "phony", preferring a longer version of Child 113 to another tune, by 1965, Jim Butler had heard Waters' tune sung by a Scottish student at the University of British Columbia, unaccompanied in the traditional style, and under the impression that he had learned it from his grandfather. "This has to be one of the most flattering things that has ever happened to me", added Waters, who eventually copyrighted his version and assigned it to Folk Legacy Records. Folk Legacy reassigned all copyright interest to James Waters in August, 2012.
American folksinger Pete Seeger set the poem I Come and Stand at Every Door by Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet to Waters's tune for "The Great Silkie" in the early 1950s. In this version, the song takes the point of view of a child victim of atomic warfare.
Recordings
Joan Baez recorded it as "Silkie" on her 1961 album Joan Baez, Vol. 2.
Pete Seeger included his version of Hikmet's "I Come and Stand at Every Door" on a 1964 concert album, I Can See a New Day.
The American rock band The Byrds included the Hikmet/Seeger version on their third album, Fifth Dimension (1966).
The Seeger song was later covered by This Mortal Coil.
Roger McGuinn of the Byrds later recorded the song with its original lyrics as part of his Folk Den project.
The English folk rock band Trees included one variant, as "The Great Silkie", on The Garden of Jane Delawney, their debut album.
Glasgow-born folk singer Ray Fisher (1940–2011) included the song on her album The Bonny Birdy (1972). Her brother Archie Fisher has a version on his Orfeo (1970).
Judy Collins included her version, "Great Selchie of Shule Skerry", on her 1962 album Golden Apples of the Sun.
The Breton folk band Tri Yann also penned an adaptation in French called "Le Dauphin" (the dolphin) on their 1972 album Tri Yann an Naoned.
The Highwaymen recorded this song twice, with two different versions. The first version was on their 1962 album Standing Room Only, and the second version was on their 2005 album The Water of Life.
In 1981 Angelo Branduardi recorded this tune on his album Branduardi '81, with lyrics by Esenin. The song is titled "La cagna". In 2013 re-recorded this tune (titled: "Silkie") with original lyrics adapted in Italian language, on his album Il Rovo E La Rosa.
The Irish band Solas included one variant, "Grey Selchie", on their 1998 album The Words That Remain.
A version appears on Maddy Prior's 1999 album Ravenchild.
Alasdair Roberts included his version of "The Grey Silkie of Sule Skerry" on his CD You Need Not Braid Your Hair for Me: I Have Not Come A-Wooing, released in 2005.
Dave Bainbridge and Troy Donockley perform a version of the song on their 2005 album When Worlds Collide.
The Breton singer Cécile Corbel recorded it on her album Songbook Vol.2 (2008).
Steeleye Span recorded it as a hidden track on their 2009 album Cogs, Wheels and Lovers.
In 2011 June Tabor recorded it on her album Ashore.
English folk band The Unthanks perform a version of the song on their 2022 album 'Sorrows Away'.
References
Citations
Lexicographical citations
Bibliography
External links
History, and two variants at orkneyjar.com
Child version
Child Ballads
Fiction about shapeshifting
Scottish folk songs
Songwriter unknown
Year of song unknown
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The 2016–17 HockeyAllsvenskan season was the 12th season since the second tier of ice hockey in Sweden was renamed. The league featured 14 teams, each playing each other four times, for a total of 52 regular season games.
Participating teams
Regular season
Standings
Post-season
Finals
In the HockeyAllsvenskan finals (), the first and second place teams from the regular season met in a best-of-five series, where the winner advanced to the SHL qualifiers, and the losing team continued to a playoff to the SHL qualifiers. The matches were held on 5 March, 7 March and 9 March.
Mora IK vs. BIK Karlskoga
HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs
In the HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs (), teams 3–8 met in a single-round robin tournament. Teams 3–5 had an extra game on home-ice. The matches were held on 6–14 March. Teams also started with bonus points based on their position in the regular season standings. Team 3 began with three points, team 4 with two points, and team 5 with one point.
The winner of the group advanced to the playoff to the SHL qualifiers.
Playoff to the SHL qualifiers
In the playoff to the SHL qualifiers (), the losing team from the HockeyAllsvenskan finals met the winning team from the HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs in a best-of-three series that were played on 16 March, 18 March and 20 March. The winning team advanced to the SHL qualifiers.
BIK Karlskoga vs. AIK
SHL qualifiers
In the SHL qualifiers (), the winners of the HockeyAllsvenskan finals and the playoff to the SHL qualifiers were paired against teams 13 and 14 from the 2016–17 SHL season. Each pair played a best-of-seven series, with the winner qualifying for play in the 2017–18 SHL season, and the loser playing in the 2017–18 HockeyAllsvenskan season. These series began on 22 and 23 March, and were completed by 1 April. Rögle won their series, 4–0, to secure continued SHL play. Mora then won their series, 4–2, to qualify for SHL play for the first time since the 2007–08 season.
Leksands IF vs. Mora IK
Rögle BK vs. BIK Karlskoga
HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers
Västerås and Södertälje, teams 13 and 14 from the regular season, were forced to defend their spots in HockeyAllsvenskan in the HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers (). Joining the two HockeyAllsvenskan teams were four challengers from third-tier league Hockeyettan, the winner of the Hockeyettan Finals (Huddinge IK) and the three surviving teams from the Hockeyettan playoffs.
References
HockeyAllsvenskan seasons
HockeyAllsvenskan
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The Banovina Palace (, , , , ), colloquially known as Banovina, in Novi Sad, capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia, is a representative complex serving as a seat of both the Government and the Assembly of Vojvodina. The building, designed by Dragiša Brašovan, was constructed between 1935 and 1940 in modernist style for the administrative needs of the Danube Banovina.
Location and Characteristics
The Palace is located in the city centre of Novi Sad, at the corner of Mihajlo Pupin Boulevard and Žarko Zrenjanin Street. It was originally built as the administrative centre of the Danube Banovina. The building has a closed elongated horseshoe-shaped base. The semi-circular part of the building is located on the western side, while on the opposite eastern side, there is a tower with a square base. The building consists of a basement, ground floor, and two floors. It is 180 meters long, 44 meters wide, and around 20 meters high, except for the tower, which is 42 meters high. It is covered with white Brač island marble. Above the representative entrance facing Mihajlo Pupin Boulevard, there are medallions with resemblance to Peter I of Serbia, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Stepa Stepanović, Živojin Mišić, Radomir Putnik and Petar Bojović.
References
See also
House of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
University of Niš main building (seat of Morava Banovina)
Banski Dvor, Banja Luka (seat of Vrbas Banovina)
Building of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (seat of Drina Banovina)
Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb (seat of Sava Banovina)
Government Building and President's Office (seat of Drava Banovina)
Assembly of North Macedonia (seat of Vardar Banovina)
City administration building in Split (seat of Littoral Banovina)
Town Assembly Building in Cetinje, Montenegro (seat of Zeta Banovina)
Buildings and structures completed in 1939
Buildings and structures in Novi Sad
Legislative buildings in Europe
Politics of Vojvodina
Modernist architecture |
Niveria spongicola is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.
References
Triviidae
Gastropods described in 1923 |
Pierre Jean Octave Callandreau (18 September 1852 – 13 February 1904) was a French astronomer who contributed to celestial mechanics on the calculation of orbits and the use of perturbations. He also served as a professor of astronomy at the École Polytechnique from 1893.
Life and work
Callandreau was born in Angoulême, France, the son of Amédée Callandreau, a notary and genealogist. Pierre Callendreau was his grandfather. Callandreau went to the École Polytechnique in 1874. He became interested in astronomy and worked as an assistant to Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory. He studied celestial mechanics under Victor Puiseux at Sorbonne. He became adjoint astronomer in 1881. In 1879 he translated Hugo Gyldén's Swedish work on perturbation theory. He worked on checking Lalande's star catalogue while also working on mechanics. He worked on a method of computing Laplace's coefficients in planetary theory. His doctoral work continued on the topic at the Faculty of Sciences, Paris and his thesis was on the application of Gyldén's method to the perturbations of minor planets. Callandreau was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1892 and became a professor of astronomy at the École Polytechnique the next year. He began a large scale study of shooting stars when he became a president of the Société Astronomique de France in 1899. He travelled as part of the French mission to Haiti in 1882 to observe the transit of Venus. Callandreau was a founding member and editor of the Astronomical Bulletin from 1884.
Callandreau was married from 1882 to Sophie de Luynes, daughter of an arts professor, and they had seven children.
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External links
Correspondence with Henri Poincare
1852 births
1904 deaths
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Academic staff of École Polytechnique
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19th-century French translators
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Quendon is a linear village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Quendon and Rickling, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. Quendon is located on the B1383 (formerly the A11 trunk road) between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford, around from Rickling Green, the main village centre of Rickling. The trunk road status was lost due to the opening of the parallel M11 motorway. In 1931 the parish had a population of 156.
History
The name of Quendon derives from the Old English cwena (queen, or woman) and denu (a valley), meaning the valley owned by a queen, or a woman; the queen referred to may be Ricula, wife of King Sledd of Essex, who gave her name to Rickling, the adjacent parish. The history of Quendon is closely associated with its close neighbour, Rickling village.
Quendon is mentioned in the Domesday Book, with 10 households populated by 3 villagers, 4 smallholders and 3 slaves.
Historically these two villages were separated by some distance, but it is thought that either due to the heavy loss of life during the 14th Century by the Black Death or a significant fire in the old wooden buildings of the day, caused much of the village to relocate its current position. The original Rickling village was closely sited near its own, now isolated All Saints' parish church, approximately 1.5 km away.
Today, the villages nestle together and the boundary is almost unnoticeable. Despite the close geographic tie between these two neighbours, the parishes were distinct until the late 20th century. The historic "Coffin Path" bridleway was used for the parish residents of Rickling to travel to its own church some distance over the fields. In 1520, it had become the property of Thomas Newman, who built the Hall, which was re-built in the 17th century by John Turner, Esq., who enclosed the park. It was sold during the last century to Henry Cranmer, from whom it descended to James Powell Cranmer.
The Church is a small tiled building, and the rectory, valued in K. B. at £9, and in 1831 at £165, is in the patronage of Mrs Cranmer, and incumbency of the Rev. John Collin, sen., M.A., who has a good residence, and 53A. of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1839 for £150 per annum.
The first mention of a postal service in Quendon was in 1793 and the village had a Penny Post service from 1813. The village post office closed in February 2008.
On 1 April 1949 the parish was abolished and merged with Ricking to form "Quendon and Rickling".
Notable residents
The diarist and writer William Winstanley lived in the village in the 17th century, in a Tudor farmhouse called Berries. Under the pseudonym Poor Robin Goodfellow, he wrote about the joys of celebrating Christmas. This helped to restore the custom of such celebrations after a period when they had been banned by the Puritans.
Also, Henry Winstanley famous for the design of the first Eddystone Lighthouse, and the Pamphilon family, of which several members were noted violin makers, were thought to be residents.
The astronomer Fred Hoyle lived in the village for 10 years just after the Second World War, Quendon being the closest to Cambridge he could afford to live at first. He left to live in Cambridge in late 1957, the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
Roger Whittaker, the Kenyan-born English singer/songwriter and musician lived in the parish for a while, having bought Rickling House.
See also
The Hundred Parishes
References
Villages in Essex
Former civil parishes in Essex
Uttlesford |
The Greenvale Football Club is an Australian rules football club 23 km north-west of Melbourne in the suburb of Greenvale. The club was founded in 1990 as a junior club by Les Norris. By 2005, the club was fielding fifteen teams in the Essendon District Football League.
History
Greenvale Football club started in 1990 as a junior club by Les Norris, who died in April 2009. In 1996 Greenvale fielded a senior side for the first time in Essendon DFL B Grade. Greenvale has only been in operation as a senior club for a little over a decade, but already it has established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the powerful Essendon District Football League. Their first premiership came in B Grade in 2002. Greenvale has won 5 senior premierships since the club was first founded. In 2004 Greenvale had finished at the head of the ladder prior to the finals, and went on to win their first A Grade premiership. They finished on top again in 2005 before reaching a second successive premiership play-off after an impressive 2nd semi final demolition of Keilor. The grand final turned into a nightmare, however, as rank outsiders Strathmore stole both the show and the flag with a hard-earned and well-deserved 10 point win. By 2005, the club was fielding fifteen teams in the Essendon District Football League.
The 2006 season saw a slight drop in performance level, and Greenvale's premiership aspirations were ended by Doutta Stars on preliminary final day. With former Australian rules players Steve MacPherson and Steve Paxman as senior coach and captain respectively Greenvale has plenty of experience to draw on, and it was no surprise to see them emerge as pace setters in 2007. What was a surprise, however, was the extent of their dominance, for after topping the ladder with 100% success from 18 home and away matches, they swept to an unbeaten premiership on the strength of wins over Strathmore by 57 points in the 2nd semi final and 3 goals in the grand final. The reserves also went top, making it a perfect year all round. In 2008 the club went undefeated, until the Grand Final losing to Keilor 20.12.(132) to 15.9.(99).
As of 2009 – Steve MacPherson was the longest serving coach of any side in the EDFL until he announced he was leaving the club at the end of the 2010 season.
2011 saw Anthony Rock take over as senior coach. Greenvale finished the season in third position and faced Maribynong Park in the elimination final. Greenvale steamed to a commanding victory. Greenvale faced Strathmore in the preliminary final and went on to lose to the grand final winners by 22 points.
2012 saw Greenvale retain Anthony Rock as coach and recruit several players mainly Eric Kuret and Daniel Campisano. Greenvale finished a successful season in second position.
Greenvale went on to win the 2012 premiership by 2 points (82-80) after trailing by as much as 24 points deep in third term and 17 points at 3/4 time. This was due to a huge influence by Greenvale colt hero Jacob Thompson booting 2 majors in the final term to secure the win, very stiff to miss out on best on ground honors.
Season 2013 greenvale finished on top with a 16–2 record in the home and away season.
Greenvale lost the first final convincingly 12.22 (94) to 8.11 (59) to Aberfeldie and played beat Airport West in the preliminary final by 58 points.
In the grand final, Greenvale was down by 6 points at half time. In a big 3rd quarter, Greenvale kicked 5 goals to 3 to open up a 10-point lead. Greenvale ran out winners by 14 points, with Eric Kuret named best on ground.
Season 2009
In the 2009 season the club started a 2nd under 18's team in the Essendon District Football League. The club went undefeated in the home and away season, before losing the semi-final to Maribyrnong Park and the Grand Final also to Maribyrnong Park 14.18.(102) to 13.6.(84). The club also started construction on the 2nd oval and the up grading of the lights on the main oval.
Season 2010
The club began its 2010 pre-season campaign on Monday the 16 November 2009 at Greenvale Reserve. In December 2009 it was named that ex-essendon AFL player Scott Lucas (footballer) would be playing for Greenvale in the 2010 season and he has proved to be a wonderful asset. The club has a total of 18 teams in the league this year, making it the most that the club has ever had and the club is growing each day. The Seniors lost their 1st game in 3 years in a home and away season in Round 6 to Oak Park 15.19.(109) to Greenvale 6.11.(47). The Seniors, Reserves and the Under 18 Div 1 teams all subsequently finished on top of their respective ladders and into the 2010 EDFL Finals. This was the first time in years that all 3 teams have made it into the finals together. The Seniors, Reserves and the Under 18 Div 1 teams all eventually played off in Grand Finals on 12 September 2010 at Essendon's Windy Hill Football Ground. Both the U18s and Reserves were victorious in their matches defeating Keilor Football Club in both instances, with the flagship A-Grade team losing in a close match to reigning back to back premiers Maribyrnong Park, coached by ex-AFL player Brodie Holland.
Greenvale's tenacity helped them get to within five points in an exciting final quarter only for Maribyrnong Park to kick two goals in the dying final minutes. The final score during the A-Grade match was Maribyrnong Park 12.18 (90) def. Greenvale 10.13 (73).
In October 2010 – After 7 years as coach of the senior side Steve MacPherson announced he won't continue as head coach in 2011 and he will be leaving the club altogether. Steve Paxman and club captain Denis Bicer has also announced they will not be returning to the club on 2011, Bicer has taken up an assistant-coaching role with B Grade club Pascoe Vale
Season 2011
In October 2010 – It was announced that ex-AFL North Melbourne player Anthony Rock was appointed as the new Head Senior coach for season 2011 and now continues this in 2012.
The club began its 2012 pre-season campaign in November 2011 under returning Coach Anthony Rock.
Season 2012
Greenvale confirmed the signings of two key players for 2012. Eric Kuret returned from a spell at Balranald and Daniel Campisano from Frankston VFL. The squad was further strengthened with some up and coming talent from the under 18s.
Greenvale had an almost perfect year only losing two games to Strathmore who had not list a game from the preliminary final 2011.
On the eve of the finals Greenvale lost two of its key players Travis Jorgenson and Dean Smith and there were injury clouds under a number of other stars. In the first final, Greenvale lost to Strathmore by 9 points however felt as though they were the better finishing team. In the preliminary Greenvale accounted for Maribynong park fairly comfortably.
Greenvale then faced unbeaten Strathmore in the 2012 grand final. Strathmore were heavy favorites and were odds on $1.60 to win the premiership. Greenvale looked gone through the third quarter but dug deep on the back of Jacob Thompson and Matthew Smith heroics, the Jets won by 2 points. Rowan Nanya was voted best aground to win the medal.
Greenvale reserves also beat Strathmore making it a clean sweep for the senior squad.
Senior teams
Senior teams for 2023 –
Senior Premier Division
Reserves Premier Division
Under 18.5 Premier Division
Under 18.5 Div 2
Junior teams
Junior teams for 2015 -
Under 14 Division 1
Under 12 Division 1
Under 10 Division 1
Under 16 Division 2
Under 14 Division 4
Under 12 Division 4
Under 10 Division 4
Under 16 Division 5
Under 12 Division 7
Under 10 Division 7
Under 12 Division 8
Under 10 Division 8
Under 8
Premier Division
2004 – win over Oak Park 17.18.(120) to 10.17.(77)
2007 – win over Strathmore 17.14.(116) to 14.14.(98)
2012 – win over Strathmore 12.10.(82) to 11.14.(80)
2013 – win over Aberfeldie 12.14 (86) to 10.12 (72)
Division 1
2002 – win over Tullamarine 16.9.(105) to 11.9.(75)
VFL/TAC/AFL Recruited by the 'Jets
Stephen MacPherson (Senior Coach 2003–2010) – Western Bulldogs
Anthony Rock (Senior Coach 2011 – ) – North Melbourne & Hawthorn Football Club
Scott Lucas – Essendon
Cameron Wight – Western Bulldogs
Stephen Paxman – Port Adelaide
Chris Johnson – Melbourne Football Club & Carlton Football Club
Rowan Nayna – Port Melbourne Football Club & Western Bulldogs
Matthew Smith – Port Melbourne
Anthony Aloi – Port Melbourne
Denis Bicer – Coburg Tigers
Vincent Randello – Coburg Tigers
Eric Kuret – Coburg Tigers
Sedat Sir – Williamstown Western Bulldogs
Travis Jorgenson – Coburg Tigers
Daniel Campisano – Frankston Dolphins VFL
VFL/AFL Recruited from the 'Jets
Ben "Buckets" Clifton – Hawthorn
Addam Maric – Melbourne, Richmond & Werribee
Daniel Talia – Adelaide
Dion Prestia – Gold Coast & Richmond
Michael Talia – Western Bulldogs
Rhys Bloomfield – Port Melbourne
Dean Smith – Coburg Tigers
David "Max" Kovacevic – Werribee
Ozgur Uysal – Coburg Tigers
Nick Maric – Coburg Tigers & Werribee
Damien Bugeja – Williamstown Seagulls
Hayden "Gold Digger" Farrelly – Northern Blues
Julian Hemala – Coburg Football Club
Jacob "Thighs" Thompson - Essendon Football Club
Nick "Big Sexy" Parthenopolous - Port Melbourne Football Club
References
External links
Club website
EDFL Website
Essendon District Football League clubs
1990 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1990
Sport in the City of Hume
Australian rules football clubs in Melbourne |
The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, was an attraction with over 270 wax figures. Originator Thomas Fong opened the museum in 1963 after seeing the wax figures at the Seattle World's Fair and it was run by the Fong Family until its closure in 2013. It has attracted over 400,000 visitors a year.
Founder
Thomas L. Fong was born in Canton Province, China on January 4, 1913 and grew up in a small village. He emigrated to San Francisco, aged 17, when a family friend who was there offered to sponsor a member of the family. By 1938 he was running a jewelry store, and developing real estate projects.
In the early 1960s Fong bought a run-down grain mill called Smith Anderson Mill, near Fisherman’s Wharf and decided to open the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf. The attraction opened on May 12, 1963. With the success of their first museum, the family purchased Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, California on April 1, 1985 and operated it until it closed on October 31, 2005.
By 1989, Tommy, as he was known at Fisherman's Wharf, decided to leave the Management and Operations of the Wax Museum and other family businesses to his son, Ron Fong and his grandson, Rodney Fong. Tommy died on November 26, 2000, aged 87.
New building
The old Wax Museum Entertainment Complex Building was demolished in 1998, having had over 10 million visitors since it opened, including almost half a million in the year before it closed. It reopened two years later in a new four-story building, designed by MBH Architects. Inspired by French Victorian public architecture, it cost $18m and includes retail space and a restaurant. The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf officially reopened on July 13, 2000 in the basement of the new building and lies nine feet below the bay level. According to Rodney Fong, in 2008 it was attracting 250,000 visitors a year of whom around 10% were from abroad.
The last day of business for The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf was August 15, 2013.
In 2014 the Merlin Entertainments signed a multi year real estate transaction with the Wax Museum Entertainment Complex Building to invest $35 million to open a Madame Tussauds Wax Attraction at Fisherman’s Wharf. Madame Tussauds San Francisco opened for business in June 2014 and featured a new series of wax figures, created by Madame Tussauds.
Exhibits
The museum displayed a few figures of current interest in the lobby, which was open to the street. The bodies of the wax statues were made of wood, fiberglass, papier-mâché and beeswax. The process to make each figure and prepare it for display took approximately two or three months. Many of the sculptures were created by Gem's Wax Figures in London. A few were crafted by Ron Fong, others by Los Angeles wax sculptor Henry Alvarez, and the museum's resident sculptor, Kahn Gasimov who was hired away from London's Madame Tussauds.
The underground exhibits contained more than 270 figures and scenes, ranging from The Last Supper and Wizard of Oz to King Tut and the Chamber of Horrors which included Anton LaVey, the late San Francisco satanist whose wax figure attended his funeral. There were famous sports-people and important historical figures including a display of dictators featuring Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Napoleon Bonaparte and Hideki Tōjō. A display of World War II generals featured an authentic World War II Willys jeep and the sound of explosions and machine-gun fire. A scientists' section included Galileo, Albert Einstein and Bill Gates. Other displays included famous composers, artists and current celebrities.
References
Downs, Tom. San Francisco: The liveliest guide to the USA’s most exuberant city. Australia: Lonely Planet, 1999. 121.
Otteson, Paul. Northern California: Travel Smart. New Mexico: John Muir, 1998. 44.
External links
Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf Website
Museums in San Francisco
Wax museums in California
Defunct museums in California
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco |
The Citroën C3 Rally2 (originally known as the Citroën C3 R5) is a rally car built by Citroën World Rally Team. It is based upon the Citroën C3 road car and is built to R5 regulations. The car made its début at the 2018 Tour de Corse where it was driven by the French crews of Stéphane Lefebvre and Gabin Moreau, and Yoann Bonato and Benjamin Boulloud.
Background
In early 2017, Citroën began the development of the C3 R5. The C3 would be designed to improve on the previous offerings of Groupe PSA in the R5 discipline, the Peugeot 208 T16 and the Citroën DS3 R5, both of which proved problematic and unpopular with R5 customers. The C3 had little relation to its predecessor, the DS3.
Development
Throughout summer 2017, Citroën Racing Technologies employed factory Citroën drivers Stéphane Lefebvre and Craig Breen as part of the development team for the C3, along with Yoann Bonato, who was hired for the project. The first working model was completed in September of 2017, and a month later the test C3 made its public debut at the Rallye du Var, with Bonato driving a few stages as a non-competitive entrant to the rally.
Competition
The Citroën C3 R5 passed international homologation on 1 January 2018, and was now ready for competition. It made its competitive rallying debut at the Tour de Corse in April of that year, with Yoann Bonato taking second place in the WRC-2 class, and 10th overall in the rally.
Including the original test cars, a total of 26 C3 R5s had been constructed by 1 May 2019, with 22 having been sold to independent teams. In the hands of Yoann Bonato, the C3 R5 won the French Rally Championship in 2018, and continues to be used by the Citroën World Rally Team in the WRC-2 Pro class of the World Rally Championship, in the hands of Mads Østberg. Østberg would give the C3 R5 its first World Championship-level victory at the 2019 Rally Argentina. Although Citroën withdrew from the World Rally Championship in 2020, it continued as a manufacturer team in the WRC-2 and made the C3 R5 available to privateer teams in the WRC-3.
The C3 R5 was renamed the Citroën C3 Rally2 ahead of the 2021 championships.
Rally results
World Rally Championship-2 Pro victories
World Rally Championship-2 victories
World Rally Championship-3 victories
European Rally Championship victories
WRC-2 Pro results - factory team
WRC-2 Results - third party entrants
- * scored points with different entries.
- ** season still in progress.
See also
Citroën C3 WRC
Group R
Ford Fiesta R5
Hyundai i20 R5
Škoda Fabia R5
Volkswagen Polo GTI R5
References
External links
Rally results of Citroën C3 R5
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Citroën vehicles
R5 cars
Rally2 cars |
Sporichthya is a genus of bacteria in the family Sporichthyaceae.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 by The All-Species Living Tree Project
References
Actinomycetales
Bacteria genera |
Oniipa Training School is a teacher training school in Oniipa, Namibia. It was founded in 1913. The writer Hans Daniel Namuhuja (1924-1998), author of the first novel by a Namibian of African origin, attended the school from 1944 to 1946.
References
Education in Oshikoto Region |
The 1987 Virginia Slims of New England was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States and was part of the Category 4 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from November 2 through November 8, 1987. Pam Shriver won the singles title.
Champions
Singles
Pam Shriver defeated Chris Evert 6–4, 4–6, 6–0
It was Shriver's 4th title of the year and the 17th of her career.
Doubles
Elise Burgin / Rosalyn Fairbank defeated Bettina Bunge / Eva Pfaff 6–4, 6–4
It was Burgin's 2nd title of the year and the 18th of her career. It was Fairbank's 1st title of the year and the 14th of her career.
References
External links
ITF tournament edition details
Virginia Slims of New England
Virginia Slims of New England
Virginia
Virginia |
Borrow Beck is a stream running through Cumbria, England on the eastern edge of the English Lake District. The area previously formed part of the traditional county of Westmorland.
Rising at approximately 1700 feet on Borrowdale Moss near Lord's Seat, the beck runs a southeasterly course for a total of seven miles, being joined by Crookdale Beck at High Borrow Bridge on the A6 Trunk Road between Kendal and Shap.
It then runs down through Borrowdale (sometimes known as "Westmorland Borrowdale", to distinguish it from the better known Borrowdale in the central Lake District).
At Low Borrow Bridge, within a very short stretch, it runs under the A685 Kendal to Tebay Road, then the M6 Motorway and lastly the West Coast Main Line which is carried over Borrow Beck Viaduct at this point. The beck then drains into the River Lune at an elevation of approximately 490 feet above sea level, 2.5 miles south of Tebay, the confluence of the watercourses being overlooked by a small Roman fort.
References
Rivers of Cumbria
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Bali Mandara Toll Road or Nusa Dua-Ngurah Rai-Benoa Toll Road is a toll road carried by a bridge stretching across the Gulf of Benoa. The highway connects the city of Denpasar and South Kuta, Badung Regency, Nusa Dua and Ngurah Rai International Airport. It cost Rp 2.48 Trillion (USD 220 million) to construct and was intended to prevent traffic jams on the Ngurah Rai Bypass Road, previously the only road connecting areas of Bali on opposite sites of the airport. The Ngurah Rai Bypass Road, a land-based route, could not be widened because of the location of the airport runway; the new toll road was instead constructed over water.
History
Bali Mandara Toll Road began construction in March 2012 and was completed in October 2013. The road was officially opened on 23 September 2013 by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. At the 2013 APEC Summit in Bali, the toll road was passed by several state leaders. The toll road undergone a beautification and other adjustments in preparation for the 2022 G20 Bali Summit.
The toll road is managed by PT Jasamarga Bali Tol, a subsidiary of state-run , with support from Indonesia Port Corporation III, the governments of Bali Province and Badung Regency, Angkasa Pura I, Adhi Karya, Hutama Karya, Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation, and Wijaya Karya.
Names
The name Bali Mandara was given by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the inauguration of the toll road on September 23, 2013. Mandara itself means Maju, Aman, Damai, dan Sejahtera (progressive, safe, peaceful and prosperous); however, the name considered more political because it is identical to the slogan coined by Governor of Bali at the time, I Made Mangku Pastika during his tenure.
In 2018, there was a plan to change the name into I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bridge, to honor local hero I Gusti Ngurah Rai and since the toll road is situated within I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport vicinity.
Exits
Gallery
References
Toll roads in Indonesia
Bridges in Indonesia
Bridges completed in 2013
Transport in Bali
Toll bridges |
Yazdânism, or the Cult of Angels, is a pseudohistoric pre-Islamic religion with claimed ties relating to a Mithraic religion of the Kurds. The term was introduced and proposed by Kurdish and Belgian scholar Mehrdad Izady to represent what he considers the "original" religion of the Kurds.
According to Izady, Yazdânism is now continued in the denominations of Yazidism, Yarsanism, and Kurdish Alevism.
The concept of Yazdânism has found a wide perception both within and beyond Kurdish nationalist discourses, but has been disputed by other recognized scholars of Iranian religions. Well established, however, are the "striking" and "unmistakable" similarities between the Yazidis and the Yaresan or Ahl-e Haqq (People of Truth), some of which can be traced back to elements of an ancient faith that was probably dominant among Western Iranians and akin, but separate from Zoroastrianism and likened to practices of pre-Zoroastrian Mithraic religion.
Principal beliefs
In Yazdâni theologies, an absolute pantheistic force (Hâk or Haqq) encompasses the whole universe. It binds together the cosmos with its essence, and has entrusted the universe the heft sirr (the "Heptad", "Seven Mysteries", "Seven Angels"), who sustain universal life and can incarnate in persons, bâbâ ("Gates" or "Avatar"). These seven emanations are comparable to the seven Anunnaki aspects of Anu of ancient Mesopotamian theology, and they include Melek Taus (the "Peacock Angel" or "King"), who has been suggested by some scholars to be equivalent of the ancient god Dumuzi son of Enki.
Some scholar have pointed to the Iranic origin of these deities, in particular Shaykh Shams al-Din, "the sun of the faith", who is a Yezidi figure that has many features in common with the Old Iranian God Mithra, such as being associated with the Sun, playing an important role in Oaths and being involved in the annual bull sacrifice which takes place in Autumn festivals.
Pre-Islamic theology from indigenous and local Western Iranian faiths have survived in these three religions, although the expression and the vocabulary have been heavily influenced by an Arabic and Persianate Sufi lexicon.
Seven divine beings
The principal feature of Yazdânism is the belief in seven benevolent divine beings that defend the world from an equal number of malign entities. While this concept exists in its purest form in Yârsânism and Yazidism, it evolves into "seven saints/spiritual persons”. Another important feature of these religions is a doctrine of reincarnation. The belief in reincarnation has been documented among the Nusayri (Shamsi Alawites) as well.
The Yazidis believe in a single God as creator of the world, which he has placed under the care of these seven “holy beings” or angels, whose “chief” (archangel) is Melek Taus, the “Peacock Angel”. The Peacock Angel, as world-ruler, causes both good and bad to befall individuals, and this ambivalent character is reflected in myths of his own temporary fall from God's favor, before his remorseful tears extinguished the fires of his hellish prison and he was reconciled with God.
Melek Taus is sometimes identified by Muslims and Christians with Shaitan (Satan). Yazidis, however, strongly dispute this, considering him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel. According to Christine Allison:
The Yazidis of Kurdistan have been called many things, most notoriously “devil-worshippers”, a term used both by unsympathetic neighbours and fascinated Westerners. This sensational epithet is not only deeply offensive to the Yazidis themselves, but quite simply wrong.
Because of this connection to the Sufi Iblis tradition, some followers of Christianity and Islam equate the Peacock Angel with their own unredeemed evil spirit Satan, which has incited centuries of persecution of the Yazidis as ‘devil worshippers’. Persecution of Yazidis has continued in their home communities within the borders of modern Iraq, under both Saddam Hussein and fundamentalist Sunni Muslim revolutionaries. In August 2014, the Yazidis were targeted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, in its campaign to ‘purify’ Iraq and neighboring countries of non-Islamic influences.
Difference in practices from Islam
Yazdânis do not maintain any of the requisite five pillars of Islam; nor do they have mosques or frequent them. They also don't follow the Quran and each denomination of this religion has its own scriptures and texts that the adherents hold in a higher esteem than all other texts.
Denominations
Yarsanism
From the Yarsani (sometimes also called Ahl-e Haqq or Yâresân) point of view, the universe is composed of two distinct yet interrelated worlds: the internal (batini) and the external (zahiri), each having its own order and rules. Although humans are only aware of the outer world, their lives are governed according to the rules of the inner world. Among other important pillars of their belief system are that the Divine Essence has successive manifestations in human form, (mazhariyyat, derived from zahir) and the belief in transmigration of the soul (or dunaduni in Kurdish). The Yarsani do not observe Muslim rites and rituals.
The term "Haqq" (as in Ahl-e Haqq) is often misrepresented and misinterpreted as the Arabic term for "Truth". Instead, its true meaning is clearly explained by Nur Ali Elahi (died 1974) – as being "distinct from the Arabic term and in fact, should be written as "Hâq" ("Hâq-i wâqi'") instead of "Haqq" and should be understood to be different in meaning, connotation, and essence."
Yazidism
Yazidis, who have much in common with the followers of Yarsanism, state that the universe created by God was at first a pearl. It remained in this very small and enclosed state for some time (often a magic number such as forty or forty thousand years) before being remade in its current state. During this period the Heptad were called into existence, God made a covenant with them and entrusted the world to them. Besides Tawûsê Melek, members of the Heptad (the Seven), who were called into existence by God at the beginning of all things, include Şêx Hasan, Şêxobekir and the four brothers, known as the Four Mysteries: Shamsadin, Fakhradin, Sajadin and Naserdin.
Reception
Izady proposes the term as denoting a belief system which "predates Islam by millennia" which is in its character "Aryan" rather than "Semitic".
Instead of suggesting that the Muslim Kurds are Yazdânis, Izady suggests that Yazdâni Kurds are not Muslim, and identify themselves as such only to avoid harm and discrimination.
The view on non-Islamic identity of the Yazdânis is shared by Mohammad Mokri, the well-known Kurdish folklorist and historian, who states this religion to be "less Islamic than Baháʼísm", which had emerged from Bábism as "a new non-Islamic religion".
Criticism
The concept of Yazdânism as a distinct religion has been disputed by a number of scholars. Richard Foltz considers Yazdânism, or the “Cult of Angels”, as Izady's “invented religion”, which according to Foltz “owes more to contemporary Kurdish national sentiment than to actual religious history.”
Iranian anthropologist Ziba Mir-Hosseini states:
See also
Mithra
Mithraism
Paganism
Alians
Babai Revolt
Bektashi Order
Druze
Fire worship
Ghulat
Gnosticism
Hurufiyya
Isma'ilism
Kurdification
Kurdish mythology
Luwian mythology
Mandaeism
Manichaeism
Mazdakism
Nizārī
Nuqtavi
Proto-Indo-European religion
Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
Shabakism
Sun-worship
Zoroastrianism
Zurvanism
References
Bibliography
Bidlīsī, Sharaf Khān & Mehrdad R. Izady. The Sharafnama: or the History of the Kurdish Nation, 1597. Mazda Publishing, 2000.
Potter, Lawrence G. & Gary G. Sick (2004) Iran, Iraq, and the Legacies of War. Palgrave Macmillan.
Abrahamic religions
Asian ethnic religion
Iranian religions
Kurdish culture
Monotheistic religions
Religion in Kurdistan |
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A progress bar is a graphical control element used to visualize the progression of an extended computer operation, such as a download, file transfer, or installation. Sometimes, the graphic is accompanied by a textual representation of the progress in a percent format. The concept can also be regarded to include "playback bars" in media players that keep track of the current location in the duration of a media file.
A more recent development is the , which is used in situations where the extent of the task is unknown or the progress of the task cannot be determined in a way that could be expressed as a percentage. This bar uses motion or some other indicator to show that progress is taking place, rather than using the size of the filled portion to show the total amount of progress, making it more like a throbber than a progress bar (see also barber's pole). There are also indeterminate progress indicators, which are not bar shaped.
History
The concept of a progress bar was invented before digital computing. In 1896 Karol Adamiecki developed a chart named a harmonogram, but better known today as a Gantt chart. Adamiecki did not publish his chart until 1931, however, and then only in Polish. The chart thus now bears the name of Henry Gantt (1861–1919), who designed his chart around the years 1910–1915 and popularized it in the west.
Adopting the concept to computing, the first graphical progress bar appeared in Mitchell Model's 1979 Ph. D. thesis, Monitoring System Behavior in a Complex Computational Environment. In 1985, Brad Myers presented a paper on “percent-done progress indicators” at a conference on computer-human interactions.
Perception
Myers' research involved asking people to run database searches, some with a progress bar and some without. Those who waited whilst watching a progress bar described an overall more positive experience. Myers concluded that the use of a progress bar reduced anxiety and was more efficient.
Typically, progress bars use a linear function, such that the advancement of a progress bar is directly proportional to the amount of work that has been completed. However, varying disk, memory, processor, bandwidth and other factors complicate this estimate. Consequently, progress bars often exhibit non-linear behaviors, such as acceleration, deceleration, and pauses. These behaviors, coupled with humans' non-linear perception of time passing, produces a variable perception of how long progress bars take to complete.
This also means that progress bars can be designed to "feel" faster.
Sometimes, to show the progress of a particularly long-taking operation such during program installation or when copying many files at once, applications resort to showing two progress bars at once, one for the operation as a whole, and the other to indicate the progress of identified sub-tasks such as the installation of a single component or the copying of an individual file.
Finally, the graphical design of progress bars has also been shown to influence humans' perception of duration.
See also
Progress indicator
References
Graphical control elements |
Loisin (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It has approximately 1500 inhabitants.
Monuments and places
Saint-Affre Church
Politics and administration
Administrative situation
In 1860 after the annexation from the Savoy, Loisin became part of the canton of Douvaine. Since 2015, it belongs to the canton of Sciez after the cantonal redistribution law from 2014. The commune is part of the communauté d'agglomération Thonon Agglomération.
Sustainable development policy
In 2008, the commune engaged a Sustainable Development policy with the creation of an agenda 21.
Notable people
Maurice Dunand(1898-1987), archeologist.
See also
Communes of the Haute-Savoie department
References
Communes of Haute-Savoie |
Miss Black America is the sixth solo studio album by German producer Alec Empire, originally released through his Digital Hardcore Recordings label as a part of its DHR Limited series of single pressing albums. Recorded throughout August 1998 in between sessions for Atari Teenage Riots 60 Second Wipeout, the album was produced in response to the political climate of Germany at the time.
The band Miss Black America took their name from this album.
Track listing
References
External links
Miss Black America on Bandcamp
Official Digital Hardcore Recordings site
Alec Empire albums
1999 albums |
Meavenn (1911–1992) was the pen name of Francine Rozec, also known as Fant Rozec, a Breton language poet, novelist and playwright linked to Breton nationalism.
Early life and education
She was born in Saint Marc, then a village, which is now merged with Brest. She did not speak Breton from birth. She learned the language at the age of twelve from a neighbor. She began her career in Paris where she worked at the Post Office. She studied the Irish language at the Sorbonne and then travelled to Ireland in 1931 to improve her knowledge of the Celtic languages.
Activism
She became involved in Breton nationalism through the clandestine group Gwenn ha du, which planned to blow up a monument in Rennes commemorating the Union of Brittany and France. Known to be close to this organization, she was dubbed La Vierge Rouge ("the Red Virgin") by the press. This was in the brief period in 1932 when the French communist party supported Breton nationalist attacks.
She married Loeiz Andouard in 1935. The couple had three children before their separation in 1944. During World War II she was associated with the collaborationism of other Breton nationalists, working with Roparz Hemon in his Breton-language broadcasts from Radio Rennes Bretagne. At this time she became the lover of Jean-Marie Chanteau, one of the leaders of Bezen Perrot, the pro-German militia affiliated with the SS. She married him on his return to Paris. She fled from Rennes in the Bezen Perrot convoy in July 1944 and lay low with Jean-Marie Chanteau in Paris before fleeing to Ireland. She worked for a charity before returning to live in Paris and Saint-Malo.
In 1977, she appeared in Pierre Perrault's film C'etait un Québécois en Bretagne, madame! along with fellow Breton nationalist Glenmor. Both are portrayed as "poets of dispossession, the voices of a despairing national identity." When a shocked local learns that she was a member of a militant separatist group allied to the Nazis, Meavenn denies that it was ever involved in violence against people.
She died in Saint-Malo in 1992.
Writings
She wrote poetry, short stories and novels. Her major work is the novel "Ar Follez yaouank", set during the Irish War of Independence. It was published under the pseudonym Catherine Beauchamp. It inspired the filmmaker Yves Allégret for his film La jeune folle ("The crazy young", but released in English as Desperate Decision), but its endearing poetry in Breton was not adequately replicated. She writes with a free and rather fantastic style, marked by the use of internal rhyme.
She wrote mainly in the Breton journals Gwalarn, Arvor, Galv, Al Liamm, Combat Breton, and Stur, and participated in the political-cultural magazine Vro Ar-Gwirionez the 1960s and 1970s.
Publications
Iwerzon dishual - Skol S. Enda ; Brest, Gwalarn no 38, genver 1932
Kanoù en deiz, poems published in Gwalarn n° 53, 1933
Ar follez yaouank, novella, Gwalarn n° 140, 1941. Rééditée
Ar Gelted Kozh, Skridou Breiz, Brest, 1943
Une petite Irlande d'été
References
External links
Biography (in French)
1911 births
1992 deaths
Breton nationalists
Poets from Brittany
University of Paris alumni
20th-century French poets
French women poets
20th-century French women writers
French women short story writers
French short story writers
French women novelists
20th-century French novelists
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Breton-language poets
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The Port of Bar (Montenegrin: Luka Bar, Лука Бар, MNSE: LUBA) is Montenegro's main sea port. It is located in Bar.
The EU believes that the Port of Bar is one of the essential elements of transport, and therefore the economy of Montenegro, with almost all overseas trade goods being carried through it.
History
The Port of Bar was used as a sea port for Shkodër before it was conquered by the Turks in 1571. Right after the conquest of Bar, the Turks constructed a small port with one breakwater and wooden pier. This former Turkish port has been maintained and expanded since 1878, when Montenegro gained Bar after becoming officially independent from Ottoman Turkey. Montenegro became the first South Slavic state to have a port to the sea.
Construction of the port formally started on March 23, 1905, when King Nikola I, on board on the yacht Rumija, plunged a foundation stone, on which his initials and the date were carved in, into the sea. The Port of Bar officially began construction on June 27, 1906, even though the port was founded the same day. Coen Caglia, an Italian expert in maritime construction designed the port for an annual turnover of 3 million tons of cargo. Despite all the planning, only the 250 meter breakwater was constructed and put into operation on October 23, 1909.
During World War II, Germans mined and destroyed the port almost completely in 1944 while retreating. Reconstruction started in 1950, and the construction for a large port started four years later. The first phase was completed in 1965. The second phase that had in its plan an annual turnover of cca 5 million tons of cargo was almost completed, when the catastrophic earthquake struck in 1979, destroying more than half of its modern port facilities.
The reconstruction and renewal of the port's facilities started in 1981 and today's port of Bar, capable of handling cca 5 million tons of cargo, officially began operations on July 13, 1983.
According to an EU subsidy project document, it was noted in 2019 that Volujica quay had deteriorated and degraded rapidly in the previous several years. EU plans to improve connectivity include building a motorway Bar – Belgrade and the reconstruction and modernisation of the railway Bar – Belgrade.
Development plans at the port include an LNG terminal.
Operations
The port management is split into two operators, Luka Bar AD and AD Container Terminal.
In 2022 the port was making a small profit on transhipping 2m tons p.a.
Terminals
RO - RO Terminal
Timber Terminal
Container Terminal
General Cargo Terminal
Bulk Terminal
Grain Terminal
Liquid Cargo Terminal
Passenger Terminal
Ferry lines
Bar-Bari
Bar-Ancona
References
External links
(Montenegrin) Official Website
(Montenegrin) Listing on the Montenegro Stock Exchange
Bar
1906 establishments in Montenegro
Transport companies established in 1906 |
Reel pipes (also known as a half set, kitchen or parlour pipes) are a type of bagpipe originating in England and Scotland. These pipes are generally a scaled-down version of the large Great Highland pipes. Reel pipes are generally quieter than the Great Highland pipes, so suitable for indoor play.
The reelpipes have a conical bore (similar to the Great Highland pipes or Border pipes, unlike the Scottish smallpipe's parallel bore), and are generally pitched in the key of A or Bb.
See also
Music of Scotland
References
Bagpipes
Scottish musical instruments
English musical instruments |
The Lincoln Bank Tower in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, is an Art Deco highrise building. Construction started in late 1929 with the building's opening on November 16, 1930. For decades, it was the tallest building in the state. The building was also known as "Lincoln Bank Tower" to distinguish it from the building at 215 Berry Street, which had been known as the "Lincoln Life Building" from 1912 until 1923. Today, the other building is commonly known by its original name, the Elektron Building.
History
Lincoln National Bank and Trust was chartered as The German American National Bank in 1905. Due to anti-German sentiment that arose from World War I, the German American National Bank became Lincoln National Bank on May 31, 1918.
The choice of Lincoln as a name was appealing. Not only was there the thriving insurance company, also founded in 1905, down the street, but people were still excited about the Lincoln Highway, (the main street of America) that passed through Fort Wayne to be the first coast-to-coast highway in the United States. In 1928, Lincoln National Bank merged with Lincoln Trust Company (formerly known as Strauss Brothers Commercial Bank) to become Lincoln National Bank and Trust.
Shortly after Lincoln National Bank and Trust was formed, President Charles Buesching commissioned a skyscraper to serve as headquarters for the new bank. Buesching considered it to be a monument to the German immigrants who settled the Fort Wayne area at the turn of the 20th century and formed the backbone of his investors, depositors, and customers. Buesching himself was a German immigrant.
Alvin M. Strauss of Fort Wayne was architect, while Buesching and Hagerman were contractors for the building. Some design elements were based on the Tribune Tower in Chicago. Ground was broken on August 16, 1929, for the building. Despite the Great Crash of the stock market on October 24, construction continued on the $1.3 million structure.
It was the tallest building of any kind in the state until 1962 and the tallest in Fort Wayne until the Fort Wayne National Bank Building (known as National City Center from 1999 to 2009 and as PNC Center since 2009) was built in 1970.
In 1995, the former Lincoln National Bank and Trust, by then part of Norwest Bank, moved into new facilities at Norwest City Center (now known as Wells Fargo Indiana Center). Lincoln Tower was 60% vacant after this move. In 1997, Lincoln Tower was sold at a sheriff's sale. There had been a $2 million default on the mortgage of a building that originally cost $1.3 million to build. In 1998, Tippmann Properties bought Lincoln Tower, and began to carefully refurbish it. A new bank, calling itself Tower Bank, announced it would open in Lincoln Tower, occupying the lobby and some office space. The new bank used a stylized gold version of the Lincoln Bank Tower as its corporate logo, which was designed by prominent Fort Wayne ad agency Boyden & Youngblutt.
Old National Bank acquired Tower Bank in April 2014 and made the Lincoln Bank Tower its Fort Wayne banking market headquarters. Old National also kept the Lincoln Bank Tower banking center and many of Tower's executives. It also retained Tower Private Advisors, the private banking arm of Tower Bank, along with the Lincoln Tower office, and merged it into Old National Wealth Management. Until 2016, Old National also maintained an insurance operation in Fort Wayne, located in Aboite Township. This division was sold and rebranded as ONI Risk Partners.
In 1996, this building was the backdrop in several scenes of In the Company of Men, a film written and directed by Neil LaBute. The main bank lobby was the setting of the final shot. The apartment shown at the end of the movie was the room that is used as the deli in the main lobby. Other scenes were filmed in restrooms and various office spaces throughout the building, including a shot from the roof overlooking the Allen County Courthouse. Twenty years later, Old National Bank and its advertising agency Publicis filmed portions of a television commercial in the bank's lobby. This commercial was aired throughout Old National's market footprint, including to introduce the bank to Wisconsin after the acquisition of a bank in that state.
Building details
Seven bronze panels at the main entrance depict scenes from the life of President Abraham Lincoln. The building is constructed of 1,774 tons of structural steel, faced with 21,250 cubic feet of cut Indiana limestone and granite with gold highlights. It features lead spandrel panels, a 58-ton terra-cotta crown, and 500 tons of marble. At the top of the building is a slender observation tower topped by a flagpole.
Between the entrance and the lobby is a snack shop with the original 1930 soda fountain still in use. The main banking lobby itself is wide, long, and two stories tall. It contains large art deco murals depicting the industries and the seasons, using elemental symbolism from Greek and Egyptian traditions, such as a female form to represent fecundity and the sun to represent energy. Materials include hand-wrought bronze, Milford granite, Italian Travertine marble, several rate types of green Vermont marble, and Indiana limestone.
See also
List of tallest buildings in Fort Wayne
References
External links
Lincoln Tower entry at GlassSteelandStone.com
Lincoln Bank Tower Opens in 1930 article on journalgazette.net
Lincoln Tower entry on Skyscraperpage.com
Lincoln Tower brochure
Art Deco architecture in Indiana
German-American culture in Indiana
German-American history
Skyscrapers in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Skyscraper office buildings in Indiana
1930 establishments in Indiana
Buildings and structures completed in 1930 |
"Artisans Club" building in Belgrade is located in Belgrade, in 2, Hilandarska Street. It was built for the needs of the Craftsmen Association. It represents an immovable cultural property as a сultural monument.
History
Artisans Club was built on the former estate of Jovan Kujundžić, where he once held the bar Kod dva bela goluba. The building where in which this bar worked was built in 1841 and was demolished after the adoption of the project of the construction of the Artisans Club. In memory of this building, Svetogorska Street was named Dva Bela Goluba (Two white doves) for a long time, so as the surrounding neighborhood.
In 1911, the Craftsmen Association founded the Fund of the Artisans Club, and the next year, the land for the construction of the house was purchased. Following the example of other social homes, it aimed to bring together all the previously established handicraft establishments. Such a possibility arose in 1914, when different artisanal funds raised funds and started construction of the home according to the project of the architect Danilo Vladisavljević from 1912. The construction of the Artisans Club was interrupted by the war, but the construction was delayed until 1931, when the design was entrusted to the architect Bogdan Nestorović. The building was completed on 1 May 1933.
Architecture
Artisans Club is designed in the spirit of late Modernism and Art Deco architecture. It was conceived as a corner building with a central tract of circular base and two side wings along Hilandarska and Svetogorska Street. The relation of the curved and flat sides of the central parts was emphasized by the two-storey central tower. The massive angular part of the building is facilitated by a colonnade on the ground floor and the last floor. According to the wish of family Kujundžić, who sold land for the construction of this home, the figures of two white doves are placed on the facade of the building. Namely, the sculptor Nikola Lukaček built a sculptural group Kovač on the facade, a craftsman with his assistant, presented in the form of a young man and a child, the symbol of two young generations, with a few craft tools, hammers, anvils, pliers, сarpenter compasses and scissors, where he placed two white pigeons next to the anvil, and the composition is located above the main entrance to the building, in the central zone of the first floor. Elements of modern style of Art Deco on this monumental building are the purified colonnade of the ground floor and prismatic lanterns (lamps), horizontally connected openings on the floors, stepped wall planes, weaning forms of wreaths and ridges, set sculpture on the console in a specific box for the sculpture, the vertical of the frontal end of the tower, with the inscription "Artisans Club", as well as decorative horizontal accents on parapets and the columns of the upper levels of the tower. This building was one of the most monumental buildings in architecture of Belgrade between the two world wars. Craftsmen called it the "Main House", and the contemporaries described the style of the building as "monumental" and "modern". Today, it is one of the more prominent buildings of the capital.
When it opened to the public, there was a café, a restaurant, offices, cinema "Avala", as well as hotel rooms in the Artisans Club. Since 1947, Radio Belgrade is located in the building. The building and interior were on this occasion adapted to the needs of a radio station. Rooms of the restaurant on the ground floor have been transformed into a music and drama studio, and the newsroom has been placed into the former hotel rooms and offices.
Due to the special cultural, historical, architectural and urban values, the Artisans Club in Belgrade was declared a cultural monument (Decision, "Official Journal of Belgrade no. 23/84").
See more
Radio Belgrade
List of cultural monuments in Belgrade
Sources
External links
Today/Radio Belgrade in the former hotel
Attractions of Belgrade/Artisans Club
Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments – Belgrade
Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments-Belgrade/Immovable cultural property base
List of monuments
Buildings and structures in Belgrade |
Thecla pavo, the peacock hairstreak, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Range
The butterfly occurs in Indian Himalayas from Bhutan to Nagaland.
See also
List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
Cited references
References
Thecla (butterfly)
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies described in 1887 |
Back in the Day is a 2005 crime drama starring Ja Rule and Ving Rhames and directed by James Hunter. The film premiered on BET on May 13, 2005.
Plot
Reggie Cooper is a young man who lives with his father in order to avoid the violent gang activity that almost claimed his life when he was a teenager. However, when his recently paroled mentor, J-Bone reconnects with Reggie, and when his father is murdered, Reggie slips back into a life of crime. Reggie murders a local preacher, whose daughter later develops a relationship with him.
Cast
Ja Rule as Reggie Cooper
Ving Rhames as Joseph "J-Bone" Brown
Tatyana Ali as Alicia Packer
Giancarlo Esposito as Benson Cooper
Joe Morton as Reverend James Packer
Pam Grier as Mrs. Cooper
Frank Langella as Lieutenant Bill Hudson
Lahmard Tate as Jamal
Tia Carrere as Loot
Al Sapienza as Detective Kline
Davetta Sherwood as Tasha
Kaly Cordova as Police Officer
Production and reception
In early 2003 Ja Rule announced that he was to act in a film alongside Ving Rhames. Filming was slated to take place in Puerto Rico during September of the same year. The film was written by James Hunter and Michael Raffanello, directed by Hunter, and scored by composer Robert Folk. The film was primarily produced by DEJ Productions, at the time its most expensive to date, with budget estimates of $5 to $10 million to over $10 million. Filming ended in 2004, and by April DEJ was preparing a potential theatrical release. Back in the Day premiered on BET on May 13, 2005, and was released to DVD on May 24.
Reviewer Ed Huls called it conceptually similar to several other urban crime dramas, but noted the cast and production values made it a high-end release in the genre, and compared it to classic gangster films: "one could easily picture Cagney or Bogart in the Rhames role."
David Kronke of the Los Angeles Daily News wrote: "No original gangstas in this movie, but plenty of unoriginal ones... How did such a ridiculous script lure so many talented actors?"
See also
List of hood films
References
External links
2005 films
American crime drama films
2005 crime drama films
Hood films
Films scored by Robert Folk
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
The Runda Kumpulan Kecil (translation: "Small Patrol Units", RKK) is a militant Islamic insurgent group operating in Southern Thailand.
The RKK has been one of the most brutal and active violent groups of the South Thailand insurgency in recent years.
History
The RKK was founded by young Salafi members of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Koordinasi (BRN-C) in 2000 that had received military training in Indonesia. Therefore, it is still considered by some analysts as an offshoot of the Pejuang Kemerdekaan Patani connected to the BRN-C, and not as an independent organisation.
The RKK is based on well-trained, ruthless and effective commando-style groups, named 'small patrol units' (Runda Kumpulan Kecil) after the description of their month-long military training course. Estimates range of 500 members. Captured members have confessed to the Thai authorities that they routinely flee to Malaysia after carrying out violent attacks in Yala, Pattani or Narathiwat Province. Although several RKK members have been arrested or killed by the Thai military in the past decade, it is very difficult for those involved in counter-insurgency to penetrate the structure of the group owing to its secrecy and great mobility.
Leadership
There is very little information about the leadership and structure of the RKK due to its very secretive and non-hierarchical nature. However, the group does place a lot of value on education (specifically religious education); in fact, their leader is referred to as an Ustaz (which means teacher).
Rorhing Ashong
The only known leader of the RKK is Rorhing Ahsong, also known as Ustaz Rorhing (aka "teacher" Rorhing).
Sapee-aree Jehkor
In July 2006, the Royal Thai Police arrested two supposed members of the RKK, one of which was Sapee-aree Jekhor. He is thought to be a very important member of the group, however, the extent of his participation is still unknown.
Zulkifli Abdhir
Zulkifli Abdhir (also Zulfiki Bin Hir, Marwan, etc.) was thought to have been associated with the RKK, although the link is still uncertain.
Methods
Type of attack
The RKK predominately resorts to bombings as their main form of attack. From 2008 (the year of the first reported incident) to 2017, the group has conducted 171 attacks. Approximately 133 of these (78 per cent) were bombings. After this, armed assault is the second most used type of attack; however, only 28 of these (16 per cent) have been by this method. The remaining attacks are facility/infrastructure (11 attacks), hijacking (5 attempts), and assassinations (2 attempts).
Target
Civilians are most often the victims of attacks made by the RKK; however, businesses and the police are also major targets: 29 per cent of the reported attacks targeted civilians, 20 per cent targeted businesses, and 18 per cent targeted the police. The remaining attacks targeted the military (23 attacks), utilities (19 attacks), transportation (9 attacks), educational institutions (8 attacks), and government (7 attacks).
Casualties
Despite the large volume of attacks, the RKK's reported death rate is fairly low. Of the 171 reported incidents, 136 (80 per cent) had zero fatalities. 34 attacks resulted in at least one fatality but none of the attacks resulted in more than five fatalities. Twenty of the attacks resulted in one fatality each, five of the attacks resulted in two fatalities each, four of the attacks resulted in three fatalities each, four of the attacks resulted in four fatalities each, and one attack resulted in five fatalities.
As of 2017, 63 deaths and 403 injuries have been attributed to the RKK.
Incidents
Bombing of police transport
On 25 July 2012 a police transport of the Royal Thai Police travelling through the Raman District (in the Yala Province) exploded from a roadside bomb. This left five officers dead and one wounded. Of the 171 incidents reported from 2008 to 2017, this was the RKK's most deadly incident.
Derailing of train in Narithiwat Province
On 18 November 2012 a train travelling through the City of Reuso (in the Narithiwat Province) derailed as a result of a bomb planted under the track. After the train derailed, a group of assailants began to shoot into the train cars. There were three confirmed deaths and approximately 36 injuries.
Muang Pattani department store explosions
On 9 May 2017 a bomb exploded in a Big-C department store in the City of Muang Pattani. The explosion injured approximately 40 people.
On 10 May 2017 a lorry filled with explosives detonated at the same Big-C department store. The explosion injured approximately 40 people, bringing the total from the two attacks to 80.
Muang restaurant explosion
On 25 August 2009 a car bomb exploded outside of a restaurant in downtown Muang. There were no reported fatalities, but there were approximately 43 injuries. Two supposed members of the RKK were arrested in connexion with the explosion.
Danok hotel explosion
On 22 December 2013 a car filled with explosives exploded outside of the Oliver Hotel in Danok, Songkhla Province. Two were killed and 25 others were injured. The explosion was one of multiple bombings that occurred in the area that day.
The RKK group has been involved in numerous arson, bombing and murder attacks in the past decade.
Seventeen suspects who were arrested by the Thai Police after the assassination of a Buddhist monk on 16 October 2005 claimed to have connexions with the RKK. The reports that followed the arrest stated that the insurgent group members had been trained at Muslim schools in Bandung, Indonesia.
On 13 February 2013, an armed group of 60 men attacked a military base in the southern part of the country, 16 of whom were killed by the army.
On 4 April 2017, 12 police officers were wounded in an attack in Yala. Security personnel attributed the attack to the RKK .
On 22 August 2017, police arrested a man in his 30s who is a supposed member of the RKK. The Thai media stated that he was suspected of taking part in the attack on six lorries on 16 August 2017.
A top member of the group called Sobueri Jehe was killed by security forces. Between c. 2000 and April 2018 the group lost some 39 members.
See also
Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Koordinasi (BRN-C)
South Thailand insurgency
Salafi jihadism
References
Rebel groups in Thailand
South Thailand insurgency
Islamist groups
Jihadist groups |
Livia Bloom Ingram (née Livia Bloom) curates cinema retrospectives. Her writing and interviews regularly appear in the film journals Cinema Scope; Filmmaker, and Film Comment. She is the editor of the book Errol Morris: Interviews. Bloom currently serves as the Vice President for Icarus Films.
Ingram has curated film programs for the Museum of the Moving Image; The Maysles Cinema in Harlem, The French Embassy's Tournées Festival; The Nantucket Film Festival; the MPAA Student Academy Awards; and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, among other organizations.
References
Photo: http://colinmarshall.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=579674
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American literary critics
American women literary critics
American expatriates in France |
Jennifer L. Johnson is an American diplomat and U.S. State Department official who is serving as the United States ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia.
Early life and education
A native of New York, Johnson earned a Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University and studied abroad at the University of New South Wales in Australia. She earned a Master of Science from the National War College.
Career
Johnson is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister-counselor. Early in her career, she was selected to participate in the Una Chapman Cox Sabbatical Leave Fellowship. Previously, Johnson served overseas in leadership positions at U.S. embassies and consulates in Cuba, Chile, United Arab Emirates, and Turkey. She has held domestic positions at the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York, the Office of the Under Secretary for Management, the Executive Secretariat, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, and the Bureau of Global Talent Management. She previously served as acting deputy assistant secretary and director of the Office of Policy Coordination in the Bureau of Global Talent Management. Since July 15, 2021, she has served as chief of staff to the Under Secretary of State for Management.
U.S. ambassador to Micronesia
On January 23, 2023, President Joe Biden nominated Johnson to serve as the United States ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia. Hearings on her nomination were held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 17, 2023. Her nomination was reported favorably by the committee on June 8, 2023, and was confirmed by the Senate on July 27, 2023 by voice vote.
Johnson presented her credentials to the President of Federated States of Micronesia Wesley Simina on September 13, 2023.
Personal life
Johnson speaks Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American diplomats
Ambassadors of the United States to the Federated States of Micronesia
American women ambassadors
American women diplomats
National War College alumni
United States Department of State officials
United States Foreign Service personnel
Villanova University alumni |
Malta is subdivided into 5 regions (). Three regions were originally created by the Local Councils Act of 1993, and were integrated into the constitution in 2001. Two of the regions were split into smaller ones by Act No. XVI of 2009, and now there are five regions. Malta is divided into five regions without administrative functions.
Each region has a Regional Committee (), which consists of a Regional President, a Vice President, an Executive Secretary and between 10 and 14 members.
List
Current regions
Former regions (1993–2009)
See also
Local councils of Malta
Districts of Malta
NUTS of Malta
ISO 3166-2:MT
References
External links
Subdivisions of Malta
Geography of Malta |
Lake Templene is a artificial lake in St. Joseph County, Michigan. It was created in the early 1970s by damming the Prairie River.
History
In the late 1960s Floyd Templin pursued the idea to dam the Prairie River to create a lake to build houses around. He gathered some investors and proceeded to build a dam.
The lake became popular for fishing tournaments, and this caused a conflict between residents and non-resident fishermen. The Nottawa Township Board of Trustees brokered a compromise. The compromise called for a limit of 25 fishing tournaments per year and the creation of an official public boat launch.
See also
List of lakes in Michigan
References
External links
Lake Templene Property Owners Association
Templene
Templene |
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G is a 12-minute short film directed by Paul Sharits in 1968. It uses many of the strategies characteristic of the structural film movement, including a static frame, flicker effects, flash frames and continual audio and visual repetition. The audio track consists exclusively of the filmmaker uttering the word "destroy" over and over until the word begins to lose its meaning and creates the impression of different combinations of words being spoken.
Unlike many clearly algorithmically-driven films of the structural film movement, T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G does not simply follow a sequence of mathematical transformation, but deploys combinations of audio and visual effects to elicit emotional and psychological responses in viewers.
References
External links
1960s avant-garde and experimental films
American avant-garde and experimental films
1960s American films |
Local elections were held in Malabon on May 13, 2013 as part of the Philippine general election. Several local posts in the city were on the ballot, including the mayor, vice mayor, one representative, and the twelve councilors for the city's two Sangguniang Panglungsod districts (six for each district).
Background
Acting Mayor and former Vice Mayor Antolin Oreta III sought first full term as Mayor. Oreta became Mayor in 2012 when his uncle, then Mayor Canuto Oreta died. He ran unopposed.
Acting Vice Mayor and former Second District Councilor Diosdado "Dado" Cunanan ran for re-election, sought for first full term as vice mayor. He ran against his fellow councilors Edwin Dimaguiba, Eduardo "Eddie" Nolasco, and ABC Pres. Paulo Oreta, son of the late Mayor Canuto Oreta, and also to Jeannie Ng-Sandoval, wife of former Representative Federico Sandoval II.
Incumbent Representative Josephine Veronique "Jaye" Lacson-Noel sought for her second term unopposed.
Results
Mayor
Acting Mayor and former Vice Mayor Antolin Oreta III sought first full term as Mayor. Oreta became Mayor in 2012 when his uncle, then Mayor Canuto Oreta died. He ran unopposed.
Vice Mayor
Jeannie Ng-Sandoval, wife of former Rep. Federico Sandoval II won over her closest opponent Councilor Edwin Dimaguiba. Sandoval defeated her other rivals including Acting Vice Mayor Diosdado "Dado" Cunanan, ABC President Paulo Oreta, and Councilor Eduardo "Eddie" Nolasco.
Representative, Lone District of Malabon
Incumbent Rep. Josephine Veronique "Jaye" Lacson-Noel sought for her second term unopposed.
Councilor
First District
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References
Elections in Malabon
Malabon
2013 elections in Metro Manila |
Isidor Levin (; September 20, 1919 – July 24, 2018) was a Latvian Jewish-born Soviet/Estonian folklorist, narrative researcher, theologian, and Professor Emeritus at the St. Petersburg Institute of Religion and Philosophy. Levin was an internationally recognized folklorist, who supported the study of Estonian culture and helped Estonian researchers continue their work during the Soviet occupation.
He was born in Daugavpils, Latvia in September 1919. Levin moved from Latvia to Estonia in 1937 to study at the University of Tartu in the area of Judaic and Semitic studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Jewish Studies. Later he studied Comparative Folklore with Walter Anderson and Oskar Loorits, graduating in 1941. During the Nazi occupation, Levin, who was Jewish, was hidden by his teacher Uku Masing. From 1952 to 1955 he studied Russian language and literature at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. The following year he became a lecturer in German folklore at the Leningrad Institute of Germanic Studies. In 1967 he obtained a PhD at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Levin was one of the founding members of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) and was an honorary member of the Folklore Fellows. He latterly donated his personal library to the University of Tartu and in 2001 was awarded the Order of the White Star, 4th Class, by then-president Lennart Meri. He died in July 2018 at the age of 98.
Recognition
2001 Order of the White Star (Class IV)
2012 Granted Estonian citizenship for meritorious service in support of Estonian culture
References
1919 births
2018 deaths
Estonian Jews
Latvian Jews
Russian Jews
University of Tartu alumni
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class
Soviet folklorists
People from Daugavpils |
Kuzehgaran or Kuzeh Garan () may refer to:
Kuzeh Garan, Gilan
Kuzehgaran, Kermanshah
Kuzehgaran, West Azerbaijan |
The Mixed time trial T1-2 road cycling event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place on September 5 at Brands Hatch. Nineteen riders from sixteen nations competed. The race distance was 8 km.
Results
References
X Mixed road time trial T1-2 |
National Benefit Authority (NBA) is the largest Disability Tax Credit service provider in Canada, and a founding member of the Association of Canadian Disability Benefit Professionals (ACDBP). Based in Toronto, National Benefit Authority assists clients across Canada in applying for the credit in exchange for a 30% share of the credit. NBA has supported over 40,000 successful applications.
The company was founded by Akiva Medjuck, who saw firsthand what it was like to deal with physical challenges, from relatives coping with disabilities, including a brother and a sister, both born deaf.
Disputes
In 2010, eight customers filed complaints with the Better Business Bureau over issues such as billing. The Canada Revenue Agency and other social organizations expressed concern that the NBA may be profiting from individuals who could file for free or use less expensive services from competitors. In 2011, the Toronto Star and CBC jointly reported that two of the doctors paid by the NBA to certify customers' disabilities were unqualified to do so. Former employees reported that clients were encouraged to exaggerate disabilities. Medjuck denied all accusations. The company was reportedly under CRA investigation. Medjuck previously headed Canadian Ptach Society Inc., a non-profit found by the CRA to have adapted illnesses to fit the DTC criteria. Canada Ptach Society's license was revoked a year after the NBA was launched.
Charitable activities
Since 2011, National Benefit Authority has maintained The Akiva and Bilah Medjuck Foundation a philanthropic group aiming "to give those with disabilities a chance at a better life". In, 2015 they presented $150,000 to the True Patriot Love Foundation to benefit Canadian military families with children with special needs, and partnered with Volleyball Canada to support Canada’s men’s and women’s sitting volleyball teams.
References
External links
The National Benefit Authority
Tax credits
Disability law in Canada
Taxation in Canada |
Kalamazoo is an unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States. Its post office has been closed.
References
Unincorporated communities in Barbour County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia |
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