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6900674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muravyov | Muravyov | Muravyov (, from meaning ant), or Muravyova (feminine form; ), also transliterated as Muraviev, Muravyev or Murav'ev, is a common Russian last name. It may refer to:
Alexey Muravyov (1900–1951), Soviet army officer
Darya Muravyeva (born 1998), Kazakhstani water polo player
Dimitry Muravyev (born 1979), Kazakhstani road bicycle racer
Irina Muravyova (born 1949), Soviet actress
Konstantin Muraviev (1893–1965), Bulgarian politician
Matvey Muravyev (1784–1836), Russian explorer
Mikhail Muravyov (disambiguation) – several people
Nadezhda Muravyeva (born 1980), Russian handball player
Nikita Muravyov (1795–1843), a member of the Decembrist movement
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809–1881), a Russian statesman and diplomat
Nikolay Muraviev (1850–1908) Russian statesman
Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky (1794–1866), Russian military leader and statesman
Olena Muravyova (1867–1939), Ukrainian opera singer
Vladimir Muravyov (athlete) (born 1959), former Soviet track and field athlete
Vladimir Muravyov (translator) (1939–2001), Russian translator and literary critic
Vyacheslav Muravyev (born 1982), Kazakhstani sprinter
See also
Muraviev Amurski-class cruiser, pair of light cruisers Russian empire ordered in 1912 from a Danzig shipyard, seized in 1914 for the German Kriegsmarine
Muravyov-Apostol (disambiguation), several people
6538 Muraviov, an asteroid
Russian-language surnames |
23572653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairaclia | Cairaclia | Cairaclia is a village in Taraclia District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Taraclia District
Bulgarian communities in Moldova |
20468158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajdevi | Rajdevi | Rajdevi (Nepali: राजदेवी) is a municipality in Rautahat District, a part of Province No. 2 in Nepal. It was formed in 2016 occupying current 9 sections (wards) from previous 9 former VDCs. It occupies an area of 28.21 km2 with a total population of 31,212.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District
Nepal municipalities established in 2017
Municipalities in Madhesh Province |
23572657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corten%2C%20Taraclia | Corten, Taraclia | Corten is a village in Taraclia District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Taraclia District
Bulgarian communities in Moldova |
23572659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosiolovca | Novosiolovca | Novosiolovca is a village in Taraclia District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Taraclia District |
20468163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pododesmus%20macrochisma | Pododesmus macrochisma | Pododesmus macrochisma, common name the green falsejingle or the Alaska jingle, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Anomiidae, the jingle shells.
This species inhabits the northwest Sea of Japan, and more specifically, the coast of the South Primorye at Hokkaido Island, the northern part of Honshu Island, off the southern and eastern Sakhalin in the Kuril Islands, and in the east of Kamchatka in the Commander and Aleutian Islands. More recently it has been found in the Chukchi Sea near Alaska, potentially due to global warming.
References
Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
External links
Anomiidae |
6900703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton%20Fire%20Department | Fullerton Fire Department | The Fullerton Fire Department is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for Fullerton, California. The department is responsible for an area of approximately that has a population of just over 135,000 as of 2010.
History
The Fullerton Fire Department was formally established as a volunteer department on August 10, 1908. The initial apparatus included a hand-drawn hook and ladder truck, a hand-drawn chemical wagon, and some ancillary equipment. In 1913 the voters passed a $5,000 bond issue, which was used to purchase the first piece of motorized apparatus, a 1913 Seagrave triple-combination (ladder, hose, and chemical) engine that was housed in rented quarters in the 200 block of North Spadra (now Harbor Boulevard). The city's first formal fire station was opened in 1926 in the 100 block of West Wilshire Avenue. This building housed the department's apparatus on the ground floor, while the second floor housed the city hall. In 1942, when a new city hall was built, the second floor of the Wilshire Avenue building was converted into sleeping quarters for the firefighters.
A second station was added at Brookhurst and Valencia in 1953 to serve the west side of the city, and a third was added at 700 S. Acacia to serve the east side of the city. By 1961 the department had made the transition from a volunteer department to one staffed by career firefighters. A bond issue passed in the mid-1960s funded the construction of a new fire department headquarters building at 312 E. Commonwealth. At that time the Wilshire Avenue station was leveled. The same bond funded the construction of a fourth station at 3251 N. Harbor Blvd. to serve the north-central part of the city, and a fifth station at 2555 E. Yorba Linda Blvd. to serve the rapidly growing east side of the city, which included the Cal State Fullerton campus.
A sixth station was opened at 1500 North Gilbert on the west side of the city in 1968. In 2004 this station was replaced by a new $3.4 million station that was built for the city by private developers as part of an agreement that allowed the developers to build on property owned by Chevron Land and Development.
On May 3, 2011 Fullerton and the Brea Fire Department from the adjacent city of Brea entered into an agreement to share the command structure of their respective fire departments. Under this agreement both share a fire chief, three division chiefs (operations, fire marshal, and administration), and four battalion chiefs (BC's). Three are shift battalion chiefs, and one is the battalion chief in charge of training. The command structure sharing agreement, will save Fullerton $463,000 annually, and will save Brea $881,000 annually.
Metro Cities Fire Authority
The Fullerton Fire Department is part of the Metro Cities Fire Authority which provides emergency communications for multiple departments in and around Orange County. The call center, known as Metro Net Fire Dispatch, is located in Anaheim and provides 9-1-1 fire and EMS dispatch to over 1.2 million residence covering an area of . Other departments included in Metro Net include Anaheim Fire Department, Brea Fire Department, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach Fire Department, Newport Beach Fire Department, Orange Fire Department and Orange County Fire Authority.
The Fullerton Fire Department also is part of the Orange County 800 MHz Countywide Coordinated Communications System. This system provides radio communications to law enforcement, fire services, public works departments, lifeguard, and marine safety services throughout the county. This system facilitates interoperability between units from different agencies, and makes possible a virtually seamless mutual aid system throughout the county.
Additionally, the Fullerton Fire Department is part of the county-wide automatic mutual aid system, which ensures that the nearest available fire and paramedic units are dispatched to a call regardless of the location. Fire departments throughout the county, including Fullerton, employ the incident command system routinely to coordinate resources during significant events. The automatic mutual aid system is used to dispatch resources from Fullerton and surrounding jurisdictions as needed in the event of a multiple alarm fire or other major emergency within the city. The automatic mutual aid system also is used to dispatch resources to incidents within the city when Fullerton units are unavailable owing to prior assignments, or for incidents occurring near the city limits in cases where the unit(s) from another jurisdiction can respond more quickly.
Stations & Apparatus
The Fullerton Fire Department currently has six fire stations strategically located throughout the city.
Community Emergency Response Team
The Community Emergency Response Team for the city of Fullerton is sponsored by the Fullerton Fire Department. The Fullerton CERT is integrated into the command structure of the fire department. The team has its own volunteer command structure, which reports directly to the fire department battalion chief in charge of training. The team generally sponsors three training academies for the general public each year, which are open to those people over 18 years of age who reside or work in the city. Those persons who complete the training academy, which covers the standard, basic CERT training curriculum provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are eligible to become active members of Fullerton CERT provided that they successfully complete a fingerprint live scan and background check.
In the event of a major emergency that affects the city, Fullerton CERT is activated by the fire chief (or his designee).
References
External links
Fire departments in California
Emergency services in Orange County, California
Fire Department
Government of Fullerton, California
1908 establishments in California |
6900705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygnotos%20%28vase%20painter%29 | Polygnotos (vase painter) | Polygnotos (active approx. 450 - 420 BCE), a Greek vase-painter in Athens, is considered one of the most important vase painters of the red figure style of the high-classical period. He received his training in the workshop of the Niobid Painter and specialized in monumental vases, as in the manner of Polygnotos of Thasos, after whom he probably designated himself. He was the leading vase painter of the Group of Polygnotos which carries his name.
He painted particularly large containers such as stamnoi, kraters, hydria and shoulder amphorae, as well as Nolan amphorae and pelike.
Beside this famous vase painter two further vase painters have the name Polygnotos. They have become known in the scholarly literature as the Lewis Painter and the Nausikaa Painter.
References
Further reading
5th-century BC deaths
Ancient Greek vase painters
Ancient Athenians
Year of birth unknown |
20468172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajpur%2C%20Rautahat | Rajpur, Rautahat | Rajpur Farhadwa (Nepali: राजपुर) is a municipality in Rautahat District, a part of Madhesh Province in Nepal. It was formed in 2016 occupying current 9 sections (wards) from previous 9 former VDCs. It occupies an area of 31.41 km2 with a total population of 41,136 as of 2011.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District
Nepal municipalities established in 2017
Municipalities in Madhesh Province |
6900715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Fulton%2C%20Indiana | Port Fulton, Indiana | Port Fulton was a town located two miles up the river from Louisville, within present-day Jeffersonville, Indiana. At its height it stretched from the Ohio River to modern-day 10th Street, and from Crestview to Jefferson/Main Streets.
Port Fulton was laid out in 1835 by Victor Neff, and named for Robert Fulton, the inventor of steamboats. Its original boundaries were present day Jackson Street (east), Division Street (west), and between Court and Charlestown Streets to the north. It became a magnet for those in the maritime business. Henry French, a steamboat builder, already had a home there. The Howard Family resided there. The shipyards of both French and Howard became Jeffboat.
In April 1853 the city of Jeffersonville attempted to annex Port Fulton, only to be stymied by its residents.
The third-largest Civil War hospital, Jefferson General Hospital, was operated there, formed from the Brighton estate owned by Jesse Bright that was confiscated by Union authorities.
In 1880 the population was 907; in 1900, it was 1,104. However, Port Fulton's population declined to 971 in the 1920 census. This allowed Jeffersonville to finally annex Port Fulton in 1926.
Gallery
References
Jeffersonville, Indiana
Geography of Clark County, Indiana
Former municipalities in Indiana
Populated places established in 1835
1835 establishments in Indiana
1926 disestablishments in Indiana |
23572661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvardi%C8%9Ba | Tvardița | Tvardița (, Tvǎrdica) is a town in Taraclia district, Moldova. It was founded following the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829 by Bulgarian refugees from Tvarditsa, a town just south of the Balkan Mountains, and the surrounding region. The local Bulgarian population forms part of the larger group of Bessarabian Bulgarians.
The town is located from the district seat, Taraclia, and from Chișinău.
Previously a commune, Tvardița was declared a town in 2013.
Notes
External links
Tvarditsa.com, a website about the commune's Bulgarian population
Tvarditsa - MD
Parcani - PMR
Cities and towns in Moldova
Taraclia District
Bulgarian communities in Moldova |
6900716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochlea | Trochlea | Trochlea (Latin for pulley) is a term in anatomy. It refers to a grooved structure reminiscent of a pulley's wheel.
Related to joints
Most commonly, trochleae bear the articular surface of saddle and other joints:
Trochlea of humerus (part of the elbow hinge joint with the ulna)
Trochlea of femur (forming the knee hinge joint with the patella)
The trochlea tali in the superior surface of the body of talus (part of the ankle hinge joint with the tibia)
Trochlear process of the calcaneus
In quadrupeds, the trochlea of Radius (bone)
The "knuckles" of the tarsometatarsus which articulate with the proximal phalanges in a bird's foot
Related to muscles
It also can refer to structures which serve as a guide for muscles:
Trochlea of superior oblique (see also superior oblique muscle), a mover of the eye which is supplied by the trochlear nerve, or fourth cranial nerve |
20468183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajpur%20Tulsi | Rajpur Tulsi | Rajpur Tulsi is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3097 people living in 541 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
23572669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valea%20Perjei | Valea Perjei | Valea Perjei may refer to:
Valea Perjei, Cimişlia, Moldova
Valea Perjei, Taraclia, Moldova
See also
Valea (disambiguation) |
20468189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramoli%20Bairiya | Ramoli Bairiya | Ramoli Bairiya is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3724 people living in 705 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
23572673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valea%20Perjei%2C%20Taraclia | Valea Perjei, Taraclia | Valea Perjei is a village in Taraclia District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Taraclia District
Bulgarian communities in Moldova |
20468194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladas%20Michelevi%C4%8Dius | Vladas Michelevičius | Vladislovas Michelevičius (8 June 1924 – 12 November 2008) was a Lithuanian bishop for the Catholic Church.
Born in 1924 he was ordained as a priest on 31 October 1948. On 13 November 1986 he was appointed as the Auxiliary Bishop of Kaunas, Titular Bishop of Thapsus, and Auxiliary Bishop of Vilkaviškis. Michelevičius resigned as Bishop of Vilkaviškis on 10 March 1989. He retired in 1999 and died on 12 November 2008.
External links
Catholic-Hierarchy
1924 births
2008 deaths
People from Kaunas District Municipality
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Lithuania
Soviet Catholics |
23572676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud%C4%83i%2C%20Taraclia | Budăi, Taraclia | Budăi is a commune in Taraclia District, Moldova. It is composed of two villages, Budăi and Dermengi.
References
Communes of Taraclia District |
23572679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation%20Act%201722 | Taxation Act 1722 | The Taxation Act 1722 (9 Geo. I, c. 18) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in response to the Jacobite risings and the Atterbury Plot. The Taxation Act, with the Oaths Act, is known collectively as the Papists Act 1722.
Following the Jacobite rising of 1715, and seeking to curtail the political activity of both Catholics and partisans seeking to restore the Stuart dynasty, the legislature passed multiple bills that varyingly penalized and taxed Catholics, Irish subjects, and other political dissidents. Similar bills passed the parliament throughout the eighteenth century, frequently ratified in waves following similar events of rebellion, most notably the second Jacobite rising of 1745.
The Taxation Act of 1722, also referred to as the "papists tax", was championed by Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain). The tax sought to levy £100,000, which was to paid in addition to the double Land Tax already owed by Roman Catholics.The act's sister legislation, the Oaths Act, required a statement from Catholics in support of George I, and further oaths of royal supremacy that compromised the faith of Catholic subjects.
Both acts received royal assent in 1723.
Notes
Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1722
History of Christianity in the United Kingdom |
20468199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampur%20Khap | Rampur Khap | Rampur Khap is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3194 people living in 594 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
23572681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salcia%2C%20Taraclia | Salcia, Taraclia | Salcia is a commune in Taraclia District, Moldova. It is composed of two villages, Orehovca and Salcia.
References
Communes of Taraclia District |
23572692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albota%20de%20Jos | Albota de Jos | Albota de Jos is a commune in Taraclia District, Moldova. It is composed of three villages: Albota de Jos, Hagichioi and Hîrtop.
The commune is located from the district seat, Taraclia, and from Chișinău.
During the interwar period, the commune was the seat of Plasa Mihai Viteazul, in Cahul County, Romania.
References
Communes of Taraclia District
Cahul County (Romania) |
17330576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1534%20N%C3%A4si | 1534 Näsi | 1534 Näsi, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 20 January 1939, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland, and later named for the Finnish lake Näsijärvi.
Orbit and classification
Näsi orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.0–3.4 AU once every 4 years and 6 months (1,646 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.25 and an inclination of 10° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as at Simeiz Observatory in 1915. The body's observation arc begins 15 years prior to its official discovery with its identification as at Heidelberg Observatory.
Physical characteristics
Lightcurve observations
In April 2007, the so-far best rated rotational lightcurve of Näsi was obtained by Jason Sauppe at Oakley Observatory in the United States. The lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 7.94 hours with a brightness variation of 0.35 magnitude ().
Periods from other photometric observations were obtained by astronomers René Roy in May 2016 (5.98 hours, Δ0.47 mag, ), Giovanni de Sanctis in the 1990s (9.75 hours, Δ0.22 mag, ), Adrián Galád in October 2005 (7.9338 hours, Δ0.51 mag, ), and a period of 7.93161 hours modeled from various data sources and published in 2016 ().
Spectral type, diameter and albedo
In the SMASS taxonomy, the carbonaceous C-type asteroid is also classified as a Cgh-subtype. According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Näsi measures between 18.32 and 27.52 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.035 and 0.100. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0721 and a diameter of 22.11 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.75.
Naming
This minor planet is named for the large Finnish lake Näsijärvi, sometimes called "Näsi". It measures 256 square kilometers (99 sq mi) in size and is located only 95 metres above sea level. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
001534
Discoveries by Yrjö Väisälä
Minor planets named for places
Named minor planets
001534
19390120 |
23572698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawa%20%28Hrycuniak%29 | Sawa (Hrycuniak) | Metropolitan Sawa, (sometimes Sabbas, secular birth name Michał Hrycuniak; born 14 April 1938 in Śniatycze) is the Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, and hence the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church since 1998, the second largest organized religion in Poland. Sawa was a longtime associate of communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa actively working under name of TW Jurek during which he cooperated with communist authorities, leading a coordinated campaign both again individual church members and the Orthodox church itself. He supported and worked with communist government for the purpose of advancing his career within the Church. He is also a professor of theology. Previously, he was a bishop of Białystok and Gdańsk (1981–1998) and Łódź and Poznań (1979–1981).
References
1938 births
Living people
People from Zamość County
Ministry of Public Security (Poland) officials
Bishops of the Polish Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Poland
Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
Eastern Orthodox bishops in Europe |
23572708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurung%20Royal%20Tomb | Hurung Royal Tomb | The Hurung Royal Tomb, also known as Huneung Royal Tomb, is a 15th-century mausoleum located in Ryongjong Village, Kaepung County near Kaesong, North Korea. The site consists of two separate burial mounds, which contain the remains of Jeongjong, the second king of the Joseon dynasty and son of its founder Taejo, as well as the body of his wife, Queen Jeongan. Construction on the tombs began after Queen Jeongan's death in 1412, and was only completed after Jeongjong himself died in 1419. Both tombs consist of a burial mound ringed with a carved granite base; they are surrounded by statues of the twelve zodiac animals. The "spirit road" up to the tombs is lined with statues of military officers and Confucian officials.
Despite being the tomb of a Joseon monarch, the site was excluded from the World Heritage Site "Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty" as it is located in North Korea. It is one of two royal tombs from that dynasty in the country; the other, Cherung, belongs to Queen Sinui, wife of the dynasty's founder Taejo, who died before her husband became king and moved the capital to Hanseong (present-day Seoul).
References
http://www.encyber.com/search_w/ctdetail.php?gs=ws&gd=&cd=&d=&k=&inqr=&indme=&p=1&q=%C8%C4%B8%AA&masterno=882908&contentno=882908
https://web.archive.org/web/20110609215651/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200006/news06/21.htm
http://blog.joins.com/media/folderListComment.asp?uid=dangye&list_id=10564735&folder=26&list_idx=10564735&rep_open=1&ret_url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.joins.com%2Fmedia%2FfolderListSlide.asp%3Fuid%3Ddangye%26folder%3D26%26list_id%3D10564735
Kaesong
Archaeological sites in North Korea |
17330578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipiwai | Pipiwai | Pipiwai or Pīpīwai is a locality in the Te Horo valley in Northland, New Zealand. Whangarei is about 35 km to the southeast. Titoki is about 16 km to the south.
There are few jobs in the area, and most adults commute to Whangarei or Dargaville.
Marae
The local Tau Henare Marae and meeting house are a traditional meeting ground for the Ngāpuhi hapū of Te Orewai and Ngāti Hine. The Omauri marae grounds, located near Pipiwai, are a meeting place for the Ngāpuhi hapū of Ngā Uri o Puhatahi.
Education
Te Horo School is a coeducational full primary (years 1–8) school with a decile rating of 2 and a roll of 38.
Tau Henare Marae runs a kohanga reo.
Notable people
Taurekareka Henare, Reform Party politician
Notes
Whangarei District
Populated places in the Northland Region |
17330598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Atkinson%20%28musician%29 | Will Atkinson (musician) | Will Atkinson (31 January 1908 – 30 July 2003) was a noted traditional musician from northern Northumberland. He started off as a player of the English diatonic accordion, but was best known as a harmonica or moothie player. His playing was distinguished by a very clear sense of rhythm, with a definite lilt. He was a major figure in Northumbrian music. He was also the composer of several tunes that have entered the tradition and are played at gatherings and sessions.
Biography
Atkinson was born in Crookham, Northumberland in 1908. He worked as a shepherd and as a rabbit-catcher until his retirement, also working at times maintaining road signs.
From his youth, until the end of his long life, he was very active and influential in traditional music circles, on both sides of the Border. He had twin sons, of whom George, who died in 1987 aged 53, was also a musician, a noted Northumbrian piper. Will died on 30 July 2003.
Musical life
He came from a musical family - his maternal uncle Geordie Armstrong was, according to Will's cousin Willy Taylor, 'the best fiddler around'. After Will's father was killed in France in 1916, Will and his mother lived with Armstrong, her brother. The musical tradition continued in the family - Will's son George, who died before him, was widely respected as a player of the Northumbrian smallpipes.
In the 1930s he began playing melodeon for dances with Geordie Armstrong and Joe Davidson playing fiddles.
He was a founder member of the Alnwick Branch of the Northumbrian Pipers' Society in the 1930s; the Alnwick branch later became the Alnwick Pipers' Society, and Will was its president for many years.
Later he formed a band The Northumbrian Minstrels with Jack Armstrong playing fiddle and smallpipes, Jack Thompson on fiddle, Bob Clark on drums and Peggy Clark on piano. This group made some broadcasts for the BBC, including one from Alnwick in 1942 - a press cutting relating to this is at Woodhorn Museum website, where he is shown with a melodeon. They made some recordings at Powburn in 1944 - since rereleased in a compilation by Saydisc SDL 252, together with the piping of Jack Armstrong. These Powburn recordings, together with later recordings, are also available on the FARNE archive.
In the 1950s, Atkinson played with other musicians near Alnwick forming The Cheviot Ranters, a noted dance band in northern Northumberland, but left the group some time later. He also bought a good mouth organ at this time, intending it to be for his son, but liked it so much he kept it himself. He also refined his mouth organ technique after hearing Larry Adler's playing, and mostly played mouth organ subsequently. In 1974 he was one of the artists recorded by Topic, playing mouth organ, on Bonny North Tyne - Northumbrian Country Music. In later life, he recorded many times, chiefly with producer Geoff Heslop. The first release, with his friends Joe Hutton (piper) and Willy Taylor, collectively known as The Shepherds, was Harthope Burn, next came a compilation of Northumbrian Music and Poetry, From Sewingshields to Glendale (with Kathryn Tickell, Alistair Anderson, Mike Tickell, Hutton and Atkinson, etc.) and in 1989 Heslop and Alistair Anderson recorded him in a solo album called simply Will Atkinson - Mouthorgan. This included tunes from various sources, including five of his own compositions. Several recordings of him playing at folk clubs are available on the FARNE archive. When compiling the multi-album anthology The Voice of the People, Reg Hall selected several recordings of Will, which appeared on the record Ranting and Reeling - these included some of the recordings made for Bonny North Tyne, as well as later recordings made with The Shepherds.
Partial list of compositions
Sharon Davis USA (jig)
Alistair Anderson's Favourite (reel)
The Early Morning Reel
Kyloe Burn (reel)
Pippa Sandford (jig)
The Glen Aln Hornpipe
Anthony Robb (hornpipe)
The Redeside Hornpipe
93 Not Out (jig)
The Inspiration Waltz (waltz)
Recordings
Jack Armstrong -Celebrated Minstrel Saydisc SDL 252 (1944)
Bonny North Tyne - Northumbrian Country Music, Topic 12TS245 (1974)
Harthope Burn MWM Records 1024 (1983)
From Sewingshields to Glendale MWM Records MWM 1033 (1986)
Will Atkinson - Mouthorgan Common Ground CGRCD002 (1989)
References
Tony Wilson's biographical notes in Bonny North Tyne.
Will Atkinson's obituary
Reg Hall's notes to Ranting and Reeling.
FARNE archive
Interview with Willy Taylor and Will Atkinson on FARNE
External links
http://www.folknortheast.com/radio-farne/radio-farne/programme-eight
http://www.folknortheast.com/radio-farne/radio-farne/programme-three
English folk musicians
1908 births
2003 deaths |
23572709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakasone%20Tuimiya | Nakasone Tuimiya | {{nihongo|Nakasone Tuimiya, also Nakasone Tuyumya|仲宗根豊見親||extra=also Okinawan: 仲宗根豊見親玄雅, Nakasone Tuyumya Genga' }}(active c. 1500–1530) was a Ryūkyūan Chieftain and later Anji of the Miyako Islands credited with repelling an invasion from Ishigaki Island, and expanding Miyako political control over some of the Yaeyama Islands. When the Miyako Islands were attacked by the Ryūkyū Kingdom, Nakasone saved the people of Miyako from harm by agreeing to surrender to annexation by the Kingdom.
Early life
Nakasone was the great-great-grandson of Meguro Mori who, in the 14th century, defeated the Yonahabara army under Sata Ubunto to unite the Miyako Islands for the first time.
Toyomiya (or, Tuyumya in Okinawan) was not a name, but rather something akin to a title or honorific. While he passed on the family name Nakasone to his descendants, this lineage, of which he is the founder, is at the same time called the . While the exact year of Nakasone's birth is unknown, the family's records indicate that he was born sometime in the Tianshun Chinese Imperial era, i.e. 1457–1464.
Oyake Akahachi Rebellion
At this time, the Ryūkyū Kingdom, based at Shuri on Okinawa Island, did not yet have direct control over the Yaeyama or Miyako Islands, but merely expected tribute to be paid. In 1500, Oyake Akahachi of Ishigaki Island led the people of Ishigaki and the surrounding islands in revolt against paying tribute and against the Kingdom. Nakasone's family was entrenched in a power struggle with their rival the Kaneshigawa family for control of Miyako, and Oyake planned to invade the island during the division. Upon learning this, Nakasone led a preemptive invasion of the Yaeyama Islands, securing his status as leader of Miyako, and seizing Ishigaki, Yonaguni (where he took the daughter of the chieftain Untura as his prize), and a few other neighboring islands in the process.
Shortly after these successful invasions which expanded the geographical scope of Miyako's political control, the islands came under attack from a force of roughly 3,000 Ryūkyūan soldiers sent by King Shō Shin to suppress the rebellion. Seeing defeat as inevitable, Nakasone surrendered and agreed to have the Miyako Islands, along with the Yaeyamas which Nakasone had just secured, absorbed by the Ryūkyū Kingdom. He is today worshipped and celebrated as a hero for having spared the people of Miyako from the death and destruction that would have resulted from attempts to resist the invasion.
Later life
Nakasone was formally appointed Aji of Miyako by the Sanshikan, which also began a system of sending representatives from Okinawa to help oversee the administration of this corner of the kingdom for three-year-long terms. Most aspects of local administration were left in the hands of Nakasone, however, who was also empowered to deal out rewards and punishments, and to appoint local leaders to lesser aristocratic titles and bureaucratic posts.
Nakasone established a government office called the kuramoto (蔵元) which oversaw the collection of contributions to the tribute payment to be sent to Shuri. To help ensure this process, Nakasone effected road maintenance, as well as the construction of the stone bridge .
Nakasone was succeeded as Chieftain of Miyako around 1530, by someone bearing the same name as his great-great-grandfather, Meguro Mori. His grave can be found in Hirara City on Miyako Island.
References
Ryukyuan chiefs
Aji (Ryukyu)
Year of birth uncertain
Ryukyuan people
15th-century Ryukyuan people
16th-century Ryukyuan people
Deified people |
23572714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-Time%3A%20Vancouver%27s%20Soccer%20Show | Full-Time: Vancouver's Soccer Show | Full-Time: Vancouver's Soccer Show is a now defunct two-hour soccer radio program broadcast Sunday nights at 9 pm on the TEAM 1040 Sports Radio in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The show was hosted by Tyler Green and Mike Martignago. The show debuted on June 29, 2008, as a once a month soccer show. Soon afterwards, it was expanded to a one-hour weekly program and in June of 2009, expanded yet again to a two-hour program.
According to the show's website: "Full-Time features leading soccer analysts from Europe and North America, along with players, coaches and managers from around the world in a fast-paced sports talk format, with entertaining interviews and informative segments."
Notable guests included:
Clarence Seedorf,
Phil Brown,
Andy Dawson,
Paul Stalteri,
Stewart Robson,
David Edgar,
Asmir Begović,
Dale Mitchell,
Landon Donovan
References
Canadian sports radio programs |
23572715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albota%20de%20Sus | Albota de Sus | Albota de Sus is a commune in Taraclia District, Moldova. It is composed of three villages: Albota de Sus, Roșița and Sofievca.
References
Communes of Taraclia District |
23572725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papists%20Act%201722 | Papists Act 1722 | The Papists Act 1722 (9 Geo. I, c. 24) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, enacted after the discovery of the Jacobite Atterbury Plot. The Act required landowners to take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, by 25 December 1723; those who declined were to register their estates by 25 March 1724 (N.S)/1723 (O.S).
If they failed to do so they risked forfeiting their estates. It was repealed by the Papists Act 1723 (10 Geo. 1, c. 4).
Notes
Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1722
History of Christianity in the United Kingdom
1722 in Christianity
Law about religion in the United Kingdom |
23572726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceal%C3%AEc | Cealîc | Cealîc is a commune in Taraclia District, Moldova. It is composed of three villages: Cealîc, Samurza and Cortenul Nou.
References
Communes of Taraclia District |
23572733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Enclosure | The Enclosure | The Enclosure (1961) is a novel by Susan Hill. Hill wrote the novel when she was 15 years old.
References
Novels by Susan Hill
1961 British novels
Hutchinson (publisher) books
1961 debut novels |
17330632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1563%20No%C3%ABl | 1563 Noël | 1563 Noël, provisional designation , is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 7 March 1943, by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle, and named after his son.
Orbit and classification
Noël is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.4 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,185 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. Noël was first identified as at the Crimean Simeiz Observatory in 1930, extending its observation arc by 13 years prior to its official discovery observation.
Physical characteristics
The S-type asteroid is characterized as a transitional Sa-subtype on the SMASS taxonomic scheme.
Rotation period
Between April 2008 and June 2015, five rotational lightcurves were obtained from photometric observations by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory near Prague. All lightcurves show a well-defined rotation period between 3.548 and 3.550 hours with a brightness variation of 0.15 to 0.18 in magnitude ().
In April 2008, a photometric observation by astronomer Julian Oey at the Kingsgrove Observatory, Australia, gave a concurring period of hours and an amplitude of 0.14 ().
Diameter and albedo
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Noël measures 7.2 kilometers in diameter and its surface has a high albedo of 0.37, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the family's principal body and namesake – and calculates a larger diameter of 9.0 kilometers.
Naming
This minor planet was named in honor of the discoverer's son, Emanuel Arend ().
Notes
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
001563
Discoveries by Sylvain Arend
Minor planets named for people
Named minor planets
001563
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20468206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20United%20States%20presidential%20election%20in%20Connecticut | 2008 United States presidential election in Connecticut | The 2008 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Connecticut was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama with a 22.4% margin of victory. Connecticut was 1 of the 6 states that had every county—including traditionally Republican Litchfield County—go for Obama, the others being Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Connecticut has not voted for a Republican presidential nominee since 1988 when the state was carried by George H.W. Bush over Michael Dukakis.
As of 2020, this was the most recent presidential election in which the Democratic nominee carried the towns of Barkhamsted, Colebrook, New Hartford, Plymouth, Preston, Scotland, Thompson, Torrington, and Winchester. This is also the only time since 1916 that the town of Warren voted Democratic.
Primaries
2008 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary
2008 Connecticut Republican presidential primary
Campaign
Predictions
There were 16 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day:
Polling
Barack Obama won every single poll taken in the state, and every one of them by a double-digit margin of victory.
Fundraising
John McCain raised a total of $3,966,985. Barack Obama raised $9,727,617.
Advertising and visits
Obama spent $730,335 while McCain spent nothing on the state. Neither campaign visited the state.
Analysis
Connecticut is a part of New England, an area of the country that has in recent decades become a Democratic stronghold. The state went Republican in most of the elections from 1948 to 1988, the exceptions being the three in the 1960s. However, following Bill Clinton's narrow victory in the state in 1992, it has not been seriously contested by Republicans since. McCain ceded the state to Obama early on, despite the endorsement of the state's incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-Independent who still caucused with the Democrats but backed McCain for president in 2008.
In 2006, Democrats knocked off two incumbent Republicans and picked up two U.S. House seats in CT-02 and CT-05 (Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy, respectively). Although then-Governor M. Jodi Rell and Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele were both moderate Republicans, all other statewide offices were held by Democrats. Democrats also enjoyed a supermajority status in both chambers of the Connecticut state legislature.
In 2008, Democrat Jim Himes defeated incumbent Republican Christopher Shays, who was at the time the only Republican member of the U.S. House from New England, for the U.S. House seat in Connecticut's 4th congressional district. This was largely because Obama carried the district with a staggering 60% of the vote—one of his best performances in a Republican-held district. Shays' defeat meant that for the first time in almost 150 years, there were no Republican Representatives from New England. In no other part of the country is a major political party completely shut out. At the state level, Democrats picked up 6 seats in the Connecticut House of Representatives and 1 seat in the Connecticut Senate.
, this is the last election in which Litchfield County voted for the Democratic candidate, also making it the last time any presidential candidate has won every single county in the state.
Results
Results breakdown
By county
By congressional district
Barack Obama carried all 5 of Connecticut’s congressional districts.
Electors
Technically the voters of Connecticut cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Connecticut is allocated 7 electors because it has 5 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 7 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all sevenelectoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 15, 2008, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 7 were pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
Shirley Steinmetz
Nicholas Paindiris
Andrea Jackson Brooks
Jim Ezzes
Lorraine McQueen
Deborah McFadden
Ken Delacruz
See also
United States presidential elections in Connecticut
References
Connecticut
2008
2008 Connecticut elections |
20468210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangapur%2C%20Rautahat | Rangapur, Rautahat | Rangapur is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 8141 people living in 1487 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
23572734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jets%20Flight%20Crew | Jets Flight Crew | The Jets Flight Crew is a professional cheerleading squad for the New York Jets of the National Football League. The group was established in 2006 as the Jets Flag Crew, composed of six female flag carriers. In 2007, the group expanded and was appropriately renamed the Jets Flight Crew. The squad regularly performs choreographed routines during the team's home contests.
Denise Garvey serves as director of the squad.
History
Jets Flag Crew
The Jets Flag Crew was unveiled on October 15, 2006, during the Jets' home game against division rival Miami Dolphins. The team stressed that the crew, composed of females who relieved their male counterparts, were "flag carriers" and not cheerleaders.
Jets Flight Crew
The Jets officially announced the creation of the Jets Flight Crew on August 7, 2007. The Flag Crew had been well received the previous year, and the team felt it best to take the next step and organize an official squad that could actively participate during home games. The intention of the crew was to "enhance the overall fan experience by bringing additional energy and enthusiasm to each home game."
Denise Garvey, a former Knicks City Dancer and Cowboys cheerleader, was brought in to coordinate the squad. Given her expertise and experience in performance and dance, Garvey, with the support of the organization, held closed auditions, inviting 46 young women to try out for the squad. Of the 46, ten were chosen to become the first members of the Jets Flight Crew. The organization continued to stress that the squad was not cheerleaders but rather a unique flag carrier/dance team.
Following their inaugural season, the Flight Crew held open auditions for the first time in 2008, increasing the number of members from 10 to 22, as the squad had been well received among the fans in 2007. The Jets announced their partnership with Marc Eckō, founder of Eckō Unltd., who agreed to design the Flight Crew's 2008 uniforms.
The Flight Crew was expanded from 22 to 30 members in 2009. In 2010, the Jets, again, increased the size of the crew to as many as 40 members with Garvey noting that "We want to be the biggest presence we can be in the new stadium."
Calendar
In 2009, a Flight Crew swimsuit calendar was introduced, a testament to the squad's growing importance within the organization and in the community. The 2010 calendar featured members of the 2009 squad on beaches in New York and New Jersey while Linda W. served as the cover model. The following year, shooting for the 2011 calendar took place in Aruba.
Notable members
Gina Capelli-Mormando (2007, 2011–2013) MTV MADE Coach Season 9
Krista DeBono (2010–2014), contestant on The Amazing Race 27
Nikki Delventhal (2011–2013), contestant on The Bachelor Season 19, YouTuber
Tiffany Torres (2011–2014), contestant on The Amazing Race 27
Natalie Negrotti (2012–2014), contestant on Big Brother 18
Junior Program
Jets Junior Flight Crew
(2010–Present)
The organization introduced the Jets Junior Flight Crew in 2010, a junior program that offers children the opportunity to train with the Flight Crew while improving their "talent and abilities in a non-competitive environment."
See also
National Football League Cheerleading
References
External links
Official Website
Flight Crew Roster
2006 establishments in New York (state)
National Football League cheerleading squads
New York Jets
Performing groups established in 2006
Dance in New York City
Dance in New Jersey
History of women in New York (state)
History of women in New Jersey |
23572738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinogradovca | Vinogradovca | Vinogradovca is a commune in Taraclia District, Moldova. It is composed of four villages: Chirilovca, Ciumai, Mirnoe and Vinogradovca.
References
Communes of Taraclia District |
23572741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20MacLeod | Doug MacLeod | Doug MacLeod may refer to:
Doug MacLeod (musician) (born 1946), American blues musician, guitarist, and songwriter
Doug MacLeod (TV writer) (1959–2021), Australian screenwriter and author |
20468216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bisset%20%28artist%29 | James Bisset (artist) | James Bisset (ca. 1762 – 17 August 1832) was a Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet, who spent most of his life in and around Birmingham, England.
Bisset was born in Perth, the son of a merchant who invested the Baltic flax trade but had fallen upon hard times. He was educated at Perth Academy until 1776 when he moved at the age of 13 to Birmingham, where his brother had established himself as a merchant. At the age of 15 Bisset obtained an apprenticeship with a Birmingham japanner, and by 1785 was listed in a local trade directory as a painter of miniatures. His invention of a method of painting on the inside of convex glasses enabled him to develop a successful business making ornamental goods and marry the daughter of a local landowner, and the early years of the nineteenth century saw him diversifying into medal-production and art dealing.
In 1789, he was instrumental in establishing one of Birmingham's first committees to provide watchmen (a form of early policing), in the St. Paul's district.
In 1808 Bisset moved to a large house in New Street where he established a museum and picture gallery – Birmingham's first – that displayed everything from paintings and medals to stuffed wildlife and "works of savage nations". In 1813 he sold two paintings by Canaletto and moved to nearby Leamington Spa, where his museum was re-established by his wife Dolly.
Bisset was a notable figure in Birmingham's cultural and commercial life, a prominent member of the Birmingham Book Club and a composer of much published verse. His most notable work is his 1800 Poetic survey round Birmingham, with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactures of the place, accompanied with a magnificent directory, with the names and professions, &c. superbly engraved in emblematic plates – a directory of Birmingham trades at the time of the town's revolutionary industrial expansion, written in heroic verse and intended as a "grand tour" of the "works of genius" of a "seat of the arts".
References
1762 births
1832 deaths
People from Birmingham, West Midlands
Writers from Perth, Scotland
British medallists
Portrait miniaturists
Artist authors
Museum founders
People educated at Perth Academy |
20468222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhuwa | Sakhuwa | Sakhuwa is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2821 people living in 505 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
20468230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhuwa%20Dhamaura | Sakhuwa Dhamaura | Sakhuawa Dhamaura is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 6478 people living in 1266 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
23572748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%20Alps | Glen Alps | Glen Alps (1914-1996) was a printmaker and educator who is credited with having developed the collagraph. A collagraph is a print whose plate is a board or other substrate onto which textured materials are glued. The plate may be inked for printing in either the intaglio or the relief manner and then printed onto paper. Although the inventor of the process is not known, Alps made collagraphy his primary art form and coined the word "collagraph" in 1956. He disseminated the techniques he developed for making collagraphs during his long career as both an artist and a teacher.
Early life and education
Alps was born in 1914 on a farm near Loveland, Colorado. He attended Colorado State College of Education (today University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado, where he received the Bachelor of Arts in 1940. After graduation he worked as an art instructor in the Greeley County school system until 1942, when he took a job in the publishing department of Culver Aircraft Factory in Wichita. In 1945 he returned to school at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was awarded the Master of Fine Arts in 1947. During that summer Alps studied with printmaker Mauricio Lasansky (b. 1914) at the University of Iowa.
Alps's early work in printmaking was in keeping with the realism of American Regionalists Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, but by the end of 1947 his work had turned toward abstraction and vivid color, judiciously used. The excitement of printmaking for Alps was in the creative process. He preferred small editions to large ones, and was prolific in his production. At this time he worked in lithography, screenprinting and etching. A favorite abstract motif was the circle in a square which, according to arts reviewer John Voorhees, became a type of "trademark" for the artist that he often used in his work.
Teaching
Glen Alps began teaching in the Art Department of the University of Washington while he was still a graduate student there. In 1947 the chairman of the department, Walter F. Jacobs, invited Alps to teach classes in watercolor and design as an acting associate of the school. He soon began teaching printmaking, as well. After graduation Alps's teaching career at the University of Washington continued. He received tenure in 1954 and became a full professor in 1962. He was named Professor Emeritus upon his retirement from teaching in 1984.
Among his colleagues in the Art Department were the painters Wendell Brazeau (1910–1974), Boyer Gonzales (1909–1987), Alden Mason (b. 1919) and Spencer Moseley (1936–1998); modernist jewelry designer and craftsman, Ruth Pennington (1905–1998) and sculptor George Tsutakawa (1910–1997). Bill Ritchie (b. 1941), multimedia artist, also taught printmaking until 1984.
Alps's students include the printmaker and painter Barbara Bruch, printmaker, basket weaver and glass artist Joe Feddersen, printmaker Gerald Ferstman, the painters and collaborative sculptors Tom Northington and Mary Rothermel; assemblage and mosaic artist, Glen Michaels (b. 1927), painter and sculptor James W. Washington, Jr. (1908-2002) and lithographer and abstract painter James Claussen. By many accounts Alps was an inspirational teacher. In a 1981 interview for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art (SAAM), Glen Michaels remembered Alps as "the one who opened my eyes to Op Art. His whole design concept was optical illusion, taking a flat surface and turning it into a sculptural thing. Experiments that he was doing that were so fertile and so exciting I’ve never seen anything like since."
Development of the collagraph
Writers on the subject of collagraphy are careful to point out that while Glen Alps developed the artform and coined the term "collagraph" to describe it, he did not "invent" collagraphy. Elementary collagraphic techniques can be detected in prints dating from the 19th century, and the development in the early 20th century of collage as an art form led to the idea that objects (including bits of paper, fabric, metal and sand) collaged on to a printing plate could be inked and printed for textural effects. Artists who predated Alps in the use of this concept include the Norwegian Rolf Nesch and the Americans Boris Margo (1902–1995), Edmond Casarella (1920–1996) and Roland Ginzel (b. 1921). Alps began working in the technique in the fall of 1956, when he was an associate professor in the School of Art at the University of Washington. He was investigating art techniques that would stimulate creativity and, as he wrote, "...dramatically release the inner-most quality of being" of the artist. Alps shared the idea with his students at that time, and they became his colleagues in experimenting with the new art form. It became evident to Alps early on in his development of the process that he needed a name for it. The word that he coined,"collagraph", is a union of the words "collage" and "-graph."
Artists who later created notable works in collagraphy include Dean Meeker (1920–2002), Edward Stasack (b. 1929), John Ross (1921 - 2017) and Claire Romano (1922 - 2017). Alps, along with Romano and Ross were all members of Society of American Graphic Artists.
Dissemination of collagraphy
Alps was actively engaged in promoting as well as producing collagraphs. The first exhibition to show collagraphs by Alps and his students was a competitive print exhibition held in 1957 at the University of Washington's Henry Gallery. The first national exposure of a collagraph came in 1958, when Alps's "Chickens, Collagraph #12" was exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum's National Print Annual. In 1966 he demonstrated techniques used in making collagraphs in a 20-minute film titled "The Collagraph." Alps produced collagraphs throughout the remainder of his career. He exhibited his collagraphs widely, recognizing that their inclusion in national exhibitions helped to spread awareness of the art form. A respected professor of art, Alps personally taught collagraphy to hundreds of students during his tenure at the University of Washington.
Practical and aesthetic concerns
Alps asserted that "...the first concern of the printmaker is the development of the plate, where the individuality of the artist has its chance to take form." For the collagraph's substrate Alps recommended inexpensive, readily-available construction materials, at that time plywood, Upsom board and Masonite. The collage materials were likewise cheap and easy to find, and included (but were not limited to) polymer glue, modeling paste, auto putty, plastic wood, ground walnut shells, wood shavings, brush bristles, string and assortments of paper, cardboard and cloth. These were "the essentials of image-making" through the collage technique. By dispensing with the metal plates and specialized plate-working tools of traditional intaglio printmaking, collagraphy allowed the artist "to approach the plate very spontaneously and directly or quite deliberately," as the artist's idea and working style dictated.
For Alps, an artist's freedom depended on the ability to acknowledge "the potential of the moment" in expressing one's inner vision. The artist must be preoccupied not with the means of creation, but with ideas. Therefore, Alps said, collagraphy was the ideal technique for contemporary graphics because it allowed the artist to work spontaneously and to fully realize visual ideas in a relatively short time.
Sculpture
Although Alps is remembered today as a printmaker, he was also a sculptor who created works for public display. These include Tall Shape created for the 1962 World's Fair; The Fountain of Waterfalls, installed in 1962 in front of the Seattle Municipal Building and Activity of Thought, installed in 1965 at the Magnolia Branch of The Seattle Public Library.
Other projects
In 1960 Alps received a fellowship to the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, where he created a group of lithographs. In the 1970s he originated the technique (which is no longer practiced) of pouring automotive lacquer over a Masonite plate and selectively burning away the lacquer with a jeweler's torch. The plate was then inked and printed. Alps used the technique in combination with collagraphy. In 1988 Alps was an artist-in-residence at Pilchuck Glass School. During this time he met glass artist Harvey Littleton, who introduced Alps to vitreography. Assisted by Littleton's printer at the time, David Wharton, Alps created a vitreograph titled "Pilchuck Summer."
Alps also designed and manufactured about thirty fine art printing presses. The Glen Alps Press was reputed to be durable, versatile and easy to operate.
Works in public collections
Prints by Glen Alps can be found in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale [Paris], Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University Art Museums, Library of Congress, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Loveland [Colorado] Museum/Gallery, Museum of Modern Art [New York],
Portland Art Museum (Oregon), Seattle Art Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery, among many others.
Personal
Glen Alps married Ruby Surber, a fellow student at Colorado State College of Education, in 1939. She preceded him in death in December, 1995. The couple had no children.
References
1914 births
1996 deaths
University of Northern Colorado alumni
University of Iowa alumni
University of Washington alumni
University of Washington faculty
American printmakers
Educators from Seattle
Artists from Seattle |
23572752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival%20Overture%20%28Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k%29 | Carnival Overture (Dvořák) | The concert overture Carnival (), Op. 92, B. 169, was written by Antonín Dvořák in 1891. It is part of a "Nature, Life and Love" trilogy of overtures, forming the second part, "Life". The other two parts are In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 ("Nature") and Othello, Op. 93 ("Love").
The overture, in A major, is scored for two flutes, piccolo, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, tambourine, harp and strings. Its duration is between 9½ and 11½ minutes.
Discography
Dvořák in Prague: A Celebration, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Sony CD (1994) and Kultur DVD (2007)
References
External links
Carnival Overture, Op. 92. Dr. Richard E. Rodda. The Kennedy Center.
Compositions by Antonín Dvořák
Concert overtures
1891 compositions
Compositions in A major |
20468239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy%20Husyev | Serhiy Husyev | Serhiy Yevhenovych Husyev (; ; born 1 July 1967 in Odessa) is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer. He was the Ukrainian top goalscorer in the second championship of 1992–93.
External links
1967 births
Living people
Soviet footballers
Ukrainian footballers
Ukraine international footballers
Ukrainian expatriate footballers
FC Chornomorets Odesa players
SKA Odessa players
CS Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol players
Trabzonspor footballers
Altay S.K. footballers
Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. players
FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian Second League players
Liga Leumit players
Ukrainian Premier League top scorers
Expatriate footballers in Israel
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Association football forwards
K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University alumni
Footballers from Odessa |
17330652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1565%20Lema%C3%AEtre | 1565 Lemaître | 1565 Lemaître, provisional designation , is a highly eccentric Phocaea asteroid and sizable Mars-crosser from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 25 November 1948, by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle, Belgium. It was named after cosmologist and priest Georges Lemaître.
Classification and orbit
Lemaître is a Mars-crossing asteroid, as it crosses the orbit of Mars at 1.666 AU. It is also an eccentric member of the Phocaea family (). This asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.6–3.2 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,353 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.35 and an inclination of 21° with respect to the ecliptic. As no precoveries were taken, and no prior identifications were made, Lemaîtres observation arc begins on the night following its official discovery observation.
Physical characteristics
In the SMASS taxonomy, Lemaître is characterized as a Sq-type, a transitional class of stony S-type and Q-type asteroids.
Lightcurves
In September 2007, a rotational light-curve of Lemaître was obtained from photometric observations by American astronomer Brian D. Warner at his Palmer Divide Observatory, Colorado. It gave a rotation period of 11.403 hours with a brightness variation of 0.04 magnitude (), superseding a provisional period of 2.4 hours with an amplitude of 0.03 magnitude, derived from photometric observations made by Arnaud Leroy, Bernard Trégon, Xavier Durivaud and Federico Manzini two months earlier ().
Diameter and albedo
According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Lemaître measures between 6.90 and 8.00 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo between 0.22 and 0.334. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for Phocaea asteroids of 0.23 – derived from 25 Phocaea, the family's most massiv member and namesake – and calculates a diameter of 8.76 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 12.5.
Naming
This minor planet was named in honour of Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics, Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), widely regarded as the father of the Big Bang theory. The lunar crater Lemaître also bears his name. Lemaître was the first minor planet to be numbered after the end of World War II. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().
References
External links
Lightcurve plot of 1565 Lemaitre, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2007)
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
001565
001565
Discoveries by Sylvain Arend
Minor planets named for people
Named minor planets
001565
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20468242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%20Rose%20Bowl | 1964 Rose Bowl | The 1964 Rose Bowl was the 50th Rose Bowl Game, played on January 1, 1964. It featured the Illinois Fighting Illini and the Washington Huskies.
Illinois was led by Dick Butkus, Jim Grabowski, Lynn Stewart, and Archie Sutton on their way to a victory over the Huskies, led by Junior Coffey.
The game was scoreless until the second quarter; Washington scored first, following an Illinois fumble at its own 27-yard line. Backup quarterback, Bill Siler, kept it for three yards, then passed it to Joe Mancuso for 18 yards to the Illini 6. Siler then faked a pass and pitched to halfback Dave Kopay, who scored behind the block of halfback Ron Medved, with 8:26 left in the first half. The Illini got on the scoreboard with Jim Plankenhorn's field goal in the waning seconds of the second quarter and Washington led
In the third quarter, Illinois took control as Jim Warren scored the "go-ahead" touchdown on a two-yard run. Sophomore Grabowski rushed for 125 yards, scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter, and was named the game's Most Valuable Player. Butkus played both ways in this contest, both at center and linebacker. He recovered a fumble, and had an interception (in addition to leading a defense that held Washington to only 59 yards rushing and 71 yards passing for the game).
Aftermath
The opposing running backs were both drafted by the Green Bay Packers, Coffey in 1965 and Grabowski in 1966.
References
Rose Bowl
Rose Bowl Game
Illinois Fighting Illini football bowl games
Washington Huskies football bowl games
Rose Bowl
January 1964 sports events in the United States |
20468243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samanpur | Samanpur | Samanpur was a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal.
Just before 2017 Nepalese local elections, it was merged with other 5 Village development committees Gamhariya, Sangrampur, Bahuwa Madanpur, Dharampur and Bariyarpur to form Gadhimai Municipality.
At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 5352 people living in 982 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
23572758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/388th%20Operations%20Group | 388th Operations Group | The 388th Operations Group (388 OG) is the flying component of the 388th Fighter Wing, assigned to the Air Combat Command Twelfth Air Force. The group is stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
During World War II, its predecessor unit, the 388th Bombardment Group (Heavy) was an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress unit in England, stationed at RAF Knettishall (Station 136). The group earned four Distinguished Unit Citations, flying over 300 combat missions (17 August 1943 – Regensburg; 26 June 1943 – Hanover; 12 May 1944 – Brux and 21 June 1944 on a shuttle mission to Russia). It also conducted Aphroditie radio-controlled B-24 Liberators as test guided bombs.
Overview
The 388th Operations Group is responsible for the readiness of a combat-capable fleet of 5th Generation F-35A Lightning II.
Operations squadrons of the group (Tail Code: HL) are:
4th Fighter Squadron
34th Fighter Squadron
421st Fighter Squadron
388th Operations Support Squadron
History
For additional history and lineage, see 388th Fighter Wing
World War II
Activated on 24 December 1942 at Gowen Field in Idaho. Nucleus at Gowen moved to Wendover Field, Utah in early February 1943. Final training was conducted at Sioux City AAF SD from early May 1943 to 1 June 1943. The aircraft then began their overseas movement, taking the northern route via Newfoundland and Greenland, and finally from Iceland to Prestwick, Scotland. The ground unit left Sioux City on 12 June 1943 for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey and sailed on the Queen Elizabeth on 1 July 1943, arriving in Clyde on 7 July 1943. Assigned to the Eighth Air Force's 45th Combat Bombardment Wing. Its group tail code was a "Square-H".
The 388th BG began combat operations on 17 July 1943 by attacking an aircraft factory in Amsterdam. The unit functioned primarily as a strategic bombardment Organization until the war ended. Targets included industries, naval installations, oil storage plants, refineries, and communications centers in Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, Norway, Romania, and the Netherlands.
The group received a Distinguished Unit Citation for withstanding heavy opposition to bomb a vital aircraft factory at Regensburg on 17 August 1943. The 388th received another DUC for three outstanding missions: an attack against a tire and rubber factory in Hanover on 26 July 1943; the bombardment of a synthetic oil refinery in Brux on 12 May 1944; and a strike against a synthetic oil refinery at Ruhland on 21 June 1944, during a shuttle raid from England to Russia.
The unit attacked many other significant targets, including aircraft factories in Kassel, Reims, and Brunswick; airfields in Bordeaux, Paris, and Berlin; naval works at La Pallice, Emden, and Kiel; chemical industries in Ludwigshafen; ball-bearing plants in Schweinfurt; and marshalling yards in Brussels, Osnabrück, and Bielefeld. Operations also included support and interdictory missions. It helped prepare for the invasion of Normandy by attacking military installations in France, and on D-Day struck coastal guns, field batteries, and transportation. Continued to support ground forces during the campaign that followed, hitting such objectives as supply depots and troop concentrations. Bombed in support of ground forces at Saint-Lô in July 1944 and at Caen in August. Covered the airborne assault on the Netherlands in September 1944 by attacking military installations and airfields at Arnhem. Aided the final drive through Germany during the early months of 1945 by striking targets such as marshalling yards, rail bridges, and road junctions.
Altogether the 388th flew 331 raids to European targets including nineteen Operation Aphrodite missions from nearby RAF Fersfield. After V-E Day, the group flew food to the Netherlands to relieve flood-stricken areas.
Redeployed to the US from June to August 1945 . The aircraft left RAF Knettishall between 9 June 1945 and July 1945. The ground unit sailed on the Queen Elizabeth from Greenock on 5 August 1945 and arrived in New York on 11 August 1945. The group was established at Sioux Falls AAF, South Dakota, and was inactivated there on 28 August 1945.
Cold War
The unit was reactivated as a fighter-bomber group in 1953 and equipped with F-86s. It was deployed to France from Clovis AFB, New Mexico in December 1954.
The mission of the 388th FBG was to train for and conduct tactical nuclear weapons delivery. Its secondary mission was to conduct non-atomic tactical air operations. Upon arrival of 388th Wing Headquarters at Etain, the construction delays and other problems seriously hampered the ability of the Wing to use the base for its flying operations. The 562nd FBS was forced to operate from Spangdahlem Air Base, the 563rd from Bitburg Air Base and the 561st from Hahn Air Base in West Germany for the winter of 1954–55.
In April and May 1955, rotational deployments to Wheelus Air Base, Libya began for their first gunnery and bombing training since their arrival in Europe. In the fall, with enough facilities construction completed, the three flying squadrons were transferred from Germany and took up their home assignment at Étain.
On 22 November 1955, Det #1, 388th FBG was activated at Hahn Air Base to stand nuclear alert with the Wing's F-86's. Personnel and aircraft primarily came from the 561st FBS. In February 1956 the detachment was transferred to more spacious facilities at Spangdahlem Air Base. Rotational deployments of 8 F-86's and support personnel to Germany continued until the fall of 1957 when the 388th was inactivated.
In the fall of 1956 the 388th began planning for conversion to the F-100D/F "Super Sabre" Due to the adverse flying conditions at Etain for conversion training, the new aircraft were deployed to Nouasseur Air Base in Morocco, with the squadrons deploying their F-86's to Nouasseur, then returning to France or Spangdahlem in their new F-100s for Zulu Alert duties.
During this transition period, the 388th experienced a significant personnel crisis, with many of its officers and NCO's completing their two-year unaccompanied tour in France. The personnel problem became worse in the fall of 1957 with many single airmen completing their three years of overseas service and were rotating back to the United States (CONUS). The manning of the 388th fell to about 65 percent when on 8 December 1957 HQ USAFE inactivated the 388th FBG due to budgetary and personnel constraints. On 9 December the personnel and assets of the 388th were transferred to the 49th Fighter-Bomber Group.
Modern era
On 1 December 1991, the 388th Operations Group (388 OG) was activated as a result of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing implementing the USAF objective wing organization. Upon activation, the 388th OG was bestowed the lineage and history of the 388th Tactical Fighter Group and all predecessor organizations. In addition, the 388th OG was assigned the flying squadrons of the redesignated 388th Fighter Wing.
The group had a continuing commitment of approximately six months per year to Operation Southern Watch, protecting the no-fly zone south of the 33rd parallel in Iraq. The 729th ACS also had a continuous presence in South America supporting the war on drugs.
The 388th OG flew the F-16's 5 millionth flying hour at Hill Air Force Base 4 December 1996.
In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to close Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. As a result, it would distribute the 27th Fighter Wing's F-16s to 388th OG at Hill AFB (six aircraft) and several other installations.
In September 2017 the group's last F-16 Fighting Falcon departed for Holloman Air Force Base as the group completed the replacement of its F-16s with the new F-35 Lightning II.
Lineage
Established as the 388th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 19 December 1942
Activated on 24 December 1942
Redesignated 388th Bombardment Group, Heavy on 20 August 1943
Inactivated on 28 August 1945
Redesignated 388th Fighter-Bomber Group on 5 November 1953
Activated on 23 November 1953
Inactivated on 10 December 1957
Redesignated 388th Tactical Fighter Group on 31 July 1985 (Remained inactive)
Redesignated 388th Operations Group and activated on 1 December 1991
Assignments
II Bomber Command, 24 December 1942
Eighth Air Force, c. 6 July 1943
VIII Bomber Command, 10 July 1943
4th Bombardment Wing
Attached to: 403 Provisional Combat Wing Bombardment, 13 July 1943
3d Bombardment Division, 13 September 1943
45th Combat Bombardment Wing, 14 September 1943
20th Bombardment Wing, 18 June 1945
Second Air Force, 13–28 August 1945
388th Fighter-Bomber Wing, 23 November 1953 – 10 December 1957
388th Fighter Wing, 1 December 1991 – present
Components
4th Fighter Squadron: 1 December 1991–present
34th Fighter Squadron: 1 December 1991 – 16 July 2010, 17 July 2015-
421st Fighter Squadron: 1 December 1991–present
560th Bombardment (later, 560th Fighter-Bomber) Squadron: 24 December 1942 – 28 August 1945
561st Bombardment (later, 561st Fighter-Bomber) Squadron: 24 December 1942 – 28 August 1945; 23 November 1953 – 10 December 1957
562d Bombardment (later, 562d Fighter-Bomber) Squadron: 24 December 1942 – 28 August 1945; 23 November 1953 – 10 December 1957
563d Bombardment (later, 563d Fighter-Bomber) Squadron: 24 December 1942 – 28 August 1945; 23 November 1953 – 10 December 1957.
Stations
Gowen Field, Idaho, 24 December 1942
Wendover Field, Utah, 1 February 1943
Sioux City Army Air Base, Iowa, 29 April – 10 June 1943
RAF Knettishall (AAF-136), England, c. 6 July 1943 – 4 August 1945
Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, 13–28 August 1945
Clovis Air Force Base, New Mexico, 23 November 1953 – 28 November 1954
Étain-Rouvres Air Base, France, 12 December 1954 – 10 December 1957
Hill Air Force Base, Utah, 1 December 1991–present
Aircraft
B-17 Flying Fortress, 1943–1945
F-86 Sabre, 1954–1956
F-100 Super Sabre, 1957
F-16 Falcon, 1991–2017
F-35 Lightning II, 2015–present
References
Notes
Bibliography
Huntzinger, Edward J. The 388th at War. San Angelo, Texas: Newsfoto Yearbooks, 1979.
Uncredited. The History of the 388th Bomb Group. San Angelo, Texas: Newfoto Publishing Company, 1946.
External links
388th Bomb Group Database
Official website of the 388th Bomb Group Association
Military units and formations established in 1942
Military units and formations in Utah
Operations groups of the United States Air Force |
20468247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNLV%20%28AM%29 | KNLV (AM) | KNLV (1060 AM, branded as "Greatest Hits 93.9 & 1060") is a radio station licensed to serve Ord, Nebraska, broadcasting an oldies music format featuring the top-40 hits from the 1960s through 1990s. The Mighty 1060 also features farm reports, local news, weather and local high school sports play-by-play broadcasts. It operates on AM frequency 1060 kHz and is under ownership of MWB Broadcasting II.
An FM translator for KNLV is known as Greatest Hits 93.9 FM.
Previous logo
References
External links
NLV
Oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1965 |
23572763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Grigoryan | Roman Grigoryan | Roman Bagdasarovich Grigoryan (; born 14 September 1982) is a former Russian professional footballer of Armenian descent.
Honours
Russian Professional Football League Zone Center Top Goalscorer: 2015–16 (8 goals).
References
External links
Profile at www.championat.ru
1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Moscow
Armenian footballers
Russian footballers
Association football midfielders
Russian sportspeople of Armenian descent
FC Krylia Sovetov Samara players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
Russian Premier League players
FC Vityaz Podolsk players
FC Armavir players
FC Moscow players
FC Tambov players
FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players
FC Novokuznetsk players |
23572769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirilovca | Chirilovca | Chirilovca may refer to several places in Moldova:
Chirilovca, a village in Halahora de Sus Commune, Briceni District
Chirilovca, a village in Alexeevca, Floreşti
Chirilovca, a village in Vinogradovca Commune, Taraclia District
See also
Chiril (disambiguation)
Chiril River (disambiguation)
Chirileni, a village in Ungheni District, Moldova
Surnames:
Chirilă — search for "Chirilă"
Chirilov — search for "Chirilov" |
23572776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirnoe | Mirnoe | Mirnoe may refer to several places in Moldova:
Mirnoe, a village in Ciobanovca Commune, Anenii Noi district
Mirnoe, a village in Vinogradovca Commune, Taraclia district
See also
Mirnoye (disambiguation) |
6900719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-East%20Region%2C%20Singapore | North-East Region, Singapore | The North-East Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. The region is the most densely populated and has the highest population among the five, with Sengkang being its most populous town as of 2020 and Seletar as the regional centre. Comprising 13,810 hectares, it includes seven planning areas and is largely a residential region with 217,120 homes. Housing largely consists of high-density HDB public housing estates, however private housing is also present in the region. As its name implies, it is located in the north-eastern part of Singapore.
The North-East Region, along with the four other planning regions, was officially established by the Urban Redevelopment Authority in 1999. Prior to the 1970s, the region was predominantly rural and experienced very little urbanisation. It was only with the development of towns such as Ang Mo Kio and Hougang over the next few decades that the region began to grow significantly in population and experienced dramatic urban development. As of 2020, the North-East Region has a population of 930,910. The most common ethnic background among residents is Chinese, while English and Mandarin are the most spoken languages. While predominantly a residential region, the North-East Region is also home to tourist attractions, such as Pulau Ubin and Coney Island. The region has a number of hospitals, parks, educational facilities, and security and defence services. There are also a variety of transport options, including Mass Rapid Transit, Light Rail Transit and public bus services, facilitating transport within and outside the region.
History
Before the 1960s, the North-East Region was primarily made up of farmland and rainforest. At this time the majority of urbanisation in Singapore was concentrated in the southern part of the country, where the Central Region is now located. The first Master Plan was adopted in 1958. The Master Plan was a statutory plan which regulated land use and development over a 20-year period, to be reviewed every five years. One of the main aims of this plan was to establish New Towns away from the Central Region, laying the precedent for the North-East Region’s urban development. However, this plan was soon deemed inefficient and not flexible enough to accommodate the rapid demographic and economic development in Singapore. In 1971 the Concept Plan was introduced, a more long-term plan which rather than providing a detailed guide for urban planning, it simply provided a general direction for development over the next 40 to 50 years. These two combined planning processes (The Master Plan and the Concept Plan) continue to be revised every few years, led by the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
It was over the next few decades that towns within the North East Region were built up. The first new towns were Ang Mo Kio and Hougang. Ang Mo Kio New Town began development in 1973 and Hougang in 1979. Up until the 1990s, the North-East Region was included as part of the Rural Planning Area. This area consisted of most of the land outside of the Central Planning Area. However, under the 1991 Concept Plan, the country was officially organised into five regions, along with 55 subdivision. Thus, the North East Region was established. This system allowed for more area specific planning and detailed land use guides.
Geography
Situated at the northeastern corner of Singapore Island, the region comprises a total land area of , including the North-Eastern cluster of islands, Pulau Ubin, Pulau Tekong and Pulau Tekong Kechil. It borders Singapore's East Region to the east, Central Region to the south and North Region to the west.
Government
The North-East Region is governed locally by four different Community Development Councils, namely the Central CDC, North East CDC, North West CDC and South East CDC.
Planning Areas
The North-East Region is divided into 7 different planning areas, with a total of 48 subzones.
Demographics
According to the Singapore Department of Statistics’ 2020 Population Trends report, the total population of the North-East Region is 930,910. Out of its 7 planning areas, Sengkang is the most populated, with 249,370 residents. Alternatively, the North-Eastern Islands is the least populated area with only 50 residents, as it is one of the few areas in Singapore that has not experienced dramatic urban development.
According to the 2015 General Household Survey, the most common ethnic background in the North-East Region is Chinese, accounting for the majority of the population. Additionally, English is the most common language spoken at home (35.4%), closely followed by Mandarin (33.9%). Other common languages spoken at home include other Chinese dialects (13.4%), Malay (7.8%) and Tamil (3.5%). The most popular religion followed is Buddhism (36.3%), while other prevalent religions in the region include Christianity (19.3%), Taoism (11.1%), Islam (9.1%) and Hinduism (4.6%). In addition, 19.1% of people practise no religion.
Economy
The region is home to the Seletar Aerospace Park, which houses several aviation manufacturing and research facilities owned by companies such as Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, allowing the aviation industry in Singapore to expand out of Changi, which is a major aviation and commercial zone located in the East region of the country. Several industrial zones are also located within the region such as Defu Industrial Estate in Hougang and Ang Mo Kio Industrial Park in Ang Mo Kio.
Tourism
Located within the North-Eastern Islands planning area, Pulau Ubin is a popular tourist attraction with both local and foreign visitors visiting the island as it is one of the last rural areas in Singapore, with an abundance of natural flora and fauna. It is particularly popular for outdoor activities such as mountain biking, as it is home to the Ketam Mountain Bike Park. Additionally, the Chek Jawa wetlands is also a popular attraction due to its array of wildlife and unique biodiversity. Ubin Town is the only settlement on the island and offers a number of restaurants, bicycle rental shops and other small shops catering to tourism.
Coney Island, also known as Pulau Serangoon, is also a popular attraction within the region. Located off the northeastern coast within the planning area of Punggol, Coney island is accessible via two bridges at the eastern and western ends of the island, linking it to the main island. Visitors to the island can participate in activities such as cycling, bird watching and nature walks. Coney island park is managed by the National Parks Board and home to a range of different habitats and a variety of fauna and flora.
Infrastructure
Education
Residents living within the area have access to different educational facilities ranging from preschools to primary and secondary schools as these are located around the different towns in the North-East region.
There are 28 secondary schools within the North-East Region, including:
Anderson Secondary School
Ang Mo Kio Secondary School
Bowen Secondary School
CHIJ St. Joseph's Convent
CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School
Compassvale Secondary School
Deyi Secondary School
Edgefield Secondary School
Greendale Secondary School
Holy Innocents' High School
Hougang Secondary School
Mayflower Secondary School
Montfort Secondary School
Nan Chiau High School
North Vista Secondary School
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School
Pei Hwa Secondary School
Peicai Secondary School
Presbyterian High School
Punggol Secondary School
Seng Kang Secondary School
Serangoon Garden Secondary School
Serangoon Secondary School
St. Gabriel's Secondary School
Xinmin Secondary School
Yio Chu Kang Secondary School
Yuying Secondary School
Zhonghua Secondary School
There are also 44 primary schools within the region, including:
Anchor Green Primary School
Anderson Primary School
Ang Mo Kio Primary School
CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel
CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity
CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School
Compassvale Primary School
Edgefield Primary School
Fern Green Primary School
Fernvale Primary School
Greendale Primary School
Holy Innocents' Primary School
Horizon Primary School
Hougang Primary School
Jing Shan Primary School
Mayflower Primary School
Mee Toh School
Montfort Junior School
Nan Chiau Primary School
North Spring Primary School
North Vista Primary School
Northshore Primary School
Oasis Primary School
Palm View Primary School
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School
Punggol Cove Primary School
Punggol Green Primary School
Punggol Primary School
Punggol View Primary School
Rivervale Primary School
Rosyth School
Seng Kang Primary School
Sengkang Green Primary School
Springdale Primary School
St. Gabriel's Primary School
Teck Ghee Primary School
Townsville Primary School
Valour Primary School
Waterway Primary School
Xinghua Primary School
Xinmin Primary School
Yangzheng Primary School
Yio Chu Kang Primary School
Zhonghua Primary School
The area is also home to various tertiary institutions such as, Anderson Serangoon Junior College, ITE College Central, Nanyang Junior College, Nanyang Polytechnic and the Singapore Institute of Technology. There are also 3 international schools, namely, the Australian International School Singapore, the French School of Singapore and the Global Indian International School Singapore.
Healthcare
Sengkang General Hospital is the largest hospital in the region. The 1000-bed hospital was opened on the 18th of August 2018 and is managed by SingHealth. Other hospitals in the North-East region include Ang Mo Kio - Thye Hua Kwan Hospital, Bright Vision Hospital and Sengkang Community Hospital, which is attached to Sengkang General Hospital.
Parklands
There are a number of parks within the region, all of which are managed by the National Parks Board.
Parks within the North-East region include:
Ang Mo Kio Town Garden East
Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West
Chek Jawa
Coney Island
Japanese Cemetery Park
Ketam Mountain Bike Park
Pulau Ubin
Punggol Park
Punggol Point Park
Punggol Waterway Park
Sengkang Riverside Park
Sengkang Sculpture Park
Fire Department
The Singapore Civil Defence Force operates two fire stations in the region:
Ang Mo Kio Fire Station
Sengkang Fire Station
Ang Mo Kio Fire Station has been operational since 1984 and provides services to Ang Mo Kio and Serangoon.
Sengkang Fire Station has been operational since 2001 and provides services to Hougang, Punggol, Sengkang and Serangoon.
Along with the fire stations, there are also two fire posts in the region:
Punggol North Fire Post
Cheng San Fire Post
Transportation
The public transport system in Singapore was designed to connect the North-East Region to the city centre, with Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations in each town centre. There is also a number of bus stops and Light Rail Transit (LRT) stations which connect towns within the region. As of 2015, 59.5% of the working population aged fifteen and older use public transport regularly to get to work. The North East region also has one airport: Seletar Airport. The airport was formally a military airbase, but is now owned by the Singapore government and operated by Changi Airport Group. It is mostly used for flight training, private aircraft and chartered flights.
Rail
There are three MRT lines that operate in the North-East Region: North East line, North South line and Circle Line. The North East line is the most prominent. It runs from HarbourFront station in the Central Region to Punggol station in the north, connecting six MRT stations within the North East Region. In 2024 the line is expected to be extended to include the Punggol Coast MRT station, which is under construction. Yio Chu Kang station and Ang Mo Kio station are located on the North South line and Serangoon station connects the North East line and Circle line.
In addition, the Cross Island MRT line, which is currently under planning, is expected to cross through the region. Plans for the project were first announced in 2013, and the Land Transport Authority expects that it will be completed by 2030. The line will connect to Hougang station, Punggol station and Riviera station, along with future MRT stations including Serangoon North station, Defu station, Tavistock station and Teck Ghee station.
There are also 28 LRT stations in the region, connecting residential areas to the MRT lines. There are two main LRT lines in the region: the Punggol LRT line and the Sengkang LRT line.
Bus
The North-East Region has an established public bus network and a number of bus interchanges connecting towns within the region and to other parts of the country.
The following bus interchanges are located within the North-East Region:
Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange
Compassvale Bus Interchange
Hougang Central Bus Interchange
Punggol Temporary Bus Interchange
Sengkang Bus Interchange
Serangoon Bus Interchange
Yio Chu Kang Bus Interchange
Expressways
There are four expressways that pass through the North East Region: Central Expressway, Seletar Expressway, Tampines Expressway and Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway. Additionally, the North–South Corridor, an under-construction expressway, is planned to connect to Ang Mo Kio.
Housing
The North-East Region is predominantly a residential area. Like other regions outside the city centre, towns in the North-East Region are largely made up of high-density, high-rise public housing, provided by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). HDB estates make up 78.72% of households in the region. Each of these housing developments are designed for self-sufficiency, with schools, hospitals, parks, sports facilities, shopping malls and other amenities easily available to residents. The North-East Region experiences continual development of housing and other public facilities. New housing in Ang Mo Kio, Hougang and Serangoon is being developed, along with new transport options, parks and other amenities. In recent years, the HBD has also developed more of a focus on sustainability and incorporating ecological considerations into town planning. The town of Punggol was branded as the “first eco-town”, with more greenery incorporated into the area, along with the development of the Punggol Promenade and Waterway.
While the majority of housing in the region is still public, some have noted that there has also been an increase in private housing in the North East Region. Excluding the Central Region, the North East Region accounted for 40.3% of all private residential sales transactions in Singapore in 2019.
Landmarks
Historic sites
The National Heritage Board has designated a number of “historic sites” in Singapore, some of which are located in the North-East Region. These include:
Chee Tong Temple, located in Hougang and finally completed in 1987.
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Roman Catholic church built in Hougang in 1853.
Masjid Haji Yusoff, the oldest mosque in Hougang, originally built in 1921.
Paya Lebar Methodist Church, a church located in Hougang. It was established in 1932 and completed in 1998.
Seletar Airfield, a British Royal Air Force base designed to protect the naval base in Sembawang during World War II.
St. Paul's Church, an Anglican church built in Hougang in 1936.
Tou Mu Kung, a Taoist temple completed in 1921. It is the oldest temple in Singapore dedicated to the worship of Jiu Huang Ye.
Woodbridge Museum, established in 1993, provides information and exhibitions surrounding the history of the old Woodbridge Hospital, which has now become the Institute of Mental Health. The hospital dates back to 1841, where it was the first medical facility in Singapore for treating the mentally ill. It was also used during World War II to provide treatment to soldiers and civilians.
Zi Yun Kai Ji Gong, a complex of three temples completed in 1996. The three temples are Keat Sun Beo, Kai Hock Tong and Chao Ying Kong.
References
External links
North-East Region, Singapore
Planning areas in Singapore
Regions of Singapore |
17330669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15811%20N%C3%BCsslein-Volhard | 15811 Nüsslein-Volhard | 15811 Nüsslein-Volhard, provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 10 July 1994, by German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany. It was named for Nobelist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard.
Orbit and classification
Nüsslein-Volhard orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.7–3.7 AU once every 5 years and 9 months (2,095 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.17 and an inclination of 10° with respect to the ecliptic.
The asteroid's observation arc begins 39 years prior to its official discovery observation, with its first identification as at the Goethe Link Observatory in September 1955.
Physical characteristics
According to the observations made by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Nüsslein-Volhard measures 15.2 and 16.2 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo of 0.062 and 0.067, respectively. A low albedo of 0.06 is typical for carbonaceous asteroids.
Lightcurve
As of 2017, Nüsslein-Volhards actual composition, rotation period and shape remain unknown.
Naming
This minor planet was named after Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), a German biologist who, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward Lewis, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995. Her research identified the genes controlling the embryonic development for the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 May 2002 ().
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (15001)-(20000) – Minor Planet Center
015811
Discoveries by Freimut Börngen
Minor planets named for people
Named minor planets
19940710 |
20468249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV%20G%C3%B6ppingen | SV Göppingen | SV Göppingen is a German association football club from the city of Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg. The team was established on 13 October 1905 as 1. Göppingener Fuβballverein and lays claim to being the oldest football club in the city. On 24 April 1920, soon after World War I the club merged with Athletiksportverein 1895 Göppingen and took on its current identity. The origins of predecessor side ASV go back to 11 August 1895 formation of 1. Athletik Klub Göppingen. This club merged with Kraftsportverein Fortuna Göppingen in 1901 to become Athleten-Klub Foruna Göppingen. They adopted the name Athletiksportverein Göppingen early in 1907, and in 1911 merged with Sportclub Göppingen.
History
SV first came to notice in 1934 when they became part of the Gauliga Württemberg, one of 16 top-flight divisions created in the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich a year earlier. The club only spent the 1934–35 and 1936–37 seasons in first division play, being sent down on both occasions after 10th-place finishes. They returned to the Gauliga in 1943, captured the division title, and then went out in the opening round of the national playoffs to KSG Saarbrücken (3:5). The following season was that last before World War II interrupted play across the country.
After the war, Göppingen took up play in the Landesliga Württemberg (II), but was sent down in 1948 after just three seasons. It was not until 1968 that they returned to third tier competition in the Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg. They finished second and the next year took the division title, which led to their participation in the national amateur championship playoffs. SV moved on to the semifinals where they were eliminated 1:0, 2:1 by SC Jülich 1910.
In league play, a successful promotion playoff advanced SV to the Regionalliga Süd (II) where they found themselves overmatched. They returned to the Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg (III) which later (1980) became the Amateuroberliga Baden-Württemberg (III). They enjoyed a string of strong finishes through the late 70s before slipping away to lower tier local play in the mid-80s. It was during this period that they made appearances in the opening rounds of the German Cup tournament (1975, 1980, 1984). SV played first in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (III) until 1985, then in the Verbandsliga Württemberg (IV) until 1991 and then descended through the Landesliga Württemberg (V) to the Bezirksliga (VI) in 1994. Since 2007, SV have played in the Landesliga Württemberg (VI), from where they earned promotion back to the Verbandsliga in 2009. In 2013–14 and 2014–15 the club finished runners-up in the league and thereby earned the right to compete in the promotion round to the Oberliga. In 2014 it missed out to FC Germania Friedrichstal and, in 2015, to 1. CfR Pforzheim, thereby remaining in the Verbandsliga. Finishing runners-up in the league for a third consecutive time in 2015–16 the club took part in the promotion round once more, this time defeating TSG Weinheim on aggregate and moving up to the Oberliga, ending a 31-year absence for the club.
Honours
Gauliga Württemberg (I)
Champions: 1944
Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg (III)
Champions: 1970
Verbandsliga Württemberg
Runners-up: 2014, 2015, 2016
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.
References
External links
Official team site
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg
Association football clubs established in 1895
1895 establishments in Germany |
6900728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughskin%20spurdog | Roughskin spurdog | The roughskin spurdog (Cirrhigaleus asper) is a dogfish of the family Squalidae, found circumglobally between latitudes 35°N and 35°S, at depths of between and . It reaches a length of .
The roughskin spurdog is ovoviviparous with 21 to 22 young in a litter.
References
Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005
Cirrhigaleus
Fish described in 1973
Taxa named by Nigel Merrett |
23572777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20Salim%20Saad | Ibrahim Salim Saad | Ibrahim Salim Saad (born 1972) is an Iraqi international football goalkeeper.
Club career
In the 1990s he was playing in Lebanon, before returning to Iraq where he played first in Salahaddin FC and, after one season, moved to Al-Talaba. In the winter-break of the 2000–2001 season, Ibrahim went to Serbia and played half a season in the Second League club FK Dubočica from Leskovac, where he had 12 league appearances. In 2001, he signed for Arbil FC, before moving, in 2002 to Yemen to represent the capital Sana'a club Al-Wahda.
International career
Ibrahim Salim Saad was a part of the Iraq national football team. Among others, he participated in the so-called Agony of Doha match, held in Doha, Qatar on 28 October 1993, between Iraq and Japan, It was a qualification game for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, that finished in a 2–2 draw, and in which Saad was the Iraqi goalkeeper. Unfortunately for him, Iraq ended up not qualifying. He also played in the same qualifiers against PR Korea Saudi Arabia and Iran.
References
External sources
1972 births
Living people
Iraqi footballers
Iraq international footballers
Iraqi expatriate footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Expatriate footballers in Lebanon
FK Dubočica players
Expatriate footballers in Serbia and Montenegro
Al-Shorta SC players
Iraqi expatriate sportspeople in Lebanon
Lebanese Premier League players |
23572788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporations%20Act%201718 | Corporations Act 1718 | The Corporations Act 1718 (5 Geo. I, c. 6) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Act stated that members of municipal corporations were no longer required to take the oath against resistance nor to sign the repudiation of the Solemn League and Covenant. No person would be removed or prosecuted if they failed to take the sacramental test "unless such person be removed or such prosecution be commenced within six months of such person's being placed or elected into his respective office".
Notes
Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1718 |
23572794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideous%20and%20Perfect | Hideous and Perfect | Hideous and Perfect is third studio album by Australian electro-industrial band Angelspit. Released on 9 September 2009, it marks the shortest time between two consecutive Angelspit albums, with Blood Death Ivory being released in 2008. A music video for "Fuck the Revolution" was released. On 10 October 2010 a remix album entitled Larva Pupa Tank Coffin was released featuring four new songs and remixes by both Angelspit themselves as well as other artists. Also released along with the album was a music video for the song "Sleep Now". A second remix album, Carbon Beauty, was released 8 March 2011, featuring three new songs and nine remixes.
Track listing
External links
Hideous and Perfect Album site
2009 albums
Angelspit albums |
20468251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangrampur%2C%20Rautahat | Sangrampur, Rautahat | Sangrampur was a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal.
Just before 2017 Nepalese local elections, it was merged with other 5 Village development committees samanpur, Gamhariya, Bahuwa Madanpur, Dharampur and Bariyarpur to form Gadhimai Municipality.
At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3978 people living in 787 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
6900735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion%20%28disambiguation%29 | Crucifixion (disambiguation) | Crucifixion is an ancient method of execution.
Crucifixion may also refer to:
The Crucifixion or crucifixion of Jesus, a first-century AD event central to the founding and beliefs of Christianity
Music
"Crucify" (song), a 1992 song by Tori Amos from Little Earthquakes
"Crucified" (Army of Lovers song) (1991)
"Crucified" (Bella & Filippa song) (2017)
"Crucifixion" (song), a 1966 song by Phil Ochs from Pleasures of the Harbor
"Crucified" (Sevendust song) (2001)
"The Crucifixion" (Stainer), an 1887 Passion cantata or oratorio by John Stainer
"Crucifixion" or "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word", a spiritual song recorded by Lead Belly in 1945 and by Marian Anderson in 1951
"Crucifixion", a song from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
"Crucified", a 2010 song by Disturbed from Asylum
"Crucified", a 2015 song by Venom from From the Very Depths
Paintings
Crucifixion (Antonello da Messina), any of three 15th-century paintings by Antonello da Messina
Crucifixion (Bellini), a 15th-century painting by Giovanni Bellini
Crucifixion (Francis Bacon, 1965), a 1965 triptych painting by Francis Bacon
The Crucifixion (Cranach), a 1532 painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), a 1954 painting by Salvador Dalí
The Crucifixion (Gérôme), a 1867 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Crucifixion (Heemskerck), 1543 painting by Maarten van Heemskerck
Crucifixion (Nabil Kanso), a 1983 painting by Nabil Kanso
Crucifixion (Mantegna), a 1450s painting by Andrea Mantegna
Crucifixion (Masaccio), a 1426 painting by Masaccio
Crucifixion (Modena), a 1375 painting by Barnaba da Modena
The Crucifixion (Pavias), a 15th-century painting by Andreas Pavias
Crucifixion, seen from the Cross, an 1880s painting by James Tissot
Crucifixion (Titian), a 1558 painting by Titian
Crucifixion Diptych (van der Weyden), a 1460s two-panel painting by Rogier van der Weyden
Crucifixion (van Dyck), a 1630 painting by Anthony van Dyck
Crucifixion (van Eyck), a 15th-century drawing attributed to Jan van Eyck
Crucifixion (after van Eyck?), a c. 1440-50 painting usually attributed to the workshop of Jan van Eyck
Other uses
The Crucifixion (film), a 2017 horror film by Xavier Gens
See also
Christ Crucified (disambiguation)
Crucifixion between Sts. Jerome and Christopher, a 1480s painting by Pinturicchio
Crucifixion in the arts
Crucifixion With a Donor (Bosch), a 1480s painting by Hieronymus Bosch
Crucifixion with Pietà (Lotto), 1530 painting by Lorenzo Lotto |
23572800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C8H11N | C8H11N | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C8H11N}}
The molecular formula C8H11N may refer to:
Bicyclo(2.2.1)heptane-2-carbonitrile
Collidines (trimethylpyridines)
2,3,4-Trimethylpyridine
2,3,5-Trimethylpyridine
2,3,6-Trimethylpyridine
2,4,5-Trimethylpyridine
2,4,6-Trimethylpyridine
3,4,5-Trimethylpyridine
Dimethylaniline
Phenethylamine
1-Phenylethylamine
Xylidines
2,3-Xylidine
2,4-Xylidine
2,5-Xylidine
2,6-Xylidine
3,4-Xylidine
3,5-Xylidine |
20468270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santapur | Santapur | Santapur is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 25000.
Santapur is a VDC that falls in newly made municipality Chandrapur, in
Rautaht district, Narayani zone of Nepal that is on the way to Gaur.
It has its own name and fame. As it consists of district's old school Shree Subhlalal Madhyamik bidhyalaya.it has two campuses. Besides this there are 3 private boarding schools.
It has approximately population of 25000 recently In the census 2068 B.S.many students of this villages are studying medicals in other countries like India and Bangladesh
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
23572802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%2C%20Oregon | Hugo, Oregon | Hugo is an unincorporated community in Josephine County north of Grants Pass, Oregon, United States.
History
Hugo was formerly named "Gravel Pit" and was established in 1883 as a flag station for the railroad. Prior to the railroad, Charles U. Sexton homesteaded what is now the Hugo townsite.
The post office was applied for by Mrs. May Hall Henny in December 1895 under the name of Hugo. The name was chosen from a longtime farmer in the area named Hugo Garbers. Postal records show that the post office moved from its original location to its second on August 22, 1896.
Many residents of what is now Sunny Valley would catch the train at Hugo for Grants Pass, Medford or Glendale in early days before the automobile.
The Hugo area became a large cherry producer and remained so well into the 20th century. One of the esteemed county judges, Garrett Crockett, owned nearby farms for many years until he was gored and killed by one of his bulls.
References
External links
Hugo Neighborhood Association & Historical Society
Unincorporated communities in Josephine County, Oregon
1895 establishments in Oregon
Populated places established in 1895
Unincorporated communities in Oregon |
6900745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Collins%20%28Irish%20author%29 | Michael Collins (Irish author) | Michael Collins (born 4 June 1964) is an Irish novelist and international ultra-distance runner. His novel The Keepers of Truth was shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize. He has also won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Lucien Barriere Literary Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival. Collins is a graduate of Oxford University.
Early life and education
Collins was born in Limerick. He earned an athletic scholarship to University of Notre Dame and received his PhD in Creative Writing from the Oxford University.
Athletics
A former member of the Irish National Team for the 100k distance (62.2 miles), Collins holds the Irish national masters record over the 100k distance. As captain of the Irish National Team in 2010, he won a bronze medal at the World 100k Championships held in Gibraltar. He has also won The 100-mile Himalayan Stage Race and The Mount Everest Challenge Marathon, along with The Last Marathon in Antarctica, and The North Pole Marathon.
Works
The Meat Eaters (short stories, also published as The Man who Dreamt of Lobsters), 1992
The Life and Times of a Teaboy, 1993
The Feminists Go Swimming, 1994,
Emerald Underground, 1998
The Keepers of Truth, 2000
The Resurrectionists, 2003
Lost Souls, 2004
Death of a Writer (British title: The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton), 2006
Midnight in a Perfect Life (British title), 2010
The Death of all Things Seen (British title), 2016
References
External links
Michael Collins official website
Profile, runnersworld.com
1964 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Irish expatriates in the United States
Irish male long-distance runners
Writers from Limerick
Irish ultramarathon runners
Irish male novelists
Male ultramarathon runners |
23572804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20Me%20a%20Favour%20%28novel%29 | Do Me a Favour (novel) | Do Me a Favour was the second novel written by Susan Hill, published in 1963.
References
Novels by Susan Hill
1963 British novels
Hutchinson (publisher) books |
20468284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santpur | Santpur | Santpur is a town and market center in Chandrapur Municipality in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The formerly village development committee was merged to form the municipality on 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5594.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
23572814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C8H10 | C8H10 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C8H10}}
The molecular formula C8H10 may refer to:4 structural isomers
Cycloocta-1,3,6-triene
Ethylbenzene
Octatetraene
Xylenes
m-Xylene
o-Xylene
p-Xylene |
6900749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Eshed | Eli Eshed | Eli Eshed is an Israeli researcher of popular culture.
Literary criticism
Eli Eshed writes about Israeli pulp magazines and paperbacks of the 1950s and 1960s with a special focus on the pirated Tarzan books popular among Israeli youth at the time which were published anonymously and without authorization from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 2000, Eshed published a limited edition of Tarzan in the Holy Land,https://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0991.html a history of Tarzan in Hebrew with illustrations.
In 2002, Eshed published From Tarzan to Zbeng about the pulp literature of Israel. This book became a best seller and earned Eshed the title "Writer of the Year" from Maariv. He also researched the adventures of pulp icons such as Patrick Kim, a fictional Korean CIA agent who uses karate against a variety of enemies worldwide.
In 2003, Eshed co-published The Golem: A Story of an Israeli Comicbook with Israeli comics artist Uri Fink. The Golem is a Hebrew super-hero who works alongside a beautiful woman super-heroine, Lilith.
The book traces the history of the series since the 1940s, when it was drawn by the young comics artist Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg in that alternative reality), who immigrated to Palestine. The Golem collaborates with real-life Israeli personalities like Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan and Ariel Sharon, as well as fictional characters like Tarzan and well-known Israeli fictional heroes like Danny Din the invisible boy. Gil Biderman created a song and an animated clip sung by award-winning artist Yasmin Even about the Golem’s adventures. Both imitate the style of the 1970s.
Though imaginary, the book is based on real events and personalities in the world of Hebrew popular culture, featuring Pinchas Sadeh, Asher Dickstein, and Etgar Keret. Israeli literary critic Menachem Ben called it“a master work of Israeli mythology,“ and screenwriter and producer Alon Rozenblum called it "a must-have book in every home."
References
External links
The Golem comic-strip
Comics critics
Israeli comics writers
Living people
Israeli literary critics
Bar-Ilan University alumni
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
20468291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UF%20Health%20Shands%20Cancer%20Hospital | UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital | UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital is an academic cancer center in Gainesville, Florida. The 200 bed complex focuses on producing basic laboratory findings that will ultimately be used for preventive therapies for cancers.
Background
This complex is eight stories high, and contains over of space. The facility houses about 200 private inpatient beds for a variety of patients, including those receiving diagnostic and therapeutic oncology services. It also includes a Critical Care Center for emergency and trauma related services. Designed by Flad Architects and built by SkanskaUSA, construction was completed in 2009 and cost $388 million.
See also
University of Florida
Shands at the University of Florida
University of Florida College of Medicine
J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center
Buildings at the University of Florida
References
External links
UF Health
UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital
UF Health Cancer Center
Hospital buildings completed in 2006
Teaching hospitals in Florida
Hospitals in Florida
University of Florida
Buildings and structures in Gainesville, Florida
Cancer hospitals
2006 establishments in Florida |
6900751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansembourg | Ansembourg | Ansembourg (, ) is a village in the commune of Helperknapp, in western Luxembourg. , the village had a population of 61.
Ansembourg is in part of the Eisch valley known as the Valley of the Seven Castles. The village is the site of two of the seven castles. The New Castle of Ansembourg, located about one kilometre or just over half a mile below the Old Castle, was built by the industrialist Thomas Bidart in 1639 and is now known for its more modern finish and its terraced gardens.
References
Mersch (canton)
Villages in Luxembourg |
6900756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondervan%20NASB%20Study%20Bible | Zondervan NASB Study Bible | The Zondervan NASB Study Bible is a study Bible originally published by Zondervan in 2000 which utilizes the Updated New American Standard Bible.
The Study Bible is the work of a transdenominational team of Biblical scholars. All accept the authority of the Bible as God's infallible word to humanity. They have sought to clarify understanding of, develop appreciation for, and provide insight into that word. Doctrinally, the Study Bible reflects traditional evangelical theology. The Study Bible is based on Zondervan's NIV Study Bible.
External links
Zondervan NASB Study Bible
Study Bibles
2000 books
2000 in Christianity
Zondervan books |
23572824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landulf%20of%20Conza | Landulf of Conza | Landulf of Conza (died after 979), a Lombard nobleman, was briefly Prince of Benevento in 940 and then briefly Prince of Salerno in 973. The son of Atenulf II of Benevento, Landulf ruled on his father's death (940) as co-prince with his uncle, Landulf I, who soon sent him into exile. He initially took refuge at the court of Marinus II of Naples, from where he sought shelter in Salerno through his sister, Gaitelgrima, the second wife of Prince Guaimar II of Salerno. This he received and he was soon appointed gastald of Conza, while his sons—Landenulf, Landulf, Indulf, and Guaimar—were invested with land in Salerno. The Chronicon Salernitanum, which is the most important source for Landulf's life, names the counties of Marsi, Sarno, and Lauro as those of Guaimar, Indulf, and Landenulf, respectively, but does not name a county for Landulf.
With the help of his allies, Marinus of Naples and Manso I of Amalfi, Landulf and his surviving sons (Landenulf died in 971), seized power in Salerno after expelling the reigning prince, Guaimar II's son by his first wife, Gisulf I, who fled to the court of Pandulf Ironhead, son of Landulf I and ruler of Benevento. With Pandulf's aid Gisulf was re-installed as prince later that year, with Pandulf's son Pandulf co-ruling with him. Despite the brevity of his reign, Landulf appears to have succeeded in minting coins in Salerno. One denarius weighing .66g survives bearing the legend +LAN / SALRN (in two lines, with LR ligatured). The other side bears an image of a saint and indiscernible Greek letters. If the attribution of the denarius to Landulf is correct, he would be the first Salernitan ruler to mint them since Guaimar I before 900. Unfortunately, the authenticity of the coins is also in doubt.
Notes
References
Philip Grierson, Mark A. S. Blackburn, and Lucia Travaini, edd. Medieval European Coinage: Italy, III (South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Lombard warriors
Princes of Benevento
Princes of Salerno
10th-century Lombard people |
20468293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmujawa | Sarmujawa | Sarmujawa is a village of Budhimai Municipality in Rautahat District in the Province No. 2 of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5896 people living in 1069 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
20468301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saruatha | Saruatha | Saruatha is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4463 people living in 836 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
20468303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapelton%20v%20Barry%20UDC | Chapelton v Barry UDC | Chapelton v Barry Urban District Council [1940] 1 KB 532, the "deckchair case", is an English contract law case on offer and acceptance and exclusion clauses. It stands for the proposition that a display of goods can be an offer and a whole offer, rather than an invitation to treat, and serves as an example for how onerous exclusion clauses can be deemed to not be incorporated in a contract.
Facts
David Chapelton went to a beach with his friend, Miss Andrews, at Cold Knap, a district of Barry in south Wales. There was a pile of deckchairs. A notice next to them said,
It also said tickets should be obtained from attendants. Mr Chapelton took two chairs from an attendant, paid the money and received two tickets. He put them in his pocket. On the tickets was written,
When Mr Chapelton sat on the chair it gave way, the canvas tearing from the top of the chair. He was injured. The county court judge held the council would have been negligent but that liability was exempted by the ticket. Mr Chapelton appealed.
Judgment
The Court of Appeal upheld Mr Chapelton's claim, overturning the judgment at first instance; it held that there was a valid offer when the chairs were on display, accepted when picked up the chairs from the defendant. Therefore, the ticket was merely a receipt of the contract, and the exclusion clause could not be incorporated as a term, because it was too late. Slesser LJ read the facts and gave his judgment first.
See also
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd.
Notes
English incorporation case law
English unfair terms case law
Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases
1940 in British law
1940 in case law
Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
20th century in Glamorgan |
20468304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Hempstead | USS Hempstead | USS Hempstead has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
, a proposed seaplane tender that was cancelled in 1943 prior to construction
, a proposed attack transport that was cancelled in 1947 prior to construction
United States Navy ship names |
17330683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1608%20Mu%C3%B1oz | 1608 Muñoz | 1608 Muñoz, provisional designation , is a Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 1 September 1951, by Argentine astronomer Miguel Itzigsohn at the La Plata Astronomical Observatory, in La Plata, Argentina. The S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 5.3 hours. It was named after , one of the assistant astronomers at the discovering observatory.
Orbit and classification
Muñoz is a member of the Flora family (), a giant asteroid clan and the largest family of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner asteroid belt at a distance of 1.8–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,203 days; semi-major axis of 2.21 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.17 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first imaged on a precovery taken at the Lowell Observatory in November 1948, extending the body's observation arc by 3 years prior to its official discovery observation.
Naming
This minor planet was named in memory of , who was an assistant at the La Plata Observatory in the department of extra-meridian astronomy. Muñoz was involved in computational and observational work on minor planets for many years and also took an active part in site testing for the Argentine telescope, also known as the 85-inch or 2.15-meter Jorge Sahade Telescope (also see ). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 ().
Physical characteristics
Being a Florian asteroid, Muñoz is likely a stony, relatively bright S-type asteroid.
Rotation period
Muñoz is a target of the Photometric Survey for Asynchronous Binary Asteroids (BinAstPhot Survey) lead by astronomer Petr Pravec at the
Ondřejov Observatory in the Czech Republic. In September 2017, two rotational lightcurves were obtained from photometric observations by Pravec in collaboration with Serbian astronomer Vladimir Benishek at Belgrade Observatory, who observed the asteroid over three subsequent nights at Sopot Astronomical Observatory . Analysis of the bimodal lightcurve gave a well-defined, nearly identical rotation period of and hours, respectively, with a brightness amplitude of 0.36 magnitude ().
Diameter and albedo
According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Muñoz measures between 6.15 and 7.8 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.265 and 0.40. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the principal body of the Flora family – and calculates a diameter of 7.82 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 12.7.
Notes
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
001608
Discoveries by Miguel Itzigsohn
Minor planets named for people
Named minor planets
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17330698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd%20Punjab%20Infantry | 22nd Punjab Infantry | 22nd Punjab Infantry could refer to two regiments of the British Indian Army
22nd Punjabis in 1861
30th Punjabis in 1857 |
17330749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th%20Mahratta%20Light%20Infantry | 5th Mahratta Light Infantry | The 5th Mahratta Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922, when
the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments. The regiment fought in World War II and raised 30 battalions. After the war it was allocated to the Indian Army in 1947, being renamed the Maratha Light Infantry.
Formation 1922
1st Battalion ex 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry served in North Africa and Italy during World War II. Sepoy Namdeo Jadhav was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) in Italy in 1945.
2nd Battalion ex 105th Mahratta Light Infantry served in Eritrea and North Africa until June 1942 when it bore the full brunt of the German attack on Tobruk, sustaining very heavy casualties so that after the surrender of Tobruk the survivors became prisoners of war.
3rd Battalion ex 110th Mahratta Light Infantry served in Eritrea, North Africa and Italy during World War II. Naik Yeshwant Ghadge was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously in Italy in 1944.
4th Battalion ex 116th Mahrattas served on the border of India and Burma during World War II, most notably in the defense of Imphal.
5th Battalion ex 117th Mahrattas. This battalion was designated 'Royal' in recognition of its exemplary service in Mesopotamia in World War I. This honor of a single battalion was unknown in the British Army and very rarely bestowed in the Indian Army. During World War II it served in the Middle East before becoming a Machine Gun battalion in Italy.
6th Battalion Mahratta Light infantry was created in June 1940 and in October 1942 joined its sister battalion, the 4th, in 49 Brigade in the defense of Imphal.
10th (Training) Battalion ex 114th Mahrattas. During World War II it trained hundreds of young soldiers to supply the needs of its sister active service and other battalions of the Regiment.
British Indian Army infantry regiments
Military units and formations established in 1922
R |
20468307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teopanzolco | Teopanzolco | Teopanzolco is an Aztec archaeological site in the Mexican state of Morelos. Due to urban growth, it now lies within the modern city of Cuernavaca. Most of the visible remains date from the Middle to Late Postclassic Period (1300-1521).
Etymology
Teopanzolco comes from the Nahuatl language, it has been interpreted as "the place of the old temple".
Location
Teopanzolco was built upon a hill formed from a lava flow. Although this area is now occupied by the Vista Hermosa district of Cuernavaca, in pre-Columbian times it was an area of coniferous woodland.
History of the site
The Morelos Valley was settled from about 2000 BC. During the Classic Period, Teopanzolco came under the influence of the great metropolis of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico. By the Postclassic, various Nahua groups had moved into the Altiplano; the Tlahuicas founded nearby Cuauhnahuac (Cuernavaca) and Teopanzolco itself. They were conquered in 1427 AD by the Aztec emperor Moctezuma Ilhuicamina, after which they were integrated into the Aztec Empire and were obliged to pay tribute and participate in Aztec military campaigns. The prehispanic history of Teopanzolco was brought to a close by the Spanish Conquest in 1521, at which time the Tlahuicas were still living in the area and paying tribute to the Aztecs.
Teopanzolco was probably the original centre of the city of Cuauhnahuac during the Early Aztec period (AD 1150–1350) before the ceremonial centre was moved to a more defensible location, now the centre of the modern city of Cuernavaca. After the relocation of the ceremonial centre no new construction was undertaken at Teopanzolco.
The site of Teopanzolco was rediscovered in the 1910s, during the Mexican Revolution, when the revolutionary forces of Emiliano Zapata installed an artillery emplacement upon the Great Platform (Building 1) in order to shell federalist positions in the centre of Cuernavaca. The resulting cannon fire shook loose the soil, revealing the stonework below.
The modern history of Teopanzolco begins with the first excavations at the site in 1921, no further investigations took place until it was excavated in 1956-7 by Mexican archaeologists Román Piña Chan and Eduardo Noguera, who investigated the temple of Ehecatl and established a ceramic sequence for the site. Further archaeological investigations took place in 1968-9 (by Angulo Villaseñor) and in 1980 (by Wanda Tomassi). INAH has undertaken maintenance and minor excavations annually since 1985.
The earthquake of September 19, 2017, damaged the main temple. As archaeologists began repairing the damage, they were surprised to find a smaller, previously unknown temple inside, which presumably was dedicated to Tlaloc, the god of rain. Archaeologists discovered stucco-covered walls, a bench, and a pilaster, which may date to the Posclásico Medio period (A.D. 1150-1200). While more studies need to be undertaken to prove this theory, this would mean that the temple of Teopanzolco predates the Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
The site
Only the ceremonial centre of Teopanzolco has been preserved. The residential areas of the prehispanic city lie beneath the modern development of Vista Hermosa, for this reason the actual size of the city is unknown. The surviving remains were built using local basalt. Although nothing survives of the original finishing, the buildings were presumably covered with painted plaster, as at other archaeological sites. Although the site had been developed by both the Tlahuicas and the Aztecs, the dominant architectural style and the majority of the excavated ceramics are Aztec in origin.
Great Platform or Building 1. This is the principal building within the archaeological zone. It consists of a westward facing rectangular pyramidal base that once supported twin temples; the northernmost was dedicated to Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god, while the southern temple was dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, the god of war. Two parallel stairways give access to the temples. This style of double temple is Aztec in origin. Two phases of building are evident, the second practically identical to the first and built on top of it. Only the platform survives from the second phase but sections of the walls of the twin temples survive from the earlier building phase. The later phase of construction appears to have been interrupted by the Spanish Conquest.
Temple of Tlaloc This consisted of a small enclosure surrounded by four pillars that presumably supported a wide roof that extended beyond the temple enclosure itself. It is situated upon the Great Platform.
Temple of Huitzilopochtli This was larger than the temple of Tlaloc and consisted of two rooms, one lying behind the other and accessed through it. The remains of an altar have been found in this inner sanctum . It is situated upon the Great Platform.
Building 2 This is a low, irregular platform with a wide north-facing stairway.
Building 3 is a small rectangular platform with an east-facing stairway.
Building 4 is a wide but shallow rectangular platform with a borderless east-facing stairway. A pit was found in this structure, which contained a great number of human bones together with two obsidian knives. The bones belonged to 35 individuals of both sexes who had been sacrificed and dismembered.
Building 5 is another small rectangular platform with an east-facing stairway.
Building 6 is a small rectangular platform with an east-facing stairway.
Building 7 is a small, low circular platform with an east-facing stairway. It was a shrine dedicated to Ehecatl, the Aztec god of wind, one of the manifestations of Quetzalcoatl. A sunken chamber was found inside this platform, it was filled with offerings of ceramic vessels and human skulls, probably belonging to sacrificial victims.
Building 8 is a very small rectangular platform with an east-facing stairway.
Building 9 is another low circular platform. It was another shrine to Ehecatl, slightly larger than the similar Building 7.
Building 10 is a long rectangular platform running east-west, located behind buildings 3 to 6. It has two stairways facing east and another facing to the west. It appears to have been expanded several times during its history.
Building 12 is a large platform aligned with the Great Platform, lying directly to the north. It has three west-facing stairways.
Temple of Tezcatlipoca or Building 13 is directly behind (i.e. to the east of) the Great Platform. Its lower level had a double stairway that faced towards the latter. The upper level has a single, wide stairway. The combination of a cannonball strike during the Mexican Revolution and a large looters' pit has inflicted extensive damage upon the remains.
Platform 15 was excavated in 1997. It is located at the southern edge of the archaeological site. It was a large platform in a poor state of preservation. Below the platform were found the remains of a residence whose inhabitants manufactured dyes, as evidenced by the discovery of hearths with tools and traces of iron oxide-based pigments. The residence was demolished in order to build the overlying platform, leaving only the foundations containing domestic human burials.
The site is in the care of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History) and is open to the public.
Notes
See also
Santa Cecilia Acatitlan
Templo Mayor
Tenayuca
Tlatelolco (archaeological site)
References
García Moll, Roberto (1993) Teopanzolco, Morelos miniguide, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
Kelly, Joyce (2001) An Archaeological Guide to Central and Southern Mexico, University of Oklahoma Press.
External links
Teopanzolco at INAH
Aztec sites
Former populated places in Mexico
Archaeological sites in Morelos
Tourist attractions in Morelos |
17330765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Gibbens | Kevin Gibbens | Kevin Gibbens (born 4 November 1979) is an English former professional footballer.
Playing career
Southampton
Gibbens made his debut for Southampton on 4 April 1998 against Sheffield Wednesday, coming on in the 58th minute for Matt Le Tissier.
Sholing
Gibbens joined Sholing (then VTFC) in August 2004, staying at the club for eight years.
Blackfield & Langley
Gibbens joined Wessex League side Blackfield & Langley in July 2012.
Andover Town
After leaving Blackfield, Gibbens signed for Andover Town in August 2015.
Managerial career
On 17 December 2013, it was announced that Gibbens was to become player/manager of Blackfield & Langley, following the departure of Glenn Burnett.
References
External links
Kevin Gibbens Basingstoke Town Profile
Kevin Gibbens Wessex League Profile
Since 1888... The Searchable Premiership and Football League Player Database (subscription required)
Sporting-heroes.net
1979 births
Living people
Footballers from Southampton
English footballers
Association football midfielders
Southampton F.C. players
Stockport County F.C. players
Oxford United F.C. players
Basingstoke Town F.C. players
Sholing F.C. players
Blackfield & Langley F.C. players
Andover Town F.C. players
Premier League players
English Football League players
English football managers
Blackfield & Langley F.C. managers |
17330802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20committees%20of%20the%20Northern%20Ireland%20Assembly | List of committees of the Northern Ireland Assembly | List of committees of the Northern Ireland Assembly is a list of departmental, standing and ad hoc committees of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Departmental committees
Executive Office
Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Communities
Economy
Education
Finance
Health
Infrastructure
Justice
Standing committees
Assembly and Executive Review Committee
Committee on Procedures
Business Committee
Public Accounts Committee
Committee on Standards and Privileges
Audit Committee
See also
List of government departments, their agencies and their ministers in Northern Ireland
References
External links
Northern Ireland Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly, Committees |
20468310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunaraniya | Saunaraniya | Saunaraniya is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3763 people living in 689 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
17330808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st%20Dogras | 41st Dogras | The 41st Dogras were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1900, when they were raised as the 41st (Dogra) Bengal Infantry.
They went to China in 1904 to join an international force, staying there until 1908. In World War I they served on the Western Front and in the Mesopotamia Campaign. There was a second battalion raised in 1917.
After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments. In 1922, the 41st Dogras now became the 3rd and 10th Battalions 17th Dogra Regiment. The regiment was allocated to the new Indian Army on independence.
Predecessor names
41st (Dogra) Bengal Infantry - 1900
41st Dogra Infantry - 1901
41st Dogras - 1903
References
Sources
Moberly, F.J. (1923). Official History of the War: Mesopotamia Campaign, Imperial War Museum.
British Indian Army infantry regiments
Military units and formations established in 1900
Military units and formations disestablished in 1922
Bengal Presidency |
20468319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawagada | Sawagada | Sawagada is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
17330811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%20Community%20Schools | Napoleon Community Schools | Napoleon Community Schools is a public school district located in Napoleon, Michigan, approximately 7 miles South East of Jackson, Michigan. The district includes Napoleon High School, Ackerson Lake Alternative High School, Napoleon Middle School and Ezra Eby Elementary schools. The school services students from Napoleon and Norvell Townships, and some parts of Columbia and Grass Lake Townships.
History
Napoleon Community Schools were officially formed in 1921 after the passage of the Consolidated school act. Prior to the passage, many schools operated independently within Napoleon Township, dating back to at least 1909. In 2016, the school district went to the U.S. Supreme Court over not allowing access for a student's service dog in Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools.
Schools
Ezra Eby Elementary (K-5)
Napoleon Middle School (6–8)
Napoleon High School (9–12)
Ackerson Lake Alternative High School (9–12)
References
External links
School districts in Michigan
Education in Jackson County, Michigan
1921 establishments in Michigan
School districts established in 1921 |
17330813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENSCO%2C%20Inc. | ENSCO, Inc. | ENSCO is a provider of engineering, science, and advanced technology equipment for the defense, security, transportation, and aerospace industries. ENSCO's corporate headquarters are physically located in Ravensworth, Virginia, with a Springfield postal address.
The company manufactured the track geometry cars for the Washington Metro.
The company is the designer and operator of Applied Meteorology Unit at the Kennedy Space Center for NASA.
Products and services
The company operates four divisions: rail technology, national security, avionics, and aerospace.
The company provides products for security and early-warning systems, including a product designed to detect human presence in intermodal containers and in vehicles. In the area of CBRN defense, the company has produced an early-warning decision and support system using integrated sensor technologies.
ENSCO's avionics and aerospace products and services include those for space launch ranges, air safety, the development of embedded software, and the certification of avionics systems. The company does safety-critical systems engineering to identify underperforming or nonperforming components for the aerospace industry. The company's engineering for the aerospace industry adheres to the RTCA, Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics' DO-178C (Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification), RTCA's DO-254, (Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware), RTCA's DO-160E (Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment), and US military standards.
The company's weather technologies division provides analysis and visualization of meteorological information, including radar, satellite, lightning, wind, and upper air data from worldwide sources. The firm provides analytical services to operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Kennedy Space Center.
ENSCO's transportation engineering services include systems for railroads, advanced rail security and safety services and technologies including track inspection and maintenance, track geometry data analysis and management, vehicle testing, inspection, troubleshooting, and train status location information. The company operates and maintains the Federal Railroad Administration's Automated Track Inspection Program.
History
The company was established by Dr. Paul W. Broome in 1969.
In 1982, Francesco A. Calabrese became president of the company.
In 1997, Broome retired as chief executive officer of the company.
In 2005, the company was hired by United Airlines to generate weather forecasts.
Also in 2005, the company opened an office in Watervliet, New York.
In 2011, the company opened an office in Montreal, its first international operation, to service the avionics market.
In April 2011, the company acquired the IData and IGL 178 product lines from Quantum3D.
In April 2013, the company was awarded a contract by Bombardier to provide wheel sets and testing services in support of Bombardier's design and build of new railcars for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
In October 2014, Boris Nejikovsky was named president of the company.
In July 2015, the company received a contract to build a track inspection vehicle for Roy Hill Infrastructure in Western Australia. The company also received a contract to equip two Canadian National Railway hi-rail vehicles with both a track geometry measurement system and a machine vision joint bar inspection system.
In August 2015, the company was awarded a contract by Genesee & Wyoming for a paperless track inspection device.
In January 2016, the company opened an office in Perth.
In March 2017, the company was awarded a $74 million contract by the United States Air Force to provide modeling software and engineering support.
In April 2017, the company was awarded a contract by the Federal Railroad Administration for the Automated Track Inspection Program.
In January 2018, Paul W. Broome, the founder of the company, died.
In March 2021 ENSCO was awarded a US$571 million contract to manage the Transportation Technology Center (TTC) in Pueblo, Colorado; the transition from the former contractor, Transportation Technology Center, Inc., is expected to be completed by October 2022. The contract has a five-year base period and three five-year renewal options. ENSCO also announced the formation of the Center for Surface Transportation Testing and Academic Research (C-STTAR) consortium, including eight universities and academic research centers, to assist with research "across all modes of surface transportation" at TTC. Other members of the C-STTAR consortium include:
Center for Urban Transportation Research (at University of South Florida, consortium lead)
Colorado State University–Pueblo
University of Hawaii
Michigan State University
Michigan Tech
Mineta Transportation Institute (at San Jose State University)
University of Nebraska
Oregon State University
Corporate affairs
The corporate headquarters are physically located in the Ravensworth census-designated place in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, with a Springfield postal address.
The headquarters were formerly physically located in Annandale CDP in unincorporated Fairfax County, with a Falls Church postal address.
Notes
1969 establishments in Virginia
Aerospace companies of the United States
Companies based in Fairfax County, Virginia
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1969
Defense companies of the United States
Engineering companies of the United States
Falls Church, Virginia
Privately held companies based in Virginia
Transport safety organizations |
17330825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perveance | Perveance | Perveance is a notion used in the description of charged particle beams. The value of perveance indicates how significant the space charge effect is on the beam's motion. The term is used primarily for electron beams, in which motion is often dominated by the space charge.
Origin of the word
The word was probably created from Latin pervenio–to attain.
Definition
For an electron gun, the gun perveance is determined as a coefficient of proportionality between a space-charge limited current, , and the gun anode voltage, , in three-half power in the Child-Langmuir law
The same notion is used for non-relativistic beams propagating through a vacuum chamber. In this case, the beam is assumed to have been accelerated in a stationary electric field so that is the potential difference between the emitter and the vacuum chamber, and the ratio of
is referred to as a beam perveance.
In equations describing motion of relativistic beams, contribution of the space charge appears as a dimensionless parameter called the generalized perveance defined as
,
where (for electrons) is the Budker (or Alfven) current; and are the relativistic factors, and is the neutralization factor.
Examples
The 6S4A is an example of a high perveance triode. The triode section of a 6AU8A becomes a high-perveance diode when its control grid is employed as the anode. Each section of a 6AL5 is a high-perveance diode as opposed to a 1J3 which requires over 100 V to reach only 2 mA.
Perveance does not relate directly to current handling. Another high-perveance diode, the diode section of a 33GY7, shows similar perveance to a 6AL5, but handles 15 times greater current, at almost 13 times maximum peak inverse voltage.
References
Accelerator physics
Experimental particle physics |
20468326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20Tina%20Watson | Death of Tina Watson | Tina Watson was a 26-year-old American woman from Helena, Alabama, who died while scuba diving in Queensland, Australia, on 22 October 2003. Tina had been on her honeymoon with her new husband, fellow American Gabe Watson, who was initially charged by Queensland authorities with his wife's murder. Watson pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
Evidence presented at the trial included Watson's differing accounts of what had happened on that day, of the couple's diving experience (or lack thereof), and of Tina's life insurance. While Watson was serving his term in Australia, authorities in Alabama flagged an intention to charge him with murder at a later date. After his release, he was deported to Alabama on the condition that he would not be sentenced to death if found guilty of murder. Watson was then put on trial, but on 23 February 2012, Judge Tommy Nail dismissed the murder case due to lack of evidence.
Background
Christina Mae "Tina" Watson (birth name unknown) was born in West Germany on 13 February 1977, before relocating to the U.S. while still a baby. On 24 January 1980, she was legally adopted by Tommy and Cindy Thomas. They lived in Walker County, Alabama, with her younger sister before moving to Louisiana then Birmingham. David Gabriel "Gabe" Watson met Tina while they were students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and they began dating in January 2001.
Despite an earlier diagnosis of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT), Tina began diving lessons in January 2003, and earned her certification just before her wedding to Watson on 11 October 2003. Watson was purportedly a qualified certified rescue diver, with experience in the lake at Oak Mountain State Park. Watson had completed 55 dives by the time of their marriage, and Tina 5. The couple had planned a scuba trip in the Great Barrier Reef for their honeymoon, and flew to Sydney for a week before heading to Townsville. They chose to dive the popular yet difficult wreck of SS Yongala, a passenger ship that sank in 1911, even though Watson had limited open ocean experience and Tina had never dived in the ocean or below 9 metres. The dive company had also offered an orientation and guided dive with a dive master, which the couple had refused.
Incident
At around 10:30 am on 22 October, during an excursion from the dive boat Spoilsport to the site of Yongala, Tina lost consciousness and sank to the bottom, below the water's surface within two minutes of beginning the dive. Watson claimed the currents were stronger than they expected and that he responded to a signal from Tina to return to the dive rope, where he noted a look of worry on her face before she accidentally knocked his mask and air regulator loose. When Watson recovered his sight, Tina was sinking too quickly for him to retrieve her and he quickly surfaced to get help. He also stated that an ear problem prevented him from diving deeper to help her and that there was nothing in his training as a rescue diver "about how to get somebody" in trouble to the surface.
Other divers nearby at the time, including Dr. Stanley Stutz, saw Watson engaged in an underwater "bear hug" with his "flailing" wife, after which he headed for the surface while Tina fell to the ocean floor. One diver, Gary Stempler, photographed Tina by chance while taking a picture of his own wife that showed Tina in the background. The photo showed her lying face-up on the ocean floor, something that did not come to light until a couple of weeks later when the pictures were developed. Watson climbed aboard the Spoilsport and alerted dive instructor Wade Singleton, who brought Tina to the surface after ten minutes underwater. She was taken aboard the adjacent dive boat Jazz II, where a doctor tried to resuscitate her for 40 minutes while Watson remained on the Spoilsport, but she was unable to be revived.
Investigation
The day following the death, Tina's autopsy was performed by Professor David Williams, consultant forensic pathologist to the Queensland Coroner. Williams found florid evidence of air embolism, but no degenerative disease. He gave the cause of death as drowning. Due to the unexpected nature of Tina's death and the implausible and conflicting statements given by Watson, the death was investigated by the State Coroner's office. A coronial inquiry was held, as is the usual practice in Australia. Watson had already left Australia by this point and declined to return, so did not testify during the inquest but gave evidence through his lawyers to the inquest and to the Queensland Police. During the inquest, prosecutors submitted evidence that Watson's story contradicted the record of his actions stored by his dive computer. They suggested the possibility that he turned off Tina's regulator and held her until she was unconscious, then turned the air back on and let her sink before surfacing himself. As evidence, they described the many painstaking re-enactments of various scenarios conducted by police divers. Tina's father claimed that Watson had asked Tina, shortly before their wedding, to increase her life insurance and make him the sole beneficiary.
Civil action commenced in Alabama
In March 2005, Watson launched legal action in Alabama's Jefferson County Circuit Court to recoup the cost of the couple's trip after the travel insurance company refused a payout. He was seeking $45,000 for the accidental death plus compensation for trip interruption, medical expenses, phone calls, taxi fares, fees for extra credit card statements and unspecified punitive damages for mental and emotional anguish. The action was dismissed in May 2008 at Watson's request on the grounds the Australian investigation into his wife's death caused him "to reasonably apprehend that he risks self-incrimination in this case". His Australian legal team believed "it was not in his best interest" to pursue the damages claim and his U.S.-based lawyer, Bob Austin, added that his client would not be voluntarily "going back to Australia."
Indictment
On 19 June 2008, the Coroner laid the following charge:That on the 22nd day of October 2003 at the site of the historical shipwreck Yongala forty-eight nautical miles south east from the port of Townsville in the state of Queensland, David Gabriel Watson murdered Christina Mae Watson.
It was reported that the Coroner found "it was likely that Watson had killed his 26-year-old wife by turning off her air supply and holding her in an 'underwater bear hug' until she was dead"; the coroner, however, had made no such finding.
Trial and sentence in Australia
After resisting extradition for six months, Watson travelled voluntarily from the U.S. to Australia in May 2009 to face trial. At the trial on 5 June 2009, he pleaded not guilty to murder and guilty to, and was convicted of, manslaughter. Crown prosecutor Brendan Campbell pointed out that over time Watson had given police sixteen different versions of what had happened to Tina and that none of those versions matched what the only eyewitness had seen. When Tina was brought to the surface, her regulator was still in her mouth, her tank still had air, and tests indicated no faults with her equipment. Campbell described Watson as an experienced diver trained in rescuing panicked divers, who had allowed his wife to sink to the ocean floor without making any serious attempt to retrieve her. Watson did not inflate Tina's buoyancy control device (BCD) or remove her weight belt, and had failed to fulfill his obligations as her "dive buddy" by not sharing his alternative air source. Watson was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, to be suspended after serving only twelve months.
Reaction to the sentence
Tina's family stated that Watson's twelve-month term was an embarrassment to Australia. The day following the trial, Alabama Attorney General Troy King lodged an appeal with the Queensland Supreme Court and also wrote to Queensland Attorney-General Cameron Dick. Fairfax Media reported that the letter was leaked to them and published part of it in their newspapers.
The Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions, Tony Moynihan SC, issued a statement, which said:
"The decision to accept Mr Watson's plea of guilty to manslaughter was made after a careful and thorough examination of the admissible evidence, and was not taken lightly. Given the complex circumstantial nature of the case, Mr Watson's admission that he breached his duty to render assistance to his wife ultimately meant there was no reasonable prospect of proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he was guilty of murder." On 18 June 2009, Dick announced the state would appeal against the inadequacy of Watson's sentence.
Appeal
The appeal was heard by the Queensland Court of Appeals on 17 July 2009. The Crown asked the court to increase Watson's prison term to two and a half years. The defence argued that Watson had had a momentary lapse in judgment, had been accused of a crime he did not commit, and had voluntarily returned to Australia to co-operate with the court, and that the penalty imposed by the trial judge was fair and just. The findings on appeal were handed down on 18 September 2009. Two members allowed the prosecution's appeal, increasing Watson's period of incarceration by six months to a total of eighteen. One justice, by minority opinion, was in favour of dismissing the appeal.
Further incidents
Tina was buried in her native Pelham, Alabama. Her remains were exhumed in 2007 and moved to a different lot bought by Watson. After being informed by her family that flowers and gifts were repeatedly being vandalized or disappearing from the grave site, even when chained down, police surveillance videos showed Watson removing them with bolt cutters and throwing them in trash cans. Watson later said he removed them because they were "big, gaudy, plastic arrangements". Her grave was unmarked until 2009, when Watson provided a foot marker, prompting her father to request her body be returned for reburial. In 2011, the Probate Court removed Watson as administrator of Tina's estate and appointed her father, who also requested that her school and college pictures and yearbooks be returned. Watson appealed against the ruling and refused to provide the court with an inventory of Tina's possessions. Pending Watson's trial, the Alabama Circuit Court ordered him to stay away from the grave.
Trial in United States
Alabama investigation
In May 2010, King announced he had information not yet made public and wanted to try Watson for capital murder and kidnapping, asserting jurisdiction based on the theory that the alleged crime was planned in Alabama. King petitioned Australia for the evidence held by police, but was refused access until he gave an undertaking that the death penalty would not be imposed, as required under Australian law. This condition has been strongly criticised by King and Don Valeska, chief of the Attorney General's violent crime division, who stated: "If an Australian woman was killed here, we would immediately send the evidence there. We would not presume to tell the Australian authorities how to run their criminal justice system". In response to the announcement, Watson's parents came to the defence of their son, breaking their public silence on the case. Friends and family of Watson questioned whether he had any motive for the murder, noting that his affection for Tina had seemed genuine, there was no life insurance policy naming him as beneficiary, and he appeared to be emotionally devastated for an extended time following her death.
In June 2010, King assured the Queensland Attorney-General he would not seek the death penalty if Watson was tried in the U.S. for his wife's death. In August 2010 it was announced Watson would be released in November and was likely to be deported to the US, where he faced being charged with murder. Valeska stated he would pursue an additional charge of kidnapping by deception. The case was placed before a grand jury in Birmingham, Alabama in October 2010.
Watson was released from prison on 10 November 2010. He was transferred to an immigration detention centre while his deportation was delayed. During this time, Australian authorities sought further written assurances from the US Attorney General that he would not face the death penalty in Alabama if convicted of murder. Under international human rights law, Australia could not deport Watson if he faced execution in his home country. On 25 November 2010 he was deported to the United States and immediately arrested.
Arrest
Alabama prosecutors charged Watson with murder and kidnapping at the conclusion of his prison sentence in Australia after finding what they claimed was evidence he had plotted to kill his wife while still in the United States. A Birmingham grand jury indicted Watson on murder and kidnapping charges in October 2010. In July 2011, the Circuit Court set the trial date for 13 February 2012; Watson was released on a $100,000 bond.
New evidence
Colin McKenzie, a key diving expert in the original investigation who had maintained that "a diver with Watson's training should have been able to bring Tina up", subsequently retracted much of his testimony after being provided with Tina and Watson's diver logs, certificates and medical histories, to which he had not previously had access. McKenzie claimed Watson should not have been allowed in the water and never as a dive buddy for his wife, who had no open water scuba experience. Tina had heart surgery to correct an irregular heartbeat two years earlier but on her dive application had stated that she had never had heart problems or surgery. Professor Michael "Mike" Bennett, a leading expert in dive medicine, stated that Tina was unfit to dive without clearance from a cardiologist. Watson had received his rescue certification, normally a four-day course, after completing a two-day course in an Alabama quarry. He had no rescue experience and little open water experience.
According to McKenzie, "He had no hope of being competent, he could barely save himself [that day] let alone his wife; I don't believe he intended to kill her." Revelations that Watson needed help to don his diving equipment that day underscored that he was a "dangerous amateur" who showed "a complete lack of courage" when he abandoned his wife. The dive company had offered an orientation and guided dive with a dive master, which both Tina and Watson had refused. Company head Mike Ball said his people took Watson at his word, believing he was an experienced and certified rescue diver. The company later pleaded guilty to contravening safety standards (their code of conduct said both Watson and Tina must be supervised by at least a divemaster on the dive in question) and was fined $6,500, plus costs of $1,500.
Dismissal of the case
Alabama judge Tommy Nail ruled that evidence of Watson's behaviour following Tina's death was inadmissible. Nail also blocked Tina's father from giving evidence regarding Watson's alleged attempts to increase Tina's life insurance. On 23 February 2012, Nail acquitted Watson for lack of evidence without the defence needing to present its case. Nail said that the state's evidence was "sorely lacking" and that the prosecution could not prove that Watson had any financial motive. Prosecutor Don Valeska said that this was the first time he had a trial end in a judge's acquittal in the 41 years he had been trying cases. Regarding the judge's decision, Thomas said, "It should have gone to the jury for them to decide."
In media
A feature on the death of Tina Watson was broadcast in a 90-minute account that aired on Dateline NBC on 19 May 2008. An examination of Tina's death and Watson's subsequent trial and appeal was published by The Age on 17 July 2010. The author was Walkley Award winning investigative journalist, Peter Patrick. A feature on the death of Tina and her husband's Alabama acquittal was broadcast on an episode of the Australian 60 Minutes on 25 March 2012. Lifetime produced a made-for-TV movie, Fatal Honeymoon, based on the death of Tina Watson, starring Harvey Keitel, Billy Miller and . It premiered on 25 August 2012. Tina Watson's death was explored on Casefile True Crime Podcast (Case 51) which was published on 22 April 2017.
References
Further reading
Tina Watson Death - Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving Web Site
External links
Inquest into the death of Christina Mae Watson known as Tina Watson
Mystery in the deep blue sea - NBC Dateline transcript
Tina Watson: the bride who drowned at the Barrier Reef - The Sunday Times
'Princess bride' feared being left on shelf - The Sydney Morning Herald
Death Down Under - The Sydney Morning Herald
Unfathomable - Australian Story
Obituary at Legacy.com
Tina's Story - a collection of news articles up to 2009
Casefile True Crime Podcast - Case 51: Tina Watson - 22 April 2017
2003 crimes in Australia
1977 births
2003 deaths
American manslaughter victims
Australia–United States relations
Crime in Queensland
Deaths by drowning
Deaths by person in Australia
Manslaughter in Australia
October 2003 events in Australia
People from Helena, Alabama
Underwater diving deaths |
20468330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitalpur%20Bairgania | Shitalpur Bairgania | Shitalpur Bairgania is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4612 people living in 875 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
17330888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem%20Brakman | Willem Brakman | Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman (13 June 19228 May 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel Een winterreis in 1961. Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980. He was born on 13 June 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on 8 May 2008 in the same country.
Selected works
1961 – Een winterreis (novel)
1978 – Zes subtiele verhalen
1998 – Ante diluvium (novel)
1998 – De koning is dood (novel)
1999 – Het onlieflijke stadje E.
2004 – De afwijzing (novel)
2006 – Naar de zee, om het strand te zien
Awards
1962: Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoogt Award (for Een winterreis)
1979: Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs (for Zes subtiele verhalen)
1980: P. C. Hooft Award
References
1922 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Dutch novelists
20th-century Dutch male writers
21st-century Dutch novelists
Dutch male novelists
Writers from The Hague
Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize winners
P. C. Hooft Award winners
21st-century Dutch male writers |
17330939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel%20Bazire | Jean-Michel Bazire | Jean-Michel Bazire (born April 16, 1971) is a French harness racing driver. In 1999, he won the Prix d'Amérique driving Moni Maker. In 2004, he was the driver for Kesaco Phedo who also won the Prix. In 2015 he again won it with Up and Quick and with Bélina Josselyn in 2019.
References
1971 births
Living people
French harness racers
Harness racing in France
People in harness racing |
20468335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNLV-FM | KNLV-FM | KNLV-FM (103.9 FM, "King FM") is a radio station licensed to serve Ord, Nebraska broadcasting a country music format . It operates on FM frequency 103.9 MHz and is under ownership of MWB Broadcasting. JJ Johnnie James handles the morning show and is the host of a Party Line program.
External links
NLV
Country radio stations in the United States |
20468345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujicolor%20Pro | Fujicolor Pro | Fujicolor Pro was a line of professional color negative films from Japanese company Fujifilm introduced in 2004 for weddings, portraits, fashion and commercial photography. It originally comprised four emulsions: Pro 160S, Pro 160C, Pro 400H and Pro 800Z. Its main competitor was Kodak Portra.
In 2021 further production of the two remaining emulsions; Pro 160NS distributed in Japan only and Pro 400H distributed globally, was ended. Remaining supply from stock only.
History
The "Pro" film line was introduced in 2004 to mark the replacement of the last of the 'NP' series films, with the new 160 ISO emulsions adjusted to be finer grained (RMS 3 rather than 4) compared to their NPS/C equivalent and have a more neutral colour balance in line with the recently updated 400 and 800 emulsions.
The preceding 'NP' series of films were:
NPS 160 (–2004) Daylight balanced film for 'S'hort exposures. Replaced by Pro 160S.
NPC 160 (–2004) Daylight balanced film, higher 'C'ontrast than NPS. Replaced by Pro 160C.
NPL 160 (–2004) Tungsten balanced colour film, also for 'L'ong exposures. Not carried forward into Pro line.
NPH 400 (2002–2004) Daylight balanced film, renamed Pro 400H.
NPZ 800 (2002–2004) Daylight balanced film, renamed Pro 800Z.
All Pro films incorporate: sigma fine grain technology, neutral color balance for improved skin tones, a fourth cyan layer for improved color rendition under fluorescent lighting and were optimized for scanning and single channel printing. and have 'easy end seal' peel and stick tape on roll films.
Colors are generally 'cooler' than the equivalent Kodak Portra films.
All formats of Pro 800Z were discontinued in 2009/10 due to low demand. Pro 160C was discontinued in 2010 and Pro 160S was renamed Pro 160NS. However this film was only distributed in Europe, Asia & Australia (not USA). Pro 160 NS sheet film was discontinued in 2016. Pro 160NS in 120 was discontinued in the UK in late 2017 and in the rest of Europe in late 2018. Pro 400H was discontinued in all formats and markets in January 2021 and Pro 160NS in Japan in October 2021.
Emulsions
Pro 160C (2004–2010)
Pro 160C was an ISO 160 daylight-type color negative film designed for professional use, featuring a gradation design optimized for exposures requiring high-contrast results. It was discontinued in 2010.
Pro 160S and 160NS (2004-2021)
Pro 160S was an ISO 160 daylight-type color negative film designed for professional use, featuring more highly optimized skin tone reproduction, soft contrast (forgiving for portraits) and neutral gray balance, especially important for wedding and portrait photography. It was available in 135, 120, 220 (triacetate base) and sheet film; 4x5", 8x10" (polyester base).
In 2010 it was renamed Pro 160NS with no change to the emulsion, available in 120, 220 and sheet film and only distributed in Europe, Asia and Australia. 135 format was discontinued at the same time. With 220 already discontinued, sheet film was discontinued 2016. 120 format was stated as being discontinued in 2017 by retailers in the UK (no official announcement), remaining on sale from stock into early 2018. In late 2018 Pro 160NS was also stated as being discontinued by retailers in Germany with stock expiry dates of February 2019. It was announced to be discontinued in October 2021 in Japan. Predicted end of supply March 2022.
Pro 400H (2004-2021)
Fujicolor Pro 400H was an ISO 400 fine grain natural color professional film for weddings, portraits, fashion with fourth color layer on triacetate base. Formats: 135, 120, 220
The 400H emulsion was originally launched as NPH400 in 2002. The bright, colorful, and fine-grained 400 speed film featured improved skin tones, much more accurate color reproduction, better shadow detail, and wider exposure latitude. It featured Fuji's new peel and stick paper backing. Renamed in 2004 to Pro 400H and with new packaging to bring it into line with the new 160 line of films, but with no change to the emulsion.
220 format was discontinued in 2013 along with 135-24 exp and 135 multipacks.
In January 2021, Fujifilm announced that 400H was to be discontinued in both 135 and 120 formats in all markets. The reason for the sudden discontinuation compared to previous films on the range, was not lack of sales, but difficulty in procuring key raw materials for new master roll production. Predicted end of supply; 135 format - immediately in N.America (March 2021 in Japan). 120 format - Dec 21 in N.America (March 2022 Japan), later brought forward to June 2021 due to demand.
Pro 800Z (2004–2009)
FujiColor Pro 800Z was an ISO 800 fine grain natural color professional film for weddings, portraits, fashion with fourth color layer on triacetate base. It was available in 135, 120 and 220 format.
The Pro 800Z emulsion was originally launched as NPZ800 in 2002 and renamed Pro 800Z in 2004 with new packaging to bring it into line with the new 160 line of films, but with no change to the emulsion. It was discontinued in 2009/10.
See also
Kodak Portra - A similar family of films from Kodak
List of photographic films
List of discontinued photographic films
References
External links
Color negative films at Fujifilm global
Fujifilm photographic films |
17330946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20H.%20Lee%20%28businessman%29 | Thomas H. Lee (businessman) | Thomas H. Lee (born March 27, 1944) is an American businessperson, financier and investor and is credited with being one of the early pioneers in private equity and specifically leveraged buyouts. Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL), the firm he founded in 1974, is among the oldest and largest private equity firms globally. Lee is currently the managing partner of Lee Equity Partners, a private equity firm he founded in 2006 after leaving Thomas H. Lee Partners.
Early career
Lee was born to a Jewish family, the son of Herbert C. Lee (formerly Leibowitz) and Mildred "Micki" Schiff Lee. His father worked for the Shoe Corporation of America, founded by his father-in-law, Robert Schiff and later was chairperson of Shoe Corporation of Canada and Clark International Corp. He has two brothers: Richard S. Lee and Jonathan O. Lee. Lee attended Belmont Hill School and graduated from Harvard College in 1965, quickly going to work as an analyst in the institutional research department of L.F. Rothschild in New York. The next year, Lee went to work for the First National Bank of Boston, where he spent eight years ultimately rising to the rank of vice president in 1973.
Lee is said to have begun investing with a $150,000 inheritance.
Thomas H. Lee Partners
In 1974, Lee founded a new investment firm to focus on acquiring companies through leveraged buyout transactions. By the mid-1980s, Thomas H. Lee Partners was firmly established among the top tier of a new class of private equity investors, while taking a friendlier approach than the so-called corporate raiders of the era (e.g., Nelson Peltz, Ronald Perelman, Carl Icahn). One of THL's early successes was the 1985 acquisition of Akron, Ohio-based Sterling Jewelers for $28 million. Lee reportedly put in less than $3 million and when the company was sold two years later for $210 million walked away with over $180 million in profits. The combined company was an early predecessor to what is now Signet Group, one of Europe's largest jewelry retail chains. In 1992, THL's acquisition of Snapple Beverages marked the resurrection of the leveraged buyout after several dormant years in the wake of the RJR Nabisco takeover, the fall of Michael Milken, and the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
After ceding public attention to his competitors, most notably Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., the Snapple Beverages transaction catapulted Lee to prominence. Only eight months after buying the company, Lee took Snapple Beverages public and in 1994, only two years after the original acquisition, Lee sold the company to Quaker Oats for $1.7 billion. Lee was estimated to have made $900 million for himself and his investors from the sale. Quaker Oats would subsequently sell the company, which performed poorly under new management, three years later for only $300 million. From 1974 through 2006, THL raised more than $22 billion of capital in six institutional private equity funds and completed more than 100 investments representing in excess of $125 billion of aggregate purchase price.
The final years of Lee's tenure at THL were marred to a certain extent by the firm's investment in Refco, a financial services company specializing in commodities and futures contracts that collapsed suddenly in October 2005, only months after its IPO. THL as the lead investor (and Lee himself) was named in a class action shareholder lawsuit against Refco, along with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Bank of America and Grant Thornton.
Resignation and later career
In March 2006, Lee resigned from Thomas H. Lee Partners as the firm was nearing completion of fundraising for its sixth and current private equity fund. In the same year, Lee formed Lee Equity Partners a private equity firm focused more on growth capital transactions than the leveraged buyouts favored by THL.
Lee, who had limited his day-to-day involvement in the firm and had relocated to New York City, told staff that the parting was "very friendly," an account backed up by another insider, who described it as "completely friendly and amicable."
Philanthropy
Lee donated $22 million to Harvard University. Lee has served as a trustee of Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Brandeis University, Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Harvard University, the Intrepid Museum Foundation, NYU Medical Center, and Rockefeller University. He's a major donor to James Turrell's Roden Crater project.
Personal life
Lee has been married twice. He divorced his first wife, Barbara Fish Lee, in 1995, after he made public the fact that he had an affair with a woman who was later tried for extortion. Lee's second wife is Ann Tenenbaum of Savannah, Georgia. Lee has five children. Lee is an avid art collector and a friend of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. In June 2008 at the conclusion of Hillary's unsuccessful presidential run, she and Bill were reported to have stayed at his East Hampton, New York beach front home for a few days for the period when she was out of the public eye.
In the July 15, 2016 Report of Disbursements, Thomas H. Lee, is named as a $100,000 receipt from Correct the Record, a political action group taking unspecified "targeted action" against political opponents of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
References
External links
Thomas H. Lee Partners (official website)
Return of the LBO
The Rise of Private Equity WSJ.com
Thomas H. Lee (Forbes)
Thomas H Lee (Forbes)
The Art Of The Deal (Interior Design, 2005)
Thomas H. Lee Co. - Company History
1944 births
American art collectors
American billionaires
American financial company founders
American financiers
American investors
Businesspeople from New York (state)
Harvard College alumni
Living people
Private equity and venture capital investors
Jewish American philanthropists
Belmont Hill School alumni
21st-century American Jews |
20468347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simara%20Bhawanipur | Simara Bhawanipur | Simara Bhawanipur is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5,035 people living in 978 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
17330977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papatoetoe%20Wildcats | Papatoetoe Wildcats | Papatoetoe Wildcats is an American football club established in 1986 in South Auckland, New Zealand. The club was founded as the Central Pirates by Pose Tafa, then the East Auckland Wildcats, but moved to South Auckland renaming them as the Papatoetoe Wildcats.
The club has produced some elite New Zealand based players who have since travelled abroad.
The Wildcats have a direct membership of approximately 40 Premier Men playing in the American Football Auckland competition under the auspices of the New Zealand American Football Association or the NZAFA, its national body. The Wildcats also have an Under 19s (Colts) team and an Under 16s (Junior) team. Most of the players come from various sporting codes, mainly from Rugby Union and Rugby League.
The Wildcats currently practice at the Manukau Sportsbowl and previous practice at Papatoetoe Intermediate and the Papatoetoe Panthers Rugby League club grounds.
The Wildcats have had a number of players play nationally and overseas:
Tyer Matia who played for the Coventry Jets in 2007 and in 2009 played Arena Football in the AF2 league for the Rio Grande Dorados in Texas USA. Tyler is assigned to play for the Dorados again in 2009. Tyler was also a part of the New Zealand under 21 Colts national team that beat Australia on home soil in 2003.
Joseph Taula is also playing a season in the USA for the Arena Football AF2 team the Tri Cities Fever in Washington and was then traded to the Stockton Lightning. He will be playing for the lightning again in 2009.. Joseph has played at all level s in New Zealand and represented New Zealand at the Colts and Senior Men's Ironblacks 2001 and 2003.
Albert Bernard has been assigned by AF@ Agent Jason Vaka to the Iowa BArnstormers for 2009. Albert represented New Zealand as an Ironblack in 2001 and 2003.
Thomas Wynne who played in a preseason game with the Coventry Jets in 2007 also joined the Coventry Jets with Tyler Matia for Britbowl XXII winning 33 to 32 against rivals the London Blitz. Thomas represented New Zealand as an Ironblack in 2001 and then in 2005.
The club has established an ongoing relationship with British American football club the Coventry Jets
Achievements
2002 Snr Kiwi Bowl XX Winners
2002 National Club III Winners
2002 U18 Kiwi Bowl IV Winners
2004 U18 Kiwi Bowl VI Winners
2008 Unified Kiwibowl XXVII Winners
2010 Unified Kiwibowl XXIX Winners
2011 Colts Unity Bowl Winners
2011 Unified Kiwibowl XXX Winners
2012 Colts Unity Bowl Winners
2014 Unified Kiwibowl XXXII Winners
2016 Unified Kiwibowl XXXIV Winners
2017 Unified Kiwibowl XXXV Winners
See also
American football in New Zealand
American Football New Zealand
References
External links
Official Website
fb.me/papatoetoewildcats
Papatoetoe Wildcats Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/49085799737/
American football in New Zealand
1986 establishments in New Zealand
American football teams established in 1986 |
20468359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirsiya | Sirsiya | Sirsiya is a village development committee in Parsa District in Province No. 2 of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1966 people living in 352 individual households.
Sirsiya is now known for its Inland Container Depot (ICD) or Dry Port that is very close to the border with India and connected to Raxaul railway junction in India across the border.
Sirsiya Inland Container Depot
The 6 km long metre gauge railway track from Raxaul was converted to broad gauge by the Indian railways to connect Sirsiya Inland Container Depot (ICD) (also known as Birganj Dry Port) that became fully operational in 2005. It facilitates direct movement of containers and break-bulk cargo from Kolkata port and other places in India. It has six full-rake railway sidings. It handles more than 20,000 TEU annually. Its can store 1568 TEU. It has been constructed on land.
The containerised cargo traffic of 20,000 TEU is almost exclusively import into Nepal. There is very little export in containers with less than 1,000 TEU cargo being exported annually. Break-bulk cargo of about 200,000 tons annually includes both imports and exports.
References
Populated places in Parsa District |
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