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17335886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartosz%20Salamon | Bartosz Salamon | Bartosz Salamon (, born 1 May 1991) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Polish club Lech Poznań. He was also a member of the Poland UEFA Euro 2016 squad.
Club career
Early career
Salamon came through the academy of Polish side Lech Poznań after starting his footballing career at Concordia Murowana Goślina.
Brescia and loan to Foggia
Salamon made his Serie B debut on 3 May 2008 just two days after his 17th birthday, coming off the bench in the 77th minute of the win against Modena. On 17 January 2009, he appeared in Brescia's starting eleven for the first time, playing the full 90 minutes of the 4–0 win versus Pisa. On 9 August, he scored his first goal for Brescia in a 1–0 win over Ravenna in Coppa Italia.
In July 2010, it was announced he would play on loan at U.S. Foggia in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, the third tier of Italian football.
He returned to Brescia, in Serie B, for the 2011–12 season. In 2012–13, Brescia decided to play him mainly in central defense.
Milan
On 31 January 2013, Salamon joined Milan, signing a contract until 2017, for a fee of €3.5 million. He was given the number 14 shirt. However, he struggled to displace internationals Philippe Mexès, Cristián Zapata, Daniele Bonera and Mario Yepes in the pecking order.
Sampdoria
On 11 July 2013, Salamon was transferred to Sampdoria in a co-ownership deal for €1.6 million, as part of the deal that signing 50% registration rights of Andrea Poli for €3 million. The co-ownership deals were terminated on 9 June 2014, for an additional €4 million (Poli) and €1.6 million (Salamon) respectively. On 1 September 2014 Salamon joined Pescara in a temporary deal.
Cagliari
On 31 August 2015, Salamon was sold to Cagliari in a five-year contract for €1 million.
Hee made his debut on 7 September 2015, in a 4–0 win over Crotone and with time became a star performener for the club. In the 2015–16 season he won the Serie B title and was thus promoted to Serie A.
He was loaned to newly promoted S.P.A.L. 2013 at the beginning of the 2017-18 season. He made his debut for the club in a 3–2 win against Udinese.
Frosinone
On 9 August 2018, Salamon joined to Serie A side Frosinone on loan until 30 June 2019 with an obligation to buy.
Lech Poznań
On 9 January 2021 he signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Polish Ekstraklasa side Lech Poznań. He is a product of their youth system and returns to Poznań after nearly fourteen years.
International career
Salamon has represented Poland at U-16, U-17, U-18, U-19, U-20 and U-21 levels. In September 2010, he received his first call up to the senior Poland national football team, for the matches against the United States and Ecuador. He made his debut on 26 March 2013 in the World Cup qualifying match against San Marino.
In March 2016, after a three-year absence the national team squad, he received a call from Poland Manager Adam Nawałka for matches against Serbia and Finland. On 30 May 2016, he was called up to Poland squad for UEFA Euro 2016, however he was an unused substitute in all the matches
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Cagliari
Serie B: 2015–16
Lech Poznań
Ekstraklasa: 2021–22
Individual
Ekstraklasa Defender of the Season: 2021–22
References
External links
Bartosz Salamon profile at acmilan.com
Bartosz Salamon Italian league stats at aic.football.it
Bartosz Salamon international caps at uefa.com
Lega Serie A profile
1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Poznań
Association football defenders
Polish footballers
Poland youth international footballers
Poland under-21 international footballers
Poland international footballers
UEFA Euro 2016 players
Brescia Calcio players
Calcio Foggia 1920 S.S.D. players
Lech Poznań players
A.C. Milan players
U.C. Sampdoria players
Cagliari Calcio players
S.P.A.L. players
Frosinone Calcio players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Ekstraklasa players
Polish expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Polish expatriates in Italy |
6903685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harukaze-class%20destroyer | Harukaze-class destroyer | The Harukaze-class destroyer was the first indigenous post-World War II Japanese destroyer class. Its main mission was anti-submarine warfare.
Almost all equipment was supplied from the United States according to the U.S. and Japan Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement. Sensor systems on-board was standard equipment in the U.S. Navy at that time, for example, the AN/SPS-6 air-search radar, the AN/SPS-5 surface-search radar, the QHB search sonar, the QDA attack sonar.
Three 5-inch/38 caliber Mark 12 guns were mounted on Mark 30 single mounts, and controlled by a Mark 51 director. The JMSDF wasn't satisfied with performance of the director, so later the Mark 51 was replaced by the Swedish advanced GFCS developed by Contraves (Harukaze) or American Mark 57 (Yukikaze). At the same time, K-guns and depth charge racks were reduced by half and replaced by Mark 32 torpedoes with two Mark 2 over-the-side launchers.
Ships
References
External links
Destroyer classes |
23575762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramie%2C%20North%20Park%20and%20Western%20Railroad | Laramie, North Park and Western Railroad | The Laramie, North Park and Western Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Colorado between Laramie, Wyoming and Coalmont, Colorado. It operated under several different names between 1901 and 1951 prior to absorption by the Union Pacific Railroad.
History
The railroad was established in 1901 as the Laramie, Hahns Peak and Pacific Railway Company by Issac Van Horn, who planned to construct the line to the mining camps near Gold Hill in the Snowy Range west of Laramie. Van Horn and his partners also invested in the mining camp of Centennial west of Laramie at the base of the mountains. Under the auspices of the Acme Consolidated Gold & Mining Company the partners constructed a sawmill, lumber yard, newspaper and other improvements. Fighting financial issues, the railroad did not arrive in Centennial until 1907 after mining operations in the Snowy Range has mostly died out.
The company opted to go south to North Park in Colorado. The company bought part of a coal deposit near Walden, Colorado and named it Coalmont. The first train reached Walden in October, 1911 and Coalmont in December. The line was very difficult and expensive to operate during winter. In 1914 the company was unable to pay its mortgage and the Colorado, Wyoming and Eastern Railroad took control of the line. In April 1924 the line was sold to new owners that renamed it the Northern Colorado and Eastern Railroad Company. The citizens in Laramie requested the name of the town be in the line, so in June it was renamed again as Laramie, North Park and Western Railroad. David Webster Adamson retired as general superintendent of the Laramie, North Park and Western railroad on June 1, 1941.
The line continued to struggle through the 1930s, and the Interstate Commerce Commission urged Union Pacific to take over. In 1935 the UP acquired control of the LNP&W, and Union Pacific ran the line under the LNP&W name until 1951 when the companies merged, the line becoming the Coalmont Branch of the Union Pacific, and the LNP&W depot in Laramie was closed. Shortline Wyoming Colorado Railroad bought the line in 1987, and subsequently abandoned it in Summer of 1999.
See also
List of defunct Colorado railroads
List of defunct Wyoming railroads
References
External links
Defunct Wyoming railroads
Historic American Engineering Record in Wyoming
Predecessors of the Union Pacific Railroad
Railway companies established in 1924
Railway companies disestablished in 1951
Defunct Colorado railroads
American companies disestablished in 1951
American companies established in 1924 |
44499918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20record%20progression%20track%20cycling%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20flying%20500%20m%20time%20trial | World record progression track cycling – Men's flying 500 m time trial | This is an overview of the progression of the world track cycling record of the men's 500 m flying start as recognised by the Union Cycliste Internationale.
Progression
Professionals (1955–1992)
Amateurs (1954–1990)
Open (from 1988)
References
Track cycling world record progressions |
17335890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saori%20Kondo | Saori Kondo | Saori Kondo (born 1956) is a former badminton player who won Japanese national titles and excelled internationally in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Known for her quickness and determination, Kondo was runner-up in women's singles at the prestigious All-England Championships in both 1978 and 1979. She performed exceptionally well for the Japanese Uber Cup (women's international) teams, which won consecutive world championships in 1978 and 1981.
References
1956 births
Living people
Japanese female badminton players
Asian Games medalists in badminton
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Badminton players at the 1978 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games |
6903702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson%20v.%20Johnson%20County%20Community%20College | Thompson v. Johnson County Community College | Thompson v. Johnson County Community College, 108 F.3d 1388 (10th Cir. 1997) is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, involving the Johnson County Community College and its practice of giving workers no right to privacy in bathrooms or changing rooms. The college had used video to monitor the changing rooms, and since changing is a public function, there should be no expectation of privacy.
Its importance includes rulings on the lack of expectation of privacy in public areas.
References
External links
Thompson v. Johnson County Community College at Open Jurist
Video Monitoring information at WorkRights.org
United States privacy case law
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit cases
1997 in United States case law
1997 in Kansas
Bathrooms
Johnson County Community College |
44499923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20pictiformis | Suillellus pictiformis | Suillellus pictiformis is a species of bolete fungus found in North America. It was originally described by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1943.
References
External links
pictiformis
Fungi described in 1943
Fungi of North America
Taxa named by William Alphonso Murrill |
6903708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20School%20of%20Dance | The School of Dance | The School of Dance was founded by Merrilee Hodgins and Joyce Shietze. The School of Dance opened its doors on Wellington Street, in the west of Ottawa, in 1978, as a nationally registered, educational, charitable, non-profit organization designed to provide professional training for dance. The budget was $11,000, with three staff, and the studios were rented.
History
In 1979, Celia Franca, a longtime friend and artistic colleague of both Hodgins and Shietze, joined, as co-artistic directors. With the addition of the legendary Franca, founder of the National Ballet of Canada and co-founder of the National Ballet School, Its unwavering standards of excellence became crystallized, and the stage was set for it to grow into the world class arts education institution it is today.
Students come from across Canada, many other countries, and every ward in Ottawa; graduates can be found worldwide, as dancers, choreographers, teachers, arts administrators and directors.
The School of Dance has grown in virtually every aspect of its operations from its professional programming and its accessibility projects and outreach activities to its arts education classes for the community, reaching more than 70,000 people each year. The School of Dance is recognized in Ontario as a private career college and a seminary of learning. The Contemporary Dance Programme is approved as a vocational program under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005.
Hodgins directs The School of Dance with an operating budget of over $1 million and a growing staff of 3 full-time and 87 contract teachers, musicians, choreographers and artists.
From the mid-1980s to 1999, The School of Dance rented a three-studio facility on Catherine Street.
In 1996, The School of Dance added professional modern dance training and teacher training.
In 1998, The School of Dance began its co-operative relationship with the National Arts Centre, producing choreography in orchestral settings to introduce dance to children.
In 2000, The School of Dance purchased 200 Crichton Street, the former Crichton Street Public School.
In 2001, The School of Dance launched DanceONTour® as its outreach vehicle of arts education for academic schools in Ottawa and surrounding areas.
In 2002, The School of Dance doubled the number of its outreach programmes to the over 300 projects it now delivers per year. In the same year, The School of Dance launched DanceAbility, a specially designed dance programme for individuals with disabilities.
In 2003, The School of Dance launched the Inside Out Series of creative process lectures and performances, now named ISO 200, and hired a co-ordinator to manage the outreach and arts education projects.
In 2004, The School of Dance expanded its bilingual programming, with the recognition that its enrollment included an increasing number of francophone students. It also launched its Artists in Residence Programme, with five visual artists and a poet.
In 2005, The School of Dancel more than doubled the DanceONTour projects to 59 and included tours to Montreal, Quebec City, Cornwall, Hamilton, and the Upper Ottawa Valley.
In June 2006, The School of Dance produced a theatrical celebration for Franca's 85th birthday. In 2006, Collected New Works on Film, a 30-year archival collection of choreographic materials, was launched, as a national project with the support of the resident Stuart Conger Learning Centre.
In 2007, The School of Dance began expanding its guest choreographers to include some of Canada's finest im contemporary dance: Emmanuel Jouthe, Heidi Strauss, Marc Boivin, Serge Bennathan, Sarah Williams, Dana Gingras, Louise Bedard, Tedd Robinson, Peggy Baker, Sasha Ivanochko, Chick Snipper, Ginelle Chagnon and many others. Its guest teachers eventually included Andrew Harwood, Peter Ryan, Annemarie Cabri, Shaun Amyot, Jane Wooding, Eliot Rudolph, Massimo Agostinelli and many others.
In 2008, The School of Dance completed 107 DanceONTour projects, produced over 20 theatrical performances, and launched Dancing in the Street, a series of urban events in the City of Ottawa. Shall We Dance? was a specialized movement programme that began in Ottawa hospitals.
In 2009, The School of Dance celebrated its 30th anniversary, with a gala performance at the National Arts Centre with national stars and current students, creating an additional 30 events for the community.
In 2010, The School of Dances Extension Services expanded to include workshops, short courses, guest lectures, a book and video library and mentorship for Ottawa's new and emerging choreographers, dancers and musicians. It provides more than 4,600 h of studio space to Ottawa's arts community, either free or with a substantial discount, and it welcomes more than 40 organizations and artists to use space. The School of Dance launched DragonFly® for Learners with Down Syndrome.
In 2011, The School of Dance launched SODA, its alumni organization.
In 2012, The School of Dance was recognized as a private career college, and the Contemporary Dance Programme became a diploma-granting program. The School of Dance launched Gallery 200 and its new community spaces on the second floor of its building, including two new dance studios.
In 2013, Senator Jim Munson presented Artistic Director Hodgins with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her contributions to arts education. Also, the Ontario Trillium Foundation committed three years' funding to DragonFly®, The School of Dance programme for Learners with Down Syndrome.
In 2014,The School of Dance employed 70 of Ottawa's artists and created NEW employment opportunities and mentorships for 6 young artists in the Dances by Youth for Youth mentorship project, 11 young artists for the Dancing in the Street and JUMP! animation projects, and 12 artists in the health-oriented Dance of Life programme.
In 2015, The School of Dance launched Dance is BEST, with new funding from the Ontario government for 40 dance workshops and arts activities designed to encourage physical activity, provide challenges for the brain, expand enjoyment of the arts and build new connections, both literally and figuratively, by connecting seniors and youth. The Dance is BEST projects will be presented in collaboration with Bruyère Continuing Care of Ottawa at four centres: Élisabeth Bruyère Residence, Saint-Louis Residence in connection with the Bruyère Village senior apartments, Saint Vincent Hospital, and Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital.
In September 2015, The School of Dance began a year-long celebration of 37 years in Ontario, with a performance collaboration with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the launch of Connecting With Dance for patients with Parkinson's disease.
In 2016, Canada’s 150th birthday year saw TSOD celebrating with the Water Project in 11 fountains around Ottawa, Dancing in the Street in the Byward Market as guest artists of the City of Ottawa, 55 performances in 5 theatres and students from every province in Canada. In May 2016, the baby’s and toddlers program in the dragonfly division was created.
In 2017, DanceONTour completed 264 projects in 91 sites around Ottawa.
In 2018, The School launched Season 40, with the number 40 nestled into its original word-mark, vertical logo. The year-log celebrations include special programmes with the National Arts Centre and the National Gallery of Canada, plus more that 40 outreach projects all over Ottawa.
In 2019, The School expanded all of its Senior’s programmes to include health and wellness activities.
In 2020, The School began a busy season of 37 performances, 105 outreach workshops, hosting multiple guest choreographers. When COVD-19 struck the world, the Province of Ontario mandated the closing of the building. All classes, workshops, and performances moved online.
In 2021, The School continued offering online classes in addition to in-person activities when possible. Performances moved online.
External links
The School of Dance
The School of Dance Artist-In-Residence
The Celia Franca Foundation
DragonFly®, The School of Dance Programme for Learners with Down Syndrome
Gallery 200, a curated public gallery
Dance schools in Canada
Ballet schools in Canada
Educational institutions established in 1978
Schools in Ottawa |
23575763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaflieg%20Stuttgart%20fs16 | Akaflieg Stuttgart fs16 | The Akaflieg Stuttgart fs16, nicknamed Wippsterz (German: Wagtail) was a glider aircraft that was designed and built in Germany from 1936. Only one example of the design was constructed.
Development
Akaflieg Stuttgart wanted to build a glider with reasonable performance that was safe and simple to fly, the result was the fs16. The design employed a cantilever wing attached to the top of the fuselage; the rear portion of the fuselage was raised, similar to the Akaflieg Stuttgart F.1. The fs16 as constructed had no vertical tail, but used pivoting panels on the wingtips for roll and yaw control. It had no tail-skid, using a single large skid under the front fuselage with a spur extending rearwards for support and stability on the ground. Flight characteristics with the rotating wing-tip panels were not as expected so a conventional vertical fin on an extended rear fuselage, and ailerons constructed from fabric-covered Duralumin on the outer wing trailing edges, were added after initial flights.
Specifications
Similar aircraft
Schleicher Rhönadler
References
Further reading
1930s German sailplanes
Glider aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1937
Akaflieg Stuttgart aircraft |
17335944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Costin | Mike Costin | Michael Charles Costin (born 10 July 1929, in Hendon) was, together with Keith Duckworth, the co-founder of Cosworth Engineering, a producer of Ford-funded and sponsored engines. Drivers including Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Jochen Rindt, Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Mario Andretti, Alan Jones, Nelson Piquet, and Keke Rosberg won the Formula One World Championship using Cosworth DFV engines during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
He was educated at Salvatorian College in Wealdstone and then apprenticed at De Havilland. In 1953 he started at Lotus, initially helping out on a part-time basis. Keith Duckworth joined Lotus in 1957 and they founded Cosworth Engineering in 1958. He later described himself as having "studied for 40 years at the University of Duckworth".
In recent years he has been a consultant to the revived Triumph motorbike company.
Mike Costin is the younger brother of Frank Costin, an aerodynamics and race car designer for Lotus, Lister and Maserati, and co-founder of Marcos Cars.
References
Further reading
British automotive engineers
Formula One designers
Possibly living people
1929 births |
6903712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny%20Bowcock | Benny Bowcock | Benjamin James Bowcock (October 28, 1879 – June 16, 1961) was a Major League Baseball second baseman. He started the last fourteen games of the 1903 season for the St. Louis Browns, who were 65–74 and finished sixth in the American League. The 23-year-old rookie was a native of Fall River, Massachusetts.
All fourteen of Bowcock's games were played on the road. He made his major league debut in a September 18 doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics at Columbia Park. His last appearance was on September 28 against the Boston Americans at Huntington Avenue Grounds. The Browns won 5 and lost 9 while Bowcock was in the lineup, and he faced three Hall of Fame pitchers during that time: Chief Bender, Jack Chesbro, and Cy Young.
During his brief time in the big leagues he showed a strong bat and a weak glove. He was 16-for-50 (.320) with a slugging percentage of .480. He had 1 home run, 10 runs batted in, and 7 runs scored. At second base he made 7 errors in 61 total chances for a fielding percentage of .885, far below the league average of .943.
External links
Baseball Reference
Retrosheet
Major League Baseball second basemen
Baseball players from Massachusetts
St. Louis Browns players
Sportspeople from Fall River, Massachusetts
1879 births
1961 deaths
Fall River Indians players
Columbus Senators players
Little Rock Travelers players
Johnstown Johnnies players
Fall River Brienies players
Portland Duffs players
Lowell Grays players
Seattle Giants players |
17335947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same%20Sex%20Marriage%20%28Prohibition%29%20Act%202013 | Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2013 | The Act to Make Provisions for the Prohibition of Relationship Between Persons of the Same Sex, Celebration of Marriage by Them, and for Other Matters Connected Therewith, also known as the Same Sex (Prohibition) Act 2006, was a controversial draft bill that was first put before the both houses of the National Assembly of Nigeria in early 2007. Seven years later, another draft was passed into legislation by president Goodluck Jonathan as the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2013.
History
It was first placed to the National Assembly by Justice Minister Bayo Ojo on January 18, 2006, but it wasn't passed during the first reading. On January 18, 2007 the bill was approved by the FEC and resent before the National Assembly. However, it received condemnation from human rights organizations for its restrictions on freedom of speech and organization, potentially placing Nigeria at odds with several international agreements to which the country is signatory; it was also seen in Nigeria as being a last-ditch election-year effort of the Obasanjo administration to appeal to public sentiment, since the second reading of the bill was being pushed after the Senate's defeat of a bill to amend the Constitution's limit on the number of presidential terms. As a result, the bill was not passed by either house before the general election that year.
Details
The proposed bill calls for five years imprisonment for anyone who undergoes, "performs, witnesses, aids, or abets" a same-sex marriage. It would also prohibit any display of a "same-sex amorous relationship" and adoption of children by gays or lesbians. The bill is expected to receive little or no opposition in Parliament.
The same bill would also call for five years imprisonment for involvement in public advocacy or associations supporting the rights of lesbian and gay people. Included in the bill is a proposal to ban any form of relationship with a gay person. The intent of the bill is to ban anything associated with being gay in the country.
Reaction
Domestic
The overwhelming majority of Nigerians were in full support of this legislation as it reflected the desire of the people who do not see it as a fundamental human right issue.
Of the few dissenting voices, one of the stiffest domestic opponents of the legislation was Davis Mac-Iyalla, an homosexual Nigerian LGBT rights advocate who heads the Nigerian chapter of Changing Attitude, an Anglican pro-LGBT organization based in the United Kingdom. Mac-Iyalla, who was repeatedly arrested by Nigerian police in pro-LGBT demonstrations in previous years, was already an opponent of Peter Akinola, the current Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria.
International
In February 2006, the United States State Department attacked the proposal. In March 2006, 16 international human rights groups signed a letter condemning the bill, calling it a violation of the freedoms of expression, association and assembly guaranteed by international law as well as by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and a barrier to the struggle against the spread of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Some sources claim that Nigeria has the world's third-highest population of persons with AIDS: 3.6 million Nigerians are infected with HIV. But the Nigerian governmental organisation in charge of control of HIV/AIDS cater specifically for homosexual patients through the Nigerian Diversities Network (NDN). NDN has a mission of working in partnership with all key stakeholders (including homosexual people) to significantly reduce the HIV/AIDS vulnerability. The NDN works closely with government departments through its offices in the national and state capitals.
MassResistance praised the passing of the Nigerian Bill by stating Nigeria is “taking bold steps to fight back” against attempts “to subvert public morality”.
Legislation in 2014
Despite international pressure, the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2013 was signed by President Goodluck Jonathan and dated January 7, 2014. US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States is "deeply concerned" by a law that "dangerously restricts freedom of assembly, association, and expression for all Nigerians." Former coloniser Britain said, "The U.K. opposes any form of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation." Two months later, the ban on gay marriage in the United Kingdom was lifted.
The Nigerian law already had provisions making homosexual sex illegal. The 2013 Act adds to this, "A person who registers, operates or participates in gay clubs, societies or organizations, or directly or indirectly makes public show of same-sex amorous relationship in Nigeria commits an offense and is liable on conviction to a term of 10 years." The bill is widely supported in Nigeria. In a survey of the U.S. Pew Research Center in 2013, 98 percent of the Nigerian respondents said society should not accept homosexuality.
In 2018, LGBT activists who have worked extensively in the country on LGBT issues and court cases involving LGBT persons all agree that the law has never been used to convict anyone in any homosexuality-related cases. This, they believe, is because the law itself is incoherent. In addition, many cases involving suspected LGBT persons lack proper evidence and sometimes there’s no evidence at all. That makes it impossible for prosecutors to present a winnable case and prove that any crime has been committed.
See also
LGBT rights in Nigeria
Recognition of same-sex unions in Nigeria
References
External links
Full text of the 2006 proposal
Full text of the 2013 Act
Human Rights, Homosexuality and the Anglican Communion: Reflections in Light of Nigeria
LGBT rights in Nigeria
Law of Nigeria
2007 in Nigeria
2007 in law
2007 in LGBT history
de:Homosexualität in Nigeria |
17335964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969%20CONCACAF%20Championship%20qualification | 1969 CONCACAF Championship qualification | A total of 12 CONCACAF teams entered the competition. , as the hosts, and , as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 4 spots open for competition. The 10 teams were divided into 5 groups of 2 in which one of them will advance to the final tournament.
Preliminary round
Series One
20 April 1969, Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 2 - 0
11 May 1969, San Diego, United States – 0 - 1
Haiti qualifies with aggregate score of 3-0.
Series Two
21 October 1969, Mexico City, Mexico – 3 - 0
2 November 1969, Hamilton, Bermuda – 2 - 1
Mexico qualifies with aggregate score of 4-2.
Series Three
11 April 1969, Kingston, Jamaica – 1 - 1
11 May 1969, Kingston, Jamaica – 1 - 2
Jamaica qualifies with aggregate score of 3-2.
Series Four
was disqualified due to Football War with El Salvador, so advanced to the tournament automatically.
Series Five
was disqualified due to Football War with Honduras, so '' advanced to the tournament automatically.
References
CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
qualification |
23575774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Lycurgus | George Lycurgus | George Lycurgus () (1858–1960) was a Greek American businessman who played an influential role in the early tourist industry of Hawaii. After Queen Lili`uokalani was overthrown in a coup by the Committee Of Safety, he ran afoul of the government of the Republic of Hawaii and was accused of treason. Later he was instrumental in the development of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
Early life
He was born in 1858 in Vassaras (near Sparta, Greece). After his release from the Greek Army, his father decided to leave the family farm to an older brother and agreed to send George to America to join his eldest brother John, in California. In 1877 he traveled in steerage class to New York City, and worked his way across the country.
A relative convinced him to join a wholesale fruit business trading between Hawaii and California in 1881. In San Francisco he shipped California produce and wine to his cousin in Honolulu, who shipped Hawaiian bananas to the mainland. Through friends he learned of a small oyster house that was for sale in Sausalito and he was able to buy it. He named it the Oyster Grotto. By 1881, the Grotto came to be patronized by such notables as William Randolph Hearst and the sons of the sugar cane baron, Claus Spreckels. He became friends with the sons of Claus Spreckels, whose family owned the Oceanic Steamship Company and a sugar cane business in Hawaii.
In 1889 he was supervising shipment being loaded at the docks, when some of the Spreckels family invited him on board for a poker game. By the time he noticed, the ship was on its way across the Pacific. He spent only a week in Hawaii, but must have enjoyed the stay, since he took more trips and spent more time on the islands.
In 1892 he sent for his nephew Demosthenes Lycurgus, who would help him manage his Hawaiian enterprises. Along with other recent immigrants, he formed the Pearl City Fruit Company. Their competition was the Hawaiian Fruit and Packing Company, owned by established descendants of American missionaries such as Lorrin A. Thurston, who was also a powerful politician. Eventually he would sell his restaurant in San Francisco and move to the islands.
Political miscalculation
Lycurgus leased the small guest house of Allen Herbert in 1893 on Waikīkī beach in Honolulu. He expanded it and renamed it the "Sans Souci" (French for "without care") for the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. It became one of the first beach resorts and the area at coordinates is still called "Sans Souci Beach". Celebrities such as Robert Louis Stevenson stayed there on his second trip later that year, and it became a popular destination for tourists from the mainland.
In 1894 Lycurgus made his first trip to the Kīlauea volcano with Admiral Royal R. Ingersoll, sailing to Hilo aboard the USS Philadelphia. The volcano impressed him and he took note of the future possible business opportunities.
A friendship had evolved between Lycurgus and the Hawaiian royal Kalākaua family, who were regulars at his resorts. This earned him the nickname "Duke of Sparta", a title borne by the Crown Prince of Greece. Despite being a commoner, he felt more comfortable with monarchy than the Americans.
In 1893, after the death of Kalākaua, Thurston and other Americans led the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and declared a Republic of Hawaii, hoping to join the United States of America. The new government, controlled by conservative missionaries, fined Lycurgus for selling liquor at his resort. Lycurgus hired a band of Hawaiians who played music honoring Queen Liliuokalani instead of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
After the failed 1895 counter-revolution, he was accused of smuggling guns to the Royalists. Several leaders had meetings in the Sans Souci hotel. By January 20 the leaders were all captured. Lycurgus was arrested, charged with treason, spent 52 days in jail, but was never tried.
By 1898, the Spanish–American War had increased American interest in the Pacific. He entertained press correspondents on their way to the Philippines at his Sans Souci hotel. Hawaii was annexed as a territory of the United States that year and the practical Lycurgus applied for American citizenship.
He opened a restaurant called the Union Grill in Honolulu in 1901 and would hold "Jailbirds of 1895" nights which were not popular with the new government. He phased out of the politics of Honolulu over the next few years. Lycurgus invested in a logging venture in 1907, and bought the Hilo Hotel from John D. Spreckels in 1908.
In 1903, when he returned to Greece to visit his mother, he met and married Athina Gerassimos from Sparta, the second of nine children. She was probably the first Greek woman in Hawaii.
Volcano House
In December 1904, George and Demosthenes Lycurgus became principal stockholders of the Volcano House Company and took over the management of the Volcano House hotel on the more remote Big Island of Hawaii. His nephew Demosthenes always introduced him as "Uncle George" to the guests, which earned him his new nickname.
Kīlauea had been inactive for almost a year, but Lycurgus had other enterprises to keep himself afloat. Two months after the Lycurguses acquired the business, the volcano erupted.
He eventually made peace with Lorrin Thurston, who worked with him for ten years, starting in 1906, to have the volcano area made into Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. However, the Lycurgus family kept a shrine to deposed Queen Liliuokalani at the Volcano House and related the legends of Ancient Hawaii to the visitors. Prayers were made to the fire goddess Pele, said to live in Kīlauea, to provide spectacular eruptions. They were better for business.
In January 1912, geologist Thomas Jagger arrived to investigate the volcano. The Lycurgus family raised money to build a small building next to the hotel for scientific instruments. By February 1912 construction was begun on the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Jaggar resided there the next 28 years, often giving scientific talks to guests at the hotel.
While visiting Greece in 1914, World War I prevented him from returning. In 1919, Demosthenes Lycurgus traveled to Athens to marry Maria Yatrakos, but died of influenza within a week of his wedding in the 1918 flu pandemic. Finally George was able to return to Hawaii in 1920 with his sister-in-law Poppy Detor.
In 1921 George Lycurgus sold the Volcano House and moved to Hilo, Hawaii. The Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company bought the property and invested $150,000 into expanding it.
In 1932 during the Great Depression the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company was going bankrupt after expanding the Volcano House to 115 rooms. Lycurgus bought it back for $300 in a receivership sale, but very few guests showed up until an eruption in 1934. He started the tradition of tossing gin bottles into the volcano, a practice certainly not approved by park officials.
In 1937 his wife Athena died of cancer in Hilo. A fire destroyed the hotel in 1940, ironically from a kitchen oil burner, not volcanic lava. Only a few artifacts, such as a koa wood piano were saved. Embers from the fire were taken to the 1877 Volcano House building to claim the fireplace had burned continuously. The old structure was used again for guests; it now houses the Volcano Art Center.
At the age of 81, he traveled to Washington, D.C. and convinced influential friends, many of whom (including Franklin D. Roosevelt) had stayed in the Volcano House, to assign the Civilian Conservation Corps to construct a park headquarters building farther back from the cliff. That allowed him to build a more modern hotel at the former Hawaiian Volcano Observatory site. He reopened the new Volcano House (designed by Charles William Dickey) by November 1941.
After another eruption in 1952, at the age of 93, he arranged a publicity stunt involving riding a horse to the rim of the erupting vent and tossing in his ceremonial bottle of gin. Despite the efforts of park officials, the event went off as planned, pleasing the spectators and the press. The Volcano House was renovated and expanded again in 1953. He died on August 6, 1960, at the age of 101, reportedly the oldest man in Hawaii.
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1960 deaths
American centenarians
Men centenarians
Businesspeople from Hawaii
Greek centenarians
Greek emigrants to the United States
Greek monarchists
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Hawaiian insurgents and supporters
History of Hawaii (island)
History of Oahu
Prisoners and detainees of the Republic of Hawaii
People from Laconia
19th-century Greek Americans |
20473336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo%20at%20the%201995%20Summer%20Universiade | Judo at the 1995 Summer Universiade | The Judo competition in the 1995 Summer Universiade were held in Fukuoka, Japan from 24 August to 28 August 1995.
Medal overview
Men's event
Women's event
Results overview
Men's event
60 kg
65 kg
71 kg
78 kg
86 kg
95 kg
+95 kg
Open class
Women's event
48 kg
52 kg
56 kg
61 kg
66 kg
72 kg
+72 kg
Open class
Medal table
External links
The Organizing Committee for the Universiade 1995, Fukuoka(FUOC)
Universiade
1995
1995 Summer Universiade
Universiade 1995 |
20473357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B6lunda%20Specialist%20Hospital | Frölunda Specialist Hospital | Frölunda specialist hospital () is located in Frölunda, right next to Frölunda torg, approximately nine kilometres south-west of central Gothenburg. The hospital primarily operate with elective care, with specialist in otolaryngology, neurology, gynaecology, orthopedic surgery, medicine, dermatology, ophthalmology, surgery, and radiography. The hospital was inaugurated in 1968 as a local hospital for people living in Tynnered, Frölunda, and Älvsborg. Today, 190 people work at the hospital which is owned by Västra Götaland Regional Council.
The 17-storey building is high. The hospital occupies the bottom five floors; the rest are residential.
Hospital buildings completed in 1968
Hospitals in Gothenburg
Hospitals established in 1968
1968 establishments in Sweden |
20473372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9cile%20Gallez | Cécile Gallez | Cécile Gallez (born 16 May 1936 in Raismes) is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Nord department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1936 births
Living people
People from Nord (French department)
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians |
20473383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9leste%20Lett | Céleste Lett | Céleste Lett (born May 7, 1951 in Sarreguemines, Moselle) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Moselle department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
He has three sons: Jean-Francois, Philippe, and Alexandre.
References
1951 births
Living people
People from Sarreguemines
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
23575779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Lees | Sarah Lees | Dame Sarah Anne Lees (née Buckley; 13 November 1842 – 14 April 1935) of Werneth Park, Oldham, was an English Liberal politician, activist, and philanthropist who was the first female councillor elected in Lancashire (1907–19) and the first female Mayor of Oldham (1910–11), only the second woman in England to hold such a position.
Career
Lees was born in Mossley, Greater Manchester, in 1842. On 30 July 1874, she married Charles Edward Lees JP (1840–1894) of Werneth Park in Oldham, Lancashire, a relative of the Oldham MP John Frederick Lees.
After the Qualification of Women Act 1907 was passed by Parliament, Lees became the first woman to be elected to Oldham's Town Council, representing Hollinwood Ward. Already in her 60s, Lees was named the first female Freeman of the Borough of Oldham in November 1909. She became Mayor of Oldham the following year, only the second woman to be installed with that title in the United Kingdom.
At a ceremony on 28 July 1927, Lees opened "The Nook" Convalescent Hospital, Greenfield. The ceremony was attended by the Mayor of Oldham, Alderman Samuel Frith JP, and Dr Thomas Fawsitt (Chairman of the proceedings, of Lees and Fawsitt Ward, Oldham Royal Infirmary). The hospital had originated in a bequest made by the late Mr H. L. Hargraves and, with the sum of £13,296, the foundation stone had been laid on 23 April 1870. The building opened on 20 September 1872 (it had originally been intended for it to be opened by Florence Nightingale but she was unable to attend due to illness). The Hospitals's original number of beds was 24, but these increased to 150. By 1926, 5,206 new outpatients applied for treatment, 5,349 accidents were admitted (1,402 for radiography), with 25,256 attendances for massage and electro-therapeutic departments.
Lees was involved with various local institutions: she was President of the Oldham Royal Infirmary, a Governor of Hulme Grammar School, a Member of the Court of the University of Manchester, and also served as Chairman of the Oldham Branch of the League of Nations.
Lees died, aged 92, at Werneth Park, Oldham, on 14 April 1935. Her daughter, Marjory Lees (1878–1970), presented the estate to the people of Oldham in 1936 to form the present public Werneth Park.
Honours
Lees was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law (LLD) degree by the University of Manchester in July 1914. In 1916, she was appointed a Lady of Grace (DStJ) of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. On 25 August 1917, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in recognition of her services during World War I.
The Dame Sarah Lees Memorial erected in Werneth Park in 1937, was designed and made by the local artist and sculptor Williams Hargreaves Whitehead.
External links
Dame Sarah Lees Memorial (1937), National Recording Project, Public Monument and Sculpture Association.
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1842 births
1935 deaths
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
20th-century English women politicians
20th-century English politicians
Politicians from Lancashire
People associated with the University of Manchester
People from Oldham |
23575832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHOV | CHOV | CHOV may refer to:
CHVR-FM, a radio station (96.7 FM) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV from 1942 to 1981
CHRO-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV-TV from 1961 to 1977 |
20473397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien%20Meslot | Damien Meslot | Damien Meslot (born 11 November 1964 in Belfort) is a French politician and a member of The Republicans. He represented Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2017. He has served as mayor of Belfort since 2014.
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
People from Belfort
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Gaullism, a way forward for France
Mayors of places in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
23575852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%20Nack | Jaime Nack | Jaime Nack (born February 20, 1976 in Columbia, Maryland) is an environmental consultant and marketing specialist who is known for her role as Director of Sustainability and Greening Operations for the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado and who subsequently managed the plan for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Marking the first time in DNC history where measures were taken to reduce the environmental impact of the event on the host city, the 2008 greening effort was unprecedented in scale and has evolved into an industry case study for best practices in producing sustainable events.
In April 2011, Nack received a federal appointment to serve a three-year term on the National Women's Business Council, a bi-partisan federal advisory council created to serve as an independent source of advice and counsel to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration on economic issues of importance to women business owners. The same year, Nack was also named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
2008 Democratic National Convention
The convention was held in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 to August 28, 2008, at the Pepsi Center. U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the nominee for President, gave his acceptance speech on August 28 at INVESCO Field. This was the first time in history that the Democratic National Convention Committee included a sustainability initiative and hired staff to oversee such an effort. The sustainability and greening effort included a range of focus areas from community engagement to waste diversion on site during the convention via recycling and composting stations.
Career
Jaime Nack is the Founder and President of Three Squares Inc..
Nack is one of Los Angeles' leading environmental consultants and marketing strategists, having produced and promoted a variety of the city's most prominent and widely-attended events over the last 15 years. Ms. Nack's extensive experience in event production includes producing several large-scale environmental conferences and events which have attracted more than 500,000 attendees. Three Squares Inc. specializes in environmentally-themed events and works with agencies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and South Coast Air Quality Management District to implement their environmental outreach strategies. Three Squares Inc. has managed the sustainability efforts for many high profile events including the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity produced by Comedy Central on October 30, 2010. The Rally took place on the National Mall in Washington D.C. and attracted more than 400,000 attendees. Press reported on the success of the sustainability plan in the days following. In addition, Three Squares Inc. also greened the Hollywood premiere and gala for Inception. Three Squares Inc. was the first firm in the U.S. to certify as ISO 20121 compliant - the international standard for sustainable event management made popular by the London 2012 Olympics.
In 2013, Nack founded her second company in the sustainability arena - One Drop Interactive. One Drop Interactive is an edtech platform designed to educate and engage employees on core sustainability subjects.
Green Meetings and Events
Through her work on greening the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Nack became actively involved in developing industry standards for green meetings and events. She joined the effort launched by the US EPA, ASTM and the Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC) as the Vice-Chair of the Transportation Committee for the APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Meeting Standards. The standards were launched in 2012 and Nack has delivered talks across the globe educating event planners and producers on the process of integrating the APEX/ASTM Standards. Nack also led the effort to roll out the international ISO 20121 Event Sustainability Management Systems standard, which was launched prior to the London 2012 Olympics.
Nack also developed the Women In Green Forum to highlight women's impact on the environmental industry. The Forum, an annual conference and expo, has featured many of the world's leading environmental figures including Mariel Hemingway, Gloria Reuben, Fran Pavley, and Geraldine Knatz. Under her leadership, Nack implemented the plan to demonstrate ISO 20121 compliance for the annual Women In Green Forum marking the first time in history that a U.S. conference achieved this international standard for sustainable event production.
Board memberships
In 2011, Nack received a federal appointment to serve as a Council Member on the National Women's Business Council. The National Women’s Business Council (NWBC) is a non-partisan federal advisory council created to serve as an independent source of advice and counsel to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration on economic issues of importance to women business owners. She is also on the Advisory Board of ArtsEarth Partnership.
Educational experience
Ms. Nack has a Master's degree in Public Policy/International Trade from UCLA, where she also earned her Bachelor's degree in International Economics with a minor in Urban Planning. She has also completed executive education programs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Yale University and Oxford.
References
The Greenest Democratic National Convention of All Time - Denver.Org
Democratic National Convention Committee Aims For Green Gathering - Article in Information Week.
Denver and the DNC: A Partnership for Success Case Study.
Green Meetings in Action: How a Convention Can Change a Destination Presentation at GMIC Annual Meeting
ArtsEarth Partnership Advisory Board Members.
Westside Special Olympics Board Members.
External links
Three Squares Inc.
Three Squares Inc. Twitter
Women In Green Forum
National Women's Business Council
1976 births
Living people
American consultants |
20473411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Boisserie | Daniel Boisserie | Daniel Boisserie (born 8 June 1946) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haute-Vienne department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
References
1946 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
23575855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Ballester | Manuel Ballester | Manuel Ballester Boix (born in Barcelona on 27 June 1919; died 5 April 2005) was a Spanish chemist.
Biography
He received his degree at the University of Barcelona in 1944, his doctorate in Madrid, and finished his training at Harvard University in 1951. In 1944 he formed a team at the Spanish National Research Council. His work has largely been in kinetics and organic chemistry.
Awards
1982 - Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
References
Organic chemists
Spanish chemists
Scientists from Catalonia
People from Barcelona
University of Barcelona alumni
Harvard University alumni
1919 births
2005 deaths
Spanish expatriates in the United States |
23575863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%20County%20War%20Memorial | Milwaukee County War Memorial | The Milwaukee County War Memorial is a memorial building located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI. It was designed by architect Eero Saarinen. Construction began in 1955 and the building was dedicated on Veterans Day in 1957.
The mosaic mural by Edmund D. Lewandowski was installed in 1959. The mosaic uses more than one million pieces of glass and marble. The slightly-abstracted Roman numerals, in shades of purple, blue, and rich black, are the beginning and ending dates of the U.S. involvement in the Second World War and the Korean War . MCMXLI (1941) through MCMXLV (1945) refers to World War II, and MCML (1950) through MCMLIII (1953) refers to the Korean War.
References
External links
Official Website
Buildings and structures completed in 1957
Buildings and structures in Milwaukee
Eero Saarinen structures
Museums in Milwaukee
Military and war museums in Wisconsin
Monuments and memorials in Wisconsin
Military monuments and memorials in the United States |
20473425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Fasquelle | Daniel Fasquelle | Daniel Fasquelle (born 16 January 1963, in Saint-Omer) is a French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since 2007, representing the Pas-de-Calais department.
Political career
In parliament, Fasquelle has been serving on the Committee on Economic Affairs since 2009.
In the Republicans’ 2016 presidential primaries, Fasquelle endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy as the party's candidate for the office of President of France.
On 26 August 2017, Fasquelle declared himself a candidate in the leadership election for the presidency of The Republicans, but was deemed to have secured an insufficient number of sponsorships on 26 October and therefore considered ineligible.
Following Christian Jacob's election as LR chairman, Fasquelle announced his candidacy to succeed him as leader of the party's parliamentary group. In an internal vote in November 2019, he eventually came in fourth out of six candidates; the position went to Damien Abad instead.
At the Republicans’ national convention in December 2021, Fasquelle was part of the 11-member committee which oversaw the party’s selection of its candidate for the 2022 presidential elections.
References
External links
Daniel Fasquelle at the National Assembly of France
1963 births
Living people
People from Saint-Omer
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni
The Republicans (France) politicians
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of Parliament for Pas-de-Calais |
44499951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th%20General%20Assembly%20of%20Newfoundland | 17th General Assembly of Newfoundland | The members of the 17th General Assembly of Newfoundland were elected in the Newfoundland general election held in November 1893. The general assembly sat from 1894 to 1897.
The Liberal Party led by William Whiteway formed the government. The Tory Party filed petitions against 15 Liberals including Whiteway and James Murray, an independent, alleging corrupt practices during the election; the results of those elections were set aside. The Tory Party temporarily held the majority and formed a government led by Augustus F. Goodridge in 1894. Following the by-elections, the Liberals regained the majority and formed a government led by Daniel J. Greene. After Whiteway won re-election in a by-election, he became Premier again.
George Emerson was chosen as speaker.
Sir Terence O'Brien served as colonial governor of Newfoundland until 1895, when he was replaced by Sir Herbert Harley Murray.
On December 8, 1894, London banks suspended credit to the Commercial Bank of Newfoundland and requested payment on some of its loans. The bank was unable to meet these obligations and requested its merchant customers to repay their loans; the merchants, themselves financially strapped, were unable to comply. On October 10, known as Black Monday, the Commercial Bank closed. This caused a run by customers on the two remaining banks, the Union Bank of Newfoundland and the Savings Bank of Newfoundland. The Savings Bank was able to cash a large cheque at the Union Bank, but the Union Bank was subsequently forced to close. Neither of the two closed banks would ever reopen. This resulted in the devaluation of Newfoundland's currency, the shutdown of many businesses and widespread unemployment in the colony. Early in 1895, banks from Canada opened branches in Newfoundland to fill the void. The value of the Newfoundland dollar was set to the same value as the Canadian dollar.
Members of the Assembly
The following members were elected to the assembly in 1893:
Notes:
By-elections
By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:
Notes:
References
Terms of the General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador |
23575873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Garcia%20%28activist%29 | Danny Garcia (activist) | Danny Garcia is an American Christian peace activist, former military chaplain, and founder of Global Walk, who walked around the planet from 1996-2020. His efforts earned him the nickname "Walking Man."
In 1998, San Diego mayor Susan Golding named January 25, 1998 "Danny Garcia Day" in his honor.
References
External links
Global Walk official website
American anti-war activists
20th-century American people
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
44499955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes%20Cooper | Rhodes Cooper | Harry Rhodes Cooper (1925–2009) was Dean of Fredericton from 1972 until 1983.
He was educated at the University of King's College and ordained in 1949. After a curacy at All Saints Cathedral, Halifax he held incumbencies at New Waterford, Nova Scotia and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador before being appointed Dean in 1972.
He died on 22 January 2009
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1925 births
University of King's College alumni
2009 deaths
Deans of Fredericton |
20473434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Metlich | Pablo Metlich | Pablo Arturo Metlich Ruíz (born 2 September 1978) is a Mexican former professional footballer, who last played as a midfielder for Atlético San Luis. Metlich made his professional debut with Tecos in 2002. He is of partial Serbian descent.
External links
1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Durango
Association football midfielders
Liga MX players
Tecos F.C. footballers
Lobos BUAP footballers
Indios de Ciudad Juárez footballers
C.D. Veracruz footballers
Mexican people of Serbian descent
Mexican footballers |
20473437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Fidelin | Daniel Fidelin | Daniel Fidelin (born 25 May 1948 in Fécamp) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Seine-Maritime department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Fécamp
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
Mayors of places in Normandy
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
The Republicans (France) politicians |
44499956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography%20%26%20Culture | Photography & Culture | Photography & Culture is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge. It was started in 2008 by Berg Publishers and was published by Bloomsbury Publishing until 2015. The editors-in-chief are Kathy Kubicki (University for the Creative Arts), Thy Phu (University of Western Ontario), and Val Williams (University of the Arts London).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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Arts journals
Triannual journals
Publications established in 2008
Taylor & Francis academic journals |
23575874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Mickens | Frank Mickens | Dr. Frank Mickens (June 22, 1946July 9, 2009), was a nationally recognized New York City educator as principal of Boys and Girls High School at 1700 Fulton Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The seventeenth largest high school in the United States, Boys and Girls High School has a student population of over four thousand students. Boys and Girls High School was built in the 1970s as a model 'education option' school, and Mickens successfully embraced this initiative as an administrator in the New York City Department of Education. His cigar-chomping tough no-nonsense 'take charge' clawhammer approach earned Mickens 'tough love' comparisons to Joe Louis Clark and the controversial nickname 'The Chancellor of Fulton Street'.
Early life
Mickens mother was a teacher. He was a graduate of Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. He earned a B.A. in History from SUNY Potsdam, and a Master's degree New York University. In 1968 at 22, he began teaching at Boys High School, and served as boys baseball and basketball coach 1969-1979, leading the Kangaroos to the 1979 PSAL boys basketball championship, and also served as academic dean of students. He completed postgraduate work at Columbia University, and later attended the Principal's Center at Harvard University. In 1982, he became principal of a Junior High School 324 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and later was principal of Martin Luther King High School (New York) in Manhattan. In 1980, he became men's basketball coach at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Later achievements
In 1986, he became principal of Boys and Girls High School, which had a graduation rate of 24.4 percent. By 2004, the year Mickens retired, the high school graduation rate had risen to 47.7 percent with 85% of graduates headed to college. For eighteen years, Mickens worked twelve-hour days, seven days a week, and frequently patrolled the perimeter of the high school with a clawhammer, and patrolled the hallways with a walkie-talkie, clipboard and a bullhorn. His aim was to create a college preparatory environment of excellence, self-esteem and safety for his students.
In 2001-2002, he was a Charles Revson Fellow at Columbia University. Medgar Evers College awarded him an honorary degree of letters. Mickens also lectured in the Graduate School of Education at Long Island University.
He also served simultaneously as an Assistant Superintendent in the Brooklyn High Schools, helping to set curriculum and policy standards, and plan future academics.
Mickens unorthodox administrative style attracted controversy-and lawsuits- by instituting codes of conduct, a blouse skirt/shirt and tie dress code that he called dress for success and long suspensions for infractions of the rules. He had teachers posted outside school every morning to discourage trouble, as well as having various MTA buses waiting after school so students wouldn't have to wait in this rough neighborhood. His disciplinary code included no hats, no listening to a walkman, no gold teeth caps, no excessive jewelry, and no sneakers with lights. He also had inspirational banners all over the school to remind the students to always do their best. The lawsuits against Mickens stemmed from his moving troublesome students into programs from which they did not graduate, and were not finally settled until four years after his retirement.
Death
Mickens, who was divorced and lost his only son in a car accident at a young age, was found dead at age 63 at his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn of natural causes on July 9, 2009. An only child, he is survived by his cousins, Sharon Rose-Calhoun of Brooklyn, New York, and Pamela Tranberg of Crete, Illinois. A memorial page has been set up on Facebook by over 500 former students and colleagues.
An alumni and staff memorial service was held at Boys and Girls High School, followed by a funeral at Pentecostal Elim Fellowship in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Eulogies were given by the Rev. Al Sharpton, City Controller Bill Thompson (New York) and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Mickens was buried wearing his trademark suit and bowtie and holding his trademark cigar.
Books by Frank Mickens
It Doesn't Have To Be That Way: A Positive Environment in Our Schools by Frank Mickens
My Way: The Leadership Style of an Urban High School Principal by Frank Mickens
References
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Frank Mickens
Frank Mickens
Frank Mickens
Frank Mickens
Frank Mickens
Al Sharpton Eulogy
Boys and Girls High School
1946 births
2009 deaths
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State University of New York at Potsdam alumni
New York University alumni
Columbia University alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
20th-century American educators
Educators from New York City
American school principals |
20473438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Highways%20in%20Bihar | National Highways in Bihar | Bihar has length of 5,358 km National highways.
List of National Highways in Bihar
See also
National highways of India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Development Project
Transport in Bihar
List of National Highways in Bihar
:Category:National Highways in Bihar
References |
20473448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Garrigue | Daniel Garrigue | Daniel Garrigue (born 4 April 1948 in Talence) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Dordogne's 2nd constituency from 2002 to 2012 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He was the sole member of the Assembly to vote against the French ban on full length Islamic veils stating that, "To fight an extremist behavior, we risk slipping toward a totalitarian society."
In 1974, was a founding member of the Club de l'horloge.
References
1948 births
Carrefour de l'horloge people
Living people
People from Talence
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
United Republic politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
20473462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Mach | Daniel Mach | Daniel Mach (born December 5, 1955 in Perpignan — Perpinyà) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Pyrénées-Orientales's 1st constituency from 2002 to 2012 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He is the first politician to have spoken in Catalan in the National Assembly, saying:
'Senyora, els catalans són gent orgullosa, honesta i pacífica. La seva llengua és un dret i saben quins són els seus deures.'
"The catalans are a proud, honest and peaceful people. Their language is a right and they know what their responsibilities are."
References
1955 births
Living people
People from Perpignan
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
44499962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLuca%20Biochemistry%20Building | DeLuca Biochemistry Building | The Hector F. DeLuca Biochemistry Building, originally known as the Agricultural Chemistry Building, is a historic structure on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was the site of the discovery of vitamins A and B, as well as the development of vitamin D processing.
History
The building was part of the expansion of the College of Agriculture undertaken by Edwin B. Hart. Hart assumed leadership of the department in 1906. The next year, Stephen Moulton Babcock and Elmer McCollum began the single-grain experiment, which fostered the development of agricultural chemistry at Wisconsin. The experiment continued in the Agricultural Chemistry Building when it was built in 1912 and was expended to identify the key elements in nutrition.
In 1913, McCollum identified a molecule in egg yolks, vitamin A. The discovery was consistent with the nutrition element proposed by Frederick Gowland Hopkins a year before. The experiment continued, and in 1915, McCollum identified vitamin B in rice. McCollum left Wisconsin for Johns Hopkins University in 1917 and was succeeded by Harry Steenbock. He continued experimentation on the new molecules, isolating and naming vitamin A in 1920.
Other research by Steenbock identified iron and copper as effective agents in the treatment of anemia. Steenbock made his most significant discovery in 1923, when he established a relationship between vitamin D and ultra-violet light on bone health. He then founded the "Steenbock Process" in 1928, a method of concentrating vitamin D by irradiating food. This method was employed on a large scale through his Wisconsin Alumni Research Fund.
Conrad Elvehjem isolated nicotinic acid (niacin) at the Agricultural Chemistry Building in 1937, which cured pellagra. and Karl Paul Link identified the blood coagulant dicumarol here in 1941. On June 19, 1985, the building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. A major renovation was completed in 2012 and the building was integrated into the Biochemical Sciences Complex.
The building was named after Hector F. DeLuca in 2013. His research, which was all performed at UW-Madison, identified the active metabolites of vitamin D, and resulted in multiple patents benefiting the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
It is located within the Henry Mall Historic District.
Architecture
The building is generally Georgian Revival in style with its pediment, quoins, and balustrade. It was designed by Warren Powers Laird & Paul Philippe Cret, who also designed six other buildings on campus: the Central Heating Station, the Stock Pavilion, Lathrop Hall, the Home Economics Buildings, Wisconsin High School, and Sterling Hall.
References
External links
Biochemistry Building in ''The Buildings of the University of Wisconsin
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Colonial Revival architecture in Wisconsin
Georgian Revival architecture in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures completed in 1912
Buildings and structures in Madison, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul Philippe Cret buildings
1912 establishments in Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Madison, Wisconsin |
20473475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockava | Mockava | Mockava is a village in Lithuania six km from the border with Poland. The Mockava Railway Station is located northeast of Mockava in the village of Zelionka.
According to the 2011 census, the population of Mockava was 59.
Transport
Rail Baltica is running through the area. There is a break of gauge where the railway systems of the two countries meet. To speed up though traffic, a track gauge changing facility of the SUW 2000 variable gauge axle system has been installed to allow fitted trains to pass through the break of gauge at walking pace.
References
Villages in Marijampolė County |
44499977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemella%20palaticanis | Gemella palaticanis | Gemella palaticanis is a species of bacteria within the genus Gemella. Strains of this species were originally isolated from the mouth of a dog and are unique among Gemella species in that they can ferment lactose.
References
External links
Type strain of Gemella palaticanis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacillales
Bacteria described in 1999 |
20473478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Paul | Daniel Paul | Daniel Paul (born August 16, 1943 in Plourivo) is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Seine-Maritime's 8th constituency, and was a member of the Gauche démocrate et républicaine.
References
1943 births
Living people
People from Côtes-d'Armor
French Communist Party politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Politicians from Normandy |
20473482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%20Haley | Len Haley | Leonard Frank "Comet" Haley (born September 15, 1931) is a retired professional hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League.
External links
1931 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Detroit Red Wings players
Sportspeople from Edmonton
Ice hockey people from Alberta |
44499980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cole%20%28artist%29 | George Cole (artist) | George Cole (15 January 1810 – 7 September 1883) was an English painter known for his landscapes and animal paintings.
Cole was born in Portsmouth to James and Elizabeth Cole. His mother died when he was 9 years old.
According to the artist's grandson, Rex Vicat Cole, he was apprenticed to a ship's painter in the Royal Navy dockyards at Portsmouth. He taught himself to paint pictures, at first portraits and animals; he also painted posters for Wombwell's menagerie.
In 1838 Cole's painting The Farm Yard was shown at the Society of British Artists. When he was 30 he changed his focus to landscapes and received instruction from John Wilson and started exhibiting in 1840. One anecdote has him painting the portrait of a Dutch merchant in Portsmouth. After the sitter refused to pay him, saying it was a bad likeness, Cole added wings and put the painting in a shop window with the title The Flying Dutchman. The man's friends recognised him and laughed; he paid for the painting, and Cole painted out the wings.
His career has been regarded as a good example of the Victorian self-made man: in 1831 he married Eliza Vicat, of an old French Huguenot family. In 1852 he moved to Fulham and in 1855 to Kensington, where he lived for the rest of his life. In the mid-1860s he purchased Coombe Lodge, a small estate in Hampshire.
By 1850 Cole had begun to concentrate on landscape, drawing on Dutch precedents for compositions such as London Road, Portsdown (1847, Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery). Working alongside him in the early 1850s was George Vicat Cole (1833–1893), the eldest of Cole's five children. In search of sketching grounds they visited the river valleys of the Wye, Teign, and Dart and, in 1851 or 1852, the Moselle. While the father undoubtedly instructed the son, it seems likely that the influence of Pre-Raphaelitism, absorbed more fully by the younger artist, was transmitted through his work to the father. After a temporary estrangement in 1855 the two never worked together again. George Cole's landscapes of the later 1850s are, however, less formulaic than his early works and are often a combination of rustic genre subjects with carefully observed landscape, as in Landscape and Cattle (1858, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth).
In a series of richly coloured and detailed landscapes on large canvases executed during the 1860s and 1870s, Cole created an idealized version of the Hampshire moorlands and agricultural landscape; examples include Fern Carting, Harting Coombe (1873, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth). Cattle continued to play an important role in his compositions, and he specialized in the depiction of river scenery with cows watering, including, for example, Windsor Castle (1876, exh. RA, 1878; Anglesey Abbey). Reassuring in their presentation of a seemingly timeless Englishness, these images were eagerly purchased by Victorian collectors.
Although he exhibited sixteen works at the Royal Academy, Cole's work formed a mainstay of the exhibitions of the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street, where he exhibited 209 paintings from 1838 until his death in 1883. He was elected a member in 1850, became auditor in 1856, and vice-president in 1867. He was also awarded a medal for a harvesting scene in 1864 by the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts. While, at his best, he was capable of sophisticated effects, the sheer volume of his production of smaller works, sold directly to dealers such as Thomas McLean and Arthur Tooth, inevitably led to a lowering of standards. His annual income rose from £842 in 1858 to £2580 in 1873.
A collector of topographical literature and an autodidact, Cole was reputed to know the works of Shakespeare by heart. Robert Chignell, the biographer of George Vicat Cole, saw the older painter as an exemplar of self-help: ‘one who began with nothing’, he had achieved success through ‘great capabilities and force of character’ (Chignell, 40). George Cole died on 7 September 1883 at his home at 1 Kensington Crescent and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London. Of his other children, Alfred Benjamin Cole was also an artist.
Selected works
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Loch Lubnaig
A River Scene, Sussex (1874)
Evening on the Thames (1877)
Windsor Castle—Morning (1878)
References
External links
1810 births
1883 deaths
Artists from Portsmouth
English landscape painters
19th-century English painters
English male painters
Rother Valley artists
19th-century English male artists |
44499987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqas%20Khan | Waqas Khan | Waqas Khan (born 10 March 1999) is a Hong Kong cricketer. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Hong Kong against Nepal in Sri Lanka on 24 November 2014. At the age of 15 years and 259 days, he became the youngest person to play in a T20I match. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Hong Kong against the United Arab Emirates in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship on 18 November 2015. He made his first-class cricket debut against Ireland in the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup on 30 August 2016.
In August 2018, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier tournament. Hong Kong won the qualifier tournament, and he was then named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2018 Asia Cup.
In December 2018, he was named in Hong Kong's team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. In September 2019, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Hong Kong cricketers
Hong Kong One Day International cricketers
Hong Kong Twenty20 International cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people) |
44500021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%20Do%20Broken%20Hearts%20Go%20%28disambiguation%29 | Where Do Broken Hearts Go (disambiguation) | "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" may refer to:
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go", 1988 single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney.
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go (One Direction song), 2014 promotional single by One Direction from their album Four |
44500037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20mendax | Suillellus mendax | Suillellus mendax is a species of bolete fungus found in Europe. It was originally published as a species of Boletus when it was newly described in 2013, but then transferred to Suillellus the following year.
This species is morphologically very similar to the widespread Suillellus luridus, but differs in its predominantly acidophilous ecology, a mostly dull-coloured, finely felty cap and more narrowly ellipsoid to subfusiform spores measuring (12.4–)13.3–14.7(–15.5) × (4.5–)4.9– 5.5(–5.7) μm.
Suillellus mendax forms ectomycorrhizal associations with beech (Fagus), oak (Quercus) and sweet chestnut (Castanea). So far, it has been molecularly verified from Italy, France and the island of Cyprus.
References
External links
mendax
Fungi described in 2013
Fungi of Europe |
44500038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapoel%20Gedera%20F.C. | Hapoel Gedera F.C. | Hapoel Ironi Gedera Football Club () is an Israeli football club based in Gedera. The club plays in Liga Bet, the fourth tier of the Israeli football league system.
History
The original club was established in 1958 and spent most of its years in the lower tiers of the Israeli football league system, rising, at its best, to Liga Bet, then the third tier, for two seasons in 1959–60 and 1960–61, and for another season, in 1975–76. The original club folded in 1998.
Re-establishment
The club was re-established in 2011 and was placed in the Central division, in which it played since, its best position was 5th, achieved in 2014–15.
Honours
Liga Gimel
1958–59
1974–75
External links
Hapoel Ironi Gedera Israel Football Association
References
Gedera
Gedera
Association football clubs established in 1958
Association football clubs established in 2011
Association football clubs disestablished in 1998
1958 establishments in Israel
2011 establishments in Israel
1998 disestablishments in Israel |
44500046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty%20Acres | Thirty Acres | Thirty Acres () is a novel by Canadian writer Philippe Panneton, published under the pen name Ringuet. First published in French in 1938, it was published in an English translation in 1940 and won the Governor General's Award for Fiction at the 1940 Governor General's Awards. It is considered one of the most important works in Quebec literature, and one of the most important exemplars of the roman du terroir genre.
The novel traces the life of Euchariste Moisan, a rural farmer in Quebec.
The novel's English edition remains in print as part of the New Canadian Library series.
References
External links
1938 Canadian novels
Governor General's Award-winning novels
Canadian French-language novels
New Canadian Library |
44500054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloepalpus%20factilis | Chiloepalpus factilis | Chiloepalpus factilis is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Chiloepalpus of the family Tachinidae.
External links
Tachinidae
Insects described in 1964 |
44500059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20of%20Pakistan%2C%20Abu%20Dhabi | Embassy of Pakistan, Abu Dhabi | The Embassy of Pakistan, Abu Dhabi is the diplomatic mission representing Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates. The embassy is located in the Diplomatic Area in Abu Dhabi. Afzaal Mahmood is the incumbent Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates. Pakistan also has a Consulate-General in Dubai, which works under the embassy.
The Embassy provides various Consular services including Machine Readable Passports (MRP), NADRA ID cards, Visa, Attestation in addition to various Community Welfare Services. On average around 500 to 700 people visit the Embassy daily for various services.
The Embassy facilitated the repatriation of around 24,000 Pakistanis during the COVID-19 pandemic and around 60,000 Pakistanis in total if repatriations from Dubai are included, making it one of the largest international evacuation operations in the history of Pakistan.
See also
Pakistan–United Arab Emirates relations
List of diplomatic missions of Pakistan
List of diplomatic missions in the United Arab Emirates
References
External links
Embassy of Pakistan, Abu Dhabi
Year of establishment missing
Pakistan
Abu Dhabi
Pakistan–United Arab Emirates relations |
6903725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Province%20of%20Chieti | List of municipalities of the Province of Chieti | The following is a list of the 104 municipalities (comuni) of the Province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Chieti |
6903726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone%20to%20Earth | Gone to Earth | Gone to Earth may refer to:
Gone to Earth (David Sylvian album), a 1986 solo album by David Sylvian
Gone to Earth (Barclay James Harvest album), by Barclay James Harvest
Gone to Earth (film), a 1950 film by the British-based director-writer team of Powell and Pressburger
Gone to Earth (novel), a novel by Mary Webb which was the basis for the 1950 film
"Gone to Earth", a song by the American Analog Set from their 1996 album The Fun of Watching Fireworks
"Gone to Earth", a song by Goldfrapp from their single "Black Cherry" |
44500061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjan%20Chakravartty | Anjan Chakravartty | Anjan Chakravartty is an analytic philosopher and the Appignani Foundation Professor at the University of Miami. Previously, he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Toronto. His work focuses on topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology.
Life
After receiving his BSc in Biophysics from the University of Toronto Chakravartty spent three years working for an international development project in Calcutta and a United Nations World Congress on Environment and Development. After receiving an MA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto he spent a year working at the University of British Columbia, and then went on to receive an MPhil and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
On July 1, 2018, he became Appignani Foundation Chair at University of Miami. Prior to this he was the Director of the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at Notre Dame, and the Editor in Chief of the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
Works
Books and Collections by Anjan Chakravartty:
• Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology, Oxford University Press (2017)
• Ancient Skepticism, Voluntarism, and Science’, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism (2015)
• Explanation, Inference, Testimony, and Truth: Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Peter Lipton’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (ed.) (2010) (in memory of his doctoral supervisor Peter Lipton, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.)
• A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable, Cambridge University Press (2007) (The book won the Biennial Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical Association in 2009.)
Recent Publications by Anjan Chakravartty:
• 'Truth and the Sciences', in M. Glanzberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Truth, Oxford University Press (2018)
• ‘What is Scientific Realism?’ (with Bas C. van Fraassen), Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (2018)
• ‘Realism, Antirealism, Epistemic Stances, and Voluntarism’, in J. Saatsi (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism, Routledge (2018)
• ‘Reflections on New Thinking about Scientific Realism’, Synthese (2017)
• ‘Saving the Scientific Phenomena: What Powers Can and Cannot Do’, in J. D. Jacobs (ed.), Putting Powers to Work, Oxford University Press (2017)
• ‘Scientific Realism’ (version II: revised and updated), in E. N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2017)
• ‘Case Studies, Selective Realism, and Historical Evidence’, in M. Massimi, J.-W. Romeign, & G. Schurz, EPSA15 Selected Papers, Springer (2017)
See also
Scientific structuralism
References
External links
Personal website
Book review
University of Notre Dame faculty
University of Miami faculty
Analytic philosophers
Philosophers from Indiana
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Toronto faculty |
6903746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Currie%20%28conductor%29 | David Currie (conductor) | David Currie is a Canadian conductor who was the music director and conductor for the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra from 1992 until 2016. Currie is also an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches double bass and conducting, and conducts the university orchestra.
Career
Currie is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Interlochen Arts Academy. Prior to joining the OSO, he was a double bass player in the National Arts Centre Orchestra from 1971 until 1991, when he retired as Principal Bass.
Currie studied conducting in Siena, Italy and at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, one of Japan's most prestigious private music institutions, where he studied with Professor Morihiro Okabe and Maestro Kazuyoshi Akiyama. Since 1982, Mr. Currie has also been the conductor of the University of Ottawa Orchestra.
He is the founding conductor of the Tabaret Ensemble, a string ensemble of seven professors and seven music students from the University of Ottawa. He is also the founding conductor of the Pierrot Ensemble, a group that performs 20th-century music.
Currie has acted as a guest conductor for Ottawa's National Arts Centre Orchestra, and for Ottawa's opera company (Opera Lyra Ottawa).
In May 1992, Currie became Music Director of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. As music director, his duties include leading rehearsals, conducting the orchestra concerts, planning the programs, and engaging in community outreach activities. He stepped down in 2016.
Personal
Currie is married to Nancy Currie, an Ottawa-based visual artist and arts teacher, and the couple have two daughters (now adults).
References
External links
Profile of David Currie, from Ottawa Symphony
Male conductors (music)
Canadian classical musicians
Living people
Musicians from Ottawa
Toho Gakuen School of Music alumni
University of Michigan alumni
University of Ottawa faculty
21st-century Canadian conductors (music)
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Canadian male musicians |
44500084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20MacDowall | Fort MacDowall | Fort MacDowall was located in Matale. It was a fortified outpost during the Kandyan Wars, named after Major General Hay MacDowall, the 6th Commander of British Troops in Ceylon. The fort was one of the few inland forts constructed by the British and was completed in 1803.
It was garrisoned on 25 April 1803 by 55 men of the 19th Regiment under the command of Captains Madge and Pearce. On 24 June the fort was surrounded and besieged by troops of the Kandyan army. For three days Captain Madge refused offers to surrender the fort however during the night on 27 June he managed to withdraw without detection, together with two officers, thirteen men of the 19th and 22 men of the Malay Regiment. They left behind 19 Europeans who were to sick to travel. Captain Madge and his men succeeded in reaching Trincomalee, approximately through jungle and enemy held territory, on 3 July. The individuals who remained at the fort were massacred by the Kandyan army when they found the fort undefended.
During the Matale rebellion, on 28 July 1848, the fort came under siege by approximately 400 rebels led by Puran Appu and Gongalegoda Banda, but the British garrison repulsed the attack. The rebels also burnt down a coffee storehouse and ransacked the Matale Kachcheri, destroying the tax records contained inside. On 29 July, the governor of Ceylon, Lord Torrington, declared martial law in the colony. A detachment of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, under the command of Captain Albert Watson, was dispatched from Kandy on 28 July, together with 220 men from the 19th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Captain Lillie C.R.R. On 29 July 1848, the 19th Regiment of Foot attacked a rebel force consisting of roughly 4,000 rebels at Wariyapola Estate who were heading towards Kandy; the rebels suffered casualties amounting to over 100 men killed and captured and hundreds wounded, while the lone British casualty was an injured soldier. After the battle, roughly 250 captured rebels were court-martialled and subsequently executed (either by firing squad or hanging) in Fort MacDowall. Watson and Lillie then led their troops in occupying Matale, arresting a number of rebel leaders, including Appu and Banda. Initial reports indicated that only thirteen rebels were killed and nine executed in Fort MacDowall. After the suppression of the rebellion, Torrington admitted "that the total number killed and wounded amounted to little less than two hundred", although unofficially the numbers are purportedly higher.
The only physical remnants of the fort that exist today are the gateway and portion of the ramparts. The interior of the fort is currently used as the Matale cemetery, which includes a monument to the rebellion.
References
MacDowall
Buildings and structures in Matale
MacDowall
Buildings and structures in Matale District |
6903780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20animal | Rational animal | The term rational animal (Latin: animal rationale or animal rationabile) refers to a classical definition of humanity or human nature, associated with Aristotelianism.
History
While the Latin term itself originates in scholasticism, it reflects the Aristotelian view of man as a creature distinguished by a rational principle. In the Nicomachean Ethics I.13, Aristotle states that the human being has a rational principle (Greek: λόγον ἔχον), on top of the nutritive life shared with plants, and the instinctual life shared with other animals, i. e., the ability to carry out rationally formulated projects. That capacity for deliberative imagination was equally singled out as man's defining feature in De anima III.11. While seen by Aristotle as a universal human feature, the definition applied to wise and foolish alike, and did not in any way imply necessarily the making of rational choices, as opposed to the ability to make them.
The Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry defined man as a "mortal rational animal", and also considered animals to have a (lesser) rationality of their own.
The definition of man as a rational animal was common in scholastical philosophy. Catholic Encyclopedia states that this definition means that "in the system of classification and definition shown in the Arbor Porphyriana, man is a substance, corporeal, living, sentient, and rational".
In Meditation II of Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes arrives at his famous cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am") claim. He then goes on to wonder "What am I?" He considers and rejects the scholastic concept of the "rational animal":
Shall I say 'a rational animal'? No; for then I should have to inquire what an animal is, what rationality is, and in this one question would lead me down the slope to other harder ones.
Modern use
Freud was as aware as any of the irrational forces at work in humankind, but he nevertheless resisted what he called too much “stress on the weakness of the ego in relation to the id and of our rational elements in the face of the daemonic forces within us”.
Neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer, in his work An Essay on Man (1944), altered Aristotle's definition to label man as a symbolic animal. This definition has been influential in the field of philosophical anthropology, where it has been reprised by Gilbert Durand, and has been echoed in the naturalist description of man as the compulsive communicator.
Sociologists in the tradition of Max Weber distinguish rational behavior (means-end oriented) from irrational, emotional or confused behavior, as well as from traditional-oriented behavior, but recognise the wide role of all the latter types in human life.
Ethnomethodology sees rational human behavior as representing perhaps 1/10th of the human condition, dependent on the 9/10ths of background assumptions which provide the frame for means-end decision making.
In his An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, Bertrand Russell argues against the idea that man is rational, saying "Man is a rational animal — so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it."
See also
References
External links
Are we rational animals?
Philosophy of Aristotle
Cognition
Scholasticism |
44500085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Arge%C8%99%201953%20Pite%C8%99ti | FC Argeș 1953 Pitești | Fotbal Club Argeș 1953 Pitești was a Romanian football club from Pitești, Argeș. It was founded in 2013 as a phoenix club of the then-dissolved team FC Argeș Pitești, and was fully owned by its supporters.
History
Liga IV Argeș County (2014–present)
After the dissolution of the original team FC Argeș Pitești, the supporters recreated the team and named it FC Argeș 1953, a phoenix club who started in Liga IV. In their first season they finished on the second place in Liga IV – Argeș County. In the same year they participated in the first ever Football without Owners Tournament, a new established trophy for the fan-owned phoenix clubs in Romania, the other participants was ASU Politehnica Timișoara, FC Vaslui 2002 and the host LSS Voința Sibiu, they finished on the third place at the event. On June 12, they managed to win against the county rivals Unirea Bascov to win the league and qualify in the promotion play-off to Liga III.
After the promotion the club was dissolved, not having enough financial support.
Honours
Domestic
Liga IV – Argeș County
Winners (1): 2015–16
Runners-up (1): 2014–15
Friendly
Football without Owners Tournament
Third place (1): 2015
Statistics
References
External links
Official website
Fan-owned football clubs
Association football clubs established in 2013
Association football clubs disestablished in 2016
Defunct football clubs in Romania
Football clubs in Argeș County
2013 establishments in Romania
2016 disestablishments in Romania
Liga IV clubs |
44500087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloepalpus%20aureus | Chiloepalpus aureus | Chiloepalpus aureus is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Chiloepalpus of the family Tachinidae.
External links
Tachinidae
Insects described in 1926 |
6903781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Fitzwarren%20railway%20station | Norton Fitzwarren railway station | Norton Fitzwarren railway station is an untimetabled station on the West Somerset Railway in Somerset, England. It was built in 2009 about north of the site of the old (Norton Fitzwarren) station that served the village of Norton Fitzwarren from 1873 until 1961. There were fatal railway accidents in the vicinity in 1890, 1940 and 1978.
History
First station
The Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) was opened through Norton Fitzwarren on 1 May 1843 but the nearest station was east at . On 31 March 1862 the original West Somerset Railway was opened to , leaving the Exeter line at Norton Junction, but still no station was provided. The first section of the Devon and Somerset Railway to opened on 8 June 1871, making a connection into the West Somerset line just west of the junction with the Exeter line.
The first two-platform station was finally opened at the junction on 1 June 1873, located immediately east of the junction (at ). On the northern platform side closest to the village was a small station building, a hotel and the goods yard. Both the branch lines were operated by the B&ER until 1 January 1876 when it was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway.
In 1931 the GWR started a project to quadruple the track between Cogload Junction (where the mainline from and the north met the Castle Cary cut-off line from Yeovil, Reading and ), for the south through Taunton to Norton Fitzwarren. The existing station buildings were demolished, to allow a new up-relief line to be built north of the existing northern platform, followed by the creation of a down relief road south of the southern platform. A new metal passenger bridge was erected, connecting the new station buildings to the north with both island platforms. The completion of the project also allowed the GWR to create the large regional goods facility at Fairwater Yard, located just east of the station. The whole project was brought into operation on 2 December 1931.
World War 2: US Army Depot G-50
At the start of World War II, the Royal Army Service Corps choose the relatively large scale station serving the small community as the ideal location for a new logistics depot. Finished at the end of 1941, it was immediately taken over by the United States Army as part of Operation Bolero in early 1942, one of their 18 supplies depots within the United Kingdom. Redesignated Quartermaster General Depot G-50, they equipped it with extensive railway sidings to the northeast of the railway station.
Part of the reasoning behind the choice of the depot, was that it was one of five within the 18 designated as a US Army Medical Corps supplies depot. Medical supplies were allocated of under cover storage, and a further outside. The US Army also locally developed the 67th General Hospital at Musgrove Park. Both facilities under the control of the US Army Medical Corps came into operation on 1 September 1942.
Closure
On 1 January 1948 the railways were nationalised and Norton Fitzwarren became a part of the Western Region of British Railways. Passenger traffic was withdrawn on 30 October 1961, after which passengers for the two branches once again had to change trains at Taunton until these routes were closed on 3 October 1966 (the Devon and Somerset line) and 4 January 1971 (West Somerset line). The goods yard continued to operate until 6 July 1964, when the logistics facilities of Norton Manor Camp closed.
The goods facilities had always handled a large volume of locally grown cider apples, and on 1 March 1983 a private siding utilising much of the former up-relief road connection to the WSR was opened into the Taunton Cider Company's factory on the northwest side of the former station site. Although this factory has since closed, it was this private siding that allowed the West Somerset Railway, in its new heritage railway guise, to be connected to the national railway network.
West Somerset Railway
In 2004 the West Somerset Railway Association (WSRA) (the volunteer organisation that supports the WSR) purchased of land west of its railway and north of the main line at Norton Fitzwarren.
This included a short length of the track bed of the dismantled Barnstaple branch line. This track bed and a new north-west chord have eventually formed a triangle where rolling stock is turned when required. Part of the land is used for ballast reclamation, with waste material being delivered to the site by Network Rail in conjunction with their track renewals depot at nearby Fairwater Yard.
There is also sufficient space to allow for the construction of a locomotive and rolling stock restoration depot in the future.
The WSRA built a single concrete platform on the west side of the Minehead to Taunton line in 2009. This is not shown in the regular timetable but is for use during special events when a shuttle service can bring people from . It is long enough to handle four-coach trains. It was first used on 1 and 2 August 2009 in association with a vintage vehicle rally on the WSR's land at Norton Fitzwarren.
There is no public access to the site currently, however it is hoped this will change in the future as the adjacent 'Ford Farm' site has been identified as a Potential Mixed Use Development site in the Taunton Deane Core Strategy
with an associated transport policy statement that any such development should include improved access to the adjoining West Somerset Railway station.
The WSR entered into a partnership with the modern Great Western Railway (GWR) in 2019 to operate Summer Saturday services between and on Saturdays when special events were taking place. On 3 August, services called additionally at Norton Fitzwarren for the annual Steam Fayre Vintage Rally, run by the WSRA, taking place at the station. These GWR services were the first time the new station was served by trains from the national rail network.
Accidents
Three significant accidents have happened on the main line in the vicinity of Norton Fitzwarren:
The Ocean Mails collision – 4-4-0ST No. 2051 was withdrawn following a fatal collision at Norton Fitzwarren on 11 November 1890 while working a special Travelling Post Office conveying mail from a trans-Atlantic liner which had been landed at .
The wartime collision – another crash occurred on 4 November 1940, which left 27 people dead, this time when a driver of a train leaving Taunton under blackout conditions due to the war misread signals and believed he was on a different line to the one on which he was travelling. The train was derailed at trap points as the driver mistook main line signals for his own.
The Taunton sleeper fire – a coach in the 22:30 sleeper train from to London Paddington station caught fire on the morning of 6 July 1978 and was brought to a stand near Norton Fitzwarren. Twelve people were killed and 15 people were injured.
References
West Somerset Railway
Disused railway stations in Somerset
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1873
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1961
Heritage railway stations in Somerset
Railway stations built for UK heritage railways
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2009 |
23575901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20winners%20of%20the%20Rotterdam%20Marathon | List of winners of the Rotterdam Marathon | This article lists the winners of the Rotterdam Marathon, which is a marathon annually held in Rotterdam, Netherlands since 1981.
The current course records of 2:04:27 (men) and 2:18:58 (women) are set in 2009 by Duncan Kibet and in 2012 by Tiki Gelana respectively.
Belayneh Densamo has won the marathon four times, Tegla Laroupe three times, and Robert de Castella, Marius Kipserem and Carla Beurskens twice.
Men's winners
Women's winners
Victories by nation
See also
List of winners of the Amsterdam Marathon
References
Palmares Marathon de Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Sports competitions in Rotterdam |
23575903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens%20Theatre%2C%20Glasgow | Queens Theatre, Glasgow | The Queens Theatre was a theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, situated in Watson Street near Glasgow Cross. It was built in the 1870s to cater for working class Glaswegians. The theatre opened as the Star Hall. It went on to be renamed the Shakespeare Music Hall, New Star Theatre of Varieties and the Peoples Palace Theatre before being named the Queens Theatre in 1897. The theatre was destroyed by fire in 1952.
References
Former theatres in Scotland
Theatres in Glasgow |
6903783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole%20Highlands%2C%20Maryland | Carole Highlands, Maryland | Carole Highlands is an unincorporated community located in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Carole Highlands is contained between East West Highway (MD 410) to the south, University Boulevard (MD 193) to the north, Larch Avenue, Hopewell Avenue, and 15th Avenue to the west, and Riggs Road (MD 212) to the east. Carole Highlands borders the adjacent neighborhoods of Chillum, Green Meadows, Lewisdale, and Langley Park in Prince George's County, while bordering the city of Takoma Park in Montgomery County, MD. For statistical purposes, it is part of the Chillum census-designated place (CDP).
Physical geography
Carole Highlands mainly includes single-family houses as well as the Riggs Hill Condominium Complex. Since Carole Highlands is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland, Carole Highlands lacks its own neighborhood address and zipcode. As a result, most of the businesses and residences located within Carole Highlands, are assigned Hyattsville addresses, containing the Hyattsville/Adelphi zipcode of 20783 while a few business and residences located on the far western boundary of Carole Highlands, next to the Prince George's County/ Montgomery County Line, are assigned Takoma Park addresses, containing the Takoma Park zipcode of 20912. Carole Highlands was a planned community was named for the developer's daughter, Carole, and because much of it is literally on "high land." At the very top of the neighborhood is a water tower. Elevation above sea level (topo map here) reaches a maximum of at the water tower, and slopes downhill to its minimum of on Elson Street along Sligo Creek Park.
A -high dendritic ridge runs north and south through the neighborhood just west of 16th Place. The ridgeline divides the Sligo Creek watershed from the Northwest Branch watershed. When the leaves are off the trees, from various points on the ridge there is a clear view of the Shepherd Park and Brightwood neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. (3 miles west); of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (3 miles south-southwest); and of Carmody Hills, Maryland (8 miles southeast).
Roads, hiker-biker trails, and political geography
Carole Highlands is located within a residential section east of 15th Avenue, northeast of Sligo Creek Park and MD-410 (East-West Highway), west of MD-212 (Riggs Road) and south of MD-193 (University Boulevard).
The only direct road access into the neighborhood is via Erskine Street (from New Hampshire Avenue) or Drexel Street (from Riggs Road).
Elson Street and Sligo Parkway East give Carole Highlands two access points to Sligo Creek Trail, which was designated a National Recreation Trail in 2006 (external link here). The paved and shaded hiker-biker trail links directly to the Anacostia Trail System and thus to the American Discovery Trail that crosses the United States from Delaware to California. However, most Carole Highlands residents use Sligo Creek Trail less frequently as an access point for coast-to-coast tours than for Bicycle commuting, family outings and jogging.
The western boundary of the Carole Highlands neighborhood is the current border between Montgomery County, Maryland and Prince George's County, Maryland, behind the backyards of the houses in Carole Highlands that face 15th Avenue. The section of Carole Highlands consists of single-family houses, starts at the Prince George's County/ Montgomery County Line and ends on East-West Highway (MD 410), the portion of Riggs Road (MD 212) south of Drexel Street, and 17th Avenue. Between portion of Carole Highlands, where Drexel Street/ Erskine Street east of 17th Avenue, and where Riggs Road intersects Drexel Street, north of East-West Highway (MD 410), near University Boulevard (MD 193), is where the "Riggs Hill Condominium Complex, which is the only condominium complex in Carole Highlands, is located. There are absolutely no apartment complexes located within the community of Carole Highlands whatsoever. On maps, the neighborhood is east of Hopewell Avenue, Larch Avenue, and 15th Avenue but north of East-West Highway (MD 410), south of University Boulevard East (MD 193), and west of Riggs Road (MD 212). Homes located east of New Hampshire Avenue (MD 650), but west of 15th Avenue are part of the City of Takoma Park's Ward 6 in Montgomery County.
Plants and animals
The neighborhood is lined with a canopy of mature trees. For this reason, Carole Highlands appears as a dark green patch on satellite images of the Washington area.
Many of the trees belong to species native to the local ecological region, the Piedmont region of Maryland. Some of the local tree species are oak, maple, birch, beech, elm, cherry, weeping cherry, spruce, pine, sassafras and flowering dogwood.
Mammals: Squirrels, raccoons and opossums are commonly seen and badgers, foxes and deer are seen occasionally.
Some bird species that have been spotted in local backyards are cardinals, titmice, robins, ospreys, crows, woodpeckers, flickers, mockingbirds, wood thrushes, gray catbirds, cowbirds, chickadees, blue jays, mourning doves, towhees, summer tanagers, goldfinches, house and purple finches and the ubiquitous species starling and sparrow. Kingfishers, herons and hawks are seen near Sligo Creek.
History
The largest section of the neighborhood was developed as a planned community by Carl M. Freeman Associates, Inc. (now the Carl M. Freeman Companies) beginning in 1947. The development maximized the preservation of oak trees hundred of years old by arranging houses on large (6000-12,000 square foot) lots contoured to respect the section's ridges and slopes. According to the company's website (here), the development won an award. Carole Highlands was the first and only suburban housing developed after World War II in the entire Washington, D.C. metro area which sold homes to all comers WITHOUT discriminatory covenants. Carole Highlands takes pride in having been an integrated community from its beginning and continues to shelter and celebrate its diversity. The community is integrated in every way possible.
The house styles of the development included traditional two-story "brick colonial" and -story "Dutch colonial" models; the then-new "California Cottage home" designed by Carl Freeman himself as a "truly livable space" with a naturally flowing connection with the outdoors; one-story frame ranch houses and, at the edge of the formal Carole Highlands Section on 17th Avenue, a row of attached (double) family homes. Some of the detached Freeman houses were subsequently enlarged with dormers or one or two-story additions, while others are still in their pristine state to the current day.
In 1960, the neighborhood Citizen's Association successfully brought a legal case against the Board of County Commissioners of Prince George's County. As a result, the court prohibited the building of a gas station on lot C-2.
The portion of Takoma Park located west of 15th Avenue, but east of Prince George's Avenue, Merrimac Drive, and Carroll Avenue, was originally located in Prince George's County, Maryland, from up until July 1, 1997. Earlier in 1997, residents living within the portion of Takoma Park located within Prince George's County, voted affirmatively to unify the City of Takoma Park under the jurisdiction of Montgomery County. The county line was shifted, changing Prince George's County's boundaries for the first time since 1791.
Home ownership in the neighborhood experienced turnover after the year 2000, as many long-term residents retired and sold their homes to younger newcomers. In 2004, Carole Highlands was featured as one of the best places to live in a local monthly magazine. The speculative real estate boom attracted "flippers" who expected to pocket a $100,000 profit in two years as housing prices spiraled. The subsequent real estate "bust" left many who bought at the top of the market under water with their mortgages however resulted in a default rate for the neighborhood amazingly lower (at 0.02% to date) than the prevailing default rates in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and the general rate in the state of Maryland. Most defaults involved over-leveraged speculators who never intended to settle and mis-timed the market. Residents still include some of Carole Highlands' now elderly "pioneers" who were the original or very early owners of their respective homes and three generations of their heirs and people who grew up in this family-friendly neighborhood and bought homes in the neighborhood where they now raise their own children. Today, many Carole Highlands residents work in nearby in Washington, D.C.or Silver Spring or College Park Maryland. Plumbers and professors live side by side.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools
Students from Carole Highlands Section in Prince George's County are currently assigned to Carole Highlands Elementary School—located within the section, Buck Lodge Middle School and High Point High School. Prince George's County Public Schools.
See * Carole Highlands Elementary School
Buck Lodge Middle School
High Point High School
Places of Worship
In 2003, the Turner Memorial AME congregation purchased the large church building within the section from the Wallace Memorial Presbyterian congregation that formerly occupied its multiple lots. Two Protestant and one Roman Catholic churches are located within easy walking distance on near-by New Hampshire Avenue.
Public libraries
The closest public library to Carole Highlands is the Takoma Park Library. This library is at Philadelphia and Maple Avenues, about one and a half miles west of Carole Highlands via bicycle paths and residential streets. The Takoma Park Library is a department of the City of Takoma Park, and is the only independent (not county-run) municipal library in the state of Maryland. It has a children's book room, an adults' book room and a periodicals reading area. Residents of the City of Takoma Park automatically have borrowing privileges, and Prince George's County residents may obtain full borrowing privileges for an annual fee of $10.
The second closest public library to Carole Highlands is the Hyattsville Library. This library is on Adelphi Road to the east of the Prince George's Plaza shopping mall, about two miles (3 km) east of Carole Highlands via MD-212 and MD-410. It has a children's book room, an adults' book room, a computer area and a periodicals reading area. The Hyattsville Library is also the site of the Maryland Room, decorated in the style of a parlor in a Colonial manor house of the 18th century and housing a historical and genealogical collection that focuses on Maryland.
Current issues of interest to residents
Purple Line and associated development
One issue of interest to Carole Highlands residents is the status of the Purple Line transit project.
Two Purple Line stations are planned nearby: the Takoma-Langley station at the intersection of MD-650 New Hampshire Ave x MD-193 University Boulevard East and the Riggs Road station at MD-212 Riggs Road x MD-193 University Bouleward. These two intersections are within less than a mile of the northwest and northeast corners of the Carole Highlands neighborhood. [To see the locations, click here for a map of the proposed Purple Line route, published by the Washington Post, May 31, 2007, and here for a street map with a pointer to Carole Highlands. To see the official planning maps, click on CFG-06-03 (Riggs Road Station) or CFG-06-02 (Takoma/Langley Station) at the Maryland Transit Authority website.]
The transit line would provide more commuting options to residents as a connection west to Bethesda and east to the New Carollton MARC and Metro stations. Because tall wrought-iron fences erected along the section's northern border block direct access from University Boulevard into Carole Highlands, the transit line itself is unlikely to alter the quiet character of the neighborhood.
However, the Planning Boards of Montgomery and Prince George's county for the Takoma Langley Crossroads (TLC) "transit-oriented development" envision vastly increased residential and commercial density around the two planned local stations that may impact the neighborhood—with or without the Purple Line.
In March 2007, the administration of recently inaugurated Maryland Governor O'Malley announced that the previous administration had underestimated likely ridership on this and two other potential new transit lines (e.g. this March 7, 2007 article from Gazette.Net). Accurate ridership estimates are important to secure federal funding for new transit projects. Costs of the Purple Line are estimated in the billions of dollars and the earliest year it may be operational is 2017.
Sligo Master Plan
Under the plan proposed by the Montgomery County Planning Board in May 2010 to rezone and redevelop its section of the Takoma Langley Crossroads sector and the City of Takoma Park's consistent plan to revitalize commercial uses along New Hampshire Avenue, land lots zoned commercial at the intersection of Sligo Creek Parkway and New Hampshire Avenue may be further developed. According to the "Sligo Master Plan" article in the May 2007 issue of the Takoma Park Newsletter, nearby residents "enthusiastically" expressed desires for encouraging such businesses on the lots as a small neighborhood pub, a cafe, a bicycle shop and rental business and a hardware store.
Takoma Langley Crossroads Plan
The plan approved in 2009 for the Takoma Langley Crossroads Section in Prince George's County, however, envisions massive redevelopment (=demolition and rebuilding). Approximately half the homes in the Carole Highlands Section (206 houses north of Erskine Avenue) were included in the Sectional Map Amendment (SMA) area of that PG plan. In the first phase (5–10 years), redevelopment would come up to the very boundary of the community as PG planners seek to demolish most buildings of the Riggs Hill Condominium between 18th Avenue and Riggs Road to convert them to multi-use: 3-4 floors of apartments above retail stores. In the third phase (15 to 25 years hence), the PG county plan calls for the "redevelopment" of the area of Carole Highlands included in the SMA into far more intense "medium density" land use—a term which is not associated with the existing zoning for single-family homes on spacious lots.
Owner-occupants of Carole Highlands homes filed a class action suit in Circuit Court less than a month after the County Council "initiated" (began) the SMA process of rezoning land use. The plaintiff class is currently expanding and reaching out to affected homeowners in other areas within the Takoma Langley Crossroad sectors of Prince George's and Montgomery County to prevent the rezoning of their properties and the intrusion of commercial activities into residential neighborhoods. The class may potentially expand to include owner occupants of the three spacious garden-style condominium communities, two of which the PG plan targets for demolition and conversion to multiuse and the third of which it targets for rebuilding into a higher density apartment complexes and the single-family homes PG plan targets for demolition and redevelopment as dense apartment buildings.
The Montgomery County Council will hold a hearing on its county's Takoma Langley Sector plan in May 2011. As of March 2011, no timetable has been set for publication or a hearing on the proposed rezoning within the SMA of Prince George's County's TLC plan.
Statistics and elected officials
Latitude: 38.98139 N
Longitude: 76.98361 W
County Council:
For current Montgomery County councilmembers, check MC District 5 externally.
For current Prince George's County councilmembers, check PG District 2 externally.
Maryland House of Delegates:
District 20 (Montgomery County)
District 47 (Prince George's County)
For current Maryland state delegates, check district on this list or externally.
Maryland State Senate:
District 20 (Montgomery County)
District 47 (Prince George's County)
For current Maryland state senators, check district on this list or externally.
United States House of Representatives:
Maryland District 8 (both counties)
Chris Van Hollen, current U.S. representative.
United States Senate:
Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin, current U.S. senators.
Governor of Maryland:
Larry Hogan
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland:
Boyd Rutherford
References
External links
Location in the DC Metro area
Map of proposed Purple Line route , published by the Washington Post, May 31, 2007
Topo map with streets, elevation contours and landmarks
Map of the Carole Highlands Elementary School District
Gazette.net article 01/11/2007 "At Carole Highlands [Elementary School], small groups spell success on MSA"
The original builders, Carl M. Freeman Associates
Sligo Creek Trail
Friends of Sligo Creek
the nearby International Corridor/Gateway Arts District
Unincorporated communities in Montgomery County, Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Prince George's County, Maryland
Washington metropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Maryland |
23575905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Ryan%20%28Australian%20footballer%29 | Dave Ryan (Australian footballer) | David James Ryan (23 January 1885 – 13 February 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Originally from Yarrawonga, Ryan arrived at Collingwood in 1907 after failing to make an impact in his season with Geelong. At his new club, Ryan participated in the finals in each of his first five seasons and was a ruckman in the 1910 premiership team. He also played in Collingwood's losing Grand Final the following season, again as a follower. Used at times up forward, he retired at the end of the 1912 season but continued playing briefly in the VFA at Prahran.
He was the brother of another Collingwood player Michael Ryan and the uncle of Joe Ryan, who played for and coached Footscray. Outside of football he was a policeman for about 20 years until he moved to Sydney around 1930 where he worked as a store detective. He died in Sydney in February 1957.
References
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
External links
1885 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Geelong Football Club players
Collingwood Football Club players
Collingwood Football Club Premiership players
Prahran Football Club players
Yarrawonga Football Club players
1957 deaths
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players |
6903784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster%20bar | Oyster bar | An oyster bar, also known as an oyster saloon, oyster house or a raw bar service, is a restaurant specializing in serving oysters, or a section of a restaurant which serves oysters buffet-style. Oysters have been consumed since ancient times and were common tavern food in Europe, but the oyster bar as a distinct restaurant began making an appearance in the 18th century.
History
Oyster consumption in Europe was confined to the wealthy until the mid-17th century, but by the 18th century even the poor were consuming them. Sources vary as to when the first oyster bar was created. One source claims that Sinclair's, a pub in Manchester, England, is the United Kingdom's oldest oyster bar. It opened in 1738. London's oldest restaurant, Rules, also began business as an oyster bar. It opened in 1798.
In North America, Native Americans on both coasts ate oysters in large quantities, as did colonists from Europe. Unlike in Europe, oyster consumption in North America after colonization by Europeans was never confined to class, and oysters were commonly served in taverns. During the early 19th century, express wagons filled with oysters crossed the Allegheny Mountains to reach the American Midwest. The oldest oyster bar in the United States is Union Oyster House in Boston, which opened in 1826. It features oyster shucking in front of the customer, and patrons may make their own oyster sauces from condiments on the tables. It has served as a model for many oyster bars in the United States.
During the same period, oysters were an integral part of some African-American communities. One example is Sandy Ground, which was located in modern-day Rossville, Staten Island. African-Americans were drawn to the oyster industry because it promised autonomy, as they were involved throughout the process of harvesting and selling. In addition, oyster farmers were relatively less impoverished than slaves and did not work under white owners. A recipe for an oyster pie in Abby Fisher's 1881 cookbook, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, suggests the influence of oysters on African-American foodways and culture.
By 1850, nearly every major town in North America had an oyster bar, oyster cellar, oyster parlor, or oyster saloon—almost always located in the basement of the establishment (where keeping ice was easier). Oysters and bars often went hand-in-hand in the United States, because oysters were seen as a cheap food to serve alongside beer and liquor.
By the late 1880s, an "oyster craze" had swept the United States, and oyster bars were prominent gathering places in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Louisville, New York City, and St. Louis. An 1881 U.S. government fisheries study counted 379 oyster houses in the Philadelphia city directory alone, a figure explicitly not including oyster consumption at hotels or other saloons. In 1892, the Pittsburgh Dispatch estimated the annual consumption (in terms of individual oysters) for London at one billion, and the United States as a whole at twelve billion oysters.
This enormous demand for oysters was not sustainable. The beds of the Chesapeake Bay, which supplied much of the American Midwest, were becoming rapidly depleted by the early 1890s. Increasing restrictions on oystering seasons and methods in the late 19th century led to the rise of oyster pirates, culminating in the Oyster Wars of the Chesapeake Bay, that pitted poachers against armed law enforcement authorities of Virginia and Maryland (dubbed the "oyster navy").
According to The New York Times in 2014, about 90 percent of oyster bar sales in the United States come from farmed (not wild) oysters.
See also
List of oyster bars
Raw bar
References
Bibliography
Betti, Tom and Sauer, Doreen Uhas. Historic Columbus Taverns: The Capital City's Most Storied Saloons. Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2012.
Fisher, Abby. What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, 1881.
Green, Aliza. Field Guide to Seafood: How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fish and Shellfish at the Market. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2007.
Kemp, David. The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain: A Discerning Traveller's Companion. Toronto: Dundurn, 1992.
Kerr, Jean and Smith, Spencer. Mystic Seafood: Great Recipes, History, and Seafaring Lore From Mystic Seaport. Guilford, Conn.: Insiders Guide, 2006.
Koo, Dinah; Poon, Janice; and Szabo, John. The Cocktail Chef: Entertaining in Style. Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre 2006.
MacMurray, Patrick. Consider the Oyster: A Shucker's Field Guide. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007.
Porter, Darwin and Prince, Danforth. Frommer's Great Britain. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Reardon, Joan. Oysters: A Culinary Celebration. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2004.
Rosso, Julee and Lukins, Sheila. The New Basics Cookbook. New York: Workman Pub., 1989.
The Visual Food Encyclopedia. Montréal, Québec: Les editions Québec Amerique, 1996.
Walsh, Robb. Sex, Death & Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, 2010.
Williams, Nicola. France. London: Lonely Planet, 2009.
Restaurants by type
Seafood
Types of drinking establishment |
6903790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank%20Williams%20%28disambiguation%29 | Hank Williams (disambiguation) | Hank Williams (1923–1953) was an American singer-songwriter and musician.
Hank Williams may also refer to:
Hank Williams Jr. (born 1949), American country singer-songwriter and musician, son of Hank Williams Sr.
Hank Williams III (born 1972), singer, drummer, bassist, and guitarist, son of Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams (basketball) (born 1952), American professional basketball player
See also
Hank Williams First Nation, a 2005 Canadian film
"Honk Williams", a bonus track (about the musician) from the album It Doesn't Matter Anymore |
23575912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%202006%20Central%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20400%20metre%20individual%20medley | Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley | The Women's 400 m Individual Medley event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Monday, July 17, 2006, at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.
Records at the time of the event were:
World Record: 4:33.59, Yana Klochkova (Ukraine), Sydney, Australia, September 16, 2000.
Games Record: 4:52.42, Carolyn Adel (Suriname), 1998 Games in Maracaibo (August.9.1998).
Results
Final
Preliminaries
References
Results: 2006 CACs--Swimming: Women's 400 IM--prelims from the official website of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games; retrieved 2009-07-11.
Results: 2006 CACs--Swimming: Women's 400 IM--finals from the official website of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games; retrieved 2009-07-11.
Medley, Women's 400m
2006 in women's swimming |
6903817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20Wake%20Me | Don't Wake Me | "Don't Wake Me" is a song by Australian pop-rock group Uncanny X-Men. The song was released in September 1986 as the second single from the band's second studio album, What You Give Is What You Get. The song peaked at number 31 on the Kent Music Report.
Track listing
7" Vinyl (CBS - BA 3486)
"Don't Wake Me"
"Truckin' on into Alice"
Charts
References
1986 singles
Uncanny X-Men (band) songs
CBS Records singles
1986 songs |
6903818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20J.%20Scollay | Fred J. Scollay | Fred J. Scollay (March 19, 1923 – November 3, 2015) was an American character actor with dozens of credits in daytime and primetime television, as well as film and stage work
Early years and military service
Scollay was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and was "one of four orphaned Scollays." He was raised by Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied acting at Emerson College and at Bishop-Lee Dramatic School.
Scollay was in the United States Navy during World War II, serving as an aviator machinist mate.
Television, film and stage
On daytime TV, Scollay was an original cast member of The Doctors, playing hospital chaplain Rev. Sam Shafer (1963-1964). From 1970-71, he appeared on Somerset (TV series) as Harry Wilson (aka Ike Harding). On Another World (1977-1980), he played Charley Hobson, the last husband of Ada Hobson (Constance Ford). He also had smaller roles on several other soap operas.
In primetime, Scollay had roles dating back to the earliest days of television. He made numerous appearances in such programs as Studio One, Kraft Television Theatre, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Naked City, The Defenders, Dr. Kildare, and Gunsmoke, among many others. His last part was a recurring role as a judge on several episodes of Law & Order (1991-1996).
Scollay's work in motion pictures included A View from the Bridge, Odds Against Tomorrow, and Stage Struck.
Scollay's Broadway credits include The Devil's Advocate.
Death
Fred J. Scollay died on November 3, 2015, in Hobe Sound, Florida. His wife, Ann, predeceased him.
Filmography
References
External links
1923 births
2015 deaths
American male soap opera actors
American male television actors
People from Boston
People from Hobe Sound, Florida
United States Navy personnel of World War II |
6903819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twmpath | Twmpath | Twmpath () is a Welsh word literally meaning a hump or tump, once applied to the mound or village green upon which the musicians sat and played for the community to dance.
Twmpath dawns were organised by Urdd Gobaith Cymru in the late 1950s and 1960s, a form of barn dance, for the entertainment of young people, mainly from rural areas. These events remained popular until the rise of discos in the 1970s. Twmpath is used today to mean a Welsh version of the barn dance or cèilidh.
The same word is also used to refer to a speed bump.
See also
Culture of Wales
Troyl
Notes
Welsh society
Welsh music
Welsh-language music
Welsh music history |
44500089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo%20Baiocco | Matteo Baiocco | Matteo Baiocco (born 23 April 1984) is an Italian motorcycle racer. He was the CIV Superbike champion in 2011, 2012 and 2016. In 2017, he will compete in the CIV Superbike Championship aboard an Aprilia RSV4.
Career statistics
Supersport World Championship
Races by year
Superbike World Championship
Races by year
References
External links
Profile on WorldSBK.com
1984 births
Living people
Italian motorcycle racers
Superbike World Championship riders
Supersport World Championship riders
Sportspeople from the Province of Ancona
FIM Superstock 1000 Cup riders
British Superbike Championship riders |
44500098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Javier%20G%C3%B3mez%20Barrales | Ernesto Javier Gómez Barrales | Ernesto Javier Gómez Barrales (born 7 November 1978) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.
References
1978 births
Living people
Politicians from Puebla
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians |
44500115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluny%20lace | Cluny lace | Cluny lace is a bobbin lace style, worked as a continuous piece. It is a heavy plaited lace of geometric design, often with radiating thin, pointed wheatears (closely woven leaves). It is a guipure style of lace.
History
Cluny lace originated in France. It appeared in the nineteenth century in Le Puy and Mirecourt in Lorraine, reputedly using designs from the Museum of Antiquities at the Hotel Cluny, Paris.
Cluny lace was also made in the English Midland lacemaking areas.
References
External link
Bobbin lace
Textile arts of England |
44500136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloepalpus%20aurifacies | Chiloepalpus aurifacies | Chiloepalpus aurifacies is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Chiloepalpus of the family Tachinidae.
External links
Tachinidae
Insects described in 1927
Diptera of South America |
6903851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Province%20of%20Pescara | List of municipalities of the Province of Pescara | The following is a list of the 46 municipalities (comuni) of the Province of Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Pescara |
44500142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20G%C3%B3nz%C3%A1lez%20Mac%C3%ADas | Jesús Gónzález Macías | Jesús Gónzález Macías (born 27 May 1972) is a Mexican politician from the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. From 2007 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nuevo León.
References
1972 births
Living people
People from Tampico, Tamaulipas
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians |
44500145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1stup%20%28film%29 | Nástup (film) | Nástup is a 1953 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra.
Cast
Ladislav Chudík as Bagar
Jaroslav Mareš as Antos
Karel Höger as Trnec
Jaroslav Průcha as Dejmek
Vlasta Fabianová as Dejmkova
References
External links
1953 films
1953 drama films
Czechoslovak films
1950s Czech-language films
Films directed by Otakar Vávra
Czech films
Czechoslovak drama films |
6903852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20Capa | Honda Capa | The Honda Capa, short for "capacity", is a "tall wagon" produced by Honda between 1998 and 2002 for the Japanese market. It was introduced at the 1997 Tokyo Motor Show as the concept car "J-MW." It went on sale April 24, 1998, with Honda series codes GA4 and GA6. On September 16, 1999 a 4WD version of the Capa was released, using Honda's Full-Time four-wheel-drive system. Brake Assist was offered as standard equipment. Due to disappointing sales the Capa nameplate was discontinued in 2002. It was available in Japan through Honda Primo and Honda Verno dealerships.
General information
The Honda Capa was developed on the Honda Logo platform and is the first generation of the "J Mover" series. Its concept was based on a 'Small is Smart' way of thinking. Ease of use in everyday life, compactness, lightness and friendliness to the environment were some of the criteria built into the design. The proposal was that the Capa was to be 'Joyful' however this translates better as 'fun.' It was one class larger than the kei sized Honda Life, but smaller than the compact sized, Honda CR-V which based on the Honda Civic platform, and reflected the growing popularity of MPV/SUV/minivan vehicles.
The Honda Capa was designed with the intention of creating a car that was to be the best size for town driving. A car that could seat your family, with ample height for headroom and plenty of legroom considering its compact nature. To achieve this feat, Honda design the chassis based on a 'dual deck package.'
The Honda Capa was equipped with a 1.5-litre single-overhead-cam four-valve inline four-cylinder D15B engine. It was initially offered only with Honda's Multimatic continuously variable transmission (CVT), but following an update, a regular 4-speed automatic transmission option was introduced as a lower cost option on front-wheel-drive versions.
Engine
Water-cooled, inline four-cylinder Honda D15B engine
Single Overhead Cam 16-valve
Power output of at 6300 rpm
Torque output of at 3500 rpm
Bore x Stroke: 75 mm x 84.5 mm
Compression Ration: 9.4:1
Honda's PGM-FI Fuel Injection System
Fuel: Regular Unleaded
Fuel Tank size:
GA4/6 model updates
1997 - Displayed at the Tokyo Motor Show as the J-MW
1998 - Announced that sales would begin April 24, 1998
1999 - Minor update, including minor remodelling of the bumpers, adding an AWD model to the line-up, 4-speed automatic transmission added to the line-up for the 2WD model only, Honda's Brake Assist system and Tachometer added as standard equipment.
2000 - Minor update. Front grille, bumper and seats were changed. Special Edition added to the line-up.
2001 - Honda Mobilio announced as the successor to the Honda Capa. Honda Capa production and sales continue.
2002 - February: Honda announces the end of production of the Capa due to slumping sales.
Origin of the name
Honda named the Capa based on the English word 'Capacity', referring to ability as well as spaciousness.
Gallery
See also
Honda Logo
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070106105628/http://www.honda.co.jp/auto-lineup/capa/2002/
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Capa
Mini MPVs
Vehicles with CVT transmission
Cars introduced in 1998
2000s cars |
44500178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan%20Aurescu | Bogdan Aurescu | Bogdan Lucian Aurescu (born 9 September 1973) is a Romanian diplomat, currently Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ciucă Cabinet since 25 November 2021.
He was Presidential Advisor for Foreign Policy to the President of Romania from May 2016 to November 2019 and Foreign Affairs Minister from November 2014 to November 2015. Previously, he held the position of Secretary of State in the Romanian MFA – Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs (2009–2010, 2012–2014), Secretary of State for European Affairs (2004–2005, 2010–2012) and Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2012).
Between 2004 and 2009, Aurescu was his country's chief counsel (Agent of Romania) in the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case, a boundary dispute with Ukraine that Romania brought before the International Court of Justice.
Between 2010 and 2011, he was the head of the Romanian delegation for the negotiations on the Romanian-American Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement, and of the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century between Romania and USA.
In November 2016, he was elected by the United Nations General Assembly as member of the UN International Law Commission for a five years’ mandate (2017–2021).
He is also Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, having started his teaching activity in 1998.
Controversies
Adrian Năstase promoted Bogdan Aurescu to the post of Undersecretary of State and later, to the Secretary of State. Aurescu was Năstase's assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest for the Public International Law discipline and they wrote together several legal treaties. In 2004, the Aurescu candidature was delegated by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in Dâmbovița County for the Parliament elections but he did not win.
In November 2014, Adrian Năstase attended an event called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Minister Bogdan Aurescu. Recently released from prison, where he was imprisoned being sentenced twice for the corruption offenses, Năstase was next to Aurescu, who had just been appointed Foreign Minister, at a book launch event. In April 2015, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Adrian Năstase, who was twice sentenced for prison, returned to the Government, more precisely to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the invitation of the acting minister Bogdan Aurescu to the meeting of an advisory council. The ministry led by Aurescu then argued that the invitation was made "because of his rich institutional and professional expertise".
In June 2015, Prime Minister Victor Ponta was charged by the National Anticorruption Directorate for several corruption offenses. At that time, Bogdan Aurescu was a member of the Ponta Government and remained in office until November 2015, when Victor Ponta resigned.
References
External links
Bogdan Lucian Aurescu at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site
|-
1973 births
Living people
Romanian Ministers of Foreign Affairs
University of Bucharest faculty |
44500179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort%20%28disambiguation%29 | Oort (disambiguation) | Oort is a Dutch toponymic surname most commonly referring to the astronomer Jan Oort. Oort was one spelling of a Middle Dutch word for "edge" or "end", as in "the edge of town". Variant forms are Oord, Oordt and Ort, as well as Van Oort, Van den Oord etc. ("from (the) edge of town"). People with these surnames include:
Oort
Abraham H. Oort (born 1934), Dutch-American climatologist, son of Jan Oort
Frans Oort (born 1935), Dutch mathematician
André–Oort conjecture, a number theory conjecture by Yves André and Frans Oort
(1836–1927), Dutch theologist and philologist
Jan Oort (1900–1992), Dutch astronomer. Named after him:
Oort cloud, a cloud of solid objects surrounding the solar system
Oort constants, characterizing the rotational properties of the Milky Way
Oort (crater), a crater on Pluto
Oort limit, theoretical edge of the Oort cloud
1691 Oort (1956 RB), a main-belt asteroid
Van Oort
Adam van Oort (1561/62–1641), Flemish painter
Bart van Oort (born 1959), Dutch classical pianist
Eduard Daniel van Oort (1876–1933), Dutch ornithologist
Jan van Oort (1921–2006), Dutch writer, working under the pseudonym of Jean Dulieu
Johannes (Hans) van Oort (born 1949), Dutch patristic and gnostic scholar
Hendrik van Oort (1775–1847), Dutch painter
(1804–1834), Dutch painter and illustrator, son of Hendrik
Named after him: Vanoort's crow, an Indonesian butterfly
Oord
Thomas Jay Oord (born 1965), American theologian and philosopher
Pieter van Oord (born 1961), CEO of the Dutch dredging company "Van Oord"
Willem van der Oord (born 1919), Dutch hydraulic engineer and diplomat
Oordt
Darwin Oordt (born 1944), American newspaper publisher and horse breeder
Schuylar Oordt (born 1987), American football tight end
Adri Bleuland van Oordt (1862–1944), Dutch artist and draftswoman
(1757–1836), Dutch theologian
Ort
Bastiaan Ort (1854–1927), Dutch lawyer, judge and politician, Minister of Justice 1914–18
See also
Ort (disambiguation)
Noort, Dutch surname (including "Van Noort")
References
Dutch-language surnames
Toponymic surnames |
20473487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas%20Hatzichristos | Kostas Hatzichristos | Kostas Hatzichristos or Costas Hajihristos (; 1921 – October 3, 2001) was a Greek actor.
Biography
He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, to a large family of thirteen members, he was the eleven child. His parents were from Constantinople (today Istanbul), and they were initially relocated to Kavala, moved to Thessaloniki thereafter, and later moved to the northern Athens suburb of Pagkrati.
The young Kostas studied initially at the Sergeants Major Military School of Syros and finished his studies in the Kavala. He worked in the variety theatre Missouri in Piraeus and with the Nitsa Gaitanaki company where he played in The Grouch () by Dimitris Psathas. From 1945 until 1948, he worked in an operetta company owned by Paraskevas Oikonomou and appeared in the Pefka variety with Oikonomidis and Oasia with Mimis Traiforos. In 1949‒50, he participated in Koula Nikolaidou's musical company at the Verdun theatre () at Alexandras Avenue.
At the Verdun theatre, Hatzichristos acted for his first time in his successful run in the role of a villager character called Thymios, a role inspired by Kostas Nikolaidis, brother of his wife Mary Nikolaidou. Hatzichristos first screen appearance was in the movie The Knights' Castle in 1952 with Giorgos Asimakopoulos and Nikos Tsiforos. At the same time, he was successful at the theatre founded in 1952 his own theatrical troupe and in 1960 became theatrical entrepreneur founded his own theatre Hatzichristos Theatre () premiered on 18 February 1960, later renamed as the Treatre Orfeas, at Panepistimiou Avenue in the Athens neighborhood of Akadimia. One of the greatest successes in his career was in the movie What a Mess () in 1963, and also in the movie Τhe Man Who Returned from the Plates () in 1969 with Anna Fonsou and Dionysis Papagiannopoulos. He also produced three movies and directed eight.
His theatrical work continued until 1983. After a long period of absence he returned into the theatre in 1994‒95 era and played in the local Hatzichristos Theatre. His difficult years begun when his third wife, Eleni Pantazi died at the age of 42.
Kostas Hatzichristos died by cancer on 3 October 2001, suffering from economic problems. He was interred at public expense at First Cemetery of Athens on 5 October 2001.
Personal life
He was engaged with the actress Ntina Trianti with whom they had starred in several movies together. His first marriage was done during the Axis occupation of Greece with a woman named Nitsa who was from Naousa, Imathia. They were living together for many years. In 1949 he married Mary Nikolaidou with whom he had one daughter, Teta Hatzichristou who was married actor Petros Fyssoun with whom he had one daughter, actress Ania Fyssoum. In 1955 he married actress Ketty Diridaoua and divorced in 1975, with whom he had one daughter Marialena Hatzichristou. His third wife was Eleni Pantazi. His last wife was Voula Arvanitaki-Hatzichristou.
Filmography
Selected theatrical plays
References
External links
at Discogs
at Retrodb
1921 births
2001 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Greece
Greek male film actors
Greek comedians
Male actors from Athens
Actors from Thessaloniki
20th-century comedians |
20473494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Poulou | Daniel Poulou | Daniel Poulou (born July 28, 1943 in Biarritz) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Pyrénées-Atlantiques's 6th constituency, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1943 births
Living people
People from Biarritz
Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
44500185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer%20Clock | Barometer Clock | Barometer Clock (Boulle) by André-Charles Boulle is a late seventeenth-century French clock created out of ebony, turtle shell, brass, gilt bronze, and enamel. The clock case is decorated on all sides and was intended as either a centerpiece or for display on a mantel in front of a mirror. The centerpiece of the clock is a relief of "Father Time Carrying Off Truth."
This late seventeenth-century clock also functions as a barometer; the "two doors on the rear of the clock open to reveal a glass tube containing mercury and a float to which thread is attached." The semicircular barometer dial indicates five weather conditions from one extreme, beaucoup de pluye (rainy), to the other, beau fixe (fine).
Boulle, who gave his name to the type of veneering on this clock, is listed in the French Archives Nationales as a cabinet maker, maker of marquetry, and gilder and chaser of bronzes.
The clock movement design is by either Isaac Thuret or his son Jacques Thuret. The dial and backplate of the movement are both signed "I. Thuret...", the character I and J being interchangeable during the period.
Acquisition
The Barometer Clock was acquired by The Frick Collection through the bequest of New York collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey in 1999. Edey's bequest included twenty-five clocks and fourteen watches as well as his library and archives.
Exhibition
"Magnificent Timekeepers: An Exhibition of Northern European Clocks in New York Collections,” 1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"French Clocks in North American Collections," November 2, 1982 - January 30, 1983, The Frick Collection.
"The Art of the Timekeeper: Masterpieces from the Winthrop Edey Bequest," November 14, 2001 - February 24, 2002, The Frick Collection.
See also
André-Charles Boulle
Thuret family
References
External links
Barometer Clock, ca. 1690-1700 The Frick Collection Online.
“Tick Talks” Frick Collection education interns discuss their research on 4 clocks, including the Barometer Clock.
Objects of the Frick Collection
Clocks in the United States |
20473497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana%20Bel%C3%A9n%20Guti%C3%A9rrez%20de%20Mendoza | Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza | Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (27 January 187513 July 1942) was a Mexican anarchist and feminist activist, typographer, journalist and poet.
Biography
She was born to a poor family in the town of San Juan del Río, Durango, on 27 January 1875. While many women contributed to the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920 by fighting alongside their husbands, others wrote against the injustices of the Díaz regime. In May 1901, she founded an anti-Díaz newspaper called Vésper. She attacked the clergy in Guanajuato and wrote against foreign domination in Mexico. She also wrote against the Díaz regime and criticized Díaz for not carrying out the requests and needs of the people. As a result, her newspaper was confiscated and she was also put in jail several times by Díaz between 1904 and 1920. She established a new newspaper called El Desmonte (1900-1919) and continued her writings. She encouraged workers and peasants to vote as she wrote “not to integrate power, but to disintegrate it, as a means of forming, not a new oligarchy but of transforming the oligarchies into truly public administrations.” She argued that the Mexican Population could not count on the leadership of political parties given that they wanted to obtain office in order to protect their own interests. To propagate liberation ideology throughout Mexico, Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza translated the works of Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre Joseph Proudhon to Spanish. Even though she was intimidated throughout her life, she continued writing and educating the public on the injustices the different governments brought upon Mexico. She is one of the many intellectuals who contributed with her writings to the Mexican Revolution.
She was also a Caxcan Indian from the state of Durango.
References
Sources
Macias, Anna. “Women and the Mexican Revolution.”: Academy of American Franciscan History Vol. 37, No.1 (1980): 53-82.12.
Ana Lau Jaiven, LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE LAS MUJERES EN LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA: Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (1875-1942), UAM-Xochimilco
1875 births
1942 deaths
Indigenous Mexicans
Mexican feminists
Mexican feminist writers
Mexican women journalists
Mexican women poets
People of the Mexican Revolution
Mexican anarchists
Anarcha-feminists
Writers from Durango
Mexican translators
Translators to Spanish
Indigenous Mexican women |
6903860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grier%20Jones | Grier Jones | Grier Jones (born May 6, 1946) is a current college head golf coach and former PGA Tour professional golfer.
Jones was born, raised and has been a lifelong resident of Wichita, Kansas. He attended Wichita's Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School where he played both football and golf. He won the 1963 and 1964 Kansas State High School golf championships. An All-American at Oklahoma State University, Jones won the Big Eight Championship in 1967 and 1968 before taking the individual medalist honors at the 1968 NCAA Championships. He also won the 1966 Kansas State Amateur Championship held in Topeka, Kansas while a student at Oklahoma State.
Jones spent 14 years on the PGA Tour, beginning in 1969, when he earned PGA Rookie of the Year honors. His career year was 1972 when he won two PGA Tour events and finished fourth on the final money list. He won his third and final PGA Tour event in 1977. Jones ended his career with 54 top-10 finishes in PGA Tour events. His best finish in a major championship was a T-16 at the 1978 PGA Championship.
After his full-time tour playing days ended, Jones took a club teaching job at Willowbend Golf Club in Wichita, while continuing to play part-time on the Nationwide (then called the NIKE Tour) and PGA Tours. Later he became the head pro at Terradyne Country Club in Wichita. In 1995, he was named men's head golf coach at Wichita State University, where he remained until his retirement in 2019. He was named Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 1998, 2000, 2003, and 2006.
Amateur wins
1966 Kansas State Amateur
1967 Big Eight Championship
1968 Big Eight Championship, NCAA Championship
Professional wins (4)
PGA Tour wins (3)
PGA Tour playoff record (2–0)
Other wins (1)
1968 Oklahoma Open
Results in major championships
Note: Jones never played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
See also
Fall 1968 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
1983 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
References
External links
Terradyne Country Club official site
American male golfers
Oklahoma State Cowboys golfers
PGA Tour golfers
College golf coaches in the United States
Golfers from Wichita, Kansas
Wichita State University people
1946 births
Living people |
20473503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Spagnou | Daniel Spagnou | Daniel Spagnou (born 22 September 1940 in Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the second constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Biography
Daniel Spagnou worked as a savings bank manager, he is now retired.
He entered politics by becoming mayor of Sisteron on March 14, 1983. He still holds this position, his list having obtained 57% of the votes cast in 2020.
From April 15, 1985 to March 18, 2001, he was a member of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence General Council. He was vice-president from 1988 to 2001.
For ten years, from March 23, 1992 to July 1, 2002, he was also a member of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Council, of which he was vice-president from 1992 to 1998.
On June 16, 2002, he was elected deputy for the 2nd constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence for the 12th legislature (2002-2007). He beat outgoing MP Robert Honde, former PRG mayor of Manosque in the second round, collecting 59.91% of the vote in the second round.
He was re-elected deputy on June 17, 2007, for the 13th legislature (2007-2012), beating, in the second round, Christophe Castaner, the PS mayor of Forcalquier, with 53.97% of the vote. He sits in the UMP group. He belongs to the Committee on Cultural Affairs and is a member of the National Assembly delegation on women's rights and equal opportunities between men and women.
He is a member of the National Assembly's Tibet Study Group.
In January 2011, he announced on his site that he would not be a candidate in the 2012 legislative elections.
At the end of 2017, he joined Agir, the constructive right.
Titles
Officer of the Legion of Honour July 14, 2019.
Knight of the Legion of Honour, 1999.
References
1940 births
Living people
People from Barcelonnette
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
6903868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ononis%20rotundifolia | Ononis rotundifolia | Ononis rotundifolia, commonly known as round-leaved restharrow, is a perennial shrub belonging to the genus Ononis of the family Fabaceae.
Description
Ononis rotundifolia reaches on average of height, with a maximum of . The stem and the leaves are slightly hairy and sticky. The leaves are composed of three irregularly toothed and almost rounded leaflets (hence the specific Latin name rotundifolia), the median one with a long petiole. This plant bears clusters of two or three pink flowers streaked with red, about wide. The flowering period extends from June through September. Ononis rotundifolia is also used as an ornamental plant.
Gallery
Distribution
This quite rare north-western Mediterranean shrub occurs in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain, mainly in the Alps, the Cevennes and the Pyrenees.
Habitat
These plants prefer calcareous soils in dry grasslands, rocky meadows, slopes or hillsides. They can be found at an altitude of .
Subspecies
Ononis rotundifolia var. aristata DC.
Ononis rotundifolia var. orbiculata Rouy in Rouy & Foucaud
References
Pignatti, S. - Flora d'Italia - Edagricole – 1982
Tutin, T. G., et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora Europaea
External links
Biolib
FloreAlpes
rotundifolia
Flora of Europe
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
20473516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle%20Bousquet | Danielle Bousquet | Danielle Bousquet (born 10 May 1945) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the 1st constituency of the Côtes-d'Armor department as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. She was a member of parliament from 1997 to 2012.
References
1945 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
People from Côtes-d'Armor
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Politicians from Brittany |
20473528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath%20School | Bath School | Bath School may refer to:
Bath Consolidated School, the Michigan school location
Bath School disaster, three bombing attacks in Michigan in 1927
Bath School (Bath, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in Beaufort County, North Carolina
Bath Local School District, Ohio |
6903886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20Zest | Honda Zest | The Honda Zest is a kei car released in 2006 by Honda. It is mechanically identical to the fifth generation Honda Life. Equipped with a turbo charged engine, 3 cylinders, and 4 doors, it was the first kei car available with optional side curtain airbags. It was available in two distinct versions — Zest and Zest Sports. During fall/winter 2008, the Zest Sports was replaced with the Zest Spark. Honda enlisted J-Pop mega-star Ayumi Hamasaki to promote the Zest Spark. The Ayu x ZEST SPARK collaboration has come to the extent where the limited edition of the vehicle features Ayu's "A" logo, known as "A Style Package".
External links
Honda announcement of ZEST
Concept Carz info on ZEST
Subcompact cars
Zest
2000s cars
Kei cars
2010s cars |
20473555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani%C3%A8le%20Hoffman-Rispal | Danièle Hoffman-Rispal | Danièle Hoffman-Rispal (22 June 1951 – 16 April 2020) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the city of Paris, and was a member of the parliamentary group Socialist, Republican, and Citizen Group (SRC). She died on 16 April 2020, aged 68.
References
1951 births
2020 deaths
Politicians from Paris
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Councillors of Paris
Deaths from cancer in France |
6903896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federica%20Guzm%C3%A1n | Federica Guzmán | Alexandra Federica Guzmán Diamante, (born May 23, 1981) is a Venezuelan TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela World 2006.
Guzmán competed as Miss Miranda in Miss Venezuela 2001 (and the preceding Miss World Venezuela 2001) without success. However, the altered schedule of the Miss World 2006 pageant forced the Miss Venezuela Organization to prepare an "emergency pageant" to select a candidate, wherein several former contestants from previous editions of the national contest participated. Guzmán was the undisputed favorite for the national title, causing the usual controversy, She classified to the semifinals, after winning the "Beach Beauty "
Once in the pageant, Federica was fast-tracked into the semi-finals after winning the Beach Beauty preliminary competition. She proceeded to compete for the title of Miss World 2006 on the night of September 30, 2006, in the Americas group but failed to make the final cut. The winner of Miss World Americas 2006 title was Miss Brazil.
External links
Federica @ Bellas Venezolanas
References
1981 births
People from Caracas
Miss Venezuela World winners
Miss World 2006 delegates
Living people
Venezuelan female models |
44500187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suraj%20Bhan%20%28archaeologist%29 | Suraj Bhan (archaeologist) | Suraj Bhan (1931–2010) was an Indian archaeologist and professor of archaeology. He was part of a panel of academics which contested the Vishva Hindu Parishad's claim that the Babri Masjid was built on top of a Râm temple.
Life and career
Suraj Bhan was born in March 1931 in Montgomery (now in Pakistan) to a peasant family of Haryana.
He studied Economics and Sanskrit for a B.A. and M.A. at the Delhi University. Subsequently, he joined the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in 1956 as a technical assistant. He studied Archaeology and Culture for a second M.A. degree in 1960 and, in 1972 also received a Ph.D. degree from the M. S. University, Baroda. He went on to a teaching career first at the Punjab University and then in at Kurukshetra University, carrying out archaeology of prehistoric sites in Haryana. He rose to become the Dean of the Faculty of Indic Studies before retiring in 1991.
Archaeological work
Bhan's early research was on the archaeology of prehistoric sites along the old river channels of Sarsuti–Ghaggar and Chautang rivers in Haryana. In 1968, he excavated the Indus culture site of Mitathal. His thesis on the "Historic Archaeology of Saraswati and Drishadavati Valleys" earned him a PhD in 1972. In 1975, Bhan published his major report, Excavations at Mitathal and Other Explorations in the Sutlej-Yamuna Divide, which became a fundamental reference for the study of Indus and post-Indus cultures.
In 1987, Bhan was invited to give the presidential address to the Archaeology section of the Indian History Congress, where he came out strongly against the tendency among some archaeologists to identify the Indus Valley Civilisation with the Vedic cultures. His paper in The Making of History volume (2002) countered arguments made by archaeologists, B. B. Lal, S. P. Gupta et al. for an Aryan link to the Indus Valley Civilization.
In 1996, he was awarded a senior fellowship by the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and a year later, he was appointed as a member of the ICHR council. Irfan Habib, in his obituary of Bhan, believed him to be a man of "impeccable personal ethics, which matched well with his professional probity."
His academic work was said to bear a deep imprint of Marxism. He was also involved with the work of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Haryana and took particular interest in the People's Science movement.
Ayodhya dispute
Suraj Bhan played a significant role during the Ayodhya dispute, supporting the case for the Babri Masjid. He along with historians, Ram Sharan Sharma, Dwijendra Narayan Jha and M. Athar Ali, were a group of four academics who submitted a document titled Babari Mosque or Rama's Birth Place? Historians Report to the Nation to the Minister of Home Affairs in May 1991. Bhan contributed towards the archaeological component of the report. The authors claimed to have scrutinised the evidence provided by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) and rejected outright the idea of the mosque being the site of Rama's birth or of the possibility of it having been built atop a pre-existing temple. The authors dismissed the claim by B. B. Lal, a former director of the ASI, that he had discovered pillar bases next to the Babri Masjid during his excavation in the 1970s. However, they did so while noting that they were not given access to Lal's excavation notes. Bhan would later testify in the Allahabad High Court that the report had been hurriedly compiled "under pressure" from BMAC.
In October 1992, the four historians wrote in the CPI(M)'s weekly newspaper, People's Democracy, reacting to the booklet Ram Janmabhumi Ayodhya: New Archaeological Discoveries stating that the VHP protagonists had indulged in "indiscriminate PWD-like excavation." Bhan had earlier also contested statements by S. P. Gupta that the black basalt pillars in the Babri Masjid were once part of a Hindu temple.
The Babri Masjid was demolished on 6 December 1992.
Suraj Bhan deposed as an expert witness in the Allahabad High Court on behalf of the pro-mosque parties in 2000, 2002, and again in 2006. He was the only one of the four authors of the Historians Report to the Nation to do so. On 5 March 2003, the Allahabad High Court ordered the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to excavate the site of the Babri Masjid in order to determine whether a temple-like structure had been demolished before the construction of the mosque. Suraj Bhan joined Irfan Habib and others in issuing a press statement denouncing the move. The ASI proceeded with its excavations and submitted its findings to the court in September 2003. Its report revealed the presence of a circular shrine, dateable to 7–10th century and a "massive structure", 50 metres by 30 metres, built in three structural phases during the 11–12th century.
Bhan who had visited the digs in June 2003 criticised the ASI for conducting extensive horizontal diggings which destroyed all the Mughal period remains at the site when limited vertical trenching was all that was required. Questioning the methodologies employed to date the underground structure, he accused the ASI report of being an attempt to push back the antiquity of Ayodhya and thereby the Ramayana to . He proclaimed with certainty, that the "massive structure" found by the ASI was not a temple and that it was likely a Sultanate period mosque.
Bhan appeared in the Allahabad High Court to state his professional opinion that the conclusion of the ASI report regarding the existence of any temple beneath the Babri mosque was baseless. While he was present at the excavation for only three days, he claimed that the ASI did not properly record the glazed ware, glazed tiles and bones found at the site. He made other observations such as on the use of lime mortar which he believed dated the underground structure to the Sultanate period. He also claimed that the shortcomings of the report could not be made good and alleged that the ASI lacked objectivity, professional integrity, and scientific rigour. Under examination, Bhan clarified that he was only an archaeologist and not an art-historian or medieval historian.
In its 2010 verdict on the Ayodhya dispute, the Allahabad High Court criticised the professionalism of the expert witnesses who had appeared on behalf of the pro-mosque parties. On Suraj Bhan, the court felt that he had made vague statements and had failed to provide a proper reason to challenge the conclusions of the ASI. It dismissed as baseless his technical observations on matters such as the use of lime mortar which had been established to have been in use in India from at least 600 BCE, well before the Sultanate period. The court noted that Bhan had a predetermined attitude against the ASI and noted that rather than being condemned, the Survey deserved commendation and appreciation.
Works
"Excavations at Mitathal (Hissar), 1968." Journal of Haryana Studies 1.1 (1969): 1–15.
"Changes in the course of Yamuna and their bearing on the protohistoric cultures of Haryana." Archaeological congress and seminar papers. 1972.
"Siswal, a pre-Harappan site in Drishadvati valley." (1972): 44–46.
"The sequence and spread of prehistoric cultures in the upper Sarasvati Basin." Radiocarbon and Indian Archaeology (1973): 252–263.
Excavation at Mitathal (1968) and Other explorations in the Sutlej-Yamuna divide. Kurukshetra University, 1975.
(with Jim G. Shaffer) "New discoveries in northern Haryana." Man and Environment 2 (1978): 59-68.
"Recent trends in Indian archaeology." Social Scientist (1997): 3–15. .
"Aryanization of the Indus Civilisation." The Making of History: Essays presented to Irfan Habib, pp. 41–55. Anthem Press, 2002. .
See also
Archaeology of Ayodhya
Ram Janmabhoomi
Siswal
References
Sources
20th-century Indian archaeologists
Scientists from Haryana
Delhi University alumni
Kurukshetra University faculty
1931 births
2010 deaths
Analysts of Ayodhya dispute
People from Sahiwal District
Punjabi people
Historians of India
Indian social sciences writers
Indian scientific authors |
20473565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Habib | David Habib | David Habib (born 16 March 1961) is French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2002 elections, representing the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department.
Early life and education
Habib comes from a family of Tunisian Jews. His father arrived in Pau for professional reasons when Habib was six months old.
Political career
In the 1995 municipal elections, Habib was became mayor of Mourenx.
In the National Assembly, Habib is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. He has been serving on the Finance Committee since 2014. He has also been a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs (2002-2007, 2017-2019) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2017-2019).
In addition to his committee assignments, Habib is part of the French-Norwegian Parliamentary Friendship Group, the French-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
In January 2015, Habib succeeded Christophe Sirugue as Second Vice-President of the National Assembly.
In the Socialist Party's primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Habib endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the office of President of France and worked on his campaign team.
Political positions
In 2011, Habib was one of only eleven members of the Socialist Party's parliamentary group who publicly called on President Nicolas Sarkozy not to recognise a Palestinian State.
References
1961 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
20th-century French Jews
Jewish French politicians
Politicians from Paris
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
44500189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Geller | Joe Geller | Joseph Scott Geller (born March 7, 1954) is a Democratic politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 100th District, which includes most of Hollywood in southern Broward County and parts of Miami-Dade County, since 2014.
History
Geller was born in The Bronx in New York City in 1954, and moved to the state of Florida in 1965. He attended Northwestern University, but did not graduate, instead receiving his bachelor's degree in history from the Florida State University in 1975. After graduation, Geller then attended the Florida State University College of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor in 1979.
In 1989, he was elected the Chairman of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party, serving in that capacity in 2000. During the 2000 presidential election, he played a prominent role as an attorney for the Al Gore presidential campaign. During the recount, Geller, seeking to confirm a theory that some Gore voters had accidentally punched the wrong hole in their ballots, requested a sample ballot from the Supervisor of Elections' office. After receiving the ballot from a clerk, Geller was accused of stealing a ballot, was mobbed by protesters, and had to be escorted to safety by police. "I requested [the sample ballot], which I'm entitled to do," Geller said. "It was clearly marked 'sample ballot for use by Democratic Party.' The whole transaction was out in the open and all very calmly done. This Republican observer — a woman with blond hair, a suit and clipboard — was watching the whole thing. But the moment I started to walk away, she sicced the crowd on me. She said I was stealing a ballot and they surrounded me. It was all orchestrated."
Geller ran for Mayor of North Bay Village, a small city in northeastern Miami-Dade County, in 2004. He faced Frank DiMaggio and was able to win narrowly, receiving 54% of the vote to DiMaggio's 46%.
Florida House of Representatives
When incumbent State Representative Dan Gelber was unable to seek re-election due to term limits in 2008, Geller ran to succeed him in the 106th District, which stretched from Fisher Island to Golden Beach in eastern Miami-Dade County. He faced Richard L. Steinberg in the Democratic primary, and he lost to Steinberg handily, receiving only 31% of the vote to Steinberg's 69%.
In 2014, incumbent State Representative Joseph Gibbons was unable to seek re-election in the 100th District, so Geller ran in the Democratic primary to replace him, declaring, "My style is to be a consensus builder to build bridges between people. I’m a progressive. And I make no bones about being a progressive. But I have also lived in other parts of the state. I think I can do some good up there. I think I can make a difference. I think I can make this a better state." He faced teacher John Paul Alvarez and pastor Ben Sorenson in the Democratic primary, and earned the endorsement of the Miami Herald, which praised him as a candidate who "knows this bi-county district well," and noted that the district "stands to benefit from his legislative priorities." Ultimately, Geller defeated his opponents handily, receiving 62% of the vote to Sorensen's 20% and Alvarez's 18%. In the general election, Geller faced fellow attorney Marty Feigenbaum and once again earned the endorsement of the Herald, which said that he was "thoroughly familiar with the issues."
In April 2022, Geller argued that the effort to repeal the Reedy Creek Improvement Act was "disrespectful of the legislative process."
References
External links
Florida House of Representatives - Joe Geller
Joseph S. Geller
Florida State University College of Law alumni
Florida Democrats
Members of the Florida House of Representatives
1954 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians |
6903915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvania%20Southview%20High%20School | Sylvania Southview High School | Sylvania Southview High School is a public high school in Sylvania, Ohio. It is one of two high schools in the Sylvania Schools district, the other being Sylvania Northview High School.
Extracurriculars
Speech and Debate
Sylvania Southview has a Speech and Debate Team that competes in the National Forensics League. Each year, students compete in District Tournaments to qualify for the National Speech and Debate Tournament, which is held in a different city each year.
Mock Trial
Sylvania Southview has a Mock Trial program. Their coach, Dennis Lyle, has been coaching for 29 years and has led the school through 8 state championships.
Sylvania Southview has also competed in a world championship at the Empire International Mock Trial Invitational in New York City on October 21, 2013. The team finished as #1 internationally after starting the competition at 35th out of 40 teams. In addition to being state/world champions in the 2013–2014 season, Southview finished 3rd at nationals, out of 46 teams across the country. The Southview Mock Trial Team placed 8th at a global level. They have also competed at Empire Mock Trial, where they finished 7th.
Band and Orchestra
Orchestra members participate in the Ohio Music Education Association Solo and Ensemble and the Northwest Ohio Regional Orchestra and the Ohio All-State Orchestra. Band members participate in Ohio Music Education Association Solo & Ensemble and their large group contests. Band students have the Marching Band, Concert Band, Symphonic, and/or Jazz band to participate in.
Athletics
The athletics program at Southview is known as the Cougars. The Cougars are designated as a Division II (B) school and compete in all sports in the Northern Lakes League, with the exception of the boys' ice hockey team, who compete in the Northwest Hockey Conference.
Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
Football - 2008
Boys' Cross Country – 1987, 1991, 1992
Girls' Cross Country – 1994
Cougarettes Dance Team - 2009 (Pom Division), Orange Bowl Halftime in Miami, Florida '11, 2011 (Jazz), and 2012 (Pom and Jazz)
Notable alumni
Khary Campbell, former NFL player
Eric Kripke, television writer, director, and producer
Griff Whalen, former NFL player
Charles Latshaw, orchestra conductor, music director of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra and the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
Nate Hall, Linebacker for the Tennessee Titans
References
External links
Official School Website
District Website
Southview Baseball Website
Southview Volleyball Website
High schools in Lucas County, Ohio
Public high schools in Ohio
1976 establishments in Ohio |
44500193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facundo%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20Miranda | Facundo González Miranda | Facundo González Miranda (born 16 October 1953) is a Mexican politician from the Party of the Democratic Revolution. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
References
1953 births
Living people
Politicians from the State of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians |
6903922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta%20McNeil | Loretta McNeil | Loretta T. McNeil (January 10, 1907 – February 24, 1988) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
She competed for the United States in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 4 x 100 meters where she won the silver medal with her teammates Mary Washburn, Jessie Cross and Betty Robinson.
References
1907 births
1988 deaths
American female sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
20th-century American women
20th-century American people
Olympic female sprinters |
44500218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended%20space | Blended space | A blended space is a space in which a physical environment and a virtual environment are deliberately integrated in a close knit way. The aim of blended space design is to provide people with the experience of feeling a sense of presence in the blended space, acting directly on the content of the blended space. Examples of blended spaces include augmented reality devices such as the Microsoft HoloLens and games such as Pokémon Go in addition to many smartphone tourism apps, smart meeting rooms and applications such as bus tracker systems.
History
The idea of blending comes from the ideas of conceptual integration, or conceptual blending introduced by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. Originally focused on understanding linguistic expressions, the simple but powerful ideas of blending have been applied to many areas as detailed on Turner's website. Creative thought arises from bringing together concepts from two input spaces. These spaces have some correspondences with each other and share a structure with a more generic space. The blended space takes a partial mapping of the concepts and structure of the two input spaces to provide a new structure that demonstrates properties not possessed by either of the input spaces. Fauconnier and Turner provide many examples of blends in their book along with descriptions of different types of blend (reflecting different types of projections from the two input spaces). They also provide guidance for creating blends that are effective "at the human scale".
Manuel Imaz and David Benyon introduced blending theory to look at concepts in software engineering and human-computer interaction.
Describing spaces
There are two main components to any space. They are:
Objects – The actual distinct objects which make up the medium/space. The objects thus effectively describe the space.
Agents – Correspondents/users inside the space who interact with it through the objects.
For presence in a blended space, there must be a physical space and a digital space. In the context of blended space, the higher the communication between the physical and digital spaces, the richer the experience. This communication happens through the medium of correspondents which relay the state and nature of objects.For the purpose of looking at blended spaces, the nature and characteristics of any space can be represented by these factors:
Ontology – Different types of objects present in the space the total number of objects and the relationships between objects and the space.
Topology – The way objects are placed and positioned.
Volatility – Frequency with which the objects change.
Agency – Medium of communication between the objects, and between the objects and users. Agency also encompasses the users inside the space.
Physical Space – Physical spaces are spaces which afford spatial interaction. This kind of spatial interaction greatly impacts the user's cognitive model. Digital Space – Digital space (also called the information space) consists of all the information content. This content can be in any form.
Structure
The simplest implementation of a blended space requires two features. The first required feature is input. The input can range from tactile, to changes in the environment. The next required feature is notifications received from the digital spaces. The correspondences between the physical and digital space have to be abstracted and exploited by the design of the blended space. Seamless integration of both the spaces is rare. Blended spaces need anchoring points or technologies to link the spaces.A well designed blended space advertises and conveys the digital content in a subtle and unobtrusive way. Presence can be measured using physiological, behavioral, and subjective measures derived from the space.
See also
Immersion (virtual reality)
Virtual reality
References
Human–computer interaction |
20473578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine%20Batho | Delphine Batho | Delphine Batho (born 23 March 1973 in Paris) is a French politician of Ecology Generation who has been serving as member of the National Assembly. She is a former Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.
Early life and education
Batho is the daughter of French photographers Claude Batho and John Batho. She attended the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.
Early activism
President of the FIDL
Batho began her militant activity in the high-school students' union FIDL (Fédération indépendante et démocratique lycéenne) while attending the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. She was elected president of the union in 1990 and became well known for her activism on behalf of students' rights and for the means to study. Following nearly two months of strikes the movement obtained from Lionel Jospin, the Minister for Education, a pledge to spend 4.5 million francs on renovating high schools and to protect certain student rights. In 1992 she left high school, and thus the FIDL, to study history.
Vice-President of SOS Racisme
Batho joined the anti-racist movement SOS Racisme and when its leadership was renewed in September 1992 Fodé Sylla, aged 29, became president and Batho, a representative of the "second generation SOS" in the words of Le Monde, was elected vice-president.
Political career
Career in the Socialist Party
Batho joined the French Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste – PS) in the mid-1990s as a militant in the Grigny (Essonne) section. She participated, together with Julien Dray, in the party's Socialist Left tendency. At the party's Grenoble Congress she was elected to the national executive committee of the PS. In 2003, during the breakup of the socialist left, she remained loyal to Dray, who employed her at the Île-de-France Regional Council, where she was responsible for security matters. In 2004 she became National Secretary of the PS in charge of security, where she defended the policy of preventative sanctions.
Her thoughts on security matters were taken into account by Ségolène Royal, the PS's candidate in the French Presidential Election of 2007, who incorporated them into her "just order".
Batho declared her intention to be a candidate for the leadership of the Socialist Party at the Aubervilliers Congress in 2018, but her application was ultimately rejected due to a lack of support. Batho announced in an interview published on 2 May 2018 that she was quitting the Socialist Party to become president of Ecology Generation, and would also quit the New Left group in the National Assembly.
Member of the National Assembly, 2007–2012
In the parliamentary elections of 2007, Batho was the PS's candidate in the 2nd constituency of Deux-Sèvres, which Ségolène Royal had represented before running in the presidential election of that year. In the PS internal nomination contest, she received 54.75% of the vote as against 45.25% for Éric Gauthier, Royal's former substitute.
In the first round of the elections, held on 10 June, she received 20,690 votes (a 44.55% share), ahead of the second-placed Jean-Pierre Griffault, who received 16,131 votes (34.73%) for the UMP. In the second, run-off round, Griffault gained a 42.58% share (19,669 votes), and Batho was elected with 57.42% of the total ballot (26,524 votes).
Batho served as Royal's spokesperson in 2009 for the 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary, alongside Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.
In the legislative elections of 2012, Batho was re-elected in the first round with 53.18% of the votes cast in the 2nd constituency of Deux-Sèvres, modified following the redistribution of the French legislative constituencies in 2010. After her election as president of Ecology Generation, she left the New Left group in the National Assembly and joined the non-registered.
Career in government, 2012–2013
On 16 May 2012, Batho was appointed Minister Delegate for Justice. During the legislative elections, she was re-elected as a deputy in the first round. Without sufficiently precise attributions within the Ayrault I government, and after a month of difficult relations with her supervising minister, she obtained the full-service portfolio of Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy on 21 June 2012 in the Ayrault government composed after the legislative elections.
Under Batho's leadershop, a law was revised to revise the mining lawon the exploitation of conventional hydrocarbons, as well as another giving the State, like EDF, the power to decide the closure of nuclear power plants, the first to be that of Fessenheim. She supports the decision to continue building an airport at Notre-Dame-des Landes.
On 2 July 2013 the President of the Republic announced that he was terminating Batho's duties as Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy following an interview in which she described as "bad "The 2014 budget of his ministry and admitted" [his] disappointment with the government ".
On 4 July 2013, at a press conference, she said: I did not make a mistake or a mistake. The government, she adds, marks a turning point in terms of the desire to complete the ecological transition. It is the turning point of rigor which does not say its name and which prepares the march to power for the extreme right in our country. [...] Certain economic forces [...] did not accept the level of ambition set for the energy transition. [...] Is it normal that the CEO of Vallourec, Philippe Crouzet, announced my upcoming fall weeks ago in the United States.
Member of the National Assembly, 2017–present
During the 2017 French legislative election, Batho was re-elected with 56.94% of the vote against the LREM's candidate, Christine Heintz (43.06%), who had preceded her during the first round and had received the support of Ségolène Royal. In parliament, she serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs.
In 2018, Batho initiated the amendment to ban glyphosate with a term in 2021; his proposal is massively rejected, and she denounces the acts of lobbyists in the National Assembly.Indeed, Agrochemical interests were able to obtain the Batho's amendment before the members of the National Assembly.
In November 2019, Batho's amendment to the anti-waste bill, aimed at banning Black Friday promotions by including them as "aggressive commercial practices", was adopted in committee.
President of Generation ecology
On 2 May 2018 Batho announced that she is leaving the Socialist Party and that she will take over the helm of Ecology Generation in September, succeeding Yves Piétrasanta. She also left the New Left group in the National Assembly and joined the non-registered. She is elected new president of Ecology Generation on 10 September 2018.
In May 2020, Batho joined and became vice-president of the new group Ecology Democracy Solidarity, essentially composed of former members of the group La République en Marche; however, the group was dissolved later that year.
Batho pleads for an alliance of environmentalists for the 2022 presidential election.
References
1973 births
Living people
Lycée Henri-IV alumni
Politicians from Paris
Socialist Party (France) politicians
French Ministers of the Environment
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Women government ministers of France |
44500220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20River%20Times | Rock River Times | The Rock River Times is an independently owned alternative newspaper based in Rockford, Illinois having a circulation of around 17,000 free newspapers.
The weekly newspaper, distributed every Wednesday, has been in publication since 1987. Daily headlines are offered on the paper's website.
History
The Rock River Times began as the monthly The North End Times in 1987. The paper was acquired by Frank Schier in 1992 and rebranded with its current name in 1993. Weekly publication began in December 1993.
Schier, who served as editor and publisher of the newspaper for more than 24 years, died in January 2017. The paper continued under publisher Josh Johnson, a former legals editor under Schier, who purchased the publication from his estate.
Format
The Rock River Times weekly edition comes in a tabloid format typically of 32-56 pages. Topics include local, state and national news and commentary, sports news, business news, and arts and entertainment news.
External links
Rock River Times website
Archived print issues at issuu.com
Newspapers published in Illinois
Rockford, Illinois
Companies based in Winnebago County, Illinois
Newspapers established in 1987 |
20473586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Jacquat | Denis Jacquat | Denis Jacquat (born May 29, 1944 in Thiaucourt-Regniéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Moselle department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1944 births
Living people
People from Meurthe-et-Moselle
Union for French Democracy politicians
Republican Party (France) politicians
Liberal Democracy (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
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