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44503556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Callaway%20%28actor%29 | Thomas Callaway (actor) | Thomas Callaway is an American retired actor, who last performed on screen in 1995. He was also credited as Tom Callaway. He has since become a successful interior designer in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Education
He graduated from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in fine art and architecture. As an undergraduate he was active in campus theatrical productions.
Career
While still working as an actor, he opened a residential and interior design business in 1989 in California, Thomas Callaway and Associates. He created a furniture line in 1990.
Selected filmography
Hart to Hart (episode: "Death Set") as David Craddock
Murder, She Wrote (episode: "Murder by Twos") as Sam Bryce
Picket Fences (episode: "The Autumn of Rome") as Paulie Thigpen
Murphy Brown (episode: "Murphy Buys the Farm") as Mr. Abernathy
L.A. Law (episode: "The Gods Must Be Lawyers") as Owen Baldwin
Who's the Boss? (episode: "Your Grandmother's a Bimbo") as Jake Ashby
Cheers (episode: "Dark Imaginings") as Jack Turner
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (episode: "The Absent-Minded Professor") as Prof. Donald
Two Idiots in Hollywood as T. Barry Armstrong
Young Guns as Texas Joe Grant
Punky Brewster (episode: "No No, We Won't Go") as Benjamin J. Kramer
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (TV Movie) as Col. James W. Fannin
Cowboy Joe (TV Movie) as "Cowboy Joe Cutler"
Designing Women (episode: "New Year's Daze") as Shadow
Washingtoon as Bob Forehead
WKRP in Cincinnati, ("Jennifer Falls in Love". Season 2, Episode 27, October 29, 1979) as Steel Hawthorne
M*A*S*H (episode: "Run for the Money") as Captain Sweeney
Laverne & Shirley (episode: "Watch the Fur Fly" January 19, 1982) as Harold
The Jeffersons (episodes "Laundry Is a Tough Town" parts 1 & 2) as Steve Winslow.
References
External links
Thomas Callaway Interior Design official website; accessed November 24, 2014.
Profile, hollywoodreporter.com; accessed November 24, 2014.
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Businesspeople from California
People from Greater Los Angeles
American male film actors
American male television actors
American interior designers
20th-century American male actors |
17338058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara%20celiana | Amara celiana | Amara celiana is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
References
celiana
Beetles described in 1949 |
17338060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laichupo | Laichupo | Laichupo is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17338061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara%20chalcea | Amara chalcea | Amara chalcea is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
References
chalcea
Beetles described in 1828 |
17338063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara%20chaudoiri | Amara chaudoiri | Amara chaudoiri is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
Subspecies
There are three subspecies of A. chaudoiri:
Amara chaudoiri chaudoiri Schaum, 1858
Amara chaudoiri incognita Fassati, 1946
Amara chaudoiri transcaucasiens Hieke, 1970
References
chaudoiri
Beetles described in 1858
Taxa named by Hermann Rudolph Schaum |
23577434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Esch | Eric Esch | Eric Scott Esch (born August 3, 1966), better known by his nickname "Butterbean", is an American retired professional boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and professional wrestler who competed in the heavyweight division. He is also a television personality, having appeared in several programs and been referenced by many others. Esch became a professional boxer in 1994 after a successful stint on the Toughman Contest scene and went on to capture the World Athletic Association (WAA) heavyweight and IBA Super heavyweight championships. From 2003, he regularly fought as a kickboxer and mixed martial artist, notably in K-1 and the Pride Fighting Championships. Butterbean's combined fight record is 97–24–5 with 65 knockouts and 9 submissions.
Early life
Esch, who is of German descent, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but at age four he and his family moved to St. Johns, Michigan, only to move again at 11 years old to Jasper, Alabama with his family. He had a difficult childhood; his mother died when he was eight, and he was frequently bullied at school for being overweight.
While decking floors for manufactured homes at the Southern Energy Homes plant in Addison, Alabama, his colleagues dared him to enter a local Toughman Contest, with training in Bay City, Michigan. He won the tournament and began his career in fight sports.
Career
Boxing career; "King of the 4 Rounders" (1994–2002)
Esch began his fighting career on the Toughman Contest scene in Texarkana, Arkansas in the early 1990s and went on to become a five-time World Toughman Heavyweight Champion with a record of 56–5 with 36 knockouts. He received the nickname "Butterbean" when he was forced to go on a diet (consisting mostly of chicken and butterbeans) in order to meet the Toughman 400 pound (181 kg) weight limit under the new age trainer Prozay Buell “the better Buell”.
He made his professional boxing debut on October 15, 1994, beating Tim Daniels by decision in Birmingham, Alabama. He soon developed a cult following and became known as "King of the 4 Rounders". Speaking of his popularity in a 2008 interview with BoxingInsider, Esch stated:
Esch ran up a string of wins, mostly by knockout, before being stopped in two rounds by Mitchell Rose on December 15, 1995. Butterbean went on the road, around the United States, winning 51 consecutive matches, including against Peter McNeeley. While the majority of his opponents were technically limited club-level fighters early in his career, he did move up the ranks to win the IBA Super Heavyweight Championship on April 12, 1997, with a second round technical knockout of Ed White at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. He made five successful title defences before relinquishing his championship in 2000.
After his five-year winning streak was brought to an end with a majority decision defeat by heavyweight Billy Zumbrun in August 2001, he fought his first ten rounder against fifty-two-year-old former world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia on July 27, 2002. While Holmes won a unanimous decision, Esch was credited with a controversial knockdown in the final round, which was later shown in filmed replays as not being a knockdown, no punch having landed, and it was a slip; and Holmes only reeled against the ropes. This was one of only three fights in a 109 fight career that was scheduled for more than four rounds.
K-1 (2003–2005)
Butterbean ventured into the sport of kickboxing in 2003 when he was recruited by K-1 and debuted with a first-round knockout of Yusuke Fujimoto at K-1 Beast II 2003 in Saitama, Japan on June 29, 2003. K-1 was then keen to match him up with Ernesto Hoost, but he declined to take the fight on the advice of a friend who warned him of the Dutchman's kickboxing prowess. He instead faced Mike Bernardo in a non-tournament bout at the K-1 Survival 2003 Japan Grand Prix Final in Yokohama, Japan on September 21, 2003. He was floored twice with low kicks in the first round before being finished with a high kick in the second.
In his first mixed martial arts bout, Esch took on Genki Sudo in an openweight affair at K-1 PREMIUM 2003 Dynamite!! in Nagoya, Japan on December 31, 2003. Despite having a weight advantage over his foe, Butterbean was unable to capitalize as Sudo was unwilling to exchange strikes. "The Neo-Samurai" took Butterbean to the mat with a low, single-leg takedown at the end of round one and attempted a leglock only to be halted by the bell signaling the end of the round, which had been a stalemate up until then. Early in round two, the fighters tumbled to the ground after Sudo attempted a dropkick on Esch, and the Japanese grappling ace took full advantage of the American boxer's lack of grappling skill by securing a heel hook submission at the 0:41 mark.
Returning to the kickboxing ring at K-1 Beast 2004 in Niigata on March 14, 2004, Butterbean lost a unanimous decision to Hiromi Amada as Amada peppered him with low kicks while Esch did little more than taunt his opponent throughout the match. He was scheduled to fight Bob Sapp soon afterwards, but claims that Sapp's management withdrew their fighter after discovering that Amada had needed hospital treatment after his bout with Esch. Butterbean lost his third consecutive K-1 match at K-1 Beast 2004 in Shizuoka on June 26, 2004, losing to giant Montanha Silva by unanimous decision.
Competing in the eight man tournament at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Hawaii in Honolulu on July 29, 2005, Esch put an end to his losing streak when he scored a third round standing eight count en route to a unanimous decision victory over brawler Marcus Royster in the quarter-finals. Despite the win, Butterbean sustained an injury to his left leg during the fight and could not continue and so Royster was entered back into the tournament in his place.
Professional wrestling (1997, 1999, 2009–2012)
Butterbean appeared twice in World Wrestling Federation professional wrestling events, competing in boxing matches both times. On December 7, 1997, at the D-Generation X: In Your House pay-per-view event, he defeated former Golden Gloves champion Marc Mero via disqualification in a worked match. 15 months later, Butterbean defeated WWF Brawl For All champion Bart Gunn in a legitimate shootfight at WrestleMania XV on March 28, 1999, knocking his opponent out in 34 seconds.
In 2009 he returned to professional wrestling on the independent circuit. He defeated Trent Acid for the Pro Wrestling Syndicate Heavyweight title on May 29, 2009, in Garfield, New Jersey. On June 10, 2009, Butterbean defeated One Man Kru at OmegaCon at the BJCC in Birmingham, Alabama at a wrestling event for charity. Nearly a year later he dropped to the title to Kevin Matthews on May 9, 2010. Also he wrestled for Juggalo Championship Wrestling. On April 1, 2011, Butterbean teamed with Officer Adam Hadder in a tag-team match against One Man Kru and WWE Hall of Famer Brutus The Barber" Beefcake in a charity wrestling event taped for an episode of Big Law: Deputy Butterbean, a reality show which aired on Investigation Discovery. On March 31, 2012, he defeated Cliff Compton at the event WrestleRama Guyana in Georgetown, Guyana.
Pride Fighting Championships (2006–2007)
Having lost his MMA debut to Genki Sudo, Esch stuck with the sport and regrouped, going 6–0–1 in appearances in King of the Cage, Gracie Fightfest, and Rumble on the Rock which included a TKO stoppage of Wesley "Cabbage" Correira at Rumble on the Rock 8 in Honolulu on January 20, 2006, in a fight which took place under special rules, ground fighting being limited to fifteen seconds per instance regardless of the situation. He returned to Japan with the Pride Fighting Championships on August 26, 2006, to compete at Pride Bushido 12 in Nagoya against Ikuhisa Minowa, a shoot wrestler known for his willingness to face much larger opponents, to whom he lost via armbar submission at 4:25 of round one.
Butterbean was set to fight Mark Hunt at the promotion's first North American show, Pride 32 in Las Vegas on October 21, 2006 but the Nevada State Athletic Commission would not allow the match-up as they argued that Hunt's wins over Wanderlei Silva and Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović gave him an unfair mat advantage. Pride had stated that "visa issues" were preventing Hunt from competing in the bout, but it was later confirmed that Hunt could not compete due to the NSAC's ruling. Pro wrestler Sean O'Haire stepped in as Hunt's replacement and Esch TKO'd him in under thirty seconds.
Departing Pride briefly to compete in Cage Rage, Esch submitted to strikes from Rob Broughton in the second round of their contest at Cage Rage 19 in London, England, on December 9, 2006. He then rebounded with a forty-three second knockout of James Thompson at Cage Rage 20 on February 10, 2007.
Butterbean returned to Pride for the promotion's last event, Pride 34 in Saitama on April 8, 2007, where he faced Zuluzinho in a bout where both men weighed in at (although the Brazilian was taller). Both fighters came out swinging before Zuluzinho scored a takedown. Esch reversed him, landing several hammer shots before finally submitting Zuluzinho with a key lock at 2:35 of the opening round.
Later career (2007–present)
Butterbean's next fight was on July 14, 2007, against reigning Cage Rage World Heavyweight Champion Tengiz Tedoradze in a non-title bout at Cage Rage 25, losing via TKO. Global Fighting Championships had scheduled a main event bout between Esch and Ruben Villareal for their inaugural event, but the event was canceled when half the scheduled matchups could not take place due to medical issues (Esch vs. Villareal was the only viable main event). He was then set to fight Jimmy Ambriz as the main event of Xcess Fighting's debut card, but was a no show for the weigh-in citing scheduling conflicts.
Esch made a brief return to K-1 to fight at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 in Hawaii on August 9, 2008, rematching Wesley Correira in the quarter-finals and losing via a second round high kick KO.
Esch lost via first-round KO for the EBF title against Mark Potter at the Syndicate Nightclub in Blackpool, England on the September 14, 2008. This fight has not been recorded on boxrec.com or any other site of the same nature, as Potter was not licensed at the time.
Butterbean made his independent professional wrestling debut at the Birmingham–Jefferson Civic Center in Birmingham, Alabama on March 28, 2009, at the ImagiCon horror movie, sci-fi movie, and comic book convention and was victorious against rapper/professional wrestler/film maker/actor Anthony "One Man Kru" Sanners via pinfall after smashing him with a vicious 400 lb. elbow drop. Butterbean won the Pro Wrestling Syndicate Heavyweight Championship on May 29, 2009, after defeating Trent Acid. Butterbean lost in a first round tko (submission) to Jeff Kugel on March 6, 2010, in Mount Clemens, Michiganin an MMA bout for Xtreme Cagefighting Championship 46: Beatdown at the Ballroom 9 in a devastating :40 second pummeling.
Butterbean lost the belt to Kevin Matthews on May 8, 2010, in White Plains, New York.
In his final kickboxing match at Moosin II in Seoul, South Korea on July 29, 2009, Esch KO'd Moon-Bi Lam forty-six seconds into round one.
On October 3, 2009, Esch lost a four-round split decision to Harry Funmaker whom he earlier beat on two occasions. After the bout he announced his retirement. He seemingly changed his mind, however, and soon returned to competition.
On September 18, 2010, Esch was defeated by Mariusz Pudzianowski by submission due to strikes at KSW XIV in Łódź, Poland. After several exchanges of strikes on the feet, Pudzianowski attacked and took Esch down, proceeding to throw numerous punches from side control in a ground-and-pound attack. Esch, unable to get to his feet, submitted at just 1:15 into the first round.
Esch next took on up-and-coming super heavyweight Deon West at the LFC 43: Wild ThangMMA internet pay-per-view on October 12, 2010. After a heated contest, Deon did not rise for the third round. Butterbean humbled Deon West via TKO at 5:00 of round two.
On April 1, 2011, Butterbean returned to pro wrestling and teamed with his Walker County Sheriff Deputy partner Adam Hadder to take on Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake and One Man Kru in a tag-team match at the Battle Against Drugs charity benefit which was taped for Butterbean's reality show Big Law. He appeared in February 2012 at Wrestlerama in Georgetown, Guyana where on entering the ring he told the crowd Guyana is his second home and was booed off because he mispronounced Guyana.
Butterbean defeated Dean Storey at Elite 1 MMA: High Voltage on May 7, 2011, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada to claim the promotions super heavyweight title. He knocked out Storey 24 seconds into the second round.
Many people have compared Butterbean to British warrior "Big" Ben Copley, with similar stature and size. The two were scheduled to meet in a 6 round contest, with the British man ultimately stepping down. After this, Butterbean ultimately retired from competition.
Media appearances
Big Law: Deputy Butterbean
Esch is a reserve deputy sheriff in his hometown of Jasper, Alabama, and starred in the reality television documentary entitled Big Law: Deputy Butterbean, which debuted on the Investigation Discovery channel in August 2011. He described the genesis of the show: They came to me wanting to do a reality documentary on my restaurant and I was in the process of closing my restaurant down. I said "If you want something interesting and fun to watch, follow us on our drug busts in the sheriff's department." They agreed people would be interested in this. "They started following us, filming it and documenting us actually making the busts. You arrest somebody and say "Look, if you don't want to go to jail you've got to help us bust a bigger guy." We make a bigger bust from that. The whole goal is to get people on file and lessen the number of criminals on the streets.
Esch hoped the show would help the cause of law enforcement:
I think this show is going to prove that people really care about the communities they lived in. There's going to be more people calling (the police station) saying "Hey, this guy is doing this crime. You should look into it." We want people to step forward and help the police clean up our communities.http://press.discovery.com/us/id/programs/big-law-deputy-butterbean/
The show was not renewed for a second season.
Film
Butterbean appeared in the film Jackass: The Movie, in a public stunt: an arranged fight with Johnny Knoxville in a department store. After the fight began, Knoxville fell, got up, was asked by Butterbean to hit him at least once. Knoxville did so, was easily knocked to the floor by Esch, and received several stitches in his head after the encounter (the camera appears to show Knoxville snoring, but Knoxville stated in an interview with Vanity Fair that he was actually trying to swallow his tongue as a result of being knocked out). After waking up, a groggy Knoxville jokingly asked if Butterbean survived the fight. Knoxville stated that Esch is actually quite friendly outside of the ring, despite his fearsome ringside demeanor.
Butterbean also appeared in the film Chairman of the Board as the Museum Security Guard with the "chia hair", a fact that is pointed out on the DVD commentary by the film's star Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson.
Television
Butterbean appeared on MTV’s Jackass in which he fights with celebrity Johnny Knoxville in a retail store.
Butterbean appeared on Adult Swim's Squidbillies, where he sang the national anthem, finally beating up a fan for not taking off his hat.
Butterbean appeared on CMT's Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling television show, on Team Beefcake.
Butterbean was referenced on NBC's Parenthood (2010). The episode, which aired on October 5, 2010, was entitled "Date Night".
In June 2013, Butterbean was interviewed in Australia on Fox Sports programme, Monday Nights with Matty Johns.
Butterbean appeared on TruTV's Friends of the People in a sketch as "Dr. Butterbean", using his sweet science boxing skills as an anesthesiologist. The Season 2 Episode 7 was entitled "Great White Haters".
Radio
On July 16, 2005, Butterbean fought Dieter of Rover's Morning Glory, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, in a bout billed as "War on the Shore".
Video games
Butterbean was featured on the cover of, and was the final boss character in, the EA Sports game Toughman Contest, released in 1995 for the Sega Genesis and Sega 32X. He also appeared as a playable character in all of the EA Sports boxing video games in the Knockout Kings series. In the 2007 PC game The Witcher, the main character can challenge a tavern fistfighter (with a body structure similar to that of Esch) by the name of Butter Bean during the second chapter of the game. Butterbean is a playable fighter in EA's fifth installment of the Fight Night series Fight Night Champion.
Personal life
Esch is married to Libby Gaskin and has three children: sons Brandon and Caleb, and daughter Grace. His sons are both mixed martial artists.
Esch opened a family-run restaurant in Jasper, Alabama in 2018, called Mr. Bean's BBQ. A previous restaurant was closed due to Esch's traveling commitments at the time.
Championships and awards
Boxing
International Boxing Association
IBA World Super Heavyweight (+95.2 kg/210 lb) Championship (One time)
World Athletic Association
WAA World Heavyweight (+90.7 kg/200 lb) Championship (One time)
Mixed martial arts
Elite-1 MMA
Elite-1 MMA Super Heavyweight (+120.2 kg/265 lb) Championship (One time)
Professional wrestling
Pro Wrestling Syndicate
Pro Wrestling Syndicate Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Professional boxing record
Kickboxing record
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|- bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-07-29 || Win ||align=left| Moon Bo-Lam || Moosin II || Seoul, South Korea || KO (right hook) || 1 || 0:46 || 3–4
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|- bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2008-08-09 || Loss ||align=left| Wesley Correira || K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 in Hawaii, Quarter Finals || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || KO (left high kick) || 2 || 0:53 || 2–4
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|- bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2005-07-29 || Win ||align=left| Marcus Royster || K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Hawaii, Quarter Finals || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 || 2–3
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|- bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2004-06-26 || Loss ||align=left| Montanha Silva || K-1 Beast 2004 in Shizuoka || Shizuoka, Japan || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 || 1–3
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|- bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2004-03-14 || Loss ||align=left| Hiromi Amada || K-1 Beast 2004 in Niigata || Niigata, Japan || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 || 1–2
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|- bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2003-09-21 || Loss ||align=left| Mike Bernardo || K-1 Survival 2003 Japan Grand Prix Final || Yokohama, Japan || KO (right high kick) || 2 || 1:01 || 1–1
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|- bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2003-06-29 || Win ||align=left| Yusuke Fujimoto || K-1 Beast II 2003 || Saitama, Japan || KO (left hook) || 1 || 1:02 || 1–0
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| colspan=9 | Legend:
Mixed martial arts record
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| Loss
| align=center|
| Sandy Bowman
| TKO (submission to punches)
| Prestige Fighting Championship 3
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:54
| Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
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| Loss
| align=center| 17–9–1
| Eric Barrak
| Submission (guillotine choke)
| Instinct MMA 1
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 2:56
| Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 17–8–1
| Dean Storey
| TKO (punches)
| Elite-1 MMA: Moncton
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 0:20
| Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
| |
|-
| Win
| align=center| 16–8–1
| Deon West
| TKO (punches)
| LFC 43: Wild Thang
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 15–8–1
| Mariusz Pudzianowski
| TKO (submission to punches)
| KSW 14: Judgment Day
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:15
| Łódź, Poland
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 15–7–1
| Jeff Kugel
| TKO (submission to punches)
| Xtreme Cagefighting Championship 46: Beatdown at the Ballroom 9
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:40
| Mount Clemens, Michigan, United States
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| Win
| align=center| 15–6–1
| Chris Cruit
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| Moosin: God of Martial Arts
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:38
| Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 14–6–1
| Tom Howard
| Submission (neck crank)
| Extreme Cage Fighting
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:40
| Laredo, Texas, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 13–6–1
| Jefferson Hook
| TKO (punches)
| Lockdown in Lowell
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| ?:??
| Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 12–6–1
| Pat Smith
| TKO (submission to punches)
| YAMMA Pit Fighting
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:17
| Atlantic City, New Jersey. United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 12–5–1
| Nick Penner
| Submission (kimura)
| The Fight Club: First Blood
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:28
| Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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| Win
| align=center| 12–4–1
| Tom Howard
| Submission (armlock)
| The Final Chapter MMA
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:47
| Jasper, Alabama, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 11–4–1
| Pete Sischo
| Submission (americana)
| Combat Warfare X
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 2:35
| United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 10–4–1
| Tengiz Tedoradze
| TKO (punches)
| Cage Rage 22
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:26
| London, England
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|-
| Win
| align=center|
| Zuluzinho
| Submission (americana)
| Pride 34
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:35
| Saitama, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 9–3–1
| James Thompson
| KO (punches)
| Cage Rage 20
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:43
| London, England
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 8–3–1
| Charles Hodges
| KO (punch)
| Palace Fighting Championship: King of the Ring
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:45
| Lemoore, California, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 7–3–1
| Rob Broughton
| TKO (submission to punches)
| Cage Rage 19
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 3:43
| London, England
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 7–2–1
| Sean O'Haire
| KO (punches)
| Pride 32 - The Real Deal
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:29
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 6–2–1
| Ikuhisa Minowa
| Submission (armbar)
| Pride - Bushido 12
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:25
| Nagoya, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 6–1–1
| Rich Weeks
| Submission (choke)
| Fightfest 5: Korea vs. USA
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:29
| McAllen, Texas, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 5–1–1
| Matt Eckerle
| TKO (submission to punches)
| Fightfest 4
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:56
| Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 4–1–1
| Aaron Aguilera
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| Rumble on the Rock 9
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 1:15
| Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 3–1–1
| Leo Sylvest
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| Fightfest 2: Global Domination
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:35
| Canton, Ohio, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 2–1–1
| Wesley Correira
| TKO (doctor stoppage)
| Rumble on the Rock 8
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 1–1–1
| Walley Keenboom
| Submission
| Fightfest 1: Royce Gracie Fightfest
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:37
| Evansville, Indiana, United States
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|-
| Draw
| align=center| 0–1–1
| Michael Buchkovich
| Draw
| KOTC 48: Payback
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 0–1
| Genki Sudo
| Submission (heel hook)
| K-1 PREMIUM 2003 Dynamite!!
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 0:41
| Nagoya, Japan
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References
External links
Official K-1 profile
K-1Sport profile
Official Pride profile
Living people
1966 births
Boxers from Michigan
Boxers from Alabama
Heavyweight boxers
American people of German descent
American male kickboxers
Kickboxers from Michigan
Kickboxers from Alabama
Heavyweight kickboxers
American male mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists from Michigan
Mixed martial artists from Alabama
Super heavyweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing boxing
Mixed martial artists utilizing shootfighting
Mixed martial artists utilizing wrestling
American male professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Bay City, Michigan
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44503608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Black%20Creek | Little Black Creek | Little Black Creek is a tributary of Black Creek in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Lattimer, Harleigh, and Hazle Township. The watershed of the creek is largely on coal mining land. It only has an intermittent flow and some of its waters drain into the Jeddo Tunnel instead of Black Creek. The creek is in the Eastern Middle Anthracite Field. There is at least one bridge crossing the creek.
Course
Little Black Creek begins at the confluence of two unnamed tributaries on the border between Hazle Township and Lattimer. It flows west and slightly south for more than a mile before turning south-southwest for some distance. By this point, the creek has begun to flow along the border between Hazle Township and Harleigh. After several tenths of a mile, the creek fully enters Hazle Township and crosses Pennsylvania Route 309. A short distance further downstream, it reaches its confluence with Black Creek.
Geography and geology
The elevation near the mouth of Little Black Creek is above sea level. The elevation of the creek's source is between and above sea level. Both the source and the mouth of the creek are in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Hazleton.
The Jeddo Tunnel drains water from the Little Black Creek Coal Basin. Jeddo Tunnel A passes through this coal basin. Little Black Creek is one of four surface streams that successfully exits the Jeddo Tunnel basin. It is the third-largest of the streams that do so.
Little Black Creek has been described by Bloomsburg University professor Duane Braun as having "sharp, multiple crest hydrography". The stream bed of the creek changes course at least fairly regularly. The creek is near the Woodside Coal Basin, which is a natural sub-basin that has been reclaimed. Coal basins are under 30 percent of the creek's drainage basin and the area in the vicinity of the creek has been heavily mined.
Hydrology and watershed
The Little Black Creek Coal Basin has an area of . Most of the watershed is in Hazle Township and Butler Township, but a small portion of the northeastern part of the watershed is in the borough of Freeland. The entirety of the watershed is within the Jeddo Tunnel drainage basin. The creek's watershed makes up 14 percent of the Jeddo Tunnel watershed.
Most of the watershed of Little Black Creek is in the Eastern Middle Anthracite Field, which is part of the Anthracite Upland Section of the Ridge and Valley Province. The watershed of Little Black Creek is adjacent to the watersheds of Black Creek and Nescopeck Creek.
The headwaters of Little Black Creek are east of Pardeesville and the mouth of the creek is near Hazleton. A pond is located in the upper reaches of the watershed.
Little Black Creek does not perennially have any discharge. Instead, it has an intermittent or rare discharge. The runoff levels of the creek was measured six times between October 1997 and October 1998. The runoff was measured to be 0 all but two times. The remaining two times, the runoff was 1 cubic foot per second and 2.4 cubic feet per second. The Little Black Creek Coal Basin contributes 11.43 cubic feet per second of water to the Jeddo Tunnel's outflow.
History
The Nescopeck Path historically crossed Little Black Creek.
A concrete slab bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 309 over Little Black Creek was built in 1928. It is long. There are plans to reestablish the channel of the creek or construct it from scratch in its upper reaches. There are ten mining permits in the Little Black Creek Coal Basin. The upper reaches of the creek has had its course altered by mining.
Little Black Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on January 1, 1990. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1202231.
Little Black Creek is mentioned in The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied.
See also
Gravel Run (Black Creek), next named tributary of Black Creek going downstream
List of rivers of Pennsylvania
References
Rivers of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Tributaries of Nescopeck Creek
Rivers of Pennsylvania |
17338070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara%20coelebs | Amara coelebs | Amara coelebs is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
References
coelebs
Beetles described in 1908 |
44503631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toft%C3%B8yna | Toftøyna | Toftøyna or Toftøy is an island in Øygarden municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The island is the southernmost of the main islands of Øygarden. It is connected by bridge to the island of Rongøy (to the north), to the small island of Turøy (to the southwest), and to the island of Misje in Fjell municipality (to the south). Toftøyna is connected to the mainland by a series of bridges by heading south via Misje island.
There are 2 main settlements on the rocky island: Vikavågen on the southeastern shore and Torsteinsvik on the northwestern shore. The main road on the island is Norwegian County Road 561 which runs between the two villages, connecting it to the surrounding islands. The Hjeltefjorden flows along the eastern shore of the island and the North Sea lies to the west. There are two small straits to the north and south of the island, separating it from the neighboring islands of Rongøy and Misje.
See also
List of islands of Norway
References
Islands of Vestland
Øygarden |
23577437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munmurra%20River | Munmurra River | Munmurra River, a perennial river of the Hunter River catchment, is located in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Munmurra River rises on the southern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, below Breeza Lookout, northeast of Cassilis and flows generally south by west, joined by four minor tributaries before reaching its confluence with the Goulburn River. The river descends over its course.
South of the town of Cassilis, the Golden Highway crosses the Munmurra River.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z)
Goulburn River National Park
Rivers of New South Wales
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Rivers of the Hunter Region
Upper Hunter Shire |
17338071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest%20Junior%20College%20Football%20Conference | Southwest Junior College Football Conference | The Southwest Junior College Football Conference (SWJCFC) is a football conference for National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) teams located in the Southwestern United States. The conference has produced 5 of the last 15 NJCAA national champions.
Current members
Former members
Allen Academy (eliminated college programs)
Hillsboro Junior College (closed, reopened as Hill College)
Lon Morris College (closed)
Odessa College (disbanded)
Panola College (disbanded)
Paris Junior College (disbanded)
Ranger College (disbanded)
Southwest Texas Junior College (disbanded)
Texarkana College (disbanded)
Wharton County Junior College (disbanded)
Future member
New Mexico Military Institute has announced it will leave the Western States Football League and join the SWJCFC for the 2016 season.
Champions
Trinity Valley (aka Henderson County) (17 titles, 11 outright):2014, 2005, 1999, 1997, 1994, 1991*, 1988, 1984, 1983, 1973*, 1968*, 1967, 1966*, 1965, 1959, 1958, 1953*, 1952*
Kilgore (15 titles, 11 outright):2018, 2015, 2004, 2001, 1992*, 1990, 1982, 1980, 1978, 1977*, 1975, 1970, 1968*, 1966*, 1946
Tyler (11 titles, 8 outright): 2000, 1993*, 1992*, 1991*, 1986, 1985, 1981, 1979, 1974, 1971, 1969
Navarro (12 titles, 6 outright):2019, 2007, 1993*, 1989, 1977*, 1976, 1973*, 1962*, 1961, 1953*, 1952, 1951
Blinn (6 titles, 6 outright): 2009, 2006, 1996, 1995, 1987, 1972
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (3 titles, 3 outright): 2003, 2002, 1998
Texarkana (3 titles, 2 outright): 1964, 1957, 1955*
Wharton County (3 titles, 1 outright): 1963, 1962*, 1948*
Panola (2 titles, 2 outright): 1950, 1949
Paris (2 titles, 1 outright): 1955*, 1954
Ranger (2 titles, 1 outright): 1960, 1948*
Allen (1 title, 1 outright): 1956
Hillsboro (now Hills College) (1 title, 0 outright): 1947*
Southwest Texas (1 title, 0 outright): 1947*
"*" denotes shared title
See also
NJCAA National football championship
List of community college football programs
External links
Southwest Junior College Football Conference
NJCAA conferences
College football-only conferences in the United States |
23577439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ius%20in%20re | Ius in re | Ius in re, or jus in re, under civil law, more commonly referred to as a real right or right in rem, is a right in property, known as an interest under common law. A real right vests in a person with respect to property, inherent in his relation to it, and is good against the world (erga omnes). The primary real right is ownership (dominium) (freehold, leasehold, commonhold). Whether possession (possessio) is recognized as a real right, or merely as a source of certain powers and actions, depends on the legal system at hand. Subordinate or limited real rights generally refer to encumbrances, rights of use and security interests. The term right in rem is derived from the action given to its holder, an actio in rem. In Latin grammar the action against the thing demands a fourth case. The underlying right itself, ius in re, has a fifth case, as the right rests on, or burdens, the thing. By mistake the common law terminology now uses the fourth case for describing the right itself. Compare jus ad rem.
jus in re propria – the right of enjoyment (i.e., the right to use the property in any legal manner) which is incident to full ownership or property, and is often used to denote the full ownership or property itself.
jus in re aliena, or encumbrance, which includes servitudes, security interests, real burdens, land charge, rentcharge, emphyteusis, right of first refusal; land leased by another who holds title of property.
Maxims:
: "A real right attaches to the usufructuary".
See also
ius
Property law
References
Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition 1910) (public domain)
Latin legal terminology |
17338072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara%20colvillensis | Amara colvillensis | Amara colvillensis is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
References
colvillensis
Beetles described in 1968 |
17338074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara%20communis | Amara communis | Amara communis is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae found in Ireland, from Siberia to Kamchatka, and Caucasus. The species are 6–8mm in length, and live in moss.
References
communis
Beetles of Europe
Beetles described in 1797
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23577440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%20Avenue%20Baptist%20Church | Madison Avenue Baptist Church | The Madison Avenue Baptist Church was first chartered in 1848 as Rose Hill Baptist Sunday School and Church, on East 30th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. Rose Hill was a house church with twelve members. In 1849, Rose Hill Baptist became the Lexington Avenue Baptist Church with twenty-eight members at 154 Lexington Avenue and 30th Street in a new Lombardian Romanesque-style edifice, which is now the First Moravian Church. Prominent Baptist Jeremiah Milbank – developer of condensed milk with inventor Gail Borden – and other congregational leaders, including the Colgate family, decided to move the church east in order to avoid the falling cinders emitted by the nearby Third Avenue elevated railroad. Five lots at East 31st Street and Madison Avenue became the site of a grand new structure, built in 1858.
In 1885, following the death of Jeremiah Milbank, his wife, Elizabeth Lake Milbank, donated a memorial of stained glass windows by F. X. Zettler of Germany – sculptor of Infalbert's "Angel of the Gospel" statue – depicting the life, healing ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus. These were installed behind the pulpit.
In 1903 the Ordination of Harry Emerson Fosdick – the most prominent liberal Baptist minister of the early 20th Century and author of the hymn "God of Grace and God of Glory" – was held at MABC. Fosdick was later the minister of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, today's Central Presbyterian Church at 593 Park Avenue, and then of Riverside Church.
In 1930 the parish leased its property to be developed into the Roger Williams Hotel at 131 Madison Avenue, designed by Jardine, Hill & Murdock and named for the Baptist founder of Rhode Island, with the church sanctuary to be included in the 15-story building. New stained glass was added depicting the writers of the Gospel and their symbols: Matthew/Cherub, Mark/Lion, Luke/Ox, and John/Eagle. The church's parish house, built in 1906, was located around the corner at 30 East 31st Street between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South. It was sold to a commercial developer in June 2014, demolished in 2015, and replaced by a residential building.
In the early 1980s, MABC began the Sunday Afternoon Meal for Seniors (free meals for the midtown elderly) and also a Shelter for the Homeless, and in 1992 the church began ministries to persons with AIDS at Bellevue Hospital sponsored by the Bellevue Chaplains' Office. In 1993, MABC became a Charter member of the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists made up of American Baptist Churches and Organizations desiring to be inclusive of gays and lesbians. The church continues today with an active ministry.
In popular culture
On April 4, 1971, the "first" U.S. concert version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar was presented by the Bel Canto Opera in the church.
References
External links
Official website
Daytonian In Manhattan
American Guild of Organists
Empire State Tribune
Travel With Terry
Reminiscences of Baptist churches and Baptist leaders in New York city and vicinity, from 1835-1898...
American Baptist Home Mission Roots 1824-2010 (pdf)
American Baptist Historical Society (pdf)
American Baptists, A Brief History (pdf)
New York Baptist History
New York Songline
Baptist churches in New York City
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Rose Hill, Manhattan |
17338084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.S.D.%20S.C.%20Nissa%201962 | A.S.D. S.C. Nissa 1962 | Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Sport Club Nissa 1962, commonly known as Nissa, is an Italian association football club, based in Caltanissetta, Sicily.
History
Foundation
The club was founded in 1962, as heir of former local club Unione Sportiva Nissena, who lived from 1947 to 1962, and assumed the original denomination of Nissa Sport Club 1962.
Serie D
It initially played in minor amateur league before reaching Serie D in 1967, where it spent a total of five season before being relegated in 1972. It returned to play Serie D only in 1979, later starting plans for a historical enter into the world of Italian professional football. Nissa were however relegated in 1983, only to be readmitted to fill a league vacancy; it consequently decided to take advantage of the opportunity and build a strong team that promptly won the 1984 Serie D league, and finally ensuring promotion to Serie C2.
Serie C2
Nissa's debut as a professional team came in a Coppa Italia Serie C match against Reggina, ended in a 2–2 home tie. In its first Serie C2 season, it barely escaped relegation by winning the four final matches. The following campaign was far more successful, as Nissa managed to achieve a good sixth place in the final place. However, Nissa's time into professional football came to an end in 1987, as it was relegated back to Interregionale. This was followed by a financial crisis that caused a relegation to Promozione in 1989; the club promptly returned to Interregionale the following season, but only to be canceled from football due to bankruptcy in 1992. A minor Promozione club, Caltanissetta, was consequently admitted to Eccellenza under the denomination of Nuova Nissa, being promoted to Serie D in 1995. However this club folded only three years later, in 1998, due to financial issues.
The refundation
After a year without a major football team in Caltanissetta, in 1999 minor clubs Sommatino and Nissena 1996 merged to found the current club, gaining the right to play Promozione, and immediately winning promotion to Eccellenza. In the following years, Nissa fought hard to go on its rise into the football pyramid, without succeeding in it until 2008, when it won the Girone A of Eccellenza Sicily after a long battle with Trapani.
Liquidation and another refoundation
In summer 2013 the club wasn't able to enter 2013–14 Eccellenza, after the relegation and was so subsequently liquidated. In 2014 however, it restarted in Prima Categoria Sicily under the current name.
Colors and badge
Its official colours are red and yellow.
Stadium
Nissa plays its home matches at Stadio Marco Tomaselli, informally known as Pian del Lago, with a capacity of 11,950. This venue also hosted an Italy national under-21 football team match in 1994, which ended in a 2–1 win for the azzurrini against Croatia national under-21 football team, but is best remembered for seeing the Italian team play with Nissa's red-coloured home shirts due to both teams having very similar jersey colours and lacking the corresponding reserve kits.
References
External links
Official site
Nissa
Nissa
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Italian football clubs established in 1962 |
6905528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti%20wars | Anglo-Ashanti wars | The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African allies. Though the Ashanti emerged victorious in some of these conflicts, the British ultimately prevailed in the fourth and fifth conflicts, resulting in the complete annexation of the Ashanti Empire by 1900. The wars were mainly due to Ashanti attempts to establish a stronghold over the coastal areas of present-day Ghana. Coastal peoples such as the Fante and the Ga came to rely on British protection against Ashanti incursions.
Earlier wars
The British fought three earlier wars in the Gold Coast:
In the Ashanti-Fante War of 1806–07, the British refused to hand over two rebels pursued by the Ashanti, but eventually handed one over (the other escaped).
In the Ga-Fante War of 1811, the Ashanti sought to aid their Ga allies in a war against the Fante and their British allies. The Ashanti army won the initial battles but was forced back by guerilla fighting from the Fante. The Ashanti captured a British fort at Tantamkweri.
In the Ashanti-Akim-Akwapim War of 1814–16 the Ashanti defeated the Akim-Akwapim alliance. Local British, Dutch, Polish, and Danish authorities all had to come to terms with the Ashanti. By 1817, the Ashanti were expanding with an army of about 20,000, so the (British) African Company of Merchants signed a treaty of friendship that recognized Ashanti claims to sovereignty over much of the coast. The African Company of Merchants was dissolved in 1821 and the British government assumed control of the trading forts on the Gold Coast from the merchants.
First Anglo-Ashanti War, 1823–1831
By the 1820s, the British had decided to support the Fanti Fante against Ashanti raids from inland. Economic and social friction played their part in the causes for the outbreak of violence.
The immediate cause of the war happened when a group of Ashanti kidnapped and murdered an African serviceman of the Royal African Corps on 1 February 1823.A small British group was led into a trap which resulted in 10 killed, 39 wounded and a British retreat. The Ashanti tried to negotiate but the British governor, Sir Charles MacCarthy, rejected Ashanti claims to Fanti areas of the coast and resisted overtures by the Ashanti to negotiate.
MacCarthy led an invading force from the Cape Coast in two columns. The governor was in the first group of 500, which lost contact with the second column when they encountered the Ashanti army of around 10,000 on 22 January 1824, in the battle of Nsamankow. The British ran out of ammunition, suffered losses and were overrun. Almost all the British force were killed immediately while 20 managed to escape.
MacCarthy, along with the ensign and his secretary, attempted to fall back; he was wounded by gunfire, however, and killed by a second shot shortly thereafter. Ensign Wetherell was killed while trying to defend MacCarthy's body. Williams was taken prisoner for several months and on his release narrated that he was spared death when an Ashanti sub-chief recognised and spared his life due to a previous favour Williams had shown him. Williams was held prisoner for several months in a hut which also held the decapitated heads of MacCarthy and Wetherell.
MacCarthy's skull was rimmed with gold and was purportedly used as a drinking-cup by Ashanti rulers. An eye-witness stated he "saw ensign Wetherell, who appeared also to have been wounded, lying close to MacCarthy. Some of the Ashantis were attempting to cut off his head, and had already inflicted one gash on the back of his neck; luckily at this crisis an Ashanti of authority came up and recognising Williams, from whom he had received some kindness, withheld the hand of the assailant. On Williams's recovering his senses, he saw the headless trunks of MacCarthy, Buckle, and Wetherell. During his captivity he was lodged under a thatched shed in the same rooms as the heads which, owing to some peculiar process, were in a perfect state of preservation."
Major Alexander Gordon Laing returned to Britain with news of their fate. The Ashanti swept down to the coast, but disease forced them back. The new governor of the Gold Coast, John Hope Smith, started to gather a new army, mainly comprising natives, including Denkyiras, many of the traditional enemies of the Ashanti. In August 1826, the governor heard that the Ashanti were planning on attacking Accra. A defensive position was prepared on the open plain about north of Accra and the 11,000 men waited.
On 7 August, the Ashanti army appeared and attacked the centre of the British line where the best troops were held, which included some Royal Marines, the militia and a battery of Congreve rockets. The battle dissolved into hand-to-hand fighting but the Ashanti force were not doing well on their flanks whilst they looked like winning in the centre. Then the rockets were fired. The novelty of the weapons, the explosions, rocket trails, and grievous wounds caused by flying metal shards caused the Ashanti to fall back. Soon they fled leaving thousands of casualties on the field. In 1831, the Pra River was accepted as the border in a treaty.
Second Anglo-Ashanti War
The second Anglo-Ashanti War took place between 1863 and 1864. In 1863, a large Ashanti force crossed the Pra River in search of a fugitive, Kwesi Gyana. British, African and Indian troops responded but neither side claimed victory as illness took more casualties on both sides than the actual fighting. The Second War ended in a stalemate in 1864.
Third Anglo-Ashanti War 1873–1874
The Third Anglo-Ashanti War, also known as the "First Ashanti Expedition", lasted from 1873 to 1875. In 1869, a German missionary family and a Swiss missionary had been taken from Togo to Kumasi. They were still being held in 1873.
The British Gold Coast was formally established in 1867 and in 1872, Britain expanded their territory when they purchased the Dutch Gold Coast from the Dutch, including Elmina which was claimed by the Ashanti. The Dutch had signed the Treaty of Butre in 1656 with the Ahanta. The treaty's arrangements proved very stable and regulated Dutch-Ahanta diplomatic affairs for more than 213 years. This all changed with the sale of the Dutch Gold Coast. The Ashanti invaded the new British protectorate.
General Garnet Wolseley was sent against the Ashanti with 2,500 British troops and several thousand West Indian and African troops (including some Fante) and subsequently became a household name in Britain. The war was covered by war correspondents, including Henry Morton Stanley and G. A. Henty. Military and medical instructions were printed for the troops. The British government refused appeals to interfere with British arms manufacturers who sold to both sides.
Road building
Wolseley was appointed on 13 August 1873 and went to the Gold Coast to make his plans before the arrival of his troops in January 1874. On 27 September 1873 a team of Royal Engineers landed at Cape Coast Castle. Their job was to expand the single file track that led to Coomassie, away, into a road that was suitable for troop movements. At the end of each day's march, roughly every a fortified camp would be built with long huts inside a stockade in an area that had been cleared of trees and undergrowth to provide some protection against hostile natives.
Bridges were built across streams using trees, bamboo and creepers for ropes and a major bridge across the -wide River Prah was built using pre-manufactured pieces brought from Chatham, England. In total 237 bridges would be built. Some of the camps were larger—Prahsue, next to the bridge had a medical hut and a tower on a mound, stores, forge, telegraph office and post office. It was stocked with 400 tons of food and 1.1m rounds of ammunition. The labour was supplied locally. To start the workers did not know how to use European tools and were liable to vanish into the forest if they heard a rumour that the Ashanti were nearby. Sickness, despite taking quinine daily, claimed the European engineers. Even so, the road progressed. By 24 January a telegraph line reached Prahsue.
The first troops arrived in late December and on 1 January 1874 started marching along the road to the front, half a battalion at a time. The troops comprised a battalion each from the Black Watch, the Rifle Brigade and Royal Welsh Fusiliers, along with the 1st and 2nd West India Regiments, a Naval Brigade, two native regiments, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and Royal Marines. By 29 January, the road was more than half completed and they were close to Ashanti outposts. Skirmishing between the two forces began. Wolseley prepared to fight a battle.
Battle
The Battle of Amoaful was fought on 31 January. A road was cut to the village and the Black Watch led the way, forming square in the clearing with the Rifle Brigade, while flanking columns moved around the village. With the pipes playing "The Campbells Are Coming" the Black Watch charged with bayonets and the shocked Ashantis fled. The flank columns were slow moving in the jungle and the Ashantis moved around them in their normal horseshoe formation and attacked the camp to the rear. The Royal Engineers defended themselves until relieved by the Rifle Brigade. Although there was another small battle two days later, the Battle of Ordashu, the action had been decisive and the route to Kumasi was open. There were three killed and 165 wounded Europeans, one killed and 29 African troops wounded.
The capital, Kumasi, was abandoned by the Ashanti when the British arrived on 4 February and was briefly occupied by the British. They demolished the royal palace with explosives, leaving Kumasi a heap of smouldering ruins. The British were impressed by the size of the palace and the scope of its contents, including "rows of books in many languages."
The Ashanti signed the Treaty of Fomena in July 1874 to end the war. Among articles of the treaty between H.M. Queen Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Kofi Karikari, King of Ashanti were that "The King of Ashanti promises to pay the sum of 50,000 ounces of approved gold as indemnity for the expenses he has occasioned to Her Majesty the Queen of England by the late war..." The treaty also required an end to human sacrifice and stated that "There shall be freedom of trade between Ashanti and Her Majesty's forts on the [Gold Coast], all persons being at liberty to carry their merchandise from the Coast to Kumasi, or from that place to any of Her Majesty's possessions on the Coast." Furthermore, the treaty stated that "The King of Ashanti guarantees that the road from Kumasi to the River Pra shall always be kept open..." Wolseley completed the campaign in two months, and re-embarked for home before the unhealthy season began.
Wolseley was promoted and showered with honours. British casualties were 18 dead from combat and 55 from disease (70%), with 185 wounded.
Some British accounts pay tribute to the hard fighting of the Ashanti at Amoaful, particularly the tactical insight of their commander, Amankwatia: "The great Chief Amankwatia was among the killed [...] Admirable skill was shown in the position selected by Amankwatia, and the determination and generalship he displayed in the defence fully bore out his great reputation as an able tactician and gallant soldier."
The campaign is also notable for the first recorded instance of a traction engine being employed on active service. Steam sapper number 8 (made by Aveling and Porter) was shipped out and assembled at Cape Coast Castle. As a traction engine it had limited success hauling heavy loads up the beach, but gave good service when employed as a stationary engine driving a large circular saw.
Before the 1873 war, Wolseley had campaigned for a more comfortable clothing for hot climates and in this war had managed to get his troops kitted out in a better uniform.
Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War
The Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War, also known as the "Second Ashanti Expedition", was brief, lasting only from 26 December 1895 to 4 February 1896. The Ashanti turned down an unofficial offer to become a British protectorate in 1891, extending to 1894. The British also wanted to establish a British resident in Kumasi. The Ashanti King Prempeh I refused to surrender his sovereignty. Wanting to keep French and German forces out of Ashanti territory (and its gold), the British were anxious to conquer the Ashanti once and for all. The Ashanti sent a delegation to London offering concessions on its gold, cocoa and rubber trade as well as submission to the crown. The British however had already made their minds up on a military solution, they were on their way, the delegation only returning to Kumasi a few days before the troops marched in.
Colonel Sir Francis Scott left Cape Coast with the main expeditionary force of British and West Indian troops, Maxim guns and 75mm artillery in December 1895, and travelling along the remnants of the 1874 road arrived in Kumasi in January 1896. Major Robert Baden-Powell led a native levy of several local tribes in the campaign. The Asantehene directed the Ashanti not to resist, but casualties from sickness among the British troops were high. Soon, Governor William Maxwell arrived in Kumasi as well. Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh was unable or unwilling to pay the 50,000 ounces of gold so was arrested and deposed. He was forced to sign a treaty of protection, and with other Ashanti leaders was sent into exile in the Seychelles.
Baden-Powell published a diary of life giving the reasons, as he saw them, for the war: To put an end to human sacrifice. To put a stop to slave-trading and raiding. To ensure peace and security for the neighbouring tribes. To settle the country and protect the development of trade. To get paid up the balance of the war indemnity. He also believed that if a smaller force had been sent, there would have been bloodshed. Prempeh I was banished to the Seychelles. Eleven years later, the Boy Scouts were started by B-P. Later still, after Prempeh was released and returned home, he became Chief Scout of Ashanti.
The British force left Kumasi on 22 January 1896, arriving back at the coast two weeks later. Not a shot had been fired but 18 Europeans were dead and 50% of the troops were sick. Among the dead was Queen Victoria's son-in-law, Prince Henry of Battenberg, who was taken ill before getting to Kumasi and died on 20 January on board ship, returning to England. In 1897 Ashanti territory became a British protectorate.
Fifth War or "War of the Golden Stool"
Technology was reaching the Gold Coast, a railway to Kumasi was started in 1898 but had not progressed far when another war broke out. The railway was to be completed in 1903.
In the War of the Golden Stool (1900), also known as the "Third Ashanti Expedition", on 25 March 1900, the British representative, Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson committed a political error by insisting he should sit on the Golden Stool, not understanding that it was the Royal throne and very sacred to the Ashanti. He ordered a search be made for it. The Ashanti, enraged by this act, attacked the soldiers engaged in the search.
The British retreated to a small stockade, square with loopholed high stone walls and firing turrets at each corner, where 8 Europeans, dozens of mixed-race colonial administrators, and 500 Nigerian Hausas with six small field guns and four Maxim guns defended themselves. The British detained several high-ranking leaders in the fort. The stockade was besieged and the telegraph wires cut. A rescue party of 700 arrived in June, but many sick men in the fort could not be evacuated. The healthier men escaped, including Hodgson and his wife and 100 Hausas, and meeting up with the rescue party, managed to avoid the 12,000 Ashanti warriors and make it back to the coast.
On 14 July a second relief force of 1,000 made it to Kumasi having fought several engagements along the route, relieving the fort on 15 July when they only had a few days of supplies left. The remaining Ashanti court not exiled to the Seychelles had mounted the offensive against the British and Fanti troops resident at the Kumasi Fort, but were defeated.
Yaa Asantewaa, the Queen-Mother of Ejisu, who had led the rebellion, King Prempeh I, and other Ashanti leaders were also sent to the Seychelles. The Ashanti territories became part of the Gold Coast colony on 1 January 1902, on the condition that the Golden Stool would not be violated by British or other non-Akan foreigners. The Ashanti claimed a victory as they had not lost their sacred stool. In September the British sent flying columns out to visit neighbouring peoples who had supported the rebellion, resulting in a number of skirmishes.
The British and their allies suffered 1,070 fatalities in total. The Ashanti casualties are estimated to have been around 2,000. The sacred golden stool, which is depicted on the Ashanti flag, had been well hidden and was only discovered by road workers by accident in 1920. King Prempeh I returned from exile in 1924, travelling to Kumasi by a special train.
Awards
Four awards were made of the Victoria Cross, for Gallantry in the period 1873-74 and two for the 1900 campaign. (see List of Victoria Cross recipients by campaign)
An Ashanti Medal was created for those involved in the War of the Golden Stool. This expedition lasted from March – September 1900. It was issued as a Silver or bronze Medal.
Footnote
After the 1896 Expedition, King Prempeh was exiled to the Seychelles. Eleven years later, Baden-Powell created the Boy Scout Movement. King Prempeh was released from exile and restored to Ashanti, and became Patron of Ashanti Scouts.
See also
List of rulers of Asante
History of Ghana
African military systems after 1800
References
Bibliography
Further reading
Agbodeka, Francis (1971). African Politics and British Policy in the Gold Coast, 1868–1900: A Study in the Forms and Force of Protest. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. .
McCarthy, Mary (1983). Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast: The Fante States, 1807–1874. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. .
Messenger, Charles, ed. Reader's Guide to Military History (2001) pp. 570–71 excerpt, historiography.
Wilks, Ivor (1975). Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. London: Cambridge University Press. .
External links
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Ashanti Empire
Wars involving the states and peoples of Africa
Wars involving the United Kingdom
Wars involving the Ashanti Empire
History of Ghana
19th-century conflicts
19th century in Africa
19th-century military history of the United Kingdom
African resistance to colonialism |
44503648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacocat | Tacocat | Tacocat is an American punk rock band from Seattle, founded in 2007 and consisting of Emily Nokes, Bree McKenna, Lelah Maupin, and Eric Randall. They gained popularity in 2014 following the release of their second album NVM, engineered by Conrad Uno. The album received positive reviews in the music press, including from Pitchfork, AllMusic, and PopMatters, and also reached the CMJ top 10 college radio albums.
Tacocat addresses feminist themes in many of their songs using humor and sarcasm. The song "Crimson Wave" is a period-positive beach anthem featuring red imagery and humorous menstruation metaphors. The music video for the song gained over 10,000 views in a single week on YouTube, and has since gotten over 415,000 views. The band also jokes about other themes such as seasonal affective disorder in Seattle on "Bridge to Hawaii" and waiting for a late bus on "FU #8."
History
Drummer Lelah Maupin and guitarist Eric Randall first met in Longview, Washington while working together at a Safeway grocery store. Randall met bassist Bree McKenna while his band was practicing in the basement of a punk house where she lived. Lelah Maupin met Emily Nokes in a graphic design class. The four bonded over their mutual affection for 1990s music, the riot grrrl movement, and Kevin Costner's Waterworld. They started making music together, performing at small shows and releasing singles. They released their DIY debut album Shame Spiral in 2010. That year, they also signed with Subpop imprint Hardly Art and released their second EP Take Me to Your Dealer. The Woman's Day EP followed in 2011. The band would exhaustively tour the United States over the next few years, playing basements and house shows. Other notable releases include a Ghost Mice/Tacocat split 7-inch, a riot grrrl cover compilation album released on Teenage Teardrops Records (featuring cover art by Jessica Hopper), and the much coveted DIY tour tapes such as Frenching and Food Stamps and OMG.
In a 2012 installment of Your Favorite Band, a series of fictitious satirical articles for VICE, Bree McKenna claimed to be the illegitimate child of Bob Saget.
The band was involved in a controversy involving pop singer Katy Perry when her Super Bowl 2015 half-time show featured backup dancers in shark costumes that looked similar to Tacocat's in the "Crimson Wave" video.
2014 NVM Tour
Tacocat went on a national tour in March 2014 in support of their album NVM, playing many shows in the Pacific Northwest and across the United States, including in Los Angeles, Tucson, New Orleans, Atlanta, Baltimore, Columbus, Las Vegas, New York City, Miami, Boston, and Little Rock. They also toured Europe in fall 2014 with visits to many major cities including Barcelona, Berlin, London and Vienna.
Lost Time
Tacocat's third album Lost Time came out on Hardly Art Records on April 1, 2016. Their premiere, pro-service worker single, "I Hate the Weekend," was announced in January 2016. On February 15, 2016, Pitchfork streamed "Talk," the second single from the album, and reported that they will record the theme song to the 2016 Powerpuff Girls reboot.
Singer Emily Nokes was influenced by the science fiction series The X-Files during the writing of Lost Time. The name of the album is a reference to the pilot episode of The X-Files, which touched on the lost time phenomenon.
Tacocat were included in the Coachella 2017 line-up.
This Mess Is a Place
The band released their fourth full-length album, This Mess is a Place on May 3, 2019, on Sub Pop Records
Members
Discography
Albums
Shame Spiral (Don't Stop Believin' Records, 2008)
NVM (Hardly Art, 2014)
Lost Time (Hardly Art, 2016)
This Mess Is a Place (Sub Pop, 2019)
EPs
Ghost Mice/Tacocat Split (Plan-It-X Records, 2009)
This is Happening Without Your Permission Split (Teenage Teardrops, 2009)
Woman's Day (Minor Bird Records, 2011)
Take Me to Your Dealer (Hardly Art, 2012)
Tapes
Frenching and Foodstamps (self-release, 2009)
OMG (self-release, 2010)
Singles
"Bridge to Hawaii" (Hardly Art, 2013)
"Crimson Wave" (Hardly Art, 2014)
"Talk" (Hardly Art, 2016)
"Grains of Salt" (Sub Pop, 2019)
References
External links
Musical groups from Seattle
Pop punk groups from Washington (state)
Punk rock groups from Washington (state)
Riot grrrl bands
Feminist musicians
Hardly Art artists
2007 establishments in Washington (state) |
17338085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZMZ | DZMZ | 89 DMZ Danze Muzic Zone (formerly under DZMZ 89.1 MHz Metro Manila) was a music FM station from November 18, 1989 until February 28, 2001 and was owned and operated by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation in the Philippines. Its studios were located at Broadcast City, Capitol Hills, Diliman, Quezon City, with its transmitter located along Roosevelt Avenue, San Francisco del Monte, Quezon City.
History
Initially known as DWKB-FM (KB 89.1), the station first aired in 1975 and in a short time, became one of the country's most listened to easy listening FM music stations.
As 89 DMZ
The station later rebranded as 89 DMZ on November 18, 1989 (it also changed its callsign to DZMZ-FM) which played dance music such as disco, new wave, Euro/Italo disco, electronic dance music, house and Eurodance; hip hop, R&B, pop, OPM, hot AC and remixed music from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The late rapper, Francis Magalona, worked with the station through his program, "The Word-up Show", which aired on Saturday nights. It also became the home of the "Mobile Circuit" every Friday night. Back then, the station operated 18 hours a day.
The end of 89 DMZ
In 2001, IBC and Blockbuster Broadcasting System went into a government-sponsored bidding and Blockbuster Broadcasting System won the frequency rights as Wave 891 (callsign then changed to DWAV). However, the network still shared its transmission facilities of IBC 13 until 2014.
After 89 DMZ: Dance Music Zone in cyberspace
Inspired by 89 Danze Muzic Zone, iDMZ Sayaw Pinoy! is an Internet radio station that was formally launched on August 28, 2011. iDMZ Sayaw Pinoy! is the first and only Filipino interactive website that offers non-stop dance music in the form of DJ mixes. It provides unadulterated dance music that caters to the entire age spectrum and became a tribute to the Philippine icon radio station, 89 DMZ. Anyone from all over the world can access the site and enjoy the music via live streaming.
iDMZ Sayaw Pinoy! also has a group page in Facebook dubbed "89 DMZ (Danze Music Zone)" with more than 18,000 active members.
iDMZ Sayaw Pinoy! is spearheaded by Arthur Serzo a.k.a. The King (Program Director) and Terence N. Khan a.k.a. The Sting (The Voice behind iDMZ/script writer/DJ/consultant).
See also
IBC-13
Defunct radio stations in Metro Manila
Radio stations established in 1988
Radio stations disestablished in 2000
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Internet radio stations in the Philippines |
17338087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined%20word | Combined word | Combined word may refer to:
Portmanteau word, a word which fuses two or more function words
Compound (linguistics), a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem |
6905537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili%20shrimp | Chili shrimp | Chili shrimp ( or ) is a dish of stir-fried shrimp in chilli sauce (which may use doubanjiang) in Chinese cuisine. It is a part of Sichuan and Shanghai cuisines.
In Japanese Chinese cuisine, ebi-chiri () is derived from Shanghai-style Szechuan cuisine. It consists of stir-fried shrimp in chilli sauce. It has a history in Japan. According to Iron Chef, ebi-chiri was introduced to and popularized in Japan by Chen Kenmin, father of Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi.
In Korean Chinese cuisine, chili shrimp is called kkansyo-saeu (), a named consisting of the word kkansyo derived from Chinese gān shāo () and saeu meaning "shrimp" in Korean, or chilli-saeu () with the English-derived word chilli.
See also
Chili chicken
List of seafood dishes
Japanese Chinese cuisine
Korean Chinese cuisine
Shrimp dishes
Sichuan cuisine |
23577441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murrah%20River | Murrah River | Murrah River is an open mature wave dominated barrier estuary or perennial river located in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Formed by the confluence of the Mumbulla Creek and Dry River, approximately southeast by south of Quaama, the Murrah River flows generally east, before flowing into Murrah Lagoon and reaching its mouth into the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean north of Murrah Beach. The length of the course of the river varies between and .
The catchment area of the river is with a volume of over a surface area of , at an average depth of .
The Princes Highway crosses Murrah River at Quaama, south of Cobargo.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
South Coast (New South Wales) |
17338088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamuk | Lamuk | Lamuk is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6905540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor%20%28department%20store%29 | Manor (department store) | Manor AG is a Swiss department store chain with its headquarters in Basel. It is owned by Maus Frères of Geneva, and is Switzerland’s largest department-store chain. It generated total sales of CHF 3 billion in 2013. Manor has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores since 1968.
Company history
Brothers Ernest and Henri Maus together with Léon Nordmann opened their first department store in Lucerne in 1902, under the “Léon Nordmann” name. The more familiar “Manor” – a combination of the founders’ Maus and Nordmann surnames – did not appear until a new corporate identity was adopted in about 1965.
All the company’s department stores in German-speaking Switzerland have borne the Manor name since 1994, and all the stores in the rest of the country have carried the name since September 2000.
Locations
Manor's mainline stores are located in Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Locarno, Lugano, Luzern & Zürich plus
Aarau, Albis, Ascona, Bachenbülach, Baden, Balerna, Bellinzona, Biasca, Biel/Bienne, Bulle, Bogis, Chur, Delémont, Emmen, Frauenfeld, Fribourg, Haag, Heerbrugg, Hinwil, Ibach, Kreuzlingen, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Langenthal, Liestal, Marin-Epagnier, Monthey, Morges, Nyon, Payerne, Pfaffikon, Rapperswil, Rickenbach, S. Antonino, Sargans, Schaffhausen, Schattdorf, Schönbühl, Sierre, Sion, Solothrun, Spreitenbach, St Gallen, Thun, Vesenaz, Vevey, Vezia, Wattwil, Winterthur, Wohlen, Yverdon-les-bains, & Zug.
See also
List of Swiss companies
References
Retail companies of Switzerland
Companies based in Lucerne
Companies based in Basel
Switzerland
Retail companies established in 1902
Swiss companies established in 1902 |
17338094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langyang | Langyang | Langyang is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
23577446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murruin%20Creek | Murruin Creek | Murruin Creek is a river of the state of New South Wales in Australia. It is a tributary of the Wollondilly River and part of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment.
Its confluence with the Wollondilly is at the locality of Barrallier. It drops around 919m in its 28.3km length. It is notable for the high Calcium content and clarity of its water.
The high ground on its right bank, in its upper reaches, forms a part of the Great Divide watershed, the other side of which drains to the Abercrombie River. The high ground on its left bank, the Murruin Range, in its upper reaches, is also a watershed, the other side of which drains to the Kowmung River.
The ridge-line of the Murriun Range is a probable path that Francis Barrallier's expedition of November-December 1802 followed, in its quest to cross the mountains. It was later part of the Colong Stock Route between Oberon and Burragorang, which was used before the construction of Warragamba Dam. Part of the route still exists, as the Oberon-Colong Historic Stock Route, and is still in use the only vehicular route to the former mining town of Yerrannderie.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales |
44503700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%20Crail | Archie Crail | Archie Crail (born 1944 in Paarl, South Africa) is a South African-Canadian writer. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1992 Governor General's Awards for his short story collection The Bonus Deal.
Background
A coloured South African of Khoisan descent, Crail was born and raised in Paarl. Educated at the University of South Africa, he was an anti-apartheid activist with the African National Congress, and studied theology under Desmond Tutu. He later spent several years living in South-West Africa, continuing his political activism with SWAPO, and briefly moved to Botswana before moving to Canada in 1980.
Crail and his family settled in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1980. Crail took classes at the University of Regina, including studying creative writing under Ven Begamudré.
Writing
His first work, a theatrical play titled Exile, won the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild literary competition in 1989 and was produced by Saskatoon's 25th Street Theatre in 1990. A touring production of Exile was later mounted in South Africa.
The Bonus Deal was published by Coteau Books in 1992. Several of the short stories in The Bonus Deal were also dramatized for CBC Radio.
In 1991, after the South African government lifted its ban on exiled African National Congress members returning to South Africa, Crail attended the organization's conference in Durban.
Works
Exile (1990)
The Bonus Deal (1992)
References
Living people
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Canadian male short story writers
Canadian radio writers
Canadian male journalists
Black Canadian writers
Journalists from Saskatchewan
South African male short story writers
South African short story writers
South African journalists
South African dramatists and playwrights
Coloured South African people
South African emigrants to Canada
People from Paarl
Writers from Regina, Saskatchewan
Anti-apartheid activists
University of South Africa alumni
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
1944 births
20th-century Canadian short story writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian Film Centre alumni |
6905546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothwell%20Lodge%20State%20Historic%20Site | Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site | Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site is a state-owned property located north of Sedalia, Missouri, United States, preserving the 31-room, 12,000-square-foot summer home, Bothwell Lodge, built for Sedalia attorney John Homer Bothwell. The site offers tours and trails for hiking and mountain biking. It is administered by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
History
John Bothwell purchased the property in 1896, naming it Stonyridge Farm. From 1897 to 1928, Bothwell built the lodge in four phases on top of a rock bluff overlooking a valley. The lodge was intended to be a summer home and is an eclectic combination of various styles with Craftsman influences. One of the eccentricities of the home was an attempt to use a natural cave discovered during construction as a source of natural air conditioning. The limestone used in the home's construction was quarried on site.
A widower for most of his life, Bothwell often invited family and friends to stay at the lodge. It was to this group of individuals that he left the lodge upon his death. The group was named the Bothwell Lodge Club, and the lodge was placed under its control so long as more than five members remained alive. Upon the death of the sixth member (reducing the membership to five), the lodge would be offered to the state. In 1969, the property was officially offered to the state, which accepted the home five years later.
Activities and amenities
In addition to the lodge, the grounds include a garage/home, another separate home, hiking trails, picnicking facilities, and a playground.
References
External links
Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site Map Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Missouri State Historic Sites
Protected areas established in 1974
Historic house museums in Missouri
Museums in Pettis County, Missouri
Protected areas of Pettis County, Missouri |
6905556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared%20cirrus | Infrared cirrus | Infrared cirrus or galactic cirrus are galactic filamentary structures seen in space over most of the sky that emit far-infrared light. The name is given because the structures are cloud-like in appearance. These structures were first detected by the Infrared Astronomy Satellite at wavelengths of 60 and 100 micrometres.
See also
Cosmic infrared background
References
External links
Molecular Hydrogen in Infrared Cirrus, Kristen Gillmon, J. Michael Shull, 2006 Abstract
PDF Paper
The Physics of Infrared Cirrus, C. Darren Dowell, Roger H. Hildebrand, Alexandre Lazarian, Michael W. Werner, Ellen Zweibel
Interstellar media |
23577449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadgee%20River | Nadgee River | The Nadgee River is a mature intermittently closed saline coastal lagoon; or perennial river located in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Nadgee River rises on the southern slopes of Mount Nadgee within the Nadgee Nature Reserve in remote country near the boundary between New South Wales and Victoria; located about northwest by west of Mount Victoria. The river flows generally east, joined by two minor tributaries before reaching its mouth with the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean, west northwest of Black Head, north of Cape Howe. The river descends over its course.
The catchment area of the river is with a volume of over a surface area of , at an average depth of .
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
South Coast (New South Wales)
Coastline of New South Wales |
6905560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20Training%20School | Command Training School | Command Training School of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the unit responsible for training officer cadets. Graduates are then commissioned as Officers on the completion of their Initial Officer Training Course.
Formerly located at RNZAF Base Wigram, CTS was relocated to RNZAF Base Woodbourne when Wigram was decommissioned in 1995.
Officer Cadets wear distinctive insignia on their uniforms. Their shoulder rank badge consists of a white band that takes up about half the slip-on rankslide. On their service uniform white square tabs are placed on the service uniform jacket collar. The flight cap bears a white flash, but the service hat is the same as that worn by commissioned officers.
Like the enlisted recruits at Command Recruit Training Squadron, CTS Officer Cadets do ten days in-field training at RNZAF Dip Flat.
Units and formations of the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Air force academies |
23577450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadgigomar%20Creek | Nadgigomar Creek | Nadgigomar Creek is a river of the state of New South Wales in Australia.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales |
23577451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangahrah%20Creek | Nangahrah Creek | Nangahrah Creek is a river of the state of New South Wales in Australia.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales |
44503728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxopneustes%20roseus | Toxopneustes roseus | Toxopneustes roseus is a species of sea urchin from the East Pacific. It is sometimes known as the rose flower urchin or the pink flower urchin. Like the related flower urchin, they are venomous.
Taxonomy
Toxopneustes roseus is one of the four species in the genus Toxopneustes. It was first described by the American zoologist Alexander Emanuel Agassiz in 1863 as Boletia roseus.
The generic name Toxopneustes literally means "poison breath", derived from Greek τοξικόν [φάρμακον] (toksikón [phármakon], "arrow [poison]") and πνευστος (pneustos, "breath"). The specific name roseus means "rosy" in Latin.
Though it does not have a widely used common name, it is sometimes known as the "rose flower urchin" or the "pink flower urchin". More commonly, it is simply called a "flower urchin", though that name strictly applies only to the related Indo-West Pacific species, Toxopneustes pileolus.
Description
Toxopneustes roseus is similar in appearance to the more widespread flower urchin, Toxopneustes pileolus. It can be distinguished by having a rigid "shell" (test) that is a solid pink, red, or purple in color, in contrast to the variegated coloration of the test of Toxopneustes pileolus. Like other members of the genus, its most conspicuous feature are its numerous pedicellariae (stalked grasping appendages) which gives it the appearance of being a cluster of flowers.
Distribution
Toxopneustes roseus is the only member of the genus found in the East Pacific. It can be found from Peru, up along the coast of Central America (including the Gulf of California), and as far north as California. They can also be found in the waters around the Galapagos Islands.
They are common in coral reefs, rhodolith beds, and rocky environments, at depths of . They can also be found in sand and mud substrates.
Ecology
Toxopneustes roseus feeds almost exclusively on rhodoliths, a coralline algae. They are highly mobile. They move and feed throughout the day and night, though they seem to be more active at night.
Toxopneustes roseus are among the numerous species of sea urchins known as "collector urchins", so named because they frequently cover the upper surfaces of their bodies with debris from their surroundings. This behavior is usually referred to as "covering" or "heaping". A 1998 study has postulated that the debris collected by the sea urchins may serve as ballast, preventing them from being swept away by wave surges when feeding
Venom
Like other members of the genus, Toxopneustes roseus is venomous. The flower-like pedicellariae can deliver a painful sting if touched.
See also
Fire urchins
References
External links
Toxopneustidae
Animals described in 1863 |
17338095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Bodington | Nicolas Bodington | During the Second World War, Nicolas Redner Bodington OBE (6 June 1904 – 3 July 1974) served in the F section of the Special Operations Executive. He took part in four missions to France.
Life
Pre-war
Nicolas Bodington was the son of Oliver Bodington international lawyer and Mary (née Redner). He was born in Paris. His elder brother was Lieutenant Colonel John Redner Bodington DSO MC, a soldier who served in World War I and World War II. Nicolas Bodington studied at Cheltenham College and (for a year) at Lincoln College, Oxford before becoming a journalist, working from 1930 onwards for the Daily Express. He married Audrey Hoffmann in Cheltenham in September 1926. Before the war, he was Reuters's press correspondent in Paris. There he mixed with Karl Bömelburg, who was later head of the Gestapo in France, and Henri Déricourt, who was later a triple agent. He also worked for MI6 for a time.
In 1938 his novel Solo was published in England by Gollancz.
His name is misspelt frequently. Records of his birth, military service, marriage and death all show that his first name was Nicolas. This agrees with his name as given on the covers of both of his published books.
Wartime service
In 1940 he joined the F section as its General Staff Officer II, assisting Leslie Humphreys, then, from December, H.R. Marriott. At the start of 1941, he recruited Virginia Hall and at the start of summer that year, Maurice Buckmaster became Section F's head.
His various cover identities and code names were "NICK", "ANDRE EDOUARD", "JEAN PAUL", "PIERROT" and "PEDLAR".
At the start of 1942 Bodington participated in the landing by boat in Brittany which picked up Pierre de Vomécourt, codename Lucas, head of the AUTOGIRO network, and Mathilde Carré, codename Victoire, the famous spy nicknamed La Chatte.
1942 mission
On the night of 29/30 July 1942, he was sent to France to evaluate the value to F Section of collaborating with André Girard's CARTE network. Landing from the sailing ship Seadog at Golfe-Juan, shortly afterwards he made contact with Girard and Henri Frager at Cannes. He wished to meet with the head of the Armée d'armistice. André Girard put him in contact with colonel Vautrin, formerly head of Paul Reynaud's cabinet, and asked for large quantities of arms, which Bodington promised to supply. He met with Peter Churchill, and also went to Lyon to try to undo the chaos that was then reigning there. On the night of 31 August, Bodington re-embarked on Seadog and sailed for Gibraltar, arriving on 9 September. When he returned to England, his enthusiastic report on CARTE (delivered on 12 September) formed the foundation for the use of CARTE's file as the basis for recruitment for the Prosper – PHYSICIAN network by its heads Francis Suttill (Prosper) and Andrée Borrel (Denise) on their arrival in France.
Major General Colin Gubbins head of SOE wrote of his successful mission, "As a result of his ingenuity, resourcefulness and perseverance, it has been possible to establish close relations with a very important group of French patriots. This contact would not have been successfully made without the personal visit of this officer". He was recommended for the award of the MBE.
1943 mission to France
In 1943 Bodington supported the candidacy of Henri Déricourt a former civil airline pilot, who was engaged by F section and sent to France in February that year, codenamed Gilbert, to organise aerial rendezvous for F Section.
Special Operations Executive agent Francis Suttill had been chosen to establish a new network in and around Paris, called "Prosper" (also called "Physician"). In September 1942, Andrée Borrel was parachuted into France to prepare the way for Suttill who arrived on 1 October 1942. A wireless operator, Gilbert Norman arrived in November 1942 and a second operator, Jack Agazarian, arrived the following month. Transport for the Prosper network was mainly provided by Henri Déricourt. Suttill and Jack Agazarian became increasingly concerned about the loyalty of Déricourt. In May 1943, Francis Suttill returned to London and he passed on his fears to Nicolas Bodington and Maurice Buckmaster. However, they were unconvinced and refused to recall Déricourt to Britain.
Preparing to return to France Bodington discussed the situation with Maurice Buckmaster and left a note on record at SOE Headquarters dated 23 June 1943 concerning Dericourt, "we know he is in contact with the Germans and also how and why" (suggesting that he may have been feeding the Germans with false intelligence provided by London.
He was decorated as a Member of the Order of the British Empire Military Division (MBE) as Captain, Temporary Major, British Army, General List in the London Gazette dated 20 July 1943.
Bodington arrived in France aboard a special duties Lockheed Hudson aircraft of No. 161 Squadron RAF flown by Lewis Hodges DSO DFC AFC, which landed near Angers on the night of 22–23 July 1943.
He was to clarify the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the Prosper network in June and the role of Henri Déricourt (Gilbert), who was strongly suspected of having betrayed several agents. Jack Agazarian (Marcel, arrested later in this mission) and the Belgian Adelin Marissael accompanied him back to France. Oddly, it was Déricourt who welcomed them when they landed, in the field Achille 1 km to the southeast of Soucelles. Bodington and Agazarian travelled to Paris with Dericourt where they tried to establish if Gilbert Norman was active. Tossing a coin to choose who would visit Norman's address Agazarian lost and when he visited was arrested by the Gestapo. Having escaped the Germans, Bodington exonerated Déricourt (though he was dismissed from SOE) and tried to convince Noor Inayat Khan to return to England (she refused) [There is NO evidence for this]
, Bodington returned on the night of 16–17 August 1943 by Lysander flown by Hugh Verity DSO DFC, along with Lise and Claude de Baissac. He did not believe that Déricourt was betraying British agents as he had been active in Paris for some time himself and had not been arrested.
For the following six months he lectured and wrote reports on the intricacies of the French political situation for the forces preparing for D-Day.
1944 mission
On 11 February 1944 in London, he interrogated Henri Dericourt who had returned from France, to ascertain his loyalties.
In the spring of 1944 Bodington was due to return to France on an SOE mission to the southwest of France as the organiser of a resistance network but the mission was cancelled at the last moment, possibly due to concerns over an informant in France, later identified as BOUSQUET, following the arrest of Charles Skepper, Eliane Plewman and Arthur Steele (SOE agent).
SFHQ sent him back to France under the codename Jean. Knowing that the Gestapo had a photograph of him and a price on his head Bodington parachuted on the night of 10 July 1944 into the dangerous Chalons-sur-Marne district to reactivate the PROFESSOR network in its new identity as the PEDLAR network, and to assist the French Resistance. Accompanied by a small Special Air Service team of four men he provided useful information for RAF bombing objectives and, from 24 August, was attached to Operation Jedburgh with the "Arnold" team. It was a mission in which SOE and similar units operated in France with the SAS behind German lines carrying out acts of sabotage. In total, 93 Jedburgh teams operated in 54 French metropolitan départements between June and December 1944. They were known by codenames which usually were first names (such as "Hugh"), with some names of medicines (such as "Novocaine") and a few random names thrown in to confuse German intelligence.
Bodington was recommended for a gallantry award, the Military Cross for his service in France, the recommendation recorded his previous missions to France and his return despite knowing that the Gestapo had his photograph and adds that – In the short time at his disposal Bodington arranged several receptions of arms and stores (parachuted by the Royal Air Force) to the French resistance in the Marne Department and organised guerrilla warfare against enemy garrisons and convoys passing through the area. In the St. Dizier, and Chaumont regions he took part in several clashes with the enemy and showed great courage in dealing with German formations by the use of the BAZOOKA and the PIAT. After his positions had been over-run by the American advance he passed through enemy lines several times to obtain valuable intelligence. He was recommended for a Military Cross for gallantry in action in Normandy but eventually received an OBE instead.
1945
Bodington worked for both Special Operations Executive and also the "Secret Intelligence Service" MI6, possibly simultaneously, and as the result of internal rivalries appears to have been the victim of an internal smear campaign suggesting that he may have had wartime contact with the German Sicherheitsdienst which was not always in the best interest of his country. The National Archives in London hold a file KV2/830 documenting an investigation carried out into these claims from February to July 1945 which it classifies as :
Twice decorated for bravery Captain Bodington resigned his commission on 7 July 1945 and was granted permission to retain the rank of Major.
After the war
In June 1948 he was a witness at the trial of Henri Déricourt, a French agent of SOE who was known to have had contact with the German Sicherheitsdienst and Gestapo and is often regarded as having been a double or triple agent. Bodington's testimony was decisive in bringing about Dericourt's acquittal and suggests that Dericourt may have fed false intelligence to the Germans.
In 1961 his second book was published by Andre Deutsch, The Awakening Sahara.
Awards
UK : Member of the Order of the British Empire Military Division (MBE). Awarded as Captain, Temporary Major, British Army, General List in the London Gazette dated 20 July 1943.
UK : Officer of the Order of the British Empire Military Division (OBE). Awarded as a Major, British Army, General List in the London Gazette dated 21 January 1947.
France : Médaille de la Résistance
Recommended for the Military Cross for service with SAS Operation Jedburgh teams in Northern France in July 1944.
References
Sources and external links
Michael Richard Daniell Foot, SOE in France. An account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940–1944, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966, 1968 ; Whitehall History Publishing, in association with Frank Cass, 2004. Official History of SOE in Europe..
André Gillois, L'Histoire secrète des Français à Londres, Le Cercle du nouveau Livre, Librairie Jules Taillandier, 1973.
1904 births
1974 deaths
Military personnel from Paris
British Army personnel of World War II
British Special Operations Executive personnel
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Cheltenham College
Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
Daily Express people
Recipients of the Resistance Medal |
17338101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laokam | Laokam | Laokam is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6905568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Province%20of%20Crotone | List of municipalities of the Province of Crotone | The following is a list of the 27 municipalities (comuni) of the Province of Crotone, Calabria, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Crotone |
44503741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun%20Square | Loudoun Square | Loudoun Square is a residential square in Cardiff, Wales, described as "the heart of the old Tiger Bay". The square is the location of two of Cardiff's few residential tower blocks, as well as shops, a pub, church, health centre and community centre.
History
During the 1840s the Marquess of Bute created the residential area of Butetown, to house workers for the new Cardiff Docks. After his death (in 1848), and the death in 1852 of the owner of a glassworks on the site, land was acquired between West Bute Street (to the east) and the Glamorganshire Canal (to the west) to create a large square of three-storey decorative houses. It was shown as "Luton Square" on an 1855 map. The square was a "jewell" in "perhaps the poshest place in town" surrounding a green, tranquil park with its houses home to shipwrights, mariners, merchants, brokers and builders. The area became highly multicultural, "one of the most colourful and cosmopolitan communities on Earth".
By the 1880s the wealthier residents had moved away to the new suburbs. While the nearby Mount Stuart Square became the site for an impressive new Coal Exchange building, Loudoun Square became increasingly overcrowded as residents took in tenants to help pay the high rents. The Loudoun Square area became known as "Tiger Bay", and the racial composition became even more diverse with the arrival of seafarers on the ships in the period before the Great War.
1960s redevelopment
By the late 1940s the houses in Butetown were in extremely poor repair and the area was seen by the city authorities as a physical and moral slum. It was decided to demolish the existing houses and replace them with modern residential tower blocks. Loudoun Square was the first area to be tackled and the nineteenth century housing was cleared in 1960. Residents of the Square were moved to new housing or decanted to Cardiff's suburban housing estates. Between 1960 and 1966 two 16-storey tower blocks, Loudoun House and Nelson House, were built on the centre of Loudoun Square.
Recent events
A new foyer, "hotel-style" concierge reception and garden area was created by Cardiff Council for Loudoun House and Nelson House in 2001, described by a resident as "similar to the St David's Hotel".
In Summer 2010 work started to replace and improve the facilities in the square, with a £13 million revamp led by Cardiff Community Housing Association. The new facilities would include a new shopping centre, community hub and a health centre, together with 13 new houses and 48 apartments to a BREEAM accredited eco-standard.
In 2023, a new station on the South Wales Metro is planned to open in the area, serving 3 Light Rapid Transit lines to Treherbert, Aberdare, & Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff City Centre & Cardiff Bay (With plans to extend to the Senedd and Cardiff Parkway).
Sources
References
External links
Aerial photo showing Loudoun Square (1927) bottom right, Gathering the Jewells website
Butetown
Squares in Cardiff |
23577454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narran%20River | Narran River | Narran River, a watercourse of the Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Southern Downs district of Queensland and Orana district of New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises south west of Dirranbandi, as a branch of the Balonne River in Queensland, and flows generally to the south and south-west, before reaching its mouth at Narran Lake, between Brewarrina and Walgett in New South Wales; descending over its course.
In March 2010 the Narran River flooded the Angledool Lake at Angledool and then spilled into Weetalabah Creek, crossing the Castlereagh Highway, filling Coocoran Lake near Lightning Ridge.
See also
Rivers of Queensland
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Rivers of Queensland
Murray-Darling basin
Distributaries |
17338108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotiki | Laotiki | Laotiki is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17338115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La-tai | La-tai | La-tai is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6905571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorseddau%20Tramway | Gorseddau Tramway | The Gorseddau Tramway was a narrow gauge railway built in Wales in 1856 to link the slate quarries around Gorseddau with the wharves at Porthmadog. It was an early forerunner of the Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway and subsequently the Welsh Highland Railway.
Tremadoc Tramway
The Tremadoc tramway (sometimes known as the Llidiartyspytty Railway) was built by William Madocks sometime before 1842, and possibly as early as the 1830s. It connected the ironstone mine at Llidiart Yspytty to Porthmadog harbour. Little is known about the operation of the railway, though it is believed to have been horse worked with similar track and rolling stock to the nearby Nantlle Railway. The ironstone mine was not successful, so the tramway was extended to serve a nearby slate quarry, which was owned by the Bangor & Portmadoc Slate & Slab Co. Ltd.
In 1856, the Bangor & Portmadoc Slate & Slab company requested tenders to extend the line to the Gorseddau slate quarry (known at the time by its local Welsh dialect name, Gorsedda), at Glan Bwll. The engineer was James Brunlees, who was based in Manchester. The extended railway, completed in 1857, was known as the Gorsedda Tramway; the formal Welsh form is Gorseddau.
Route and operation
From the wharves at Porthmadog harbor the line curved through the town and ran alongside the Y Cyt canal to Tremadog. From there a reversing neck marked the beginning of the extension towards Gorseddau. The route headed west through the village of Penmorfa where it passed under the main road in a short tunnel. Along this stretch gradients reached a maximum of 1 in 23. At Henefail the line turned north past Ynys-y-Pandy and on to Gorseddau where a short incline lead into the quarry. The line ran a total distance of just over 8 miles and rose 900 feet in that distance. Down loads were worked by gravity.
The line was horse operated using wagons and a passenger carriage supplied by the Boston Lodge works of the Ffestiniog Railway.
Takeover
In 1863 the Croesor Tramway was built, connecting the slate quarries of the Croesor valley with Porthmadog. This narrow gauge tramway crossed the Gorseddau on the level on the edge of Porthmadog and served the same wharves.
In 1871 notice was given by the owners of the Gorseddau Tramway that they intended to replace the tramway with a new railway between Gorseddau and Porthmadog of narrow gauge. This would allow common rolling stock to be used between the Croesor and Gorseddau tramways and the Ffestiniog railway, all of which delivered slate to Porthmadog harbour. An Act of Parliament was authorized on 25 July 1872 and the Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway was created, replacing the Gorseddau Tramway.
References
Further reading
External links
Interactive Map at Live.com
Welsh Highland Railway
3 ft gauge railways in Wales
Industrial railways in Wales
Railway lines opened in 1856
Railway companies disestablished in 1872
Rail transport in Gwynedd
Horse-drawn railways
Porthmadog
Dolbenmaen
1856 establishments in Wales
1872 disestablishments in Wales |
20478602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Rodman | Marcel Rodman | Marcel Rodman (September 25, 1981) is a Slovenian former professional ice hockey forward.
Playing career
Rodman was drafted by the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 2001, but never played in the NHL.
He has played for the Krefeld Pinguine of the DEL, and the Graz 99ers, Vienna Capitals and HK Acroni Jesenice of the Austrian Hockey League.
On July 18, 2013, Rodman left SC Bietigheim-Bissingen of the 2nd Bundesliga and signed as a free agent to newly promoted DEL club, Schwenningen Wild Wings.
During the 2014–15 season, Rodman left KHL Medveščak Zagreb after only appearing in 9 scoreless games with the club. He returned to the EBEL, signing with EC KAC for the remainder of the season. In 21 games with KAC, Rodman brought stability and depth to the forward lines, scoring 11 points before suffering a season-ending injury preventing him from contributing in the playoffs in which KAC would claim the championship.
International play
He participated at several IIHF World Championships as a member of the Slovenia men's national ice hockey team.
Rodman played for the Slovenian national team at the 2008 IIHF World Championship, where he had 1 assist in 5 games.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Boston Bruins draft picks
Dresdner Eislöwen players
EC Bad Tölz players
Graz 99ers players
HK Acroni Jesenice players
Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics
KHL Medveščak Zagreb players
EC KAC players
Krefeld Pinguine players
Olympic ice hockey players of Slovenia
People from the Municipality of Žirovnica
Peterborough Petes (ice hockey) players
SC Bietigheim-Bissingen players
Schwenninger Wild Wings players
Slovenian expatriates in Germany
Slovenian ice hockey right wingers
Vienna Capitals players
Slovenian expatriates in Austria
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia |
44503766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match%20%28film%29 | Match (film) | Match is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Stephen Belber, based on his 2004 play of the same name. The film stars Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard. The film was released on January 14, 2015, by IFC Films.
Plot
The film revolves around Tobi, a middle-aged ex-dancer now working as a ballet instructor at the Juilliard School in New York City. He is asked for an interview by husband and wife Mike and Lisa, who claim they are preparing a dissertation on the dance community of the 1960s. Through the course of the interview, Mike's questions keep getting more and more personal. He finally reveals that he suspects that Tobi is his biological father, as indicated by Mike's mother on her deathbed. When Tobi denies this, Mike forcefully takes a DNA sample from Tobi and rushes to a police lab, where his friend Jim performs a DNA test.
Outraged by Mike's violence, Lisa stays to help Tobi clean up the mess Mike made. She bonds with Tobi as a person and Tobi reveals that he knows he is Mike's father, but denied it out of shame. He had abandoned the boy for his career. He also reveals that he paid a part of Mike's college tuition for college. When Mike returns to take Lisa home, the three have an argument. Tobi tells Mike to treat his wife well. After further argument, in which Mike tells Tobi he chose to make his life so that no one loves him, the pair leave. Lisa convinces Tobi to tell Mike the truth. He also invites the pair for brunch the next day.
On their way to Tobi's house the next morning, Mike is called by Jim, who tells him that the DNA was not a match. When Lisa and Mike tell Tobi this, he has an anxiety attack, and politely asks them to let him be alone. As the movie ends, Tobi is heard calling friends to take them up on an offer of a dinner party.
Cast
Patrick Stewart as Tobi Powell
Carla Gugino as Lisa
Matthew Lillard as Mike
Maduka Steady as Cabbie
Jaime Tirelli as Raul
Rob Yang as Jim
Production
On January 17, 2013, Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino, and Matthew Lillard joined the cast.
Release
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2014. The film was released theatrically on January 14, 2015, by IFC Films.
Reception
Match received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 76%, based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 62 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
References
External links
2014 films
American films
American drama films
2014 drama films
Films set in New York City
Films shot in New York City |
17338118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauhkang | Lauhkang | Lauhkang is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17338126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La-uho | La-uho | La-uho is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
23577457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399%20Libyan%20Premier%20League | 1998–99 Libyan Premier League | Following are the statistics of the Libyan Premier League for the 1998–99 season. The Libyan Premier League () is the highest division of Libyan football championship, organised by Libyan Football Federation. It was founded in 1963 and features mostly professional players.
Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Al Mahalah Tripoli won the championship.
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Playoff
Championship Group
Relegation Group
References
Libya - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Libyan Premier League seasons
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Libya |
6905576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Tarry | Ellen Tarry | Ellen Tarry (September 26, 1906 – September 23, 2008) was an African-American journalist and author who served as a minor figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her Janie Belle (1940) was the first African-American picture book, and her other works include further literature for children and young adults as well as an autobiography.
Biography
Tarry was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Although raised in the Congregational Church, she converted to Catholicism in 1922, after years of attending the St Francis de Sales school for girls on the former Belmead plantation property in Virginia. She was taught there by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
She thereafter attended Alabama State Normal School, now Alabama State University, and became a teacher in Birmingham. At the same time, she began writing a column for the local African-American newspaper entitled "Negroes of Note", focusing on racial injustice and racial pride.
In 1929, she moved to New York City in hope of becoming a writer. There she befriended such Harlem Renaissance literary figures as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Countee Cullen. She was the first "Negro Scholarship" recipient at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, where she met and became friends with Margaret Wise Brown and was influenced by the "here and now" theory of picture book composition.
Tarry published four picture books: Janie Belle (1940), illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon), 1942's Hezekiah Horton (illustrated by Oliver Harrington), 1946's My Dog Rinty in collaboration with Caldecott Medal winner Marie Hall Ets (photographs by Alexander and Alexandra Alland), concerning a Harlem family and their mischievous pet, and 1950's The Runaway Elephant (again illustrated by Harrington), which continued the relationships started in Hezekiah Horton.
Tarry's The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman (from 1955) tells of her life in the South (including her time at the SBS school in Virginia), her migration to New York City, her friendship with McKay, and her deep commitment to Catholicism. In 1942, Tarry was one of the first two co-directors along with Ann Harrigan Makletzoff, at the request of Catherine de Hueck Doherty, of the Chicago branch of Friendship House, a Catholic outreach movement promoting interracial friendship. It offers a thoughtful eyewitness view of life in Alabama and Harlem from the 20s through the early 50s, a pivotal era in the evolution of race relations. Her involvement with USO during the Second World War opens a window on the experience of mobilization and the later integration of the military. The book's concluding chapter recounts a drive from Harlem to Birmingham and back in the immediate aftermath of the 1954 Supreme Court desegregation decision.
Tarry's biographies include Katherine Drexel: Friend of the Neglected, Pierre Toussaint: Apostle of Old New York, The Other Toussaint: A Post-Revolutionary Black, and Martin de Porres, Saint of the New World.
Tarry died on September 23, 2008, three days before her 102nd birthday.
Personal life
She had one daughter, Elizabeth Tarry Patton, from a brief marriage.
See also
Friendship House
References
Confirmation of death
External links
Excerpt from Project Muse
Article by Ellen Tarry on A. Philip Randolph
Review of The Other Toussaint: A Post-Revolutionary Black
Review of The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman
Article which mentions her from 2006
1906 births
2008 deaths
American centenarians
Alabama State University alumni
Bank Street College of Education alumni
Converts to Roman Catholicism
African-American women writers
African-American writers
American writers
African-American centenarians
Women centenarians
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
20th-century American people
African-American Catholics
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women |
17338127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20L.%20Lane | W. L. Lane | William Lawrence Lane, more commonly known as W. L. Lane, was secretary-manager of the English football club Darlington from 1911 to 1912.
Managerial statistics
References
External links
Darlington F.C. managers
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing
English football managers |
6905583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatic%20plexus | Hepatic plexus | The hepatic plexus, the largest offset from the celiac plexus, receives filaments from the left vagus and right phrenic nerves.
It accompanies the hepatic artery, ramifying upon its branches, and upon those of the portal vein in the substance of the liver.
Branches from this plexus accompany all the divisions of the hepatic artery.
A considerable plexus accompanies the gastroduodenal artery and is continued as the inferior gastric plexus on the right gastroepiploic artery along the greater curvature of the stomach, where it unites with offshoots from the lienal plexus. Cystic plexus is the derivation of hepatic plexus.
References
External links
Nerve plexus
Nerves of the torso
Vagus nerve |
20478612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luizinho%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201985%29 | Luizinho (footballer, born 1985) | Luís Carlos Fernandes (born 25 July 1985), commonly known as Luizinho, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a forward.
Career
He spent his career playing mainly in Asia from 2007 to 2015. On 2 March 2011, Luizinho joined the South Korean club Incheon United, where he signed a contract until 2013.
But, his contract was terminated after four months.
He played domestically for Santos, Portuguesa, Taubaté, Ipatinga, Santo André São José-RS and Itumbiara EC, in South Korea for Daegu FC, Ulsan Hyundai, Incheon United and Gwangju FC, for Kuwaiti club Al Arabi, and in Thailand for Suphanburi and Army United.
Honor
Individual
Hauzen Cup 2007 Best scorer (9 App, 7 Goals)
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Footballers from São Paulo (state)
Association football forwards
Brazilian footballers
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players
Santos FC players
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players
Ipatinga Futebol Clube players
Esporte Clube Santo André players
Daegu FC players
Ulsan Hyundai FC players
Incheon United FC players
Gwangju FC players
K League 1 players
K League 2 players
Expatriate footballers in South Korea
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea
Itumbiara Esporte Clube players
Clube Atlético Juventus players
Expatriate footballers in Thailand |
44503788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20Beaters%20Sing%20the%20World%20Beaters | The World Beaters Sing the World Beaters | The World Beaters Sing The World Beaters is an album by the 1970 England World Cup squad created as a spin-off to the success of the song Back Home. The album featuring songs such as a recording of "Sugar Sugar" by Bobby Moore and Francis Lee. The album was issued by Pye with a football shaped sleeve, and reached the UK top 5. The album was arranged by Phil Coulter and produced by Coulter and Bill Martin. Aside from the single "Back Home" and B-side "Cinnamon Stick", the album featured a third original Martin-Coulter composition "Glory-O", which was re-recorded two years later by a marching band directed by Martin and Coulter as the B-side of the songwriter's Philips single of the Munich 1972 Summer Olympics fanfare composed by Herbert Rehbein.
Track listing
Reissues
Moore's contributions were reissued on Forever Blowing Bubbles a 1997 compilation album by West Ham United FC and supporters. The track listing includes:
West Ham United — Boleyn Boys with the 1975 FA Cup Final West Ham United squad
Oh Sweet England — Moore, Hurst & Peters with the 1975 FA Cup Final West Ham United squad
Sugar Sugar - Bobby Moore & Friends
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Cockney Rejects
West Side Boys — Cockney Rejects
Viva Bobby Moore - The Business
Bobby Moore Was Innocent - Serious Drinking
Leroys Boots - Barmy Army
Devo - Barmy Army
Blunted Irons — United Nations
Billy Bonds MBE — Barmy Army
Come on You Irons - Rainbow's Quest
Bobby Moore's legs — Barmy Army
Up the Hammers — Alf's Army
Over Land & Sea - Chicken Iron
Terminator - Flat Back Four
References
1970 albums
1997 compilation albums
Pye Records albums
Football songs and chants
England at the 1970 FIFA World Cup
Albums produced by Phil Coulter
Albums produced by Bill Martin (musician) |
17338132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laukkam | Laukkam | Laukkam is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6905585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumbacher | Grumbacher | Grumbacher is a US brand of art materials. Grumbacher offers products for artists including Acrylic paints, oil paints, watercolor paintings, brushes and painting media.
Overview
The company was founded in 1905 by Max Grumbacher, then becoming a subsidiary of the Sanford L.P., a Newell Rubbermaid company, until September 2006, when it was acquired by Chartpak, Inc., an art materials and office products company headquartered in Leeds, Massachusetts.
Grumbacher markets both collegiate and professional grade artist products. The collegiate grade products carry the "Academy" name branding. The Academy line currently consists of Oil, Acrylic, and Watercolor paints as well as 3 brush lines. The Grumbacher professional product lines consist of "Grumbacher MAX" a water-mixable oil paint; which means they can be diluted using water instead of conventional solvents. There are 60 "MAX" colors available. They also market "Grumbacher PRETESTED" oil paints (90 colors); which are conventional linseed-oil based paints for professional artists. The professional line was rounded out in the Spring of 2008 with the return of "Grumbacher FINEST" watercolors (54 colors).
Along with manufacturing paint, Grumbacher currently produces 9 brush lines as well as a full line of media, grounds, solvents, varnishes and artist accessories.
Grumbacher's current line of watercolors has the Academy line, a student line in 7.5ml tubes and the Finest line, a professional grade in 14ml tubes. The colors in both lines offer a diverse palette and are easily as rich and light fast as most competitive grade lines. Grumbacher just released a superior professional grade line, Grumbacher Finest, which had a brief stint with a name change of Prismacolor watercolors under Sandford's ownership.
References
External links
Paint and coatings companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies established in 1905
Companies based in Massachusetts
Art materials brands
Artists' acrylic paint brands
Watercolor brands
Oil paint brands
American companies established in 1905 |
17338148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauksauk | Lauksauk | Lauksauk is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
23577458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nattai%20River | Nattai River | The Nattai River, a perennial river that is part of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment, is located in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
The Nattai River rises on the Mittagong Range within the Great Dividing Range, south of Mittagong, and flows generally north northwest and then north northeast, joined by nine tributaries including the Little River, before reaching its confluence with the Wollondilly River within Lake Burragorang southwest of the locality of Nattai. The river descends over its course.
The river flows through the Nattai National Park and is a source of water for the Sydney region.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z)
Rivers of New South Wales
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Southern Highlands (New South Wales)
Wollondilly Shire |
17338163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Whitaker | William Whitaker | William Whitaker may refer to:
William Whitaker (theologian) (1548–1595), English theologian
William Whitaker (Puritan ejected minister) (1629–1672), English ejected minister
William Whitaker (geologist) (1836–1925), British geologist
William Whitaker (pioneer) (1821–1888), American pioneer
William Whitaker (MP) (1580–1646), English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1646
William Whitaker (equestrian) (born 1989), English show jumper
Bill Whitaker (journalist) (born 1951), American journalist
Bill Whitaker (American football) (born 1959), American football defensive back
See also
William Whittaker (disambiguation)
Whitaker (disambiguation)
William Whitaker's Words, a computer program for Latin morphology |
6905588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottonwoodhill | Cottonwoodhill | Cottonwoodhill is the debut album by Brainticket.
The LP's original inner sleeve warns: "After Listening to this Record, your friends may not know you anymore" and "Only listen to this once a day. Your brain might be destroyed!"
Track listing
"Black Sand" (Ron Bryer, Joel Vandroogenbroeck) – 4:05
"Places of Light" (Bryer, Dawn Muir, Vandroogenroeck) – 4:05
"Brainticket, Pt. 1" (Bryer, Kolbe, Muir, Vandroogenbroeck) – 8:21
"Brainticket, Pt. 1: Conclusion" (Bryer, Kolbe, Muir, Vandroogenbroeck) – 4:36
"Brainticket, Pt. 2" (Bryer, Kolbe, Muir, Vandroogenbroeck) – 13:13
Personnel
The Band
Ron Bryer - Guitar
Werner Frohlich - Bass, Bass guitar
Hellmuth Kolbe - Keyboards, Sound Effects
Cosimo Lampis - Drums
Dawn Muir - Vocals, Voices
Wolfgang Paap - Percussion, Tabla
Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Organ, Flute, Keyboards, Vocals
Technical staff
Hellmuth Kolbe - Producer, Engineer, Electronics, Supervisor, Generator
External links
[ Cottonwoodhill] at Allmusic
References
Brainticket albums
1971 debut albums
Bellaphon Records albums |
23577459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never%20Never%20River | Never Never River | Never Never River, a perennial stream of the Bellinger River catchment, is located in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Never Never River rises on the eastern slopes of the Dorrigo Plateau, near Tallowood Point, east northeast of Dorrigo within the Dorrigo National Park, and flows generally southeast and southwest, before reaching its confluence with the Bellinger River, near Gordonville, northwest of Bellingen. The river descends over its course.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Mid North Coast |
17338190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Murtaza | Ali Murtaza | Ali Ghulam Murtaza (born 1 January 1990) is an Indian first-class cricketer. He plays for Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of Indian World Team in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition. He bowled well in ICL and earned a reputation as a skilled left-arm spinner. In IPL 2010, he was a part of the Mumbai Indians squad which lost to Chennai Super Kings in the final. Since he played in ICL he has a one-year period during which he cannot represent the Indian cricket team. From the 2012 edition of IPL, he played for Pune Warriors India.
His father was cricket coach at Bishop Johnson School & College, Allahabad
References
1990 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Uttar Pradesh cricketers
Mumbai Indians cricketers
Pune Warriors India cricketers
Delhi Giants cricketers |
20478628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam%20Khojayev | Rustam Khojayev | Rustam Khojayev (born 2 January 1973) is a retired Tajikistani footballer and current manager.
Career
On 21 August 2018, Khojayev was appointed as manager of FC Panjshir.
On 5 January 2019, Khojayev was appointed as the new manager of CSKA Pamir Dushanbe. On 23 June 2019, Khojayev resigned as manager of CSKA Pamir Dushanbe.
Career statistics
International
Statistics accurate as of 22 October 2015
International goals
Honours
Varzob Dushanbe
Tajik League (2): 1998, 1999
Tajik Cup (1): 1998, 1999
Regar-TadAZ
Tajik League (1): 2006
Tajik Cup (2): 2005, 2006
AFC President's Cup (1): 2005
Vakhsh Qurghonteppa
Tajik League (1): 2009
Tajikistan
AFC Challenge Cup (1): 2006
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Tajikistani footballers
Tajikistan international footballers
Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan
Tajikistani expatriates in Kazakhstan
Expatriate footballers in Belarus
FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk players
Vakhsh Qurghonteppa players
Association football midfielders |
20478682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Biancheri | Gabriel Biancheri | Gabriel Biancheri (1 October 1943, Oullins - Rhône 28 December 2010) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the 4th constituency of the Drôme department, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, from 2002 until his death in 2010.
He was succeeded in the constituency by his substitute in the 2007 election, Marie-Hélène Thoraval.
References
1943 births
2010 deaths
People from Oullins
Politicians from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Rally for the Republic 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 |
44503789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Eullaffroy | Philippe Eullaffroy | Philippe Eullaffroy (born January 9, 1964) is a French football manager and former footballer who played as a forward.
Playing career
Eullaffroy played professional football with Troyes AC from 1982–1991. He was selected to the team of the century by the fans and set a record after scoring the fastest goal in club history.
Managerial career
Eullaffroy began his managerial career in his native France with the Stade de Reims and Troyes AC youth academies. In 2005, he moved abroad to Canada where he began to manage the McGill Redmen, where he coached the team for three years. During his tenure with McGill he was named the Coach of the Year for all three seasons.
In 2009, he was appointed head coach for Trois-Rivières Attak in the Canadian Soccer League. In his first season with the Attak he led the club to their second National Division title. In the postseason the club reached the CSL Championship finals match where the Attak won in penalties against International Division champions the Serbian White Eagles. For his achievements with the Attak in his debut season he was awarded the CSL Coach of the Year award. The following year Trois-Rivières ceased operations due to the ended cooperation as the farm team for the Montreal Impact, which the ownership waived their players rights and opened their territory for the benefit of the Montreal Impact Academy.
On March 23, 2010 Eullaffroy was appointed the head coach for the Montreal Impact Academy. He managed to lead Montreal to the CSL Championship final in the 2012 season, but were defeated by First Division champions Toronto Croatia. In 2013, he served as the Montreal Impact assistant coach under head coach Marco Schällibaum in the Major League Soccer. In 2014, he was named the academy director for the Montreal Impact academy. On November 17, 2014, Eullaffroy was hired as the head coach for the expansion franchise FC Montreal which began play in 2015 in the USL Pro.
On July 3, 2020, Montreal dismissed him from his post as the academy's director.
Managerial stats
Honors
Managerial
Trois-Rivières Attak
CSL Championship: 2009
National Division Champions: 2009
References
1964 births
Living people
Soccer people from Quebec
Association football forwards
ES Troyes AC players
French footballers
French football managers
Trois-Rivières Attak coaches
CF Montréal non-playing staff
Canadian Soccer League (2006-present) managers
People from Troyes |
23577462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemur%20River | Niemur River | Niemur River, a perennial stream of the Murray catchment and part of the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales, Australia.
The river leaves Edward River, near Moonahcullah, flowing generally west north-west, joined by five minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Wakool River, north of Swan Hill; descending over its course.
See also
List of rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin
Rivers in the Riverina |
17338193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4stervik%20Speedway | Västervik Speedway | Västervik Speedway are a motorcycle speedway team from Västervik in Sweden. They were established as Skepparna in 1966 and have raced in the Elitserien, the top league division of Swedish speedway, since 1991, changing their name to Västervik in 1993. They were Elitserien Champions in 2005 and in 2007 they finished runners-up to Dackarna. The team is managed by Peter Helgesson and Marvyn Cox. Former riders include 1993 World Champion Sam Ermolenko and Australia national speedway team manager Craig Boyce.
2012 Team
References
External links
Official Website
Swedish speedway teams
Västervik
Sport in Kalmar County |
44503792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%20operator | Siegel operator | In mathematics, the Siegel operator is a linear map from (level 1) Siegel modular forms of degree d to Siegel modular forms of degree d − 1, generalizing taking the constant term of a modular form. The kernel is the space of Siegel cusp forms of degree d.
References
Automorphic forms |
20478691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle%20Louis-Carabin | Gabrielle Louis-Carabin | Gabrielle Louis-Carabin (born February 20, 1946 in Le Moule, Guadeloupe) was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing Guadeloupe's 2nd constituency from 2002 to 2017 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
page on the French National Assembly website yes
'
1946 births
Living people
People from Le Moule
Guadeloupean politicians
Guadeloupean women in politics
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
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
21st-century French women politicians
Black French politicians |
6905613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20districts%20of%20Pateros%E2%80%93Taguig | Legislative districts of Pateros–Taguig | The legislative district of Pateros–Taguig is the combined representation of the independent municipality of Pateros and eastern part of the highly urbanized city of Taguig in the Congress of the Philippines. The city and municipality are currently represented in the lower house of the Congress through their lone congressional district.
History
Areas now under the jurisdiction of Taguig and Pateros were initially represented as part of the first district of Rizal in 1907, and remained so until 1972. Taguig and Pateros, both municipalities then, were separated from Rizal on November 7, 1975 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 824, and was represented in the Interim Batasang Pambansa along with other Metropolitan Manila municipalities and cities as part of Region IV from 1978 to 1984.
Taguig and Pateros were grouped with Muntinlupa to form a single parliamentary district which returned one representative to the Regular Batasang Pambansa in 1984. Taguig and Pateros formed one congressional district under the new Constitution proclaimed on February 11, 1987; it elected its member to the restored House of Representatives starting that same year.
The western area of Taguig, coterminous with the Second Councilor District of Taguig (for the purpose of electing municipal, now city, council members), was separated to form a separate congressional district by virtue of Republic Act No. 8487, the law which converted Taguig into a highly urbanized city. Despite being enacted by Congress on February 11, 1998, the said law only took effect on December 8, 2004 after the Commission on Elections issued a resolution confirming that the affirmative votes for cityhood prevailed in the ballot recount. This new district first elected its separate representative in the 2007 general elections.
Lone District
Municipality: Pateros
Barangays of Taguig: Bagumbayan, Bambang, Calzada, Hagonoy, Ibayo-Tipas, Ligid-Tipas, Lower Bicutan, New Lower Bicutan, Napindan, Palingon, San Miguel, Santa Ana, Tuktukan, Ususan, Wawa
Area: 20.61 km²
Population (2015): 427,940
1987–2007
Municipalities: Pateros, Taguig (became city in 2004)
See also
Legislative districts of Rizal
Legislative district of Taguig–Pateros–Muntinlupa
Legislative districts of Taguig
References
Pateros-Taguig
Pateros-Taguig
Politics of Taguig |
20478696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABl%20Yanno | Gaël Yanno | Gaël Yanno (born 2 July 1961 in Nouméa, New Caledonia) is a French politician, and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He served as President of the Congress of New Caledonia from 2014 to 2015, and again from July 2018 to May 2019.
He was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2012. He represented the island of New Caledonia, with Pierre Frogier. He was a member of the commission of finance, general economy and budgetary control. He was elected in June 2007, but did not get re-elected in 2012.
References
1961 births
Living people
People from Nouméa
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Presidents of the Congress of New Caledonia
Paris Dauphine University alumni
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
6905617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20for%20the%20Road%20%28April%20Wine%20album%29 | One for the Road (April Wine album) | One for the Road is a live album by Canadian rock band April Wine, recorded during their "One More for the Road" tour in 1984 in support of their Animal Grace (1984) album.
Track listing
All tracks written by Myles Goodwyn unless otherwise noted.
"Anything You Want, You Got It" – 4:05
"I Like to Rock" – 3:56
"All Over Town" – 3:06
"Just Between You and Me" – 3:43
"Enough is Enough" – 3:47
"This Could be the Right One" – 4:16
"Sign of the Gypsy Queen" (Lorence Hud) – 5:11
"Like a Lover, Like a Song" – 4:55
"Comin' Right Down on Top of Me"
"Rock n' Roll is a Vicious Game" – 4:56
"Roller" – 4:16
Personnel
Myles Goodwyn – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Gary Moffet – guitars, background vocals
Steve Lang – bass, background vocals
Brian Greenway – vocals, guitars
Jerry Mercer – drums
April Wine albums
Albums produced by Mike "Clay" Stone
Albums produced by Myles Goodwyn
1985 live albums
Aquarius Records (Canada) live albums
Capitol Records live albums
EMI Records live albums |
23577463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowendoc%20River | Nowendoc River | Nowendoc River, a perennial river of the Manning River catchment, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Nowendoc River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, north of the Black Sugarloaf, south of Walcha and flows generally southeast, joined by two tributaries including Cooplacurripa River and Rowleys River, before reaching its confluence with the Manning River, west of Wingham. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers in New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Tablelands
Mid North Coast |
17338204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Malabar%20%281866%29 | HMS Malabar (1866) | HMS Malabar was a Euphrates-class troopship launched in 1866, and the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to employ the name. She was designed to carry troops between the United Kingdom and British India, and was employed in that role for most of her life. She became the base ship (or depot ship) at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda in 1897 (replacing the previous depot ship, HMS Terror (1856)), was renamed HMS Terror in 1901 and was sold in 1918. Her name was later used as the stone frigate to which shore personnel in Bermuda were enrolled, and later for Her Majesty's Naval Base Bermuda, after the 1950s, when the dockyard was reduced to a base.
Design
Malabar was one of five iron-hulled vessels of the Euphrates class. All five were built to a design of 360 ft overall length by about 49 ft breadth, although Malabar was very slightly smaller than the rest of the class. They had a single screw, a speed of 14 knots, one funnel, a barque-rig sail plan, three 4-pounder guns, and a white painted hull. Her bow was a "ram bow" which projected forward below the waterline.
Identification
The Euphrates-class troopships could each be identified by a different coloured hull band. The Malabars hull band was black. The blue hull band of her sister Euphrates became the standard for all HM Troopships.
Career
She was built for the transport of troops between the United Kingdom and the Indian sub-continent, and was operated by the Royal Navy. She carried up to 1,200 troops and family on a passage of approximately 70 days.
In common with her sisters she was re-engined, her single-expansion steam engine being replaced with a Napier 2-cylinder compound-expansion engine in 1873.
On 2 November 1878, she suffered an engine breakdown in the English Channel east south east of Prawle Point, Devon whilst on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to India. She was taken in tow by the steamship Benjamin Whitworth, which with the assistance of two Admiralty tugs took her in to Plymouth, Devon. In 1878 or early 1879 she grounded in Whitsand Bay near Plymouth. Her commanding officer, Captain Percy Luxmoore, was dismissed from the ship and replaced by Captain John Grant.
Fate
She became the base ship at Bermuda in 1897 and was renamed HMS Terror on 1 May 1905; the name Malabar was later used by the Royal Naval dockyard at Bermuda. Terror was sold in January 1918.
Commanding officers
Notes
References
Troop ships of the Royal Navy
Euphrates-class troopships
Ships built in Leamouth
Victorian-era naval ships of the United Kingdom
1866 ships
Maritime incidents in November 1878 |
23577464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowlands%20Creek | Nowlands Creek | The Nowlands Creek, a watercourse of the Clarence River catchment, is located in the Northern Tablelands region in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Location and features
Nowlands Creek rises in Thunderbolts Range, below The Black Mountain, about east of Diggers Hill. The river flows generally northeast before reaching its confluence within the Sara River in remote country with the Nightcap Range. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
Northern Tablelands
Rivers of New South Wales
Armidale Regional Council |
6905625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromore%20Central%20Primary%20School | Dromore Central Primary School | Dromore Central Primary School (colloquially referred to as "the Central") is a primary school located in Dromore, County Down, Northern Ireland. The original school building was built in 1938 and has approximately 600 pupils aged from 4–11 years in 29 classes. The schools aims "to promote the all-round development of every pupil". It is within the Southern Education and Library Board area.
The school is situated on the main Dromore to Banbridge road, only 300 yards from the Market Square.
Since 2001, the compulsory school uniform has consisted of a green pullover, a red polo-shirt and grey trousers, this replaced a brown-yellow uniform which had been worn since the 1970s.
History
The school, as it stands today and will hopefully be re used, was established in 1938 by the Down Education Authority, to replace the former Church of Ireland (Cathedral) School, which it neighboured, and the First Dromore Presbyterian Church School, as well as the Unitarian or Hunters' School. The school was extended to provide an extra block of classrooms and a dining hall with kitchen in 1979. Since, the school has seen the addition of mobile classrooms to help cope with the rising rolls. Prior to its present title, the school had been known as Dromore Public Elementary School, or simply the P.E. school.
New Building
In August 2006, the Southern Education and Library Board announced it was 'pursuing' the acquisition of a site at Mossvale Road in Dromore, for a replacement school for the over-stretched Dromore Central Primary School although for reasons rumoured to involve the site, no location has been officially selected to date. On 30 June 2007, the Tullymacarette Primary School sited 3 miles southwest of the town closed with all of its pupils being fed into Dromore Central, with the exception of those who desired to go to another school. The Dromore Town Centre Development Plan suggests that the existing site could be developed into a community centre or a hotel.
References
Dromore Central Primary School Official Website
GCS Dromore Pages
"New Home Agreed for School" - Lisburn Today
Schools Web Directory
House of Lords Hansard, November 2005
See also
List of primary schools in Northern Ireland
Primary schools in County Down
Educational institutions established in 1938
1938 establishments in Northern Ireland |
20478708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan%20Gorce | Gaëtan Gorce | Gaëtan Gorce (born December 2, 1958 in Luzy, Nièvre) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Nièvre department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
Education
Gorce earned a law degree in 1979, then graduated from Sciences Po in 1981 and from ENA in 1987 alongside future National Assembly colleague Christian Paul.
Professional career
As the administrator of Paris, then as sub-prefect and civil administrator, Gorce collaborated with Maurice Benassayag, interministerial delegate of Rapatriés (1988-1989), Pierre Joxe at the Ministry of the Interior (1989-1991), Edith Cresson in Matignon (1991-1992), and with François Mitterrand as the president of the Republic (1992-1995).
Political career
Gorce is a member of the Socialist Party, which he joined in 1974. He led the New Voice movement and initiated the Renovators movement within the Socialist Party, notably alongside Manuel Valls, Patrick Bloche, Christophe Caresche, and Jean-Patrick Gille.
Though he lost the municipal elections of 1995 in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he nevertheless served as municipal counselor of the city until 2001. He was elected mayor of La Charité-sur-Loire in March of 2001, and later re-elected in March 2008. As mayor, he launched a program to rehabilitate the city's historic center, founded the Festival du Mot with Marc Lecarpentier, and earned La Charité-sur-Loire the "city of art and history" label. He chose not to run for mayor in 2014 but remained a municipal councilor in the majority list until December of 2017, when he left the post.
Gorce was elected as a delegate to the second constituency of Nièvre in June 1997, then re-elected in June 2002 and June 2007. He was a member of the Social Affairs Committee, then of the National Assembly's Finance Committee as a special rapporteur on the employment budget, and finally of Foreign Affairs. As National employment secretary of the Socialist Party (1999-2005), he was rapporteur for the 35-hour week law. During he second term, he and Jean Leonetti co-chaired the information mission on end-of-life support, which led to the unanimous adoption of the Law on the rights of patients and the end of life by the National Assembly. For this action, Gorce received the Trombinoscope prize of "Delegate of the Year" in 2004.
Supporting Ségolène Royal during the 2007 presidential campaign, in June he resigned from the national bodies of the PS and called for the resignation of Prime Secretary François Hollande, whom he held responsible for the defeat.
Still supporting Ségolène Royal at the 2008 Reims Congress, he returned briefly to the leadership of the Socialist Party (as national secretary of the PS responsible for exclusion), before leaving it definitively a few months later.
In 2009, he opposed the bill aimed at liberalizing internet gambling, judging the opening of this market to be inappropriate, in particular for reasons of public health.
In September of 2009, he rejoined the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, while remaining vice-president of human rights organization Socialist Related. As a member of these organizations, he published a report on the situation in Burma with the delegate Roland Blum. He also campaigned to obtain information about the disappearance of Chadian politician and opposition leader Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh.
Gorce was elected senator of Nièvre in September of 2011 with 56.35% of the vote.
In 2011, denouncing the lack of preparation of the Socialist Party program, he decided not to join the campaign team of candidate François Hollande.
In 2014, he chaired the joint information mission "New role and new strategy for the European Union in global Internet governance".
In 2015, he was co-rapporteur of the fact-finding mission “Relations with Russia: how to break the deadlock?".
In 2016, he co-chaired the working group on the refugee crisis.
He was a member of Arnaud Montebourg's campaign team for the 2017 citizen primary. After the victory of Benoît Hamon, Gorce was appointed thematic manager of his presidential campaign.
Gorce was a candidate in the 2017 legislative elections in the first constituency of Nièvre, ultimately finishing third. After the loss, he announced his withdrawal from municipal and parliamentary life, and decided not to enter in the senatorial elections of the same year. In October 2018, he left the PS and joined the Republican and Socialist Left Party, created by Marie-Noëlle Lienemann and Emmanuel Maurel, where he led "Our Common Causes."
Member of Cnil
Between 2011 and 2016, Gorce was a member of the National Commission for Information and Liberties (Cnil). He received compensation for this even though article 4 of ordinance n° 58-1210 prohibits such action. As a member of Cnil, he was behind a bill to ban "comfort biometrics" and a parliamentary report concerning open data from the perspective of personal data protection and the right to privacy.
References
1958 births
Living people
People from Nièvre
Politicians from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Socialist Party (France) politicians
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
French Senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Nièvre
Sciences Po alumni
École nationale d'administration alumni |
20478716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve%20Colot | Geneviève Colot | Geneviève Colot (born 22 June 1950 in Gommegnies) is a former member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the Essonne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1950 births
Living people
People from Nord (French department)
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement 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 |
17338212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Guillermo%20More | Juan Guillermo More | Juan Guillermo Moore Ruiz (27 February 1833 - 7 June 1880) was a British Peruvian navy officer. He was killed during the Battle of Arica.
Biography
Moore (sometimes spelled More in some texts) was born in Lima, the son of John Moore, a Scottish sailor and of Dolores Ruiz, a Peruvian lady. He joined the British Navy as an ensign in 1854. Later he returned to Peru and was commissioned in the Peruvian Navy. He served in the frigates Apurímac, Izcuchaca and Huaraz, as well as the Guise and the pontoon Iquique.
In 1866, during the Chincha Islands War, he was appointed commander of the corvette Unión. A few months later, Captain Moore took a Peruvian Navy crew to the United States to bring the ironclad Atahualpa to Peru. The monitor sailed from New Orleans, La. in early January 1869 arriving in Peru in June 1870. As a reward, he was appointed as commander of the frigate Independencia and in 1877, General Commander of the Southern Fleet. As such he directed the actions to recapture the monitor Huáscar which had been captured by Nicolás de Piérola and had rebelled against the central government.
During the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru, he was appointed commander of the strongest unit of the Peruvian Navy, the armoured frigate Independencia. As such, he participated in the Battle of Punta Gruesa on 21 May 1879, when his ship crashed with a submarine rock while pursuing the Chilean schooner Covadonga, commanded by Captain Carlos Condell. He was rescued from his sinking ship, imprisoned in Arica and court martialled by his own comrades. He was dismissed from the navy and forbidden to ever wear his uniform again. He decided to continue the war as a simple civilian, in order to regain his lost honor. On 27 February 1880, during the Naval Battle of Arica, while in command of the Manco Capac, he successfully disabled the captured Huascar killing her commander Captain Manuel Thomson. During the siege of Arica, he was in charge of the batteries of the Cape, where he was killed during the Battle of Arica.
References
1833 births
1880 deaths
People from Lima
Peruvian Navy officers
Royal Navy officers
People of the Chincha Islands War
Peruvian Navy personnel of the War of the Pacific
Peruvian people of Scottish descent
Military personnel killed in the War of the Pacific |
20478718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Isaac%20Lemaistre%20de%20Sacy | Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy | Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (29 March 1613 – 4 January 1684), a priest of Port-Royal, was a theologian and French humanist. He is best known for his translation of the Bible, the most widespread French Bible in the 18th century, also known as the Bible de Port-Royal.
Biography
Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy was born in Paris, one of five sons of Huguenot Isaac Le Maistre, and of Catherine Arnauld, who was one of the sisters of Marie Angélique Arnauld. In 1638, when his older brothers Antoine and Simon gave up their careers to retire to Port-Royal, Louis-Isaac joined them to take care of his education.
In 1650, he published a collection of prayers, the Heures de Port-Royal, in which he translated the highly successful liturgical hymns.
De Sacy was imprisoned in the Bastille on 13 May 1666, remaining there until 14 November 1668. He took advantage of this time to complete the translation of the Old Testament into French from the Vulgate begun by his brother Antoine, and thus became the driving force behind a French language translation of the Bible, called the Bible du Port-Royal or Bible de Sacy. After his release, Louis-Isaac devoted much of his time to revising his translation, and drafting the Commentaires that he wanted to accompany each of the books of the Bible.
From 1672 to 1684, the date of his death, de Sacy published 10 additional books of the Bible. Using the manuscripts left by de Sacy, his friend Pierre Thomas (1634–1698) pursued this task, and undertook the publication, from 1685 to 1693.
In 1696, La Sainte Bible contenant l'Ancien et le Nouveau Testament (The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testament) was published in 32 volumes.
A Bible in French
In the 12th century, the first French version of the Bible was created by Pierre de Vaux, chief of Vaudois. There followed the translation of Guyart des Moulins, composed in the late 13th century and printed in 1488, and then that of René Benoît, published in Paris in 1566, with marginal notes but which was censured as containing certain Calvinist "heresies".
De Sacy's is better known than previous translations and has been much reproduced. It was really the first translation of the Bible accessible to the non-Latin reading general public.
The initiative of translation of the Vulgate came from the lawyer Antoine Le Maistre (1608–1658), who was the brother of Louis-Isaac, but that translation was not a good fit.
At his brother's death (1658), Louis-Isaac then began with his friends at Port-Royal (including Blaise Pascal, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, Pierre Nicole, and Pierre Thomas) a revision of his Biblical translation, complete with additional books, Greek texts, and the New Testament. This new translation was to be published by Mons in 1667, taking the name Nouveau Testament de Mons.
It was presented in 2 volumes in octavo. A new version, corrected by Beaubrun, was published in Paris in 1717 in 3 volumes in folio, with a fourth volume containing the Biblical apocrypha, the Old Testament, the writings of apostolic times, the prefaces of Saint Jerome, and essays on various Biblical matters.
Characteristics of de Sacy's Bible
Some theologians criticized the translation of de Sacy as sometimes deviating from the letter of the original for no apparent reason. Others saw it as sober and elegant. Sacy's annotations were criticised for favouring the theories of Cornelius Jansen.
The Bible de Port-Royal was founded on work carried out in logic at the Port-Royal Abbey in Paris (see Port-Royal Logic). This system of logic proposed to apply mathematical reasoning to other fields of knowledge and thought, including the syntactic and grammatical elements of all statements of language, offering an ideal of a rational language which could reconcile the spirit of finesse and the spirit of geometry: the discourse par excellence.
See also
Port-Royal Logic
Bibliography
The Bible de Sacy was reissued in 1990 in Bouquins.
Abbé Dardenne. L'enseignement théologique en France. Paris 1870. Voir tome III, Les principales versions françaises de la Bible et du Nouveau Testament.
External links
de Sacy's Bible in the French Wikisource
Bible Lemaîstre de Saci – downloadable in Online Bible format, digitized by Yves Petrakian.
Translators of the Bible into French
1612 births
1684 deaths
17th-century French Catholic theologians
Prisoners of the Bastille
17th-century French translators |
23577466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullica%20River | Nullica River | The Nullica River is an intermittently closed semi-mature saline coastal lagoon or perennial river, located in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
The Nullica River rises below Nullica Hill within Nullica State Forest, approximately west of Eden, The river flows generally east southeast, joined by one minor tributary, before reaching its mouth and emptying into Nullica Bay, within Twofold Bay, and spilling into the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean, east of Nullica. The river descends over its course.
The catchment area of the river is with a volume of over a surface area of , at an average depth of .
West of the river's mouth, the Princes Highway crosses the Nullica River.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
List of rivers in New South Wales (L-Z)
Rivers of New South Wales
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
South Coast (New South Wales) |
17338224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loscoe | Loscoe | Loscoe is a village near Heanor in Derbyshire, England, lying within the civil parish of Heanor and Loscoe. It had prominent coalmines in the 19th and 20th centuries. Denby Common and Codnor Breach are hamlets on the western edge of the village.
History
The name Loscoe derives from Old Norse words lopt and skógr, as in lopt í skógi, meaning "loft in a wood" or "wood with a loft house". It was recorded as Loscowe in 1277.
Loscoe Manor formed part of the wider Draycott Estate; Richard and William de Draycott were recorded at Loscoe (or Loschowe) in 1401. The manor house was demolished in 1704.
Loscoe's economy in the 19th and 20th centuries was dominated by coal mining: pit chimneys and slag heaps were prominent. Three mines operated: Old Loscoe (early 1830s – 1933), Bailey Brook (1847–1938) and Ormonde (1908–1970).
Loscoe was in the ecclesiastical parish of Heanor until 1844, when a church was built between Loscoe and neighbouring Codnor to the north, and a joint parish created for them. Loscoe became a separate parish in 1927. Services were held in the mission church until a new parish church, dedicated to St Luke, was completed in 1938.
Explosion
Loscoe was the site of a landfill gas migration explosion on 24 March 1986. Although there were no fatalities, one house was destroyed by the blast and its three occupants injured.
The atmospheric pressure on the night of the explosion fell 29 hPa (29 mbar) over a seven-hour period, causing the gas to be released from the ground in much greater quantities than usual. In the four hours before the explosion at approximately 6.30 am, the local meteorological office had recorded average falls of 4 hPa (4 mbar) per hour. Several cubic metres of landfill gas (consisting of a 3:2 mixture of methane and carbon dioxide) collected underground near the house at 51 Clarke Avenue, and as the gas expanded it flowed into the space beneath the floor, from where it was drawn by convection to the gas central-heating boiler and ignited.
The incident led to the introduction of key British legislation and government guidance, with research into landfill behaviour and revised best practice at landfill sites. These moves were designed to vent gas into the atmosphere over time, then to burn off methane, and eventually in the most productive sites, to use gas turbines to turn the gas into electric power for the national grid.
Demography
In the 2011 census the electoral ward of Heanor and Loscoe (covering Loscoe and north-western parts of Heanor) had 2,285 dwellings, 2,216 households and a population of 5,335. The average age of residents was 40.5 (39.3 for England as a whole) and 17.9 per cent were aged 65 or over (16.4 per cent for England as a whole).
Governance
For representation within Heanor and Loscoe Town Council and Amber Valley Borough Council, Heanor and Loscoe civil parish is divided into three electoral wards: Heanor East, Heanor West and Heanor and Loscoe. In the May 2019 Parish Council elections, the Heanor and Loscoe Ward obtained seven seats, made up of four Labour and three Conservative candidates.
Notable resident
BMX racer Dale Holmes was born here on 6 October 1971.
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23577467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Masconomet | Chief Masconomet | Masconomet, (died 1658) spelled many different ways in colonial deeds, was sagamore of the Agawam tribe among the Algonquian peoples during the time of the English colonization of the Americas. He is known for his quitclaim deed ceding all the tribal land, which extended from Cape Ann to the Merrimack River, as far inland as North Andover, Massachusetts and Middleton, Massachusetts, and as far to the southwest as the Danvers River, to John Winthrop the Younger, his heirs and all the settlers of eastern Essex County for a sum of 20 pounds, about 100 dollars.
Although he could not read or write at the time of the deed, Masconomet understood that he was effecting a union of the remnant of the tribe after decimation by disease (probably smallpox) with the English colonists. He testified to that effect before the General Court of Massachusetts, which was questioning the legality of the younger Winthrop's transactions. Winthrop and his heirs were seeking public reimbursement of the 20 pounds. The tribal members did not take up residence in distinct villages of "praying Indians" as did the other tribes but remained distributed on individual farms adjoining those of the English and became integrated into the settlements. Giving up their native language and other marks and affiliations of native identity, they soon vanished into Essex County. Masconomet, henceforward "John the Sagamore", gave his children English names. Memory of their ancestry persisted throughout the 17th century, a few generations after Masconomet's death in 1658. A memorial stone on Sagamore Hill in northeastern Hamilton marks where Masconomet was buried with his gun and tomahawk. In 1667, nine years later, a man was prosecuted for digging up his bones and carrying his skull on a pole.
The Agawams avoided playing a native role in King Philip's War, the first united effort by the Indians to dislodge the English from New England, obliterating the colony. They were not identified as "praying Indians." Masconomet's deed was at first kept in the Winthrop family. At about the time of King Philip's War eastern Essex County also endured a legal attack by the heirs of Captain John Mason, who, based on the Mason Grant of 1621, were claiming all of former Agawam. Masconomet's quitclaim was then registered and was duplicated in every village of eastern Essex County as the original deed of the rightful owner ceding the land to the English in perpetuity. The Mason claim failed, but the settlements had to pay a fee to be rid of it.
Masconomet Regional High School, serving Topsfield, Boxford and Middleton, Massachusetts, honors the sagamore by taking his name.
Biography
Masconomet first appears in written history in an entry of the journal of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, written aboard his flagship, the Arbella, at anchor off what became Salem, Massachusetts. Winthrop had not yet placed his colony on American shores. He was exploring the region. On June 13, 1630, Winthrop wrote: "In the morning, the sagamore of Agawam and one of his men came aboard our ship and staid with us all day." Winthrop subsequently disembarked at the new settlement that had been prepared at Charlestown, Massachusetts.
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17338232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Abendana%20Spencer | Kenneth Abendana Spencer | Kenneth Abendana Spencer (born Kenneth Abandamo; 13 April 1929 – 28 December 2005) was a Jamaican artist.
Biography
Spencer had talent as a painter of scenes of Jamaican life which, as a boy, he would sell for pocket-money in the capital of Kingston. In the 1950s he traveled to the UK but did not take the opportunity to attend Art School. Instead, he continued to sell his works, eventually buying a car, which became both his gallery and means of transport. He became an habitué and favourite of the basement clubs and jazz bars of Soho. His artistic education, such as it was, consisted of frequent visits to museums and art galleries where he picked up his technique. On returning to Jamaica in the 1970s, he started building a large house in Fisherman's Park, Long Bay, Portland. Six stories high with circular staircases and a vast studio, it was half castle and half temple, surrounded by a high wall. Here he settled with his common-law wife and two sons. It remains a tourist attraction. From there he continued to paint figurative canvasses – seascapes, landscapes, vignettes of Jamaican life and, from the 1970s, individual character sketches. He died on 28 December 2005, aged 76.
References
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20th-century Jamaican painters |
20478727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve%20Fioraso | Geneviève Fioraso | Geneviève Fioraso (born 10 October 1954) is a French politician, representative of the first district of Isère from June 2007 to June 2017, and a member of the Socialist Party. On 16 May 2012 she was appointed Minister for Higher Education and Research in the French government of Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Since 2008 she has been deputy for the Economy, Universities and Research for the City Council of Grenoble. During her previous term she was Deputy assistant for the Economy, Innovation, Trade and Craft, and First Vice-President of Metro -Agglomeration community of the Grenoble Alpes Métropole-, in charge of economic development.
Since 2003, she has been the CEO of the S.E.M. Minatec Entreprises (public-private venture, entrusted with the marketing of high-tech building of Minatec). She also serves as Chair of the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises Grenoble, Business Administration Institute of Grenoble.
Origin, and Training
Born in Amiens in 1954, the youngest of six children, Fioraso obtained her high-school diploma Baccalauréat at the age of 16 years and married at 18.
A student of Hypo-Khâgne, she continued her studies and obtained a master's degree in English, then worked as an English teacher in Amiens.
In 1978 she left teaching and moved to Grenoble, where she served first as Information Officer, then managing Documentation and Press for the City of Grenoble, where she began collaborating with Hubert Dubedout, city's mayor and MP, and became his parliamentary attaché in 1983.
Professional and political curriculum
In 1985 she participated in the cantonal electoral campaign, alongside Michel Destot.
From 1989 to 1995, she was part of the management team of Corys, a startups of the CEA.
Once he was elected mayor of Grenoble in 1995, Michel Destot requested that she serve as his Chief of Staff, for which she followed the economy and innovation affairs in particular.
From 1999 to 2001, Fioraso was director of the Agence Régionale du Numérique, a regional agency set up by the digital network of cities of the Rhône-Alpes region. From 2001 to 2004, she was a senior marketing manager at France Telecom, in charge of emerging markets in the social-health sector.
In 2007, Genevieve Fioraso won 63.03% of the vote and defeated Alain Carignon to be elected députée -member of the French Parliament- in Isère's 1st constituency.
At the National Assembly, she was a board member of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and various left group; member of the Committee on Economic Affairs , the Environment and Territory; and member of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST, Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques).
She did not contest the 2017 French legislative election.
External links
her job in Grenoble (French) from: grenoble.indymedia.org
Fioraso Genevieve Blog.
Magazine Article in Acteurs de l'économie
Official page on the site of the National Assembly
References
1954 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
French people of Italian descent
People from Amiens
Politicians from Hauts-de-France
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Women government ministers of France |
20478734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve%20Levy | Geneviève Levy | Geneviève Levy (born 24 February 1948 in Marseille) is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the 1st constituency of the Var department, and is a member of the Republicans.
References
1948 births
Living people
Politicians from Marseille
20th-century French Jews
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
The Social Right
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
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
Politicians from Toulon |
17338244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Williams%20%28baseball%29 | Keith Williams (baseball) | David Keith Williams (born April 21, 1972) is a former Major League Baseball player for the San Francisco Giants during the 1996 season. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 1993 amateur draft.
Minor leagues
Williams had a career .291 batting average in the minor leagues and 117 home runs over 8 seasons. His overall minor league OPS was .853. He was called up to the majors in 1996, but his best season in the minors was 1997, where he hit .320 with 22 home runs for the Giants AA team.
Major leagues
Williams had his major league debut on June 7, 1996, going 0 for 1. His final game was on June 23, 1996. Overall, he went 5 for 20 with 6 strikeouts. All five of his hits were singles, and he did not score or drive in a single run. Defensively, he did not make a single error in 4 games played.
External links
Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Winter League)
1972 births
Living people
Altoona Curve players
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
Clemson Tigers baseball players
Everett Giants players
Fresno Grizzlies players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Pastora de Occidente players
People from Bedford, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Firebirds players
San Francisco Giants players
San Jose Giants players
Shreveport Captains players
St. Paul Saints players |
23577468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunnock%20River | Nunnock River | The Nunnock River, a perennial stream of the Bega River catchment, is located in the Monaro region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
The Nunnock River rises below Bull Mountain in the South Coast Range, that is part of the Great Dividing Range, about east of Brown Mountain; and flows generally southeast and northeast before reaching its confluence with the Bemboka River near the locale of Kallarney, adjacent to the Snowy Mountains Highway, approximately west by north of Bemboka. The river descends over its course.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
List of rivers in New South Wales (L-Z)
Rivers of New South Wales
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales |
23577469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Briens%20Creek | O'Briens Creek | O'Briens Creek is a river of the state of New South Wales in Australia.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales |
20478737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Garc%C3%ADa%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201980%29 | David García (footballer, born 1980) | David García Haro (born 3 February 1980) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defender.
Club career
Born in Valencia, Valencian Community, Garcia signed for FC Barcelona at the age of 16 from local Levante UD, playing his first four senior seasons with the B-side in the third division and helping them to two top-two league finishes, with the reserves subsequently falling short in the promotion playoffs. He never appeared officially for the Catalans' first team, his only appearance being the second half of a friendly match with China on 22 April 2004, coming on as a substitute for Marc Overmars.
In the summer of 2004, García moved to Barça neighbours Gimnàstic de Tarragona, contributing to 28 league games in his second season as the club returned to La Liga after a 56-year absence. On 10 December 2006, he scored his only goal in the top division in a 2–1 home win against Levante, but Nàstic was immediately relegated back.
After one year with Cádiz CF, playing sparingly in another first division promotion, García resumed his career in the lower leagues.
References
External links
Stats and bio at Cadistas1910
1980 births
Living people
Footballers from Valencia (city)
Spanish footballers
Association football defenders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
FC Barcelona C players
FC Barcelona B players
Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers
Cádiz CF players
Terrassa FC footballers
UE Vilassar de Mar players
Spain youth international footballers |
17338245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire%20of%20Allora | Shire of Allora | The Shire of Allora was a local government area north of the regional centre of Warwick in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. The shire, administered from Allora, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1869 until 1994, when it was dissolved and amalgamated with City of Warwick, Shire of Rosenthal and Shire of Glengallan to form the Shire of Warwick.
History
The Borough of Allora came into being on 21 July 1869 under the Municipal Institutions Act 1864. The surrounding region was incorporated on 11 November 1879 as the Clifton Division under the Divisional Boards Act 1879. With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, the Municipality of Allora became the Town of Allora and Clifton Division became Shire of Clifton on 31 March 1903. On 23 January 1915, the Town of Allora was abolished and merged with the southern part of the Shire of Clifton to create the Shire of Allora. The Shire's offices were located at 78 Herbert Street, Allora.
On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas. That recommendation was not implemented, but the outcome was that the Shire of Allora was merged with the Shires of Glengallan and Rosenthal and the City of Warwick to form a new Shire of Warwick. The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the Shire of Allora was abolished.
Towns and localities
The Shire of Allora included the following settlements:
Allora
Berat
Clintonvale
Deuchar
Ellinthorp
Goomburra
Hendon
Mount Marshall
Talgai
Willowvale
Chairmen and Mayors
Chairmen of Shire of Allora
1927: Thomas Muir
Mayors of Town of Allora
1906: W. Deacon
Population
References
External links
Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994
University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Allora Shire
Former local government areas of Queensland
1994 disestablishments in Australia |
6905628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Metropolitan%20City%20of%20Reggio%20Calabria | List of municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria | The following is a list of the 97 municipalities (comuni) of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Reggio Calabria |
17338266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Dorman | Megan Dorman | Megan Dorman (born 1977) is an Irish-born Australian actress who is best known for her role as Katherine Ingram in the series, Head Start. She had a small role in Queen of the Damned, playing Maudy, one of Lestat's band members. Dorman also features in the video for Puretone's Addicted to Bass single from 2001.
Megan also played the role of Meg alongside fellow Aussie actress Leeanna Walsman in the mini-series Jessica, based on the novel by Bryce Courtenay.
References
1977 births
Australian soap opera actresses
Irish emigrants to Australia
Living people |
20478744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Pau-Langevin | George Pau-Langevin | George Pau-Langevin (born 19 October 1948 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French lawyer and politician. A member of the Socialist Party (PS). Close to Bertrand Delanoë, she was deputy for the 21st constituency of Paris from 2007 to 2012, then re-elected in the 15th constituency, which took over roughly the same territory in Paris, in 2012.
She was the Minister Delegate for Educational Success in the governments of Jean-Marc Ayrault from 2012 to 2014, then was appointed Minister of Overseas Territories in 2014 in the governments of Manuel Valls. Resigning in 2016, she regained her seat as a deputy and was re-elected the following year. She left the National Assembly in November 2020, following her appointment as Deputy Defender of Rights.
Early life and education
Pau-Langevin was president of the Movement against racism and for friendship between peoples from 1984 to 1987. In 1989, she joined the National Agency for the Promotion and Integration of Workers from Overseas as deputy director, which she later directed from 1997 to 2001.
Political career
Career in local politics
Municipal councilor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris from 1989 to 1995, Pau-Langevin found this function during the municipal elections of 2008, elected on the list led by Frédérique Calandra.
Pau-Langevin was one of the initiators of the name change of the street Richepanse (general who contributed to reestablish slavery in Guadeloupe in 1802, on the order of Bonaparte) in street Chevalier-de-Saint-George, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris (named after a Métis from Guadeloupe, swordsman, violinist, conductor and famous composer, from the second half of the 18th century).
Pau-Langevin was a member of the Regional council of Île-de-France from 1992 to 1998.
Member of the National Assembly
Pau-Langevin was elected member of the National Assembly for Paris's 21st constituency during the 2007 French legislative election. During her first term, she was the only black deputy from mainland France. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Legal Affairs (2007-2012).
As vice-president of the Socialist, Radical and Citizen Group (SRC) in the National Assembly, Pau-Langevin was in charge of immigration and co-development issues between 2007 and 2009. In this capacity, she is responsible for the opposition to the September 2007 bill relating to immigration control, integration and asylum. She fights the measure relating to DNA tests within the framework of family reunification and seizes, with her colleagues of the socialist group, the Constitutional Council on the subject of ethnic statistics.
During the 2012 legislative elections, Pau-Langevin was elected member of the National Assembly in the Paris's 15th constituency, which mostly covered the same area of Paris as the abolished 21st constituency after the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies. Her appointment as minister leads her to leave her mandate to her substitute, Fanélie Carrey-Conte, who exercises it from 22 July 2012.
Career in government
Following François Hollande's victory in the 2012 presidential election, Pau-Langevin was appointed Junior Minister for Educational Success in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Pau-Langevin's tenure at the Ministry of Educational Success includes measures in favor of the School's relationship with parents, equality and against discrimination, the holding of meetings with the Minister of the city and all stakeholders of educational success, the creation of a National Observatory of educational success and the attribution of the Great National Cause 2013 to the fight against illiteracy.
During the reshuffle of 2 April 2014, following the defeat of the majority in the municipal elections, Pau-Langevin was appointed Minister of Overseas in the First Valls government in place of Victorin Lurel. She was reappointed to this post on 27 August 2014 in the Second Valls government, even if her departure is envisaged during the reshuffle of February 2016.
In this capacity, Pau-Langevin presented several plans for the overseas territories (youth, housing, health, security) and in April 2016 managed several nights of urban violence in Mayotte. She also prepared, jointly with the Secretary of State for Real Equality Ericka Bareigts, a bill for real equality overseas, providing for a development plan to gradually reduce the differences in living standards and quality of life and the creation of the future Cité des Outre-mer.
Pau-Langevin announced her resignation on 30 August 2016 (the same day as Emmanuel Macron) for personal reasons [and] regaining contact with the field, after having however made a press conference back to school the same morning. She was replaced by Ericka Bareigts.
In the Socialist Party's 2017 presidential primaries, Pau-Langevin endorsed Vincent Peillon as her party's candidate for that year's presidential election and worked on his campaign team.
Return to the National Assembly
Running for re-election in the 2017 legislative elections, Pau-Langevin won the second round with 60.3% of the votes cast, in a constituency where La République en marche had not invested a candidate.
In parliament, Pau-Langevin has served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education (2017-2019) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (since 2019). In December 2018, she was appointed rapporteur for the "flash mission" on the future of France Ô, but later withdrew from the mission on 22 March 2019, believing that, despite several reminders, the work of this mission did not start. During an interview, here are these propros : "we're already running France Ô. This is something serious and that is why I will not continue this mission because I feel that it is useless".
In addition to her committee assignments, Pau-Langevin was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Castex as deputy of Ombudsman (Défenseur des droits) Claire Hédon in 2020. She left the Assembly in November 2020.
Recognition
Pau-Langevin was decorated with the Legion of Honour in March 2002.
References
Links
Page on the French National Assembly website
1948 births
Black French politicians
Living people
Guadeloupean politicians
Guadeloupean socialists
People from Pointe-à-Pitre
Socialist Party (France) politicians
French people of Guadeloupean descent
Government ministers of France
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Women government ministers of France
21st-century French women
Members of Parliament for Paris |
20478753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Colombier | Georges Colombier | Georges Colombier (born 8 March 1940 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) was a member of the National Assembly of France from 1986 to 2012. He represented the 7th constituency of the Isère department, as a member of a number of groups, most recently the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1940 births
Living people
People from Bourgoin-Jallieu
Liberal Democracy (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 8th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 9th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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 |
6905634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egidius%20Braun | Egidius Braun | Egidius Braun (27 February 1925 – 16 March 2022) was a German sports administrator who served as the eighth president of the German Football Association (, DFB) from 1992 to 2001. Subsequently, he was appointed Honorary President. That same year, Braun founded the "DFB Foundation Egidius Braun", which takes care of distressed youth. Furthermore, the "Egidius-Braun Award" is awarded by the WDR. In 1985, he was awarded the Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
Life
Braun was born in Breinig. At the age of 13, he was playing for SV Breinig. After graduation in 1943 in Alsdorf, he became a soldier in World War II and was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1946. After returning, Braun studied law and philosophy and founded the company "Kartoffel-Braun" (Braun Potatoes). In addition he played football in the first team of SV Breinig. From 19 August 1956 to 20 February 1959, he was chairman of the club.
On 4 August 1973, Braun was elected president of the Middle Rhine Football Association and a member of the DFB Advisory Board. On 25 August of the same year he became Vice President of the Western German Football Association.
From 1983 to 1987, Braun was a member of the board of 1. FC Köln. On his 60th birthday, 27 February 1985, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class. He received the Federal Cross of Merit with Star in 1997. For his services to the country of North Rhine-Westphalia he was honored with the Order of Merit of the country in 1995.
From 1977 to 1992 he was treasurer of the DFB. On 24 October 1992, Braun was elected the eighth president of the DFB. That same year he also became a member of the board for the National Olympic Committee. Braun remained DFB president until 28 April 2001.
During the World Cup 1986 in Mexico, Braun visited with some international players, a Mexican orphanage and founded, in the wake of misery, Mexico Help of the Egidius Braun Foundation. Also due to his charitable commitment, Braun received many sympathies within the DFB, UEFA and from the whole environment of German football. Nonetheless, he was not spared of problematic situations. After the Germany national team was defeated at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Braun had to justify his solidarity with criticized German national coach Berti Vogts. The "Bild" newspaper urged Vogts to resign. Two years later, national coach Vogts, won the European Championship.
Braun was married; the couple had two sons. He was a hunter and nature lover. The supporter of Alemannia lived in Aachen. On 16 October 2006, he suffered a stroke.
He died in Aachen on 16 March 2022, at the age of 97.
Activities in UEFA
1980 to 2000 member of the UEFA European Championship Organizing Committee (from 24 June 1992 Chairman)
1988 to 2000 member of the UEFA Executive Committee
1992 to 2000 vice-president of UEFA
1995 to 1996 Acting treasurer of UEFA
1996 to 2000 UEFA Treasurer
References
External links
Egidius Braun at dfb.de
DFB-Stiftung Egidius Braun
Fußball-Verband Mittelrhein e.V.
Biografie Homepage of SV Breinig
1925 births
2022 deaths
Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin
Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
German football chairmen and investors
German prisoners of war in World War II
People from Stolberg (Rhineland) |
17338272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20McQueen | Tommy McQueen | Thomas Feeney McQueen (born 1 April 1963) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a defender. His primary position was full back.
McQueen began his career with Clyde, making over 100 appearances in all competitions, before moving to Aberdeen in 1984, where he made 53 appearances, scored four goals and was part of the 1986 Scottish Cup winning team. He left the Scotland temporarily in 1987 to play for West Ham, but returned to Scotland in 1990 to play again for Falkirk and Dundee in 1994.
McQueen was the only footballer to win medals in all three divisions in the 1975–1994 three-division structure of the SFL (with Clyde, Falkirk and Aberdeen).
, McQueen was co-owner of a haulage firm in Glasgow with former Falkirk player Roddy Manley.
Honours
Clyde
Scottish Second Division: 1981–82
Aberdeen
Scottish Premier Division: 1984–85
Scottish Cup: 1985–86
Falkirk
Scottish First Division: 1990–91, 1993–94
Scottish Challenge Cup: 1993–94
References
External links
Living people
1963 births
Scottish footballers
Clyde F.C. players
Aberdeen F.C. players
West Ham United F.C. players
Falkirk F.C. players
Dundee F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Association football fullbacks |
20478757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Ginesta | Georges Ginesta | Georges Ginesta (born July 8, 1942 in Saint-Raphaël, Var) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Var department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1942 births
Living people
People from Saint-Raphaël, Var
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
Senators of Var (department) |
20478761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Mothron | Georges Mothron | Georges Mothron (born April 5, 1948 in Argenteuil) is a former member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Val-d'Oise department, and is a member of the Republicans.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Argenteuil
Rally for the Republic politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
The Popular Right
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
17338276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks%20in%20Austria | Greeks in Austria | Greeks in Austria number between 5,000 and 18,000 people. They are located all around the country, but the main community is located in Vienna.
History
Contacts between the Greeks and the Austrians can be led back in the aristocracy of the Middle Ages. All the Babenberg dukes from Leopold V onward were descended from Byzantine emperors.
The Greek Johannes Theodat opened on 17 January 1685 Vienna's first coffee house in Haarmarkt. As a reward for his services, he was granted the privilege of being the only trader in the city to sell coffee as a drink for 20 years. Furthermore, by 1700, four Greek merchants had the privilege to serve coffee in public.
In the 18th century, Vienna was the centre of Greek diaspora where persons like Rigas Feraios, Anthimos Gazis, Neophytos Doukas and the Ypsilantis family prepared the Greek War of Independence. There were also various institutions founded in Vienna that promote the Greek language and learning, contributing to the Modern Greek Enlightenment. In 1814, the Count Ioannis Kapodistrias, at that time Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire, in collaboration with Anthimos Gazis, founded in Vienna the Philomuse Society, an educational organization promoting philhellenism, such as studies for the Greeks in Europe.
Additionally, ethnic Aromanians coming mostly from Moscopole, and generally from the Balkans, who self-identified as Greeks, have also been considered as part of the Greek diaspora.
Furthermore, of great economic importance and social acknowledgment attained the Greeks in Austria in the 19th century. The first Greek newspaper was printed there and the Hellenic National School in Vienna is today the oldest such in the world that has remained continuously in operation.
In 1856, after a request by Simon Sinas, Johann Strauss II composed the Hellenen-Polka (Hellenes Polka) op. 203 for an annual ball of the Greek community in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
In 20th century, Austria (and especially Graz and Linz) was a popular destination for Greek students.
Architectural heritage
The Austrian magnate of Greek origin Georgios Sinas (father of Simon Sinas) invited the Danish architect Theophil Hansen who worked in Athens (and had designed there major public buildings like the Zappeion and the Academy of Athens) to design for him some new buildings for his companies in Austria. Other Greek Austrians like Nikolaus Dumba and Ignaz von Ephrussi also gave Hansen contracts for buildings in the Classical Greek style and the Gräzisierter-Neorennaissance-Stil. After Works like the Palais Ephrussi and the Palais Dumba Hansen was famous and build many other public buildings in Austria like the Parliament of Austria and the Musikverein.
In the former Greek Quarter of Vienna at the there are the two historical Greek Orthodox parishes (St George and Holy Trinity). A traditional Austrian Restaurant there is called ("Greek Tavern", because of its Greek visitors since the 18th century) and a street ("Greek Lane").
Notable Greeks in Austria
Coudenhove-Kalergi family, noble family of mixed Flemish and Cretan Greek descent.
Nikolaus Dumba (c. 1830–1900), industrialist, liberal politician, benefactor of Greece and patron of the arts. Sponsored the construction of Musikverein.
Konstantin Dumba (c. 1856–1947), diplomat serving as its last accredited Ambassador to the United States.
Simon Sinas (c. 1810–1876), banker and diplomat, benefactor of Greece.
Constantin von Economo (c. 1876–1931), psychiatrist and neurologist.
Ephrussi family, banking family of Romaniotes descent.
Demeter Laccataris (c. 1798-1864) , painter based in Pest.
Logothetti family, noble family originally from Zante.
Hugo II Logothetti (c. 1852–1918), diplomat and last emissary of the Habsburg monarchy in Tehran.
Baltazzi family, aristocratic banking family, baroness Mary Vetsera's maternal family
Theodor Baltazzi (c. 1788-1860), prominent banker born in Istanbul.
Aristides Baltazzi c. 1843-1914), was a horse breeder, member of the Austrian Imperial Council and large landowner.
Pappas Family, founders of the Alpine construction group and importers of Mercedes-Benz in Austria and Hungary
Anastasios Pappas, Merchant in Vienna, 1821 revolutionary, member of Filiki Eteria and son of Emmanouel Pappas the Leader of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia
Karajan family, merchant family based in Chemnitz then Electorate of Saxony
Herbert von Karajan (c. 1908-1989), principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Georg Zachariades (c. 1848-1943) industrialist, figure skater and racing cyclist.
Georg von Metaxa (c. 1914–1944), tennis player, his father was descended from the aristocratic Metaxas family from Cephallonia.
Christian Michelides (b. 1957), psychotherapist and director of Lighthouse Wien.
Konstantin Filippou, chef and restaurateur
Maria Vassilakou (b. 1969), Vice-Mayor of Vienna, President of the Viennese branch of The Greens – The Green Alternative, the fourth party in the Austrian Parliament
Karolos Trikolidis. conductor
Peter Persidis, football player
See also
Austria–Greece relations
References
Austria
Ethnic groups in Austria
Austria–Greece relations |
6905638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Council%20%28Qing%20dynasty%29 | Grand Council (Qing dynasty) | The Grand Council or Junji Chu (; Manchu: coohai nashūn i ba; literally, "Office of Military Secrets"), officially the Banli Junji Shiwu Chu (; "Office for the Handling of Confidential Military Affairs"), was an important policy-making body of China during the Qing dynasty. It was established in 1733 by the Yongzheng Emperor. The council was originally in charge of military affairs, but gradually attained a more important role and eventually attained the role of a privy council, eclipsing the Grand Secretariat in function and importance, which is why it has become known as the "Grand Council" in English.
Despite its important role in the government, the Grand Council remained an informal policy making body in the inner court and its members held other concurrent posts in the Qing civil service. Originally, most of the officials serving in the Grand Council were Manchus, but gradually Han Chinese officials were admitted into the ranks of the council. One of the earliest Han Chinese officials to serve in the council was Zhang Tingyu. The chancellery was housed in an insignificant building just west of the gate to Palace of Heavenly Purity in the Forbidden City.
Origins of the Grand Council
Council of Princes and High Officials
In the early Qing dynasty, political power was held by the Council of Princes and High Officials (議政王大臣會議), which consisted of eight imperial princes who served as imperial advisers at the same time. It also included a few Manchu officials. Established in 1637, the council was responsible for deciding major policies of the Qing government. Decisions of the council had precedence over decisions of the Grant Secretariat, the imperial cabinet. Under rules set by Nurhaci, the Council even had the power to depose the Emperor. In 1643, the Shunzhi Emperor expanded the council's composition to Han Chinese officials, with its mandate expanded to all important decisions relating to the Qing Empire. The council's powers gradually waned after the establishment of the Southern Study and the Grand Council, and it was abolished in 1717.
Southern Study
The Southern Study (; Manchu: Julergi bithei boo) was an institution that held the highest policy-making power after its establishment in 1677. It was abolished in 1898. The Southern Study was built by the Kangxi Emperor in the southwestern corner of the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Members of the Hanlin Academy, selected based on literary merit, were posted to the Study so that the Emperor had easy access to them when he sought counsel or discussion. When posted to the Study, officials were known as "[having] access to the Southern Study" (南書房行走). Because of their proximity to the Emperor, official posted to the Study became highly influential to the Emperor. After the establishment of the Grand Council, the Southern Study remained an important institution but lost its policy advisory role. Officials regarded secondment to the Southern Study as an honourable recognition of their literary achievements. In Chinese, the term "access to the Southern Study" in modern usage indicates a person who, through channels other than formal government office, has significant influence over leaders of the government.
Establishment of the Grand Council
In 1729, the Yongzheng Emperor launched a military offensive against the Dzungar Khanate. Concerns were raised that the meeting location of the Grand Secretariat (outside the Gate of Supreme Harmony) did not ensure security for military secrets. The Junjichu was then established in the Inner Court of the Forbidden City. Trustworthy members of Cabinet staff were then seconded to work in the new Office. After defeating the Dzungars, the Yongzheng Emperor found that the streamlined operations of the Office of Military Secrets avoided problems with bureaucratic inefficiency. As a result, the Junjichu turned from a temporary institution into a "Grand Council" in 1732, quickly outstripping the powers of the Council of Advisor Princes, and the Southern Study, to become the chief policy-making body of the Qing Empire.
The Qing Grand Council (1738-1911)
The Interim Council and Reestablishing the Grand Council
In 1735, the Yongzheng Emperor died and was succeeded by his son, the Qianlong Emperor. Shortly before his death, the Yongzheng Emperor established an interim council to assist his son. The Interim Council soon consolidated many of the "Inner Court" agencies of the Yongzheng era, and expanded its power. Three years later, in 1738, the Interim Council disbanded and the Grand Council was reconstituted.
During the Qianlong Emperor's reign, the Grand Council had many duties. Some of them included more mundane duties such as keeping track of paperwork and planning events, such as entertainments for the imperial court and transportation of the Emperor. Other duties were more tied to state administration, such as drafting edicts, and advising the Emperor on various policies and problems. Its proximity to the Emperor and inner court, secrecy and unofficial status allowed it to expand and sustained its central role in state administration, and also freed it from some of the constraints of many of the outer-court agencies.
The Grand Council after the Qianlong era
In 1796, the Qianlong Emperor abdicated in favor of his son, the Jiaqing Emperor. Upon his father's death three years later, in 1799, the Jiaqing Emperor, along with purging his father's favorite, Heshen, who had served on the Grand Council since 1776, introduced numerous reforms to the Grand Council, including a reduction of the numbers of grand councilors, the introduction of administrative punishments for grand councilors, and the regulation of Grand Council clerk appointments by imperial audiences.
The Grand Council Under Empress Dowager Cixi
During the regencies of the empress dowagers Ci'an and Cixi, the Grand Council took on many of the decision-making duties, particularly as the two women were novices in affairs of state. Soon after the two women became regents for the Tongzhi Emperor in 1861, edicts went out detailing how state papers and affairs were to be dealt with, with many of the policies being decided by the Grand Council. Papers were to be first sent to the empress dowagers, who would refer them back to the Prince-Regent, Prince Gong, who oversaw the Grand Council. The Grand Council would then discuss the issue and seek the discretion of the empress dowagers and draft up orders accordingly, with edict drafts having to be approved by the empress dowagers. Such a configuration would lead Zeng Guofan to remark after an audience in 1869 that "the state of affairs hinged entirely on the Grand Councillors....whose power surpassed that of the imperial master." This configuration survived the regency for the Tongzhi Emperor and lasted into the regency of the Guangxu Emperor.
After the Guangxu Emperor formally took over the reins of power from his regent, Empress Dowager Cixi, both the Grand Council and the Emperor often sought the advice of the Empress Dowager, who was kept informed of state affairs. In fact, in 1894, with the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, copies of memoranda from the Grand Council were sent both to the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi, which was practiced until 1898, at which point the Empress Dowager resumed her "tutelage" of the Guangxu Emperor. From that time until the nearly simultaneous deaths of Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor a decade later, they jointly received the Grand Council at audiences.
Abolition
With the deaths of Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor in 1908, Puyi, Guangxu's nephew, succeeded to the throne. Eventually, in May 1911, Puyi's father, Prince Chun, who was Prince-Regent, abolished the Grand Council favoring an "Imperial Cabinet". Yikuang, the Prime Minister at the time, founded the first Imperial Cabinet in 1911. The Qing dynasty, despite this concession to those calling for reform, collapsed not long after.
Composition
The number of officials comprising the Council varied from time to time, from as few as three to as many as ten. Usually, the number of officials serving in the council was five, two Manchus, two Han Chinese and one Prince of the First Rank, who acted as the council's president. The most senior among them was called the Chief Councillor (), but this was simply a working designation and was not an official title.
Notable Grand Council members
Zhang Tingyu
Heshen
Sushun
Prince Gong
Prince Chun
Weng Tonghe
Ronglu
Prince Qing
Qu Hongji
Tan Sitong, executed for supporting the Hundred Days Reform
Yu Minzhong (Chief)
References
Citations
Sources
Further reading
Ho, Alfred Kuo-liang. "The Grand Council in the Ch'ing Dynasty." The Far Eastern Quarterly 11, no. 2 (1952): 167–82.
Government of the Qing dynasty
Government of Imperial China
1733 establishments in China |
20478765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Tron | Georges Tron | Georges Tron (born 1 August 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French politician. He served as Secretary of Public Affairs in the Cabinet of François Baroin but resigned after accusations of sexual assault were made against him. He was mayor of Draveil from 1995 to 2021, and only resigned from that role several months into his 3-years prison sentence for rape.
Biography
Georges Tron received his Baccalauréat at the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in 1975 and a Masters in Public Law. In 1986, he was appointed as parliamentary advisor to Édouard Balladur, then Minister of Economy and Finance. From 1988 to 1993, he served as Chief of Staff for Balladur. From 1997 to 2002, he served as budgetary advisor to the Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin.
In 1999, he served as National Secretary of the Rally for the Republic and in 2002, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement.
He became President of the Union des Jeunes pour le Progrès. Since 1993, he has been a deputy of Essonne. Since 1995, he has been Mayor of Draveil. Since 2003, he has been the President of Communauté d'Agglomération Sénart Val de Seine. In 2009, he joined the Deslierres & Associés law firm.
In May 2011, George Tron became the subject of a preliminary investigation into charges of sexual harassment after two women alleged that he had attacked them between 2007 and 2010, which led him to resign as a junior minister for the civil service, tendering his resignation to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Tron linked the case to a feud with relatives of Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who announced she would sue him for libel.
In February 2021, he was sentenced on appeal to 5 years of imprisonment (with 2 of those suspended) for the sexual harassment and rape of his former employee. He initially refused to resign and ran the town from his jail cell for several months, but he eventually resigned in May 2021.
Political career
Governmental functions
Secretary of State for Public Service : 2010-2011 (Resignation)
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
Member of the National Assembly of France for Essonne (9th constituency) : 1993-2010 (He became secretary of state in 2010) / Since 2011. Elected in 1993, reelected in 1997, 2002, 2007.
Municipal Council
Mayor of Draveil : Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008, 2014, 2020.
Municipal councillor of Draveil : Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.
Agglomeration Community Council
President of the Agglomeration Community Sénart Val de Seine : Since 2003. Reelected in 2008.
Member of the Agglomeration Community Sénart Val de Seine : Since 2003. Reelected in 2008.
References
External links
Official website
1957 births
Living people
People from Neuilly-sur-Seine
Politicians of the French Fifth Republic
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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