id
stringlengths 2
8
| url
stringlengths 31
389
| title
stringlengths 1
250
| text
stringlengths 2
355k
|
|---|---|---|---|
6906979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chedraui | Chedraui | Chedraui is a publicly traded Mexican grocery store and department store chain which also operates stores in the U.S. in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada under the name El Super. It is traded on the Mexican Stock Exchange under the symbol CHEDRAUI.
History
Chedraui was founded in 1927 in Xalapa, Veracruz by Lebanese immigrant Lázaro Chedraui Chaya and his wife Ana Caram. They founded towards 1920 a haberdashery in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz. Originally the business was called the Port of Beirut, clearly showing its origin, but for 1927 would adopt the House Chedraui: the only one of confidence. In 1971 it opened the first supermarket in Xalapa, Veracruz. In 2005 it bought 29 supermarkets from Carrefour in Central and Southern Mexico. Chedraui's primary competition includes large grocers and hypermarkets such as Soriana, Wal-Mart and Comercial Mexicana.
According to Hoover's, it is "Mexico's third-largest retailer (after Walmart and Soriana), the supermarket giant sells groceries, apparel, and non-perishable items in 262 stores.
The California operations began in 1997, later expanded to Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The stores there are branded El Super, and operated by Grupo Chedraui's Bodega Latina Corporation, headquartered in Paramount, CA. In 2018, Bodega Latina acquired Fiesta Mart in Texas. On May 14, 2021, Bodega Latina announced that it would acquire Smart and Final from Apollo Global Management.
Gallery
See also
Soriana
Comercial Mexicana
References
External links
Chedraui website
Companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange
Retail companies established in 1927
Retail companies of Mexico
Supermarkets of Mexico |
6906982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20II%20of%20Spoleto | Guy II of Spoleto | Guy II (sometimes III) (died late 882 or early 883) was the eldest son and successor of Lambert I as Duke of Spoleto and Margrave of Camerino. He was elected to succeed to these titles on his father's death in 880. He had an ambitious plan of expansion to the south and to the west that conflicted with the Papacy.
He received a papal letter on 18 July in the year of his accession. Pope John VIII asked for a meeting, but Guy ignored him and instead invaded the Papal States. John responded by begging the aid of Charles the Fat, already King of Italy, and crowning him Emperor on 12 February 881. Charles did little to help against Guy, however. A papal letter dated to 11 November and addressed to Charles referred to Guy as Rabbia, an epithet meaning "rage." It stuck as a nickname.
As ruler, Guy used the motto Renovatio regni Francorum (renewing the kingdom of the Franks), like his Carolingain predecessors. In February 882, at a diet convoked in Ravenna by Charles, the duke, emperor, and pope made peace and Guy and his uncle, Guy of Camerino, vowed to restore stolen papal lands. In a March letter to Charles, John claimed that the vows went unfulfilled. Guy never succeeded in his dreams of expansion or in keeping his promises: he died young, later that year or early in the next. His uncle succeeded him, as his children were minors. His son Guy IV later ruled in Spoleto and the Principality of Benevento. His daughter Itta married Guaimar I of Salerno.
Notes
Bibliography
9th-century dukes of Spoleto
Guideschi dynasty
Margraves of Italy
9th-century births
883 deaths
Year of birth unknown |
20480565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Veniot | Harvey Veniot | Harvey Alfred Veniot, (November 18, 1915 – October 2, 2009) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Pictou West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1974 as a Progressive Conservative member.
Veniot was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the son of Alexander R. Veniot and Gladys Maclean, and was educated at Pictou Academy, St. Francis Xavier University, Dalhousie Law School and the University of Saskatchewan. He was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1940. Veniot married Rhoda Marion MacLeod in 1944.
Political career
Veniot served as a town councillor in Pictou from 1945 to 1946. In 1953, he was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the provincial assembly, losing to Liberal incumbent Stewart W. Proudfoot by 9 votes. Veniot ran again in the 1956 election, defeating Proudfoot by 88 votes to win the Pictou West riding. In 1958, he was named Queen's Counsel. Veniot was re-elected in the 1960, 1963, 1967, and 1970 elections.
Veniot served as Speaker of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia from February 1961 to April 1968. In May 1968, Venoit was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Agriculture. He was given an additional role in cabinet in July 1968 as Minister of Municipal Affairs. He was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1974, losing to Liberal Dan Reid by 22 votes.
Following his defeat, Veniot returned to the practice of law. In 1979, he was named judge in the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia. Veniot died on October 2, 2009.
The Harvey A. Veniot Causeway carrying Nova Scotia Highway 106 across Pictou Harbour has been named in his honour.
References
Lumley, E Canadian Who's Who 2002
1915 births
2009 deaths
Schulich School of Law alumni
Judges in Nova Scotia
Members of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia municipal councillors
People from Pictou County
Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs
Speakers of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
St. Francis Xavier University alumni
Canadian Queen's Counsel
20th-century Canadian politicians |
23578179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Serbian%20football%20transfers%20summer%202009 | List of Serbian football transfers summer 2009 | This is a list of transfers in Serbian football for the 2009 summer transfer window. Only moves featuring a Serbian Superliga side are listed.
If adding transfers, please add the external source in references list, at bottom.
Serbian Superliga
Partizan Belgrade
In:
Out:
FK Vojvodina
In:
Out:
Red Star Belgrade
In:
Out:
FK Javor
In:
Out:
Borac Čačak
In:
Out:
Napredak Kruševac
In:
Out:
Hajduk Kula
In:
Out:
Rad Belgrade
In:
Out:
Čukarički Stankom
In:
Out:
FK Jagodina
In:
Out:
OFK Belgrade
In:
Out:
FK Smederevo
In:
Out:
BSK Borča
In:
Out:
FK Mladi Radnik
In:
Out:
Spartak Zlatibor Voda Subotica
In:
Out:
Metalac G.Milanovac
In:
Out:
See also
Serbian Superliga
Serbian Superliga 2009-10
List of foreign football players in Serbia
References
Serbian Superliga official website
MTSMondo.com, Serbian news agency
Serbian
Football transfers summer 2009
2009 |
17339590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie%20Prenger | Jodie Prenger | Jodie Prenger (born 12 June 1979) is an English actress and singer, best known as the winner of BBC television series I'd Do Anything on 31 May 2008 and the second series of The Biggest Loser in 2006.
Early life
Prenger was educated at Elmslie Girls' School in Blackpool and Blackpool and the Fylde College before starting work in the area as an entertainer. She has performed extensively on the cabaret circuit in Northern England and particularly her hometown of Blackpool and Fylde coast where she has also worked as an agony aunt. In June 1998 she appeared in two different shows each night in two Blackpool theatres. First she had a solo spot in the Tiptoes Summer Spectacular at the resort's Opera House theatre before appearing 20 minutes later in one of the main roles in a Blackpool and the Fylde College production of the musical comedy Hot Mikado at the Grand Theatre.
Prenger's first appearance on television came in 1999 when she appeared on A Taste for Travel on Granada Television with her mother. In 2000 she took part in the Dale Winton show The Other Half on BBC One in which she had to pretend to be the wife of boxer Chris Eubank. Later that year, she played the role of the good witch Hurricane in a non-skating role in Halloween Spectacular on Ice at Alton Towers in Staffordshire. In 2001, she spent eight months as one of four main entertainers in a team of 19 aboard the cruise ship Disney Wonder.
Career
The Biggest Loser
Prenger won the second series of The Biggest Loser in 2006, making her the first female in the world to win the show, starting the show a size 22 and weighing . During the series, she lost over . Her final weight was and she slimmed down to a size 10 before settling at a size 14/16. Prenger won £25,000 for winning the series.
In 2006, Jodie Prenger was also featured on Charlotte Coyle's Fat Beauty Contest on Channel 4, where Coyle searched for plus sized models for a beauty pageant.
On 10 March 2009, Prenger appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show and spoke about her time on The Biggest Loser. On seeing a picture of herself after initially losing weight, she said that she believed she lost too much weight and became too thin at that time. She also commented that she believed all women should have curves.
I'd Do Anything
Prenger was the winner of I'd Do Anything on 31 May 2008, giving her the opportunity to play Nancy in a West End revival of the British musical Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Prenger attended auditions for the show in Manchester in January 2008, and made it through to the final 42 at "Nancy School" from where she was eventually chosen as one of the twelve finalists to perform in the live shows each week.
After her performance of "Chasing Pavements" in the first live show of the series, Prenger was the joint favourite to win. Panelist John Barrowman said, "I love you to death, you connected with everyone and told the story – that's making a good Nancy!" while Denise Van Outen, another panellist, commented that "Nancy needs to have a lot of life experience and I see that coming through in your performance. It was absolutely brilliant". Barry Humphries, another panellist, who had played Mr Sowerberry, the undertaker, in the original Lionel Bart West End stage production, said "You've got that toughness and also a tenderness. A beautiful performance and a fine actress." Head judge Andrew Lloyd Webber said that Jodie could "absolutely play this role." In week five Humphries said that Prenger was "destined for the West End", and in week eight Barrowman labelled Prenger his "perfect Nancy". In the week leading up to the final in week ten, the Nancy finalists posed for publicity pictures recreating some of Madonna's iconic images. Prenger posed in a wedding dress to recreate the cover of the album Like a Virgin. On 30 May, Webber revealed that theatrical producer Cameron Mackintosh, who produced the show in the West End, and joined the panel in week nine, was concerned about her curvaceous figure saying, "Cameron thinks she is a bit too big and has more or less said so". However, Webber defended Prenger, saying that she had both the vocal talents and personality for the role, saying "Jodie could be anybody's idea of Nancy – I can see it absolutely. She has got a lovely voice and a super personality. She has experience as well." In the final, on 31 May, Prenger performed a total number of seven songs including her performance of "As Long as He Needs Me" after she was announced as winner. She also performed "I'd Do Anything" with all the Nancy and Oliver finalists; "Son of a Preacher Man"; "Getting to Know You" from the musical The King and I with Laurence ; "Maybe This Time" from the film Cabaret with Jessie Buckley and Samantha Barks as well as also singing "As Long as he Needs Me" and "I Have Nothing" from A Star Is Born before the final vote. Of her performance of "Son of a Preacher Man", Mackintosh said: "Jodie has convinced me that she could make a Nancy. You absolutely deserve to be in the final." Barrowman said, "every song she sings, you believe the words. I look forward to the day I can guest star with you on the West End stage!" and Webber said, "that was a very, very, very good performance. You have an outsize talent, and a very strong voice. I just don't know if it's going to be quite enough tonight, but it might be." In the second part of the live final, Prenger performed her favourite song from the series, "I Have Nothing", and Nancy's tragic love ballad, "As Long As He Needs Me". After she was announced as the winner, Prenger said, "You have genuinely given me my dream, I can't actually put into words how I feel. I'm so grateful and so chuffed. I'm just Jodie from Blackpool and to be here is my dream." Andrew Lloyd Webber said, "The people's Nancy. Jodie was always going to be the people's choice," adding " I think people love her, they love her open personality. I think they relate to that personality and I think that's what makes her Nancy for the public. Her strengths are her personality and her very, very strong voice." Mackintosh said, "I'm thrilled for Jodie, congratulations!" adding, "She is obviously the public's view of what they want to see as Nancy. She'll give a terrific performance and I really look forward to putting her into training and getting her into rehearsals."
Please note this is a list of her individual performances only
Theatre
In June 2008, it was confirmed that Prenger would be performing six of the eight weekly shows of Oliver! after it opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 12 December 2008. She performed on Monday and Tuesday evenings, Wednesday matinees, Friday evenings and both the matinee and evening shows each Saturday. Prior to that she appeared in the ensemble in Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre from 26 August 2008, in order to gain some experience of performing in the West End. Oliver! opened successfully on 14 January 2009, and Prenger received positive reviews. On 16 March 2009, a new cast recording of the revival was released with Prenger and the rest of the cast. For her role as Nancy, Prenger received the Theatregoers' Choice Whatsonstage Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. She played her final performance as Nancy on 27 March 2010, and was succeeded by fellow West End leading lady Kerry Ellis, who is best known for her role as Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked. Prenger reprised the role of Nancy once more, for two one-off performances on 13 November 2010, whilst Ellis was absent.
After winning I'd Do Anything, Prenger was given a civic reception in her hometown of Blackpool on 7 June 2008, with a specially erected stage in front of the town hall where she performed several songs from Oliver!. On 24 August 2008, she performed in a "Music Under the Stars" event at the annual Faenol Festival held near Y Felinheli in Gwynedd, North Wales.
Prenger played the role of The Lady of the Lake in the UK tour of the hit musical Spamalot, which began performances at New Wimbledon Theatre on 29 May 2010. She was also cast as Diane in the new drama series, Candy Cabs, about a group of friends who set up a female-only taxi company in a seaside town in Northern England.
In 2015, Prenger played Miss Hannigan in the UK tour of the musical Annie at Oxford's New Theatre.
Prenger appeared in One Man, Two Guvnors at the Haymarket Theatre in London, alongside Owain Arthur who took over the role of Francis Henshall from Tony award-winning actor James Corden. Prenger played Elsie Tanner in the ill-fated Street of Dreams, the Coronation Street musical written by Trisha Ward. The show finally premiered in May 2012 after its opening was delayed by more than a month at the Manchester Arena and then was supposed to tour around major UK arenas, It closed after a couple of nights amid controversy.
Prenger was in an episode of the food factory titled "Just Add Water".
Jodie performed in the UK tour of Tell Me on a Sunday before taking on the title role in the UK tour of Shirley Valentine.
In 2017/18 Prenger played the lead role of Kelly in the world premiere of Kay Mellor's Fat Friends The Musical alongside Andrew Flintoff, Sam Bailey, Kevin Kennedy, Natalie Anderson, Neil Hurst and Rachel Wooding
2019 saw Jodie touring in Abigail's Party alongside Coronation Street's Vicky Binns.
Television and radio
In 2013, Prenger participated in Let's Dance for Comic Relief. Boyzone's Keith Duffy had originally planned to participate in the programme, but was unable to compete due to private matters. Prenger then took his place on the show. Her first appearance was in the third heat on 2 March 2013, where she danced to the song "Word Up" by Cameo. She was saved by the public, and as a result, made it through to the final on 9 March 2013 where she finished second place to Antony Cotton.
In July 2009, Prenger was a guest panellist on ITV's Loose Women.
She occasionally presented the midweek National Lottery draw on BBC One. In June 2011, Prenger appeared in an episode of Waterloo Road, playing Linda Wickes.
She has been a regular contributor on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and This Morning.
Prenger also frequently sits in for Paul O'Grady and Elaine Paige, when they are absent from their BBC Radio 2 shows.
On 4 December 2011 Jodie appeared on CBeebies Justin's House.
Jodie host's the weekly 'Mishaps Podcast' with Emmerdale actress Natalie Anderson and Neil Hurst
Other work
On 23 February 2009, Prenger released her autobiography, It's a Fine Life.
Personal life
Prenger was engaged to her boyfriend, Steve Greengrass, who proposed to her after the Saturday show in week three of I'd Do Anything on 12 April 2008; a whirlwind romance which was featured throughout the series as their first date some three months earlier had been Prenger's audition in Manchester. She split from Greengrass a few weeks after the show's finale.
In April 2012, Prenger announced her engagement to boyfriend of two years, Simon Booth, soon after her father Marty died of kidney cancer.
Theatre Credits
Filmography
Television
Guest appearances as self
Bibliography
It's A Fine Life (2009)
Discography
Oliver! London Cast Recording (2009)
The Very Best of Glenn Miller (2010)
Spamalot: UK Tour Cast Recording (2011)
References
External links
People from Blackpool
1979 births
Living people
English stage actresses
Reality show winners |
44504153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Jupiter%20trojans%20%28Trojan%20camp%29%20%281%E2%80%93100000%29 | List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (1–100000) | This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 1–100000 . If available, an object's mean diameter is taken from the NEOWISE data release, which the Small-Body Database has also adopted. Mean diameters are rounded to two significant figures if smaller than 100 kilometers. Estimates are in italics and calculated from a magnitude-to-diameter conversion, using an assumed albedo of 0.057.
1–100000
This list contains 376 objects sorted in numerical order.
top
References
Trojan_0
Jupiter Trojans (Trojan Camp) |
17339595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhkung | Sinhkung | Sinhkung 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 |
20480595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene%20Komnene%20Doukaina | Irene Komnene Doukaina | Irene Komnene Doukaina or Eirene Komnene Doukaina (, ) was an Empress of Bulgaria during the Second Bulgarian Empire and Byzantine princess. She was the third wife of tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria. She was the mother of tsar Michael Asen I of Bulgaria.
Life
Irene was daughter of despotēs Theodore Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus, and Maria Petraliphaina (sister of the sebastokratōr John Petraliphas). In 1230 Irene and her family were captured by the troops of tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria in the battle of Klokotnitsa and they were taken in Tarnovo, where Irene grew up in the Palace. Irene became known for her beauty and the widowed tsar fell in love with her. They married in 1237. According to a Byzantine author, Ivan Asen II loved Irene "no less than Antony loved Cleopatra", and she may have been his mistress for some years before their marriage in 1237. By marrying Irene, Ivan Asen II would have broken church canons, as his daughter, Maria Asanina Komnena, from his marriage to Anna (Anisia) was married to Irene's uncle, Manuel of Thessalonica. There is some evidence that the Bulgarian church opposed the marriage and that a patriarch (called either Spiridon or Vissarion) was deposed or executed by the irate tsar.
Irene and Ivan Asen II had three children:
Anna (or Theodora), who married the sebastokratōr Peter before 1253.
Maria, who married Mitso Asen, who succeeded as emperor of Bulgaria 1256–1257.
Michael Asen I, who succeeded as emperor of Bulgaria (1246–1256).
In 1241 Ivan Asen II died and he was succeeded by Kaliman I of Bulgaria, his son by his second wife Anna Maria of Hungary. Kaliman I was poisoned in 1246 and the throne went to Michael Asen I, the son of Irene. According to one theory Irene poisoned her stepson in order to secure the throne for Michael II. It is assumed that Irene took over the government as tsarina-regent because her son was still a child when he ascended the throne, but there is little evidence to prove this hypothesis.
Irene retired to a monastery under the monastic name Xenia. She was expelled from Bulgaria after the death of her son in 1256 and spent the rest of her life in her family's land around Thessaloniki.
References
Sources
Bulgarian consorts
13th-century births
13th-century deaths
Komnenodoukas dynasty
13th-century Bulgarian women
13th-century Byzantine women |
17339603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipe-hkalaw | Sipe-hkalaw | Sipe-hkalaw 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 |
23578182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Register%20of%20Historic%20Places%20listings%20in%20Bladen%20County%2C%20North%20Carolina | National Register of Historic Places listings in Bladen County, North Carolina | This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bladen County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
|}
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina
List of National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina
References
Bladen County, North Carolina
Bladen County |
17339607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Goddess%20of%20Ganymede | The Goddess of Ganymede | The Goddess of Ganymede is a science fiction novel by American writer Mike Resnick. It was first published in book form in 1967 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 750 copies.
Plot introduction
The novel concerns Adam Thane, a soldier of fortune who fights for the woman he loves against the immortals of Ganymede.
Sources
1967 American novels
1967 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Fiction set on Ganymede (moon)
Donald M. Grant, Publisher books |
17339611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legends%20Rock%20Dubai | The Legends Rock Dubai | The Legends Rock Dubai is the last event in the Outback Champions Series for senior tennis players. It is held each year in November in Dubai, UAE.
Players who have participated in this event include Anders Järryd, Björn Borg, Cédric Pioline, Guy Forget, Jim Courier,
Recurring sporting events established in 2007
Tennis tournaments in the United Arab Emirates
Champions Series (senior men's tennis tour)
Sports competitions in Dubai
2007 establishments in the United Arab Emirates |
20480609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole%20%28markup%29 | Creole (markup) | Creole is a lightweight markup language, aimed at being a common markup language for wikis, enabling and simplifying the transfer of content between different wiki engines.
History
The idea was conceived during a workshop at the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis. An EBNF grammar and XML interchange format for Creole have also been published. Creole was designed by comparing major wiki engines and using the most common markup for a particular wikitext element. If no commonality was found, the wikitext of the dominant wiki engine MediaWiki was usually chosen.
On July 4, 2007, the version 1.0 (final) of Creole was released, and a two-year development freeze was implemented to allow time for authors of wiki engines to adopt the new markup. Although development to the standard itself is frozen, discussion in the developer community regarding good practices in wiki markup design and about possible additions and changes for future Creole versions continues.
As of 2012, adoption of Creole is limited. Many wiki systems offer it as an option, but few use it by default and few wiki websites enable this optional feature.
Creole syntax examples
Emphasized text:
//emphasized// (e.g., italics)
**strongly emphasized** (e.g., bold)
Lists:
* Bullet list
* Second item
** Sub item
# Numbered list
# Second item
## Sub item
Links:
Link to [[wikipage]]
[[link_address|link text]]
Headings: (closing equals signs are optional)
= Extra-large heading
== Large heading
=== Medium heading
==== Small heading
Linebreaks:
Force\\linebreak
Horizontal Line:
----
Images:
{{Image.jpg|title}}
Tables:
|= |= table |= header |
| a | table | row |
| b | table | row |
No markup:
{{{
This text will //not// be **formatted**.
}}}
Support in engines
As of early 2011, wiki engines that have implemented full or partial support for Creole include Liferay, Djiki, DokuWiki, Ikiwiki, MoinMoin, Oddmuse, PhpWiki, PmWiki, TiddlyWiki, and XWiki. However, Creole is not necessarily the default syntax in these wiki engines.
Creole 1.0 is the default syntax in Bitbucket wikis, which also support some Creole 1.0 additions.
Creole 1.0 is one of the available markup languages for the online educational platform Moodle,
and the UML rendering software PlantUML.
References
External links
Creole 1.0 Homepage
Creole 2.0 Discussion Homepage
WikiSym 2006 Workshop: Wiki Markup Standard (archived web page)
Demonstration of a downloadable JavaScript-powered editing tool for Creole 1.0
Lightweight markup languages
Wikis
2007 in computing |
17339612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiawhtu | Taiawhtu | Taiawhtu 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 |
20480622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai%20coup%20d%27%C3%A9tat | Thai coup d'état | Thai coup d'état or Siamese coup d'état may refer one of the following:
Palace Revolt of 1912
Siamese revolution of 1932
1933 Siamese coup d'état
Boworadet rebellion (1933)
Songsuradet Rebellion (1939)
April 1933 Siamese coup d'état
June 1933 Siamese coup d'état
Siamese coup d'état of 1947
Siamese coup d'état of 1948
Palace Rebellion (1949)
Manhattan Rebellion (1951)
Silent Coup (Thailand) (1951)
1957 Thai coup d'état
1958 Thai coup d'état
1971 Thai coup d'état
1976 Thai coup d'état
October 1977 Thai coup d'état
1991 Thai coup d'état
2006 Thai coup d'état
2014 Thai coup d'état
See also
List of coups d'état and coup attempts by country#Thailand |
17339619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20Talansky | Morris Talansky | Morris "Moshe" Talansky () is an American businessman and Orthodox rabbi who co-founded the New Jerusalem Foundation with Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister of Israel.
Biography
After graduating from Yeshiva University in 1954, Talansky was ordained as a rabbi and went on to study law at a New York law school. Talansky and his first wife, Marion, have three children: Yitzhak (Alan), a dentist and lecturer at Jerusalem's Machon Lev college and a father of eleven children ; Bracha Tova (Barbara), a psychologist living in Ra'anana; and Ruth, an architect living in the U.S. In 1996, after 40 years of marriage, the couple divorced. Talansky lives with his second wife, Helen, in Woodsburgh, Long Island. He also has an apartment in Wolfson Towers, a high-rise apartment complex overlooking Sacher Park and the Knesset.
Business and fundraising activities
Talansky owns Trans Global Resources, which he founded in April 1998. He is registered as sole shareholder and director of the company, which provides investment consulting and business services. It also deals in real estate investments.
Talansky was executive director of the American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center for over 20 years, raising large sums for the hospital. He stopped working for Shaare Zedek in 1997. Over the years, Talansky made contributions to the campaigns of Rudy Giuliani and George Bush. He mostly donated sums of $1,000. He is a past board member of Yeshiva University.
Olmert-Talansky affair
Talansky is a longtime acquaintance of former prime minister Ehud Olmert. They knew each other before Olmert was elected mayor of Jerusalem. Olmert used to call Talansky "my dear old friend," and his aides referred to him as "Mr. T."
In May 2008, when Olmert was investigated for alleged briberies, Talansky was one of two pivotal witnesses. The other major witness, Olmert's long-time associate and former partner in their Jerusalem law firm, attorney Uri Messer, allegedly handled the transfer of cash between Talansky and Olmert. Talansky was named as one of the contributors to Olmert's mayoral campaign in 1998.
References
External links
If Olmert isn't a criminal he is at least an ingrate
Living people
American financiers
American Orthodox rabbis
Jewish American philanthropists
Yeshiva University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American Jews |
20480643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Miller%20House | Samuel Miller House | The Samuel Miller House is a historic home located at Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. It is associated with Samuel Miller (1792-1869), a successful businessman and investor who was among the wealthiest men in the South during the years preceding the American Civil War. It is a large frame house erected between 1826 and 1829, and expanded and modified numerous times through the 20th century. Outbuildings consist of a cottage, stable, woodshed, and garage. The surrounding property was contested terrain during the siege of Lynchburg (June 1864), when a cavalry skirmish occurred on the property.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1829
Federal architecture in Virginia
Houses in Lynchburg, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Lynchburg, Virginia |
17339629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talam%2C%20Myanmar | Talam, Myanmar | Talam 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 |
17339636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamna%2C%20Myanmar | Tamna, Myanmar | Tamna, Burma 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 |
20480644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld%20River | Weld River | The Weld River is a river in the South West region of Western Australia.
The river rises below Mount Burnside in the Lake Muir State forest. The river flows in a southerly direction through the Shannon National Park until it flows into the Deep River, of which it is a tributary.
The water quality of the river is excellent and is considered fresh.
References
Rivers of the South West region |
23578212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%201969%20%28France%29 | List of number-one singles of 1969 (France) | This is a list of the French Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews number-ones of 1969.
Summary
Singles Chart
See also
1969 in music
List of number-one hits (France)
References
1969 in France
1969 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in France |
17339645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurvaston | Thurvaston | Thurvaston is a small village in South Derbyshire. In 1970 the population (together with Osleston) was put at 200. This represents a general fall since 1871 when the population was just below 400. As at the census 2011 the population is now listed in the civil parish of Osleston and Thurvaston.
History
Recent excavations have revealed extensive archaeological remains dating back from before 1400. In 2006, both Thurvaston and nearby Sutton-on-the-Hill were identified as sites for future housing. This was based on a survey which identified the high cost of housing and the high number of bedrooms per residence compared with the small number of children in the area.
References
External links
Villages in Derbyshire
South Derbyshire District |
20480665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Schoft | Felix Schoft | Felix Schoft (born 6 July 1990) is a German ski jumper.
In the World Cup he finished once among the top 20, with a seventeenth place from Pragelato in December 2008.
References
1990 births
Living people
German male ski jumpers |
20480735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divarata | Divarata | Divarata is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Pylaros, northern Cephalonia, Greece. It is 5 km northwest of Agia Effimia, 5 km south of Asos and 18 km northeast of Argostoli. The road down to the famous Myrtos Beach originates at the village. The community consists of the villages Divarata, Antypata and Loukata.
Famous residents
Archie Karas
References
Populated places in Cephalonia |
17339647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangahka | Tangahka | Tangahka 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 |
20480789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toomas%20Kukk | Toomas Kukk | Toomas Kukk (born 11 June 1971 in Tallinn) is an Estonian botanist.
He has been associated with the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany in Estonia since 1991.
He serves as the editor-in-chief of Eesti Loodus since 2001.
In 2014 he was awarded with Fourth Class of Order of the White Star.
Toomas Kukk has written books about Estonian flora.
References
External links
Biography
21st-century Estonian botanists
1971 births
Living people
People from Tallinn
University of Tartu alumni
Estonian University of Life Sciences faculty
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class |
17339658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangkyin | Tangkyin | Tangkyin 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 |
20480817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda%20of%20England%20%28disambiguation%29 | Matilda of England (disambiguation) | Matilda of England or Empress Matilda (1102–1167) was the daughter and dispossessed heiress of Henry I.
Matilda of England may also refer to:
Matilda of Flanders (c.1031 – 1083), Queen consort of England, consort to William I
Matilda of Scotland (1080–1118), Queen consort of England, consort to Henry I
Matilda of Boulogne (1105?–1152), Queen consort of England, consort to Stephen of England
Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156–1189), daughter of Henry II of England
See also
Matilda FitzRoy (disambiguation) |
20480826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington%20Channel | Wellington Channel | The Wellington Channel () (not to be confused with Wellington Strait) is a natural waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It runs north–south, separating Cornwallis Island and Devon Island. Queens Channel lies to the west, separated by Baillie-Hamilton Island, Dundas Island, and Margaret Island.
Explorations
In 1845, Sir John Franklin wintered at Beechey Island at the channel's southeast end. In winter 1848, Franklin's ships got trapped in sea ice further south in Victoria Strait, leading to the tragic end of what became known as Franklin's lost expedition. The First Grinnell expedition, an American effort to determine the fate of Franklin's lost expedition, covered the Wellington Channel. They identified there the remains of Franklin's Beechey Island winter camp, providing the first solid clues to Franklin's activities before becoming icebound themselves.
In spring 1851, the channel was explored by William Penny, who went by sledge to the northwest tip of Devon Island. Edward Belcher explored the channel in 1852.
In 1853, the French naval officer and explorer Joseph René Bellot died aged twenty-seven after falling through the ice in the Wellington Channel.
References
Channels of Qikiqtaaluk Region |
17339675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Security%20Council%20%28Sri%20Lanka%29 | National Security Council (Sri Lanka) | The National Security Council (NSC) of Sri Lanka is the executive body of the Sri Lankan government that is charged with the maintenance of national security with authority to direct the Sri Lankan military and Police.
History
The National Security Council established in June 1999 by an Gazette notification, by President Chandrika Kumaratunga following the military set backs in Operation Jayasikurui taking over direct control of the military from her cousin General Anuruddha Ratwatte, the deputy defense minister. The NSC came to national attention following the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, in which Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe claimed that although a member, he was not invited to NSC sessions chaired by President Maithripala Sirisena following the 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis.
Membership
See also
National security council
References
Military of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
1999 establishments in Sri Lanka |
17339679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Assenza | Giovanni Assenza | Giovanni Assenza, born in Ragusa on February 22, 1948, is an Italian lawyer.
Biography
GA pursued classical studies at "Liceo classico Umberto I" in Ragusa and obtained a degree in law from the University of Catania in 1976. The same year he became an official of the Ministry of Justice. From 1981 to 1989 he directed the bankruptcy and commercial section of the Court of Ragusa, and since 1989 he has directed the public prosecutor office of Ragusa.
From 1992 to 1996 he served as manager of the Court of Modica, from 1996 to 1998 as manager of Court of Appeal in Catania, and, from 1998 to July 2007, he was appointed director of the Public Prosecutor office in Ragusa. In 2007, Giovanni Assenza was called to the Bar in the forum of Ragusa.
Giovanni Assenza has also carried out teaching work in the school training of the Ministry of Justice, with regard to administrative law, science organisation, public accounting, privacy and information technology.
He is a founder member of the Associazione Dirigenti Giustizia, where he served as chairman, vice chairman and member of the Governing Council. From 2001 to August 2007, he served as General Secretary of the European Union of Rechtspfleger, which appointed him a member of honour during a congress in Stockholm on August 30, 2007.
Giovanni Assenza is member of the Rotary Club of Ragusa and was made a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.
External links
Associazione Dirigenti Giustizia
E.U.R. European Union of Rechtspfleger
Rotary Club of Ragusa
1948 births
Living people
People from Ragusa, Sicily
Italian lawyers
Jurists from Sicily |
17339687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangtong | Tangtong | Tangtong 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 |
23578239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer%2018 | Explorer 18 | Explorer 18, also called IMP-A, IMP-1, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-1 and S-74, was a NASA satellite launched as part of the Explorer program. Explorer 18 was launched on 27 November 1963 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida, with a Thor-Delta C launch vehicle. Explorer 18 was the first satellite of the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP). Explorer 21 (IMP-B) launched in October 1964 and Explorer 28 (IMP-C) launched in May 1965 also used the same general spacecraft design.
Mission
Explorer 18 was a solar cell and chemical-battery powered spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary and distant magnetospheric studies of energetic particles, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and plasmas. Initial spacecraft parameters included a local time of apogee of 10:20 hours, a spin rate of 22 rpm, and a spin direction of 115° right ascension and -25° declination. Each normal telemetry sequence of 81.9 seconds duration consisted of 795 data bits. After every third normal sequence there was an 81.9 seconds interval of rubidium vapor magnetometer analog data transmission. The spacecraft performed normally until 30 May 1964, then intermittently until 10 May 1965, when it was abandoned. The principal periods of data coverage were 27 November 1963 to 30 May 1964; 17 September 1964 to 7 January 1965; and 21 February 1965 to 25 March 1965; however, only the first of these periods was very useful.
Experiments
Cosmic-Ray Range versus Energy Loss
A charged-particle, solid-state telescope was used to measure the range and energy loss of galactic and solar cosmic rays. The experiment was designed to study particle energies (energy per nucleon intervals approximately proportional to Z squared/A) and charge spectra (Z<=6). The detector was oriented normal to the spacecraft spin axis. The detector accumulators for each energy interval were telemetered six times every 5.46 minutes. Each accumulation period was about 40 seconds (the initial spacecraft spin period was about 2 seconds). The output from two 128-channel, pulse-height analyzers was obtained for one incident particle every 41 seconds and read out along with the detector accumulations. A malfunction limited alpha studies to particles with E>30 MeV.
Cosmic Rays
This experiment consisted of two detector systems. The first was a dE/dx versus E telescope with thin and thick Caesium iodide (CsI) scintillators (one each) and an anticoincidence plastic scintillation counter. The telescope axis was normal to the spacecraft spin axis. Counts of particles penetrating the thin CsI scintillator and stopping in the thick CsI scintillator were accumulated during one 39.36-seconds interval every 5.46 minutes. The relative contribution to the count rate of various species (electrons between 3 and 12 MeV, ions with charge=1 or 2, atomic mass=1, 2, 3 or 4, and energy between 18.7 and 81.6 MeV/nucleon) and energy spectral information were determined by 512-channel pulse-height analysis performed simultaneously on the output of both CsI scintillators six times every 5.46 minutes. The second detector system consisted of two Geiger–Müller tube (GM) telescopes oriented parallel to and perpendicular to the spacecraft spin axis. Each telescope consisted of two colinear GM tubes. The parallel and perpendicular telescopes measured, respectively: 1) the sum of counts due to protons above 70 MeV and electrons above 6.5 MeV and 2) the sum of counts due to protons above 65 MeV and electrons above 6 MeV. Counts registered in any one of the four GM tubes were also accumulated. These omnidirectional counts were due to protons above 50 MeV plus electrons above 4 MeV. The parallel, perpendicular, and omnidirectional count rates were obtained for one 40-seconds accumulation interval during successive normal 81.9-seconds telemetry sequences. Thus, any one count rate was measured for 40 seconds once each 5.46 minutes. Both detector systems worked well from launch until 26 May 1964.
Faraday Cup
A five-element, split-collector Faraday cup was used to measure solar wind particles in the following sequence: positive ions from 45 to 105 eV, positive ions from 95 to 235 eV, positive ions from 220 to 640 eV, positive ions from 560 to 1800 eV, electrons from 65 to 210 eV, and positive ions from 1700 to 5400 eV. The split plane of the collector was in the spin equatorial plane of the spacecraft. Measurements consisted of 22 instantaneous current samples, each separated by 0.16 seconds (spanning more than one satellite rotation). These measurements represented the sum of the current to the split collector, the maximum difference in current encountered during spacecraft rotation, and an identification of which half of the collector was maximum. The entire sequence required 2.8 minutes and was repeated every 5.5 minutes. The entrance cone for this Faraday cup had a half-angle of about 80°. Interference was encountered from refracted particles (with the most pronounced effect at about 70° incidence to cup normal), from secondary electrons, and from Ultraviolet radiation.
Fluxgate Magnetometers
Each of two uniaxial fluxgate magnetometers, having dynamic ranges of ± 40 nT, sampled the magnetic field 30 times within each of six 4.8-seconds intervals every 5.46 minutes. Detector sensitivities were plus or minus 0.25 nT, and digitization uncertainty was plus or minus 0.40 nT. A rubidium vapor magnetometer was used to calibrate the instruments but did not produce any independently useful data sets. The instruments functioned normally throughout the useful life of the satellite and provided usable data through 30 May 1964.
Ion Chamber and Geiger–Müller Counters
The instrumentation for this experiment, designed to measure fluxes of geomagnetically trapped particles, consisted of a diameter, Neher-type ionization chamber and two Anton 223 Geiger–Müller tubes. The ion chamber responded to electrons and protons with E>1 and E>17 MeV, respectively. Both Geiger–Müller tubes were mounted parallel to the spacecraft spin axis. One Geiger–Müller tube detected electrons, with E>45 keV, scattered off a gold foil. The acceptance cone for these electrons had a 61° full-angle, and its axis of symmetry made an angle of 59.5° with the spacecraft spin axis. This Geiger–Müller tube responded omnidirectionally to electrons and protons with E>6 and E>52 MeV, respectively. The second Geiger–Müller tube had no direct access to the space environment and responded omnidirectionally to background electrons and protons with E>6 and E>52 MeV, respectively. Pulses from the ion chamber were accumulated for 326.08 seconds and read out once every 327.68 seconds. Counts from the first Geiger–Müller tube were accumulated for 39.36 seconds and read out six times every 327.68 seconds. Counts from the second Geiger–Müller tube were accumulated for 39.36 seconds and read out five times every 327.68 seconds. This experiment performed normally from launch through 10 May 1965.
Retarding Potential Analyzer
The retarding potential analyzer was a three-element planar Faraday cup. It was mounted normal to the spacecraft spin axis and had an effective look angle of 5 sr. Coarse and fine resolution modes were programmed for both ions and electrons. These modes consisted of 15 steps each for retarding voltages of 0 to 28 V and 0 to 100 V. The entire ion and electron sequence was repeated once every 10.92 minutes, and each 15-step spectral analysis required 5.4 seconds. The experiment operated for about 20 hours after launch, until a failure of a mechanical programmer switch terminated operations. The data were adversely affected by secondary electrons and no longer exist.
Solar Wind Protons
A quadrispherical electrostatic analyzer with a current collector and an electrometer amplifier was used to detect and analyze the positive ion component of the incident plasma and to study its gross flow characteristics. Protons were analyzed in 14 energy channels between 0.025 and 16 keV. The instrument was mounted on the satellite equatorial plane and had a view angle of 15° in this plane and of 90° in the plane containing the spin axis. The satellite's equatorial plane was divided into three contiguous sectors (111.8°, 111.8° and 136.4°) by use of an optical aspect sensor. The peak flux in one sector was recorded at one analyzer plate potential per revolution of the satellite (no information about the position within the sector in which the peak flux occurred was retained). After 14 revolutions, all energy channels had been scanned, and the process was repeated for the next sector. A complete scan in energy and sector was repeated every 5.46 minutes. No data were obtained for the brief periods when the satellite was in the magnetosphere. The instrument operated well until April 1964 when it started operating intermittently. Its operation continued to degrade thereafter.
Digital Data Processor
The satellite included a Digital Data Processor (DDP) telemetry system which made the first use of integrated circuits on a flown spacecraft, predating both the D-37C computer used in the Minuteman II missile system and the Apollo Guidance Computer. The DDP allowed the different onboard digital experiments to store results into accumulators which were then read out on a repeating cycle and encoded into pulse-frequency modulation (PFM) signals to be sent to ground stations. The accumulators totaled 105 bits, plus a 15-bit clock. In addition to the digital data sent in PFM format, a little over half of the normal transmission cycle (9 of 16 "frames") was used for sending analog signals.
The processor used Series 51 chips from Texas Instruments, specifically the SN510 (a clocked SR latch) and the SN514 (dual 3-input NAND/NOR gates), which both came in 8-pin flatpack packages and used resistor-capacitor-transistor logic (RCTL). However, only two transistors could be put onto a single dies at the time, so multiple dies with the different logic components that had to be connected together by hand with tiny wires before being sealed up in the package, making them very expensive to produce. Early examples cost more than US$400 ().
See also
Explorer program
References
1963 in spaceflight
Explorers Program
Interplanetary Monitoring Platform |
17339692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganapathi%20Vignesh | Ganapathi Vignesh | Ganapathi Vignesh ( born 11 August 1981) is an Indian First Class cricketer. He was part of Indian World Team in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition.
During 2008, Vignesh played half a season playing English club cricket for Birkenhead Park Cricket Club in the Cheshire County Cricket League.Known for his opening bowling and aggressive opening batting he has been selected by Chennai Super Kings for the IPL 2011 edition.
References
Kolkata Knight Riders cricketers
Tamil Nadu cricketers
1981 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Goa cricketers
Chennai Super Kings cricketers
ICL India XI cricketers
Chennai Superstars cricketers |
20480829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2C5-Furandicarboxylic%20acid | 2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid | 2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is an organic chemical compound consisting of two carboxylic acid groups attached to a central furan ring. It was first reported as dehydromucic acid by Rudolph Fittig and Heinzelmann in 1876, who produced it via the action of concentrated hydrobromic acid upon mucic acid. It can be produced from certain carbohydrates and as such is a renewable resource, it was identified by the US Department of Energy as one of 12 priority chemicals for establishing the “green” chemistry industry of the future.
Furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) has been suggested as an important renewable building block because it can substitute for terephthalic acid (PTA) in the production of polyesters and other current polymers containing an aromatic moiety.
Synthesis of FDCA
Methods for the synthesis of the FDCA may be divided into four groups:
Dehydration of hexose derivatives
Oxidation of 2,5-disubstituted furans
Catalytic conversions of various furan derivatives
Biological conversion of HMF
Dehydration of hexose derivatives
First group is based on the acid-promoted triple dehydration of aldaric (mucic) acids. This reaction requires severe conditions (highly concentrated acids, temp > 120 °C, React time > 20h) and all the methods were non-selective with yields < 50%. The process has also been patented by the French company Agro Industrie Recherches et Developpements. This is also the process which DuPont and ADM are using according to patent literature.
Oxidation of 2,5-disubstituted furans
The second class of synthesis routes include the oxidation reactions of various 2,5-disubstituted furans utilizing a variety of inorganic oxidants. Several routes to FDCA via oxidation of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) with air over different catalysts have been reported. Oxidation of HMF under strongly alkaline conditions over noble metal catalysts gives almost quantitative formation of FDCA. HMF and methoxymethylfurfural (MMF) oxidation was also studied with a series of conventional metal bromide catalysts (Co, Mn, Br) used for the oxidation of para-xylene to terephthalic acid. Also, the direct, one pot dehydration and oxidation of fructose to FDCA via intermediate HMF has been investigated with good selectivities, unfortunately this system does not work in water.
Catalytic conversions of various furan derivatives
The third class includes reactions describing the synthesis of FDCA from furfural. Furfural can be oxidized to 2-furoic acid with nitric acid and the latter was subsequently converted to its methyl ester. The ester was then converted via chloromethylation at position 5 to give 5-chloromethylfuroate. The latter was oxidized with nitric acid to form dimethyl 2,5-furandicarboxylate, which, after the alkaline hydrolysis gave FDCA in 50% yield. Andrisano reported that potassium 2-furoate, when heated up to 300 °C in a nitrogen atmosphere, underwent decarboxylation to furan with simultaneous carboxylation at position 5 to di-potassium 2,5-furandicarboxylate.
Biological conversion of HMF
FDCA has also been detected in human urine. A healthy human produces 3–5 mg/day. Numerous studies were undertaken to establish the metabolism of this compound and to determine the quantity, which is produced depending on the healthiness of the human. It was demonstrated that the individual quantity of produced FDCA increased after the injection of fructose. FDCA was also detected in blood plasma.
Recently, the enzyme furfural/HMF oxidoreductase was isolated from the bacterium Cupriavidus basilensis HMF14. This enzyme might be able to convert HMF to FDCA using molecular oxygen, although an aldehyde dehydrogenase might also play a role. A Pseudomonas putida strain that was genetically engineered to express this enzyme can completely and selectively convert HMF to FDCA. This biocatalysis is performed in water, at ambient temperature and pressure, without toxic or polluting chemicals, making it very environmentally friendly. Several other enzymes have been described later, including HMFO. This flavin dependent oxidase catalyzes the three consecutive oxidations to form FDCA from HMF.
Industrial production
DuPont has announced the production of FDCA for use in PTF. In 2011, Avantium was the first company to build a FDCA pilot plant in Geleen, the Netherlands. Avantium has fully proven its technology to produce FDCA in this pilot plant and the company now plans to open the world’s first commercial FDCA plant. Currently Avantium is in the process of making an investment decision for this 5kt FDCA commercial plant, which is slated to start up in 2023 in Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
Properties and conversions
FDCA is a very stable compound. Its physical properties, such as insolubility in most of common solvents and a very high melting point (it melts at 342 °C) seem to indicate intermolecular hydrogen bonding. Despite its chemical stability, FDCA undergoes reactions typical for carboxylic acids, such as halogen substitution to give carboxylic dihalides, the di-ester formation and the formation of amides. All these reactions were elaborated at the end of 19th and in the beginning of 20th century. Newer methods have been described by Janda et al., who introduced the synthesis of 2,5-furandicarboxylic dichloride, by the reaction of FDCA with thionyl chloride The synthesis of diethyl ester and dimethyl ester as well as the amidation as well as several other modifications have been reported. The versatility of FDCA is also seen in the number of derivatives available via relatively simple chemical transformations. Selective reduction can lead to partially hydrogenated products, such as 2,5 dihydroxymethylfuran, and fully hydrogenated materials, such as 2,5 bis(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydrofuran.
Applications
The most important group of FDCA conversions is undoubtedly the polymerization. The potential applications of furan-based building blocks for polymer applications has been extensively reviewed by Gandini. A notable example is polyethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate, but also other polyesters and various polyamides and polyurethanes have been described in literature. Amongst others like Dupont and Corbion, the company Avantium claims to have developed a cost-effective route to produce FDCA and the derived polyesters. FDCA has also been applied in pharmacology. It was demonstrated that its diethyl ester had a strong anaesthetic action similar to cocaine. Dicalcium 2,5-furandicarboxylate was shown to inhibit the growth of Bacillus megatorium. Screening studies on FDCA-derived anilides showed their important anti-bacterial action. The diacid itself is a strong complexing agent, chelating such ions as: Ca2+, Cu2+ and Pb2+; it is utilized in medicine to remove kidney stones. HMF is metabolized via FDCA in mammals including humans. A very diluted solution of FDCA in tetrahydrofuran is utilized for preparing artificial veins for transplantation. At the beginning of this chapter, it was mentioned that FDCA is a chemically stable compound. This property has been well benefited in industry – FDCA as most of polycarboxylic acids can be an ingredient of fire foams. Such foams help to extinguish fires in a short time caused by polar and non-polar solvents.
FDCA has a large potential as a replacement for terephthalic acid, a widely used component in various polyesters, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polybutyleneterephthalate (PBT). The versatility of FDCA is also seen in the number of derivatives available via relatively simple chemical transformations. Selective reduction can lead to partially hydrogenated products, such as 2,5-dihydroxymethylfuran, and fully hydrogenated materials, such as 2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydrofuran. Both of these latter materials can serve as alcohol components in the production of new polyester, and their combination with FDCA would lead to a new family of completely biomass-derived products. Extension of these concepts to the production of new nylons, either through reaction of FDCA with diamines, or through the conversion of FDCA to 2,5-bis(aminomethyl)tetrahydrofuran. FDCA can also serve as a starting material for the production of succinic acid, whose utility is elsewhere.
Technical barriers
The primary technical barrier in the production and use of FDCA is the development of an effective and selective dehydration process from sugars. The control of sugar dehydration could be a very powerful technology, leading to a wide range of additional, inexpensive building blocks, but it is not yet well understood. Currently, dehydration processes using hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) as intermediate are generally non-selective, unless, immediately upon their formation, the unstable intermediate products can be transformed into more stable materials such as methoxymethylfurfural (MMF). Necessary R&D will include development of selective dehydration systems and catalysts. FDCA formation will require development of cost-effective and industrially viable oxidation technology that can operate in concert with the necessary dehydration processes.
References
Dicarboxylic acids
Aromatic acids
Furans |
17339700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology%20%28disambiguation%29 | Chronology (disambiguation) | Chronology is the science of locating events in time.
A chronology is a common term for a timeline.
It can also mean:
Chronology (Bryn Haworth album), a 1989 release
Chronology (Dom and Roland album), a 2004 release
Chronology (Chronixx album), a 2017 release
Chronology, a 1997 compilation by Buzzcocks
Chronology Volume 1, a 2007 album by Christian rock band Third Day
Chronology Volume 2, a 2007 album by Christian rock band Third Day
"Chronology", a composition from Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come
Chronology (video game), a 2014 puzzle-platform game
See also
Chronometry
Horology, the study of time
Timeline (disambiguation) |
17339704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Garcia | King Garcia | Louis "King" Garcia (August 25, 1905 – September 4, 1983) was a Puerto Rican jazz trumpeter who spent most of his career in the United States.
Garcia played early in his life in the Municipal Band of San Juan, whose director was Juan Tizol's uncle, Manuel Tizol. He moved to the U.S. early in the 1920s, where he played with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Emil Coleman. In the 1930s he did work in the studios, including his most important association, which was with Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. He recorded with the bandleaders both together and separately. He also played with Vic Berton (1935), Richard Himber, Nat Brandwyne, Amanda Randolph, and Louis Prima (1939). In the 1940s he returned to play with Coleman again, and led his own Latin ensemble that decade. By the 1960s he had moved to California and essentially retired due to failing health.
See also
Eugene Chadbourne
External links
[ Louis "King" Garcia] at Allmusic
1905 births
1983 deaths
Puerto Rican jazz musicians
American jazz trumpeters
American male trumpeters
20th-century trumpeters
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians |
17339718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20World%20Yellow%20Pages | One World Yellow Pages | One World Yellow Pages (One World), is a business-to-business yellow pages directory published by Global Publishers that was launched in April 2008 to provide companies and service providers an opportunity to search, connect, and transact with business partners and supplier contacts around the world.
The One World Yellow Pages directory contains comprehensive business product and supplier information, and was designed to promote and connect small and medium-sized companies, solve language barriers, improve market visibility, simplify sales sourcing, and provide businesses with global trade resources in a single online location.
One World is a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Publishers LLC, a publisher of international print and online business directories. Global Publishers also publishes the Export Yellow Pages, a directory of US companies and export service providers engaged in international trade and export promotion. The Export Yellow Pages is published as part of a public-private partnership with the United States Department of Commerce, and is administered by the Export Trading Company Affairs, International Trade Administration.
One World Yellow Pages' principal business office is located at 5055 N. Lydell Avenue, Suite 2100, Glendale, Wisconsin 53217 (USA).
Export Related Agencies
Department of Commerce (USDOC)
The mission of the USDOC is to "promote job creation and improved living standards for all Americans by creating an infrastructure that promotes economic growth, technological competitiveness, and sustainable development." Among its tasks are gathering economic and demographic data for business and government decision-making, issuing patents and trademarks, and helping to set industrial standards.
International Trade Administration (ITA)
The International Trade Administration is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that promotes United States exports of nonagricultural U.S. services and goods.
See also
Export
Trade
U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service
International trade
List of countries by exports
External links
One World Yellow Pages official site
Export Yellow Pages official site
United States Department of Commerce website
International Trade Administration website
The U.S. Government’s Export Portal
Publishing companies of the United States
Companies based in Wisconsin
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin |
6906985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20Nomad%20%26%20the%20World%20Eaters | Soul Nomad & the World Eaters | Soul Nomad & the World Eaters is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software. The game was initially released for PlayStation 2 on February 15, 2007 in Japan, September 25, 2007 in North America, and June 26 and 27, 2008 in Australia and Europe, respectively. It was later ported to Steam and Nintendo Switch (as part of the Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 1 compilation) and released worldwide in August 2021.
The game centers around the adventures of Reyva, the gender-selectable silent protagonist, to defeat several sentient magical weapons - the World Eaters - that were once commanded centuries earlier by Gig, the godlike "Master of Death". Gig, now sealed forcibly within Reyva, is begrudgingly forced to lend them his power, although he attempts to tempt Reyva down the path of evil. The game's story was positively received by critics for its originality, but it was criticized for a lack of gameplay depth compared to other Nippon Ichi titles.
Gameplay
A key element of the game is customization, as the game is a strategy RPG, much like the majority of Nippon Ichi Software's games, giving the player many more options to choose from when progressing through the story. When the game begins, the player chooses the gender and name of the main character, a change from other Nippon Ichi games.
At the very beginning of the game the main character can become powerful enough to destroy even the final boss, but relying on Gig too much would be the equivalent of just letting the world be destroyed. Instead, the player is expected to build and train an army of units capable of handling whatever comes his or her way, relying on Gig's powers as little as possible.
The player is given the ability to create and command squads, which after enough time, will become an army capable of destroying the world he or she is trying to save. Up to 25 different character types can be created, each filling a unique position in the squad with its own strengths and weaknesses. Characters' individual abilities can do such things as increase the range of an effect or give each unit a bonus to its inflicted damage.
Tedious tasks like visiting the same area over and over in order to level new characters (a staple of older Nippon Ichi titles) are no longer necessary as any new units may be purchased up to the level of the main character. Also, unlike the older Nippon Ichi titles, the player is not allowed to return to older levels. Squads can also be merged in order to increase their power.
The game includes more options for interacting with Non-playable Characters (NPCs) than previous Nippon Ichi games. It is possible to steal items from shops or NPCs instead of buying them. Additionally, the player can attack the towns and fight against the NPCs inhabiting them. Alternately, the player can recruit NPCs into her or his army.
Story
History of Prodesto
At the end of a long war-shattered age, one man brought all the countries in the Continent of Prodesto together under his rule: Lord Median the Conqueror. Though only one man, he became renowned throughout the world for his heroism. However, within ten years, the empire Lord Median had created collapsed with the death of his son, quickly followed by his own death. With no apparent leader, the continent collapsed once more into civil war. Fifteen years later, Lord Median's daughter had proven herself as a true leader, and convinced the remaining countries to form peace treaties, establishing peace once more.
This peace collapsed 50 years later, however, when the "Master of Death", Gig arrived with three giant beings known as World Eaters under his command. They quickly devastated the land, annihilating entire nations in a matter of days, and it was not long before nations began abandoning their alliances and allying with the World Eaters in an attempt to save themselves.
When things looked their darkest, Layna gathered up what remained of her forces and made a direct assault against Gig, a battle which apparently killed both of them. With their leader gone, the World Eaters fell silent, apparently having gone to sleep, remaining as monuments of the destruction that occurred.
Starting your Journey
The year is now 800 in the Tamaito calendar. 200 years have passed since the defeat of the shadow at the hands of the technique user Layna. Ever since that day, with the shadow's defeat, the giants known as "The World Eaters" have retained their silence in the continent. The body of one of the giants remains in the peaceful country of Raide, and serves as a symbol of fear to those who pass by it.
Within the country of Raide, there exists a small secluded village that refuses to acknowledge the existence of those from outside world. It is known as the "Hidden Village". In that village lives the protagonist along with their friend Danette, and other members of the Sepp race. Along with Layna, whose age now exceeds 200, the protagonist helps to protect the village.
One day, the protagonist and Danette are called forth by old lady Layna and given weapons to help guard the village. Danette, who has always dreamed of protecting the village, is overjoyed and is given twin daggers. The protagonist is given a long black sword.
The moment the protagonist takes hold of the black sword, it begins to insult and swear at Layna. Both the protagonist and Danette are profoundly confused at this point. It is revealed that 200 years ago, Layna destroyed the shadow and sealed its soul into the black sword. The shadow goes by the name of Gig. To utilize the power of Gig, Layna chose to give this sword to the protagonist.
The protagonist is infused with the soul of Gig, gaining control of his power, and is now able to fight against the World Eaters, who have now reawakened. With Gig residing in our hero's body and Danette, who has been the hero's friend since he/she was young, the protagonist departs into the country of Raide to defeat the World Eaters.
The Demon Path
Soul Nomad is well known for its dark alternate mode, the demon path, which is accessed by choosing the "evil" dialogue options at the start of the game. In this route, Revya decides to use Gig's great power to essentially destroy the world, and strikes down both Layna and Danette at the game's outset. With Gig's eager assistance, the player controls Revya in his/her bloody rampage across the continent, as they become the tyrannical "Devourlord" and commit atrocity after atrocity against the people of Raide. Like the normal mode, the demon path has a number of different dialogue options and endings, as well as unique characters Revya can dominate (mostly villains) that are unplayable in the normal game.
Characters
Main characters
The player's character, he/she is the only one who can wield the Onyx Blade and can successfully fuse with Gig and make use of his powers. He/She does not have a voice during cut-scenes, but the player can choose certain responses during the game to advance the story. He/She does have a voice in battle. Depending on the relationship choices, the main character is seen with the character he/she has had the strongest relationship with at the end of the Hero storyline. In the Demon Story, if the hero wins the final battle, he/she will have killed everyone on the planet and revert to a power-hungry mindless creature that goes on to destroy the world of Drazil. The default name for the main character is "Revya".
This character is available as a download for Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice. This character in Disgaea 3 is female and goes under her default name "Revya". She is a humanoid unit whose only weapon forte is the sword.
She was also a nominee as downloaded content for Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, but did not receive enough votes.
The Master of Death who came to Prodesto 200 years ago with his three World Eaters. He was later sealed into a sword by Layna, and is eventually fused into the main character. The fusion allows the main character to use some of Gig's power and can ask Gig for more power, though he can lose his body to Gig if he does. He's known for being rather rude and prone to lying. In the Hero ending, he becomes reborn in his own body and goes off to find the hero and Danette. In the Demon ending, if the final battle is won, Gig loses control over the hero and becomes devoured, completing the fusion in the opposite way he desired. However, if the battle is lost, the brainwashing effect over him is destroyed, as he remembers his life as Master of Death Vigilance.
Before the game's events, Vigilance, as Master of Death, was tasked with guiding the souls of the dead to the afterlife. When he came for Revya's soul, he fought with Lord Median and was killed. His soul then went to Drazil, where he was transformed into Gig.
Along with Revya, Gig is available as a download for Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice. In Disgaea 3, he is a monster-type with the ability to Magichange (transform) into the Onyx Blade.
Additionally, he was also released as downloaded content for Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days in both the United States and Japan, but due to a glitch occurring in the PSN Store, Gig is now only available for purchase in the Japanese version. Again, he is a monster-type with the ability to transform into the Onyx Blade.
Gig has also made an appearance as a DLC character in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, and he holds the same stats as his last two appearances in the Disgaea series.
The protagonist's childhood friend. A Sepp, a race of bovine-like people, she tends to one-up the main character, despite having a poor memory. Her village was destroyed by a cult that worships the World Eater Thuris as a god. Her parents were both killed by the cult and became Crimson Tears. One of the Tears was used to strengthen the seal on the sword containing Gig when the main character obtains the sword, and the other was used to seal Danette's memory. Throughout the game she threatens to snap various people's necks though she never actually does. She was tasked with following the main character and ensuring that Gig never took control if he ever did she was to use her other parent's Crimson Tear to further strengthen the seal. In the Demon Path storyline Danette joins the resistance against Gig wearing a suit of armor and going by the name the Silent Knight because she can't bear to speak with him after his transformation. When things seem futile she sacrifices herself to become a crimson tear to summon Layna from Drazil so they may have a better chance of defeating the Main Character and Gig. If you lose the final battle, the "Good" ending of the Demon Path has Dio of the Evil Eye use Danette's Crimson Tear to seal the Main Character into the sword Gig lived in till he can be redeemed. She refers to this as her chance to beat the good back into the Main Character.
Though she is not playable in Disgaea 3, she appears whenever Revya uses Holy Justice, their special combo attack in Soul Nomad.
A city guard of Astec. Despite being a strong fighter, he's often overprotective of his older sister, Euphoria. He is really the third World Eater. When Levin was eight he and his sister were acquired from the slave trading organization Yesterwind and were used as experiments. His sister's illness is a result of those experiments. Though he dies when the main character kills the third World Eater if his relationship is high enough he can still be used upon arriving in Drazil. Though it is never explained how he and his sister are both brought back to life at the end of the game. In the demon path storyline Levin is the first person to fight and survive against the main character's evil version and not die or be seriously injured so when the resistance is formed people flock to him.
A silent man who works with Levin. Aside from being a cleric, he's also an efficient spy, and can even surprise Gig. If not for the current state of the world, he'd have preferred to pursue a career as a chef.
Commander of all the Nereid land forces. She distrusts humans, but loves children, whom she cares for a young human boy who she spoils rotten. She is honest and straightforward with people, and places high value on pride and friendship.
An aging Redflank later met by the protagonist's group. He often complains about the Sepp people, which also includes remarks directed toward Danette and Levin. He used to live in the village where the Main Character and Danette grew up but left 10 years ago because he disagreed with Lady Layna on how to handle Gig, believing he shouldn't be used as a weapon, instead thinking Gig should be forever sealed in the sword. Though his worries have no validity in the normal story, the Demon path plays out just as he feared it would and he is found to have joined the resistance to stop Gig though he thinks tiny raids on Gig and the Main Character will only waste lives.
A young woman who is helping the town of Zazana fend off a group of bandits. Though kind-hearted, she's often naive and impulsive. She seems to share a history with Grunzford. She wears a pin she believes to have belonged to her mother but in actuality belonged to her older sister who now goes by the name Shauna. Her real family was one of the few that could afford the medicine to treat Scarlett Iago when it appeared 15 years prior to the game. Nearby villagers attacked her home looking for the medicine and her family got separated in the escape leading to her capture as an infant by the organization Yesterwind and eventual selling to the man she believes is her father. In the Demon Path she is raped and acts weird and later on she kills herself.
Odie
A Dracon who attempts to impersonate Dio of the Evil Eye. He's encountered multiple times throughout the game. He is the brother of Dio who it is learned is the name given to the oldest brother in a line of Dracon wizards. He is shunned by his family for his inferior skills and goes elsewhere, in the process recruiting a man and his two to impersonate the three beings that are associated with Dio of the Evil Eye. After many defeats, he joins the main characters party and in the process becomes a better wizard. He knows Endorph and is friends with several angels.
Secondary characters
A mysterious man who was found by the Nereids fifteen years ago, his body covered in burn scars. He took over Shauna's bandit gang, reforming it into a group who act in a Robin Hood esque fashion. In addition, he taught the Angel race how to wield guns. Endorph is actually the character Walnut from Phantom Brave, who ended up on this world after forcing the demon Sulphur through a dimensional portal. Endorph seemingly destroys Raksha after the hero wins the battle. He uses Psycho Burgundy to attack the World Eater, but the cutscene ends there. Should the player get Endorph's ending, he is revealed to be alive, and living with Euphoria and their infant child. He is also vaguely referenced in Danette's ending, which mentions Euphoria's baby.
The former leader of a bandit gang, before Endorph usurped her position. She seems to hate everyone, especially the poor. Later on, it's revealed that she shares a bit of history with Tricia. When Thuris commits suicide and spreads the deadly Scarlet Iago disease with his death blast, she gives her cure to Tricia in order to save her. Without a cure for herself, she succumbs to the disease and dies in Tricia's arms. In the Demon Campaign she joins the Main Character out of hatred for Endorph and later takes care of the mentally broken Tricia until her suicide, at which point Shauna becomes an apathetic and nihilistic killer.
Grand Cordon of the Knights of Raide. Has two children; his first, named Richard was thought to be kidnapped by the Nereids. In actuality the King of Raide hired Lobo, the leader of Yesterwind, to kidnap Richard and give him to the Nereids as a payment for curing the Queen. Though never stated it is believed that Thorndyke became the Grand Cordon as a way to repay him. Upon discovering that Richard, now known as Penn, is alive and well in the care of the Nereids and that he enjoys living there he decides to let him stay with them. When it is brought to his attention that the King of Raide is in possession of a Crimson Tear, which is considered a forbidden item, he steals it from the King and presents it to the ruling council. He is then captured and killed in front of his own knights by order of the king for treason. It is his death that inspires Galahad and other knights to turn against Raide and rebuild the city after it is destroyed by the World Eater, Feinne. In the Demon path he attacks the Main Character along with the Nereids to save Penn and then turns himself over to ensure the safety of Penn. Kanan, who also works for the Main character in the Demon Path, finds a child that looks like Penn and forces Thorndyke to kill him. Believing he has killed his own son he goes insane and becomes a homicidal maniac for the remainder of the story.
Diness
The 12-year-old child queen of Orviska. Being the sole member of her family, she is forced to ascend to the throne, but takes advice from Dio of the Evil Eye. As a result, she becomes highly dependent on him, and is unable to make a decision without him. In the Demon Path storyline, she is separated from Dio and is forced to build up her confidence.
Cuthbert
Christophe's younger brother. Although he initially plays a small role at the beginning of the story, he is later discovered to have had a working relation with Lobo. When the two of them are cornered at Yesterwind HQ, Cuthbert betrays and kills Lobo, claiming that since his hands are already dirty, his brother (Christophe) should not have to sully his as well. Following this, he commits suicide. In the Demon Path storyline, Cuthbert reveals that he originally joined Lobo to raise money to buy medicine for Christophe. On a side note, Cuthbert has a fear of becoming bald.
A hotpod farmer who lives in the Orviska slums. He is recruited by Odie to pose as the Blazing Swordsman, Gestahl.
Kanan
The Dracon leader of the Thurist cult. Kanan was the one who led the assault on Pulkina several years ago, killing off many of the inhabitants, two of whom were Danette's parents. She is devoured by Thuris. In the Demon Path storyline, Kanan betrays Thuris and joins the main character. Vitali asserts that she is in fact male, which is further supported by Kanan's deeper voice during one of Danette's flashbacks, and her surprise at Danette recognizing her from Pulkina, as "[she] didn't even look like this back then." Her standard attacks are identical to that of generic female Dracons.
Layna
Also known as Layna the Firebrand, she is the one responsible for sealing away Gig into the protagonist's weapon.
Through the cutscenes in-game, it's revealed that some time before Layna took the throne, she sought out Virtuous, who killed Median in retaliation of killing Vigilance. During the fight, Virtuous convinced Layna to harbor her soul, which may have contributed to Layna's rise in power.
Then, when Gig came to Prodesto fifty years later, Layna fought him to a standstill and was killed, at which point Virtuous took over and sealed Gig away, being prepared to wait for 200 years until a soul worthy of wielding Gig's power came about. Layna's actual soul was sent to Drazil to act as a scout, taking down other Drazilians to free up souls.
Penn
The human boy currently under Nereid care. He is the son of the Grand Cordon of Raide and was kidnapped by Lobo of Yesterwind to be given to the Nereids as payment to heal the Queen of Raide when he was a baby. Though all of the Nereids are protective of him, Juno takes her duty very seriously and Penn often says when he gets older he plans to marry her, though he believes and states to her she needs bigger breasts. In the Demon Path he is given to the Main Character and takes to slaughtering with a passion even Gig finds disturbing. Though later he sides with Levin saying claiming he wants to follow the most powerful person.
Queen of the Nereids, an all female race of water-dwelling people. She is said to exhibit a special healing power that most humans can't make use of.
Christophe
He controls all trade throughout the Astec-Raide region. Though appearing jovial and cheery, he's often acting in a secretive manner. He employed Vitali as his personal spy and keeps tabs on the main character. It is later revealed that Christophe had a past with Lobo.
Levin's older sister. A joke about her in the game is her cooking, which, according to Vitali, could be used as a biological weapon. However, she also has a strong sense of hospitality, and offers to cook for people, most of all, Endorph.
A Sepp man who runs an organization called the Yesterwind. Christophe and Cuthbert seem to know him. In the Demon Path storyline, he quickly joins the main character after hearing tales of the brutality caused by him/her, though later on chooses to leave the group.
A Chevalier under Thorndyke's command. He seems suspicious about Thorndyke's ascent to his position. In the Demon path, he is rescued by Gig and the main character after they injure him in the crossfire of fighting a World Eater, however, the events of that battle, and the atrocities Gig commits cause him to go insane and believe himself a salesman.
A young angel who wears a pilot's hat and uses a gun he received from Endorph. He has a friendly relation to Odie. In the Demon Path storyline, he and all of the other angels are conscripted into forced labor by the main character before eventually being killed in front of Pinot.
An angel who's usually seen hanging around with Agrippa.
World Eaters
Feinne
She is the first World Eater that the main character and Danette come across. Feinne is the most powerful World Eater in Haephnes, as well as being the most inactive. Gig describes her as his favorite World Eater of the three.
Thuris
Thuris is the second World Eater that the main character encounters and is, physically, the weakest of the three. He has the ability to become invisible. Following the defeat of Gig, Thuris created the cult of Thurists by leading his followers into worshiping him as a god. When Gig converses with him, he tells Thuris that he had become more like a human. Later on in the story, he reveals that it was he who brought the plague of Scarlet Iago upon the world. Gig describes him as the most intelligent World Eater and the one he disliked the most. Upon his defeat, Thuris commits suicide by blowing himself up and spreading the disease Scarlet Iago as a result.
Raksha
The third and final World Eater, Raksha is initially found to be dormant. It is later revealed that he managed to, with the help of Dio, separate his spirit from his body and place it in Levin's as a child, lying low until he meets Gig once again. His goal is to become so powerful that nobody would ever be able to tell him what to do. Gig states that Raksha was "always the hardest one to crack", since he is physically strongest of the World Eaters. In the Demon Campaign he defeats the Main Character early on as Levin, thus causing people to rally behind him as a hero. Upon gaining his former body he chooses to fight against the Main Character, liking the attention he received as a hero.
Other characters
Lord Median
Lord Median was a war hero who ascended to the throne after uniting Prodesto beneath his rule. He ruled for ten years, before his sudden death caused Prodesto to fall back into ruin.
During that time, he had one son, Revya. However, Revya fell to the disease Scarlet Iago several years later, and died. Median, overcome with grief at losing his heir, was silently contacted by Drazil, who gave him the idea of killing the Master of Death in order to keep living. When Vigilance came to take Revya's soul, Median fought against him and killed him, setting Drazil's plan into motion.
Some time later, Median was killed by Virtuous, Master of Life, by having his soul taken from his body. His Onyx Blade, of which can only be wielded by members of his bloodline, was used to seal Gig, and was later given to the Protagonist.
He can be fought and recruited in an optional map.
Gestahl
A bandaged man who, along with the beasts Yavis and Parin, is inherited to the Dracon who takes on the name of Dio. Though he has power, he often tends to fall into a vegetative state, at which he must consume a soul in order to continue functioning (as seen in the Demon Path). At the end of the Normal Path, he's revealed to be a 200+ year old Lord Median. He allows himself to be consumed by the Onyx Blade in order to pass on his power.
Asagi
Asagi is a girl who was meant to be the main character of a future Nippon Ichi game, however this game possibly got scrapped, making her appear in various games as a post-game content, wanting to be the main character of the games where she appears. In Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome she becomes Zetta's apprentice in order to become stronger, after this she seems to have turned on Zetta and arrives in Soul Nomad during the fight against Feinne.
She, as she usually does, wants the spot as the lead character, calling herself the Queen of Games, but Gig prefers to ignore her and continue to fight Feinne. Asagi then gets upset and destroys Feinne with only a bazooka shot (amazing even Gig) stating that Feinne was the most pathetic end boss she has ever seen. Then she challenges Gig and the hero in a fight and during this battle she destroys the world with her power.
After this battle Asagi can be recruited. However, she starts to complain about her fate of being always an hidden character. Gig scolds her, since by destroying the world, she ended his story thus forcing him to start the game all over again.
Reception
The game received an aggregate score of 73/100 from Metacritic, indicating "mixed to average reviews".
Notes
References
External links
2007 video games
Disgaea
Fantasy video games
Koei games
Nintendo Switch games
Nippon Ichi Software games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Network games
Single-player video games
Tactical role-playing video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring protagonists of selectable gender
Video games scored by Tenpei Sato
Windows games |
23578267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Swedish%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20doubles | 2009 Swedish Open – Men's doubles | Jonas Björkman and Robin Söderling were the defending champions, but Björkman retired from tennis before being able to defend the title.
Söderling teamed up with Robert Lindstedt, but Jaroslav Levinský and Filip Polášek defeated them in the final 1–6, 6–3, [10–7].
Seeds
Draw
Draw
External links
Draw
Swedish Open - Men's Doubles
Swedish Open
Swedish |
6907002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20of%20Spoleto | Guy of Spoleto | Guy of Spoleto may refer to:
Guy I of Spoleto (d. 860)
Guy II of Spoleto (d. 882/83)
Guy III of Spoleto (d. 894), also King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor
Guy IV of Spoleto (d. 897) |
17339731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Wijuk%20Koja%C5%82owicz | Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz | Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz (; ; ; 1609–1677) was a Lithuanian historian, theologian and translator. He was devoted Jesuit and religious polemicist, interested in genealogy and heraldry. He served as a censor, bishops advisor and Deputy Chancellor of Lithuania.
Biography
Albert and his brother Casimir were born in the House of Perkūnas in Kaunas (or Romainiai according to other sources) to a poor Lithuanian noble family. They bore Kościesza coat of arms, but without a cross-bar. He studied rhetoric, philosophy and theology in which mastered title of doctor in 1645. Later he was appointed as a professor of Alma Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Iesu, teacher of logic, physics, metaphysics and ethic. Together with his brothers he joined Jesuit order and founded its colleges in Kaunas, Vilnius and Polatsk. In 1653 he became rector of Vilnius Academy. He died on 6 October 1677 in Vilnius.
Wijuk Kojałowicz was famous for his rhetoric talent and research in the Lithuanian history. He is considered one of the best and most productive historical writers of the 17th century. Among his forty publications most important is "Historiae Lituanae", which was the first full research on the history of Lithuania.
History of Lithuania
Wijuk Kojałowicz was devoted to the Lithuanian history and his "Historiae Lituanae" is considered, next to Maciej Stryjkowski's "Kronika Polska, Litewska, Żmódzka" and Alexander Guagnini's "Sarmatiae Europaeae Descriptio", as one of the most important studies of history of Lithuania from the mid-seventeenth century. It was used as main source for Lithuanian history until the 19th century.
The study continued the tradition of Lithuanian Chronicles by glorifying the heroic past of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, by voicing the patriotic sentiments and by encouraging Lithuanian nobles to protect the territorial integrity of their fatherland.
Wijuk-Kojałowicz also focused on the imperfection of human memory. Memory is, according to him, a defective instrument, with time it tends to remember incorrectly, incompletely, or not at all. The technology of human memory, in Wijuk-Kojałowicz's view, is always uncertain and doubtful, even the written testimony is bound to mutate and to be distorted. Kojałowicz's implied that the goal of history is nothing else but to preserve memory of all things past. The communal or collective memory is firmest when it is written down:
In the foreword of the first volume of this work entitled "An opportunity to write the history of Lithuania", he admitted that he had not just translated Stryjkowski's history but had revised it "according to the requirements and laws of a written treatise..." . According to Wijuk-Kojałowicz, Stryjkowski's history, that was written in Polish was not accessible to foreign readers, and it also broke rhetorics and history principles in many places. Because of his critical stance towards Stryjkowski's "Kronika..." Wijuk-Kojałowicz revised it so, that it would teach the young not only the history of their country, but also the Latin language.
His goal, as he admitted himself, was to rewrite Stryjkowski's history in Latin according to the rhetoric principles and historical truth. Kojałowicz's history moved away from metaphorical representation favored by Stryjkowski toward a more balanced description. He replaced Stryjkowski's metaphorical style of historical writing preoccupied with analogy and thereby closer to poetry with a rhetoric focused on the mechanics of telling a linear story.
Despite of his critical attitude, Wijuk-Kojałowicz's History of Lithuania reiterated Stryjkowski's chronological and factual errors. As in "Kronika...", the death dates of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes Algirdas and Gediminas were incorrect, and the names of Algirdas's sons and uncles were mixed up. The change of places and names, confused in the course of many centuries, sometimes obscured the truth so that it became impossible to distinguish between truth and the fiction for the states were formed during barbarian times when there were no writers. Because of such reasons there remained very few stories about the origins and customs of the Lithuanians, and thus many widespread stories are questionable or false. Kojałowicz was skeptical about the possibility of history written sine ira et studio, without anger and without preconception, without affection and hatred.
Wijuk-Kojałowicz described the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a state consisting of two states, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and two nations, the Lithuanian and Polish, which were supposed to have equal rights. He extensively described the Union of Lublin which was, in his opinion, a significant event in the history of the Grand Duchy. The Lithuanian nobles were convinced that they needed this union but its conditions had to guarantee and preserve the dignity of the Lithuanian state and Lithuanian nation:
In his history, Wijuk-Kojałowicz did not fail to record the continuous rivalry between the Lithuanians and Poles for their rights and privileges and their constant distrust of each other.
Wijuk-Kojałowicz regarded the religion as the most important attribute of national belonging. According to him, neither ethnicity nor language distinguished Lithuanians from Ruthenians but their different creed. Roman Christianity became a definitive composite of a noble's identity.
Wijuk-Kojałowicz wrote that:
In Kojałowicz's works, the nation was, first of all, imagined as a community with common interests and a shared past. His ideas about the historical nation were not only a reflection of cultural forces in the state, they were instrumental in forging popular imagination of the historical community of the Grand Duchy. The word "nation" (natio), which he often used, was expressed as a problematic ambivalence in imagining and fictionalizing the community of Lithuania.
Bibliography
"Colloquia Theologi cum Politico de electione prudenti unios verae Christianae religionis, sub nomine sui discipuli" Vilnius 1640
"Primum Societatis Jesu annum secularem Vilnae solennibus feriis celebratum" Vilnius 1640
"Compendium Ethicae Aristotelicae" Vilnius 1645
"Oculus ratione correctus, sux refutatio demonstrations ocularis de Vacuo" Vilnius 1648
"Decem modi colendi Beatissimam Virginem in ejus imagine Lauretana" Vilnius 1648
"De vita et morbius P. Laurentii Bartlii S. J." Vilnius 1648
"Miscellanea rerum ad statum ecclesiasticum in Magno Lithuaniae Ducatu pertinentia" (Synthesis of history and contemporaneity of Christianity in Lithuania) Vilnius 1650
"Historiae Lituanae" (History of Lithuania) (dedicated to the Sapieha family)
vol.1 "Historiae Lithuanae pars prior, de rebus Lithuanorum ante susceptam Christianam religionem conjunctionemque... cum regno Poloniae" 1650 Gdańsk
vol.2 "Historiae Lithuanae pars altera a conjunctione cum Regno Poloniae ad unionem corum Dominiorum libri octo" 1669 Antwerp
"De rebus gestis anno 1648 et sequenti contra Cosacos Zaporovios rebelles" Vilnius 1651
"Instructio circa casus reservatos ad usum cleri Dioecisis Vilnensis" Vilnius 1651
"Fasti Radziviliani compendio continentes gesta Ducum Radziwił" Vilnius 1653, (sponsored and dedicated to Janusz Radziwiłł)
"Colloquia Theologi cum Ministro, de dissidiis in rebus fidei inter Catholicos et Calvinistas" "O niektorych roznicach wiary, ktore między katholikami y ewangelikami zachodza : theologa z ministrem rozmowy ku przestrodze tak katholikow iako y ewengelikow" (About some differences in faith, which are between Catholics and evangelist: theologian with minister conversation to aware as Catholics as well as evangelists) Vilnius 1653
"Instructionum Rhetoricarum partes duae" Vilnius 1654
"Rerum in M. D. Lithuaniae per tempus rebellionis Russicae gestarum commentarius etc.", 1655
"Compendium Vitae Alphonsi Rodriquez Soc. Jesu ex Hispanico" Vilnius 1656
"Colloquia Theologi cum Dissidente in Religione, de sincero, et non adulterato usu Sacrae Scripturae ad probandos artieulos fidei" Kalisz 1667
"Modi Sexaginta Sacrae Oratonis Varie formandae" Antwerp 1668
"Panegyrici Heroum, varia antahac manu sparsi, in anum collecti" Vilnius 1668
"Soli polique decus Sagittae Wołowicianae Ladislao Wołowicz Palatino Witebski" Vilnius 1669
"Kazania o męce Pańskiej, opus posthumum" Vilnius 1675
"Herbarz Rycerstwa W.X. Litewskiego tak zwany COMPENDIUM O Klejnotach albo Herbach ktorych Familie Stanu Rycerskiego W Prowincyach Wielkiego Xiestwa Litweskiego Zazywaja" (An Armorial of the Knighthood of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which is called COMPENDIUM, in which the Coats of Arms or Heraldry of the Noble Families of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania are Explored), Kraków 1897.
"Herbarz szlachty Wielkiego Ksiestwa Litewskiego zwany NOMENCLATOR" (An Armorial of the Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which is called NOMENCLATOR), Kraków 1905.
References
1609 births
1677 deaths
17th-century Lithuanian Jesuits
Polish male writers
Lithuanian nobility
17th-century Lithuanian historians
Historians of Lithuania
Polish nobility
Vilnius University alumni
Vilnius University rectors |
17339732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud%20gun | Spud gun | A spud gun is a small toy gun used to fire a fragment of potato. To operate, one punctures the surface of a potato with the gun's hollow tip and pries out a small pellet which fits in the muzzle. Squeezing the grip causes a small build-up of air pressure inside the toy which propels the projectile. The devices are usually short-range and low-powered.
Early history
The first spud gun was invented during the Great Depression. The original inventor sold his patent to E. Joseph Cossman for US$600 after World War II. Cossman, the brother-in-law of "Uncle" Milton Levine, sold two million spud guns in six months as a result of an advertising campaign.
In Mexico City a company named WELCO created a similar model of a spud gun with a metallic appearance. Tomas Welch, a Mexican Jewish chemical engineer, developed a spud gun named "TIRA PAPAS" (Spanish for "potato shooter").
Notes
Toy weapons |
17339757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangtung | Tangtung | Tangtung 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 |
6907014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Promenades%20Gatineau | Les Promenades Gatineau | Les Promenades Gatineau is a major shopping centre located in Canada's National Capital Region. It is located in the city of Gatineau, Quebec near the intersection of Greber and Maloney Boulevards, one of the city's busiest intersections and just off Autoroute 50. It is the city's biggest mall by retail space and clientele.
Description
It is considered to be the third largest shopping centre in the Gatineau–Ottawa area in terms of retail space, trailing St. Laurent Centre's and Bayshore Shopping Centre 883,250 sq ft (82,056.6 m2). The website claims it has about in total space including its three-story office building in the south side of the complex that houses a dental clinic and federal government offices.
The mall is sprawled out on one single level with several secondary corridors and sections lined up in different directions which can make it difficult to locate smaller boutiques. The anchor tenants at Les Promenades include La Baie d'Hudson, Costco, La Maison Simons and Sports Experts.
This shopping centre is located in a very busy part of the city, and draws people from all over as it is on many transit routes as well. With Polyvalente Le Carrefour High School being across the road from one of the shopping centre's entrances, students often visit the shopping centre on their lunch breaks, or after school.
The centre, which recently has been completely renovated and rejuvenated, now houses several new retailers that have opened in the shopping centre including H&M, and La Maison Simons.
History of Les Promenades
The mall opened its doors in 1978 as Les Promenades de l'Outaouais and became a major shopping destination for the City of Gatineau and surrounding areas.
During the 1990s and early 2000s, the mall did experience some difficulties as several large retail spaces were left vacant frequently as several stores and even anchor tenants closed their doors. In the 1990s, Kmart, Eaton's and Steinberg, which at one point were the mall's three anchor tenants, all closed their doors.
The Kmart location was occupied by the Laura superstore. It was also, briefly, The Bay's appliance section location. The space has since been expanded to accommodate the new La Maison Simons store at the mall.
In the late 1990s, the shopping centre made a major expansion on its eastern end. Previously, the mall ended where the Famous Players cinemas were located. When the renovation process ended, a new anchor tenant was in place: la Baie. Also, a Dollarama, a food court, a new office building, a Christopher International hair salon, and an artisan or small merchants (Boulevard des Artisans) zone were added.
Also during the 1990s, the Eaton store on the western end of the shopping centre closed its doors. During the next several years that area was for the most part left vacant except when Laura occupied the area for a small period. However, in March 2006, Costco had relocated its location from the north end of the city to its current location at les Promenades bringing a new life to its western end which was often plagued with numerous vacant spaces for several years. Archambault, a Quebec music franchise store also opened a location in 2005 near Costco and the Buffet Paradis, the mall's Chinese restaurant.
Steinberg also had a supermarket in the mall since his opening, but closed after the company folded in 1992. It was later occupied by Super C and Metro. In 2008, Metro closed and the space remained empty until Urban Planet took over. In 2017, Urban Planet moved to a smaller vacant location across the hall to make room for Marshalls and HomeSense opened in March 2018.
Transportation
Being at one of the city's busiest intersections and near the city's main highway, it is very easily accessible and parking space is abundant.
The Société de transport de l'Outaouais offers several routes that travel to various areas across the city from the shopping mall. It is considered, outside of the downtown core, the most important transit hub in the city. On average per day, 8,000 shoppers use public transit for shopping.
The STO has a major Park and Ride facility of over 500 parking spaces in proximity the mall. It has also recently rebuilt the transit terminal and built a new client service centre inside the mall. The client service centre has since moved to La Cité Station when the Rapibus Transit Corridor was opened on October 19, 2013. The number of Park and Ride spaces was also significantly reduced. Transit accessibility was greatly improved with the opening of the Rapibus station on the north side of the mall.
Routes that serve the shopping centre include:
Routes 57, 63 and 67 which serves on La Savane Road.
Rapibus Routes 68, 100, 200, 300, 400, 800 and 810 are serving Les Promenades Rapibus Station on the North side of Maloney Boulevard.
Previous the majority of the Gatineau sector local routes ended at Les Promenades Gatineau. Since the Rapibus opened, the majority of the local routes are now ending at La Gappe, La Cité and Labrosse stations which transfer to the Rapibus routes which serves on the north side of Maloney Boulevard.
References
External links
Buildings and structures in Gatineau
Shopping malls established in 1978
Shopping malls in Quebec
Tourist attractions in Outaouais
1978 establishments in Quebec |
17339766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumangyang | Taumangyang | Taumangyang 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 |
17339786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawngkaw | Tawngkaw | Tawngkaw 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 |
17339806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawung | Tawung | Tawung 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 |
6907015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons%20of%20the%20Never%20Wrong | Sons of the Never Wrong | The Sons of the Never Wrong is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter folk music trio founded in 1992. Current band members are Bruce Roper, Deborah Maris Lader (since 1998), and Sue Demel.
History
After a chance meeting at a Guitar Center in Chicago, Illinois, Roper invited Nancy Walker to come hear him sing at a local Monday night sing-around at a nightclub, Beat Kitchen. Roper had recently moved to Chicago from Normal, Illinois, where he had run a retail guitar store. At that time, Walker was singing with a friend, Sue Demel, whom she had met through an ad for band members in the Chicago Reader. After the sing-around, Walker introduced Demel to Roper, and the three decided to try singing together. After a few rehearsals, the three decided to continue as a trio. The band's name is wordplay reminiscent of The Guns of Navarone a movie (based on a novel of the same name).
After playing local coffee shops for several months, a chance encounter with Harry Waller led them to play the WFMT Midnight Special New Years radio show hosted by Rich Warren. Warren was skeptical about putting the band on the air, as he had never heard of them, but Waller convinced Warren. At the performance that night was Andrew Calhoun of Waterbug Records, who immediately offered Sons a recording contract with his label. Rich Warren would go on to having the Sons play countless times live on Midnight Special and has called the trio "Chicago's favorite folk group". He would later honor Sons by proclaiming that Sons were the only performers whose CD (King Fisher King) he had played every track from on his radio show.
Nancy Walker left the group in 1998 to pursue a solo career, so Demel and Roper chose Deborah Lader to replace Walker on the strength of her multi-instrumental abilities, her harmony singing and her writing craft.
The band has performed live and recorded continuously since its beginnings.
Members
Bruce Roper — vocals, guitar, primary songwriter
Sue Demel — vocals, guitar, djembe, dulcimer
Deborah Lader — vocals, banjo, guitar, mandolin, mandocello
Former members
Nancy Walker — vocals, guitar
Discography
Three Good Reasons (1995, Waterbug Records)
Consequence of Speech (1997, Waterbug Records)
One If By Hand (2000, Gadfly Records)
4 Ever On (2002, Gadfly Records)
Nuthatch Suite (2005, Gadfly Records)
"I'll Fly Away", on Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook, Vol. 4 compilation (2007, Bloodshot Records)
On a Good Day...I Am (2009, Waterbug Records)
Church of the Never Wrong (2012, Waterbug Records)
King Fisher King (2012, Waterbug Records)
We Three Sons, A Christmas CD (2015, Sons Records)
Song of Sons (2017, Sons Records)
Undertaker's Notebook (2021, Sons Records)
Additional recordings by members
Layers of Rust and Time (2004) — solo release by Walker
Lullabyloops (2010, Sons Records) — atmospheric loop based recordings by Roper
Accidental English (2011, Waterbug Records) — solo release by Roper
Still Life With Drumming (2015, Sons Records) — dance play by Roper and Demel
Notes
External links
Official website
Sons of the Never Wrong on Facebook
American folk musical groups
Folk musicians from Chicago
Musical groups from Chicago
Musical groups established in 1992
Waterbug Records artists |
17339812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theyaw | Theyaw | Theyaw 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 |
6907017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaret%20Holmes | Jaret Holmes | Jaret D. Holmes (born March 3, 1976) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears (1999), the New York Giants (2000) and the Jacksonville Jaguars (2001). He played high school football at Clinton High School. Holmes played college football at Hinds Community College and Auburn University.
External links
Stats from databasefootball.com
1976 births
Living people
American football placekickers
Hinds Eagles football players
Auburn Tigers football players
Chicago Bears players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
New York Giants players
People from Clinton, Mississippi |
17339815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Bomb%20%282006%20film%29 | Time Bomb (2006 film) | Time Bomb is a 2006 television film starring David Arquette and Angela Bassett, by CBS Television.
Plot
During a football game in Washington, D.C., a terrorist makes a bomb threat to the DHS, stating that a bomb is in a stadium. Meanwhile, the family of DHS agent Mike Bookman (Arquette), are taken hostage. This brings out issues of suspect and trust amongst colleagues as the terrorist is suspected to be amongst them.
Cast
David Arquette as Mike Bookman
Angela Bassett as Jill Greco
Richard T. Jones as Douglas Campbell
Sabine Karsenti as Deanne Mitchell
Tara Rosling as Lynn Bookman
Simon Reynolds as Richard Zawadski
Gianpaolo Venuta as Agent Brian Goodman
Carlo Rota as Musab Hyatti
Fajer Al-Kaisi as Al-Fatwa
Lynne Adams as FBI Agent Lawton
Devon Goyo as Sean Bookman
Jayne Heitmeyer as Audio Tech Marin
Carlo Rota as Musab Hyatti
References
External links
2006 television films
2006 films
Canadian thriller television films
2006 thriller drama films
American war drama films
American psychological thriller films
Films directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
2006 psychological thriller films
CBS network films
American thriller drama films
Canadian thriller drama films
English-language Canadian films
Canadian psychological thriller films
2006 drama films
American thriller television films |
17339823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20G%C3%B3mez | María Gómez | María Gómez may refer to:
María Cristina Gómez (1942–1989), Baptist primary school teacher and community leader in El Salvador who was abducted and murdered
María Gómez (handballer) (born 1984), Paraguayan team handball player
María Gómez (weightlifter) (born 1975), Mexican weightlifter |
6907022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandana%2C%20Kentucky | Bandana, Kentucky | Bandana is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 177.
History
A post office has been in operation at Bandana since 1880. Some say the community was so named for a traveling salesman who carried his goods in a bandana sack, while others believe the name marks an incident when a bandana was lost by a group of pioneers near the site.
Geography
Bandana is located in northern Ballard County at the intersection of Kentucky Route 358 (Bandana Road) and Kentucky Route 473 (Needmore Road / Woodville Road). It is south of the Ohio River and west of Paducah.
Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 203 people, 77 households, and 63 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 101 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.0% White, 2.5% African American, and 0.5% from two or more races.
There were 77 households, out of which 23.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.1% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.2% were non-families. 11.7% of all households were made up of individuals living alone, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 2.87.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 21.7% under 18, 3.9% from 20 to 24, 22.1% from 25 to 44, 30.6% from 45 to 64, and 19.3% who were 65 or older. The median age was 44.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.6 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $88,906, and the median income for a family was $88,906. The per capita income for the CDP was $40,536.
Notable people
Technical Sergeant Morris E. Crain, Medal of Honor recipient for his service during World War II
References
Census-designated places in Ballard County, Kentucky
Census-designated places in Kentucky |
20480835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members%20of%20the%20Australian%20Senate%2C%201950%E2%80%931951 | Members of the Australian Senate, 1950–1951 | This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1 July 1950 to 28 April 1951. The Senate was expanded from 36 to 60 seats as a result of legislation passed in 1948, which came into effect on 22 February 1950. The membership of the newly expanded Senate broke down as follows:
18 of its members (3 for each state) were elected at the 28 September 1946 election, the last election under the plurality-at-large voting system where the Australian Labor Party had won 15 of the 18 seats. These senators had terms starting on 1 July 1947 and due to finish on 30 June 1953.
42 of its members (7 for each state) were elected at the 10 December 1949 election, which was the first election conducted with a single transferable vote under a proportional voting system. The senators were divided into two classes:
30 of its members (5 for each state) had terms starting on 1 July 1950 and due to finish on 30 June 1956. The 18 senators elected in the 21 August 1943 election served until their terms ended on 30 June 1950.
12 of its members (2 for each state) had terms starting on 22 February 1950 (the day the term of the House of Representatives began) and due to finish on 30 June 1953.
Labor retained a Senate majority at the election. The Senate was dissolved for the 1951 election, which was a double dissolution. Labor has not held a Senate majority since.
Notes
References
Members of Australian parliaments by term
20th-century Australian politicians
Australian Senate lists |
6907049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMW/WEW%20Hardcore%20Championship | FMW/WEW Hardcore Championship | The FMW/WEW Hardcore Championship was a hardcore wrestling championship contested in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling.
Title history
Combined reigns
External links
Solie's title history
FMW Closing Announcement
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling championships
Hardcore wrestling championships |
20480840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobindsar | Gobindsar | Gobindsar is a town located in the Punjab province of India.
References
Populated places in Punjab, India |
20480847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20recoil%20mechanism | Hydraulic recoil mechanism | A hydraulic recoil mechanism is a way of limiting the effects of recoil and adding to the accuracy and firepower of an artillery piece.
Description
The usual recoil system in modern quick-firing guns is the hydro-pneumatic recoil system. In this system, the barrel is mounted on rails on which it can recoil to the rear, and the recoil is taken up by a cylinder which is similar in operation to an automotive gas-charged shock absorber, and is commonly visible as a cylinder mounted parallel to the barrel of the gun, but shorter and smaller than it. The cylinder contains a charge of compressed air, as well as hydraulic oil; in operation, the barrel's energy is taken up in compressing the air as the barrel recoils backward, then is dissipated via hydraulic damping as the barrel returns forward to the firing position. The recoil impulse is thus spread out over the time in which the barrel is compressing the air, rather than over the much narrower interval of time when the projectile is being fired. This greatly reduces the peak force conveyed to the mount (or to the ground on which the gun has been emplaced).
See also
Canon de 75 modèle 1897#Hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism, the first field gun employing a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism
List of British ordnance terms#Hydro-pneumatic
External links
A "cutaway" animation of the Canon de 75 modèle 1897 showing the parts and operation of its revolutionary recoil mechanism
References
Artillery components |
6907063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Hartung | Georg Hartung | Georg Hartung () was a pioneering German geologist. He is best known for several books and articles about the islands of Macaronesia, especially the Azores and the Canary Islands.
The work of Hartung on the Azores contains illustrations of great scientific interest. Georg Hartung also met and corresponded with Charles Darwin and with Sir Charles Lyell, the pioneer of modern geology, from whom he received scientific samples. He visited the Canary Islands in the winter of 1853 and the spring of 1854.
Selected works
Hartung. Mitbeschreibung der fossilen reste, von Prof. H. G. Bronn ..., Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1860.
Fritsch, Karl Wilhelm Georg von Hartung, Georg Reiss, Johann Wilhelm. Tenerife geologisch-topographisch dargestellt, ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss vulkanischer Gebirge von K. v. Fritsch, G. Hartung und W. Reiss, J. Wurster, 16 pp., 1867.
Hartung, Georg. Die geologischen Verhältnisse der Inseln Lanzarote und Fuertaventura, Zürich, 166 pp., 1857.
Hartung, Georg. Betrachtungen über Erhebungskrater, ältere und neuere Eruptivmassen, nebst einer Schilderung der geologischen Verhältnisse der Insel Gran Canaria. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 108 pp., 1862.
Hartung, Georg. Originalzeichnungen und Probedrucke zu Illustrationen der geologischen Beschreibungen der Azoren und Kanarischen Inseln. 1850 [ca.]
References
19th-century German geologists
Geology of the Azores
History of the Canary Islands
1820s births
1891 deaths
German male writers |
23578275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925%20Copa%20del%20Rey | 1925 Copa del Rey | The King Alfonso XIII's Cup 1925 was the 25th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.
Teams
Two more teams were invited to play the tournament that year. Besides the ten regional champions, the champion of Castile and León was also invited. The Levante Championship was split in two tournaments: The Valencian Championship and the Murcian Championship. So twelve teams (record at that time) were invited to the tournament.
Biscay: Arenas Club
Gipuzkoa: Real Sociedad
Centre Region: Athletic Madrid
South Region: Sevilla FC
Galicia: Celta de Vigo
Asturias: Stadium Ovetense
Cantabria: Racing de Santander
Catalonia: FC Barcelona
Aragon: Stadium de Zaragoza
Valencia: Valencia CF
Castile and León: CD Español
Inscription of Real Murcia, champions of new Championship of Murcia, was not accepted.
Group stage
The winner of each group advanced to the semifinals.
Group I
Group II
Tie-break match
Group III
Group IV
Semifinals
First leg:
Final
Notes
References
Linguasport.com
RSSSF.com
Copa del Rey seasons
Copa Del Rey, 1925
Copa |
20480850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Balcom | Eric Balcom | Eric Wilfred Balcom, (March 13, 1909 – May 31, 1989) was a businessman, political figure, and Companion of the Order of Canada.
Born in Port Dufferin, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Balcom moved to Wolfville in 1938. He established two nursing homes there. Balcom then operated the Paramount Hotel and Cottages from 1942 to 1970. He was Mayor of Wolfville from 1950 to 1955 and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Parliament in 1953.
Balcom was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1956, representing Kings North as a Liberal. He re-offered in the 1960 general election, but was defeated.
Balcom was president of the Atlantic School of Theology, the Nova Scotia Kidney Association, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and the Wolfville Board of Trade.
Balcom returned to Port Dufferin in 1970. He was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 20, 1983.
In 1989, Balcom died as a result of a car accident.
References
1909 births
1989 deaths
Mayors of places in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs
Members of the Order of Canada |
20480860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liddon%20Gulf | Liddon Gulf | The Liddon Gulf () is a large inlet on the south-west side of Melville Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. It joins the M'Clure Strait to the south-west.
Gulfs of the Northwest Territories
Gulfs of the Arctic Ocean |
20480862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20Correspondence%20Course%20Program | Army Correspondence Course Program | The Army Correspondence Course Program (ACCP) is a type of distance education and the formal nonresident extension of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) service schools' curriculum.
Overview
DA Pamphlet 351–20, The Army Correspondence Course Program Catalog, is an Army publication. The catalog lists all correspondence courses developed and administered by the Army and select Department of Defense activities. The Army Institute for Professional Development (AIPD) publishes a yearly revision of the catalog each October to update the ACCP curriculum and any procedural changes to the program. The entire ACCP curriculum and an electronic enrollment form are also listed at the Army Training Support Center’s Web site. The ACCP Catalog offers two types of study: individual and group.
AIPD's automated student record system limits students to one course enrollment, or to one course enrollment and a subcourse enrollment, at any one time. But, this limitation applies only to the courses and subcourses administered by AIPD. Each subcourse is awarded a specific number of credit hours, noted in ACCP Catalog Chapter 3 at the individual subcourse descriptions and usually included on the title page of a subcourse. The number of credit hours for any given subcourse is based on the estimated time required for a student to read the material and complete all practice exercises and the examination.
There are several Army e Learning programs, a few of which are:
eArmyU – which allows you to take college classes in your off-duty time and can ably assist you in preparing for a future non-military job.
DANTES – which stands for Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support and it provides personnel with educational opportunities that are both practical and compatible with life in the military. This form of long-distance learning is an innovative way to keep deployed troops alert, informed, and entertained by implementing satellite, video, and now even Podcast courses.http://army-e-learning.net/
Sources
External links
ACCP Home Page
Skill Port
Distance education institutions based in the United States |
20480892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Franke%20%28sinologist%29 | Herbert Franke (sinologist) | Herbert Franke (27 September 1914 – 10 June 2011) was a German historian of China. He is particularly known for his works on the history of the Jurchen (Jin) and Mongol (Yuan) empires in China.
After the end of World War II, Herbert Franke, along with Wolfgang Bauer, was instrumental in establishing the Sinological Section in the University of Munich. Later, he succeeded Erich Haenisch as the head of the Sinology Department at that university.
He is one of the authors of volume 6 of The Cambridge History of China dealing with the history of China under the Khitan, Jurchen and Mongol regimes.
Works
References
External links
Historians of China
20th-century German historians
1914 births
2011 deaths
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
German sinologists
German male non-fiction writers |
23578289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Register%20of%20Historic%20Places%20listings%20in%20Stanly%20County%2C%20North%20Carolina | National Register of Historic Places listings in Stanly County, North Carolina | This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Stanly County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Current listings
|}
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina
List of National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina
References
Stanly County, North Carolina
Stanly County |
23578353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden%20Allure | Eden Allure | Eden Allure was the brand name of a line under Cultural Connections, LLC, an American manufacturer of argan oil based natural skin, hair, and body care products. It was founded in Orlando, FL in 2007. Cultural Connections is currently (as of 2015) on a worldwide basis re-branding its products for sale in the United States, Canada, and worldwide under a new name. The previous Eden Allure brand included premium skin, hair, and body care products, and its formulas utilize natural and organic ingredients and 100% Argan oil.
Products
Eden Allure's original product was pure argan oil. Although they mixed it in other products, the pure oil was the most popular seller. Other products in the Eden Allure skin care line included soaps.
Environmental Policy
Cultural Connections LLC contributed money to Global Fund for Women and to the Kiva microloan organization.
Distribution
The Eden Allure brand was distributed in South Korea, Canada, Bulgaria and the United States.
History of cosmetics
Cosmetics companies of the United States |
20480897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khushipur | Khushipur | Khushipur is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Lahore District at 31°16'0N 73°9'0E with an altitude of 170 metres (561 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Singh Khalsa and Kot Guraya to the south, Gobindsar to the east and Miranpur to the west.
References
Populated places in Lahore District |
20480898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey%20Girl%20%28Freddie%20Scott%20song%29 | Hey Girl (Freddie Scott song) | "Hey Girl" is a song written and composed by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It first became a popular Top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1963 when recorded by Freddie Scott. Donny Osmond took the song back to the Billboard top ten chart with his cover in 1971.
Chart performance
Scott's version peaked at number ten on both the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles and R&B charts.
Donny Osmond version
Background
Donny Osmond released a version of this song on November 6, 1971. It reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 15, 1972. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on July 28, 1972.
Chart performance
Certifications
Chart performance
References
External links
Nichelle Nichols's 1967 cover as "Hey Boy" provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment.
1963 singles
Donny Osmond songs
Carole King songs
Soul songs
Songs with lyrics by Gerry Goffin
Songs written by Carole King
1997 singles
Columbia Records singles
1963 songs |
20480900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Joe%20Edwards | Jim Joe Edwards | James Corbette Edwards (December 14, 1894 – January 19, 1965) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for different teams between the and seasons. Listed at , 185 lb., Edwards batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
A native of Banner, Mississippi, Edwards attended Mississippi College and played college baseball there. After graduating in April 1922, the Cleveland Indians signed him to a contract and immediately placed him on the major league roster. He made his debut on May 14, and in 25 games he had a 3–8 win–loss record and a 4.47 earned run average (ERA). In 1923, he spent some time as a starting pitcher and some as a relief pitcher. In 38 games, 21 of them starts, he had a 10–10 record and a 3.71 ERA in 179.1 innings pitched.
In 1924, Edwards pitched in 10 games for the Indians, and had a 4–3 record and a 2.84 ERA. After 13 games and an ERA of 8.25 the following season, he was released and picked up by the Chicago White Sox, pitching in nine games towards the end of the season. Edwards spent the 1926 season with the White Sox, and had a 6–9 record and a 4.18 ERA in 32 games, 16 of them starts. In 1927, he had his first taste of minor league baseball, and spent the year with the Seattle Indians. In 41 games for them, he had a 20–17 record and a 3.36 ERA. The following season he had a 1–8 record and a 3.14 ERA in ten games. The Cincinnati Reds signed him to a contract during part of the 1928 season, and in his last season in the majors, he had a 2–2 record and a 7.59 ERA in 18 appearances. He then spent four more seasons in the minor leagues to end his professional career. In a six-season career, Edwards posted a 26–37 record with 211 strikeouts and a 4.37 ERA in 145 appearances, including 59 starts, 23 complete games, six shutouts, four saves, and innings of work.
After retiring, Edwards moved to Pontotoc, Mississippi and became a teacher and football coach. He died in Sarepta, Mississippi, at the age of 70 from a car accident.
References
External links
Retrosheet
1894 births
1965 deaths
Chicago White Sox players
Cincinnati Reds players
Cleveland Indians players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Mississippi College Choctaws baseball players
Road incident deaths in Mississippi
Baseball players from Mississippi
Seattle Indians players
Oakland Oaks (baseball) players
Birmingham Barons players
Knoxville Smokies players
Memphis Chickasaws players |
23578360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%201970%20%28France%29 | List of number-one singles of 1970 (France) | This is a list of the French Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews number-ones of 1970.
Summary
Singles Chart
See also
1970 in music
List of number-one hits (France)
References
1970 in France
1970 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in France |
20480907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Claytor%20House | Miller–Claytor House | Miller–Claytor House is a historic home located at Riverside Park in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is a two-story, white framed structure, sheathed with beaded weatherboards. It is believed to be the fourth house erected in the new town in 1791, and is probably the oldest extant Lynchburg dwelling. In 1936, the imminent demolition of the house led to the formation of the Lynchburg Historical Society and the subsequent removal of the house to its present site.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Gallery
References
External links
Miller–Claytor House, Miller–Claytor Lane at Treasure Island Road, Lynchburg, Virginia: 3 photos, 1 data page, and 1 photo caption page, at Historic American Buildings Survey
Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1791
Georgian architecture in Virginia
Houses in Lynchburg, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Lynchburg, Virginia |
20480923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental%20event%20rate | Experimental event rate | In epidemiology and biostatistics, the experimental event rate (EER) is a measure of how often a particular statistical event (such as response to a drug, adverse event or death) occurs within the experimental group (non-control group) of an experiment.
This value is very useful in determining the therapeutic benefit or risk to patients in experimental groups, in comparison to patients in placebo or traditionally treated control groups.
Three statistical terms rely on EER for their calculation: absolute risk reduction, relative risk reduction and number needed to treat.
Control event rate
The control event rate (CER) is identical to the experimental event rate except that is measured within the scientific control group of an experiment.
Worked example
In a trial of hypothetical drug "X" where we are measuring event "Z", we have two groups. Our control group (25 people) is given a placebo, and the experimental group (25 people) is given drug "X".
Event "Z" in control group : 4 in 25 people
Control event rate : 4/25
Event "Z" in experimental group : 12 in 25 people
Experimental event rate : 12/25
Another worked example is as follows:
See also
Absolute risk reduction
Relative risk reduction
Number needed to treat
References
Biostatistics
Epidemiology
Medical statistics
Statistical ratios |
17339824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emi | Emi | is a feminine Japanese given name and is occasionally used as a surname.
Possible writings
Emi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
as a given name
, "blessing, beauty"
, "picture, beauty"
, "reflect, look"
, "reflect, beauty"
, "smile"
, "wisdom, beauty"
The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
as a surname
People with the name
, US based Japanese visual artist, emi-arts.com
, Japanese hurdler
, Japanese singer
, Japanese comedian and stage actress
, Japanese urban music singer-songwriter
, Japanese softball player
, Japanese politician
, Japanese skier
, Japanese gravure idol
, Japanese actress
, Japanese javelin thrower
{{Nihongo|Emi Morimoto, Japanese drummer
, a Japanese voice actress
, a Japanese professional wrestler
, Japanese women's footballer
, Japanese voice actress and singer
, a Japanese ice hockey player
, Japanese curler
, Japanese voice actress
, Chinese-Japanese actress and fashion model
, Japanese singer
, a Japanese voice actress
, Japanese costume designer
, Japanese actress
, Japanese figure skater
, Japanese women's footballer
Fictional characters
, a character in the Tenjho Tenge series
, a character in the visual novel Katawa Shoujo
Emi Yusa, a character in the anime and manga The Devil is a Part-Timer!
Emi Igawa, a character in the anime and manga Your Lie In April
Emi Toshiba, a background character in Konami's Dance Dance Revolution dance game series
See also
Mimasaka-Emi Station, a train station in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Magical Star Magical Emi, a magical girl anime series
Japanese feminine given names |
20480926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranpur%2C%20Punjab | Miranpur, Punjab | Miranpur is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Lahore District at 31°17'0N 73°7'0E with an altitude of 172 metres (567 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Kot Guraya to the south, Khushipur to the east and Bilochwala to the west.
References
Populated places in Lahore District |
23578367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20of%20Anglo-Catholic%20Theology | Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology | The Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology (published by John Henry Parker) was a series of 19th-century editions of theological works by writers in the Church of England, devoted as the title suggests to significant Anglo-Catholic figures. It brought back into print a number of works from the 17th century, concentrating though not exclusively on the Caroline Divines. The publication of the Library, from 1841, was connected with the Oxford Movement which had begun in 1833; some of the editors, such as William John Copeland and Charles Crawley were clearly identified with the movement. However the interests of the Library diverged early from those of the Tractarians. A total of 95 volumes by 20 writers was published over a dozen years; the plan, originally, had been to include 53 authors. The Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology was founded in response to the Parker Society.
Authors
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), 11 volumes, edited by J. P. Wilson and James Bliss
William Beveridge (1637-1708), 12 volumes, edited by James Bliss
John Bramhall, 5 volumes, edited by Arthur West Haddan
George Bull, 7 volumes
John Cosin (1594-1672), 5 volumes
Richard Crakanthorp, edited by Christopher Wordsworth
William Forbes
Mark Frank, 2 volumes
Peter Gunning, edited by Charles Page Eden
Henry Hammond edited by Nicholas Pocock
George Hickes
John Johnson (1662-1726), editor John Baron
William Laud (1573-1645) edited by William Scott and James Bliss
Hamon L'Estrange
Nathaniel Marshall
William Nicholson
John Overall (1559-1619)
John Pearson (1613-1686), edited by Edward Churton (minor works)
Herbert Thorndike, 6 volumes, edited by Arthur West Haddan
Thomas Wilson (1663-1755) edited by John Keble
Committee
The committee members for the Library project were the following (serving 1840 to 1845 unless otherwise marked):
R. S. Barton
Edward Churton
William John Copeland (1844-5)
John Goulter Dowling (1840-1)
William Gresley
Walter Farquhar Hook
Richard William Jelf
John Keble
Samuel Roffey Maitland (1840)
Henry Edward Manning (1845)
William Hodge Mill
George Moberly
John Henry Newman
Henry Handley Norris (1840-3)
William Palmer
Arthur Philip Perceval (1840-4)
Edward Bouverie Pusey
Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1845)
Christopher Wordsworth (1845)
See also
Library of the Fathers
Parker Society
References
External links
Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology from Project Canterbury
Christian theology books
Anglican liturgy
Anglican theology and doctrine
Anglo-Catholicism
History of the Church of England
16th-century Christian texts
17th-century Christian texts
18th-century Christian texts |
17339828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingram | Tingram | Tingram 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 |
17339838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsawlang | Tsawlang | Tsawlang 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 |
20480965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Clle%20Kukk | Ülle Kukk | Ülle Kukk (born 18 November 1937 in Tartu) is an Estonian botanist and conservationist.
Education and career
She was born in Tartu and graduated from the University of Tartu in 1960. 1960–1962 she continued to work in the university and also in the Institute of Experimental Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR.
From 1965 to 1975 she worked as a member of the research staff at the Tallinn Botanic Garden. From 1976 to 1996 she worked for the , and since 1996, she has worked for in the Institute of the Environmental Protection of the Estonian University of Life Sciences.
Research
Kukk's research has addressed Estonian protected plants and indigenous ornamental plants, and she has been engaged in the distribution of rare and protected plants, biology, monitoring and protection.
She is one of the founders and a board member of the Estonian Orchid Protection Club ().
Kukk is a member of the Berne Convention's Expert Group on flora, and she was a co-author of the "Estonian Red Book" established in 1998.
Personal
She was married to phycologist and conservationist Erich Kukk (1928–2017).
Selected publications
(English version published by Light: New York)
References
20th-century Estonian botanists
1937 births
Living people
People from Tartu
University of Tartu alumni
Estonian University of Life Sciences faculty
21st-century Estonian botanists |
17339843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Tate | Phil Tate | John Philip Tate (28 April 1922 – 9 December 2005) was an English dance bandleader.
Born in Bramley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, Tate played violin from the age of eight, and was later an autodidact on clarinet and saxophone. He formed his own group, the Five Quavers, while in high school, and played in the RAF Silver Wings Dance Orchestra during World War II. The ensemble proved so cohesive that all twelve of its members decided to continue playing together after the war, under the name Phil Tate & His Orchestra, taking a residency at Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone. Their instrumentation was unusual, featuring five saxes and three flutes. After appearing in the 1951 film Green Grow the Rushes, they took their next residency at the Hammersmith Palais and signed to Oriole Records.
Tate's orchestra played at the Hammersmith for a full decade, then moved to the Ilford Palais. Tate hosted the BBC show Non-Stop-Pop, where he interviewed The Beatles on 30 July 1963. On radio, he was best known for his 144 appearances in Music While You Work. In 1964, his orchestra took up at the Locarno Ballroom in Streatham; the next year they appeared on the BBC program Music Through Midnight. Tate's most longstanding association came in 1965, when he became musical director for the Miss World Pageant. He disbanded his orchestra in 1967, and ran Mecca Agencies in addition to his duties with Miss World, where he remained until his retirement in 1992.
He served as director of the Music Users' Council from 1992 to 2000, after which he retired.
Tate died on 9 December 2005, at the age of 83.
References
1922 births
2005 deaths
English bandleaders
English pop musicians
People from Bramley, Leeds
Musicians from Leeds |
17339846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsonma | Tsonma | Tsonma 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 |
17339854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumpyaw | Tumpyaw | Tumpyaw 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 |
17339855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjuman | Anjuman | Anjum, Anjom, Anjuman or Anjoman, meaning a gathering or society, may refer to:
Organisations
Anjoman-e Okhovat, a Freemason-like mystical society rooted in Sufism in Iran
Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam, an Islamic intellectual and political organisation based in Lahore, Pakistan
Anjuman-i-Ulama-i-Bangala, defunct Islamic organisation based in British Bengal
Anjuman Khudam-ul-Quran, a Muslim educational organisation on the Indian subcontinent
Anjuman (Parsis), the Parsi–Zoroastrian associations that have the authority to manage a Tower of Silence in India
Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Association, a Muslim organisation of Trinidad and Tobago
Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu, an organisation for the promotion of Urdu language, Urdu literature and Indian Muslim cultural heritage
Anjuvannam, a medieval merchant guild of West Asian traders (Jews, Syrian Christians, and Muslims) in south India and South East Asia
Deendar Anjuman, an Islamic organization based in Hyderabad, India
Aḥmadiyyah Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām Lahore, a branch, sect, or faction of the Ahmadiyyah Movement that emerged after a schismatic split occurred around 1914.
People
Anjuman (actress) (born 1955), Pakistani actress
Nadia Anjuman (1980–2005), Afghan poet and journalist
Anjuman Shehzadi (1977–2011), Pakistani stage and film actress
Places
Anjuman Pass, a mountain pass in Afghanistan
Anjuman Valley, a valley in Afghanistan
Anjuman (stream), a stream through that valley
Anjuman, Afghanistan, a village in Afghanistan
Anjuman-i-Khurd, another village in Afghanistan
Anjoman, Iran, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran
Anjoman-e Olya, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran
Anjoman-e Sofla, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran
Films
Anjuman (1970 film), a 1970 Pakistani Urdu film starring Waheed Murad and Rani
Anjuman (2013 film), a 2013 Pakistani Urdu film starring Imran Abbas Naqvi and Sara Loren
Anjuman (1986 film), a Hindi film directed by Muzaffar Ali starring Shabana Azmi and Farooq Shaikh |
17339862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunhpaung | Tunhpaung | Tunhpaung 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 |
44504196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/220%20Central%20Park%20South | 220 Central Park South | 220 Central Park South is a residential skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, situated along Billionaires' Row on the south side of Central Park South between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 220 Central Park South was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and SLCE Architects, with interiors designed by Thierry Despont. It is composed of two sections: a 70-story, tower on 58th Street, which is the 17th-tallest building in New York City, as well as an 18-story section on Central Park South, both of which contain a limestone facade. Most of the 118 apartments are duplex apartments, although some of the units have been combined to create larger units. The building has a porte-cochère, a wine cellar, private dining rooms, and various recreational facilities.
Vornado Realty Trust developed the building on the site of a rent-stabilized apartment complex constructed in 1954. While Vornado acquired the existing apartment building in 2005, a lawsuit from the existing building's tenants forced the demolition of the existing structure to be delayed to 2012. Additionally, Vornado had to settle a dispute with Extell, which owned a garage on the site and had expressed concern that Vornado's structure would block northward views of Extell's adjacent Central Park Tower. Robert A. M. Stern's designs were released in early 2014, and the plans were approved that March. Work on the base started in 2015 and most exterior work was done by the time the first residents moved into the building in 2018.
220 Central Park South contains some of the most expensive apartments in New York City, with a secretive purchasing process and many anonymous buyers. Two of the building's units have sold for over $100 million, including a $238 million unit purchased by billionaire hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin in 2019, the most expensive home ever sold in the United States at the time.
Site
220 Central Park South is in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, just east of Columbus Circle and south of Central Park. It has frontage on 58th Street to the south and Central Park South to the north, in the middle of a city block bounded by Seventh Avenue to the east and Broadway to the west. The building carries the alternate addresses of 225-231 West 58th Street. The building sits on an "L"-shaped site covering four land lots: three on West 58th Street measuring a combined , and a fourth lot between Central Park South and 58th Street measuring . The site has frontage of along 58th Street and along Central Park South, with the Central Park South wing on the far eastern portion of the site.
Nearby buildings on the same block include Gainsborough Studios and 240 Central Park South to the west, as well as 200 Central Park South, the Helen Miller Gould Stable, and the firehouse of Engine Company 23 to the east. 220 Central Park South is across from the Central Park Tower, the American Fine Arts Society (also known as the Art Students League of New York building), the Saint Thomas Choir School, and the Osborne Apartments to the south. The building is close to two New York City Subway stations: the 57th Street–Seventh Avenue station of the , and the 59th Street–Columbus Circle station of the . 220 Central Park South is one of several major developments around 57th Street and Central Park that are collectively dubbed Billionaires' Row by the media. Other buildings along Billionaires' Row include 432 Park Avenue five blocks southeast, 111 West 57th Street and One57 one block southeast, and the adjacent Central Park Tower.
The previous building at the address 220 Central Park South was a 20-story structure with 125 apartments, constructed in 1954. It was developed by the J. H. Taylor Management Corporation and designed by Albert Mayer and Julian Whittlesey, all of whom had been involved with the earlier 240 Central Park South. The old 220 Central Park South was erected with a concrete frame and white-brick framework, and consisted of two "towers" connected by a promenade and garden. Real estate investor Sarah Korein ultimately came to own the old 220 Central Park South. The old building was demolished between 2012 and 2013.
Architecture
Robert A.M. Stern Architects designed the massing and exterior of 220 Central Park South, although SLCE Architects is listed in building documents as the architect of record. The building is one of several skyscrapers designed by Stern in Manhattan, which include 15 Central Park West, a few blocks to the north; 30 Park Place in the Financial District; and 520 Park Avenue, east of Central Park. Thierry Despont designed the interior spaces. Other firms involved in construction included structural engineer DeSimone Consulting Engineers and general contractor Lendlease.
Form
The structure is composed of two sections: a 70-story tower on 58th Street and a shorter 18-story section on Central Park South. The massing of the building is influenced by the two zoning districts that the building occupies; different height restrictions were determined by the floor area ratios for each respective zoning district. One quarter of the site is on Central Park South, while the remaining three-quarters of the lot are on 58th Street.
The main structure, on 58th Street, is tall, rising 70 stories above the ground. The floor slabs of the upper floors measure , with the longer dimension extending west to east, and each of the upper floors contains an area of about , giving the upper floors a slenderness ratio of 18:1. Due to its slenderness, the building has been characterized as part of a new breed of New York City "pencil towers". The upper floors rise above the southern section of the site, both because of the light restriction and because the position of the floor slabs would enable all the residential units to face north toward Central Park. During construction, three alternatives for the massing and twenty-three alternatives for the floor slabs were studied.
The base of the building includes a smaller section on Central Park South, called "The Villas". This section is 18 stories tall, with a deep setback above the sixth floor and several smaller setbacks on upper floors. Portions of the Villas' facade contain metal balconies in front of the windows. According to Emporis, The Villas stands tall. Both sections of the building share a lobby and a three-story basement.
Facade
220 Central Park South has a limestone facade similar to other buildings by Stern such as 15 Central Park West; in this case it is an Alabama "Silver Shadow" limestone which has a "marbled" appearance (in contrast to 15 CPW's more uniform Indiana limestone). The usage of limestone was intended to blend with the more traditional facades of other buildings on Central Park's perimeter. According to Stern, 220 Central Park South's design was to "belong to the family of buildings that have framed Central Park for generations". Because of 220 Central Park South's height, it was infeasible to use hand-set or precast limestone sections, so the facade was instead designed as a curtain wall with window openings. The facade contains windows with detailed designs as well as a decorative rooftop crown. The Villa is also clad with the same Alabama limestone.
Structural features
220 Central Park South's foundation consists of three concrete "mats", each measuring thick and collectively containing over of concrete. The foundation "mats" sit on a layer of bedrock over deep, and 142 rock anchors were drilled into the bedrock and foundations to prevent overturning within the tower.
220 Central Park South's superstructure is concealed within its curtain walls. To maximize floor area, four large columns were installed along the northern side, a structural core on the southern side, and three smaller columns each on the western and eastern sides. This design was chosen over an alternative that would have placed several smaller columns on each side, but which was rejected because the developer did not want columns to be so closely spaced along the facade.
To maximize usable space on the upper floors, and thus maximize revenue from apartment sales, the mechanical equipment was placed at the base of the main tower on 58th Street. The mechanical equipment occupies six stories, each with ceiling heights of , taking advantage of a zoning provision to maximize the tower's height. Accordingly, the mechanical equipment takes up of the tower's height, and the lowest condominiums in the main tower are above ground level. The roof of the main tower contains a slosh damper, which uses a huge tank of water to reduce vibrations. The damper weighs .
Interior
Apartments
There are 118 apartments, most of which are duplex apartments. The apartments contain features such as oak flooring, custom millwork, and marble cladding of the kitchen islands and restrooms. Sources disagree on how many apartments are within the Villas section of the building. According to 6sqft, the Villas contains 13 condominium units, while according to The New York Times, the Villas has 10 condos.
Details of interior designs are scarce; The Wall Street Journal reported in late 2018 that the building's developer, Vornado, refused to publish renderings of apartment interiors. Some of the upper floors are designed so that they contain a single unit on each floor, or units spanning multiple floors. Some of the units have been combined to create larger penthouse or duplex apartments. For example, Vornado created a four-story "mega condo" by combining the duplex on the 50th and 51st floors with three units on the 52nd and 53rd floors.
Amenities
The two wings of 220 Central Park South abut a motor court with a porte-cochere, where vehicles could drop off and pick up residents and their guests. The building also has a wine cellar, an saltwater swimming pool, private dining rooms, an athletic club, a juice bar, a library, a basketball court, a golf simulator and a children's play area. In 2019, Jean-Georges Vongerichten was selected to operate a residents-only, 54-seat restaurant at the second floor.
History
Land acquisition and planning
In early 2005, Korein's estate placed the old building for sale. Because of the valuable air rights involved, one uninvolved broker estimated that the property would sell for as much as $160–175 million. At the time, the building had 47 tenants in rent-stabilized apartments, and 40% of the units were vacant. The Clarett Group was interested in purchasing the old 220 Central Park South, but did not have enough money to pay for the building up front. Warren Fink, the chief investment officer of the Clarett Group, contacted Vornado CEO Steven Roth and Vornado president Michael D. Fascitelli to join in the purchase.
The old building was purchased in August 2005 by Vornado for $136.6 million. Vornado intended to demolish the building and erect a 41-story glass tower, and served eviction notices to the building's eighty tenants in 2006. However, some of the rent-stabilized tenants refused to vacate, filing a lawsuit against Vornado. Although the New York Supreme Court initially ruled in favor of the tenants in 2008 under the grounds that a proper environmental review had not been conducted, this was overturned upon appeal in 2009. The developer ultimately settled with tenants the following year, paying between $1.3 million and $1.56 million each to those remaining in the building. Demolition of the existing structure began in 2012 and was completed in early 2013.
Meanwhile, Extell Development had leased the parking garage under part of the old building's site in 2006. Extell's CEO, Gary Barnett, stated that he leased the garage so that he would have enough parking for his own nearby developments. However, Extell repeatedly refused Vornado's attempts at a buyout or settlement. The dispute likely originated from the fact that Vornado's proposed building would block the views of Extell's proposed Central Park Tower development directly to the south, for which Extell had started acquiring land in 2005. The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) fined Extell in May 2012, after Vornado claimed that Extell had violated the terms of the lease because residents of the empty rental building were not the main patrons of the garage. Vornado alleged that Extell had defaulted on the lease, having supposedly violated the lease terms, even though Extell's lease ran through 2018. Extell then sued Vornado that August, claiming that Vornado had intentionally created the violation by first emptying the building of tenants. A court enjoined the eviction in July 2013, permitting Extell to continue holding the garage.
In October 2013, the two companies reached a settlement in which Vornado would give Extell $194 million for the garage and some air rights. As part of the deal, 220 Central Park South would be shifted slightly westward and Central Park Tower would be cantilevered slightly eastward, giving the latter a direct view of Central Park. Without Central Park Tower's cantilever, 220 Central Park South would have blocked the first of Central Park Tower. Vornado reported the total land cost for the new building to be over $515.4 million, or .
Construction and financing
In early 2014, the Bank of China gave Vornado a $600 million loan for the building's construction. Robert A. M. Stern was hired to create updated designs for the building, which were approved by the New York City Department of Buildings. in March 2014. The plans called for 83 apartments to be built inside a new 69-story, tower at the site, and an additional 10 apartments in an adjoining 10-story "Villa". Site excavation was underway by May 2014. Construction of the foundations involved manual hammering and controlled blasts to reduce damage to several nearby buildings, including some New York City designated landmarks.
As late as April 2015, there was little information on the project and the building was still planned to have 93 total apartments. However, by May 2015, the building was proposed to contain 118 apartments. By that time, about a third of the units were already in contract, representing a combined $1.1 billion, even though public offerings had not yet started. That September, Vornado increased its Bank of China loan by $350 million and terminated a commitment for a $500 million mezzanine loan. Two months later, Vornado received an additional loan for the project, a $750 million unsecured term loan from multiple lenders.
The base of the tower was under construction by late 2015. Aboveground work reached 15 stories in February 2016 and 25 stories by that May. In November 2016, Justin Casquejo, a thrill-seeking teenage free solo climber and stunt performer, hung from the not-yet-completed tower. The construction process was generally secretive, leading real estate magazine The Real Deal to report in July 2018, "It has now been two years, eight months and 28 days since Vornado Realty Trust deigned to update Wall Street on sales at 220 Central Park South." According to Roth, the lack of updates was an intentional move for "competitive reasons". Brokers and lawyers uncovered floor plans and proposed prices by reviewing an offering plan filed with the Attorney General of New York, while reporters filed Freedom of Information Act requests to recover data from the offering plan.
Completion
Facade work was finished by September 2018. By the end of that month, approximately 83% of the condominium units were under sales contracts, and closings were scheduled through 2020. The first residents started moving into the building in late 2018, and Vornado extended its $750 million unsecured term loan at that time, with the loan's maturity being pushed from 2020 to 2024.
By July 2019, exterior finishes were being placed on 220 Central Park South, and Vornado had repaid its full $950 million loan to the Bank of China. Later the same year, The Wall Street Journal wrote of the building's success as a "positive sign" for an otherwise unfavorable luxury real estate market. Vornado planned to use sales income from 220 Central Park South to finance capital expenditures of its other properties. By September 2020, the last exterior pieces were put on the building. In total, 220 Central Park South cost $1.5 billion to construct. Including hard construction costs, the building was estimated to cost .
Despite a general decrease in real estate sales in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, other units at 220 Central Park South were among the most expensive sold in New York City during that time. Only thirty condominiums remained to be sold by September 2020. Although Vornado lost hundreds of millions of dollars during 2020, because of a commercial real estate downturn caused by the pandemic, the company was able to lessen the loss with revenue from the sales of units at 220 Central Park South. The building accounted for $592 million in condominium sales in the third quarter of 2020, out of $1.85 billion in sales in the entire borough of Manhattan during that time.
Residents
Many of the buyers at 220 Central Park South chose to remain anonymous, purchasing units at the building through limited liability companies. According to a 2018 The Wall Street Journal article, neither Vornado nor the building's selling agent Corcoran Group were willing to divulge buyers' identities. In addition, The Real Deal reported in 2016 that the building did not have a public website, in contrast to other condominiums. Prospective buyers had to be represented by a real estate broker, who would request a questionnaire with personal questions about the buyer. If a prospective buyer's responses were deemed satisfactory, they would view a sales office, and Roth would personally interview the buyer, an unusual move for luxury condominiums. Richard Steinberg of the brokerage Douglas Elliman said, "Even if you had the money, it wasn’t guaranteed you could get a visit."
Notable confirmed buyers include executives such as Renata de Camargo Nascimento, co-owner of Brazilian construction company Camargo Correa; Albert Behler, CEO of Paramount Group; Byron Allen, CEO of Entertainment Studios; Eric Smidt, CEO of Harbor Freight Tools; finance executive Andrew Zaro; and real estate executives Ofer Yardeniand and Richard Leibovitch. Other buyers have included billionaire hedge fund managers Daniel Och and Kenneth C. Griffin; real estate developer David Mandelbaum; musician Sting and his wife, producer and actor Trudie Styler; and billionaire pharmaceutical businessman Ge Li.
Apartment sales
The first sales contract closed on October 24, 2018, on a unit selling for $16.4 million. The first apartment in the Villas was sold the following year, in May 2019. The first listing for an apartment resale in the building occurred in January 2020, when Leibovitch listed his four-bedroom apartment for $36 million, a $10 million markup from the price at which he had purchased it. He subsequently lowered the price to $33 million, and the unit was sold at that price in September 2021.
220 Central Park South has had some of the most expensive residential real estate transactions in New York City's history. Griffin had agreed to purchase three floors in 2015 for $200 million, representing the city's costliest real estate purchase at the time. When Griffin finalized his purchase of a four-floor "mega condo" for $238 million in January 2019, it became the most expensive home ever sold in the United States, despite being valued at only $9.4 million. That December, an anonymous individual's $100 million purchase of a duplex atop the building became the third costliest residential purchase in New York City; the deal was finalized in July 2020. In June 2021, two full-floor units at floors 60 and 61 were sold for a combined $157.5 million to Joe Tsai, making it among the most expensive residential sales in New York City history; both units had increased significantly in price from 2020, when the units had traded for a combined $100 million. The popularity of 220 Central Park South, compared with other Billionaires' Row buildings, was attributed to the fact that it was the only Billionaires' Row development that was directly on Central Park. In January 2022, Joe Tsai bought Daniel Och's penthouse at floor 73 for $188 million, the second-most-expensive residential unit in the United States.
References
External links
Vornado website
Robert A.M. Stern Architects website
2010s in Manhattan
2019 establishments in New York City
59th Street (Manhattan)
Midtown Manhattan
New Classical architecture
Pencil towers in New York City
Residential buildings completed in 2019
Residential condominiums in New York City
Residential skyscrapers in Manhattan
Robert A. M. Stern buildings |
44504197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20W.%20Harwell | David W. Harwell | David W. Harwell was an associate justice and chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was sworn in as chief justice on December 19, 1991, with his term to commence upon the retirement of Chief Justice George Gregory, Jr. on January 1, 1992. He died on September 30, 2015.
References
Chief Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
1932 births
People from Florence County, South Carolina
2015 deaths
20th-century American judges |
44504212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvin%20Hunter | Malvin Hunter | Malvin Hunter (born November 20, 1969) is a former American and Canadian football linebacker and defensive end in the World League of American Football (WLAF) and Canadian Football League (CFL). He played in the WLAF for the San Antonio Riders and the CFL for the Edmonton Eskimos. He played college football at Wisconsin.
References
1969 births
Living people
People from Harvey, Illinois
Players of American football from Illinois
American football linebackers
American football defensive ends
Canadian football linebackers
Canadian football defensive linemen
Wisconsin Badgers football players
San Antonio Riders players
Edmonton Elks players |
17339863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram%20route%203%20%28Antwerp%29 | Tram route 3 (Antwerp) | The Antwerp premetro tram route 3 is a tram route connecting Merksem with Melsele in the city of Antwerp. The route is operated by the Flemish transport company De Lijn and historically also by its Antwerp predecessor, MIVA (Maatschappij Intercommunaal Vervoer Antwerpen).
History
Tram 3 is one of the oldest tram lines in Antwerp. The original electric tram route 3 was opened on October 9, 1902 on the Groenplaats - Antwerp South station (Zuidstatie) trajectory. A year later, the route was already extended from the Groenplaats to Antwerp Central Station (Middenstatie). In 1904, the route was once again extended, this time from Antwerp Central Station to the (now demolished) Schijnpoort gate in the Seefhoek neighborhood, via the Carnotstraat, Kerkstraat and Pothoekstraat. In 1906, works start on a third extension, from Schijnpoort to Oude Bareel in Merksem via the Bredabaan, and were finished later that year. Trams servicing the whole route until Oude Bareel used a mixed white/yellow rollsign, while those stopping at Schijnpoort used plain yellow signs.
In 1936, the trajectory of route 4 (Hoboken -Groenplaats) is coupled to route 3 at the request of the Antwerp city council, as a means to decongest the Groenplaats. After the Second World War, however, route 4 is restored in its original state, and route 3 once again runs between Antwerp South Station and Oude Bareel, with route 3 bis having its terminal at the Suikerrui near the Grote Markt.
On March 20, 1962, the first PCC cars are introduced on the route. In 1965, due to the construction of the Antwerp Ring road and the demolition of old Antwerp South Station, the route shortened to the nearby Lambermontplaats. In 1968, the old turning loop at the Raoul Grégroireplein is replaced by a new one at the Van Der Delftstraat at the Schijnpoort/Sportpaleis terminus. On October 5, 1970, route 3 is the last tram route in Antwerp to switch to a one-man steering system. At the same time, the tram cars were fitted with an automatic ticketing system. However, some conductors could still be seen on the trams in the following years, as some of the former conductors were unfit for the supplementary training to be employed elsewhere.
In 1972, works begins on the Antwerp premetro with the construction of a central axis between the Groenplaats and Antwerp Central Station. Due to these works, route 3 is shortened to the Grote Markt, where a temporary turning loop has been built. Also, a temporary shuttle tram route between the Groenplaats and Lambermontplaats is put into service during the works. As of 1973, route 3 no longer used its old trajectory over the Schoenmarkt, Meir and Keyserlei between the Groenplaats and Antwerp Central Station, as these streets were inaccessible due to the premetro works. Instead, the route used a more northern trajectory via the Gemeentestraat, Rooseveldtplaats, Lange Nieuwstraat and Kipdorp toward a new terminus at the Melkmarkt. In 1978, after the finishing of the premetro works, the shuttle route between the Lambermontplaats and Groenplaats is added to route 8, and route 3 is shortened to the Groenplaats.
Also, in 1975, works start on the Bredabaan on the construction of a separate tram lane between Oude Bareel and the Frans de l'Arbrelaan. Initially, it was planned that the buses of the NMVB, which operated the regional network, would also use this separate lane, which led to an increased with as the tram lane to offer the buses the necessary space. However, in 1978, the NMVB decided not to use the central tram lane, and to continue to use the old stops on the exterior lane. The bus routes on the Bredabaan would only much later use the tram stops on the central lane.
In 1994, work officially starts to finish the northern premetro axis running between Antwerp Central Station and the Sportpaleis. During the last weekend of March in 1996, traffic on the route is suspended to allow for the construction of the premetro entrance at the Gabriel Theunisbrug over the Albert Canal. On April 1, 1996, the northern premetro axis is officially opened and put into use by tram route 3, which can now use the underground trajectory instead of its original itinerary over the Pothoekstraat and Kerkstraat. From Astrid station near Antwerp Central Station, the route would use the central premetro axis toward the Groenplaats. Because of the construction of the metro tunnel link with Linkeroever some years earlier, the route was at the same time extended to the Linkeroever terminus, where a new platform was built to accommodate the line.
On February 16, 2002, route 3 was extended from Linkeroever to the Zwijndrecht-Melsele border, a 4,3 km trajectory, where a P+R facility was built. On September 1, 2002, the route was once again extended, this time on a 1,6 km trajectory toward the newly built Keizershoek P+R in Merksem.
Colour
This line's colour on maps is black text on a yellow background.
Route
(40 min, ) via Bredabaan (Merksem) - Frans de l'Arbrelaan - Burgemeester Gabriël Theunisbrug - premetro Northern branch (stations Sport, Schijnpoort, Handel, Elisabeth, Astrid) - premetro Western branch (stations Opera, Meir, Groenplaats, Van Eeden) - Blancefloerlaan - Verbrandendijk - Dorp Oost - (park) - Dorp West - Beversebaan - Park&Ridezone Melsele Kruispunt.
Rolling stock
Most trams on route 3 are of the newer HermeLijn type. The older PCC cars can only sporadically be seen on the route when an event at the Sportpaleis is taking place and extra capacity is needed to transport all the visitors.
Future
During the construction works concerning the elevation of the Gabriel Theunis bridge over the Albert Canal, tram traffic between Merksem and the Sportpaleis will not be possible. The elevation of the bridge to a height of is necessary to allow bigger ships on the canal, as a part of a general program to increase the share of water transport and lower that of road cargo transport in the congested Antwerp region. Works were originally planned to start in 2014, but due to delays only started in April 2019. Planning is now for the bridge to be delivered in April 2021.
In the distant future, the line might be extended to Beveren (to the west) and Brasschaat (to the north). However, the extension to Brasschaat in particular has been subject to considerable controversy, as fears exist among inhabitants that the town might lose it distinct atmosphere, and become too urbanized after the construction of a tramway. Concrete plans for the extension have been prepared, but, as many citizens and local politicians have ousted themselves against the construction of the tramway, including mayor Jan Jambon, its construction in the near future seems highly unlikely.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Belgium
References
External links
www.delijn.be, the operator of all public city transport in Antwerp and Flanders.
Tram transport in Belgium
3 |
17339871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valao | Valao | Valao 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 |
6907090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEW%20Hardcore%20Tag%20Team%20Championship | WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship | The FMW/WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship was a tag team hardcore wrestling championship contested in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling from April 2000 until FMW closed in February 2002. The title was picked up by Big Japan Pro Wrestling that same month, and remained in that promotion until late 2005, when it moved to Kaientai Dojo until 2016. There have been a total of 37 reigns and seven vacancies shared between 30 different teams consisting of 48 distinctive champions.
Title history
Combined reigns
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
!Rank
!Team
!No. ofreigns
!Combineddays
|-
!1
| Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi || 2 || 487
|-
!2
| Apple Miyuki and YOSHIYA || 3 || 412
|-
!3
| Yuji Hino and Saburo Inematsu || 1 || 368
|-
!4
| The Brahman Brothers || 2 || 345
|-
!5
| Nasu Banderas and Ricky Fuji || 1 || 344
|-
!6
| Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa || 1 || 282
|-
!7
| Magatsuki † || 1 || 228-258
|-
!8
| Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki || 2 || 212
|-
!9
| Kengo Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine || 2 || 211
|-
!10
| Ryuichi Sekine and Saburo Inematsu || 1 || 203
|-
!rowspan=2|11
| Hideki Hosaka and Mammoth Sasaki || 3 || 168
|-
| Kotaro Nasu and Ryuichi Sekine || 1 || 168
|-
!13
| Hido and YOSHIYA || 1 || 156
|-
!14
| Hardcore Kid Kojiro and YOSHIYA || 1 || 151
|-
!15
| Bambi and Makoto || 1 || 118
|-
!16
| Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh || 1 || 75
|-
!17
| Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki || 1 || 74
|-
!18
| Jun Kasai and The W*INGer || 1 || 72
|-
!19
| Saburo Inematsu and PSYCHO || 1 || 63
|-
!20
| GOEMON and Onryo || 1 || 47
|-
!21
| The Samoans || 1 || 37
|-
!22
| Taka Michinoku and TOMO Michinoku || 1 || 34
|-
!23
| Homeless Jimmy and Supreme || 1 || 33
|-
!24
| Ryuji Ito and Daisaku Shimoda || 1 || 30
|-
!25
| Mike Lee, Jr. and Mr. X || 1 || 28
|-
!26
| Kengo Mashimo and YOSHIYA || 1 || 25
|-
!27
| Boso Boy Raito and Boso Boy Left || 1 || 20
|-
!28
| Gedo and Jado || 1 || 19
|-
!29
| Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi || 1 || 7
|-
!30
| Randy Takuya and Saburo Inematsu || 1 || 4
|-
By wrestler
See also
Strongest-K Tag Team Championship
References
Hardcore wrestling championships
Tag team wrestling championships
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling championships
Big Japan Pro Wrestling championships
Active Advance Pro Wrestling championships |
6907098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Klein | David Klein | David Klein may refer to:
David Klein (American artist) (1918–2005), American artist
David Klein (businessman), American inventor of the Jelly Belly brand jelly bean
David Klein (chess player) (born 1993), Dutch chess grandmaster
David Klein (cinematographer) (born 1972), American cinematographer
David Klein (Constellation Brands), American businessman
David Klein (economist) (1935–2021), former governor of the Bank of Israel
David Klein (footballer) (born 1973), French soccer player
David Klein (mathematician) (born 1953), American professor of mathematics
Dave Klein (musician), American drummer
David Klein (ophthalmologist) (1908–1993), Swiss ophthalmologist
Dave Klein (punk musician) (born 1979), American bass guitarist |
23578376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar%20Saghiri | Akbar Saghiri | Akbar Saghiri (; born 27 June 1982) is an Iranian footballer who plays as a striker for Mes Rafsanjan in the Azadegan League.
Club career
He was one of the top scorers in Azadegan League for Petrochimi and moved to Persepolis in June 2009.
Club career statistics
External links
Persian League Profile
1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tehran
Iranian footballers
Association football forwards
Niroye Zamini players
Petrochimi Tabriz F.C. players
Persepolis F.C. players
Naft Tehran F.C. players
Machine Sazi F.C. players
Rah Ahan players
Nassaji Mazandaran players
Aluminium Hormozgan F.C. players
Sanat Naft Abadan F.C. players
Mes Rafsanjan players
Azadegan League players |
44504214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith%20in%20Strangers | Faith in Strangers | Faith in Strangers is the third studio album by English electronic musician Andy Stott. It was released on 18 November 2014 by Modern Love. The album received critical acclaim, and the title track "Faith in Strangers" was given Best New Track and placed at number 81 on Pitchfork's list of the 100 best tracks of 2014. As with Stott's previous album Luxury Problems, Faith in Strangers also incorporates vocals from his former piano teacher, Alison Skidmore.
Accolades
Track listing
Charts
References
2014 albums
Andy Stott albums
Modern Love Records albums |
6907099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Department%20of%20Justice%20Justice%20Management%20Division | United States Department of Justice Justice Management Division | The Justice Management Division (JMD) is a division of the United States Department of Justice. It is the administrative arm of the Department of Justice. Its mission is to support some 40 senior management offices (SMOs), offices, bureaus, and divisions (collectively called components) of the DOJ. It was formerly called the Office of Management and Finance.
Organizational chart
Justice Management Division:Assistant Attorney General for Administration (AAG-A) (currently Lee J. Lofthus, appointed in December 2006; replaced Paul Corts, who left in the summer of 2006). The AAG-A reports to the Deputy Attorney General (DAG).
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Information Resource Management/Chief Information Officer(DAAG IRM/CIO) is Currently Melinda Rogers
Service Delivery Staff
Cybersecurity Services Staff
Policy and Planning Staff
Deputy Assistant Attorney General/Controller
Budget Staff
Finance Staff
Strategic Planning and Performance Staff
Debt Collection Management Staff
Asset Forfeiture Management Staff
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Human Resources and Administration (DAAG/HRA)
Human Resources Staff
Equal Employment Opportunity Staff
Security and Emergency Planning Staff
Library Staff
Consolidated Executive Office
Departmental Executive Secretariat
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Policy, Management and Procurement
Internal Review and Evaluation Office
Office of General Counsel
Facilities and Administrative Services Staff
Departmental Ethics Office
Procurement Services Staff
Office of Records Management Policy
Office of Acquisition Management
References
External links
Justice Management Division |
17339873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Bird%20%28company%29 | Yellow Bird (company) | Yellow Bird is a Swedish film and television production company. In 2003 Danish producer Ole Søndberg and Swedish author Henning Mankell started a collaboration on a series of television films based on Mankell’s famous fictional detective Kurt Wallander and Yellow Bird was born. The success of the initial Wallander films was followed by Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters, Liza Marklund’s Annika Bengtzon series as well as the British version of Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh.
Yellow Bird was sold to media conglomerate Zodiak Entertainment in 2007.
Productions
Tjuvarnas jul - Trollkarlens hemlighet
In this feature film adventure, with characters from the popular advent calendar "Tjuvarnas jul", the foundling Charlie meets a mysterious wizard at the carnival. He reveals to her a world of magic and entertainment. The leading roles are played by Tea Stjärne, Gustaf Hammarsten and Elisabet Carlsson. Gustaf Skarsgård plays the role of the Wizzard.
Shooting occurred during autumn/winter 2013 with the premiere in autumn 2014.
Echoes from the Dead
A feature film released in 2013 and based on the debut novel by Johan Theorin. Its premise: Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years ago on the Swedish island of Öland. No trace of him has ever been found. Lead roles are played by Lena Endre, Tord Peterson and Thomas W Gabrielsson.
Headhunters
Headhunters is a feature film released in 2011 and based on the novel by Jo Nesbø. It is a dark comic thriller centered on a corporate headhunter whose life and marriage are suddenly threatened and turned upside-down when he himself becomes hunted by an unknown individual. The lead roles are played by Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Synnøve Macody Lund.
Wallander
From 2005 to 2006 13 new stories starring Krister Henriksson as Kurt Wallander were produced. The first film is based on the Linda Wallander novel Before the Frost and was released in cinemas. The rest of the films are original stories based on plots written by Mankell with scriptwriting completed by others. Two more were theatrical releases and the rest were released on DVD and shown on TV.
In 2008, a further 13 films were commissioned. Filming began in August 2008, and filming will continue, and releases begin, in 2009.
The first of these films, Hämnden (The Revenge), was a theatrical release on 9 January 2009, directed by award-winning Paris-based Franco-Swedish director Charlotte Brändström. The remaining 12 films will be released on DVD and then be broadcast on TV4 at a later date.
After filming is completed on the 2009 series, Henriksson will not play Wallander again, having only signed the new contract because he thought the 2005 series could have been better.
As a series, Mankell's Wallander has been nominated for The International TV Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards, an awards ceremony presented by British television channel ITV3 and the Crime Writers' Association.
Yellow Bird recently co-produced two English-language Wallander series, starring Kenneth Branagh as Wallander, with the British broadcaster, the BBC. Series 1 premiered in the UK in November 2008 and series 2 aired in January 2010.
The first series won several BAFTAs. Branagh’s portrayal won him the award for best actor at the 35th Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Awards (2009).
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has nominated Branagh for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for his performance in One Step Behind.
Stieg Larsson's Millennium books
Yellow Bird produced three films based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. The Millennium books were originally intended to be released as one motion picture and two television mini-series, but popular demand and pressure from the Swedish Film Institute, one of the main financiers behind the films, altered the original plans. The Millennium films have been sold to most European and many Latin American markets. The films also had a US release.
Yellow Bird executive producer Sören Staermose confirmed in an interview with Swedish newspaper Expressen that negotiations are taking place to produce English language Millennium films. This would not be a US remake of the Swedish films but rather new Hollywood films based on the books. In the interview he states that the possible US films might be produced in a similar way as the Wallander TV series starring Kenneth Branagh, shooting in Sweden using English speaking actors. He also states that it is up to the director and says that the story could just as well take place in another country, like Canada.
On December 16, 2009 Svenska Dagbladet reported that Sony Pictures Entertainment was in negotiations with Yellow Bird about the film rights according to Yellow Bird Managing Director Mikael Wallén. Steve Zaillian was in discussions to adapt the first book.
Liza Marklund's Annika Bengtzon series
The company acquired film rights to six of best-selling author Liza Marklund's books featuring the criminal reporter Annika Bengtzon. Plans to produce movies for the Scandinavian and international markets were underway for each of the six titles: Studio Sex, Prime Time, The Red Wolf, Nobel’s Last Will, Lifetime and A Place in the Sun.
Marklund’s Annika Bengtzon series has a following all over the world. The eight books have sold more than nine million copies internationally and have been translated into 30 languages. Liza Marklund is currently working on the ninth book in the series.
Filming was expected to start at the end of 2010 with an estimated budget of approximately SEK 100 million.
Other projects
Yellow Bird has also produced six TV movies about criminal inspector Irene Huss, based on the books by Helene Tursten.
In March 2009 the company acquired the film rights for Norwegian crime writer Anne Holt's books about inspector Yngvar Stubø and Inger Johanne Vik – a psychologist and lawyer with a previous career in the FBI.
In April 2009 the company announced they optioned film rights for Norwegian author Jo Nesbø's most recent novel Headhunters.
The company purchased the rights to Blekingegadeligan, the bestselling book by Danish journalist Peter Øvig Knudsen about The Blekinge Street Gang, a group of about a dozen communist political activists who during the 1970s and 80s committed a number of highly professional robberies in Denmark and sent the money to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The series consists of 8 episodes and was shown on Danish channel DR1 in 2011.
International divisions
Germany
Yellow Bird produced a 2x90 German TV series based on the Henning Mankell novel Kennedy's Brain. The series is made for broadcaster ARD. The leading role is played by German actress Iris Berben. The series also stars Swedish actors Michael Nyqvist and Rolf Lassgård.
In October 2008, Yellow Bird launched "Yellow Bird Pictures", a subsidiary based in Munich, Germany. The start up is a joint venture between Yellow Bird and producer Oliver Schündler. Yellow Bird Pictures will focus on feature films and TV fiction for the German-speaking market. Initial productions will be based on rights that Yellow Bird already controls.
The German subsidiary adapted Henning Mankell's novel The Chinaman.
United Kingdom
In October 2017, Banijay Group (the current parent company of Yellow Bird as a result of acquiring the company's former parent Zodiak Media in February 2016) launched a British counterpart to Yellow Bird named Yellow Bird UK. Yellow Bird UK will focus on developing and creating original ideas with international appeal and a Nordic noir look and feel for British audiences, working with all broadcasters and platforms. Based in central London alongside fellow sister companies BlackLight and Fearless Minds, it will have close ties to the Swedish Yellow Bird.
In December 2019, Netflix announced that Yellow Bird UK would produce an as-yet untitled series on the origin story of music-streaming service Spotify.
United States
On 10 October 2018 (a year after the British division was launched), Yellow Bird teamed up with its fellow American sister company Bunim/Murray Productions to form Yellow Bird US, an American production joint venture based in Bunim/Murray's Los Angeles offices.
In February 2020, Yellow Bird US announced it would adapt Krystal Sutherland's novel A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares into a TV series.
Notes and references
External links
Official website
Film production companies of Sweden
Film production companies of Germany
Film production companies of the United States
2008 establishments in Germany
Television production companies of Sweden
Television production companies of the United States
Companies based in Stockholm
Companies based in Los Angeles
Swedish companies established in 2003
Entertainment companies established in 2003
Banijay |
6907109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawar | Nawar | Nawwar or Nawar may refer to:
Nawar people, a Dom ethnic minority in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
Nawar Valley, a town in Himachal Pradesh, India
Nawar, a character from the Quest for Glory series of computer games
An acronym used in e-readiness that stands for "networking, applications, web-accessibility and readiness"
The name of the territory of the kingdom of Urkesh |
23578390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiomano | Leiomano | The leiomano is a shark-toothed club used by various Polynesian cultures, but mostly by the native Hawaiians.
Leiomano is a word in the Hawaiian language and may have been derived from lei o manō, which means "a shark's lei."
The weapon resembles a thick ping-pong paddle inset with shark teeth. The tiger shark is the preferred source. These teeth are placed into grooves in the club and sewn into place. The tip of the handle also may utilize a marlin bill as a dagger. The weapon functions as a bladed club similar to the obsidian-studded macuahuitl of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
North America
A culturally unrelated weapon of similar form was discovered in pieces at Cahokia, Illinois, in 1948 by Gregory Perino. Greatly damaged by a plow, the weapon was composed of eight chert imitation shark teeth, and tipped with five actual shark teeth. In both cases, the teeth were related to the great white.
References
Clubs (weapon)
Hawaii culture
Polynesian culture |
20480987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochstetter%20Bay | Hochstetter Bay | Hochstetter Bay () is a broad bay in northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area.
The name is said to have been in use from 1929 by Danish hunters, and first appeared on the maps of the 1932 Gefion Expedition.
Geography
This bay is located between Hochstetter Foreland and Shannon Island to the north, Kuhn Island to the west, and Wollaston Foreland and the Pendulum Islands to the south. To the east, the bay opens to the Greenland Sea. Ardencaple Fjord and Grandjean Fjord have their mouths in the northwestern area of the bay, and Lindeman Fjord and Albrecht Bay in the southwestern.
References
Bays of Greenland |
44504227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus%20calcicola | Narcissus calcicola | Narcissus calcicola is a species of narcissus (daffodils) in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is classified in Section Apodanthi. It is endemic to Portugal.
Description
Narcissus calcicola is a bulbous plant.
Distribution and Habitat
Narcissus calcicola is endemic to Portugal and is found primarily in crevices of limestone outcrops and less frequently in rocky clearings, on the edge of holm oak groves or even under forest cover. Its range includes Serra de Sicó, Serras de Aire e Candeeiros, Serra de Montejunto, Serra da Arrábida and the Algarvian Barrocal.
References
calcicola
Garden plants
Flora of Portugal
Endemic flora of Portugal
Endemic flora of the Iberian Peninsula |
17339880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachao | Wachao | Wachao 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 |
17339883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Cooley | Scott Cooley | Scott Cooley (1845 – June 1876) was an Old West Texas Ranger and later outlaw, best known for his association with gunman Johnny Ringo.
Biography
Cooley was born in Texas, and was unofficially adopted as a boy and raised by rancher Tim Williamson. As a child, Tim Williamson and his wife nursed Cooley through a serious illness when he contracted typhoid, and Cooley treated the couple with the utmost respect. He joined the Texas Rangers as a young man. He was well respected as a lawman, and even feared due to his relentless pursuit of outlaws. However, on May 13, 1875, Tim Williamson was falsely arrested in Mason County, Texas for cattle rustling by Deputy Sheriff John Worley (sometimes spelled John Worhle). While Williamson was being escorted to jail by Worley, an angry mob of German cattle ranchers jerked him aside and shot him to death. This event marked the beginning of what would be called the Mason County War, known also as the "Hoodoo War".
When Cooley received the news at the Texas Ranger camp where his Ranger Company was based, he broke into uncontrollable crying, which quickly turned to anger. Cooley blamed Worley for Williamson's death, believing that he was in cahoots with the Germans, as Worley was of German descent. However, he waited for indictments to be passed down from the court against those responsible for Williamson's death, but when none came, he took matters into his own hands. Cooley went to Worley's home, where Worley was working on his well with a helper. Cooley shot and killed Worley on sight. He then scalped him, and displayed the scalp as a prize to the Germans. Cooley then killed German cattleman Charley Bader. By that time gunman Johnny Ringo had joined Cooley, along with several others. Two of Ringo's friends, Moses Baird and George Gladden, were ambushed shortly thereafter by a posse led by Sheriff John Clark, during which Baird was killed and Gladden seriously wounded. That posse included Peter Bader, brother to Cooley's second victim, Carl Bader.
Johnny Ringo and a friend named Bill Williams rode boldly into Mason, Texas on September 25, 1875, riding up in front of the house of James Cheyney, the man who led Gladden and Baird into the ambush. As Cheyney came out, both Ringo and Williams shot and killed him. The two then rode to the house of Dave Doole, and called him outside, but when he came out with a gun, they fled back into town. Four days later, Scott Cooley and John Baird, brother to Moses Baird, then killed German cowboy Daniel Hoerster, and wounded Germans Peter Jordan and Henry Plueneke. The German cattlemen then retaliated, hanging two men they suspected had assisted Cooley. The next day Texas Rangers arrived, finding the town in chaos, and Cooley and his faction gone. Major John B. Jones of the Texas Rangers dispatched three parties to pursue Cooley and his followers. The next day local Sheriff John Clark dispatched a posse of deputies to arrest Bill Coke, suspected of assisting Cooley. Coke was located and arrested, but allegedly "escaped" while on the way to town. Coke was never seen again, and it is suspected that the posse executed him. Charley Johnson, a friend to Bill Coke, then appeared in town looking for blacksmith William Miller, who had been a member of the posse that arrested Coke. He found Miller at his workplace, and shot him down. Badly wounded, Miller was saved only by his wife running outside and throwing herself toward him, at which point Johnson simply walked away.
By this time, killings were almost random. There was no local law enforcement to speak of, as the sheriff was obviously supporting the German cattlemen, and no arrests had been made against either side short of the arrest of Bill Coke. The Texas Rangers were also doing little to help matters, as many were friends to Scott Cooley. Frustrated, Major Jones asked that if any of them felt they could not perform their duty by pursuing Cooley, they should step forward. Fifteen of them did so, willing to accept discharges rather than to pursue Cooley. The Texas Governors office was by this time receiving letters in support of Cooley, stating the local sheriff was in support of the German cattlemen, which was filtering down on Major Jones, prompting him to act swiftly.
At the end of December, 1875, Cooley and Ringo were arrested by Sheriff A. J. Strickland for threatening the life of Burnet County, Texas Deputy Sheriff John J. Strickland. They later escaped from the Lampasas County, Texas jail, with the help of friends, but their arrests essentially stopped the violence. Cooley later escaped a posse near the Llano River, fleeing into Blanco County, Texas, and was never officially seen again. He is believed to have either been wounded by that posse and died shortly thereafter, or to have died due to what was referred to as "brain fever" shortly thereafter. He is believed to have been hiding out at the Nimitz Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas at the time. However, neither of the reported death scenarios has ever been confirmed.
References
External links
Scott Cooley
Johnny Ringo and the Mason County War
The Mason County War
Members of the Texas Ranger Division
Gunslingers of the American Old West
1845 births
1876 deaths
People from Mason County, Texas |
Subsets and Splits
No saved queries yet
Save your SQL queries to embed, download, and access them later. Queries will appear here once saved.