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26719132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Fletcher%20%28American%20author%29 | Susan Fletcher (American author) | Susan Fletcher (born May 28, 1951) is an American writer of fiction, primarily speculative fiction for children or young adults. She was born in Pasadena, California and has worked from Wilsonville, Oregon.
Her first book was Dragon's Milk, a fantasy novel from Jean Karl Books at Atheneum in 1989. Three more Dragon Chronicles have followed, the latest in 2010.
Works
Dragon Chronicles (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1989–2010)
Dragon's Milk (1989)
Flight of the Dragon Kyn (1993)
Sign of the Dove (1996)
Ancient, Strange, and Lovely (2010)
The Stuttgart Nanny Mafia (Atheneum, 1991)
Shadow Spinner (1998), illus. Dave Kramer, "re-telling of Shahrazad and the Tales of the Arabian Nights"
Walk Across the Sea (2001)
Alphabet of Dreams (2006)
Dadblamed, Union Army Cow (Candlewick, 2007), picture book illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root
Falcon in the Glass (2013)
Shadow Spinner, Alphabet of Dreams, and Dragon's Milk have been published in German-language editions since 2002.
References
External links
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American children's writers
American fantasy writers
American women novelists
1951 births
Living people
Writers from Pasadena, California
American women children's writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers |
26719169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Fletcher | Susan Fletcher | Susan Fletcher may refer to:
Susan Fletcher (American author) (born 1951)
Susan Fletcher (British author) (born 1979) |
26719211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbamma | Subbamma | Subbamma is an Indian name of feminine nature.
B. V. Subbamma was an indigenous scholar, Indian theologian.
Santha Kumari, birth name Vellaala Subbamma is an Indian musical artist and film actress. |
20482007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland%20Dreadnought | Westland Dreadnought | The Westland Dreadnought was an experimental single-engined fixed-wing monoplane design for a mail plane created to test the aerodynamic wing and fuselage design ideas of Woyevodsky. It was designed and built by British aircraft manufacturer Westland Aircraft for the Air Ministry. Only a single aircraft was built and it crashed on its initial flight, badly injuring the test pilot.
Design and development
The Dreadnought was distinct for its futuristic design and method of construction, based on the theories of the Russian inventor N. Woyevodsky. After preliminary tests of the idea were tried in a wind tunnel and met with some degree of success, the design was given to Westland Aircraft to construct an aircraft. The design at the time was for a 70 ft wingspan twin-engine aircraft. The design was aerodynamically advanced, featuring a continuous aerofoil section over all parts of the aircraft, including the fuselage and unusually for British aircraft at that time, had no form of wing bracing. Construction was all-metal, comprising drawn channeling with a skin of corrugated sheet panels. The method may be compared to the modern stressed skin construction. Although conceived as a twin-engined type with retractable undercarriage, the design that emerged was fitted with a 450-horsepower Napier Lion II 12 cylinder engine that allowed the Dreadnought speeds of up to 102 miles per hour and fixed undercarriage.
Operational history
On completion of the Dreadnought, the pilot Arthur Keep carried out taxi trials and short airborne hops. On 9 May 1924, he took off for its first flight test. The aircraft was initially stable, it soon became clear that Keep was losing control and not long after, at a height of about , the Dreadnought stalled and crashed. Thrown from the aircraft, Keep suffered severe injuries and later had both legs amputated. He remained with the company and did not retire until 1935. After this failure, the Dreadnought design was abandoned, although the ideas that were conceived and used in its making were visibly an advancement in aircraft and are appreciated as such in the present day.
Specifications
See also
Junkers – earlier pioneer of several all-metal monoplane types with corrugated skin.
McDonnell XP-67 Bat – a later design with all-aerofoil profiles.
Stout Batwing Limousine
References
Notes
Bibliography
James, Derek N. Westland Aircraft since 1915. London: Putnam, 1991. .
Lukins, A.H. The Book of Westland Aircraft. Leicester, UK: Harborough, 1944.
Mondey, David. Westland: 2 Westland. London: Jane's, 1982. p. 17.
External links
A Chance Which Westland Missed Flight 1965
1920s British experimental aircraft
Dreadnought
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1924 |
23579257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futamatao%20Station | Futamatao Station | is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōme, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Futamatao Station is served by the Ōme Line, and is located 23.6 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
This station consists of a single island platform serving two tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
The station opened 1 January 1920 as part of the . The Ome Electric Railway was nationalized on 1 April 1944, and absorbed into the Japanese National Railways (JNR). With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 475 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
Tama River
Yoshikawa Eiji Memorial Museum
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Railway stations in Tokyo
Ōme Line
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1920
Ōme, Tokyo |
20482012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Is... | Art Is... | Art Is... is a 1971 American short documentary film directed by Julian Krainin. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
See also
List of American films of 1971
References
External links
1971 films
1971 documentary films
1971 short films
American short documentary films
American independent films
English-language films
1970s short documentary films
1971 independent films |
17341573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling%20at%20the%201920%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20Greco-Roman%20heavyweight | Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight | The men's Greco-Roman heavyweight was a Greco-Roman wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third appearance of the event. Heavyweight was the heaviest category, including wrestlers weighing over 82.5 kilograms.
A total of 19 wrestlers from 12 nations competed in the event, which was held from August 17 to August 20, 1920.
Results
Gold medal round
Silver medal round
Bronze medal round
References
External links
Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Greco-Roman wrestling |
23579265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikusabata%20Station | Ikusabata Station | is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōme, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Ikusabata Station is served by the Ōme Line, located 24.5 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
The station has one side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended.
Platform
History
The station opened on 1 September 1929. It was nationalized on 1 April 1944. It became part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) with the breakup of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 238 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
Tama River
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
JR East Station information (JR East)
Railway stations in Tokyo
Ōme Line
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1929
Ōme, Tokyo |
17341589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Tillinghast%20House | Charles Tillinghast House | The Charles Tillinghast House was an historic house at 243-245 Thames Street in downtown Newport, Rhode Island. It was a -story timber-frame structure, with a side-gable roof. Built c. 1710–20, it was one of the oldest buildings in the city. It was probably built by Charles Tillinghast, whose family was among the founders of Rhode Island. The house had a distinctive cove-shaped plaster cornice, typically only found on houses of this period. It was one of the first houses to be built on Thames Street.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It was demolished shortly thereafter to make way for an extension of America's Cup Highway to Memorial Boulevard.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island |
26719404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance%20Naval%20and%20Engineering%20Limited | Reliance Naval and Engineering Limited | Reliance Naval and Engineering Limited (R-Naval), formerly known as Reliance Defence & Engineering Limited and prior to that as Pipavav Shipyard Limited and Pipavav Defence & Offshore Engineering Company Limited is an Indian shipbuilding and heavy industry company headquartered in Mumbai. The shipyard is located in Pipavav, Gujarat, at a distance of 90 km South of Amreli, 15 km South of Rajula and 140 km South West of Bhavnagar. R-Naval is the first private sector company in India to obtain a license and contract to build warships.
Reliance Naval and Engineering Limited is under Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process as per the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code w.e.f. January 15, 2020. Its affairs, business and assets are being managed by Mr. Sudip Bhattacharya, Resolution Professional, appointed by NCLT Ahmadabad bench by order dated May 05, 2020.
History
Pipavav Shipyard was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of SKIL Infrastructure in 1997 at Pipavav, Gujarat. In 2005, with funding from major Indian financial institutions, the company was spun off and registered as Pipavav Shipyard Limited. Pipavav Shipyard Limited raised additional financing from a number of private equity investors in 2007. The company went public in 2009 with listings on the BSE and the NSE.
Pipavav Shipyard is the first corporate shipyard to be granted clearance to build warships and other vessels for the Indian Navy, though the initial licence limits this to up to 5 ships per year.
On March 26, 2015, the Company successfully implemented debt restructuring by raising additional debt of INR 5,500 crore resulting in total debt line in excess of INR 12,000 crore (about US$2 billion). The Company has a market capitalisation ranging between US$700 – 900 million and total enterprise value of USD 2.7 to 2.9 billion.
17.66 per cent of Pipavav was acquired by Reliance Infrastructure Limited on 5 March 2015 in a US$130 mln deal. Subsequently, Reliance Infrastructure launched an open offer to acquire additional shares to control 25.1 per cent of the Company. The open offer has been completed and Reliance Infrastructure now holds 36.5% equity in Pipavav and Anil Ambani has been appointed as the Chairman. The company was renamed to Reliance Defence and Engineering on 3 March 2016 and again renamed to Reliance Naval and Engineering Limited on 6 September 2017.
Facilities
Pipavav Shipyard is spread over . It has access to over 720 meters of exclusive waterfront.
Its dry dock is 640m length and 65m breadth, It can accommodate ships up to 400,000 tonnes DWT. Two cranes with a span of 140 meters & height of 85 meters together capable of handling up to 1200 Ton block and two Level Luffing cranes are erected to service this dry dock. To facilitate afloat fit-out and commissioning of ships, including afloat repairs, a 300–meter long quay, with the capacity for berthing on both sides, adequate draft and serviced by a Level Luffing crane. The entrance of the dry dock also has a 100-meter extension track for the Goliath cranes for unloading heavy machinery and equipment weighing up to 1200 Tons directly from ships and heavy lift barges.
Approximately 4.5 kilometres away from the dry-dock, and located on 95 hectares of land in a Special Economic Zone approved by the Government of India, a block-making facility has been set up for fabrication of hull blocks. By having located the workshops and fabrication facilities in a SEZ away from the dockyard site, it is able to reserve the maximum area of water frontage available at the shipyard site for ship assembly, offshore fabrication and ship repair activities whilst carrying out its fabrication and other similar activities through a SEZ unit. The blocks manufactured at this site are pre-outfitted to the maximum extent. This is done in the ideal working conditions offered by covered fabrication shops. When ready, the blocks are moved to the dock-side for pre-erection of mega/giga-blocks followed by lowering them on the dock floor for final assembly and vessel launching.
Products
Shipbuilding: Bulk Carrier, Platform supply vessel, Barges, Naval ships
Offshore & Engineering: Jackup rigs
Heavy Engineering: Pressure vessels
Machinery: Gantry cranes
Repairs & Conversions: merchant vessels, Naval ships, Oil Platforms, conversion of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units into Mobile Offshore Production Platforms, conversion of Mobile Offshore Production Units into Mobile Offshore Drilling Units
Achievements and orders
From 2011, till January 2015 Pipavav Shipyard delivered 6 new build Panamax Ship of length 225 metres, 5 new build Offshore supply vessels of length 59 metres and 2 new build Barges. This shipyard has repaired and delivered 6 Jackup rigs of Gross Tonnage in between the range of 6000 to 12000 Tonnes, 1 Pipe Laying and Heavy lifting Accommodation Barge, 1 Offshore supply vessel and 1 Coast Guard Ship.
In June 2010, PSL was awarded a contract to build five offshore patrol vessels for the Indian Navy.
In July 2015, Pipavav shipyard was chosen for a 'Make in India' naval frigate order. The order value exceeds more than USD 3 bn. This order is being termed as the private sector's biggest-ever warship-building project.
On 13 February 2017, Reliance Defence and Engineering Limited (RDEL) has signed the Master Ship Repair Agreement (MSRA) with the US Navy to maintain the vessels of its Seventh Fleet operating in the region, with the company estimating revenues of about Rs 15,000 crore ($2 billion) over next 3 –5 years. The Seventh Fleet’s area of responsibility includes the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean and at any given time there are roughly 140 ships and submarines, 5070 aircraft and approximately 20,000 sailors under its command. Currently, these vessels visit Singapore or Japan for such works.
Joint Venture
On 12 September 2011, it was announced that Pipavav Shipyard entered a joint venture with Mazagon Dock Limited to collaborately build warships and submarines using Pipavav's facilities. The deal will free up the congested order book of Mazagon shipyard and will give Pipavav a much needed boost in defence shipbuilding.
In February, 2014, Pipavav announced a joint venture with Atlas Elektronik to build Heavy Weight Torpedoes.
See also
List of shipbuilders and shipyards
Shipbuilding
References
External links
Official site of Reliance Defence and Engineering Limited
Shipbuilding companies of India
Manufacturing companies based in Mumbai
Shipyards of India
Indian companies established in 1997
1997 establishments in Maharashtra
Reliance Group |
23579271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitake%20Station%20%28Tokyo%29 | Mitake Station (Tokyo) | is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōme, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is notable for the distinctive pagoda-style roof on the station building.
Lines
Mitake Station is served by the Ōme Line, located 27.2 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
The station has one island platform serving two tracks, connected to the station building by an underground passage. The station is unattended
Platforms
History
The station opened on 1 September 1929. It was nationalized on 1 April 1944. It became part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) with the breakup of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 683 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
Mount Mitake (Tokyo)
Tama River
former Ōme Kaidō highway
Bus routes
Toei Bus
梅76 - For Ōme Station (Runs on holidays only)
Nishi Tokyo Bus
Cable shita (Mitake Tozan Railway Takimoto Station is located near this bus stop)
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
JR East Station information (JR East)
Railway stations in Tokyo
Ōme Line
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1929
Ōme, Tokyo |
23579277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C8H18O | C8H18O | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C8H18O}}
The molecular formula C8H18O may refer to:
Di-tert-butyl ether
Dibutyl ether
2-Ethylhexanol
Octanols
1-Octanol
2-Octanol
3-Octanol
4-Octanol
3,5-dimethylhexan-3-ol
2,3,4-trimetilpentan-2-ol |
26719431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modhera | Modhera | Modhera is a village in Mehsana district of Gujarat, India. The town is well known for the Sun Temple of Chaulukya era. The town is located on the bank of Pushpavati river.
History
The town was known as Dharmaranya during Puranic age. It is believed that Rama had performed yagna here to cleanse the sin of killing Brahmin Ravana. He had built Modherak which was later known as Modhera. The Sun Temple was built during the reign of Bhima I of Chaulukya dynasty in 1026-1027 (Vikram Samvat 1083).
There is Gyaneshwari stepwell in village which belongs to 16-17th century. It has a shrine at the first pavilion of the stepwell instead of usual at the end.
Economy
Electricity
Modhera will become the first "solar village" of India. The village will meet its complete electricity requirements by 6 MW solar plant with 15 MWh battery energy storage system on land located from the village. Total 271 houses out of 1600 houses in the village installed rooftop solar systems. The project cost with half of it financed by the Government of Gujarat while other half by the Government of India.
See also
Modh
References
Villages in Mehsana district |
26719478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykhailo%20Yalovy | Mykhailo Yalovy | Mykhailo Yalovy () (5 June 1895 – 3 November 1937), also known under the his pen name pseudonym Yulian Shpol, was a Ukrainian communist poet-futurist, prose writer, playwright. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of the Executed Renaissance.
Brief biography
Early years and the Revolution
Yalovy was born in 1895 in the village of Dar-Nadezhda, Kostiantynhrad uyezd, in the Poltava Governorate (today Kharkiv Oblast), into the family of a volost scribe. He had two brothers Kostiantyn and Hryhoriy. His general education he obtained in Myrhorod gymnasium in 1916. After that he enrolled in the Medical Department of the Kiev University of Saint Vladimir. There he completely is dove into a revolutionary activity becoming a member of one of the most influential of that political lifetime party of socialist-revolutionaries (essery or SR).
Since the beginning of the February Revolution he returned to Kostiantynhrad (today Krasnohrad) where he headed a revolutionary committee. Later he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Kostiantynhrad Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies. After the left wing of essery split in 1918 as a separate party of Borotbists he became their one of the most distinct members. He took active participation in issuing of newspapers Borotba (Struggle) and Selianska bidnota (Poor peasantry) for the last of which he became a director. About at the same time he also works as a chief editor in the newspaper Peasant and Worker, the instructional-agitation locomotive of the Head of Central Executive Committee of Ukraine Hryhoriy Petrovsky.
He provides active underground work in Odessa and Kherson region. There he was organizing a fight against the German occupational forces and Hetman-followers. In 1919 as part of the Borotbist delegation he visited Halychyna.
Creative work and activism
In 1920 Yalovy enrolled into the CPU(b). For sometime he was located in Moscow as a representative of the Ukrainian government. In 1921 together with Mykahilo Symenko and Vasyl Aleshko created the Strike group of poet-futurists in Kharkiv. Together with Oleksa Slisarenko and Mykola Bazhan Yalovy became a member of Hart in 1925, later the same year with several members of Hart he creates VAPLITE becoming its president.
In 1926 Yalovy published an article Saint-Petersburg's kholuystvo (kholuystvo is a derogatory Russian word for ignorance) in the defense of the national Ukrainian culture that was triggered by another article of the Leningrad magazine Zhyzn isskustva (#14), Self-determination or chauvinism?. On 20 November 1926 he was dismissed, together with Mykola Khvyliovy, from the editorial collegiate o
f Chervony Shliakh by the order of the Politburo of Central Committee Communist Party of Ukraine (bilshovyks). Later him, Dosvitny, and Khvyliovy left VAPLITE in order to save the organization, but at the end it was forces to dissolve on its own.
Arrest and imprisonment
Mykhailo Yalovy was arrested on the night of 12–13 May 1933 during the search of his apartment by the agents of GPU Ukrainian SSR.
On 31 May 1933 he was excluded from the CPU(b) on the grounds that he had infiltrated its ranks with the aim of creating a counter-revolutionary fascist organization that had the goal of overthrowing the Soviet government. Yalovy was accused of spying for the Polish consulate, of Shumskizm, and of preparing to assassinate the first secretary of CPU(b) Pavel Postyshev (Kharkiv-city and oblast). He refused to acknowledge himself guilty of these crimes.
Yalovy was sentenced to 10 years in correctional-labor camps (ITL, part of GULAG).
Execution, burial and rehabilitation
A few years later, during the Great Purges, Yavlovy was summarily sentenced on 9 October 1937 at a session of the extrajudicial, special NKVD troika of the Leningrad Oblast to be shot at one of the killing field-burial grounds in Karelia. The execution, a bullet to the back of the head in front of a ready dug trench, took place a few weeks later on 3 November 1937 in Svirlag OGPU (Lodeynoye Pole).
New data indicate that Yavlovy's final resting place may be among the thousands shot and buried at Sandarmokh near Medvezhyegorsk.
After Stalin's death, Yavlovy and the many thousands of other victims condemned to die by the extrajudicial troikas were rehabilitated. On 19 June 1957, the conviction was annulled by the Military tribunal of Leningrad Military District (LVO) because there were no charges to answer.
See also
Chervony Shliakh
Works
Need to be chewed out. — 1920.
(Collection of poetry) Tops. — Kyiv—Moscow—Berlin: Golfshtrem, 1923.
(Comedy) Cathy's love, or construction propaganda. — Kharkiv, 1928.
-+** (Novel) Golden Fox-kits. — Kharkiv: Knyhospilka, 1929. (II ed. — Kharkiv: Knyhospilka, 1930.)
Selected works / Organization, foreword, footnotes, and commentaries of Oleksandr Ushlakov. — Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2007. ()
Bibliography
Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies (10 volumes) / Chief editor Volodymyr Kubiyovych. — Paris, New-York: Molode Zhyttia, 1954–1989.
Maystrenko, Ivan. History of my generation. Memoirs of a participant of revolutionary activities in Ukraine. — Edmonton, 1985.
Ushlakov, Oleksandr. Greetings, Yulian Shpol! («Драстуй, Юліане Шпол!») // Yulian Shpol. Selected works. — Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2007.
References
External links
Golden fox-kits at University of Toronto website
Biography at the website Ukrainian life in Sevastopol
Biography at the website Library of the Ukrainian literature
1895 births
1937 deaths
People from Sakhnovshchyna Raion
People from Poltava Governorate
Ukrainian communists
Ukrainian poets
Futurist writers
Great Purge victims from Ukraine
Soviet rehabilitations |
26719518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndiaFirst%20Life%20Insurance%20Company | IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company | IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company is a joint venture of India's public sector banks (Bank of Baroda (65%) and Union Bank of India (9%), and UK's financial and investment company, Legal & General (26%). The company has paid-up share capital of 663 crore.
It was incorporated in November 2009 and is headquartered in Mumbai. It recorded more than INR 2 billion in turnover in just four and a half months since the insurance company became operational.
Business model
IndiaFirst Life Insurance follows the "Bancassurance" (Bank Insurance Model) which uses the existing customer base of the promoter banks. As of December 2011, the company has more than 2800 employees.
Financials
The company ended FY20 with INR 3,360 crore worth of total premiums collected and AUM of Rs 14,723 crore. The company has had a CAGR of 40% in the last five years in Individual New Business APE, as compared to Life Insurance Industry growth of 12% CAGR during the same period. The life insurance company has reported a 25% growth in individual New Business (NB) Annual Premium Equivalent (APE) in Financial Year (FY) 2019-20. IndiaFirst Life grew at 5.2 times the private industry growth rate of 5% and at 4.0 times the overall industry growth rate of 6% (including LIC). For the month of March 2020, IndiaFirst Life ranked 10th in the private sector in Individual NB APE and ranked 12th in the private sector for FY 2020. It also observed a claim settlement ratio of 98.56%, supported over 13800 families and paid claims in excess of INR 346.82 crore. Paid group claims in excess of INR 1056.5 crores (includes PMJJBY).
Sale of stake
In June 2018, one of the original founders, Legal & General, sold its stake to private equity firm, Warburg Pincus for Rs 7.1 Billion. Other stakeholders include General Atlantic, Ergo International AG, Manulife Financial Corp, and Canadian billionaire, Prem Watsa’s Fairfax. Legal & General sold its stake as it was restructuring its business in the UK and the US markets. In November 2018, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority gave its in-principle approval to IndiaFirst Life Insurance for the stake sale from Legal & General to Warburg Pincus. In February 2019, another promoter, Andhra Bank, announced plans to sell its 30% stake for ₹ 9 Billion.
History
IndiaFirst Life Insurance was incorporated by Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank (now Union Bank of India), and Legal & General in 2009. Legal & General later sold its stake to Carmel Point Investment India Private Limited, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Mauritius and owned by private equity funds managed by Warburg Pincus LLC.
This company was the first one in the history of IndiaFirst Life Insurance, wherein a private equity fund has taken an interest in a life insurance company.
In April 2020, a merger took place between Andhra Bank with the Union Bank of India. It changed the shareholding pattern of IndiaFirst Life Insurance to Bank of Baroda (44%), Union Bank of India (30%) and Carmel Point Investments India Private Limited (26%).
Management
The MD & CEO of the company is R. M. Vishakha and Deputy CEO is Rushabh Gandhi.
Products
IndiaFirst Life offers a diverse series of 31 need-based products (), catering to varied customer segments, leveraging multiple distribution capabilities, and augmenting various investment options.
References
Life insurance companies of India
Bank of Baroda
Financial services companies established in 2009
Financial services companies based in Mumbai
Warburg Pincus companies
Indian companies established in 2009
2009 establishments in Maharashtra |
26719573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Smelczy%C5%84ski | Adam Smelczyński | Adam Smelczyński (14 September 1930 – 14 June 2021) was a Polish trap shooter who competed at six Olympics between 1956 and 1976, winning one silver medal in 1956. He was born in Częstochowa, Poland.
Along with Bill McMillan, he was the second shooter to compete at six Olympics, after Frans Lafortune (the Theofilakis brothers Alexandros and Ioannis competed at six Olympics only if the unofficial 1906 Games are counted). He came third in trap shooting at the World Championships in 1967. He won the European trap shooting championships in 1972 and 1976, and came third in 1974 and 1975.
See also
List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
References
External links
1930 births
2021 deaths
Polish male sport shooters
Trap and double trap shooters
Shooters at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic shooters of Poland
Olympic silver medalists for Poland
Sportspeople from Częstochowa
Sportspeople from Silesian Voivodeship
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in shooting |
26719620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewang%20dance | Sewang dance | Sewang is a traditional dance performed by the aboriginal Orang Asli people of Malaysia. Originally the dance was performed for funeral, for thanksgiving, or to treat the sick or wounded, and now it is also used to entertain foreign travelers. It involves dancing in a circle to music produced from bamboo.
References
Orang Asli
Malaysian culture |
6908822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Michell%20%28writer%29 | John Michell (writer) | John Frederick Carden Michell (9 February 1933 – 24 April 2009) was an English author and esotericist who was a prominent figure in the development of the Earth mysteries movement. Over the course of his life he published over forty books on an array of different subjects, being a proponent of the Traditionalist school of esoteric thought.
Born in London to a wealthy family, Michell was educated at Cheam School and Eton College before serving as a Russian translator in the Royal Navy for two years. After failing a degree in Russian and German at Trinity College, Cambridge, he returned to London and worked for his father's property business, there developing his interest in Ufology.
Embracing the counter-cultural ideas of the Earth mysteries movement during the 1960s, in The Flying Saucer Vision he built on Alfred Watkins' ideas of ley lines by arguing that they represented linear marks created in prehistory to guide extraterrestrial spacecraft. He followed this with his most influential work, The View Over Atlantis, in 1969. His ideas were at odds with those of academic archaeologists, for whom he expressed contempt.
Michell believed in the existence of an ancient spiritual tradition that connected humanity to divinity, but which had been lost as a result of modernity. He believed however that this tradition would be revived and that humanity would enter a Golden Age, with Britain as the centre of this transformation.
Michell's other publications covered an eclectic range of topics, and included an overview on the Shakespeare authorship question, a tract condemning Salman Rushdie during The Satanic Verses controversy, and a book of Adolf Hitler's quotations. Keenly interested in the crop circle phenomenon, he co-founded a magazine devoted to the subject, The Cereologist, in 1990, and served as its initial editor. From 1992 until his death he wrote a column for The Oldie magazine, which was largely devoted to his anti-modernist opinions. He accompanied this with a column on esoteric topics for the Daily Mirror tabloid.
A lifelong marijuana smoker, Michell died of lung cancer in 2009.
Michell's impact in the Earth mysteries movement was considerable, and through it he also influenced the British Pagan movement. During the 2000s, his ideas also proved an influence on the Radical Traditionalist sector of the New Right.
Biography
Early life
John Frederick Carden Michell was born in London on 9 February 1933. His father, Alfred Henry Michell, was of Cornish & Welsh descent and worked as a property dealer in the capital, while his mother Enid Evelyn (née Carden) was the daughter of Major Sir Frederick Carden, 3rd Baronet, great-granddaughter of Sir Robert Carden, 1st Baronet, who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1857, and 3x great-granddaughter of John Walter, founder of The Times. The eldest of three children, Michell's siblings were named Charles and Clare.
Michell was raised at Stargroves, his maternal grandfather's Victorian-era estate on the Berkshire Downs near to Newbury, and it was here that he developed a love of the countryside, learning about the local flora and fauna from a neighbouring naturalist. He was raised into the Anglican denomination of Christianity, although in later life rejected the religion.
Michell was initially educated as a boarder at the preparatory Cheam School, where he was Head Boy and excelled at the high jump. From there he went to study at Eton College, where he was a contemporary of Lord Moyne and Ian Cameron, the father of future Prime Minister David Cameron.
He spent his two years of national service in the Royal Navy, during which time he qualified as a Russian translator at the School of Slavonic Studies. He then went on to study Russian and German at Trinity College, Cambridge, although was unable to secure even a third-class degree. He then qualified as a chartered surveyor at a firm in Gloucestershire, before moving back to London to work for his father's property business. Commenting on this job, he later stated that it was "quite amusing, but of course I wasn't any good at it", with property speculators eroding much of his fortune.
In 1966 one of his properties, the basement of his own residence, became the base of the London Free School. The Black Power activist Michael X, having previously run a gambling club in the basement, had now become active in the organisation of the LFS and brought Michell into counter-culture activities. Michell began to offer courses in UFOs and ley lines.
In 1964, with Jocasta Innes, Michell fathered a son, Jason Goodwin, who also became a writer. The relationship with Innes did not last. Jason Goodwin did not meet his natural father until 1992, at the age of 28, at which point they became quite close.
Embracing the Earth Mysteries movement
Michell developed an interest in Ufology and Earth mysteries after attending a talk given by Jimmy Goddard at Kensington Central Library on the subject of "Leys and Orthonies" in November 1965. Michell's first publication on the subject of Ufology was the article "Flying Saucers", which appeared in the 30 January 1967 edition of the counter-cultural newspaper International Times. He proceeded to write a book on the subject, but lost the original manuscript after accidentally leaving it in a North London café, at which he had to rewrite it. The book eventually saw publication as The Flying Saucer Vision, published in 1967, when Michell was 35 years old.
The Flying Saucer Vision took the idea of Tony Wedd that ley lines – alleged trackways across the landscape whose existence was first argued by Alfred Watkins – represented markers for the flight of extraterrestrial spacecraft and built on it, arguing that early human society was aided by alien entities who were understood as gods, but that these extraterrestrials had abandoned humanity because of the latter's greed for material and technological development.
According to Lachman, at this time Michell took the view that "an imminent revelation of literally inconceivable scope" was at hand, and that the appearance of UFOs was linked to "the start of a new phase in our history". Many fans of Michell's work consider it to be "by far his most impressive book". In their social history of Ufology, David Clarke and Andy Roberts stated that Michell's work was "the catalyst and helmsman" for the growing interest in UFOs among the hippie sector of the counter-culture.
Subsequently, there was a shift in Michell's emphasis as he became increasingly interested in the landscapes in which he believed that ley lines could be found rather than the UFOs themselves. He wrote an article on "Lung Mei and the Dragon Paths of England" for a September 1967 issue of Image magazine, in which he compared British ley-lines to the Chinese mythological idea of lung mei lines, arguing that this was evidence of a widespread pre-Christian dragon cult in ancient Britain. He built on these ideas for The View Over Atlantis, a book which he privately published in 1969, with a republication following three years later. Believing this earth energy to be a real magnetic phenomenon arising naturally from the ground, Michell argued that an ancient religious-scientific elite had traveled the world constructing the lines and various megalithic monuments in order to channel this energy and direct it for the good of humanity. The tone of his work reflected "a fervent religious feeling", describing the existence of an ancient, universal, and true system of belief that was once spread across the ancient world but which had been lost through the degeneracy of subsequent generations. He added however that this ancient knowledge would be revived with the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, allowing for what Michell described as the "rediscovery of access to the divine will".
The Pagan studies scholar Amy Hale stated that The View Over Atlantis was "a smash countercultural success", while the historian Ronald Hutton described it as "almost the founding document of the modern earth mysteries movement". Fellow ley-hunter and later biographer Paul Screeton considered it to be a "groundbreaking" work which "re-enchanted the British landscape and empowered a generation to seek out and appreciate the spiritual dimension of the countryside, not least attracting them to reawaken the sleepy town of Glastonbury".
The book inspired an array of Earth Mysteries publications in the 1970s and 1980s, accompanied by growth in the ley-hunting movement. Among the most prominent works to build on Michell's ideas during this period were Janet and Colin Bord's Mysterious Britain, which used them in its presentation of a gazetteer of ancient sites, and Paul Screeton's Quicksilver Heritage, which argued that the Neolithic had been a time devoted to spiritual endeavours which had been corrupted by the emergence of metal technologies. Michell associated with many individuals active in this ley-hunting community, and in July 1971 was one of many attendees at a ley-hunters picnic held at Risbury Camp, the largest outdoor gathering of the movement since 1939.
In May 1969 Michell established a group known as the Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation (RILKO) with his friends Keith Critchlow and Mary Williams. In conjunction with the Garnstone Press, RILKO founded the Prehistory and Ancient Science Library, a book series that brought out reprints of older works, such as Watkins' The Old Straight Track and William Stirling's The Canon, both of which contained forewords by Michell. Michell also founded a small publishing company of his own, West Country Editions, through which he brought out his own A Little History of Bladud in 1973 as well as a reprint of Howard C. Levis's 1919 book Bladud of Bath. With his friend John "Peewee" Michael, who lived in Bristol, Michell also established a second small press, Pentacle Books, although it failed to become a commercial success and was short lived.
Michell was involved in the summer 1971 Glastonbury Fayre music festival near Pilton, Somerset, where the pyramid stage was built to Michell's specifications and situated at what he claimed were the apex of two ley lines. Through Michael Rainey, Michell was introduced to the members of rock band The Rolling Stones at the Courtfield Road home of band member Brian Jones. Michell befriended the band's lead singer, Mick Jagger, and he accompanied the band on a visit to Stonehenge. Michell then went on a visit to Woolhope in Herefordshire with Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg, Christopher Gibbs, and the filmmaker Kenneth Anger, where they hunted for ley lines and UFOs. Marianne Faithfull later recounted that band member Jones was particularly interested in Michell's ideas. He would later meet with the members of The Grateful Dead on their 1972 European tour; band members Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia expressed an interest in Michell's Earth Mysteries ideas.
Michell's impact on the hippie subculture was recognised by mainstream media, and he was invited to submit an article titled "Flying saucers" to The Listener in May 1968, which was accompanied by a critical piece by editor Karl Miller, in which Michell was described as "less a hippy, perhaps, than a hippy's counsellor, one of their junior Merlins."
Hale noted that Michell promoted the idea of "England as a site of spiritual redemption in the New Age", bringing together "popular ideas about sacred geometry, Druids, sacred landscapes, earth energies, Atlantis, and UFOs".
In 1972 Michell published a sequel to The View Over Atlantis as City of Revelation. Shortly after publication he stated that he had written the work in "almost two years of near total solitude and intense study in Bath." This work was more complex than its predecessor, including chapters on sacred geometry, numerology, gematria, and the esoteric concept of the New Jerusalem, and required an understanding of mathematics and Classics to follow its arguments.
Bob Rickard, founding editor of Fortean Times, has written that Michell's first three works "provided a synthesis of and a context for all the other weirdness of the era. It’s fair to say that it played a big part in the foundation of Fortean Times itself by helping create a readership that wanted more things to think about and a place to discuss them. The overall effect was to help the burgeoning interest in strange phenomena spread out into mainstream culture."
Challenging academic archaeology
The work of Michell and others in the ley-hunting and Earth mysteries communities were rejected by the professional archaeological establishment, with the prominent British archaeologist Glyn Daniel denouncing what he perceived as the "lunatic fringe". In turn, Michell was hostile to professional and academic archaeologists, accusing them of "treasure hunting and grave robbery" and viewing them as representations of what he interpreted as the evils of modernity. In response to the academic archaeological community's refusal to take the idea of ley lines seriously, in 1970 Michell offered a challenge for professional archaeologists to disprove his ideas regarding the West Peninsula leys. He stated that were he to be proved wrong then he would donate a large sum to charity, but at the time no one took up his offer.
However, in 1983 his case study was analysed by two archaeologists, Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy, as part of their work Ley Lines in Question, a critical analysis of the evidence for ley-lines. They highlighted that Michell had erroneously included medieval crosses and natural features under his definition of late prehistoric monuments, and that arguments for ley-lines more widely could not be sustained. The impact of their work on the ley-hunting community was substantial, with one section moving in a more fully religious direction by declaring that leys could only be detected by intuition, and the other renouncing a ley line belief in favour of a more ethnographically-rooted analysis of linear connections in the landscape. Responding to their work, Michell said that "I just feel sorry for Williamson and Bellamy that the most exciting thing they can find to do with their youth is to discredit the ley vision."
In 1983 Michell published an altered version of his best known work as The New View Over Atlantis.
Ioan Culianu, a specialist in gnosticism and Renaissance esoteric studies, in a review in 1991 of The Dimensions of Paradise: The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers in Ancient Cosmology, expressed the view that, "After some deliberation the reader of this book will oscillate between two hypotheses: either that many mysteries of the universe are based on numbers, or that the book's author is a fairly learned crank obsessed with numbers."
In 1970, Michell founded the Anti-Metrification Board to oppose the adoption of the metric system of measurement in the United Kingdom. Believing that the established imperial system of measurement had both ancient and sacred origins, through the Board he brought out a newsletter, Just Measure. In 1972 he published the first of his "Radical Traditionalist Papers", A Defence of Sacred Measures, in which he laid out his opposition to the metric system.
In his third Radical Traditionalist Paper, published in 1973, he argued against population control, critiquing the ideas of Thomas Robert Malthus and arguing that correct use of resources could maintain an ever-growing human population.
His fifth Radical Traditionalist Paper, Concordance to High Monarchists, offered Michell's proposed solution to The Troubles of Northern Ireland; in his view, Ireland should be divided into four provinces, each administered separately but all ultimately pledging allegiance to a High King, in this way mirroring what Michell believed was the socio-political organisation of prehistoric Ireland.
Other publications
Following the 1975 execution of Michael X for a murder committed in Trinidad, Michell published a souvenir pamphlet to commemorate the execution, claiming that all royalties from its publication would go to Michael X's widow. In 1976 he published The Hip Pocket Hitler, a book containing those quotations from Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, which Michell deemed to be humorous or insightful, thus seeking to portray a side to Hitler that was more favourable than the dominant paradigm. In 1979 he provided an introduction to a translation of Pliny the Elder's Inventorum Natura, which had been illustrated by Una Woodruff. That same year he brought out Simulcra, a work in which he examined perceived faces in natural forms such as trees. In collaboration with Bob Rickard, in 1977 Michell published Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, an encyclopedic work devoted to paranormal and fortean phenomena which covered such topics as UFOs, werewolves, lake monsters, and spontaneous human combustion. They followed this with a second encyclopedic volume, Living Wonders: Mysteries and Curiosities of the Animal World, which appeared in 1982 and was devoted to fortean topics involving animals, with much of it focusing on cryptozoological topics.
In 1984 he published Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions, in which he provided brief biographies of various figures whose ideas had been rejected by mainstream scholarship and society, among them Nesta Webster, Iolo Morganwg, Brinsley Le Poer Trench, and Comyns Beaumont. In Euphonics: A Poet's Dictionary of Sounds he then argued that every name represents a "vocal imitation" of the subject that it describes, for instance arguing that "s" appears in the words "snake" and "serpent" because it resembles the curved movement of the animal.
Following the controversy that erupted around Salman Rushdie's 1988 book The Satanic Verses, Michell published a tract condemning Rushdie, accusing him of deliberately and provocatively insulting Islam. Titled Rushdie's Insult, Michell later withdrew the publication.
Michell was keenly interested in the crop circle phenomenon, and with Christine Rhone and Richard Adams he established a magazine devoted to the subject in 1990. Initially titled The Cereologist, some issues would be alternately titled The Cerealogist, and although Michell initially served as the magazine's editor, he stepped down after the ninth issue, although continued to contribute articles to it. In 1991, he published a book on the subject, Dowsing the Crop Circles, and in 2001 followed this with a booklet titled The Face and the Message, which was devoted to a circle depicting the face of a Grey alien which had appeared in Hampshire in August 2001. Despite the longstanding animosity with which Michell held academic archaeology, in 1991 the peer-reviewed archaeological journal Antiquity invited him to author a review of a Southbank exhibit, "From Art to Archaeology", which was duly published in the journal.
In the 1980s Michell was a member of the Lindisfarne Association and a teacher at its School of Sacred Architecture. He lectured at the Kairos Foundation, an "educational charity specifically founded to promote the recovery of traditional values in the Arts and Sciences". He was for some years a visiting lecturer at the Prince of Wales' School of Traditional Arts, which had been established by his friend Keith Critchlow. He became a Fellow of the Temenos Academy, a religious organisation which had Traditionalist underpinnings.
Newspaper columnist: 1992–2009
From January 1992 until his death, Michell published a monthly column, "An Orthodox Voice", in The Oldie magazine. He primarily used this as an outlet for condemning the modern world and lambasting what he perceived as the stupidity of most contemporary humans. His first article in this outlet contained an attack on evolution which resulted in a published response from the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He also used his column to encourage the use of mind-altering drugs, in particular LSD. Two anthologies that collected together some of these Oldie columns would be published; the first appeared in 1995 as An Orthodox Voice while the second was published in 2005 as Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist and contained an introduction from the scholar of esotericism Joscelyn Godwin. During this period, Michell also authored occasional book review for the conservative magazine, The Spectator.
In 1996 Michell published Who Wrote Shakespeare?, in which he outlined various candidates in the Shakespeare authorship question. Who Wrote Shakespeare? received mixed reviews: Publishers Weekly was critical, while The Washington Post and The Independent praised his treatment of the subject. To mark their fiftieth anniversary in 1999, the publisher Thames and Hudson – who had published many of Michell's works – suggested that a biography be written by Michell's friend Paul Screeton. Michell however refused to cooperate with the project, which was abandoned. In 2000, Michell published The Temple at Jerusalem: A Revelation, in which he outlined his own interpretation of Jerusalem's Old City.
From 2001 to 2004 he contributed several columns to tabloid newspaper The Mirror as part of an ongoing series run by the astrologer Jonathan Cainer. Cainer had sought to bring together a range of esotericists to write on related topics, with Michell's fellow contributors including Mark Winter, Patty Greenall, Sarah Sirillan, and Uri Geller. The series came to an end when Cainer left The Mirror to work for the rival Daily Mail.
A keen painter, in 2003 an exhibit of his works was held at the Christopher Gibbs Gallery. In April 2007 Michell married Denise Price, the Archdruidess of the Glastonbury Order of Druids, at a ceremony held in Glastonbury's St Benedict's Church, although their relationship ended several months later. A lifelong smoker, Michell contracted lung cancer, and in his final days he was nursed at his son's home in Poole, Dorset, ultimately dying on 24 April 2009, at the age of 76. His body was buried at St Mary's Church in Stoke Abbott on May Day. A high church memorial service was then held at All Saints' Church in Notting Hill, which was attended by around 400 mourners.
His work, How the World is Made – which he regarded as his magnum opus – was published posthumously.
Thought
Throughout his life, Michell's "views remained relatively static", albeit with some exceptions. He characterised his viewpoint as "Radical Traditionalism", which in his words was a perspective "both idealistic and rooted in common sense".
Michell was a proponent of the Traditionalist school of esoteric thought. Michell was also interested in the writings of Traditionalist philosopher Julius Evola, agreeing in particular with the sentiments expressed in Evola's Revolt Against the Modern World. He held to the Traditionalist belief in an ancient perennial tradition found across the world, believing that this was passed on by a priesthood in accordance to divine will. He shared the Traditionalist attitude of anti-modernism, believing that modernity had brought about chaos, destruction of the land, and spiritual degradation. He believed that humanity would return to what he perceived as its natural order and enter a Golden Age.
Screeton believed that despite his "obvious acts of liberalism", Michell also had a "right-wing streak", with Hale describing Mitchell as being "quite right-wing in many of his views". She thought it would be "apt" to characterise Mitchell's thought as being "third positionist" in nature.
Angered by the idea of evolution, Michell repeatedly authored articles denouncing it as a false creation myth. Instead he embraced a viewpoint that Screeton referred to as "intelligent design creationism". Accordingly, he was particularly critical of Charles Darwin and Dawkins, lambasting the latter alongside physicist Stephen Hawking as belonging with "the disappointed Marxists, pandering politicians, pettifoggers, grievance-mongers and atheistic bishops who set the tone in modern society." Condemning the scientific community's view of the development of the Earth and humanity, he embraced Richard Milton's claim that the Earth was only 20,000 years old, as well as Rupert Sheldrake's idea regarding "morphogenetic fields", believing that it was these – and not biological evolution – that resulted in changes occurring within species.
Mitchell's conception of the physical and spiritual worlds was strongly influenced by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. He believed that sacred geometry revealed a universal scheme in the landscape which reflected the structure of the heavens. His views on geometry led him to the belief that pre-industrial societies across the world respected the Earth as a living creature imbued with its own spirit, and that humans then created permanent residences for this spirit.
He also embraced a belief in the tenets of astrology, alchemy, and prophecy, believing that all had been unfairly rejected by the modern world.
Described as an exponent of "British nativist spirituality", he adopted the view of the British-Israelite movement that the British people represented the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes who are mentioned in the Old Testament. Michell sometimes referred to his approach as "mystic nationalism" and interpreted the island of Britain as being sacred, connecting this attitude to those of William Blake and Lewis Spence. Adopting a millennialist attitude, he believed that in future Britain would be reborn as the New Jerusalem with the coming of a new Golden Age.
He believed that humans really desired to live in a state of extreme order, deeming a societal hierarchy to be natural and inevitable. Generally opposed to democracy, except within small groups in which every person knew the individual being elected, Michell instead believed that communities should be led by a strong leader who personified the solar deity. This embrace of the Divine Right of Kings led him to believe that Queen Elizabeth II should take control of Britain as an authoritarian leader who could intercede between the British people and the divine. He was critical of multiculturalism in Britain, believing that each ethnic or cultural group should live independently in an area segregated from other groups, stating that this would allow a people's traditions to remain vibrant. He did not espouse racial supremacy, with his ideas on this subject instead being similar to the ethnopluralism of Alain de Benoist and other New Right thinkers. He was an opponent of British membership of the European Union and also opposed the UK's transition to the metric system, instead favouring the continued use of imperial measurement, believing that the latter had links to the divine order used by ancient society.
Personal life
At over six feet in height, Michell was described by biographer and friend Paul Screeton as having "a charismatic personality and imposing presence", being "placidly outgoing and the epitome of gentlemanly charm", and usually appeared "cheerful and optimistic".
In keeping with his upper-class background, he was described as having an "unmistakable patrician hauteur", with "all the self-assurance, impeccable manners and debonair charm of one born to wealth." Screeton described Michell as "gregarious but slightly shy, unassuming but opinionated. Quixotic in behaviour, he was an exemplary host and fastidious and single-minded when embarked upon a project", although also noted that Michell was impatient with those who did not share his Traditionalist beliefs and values.
In keeping with norms within the counter-culture, Michell regularly smoked marijuana, and publicly encouraged the use of mind-altering drugs. His favoured newspaper was The Telegraph, a right-wing daily. One of his hobbies was woodworking, and he constructed some of the bookshelves in his home. Although he had a strong dislike of computers and advised his readers not to possess a personal computer, in later life he obtained one in order to type up his writings using a word processor. For many years, he lived at 11 Powis Gardens in Notting Hill, North London.
Legacy
Screeton described Michell as "a countercultural icon", while Hale stated that on his death, Michell left "a rich legacy of publications and cultural influence". At the time he was remembered as "a charming British eccentric and champion of the outsider". His influence was strongly apparent in the British Pagan community, with many British Pagans being familiar with his writings. The archaeologist Adam Stout noted that Michell played "the major role in the 1960s rediscovery" of the work of Alfred Watkins.
Hutton for instance noted that the influence of Michell's ideas could be seen on the Druidic Order of the Pendragon, a Pagan group based in Leicestershire that arose to public attention in 2004. His ideas about dragon energies across the landscape have been incorporated into novels like Judy Allen's 1973 The Spring of the Mountain and Cara Louise's 2006 Annie and the Dragon.
Michell's books received a broadly positive reception amongst the "New Age" and "Earth mysteries" movements and he is credited as perhaps being "the most articulate and influential writer on the subject of leys and alternative studies of the past". Ronald Hutton describes his research as part of an alternative archaeology "quite unacceptable to orthodox scholarship." Accordingly, Screeton noted that during his life, Michell was considered to be "anathema, lunatic fringe, and cranky" by his critics, although he rejected the idea that Michell was a "crank", claiming that such an accusation was "fundamentally mistaken".
Following his death, various aspects of Michell's work have been adopted by thinkers associated with the European New Right and with related right-wing currents in the United States.
Michell's term "Radical Traditionalism", which he espoused in his self-published series of "Radical Traditionalist Papers" in the 1970s and 1980s, would later be taken up as a self-descriptor by Michael Moynihan and Joshua Buckley, the editors of the right-wing journal Tyr: Myth, Culture and Tradition from their inaugural 2002 edition onward. The editors of Tyr gave the term political overtones which were not present in Michell's original usage of the term. Hale believed that through Radical Traditionalism and the New Right Mitchell's writings have been brought to "a whole new audience" where they have a "surprisingly different sort of relevance."
Bibliography
1967 The Flying Saucer Vision: the Holy Grail Restored, Sidgwick & Jackson, Abacus Books, Ace.
1969 The View Over Atlantis, HarperCollins, ; first published by Sago Press in Great Britain in 1969; new edition published in Great Britain by Garnstone Press in 1972 and Abacus in 1973, and in the United States by Ballantine Books in 1972.
1972 City of Revelation: On the Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of the Cosmic Temple, Garnstone Press, ,
1974 The Old Stones of Land's End, Garnstone Press,
1975 The Earth Spirit: Its Ways, Shrines, and Mysteries, Avon,
1977 with R. J. M. Rickard, Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, Thames & Hudson,
1977 A Little History of Astro-Archaeology: Stages In The Transformation Of A Heresy , Thames and Hudson, SBN-10: 0500275572 SBN-10: 0500275572, (reprinted 2001)
1979 Natural Likeness: Faces and Figures in Nature, Thames and Hudson,
1979 Plinius Scundus C., Inventorum Natura, Harper Collins, English Latin, D. MacSweeney (translator)
1981 Ancient Metrology: the Dimensions of Stonehenge and of the Whole World as Therein Symbolized, Pentacle Books,
1982 Megalithomania: Artists, Antiquarians & Archaeologists at the Old Stone Monuments, Thames and Hudson , Cornell University Press
1983 The New View Over Atlantis, Thames and Hudson , , (Much revised edition of The View Over Atlantis.)
1984 Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions , Thames and Hudson, reissued Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1985 Stonehenge - Its Druids, Custodians, Festival and Future , Richard Adams Associates (June 1985) ,
1988 Geosophy - An Overview of Earth Mysteries. Paul Devereux, John Steele, John Michell, Nigel Pennick, Martin Brennan, Harry Oldfield and more, a Mystic Fire Video from Trigon Communications, Inc, New York, 1988 (reissued 1990), also by EMPRESS, Wales, UK, 95 minutes, VHS.
1986 commentary, Feng-Shui: The Science of Sacred Landscape in Old China, Ernest J. Eitel, Syngergetic Press
1988 The Dimensions of Paradise: The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of Ancient Cosmology, London : Thames and Hudson, 1988.
1989 The Traveller's Key to Sacred England , reissued 2006, Gothic Image
1989 Secrets of the Stones: New Revelations of Astro-Archaeology and the Mystical Sciences of Antiquity, Destiny Books,
1989 Earth Spirit: Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries , Thames and Hudson,
1990 New Light on the Ancient Mystery of Glastonbury, Gothic Image Publications (p/b), (h/b)
1991 Dowsing the Crop Circles, (Editor/Contributor), Gothic Image Publications,
1991 Twelve Tribe Nations and the Science of Enchanting the Landscape, with Christine Rhone, Thames and Hudson,
1994 At the Center of the World: Polar Symbolism Discovered in Celtic, Norse and Other Ritualized Landscapes, Thames and Hudson,
1996 Who Wrote Shakespeare?, Thames and Hudson
2000, with Bob Rickard, Unexplained Phenomena: Mysteries and Curiosities of Science, Folklore and Superstition, Rough Guides,
2000 The Temple at Jerusalem: A Revelation, Samuel Weiser. ,
2001 The Dimensions of Paradise: The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of Ancient Cosmology , Adventures Unlimited,
2002 The Face and the Message: What Do They Mean and Where Are They From?, Gothic Image,
2003 The Traveller's Guide to Sacred England: A Guide to the Legends, Lore and Landscapes of England's Sacred Places, Gothic Image Publications,
2003 Prehistoric Sacred Sites of Cornwall, Wessex Books,
2005 Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist, Dominion Press,
2006 "Prehistoric Sacred Sites of Cornwall", Wessex Books,
2006 Euphonics: A Poet's Dictionary of Sounds, Wooden Books,
2008 Dimensions of Paradise, The Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science and the Heavenly Order on Earth, (revised edition of City of Revelation) Inner Traditions, Bear & Company.
2009 How The World Is Made: The Story Of Creation According To Sacred Geometry, (with Allan Brown), Thames & Hudson
2009 Sacred Center: The Ancient Art of Locating Sanctuaries, Inner Traditions,
2010 Michellany, A John Michell Reader, ed. Jonangus Mackay, Michellany Editions, London.
References
Footnotes
Sources
Further reading
D Fideler, "Jesus Christ, Sun of God", Page 291, Appendix 1, The Miraculous Catch of 153 Fishes in the Unbroken Net
External links
The John Michell Network
Michell and the 1971 Glastonbury Festival
International Fortean Organisation
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26719633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Quirino | Carlos Quirino | Carlos Lozada Quirino (14 January 1910 – 20 May 1999) was a Philippine biographer and historian.
Life
Carlos Quirino is a nephew of Philippine president Elpidio Quirino. He is a famous Filipino. He is best known for his early biography of Jose Rizal. He also wrote several works the Philippine history and biographies of President Manuel Quezon and the painter Damian Domingo. In 1997 he was recognised as a National Artist of the Philippines for Historical Literature.
Bibliography
Man of Destiny (1935)
The Great Malayan (1940)
Magsaysay and the Philippines (1958)
Philippine Cartography (1959)
Damian Domingo: First Eminent Filipino Painter (1961)
History of the Philippine Sugar Industry (1974)
Filipinos at War (1981)
Amang, the Life and Times of Eulogio Rodriguez, Sr. (1983)
References
1910 births
1999 deaths
20th-century Filipino historians
Carlos
Burials at the Libingan ng mga Bayani |
23579279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidonia%20von%20Borcke | Sidonia von Borcke | Sidonia von Borcke (1548–1620) was a Pomeranian noblewoman who was tried and executed for witchcraft in the city of Stettin (today Szczecin, Poland). In posthumous legends, she is depicted as a femme fatale, and she has entered English literature as Sidonia the Sorceress. She had lived in various towns and villages throughout the country.
Alternative spellings
Her name may also be spelled as Sidonie von Bork, Borke, or Borken.
Life
Sidonia von Borcke was born in 1548 into a wealthy noble Pomeranian family. Her father, Otto von Borcke zu Stramehl-Regenwalde, died in 1551, and her mother, Anna von Schwiechelt, died in 1568.
After the death of her sister in 1600 she took residence in 1604 in the Lutheran Noble Damsels' Foundation in Marienfließ Abbey which, since 1569 and following the Protestant Reformation, was a convent for unmarried noblewomen.
Before that she had been involved in several lawsuits concerning support payments which, she claimed, were owed to her. Defendants in the suits were her brother, Ulrich, and Johann Friedrich, Duke of Pomerania (died 1600). One of these suits was even heard in the imperial court in Vienna.
While living in Marienfließ, Sidonia engaged in several private and judicial conflicts with her (mostly younger) co-residents and with the administrative staff of the abbey. When in 1606 she was dismissed from her post as an Unterpriorin (sub-prioress) by the convent's prioress, Magdalena von Petersdorff, she appealed her dismissal to Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania.
Bogislaw sent a Commission, headed by Joachim von Wedel, to investigate the dispute. The interaction between the Commission and Sidonia soon metamorphosed into a major feud. Von Wedel met in private with the Marienfließ Hauptmann (captain), Johannes von Hechthausen, to consider "getting rid of this poisonous snake." The feud ended with the death of Bogislaw XIII in 1606 and the deaths of von Petersdorff, von Wedel, and von Hechthausen (all in 1609).
Two years later, Sidonia filed complaints against the new prioress, Agnes von Kleist. These complaints were addressed to Philip II, Bogislaw's successor. Like his predecessor, Philip sent a Commission to investigate the complaints — a Commission headed by Jost von Borcke, a relative of Sidonia's who had already been humiliated when he was involved in prior lawsuits brought by Sidonia.
The new Commission did not succeed in calming the dispute, and Jost von Borcke described the situation at Marienfließ as one of chaos, mistrust, name-calling, and occasional violence. Philip II died in 1618 and was succeeded by Duke Francis I. Jost von Borcke was in good standing at Francis's court and remained head of the investigating Commission.
In July 1619, a dispute between Sidonia and Unterpriorin (sub-prioress) Dorothea von Stettin escalated out of control during a mass, and both women were arrested. Dorothea von Stettin then accused Sidonia of witchcraft, specifically of forcing a former Marienfließ factotum, Wolde Albrechts, to ask the devil about her (Sidonia's) future.
Wolde Albrechts made her living from fortune-telling and begging after she lost her position at Marienfließ (this loss was a consequence of the death of Johannes von Hechthausen). She had travelled with gypsies in her youth, was known to have had several unstable sexual relationships, and was unmarried with an illegitimate child.
Dorothea von Stettin persuaded Anna von Apenburg, her Marienfließ roommate, to support her accusation of Sidonia. According to contemporary law, the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, two eyewitnesses were sufficient to convict both Sidonia and Wolde. Anna, however, withdrew her support of the accusation when she was asked to repeat her statement under oath.
Trials
The trials of Sidonia von Borcke and Wolde Albrechts were held at the court in Stettin. These trials are well documented, with more than a thousand pages of the original trial record available in an archive in Greifswald (Rep 40 II Nr.37 Bd.I-III). The recent unexpected deaths of several Pomeranian dukes, along with widespread superstition, had created an atmosphere in which the public was prepared to blame the dukes' deaths on Sidonia's alleged witchcraft. This bias was strengthened when the Pomeranian dynasty became extinct in 1637.
Wolde Albrechts
The trial of Wolde Albrechts was a preface to the trial of Sidonia.
Albrechts was arrested on 28 July 1619. On 18 August, she was charged with maleficium and Teufelsbuhlschaft (i.e., sexual relations with the devil).
On 2 September, torture was admitted as a legitimate means of interrogation by the supreme court at Magdeburg.
On 7 September, Albrechts confessed under torture and accused Sidonia and two other women of witchcraft. She repeated these confessions in the presence of Sidonia during Sidonia's trial, which began on 1 October 1619.
Albrechts was burned at the stake on 9 October 1619.
Sidonia von Borcke
Sidonia, who had been imprisoned in the Marienfließ Abbey, attempted to escape but failed. She also attempted suicide, but this also failed.
On 18 November 1619, she was transferred to a prison in Stettin.
In December, 72 charges were brought against her. The most important of these were:
murder of her nephew, Otto von Borcke
murder of a priest, David Lüdecke
murder of duke Philip II of Pomerania-Stettin (died 1618)
murder of Magdalena von Petersdorff, prioress of Marienfließ
murder of Matthias Winterfeld, gatekeeper at Marienfließ
murder of Consistorial Counsellor Dr. Heinrich Schwalenberg
paralyzation of Katharina Hanow, a noblewoman at Marienfließ
consultation with soothsayers
knowledge of future and distant events
sexual contacts with the devil (who allegedly materialized in animals, such as Sidonia's cat, whose name was Chim)
magical practices, such as praying the "Judas psalm" (Psalm 109) and crossing brooms beneath a kitchen table
In January 1620, a man named Elias Pauli was appointed as Sidonia's defender. Although he presented a defense showing that those allegedly murdered had died natural deaths, he also dissociated himself from statements of Sidonia which had incriminated Jost von Borcke and other officials.
About fifty witnesses were questioned at the trial.
On 28 June, the Magdeburg court permitted the Stettin court to use torture. When torture was applied on 28 July, Sidonia confessed. The verdict of death was read to her when she was dragged to the execution site and her body was "ruptured" four times with pliers.
When Sidonia recanted her confession, she was tortured anew on 16 August.
On 1 September 1620, the final verdict was rendered. Sidonia was sentenced to death by beheading and subsequent burning of her body. The sentence was carried out in Stettin, outside the mill gate. The exact date of her death is not known.
In fiction
After Sidonia's death, her fate became legendary and was even more strongly associated with the extinction of the House of Pomerania.
Portrayed as a femme fatale, she became the subject of several fictional works in German and English, especially during the 19th century. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's brother-in-law, Christian August Vulpius, in 1812 included Sidonia in his book Pantheon berühmter und merkwürdiger Frauen (Pantheon of Famous and Noteworthy Women). A Gothic romance, Sidonia von Bork, die Klosterhexe, was written in 1847–1848 by Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest and author. It was published in three volumes in 1848.
An English translation of this novel, titled Sidonia the Sorceress, was published in 1849 by Oscar Wilde's mother, Jane Wilde (later known as Lady Wilde). This translation was also published by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press in 1894.
The English translations achieved a popularity in Great Britain that was unmatched by any other German book in British literary history. Especially in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, whose members included William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Edward Burne-Jones, enthusiasm for Sidonia as a Medusa-type femme fatale was widespread. Rossetti is said to have referred to and quoted from the novel "incessantly". Several members created paintings based on the novel, the most famous being Sidonia Von Bork and Clara Von Bork by Burne-Jones in 1860. For his Sidonia painting, Rossetti's mistress Fanny Cornforth served as the model.
Other authors who wrote novels based Sidonia's life were Albert Emil Brachvogel (1824–1878) and Paul Jaromar Wendt (1840–1919). Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) had prepared a novel, Sidonie von Borcke, since 1879. However, he did not finish it. The fragments of it were published in 1966.
See also
Pomerania
Wilhelm Meinhold
Witch-hunt
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
An article in Journal von und für Deutschland, 1786.
Wilhelm Meinhold: Sidonia von Bork die Klosterhexe (1847-48)(downloadable, illustrated, complete transcription of the original German text)
English translations of Wilhelm Meinhold's Sidonia the Sorceress at Internet Archive, Google Books, and Project Gutenberg
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6908877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin%C3%A9s%20de%20Mafra | Ginés de Mafra | Ginés de Mafra (1493–1546) was a Portuguese or Spanish explorer who sailed to the Philippines in the 16th century. Mafra was a member of the expeditions of Fernão de Magalhães of 1519–1521 and Ruy López de Villalobos of 1542–1545.
History
Voyage to the Philippine Islands
Mafra was born in the town of Mafra, north of Lisbon, Portugal, or, according to other sources, in the town of Jérez de la Frontera, in Cadiz, Andalusia. In 1519, he became a crew member of the Magalhães expedition. Mafra started as a seaman in the galleon Trinidad, the armada's flagship, and was on board when the Portuguese captured the Spanish vessel at Benaconora, today Jailolo, in the Moluccas. He was imprisoned for 5 months at Ternate (20 km south of Benaconora) and transferred to a jail at Banda Islands where he remained for 4 months. Thereafter he was transferred to Malacca for 5 months after what he was brought to Cochin, India, where he languished for two years. Mafra was finally brought by the Portuguese to Lisbon together with his crew members including Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa and Hans Bergen. Upon their arrival in Portugal in 1526 Mafra, and his crew members were thrown in prison. Bergen died in jail while Espinosa was later released that year. Mafra himself was detained due to his possession of important documents which included the books and papers from the Trinidad. The manuscripts included navigational notes of Andrés de San Martín, who was the fleet's chief pilot and astrologer. It was later taken and mined by Portuguese historians. These manuscripts were later transferred to Spain during the Iberian Union in 1580-1640. The letters were accessed by several Spanish chroniclers, including Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas. These papers have been lost and now exist only in quotes, references, and citations by these historians.
Finally freed only to find his wife had remarried
After numerous pleas by Mafra to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V of Spain to have him released, he was freed in early 1527, and immediately proceeded to Spain. He was given an audience with the emperor after which he went straight to Palos only to discover his wife, Catalina Martínez del Mercado, believing he had died during the voyage, had remarried, and sold their personal fortunes, and land properties. Mafra wrote to the emperor complaining of his marital trouble, and asking for his intercession for the return of his possessions. The emperor agreed, and ordered an investigation be made by officials, and to have the matter resolved.
Expedition to the New World
Mafra goes back to the sea in 1531, and sails to Central, and South America. The governor of Guatemala, Pedro de Alvarado, in a letter written on November 20, 1536, tells the emperor he had hired the services of Mafra as pilot, who is considered as one of the best sailors due to his experiences with the Magellan voyage. It's not clear where the expedition went but most scholars believe the fleet went to Peru.
Villalobos expedition (1542-1546)
Mafra joined the expedition of Ruy López de Villalobos as pilot of the San Juan, one of six ships. Thus it is a mystery that many scholars have been trying to solve, when we find him as one of the men of the galleon San Cristobal who made it to the port of Mazaua in 1543. The galleon was separated from the fleet during a severe storm as the ships sailed between Eniwetok and Ulithi. While stranded in one of those islands, he writes a document of the Magellan voyage, he talks about the meeting of Rajah Siaiu the chieftain of Mazaua. Mafra wrote, "This same chief [Rajah Siaiu] we saw in the year fifteen forty-three by those of us in the fleet of general Ruy López de Villalobos, and he still remembered Magellan, and displayed to us some of the things he [Magellan] had given him." According to Italian historian Antonio Pigafetta, "Magellan's gift consisted of a garment of red, and yellow cloth made in the Turkish fashion, a red cap, knives, and mirrors". Mafra, and his crew members stayed in the island for about 5 to 6 months. This long stay suggested they had to repair the San Cristobal as it must have been damaged by the fierce storm. Mafra was one of 117 survivors of the failed Villalobos expedition who made it to Malacca. There Mafra, age 53, elected to stay together with 29 other crew members. The other survivors sailed for Lisbon in a Portuguese ship. Mafra handed his manuscript to an unnamed sailor; this eventually reached Spain in transcribed form by an unknown editor where it remained hidden for many centuries in the Archive of the Indies in Madrid . It was eventually discovered and published in 1920.
Geographical mysteries
Mafra's document has been examined by American geographer Donald D. Brand. Brand dismissed it as nothing more than what Mafra recalled on Andrés de San Martín writings, which Mafra had with him until these were confiscated in Lisbon. "It should be pointed out here that the previously unknown, Descripción de los reinos, Libro que trata del descubrimiento y principio del estrecho que se llama de Magallanes, por Ginés de Mafra, published in Madrid, 1920 in Tres Relaciones could not be based on more than Mafra's memory of what he might have read in a Tratado begun by San Martín." This dismissive charge unargued, and unproved, was echoed by Martín Torodash, and Philippine religious historian John N. Schumacher, and influenced the thinking of many other scholars including the ethnographer historian William H. Scott. This explains why the unsolved information to the geographical mystery of Mazaua has remained buried in his record. Laurence Bergreen gave due recognition of Mafra's document in Bergreen's 2003 work titled Over the Edge of the World, Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. It is this document that makes his information an incomparably important geographical testimony that unlocks the mystery of the island of Mazaua.
Mafra wrote that Magellan's port was an isle with a circumference of 3-4 leagues or 9-12 nautical miles. "Y otro dia luego partió [Magallanes] de esta isla, y navegando su viage llego a otra isla que tendra de circuito de tres hasta cuatro leguas". ("And after another day he [Magellan] left this island [Homonhon], and sailing on his way arrived at another [Mazaua] three or four leagues in circumference.") Because the shape of the isle is almost circular, 3-4 leagues translate to an area of from 2,214 up to 3,930 hectares. In contrast, Limasawa is only 698 hectares. He also stated, they anchored west of the isle: "Esta isla tiene un puerto bueno a la parte del poniente della, y es poblada." ("This island called Mazaua has a good harbor on its western side, and is inhabited"). Mazaua is officially, by Philippine law, declared as the island of Limasawa, an isle without anchorage, and the port is located east of the island. Mafra's most clarifying testimony is that Mazaua was 15 leagues, roughly , below Butuan in 1521 which in Pigafetta's map, and text is a larger geographical conception than the present-day map. The land area starts from present day Surigao, and extends all the way to Zamboanga del Norte. Mafra writes in Spanish: "De este Señor de Maçagua" [Rajah Siaiu] "supo Magallanes que en una provincia que se llamaba Butuan que es en la isla de Mindanao que es de la parte del norte della quince leguas de Maçagua habia gran cantidad de oro." ("From the chief of Mazaua" Rajah Siaiu "Magellan learned that a province called Butuan, on the island of Mindanao, which is somewhere fifteen leagues to the north of Mazaua, possessed a large quantity of gold.") This puts the port of Mazaua at 9° N, the exact latitude for it by the Genoese Pilot, one of those who wrote an eyewitness document. All these information revolutionize geographical conception of Mazaua. Limasawa, which has been affirmed thrice by the Philippines' National Historical Institute, to be Mazaua is rectangular in shape, 698 hectares in area, and is reached by a track that is not drawn by any of the document. What is most telling is that Limasawa has no anchorage, As stated by the coast pilot, "Limasawa is fringed by a narrow, steep-to reef, off which the depths are too great to afford anchorage for large vessels."
The mysterious isle
Armed with the insight from Mafra's information, a team of archaeologists led by a geomorphologist went to work to validate the theory Mazaua is in 9°N. In January 2001, an incredible discovery met the earth scientists: the geo-political entities composed of Pinamanculan and Bancasi inside Butuan in northern Mindanao was in fact an island. From that point on the archaeologists went to work to find artefacts that would identify the isle as the port of Magellan. Age of contact ceramics, disarticulated human bones have been found that show the isle was inhabited before the Spanish arrival. Corroded iron, metal bracelets, and a brass pestle have been dug up that however have yet to be dated. The excavation was done in places outside the suspected village where the indigenous tribes of Mazaua had lived.
However scientists have not yet examined the entire isle including its coastal regions. At the moment no authenticated physical evidence traceable to Magellan and Mafra and other known European visitors who visited the island-port has been found. As of today, geologists and archaeologists are still digging and investigating the site.
Publications
Bergreen, Laurence. Over the Edge of the World, Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. HarperCollins: New York, 2003.
Combés, Francisco. Historia de las islas de Mindanao, Iolo y sus adyacentes. W.E. Retana (ed.): Madrid, 1897.
Defense Mapping Agency. Pub. 162 Sailing Directions (Enroute). Philippine Islands 3. Washington D.C., 1993.
de Jesus, Vicente C. (2002). Mazaua Historiography. Retrieved February 27, 2007.
Escalante Alvarado, Garcia de. 1546. Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquesta y organización de las Antiguas posesiones españolas en América y Oceania (42 v., Madrid, 1864-1884), tomo v, pp. 117-209.
Herrera, Antonio de. Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierrafirme del mar oceano, t. VI. Angel Gonzalez Palencia 9ed.): Madrid, 1947.
Howgego, Ramond John. 2002. Encyclopedia of Exploration. Sydney: Hordern House.
Joyner, Tim. Magellan. International Marine: Maine, 1992.
Mafra, Ginés de. Libro que trata del descubrimiento y principio del estrecho que se llama de Magallanes. National Library Museum; ed. by A. Blázquez and D. Aguilera: Madrid, 1920.
Medina, José Toribio. El Descubrimiento del Océano Pacífico: Vasco Nuñez Balboa, Hernando de Magallanes y Sus Compañeros. Imprenta Universitaria: Chile, 1920.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. The European Discovery of America, The Southern Voyages 1492-1616. Oxford University Press: New York, 1974.
Noone, Martin J. The Discovery and Conquest of the Philippines 1521-1581. Richview Browne & Nolan Limited: Ireland, 1983.
Ramusio, Gian Battista. "La Detta navigatione per messer Antonio Pigafetta Vicentino". In: Delle navigatione... Venice: Pp. 380-98.
Rebelo, Gabriel. 1561. Historia das ilhas de Maluco. In: Documentação para a História das Missões do Padroado Português do Oriente: Insulíndia. Lisboã: Agencia Geral do Ultramar. 1955. Cited by José Manuel Garcia in As Filipinas na historiografía portuguesa do século XVI, Centro Portugués de Estudos do Sudeste Asiático, Porto: 2003.
Santisteban, Fray Geronimo de. 1546. Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquesta y organización de las Antiguas posesiones españolas en América y Oceania (42 v., Madrid, 1864-1884), tomo v., pp. 151-165.
Schumacher, John N. "The First Mass in the Philippines". In: Kasaysayn 6: National Historical Institute: Manila, 1981.
Torodash, Martin. "Magellan Historiography" In: Hispanic American Historical Review'', LI (May 1971), 313-335.
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23579289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dree%20Festival | Dree Festival | The Apatanis, who inhabit a tranquil pine clad valley called Ziro at the core of Lower Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh, are famous for their unique practice of wet rice cultivation. They are also known for their sustainable agricultural practices and the agricultural cycles govern their everyday lives. The agricultural festival of Dree is the highlight in this cycle.
Mythological aspects
In the beginning, humans wandered around foraging for food. It was Anii Donii and Abba Liibo who began cultivation in the fertile lands of IIpyo supuñ. Thus Anii Donii was the first human to start a settled life while Abba Liibo was the first to start cultivation.
With the first batch of spades – Turú dipe and the first batch of machetes – Tiigyó ilyo', bushes and vegetations were cleared from large tracts of land. Invoking the winds from the north and the south, the leavings were burnt. Next, the soil was prepared for sowing.
Plots of agriculture were ready, but no paddy seeds were available. So, the search for the seeds begun. In the process, Anii Donii and Abba Lwbo reached Murtú Lembyañ from where they obtained the seeds of pyapiñ and pyare varieties of paddy along with the seeds of cucumber and corns from Murtú Yariñ. Something was still lacking and the search continued. When Anẁ̀ Donw and Abba Liibo looked into the stomach of the wild rats it was full of grasses and herbs while that of the wild boar was full of salyó and sankhe'. However, it was in the stomach of the dilyañ kubu – the field rat that they found the seeds of empu and elañ varieties of paddy. They trailed the field rat with the help of a dog and finally located the source of the seeds. At a place called Hirii Lyandiñ, the paddy seeds were found stuck high above on the branches of Hirii Tanguñ tree, along with tayú and tagyá – varieties of bees. Thus, the empú and elañ were obtained from Hirii Anii.
All the varieties of paddy – pyapiñ and pyare, obtained from Murtu as well as empu and elañ, obtained from Hirii were originally obtained from Hintii Anii.
When Anii Donii and Abba Liibo set out to sow the seeds in IIpyo Supuñ, rains and storms came to disturb them. They overcame them, equipped with baskets of taser and rain guards of tarpì. Then, Anii Donii and Abba Lwbo were constantly disturbed in their cultivation works and their life made miserable by a demon named Pyokuñ Pembò Pyoyi Tadù. This demon was finally eliminated with great efforts but their struggle was far from over. From the stomach of Pyokuñ Pembò Pyoyi Tadù emerged swarms of insects, pests and rice eating birds. They attacked the crops in the fields which led to poor harvest, and subsequent hunger and famines.
It was in order to counter the menace of insects, pests and diseases, and to alleviate the impending hunger and famines that a series of rituals were observed in the month of Dree. Achí Kharii or Dulu Talañ Myama Pwkha was the first priest, who was assisted by a committee called the Dree Pontañ. This committee consisted of Huli Gorì Hula Gora – the village committee, Huní Mitur Huna Mikiñ - the learned and wise village elders, Kharii Khatii - the high priests and Gwtú Gwra - the general public. They collected voluntary donations from every household to meet the requirements of the Dree rituals.
Pyodu Au and Dree Yarii are believed to be the forces that cause scarcity of food and bring hunger and sufferings to humanity. The damage caused to crops by insects and pests, together with hunger brought by Pyodu Au and Dree Yarii lead to famine. Thus, the Dree rituals are observed to ward off these forces during June–July, corresponding to Dree Pwlo of the Apatanis. During the taboo period that follows, celebration of victory over evil forces takes place. This is how Dree festival came to be celebrated.
Dree rituals are the Tamù, Metii, Meder and Mepiñ. The Tamù is propitiated to ward off the insects and pests. The Metii is propitiated to ward off epidemics and other ailments of the human beings. The purification ritual of Meder is performed to cleanse the agricultural fields of unfavorable elements. This series of rituals is concluded with Mepiñ, which is performed to seek blessings for healthy crops and well-being of mankind. In the modern Dree, the Danyi is also propitiated for fertility of the soil, abundance of aquatic lives in the rice fields, healthy cattle and for prosperity of all human beings.
In the olden days, each village performed Dree rites separately at their respective villages on different dates as per the convenience of the village level organizing committees. It was in the year 1967 that the senior students of Apatani society led by Shri Lod Kojee organised the Dree centrally at a common ground at Siilañ Ditiñ for the first time. Since then, celebration during taboo period takes place centrally with fun and gaiety. Competitions of iisañ - high jump and giibii – traditional wrestling for youths are organised, while the ladies engaged themselves in damiñda - folk dance competition. The elders exhibit their knowledge with ayú and bwsi competitions.
While the modes of celebration have changed with time, the original rituals started by the ancestors in IIpyó Supuñ are meticulously followed until this day and the objective of the festival remains the same – for a healthy crop, a bumper harvest and overall prosperity of mankind.
The ritual
During the Dree festival, five main deities are appeased, these are; Tamù, Metii, Meder, Mepiñ and Danyi.
Tamu - It is propitiated to ward off the insects and pests..
Metii - It is propitiated to ward off epidemics and other ailments of the human beings.
Meder - It is a purification ritual performed to cleanse the agricultural fields of unfavorable elements.
Mepiñ - It is performed to seek blessings for healthy crops and well-being of mankind.
Danyi – Danyi is also propitiated for fertility of the soil, abundance of aquatic lives in the rice fields, healthy cattle and for prosperity of all human beings. Earlier, the Danyi was not performed during the Dree rituals, it was for first time introduced in 1967 a to sacrifice a Mithun donated by Late Millo Kacho.
Modification
It was in the later part of April 1967. After attending the Mopin festival at Pasighat town that the then students, Shri Lod Kojee and his friends studying in Jawaharlal Nehru College Pasighat, in course of an informal chat felt the need for having a festival centrally organised for the Apatanis. The Apatani society has half a dozen of pujas and festivals performed individually and collectively throughout the year but not a single puja or festival was performed at a central location on a fixed date participated by the entire community like those of Bihu of Assamese community, the Diwali of Hindus, the Solung and Mopin of Adi and Galo community, and so on. Accordingly, the possibilities of modification of few pujas and festivals of the Apatani at a centralised place on a uniformly fixed date was discussed. Due to the mythological rigidities, the modification of the pujas and festivals were not possible, but after long and hard persuasions the Dree was selected for modified celebration at a centralised location without affecting its traditional identity. Earlier, each village had its own choice of dates for commencement of the Dree. As per the modified programme, the date of centralised celebration was fixed on 5 to 7 July every year. Therefore, the village level traditional ritual performance takes place on the eve of the general celebration, i.e., on 4 July so that on the following day all the priest representatives from each village of the valley can participate in the centrally installed festival altar at general Dree ground. Since then the Dree festival is being centrally celebrated by the entire people of Apatani on 5 July every year at Nenchalya near Old Ziro.
Financial sources
It was the middle part of May 1967. The summer vacation of J N College Pasighat had already started. Before leaving for home the students of ziro divided amongst themselves into two groups. One group would go to Ziro and collect contributions or donations in kinds like mithun, goat, fowl, eggs, rice and other necessary materials for the celebration. The second group led by shri Lod Kojee was to proceed to Shillong for approaching the then NEFA Administration for financial assistance. At Shillong they apprised their proposal to Shri Jikom Riba the then special Social and Cultural Officer of North East Frontier Agency Administration. He led them to Shri P.N. Luthra the then Adviser to the Governor of Assam who granted them a sum of Rs 1000/= (Rupees one thousand) being the financial help towards the proposed Dree festival celebration and also he had consented to grace the occasion as chief guest.
Selection of Dree venue
One sunny day in the early part of June 1967, a public meeting was convened at Old Ziro which was chaired by late R.S. Nag the then Deputy Commissioner of Subansiri District. All Gaon Buras, public leaders and senior students of the valley attended the meeting. The meeting was a crucial one as it was regarding the selection of Dree venue, no decision could arrive at easily until afternoon.
The people of Reru, Tajang and Kalung Villages proposed that the Dree venue should be at Lajbogya(Place), near Bulla School. The people of Hari Village suggested that the Dree venue be at Byara(Place), near Hari school. The people of Hong Village demanded that the Dree venue should be at Hanoko(Place) near Hong school. The people of Mudang Tage and Michi- Bamin Village suggested that let the venue be at Biirii (Place), between Hong school and Mudang-Tage villages, while the people from Dutta and Hija VIllage suggested that the venue be at Nenchanglya, near Hija School. Finally, a decision was taken that the Dree venue should be selected at such a place that fulfills the following conditions;
The Venue must be a centrally located in the valley.
It must have easy access of conveyance.
It must have a good play ground with sufficient areas for construction of sheds for huge gathering.
These conditions were agreed by all and decided that all representatives should visit the spots physically in the next day to ascertain as to which place fulfils the above-mentioned conditions. In the next day, it was reported that Nenchanglya, near Hija schools fulfills all the conditions and was finally selected as central Dree ground.
Ritual performance turns to a festival
In olden days the Dree was observed on different days according to the convenience of the concerned 'Dree Goras' or 'Pontangs'
(an organising committee at village level). It could not be called as festival in true sense, rather it was a ritual performed by the Apatanis. However, Dree Biisi (traditional folk song) amongst the girls, and games and sports like wrestling, high jumps etc. amongst the boys took place in the village level though they were not in a large scale as it is today. Now it is the biggest festival in Apatani valley, which is celebrated at other places as well where ever the Apatanis live.
The Dree as it is celebrated today
On 4 July in the evening the Dree priest traditionally inaugurates the Dree festival in their respected villages. Next day on the 5th July, Dree is officially solemnized and celebrated at common ground with traditional gaiety after it is inaugurated by a Chief Guest unfurling the Dree flag followed by Dree Anthem sung by group of artistes. Everybody present are served with Dree Taku (cucumber), Dree 'O' (rice or millet beer) followed by community feast. To add colour to the celebration the Pri-Dances, Daminda and other folk dances are displayed. The modern dance/song, literary competition, games and sports competitions are other high light of the days. During the taboo period women folks visits the home of their elderly relatives and present them with wine as a token of love and respect, and to strengthen their relationship.
References
Additional sources
1. Dree and its modification, By Shri Lod Kojee. Published in the Souvenir of the Central Dree Committee, Ziro of 1992, the year in which silver jubilee of the Dree Festival celebration was observed.
2. The Dree, an agricultural community festival of Apatanis and its importance, By Shri Tage Dibo. Article published in The Arunachal Times on 4 July 2009.
3. The rising faith of the Apatanis, By Shri Mihin Kaning. Article published in The Echo of Arunachal on 31 December 2005.
External links
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Harvest festivals in India
July observances
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23579296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai%20Station%20%28Tokyo%29 | Kawai Station (Tokyo) | is a passenger railway station in the town of Okutama, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Kawai Station is served by the Ōme Line, located 30.0 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
The station has one side platform, serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended.
Platform
History
The station opened on 1 July 1944. It became part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) with the breakup of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 233 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
Tama River
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
JR East Station information
Railway stations in Tokyo
Ōme Line
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1944
Okutama, Tokyo |
6908902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Mitchell%20%28director%29 | Martha Mitchell (director) | Martha Mitchell is an American television director.
She has directed for a number of notable television series. Prior to directing, Mitchell worked as a script supervisor on numerous films, the pilot episode of New York Undercover and episodes of Law & Order from 1990 to 1996.
She is a graduate of Barnard College.
Selected filmography
NCIS
House, M.D.
Without a Trace
New York Undercover
Prey
Strange Luck
Malibu Shores
Close to Home
Numb3rs
Spy Game
Judging Amy
Law & Order
Charmed
Jericho
Joan of Arcadia
The Guardian
Family Law
Veronica Mars
Timecop
Promised Land
The Division
The Education of Max Bickford
Haunted
Now and Again
The Practice
Chicago Hope
The Mentalist
Mercy
The Protector
NYC 22
Raising the Bar
Unforgettable
Blue Bloods
The Fosters
You
The Enemy Within
Blindspot
References
External links
American television directors
Barnard College alumni
American women television directors
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
23579299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20cricket%20team%20in%20Australia%20in%201873%E2%80%9374 | English cricket team in Australia in 1873–74 | An England cricket team toured Australia in 1873-74. This was the third tour of Australia by an English team, the previous one being in 1863–64. The team is sometimes referred to as W. G. Grace's XI.
Squad
The team was captained by W. G. Grace (Gloucestershire) who was joined by Fred Grace, James Bush (both Gloucestershire); William Oscroft, Martin McIntyre (both Nottinghamshire); Harry Jupp, James Southerton, Richard Humphrey, Farrington Boult (all Surrey); Andrew Greenwood (Yorkshire); James Lillywhite (Sussex); W. R. Gilbert (Middlesex). The party consisted of five amateurs and seven professionals.
Tour
The team played 15 matches in Australia but none are recognised as a first-class fixture.
References
Further reading
Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
Simon Rae, W. G. Grace, Faber & Faber, 1999
Richard Tomlinson, Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was W.G., Little, Brown, 2015
External links
1873 in Australian cricket
1873 in English cricket
1874 in Australian cricket
1874 in English cricket
1873
1873-74
International cricket competitions from 1844 to 1888 |
6908939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom.com | Atom.com | Atom.com (formerly AtomFilms) was a broadband entertainment network offering original short subject movies, animations, and series by independent creators. The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi. Sequoia Capital, led by Michael Moritz, was the lead investor in Atom Films.
Atom Films was the first online video platform for Oscar winners Jason Reitman, Aardman Animation, and David Lynch. It was the first site to work with a major intellectual property rights owner to allow derivative works by the general public when it created a partnership with George Lucas and LucasFilm for The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards in November 2000.
Buyout
On August 10, 2006, Atom Entertainment was bought by ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks with all its properties, including AtomFilms, Addicting Games, Addicting Clips (renamed AtomUploads) and Shockwave.com. The buyout occurred shortly after negotiations against and subsequently with Google to purchase YouTube. In 2012, Atom.com was absorbed into Comedy Central, and was renamed CC Studios.
References
External links
Atom.com (now redirects to CC Studios)
Xappie Entertainment Portal Website
American film websites
Home video companies of the United States
Internet properties established in 1998
Internet properties disestablished in 2012
Former Viacom subsidiaries |
23579310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameer%20Ali%20Shihabdeen | Ameer Ali Shihabdeen | Ammer Ali Seyed Mohammad Sihabdeen (born 20 December 1961) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a Deputy Minister of Rural Economic Affairs. Ameer Ali is married and has three sons.
At the 13th parliamentary elections in April 2004 he was elected to parliament as a member for Batticaloa. He served as the Non-Cabinet Minister of Disaster Relief Services from 2007 until February 2010. Sihabdeen failed to get re-elected at the subsequent parliamentary elections in 2010.
In 2012 Sihabdeen was elected to the 2nd Eastern Provincial Council, representing United People's Freedom Alliance in the Batticaloa Electoral District.
At the 15th parliamentary elections, held in August 2015, he was re-elected as a member for Batticaloa, representing the All Ceylon Makkal Congress. After his election he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Rural Economic Affairs.
References
1961 births
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
Alumni of Zahira College, Colombo
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the Eastern Provincial Council
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress politicians
Sri Lankan Moor politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Deputy ministers of Sri Lanka |
6908974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbert%20Xavier%20Kelly | Egbert Xavier Kelly | Brother Egbert Xavier Kelly, F.S.C., was an Irish De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was kidnapped and then murdered by the retreating Japanese Imperial Forces at the De La Salle College, of which he was President, during the Allied Liberation of Manila during World War II.
Early life
He was born William Kelly on 4 March 1894 in County Wicklow, Ireland. During his youth decided to become a De La Salle brother and went to the Christian Brothers Retreat in Castletown to test his vocation. He was then admitted to the novitiate and became a member of the Institute.
Assignment to the Philippines
In 1911 Kelly was assigned to the Christian Brothers District of Penang. During his trip, he went for a brief stay in Colombo, Ceylon after which he proceeded to De La Salle College in Manila. He began teaching in the grade school department until he was tasked to teach in the high school department.
Assignment to Belgium
Kelly was selected by the Christian Brothers Superiors to help in the establishment of a Second Novitiate at the General Motherhouse in Lebecq-les-Hal, Belgium. This assignment was completed in 1930.
Return to the Philippines
Upon the completion of his assignment to the Motherhouse, Brother Xavier returned to Asia to teach for three years in Rangoon, Burma, and another three years in Hong Kong. In 1935, he was reassigned to Manila and was appointed President of De La Salle College in 1937.
Kelly's first six years as President was spent in expanding the facilities of the College. A large classroom wing was constructed at the north end of St. La Salle Hall and a new chapel was constructed at its south end. This chapel was considered the most beautiful in the Philippines and had few rivals in the District, although the Brothers would regret about the chapel's limited size. The chapel was dedicated in 1940 and was large enough to accommodate the school's entire student body, which was then 1,200.
World War II
Kelly was the President of De La Salle College in Manila when the Japanese army invaded the Philippines on 8 December 1941.
In January 1942, Japanese troops forcibly entered De La Salle College and began to occupy all but a small portion of the building. The Irish Brothers were left to the chapel and a few small rooms while the American De La Salle Christian Brothers were interned, first in a retreat house of the Society of Jesus at Santa Ana, Manila, and then in a Spanish hospital in San Pedro, Makati. They were later put in a Japanese concentration camp in Los Baños, Laguna, until they were rescued and freed together with their other fellow clergy-prisoners by the American Forces under General Douglas MacArthur in February 1945.
The other De La Salle Christian Brothers on the De La Salle Taft Campus, including Kelly, were not imprisoned by the Japanese at the start of the Japanese Occupation and permitted to stay on the De La Salle campus on Taft Avenue.
On 10 February 1945, a Japanese detail forcibly took Kelly and separated him from the others in the building. He was never seen again and his body was never recovered.
Kelly, plus the other 16 De La Salle Christian Brothers soon murdered by the Japanese inside De La Salle College during February 1945, are now honored with an elegant marble plaque at the entrance of the De La Salle Main Chapel.
Sainthood
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints already preserved the cause of Bro. Kelly, but hasn't yet given the decree of nihil obstat and the title as "Servant of God" by the Holy See.
References
External links
1894 births
1945 deaths
People from County Wicklow
Roman Catholic religious brothers
Irish Roman Catholic missionaries
Presidents of De La Salle University
De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines
Irish expatriates in the Philippines
People executed by Japanese occupation forces
Irish people executed abroad
Extrajudicial killings in World War II
20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Presidents of universities and colleges in the Philippines
Roman Catholic missionaries in the Philippines |
23579311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kori%20Station | Kori Station | is a passenger railway station in the town of Okutama, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Kori Station is served by the Ōme Line, located 31.6 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks. The station can accommodate trains up to 6-car lengths. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 1 July 1944. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 683 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
JR East station information
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Tokyo
Ōme Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1944
Okutama, Tokyo |
23579315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatonosu%20Station | Hatonosu Station | is a passenger railway station in the town of Okutama, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Hatonosu Station is served by the Ōme Line, located 33.8 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
The station has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks. This station can only accommodate trains of 4-car lengths. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 1 July 1944. It became part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) with the breakup of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 181 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
Surrounding area
Shiromasu Dam
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Railway stations in Tokyo
Ōme Line
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1944
Okutama, Tokyo |
23579317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C15H26O | C15H26O | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C15H26O}}
The molecular formula C15H26O may refer to:
Bisabolol (Levomenol)
α-Cadinol
δ-Cadinol
τ-Cadinol
Carotol
Cedrol
Cubebol
Farnesol
Guaiol
Indonesiol
Ledol
Nerolidol
Patchouli alcohol
Viridiflorol
See also
Cadinol |
26719660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20in%20hammer%20throw | 1997 in hammer throw | This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1997 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 1997 World Athletics Championships in Athens, Greece, where the final of the men's competition was held on Sunday August 3, 1997.
Men
Records
1997 World Year Ranking
Women
Records
1997 World Year Ranking
References
tilastopaja
apulanta
apulanta
digilander.libero
IAAF
hammerthrow.wz
1997
Hammer Throw Year Ranking, 1997 |
23579320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalatha%20Atukorale | Thalatha Atukorale | Thalatha Atukorale (born 30 May 1963) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Atukorale was appointed as the cabinet minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare by President Maithripala Sirisena on 12 January 2015. She was given the additional duties of Minister of Justice on 25 August 2017. becoming the first woman to hold that position in Sri Lanka. She is the sister of Gamini Atukorale, former Minister and assistant leader of the United National Party.
Atukorale came into active politics in 2004, after the death of her brother Gamini, a former cabinet minister and assistant leader of the United National Party. She won a seat in the parliament at the 2004, 2010 and the 2015 elections from Rathnapura district.
See also
List of political families in Sri Lanka
Minister of Justice (Sri Lanka)
References
Specific
1963 births
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
People from Ratnapura
Alumni of Musaeus College
Alumni of Bishop's College, Colombo
Sinhalese lawyers
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Samagi Jana Balawegaya politicians
United National Party politicians
Women's ministers of Sri Lanka
21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians
Female justice ministers
Justice ministers of Sri Lanka |
26719692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep%20Our%20Fire%20Burning | Keep Our Fire Burning | "Keep Our Fire Burning" is a single by the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks. The single was only released in Finland.
Keep Our Fire Burning is an old Hanoi Rocks-song from 1983, that was never recorded on a release or played live. Guitarist Andy McCoy had originally written the song for a popular Japanese pop-artist Yasuaki Honda, and for his album Angel Of Glass. The song featured lyrics dealing with love, and are different from on this release. The next time the song was released by Pelle Miljoona in 1996 under the name "Kaipaan sua" ("I miss you" in English), on his Hyvät pahat ja hitit 2-compilation, again with different lyrics. Pelle Miljoona recorded the song again a year later with a new band. This version also featured Andy McCoy on guitar.
When McCoy and Monroe reformed Hanoi Rocks in the early 2000s, Monroe found the song in a pile of old demo-tapes, and wanted the reborn Hanoi Rocks to record it. Monroe and McCoy wrote new lyrics to the song, and McCoy changed the intro of the song a little.
The B-side of the single, "Heaven Is Gonna Be Empty", is a cover of the Pearl Harbour song. Neither of the songs were featured on the band's album Another Hostile Takeover, but were released to promote the album.
Track listing
"Keep Our Fire Burning" - 3:49(McCoy/Monroe)
"Heaven Is Gonna Be Empty" - 2:47(Pearl Harbour)
Personnel
Michael Monroe - Lead vocals, saxophone, guitar, percussion
Andy McCoy - Lead guitar, backing vocals
Stevie Klasson - Rhythm guitar
Timpa Laine - Bass
Lacu - Drums
Pate Kivinen - Piano
Chart positions
Singles
References
Hanoi Rocks songs
2004 songs
Songs written by Andy McCoy
Songs written by Michael Monroe |
23579329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiromaru%20Station | Shiromaru Station | is a passenger railway station in the town of Okutama, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Shiromaru Station is served by the Ōme Line, located 35.2 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
The station has one side platform serving one bi-directional track. This platform can only accommodate trains for 4-car length. The station is unattended.
Platform
History
The station opened on 1 July 1944. It became part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) with the breakup of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 74 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
Tama River
Shiromaru Dam
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
JR East station information
Railway stations in Tokyo
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1944
Ōme Line
Okutama, Tokyo |
23579333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Coles%20%28diplomat%29 | John Coles (diplomat) | Sir Arthur John Coles (born 13 November 1937) is a retired British diplomat. He served as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Head of HM Diplomatic Service) from 1994 to 1997.
Offices held
References
External links
Interview with Sir Arthur John Coles & transcript, British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 2000
Living people
1937 births
People educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Members of HM Diplomatic Service
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Australia
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Jordan
Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs
20th-century British diplomats |
26719738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Way%20Ticket%20%282008%20film%29 | One Way Ticket (2008 film) | One Way Ticket is a 2008 Indian Malayalam-language film by Bipin Prabhakar starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Bhama in lead roles and Mammootty in a cameo appearance.
Plot
Kunjappu aka Jahangir (Prithviraj Sukumaran) is a jeep-driver who is a die-hard fan of Mammootty and also is the General Secretary of the Malappuram District unit of the Mammootty Fans’ Association. His family consists of his mother and three sisters, two of whom are married. They all want to see Kunjappu married and so a marriage-broker named Beeran is behind him in finding a match for Kunjappu.
Kunjappu has an uncle who keeps a distance from Kunjappu and his family. He has a young daughter called Sajira. To irritate this uncle, Kunjappu always goes about saying that he would marry only Sajira. The uncle takes it seriously and to prevent this from happening, he helps Beeran find more and more girls for Kunjappu, but he rejects all the proposals brought by Beeran.
In the meantime Kunjappu goes to attend a wedding and there he sees a girl called Raziya singing the Oppana. He tells his family that he is in love with Raziya, and that he intends to marry her. His uncle learns about this from Beeran and is happy. Preparations for the marriage begins. And then one day Kunjappu goes to Raziya’s college to meet her. And there he learns that it Raziya is a different girl and the girl he fell in love was Sunanda. Sunanda has an uncle named Karunakaran Ezhuthachchan. He and his son Sasi intend to grab Sunanda’s property and assets. Situations become worse from there and the 'Mega Star' Mammootty himself, had to intervene to solve the issues.
Cast
Prithviraj Sukumaran - Jahangir a.k.a. Kunjappu
Bhama - Sunanda
Balachandran Chullikadu - Balan Master
Nishanth Sagar - Bhadran
Govindankutty
Jaffar Idukki as Chandran
Aniyappan as Murali
Jagadish - Salahudeen
Salim Kumar - Sakkath Beeran
Tini Tom - Chandran
Manianpilla Raju
Sadiq
Prajod Kalabhavan
Radhika - Sajira
Jagathy Sreekumar - Bava Haji
Minu Kurian - Bava Haji's Wife
Thilakan - Karunakaran Ezhuthachan
Ambika Mohan - Sunanda's mother, (Gomathi)
Maya Viswanath
Lakshmi Priya - Zeenath
Manjusha Sathish - Amina
Deepika Mohan
Bose Venkat
Mammootty - Himself (Guest Appearance)
References
External links
2008 films
2000s Malayalam-language films
Malayalam-language films
Indian films
Films scored by Rahul Raj |
20482042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soumaya%20Keynes | Soumaya Keynes | Soumaya Anne Keynes (born 1 August 1989) is a British journalist and economist, who is currently the Britain economics editor at The Economist magazine, and the co-host of a podcast covering economic trade called Trade Talks. Her work at The Economist is focused on the US economy and the trade policies of Donald Trump's presidency. Her career in economic research began as a policy adviser for Her Majesty's Treasury in London, looking at banking and credit. Afterward, she worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, focusing on pensions and public finances.
Early life and family
Soumaya Keynes was born in Britain on 1 August 1989, to Zelfa Hourani and conservationist Randal Keynes. She has one sibling, her younger brother, Skandar Keynes (born September 5, 1991), a political adviser and former actor. Soumaya Keynes also worked as a child actress.
On her maternal side, her grandfather was Lebanese author Cecil Hourani, an advisor to the late Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba. The Hourani family were immigrants to Manchester from Marjeyoun in southern Lebanon. Cecil's two brothers were Albert Hourani, a historian of the Middle East, and George Hourani, philosopher, historian, and classicist.. Keynes is also of Persian and Turkish descent on this side of her family. Her maternal grandmother, Furugh Afnan, was the great-granddaughter of Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, making Keynes a great-great-great-granddaughter of Baha'u'llah. On her paternal side, she is the great-great-niece of John Maynard Keynes, a British economist who had a large impact on macroeconomic theory and policy. Keynes herself says it is partially because of this relationship that she initially avoided macro-economics in her studies, focusing instead on microeconomics.
Education
Keynes attended Trinity College, Cambridge for both her undergraduate and master's degrees. She completed a Bachelor's of Arts in Economics in 2010 (1st Class) and a MPhil Economics in 2011. She completed her MPhil with distinction. It was during her time at the University of Cambridge that she learned of, and decided to join, the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Career
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Keynes joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2012. During her work at the institute for Fiscal Studies she frequently published research with Carl Emmerson, Rowena Crawford, and Gemma Tetlow. Her work with the Institute covered economic reforms to the UK's state pension, the UK Government's fiscal policies, economic analyses of health variations in the UK and US, and a variety of other topics. Throughout her research papers she aimed to tell a story, moving from previous literature into how her work will either change what was previously thought, or expand upon what was previously thought. Her final report with the Institute for Fiscal Studies was published on May 22, 2015.
The Economist
Keynes joined The Economist in June 2015 after receiving an email from the magazine's economics editor asking her to apply for the position. She began by writing the Free Exchange column, which provides a literature review of recent papers in economics. Her first article with the column, Public Debt - How Much is Too Much, was published June 3, 2015. She was promoted to US economics and trade editor in June 2018, and in 2019 became the trade and globalization editor at The Economist.
Keynes has worked on multiple projects during her time with The Economist. Her early work had a wide scope and covered a variety of topics, such as the Big Mac Index. Her latest work has mostly focused on the United States Trade War under the Trump Administration. Recently she has covered the impacts of trade disputes such as the need for firms to reduce investments, the risks for firms in China and the US, the risks to the World Trade Organization, and the trade disputes the US has had with other countries around the world.
Keynes has been on The Economist radio podcast Money Talks multiple times. Much of her work on the podcast is in the same areas as her writing, focused on trade and the Donald Trump presidency. She has also done episodes in a similar vein to her previous work with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, examining the impact of economic research on public policy.
During her work with The Economist she has expressed multiple personal opinions on the material she covers. She has repeatedly stated that she feels Trump is damaging the economy through acting in an unpredictable manner. Keynes supports a rules based system for international trade, through bodies like the World Trade Organization, to resolve any discrepancies and disputes between countries.
Keynes' work, during her time with The Economist, is not restricted to solely their events and publications. She has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines, such as Prospect magazine. She has hosted and chaired events, such as the 2019 World Trade Symposium in New York, and participated as a panel member for a variety of panels. She is a Poynter fellow at Yale University, where she has talked on Trump's trade policy. Additionally, she's given multiple interviews both about her work and her transition from research to journalism.
Trade Talks Podcast
Keynes co-hosts the podcast Trade Talks with Chad Bown, an economist at The Peterson Institute for International Economics. The podcast began in 2017 and covers the intricacies of international trade policy from the perspective of two economists. They have covered topics such as the Trump Administration's legal battles with the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the impact of tariffs on washing machines.
The podcast frequently features notable guests from the World Bank, World Trade Organization, and various universities, newspapers, and research bodies. Examples include Caroline Freund of the World Bank and Peter Van den Bossche of the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern.
Select scholarship and works
Single-Tier Pension: What Does it Really Mean?
Working alongside Rowena Crawford and Gemma Tetlow, Keynes investigated the impact of the newest reforms to the UK pension system in 2013. The big change was a shift from the multi-tier pension system to the single-tier pension system, creating a simpler flat-rate. The pension would pay only one amount, £144, per week, meaning that high income earners, who contribute more, will get the same pension as low income earners. The paper analyzes both the short and long-run impacts of this change as well as the winners and losers of the change.
By comparing people's income under the previous system to their income under the new system the paper finds that in the short run there will be some winners. Women who will reach pension age in the first four years of the new system being implemented will receive greater benefit. This benefit is furthered for those who took time out of the workforce to care for children or disabled adults. The biggest winners of the new pension system would be those who spent an extended amount of time away from the workforce, those who did low paying work, and those who have been self employed for an extended period. Low income earners in the bottom quintile would see an average rise in weekly pension income of £3.97.
While there are short-term winners the changes ultimately lead those who are soon reaching retirement age to have mixed results, with 35% of men receiving gains and 61% of women. These findings differ dramatically from the numbers published by the Department for Work and Pensions in 2015, which state that 70% of men and 75% of women will benefit from the single-tier pension. The paper finds, significantly, that only 17% of those closest to retirement will actually receive a pension that is the single tier entitlement. Some 23% of earners will receive pensions worth more than the single tier amount while 61% will receive pensions that are less than the single-tier amount. Keynes stated that despite the system not being entirely a single payout it would allow for greater ease in predicting future pension payments.
The report finds that in the long run there are significantly more losers than winners. Firstly, those who have previously claimed the second state pension will receive less. The largest losers, however, are young people and high income earners. A high-income earner who is going to work for 35 years will lose up to £2,300 in pension money under the new system compared to what they would have received under the old system. A low-income earner who plans to work for a further 35 years will experience losses of £1,000.
The report finds that the system, while incurring loses for future pensioners in the United Kingdom, does have reason to cut back. The aging population will lead to increased spending on pensions over the next 50 years, public pension expenses as a percentage of national income would rise from 5.4% in 2012 to 9.1% in 2062 if the current two-tiered system is maintained. Switching to the one-tier system reduces the long-run spending to 8.4% of national income in 2062.
Post-election Austerity: Parties' Plans Compared
Much of Keynes' work at the Institute for Fiscal Studies revolved around current political affairs. She published research alongside fellow Institute for Fiscal Studies researchers Rowena Crawford, Carl Emmerson, and Gemma Tetlow in the lead up to the 2015 United Kingdom General Election. The research examined the fiscal spending and borrowing plans of each of the United Kingdom's major political parties. They projected, for the course of the next government's term, what net borrowing and net spending of public funds would be. Overall the researchers faced difficulties in trying to determine the true intentions of the parties, as not all were forthcoming with their full spending and borrowing plans. Ultimately the researchers had to estimate multiple pieces of parties' plans in order to determine the real numbers that would be used by the next government.
David Cameron's conservative party had not stated what level of public borrowing they were aiming to achieve, but they had outlined specific plans for public spending. The researchers were able to determine that if a Conservative government was elected the public spending would fall by 5.2% of national income between 2014 and 2019. A surplus of 0.2% of national income would arise in the final year, 2019. They, also, determined that the conservative plan would result in slightly less than a £4 billion tax cut in the UK, when they factor in anti-avoidance measures a net tax increase of £1 billion would occur. Furthermore, they found the Conservatives would rapidly raise the retirement age after getting elected.
Ed Miliband's Labour Party had, like the conservative party, released limited information on how much public borrowing they intended to carry out as government. This meant the researchers were forced to make a few key assumptions. They assumed labour would maintain the current government spending plan in place until 2016, and then they would freeze the government's unprotected departments and balance the budget by 2019. Based on Labour's plan and these assumptions they determined a Labour government would have borrowing fall by 3.6% from 2015 to 2019, ultimately reaching 1.4% of national income in 2019. They determined debt would rise in 2016-2017 and labour would have a £6 billion tax rise, that increases to £12 billion when anti-avoidance measures are factored in.
Their research also covered the policies of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Liberal-Democrats. They found the Liberal-Democrats to be the most transparent party and determined their plan would lead to net borrowing dropping by 3.9% of national income until 2018, at which point it would reach 1.1% of national income. When factoring in anti-avoidance measures they would have a £12 billion tax rise. The SNP would have borrowing drop by 3.9% until 2020, ultimately reaching 1.4% of national income that year. The SNP's plan would be revenue neutral on its taxation, and has factored in anti-avoidance measures.
When the conservative party won the 2015 general election this research proved valuable for others who sought to examine the impacts of their plans over the course of the coming years. Allowed for research after the election to focus on the personal allowance for income tax, the UK's retirement age, and the effect of reduced spending on public services.
Women and Economics - Inefficient Equilibrium
Keynes has, throughout her years as an economist and especially throughout her time at The Economist, focused on women in economics, and why there are so few of them. She has done multiple podcasts on the topic, including a three-part special for the BBC, she has given a TED Talk and a talk at Yale University about the issue, and, most notably, wrote a special in the 2017 Economist's Christmas Specials publication titled Women in Economics - Inefficient Equilibrium. The piece focuses on the disparity between men and women in the field of research economics and why this matters for the profession. The article was influential in encouraging other economists to examine the issue.
Keynes highlights that only 20% of European, and 15% of American, senior economists are female. This trend is unique to economics, most other disciplines in the social sciences are closer to gender parity. The issue begins with less women going into economics at the undergraduate level, and women being more skeptical of economics when they do enter the field. There are 2.9 men for every woman in undergraduate economics programs worldwide. Furthermore, women are much more likely to drop out than their male counterparts along the path to a tenure track position. A male student that earns a B in their first undergraduate class is much less likely to drop out than a female student.
The issue continues when women are working to achieve tenure positions at universities. Women are promoted to tenure at a much lower rate than men, 29% compared to 56%. This occurs for a variety of reasons. Women need to publish more papers than their male counterparts to have the same chance at tenure promotions. Women are published less often than men, it's argued this is in part due to women going into fields of economics that would be less familiar to the editors of major papers (who are usually men) and therefore less likely to be published. Furthermore, when women are published they face a higher bar than men. Co-authoring a paper leads to an 8% increase in a man's likelihood of promotion, whereas only a 2% increase for a woman. This is partially because the names of authors on economics papers appear in alphabetical order, rather than in order of workload. Another barrier to tenure for women in economics is student evaluations. Student evaluations have been shown to discriminate against women, leading to greater difficulty in achieving tenure.
Keynes argues that this is an issue as men and women approach economics differently, so losing one half means that economics cannot operate as well as it should. She highlights that women are more open to programs involving income redistribution than men, meaning that only having men as economists means there is not a representative sample. She argues that the gap between male and female economists, which is currently growing, must shrink in order to solve this issue. Keynes states this won't be easy, economics has an image problem, seen as a mostly male field. Furthermore, women won't feel they belong until more women are in economic faculty positions, but this can't happen until more women join economics; both must precede the other.
After Keynes published her work in 2017, further research published in 2019 backed up what she had reported.
Personal life
Keynes married in 2018, and also used to sing as a soprano with the 18th Street Singers.
References
The Economist people
Living people
1989 births
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
British women economists
English people of Turkish descent
English people of Iranian descent
English people of Lebanese descent |
26719748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Copland | Charles Copland | Charles MacAlester Copland was an Anglican priest.
Born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 April 1910 and educated at Denstone College, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon, he was ordained in 1934 and began his career with a curacy at Peterborough Parish Church, after which he was a Mission Priest in Chanda District, Maharashtra, until 1953. He was then Rector of St Mary's, Arbroath until 1959 when he became Provost of St John's Cathedral, Oban-a post he held for twenty years. Between 1977 and 1979 he was also Dean of Argyll and The Isles.
He died four months short of his hundredth year on 12 December 2009.
Notes
1910 births
2009 deaths
People educated at Denstone College
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
Scottish Episcopalian clergy
Provosts of St John's Cathedral, Oban
Deans of Argyll and The Isles |
23579335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasen%20Ali | Hasen Ali | Mohammed Thambi Hasen Ali (Hasan Ali) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
In January 2003 Ali was elected secretary general of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC).
Ali was appointed as the SLMC's National List MP in the Sri Lankan Parliament in April 2004. He resigned from Parliament in April 2008 to contest the Eastern Provincial Council elections. He was subsequently elected to EPC from Ampara district but resigned in July 2008. He was then reappointed as SLMC's National List MP.
Ali was appointed a United National Front National List MP in April 2010.
References
1945 births
Living people
Alumni of Zahira College, Colombo
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the Eastern Provincial Council
People from Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress politicians
Sri Lankan Moor engineers
Sri Lankan Moor politicians
Sri Lankan Muslims
State ministers of Sri Lanka |
20482048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Procter | Peter Procter | Peter Roderick Procter (born 16 January 1930 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a British former cycling champion, rally driver and racing driver. Shortly after his birth he moved to Harrogate, and then to Alne Hall in the village of Alne, near York. Following the premature death of his parents, he moved back to Bradford, where he took up cycling. Procter competed in all types of cycle racing at home and on the Continent, but excelled in hill climbs, winning the British championship in 1951.
After becoming disillusioned with the UK cycling, and after the British Olympic Committee failed to select both him and other top cyclists of the time to represent Great Britain in the Olympics, Procter dropped out of professional cycling to concentrate on his building company in Bradford. He was soon involved in rallying. He competed in events including the RAC Rally, Tulip Rally, Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally), Tour de France Automobile and Monte Carlo Rally. Procter also competed in the Le Mans 24 Heures race several times, and raced in many Grands Prix, his highest position second in the Berlin Grand Prix.
Procter's racing career ended in 1966 when he was hit from behind in a saloon car race at Goodwood. After several somersaults, the car burst into flames and Procter was left with third degree burns to 65 per cent of his skin. After many months of treatment and operations, he left hospital and returned home to Yorkshire, where he lives with his wife and family.
Procter has returned to driving a few times, including racing his original Sunbeam Tiger at the Le Mans Historic in 2002, and is still involved in motorsport, a member of the British Racing Drivers Club at Silverstone.
References
Tigers United
1930 births
Living people
Cyclists from Yorkshire
English racing drivers
English rally drivers
British cycling road race champions
Sportspeople from Bradford
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
World Sportscar Championship drivers |
26719759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channomuraena%20vittata | Channomuraena vittata | Channomuraena vittata is a rare species of moray eel from the Anguiliformes order found in reefs. It is commonly known as the broadbanded moray, banded moray, Chinese moray, double-ended moray, or the long-jawed moray.
Detailed description
The broadbanded moray is a large, thick, muscular moray that can grow up to 150 cm in length, although its common length is 80cm. The fins are confined to the posterior part of the tail, which is short and lacks pectoral and pelvic fins. It has no scales and produces a mucus over its thick skin. It has rather small eyes positioned at the end of the short snout. It has numerous and short, sharp teeth inserted into a large and profound jaw that extends back into the head. In addition, there is a second jaw, the pharyngeal jaw located further down the throat, used to capture and transport the prey into the throat. It possesses a posterior nostril in short tube. It has gills positioned far back behind the head. Its anus is located at the posterior third of the total length of its body.
Determination sign
The distinctive features are the small cranium, the anterior position of the eyes, an enlarged lower jaw that projects beyond upper jaw and 13 to 16 dark bars or bands throughout the body.
Occurrence
Only native cases have been found, no invasive species.
Atlantic ocean: Ascension Island, the Cape Verde Islands, Annobon Island, and Sao Tome Island, Bermuda, the Bahamas, in the Gulf of Mexico from northwestern Cuba, in the Caribbean from Mona Island, Puerto Rico to St. Vincent, Colombia, Curacao to Margarita Island, St. Paul's Rocks and Brazil (Bahia).
In the Indo-pacific: Reunion and Mauritius and Christmas Island, Palau, and the Hawaiian Islands, Kiribati Island, Palmyra Island, Micronesia (Pohnpei), Indonesia (Bali).
Ecology
Habitat: Subtidal rocks, rocky reefs and coral reefs. It is an uncommon bottom dwelling species. Uniquely snake-like in appearance and behavior, it is a benthic and solitary species mostly found in outer reef slopes under ledges and in holes. It is secretive and nocturnal.
Depth range: 5 - 100 meters, but usually around 40 meters of depth.
Food
Being a relatively newly discovered species, its feeding habits are still unknown.
Spawning
Moray eels are known to have very long migrations for spawning in open waters, where the eggs are then fertilized by the male outside of the female’s body, yet the spawning rituals specific for the broadbanded moray are still unknown, as they are hard to capture.
Importance
This species is captured occasionally and consumed in local fisheries. It is also known to be sought for aquarium fish trade.
Conservation/risk
There are currently no major threats to this species apart from the occasional impact from local fisheries and the aquarium trade.
There are no species-specific conservation measures.
Legislation
According to the IUCN Red List Status, it is classified as Least Concern.
References
Böhlke, E.B., McCosker, J.E. and Böhlke, J.E. 1989. Family Muraenidae.
Böhlke, E.B. and McCosker, J.E. 1997. Review of the moray eel genus Scuticaria and included species
https://churaumi.okinawa/en/fishbook/1459836498/
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/190071/78938337
https://www.fishbase.de/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1097&lang=english
Muraenidae
Fish described in 1845
Fish of the Dominican Republic |
20482085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Numbers%20Start%20with%20the%20River | The Numbers Start with the River | The Numbers Start with the River is a 1971 American short documentary film about small-town life in Iowa. Produced by Donald Wrye for the United States Information Agency, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
The Numbers Start with the River at the National Archives and Records Administration
1971 films
1971 short films
1971 documentary films
1971 independent films
1970s short documentary films
American independent films
American short documentary films
English-language films
Documentary films about Iowa
Films shot in Iowa
Rural society in the United States
Films directed by Donald Wrye
United States Information Agency films |
20482109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20force%20ensign | Air force ensign | An Air force ensign is a flag used by a national air force.
With the creation of independent air forces in the first half of the 20th century, a range of distinguishing flags and ensigns were adopted. Such flags may often feature a roundel in the national colours.
Notable examples include:
Royal Air Force Ensign
Royal Australian Air Force Ensign
Royal Canadian Air Force Ensign
Royal New Zealand Air Force Ensign
Air force flags
Some countries, such as the United States, designate their national air force standards as flags not ensigns. See the Flag of the United States Air Force for an example.
References
* |
26719765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Pascoe | Barry Pascoe | Barry George Pascoe (23 January 1944 – 23 June 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Pascoe started his career at North Adelaide in the SANFL, amassing 25 games as a ruck-rover. He spent 12 months on the sidelines in 1966 in order to be cleared to join his brother Bob at North Melbourne.
After just one season, he crossed to St Kilda to again play beside his brother, who had left following a pay dispute. He had a good first season in 1968, playing 20 games and finishing as the club's fourth best vote getter in the Brownlow Medal count. Despite being used as a ruck-over he became known for his ability to find goals and the following season kicked 13 goals for the second successive year. A cruciate ligament injury to his knee ended his career in 1970.
References
1944 births
North Adelaide Football Club players
North Melbourne Football Club players
St Kilda Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from South Australia
2007 deaths |
17341592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%202008%20in%20sports | May 2008 in sports |
31 May 2008 (Saturday)
Athletics:
Usain Bolt of Jamaica sets a new world record in the 100 metres, running 9.72 seconds in the Reebok Grand Prix in New York City.
Baseball:
Manny Ramirez becomes the 24th Major League Baseball player with 500 career home runs, connecting off the Baltimore Orioles' Chad Bradford for a solo shot in the seventh inning of a 6–3 Boston Red Sox win over the Orioles at Camden Yards.
Cricket:
2008 Indian Premier League
2nd Semifinal — Chennai Super Kings 116/1 (14.5 ov.) beat Kings XI Punjab 112/8 (20 ov.) by 9 wickets
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
Final- 81/8 (37.4 ov) beat 80 (39.5 ov.) by 2 wickets
3rd Place- 189 (46.3 ov.) beat 93 (42.4 ov.) by 96 runs
5th Place- 119 (42.1 ov.) beat 104 (37 ov.) by 15 runs
7th Place- 157/8 (46.1 ov.) beat 153 (45.5 ov.) by 2 wickets
9th Place- 182/3 (43.2 ov.) beat 181 (48.2 ov.) by 7 wickets
11th Place- 116/4 (35.2 ov.) beat 113 (29.3 ov.) by 6 wickets
Football:
Europeada 2008
Danes in Germany 15 Catalans 1
Rhaetians 5 Germans in Hungary 1
Germans in Denmark 19 North Frissians 4
Welsh 0 Germans in Poland 2
Aromunians 0 South Tyrol 3
Croats in Serbia 0 Roma in Hungary 2
Occitaniians 2 Cimbrians 1
Sorbs 4 Croats in Romania 1
Ice hockey:
2008 Stanley Cup Finals, Game 4 at Pittsburgh:
Detroit Red Wings 2, Pittsburgh Penguins 1 — Red Wings lead series 3–1
Rugby union:
Guinness Premiership Final at Twickenham, London:
London Wasps 26–16 Leicester Tigers
In front of a capacity crowd of 81,600, a world record for a club match in rugby union, Wasps give their retiring captain Lawrence Dallaglio a grand send-off by winning their fourth Premiership title in six seasons.
Super 14 Final at Christchurch:
Crusaders 20–12 Waratahs
30 May 2008 (Friday)
Basketball:
NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Game 6 at Auburn Hills, Michigan:
Boston Celtics 89, Detroit Pistons 81 — Celtics win series 4–2
The Celtics advance to their first NBA Finals in over 20 years.
Cricket:
2008 Indian Premier League
1st Semifinal — Rajasthan Royals 192/9 (20 ov.) beat Delhi Daredevils 87 (16.1 ov.) by 105 runs
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
Semifinal 1- 142 (49.3 ov.) beat 105 (45.5 ov.) by 37 runs
Semifinal 2- 220/5 (50 ov.) beat 136 (38.2 ov.) by 84 runs
5th Place Semifinal 1- 126 (45.4 ov.) beat 117 (38.5 ov.) by 9 runs
5th Place Semifinal 2- 203/8 (50 ov.) beat 149 (46.4 ov.) by 54 runs
9th Place Semifinal 1- 238/6 (50 ov.) beat 139 (39.3 ov.) by 99 runs
9th Place Semifinal 2- 202/5 (50 ov.) beat 150 (39.5 ov.) by 52 runs
29 May 2008 (Thursday)
Association football:
Scottish Premier League:
Gretna were demoted a further two divisions, due to their financial instability. They are scheduled to play their 2008–09 games in the Scottish Third Division, however this is not certain due to Gretna having no squad members.
FA Premier League:
Henk ten Cate is relieved of his role as assistant manager of Chelsea, 5 days after the sacking of manager Avram Grant.
Major League Baseball
San Francisco Giants 4, Arizona Diamondbacks 3
In a no-decision, pitcher Randy Johnson throws 9 strikeouts, tying him for the second-most strikeouts in an MLB career with Roger Clemens, with 4,672.
Basketball:
NBA Western Conference Finals, Game 5 at Los Angeles:
Los Angeles Lakers 100, San Antonio Spurs 92 — Lakers win series 4–1
Lakers advance to their first NBA Finals in the post-Shaq era.
Cricket:
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
201 (34.5 ov.) beat 67/5 (27/27 ov.) by 52 runs(D/L)
Rain shortened Japan's innings to 27 overs
151/4 (37.2 ov.) beat 145 (47.1 ov.) by 6 wickets
88/4 (22 ov.) vs. -No Result
182 (50 ov.) vs. -No result
The match between Japan and Singapore was a replay from 26 May. All other matches are replays from 28 May. The rained out matches will not be replayed. These matches conclude the group stage of the tournament.
Vying for 1st place is , , ,
Vying for 5th place is , , ,
Vying for 9th place is , , ,
28 May 2008 (Wednesday)
Basketball:
NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Game 5 at Boston:
Boston Celtics 106, Detroit Pistons 102 — Celtics lead series 3–2
Cricket:
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
vs. -Match abandoned without a ball bowled
vs. -Match abandoned without a ball bowled
vs. -Match abandoned without a ball bowled
vs. -Match abandoned without a ball bowled
vs. -Match abandoned without a ball bowled
vs. -Match abandoned without a ball bowled
The ICC Event Technical Committee, as per 12.1.6 of the ICC World Cricket League Division 5 Playing Conditions, decided not to replay all of group B's abandoned games( vs. , vs. , vs. ). Group A's abandoned matches, along with a match between and are to be played on 29 May.
Ice hockey:
2008 Stanley Cup Finals, Game 3 at Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh Penguins 3, Detroit Red Wings 2 — Red Wings lead series 2–1
Shooting:
ISSF World Cup in Milan, Italy
, the reigning World Junior Champion, equals the world record in 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol with 591 points and enters the final one point ahead of teammate Ralf Schumann. Increasing the gap to the runner-up by over three points, he then raises Schumann's week-old final world record from 790.0 to 794.0.
27 May 2008 (Tuesday)
Basketball:
NBA Western Conference Finals at San Antonio, Texas:
Los Angeles Lakers 93, San Antonio Spurs 91 — Lakers lead series 3–1
Cricket:
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
107/4 (28.1/33 ov.) beat 104 (32.4/33 ov.) by 6 wickets
Match reduced to 33 overs a side due to rain
111/7 (33.4/36 ov.) beat 110 (33.2/36 ov.) by 3 wickets
Match reduced to 36 overs a side due to rain
220/9 (46/46 ov.) beat 83 (32.1/46 ov.) by 137 runs
Match reduced to 46 overs a side due to rain
145 (29.3/30 ov.) beat 76 (20.2/30 ov.) by 69 runs
Match reduced to 30 overs a side due to rain
115 (24.2/26 ov.) tied 115/8 (26/26 ov.)
Match reduced to 26 overs a side due to rain
67/3 (15.1 ov.) beat 66 (39.3 ov.) by 7 wickets
26 May 2008 (Monday)
Basketball:
NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Game 4 at Auburn Hills, Michigan:
Detroit Pistons 94, Boston Celtics 75 — Series tied 2–2
Ice hockey:
2008 Stanley Cup Finals, Game 2 at Detroit:
Detroit Red Wings 3, Pittsburgh Penguins 0 — Red Wings lead series 2–0
Cricket:
Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2008
1st Test- 431 (126.5 ov.) & 167 (56.5 ov.) beat 312 (106 ov.) & 191 (67 ov.) by 95 runs
lead the 3 Test series 1–0
New Zealand cricket team in England in 2008
2nd Test- 202 (83.3 ov.) & 294/4 (88 ov.) beat 381 (90.3 ov.) & 114 (41.2 ov.) by 6 wickets
lead the 3 Test series 1–0
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
97/3 (28.1 ov.) beat 96 (38.2 ov.) by 7 wickets
204 (49.4 ov.) beat 96 (46.4 ov.) by 108 runs
89/3 (19.2/24 ov.) beat 88/9 (24/24 ov.) by 7 wickets
Match reduced to 24 overs a side due to rain
129/3 (19.5 ov.) beat 128 (34.4 ov.) by 7 wickets
206/4 (32/32 ov.) beat 78 (25.2/32 ov.) by 128 runs
Match reduced to 32 overs a side due to rain
vs. -Match abandoned without a ball bowled
25 May 2008 (Sunday)
Ice hockey:
2008 Memorial Cup final in Kitchener, Ontario:
Spokane Chiefs (Western Hockey League) 4, Kitchener Rangers (Ontario Hockey League) 1
Auto racing:
92nd Indianapolis 500: Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana
(1) Scott Dixon (2) Vítor Meira (3) Marco Andretti
Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo, Monaco
(1) Lewis Hamilton (2) Robert Kubica (3) Felipe Massa
NASCAR Sprint Cup: Coca-Cola 600 in Concord, North Carolina
(1) Kasey Kahne (2) Kyle Busch (3) Greg Biffle
Basketball:
NBA Western Conference Finals at San Antonio, Texas:
San Antonio Spurs 103, Los Angeles Lakers 84 — Lakers lead series 2–1
Cricket:
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
49/5 (6.3 ov.) beat 46 (24 ov.) by 5 wickets
87/0 (14.5 ov.) beat 85 (31.1 ov.) by 10 wickets
238/7 (50 ov.) beat 19 (14.5 ov.) BY 219 runs
Mehboob Alam becomes the first bowler to take all ten wickets in an innings in an ICC recognized tournament.
184/7 (47.3 ov.) beat 183/9 (50 ov.) by 3 wickets
125/2 (34.1 ov.) beat 124/8 (50 ov.) by 8 wickets
All matches above are replays of abandoned matches from May 24.
Rugby sevens: IRB Sevens
London Sevens at Twickenham
Cup Final: 19–14
clinch the overall series crown with one round to spare by winning the Plate competition.
24 May 2008 (Saturday)
Basketball:
NBA Eastern Conference Finals at Auburn Hills, Michigan:
Boston Celtics 94, Detroit Pistons 80 — Celtics lead series 2–1
Cricket
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
78/4 (9 ov.) beat 75 (28.1 ov.) by 6 wickets
70 (28.5 ov.) vs. 2/0 (0.1 ov.)- No Result
108/1 (21 ov.) vs. - No result
105/5 (24.2 ov.) vs. - No result
91/1 (23 ov.) vs. - No result
140/0 (26 ov.) vs. - No result
Ice hockey:
2008 Stanley Cup Finals, Game 1 at Detroit:
Detroit Red Wings 4, Pittsburgh Penguins 0 – Red Wings lead series, 1–0
Rugby union:
Heineken Cup Final in Cardiff
Toulouse 13–16 (Ireland) Munster
Super 14 semifinals
Crusaders 33–22 Hurricanes in Christchurch
Waratahs 28–13 Sharks in Sydney
Shooting:
ISSF World Cup in Milan, Italy
becomes the tenth woman to break maximum 400 points in the qualification round of 10 m Air Rifle, and sets a new final record after a score of 105.0 (out of the possible 109.0) in the final round.
23 May 2008 (Friday)
Basketball:
NBA Western Conference Finals at Los Angeles:
Los Angeles Lakers 101, San Antonio Spurs 71 — Lakers lead series 2–0
Cricket
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
70/3 (20.2 ov.) beat 69 (39.4 ov) by 7 wickets
150/1 (27.4 ov.) beat 148/7 (50 ov.) by 9 wickets
360/3 (50 ov.) beat 177 (39.5 ov.) by 183 runs
179 (35.2 ov.) beat 87 (40.2 ov.) by 92 runs
205 (48.4 ov.) beat 135 (36 ov.) by 70 runs
189 (49.4 ov.) beat 96 (41.4 ov.) by 93 runs
22 May 2008 (Thursday)
Basketball:
NBA Eastern Conference Finals at Boston:
Detroit Pistons 103, Boston Celtics 97 — Series tied 1–1
Detroit hands Boston its first home loss in the 2008 NBA Playoffs, and takes home court advantage.
Soccer:
2008 Toulon Tournament:
The 36th edition of the U-21 tourny is shaping up as and have already qualified to the semi-finals from group A which included the host and the 2 time back to back U-21 Euro Champions . and meet tomorrow to finalize the group A standings.
21 May 2008 (Wednesday)
Association football:
2007–08 UEFA Champions League Final
Manchester United 1–1 Chelsea (6–5 penalty shootout)
Cristiano Ronaldo kicks off the scoring for the Red Devils in the 26th minute, and Frank Lampard answers for the Blues in the 45th minute. After a clean second half and scoreless extra time, Ronaldo has United's third penalty kick saved by Petr Čech. But John Terry misses the fifth (and what would have been final) penalty kick for Chelsea to make it square again. The Red Devils seal the Champions League/Premier League double when Edwin van der Sar saves Nicolas Anelka's attempt in the seventh round.
Basketball:
NBA Western Conference Finals at Los Angeles:
Los Angeles Lakers 89, San Antonio Spurs 85 — Lakers lead series 1–0
The Lakers erase a 20-point third-quarter deficit to take the series lead.
20 May 2008 (Tuesday)
American football:
NFL owners unanimously vote to opt out of the league's collective bargaining agreement with its players' union. This could lead to a season without a salary cap in 2010 and a lockout in 2011. The league, however, said that negotiations for a new agreement will continue. (ESPN)
The league's owners also award Super Bowl XLVI (2012) to the soon-to-be-opened Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Basketball:
NBA Eastern Conference Finals at Boston:
Boston Celtics 88, Detroit Pistons 79 — Celtics lead series 1–0
2008 NBA draft Lottery:
The Chicago Bulls earn the first pick in the draft despite having only a 1.7% chance of winning the lottery. The Miami Heat, with the league's worst record, draw the second pick.
19 May 2008 (Monday)
Baseball:
Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester throws a no-hitter in Boston's 7–0 home win over the Kansas City Royals. It is the first no-hitter in the majors since teammate Clay Buchholz performed the feat against Baltimore last September. Lester gives up nothing but two walks and strikes out nine. Jason Varitek becomes the first catcher to catch four Major League no-hitters.
Basketball:
NBA Conference Semifinals:
Western Conference Semifinals:
San Antonio Spurs 91, New Orleans Hornets 82 — Spurs win series 4–3
The Spurs, with Manu Ginóbili leading all scorers with 26 and Tim Duncan picking up a double-double, survive a furious fourth-quarter Hornets comeback in New Orleans that saw a 17-point lead reduced to 3 within the last two minutes. They now travel to Los Angeles to start the Western Conference Finals with the Lakers.
Cricket:
New Zealand cricket team in England in 2008
1st Test- 319 (111.3 ov.) drew with 277 (86.2 ov.) & 269/6 (86.2 ov.)
Ice hockey:
2008 Stanley Cup playoffs
Detroit Red Wings 4, Dallas Stars 1 — Red Wings win series 4–2
In the Western Conference finals, the Red Wings win the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl as conference champions, and will face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup Finals.
Shooting:
ISSF World Cup in Munich, Germany
, the three-time Olympic champion, wins the high-class 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol competition with a new final world record of 790.0 points, 1.2 points higher than his own year-old mark.
18 May 2008 (Sunday)
Auto racing:
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters: Round 4 at EuroSpeedway, Germany
(1) Paul di Resta (2) Timo Scheider (3) Mattias Ekström
FIA GT Championship: Monza 2 Hours in Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy
(1) Christophe Bouchut & Xavier Maassen (2) Alexandre Negrao & Miguel Ramos (3) Philipp Peter & Allan Simonsen
World Rally Championship: Rally d'Italia Sardegna around Porto Cervo, Italy
(1) Sébastien Loeb (2) Mikko Hirvonen (3) Jari-Matti Latvala
Ice hockey:
2008 IIHF World Championship:
5–4
Ilya Kovalchuk scores his first goal of the tournament to tie the game with only five minutes left in regulation time, and his second in overtime, giving Russia its second title (24th if combined with the Soviet Union). Silver medalist Dany Heatley is named the tournament's most valuable player after a total of 20 points.
2008 Stanley Cup playoffs:
Pittsburgh Penguins 6, Philadelphia Flyers 0 — Penguins win series 4–1
The Penguins comfortably win the Pennsylvania derby to win the Prince of Wales Trophy as Eastern Conference champions, and clinch a place in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Basketball:
NBA Conference Semifinals:
Eastern Conference Semifinals:
Boston Celtics 97, Cleveland Cavaliers 92 — Celtics win series 4–3
Paul Pierce scores 41 points, including the clinching free throws with 7.9 seconds left, and the Celtics survive a 45-point onslaught from LeBron James at home.
Motorcycle racing:
Moto GP F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship: French motorcycle Grand Prix, at Le Mans Bugatti Circuit near Le Mans, France.
(1) Valentino Rossi (2) Jorge Lorenzo (3) Colin Edwards
17 May 2008 (Saturday)
Association football:
2008 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, London
Cardiff City 0–1 Portsmouth
1948–49 Nwankwo Kanu's goal in the 37th minute is enough to give Pompey their first major trophy since winning back-to-back league titles in 1949 and 1950 and their first FA Cup since 1939.
Auto racing:
NASCAR Sprint Cup: Sprint All-Star Race in Concord, North Carolina
(1) Kasey Kahne (2) Greg Biffle (3) Matt Kenseth
Kahne becomes the first driver to enter the All-Star Race via fan voting to win the non-points race and its $1 million first prize.
Horse racing:
U.S. Triple Crown
2008 Preakness Stakes: (1) Big Brown (2) Macho Again (3) Icabad Crane
Big Brown becomes the fourth horse to complete the Derby–Preakness double while still unbeaten, winning by 5¼ lengths. He will be the eleventh horse to enter the Belmont Stakes with a chance at the Triple Crown since Affirmed became the most recent horse to win it in 1978.
Ice hockey:
2008 IIHF World Championship:
4–0
Goaltender Niklas Bäckström saves all 36 shots in Quebec City as Finland claims the bronze medals.
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16 May 2008 (Friday)
Baseball:
Jayson Werth hits three home runs and ties a Philadelphia Phillies record with eight runs batted in in the Phillies' 10–3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
2008 Summer Olympics
South African double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who had previously been disqualified from participating in the Olympic Games by the IAAF because he uses prosthetic legs, has won an appeal of the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The IAAF accepted the decision. He is cleared to qualify for individual events, and has already been selected for relay events.
Basketball:
NBA Conference Semifinals:
Western Conference Semifinals:
Los Angeles Lakers 108, Utah Jazz 105, Lakers win series 4–2
A furious comeback from the Jazz on their home floor fizzled out when Deron Williams and Andrei Kirilenko missed three-pointers that could have sent the game into overtime in the dying seconds.
The two other ongoing series—New Orleans Hornets–San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference and the Boston Celtics–Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference—were extended to Game 7, with the home teams winning all games so far in both series.
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15 May 2008 (Thursday)
Baseball:
The Oakland A's score an unearned run off Aaron Laffey in the second inning of their 4–2 loss to the Cleveland Indians, ending the scoreless streak of Indians starting pitchers at 44⅓ innings. The streak was the longest of its type in the Major Leagues in 34 years. Tribe starters still haven't given up an earned run in 50⅓ innings. (AP via Yahoo)
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14 May 2008 (Wednesday)
Association football:
2008 UEFA Cup Final in Manchester
Zenit St. Petersburg 2–0 Rangers
Zenit break a scoreless tie in the 72nd minute with an Igor Denisov goal, and the Russians put an exclamation point on their win with a Konstantin Zyryanov goal in added time. The game is marred by rioting among Rangers supporters in the Manchester city centre.
Tennis:
Citing burnout, World No. 1 woman Justine Henin announces her retirement, effective immediately. (AP via ESPN)
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13 May 2008 (Tuesday)
Basketball:
NBA Conference Semifinals:
Eastern Conference Semifinals:
Detroit Pistons 91, Orlando Magic 86, Detroit wins series 4–1
National Football League:
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in a news conference following a three-hour meeting with former New England Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh regarding the Spygate affair, indicates that the league learned nothing new as a result of the meeting. (AP via ESPN)
Golf:
Annika Sörenstam, the leading money-winner in the history of the LPGA, announces her retirement effective at the end of the 2008 season. (AP via ESPN)
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12 May 2008 (Monday)
Major League Baseball
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Cleveland Indians 0, 10 innings.
In the top of the fifth inning during the second game of a doubleheader, Indians second baseman Asdrúbal Cabrera turns the 14th unassisted triple play in MLB history, and the fourth turned by a second baseman. He started it by catching a line drive by Lyle Overbay for the first out, then touched second base to bring the second out on Kevin Mench, and tagged out Marco Scutaro for the third out.
Tennis
2008 Hamburg Masters
2008 Rome Masters
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11 May 2008 (Sunday)
Association football:
Barclays Premiership
Wigan Athletic 0–2 Manchester United
Man U win their 10th league title with a win at JJB Stadium. Cristiano Ronaldo's 41st goal of the season and a goal from Ryan Giggs, on his 758th appearance for the club, tying Sir Bobby Charlton's record, score the goals which gives Sir Alex Ferguson the title, by two points.
Chelsea 1–1 Bolton Wanderers
Avram Grant's side come up short in their title ambitions, after stuttering to a draw at home to Bolton. Andriy Shevchenko had given the Blues the lead, but a late equaliser from Kevin Davies helped to cement Bolton's place in the Premiership and diminish Chelsea's slim chance of the title.
Portsmouth 0–1 Fulham
Fulham complete their escape from the relegation zone with a hard-fought victory at FA Cup finalists Portsmouth. Danny Murphy's goal gave the Londoners the vital three points that they required to relegate both Birmingham City and Reading.
Birmingham 4–1 Blackburn
Derby County 0–4 Reading
Derby County finished the worst season for a Premiership member with one win, eight draws and 29 losses for a total of 11 points and a goal differential of minus-69 (with 20 goals scored as a team, were outscored by three players and 89 against, also premiership records) surpassing the 2003–04 and 2005–06 Sunderland teams, and their 29 losses tied the 2005–06 Black Cats' total losses.
Everton 3–1 Newcastle
Middlesbrough 8–1 Manchester City
Sunderland 0–1 Arsenal
Tottenham Hotspur 0–2 Liverpool
West Ham United 2–2 Aston Villa
Auto racing:
Formula One: Turkish Grand Prix, at Istanbul Park, Turkey:
(1) Felipe Massa (2) Lewis Hamilton (3) Kimi Räikkönen
Le Mans Series: 1000km of Spa in Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
(1) Nicolas Minassian , Marc Gené & Jacques Villeneuve (2) Alexandre Prémat & Mike Rockenfeller (3) Olivier Panis & Nicolas Lapierre
V8 Supercar: BigPond 400, at Barbagallo Raceway, Australia:
(1) Mark Winterbottom (2) Garth Tander (3) Jamie Whincup
Motorcycle racing:
Superbike: Monza Superbike World Championship round, at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy:
Race 1 (1) Max Neukirchner (2) Noriyuki Haga (3) Troy Bayliss
Race 2 (1) Noriyuki Haga (2) Max Neukirchner (3) Ryuichi Kiyonari
U.S. college basketball:
The ESPN series Outside the Lines reports that former USC star O. J. Mayo received thousands of dollars in cash and merchandise from a runner for a sports agent during Mayo's high school career and his only season at USC. These benefits are against NCAA rules. (ESPN)
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10 May 2008 (Saturday)
Auto racing:
NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dodge Challenger 500 in Darlington, South Carolina
(1) Kyle Busch (2) Carl Edwards (3) Jeff Gordon
Major League Baseball:
With a 3–2 victory over the Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres pitcher Greg Maddux becomes just the ninth pitcher in Major League history with 350 career wins. (ESPN.com)
Shooting:
ISSF World Cup in Kerrville, Texas
equals his own final world record in Trap, hitting 148 of 150 targets.
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7 May 2008 (Wednesday)
Ice hockey:
National Hockey League:
The Toronto Maple Leafs fire head coach Paul Maurice.
Major League Baseball:
Cincinnati Reds rookie Joey Votto hits three of the Reds' seven home runs in their 9–0 win over the Chicago Cubs. Cubs pitcher Jon Lieber gives up four homers in the second inning, becoming the second hurler in team history to give up four home runs in an inning. (AP via Yahoo)
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6 May 2008 (Tuesday)
Basketball:
Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers wins his first National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award.
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4 May 2008 (Sunday)
Auto racing:
A1 Grand Prix: Round 10 at Brands Hatch, Great Britain
(1) Narain Karthikeyan (2) Robbie Kerr (3) Neel Jani
A1 Team Switzerland win the third A1 Grand Prix season ahead of A1 Team New Zealand and A1 Team Great Britain.
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters: Round 3 at Mugello, Italy
(1) Jamie Green (2) Paul di Resta (3) Tom Kristensen
Basketball:
Euroleague Final Four in Madrid
Championship
Maccabi Tel Aviv 77–91 CSKA Moscow
Behind a balanced attack that saw six players score in double figures, CSKA win their second Euroleague crown in three years and sixth overall. CSKA's Trajan Langdon, who led the winners with 21 points, is named Final Four MVP.
Third place:
Montepaschi Siena 97–93 TAU Cerámica (overtime)
NBA Playoffs–First Round:
Eastern Conference First Round:
Boston Celtics 99, Atlanta Hawks 65, Boston wins series 4–3
Despite being blown out at the TD Banknorth Garden, the Hawks were able to survive the Celtics at the Philips Arena to force game 7 in which the Celtics easily won.
Ice hockey – National Hockey League:
2008 Stanley Cup playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinals
Pittsburgh Penguins 3, New York Rangers 2 (OT), Pittsburgh wins series 4–1
Western Conference Semifinals
Dallas Stars 2, San Jose Sharks 1, (4OT), Dallas wins series 4–2
Brenden Morrow scores a goal at the 9:03 mark of the fourth overtime period, the fifth-longest game in modern NHL history, to eliminate the Sharks.
Motorcycle racing:
Moto GP F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship: Chinese motorcycle Grand Prix, at Shanghai International Circuit near Shanghai, China.
(1) Valentino Rossi (2) Dani Pedrosa (3) Casey Stoner
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3 May 2008 (Saturday)
Track and field:
In the Jamaica International Invitational, Usain Bolt runs the 100 meter dash in 9.76 seconds, the second-fastest time ever recorded. Fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell set the world record of 9.74 seconds last year. (AP via Yahoo)
Auto racing:
NASCAR Sprint Cup: Crown Royal Presents the Dan Lowry 400 in Richmond, Virginia
(1) Clint Bowyer (2) Kyle Busch (3) Mark Martin
Polo
2008 World Polo Championship
beats 11–9 in the final to win the championship for the first time.
Horse racing:
U.S. Triple Crown
2008 Kentucky Derby: (1) Big Brown (2) Eight Belles (3) Denis of Cork
Favorite Big Brown wins by 4¾ lengths. Second-place finisher Eight Belles breaks both front ankles during the post-race cool-down and is euthanized.
British Triple Crown
2,000 Guineas Stakes: (1) Henrythenavigator (2) New Approach (3) Stubbs Art
NHL
2008 Stanley Cup playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinals
Philadelphia Flyers 6, Montreal Canadiens 4, Philadelphia wins series 4–1
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2 May 2008 (Friday)
Basketball:
Euroleague Final Four in Madrid — semifinals
Montepaschi Siena 85–93 Maccabi Tel Aviv
TAU Cerámica 79–83 CSKA Moscow
NBA Playoffs–First Round:
Eastern Conference First Round:
Cleveland Cavaliers 105, Washington Wizards 88, Cleveland wins series 4–2
Western Conference First Round:
Utah Jazz 113, Houston Rockets 91, Utah wins series 4–2
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1 May 2008 (Thursday)
NBA:
Kevin Durant of the Seattle SuperSonics is named NBA Rookie of the Year.
NHL
2008 Stanley Cup playoffs
Western Conference Semifinals
Detroit Red Wings 8, Colorado Avalanche 2, Detroit wins series 4–0
Association football: UEFA Cup semifinals, second leg
Zenit St. Petersburg 4–0 Bayern Munich: Zenit win 5–1 on aggregate
Dick Advocaat's side progress to their first major European final after a dominant performance over the former winners of the tournament. Goals from Pavel Pogrebnyak (2), Konstantin Zyryanov and Viktor Fayzulin inflict the joint-worst defeat suffered by Bayern in European competition. Pogrebnyak will miss the final however, after picking up a yellow card for an elbow to the face of Lúcio, having taken his scoring tally for the competition to 11.
Fiorentina 0–0 Rangers (aet): 0–0 on aggregate, Rangers win 4–2 on penalties
Walter Smith guided his 10-man Rangers team to their first European final since 1972 after a hard-fought display in Florence. Despite having Daniel Cousin sent off in extra time, Rangers held out for the duration and took the game to a penalty shootout. At first, things looked bad for the Scots, when Sébastien Frey brilliantly saved Barry Ferguson's penalty. Kuzmanović, Whittaker, Montolivo and Papac were all successful with their kicks to leave the score at 2–2. Fiorentina's third penalty-taker Fabio Liverani then saw his penalty saved by Neil Alexander to leave the shootout level. Brahim Hemdani then scored to make it 3–2, which meant that Christian Vieri had to score to keep the fate of the shootout in their hands. He ballooned the penalty over the bar, which left Nacho Novo to score the winning penalty and see Rangers into the final.
References
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20482112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovo%2C%20Sofia | Pavlovo, Sofia | Pavlovo () is a southern neighbourhood of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Part of the Vitosha municipality, it borders Buxton Neighbourhood to the northeast, Tsar Boris III Boulevard to the northwest, the Sofia ringroad (in this section known as the Nikola Petkov Boulevard) to the south and the Buxton Boulevard to the east. Pavlovo features mostly low - to mid-rise residential architecture, with houses and small blocks of flats dominating the skyline. The 5th Primary School and the 157th High School César Vallejo serve the neighbourhood.
Gallery
References
Neighbourhoods of Sofia |
26719835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud%20Rashdan | Mahmoud Rashdan | Mahmoud Rashdan (born 28 September 1986) is a Qatari footballer who is currently playing for Al Kharitiyath.
External links
QSL.com.qa profile
Goalzz.com profile
1986 births
Living people
Al-Rayyan SC players
Al Kharaitiyat SC players
Qatar Stars League players
Qatari footballers
Association football midfielders |
23579343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku-Tama%20Station | Oku-Tama Station | is a passenger railway station in the town of Okutama, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is the western-most station in the Tokyo Metropolis.
Lines
Oku-Tama Station is the western terminus of the Ōme Line, located 37.2 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
The station has one island platform serving two dead-headed tracks. The station is attended.
Platforms
Holiday Rapid Okutama trains and irregular trains are departed/arrived from/at Track 2. The departure melodies are used Donguri Korokoro. And, the melodies are different from track 1 to track 2.
History
The station opened on 1 July 1944 as . It was renamed Oku-Tama Station on 1 February 1971. It became part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) with the breakup of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.
Route buses
There are bus stops in Hikawa barn which Nishi Tokyo Bus has in the front of the station.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 966 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
Surrounding area
Okutama Town Hall
Tama River
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Railway stations in Tokyo
Ōme Line
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1944
Okutama, Tokyo |
23579349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%20Mori%20%28announcer%29 | Takeshi Mori (announcer) | is a Japanese television announcer and works for Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. After leaving Yomiuri TV, he will run a personal company "Mori chan".
He entered Yomiuri TV as a television announcer in 1983, and won the 1987 Silver Award from the Shingo-Ryūkōgo Taishō (lit. "Neologism-Buzzword Prize") with Jiro Shinbo for creating the buzzword neologism in response to the losing streak of the Hanshin Tigers during that time period.
References
1959 births
Living people
People from Shinagawa
Japanese television personalities |
23579354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dullas%20Alahapperuma | Dullas Alahapperuma | Dullas Daham Kumara Alahapperuma (born May 14, 1959) is a Sri Lankan politician, former Cabinet Minister of Information and Mass Media and a Matara District member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Early life
Alahapperuma was born on 14 May 1959 in Dikwella, Matara to Carolis Alahapperuma and Aslin Alahapperuma, who were principals of local schools.
Alahapperuma received his primary and secondary education at St. Servatius' College and Ananda College. Studied Political Science at the University of Iowa, for one and half years, but did not complete the degree
Family
He is married to popular singer Pradeepa Dharmadasa, daughter of P.K and Hema Dharmadasa of Galle, and has two children Mahima Induwara and Kaushika Nalanda.
See also
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
References
External links
Sri Lanka Parliament profile
‘I appreciate him as a politician but prefer the journalist in him’
1959 births
Living people
Alumni of Ananda College
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Provincial councillors of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sinhalese politicians |
17341593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Connor | Terry Connor | Terence Fitzroy Connor (born 9 November 1962) is an English former football player turned football coach who is currently Assistant Manager at Cardiff City.
He was born in Leeds and was a pupil at Foxwood School, Seacroft, Leeds. As a player, Connor scored 91 goals from 358 games in the Football League as a striker playing for Leeds United, Brighton & Hove Albion, Portsmouth, Swansea City and Bristol City. He was capped once for the England under-21 team.
He moved into coaching following his playing retirement, briefly working as a coach at both Bristol Rovers and Bristol City before joining Wolves in 1999. After holding a variety of positions he served as Wolves' manager for thirteen games during their Premier League relegation in 2012.
Playing career
Connor scored on his senior debut for Leeds United aged 17, in a 1–0 win over West Bromwich Albion on 17 November 1979. He made 108 appearances in total for Leeds over four seasons, scoring 22 goals. He joined Brighton & Hove Albion in exchange for Andy Ritchie, in March 1983. However, he was unable to appear in their FA Cup Final appearance just months later as he was already cup-tied. The club ended the season relegated. The majority of Connor's games for Brighton came in the Second Division. His form here won him an England under-21 cap in November 1986, when he played and scored against Yugoslavia under-21. He scored 51 goals in 156 appearances before leaving Brighton as they dropped into the third tier in 1987. One of his most memorable goals for Brighton came when they knocked Liverpool out of the 1983-84 FA Cup, a season in which Liverpool won the Football League Cup, European Cup and were crowned English champions. He moved along the South Coast to sign for Portsmouth in a £200,000 deal.
Portsmouth were newly promoted to the First Division at the time of Connor's arrival, but despite his goals they were relegated after just one season. He remained at Fratton Park for three seasons before joining Swansea City for £150,000 in August 1990. After a solitary full season with the Swans in the third tier, he moved to Bristol City in September 1991. He failed to make much impact at Bristol City, playing just 16 times and scoring once; he was also briefly loaned back to Swansea in autumn 1992. He dropped into non-League football in summer 1993 when he signed for Conference club Yeovil Town.
Coaching career
Early roles
After retiring, he became one of the coaching staff at Swindon Town. Later, Connor and family friend Maurice Gardner turned to coaching, working under John Ward at Bristol Rovers, before moving across the city to work at Bristol City.
Move to Wolves
After John Ward moved to become assistant manager at Wolverhampton Wanderers, he recruited Connor to their coaching staff in August 1999.
Connor served as a coach – at youth, reserve and first team level – under a succession of Wolves' managers before being promoted to assistant manager under Mick McCarthy in August 2008.
Promotion to Manager
In February 2012, he was given the role of manager by Wolves until the end of the current season, after the sacking of Mick McCarthy. chief executive Jez Moxey confirmed that the position was offered to one other candidate, widely considered by the media to be Alan Curbishley, who refused the position before Connor was appointed. This was despite the club's chief executive Jez Moxey stating that the job would be given to an experienced manager.
Connor took charge with Wolves in 18th place, one of five teams at the foot of the table looking to avoid the three relegation places. His first game in charge brought a 2–2 draw at Newcastle United on 25 February 2012. However, his side then suffered seven consecutive defeats which left them rooted to the bottom of the table and were relegated on 22 April after a 0–2 defeat to Manchester City. In his thirteen games, he failed to achieve any wins and gained only four points from a possible 39. The team finished bottom of the table with one of the lowest points tallies in their history (25).
In May 2012 Wolves announced that Connor would be succeeded by Ståle Solbakken as a permanent appointment during the summer. Connor had also been interviewed for the position. It was agreed that he would return to his position as assistant manager following Solbakken's appointment, but he departed after just four games of the new season.
Ipswich Town
On 1 November 2012, Connor renewed his working relationship with Mick McCarthy, as he was appointed Ipswich Town's new assistant manager after McCarthy took charge at the club. On 2 February 2013, Connor took charge of Ipswich while McCarthy was ill and won 4–0 against Middlesbrough.
On 30 June 2014 Mick McCarthy and Terry Connor agreed a new three-year deal with Ipswich. On 10 April 2018 they left Ipswich Town and cut the contract short with a 1–0 win over Barnsley.
Republic of Ireland
On 25 November 2018, the FAI announced that Terry Connor would be the assistant coach of the Republic of Ireland for their upcoming European Championships 2020 campaign, joining Mick McCarthy.
Managerial statistics
References
Player Profile at Leeds-fans.org.uk
1962 births
Living people
People from Seacroft
English footballers
Black British sportspeople
Footballers from Leeds
Association football forwards
England under-21 international footballers
Football managers from Leeds
Leeds United F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Portsmouth F.C. players
Swansea City A.F.C. players
Bristol City F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
English football managers
Premier League managers
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. managers
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. non-playing staff
Ipswich Town F.C. non-playing staff
Bristol Rovers F.C. non-playing staff
Cardiff City F.C. non-playing staff |
17341599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administration%20Building%2C%20Carnegie%20Institution%20of%20Washington | Administration Building, Carnegie Institution of Washington | The Administration Building, Carnegie Institute of Washington is a Beaux-Arts style building designed by architects Carrere and Hastings, and located at 1530 P Street NW in Washington, D.C. It houses the Carnegie Institution for Science, a philanthropic scientific research organization founded in 1902 by Andrew Carnegie. In recognition of the building's architecture and its unique tenant, the building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. The building was also designated a contributing property to the Sixteenth Street Historic District in 1978.
Description and history
The Carnegie Institution for Science, formerly known as the Carnegie Institute of Washington, is located in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood, north of Scott Circle at the southeast corner of 16th and P Streets NW. It is a large and roughly rectangular structure, two stories in height, its exterior finished in Indiana limestone. Facing west toward 16th Street is its monumental front facade, with ten full-height Ionic columns (six in front and four in the center) supporting an entablature and flat balustraded roof. The original main building was basically square, with small flanking wings. To this a rear addition was made in 1937, using similar materials and design. The interior houses offices and meeting spaces, as well as a 450-seat auditorium.
Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Institute of Washington in 1902 with an endowment of $10 million. The front portion of the building, designed by Carrere and Hastings, was built in 1910, and the rear addition, built in 1937, was designed by William Adams Delano. The building presently houses administrative functions of the Institute, which has its primary research functions elsewhere. The organization's mission is to fund talented individuals so that they can perform basic research for the betterment of mankind without significant constraints.
On April 2, 2021 Carnegie president Eric Isaacs announced that the building has been sold to Qatar for an undisclosed sum.
See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
National Register of Historic Places listings in the upper NW Quadrant of Washington, D.C.
References
External links
Carnegie Institution for Science
Buildings and structures in Washington, D.C.
Dupont Circle
Buildings and structures completed in 1910
National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
Carrère and Hastings buildings
Beaux-Arts architecture in Washington, D.C.
Neoclassical architecture in Washington, D.C. |
26719851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20UCI%20Track%20Cycling%20World%20Championships%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20team%20pursuit | 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit | The Men's Team Pursuit is one of the 10 men's events at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Ballerup, Denmark.
Seventeen teams of 4 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.
The Qualifying and the Finals were held on March 25.
World record
Qualifying
Finals
References
Qualifying Results
Finals Results
Men's team pursuit
UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit |
26719857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Phineas%20Gordon | George Phineas Gordon | George Phineas Gordon (April 21, 1810 – January 27, 1878) was an American inventor, printer and businessman who developed the basic design of the most common printing press ever, the Gordon Letterpress.
Born in Salem, New Hampshire, where his family had lived for more than one hundred years, he was educated there and at Boston before deciding to become an actor. Failing to achieve a livelihood at this, he moved to New York where he became an apprentice printer. Upon learning the trade, he opened a job printing shop of his own. Around 1835 he began to experiment in press design. His first patent for a job-press was granted in 1851. While this press had many flaws, he began to manufacture it as the "Yankee" job press. Subsequently he introduced the "Turnover" and the "Firefly," which could produce 10,000 printed cards an hour. About 1858 he produced the "Franklin" press, which has ever since been known as the Gordon Jobber. (Gordon claimed that Benjamin Franklin had revealed the basic design of the press to him in a dream.) It was strong, well built, and easy to operate. The Gordon Press solved the problem of clam-shell presses (which previously had "snapped" and endangered pressmen's fingers) by having the platen open on cams, so that it was flat and lagged for the pressman as he fed the sheet, before closing parallel to the type bed.
Gordon began manufacturing presses in Rhode Island but in 1872 established his factory in Rahway, New Jersey. He secured over fifty patents for presses and accumulated a large fortune.
References
"Dictionary of American biography, under the auspices of the American council of learned societies," C. Scribner's sons, New York City, 1928.
19th-century American inventors
American printers
1878 deaths
1821 births
19th-century American businesspeople |
17341614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijing | Neijing | In advanced traditional Chinese kung fu (martial arts), Neijing (Traditional Chinese: 內勁; pinyin: nèijìng) refers to the conscious control of the practitioner's qi, or "life energy", to gain advantages in combat. Nèijìng is developed by using "Neigong" (Traditional Chinese: 內功; pinyin: nèigōng) (內功), or "internal exercises," as opposed to "wàigōng" (外功), "external exercises."
Li vs. Neijing
Practitioners of kung fu refer to two separate forms of personal force: Li (Traditional Chinese: 力) refers to the more elementary use of tangible physical (or "external") force, such as that produced by muscles. Neijing (Traditional Chinese:內勁) or Neigong (Traditional Chinese: 內功), in contrast, refer to "internal" forces produced via advanced mental control over psychic energy (the qi).
The degree of Li force one can employ in kung fu depends on several variables such as resilience of muscles, strength of bones, speed and timing of attack and so on. An effective way to enhance the Li force is to exercise one's muscles and bones by applying increasing pressure on them (weight training, gym exercises, etc.). The stronger one's muscles and bones become, the more powerful and skillful the level of kung fu is.
On the other hand, the level of the Neijing force depends on the extent one can exercise over one's will power to release an inner qi energy. Within the framework of Chinese martial arts, every person is believed to possess the inborn energy of qi. Martial artists can harness the force of qi so that it is strong enough to be applied in combat. When qi is being directed by one's will, it is called Neijing.
The Li force is observable when it is employed. Unlike the Li force, Neijing is said to be invisible. The "pivot point" essential to Li combat is not necessary in Neijing. At the point of attack, one must ‘song’ (loosen) himself to generate all Neijing energy one possesses and direct this energy stream through one's contact point with an opponent. The contact point only represents the gateway to conduct Neijing energy at the point of attack.
The kung fu component of Li force is limited by one's physical condition. When a person passes his/her prime age, one's kung fu ability will pass the optimum level, too. The degree of kung fu will decline when muscles and bones are not as strong as they used to be. On the other hand, the kung fu aspect of Neijing is said to continually grow as long as one lives.
Training concepts
The key to unlock and nurture Neijing is said to be the practice of ‘song’ (Traditional Chinese: 鬆 ). The term ‘song’ can function as a verb which means to keep one's mind and body loose resilient and expanding like the consistency of cotton or clouds or relaxed yet concentrated like the sharp alertness of cats immediately before attack. The term can also be used as an adjective which has the same meaning as described above. The greater the extent one can achieve ‘song’ and minimize the use of Li, the greater the release of Neijing force.
Neijing trainees are often reminded to refrain from using the Li force, because the energy of Neijing will be locked and blocked whenever the Li force is applied. So, Neijing and Li are said to be mutually exclusive.
The Taijiquan master Yang Chengfu used the concept of ‘song’ as a benchmark in his daily teaching. It was his daily routine to keep reminding his disciples to ‘song’ thoroughly more than 10 times when he inspected them.
References
Further reading
External links
From the Bible to Tai Chi
Li Yanxi's demonstration
Generating Martial Power (Jin)
Taiji master Wang Yongquan’s demonstration
Taiji master Ma Yueliang’s demonstration
Chinese martial arts |
23579356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landesliga%20Hannover | Landesliga Hannover | The Landesliga Hannover, called the Bezirksoberliga Hannover from 1979 to 1994 and 2006 to 2010, is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the second highest league in the German state of Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen). It covers the region of the now defunct Regierungsbezirk Hanover.
It is one of four leagues at this level in Lower Saxony, the other three being the Landesliga Lüneburg, the Landesliga Weser-Ems and the Landesliga Braunschweig.
The term Landesliga can be translated as State league.
Overview
The league's history goes back to 1979, when four new Bezirksoberligas (Braunschweig, Hannover, Lüneburg and Weser-Ems) were formed in the state of Lower Saxony. The Bezirksoberligas (6th tier) were set below the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen (4th tier) and the two Landesligas (5th tier) in the German football league system. In 1994, the two old Landesligas were dissolved, while the four Bezirksoberligas were renamed into Landesliga Braunschweig, Landesliga Hannover, Landesliga Lüneburg, and Landesliga Weser-Ems respectively. Due to the introduction of the new Regionalliga (IV) the new Landesligas still remained at the 6th tier of German football, however.
In 2006, the Landesliga was renamed into Bezirksoberliga again. The new Bezirksoberliga Hannover was made up of sixteen clubs, eleven from the Landesliga and five from the two Bezirksligas. A decider had to be played between the two third-placed teams in the Bezirksligas, which SV Nienstädt 09 won 2-0 over SG Diepholz. No club from the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-West was relegated to the league that season, all three relegated sides went to Weser-Ems. The league was formed in a reorganisation of the league system in Lower Saxony, whereby the four regional Landsligas were replaced by the Bezirksoberligas. Below these, the number of Bezirksligas was increased. In Hanover, the two Bezirksligas were expanded to four, as in the other regions, except Weser-Ems, which was expanded to five.
The Bezirksoberliga, like the Landesliga before, was set in the league system below the Verbandsliga and above the now four Bezirksligas, which were numbered from one to four. The winner of the Bezirksoberliga was directly promoted to the Verbandsliga, while the bottom placed teams, in a varying number, were relegated to the Bezirksliga. The Bezirksoberligas of Weser-Ems and Hanover form the tier below the Verbandsliga West, while those of Lüneburg and Braunschweig form the tier below the eastern division of the Verbandsliga.
In the leagues first season, 2006–07, the runners-up of the league, TSV Stelingen, had to play-off with the runners-up of the Bezirksoberliga Weser-Ems, SV Holthausen-Biene, a game they won 1-0 and thereby gained promotion. In the following season, only the league champions were promoted while, in 2009, the SV Ramlingen-Ehlershausen moved up a level as runners-up.
At the end of the 2007-08 season, with the introduction of the 3. Liga, the Verbandsliga was renamed Oberliga Niedersachsen-West. For the Bezirksoberliga, this had no direct consequences.
After the 2009-10 season, the two Oberligas () in Lower Saxony were merged to one single division. The four Bezirksoberliga champions that season were not be automatically promoted, instead they had to compete with the four teams placed ninth and tenth in the Oberliga for four more spots in this league.
On 17 May 2010, the Lower Saxony football association decided to rename the four Bezirksoberligas to Landesligas from 1 July 2010. This change in name came alongside the merger of the two Oberliga divisions above it into the Oberliga Niedersachsen.
Champions
Bezirksoberliga Hannover 1979–1994
Landesliga Hannover 1994–2006
Bezirksoberliga Hannover 2006–2010
Landesliga Hannover 2010–present
Promoted teams in bold.
References
Sources
Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen, An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga. DSFS.
Kicker Almanach, The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937. Kicker Sports Magazine.
Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945-2005 History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables. DSFS. 2006.
External links
Das deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables
The Lower Saxony Football Association (NFV)
Han
Football competitions in Lower Saxony
1979 establishments in West Germany
Sports leagues established in 1979
de:Landesliga Niedersachsen
nl:Bezirksoberliga Hannover |
26719860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYER | DYER | DYER (828 AM) was a radio station owned and operated by DCG Radio-TV Network. It was formerly known as Environment Radio under the management of then-mayor Edward Hagedorn until 2008, when it transferred to 1062 AM. Since then, the frequency has been off the air.
References
Radio stations in Puerto Princesa
Radio stations established in 1978
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
17341615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstechno%20NITI | Armstechno NITI | NITI () is a very light-weight, stealthy remote-controlled Bulgarian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It has been designed and constructed in 2006 by Armstechno Ltd. It mounts a color surveillance camera, a thermal vision camera, and has an option for adding chemical and radioactive contamination dosimeters. Its main tasks are air surveillance of contaminated areas, regions with possible terrorist group activity, artillery correction or observation of natural disaster-stricken areas. NITI has a maximum fuel capacity of 38 L. It also has a programmable autopilot system and GPS system.
In 2011, NITI was evaluated by the Ministry of the Interior (MI) of Bulgaria, but the design was rejected due to numerous defects, an unreliable design and the inability of the aircraft to perform its tasks. The CEO of Armstechno Co. blamed the unsatisfactory performance of its UAVs on the poor training of MI operators.
Specifications
See also
RQ-2 Pioneer
RQ-11 Raven
References
External links
BGsoldier.eamci.bg (in Bulgarian)
Unmanned aerial vehicles of Bulgaria
2000s Bulgarian military reconnaissance aircraft
NITI
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Twin-boom aircraft
Unmanned military aircraft |
26719869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Bari | Omar Bari | Oumar Barry (born July 18, 1986) is a Guinean-born Qatari footballer who is a goalkeeper.
External links
QSL.com.qa profile
Goalzz.com profile
1986 births
Living people
Al-Rayyan SC players
Association football goalkeepers
Qatari footballers
Qatar international footballers
Qatari people of Guinean descent
Guinean footballers
El Jaish SC players
Qatar Stars League players
Qatari Second Division players
Naturalised citizens of Qatar |
26719902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Palmer | Albert Palmer | Albert Palmer may refer to:
Albert Palmer (American politician)
Albert Palmer (Australian politician)
Albert Palmer (Canadian politician)
Sir Albert Palmer (judge), Chief Justice of the Solomon Islands
Albert Marshman Palmer, American theatrical manager |
23579370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palitha%20Range%20Bandara | Palitha Range Bandara | Palitha Range Bandara (born September 8, 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the State Minister of Irrigation and Water Resource Management and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from Anamaduwa.
Born Range Bandarage Palitha Range Bandara as the sixth child to a family of eleven children in the remote village of Karuwalagaswewa off Puttalam. He received his education at Ananda College Puttalam. He joined the Sri Lanka Police as a police constable in 1983 and served until he retired on August 24, 2000 in the grade of Sub-Inspector of Police. He claimed political victimization forcing his retirement and the National Police Commission recommended that he be promoted to the grade of Assistant Superintendent of Police from his retirement grade of Sub Inspector in December 2017.
After leaving the police service, he contested the general election in 2000 and was elected to Parliament from Anamaduwa from the United National Party being the third on the preferential list. In the general election in 2001 he topped the list of preferential votes. In the following general election he was reelected to Parliament. Following the change of government in 2015, he was appointed State Minister of Power and Energy.
References
Specific
1962 births
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
State ministers of Sri Lanka
Sinhalese police officers |
44506115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Washington%20Kastles%20season | 2014 Washington Kastles season | The 2014 Washington Kastles season was the seventh season of the franchise in World TeamTennis (WTT).
The Kastles won their fourth consecutive King Trophy when they defeated the Springfield Lasers in the WTT Championship Match. The Kastles were led by Martina Hingis who was named WTT Final Most Valuable Player.
Season recap
Drafts
With the Kastles winning the WTT championship in 2013, they had the last pick in each round of both WTT drafts. In the marquee player draft, the Kastles chose Martina Hingis and Venus Williams both of whom they had protected. The Kastles protected Leander Paes, Bobby Reynolds and Anastasia Rodionova from their 2013 squad in the roster draft. With Hingis committed to playing full-time, the Kastles knew they did not need all four of their picks in the roster draft. So, they traded their first round pick to the Springfield Lasers in exchange for the Lasers' third round pick and financial consideration. The Lasers used the pick they acquired from the Kastles to select Anna-Lena Grönefeld. The Kastles passed on the third round pick (20th overall) that they acquired in the trade with the Lasers.
New home venue
In May 2014, the Kastles announced they were moving to Kastles Stadium at the Charles E. Smith Center an indoor venue on the campus of George Washington University in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The stadium has a seating capacity of 3,212 for Kastles matches.
Other player transactions
On July 6, 2014, the Kastles announced the signings of Jarmila Gajdošová as a substitute player and Kevin Anderson as a wildcard player. On July 18, 2014, the Kastles signed Shelby Rogers as a substitute player. On July 22, the Kastles signed Sloane Stephens as a wildcard player.
Before the Eastern Conference Championship Match, Bobby Reynolds announced that he would retire from professional tennis at the end of the 2014 WTT season.
Season opener
On July 7, 2014, the Kastles opened their season with a dominant 24–16 overtime win on the road against the Boston Lobsters. The Kastles won the first four sets of the match led by Leander Paes and Bobby Reynolds (5–4 in men's doubles), Jarmila Gajdošová and Anastasia Rodionova (5–2 in women's doubles), Reynolds (5–3 in men's singles) and Rodionova (5–1 in women's singles) to build a 20–10 lead. After losing the fifth set of mixed doubles, Gajdošová and Paes won the second game of overtime to seal the match. The win was the Kastles' 13th straight victory going back to the 2013 season.
Home opener at new stadium
On July 9, 2014, in their first-ever match at the new Kastles Stadium at the Charles E. Smith Center, the Kastles hosted the Boston Lobsters and won all five sets to cruise to their 15th straight win by a score of 25–8. The Kastles got set wins from Martina Hingis and Leander Paes (5–1 in mixed doubles), Hingis (5–0 in women's singles), Kevin Anderson (5–1 in men's singles), Hingis and Anastasia Rodionova (5–2 in women's doubles) and Bobby Reynolds and Paes (5–4 in men's doubles). The victory improved the Kastles' record to 3 wins and 0 losses.
Dominant set-winning streak
On July 13, 2014, the Kastles' incredible 20-set winning streak came to an end when Leander Paes and Bobby Reynolds dropped the third set of men's doubles in the season's sixth match against the Philadelphia Freedoms. The streak began when Jarmila Gajdošová and Paes won the third set of the second match of the season. Even though they dropped a set, the Kastles got set wins Bobby Reynolds (5–1 in men's singles), Martina Hingis and Anastasia Rodionova (5–3 in women's doubles), Hingis (5–1 in women's singles) and Hingis and Paes (5–4 in mixed doubles) to earn a 23–14 victory, improve their record to 6 wins and 0 losses and extend their winning streak to 18 consecutive matches.
Winning streak snapped
On July 14, 2014, the Kastles saw their 18-match winning streak come to an end when the dropped four of five sets at home against the San Diego Aviators and fell by a score of 22–18.
Playoff berth
On July 18, 2014, despite losing their second straight match and third of the last four to fall to a record of 7 wins and 3 losses, the Kastles clinched their fourth consecutive playoff berth when the Philadelphia Freedoms defeated the Boston Lobsters, 25–14. The Kastles' 24–10 road loss to the Springfield Lasers was the worst defeat in franchise history.
Kastles clinch home-court advantage
On July 22, 2014, the Kastles won their third straight match and improved their record to 10 wins and 3 losses with a 23–15 victory over the Springfield Lasers to clinch home-court advantage for the Eastern Conference Championship Match. The Kastles got set wins from Sloane Stephens (5–2 in women's singles), Leander Paes and Bobby Reynolds (5–4 in men's doubles), Martina Hingis and Anastasia Rodionova (5—2 in women's doubles) and Hingis and Paes (5–2 in mixed doubles).
Eastern Conference Championship
On July 24, 2014, the Kastles won their fourth consecutive Eastern Conference Championship with a 21–16 overtime victory at home against the Philadelphia Freedoms. Bobby Reynolds got the Kastles started winning the first 10 point of the match on his way to a 5–3 set win in men's singles over Frank Dancevic. Taylor Townsend's 5–2 win over Martina Hingis in women's singles gave the Freedoms an 8–7 lead. Hingis bounced back in mixed doubles teaming with Leander Paes for a 5–2 set win over Liezel Huber and Marcelo Melo to put the Kastles back in front, 12–10. In a bizarre scene during the fourth set of women's doubles, Huber was struck in the back of the head by a Townsend forehand shot. Huber was unable to continue. She was diagnosed with a concussion, taken to the hospital and later released. With no substitute available, Townsend was left to finish the set alone. Playing two against one, Townsend was not permitted to return serves on Huber's side and dropped the set, 5–1, to give the Kastles a commanding 17–11 lead. Dancevic and Melo took the final set of men's doubles, 5–3, from Paes and Reynolds to cut the Kastles' lead to 20–16 and send the match to overtime. Paes and Reynolds won the first game of overtime to close out the match.
King Trophy
On July 27, 2014, the Kastles won their fourth consecutive King Trophy as World TeamTennis Champions with a dominant 25–13 victory over the Springfield Lasers in Springfield, Missouri. Although WTT predetermined that the Western Conference champion would host the WTT Final, the Kastles, as the higher seed, were treated as the "home" team in determining order of play. The Kastles won all five sets en route to the title, They were led by Martina Hingis who was named WTT Finals Most Valuable Player after earning a 5–2 win over Olga Govortsova in the second set of women's singles, teaming with Anastasia Rodionova for a 5–1 win over Govortsova and Līga Dekmeijere in the fourth set of women's doubles and closing out the match with Leander Paes with a 5–4 mixed doubles win over Govortsova and Ross Hutchins. Bobby Reynolds, playing the final professional tennis match of his career, got the Kastles started with a 5–4 men's singles win over Michael Russell in the first set before teaming with Paes for a 5–2 men's doubles win over Hutchins and Russell in the fourth set. The Kastles' fourth consecutive championship matched the WTT record set by the Sacramento Capitals who won four straight from 1997 to 2000.
Event chronology
February 11, 2014: The Kastles selected Martina Hingis and Venus Williams, both of whom they had protected, in the WTT Marquee Player Draft.
March 11, 2014: The Kastles selected Leander Paes, Bobby Reynolds and Anastasia Rodionova, all of whom they had protected, in the WTT Roster Player Draft.
July 6, 2014: The Kastles signed Jarmila Gajdošová as a substitute player and Kevin Anderson as a wildcard player.
July 9, 2014: The Kastles played their first match at their new home venue, Kastles Stadium at the Charles E. Smith Center, and defeated the Boston Lobsters, 25–8.
July 18, 2014: The Kastles signed Shelby Rogers as a substitute player.
July 18, 2014: Despite suffering their worst loss in franchise history, a 24–10 road drubbing at the hands of the Springfield Lasers, the Kastles clinched their fourth consecutive playoff berth with a record of 7 wins and 3 losses when the Philadelphia Freedoms defeated the Boston Lobsters.
July 22, 2014: The Kastles signed Sloane Stephens as a wildcard player.
July 22, 2014: The Kastles won their third straight match and improved their record to 10 wins and 3 losses with a 23–15 victory over the Springfield Lasers to clinch home-court advantage for the Eastern Conference Championship Match.
July 24, 2014: The Kastles defeated the Philadelphia Freedoms 21–16 in overtime to win their fourth consecutive Eastern Conference Championship.
July 27, 2014: The Kastles defeated the Springfield Lasers 25–13 to win their fourth consecutive King Trophy as World TeamTennis Champions. Martina Hingis was named WTT Finals Most Valuable Player.
Draft picks
Since the Kastles won the WTT Championship in 2013, they had the last selection in each round of both WTT drafts.
Marquee player draft
The Kastles protected both Martina Hingis and Venus Williams from their 2013 team. The selections made by the Kastles are shown in the table below.
Martina Hingis committed to playing full-time for the Kastles for the 2014 season.
Roster player draft
With Hingis committed to playing full-time, the Kastles knew they would not need all four of their draft choices. The Springfield Lasers had their eyes on an unprotected player and were willing to deal for the Kastles' top pick. The Kastles traded the seventh selection in the first round to the Lasers in exchange for the sixth selection in the third round (20th overall) and financial consideration. With the pick they acquired from the Kastles, the Lasers selected Anna-Lena Grönefeld. The selections made by the Kastles are shown in the table below.
Match log
Regular season
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Eastern Conference Championship Match
World TeamTennis Championship Match
Note:
Team personnel
Reference:
On-court personnel
Murphy Jensen, Coach
Kevin Anderson
Jarmila Gajdošová
Martina Hingis
Leander Paes
Bobby Reynolds
Anastasia Rodionova
Shelby Rogers
Sloane Stephens
Venus Williams
Front office
Mark D. Ein, Owner
Kevin Wynne, General Manager
Notes:
Statistics
Players are listed in order of their game-winning percentage provided they played in at least 40% of the Kastles' games in that event, which is the WTT minimum for qualification for league leaders in individual statistical categories.
Men's singles – regular season
Women's singles – regular season
Men's doubles – regular season
Women's doubles – regular season
Mixed doubles – regular season
Team totals – regular season
Men's singles – playoffs
Women's singles – playoffs
Men's doubles – playoffs
Women's doubles – playoffs
Mixed doubles – playoffs
Team totals – playoffs
Men's singles – all matches
Women's singles – all matches
Men's doubles – all matches
Women's doubles – all matches
Mixed doubles – all matches
Team totals – all matches
Transactions
March 11, 2014: The Kastles traded the seventh pick of the first round of the WTT roster draft to the Springfield Lasers in exchange for the sixth pick in the third round (number 20 overall) and financial consideration. The Lasers used the selection they acquired in the trade to draft Anna-Lena Grönefeld. The Kastles passed on using the selection they acquired in the trade.
July 6, 2014: The Kastles signed Jarmila Gajdošová as a substitute player and Kevin Anderson as a wildcard player.
July 18, 2014: The Kastles signed Shelby Rogers as a substitute player.
July 22, 2014: The Kastles signed Sloane Stephens as a wildcard player.
Individual honors and achievements
Martina Hingis was named WTT Final Most Valuable Player.
Hingis led WTT in winning percentage in both women's singles and doubles and was third in mixed doubles during the regular season.
Anastasia Rodionova was second (behind Hingis) in winning percentage in women's doubles during the regular season.
Leander Paes was fourth in winning percentage in men's doubles and sixth in mixed doubles during the regular season.
Bobby Reynolds was fifth in winning percentage in men's doubles during the regular season.
Charitable support
During each night of the 2014 season, the WTT team with the most aces received US$1,000 toward a local charity of the team's choice as part of a program called Mylan Aces. In the case of a tie, the award was split accordingly. The Kastles earned $4,500 for the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington - Clubhouse #2 through the program.
See also
2014 World TeamTennis season
Sports in Washington, D.C.
References
External links
Washington Kastles official website
World TeamTennis official website
Washington Kastles season
Washington Kastles |
17341617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phouvong%20district | Phouvong district | Phouvong is a district (muang) of Attapeu province in southern Laos.
Settlements
Ban Arapruich, Ban Chom, Ban Dak-Lay, Ban Ekchoum-Phoukaniang, Ban Gnangteu, Ban Khouy, Ban Kong-Ek, Ban Kongmi, Ban Lapoung, Ban Lomlay, Ban Namavong Noy, Ban Onglouang, Ban Pakha, Ban Phiadouang, Ban Phiaha, Ban Phiahom, Ban Phiakhamdaonang, Ban Phiakhamkak, Ban Phialu Gnai, Ban Phialu Noy, Ban Phianong, Ban Phiapang, Ban Phiaseuk, Ban Phiaviang, Ban Phokandong, Ban Phomoun, Ban Phomoun Gnai, Ban Renthuk, Ban Senchay, Ban Senkeo, Ban Senkhamphon, Ban Senlouang, Ban Tanong, Ban Thattamo, Ban Tong-Asa, Ban Vianglouang, Ban Vongxay, Ban Vongxay Noy
References
Districts of Attapeu province |
17341618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlachturm | Perlachturm | The 70-metre-tall Perlachturm is a belltower in front of the church of St. Peter am Perlach in the central district of Augsburg, Germany. It originated as a watchtower in the 10th century. The existing Renaissance structure was built in the 1610s by Elias Holl, who also designed the neighbouring Town Hall.
Name
The exact origin of the name "Perlachturm" is unknown, with several different theories attempting to explain it. Of the three constituent parts of the name, "Per," "lach" and "turm," only the latter presents no controversy and means "Tower." The conventional wisdom holds that the first two parts originated from the medieval fairs involving bears on the central square. In Old High German, Per means bear and lach describes a show, or fair. An information plaque on the tower itself says that it came from the Latin "perlego" ("read through"). There are 258 steps to the observation deck.
Gallery
See also
Turamichele (fighting Archangel Michael at Perlachturm)
Mary Untier of Knots in St. Peter am Perlach
External links
Pictures of the tower
AugsburgWiki (german)
Towers completed in the 17th century
Watchtowers in Germany
Buildings and structures in Augsburg |
44506118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinocereus%20rigidissimus | Echinocereus rigidissimus | Echinocereus rigidissimus, commonly known as the Arizona Rainbow Cactus or Rainbow Hedgehog Cactus is a solitary, growing cactus, that rarely branches or offsets with age. Echinocereus rigidissimus grows to a height of up to 30 cm, and a width of 11 cm when mature, with pectinate radial spines curved slightly towards the stem, the new spines are initially reddish to magenta and fades to a yellow or light pink colour when they mature. Echinocereus rigidissimus, flowers in flushes throughout the spring season, with multiple buds borne atop the plant from younger areoles, the flowers are bright pink in colour with a white coloured throat. If pollination is successful, Echinocereus rigidissimus forms circular shaped, greenish to dark purplish fruit, with white flesh and dark brown to black seeds approximately 3 months after flowering. Since it rarely offsets, Echinocereus rigidissimus is propagated by seed.
Habitat
The natural habitat of Echinocereus rigidissimus is distributed abundantly throughout Chihuahua and Sonora in Mexico, as well as in the United States in Arizona and New Mexico. It grows at elevation from 1200 to 2000 metres above sea level. This cactus prefers south facing slopes and is rarely seen on flat ground. It prefers the 1500 meter elevation. Plants are fire resistant from small grass fires but cannot tolerate hotter fires. With perfect habitat, these plants have been seen growing up to 45 centimeters in height. A 2018 measurement of one plant in the Santa Catalina mountains showed a height of 48 centimeters, a record. Flowering occurs from late April to early June depending on the elevation and spring heat. These plants will not flower when stressed but lack of flowering is rare. Their habitat has been negatively affected by cattle, cactus collectors and off road vehicles. These plants are becoming less common in southern Arizona.
Cultivation
Echinocereus rigidissimus requires porous soil as it is sensitive to overwatering. It prefers a soil with plenty of stones with little organic material to ensure that it dries as quickly as possible. Echinocereus rigidissimus requires full sun to part shade during its active growing season from spring though to early autumn, as well as adequate air circulation to reduce the chance of rotting. In winter abstain from watering Echinocereus rigidissimus and keep the soil mixture dry, as it helps encourage flowering in the spring season. Echinocereus rigidissimus is hardy to temperatures of −12 °C.
References
[3] (S.A. Rasmussen 2018)
rigidissimus |
26719906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Alexander%20Brown | David Alexander Brown | David Alexander Brown (8 February 1916 – 3 November 2009) was a geologist who played an important role in developing the study of Geology in Australia.
He was born on 8 February 1916 in Scotland. His father fought and died at Gallipoli in World War I. His mother took him to New Zealand when he was four years old.
He studied at the University of New Zealand and graduated in 1937 with a Master of Science degree. In 1936 he started work in a field geologist job at the New Zealand Geological Survey. In 1938 he changed jobs, working for the New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Group.
When World War II broke out he first joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and then later the Royal Navy. He took up flying aircraft from aircraft carriers, in the Fleet Air Arm. He was posted to the Barents Sea and North Sea. His highlight was to bomb the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944 in Altenfjord a Norwegian fjord while flying a Fairey Barracuda torpedo bomber in Operation Tungsten.
He found his wife Patrica in the Women's Royal Naval Service. After the war they lived in London.
Brown was given a post graduate scholarship to study Bryozoa (or Polyzoans) from the Tertiary period in New Zealand. His jobs were at the Imperial College of Science and Technology and the British Museum of Natural History. In 1948 he graduated with a PhD and a DIC, and an award of the Lyell Fund from the Geological Society of London in 1953. He became a world expert on polyzoa, and a good taxonomist.
After this he migrated back to New Zealand and rejoined the New Zealand Geological Survey. The Otago University recruited him as a lecturer in 1950. In 1959 he accepted at job at the Canberra University College as the chair of geology. He set up the geology department, not specialising but employing people with a range of specialities. At various times he was the dean of science, dean of students, and he ensured the library had a good range of journals.
Brown was the president of the Geological Society of Australia. He was skilled at translating Russian to English and wrote a Russian to English dictionary for geoscience.
A Bryzoan species from the Schizoporellidae was named after him, Dakaria dabrowni. A mollusc Mauidrillia browni is named after him.
He had three children and nine grandchildren. He died 3 November 2009 in Sydney.
Publications
The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand published Rudolph William Sabbot January 1952,
Ore Deposits Of Ussr, Vol. 3
The geological evolution of Australia & New Zealand 1968
Fossil Bryozoa from drill holes on Eniwetok Atoll 1964
On the polyzoan genus Crepidacantha Levinsen 1954
Proceedings of Specialists' Meeting held at Canberra, 25–31 May 1968
The Facies of regional metamorphism at high pressures 1975
Dannevirke Subdivision maps and bulletin 1953, Montague Ongley, Albert Mathieson Quennell, David Alexander Brown and Arnold Robert Lillie (mapping from 1936 to 1941)
Te Aute Subdivision, central Hawkes Bay maps and bulletin Jacobus Theodorus Kingma and David Alexander Brown pub 1971
Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria Melbourne Department of Mines, 1957
Deep-seated inclusions in kimberlites and the problem of the composition of the upper mantle / by N. V. Sobolev, translation
A Russian – English Geosciences Dictionary РУССКО – АНГЛИЙСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ: НАУК О ЗЕМЛЕ 2001 Canberra
References
1916 births
2009 deaths
20th-century Australian geologists
20th-century New Zealand geologists
British emigrants to New Zealand
Paleozoologists
20th-century British zoologists
New Zealand military personnel of World War II
Fleet Air Arm personnel of World War II
Fleet Air Arm aviators
British World War II bomber pilots
New Zealand emigrants to Australia |
17341621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tillinghast%20House | John Tillinghast House | The John Tillinghast House is an historic colonial house in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a -story wood-frame structure, built in 1760 for John Tillinghast, a wealthy merchant. A high-quality example of academic Georgian architecture, the house was a (often temporary) home for a number of notable people during and after the American Revolutionary War. It was probably occupied by the Marquis de Chastellux, an engineer in the French Army while he was stationed in Newport, and by General Nathanael Greene, who hosted George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette on a visit to Newport. From 1821 to 1824 it was home to William C. Gibbs while he was Governor of Rhode Island.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1760 |
23579380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Maffesoli | Michel Maffesoli | Michel Maffesoli (born 14 November 1944) is a French sociologist.
He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and Julien Freund, and an emeritus professor at Paris Descartes University. His work touches upon the issue of community links and the prevalence of "the imaginary" in the everyday life of contemporary societies, through which he contributes to the postmodern paradigm.
Maffesoli has been a member of the Institut Universitaire de France since September 2008, following a controversial nomination.
More generally, he has been the subject of several controversies, both scientific and professional, the most widely known of which concerns his supervision of the PhD dissertation of astrologer Élizabeth Teissier.
Maffesoli was born in Graissessac, Hérault.
Professional activities
In 1972, Maffesoli was co-director the ESU urban sociology research team in Grenoble. He developed a reflection on space which he continued in his work on nomadism (Du Nomadisme, Vagabondages initiatiques, La Table ronde, 1997).
In 1978, Maffesoli became the teaching assistant of Julien Freund, a conservative political theorist and follower of Vilfredo Pareto, while he was lecturing in Strasbourg. Freund offered him to host the Institute of Polemology, which shows in his later works, under the themes of the "founding conflict" (La violence fondatrice, 1978), the "conflictual society" (PhD dissertation, 1981), and the use of the myth of Dionysus as "regenerating disorder" (L’Ombre de Dionysos, 1982).
In 1982, he founded with Georges Balandier the Centre d'études sur l'actuel et le quotidien (CEAQ), a research laboratory in the humanities and social sciences at the Paris Descartes University, where he led a doctoral seminar until his retiring in 2012.
Maffesoli was awarded the Grand Prix des Sciences de l'Académie française in 1992 for La transfiguration du politique.
Maffesoli is the director of the Cahiers Européens de l'imaginaire and Sociétés journals, as well as a member of the editorial board of Space and Culture and .
Maffesoli called to vote for Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election of 2012., which he later denied.
Maffesoli is sometimes associated with freemasonry, although there is no way to prove that he ever was a member of it.
He has recently appeared on French networks, predicting an "age of insurrections."
Reception within the scientific community
Within the scientific community of French sociologists, the scientificity of Maffesoli's works is often questioned, especially since the furore concerning the thesis of Elizabeth Teissier "has created great controversy within the community [of French sociologists and beyond], and has led many sociologists to intervene in order to challenge the legitimacy". On this issue, Maffesoli presented arguments on his methods, in particular through a new edition of his epistemological book, La connaissance ordinaire, in 2007. An opposition currently exists between Maffesoli's positions on "sensitive thinking" and supporters of a sociology embedded in the criteria of systematic and transparent scientificity. The conference "Raisons et Sociétés", held at the Sorbonne in 2002 following the Teissier controversy to debate the broader issue of methodologies in human sciences identified differences between the various sociological traditions relating to this case.
Other controversies have led to challenges to Maffesoli's institutional position: the scientific community protested against his appointment to the board of the CNRS and against his appointment at the Institut Universitaire de France. On the other hand, Maffesoli's theories have been the subject of counter-inquiries, such as survey by Laurent Tessier on free parties in France and England.
Maffesoli's work has achieved acclaim from authors including Serge Moscovici, Edgar Morin, Patrick Tacussel, Philippe-Joseph Salazar or Patrick Watier who regularly cite him. His influence can also be seen in various foreign journals. It is probably his book The Time of the Tribes (1988, 1991), translated into nine languages, which made his notoriety outside France; see urban tribes. Universities in Brazil, Korea and Italy request him for conferences. He has received a chair that was named after him in Brazil, and a honoris causa doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
His reception outside France is ambivalent. In a 1997 article in the Sociological Review, sociologist David Evans concluded that Maffesoli's theories were not a positive sociological paradigm, criticising his work "incoherent" and "biased". The accounts of books written by foreign sociologists were less forthright, but sometimes stressed that Maffesoli's approach was subjective and had a lack of reflexivity. One sociologist even stated that Maffesoli's sociology was a "sociology of club".
Controversies
Élizabeth Teissier controversy
Maffesoli came to the attention of the general public in April 2001 when he defended the thesis of Élizabeth Teissier about the ambivalence of the social reception of astrology, highly contentious theory that he directed and whose jury was chaired by Serge Moscovici at the Paris Descartes University.
The attribution of a doctorate to Teissier "created great controversy in the [scientific] community, and led many sociologists to intervene to challenge the legitimacy". The thesis immediately aroused criticism in the field of French sociology, particularly that published by Le Monde by Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet on 17 April 2001, and the petition of 30 April 2001 for the President of the Paris V University, and signed by 300 social scientists. Many critical comments were published in the national daily press, along with less radical comments. Beyond sociology, four French Nobel Prize winners (Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jean-Marie Lehn, Jean Dausset and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes) also protested against the title of "doctor" awarded to Élizabeth Teissier in a protest letter addressed to the then Minister of Education, Jack Lang.
The scientific, philosophical and sociological aspects of Teissier's thesis were studied by a group of scientists from several disciplines, including members of the Collège de France. The thesis was analyzed in detail by a group of astrophysicists and astronomers (Jean-Claude Pecker, Jean Audouze, Denis Savoie), a group of sociologists (Bernard Lahire, Philippe Cibois and Dominique Desjeux), a philosopher (Jacques Bouveresse), and by specialists of pseudo-science (Henri Broch and Jean-Paul Krivine). From this analysis, it appeared that the thesis was not valid from any viewpoint (sociological, astrophysical, or epistemological).
In an email of 23 April 2001 addressed to many sociologists, Maffesoli acknowledged that the thesis included some "slippages". His email minimized the importance of these errors and denounced a fierceness against Élizabeth Teissier and him.
After this controversy, two symposia were held to discuss the thesis's content and validity :
A discussion-meeting entitled "La thèse de sociologie, questions épistémologiques et usages après l'affaire Teissier" was held at the Sorbonne on 12 May 2001 by the Association des sociologues enseignants du supérieur (ASES). Maffesoli was present at this meeting and attended the accounts by Christian Baudelot and Lucien Karpik.
A symposium entitled "Raisons et Sociétés" was organized at the Sorbonne on 18 December 2002 to discuss and propose a theoretical answer to criticism. Several intellectuals and scientists participated in the meeting to bring the debate on scientific issues raised by the controversy. Edgar Morin, physicist Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, Mary Douglas, Paolo Fabbri, Franco Ferrarotti among others were present at this meeting.
This controversy was sometimes caricatured as an opposition between positivism and phenomenology. However, criticism of Michel Maffesoli came from both research schools, though positivist critics received more publicity.
Appointment to the board of the CNRS
Maffesoli's appointment to the board of Directors of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique caused an outcry in the scientific community. The decree of 5 October 2005 by which the appointment was established stated that the appointment was justified "because of [his] scientific and technological competence".
A petition entitled "Un conseil d'administration du CNRS doublement inacceptable!" was launched after Maffesoli's appointment. The petitioners protested both against the non-respect for parity and the appointment of Michel Maffesoli, deemed as disrespectful of "the need for scientific credibility of the board".
From October 2005 to February 2007, the petition received over 3,000 signatures, including these of Christian Baudelot, Stéphane Beaud, François de Singly, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Bernard Lahire, Louis Pinto, Alain Trautmann, Loïc Wacquant and Florence Weber. Ironically, and as an effect of the petition having two goals, it remains absolutely unclear whether the petitioners signed against Maffesoli's appointment, or against the non-respect for parity.
Appointment to the Conseil National des Universités
In late 2007, when Maffesoli was appointed to the Conseil National des Universités (CNU), section 19 (Sociology, Demography), the Association des Sociologues Enseignants du Supérieur (ASES) and the Association Française de Sociologie (AFS) protested against this decision, as well as many other social scientists.
In addition, in June 2002 and after the Teissier controversy, Maffesoli himself proposed to delete the CNU, which he deemed "unnecessary". However, he participated in the work of the section 19 of the CNU, including the controversial self-promotion of its own members in June 2009.
Appointment to the Institut Universitaire de France
Maffesoli was one of the persons appointed to the Institut Universitaire de France by a decree issued by the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, Valérie Pécresse, in August 2008. This decree was the subject of a controversy over the appointment of people not selected by juries from the institute, including Maffesoli. According to economist Élie Cohen, president of the jury, Maffesoli "would be never accepted by the jury even if there were more places".
Sociétés hoax
Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin, two sociologists who were students of Maffesoli in the early 2000s, took inspiration from the Sokal hoax to demonstrate the lack of intellectual rigour in Maffesoli's work, as well as the absence of any serious peer review in one of the two journals that he directs.
Under the name "Jean-Pierre Tremblay", who was given a fictitious background as a Quebec-based sociologist, Quinon and Saint-Martin submitted an intentionally inept and absurd article on the "Autolib'", a small rentable car in Paris, to the Sociétés journal. The article was deliberately incoherent and plastered with liberal quotes and references to Maffesoli and other postmodern thinkers, positing that in self-service cars in Paris, the signs of masculinity had been erased and corrected, in order to "give way to an oblong maternity - no longer the phallus and the seminal energy of the sports car, but the 'uterus welcoming shelter-to-Autolib'". The article was duly "reviewed" by two people, before being accepted and published in Sociétés without any substantial editing.
The authors of the hoax published an article explaining their aims and methods in March 2015. The hoax article was then quickly withdrawn from the publishing platform on which it appeared.
Bibliography
Logique de la domination, Paris, PUF. (1976)
avec Pessin A. La violence fondatrice . Paris, Champ Urbain Ed. (1978).
La Violence totalitaire, Paris. PUF. (1979) Reed. (1994) La Violence totalitaire. Essai d'anthropologie politique. Paris, Méridiens/Klincksieck.
La Conquête du présent. Pour une sociologie de la vie quotidienne. Paris, PUF. (1979)
La Dynamique sociale. La société conflictuelle . Thèse d'État, Lille, Service des publications des thèses.(1981)
L'Ombre de Dionysos (1982), Le Livre de Poche, reed. 1991
Essai sur la violence banale et fondatrice, (1984) Paris, Librairie Méridiens/Klincksieck.
La Connaissance ordinaire. Précis de sociologie compréhensive. (1985), Paris, Librairie des Méridiens. Paris ed., Klincksieck, 2007.
La société est plusieurs, in : Une anthropologie des turbulences. Maffesoli M. (under the direction of) (1985), Berg International Ed., 175-180.
Le Temps des tribus. Paris, Méridiens-Klincksieck. (1988), Le Livre de Poche, 1991.
Au creux des apparences. Pour une éthique de l'esthétique.(1990), Paris, Plon. Reed. (1993) Le Livre de Poche,
La Transfiguration du politique (La Table Ronde, 1992), Le Livre de Poche, 1995.
La Contemplation du monde (1993), Le Livre de Poche, 1996.
Eloge de la raison sensible. Paris, Grasset.(1996)
Du nomadisme. Vagabondages initiatiques. Paris, Le Livre de Poche, Biblio-Essais,(1997)
La part du diable précis de subversion postmoderne, Flammarion (2002)
L'instant éternel. Le retour du tragique dans les sociétés postmodernes. Paris, La Table Ronde, (2003)
Le rythme de vie - Variation sur l'imaginaire post-moderne, Paris, Ed. Table Ronde, Collection Contretemps, 2004, 260 pages.
Pouvoir des hauts lieux (14p.) dans Pierre Delorme (dir.) La ville autrement, Ste-Foy, Ed. Presse de l'Université du Québec, 2005, 300 pages.
Le réenchantement du monde - Morales, éthiques, déontologies, Paris, Table Ronde ed., 2007.
« C’est au nom de la morale qu’on massacre les peuples » in Spectacle du Monde, entretien avec Richard Kitaeff, février 2008, p. 46-49.
Iconologies. Nos idol@tries postmodernes, Paris, Albin Michel, 2008.
Après la modernité ? - La conquête du présent, La violence totalitaire, La logique de la domination, Paris, CNRS ed., coll. Compendium, 2008.
La République des bons sentiments, Le Rocher ed., 2008.
Apocalypse, CNRS Éditions, 2009.
La matrimonium : De la nature des choses, CNRS Éditions, 2010.
Le Trésor caché, lettre ouverte aux francs-maçons et à quelques autres, Editions Léo Scheer, 2015.
References
Further reading
Dérive autour de l'œuvre de Michel Maffesoli, Ceaq (introduction by Gilbert Durand), Paris, L’Harmattan, 2004.
T.Keller, "Ein französischer Lebenssoziologe : Michel Maffesoli", in S Moebius et L.Peter. : Französische Soziologie der Gegenwart EVK verlag . Konstanz, 2004.
R.Keller: Michel Maffesoli: eine Einführung, Uvk Verlags GmbH Konstanz 2006.
S.Curti et L.F.Clemente, Michel Maffesoli. Reliance. Itinerari tra modernità e postmodernità. Mimesis, Milano, 2007.
S.Curti, Le zone d'ombra. Vita quotidiana e disordine in Michel Maffesoli. Ombre Corte, Verona, 2007.
F. Antonelli, Caos e postmodernità. Un'analisi a partire dalla sociologia di Michel Maffesoli. Philos, Roma, 2007.
P. Le Quéau, L'homme en clair-obscur. Lecture de Michel Maffesoli. Les Presses de l'Université de Laval, 2007.
M. Tyldesley, 'The Thought of Sorbonne Professor Michel Maffesoli (1944-): Sociologist of Postmodernity' Edwin Mellen Press Lewiston, NY, 2010.
External links
Maffesoli's curriculum vitae
"Erotic Knowledge", Secessio, 2012.
"To Each his Tribes - From Contract to Pact", Berfrois, 2014.
"The Savage Mind of Michel Maffesoli" (interview), Rebellion No.42, June 2010.
1944 births
Living people
Paris Descartes University faculty
University of Strasbourg alumni
Grenoble Alpes University alumni
People from Hérault
French sociologists
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
French male writers
French people of Italian descent
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur |
23579382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indika%20Bandaranayake | Indika Bandaranayake | Indika Bandaranayake (born September 7, 1972) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and he is the former Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction. It is widely believed that Bandaranyake is to be a top level powerful Minister in Sri Lanka.
References
1972 births
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
44506144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boat%20Race%201950 | The Boat Race 1950 | The 96th Boat Race took place on 1 April 1950. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. The Cambridge crew contained three Olympic silver medallists from the 1948 Summer Olympics; six of their crew rowed for Lady Margaret Boat Club. In a race umpired by the Olympic medallist and former Cantabrigian rower Kenneth Payne, Cambridge won by lengths in a time of 20 minutes 15 seconds, taking the overall record in the event to 52–43 in their favour.
Background
The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues"). First held in 1829, the race takes place on the Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London. The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; it is followed throughout the United Kingdom and, as of 2014, broadcast worldwide. Cambridge went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1949 race by a quarter of a length, with Cambridge leading overall with 51 victories to Oxford's 43 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Cambridge were coached by R. Beesly (who had rowed for the Light Blues in the 1927, 1928 and 1929 races), Roy Meldrum (a coach for Lady Margaret Boat Club), Mike Nicholson (non-rowing boat club president for the 1947 race), Harold Rickett (who rowed three times between 1930 and 1932) and R. H. H. Symonds (who had rowed in the 1931 race). Oxford's coaches were T. A. Brocklebank (who had rowed for Cambridge three times between 1929 and 1931 and who had also coached the Light Blues in the 1934 race), R. E. Eason (a Dark Blue in the 1924 race), Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards (who rowed for Oxford in 1926 and 1930) and J. A. MacNabb (who rowed for Cambridge in the 1924 race). The race was umpired for the second time by the former British Olympian Kenneth Payne, who had rowed for Cambridge in the 1932 and 1934 races.
The Light Blues were initially considered "hot favourites" and were described by the rowing correspondent of The Manchester Guardian as "full of brilliant promise" while Oxford were "a collection of competent oarsmen who had to be moulded into a crew". The Observers G. I. F. Thomson suggested that "it is anyone's race".
Crews
The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 12 st 8.25 lb (79.8 kg), per rower more than their opponents. Oxford saw three rowers return to the boat with experience of the event, including number five G. C. Fisk who was rowing in his third consecutive Boat Race. Cambridge's crew contained five rowers who had taken part in the Boat Race previously, including Paul Bircher who was also making his third appearance in the race. Four of the participants in the race were registered as non-British, two in each crew. Oxford's Fisk and Calvert came from Australia, as did Cambridge's Brian Lloyd, while Light Blue W. T. Arthur was South African.
The Cambridge crew contained three rowers who had won silver medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics: Paul Massey, Bircher and Lloyd were in the crew that came second in the men's eight in London. Chris Davidge, the Oxford University Boat Club president, was forced to drop out of the race through illness. Five of the Oxford rowers were educated at Eton College; six of the Cambridge rowers were studying at St John's College and so rowed for Lady Margaret Boat Club.
Race
Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station, handing the Middlesex side of the river to Cambridge. Umpire Payne started the race at 12:30 p.m., with the Dark Blues making a slightly faster start; after a minute they were about a canvas-length ahead of their opponents. Although having the outside of the first bend, they had extended their lead to a quarter of a length by Craven Cottage. By the time the crews passed the Mile Post, Cambridge were leading by a quarter-length which they extended to half a length by Harrods Furniture Depository. Cambridge's stroke John Louis Mingaye Crick increased his crew's rate; his opposite number Cavenagh responded to prevent the Light Blues going clear.
While the conditions were not too rough, both crews slowed their stroke rate, with Cambridge passing below Hammersmith Bridge still half a length ahead. As they passed The Doves pub, Oxford slowly began to gain, rating marginally higher. Cavenagh pushed on again before Chiswick Eyot but could not prevent the Light Blues extending their lead to nearly a length by the time the crews passed Chiswick Steps. Despite further spurts from Oxford, Cambridge's "better stride" saw them pass below Barnes Bridge two and a half lengths ahead. Cambridge passed the finishing post leading by three and a half lengths in a time of 20 minutes 15 seconds, their fourth consecutive win in the slowest time since the 1947 race. The victory took the overall record in the event to 52–43 in their favour. The rowing correspondent for The Times noted that "Cambridge rowed far better than they have recently" while "Oxford surpassed what anyone could reasonably have expected from them." The Manchester Guardians rowing correspondent declared that Cambridge's crew was "generally acknowledged to be one of the best seen on the tideway", and that "Oxford could not, short of shipwreck or piracy, win the race". Writing in The Observer, G. I. F. Thomson noted of Cambridge that "all through practice they had shown more promising form and power, as well as unity" while Oxford had "made great strides ... and were never out of the running."
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Official website
1950 in English sport
1950 in rowing
The Boat Race
April 1950 sports events in the United Kingdom
1950 sports events in London |
20482118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20non-marine%20molluscs%20of%20Sweden | List of non-marine molluscs of Sweden | The non-marine molluscs of Sweden are a part of the molluscan fauna of Sweden (wildlife of Sweden).
There are unknown species of gastropods (52 species of freshwater gastropods, unknown species of land gastropods) and 32 species of bivalves living in the wild—84 species of freshwater molluscs altogether.
Freshwater gastropods
Freshwater gastropods in Sweden include:
Neritidae
Theodoxus fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Viviparidae
Viviparus contectus (Millet, 1813)
Viviparus viviparus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Thiaridae
Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) - non-indigenous
Bithyniidae
Bithynia tentaculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823)
Bithynia transsilvanica (E. A. Bielz, 1853) - regionally extinct in Sweden
Hydrobiidae
Potamopyrgus antipodarum (J. E. Gray, 1843) - non-indigenous
Hydrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803)
Hydrobia ulvae (Pennant, 1777)
Hydrobia neglecta Muus, 1963
Amnicolidae
Marstoniopsis scholtzi (A. Schmidt, 1856)
Valvatidae
Valvata cristata O. F. Müller, 1774
Valvata macrostoma Mörch, 1864 - Near Threatened in Sweden
Valvata sibirica Middendorff, 1851 - Near Threatened in Sweden
Valvata piscinalis (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Acroloxidae
Acroloxus lacustris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lymnaeidae
Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Stagnicola palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Stagnicola fuscus (C. Pfeiffer, 1821)
Stagnicola corvus (Gmelin, 1791)
Omphiscola glabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Vulnerable in Sweden
Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Radix peregra (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Radix ovata (Draparnaud, 1805)
Myxas glutinosa (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Near Threatened in Sweden
Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817) - non-indigenous
Physidae
Physa fontinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805) - non-indigenous
Physella heterostropha (Say, 1817) - non-indigenous
Aplexa hypnorum (Linnaeus, 1758) - Near Threatened in Sweden
Planorbidae
Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Planorbella duryi (Wetherby, 1879) - non-indigenous
Ferrissia clessiniana (Jickeli, 1882) - non-indigenous, synonym: Ferrissia wautieri (Mirolli, 1960)
Planorbis planorbis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Planorbis carinatus O. F. Müller, 1774
Anisus leucostoma (Millet, 1813)
Anisus spirorbis (Linnaeus, 1758) - Data Deficient
Anisus vortex (Linnaeus, 1758)
Anisus vorticulus (Troschel, 1834) - Critically Endangered in Sweden
Bathyomphalus contortus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gyraulus albus (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Gyraulus acronicus (A. Férussac, 1807)
Gyraulus chinensis (Dunker, 1848) - non-indigenous
Gyraulus laevis (Alder, 1838) - Endangered in Sweden
Gyraulus parvus (Say, 1817) - non-indigenous
Gyraulus riparius (Westerlund, 1865)
Gyraulus crista (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hippeutis complanatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Segmentina nitida (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Vulnerable in Sweden
Ancylus fluviatilis O. F. Müller, 1774
Land gastropods
Land gastropods in Sweden include:
Pupillidae
Pupilla pratensis (Clessin, 1871)
Vertiginidae
Vertigo lilljeborgi
Milacidae
Milax gagates (Draparnaud, 1801)
Vitrinidae
Boettgerillidae
Boettgerilla pallens Simroth, 1912
Limacidae
Limax maximus Linnaeus, 1758
Limax cinereoniger Wolf, 1803
Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Malacolimax tenellus (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Lehmannia marginata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Lehmannia valentiana (A. Férussac, 1822)
Agriolimacidae
Deroceras agreste (Linnaeus, 1758)
Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Deroceras reticulatum (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Deroceras sturanyi (Simroth, 1894)
Deroceras panormitanum (Lessona & Pollonera, 1882)
Arionidae
Arion rufus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Arion lusitanicus J. Mabille, 1868
Arion fuscus (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Arion circumscriptus Johnston, 1828
Arion fasciatus (Nilsson, 1823)
Arion silvaticus Lohmander, 1937
Arion distinctus J. Mabille, 1868
Arion intermedius Normand, 1852
Arion ater
Bradybaenidae
Helicodontidae
Hygromiidae
Trochulus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Helicidae
Cepaea hortensis (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Freshwater bivalves
Freshwater gastropods in Sweden include:
Margaritiferidae
Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) - Vulnerable in Sweden
Unionidae
Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788
Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788 - Endangered in Sweden
Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pseudanodonta complanata (Rossmässler, 1835) - Near Threatened in Sweden
Sphaeriidae
Sphaerium corneum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sphaerium nucleus (S. Studer, 1820)
Sphaerium nitidum Clessin, 1876
Musculium lacustre (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Pisidium amnicum (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Pisidium dilatatum Westerlund, 1897 - Near Threatened in Sweden, synonym: Pisidium subtilestriatum Lindholm, 1909
Pisidium casertanum (Poli, 1791)
Pisidium globulare Clessin, 1873
Pisidium hinzi Kuiper, 1975 - Vulnerable in Sweden
Pisidium nitidum Jenyns, 1832
Pisidium personatum Malm, 1855
Pisidium conventus Clessin, 1877
Pisidium obtusale (Lamarck 1818)
Pisidium henslowanum (Sheppard, 1823)
Pisidium hibernicum Westerlund, 1894
Pisidium lilljeborgii Clessin, 1886
Pisidium supinum A. Schmidt, 1851 - Vulnerable in Sweden
Pisidium waldeni Kuiper, 1975
Pisidium tenuilineatum Stelfox, 1918 - Data Deficient
Pisidium moitessierianum Paladilhe, 1866
Pisidium subtruncatum Malm, 1855
Pisidium pulchellum Jenyns, 1832
Pisidium milium Held, 1836
Pisidium pseudosphaerium J. Favre, 1927
Dreissenidae
Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771) - non-indigenous
See also
Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
List of non-marine molluscs of Norway
List of non-marine molluscs of Finland
List of non-marine molluscs of Denmark
List of non-marine molluscs of Germany
List of non-marine molluscs of Poland
List of non-marine molluscs of Kaliningrad Oblast
List of non-marine molluscs of Lithuania
List of non-marine molluscs of Latvia
List of non-marine molluscs of Estonia
References
Molluscs
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden |
20482131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Naval%20Battles | Great Naval Battles | Great Naval Battles is a series of computer games by Strategic Simulations which simulate combat between naval vessels. It consist of five separate games, four of which depict various phases of World War II. Each game combines a wider view of the action on a fleet scale, as well as controls for individual ships. SSI covered similar themes in another naval game, Fighting Steel, which was released afterwards, in 1999.
Games in series
The game series contains the following games:
Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939-1943 was released in 1992 and depicts naval warfare in the North Atlantic during World War 2.
Great Naval Battles: Guadalcanal 1942-1943 depicts naval combat in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2.
Great Naval Battles Vol. III: Fury in the Pacific, 1941–1944 is a direct sequel to #2 and depicts the remainder of the Pacific Ocean war. It was not considered to be as strong a product as the previous two games, as it had some problems with bugs. the game structure was problematic due to some attempts to include air combat.
Great Naval Battles 4: Burning Steel 1939–1942 was released in 1995 and constituted a major overhaul of the game. It utilized entirely new procedures and interfaces. Several new features were provided, including the ability to full customize each combat scenario.
Great Naval Battles V: Demise of the Dreadnoughts; 1914–18 is set in World War I, and does not include aircraft. It was only sold in the boxed set Great Naval Battles – the Final Fury, which contained all games of the series plus GNBNA.
Gameplay and dynamics
Every game provides a choice between individual ship views and fleet command views. Players can choose individual stations to operate during the game.
Background music
Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939–1943
When "British" is being selected for the gameplay, Rule Britannia is being played. Whereas if "German" is being selected, Unter dem Doppeladler is being played.
Great Naval Battles Vol. II: Guadalcanal 1942–43
Great Naval Battles Vol. III: Fury in the Pacific, 1941–1944
Great Naval Battles 4: Burning Steel 1939–1942
Great Naval Battles V: Demise of the Dreadnoughts; 1914–18
See also
Naval warfare
Harpoon (series)
References
External links
Article comparing all games at naval wargame website
Review of game 1 at naval gaming website
Review of game #4 at subsim.com
DOS games
Ship simulation games
Naval video games
World War II video games
Naval games
Strategic Simulations games
Video game franchises
Video game franchises introduced in 1992
Video games developed in the United States
Computer wargames |
20482136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody%20Waiting | Somebody Waiting | Somebody Waiting is a 1971 American short documentary film produced by Woody Omens. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
1971 films
1971 short films
1970s short documentary films
English-language films
American short documentary films
American independent films
Documentary films about children
Documentary films about health care |
20482169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20logic | Random logic | Random logic is a semiconductor circuit design technique that translates high-level logic descriptions directly into hardware features such as AND and OR gates. The name derives from the fact that few easily discernible patterns are evident in the arrangement of features on the chip and in the interconnects between them. In VLSI chips, random logic is often implemented with standard cells and gate arrays.
Random logic accounts for a large part of the circuit design in modern microprocessors. Compared to microcode, another popular design technique, random logic offers faster execution of processor opcodes, provided that processor speeds are faster than memory speeds. A disadvantage is that it is difficult to design random logic circuitry for processors with large and complex instruction sets. The hard-wired instruction logic occupies a large percentage of the chip's area, and it becomes difficult to lay out the logic so that related circuits are close to one another.
References
Instruction processing |
20482241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruboc%20Lake | Ruboc Lake | Ruboc Lake (, ) is a very small lake in Kosovo. Robovac Lake is completely surrounded by the mountains of Gollak. It is the smallest lake in eastern Kosovo being about the same size as an average mountain lake.
References
Lakes of Kosovo |
20482244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COFCO%20Group | COFCO Group | COFCO (; full name: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation) is a Chinese state-owned food processing holding company. COFCO Group is China's largest food processor, manufacturer and trader. It is also one of Asia's leading agribusiness groups alongside Wilmar International.
Its headquarters are in the COFCO Fortune Plaza (中粮福临门大厦) in Chaoyang District, Beijing.
Background
Founded in 1949, it is one of the largest SOEs of those under the direct supervision of the SASAC. Between 1952 and 1987, it was the sole agricultural products importer and exporter operating under direct control of the central government. In 2007, COFCO had just over 60,000 employees in multiple locations in China as well as overseas operations in countries such as Japan, US, UK, Australia and Canada.
Besides the foodstuff business, COFCO has developed into a diversified conglomerate, involving planting, cultivation, food-processing, finance, warehouse, transportation, port facilities, hotels and real estate. It is one of the top 500 enterprises chosen by US's Fortune Magazine.
COFCO has four companies listed in Hong Kong, namely, China Foods (), China Agri-Industries Holdings (), Mengniu Dairy (), and COFCO Packaging Holdings () and three companies listed in mainland China, namely, COFCO Tunhe (), COFCO Property (), and BBCA (). COFCO boasts a wide range of branded products and service portfolios, such as Fortune edible oil, Great Wall wine, Mengniu dairy, Lohas fruit and vegetable juice, Le Conte chocolate, Tunhe tomato products, Joycome meat products, Joy City shopping mall, Yalong Bay resorts, Gloria hotels, Snow-Lotus cashmere, Zhongcha tea products, COFCO-Aviva Life Insurance, COFCO Trust, etc.
Subsidiaries
China Foods Limited, a listed subsidiary of COFCO Group
China Agri-Industries Holdings Limited, a listed subsidiary of COFCO Group
Equity investments
UBS Securities (14%)
Mengniu Dairy (31.25%) as of December 2019
References
External links
COFCO
Food and drink companies established in 1952
Government-owned companies of China
Food manufacturers of China
Trading companies of China
1952 establishments in China
Chinese brands
de:COFCO |
23579396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Vince | James Vince | James Michael Vince (born 14 March 1991) is an English cricketer who is the captain for Hampshire County Cricket Club and plays for the England cricket team. Vince was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman who is also a right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his international debut for England in May 2015.
Early life and domestic career
Vince was educated at Warminster School in Wiltshire, where he was a student from 2001 to 2007, before leaving to pursue a career as a professional cricketer. He was also a talented footballer who played for Reading Academy for 3 years before playing for Trowbridge Town F.C. at 16.
A graduate from Hampshire's cricket academy, Vince signed a one-year deal with the club at the start of 2009. He made his Championship debut on 11 June 2009 against Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. His batting performances earned him a call up to the England U-19 side for their Test series against Bangladesh.
According to Duncan Fletcher, who acted as a consult for Hampshire and was the former coach of the England team, Vince is reminiscent of former England batsman Michael Vaughan.
Following the retirement of John Crawley during the 2009 season, Vince has been a regular for Hampshire in all forms of the game. He was a member of Hampshire's 2010 Friends Provident t20 winning team which defeated Somerset. Vince scored his maiden first-class century in a county championship against Yorkshire, scoring 180 runs in a 278 run stand with James Adams, which is the county's 4th highest partnership in first-class cricket.
International career
Vince made his One Day International debut for England against Ireland on 8 May 2015, and his Twenty20 International debut against Pakistan on 26 November 2015. He scored 41 in the first game of the T20I series as England won by 14 runs, and then scored 38 in the second as England won again. Vince scored 46 in the final game as the scores finished tied and England won the Super Over. Vince was named man of the series after his contributions in all three games. He played one game in the 2016 World T20, replacing the injured Alex Hales for the match against Afghanistan. Vince scored 22 and England won the match.
In May 2016, Vince was named in the Test squad for Sri Lanka's tour of England, and won his first Test cap in the first Test at Headingley. However, in his first innings, he only scored 9 runs. In the second Test, Vince scored 35 in England's first innings, and was not required to bat in the second as England won by nine wickets. Vince played in the third and final Test of the series, scoring ten in the first innings before being dismissed for a duck in the second innings, as the match ended in a draw. He played in the final ODI match of the series, replacing the injured Alex Hales, and scored 51, helping England to reach 324 and win the match by 122 runs. He scored 16 in the only T20I match between the sides, which England won by eight wickets.
Vince kept his place for the Test series against Pakistan, and made 16 in the first innings of the first Test. He was dismissed for 42 in the second innings as England lost by 75 runs. In the second Test, he made 18 as England made 589/8 in their first innings and won the match by 330 runs. In the third Test, Vince made 39 in England's first innings and followed this up with 42 in their second innings to help England reach 445/6 and secure victory by a margin of 141 runs. Vince struggled in the final Test, making one in the first innings and being dismissed for a duck in the second innings as England lost by 10 wickets.
Vince scored 16 in the first ODI against Bangladesh, as England won by 21 runs. In the second match, he made 5 as England lost and Bangladesh levelled the series at 1-1. Vince made his highest score in the final match of the series, scoring 32 as England chased down Bangladesh's target of 278 to win the series 2–1.
On 21 May 2019, England finalised their squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup, with Vince named in the 15 man squad. On 29 May 2020, Vince was named in a 55-man group of players to begin training ahead of international fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic. On 9 July 2020, Vince was included in England's 24-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the ODI series against Ireland. On 27 July 2020, Vince was named in England's squad for the ODI series. In the second match, Vince took his first wicket in an ODI match, when he dismissed Ireland's captain Andrew Balbirnie.
In July 2021, in the third match against Pakistan, Vince scored his first century in ODI cricket, with 102 runs. England won the game by three wickets, with Vince named the player of the match. In September 2021, Vince was named as one of three travelling reserves in England's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
Franchise cricket
Vince has played for a number of teams in overseas T20 competitions, including the Pakistan Super League, Australian Big Bash League, New Zealand's Super Smash and South Arica's Mzansi Super League.
Pakistan Super League
In December 2015, Vince was selected by Karachi Kings and on 5 February 2016, he debuted for Karachi against Lahore Qalandars. For the 2019 Pakistan Super League, Vince was signed by Multan Sultans. In December 2019, he was retained by Multan Sultans and was assigned as a team ambassador.
Big Bash League
In 2016, Vince made his BBL debut for Sydney Thunder. He spent two seasons there before joining local rivals Sydney Sixers for their title winning 2019–20 Big Bash League season. The following season, Vince was again part of Sydney's title-winning side, scoring 95 runs in the final.
The Hundred
In 2021, he was drafted by Southern Brave for the inaugural season of The Hundred. He was also given the captaincy and under his leadership, Southern Brave won the first title of 'The Hundred' by beating Birmingham Phoenix in the finals. He was the highest run scorer for Southern Brave, scoring 229 runs in 10 matches. In April 2022, he was bought by the Southern Brave for the 2022 season of The Hundred.
Career best performances
References
External links
1991 births
Living people
People from Cuckfield
People educated at Warminster School
English cricketers
England Test cricketers
England One Day International cricketers
England Twenty20 International cricketers
Cricketers at the 2019 Cricket World Cup
Wiltshire cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
Hampshire cricket captains
Karachi Kings cricketers
Sydney Thunder cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Sydney Sixers cricketers
Multan Sultans cricketers
Paarl Rocks cricketers
Southern Brave cricketers
North v South cricketers
English footballers
Association footballers not categorized by position
Trowbridge Town F.C. players |
20482272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasser%27s%20Rainy%20Day | Hundertwasser's Rainy Day | Hundertwasser's Rainy Day () is a 1972 West German short documentary film about artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser rebuilding an old wooden ship called Regentag (Rainy Day). Directed by Peter Schamoni, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
Hundertwassers Regentag at filmarchives online
1972 films
1972 documentary films
1972 short films
West German films
German-language films
German short documentary films
1970s short documentary films
Films directed by Peter Schamoni
Documentary films about painters
Documentary films about water transport |
20482284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buxton%2C%20Sofia | Buxton, Sofia | Buxton ( , ) is a south-western neighbourhood of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Part of Vitosha municipality, it lies between the Buxton Brothers (Bratya Buxton) Boulevard, the Tsar Boris III Boulevard and the Sofia ringroad adjacent to Boyana.
The neighbourhood was named after the brothers Charles and Noel Buxton, British public figures and prominent advocates of the Bulgarian position on the Macedonian Question in the Balkan Wars and World War I. The central boulevard of the neighbourhood is also named after the brothers.
Buxton features mostly single-family houses and mid- to high-rise residential architecture from the 60s–80s. It is serviced by Secondary School #2 Academician Emiliyan Stanev, Primary School #5 Ivan Vazov and Secondary Specialized School and Kindergarten for Hearing-impaired Children #2. The Vitosha municipality building is also located in the neighbourhood, and there is a Fantastico supermarket in Buxton.
Gallery
References
Neighbourhoods of Sofia |
20482293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbourne%20railway%20station%20%28Fairbourne%20Railway%29 | Fairbourne railway station (Fairbourne Railway) | Fairbourne railway station is the terminus of the 12¼ inch gauge Fairbourne Railway (FR), from which narrow gauge trains run from Fairbourne to Barmouth Ferry railway station. Cambrian Line services depart from the identically named Fairbourne railway station, located just opposite the FR station.
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|colspan=5|Interchange with on the Cambrian Line
Fairbourne Railway
Heritage railway stations in Gwynedd
Arthog |
20482301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Masing | Viktor Masing | Viktor Masing (11 April 1925, Tartu – 18 March 2001) was an Estonian botanist and ecologist. He was born in Tartu. He became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1993.
He was a specialist in telmatology, and an organizer of wetland protection.
His son, Matti Masing, is a renowned nature scientist, and one of Europe's foremost experts on bats.
External links
Biography
20th-century Estonian botanists
Estonian ecologists
1925 births
2001 deaths
Scientists from Tartu
University of Tartu faculty
Members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 3rd Class
Burials at Raadi cemetery |
20482314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sac%20and%20Fox%20Reservation | Sac and Fox Reservation | The Sac and Fox Reservation of Sauk (Sac) and Meskwaki (Fox) people is a 23.639 sq mi (61.226 km²) tract located in southeastern Richardson County, Nebraska, and northeastern Brown County, Kansas. It governed by the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, and the headquarters for reservation is in Reserve, Kansas. The tribal jurisdiction area is west of White Cloud, Kansas and northeast of Hiawatha, Kansas. It was created as a consequence of the Platte Purchase of 1836.
Other reservations associated with the Sac and Fox Nation:
Sac and Fox/Meskwaki Settlement -- located in central Iowa
Sac and Fox Nation in Stroud, Oklahoma, which is the largest domestic dependent nation associated with the Sauk (Sac) and Meskwaki (Fox) peoples, and covers Lincoln, Payne, and Pottawatomie counties in Oklahoma.
See also
Native American tribes in Nebraska
References
External links
Sac and Fox Reservation Tract Map from the US Census
"2000 Census Data", Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Sac and Fox
American Indian reservations in Nebraska
Geography of Richardson County, Nebraska
Geography of Brown County, Kansas
1836 establishments in the United States
American Indian reservations in Kansas |
20482316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Hall%2C%20Norwich | City Hall, Norwich | Norwich City Hall is an Art Deco building completed in 1938 which houses the city hall for the city of Norwich, East Anglia, in Eastern England. It is one of the Norwich 12, a collection of twelve heritage buildings in Norwich deemed of particular historical and cultural importance. It is Grade II* listed.
History
The new City Hall saw the demolition in Norwich of Tudor, Regency and Victorian buildings on St Peters Street and the Market Place, including many yards and dilapidated municipal buildings. The architects Charles Holloway James and Stephen Rowland Pierce, designed the building after Robert Atkinson had prepared a layout for the whole Civic Centre site at the request of Norwich Corporation (now the City Council). A competition took place in 1931 which attracted 143 entries, with Atkinson as the sole judge. After the winning design was chosen the Depression and a protracted planning process delayed the start of the building, and the foundation stone was not laid until 1936. Norwich City Hall was officially opened by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on 29 October 1938.
Architecture
The architects designed for Norwich an Art Deco public building of national significance. It was built to the highest standards, using superior materials and methods of its day. Even the bricks were specially made, each one being two inches longer than usual to better reflect the proportions of the finished building. Charles Holloway James and Stephen Rowland Pierce engaged Alfred Hardiman as their consultant sculptor. He contributed the iconic lions passant which guard the building, and three figures of Recreation, Wisdom and Education outside the Council Chamber. His colleague James Woodford designed the six main bronze doors, incorporating 18 roundels showing the history and industry of Norwich. Eric Aumonier carved the city arms above the Regalia Room window on Bethel Street, and Margaret Calkin James provided textiles for some of the important rooms.
The materials used include Italian marble and English stone, Honduras mahogany and Australian walnut. Seating is upholstered in Moroccan leather, and rooms panelled in elm, oak, teak and birch. The Lord Mayor’s octagonal parlour is panelled in sycamore with French walnut trim, with the door finished in English walnut. The main frontage of the building is 280 feet long, incorporating a 200ft balcony. The city council claims that the balcony is the longest such structure in the UK. Meanwhile, the bell in the clock tower has the deepest tone in East Anglia.
See also
Norwich Market
References
External links
Norwich City Council
Norwich City Hall on YouTube
Art Deco architecture in England
Buildings and structures in Norwich
City and town halls in Norfolk
Grade II* listed buildings in Norfolk
Government buildings completed in 1938 |
20482320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Sennen%27s%20Church%2C%20Sennen | St Sennen's Church, Sennen | St. Sennen's Church, Sennen is a parish church in the Church of England located in Sennen, Cornwall, England, UK.
History
Sennen parish church is dedicated to St Sinninus but has also been dedicated to St John the Baptist. There has been a church here since at least the 15th century. In 1327 and 1430 the patron of Sennen is described as a female saint Senana. However in later times it has been assumed that Senanus is the patron saint. The identification of this Cornish saint with St Senan of Scattery Island appears to have no foundation.
The church of St. Sennen is mediaeval. A visit by members of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society on their annual excursion in August 1893 resulted in a translation of a Latin inscription on a stone at the base of the font as ″In the year of the Lord 1441 [2, 3, or 4], this Church was dedicated on [the festival of] the beheading of St John the Baptist″. (The feast referred to is celebrated on 29 August.) It is known as the parish church of Land's End and the patron is the Duke of Cornwall.
The present church has a chancel and nave, a south aisle and a north transept. A wall-painting depicting two round embattled towers was uncovered during restoration in 1867. There is also a headless alabaster figure representing the Virgin Mary in the transept. The church has a three-stage battlemented tower housing a ring of three bells.
There are five Cornish crosses in the parish. One is at Escalls and another at Sennen Green. Trevilley cross is one of only two crosses with a crucifixus figure on a cross carved onto the stone (there is a cross on the other side of the head). A cross on the churchyard wall came from a site near the Giant's Stone. A fine cross in the cemetery adjoining the churchyard was found in use as a footbridge near Trevear and moved to the churchyard in 1878. About 1890 it was moved to its present position.
References
Church of England church buildings in Cornwall
Grade II* listed churches in Cornwall
1441 establishments in England
15th-century church buildings in England
Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall
National Heritage List for England
Buildings and structures in Cornwall
St Sennen's Church |
20482322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prinskorv | Prinskorv | Prinskorv, which directly translates to "prince sausage", is a small Swedish sausage which is often sold in links. Created in 1805 by Viennese butcher Georg Lahner, this dish is usually fried in a frying pan and served with a generous helping of mustard. The demand increases and reaches its peak during the Christmas season. At that time, stores usually have reserves to meet their customers' needs.
Serving
Traditionally made from spiced pork and veal stuffed in sheep casings, these mini-sausages are known for their crown-like cuts. They are a short variety of Vienna sausage. The Prinskorv is a popular component of the julbord and the Swedish Christmas smörgåsbord, along with ham, liver pate, potatoes, rice pudding, pickled beets, herring salad, various cheeses, bread, and different sweets.
According to the Swedish food chain Hemköp, the Prinskorv is also a midsummer favorite of Sweden's southern region. Enjoyed during afternoons and featured during their midsummer party after the summer solstice, this is usually served with Janssons frestelse, meatballs, pickled herring, crackers and salads.
See also
List of sausages
References
External links
“The Swedish Julbord: A Beginner’s Guide.” The Local: Sweden's News in English.
Swedish sausages
Christmas food |
26719921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arash%20Afshin | Arash Afshin | Arash Afshin (, born January 21, 1990) is an Iranian footballer. He is a former player of Iran national team and under-23 team.
Club career
Afshin started his senior career at Foolad. In winter 2012, he was linked to Lille but move was not done. On 1 July 2013, he joined Sepahan on a one-year contract. In December 2013, he terminated his contract with Sepahan to join Foolad again.
Malavan
After facing conscription problems, he was forced to move a military-owned club. On November 12, 2014, he signed a 2-years contract with Iranian Navy's Malavan.
On 31 July 2015 on his debut for Malavan, Afshin scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Zob Ahan.
International career
After good performance with Iran U23 in 2010 Asian Games and also in Foolad he convinced Afshin Ghotbi to invite him to Team Melli
On 2 January 2011, Afshin was called up to the Iran for the team's friendly match against Angola and made his debut.
He was also one of Iran players in 2011 AFC Asian Cup.
International goals
Scores and results list Iran's goal tally first.
Honours
Foolad
Iran Pro League (1): 2013–14
Personal life
He is currently Student of Civil Engineering at Islamic Azad University Ramhormoz Branch.
References
Arash Afshin at Navad
External links
Arash Afshin at PersianLeague.com
1990 births
Living people
Foolad FC players
Iranian footballers
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
Iran international footballers
Sportspeople from Khuzestan province
Association football forwards
Association football wingers
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Sepahan S.C. footballers
Malavan players
Esteghlal F.C. players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Asian Games competitors for Iran |
20482344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Z | K-Z | K-Z is a 1972 Italian short documentary film directed by Giorgio Treves. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
1972 films
1972 documentary films
1972 short films
Italian-language films
Italian documentary films
Italian short films |
23579397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh%20Jarrah | Sheikh Jarrah | Sheikh Jarrah (, ) is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, north of the Old City, on the road to Mount Scopus. It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Sheikh Jarrah, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity. The modern neighborhood was founded in 1865 and gradually became a residential center of Jerusalem's Muslim elite, particularly the al-Husayni family. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, it bordered the no-man's land area between Jordanian-held East Jerusalem and Israeli-held West Jerusalem until the neighborhood was occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Most of its present Palestinian population is said to come from refugees expelled from Jerusalem's Talbiya neighbourhood in 1948.
Certain properties are subject of legal proceedings based on the application of two Israeli laws, the Absentee Property Law and the Legal and Administrative Matters Law of 1970. Israeli nationalists have been working to replace the Palestinian population in the area since 1967. Over a period of five decades, a number of Israeli settlements have been built in and adjacent to Sheikh Jarrah.
History
Establishment in the 12th century
The Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah was originally a village named after Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, who lived in the 12th century and was an emir and the personal physician to Saladin, the military leader whose army liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Sheikh Hussam received the title jarrah (جراح), meaning "healer" or "surgeon" in Arabic.
Sheikh Jarrah established a zawiya (literally "angle, corner", also meaning a small mosque or school), known as the Zawiya Jarrahiyya. Sheikh Jarrah was buried on the grounds of the school. A tomb was built in 1201, which became a destination for worshippers and visitors. A two-story stone building incorporating a flour mill, Qasr el-Amawi, was built opposite the tomb in the 17th century.
Development in the 19th century
The neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah was established on the slopes of Mount Scopus, taking its name from the tomb of Sheikh Jarrah. The initial residential construction works were commenced in 1865 by an important city notable, Rabah al-Husayni, who constructed a large manor among the olive groves near the Sheikh Jarrah tomb and outside the Damascus Gate. This action motivated many other Muslim notables from the Old City to migrate to the area and construct new homes, including the Nashashibis, built homes in the upscale northern and eastern parts of the neighborhood. Sheikh Jarrah began to grow as a Muslim nucleus between the 1870s and 1890s. Prayer at the Sheikh Jarrah tomb is said to bring good luck, particularly for those who raise chickens and eggs. It became the first Arab Muslim-majority neighborhood in Jerusalem to be built outside the walls of the Old City. In the western part, houses were smaller and more scattered.
Because it was founded by Rabah al-Husayni whose home formed the nucleus of Sheikh Jarrah, the neighborhood was locally referred to as the "Husayni Neighborhood." It gradually became a center for the notable al-Husayni family whose members, including Jerusalem mayor Salim al-Husayni and the former treasurer of the Education Ministry in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, Shukri al-Husayni, built their residences in the neighborhood. Other notables who moved into the neighborhood included Faydi Efendi Shaykh Yunus, the Custodian of the Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and Rashid Efendi al-Nashashibi, a member of the District Administrative Council. A mosque housing the Sheikh Jarrah tomb was built in 1895 on Nablus Road, north of the Old City and the American Colony. In 1898 the Anglican St. George's School was built in Sheikh Jarrah and soon became the secondary educational institution where Jerusalem's elite sent their sons.
Population around 1900
At the Ottoman census of 1905, the Sheikh Jarrah nahiya (sub-district) consisted of the Muslim quarters of Sheikh Jarrah, Hayy el-Husayni, Wadi el-Joz and Bab ez-Zahira, and the Jewish quarters of Shim'on Hatsadik and Nahalat Shim'on. Its population was counted as 167 Muslim families (est. 1,250 people), 97 Jewish families, and 6 Christian families. It contained the largest concentration of Muslims outside the Old City. Most of the Muslim population was born in Jerusalem, with 185 residents alone being members of the al-Husayni family. A smaller number hailed from other parts of Palestine, namely Hebron, Jabal Nablus and Ramla, and from other parts of the Ottoman Empire, including Damascus, Beirut, Libya and Anatolia. The Jewish population included Ashkenazim, Sephardim and Maghrebim while the Christians were mostly Protestants. In 1918 the Sheikh Jarrah quarter of the Sheikh Jarrah nahiya contained about 30 houses.
Jordanian and Israeli control
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 14 April, 78 Jews, mostly doctors and nurses, were killed on their way to Hadassah Hospital when their convoy was attacked by Arab forces as it passed through Sheikh Jarrah, the main road to Mount Scopus. In the wake of these hostilities, Mount Scopus was cut off from what would become West Jerusalem. On 24 April the Haganah launched an attack on Sheikh Jarrah as part of Operation Yevusi but they were forced to retreat after action by the British Army.
From 1948, Sheikh Jarrah was on the edge of a UN-patrolled no-man's land between West Jerusalem and the Israeli enclave on Mount Scopus. A wall stretched from Sheikh Jarrah to Mandelbaum Gate, dividing the city. Before 1948, Jews had purchased property in the West Bank and Jordan later passed the Custodian of Enemy Property Law and set a Custodian of Enemy Property to administer the property, amounting to some 30,000 dunums or about 5 percent of the total area of the West Bank. In 1956, the Jordanian government moved 28 Palestinian families into Sheikh Jarrah who were displaced from their homes in Israeli-held Jerusalem during the 1948 War. This was done in accordance with a deal reached between Jordan and UNRWA which stipulated that the refugee status of the families would be renounced in exchange for titles for ownership of the new houses after three years of residency, but the exchange did not take place.
During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel captured East Jerusalem, including Sheikh Jarrah. While discussing "The Legal and Administrative Matters Law of 1970" in the Knesset in 1968, The Minister of Justice stated that "if the Jordanian Custodian of Enemy Property in East Jerusalem sold a house to someone and received money, this house will not be returned”, implying that the deal with UNRWA would be respected.
Under international law, the area, effectively annexed by Israel, is a part of the occupied Palestinian territories. Israel applies its laws thereand the legal proceedings in these and other similar cases in East Jerusalem, are based on the application of two Israeli laws, the Absentee Property Law and the Legal and Administrative Matters Law of 1970.
Jewish groups have sought to gain property in Sheikh Jarrah claiming they were once owned by Jews, including the Shepherd Hotel compound, the Mufti's Vineyard, the building of the el-Ma'amuniya school, the Simeon the Just/Shimon HaTzadik compound, and the Nahlat Shimon neighborhood.
In May 2021, clashes occurred between Palestinians and Israeli police over further anticipated evictions in Sheikh Jarrah.
Consulates and diplomatic missions
In the 1960s, many diplomatic missions and consulates opened in Sheikh Jarrah:
The British Consulate at 19 Nashashibi Street, the Turkish Consulate next door at 20 Nashashibi Street, the Belgian Consulate, the Swedish Consulate, the Spanish Consulate, and the UN mission at Saint George Street.
Tony Blair, former envoy of the Diplomatic Quartet, stays at the American Colony Hotel when visiting the region.
Transportation
The neighbourhood's main street, Nablus Road, was previously part of route 60. In the 1990s a new dual carriageway with two lanes in each direction and a separate bus lane was built west of the neighborhood. Tracks were laid in the busway which since 2010 form the Red Line of the Jerusalem Light Rail.
Landmarks
Shrines and tombs
The Jewish presence in Sheikh Jarrah centered on the tomb of Shimon HaTzadik, one of the last members of the Great Assembly, the governing body of the Jewish people after the Babylonian Exile. According to the Babylonian Talmud, Shimon HaTzadik met with Alexander the Great when the Macedonian army passed through the Land of Israel and convinced him not to destroy the Second Temple. For years Jews made pilgrimages to his tomb in Sheikh Jarrah, a practice documented in travel literature. In 1876, the cave and the adjoining land, planted with 80 ancient olive trees, were purchased by the Jews for 15,000 francs. Dozens of Jewish families built homes on the property. Other landmarks in Sheikh Jarrah are a medieval mosque dedicated to one of the soldiers of Saladin, St. George's Anglican Cathedral and the Tomb of the Kings.
St. John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital
The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital is an institution of The Order of St John that provides eye care in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Patients receive care regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. The hospital first opened in 1882 on Hebron Road opposite Mount Zion. The building in Sheikh Jarrah opened in 1960 on Nashashibi Street.
St. Joseph's French Hospital
The St. Joseph's French Hospital is situated across the street from St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital and is run by a French Catholic charity. It is a 73-bed hospital with three main operating theaters, coronary care unit, X-ray, laboratory facilities, and outpatient clinic. Facilities in internal medicine, surgery, neurosurgery, E.N.T., pediatric surgery and orthopedics.
Shepherd Hotel
The Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah was originally a villa built for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The mufti, who never lived in it, transferred property rights to his personal secretary, George Antonius and his wife, Katy. After the death of George Antonius in 1942, his widow Katy invited many of Jerusalem's elite to her house, though only one Jew. While living in the house, Katy Antonius had a highly publicized affair with the commander of the British forces in Palestine, Evelyn Barker. In 1947, the Jewish underground Irgun blew up a house nearby. Antonius left the house, and a regiment of Scottish Highlanders was stationed there. After the 1948 war, it was taken over by the Jordanian authorities and turned into a pilgrim hotel. In 1985, it was bought by the American Jewish millionaire Irving Moskowitz and continued to operate as a hotel, renamed the Shefer Hotel. The Israeli border police used it as base for several years. In 2007, when Moskowitz initiated plans to build 122 apartments on the site of the hotel, the work was condemned by the British government. In 2009 the plan was modified, but was still condemned by the U.S. and UK governments, Permission to build 20 apartments near the hotel was given in 2009, and formal approval was announced by the Jerusalem municipality on March 23, 2010, hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Barack Obama. Haaretz reported that, "an existing structure in the area will be torn down to make room for the housing units, while the historic Shepherd Hotel will remain intact. A three-story parking structure and an access road will also be constructed on site." The hotel was finally demolished on January 9, 2011.
Impact
Sheikh Jarrah is the subject of the 2012 documentary My Neighbourhood, co-directed by Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi and co-produced by Just Vision and Al Jazeerah.
Notable people
George Antonius
Kai Bird
Mohammed El-Kurd
Yonatan Yosef, Israeli rabbi
Gallery
References
Bibliography
Yitzhak Reiter, Lior Lehrs (2010). The Sheikh Jarrah Affair: The Strategic Implications of Jewish Settlement in an Arab Neighborhood in East Jerusalem , JIIS Studies Series no. 404. The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies; On .
External links
Arab–Israeli conflict
Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem |
23579401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C16H10 | C16H10 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C16H10}}
The molecular formula C16H10 (molar mass: 202.25 g/mol, exact mass: 202.0783 u) may refer to:
Dibenzopentalene
Fluoranthene
Pyrene
Molecular formulas |
23579402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford%20Indians | Stratford Indians | The Stratford Indians were a senior ice hockey team based in Stratford, Ontario. They played home games at the Classic City Arena.
The team was a member of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) and played in the OHA Senior A League. They won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as the league champions during the 1951–52 season.
The team continued into the national playoffs and won the Eastern Canada championship. In the 1952 Allan Cup for the national championship, they were defeated 4-games-to-2 by the Fort Frances Canadians.
References
Ice hockey teams in Ontario
Sport in Stratford, Ontario |
23579409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C13H10 | C13H10 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C13H10}}
The molecular formula C13H10 (molar mass: 166.22 g/mol, exact mass: 166.0783 u) may refer to:
Fluorene, or 9H-fluorene
Phenalene
Molecular formulas |
26719926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy%20Day | Blasphemy Day | Blasphemy Day, also known as International Blasphemy Day or International Blasphemy Rights Day, educates individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom of expression, especially the open criticism of religion which is criminalized in many countries. Blasphemy Day was introduced as a worldwide celebration by the Center for Inquiry in 2009.
Events worldwide on the first annual Blasphemy Day in 2009 included an art exhibit in Washington, D.C., and a free speech festival in Los Angeles.
Origins
Blasphemy Day is celebrated on September 30 to coincide with the anniversary of the 2005 publication of satirical drawings of Muhammad in one of Denmark's newspapers, resulting in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. Although the caricatures of Muhammad caused some controversy within Denmark, especially among Muslims, it became a widespread furor after Muslim imams in several countries stirred up violent protests in which Danish embassies were firebombed and over 100 people killed (counting the deaths from police opening fire on protesters). The idea to observe an International Blasphemy Rights Day originated in 2009. A student contacted the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York, to present the idea, which CFI then supported.
Intent
During the first celebration of Blasphemy Day in 2009, Center for Inquiry President and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay stated in an interview with CNN: "[W]e think religious beliefs should be subject to examination and criticism just as political beliefs are, but we have a taboo on religion." According to USA Todays interview with Justin Trottier, a Toronto coordinator of Blasphemy Day, "We're not seeking to offend, but if in the course of dialogue and debate, people become offended, that's not an issue for us. There is no human right not to be offended."
Criminal punishment for blasphemy
In some countries, blasphemy is punishable by death, such as in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
As of 2015, fourteen member states of the European Union had laws against blasphemy or religious insult, though several have since repealed them. These fourteen are Cyprus, Denmark (repealed 2017), Finland, France (Alsace-Moselle region only, long unenforced, and officially repealed in January 2017), Germany, Greece, Ireland (ended January 2020), Italy, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom (Scotland and Northern Ireland only). Turkey also has similar laws.
In 2009 six US states still had anti-blasphemy laws on their books: Massachusetts, Michigan, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming, but law professor Sarah Barringer Gordon states that they are "rarely enforced".
See also
Avijit Roy
Charlie Hebdo
Civil disobedience
Narendra Dabholkar
Worldwide Protests for Free Expression in Bangladesh
The Satanic Verses
References
External links
Pictures for Everybody Draw Mohammed Day: 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Blasphemy Day Facebook page
The Center for Inquiry's Campaign for Free Expression
Articles containing video clips
Atheism
Atheism activism
Awareness days
Blasphemy
Censorship
Civil awareness days
Criticism of religion
Disengagement from religion
Freedom of expression
Irreligion
Nontheism
Public awareness campaigns
Public holidays in the United States
Recurring events established in 2009
Religion and society
Religion and atheism
Secularism
Separation of church and state
September observances
Unofficial observances |
23579439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark%20King%20Solomon%20Academy | Ark King Solomon Academy | King Solomon Academy is a non-selective, non-denominational, mixed all-through school within the English academy programme, located in Marylebone, London. It occupies the site of the former Rutherford School.
History
The Rutherford School was built from 1958 to 1960, designed by the architect Leonard Manasseh, and is a Grade II* listed building.
The primary school opened in September 2007 and the secondary school opened in September 2009. The school is an all-through school with pupils from 3–18 years with the primary school feeding directly into the secondary. It has sixty pupils in each year. The school is partly modelled on the successful KIPP program which originated in the US.
The curriculum focuses on depth before breadth with a strong emphasis on English and Mathematics.
In December 2008, Ofsted conducted a monitoring visit and rated the academy as 'outstanding'. In December 2009 Ofsted conducted a full inspection and rated the school outstanding.
The school is funded by the Department for Education but is operated by Ark schools, a registered charity under English law, and sponsored by parent charity Ark.
The current headmaster of the secondary school is Max Haimendorf, a graduate of St Hugh's College, Oxford who was amongst the first cohort of the Teach First programme.
In 2015, the school was rated as the best non-selective secondary school in England according to the Department for Education GCSE league tables.
See also
Ark (charity)
List of schools in the City of Westminster
References
External links
King Solomon Academy website
Ark schools website
Absolute Return for Kids website
Academies in the City of Westminster
Educational institutions established in 2007
Primary schools in the City of Westminster
Secondary schools in the City of Westminster
Ark schools
Grade II* listed buildings in the City of Westminster
2007 establishments in England |
20482346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Xargle | Dr. Xargle | Dr. Xargle is a series of children's picture books written by Jeanne Willis and illustrated by Tony Ross; the original six books were published by Andersen Press from 1988 to 1993. It features an alien perspective on human civilization, especially the life of British children and their families. Alternatively, Dr. Xargle is the main character, an alien who studies Earth and teaches schoolchildren about it. Sometimes he takes them on field trips to Earth in human disguises. Finally, Dr. Xargle is a 1997 British television series based on the original books.
For the third book in the series, Dr. Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers (1990), Ross was highly commended runner up for the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.
Books
All seven books were published in hardcover editions by Andersen Press. The original series was published in British paperback editions by Red Fox (Random House) within a few years. In the United States, the books have titles such as Earthlets, as explained by Professor Xargle—the first book, published by E. P. Dutton in 1989.
Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets (1988)
Dr. Xargle's Book of Earth Hounds (1989)
Dr. Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers (1990), A.K.A Earth Tigerlets
Dr. Xargle's Book of Earth Mobiles (1991)
Dr. Xargle's Book of Earth Weather (1992)
Dr. Xargle's Book of Earth Relations (1993)
Dr. Xargle Stories (1999), an Audiobook collection of all the books except Sleepovers
Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlet Sleepovers (2004), a limited edition picture book written to provide support for children who wet the bed
Television series
A 13-episode television series was produced by CINAR and King Rollo Films, and broadcast in 1997: Dr. Xargle and his students are animatronic puppets, while the students' lessons about Earth are animated.
Unnamed in the books, the planet was identified as Planet Queeg, and the children were called Queegles. It is unclear whether their species is named Queegle, or this is the name for their infants (the adults being called Queegs).
Characters
Dr. Xargle: Voiced by Willie Rushton, who died shortly after his lines were recorded.
Xamster
Matron
Monitor
Cute
Rebel
Tardy Queegle
Famished Queegle
Nigel Spume, a human reporter trying to prove the aliens' existence.
Episodes
Each of the 13 episodes had a duration of approximately 30 minutes.
Several episode broadcast dates, as well as the episode order, are currently unknown.
There was also a break in broadcasting that has not yet been accounted for.
Notes
References
External links
—US editions of the first book; immediately, first US edition
More about Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlet Sleepovers
TV Show Information
TV Show episode synopses and opening titles
British picture books
Series of children's books
British children's animated science fiction television series
British television shows featuring puppetry
1990s British children's television series
Television series by Cookie Jar Entertainment
Television series by DHX Media
Television series by ITV Studios
1997 British television series debuts
1998 British television series endings
English-language television shows |
26719946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srivariki%20Premalekha | Srivariki Premalekha | Srivariki Premalekha () is a 1984 Telugu-language romantic comedy film written, and directed by Jandhyala; and produced by Cherukuri Ramoji Rao. The story is based on a Novel titled Premalekha, published in "Chatura" magazine, written by Potturi Vijayalakshmi.
It is also commercial hit during that period, with many actors subsequently established in the cinema field. The film won a Filmfare Award South and a Nandi Award.
Plot
This comedy film revolves around a blind Love letter (Prema Lekha) written by Swarna (Poornima) to Ananda Rao (Naresh), because in a bet with her friends, she writes a blind love letter to an unknown person if the reply will come early from that boy, it will proves Swarna's theory that a boy can be easily wooed by a girl. While posting the letter she forgot to mention the from address then unknowingly her friend randomly chooses a name called Sony from a 'Sony' TV advertisement in a newspaper instead of Swarna's name in the letter and she randomly chooses a name called Ananda Rao from her brother's friends' names and sent the address to Hindustan Shipping Board after getting address from the same newspaper in another advertisement.
The destiny turns out Ananda Rao works in Hindustan shipping board Visakhapatnam. After the reading the letter he pledges to marry the girl who wrote the letter. The from address is missing is at the beginning itself he tries in various ways to find her with the help of his Maternal Uncle Suryam(Vidya Sagar) which leads to several comical circumstances and he became a joke in his backyard.
His father Parandhamayya (Suthi Veerabhadra Rao) is highly abusive and openly scolds him. He needs to gets him married soon so he arranges a match to him then Wantedly Anand Rao makes his matchmaking disastrous. Later His office colleague Margaret tries to exploit his innocence and introduces Sony (Mucherla Aruna) as that girl.
Meanwhile, after losing the bet and it was proved that her theory was wrong, she comes to Vizag for a vacation in her sister's house. Coincidentally, Ananda Rao becomes her neighbour and they become good friends, but Swarna had started to have feelings for Anand Rao. After that, she decides to propose him for the marriage, but before that, he expresses his feelings to Sony and he says he was trying to convince his parents. Feeling dejected, Swarna went back to her village and accepts the marriage proposal on the condition that her parents give no dowry.
Anandrao's brother Bhaskaram (Nutan Prasad) meets Sony and suspects her identity. Then he finds out the truth, as a beggar. Later he escapes from the beggars' association members who thought a new begger came into their territory without any permission of their association.
Then after knowing all facts Bhaskaram reveals the truth in front of Ananda Rao. Actually Sony's real name is Rita, she loves a boy called Robert and her sister Margaret doesn't like their relationship, then when he is in out of station, she lies her that he died in an accident. Feeling dejected she decided to move on. After that, Margaret encourages her to love Ananda Rao. When Bhaskaram came to her house as a beggar, Robert came back home. The argument goes on with Rita and her sister. After hearing this story, Ananda Rao goes to meet her and sees her with Robert, then Rita apologies for her acts to Ananda Rao. Feeling dejected and convinced by their brother's words, he decides to marry, which his father has arranged unknown to him and the real reason for the Bhaskaram's arrival.
Here the bride is none other than Swarna. Meanwhile, Swarna decides to commit suicide because of love failure and she consumes a diamond ring which her father had given to her for marriage. Then she saw Ananda Rao as bridegroom and misunderstands him as a fraud and angrily conveyed it to him. Then Anand Rao confesses his story to her and decides to call off the marriage. Then she tells him her story and reveals that she was Sony. Then she tells him that she consumed the diamond ring to commit suicide, because she had feelings on Anand Rao.
The tension arose, then Swarna's father says coolly that it's not a diamond ring, it's an ordinary stone shaped as a diamond, he want to manage with those stones to the bridegrooms family. After a lot of chaos, Anand Rao and Swarna finally marry and live happily ever after.
Cast
Naresh as Ananda Rao
Poornima as Swarna
Suthi Veerabhadra Rao as Parandhamayya
Nutan Prasad as Bhaskaram
Vidyasagar as Suryam
Sangeetha as Kamakshi
Sri Lakshmi (actress) as Poorna
Dubbing Janaki as Parandhamayya's wife [Ananda Rao's mother]
S. K. Misro as Bhimudu (Parandhamayya'a gumastha)
Melkote as Ananda Rao's Boss
Jit Mohan Mitra as Hanumaanlu
Mucherla Aruna as Sony/Rita
Potti Prasad as Harmonium
Rallapalli as Sarangaramudu "Saraa"
Suthivelu as Ananda Rao (cameo appearance)
Viswanatham as Marichembu
Subbaraya Sharma as Purohitudu
P. L. Narayana
B. Chakravarthy (Jr ANR)
Pavala Syamala
Soundtrack
"Lipileni Kanti Baasa" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S. Janaki)
"Manasa Thullipadake" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singer: S. Janaki)
"Pelladu Pelladu" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S. P. Sailaja)
"Raghuvamsa Sudha" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singers: S. P. Sailaja and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam)
"Sarigamapadani" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singer: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam)
"Tholisaari Mimmalni" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singer: S. Janaki)
Awards
Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu: Jandhyala
Nandi Award for Best Editor: Gautam Raju
References
External links
Telugu-language films
1984 films
Indian films
1984 romantic comedy films
Films directed by Jandhyala
Films scored by Ramesh Naidu
Indian romantic comedy films |
26719969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeve%20coupling | Sleeve coupling | A Sleeve coupling is a basic type of coupling. This consists of a pipe whose bore is finished to the required tolerance based on the shaft size. Based on the usage of the coupling a keyway is made in the bore in order to transmit the torque by means of the key. Two threaded holes are provided in order to lock the coupling in position.
Sleeve couplings are also known as Box Couplings. In this case shaft ends are coupled together and abutted against each other which are enveloped by muff or sleeve. A gib head sunk keys hold the two shafts and sleeve together
Rotating shaft couplings |
6908981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20raids | List of raids | A military raid is a mission where the main objective is to demoralize, destroy valuable enemy installations, free prisoners, gather intelligence, or capture or kill specific personnel. This contrasts to regular military operations where the end goal is to capture territory and advance. Raids are a quick attack, relying heavily on the element of surprise to achieve their objective. After the success or failure of the mission, the raiding force will attempt to retreat to friendly territory before the enemy is able to co-ordinate a counterattack.
Raids are favored by guerrilla, irregular, or special forces. Due to the disproportional affect that a raid can have on an enemy, relative to the attacker's strength and the duration of the attack, raids are a favored tactic in irregular warfare.
This article contains a list of military raids, not including air raids, sorted by the date at which they started:
raids |
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