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20482731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20de%20la%20O | Juan de la O | Juan de la O (born July 24, 1966 in Mexico City) is a Mexican indoor soccer goalkeeper who played in several U.S. indoor leagues. He was the 1997 Continental Indoor Soccer League Goalkeeper of the Year.
De La O began his indoor career in the Mexican indoor soccer leagues. In 1995, he played for the Mexico Toros of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. The team lasted only that one season before folding and the Seattle SeaDogs selected De La O in the CISL dispersal draft. He played the next two seasons with the SeaDogs. He was the 1996 CISL Goalkeeper of the Year. In 1997, the SeaDogs won the CISL championships as De La O was named the Championship Series MVP. When the CISL collapsed at the end of the 1997 season, D La O held the league record for lowest goals against average. Where the CISL had played a summer indoor season, the National Professional Soccer League played a winter indoor season. De La O therefore, moved to the Philadelphia KiXX of the NPSL in the fall of 1997. In 1998, several ex-CISL formed a new league, named the Premier Soccer Alliance. De La O signed with the Portland Pythons for the 1998 PSA season but was back in the NPSL that fall, this time with the Florida ThunderCats. In 1999, he played for the Houston Hotshots in the PSA, now known as the World Indoor Soccer League. He moved again for the 2000 WISL season, this time playing for the Arizona Thunder. It appears he may have finished his U.S. career in 2001 with the Sacramento Knights. However, he may have continued to play in Mexico. BiChampion with “El Combinado” at ITAM (2017-2018).
References
1966 births
Living people
Arizona Thunder players
Continental Indoor Soccer League players
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
Florida ThunderCats players
Footballers from Mexico City
Association football goalkeepers
Houston Hotshots players
Mexican expatriate footballers
Mexican footballers
Mexico Toros players
National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001) players
Philadelphia KiXX (NPSL) players
Premier Soccer Alliance players
Portland Pythons players
Sacramento Knights players
Seattle SeaDogs players
World Indoor Soccer League players |
44506181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharukhera | Bharukhera | library
Bharu Khera also known as Bharukhera is a Village in Dabwali Tehsil in Sirsa District of Haryana State, India. It belongs to Hisar Division.
It is located 61 km towards west from District headquarters Sirsa.
Bharu Khera is a midsized village located in the district of Sirsa in the state of Haryana in India. It has a population of about 2184 persons living in around 365 households.
Geography
Bharukhera is 279 km from State capital Chandigarh, Kaluana (10 km), Teja Khera (10 km), Ganga (13 km), Giddarkhera (13 km), Bacher (14 km) are the nearby villages to Bharukhera
Sangaria, Mandi Dabwali, Hanumangarh, Ellenabad are the nearby cities to Bharukhera.
Rajasthan starts 2 km ahead of Bharukheda.
Physiography
The village Bharu Khera lies in semi arid region of Thar Desert and the Aravalli Range. The climate of this village is characterised by its dryness and extremes temperatures and scanty rainfall like all other parts of Sirsa region.
Administration
Bharukhera has a village panchayat for smooth administrative function.
Utility services
Bharu Khera's Electric Supply Undertaking is managed by the UHBVN.BSNL
Transport
Bharu Khera is well connected via Road routes.
Roadways
There is a district road named Sabuwana road connecting Bharu Khera to Chautala, Sabuwana & Jhandwala serving the purpose of connectivity of nearby towns and villages.
Healthcare
Bharukhera Library and Govt. Middle School
Employment
Most of the people in this village are agricultural farmers who grow cotton as the main cash crop.
Education
There is a Govt. Middle school for the children of the village and nearby area.
References
Cities and towns in Sirsa district |
20482737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Stones%20for%20Kanemitsu | Four Stones for Kanemitsu | Four Stones for Kanemitsu is a 1973 American short documentary film, written and produced by June Wayne and filmed by Terry Sanders. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film is educational and records in details each of the steps in making of a color lithograph by artist, Matsumi Kanemitsu.
See also
List of American films of 1973
References
External links
1973 films
1973 short films
1973 documentary films
American short documentary films
English-language films
Documentary films about painters
1970s short documentary films |
6909465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%20Sunseri | Sal Sunseri | Sal Sunseri (born August 1, 1959) is an American college and professional football coach who is the special assistant to the head coach and was previously the outside linebackers coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Sunseri played college football for the University of Pittsburgh, where he was an All-American linebacker. Sunseri produced at least one Pro Bowl player in four of five seasons as NFL defensive line coach, highlighted by Julius Peppers's three consecutive trips to Hawaii from 2004-2006.
Playing career
Sunseri attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he played for the Pittsburgh Panthers football team from 1978 to 1981. After beginning his career as a walk-on, Sunseri was a three-year starter and anchored a defense that led the NCAA in total defense in both 1980 and 1981. During his senior year, he was named a team captain and a consensus first-team All-American.
After graduating, he was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1982 NFL Draft; however, he suffered a career ending knee injury during training camp and was given an injury settlement and released from the team.
Coaching career
Between 1985 and 1992, Sunseri worked as a defensive line and linebacker's coach for his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh. After Paul Hackett was fired as the team's head coach during Pittsburgh's 1992 season, Sunseri was promoted as an interim head coach for the final game versus Hawaiʻi—a 36–23 loss for the Panthers.
After having previously worked as the defensive line coach for the NFL's Carolina Panthers for six seasons, Sunseri returned to college football on January 21, 2009, when he was named as the outside linebackers coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Sunseri was a 2011 finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation's top college football assistant coach.
In December 2012, Sunseri accepted a job as a defensive assistant at Florida State University. Sunseri helped coach Florida State to the 2013 BCS National Championship.
In January 2015, Sunseri accepted the position of linebackers coach with the Oakland Raiders.
After one season serving as the Defensive line coach for the Florida Gators, Sunseri accepted an undisclosed position with the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Personal life
Sunseri is married to Roxann Sunseri (née Evans), who is a former varsity gymnast at Pittsburgh. The couple has two daughters and two sons. His son, Tino played quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL. His younger son, Vinnie, played safety for the San Francisco 49ers.
Head coaching record
References
External links
Alabama Crimson Tide bio
1959 births
Living people
Alabama A&M Bulldogs football coaches
Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches
All-American college football players
American football linebackers
Carolina Panthers coaches
Florida State Seminoles football coaches
Illinois State Redbirds football coaches
Iowa Wesleyan Tigers football coaches
Louisville Cardinals football coaches
LSU Tigers football coaches
Michigan State Spartans football coaches
Oakland Raiders coaches
Pittsburgh Panthers football coaches
Pittsburgh Panthers football players
Tennessee Volunteers football coaches
Sportspeople from Pittsburgh
Coaches of American football from Pennsylvania
Players of American football from Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Steelers players |
44506185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodora%20G%C3%AEdoiu | Teodora Gîdoiu | Talida-Teodora Gîdoiu (born 12 January 1986 in Orșova) is a Romanian rowing cox. She finished 4th in the eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
People from Orșova
Romanian female rowers
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers of Romania
World Rowing Championships medalists for Romania
European Rowing Championships medalists |
6909477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon%20Peak | Pigeon Peak | Pigeon Peak, elevation , is a summit in the Needle Mountains, a subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern part of the US State of Colorado. It rises dramatically on the east side of the Animas River, west of the fourteener Mount Eolus. It is located in the Weminuche Wilderness, part of the San Juan National Forest.
Pigeon Peak is notable both for its absolute height and for its local relief. It is the 57th highest independent peak in Colorado,
narrowly missing the well-known list of fourteeners. In terms of local relief, it is one of the most impressive peaks in Colorado. Its most dramatic rise is over the Animas River to the west, over which it rises nearly in under . Also, its east face is an cliff.
Climbing
Since Pigeon Peak is not a fourteener, it sees far less traffic than the nearby trio of Mount Eolus, Windom Peak and Sunlight Peak. The standard route is not technically difficult, but it is long and requires a little-hiked wilderness approach. Climbers typically camp near Ruby Lake north of the peak. From there the route ascends to a saddle between Pigeon Peak and Turret Peak, southwest of Pigeon. The route then descends and makes a traverse around to the opposite side of the peak, finally ascending the northwest slopes. Difficulties involve class 3 scrambling.
See also
List of Colorado mountain ranges
List of Colorado mountain summits
List of Colorado fourteeners
List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits
List of the most prominent summits of Colorado
List of Colorado county high points
References
External links
San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
Mountains of La Plata County, Colorado
North American 4000 m summits
San Juan National Forest
Mountains of Colorado |
6909485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20summer%20pool | Full summer pool | A full summer pool or full pool is the water level of a reservoir at normal operating conditions.
Water levels
During droughts or water shortages, the water level can drop below full summer pool. Additionally, water levels may be lowered during the winter season below full summer pool to accommodate snowmelt or seasonally heavy rains.
During periods of heavy rain, the water level in the reservoir may rise above full summer pool to prevent flooding downstream.
See also
Cistern
Hydraulic engineering
References
Reservoirs
Hydraulic engineering |
23579629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil%20Thapa | Sunil Thapa | Sunil Thapa () is a leading Nepalese actor who has appeared in Nepali, Bollywood and Bhojpuri films. He started his career with the Bollywood movie Ek Duuje Ke Liye.
He is an enigmatic figure in the Nepali movie industry, winning more number of awards, including the Motion Pictures Award Nepal twice. He is popular for his villainous roles in Nepali movies.
Career
Thapa started his modelling career in 1974 in Bombay, with Binny's and Mafatlal Fabrics.
During his early days, he was also engaged in sports and was a professional football player for ICL Club Bombay and Orkay's Sports Club.
Besides acting and sports, he also worked as a photo journalist for JS Magazine (Junior Statesman) and covered the Bhutan Coronation in 1974. In 2014 he was also nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Film-fare Award for his extraordinary role in Mary Kom. He is recently working for Nepali Movie "Sher Bahadur".
Filmography
Thapa has featured in many Nepalese, Bhojpuri and Hindi films. The following are some of the select films of Thapa.
References
External links
Living people
1957 births
20th-century Nepalese male actors
21st-century Nepalese male actors
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Actors from Kathmandu
Nepalese actors
Nepalese film people |
23579636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inger-Mari%20Aikio-Arianaick | Inger-Mari Aikio-Arianaick | Inger-Mari Aikio-Arianaick (born 1961 in Utsjoki, Finland) is a Sámi poet who writes in Northern Sámi. In addition to writing poetry, she has worked as a reporter, photographer and proofreader for the newspaper Sámi Áigi from 1982 to 1988, after which she went to work as a news journalist for YLE Sámi Radio.
Biography
After graduating from high school in 1980, Aikio-Arianaick studied languages at the University of Oulu. In 1992, she passed the official translator exams from Northern Sámi to Finnish and from Finnish to Northern Sámi.
Aikio-Arianaick has also published seven collections of poetry and children's books. Her poems have been translated in English, German, Finnish, Swedish, Hungarian.
Works
Gollebiekkat almmi dievva (1989)
Jiehki vuolde ruonas giđđa (1993)
Silkeguobbara lákca (1995)
Máilmmis dása (2001)
69 čuoldda (2018)
References
External links
1961 births
20th-century Finnish poets
20th-century women writers
21st-century Finnish poets
21st-century Finnish women writers
Finnish women poets
Living people
People from Utsjoki
Sámi-language poets |
44506192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boat%20Race%201951 | The Boat Race 1951 | The 97th Boat Race took place on 24 and 26 March 1951. 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. After Oxford sank in the first race held on 24 March, a re-row was ordered by the umpire and took place two days later. It was the first time one of the crews had sunk during the race since the 1925 race. In a race umpired by former Oxford rower Gerald Ellison, Cambridge won the re-row by twelve lengths in a time of 20 minutes 50 seconds, taking the overall record in the event to 53–43 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 1950 race by lengths, with Cambridge leading overall with 52 victories to Oxford's 43 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Cambridge were coached by W. T. Arthur (who rowed for the Light Blues in the 1950 race), Roy Meldrum (a coach for Lady Margaret Boat Club), James Owen and H. R. N. Rickett (who rowed three times between 1930 and 1932). 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), J. L. Garton (who had rowed for the Dark Blues in the 1938 and 1939 races) and J. A. MacNabb (who rowed for Cambridge in the 1924 race). The race was umpired for the first time by former Oxford rower and Gerald Ellison, the Bishop of Willesden, who had competed in the 1932 and 1933 races.
The Light Blues were considered to be firm favourites, yet the rowing correspondent for The Times suggested that "the outcome is anything but certain". The rowing correspondent writing in The Manchester Guardian stated that "if Oxford to-day can make the most of their superiority in weight and good fighting spirit the race is by no means lost to them".
Crews
The Oxford crew weighed an average of 13 st 0.5 lb (82.6 kg), per rower more than their opponents. Cambridge saw four rowers return with Boat Race experience, including their number six Brian Lloyd and stroke David Jennens. Oxford's crew contained three rowers who had taken part in the previous year's race. Five of Cambridge rowers were studying at St John's College, thus rowed for Lady Margaret Boat Club under the supervision of Meldrum. Three participants in the race were registered as non-British. Oxford's number two A. J. Smith was Australian while their cox G. Carver was American; Cambridge's Lloyd was also Australian.
Race
Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station, handing the Middlesex side of the river to Cambridge. Umpire Ellison started the race at 1:45 p.m, with a strong wind blowing against the tide, creating "sizeable waves". Oxford had already taken on board a considerable amount of water from their row to the stakeboats and had opted for less physical protection against the inclement conditions than their opponents. Both crews started at a relatively low stroke rate to cater for the conditions, with Cambridge moderately out-rating their opponents. The Light Blues took an early lead and appeared to be coping with the conditions better than Oxford, and were over a length ahead by the time they passed the London Rowing Club boathouse. The Dark Blues shipped more water until they became entirely submerged, and were rescued by spectators on the Oxford launch Niceia. Cambridge continued, and headed for the relative protection of the Surrey shore but were caught by the umpire's boat and informed that the race was void.
It was the first sinking in the Boat Race since the 1925 race in which Oxford went down. Since the umpire declared a "no row" and because the reason for the sinking was deemed to be "equipment failure before the end of the Fulham Wall", it was agreed between the umpire, the boat club presidents and the Port of London Authority that a re-row be arranged which would take place on Easter Monday, 26 March 1951.
After the two-day delay, Oxford once again won the toss and once again elected to start from the Surrey station, handing the Middlesex side of the river to Cambridge. Ellison started the re-row at 2:30 p.m, in light rain and a "dead smooth" river. Cambridge made the better start and although Oxford quickly drew level, the Light Blues were clear by the end of Fulham Wall. Poor steering from cox Carver allowed Cambridge to pull further ahead, passing the Mile Post more than two lengths clear, and Harrods Furniture Depository three lengths up. Jennens pushed on and by the time Cambridge passed below Hammersmith Bridge, they were four and a half lengths clear and seven ahead by Chiswick Steps. By Barnes Bridge, the lead was 11 lengths.
Cambridge won by a margin of 12 lengths in a time of 20 minutes 50 seconds, securing their fifth consecutive victory. It was the largest winning margin since the 1900 race and the slowest winning time since the 1947 race. Crowden later noted that while he believed the initially sinking to be more down to "inferior oarsmanship rather than an accident", he was certain that his crew would have failed to finish the course had they been allowed to continue. The rowing correspondent of The Manchester Guardian suggested that "the 1951 race, with anti-climax following disaster, is best forgotten as quickly as may be." The victory took the overall record in the event to 53–43 in Cambridge's favour.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Official website
1951 in English sport
1951 in rowing
The Boat Race
March 1951 sports events in the United Kingdom
1951 sports events in London |
23579643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus%20Drucker | Adolphus Drucker | Charles Gustavus Adolphus Drucker (born 1 May 1868, Amsterdam, died 10 December 1903, New York City) was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Northampton.
References
External links
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1895–1900
1868 births
1903 deaths |
23579658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornea%20plana%201 | Cornea plana 1 | Cornea plana 1 (CNA1) is an extremely rare congenital hereditary deformity of the eye surface, leading to severe decrease in corneal curvature.
See also
Cornea plana 2
References
External links
Congenital Clouding of the Cornea - eMedicine; by Noah S Scheinfeld, MD, JD, FAAD and Benjamin D Freilich, MD, FACS
Eye diseases |
23579673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Nationality%20Act%201772 | British Nationality Act 1772 | The British Nationality Act 1772 (13 Geo. 3 c. 21) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain was a British nationality law which made general provision allowing natural-born allegiance (citizenship) to be assumed if the father alone was British.
This Act was one of the British Subjects Acts 1708 to 1772.
The Act was repealed by the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914.
References
External links
Text of the Act
Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1772
British nationality law
Repealed Great Britain Acts of Parliament |
20482741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Madness%20%28basketball%29 | Midnight Madness (basketball) | Midnight Madness is an annual event celebrating the upcoming college basketball season in which a team opens its first official practice to the public, often combining it with a pep rally and other fan-friendly activities. The tradition originated from teams holding public practices at midnight on the earliest day that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) would allow a practice to be held. In 2013, a new NCAA rule established some flexibility around the opening of a team's practice sessions. As a result, the dates on which teams celebrate Midnight Madness can vary, but most stick with the traditional date of a Friday night closest to October 15.
History
Prior to the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season men's and women's basketball teams were not permitted to practice prior to the Friday closest to October 15. Maryland Terrapins head coach Lefty Driesell began the Midnight Madness tradition at 12:03 a.m. on October 15, 1971 by inviting the public to a 1.5 mile team run. The early practice session was attended by 3,000 fans at the track surrounding Byrd Stadium on the University of Maryland campus. Driesell continued the annual midnight practice session throughout his tenure at Maryland, and brought the tradition with him when he became head coach at Georgia State University. In 2008, that school delayed the event until sunrise for the first time since Driesell established the tradition.
In 1982, coach Joe B. Hall and the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team began to officially promote a celebration dubbed "Midnight Madness" as a school event with formal entertainment acts and an invited student audience. This event was held in Memorial Coliseum and held 8,500 people in the then-12,500 seat gym. Big Blue Madness is now televised and hosts celebrities including Drake, who performed in 2014. Another of the more famous events is "Late Night in the Phog" at Kansas, which was started in 1985 by Larry Brown and is now broadcast in live streaming video via the Internet. The event has caught on on most campuses; various programs have given away T-shirts and allowed players do stunt dunks and half court shots. Some schools schedule intrasquad scrimmages, three-point shooting contests and/or slam dunk contests. The event is often a co-ed event, in which both the men's and women's teams participate in the celebration, especially at schools like the University of Connecticut, where the men's and women's teams have a combined 15 championships. Scout.com estimated that in 2007, approximately 160 of the top blue chip high school basketball recruits in the country were attending a Midnight Madness event during the weekend that opens the basketball season.
In 2013, the NCAA ruled that men's practices could begin two weeks earlier than the traditional date, so long as teams held no more than 30 days of practice in the six weeks prior to the first regular-season game. This change was made to provide more flexible scheduling that accommodated off days in the preseason practice schedule. However, the women's programs rejected moving the date forward so as not to conflict with recruiting. As a result of practices beginning so early, several teams opted to celebrate Midnight Madness later in the six-week practice window.
Details
In the 21st century, most basketball programs from large Division I schools have planned a pep rally with MCs, music, dancing and other festivities to encourage support of the program. Celebrity guests and alumni participate in entertaining the students. Often, there is significant publicity surrounding the event, which may include televised broadcasts, published press releases and various new media exposure.
Some of the more outlandish occurrences during such events included coach participation, such as Michigan State Spartans men's basketball coach Tom Izzo riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle onto the court and Florida Gators men's basketball coach Billy Donovan rising out of a coffin. Although signing week, when top recruits sign letters of intent that commit them to specific schools, does not occur until November, blue chip high school recruits are sometimes welcomed at these events even in their junior years. Usually a prescribed number of fans (such as the first 1,000) receive a gifts such as t-shirts, posters, autographs, road game vacation packages, and other free paraphernalia. At many such events, a student is chosen for a half-court shot giveaway. Sometimes the events are televised live by sports networks such as the Big Ten Network, and other times highlights are shown on highlight shows such as ESPN's SportsCenter. ESPNU has begun extensive yearly coverage of midnight madness events and in 2008 televised events at Davidson College, the University of Kansas, Georgetown University, Gonzaga University and Indiana University. The events have been reported for years in print media such as newspapers, magazines and the internet. Although Midnight Madness has become a prime time event for many premier basketball programs, some schools have continued the tradition of having their first practice at 12:00 on the first day regular practice is allowed.
As of 2006, the University of Kentucky held the record for attendance at this type of sports rally with an attendance of 23,312 at Rupp Arena. Kentucky has sold out Rupp Arena multiple times for what they call "Big Blue Madness" and in the 2008–09 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball season fans had to camp out in lines for days in advance to obtain tickets.
One celebratory function of the evening is often to raise NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament or Final Four banners to the rafters in an official ceremony. In 2008, both 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament finalists, the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball and Memphis Tigers men's basketball teams, did so during their respective Midnight Madness event. The October 16, 2009 celebrations occurred on many campuses and a sampling were aired on the ESPN family of networks. Five Big Ten Conference schools celebrated Midnight Madness.
Exceptions
In 2008, some teams attempted to host Midnight Madness in association with special early restricted practices instead of the first day of regular practices. These universities felt that since their football teams had home games the week before the opening date of formal practices, which had become the traditional Midnight Madness date, they would be better off holding Midnight Madness on the weekend before. In 2008, teams were allowed to practice two hours per week between September 15 and October 17 under what is known as the "Offseason Workout Rule," and at least four notable public "practice" sessions (by Illinois, Kentucky, Marshall and West Virginia) were held during these weekly practices before daily practices were permitted. At the University of Illinois, the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball and women's basketball teams hosted scrimmages at Memorial Stadium after an October 11 game between the Illinois Fighting Illini football team and the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team. Since the attendance for the football game was 62,870, this event was described as the "World's Largest Basketball Practice". Charlie Zegers reports that the practice session events occurred both at halftime and after the game.
Kentucky was one of the schools that held their public practice event a week early in part because they could lure more recruiting prospects during a week when most other programs were not hosting similar events. The National Association of Basketball Coaches asked the Southeastern Conference to force Kentucky to adhere to the traditionally scheduled practice to no avail. They then belatedly petitioned the NCAA to legislate conformity unsuccessfully. Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie had contacted the Kentucky's compliance office, the SEC and the NCAA to ensure that no rules were being violated.
Illinois head coach Bruce Weber had also received permission for the early practice festivities from the NCAA. He had proposed having a September 13 session in association with a home football game against Louisiana–Lafayette. The date with the Ragin' Cajuns would have in all likelihood been a more favorable day in terms of the climate, but this date preceded even the Offseason Workout Rule dates. It is anticipated that in the future, public basketball practices linked to the Offseason Workout Rule will be banned. Illinois claimed that their date change was not intended to give it a recruiting advantage in terms of scheduling conflicts.
Notes
External links
ESPN 2010 Midnight Madness highlight video
Midnight Madness and the Michigan State University Men's Basketball Team
Cheerleading
History of college basketball in the United States
Maryland Terrapins men's basketball
College sports culture in the United States |
20482759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haide-Ene%20Rebassoo | Haide-Ene Rebassoo | Haide-Ene Rebassoo (born 25 January 1935 in Tallinn) is an Estonian botanist.
She was affiliated with the Institute of Zoology and Botany from 1960 to 1979 and 1983–1993. In 1975 she notably published her scientific findings on sea shore plants in the Islands of Estonia.
Notable publications
1967: "Hiiumaa floora ja selle genees"
1972: "Laidude raamat"
1973: "Hiiumaa"
1974: "Eesti taimeriigis"
1975: "Botaanilisi kilde 17 Hiiumaa suvest"
1975: "Sea-shore plant communities of the Estonian islands"
1979: "Eesti taimharuldusi"
1981: "Kaitskem kauneid taimi
References
External links
Publications at the Open Library
1935 births
Living people
20th-century Estonian botanists
Scientists from Tallinn
University of Tartu alumni
20th-century Estonian women scientists |
20482770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimodular%20polynomial%20matrix | Unimodular polynomial matrix | In mathematics, a unimodular polynomial matrix is a square polynomial matrix whose inverse exists and is itself a polynomial matrix. Equivalently, a polynomial matrix A is unimodular if its determinant det(A) is a nonzero constant.
References
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External links
Polynomial matrix glossary at Polyx (A matlab toolbox)
Matrices
Polynomials |
23579674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva%20Shrestha | Shiva Shrestha | Shiva Sundar Shrestha (), known professionally as Shiva Shrestha, is a Nepali actor known for action films. He is referred to as the "Action King" of Nepali film. In 2016, he appeared alongside Rajesh Hamal in Bagmati. In 2018, he announced a film that he would write and produce, and would star his son in his debut role. Shrestha was set to feature in a prominent role himself. He was considered most successful film star in the history of Nepali film industry. He starred in several box office successful movies like Jeevan Rekha (1980) , Badalindo Akash (1982) , Kanchi (1984) , Bishwas (1986) , Chino (1989) , ManaKamana(1990) , Milan (1993) , Dharma Sankat (1998) & Thul Dai (1999) etc.
During the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, he was called second pillar of the film industry with many hits.
Filmography
He appeared in many Pakistani Urdu action movies. During his five-year period his action and dancing skills were popular among Pakistani movie audiences. List of his Pakistani movies are as follows:
Lady Commando
Lava
Bangkok Kay Chor
References
External links
Living people
20th-century Nepalese male actors
People from Biratnagar
Nepalese male film actors
1954 births |
20482786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oro%20jaska%2C%20beana | Oro jaska, beana | "Oro jaska, beana" is a song by Norwegian group The BlackSheeps. It won both the Norwegian MGP jr contest in September 2008 and went on to win MGP Nordic 2008, beating songs from Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
The song reached #1 in the official Norwegian charts.
Lyrics and topic
"Oro jaska, beana" is sung mainly in Norwegian, but has some phrases in Sami. The phrase Oro jaska is Sami for be quiet or shut up. The song is about a dog with health issues who later dies from excess blood pressure.
Awards
The track won The BlackSheeps a Spellemann award (Norwegian "Grammy") in the category "Årets låt" ("Song of the year") at Spellemannprisen 2008.
Notes and references
2008 songs
Norwegian songs
Norwegian-language songs
Sámi-language songs
Song articles with missing songwriters
Number-one singles in Norway |
20482788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killarney%20GAA | Killarney GAA | GAA Killarney are a former Football and Hurling Divisional Team in County Kerry, Ireland and composed of players from the Dr Crokes and Legion clubs. They have won 2 Kerry Senior Football Championships in 1949 and 1983 and 1 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship in 1969 and were beaten in the final in 1951.
Honours
Kerry Senior Football Championship: (2) 1949, 1983
Kerry Senior Hurling Championship: (1) 1969
Kerry Minor Hurling Championship: (3) 1950, 1951, 1952
Notable players
References
Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in County Kerry
Gaelic football clubs in County Kerry |
23579679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrick%20Bar | Garrick Bar | The Garrick Bar is a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, situated at 29 Chichester Street in the city centre. It was established in 1870 and is one of the oldest pubs in Belfast. It serves a range of locally-sourced pub food. The Front Bar in the Garrick hosts traditional music sessions, while the Back Bar hosts the Belfast Music Club and resident and guest DJs.
It is a traditional pub with a Victorian decor, dark wood ceilings and panelling, booths with leather benches, tiled floors, and brass oil lamps. The traditional top floor room features a display of barometers and Venetian mirrors. In 2006, the bar was sold for £1.7 million to Bangor entrepreneur Bill Wolsley’s Beannchor leisure group. It was then closed for six weeks for refurbishment, taking out all the gambling machines, TV's, and jukeboxes to create a classic pub with music rooms.
References
Pubs in Belfast |
44506231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boat%20Race%201952 | The Boat Race 1952 | The 98th Boat Race took place on 29 March 1952. 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. In a race umpired by former Cambridge rower Kenneth Payne, Oxford won by a canvas in a time of 20 minutes 23 seconds. At no point during the contest was there clear water between the boats. The race, described as "one of the closest fought of all time", was their second win in seven years and took the overall record in the event to 53–44 in Cambridge's 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 1951 race by a lengths, and had won the previous five races. They led overall with 53 victories to Oxford's 43 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Oxford's coaches were A. J. M. Durand (who had rowed for the Dark Blues in the 1920 race), Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards (who rowed for Oxford in 1926 and 1930), R. D. Hill (who rowed in the 1940 wartime race) and J. H. Page. Cambridge were coached by C. B. M. Lloyd (three-time Blue between 1949 and 1951), Roy Meldrum (a coach for Lady Margaret Boat Club), James Owen and Harold Rickett (who rowed three times between 1930 and 1932). The race was umpired for the third time by the former British Olympian Kenneth Payne, who had rowed for Cambridge in the 1932 and 1934 races.
Although Cambridge had arrived at Putney as clear favourites to win, Oxford's improvements during the build-up to the race had shortened their odds: as the rowing correspondent in The Manchester Guardian suggested, "anything might happen". The rowing correspondent for The Times reported that Cambridge were "quoted as even" but would "still start [the] race as favourites". Moreover, the crews were "extraordinarily evenly matched, but Oxford have a very good chance of breaking the run of Cambridge wins."
Crews
The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 12 st 11.5 lb (81.2 kg), per rower more than their opponents. Oxford's crew contained three rowers with Boat Race experience including Chris Davidge, their stroke, who was making his third appearance in the event. Cambridge saw three participants return, including cox John Hinde. Oxford's number six Ken Keniston was the only participant registered as non-British; the former Harvard University rower was from the United States.
Race
Cambridge won the toss and elected to start from the Middlesex station, handing the Surrey side of the river to Oxford. The weather was inclement, with gale-force winds and snow disrupting the race, and limiting the number of spectators lining the banks of the Thames to a few thousand. Umpire Payne started the race at 3:15 p.m. Cambridge made the cleaner start in the rough conditions, and held a quarter-length lead at the Dukes' Head pub. Despite making a number of spurts, the Light Blues could not pull away from Oxford, the Dark Blues' stroke maintaining a higher stroke rate to keep in touch. Keeping to more sheltered conditions yet in slower water, Cambridge passed the Mile Post with a lead of half a length.
With the bend in the river beginning to favour Oxford, the lead was slowly eroded until both boats passed nearly level below Hammersmith Bridge. Alongside Chiswick Eyot, the Dark Blues were almost half-a-length ahead but not gaining further. Cambridge's cox Hinde pushed the Oxford boat towards the centre of the river and as they passed under Barnes Bridge the Dark Blue lead was down to less than a quarter of a length. Oxford won by a canvas (approximately ) in a time of 20 minutes 23 seconds, the narrowest margin of victory since 1877, and their first win in six attempts. At no point during the course of the race did either boat have a clear water advantage over their opponent. The rowing correspondent for The Manchester Guardian described the race as "one of the closest fought of all time", while Ian Thomson, writing in The Observer suggested it was "one of the most exciting races ever rowed."
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Official website
1952 in English sport
1952 in rowing
The Boat Race
March 1952 sports events in the United Kingdom
1952 sports events in London |
20482790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Kubassevich | Olga Kubassevich | Olga Kubassevich-Drobyshevskaya (born 22 September 1985 in Zaporizhia) is a Ukrainian and Kazakhstani volleyball player. She is 183 cm and plays as opposite. She plays for Türk Telekom Ankara. Team since 2007 and wear 5 number.
Clubs
2002-2003 ZDIA Zaporizhya
2004-2005 Jenestra Odesa
2007-2009 Türk Telekom Ankara
References
CEV Athlete's biography
Türk Telekom Ankara Official Website Profile
1985 births
Living people
Ukrainian women's volleyball players
Kazakhstani women's volleyball players
Türk Telekom volleyballers
Asian Games medalists in volleyball
Volleyball players at the 2006 Asian Games
Volleyball players at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan |
26720169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations%20of%20Alice%27s%20Adventures%20in%20Wonderland | Translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 175 languages. The language with the most editions of the Alice in Wonderland novels in translation is Japanese, with 1,271 editions. Some translations, with the first date of publishing and of reprints or re-editions by other publishers, are:
See also
Translations of Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll's 1871 sequel
References
Literature
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lists of fantasy books
Children's literature bibliographies |
20482802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasquale%20Berardi | Pasquale Berardi | Pasquale Berardi (born 3 January 1983 in Bari, Italy) is an Italian footballer. He plays as a midfielder. He is currently playing for Italian Serie D team Sulmona.
External links
Profile at lega-calcio.it
Living people
1983 births
Italian footballers
Serie B players
S.S.C. Bari players
U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players
A.C. Ancona players
A.S.D. Martina Calcio 1947 players
S.S. Sambenedettese Calcio players
S.P.A.L. players
Pro Sulmona Calcio 1921 players
A.S.D. Calcio Ivrea players
Association football midfielders |
26720177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extromatica%20Network%20Monitor | Extromatica Network Monitor | Extromatica Network Monitor is a network monitoring application created and maintained by Extromatica company. It is designed to monitor network hardware, servers and network services for faults and performance degradation. It alerts users when things go wrong and again when they get better. The software supports a variety of real-time notification mechanisms, including Short Message Service (SMS).
History
The development of this software began in 1999 as an internal project by Maxim Perenesenko and Yuri Zaitsev. After 2 years of development, it was released as Network Eagle Monitor. It took one more year until first stable release in 2002.
As of 2015, this software is maintained by Extromatica company and is named Extromatica Network Monitor.
Overview
Tests
Tests IP channel between monitoring system and another computer or network device with Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) protocol.
Checks accessibility of TCP based services like Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol (POP3), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Secure Shell (SSH), and so on.
Checks availability and responsiveness of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers.
Checks availability and responsiveness of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and HTTPS servers.
Checks content of Web page by searching for specified substring.
Monitors free and used space on disk or network shares.
Tests local or remote (network share (Windows share)) directory for changes.
Periodically runs external commands or batch scripts and checks the return code.
Tests accessibility of data sources of Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) or native MS SQL. Runs SQL querys and checks return results as an option.
Executes script tests. They can be written in Visual Basic Script, JavaScript or other languages supported by the operating system (Active Scripting). For example: Active Python, ActivePerl.
Monitors a process on local or remote machines by its process identifier or name.
Monitors local or remote Windows Event Log for specified messages.
Communicates with a Windows machine to determine if a specified Windows Service is running and responding.
Monitors the content of specified file for changes by calculating MD5 hash or searching for substring; this check can test files inside archives.
Monitors status of local or network printers; can track more than twenty events, such as paper out or jammed, toner out, many more.
Tests Remote Access Service connection.
Monitors various parameters of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) enabled computer or device.
Tests Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server accessibility, checks LDAP directory content.
System performance - monitors loads of central processor unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), local or remote computers.
Alerts and actions
Displays a popup-window with information about events.
Executes external program.
Plays a sound file.
Sends an e-mail message with information about events.
Writes event to Syslog.
Sends user-defined message to the Windows Event Log.
Executes script alerts. Alerts can be written in Visual Basic Script, JavaScript or other languages supported by the operating system (Active Scripting).
Rebootss local or remote computer.
Changes running state of Windows service, local or remote.
Running user-defined SQL query.
Sends SMS messages.
See also
Network administration
Network management
Comparison of network monitoring systems
External links
Extromatica Network Monitor on Twitter
Product Blog
References
http://3d2f.com/smartreviews/0-780-network-eagle-monitor-read.shtml
Network management
Internet Protocol based network software |
44506258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toybox%20Turbos | Toybox Turbos | Toybox Turbos is a racing video game developed and published by Codemasters. It was released in November 2014.
Gameplay
Toybox Turbos is a racing video game with gameplay similar to the Micro Machines video game series. The game features 18 circuits and 35 vehicles. The game supports local and online multiplayer.
Reception and reviews
The PC version of Toybox Turbos received "mixed or average" reviews according to a review aggregator website Metacritic. Reception towards the PlayStation 3 version was more favourable.
GamesRadar+ gave it , saying "there is something fundamentally fun about racing tiny cars across a breakfast table and pushing your best mate off it onto the floor...[it] offers immediate multiplayer fun thanks to its mix of racing, weapons and forgiving handling...[but] the single-player mode is not as entertaining".
Eurogamer rated it 7/10, stating that the "handling is appropriately chunky, with enough bounce to be fun, but enough traction that you don't feel out of control...the tracks and race types certainly don't offer enough variation that the decision to favour speed over handling, or vice versa, has any real tactical merit...[but] as a budget-priced reminder of simpler times, Toybox Turbos does everything it needed to, but sadly not much more".
References
External links
2014 video games
Codemasters games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
Racing video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by Mark Knight
Windows games
Xbox 360 games |
23579680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%201972%20%28France%29 | List of number-one singles of 1972 (France) | This is a list of the French Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews number-ones of 1972.
Summary
Singles Chart
See also
1972 in music
List of number-one hits (France)
References
1972 in France
1972 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in France |
26720197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong%20Bertrand | Bong Bertrand | Bertrand Benik Tequwa Bong (born March 27, 1987 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who last played as a striker for
Sporting Clube de Goa in the I-League.
At the start of the 2012–13 I-League season, Bong signed for Sporting Clube de Goa from Al-Ahli.
References
1987 births
Living people
Cameroonian footballers
Al-Shamal SC players
Expatriate footballers in Oman
Cameroonian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Qatar
Canon Yaoundé players
Expatriate footballers in Egypt
Wadi Degla SC players
Sportspeople from Yaoundé
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Oman
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Egypt
Ravan Baku FC players
Qatari Second Division players
Association football forwards
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in India
Expatriate footballers in India
Expatriate footballers in Bahrain
Expatriate footballers in Azerbaijan
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan |
23579691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20R.%20Ramaiya | P. R. Ramaiya | P. R. Ramaiya (1894–1970) was the founder of Tainadu, the premier Kannada Newspaper of the Indian state of Mysore during the freedom movement. He was also an editor at the Daily News, an evening newspaper in Bangalore.
Born in Sreerangapatna in 1894 Ramaiya went to Benares to study and completed his B.Sc in 1919 and studied for his M.Sc in Chemistry but did not take the final exam.
Ramaiya met Gandhi in Benares when he was a student and became involved in Gandhis Quit India movement. In September 1942, Ramaiya was arrested and his newspaper, Tainadu, was suspended. Ramaiya was one of the first members of the Indian National Congress in Mysore. He was elected to the MLA seat from Basavanagudi from the Congress party in their first general election in 1952. He held the position of MLA from 1952-1957.
He was ably assisted by his wife in all ventures. Mrs. P.R.Jayalakshamma, his wife was a social worker, and was the deputy mayor of Bangalore. He is related to eminent educationist Professor V. T. Srinivasan, one of the founders and Principal of Vijaya college, Bangalore. Smt. V. T. Bhuvaneswari, who was the head of Physics Department, daughter of Professor V. T. Srinivasan, was one of the daughters-in-law of Mr. P. R. Ramiah.
References
1894 births
1970 deaths
Businesspeople from Mysore
Kannada people
Mysore MLAs 1952–1957 |
44506270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20Messed%20Up | Most Messed Up | Most Messed Up is the tenth studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, first released on April 29, 2014 (see 2014 in music).
Track listing
All tracks by Rhett Miller, Ken Bethea, Murry Hammond and Philip Peeples except where noted.
"Longer Than You've Been Alive" - 5:52
"Give It Time" - 3:23
"Let's Get Drunk & Get It On" - 3:03
"This Is The Ballad" - 2:39
"Wheels Off" - 3:05
"Nashville" (Miller, Bethea, Hammond, Peeples, Jon McElroy) - 2:35
"Wasted" - 2:53
"Guadalajara" - 2:52
"The Disconnect" - 4:00
"Ex Of All You See" - 2:52
"Intervention" - 3:49
"Most Messed Up" - 2:48
Personnel
Old 97's
Rhett Miller - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Murry Hammond - bass, backing vocals
Ken Bethea - lead guitar
Philip Peeples - drums, percussion
Additional Musicians
Tommy Stinson - electric guitar, backing vocals
Jon Rauhouse - pedal steel
References
Old 97's albums
2014 albums
ATO Records albums |
26720201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanee%20Butler | Lanee Butler | Lanee "Carrie" Butler-Beashel (born June 3, 1970 in Manhasset, New York) is an American windsurfer. She competed at four Olympics from 1992 to 2004. Her best position was fourth in 2000.
She is married to America's Cup sailor Adam Beashel. Her brother in law is six-time Olympian Colin Beashel. She and Adam have two sons, born in 2005 and 2008.
References
1970 births
Living people
American windsurfers
Female windsurfers
American female sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors of the United States
Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Lechner A-390
Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States
Sailors at the 1995 Pan American Games
Sailors at the 1999 Pan American Games
Sailors at the 2003 Pan American Games
People from Manhasset, New York
Pan American Games medalists in sailing
Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
21st-century American women |
44506273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20Heart%20Higher%20Secondary%20School%2C%20Thevara | Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School, Thevara | Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School (also referred to as S.H School) is located in Thevara, Ernakulam Kerala, India run by the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), an indigenous Syrian Catholic religious congregation founded in 1831. School Code of Sacred Heart is 07063.
Organizations
Student Police Cadets
N.S.S
Scouts and Guides
Notable alumni
References
Christian schools in Kerala
Primary schools in Kerala
High schools and secondary schools in Kochi
Educational institutions established in 1965
1965 establishments in Kerala |
23579692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclay%20Howard | Barclay Howard | Donald Barclay Howard (27 January 1953 – 19 May 2008) was a Scottish amateur golfer. He was regarded as one of the finest golfers of his time and considered a folk-hero. He has had a lifetime relationship with Cochrane Castle Golf Club in Johnstone, Renfrewshire.
Life
Howard was born in Glasgow. He was married when he was 19, the marriage to Alexandra Lawson Brennan produced two daughters – Linda (b. 1972) and Lorraine (b. 1976).
Howard first joined Clydesdale Bank and later switched to Rolls Royce, where he was made redundant in 1993. After that he became a full-time amateur golfer, that and his previous success on the golf course led him to a job in customer relations with club-maker John Letters.
Howard was a self-confessed alcoholic, leading to international exclusion in 1984. After having suffered and defeated leukemia, he died of pneumonia in 2008.
Howard was a lifelong friend of Sam Torrance, who became a successful professional golfer.
Sporting career
Howard can probably be best described as a true amateur. Working a regular work week and playing golf in his spare time. He might have been a top professional. He was a leading figure in Scottish and British amateur golf. Over the years he has won more than a hundred amateur tournaments.
Howard played on the Great Britain and Ireland team in the Walker Cup twice, winning in 1995 at Royal Portcawl. He has also played on the GB&I team in the Eisenhower Trophy in 1996. He was the low amateur in the 1997 Open Championship.
In his latter years, Howard was a leading figure in the Scottish Golf Union.
Autobiography
Howard published an autobiography (with Jonathan Russell) in 2001 called "Out of the rough" (not to be confused with Laura Baugh's book called "Out of the Rough" or John Daly's: "My life in and out of the rough") where he describes his personal battles (against alcohol) and his inner demons.
Amateur wins
this list is incomplete
1994 St Andrews Links Trophy
1996 St Andrews Links Trophy
1997 Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship
Team appearances
Amateur
St Andrews Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1980 (winners), 1994 (winners), 1996 (winners)
Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1995 (winners), 1997
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1996
European Amateur Team Championship (representing Scotland): 1995 (winners), 1997
References
External links
Obituary in The Herald
Cochrane Castle Golf Club website
Scottish male golfers
Amateur golfers
Golfers from Glasgow
1953 births
2008 deaths |
20482805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%20Tennis%20Masters%20Challenger | S Tennis Masters Challenger | The s Tennis Masters Challenger was a tennis tournament held in Graz, Austria from 1991 to 2008. The event was part of the ATP Challenger Series and was played on outdoor clay courts.
Past finals
Singles
Doubles
External links
ITF Search
ATP Challenger Tour
Clay court tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in Austria |
26720212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Dogs | Space Dogs | Space Dogs (a.k.a. Belka & Strelka — Star Dogs, original: Белка и Стрелка. Звёздные собаки, Belka i Strelka. Zvyozdnye sobaki) is a 2010 Russian computer-animated film. The film is based on the Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka, and honors the first animals who survived an orbital space trip, the Korabl-Sputnik 2 flight in August, 1960. In Poland it became the leader of the box-office on its first weekend, although in the United States it grossed poorly, making only $14,408 due to its limited release.
Plot
A man in black is carrying a small cage from the Soviet Union to the U.S. President Kennedy. In the cage is a present from Khrushchev to Caroline Kennedy, a stray dog named Pushok. He finds the other Kennedy pets and tells them his story.
Three years earlier, in Moscow 1960, a strange man showed up, who was catching street dogs and taking them away. Once he tried to catch a terrier puppy named Strelka, but she ran away with her friend, a rat named Lenny. Then, Strelka went to go dig for bones and Venya went to a pay telephone to get some money.
While Strelka was running from the strange man, Vova, a circus pig, became too large to fly in his rocket, and Belka, a circus dog, flew in his place. Belka loses control of the rocket and flew away from the circus. After some time she crashed onto the payphone where Lenny was looking for coins. The crash broke the phone and Lenny got all the money from the broken phone. After the crash Belka, Strelka, and Lenny were met by three other street dogs: a French bulldog named Bula, a pug named Mula, and a wolf named Pirate. Belka and Strelka ran from the other street dogs but the next morning all three of them were caught by the strange man.
After being caught the dogs are put on a train to Baikonur where they ended up at a Soviet space program training center. There they met their trainer, Kazbek the German Shepherd, who had to choose the two best dogs from the group. A month before the launch date, the chosen group was Bula and Mula, but on the final training day, Lenny came in first, with Belka and Strelka in 2nd and 3rd place. Belka and Strelka needed to fly with Lenny because he was first and the flight group was chosen.
At the end of their flight, Strelka wanted to stay in space, because her mother had said that her father, Sirius, is living among the stars. Kazbek shows up having stowed away on their flight and tried to convince Strelka to turn around. They saw a formation of objects flying towards them, believing them to be Space Dogs but they turned out to be meteorites, they got hit by a meteorite shower and the rocket caught fire from the damage. Strelka, Lenny, and Kazbek went to the back of the rocket to fight the fire with their feeding formula as water, Belka was afraid but still jumped through the fire ring into the driver's seat to turn the rocket back towards Earth. Strelka extinguished the fire, and Kazbek confessed his love for Belka. The dogs look at various constellations and Strelka salutes Sirius in lieu of her father. The dog flight crew makes it back to Earth alive.
Strelka, Belka, and Lenny receive a hero's welcome, and it is discovered that Kazbek stowed away on the flight, but the Scientist in charge of the project tells him that Soviet Propaganda won't allow the world to know that a stow-away had been on the flight.
The other Kennedy pets, led by the cat, don't believe Pushok's story, except one French dog who sees the Cosmonaut Patch on Pushok's cushion. She then asks him to tell her what happened afterward.
Strelka returns to live with her mother. Venya holds conferences, telling his story to any willing to listen to him. Belka returns to her circus as the main star, flying the repaired rocket from earlier in the film. Kazbek lives together with his love Belka, and everyone lived happily ever after.
During the end credits, real-life archive footage from the Soviet Space Program and its Soviet space dogs is shown.
Production
The directors Svyatoslav Ushakov and Inna Evlannikova, as specialists with foreign experience, were finally approved. Evlannikova - in the words of the executive producer, "a powerful production worker" - worked with everything that was directly related to animation. Ushakov was mainly engaged in the development of an artistic concept, storyboards, etc.
To recreate Moscow in the 60s and the cosmodrome, animators studied photographs of those years and newsreels for a long time. The prototype of the circus artist Belka was the circus artist - the heroine of Lyubov Orlova from the 1936 feature film " Circus ". The director Svyatoslav Ushakov specially went to the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, which was the prototype of the Belka circus.
In parallel with Russian animators at KinoAtis studio, two Indian subcontractors “Cornershop Animation "and" Blowfish FX ", which were engaged in animation and rendering, worked with elaborate materials received from KinoAtis using Autodesk Maya and Pixar RenderMan.
Before the official release of the film Karoprokat looked at the International Space Station by cosmonauts Maxim Suraev and Oleg Kotov, who positively characterized it from the point of view of space specificity . Also, the first spectators were their wives and children on Earth. with some scenes of the film have been shown for some time in the program “ Спокойной ночи, малыши!”, Because the transmission format does not allow showing it in full. The movie was premiered on television in Russia 1 " on May 2, 2011.
Home media
Space Dogs (English Dub) was released on DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D & Digital Copy on 8 June 2012.
Reception
Sandie Angulo Chen of Common Sense Media gave it 3 out of 5 stars.
Soundtrack
Sequels
A sequel Space Dogs: Moon Adventures was released in Russia in 2014 and it was dubbed in English and released the United States on 26 August 2016. Mike Disa was the director on the Americanized version. In 2020, the third sequel to the Space Dogs series, Space Dogs: Return to Earth released in Russia on 24 September 2020. The film marks the establishment of the Space Dogs trilogy. Despite the release date being rescheduled due to unprecedented global events, the release date for Belka and Strelka: Caribbean Mystery (Russian title) coincided just 1 month after the 60th anniversary of the historic flight into space by the famous Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka and was one of the first major releases of Russian cinema industry.
See also
History of Russian animation
List of animated feature films of 2010
Space Dogs: Return to Earth (2020)
References
External links
Russian and Soviet animated science fiction films
Russian animated films
2010 films
2010 animated films
2010 3D films
3D animated films
2010 computer-animated films
2010s science fiction films
Russian children's fantasy films
Animals in space
Animated feature films
Animated films about dogs
Films about space programs
2010s children's adventure films
2010s children's animated films |
23579693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauri%20Malla | Gauri Malla | Gauri Malla () is a Nepali actress. In 2002, she was awarded Nepal's "Motion Picture Award" for best leading female. In 2003, she won the "Best Supporting Actress Award" at the first ever Lux Film Awards in Nepal. She is one of the Judge of Dancing with stars season 1 Nepal.
In 2002, she was awarded Nepal's "Motion Picture Award" and in 2003, she won the "Best Supporting Actress Award. She later moved to USA. She has returned Nepal in 2014 from United States.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
Mithila Sharma
Basundhara Bhusal
Living people
Actors from Kathmandu
Nepalese film actresses
Nepalese television actresses
Actresses in Nepali cinema
Nepalese female models
20th-century Nepalese actresses
1952 births |
23579706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Denison | John Denison | John Denison may refer to:
John Denison (MP) (c. 1758–1820), British Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett 1796–1802, for Colchester 1802–1806, and for Minehead 1807–1812
John Denison (arts administrator) (1911–2006), British music administrator
John Denison (engineer) (1916–2001), ice road engineer who operated in the Northwest Territories, Canada
John G. Denison, acting CEO and chairman of ATA Airlines and Global Aero Logistics, Inc
John A. Denison (1875–1948), American Politician of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington (1800–1873), British statesman
John Denison (Royal Navy officer) (1853–1939), Canadian member of the Royal Navy
See also
John Dennison (born 1978), New Zealand poet
John Denniston (disambiguation) |
20482830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%20at%20Work | Children at Work | Children at Work () is a 1973 Irish short documentary film produced by Louis Marcus. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
1973 films
1973 documentary films
1973 short films
1970s short documentary films
Irish-language films
Irish short documentary films |
26720222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard%20Act | Svalbard Act | The Svalbard Act of 17 July 1925 no. 11, normally referred to as the Svalbard Act ( or colloquially ), is a law of Norway which governs the major aspects of the Svalbard archipelago. The law was passed by the Parliament of Norway on 17 July 1925, establishes Norwegian sovereignty of the island, and states that Norwegian criminal law, civil law and procedure law are enforced on the island. Otherwise, other provisions and laws only apply when specified. The act further established the policy for administration, including creating the Governor of Svalbard, and since 2002, Longyearbyen Community Council. The act also establishes rules for real estate and environmental protection.
The act was passed as a response to the Spitsbergen Treaty of 9 February 1920, which established Norwegian sovereignty of Svalbard, but limited the archipelago to a free economic zone and demilitarized zone. The act established the basis for an orderly civil society on the islands, which had until that point been prone to lawlessness among miners, fishermen and hunters.
The law has been amended several times, and consists of 6 chapters and 46 paragraphs. Chapter One (§§1–4) covers the relationship between Norway and Svalbard; Chapter Two (§§5–13) pertains to governance and courts; Chapter Three (§§14–21) concerns family law; Chapter Four (§§22–28) governs property law; Chapter Five (§§29–44) establishes the Longyearbyen Community Council, and Chapter Six (§§45–46) consists of miscellaneous provisions. From 1 July 2002, the Svalbard Environmental Act of 15 June 2001 nr. 79 supplements the Svalbard Act, regulating all environmental aspects of the archipelago.
References
External links
Svalbard Act at Lovdata
Law of Norway
Act
Government of the Arctic |
23579720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Cup%20%28soccer%29 | Canada Cup (soccer) | The Canada Cup or Maple Cup was a men's invitational international association football tournament for national teams. Its first edition in 1995 was held at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta and was contested by three nations. The second and final tournament in 1999 was also held in Edmonton and included four nations.
Results
References
1995
1999
International association football competitions hosted by Canada
Soccer in Alberta
Soccer in Edmonton
Recurring sporting events established in 1995
International men's association football invitational tournaments |
6909487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel%20Hill%20Transit | Chapel Hill Transit | Chapel Hill Transit operates public bus and van transportation services within the contiguous municipalities of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the southeast corner of Orange County in the Research Triangle metropolitan region of North Carolina. Chapel Hill Transit operates its fixed route system fare free due to a contractual agreement with the two towns and the university to share annual operating and capital costs. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of .
History
In the early 1970s, during the administration of Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Nathaniel Lee, the Public Transportation Study Committee was formed, consisting of representatives from the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and UNC. The committee then received a Federal Urban Mass Transit Administration grant to examine the suitability of a permanent transit system. Town voters approved a $350,000 bond referendum for local match for capital and a $.10/$100 valuation ad valorem tax to support transit operations. Chapel Hill Transit began operations in August 1974 as a department of the Town of Chapel Hill government. Prior to Chapel Hill Transit, the UNC Student Government operated a campus shuttle system from 1968 until 1974. The Transit Director reports to the Town Manager, who is responsible to the Town Council. A citizen advisory committee, the Transportation Board, makes recommendations to the Town Council on transportation and traffic issues. A plan adopted by the Town Council in 1977 included a set of transportation goals which specifically encourage transit over automobile use in the central areas of Chapel Hill. Although the transit system is operated by the town of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and UNC are financial partners in the operations. System expenses are allocated based upon population. Carrboro began purchasing transit services in the fiscal year 1977–1978 with revenue sharing funds. In the fall of 1980, Carrboro approved a $.10/$100 valuation ad valorem tax to pay for transit service. In fiscal year 1980–1981 the Carrboro contract first included the EZ Rider.
In 1992, Chapel Hill Transit teamed up with the Triangle Clean Cities Coalition and Ebus, a California company that manufactures electric buses, to demonstrate a 22-passenger bus that promised cleaner air and reduced dependence on foreign fuels. This vehicle demonstration followed an earlier one arranged by the Public Transportation Division of the North Carolina Department of Transportation. In the earlier demonstration, a Transteq hybrid bus was transported from daily use in Denver, Colorado, and made available for test drives on the Chapel Hill Transit lot. In February 2006, K. Stephen Spade, a former Des Moines Metropolitan Transit Authority employee, was hired as the transportation director for the Town of Chapel Hill. In August 2006, Chapel Hill Transit announced that their buses will be equipped with GPS tracking devices, allowing the bus riders to check the arrival time of the buses using the internet and their cell phone. The project was completed by NextBus Inc. Fourteen bus stops would also have digitized signs showing the estimated arrival times of buses. These signs were controversial, as the cost of installing them was almost $1 million. In September 2006, Chapel Hill Transit announced plans to buy begin purchasing hybrid buses. The town planned to buy as many as nineteen new buses: three hybrids, several extra-long and the rest standard size. In October 2006, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved the purchase of sixteen new Chapel Hill Transit buses at a cost of $5.8 million from Gillig Corp. Federal grants provided about $5.2 million, and the town provided approximately $600,000 in local funds. Three of these sixteen new buses run on diesel-electric drivetrains. The rest of the buses are mostly powered by Detroit Diesel series 50 engines. The buses, delivered in July 2007, expanded the system and replaced older buses. The town had an additional $1.7 million in federal funding which was sufficient to purchase four 60-foot Articulated buses, each with two sections that allow them to flex in the middle. All of the purchased buses were low-floor buses with interior floors at curb level.
Fixed Route Service
The Chapel Hill Transit system consists of 24 weekday routes and 9 weekend routes. 5 of the weekday routes are considered express routes and area designated with an X, with the exception of route 420. The basic hours of operation are from early morning to evening. Connections to GoTriangle, Orange County Transportation Authority, and PART are available. Each fixed route vehicle is equipped with a bike rack mounted on the front of the bus with capacity for two bicycles.
3 "Safe Ride" routes operate on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings when the university is in session.
A Senior Shuttle route operates weekdays making 7 stops each hour, in a loop, to destinations in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The Senior Shuttle route uses alternative vehicles to accommodate passengers with restricted mobility.
Chapel Hill Transit operates a "Tar Heel Express" special event shuttle service for UNC Football and Men's Basketball home games, in addition to special events. The shuttles provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and Kenan Memorial Stadium or Dean E. Smith Center.
All fixed routes and special service routes are fare free. The Tar Heel Express charges a $3 one way and $5 round trip fee for rides.
Route List
Weekday Routes
Weekend Routes
Safe Ride Service
Tar Heel Express Shuttles
Discontinued Routes
Paratransit
A fare free "EZ Rider" paratransit service provides a demand-responsive transit service for the handicapped and elderly that are unable to use the regular fixed route service. The service operates from morning to evening on weekdays and on Saturdays. Advanced reservations and enrollment are required.
Park & Ride
Chapel Hill Transit operates 4 Park & Ride lots throughout Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Parking fees are $2/day and can be paid using an on-site meter or the Parkmobile app. Monthly and annual permits are available for $21/month and $250/year. The University of North Carolina operates 5 other Park & Ride lots. Permitting for these lots is administered through the university's Commuter Alternatives Program (CAP) Office. UNC's Park & Ride lots are for UNC Employees and Students only; no public/daily parking is available. UNC Park & Ride permits are honored in all Chapel Hill Transit Park & Ride lots.
Chapel Hill Transit Park & Ride Lots
UNC Park & Ride Lots
Bus Rapid Transit
Chapel Hill Transit is planning to build an 8.2 mile North-South Bus Rapid Transit (NSBRT) to run from the Eubanks Road Park & Ride lot (a northern terminus) and Southern Village (the southern terminus) and points in between. The route follows NC 86 (MLK Jr. Blvd.) from the northern edge of Chapel Hill into downtown, then follows Columbia St through the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, and continues along US 15-501 to Southern Village. The proposed route is based on the NS route which consistently has the highest ridership of all routes. Projected cost is $96-105.9 million with $50-75 million provided by federal funding, to commence passenger service in 2022 and projected 12,000 daily trips (in 2040) with an annual operating cost of $3.4 million. The NSBRT will run every 8 minutes during peak hours and every 10-20 minutes in off-peak hours. The existing NS bus route is expected to be replaced by the NSBRT. Along most of the corridor, NSBRT will operate in dedicated lanes.
Proposed BRT Stations
Eubanks Park & Ride
Weaver Dairy Road
New Parkside
Northfield
Piney Mountain
Estes
Hillsborough
Franklin
Cameron
Carrington Hall
Pittsboro / Credit Union
Manning / East
Jackson Circle / Mason Farm
NC 54
Culbreth
Southern Village Park & Ride
See also
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Carrboro, North Carolina
GoTriangle
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Public transport
Bus rapid transit
References
External links
Chapel Hill Transit
Bus transportation in North Carolina
Companies based in Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina
1974 establishments in North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
20482833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Watson%20%28politician%29 | Bruce Watson (politician) | Mearns Bruce Watson (3 April 1910 – 16 May 1988) was a Scottish organic chemist and Scottish National Party politician. He was the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 1945 to 1947.
Watson was born in Rubislaw, Aberdeen, the son of Mearns Watson snr, a fruit salesman. He studied chemistry at the University of Aberdeen and later taught there from 1935 to 1945 as an assistant lecturer in chemistry, and then as professor of organic chemistry. In 1945 he moved to Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, where he was Head of Chemistry until he retired in 1975. As an organic chemist, Watson was exempted from military service during World War II and served instead as gas protection officer for the whole of the north of Scotland.
In 1945, the SNP Chairman Douglas Young resigned after the party banned members from also holding membership of British political parties. Watson held that attempting to win self-government through British parties was a waste of time, and took up the vacant party chairmanship without facing a challenge.
In 1946, Watson chaired a large conference in Perth which demanded self-government for Scotland. In 1947, he stood down from the Chairmanship of the SNP in order that he could be succeeded by Robert McIntyre, a former Member of Parliament and the best-known figure in the party.
Based in Aberdeen, Watson remained active in the SNP into the 1960s.
References
1910 births
1988 deaths
People from Aberdeen
Leaders of the Scottish National Party
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Politicians from Aberdeen |
23579726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre%20Simon | Imre Simon | Imre Simon (August 14, 1943 – August 13, 2009) was a Hungarian-born Brazilian mathematician and computer scientist.
His research mainly focused on theoretical computer science, automata theory, and tropical mathematics, a subject he founded, and which was so named because he lived in Brazil. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He was also actively interested in questions of intellectual property and collaborative work, and was an enthusiastic advocate for open collaborative information systems, of which Wikipedia is an example.
He received his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in 1972, under Janusz Brzozowski with the thesis: Hierarchies of Events with Dot-Depth One.
He died of lung cancer in São Paulo, Brazil on August 13, 2009, aged 65 just a day short of his 66th birthday.
References
External links
Personal home page
Brazilian mathematicians
Brazilian computer scientists
Brazilian people of Hungarian descent
20th-century mathematicians
2009 deaths
1943 births
Deaths from lung cancer
Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
University of São Paulo faculty
Expatriate academics in Brazil |
20482834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian%20Institute%20of%20Zoology%20and%20Botany | Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany | The Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany (Estonian:Zooloogia ja Botaanika Instituut) (ZBI) was a zoological and botanical research institute based in Tartu, Estonia. It was founded in 1947. Since 1997, it belonged to the Estonian University of Life Sciences as a central biological research institute in the country. On January 1, 2005 it was merged into the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
The Institute of Zoology and Botany was the only research unit in Estonia to administer and distribute data and expertise on taxonomic composition in the country. It provided data on the country's flora, microevolution of vegetation, naturalisation, the invasion of non-native species and vegetation population dynamics.
The scholars who have worked in this institute include Jaan Eilart, Toomas Frey, Andres Koppel, Toomas Kukk, Ülle Kukk, Kalevi Kull, Olevi Kull, Tiiu Kull, Eerik Kumari, Vilma Kuusk, Liivia Laasimer, Malle Leht, Aime Mäemets, Ingmar Ott, Erast Parmasto, Kaljo Pork, Haide-Ene Rebassoo, et al.
Directors
Harald Haberman (1947–1977),
Kalju Paaver (1977–1985),
Erast Parmasto (1985–1990),
Andres Koppel (1990–1996),
Urmas Tartes (1996–2004).
External links
Research institutes in Estonia
Tartu
1947 establishments in the Soviet Union
1940s establishments in Estonia
Research institutes established in 1947
Research institutes in the Soviet Union |
6909493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAPER | REAPER | REAPER (an acronym for Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording) is a digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software created by Cockos. The current version is available for Microsoft Windows (XP and newer) and macOS (10.5 and newer), as well as for Linux. REAPER acts as a host to most industry-standard plug-in formats (such as VST and AU) and can import all commonly used media formats, including video. REAPER and its included plug-ins are available in 32-bit and 64-bit format.
Licensing
REAPER provides a free, fully functional 60-day evaluation period. For further use two licenses are available – a commercial and a discounted one. They are identical in features and differ only in price and target audience, with the discount license being offered for private use, schools and small businesses. Any paid license includes the current version with all of its future updates and a free upgrade to the next major version and all of its subsequent updates, when they are released. Any license is valid for all configurations (x64 and x86) and allows for multiple installations, as long as it is being run on one computer at a time.
Customization
Extensive customization opportunities are provided through the use of ReaScript (edit, run and debug scripts within REAPER) and user-created themes and functionality extensions.
ReaScript can be used to create anything from advanced macros to full-featured REAPER extensions. ReaScripts can be written in EEL2 (JSFX script), Lua and Python. SWS / S&M is a popular, open-source extension to REAPER, providing workflow enhancements and advanced tempo/groove manipulation functionality.
REAPER's interface can be customized with user-built themes. Each previous version's default theme is included with REAPER and theming allows for complete overhauls of the GUI. REAPER has been translated into multiple languages and downloadable language packs are available. Users as well as developers can create language packs for REAPER.
Included software and plug-ins
Reaper comes with a variety of commonly used audio production effects. They include tools such as ReaEQ, ReaVerb, ReaGate, ReaDelay, ReaPitch and ReaComp. The included Rea-plug-ins are also available as a separate download for users of other DAWs, as the ReaPlugs VST FX Suite.
Also included are hundreds of JSFX plug-ins ranging from standard effects to specific applications for MIDI and audio. JSFX scripts are text files, which when loaded into REAPER (exactly like a VST or other plug-in) become full-featured plug-ins ranging from simple audio effects (e.g delay, distortion, compression) to instruments (synths, samplers) and other special purpose tools (drum triggering, surround panning). All JSFX plug-ins are editable in any text editor and thus are fully user customizable.
REAPER includes no third-party software, but is fully compatible with all versions of the VST standard (currently VST3) and thus works with the vast majority of both free and commercial plug-ins available. REAPER x64 can also run 32-bit plug-ins alongside 64-bit processes. As of version 5.97, REAPER supports ARA 2 plugins.
Video editing
While not a dedicated video editor, REAPER can be used to cut and trim video files and to edit or replace the audio within. Common video effects such as fades, wipes and cross-fades are available. REAPER aligns video files in a project, as it would an audio track, and the video part of a file can be viewed in separate video window while working on the project.
Control surface support
REAPER has built-in support for:
BCF2000 – Behringer's motorized faders control surface, USB/MIDI
TranzPort – Frontier Design Group's wireless transport control
AlphaTrack – Frontier Design Group's AlphaTrack control surface
FaderPort – Presonus' FaderPort control surface
Baby HUI – Mackie's Baby HUI control surface
MCU – Mackie's "Mackie Control Universal" control surface
Version history
First public release – December 23, 2005 as freeware
1.0 – released on August 23, 2006 as shareware
2.0 – October 10, 2007
2.43 – July 30, 2008: Beta Mac OS X and Windows x64 support.
2.56 – March 2, 2009: Finalized Mac OS X and Windows x64 ports.
3.0 – May 22, 2009
4.0 – August 3, 2011
Work on Linux support began.
5.0 – August 12, 2015
Beta-quality Linux support
5.981 - July 22, 2019
Cumulative improvements and enhancements, notably Notation mode MIDI Editor (new in 5.20), VST3 support, Reascript, Video support, Control Grouping, FX Parameter Automation, Envelope modes, new API functions, new Actions, and much more
6.0 – December 3, 2019
See also
Comparison of digital audio editors
List of digital audio workstation software
List of music software
References
External links
REAPER home page
REAPER en español (unofficial website, tutorials & tips)
Linux
Audio editing software for Linux
Digital audio editors for Linux
Digital audio workstation software
Linux software
MacOS audio editors |
20482838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20Party%20%28France%29 | Left Party (France) | The Left Party (, ) is a democratic socialist political party in France, founded in 2009 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marc Dolez after their departure from the Socialist Party (PS). The PG brings together personalities and groups from different political traditions, and claims a socialist, ecologist and republican orientation.
Politically located between the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party, the Left Party intends to federate all the sensitivities of the anti-liberal left—which they also calls "the other left"—within the same alliance. In 2008, the PG joined forces with the Communist Party of the United Left and six other left-wing and far-left organizations in the coalition of the Left Front, of which Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the candidate for the presidential election.
The PG was co-chaired from 2010 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Martine Billard. In 2016, the Left Party had 8,000 members. At the end of 2014, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Martine Billard resigned, and the party leadership was then collectively ensured by the national secretariat. The weekly newspaper, L'Intérêt général (formerly À gauche) is sent to all members but also to simple subscribers. It is printed at more than 15,000 copies a week.
In 2016, in view of the presidential and legislative elections of the following year, Jean-Luc Mélenchon formed a new movement, La France Insoumise, that the Left Party helped to animate.
History
It was founded in November 2008 by former Socialist senator Jean-Luc Mélenchon, deputy Marc Dolez, and other dissidents of the party together with the movement (, "Movement for a Republican and Social Alternative").
They had left the five days earlier, in protest of the result of the Reims Congress vote on motions, where the leftist motion they supported won only 19%.
They were joined after by other members from the left of the Socialist Party, by people who hadn't been members of a political party before, and by dissidents from the Green Party following the deputy Martine Billard.
In 2010 the PG was accepted in the Party of European Left.
In November 2013, the joined the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
Co-presidents and co-founders Mélenchon and stepped down from office in 2014. Since its 2015 congress, the party is led by its coordinators and spokespersons Eric Coquerel and Danielle Simonnet.
On 2 July 2018 the party withdrew from the Party of European Left, not agreeing with the presence of the Greek party Syriza in the alliance.
Elected officials
Member of the European Parliament: Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Around 90 local elected officials (municipal, regional and general councillors), including two members of the Council of Paris, initially joined the party. This number has dropped since then.
Popular support and electoral record
The PG has not yet run independently in an election, so its base of support is hard to pin-point.
European Parliament
References
External links
2008 establishments in France
Alter-globalization
Democratic socialist parties in Europe
Eurosceptic parties in France
La France Insoumise
Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Parties represented in the European Parliament
Party of the European Left former member parties
Political parties established in 2008
Political parties of the French Fifth Republic
Socialist parties in France |
23579734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20Dancers | Two Dancers | Two Dancers is the second studio album by British indie rock band Wild Beasts. It was released on 3 August 2009 in the UK on Domino Records, with a US release on 8 September. The track "Hooting and Howling" was released as the album's first single on 20 July.
Two Dancers was very well received by critics.
In 2010. It was awarded a silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 30,000 copies throughout Europe. As of February 2018 it has sold 54,474 copies in United Kingdom and it remains there their top selling album according to OCC.
Reception
Aggregating website Metacritic reports a "universal acclaim" rating of 83% from notable critics. Pitchfork Media said, "Wild Beasts certainly aren't the first rock band to stand up society's dregs and outcasts, but few others immortalize them on such a wondrous, mythic scale." Drowned in Sound stated, "Two Dancers, then, doesn't so much follow up their debut as announce Wild Beasts as one of our genuinely special bands, one that can compete—in terms of both musical and lyrical ingenuity as well as sheer pop nous—with any US act you've seen talked up in the music press this year."
In 2010, Two Dancers was nominated for the Mercury Prize, which was subsequently won by the xx.
The album was also included in the 2011 revision of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Accolades
Track listing
"The Fun Powder Plot" – 5:35
"Hooting & Howling" – 4:35
"All the King's Men" – 3:59
"When I'm Sleepy" – 2:09
"We Still Got the Taste Dancin' on Our Tongues" – 4:35
"Two Dancers (i)" – 4:06
"Two Dancers (ii)" – 2:37
"This Is Our Lot" – 4:32
"Underbelly" – 1:54
"Empty Nest" – 3:24
"Through the Iron Gate" (iTunes bonus track) – 5:37
Personnel
Hayden Thorpe – lead vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11), backing vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, production
Tom Fleming – lead vocals (tracks 3, 6, 7, 10), backing vocals, bass guitar, keyboards, guitar, production
Ben Little – lead guitar, production
Chris Talbot – drums, backing vocals, production
Richard Formby – production, engineering
David Pye – engineering
Lexxx – mixing
Russell Fawcus – assistance
Charts
References
2009 albums
Albums produced by Richard Formby
Domino Recording Company albums
Wild Beasts albums |
20482845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelipleona | Neelipleona | Neelipleona is a name given to some hexapods of the subclass Collembola (springtails). While their taxonomic rank remains broadly settled as family Neelidae, Neelipleona has been described at order or suborder rank.
Taxonomic rank
Many authors consider the "Neelipleona" Symphypleona of the superfamily Sminthuroidea, family Neelidae.
However, in other accounts, Neelipleona are either a distinct order from the three less controversial Springtail orders (Entomobryomorpha, Poduromorpha and Symphypleona) or a distinct suborder of Symphypleona, or placed in the Entomobryomorpha.
References
Footnotes
Collembola |
23579740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20%C3%87ay%C4%B1r | Ali Çayır | Ali Çayır (born September 13, 1981) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is 197 cm. He plays for Jastrzębski Węgiel Team since 2009 season start and wear 8 number. He played 150 times for national team. He also played for SSK, Emlak Bank, Kollejliler, Tokat Plevne, Halkbank, İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi and Galatasaray.
External links
Player profile at galatasaray.org
Player profile at bringitusa.com
1981 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ankara
Turkish men's volleyball players
Halkbank volleyball players
Galatasaray S.K. (men's volleyball) players
Jastrzębski Węgiel players |
23579742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatscourant | Staatscourant | The Staatscourant or Government Gazette is the newspaper published by the Dutch state containing new laws and various governmental announcements, such as bankruptcies or prenuptial agreements.
History
The Staatscourant (Government Gazette) was first published in 1814 under William I of the Netherlands.
Since July 1, 2009, the paper is no longer printed, as the number of paid subscriptions had dropped to around 5,000, stimulated by a European guideline on digitized government and enabled by the 'Wet elektronische bekendmaking' it is now published online at "officielebekendmakingen.nl" (official announcements) but retains its former name.
See also
Public journal
External links
officielebekendmakingen.nl
Dutch-language newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in the Netherlands
Government gazettes |
26720235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanofluid | Nanofluid | A nanofluid is a fluid containing nanometer-sized particles, called nanoparticles. These fluids are engineered colloidal suspensions of nanoparticles in a base fluid. The nanoparticles used in nanofluids are typically made of metals, oxides, carbides, or carbon nanotubes. Common base fluids include water, ethylene glycol and oil.
Nanofluids have novel properties that make them potentially useful in many applications in heat transfer, including microelectronics, fuel cells, pharmaceutical processes, and hybrid-powered engines, engine cooling/vehicle thermal management, domestic refrigerator, chiller, heat exchanger, in grinding, machining and in boiler flue gas temperature reduction. They exhibit enhanced thermal conductivity and the convective heat transfer coefficient compared to the base fluid. Knowledge of the rheological behaviour of nanofluids is found to be critical in deciding their suitability for convective heat transfer applications.
Nanofluids also have special acoustical properties and in ultrasonic fields display additional shear-wave reconversion of an incident compressional wave; the effect becomes more pronounced as concentration increases.
In analysis such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), nanofluids can be assumed to be single phase fluids; however, almost all new academic papers use a two-phase assumption. Classical theory of single phase fluids can be applied, where physical properties of nanofluid is taken as a function of properties of both constituents and their concentrations. An alternative approach simulates nanofluids using a two-component model.
The spreading of a nanofluid droplet is enhanced by the solid-like ordering structure of nanoparticles assembled near the contact line by diffusion, which gives rise to a structural disjoining pressure in the vicinity of the contact line. However, such enhancement is not observed for small droplets with diameter of nanometer scale, because the wetting time scale is much smaller than the diffusion time scale.
Synthesis
Nanofluids are produced by several techniques:
Direct Evaporation (1 step)
Gas condensation/dispersion (2 step)
Chemical vapour condensation (1 step)
Chemical precipitation (1 step)
Bio-based (2 step)
Several liquids including water, ethylene glycol, and oils have been used as base fluids. Although stabilization can be a challenge, on-going research indicates that it is possible. Nano-materials used so far in nanofluid synthesis include metallic particles, oxide particles, carbon nanotubes, graphene nano-flakes and ceramic particles.
A bio-based, environmentally friendly approach for the covalent functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) using clove buds was developed. There are no any toxic and hazardous acids which are typically used in common carbon nanomaterial functionalization procedures, employed in this synthesis. The MWCNTs are functionalized in one pot using a free radical grafting reaction. The clove-functionalized MWCNTs are then dispersed in distilled water (DI water), producing a highly stable MWCNT aqueous suspension (MWCNTs Nanofluid).
Smart cooling nanofluids
Realizing the modest thermal conductivity enhancement in conventional nanofluids, a team of researchers at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Centre, Kalpakkam developed a new class of magnetically polarizable nanofluids where the thermal conductivity enhancement up to 300% of basefluids is demonstrated. Fatty-acid-capped magnetite nanoparticles of different sizes (3-10 nm) have been synthesized for this purpose. It has been shown that both the thermal and rheological properties of such magnetic nanofluids are tunable by varying the magnetic field strength and orientation with respect to the direction of heat flow. Such response stimuli fluids are reversibly switchable and have applications in miniature devices such as micro- and nano-electromechanical systems.
In 2013, Azizian et al. considered the effect of an external magnetic field on the convective heat transfer coefficient of water-based magnetite nanofluid experimentally under laminar flow regime. Up to 300% enhancement obtained at Re=745 and magnetic field gradient of 32.5 mT/mm. The effect of the magnetic field on the pressure drop was not as significant.
Response stimuli nanofluids for sensing applications
Researchers have invented a nanofluid-based ultrasensitive optical sensor that changes its colour on exposure to extremely low concentrations of toxic cations. The sensor is useful in detecting minute traces of cations in industrial and environmental samples. Existing techniques for monitoring cations levels in industrial and environmental samples are expensive, complex and time-consuming. The sensor is designed with a magnetic nanofluid that consists of nano-droplets with magnetic grains suspended in water. At a fixed magnetic field, a light source illuminates the nanofluid where the colour of the nanofluid changes depending on the cation concentration. This color change occurs within a second after exposure to cations, much faster than other existing cation sensing methods.
Such response stimulus nanofluids are also used to detect and image defects in ferromagnetic components. The photonic eye, as it has been called, is based on a magnetically polarizable nano-emulsion that changes colour when it comes into contact with a defective region in a sample. The device might be used to monitor structures such as rail tracks and pipelines.
Magnetically responsive photonic crystals nanofluids
Magnetic nanoparticle clusters or magnetic nanobeads with the size 80–150 nanometers form ordered structures along the direction of the external magnetic field with a regular interparticle spacing on the order of hundreds of nanometers resulting in strong diffraction of visible light in suspension.
Nanolubricants
Another word used to describe nanoparticle based suspensions is Nanolubricants. They are mainly prepared using oils used for engine and machine lubrication. So far several materials including metals, oxides and allotropes of carbon have been used to formulate nanolubricants. The addition of nanomaterials mainly enhances the thermal conductivity and anti-wear property of base oils. Although MoS2, graphene, Cu based fluids have been studied extensively, the fundamental understanding of underlying mechanisms is still needed.
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and graphene work as third body lubricants, essentially becoming tiny microscopic ball bearings, which reduce the friction between two contacting surfaces. This mechanism is beneficial if a sufficient supply of these particles are present at the contact interface. The beneficial effects are diminished as the rubbing mechanism pushes out the third body lubricants. Changing the lubricant, like-wise, will null the effects of the nanolubricants drained with the oil.
Other nanolubricant approaches, such as Magnesium Silicate Hydroxides (MSH) rely on nanoparticle coatings by synthesizing nanomaterials with adhesive and lubricating functionalities. Research into nanolubricant coatings has been conducted in both the academic and industrial spaces. Nanoborate additives as well as mechanical model descriptions of diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating formations have been developed by Ali Erdemir at Argonne National Labs. Companies such as TriboTEX provide consumer formulations of synthesized MSH nanomaterial coatings for vehicle engines and industrial applications.
Nanofluids in petroleum refining process
Many researches claim that nanoparticles can be used to enhance crude oil recovery. It is evident that development of nanofluids for oil and gas industry has a great practical aspects.
Applications
Nanofluids are primarily used for their enhanced thermal properties as coolants in heat transfer equipment such as heat exchangers, electronic cooling system(such as flat plate) and radiators. Heat transfer over flat plate has been analyzed by many researchers. However, they are also useful for their controlled optical properties. Graphene based nanofluid has been found to enhance Polymerase chain reaction efficiency. Nanofluids in solar collectors is another application where nanofluids are employed for their tunable optical properties. Nanofluids have also been explored to enhance thermal desalination technologies, by altering thermal conductivity and absorbing sunlight, but surface fouling of the nanofluids poses a major risk to those approaches.
Thermophysical properties of nanofluids
Viscosity of nanofluids
Thermal conductivity of nanofluids
Nanoparticle migration
The early studies indicating anomalous increases in nanofluid thermal properties over those of the base fluid, particularly the heat transfer coefficient, have been largely discredited. One of the main conclusions taken from a study involving over thirty labs throughout the world was that "no anomalous enhancement of thermal conductivity was observed in the limited set of nanofluids tested in this exercise". The COST funded research programme, Nanouptake (COST Action CA15119) was founded with the intention "to develop and foster the use of nanofluids as advanced heat transfer/thermal storage materials to increase the efficiency of heat exchange and storage systems". One of the final outcomes, involving an experimental study in five different labs, concluded that "there are no anomalous or unexplainable effects".
Despite these apparently conclusive experimental investigations theoretical papers continue to follow the claim of anomalous enhancement, see, particularly via Brownian and thermophoretic mechanisms, as suggested by Buongiorno. Brownian diffusion is due to the random drifting of suspended nanoparticles in the base fluid which originates from collisions between the nanoparticles and liquid molecules. Thermophoresis induces nanoparticle migration from warmer to colder regions, again due to collisions with liquid molecules. The mismatch between experimental and theoretical results is explained in Myers et al. In particular it is shown that Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects are too small to have any significant effect: their role is often amplified in theoretical studies due to the use of incorrect parameter values. Experimental validation of the assertions of are provided in Alkasmoul et al. Brownian diffusion as a cause for enhanced heat transfer is dismissed in the discussion of the use of nanofluids in solar collectors.
See also
Argonne National Laboratory
Flow battery
Fluid dynamics
Heat transfer
Nanophase material
Surface-area-to-volume ratio
Surfactant
Therminol
References
External links
Magnetically responsive photonic crystals nanofluid (video) produced by Nanos scientificae
European projects:
NanoHex is a European project developing industrial-class nanofluid coolants
Nanoparticles
Fluid mechanics
Heat transfer
Nanomaterials |
44506279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boat%20Race%201953 | The Boat Race 1953 | The 99th Boat Race took place on 28 March 1953. 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 race, in which the Oxford crew was slightly heavier than their opponents, was umpired by former rower Gerald Ellison. Cambridge won by eight lengths in a time of 19 minutes 54 seconds. It was their sixth win in seven years and took the overall record in the event to 54–44 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. Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1952 race by a canvas, with Cambridge leading overall with 53 victories to Oxford's 44 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Cambridge were coached by James Crowden (who had represented Cambridge in the 1951 and 1952 races), David Jennens (who rowed three times between 1949 and 1951), Roy Meldrum (a coach for Lady Margaret Boat Club) and R. H. H. Symonds (who had rowed in the 1931 race). Oxford's coaches were A. J. M. Durand (who had rowed for the Dark Blues in the 1920 race), Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards (who rowed for Oxford in 1926 and 1930), R. D. Hill (who rowed in the 1940 wartime race) and J. H. Page. The race was umpired for the second time by former Oxford rower and Gerald Ellison, the Bishop of Willesden.
In the build-up to the race, opinions were divided on which crew was favourite to win. According to the rowing correspondent of The Manchester Guardian, upon arrival at Putney, Oxford demonstrated "great superiority" over Cambridge, yet the Light Blues had improved, and had "the pace, if not the form, to win". The Times had declared "Oxford the stronger crew" on the day of the race. Queen Mary had died four days prior to the race; the coxes wore black armbands and the flag post on the umpire's launch was draped in black as marks of respect. The umpire was accompanied on his launch by Lord Tedder, the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Crews
The Oxford crew weighed an average of 12 st 13 lb (81.9 kg), per rower more than their opponents. Cambridge saw two rowers return to their crew: J. S. M. Jones at number two and G. T. Marshall at number four. Oxford's crew contained three rowers with Boat Race experience: A. J. Smith, M. L. Thomas and H. M. C. Quick. Two of the participants in the race were registered as non-British: Oxford's Smith was Australian while Cambridge's L. B. McCagg was from the United States. The rowing correspondent for The Times described Oxford's crew as containing "no outstanding individuals" yet "no weak links". Conversely, Cambridge's crew was "variable" in quality but in former Harvard University rower Louis McCagg, they had the "outstanding oarsman in either crew".
Race
Cambridge won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station, handing the Middlesex side of the river to Oxford. On a poor tide and in a strong south-westerly wind, umpire Ellison started the race at 12 noon. Both crews rated 36 for the first minute, after which the Light Blues held a quarter-length lead. Passing Beverley Brook, the bend in the river began to favour Oxford but Cambridge continued to pull away and were clear by a length as the crews passed the Mile Post. They increased the lead by a further half-length as they passed the Crab Tree pub, and although Oxford made several bursts, they passed below Hammersmith Bridge six seconds behind the Light Blues, and fell in behind them, the "first visible gesture of despair" according to The Manchester Guardians rowing correspondent.
Pushing away from the bridge, Oxford stayed in touch with Cambridge for a brief period, although could not reduce their lead. Rowing into rough water towards Chiswick Eyot, Cambridge moved across to seek shelter closer to the Surrey shore, while Oxford continued in the difficult conditions. A lead of 14 seconds by Chiswick Steps was calmly extended to 20 seconds by the time the crews passed below Barnes Bridge. Cambridge won by eight lengths in a time of 19 minutes 54 seconds, a time which "could have been shortened by at least half a minute had the winners been pressed". It was their sixth victory in the past seven and the fastest winning time since the 1949 race. The rowing correspondent for The Times described the result as a "spectacular reversal of form" having failed to show the pace they demonstrated in practice.
ReferencesNotesBibliography'
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6909494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Hardy%27s%20Wessex | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Thomas Hardy's Wessex is the fictional literary landscape created by the English author Thomas Hardy as the setting for his major novels, located in the south and southwest of England. Hardy named the area "Wessex" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan. Although the places that appear in his novels actually exist, in many cases he gave the place a fictional name. For example, Hardy's home town of Dorchester is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in The Mayor of Casterbridge. In an 1895 preface to the 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd he described Wessex as "a merely realistic dream country".
The actual definition of "Hardy's Wessex" varied widely throughout Hardy's career, and was not definitively settled until after he retired from writing novels. When he created the concept of a fictional Wessex, it consisted merely of the small area of Dorset in which Hardy grew up; by the time he wrote Jude the Obscure, the boundaries had extended to include all of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire, much of Berkshire, and some of Oxfordshire, with its most north-easterly point being Oxford (renamed "Christminster" in the novel). Cornwall was also referred to but named "Off Wessex". Similarly, the nature and significance of ideas of "Wessex" were developed over a long series of novels through a lengthy period of time. The idea of Wessex plays an important artistic role in Hardy's works (particularly his later novels), assisting the presentation of themes of progress, primitivism, sexuality, religion, nature and naturalism. However, this is complicated by the economic role Wessex played in Hardy's career. Considering himself primarily to be a poet, Hardy wrote novels mostly to earn money. Books that could be marketed under the Hardy brand of "Wessex novels" were particularly lucrative, which gave rise to a tendency to sentimentalised, picturesque, populist descriptions of Wessex (which, as a glance through most tourist giftshops in the south-west reveals, remain popular with consumers today).
Hardy's resurrection of the name "Wessex" is largely responsible for the popular modern use of the term to describe the south-west region of England (with the exception of Cornwall and arguably Devon). Today, a panoply of organisations take their name from Hardy to describe their relationship to the area. Hardy's conception of Wessex as a separate, cohesive geographical and political identity has proved powerful, although it was originally created purely as an artistic conceit, and has spawned a lucrative tourist trade, and even a devolutionist Wessex Regionalist Party.
Thomas Hardy's Wessex names
Wessex regions and actual English counties
(Note: The Isle of Wight, although today a separate administrative county, was considered to be a part of the county of Hampshire – and thus Upper Wessex – during Thomas Hardy's lifetime. Likewise, Alfredston (Wantage) and the surrounding area in North Wessex was part of Berkshire prior to the 1974 boundary changes but now lies in Oxfordshire.)
Outer Wessex is sometimes referred to as Nether Wessex.
Specific places in Thomas Hardy's Wessex
Key to references for the place name table
The abbreviations for Thomas Hardy's novels that are used in the table are as follows:
DR – Desperate Remedies (1871)
UtGT – Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
PoBE – A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
FftMC – Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
HoE – The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)
RotN – The Return of the Native (1878)
TM – The Trumpet-Major (1880)
L – A Laodicean (1881)
ToaT – Two on a Tower (1882)
MoC – The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
W – The Woodlanders (1887)
WT – Wessex Tales (1888)
TotD – Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
JtO – Jude the Obscure (1895)
WB – The Well-Beloved (1897)
WP – Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
Table of Wessex place-names, their actual places, and their appearance in Hardy's novels
In art and books
Artists such as Walter Tyndale, Edmund Hort New, Charles George Harper and others, have painted or drawn the landscapes, places and buildings described in Hardy's novels. Their work was used to illustrate books exploring the real-life countryside on which the fictional county of Wessex was based:
B. C. A. Windle & E. H. New (ill.). The Wessex of Thomas Hardy (London, New York, J. Lane, 1902).
Charles G. Harper. The Hardy country; literary landmarks of the Wessex novels (London, A. & C. Black, 1904).
Clive Holland. Wessex (A & C Black, 1906).
Sidney Heath.The Heart of Wessex (Blackie & Son, 1910?).
Charles G. Harper. Wessex ("Beautiful Britain", London: A. & C. Black, 1911).
R. Thurston Hopkins & E. Harries (ill.). Thomas Hardy's Dorset (New York: D. Appleton and co. 1922).
Hermann Lea. Thomas Hardy's Wessex (London, Macmillan and co. 1911).
Ralph Pite, Hardy's geography: Wessex and the regional novel. Palgrave, 2002.
Andrew D. Radford, Mapping the Wessex novel: landscape, history and the parochial in British literature, 1870–1940. (London; New York: Continuum International Pub., 2010.
Walter Tyndale. Hardy country water-colours (A & C Black, 19??).
Barry J Cade. Thomas Hardy's Locations (Casterbridge Publishing Limited 2015) A full colour tourist guide to the places Hardy had in mind when he wrote "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and "Far from the Madding Crowd."
References
External links
Birgit Plietzsch, "Maps of Wessex" (archived page retrieved from University of St Andrews web page)
Dana Huntley, "Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Country". British Heritage Travel page, 27 January 2021
"Hardy's Wessex", Dorset Guide
"Hardy's Wessex", The Thomas Hardy Society
Ceri Hunter, "Where is Thomas Hardy's Wessex?" The National Trust
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26720238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations%20of%20Through%20the%20Looking-Glass | Translations of Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There has been translated into 65 languages. Some of the translations, with the first date of publishing and of reprints or re-editions by other publishers, are:
See also
Translations of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
References
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Lists of fantasy books
Children's literature bibliographies |
44506292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Stewart | Nicholas Stewart | Nicholas John Cameron Stewart QC (born 16 April 1947), is a British Barrister, Queen's Counsel, Bencher of the Inner Temple (since 1999), Deputy High Court Judge (Chancery Division and Queen's Bench Division since 1991), former Chairman of the Bar Human Rights Commission (1994–98), former President of the Union Internationale des Avocats (2001–02), former narrator of the BBC Radio Series No Further Questions? and current Chairman of the Democratic Progress Institute.
Early life
Stewart was born on 16 April 1947, the son of John Cameron Stewart and Margaret Mary (née Botsford). He was educated at Bedford Modern School and gained an exhibition to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Worcester College, Oxford.
Career
Stewart was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1971, taking silk in 1987 and being made a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1999. Since 1991 he has been a Deputy High Court Judge (Chancery Division and Queen's Bench Division). Stewart is a former Chairman of the Bar Human Rights Commission (1994–98) and a former President of the Union Internationale des Avocats (2001–02). He was lead council to Momčilo Krajišnik, former President of Republika Srpska, who was tried for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Outside of the law, Stewart was a narrator of the BBC Radio Series No Further Questions? and is Chairman of the Democratic Progress Institute.
Personal life
Stewart married Pamela Jean Windham in 1974. Pamela is a forensic psychotherapist of Texan descent. Her sister is the writer and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan. Nicholas and Pamela have one son, Senan, and two daughters, Rosalind and Olivia. The marriage was dissolved in 2000. Stewart also has a daughter by his partner Dr Tabea Lauktien.
References
External links
Nicholas Stewart QC at the Democratic Progress Institute
Nicholas Stewart QC at www.epguides.com
1947 births
Living people
Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
People educated at Bedford Modern School |
23579752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20Palestine | Architecture of Palestine | The architecture of Palestine and ancient Israel covers a vast historical time frame and a number of different styles and influences over the ages. The urban architecture of the region of Palestine prior to 1850 was relatively sophisticated. The Palestinian townhouse shared in the same basic conceptions regarding the arrangement of living space and apartment types commonly seen throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. The rich diversity and underlying unity of the architectural culture of this wider region stretching from the Balkans to North Africa was a function of the exchange fostered by the caravans of the trade routes, and the extension of Ottoman rule over most of this area, beginning in the early 16th century through until the end of World War I.
Since the establishment of Israel, the architecture of the region is divided between an israeli architecture and a Palestinian one in the occupied territories.
History
Ancient architecture
Archaeological artifacts imparting information as to the nature of monumental construction, such as city walls, palaces, tomb and cult centers, in ancient Palestine are abundant. The paucity of written records, and the incompleteness of archaeological remains of ancient Palestinian housing available to early scholars, resulted in biblical archaeologists often looking to modern Palestinian houses to determine how ancient housing in Palestine was constructed during the time of the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria). Cautioning against the conclusiveness of such comparisons, H. Keith Beebe writes that, "Arab houses are structured with regard to specific social customs and economic conditions, different from those of ancient Palestine." Beebe notes that a full account of the architectural details of ancient Palestinian housing is rarely possible, but that written records and archaeological findings available to scholars at his time of writing (1968), provide "a quite reliable picture of houses in the common life of ancient Palestine."
Excavations in Beidha in modern-day Jordan indicate that the earliest Palestinian houses were constructed about 9,000 years ago. Consisting of stone foundations with a superstructure made of mud-brick, they were simple structures, most often not more than one room with a single doorway, and likely without windows. Four different floor plans preserved from this time period have been identified: multagonal circular, true circular, square, and rectangular. Roofs were normally made of wooden supports upon which woven reed mats or brush were laid atop of which were added layers of clay mortar, rolled smooth to make an impermeable surface. Many of these early houses contained burial chambers beneath the floor. Food was prepared outside the house where the storage silos were also located. Houses were grouped closely together, and sometimes shared a back or side wall in common.
Among the foundations discovered in the Beidha excavations were those of a six-sided, one room house dated to 6800 B.C. Circular house foundations in Beidha dating to about 6000 B.C. resembled those found at pre-Pottery Neolithic A Jericho. The floors of the Jericho round houses differed in that they were sunken beneath ground level, with wooden steps leading down into the house. This sunken feature is interpreted as a sign of continuous occupation of these houses over a long period of time. By 5,000 B.C., the houses in Jericho were of a rectangular shape, with more than one room. These rooms had straight walls, but with rounded corners that may be a remnant of the prior round house building tradition. Some of the doorframes were reinforced by timber, perhaps to reduce the wear and tear to the mud-brick structure that would be incurred from constant human contact. The floors were covered with hard lime plaster, extending up the walls. By this time, water and grain storage had moved to house interiors, while thick layers of charcoal uncovered in house courtyards indicate that food preparations were carried out there.
Classical Antiquity
Five types of housing are seen in the Roman-Byzantine period. Two of these, the simple house and the courtyard house, typify the domestic architecture of Palestine for some three millennia into the modern age (see section on Building materials and techniques). The other three, seen as characteristic of the Roman-Byzantine period, are the big mansion (domus), the farmhouse and the shop-house. The relatively high number of domus structures dated to the late Hellenistic and Roman periods reveal the extent of Greco-Roman influence on domestic architecture in Palestine at that time. The oldest known examples of this kind of structure in the Galilee were situated in Philoteria/Bet Yerah and date to the late Hellenistic period. Examples of the farmhouse type found thus far date exclusively to the Herodian period.
Architectural remains from the early Christian period are scant in Palestine. Scholars like Walter E. Rast attribute this to the relative powerlessness of the early Christian communities prior to the institutionalization of the Christian church. The earliest known building from this period, a church built in octagonal form, dates to the 2nd or 3rd centuries CE. While there is evidence that Christians venerated a number of sites associated with Jesus at this early time, very few structures have been found that were constructed at this time. One notable exception is evidence of a pre-4th century CE structure that was found under the mosaics of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Arab caliphate period (640-1099)
Major changes to the monumental architecture of Palestine followed the Arab Islamic conquest of the region in 637 CE. The Roman and Byzantine churches, predominant features in many towns and villages in Palestine over the previous six centuries, were quickly joined by mosques, though the construction of churches continued. Much of the construction in this period was centered in Jerusalem. One of the most famous early monuments expressing the new role of Islam in the region was the Dome of the Rock (Qabbat as-Sakhra). Dedicated in 692 CE, the structure was built over the rock where Islamic tradition holds Abraham acceded to God's request that he sacrifice his son. The Al-Aqsa mosque, built shortly thereafter, was reconstructed many times since with its form today deriving from a renovation carried out during the Crusader period in Palestine.
While these buildings and the construction of the Royal Palace established Jerusalem as a religious and cultural centre of Islam, the administrative capital of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates was Ramla, a new town established in the years following the Arab conquest. The White Mosque was built in that city by the caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik in 715-717 and was completed by his successor Umar II by 720.
Archaeological finds indicate that the major cities of the Byzantine period (Lydda, Bisan, Tiberias, Gaza, Caesarea, and Acre continued to be occupied in this period and a number of new settlements were built outside the cities and in the Negev as well. Of these, some were agricultural centres while others were palaces or summer resorts for the elite. Examples include palace of Khirbat al-Mafjar, also known locally as Hisham's Palace, outside Jericho and Khirbat al-Minya near Tiberias. Khirbat al-Mafjar is described as, "the most elaborate palace of the period [...] in the state of Palestine." A statue of the Caliph al-Walid II, who likely commissioned its construction between 743–748, stands at the entrance to the palatial baths. The architectural form and detailing exhibit a melange of Sassanian and Syrian styles. One of the earliest Umayyad palaces was known as Al-Sinnabra and served as a winter resort to Mu'awiya, Marwan I, and other caliphs in Umayyad-era Palestine (c. 650-704 AD). The ruins of al-Sinnabra were initially misidentified as belonging to the Byzantine-Roman period; it and other sites in the process of being similarly re-dated are said by archaeologists to indicate an architectural continuity between the Roman and early Arab empires.
Monumental construction was rarer during the later Abbasid and Fatimid dynasties due to increasing political fragmentation. Two large monuments that can be dated to the 10th and 11th centuries are fortified structures designed to guard against Byzantine invasion. The ruins of Kfar Lam, a fort made up of rectangular enclosures built of thin slabs of kurkar stone with solid corner towers and semi-circular buttresses, can still be seen today, though the village of the same name was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war. Another fort at Ashdod is of the same basic construction but includes a line of marble columns in the centre that were taken from a nearby Classical site. Just outside that fort lie the remains of a building topped with a dome that had holes cut into it to let in the light which is thought to have served as a bathhouse.
Crusader period (1099-1291)
The most well-known architectural legacy left by the Crusaders were the fortified castles built in prominent positions throughout Palestine. A typical Crusader castle consisted of a square or rectangular tower surrounded by irregular enclosure walls that followed the shape of the land and famous castles include those of Belvoir and Monfort.
Another major focus of the Crusader building effort were churches. Hundreds of churches were constructed during the Crusader period in Palestine, with 60 built in Jerusalem alone. Some of these were built on the ruins of earlier Byzantine churches; in other cases, mosques were transformed into churches. The Dome of the Rock was converted into a church given in the care of the Augustinians, while Al-Aqsa mosque was transformed into a palace by Baldwin I. Fine carved capitals and sculpture were a feature of the Crusader churches. After Jerusalem was reconquered by the Ayyubids in 1187, the Crusader presence in Palestine shrank to be centered around Acre where some of the finest Crusader architecture was built until their final defeat by the Mamluks there in 1291.
The influence of Crusader architecture on the Islamic architecture of Palestine that followed was both direct and indirect. The direct influence can be seen in the cushion-shaped voussoirs and folded cross-vaults that were adapted for use in the Mamluk buildings of Jerusalem. Additionally, Arab castles constructed following the Crusades, like the later phases of the Ajlun Castle (Qa'lat Rabad) and Nimrod Castle (Qa'lat Namrud), adopted the irregular shapes introduced by the Crusaders. The influence could even be seen in religious architecture, such that the minaret of the Great Mosque in Ramla bears a striking resemblance to a Crusader tower. The indirect influence manifested in the development of the counter-Crusade which saw propaganda incorporated into the architecture, specifically via the use of monumental inscriptions and carved elements. For example, on the Baybars Bridge outside Lod, the lion of Baybars, the famous Mamluk leader and warrior, can be seen catching a mouse.
Mamluk period (1250-1517)
The Mamluks focused on revitalizing the road network, which was essential to their postal system in Palestine. Numerous bridges and khans were built, some of which constituted larger compounds complete with a mosque and minaret. An impressive example of one of these larger khan compounds can be seen in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Some of the Mamluk bridges also remain standing, such as Jisr Jindas ("Jindas Bridge") which is flanked by two lions and sports Arabic inscriptions.
Also under Mamluk rule, the construction of religious buildings such as madrassas, mosques, khanqas and commemorative mausoleums proliferated in Palestine and these constitute some the finest examples of medieval architecture in the Middle East. Mamluk architecture in Jerusalem was characterized by the use of joggled voussoirs, ablaq masonry, muqarnas mouldings, and multi-coloured marble inlay.
In Ramla, the Crusader church was converted into a mosque and the Great Mosque there was rebuilt. One of the most beautiful Mamluk era structures is the tomb of Abu Hurayra in Yibna. With a triple-domed portico, the central area is also covered with a dome set on squinches. Decoration is restricted to the mihrab and doorway which are covered in inlaid marble and inscriptions.
Ottoman period (1516-1918)
New architectural techniques introduced by the Ottoman rulers were gradually adopted, though not universally. Jerusalem was redeveloped under Ottoman rule, its walls rebuilt, the Dome of the Rock retiled and the water system renovated. Acre also underwent a massive renovation during this time and it is the best example of urban Ottoman architecture in Palestine with several khans, two bath houses, three main souqs, at least ten mosques and a citadel. The el-Jazzar Mosque is particularly impressive with its pencil-like minaret and large central dome. Hammam al-Basha features fine decorative detailing in the form of Armenian tilework and inlaid marble floors. Houses in Acre built during this period range between two and four-storeys and many have wooden ceilings decorated with paintwork. Other important cities during the period of Ottoman rule include Hebron, Nablus, Ramla, Jaffa, Safad, and Tiberias. Most of these cities were surrounded by fortifications, and the best surviving example from this period is the wall re-constructed around Tiberias by Zahir al-Umar.
Housing varied by region, with mud-brick houses common along the coast, of which there are few surviving examples today. Predominant features of stone houses were the domed roofs which in the 18th century were often decorated with swirls, rosettes and semi-circles formed of carved plaster. Roofs in the Galilee region were differed in their use of transverse stone arches that supported short beams over which the roof was laid.
Ottoman fortresses that served as garrisons for the Janissaries (Ottoman troops) were abundant outside of Jerusalem. These large square or rectangular structures with square corner towers can still be seen at Ras al-Ain near Tel Aviv, Khan al-Tujjar near Kafr Kanna, and Qal'at Burak south of Jerusalem.
British Mandate period (1918-1948)
The British sent a succession of six town planners to Mandate Palestine to try to manage intercommunal tensions that were a feature of this period. One of these was Charles Robert Ashbee, a prominent British Arts and Crafts designer, who served as Civic Adviser to the City of Jerusalem (1919-1922) and as a professional adviser to the Town Planning Commission. Described as "the most pro-Arab and anti-Zionist" of the six planners, Ashbee's view of Jerusalem, "was colored by a romantic sense of the vernacular." Aiming to protect this Palestinian vernacular and the city's secular and traditional fabric, Ashbee personally oversaw conservation and repair work in the city, and revived the craft industry there to repair the damaged Dome of the Rock. Other prominent town planners of the time were the British architects Clifford Holliday and Austen Harrison, and the German-Jewish architect Richard Kaufmann.
Building materials and techniques
Two types of house predominated in Palestine from the second millennium BCE through to the modern era: the simple house found commonly in rural areas and the courtyard house found mostly in urban centers. Simple houses could be made from stone or excavated in rock, but most of the houses of this form common to the peasants of Palestine were likely made from sand-dried brick. Much of the traditional domestic architecture of modern Palestine, particularly in rural areas, was constructed using sun-dried brick, rather than stone. According to Tawfiq Canaan, this building tradition, in use at the beginning of the 20th century, was the same as that used by peasants in the 1st century who lived in sun-dried brick houses covered with tree branches; the upper floor serving as the family's living quarters, with the first floor used to house livestock.
The most characteristic type of domestic building in Palestine, according to Halvor Moxnes, was the courtyard house, consisting of several houses enclosed by a surrounding wall that shared a common courtyard to which there was one entrance. Members of the same or related families who are assumed to have enjoyed a good economic situation lived in such structures which generally spanned an area of 200 to 300 metres. Each would have had access to two or more rooms and used the courtyard for domestic tasks, such as the preparation of food, the making and washing of clothes, along with other agrarian and occupational tasks.
Petersen identified the main building materials used in Palestine in modern times as stone and unbaked brick, noting that wood and baked brick are hardly ever used. He describes some of the main types of stone used in the architecture of Palestine, which varied by region. For example, kurkar, a silicious limestone, was used in building along the Mediterranean coast while basalt blocks were used in the northern part of the Jordan Rift Valley and the Sea of Galilee, often in conjunction with limestone for architectural detailing. Limestone of various colours ranging from white to pink were used in Ramla, Hebron and Jerusalem, with latter also making use of various types of marble. Dolomite, a hard limestone with magnesium, was used primarily in the Galilee. Mud-brick structures tended be more common in the Jordan Valley and coastal plain where stone was not readily available, and the best surviving examples of mud-brick architecture can be found today in Jericho.
Unique to the architecture of Palestine was the use of masonry cross-vaulting that was covered in mud over a centre supported wood formwork to create domical square spaces. The use of valuting in construction was often due to a shortage in wood, but it was also preferred because of its permanence. Whereas in other places in the Arab world, vaulting was reserved for monumental structures, such as palaces, mosques and tombs or for below-ground storage areas, in Palestine, it was also used in the construction of homes. Another type of vaulting, groin vaults made of stone that are slightly parabolic in section, are said by Frederich Ragette to be a standard unit of construction in Palestine.
Vernacular architecture
The writings of Tawfiq Canaan which describe and survey Palestinian Arab folk traditions have provided much material for studies of Palestinian Arab vernacular architecture. Characteristic of this architecture is the harmony between site and structure, noted and celebrated by many other Western and Arab writers, and which also emerges as a theme in Canaan's work. For example, Canaan's 1930 report on a Palestinian house reads: Those who travelled in the country observe a main characteristic which marks the construction of the majority of the Palestinian houses, namely the preference for straight lines, manifest in the walls, the doors, the windows, and most roofs. Owing to this characteristic, as well as to its simple square form and its greyish color, the Palestinian peasant's house harmonizes excellently with the landscape, and is more pleasing than most of the modern, occidental houses found in the modern colonies which have recently sprung up in Palestine. The fellah dwelling is also more suited to the climate of the country. The sense of "rootedness" and "unmediated connectedness" which characterized Palestinian Arab vernacular architecture was also admired by Yoram Segal in his essay on "The Traditional House in the Arab Villages of the Galilee", published in the Israeli journal Tvai. Describing the relationship of the fellah to his house, which he builds and maintains with his own hands, Segal places emphasis on the sense "of belonging, of identification, and of strong emotional attachment." According to Sandra Sufian and Mark Levine, sabra architects who searched for a sense of nativeness in which to root their work, emulated this local style, appropriating the native as their own. Further, in order to Israelize this Arab vernacular style, it was depicted "as biblical architecture, as an uncontaminated primitive origin of architecture, or simply as Mediterranean."
Palestinian village house
The Palestinian village house is the best known house type to Western scholars. It is described and documented in travelogues, essays and photographs from the 17th century onward. The house was divided into two areas: a lower level known as qa' al-bayt near or at the entrance of the home and an elevated area known as the mastaba used for living and eating.
The size and uses of the lower level varies from house to house. In some cases it was a small area near the door, only 10-15 centimeters lower than the rest of the floor where visitors would take off their shoes before entering the house. In other cases, it would be a large area housing animals with an elevated gallery that allowed for use of the space below with the space above used for storage.
They had a farm on their roof because vegetables were cheap and easy and they cooked outside to let the heat out.
Masterbuilders
In Palestinian villages prior to 1948, there was at least one al-banna (expert stone mason and builder). When his skills would take him to work outside his village, he would be called mu'allim al-bina (masterbuilder). His building skills were recognized by his society, whose labour would contribute to the construction of a stone house. Susan Slyomovics writes of one masterbuilder from the Abu El-Haija clan who constructed most of the stone houses in Ayn Hawd. Muhammed 'Abd al-Qadir, born in 1916, apprenticed with a masterbuilder in Haifa beginning at the age of eight. Over his long career, he built over 75 houses in Ayn Hawd, and a number of schoolhouses in neighbouring villages, and was among a "limited number of individuals [...] sought for their building skills and aesthetic expressiveness."
Some masterbuilders were commissioned to work beyond the boundaries of British Mandate Palestine. Abu Fawaz al-Malkawi from the village of Umm Qays on the east side of the Lake of Tiberias recalls that his father commissioned work from two masterbuilders from Safad, Abu Salim and Ali Safadi, to build a guesthouse and mosque in the 1930s. Ali Safadi was renown for his skill in vaulted architecture and with materials imported from Safad by donkey, he constructed a two-storey summer guesthouse with four separate aqd (vaulted rooms), one for each of client's wives.
Photographs
Ernst Benecke photographed the land and architecture of Palestine in June 1852 using a calotype process which is said by Kathleen Howe to have been particularly suited to the subject matter. Of one calotype entitled In View of Herod's Palace, House of David, Howe writes that, "the softened details of the jumbled houses recreate in an almost tactile way the coarse stone masonry and daubed mud construction of the buildings."
Israeli and Palestinian architecture
After 1948, there exist a differentiation between an architecture of Israel and an architecture of the Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Andrew Petersen said that the architecture of Israel is "[...] alien to the region", while he said that the latter was "mostly the indigenous inhabitants of the country, whose architecture has developed within the landscape for at least the last two thousand years".
See also
Architecture of Israel, which overlaps in multiple regards with the architecture of Palestine and vice versa
Liwan, architectural form from the Levant; a type of hall or vaulted portal
Syro-Palestinian archaeology
References
Bibliography
External links
Contested territories Interview with Eyal Weizman in Canadian Architect
A jump start for Palestinian architecture, by Esther Zandberg in Haaretz
Stirring up beauty by Kerry Abbot in Saudi Aramco World
Palestinian culture |
23579755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20of%20the%20Fathers | Library of the Fathers | The Library of the Fathers, more properly A library of fathers of the holy Catholic church: anterior to the division of the East and West, was a series of around 50 volumes of the Church Fathers, annotated in English translation, published 1838 to 1881 by John Henry Parker. Edited by Edward Bouverie Pusey and others including John Keble and John Henry Newman, this series of editions is closely associated with the origins of the Oxford Movement.
Overview
The series was planned by Pusey in summer 1836, and Pusey, Keble and Newman jointly signed the Prospectus which announced it. Over 600 subscribers had been secured by 1838, including nine English bishops as well as both Archbishops, William Howley and Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt. By 1853 thirty-seven volumes had appeared, and the number of listed subscribers had doubled to over 1,200. However, by that time editorial costs were swallowing any profits, and the fragmentation of the Oxford Movement had also caused some of the early subscribers to discontinue their support. The new Archbishops, John Bird Sumner and Thomas Musgrave, never subscribed. "After 1853 [...] there is a clear sense of the winding down of the series."
Though most of the works in the library were translations, a few were editions of original texts. The first volume issued, in 1838, was a translation edited by Pusey of Augustine's Confessions; the last, in 1881, were works of Cyril of Alexandria. There were sixteen volumes of Chrysostom published in the Library, twelve of Augustine, five of Athanasius and four of Gregory the Great on Job.
Most translations in the series were signed. Some anonymous translations may be due to Charles Marriott, who replaced Newman as editor after Newman converted to Roman Catholicism, and who "shouldered the greatest part of the editorial burden from 1845 to 1853".
See also
Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology
Parker Society
Notes
Christian theology books
Publications of patristic texts
Series of books |
26720246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Tropical%20Timber%20Agreement | International Tropical Timber Agreement | The International Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA), 1983) is an agreement to provide an effective framework for cooperation between tropical timber producers and consumers and to encourage the development of national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical forests and their genetic resources.
The International Tropical Timber Organization was established under this agreement, which first opened for signature on November 18, 1983, then Entered into force on April 1, 1985. There were subsequent treaties, with an increasing number of signatories, in 1994 (ITTA2) and 2006 (ITTA3).
ITTA2 (1994) was drafted to ensure that by the year 2000 exports of tropical timber originated from sustainably managed sources and to establish a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining the resources necessary to reach this objective.
It further defined the mandate of the International Tropical Timber Organization. The agreement was opened for signature on January 26, 1994, and entered into force on January 1, 1997.
ITTA3 (2006) aimed to "promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests and to promote the sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests". It entered into force on 7 December 2011.
Parties
Fifty eight parties signed up to the 1983 agreement:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Cameroon, Canada, People's Republic of China, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela
Sixty-two parties ultimately ratified the 1994 agreement:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, People's Republic of China, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela
As of October 2018, there are 74 parties to ITTA3. Nigeria and Paraguay have signed the agreement but have not ratified it. Canada ratified the agreement in 2009 but has since denounced it.
References
External links
International Tropical Timber Organization
Ratifications.
Text of the Agreement
Environmental treaties
United Nations treaties
Treaties of Australia
Treaties of Austria
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Bolivia
Treaties of the military dictatorship in Brazil
Treaties of Myanmar
Treaties of the People's Republic of Kampuchea
Treaties of Cameroon
Treaties of Canada
Treaties of the Central African Republic
Treaties of the People's Republic of China
Treaties of Colombia
Treaties of Zaire
Treaties of the Republic of the Congo
Treaties of Ivory Coast
Treaties of Denmark
Treaties of Ecuador
Treaties of Egypt
Treaties entered into by the European Union
Treaties of Fiji
Treaties of Finland
Treaties of France
Treaties of Gabon
Treaties of Germany
Treaties of Ghana
Treaties of Greece
Treaties of Guyana
Treaties of Honduras
Treaties of India
Treaties of Indonesia
Treaties of Ireland
Treaties of Italy
Treaties of Japan
Treaties of South Korea
Treaties of Liberia
Treaties of Luxembourg
Treaties of Malaysia
Treaties of Nepal
Treaties of the Netherlands
Treaties of New Zealand
Treaties of Norway
Treaties of Panama
Treaties of Papua New Guinea
Treaties of Peru
Treaties of the Philippines
Treaties of Portugal
Treaties of Spain
Treaties of Suriname
Treaties of Sweden
Treaties of Switzerland
Treaties of Thailand
Treaties of Togo
Treaties of Trinidad and Tobago
Treaties of the United Kingdom
Treaties of the United States
Treaties of Uruguay
Treaties of Vanuatu
Treaties of Venezuela |
6909559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian%20conflict%20in%202001 | Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2001 | Note: This compilation includes only those attacks on Israelis that resulted in casualties and no Palestinian deaths are recorded. Numerous other attacks which failed to kill, maim, or wound are not included.
Timeline
MDT stands for Monthly Death Toll and the number after denotes how many Israeli nationals were killed by attacks this month.
January (MDT: 6)
January 14: a settler murdered.
January 17: Ofir Rahum, a 16-year-old Israeli youth is seduced by a Palestinian woman and murdered by her accomplices.
January 23: Mordehai Dayan, 27, & Etgar Zeitouny, 34, both of Tel Aviv, were abducted from a restaurant where they had been eating and shot to death in Tul Karem.
January 25: an Israeli killed in a shooting attack in Atarot (a suburb of Jerusalem).
January 29: an Israeli killed in a drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem.
February (MDT: 13)
February 1: two Israelis murdered in different places in the West Bank while driving in their cars.
February 5: an Israeli soldier killed by sniper fire.
February 11: an Israeli settler killed by gunfire while driving.
February 14: 8 Israeli soldiers run down by a Palestinian driving a bus.
February 26: a body of an Israeli found. Autopsy and investigation revealed it was most likely he was murdered by militant Palestinians.
March (MDT: 8)
March 1: an Israeli killed in a suicide bombing in a service taxi.
March 4: 3 elderly Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya. Hamas claimed responsibility.
March 19: a settler killed in a gunfire attack while driving.
March 26: a 10-month-old settler babygirl, Shalhevet Pass, killed by deliberate sniper fire in Hebron.
March 28: two Israelis killed in a suicide bombing. Hamas claimed responsibility.
April (MDT: 7)
April 1: an Israeli soldier killed in a firefight near Nablus. An Israeli woman stabbed to death on a Haifa street.
April 2: an Israeli soldier killed by a sniper while guarding a Jewish religious shrine in Nablus.
April 3: eight people are lightly injured by a bomb late at night on Yisod HaMaaleh Street in Hod HaSharon.
April 3: 15-month-old Ariel Yered, a resident of the southern Gaza Israeli settlement of Atzmona was critically injured in a mortar attack. His mother was moderately wounded. They were in their back yard when rockets landed during the afternoon hours.
April 21: a mutilated body of an Israeli found near Ramallah, militants suspected.
April 22: a Kfar Saba doctor of American origin killed by a suicide bomber. 60 people are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility.
April 28: an Israeli soldier off-duty killed and 4 women injured in a drive-by shooting in the Galilee. An Israeli woman stabbed to death in, Galilee.
May (MDT: 19)
May 1: Assaf Hershkovitz, a resident of the Jewish settlement of Ofra, is killed by gunfire while driving. Giv'at Asaf was established near the site of his murder, in his memory.
May 8: a guard of an Israeli settlement killed.
May 9: two 14-year settler boys Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran were stoned to death.
May 10: two Romanian workmen are killed in a bomb attack in Gaza.
May 14: A 22-year-old Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack in the vicinity of Kohav HaShachar.
May 14: Gunmen fire from Beit Jala into the settlement of Gilo wounding four Israelis.
May 15: an Israeli young woman is killed by gunfire while driving.
May 18: 5 Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in Netanya. Over 100 are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier off-duty is killed by gunfire while driving.
May 23: an Israeli is killed while driving from a road-side ambush.
May 25: a burnt body of an Israeli is found near Tulkarem.
May 29: an Israeli settler is killed by gunfire while driving, Fatah claiming responsibility. Two other Israelis were killed north of Jerusalem.
May 31: an Israeli settler shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.
June (MDT: 30)
June 1: Dolphinarium massacre: 21 Israeli young people murdered and over 120 wounded by a Hamas militant suicide bombing at a disco near the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv.
June 5: Infant Yehuda Shoham was critically injured in an Arab stone-throwing attack near his home in Shiloh. The baby died of his injuries.
June 12: Murder of Georgios Tsibouktzakis: Greek Orthodox churchman is murdered in an Arab drive-by shooting on the Maaleh Adumim road.
June 14: an Israeli intelligence official is murdered by one of his informants.
June 18: two Israelis were murdered in various locations by Fatah gunfire.
June 20: an Israeli is ambushed and murdered.
June 22: two soldiers killed in a suicide explosion of a jeep that signaled for help.
June 28: a woman murdered and another injured in a drive-by shooting.
August (MDT: 30)
August 5: a pregnant Israeli settler woman is murdered in a gunfire ambush.
August 6: an Israeli businessman killed in Amman, Jordan.
August 7: an Israeli Arab killed because of suspected collaboration with Israel. An Israeli is killed while driving.
August 9: 15 people die and 130 are injured in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility. An Israeli student killed in a shooting attack north of the West Bank.
August 25: 3 Israeli soldiers killed in an attack against an Israeli outpost. The DFLP claimed responsibility. 3 Israeli civilians killed by gunfire while driving near Jerusalem.
August 26: an Israeli settler is invited to an Arab village and then killed.
August 27: an Israeli settler is killed in a roadside ambush.
August 29: an Israeli fuel truck driver is killed near Nablus.
August 30: an Israeli is killed in the restaurant owned by his Arab friends.
September (MDT: 13)
September 6: an Israeli officer shot and killed in an ambush while driving off-duty to a wedding. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility.
September 9: 3 people die in a suicide bombing in Nahariya. A teacher and a school janitor killed in a shooting attack while driving in a van to school in Jordan Valley.
September 11: an Israeli soldier and an Israeli border police serviceman killed in an attack on a border police base.v
September 12: an Israeli woman killed while driving.
September 15: a Jerusalem resident killed in a drive-by shooting.
September 16: an Israeli soldier killed while arresting Palestinian militant leaders.
September 20: a settler woman is killed, and her husband injured while driving. Their three children were also riding in the car, but were not hurt. Fatah claimed responsibility.
September 28: an Israeli woman killed in a shooting attack in Jordan Valley.
October (MDT: 14)
October 2: an Israeli soldier off-duty and her boyfriend killed in a Palestinian infiltration of a Gaza settlement.
October 4: 3 people killed when a gunman opens fire in the central bus station in Afula. 13 people are injured, Fatah claimed responsibility.
October 5: an Israeli settler killed in a machine gun ambush.
October 7: an Israeli farmer killed in a suicide bombing north of Jordan Valley.
October 17: Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the PFLP.
October 18: an Israeli tourist is killed while driving in a jeep in the Judean desert.
October 28: 4 people killed and 40 wounded when Palestinian policemen attack a crowded bus stop in Hedera. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier killed in the Galilee in a drive-by shooting. Tanzim claimed responsibility.
November (MDT: 14)
November 2: An Israeli soldier killed in a roadblock near Ramallah. Fatah (Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade) claimed responsibility.
November 4: two Israeli teenagers killed when fire opened by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem. 45 people are injured.
November 6: an Israeli officer is shot in an ambush.
November 9: an Israeli settler woman is killed while driving in West Bank.
November 11: an Israeli man, the security coordinator of a Sharon-plain settlement killed.
November 24: an Israeli soldier killed in a mortar attack in Gaza, the Hamas claiming responsibility.
November 27: two Israeli young women killed when the central bus station in Afula is attacked. 50 people are injured. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility. An Israeli settler killed in a grenade attack in Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility.
November 29: 3 people are killed and 9 wounded in a suicide bombing of a bus near Hadera. Both Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility. A soldier is killed and another wounded in a shooting incident on the Green Line.
See also
Israel-Gaza conflict
References
External links
Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel - Part V: 2001, Johnston Archive
Casualties of War: 2001, Jerusalem Post
2001 in Israel
2001 in the Palestinian territories
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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2001
2001
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Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2001 |
44506319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boat%20Race%201954 | The Boat Race 1954 | The 100th Boat Race took place on 3 April 1954. 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. In a race umpired by former Cambridge rower Kenneth Payne, Oxford won by lengths in a time of 20 minutes 23 seconds, taking the overall record in the competition to 54–45 in Cambridge's 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 1953 race by eight lengths, and led overall with 54 victories to Oxford's 44 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Cambridge were coached by N. B. M. Clack (who had rowed in the 1952 race), James Crowden (who had represented Cambridge in the 1951 and 1952 races) and R. H. H. Symonds (who had rowed in the 1931 race). Oxford's coaches were Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards (a Blue in 1926 and 1930), W. J. Llewellyn-Jones, J. H. Page and A. D. Rowe (who had represented Oxford in the 1948 and 1949 races). The race was umpired for the fourth time by the former British Olympian Kenneth Payne, who had rowed for Cambridge in the 1932 and 1934 races.
During the build-up to the race, the rowing correspondent for The Times had suggested that "until three weeks ago a Cambridge victory seemed almost certain" but practice rows had proved disappointing. The Oxford crew had been struck down by influenza in training, and had to reshuffle their order a month before the race. Although the new order "seemed weak", they made better progress in training than Cambridge, yet the Light Blues, who were described as "well drilled" but with "erratic timekeeping" nevertheless remained "precarious favourites".
Crews
The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 12 st 9.5 lb (80.3 kg), per rower more than their opponents. The Oxford crew saw two members return to the boat, including the cox W. R. Marsh and their boat club president H. M. C. Quick, who was making his third consecutive appearance. Cambridge's crew contained a single participant with Boat Race experience in their stroke and boat club president J. A. N. Wallis. According to the rowing correspondent for The Times, "perhaps the crews have never been more closely matched". Oxford's crew contained four non-British participants, all of them Australian, in E. V. Vine, J. A. Gobbo, J. G. McLeod and Edward Pain.
Race
Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station, handing the Middlesex side of the river to Cambridge. In a stiff south-westerly wind, umpire Payne started the race at 12:45 p.m. Oxford made a quick start, and according to the rowing correspondent of The Times "literally leaped away, seemingly to row two strokes almost before Cambridge had begun". By the end of the first minute, the Dark Blues were a few feet ahead but with the bend in the river favouring Cambridge, the crews were level by Craven Steps. Despite a push from Cambridge's stroke M. J. Marshall, the Light Blues could not gain any advantage and both crews passed the Mile Post level.
Although rating slightly lower than their opposition, Oxford made the best of the bend in the river at Harrods Furniture Depository to lead by about a canvas-length by the time they passed below Hammersmith Bridge. A strong headwind faced both crews as they rowed into Chiswick Reach and Cambridge struggled in the rough water in the middle of the river. Oxford, whose cox W. R. Marsh had steered towards the shelter of the Surrey shore, gained a length in half a minute, extending out to almost four lengths by Barnes Bridge. Oxford won by lengths in a time of 20 minutes 23 seconds, for their second victory in eight years.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Official website
1954 in English sport
1954 in rowing
The Boat Race
April 1954 sports events in the United Kingdom
1954 sports events in London |
6909566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian%20Athanasius%20Reinhart | Lucian Athanasius Reinhart | Brother Lucian Athanasius Reinhart, F.S.C. was an American De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was a President of De La Salle College in Manila.
Early life
He was born James Hyde Reinhart on May 24, 1911, in Kansas City, Missouri and entered the novitiate of the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri, and received the religious habit in 1926, at which time he was given the religious name Lucian Athanasius. In 1929 he was assigned to the St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, and two years later, he would earn his Master of Arts degree from DePaul University in Chicago. In 1933, he was assigned to the De La Salle Institute, also in Chicago, and finally to the Christian Brothers College in St. Louis in 1934.
Assignment to the Philippines
In the mid-1930s, brother Reinhart volunteered for mission work and was sent to the Philippines, arriving in Manila on October 30, 1936. Upon his arrival, he was assigned as Pro-Director of the Brothers' Community and concurrent principal of the College's High School Department. He was also the first American Brother in the Philippines to earn a Doctor of Philosophy Degree, after writing a dissertation on the Educational Philosophy of John Baptist de La Salle at the University of Santo Tomas.
World War II
During World War II, Reinhart was interned at Los Baños, Laguna, with the rest of the American Brothers. He would be freed by American troops in 1945 but would refuse to be returned to the United States.
Rehabilitation of De La Salle College
Reinhart stayed in the Philippines to rehabilitate De La Salle College and was appointed its President in 1945. It was also during this time that he was forced to return to the United States due to health reasons. In July 1946, he returned to Manila and formed new Faculty and Brother missionaries.
He died on May 27, 1950. The gym (on which lot the Don Enrique T. Yuchengco Hall now stands) of the De La Salle College was named in his memory as well as De La Salle University's Sports Complex, now the Enrique M. Razon Sports Center.
Notes
References
Br. Lucian Athanasius FSC La Salle Brothers in R.P. Accessed September 9, 2006
1911 births
1950 deaths
People from Kansas City, Missouri
Roman Catholic religious brothers
DePaul University alumni
American Roman Catholic missionaries
Presidents of De La Salle University
De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines
University of Santo Tomas alumni
Presidents of universities and colleges in the Philippines
Roman Catholic missionaries in the Philippines
American expatriates in the Philippines
Missionary educators
Catholics from Missouri |
44506320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonoorda%20edulis | Pseudonoorda edulis | Pseudonoorda edulis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Koen V. N. Maes and René Noël Poligui in 2012. It is found in Cameroon, Gabon and Ivory Coast.
The larvae feed on Dacryodes edulis.
References
Moths described in 2012
Odontiinae |
44506327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonoorda%20faroensis | Pseudonoorda faroensis | Pseudonoorda faroensis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Koen V. N. Maes in 2012. It is found in Cameroon.
References
Moths described in 2012
Odontiinae |
26720258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard%20Park%20%28Oregon%29 | Orchard Park (Oregon) | Orchard Park is a municipal park in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 2003, the park covers a along Rock Creek in the Tanasbourne neighborhood. The park includes nature trails, a playground, and a nine-hole disc golf course. Employees of the R.E.I. store at the nearby The Streets of Tanasbourne adopted the park in the city’s adopt a park program.
History
Metro, the regional government in the Portland metropolitan area, purchased of greenspace in 1997 using funds from a 1995 bond measure passed to buy greenspace in the region. The Nofziger family sold the property to Metro for $1 million. The site was along a section of Amberwood Drive that for many years had been part of Cornell Road, until the mid-1990s, when Cornell was re-aligned to the north in the area and the old Cornell renamed Amberwood Drive.
Hillsboro was given the property by Metro to develop a park, with the city expected to spend $1 million on development according to initial estimates. The funds to develop the park came from fees developers were charged when building in the city. The park was originally named Nofziger Park, and was to be mainly a wetlands preserve as the property is situated in the floodplain. It would also have trails along Rock Creek to connect to U.S. 26 north of the park.
During the summer of 2001, students from Hillsboro’s Miller Education Center worked at the park site to improve the riparian area of Rock Creek and to gather data about the stream’s ecology. In 2002, the park was renamed as Orchard Park in honor of Hillsboro’s agricultural heritage, and construction of the first phase of park development began in July. The first phase built boardwalks, trails, wildlife viewing spots, bridges, and a parking lot, and was expected to be completed in December 2002. The old farmhouse remained standing through the first phase, with later development calling for its demolition along with construction of restrooms.
On June 24, 2003, the park was officially dedicated. The design of the park won the 2003 Oregon Recreation & Parks Association Design Award. The city had hoped to build a new library on a property just north of Orchard Park, but bond measures in 2002 and 2004 were defeated, and the city later acquired an existing building for the main branch of the Hillsboro Public Library. The city considered adding a disc golf course at the park when it opened, but did not build a course until 2005. The course cost $12,000 to build and was the first disc golf course in a Hillsboro park. Hillsboro’s parks department has offered free classes at the park to teach people how to play the game.
In 2005, Hillsboro was given a $675,000 grant from Metro to extend the Rock Creek Trail from the park south to Northwest Wilkens Street. As of October 2009, the city was still planning the trail extension. Future plans call for continuing the Rock Creek Trail all the way to Rood Bridge Park on the south side of the city.
In 2006, R.E.I. donated $10,000 to the city to build a pair of boulders at the park that can be climbed, and the next year the Hillsboro store’s employees adopted the park. The boulders and some other play equipment opened in 2008. As part of National Public Lands Day in 2008, R.E.I. sponsored a project to improve the park. The city plans on building a picnic shelter at the park as well.
Amenities
Orchard Park is in the Tanasbourne area and is largely a nature park, though it has some developed features. Developed items include the disc golf course, a play area, off-street parking, and restrooms. The free disc golf course covers , has nine-holes, and is the only course in Hillsboro. The play area next to the parking lot includes climbing boulders, swings, and spring riders.
The park has of paved trails leading to of boardwalk, several bridges, and three wildlife overlooks. The trails pass through wetlands, meadows, and wooded areas in several loops. Fauna and flora at the park include deer, beavers, herons, Douglas fir, hemlock trees, alders, cherry tree, dogwoods, elderberry, Ponderosa pines, and maples.
References
External links
Park restoration project in 1998
2003 establishments in Oregon
Disc golf courses in Oregon
Parks in Hillsboro, Oregon
Protected areas established in 2003 |
6909569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piya%20Ka%20Ghar | Piya Ka Ghar | Piya Ka Ghar (Devanagari: पिया का घर, Nastaliq: پیا کا گھر, My beloved's house) is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language comedy set (mainly) in Mumbai in the 1970s. It is a remake of Raja Thakur's Marathi film Mumbaicha Jawai. It portrays the difficulties of life in India's biggest city during the 1970s in the form of a comic family drama.
Plot
The two main characters are Ram and Malti (Jaya Bhaduri). Ram lives in a chawl (tenement) in Mumbai. Malti initially lives in a relatively comfortable home in an unidentified village.
Ram and Malti are hooked up through a matchmaker that their parents have hired. We first see the matchmaker visiting Malti's house; he then visits Ram and his family (parents, two brothers, one sister-in-law, three uncles, and two aunts), who live together in a one-room apartment.
Ram and Malti fall in love, and Ram's family visits her in her village. Soon, they are married, and Malti moves to Ram's apartment, not knowing what to expect. Since there is very little room left in the apartment, the newlyweds are forced to sleep in the kitchen. They make several comical, but failed, attempts to have some privacy.
At last, Malti can bear it no longer, and her uncle arrives to take her back to the village. But when they see all her in-laws offering to move out on her account, they change their minds, saying that such love overcomes the difficulties of living in Mumbai. In the end, the couple finally finds the privacy they were seeking.
Cast
Soundtrack
The following songs, listed in the order in which they appear, are from Piya Ka Ghar: Lyrics by Anand Bakshi & Music Composers ; Laxmikant Pyarelal
"Ye Zulf Kaisee Hai" (Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar) — This love song is well known.
"Ye Jeevan Hai" (Kishore Kumar) — This was a popular song in Piya Ka Ghar. It is the film's theme.
"Piya Ka Ghar" (Lata Mangeshkar) — In this song, Malti tries to make the most of her new life.
"Bambaee Shahar Kee" (Kishore Kumar) — This relatively obscure song portrays Mumbai more optimistically and romantically.
References
External links
MusicIndiaOnline page- includes first three songs and lyrics to "Ye Jeevan Hai"
Piya Ka Ghar
1972 films
Indian films
1970s Hindi-language films
Hindi-language films
Films directed by Basu Chatterjee
Indian comedy films
Films scored by Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Rajshri Productions films
Films set in Mumbai
Films shot in Mumbai
1972 comedy films
Hindi-language comedy films |
44506339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonoorda%20flammea | Pseudonoorda flammea | Pseudonoorda flammea is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Koen V. N. Maes in 2012. It is found in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Bas Congo).
References
Moths described in 2012
Odontiinae |
26720267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste%20Puliti | Oreste Puliti | Oreste Puliti (18 February 1891 – 5 February 1958) was an Italian fencer. He won four gold medals and a silver at three Olympic Games.
His teammates were accused of attempting to inflate his score by losing to him in the final of the Men's Sabre in 1924. He was disqualified for threatening to assault a Hungarian judge, Gyorgy Kovacs.
References
1891 births
1958 deaths
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from Livorno
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics |
44506345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipul%20Chettri | Bipul Chettri | Bipul Chettri is an Indian singer and songwriter who sings in the Nepali language and plays Himalayan folk music with a contemporary touch. His debut album, Sketches of Darjeeling, was released in July 2014 and his follow-up album, Maya in 2016 and six singles 'Basant', 'Gahiro Gahiro', 'Ashish', 'Teesta', 'Mughlan' and Neela Akash in the following years. His latest EP, 'Samaya' was released in 2021.
Early life
Bipul's grandfather was a poet and his grandmother used to play the sitar. His father picked up his parents' talent and used to perform in Darjeeling and Kurseong but passed away when Bipul was very young. Bipul credits his father for his inclination towards music and his choice of becoming a musician.
One of the tracks, "Ram Sailee", from his debut album, is an ode to his father.
Bipul attended St. Augustine's School in Kalimpong, Darjeeling where he was a regular performer as a student and subsequently picked up the western classical guitar as his primary instrument and graduated with a LTCL (Licentiate of Trinity College, London) in Western Classical Guitar from the Trinity Music School of London.
Musical career
Bipul's voice and musical abilities were introduced to the world with his song "Wildfire (Dadelo)". It was recorded and uploaded on SoundCloud in February 2013. This laid the foundation for his debut album Sketches of Darjeeling.
His debut album Sketches of Darjeeling was well received. He was the 'Top Selling Artist for 2014-15, and was in the Top Ten for 2015-16, on OKListen.Com, an indie retail music site in India. He won the 'Pop-Rock Album of the Year' for 'Sketches of Darjeeling', 'Best Pop-Rock Composition of the Year' & 'Best Male Pop Vocal Performance of the Year for his song "Syndicate" at the Hero Hits FM 91.2 Awards.
He released his follow-up album, Maya in 2016 and followed it up with six more singles 'Basant', 'Gahiro Gahiro', 'Ashish', 'Teesta', 'Mughlan' and Neela Akash and his latest EP, 'Samaya' released in 2021.
Discography
Sketches of Darjeeling (2014)
Maya (2016)
Basant (Single - 2017)
Gahiro Gahiro (Single - 2018)
Teesta (Single - 2019)
Mughlan (Single - 2019)
Aashish (Single - 2019)
Neela Akash (Single - 2020)
Samaya (2021)
References
External links
Chettri's Website
Indian male singers
Indian folk musicians
People from Kalimpong district
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nepali-language singers
Indian Gorkhas |
26720271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina%20Lenskiy | Irina Lenskiy | Irina Lenskiy (; born 12 June 1971) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles.
Personal life
She is of Jewish background, and was a Ukrainian citizen, known as Irina Lenskaya, until 1999 when she emigrated to Israel. She also held the surname Omelchenko for a period.
In Israel she represents the sports club Maccabi Rishon LeZion. She stands tall and weighed about during her active career. Her daughter Olga Lenskiy (born 1992) competed in sprints at the 2009 World Youth Championships.
Career
By the time of migrating to Israel she had already taken part in the 1995 and 1997 World Championships, both in the 400 metres hurdles. Her personal best time was 55.69 seconds, achieved in June 1996 in Kyiv, and she also had 52.60 seconds in the 400 metres, achieved in 1997.
In the short hurdles distances (100 and 60 metres) she competed at the 2001 World Indoor Championships, the 2001 World Championships, the 2002 European Indoor Championships, the 2002 European Championships, the 2003 World Championships, the 2004 Olympic Games, the 2006 European Championships and the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final. In the 4 x 400 metres relay she competed at the 2003 World Championships without reaching the final.
Her personal best times are 8.03 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles, achieved in January 2002 in Moscow; and 12.80 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles, achieved in July 2002 in Rethimno. She also has 11.59 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in May 2003 in Tel Aviv; and 23.15 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in June 2002 in Belgrade.
See also
List of Israeli records in athletics
List of Maccabiah records in athletics
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
Ukrainian female hurdlers
Ukrainian female sprinters
Israeli female hurdlers
Israeli female sprinters
Olympic athletes of Israel
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Israel
World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine
Ukrainian emigrants to Israel
Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Ukrainian Jews
Jewish female athletes (track and field) |
44506354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tighnabruaich%2C%20Indooroopilly | Tighnabruaich, Indooroopilly | Tighnabruaich is a heritage-listed villa at 203 Clarence Road, Indooroopilly, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built around 1889. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 February 2005.
History
Tighnabruaich is situated in central Indooroopilly, overlooking the Brisbane River. The house was constructed around 1889 as the home of Henry Charles Stanley, the Chief Engineer for Railways in Queensland. It was designed by his own brother, Francis Drummond Greville Stanley, the former Queensland Colonial Architect. The name of the property evoked the village of the same name, in the Kyles of Bute, in Scotland where the brothers were born. The view of Chelmer, across the Brisbane, could occasionally be reminiscent of the other narrow waterway, its steep banks with lush vegetation and its steam-ferry traffic.
The undeveloped estate
The land on which Tighnabruaich is situated was once known as Portion 46, Parish of Indooroopilly. It was originally a 42-acre block with a frontage on the Brisbane River and was first sold, at government auction, on 27 September 1859. The original purchaser was James Henderson, but there is little evidence to suggest that Henderson either farmed, or otherwise developed, this land. In April 1873, the portion was transferred to Louis Stamm, a German-born Brisbane businessman who had pursued a wide-ranging career in Queensland since 1855. Stamm was variously a merchant, a newspaper proprietor and a brewery owner.
Despite having been surveyed into farm allotments in 1858, prior to the original auction, central Indooroopilly did not attract agricultural settlement to the same extent as the surrounding river pockets: Fig Tree Pocket, Long Pocket and Indooroopilly Pocket, now known as St Lucia. The area was steeply ridged, covered in dense scrub and its steep river banks did not provide ready access to river transport, the principal means of communication and trade with Brisbane and Ipswich in the mid-19th century. Much of central Indooroopilly remained undeveloped and isolated until the arrival of the Brisbane to Ipswich Railway into the district, in the mid-1870s.
The impetus of the railway
By October 1873 the Queensland government had determined that the Brisbane to Ipswich railway would cross the Brisbane River at
Indooroopilly. The rail corridor would pass through portion 46 and a railway station would be established on part of this portion. In that month a road – Station Road or Indooroopilly Station Road – was surveyed from Moggill Road to the site of the proposed Indooroopilly Railway Station. The segmentation of portion 46 was formalized on a survey plan dated March 1875. The railway corridor and the new road were transferred to the Queensland government the same year. Louis Stamm retained the remainder of portion 46 on 3 subdivisions.
Another government road was duly built, along the eastern boundary of portion 46, and was named Musgrave Rd. Later, this would be renamed Clarence Rd. and would become the main access road for the new house of Tighnabruaich. In April 1875, the government decided to survey and connect this Musgrave Rd. (Clarence Rd.) to the road to Long Pocket, now Indooroopilly Rd. This connecting road was originally called the Indooroopilly Rd., but is now Lambert Rd. In June 1877, an extension westward of this new road was surveyed, cutting through portion 46, to connect the new settlements in the east of the district to Indooroopilly railway station.
Indooroopilly railway station was opened, under that name, in 1875 and it was soon followed by the first railway bridge across the Brisbane River at
Indooroopilly, in 1876. This provided a considerable impetus for closer residential settlement in the suburb and a small township developed
around the railway station. By the late 1880s, this included a hotel, several shops and a carpenter. In the last quarter of the 19th century a number of fine villas were built along the banks of the Brisbane River, within reasonable proximity to the railway station.
The Stanley brothers
At some period prior to June 1891, Louis Stamm sold re-subdivision 3, of subdivision 1, to Henry Stanley. This was a block of nearly 9 acres, bounded by the railway line to the west, the Brisbane River to the south, Musgrave Road – Clarence Road – to the east and Indooroopilly Station Road – Lambert Road – to the north. This was the plot on which the house known as Tighnabruaich would be built.
Henry Charles Stanley was born in Edinburgh in 1840. He studied engineering at Edinburgh University and subsequently worked as an engineer in Scotland before emigrating in the early 1860s to Queensland where he was employed as an assistant engineer on the construction of the colony's first railway, between Ipswich and Toowoomba. He was then employed as a railway engineer by the Queensland Government from 1 January 1866 and was appointed Chief Engineer for Railways in 1872. He held this position for nearly three decades, until 1901. Before his new house was built, Henry Stanley
lived in the Toowong district, at Ascog in Church Street.
Francis Drummond Greville Stanley was Henry's elder brother and the designer of the house. Francis was born in Edinburgh in 1839 and trained in Scotland as an architect. He emigrated to Brisbane in 1862 and practised privately before gaining employment with the Queensland government in the office of the Colonial Architect, Charles Tiffin, in 1863. Following Tiffin's retirement, Francis Stanley was himself appointed Colonial Architect, from 1 January 1872. He held the position until 1881, but throughout his period of government employment he accepted a number of private commissions. He also continued in private practice in Brisbane, Maryborough and Toowoomba after he left the public service. Stanley was a prolific architect and his work is found throughout Queensland.
If house-design was the speciality of the elder brother, then bridge-building was becoming the speciality of the younger brother. Tighnabruaich's river-frontage overlooked the railway that brought H.C. Stanley to the area, and the Albert Bridge that did so much to assist the development of the district. However, within three years of his taking up residence in the area, that bridge was washed away, in the 1893 Brisbane Floods. It must have given Henry Stanley enormous personal satisfaction to design the replacement bridge and, having done so, to be able to inspect his own bridge each day from his own home, itself a Stanley construction. In 1901, Stanley moved away, with his family, to the district of Hamilton.
The grand residence
Francis Stanley's design for Tighnabruaich was a decorative, two-storeyed timber residence with a single-storeyed timber wing and basement. The roof built with a number of steeply pitched gables and dormer windows, a feature popular in other domestic-scaled Gothic revival buildings, and was clad originally with timber shingles. It is thought that the house was erected around 1889, since Henry Stanley is first recorded as being a resident of Indooroopilly in the postal directories of 1890.
The estate was conceived as having the villa set in a park landscape and so, about the time that Tighnabruaich was being built, the rest of the property was cleared of vegetation, with the exception of a few specimen Eucalypt trees. These were later augmented with some Ficus specimens. A typical late 19th century garden was established in the immediate vicinity of the house and the park design was completed with the planting of an avenue of trees along a circular carriageway that connected the property to Musgrave Road, the later Clarence Road.
In 1891, Henry Stanley entered into a curious financial arrangement with New South Wales grazier Solomon Wiseman, who held title to Tighnabruaich from June that year and who took out a substantial mortgage on the property from the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Company. The memorandum of transfer associated with this transaction also records that Stanley had purchased the land from Stamm for £3,100. Wiseman later subdivided the property and four subdivisions fronting Clarence Road were sold around 1900. A Lambert Road subdivision was sold around 1904. Following Wiseman's death in late 1901 the property became the responsibility of trustees. At this time, with the owners of the house, the Stanleys, having left and with Wiseman, the landowner, having died, Tighnabruaich was used briefly as a boarding house for the Bowen House boys' school, located in Ann Street.
The Hemming family
On 6 February 1904, the house was sold to Herbert Brealey Hemming, for the sum of £2200. It was sold with 8 acres, 1 rood and 7.2 perches of land: the total of subdivisions 1-2 and 8-14. Hemming was a leading solicitor in the State of Queensland, an eponymous partner in the distinguished Brisbane legal-practice of Wilson, Newman Wilson and Hemming. He lived at Tighnabruaich, with his family, until around 1915 or 1916. During this period, tennis parties were regular feature of life at Tighnabruaich.
At this time there was also a move to put the large grounds were put to some commercial use. Dairy cattle were grazed on part of the land and part of the basement of the house was given over to a milking-parlour and dairy.
However, as the family grew up, even the house exceeded requirements and they moved out of the main house, to Witton House, newly located on the estate. From around 1915 or 1916, the main house was leased to Mrs Emma McGill, who operated it as a boarding house for a decade, until the mid-1920s. The house then appears to have remained vacant for nearly two decades, from that period onwards until the military requisitioned it for use during the Second World War. There is a suggestion that Tighnabruaich served as a private hospital in the late 1930s, under a Dr. Underwood, but details of this period are sketchy.
An article written for The Queenslander in 1932 described various elements of the grounds of Tighnabruaich, including: some "fine old gum trees" in the cow paddock adjacent to the railway line; entrance gates to Clarence Street giving access to a drive lined by Camphor Laurels; a tennis court to the south east of the drive; hedging, steps to the lower grounds, accessed through a creeper-clad archway; and some "fine Jacarandas and other flowering trees".
Witton House
Mr. Hemming's impressive property portfolio included another house, Witton Manor, which was also located in Indooroopilly, though further
upstream. The grounds of Witton Manor became, for many years, the junior school of St Joseph's College but are now the site of Ambrose Treacy College.
Between 1916 and 1919, Witton Manor was moved – the detail of the not-inconsiderable enterprise is sadly missing – from its original site and onto the extensive grounds of Tighnabruaich. It was positioned in the south west corner of the park, facing the river, and was renamed Witton House. Hemming himself then resided at Witton House from at least 1919 until around 1938. Witton House was eventually demolished in 1967.
Following Hemming's death on 8 March 1942, the Tighnabruaich properties were administered by Queensland Trustees Limited on behalf of the Hemming estate.
The Second World War
From about October 1942, the property was requisitioned for use by the military. Tighnabruaich became the main base of a joint United States-Australian intelligence unit: the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS), associated with the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre. These units directed the handling of captured Japanese prisoners and documents. During the war many huts and tents were assembled on the grounds for use by American soldiers; brick cell blocks were constructed in the center of the property, north west of the main house, to accommodate Japanese prisoners of war being held for interrogation; two interrogation rooms were erected to the immediate east of the main house; an Orderly's Office was established on the north west side of the main driveway off Clarence Road; a translation room was erected on the tennis court; Witton House functioned as the Sergeants' Mess; and Tighnabruaich was partitioned for office accommodation. The roof of the eastern verandah of Tighnabruaich was removed during this period. ATIS vacated Tighnabruaich about July 1945.
Postwar transition
Toward the end of the war, the Australian Army decided to hold on to Tighnabruaich: the property was transferred to the Commonwealth of Australia on 13 June 1945.
From mid-1945 until July 1946 it functioned as an Australian Women's Army Service barracks. During this period, the main house was used as an officers' mess and Witton House accommodated the non-commissioned officers. The Other Ranks occupied the huts and tents in the grounds.
From 1946 to 1949, the property was used solely for administrative buildings.
In 1949, the main house was converted into two flats to accommodate senior Army officers. At this time, the original eastern verandah was removed to allow for the installation of a staircase to the upstairs flat.
By July 1951 the translators' room had been removed from the tennis court and in 1955 a small timber tennis shed or storeroom was erected adjacent to the court.
From 1951, the estate was divided into separate elements: the main house, and other establishments set up in the grounds. The main house was restored to single occupancy, as a general's residence. Within the grounds stood two separate barracks: Witton Barracks and Indooroopilly Barracks.
Commander's residence
From January 1951 until mid-1998 Tighnabruaich, the main house of the old estate, served as the home of the General of Command, Northern Command, Australian Army, and later: Commander, 1st Division. After 1957, major works were carried out on Tighnabruaich, to restore it to being a prestige residence: suitable as a family home for the general and his dependents, but suitable also for the entertaining of guests, as required of senior army officers. From this period, many of the alterations made between 1942 and the 1950s were replaced with original or reconstructed fabric. A carport was added to the house in 1958 and in 1962 a lavatory was installed on the ground floor, under the main staircase. The outside staircase to the former upstairs flat was removed in 1966 and the eastern verandah was reconstructed. Between January 1951 and March 1998, some 20 generals took up residence in Tighnabruaich, together with their families. During this period a tradition was established, whereby each family planted a tree on the property.
Private house
In 1998, the site was formally subdivided by the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth retained the grounds of the property, but Tighnabruaich house, on a reduced 1.19 hectare plot, was sold freehold to private owners. The grounds associated with Tighnabruaich house retain the river frontage, the early circular carriageway and the mature trees lining this drive, plus the tennis court and the trees planted by the generals resident since 1951. Any military evidence of the Army's presence on this site has since been removed. Tighnabruaich is currently occupied as a private home.
Description
The house of Tighnabruaich occupies a block of 1.19 hectares in central Indooroopilly. The property has frontages to the Brisbane River and to Clarence Road and access to the house is via a circular driveway leading from Clarence Road. The house is a timber-framed building set on brick piers. It is positioned overlooking the river to the south.
The house is asymmetric in both plan and elevation. The main part of the residence is two-storeyed, with a single-storey, 'L'-shaped wing on the western side. The fall of the land towards the river provides space for a brick basement under the single-storeyed section. The whole has a corrugated iron clad roof comprising a series of gables and dormer windows. Single-storey verandahs are found on the northern and southern elevations of the building and along the entire length of the eastern elevation.
The principal point of entry to the building is in the north elevation, where an elaborate covered porch provides shelter for
the main entrance. This consists of a six-panelled cedar door with semi-circular fanlight and sidelights.
Generally the interior of the house has plaster ceilings, timber boarded floors and very fine stained-cedar joinery. The stud walls are clad with chamferboard externally and lath and plaster internally. Most doorways have operable fanlights above.
The ground floor contains a number of large public rooms with bay windows and French doors, arranged around a
central stair hall. An entrance vestibule with a tessellated tiled floor leads to the stair hall through an arched opening filled with a carved timber screen. Plaster archways provide access to the major rooms on the ground floor and these rooms have plaster ceiling roses and deep plaster cornices.
The central stairway is an open well with a half-turn timber flight with landings and has very fine cedar joinery including turned balusters, prominent newel posts and spandrel panelling.
The upper floor of Tighnabruaich has a number of smaller rooms, again opening off the central stair hall and off halls radiating from this. Some of the upper floor rooms have partially raked ceilings of plasterboard, following the line of the roof trusses.
The grounds include large areas of lawn to the north of the house, the early carriageway lined with mature trees and a tennis court to the east of the drive. At the southern end of the site the ground slopes steeply to the river, the bank being heavily vegetated.
Heritage listing
Tighnabruaich was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 February 2005 having satisfied the following criteria:
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history
Tighnabruaich is a large, two-storeyed timber residence constructed around 1889 for Henry Stanley, Chief Engineer for Railways in Queensland, to a design by his brother, the former Colonial Architect Francis Stanley. The place is important in demonstrating the pattern of growth of Brisbane, specifically at Indooroopilly, where middle-class suburban residential development was attracted to the district after the opening of the Indooroopilly Railway Station, in 1875. As one of a group of substantial, late 1880s residences constructed in Brisbane, Tighnabruaich also contributes to our understanding of the nature of the Queensland economic "boom" of this period. The property is also significant for its military associations, initially with the work of a Section of the Allied Intelligence Bureau during World War II and then, during the second half of the 20th century, as the showcase residence of the officers commanding the Australian Army in Queensland.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places
The house in its garden setting remains comparatively intact and a good example of a well-designed 19th century middle-class villa. It is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of its class, including planning, use of materials, decorative detailing, riverside location and the retention and layout of the grounds, including the early carriageway, tennis court and plantings. The building is a fine example of the mature domestic work of F.D.G. Stanley and contributes to the body of knowledge about the work of this prolific and influential Queensland architect.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance
The building has aesthetic value as a well-composed, picturesque residence influenced by Gothic revival architecture popular during the second half of the 19th century. It contributes to the townscape of Indooroopilly and is a landmark along the Brisbane-Ipswich railway.
The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history
Tighnabruaich has a special association with the Australian Army, as the residence of the generals commanding the Army in Queensland for close to half a century; trees planted by the resident generals remain as evidence of that association.
References
Attribution
Further reading
External links
— 1932 newspaper article on Tignabruaich by Florence Eliza Lord
images:
Photograph album of views of "Witton Manor" and the Indooroopilly area, [ca. 1880-ca. 1907]; UQ eSpace Witton Manor
Queensland Heritage Register
Indooroopilly, Queensland
Houses in Queensland
Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register
Francis Drummond Greville Stanley buildings |
26720274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena%20II | Athena II | The Athena II is an American small expendable launch system which was used for three launches between 1998 and 1999, and which was scheduled to return to service in 2012 but has not been flown again . It is a member of the Athena family of rockets, along with the smaller Athena I.
The Athena II is a four-stage rocket, consisting of solid first, second and third stages, and a monopropellant liquid-fuelled fourth stage. The first and second stages are Castor 120s, which are also used on some versions of the Taurus rocket. An Orbus 21D motor was used as the third stage on launches during the 1990s, however when it returns to service in 2012 the Castor 30, which is under development for the Taurus II, will be used instead. The fourth stage is an Orbital Adjustment Module, fuelled by hydrazine and propelled by four MR-107 engines, which is used for final insertion.
Prior to its retirement in 1999, Athena II launches were made from Launch Complex 46 at Spaceport Florida and Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. LC-46 will also be used for Athena IIc launches, with Launch Pad 0B of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and Pad 1 of the Kodiak Launch Complex also offered.
During the 1990s, three Athena II launches were conducted, with one failure. Its maiden flight was conducted from LC-46 at Spaceport Florida, and lifted off at 02:28 GMT on 7 January 1997. The launch, which was the first to take place from Spaceport Florida, successfully placed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into orbit for NASA. The next Athena II launch took place from SLC-6 at Vandenberg on 27 April 1999, with the Ikonos satellite for Space Imaging. The launch ended in failure after the payload fairing failed to separate, and as a result the rocket had too much mass to achieve orbital velocity. The third launch also took place from SLC-6 at Vandenberg, on 24 September 1999. The payload, Ikonos 1, was also for Space Imaging, and successfully reached orbit.
See also
ALV X-1
Comparison of small lift launch systems
Comparison of solid-fuelled orbital launch systems
Taurus II
References
Rockets and missiles |
26720277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olvir | Olvir | Olvir may refer to:
Olvir Hnufa - a 9th and 10th century Norwegian hersir and skald.
Olvir Rosta - a character from the Orkneyinga saga. |
44506355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf%20J%C3%A4hnichen | Rolf Jähnichen | Rolf Jähnichen (born in Helmsdorf on 11 May 1939) is a retired German politician.
Between 1994 and 1999 he was a member of the Regional Assembly in Saxony. Between 1990 and 1998 he served as Saxony's Agriculture minister, with the Environment added to his portfolio in 1998. He retired from his political career in 1999.
Life
Jähnichen, a Roman Catholic, was born a few months before the outbreak of war in a small town in the mining region known sometimes as "Saxon Switzerland" near the frontier with Czechoslovakia. He attended secondary school in Grimma and Leipzig before moving on to study Agriculture at Leipzig between 1957 and 1963. He concluded his studies with agricultural economics, obtaining a doctorate in the subject.
From 1964 till 1970 he was employed by the Leipzig district council in the Agriculture department (where he was responsible for mining). After that, between 1970 and 1990 he was production director and deputy chairman of the Neukirchen Agriculture Co-operative at Borna.
Politics
Rolf Jähnichen joined the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) in 1981. (Unlike its west German counterpart, the East German CDU, as part of the country's National Front alliance was effectively controlled by the country's ruling SED party.) Between 1984 and 1989 Jähnichen was a member of the local council in his hometown of Zedtlitz, on the edge of Leipzig. Between 1989 and 1990 he was a member of the CDU party executive.
The fall of the Berlin wall in November was the first of a series of events that by August 1990 had led to the end of East Germany as a stand-alone state and the reunification of Germany. During this period, between May and November 1990, Jähnichen served as the first freely elected council leader ("Landrat") in Borna district. Between February 1990 and September 1994 he served as district chairman of the CDU (the eastern and western pieces of which reunited in October 1990).
In October 1994 he was elected to the Saxony regional assembly (Landtag), representing a Leipzig district. He continued to sit as a member of the Landtag till the 2009 when he decided not to seek re-election in the September election. From 2000 he was also a member and chairman of his party's regional Senior Citizens' Committee.
Ministerial office
Between 1990 and 1998 Rolf Jähnichen served as regional Secretary of State for Food, Forests and Agriculture. Following a reconfiguration in 1998 he became Secreatary of State for the Environment and Agriculture. He was succeeded in 1999 by Steffen Flath.
References
1939 births
Living people
People from Stolpen
German Roman Catholics
Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) politicians
Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
Ministers of the Saxony State Government
Members of the Landtag of Saxony |
44506360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horbach%20%28surname%29 | Horbach (surname) | Horbach is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andrey Horbach (born 1985), Belarusian footballer
Eugene Horbach (1926–2004), American real estate developer
Lance Horbach (born 1958), American politician
Maksim Horbach (born 1983), Belarusian footballer |
44506367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20C.%20Wiseman | Eric C. Wiseman | Eric C. Wiseman (born 1955) is a businessperson in the apparel industry.
Wiseman was president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board (since 2008) of VF Corporation, replaced by Steve Rendle as CEO on January 1, 2017 while remaining as chairman. He is on the board of directors of Lowe's Companies Inc., CIGNA Corporation, and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA).
Wiseman has a Bachelor's Degree in business and an MBA from Wake Forest University. He is married to Susan Wiseman.
Together with his wife Wiseman donated $1m to expand the 23,000 sq. ft. SciQuarium at the Greensboro Science Center, which "marks the single largest private gift to the center in the history of the 57-year-old organization."
References
American businesspeople
Living people
1955 births |
44506374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dak%20Seang%20Camp | Dak Seang Camp | Dak Seang Camp (also known as Dak Seang Special Forces Camp) is a former US Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base northwest of Kon Tum in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
History
The 5th Special Forces Group and CIDG forces first established a base at here in 1964 to monitor communist infiltration along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The base was located 10 km from the Laotian border, 23 km northwest of Đắk Tô and approximately 64 km northwest of Kon Tum.
5th Special Forces Detachment A-245 was based here in October 1966.
On 18 August 1968 the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 101D Regiment, supported by artillery attacked the camp. The attack was beaten back with small arms and artillery fire.
On 1 April 1970 the PAVN attacked the camp starting a siege that lasted until 8 May. At the same time the PAVN attacked the Dak Pek Camp. On 15 April 1970 the 170th Assault Helicopter Company dropped the 3rd Battalion, 42nd ARVN Regiment into a landing zone near Dak Seang, resulting in the loss of two helicopters. Sergeant Gary B. Beikirch a 5th Special Forces Group medic would be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the siege. SFC Gary L. Littrell would be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the siege as an advisor to the ARVN 23rd Battalion, 2nd Ranger Group.
On 29 October 1972, following a 1,000+ round artillery barrage, the PAVN attacked the camp forcing its 300 Ranger defenders to abandon it by nightfall.
Shootdowns
2 April 1970: C-7A Caribou #61-2406 was shot down while dropping supplies, killing all three crew
4 April 1970: C-7B Caribou #62-4180 was shot down while dropping supplies, killing all three crew
6 April 1970: C-7B Caribou #63-9746 was shot down while dropping supplies, killing all three crew
15 April 1970: UH-1H #68-16203 was shot down while landing ARVN troops, resulting in two US and two ARVN killed
15 April 1970: HH-3E #66-13280 of the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron was shot down while trying to rescue the crew of UH-1H #68-16203, resulting in one crewman killed
Current use
The base has been turned over to forest and housing adjacent to the Ho Chi Minh Highway.
References
Installations of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Installations of the United States Army in South Vietnam
Buildings and structures in Kon Tum province |
26720290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oru%C5%BEjem%20Protivu%20Otmi%C4%8Dara | Oružjem Protivu Otmičara | Oružjem Protivu Otmičara (Serbian Cyrillic: Оружјем Противу Отмичара, trans. With Weapons Against Kidnappers) is a Serbian pop punk/power pop band from Zrenjanin.
History
1990s
The band was formed by two teenage friends, bass guitarist Nikola Pavković and drummer Vladimir Jovanović, and named after a children's book. The band did not record any material and after the two joined Instant Karma, the band ceased to exist.
In 1992, having left Instant Karma, Pavković reformed the band, soon switching to guitar, with bass guitarist Draga Antov. The rest of the lineup varied until Dragana Mrkajić (guitar, vocals) and Darko Kurjak (drums) became permanent members. Together they recorded their self-titled debut, which promoted the band's power pop style. Pavković wrote the song lyrics, featuring individualistic, suicidal and self-questioning themes. The album was recorded at the "Go-Go" studio from January 5 to January 15, 1995. The song "Ptica" ("Bird") was inspired by The Muffs song "Everywhere I Go". After the release of the debut, Kurjak joined Partibrejkers and was replaced by Jovanović, who returned to the band having worked with Gluve Kučke and Instant Karma.
The new lineup recorded the band's second album, BarbieCue, which, produced by Marinko Vukomanović, featured the sound similar to one on the debut, with a cover versions of Zana hit "Mladiću moj" ("My Boy") and a cover of Sugar 1992 single "A Good Idea" entitled "Dobra ideja". Guest appearances featured Vlada Negovanović on acoustic guitar and Saša Lokner on keyboards. The lyrics for the album were written, beside Pavković, by Draga Antov and Dragana Mrkajić. In 1997, the band's song "U koloru" ("In Color") appeared on the various artists compilation Ovo je zemlja za nas?!? Radio Boom 93 (1992-1997) (This Is Land for Us?!? Radio Boom 93 (1992-1997)). The band's two songs, "Mladiću moj" and "Saša Ajdanov", appeared as soundtrack for the Darko Bajić movie Balkanska pravila.
Due to the popularity of the album, the debut was rereleased on CD and a remixed version of the second album was released under the name BarbieMix. However, Draga Antov joined Veliki Prezir and the band ceased to exist. Pavković formed the band Kineska Kreda, and Dragana Mrkajić started working in the Zeleno Zvono club. Soon, the two returned to the original idea of the band, and with Kineska Kreda bassist Aleksandar Tolimir and drummer Marko Živković reformed the band. The new lineup recorded the album Komadić koji nedostaje (The Missing Piece), which got the name after the book by Shel Silverstein, and the cover of the album is the one used as the book cover. The album featured guest appearances by Kanal Tvid member Miša Grujić and Alek Aleksov on keyboards, Bajaga i Instruktori member Miroslav Cvetković did percussion and Vlada Negovanović, who was also the album producer, recorded acoustic guitar parts. The band's recognizable style was now completed with string sections. The song "Traži me" ("Look for Me") featured the lyrics from a poem by Miroslav Antić, and the song "Voajer" ("Voyeur") was written by Dragana Mrkajić. The band disbanded in 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The band's songs "Mladiću moj", "Ptica" and "1000" appeared on the various artists compilation Recordings.
2000s
The comeback album Maštoplov (Dreammachine) presented a new vocalist, Ivana Cvejin, who was at the time a high school graduate. The album featured the cover version of the song "Budi tu" ("Be There") and a rerecorded version of the track "Voajer". The lineup stopped performing in 2004, and the band was inactive until 2007, when the new lineup which, beside Pavković, included Zarko Dunić (bass), Ivana Radmanovac (guitar, vocals) and Srđan Dević (drums), released the album Znaš ko te pozdravio? (Do You Know Who Sends His Greetings?). The album featured the cover version of Slađana Milošević song "Miki, Miki". On May 9, 2008, the band performed as an opening act for The Damned in Novi Sad.
In 2009, Multimedia Records released a compilation album Groovanje devedesete uživo featuring a live recording of the band's song "Dobra ideja" (released on the compilation as "Good Idea"), recorded live at the Belgrade KST on November 11, 1995.
2010s
In June 2010, the lineup changed, featuring new bass guitarist Marko Čokulov and vocalist Jovana Oljača, and the band started working on a new studio release. In 2014, the band released the single "Panika" ("Panic").
2015 - 2018
In the summer of 2015, the band changes the lineup again, featuring vocalist Jovana Popović, guitarist Pavle Kirćanski, and drummer Nebojša Durmanović. This lineup saw Nikola Pavković return to his original instrument - the bass guitar. They've released two singles - "Progutaj Me" ("Swallow Me") and "Vrati Mi Snove" ("Gimme Back My Dreams"). In January 2016, the band changed the lineup again and with the release of the third single "Lica" ("Faces"), the new singer Verica Marinković was introduced. The band released another video in April 2016 titled "Marina" ("Marina"). The band has held its last concert on 26.04.2018 on the R.A.F Reafirmator Fest, after which it went on hiatus.
Legacy
The lyrics of 3 songs by the band were featured in Petar Janjatović's book Pesme bratstva, detinjstva & potomstva: Antologija ex YU rok poezije 1967 - 2007 (Songs of Brotherhood, Childhood & Offspring: Anthology of Ex YU Rock Poetry 1967 - 2007).
Discography
Studio albums
Remix albums
Singles
See also
Punk rock in Yugoslavia
References
EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960–2006, Janjatović Petar;
External links
Official Youtube channel
OPO at Discogs
OPO at Last.fm
OPO at B92.fm
Serbian pop punk groups
Serbian power pop groups
Musical groups from Zrenjanin
Musical groups established in 1992 |
26720299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio%20Sarrocchi | Giulio Sarrocchi | Giulio Sarrocchi (24 May 1887 – 18 July 1971) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1928 Games in the team sabre competitions.
References
External links
1887 births
1971 deaths
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
Fencers from Rome
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics |
17341625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20Brothers%20Racing | Wood Brothers Racing | Wood Brothers Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Cup Series. The team was formed in 1950 by eponymous brothers Glen and Leonard Wood. From 2006 to 2008, the team was merged with Tad and Jodi Geschickter's JTG Racing. The Wood Brothers Racing Team holds the unique distinction of being the oldest active team in NASCAR, having fielded cars since 1950. They are known for their long relationship with Ford Motor Company, and the long-standing use of the number 21 on their main car. The team currently fields the No. 21 Ford Mustang full-time for Harrison Burton and has a technical alliance with Team Penske.
Cup Series
Car No. 21 history
The Wood Brothers Racing Team was formed in 1950 by brothers from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. Walter and Ada Wood owned a family farm between Woolwine and Stuart, Virginia. They had five sons (Glen, Leonard, Delano, Clay, and Ray Lee) and one daughter (Crystal). The sons worked with their father as mechanics, farmers, and lumbermen. Glen Wood cut timber and hauled lumber to local sawmills. The boys had a talent for auto mechanics and spent much time at their father's garage. With each brother serving as a mechanic, they formed a stock car racing team. Curtis Turner, a local sawmill operator from nearby Floyd, Virginia, inspired them. Turner became a champion racecar driver with a "win or crash" style and later was co-owner of Charlotte Motor Speedway. Coincidentally, Turner would later drive for the Wood Brothers.
In the early 1950s, none of the brothers wanted to drive, so they asked their friend John Conway, of nearby Stuart, to drive. Unfortunately, he declined the offer. Then they got fellow lumberman, Chris Williams, as their driver. In the early days of stock car racing, teams drove their cars to the track, raced them, and drove them home. Williams and the Wood Brothers bought their first car for $50, inspiring them to number their car No. 50, many years before they adopted their famous No. 21.
Chris Williams and Glen Wood each drove a few races. The team consisted of Williams, some of his brothers, and the Wood brothers. They became successful, winning races at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia.
Shortly after their early success, Chris Williams sold his share of the team to Glen Wood to focus on his lumber business. To fill team slots, the Wood Brothers enlisted help from Stuart area friends and neighbors including Ralph Edwards, a Wood cousin.
Over the early years, the Wood Brothers Racing Team evolved from a weekend hobby into a full-time business. Glen and Leonard worked full-time building and preparing cars, while the other brothers and crew worked nights and weekends apart from their regular jobs. Their first permanent racing shop was at the town limits of Stuart, Virginia.
The team adopted the No. 21 permanently and would become as notorious as any number in NASCAR history (along with the Petty No. 43 and Earnhardt No. 3). The Wood Brothers also found themselves lured to the big-ticket cash prizes offered by the growing Superspeedway races in cities such as Daytona, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Darlington, South Carolina. Glen Wood soon stepped out from behind the wheel of the No. 21 Ford and they began hiring drivers with reputations as winners at the different tracks.
The team soon began competing on the highest levels of the sport. Victories were won with the mechanical genius of the team of brothers, relatives, and friends. Leonard Wood's talent in the engine department soon brought the team acclaim and was second in the early years only to the fabled Holman-Moody engine juggernaut and the Petty racing dynasty of Lee Petty and son Richard Petty.
Innovation
The Wood Brothers invented the modern pit stop. In the early days of all types of motor racing (when service was needed during the race), it was common for drivers to pull into the pits, turn off the car, get out and even smoke a cigarette as the crew took their time changing tires and servicing the cars. The Wood Brothers recognized that limiting the time off the track could increase their position on the track. Thus, they created and perfected what is now known as the pit stop. It is as common to all types of racing as the checkered flag itself.
As other teams noticed that the Wood Brothers were winning races due to their efficient pit stops, these competitors soon copied the Wood method. Not content with being innovators, the Wood team practiced and perfected the pit stop as a form of acrobatic, mechanical, ballet which gave them still further advantage over their competitors.
Other racing organizations noticed the pit stop innovations of the Wood Brothers. In 1965, Ford brought the Wood Brothers team to the Indianapolis 500, to pit the Lotus-Ford team. Their speed and choreography helped Jim Clark win the 1965 500.
1960s international success
With the Indianapolis 500 win, Wood Brothers Racing began to enjoy international acclaim as pioneers and leaders in motorsports. They were featured in Sports Illustrated and many other media of the day. Their rosters of drivers soon became second to none, and their victories were only matched by Richard Petty.
The Wood Brothers signed a long-term sponsorship agreement with Purolator to be their primary sponsor on the No. 21 car. Their drivers before and during this era had included a "Who's Who" of the best in stock car racing. Among those driving for the Wood Brothers team through the mid-1960s were Curtis Turner, Marvin Panch, Fireball Roberts, Parnelli Jones, Tiny Lund, Junior Johnson, Speedy Thompson, Fred Lorenzen, and Cale Yarborough.
In those years, the Wood Brothers also entered a second car, the No. 121, in select events (they entered three cars in at least one race). Open-wheel star Dan Gurney, who enjoyed popular victories in Indy and Formula One racing, was hired by the Wood Brothers to drive in the No. 121 at road course events. The Gurney-Wood combination proved unbeatable, and they dominated the early road courses on the NASCAR circuit by winning every race in which Gurney drove for the Woods. This streak included the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside, California, in which Gurney won with the Wood No. 121 in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1968.
In the 1968 season, the Wood Brothers earned over $160,000 in winnings for the single-season, a staggering amount of winning for that period in any form of auto racing.
Dominance
In the early 1970s, the Wood Brothers continued their success. The lightning-quick pit stops and high-powered engines of the No. 21 car proved a formidable challenge to all on the NASCAR circuit. Legendary drivers such as Donnie Allison and open-wheel Indy 500 winner A. J. Foyt also took turns piloting the Wood car.
The team personnel in the Wood shop began to shift as the team raced in more events and traveled greater distances. Glen Wood emerged as the leader and patriarch of the team. Glen's young sons, Eddie and Len, also began working at the shop in menial labor jobs. His brother Delano Wood had evolved into one of the greatest pit crew members, and his skill as a jackman is incomparable even today. Other family friends soon joined the team, including Cecil Wilson from neighboring Lawsonville, North Carolina.
Modern era
List of drivers
David Pearson (1972–1979)
In 1972, David Pearson was hired to be the full-time driver of the No. 21 car. This choice would pave the way for one of the most successful strings of victory in motorsports history. Pearson continued driving the car from 1972 to 1979. In only seven years, the team entered 143 races and amassed a staggering 46 wins and 51 poles. Their race winnings surpassed $1.3 million during these seven years with Pearson as the driver.
In 1976, with Pearson still driving, the Wood Brothers won the coveted "Triple-Crown" of NASCAR racing. This feat was accomplished by winning the legendary Daytona 500, the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. All of this was accomplished throughout the 1976 season.
Due to their incredible success and their qualities as role models and ambassadors of the sport, the Wood Brothers were invited to the White House in the late 1970s at the request of President Jimmy Carter. The occasion made history for these brothers and friends from the small town of Stuart, Virginia.
As NASCAR gained prominence as an emerging sport, the Wood team was soon hailed as tops in their field. They were frequently toasted by and compared to their peers in other sports of the day, including baseball legend Reggie Jackson, football stars Terry Bradshaw and Franco Harris, and basketball greats Julius Erving and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Due to growth and demand, the No. 21 team vacated its former shop for a new home located at the junction of Dobyns Road and Mayo Court in the town of Stuart. This would be the team's home base shop for many years to come.
Neil Bonnett (1979–1982)
The decade of the 1980s saw changes in NASCAR and within the No. 21 team. Pearson parted ways with the team, and was replaced by an emerging talent named Neil Bonnett from Hueytown, Alabama. Bonnett was a member of the "Alabama Gang" which included driving stars Bobby and Donnie Allison, and this would later include Davey Allison and Hut Stricklin.
Bonnett and the Wood Brothers team had a successful relationship, lasting only three and a half seasons and 83 races. This included nine victories and over $700,000 in winnings. During what was known as the "Bonnett Years", Purolator's longtime president Paul Cameron retired and the Wood Brothers' long-term sponsorship with Purolator came to an end, marking one of the most enduring and synonymous sponsorships in the history of NASCAR.
The No. 21 car was then sponsored by National Engineer, a California-based company focused on research and development for multiple industries. This company was owned by flamboyant Warner Hodgdon, who proudly had his name placed on the No. 21 car as its main sponsor. This Hodgdon sponsorship was believed to have been one of the richest deals of its time in NASCAR racing, thus confirming Wood's status as a leader in the sport.
Within the team itself, many of the original members retired from racing. Original team members and brothers Clay and Ray Lee Wood had stepped down years earlier and focused more on their families and other jobs in Patrick County.
As the number of race events increased and the full-time work of running a team grew each season, the Wood Brothers hired younger team members to fill the gaps. Among these were the son of original crew member Jimmy Edwards and the Wood Brothers' cousin Ralph Edwards. Other new members were Curtis Quesinberry and Hylton Tatum of Stuart as well as another young Wood relative Butch Moricle. Other new personnel was drawn from surrounding cities such as the Virginia towns of Danville, and Roanoke.
Also gaining an important role during these years was young Kim Wood, the only daughter of Glen and Bernece Wood. While she was still in high school, Kim started handling administrative duties for the team and would assist her mom in juggling secretarial duties, travel arrangements, and the business side of running the team.
Buddy Baker (1983–1984)
In the mid-1980s, NASCAR entered what is now called the modern era of the sport. Growth in television coverage of the races had evolved from sporadic showings on ABC's Wide World of Sports to full-time coverage of the Daytona 500 by CBS and the full-time live broadcast of races by emerging cable networks such as ESPN and WTBS. NASCAR also obtained permanent corporate sponsorship for the series from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and the sport's top-level series was changed from Grand National Division to the Winston Cup Series. The company's founder, R. J. Reynolds, was born and raised in Patrick County, only a few miles from the Wood Brothers team's headquarters.
The Modern Era also marked the first-ever quest for points championships by most teams. Since the 1950s many teams only ran select races. Now, however, teams would be required to compete in all events in a scheduled season to compete for the series title and its large cash prize.
The Wood Brothers decided to make the leap to running a full-time schedule. This added enormous work to the team and required a further commitment of time, money, and manpower. This new commitment also saw the departure of Warner Hodgdon and National Engineering as the sponsor, and the Wood Brothers brought Valvoline on board as their chief patron.
In 1983, the legendary driver Buddy Baker was hired to replace a departing Neil Bonnett in the No. 21 car. He and the Woods struggled for the first time in so many years, lasting only two seasons together. This same year, they captured a win at the Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Baker and the Woods soon parted company, along with Valvoline as the sponsor and international star driver Bobby Rahal from the IndyCar series would briefly fill Baker's vacant seat for one race.
Kyle Petty (1985–1988)
The 1985 season made history to NASCAR as young Kyle Petty, the grandson of legendary Lee Petty and son of series-dominator Richard Petty, was hired to drive the No. 21 car full-time. This formed a unique union between the two most successful racing families in NASCAR history.
This also marked the first addition of a new sponsor to the Wood Brothers team. A trio of corporate sponsors—7-Eleven, Citgo, and Chief Auto Parts—were brought on board with the Petty and the Wood Brothers for 1985. As part of their marketing strategy, the Wood Brothers were required to relinquish their world-famous No. 21 car number and adopt the No. 7 in favor of the 7-Eleven sponsorship. This led to a major discourse with fans of the team, who knew the No. 21 synonymous with the legendary team from Virginia.
This also marked the emergence of the second generation of Wood Brothers, Eddie, and Len, who had increased their responsibilities with the team over the past years. They effectively were now calling the shots on race day for the team, and an "anything goes" attitude was welcomed within the team.
Many of the older team members had retired by this time, including the original member and brother Delano Wood, who retired so he could focus on his emerging importance in his highly successful business with lumber. He also sought more time at home with his family and his church, as most races were held on Sunday and it provided little time for regular worship and church attendance with his family.
With an increasingly young team, a young driver, and a new sponsor, the Wood Brothers were trying to recapture their past glory. As time marched on through the 1970s and 1980s, many of the cutting-edge innovations pioneered by the team were discovered or were outright copied by other teams. Thus, the Woods' competitive edge had been dulled by other teams taking advantage of the Wood innovations and therefore, the Wood Brothers were enjoying a unique time of rebirth for the fabled NASCAR legends.
Kyle Petty would find victory in their second season together at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. In 1987 the team returned to their traditional No. 21 and won the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Just as the Petty-Wood relationship was beginning to bear fruit, Kyle Petty found himself lured to a new team, SABCO Racing, owned by the wealthy Felix Sabates. Unable to refuse the lucrative offer, Petty left the Wood Brothers after four seasons and 115 races together. They won two races and winnings surpassed $1.3 million.
Neil Bonnett (1989–1990)
After Petty's departure, and a brief three-race stint with substitute driver Tommy Ellis, the Wood Brothers hired their former driver Neil Bonnett to once again pilot the No. 21 car. This reunion was hailed as the possible cure for the Woods' launch back to the top of the sport. Both Bonnett and the Wood Brother were optimistic about what would occur in the future, and the chemistry from an earlier success still seemed evident.
After only 31 races together in only one full season and the start of a second, Bonnett, unfortunately, suffered serious injuries in a crash at Darlington Raceway. This left Bonnett wondering if he was able to race again, and he left the Wood team with an empty seat to be filled by Dale Jarrett.
The sponsorship shuffle had become commonplace during this period in all NASCAR teams. As Fortune 500 companies and other top names took notice of the massive value of NASCAR sponsorship, names like Pepsi, Mello Yello, Ford Motorcraft, and Procter & Gamble had signed big-dollar sponsorship deals with the top teams in the sport.
The face of the sport itself was also changing. Along with the full schedule and championship points races, a new breed of drivers, such as Darrell Waltrip, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, Rusty Wallace, Ricky Rudd, Terry Labonte, and Geoff Bodine, had already become powerful stars and champions. This era saw young drivers, including Davey Allison, Ward and Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, and Bobby Labonte, were emerging as the future of the sport as they worked up through the lower-ranked Busch Grand National Series.
New technologies and innovations began to dominate the sport too. NASCAR teams were quickly being run like corporations and sports franchises, with names like Hendrick Motorsports, Penske Racing, Roush Fenway Racing, SABCO, Larry Hedrick Motorsports, and Robert Yates Racing taking the dominance from Junior Johnson, the Melling's and the Petty's.
In efforts to keep up with the growth of NASCAR, the Wood Brothers continued to add more employees and assigned some personnel as shop employees and others as race-day crew members. The additions of team members like Bennie Belcher, Butch Mitchell, and outside engine builder Tommy Turner were bringing the team online with others in NASCAR.
Dale Jarrett (1990–1991)
By 1990, the Wood Brothers were back in the No. 21 Ford with Citgo as a sponsor. The early-season loss of Neil Bonnett required a replacement driver. Eddie and Len Wood turned to their old-time friend Dale Jarrett to take his rightful shot at the Winston Cup Series. Dale Jarrett was the son of former NASCAR champion and broadcaster Ned Jarrett and had grown up in the sport with the Wood Brothers.
The choice of Jarrett proved brilliant. In their first full season together in 1991, Jarrett would bring the Wood Brothers No. 21 to victory lane at Michigan, narrowly edging out Davey Allison by inches in one of the closest finishes in NASCAR history. The Wood team proved it still had what it took to win. More importantly, it would provide Jarrett with his first win and as a launching pad into one of the most successful careers in the modern era.
The Michigan victory supported a unique record for the Wood team. Every rookie driver who had ever driven for them for at least a full season had at least scored one victory in the No. 21 car. More impressive was that every driver to have driven for the Wood Brothers for a full season from 1953 to 2002 had won at least one race behind their wheel (although in one case, the win did not come in a points-paying race).
The Wood-Jarrett combination was widely considered to be as bright a future as any team in NASCAR's future; however, Jarrett was soon lured away by Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, who formed a new team with the finances to entice Jarrett to leave the No. 21 car to drive the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Chevy. This new ride earned Jarrett his first Daytona 500 win.
Although Jarrett's time in the No. 21 was limited, lasting only for 53 races over two seasons, it produced one victory and over $600,000 in winnings. It also cemented how the Wood Brothers team was one of the best in NASCAR for breeding future superstars.
Morgan Shepherd (1992–1995)
With Jarrett's departure, the Woods sought out the veteran Morgan Shepherd to fill the seat in the 1992 season. Shepherd had been a solid, dependable finisher in the top series for most of his career and was a serious championship contender. With his consistent top finishes, Shepherd would provide strength as the team continued to adapt to the growing sport.
The new decade would seem unfathomable changes in NASCAR. A greater focus on new technology and sciences began to take hold. Engineers were now the norm, and the race-day teams often trained like professional athletes. Many teams even employed pro athletes to service their cars during pit stops.
The cost of racing grew exponentially, and its appeal doubled every year. NASCAR was now televised live internationally and was as popular as "stick and ball sports" with fans and advertisers.
Within the team itself, crew member turnover became frequent as Eddie and Len sought a perfect combination of chemistry to succeed. New members from nearby Mount Airy, North Carolina such as Rick Simmons and Mike "Andretti" Smith were added to the team. Paint and Body men Terry Hill and Chris Martin were hired, and longtime members Butch Moricle, Butch Mitchell, Hylton Tatum, and Cecil Wilson had become veterans on the team.
Glen Wood's daughter Kim had also emerged as a competent leader in her specialty with the team as well. In addition to running the business administrative aspects of the team, she was a "one-woman show" that handled all booking, reservations, accommodations, travel, and financial matters for the team. At a time when teams such as Richard Childress Racing employed a full-time staff of a dozen administrative workers, Kim proved as much a professional in this field as her brothers were in the mechanical and competitive aspects of the team.
Kim Wood had married crew member Terry Hall and became Kim Wood-Hall by this time. Terry Hall was a vital member of the team who served as a general mechanic and truck driver. He had replaced the legendary Delano Wood as jackman on the race day crew, after Delano's retirement several years earlier. Terry Hall was from Mount Airy and provided a gateway to recruiting many new members of the team from his ties to that area.
The No. 21 team continued many experiments and changes to again innovate the sport they helped build. They had been outsourcing much of their engine work, and during this period had contracted with Robert Yates Racing in an agreement to provide engine parts for the No. 21. They also began weight training routines for crew members and increased their application of technology in their race day competition.
Always the innovators in pit stops, the Wood team continued to practice and seek new improvements in their race day pit skills. The team also employed wide use of computers for the setup and timing of each car. Hiring race day specialists such as spotter Chuck Joyce; and part-time scorers/timers, the team was on the cutting edge of competition development.
It was in this period of the early 1990s that Eddie and Len Wood, and Kim Wood-Hall each took an ownership position in the team. For several years, the team had been owned by the Glen Wood Company, with patriarch Glen controlling the team's destiny. Longtime co-founder and crew chief Leonard Wood had stepped down as crew chief many years earlier, and Eddie Wood had become official crew chief of the No. 21 Ford.
Morgan Shepherd would do very well with the No. 21 Citgo-sponsored car, and would provide consistent finishes in all four seasons he ran for the Wood Brothers. They enjoyed 52 Top Ten finishes and over $4 million in earnings in their time together. Their only victory came at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March 1993, a race that was delayed six days because of a snowstorm in the Atlanta area the previous weekend, and provided a much-needed boost for the team who had suffered drought since Jarrett's victory at Michigan.
Michael Waltrip (1996–1998)
With the 1996 season upon them, the Woods sought a younger driver to fill the seat of the No. 21 Ford. As Shepherd was approaching retirement age, and a youth trend had risen with drivers like Jeff Gordon, the team was looking to ride a similar wave. They parted ways with Shepherd and welcomed Michael Waltrip, the younger brother of 3-time series champion and 1989 Daytona 500 winner Darrell Waltrip.
Although they produced no official regular-season victory, Waltrip and the Wood Brothers pulled off an amazing win at the 1996 The Winston Select All-Star race. In their first season with Waltrip, the team brought home the victory that night in a stunning display of team excellence that secured a $200,000 purse for the race.
In Waltrip's 3-season, 95-race tenure with the Woods, they would amass over $3.7 million in winnings.
Elliott Sadler (1999–2002)
With the dawn of the 1999 season, the Wood Brothers brought in Elliott Sadler to replace a departing Michael Waltrip. Like the Woods, Sadler is a Virginia native whose family had been involved in racing for many years. Sadler represented a young, talented Rookie looking to make a name for himself in the Winston Cup Series. With their reputation as prime developers of new talent, many held great things for this combination.
Changes inside the No. 21 team would become pivotal during this period as well. After decades at their old shop location at Dobyns Road in Stuart, the Wood Brothers constructed a massive, state-of-the-art new facility at the Industrial Park in that town. This new facility was modern and spacious and offered room for the expansion and development of their ever-growing team.
This new home also offered a museum of Wood Brothers memorabilia and history. Glen Wood's wife Bernice, who had served as de facto archivist for the family and team since the 1950s, presented a treasure trove of history for race fans to enjoy. She and Kim dedicated many long hours to perfecting the museum and offered guided tours of the entire facility to visitors from around the world. This delighted fans and quickly became known as one of the best and most visitor-friendly locations for any NASCAR fan to visit.
Additional changes emerged in personnel as some left, while others were hired. A full-time secretarial assistant, Annpaige Bowles, had been hired a few years earlier to assist in the demanding office work and take care of the museum. Previous hires such as William Fulp, John Ilowiecki, and Barry Sheppard had been brought in to expand the force to include parts managers, couriers, engineers, and shock specialists. A Chassis dyno, shock dyno, and other new equipment were added.
Also among the recent hires was legendary engine builder Danny Glad. Glad had worked on the 1992 Paul Andrews-led Alan Kulwicki team several years earlier, and came to the Woods after leaving Geoff Bodine. Along with notables such as Randy Dorton and Lou Larosa, Danny Glad was regarded as one of the best engine specialists in the sport.
Young Elliott Sadler cut his teeth in the No. 21 car and was soon performing on par with the best in the top NASCAR circuit. Eddie and Len had brought in Crew Chief Mike Beam, marking a historic first time that someone outside the Wood family had served as Crew Chief for the No. 21 team. Beam had seen success with Junior Johnson, Bud Moore, and others before arriving at the Woods. His pairing with Sadler would also allow Eddie and Len more time to manage the overall growth of their ever-expanding business operations.
2000 marked a historic period for Wood Brothers Racing. They celebrated their 50th anniversary in a special ceremony honoring their milestone achievements. For a team of brothers, relatives, and friends from the tiny town of Stuart (located in the Blue Ridge Mountains) they had achieved international acclaim as pioneers in motorsport competition. That same year, brothers Glen Wood and Leonard Wood were inducted into the prestigious Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.
On the track, the Sadler-Wood combination began to bear fruit in the 2001 season, with Sadler scoring his first win in the No. 21 Ford at Bristol Motor Speedway This win oddly was the first win for the Wood Brothers in their career at Bristol, and the first for them in eight years. For many years, Bristol was not raced by the team, mostly because their focus was on the superspeedways, and they did not race at short tracks.
This period also saw an increased relationship between Wood Brothers racing and Roush Fenway Racing, headed by engine master Jack Roush of Michigan. Roush fielded several top-notch teams including those driven by Jeff Burton and Mark Martin. This Wood-Roush relationship gave the Wood Brothers the depth of engineering and engine resources that most multi-car teams relied upon to dominate the sport. This limited arrangement allowed the Woods a wide array of specialists and research to aid in their quest for victory.
Elliott Sadler continued to improve with the No. 21 and his evolution was quickly making him a target for other teams. As proven in the past, the Woods were excellent breeders of talent and had invested massive amounts of time and dedication to bringing Sadler to the forefront. After the 2002 season, Sadler moved to the Robert Yates Racing stable. The Sadler period for the Wood team had lasted 139 races, which was the longest single stretch for a pilot of the No. 21 since David Pearson drove in the Wood's heyday. Sadler and the Woods earned one victory together at Bristol Motor Speedway, and over $9 million in only four seasons together.
During Sadler's time in the No. 21, the long-term sponsorship relationship between Wood Brothers Racing and Citgo Petroleum came to an end. This was the end of a historic run, as Citgo had been a sponsor on the Wood Brothers car for nearly 20 years. Citgo was replaced by Ford Motorcraft and the United States Air Force, which made the Wood Brothers team the de facto "factory team" for Ford Motor Company.
The next generation emerges
Eddie Wood and his wife Carol have two children, a daughter Jordan, and son Jonathan. Jordan was quickly gaining success as a rising beauty queen in local and regional pageants and an award-winning competitive dancer with the Patrick County Dancing Arts Center. Jordan also would spend free time at the Wood Brothers racing office, assisting with administrative duties and working to learn the team's business operations. Eddie and Carol's son Jonathan began following in the family's footsteps as a competitive racer.
Jon Wood was finding victory in his grandfather's footsteps as a driver, racing go-kart in the World Karting Series and other forms of racing. Many were already speculating on his future in NASCAR and with the Wood Brothers team. Currently, he serves as the company's Senior Vice President, overseeing the company's merchandise operations and actively participating in the day-to-day management of the team.
Ricky Rudd (2003–2005)
Veteran driver and Virginia native Ricky Rudd, formerly at Robert Yates Racing, moved to Sadler's old seat. His first season with the team in 2003 saw five impressive top-ten finishes and over $3 million in winnings. Rudd pulled off a second-place finish nearly winning in his first year behind the wheel of the No. 21 car.
Eddie and Len Wood continued to seek the right mix of crew members and chemistry, shuffling through personnel and crew chiefs to finally hire Michael "Fatback" McSwain as Crew Chief of the No. 21 Motorcraft-sponsored Ford. McSwain and Rudd had worked together while at Robert Yates Racing several years prior.
Meanwhile, the young Jon Wood continued blistering short tracks across the South and Mid-Atlantic in the Late Model Stock Series and Craftsman Truck Series. Wood raced for owner Jack Roush and was quickly earning a reputation as a "racer" and not just a "driver" with his hard-charging style and mature evolution into a competitive force.
Young Keven Wood, also began his racing career in this period. The son of Len and Nancy Wood, he had begun his academic studies in Motorsports Technology at Patrick & Henry Community College while also working at the family's race shop. Keven absorbed everything about racing, from car chassis set up to engine tuning, to add to his knowledge of racing. He began his tenure as a Driver in 2002 in the Legends Series and quickly burned up every track he drove upon. His talents proved formidable, and his victories were hard-won. In 2004, Keven began running in the Late Model Stock Series, a tough proving ground for emerging champions.
The 2004 Series was a success for the Wood Brothers, but times were again changing. R.J. Reynolds had been forced to withdraw the sponsorship from NASCAR several years earlier due to tobacco company lawsuits, and the top series was now known as the Nextel Cup Series. The expense of operating a team had reached all-time highs, requiring as much as $10 million per year from corporate sponsors just to field a car for a season.
In 2004, the Wood Brothers left their roots in Stuart to locate their main base of operations near Charlotte, North Carolina. As every competitive team is based in the area, the Woods knew it was a difficult yet necessary move if they hoped to achieve their quest for the Sprint Cup. Their re-location to Mooresville, North Carolina allowed them more resources and greater access to personnel and technology in the hub of NASCAR racing. As expected, many shifts in team composition occurred.
The Woods maintained their shop in Stuart although it is used primarily as a museum and as a secondary facility to their main operations in North Carolina.
Rudd and the Wood Brothers enjoyed a successful run in 2004, again nearly winning and taking home a second-place slot. They also won a pole position, the team's first since 1984 with Buddy Baker in the No. 21.
The 2005 season saw another second-place finish for Rudd in the No. 21 at Sonoma. They also enjoyed over $4 million in winnings. At the end of the 2005 season, Ricky Rudd announced his retirement. He stepped down after only three seasons with the Wood Brothers during a period of tremendous change for the team.
Ken Schrader (2006–2007)
The Woods announced that veteran Ken Schrader would drive the No. 21 in 2006, with new primary sponsorship from Little Debbie Snack Cakes supporting the team. The United States Air Force would remain as an associate sponsor along with Motorcraft, and all three rotated primary sponsorship duties throughout the season.
A tremendous shift towards the future in the Wood Brothers Racing Team was announced in 2005. The team had entered into a partnership agreement with JTG Racing based in NC to begin with the 2006 season.
JTG Motorsports was spawned from ST Racing, which fields entries in the Craftsman Truck Series and Busch Series. It is owned by Tad and Jodi Geschickter.
Among the changes to the No. 21 team was the elevation of Michael "Fatback" McSwain from crew chief to the manager of racing operations for the team. The crew chief hired for the 2006 campaign was David Hyder, who worked with Schrader at BAM Racing.
In addition to the No. 21 Nextel Cup entry driven by Ken Schrader, JTG Racing fielded the Busch Series No. 47 Clorox Ford Taurus driven by Jon Wood and the No. 59 Kingsford/Bush's Baked Beans Ford Taurus driven by Stacy Compton.
Bill Elliott (2007–2010)
In 2007, Schrader and young Jon Wood planned to split time in the No. 21 car. Wood made one of the two races he attempted before he was pulled from both the No. 21 and his No. 47 Busch car for medical issues. Meanwhile, 1988 champion Bill Elliott was brought on due to qualifying and sponsorship issues. The sponsors stayed the same from 2006, and the Wood Brothers entered a second car numbered 47 (JTG racing's car number) into two events, at Las Vegas with Schrader and Kansas with Jon. Both drivers failed to qualify for their respective events.
In 2008, Elliott, Marcos Ambrose, and Jon shared driving responsibilities of the No. 21. Ambrose, the driver of the JTG No. 59, had signed on to the partial schedule before the two teams ended their partnership. He had a best finish of third at Watkins Glen, and a strong run in his first race at Sonoma. He would begin running part-time the JTG No. 47 at Indy, and would leave the Wood Brothers once JTG switched to Toyota, taking sponsor Little Debbie with him. Jon Wood competed in two races, with Elliott doing 24, with a best finish of 12th.
In 2009, the Wood Brothers ran a partial schedule, competing in only 13 races due to Air Force and Little Debbie moving to other teams, leaving only Ford sponsoring with their Motorcraft brand. The season included four Top-10 qualifying efforts, including a season-best fourth at Indianapolis. The Motorcraft Ford Fusion driven by Bill Elliott also had four Top-16 finishes and the team accumulated over $1.3 million in earnings.
2010 returned the Wood Brothers to the racetrack as they celebrated 60 years in NASCAR. They returned to Daytona in February looking for their fifth Daytona 500 victory with Bill Elliott behind the wheel of the Motorcraft Ford Fusion. Quick Lane Tire and Auto Centers has also come on board for the 2010 season as a sponsor. Elliott competed in eleven races that season. Roush Fenway Racing development driver Trevor Bayne made his Sprint Cup debut with the Wood Brothers that year in the AAA Texas 500 on November 7.
Trevor Bayne (2011–2014)
In 2011, Bayne became the youngest driver in Wood Brothers history, taking over duties of piloting the No. 21 in at least 17 races including the first five races of the season. Bayne had a very strong debut in the Cup Series in 2010, with the No. 21 team finishing on the lead lap in 17th position at Texas Motor Speedway. Motorcraft/Quick Lane continued to sponsor the team through the 2011 season. On February 20, one day after his 20th birthday, Bayne won the 2011 Daytona 500. It was the first win for Wood Brothers Racing since Sadler at Bristol during the 2001 season. The win brought additional sponsorship for several races from Camping World/Good Sam, including the All-Star Race. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. replaced his Roush teammate at the Coca-Cola 600, when Bayne was diagnosed with what was thought to be Lyme disease, but later revealed to be multiple sclerosis.
The team lost the extra sponsorship for 2012, except for the All-Star Race in which Camping World/Good Sam returned to the car. For the rest of the season, the car ran a limited schedule with Bayne, carrying the Ford Motorcraft/Quick Lane sponsorship.
Bayne continued to run a limited schedule in both 2013 and 2014, but the team failed to return to victory lane. It was later announced that Bayne would compete in Roush Fenway Racing's No. 6 Cup car full-time in 2015.
Ryan Blaney (2015–2017)
Ryan Blaney was announced as the No. 21 driver in 2015, with an alliance between the Woods and Team Penske. The best result for the team was fourth at the Talladega spring race. The team's performance improved enough that, despite qualifying for just 16 races (in 19 attempts, an increase from their 12-race schedules in 2013 and 2014), they were able to finish 41st in owner points; this placed them ahead of the No. 32, No. 26 and No. 62, which all attempted the full schedule. Blaney returned to the team in 2016 for a full-time run, the team's first since 2008 and the first with one driver since 2006. He scored nine top 10s and finished 20th in points.
In December 2016, it was announced that Go Fas Racing leased their charter to Wood Brothers Racing, guaranteeing the No. 21 a starting spot in every race of the 2017 season. Blaney started the season with a runner-up in the 2017 Daytona 500 won by fellow Ford driver Kurt Busch. Blaney then nearly won the spring race in Texas, leading a race-high 148 laps until a pit road mishap kept him from winning the race. Blaney also led two of the three stages in the race, Blaney also came close to winning the spring race in Kansas after winning the pole, Blaney also won Stage 2 that race, but ended up finishing fourth. Blaney won his first career Cup race at the Axalta presents the Pocono 400, the Wood Brothers' first win since the 2011 Daytona 500, beating second-place driver Kevin Harvick. It was a very popular win, with competitors flanking the 21 in respect and joy on the cool-down lap. With 14 top 10s, Blaney reached the Round of 8 in the playoffs and finished 9th in points.
Paul Menard (2018–2019)
On July 26, 2017, it was announced that in 2018 Blaney would move over to a third Penske car and in exchange, Paul Menard would move from Richard Childress Racing to the No. 21 car with sponsor Menards as part of a deal with Penske. He scored seven top 10s, including a 5th finish at the Michigan June race, and ended up 19th in the drivers' classification.
Team co-founder Glen Wood passed away at the age of 93 on January 18, 2019. Menard scored just four top 10s and repeated a 19th place in points.
Matt DiBenedetto (2020–2021)
On July 12, 2019, Menard announced he had a contract for the 2020 season, indicating that he plans to stay with Wood Brothers. On September 10, Menard announced he will retire from full-time racing after the 2019 season. At the same time, Wood Brothers Racing announced Matt DiBenedetto as his replacement for the 2020 season. On July 15, 2020, DiBenedetto won the All-Star Open and qualified for the team’s third-ever All-Star Race. DiBenedetto placed 13th in the main event. In coordination with Penske, the team announced that DiBenedetto would drive the car in 2021 and would then be replaced by Austin Cindric in 2022. On December 30, 2020, Bob Pockrass reported that Wood Brothers Racing purchased the charter they had leased from Go Fas Racing since 2017.
Harrison Burton (2022–)
On July 15, 2021, it was confirmed that Matt DiBenedetto will not be returning to Wood Brothers Racing in 2022. That same day, Harrison Burton was announced as DiBenedetto's replacement.
Craftsman Truck Series
Truck No. 19 history
Note: Michael "Fatback" McSwain is listed as the owner in that race.
The team only ran one race with Kelly Bires driving the No. 19 truck at Atlanta in 2006. He started 29th and finished 19th.
Truck No. 20 history
The No. 20 truck debuted in 2006 with sponsorship from the United States Air Force, in a partnership with JTG Racing, Jon Wood started driving at Daytona and Fontana, finishing 16th and ninth. Bobby East drove one race at Atlanta where he finished 23rd. JTG Racing's development driver Marcos Ambrose drove for the remainder of the season. In 2007, the No. 20 was renumbered to No. 09 with Joey Clanton and Stacy Compton sharing the ride.
Truck No. 21 history
The No. 21 truck debuted with sponsorship from Edy's Ice Cream and State Fair Corn Dogs at Daytona in 2006 with Stacy Compton behind the wheel for the first two races. After Jon Wood handled driving duties at Atlanta, Bobby East drove the truck for the remainder of the season, posting a best finish of eleventh. East was not retained for the 2007 season, and the team planned to run development driver Kelly Bires in nineteen races, with Mark Martin driving the remaining six races. Late in the season, Bires moved up to the Busch Series, replacing Jon Wood, who took his spot in the 21 truck. Jon and Keven Wood shared the No. 21 truck in 2008 with sponsorship from the United States Air Force. In December 2008, Keven Wood said in an interview that the team had shut down its Truck operation due to lack of sponsorship.
Indianapolis 500
As the Wood Brothers Racing Team gained notoriety throughout NASCAR racing for their work in the pits, other racers in varying forms of motorsports took notice. Soon, the efficient pit stop was all the rage in other forms of auto racing contests.
In 1965, the IndyCar teams took heed. Lotus owner Colin Chapman hired the Wood Brothers to service his car, driven by his Scottish Formula One ace Jim Clark, during pit stops in the 1965 Indianapolis 500. This marked the first time a NASCAR stock car crew had ever provided such service for an IndyCar team. During the race, Clark was able to increase his track position and drove into victory lane as the winner of the 500, with the Wood Brothers as his crew.
Legacy
The Wood Brothers hold many records and historic achievements. Among these are the fact that they have fielded only Ford Motor Company products since 1950, which makes the second-longest association of any motorsports team with a single manufacturer, behind Scuderia Ferrari. The Wood Brothers also have won at least one race in every decade for the last six decades, an unmatched feat. They have 99 total points-paying victories and have won 119 pole positions in 1,606 starts. They have earned over $30 million in career winnings, and remain among the winningest racing teams in NASCAR history. Also, after Petty Enterprises merged with Gillett Evernham Motorsports to form Richard Petty Motorsports, the Wood Brothers became the oldest team in NASCAR.
The Wood Brothers were inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2000.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Car No. 21 results
Footnotes
References
Further reading
External links
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Companies based in North Carolina
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26720308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana%20Gnezdilov | Svetlana Gnezdilov | Svetlana Gnezdilov (born 20 July 1969) is a retired Ukrainian-born Israeli athlete who specialized in the 100 metres hurdles and the heptathlon.
She was a Ukrainian citizen until 1996 when she emigrated to Israel. In the short hurdles distances (100 and 60 metres) she competed at the 1999 World Championships, the 2001 World Indoor Championships, the 2001 World Championships and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final.
She then switched to the heptathlon, where she finished fifteenth at the 2002 European Championships and 26th at the 2006 European Championships. She did not finish the competition at the 2003 World Championships. At the 2003 World Championships she also competed in the 4 x 400 metres relay. At the 2006 European Championships she also competed in the long jump.
Her personal best times were 8.28 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles, achieved at the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Lisbon; and 13.04 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles, achieved in June 2001 in Minsk. She has 6031 points in the heptathlon, achieved in August 2003 in Tel Aviv; and 6.46 metres in the long jump, achieved in July 2004 in Tel Aviv.
In June 2020 Svetlana was charged with trafficking women to Israel and keeping them in 3 apartments where they served as sex slaves.
Trial pending
See also
List of Israeli records in athletics
References
1969 births
Living people
Israeli heptathletes
Israeli female long jumpers
Israeli female hurdlers
Ukrainian emigrants to Israel |
20482849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%202007%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20South%20Korea | List of 2007 box office number-one films in South Korea | This is a list of films which have been placed number-one at the South Korean box office during 2007, based on admissions.
Highest-grossing films
References
See also
List of South Korean films of 2007
South Korea
2007 in South Korean cinema
2007 |
44506380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadu%20Iravil | Nadu Iravil | Nadu Iravil () is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film, directed and produced by S. Balachander. The film's story was written by him and dialogue was written by Ve. Laxmanan, who also composed the music. It is based on Agatha Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None.
Plot
Dhayanandam is a rich man who takes care of his wife Ponni, they have no children. Dr. Saravanan was the close friend of Dhayanandam, he tells about his blood cancer and he dies in 20 days. All Dhayanandam's assets are going in vain. Dr. Saravanan gives an idea, to call all his relations and they have come. Unfortunately, they are murdered one by one in the night. All are terrified. The suspicion on the murderer shifts onto Dr. Saravanan only for it to be revealed that the real murderer is Dhayanandam's handicapped brother.
Cast
Major Sundarrajan as Dhayanandam
Pandari Bai as Ponni (Dhayanandam's wife)
S. Balachander as Dr. Saravanan
Sowcar Janaki as Ragini
Cho Ramaswamy as Servar Mose
V. Gopalakrishnan as Ranga Rajan, (Somanathan's Son-in-law/Leela's husband)
V. R. Thilagam as Leela (Ranga Rajan's wife)
M. S. S. Pakkiyam as Neelamegham's wife
E. R. Sahadevan as Neelamegham
K. Vijayan as Aravindhan (Vadivambal elder son)
V. S. Raghavan as Jambulingam (Dhayanandam's younger brother / blind man)
Sadhan as Kalyam (Aravindan's younger brother)
Kottappuli Jayaraman as Joseph (Dhayanandam's house servant)
Maali alias Mahalingam (Mohanambal's son)
S.N.Lakshmi as Vadivambal (Dhayanandam's sister)
C. V. V. Banthulu as Somanathan
Kalpana as Anu Radha (Neelamegham's daughter)
S. R. Janaki as Mohanambal (Dhayanandam's sister in law)
Ramanujam as Mottaiyan
Saroja as Pankajam (Mottaiyan's daughter)
Production
After the success of Bommai (1964), S. Balachander launched a film named Nadu Iravil the same year. It was based on the 1939 novel And Then There Were None, by the British writer Agatha Christie. Unlike the novel, it features the characters in an urban house rather than being stranded on an island, but "dutifully follows the same idea of each one dying, with the assets of the deceased out for the taking".
Release
Though Balachander completed the film in 1964–1965, no distributor was willing to buy it, prompting him to finance and distribute the film himself. Nadu Iravil was eventually released in 1970 and became a major success, prompting several distributors who earlier rejected the film, to return and beg Balachander for distributing it. The Indian Express wrote, "The movie succeeds as a very good entertainer entirely due to the directorial work of S. Balachander and Reddi's camera."
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by S. Balachander, while the lyrics for the songs were written by Ve. Laxmanan.
References
External links
1970 films
1970s crime thriller films
1970s Tamil-language films
Films based on And Then There Were None
Films based on British novels
Films directed by S. Balachander
Indian black-and-white films
Indian crime thriller films |
17341628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20Brothers | Wood Brothers | Wood Brothers may refer to the following:
Wood Brothers Racing, an American auto racing team
The Wood Brothers, musical siblings Chris and Oliver Wood
Wood Brothers TV, TV presenter siblings Danny, Ben and Sam Wood |
20482860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Mouton | Henri Mouton | Henri Mouton [5 September 1869, Cambrai (Nord) – 13 June 1935, Bezons (Val d'Oise)) was a French scientist.
He entered the École normale supérieure in 1889. He was a biologist at the Institut Pasteur, then maître de conférences at the Faculté des sciences in Paris from 1917, and finally professor of physical chemistry from 1927. He is best known for his discovery in 1907 of the Cotton–Mouton effect in collaboration with Aimé Cotton.
References
1869 births
1935 deaths
French physical chemists
French biologists |
17341636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounslow%20Chronicle | Hounslow Chronicle | The Hounslow Chronicle is a local weekly tabloid newspaper distributed in west London, England. It mainly covers stories from the London Borough of Hounslow. It was founded as The County of Middlesex Chronicle in 1859.
References
External links
Hounslow Chronicle
London newspapers
Media and communications in the London Borough of Hounslow
Newspapers established in 1859
1859 establishments in England |
20482863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesitation%20step | Hesitation step | The term hesitation step refers to a ceremonial form of walking. It is typically used during the entrance to a religious ceremony.
The walk consists of stepping forward, pausing, rocking back on the back leg, then proceeding to the next step forward. In other variations, there is simply a pause between steps with the feet poised together.
A form of the hesitation step is often used by brides and bridal parties in the United States and Europe during their entrance to the wedding ceremony. It is also often used during graduations, particularly from religious schools for girls.
See also
Wedding
Wedding traditions |
26720310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostel%3A%20Part%20III | Hostel: Part III | Hostel: Part III is a 2011 American horror film directed by Scott Spiegel and the third and final installment of the Hostel trilogy. It was written by Michael D. Weiss. This is the only film in the series to not have Eli Roth involved in the production and is also the only one not to have a theatrical release. The film also relocates the Elite Hunting Club from Slovakia to Las Vegas.
The plot centers on four men attending a bachelor party in Las Vegas. While there, they are enticed by two prostitutes to join them at a private party way off the Strip. Once there, they are horrified to find themselves the subjects of a perverse game of torture, where members of the Elite Hunting Club are hosting the most sadistic show in town. It was released direct-to-DVD on December 27, 2011.
Plot
A young man named Travis goes into a hotel room where a Ukrainian couple, Victor and Anka, are currently staying. Anka and Victor fall unconscious after being drugged by the beer Travis gives them, and it is revealed that Travis is a member of the Elite Hunting Club. Victor later wakes up in a cell in an abandoned building, and watches as two guards drag Anka out of her cell.
Scott leaves his fiancée Amy to go to Las Vegas with his friend Carter for Scott's bachelor party. There, they meet up with their other friends, Mike and Justin. The four go to a nightclub, where they meet Kendra and Nikki, two escorts Carter secretly paid to have sex with Scott. Kendra and Nikki tell the four men about a "freaky" party they could go to on the other end of town, and the four men take a cab to an abandoned building. At the party, Kendra makes a move on Scott, but he declines and tells her about how he previously cheated on Amy and almost lost her, and does not want it to happen again. Scott wakes up the next morning in his hotel room with Carter and Justin. The three wonder where Mike is, as he is not answering his phone.
Mike wakes in a cell and starts panicking. Two guards strap him to a chair in an empty room, with one wall made of glass, and Mike is on display to be gambled upon by wealthy clients. A middle aged client dressed as a doctor enters the room; Mike pleads with him, but the man cuts and peels Mike's face off. Worried about Mike, Scott, Carter, and Justin travel to Nikki's trailer, but cannot find her. Kendra arrives and reveals that Nikki is missing as well. Meanwhile, Nikki is brought into the same room as Mike and strapped to a table. Another man who speaks in Hungarian enters the room and releases a jar full of cockroaches onto Nikki, which crawl into her mouth and suffocate her.
Scott, Carter, Justin, and Kendra get a text from Mike's phone, sent by Travis, to meet him and Nikki in a hotel room. When they get there, everyone is kidnapped by Travis and wake up in individual cells along with Victor. The two guards take Justin away, and Carter calls the guard, and informs them that he is also a client. After he shows his Elite Hunting Club tattoo, the guards let him go.
Justin is strapped into a chair and Carter, Flemming, and Travis watch as a costumed woman shoots him with multiple crossbow bolts. The main event starts and Scott is strapped into a chair. He asks Carter why he is doing this, and Carter reveals he wants Amy for himself, as they were in a relationship before she ended up with Scott. Carter says he was disappointed that Amy stayed with Scott after Carter told her about Scott's infidelity. He says that once Scott dies, he will comfort Amy and she will want to be with him.
Flemming orders Scott to be let go from the chair, and Scott and Carter fight. Scott ends up stabbing Carter, cuts off Carter's tattoo, and then escapes by using Carter's tattoo on the scanners. Victor kills one of the guards and frees himself, but is killed by another guard. Scott calls the cops and frees Kendra, who is shot dead by Travis. Flemming orders all of the prisoners to be killed. Scott and Travis fight, and Scott kills Travis. Flemming sets the building to explode and attempts to drive away, but Carter kills him and takes his car. Carter sees Scott and locks the front gate before Scott can get to him. He then quickly drives off while the building explodes, with Scott still inside the gates.
Sometime later, Carter is comforting Amy in her house. After inviting him to stay the night, Amy reveals that Scott is still alive and pins Carter's hand to a chair with a corkscrew. A burned Scott appears and the pair strap him to a chair in her garage, where Scott kills him with a lightweight gas-powered tiller.
Cast
Brian Hallisay as Scott
Kip Pardue as Carter
John Hensley as Justin
Sarah Habel as Kendra
Skyler Stone as Mike
Zulay Henao as Nikki
Thomas Kretschmann as Flemming
Chris Coy as Travis
Nickola Shreli as Victor
Evelina Oboza as Anka
Kelly Thiebaud as Amy
Derrick Carr as Mossberg
Frank Alvarez as Mesa
Tim Holmes as Beardo
Barry Livingston as Doctor
Alicia Vela-Bailey as Japanese Cyberpunk Woman
Production
In June 2008, it was announced that Scott Spiegel, one of the executive producers of Hostel and Hostel: Part II, was in talks to direct a third film in the series. In July 2009, Eli Roth confirmed that he would not be directing Hostel: Part III. Total Film later reported that Eli Roth would be involved, albeit as producer only, and that the film will abandon the European locations of the previous films in favor of an American setting, by the release of the film however Roth was not credited. A trailer for the film was released in October 2011 confirming the film's Las Vegas setting.
Release
There were meant to be many viral marketing tools attached to the film including a collection of QR codes that would, if scanned, give exclusive content. One can be seen at 1:09:26 in the film. Due to the film's negative reception from test audiences however, the marketing campaign was dropped. Scanning the code now results in the phrase "top left 8" being displayed.
Hostel: Part III was released on DVD and Video on demand on December 27, 2011, in the United States, and on January 18, 2012, in Europe.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on six reviews, with an average rating of 6.25/10.
References
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2011 films
2011 horror films
2010s serial killer films
American films
American serial killer films
American sequel films
Direct-to-video horror films
Direct-to-video sequel films
English-language films
Films directed by Scott Spiegel
Films scored by Frederik Wiedmann
Films set in the Las Vegas Valley
Films shot in Michigan
Films shot in the Las Vegas Valley
Hungarian-language films
Splatterpunk
Stage 6 Films films |
20482873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Kulikov | Anatoly Kulikov | Anatoly Sergeyevich Kulikov (, born September 4, 1946 in Aigursky, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR) is a Russian General of the Army, former Interior Minister of Russia (1995–1998).
In 1992 Kulikov became Commander of the Interior Troops. Hence he was one of the commanders of pro-government forces during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis in Moscow and the First Chechen War. In early 1995 Kulikov was appointed commander of the Joint Group of Federal Forces in Chechnya and he commanded the Russian forces during the infamous Samashki massacre.
On July 6, 1995, after the Budyonnovsk hostage crisis, he succeeded Viktor Yerin as Interior Minister of Russia. In August 1996 Alexander Lebed, who had just been appointed Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, blamed Kulikov for the disastrous Battle of Grozny and requested that President Boris Yeltsin sack him. However, Yeltsin declined his request and in October fired Lebed from his position.
In 1997, Kulikov linked both the Cherney brothers and Reuben brothers to the Izmaylovskaya mafia which was led by Anton Malevsky in Israel, but, in March 1998, Boris Yeltsin removed Kulikov from his post along with the entire second cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin.
While most of the ministers of the old cabinet were reappointed to Sergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet, Kulikov wasn't and Sergei Stepashin became the next interior minister. Afterwards, Kulikov was elected to the State Duma twice, in the 1999 election and 2003 election, and was a member of the pro-government United Russia faction.
Honours and awards
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class (3 September 1996) - for services to the state, his great personal contribution to strengthening the rule of law and many years of honest service in the internal affairs
Order of Honour (16 April 2004) - for active participation in legislative activities and many years of honest work
Order for Personal Courage
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class
Medal "For Distinction in the Protection of Public Order"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For Impeccable Service" 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes
Medal "Anatoly Koni" (Min Justice)
Medal "For Services to the Stavropol Territory" (Stavropol Territory, September 2006)
References
External links
Timothy L. Thomas. Anatoliy Sergeevich Kulikov: Policeman, Power Minister, Deputy Prime Minister...Politician? Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement Vol. 7, No. 1 (Summer 1998), pp. 149–178.
Biography as of 1997 in Russian
1946 births
Deputy heads of government of the Russian Federation
Generals of the army (Russia)
Interior ministers of Russia
Living people
People from Apanasenkovsky District
People of the Chechen wars
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Recipients of the Order "For Personal Courage"
Frunze Military Academy alumni
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni
Third convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Fourth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
6909632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChickFight | ChickFight | ChickFight was a women's professional wrestling promotion based in San Francisco, California.
History
ChickFight originally began as an eight-woman tournament with the first one taking place on October 29, 2004, in Hayward, California as part of All Pro Wrestling's Halloween Hell weekend. In 2006, ChickFight moved to San Francisco, California and ran regularly at the Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district. In 2007, the tournament was moved to England. The promotion closed in 2008.
Events
ChickFight I
Date: October 29, 2004
Location: APW Garage in Hayward, California
ChickFight II
Date: May 13, 2005
Location: APW Garage in Hayward, California
ChickFight III
Date: October 29, 2005
Location: APW Garage in Hayward, California
ChickFight IV
Date: April 15, 2006
Location: Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco, California
ChickFight V
Date: June 24, 2006
Location: Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco, California
ChickFight VI
Date: September 1, 2006
Location: Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco, California
ChickFight VII: The UK vs The USA
Date: January 14, 2007
Location: The Marina Centre in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Non-Tournament Match
Destiny and Kharisma defeated The Norfolk Dolls (Britani and Melodi)
ChickFight VIII
Date: April 22, 2007
Location: Liquid Nightclub in Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Non-Tournament Matches
Cheerleader Melissa defeated "The Jezebel" Eden Black by knockout to become the first Trans-Atlantic Women's champion
Pandora defeated Bubbles
Cheerleader Melissa defeated Wesna to retain the Trans-Atlantic Women's Championship
ChickFight IX: Our Final Chance
Date: June 17, 2007
Location: Orpington Halls in Orpington, Kent
1. Kong received a bye after her scheduled opponent, Sweet Saraya, could not compete due to injury.
2. Match ended when Cheerleader Melissa attacked both wrestlers, neither advanced.
Non-Tournament Match
Wesna drew with Cheerleader Melissa (45:00), Wesna retains the RQW Women's Championship
ChickFight IX.5
Date: August 26, 2007
Location: The Suncastle in Skegness, Lincolnshire
Episode 1
The first match was declared a no contest after Cheerleader Melissa attacked both Jade and Blue Nikita.
The RQW Women's Championship match ended in disqualification when Jetta made it appear as if Eden Black had used a weapon leading to a grudge match.
Episode 2
ChickFight X
Date: May 4, 2008
Location: The Caribbean Centre in Ipswich, Suffolk
Episode 1
Episode 2
Jetta was disqualified when Wesna interfered in the match, preventing Cheerleader Melissa from applying the Kudo Driver.
ChickFight XI
Date: August 3, 2008
Location: The Caribbean Centre in Ipswich, Suffolk
Episode 1
Episode 2
ECWA Super 8 ChickFight XII Tournament
ECWA 2nd Annual Super 8 ChickFight XIII Tournament
Shimmer Women Athletes Volume 71 ChickFight XIV Tournament
Trans-Atlantic Championship
After the promotion moved to the UK whilst still retaining many North American wrestlers, the company entered into an agreement with Real Quality Wrestling and created a suitably titled Trans-Atlantic Champion to be defended. However, after nine months of inactivity the title was retired on January 22, 2008.
References
External links
ChickFight Website
Chickfight Pictures from the UK
ChickFight 7 Photos
Independent professional wrestling promotions based in California
Women's professional wrestling tournaments
Women's professional wrestling promotions |
20482876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan%20Mahmudi%20Kamboh | Hasan Mahmudi Kamboh | Hasan Mahmudi (or Mahdi) Kamboh was an ancestor of the Kamboh Nawabs od Meerut.
Biography
He was a Wazir (minister) of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni (971 AD – 1030 AD) and came to India during one of Sultan's war expeditions against the India during tenth/eleventh centuries. Hasan Mahmudi Kamboh captured the city of Meerut from its Raja Mai. Many Kamboh soldiers of his regiment are stated to have fallen during the attack. To perpetuate their memory, Husan Mahmudi erected Jama Masjid in 1019 AD, adjacent to where his Kamboh soldiers fell fighting during attack on Meerut. It was later repaired by Mughal Emperor Humayun in sixteenth century. Hasan Mahmudi's descendants later built another important building called Sangi Mahal. Both these ancient buildings still exist in Meerut. In later times, the most notable members from Hasan Mahmudi's family were Nawab Mohammad Khan alias Nawab General Kheir Andesh Khan and Nawab General Kheir Andesh Khan Sani. Nawab Mohammad Khan who flourished in the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb had built the famous Khairnagar gate, Meerut fort, and many other buildings in Meerut.
See also
Muslim Kamboh
Nawab Khair Andesh Khan Sani
Nawab Khair Andesh Khan
References
11th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
People from Meerut |
26720334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio%20Basletta | Giulio Basletta | Giulio Basletta (5 May 1890 – 5 February 1975) was an Italian fencer. He won a bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics and a gold at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1890 births
1975 deaths
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
People from Vigevano
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Province of Pavia |
20482878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Ashmore | Jim Ashmore | James Ashmore (born May 14, 1935) is an American retired basketball player.
Playing career Career
Ashmore attended Mississippi State University (MSU) from 1954 to 1957 after growing up in New Market, Missouri. He played on the MSU basketball team and was notable for being Mississippi's first college basketball player to score more than 1,000 career points, scoring a total of 1,918 points. In 1957, Ashmore scored 45 points in a single game. He made 76.6% of his free throws in his 1956–57 season.
From 1957–1960 Ashmore played for the Denver-Chicago Truckers of the National Industrial Basketball League.
Honors
Ashmore was honored as a Converse and Helms Foundation All-American in 1956–1957.
Ashmore was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.
References
1935 births
Living people
All-American college men's basketball players
Amateur Athletic Union men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Missouri
Boston Celtics draft picks
Mississippi State Bulldogs men's basketball players
People from Platte County, Missouri
Guards (basketball) |
44506394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boat%20Race%201955 | The Boat Race 1955 | The 101st Boat Race took place on 26 March 1955. 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 race, in which the Cambridge crew was substantially heavier than their opponents and where there were more non-British participants than ever before, was umpired by former Oxford rower Gerald Ellison. Cambridge won by sixteen lengths, the second largest margin of victory in the history of the Boat Race, in a time of 19 minutes 10 seconds. It was their second win in three years and took the overall record in the event to 55–45 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. Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1954 race by lengths, while Cambridge led overall with 54 victories to Oxford's 45 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Cambridge were coached by J. R. F. Best, G. Bogland-Wood, Thom Langton (who had rowed in the 1937 and 1938 races), Derek Mays-Smith and James Owen. Oxford's coaches were Christopher Davidge (who rowed in the 1949, 1951 and 1952 races and was non-rowing president for the 1951 race), Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards (a Blue in 1926 and 1930), W. J. Llewellyn-Jones and A. D. Rowe (who had represented Oxford in the 1948 and 1949 races). The race was umpired by former Oxford rower Gerald Ellison, the Bishop of Willesden, who had rowed for Oxford in the 1932 and 1933 races.
Prior to the race, the rowing correspondent for The Times suggested "it must be rare for two Boat Race crews to be as dissimilar as are the Oxford and Cambridge crews" who were to race against one another. Oxford were the lighter crew yet demonstrated uniformity and excellent watermanship. Cambridge's style was diverse but demonstrated a "tremendous zest for hard work and hard rowing."
Crews
The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 13 st 2.5 lb (83.5 kg), per rower more than their opponents. Six of the Oxford crew had previous Boat Race experience including their bow James A. Gobbo. Cambridge saw two rowers return, in bow D. K. Hill and number four K. A. Masser. The race saw more non-British participants than ever before: Oxford's crew included four Australians in Gobbo, E. V. Vine, J. G. McLeod and Edward Pain, while Cambridge's had two Harvard University rowers in P. du Bois and Robert Monks. Oxford's Pain was an Olympic bronze medallist in the men's eight at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Race
Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station, handing the Middlesex side of the river to Cambridge. The umpire Ellison started the race at 2:20 p.m. whereupon Oxford made the better start, rating 40 strokes per minute, and taking a slight lead. Maintaining the higher stroke rate, the Dark Blues passed Craven Steps with a canvas-length lead in a record time. Taking advantage of the bend in the river, Cambridge first drew level before holding a quarter-length lead by the time the crews passed the Mile Post. By Harrods Furniture Depository the lead was just back to a canvas before a mistake in the steering from Oxford's cox Watson on the approach to Hammersmith Bridge saw Cambridge leading by a few feet. A spurt from Oxford's stroke G. Sorrell went unanswered by his crew, and in response, the Light Blue stroke pushed on, taking the Cambridge boat away. By Chiswick Eyot the Light Blues held a three-length lead which they extended to over five lengths by Chiswick Steps.
Rough water in Corney Reach meant both crews had reduced to 28 strokes per minute but Oxford were tiring: their number six McLeod "stopped rowing ... he kept some sort of time, but barely dipping his blade into the water". The rowing correspondent for The Manchester Guardian suggested that he had "got his oar buried, was pounded in the stomach by its handle and virtually stopped rowing". Cambridge passed below Barnes Bridge thirty seconds ahead and had reduced their rating to 26 strokes per minute, 6 fewer than Oxford who continued to struggle. Cambridge won by sixteen lengths, the second largest margin of victory in the history of the Boat Race, bettered only by their twenty-length victory in the 1900 race. The winning time was 19 minutes 10 seconds. It was their second win in three years and took the overall record in the event to 55–45 in their favour.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Official website
1955 in English sport
1955 in rowing
The Boat Race
March 1955 sports events in the United Kingdom
1955 sports events in London |
26720352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Tkach | Anna Tkach | Anna Tkach (; born 17 April 1975) is a retired Russian-born Israeli sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
Tkach is Jewish, and was a Russian citizen until 2003 when she changed nationality to Israel. She competed for her new country in the 400 metres at the 2003 World Championships, reaching the semi-final. She also competed in the 4 x 400 metres relay.
Her personal best times were 11.45 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 1999 in Moscow; 23.07 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in June 1999 in Moscow; and 50.67 seconds in the 400 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Tula. She also holds the current Israeli record in the 400 metres at 52.06.
See also
List of Israeli records in athletics
Sports in Israel
References
1975 births
Living people
Russian female sprinters
Israeli female sprinters
Russian emigrants to Israel
Russian Jews
Israeli Jews
Jewish female athletes (track and field)
Russian people of Israeli descent |
17341639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%20Nath%20Dhakal | Ek Nath Dhakal | Ek Nath Dhakal (Nepali: एकनाथ ढकाल) (born 13 August 1974) is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Nepal Pariwar Dal, and served as Minister for the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction of the Government of Nepal. He is the head of the Nepal chapter of the Universal Peace Federation, a United Nations ECOSOC status international Peace organization.
Early life and education
Dhakal was born in 1974 in the Gorkha District. He received his formal education from the Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, where he studied political science for two years followed by three years of study in sociology and anthropology. His public life started as an independent student leader and social activist carrying out humanitarian service project. He has received honors from both Nepal and abroad including the “Youth of the Year” award with gold medal in 2007. He is married to Mrs. Blessie Gadon Dhakal who is from Philippines.
Political career
In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the Nepal Pariwar Dal won one seat through the Proportional Representation vote. The party selected Dhakal as its representative in the assembly.
Dhakal served on various parliamentary committees such as the Security Special Committee, International Relations and Human Rights Committee and Constitutional Committee during 2008–2012. Dhakal also serves as secretary general of the Youth Federation of World Peace Asia.
In 2009, Dhakal made a statement on the agenda entitled Towards Global Partnerships, at the Second Committee of the United Nations' 64th session of the General Assembly.
On October 31, 2010, the magazine Nepal Weekly published by Kantipur Publications criticized Dhakal for the arrangements surrounding Vice President Parmanand Jha's visit to South Korea on October 7, 2010. Dhakal brought Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea to Nepal to promote relations between Nepal and S Korea.
Nepali Times covered the detail story of South Korea's Unification Church is affiliated to a Nepali political party that has a minister in the cabinet
and "A religious group that mixes business and politics" on it April edition of 2016 reported by Reporter Seulki Lee.
Dhakal serves in the Constitutional Committee of the Constituent Assembly and was appointed as a cabinet Minister on May 16, 2012; he is the first Minister for Ministry of Co-operatives and Poverty Alleviation (Nepal) of the Government of Nepal. Dhakal is a convener of the South Asia Peace Initiatives (SAPI) and is involved in Nepal's ongoing peace process. In January 2013, Dhakal told the international community that Nepalese political leaders are capable to short out the political deadlock of the country.
On January 24, 2013, Dhakal met with the Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh in New Delhi, India. Dhakal has undertaken a poverty alleviation project in the Gorkha district, with the aim to improve conditions for the 25.2% poor people of the country.
Dhakal is a comparative new figure in Nepalese politics and in February 2013, his name was brought out by Nepalese media as a possible candidate for prime minister, to lead Nepal's consensus government for the purpose of holding elections.
Dhakal launches National Public Awareness Campaign with motto "Nation and People First" throughout the nation.
Dhakal's party "Nepal Pariwar Dal" announced candidates in all 240 constituency of Nepal for the election of the Constituent Assembly scheduled on November 19, 2013. On October 9, 2013, Dhakal claimed that Nepal Pariwar Dal is fourth political power in Nepal. Dhakal wishes to develop his party as alternative democratic forces in his country.
Dhakal was re-elected in the 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election for a four-year term. Dhakal serves in the most powerful parliamentary committee Public Accounts Committee. Dhakal serves as Global Vice President of Sun Moon University based in Korea. Dhakal also a Member of the Parliamentarians for Global Action based in United States of America. Dhakal advocates Universality and said at one of the religious function organized in his district Gorkha that representatives do not belong to a particular religion and ethnicity instead they represent the whole country and goodness of all faiths. Ek Nath Dhakal founded Parliamentary Peace Council (PPC Nepal) for building a culture of peace based on rule of law, democracy, service and universally shared values on November 6, 2014. The inaugural assembly was presided by Speaker of the Legislature Parliament of Nepal Subash Chandra Nembang and lawmakers from Nepal and India were in attendance. Peace advocate Dhakal is active in promoting multidimensional peace in South Asia.
Ek Nath Dhakal is a pro traditional family values activist. He organized a "Multicultural Family Educational Peace Festival 2015" at Dasarath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal on February 21, 2015 which attracted seventy thousand people. Dhakal urged India that its "unequivocal recognition" of Nepalese constitution would go a long way in reducing the current tensions and restoring cordial relations between the two countries during his meeting with Indian politicians in New Delhi on October 4, 2015. Ek Nath Dhakal is appointed as Minister for the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (Nepal) by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. Ek Nath Dhakal was also nominated as Chairman of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP), Asia. Dhakal shared his views with Republica on Feb. 17, 2018 and asked Nepali youth to seriously consider joining politics if they don't want to be ruled by those they don't like.
Ek Nath Dhakal was one of the key person organized Asia Pacific Summit 2018 - Nepal on November 30 to December 3, 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal.The Summit was aim to highlight Nepal's success in peace process and constitution-making according to Eknath Dhakal. The Summit was one of the biggest event of its kind organized in Nepal and was also most debated event. Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli presided and opened the Summit along with several current heads of state and government. Dhakal met with many world leaders, heads of state and government on his peace mission including Myanmar's democratic icon Aung San Suu Kyi. Eknath Dhakal's “Family Party” making forays in Nepal politics on lines of India's Aam Admi party (AAP), seeking to create “New Nepal”. Ek Nath Dhakal is named as “Special Global Envoy” of World Summit during the 7th Rally of Hope. On November 22, 2022, Dhakal is re-elected as President of Nepal Family Party from the 3rd General Convention of the Party conducted with theme‘Let us eliminate all sorts of discriminations: build a cultured, prosperous and inclusive Nepal’ .
References
1974 births
Living people
Nepalese Unificationists
People from Gorkha District
Tribhuvan University alumni
Nepal Pariwar Dal politicians
Nepalese activists
Nepalese anti-war activists
Government ministers of Nepal
Members of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly |
17341653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX | MMX | MMX may refer to:
2010, in Roman numerals
Science and technology
MMX (instruction set), a single-instruction, multiple-data instruction set designed by Intel
MMX Mineração, a Brazilian mining company
Martian Moons eXploration, a Japanese mission to retrieve samples from Mars' moon Phobos
Michelson–Morley experiment, an 1887 physics experiment
Places
MMX Open Art Venue, in Berlin, Germany
Malmö Airport, Sweden (IATA code)
Arts and entertainment
Music
"MMX (The Social Song)", a 2010 song by Enigma
MMX (Twelfth Night album), 2010
Napalm (album), original working title MMX, a 2012 album by Xzibit
MMX, a 2012 album by Procol Harum
MMX, a 2010 album by War from a Harlots Mouth
Marble Machine X, a musical instrument designed by Swedish band Wintergatan
Video games
Mega Man X, a series of video games, and its main character
Might & Magic X: Legacy, a 2014 role-playing video game |
26720367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Beashel | Adam Beashel | Adam Beashel is an Australian sailor. He is best known for being part of Team New Zealand at the 2003 America's Cup and strategist for Emirates Team New Zealand at the 2007 America's Cup.
Beashel was part of the oneAustralia team that came second in the 1995 Louis Vuitton Cup.
He is also a 49er sailor. Together with Teague Czislowski, he came second in that class at the 1999 World Championships to Chris Nicholson and Ed Smyth.
He and Czislowski won the national selection process for the 2000 Olympics in the 49er class, but the Australian Yachting Federation instead nominated Nicholson and Daniel Phillips for the sole spot at the Olympics as they were considered better possibilities for a medal. Nicholson and Phillips eventually finished sixth. He was injured in April 2007 while with Emirates Team New Zealand, and was replaced by Mark Mendelblatt.
He is from a sailing family. His father Ken Beashel is a sailor and boat builder in Sydney. His brother Colin is an Olympic medal winning sailor who crewed on Australia II in 1983. His wife Lanee Butler is a boardsailor who competed at four Olympics.
He and Lanee have two young sons, born in 2008 and 2009.
References
Team New Zealand sailors
Living people
Australian male sailors (sport)
Sailors from Sydney
Extreme Sailing Series sailors
2013 America's Cup sailors
2007 America's Cup sailors
1995 America's Cup sailors
2003 America's Cup sailors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
44506403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishq%20Wala%20Love | Ishq Wala Love | Ishq Wala Love (Marathi: इश्क वाला Love) is a 2014 Indian Marathi language Romantic Drama film written, directed and produced by Renu Desai under Akira Films and Shree Aadya Films banners. The movie is the directorial debut film of Desai and stars Adinath Kothare and Sulagna Panigrahi in lead roles, with Suchitra Bandekar, Leena Bhagwat, Bhargavi Chirmule, Sukanya Kulkarni, Apurva Nemlekar and Vijay Verma among others. The film was released in theatres on 10 October 2014.
Cast
Adinath Kothare as Ajinkya
Sulagna Panigrahi as Ovi
Suchitra Bandekar
Leena Bhagwat
Bhargavi Chirmule
Sukanya Kulkarni- Mone
Apurva Nemlekar
Swapnil Bandodkar
Guru Thakur
Mangesh Borgaonkar
Vishwajeet Joshi
Yogesh Jagam
Prashant Tapasvi
Mangesh Desai
Vijay Varma
Shrikar Pitre
Satish Pulekar
Ravi kumar
Production
Ishq Wala Love is produced by Renu Desai under her home banner Akira Films and was presented by Shree Aadya Films. It is the second production venture of Desai after her Marathi film Mangalashtak Once More. The film marks the directorial debut of Desai.
Casting
Amruta Khanvilkar was the first choice opposite Adinath Kothare, but then was replaced by Sulagna Panigrahi. Sulagna Panigrahi has previously acted in few Hindi television serial's and Hindi movie Murder 2. This is Sulagna's debut in Marathi film industry with Ishq Wala Love.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack comprises 11 tracks. The soundtrack was released on 22 July 2014.
The film's songs were composed by Avinash-Vishwajeet, Sagar-Madhur and S. J. Suryah, with lyrics penned by Guru Thakur, Shrirang Godbole, Tanishk Nabar, Sandeep Khare and Sangeeta Barve.
Track listing
Release
The film was released on 10 October 2014 in theaters of Maharashtra.
References
External links
2014 films
Marathi-language films
Indian films
2010s Marathi-language films |
6909634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Matsunichi%20F.C. | Guangzhou Matsunichi F.C. | Guangzhou Matsunichi Football Club () was a professional football club based in Guangzhou, Guangdong, PR China who last played in the 21,570 capacity Xihe Sports Centre in Shaoguan. The club was established when the youth team for Guangzhou F.C. whom were allowed to participate within the Chinese football league pyramid and have promoted to the second tier was sold-off to Pan Sutong and his company Matsunichi Digital Holdings Limited to form a separate club on 28 February 1995. The club would soon gain promotion to the top tier of Chinese football where in total they spent three seasons before suffering relegation at the 1999 league season. When the club experienced another relegation campaign in 2000, Pan Sutong decided to pull his funding for the club, which officially became defunct on 26 November 2000.
History
The club was founded on the basis of the youth team for Guangzhou F.C. who were established in 1990 and allowed to participate within the Chinese football league pyramid. They were often referred to as Guangzhou B and in their first appearance within the Chinese leagues they entered the third tier in the 1992 season where they came third, which was enough to gain promotion for the 1993 campaign. After the 1993 league season was restructured the club were allowed to make their second appearance in the 1994 campaign, this time within the second tier where they went on to come third. With these impressive positions and with the dawn of professionalism, which allowed private investors to own football clubs the club decided to take advantage of this and separate from their parent club and sell the team to Pan Sutong and his company Matsunichi Digital Holdings Limited to form Guangzhou Matsunichi F.C. on 28 February 1995.
In the club's debut season under new ownership the team continued their upswing in results and came runners-up within the division at the end of the 1995 campaign and gained promotion to the top tier for the first time. A reunion with Guangzhou Apollo would also occur on 25 June and 1 July 1995 within the Chinese FA Cup that saw Guangzhou Matsunichi win 4–3 on aggregate. The team's constantly rising trajectory, however would come to an end in the 1996 league season after the club were unable to handle the top tier and experienced relegation at the end of the campaign. After that disappointment the club hired former Chinese national team coach Xu Genbao in the hopes that his experience could revive the club's fortunes and one of his first acts was to persuade the then current Chinese international footballer Gao Hongbo to take a step down in leagues and join the club. This move would be a huge success and the club gained promotion back into the top tier in their first attempt.
In the 1998 league season Xu Genbao left the club to manage the reigning league champions Dalian Wanda, which saw the club bring in Brazilian coach Edson Tavares. The new coach would make sure that the club would remain within the league and actually guided the team to fourth, however after only one season with the club Tavares left the team. Gao Hongbo was promoted to coach, but his inexperience saw him leave during the season, which saw the club bring Liu Kang into the team but he was unable to stop the team slide down the table and experience relegation at the end of the 1999 campaign. On 22 December 2011 it would be discovered that the club's General manager knew that the referee for the club's vital final game of the season was bribed to help keep fellow struggling team Shenyang Sealion in the division and he took a bribe to keep silent. After the disappointing season the team were unable to recover and faced relegation again in the 2000 campaign, which saw Pan Sutong decide to pull his funding for the club. This saw the club financially unsustainable and it became officially defunct on 26 November 2000.
Managerial history
Managers who have coached the club and team since Guangzhou Matsunichi became a professional club back in 1995.
Xie Zhiguang (1995)
Liu Kang (1995)
Heinz Werner (1996)
Zhang Honggen (1996)
Xu Genbao (1997)
Heinz Werner (1998)
Chen Xirong (1998)
Edson Tavares (1998)
Gao Hongbo (1999)
Gai Zengjun (1999)
Liu Kang (1999-00)
Walter (2000)
Liu Kang (2000)
Liu Pingyu (2000)
Lu Jianren (2000)
Liu Pingyu (2000)
Li Yong (2000)
Edson Tavares (2000)
Results
All-time League Rankings
In final group stage. In second group stage. In group stage.
Key
Pld = Played
W = Games won
D = Games drawn
L = Games lost
F = Goals for
A = Goals against
Pts = Points
Pos = Final position
DNQ = Did not qualify
DNE = Did not enter
NH = Not Held
- = Does Not Exist
R1 = Round 1
R2 = Round 2
R3 = Round 3
R4 = Round 4
F = Final
SF = Semi-finals
QF = Quarter-finals
R16 = Round of 16
Group = Group stage
GS2 = Second Group stage
QR1 = First Qualifying Round
QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
References
Football clubs in China
Defunct football clubs in China
Defunct football clubs in Guangdong
Association football clubs established in 1995
Association football clubs disestablished in 2000
Shaoguan
1995 establishments in China
2000 disestablishments in China |
44506420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Vanthoff | Van Vanthoff | Percival Evert Russell "Van" Vanthoff (12 January 189430 July 1967) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from May until December 1958.
Life and career
Van Vanthoff was born in Cobram, Victoria on 12 January 1894 to parents Isaac and Mary Jane Vanthoff.
In World War I, Vanthoff served in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force.
He was appointed Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, heading the Postmaster-General's Department, in May 1958. In the role, he oversaw development of an automatic teleprinter switching system for telegraphs, and worked to provide a six-tube coaxial cable between Sydney and Melbourne. Vanthoff retired in December 1958.
Vanthoff died on 30 July 1967 in Richmond, Melbourne.
Awards
In January 1955 Vanthoff was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
References
1894 births
1967 deaths
Australian public servants
Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire |
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