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20482911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda%20of%20England%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Saxony | Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda of England (June 1156 — June/July 1189) was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet and by marriage Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria from 1168 until her husband's deposition in 1180.
Life
Matilda was born in or around June 1156 in London or, less likely, at Windsor Castle, as third child and eldest daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; named after her paternal grandmother, Empress Matilda, she was baptized shortly after birth in the Holy Trinity Church in Aldgate by Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1160, Queen Eleanor and his daughter joined the King who was in Normandy and stayed there presumably until 1163.
Upon the disputed Papal election of 1159 and the succeeding schism, King Henry II established closer ties to the Holy Roman Empire, particularly when he himself came into conflict with the English clergy led by Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury; this was reflected at the beginning of 1165, when Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor sent an embassy led by Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne to the English court, with the purpose of arranged a double marriage between the two daughters of Henry II, Matilda and Eleanor, with the Emperor's son Frederick V, Duke of Swabia and Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony (the Emperor's cousin and one of the most powerful German princes of his time) respectively. There was conflict during the negotiations, however, when Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester refused to greet the German archbishop, alleging him to be a schismatic and a supporter of the anti-pope, Victor IV.
It was not possible to immediately agree on the marriage of Eleanor with the Duke of Swabia, but a decision was made about an alliance between the Duke of Saxony and Matilda, who at the time of negotiations was staying with her mother in Normandy and returned to England only in autumn 1166; there is also a version that Matilda was originally chosen as the wife of the Emperor's son and not her sister, but it was not possible to agree on the marriage. Preparations for the wedding began shortly after Matilda's return and the departure of the embassy, which is probably recorded in the register of English knights-tenants and their possessions, contained in the "red" and "black" books of the treasury, and drawn up in order to assess the aid collected by the King for the marriage of his daughter. At the beginning of 1167, the Duke of Saxony sent an embassy to deliver the bride to him; Matilda, accompanied by her mother, sailed from Dover to Normandy on Michael's Day (29 September), and from there, probably after Christmas, set off for Germany. Henry the Lion met his bride in Minden, where they were married in the local Cathedral by Bishop Werner on 1 February 1168.
Matilda's husband was 27 years older than her and was already married long before her birth: Henry the Lion divorced with his first wife, Clementia of Zähringen, in 1162. As the ruling Duke of Bavaria, Saxony and Brunswick, reportedly everything belonged to him "from the Elbe to the Rhine, from the Harz to the sea". The official residence of the Duke was located in Brunswick, where the newlyweds had a wedding feast. In Brunswick, the first child of Matilda and Henry the Lion was born in 1172 during the absence of her father, who was on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, a daughter, named Richenza after her paternal grandmother Richenza of Northeim. In the following years Matilda became the mother of at least four more children. James Panton writes that in the early years of marriage, despite her youth, Matilda ruled the vast estates of her husband in his absence. Back in Germany, Henry the Lion and his wife held a magnificent court at Dankwarderode Castle. They had Brunswick Cathedral erected from 1173 onwards and initiated the Lucidarius, the first original German language work in prose, as well as the Gospels of Henry the Lion, a masterpiece of Romanesque book illumination.
In 1180, the latent conflict that had arisen a few years earlier between Henry the Lion and Emperor Frederick I finally reached its climax when the Duke of Saxony was tried in absentia for insubordination by a court of bishops and princes at Würzburg in 1180 and stripped of his lands and declared an outlaw. The reason for the conflict was the refusal of Henry the Lion in 1174 to go with the Emperor on an expedition to Duchy of Normandy —domain belonging to Matilda's father; when the campaign failed, the Emperor bitterly blamed this on Henry the Lion, who refused to support his overlord, and declared that that Imperial law overruled traditional German law. Henry the Lion refused to submit, and the Emperor laid siege to Brunswick, within the walls of which Matilda just gave birth to her second son, named Lothair. She addressed the emperor as a knight, but he only sent Matilda a keg of wine and continued the siege. At the end of November 1181, Henry the Lion finally obeyed the Imperial decision and left the country for three years. Emperor Frederick I provided Matilda with income from the lands that she would have received as a widow, and invited her to stay in one of the castles located on these lands, but she decided to go into exile to the court of her father with her husband. In exile, Matilda and Henry the Lion were accompanied by their children, except one of the youngest, Lothair, who remained in Germany as hostage.
By the summer of 1182, the couple reached Argentan in Normandy, where Matilda probably gave birth a son who died shortly after; during their stay there, she became acquainted with the troubadour Bertran de Born, who, calling her "Elena" or "Lana", made Matilda the object of his desire in two of his poems of "courtly love". On 12 June 1184, Matilda left for England, where in the same year in Winchester she gave birth another son, named William. In November, Matilda was in London with her husband and they celebrated Christmas in Windsor with the English royal family. In 1185, when the three-year term of banishment of Henry the Lion ended, King Henry II achieved the restitution of the allodial lands of Brunswick for his daughter and her family, after which Matilda returned there with her husband and children. In the spring of 1189, the Emperor ordered Henry the Lion either to accompany him on the Third Crusade or go into exile before his return, and he chose exile: he went to the court of his father-in-law, while Matilda and her children remained in Brunswick to defend the interests of her husband, where she died according to various sources on 8 June, 20 June, 28 June, 3 July or 13 July 1189 and was buried in Brunswick Cathedral.
Henry the Lion returned to Brunswick after the death of Emperor Frederick I in 1191 and himself died in 1195, wishing to rest on the right hand of his wife in order to "sleep next to her both in life and in death". The court of Henry the Lion revered his wife as “the most religious woman, whose memory is honored before God and a man whose good deeds and sweet character enhanced the splendor of the royal family from which she came; a woman with deep piety, with wonderful sympathy for the suffering, who gave a large amount of alms and prayers”.
Issue
Sources are at variance concerning Matilda and Henry the Lion's children, including their exact number, their names, and their birth order: Alison Weir reports ten children of the ducal couple, while Thelma Anna Leese lists only five. Kate Norgate, author of the article about Matilda in the Dictionary of National Biography, reports on the birth of six children by Matilda: a daughter and five sons. James Panton also writes about the birth of six children by Matilda.
Following nearly contemporary sources (including Arnoldi Chronica Slavorum, Chronicon Montis Serreni and Chronicon Sancti Michaelis Luneburgensis), five children are certainly documented as offspring of Matilda and Henry the Lion:
Richenza (1172 – 13 January 1209/10), first-born child and daughter; she accompanied her parents into exile, after which she was known as Matilda, assuming that this refers to the same daughter, but the question is not beyond all doubt as it is not clear what would have prompted her name change. Betrothed in 1184 to William the Lion, King of Scotland, but the engagement was abandoned because the Pope refused a dispensation on grounds of consanguinity; married firstly in 1189 to Geoffrey III, Count of Perche and secondly in 1204 to Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy.
Henry (1173/1174 – 28 April 1227), named after his father and probably also after his maternal grandfather King Henry II of England; he campaigned with King Henry VI of Germany in Italy in 1190, but deserted in southern Italy and was outlawed at Worms in May 1192 and only restored to favour in January 1194 at Würzburg following his marriage. Inherited Brunswick after his father's death in 1195 and became Count Palatine of the Rhine jure uxoris in the same year. Married secretly between December 1193/January 1194 to Agnes of Hohenstaufen, heiress of the County Palatine of the Rhine and first-cousin of Emperor Henry VI; thanks to this union, the long-feud between the Houses of Welf and Hohenstaufen was finally settled.
Lothair (1174/1175 – 15 October 1190). He remained in Saxony when his parents went in exile to England in 1182 as hostage to Henry VI King of the Romans to guarantee his father's agreement to the terms of his banishment and later as a guarantee of Henry the Lion's performance with the peace terms agreed at Fulda in July 1190. He died in adolescence while still a hostage.
Otto (1175/1176 – 19 May 1218), Count of Poitiers and Earl of York, and later, as Otto IV, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor. Married firstly on 23 July 1212 to Beatrice, eldest daughter of his enemy and rival King Philip of Swabia and secondly on 19 May 1214 to Maria of Brabant.
William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg (July 1184 – 12 December 1213). Married Helena of Denmark. All subsequent Dukes of Brunswick and Luneburg, as well as the current British royal house, descended from them.
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20482926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda%20of%20Saxony | Matilda of Saxony | Matilda of Saxony may refer to:
Matilda of Ringelheim (c. 892–968), also known as Saint Matilda, a Saxon noblewoman
Matilda of Saxony, countess of Flanders ( - 1008)
Matilda, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (955 – 999), daughter of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Adelaide of Italy
Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156 – 1189), eldest daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; wife of Henry the Lion
Matilda of Saxony (1172-1209/10), Countess of Perche and Lady of Coucy, from the German Welf dynasty; niece of Richard the Lionheart |
20482943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrants%20of%20Washington%2C%20D.C. | Quadrants of Washington, D.C. | Washington, D.C., is administratively divided into four geographical quadrants of unequal size, each delineated by their ordinal directions from the medallion located in the Crypt under the Rotunda of the Capitol. Street and number addressing, centered on the Capitol, radiates out into each of the quadrants, producing a number of intersections of identically named cross-streets in each quadrant. Originally, the District of Columbia was a near-perfect square. However, even then the Capitol was never located at the geographic center of the territory (the geographic center was located near the present-day intersection of 17th Street, NW and Constitution Ave.). As a result, the quadrants are of greatly varying size. Northwest is quite large, encompassing over a third of the city's geographical area, while Southwest is little more than a neighborhood and military base.
The boundaries of the quadrants are not straight lines radiating from the medallion, but follow the paths of the boundary streets (which in some cases curve around topographical features): North Capitol Street, South Capitol Street, and East Capitol Street. The axis of the National Mall through the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial forms the imaginary boundary running west of the medallion.
Northwest
"Northwest" (also written as NW or N.W.) is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street. It is the largest of the four quadrants of the city, containing more than 42% of the entire city's area and over half of its population. It includes the central business district, Federal Triangle, The Smithsonian National Zoo, and the museums along the northern side of the National Mall, as well as such prestigious neighborhoods as Foggy Bottom, West End, Columbia Heights, Petworth, Dupont Circle, Logan Circle, LeDroit Park, Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Embassy Row, Glover Park, Tenleytown, Piney Branch, Shepherd Park, Crestwood, Bloomingdale, and Friendship Heights. The large Rock Creek Park divides the northwest quadrant in two.
Northeast
"Northeast" (NE or N.E.) is located north of East Capitol Street and east of North Capitol Street. Northeast neighborhoods include Brentwood, Brookland, Ivy City, Marshall Heights, NoMa, Pleasant Hill, Stanton Park, Trinidad, Michigan Park, Riggs Park, Fort Totten, Fort Lincoln, Edgewood, and Woodridge, as well as much of Capitol Hill. Notable landmarks include the Supreme Court, Union Station, Catholic University of America, Trinity University, National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Franciscan Monastery, Providence Hospital, Gallaudet University, the National Arboretum, Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, and the Benning Road Power Plant.
Southeast
"Southeast" (SE or S.E.) is located south of East Capitol Street and east of South Capitol Street. It has a rich cultural history, including the historic Capitol Hill and Anacostia neighborhoods, the Navy Yard, the Marine Barracks, the Anacostia River waterfront, historic Eastern Market, the remains of several Civil War-era forts, historic St. Elizabeths Hospital, RFK Stadium, Nationals Park, and the Congressional Cemetery. The quadrant is divided by the Anacostia River, with the portion that is west of the river sometimes referred to as "Near Southeast" and the portion east of the river is known as "River East". Many people falsely call the entire eastern portion of the quadrant Anacostia, although the name refers only to a small area along Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
Southwest
"Southwest" (SW or S.W.) is located south of the National Mall and west of South Capitol Street and is the smallest quadrant of the city. Although roughly half of the quadrant is located south of the Anacostia River in Anacostia, references to "Southwest" generally allude to the area near downtown, within about a mile of the Capitol, much of which was demolished and redeveloped in the 1960s with modern Federal office and apartment buildings. Fort McNair and the National War College are also there. The section south of the River, except for the Bellevue neighborhood, is almost entirely devoted to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant.
See also
District of Columbia retrocession
References
Geography of Washington, D.C.
Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. |
44506430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansoor%20Hasan | Mansoor Hasan | Mansoor Hasan Khan, is an Indian cardiologist, known for his contributions towards the setting up of Lari Cardiology Centre at King George's Medical University, Lucknow. The Government of India honored Hasan in 2011, with the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri.
Biography
Mansoor Hasan was born in 1938 in Aligarh district, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in a socially known Pathan family which migrated from the Afghan mountains in the 17th century. His father, Ajmal Hasan Khan, a medical practitioner, was the grand son of Abdul Majeed Khwaja, who co-founded Jamia Millia Islamia and his mother came from the family of the Nawabs of Bhopal. He did his early schooling in Aligarh and completed intermediate examination from the Government College there. His graduate studies were in London which was followed by higher studies at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from where he obtained the degree of MRCP in 1964. His career began in 1962 at King George's Medical University where he taught till his retirement in 1996 as the Head of the Cardiology department. During a brief interlude, he also had special training in cardiology at London. Post retirement, Hasan is associated with Sahara Hospital, Lucknow.
Mansoor Hasan is a former president of the Cardiological Society of India and a consultant to the Armed Forces of India, Cromwell Hospital, London and Escorts Hospital, New Delhi. He is a member of the Executive councils of Aligarh Muslim University, Jamia Millia Islamia, the University of Kanpur and the University of Lucknow. He is credited with over 50 publications in national and international journals and has guided more than 30 MD students. A recipient of the Certificate of Honour from the Indian Medical Association, Lucknow chapter, Hasan was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2011, for his contributions to the field of medicine.
See also
King George's Medical University
References
1938 births
Living people
Indian Muslims
Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine
Indian cardiologists
People from Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh
People from Aligarh
Indian people of Pashtun descent
20th-century Indian medical doctors
Medical doctors from Uttar Pradesh |
6909649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerod%20Ward | Jerod Ward | Jerod Davanta Ward (born May 5, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player, who played shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center positions. Currently, Ward is a TEDx & Motivational Keynote Speaker, Consultant, Coach and College Basketball Analyst for networks including ESPN, Fox Sports and Spectrum Sports.
High school
Ward was the number one recruit in the nation winning the Naismith Prep Player of the Year award coming out of Clinton, Mississippi in 1994. The 1994 McDonald's All-American, First Team Parade & Slam magazine, USA Today, Basketball Times All-American scored 2,652 points with more than 800 rebounds in three varsity seasons at Clinton High School. As a senior, Ward averaged 29.8 points and 10.3 rebounds per game for the 26–3 Arrows. He posted 51 & 49 points games along with a 19-rebound game in his senior year campaign. As a junior, Ward averaged 29.5 points and 9.3 rebounds while leading Clinton Arrows to the Class 5A state championship; averaging 33.5 points in the state in tournament. As a sophomore, Ward averaged 27.5 points and 9.5 rebounds. He was coached by Joel Boone. In the 2009–10 season Ward was honored by Clinton High School retiring his number 32 jersey.
College career
In 1994, Ward signed with the University of Michigan and comprised part of its highly touted Fab Five II that included Travis Conlan, Maceo Baston, Willie Mitchell, and Maurice Taylor. Though plagued by injuries at Michigan, Ward ranked fifth in career three-point field goals.
Professional career
The six foot nine inch, 235 lbs forward has played for the Grand Rapids Hoops of the CBA, In 1998–99, he averaged 14.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per game and was named to the CBA All-Rookie team. He also played for CB Granada in Spain, Cibona Zagreb (Croatia) and was part of the Toronto Raptors training camp in 2002.
References
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20482961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Vaga | August Vaga | August Vaga (March 15, 1893 in Kehra – December 11, 1960 in Tartu) was a Soviet and Estonian botanist. Much of his research into botany was conducted in Tartu, and he was affiliated with the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany from its founding in 1947 to 1952.
References
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Open Library
1893 births
1960 deaths
People from Kehra
People from the Governorate of Estonia
Members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
University of Tartu alumni
University of Tartu faculty
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Botanists with author abbreviations
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Soviet botanists |
6909679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%20on%20Wheels%20%28disambiguation%29 | Hell on Wheels (disambiguation) | "Hell on Wheels" is a phrase that originally described the collection of business locations, such as gambling houses, which followed the builders of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the US, in the 1860s.
Hell on Wheels may also refer to:
People
Thomas Hellriegel (born 1971), German triathlete nicknamed "Hell on Wheels"
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
Hell on Wheels (1967 film), a car racing film starring Marty Robbins as himself
Hell on Wheels (2004 film), a film about the Tour de France
Hell on Wheels (2007 film), a film about the sport of roller derby
Music
Groups and labels
Hell on Wheels (band), a Swedish indie rock band
Albums
Hell on Wheels (album), an album by Manowar
Songs
"Hell on Wheels" (song), a 1979 song by Cher from Prisoner
"Hell on Wheels", a song by Betty Blowtorch from Are You Man Enough?
"Hell on Wheels", a song by Cinderella from Night Songs
Television
Series
Hell on Wheels (TV series), a 2011–2016 AMC television series set during the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the US
Episodes
"Hell on Wheels" (episode), the pilot episode of the above series
"Hell on Wheels", season 4, episode 11 of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman television series
Interactive
Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels, a canceled sequel to the video game Full Throttle (1995)
Military
2nd Armored Division (United States), nicknamed "Hell on Wheels"
See also
"Helen Wheels", a Paul McCartney song |
6909682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Sears | Francis Sears | Francis Weston Sears (October 1, 1898 – November 12, 1975) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at MIT for 35 years before moving to Dartmouth College in 1956. At Dartmouth, Sears was the Appleton Professor of Physics. He is best known for co-authoring University Physics, an introductory physics textbook, with Mark Zemansky. The book, first published in 1949, is often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky", although Hugh Young became a coauthor in 1973.
In 1932 he collaborated with Peter Debye in the discovery of what is now called the Debye–Sears effect, the diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves.
Sears was a fellow of the Optical Society of America, and was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers, serving as its treasurer from 1950 to 1958, followed by successive one-year terms as president-elect and president. He retired to Norwich, Vermont and died in Hanover, New Hampshire, of a stroke on November 12, 1975.
Awards
1961 — Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers
Books
Sears, Francis W. (1946). Electricity and Magnetism. Reading, Massachusetts. Addison-Wesley
Sears, Francis W. (1950). Mechanics, heat and sound. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Addison Wesley.
See also
MIT Physics Department
References
1898 births
1975 deaths
20th-century American physicists
American textbook writers
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Stroke-related deaths in New Hampshire |
23579761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Pacific%20Life%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20singles | 2003 Pacific Life Open – Women's singles | Daniela Hantuchová was the defending champion but lost in the fourth round to Amanda Coetzer.
Kim Clijsters won in the final 6–4, 7–5 against Lindsay Davenport.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All thirty-two seeds received a bye to the second round.
Kim Clijsters (champion)
Jennifer Capriati (semifinals)
Daniela Hantuchová (fourth round)
Lindsay Davenport (final)
Amélie Mauresmo (quarterfinals)
Jelena Dokić (second round)
Anastasia Myskina (second round)
Chanda Rubin (quarterfinals)
Patty Schnyder (second round)
Magdalena Maleeva (third round)
Anna Pistolesi (second round)
Eleni Daniilidou (third round)
Elena Bovina (fourth round)
Elena Dementieva (fourth round)
Nathalie Dechy (fourth round)
Amanda Coetzer (quarterfinals)
Silvia Farina Elia (third round)
Lisa Raymond (third round)
Tatiana Panova (second round)
Paola Suárez (second round)
Ai Sugiyama (fourth round)
Alexandra Stevenson (second round)
Meghann Shaughnessy (fourth round)
Clarisa Fernández (second round)
Elena Likhovtseva (third round)
Conchita Martínez (semifinals)
Katarina Srebotnik (third round)
Iva Majoli (second round)
Tamarine Tanasugarn (third round)
Laura Granville (second round)
Francesca Schiavone (third round)
Janette Husárová (second round)
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Qualifying
Qualifying seeds
Qualifiers
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First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
Fifth qualifier
Sixth qualifier
Seventh qualifier
Eighth qualifier
Ninth qualifier
Tenth qualifier
Eleventh qualifier
Twelfth qualifier
References
External links
Official results archive (ITF)
Official results archive (WTA)
2003 Pacific Life Open
Pacific Life Open |
44506439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boat%20Race%201956 | The Boat Race 1956 | The 102nd Boat Race took place on 24 March 1956. 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 rower Kenneth Payne, Cambridge won by lengths in a time of 18 minutes 36 seconds, the fourth-quickest time in the history of the event. The victory took the overall record to 56–45 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. Cambridge went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1955 race by sixteen lengths, and led overall with 55 victories to Oxford's 45 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Cambridge were coached by H. H. Almond (who had rowed for the Light Blues twice, in the 1950 and 1951 races), J. R. F. Best, C. B. M. Lloyd (three-time Light Blue between 1949 and 1951), J. R. Owen (who took part in the race in 1959 and 1960) and H. R. N. Rickett (who rowed three times between 1930 and 1932). Oxford's coaches were A. G. S. Bailey, T. R. M. Bristow, Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards (who had rowed for Oxford in the 1926 and 1930 races), P. Gladstone (who rowed in 1950 and 1952) and A. D. Rowe (who represented the Dark Blues in the 1948 and 1949 races). The race was umpired for the fifth time by the former British Olympian Kenneth Payne, who had rowed for Cambridge in the 1932 and 1934 races.
Both crews experienced a reasonable build-up to the race in favourable conditions. According to the rowing correspondent of The Times, Oxford made gains on Cambridge during this time, although he conceded "it is unlikely that Cambridge are, as yet, unduly worried about the future".
Crews
The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 13 st 2.5 lb (83.5 kg), per rower more than their opponents. Oxford's crew had two rowers with Boat Race experience, including bow E. V. Vine and number two J. G. McLeod, both of whom were taking part in their third consecutive race. Similarly, Cambridge saw two participants return in M. G. Baynes and K. A. Masser (who was rowing in his third consecutive race). Three of the race participants were registered as non-British, all representing Oxford: Vine, McLeod and Roderick Carnegie were all Australian.
Race
Cambridge won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station, handing the Middlesex side of the river to Oxford. In a south-easterly wind and drizzle, the race was started by umpire Kenneth Payne at 11:30 a.m. Oxford out-rated their opposition for the first minute, averaging 40 strokes per minute to Cambridge's 37, yet after a minute the Light Blues held a half-length lead. With the Dark Blues continuing to stroke faster, the deficit was reduced to a quarter-length by Craven Steps, which was passed in record time. By the Mile Post, and despite pushes from Oxford, the Light Blues were about half a length ahead.
A spurt at Harrods Furniture Depository saw them gain an extra half-length before they passed under Hammersmith Bridge a length and a half ahead of Oxford. Although the Dark Blues were on the outside of the long bend in the river, they kept in touch, and prevented Cambridge from extending their lead. The Light Blues passed Chiswick Steps still with a length and a half lead as both crews faced a head wind going into Corney Reach. Along Dukes Meadow Cambridge started to tire and Oxford began to gain; passing through the arches of Barnes Bridge, the Light Blues held a four-second lead. Increasing their rate to 34 strokes per minute, Oxford's stroke Mawer tried to pull them back into contention yet just as the boats began to overlap, Cambridge pushed on again to win by lengths in a time of 18 minutes 36 seconds. It was the fastest winning time since the 1934 race and the fourth fastest time in the history of the Boat Race, yet the narrowest winning margin since the 1952 race. It was the Light Blues' second consecutive win, their third win in four years and took the overall record in the race to 56–45 in their favour.
According to the rowing correspondent of The Times, it was "one of the greatest battles in the history of the race". Cambridge's boat club president Masser said "I cannot speak too highly Oxford's magnificent row. We had planned to build up an early lead and then row clean away ... but hard as we tried we could not shake Oxford off our tail."
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1956 in English sport
1956 in rowing
The Boat Race
March 1956 sports events in the United Kingdom
1956 sports events in London |
23579764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraswati%20International%20School | Saraswati International School | Saraswati International School, Valsad is an independent school in Valsad in south Gujarat, India that enrolls students from kindergarten through year 12. It is named after Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning and knowledge. The school is managed by the Saraswati Education Trust, which was established by GM Pandya and led by Mrs. Surekha Saini, The Principal.
It is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education of India.
The school's website is www.sisvalsad.edu.in.
References
External links
Official site
Satellite view
International schools in India
Private schools in Gujarat
Valsad
High schools and secondary schools in Gujarat |
23579766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukiharu%20Yoshitaka | Yukiharu Yoshitaka | is a Japanese judoka.
He was born in Ōkawa, Kagawa.
He won a gold medal at the -71 kg category of the Universiade in 1985 and Paris Super World Cup in 1986.
After graduating from Tsukuba University in 1991, he belonged to Tsukuba-Keikaku. In 1995, he took office as the coach of the judo club at Toin University of Yokohama.
References
1964 births
Living people
Japanese male judoka
Sportspeople from Kagawa Prefecture
Asian Games medalists in judo
Judoka at the 1986 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in judo
Goodwill Games medalists in judo
Universiade gold medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1985 Summer Universiade
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games |
20482976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Automedon | SS Automedon | SS Automedon was a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo steamship. She was launched in 1921 on the River Tyne as one of a class of 11 ships to replace many of Blue Funnel's losses in the First World War.
A German merchant raider captured and scuttled Automedon in 1940 in the Indian Ocean. Her capture is notable because she was carrying top secret documents addressed to the British Far East Command. Their capture may have influenced Japan's decision to enter the Second World War.
Automedon was Achilles' charioteer in Homer's Iliad. This was the first of three Blue Funnel Line ships to be named after him. The second was a motor ship launched in 1949 and scrapped in 1972. The third was a motor ship launched in 1948 as Cyclops, renamed Automedon in 1975 and scrapped in 1977.
A new class of Blue Funnel Line ships
Blue Funnel Line lost 16 ships in the First World War. Thereafter the company replaced its fleet, mainly with a class of 11 new steamships of about registered length, beam and tonnage of about , all launched between 1920 and 1923.
Blue Funnel ordered members of the new class from five different shipyards. Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company built two: Automedon at Jarrow and at Hebburn, both launched in 1921.
Palmers launched Automedon on 4 December 1921 and completed her in March 1922. Like most members of the class she was powered by two steam turbines, which drove a single screw via double reduction gearing. Between them her turbines developed 6,000 SHP and gave her a speed of . Her holds had refrigerated space for of cargo.
In 1934 Automedons code letters KNQG were superseded by the call sign GBZR, and she was fitted with wireless direction finding.
Second World War service
In the Second World War Automedon mostly sailed unescorted. When the war began in September 1939 she was en route from Britain to Australia via the Suez Canal and Colombo. She returned by the same route, reaching Liverpool on 3 March 1940.
On 31 March 1940 Automedon left Liverpool for Australia, but this time sailed via Freetown in Sierra Leone and Durban in South Africa. She returned by the same route, reaching Liverpool on 21 August.
Final voyage and loss
On 25 September 1940 Automedon left Liverpool for the Far East. She sailed with Convoy SL 42, which took her as far as Freetown. She then sailed unescorted to Durban, where she was in port from 25 to 29 October. Her cargo included crated aircraft, motor cars, spare parts, liquor, cigarettes, bagged mail, and food including frozen meat, bound for Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
At about 0700 hrs on 11 November 1940, the intercepted Automedon about northwest of Sumatra, approaching on a heading that would bring the two ships close together. At 0820 hrs when Automedon was less than away, Atlantis raised her German ensign and uncovered her guns. Automedon at once responded by transmitting a distress signal, but managed to send only "RRR – Automedon – 0416N" ("RRR" meant "under attack by armed raider") before Atlantis jammed her transmission.
Atlantis then opened fire from a range of , four salvos hitting Automedon amidships. The first shells destroyed Automedons bridge, killing everyone present except her helmsman, Stan Hugill. Her Master, William Brown Ewan, was on the bridge and was among those killed. Automedon was still steaming full ahead and a crewman tried to reach the DEMS gun on her stern to return fire. Atlantis fired a final salvo which hit the ship, killing the would-be gunner and stopping Automedon.
Automedons chief officer met Atlantis boarding party when they came aboard. Ulrich Mohr of Atlantis later said Automedon was in the worst condition he had ever seen; the close-range shelling had destroyed virtually every structure above the hull, and nothing was left undamaged. Six crew members had been killed and 12 wounded. Six of the wounded were at once transferred to Atlantis for medical treatment.
After passenger Mrs. Violet Ferguson asked that her tea-set be rescued, the strongroom was discovered. A thorough search of Automedon found 15 bags of top secret mail for the British Far East Command, including a large quantity of decoding tables, Fleet orders, gunnery instructions, and Naval Intelligence reports. The most significant find was a small green bag found in the chart room near the bridge. Marked "Highly Confidential" and equipped with holes to help it to sink if it had to be thrown overboard, the bag contained an envelope addressed to Robert Brooke Popham, Commander-in-Chief of the British Far East Command. The envelope contained documents prepared by the British War Cabinet's Planning Division which included their evaluations of the strength and status of British land and naval forces in the Far East, a detailed report on Singapore's defences, and information on the roles to be played by Australian and New Zealand forces in the Far East in the event that Japan entered the war on the Axis side.
Captain Bernhard Rogge of Atlantis set a time limit of three hours in which 31 British and 56 Chinese crewmen, three passengers, their possessions, all the frozen meat and food and the ship's papers and bags of mail were transferred. He was concerned as another ship observing the two stationary vessels would quickly guess what was happening and send a radio message before Atlantis could take any action. Automedon was judged too badly damaged to tow, so at 1507 hrs she was sunk by scuttling charges. Her survivors eventually reached Bordeaux aboard the captured Norwegian tanker Storstad.
Captain Rogge realised the importance of the intelligence material he had captured from Automedon and quickly transferred the documents to the ship Ole Jacob, captured earlier, ordering KKpt Paul Kamenz and six of his crew to take charge of the ship and take the captured material to the German representatives in Japan.
On 4 December 1940 Ole Jacob reached Kobe, Japan. The mail reached the German embassy in Tokyo on 5 December, and was then hand-carried to Berlin via the Trans-Siberian railway. A copy was given to the Japanese Government, and some argue that it influenced the Japanese decision to start what it called the "Greater East Asia War". After Japan's entry into the war and the fall of Singapore, Captain Rogge was awarded an ornate katana on 27 April 1943. Japan only ever presented three such swords to foreigners, the others being to Hermann Göring and Erwin Rommel.
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Maritime incidents in November 1940
Ships built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Steamships of the United Kingdom
World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom
World War II shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean |
44506446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylands%2C%20Indooroopilly | Greylands, Indooroopilly | Greylands is a heritage-listed villa at 47 Dennis Street, Indooroopilly, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John Hall and built . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
History
The site was part of a parcel of land purchased by Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior in 1859. In 1876, his friend Graham Lloyd Hart, a city lawyer, purchased a subdivided portion of and in the following year built Greylands. It is likely that Brisbane architect John Hall designed the house. The family resided at Greylands until Hart's death in 1897 except for a period in the 1880s when they lived on Wickham Terrace.
While it is unclear who owned the property next, it is likely that Queensland National Bank, which had been mortgagee for the Harts, took over the property. John Piper McKenzie, manager of the Bank's Brisbane Office lived there from 1900-1908. The next tenant was David Lahey, timber merchant, who leased the house from 1910-1912. His daughter Vida Lahey painted the Monday Morning laundry scene at Greylands which hangs in the Queensland Art Gallery.
The residence was bought by Bank employee Alfred Dennis in 1912 and the estate was gradually subdivided. Dennis is credited with demolishing the old wooden wings and stables at the back, with building a new extension of five rooms and providing the tennis court. On his death in 1944 the property was sold to Norman Pixley and ultimately to the Power family in 1984, who refurbished the property.
Description
The original portion of Greylands is a brick building, single-storeyed at the front and double at the rear. The plan is symmetrical about a wide hallway which features a central screen with double doors. Two rooms on the right are divided by a set of folding doors. On the other side of the hallway are two bedrooms. Joinery throughout is of cedar, and all fireplaces retain their mantelpieces of marble, grates and hearths. Floors in each room are edged in cedar.
Original lath and plaster ceilings have been replaced, though plaster cornices remain in all rooms. In the sub-floor at the rear are five small rooms which were used as servants' quarters and a laundry. Externally the house features a fretwork pediment over the front steps.
Wide verandahs with cast-iron balustrading extend across the front and along two sides. The verandah roof is supported by paired verandah posts on brick piers, and separated from the main hipped roof of corrugated iron by a cornice with paired console brackets.
Heritage listing
Greylands was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
One of the earliest villa residences in the Indooroopilly area, and a dignified example of 1870s design, the house and its setting provide a glimpse into the way of life of Brisbane's professional and business families.
In addition to its elegant exterior form, the house displays craftsmanship and detailing of a high standard including its cedar joinery and other interior decoration. Its appeal is enhanced by the retention of almost 5000 square metres of landscaped grounds which are free from urban intrusion.
Greylands was the home of Graham Lloyd Hart, founder of law firm Flower & Hart which has been prominent in Brisbane legal circles since the 1870s. That this was the location of Vida Lahey's much admired painting of women working in the laundry, Monday Morning, adds social import to the house
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
One of the earliest villa residences in the Indooroopilly area, and a dignified example of 1870s design, the house and its setting provide a glimpse into the way of life of Brisbane's professional and business families.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
In addition to its elegant exterior form, the house displays craftsmanship and detailing of a high standard including its cedar joinery and other interior decoration. Its appeal is enhanced by the retention of almost 5000 square metres of landscaped grounds which are free from urban intrusion.
The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.
Greylands was the home of Graham Lloyd Hart, founder of law firm Flower & Hart which has been prominent in Brisbane legal circles since the 1870s. That this was the location of Vida Lahey's much admired painting of women working in the laundry, Monday Morning, adds social import to the house
References
Attribution
External links
Queensland Heritage Register
Indooroopilly, Queensland
Houses in Queensland
Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register |
6909686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Sadoway | Donald Sadoway | Donald Robert Sadoway (born 7 March 1950) is the current () John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A faculty member in the Department of Materials Science Engineering, he is a noted expert on batteries and has done significant research on how to improve the performance and longevity of portable power sources. In parallel, he is an expert on the extraction of metals from their ores and the inventor of molten oxide electrolysis, which has the potential to produce crude steel without the use of carbon reductant thereby totally eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.
Background
Sadoway was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto, receiving his PhD in 1977. There he focused his studies on chemical metallurgy. He also served on the National Executive of the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union (SUSK) from 1972–1974. In 1977, he received a NATO postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council of Canada and came to MIT to conduct his postdoctoral research under Julian Szekely. Sadoway joined the MIT faculty in 1978. On June 19, 2013, Sadoway was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering by the University of Toronto in recognition of his contributions to sustainable energy and sustainable metal production as well as to higher education both in curriculum and in teaching style. In 2014, Sadoway received an honorary doctorate from NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Research
As a researcher, Sadoway has focused on environmental ways to extract metals from their ores, as well as producing more efficient batteries. His research has often been driven by the desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving quality and lowering costs. He is the co-inventor of a solid polymer electrolyte. This material, used in his "sLimcell" has the capability of allowing batteries to offer twice as much power per kilogram as is possible in current lithium ion batteries.
In August 2006, a team that he led demonstrated the feasibility of extracting iron from its ore through molten oxide electrolysis. When powered exclusively by renewable electricity, this technique has the potential to eliminate the carbon dioxide emissions that are generated through traditional methods.
In 2009, Sadoway disclosed the liquid metal battery comprising liquid layers of magnesium and antimony separated by a layer of molten salt that could be used for stationary energy storage. Research on this concept was being funded by ARPA-E and the French energy company Total S.A. Experimental data showed a 69% DC-to-DC storage efficiency with good storage capacity and relatively low leakage current (self discharge). In 2010, with funding from Bill Gates and Total S.A., Sadoway and two others, David Bradwell and Luis Ortiz, co-founded a company called the Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (now Ambri) in order to scale up and commercialize the technology.
Teaching
For 16 years Sadoway taught 3.091 Introduction to Solid State Chemistry at MIT, one of the largest classes at MIT. Sadoway's animated teaching style was popular with students and freshman enrollment in the course steadily increased through 2010.
In the fall of 2007, the number of students registering for 3.091 reached 570 students, over half the freshman class. The largest lecture hall available on campus seats 566 students, enough to amply house the class. Sadoway much preferred teaching in one of the smaller lecture halls, seating only 450; as such, the Institute had to take the unprecedented step of streaming digital video of the lecture into an overflow room to accommodate all the students interested in taking the course. In contrast, most classes at MIT are relatively small with approximately 60% of classes at MIT having fewer than 20 students. The popularity of this course has reached outside of the MIT campus as a result of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. This is seen in a comment by Bill Gates who told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer "... Everybody should watch chemistry lectures -- they're far better than you think. Don Sadoway, MIT -- best chemistry lessons anywhere. Unbelievable".
Sadoway's lectures often included the history of science, especially with respect to the Nobel Prize. Sadoway gave out "library assignments" in which he asked students to research Nobel Prize–winning papers. He began his lectures by playing music, which has some connection with the lecture's material. For example, for the lecture on hydrogen bonding he plays Handel's Water Music. For one of the lectures on polymers he plays Aretha Franklin's Chain of Fools. He ended his lectures with five minutes on the topic of Chemistry and the world around us. Examples include automotive exhaust catalytic converters (technology), forensic examination of paintings (chemistry in the fine arts), the mistreatment of Rosalind Franklin in the quest to discover the structure of DNA (intellectual dishonesty), the metallurgical failure that sank the Titanic (greed and incompetence), and the clarification of champagne (viticulture).
Media recognition
On February 29, 2012, Sadoway gave a TED talk on his invention of the liquid metal battery for grid-scale storage. The talk is as much about the inventive process as it is about the technology.
Sadoway was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2012 for accomplishments in energy storage as well as his approach to mentoring students (hire the novice instead of the expert).
On October 22, 2012, Sadoway appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report to discuss his liquid metal battery technology and his view that electrochemistry is the key to world peace (batteries usher in the electric age reducing the dependence on petroleum dropping its price thereby destabilizing dictatorships).
Sadoway appeared in MIT Gangnam Style.
See also
John F. Elliott – MIT has a Chaired Professorship named after John F. Elliott. Since 1999, Sadoway has occupied that chair.
References
External links
Donald Sadoway resume
Introduction to Solid State Chemistry: Course description, from OCW.Mit.edu
Don Sadoway Playlist Appearance on WMBR's Dinnertime Sampler (radio show) 2 October 2002.
Innovation in Energy Storage: What I Learned in 3.091 was All I Needed to Know lecture by Donald R. Sadoway, 5 June 2010.
"The missing link to renewable energy" (TED2012) (also )
1950 births
Living people
American materials scientists
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Scientists from Toronto
University of Toronto alumni
Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Canadian materials scientists |
44506449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Fleming%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201859%29 | George Fleming (footballer, born 1859) | George Spink Fleming (4 November 1859 – 1 April 1912) was a Scottish footballer. He was the first player to score for Everton in the Football League, scoring twice in a 2–1 win against Accrington on the competition's opening day.
Described as a hard-running forward, able to occupy all five front-line positions, he produced his best form on the wing. Signed in August 1885 he scored 45 goals in 82 games before the Football League era began in 1888.
George Fleming made his League debut on 8 September 1888, playing as a winger, at Anfield, then the home of Everton. The home team defeated the visitors, Accrington 2–1 and George Fleming scored both goals scoring the first Everton League goal and the first Everton player to score two–in–a–League–match. When George Fleming played as a winger on 15 September 1888 against Notts County he was 28 years 316 days old; that made him, on that second weekend of League football, Everton's oldest player. George Fleming appeared in four of the 22 League matches played by Everton in season 1888–89 and scored two League goals. Both his League goals were scored in the same match.
References
1859 births
1912 deaths
Everton F.C. players
English Football League players
People from Arbroath
Scottish footballers
Association football utility players
Association football forwards
Association football outside forwards
Sportspeople from Angus, Scotland |
20482984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/329th%20Fighter-Interceptor%20Squadron | 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron | The 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Los Angeles Air Defense Sector at George Air Force Base, California, where it was inactivated on 1 July 1967.
History
World War II
Established in mid-1942 as a IV Fighter Command Operational Training Unit (OTU) with a mission to train fighter pilots on single-engine fighter aircraft. Later became a Replacement Training Unit (RTU). Inactivated in early 1944 when the need for fighter pilots was reduced.
Air defense
The squadron was redesignated the 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and reactivated at George Air Force Base, California in August 1955 as part of Air Defense Command's Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars. At George. the squadron replaced the 456th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, which had been detached from the 520th Air Defense Group at Truax Field, Wisconsin, assuming its North American F-86D Sabres and its mission to provide air defense over the Southern California region.
In the spring of 1957 it received F-86L Sabres and a year later transitioned into Convair F-102A Delta Dagger aircraft. In July 1960 the unit began flying Convair F-106 Delta Darts. The 329th was inactivated on 31 July 1967 as part of the phasedown of ADC.
Lineage
Constituted as the 329th Fighter Squadron (Single Engine) on 24 June 1942
Activated on 10 July 1942
Redesignated 329th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine c. 1 August 1943
Disbanded on 31 March 1944
Reconstituted and redesignated 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 20 June 1955
Activated on 18 August 1955
Inactivated on 1 July 1967
Assignments
328th Fighter Group, 10 July 1942 – 31 March 1944
27th Air Division, 18 August 1955
4722d Air Defense Group, 1 December 1956
27th Air Division, 25 June 1958
Los Angeles Air Defense Sector, 1 October 1959
27th Air Division, 1 April 1966 – 1 July 1967
Stations
Hamilton Field, California, 10 July 1942
Oakland Municipal Airport California, 2 November 1942
Portland Army Air Base, Oregon, 7 October 1943
Concord Army Air Field, California, 18 December 1943 – 31 March 1944.
George Air Force Base, California, 18 August 1955 – 1 July 1967
Aircraft
Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1942–1944
North American F-86D Sabre, 1955–1958
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, 1958–1960
Convair F-106 Delta Dart, 1960–1967
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Buss, Lydus H.(ed), Sturm, Thomas A., Volan, Denys, and McMullen, Richard F., History of Continental Air Defense Command and Air Defense Command July to December 1955, Directorate of Historical Services, Air Defense Command, Ent AFB, CO, (1956)
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Military units and formations established in 1942
Aerospace Defense Command units
1942 establishments in California
1967 establishments in California |
6909695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian%20deer | Bactrian deer | The Bactrian deer (Cervus hanglu bactrianus), also called the Bukhara deer, Bokhara deer, or Bactrian wapiti, is a lowland subspecies of Central Asian red deer native to Central Asia. It is similar in ecology to the related Yarkand deer (C. h. yarkandensis) in occupying riparian corridors surrounded by deserts. The subspecies are separated from one another by the Tian Shan Mountains and probably form a primordial subgroup of the red deer.
Description
This deer is usually ashy-gray with yellowish sheen, and a grayish white rump patch. It also has a slightly marked dorsal stripe and a white margin of the upper lip, lower lip, and chin. The antlers are light in color. Usually, four tines are present, with the absence of bez tines. The fourth tine is better developed than the third. Full-grown individuals, however, have five tines on each antler with a bend after the third tine that is characteristic of most Central Asian red deer subspecies.
In contrast to the Yarkand deer, which has a light sandy coat, the Bactrian deer has a darker, grayish-brown coat pattern with darker legs, head, and neck (most noticeable in males) that resembles the coat of the American elk (C. canadensis) or wapiti, which is why this subspecies is sometimes called the Bactrian wapiti. These deer do not have neck manes, but do have stronger and thicker neck muscles than female deer that may give the appearance of a neck mane. Female deer are slightly smaller than male deer, but the difference in size is not as pronounced as it is in the European red deer (C. elaphus) species.
Bactrian deer have, like Yarkand deer, short tails similar to the short tails of wapitis. The calves are generally born spotted much like European red deer calves, and most individuals lose their spots by adulthood, but adult Bactrian deer may have a few spots on the backs of their summer coats. This phenomenon has also been observed in summer coats of the distantly related Manchurian wapiti (C. c. xanthopygus) and subspecies of red deer.
Range
This deer is found in central Khorasan. It is found in Russian Turkestan (West Turkestan) and adjacent areas in northern Afghanistan to the west of the Tian Shan Mountains. Bactrian deer live in lowland riparian corridors of mixed deciduous (willow/poplar) vegetation surrounded by deserts. They do not migrate, but may disperse into adjacent desert areas at night or at times of cooler temperatures.
Population
By 1999, not more than 400 Bukhara deer remained. The population diminished most drastically in Tajikistan because of military conflicts. Since then, though, environmental organizations have taken steps to save the species. Moreover, World Wide Fund for Nature implemented a reintroduction programme to bring Bukhara deer back to the places where they had once inhabited. For example, Bactrian deer have been reintroduced into the Zarafshan reserve in Uzbekistan. As a result in 2006, about 1,000 deer were in Central Asia. The largest wild populations were found in 2009 in the Karatchingil Nature Reserve (320-350 animals) in the neighborhood of Altyn-Emel National Park in Kazakhstan, in the Badai Tugai Nature Reserve (374 animals) in Uzbekistan, and in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve (>150 animals) in Tadjikistan. The total wild population is 1,430 and increasing.
In 2021, it was announced that the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan released 61 Burkhara deer in efforts to revive the species in the Balkhash region.
Conservation
Under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Bonn Convention, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Conservation and Restoration of the Bukhara Deer was concluded and came into effect on 16 May 2002. Acknowledging that the Bukhara deer faces threat of extinction as a result of human activities, the MoU provides an intergovernmental framework for governments, scientists and other groups to monitor and coordinate ongoing conservation efforts.
Predators
Aside from man, the Himalayan wolf is probably the most dangerous of predators that most Bactrian deer encounter. Occasionally, the brown bear prey on these deer, as well. Other possible predators are dholes and snow leopards. Eurasian lynx and wild boars sometimes prey on the calves. In the past, they were also hunted by the now-extinct Caspian tiger.
References
Mammals described in 1900
Mammals of Pakistan
Mammals of Central Asia
Bactria |
6909733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose%20cycle | Glucose cycle | The glucose cycle (also known as the hepatic futile cycle) occurs primarily in the liver and is the dynamic balance between glucose and glucose 6-phosphate. This is important for maintaining a constant concentration of glucose in the blood stream.
Function
The glucose cycle is required for one of the liver functions; the homeostasis of glucose in the blood stream. When the blood glucose level is too high, glucose can be stored in the liver as glycogen. When the level is too low, the glycogen can be catabolised and glucose may re-enter the blood stream.
The catabolic process occurs at the nonreducing end of glycogen. A phosphate group breaks the bond between C 1 of a glucose ring and the O that connects it to the next(phosphorolysis). One glucose unit is thus split off. Glycogen (with n glucose units) is converted into G-1-P(a PO4 group now attaches to C1 where O used to ) and glycogen (with n-1 glucose units) by enzyme glycogen phosphorylase. G-1-P is then converted into G-6-P by enzyme phosphoglucomutase. A water molecule hydrolyses G-6-P to glucose, the enzyme is glucose-6-phosphatase.
Cell specificity
When glucose enters a cell it is rapidly changed to glucose 6-phosphate, by hexokinase or glucokinase. The glucose cycle can occur in liver cells due to a liver specific enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase, which catalyse the dephosphorylation of glucose 6-phosphate back to glucose.
Glucose-6-phosphate is the product of glycogenolysis or gluconeogenesis, where the goal is to increase free glucose in the blood due body being in catabolic state. Other cells such as muscle and brain cells do not contain glucose 6-phosphatase. As a result, any glucose 6-phosphate produced in those cells is committed to cellular metabolic pathways, primarily pentose phosphate pathway or glycolysis.
Regulation of glucose cycle
Flux through the glucose cycle is regulated by several hormones including insulin and glucagon as well as allosteric regulation of both hexokinase and glucose 6-phosphatase.
Diseases associated with glucose cycle
A deficiency in glucose 6-phosphatase that disrupts the liver glucose cycle, can lead to von Gierke's disease.
Metabolic pathways |
26720372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Canova | Giovanni Canova | Giovanni Canova (27 July 1880 – 28 October 1960) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics and a bronze at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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1880 births
1960 deaths
People from Canicattì
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Province of Agrigento |
26720379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Trembach | Alex Trembach | Alex Trembach (born 7 July 1986) is an Israeli sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.
He competed at the 2008 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
His personal best times are 6.69 seconds in the 60 metres (indoor), achieved in February 2008 in Chişinău; and 10.57 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Haifa. Also in 2008 he was suspended for 2 years after testing positive for Norandrosterone.
References
1986 births
Living people
Israeli male sprinters
Doping cases in athletics
Israeli sportspeople in doping cases |
26720392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell%20%28disambiguation%29 | Supercell (disambiguation) | A supercell is a thunderstorm with a deep, persistently rotating updraft.
Supercell may also refer to:
Supercell (crystal), a repeating unit cell of a crystal that contains several primitive cells
Supercell (mobile network), a mobile phone network in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Supercell (video game company), a Finnish video game company
Supercell (band), a Japanese 11-member music group
Supercell (album), the band's debut album
Supercell (film), an upcoming American disaster film |
26720395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo%20Cuccia | Vincenzo Cuccia | Vincenzo Cuccia (20 March 1892 – 2 March 1979) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold and bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1892 births
1979 deaths
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from Palermo
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics |
6909743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Lindholm | Philip Lindholm | Philip Michael Lindholm (December 10) is an American writer, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, and academic from Seattle, Washington, United States. He is best known as the author of Latter-day Dissent and for playing the lead role in the BBC's murder mystery Who Murdered Warren Taylor, presenting ITV1's The Grail Trail: In Pursuit of the Da Vinci Code, creating and researching ITV1's The Muslim Jesus, and as the lead singer-songwriter for Whiskey N' Rye. In 2019, Lindholm gave a TEDx talk entitled "The Secret to a Meaningful Life."
Biography
Early life and university
Dr. Lindholm grew up just outside Seattle. Lindholm left high school and began attending Green River Community College at the age of 17. After receiving an AA degree, Lindholm went on to achieve high honors from Central Washington University in "Philosophy" and "Philology and Exegesis," and was named State Finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship in his senior year. Lindholm was subsequently offered a place at both Harvard and Oxford universities for graduate study, and accepted a full scholarship to the latter.
Lindholm received three master's degrees in Jewish Studies, Christian Theology, and Islamic Studies, and graduated with a doctorate in philosophical theology from Oxford in 2010. During his graduate study, Lindholm complemented time at Oxford with research at other institutions, including a tenure as visiting scholar in Levinasian studies at L'École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2005, and a student of music composition at Juilliard in New York in 2006 and 2007.
Music
After studying at Juilliard in 2006–7, Lindholm toured as a singer-songwriter in England and Paris, and from America's West Coast to its East. He has since put together a band, Whiskey N' Rye and released two albums.
Film
Lindholm studied acting under Amy Werba and Charles Weinstein in Paris in 2005. His debut was in the lead role of the BBC's murder mystery "Who Murdered Warren Taylor" in 2005, and he then appeared in a series of independent films in London, including "Pieces," where he met filmmaker Sean Corbett and joined the sponsoring production company, 24/30 Cinema. Subsequently, while Lindholm lived in Queens, NY between 2006 and 2007, he started working with documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, which segued into further projects with ITV and BBC in 2008-9 and an acting role in Larry Holden's independent film "All Sun and Little White Flowers" that summer. While at ITV, Lindholm created and helped produce the documentary The Muslim Jesus, which was released to wide acclaim.
Selected filmography
Academics
Lindholm is a Kierkegaard scholar and former lecturer in comparative religion at the universities of Washington and Oxford who speaks around the world on philosophical and theological topics. His recent books include Latter-day Dissent, which analyzes the nature and extent of intellectual freedom and disciplinary action in the LDS Church, and Voyeur: Notes of Disquiet, a collection of aphorisms.
Selected works
Voyeur: Notes of Disquiet (2012)
Latter-day Dissent (2011)
Metallica and Philosophy" chapter: "The Struggle Within: Hetfield, Kierkegaard, and the Pursuit of Authenticity (2007)
Poker and Philosophy" chapter: "Jewish Philosophy Wins the Pot: How Stu Ungar and Emmanuel Levinas Coralled the Texans (2006)
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male film actors
American filmmakers
American documentary film producers
American male singer-songwriters
American singer-songwriters
Filmmakers from Seattle
Writers from Seattle
Film producers from Washington (state) |
26720402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi%20Tayari | Avi Tayari | Avraham "Avi" Tayari (born 25 October 1973) is a retired Israeli triple jumper. His personal best jump was 16.94 metres, achieved in May 1997 in Tel Aviv.
He competed at the 1992 World Junior Championships, the 1997 World Championships, the 1998 European Championships, the 2001 World Championships and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final.
Achievements
See also
Sports in Israel
References
1973 births
Living people
Israeli male triple jumpers
Competitors at the 1999 Summer Universiade |
6909792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A6rvejen | Hærvejen | Hærvejen (Danish, literally: the army road, , literally: oxen way, , literally: oxen path), sometimes referred to in English as the Ox Road, is the name given to an ancient trackway in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. The route runs from Viborg via Flensburg to Hamburg, the territory of which it entered at Ochsenzoll ("oxen toll", "toll" in the meaning of "customs") and where it connected with other roads. It has been known by several other names throughout history, most importantly "the Cattle Road" (Studevejen) and "the Oxen Road" or "Ox Road" (Oksevejen / Ochsenweg).
History
The road runs more or less along the watershed of the Jutland Peninsula, known as the Jyske Højderyg (Jutland Ridge), similar to the ridgeways in England. By using this route one could avoid rivers, or ford them close to their origins where they were still shallow. As time went by this route was improved with paved fords, embankments and bridges. Concentrations of mounds, defensive ditches, settlements and other historic landmarks can be found along the road. While sections of it can be traced as far back as 4000 BC, newer road construction has erased many traces. Some of them show a width of up to . The use of the road declined during the Viking age, as transportation by ship became more convenient. New cities were constructed along the coast instead of the road.
Two of Denmark's oldest settlements, Viborg and Jelling are situated along the road.
In the southern, narrow part of the Jutish peninsula the trackway followed the edge of western marshes and eastern moraine country. Near Haderslev, Åbenrå, Flensburg, and Schleswig, it branched into western bypasses on the hills and accesses to the towns, each of them localized at the inner end of a long, narrow bay. One of the southern ends of the Ochsenweg has given its name to a suburb of Hamburg: Ochsenzoll is the locality of the ancient custom post.
Part of the tracks westerly bypassed Hamburg towards Wedel bei Hamburg or Blankenese, where a ferry passing the Elbe connected to Cranz (then Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen). An easterly bypass headed for Zollenspieker Ferry (a Hamburg-Lübeckian condominium between 1420 and 1868), passing the same river towards Hoopte in the then Principality of Lunenburg. From south of the Elbe the cattle tracks continued up to Westphalia.
Use
The road was primarily a trade road. The most important commodity was livestock (especially the eponymous oxen), but also amber, hides, honey and fur went south. Annually up to 50,000 head of cattle came along the oxen road prior to the Industrial Age. Metal, glass and weapons went north. In spite of the most familiar Danish name, it was seldom used for military invasions, neither northwards, nor southwards. Nevertheless, many defensive constructions can be found straddling the road up through Jutland.
Today
Today modern highways follow the route of the old road. At a few places it is still possible to see the old tracks, embankments, sheep pens and fords.
Parts of it have been converted into a long-distance walking route. A popular walk known as Hærvejsmarchen takes place each year. An international cycle route has been marked from the Elbe to Viborg.
Notes
External links
Website
Geography of Denmark
Geography of Schleswig-Holstein
Trade routes
Cycleways in Denmark
Cycle paths in Schleswig-Holstein
Hiking trails in Denmark
Former toll roads |
6909799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Vargas | Jorge Vargas | Jorge Vargas may refer to:
Jorge Vargas (basketball) (born 1942), Peruvian Olympic basketball player
(1941-2009), Mexican actor
Jorge B. Vargas (1890–1980), Filipino lawyer and youth advocate
Jorge Vargas (footballer, born 1976), Chilean football defender
Jorge Vargas (footballer, born 1981), Ecuadorian football defender
Jorge Vargas (footballer, born 1993), Guatemalan football midfielder |
6909806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan%20red%20deer | Tibetan red deer | The Tibetan red deer (Cervus canadensis wallichi) also known as shou, is a subspecies of elk (wapiti) native to the southern Tibetan highlands and Bhutan. Once believed to be near-extinct, its population has increased to over 8,300, the majority of which live in a 120,000-hectare nature reserve established in 1993 in Riwoqê County, Qamdo Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Some have been kept at the beginning of the 20th century in London, and in a small zoo south of Lhasa.
Description
The Tibetan red deer is relatively massive built with short legs and a large, square muzzle. The winter fur is light sandy-brown, except the grayish face. The summer coat is slate-gray. The large, white rump patch, which includes the short tail, has no dark rim as it is seen in the Sichuan deer, for example. Those from the eastern part of the range have a dark dorsal line and represent probably the C. c. affinis type, which is now usually included in the shou.
Relationships and range
Tibetan red deer, along with Sichuan deer and Kansu red deer, forms the southern group of wapiti.
It lives in northern Bhutan and southern Tibet, where it is recorded from the Chumbi Valley close to Sikkim and from Lake Manasarovar. It was believed to be completely extinct until a small population was rediscovered in 1988 in Bhutan and southeastern Tibet. The original range probably covered many smaller valleys of the Brahmaputra River to the north of the Himalaya (Yarlung Tsangpo River).
A survey in 1995 brought the exciting finding, that a population of about 200 Tibetan red deer still persists to the north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River close to the village of Zhenqi. As this is the only known viable population of this deer, it is planned to establish a reserve for protection here. Evidence for some other relict populations has been found around the Subansiri River.
They are preyed on by the Himalayan wolf.
References
Tibetan red deer
Mammals of Tibet
Tibetan red deer
Tibetan red deer |
26720427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonnardite | Gonnardite | Gonnardite is a comparatively rare, fibrous zeolite, natrolite subgroup. Older papers claim that a complete solid solution exists between tetranatrolite and gonnardite, but tetranatrolite was discredited as a separate species in 1999. A series, based on the disorder of the silicon-aluminum in the framework, appears to exist between Na-rich gonnardite and natrolite, Na2(Si3Al2)O10·2H2O.
Gonnardite was named in 1896 after Ferdinand Pierre Joseph Gonnard (1833–1923), who was Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Lyon, France.
Crystallography
Orthorhombic-bipyramidal class 2/m 2/m 2/m and tetragonal-scalenoidal class 2m (orthorhombic with a very close to b, or tetragonal with a equal to b). Unit Cell Parameters: a = b = 13.21 Å, c = 6.622 Å, Z = 2Space Group: I2d
Crystal habit
Crystals are prismatic, bounded by {110} and {111} as well as {100} and {001}, and gonnardite also occurs as radial hemispheres. Commonly found as zoned prisms or aggregates with thomsonite, natrolite and paranatrolite.
Structure
Gonnardite is a tectosilicate belonging to the natrolite group. The natrolite minerals are composed of chains of AlO4 and SiO4 tetrahedra that link to form frameworks. As with all zeolites, there are channels within the framework, and for the natrolite minerals the channels are occupied by polyhedra containing sodium, calcium or barium, together with oxygen and water. Gonnardite has the same framework structure as natrolite, but a disordered Si, Al distribution on the tetrahedral sites. Some of the water sites in the disordered natrolite structure of gonnardite are empty.
Environment
Gonnardite has been found in silica-poor volcanics and pegmatites. It occurs with thomsonite and natrolite in vesicles in the volcanic rock of The Nut, near Stanley, Tasmania, Australia, intergrown with natrolite at Don Hill, Tasmania and in drill holes with chabazite and calcite near Guildford, Tasmania. It is also found in nepheline-syenite in the Grenville Geological Province, which is part of the Canadian Shield.
The type locality (the place where the mineral was first described) is La Chaux de Bergonne, Gignat, Saint-Germain-Lembron, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France, and type material from this locality is held at the Natural History Museum, London, England, registration number BM.1930,166.
References
Zeolites
Tetragonal minerals
Minerals in space group 122 |
6909822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakki%20Yagy%C5%8D | Hyakki Yagyō | Hyakki Yagyō (, "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons"), also transliterated Hyakki Yakō, is an idiom in Japanese folklore. Sometimes an orderly procession, other times a riot, it refers to a parade of thousands of supernatural creatures known as oni and yōkai march through the streets of Japan at night. As a terrifying eruption of the supernatural world into our own, it is similar (though not precisely equivalent) to the concept of pandemonium in English.
Various legends
Over more than one thousand years of history, and its role as a popular theme in traditional storytelling and art, a great deal of folklore has developed around the concept, making it difficult if not impossible to isolate any canonical meanings.
One legend of recent vintage states that "every year the yōkai Nurarihyon, will lead all of the yōkai through the streets of Japan during summer nights." Anyone who comes across the procession would perish or be spirited away by the yōkai, unless protected by exorcism scrolls handwritten by Onmyōji spell-casters. It is said that only an onmyōji clan head is strong enough to pass Nurarihyon's Hyakki Yagyō unharmed.
According to another account in the Shūgaishō (拾芥抄), a medieval Japanese encyclopedia, the only way to be kept safe from the night parade if it were to come by your house is to stay inside on the specific nights associated with the Chinese zodiac or to chant the magic spell: "KA-TA-SHI-HA-YA, E-KA-SE-NI-KU-RI-NI, TA-ME-RU-SA-KE, TE-E-HI, A-SHI-E-HI, WA-RE-SHI-KO-NI-KE-RI" (カタシハヤ, エカセニクリニ, タメルサケ, テエヒ, アシエヒ, ワレシコニケリ).
In literature
The Hyakki Yagyō has appeared in several tales collected by Japanese folklorists.
Uji Shūi Monogatari (宇治拾遺物語), in which a monk encounters a group of a hundred yōkai which pass by the Ryūsenji temple.
Konjaku Monogatarishū (今昔物語集), which tells that during the Jōgan era (859–877), the eldest son of minister Fujiwara was on his way to his lover's place when he saw 100 demons walking from the direction of the main street. Since his attire had the sonjoushi written on it, the demons who noticed it ran away.
Ōkagami (大鏡)
Gōdanshō (江談抄)
Kohon Setsuwashū (古本説話集)
Hōbutsushū (宝物集)
In art
The night parade was a popular theme in Japanese visual art.
One of the oldest and most famous examples is the 16th-century handscroll Hyakki Yagyō Zu (百鬼夜行図), erroneously attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu, located in the Shinju-an of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto. For other picture scrolls, the Hyakki Yagyō Emaki (百鬼夜行絵巻), contains the details of each member in the parade from the Muromachi period.
Other notable works in this motif include those by Toriyama Sekien (Gazu Hyakki Yagyō) and Utagawa Yoshiiku. However, Toriyama's work presents yōkai in separate, encyclopedic entries rather than assembled in a parade, while Utagawa's Kokkei Wanisshi-ki ("Comical Record of Japanese History") employs the theme of 100 demons to comment on contemporary Japanese military actions in China.
See also
Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro
Gazu Hyakki Yagyō
Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki
Konjaku Hyakki Shūi
Nightmarchers
Nurarihyon no Mago
Pom Poko
Unseelie Court
Wild Hunt
References
Japanese folklore
Japanese mythology
Yōkai
Oni |
26720453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20in%20Greenland | Sport in Greenland | Sport is an important part of Greenlandic culture, as the population is generally quite active. The main traditional sport in Greenland is Arctic sports.
Popular sports include association football, track and field, handball and skiing. Handball is often referred to as the national sport, and Greenland's men's national team was ranked among the top 20 in the world in 2001.
Greenland has excellent conditions for skiing, fishing, snowboarding, ice climbing and rock climbing, although mountain climbing and hiking are preferred by the general public. Although the country's environment is generally ill-suited for golf, there are nevertheless golf courses on the island. Greenland hosts a biennial international the world's largest multisport and cultural event for young people of the Arctic for the second time in 2016.
Football
The Football Association of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaanni Arsaattartut Kattuffia), has a national football team but is not yet a member of FIFA because of ongoing disagreements with FIFA leadership and an inability to grow grass for regulation grass pitches. However, it is the 17th member of the N.F.-Board. DBU president Jesper Møller visited Greenland in 2015 and the Danish and Greenlandic associations signed a cooperation agreement which aims to encourage the game at grass roots level and build four to six artificial pitches. The FIFA Goal programme sponsored the Qaqortoq Stadium in Qaqortoq, which has an artificial grass pitch. Greenland holds the Greenlandic Football Championship annually. They previously held the event known as the Greenland Cup. They also are a member of CONIFA and compete in the Island games Football, finishing as runners-up to Bermuda in 2013.
Skiing
The oldest sport association in Greenland is the Greenland Ski Federation (GIF), founded in 1969. This happened when the then-President of the GIF Daniel Switching took the initiative to found federations and institute reforms. Greenland Ski Federation is further divided into Alpine and cross-country selection committees. The federation is not a member of the International Ski Federation (FIS), but Greenland skiers participated in the Olympics and World Championships under the Danish flag at the 1968, 1994, 1998 and 2014 Games.
Arctic sports
Greenland competes in the biennial Arctic Winter Games (AWG). In 2002, Nuuk hosted the AWG in conjunction with Iqaluit, Nunavut. In 1994 and again in 2002, they won the Hodgson Trophy for fair play.
Other sports
Greenland takes part in the biennial Island Games, organized by the International Island Games Association.
Greenland took part in the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship in Germany, finishing 22nd in a field of 24 national teams.
Greenland took part in badminton in the European Men's & Women's Team Championships in 2018 and won the first match ever in international badminton team championships against Hungary.
References
External links
Sport in North America |
26720462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovdata | Lovdata | Lovdata is a Norwegian foundation which publishes judicial information of Norway.
It publishes the periodical Norsk lovtidend, and Lov&Data and EuroRett, and hosts a website with free, public access to all Norwegian laws and other judicial documents, including court rulings.
Lovdata was established on 1 July 1981 by the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police and the foundation Det juridiske fakultets lovsamlingsfond [Lovsamlingsfondet] (The Norwegian Statute Book Foundation at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo).
It has had a database since 1983 and published laws on CDs since 1990.
Managing director is Odd Storm-Paulsen, and the board consists of Knut Kaasen (chairman), Ida Børresen, Ketil Gjøen, Anne K. Herse and Randi Birgitte Bull.
In 2018, Lovdata sued Håkon Wium Lie and another person for having published Norwegian court decisions openly on rettspraksis.no. Lovdata, which offers access to such court decisions for an annual fee, sued the leechers for having siphoned Lovdata's servers. In less than 24 hours, the Oslo court had ordered the web site to close and for the volunteers to pay for Lovdata's legal bills. Later, in September 2019, the Norwegian Supreme Court ordered l Wium Lie and Fredrik Ljone to remove all court decisions illegally copied from Lovdata.
References
Law of Norway
Publishing companies of Norway
Foundations based in Norway
Organisations based in Oslo
Organizations established in 1981
1981 establishments in Norway |
26720466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wodage%20Zvadya | Wodage Zvadya | Wodage Zvadya (Hebrew: וודג' זבדיה; born 7 September 1973) is an Israeli long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.
Biography
He was an Ethiopian citizen until 1991 when he emigrated to Israel. He won the silver medal at the 2001 Summer Universiade. His best finish at the European or World Championships was a 22nd place at the 2002 European Championships. He also competed at the 2006 European Championships, the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Championships and the 2001, 2002 and 2005 World Half Marathon Championships.
His personal best times are 14:07.14 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in July 1996 in Hechtel; 29:38.88 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved in May 1996 in Tel Aviv; 1:04:30 hours in the half marathon, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing; and 2:16:04 seconds in the marathon, achieved in January 2004 in Tiberias.
Achievements
References
1973 births
Living people
Israeli male long-distance runners
Ethiopian emigrants to Israel
Citizens of Israel through Law of Return
Israeli people of Ethiopian-Jewish descent
Sportspeople of Ethiopian descent
Ethiopian Jews
Israeli male marathon runners
Ethiopian male long-distance runners
Ethiopian male marathon runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Israel
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for Israel
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade |
23579768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20destroyer%20Kaya%20%281944%29 | Japanese destroyer Kaya (1944) | was one of 18 escort destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Completed in late 1944, the ship began convoy escort duties in October. She was slightly damaged by American aircraft while escorting cruisers on a bombardment mission in the Philippines during Operation Rei in December. Kaya spent the rest of the war escorting convoys and capital ships after repairs.
The ship was surrendered to the Allies at the end of the war and used to repatriate Japanese troops until 1947. Mid-year the destroyer was turned over to the Soviet Union and was commissioned that same year. She was renamed Volevoy ( (Willful)) later that month. When the ship was converted into a target ship in 1949, she was renamed TsL-23. The vessel was hulked in 1958 and ordered to be scrapped the following year.
Design and description
Designed for ease of production, the Matsu class was smaller, slower and more lightly armed than previous destroyers as the IJN intended them for second-line duties like escorting convoys, releasing the larger ships for missions with the fleet. The ships measured long overall, with a beam of and a draft of . Their crew numbered 210 officers and enlisted men. They displaced at standard load and at deep load. The ships had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by two Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of for a speed of . The Matsus had a range of at .
The main armament of the Matsu-class ships consisted of three Type 89 dual-purpose guns in one twin-gun mount aft and one single mount forward of the superstructure. The single mount was partially protected against spray by a gun shield. The accuracy of the Type 89 guns was severely reduced against aircraft because no high-angle gunnery director was fitted. The ships carried a total of twenty-five Type 96 anti-aircraft guns in 4 triple and 13 single mounts. The Matsus were equipped with Type 13 early-warning and Type 22 surface-search radars. The ships were also armed with a single rotating quadruple mount amidships for torpedoes. They could deliver their 36 depth charges via two stern rails and two throwers.
Construction and career
Authorized in the late 1942 Modified 5th Naval Armaments Supplement Program, Kaya was laid down on 10 April 1944 at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal and launched on 30 July. Upon her completion on 30 September, Kaya was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 11 of the Combined Fleet for training. The ship escorted her first convoy to and from Taiwan during 25 October–18 November. She was assigned to Destroyer Division 43, Escort Squadron 31 of the 5th Fleet a week later. That same day Kaya escorted a convoy to Manila, the Philippines, via Taiwan, arriving at the former port on 11 December. The following day the ship sailed for Cam Ranh Bay in occupied French Indochina to participate in Operation Rei, an attack on the American forces at San Jose on the island of Mindoro. Five destroyers, including Kaya, escorted two cruisers that departed on 24 December. They were attacked by American aircraft late the next day; the ship was lightly damaged by strafing aircraft.
Kaya arrived in Takao, Taiwan, on 7 January 1945 and continued onwards to Maizuru, Japan, where she was docked for repairs six days later. On 5 February Escort Squadron 31 was transferred to the Combined Fleet. The ship arrived in Kure on 2 March and remained in the Seto Inland Sea for the rest of the war. The squadron was reassigned to the 2nd Fleet from 15 March to 20 April and then rejoined the Combined Fleet. On 6 April, Kaya helped to escort the battleship through the Inland Sea. The ship was turned over to Allied forces at Kure at the time of the surrender of Japan on 2 September and was stricken from the navy list on 5 October. The destroyer was disarmed and used to repatriate Japanese personnel in 1945–1947. Kaya was turned over to the Soviet Union on 5 July of the latter year.
The ship was commissioned into the Soviet Navy's Fifth Fleet two days later and was renamed Volevoy on 22 July 1947. The ship was placed in reserve on 14 February 1949. She was disarmed, converted into a target ship and renamed TsL-23 on 17 June. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Fleet on 23 April 1953. She was hulked and renamed OT-61 on 10 June 1958, stricken from the navy list on 1 August 1959 and ordered to be scrapped on 2 September.
Notes
Bibliography
Matsu-class destroyers
Ships built by Maizuru Naval Arsenal
World War II destroyers of Japan
1944 ships
Destroyers of the Soviet Navy |
26720479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste%20Moricca | Oreste Moricca | Oreste Moricca (5 August 1891 – 21 June 1984) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold and bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
See also
Moricca
References
External links
1891 births
1984 deaths
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from the Province of Vibo Valentia
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics |
26720495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisi | Divisi | In musical terminology, divisi, or as typically printed “div.,” is an instruction to divide a single section of instruments into multiple subsections. This usually applies to the violins of the string section in an orchestra, although violas, cellos, and double basses can also be divided. Typically, 4-part French Horn sections include divided sections if Horns 1/2 and/or 3/4 are not playing the same music ("a2"). Other brass instruments can also be divided but it is not as frequent as with the Horn section. Woodwinds - especially Flutes and Clarinets - also utilize "divisi" to divide music between parts and even between players of the same part.
After a divisi section, it may be cancelled by the instructions tutti, all'unisono. or unison (abbreviated unis.).
The German equivalents for divisi and tutti, often used in German language scores, are geteilt (or getheilt, abbreviated get.) and zusammen (abbreviated zus.).
Some pieces use notation that refers to half of a section or referring to a specific number of performers. For instance, Giuseppe Verdi's scores include directions for small sections of the chorus by metà ("half") or soli quattro soprani ("four sopranos alone"). Some German late Romantic scores use instructions like die eine Hälfte/die andere Hälfte ("one half" and "the other half").
References
Musical terminology |
23579769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Proctor%20%28rugby%20league%29 | Wayne Proctor (rugby league) | Wayne Proctor is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Hull FC, as a , or , i.e. number 4 or 5, or, or, 11 or 12.
Playing career
International honours
Wayne Proctor won a cap for Great Britain while at Hull in 1984 against Papua New Guinea.
County Cup Final appearances
Wayne Proctor played left-, i.e. number 11, and scored a try in Hull FC's 13-2 victory over Castleford in the 1983 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1983–84 season at Elland Road, Leeds on Saturday 15 October 1983, and played right-, i.e. number 12, in the 29-12 victory over Hull Kingston Rovers in the 1984 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1984–85 season at Boothferry Park, Kingston upon Hull on Saturday 27 October 1984.
John Player Special Trophy Final appearances
Wayne Proctor played right-, i.e. number 12, in Hull FC's 0-12 defeat by Hull Kingston Rovers in the 1984–85 John Player Special Trophy Final during the 1984–85 season at Boothferry Park, Kingston upon Hull on Saturday 26 January 1985.
References
External links
!Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk (statistics currently missing due to not having appeared for both Great Britain, and England)
(archived by web.archive.org) Stats → Past Players → P at hullfc.com
(archived by web.archive.org) Statistics at hullfc.com
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Hull F.C. players
Living people
English rugby league players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league centres
Rugby league second-rows
Year of birth missing (living people) |
20483009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309%20All-Ireland%20Senior%20Club%20Hurling%20Championship | 2008–09 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship | The 2008–09 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the 39th since the establishment of the competition by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1970–71. The first matches of the season were played on 12 October 2008 and the championship ended on 17 March 2009. Portumna went into the 2008 championship as defending champions, having won their second All-Ireland title the previous year.
The championship culminated with the All-Ireland final, held at Croke Park, Dublin. The match was contested by Portumna and De La Salle. It was their first meeting in the final. Portumna won the game by 2–24 to 1–8. It was their second All-Ireland title in succession and an unprecedented third in four years.
Format
The 2008–09 club championship was played on a straight knock-out basis. Each of the sixteen participating counties enter their respective club champions. The format of the competition was as follows:
Sixteen county club champions participated in the 2008–09 championship. These counties were as follows:
Leinster: Dublin, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford.
Munster: Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford.
Connacht: Galway.
Ulster: Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down.
Provincial Championships
The Leinster, Munster and Ulster championships were played as usual on a straight knock-out basis. The three respective champions from these provinces advanced directly to the All-Ireland semi-finals.
All-Ireland Series
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The Munster champions played the Ulster champions while the Leinster champions played the champions of Galway. The Galway club champions enter the competition at this stage due to the absence of a provincial club championship in Connacht.
Participating clubs
Fixtures
Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship
Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship
Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship
All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship
Match Rules
60 minutes
Replay if scores level
Maximum of 5 substitutions
Championship statistics
Scoring
Widest winning margin: 26 points
Portumna 2–24 : 1–8 De La Salle (All-Ireland final)
Most goals in a match: 6
Portumna 5–11 : 1–16 Ballyhale Shamrocks (All-Ireland semi-final)
Most points in a match: 40
De La Salle 1–21 : 1–19 Ruairí Óg, Cushendall (All-Ireland semi-final)
Most goals by one team in a match: 5
Portumna 5–11 : 1–16 Ballyhale Shamrocks (All-Ireland semi-final)
Most points by one team in a match: 26
Ballyhale Shamrocks 0–26 : 0–9 Raharney (Leinster semi-final)
Sarsfield's 0–26 : 0–10 Clonlara (Munster quarter-final)
Top scorers
Season
Single game
Referees
The following referees were used during the championship:
Stadia
The following stadia were used during the championship:
2008 in hurling
2009 in hurling
All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship |
20483010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro%20Caecina | Pro Caecina | The Pro Caecina is a public speech made by Marcus Tullius Cicero on behalf of his friend Aulus Caecina sometime between 71 BC and 69 BC. The speech was delivered in the third hearing of a lawsuit where Caecina averred that he had been unlawfully dispossessed of a farm by use of force. Known for its refinement and scathing characterisations of the opposing parties, the speech is a good study in how rhetorical advocacy can occlude legal argument.
References
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Roman law
Orations of Cicero |
26720538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories%20to%20Tell | Stories to Tell | Stories To Tell is an acoustic album released by Richard Marx featuring several songs from his previous albums in newly recorded acoustic versions. It is his second album of acoustic reworkings of his previous hits, with the Richard Marx/Matt Scannell album Duo being the first. The 11 track collection was first released in March 2010 and available for purchase exclusively at his solo acoustic concerts. The album was later repackaged and released November 11, 2010 in Europe with an additional 7 bonus tracks featuring songs Marx had written or co-written for other artists such as Keith Urban, NSYNC, and Daughtry, all performed here by Marx. May 3, 2011, the album was again repackaged into a three disc set for an exclusive Wal-Mart stores release. The first disc featured the original 11 songs from the first release of Stories To Tell - along with an acoustic version of Marx's new song "When You Loved Me". The second disc features re-imagined recordings of 11 of Marx's hits plus the studio version of "When You Loved Me." The third disc is a DVD of Marx's concert at Shepherd's Bush in London, England.
Track listing
All songs written by Richard Marx, except where noted.
Standard U.S. Edition
Endless Summer Nights - 4:35
One Thing Left - 3:57
Hazard - 4:17
Over My Head - 3:39
Angelia - 4:39
Now And Forever - 3:59
Keep Coming Back - 5:47
This I Promise You - 4:07
Loved - 4:21
Should've Known Better - 3:18
Right Here Waiting - 4:49
European edition bonus tracks
This I Promise You - 4:40
Had Enough (Marx, Daughtry, Wade) - 3:48
To Where You Are (Marx, Linda Thompson) - 3:34
On The Inside (Marx, Daughtry, Kroeger) - 3:16
Never Take Me Dancing - 5:15
The Best Of Me (Marx, Foster, Lubbock) - 4:30
Everybody (Marx, Urban) - 5:15
Wal-Mart Exclusive
Disc 1: Stories To Tell
Endless Summer Nights
One Thing Left
Hazard
Over My Head
Angelia
Now And Forever
Keep Coming Back
This I Promise You
Loved
Should've Known Better
Right Here Waiting
When You Loved Me
Disc 2: The Best Of Richard Marx
Don't Mean Nothing
Should've Known Better
Endless Summer Nights
Keep Coming Back
Take This Heart
Hold On To The Nights
Angelia
Hazard
Too Late To Say Goodbye
Satisfied
Right Here Waiting
When You Loved Me
Disc 3 (DVD): Live At Shepherd's Bush
Endless Summer Nights
Take This Heart
One Thing Left
When You're Gone
Hazard
Through My Veins
Always On Your Mind
Angelia
Everybody
Should've Known Better
Don't Mean Nothing
Right Here Waiting
Chart performance
Album Credits
Personnel
Jo Allen - strings
Steve Brewster - drums
Paul Bushnell - bass guitar
Joanne Davies - background vocals
Jim Gailloreto - saxophone
Bruce Gaitsch - writer, guitars, nylon guitar
Mark Hill - bass guitar
Steve Hornbeak - piano, harmony vocals
John Howard - bass guitar
Michael Landau - guitars
Herman Matthews - drums
Jerry McPherson - guitars
Kevin Marks - guitars
Jesse Marx - harmony vocals
Lucas Marx - harmony vocals
Richard Marx - producer, writer, arrangements, lead & background vocals, acoustic guitar, guitars, keyboards
Emma Owens - strings
Rhian Porter - strings
Matt Scannell - writer, guitars
Chuck Tilley - drums
Keith Urban - writer
Fee Waybill - writer
Jason Webb - piano, keyboards
Engineers
Chip Matthews
Joel Numa
Bill Philput
Matthew Prock
Jamie Sickora
Guest Credits
Matt Scannell
Miscellaneous
This is Marx's first solo acoustic album.
The track "Loved" features new lyrics not present on the Sundown album version of the same track.
This is Marx's first album to have three separate releases, each at different times, each with a different album cover.
The new song, "When You Loved Me", became Marx's first Top 20 hit on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart in over 13 years.
2010 albums
Richard Marx albums
Albums produced by Richard Marx
Self-released albums |
26720539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20Hill%20Theatre | Church Hill Theatre | Church Hill Theatre is a Category B listed pink sandstone former church and current theatre venue owned by the Edinburgh City Council. Built originally as Morningside Free Church, the council purchased it in 1960. After undergoing an extensive refurbishment, it re-opened in August 2006. It is managed by the team operating the Assembly Rooms.
History
It was built in 1892 as North Morningside Free Church to a design by Hippolyte Blanc and purchased by Edinburgh's town council in 1960.
Current use
It is a popular venue for amateur drama productions, as well as for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival. Some of the non-professional theatre and dance companies it hosts include Lothian Youth Arts And Musicals Company, Tempo, Showcase, Edinburgh Telephone Choir, Edinburgh Music Theatre Company, Leitheatre, Edinburgh University Footlights, Buckstone Youth Dance, Manor School of Ballet and Edinburgh Dance Academy.
Facilities
The theatre auditorium seats 353, and the building has space for smaller functions. Since the renovation, there is now lift access to the auditorium, as well as a privately run cafe
References
Hippolyte Blanc buildings
Edinburgh Festival
Theatre in Edinburgh |
20483035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20Stupanus | Emmanuel Stupanus | Emmanuel Stupanus (born Emmanuel Stuppan; December 13, 1587 – February 26, 1664) was a Swiss physician and professor in Basel.
Life and work
Emmanuel Stupanus was born in Basel, Switzerland. He was the son of Johann Nicolaus Stupanus (1542–1621), Professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Basel, and his second wife, Katharina Iselin. He was married to Judith Zörnlin; one of his granddaughters, Judith Stupanus, was to become the wife of Jacob Bernoulli.
Stupanus completed his Gymnasium education in 1603. The next year he was sent to the University of Geneva, where he studied philosophy under Esaïe Colladon and Gaspard Laurent. In 1607 he returned to Basel, having first privately defended the Baccalaureus and later publicly the A.L.M. degree. He continued to study medicine, following the lectures of his father, and Gaspard Bauhin and Felix Plater. After visiting well-known Universities in Germany, France and Italy he was awarded the degree of Medical Doctor from Basel under Petrus Ryff, in 1613.
He also took classes in Ancient Greek from Jacob Zwinger, philosophy from Heinrich Justus, and rhetoric from Friedrich Castellio.
From 1614, Stupanus he served privately as a substitute for his father, and after 1617 in an official position. He succeeded his father in the Chair of Theoretical Medicine, in 1620. On March 28, 1620 he delivered his Inaugural Lecture De fraudibus Paracelsistarum, in which he expressed his opinion about Paracelsus. He held this position until his death in 1664, and during this time he served twelve times as Dean of the Medical School, and three times as President of the University. Between the two them, Emmanuel Stupanus and his father occupied the Chair of Theoretical Medicine for a total of 72 years.
Emmanuel Stupanus was the doctoral thesis advisor for several students, among them Franciscus Sylvius in 1637.
Stupanus died on February 26, 1664 in Basel.
Selected works
Themata medica de omnis pleuritidis theoria & generali therapia, Basel 1613 which has been his Inaugural-Disputation
Vere aureorum aphorismorum Hippocratis enarrationes & commentaria aphoristica , Basel 1615. OCLC 56035016
Institutionum medicinæ, sev medendi methodi, ad Hippocrat[is], Galeni aliorumque veterum et recentiorum medicorum celeberrimorum scripta, adytum & expeditissimum iter parantes, a Leonharto Fuchsio, Basel 1618. OCLC 185469695
Praecipua Pseudochymias Capita, ex Theophrasti Paracelsi quisquiliis, Basel 1621. OCLC 249745505
Oratio de vita et obitu Casp. Bauhini, Basel 1625. OCLC 249745294
Animae humanae essentia, praceipuae hujus facultates, et functiones, cum-primis animales, illarum sedes, et agendi instrumenta, Basel 1627. OCLC 249746004
Lexicon medicum Graeco-Latinum, compendiosiss. a Bartolomeo Castelli inchoatum, Basel 1628. OCLC 14317088
Johannis Riolani senioris, Regii quondam medici Parisiens. celeberrimi, artis medicinalis, theoricae & practicae sejunctim hactenus multoties excusae, systema, Basel 1629. OCLC 43128714
References
Further reading
External links
1587 births
1664 deaths
University of Basel alumni
University of Geneva alumni
University of Basel faculty
17th-century Swiss physicians |
23579772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20destroyer%20Kaede%20%281944%29 | Japanese destroyer Kaede (1944) | was one of 18 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the final stages of World War II. Completed in late 1944, the ship was assigned to convoy escort duties in January 1945. After escorting one convoy to southern China, she joined two other destroyers tasked to evacuate Japanese airmen from the Philippines. En route the ships were attacked by American bombers that badly damaged Kaede. The ship returned to Japan for repairs and was inactive for the rest of the war. She was surrendered to the Allies at the end of the war and used to repatriate Japanese troops until 1947. Mid-year the destroyer was turned over to the Republic of China; renamed Heng Yang she became a training ship and remained in service until the 1960s when she was scrapped.
Design and description
Designed for ease of production, the Matsu class was smaller, slower and more lightly armed than previous destroyers as the IJN intended them for second-line duties like escorting convoys, releasing the larger ships for missions with the fleet. The ships measured long overall, with a beam of and a draft of . Their crew numbered 210 officers and enlisted men. They displaced at standard load and at deep load. The ships had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by two Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of for a speed of . The Matsus had a range of at .
The main armament of the Matsu-class ships consisted of three Type 89 dual-purpose guns in one twin-gun mount aft and one single mount forward of the superstructure. The single mount was partially protected against spray by a gun shield. The accuracy of the Type 89 guns was severely reduced against aircraft because no high-angle gunnery director was fitted. The ships carried a total of twenty-five Type 96 anti-aircraft guns in 4 triple and 13 single mounts. The Matsus were equipped with Type 13 early-warning and Type 22 surface-search radars. The ships were also armed with a single rotating quadruple mount amidships for torpedoes. They could deliver their 36 depth charges via two stern rails and two throwers.
Construction and career
Authorized in the late 1942 Modified 5th Naval Armaments Supplement Program, Kaede (maple) was laid down on 4 March 1944 at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal and launched on 25 July. Upon her completion on 30 October, Kaede was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 11 of the Combined Fleet for training. At the completion of training on 20 January 1945, the ship was assigned to Destroyer Division 52, part of Escort Squadron 31. On 22–27 January, she escorted a convoy from Moji to Hong Kong and then sailed to Takao (modern Kaohsiung), Taiwan. There Kaede joined her sister and the destroyer on a voyage to the Aparri area of the island of Luzon in the Philippines to evacuate stranded aircrew on 30 January. The following day the ships were attacked by North American B-25 bombers of the 822d Bombardment Squadron which damaged all three ships. Kaede was set on fire and badly damaged by a bomb hit that killed forty men and injured thirty. She returned to Takao for emergency repairs that were not finished until 21 February when she steamed to Kure for permanent repairs.
The ship was turned over to Allied forces at Kure at the time of the surrender of Japan on 2 September and was stricken from the navy list on 5 October. The destroyer was disarmed and used to repatriate Japanese personnel in 1945–1947 after repairs. Kaede was turned over to the Republic of China Navy on 6 July of the latter year and was renamed Heng Yang. Never rearmed or recommissioned, the ship was hulked and was classified as a training ship on 1 October 1949. She was stricken in 1960 and scrapped two years later.
Notes
Bibliography
Matsu-class destroyers
Ships built by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
World War II destroyers of Japan
1944 ships
Destroyers of the Republic of China Navy |
26720545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded%20polystyrene%20concrete | Expanded polystyrene concrete | Expanded polystyrene (EPS) concrete (also known as EPScrete, EPS concrete or lightweight concrete) is a form of concrete known for its light weight made from cement and EPS (Expanded Polystyrene). It is a popular material for use in environmentally "green" homes. It has been used as road bedding, in soil or geo-stabilization projects and as sub-grading for railroad trackage.
Before 1980, EPS as the aggregate of concrete has been studied in detail. It is created by using small lightweight EPS balls (sometimes called Styrofoam) as an aggregate instead of the crushed stone that is used in regular concrete. It is not as strong as stone-based concrete mixes, but has other advantages such as increased thermal and sound insulation properties, easy shaping and ability to be formed by hand with sculpturing and construction tools.
After many years of exploration and attempt, EPS lightweight concrete can be used in many building structures, such as EPS insulation coating, EPS mortar, EPS sealing putty, EPS lightweight mortar, EPS concrete inner and outer wall panels, etc. In addition, EPS lightweight aggregate concrete is also used in the fields of pavement backfill, antifreeze subgrade, thermal insulation roof, floor sound insulation and marine floating structure. In particular, it has a strong energy absorption function, so it can also be used as a structural impact protection layer.EPS concrete combines the construction ease of concrete with the thermal and hydro insulation properties of EPS and can be used for a very wide range of application where lighter loads or thermal insulation or both are desired.
References
Concrete |
20483039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaikh%20Sama%27al-Din%20Kamboh | Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh | Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh (also known as Hazrat Shaikh Alamsayakh Makhdoom Sama'al-Din Kamboh) was born in 1405 AD in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh was a Sufi of the Suhrawardi order and came to Delhi during the reign of Sultan Bahlol Lodi (d 894/1488) and became the patron saint of the Lodi dynasty. His father Maulana Shaikh Fakhrudin was a venerable religious leader of that era. Makhdoom Shaikh Sama'al-Din had been the royal spiritual adviser or Pir, first to emperor Sultan Bahlol Lodi, and later to Sultan Sikandar Lodi. He commanded greatest respect amongst the entire Muslim spiritual and religious leaders and was one of the greatest Ulema Shaikhs of his times. The mazar of Hazrat Shaikh Sama'al-Din is located in Delhi where the Zubairies of Panipat used to assemble every year for offering Fateha in pre-independence days. Spiritual discipline apart, Shaikh Sama'al-Din was a scholar of traditional sciences and imparted instructions as a professional teacher to a large number of students. One of his famous students who rose to eminence was Shaikh Jamali Kamboh.
Shaikh Sama'al-Din was author of (1) a glossary on Iraqi's Lam'at and (2) a tract on Sufism, Miftah ul-Asrar.
References
15th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
People from Multan |
20483043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20%C3%9Cksip | Albert Üksip | Albert Aleksander Üksip (8 December 1886 – 10 August 1966, in Tallinn) was an Estonian actor, botanist and translator.
He born in Narva. In 1902 he graduated from Narva city school. 1902-1923 he worked at Kreenholm Manufacturing Company.
References
External links
Publications
1886 births
1966 deaths
People from Narva
Estonian male stage actors
20th-century Estonian botanists
Estonian translators
20th-century Estonian male actors
20th-century translators |
20483076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20T.%20%22Blondy%22%20Black | J. T. "Blondy" Black | John Thomas "Blondy" Black (August 20, 1920 – May 4, 2000) was a professional American football player.
Black was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi State University from 1939 to 1942, where he played football and ran track. He was the offensive cornerstone of MSU's only undefeated football team in 1940. While competing for MSU, he held a school record for running the 100-yard dash in 9.6 seconds in 1941. He averaged 6.1 yards per carry during his varsity football career. Black holds the MSU record for highest yards per rush average in a single game (19.5) and in a season (6.9), both set in 1942. He was a two-time All-SEC selection in 1941 and 1942 and was a UPI All-American in 1943. He also was a three-year letterman in track.
While serving in the military during World War II, Black played professional football under the assumed name of Mike Matiza. In 1946, he played for the Buffalo Bisons, and in 1947 for the Baltimore Colts.
Early life and education
In 1943, Black joined the United States Marine Corps and became a lieutenant. While in the Marines, he played football under the name "Mike Matiza".
Black later pursued a career as a land developer and car dealership owner in Yazoo City. He was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.
References
1920 births
2000 deaths
People from Philadelphia, Mississippi
Players of American football from Mississippi
American football fullbacks
Mississippi State Bulldogs football players
Buffalo Bisons (AAFC) players
Baltimore Colts (1947–1950) players
United States Marine Corps officers
American military sports players
United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II |
23579779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20Tennyson%20Jesse | F. Tennyson Jesse | Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood (born Wynifried (Winifred) Margaret Jesse; 1 March 1888 – 6 August 1958) was an English criminologist, journalist and author (she also wrote as Wynifried Margaret Tennyson).
Early life and marriage
Fryniwyd was the second of three daughters of the Reverend Eustace Tennyson D'Eyncourt Jesse (1853-1928) and Edith Louisa James (1866-1941), and a great-niece of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Her older sister, Stella Mary Jesse (1887-1942) was also an author, best remembered for her novel Eve in Egypt (1929). Her younger sister, Edith Mary Ermyntrude was born in 1890, but died in infancy. Fryniwyd married Harold Marsh Harwood (1874–1959), a businessman and theatre manager, in September 1918. "Fryn" is a self-made contraction of "Wynifried".
Books
Her most notable books include A Pin to See the Peepshow (London, W. Heinemann Ltd, 1934; Virago Modern Classics; British Library Women Writers), a fictional treatment of the case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, and Murder & Its Motives (Heinemann, 1924), which divided killers into six categories based on their motivations: those who murder for Gain, Revenge, Elimination, Jealousy, Conviction and Lust of killing. This classification of motive has remained influential.
She contributed many cases to the Notable British Trials series, such as the trial of serial killer John Christie and the controversy surrounding the hanging of his neighbour, Timothy Evans. Her summary of the two trials is extensive, and concludes that Christie was probably the murderer of both Beryl and Geraldine Evans, and that Timothy Evans was innocent of their deaths (Evans was hanged for the murder of his daughter Geraldine, and posthumously pardoned).
She also wrote the neglected classic, The Lacquer Lady (1929), which recounts the true story of how European maid of honour Fanny Moroni helped bring about the fall of the Burmese Royal Family at the end of the nineteenth century.
She reported on the German attacks on Belgium in the First World War for Collier's Weekly.
Her story Treasure Trove tells of the rediscovery in modern times of the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas to betray Jesus Christ and their subsequent malign influence. The novel Tom Fool (Heinemann, 1926) deals with a young man's experiences on sailing ships, and describes shipboard life in some detail.
References
Bibliography
Joanna Colenbrander, A portrait of Fryn: a biography of F. Tennyson Jesse, A. Deutsch, 1984, .
External links
Legends of True Crime Reporting: F. Tennyson Jesse
1888 births
1958 deaths
20th-century English women writers
20th-century English writers
British criminologists
British women in World War I
English women writers
F
Women criminologists |
20483097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari%20Reitalu | Mari Reitalu | Mari Reitalu (born February 10, 1941) is an Estonian botanist. She was a recipient of the Eerik Kumari Award in 1993.
References
1941 births
Living people
20th-century Estonian botanists
Estonian women scientists
Women botanists
20th-century Estonian women scientists
21st-century Estonian women scientists
21st-century Estonian botanists
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class |
23579787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%20Moilanen | Janne Moilanen | Janne Moilanen (born 24 June 1978) is a former football defender from Finland.
He is 186 cm tall and weighs 83 kg.
References
Guardian Football
This article is translated from the Finnish Wikipedia.
Living people
1978 births
Finnish footballers
FC Jokerit players
FC Lahti players
Kuopion Palloseura players
Veikkausliiga players
Finnish expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Sweden
FC Trollhättan players
Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat players
Association football defenders
People from Mikkeli
Sportspeople from South Savo |
20483110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Faith | SS Faith | The SS Faith was the first concrete ship built in the United States. It was constructed by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company in 1918 owned by William Leslie Comyn. It cost $750,000.
The construction
Work began September 1, 1917; concrete pouring began October 31, 1917 and ended February 26, 1918.
The Steam Ship (SS) Faith launched on March 14, 1918, from Redwood City, California. The ship was designed by Alan Macdonald and Victor Poss.
It pulled up to 5000 tons, being the largest concrete ship of its time.
The cost of the hull itself was estimated at , and the early estimate before completion was that it would total overall.
Dimensions
102,56 x 13,56 x 6,86 metres 336.5 x 44.5 x 22.5 feet
6125 tons
2 triple expansion steam machines
1760 Horsepower
10 knots
History
"[...] said William Leslie Comyn [...] he likewise pointed out the lack of steel-making plants and shipyards on the West Coast. His solution: build ships of concrete. [...] He was convinced that a 5,000-ton concrete freighter could be operated at a profit and on 3 September 1917 he solicited contractual support from USSB to build "five reinforced concrete steamers" [...] On speculation, then, his firm began to build the Faith at Redwood City, California"
The first journeys were to Honolulu, Balboa, Callao, Valparaíso and New York. In 1919, the San Francisco Shipbuilding company was sold to French American SS lines, and in 1921, the SS Faith was used as a breakwater in Cuba. She was broken up in 1926.
Articles
NY Times, March 15th, 1918
NY Times, May 5th, 1918
References
External links
San Diego History concrete ships
Images of the construction and launching of the SS Faith
Steamships
Ships built in San Francisco
1918 ships
Concrete ships
Ships sunk as breakwaters |
23579790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20You%20Miss%20New%20York%3F | Do You Miss New York? | Do You Miss New York? is a 1993 album by Rosemary Clooney.
Clooney appeared at the Rainbow Room in New York City in February 1993 to celebrate the album's release.
Reviewer Chip Deffaa wrote in Entertainment Weekly, "What is it that makes Rosemary Clooney, in her 60s, so increasingly compelling? Her still-clear voice, now colored by regret, has an honesty and impact it never had in her youth. With jazzmen providing her dream support, 'Do You Miss New York?' is as poignant an album as she has yet recorded."
Track listing
"Do You Miss New York?" (Dave Frishberg) – 5:14
"Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 3:34
"As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:24
"May I Come In?" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 6:39
"Route 66" (Bobby Troup) – 7:50
"A Beautiful Friendship" (Gus Kahn, Jule Styne) – 2:10
"It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 3:27
"I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" (Duke Ellington, Don George) – 5:57
"I Wish You Love" (Léo Chauliac, Albert Beach, Charles Trenet) – 3:05
"I Get Along Without You Very Well" (Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Brown Thompson) – 4:12
"We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 6:08
Personnel
Rosemary Clooney – vocals
Warren Vaché Jr. – cornet
Scott Hamilton – tenor saxophone
John Oddo – piano
Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar
John Pizzarelli – vocals and guitar solo on "It's Only a Paper Moon"
David Finck – bass guitar
Joe Cocuzzo – drums
References
1993 albums
Concord Records albums
Rosemary Clooney albums |
20483129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerik%20Kumari%20Award | Eerik Kumari Award | Eerik Kumari Award () is an award given since 1989 to those who have excelled in bioscience in Estonia. It is named after Eerik Kumari (1912–1984), who was chairman of the National Conservation Committee of the Estonian Academy of Sciences from 1952 to 1977.
The Eerik Kumari award is currently valued at 5,000 euros, but 30,000 kroons in the past.
Recipients
See also
List of environmental awards
List of biology awards
List of prizes named after people
References
External links
Website
Estonian awards
Science and technology in Estonia
Environmental awards
Awards established in 1989
1989 establishments in Estonia |
23579805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongpipat%20Kamnuan | Pongpipat Kamnuan | Pongpipat Kamnuan (; born March 19, 1983) is a former professional footballer from Thailand.
Honours
Club
Thai Port F.C.
Thai FA Cup winner (1) : 2009
Thai League Cup winner (1) : 2010
References
External links
Official Website
1983 births
Living people
Pongpipat Kamnuan
Pongpipat Kamnuan
Association football fullbacks
Pongpipat Kamnuan
Pongpipat Kamnuan
Pongpipat Kamnuan
Pongpipat Kamnuan |
20483131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentadius | Pentadius | Pentadius ( 354–361) was an officer of the Roman Empire.
Biography
He was holding the office of notarius when, in 354, Emperor Constantius II ordered him, Eusebius and Mallobaudes to interrogate Constantius Gallus, formerly Caesar of the East and cousin of Constantius II, while he was held prisoner in Pula, asking him reason for each man he had put to death. Gallus was sentenced to death and Serenianus, Apodemius and Pentadius executed him.
In 358 Pentadius was raised to the rank of magister officiorum of the new Caesar of the West Julian, brother of Gallus, whom he followed in Gaul. Pentadius, however, opposed Julian; together with Paulus Catena and Gaudentius he had Salutius, a friend and a collaborator of Julian's, removed from his office. In 360, together with Nebridius and Decentius, he suggested Julian to obey Constantius, who had asked to his caesar to send him back his best troops; when the troops who did not want to leave Gaul for the eastern front acclaimed Julian emperor, Pentadius and Euterius were sent to bring Constantius some letters announcing the events.
In 361, Julian became the only Emperor; after entering Constantinople, he formed the Chalcedon tribunal to put under trial Constantius' officers; Pentadius was accused for his involvement in Gallus' trial and death, but was found not guilty.
Notes
Bibliography
Primary sources
Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae
Julian, Letter to the Athenians
Zosimus, New History
Secondary sources
Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , p. 687.
4th-century Romans
Magistri officiorum |
17341657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.d.%20lang%20discography | K.d. lang discography | k.d. lang is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Her discography comprises 12 studio albums, one soundtrack, one live album, four compilation albums and 41 singles.
Albums
Studio albums
Collaborative albums
Live albums
Soundtrack albums
Compilation albums
Video albums
Singles
1980s
1990s
"Constant Craving" did not reach its peak in the UK until 1993.
2000s and 2010s
Music videos
Contributions
Soundtracks
Shag - "Our Day Will Come" (w/ The Reclines, Take 6)
Dick Tracy - "Ridin' The Rails" (w/ Take 6)
Until the End of the World - "Calling All Angels" (w/ Jane Siberry)
Coneheads - "No More Tears" (w/ Andy Bell)
Twister - "Love Affair"
Home on the Range - "Little Patch of Heaven"
The Unplugged Collection, Volume One - "Barefoot"
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - "Skylark"
Tomorrow Never Dies - "Surrender" (w/ David Arnold, Don Black)
Anywhere but Here - "Anywhere But Here"
Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special - "Jingle Bell Rock"
The Jim Henson Hour - "I Love Trash"
The MAX Sessions - "Helpless" (live)
Desperate Housewives - "Dream Of The Everyday Housewife"
The Black Dahlia (film, not on soundtrack) - "Love For Sale"
Happy Feet - "Golden Slumbers" / "The End"
Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night
Compilations
Northern Songs: Canada's Best and Brightest - "Constant Craving"
Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume II - "Constant Craving" (live version)
Being Out Rocks - "Summerfling"
Oh What a Feeling 3 - "Helpless"
Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project - "Hallelujah"
Nashville: A New Country Tradition - "You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man" (w/Rosanne Cash)
Red Hot + Blue - "So In Love"
Tame Yourself - "Damned Old Dog"
Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon - "Fado Hilario"
Remembering Patsy Cline (2003) - "Leavin' On Your Mind"
Women: Live From The Mountain Stage (1996) - "Lock Stock And Teardrops" (live)
A Tribute to Joni Mitchell - "Help Me"
We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song - "Angel Eyes"
Collaborations
Mrs. Fun: They Are Not A Trio (1991) - "Lulu's Lament"
Dion: Yo Frankie (1989) - "Drive All Night"
Dwight Yoakam: Just Lookin' for a Hit - "Sin City"
Wendy & Lisa: Eroica - "Mother of Pearl"
Bob Telson: Calling You (1992) - "Barefoot"
Bruce Roberts: Intimacy - "Intimacy"
Elton John: Duets - "Teardrops"
The Killers: Imploding the Mirage - "Lightning Fields"
Carole King: Love Makes The World - "Uncommon Love"
Nellie McKay: Pretty Little Head - "We Had It Right"
Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett - "Moonglow"
Tony Bennett: Playing with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues - "Keep the Faith, Baby"
Tony Bennett: Duets: An American Classic - "Because Of You"
Madeleine Peyroux: Half the Perfect World - "River"
Cornelius: CM2 (2003) - "Curiosity"
Ann Wilson: Hope & Glory - "Jackson"
1 Giant Leap: What About Me? - "Wounded in All the Right Places"
Anne Murray: Duets: Friends & Legends - "A Love Song"
Rosemary Clooney: 70: A Seventieth Birthday Celebration (1998) - "Our Love Is Here to Stay" w/ Linda Ronstadt
Notes
References
Discographies of Canadian artists
Pop music discographies
Country music discographies |
17341659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Son%20Chasuhn | Thomas Son Chasuhn | Thomas Son Chasuhn (1838–1866) was one of the Korean Martyrs canonised by the Roman Catholic church in 1984. His feast day is March 30, and he is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean martyrs on September 20.
Thomas was a devout Catholic. When Bishop Daveluy was arrested, an authority commissioned anybody to claim the confiscated objects. Everyone was too afraid to go and claim the Church property, and Thomas accepted commission to claim them. But, instead of holding its promise, the officials questioned his religion. Thomas confessed it boldly, and was thrown in prison.
It was the time of Lent, and Thomas observed with a scrupulous exactitude the fasts and the abstinences of the Church, fasts and abstinences whose rigour was doubled and by his other sufferings, and the insufficient food given to the prisoners. In the same way, nothing could make him omit any of his ordinary practices of piety.
He was severely tortured with amazing constancy and gladness. When fellow Catholics buried him four days later and reburied him somewhere else twenty days later, his body was found to be incorrupt and did not have any bad smell to it.
References
Bibliography
The Lives of the 103 Martyr Saints of Korea: Son Cha-soun Thomas (1836-1866), Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea Newsletter No. 77 (Winter 2011).
Korean Roman Catholic saints
1838 births
1866 deaths
Joseon Christians |
6909838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Chow | Janet Chow | Janet Chow () (born 25 August 1983, in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong actress. She has ancestry in Shanghai. She was the 2nd runner-up in the 2006 Miss Hong Kong competition. She attended Markville Secondary School in Markham, Ontario and University of Toronto.
Personal life
She immigrated to Canada at age 7.
She married actor Timmy Hung in 2012 with a grand wedding. and had her first child, a boy, in 2013. Her father-in-law Sammo Hung is also an actor and a martial artist.
Pageant career
Both Chow, and Miss Hong Kong 2006 winner Aimee Chan Yan Mei, had competed at Miss Chinese Toronto 2004, although each failed to place. Chow was the only contestant of the pageant born in Hong Kong. Later, Chow joined the top 16 of the Miss Hong Kong 2006 pageant as one of four women who were selected from overseas (Toronto) to compete. During the finals, she won the Miss Photogenic award, and received the highest swimsuit score (44) during her catwalk, although her interview only merited 34 points. She eventually placed as first runner-up.
She represented Hong Kong at the Miss World 2006 pageant due to the winner of Miss Hong Kong, Aimee Chan, being overage.
Television career
Chow has appeared as an actress for A Fistful of Stances, Fly with Me, Some Day, Growing Through Life, Every Move You Make, Forensic Heroes III, and Let it Be Love for Television Broadcasts Limited Hong Kong.
Awards
Miss Hong Kong 2006 First Runner-Up
Miss Hong Kong 2006 Miss Photogenic
References
External links
Official TVB Blog
1983 births
Living people
Actresses from Toronto
Hong Kong emigrants to Canada
Hong Kong television actresses
Miss World 2006 delegates
Naturalized citizens of Canada
People from Markham, Ontario
TVB actors
21st-century Hong Kong actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses |
6909853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Blaster%20Episode%20I%3A%20In%20Search%20of%20Spot | Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot | Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot an edutainment game in a line of educational products created by Davidson & Associates and a remake of their earlier New Math Blaster Plus! from 1991. Versions of the game were released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis as simply titled Math Blaster: Episode 1. The program was translated to Spanish and was published as Mates Blaster: En Busca de Positrón. A remake was done in 1996 released as "Mega Math Blaster". When Knowledge Adventure merged with Davidson & Associates in 1997 the game had a new makeover the follow year under the title Math Blaster: Ages 6-9. Finally it was repackaged as Math Blaster: 3rd Grade in 1999.
A sequel called Math Blaster Episode II: Secret of the Lost City was released in 1995.
Plot
Spot and Blasternaut are preparing for a journey aboard their spaceship, only to find that the ship is not functional. Blasternaut, jumping to conclusions, sends Spot to repair a mechanism known as the "polytronic combustion regulator" and Spot reluctantly begins repairs, while the former goes below deck. As Spot works, the Trash Alien flies by, captures Spot and departs, leaving garbage everywhere. Blasternaut, upon discovering this, contacts his superior officer, Galactic Commander, and notifies her of the situation. Galactic Commander immediately identifies the criminal and sends Blasternaut on a mission of four objectives.
Games
Trash Zapper
Blasternaut, uses math to generate the tractor beams needed to collect the trash. For every problem answered, a tractor beam is added and, after five problems, a noneducational firing session begins, in which the user tries to collect as much of the trash as possible. Once the firing session ends, the user is presented with more math problems and the process repeats until all the garbage has been collected. The setting of this level can be changed to one where the trash constantly floats in front of the spacecraft, and the user has to quickly solve the equation in order to capture the trash before it disappears from the screen. Notably, the mini-game uses the "Door Swoosh" sound effect from Star Trek: The Original Series as the sound effect for successfully collecting a piece of trash.
Number Recycler
Blasternaut goes down to the fuel chamber to recycle the trash. Here, the player completes equations, at which the machinery of the Number Recycler melts the garbage, freshens it to maximize energy and loads it into the fuel tanks. The player can adjust the numbers and symbols as needed.
Cave Runner
Having fueled the tanks, Blasternaut tracks the Trash Alien to a series of caves. By means of a jetpack, he must fly to the surface of the planet in order to reach the villain. Every level of the cave contains a gap with a number or a mathematical expression on both sides, which form a barrier that Blasternaut can only pass through if he bears a number that comes between the two numbers or the numbers that would be formed by solving the expressions (example: if the gap has "3" on one side and "6 + 3" on the other, Blasternaut's number would have to be between three and nine for him to pass through.)
Large drops of water, which contain an operation followed by a number, form on stalactites that will allow Blasternaut to change his number by implementing the drop's number, through the drop's operation, on his number (example: if the drop reads "+2" than his number will be increased by two.) Unless the user is on level one, the caves also contain additional obstacles in the form of bats, spider webs, boulders, and large cave-dwelling aliens. In the corners of each such cave is a treasure chest. The user must answer a problem to open the chest and acquire a weapon to drive off the obstacle (example: a flashlight drives off the bat, scissors cut the spider-web, etc.)
Math Blaster
Finally, it is Blasternaut's task to enter the Trash Alien's flying saucer and rescue Spot. In order to do this, he must fly through one of four openings in the flying saucer, which contain the answer to a particular problem. He must choose the right answer and reach it before being shot by the Trash Alien's weapons or being struck by flying garbage. In addition, he has only a limited time before the problem changes. If he is successful, Spot is freed and the Trash Alien's craft is destroyed, though the Trash Alien escapes.
Subjects and leveling
The game features eight different subjects, which are chosen at the start the game. All the problems encountered in the game, except in the "Cave Runner" exercise, will fall into the chosen subject. The subjects are as follows:
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Number patterns - Instead of featuring traditional equations, "number patterns" provides the user with a series of numbers with one of the numbers missing. The user must identify the pattern to find the missing number (for example, if the problem presented is "5, 10, 15, _, 25," then the missing number is 20.)
Estimation - The user must round numbers to estimate the answer.
Fractions/decimals/percents - The user must solve problems that involve fractions, decimals and percentages.
Review - features a mix of problems from all the various subjects
There are also six levels of difficulty, which adjust how hard the problems of the chosen subject are. If the user attempts to change subjects or leveling during the course of a mission, then the game will restart the mission. The various games are available outside the mission for study purposes. However, when choosing a game for play outside the mission, the user cannot advance through the mission and, if the chosen game is "Math Blaster," then the user will not see Spot's rescue.
Effects of Y2K bug
The certificate given at the end of the game has a glitch. The coming of the year 2000 made the certificate reset, so that instead of saying you had earned the certificate on Saturday, January 1, 2000, the certificate said you had won it on Saturday, January 1, 1900. Y2K didn't reset the date, however, because January 1, 1900 was a Monday.
Reception
"Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot" was rated as one of the top 100 CD-ROM games of 1994 in PC Magazine.
References
External links
Official Math Blaster website
1993 video games
1996 video games
1998 video games
1999 video games
DOS games
Windows games
Classic Mac OS games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Sega Genesis games
Mathematical education video games
North America-exclusive video games
Video games scored by Mark Cooksey
Video games developed in the United States |
23579812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth%20Jeans%20Houghton | Beth Jeans Houghton | Beth Jeans Houghton (a.k.a. Du Blonde) (born 3 January 1990) is an English multi-disciplinary musician, composer, artist, animator and video director. Their influences range from psychedelic rock, punk, blues, 1960s garage rock and soul. They create art under their birth name, Beth Jeans Houghton, using photography, illustration, animation, video, sculpture and embroidery. They have directed and animated music videos for multiple artists including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ezra Furman, and Laura Marling's band LUMP. They write, perform and produce music under the name Du Blonde.
Biography
Beth Jeans Houghton was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Houghton started writing songs in their teens. At sixteen they left school and bought a Fender Stratocaster, which they taught themselves to play.
Houghton first appeared in front of an audience in 2006; their debut release, titled EP (a limited-edition 7-inch), was on Bird Records in 2008. They signed then with Static Caravan Recordings, which released the single "Golden"/"Nightswimmer", produced by Adem, and their second EP, Hot Toast, Vol. 1 (produced by Mike Lindsay of the band Tunng), both of which earned acclaim from the UK press. Houghton signed in early 2011 with Mute Records, releasing their debut long-player, Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose in early 2012. The album was recorded with Ben Hillier whose previous production credits include Blur, Depeche Mode and Elbow.
Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose by Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny was released on 6 February 2012, and reached number 83 in the UK Albums Chart.
Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny toured the UK and Europe extensively during 2011 and 2012, appearing at multiple festivals including Glastonbury, The Great Escape, Latitude and Bestival. In April 2012, the band performed on Later... with Jools Holland alongside Paul Weller and Willis Earl Beal.
After touring supporting Welcome Back To Milk, Houghton began work on issue 1 of their comic books series 'Butt Hurt', focusing on bringing to life their vivid dreams and uncomfortable social situations. Having been a lifelong sufferer of anxiety, Houghton's work often touches upon discomfort, using humour to help ease their symptoms and dispel stigma surrounding mental health.
During November 2016, Houghton directed and illustrated the animated music video for "Sick Love" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Houghton had previously dated the band's singer Anthony Kiedis. The video was released on 4 December 2016.
On 27 March 2018, Houghton's music video for Ezra Furman's "Suck The Blood From My Wound" was released via the Bella Union label. Houghton directed, illustrated and animated the clip.
On 20 November 2018, LUMP released the video for their single "May I Be The Light", also directed, illustrated and animated by Houghton.
Du Blonde
During 2014, Houghton began writing and recording music under the name Du Blonde.
Welcome Back To Milk, the debut album for Houghton as Du Blonde, recorded in London and Los Angeles with producer Jim Sclavunos, was released on 19 May 2015 by Mute Records. It garnered favourable reviews, with 75/100 rating at Metacritic.
Du Blonde's second album, Lung Bread for Daddy, was released on 22 February 2019 via Moshi Moshi. The album is the first to be produced by Houghton, taking a journey into relationships and mental health of the musician.
Du Blonde's third album, titled Homecoming, was released in early 2021. The album, self-produced by Houghton, will feature guest artists including Shirley Manson, Andy Bell, Ezra Furman, and members of Tunng. Lead single "Medicated", featuring Manson, was released in November 2020, and follow-up "I'm Glad That We Broke Up", with Furman, came out on 4 February 2021.
Personal life
In 2013, Houghton suffered from anxiety. Of their practice of Transcendental Meditation, begun at this time, they said, "To now know confidently I can deal with my anxiety is such a good place to be." Houghton is non-binary and transgender.
Artists supported
Adem
Bon Iver
Bowerbirds
Cornershop
Euros Childs
Fionn Regan
Future Islands
Garbage
Gary Numan
Imogen Heap
King Creosote
Mumford & Sons
Mystery Jets
Phosphorescent
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Scott Matthews
St. Vincent
Stephen Fretwell
Tinariwen
Tunng
Discography
Albums
Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (2012) no. 83 UK
Welcome Back to Milk (2015, as Du Blonde)
Lung Bread for Daddy (2019, as Du Blonde)
Homecoming (2021, as Du Blonde)
EPs
EP – June 2008
Hot Toast Vol 1 – September 2009
Singles
"Golden / Nightswimmer" – Static Caravan, 2009
"Dodecahedron" – Mute, 2011
"Sweet Tooth Bird" – Mute, 2012
"Atlas" – Mute, 2012
References
External links
du blonde website
1990 births
Living people
Musicians from Newcastle upon Tyne
Mute Records artists
British folk-pop singers
21st-century English singers
Non-binary musicians
LGBT musicians from England
LGBT singers from the United Kingdom
LGBT animators
Transgender musicians
Transgender non-binary people
21st-century LGBT people |
6909900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony%20Ferdinand%20Kilbourn | Antony Ferdinand Kilbourn | Brother Antony Ferdinand Kilbourn FSC was an American De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was Acting President of the De La Salle College in Manila while Brother Lucian Athanasius Reinhart, F.S.C., was on leave.
Early life
He was born George Henry Kilbourn on June 24, 1894, in Brooklyn, New York, as George Henry Kilbourn. On March 19, 1909, he joined St. Joseph's Normal School in Pocantico Hills and received the religious habit of the Brothers of the Christian Schools on April 24, 1910, at which time he was given the religious name Antony Ferdinand.
Assignment to the Philippines
At the age of 20, Kilbourn volunteered for missionary work and arrived in the Philippines in 1921, the youngest Brother in Manila. In 1924, he made his final vows and consecrated himself to the Infant Jesus.
During schoolyear 1934–1935, Kilbourn was named head of the College of Commerce. He also introduced the Palmer Method of penmanship and was one of the organizers of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, serving on its executive board with General Carlos P. Romulo, Secretary Jorge B. Vargas and General Vicente Lim.
During World War II, Kilbourn was interned by the Japanese, along with the other American Brothers and Religious. After the War, he was named Acting President of the college after Br. Lucian Athanasius was forced to return to the United States to rest.
Kilbourn died in Manila on the evening of May 3, 1961.
Notes
References
Br. Antony Ferdinand FSC La Salle Brothers in R.P. Accessed September 9, 2006
1894 births
1961 deaths
People from Brooklyn
Roman Catholic religious brothers
American Roman Catholic missionaries
De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines
Presidents of De La Salle University
Presidents of universities and colleges in the Philippines
Roman Catholic missionaries in the Philippines
American expatriates in the Philippines
Catholics from New York (state) |
17341666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angharad%20Mair | Angharad Mair | Angharad Mair (born March 1960) is a Welsh television presenter; she is the lead presenter on the nightly S4C Welsh language news programme, Heno and the BBC Wales news programme, Wales Today.
Background
She was born in Carmarthen, South Wales, where she lived with her older sister and three younger brothers. Her first jobs were working in Tesco and The Ivy Bush Royal Hotel in Carmarthen.
Media career
After training and working for BBC Wales, where she worked on the Welsh language children's programme Bilidowcar, Mair joined Llanelli-based independent television production company Tinopolis in 1991. When Tinopolis produced both programmes from Cardiff, for a time she presented both the English language BBC Wales news Wales Today from 18:30 to 19:00, as well as the Welsh S4C Wedi 7 from 19:00 to 19:30. In 2008 Mair still presented Wedi7, and was Executive Director for Tinopolis, where by 2006 she held 2.482% of the shares.
Mair wrote a column in the Wales on Sunday newspaper. In December 2006 her comment on the break-up of the relationship of her friend, ITV1 weather presenter Sian Lloyd, against Lloyd's former partner Lembit Öpik - including suggesting that Montgomeryshire needed a new MP - drew much public criticism.
Running career
After a challenge from a colleague, Mair ran her first full marathon in New York city in 1991, in a time of 3:29:00. This result for a beginner encouraged her to keep training and she won the Reykjavik Marathon in 1996.
She entered the trials for the Great Britain athletics squad for the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece, where she came 23rd in the Women's Marathon in a time of 2:42:31.
Mair kept running and in 2014 finished 3rd in the Snowdonia Marathon.
In 2016 Mair set a new British record for the marathon, in the W55 Category, by completing the London Marathon in a time of 2.57.46.
Personal life
Mair has two daughters with her second husband Jonathan Cray, a cameraman for Tinopolis. The family live in Peterston-super-Ely in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Competition Record
References
External links
Angharad Mair profile at Tinopolis
Angharad Mair short profile at TV Ark
Wedi 3 & 7: Presenters: Angharad Mair
1960 births
Living people
People from Carmarthen
Welsh female long-distance runners
Welsh female marathon runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
Welsh journalists
Welsh television presenters
Welsh-language television presenters
BBC newsreaders and journalists
Welsh television executives
Women television executives
Tinopolis
British women television journalists
Women radio presenters |
23579836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Ch%C4%99tnik | Adam Chętnik | Adam Chętnik (; born December 20, 1885, in Nowogród, died May 29, 1967, in Warsaw) was a Polish ethnographer who studied the Kurpie. He is the author of several books on the Kurpie residing in Puszcza Zielona. In 1927 he founded Skansen Kurpiowski in Nowogród, an open-air museum dedicated to Kurpie culture. He published over 100 scholarly works. He was also an elected deputy to the Sejm, as well as a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
Works
Puszcza Kurpiowska, 1913
Chata Kurpiowska, 1915
Życie Puszczańskie Kurpiów
Mazurskim szlakiem, 1939
monografie Nowogrodu, Myszyńca, Dąbrówki, Opęchowa.
Kurpie
Z Kurpiowskich obozów
Obrazki i gadki
Krótki przewodnik po Kurpiach
Kalendarzyk zwyczajów i obrzędów ludu kurpiowskiego
O bursztynie i przemyśle bursztyniarskim
References
Wrota Podlasia - Adam Chętnik
Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa im. Adama Chętnika w Jednorożcu
Marian Pokropek, Adam Chętnik - badacz Kurpiowszczyzny, Ostrołęckie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Muzeum Okręgowe w Ostrołęce, 1992
External links
Związek Kurpiów - Adam Chętnik
1885 births
1967 deaths
People from Łomża County
People from Łomża Governorate
Popular National Union politicians
Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1922–1927)
Polish ethnographers
Members of the Polish Academy of Learning
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) |
6909928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Deardorff | Alan Deardorff | Alan V. Deardorff (born 1944) is the John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor. Deardorff received his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 1971.
Deardorff is the author of Deardorffs' Glossary of International Economics, as well as the Family Tree of Trade Economists. He has undertaken work on David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage, arguing that "the law of comparative advantage breaks down when applied to individual commodities or pairs of commodities in a many-commodity world", but stating that "that the law is nonetheless valid if restated in terms of averages across all commodities".
Current Affiliations
External Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham.
Faculty Associate, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan
International Research Fellow, Kiel Institute of World Economics
Member, Academic Council, VRCenter DEGIT, Institute for World Economics, Kiel University
Member, American Economic Association
Member, Board of Editors, North American Journal of Economics and Finance
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Economic Journal
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The World Economy
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Integration
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of International Economic Law
Member, Editorial Board, Studies in International Economics, University of Michigan Press
Member, Group of Eminent Persons on Non-tariff Barriers, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
References
External links
Alan Deardorff's website
1944 births
Living people
21st-century American economists
Cornell University alumni
Faculty
University of Michigan faculty
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy faculty |
17341667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%E2%80%93Chase%E2%80%93Smythe%20House | Taylor–Chase–Smythe House | The Taylor–Chase–Smythe House (also known as Quarters NB-1 Chase Lane, Naval Education and Training Center) is a historic house on the Middletown portion of Naval Station Newport (most of which is in Newport, Rhode Island.) It is a two-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gable roof. A kitchen ell extends to the rear (north) of the house, and a glassed-in porch wraps around two sides of the house, ending in a porte-cochere. The house originally had a large central, chimney, but this was removed during alterations c. 1850. The house was built sometime in the second half of the 18th century by a member of the Chase family. The Chase property was acquired by the United States Navy in 1941, as part of an expansion of its facilities in Newport, and has been used since as military housing.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Federal architecture in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
23579869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%27s%20Cellars | Kelly's Cellars | Kellys Cellars is a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, situated at 30 Bank Street in the city centre. Built on March 14, 1720, it is one of the oldest pubs of Belfast.
It sits in what used to be an alley way off Royal Avenue, but a few buildings were knocked down and now Kellys sits in a square beside Castlecourt, a major Belfast shopping centre. It provides pub food and traditional music sessions. It remains resolutely old-fashioned, with vaulted ceiling and elbow-worn bar and is crammed with bric-a-brac.
History
It was a meeting place for Henry Joy McCracken and the United Irishmen when they were planning the 1798 Rising.
The story goes that McCracken hid behind the bar when British soldiers came for him. In September 2004 the pub had a grand re-opening under new management.
In 2007 a blue plaque was erected on the site by the Ulster History Circle stating that the Society of United Irishmen met there during the period 1791 to 1798.
The influential nationalist politician Joseph Devlin was assistant manager of the pub in the 1890s.
Possible delisting
In February 2015 it was reported that the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland) proposed delisting 17 Belfast buildings, including Kelly's Cellars, subject to review by the Historic Buildings Council and Belfast City Council. The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society declared that "despite their present condition, all buildings currently proposed for delisting contribute to the value of Belfast’s fragile built heritage and are important resources to promote tourism, economic investment and social regeneration".
As part of the significant backlash against the proposal to delist Kelly's Cellars, an American lady, Meghan Finlay (née Rice) of Massachusetts, set up an online petition to stop it, based on the pub's historical significance. The petition attracted more than 2,000 signatures and brought to international attention the fight to maintain the listed status of Kelly's Cellars. The decision to strip the pub of its protected status has since been reversed.
On August 25, 2015 following the campaign victory, via their official Facebook page Kelly's Cellars released a statement of thanks to all who had supported their cause:
References
Pubs in Belfast
Grade B2 listed buildings |
17341675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Radovich | Bill Radovich | William Alex Radovich (June 24, 1915 – March 6, 2002) was a National Football League guard and a film actor who regularly played the "tough guy". He was the first NFL player to file suit against the league.
College career
Radovich played college football at the University of Southern California.
Professional career
Radovich played five seasons in the National Football League with the Detroit Lions. He was named All-Pro twice.
During World War II he served in the US Navy from 1941 to 1945.
He finished his career in the All-America Football Conference with the Los Angeles Dons.
Film career
When he left his football career behind him he went to play "tough-guy" roles on film. He is best remembered as Moose McCall in Trouble Along the Way, Ogeechuch in The World in His Arms, Eunuch in The Golden Blade, Lagi in Back to God's Country, Hassan in Against All Flags and many other tough character roles.
Lawsuit
Radovich v. National Football League
Personal life
Radovich never married. He had a brother, Walt, and a sister, Gloria Kaye Clinton. He died on March 6, 2002, and funeral services were held at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in San Gabriel, California.
References
External links
1915 births
2002 deaths
American football guards
Detroit Lions players
Edmonton Elks coaches
Edmonton Elks players
Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football players
Los Angeles Dons players
USC Trojans football players
Players of American football from Chicago
Players of Canadian football from Chicago
American people of Serbian descent |
6909932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Shafer-Landau | Russ Shafer-Landau | Russ Shafer-Landau (born 1963) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Education and career
Shafer-Landau is a graduate of Brown University and completed his PhD work at the University of Arizona under the supervision of Joel Feinberg. He has been teaching philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 2002, where he became chair of the department. From 1992 to 2002 Shafer-Landau taught at the University of Kansas.
He is the founder and editor of the periodical Oxford Studies in Metaethics. Shafer-Landau returned to UW after a brief stint at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he also served as the Director of the Parr Center for Ethics. Shafer-Landau is the founder and organizer for the annual Madison Metaethics Workshop (also referred to as MadMeta, founded in 2004) which followed him to North Carolina under the name "CHillMeta," before re-assuming its original identity when Shafer-Landau returned to UW.
From 2020 to 2021, Shafer-Landau served as the Central President of the American Philosophical Association.
Philosophical work
Shafer-Landau is a leading defender of a non-naturalistic moral realism, holding that moral statements are not reducible to natural terms. For example, the term 'good' cannot be described in terms of what is pleasurable and painful, nor conclusions within science. This view is established in his major work Moral Realism: A Defence, which, as one reviewer expressed it, "defends an unorthodox combination of claims, including anti-Humeanism about reasons for action, mind-independent moral realism, moral non-naturalism, moral rationalism, and reliabilist moral epistemology."
Shafer-Landau is also the author of two other introductory books, Whatever Happened To Good And Evil? and The Fundamentals of Ethics. Besides editing the annual Oxford Studies in Metaethics, he also has co-edited Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy, an anthology covering many aspects of ethics with the late Joel Feinberg and two Blackwell anthologies, Foundations of Ethics (with Terence Cuneo), and Ethical Theory.
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20483140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/560th%20Flying%20Training%20Squadron | 560th Flying Training Squadron | The 560th Flying Training Squadron is part of the 12th Flying Training Wing of the United States Air Force based at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. It operates the Northrop T-38 Talon.
The squadron was first activated during World War II as the 560th Bombardment Squadron. After training with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in the United States, the unit moved to the European Theater of Operations, where it participated in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. The squadron was awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation on two occasions for its performance in combat. After V-E Day, the squadron returned to the United States and was inactivated.
The squadron served in the reserve from 1947 to 1949, but apparently was only partially staffed and equipped. It was redesignated the 560th Tactical Fighter Squadron and activated in 1962. It served in the United States until 1970, training pilots for deployment to Southeast Asia, while maintaining readiness for combat operations. It deployed to Korea during the Pueblo Crisis of 1968. The squadron was again activated in its current role as a flying training unit in 1972.
Mission
The 560th qualifies fighter and bomber pilots as instructor pilots in the Northrop T-38C Talon. The squadron trains Air Force instructor pilots, Air Force and U.S. Navy test pilot school candidates, allied nation fighter and instructor pilots, and Air Force pilots identified for transition to fighter aircraft. The squadron currently flies a total of 8,800 hours annually in a fleet of nearly 40 aircraft and produces about 130 graduates per year.
History
World War II
Initial training and deployment
The 560th was first activated as the 560th Bombardment Squadron at Gowen Field, Idaho, one of the four original squadrons of the 388th Bombardment Group, in December 1942. The cadre that formed at Gowen moved to Wendover Field, Utah in February 1943, where the unit was fully staffed and squadron training with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers began. Training continued until June 1943, when it deployed to England. The air echelon ferried its B-17s to England via the northern ferry route, while the ground echelon departed for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, the port of embarkation, sailing in the on 1 July.
Combat in Europe
The squadron assembled at RAF Knettishall, its combat station and flew its first combat mission on 17 July, when it attacked an aircraft factory in Amsterdam. The squadron primarily engaged in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany, attacking industrial sites, oil refineries and storage facilities, communications centers and naval targets on the European Continent.
The squadron was awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for attacking an aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany, on 17 August 1943, withstanding heavy resistance to reach the target. It was awarded a second DUC for three separate missions: an earlier attack on a tire and rubber factory in Hanover, Germany on 26 July 1943 and two missions in 1944, one against synthetic oil refineries near Brüx, Germany on 12 May and at Ruhland, Germany on 21 June. This last attack was on a shuttle bombing mission from England to Germany to Poltava, USSR, to Foggia, Italy, and back to England. Other strategic targets included aircraft factories at Brunswick, Kassel, and Reims; airfields at Paris, Berlin and in Bordeaux; naval installations at Emden, Kiel and La Pallice, chemical works in Ludwigshafen; ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt and rail marshalling yards in Bielefeld, Brussels, and Osnabruck.
The squadron was occasionally diverted from the strategic campaign to perform air support and interdiction missions. It attacked military installations in France in early 1944 to help prepare the way for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, and on D Day hit coastal defenses, artillery batteries and transportation targets. It attacked troop concentrations and supply depots. In July 1944, it supported Operation Cobra at Saint Lo and the following month attacked targets in Caen. It struck military installations and airfields near Arnhem during Operation Market Garden, the unsuccessful attempt to secure a bridgehead across the Rhine in the Netherlands. It attacked transportation targets to support the final drive through Germany in early 1945.
Return and inactivation
The squadron flew its last combat mission in April 1945. After V-E Day, the squadron flew missions to the Netherlands to drop food in flooded areas. It then began redeploying to the United States. Its aircraft left Knettishall between 9 June and 5 July 1945. The ground echelon sailed again on the Queen Elizabeth on 5 August. The squadron inactivated at Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota on 28 August 1945.
Reserve operations
The squadron was activated in the reserves at Orchard Place Airport, Illinois on 6 March 1947. It was assigned to the 338th Bombardment Group, which had been activated at Orchard Place in July 1947, at the end of September. The squadron trained under the supervision of Air Defense Command (ADC)'s 141st AAF Base Unit (Reserve Training) (later the 2471st Air Force Reserve Flying Training Center), although it does not appear that it was fully staffed or equipped.
In July 1948 Continental Air Command (ConAC) assumed responsibility for managing reserve and Air National Guard units from ADC. The 560th was inactivated when ConAC reorganized its reserve units under the wing base organization system in June 1949. President Truman’s reduced 1949 defense budget also required reductions in the number of units in the Air Force, At O'Hare, the 338th Group and its squadrons were inactivated, and most of its personnel transferred to the 437th Troop Carrier Wing.
Fighter operations
The squadron was organized at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas in October 1962 and assigned to the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing. In February 1964, the 388th was replaced at McConnell by the 23d Tactical Fighter Wing. It was initially equipped with North American F-100 Super Sabres, but soon converted to the Republic F-105 Thunderchief. The squadron conducted tactical operations and training in preparation for global deployment and after 1966, conducted replacement training in the F-105. In September 1968, it moved to Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, where it converted to the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II. It deployed to South Korea in response to North Korea's capture of the USS Pueblo in June 1969. After maintaining alert status in Korea and later Japan, the squadron returned to Homestead, where it was inactivated in October 1970, and its personnel and equipment were transferred to the 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron.
Pilot training
On 1 May 1972, the 560th was reactivated as the 560th Flying Training Squadron at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, and took over the mission of training Northrop T-38 Talon instructor pilots for Air Training Command's Undergraduate Pilot Training bases.
After 1973, all repatriated Vietnam era prisoner of war (POW) pilots physically able to return to active flying duty came to the 560th for requalification training. As the final chapter in Operation Homecoming, the squadron returned more than 150 active duty pilots to flight status. Over the next two years the 560th flew more than 6000 hours and established a lasting bond that it still maintains with these former POWs.
In October 1993, the 560th added the missions of Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals and Upgrade Instructor Pilot Training in the "Smurf Jet" AT-38. In May 1998, the Smurf operation had become squadron-sized and was split off to reactivate the 435th Fighter Training Squadron. The 560th still prepares rated pilots from varied backgrounds for fighter lead-in training.
Lineage
Constituted as the 560th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 19 December 1942
Activated on 24 December 1942
Redesignated 560th Bombardment Squadron, Heavy on 20 August 1943
Inactivated on 28 Aug 1945
Redesignated 560th Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy on 6 February 1947
Activated in the reserve on 6 March 1947
Inactivated on 27 June 1949
Redesignated 560th Tactical Fighter Squadron and activated on 1 May 1962 (not organized)
Organized on 1 October 1962
Inactivated on 31 October 1970
Redesignated 560th Flying Training Squadron on 22 March 1972
Activated on 1 May 1972
Assignments
388th Bombardment Group, 24 December 1942 – 28 August 1945
Second Air Force, 6 March 1947
338th Bombardment Group, 30 September 1947 – 27 June 1949
Tactical Air Command, 1 May 1962 (not organized)
388th Tactical Fighter Wing, 1 October 1962
23d Tactical Fighter Wing, 8 February 1964
4531st Tactical Fighter Wing, 25 September 1968 (attached to 354th Tactical Fighter Wing, 29 June–15 December 1969)
31st Tactical Fighter Wing, 15–31 October 1970
12th Flying Training Wing, 1 May 1972
12th Operations Group, 15 Dec 1991 – present
Stations
Gowen Field, Idaho, 24 December 1942
Wendover Field, Utah, c. 1 February 1943
Sioux City Army Air Base, Iowa, c. 1 May–8 June 1943
RAF Knettishall (Station 136), England, c. 6 June 1943 [sic] – c. 6 August 1945
Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, c. 13–28 August 1945
Orchard Place Airport, Illinois, 6 March 1947 – 27 June 1949
McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, 1 October 1962
Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, 25 September 1968 – 31 October 1970 (deployed to Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, 29 June–15 December 1969)
Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, 1 May 1972 – present
Aircraft operated
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (1943–1945)
North American F-100 Super Sabre (1962–1964)
Republic F-105 Thunderchief (1963–1968)
McDonnell F-4 Phantom II (1969–1970)
Northrop T-38 Talon (1972–present)
Awards and campaigns
See also
B-17 Flying Fortress units of the United States Army Air Forces
List of F-100 units of the United States Air Force
List of F-105 units of the United States Air Force
List of F-4 Phantom II operators
References
Notes
Explanatory notes
Citations
Bibliography
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17341701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch%20%28disambiguation%29 | Plutarch (disambiguation) | Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 46–120) was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist.
Plutarch may also refer to the following people:
Plutarch of Alexandria, an ancient Greek grammarian and deipnosophist
Plutarch of Athens (circa 350-430), Greek philosopher and Neoplatonist
Plutarch of Byzantium (1st century), Bishop of Byzantium
Plutarch of Eretria (4th century BC), tyrant of Eretria
Plutarch Heavensbee, The Head Gamemaker in the 75th Hunger Games
Saint Plutarch (died 202 AD), Egyptian martyr
Places
Plutarch (crater), a lunar impact crater
Plutarch, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Magoffin County
Greek masculine given names
ca:Plutarc (desambiguació)
es:Plutarco (desambiguación)
gl:Plutarco |
23579870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christof%20Leng | Christof Leng | Christof Leng (born 14 September 1975 in Friedberg, Hesse) is a German computer scientist and politician. As a founding member of the Pirate Party Germany, he became its first leader on 10 September 2006 and held the post until May 2007.
Leng received his PhD in computer science from the Department of Computer Science of the Darmstadt University of Technology. After that he was a visiting scholar at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California.
He was elected vice president of the German Informatics Society in 2012 and also serves as the speaker of the scientific staff advisory board.
In 2014 he became a site reliability engineer (SRE) at Google. Since 2017 he leads an SRE team at Google's Munich office.
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
People from Friedberg, Hesse
Pirate Party Germany politicians
Leaders of political parties in Germany
Politicians from Hesse
German computer scientists
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni |
20483181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rcio-Andr%C3%A9 | Márcio-André | Márcio-André de Sousa Haz (born March 2, 1978, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian writer, film director, performer, sound poet and theorist. He signs his books and performs sound poetry under his first name Márcio-André and as a film director uses Sousa Haz.
Biography
Márcio-André de Sousa Haz graduated in Literature and has a master's degree in Poetics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2008, he received a scholarship-prize from the Brazilian National Library Foundation and, in 2009, was poet-in-residence in Monsanto, Portugal. He taught an advanced training course in creative writing and sound poetry at University of Coimbra and literary theory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
In 2007, he appeared in newspaper headlines for his suicide performance in the ghost town of Chernobyl. In his lecture-of-one-man (that he called "Conference Poetic-Radioactive of Pripyat"), Marcio-Andre remained six hours reading his poems between the ruins of the ghost-town Pripyat (Chernobyl), in the so-called Zone of Exclusion, under the deliberate risk of contamination by cesium 137 and strontium 90. After the event, he received the nickname "poeta radioativo" (radioactive poet). This performance resulted in the book Ensaios Radioativos, where he describes the experience of contamination.
Literature
Belonging to the so-called "Generation 00" of literature in Brazil, Marcio-Andre is an influential and relevant poet of the younger generation in Brazil and a controversial essayist. With three published books, he was chief-editor of the binational (Brazil / Portugal) Confraria Magazine (ISSN 1808-6276) and founder of Confraria do Vento. Eventually he began to write for Brazilian newspapers such as O Globo, Jornal do Brasil and Estado de Minas. As a translator, he has published texts of Gilles Yvain, Serge Pey, Gherasim Luca, Mathieu Bénézet, Paul Valéry and Hagiwara Sakutaro.
Performance and sound poetry
Multimedia artist, Marcio-Andre has stood out with his research in the area of sound poetry. He held solo performances in several cities in the world, including Paris, London, Lima, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Lisbon and São Paulo. Between 2004 and 2007, led the group Arranjos para assobio (Arrangements for whistle) of poetic textures and experimental realities, linked with a sound research project at UFRJ, under academic advising by the philosopher Manuel Antonio de Castro. In 2009, he presented a performance with the American poet Bruce Andrews. In 2009, he has toured to Europe with his work Indivisible: polyphonic-poem for voices, violin, electronic processing, bells and whistles
In his performances, Marcio-Andre uses the computer to processing, live, harmonics sounds and percussive sounds taken from the violin and voice. From this processing, from the creation of electronic textures and from loop recordings, it overlaps sound layers and folds to create a uniform mass of texts and sounds. In his plays are noted influences from noisy music, minimalist music and Eastern music, especially by the use of Tibetan chants and modes of Noh theater. He uses, yet, abstract projections, videodances and video loops projected onto the stage and incorporates various other props in presentations.
Main published works
Intradoxos (Confraria do Vento, 2007)
Ensaios Radioativos (Confraria do Vento, 2008)
Poemas apócrifos de Paul Valéry (Confraria do Vento, 2014)
Leonardo contra Paris (Confraria do Vento, 2016)
Filmography
Cidade Reposta (Short) Brazil, 2010
Artaud en Compostela (Short) Spain, 2013
The First Time I Saw Francis Taylor He Was in Slow Motion (Short) Hungary, 2016
The concept of Irony (El concepto de ironía, Short) Spain/Hungary, 2017
Man in the Crowd (Based on Edgar Allan Poe short story) Hungary, 2018
Cosy for Two at Kuleshov St. (Short) Hungary, 2018
Notes
External links
Poetry International Web
International Meeting of Poets
Living people
Brazilian male poets
Brazilian literary critics
Brazilian translators
1978 births
21st-century Brazilian male writers
21st-century Brazilian poets
21st-century translators |
17341725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasim%20Wali%20Khan | Nasim Wali Khan | Nasim Wali Khan ( 1933 16 May 2021) was a female politician in Pakistan. Nasim Wali Khan was a
leader of Awami National Party–Wali. Nasim Wali Khan was the former provincial president and parliamentary leader of the Awami National Party in Provincial Assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
She was born in 1933. She was one of the main leaders of the Pakistan National Alliance and made history in 1977 as the first woman elected from a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province general seat in the 1977 election.
Nasim Wali Khan married Abdul Wali Khan in 1954. She was the mother of Sangeen Wali Khan (late), and Dr Gulalai Wali Khan as well as step-mother of Asfandyar Wali Khan.
Nasim Wali Khan died on 16 May 2021 in Charsadda, Pakistan.
Further reading
See also
Khan Abdul Bahram Khan
Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Abdul Ghani Khan
Abdul Wali Khan
Khan Amirzadah Khan
Asfandyar Wali Khan
Sangeen Wali Khan
Family of Bahram Khan
Awami National Party
References
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Pashtun nationalists
Awami National Party politicians
Nssim Wali
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1933 births
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23579873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Riche%2C%20Western%20Australia | Cape Riche, Western Australia | Cape Riche is a cape and rural locality in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. By road, it is 525 km south-east of Perth and 123 km north-east of Albany
Facilities in the locality include a boat launching ramp and a campground with flushing toilets and showers.
History
Cape Riche was named for Claude-Antoine-Gaspard Riche, a naturalist on Bruni d'Entrecasteaux's 1791 expedition who became lost for two days near Esperance.
Matthew Flinders aboard the Investigator charted the area in 1802 as part of his circumnavigation of Australia.
George Cheyne, a Scottish immigrant, took up land at Cape Riche in 1836, after arriving in Albany in 1831. He established a trading post which was often visited by American whalers. In about 1848, sandalwood cutters arrived in the area,
The Surveyor-General of Western Australia, John Septimus Roe, visited the Cape in October 1848 as part of this 1848–49 expedition and reorganised his supplies while staying with the Cheyne family. He left 4 days later to make his way to the Russell Range.
The Cheyne properties were later taken over by the related Moir family. The Cape Riche Homestead, also known as Moirs Property, was designed and built between 1850 and 1860 by Alexander Moir. It comprises a large group of spongolite buildings.
Bay whaling activity took place on the coast in the 1870s.
In the 1890s the schooner Grace Darling, provided supplies and delivered the mail on its monthly run between Albany and Esperance.
Flora and fauna
A number of botanists and explorers conducted plant collections in the area in the mid-19th century including Ludwig Preiss (1840), James Drummond (1840, 1846–48)
John Septimus Roe (1848) and William Henry Harvey (1854). Plant species which were formally described based on these collections included Moirs wattle (Acacia moirii), sheath cottonhead (Conostylis vaginata), tallerack (Eucalyptus pleurocarpa), autumn featherflower (Verticordia harveyi) and Bossiaea preissii. Ludwig Diels and Ernst Pritzel also collected plant material at Cape Riche in 1901.
Cape Riche is home to a number of rare flora species including feather-leaved banksia (Banksia brownii), Manypeaks rush (Chordifex arbortivus), Manypeaks sundew (Drosera fimbriata) and coast featherflower (Verticordia helichrysantha). The Albany/Cape Riche area is noted as a calving area for southern right whales.
Gallery
References
Towns in Western Australia
Great Southern (Western Australia)
South coast of Western Australia
Whaling stations in Australia |
26720552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20in%20Malta | Sport in Malta | Sports in Malta include association football, basketball, athletics, rugby, tennis, cycling, and others.
Football
Association football (soccer) is the most popular sport in Malta. The national stadium is called Ta' Qali Stadium. The national football team has won several matches over big opponents that reached the final phases in World Cups, such as Belgium and Hungary. Recently a large number of football grounds have been built throughout the island. The top football league in Malta is called the Maltese Premier League, and consists of 14 teams. Futsal is also very popular.
Hockey
Maltese National Hockey League is the official field hockey league in Malta, with 4 teams participating in the National League. The current champions are Sliema Hotsticks Hockey Club.
The National Hockey Stadium is located in Paola, Kordin.
The Malta National Hockey Team participates in several international fixtures each year.
Waterpolo
Water polo is also very popular in Malta. The Malta men's national water polo team has achieved some great results against strong teams, and has competed in the Olympics twice. Maltese clubs participate in the European Club competitions organised by LEN, are seen as being in the top 10 water polo leagues in Europe.
Boċċi
Boċċi is the Maltese version of the Italian game of bocce, French pétanque and British bowls. Other than certain differences in rules and the ground on which the game is played, one of the most obvious differences between Maltese boċċi and foreign equivalents is the shape of the bowls themselves which tend to be cylindrical rather than spherical in shape. Many small clubs (usually called Klabbs tal-Boċċi in Maltese) can be found in Maltese and Gozitan localities, and are usually well-frequented and are quite active on a local and European level. Even the emigrants to Canada, Australia, and The United States have taken the game with them and now forms an important part of their social scene.
Rugby
Rugby union is played in Malta, In October 2018 the national men's team was ranked 39th in the world. They have recently been achieving success, defeating teams including Sweden, Croatia and Latvia. In 2018, Malta achieved its largest win against Andorra, that of 89-3. As of 2016 Malta Rugby Union had 2,480 registered players.
Rugby league is also played, primarily due to return migration of Maltese Australians bringing it back with them. In July 2018, the national men's team was ranked 18th in the world. The national team are known as the Malta Knights, and boast players currently playing in the Super League in England such as Jarrod Sammut, Jake Mamo, the most famous player to come from Malta would be former South Sydney Rabbitohs, Mario Fenech. In 2016 Malta Rugby League had 285 players, with the large majority based in Australia.
Motorsport
Motorsport includes drag racing represented by the Malta Drag Racing Association, with recent high ranking Maltese dragsters in official FIA European championships. There is also autocross (ASMK), hill climb (Island Car Club), motocross, karting and banger racing championships.
Basketball
In 2020, Malta got its first-ever female head coach leading a men’s Division One basketball team. It was Silvia Gambino who started the position at Mellieħa S.C. Libertas.
Volleyball
Malta has a first division for women's volleyball teams. The president of the national federation MVA has been Jesmond Saliba.
Snooker
Malta also hosts a snooker round, the Malta Cup, which became a non-ranking event. In 2008 Malta's Tony Drago was a member of a victorious European Mosconi Cup team, which was played in Portomaso, Malta. Claudio Cassar was World Blackball Champion in 2014.
Boxing
Boxer Jeff Fenech is of Maltese descent. Recently contact sports such as Boxing and Kickboxing have become increasingly popular.
Watersports
Malta is a good place for surfing and offers a lot of different surf spots. During winter time most of the beaches transform into surfer hangouts.
Cricket
Malta are an affiliate member of the ICC & has full Twenty20 International status. Home games are played at Marsa. In 2020 there was a T20 summer domestic league consisting of 12 teams, and in 2019 a 50-over winter league which comprised 5 teams.
Along with other sports, tennis is a popular activity in Malta and Gozo. The islands offer a wide range of options for both beginners and elite players. Clubs are spread out across Malta and games are being played on a regular basis all year around.
There are over 1,200 rock climbing routes in Malta. The island offers a mixture of both trad climbing and sport climbing and also offers a good variety of bouldering and deep water soloing. The geography and small size of the island makes the climbing easily accessible. The sport is growing in popularity with local communities, as well as tourists and visitors.
List of sports teams in Malta
See also
Malta Olympic Committee
Maltese National Regatta
Maltese National Badminton Championships
Malta Sailing Federation
Handball Malta and Malta Handball Association
Aquatic Sports Association of Malta
References |
20483202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainedge%20Union%20Free%20School%20District | Plainedge Union Free School District | The Plainedge Union Free School District is a school district which serves the hamlets of Plainedge and North Massapequa.
Administration
The current Superintendent is Dr. Edward A. Salina Jr. The school board is currently composed of President Catherine Flanagan, Vice President Raymond Paris and trustees Jennifer Maggio, Dr. Lynnda Nadien, Dr. Joseph Netto, Sonny Spagnuolo and Sisi Townson.
The principals of the elementary schools are Emily O'Brien (Eastplain), Joseph A. Maisano (John H. West), and Jennifer Thearle (Schwarting), with Sara Azizollahoff serving as assistant principal at all elementary schools. The principal of the middle school is Anthony DeRiso and assistant principals Jennifer Wiesman and Vito Mannino. The deans of the middle school are Casey Kornharens and Brian Wipperman. The principal of the high school is Robert Amster and the assistant principals are Jennifer Vitale and Kevin Burgoyne.
History and organization
The first Plainedge school was housed in a two-room, wood-frame schoolhouse that became known as the "Annex." It served the district until about 1952 when the John H. West elementary school was built. It was then updated and used as the school district's administration office.
On February 19, 1985, the Plainedge School Union's Board of Education was sued by Carl McCall for a refusal to promote her allegedly based on her gender.
The school district is composed of 3 elementary schools, John H. West elementary, Eastplain elementary and Charles E. Schwarting elementary. The middle school is Plainedge Middle School and the high school is Plainedge High School. Former schools include Robert E. Picken elementary, which was sold to the Town of Oyster Bay to serve as a smaller town hall for the southern part of the town; Northedge Elementary (then Kindergarten), which was knocked down to make room for the new Middle School; Baldwin Drive Elementary and Southedge Junior High, which were demolished and the land sold for housing; and Sylvia Packard Middle School, which was shut down after the school, at 40 years of age, was deemed inefficient to serve the continuing needs of the community.
Since Plainedge is not an official town, its students come from parts of Massapequa, North Massapequa, Bethpage, Seaford and Farmingdale.
As a result of school closures caused by the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic, the Plainedge school district arranged a community effort to turn on stadium and porch lights between 8:20 and 8:40PM on May 1, 2020, to honor the graduating senior class.
Notable alumni
Manjul Bhargava, mathematician and recipient of the Fields Medal (2014)
Edward Byrne, New York City Police officer killed on duty in 1988
Steve Guttenberg, actor
Jim Hodder, drummer with Steely Dan
John Melendez, television writer and radio personality
References
School districts in New York (state)
Education in Nassau County, New York |
23579896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadava%20Patidar | Kadava Patidar | The Kadava Patidar (also variously spelled Kadwa, Kadva) are a sub-caste of the Patidars in Gujarat. They are mainly found in North Gujarat. They were dependent on cash-crop agriculture and occupied a higher status than the wealthier and more diversified Leva Patidars. The name "Kadava" comes from "Kadi", a former district that existed during the Baroda State. However a popular belief among the community is that Kadava descend from Kusha, son of the deity Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana. According to Shah in 1982, the Kadva Patidars have received extremely little attention from scholars in comparison to Leva Patidars, which was part of a wider trend among scholars that ignored north Gujarat.
References
Indian castes
Social groups of Gujarat |
20483211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Tovar%20Apartments | El Tovar Apartments | The El Tovar Apartments is an apartment building located at 320 East Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, in the East Grand Boulevard Historic District. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Architecture
Often attributed to the firm of Wiedmaier & Gay, the December 6, 1928, edition of the Detroit Free Press lists Robert J. West as the architect of the building. The El Tovar Apartment building is an excellent example of Spanish Moorish/Art Deco style. The El Tovar Apartments is a 4-and-a-half-story building, containing 73 apartments, constructed from orange brick with limestone trim, orange terra cotta accents, and a Spanish tile roof. The entrance is within the center pavilion, reached by a sidewalk flanked by carved lion figures. The name El Tovar is carved on a scroll above the entrance. Minaret-like towers project from the gabled roof, and there are arched openings at the corners of the front façade, chimney stack-like projections, pseudo-flying buttresses, and stylized crenellations.
Significance
Built in 1928, the apartment building represents a significant change in Detroit from low density to higher density housing. In 1988, the Messiah Housing Corporation purchased the building; they rehabilitated the apartments and opened them for Section 8 housing in 1992. Messiah Housing also owns the nearby Saint Paul Manor Apartments and Kingston Arms Apartments.
References
External links
Church of the Messiah Housing Corporation
Apartment buildings in Detroit
National Register of Historic Places in Detroit
Residential buildings completed in 1928
Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
Historic district contributing properties in Michigan
Art Deco architecture in Michigan |
26720553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riviera%20Nayarit%20Classic | Riviera Nayarit Classic | The Riviera Nayarit Classic was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the Symetra Tour, the LPGA Tour's developmental tour. It was the first full-field event on the Symetra Tour to be played outside the United States. It is played at El Tigre Golf and Country Club in Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit, Mexico.
The tournament was a 54-hole event, as are most Symetra Tour tournaments, and included pre-tournament pro-am, in which local amateur golfers can play with the professional golfers from the Tour as a benefit for local charities.
Tournament names through the years:
2010: Riviera Nayarit Classic
2011: Santorini Riviera Nayarit Classic
2012: Riviera Nayarit Classic
Winners
Tournament records
References
External links
Symetra Tour official website
Former Symetra Tour events
Golf tournaments in Mexico
Sport in Nayarit
Recurring sporting events established in 2010
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2012
2010 establishments in Mexico
2012 disestablishments in Mexico
Defunct sports competitions in Mexico |
23579907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20the%20Duration | For the Duration | For the Duration is a 1991 album by Rosemary Clooney, of songs popular during World War II. Clooney is accompanied by her usual small jazz group featuring Warren Vaché Jr., Scott Hamilton, and John Oddo, plus a string section.
Track listing
"No Love, No Nothin'" (Leo Robin, Harry Warren) – 4:00
"Don't Fence Me In" (Robert Fletcher, Cole Porter) – 4:25
"I Don't Want to Walk Without You Baby" (Frank Loesser, Jule Styne) – 3:59
"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter) – 4:08
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter) – 3:23
"Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer) – 4:28
"For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) – 4:06
"September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 4:19
"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 5:58
"They're Either Too Young or Too Old" (Loesser, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:14
"The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Warren) – 4:40
"(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" (Walter Kent, Nat Burton) – 2:29
"Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Sammy Cahn, Styne) – 3:48
"I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) – 4:18
Personnel
Rosemary Clooney – vocals
Warren Vaché Jr. – cornet
Scott Hamilton – tenor saxophone
John Oddo – piano
Chuck Berghofer – bass
Jim Hughart – bass
Jake Hanna – drums
Source:
References
1991 albums
Concord Records albums
Rosemary Clooney albums |
20483224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansel%20Ba%C5%9Fer | Tansel Başer | Tansel Başer (born 17 April 1978 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian-Turkish footballer.
References
External links
1978 births
Australian people of Turkish descent
South Melbourne FC players
Trabzonspor footballers
Vanspor footballers
Akçaabat Sebatspor footballers
Erzurumspor footballers
Hume City FC players
Süper Lig players
National Soccer League (Australia) players
Soccer players from Melbourne
Australian expatriate soccer players
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
Living people
Association football defenders
Australian soccer players |
23579910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reenard | Reenard | Reenard () is a townland in County Kerry, Ireland. It is located in the deep south on the Iveragh Peninsula on the southwest coast of Ireland opposite Valentia Island about 5 miles west of Cahersiveen. Reenard is connected to the Irish road network by a road crossing the N70 national secondary route at Point's Cross.
Reenard Point, located in the townland, is the mainland terminal for the car ferry to Knightstown on Valentia Island.
Railways
Valentia Harbour railway station was finally opened on 12 September 1893.
The station closed on 1 February 1960.
GAA
Reenard is best known in Ireland for its GAA club which has historically supplied players to the Kerry senior football team.
See also
Valentia Harbour railway station
References
Townlands of County Kerry |
26720557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato%20Anselmi | Renato Anselmi | Renato Anselmi (26 October 1891 – 3 October 1973) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold and two silver medals at three Olympic Games in the team sabre competitions.
References
External links
1891 births
1973 deaths
People from Marigliano
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Province of Naples |
17341741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20W.%20Keller | Gary W. Keller | Gary Keller is an American entrepreneur and best-selling author. He is the founder of Keller Williams, which is the largest real estate company in the world by agent count but second in closed sales volume, and units sold. Keller founded Keller Williams on training and education and later brought his teachings to print. His books include The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, and The ONE Thing. He is the executive chairman at KWx, the holding company that oversees all Keller Williams properties, and is considered one of the most influential people in real estate.
Early life
Keller was born on July 21, 1957 in Pasadena, Texas. Both his mother and father were school teachers, until his father was promoted to be a high school administrator. The family moved to North Shore, outside of Houston.
Keller originally had no intention of attending college. The summer following his high school graduation he began to pursue a music career. Mid-summer, he came to his parents and informed them that he wanted to go to college as his music career was not working out. His parents informed him that they had already applied to Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he was accepted. After visiting the university, Keller decided to attend, following in the footsteps of his sister and father who had previously attended the university.
While at Baylor, Keller spent time shadowing professionals in the fields of law, accounting, banking, and real estate. It was at that time that he became interested in real estate and began to pursue a real estate and insurance degree program that had just started at the university. His senior year he was interviewed by various real estate companies who came to Baylor looking for graduates. Following graduation in 1979, Keller moved to Austin where he began his career in real estate.
Career
Real Estate
When Keller moved to Austin in 1979, he worked for a company that would later become a competitor. He found success in Austin, selling five houses his first month and became VP within five years. In 1983 he partnered with Joe Williams and started two companies – Keller Williams Realtors, which Keller ran, and Keller Williams Commercial, which Williams ran. The commercial company never took off, but Keller's residential side did. In 1987, inside the residential company, Keller created a division that would later become Keller Williams Realty International, which became known as KWRI.
The company grew to be the largest real estate agency in the Austin area within two years. After expansion and franchising, it became the largest real estate franchise by agent count in North America and the only privately held global residential real estate brokerage, reaching over 100,000 agents worldwide in 2014 and surpassing 180,000 agents by 2018.
In 2017, he began to transition Keller Williams into more of a technology company, launching technology initiatives that included KW Labs, KW Keller Cloud, and "Kelle," an artificial intelligence app used as a virtual assistant and an agent-to-agent referral tools platform called "Referrals." Keller replaced John Davis as CEO of the company in 2019. As of 2020, Keller serves as the executive chairman of KWx, a holding company that oversees all Keller Williams affiliate companies.
Writing and publishing
Keller began writing during his early years at Keller Williams Realty. He established KellerINK for the publishing of instructional and inspirational business books with a specialty in real estate. His first book, The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, was co-authored with Dave Jenks and Jay Papasan and released in 2004. The book made the best-seller list on BusinessWeek. He co-authored a second book, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, in 2005 along with Papasan and Jenks. This book became a New York Times best-seller.
In 2013, Keller and co-author Papasan published their first non-real estate book, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The book reached #1 on the Wall Street Journal business bestseller list. It was also a bestseller on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Hudson Booksellers named The ONE Thing one of the five best business interest books of 2013. The authors have been featured in publications including Forbes and Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership Review. In all, Keller has published four best-selling books on real estate and has sold more than a million copies worldwide.
In addition to writing and real estate, Keller has been involved in other ventures including that of an investor. He has invested in companies such as the Austin-based Music & Entertainment Television. Keller is also a public speaker and was a panelist for the nonprofit Relationship & Information Series for Entrepreneurs in 2013 along with former Texas Longhorns quarterback Vince Young.
Bibliography
Recognition
Keller has received numerous awards and accolades over the years. He is a previous winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and a finalist for Inc. Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2011 Baylor University honored him with a Meritorious Achievement Award and a Medal of Service for his business leadership. The same year Austin Business Journal recognized him as one of Austin's 30 Most Influential.
Personal life
Keller has his own band that performs annually at Keller Williams events. Keller lives in Austin with his wife, Mary. Their son John also lives and works in Austin.
Keller teaches a business and life development course to young adults both in Austin and through his alma mater, Baylor University. He has been a supporter of Baylor since his graduation, and in 2007 he donated the funds for a residential real estate research center at the Hankamer School of Business. The Keller Center, as it was named, studies consumer behavior, marketing strategies, and management solutions. In 2013, Keller launched ALL ATX, a nonprofit with a goal to educate musicians on how to build successful careers in the Austin music industry.
References
External links
Keller Williams homepage
Gary Keller profile at KellerINK
One Thing book official website
ALL ATX homepage
Keller Capital homepage
Living people
1957 births
Baylor University alumni
American real estate businesspeople
American business writers |
20483242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBBA | MBBA | N-(4-Methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline (MBBA) is an organic compound often used as a liquid crystal.
References
External links
NIST Webbook
Imines
Liquid crystals
Phenol ethers |
23579929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazneen%20Ghaani | Nazneen Ghaani | Nazneen Ghaani is an Indian actress probably best known for playing the role of Ragini Juneja in Disney Channel India's sitcom, Kya Mast Hai Life. Nazneen acted as Gauri in The Hangman.
Ghaani appeared in many advertisements like Big Bazar Badal Dalo, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Star Plus on Mobile etc. She has done over 150 advertisements.
Filmography
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
The Hangman (2005 film)
Television
Kya Mast Hai Life as Ragini juneja
References
External links
1986 births
Actresses from Mumbai
Living people
Indian Muslims
Actresses in Hindi television
Indian television actresses
21st-century Indian actresses |
17341745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanamxay%20district | Sanamxay district | Sanamxay is a district (muang) of Attapeu province in southern Laos.
Towns and villages
Sanamxai
References
Districts of Attapeu province |
26720574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayele%20Seteng | Ayele Seteng | Ayele Seteng (born 11 April 1955) is an Ethiopian-born Israeli long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.
Personal life
He was born and raised in Ethiopia, and is of Beta Israel heritage. In 1991 he emigrated to Israel. He is also known as Haile Satayin, a variant of "Ayele Seteng". The different existing versions of his name are due to transliteration.
He stands tall and weighs about .
Career
Ayele Seteng won national Israeli titles before competing internationally. He achieved his personal best times on the track during the mid-1990s: 14:00.49 in the 5000 metres, achieved in 1996; and 29:04.08 in the 10,000 metres, achieved in 1995. He later converted fully to road running, and to some extent cross-country running.
He competed at the World Cross Country Championships in 1997, 1999 and 2000 without any success. One of his first marathons took place at the 2002 European Championships, where he finished 32nd. In 2004 he finished 12th at the 2004 World Half Marathon Championships and 20th at the 2004 Olympic Games. In 2005 he finished 26th at the 2005 World Half Marathon Championships, and 21st at the 2005 World Championships. He finished 18th at the 2006 European Championships, 19th at the 2007 World Championships and 69th at the 2008 Olympic Games.
At 49 years and 141 days, competing on behalf of Israel at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was the oldest track and field athlete competing at the 2004 Olympics. At 53 years and 136 days, competing on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, he was the oldest athlete competing at the 2008 Olympics. He is reported to have once said "My age is old, but my heart is young."
His personal best times on the road are 1:03:43 in the half marathon, achieved in March 1997 in Tel Aviv; and 2:14:21 in the marathon, achieved in October 2003 in the Venice Marathon. Both these results are Israeli records.
"Running Movie" (Original title in Hebrew: Seret Ratz), a documentary directed by Omer Peled and produced by Gidi Avivi in 2011, follows Ayele Seteng, the oldest marathon runner to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and reveals his efforts to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
See also
List of Israeli records in athletics
References
External links
1955 births
Living people
Ethiopian Jews
Ethiopian emigrants to Israel
Citizens of Israel through Law of Return
Israeli male long-distance runners
Israeli male marathon runners
Olympic athletes of Israel
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Israeli people of Ethiopian-Jewish descent
Sportspeople of Ethiopian descent
Jewish male athletes (track and field)
Israeli Jews
World Athletics Championships athletes for Israel |
26720600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnel%20Polytechnic | Agnel Polytechnic | Agnel Polytechnic is a polytechnic college which has adopted the education system from Maharashtra Board of Technical Education (MSBTE) located in Vashi [Juhu Nagar] the heart of Navi Mumbai, a satellite city to the metropolis of Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. It is the 'first and only' educational institution accredited by the National Board of Accreditation in Navi Mumbai. The technical institute offers diploma courses in the fields of electronics and telecommunications engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering and automobile engineering. The college is dominantly controlled by the principal Mrs Saly Antony. It is a part of the Father Agnel Ashram's family of educational institutions spread across India subsidiary to the Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues Institute of Technology. It is popularly known as the 'Fr. Agnel Polytechnic.'
Campus
Agnel Polytechnic is located in the Agnel Technical Education Complex, Sector - 9A,Juhu Nagar Vashi. It stands besides the biggest Mosque in Navi Mumbai. The whole campus is designed for the urban outlook. It mainly consists of the engineering college, the Central Library and then the Polytechnic, canteen, workshop, quarters and Father Saturnino Almeida's residence, Omkar all the way around the large campus. It is the largest campus in Navi Mumbai. College staff are given the facility to stay in the quarters with their families.
Student activities
The Agnel council was formed in the year 2004. From this year onwards various events are being conducted by the staff and students of the institute for the overall development of the students, for example, Technocratz (Technical event), Zest (Sports festival), Resonance (Cultural festival) and other activities such as alumni meet. This also includes an Agnel Social Cell to enable the students to understand and serve the society.
Until 2018, the events were organised with a standard and mediocre approach, but the council of the year 2019–2020 with their extremely organised and innovative ideas, marked the beginning of a modern era, which consists of corruption free, solution driven and a genuinely interested group of students who want to work for a change.
See also
University of Mumbai
Agnel Ashram
Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering (FCRCE)
External links
Agnel Polytechnic, Vashi
Agnel Student Council
Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues Institute of Technology (FCRIT), Vashi
Education in Navi Mumbai |
17341760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukta | Bukta | Bukta is an English sports clothing brand which was founded in 1879 in Stockport, Cheshire, England. It was also, for much of the 20th Century, a leading brand of tents and camping equipment.
History
E.R. Buck & Sons was founded in 1879, mainly producing shorts for soldiers fighting in the Boer Wars. In 1884 football team Nottingham Forest were pictured wearing kit produced by Bukta. Later Newcastle United and others were wearing kit made by Bukta.
In 1885 Bukta moved into a new factory in Manchester, leased from Lord Vernon, employing fewer than 30 people. It was one of the first companies to produce uniforms for the Scout Movement and Girl Guides and produced underwear and hospital and tropical uniforms for the British Army for the First World War. In 1920 Bucks bought the factory in the sale of the Vernon Estate. In 1923 E.R. Buck and Sons became a limited company; by this time it employed between 130 and 200 people.
In 1938 the factory in Poynton was closed and the company moved to a factory at Brinksway, Stockport. Members of the Buck family ran the company until 1982 when a consortium led by Sir Hugh Fraser purchased it.
Football teams that have worn kits produced by Bukta include Aberdeen, Ajax, Arsenal, Bolton Wanderers, Bradford City, Brighton and Hove Albion, Bristol City, Charlton Athletic, Chelsea, Chesterfield, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Dundee, Dundee United, Everton, Falkirk, Feyenoord, Grimsby Town, Hearts, Hibernian, Huddersfield Town, Hull City, Leicester City, Leyton Orient, Limavady United, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Motherwell, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Plymouth Argyle, Port Vale, Raith Rovers F.C., Rochdale, Rotherham United, Scunthorpe United, Sevilla FC, Sheffield Wednesday, Southend United, Stranraer, Swansea City, Tottenham Hotspur, Vitesse Arnhem, Watford, Wolves, West Ham and Wycombe Wanderers. Rochester Lancers of the second American Soccer League and, later, the North American Soccer League, were also outfitted for a time by Bukta.
In 2005, the Bukta brand was relaunched, having had millions of pounds spent on it, after an absence of more than six years, as a brand for up-market independent stores. Much of Bukta's design and distribution is outsourced to the Cavden Group.
References
External links
Bukta Vintage
Sportswear brands
Companies based in Stockport
Companies established in 1879
Sporting goods manufacturers of the United Kingdom |
20483250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/518th%20Fighter-Interceptor%20Squadron | 518th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron | The 518th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command's 408th Fighter Group at Klamath Falls Airport, Oregon, where it was inactivated on 1 July 1959. The squadron was first activated during World War II as a dive bomber unit, but was disbanded before participating in combat in a general reorganization of Army Air Forces training units. It was reconstituted during the Cold War as a fighter interceptor unit supporting the air defense of the United States.
World War II
The squadron was activated in April 1943 as the 636th Bombardment Squadron at Key Field, Mississippi, as one of the original squadrons of the 408th Bombardment Group. In August, along with other Army Air Forces (AAF) single engine dive bomber units, it became a fighter-bomber unit, and was redesignated as the 518th Fighter-Bomber Squadron. The squadron did not receive aircraft to begin training until October, after it had moved to Drew Field, Florida. It served as an operational training unit with various aircraft, providing cadres to "satellite groups" and as a replacement training unit, training individual pilots.
However, the AAF was finding that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization, were not proving well adapted to the training mission. Accordingly, it adopted a more functional system in which each AAF base was organized into a separate numbered unit. In this reorganization the squadron was disbanded in 1944 as the AAF converted to the AAF Base Unit system. It was replaced, along with other units at Woodward Army Air Field, by the 267th AAF Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station, Fighter) in a reorganization of the AAF in which all units not programmed for deployment overseas were replaced by AAF Base Units to free up manpower for assignment overseas.
Cold War air defense
During the Cold War the squadron was reconstituted, redesignated as the 518th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and activated at George Air Force Base, California in January 1955, where it was assigned to the 27th Air Division. At George, the squadron flew airborne intercept radar equipped and Mighty Mouse rocket armed North American F-86D Sabre aircraft. The squadron was inactivated and replaced by the 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron in 1955 as part of Air Defense Command's Project Arrow, which was designed to reestablish the fighter units that had compiled memorable records in the two world wars. The squadron was again active at Klamath Falls Airport, Oregon from 1956 to 1959.
Lineage
Constituted as the 636th Bombardment Squadron (Dive) on 23 March 1943
Activated on 5 April 1943
Redesignated 518th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 10 August 1943
Disbanded on 1 April 1944
Reconstituted and redesignated 518th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 4 November 1954
Activated on 8 January 1955
Inactivated on 18 August 1955
Activated on 8 June 1956
Inactivated on 1 July 1959
Assignments
408th Bombardment Group (later 408th Fighter-Bomber Group), 5 April 1943 – 1 April 1944
27th Air Division, 8 January – 18 August 1955
408th Fighter Group, 8 June 1956 – 1 July 1959
Stations
Key Field, Mississippi, 5 April 1943
Drew Field, Florida, 22 September 1943
Abilene Army Air Field, Texas, 10 November 1943
DeRidder Army Air Base, Louisiana, 12 February 1944
Woodward Army Air Field, Oklahoma, 24 March – 1 April 1944
George Air Force Base, California, 8 January – 18 August 1955
Klamath Falls Airport, Oregon, 8 June 1956 – 1 July 1959
Aircraft
Douglas A-24 Banshee, 1943–1944
North American A-36 Apache, 1943–1944
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1943–1944
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1943–1944
Cessna UC-78, 1943–1944
North American F-86D Sabre, 1955
References
Notes
Explanatory notes
Citations
Bibliography
Buss, Lydus H.(ed), Sturm, Thomas A., Volan, Denys, and McMullen, Richard F., History of Continental Air Defense Command and Air Defense Command July to December 1955, Directorate of Historical Services, Air Defense Command, Ent AFB, CO, (1956)
Further reading
External links
Fighter squadrons of the United States Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1954
Military units and formations of the United States in the Cold War |
26720611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Balzarini | Guido Balzarini | Guido Balzarini (21 October 1874 – 1935) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1874 births
1935 deaths
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
People from Terni
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Province of Terni |
17341765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeen%20Wali%20Khan | Sangeen Wali Khan | Sangeen Wali Khan () (June 7, 1959 – June 28, 2008) was a politician in Pakistan. He was son of Abdul Wali Khan and Nasim Wali Khan, and the half brother of Asfandyar Wali Khan, leader of Awami National Party. Sangeen Wali Khan was contender for Senate seat from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with a ticket from Awami National Party, in May 2008.
Khan contested his last election and was defeated by Saeed Muhammad Khan son of Lala Nisar Muhammad Khan.
Khan died on 25 June 2008 at the age of 49. He was suffering from liver cancer and died at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Lahore. He left behind a widow, son (Lawangeen Wali Khan) and two daughters.
See also
Khan Abdul Bahram Khan
Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Abdul Ghani Khan
Abdul Wali Khan
Nasim Wali Khan
Asfandyar Wali Khan
Bahram Khan Family
Awami National Party
References
1959 births
2008 deaths
Pashtun people
Awami National Party politicians
Sangeen Wali |
20483274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo%20Palanca | Massimo Palanca | Massimo Palanca (born 21 August 1953 in Loreto (AN), Italy) is an Italian former football striker known for his skill at scoring directly from corner-kicks, with two successful spells at FC Catanzaro in the mid-seventies and the late eighties.
Career
Palanca began his professional career at Camerino, transferring to Frosinone the following year where he scored 17 goals in 28 matches.
He transferred to Catanzaro, staying for seven years and scoring 70 goals in 206 matches, being the team's top scorer in Serie B in the 1977–78 season. When Catanzaros was promoted to Serie A, Palanca was again the team's top scorer with 13 goals. A memorable game with Roma in the Stadio Olimpico on 4 March 1979 ended 1–3 to Catanzaro; Palanca scored a hat-trick.
Palanca transferred to Napoli in 1981–82, scoring 1 goal in 14 games. He moved to Como in Serie B the following season where again he scored only 1 goal in 19 matches. After returning to Napoli in 1983–84, he alleged misunderstandings with coach Rino Marchesi. The following two seasons Palanca played at Foligno in Serie C2, scoring 18 goals in 47 matches, after which he returned to Catanzaro.
While back at Catanzaro for the 1986–87 season, Palanca helped the team gain promotion from Serie C1 to Serie B, contributing 17 goals in 29 matches. Over the next three seasons with Catanzaro, he made 97 appearances and scored 28 goals. At the end of the 1989–90 season, Palancas' last in football, Catanzaro finished in 20th position in Serie B; the team was relegated to Serie C1.
External links
Massimo Palanca official website
U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players
Living people
1953 births
Italian footballers
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Frosinone Calcio players
S.S.C. Napoli players
Como 1907 players
A.S.D. Città di Foligno 1928 players
Association football forwards |
17341768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%20House%20Inn | Stone House Inn | The Stone House Inn, also known as the David Sisson House, located at 122 Sakonnet Point Road in Little Compton, Rhode Island, is a large four-story fieldstone residence – built in 1854 for David Sisson, a Providence-based industrialist – and its associated c.1886 barn. The structures sit on 2 acres (0.81 ha) of land overlooking Round Pond to the south, with a view of the Sakonnet River and Sakonnet Harbor to the west. When the house was completed, it was the largest single-family dwelling in that region and the only one built of stone.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
History
The four-story stone home was constructed in 1854 by David Sisson, an iron and textile manufacturer from Providence, Rhode Island, and was home also to his son Henry Tillinghast Sisson, a Civil War hero and Lt. Governor of Rhode Island from 1875 to 1877.
In 1902 the property was auctioned off, and was subsequently used as a boarding house and a country inn. A tavern called The Tap Room, designed Richard Kunnicutt, was built in the cellar in 1933, after the end of Prohibition. The Hurricane of 1938 flooded the building, destroyed the cupola and damaged the porches, and the Stone House remained closed for several decades.
In 1962, new owners renovated the building and opened it as the members-only Stone House Club. At around this time the barn was made over into an event space, with bar and catering kitchen. The property was sold in 1972 and again in 1975 to owners who operated it as an inn for over 30 years, after which it was bought by Stone House LLC, which reconstructed the porches and cupola.
Currently, the Stone House Inn is a bed and breakfast. Many green technologies have been incorporated—the heating and cooling systems rely on geothermal technology. It no longer hosts weddings or parties. There are five modern rooms in the barn, four suites on the inside of the main house and two two-bedroom suites in the main house.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Notes
Sources
RI History information on the House (PDF)
External links
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Little Compton, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
17341774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah%20Mills | Josiah Mills | Josiah Mills (25 October 1862 – 23 November 1929) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He was born and died in Oldham, Lancashire.
Mills made one first-class appearance for Lancashire during the 1889 season. In the single inning in which he batted, he scored one run. He made one catch and one stumping.
References
1862 births
1929 deaths
English cricketers
Lancashire cricketers
People from Oldham |
26720630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20Niveditha | Baby Niveditha | Niveditha Vijayan credited as Baby Niveditha is a former Indian child actress who works predominantly in Malayalam films. She who the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist in 2009 for her acting in Kaana Kanmani and Bhramaram.
Personal life
She is born as the second child to Vijayan and Praseetha who has settled in Abu Dhabi. She has an elder sister named Niranjana Vijayan who is also an actress.
Filmography
Awards
References
External links
Actresses from Kannur
Indian child actresses
Living people
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Indian film actresses
21st-century Indian child actresses
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Child actresses in Malayalam cinema
Year of birth missing (living people) |
26720632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Shkoder | Siege of Shkoder | The siege of Shkoder may refer to:
The siege of Shkodra (known also as the siege of Scutari) in 1478–79, a siege by Ottoman forces upon the Venetian-controlled Albanian fortress at Shkodra.
The siege of Shkodra (known also as the siege of Scutari) in 1912–13, a siege by predominantly Montenegrin forces upon the Ottoman-controlled Albanian fortress at Shkodra.
Note: The city called Shkodra has been known by many names throughout history: Shkodra, Shkodër, Skadar, and Scutari are the most common. The current English (and Albanian) spelling is Shkodra. Shkodër is the indefinite nominative form of the name in Albanian, and is sometimes written as Shkoder in English. Scutari was the old Italian and Venetian name for the city. Skadar is the Serbian and Montenegrin name, and is also used in reference to the neighbouring lake. |
20483294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izbica%20Ghetto | Izbica Ghetto | The Izbica ghetto was a Jewish ghetto created by Nazi Germany in Izbica in occupied Poland during World War II, serving as a transfer point for deportation of Jews from Poland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Bełżec and Sobibór extermination camps. The ghetto was created in 1941, although the first transports of Jews from the German Reich started arriving there as early as 1940. Izbica was the largest transit ghetto in the Lublin reservation, with a death rate almost equal to that of the Warsaw ghetto. SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt Engels, known for his exceptional cruelty, served as its only commandant.
Ghetto operation
The Jews who lived in Izbica were kept separate from the new arrivals. They were housed on the other side of the railroad tracks. Also, the Jews shipped in from Germany and Austria were differentiated from Polish Jews by the color of the obligatory star of David signs, yellow for German, and blue for the Polish Jews. In order to make space for the incoming transports, 2,200 local Jews were sent to the Belzec death camp on March 24, 1942. Between March and May 1942, approximately 12,000 to 15,000 new Jews were transported to Izbica from across Europe as part of secretive Operation Reinhard; among them engineers, doctors, economists, army generals and professors from Vienna, The Hague, Heidelberg and Breslau, including the vice-president of Prague. They were housed in a few wooden barracks which could accommodate about half of the prisoners, pressed against each other like sardines. The rest were forced to subsist outdoors. Jews stayed in the barracks usually for no more than four days, with almost nothing to eat. Many victims succumbed to typhus due to poor sanitary conditions in the ghetto. The foreigners, many of whom were proficient in German, had an easier time identifying with their Nazi oppressors than the Polish Jews from inside the ghetto. Denunciations were commonplace.
Mass killings
In the early stage of the ghetto existence, the Nazis destroyed the local Jewish cemetery. The tombstones were desecrated and used to build walls of a new prison. The entire ghetto in Izbica was liquidated beginning November 2, 1942, which led to a week of horrific killings at the cemetery. Several thousand Jews (estimated at 4,500) were massacred by the Sonderdienst battalion of Ukrainian Trawnikis in an assembly-line-style, and dumped into hastily dug mass graves. The murders were committed by trained killers who drank heavily, but the soldiers of German Reserve Police Battalion 101 who rounded up the condemned prisoners drank also, especially at night. A second, smaller ghetto was set up in its place for about 1,000 local Jews. It was dismantled on April 28, 1943 with all remaining inmates sent to Sobibor death camp. Of all the Jewish citizens of Izbica (over 90% of its pre-war population), only 14 survived the Holocaust. The Jewish cemetery in Izbica is being reconstructed by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland.
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Izbica - a story of a place by Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. Translation.
Izbica Ghetto by Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team.
Kurt Adler
IZBICA - Drehkreuz des Todes (Turnstile of death) - a German TV Documentary.
An interview with Tomasz Blatt - the ghetto survivor. Pamięć Miejsca.
Jewish cemetery in Izbica
Ghettos in Lublin District |
17341778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Maxwell%20Stanley | C. Maxwell Stanley | Claude Maxwell Stanley (1904–1984) was an American civil engineer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, peace activist, author and world citizen. He founded Stanley Consultants, an engineering and consulting firm, in 1939 with his younger brother Art. In 1943 he co-founded HON Industries, originally named Home-O-Nize, an office furniture manufacturing company; and, along with his wife Elizabeth, created and endowed the Stanley Foundation (now the Stanley Center for Peace and Security) in 1956, which is a global policy organization which focuses on mitigating climate change, avoiding the use of nuclear weapons, and preventing mass violence and atrocities. All three organizations are headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa, United States.
Mr. Stanley provided leadership in a number of engineering societies. He was a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Consulting Engineers Council. He was a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Iowa Engineering Society (Honorary Member and Past President), the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers, and the Consulting Engineers Council/Iowa. He was the first Chairman of the UI Foundation's President's Club and was a member of the Foundation Board for nine years, including four as Chairman. He was one of the College of Engineering's most outstanding graduates and extensively supported The University of Iowa, including the donation of over $2 million and a major art collection to the UI Foundation after his death in 1984.
Mr. Stanley died from a heart attack while on a business trip to New York City.
In 2003, the Hydraulics Laboratory of the University of Iowa was renamed in honor of 1926 engineering graduate C. Maxwell Stanley. The structure is home to the College of Engineering's IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering.
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1984 deaths
American anti-war activists
American civil engineers
People from Corning, Iowa
University of Iowa alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
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