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44507511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythio%2C%20Larissa | Pythio, Larissa | Pythio (, ) is a village and a community of the Elassona municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Olympos, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 433 inhabitants in the village. The community of Pythio covers an area of 38.959 km2.
Population
According to the 2011 census, the population of the settlement of Pythio was 433 people, a decrease of almost 33% compared with the population of the previous census of 2001.
See also
List of settlements in the Larissa regional unit
References
Populated places in Larissa (regional unit) |
20484986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailleurs%20land | Ailleurs land | Ailleurs land is a 2003 album recorded by French singer Florent Pagny. It was his tenth album oversall and was released on April 8, 2003. It achieved huge success in France and Belgium (Wallonia), where it remained charted respectively for 75 and 34 weeks, including several weeks atop. The album was also successful in Switzerland. It was led by the single "Ma Liberté de penser", a number-one hit in both countries, and followed by "Je trace", which had a minor success (#26 in France, #34 in Belgium, #65 in Switzerland). French singers Calogero, Pascal Obispo, Alain Lanty, Canadian singer Daniel Lavoie and actress Sandrine Kiberlain participated in the writing or the composing of the album.
Track listing
"Je trace" (Lionel Florence, Maurici, Calogero) — 3:23
"Ailleurs land" (Jean-Pierre Lebert, Pascal Obispo) — 3:54
"Ma Liberté de penser" (Florence, Obispo, Pagny) — 3:24
"Je parle même pas d'amour" (Pierre Grillet, Alain Lanty) — 4:26
"La folie d'un ange" (Daran, Filippi) — 3:12
"Le feu à la peau" (Bruce Homs, Daniel Lavoie) — 4:27
"Sauf toi" (Frédéric Brun, Nicolas Richard) — 3:10
"Demandez à mon cheval" (Asdorve, Lebert, Obispo) — 4:07
"Mon amour oublie que je l'aime" (Jérôme Attal, Daran) — 4:15
"Guérir" (Daran, Florence) — 4:49
"Sur mesure" (Daran, Sandrine Kiberlain) — 4:53
Source : Allmusic.
Personnel
Denis Bennarosh – drums
Jean Francois Berger – programming, clavier, realization
Emerik Castaing – assistant
Bertrand Chatnet – engineer, vocal engineer
Daran – synthesizer, acoustic guitar, arranger, electric guitar, classical guitar, realization
Nick Davis – mixing
Francois Delabriere – programming, engineer, realization
Chistopher Deschamps – drums
Florian Dubos – guitar
Steve Forward – engineer
Erik Fostinelli – synthesizer, guitar, percussion, piano, arranger, electric guitar, programming, realization, Bass
Benoit Fourreau – tuba
Jean-Paul Gonnod – engineer
Emmanuel Goulet – programming
Marc Guéroult – assistant
Simon Hale – piano, arranger, string arrangements, executive director
Pierre Jaconelli – electric guitar
Sylvain Joasson – drums
Bertrand Lamblot – musical direction
Sandrine Le Bars – production executive
Jean Marion – photography, photoshop artist
Jean-Loup Morette – engineer
Juan José Mosalini – bandoneon
Pascal Obispo – acoustic guitar, programming, chorus, realization
Florent Pagny – chorus
Benjamin Raffaelli – guitar, realization
Stanislas Renoult – arranger, string arrangements
David Salkin – drums
Miles Showell – mastering
Greg Slapzinsky – harmonica
Ian Thomas – drums
Laurent Vernerey – bass
Christophe Voisin – programming
Volodia – engineer
Charts
Certifications and sales
Releases
References
2003 albums
Florent Pagny albums |
44507516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tregoning | Tregoning | Tregoning is a surname. Notable people with that name:
Frank Tregoning, American shipyard owner, who built the civilian motorboat of the same name in 1907 of the USS Sans Souci II (SP-301).
Ian Tregoning, music producer and co-founder of Do It Records
Max Tregoning, co-founder of Do It Records, brother of the above.
John Tregoning, (1840s–1920s), American mechanical engineer, who wrote the first books on factory management.
Joseph E. Tregoning, (born 1941), former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Larry Tregoning, team captain at 1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
Marcus Tregoning, horse racing jockey and trainer.
Nick Tregoning, Liberal Democrat candidate in Wales (European Parliament constituency) |
17343250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20and%20Letters | Life and Letters | Life and Letters was an English literary journal first published between June 1928 and April 1935.
The magazine was edited from first publication by Desmond MacCarthy after he lost interest in the New Statesman. It had financial backing from Lord Esher. In 1934, Ellis Roberts took over from MacCarthy.
Contributors to the magazine included H. E. Bates, Max Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Kenneth Clark, Cyril Connolly, E. M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, F. L. Lucas, William Plomer, Peter Quennell, Dilys Powell, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh, Antonia White, and Virginia Woolf.
The magazine published a number of significant articles by Cyril Connolly, including "Conversations in Berlin", "The Position of Joyce" (April 1929), "England not my England" (October 1929) and "Under which King?" It was seen as a precursor to Connolly's Horizon.
The title was revived in 1945 as Life and Letters and the London Mercury and Bookman, but ceased publication in 1950.
References
Magazines established in 1928
Magazines disestablished in 1935
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom |
26721761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan%20Blackaby | Ethan Blackaby | Ethan Allen Blackaby (July 24, 1940 – January 16, 2022) was an American professional baseball player who was an outfielder in Major League Baseball, appearing in 15 games for the Milwaukee Braves during the 1962 and 1964 seasons. He threw and batted left-handed, stood tall and weighed .
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Blackaby attended Canton, Illinois, High School, where he was a multi-sport standout athlete. He played baseball and football at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign before signing with the Braves in 1961. His nine-year professional career included 1,073 games in minor league baseball, punctuated by his two trials with the Braves in the closing weeks of the 1962 and 1964 campaigns, when MLB rosters expanded to 40 players. In his debut on September 6, 1962, he doubled in his first MLB at bat against Ernie Broglio of the St. Louis Cardinals. He had entered the game as a pinch hitter for Braves' catcher Bob Uecker, who later became both a film and television actor and Baseball Hall of Fame play-by-play broadcaster. Blackaby collected only two other hits in the majors, both singles, in 25 at bats over his two brief trials.
After his playing days were over, Blackaby was part-owner and general manager of the Phoenix Giants of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Blackaby died on January 16, 2022, at the age of 81.
References
External links
1940 births
2022 deaths
Atlanta Crackers players
Austin Braves players
Baseball players from Cincinnati
Birmingham A's players
Boise Braves players
Denver Bears players
El Paso Sun Kings players
Hawaii Islanders players
Illinois Fighting Illini baseball players
Illinois Fighting Illini football players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Minor league baseball executives
Milwaukee Braves players
Oklahoma City 89ers players
People from Canton, Illinois
Richmond Braves players
Salt Lake City Bees players
Seattle Angels players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Yakima Braves players |
44507525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok%20Gajanan%20Modak | Ashok Gajanan Modak | Ashok G. Modak is an Indian national born in 1940 currently residing in Mumbai. He did his Master of Arts (M.A.) first in Economics (1963) and later in Political Science (1967) from the University of Pune. He obtained his Doctorate (Ph.D.) from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1980. His Doctorate subject was "Soviet Economic Aid to India." In recognition of his contribution in the field of education, the Government of India nominated him for the position of National Research Professor on 6 January 2015 for a period of five years.
On 21st Jan 2016, Professor Lokesh Chandra, President - Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) appointed Dr. Modak as a member of the reconstituted General Assembly of ICCR for a term of three years.
In 1963 he began his teaching career as lecturer in Economics at the Arts, Science and Commerce College at Chalisgaon in Jalgaon District in the state of Maharashtra. Later after serving as lecturer in Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai he joined as Reader in the Centre for Soviet Studies, University of Mumbai. Whilst at this juncture; in 1994 he was invited by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to be a candidate from the Graduates Constituency of the Konkan region in the state of Maharashtra. He won the elections in 1994 and 2000 to become a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) of the state of Maharashtra. He continued in this position for 12 years till 2006.
In 2006, the University of Mumbai offered him the Honorary position of Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Central Eurasian Studies and he has been busy in this role till date.
Modak has pursued his research activities in several countries like the former USSR, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, former Yugoslavia to name a few. In 1986 the US Government invited him for a monthlong participation in seminars pertaining to Superpower Relations. He was a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Oriental Institute, Moscow (Russia) and also at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands.
He has written 30 books, over 104 research papers and several newspaper and magazine articles in periodicals like International Studies, Journal of Indian Council of World Affairs New Delhi and Eternal India; New Delhi.
Recipient of the Best Parliamentarian Award (1997) from the Legislative Council, Mumbai; Modak also won the P.B. Bhave Orator Award, Writer-Award and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Award for his work in the Legislative Council of Maharashtra.
Modak has also voluntarily involved himself on various forums and committees. Currently he is the President of two educational institutes in the state of Maharashtra. He heads the Konkan Graduates Forum which deals with imparting vocational education to female students. He also heads the Sahyadri Adiwasi Bahuvidha Sewa Sangh; an organisation rendering welfare services to tribal people of the Thane district in Maharashtra.
He recently delivered a lecture series on "Integral Humanism and Westernism – A Comparative Analysis"; "Relevance of Integral Humanism in Present Era" by India Foundation; New Delhi and India Policy Foundation; New Delhi.
Academic Qualifications, Research Activities and Work Experience
1963 : Master of Arts in Economics; University of Pune
1967 : Master of Arts in Political Science; University of Pune
1963 to 1967 : Lecturer in Economics at the Arts, Science and Commerce College at Chalisgaon, Jalgaon District, Maharashtra
1967 to 1969 : Research activities; Indian School of International Studies, New Delhi
1969 to 1971 : Research activities on Soviet Relations with India; Oriental Institute, Moscow
1971 to 1983 : Lecturer in Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai
1974 to 1975 : Thesis on Role of Nikita Khrushchev in Soviet Yugoslav Relations; Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands
1975 : Post Graduate Diploma in International Development; Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands
1980 :
1983 to 1994 : Reader in the Centre for Soviet Studies, University of Mumbai
1994 to 2006 : Member of the Legislative Council (MLC); Maharashtra
2006 to Date : Honorary Adjunct Professor - Centre for Central Eurasian Studies; University of Mumbai
2006 to Date : Political, social and economic commentator for leading news and print media
Selected Books and Research Articles
Economic History of the Soviet Union
Analysis of Gorbachev Era
Economic Thinking of Gopal Krishna Gokhale
A Genuine Socialist Thinker – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia
Was Swami Vivekananda a Socialist
Left Front Rule in West Bengal – Genesis, Growth and Decay
१८५७ चा स्वातंत्र्य लढा - द्रिष्टीकोन व मत मतांतरे
हिंदुत्व - न्यायालयीन निवाडा आणि सेकुलर आग पाखड
नामदार गोपाळ कृष्ण गोखले
श्री गुरुजी - जीवन आणि कार्य
धर्मपाल साहित्य - शोध आणि बोध
शिक्षणाचे भगवीकरण - आक्षेप आणि तथ्य
राष्ट्र विचाराचे सामाजिक आशय
विवेकानंद - विचार आणि सध्यस्तिथि
स्वामी विवेकानंद - चिरंतन चैतन्याचा स्त्रोत
Web References
https://web.archive.org/web/20141130004134/http://www.esakal.com/TagSearch.aspx?TagName=dr.%20ashok%20modak
http://www.bookganga.com/eBooks/Books/Details/5003411020206404958
https://web.archive.org/web/20140715110820/http://www.mu.ac.in/arts/social_science/Eurasian_Studies/Seminar.html
http://www.oneindia.com/2006/06/04/bjp-to-field-sanjay-kelkar-for-mlc-polls-1149492467.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030239/http://www.hindunet.org/hvk/specialrepo/mms/ch2.html
http://www.indiapolicyfoundation.org/Encyc/2014/9/18/351_03_47_54_Brochure.pdf
References
National Research Professor
National Research Professor Nomination
1940 births
Living people
Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni
University of Mumbai faculty
Savitribai Phule Pune University alumni
Writers from Mumbai |
17343267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Yu%20Tae-chol | Peter Yu Tae-chol | Peter Yu Tae-chol (유대철 베드로) (c. 1826 – October 31, 1839) was one of the 103 canonised Korean Martyrs and a son of a government interpreter named Augustine Nyou Tjin-kil, also a martyr. His feast day is October 21, and he is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean martyrs on September 20.
After giving himself up, he was tortured and then sent to prison, where he was strangled at the age of 13.
References
Bibliography
The Lives of the 103 Martyr Saints of Korea 33: Saint Yu Tae-chol Peter (1826 ~ 1839), Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea Newsletter No. 53 (Winter 2005).
“Saint Petrus Yu Tae-Ch’ol“. CatholicSaints.Info. 4 June 2018. Web. 24 December 2018.
1826 births
1839 deaths
19th-century Korean people
19th-century Christian saints
19th-century executions by Korea
19th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
People from Seoul
Roman Catholic child saints
Executed children
Murdered Korean children
Executed Korean people
Korean Roman Catholic saints
People executed by strangulation
Korean torture victims
Joseon Christians |
44507533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20shopping%20malls%20in%20San%20Marino | List of shopping malls in San Marino | This is an alphabetical list of shopping centres in San Marino:
Atlante Shopping Center, via Tre Settembre, Dogana (about 40 shops)
Azzurro Shopping Center, via Marino Moretti, Serravalle - San Marino's biggest shopping center (Conad + 40 shops)
The Market San Marino Outlet Experience, via Fondo Ausa, Falciano - San Marino's biggest factory outlet (about 130 shops) OPENING 2020
Electronics Shopping Center, via Marino Moretti, Serravalle (Dpiù + 5 shops)
San Marino Centro Commerciale, via del Passetto, Fiorentino (Coal + 10 shops)
Economy of San Marino
San Marino
San Marino-related lists |
44507540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrosyne%20nevadensis | Euphrosyne nevadensis | Euphrosyne nevadensis is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the western United States where it is found in Nevada, eastern California (Inyo and Mono Counties).
References
Flora of the United States
Heliantheae |
17343273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkwright%20Bridge | Arkwright Bridge | The Arkwright Bridge is an abandoned historic bridge formerly carrying Hill Street over the Pawtuxet River in the Arkwright mill village in central Rhode Island. The river forms the border between Cranston and Coventry.
The first bridge to span the Pawtuxet River at this location was an early nineteenth century wooden bridge, located in the city of Cranston. In 1887, a special resolution was passed changing the Coventry-Cranston border to the Pawtuxet River. A new iron bridge was commissioned in 1888 by a joint building committee from both Coventry and Cranston and the responsibility for maintenance of the new bridge was to be shared by both municipalities.
The bridge was built in 1888 by Dean & Westbrook for the Town of Coventry and the Interlaken Mills (later known as the Arkwright Mills). It is the longest surviving 19th century truss bridge in Rhode Island, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The bridge is 128 feet, 6 inches long; 19 feet, 7 inches wide; and has and a depth of truss of 21 feet. The bridge is a single-span, through Pratt truss, built using Phoenix columns.
In 2004, there was a proposal to move the Arkwright Bridge to another location along the Pawtuxet River along the border of West Warwick, Rhode Island to be part of a proposed West Warwick Riverwalk. The bridge was ultimately not moved.
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation recommended closure of the locally owned bridge, and following an inspection, determined that the weight limit should be reduced to less than 3 tons from the previous 5 tons. Both communities closed the 123-year-old span on Friday, September 30, 2011.
The bridge continues to be a popular jumping and swimming spot for local youth, with approximately 12 feet of air and an average 15 feet of water. The bridge was closed to pedestrians in 2019 after the death of a local youth who was diving off the bridge with friends.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Rhode Island
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
References
Bridges completed in 1888
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Cranston, Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Coventry, Rhode Island
Bridges in Providence County, Rhode Island
Bridges in Kent County, Rhode Island
Road bridges in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island
1888 establishments in Rhode Island
Pratt truss bridges in the United States
Metal bridges in the United States |
44507558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac%20do%20Meu%20Cora%C3%A7%C3%A3o | Tic-tac do Meu Coração | Tic-tac do Meu Coração (English: The Tick Tock of My Heart) is a song written by Alcyr Pires Red and Walfrido Silva and recorded by Carmen Miranda in 1935.
Carmen recorded this song accompanied by the flute of Benedito Lacerda and his music group in the 1930s. Was also presented by Miranda in Springtime in the Rockies (1942). It was such a success that it is still remembered in popular music circles today, and has been revived by singers such as Ney Matogrosso, in the 1980s.
References
External links
Gravações brasileiras de Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda songs
1935 songs
Portuguese-language songs
Brazilian songs |
20484987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff%20Bay%20Retail%20Park | Cardiff Bay Retail Park | Cardiff Bay Retail Park () is a retail park in Grangetown, Cardiff. Built in 1997 on the former Ferry Road landfill site. It is currently home to businesses including; Asda, Boots and Argos.
Development
The retail park is built on the edge of a former Ferry Road refuse site, which closed in 1994 after being filled with 4 million cubic metres of commercial and domestic rubbish. The ownership of the land passed to Cardiff Bay Development Corporation who created the retail park on an area of industrial units to the east of the site. Grangemoor Park was created opposite the retail park on the 20 metre hill landscaped on the old refuse site.
Units
Phase One
Maples was a homeware store that closed in around 2000. Over the years, the unit has been split into 3 smaller units.
Furnitureland and Powerhouse both closed their units in 2007. BHS then refurbished both to create one large unit until they ceased trading in 2016.
JJB closed their unit here once they moved to the Capital Retail Park in Leckwith, which also included a gym.
Phase Two
Phase Three (Dunleavy Drive)
The Dunleavy Drive section of the Cardiff Bay Retail Park was built in 2008.
Other stores in the surrounding area include Aldi to the south (part of the Cardiff International Sports Village) and IKEA immediately to the north.
References
Shopping in Cardiff
Retail parks in Wales
Grangetown, Cardiff |
26721762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey%20Kalimugogo | Godfrey Kalimugogo | Godfrey Mwene Kalimugogo (1943 – 25 January 2015) was a novelist and diplomat from Uganda. He also served as a diplomat, representing Uganda in Tanzania and Ethiopia. He retired from the diplomatic service in 2003.
Early life
Kalimugogo was born in the village of Kyocezo, Kabale District, circa 1943 in south-western Uganda near the Rwandan border.
Education
Kalimugogo was educated at Kihanga Boys' School in Mparo, Rukiga District, from where he went to Nyakasura School in Fort Portal, Kabarole District. He graduated with an honours degree in English and classical literature from Makerere University College of the University of East Africa in 1968. He obtained a postgraduate degree from the University of Dar es Salaam.
Writing
His first book was published in 1972. A number of Kalimugogo's novels focus on the "lifestyle of the greedy hedonist and the ramifications associated with overt love of sex, booze and money".
Kalimugogo's first book, Dare to Die, was released in 1972, but it was his third novel, Trials and Tribulations in Sandu’s Home, released in 1974, that distinguished him as a witty writer. It was put on the literature syllabus. At the time of his death, he had published fifteen books. In 2004 and 2010, respectively, A Visitor Without a Mission and Bury Me in a Simple Grave earned him honours from the National Book Trust of Uganda.
Works
References
External links
Review of Bury Me in a Simple Grave at Uganda's Sunday Monitor newspaper
1943 births
2015 deaths
People from Kabale District
Ugandan novelists
Male novelists
Ugandan male writers
Makerere University alumni
Kumusha
20th-century novelists
University of Dar es Salaam alumni
20th-century male writers |
17343292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20of%20the%20Bamberg%20Altar | Master of the Bamberg Altar | The Master of the Bamberg Altar (fl. ca. 1420–1440) was a German painter active in the Nuremberg area. His name is derived from an altarpiece depicting scenes from the Passion, painted in 1429 for the Franciscan church in Bamberg; this may be seen today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. Stylistically, the painting appears to be descended from the work of the Nuremberg Master of the Altarpiece of the Virgin.
The Master collaborated with the Master of the Imhoff Altar in the creation of the eponymous altarpiece; his depiction of the Man of Sorrows with the Virgin and Saint John forms the reverse panel. This is a characteristic example of his solemn and simple style. Another, more restrained work is the Man of Sorrows Standing with the Virgin, today in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.
The Master of the Bamberg Altar seems to have depended strongly on facial types and figure styles derived from Bohemian painting; he seems especially to have known the work of the Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece, although his figures are more block-like and solid and less elegant than those of the latter artist. He would appear to be moving away from the International Gothic and towards a more Italian-derived style, based especially on work from Altichiero.
Among the local artists who appear to have derived some of their style from the Master is Sebald Bopp.
References
Master of the Bamberg Altar
Gothic painters
15th-century German painters
Bamberg Altar, Master of the |
44507559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare%20Valley%20Aerodrome | Clare Valley Aerodrome | Clare Valley Aerodrome is an airport located north of the town of Clare, South Australia. The Clare Valley Flying Group began construction of the airfield in 2010 and it was officially opened in November 2014.
References
Airports in South Australia |
17343320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Mills%20Historic%20District | Arnold Mills Historic District | Arnold Mills Historic District is a historic district encompassing a modest 19th-century mill village in eastern Cumberland, Rhode Island. The district lies along the Nate Whipple Highway (Rhode Island Route 120) and Sneech Pond Road, south of the Arnold Mills Reservoir. Sneech Pond Road was formerly the major east-west highway through the area prior to the construction of the Nate Whipple Highway in the 1960s. The Arnold Mills village is in part bisected by Abbott Run, the stream which serves as the outlet of the reservoir; Sneech Pond Road crosses the run on an early 20th-century steel Pratt pony truss, now closed to vehicular traffic. The houses along this road generally date from the late 18th to mid-19th century, and mainly reflect Federal and Greek Revival styling. The most prominent structure in the district is the Arnold Mills United Methodist Church, located at the western end of the district on Nate Whipple Highway; it was built 1825-27 and remodeled in 1846.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island
References
Buildings and structures in Cumberland, Rhode Island
Historic districts in Providence County, Rhode Island
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island |
17343325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden%20Mountain%20%28Oregon%29 | Hayden Mountain (Oregon) | Hayden Mountain is located in the Siskiyou Mountains of Klamath County in the U.S. State of Oregon.
See also
Applegate Trail
Hayden Mountain Summit
References
Mountains of Oregon
Mountains of Klamath County, Oregon |
44507597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokkinogeio | Kokkinogeio | Kokkinogeio (, ) is a village and a community of the Elassona municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Olympos, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 240 inhabitants in the village. The community of Kokkinogeio covers an area of 9.902 km2.
Population
According to the 2011 census, the population of the settlement of Kokkinogeio was 240 people, a decrease of almost 24% compared with the population of the previous census of 2001.
See also
List of settlements in the Larissa regional unit
References
Populated places in Larissa (regional unit) |
17343346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%20Arnold%20Farmstead | Dexter Arnold Farmstead | The Dexter Arnold Farmstead is a historic farmstead on Chopmist Hill Road (Rhode Island Route 102) in Scituate, Rhode Island. The main house, a -story wood-frame structure five bays wide, with a large central chimney, was built in 1813. The property also has five outbuildings which appear (based in part on photographs of the property from 1860) to be near contemporaries to the house, a relative rarity in rural Rhode Island. The main barn survived into the 20th century, but was destroyed by the New England Hurricane of 1938. The property also includes a small family cemetery. The house, built by Dexter Arnold in land belonging to his father, remained in family hands until 1975.
The farmhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Federal architecture in Rhode Island
Houses in Providence County, Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Scituate, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1813 |
44507600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galfar%20Engineering%20and%20Contracting | Galfar Engineering and Contracting | Galfar Engineering and Contracting SAOG was founded by Dr. Salim Said Al Fannah Al Araimi, Sheikh Mohamed Rashid Al Fannah Al Araimi and Dr. P. Mohamed Ali. Galfar Engineering is known as one of the largest engineering, contracting and construction companies in the Sultanate of Oman. Its headquarters is situated in Ghala, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. An article in The Economic Times claims it to be one of the top five engineering contractors across the Gulf. It was established in January 1972. It has a turnover of US$1 billion. Galfar employs over 23,000 workers, only in Oman, with more than 7,000 different kinds of plant and equipment.
References
External links
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1972
Companies of Oman
1972 establishments in Oman |
17343368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20of%20Our%C3%A9m | Castle of Ourém | The Ourém Castle is a Portuguese castle in Ourém, Santarém. It has been listed as a National monument since 1910.
External links
Ourém Castle at IPPAR
National monuments in Santarém District
Ourem
Buildings and structures in Ourém |
26721764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle%20Roller%20Derby | Newcastle Roller Derby | Newcastle Roller Derby (UK) is a flat track roller derby league from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Newcastle is a member of both the United Kingdom Roller Derby Association (UKRDA) and the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), and plays by the WFTDA ruleset.
History
Newcastle Roller Girls was established in 2009 by Claire Byrne (Brie Larceny). The league has three teams, the Canny Belters (A team), the Whippin' Hinnies (B team) and the North Cs (C team). The club follows the WFTDA gender statement. Home games are played at the Walker Dome and Benfield Sports Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne.
In March 2010, the team featured in a BBC Look North report on roller derby in Tyneside. The BBC created a webpage about the team.
The team played their first bout at Hadrian's Brawl on 11 April 2010, playing against the B team from the Auld Reekie Roller Girls at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh. The first home bout, Flog on the Tyne, was against Granite City Roller Girls of Aberdeen on 5 March 2011 at The Lightfoot Centre (now The Walker Dome) in Walker, Newcastle, winning by 113 to 63.
In November 2011, Newcastle Roller Girls joined the UK Roller Derby Association. In October 2013, they were accepted as a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Programme. Newcastle became a full WFTDA member league in July 2014.
In February 2020, the league name changed from Newcastle Roller Girls to Newcastle Roller Derby.
Associated teams
An associated men's team was founded in June 2011, Tyne and Fear Roller Derby. A mixed-gender team, Tyne e' Belters, includes members of Newcastle Roller Girls. In 2015 Newcastle Junior Roller Derby was established, a junior roller derby squad, and they made their debut during the half time interval of the British Roller Derby Championships game on 2 April 2016.
EuroClash
In 2017 and 2018 Newcastle Roller Derby hosted EuroClash - a weekend tournament featuring international team such as Bear City Roller Derby, Central City Roller Girls, Dublin Roller Derby, Leeds Roller Derby, Middlesbrough Milk Rollers, Paris Roller Girls and Tiger Bay Brawlers. The third EuroClash tournament was due to be hosted in 2020, but was postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
WFTDA rankings
References
Roller derby in England
Roller derby leagues in the United Kingdom
Roller derby leagues established in 2009
Sport in Tyne and Wear
Women's sports teams in England
Women's Flat Track Derby Association leagues
2009 establishments in England |
44507610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maesa%20lanceolata | Maesa lanceolata | Maesa lanceolata, the false assegai, is a tree species that is widespread in the Afrotropics, including Madagascar. It occurs from the southern Arabian Peninsula, southwards to the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It grows on stream verges, river banks and forest verges, where it is often a pioneer plant.
References
Algemene gids tot BOME. Keith, Paul & Meg Coates Palgrave. 2000.
External links
lanceolata
Afrotropical realm flora
Trees of Africa
Flora of the Arabian Peninsula
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of South Tropical Africa
Flora of Southern Africa
Flora of Madagascar |
20485014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%20Miami%20Dolphins%20season | 1976 Miami Dolphins season | The 1976 Miami Dolphins season was the team's 11th, and seventh as a member of the National Football League (NFL). The Dolphins failed to improve on their previous season's output of 10–4, winning only six games. One of these wins came over their new in-state rivals, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — who proceeded to lose all 14 games that year. The 6–8 finish marked the first losing record of head coach Don Shula's career.
Offseason
NFL Draft
Personnel
Staff
Roster
Regular season
Schedule
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Standings
References
External links
1976 Miami Dolphins at Pro-Football-Reference.com
Miami Dolphins seasons
Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins |
6910891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Schacht | Chris Schacht | Christopher Cleland Schacht (born 6 December 1946) is a former Australian politician and member of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was born in Melbourne and educated at the University of Adelaide and Wattle Park Teachers College.
Career
Schacht's political career started as a state party official in 1969 during the Don Dunstan era. In 1987, he entered Federal Parliament as a Labor Party Senator for South Australia. He was Minister for Science and Small Business and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Science in the Keating Labor Government from March 1993 to March 1994 and then Minister for Small Business, Customs and Construction until Labor's defeat at the 1996 election. He left the parliament in June 2002 after 15 years as a Senator and 33 years in Australian politics.
Post-parliamentary career
In 2006, Senator Robert Ray said of Schacht's "long-winded critiques" of factionalism within the Labor party that "no-one practised factionalism harder than he did. But once he lost influence in his own faction, he condemned all factions." Schacht has openly criticised the influence that he believes trade unions have within the Labor party.
Schacht has supported uranium mining and the prospect of nuclear waste storage in South Australia. He told ABC's Stateline in 2006 that storing the world's nuclear waste "may be the safest thing we can do for the world. Secondly, the world will pay a large amount of money in the future for some place like Australia or outback South Australia to store nuclear waste safely in a safe, in a geologically sound area, with a stable political system."
In 2008 Schacht was appointed as a Director of Marathon Resources. The company's exploration for uranium in Arkaroola later became a subject of controversy. A series of environmental breaches resulted in the revocation of the company's exploration license and the establishment of the Arkaroola Protection Zone.
As of 2015, Schacht is a registered political lobbyist in South Australia. His clients include Pilatus Australia, Liebherr Australia, PMB Defence and Basetec Services. Former clients include VIPAC Engineers and Scientists. Schacht is also the chairman of the Australia China Development Company and an ambassador for the National Secular Lobby.
Schacht is the President of the Australian Volleyball Federation. In October 2006, he was elected to the Legal Commission of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball for a four-year term.
References
Members of the Australian Senate
Members of the Australian Senate for South Australia
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
1946 births
Living people
Australian people of German descent
Australian lobbyists
21st-century Australian politicians
20th-century Australian politicians |
17343389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Coleman | Craig Coleman | Craig Coleman (born 31 January 1963) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, and coach. He primarily played at , and remains fourth on the list of most first-grade games played for Souths, 208.
Playing career
Coleman was graded to South Sydney as a seventeen-year-old in 1980. In 1981 he played in the under-23 side coached by Brian Smith which lost only two games in the season and won the Grand Final at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
He made his first-grade début for South Sydney in round 14 of the 1982 season, playing off the bench against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at Redfern Oval. His first match at halfback was in round 22 of the 1982 season against Peter Sterling, and the Parramatta Eels at Redfern Oval.
During his eleven seasons with Souths, Coleman spent three off-seasons playing in England - Widnes, Hull FC and Leeds. After he was released by Souths at the end of the 1992 season, he played a fourth off-season in England, for Salford.
Due to his late return to Australia (after the 1 February signing deadline), Coleman was unable to sign with the Gold Coast for the 1993 season. He threatened to take the Australian Rugby League to court when he was denied the clearance but spent the year playing park football for the Coogee Wombats in Souths' A-grade competition. He was back in first grade in 1994 with the Gold Coast Seagulls, and finished his first-grade career playing one season for the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1996 under coach, Tommy Raudonikis.
Coaching career
Coleman returned to the Rabbitohs as a reserve-grade coach and took over from Steve Martin as first-grade coach in round 19 of the 1998 season.
In 2000, the Rabbitohs were excluded from the National Rugby League competition. Coleman, while working as a baggage handler for Ansett, joined the fight to have the club included in the competition. On the club's return in the 2002 season, Coleman was once again head coach but after a poor season the South Sydney board considered his position in late September. A split decision opted to retain Coleman as coach but revised the coaching staff, appointing Phil Blake (former Souths utility player) as the club's new coaching coordinator with
Paul Langmack appointed as defensive coach. Five months later and only eleven days before the official start of the 2003 season, Coleman was sacked by the club after a series of losses in the pre-season trials. Under his coaching, the Rabbitohs won 17 of 54 games (31%) over three playing seasons. 1999 was the most successful of Coleman's coaching seasons in NRL, with the Rabbitohs narrowly missing the semi finals.
References
Footnotes
External links
Craig Coleman at stats.rleague.com
Craig Coleman at NRL Stats
All Time Players Records from 1908-2015
1963 births
Living people
Australian rugby league coaches
Australian rugby league players
Gold Coast Chargers players
Hull F.C. players
Leeds Rhinos players
Rugby league halfbacks
Rugby league players from Sydney
Salford Red Devils players
South Sydney Rabbitohs captains
South Sydney Rabbitohs coaches
South Sydney Rabbitohs players
Western Suburbs Magpies players
Widnes Vikings players |
20485027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badh%C3%ABr%20Castle | Badhër Castle | Badhër Castle (Albanian:Kalaja e Badhrës) is a castle in Borsh Albania. The castle is on the national road SH8 on the way to Piqeras. It located in the hill with the same name Badhër. On the left side of the hill you may see the ruins of medieval construction. On excavations during communism prehistoric tools were found.
References
Castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Himara |
44507655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan%20Bi%C3%B3nica | Tan Biónica | Tan Biónica was a pop rock band from Argentina. The group was formed in 2002 in Buenos Aires by vocalist Santiago "Chano" Moreno Charpentier, his younger brother Gonzalo "Bambi" Moreno Charpentier, Sebastián Seoane (guitar), and Diego Lichtenstein (drums). Tan Biónica worked on the soundtracks for the telenovelas Graduados and Viudas e hijos del Rock and Roll.
Tan Biónica enjoyed significant radio airplay and fame after the release of their second studio album, Obsesionario, in 2010. Their next album, Destinología in 2013, contained the single Ciudad Mágica, which reached the Number 1 spot on the Argentina Top 20 chart. Destinología also featured the band's second Number 1 hit single, La Melodía de Dios. The band is not currently active.
Members
Bambi Moreno Charpentier: bass and synth
Chano Moreno Charpentier: singer
Diego Lichtenstein: drums
Sebastián Seoane: guitars
Awards
2013: Winner of "Best Latin Song" during the Kids Choice Awards Argentina awards
2013: Winner of "Best Argentinian artist" during E! Awards
2014: Winner of "Best Album - Pop Groups" during Premios Gardel awards
2012: Nominee of "Best South Latin American Act" during MTV EMA
2013: Nominee of "Best South Latin American Act" during MTV EMA
2014: Nominee of "Best South Latin American Act" during MTV EMA
2015: Nominee of "Best South Latin American Act" during MTV EMA
Discography
Albums
2001: Tapa de Moda (demo)
2007: Canciones del huracán
2010: Obsesionario
2013: Destinología
2015: Hola mundo
Special releases
2014: Obsesionario (Black edition)
2014: Destinologia (Black Edition)
Live albums
2014: Vivo Usina del Arte
Remix albums
2015: Hola mi vida (The Remixes)
2016: Buenas noches otra vez (The Remixes)
EP
2003: Wonderful Noches
Singles
References
Argentine pop music groups
Argentine rock music groups
Musical groups from Buenos Aires
Musical groups established in 2002 |
17343390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boualapha%20district | Boualapha district | Boualapha is a district (muang) of Khammouane province in central Laos. Hin Namno National Park is in this district.
References
Districts of Khammouane province |
44507676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah%20%28song%29 | Paducah (song) | Paducah (“If you wanna, you can rhyme it with bazooka”) is song written by Leo Robin and Harry Warren, originally performed by Carmen Miranda and Benny Goodman and His Orchestra. The song was part of the 1943 musical The Gang's All Here starring Alice Faye, James Ellison, and Carmen Miranda. The movie cemented Miranda's image as the lady with the big fruity hats.
References
External links
Benny Goodman and Carmen Miranda - Paducah on the Internet Archives
Songs with lyrics by Leo Robin
Songs with music by Harry Warren
Carmen Miranda songs
Benny Goodman songs
1943 songs |
6910909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Golden%20Hare%20with%20a%20Voice%20of%20Silver | The Golden Hare with a Voice of Silver | The Golden Hare with a Voice of Silver is a double compilation album by British experimental music group Coil, released in October 2002 by their vanity label Eskaton and distributed via World Serpent Distribution. It compiles two Russian compilation albums released by Feelee Records in 2001, A Guide for Beginners: The Voice of Silver and A Guide for Finishers: Golden Hair, with the former being disc one and the latter being disc two, respectively.
The catalogue number for this release is Eskaton 29.
Track listing
References
External links
The Golden Hare with a Voice of Silver at Brainwashed
2002 compilation albums
Coil (band) compilation albums |
17343404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting%20Room%20Floor%20%28album%29 | Cutting Room Floor (album) | Cutting Room Floor is a compilation album by British progressive rock band Kino, consisting of live recordings, demos and a previously unreleased cover song. It was released to coincide with their tour of Europe in December 2005.
Track listing
All songs by Kino except 9 by Kevin Gilbert
"People (Live)" – 7:03
"Throw It Away (Demo)" – 4:35
"Perfect Tense (Live)" – 4:24
"All You See (Demo)" – 5:13
"Room For Two (Live)" – 3:52
"Won't Fall Down (Demo)" – 2:44
"Picture (Live)" – 3:10
"Say You Will (Demo)" – 14:39
"Parade (Cover)" – 9:49
Credits
John Mitchell – guitars, lead vocals (all but 6)
John Beck – synthesizers, backing vocals
Pete Trewavas – bass, backing and lead (6) vocals, bass pedals
Chris Maitland, drums, backing vocals, percussion
Bob Dalton – drums, backing vocals
References
External links
InsideOut.de – InsideOut Records (UK)
Kino (British band) albums
2005 compilation albums |
23580511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century%20Western%20painting | 20th-century Western painting | 20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubist Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck, revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism. Matisse's second version of The Dance signified a key point in his career and in the development of modern painting. It reflected Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism.
Initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, and other late-19th-century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first cubist paintings based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere, and cone. With the painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907; see gallery) Picasso created a new and radical picture depicting a raw and primitive brothel scene with five prostitutes, violently painted women, reminiscent of African tribal masks and his own new proto-Cubist inventions. Analytic cubism, exemplified by Violin and Candlestick, Paris, was jointly developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque from about 1908 through 1912. Analytic cubism was followed by Synthetic cubism, characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements, papier collé and a large variety of merged subject matter.
Crystal Cubism was a distilled form of Cubism consistent with a shift between 1915 and 1916 towards a strong emphasis on flat surface activity and large overlapping geometric planes, practised by Braque, Picasso, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Diego Rivera, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Alexander Archipenko, Fernand Léger, and several other artists into the 1920s.
During the years between 1910 and the end of World War I and after the heyday of cubism, several movements emerged in Paris. Giorgio de Chirico moved to Paris in July 1911, where he joined his brother Andrea (the poet and painter known as Alberto Savinio). Through his brother he met Pierre Laprade, a member of the jury at the Salon d'Automne, where he exhibited three of his dreamlike works: Enigma of the Oracle, Enigma of an Afternoon and Self-Portrait. During 1913 he exhibited his work at the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d’Automne, where his work was noticed by Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and others. His compelling and mysterious paintings are considered instrumental to the early beginnings of Surrealism. Song of Love (1914) is one of the most famous works by de Chirico and is an early example of the surrealist style, though it was painted ten years before the movement was "founded" by André Breton in 1924.
In the first two decades of the 20th century, as Cubism evolved, several other important movements emerged; Futurism (Giacomo Balla), Abstract art (Wassily Kandinsky), Der Blaue Reiter (Kandinsky and Franz Marc), Bauhaus (Kandinsky and Paul Klee), Orphism, (Robert Delaunay and František Kupka), Synchromism (Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright), De Stijl (Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian), Suprematism (Kazimir Malevich), Constructivism (Vladimir Tatlin), Dadaism (Marcel Duchamp, Picabia and Jean Arp), and Surrealism (Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst). Modern painting influenced all the visual arts, from Modernist architecture and design, to avant-garde film, theatre and modern dance, and became an experimental laboratory for the expression of visual experience, from photography and concrete poetry to advertising art and fashion. Van Gogh's paintings exerted great influence upon 20th-century Expressionism, as can be seen in the work of the Fauves, Die Brücke (a group led by German painter Ernst Kirchner), and the Expressionism of Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, and others.
Early 20th century
Pioneers of abstraction
Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist, is generally considered the first important painter of modern abstract art. As an early modernist, in search of new modes of visual expression, and spiritual expression, he theorized—as did contemporary occultists and theosophists—that pure visual abstraction had corollary vibrations with sound and music. They posited that pure abstraction could express pure spirituality. His earliest abstractions were generally titled (as the example in the above gallery) Composition VII, making connection to the work of the composers of music. Kandinsky included many of his theories about abstract art in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Piet Mondrian's art was also related to his spiritual and philosophical studies. In 1908 he became interested in the theosophical movement launched by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in the late 19th century. Blavatsky believed that it was possible to attain a knowledge of nature more profound than that provided by empirical means, and much of Mondrian's work for the rest of his life was inspired by his search for that spiritual knowledge. Other major pioneers of early abstraction include Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, and Swiss painter Paul Klee. Robert Delaunay was a French artist who is associated with Orphism, (reminiscent of a link between pure abstraction and cubism). His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key contributions to abstract painting refer to his bold use of color, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone. At the invitation of Kandinsky, Delaunay and his wife the artist Sonia Delaunay, joined The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), a Munich-based group of abstract artists, in 1911, and his art took a turn to the abstract. Still other important pioneers of abstract painting include Czech painter, František Kupka as well as American artists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell who, in 1912, founded Synchromism, an art movement that closely resembles Orphism.
Fauvism, Der Blaue Reiter, Die Brücke
Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were early-20th-century painters, experimenting with freedom of expression through color. The name was given, humorously and not as a compliment, to the group by art critic Louis Vauxcelles. Fauvism was a short-lived and loose grouping of artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and the imaginative use of deep color over the representational values. Fauvists made the subject of the painting easy to read and exaggerated perspectives. A prescient prediction of the Fauves was expressed in 1888 by Paul Gauguin to Paul Sérusier:
"How do you see these trees? They are yellow. So, put in yellow; this shadow, rather blue, paint it with pure ultramarine; these red leaves? Put in vermilion."
The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain—friendly rivals of a sort, each with his own followers. Ultimately Matisse became the yang to Picasso's yin in the 20th century. Fauvist painters included Albert Marquet, Charles Camoin, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, the Dutch painter Kees van Dongen, and Picasso's partner in Cubism, Georges Braque amongst others.
Fauvism, as a movement, had no concrete theories, and was short lived, beginning in 1905 and ending in 1907. The Fauves had only three exhibitions. Matisse was seen as the leader of the movement, due to his seniority in age and prior self-establishment in the academic art world. His 1905 portrait of Mme. Matisse, The Green Line (above), caused a sensation in Paris when it was first exhibited. He said he wanted to create art to delight; art as a decoration was his purpose and it can be said that his use of bright colors tries to maintain serenity of composition. In 1906 at the suggestion of his dealer Ambroise Vollard, André Derain went to London and produced a series of paintings like Charing Cross Bridge, London (above) in the Fauvist style, paraphrasing the famous series by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
By 1907 Fauvism no longer was a shocking new movement, soon it was replaced by Cubism on the critics radar screen as the latest new development in Contemporary Art of the time. In 1907 Apollinaire, commenting about Matisse in an article published in La Falange, said, "We are not here in the presence of an extravagant or an extremist undertaking: Matisse's art is eminently reasonable."
Der Blaue Reiter was a German movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Brücke, a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905. Founding members of Die Brücke were Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Later members included Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and others. This was a seminal group, which in due course had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the 20th century and created the style of Expressionism.
Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, whose psychically expressive painting of the Russian dancer Portrait of Alexander Sakharoff, 1909 is in the gallery above, Marianne von Werefkin, Lyonel Feininger and others founded the Der Blaue Reiter group in response to the rejection of Kandinsky's painting Last Judgement from an exhibition. Der Blaue Reiter lacked a central artistic manifesto, but was centered around Kandinsky and Marc. Artists Gabriele Münter and Paul Klee were also involved.
The name of the movement comes from a painting by Kandinsky created in 1903. It is also claimed that the name could have derived from Marc's enthusiasm for horses and Kandinsky's love of the colour blue. For Kandinsky, blue is the colour of spirituality: the darker the blue, the more it awakens human desire for the eternal.
Expressionism, Symbolism, American Modernism, Bauhaus
Expressionism and Symbolism are broad rubrics encompassing several important and related movements in 20th-century painting that dominated much of the avant-garde art being made in Western, Eastern, and Northern Europe. Expressionist works were painted largely between World War I and World War II, mostly in France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Belgium, and Austria. Expressionist styles are related to those of both Surrealism and Symbolism and are each uniquely and somewhat eccentrically personal. Fauvism, Die Brücke, and Der Blaue Reiter are three of the best known groups of Expressionist and Symbolist painters. Artists as interesting and diverse as Marc Chagall, whose painting I and the Village, (above) tells an autobiographical story that examines the relationship between the artist and his origins, with a lexicon of artistic Symbolism. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Chaïm Soutine, James Ensor, Oskar Kokoschka, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Yitzhak Frenkel Frenel, Max Beckmann, Franz Marc, Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, Georges Rouault, Amedeo Modigliani and some of the Americans abroad like Marsden Hartley, and Stuart Davis, were considered influential expressionist painters. Although Alberto Giacometti is primarily thought of as an intense Surrealist sculptor, he made intense expressionist paintings as well.
In the USA during the period between World War I and World War II painters tended to go to Europe for recognition. Modernist artists like Marsden Hartley, Patrick Henry Bruce, Gerald Murphy and Stuart Davis, created reputations abroad. While Patrick Henry Bruce, created cubist related paintings in Europe, both Stuart Davis and Gerald Murphy made paintings that were early inspirations for American pop art and Marsden Hartley experimented with expressionism. During the 1920s photographer Alfred Stieglitz exhibited Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Alfred Henry Maurer, Charles Demuth, John Marin and other artists including European Masters Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Henri Rousseau, Paul Cézanne, and Pablo Picasso, at his New York City gallery the 291. In Europe masters like Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard continued developing their narrative styles independent of any movement.
Dada and Surrealism
Marcel Duchamp came to international prominence in the wake of the New York City Armory Show in 1913 where his Nude Descending a Staircase became the cause célèbre. He subsequently created The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, Large Glass. The Large Glass pushed the art of painting to radical new limits being part painting, part collage, part construction. Duchamp (who was soon to renounce artmaking for chess) became closely associated with the Dada movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Hans Richter, Jean Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, along with Duchamp and many others are associated with the Dadaist movement. Duchamp and several Dadaists are also associated with Surrealism, the movement that dominated European painting in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1924 André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto. The Surrealist movement in painting became synonymous with the avant-garde and which featured artists whose works varied from the abstract to the super-realist. With works on paper like Machine Turn Quickly (above) Francis Picabia continued his involvement in the Dada movement through 1919 in Zürich and Paris, before breaking away from it after developing an interest in Surrealist art. Yves Tanguy, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí are particularly known for their realistic depictions of dream imagery and fantastic manifestations of the imagination. Joan Miró's The Tilled Field of 1923–1924 verges on abstraction, this early painting of a complex of objects and figures, and arrangements of sexually active characters; was Miró's first Surrealist masterpiece. The more abstract Joan Miró, Jean Arp, André Masson, and Max Ernst were very influential, especially in the United States during the 1940s.
Throughout the 1930s, Surrealism continued to become more visible to the public at large. A Surrealist group developed in Britain and, according to Breton, their 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition was a high-water mark of the period and became the model for international exhibitions. Surrealist groups in Japan, and especially in Latin America, the Caribbean and in Mexico produced innovative and original works.
Dalí and Magritte created some of the most widely recognized images of the movement. The 1928/1929 painting This Is Not A Pipe by Magritte is the subject of a Michel Foucault 1973 book, This is not a Pipe (English edition, 1991), that discusses the painting and its paradox. Dalí joined the group in 1929, and participated in the rapid establishment of the visual style between 1930 and 1935.
Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond ordinary formal organization, and perception, sometimes evoking empathy from the viewer, sometimes laughter and sometimes outrage and bewilderment.
1931 marked a year when several Surrealist painters produced works which marked turning points in their stylistic evolution: in one example liquid shapes become the trademark of Dalí, particularly in his The Persistence of Memory, which features the image of watches that sag as if they are melting. Evocations of time and its compelling mystery and absurdity.
The characteristics of this style – a combination of the depictive, the abstract, and the psychological – came to stand for the alienation which many people felt in the modernist period, combined with the sense of reaching more deeply into the psyche, to be "made whole with one's individuality."
Max Ernst studied philosophy and psychology in Bonn and was interested in the alternative realities experienced by the insane. His paintings, such as Murdering Airplane (1920), may have been inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's study of the delusions of a paranoiac, Daniel Paul Schreber. Freud identified Schreber's fantasy of becoming a woman as a castration complex. The central image of two pairs of legs refers to Schreber's hermaphroditic desires. Ernst's inscription on the back of the painting reads: The picture is curious because of its symmetry. The two sexes balance one another.
During the 1920s André Masson's work was enormously influential in helping the young artist Joan Miró find his roots in the new Surrealist painting. Miró acknowledged in letters to his dealer Pierre Matisse the importance of Masson as an example to him in his early years in Paris.
Long after personal, political and professional tensions have fragmented the Surrealist group into thin air and ether, Magritte, Miró, Dalí and the other Surrealists continue to define a visual program in the arts. Other prominent surrealist artists include Giorgio de Chirico, Méret Oppenheim, Toyen, Grégoire Michonze, Roberto Matta, Kay Sage, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, and Leonor Fini among others.
Neue Sachlichkeit, Social realism, regionalism, American Scene painting, Symbolism
During the 1920s and the 1930s and the Great Depression, the European art scene was characterized by Surrealism, late Cubism, the Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, Neue Sachlichkeit, and Expressionism; and was occupied by masterful modernist color painters like Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard.
American Scene painting and the Social Realism and Regionalism movements that contained both political and social commentary dominated the art world in the USA. Artists like Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, George Tooker, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, and others became prominent. In Latin America besides the Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres García and Rufino Tamayo from Mexico, the muralist movement with Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, José Orozco, Pedro Nel Gómez and Santiago Martinez Delgado and the Symbolist paintings by Frida Kahlo began a renaissance of the arts for the region, with a use of color and historic, and political messages. Frida Kahlo's Symbolist works also relate strongly to Surrealism and to the Magic Realism movement in literature. The psychological drama in many of Kahlo's self-portraits (above) underscore the vitality and relevance of her paintings to artists in the 21st century.
In Germany Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity") emerged as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and others associated with the Berlin Secession politicized their paintings. The work of these artists grew out of expressionism, and was a response to the political tensions of the Weimar Republic, and was often sharply satirical.
Diego Rivera is perhaps best known by the public for his 1933 mural, Man at the Crossroads, in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. When his patron Nelson Rockefeller discovered that the mural included a portrait of Lenin and other communist imagery, he fired Rivera, and the unfinished work was eventually destroyed by Rockefeller's staff. The film Cradle Will Rock includes a dramatization of the controversy. Frida Kahlo (Rivera's wife's) works are often characterized by their stark portrayals of pain. Of her 143 paintings 55 are self-portraits, which frequently incorporate symbolic portrayals of her physical and psychological wounds. Kahlo was deeply influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, which is apparent in her paintings' bright colors and dramatic symbolism. Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work as well; she combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition—which were often bloody and violent—with surrealist renderings. While her paintings are not overtly Christian—she was an avowed communist—they certainly contain elements of the macabre Mexican Christian style of religious paintings.
During the 1930s radical leftist politics characterized many of the artists connected to Surrealism, including Pablo Picasso. On 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Basque town of Gernika was the scene of the "Bombing of Gernika" by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe. The Germans were attacking to support the efforts of Francisco Franco to overthrow the Basque Government and the Spanish Republican government. The town was devastated, though the Biscayan assembly and the Oak of Gernika survived. Picasso painted his mural sized Guernica to commemorate the horrors of the bombing.
In its final form, Guernica is an immense black and white, 3.5 metre (11 ft) tall and 7.8 metre (23 ft) wide mural painted in oil. The mural presents a scene of death, violence, brutality, suffering, and helplessness without portraying their immediate causes. The choice to paint in black and white contrasts with the intensity of the scene depicted and invokes the immediacy of a newspaper photograph.
Picasso painted the mural sized painting called Guernica in protest of the bombing. The painting was first exhibited in Paris in 1937, then Scandinavia, then London in 1938 and finally in 1939 at Picasso's request the painting was sent to the United States in an extended loan (for safekeeping) at MoMA. The painting went on a tour of museums throughout the U.S. until its final return to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City where it was exhibited for nearly thirty years. Finally in accord with Picasso's wish to give the painting to the people of Spain as a gift, it was sent to Spain in 1981.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the years of World War II American art was characterized by Social Realism and American Scene Painting (as seen above) in the work of Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, and several others. Nighthawks (1942) is a painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is not only Hopper's most famous painting, but one of the most recognizable in American art. It is currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The scene was inspired by a diner (since demolished) in Greenwich Village, Hopper's home neighborhood in Manhattan. Hopper began painting it immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After this event there was a large feeling of gloominess over the country, a feeling that is portrayed in the painting. The urban street is empty outside the diner, and inside none of the three patrons is apparently looking or talking to the others but instead is lost in their own thoughts. This portrayal of modern urban life as empty or lonely is a common theme throughout Hopper's work.
American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood from 1930. Portraying a pitchfork-holding farmer and a younger woman in front of a house of Carpenter Gothic style, it is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art. Art critics had favorable opinions about the painting, like Gertrude Stein and Christopher Morley, they assumed the painting was meant to be a satire of rural small-town life. It was thus seen as part of the trend towards increasingly critical depictions of rural America, along the lines of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 Winesburg, Ohio, Sinclair Lewis' 1920 Main Street, and Carl Van Vechten's The Tattooed Countess in literature. However, with the onset of the Great Depression, the painting came to be seen as a depiction of steadfast American pioneer spirit.
Abstract expressionism
The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Surrealism, Joan Miró, Cubism, Fauvism, and early Modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham. American artists benefited from the presence of Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst and the André Breton group, Pierre Matisse's gallery, and Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century Gallery, as well as other factors.
Post-Second World War American painting, called Abstract Expressionism, included artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Mark Tobey, James Brooks, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Conrad Marca-Relli, Jack Tworkov, William Baziotes, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Esteban Vicente, Hedda Sterne, Jimmy Ernst, Bradley Walker Tomlin, and Theodoros Stamos, among others. American Abstract Expressionism got its name in 1946 from the art critic Robert Coates. It is seen as combining the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism. Abstract Expressionism, Action painting, and Color Field painting are synonymous with the New York School.
Technically Surrealism was an important predecessor for Abstract expressionism with its emphasis on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation. Jackson Pollock's dripping paint onto a canvas laid on the floor is a technique that has its roots in the work of André Masson. Another important early manifestation of what came to be abstract expressionism is the work of American Northwest artist Mark Tobey, especially his "white writing" canvases, which, though generally not large in scale, anticipate the "all over" look of Pollock's drip paintings.
Additionally, abstract expressionism has an image of being rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, rather nihilistic. In practice, the term is applied to any number of artists working (mostly) in New York who had quite different styles, and even applied to work which is not especially abstract nor expressionist. Pollock's energetic "action paintings", with their "busy" feel, are different both technically and aesthetically, to the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning. As seen above in the gallery Woman V is one of a series of six paintings made by de Kooning between 1950 and 1953 that depict a three-quarter-length female figure. He began the first of these paintings, Woman I collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in June 1950, repeatedly changing and painting out the image until January or February 1952, when the painting was abandoned unfinished. The art historian Meyer Schapiro saw the painting in de Kooning's studio soon afterwards and encouraged the artist to persist. De Kooning's response was to begin three other paintings on the same theme; Woman II, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Woman III, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Woman IV, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. During the summer of 1952, spent at East Hampton, de Kooning further explored the theme through drawings and pastels. He may have finished work on Woman I by the end of June, or possibly as late as November 1952, and probably the other three women pictures were concluded at much the same time. The Woman series are decidedly figurative paintings. Another important artist is Franz Kline, as demonstrated by his painting High Street, 1950 as with Jackson Pollock and other Abstract Expressionists, was labelled an action painter because of his seemingly spontaneous and intense style, focusing less, or not at all, on figures or imagery, but on the actual brush strokes and use of canvas.
Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, and the serenely shimmering blocks of color in Mark Rothko's work (which is not what would usually be called expressionist and which Rothko denied was abstract), are classified as abstract expressionists, albeit from what Clement Greenberg termed the Color field direction of abstract expressionism. Both Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell (gallery) can be comfortably described as practitioners of action painting and Color field painting.
Abstract expressionism has many stylistic similarities to the Russian artists of the early twentieth century such as Wassily Kandinsky. Although it is true that spontaneity or of the impression of spontaneity characterized many of the abstract expressionists works, most of these paintings involved careful planning, especially since their large size demanded it. An exception might be the drip paintings of Pollock.
Why this style gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s is a matter of debate. American Social realism had been the mainstream in the 1930s. It had been influenced not only by the Great Depression but also by the Social Realists of Mexico such as David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. The political climate after World War II did not long tolerate the social protests of those painters. Abstract expressionism arose during World War II and began to be showcased during the early 1940s at galleries in New York like The Art of This Century Gallery. The late 1940s through the mid-1950s ushered in the McCarthy era. It was after World War II and a time of political conservatism and extreme artistic censorship in the United States. Some people have conjectured that since the subject matter was often totally abstract, Abstract expressionism became a safe strategy for artists to pursue this style. Abstract art could be seen as apolitical. Or if the art was political, the message was largely for the insiders. However those theorists are in the minority. As the first truly original school of painting in America, Abstract expressionism demonstrated the vitality and creativity of the country in the post-war years, as well as its ability (or need) to develop an aesthetic sense that was not constrained by the European standards of beauty.
Although Abstract expressionism spread quickly throughout the United States, the major centers of this style were New York City and California, especially in the New York School, and the San Francisco Bay area. Abstract expressionist paintings share certain characteristics, including the use of large canvases, an "all-over" approach, in which the whole canvas is treated with equal importance (as opposed to the center being of more interest than the edges). The canvas as the arena became a credo of Action painting, while the integrity of the picture plane became a credo of the Color Field painters. Many other artists began exhibiting their abstract expressionist related paintings during the 1950s including Alfred Leslie, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Cy Twombly, Milton Resnick, Michael Goldberg, Norman Bluhm, Ray Parker, Nicolas Carone, Grace Hartigan, Friedel Dzubas, and Robert Goodnough among others.
During the 1950s, Color Field painting initially referred to a particular type of abstract expressionism, especially the work of Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Adolph Gottlieb. It essentially involved abstract paintings with large, flat expanses of color that expressed the sensual, and visual feelings and properties of large areas of nuanced surface. Art critic Clement Greenberg perceived Color Field painting as related to but different from Action painting. The overall expanse and gestalt of the work of the early color field painters speaks of an almost religious experience, awestruck in the face of an expanding universe of sensuality, color and surface. During the early to mid-1960s, Color Field painting came to refer to the styles of artists like Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, and Helen Frankenthaler, whose works were related to second-generation abstract expressionism, and to younger artists like Larry Zox, and Frank Stella – all moving in a new direction. Artists like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Zox, and others often used greatly reduced references to nature, and they painted with a highly articulated and psychological use of color. In general these artists eliminated recognizable imagery. In Mountains and Sea, from 1952, a seminal work of Colorfield painting by Helen Frankenthaler the artist used the stain technique for the first time.
In Europe there was the continuation of Surrealism, Cubism, Dada and the works of Matisse. Also in Europe, Tachisme (the European equivalent to Abstract expressionism) and Informalism took hold of the newest generation. Serge Poliakoff, Nicolas de Staël, Georges Mathieu, Vieira da Silva, Jean Dubuffet, Yves Klein and Pierre Soulages among others are considered important figures in post-war European painting.
Eventually abstract painting in America evolved into movements such as Neo-Dada, Color Field painting, Post painterly abstraction, Op art, hard-edge painting, Minimal art, shaped canvas painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Neo-expressionism and the continuation of Abstract expressionism. As a response to the tendency toward abstraction imagery emerged through various new movements, notably Pop art.
Realism, Landscape, Figuration, Still-Life, Cityscape
During the 1930s through the 1960s as abstract painting in America and Europe evolved into movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Post painterly abstraction, Op art, hard-edge painting, Minimal art, shaped canvas painting, and Lyrical Abstraction. Other artists reacted as a response to the tendency toward abstraction allowing imagery to continue through various new contexts like the Bay Area Figurative Movement in the 1950s and new forms of expressionism from the 1940s through the 1960s. In Italy during this time, Giorgio Morandi was the foremost still life painter, exploring a wide variety of approaches to depicting everyday bottles and kitchen implements. Throughout the 20th century many painters practiced Realism and used expressive imagery; practicing landscape and figurative painting with contemporary subjects and solid technique, and unique expressivity like Milton Avery, John D. Graham, Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Balthus, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Philip Pearlstein, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Grace Hartigan, Robert De Niro, Sr., Elaine de Kooning and others. Along with Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, and other 20th-century masters. The figurative work of Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Edward Hopper, Lucian Freud Andrew Wyeth and others served as a kind of alternative to abstract expressionism. One of the most well-known images in 20th-century American art is Wyeth's painting, Christina's World, currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It depicts a woman lying on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at and crawling towards a gray house on the horizon; a barn and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. This tempera work, done in a realist style, is nearly always on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Arshile Gorky's portrait of what may be his friend Willem de Kooning (left) is an example of the evolution of Abstract Expressionism from the context of figure painting, cubism and surrealism. Along with his friends de Kooning and John D. Graham Gorky created bio-morphically shaped and abstracted figurative compositions that by the 1940s evolved into totally abstract paintings. Gorky's work seems to be a careful analysis of memory, emotion and shape, using line and color to express feeling and nature.
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953 is a painting by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon and is an example of Post World War II European Expressionism. The work shows a distorted version of the Portrait of Innocent X painted by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez in 1650. The work is one of a series of variants of the Velázquez painting which Bacon executed throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, over a total of forty-five works. When asked why he was compelled to revisit the subject so often, Bacon replied that he had nothing against the Popes, that he merely "wanted an excuse to use these colours, and you can't give ordinary clothes that purple colour without getting into a sort of false fauve manner." The Pope in this version seethes with anger and aggression, and the dark colors give the image a grotesque and nightmarish appearance. The pleated curtains of the backdrop are rendered transparent, and seem to fall through the Pope's face.
After World War II the term School of Paris often referred to Tachisme, the European equivalent of American Abstract expressionism and those artists are also related to Cobra. In 1952 Michel Tapié authored the book Un Autre art which gave name and voice to Informalism. Important proponents being Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Hans Hartung, Serge Poliakoff, and Georges Mathieu, among several others. During the early 1950s Dubuffet (who was always a figurative artist), and de Staël, abandoned abstraction, and returned to imagery via figuration and landscape. De Staël 's work was quickly recognised within the post-war art world, and he became one of the most influential artists of the 1950s. His return to representation (seascapes, footballers, jazz musicians, seagulls) during the early 1950s can be seen as an influential precedent for the American Bay Area Figurative Movement, as many of those abstract painters like Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Wayne Thiebaud, Nathan Oliveira, Joan Brown and others made a similar move; returning to imagery during the mid-1950s. Much of de Staël 's late work – in particular his thinned, and diluted oil on canvas abstract landscapes of the mid-1950s predicts Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s. Nicolas de Staël's bold and intensely vivid color in his last paintings predict the direction of much of contemporary painting that came after him including Pop art of the 1960s.
Pop art
Pop art in America was to a large degree initially inspired by the works of Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, and Robert Rauschenberg. Although the paintings of Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis and Charles Demuth during the 1920s and 1930s set the table for Pop art in America. In New York City during the mid-1950s Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns created works of art that at first seemed to be continuations of Abstract expressionist painting. Actually their works and the work of Larry Rivers, were radical departures from abstract expressionism especially in the use of banal and literal imagery and the inclusion and the combining of mundane materials into their work. The innovations of Johns' specific use of various images and objects like chairs, numbers, targets, beer cans and the American Flag; Rivers paintings of subjects drawn from popular culture such as George Washington crossing the Delaware, and his inclusions of images from advertisements like the camel from Camel cigarettes, and Rauschenberg's surprising constructions using inclusions of objects and pictures taken from popular culture, hardware stores, junkyards, the city streets, and taxidermy gave rise to a radical new movement in American art. Eventually by 1963 the movement came to be known worldwide as Pop art.
Pop art is exemplified by artists: Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Wayne Thiebaud, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein among others. Lichtenstein used oil and Magna paint in his best known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963), which was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics' Secret Hearts #83. (Drowning Girl now is in the collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York.) Also featuring thick outlines, bold colors and Ben-Day dots to represent certain colors, as if created by photographic reproduction. Lichtenstein would say of his own work: Abstract Expressionists "put things down on the canvas and responded to what they had done, to the color positions and sizes. My style looks completely different, but the nature of putting down lines pretty much is the same; mine just don't come out looking calligraphic, like Pollock's or Kline's." Pop art merges popular and mass culture with fine art, while injecting humor, irony, and recognizable imagery and content into the mix. In October 1962 the Sidney Janis Gallery mounted The New Realists the first major Pop art group exhibition in an uptown art gallery in New York City. Sidney Janis mounted the exhibition in a 57th Street storefront near his gallery at 15 E. 57th Street. The show sent shockwaves through the New York School and reverberated worldwide. Earlier in the fall of 1962 a historically important and ground-breaking New Painting of Common Objects exhibition of Pop art, curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum sent shock waves across the Western United States. Campbell's Soup Cans (sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans) is the title of an Andy Warhol work of art that was produced in 1962. It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches in height x 16 inches in width (50.8 x 40.6 cm) and each consisting of a painting of a Campbell's Soup can—one of each canned soup variety the company offered at the time. The individual paintings were produced with a semi-mechanised silkscreen process, using a non-painterly style. They helped usher in Pop art as a major art movement that relied on themes from popular culture. These works by Andy Warhol are repetitive and they are made in a non-painterly commercial manner.
Earlier in England in 1956 the term Pop Art was used by Lawrence Alloway for paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post World War II era. This movement rejected Abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass production age. The early works of David Hockney whose paintings emerged from England during the 1960s like A Bigger Splash, and the works of Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, and Eduardo Paolozzi, are considered seminal examples in the movement.
While in the downtown scene in New York's East Village 10th Street galleries artists were formulating an American version of Pop art. Claes Oldenburg had his storefront, and the Green Gallery on 57th Street began to show Tom Wesselmann and James Rosenquist. Later Leo Castelli exhibited other American artists including the bulk of the careers of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and his use of Benday dots, a technique used in commercial reproduction and seen in ordinary comic books and in paintings like Drowning Girl, 1963, in the gallery above. There is a connection between the radical works of Duchamp, and Man Ray, the rebellious Dadaists – with a sense of humor; and Pop Artists like Alex Katz (who became known for his parodies of portrait photography and suburban life), Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and the others.
Art Brut, New Realism, Bay Area Figurative Movement, Neo-Dada, Photorealism
During the 1950s and 1960s as abstract painting in America and Europe evolved into movements such as Color Field painting, Post painterly abstraction, Op art, hard-edge painting, Minimal art, shaped canvas painting, Lyrical Abstraction, and the continuation of Abstract expressionism. Other artists reacted as a response to the tendency toward abstraction with Art brut, as seen in Court les rues, 1962, by Jean Dubuffet, Fluxus, Neo-Dada, New Realism, allowing imagery to re-emerge through various new contexts like Pop art, the Bay Area Figurative Movement (a prime example is Diebenkorn's Cityscape I,(Landscape No. 1), 1963, Oil on canvas, 60 1/4 x 50 1/2 inches, collection: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), and later in the 1970s Neo-expressionism. The Bay Area Figurative Movement of whom David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Oliveira and Richard Diebenkorn whose painting Cityscape 1, 1963 is a typical example were influential members flourished during the 1950s and 1960s in California. Although throughout the 20th-century painters continued to practice Realism and use imagery, practicing landscape and figurative painting with contemporary subjects and solid technique, and unique expressivity like Milton Avery, Edward Hopper, Jean Dubuffet, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Philip Pearlstein, and others. Younger painters practiced the use of imagery in new and radical ways. Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle, David Hockney, Alex Katz, Antoni Tàpies, Malcolm Morley, Ralph Goings, Audrey Flack, Richard Estes, Chuck Close, Susan Rothenberg, Eric Fischl, John Baeder, and Vija Celmins were a few who became prominent between the 1960s and the 1980s. Fairfield Porter was largely self-taught, and produced representational work in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement. His subjects were primarily landscapes, domestic interiors and portraits of family, friends and fellow artists, many of them affiliated with the New York School of writers, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. Many of his paintings were set in or around the family summer house on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine.
Neo-Dada is a movement that started in the 1950s and 1960s and was related to Abstract expressionism only with imagery. Featuring the emergence of combined manufactured items, with artist materials, moving away from previous conventions of painting. This trend in art is exemplified by the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, whose "combines" in the 1950s were forerunners of Pop Art and Installation art, and made use of the assemblage of large physical objects, including stuffed animals, birds and commercial photography. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Jim Dine, and Edward Kienholz among others were important pioneers of both abstraction and Pop Art; creating new conventions of art-making; they made acceptable in serious contemporary art circles the radical inclusion of unlikely materials as parts of their works of art.
Geometric abstraction, Op Art, Hard-Edge, Color field, Minimal Art, New Realism
During the 1960s and 1970s abstract painting continued to develop in America through varied styles. Geometric abstraction, Op art, hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimal painting, were some interrelated directions for advanced abstract painting as well as some other new movements. Morris Louis was an important pioneer in advanced Colorfield painting, his work can serve as a bridge between Abstract expressionism, Colorfield painting, and Minimal Art. Two influential teachers Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann introduced a new generation of American artists to their advanced theories of color and space. Josef Albers is best remembered for his work as a Geometric abstractionist painter and theorist. Most famous are the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square. In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with flat colored squares arranged concentrically on the canvas. Albers' theories on art and education were formative for the next generation of artists. His own paintings form the foundation of both hard-edge painting and Op art.
Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann, Ilya Bolotowsky, Burgoyne Diller, Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Larry Poons, Ronald Davis, John Hoyland, Larry Zox, and Al Held are artists closely associated with Geometric abstraction, Op art, Color Field painting, and in the case of Hofmann and Newman Abstract expressionism as well. Agnes Martin, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Jo Baer, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, Neil Williams, David Novros, Paul Mogenson, are examples of artists associated with Minimalism and (exceptions of Martin, Baer and Marden) the use of the shaped canvas also during the period beginning in the early 1960s. Many Geometric abstract artists, minimalists, and Hard-edge painters elected to use the edges of the image to define the shape of the painting rather than accepting the rectangular format. In fact, the use of the shaped canvas is primarily associated with paintings of the 1960s and 1970s that are coolly abstract, formalistic, geometrical, objective, rationalistic, clean-lined, brashly sharp-edged, or minimalist in character. The Bykert Gallery, and the Park Place Gallery were important showcases for Minimalism and shaped canvas painting in New York City during the 1960s.
In 1965, an exhibition called The Responsive Eye, curated by William C. Seitz, was held at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City. The works shown were wide-ranging, encompassing the Minimalism of Frank Stella, the Op art of Larry Poons, the work of Alexander Liberman, alongside the masters of the Op Art movement: Victor Vasarely, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Bridget Riley and others. The exhibition focused on the perceptual aspects of art, which result both from the illusion of movement and the interaction of color relationships. Op art, also known as optical art, is a style present in some paintings and other works of art that use optical illusions. Op art is also closely akin to geometric abstraction and hard-edge painting. Although sometimes the term used for it is perceptual abstraction.
Op art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing. Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.
Shaped canvas, Washington color school, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction
Color Field painting clearly pointed toward a new direction in American painting, away from abstract expressionism. Color Field painting is related to Post-painterly abstraction, Suprematism, Abstract Expressionism, Hard-edge painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Color Field painting sought to rid art of superfluous rhetoric. Artists like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Zox, and others often used greatly reduced references to nature, and they painted with a highly articulated and psychological use of color. In general these artists eliminated recognizable imagery. Certain artists made references to past or present art, but in general color field painting presents abstraction as an end in itself. In pursuing this direction of modern art, artists wanted to present each painting as one unified, cohesive, monolithic image. Gene Davis along with Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and several others was a member of the Washington Color School painters who began to create Color Field paintings in Washington, D.C. during the 1950s and 1960s, Black, Grey, Beatis a large vertical stripe painting and typical of Gene Davis's work.
Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Ronald Davis, Neil Williams, Robert Mangold, Charles Hinman, Richard Tuttle, David Novros, and Al Loving are examples of artists associated with the use of the shaped canvas during the period beginning in the early 1960s. Many Geometric abstract artists, minimalists, and Hard-edge painters elected to use the edges of the image to define the shape of the painting rather than accepting the rectangular format. In fact, the use of the shaped canvas is primarily associated with paintings of the 1960s and 1970s that are coolly abstract, formalistic, geometrical, objective, rationalistic, clean-lined, brashly sharp-edged, or minimalist in character. From 1960 Frank Stella produced paintings in aluminum and copper paint and are his first works using shaped canvases (canvases in a shape other than the traditional rectangle or square), often being in L, N, U or T-shapes. These later developed into more elaborate designs, in the Irregular Polygon series (67), for example. Also in the 1960s, Stella began to use a wider range of colors, typically arranged in straight or curved lines. Later he began his Protractor Series (71) of paintings, in which arcs, sometimes overlapping, within square borders are arranged side-by-side to produce full and half circles painted in rings of concentric color. Harran II, 1967, is an example of the Protractor Series. These paintings are named after circular cities he had visited while in the Middle East earlier in the 1960s. The Irregular Polygon canvases and Protractor series further extended the concept of the shaped canvas.
The Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Leo Castelli Gallery, the Richard Feigen Gallery, and the Park Place Gallery were important showcases for Color Field painting, shaped canvas painting and Lyrical Abstraction in New York City during the 1960s. There is a connection with post-painterly abstraction, which reacted against abstract expressionisms' mysticism, hyper-subjectivity, and emphasis on making the act of painting itself dramatically visible – as well as the solemn acceptance of the flat rectangle as an almost ritual prerequisite for serious painting. During the 1960s Color Field painting and Minimal art were often closely associated with each other. In actuality by the early 1970s both movements became decidedly diverse.
Another related movement of the late 1960s, Lyrical Abstraction (the term being coined by Larry Aldrich, the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut), encompassed what Aldrich said he saw in the studios of many artists at that time. It is also the name of an exhibition that originated in the Aldrich Museum and traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art and other museums throughout the United States between 1969 and 1971.
Lyrical Abstraction in the late 1960s is characterized by the paintings of Dan Christensen, Ronnie Landfield, Peter Young and others, and along with the Fluxus movement and Postminimalism (a term first coined by Robert Pincus-Witten in the pages of Artforum in 1969) sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting and Minimalism by focusing on process, new materials and new ways of expression. Postminimalism often incorporating industrial materials, raw materials, fabrications, found objects, installation, serial repetition, and often with references to Dada and Surrealism is best exemplified in the sculptures of Eva Hesse. Lyrical Abstraction, Conceptual Art, Postminimalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance art, Installation art, along with the continuation of Fluxus, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, Minimal Art, Op art, Pop art, Photorealism and New Realism extended the boundaries of Contemporary Art in the mid-1960s through the 1970s. Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when abstract painters returned to various forms of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a predominate focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.
Lyrical Abstraction shares similarities with Color Field painting and Abstract Expressionism especially in the freewheeling usage of paint – texture and surface. Direct drawing, calligraphic use of line, the effects of brushed, splattered, stained, squeegeed, poured, and splashed paint superficially resemble the effects seen in Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. However the styles are markedly different. Setting it apart from Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting of the 1940s and 1950s is the approach to composition and drama. As seen in Action Painting there is an emphasis on brushstrokes, high compositional drama, dynamic compositional tension. While in Lyrical Abstraction as exemplified by the 1971 Ronnie Landfield painting Garden of Delight (above), there is a sense of compositional randomness, all over composition, low key and relaxed compositional drama and an emphasis on process, repetition, and an all over sensibility.
During the 1960s and 1970s artists as powerful and influential as Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Lee Krasner, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, Josef Albers, Elmer Bischoff, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Sam Francis, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Joan Mitchell, Friedel Dzubas, and younger artists like Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, Sam Gilliam, John Hoyland, Sean Scully, Blinky Palermo, Pat Steir, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joan Snyder, Richard Tuttle, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, Mino Argento and dozens of others produced vital and influential paintings.
Monochrome, minimalism, postminimalism
Artists such as Larry Poons—whose work related to Op Art with his emphasis on dots, ovals and after-images bouncing across color fields—Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Ralph Humphrey, Robert Motherwell and Robert Ryman had also begun to explore stripes, monochromatic and Hard-edge formats from the late 1950s through the 1960s.
Because of a tendency in Minimalism to exclude the pictorial, illusionistic and fictive in favor of the literal—as demonstrated by Robert Mangold, who understood the concept of the shape of the canvas and its relationship to objecthood—there was a movement away from painterly and toward sculptural concerns. Donald Judd had started as a painter, and ended as a creator of objects. His seminal essay, "Specific Objects" (published in Arts Yearbook 8, 1965), was a touchstone of theory for the formation of Minimalist aesthetics. In this essay, Judd found a starting point for a new territory for American art, and a simultaneous rejection of residual inherited European artistic values. He pointed to evidence of this development in the works of an array of artists active in New York at the time, including Jasper Johns, Dan Flavin and Lee Bontecou. Of "preliminary" importance for Judd was the work of George Earl Ortman, who had concretized and distilled painting's forms into blunt, tough, philosophically charged geometries. These Specific Objects inhabited a space not then comfortably classifiable as either painting or sculpture. That the categorical identity of such objects was itself in question, and that they avoided easy association with well-worn and over-familiar conventions, was a part of their value for Judd.
In a much more general sense, one might find European roots of Minimalism in the geometric abstractions painters in the Bauhaus, in the works of Piet Mondrian and other artists associated with the movement DeStijl, in Russian Constructivists and in the work of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. American painters such as Brice Marden and Cy Twombly show a clear European influence in their pure abstraction, minimalist painting of the 1960s. Ronald Davis polyurethane works from the late 1960s pay homage to the Broken Glass of Marcel Duchamp.
This movement was heavily criticised by high modernist formalist art critics and historians. Some anxious critics thought Minimalist art represented a misunderstanding of the modern dialectic of painting and sculpture as defined by critic Clement Greenberg, arguably the dominant American critic of painting in the period leading up to the 1960s. The most notable critique of Minimalism was produced by Michael Fried, a Greenbergian critic, who objected to the work on the basis of its "theatricality". In Art and Objecthood (published in Artforum in June 1967) he declared that the Minimalist work of art, particularly Minimalist sculpture, was based on an engagement with the physicality of the spectator. He argued that work like Robert Morris's transformed the act of viewing into a type of spectacle, in which the artifice of the act observation and the viewer's participation in the work were unveiled. Fried saw this displacement of the viewer's experience from an aesthetic engagement within, to an event outside of the artwork as a failure of Minimal art.
Ad Reinhardt, actually an artist of the Abstract Expressionist generation, but one whose reductive all-black paintings seemed to anticipate minimalism, had this to say about the value of a reductive approach to art: "The more stuff in it, the busier the work of art, the worse it is. More is less. Less is more. The eye is a menace to clear sight. The laying bare of oneself is obscene. Art begins with the getting rid of nature."
Still other important innovations in abstract painting took place during the 1960s and the 1970s characterized by monochrome painting and hard-edge painting inspired by Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman, Milton Resnick, and Ellsworth Kelly. Artists as diverse as Agnes Martin, Al Held, Larry Zox, Frank Stella, Larry Poons, Brice Marden and others explored the power of simplification. The convergence of Color Field painting, minimal art, hard-edge painting, Lyrical Abstraction, and postminimalism blurred the distinction between movements that became more apparent in the 1980s and 1990s. The neo-expressionism movement is related to earlier developments in abstract expressionism, neo-Dada, Lyrical Abstraction and postminimal painting.
Neo-expressionism
In the late 1960s the abstract expressionist painter Philip Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to Neo-expressionism in painting, abandoning the so-called "pure abstraction" of abstract expressionism in favor of more cartoonish renderings of various personal symbols and objects. These works were inspirational to a new generation of painters interested in a revival of expressive imagery. His painting Painting, Smoking, Eating 1973, seen above in the gallery is an example of Guston's final and conclusive return to representation.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was also a return to painting that occurred almost simultaneously in Italy, Germany, France and Britain. These movements were called Transavantguardia, Neue Wilde, Figuration Libre, Neo-expressionism, the school of London, and in the late 1990s the Stuckists, a group that emerged late in 1990s respectively. These painting were characterized by large formats, free expressive mark making, figuration, myth and imagination. All work in this genre came to be labeled neo-expressionism. Critical reaction was divided. Some critics regarded it as driven by profit motivations by large commercial galleries. This type of art continues in popularity into the 21st century, even after the art crash of the late 1980s.
During the late 1970s in the United States painters who began working with invigorated surfaces and who returned to imagery like Susan Rothenberg gained in popularity, especially as seen above in paintings like Horse 2, 1979. During the 1980s American artists like Eric Fischl, David Salle, Jean-Michel Basquiat (who began as a graffiti artist), Julian Schnabel, and Keith Haring, and Italian painters like Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia, and Enzo Cucchi, among others defined the idea of Neo-expressionism in America.
Neo-expressionism was a style of modern painting that became popular in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s. It developed in Europe as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalistic art of the 1960s and 1970s. Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in a virtually abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colours and banal colour harmonies. The veteran painters Philip Guston, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Gerhard Richter, A. R. Penck and Georg Baselitz, along with slightly younger artists like Anselm Kiefer, Eric Fischl, Susan Rothenberg, Francesco Clemente, Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, and many others became known for working in this intense expressionist vein of painting.
Contemporary painting into the 21st century
At the beginning of the 21st century Contemporary painting and Contemporary art in general continues in several contiguous modes, characterized by the idea of pluralism.
Mainstream painting has been rejected by artists of the postmodern era in favor of artistic pluralism. According to art critic Arthur Danto there is an anything goes attitude that prevails; an "everything going on", and consequently "nothing going on" syndrome; this creates an aesthetic traffic jam with no firm and clear direction and with every lane on the artistic superhighway filled to capacity.
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20485041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Paget%20%28diplomat%29 | Arthur Paget (diplomat) | Sir Arthur Paget GCB, PC (15 January 1771 – 26 July 1840) was a British diplomat and politician.
Life
Arthur Paget was the third son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge and his wife Jane Champagné daughter of Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise in Ireland. He was a younger brother of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey and the older brother of Sir Edward Paget, an army officer and colonial governor.
He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, but did not take a degree. At Oxford, Paget formed a close relationship with Cyril Jackson, Dean of Christ Church.
Diplomatic career
In 1791, he entered the British diplomatic service. J. M. Rigg described Paget as 'a man of easy charm who made his way with little difficulty up the diplomatic ladder, assisted by his moderate whiggery.' In 1794, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Anglesey. He nominally represented this for 13 years, though usually abroad. In 1794, he was sent as Envoy-extraordinary to Berlin to remind King Frederick William II of his obligations to Holland, a service in which Lord Malmesbury the ambassador commended him for his tact.
His next appointment was as Envoy Extraordinary to the Elector Palatine and the Perpetual Diet at Regensburg in 1798, followed by Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary first at Naples in 1800 and then at Vienna the following year. He remained at Vienna until 1806, being nicknamed "The Emperor" on account of his extravagance.
A dispatch in 1802, following Napoleon's creation of the Confederation of the Rhine predicted the hegemony of Prussia within Germany. He was materially contributed to the creation of the Third Coalition, and reported its collapse following the Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805), a dispatch that is said to have hastened the death of William Pitt the Younger (23 January 1806).
After his recall from Austria, he was sent to the Ottoman Porte in 1807, where he told the Sultan of a secret clause in the Treaty of Tilsit adverse to his interests. However, he was unable to detach the Ottoman Empire from its French Alliance. He was recalled in May 1809 and awarded a pension of £2,000.
Retirement
Paget had been made a Privy Councillor and Knight of the Bath, both in 1804, and was given a GCB in 1815. In 1808, he eloped with Lady Augusta Fane, then the wife of Lord Boringdon, and married her the following year, as soon as her divorce took place. They had several children, including Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, who followed his father as a diplomat. He occupied time in his retirement as an agriculturalist and yachtsman.
Scandal
On 18 May 1808, Paget eloped with Augusta Jane Parker, Lady Boringdon (née Fane), daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, and wife of John Parker, 2nd Baron Boringdon (later first Earl of Morley from 1815). Paget married Lady Augusta on 16 February 1809, two days after her divorce from Lord Boringdon by an Act of Parliament.
Family
Paget and Lady Augusta (née Fane) had issue:
Agnes Charlotte Paget (d. 10 Mar 1858), married her first cousin Lord George Paget, son of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
Stewart Henry Paget (b. 30 May 1811 - d. 4 Aug 1869)
Laura Caroline Jane Paget (b. c 1821 - d. 9 Dec 1871), married first cousin once removed Harry Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore
Cecil Augustus Paget (b. 1821 - d. 1843)
Amelius Paget1 b. 1821 (d. 1843)
Rosa Maria Paget (b. c 1822)
Rt. Hon. Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget (b. 16 Apr 1823 - d. 11 Jul 1896), married Countess Walburga Ehrengarde Helena von Hohenthal
He died on 26 July 1840 at his home at Grosvenor Street, London.
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6910911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Carroll%20%28baseball%29 | Pat Carroll (baseball) | Patrick (Pat) Carroll (March, 1853 – February 14, 1916) was an American Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Altoona Mountain City and the Philadelphia Keystones, both of the Union Association, in 1884.
In 16 total games he was 16-for-68 (.235) and scored 5 runs. He was a slightly below-average defensive catcher for his era, making 13 errors in 106 total chances (.877). In three of his games, Carroll was a right fielder, and made no errors while playing that position.
He died in his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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44507693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanni%20Grahn-Laasonen | Sanni Grahn-Laasonen | Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (born May 4, 1983) is a Finnish politician and a member of the National Coalition Party. She has been the Minister of Education and Culture since 29 May 2015. She was the Minister of the Environment in Alexander Stubb's cabinet between 2014 and 2015. Before her career in politics she has worked as a journalist in the Finnish afternoon newspaper Iltalehti.
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26721793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Williams%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201980%29 | Tom Williams (footballer, born 1980) | Thomas Andrew Williams (born 8 July 1980) is a professional footballer who plays for Hashtag United of the Isthmian League North Division. A defender or midfielder, he made nearly 300 appearances in the Football League playing for numerous clubs.
Born in England, he represented Cyprus at international level.
Career
Club career
Williams was born in Carshalton, London. His professional career began with West Ham United in April 2000 when he joined the club from Walton & Hersham for a fee of £40,000. He went on loan to Peterborough United in March 2001, without having made his senior debut, and the move was made permanent during the summer. He stayed with the Posh for one season, before moving to Birmingham City for a fee of £350,000.
His career stalled at St Andrew's, playing just four games for Birmingham, and, after two loan periods at Queens Park Rangers, during which he scored once, against Huddersfield Town, he rejoined Peterborough United, initially on loan, later joining permanently. In May 2004 Williams went to Barnsley on a free transfer.
He played a full season for the South Yorkshire side, before moving again on a free transfer to Gillingham in July 2005, and then signing for Swansea City in January 2006 after the Gills suffered financial problems. He returned to the side in December 2006 after a hernia operation in November, and was released at the end of the season.
On 27 July 2007, he joined Wycombe Wanderers on a two-year deal.
On 31 December 2007 Williams joined Peterborough United for the third time, initially on an emergency loan to make him available for the match on New Year's Day, for which he was an unused substitute. The loan was converted to a permanent deal two days later.
On 9 November 2009, Williams rejoined Championship side Queens Park Rangers on a short-term loan deal, with a possible view to sign permanently in the January transfer window. This did not happen in the end and he returned to Peterborough during January 2010.
Williams joined former boss Darren Ferguson at Preston North End on loan for the rest of the season. Preston decided not to sign him on a permanent basis, and he returned to Peterborough, where he was released following his contract expiry.
After a pre-season trial, Williams joined Championship club Bristol City on a six-month contract on 5 August 2010.
Williams joined Colchester United on a month's loan on 30 September, later extended for a further two months. He made nine appearances in all competitions and scored once, in a 2–1 win over AFC Bournemouth. Williams' Bristol City contract was terminated on 5 January 2011.
On 14 February, he joined League One club Walsall until the end of the season. He made fourteen league appearances and scored once, in a 1–1 draw with Oldham Athletic. In August 2011, Williams played one match in the Conference for Kettering Town, a 3–0 defeat away at Mansfield Town. He signed for Notts County in August 2012 on a short-term deal, and was released in January 2013 when his contract expired.
Williams played for Southern League Division 1 South and West club Guildford City in early 2014.
In February 2014, Williams was one of a number of foreign signings made by Vanuatu club Amicale to strengthen their team ahead of the 2013–14 OFC Champions League campaign.
He joined Slough Town in March 2016, making five Southern League appearances, before making five appearances for Arizona United in the 2016 USL season. In September 2017 he was playing for Houghton & Wyton in the Cambridgeshire County Football League.
Following a trial in July 2018, Williams joined Hashtag United of the Eastern Counties League Division One South. After his first season ended with promotion as champions, Williams moved into a player/coach role for the 2019–20 season. On 3 September, during an Essex Senior Cup first round win away to Halstead Town, Williams suffered a serious hand injury after smashing a home dressing room window after he had received a red card.
International career
Williams qualifies for Cyprus through his mother, and has one international cap, which came in 2006.
Personal life
Williams is married to former glamour model Nicola McLean.
Honours
Hashtag United
Eastern Counties League Division One South: 2018–19
References
External links
Profile at UpThePosh! The Peterborough United Database
1980 births
Living people
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26721803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla%20cristae | Potentilla cristae | Potentilla cristae is a rare species of cinquefoil known by the common name crested cinquefoil. It is endemic to the Klamath Mountains of far northern California, where it is known from a few occurrences in the subalpine and alpine climates of the high mountain ridges. It grows in talus and moist rocky or gravelly serpentine soils. This is a low, matted plant producing a clump of hairy, glandular herbage up to about 20 centimeters tall. Each hairy leaf is divided into three rounded leaflets which are toothed or lobed and measure up to 2 centimeters in length. The inflorescence is a cyme of a few flowers, each with five small yellow petals. The fruit is a minute achene just a millimeter wide, which is smooth with a crest.
Further reading
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Plants described in 1990 |
23580512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban%20Valencia%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201972%29 | Esteban Valencia (footballer, born 1972) | Esteban Andrés Valencia Bascuñán (born 8 January 1972) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
Nicknamed "Huevito", Valencia obtained a total number of 48 caps for the Chile national football team, scoring three goals between 1994 and 2001. He made his full international debut on 30 April 1994.
Managerial career
After working in the Universidad de Chile youth system, in 2021 he took the challenge of managing the first team as a caretaker after Rafael Dudamel was released. Later, he was confirmed until the end of the 2021 season. After this experience, he assumed as Technical Coordinator for the youth system.
Personal life
He is the father of the professional footballer Esteban Valencia Reyes.
Honours
Club
Universidad de Chile
Primera División (5): 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2004 Apertura
Copa Chile (2): 1998, 2000
References
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17343462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevidipine | Clevidipine | Clevidipine (INN, trade name Cleviprex) is a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker indicated for the reduction of blood pressure when oral therapy is not feasible or not desirable. Clevidipine is used IV only and practitioners titrate this drug to lower blood pressure. It has a half-life of approximately one minute. It is rapidly inactivated by esterases.
It was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration on August 1, 2008.
Basic chemical and pharmacological properties
Clevidipine is a dihydropyridine L-type calcium channel blocker, highly selective for vascular, as opposed to myocardial, smooth muscle and, therefore, has little or no effect on myocardial contractility or cardiac conduction. It reduces mean arterial blood pressure by decreasing systemic vascular resistance. Clevidipine does not reduce cardiac filling pressure (pre-load), confirming lack of effects on the venous capacitance vessels. No increase in myocardial lactate production in coronary sinus blood has been seen, confirming the absence of myocardial ischemia due to coronary steal.
Clevidipine is rapidly metabolized by esterases in the blood and extravascular tissues. Therefore, its elimination is unlikely to be affected by hepatic (liver) or renal (kidney) dysfunction. Clevidipine does not accumulate in the body, and its clearance is independent of body weight.
The initial phase half-life is approximately 1 minute and the terminal half-life is approximately 15 minutes. Clevidipine will still be rapidly metabolized in pseudocholinesterase-deficient patients.
Clevidipine is formulated as a lipid emulsion in 20% soybean oil (Intralipid) and contains approximately 0.2 g of fat per mL (2.0 kcal/ml). Clevidipine also contains glycerin (22.5 mg/mL), purified egg yolk phospholipids (12 mg/mL), and sodium hydroxide to adjust pH. Clevidipine has a pH of 6.0–8.0
In the perioperative patient population Clevidipine produces a 4–5% reduction in systolic blood pressure within 2–4 minutes after starting a 1–2 mg/hour IV infusion.
In studies up to 72 hours of continuous infusion, there was no evidence of tolerance.
In most patients, full recovery of blood pressure is achieved in 5–15 minutes after the infusion is stopped.
Stereochemistry
Clevidipine contains a stereocenter and consists of two enantiomers. This is a racemate, ie a 1: 1 mixture of ( R ) – and the ( S ) - form:
Dosage and administration
Aseptic technique should be used when handling Cleviprex since it contains phospholipids and can support microbial growth.
Cleviprex is administered intravenously and should be titrated to achieve the desired blood pressure reduction. Blood pressure and heart rate should be monitored continually during infusion.
Cleviprex is a single use product that should not be diluted and should not be administered in the same line as other medications. Once the stopper is punctured, Cleviprex should be used within 12 hours and any unused portion remaining in the vial should be discarded. Change IV lines in accordance with hospital protocol.
An IV infusion at 1–2 mg/hour is recommended for initiation and should be titrated by doubling the dose every 90 seconds. As the blood pressure approaches goal, the infusion rate should be increased in smaller increments and titrated less frequently. The maximum infusion rate for Cleviprex is 32 mg/hour. Most patients in clinical trials were treated with doses of 16 mg/hour or less.
Because of lipid load restrictions, no more than 1000 mL (or an average of 21 mg/hour) of Cleviprex infusion is recommended per 24 hours. In clinical studies, no significant changes occurred in serum triglyceride levels in the Cleviprex treated patients. There is little experience with infusion durations beyond 72 hours at any dose. The infusion can be reduced or discontinued to achieve desired blood pressure while appropriate oral therapy is established.
Safety information
Cleviprex is intended for intravenous use. Titrate drug depending on the response of the individual patient to achieve the desired blood pressure reduction. Monitor blood pressure and heart rate continually during infusion, and then until vital signs are stable. Patients who receive prolonged Cleviprex infusions and are not transitioned to other antihypertensive therapies should be monitored for the possibility of rebound hypertension for at least 8 hours after the infusion is stopped.
In clinical trials, the safety profile of clevidipine was generally similar to sodium nitroprusside, nitroglycerin, or nicardipine in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
Cleviprex is contraindicated in patients with allergies to soybeans, soy products, eggs, or egg products; defective lipid metabolism such as pathologic hyperlipemia (rare genetic disorders characterized by abnormal triglyceride metabolism), lipoid nephrosis, or acute pancreatitis if it is accompanied by hyperlipidemia; and in patients with severe aortic stenosis.
Hypotension and reflex tachycardia are potential consequences of rapid upward titration of Cleviprex. In clinical trials, a similar increase in heart rate was observed in both Cleviprex and comparator arms. Dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers can produce negative inotropic effects and exacerbate heart failure. Heart failure patients should be monitored carefully. Cleviprex gives no protection against the effects of abrupt beta-blocker withdrawal.
Most common adverse reactions (>2%) are headache, nausea, and vomiting.
Cleviprex should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
Maintain aseptic technique while handling Cleviprex. Cleviprex contains phospholipids and can support microbial growth. Do not use if contamination is suspected. Once the stopper is punctured, use or discard within 12 hours.
Drug interactions
No clinical drug interaction studies were conducted. Cleviprex does not have the potential for blocking or inducing any CYP enzymes.
Storage
Cleviprex is available in ready-to-use 50- and 100-mL glass vials at a concentration of 0.5 mg/mL of clevidipine butyrate. Vials should be refrigerated at 2-8oC (36-46 °F). Cleviprex can be stored to controlled room temperature for up to 2 months. Cleviprex is photosensitive and storage in cartons protects against photodegradation. Protection from light during administration is not required.
Phase III clinical trial results
Cleviprex has been evaluated in 6 Phase III clinical studies including the perioperative and emergency department/intensive care settings. These include ESCAPE-1, ESCAPE-2, ECLIPSE, and VELOCITY trials.
ESCAPE-1 was a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled efficacy trial of 105 cardiac surgery patients. In ESCAPE-1, Cleviprex had a significantly lower rate of treatment failure when compared with placebo (7.5% vs 82.7%) and a 92.5% rate of success in lowering systolic blood pressure (SBP) by ≥15%. The median time to reduce SBP ≥15% from baseline was 6 minutes.
ESCAPE-2 was a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled efficacy trials of 110 cardiac surgery patients. In ESCAPE-2, Cleviprex had a significantly lower rate of treatment failure when compared with placebo (8.2% vs 79.6%) and a 91.8% treatment success rate. The median time to reduce SBP ≥15% from baseline was 5.3 minutes.
The ECLIPSE trials consisted of three safety trials in which 1506 patients were randomized to receive Cleviprex, nitroglycerin, sodium nitroprusside, or nicardipine, for the treatment of hypertension associated with cardiac surgery. The incidence of death, stroke, myocardial infarction (heart attack), and renal dysfunction at 30 days did not differ significantly between the pooled Cleviprex and comparator treatment arms.
VELOCITY was an open-label trial of 126 patients with severe hypertension (BP > 180/115 mmHg) in the emergency department and intensive care unit. In VELOCITY, 104 out of 117 patients (88.9%) achieved a target SBP mean decrease of 21.1% at 30 minutes.
References
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External links
Calcium channel blockers
Dihydropyridines
Chloroarenes
Carboxylate esters
Butyrate esters
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17343464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Keep | Albert Keep | Albert Keep (1826 – May 13, 1907) was a 19th-century American railroad official and financier. He was a former president and director of
the Chicago and North Western Railway. For eighteen years he was director of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. He was born in Homer, New York, in Cortland County.
Keep moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin, in 1846. He became a leading merchant there, working along with his brother, Henry, and Philander Peck. The Keeps and Peck relocated to Chicago, Illinois, in 1851. They were involved in trade and began to accumulate wealth. The brothers took an interest in promoting the Chicago and North Western Railway and Albert served as its director for fourteen years. As a result of his leadership the railroad became one of the best built, equipped, and managed in the midwest.
Albert Keep died in Chicago on May 13, 1907.
The family has since expanded on their dynastical business and is currently headed by Anthony Keep who owns a mining conglomerate in Western Australia.
See also
List of railroad executives
References
19th-century American railroad executives
People from Homer, New York
1826 births
1907 deaths
Businesspeople from Chicago
Chicago and North Western Railway
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
19th-century American Episcopalians |
17343468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker%20Hill%20Elementary%20School | Bunker Hill Elementary School | Bunker Hill Elementary School can refer to several schools in the United States, including:
Bunker Hill Elementary School in Indianapolis, Indiana
Bunker Hill Elementary School in unincorporated Coos County, Oregon
Bunker Hill Elementary School in Bunker Hill Village, Texas
Bunker Hill Elementary School in Washington, D.C.; listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Bunker Hill Elementary School in unincorporated Berkeley County, West Virginia |
26721810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Block | Ryan Block | Ryan Block (born June 25, 1982) is a San Francisco-based technology entrepreneur. He was the editor-in-chief of AOL’s Engadget before he co-founded the community site gdgt. With gdgt's sale to AOL in 2013, he returned to the company and headed up its product group, but left in 2015 to start a new business.
Block currently co-hosts MVP, a technology podcast, with frequent collaborator Peter Rojas. He lives in San Francisco, California with his wife, Veronica Belmont.
History
Block joined technology news website Engadget as a part-time reporter in June 2004, and started full-time in June 2005. He went on to replace the site's creator Peter Rojas as editor-in-chief in 2007.
In July 2008 Block posted on Engadget that he would be stepping down as editor-in-chief to create a new company, leaving then Associate Editor Joshua Topolsky in charge. On 1 July 2009, using $550,000 in initial seed financing received from Betaworks and True Ventures, Block and Rojas launched gdgt; a discussion forum that generates reviews and answers questions about thousands of gadgets. gdgt was sold to AOL in 2013
, and Block left the company in 2015.
Comcast support call
In July 2014, Block and his wife attempted to disconnect their Comcast service over the telephone and were repeatedly blocked by the Comcast representative in a call which lasted 18 minutes. The last 8 minutes of this phone call was recorded by Block and posted to Reddit, immediately going viral across the internet. The next day Comcast apologized.
References
External links
Ryan Block's website
Engadget
American Internet celebrities
Living people
Weblogs, Inc.
Writers from San Francisco
American technology writers
American technology company founders
AOL employees
1982 births |
17343497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacer%20%28disambiguation%29 | Displacer (disambiguation) | A displacer is a special-purpose piston, used in Beta and Gamma type Stirling engines.
Displacer may also refer to:
Displacer (band), a Toronto band
Displacer beast, a fictional creature in Dungeons & Dragons |
6910928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola%20Pymonenko | Mykola Pymonenko | Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko () 9 March 1862, , near Kiev, Russian Empire; [now Kyiv, Ukraine]26 March 1912, Kiev, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. Pymonenko was a teacher of Kazimir Malevich (Kazymyr Malevych). Many of Malevych's early works were influenced by Pymonenko.
Pymonenko is often described as a Russian painter because he was painting in Kyiv within the Russian Empire. He was associated with the Odessa-based Society of South Russian Artists (18911896) (now Odesa in Southern Ukraine) and, as of 1893, with the Peredvizhniki, a Saint Petersburg-based society circulating exhibitions throughout the empire. He is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of farmers, country folk and working-class people.
Biography
Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko was born 9 March 1862 in the village on the outskirts of Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv, Ukraine). His father was a master iconographer, of Ukrainian descent. After working as his assistant, Mykola went on to study icon painting at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
In 1876, Pymonenko's work was seen by Nikolay Murashko, one of the founders of the , who was impressed by the young artist, and lobbied the school's financial backers to allow Pymonenko to study there for free. Two years later, Pymonenko enrolled at the school, where he worked with the painter Khariton Platonov, Murashko, and others. He studied there until 1882. His examination work was sent to the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1881, he received a licence to teach drawing in the lower secondary schools and was able to audit classes at the Academy. He married the daughter of Vladimir Orlovsky, one of his instructors.
From 1882 to 1884 Pymonenko studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts. That year, his poor health (which was possibly caused by tuberculosis) and a lack of funds caused him to return to Kyiv, where he found work as a drawing teacher at a private school. After the school closed in 1901, he moved to the Kiev Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II, and remained there for the rest of his life. From 1906 he taught at the Kyiv Art School, Kazimir Malevich being one of his most notable students.
In 1897, Pymonenko was involved in decorating Kyiv's St Volodymyr's Cathedral and was awarded the Order of Saint Anne for his work there. From 1893 he was a member of the Peredvizhniki, and in 1899 he became a full member of the group, and was named an 'academician' in 1904. He won a gold medal at the Salon in 1909 for his exhibited painting Hopak, now kept in the Louvre, in Paris.
Pymonenko died in 1912 after a short illness. He was buried at the Lukyanivka Cemetery. His posthumous exhibition at the Academy of Arts, which took place in early 1913, featured 184 paintings, 419 sketches and 112 pencil drawings. In 1959, a street was named after him and, in 1997, a museum devoted to him was opened in , a village he visited regularly each year. Several of his works have alternate versions, painted years apart.
Reputation
Pymonenko temporarily fell out of favour with the Peredvizhniki when one of his paintings, Going Home, was used (apparently without his permission) by the Shustov Vodka Company to promote their (a type of horilka). He was accused of having become "corrupted" and was forced to sue the company to have the image removed.
In 1905 Pymonenko complained to his friend Lazarevsky: "They (Ukrainians) say that I am a renegade, that I do not love my homeland, that I do not give what is needed that my plots are pale, but that all this is not true, not true." Mykola Golubed waved: “It is clear from those words that Pymonenko was wronged as a citizen, but he was praised as an artist by the critics. Pymonenko was a true link between the painting of Shevchenko and Trutovsky."
Selected paintings
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
Volodymyr Orlovskyi (text), Микола Пимоненко (Mykola Pymonenko), images compiled by Olga Zhbankova, edited by Alexander Klimchuk. National Art Museum of Ukraine, and Khmelnitsky: Galereya, 2004 , in Ukrainian.
Boris Chyp, O.G. Oganesyan, Микола Пимоненко: біографічний роман (Mykola Pymonenko: biographical novel), Vol.59 of "Celebrated Names", Kyiv: Molod' (Youth Publishing), 1983, in Ukrainian.
External links
Pymonenko at WikiArt
Article by the Daily Art magazine
1862 births
1912 deaths
People from Kyiv
Ukrainian genre painters
Painters from the Russian Empire
Russian male painters
Peredvizhniki
19th-century Ukrainian painters
19th-century Ukrainian male artists
Ukrainian male painters
20th-century Ukrainian painters
20th-century Ukrainian male artists |
17343499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane%20Neumann | Shane Neumann | Shane Neumann born 11 July 1987 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is a former professional rugby league footballer who played for Canterbury-Bankstown and the Manly-Warringah in the National Rugby League. Neumann played in the centres and could also play on the .
Playing career
Neumann made his first grade debut for Manly in Round 10 2007 against Brisbane. Neumann played 3 seasons for Manly but did not feature in the 2008 premiership winning team. In 2010, Neumann joined Canterbury and made 6 appearances for the club. In 2011, Neumann signed with Melbourne but made no appearances for the club before being released.
References
External links
Manly Sea Eagles profile
NRL profile
1987 births
Australian rugby league players
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles players
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs players
Eastern Suburbs Tigers players
Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles players
Rugby league wingers
Rugby league centres
Living people
Rugby league players from Brisbane |
20485045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20of%20the%20Road%20%281976%20film%29 | The End of the Road (1976 film) | The End of the Road (also known as Alaska: The End of the Road) is a 1976 British short documentary film directed by John Armstrong. The film is about British Petroleum's Alaska operations, including the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
Watch The End of the Road at BP Video Library
Watch Alaska: The End of the Road at the Hagley Digital Archives
1976 films
English-language films
1970s short documentary films
British short documentary films
Documentary films about Alaska |
26721824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Smile%20Company | Good Smile Company | is a Japanese manufacturer of hobby products such as the Nendoroid and figma product lines, as well as scale figures. In addition to production and manufacturing, its business includes design, marketing and distribution. Its products are usually based on anime, manga or video games that are currently popular in Japan and the West, although the company also produces products based on other media properties such as the voice synthesizer software Vocaloid, VTubers and various western franchises such as Marvel Cinematic Universe and Masters of the Universe.
Outline
Good Smile Company was established by Aki Takanori in 2001 as an event management and talent company. Thereafter it began working with Max Factory on hobby related products which soon become the main focus of the company. Good Smile Company is now primarily involved in the planning, production, manufacturing and sales of figures and toys, but also markets accessories and other goods.
Good Smile Company also acts as a distributor and for a number of other hobby related companies including Max Factory, FREEing and Phat! Company. The company has a particularly long relationship with Max Factory, and often shares booths and display space with them at events such as Wonder Festival. As of June 2012, Good Smile Company moved from Matsudo, Chiba to the Tokyo Skytree's East Tower, which has become the joint headquarters for them and Max Factory.
'Kahotan's Blog' is a popular blog which introduces both Good Smile Company and related products to the public through the eyes of one of the female staff members. The blog is available in both English and Japanese.
Corporate history
A summarized history of the company can be found below.
May 2001 – Good Smile Company established in Matsudo, Chiba.
January 2002 – Planning of toys, OEM production begins
September 2004 – First Good Smile Company branded figure is released.
April 2005 – Distribution of hobby related products begins
February 2006 – Start of the Nendoroid series.
January 2008 – Start of the figma series.
2010
March – Work begins on the Black Rock Shooter series.
August – The Good Smile Cafe is opened.
2012
May – Changed from a Yūgen Gaisha to a Kabushiki Gaisha.
July – Moved to the Tokyo Skytree East Tower.
Primary products
Good Smile Company sells a variety of products with a focus on PVC character figurines. Most products are based on anime, manga or video game characters that are popular within Japan. They have products based on American movies and comics popular in the West such as Star Wars and characters from Marvel Comics. Popular series included in companies product line-up include Hatsune Miku, Black Rock Shooter products, Puella Magi Madoka Magica products, as well as characters from Nintendo games. They are most well known for:
The Nendoroid figure series.
The articulated figma figure series (with planning and development by Max Factory).
Scale Figures
Related anime productions
Good Smile Company has been involved in the following productions as a member of the production committee.
Penguin Musume (2008)
CANAAN (2009)
Demon King Daimao (2010)
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Series (2010、2012)
Dog Days Series (2011、2012)
Hanasaku Iroha (2011)
Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth (2011)
Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends Series (2011、2013)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky OVA (2011)
Plastic Nee-san (2011 - 2012)
Black Rock Shooter (Noitamina Version、2012)
Senki Zesshō Symphogear (2012)
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc (2012)
Tari Tari (2012)
Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life (2012)
Da Capo III (2013)
Senyū (2013)
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (2013)
Aiura (2013)
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (2015)
One Punch Man (2015)
Additionally, they were involved in the production and distribution of the Black Rock Shooter film (2010).
Motorsports
In 2008, Good Smile Company became the primary sponsor of Studie GLAD Racing, a team which took part in the GT300 race division of the Super GT racing series in a car featuring illustrations of Hatsune Miku. In 2010, a new subsidiary company called Good Smile Racing (GSR) was established which became the new racing team owner. Good Smile Racing also produces model cars and related goods to support the racing team with sponsors.
After a long struggle in the debut seasons, the team would taste their first success in 2011 season, by winning three out of eight races and take their first driver's championship title in GT300 class. They would later win another two GT300 drivers Championship in 2014 and 2017 season, being one of the most successful Super GT teams in series' history.
In 2017, they also made their international GT debut, becoming the first Japanese GT3 team participating in the Spa 24 Hours of Intercontinental GT Challenge.
In 2019 Spa 24 Hours, they partnered with Type-Moon (as Type-Moon Racing), TRIGGER, and Black Falcon to field three Mercedes-AMG GT GT3 cars with Hatsune Miku, Fate, and Promare liveries. The Promare'' car started from pole position and finished 3rd overall and the Hatsune Miku car also finished 3rd in the Silver Cup class, becoming the first itasha team to reach podium in international GT racing.
Anime production business
In recent years, the company played a large part in bringing together four smaller animation companies (Sanzigen, Trigger, Ordet and LIDEN FILMS) and pooling their talent together as a new holding company named ULTRA SUPER PICTURES. This business is a part of the animation production industry, but focuses not only on the production and development of high quality animation projects, but also the licensing of works, general management and training of new staff in order to create content aimed at a worldwide audience.
Associated companies
Max Factory
Phat! Company
Good Smile Racing
Good Smile Logistics & Solutions
native
Gift
MAGES.
MEM
Good Smile Shanghai
HiTUBE
Ultra Super Pictures
Orange Rouge
External links
Official United States Website
Official English Website
Official Nendoroid Website - English Version
Official figma Website (Japanese)
Official Max Factory Website (Japanese)
Official Company Blog 'Mikatan Blog' - English Version
Good Smile Racing
ULTRA SUPER PICTURES (Japanese)
Official English Facebook Page
Official French Facebook Page
Official United States Twitter Account
References
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
Toy companies of Japan
Toy companies established in 2001
Japanese companies established in 2001 |
44507696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan%20Morais | Sheridan Morais | Sheridan Morais (born 11 March 1985) is a motorcycle racer from South Africa. He has competed in the Superbike World Championship, the Supersport World Championship, the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup and the Endurance FIM World Championship. He currently competes in the Asia Road Race SS600 Championship, aboard a Yamaha YZF-R6 and has recently completed his first ever road race as a wildcard for the German Penz13.com team in Frohburg in September 2019. as the team was sitting out of the first round of the FIM Endurance World Championship 2019/2020 season. In the previous season Morais and the Penz13.com team finished 5th in the EWC without even competing in the final race in Suzuka.
He is of Portuguese descent.
Career statistics
Superbike World Championship
Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Supersport World Championship
Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
By season
Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
South African motorcycle racers
Superbike World Championship riders
Supersport World Championship riders
Sportspeople from Johannesburg
FIM Superstock 1000 Cup riders
British Superbike Championship riders
Moto2 World Championship riders
South African people of Portuguese descent |
23580514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiszer%20Musthapha | Faiszer Musthapha | Mohamed Faiszer Musthapha, PC, MP is a Sri Lankan lawyer and a politician. He was the Minister of Sports and Provincial Councils and Local Government and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Faiszer Musthapha is married to Fathima Rifa who is also a lawyer. They have two daughters.
Education
Musthapha received his primary and secondary education at Royal College, Colombo and graduated from the Ceylon Law College. He obtained his post-graduate degree, Master of Law (LLM) from the University of Aberdeen, U.K.
Legal career
Faiszer Musthapha, chose the legal profession as his career following in the foot-steps of his father Faisz Musthapha. Faiszer Musthapha had specialized in company law and established a very successful practice eventually earning the title of President's Counsel. It was the first time in the history of Sri Lanka that both father and son had attained the title of President's Counsel. He also held the position of Vice Chairman of Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (SLLRDC) 2002-2003 and subsequently, Vice Chairman of National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) 2002–2004.
Political career
He entered politics as member of the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) in 2004 and was elected as a Member of Parliament in the same year; representing the Kandy District. Following the Elections, the CWC announced its unconditional support to the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), thereby allowing them to form Government.
In the subsequent Parliamentary General Election he contested from the Kandy District as a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) led UPFA. With Faiszer as its candidate, the SLFP, after a long period of fifty four years, was able to achieve Muslim representation in Parliament from the Central Province. He was then appointed a Central Committee Member of the SLFP, a position he continues to hold.
In 2005, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Tourism and later had functioned as the Minister of Tourism Promotion (Non Cabinet), the Deputy Minister of Environment, the Deputy Minister of Technology and Research and thereafter as the Deputy Minister of Investment Promotion.
As the Deputy Minister of Environment, in April 2010, the Hon. Faiszer Musthapha led the Sri Lanka delegation to the 34th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Brasilia, Brazil where he played a key role in winning the members of the World Heritage Committee to approve the inscription of Horton Plains, Knuckles Conservative Forest and Peak Wilderness (forest area around Sri-Pada) as a World Heritage Natural Reserve.
He had previously served as member of the Cabinet sub Committee appointed to look into and identify Laws and Regulations Obstructing Investments and as a Member of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE).
He was one of the Members of the SLFP who joined the opposition to campaign against former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the Presidential Election 2015 eventually leading to the victory of Maithripala Sirisena who become the 7th President of Sri Lanka. In the cabinet reshuffle that followed, Musthapha was appointed as State Minister of Aviation from which he resigned barely a month later. Soon later, he was appointed as Legal Advisor to President Maithripala Sirisena.
Following the 2015 Parliamentary Elections, Faiszer Musthapha entered Parliament through the National List and was appointed Cabinet Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government. He is also a member of the Public Accounts Committee among several Parliamentary Consultative Committees at present.
Controversy Surrounding Local Government Elections
Following his appointment as Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government, Musthapha identified numerous flaws in the Delimitation Report which is to be the basis on which the forthcoming Local Government Elections are to be conducted according to the Local Authorities (Amendment) Act 2012. He postponed the Local Government Elections indefinitely until the Delimitation report was rectified, although it was beyond the legally permitted term. He defended his decision stating that the original Delimitation Report was designed to the whims and fancies of the previous Government and would have resulted in a mockery of the democratic process if remedial action was not taken. However, this decision had received much criticism from citizens and politicians alike.
References
Sri Lankan lawyers
Sri Lankan Muslims
Living people
President's Counsels (Sri Lanka)
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1969 births
State ministers of Sri Lanka
Local government and provincial councils ministers of Sri Lanka |
23580522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemasiri%20Manage | Pemasiri Manage | M. M. Pemasiri Manage is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. A graduated university of ruhuna.he is a teacher ( political science ) He have 3 son.
Sapumal manage ; teacher ( maths )
Prabhashana manage ; politician ( 2018 - election )- sri lanka's younger politician. ( He got 62% votes - higher score in sri lanka )
Giwesh manage ; student ( vijitha national school )
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
44507729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford%20M.%20Jacoby | Sanford M. Jacoby | Sanford M. Jacoby (born 1953) is an American economic historian and labor economist, and Distinguished Research Professor of Management, History, and Public Policy at University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for his studies of the transformation of work in American industry, corporate governance, Japanese management, and welfare capitalism.
Biography
Born and raised in Washington Heights in New York City, Jacoby received his AB in Economics, magna cum laude, in 1974 from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in Economics in 1981 from University of California, Berkeley.
Jacoby began his academic career at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1980 and was appointed Howard Noble Distinguished Professor in 2001. He was a founding faculty member of UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and holds a position in UCLA's Department of History. Jacoby has been a visiting professor at the Doshisha University, London School of Economics, Cardiff University, University of Manchester, University of Tokyo, and Waseda University. His research interests include the history of employers, unions, and labor market institutions, and the political economy of corporate governance. He is co-editor of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal.
Jacoby has received a series of recognitions for his work, starting in 1982 with the Allan Nevins Prize from the Economic History Association. In 1986 he received the George R. Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management, and in 1997 the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance, an Abe Fellow of the Japan Foundation and Social Science Research Council, and a Research Fellow of the Labor & Employment Relations Association. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Selected publications
Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985; revised edition 2004. Japanese translation.
Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. Princeton University Press, 1997. Japanese translation.
The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2005. Chinese and Japanese translations.
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. Princeton University Press, 2021.
References
External links
Sanford M. Jacoby, Distinguished Research Professor of Management and Organizations at UCLA Anderson
1953 births
Living people
American business theorists
21st-century American economists
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty |
26721832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem%20Hubert%20van%20Blijenburgh | Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh | Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh (11 July 1881 – 14 October 1936) was a Dutch fencer. He won three bronze medals.
References
External links
1881 births
1936 deaths
Dutch male fencers
Olympic fencers of the Netherlands
Fencers at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from Zwolle
Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics |
44507733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20San%20Francisco | Church of San Francisco | Church of San Francisco or Iglesia de San Francisco (most often dedicated to St Francis of Assisi, in Spanish: San Francisco de Assisi) may refer to:
Chile
Church of San Francisco, Castro
Iglesia de San Francisco (Chiu Chiu)
Iglesia de San Francisco, Santiago de Chile
Colombia
Iglesia de San Francisco (Barranquilla), Barranquilla
San Francisco Church, Bogotá, Bogotá
San Francisco religious complex, Cali, Cali
Costa Rica
Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís (San José), San José
Ecuador
Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco, Quito
Mexico
Church of San Francisco, Madero Street, Mexico City
Church of San Francisco (Puebla)
Church of San Francisco Acatepec in San Andrés Cholula, Metropolitan area of Puebla
Philippines
San Francisco Church of Intramuros, an extant church located inside the walled city of Intramuros, Manila
Spain
Iglesia de San Francisco (Avilés)
Iglesia de San Francisco (Ceuta)
Church of San Francisco de Sales (Madrid)
Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
Venezuela
Iglesia de San Francisco (Caracas), Caracas
See also in Italian
See Church of San Francesco (disambiguation) |
26721855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adewunmi%20Agbaje | Adewunmi Agbaje | Navy Captain Benson Adewunmi Agbaje was appointed Military Administrator of Enugu State, Nigeria from August 1998 to May 1999 during the transitional regime of General Abdulsalam Abubakar, handing over to the elected civilian governor Chimaroke Nnamani when democracy returned with the Nigerian Fourth Republic.
In March 1999, he apparently ordered the arrest of Emeka Mamah, the chief correspondent of the Vanguard newspapers in Enugu, an unusual move during the transition to democracy.
He was forced to retire in June 1999 under a law that affected all military ministers, governors and administrators in the Babangida,
Abacha and Abubakar regimes.
References
Living people
Governors of Enugu State
Year of birth missing (living people) |
20485059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Arup%20Seip | Jens Arup Seip | Jens Lauritz Arup Seip (11 October 1905 – 5 September 1992) was a Norwegian historian originally trained as a medieval historian, but stood out as the strongest of his time in interpreting Norwegian political history in the 1800s, particularly known for having created the term "embedsmannsstaten". He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1952 to 1975, he specialized in political history and the history of ideas. He was married to fellow historian Anne-Lise Seip. Seip's use of the Norwegian language and his writing style which numerous historians have described as brilliant, and often tried emulating. Seip was included among the 16 authors of " The Norwegian literary canon" from 1900 to 1960 and 2nd among 20 authors in a ranking of nonfiction writers conducted by Dagbladet in 2008. Seip received an honorary doctorate at the University of Bergen from 1975.
Personal life
Jens Arup Seip was born in Bolsøy, near Molde. He was a descendant of military officer and politician Andreas Martin Seip (1790–1850). Andreas' grandson Jens Laurits Arup Seip, brother of politician Karl Seip, was the father of academic Didrik Arup Seip and politician Hans Kristian Seip, the latter being the father of Jens Arup Seip. Jens Arup Seip was also a first cousin of the forester and state secretary Hans Kristian Seip, and a second cousin of politician Helge Seip and physician Martin Fredrik Seip, who were grandnephews of Jens' grandfather Jens Laurits.
Jens Arup Seip was married to teacher and painter Rachel Lehre Seip (1931–1960) and had three children, Hans Christian, Morten and Knut, then to historian Anne-Lise Seip, whom he met while she was a student at the University of Oslo. The couple lived at Høvik in Bærum, and had two children, Ingebjørg and Åsmund, both of whom are academics. He died in September 1992 in Bærum.
Career
He graduated as cand.philol. in 1931. He worked as a research fellow at the University of Oslo from 1936, under the tutorship of Edvard Bull, and became known for the journal article Problemer og metode i norsk middelalderforskning in 1940. He then worked for the National Archival Services of Norway from 1941. The same year his uncle Didrik Arup Seip was removed by the Nazi occupants from his position as rector. Jens Arup Seip completed his thesis Sættargjerden i Tunsberg og kirkens jurisdiksjon in 1942, but did not receive the dr.philos. degree until 1945. He worked as a lecturer in history from 1946, and was also a consultant at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1946 to 1958. From 1955 to 1966 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association.
In 1952 he was promoted to the position of professor. In addition, he drifted from his former specialty in medieval history to political history and the history of ideas. Among his most important publications were Fra embedsmannsstat til ettpartistat (1963) and Utsikt over Norges historie in two volumes (1974 and 1981). He retired from the position as professor in 1975, incidentally the same year that his wife was appointed to the Institute of History. Many of his terms have entered the Norwegian historio-political lexicon.
References
1905 births
1992 deaths
20th-century Norwegian historians
Norwegian medievalists
University of Oslo faculty
People from Molde
Jens Arup |
23580529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Splidsboel | Kim Splidsboel | Kim Michael Splidsboel (born 25 November 1955) is a Danish football manager and former professional player who played as a sweeper. He was most recently the manager of Danish 2nd Division side, BK Avarta.
Playing career
Splidsboel played professionally for Hvidovre IF and Herfølge BK.
Coaching career
Splidsboel has managed Denmark U16, Hvidovre IF, Brøndby IF U23, Holbæk B&I, Dragør BK, Malawi, Værløse BK, and FC Banants from August 2008 to October 2008.
He was named manager of B 1908 from January 2010. He left the club at the end of his contract on 31 December 2011.
On 30 April 2012, Splidsboel was brought in as manager of B93 in order to save the club from relegation. He left the club following the 2013–14-season. In January 2015 he became new manager of BK Avarta. He was sacked a few months later and replaced by Benny Gall.
References
1955 births
Living people
Danish footballers
Sportspeople from Copenhagen
Association football sweepers
Hvidovre IF players
Herfølge Boldklub players
Danish football managers
Holbæk B&I managers
Malawi national football team managers
FC Urartu managers
Boldklubben af 1893 managers
BK Avarta managers
Danish expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Malawi
Expatriate football managers in Armenia
Danish 1st Division players |
20485060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berat%20Castle | Berat Castle | Berat Castle (), also referred to as the Citadel of Berat and castle quarter, is a fortress overlooking the town of Berat, Albania. It dates mainly from the 13th century and contains many Byzantine churches in the area and Ottoman mosques. It is built on a rocky hill on the left bank of the river Osum and is accessible only from the south. It is situated at an elevation of .
History
After being burned down by the Romans in 200 B.C., the walls were strengthened in the 5th century under Roman Emperor Theodosius II to protect from Barbarian incursions into the Balkans. They were subsequently rebuilt during the 6th century under the Emperor Justinian I and again in the 13th century under the Despot of Epirus, Michael I Komnenos Doukas, cousin of the Byzantine Emperor. This last phase can be seen as a Monogram formed by red bricks set in a wall of the castle. The castle was under the rule of John Komnenos Asen in the mid-14th century The main entrance, on the north side, is defended by a fortified courtyard and there are three smaller entrances.
The fortress of Berat in its present state, even though considerably damaged, remains a magnificent sight. The surface that it encompasses made it possible to house a considerable portion of the cities inhabitants. The buildings inside the fortress were built during the 13th century and because of their characteristic architecture are preserved as cultural monuments. The population of the fortress was Christian, and it had about 20 churches (most built during the 13th century) and only one mosque, for the use of the Turkish garrison (of which there survives only a few ruins and the base of the minaret). The churches of the fortress were damaged through years and only some have remained.
Berat Castle is depicted on the reverse of the Albanian 10 lekë coin, issued in 1996, 2000 and 2013.
See also
List of castles
References
Photo, history and info of Berat Castle
Buildings of Justinian I
Castles in Albania
Tourist attractions in Berat
Buildings and structures in Berat
Roman fortifications in Macedonia |
6910934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonotis%20leonurus | Leonotis leonurus | Leonotis leonurus, also known as lion's tail and wild dagga, is a plant species in the mint family, Lamiaceae. The plant is a broadleaf evergreen large shrub native to South Africa and southern Africa, where it is very common. It is known for its medicinal properties. The main psychoactive component of Leonotis leonurus is claimed to
be leonurine, Leonotis leonurus has been confirmed to contain Leonurine according to peer reviewed journal published phytochemical analysis. Like other plants in the mint family, it also contains marrubiin. The name 'wild dagga' links it closely to cannabis as 'dagga' derived from the Khoikhoi 'dachab' is an indigenous South African name for cannabis species. This name may be a misnomer, as no part of the plant is used as a hallucinogen.
Description
The shrub grows tall by wide. The medium-dark green long leaves are aromatic when crushed. The plant has tubular orange flowers in tiered whorls, typical to the mint family, that encircle the square stems. They rise above the foliage mass during the summer season, with flowering continuing into winter in warmer climates.
Variation in flower color
A white variety (known colloquially as 'Alba') and a yellow variety also exist.
Ecology
The native habitat of Leonotis leonurus is damp grasslands of southern Africa. It attracts nectivorous birds (mainly sunbirds), as well as various insects such as butterflies. The flowers' mainly orange to orange-red colour and tubular shape are indicative of its co-evolution with African sunbirds, which have curved bills suited to feeding from tubular flowers.
Cultivation
Leonotis leonurus is cultivated as an ornamental plant for its copious orange blossom spikes and is used as an accent or screen in gardens and parks. It is moderately drought tolerant, and a nectar source for birds and butterflies in landscape settings. It was introduced to Europe in the 1600s.
Lion's tail can especially be found in other subtropical and Mediterranean climate regions beyond South Africa such as California, Hawaii, and Australia where it has naturalized in areas. In cooler climates it is used as an annual and winter conservatory plant.
Pharmacology and toxicology
Marrubiin has both antioxidant and cardioprotective properties and has shown to significantly improve myocardial function.
Docosatetraenoylethanolamide (DEA) is a cannabinoid that acts on the cannabinoid (CB1) receptor that has been found in Leonotis leonurus var. albiflora Benth. whole flower extract.
Leonotis leonurus contains several labdane diterpene based compounds such as Hispanolone, Leonurun and Leoleorins C-N
One experimental animal study suggests that the aqueous leaf extract of Leonotis leonurus possesses antinociceptive, antiinflammatory, and hypoglycemic properties.
An animal study in rats indicated that in high doses, lion's tail has significant toxicological adverse effects on organs, red blood cells, white blood cells and other important bodily functions. Acute toxicity tests in animals caused death for those receiving 3200 mg/kg dose. At 1600 mg/kg extract led to changes in red blood cells, hemoglobin concentration, mean corpuscular volume, platelets, and white blood cells.
Traditional uses
The infusions made from flowers and seeds, leaves or stems are widely used to treat tuberculosis, jaundice, muscle cramps, high blood pressure, diabetes, viral hepatitis, dysentery, and diarrhoea. The leaves, roots and bark are used as an emetic for snakebites, bee and scorpion stings. The fresh stem juice is used as an infusion drink for 'blood impurity' in some places of South Africa.
Recreational uses
The dried leaves and flowers have a mild calming effect when smoked. In some users, the effects have been noted to be similar to the cannabinoid THC found in Cannabis, except that it has a much less potent high. It has also been reported to cause mild euphoria, visual changes, dizziness, nausea, sweating, sedation and lightheadedness.
It is sometimes used as a Cannabis substitute by recreational users as an alternative to illegal psychoactive plants.
Legal status
Latvia
Leonotis leonurus is illegal in Latvia since November 2009. It is a Schedule 1 drug. Possession of quantities up to 1 gram are fined up to 280 euros. Possession and distribution of larger quantities can be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
Poland
Leonotis leonurus was banned in Poland in March 2009. Possession and distribution lead to a criminal charge.
See also
Leonurine
Leonotis nepetifolia
Leonurus cardiaca
Leonurus japonicus
Leonurus sibiricus
References
External links
Missouri Botanical Garden - Kemper Garden Center: Leonotis leonurus
United States Department of Agriculture profile of Leonotis leonurus (lion's ear)
Lamiaceae
Endemic flora of South Africa
Butterfly food plants
Medicinal plants
Entheogens
Plants used in traditional African medicine
Garden plants of Southern Africa
Drought-tolerant plants |
20485075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherall%20Bay | Weatherall Bay | Weatherall Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Byam Martin Channel, northeast of Melville Island. Domett Point is at its mouth.
References
Bays of Qikiqtaaluk Region |
23580530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellawala%20Medhananda%20Thero | Ellawala Medhananda Thero | Ellawala Medhananda Thero is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He had also organized many charities and engaged himself in educational activities in under-prevailed rural communities. As an academic scholar (see Pieris, op. cit.) he has published 40 books of academic and archaeological research of which the book on the "Sinhala-Buddhist Heritage in the Northern and Eastern Provinces" published in 2003 by Jayakody Publishers in Colombo is most well known Medhananda was a parliamentarian elected by the Jathika hela Urumaya, a party which campaigned for the rights of Buddhists. As a consequence, many Marxist as well as Tamil separatist writers have criticized him for his alleged right-wing political leanings and pro-majoritarian sentiments. He only presented himself for elections only once. Since then he has devoted himself to charitable works, teaching and scholarly activities in rural regions of Sri Lanka
References
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Jathika Hela Urumaya politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1937 births
Sinhalese archaeologists
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks |
20485083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxotrichaceae | Myxotrichaceae | The Myxotrichaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycetes class, and has seven genera. Fungi in this family are mostly found in soil. Indoors, they can be found in paper substrates, damp drywall, and decomposing materials. They produce black, mesh-like, setose ascocarps with small, fusiform ascospores. Myxotrichum deflexum produces a pinkish red diffusing pigment and may produce stains on paper surfaces. No reports of mycotoxins, pathogenicity, or allergy are known.
References
Onygenales
Ascomycota families |
6910947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20McGuire%20%28radio%20host%29 | Paul McGuire (radio host) | Paul McGuire (born 1953) is an American conservative radio talk show host, author, feature film producer and television commentator. McGuire is host of the syndicated McGuire Report, broadcasting for over 10 years. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Network and CNN. He is the author of 15 books, the producer of two science fiction films and has written columns for WorldNetDaily and NewsMax. The History Channel presented a three-hour special with McGuire entitled Seven Signs of the Apocalypse.
Career
The Paul McGuire Show was a nationally syndicated radio talk show with a conservative point of view. Guests included former President Jimmy Carter, Tim LaHaye, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, Senator John McCain, Rick Warren, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, PLO leaders and Anne Rice.
McGuire was one of the first radio talk show hosts in the US to broadcast his shows in both English and Spanish. He frequently had nationally known attorneys and legal defense guests on his show including Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute, the Alliance Defense Fund and John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute. In addition, McGuire regularly hosted guests from the Defense Department, Department of State and the White House. McGuire often had guests with opposing points of view on the show. He received the distinguished Excellence In Media Award from the Pacific Justice Institute at a ceremony that honored media personalities.
Bibliography
Supernatural Faith in the New Age (1987)
Evangelizing the New Age: The Power of the Gospel Invades the New Age Movement (1989)
Who Will Rule the Future? (1991)
The Breakthrough Manual (1993)
Spirit-Filled Life Kingdom Dynamics Study Guides: People of the Covenant: God's New Covenant for Today (1994)
Spirit-Filled Life Bible Discovery Guides: A Study of the Wilderness Books Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy: Milestones to Maturity (1994)
From Earthquakes to Global Unity: The End Times Have Begun (1996)
Countdown to Armageddon (2000)
Growing in the Laws of Grace
Are You Ready?
The Warning
The Day the Dollar Died
Are You Ready for the Microchip?
Trumpocalypse (2018)
References
External links
Official Website
"The Road to Armageddon: America, Iraq, Israel, and Prophecy"
Paul McGuire Articles - NewsWithViews.com
1953 births
American radio personalities
Living people |
23580534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20R.%20Mithrapala | H. R. Mithrapala | H. R. Mithrapala (15 March 1946 – 18 September 2019) was a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government deputy minister.
References
1946 births
2019 deaths
Members of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council
Provincial councillors of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Alumni of Bandaranayake College, Gampaha |
23580538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Columba%27s%20Church%2C%20Ennis | St Columba's Church, Ennis | St Columba's Church is a congregation of the Church of Ireland, part of the Anglican Communion, in Ennis, County Clare, western Ireland.
St. Columba's was built between 1868 and 1871 as the new building for Drumcliffe Parish to the design by architect Francis Bindon. Previous locations for the parish include Ennis Friary which was vacated by the Franciscan Order in the early nineteenth century. The present building was the last Anglican Church to be built in Ireland before its disestablishment by the Irish Church Act 1869. It is an example of Gothic revival architecture, and its large size bears testimony to the fact that Anglicans were formerly more numerous than they are today, although they are now part of a growing minority of non-Catholics in Ennis and County Clare. Memorials in the church include a wooden grave cross from Ypres, a reminder of World War I (1914–1918).
The church hall is accommodated in the rear of the building. This was constructed around 1982-3 during the ministry of the former Dean of Limerick Maurice Talbot. A foyer and meeting hall, with kitchen and toilets were incorporated within the Church from space at the rear of St Columba’s.
Churches in County Clare
Church of Ireland church buildings in the Republic of Ireland |
20485085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsh%20Castle | Borsh Castle | Borsh Castle () also known as Sopot Castle () from the hill it is located, is a ruined castle near the village Borsh, Albania, near the coast of the Ionian Sea. Inside the castle is the 17th-century Hajji Bendo Mosque from Ottoman times.
History
The castle dates to Antiquity, and its fortifications follow the trace of an acropolis, with four subsequent phases of reconstruction, ranging from the early Byzantine period to the late Middle Ages. The name "Sopot" is of Slavic origin. In medieval Greek documents, the castle is named Sopoton or Sopotos, from which its name in other languages derives; its harbour is mentioned in Greek portolans with the name Gazopolis.
The site is first mentioned in the early 13th century, when archbishop Demetrios Chomatenos wrote of the "archonship of Sopotos" (, archontia Sopotou), part of the region of Vagenetia. In 1258, the Despot of Epirus Michael II Komnenos Doukas gave the castle along with Buthrotum and the island of Corfu as dowry for his daughter Helena to Manfred, King of Sicily. It came back under Epirote control soon thereafter, before being once again ceded by Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas to Charles I of Anjou in 1279. The area returned again to Epirote hands in the subsequent decades, but in the Epirote rebellion against Palaiologan Byzantine rule in 1338–39, it remained loyal to Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos.
Following the Ottoman conquest, a cadaster from 1431 lists Sopot with 60 households, and as capital of a nahiye. In 1456, troops of King Alfonso V of Aragon were operating in the area of Sobato against the Ottomans. In 1470 it was under Venetian control, under the jurisdiction of the governor of Corfu; at the end of the Ottoman–Venetian War of 1463–1479, the Ottomans laid claim to it and apparently received it. In 1481 Albanians led by Gjon Kastrioti II invaded Southern Albania from Italy and captured the castle, but retreated in 1484. In 1488 the local Albanian population rebelled against Ottoman rule.
The walls of the castle, which follow the ancient fortifications, survive. In the interior, the medieval fortress was divided through a wall in two. Triangular towers were added later, probably during the middle Byzantine period. In the interior of the castle stand ruins of various buildings and cisterns.
References
Sources
Ruined castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Himara
Byzantine forts |
23580539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Mussammil | Mohamed Mussammil | Mohamed Mussammil (Mohamadu Mohidin Musammil Mohidi) is a Sri Lankan politician and member of a Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Sri Lankan Muslims
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
1980 births |
6910956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces%20%26%20Names | Faces & Names | Faces & Names is Dave Pirner's first solo studio album. It was released in the United States on 30 July 2002.
Track listing
All songs written by Dave Pirner.
"Teach Me To Breathe" – 3:46
"Never Recover" – 3:45
"Faces & Names" – 4:21
"Feel the Need" – 4:01
"Someday Love" – 3:49
"364" – 4:06
"I'll Have My Day" – 4:21
"Tea" – 3:33
"Much Too Easy" – 3:39
"Levitation" – 3:26
"Start Treating People Right" – 3:55
Personnel
Dave Pirner - vocals, guitar, trumpet
Pat Sansone - keyboards, guitar, backing vocals
Anthony Tidd - bass
Chris Joyner - organ, piano
Ian Mussington - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Sophia Jones - backing vocals
Oliver Leiber - guitar, bass, drums on "Teach Me to Breathe" and "Never Recover"
Mark Brown - bass on "Never Recover"
Billy Preston - organ, Wurlitzer on "Never Recover"
Chris Whitley - dobro on "Faces & Names" and "Start Treating People Right"
Brady Kish - double bass on "Faces & Names"
Kraig Jarret Johnson - guitar on "Someday Love"
Mike Napolitano - guitar on "Tea" and "Levitation"
Michael Blum - pedal steel on "Much Too Easy"
Eric "Skerik" Walton - tenor saxophone on "Levitation"
Singles
"Tea"
"Levitation"
"Feel the Need"
References
2002 debut albums |
6910969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra%20High%20School | Serra High School | Serra High School may refer to:
Junípero Serra High School (Gardena, California), United States
Junípero Serra High School (San Mateo, California), United States
Serra Catholic High School, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States
Serra Catholic School, in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, United States
Canyon Hills High School (San Diego), formerly Junipero Serra High School, United States
JSerra Catholic High School, in San Juan Capistrano, California, United States
Junípero Serra |
20485099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe%20%281976%20film%29 | Universe (1976 film) | Universe is a 1976 American short documentary film directed by Lester Novros. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
1976 films
English-language films
American short documentary films
1970s short documentary films
Documentary films about space |
26721861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcall%20%28song%29 | Nightcall (song) | "Nightcall" is a song by French electro house artist Kavinsky, released as a single in 2010. It was produced with Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and mixed by electronic artist Sebastian. It features Lovefoxxx, lead singer of Brazilian band CSS, on vocals and includes remixes by Xavier de Rosnay, Jackson and his Computer Band and Breakbot. The track was used in the title sequence for the film Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. "Nightcall" was included on Kavinsky's debut studio album, OutRun (2013).
The song was also used in the soundtrack for the film The Lincoln Lawyer, directed by Brad Furman and starring Matthew McConaughey. It was sampled by Lupe Fiasco for his single "American Terrorist III", as well as by Vinny Cha$e & Kid Art for their 2012 song "Drive" as a bonus track on Golden Army. It was also sampled by Childish Gambino for his song "R.I.P" featuring Bun B on his mixtape Royalty and by Will Young for his 2012 song called "Losing Myself".
"Nightcall" was covered by English band London Grammar for their debut album, If You Wait (2013). It was also covered by former Bluetones frontman Mark Morriss on his second solo album, A Flash of Darkness, and by English shoegaze band My Vitriol.
Track listing
12" single and promotional CD single
"Nightcall" – 4:19
"Pacific Coast Highway" – 6:23
"Nightcall" (Dustin N'Guyen Remix) – 3:34
"Pacific Coast Highway" (Jackson Remix) – 8:24
Digital bonus track
"Nightcall" (Breakbot Remix) – 3:39
Anniversary edition digital bonus tracks
"Nightcall" (Robotaki Remix) – 4:53
"Nightcall" (SAWAGii Remix) – 4:47
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of OutRun.
Kavinsky – vocals, production
Lovefoxxx – vocals
Sebastian – mixing
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo – production
Florian Lagatta – engineering
Charts
Certifications
London Grammar version
In 2013, English trio London Grammar covered "Nightcall" for their debut studio album, If You Wait (2013). The track was released as the album's fourth single on 8 December 2013.
The cover received positive reviews from critics, with one writer from Fortitude Magazine saying that "London Grammar’s take on the already-brilliant track is laced with sheer elegance.".
Music video
A music video for the song was released on YouTube on 28 November 2013.
Track listings
Digital download
"Nightcall" (radio edit) – 3:38
Digital EP
"Nightcall" (LG Re-Edit) – 3:39
"Nightcall" (Freemasons' Pegasus Club Mix) – 7:34
"Nightcall" (Raaja Bones & Fyfe Dangerfield Remix) – 4:57
"Nightcall" (Special Request VIP) – 4:45
"Everywhere You Go" – 3:42
UK limited-edition 7" single
A. "Nightcall" (album version) – 4:30
B. "Everywhere You Go" – 3:42
Charts
Certifications
Release history
Usage in media
"Nightcall" plays in the background of a flashback scene in the film The Lincoln Lawyer. It also plays during the opening credits of the 2011 film Drive, and in scene 25 of Our RoboCop Remake as directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The song is used in a commercial for the Sony Xperia phone promoting its low-light camera features. The song is also featured in the CW show Riverdale in episode 99.
References
External links
"Nightcall" digital single on Bandcamp
2010 debut singles
2010 songs
2013 singles
Disco songs
English-language French songs
London Grammar songs
Songs written for films
Songs written by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo |
20485102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Allyn | John Allyn | John Allyn (May 17, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois – April 29, 1979 in Winnetka, Illinois) was the co-owner of the Chicago White Sox of the American League with his brother Arthur Allyn, Jr. from through , and sole principal owner from through . In addition, John Allyn served as president of the Chicago Mustangs soccer team which he co-owned with his brother, Arthur. In 1975, Allyn sold the club back to the person he and his brother had purchased it from in 1961, Bill Veeck.
References
White Sox History on Baseball Library
1917 births
1979 deaths
Major League Baseball executives
Major League Baseball owners
Chicago White Sox owners
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) executives
Sportspeople from Chicago |
6910971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTH%20domain | ANTH domain | The ANTH domain is a membrane binding domain that shows weak specificity for PtdIns(4,5)P2. It was found in AP180 (homologous to CALM) endocytotic accessory protein that has been implicated in the formation of clathrin-coated pits. The domain is involved in phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate binding and is a universal adaptor for nucleation of clathrin coats.
Its structure is a solenoid of 9 helices. The PtdIns(4,5)P2 binding residues are spread over several helices at the tip of the structure. The PtdIns(4,5)P2 binding sequence is Kx9Kx(K/R)(H/Y).
An ANTH domain is also found in HIP1 and HIP1R, and the PtdIns(4,5)P2 binding sequence is conserved. More information is found on endocytosis.org.
Human proteins containing this domain
HIP1; HIP1R; PICALM; SNAP91;
References
Further reading
External links
- Calculated spatial position of ANTH domain of CALM protein in membrane
Protein domains
Peripheral membrane proteins |
17343505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AuthorAID | AuthorAID | AuthorAID is the name given to a number of initiatives that provide support to researchers from developing countries in preparing academic articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Phyllis Freeman and Anthony Robbins, co-editors of the Journal of Public Health Policy (JPHP), first suggested the name and concept in 2004 and published "Closing the ‘publishing gap’ between rich and poor" about AuthorAID on the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net), in 2005.
Development aid programs of international organizations, industrial countries, and charitable foundations have invested in strengthening research capacity in developing countries to help those countries solve their own problems. Scientists from developing countries, however, remain under-represented as authors in the published scientific literature. AuthorAID was proposed because unless research results from authors anywhere are available through publication, the full benefit of investment in research is not achieved.
AuthorAID programs engage senior scientists and author’s editors as mentors to help developing country researchers overcome barriers to publication in scientific journals. The internet connects mentors and authors where it is not possible to have face-to-face contact.
The funded AuthorAID program at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications also organizes workshops in various developing countries, in addition to hosting an online mentoring scheme and e-resources. AuthorAID at INASP is independent of the other AuthorAID programs and is described below.
The publishing gap
Scientific research is conducted all over the world, and increasingly in developing countries. In an effort to help countries solve problems and speed development, development aid has been invested in research capacity, notably by Sweden and Canada. The results of this research must be available through publication to be useful in economic development and to other researchers. Yet only an extremely small fraction of the scientific literature is written by developing world authors, even in fields such as health and environmental studies, where it is universally recognized that the world’s dominant problems manifest themselves in developing regions.
An analysis, published in Science in 2005, of 4061 health-related journals from 1992 to 2001 showed a growing gap in scientific publications between low-income countries and the rest of the world. Similarly, Athula Sumathipala and her colleagues found under-representation of developing world authors in leading medical journals such as the BMJ, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and JAMA, in 1999 and 2000.
Causes of under-representation
There is no single cause of the under-representation of developing world authors. Bias exists on the part of both editors and reviewers who choose what to publish. Frank Gannon, writing as the editor of EMBO Reports, pointed out one worrisome source of bias against researchers from developing countries. He suggested that editors and reviewers discriminate "by judging colleagues on their work address" noting that "[t]he address of the first or last authors is not always a neutral piece of information when assessing a paper."
Differences in publication priorities between developed and developing countries are not always a sign of bias. The editors of a guide to publishing in the addiction sciences noted that "US research is primarily (and legitimately) oriented towards that country’s own social and economic priorities, which do not necessarily apply to cultures in the developing world. The problem of US dominance is thus not only one of maldistribution of opportunity." Some writers, analyzing the issues of science information transfer from a sociolinguistic and sociopolitical standpoint, consider this cultural dominance to reflect an "Anglo-American English language hegemony." The problem is further compounded by variations in the quality of the feedback peer reviewers are able to provide about the language and writing, since this advice does not always help to make the writing better.
Writing in English, overwhelmingly the language of scientific publication, constitutes a problem that can make it difficult for non-native English speakers (NNS) to "compete on an equal research basis." In the early 1990s Gosden surveyed editors if biology, chemistry and physics journals to identify aspects of manuscripts "which may seriously detract attention from judgment of a paper’s essential merits." He found that journal editors reported several problems encountered by NNS researchers, including inadequate knowledge of the unwritten "rules of the publication game" (for instance, failure to cite sufficient references to earlier research and unfamiliarity with the argumentation style or scientific level of the journal.)
The editors of the addiction sciences publishing guide mentioned above noted that international publishing requires technical skill to follow the instructions to authors, and is "an acquired competence in social communication." They warned that "if the formalities are not followed, even a study containing strong and original findings might immediately be turned down." One potential obstacle to acceptance is that "many English-speaking editors and reviewers (in the same way as many French, German, or Swedish speaking editors) will have a rather strict idea of what constitutes good language."
The problem as encountered by authors
Freeman and Robbins, when developing the AuthorAID concept, summarized what they learned about the problems faced by authors in developing countries as:
Uncertainty about which journals may be suitable for a submission
Unfamiliarity with editorial conventions
Persistent pressure to write in English
Conflicts with collaborators about authorship and author order
Lack of scientific and statistical tools to analyze data as required by journals
Editors’ and publishers’ inattention to development problems and developing country topics.
Editors and other research publication experts might help researchers overcome linguistic challenges and cultural differences, and help them understand the procedural, ethical, and technical intricacies of academic publication. Freeman and Robbins reported that in developing world research institutions there are simply too few editor/scientist mentors (well-published authors or experienced editors) available to assist in disseminating the work of emerging research talent whose findings might be brought to bear on the world’s major problems.
The problem as seen by journal editors
Editors of international journals reported to Freeman and Robbins that they sometimes reject submissions from developing country authors even when the content shows merit. Some noted that despite investment in research capacity in developing countries, many manuscripts reflect inadequate attention to research design and analysis. Conflicting priorities and lack of resources to provide substantive editing have also been discussed as a potential source of bias by members of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Editors in WAME who work with researchers as well as those who tend the gates at journals noted that the chances of acceptance may be lower for manuscripts needing more rather than less editing work.
At smaller journals in particular, manuscripts are likely to be rejected if they seem to require more editing than the editors or publisher can afford to provide. Another potential source of bias is perceived narrowness of scope: some editors lament the paucity of submissions sufficiently broad in scope to warrant international dissemination. Manuscripts that report research on a local or regional topic are often rejected by international journals before the editors have carefully scrutinized the research design and data collection.
Journal editors from the Forum of African Medical Editors (FAME) and the Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME), both of which are supported by the World Health Organization, report they do most of the editorial tasks themselves, and have little time to assist authors with substantial revisions. Lack of editorial staff to help authors may prolong the review process or result in rejection of manuscripts whose research findings could be applied to solving practical problems or to further research.
The problem as viewed by publishers
The tradition of intensive editing in many fields and at many scholarly journals and publishing houses (see academic publishing) has given way to commercial imperatives to produce at lower cost more "content" that can be repackaged and resold or licensed to others to generate additional revenue. To reduce costs, publishers have pushed greater editorial responsibility upon authors. Journals proliferate, but editorial resources are often strained, leading to a propensity to accept manuscripts that require less work. This may impose an additional burden on readers trying to understand the published articles.
Research institutions in wealthy countries have responded to this new publishing environment. Where no in-house editorial service exists, elite institutions often buy editorial help for their researchers from freelance editors or specialized firms. Few, if any, developing world institutions have in-house editorial services or external editors.
In some models of open access publishing the author pays the publisher a "manuscript processing fee," which contributes little revenue to invest in editing. These fees tend to exclude less affluent authors from the start. However, not all models of open access publishing require financial support from authors, and some open access publishers waive their fees when payment would represent a hardship for authors.
History
The editors of the Journal of Public Health Policy (JPHP) first presented the AuthorAID idea, provisionally named EditAID, at a meeting of the World Federation of Public Health Associations in Brighton, England in April 2004. Public health professionals from the federation’s 69 national associations expressed interest in the AuthorAID concept. Some wanted to benefit from mentoring and others offered to help scientists with less writing experience.
The second public presentation of AuthorAID took place in Mexico in November 2004 at the Global Forum for Health Research. This allowed AuthorAID’s developers to reach a group closer to the intended users, i.e., researchers from developing countries plus national and international agencies that invest in research. Robbins and Jerry Spiegel, a Canadian colleague from the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, talked to the forum about the potential benefits of AuthorAID. In addition, a group of Rockefeller Foundation International Health Research Awardees presented their research to a concurrent ministerial summit. These researchers, from 25 developing countries, had been helped by JPHP in an AuthorAID-like developmental editing experiment. In the wake of this experience, interest focussed on the search for more substantial ways to test the AuthorAID concept.
Many editors of US scientific journals were, at the time, engaged in activities to support developing world journal editors and their publications. For its May 2005 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, the council of Science Editors (CSE, formerly the Council of Biology Editors) invited a presentation of AuthorAID. Ana Marusic, co-editor of the Croatian Medical Journal, organized a special session on AuthorAID. Editors from FAME encouraged CSE to participate in AuthorAID. CSE’s board voted to develop the concept into a CSE project. Paul Bozuwa of Dartmouth Journal Services, who chaired a CSE Task Force on Science Journals, Poverty, and Human Development, took the lead for CSE on AuthorAID.
The Science and Development Network posted an article by the JPHP editors in its Opinions section describing AuthorAID to the broader science and development communities. The JPHP editors followed up with an editorial in their journal in which they explained the problems faced by developing world researchers when they try to publish their work in scientific journals.
In 2006, AuthorAID experiments started to take shape. Certain central elements remain constant across the experiments. AuthorAID is not commercial, relying exclusively on volunteer scientific and editorial mentors to help developing world authors. All AuthorAID projects match mentors (senior scientists with editorial experience often in or near retirement, or experienced science editors) with researchers seeking help to present their work. Mentors forswear authorship, agreeing to accept acknowledgment from the researchers whom they assist. Together the mentors and authors work on a manuscript via the internet or e-mail (unless they are able to meet in person) through to publication.
The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) invited a presentation of AuthorAID at its 2006 Annual Meeting in Kraków, Poland and subsequently endorsed the concept. Short descriptions of AuthorAID have been published in the journals of both CSE (Science Editor) and EASE (European Science Editing).
The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, with almost 1000 members worldwide, created an AuthorAID for its developing world members, relying on the expertise of senior members as mentors. In 2007, this became the one of the first operational experiments with the AuthorAID concept.
In late 2008 AuthorAID and Scientists without Borders, a project developed by the New York Academy of Sciences, discovered each other and agreed to investigate ways to work together. In autumn 2009 work began on the development of an organizational profile for the AuthorAID concept and its various projects on the Scientists without Borders website. In addition, support from the Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME), the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization, and the Bahrain Medical Society made it possible for Karen Shashok, a translator and author's editor located in Granada, Spain, to attend the EMMJ4 conference in Manama, Bahrain and start work on the AuthorAID in the Eastern Mediterranean project.
AuthorAID at INASP
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), an international development charity based in Oxford, UK, has run a funded AuthorAID program called AuthorAID at INASP since January 2007. Following the independent evaluation of the pilot phase from 2007 to 2009, the program was extended until the end of 2012.
AuthorAID at INASP is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). AuthorAID at INASP is not connected to the other AuthorAID programs. Instead, it is an integral part of INASP's Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information, which facilitates the availability, accessibility, creation, and uptake of research in developing countries.
Like other AuthorAID initiatives, the AuthorAID program at INASP includes a mentoring scheme, which in June 2012 had nearly 5000 members from 150+ countries. In 2012, the British Academy invited AuthorAID at INASP to talk about mentoring at the Career Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers in West Africa, and a talk on mentoring was also given at the 11th General Assembly of the European Association of Science Editors.
Since 2007, the AuthorAID staff from INASP have organized many workshops on research writing (i.e., writing research papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals) in various countries in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Workshops have also been organized locally by researchers working in INASP's partner countries. The impact of AuthorAID at INASP workshops on the publication output of participants is periodically evaluated. Researchers who attend the train-the-trainers workshop, which are often part of AuthorAID at INASP's research writing workshops, are encouraged to pass on their knowledge. The hundreds of free e-resources on research communication available on the AuthorAID at INASP site can be used by anyone for non-profit workshops and educational activities.
Since 2010, AuthorAID at INASP have provided grants to support research communication. Grants have been awarded for researchers to present at conferences, organize local AuthorAID workshops, and attend an intensive course on research writing.
A pilot e-learning course on research writing was conducted in 2011, and results were reported at an e-learning conference.
AuthorAID in the Eastern Mediterranean (AAEM)
From January to June 2009 the first on-site phase of this volunteer project, co-coordinated by Karen Shashok and Dr Farhad Handjani, was able to get underway thanks to support from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Shiraz, Iran. The results of the first on-site phase of this project were presented at the European Association of Science Editors 2009 conference, and were reported in European Science Editing and elsewhere. The second on-site phase, again supported by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, took place from November 2010 to July 2011. Work during this phase formed the basis of several articles, and also resulted in plans for collaborative research between an author's editor at the Clinical Research Development Center of Nemazee Hospital (one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences) and an AAEM editor in Spain. The AuthorAID in the Eastern Mediterranean website was inaugurated in late October 2012.
Experienced volunteer editors who contribute their time to AAEM are located in several countries and edit research manuscripts at no cost to the authors. In Iran, the project has provided manuscript editing combined with training in writing, revising, good scientific English style, appropriate referencing and citation, and research publication ethics. Sets of AAEM advice developed for authors and editors cover aspects of technical editing such as abbreviations, reference formats and identifying sources of materials, as well as aspects of research writing and publication such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism, appropriate secondary publication and choosing the most appropriate journal. While the next on-site phase of AAEM is being planned, its volunteers continue to provide manuscript editing support via email for researchers in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
See also
Academic publishing
Committee on Publication Ethics
Council of Science Editors
European Association of Science Editors
European Science Editing
International English
Open access (publishing)
Peer review
Rhetoric of science
Science and Development Network
Scientific literature
Scientists without Borders
World Association of Medical Editors
References
Further reading
Council of Science Editors Global Theme Issue on poverty and human development. Oct 22, 2007. Accessed 21 March 2008
External links
Academic publishing |
23580540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Carpenter%20%28judge%29 | Louis Carpenter (judge) | Louis Carpenter (1829, New York – 1863, Kansas) was a Judge in Douglas County, Kansas and was the highest ranking civic member of the town of Lawrence to be murdered by Quantrill's raiders during the Lawrence Massacre.
Douglas County Kansas
Louis Carpenter was a lawyer, and was a Deputy Clerk of Douglas County, Kansas by June 14, 1859. In late 1860 or early 1861, he became Probate Judge of Douglas County, the first case bearing his name as judge being recorded on February 26, 1861, and on September 29, 1862, he was chosen by the Union Party as their candidate for the office of Attorney General of Kansas. He was enumerated in the 1860 federal census of the Kansas Territory as age 29, born in the state of New York.
Lawrence Massacre
Judge Carpenter was one of the 185-200 men and boys killed in the Lawrence Massacre on August 21, 1863. He was murdered in his home at 943 New Hampshire Street in Lawrence by members of Quantrill’s Raiders. A detailed account of Judge Carpenter's life and murder in Kansas, and a photograph of him, are posted at the Douglas County Law Library website.
Personal
Louis Carpenter was born December 14, 1829 in New York state. His parentage is currently unknown as well as most of his life before coming to Kansas.
Louis married on October 10, 1862 at the home of his bride’s sister and brother-in-law Abigail (Barber) and Grosvenor C. Morse at Emporia, Kansas to Mary E. Barber, who was born ca. 1838 in Massachusetts according to census records. In 1870, his widow was enumerated at Topeka, Kansas; she married second on January 5, 1871 at Emporia, Kansas to John C. Rankin, and was enumerated in Osage County, Kansas in 1900 and 1910. She was a sister of Harriet A. Barber, who never married, and Abigail Barber, who married Grosvenor C. Morse.
References
Further reading
Definitive biography and photograph of Judge Louis Carpenter by Kerry Altenbernd:http://www.douglascolawlibrary.org/Louis_Carpenter.html.
1829 births
1863 deaths
People of Kansas in the American Civil War
Civilians killed in the American Civil War
Politicians from Lawrence, Kansas
People murdered in Kansas
19th-century American lawyers |
26721883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels%20tram%20route%2081 | Brussels tram route 81 | Tram route 81 in Brussels, Belgium is a tram route in the south of the city which connects the Marius Renard stop in the municipality of Anderlecht with the multimodal Montgomery metro station in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. The route also crosses the municipalities of Saint-Gilles, Ixelles, the City of Brussels and Etterbeek. It connects with the metro at Saint-Guidon/Sint Guido, Brussels South (also railway), Merode (also railway) and Montgomery. The route also crosses the major tram routes 3 and 4 at Horta. A good deal of its length is in carriageway, while long sections at either end are in reservation. It has a short section in tunnel at South Station.
The route was changed in the 2000s, with the section west from Brussels-South railway station going to Marius Renard rather than Heysel/Heizel.
Until 2018 the route was served by PCC trams - first 7700-series and later the longer 7900s. In that year the stops at Bailli/Baljuw were moved from the central reservation of Avenue Louise/Louizalaan into Rue du Bailli/Baljuwstraat, which has permitted the longer Flexity low-floor trams to be used when these are not needed elsewhere, that is normally at weekends. This progression to high-capacity vehicles accompanies an improvement in service frequency, with the daytime headway now being 71/2 minutes.
Route
Montgomery - Merode - Sint-Pietersplein/Place St Pierre - Acacia/Acacias - De Jacht/La Chasse - Sint-Antoonkerk/Église Saint-Antoine - Mouterij/Germoir - Gist/Levure - Flagey - Dautzenberg - Baljuw/Baili - Drievuldigheid/Trinité - Janson - Moris - Lombardije/Lombardie - Bareel/Barrière - Willem Tell/Guillaume Tell - Bethlehem/Bethléem - Koningslaan/Avenue du Roi - Zweden/Suède - Zuidstation/Gare du Midi - Bara - Raad/Conseil - Albert I - Kuregem/Curegham - Dover/Douvres - Verzet/Résistance - Sint-Guido/Saint-Guidon - Meir - Ysaye - van Beethoven - Frans Hals - Vivèspark/Parc Vivès - Marius Renard
See also
List of Brussels tram routes
References
External links
STIB/MIVB Website
81
Anderlecht
City of Brussels
Etterbeek
Ixelles
Saint-Gilles, Belgium
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre |
23580542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemakumara%20Nanayakkara | Hemakumara Nanayakkara | Hemakumara Wickramathilaka Nanayakkara is a Sri Lankan politician and was the 7th Governor of the Western Province of Sri Lanka, in office since 12 April 2018. He has also been a Governor of the Southern Province, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government minister. Nanayakkara played active roles for the United National Party victory at the 2001 General election. He was appointed as minister soon after the election. Later in 2007 he decided to support the UPFA. In 2012 Nanayakkara quit from the UPFA to form his own party called Ruhunu Janatha Party. The Party joined United National Party at the 2015 Presidential election to support the common candidate. Soon after the 2015 election victory he was appointed the Governor of Southern Province.
See also
List of political families in Sri Lanka
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Alumni of Richmond College, Galle |
26721897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Kunze | Paul Kunze | Paul Kunze (25 December 1904 – 16 July 1983) was a Dutch fencer. He competed at three Olympic Games.
References
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1904 births
1983 deaths
Dutch male fencers
Olympic fencers of the Netherlands
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Fencers from Amsterdam |
20485105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Mumbai | History of the Jews in Mumbai | The history of the Jews in Mumbai (previously known as Bombay), India, began when Jews started settling in Bombay during the first century, due to its economic opportunities. The Jewish community of Bombay consisted of the remnants of three distinct communities: the Bene Israeli Jews of Konkan, the Baghdadi Jews of Iraq, and the Cochin Jews of Malabar.
Bombay is home to the majority of India's rapidly dwindling Jewish population. At its peak, in the late 1940s, the Jewish population of Bombay reached nearly 30,000.
Arrival in Bombay
The first Baghdadi Jew, Joseph Semah, moved to Bombay from Surat in 1730 and the first member of the Bene Israel community to move from the Konkan villages south of Bombay to the city arrived in 1746 part of the Divekar family. In 1796 Samuel Ezekiel Divekar (1730-1797) established "The Gate of Mercy" synagogue.
Present population
Less than 4,000 Jews live in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, and there are
eight synagogues in the city. Today, the majority of Mumbai's Jews reside in Israel.
Activities
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee runs a Jewish Community Center and has 500 members with classes on Hebrew and Judaism, holiday parties, youth discos and clubs for children and seniors. Also, there is an "ORT" (Organization for educational Resources and Technological training), an international Jewish organization with the mandate of helping impoverished Jews and which sells kosher wine, challah, chicken and baked goods.
Also, started in 2004 is the Hazon Eli Foundation for Jewish Life in India, based in Thane (a suburb of Mumbai where many younger Jewish families are moving to), to teach Torah, Hebrew and Jewish law to the suburban population. A Sunday school is run there for children under 13, which attracts about 25 students weekly.
In Mumbai, there is also the Jewish founded "Sir Jacob Sassoon High School" and "Sir Elly Kadoorie High School". Today there are only a handful of Jewish students left, but they once had Hebrew and Torah classes.
Terrorist attacks on Mumbai
Until the terrorist attacks on Mumbai of November 2008, the Mumbai Chabad House Jewish outreach center was at Nariman House, Hormusji Street. In the attack, six Jews were held hostage and murdered at the center, the 29-year-old Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his 28-year-old wife, Rivka, Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum (37), Bentzion Chroman (28), Yocheved Orpaz (62) and Norma Shvarzblat-Rabinovich (50). The parents of Rivka Holtzberg have announced their intention to continue Chabad's emissary work in Mumbai, although the Chabad House may move to a new location in the city mostly in South Mumbai near Worli.
Communal relations
Mumbai Jews' ties with their city's Muslim community have historically been strong and remain so even after the Mumbai attacks. The two groups have been drawn together as minorities in a Hindu-dominated land – even by the similarities of their non-vegetarian diets of Kosher and Halal foods. "For these reasons, most Bene synagogues in Mumbai are in Muslim areas," Jonathan Solomon, chairman of the Indian Jewish Federation, said. Mumbai's Muslim Council had ordered that the nine gunmen killed should not be buried in the city, a gesture which was highly appreciated by the Mumbai Jewish community.
References
Bibliography
External links
Mumbai Jews The Movie 2016
Mumbai
Jewish
Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai |
6910980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Dominguez | Richard Dominguez | Richard Dominguez (born Eufrancio Ricardo Dominguez September 22, 1960 in Dallas, Texas) is an American comic book artist and freelance storyboard illustrator. Best known for creating the popular series El Gato Negro, Dominguez publishes his comics through his imprint and art studio, Azteca Productions. Dominguez also is well known for influencing other artists and creators in the pursuit of their own self-publishing ventures.>
Biography
Early life and career
Richard Dominguez was born Eufrancio Ricardo Dominguez to Ricardo and Juanita Dominguez in Dallas, Texas on September 22, 1960. The second of seven children, Richard grew up in a section of West Dallas known during the Great Depression as 'The Devil's Back Porch'. Dominguez recalls his first exposure to comic books at the age of six, when he began sneaking into his Uncle's room to read from his large comic book collections. In high school Richard enrolled in Commercial Art and later took Life Drawing classes at a community college before taking a job at a local supermarket chain to create and paint point-of-purchase displays. During the late '80s and early '90s, Richard worked as an intern for several art and design studios, later designing logos for Semi-Pro Sports teams and small companies.
Creation of El Gato Negro
Dominguez conceived El Gato Negro sometime in the mid-to-late '80s and originally planned to debut the character in a largely Mexican-American superhero group called Team Tejas. Having placed more emphasis on El Gato Negro's character development than the other members, Dominguez abandoned the Team Tejas project for a later date, as he later recalled:
Various aspects of the character's personality and visual design were directly inspired by some of Dominguez’s favorite comic book and classic pulp superheroes including The Spirit, The Crimson Avenger, Daredevil, Nightwing, The Shadow, The Phantom, Zorro and most noticeably Batman. Elements from Japanese animation, manga, and martial arts films also aided in the development of El Gato Negro's costume design and equipment.
The example of Judge Margarito Garza's Relampago character persuaded Dominguez pursue his creation in a self-published format, the character making his first published appearance in his own self-titled series written and illustrated by Dominguez in 1993. The debut series proved popular and has since spawned a second series entitled "El Gato Negro: Nocturnal Warrior". The character's popularity has landed him guest-starring roles in several publications and other media including being featured in Mountain Dew's "Do the Dew" Tour. Dominguez is currently in talks for a possible live-action film adaptation.
Azteca Productions
Dominguez formed Azteca Productions in 1993, its first publication featuring the debut of El Gato Negro, in what is now considered the company's flagship title. Dominguez later debuted Team Tejas with the help of friend and writer Michael S. Moore in 1997. Publications were put to a halt during the rise and fall of the speculative market of the late '90s, allowing Dominguez to focus on his family life. He later returned in 2004 with a second series featuring Moore as writer and pencils by artist Efren Molina. Current projects include Lucha Grande Comics featuring the exploits of the original El Gato Negro, [The Acolyte, Demon Hunter].
Personal life
Richard currently resides in Dallas, Texas with his wife Olga Dominguez and their two children.
P.A.C.A.S.
The Professional Amigos of Comic Art Society or P.A.C.A.S. was a non-profit organization founded by comic book creators Richard Dominguez, Carlos Saldaña, Jose Martinez, and Fernando Rodriguez in 1995. The purpose of which was to unite various cartoonists, writers, colorists, letterers and publishers in the shared goal of using networking and dialogue between themselves in order to assist their various projects in the hopes of expanding the opportunities for social growth in the comic art community. The group later expanded to over fifty members, the majority of which lived in California, but also included international members such as Oscar Loyo and the ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio group from Mexico.
References
External links
Official site
Official MySpace
Azteca Productions
American comics artists
American comics writers
Comic book editors
American artists of Mexican descent
Living people
1960 births |
23580546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20B.%20Nawinne | S. B. Nawinne | R. M. Seneviratne Bandara Nawinne (born 24 February 1946) is a member of United National Party and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was long time member of Sri Lanka Freedom Party but cross to the United National Party in 2015 General elections. He was appointed as a cabinet minister under the National Government led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe.
Nawinne held key ministerial positions of the United People's Freedom Alliance and Peoples Alliance governments from 1994. Later in 2000 he was appointed as the Chief Minister of North Western Province
References
Living people
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Chief Ministers of North Western Province, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1946 births
Labour ministers of Sri Lanka
Culture ministers of Sri Lanka
Internal affairs ministers of Sri Lanka |
20485109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aanivaer | Aanivaer | Aanivaer is a 2006 Tamil-language independent war film directed by John Mahendran starring Nandha, Madhumitha, Neelima Rani, and Mullai Yesudasan. The music was composed by Satheesh. The film was released on 23 September 2006. Shot entirely in the then LTTE controlled Vanni in Sri Lanka, it includes scenes about the exodus of Tamil people from Jaffna to Vanni after the fall of Jaffna to the Sri Lankan Army in 1995 and the rape and murder of Tamil school Krishanthi Kumaraswamy, the film was initially released for screening in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia only. It was later released in India as well.
Plot
Dr. Nandha (Nandha) works at a small makeshift hospital that serves as the only option for the wounded and the dying from the war. He refuses to leave his motherland for greener pastures and sets out to serve his people. Journalist Sandhya (Madhumitha) comes from India for a cover story on the ethnic strife, but the witnessing of every possible cruelty inflicted on the people is too much to take. Having personally experienced the pitiful plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, Zambia, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, and Nigeria, she goes back to South India with a heavy heart. Sandhya returns to Vanni for the second time with a view to meeting Nandha, whom she had met and loved on her first visit. Her initial enquiries to find out the whereabouts of Nandha prove difficult, but she continues.
Cast
Nandha as Dr. Nandha
Madhumitha as Sandhya
Neelima Rani as Sivashanthi
Mullai Yesudasan
Production
The film was shot in Sri Lanka with a story and screenplay revolving around a love story amid the then ongoing Civil War in Sri Lanka. Distributed by an independent distribution company, Thamizh Thiraikkann, the film was released in Tamil diaspora areas in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The film was released in India the following year.
References
External links
2006 films
Sri Lankan Civil War in film
Films shot in Sri Lanka
2000s Tamil-language films
Films set in Sri Lanka (1948–present)
2006 drama films |
23580551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshman%20Nipuna%20Arachchi | Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi | Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He is the replacement for former army chief Sarath Fonseka in Sri Lanka's parliament.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
20485121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drisht%20Castle | Drisht Castle | Drisht Castle () is a ruined castle above the modern Albanian village of Drisht, medieval Drivastum, in the municipal unit Postribë, Shkodër County, Albania.
The earliest traces of fortifications date to the late Neolithic era. In the 9th century, it was part of the defences of the Zeta principality.
Part of castle was built in the 13th century during the Byzantine rule. The current walls and towers date to 1396–1478 during the Venetian era. In the 14th century the castle became independent of Shkodra. In 1442 the castle was taken from Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković by the Venetian forces. It finally fell to the Ottomans during the massive siege of Shkodra in 1478.
There are the remains of 11 houses inside the castle walls.
References
Further reading
Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century
Castles in Albania
Ruined castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Shkodër |
23580554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udawatte%20Nanda%20Thero | Udawatte Nanda Thero | Udawatte Nanda Thero (or Udawatte Nanda) is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
In the 2010 general election he contested from the Sri Lanka National Front in Kandy District but was not elected. During the campaign he criticized his former party, the JHU and said that it was hijacked by laymen.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Jathika Hela Urumaya politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
6910985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlborough%20Boys%27%20College | Marlborough Boys' College | Marlborough Boys' College is a state single-sex secondary school in Blenheim, New Zealand. The school was established as Marlborough High School in 1899 (renamed Marlborough College in 1919). The school its current form in was established in 1963, after Marlborough Girls' College was split off. Serving Years 9 to 13, the college has students as of .
History
Overview
The first board of Marlborough High School met on 13 November 1899. Three acres on Stephenson Street (1.2 hectares) were purchased for £600 and another were donated by Thomas Carter, taking the grounds through to Francis Street. Dr John Innes was appointed the first Head Teacher. The school opened in the Church Of Nativity Sunday School building on Alfred Street, on 26 March 1900, with 18 pupils attending on the first day. The cornerstone for the first school building on the Stephenson Street site was laid on 22 September 1900.
Marlborough High School was co-educational and fee paying with free places to those who could not afford it but who had proved themselves able in the proficiency examination. The change in name from Marlborough High School to Marlborough College was made in 1919.
In 1926 Mr Stewart (Headmaster) was awarded a travelling scholarship to visit junior high schools in Canada and the United States. The department of education was interested in incorporating a Junior High (Intermediate) into the College structure. In 1927 an intermediate (forms 1 and 2 or years 7 and 8 in current terminology) was established on the site with 275 pupils taking the total roll to 557. The intermediate continued on the site until 1957, when roll pressures required the establishment of Bohally Intermediate on Mclauchlan Street.
In 1963 the Marlborough Girls' College was founded and Marlborough Boys' College continued on the original site. The first official discussion on the division of the college having taken place in June 1947. Mr Insull, the Headmaster at the time, suggested that “the time would come when the board would have to consider the question of separate boys’ and girls’ schools … and that the girls school might be established on the other side of town (Mclauchlan Street)". (Marlborough Express, June 10, 1947)
X Static FM89
X Static FM was a radio station in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand which originated as a Marlborough College-based radio station, X-Static FM operated by The X-Static Society. The station was based at the College and broadcast on 89FM with the callsign 2STA. Two years earlier the school ran a temporary radio station as part of a school fundraiser called Artyfacts FM. This station was the first FM broadcast in the South Island. X- Static went on air in February 1986 and only operated on a part-time basis during school lunch times and some evenings. The station was rebranded as Marlborough's 89FM in 1988 and remained at Marlborough Boys' College until 1989 when the station moved to new premises at the Blenheim Post Office Building; by this time the station was broadcasting from 6AM to 12AM. In 1990 the X-Static Society in partnership with Fifeshire FM from Nelson launched a new station Sounds 93FM using a commercial frequency purchased at auction from the government. Sounds FM broadcast in both Picton, Blenheim and Kaikoura.
Marlborough High School building development 1900–1919
1901 – Old School Building opened
1902 – Nosworthy House purchased as Headmaster residence or Rectory (on site of present technology faculty)
1910 – Tower added to old school
1910 – First gymnasium built
The College is located off Stephenson Street, with a large white building housing the English, maths and languages departments on the street front. In 2003–04 a new hall was built to the rear of the complex, and the music department was updated to include new music suites. It has a small swimming pool and is located in the vicinity of St Mary's church.
Proposed relocation
The intention to relocate both Marlborough Boys' College and Marlborough Girls' College on the site currently occupied by MGC and Bohally Intermediate is being planned by a consortium led by construction company Naylor Love. Bohally Intermediate will relocate to the current MBC site on Stephenson Street.
Principals
John Innes, M.A. LLD. (1900–1922)
John Stewart, M.A. (1922–1946)
Herbert A H Insull, M.A., Dip.Soc.Sc. (1946–1964)
Dugald S McKenzie, B.A., Dip.Ag., Dip.Ed., Assoc.Inst.Ed. (1964–1981)
Peter J Voss, M.A.(Hons), Dip.Ed. (1982–1991)
John Rodgers, B.A., Dip.Ed.Studies(Admin), Dip.Tchg. (1992–2009)
Dave Turnbull, M.A., Dip.Ed., Dip.Ed.Guid, Dip.Tchg. (Interim Principal, Terms 3–4 2009)
Wayne Hegarty, M.A., Dip.Ed.Mngmt., Dip.Tchg. (2010–2019)
Jeremy Marshall, BSc (Hons), PGCE. (Interim Principal 2020)
John Kendal DipTch, BTch (2021–present)
Notable alumni
Sport
Cricket
Cyril Allcott - New Zealand Test cricketer 1930–1932
Gary Bartlett – New Zealand Test cricketer 1961–1968
Geoff Barnett – Canadian international cricketer
Carl Bulfin – Black Cap
Fen Cresswell – New Zealand cricketer 1949–1950/51
Brendon Diamanti – Black Cap
Ben Wheeler – New Zealand cricketer 2015–present
Cycling
Jason Allen – Professional cyclist, track world cup champion
Graeme Miller – Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist in cycling
Robin Reid – Professional cyclist, Olympian
Football
Michael O'Keeffe – New Zealand football representative
Rugby union
David Hill – All Black
Leon MacDonald – All Black
Quentin MacDonald – Super Rugby player, Crusaders
Atu Moli – All Black
Sam Moli - Tongan Rugby International
Toby Morland – Super Rugby player (multiple franchises)
Ben O'Keeffe – International rugby referee, New Zealand
Anton Oliver – All Black
Kade Poki – Super Rugby player, Highlanders
Alan Sutherland – All Black
Joe Wheeler – Super Rugby player, Highlanders
Other
Sir Gordon Bell (1887–1970), surgeon
Eileen Duggan (1894–1972), poet and journalist
Tom Murray (born 1994), Olympic rower
Notable staff
Sydney Jones (1894–1982), National MP for Hastings (1949–1954)
William Sheat (1899–1982), National MP for Taranaki electorates (1926–1928)
References
Boarding schools in New Zealand
Boys' schools in New Zealand
Educational institutions established in 1899
Secondary schools in New Zealand
Schools in Blenheim, New Zealand
1899 establishments in New Zealand
1900s architecture in New Zealand |
23580558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y.%20M.%20Nawaratna%20Banda | Y. M. Nawaratna Banda | Yapa Mudiyanselage Nawaratna Banda is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
20485147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Mighty%20Princess | My Mighty Princess | My Mighty Princess (; lit. The impossible female student) is a 2008 South Korean film directed by Kwak Jae-yong.
Synopsis
Kang So-Hwi is a college student and martial artist who possesses super-human strength and supernatural agility that drive others away from her. Later, an incident undermines her chance to talk to Jun-mo, the boy she loves. She gives up studying martial arts. She joins an ice hockey club where Jun-mo plays. She tries to get his attention, and Jun-mo ends up unwillingly riding with her on his motorbike.
The pair come to a police station, where Jun-mo regularly visits a female officer. The officer is around his mother's age, and is unwilling to return his affection, but Jun-mo persistently confesses his love to her. He follows the officer on her patrols on his motorbike. So-hwi hopes that Jun-mo may eventually return her feelings.
So-hwi's fighting skills diminish, leading her father to urge her to practice. He wants her to learn her mother's magic sword powers. So-hwi refuses. Her father reaches out to Ilyoung, the son of his friend, and asks him to convince So-hwi to continue martial arts in return for buying him an expensive motorcycle. Ilyoung is her lifelong friend and trained alongside her as a child. He waits for her after her classes. So-hwi jokingly rejects his attention while secretly grateful. He does not go away even though she keeps telling him to go and follows her everywhere.
Jun-mo gets into a street fight. So-hwi and Ilyoung save him with their superpowers using disguises but are easily found out. So-hwi tells Ilyoung of a frequent dream, however the ream was instead a forgotten memory.
Ilyoung and So hwi were the best of child martial artists so that only So-hwi can beat him. At that time, the villain Heuk-bong tries to steal the sword named Green Destiny, which can do the moon-stroke. Both So-hwi and Ilyoung attempt to protect that sword but Heuk-bong hits So-hwi and she fell off the cliff. Ilyoung jumps after her and takes her to the hospital where she recovers but loses her memories of the incident.
Joon mo asks So hwi to be their goalkeeper. After rebook from the police officer when he tried to kiss her he grows closer to So hwi. Revealing his mother died at a young age and the officer once saved his life. All the while Ilyoung look at them being friendly with each other.
So-hwi's father and his friends ask for a fight with Heuk-bong. On the day of the fight, So-hwi's father is shocked seeing that Heuk-bong is Ilyoung. Ilyoung injures So-hwi's father with the sword.
Ilyoung takes So-hwi's father to a hospital and informs So-hwi. So-hwi is informed by her father's friends about her mother's story. So-hwi trains on her mother's sword to create a lightning stroke.
Meanwhile Ilyoung tells the story in his mind language of how he realised the sword was poisoned when Heuk-bong used it on So-hwi.
Only Heuk-bong can cure So-hwi, so Ilyoung goes to him and asks for the antidote. Heuk-bong demands that Ilyoung become his disciple and hypnotizes him. Ilyoung accepts and cures So-hwi. Ilyoung was to take Heuk-bong's place. Heuk-bong dies without setting Ilyoung free, explaining why he injured So-hwi's father.
So-hwi completes her training on lightning stroke and goes to fight only to realize her opponent is Ilyoung. Through telepathy, Ilyoung tells her what has happened. So-hwi defends herself but won't fight back. Ilyoung asks her to fight back as he wants to escape his hypnotic spell.
Ilyoung intends to use moon stroke with the green destiny sword, So-hwi instead uses lightning stroke, which weakens Ilyoung. Ilyoung begs her to attack him, and attacks her. She fell down. Ilyoung gets hold of her neck and tries to kill her. But So-hwi asks him to concentrate. This confuses Ilyoung and in pain, he sheds tears. His tears fall onto the sword and awaken Ilyoung from the spell. So hwi confess that she remembered the past while listening to his mind language and she used to hear it long ago too when they were young. So-hwi's father wakes up from coma and Ilyong is in hospital looked after by his dad. The movie ends with Ilyoung deciding to confess his love to So-hwi the next time through mind language.
Cast
Shin Min-a: So-hwi
On Joo-wan: Il-yeong
Yoo Gun: Joon-mo
Im Ye-jin: He-in
Choi Je-seong: Kap-seong
Lee Dae-geun: Cheon-poong
Kim Hyung-il: Chang-hak
Dion Lam: Geol-wang
Jeong Ho-bin: Heuk-bong
Cha Tae-hyun: Pigeon Man (cameo)
Release
My Mighty Princess was released in South Korea on 26 June 2008, after a delay of more than two years. On its opening weekend it was ranked eighth at the box office with 14,988 admissions; as of 6 July it had received a total of 27,309 admissions, with a gross of .
References
External links
2008 films
Korean-language films
South Korean films
Films directed by Kwak Jae-yong
South Korean romantic comedy films |
23580563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20Nijamudeen | S. Nijamudeen | Sihabdeen Nijamudeen (sometimes Najamudeen Sihabdeen) (born in Eastern Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was the Deputy Minister of Public Estate Management and Development which governs estates including the Tea Estates of Sri Lanka.
Hon. Minister Sihabdeen Nijamudeen grew up in Sainthamaruthu; on the Eastern Coast.
Sainthamaruthu is a fast developing commercial area under the Kalmunai Municipal Council. It comprises seventeen G.S. divisions and nine wards in the Municipal Council. There is a separate Divisional Secretary's Division, an M.P.C.S., a main post office and a fully equipped basic hospital for this area. The oldest market in this location had been turned into a modern market complex. There is also an Agriculture Productivity Centre to serve the farmers of this area. A separate educational circuit too established in this area very recently. The Kalmunai-Ampara (K.A.I.) main road passing through this area had become a busy commercial bazaar and the business turn over had multiplied rapidly
This village is one of the olden village which is situated in the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. predominantly concentrated with a Muslim population. This is one of the places in Sri Lanka where you find 100% Tamil Speaking Muslims and it is the heart of the Sri Lankan Muslim Congress which holds roughly 12000 votes which belongs to the SLMC political party. This is where the late leader Hon. MHM Ashraff was elected as a Member of Parliament then later he became the most dominant Muslim in Sri Lankan politics.
Deputy Minister S. Nijamudeen is also renowned for being one of the most approachable public figures in Sri Lankan politics as someone willing to listen to the common man during official and after hours.
References
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
People from Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress politicians
Sri Lankan Moor politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
20485153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjirokast%C3%ABr%20Fortress | Gjirokastër Fortress | Gjirokastër Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Gjirokastrës or Kalaja e Argjirosë) is a fortress in Gjirokastër, Albania (during Ottoman rule it was historically known as Ergiri while local Greeks referred to it as Argyrokastro, a name applied also to the castle). Gjirokastër Castle is situated at a height of .
The castle dominates the town and overlooks the strategically important route along the river valley. It is open to visitors and contains a military museum featuring captured artillery and memorabilia of the Communist resistance against German occupation, as well as a captured United States Air Force plane to commemorate the Communist regime's struggle against the imperialist western powers.
History
The citadel has existed in various forms since before the 12th century. Princess Argjiro inspired Albanian author Ismail Kadare in a poem he wrote in the 1960s. According to local Albanian folkloric traditions she lived in the 15th century and jumped off Gjirokastër Castle along with her child so as to avoid being captured by the Ottomans.
Extensive renovations and a westward addition was added by Ali Pasha of Tepelene after 1812. The government of King Zog expanded the castle prison in 1932.
Today it possesses five towers and houses, the new Gjirokastër Museum, a clock tower, two teke, a cistern, the stage of the National Folk Festival, and many other points of interest.
The castle's prison was used extensively by Zog's government and housed political prisoners during the Communist regime.
The castle is under protection from UNESCO.
Tourism
The Gjirokastër Castle has also been a special destination for tourists. The castle was visited by over 10,000 Albanian and foreign tourists during January – May 2018. This was over double the visitors from the same period the year before, which saw 4,700 visitors.
Visitor Numbers
References
Castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Gjirokastër
Museums in Albania
Tourist attractions in Gjirokastër County |
23580565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alawwe%20Nandaloka%20Thero | Alawwe Nandaloka Thero | Alawwe Nandaloka Thero is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He replaced elected official Kolonnawe Sri Sumangala, who resigned on 8 October 2004, six months after the Sri Lankan parliamentary election.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Jathika Hela Urumaya politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
20485156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marqu%C3%A9s%20de%20Santa%20Mar%C3%ADa%20del%20Villar | Marqués de Santa María del Villar | Diego Quiroga y Losada, Marqués de Santa María del Villar, (Marquess of Santa María del Villar), was born in Madrid in 1880 and died in San Sebastián in 1976. He took pictures of many places of Spain, its landscapes, monuments and people.
Biography
He started his work in the early 20th century and ended in the 1960s. Because he belonged to the nobility, he was close to Alfonso XIII, king of Spain. He took pictures of the daily work of the king and he also took photos when the king was doing some sport (hunting). He was asked to be the president of the National Patronage of Tourism, but he did not accept this post. However, his photos represented the same image of Spain as the kind of images encouraged by the National Patronage. His pictures were published in magazines and newspapers like Blanco y Negro, Vértice and Trenes.
Before the Spanish Civil War (1936), he had more than 120,000 photographs, but many of them were destroyed during this war.
His photographic style was pictorialism, but lately he changed to documental and ethnographic photography in order to show the way Spain looked like after the war. Most of his collection is in the Archivo Real y General de Navarra in Pamplona, which held several exhibitions of his work.
He was also founder of photographic societies in Madrid and Guipúzcoa.
References
El fotógrafo Santa María del Villar, by Jorge Latorre
Summa Artis XLVII
Del Daguerrotipo a la instamatic, by Juan Miguel Sanchez Vigil
External links
Archivo General de la Administración
Pictures of the Ministerio de Interior (1938-1939)
Photolibrary of the Archivo general de Navarra (Including Marquess personal collection)
1880 births
1976 deaths
Spanish photographers |
44507747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirpa%20Paatero | Sirpa Paatero | Sirpa Paatero (born 9 September 1964) is a Finnish politician of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who has been serving as Minister of Local Government in the government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin since 2019.
Political career
In parliament, Paatero served on the Commerce Committee (2006–2014), the Defence Committee (2007–2009, 2015–2019), the Sub-Committee on Employment and Economy Affairs (2011–2014) and the Sub-Committee on Taxes (2012–2014), among others.
Paatero served as the Minister for International Development in Prime Minister Alexander Stubb's cabinet (2014–2015) and again in Antti Rinne's cabinet in 2019. She offered her resignation from the Rinne cabinet in November 2019 after failing to act to prevent state-owned postal services from cutting the pay of around 700 workers.
Paatero is also the chairman of the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation.
References
1964 births
Living people
People from Kotka
Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians
Government ministers of Finland
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2003–07)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2007–11)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2011–15)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2015–19)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2019–23)
Women government ministers of Finland
21st-century Finnish women politicians
Women members of the Parliament of Finland |
20485158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa%20Simelane | Musa Simelane | Musa Simelane (born 2 February 1974) is a Swazi boxer. Representing Swaziland at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Simelane was defeated in his first round bout against Argentine Israel Héctor Perez.
References
1974 births
Living people
Swazi male boxers
Olympic boxers of Eswatini
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Featherweight boxers |
6910988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia%20Andrews | Pia Andrews | Pia Andrews (née Pia Smith, also formerly known as Pia Waugh), born 1979, is an open government leader and the Special Advisor, Digital & Client Data Workstream Lead for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
Andrews spearheaded the growth of the Australian open government community by organising events such as GovHack, GovCamp and other events that bring together a diverse range of citizens who want to see government data made open for reuse. Previously, Andrews was known for her work as an Australian free software advocate. Her past positions include presidency of Software Freedom International; and presidency and vice-presidency of Linux Australia.
Career
Andrews was employed by IT services company Volante for several years. In 2005 Andrews was appointed Research Co-ordinator of the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS) project. From 2006 Andrews, with her then-husband Jeff Waugh, was a director of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy. Waugh Partners won the 2007 NSW State Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry. She was the project leader and a member of the Board of Directors of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program, launched in 2008.
Andrews is a self-taught computer specialist, and has also studied politics at a tertiary level. She has been involved in several projects and events promoting ICT careers to children and women.
In April 2009 Andrews announced her appointment as a policy advisor to Kate Lundy, and announced that in this role she was stepping aside from leadership and advocacy roles in community groups, and that she would no longer work for Waugh Partners.
In November 2012 Andrews joined the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO). She was Director of Coordination and Gov 2.0 in the Technology and Procurement Division of Finance (under John Sheridan, the CTO of Australia) and in charge of Australian national open data site http://data.gov.au/
In 2014 Andrews was recognised for innovation and named one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence 2014 in The Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards.
Andrews was included in the 2018 list of the world's 100 most influential people in digital government, by Apolitical Group.
In August 2018 Andrews was appointed Executive Director of Digital Government in the New South Wales Department of Finance, Services and Innovation.
In February 2020 Andrews was appointed Special Advisor, Digital & Client Data Workstream Lead for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
Free software community and volunteer positions
Andrews has held several positions in the Free Software community:
Judge at the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards, 17 October 2007
President, Software Freedom International, the organising body of Software Freedom Day, 2006–2008
Member, organising committee for linux.conf.au 2007
Second recipient of the Rusty Wrench award for Service to the Australian Open Source Community at linux.conf.au 2006.
Vice-president of Linux Australia, 2005–2007
President of Linux Australia, 2003–2004
References
Living people
1979 births
Australian computer specialists
People from New South Wales
Australian bloggers
Australian Zen Buddhists
Linux people |
26721907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Copenhagen%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Doubles | 2001 Copenhagen Open – Doubles | Martin Damm and David Prinosil were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett won in the final 6–3, 6–3 against Jiří Novák and David Rikl.
Seeds
Jiří Novák / David Rikl (final)
Joshua Eagle / Sandon Stolle (semifinals)
Wayne Black / Kevin Ullyett (champions)
Petr Pála / Pavel Vízner (first round)
Draw
External links
2001 Copenhagen Open Doubles Draw
Copenhagen Open
2001 ATP Tour |
23580568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20M.%20M.%20Naushad | A. M. M. Naushad | Abdul Majeed Mohammed Naushad also known as Mohamed Naushad Majeed (born 1958) is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Biography
Naushad was born in Sammanthurai in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka in 1954. He is the son of former Nintavur MP M. I. M. Abdul Majeed, and the son-in-law of former Deputy Minister and former Pottuvil MP M. A. Abdul Majeed. Pre-destined to enter politics, he began his political career in 1989 for the United National Party. He was the UNP's convener for the Eastern Province and a member of the UNP working committee. In 2001, he served as Deputy Secretary of the UNP. In this position, he created a problem for party leader Ranil Wickremasinghe when he stated his view that "his community came first and the party next".
Naoshaad left the UNP in 2001 after it formed an electoral alliance with the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress. He then contested the 2001 parliamentary election from an independent group but failed to get elected.
Naoshaad later joined the SLMC and became a member of the SLMC High Command. At the 2004 parliamentary election, Naoshaad was a SLMC candidate in Ampara District but failed to get elected again after coming third amongst the SLMC candidates. However, Naushad entered Parliament in April 2008 following the resignation of SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem.
Following a meeting at Temple Trees, Naushad defected from the SLMC to the governing United People's Freedom Alliance during the 2010 parliamentary election campaign and became a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He was subsequently made a UPFA candidate in Ampara District but failed to get elected after coming in eighth amongst the UPFA candidates.
References
1958 births
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
People from Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress politicians
Sri Lankan Moor politicians
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
20485160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukimasa%20Nakamura | Yukimasa Nakamura | is a Japanese judoka, Olympic medalist and world champion. His older brother, Yoshio Nakamura and younger brother, Kenzo Nakamura are also former world champions.
He is from Fukuoka, Fukuoka. After graduation from Tokai University, He belonged to Asahi Kasei.
He received a silver medal in the half lightweight (65 kg) division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He is world champion from 1993, and received a silver medal at the 1995 World Judo Championships.
As of 2008, He coaches judo at Asahi Kasei with his brothers. Among their pupil are world champion Hiroshi Izumi, Masato Uchishiba and so on.
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Tokai University alumni
Japanese male judoka
Olympic judoka of Japan
Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in judo
Asian Games medalists in judo
Judoka at the 1994 Asian Games
Judoka at the 1998 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Sportspeople from Fukuoka (city)
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games |
44507754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabi%20Ramla%20F.C. | Maccabi Ramla F.C. | Maccabi Ramla () was an Israeli football club based in Ramla. The club played two seasons in Liga Alef, then the second tier of Israeli football league system.
History
The club was founded in December 1953 by Ya'akov (Jacques) Asa and Albert Kiyosso, the chairman of Maccabi Bulgaria organization and Maccabi Jaffa, who gave the greeting of Maccabi Jaffa for the newly formed club. The name of Maccabi was given to the club, as the founders were members of Maccabi Bulgaria, the only Jewish sports association in their country of origin, Bulgaria.
The club joined Liga Gimel at the 1954–55 season, in which they finished runners-up at the Central division and promoted to Liga Bet, which became the third tier of Israeli football following restructuring of the Israeli football league system.
After six seasons playing in Liga Bet, Maccabi won the South A division in the 1960–61 season and qualified for the Promotion play-offs, where they beat S.K. Nes Tziona in two legs, 2–0 and 2–1, and promoted to Liga Alef, then the second tier. In Liga Alef, the club narrowly avoided relegation in the 1961–62 season after twelfth-place finish. However, in the following season, Maccabi finished bottom and relegated to Liga Bet. The club suffered further relegation in the 1963–64 season, this time to Liga Gimel, after finished bottom of Liga Bet South B division. In the 1965–66 season, Maccabi won Liga Gimel Jaffa division, and after Promotion play-offs, returned to Liga Bet, where they played in most of their football seasons, with being relegated to Liga Gimel and bouncing back to Liga Bet on several occasions. The club folded in 1996.
Honours
Liga Bet:
Winners (1): 1960–61
Runners-up (1): 1959–60
Liga Gimel:
Winners (3): 1965–66, 1971–72, 1983–84
Runners-up (1):1954–55
References
"The Bulgarians from Ramla" achieved their goal – But Maccabi team is ready to continue (Page 3) Hadshot HaSport, 11 July 1961, archive.football.co.il
Ramla
Association football clubs established in 1953
Association football clubs established in 2020
Association football clubs disestablished in 1996
1953 establishments in Israel
2020 establishments in Israel
1996 disestablishments in Israel |
6910989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maigret%20at%20the%20Crossroads | Maigret at the Crossroads | Maigret at the Crossroads () is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.
Premise
The plot of the novel is driven by the murder of Isaac Goldberg, a Jewish diamond merchant, in a place outside Paris known as the Three Widows' Crossroads.
Characters
The cast of characters includes:
Carl Andersen and Else Andersen, an aristocratic Danish duo who live in a secluded house at the crossroads
Monsieur Michonnet, an insurance agent in whose car the body of Goldberg was found
Monsieur Oscar, the owner of the service station at the crossroads
Translation
Originally written in French, the novel was translated into English by Robert Baldick and published by Penguin in 1963.
In other media
It was dramatized as Night at the Crossroads in 1932 in a film written and directed by Jean Renoir, starring the director's brother Pierre Renoir as Inspector Maigret and in 2017 in the later ITV series, starring Rowan Atkinson.
References
External links
1931 novels
Belgian novels adapted into films
Maigret novels
Novels set in France |
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