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20485838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Campello | Ricardo Campello | Ricardo Campello (born July 16, 1985) is a Brazilian-born professional windsurfer. He began windsurfing after moving to Venezuela, quickly progressing to become three-time world freestyle champion in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
References
Living people
Brazilian windsurfers
1985 births |
20485845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cissus%20antarctica | Cissus antarctica | Cissus antarctica (synonym Cissus oblongata), called "kangaroo vine", is one of the best known species of the genus Cissus in the family of Vitaceae. It is a climbing plant, a vine, and comes from Australia.
Cultivation
Cissus antarctica is often used as a vine in subtropical climates, such as California, as an ornamental plant in gardens.
Kangaroo vine also is a popular interior or houseplant, a well adapted plant, even in subdued light. It does not do well above 15 °C, especially when exposed to central heating, which can cause the leaves to drop.
References
Flora of Queensland
Bushfood
antarctica
Vines
Garden plants of Australia
Drought-tolerant plants
House plants |
23580778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda%20Wijesekara | Mahinda Wijesekara | Mahinda Wijesekera is a Sri Lankan politician, former Fisheries cabinet minister and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
In 2001, Wijesekara left the President Chandrika Kumaratunga's ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party and joined United National Party along with few other senior ministers of the government such as S. B. Dissanayake and G. L. Peiris. He was a member of the working committee of UNP and the party organizer for Weligama. However, in 2006 UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe removed from all of his positions in the party as a result of internal crisis against the leadership.
On 2007, Wijesekara again crossed over to United People's Freedom Alliance government. He was the Telecommunications Minister in the government.
He was injured in a suicide bombing in 2009.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
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
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Fisheries ministers of Sri Lanka
Failed assassination attempts in Sri Lanka |
20485849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20Route%20310 | Ohio State Route 310 | State Route 310 (SR 310) is a north–south state route in the central portion of Ohio. The highway extends from its southern terminus at SR 204 south of the hamlet of Etna to the northern terminus at SR 37 approximately southeast of Johnstown.
Route description
SR 310 starts at a T-intersection with SR 204 in Liberty Township in rural northern Fairfield County. A little more than north of SR 204, SR 310 meets Palmer Road, which straddles the Fairfield–Licking county line. Less than after crossing into Licking County's Etna Township, SR 310 arrives at a diamond interchange with Interstate 70 (I-70).
North of I-70, SR 310 enters into the hamlet of Etna, passing by a few residential streets before arriving at a signalized intersection with the four-lane divided U.S. Route 40 (US 40). For the next mile, SR 310 passes by a mix of residential subdivisions and open fields. At the Refugee Road intersection, SR 310 enters Pataskala. SR 310 continues to traverse both houses and open space for approximately the next . At that point, SR 310 continues into Pataskala along Main Street through a heavily residential portion of the city, en route to intersecting SR 16.
Meeting SR 16 (Broad Street) at a T-intersection, SR 310 turns east and follows SR 16 for one block, to the Township Road intersection. There, SR 310 resumes its northerly trek, and passes along the eastern edge of Broadview Golf Course, through the County Road 28 intersection. North of there, SR 310 enters a more rural setting, while serving as the eastern city limits of Pataskala. Through this area, SR 310 continues to pass by the occasional residential subdivision. SR 310 passes through a "staggered" intersection Hollow Road, then upon meeting Township Highway 148, SR 310 becomes the boundary between Jersey Township and St. Albans Township. Continuing through farmland, with scattered houses along the way, SR 310 arrives at the Morse Road (County Road 25) intersection. Further north, SR 310 goes by the Willow Run Golf Course. At the northeast corner of that golfing facility, SR 310 meets SR 161.
Northerly from SR 161, SR 310 turns entirely into St. Albans Township, now traversing a mix of woods and open space, while passing the occasional residence. Through this stretch, SR 310 intersects Jersey Mill Road (County Road 91), Jug Street (County Road 22) and County Road 33, and crosses over the Raccoon Creek. SR 310 then passes into Licking County's Liberty Township before arriving at its northern terminus at SR 37.
History
When established in 1932, SR 310 existed entirely within Licking County. At the time, it only extended across the portion of its current routing from US 40 in Etna to SR 16 in Pataskala.
In 1937, SR 310 underwent extensions at both the southern and northern ends of the route. To the south, SR 310 was extended into Fairfield County to its current southern terminus at a then newly extended SR 204. North of Pataskala, SR 310 was designated along a previously un-numbered road up to a junction with SR 37 southeast of Johnstown.
Major intersections
References
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Transportation in Fairfield County, Ohio
Transportation in Licking County, Ohio |
20485872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20television | Community television | Community television is a form of mass media in which a television station is owned, operated or programmed by a community group to provide television programs of local interest known as local programming.
Community television stations are most commonly operated by non-profit groups or cooperatives. However, in some cases they may be operated by a local college or university, a cable company or a municipal government.
Community television by country
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication is promoting the advocacy with the government in relations to community Television with other organizations since its emergence from 2011. BNNRC has been addressing the Community Television access issue for over a decade, helping to bridge the information gap in Bangladesh
Brazil
In Brazil, in the 1980s, it appeared as a Free TV, also called Street TV, characterized by the production of educational-cultural videos for exhibition in a closed circuit or in public square, as a proposal of the struggles for redemocratization of the country.
Today, a community television are operated across by Conditional Access Service (pay-TV), a public concession for free use by nongovernmental entities, in the cable TV system or in the Citizenship Channel (in terrestrial digital TV).
There are about 90 TVs. Each television is formed by an association of entities. It is a channel provided for in Brazilian laws: No. 8977/1995 and No. 12485/2011.
Canada
Most community channels in Canada are owned and operated by cable companies, as a requirement of license imposed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). However, due to the state of concentration of media ownership in Canada, whereby the vast majority of Canada's conventional television stations are now owned by national media conglomerates and offer very little locally oriented programming, terrestrial community channels began to emerge in the 2000s in many smaller markets not directly served by their own commercial television stations. Community channels of this latter type are generally operated by local non-profit groups.
Indonesia
Since late 2002, community television in Indonesia is regulated as Community Broadcasting Institution (Indonesian: Lembaga Penyiaran Komunitas or LPK).
Ireland
Community television is in its infancy in Ireland. Licensing is administered by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Saorview launched on 31 October 2010 giving an addition platform for Community television, however so far Community TV is only available on UPC's Irish cable and Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS) network. The main broadcasters are P5TV (UPC 801), Cork Community TV (UPC 802) and DCTV (UPC 803). These groups produce content and then they can have it transmitted by an organisation that has a license to broadcast (Terrestrial television or Cable Television).
As well as the above, there are also web based channels which are likely to become more dominant in the not too distant future as broadband coverage and quality improves (and as the technologies converge). Examples of these are Teilifis Gaeltacht Muscrai (TGM) based in the rural Irish speaking WestCork Gaeltacht, and Fingal Community TV based in Dublin.
United Kingdom
Probably the longest standing community television service in the UK is Swindon Viewpoint, which is over 40 years old. It claims to operate according to the "core community TV principles of access and accountability", and its board is elected by its public.
United States
Public, educational and government access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content which can be viewed through cable TV systems. Standard public-access television is often grouped with Educational-access television and Government-access television (GATV) channels, by the acronym PEG. PEG Channels are typically only available on cable television systems.
References
Citizen media |
20485904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Packard | James Packard | James Packard may refer to:
James Ward Packard (1863–1928), American automobile manufacturer
Jim Packard (1931–1960), American automobile racer
Jim Packard (radio host) (1942–2012), American radio producer and host |
20485920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20F.%20Velleman | Paul F. Velleman | Paul F. Velleman (born April 16, 1949) is an American academic who is a professor of statistics at Cornell University.
Education
Velleman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and social science from Dartmouth College, followed by Master of Arts and PhD from Princeton University. Velleman's thesis was written on the topic of non-linear data smoothing.
Career
He is the author and designer of the multimedia statistics CD-ROM, ActivStats, for which he was awarded the EDUCOM Medal for innovative uses of computers in teaching statistics, and the ICTCM Award for Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics. He developed the statistics program, Data Desk and the Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL), which provides datasets for teaching statistics. In 1987, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Books
He is co-author (with Richard De Veaux and David Bock) of Intro Stats, Stats: Modeling the World, and Stats: Data and Models, Business Statistics and Business Statistics: A First Course (with Norean Sharpe and Richard De Veaux) and the co-author (with David Hoaglin) of ABCs of Exploratory Data Analysis. Velleman taught statistics at Cornell University from 1975 to 2018. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
See also
Data Desk
J. David Velleman
References
External links
People involved with Data Desk
1949 births
American statisticians
Princeton University alumni
Cornell University faculty
Living people
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
17344188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th%20Fighter%20Squadron | 90th Fighter Squadron | The 90th Fighter Squadron is a squadron of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 3d Operations Group, 3d Wing, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, Pacific Air Forces. The squadron is equipped with the F-22 Raptor fighter.
The 90 FS is one of the oldest units in the United States Air Force, first being organized as the 90th Aero Squadron on 20 August 1917 at Kelly Field, Texas. The squadron deployed to France and fought on the Western Front during World War I as a Corps observation squadron.
During World War II, the unit earned the Distinguished Unit Citation and the Presidential Unit Citation for its services in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) as part of Fifth Air Force. During the Cold War the squadron fought in the Korean War and Vietnam War.
Mission
The 90th Fighter Squadron trains in the fighter missions of offensive counter-air (OCA), defensive counter-air (DCA) and suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD), as well as strategic attack and interdiction.
History
World War I
see 90th Aero Squadron for an expanded history of World War I operations
The 90th Fighter Squadron origins begin with Special Order 104, Headquarters Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, on 25 September 1917. The men in it were largely from two detachments; one from Vancouver Barracks, Washington, which arrived at Kelly Field on 18 August; another from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which arrived on 25 August. Both of these detachments had been held from the date of their arrival until 25 September under Recruit Camp Headquarters as a Provisional Squadron.
The first few months of its existence were consumed by the necessary training to prepare the men for operations in France during World War I. On 30 September, the squadron left Kelly Field for the Aviation Concentration Center, Camp Mills, Garden City, New York,
Long Island, where it arrived five days later. On the night of 5 October the squadron detrained, and early next morning hiked out to Field No. 2 of the Aviation Concentration Center (Hazelhurst Field), where they were quartered with the Headquarters of the First Provisional Wing in Barracks No. 5. Here they stayed for several weeks performing guard duty and fatigue work, and carrying on the work of organization, equipment and preparation for overseas duty.
On 26 October, orders were received to pack up equipment and to prepare for immediate overseas departure. The following day the squadron was moved to Pier 54, New York Harbor,
and boarded the . The crossing of the Atlantic was uneventful, and on 10 November the Orduna moved into the dock at Liverpool, England.
On 12 November 1917, the men of the 90th arrived at Le Havre, France. Boarding the famous "Hommes 40, Chevaux 8" railroad box cars (maximum capacity of 40 men or eight horses,) they were shipped to Colombey-les-Belles Airdrome for what they thought would be immediate deployment to the front. But, to their great disappointment, they were given the assignment of road and barracks construction work, building the large 1st Air Depot and staging area which would eventually process and equip a large number of Americans that would arrive in France during 1918.
After seven months at Colombey, the 90th Aero Squadron was designed as a Corps Observation squadron, being assigned to the III Corps Observation Group on 11 June 1918. Two days later it reached what was called the "Zone of Advance" (combat area) at Ourches Aerodrome. The squadron's first aircraft were the Sopwith 1½ Strutter ground attack aircraft. At Ourches, the 90th and other squadrons were engaged in combat operations, both in aerial combat and aerial reconnaissance photography. It took part in operations in the Toul Sector, the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and the first and second Meuse-Argonne Offensives. Later, the squadron upgraded to Salmson 2-A2s SPAD Xis, and Breguet BR-14 observation aircraft. Due to ever-present low clouds and rain, the flyers were forced to drop dangerously close to the ground to carry out their missions, usually in the worst conditions.
The 90th Aero Squadron carried out many reconnaissances, engaged in 23 combats and relieved official confirmation for 7 aerial victories. The group's lucky "Seven Up" emblem of red dice with white dots reading "7" no matter which way it was tallied, proved prophetic, for they suffered 3 casualties, consisting of 2 killed and 1 wounded. In September 1918, it participated in the final allied offensives. The 90th earned a positive reputation for its ground attack missions during its continuous participation in the air offensive over Saint-Mihiel. Its first commander, First Lieutenant William G. Schauffler, designed the 90th's Pair o' Dice emblem displaying natural sevens during this campaign.
Following the Armistice with Germany on 11 November 1918, little flying was done, most
of the pilots and observers being absent on leave or returning to the States. On 15 January 1919 the squadron's planes were turned in to the 1st Air Depot, Colombey-les-Belles Airdrome, and there, practically all of the pilots and observers were detached from the squadron.
At Colombey, very comfortable quarters were assigned and the squadron settled down to await orders to the coast. The squadron left Colombey les Belles 25 January 1919, en route for the port of embarkation. It stopped at the pretty little village of St. Denis de Piles, near Libourne, Gironde, and the officers and enlisted personnel occupied excellent billets.
On 3 February after five days spent at St. Denis, the squadron was ordered to Libourne, the next step on the way home. There the men occupied the old stone French barracks, while the officers were billeted at private houses throughout the town. The squadron remained at Libourne until 10 April, when the long-awaited order to proceed to the Embarkation
Camp. After two or three disappointments, the men were ordered on board the . Officers were detached, and sailed the same day, 20 April, Easter Sunday, on board the . The voyage was very uneventful; land was finally sighted at 5 a.m. 3 May, and the squadron docked in Hoboken, New Jersey, at 10 a.m., after a voyage of thirteen days. On 4 May at 8 a.m., the squadron marched over to Field No. 2, Garden City (Mitchell Field), and the work of demobilizing the squadron was begun.
After the war, 90th alumni commissioned Tiffany's of New York to design a silver pin with the squadron logo.
Inter-war period
see also: United States Army Border Air Patrol
After returning from France, most of the squadron demobilized at Mitchell Field and returned to civilian life. A small cadre of the unit remained in the Air Service, and were sent back to Kelly Field, Texas. At Kelly, the 90th, along with the 8th, 12th and 13th Aero Squadrons were formed into the Army Surveillance Group on 1 July 1919. The group was redesignated the 3d Attack Group on 2 July 1921.
The mission of the Army Surveillance Group was to carry out observation overflights along the Mexican Border. During this period, Mexico was enduring a period of revolution and unrest, which led to border violations and the deaths of American citizens. From Kelly Field, the squadron was divided into two flights, Flight A operated from Eagle Pass Field, while Flight B operated from Kelly Field. Both flights were equipped with American-built deHavilland DH-4 aircraft, which were designed as bombers during the war.
During the late summer of 1919, the 464th Aero Construction Squadron had been sent to establish an Army airfield at Sanderson, Texas. By November, enough construction had been completed at Sanderson Field that the squadron moved from Kelly to operate from the new airfield, while the detachment at Eagle Pass Field continued operations. The detachment moved from Eagle Pass to Del Rio Field, Texas, on 12 Jun 1920.
As the unrest in Mexico died down by the middle of 1921, the 90th reunited and moved back to Kelly Field in July. At Kelly Field, Brigadier General William 'Billy' Mitchell, a senior staff officer in the Army Air Service, decided to use this low-level flying experience and the World War I experience of the 3d Group's pilots to create a group devoted to low-level mission of supporting ground troops and attacking ground targets.
Flew border reconnaissance missions from Fort Huachuca, Arizona, during the Escobar-Topete Revolution 7 April–2 May 1929. The 90th Squadron contributed to the pioneering of new tactics for attack aircraft, delivered US mail in 1934, participated in aerial mapping missions during the 1930s, and attracted significant talent among early military airmen. One example of these early airmen was General James H. Doolittle. On 2 September 1922, General Doolittle, then a first lieutenant, became the first pilot to travel coast-to-coast in under 24 hours. Although he could not remember if he was assigned to the 90th during the flight, the Air Force Historical Research Agency confirmed he was a member of the 90th at the time, and his DH-4 aircraft displayed the 90th's pair-o-dice emblem. Early commanders of the 90th also included Lieutenants Hoyt Vandenberg and Nathan Twining, both of whom later became Air Force Chiefs of Staff. Transferred on 27 February 1935 to Barksdale Field, Louisiana, then transferred on 10 October 1940 to Savannah AAF, Georgia.
World War II
During World War II, the 90th, now a bombardment squadron, operated in the South Pacific, flying Douglas A-20 Havoc and North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft. Their main mission involved highly-dangerous skip bombings. In an effort to improve the effectiveness and protection of the 3d Bombardment Group's pilots, Major Paul 'Pappy' Gunn, 3d Bombardment Group engineering officer, devised a modification of the B-25C. The modification replaced the forward bombardier with four forwards firing .50 caliber machine guns, supplemented with two twin .50 caliber gun packages side mounted on the fuselage. The lower turret was discarded. The A-20s received similar modifications. The modified aircraft were first employed by the 90th and proved exceptionally effective, receiving the nickname 'commerce destroyers.' During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, every aircraft in the 90th scored a hit on the Japanese convoy of 18 ships. It was the first sea-level attack by B-25 strafers in World War II and demonstrated that this tactic was extremely effective. The squadron also participated in the raids on Wewak, New Guinea, which were preemptive strikes that virtually ended the threat of enemy offensive air capabilities.
Cold War
In 1945, after World War II, the 90th Squadron was moved to Japan. The 90th began flying the Douglas A-26 Invader as the 3d Bombardment Group became an all A-26 outfit. In September 1946, the 90th moved with the 3d Bombardment Group to Yokota Air Base, Japan, and began training to become combat-ready with the A-26, which was redesignated the B-26 Invader. With the creation of the U.S. Air Force in late 1947, the force began an internal reorganization. This led to the activation of the 3d Bombardment Wing in August 1948, to which the 3d Bombardment Group was assigned. The 90th Squadron was inactivated from 1 October 1949 until 25 June 1951.
At that point, the squadron was redesignated the 90th Bombardment Squadron Light, Night Intruder. In July, as part of the 3d Bombardment Group, the 90th participated in the Korean War. The B-26 Invaders, which the 90th flew, had as many as 12 forward-firing .50 caliber machine guns. The 90th's specialty during the Korean War was destroying locomotives and marshalling yards.
After the war, the 90th moved with the 3d Bombardment Group to Johnson Air Base, Japan, on 1 October 1954. In January 1956, the unit transitioned to the B-57C Night Intruder. In October 1957, the 3d Bombardment Group inactivated and its heritage transferred to the 3d Bombardment Wing, as did the 90th Bombardment Squadron. In 1960, the wing and squadron transferred to Yokota Air Base, where it trained in bombardment, reconnaissance, and air refueling. It also served nuclear alert during this period as well. In the mid-1960s, however, the squadron underwent significant changes.
In 1964, the 3d Bombardment Wing converted to a tactical fighter wing, as did the 90th, which became the 90th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 8 June 1964. The wing and the 90th moved to England Air Force Base, Louisiana, as part of an overall reorganization to reduce the number of wings located in Japan. While at England, the 90th gained the North American F-100 Super Sabre. At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the 3d Bombardment Wing began deploying units to Vietnam on a rotational basis, while the remainder continued training in their ground support role. In November 1965, the wing moved to Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, during the buildup of forces. The 90th flew close air support missions from Bien Hoa through tens of thousands of sorties. In 1969, the 90th Tactical Fighter Squadron reverted to its pre-World War II designation of 90th Attack Squadron. On 31 October 1970, the 3d Tactical Fighter Wing ended its duties in Vietnam and remained active in 'paper' status until it moved to Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, in March 1971. The 90th Attack Squadron was reassigned to the 14th Special Operations Wing on 31 October 1970 and was redesignated the 90th Special Operations Squadron and remained in Vietnam at Nha Trang Air Base.
From late 1970 until 1974, the 90th underwent several command reassignments. It remained with the 14th Special Operations Wing until 1 September 1971, when it moved to the 483d Tactical Fighter Wing and remained at Nha Trang Air Base. On 15 April 1972, the 90th moved again, this time to the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. This assignment lasted only a few months, as the unit was assigned to the 405th Fighter Wing in December 1972 and moved to Clark Air Base, Philippines. The squadron was redesignated the 90th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 8 July 1973, and began to fly McDonnell F-4 Phantom IIs. In September of the following year, the 90th returned once again to the 3d Tactical Fighter Wing, when it relocated to Clark Air Base after the 405th Fighter Wing was inactivated.
From 31 August 1973 to 31 July 1974, the 90th Tactical Fighter Squadron maintained an F-4 detachment at the Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, Tainan Air Base, Taiwan, and primary mission was to support Taiwan’s air defense.
In 1975, the 90th converted to the F-4E and participated in combat training and providing air defense for the Philippines.
In July 1977, the 90th once again upgraded its aircraft, this time to the F-4G, which performed a ground radar suppression and destruction mission. The squadron had both F-4G and F-4E aircraft assigned, operating in "hunter-killer" roles. Each F-4G was paired with an F-4E during each mission, and the G models would point out threat radar sites to the E models for attack, as well as attacking using their own armaments. This multiplied the force being applied without having to purchase more of the expensive G models. During the late 1970s and 1980s, the squadron provided training and support to other units throughout the Pacific, as well as ensuring the readiness of its own pilots and aircraft. The unit participated in numerous Cope Thunder exercises hosted at Clark AB, as well as Pitch Black in Darwin, Australia, and other exercises in South Korea. By 1990, however, the Philippines had expressed a desire for the withdrawal of American military forces in the islands. In May 1991, the 90th Tactical Fighter Squadron was reassigned to the 21st Tactical Fighter Wing located at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. In September 1991, the 90th was redesignated the 90th Fighter Squadron and became part of the 21st Operations Group. This association did not last long, however.
Post-Cold War
In June 1991, Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines and the Air Force quickly decided to evacuate its personnel and equipment from Clark AB. The 3d Tactical Fighter Wing remained in the Philippines during Desert Shield and Desert Storm due to instability in the Philippines. However, it was not going to remain in the islands for very long. It became a 'paper' unit briefly while the Chief of Staff, General Merrill McPeak, decided where to send the wing. He selected Elmendorf. The 21st Tactical Fighter Wing was inactivated and the 3d Wing replaced it as the lead wing at Elmendorf on 19 December 1991. With the establishment of the 3d Wing on Elmendorf, the 90th Fighter Squadron was once again reunited with its old wing.
While these changes occurred with the 3d Wing, the 90th Fighter Squadron deployed six F-4G crews to join other Wild Weasel squadrons and coalition forces in Sheikh Isa, Bahrain for the Gulf War. The six crews were attached to the 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron and were known as the Philippine Expeditionary Force (PEF). During combat operations, PEF crews destroyed multiple Iraqi SAM sites. This was the last combat deployment for the 90th while operating F-4Gs. Upon relocating to Elmendorf, the unit gained a new aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle. This two-seat dual role updated version of the F-15C Eagle had more survivability enhancements than any other fighter aircraft at the time. It carried a wide array of armament as it performed both air-to-air and air-to-surface attack missions.
Since arriving in Alaska, the 90th Fighter Squadron participated in numerous training exercises in the lower 48 states and other areas of the world. These training exercises included Polar Thrust, Cope Thunder, Tandem Thrust, Cope Thaw, and Red Flag in locations such as Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Osan Air Base, Korea, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, and Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The squadron also developed a reputation for safety in its training. On 20 February 1996, the squadron received the Alaska Governor's Safety Award conferred through the Alaska Department of Labor. This was the first time a military organization won the state award since its inception in 1980.
In addition to exercises, the 90th Fighter Squadron also undertook real-world deployments during the 1990s and early 2000s (decade). From October 1995 until January 1996, the squadron deployed 8 F-15Es and 193 personnel to Aviano Air Base, Italy in support of Operation Deny Flight and Operation Joint Endeavor. In February 1998, the squadron deployed 18 F-15Es and over 200 personnel to Kwangju Air Base and Taegu Air Base, both in Korea. While there, the unit flew 1200 joint combat training sorties. Personnel and aircraft redeployed in June 1998.
In 2001 the 90th began a series of deployments which took members of the squadron to the Middle East and Southwest Asia. In March of that year, the 90th participated in a 90-day deployment in support of Operation Northern Watch, patrolling the northern No-fly zone in Iraq. The squadron sent 154 personnel and 10 F-15Es to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey and returned to Elmendorf on 9 June 2001. Later that year, in October, 18 F-15Es were deployed to Kwangju Air Base, Korea, in support of Afghanistan operations. While deployed pilots flew practice strike missions and provided long-range interdiction strike capability in the region during the absence of the , they also flew missions over South Korea and repaired base infrastructure while there. The squadron redeployed from 20 to 23 December.
The 90th Fighter Squadron participated in an historic event on 4 September 2002. Two Royal Australian Air Force exchange officers, Flight Lieutenant Paul Simmons and Flight Lieutenant Tony Southwood, paired up to fly one of the 90th's F-15Es. This was the first time Australian pilots flew an American aircraft in the Pacific Theatre.
In 2003 the squadron undertook another deployment in the Pacific in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The 90th sent 18 F-15Es to bases in the Pacific, including Osan Air Base, Kunsan Air Base, (both in Korea), Kadena Air Base, Japan and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The deployment included 592 personnel from mid-February until mid-May.
Kwangju AB, Korea, once again became home to members of the 90th Fighter Squadron in 2004. In August the squadron deployed 12 F-15Es in a rotation. The unit was temporarily designated the 90th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and assigned to the 3d Air Expeditionary Group. While deployed the unit flew more than 1100 sorties over the Korean Peninsula and provided two important flights to distinguished visitors, Republic of Korea Air Force Brigadier General Ko and Republic of Korea General Kim, Commander Korean Ground Forces.
In 2005, the squadron focused on training and preparation for their next real-world deployment. Amidst the training and exercises, however, the squadron was able to showcase their talent with participation in the Aero India Airshow and with a flyby at the United States Air Force Academy before the Air Force-Army football game. Additionally, the F-15Es completed an upgrade of their weapons systems. This upgrade allowed the aircraft to carry and use more advanced weaponry, including the Joint Direct Attack Munition and eventually the Small Diameter Bomb.
As 2006 progressed, the 90th Fighter Squadron began to prepare for significant changes in its mission and weapons system. The F-15Es were scheduled to relocate to Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, through the BRAC decisions in 2005. Replacing those F-15Es, the 90th began receiving the advanced F-22 Raptor in August 2007, which greatly enhanced the 90th Fighter Squadron's ability to perform its duties.
Lineage
Organized as the 90th Aero Squadron on 20 August 1917
Redesignated 90th Aero Squadron (Corps Observation) on 19 April 1918
Redesignated 90th Aero Squadron in May 1919
Redesignated 90th Squadron (Surveillance) on 13 August 1919
Redesignated 90th Squadron (Attack) on 15 September 1921
Redesignated 90th Attack Squadron on 25 January 1923
Redesignated 90th Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 15 September 1939
Redesignated 90th Bombardment Squadron (Dive) on 28 September 1942
Redesignated 90th Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 25 May 1943
Redesignated 90th Bombardment Squadron, Light on 29 April 1944
Inactivated on 1 Oct 1949
Redesignated as: 90th Bombardment Squadron, Light, Night Intruder on 7 June 1951
Activated on 25 Jun 1951
Redesignated 90th Bombardment Squadron, Tactical on 1 October 1955
Redesignated 90th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 8 June 1964
Redesignated 90th Attack Squadron on 12 December 1969
Redesignated 90th Special Operations Squadron on 31 October 1970
Redesignated 90th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 8 July 1973
Redesignated 90th Fighter Squadron on 26 September 1991
Assignments
Post Headquarters, Kelly Field, 20 August 1917
Aviation Concentration Center, 5–26 October 1917
American Expeditionary Forces, 12 November 1917
1st Air Depot, American Expeditionary Forces, c. 20 November 1917
I Corps Observation Group, 19 April 1918
IV Corps Observation Group, 13 June 1918
III Corps Observation Group, 21 September 1918
I Corps Observation Group, 30 November 1918
American Expeditionary Forces, December 1918 – 19 April 1919
Post Headquarters, Hazelhurst Field, 5 May 1919
Post Headquarters, Kelly Field, May 1919
Army Surveillance Group (later 1st Surveillance Group, 3d Group (Attack), 3d Attack Group, 3d Bombardment Group), 1 July 1919 – 1 October 1949
3d Bombardment Group, 25 June 1951 )attached to 3d Bombardment Wing after 13 August 1956)
3d Bombardment Wing, 25 October 1957 (attached to 41st Air Division after 1 September 1963)
41st Air Division, 8 January 1964
Tactical Air Command, 8 June 1964
3d Tactical Fighter Wing, 9 June 1964 (attached to 405th Fighter Wing, 7 February–10 May 1965, 39th Air Division after 8 August 1965)
834th Air Division, 19 November 1965 (remained attached to 39th Air Division Until 5 December 1965, then to 401st Tactical Fighter Wing)
3d Tactical Fighter Wing, c. 8 February 1966
14th Special Operations Wing, 31 October 1970
483d Tactical Airlift Wing, 1 September 1971
18th Tactical Fighter Wing, 15 April 1972
405th Fighter Wing, 15 December 1972
3d Tactical Fighter Wing, 16 September 1974
21st Tactical Fighter Wing, 29 May 1991
21st Operations Group, 26 September 1991
3d Operations Group, 19 December 1991 – present
Stations
World War I
Kelly Field, Texas, 20 August 1917
Camp Mills, Garden City, New York, 5–27 October 1917
Colombey-les-Belles Airdrome, France, 20 November 1917
Amanty Airdrome, France, 19 April 1918
Ourches Aerodrome, France, 13 June 1918
Souilly Aerodrome, France, 20 September 1918
Bethelainville Aerodrome, France, 29 October 1918
Belrain Aerodrome, France, 15 January 1919
Colombey-les-Belles Airdrome, France, 18 January 1919
Libourne, France, 25 January 1919
St. Denis-de-Piles, France, 29 January 1919
Libourne, France, 2 February 1919
Bordeaux, France, 10–19 April 1919
Inter-War period
Hazelhurst Field, New York, 5 May 1919
Kelly Field, Texas, c. May 1919
Flight A operated from: Eagle Pass Field, Texas, 27 August 1919 – 12 June 1920
Flight B operated from: Kelly Field No. 2, Texas, 30 September–29 November 1919
Sanderson Field, Texas, 29 November 1919
Flight A operated from: Del Rio Field, Texas, 12 June 1920 – 30 June 1921
Kelly Field, Texas, 2 July 1921
Fort Crockett, Texas, 1 July 1926
Detachment operated from Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 7 April–12 May 1929
Barksdale Field, Louisiana, 27 February 1935 (deployed to Bakersfield, California, 3–23 May 1937)
Army Air Base Savannah, Georgia, 9 Oct 1940 – 19 January 1942
Archerfield Airport, Brisbane, Australia, 25 February 1942
Breddan Airfield, Charters Towers, Australia, 8 March 1942
Port Moresby Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 28 January 1943
Dobodura Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 21 May 1943
Nadzab Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 5 February 1944
Hollandia Airfield Complex, New Guinea, c. 7 May 1944
Dulag Airfield, Leyte, 16 November 1944
McGuire Field, San Jose, Mindoro, 30 December 1944
Sobe Airfield, Okinawa, 6 August 1945
Atsugi Airfield, Japan, c. 8 September 1945
Yokota Air Base, Japan, 10 October 1946 – 1 October 1949
United States Air Force
Iwakuni Air Base, Japan, 25 June 1951
Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, c. 20 August 1951
Deployed at Pusan Air Base (K-9), South Korea, 25 April–17 May 1952
Johnson Air Base, Japan, 5 October 1954
Deployed at Itazuke Air Base, Japan, 18 January-2 February 1957
Yokota Air Base, Japan, 18 November 1960 – 9 June 1964
England Air Force Base, Louisiana, 9 June 1964 – 8 February 1966
Deployed at Clark Air Base, Philippines, 7 February–10 May 1965
Misawa Air Base, Japan, 3 August–5 December 1965
Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, 12 February 1966
Deployed at Phan Rang Air Base, South Vietnam, 9–14 April 1967
Nha Trang Air Base, South Vietnam, 31 October 1970
Kadena Air Base, Okinawa (later, Japan), 15 April 1972
Clark Air Base, Philippines, 15 December 1972
Deployed a Detachment at Tainan Air Base, Taiwan, 31 August 1973 – 31 July 1974
Elmendorf Air Force Base (later Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson), Alaska, 29 May 1991 – present
Aircraft
Sopwith 1½ Strutter, 1918
Salmson 2A2, 1918–1919
SPAD S.XI, 1918–1919
Breguet 14 A.2, 1918–1919
de Havilland DH-4 (1919–c. 1925, 1926–1932)
GA-1 (1921–1922)
O-2 (1921–1928)
A-3 Falcon (1928–1934)
O-1 (1920s – early 1930s)
XO-6 (1920s – early 1930s)
A-8 Shrike (1920s – early 1930s)
Y-8 (1920s - early 1930s)
A-12 Shrike (1933–1936)
A-17 Nomad (1936–1939)
A-18 Shrike (1939–1941)
B-18 Bolo (1939–1941)
B-12 (1939–1940)
A-20 Havoc (1941, 1943–1945)
A-24 Banshee (1941, 1942)
B-25 Mitchell (1942–1944, 1945)
A-26 Invader (1945–1949, 1951–1956)
B-24 Liberator (1944–1946)
B-57 Canberra (1956–1964)
F-100 Super Sabre (1964–1969)
A-37 Dragonfly (1969–1970)
C-123 Provider (1970–1972)
C-130 Hercules (1970–1972)
F-4 Phantom II (1973–1991)
F-15E Strike Eagle (1994–2007)
F-22 Raptor (2007 – present)
Operations
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
Operation Deny Flight
Operation Joint Endeavor
Operation Northern Watch
Operation Inherent Resolve
See also
List of American Aero Squadrons
References
Bibliography
Bruce, J.M. "The Sopwith 1½ Strutter: Historic Military Aircraft No. 14 Part II". Flight, 5 October 1956.
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Military units and formations in Alaska |
17344190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Allen%20%28stylist%29 | Alexander Allen (stylist) | Alexander Allen is a New York-based fashion stylist.
Background
Alexander Allen grew up in Brooklyn, NY.
He worked in the public relations department at DKNY before starting his own company, Transformers, in 2001.
Allen was called one of Tinseltown's most influential stylists in the USA Today article, "Behind the Scenes: Hollywood's Fashion Secrets. Meet The Power Stylists."
Style critic Robert Verdi praised Alexander's work, confirming that Alexander "invented Eve."
He has dressed celebrities including Beyoncé, Pink, Toni Braxton, Eve, Laura Linney and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.
Alexander was featured in Ebony magazine's March 2008 issue as "Fashion Heavyweight Champion."
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Brooklyn
Fashion stylists
American company founders |
20485930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%20Bowl%20%28stadium%29 | Aztec Bowl (stadium) | Aztec Bowl was a football stadium (a Works Progress Administration project) on the San Diego State University campus in San Diego, California.
History
Aztec Bowl hosted the San Diego State University Aztecs football team until they moved to San Diego Stadium in 1967. The stadium held 12,592 people at its peak and cost $500,000 to build. It was dedicated on October 3, 1936, before 7,500 people, after being completed earlier that year.
The stadium was initially supposed to be expanded to 45,000 seats but was expanded only once, in 1948.
Current use
Currently Viejas Arena (formerly Cox Arena), the school's basketball arena, sits on the site of the stadium.
National Register of Historic Places
Aztec Bowl is listed on the National Register of Historic Places: The old concrete bleachers of the football stadium were not demolished when the new arena was built. John F. Kennedy, then the President of the United States of America, gave the graduation commencement address at San Diego State University on June 6, 1963.
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In commemoration, the arena was built on top of the steps from which people listened to President Kennedy. The bleachers can be clearly seen from the arena's parking lot on the outside and in the storage areas under the arena seats on the inside of the arena.
A request was made to remove the stadium from the National Register of Historic Places, and was removed on May 30, 2012.
See also
Viejas Arena
Peterson Gym
References
External links
Venue information
Defunct college football venues
San Diego State Aztecs football venues
Sports venues in San Diego
American football venues in California
Works Progress Administration in California
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California
Demolished sports venues in California
Sports venues completed in 1936
1936 establishments in California
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) stadiums
National Register of Historic Places in San Diego County, California
Sports venues on the National Register of Historic Places in California
Former National Register of Historic Places in California |
17344193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20NK | Keystone NK | The Keystone NK or Keystone Pup was a two-seat biplane trainer built by Keystone Aircraft for the United States Navy.
Design and development
The NK was an open-cockpit two-seat biplane with a convertible wheel or float landing gear. It was powered by a 220 hp (164 kW) Wright R-790 Whirlwind. The company prototype designated the Pup was entered into a United States Navy design competition for a trainer and was awarded a contract for three prototypes designated XNK-1. Following evaluation a production batch of 16 was ordered designated NK-1 which were delivered during 1930.
Variants
Pup
Keystone prototype, one built.
XNK-1
Prototypes for Naval variant of Pup, three built.
NK-1
Production aircraft with minor changes, 16 built.
Operators
United States Navy
Specifications (NK-1)
References
External links
Aerofiles
NK
1920s United States military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Floatplanes |
20485936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle%20Brucker%20Sr. | Earle Brucker Sr. | Earle Francis Brucker Sr. (May 6, 1901 – May 8, 1981) was an American catcher, coach and interim manager in Major League Baseball. After a long minor league career in the Pacific Coast and Western leagues – and after missing three full seasons (1927–29) in his prime due to arm trouble – Brucker was an unusually old rookie player in the Major Leagues. He made his debut on April 19, 1937, not quite three weeks shy of his 36th birthday.
A longtime San Diego resident who was born in Albany, New York, Brucker threw and batted right-handed, stood (180 cm) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg). He made his first appearance in professional baseball in 1924 for the Seattle Indians of the Pacific Coast League, but it would be 13 years before he would reach the majors. He was even a playing manager in the Western League during this apprenticeship.
He played his entire MLB career (1937–40; 1943) for the Philadelphia Athletics and served as a coach under legendary A's manager Connie Mack for nine full seasons, 1941–49. In 241 total games, he batted .290 in 707 at bats, with 12 home runs and 105 runs batted in. In 1938, his best campaign, Brucker batted .374 with 64 hits in 171 at bats, three homers and 35 RBI. During his long tenure with Philadelphia, he also witnessed the brief major-league career of his son Earle Brucker Jr., also a catcher, who appeared in two games for the Athletics at the end of the 1948 season.
After leaving the A's, Brucker Sr. coached for the St. Louis Browns (1950) and the Cincinnati Reds (1952). During the latter season, from July 30 to August 3, he served as interim manager of the Reds for five games during the transition when Luke Sewell was replaced by Rogers Hornsby. Brucker's sixth-place Reds won three of five during his brief tenure. Following that season, Brucker managed in the Cincinnati farm system for two additional campaigns before leaving the game.
In 1960, Brucker was also inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into the Breitbard Hall of Fame honoring San Diego's finest athletes both on and off the playing surface. Brucker died in San Diego, at age 80.
References
Spink, J.G. Taylor, Rickart, Paul and Abramovich, Joe, eds., The Official 1952 Baseball Register. St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1952.
External links
1901 births
1981 deaths
Baseball players from San Diego
Baseball players from New York (state)
Cincinnati Reds coaches
Cincinnati Reds managers
Lincoln Links players
Major League Baseball catchers
Philadelphia Athletics coaches
Philadelphia Athletics players
Portland Beavers players
St. Joseph Saints players
St. Louis Browns coaches
Seattle Indians players
Sportspeople from Albany, New York
Topeka Senators players |
20485972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSAMI-E | OSAMI-E | The research project OSAMI-E is the Spanish subproject of the European ITEA 2 project OSAMI (Open Source AMbient Intelligence).
The aim of the international project OSAMI is the design of a basic, widely applicable SOA-oriented component platform, its development, test and its provision as open source software. The project consists of a number of national sub-projects, each focussing on a certain field of application.
OSGi and Web Services forms the technical basis of the OSAMI platform in order to implement distributed, dynamically configurable, vendor-neutral and device-independent solutions.
The Spanish sub-project OSAMI-E, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, contributes to different transversal areas such as engineering, architecture, tools and security and with demonstrators in the fields of education, geographic information systems, sensor networks, digital home and mobile services.
Project data
Supporting organisations: ITEA2,Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce
Duration: 01.04.2008 - 30.03.2011
General information
The main objective of OSAMI is to connect technologically vertical markets on the basis of an open platform and, hence, to facilitate the market entry for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME).
Technical and Scientific Objectives of OSAMI-E
Establishment of common engineering principles
Establishment of common architecture for interoperability
Linking vertical domains through the common platform
Demonstrate the platform
Elaborate policy and acquisition recommendations
Participants
Aicia
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Cenatic
Conselleria de Infraestructures y Transporte
European Software Institute
Fidetia
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV)
Prodevelop
RedIRIS
Telefónica
Telvent
University of Málaga
University of Vigo
Vodafone
Work Packages and Tasks
WP 1: Coordination and Dissemination
WP 2: Business, Trust and Processes
WP 3: Organisation, Tools and Training
WP 4: Vertical Domains
WP 5: OSAMI Interface & Architecture
WP 6: Security, Assets and User interface issues
WP 7: Demonstrators
External links
OSAMI
ITEA 2
Eureka
Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce
Eureka (organisation)
Information technology organisations based in Spain |
17344204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%20182 | Maryland Route 182 | Maryland Route 182 (MD 182) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Layhill Road, the highway runs from MD 97 in Glenmont to MD 108 in Olney. MD 182 connects the northeastern Montgomery County communities of Glenmont, Layhill, Norwood, Sandy Spring, and Olney. The highway was constructed in the early 1920s. MD 182 was expanded to a four-lane divided highway from Glenmont to the site of its interchange with MD 200 in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Route description
MD 182 begins at an acute intersection with MD 97 (Georgia Avenue) in Glenmont. The highway heads north as Layhill Road, a six-lane divided highway that passes the Glenmont station at the eastern terminus of the Washington Metro's Red Line. MD 182 reduces to four lanes north of Glenallen Avenue. The highway crosses Bel Pre Creek and intersects Bel Pre Road and Bonifant Road at the hamlet of Layhill; Bonifant Road leads to the National Capital Trolley Museum. North of Layhill, MD 182 meets MD 200 (Intercounty Connector) at a diamond interchange and intersects the eastern terminus of a section of the ICC Trail before it reduces to a two-lane undivided road just south of its bridge across Buckhorn Branch of the Northwest Branch Anacostia River, which parallels the highway to the east. The highway temporarily expands to a four-lane divided highway at its intersection with Norbeck Road, which heads west as MD 28. MD 182 continues to the hamlet of Norwood, where the highway intersects Norwood Road. The road continues straight as Ednor Road and MD 182 turns north onto Norwood Road. North of the Sandy Spring Friends School, Norwood Road veers north as a county highway toward Sandy Spring. MD 182 continues along Dr. Bird Road, which carries the state highway northwest to its northern terminus at MD 108 (Olney Sandy Spring Road) opposite the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts on the eastern edge of Olney.
MD 182 is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial from its southern terminus at Glenmont to MD 28 near Norwood.
History
Layhill Road and Norwood Road were once part of the Clarksville Pike, which originally connected Ellicott City and Clarksville. In 1889, it was extended to Ashton and Unity. The road was maintained by the Union Turnpike Company, which also operated the Brookeville Turnpike and a turnpike from Olney to Ashton.
The road was included as part of the Maryland State Roads Commission's original state road system in 1909. However, by 1915, the highway was deemed not to form a necessary part of the main arterial system. MD 182 was paved as a macadam road between 1921 and 1923. The state highway designation was removed from Norwood Road and placed on Dr. Bird Road north of the Norwood–Dr. Bird intersection in 1977.
MD 182 was expanded to a divided highway from MD 97 to just north of Bel Pre Road and Bonifant Road in 1989. The divided highway section was extended to just south of Buckhorn Branch in 1991. MD 182 was expanded to a divided highway at the MD 28 intersection in 2001 and 2002. The highway's interchange with MD 200 was under construction in 2010 and opened in 2011.
Junction list
Auxiliary route
MD 182A is the designation for Old Layhill Road, a one-lane service road that parallels the northbound side of MD 182 from north of Glenallen Avenue to Briggs Road in Glenmont.
See also
References
External links
MDRoads: MD 182
Maryland Route 182
182 |
17344216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Galbreath | Frank Galbreath | Frank Galbreath (September 2, 1913 – November 1971) was an American jazz trumpeter.
Biography
A native of Robeson County, North Carolina, Galbreath got his start with local groups such as the Domino Five of Washington and Kelly's Jazz Hounds of Fayetteville. He then found work with groups in other regions such as the Florida Blossoms minstrel show and the Kingston Nighthawks, a territory band. He was with Smiling Billy Steward's Floridians when they played the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago.
In the middle of the 1930s, Galbreath moved to Chicago, where he played with Fletcher Henderson, Jelly Roll Morton, Edgar Hayes, and Willie Bryant. Around 1937 Galbreath joined Lonnie Slappey's Swingers in Philadelphia, but was called back to New York by Lucky Millinder, with whom he played for some time. Following this he joined Louis Armstrong's Orchestra until its dissolution in 1943; he then played with Charlie Barnet for a few weeks before serving in the Army. After his discharge he worked in the second half of the decade with Luis Russell, Tab Smith, Billy Eckstine, and Sy Oliver, then returned to play with Millinder from 1948 to 1952.
From 1952 Galbreath played in USO tours, first with Snub Mosley and then with various other ensembles over the course of the next decade. He led his own band during this time, and played in the bands of Arthur Prysock and Benny Goodman. In 1960 he played with Ray Charles and in 1961 with Fats Domino; he worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. until 1963. That year he moved to Atlantic City and played locally until his failing health forced his retirement in 1969.
References
1913 births
1971 deaths
American jazz trumpeters
American male trumpeters
20th-century American musicians
20th-century trumpeters
People from Robeson County, North Carolina
Jazz musicians from North Carolina
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians |
23580782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimal%20Weerawansa | Wimal Weerawansa | Weerasangilige Wimal Weerawansha (born 7 March 1970) is a Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament and leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF). He is the Minister of Industries since 2020. He was the Minister of Small & Medium Business and Enterprise Development, Industries and Supply chain Management from 2019 to 2020, the Minister of Housing and Social Welfare in 2018 and the Minister of Construction and Housing from 2010 to 2015.
Early life and family
Weerawansha was born 7 March 1970. He is the son of Weerasangilige Podineris, a dancing teacher and professional musician, and Wadachcharige Salie. Weerawansha has one brother (Sarath Weerawansha) and three sisters (Weerasangilige Sumanawathie, Chandani Weerawansha and Nilani Weerawansha). Weerawansha was educated at Tissa Central College in Kalutara where he played for the school cricket team. Weerawansha passed eight GCE O levels and started studying GCE A level but was expelled for not attending classes.
Weerawansha is married to Ranasinghe Mudiyanselage Shirsha Udayanthi (Sashi). They have a son (Wibhuthi Wishwajith Weerawansha) and a daughter (Wimasha Wishwadari).
Career
Weerawansha joined the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during its second insurrection and wrote articles in Lakdiva and Hiru, pro-JVP periodicals. He was known by various aliases including Wimalasiri Gamlath and Wanshanatha. He was president of the Peoples' Movement for Freedom (Nidahasa Udesa Janatha Viyaparaya), propaganda secretary and politburo member of the JVP. In his early political years Weerawansha was only influenced by socialism and disliked nationalism as much as capitalism. He even accused the ultra-nationalist National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT) of organising a coup d'état. However, as time went by, Weerawansha's and the JVP's attention moved away from Marxism and towards Sinhalese nationalism.
Weerawansha was one of the Sri Lanka Progressive Front (a JVP front) candidates in Colombo District at the 1994 parliamentary election but the SLPF failed to win any seats in the district. He contested the 1997 local government election as a JVP candidate and was elected to Colombo Municipal Council. He contested the 1999 provincial council election as one of the JVP's candidates in Colombo District, and as the JVP's chief minister candidate, but failed to get elected. The JVP nevertheless appointed Weerawansha to the Western Provincial Council. Weerawansha contested the 2000 parliamentary election as one of the JVP's candidates in Colombo District. He was elected and entered Parliament. He was re-elected at the 2001 parliamentary election.
Weerawansha played key roles in the JVP's opposition to President Chandrika Kumaratunga's devolution plans and the Norwegian facilitated peace talk with the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. On 20 January 2004 the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the JVP formed the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA). Weerawansha was one of the UPFA's candidates in Colombo District at the 2004 parliamentary election and was re-elected. In June 2005 the JVP left the UPFA government. Weerawansha was general-secretary of the Patriotic National Movement (PNM).
Weerawansha fell out with the leadership of the JVP and was suspended from the party in March 2008, accused of corruption, espionage and extra-marital affairs. In May 2008 several dissident JVP MPs led by Weerawansha formed the National Freedom Front (NFF) (Jathika Nidahas Peramuna). The NFF joined the UPFA government in December 2008. Weerawansha was re-elected at the 2010 parliamentary election. He was appointed Minister of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities after the election. He lost his ministerial position following the January 2015 presidential election. He was re-elected at the August 2015 parliamentary election. Weerawansha was appointed as the Minister of Small & Medium Business and Enterprise Development, Industries and Supply chain Management in November 2019 following the 2019 presidential election.
Weerawansha is the current Minister of Industries.
Controversies
Weerawansha has been involved in numerous controversies during his career. In 2006 he was accused of sexually harassing a 24-year-old female employee of the state-owned Lake House. On 8 July 2010 Weerawansha began a hunger strike outside the United Nations office in Colombo to protest against the appointment of the Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. Despite promising to "fast-unto-death" Weerawansha's hunger strike only lasted until 10 July 2010 and was seen as a publicity stunt. In March 2012 Weerawansha called for Sri Lankans to boycott American products such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, KFC, McDonald's, Google and Gmail as a protest against the US government sponsoring a resolution on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Following the change in government in January 2015 the police started investigating Weerawansha's wife Shashi over allegations that she faked official documents to obtain a diplomatic passport. A panel investigating the activities of the housing ministry during Weerawansha's ministry uncovered financial irregularities and rampant nepotism. Weerawansha was investigated by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) over how several of his relatives obtained government constructed houses at well below market prices. Weerawansha was arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport on 23 October 2015 due to discrepancies in his passport. After being questioned by the Criminal Investigation Department, he was produced before Negombo Magistrate's Court and released on bail. Weerawana was arrested by the Police Financial Crimes Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) on accusations of misusing government vehicles on 10 January 2017. Weerawansha's bail applications were rejected several times. While he was in custody, Weerawansha started a hunger strike claiming of political revenge by the government. The hunger strike was called off after eight days on requests made by Theras of the Malwathu and Asgiri chapters and fellow politicians. Weerawansha was released on bail on 7 April 2017.
Weerawansha has been accused of spreading communalism.
Weerawansha asked the public to launch a Black Flag protest to oppose the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Sri Lanka in 2017 May.
In October 2017, Weerawansha stated that the parliament should be bombed if a new constitution was approved by a parliament vote. The Parliament Speaker urged to inquire into Weerawansha's statement. Piyasiri Wijenayake, an NFF member criticized Weerawansha and claimed that the thoughts expressed were Weerawansha's personal views.
In May 2022, Weerawansa's wife, Shashi was sentenced to two years in prison after she was found guilty of obtaining passport by submitting false information.
Electoral history
Notes
References
External links
wimalweerawansa.lk Official website
1970 births
Colombo municipal councillors
Housing ministers of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
Sinhalese nationalists
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the Western Provincial Council
Sinhalese politicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
26722308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basti%20Vaman%20Shenoy | Basti Vaman Shenoy | Basti Vaman Madhav Shenoy (6 November 1934 – 2 January 2022) was an Indian Konkani activist popularly known as Vishwa Konkani Sardar (World Konkani Leader) and was the founder of World Konkani Centre in Shakthinagar, Mangalore.
Early life
Basti Vaman Shenoy was born on 6 November 1934 in Bantwal, a town in Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka. His father Basti Madhav Shenoy, popularly known as Motra Madhav, was booking agent of the CPC Bus Service of Mangalore. Vaman Shenoy's mother was Gowri alias Bhagirathi. He passed out of Tenth Standard (SSLC) in 1952 from the SVS High School in Bantwal. He wanted to pursue higher education and become a teacher but due to his family conditions he had to leave school and join his father to help in his business. For a brief period he also worked in Canara Bank. Vaman Shenoy's father died in 1957 and with this the responsibility of whole family fell on the shoulders of Vaman Shenoy. He married Savithri in 1959.
Career
Social service
Shenoy was involved in the Indian National Congress, and its trade union wing INTUC activities in Bantwal between 1954 and 1962. During this period he was influenced by T. A. Pai. Shenoy was instrumental in founding Saraswathi Kala Prasarak Sangh and Saraswathi Sangeeth Shala Bantwal in 1958. He was also an active member of Yashvanth Vyayam Shala, and took part in Konkani dramas and theatrical activities during festivities in Bantwal.
He joined Rotary International in 1972 and rendered his service to the society as Rotarian in various capacities. In 1974 he organised eye camps and dental camps in Bantwal Taluk. For his humanitarian initiatives in providing relief to the flood victims of 1974 Flood of Netravati River in Bantwal Taluk he received Special Significance Award in Rotary Dist. 318 at Mysore. He became the president of Rotary Club in Moodabidri and organised eye camps and dental camps along with other social initiatives.
In 1977 he became the correspondent of SVS Schools in Bantwal. During this term he constructed a new building block for School Library. Basti Vaman Shenoy became the President of Yashavanth Vyayam Shala in Bantwal in 1980. He took initiative to revive the age old "Mall Khamb" and organised performance tours to several places in Karnataka. In association with Kasturba Medical College he set up an Outreach Specialist Clinic in Vyayama Shala premises in 1988.
T. A. Pai asked him to join Syndicate Bank in 1962. He joined Panemangalore branch as clerk. Within 20 months he was promoted as officer. In 1968 he became the manager of newly started Raibhag branch in Belagaum District. In 1972 he transferred and returned to Panemangalore where he started his banking career and became manager of the branch.
In 1974 villages on the banks of River Netravati in Bantwal Taluk got submerged in the flood. Basti Vaman Shenoy took initiative in setting up several relief camps in the Taluk and supported the industry and trade activities by refinancing the traders through Syndicate Bank. He served Syndicate Bank in various branches including Shimoga and Moodabidri until his voluntary retirement in 1992.
Konkani activism
Basti Vaman Shenoy's membership of the Konkani Bhasha Mandal, Karnataka dates back to 1980 but it was in 1992 after his retirement from his banking career he devoted himself completely to Konkani activities. Paul Moras, the President of the Konkani Bhasha Mandal, Karnataka entrusted him with the post of Organising Secretary of the Konkani Jatha a movement for organising people to demand establishment of Konkani Academy. He and others toured extensively to organise 'Jathas' (Rally) in several cities of Karnataka State. Jatha submitted the Memorandum demanding Konkani Academy for the state with the Karnataka Government in October 1992.
In 1993 Basti Vaman Shenoy became the President of Konkani Bhasha Mandal Karnataka. He initiated teaching of Konkani language in Canara High School Mangalore. He lobbied the Karnataka state government for the establishment of Konkani Academy. Chief Minister of Karnataka Veerappa Moily announced the establishment of Konkani Academy in the state. Thus Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy came into existence.
In 1995 from 16 to 22 December, under the auspices of Konkani Bhasha Mandal Karnataka, as Chief Convener, Basti Vaman Shenoy organised First World Konkani Convention in Mangalore. Margaret Alva, the then Central Minister was the Hon. Chairman, and K.K.Pai was the Chairman of the Organising Committee. 5000 delegates from all over the world attended this convention. The convention brought together Konkani speaking people from all regions, religion, dialect and sub communities. The then Chief Minister of Karnataka H.D. Deve Gowda inaugurated the convention. The 7 days convention consisting of seminars, debates, cultural presentations, exhibition and food festival was a grand success. Delegates honoured Basti Vaman Shenoy with a title of "Vishwa Konkani Sardar" (World Leader of Konkani). Basti Vaman Shenoy presented before the gathering of world representatives of Konkani people his dream to establish a permanent entity for the preservation and promotion of Konkani language, art and culture. The convention unanimously gave a mandate to establish World Konkani Centre in Mangalore with a resolution in the valedictory function of the convention.
In 1996, Shenoy inaugurated the First North American Konkani Convention at New Jersey, United States. He toured North American cities promoting the cause of Konkani during his visit. In 1997, Shenoy became the President of Karnataka Konkani Saithya Academy. He served two terms as President of Academy till 2001. During his tenure as President of Academy he initiated a process of lobbying with the Government of Karnataka to introduce Konkani in the schools of Karnataka as the optional third language. Under his tenure Academy produced "Konkani Samanthar Shabdakosh", a series of books on stalwarts of Konkani community "Konkani Mahamanest Pustakmala" and a volume on showcasing the rich Konkani art form of Kavi murals "Konkanyali Kavikala" written by Dr. Krishnanand Kamath. In 1998 Academy organised a three-day "Konkani Kala Utsav" in New Delhi. President Basti Vaman Shenoy led the 130 member cultural team to showcase Konkani Culture at the capital city. He was instrumental in organising workshop for developing teaching material in Konkani language in collaboration of Central Institute of Indian Languages in 2001. This workshop successfully brought out a Konkani Primer Book called "Konkani Kalo".
In 2002, as the Organising Committee chairman, Basti Vaman Shenoy successfully organised the 20th Adhiveshan of All India Konkani Parishad in Mangalore.
In 2004 he became the President of All India Konkani Parishad, took charge at the 26th Adhiveshan held at Kozhikode.
Shenoy served as one of the three jury members for the 2015 Sahitya Akademi Award (Konkani).
Konkani Language and Cultural Foundation
KLCF was promoted by Konkani Bhasha Mandal Karnatak to fulfil the mandate of the delegates of World Konkani Convention to establish World Konkani Centre at Mangalore. It came into being immediately after the World Konkani Convention in 1995. Basti Vaman Shenoy became its president. Banker, philanthropist and social leader K. K. Pai became Chairman of the KLCF. The Foundation stone marking the beginning of construction work was laid in a ceremony in September 2005 by P. Dayanand Pai. The then Union Minister Oscar Fernandes and Cooperative Minister of Government of Karnataka Shri R. V. Deshpande were present. Basti Vaman Shenoy toured relentlessly to raise funds for this project in India and abroad.
Vishwa Konkani Abhiyan
Under the auspices of KLCF, Basti Vaman Shenoy initiated a movement called Visha Konkani abhiyan aimed at creating opportunity of interaction between Konkani writers and scholars with their counterparts in other languages of the country. The Abhiyan was inaugurated at New Delhi on 12 October 2008 by former Union Minister Margaret Alva. M. Veerappa Moily released a book on Rashtrakavi M. Govinda Pai translated to Hindi from Konkani. Economist and Sanskrit scholar V. R. Panchamukhi (former chairman ICSSR) presided over the function. A seminar "Integration Through Languages" was held in which scholars from Panjabi, Hindi, Persian, Urdu, Kannada and Konkani languages participated. Similar programs were held in Baroda, Mumbai and Pune.
World Konkani Centre
World Konkani Centre, built on a 3 acre plot called Konkani Gaon (Konkani Village) at Shakti Nagar, Mangalore was inaugurated by Shri Digambar Kamat, Honorable Chief Minister of Goa on 17 January 2009. The World Konkani Centre named after chief patrons Dr. P. Dayananda Pai and P. Satish Pai consists of a library, a museum and convention facilities like boardroom, seminar hall and auditorium. As per the KLCF the centre is founded "to serve as a nodal agency for the preservation and overall development of Konkani language, art and culture involving all the Konkani people the world over."
On 6 March 2010, Vishwa Konkani Bhasha Samsthan (World Institute of Konkani Language) and World Konkani Hall of Fame were inaugurated by journalist Rajdeep Sardesai at World Konkani Centre. A Konkani ethnic shoppe was inaugurated by Ramdas Kamath U. (Senior Vice-President, Infosys Technologies Ltd.) on this occasion.
Awards and recognitions
Rajyotsava Prashasti by Government of Karnataka in 2010
Language Award by Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy in 2008
Personal life and death
Shenoy died at his home in Thumbe, on 2 January 2022, at the age of 87.
References
External links
1934 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Indian writers
Konkani-language writers
People from Dakshina Kannada district
Konkani people
Writers from Karnataka
Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 2010 |
17344227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoehyeon-dong | Hoehyeon-dong | Hoehyeon-dong is a dong, neighbourhood of Jung-gu in Seoul, South Korea.
Transportation
Seoul Station of and of
Hoehyeon Station of
Myeong-dong Station of
See also
Administrative divisions of South Korea
References
External links
Jung-gu Official site in English
Jung-gu Official site
Jung-gu Tour Guide from the Official site
Status quo of Jung-gu
Resident offices and maps of Jung-gu
Hoehyeon-dong resident office website
Neighbourhoods of Jung-gu, Seoul |
20485976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%20St.%20Louis%20Cardinals%20%28NFL%29%20season | 1976 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season | The 1976 St. Louis Cardinals season was the 57th season the franchise was in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 11–3, instead regressing by one win. This was the first time in three seasons the team did not qualify for the playoffs.
Ultimately, the Cardinals became the only NFC team to win ten games without making the playoffs under a 14-game schedule.
Offseason
NFL Draft
Roster
Schedule
Standings
References
1976
St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis Cardinals |
17344235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewn%20Garabandal | Ewn Garabandal | Ewn Garabandal (born May 29, 1978) is a Lombard novelist, best known for his novel "Feha Gìbuss e il Libro della Profezia" (Feha Gìbuss and the Book of Prophecy), a fantasy book about angels and demons, originally published in hardcover in 2007 (Mursia, Milan).
Biography
Ewn Garabandal is a pen name used by Fabio Ghezzi, an Italian writer, journalist and designer born in Monza in 1978. He graduated at San Giuseppe Institute from Monza with a major in Arts. From 1995 to 1998 he collaborated with the local newspaper from Monza, the "Cittadino". From 1997 to 2004 he collaborated with the "Gruppo Netweek" journals writing the Sports column. Since 1997 he has been enrolled in the Lombardy journalist register. In the late 90s he moved to London and worked as a bartender. In 2004 he graduated in Industrial Design at the Politechincs of Milano II Bovisa, with the highest grades of 110/110. In August 2007 he experienced the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage starting from Saint Jean-Pie-De-Port and walking for 780 km, as to follow the primary path.
Publication history
In 2007 Garabandal (under the pseudonym of Ewn Garaban) made his debut with the editor Ugo Mursia from Milan with the fantasy novel entitled "Feha Gìbuss e il Libro della Profezia". In April 2009 the black novel named "Cadde l'Angelo" was published, still for those of Mursia. In 2009 he also completed the first draft of his third novel, which was temporary entitled "MM", and was working on two other projects.
Bibliography
Novels
Feha Gìbuss e il Libro della Profezia, Mursia, Milan (2007)
Cadde l'Angelo, Mursia, Milan (2009)
Notes
External links
Official Website Since January 2009 the official web site (at the moment having only a textual form)
1978 births
Living people
21st-century Italian novelists
People from Monza |
20485979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dae%20%28film%29 | Dae (film) | Dae is a 1979 Yugoslavian short documentary film directed by Stole Popov. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. It depicts a group of Roma celebrating St. George's Day (May 6).
References
External links
Дае at the European Film Gateway
1979 films
1979 documentary films
1979 short films
Yugoslav films
1970s short documentary films |
17344239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Willis | William Willis | William Willis may refer to:
Politicians
William Willis (Maine politician) (1794–1870), American politician and historian, mayor of Portland, Maine, 1857
William Willis Garth (1828–1912), American politician
William Willis (British politician) (1835–1911), British politician, MP for Colchester 1880–1885
William Jarvis Willis (1840–1884), New Zealand politician
William Nicholas Willis (1858–1922), Australian politician
Others
William Downes Willis (1790–1871), British clergyman, theologian and author
William Willis (physician) (1837–1894), British physician
William Willis (inventor) (1841–1923), British inventor
William Willis (sailor) (1893–1968), rafter and adventurer
William Hailey Willis (1916–2000), American classicist
William S. Willis (1921–1983), ethnohistorian and pioneer in African American anthropology
William Willis (artist) (born 1943), American artist
See also
Bill Willis (1921–2007), American football player |
26722315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20lightweight%20quadruple%20sculls | Rowing at the 2010 South American Games – Men's lightweight quadruple sculls | The Men's lightweight quadruple sculls event at the 2010 South American Games was held over March 22 at 9:20.
Medalists
Records
Results
References
Final
Lightweight Quadruple Scull M |
23580783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Wirsching | Josef Wirsching | Josef Wirsching (22 March 1903 – 11 June 1967) sometimes credited as Joseph Wirsching, was a German cinematographer, who became a pioneer in cinematography in India and who contributed to the heritage of Cinema of India and still photography in its improvement into a scientific art of expression. His association with Indian cinema started in 1925, when he worked with another German, Franz Osten, in the Indo-European collaboration, The Light of Asia. Thereafter he settled in India, went on to work in over 20 films with Bombay Talkies and subsequently with Kamal Amrohi in Mahal (1949), Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayi (1960) and his masterpiece Pakeezah (1972), though he died while it was still under production.
Early life and education
Born in Munich, Germany, where he also did his schooling. After his schooling he joined ‘Blau Weiβ Films’ in Munich as an apprentice photographer; he studied photography theory in the state run ‘Gewerbeschule’ in Munich.
Personal life
He married Charlotte Mϋllberger in Germany on 28 January 1929. Their only son, Wolfgang Peter Wirsching was born in Bombay, India in 1939.
He died in Bombay on 11 June 1967, after a massive cardiac arrest. His photographic collection is now maintained by grandson Georg Wirsching.
Career
In 1923, he joined ‘Emelka Film Studios’ (present day ‘Bavaria Films’) as an assistant cameraman cum laboratory assistant and was later promoted to Film Cameraman in a short span of time and was involved as an assistant/cameraman for the following films:
Prem Sanyas (The Light of Asia, 1925)
Das Grabmal einer groβen Liebe (1926)
Our Emden (1926)
Little Inge and Her Three Fathers (1926)
My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You (1927)
Travelogue of overland trip from Mϋnich to Benares (1927/28)
Travelogue of overland trip from Calcutta to Rangoon (1928)
Waterloo (1928)
Spuren im Schnee (1928)
Cruiser Emden (1932)
Stoβtrupp 1917 (1933/34)
Im Lande des Silbernen Löwen (1933)
The Love Hotel (1933)
Bombay Talkies
After Emelka he joined Bombay Talkies in Bombay, India, as a director of Photography in 1935.
Bombay Talkies productions (before Second World War)
Jawani Ki Hawa (1935)
Level Crossing (1936)
Mother-Always Tell Your Wife (1936)
Achut Kanya (1936)
Janmabhoomi. (1936)
Jeevan Naiya (1936)
Izzat (1937)
Prem Kahani (1937)
Miyan Biwi (1937)
Savitri (1937)
Jeevan Prabhat (1937)
Nirmala (1938)
Vachan (1938)
Mamta/Bhabi (1938)
Nav Jeevan (1939)
Kangan (1939)
Durga (1939)
As he was a German national living in the British India, In 1939 he was interned for the period of World War II in an internment camp for foreign nationals, firstly in Ahmednagar, then Dehradun and finally Satara. He was ultimately released from internment in 1947 after which he returned to ‘Bombay Talkies’ which by now had changed ownership.
Bombay Talkies productions (after Second World War)
Ziddi (1948)
Mahal (1949)
Sangram (1950)
Maa (1952)
Samsheer (1953)
Baadbaan (1954) {This was a ‘Bombay Talkies’ workers cooperative effort to keep the studio alive}.
AMA Limited
Before ‘Bombay Talkies’ closed down in 1954; he joined ‘AMA Limited’ in their documentary & ad-film division in 1954, where he photographed, co-photographed and partially directed a few of their productions in both color and black n white:
Black and white
Young Farmers Club
River Valley Projects, (Documentary on the Bakra Nangal Dam)
Fishing for Food
Malaria Control
One Thousand hands
How to grow more Paddy pest control
Education for Life
First Furrow
The Mould Board Plough
Practical seed drills
The Row cultivator
Time is Money
Improved Seed
Our Indian Earth
Care of the Eyes
Kora Kendra
How to have a healthy home (Northern region)
How to have a healthy home (Southern region)
How to have a healthy home (Eastern region)
Village Black Smith-ing
Village Carpentry
Black Smith-ing in small towns
Rehabilitation in Polio Mellitus
Color
Fertilizer Applications
Fertilizer for Abundance
Life of the soil
The Story of Trombay (A Documentary on the TATA Thermal power project in Trombay)
Mahal Pictures
After his stint in Bombay Talkies he joined Kamal Amrohi's Mahal Pictures as director of Photography in 1959 and did two films namely Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960)
and Pakeezah (1972), his only colour film. This film was completed in part after his demise in 1967 and was released in 1972. The remaining scenes which were shot after his demise are clearly noticeable. The famous Paan gali scene is credited to him. He even shows up on screen as a large bearded man in the crowd in the film.
References
External links
Wirsching Foundation, Photographic Collection
German cinematographers
Hindi film cinematographers
1903 births
1967 deaths
German emigrants to India
Film people from Munich |
17344249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsaphangthong%20district | Atsaphangthong district | Atsaphangthong is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
20485981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus%20Revenge | Amadeus Revenge | Amadeus Revenge is a music-based shoot 'em up game published by System Editoriale s.r.l. in 1988 for the Commodore 64. The game was developed using the Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit.
Gameplay
The player plays the part of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Amadeus as he is known in the game. The goal of the game is to complete Mozart's famous Piano Concerto No. 25, (K. 503), referred to in-game as simply Concerto in C. To do this the player must navigate Amadeus across reams of sheet music while eliminating the conflicting notes produced by rival musicians such as Antonio Salieri. As a rival musician produces a conflicting note it is reproduced within the game score at the appropriate tone.
Reception
Reviewing the game in 1988, Commodore Computer Club praised the game for its graphics and sound and for its ability to draw in players. They also included the game on Disc No.6 for subscribers belonging to the Commodore 64 Club. As part of its coverage of successful DIY projects in 2011, Retro Gamer praised the game's "great use of the Commodore 64's sound chip". Australian news agency ABC Online noted that "while this modern interpretation of Mozart may seem a far stretch of the imagination, funnily enough it's an apt metaphor for what it's like to wander through an orchestra mid-performance".
References
External links
Amadeus Revenge at Gamebase64
1988 video games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Cultural depictions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Video games based on real people
Europe-exclusive video games
Music video games
Video games based on musicians
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
20485997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin%20Hook%2C%20Texas | Pin Hook, Texas | Pin Hook is an unincorporated community located in northeast Lamar County, east of Paris, Texas.
Notable persons
William A. Owens, author, educator and folklorist.
References
References:
William A Owens, This Stubborn Soil, New York, Scribner [1966]
External links
The Handbook of Texas Online
Unincorporated communities in Texas |
23580786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip%20Wedaarachchi | Dilip Wedaarachchi | Dilip Wedaarachchi (born 5 February 1957) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He is famous for having eaten raw fish at a press conference to shun the rumours claiming that Covid-19 virus can be transmitted by consumption of seafood. He gained further fame by demonstrating evidence of two thirds during a parliament session.
References
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Samagi Jana Balawegaya politicians
United National Party politicians
1957 births
State ministers of Sri Lanka |
17344255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assaphone%20district | Assaphone district | Assaphone is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
20485999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20Mounds | Oak Mounds | The Oak Mounds is a large prehistoric earthwork mound, and a smaller mound to the west. They are located outside Clarksburg, in Harrison County, West Virginia.
Mounds
These mounds have never been totally excavated but they were probably built between 1 and 1000 CE by the Hopewell culture mound builders, prehistoric indigenous peoples of eastern North America. The larger mound is about 12 feet high and 60 feet in diameter. A number of burials of important persons of the culture probably occurred in these mounds.
Site
An incorrectly worded historical marker sign is located on West Virginia Route 98 near the Veterans Administration Hospital. The sign errounously states the direction the mounds are relative to the sign itself, however the mounds are actually to the west, on the far side of the West Fork River, and not "Directly to the east..." The sign's entire inscription reads: "Oak Mounds - Directly to the east are two earthen, domed burial mounds. The larger mound is some sixty feet in diameter and twelve feet high. Excavations in 1969 revealed flint tools, pottery shards and skeletal remains of two individuals. Site dates to about 100 BC, late Woodland Period."
See also
Mound
Mound builder (people)
Effigy mound
Earthwork (archaeology)
Tumulus - burial mound
List of Hopewell sites
References
Hopewellian peoples
Woodland period
Native American history of West Virginia
Archaeological sites in West Virginia
Mounds in West Virginia
Geography of Harrison County, West Virginia |
20486012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime%20Security%20Patrol%20Area | Maritime Security Patrol Area | The Maritime Security Patrol Area (MSPA) is a specified patrol zone in the Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel. Its borders are unmarked, but are a narrow, rectangular corridor between Somalia and Yemen, within the northern sector of the gulf. The MSPA was established 22 August 2008 by the Combined Task Force 150, (CTF-150) a multinational, coalition naval task force in order to deter de-stabilizing activities, including piracy within this maritime geographical area. The establishment of the MSPA was directed by the Commander, United States Naval Central Command.
See also
Piracy in Somalia
References
External links
Map of the Area
The Cost of Doing Business on the Open Sea by Richard Pollak, The Nation, April 22, 2009
Gulf of Aden
Piracy in Somalia
Military units and formations established in 2008
War on terror
Maritime boundaries |
23580790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumara%20Welgama | Kumara Welgama | Kumara Welgama () (born 5 April 1950) is a Sri Lankan politician and a current member of parliament for the Kalutara District.
Welgama was the chief organiser for the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the Agalawatte electorate between 1984 and 2000.
He was the Minister of Industrial Development from 2007 to 2010 and the Minister of Transport from 2010 to early 2015.
Welgama who was loyal to Mahinda Rajapakse defected from them after the nomination of Gotabaya Rajapaksa was announced. Welgama joined the Samagi Jana Balawegaya led by Sajith Premadasa to run for the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election.
References
1950 births
Alumni of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
Industries ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
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
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Prisoners and detainees of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
Sri Lankan prisoners and detainees
Transport ministers of Sri Lanka
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Samagi Jana Balawegaya politicians |
17344260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindang-dong | Sindang-dong | Sindang-dong is a dong, neighbourhood of Jung-gu in Seoul, South Korea.
Attractions
The neighbourhood is near Sindang Station and is approximately two blocks from exit 8. It is a popular shopping area with a variety of food markets, and eateries that specialise in Korean snacks such as Ddeokbokki. It is known to Koreans for its Ddeokbokki Town.
Transportation
Sindang Station of and of
Cheonggu Station of and of
See also
Administrative divisions of South Korea
References
External links
Jung-gu Official site in English
Jung-gu Official site
Jung-gu Tour Guide from the Official site
Status quo of Jung-gu
Resident offices and maps of Jung-gu
Sindang 1-dong resident office website
Neighbourhoods of Jung-gu, Seoul |
23580792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasena%20Wijesinghe | Chandrasena Wijesinghe | Chandrasena Wljesinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He lost a re-election bid in 2010.
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 |
20486016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koryo%20Celadon | Koryo Celadon | Koryo Celadon is a 1979 South Korean short documentary film directed by Paul Raimondi about Goryeo dynasty pottery. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. It documents the manufacturing process of celadon vessels by Living National Treasure Yu Geun-Hyeong.
References
External links
1979 films
1979 documentary films
1979 short films
English-language films
American short documentary films
1970s short documentary films
Documentary films about the visual arts
Korean pottery |
23580795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piyasiri%20Wijenayake | Piyasiri Wijenayake | K. Piyasiri Wijenayake is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Candidates in the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election
Deputy chairmen of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
26722321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A5rup%20Summer%20Park | Fårup Summer Park | Fårup Summer Park () is a theme park located in Fårup between Blokhus and Løkken in North Jutland, Denmark. The park, as the name suggests, is open during the summer months and attracts about 600,000 people each season. It is one of Denmark's biggest amusement parks and has the largest water park of any amusement park in the country. The park currently has seven roller coasters and many other rides as well.
History
Opened on 21 June 1975 by the Kragelund family, which had been in the wholesale business in Aalborg for 90 years when Anders Kragelund decided to sell and start a new business - an amusement park. He chose for the site of this venture North Jutland, a beautiful and popular holiday area in Denmark. The amusement park opened small with only a handful of children´s rides and attracted about 40.000 guests in its first operating season in 1975. Over the years the park has grown in popularity and been expanded in area as well, by 1983 many new rides had been added and about 350.000 people visited the park that year. In 1989 a water park was added (Djurs Sommerland had added a water park in 1985). Since 2001 the park has added 5 new roller coasters to its slate, most recently in 2012 and 2013.
The majority of the rides in this park cater to every member of the family making this a very child-friendly amusement park. The park is nicely landscaped with plenty of trees everywhere and a lake separating the amusement park area from the water park. Even though some of the rides are themed the park itself is not divided into specifically themed areas. The Aqua Park is included in the admission price.
Roller coasters
Water rides
Farup Rafting - river rapids ride that opened in 1998. This six-passenger raft ride navigates a long course. Designer: Bear Rides.
Træstammerne (The Tree Trunks) - log flume ride that opened in 1991. A long Colorado-themed ride with three drops, the highest of which is . Designer: Big Country Motioneering.
Other rides
Crazy Golf - mini golf course opened in 2018.
Farup Boats - sail your own boat on the lake.
Farup Railway - a 1930s style railroad.
4D Cinema - shows a 4D film, the theater opened in 2006.
Forest Rush - spinner ride that opened in 2009. Height limit
Rowing Boats - row your own boat on the lake.
Rævens Hule (The Fox Hole) - fun house that opened in 2010.
Rides for children
Air Trampolines - trampolines, opened in 1994.
Canoes - paddle your own canoe on the lake.
Children´s Tower - a tall drop tower for kids that opened in 2005. Designer: Zierer.
Excavators - operate your own digger, opened in 1994.
Farup Racing Team - roundabout.
Gold Digging - pan for gold.
Horses - ride the Icelandic horses.
Pedal Boats - pedal your own boat on the lake.
Pedal GoKarts - pedal karts that opened in 2002.
Play Ground - play area for the kids that opened in 2000.
The Red Baron - airplanes. Designer: Zamperla.
Safari Cars - on track safari cars.
Shooting - test your skill shooting, opened in 2001.
The Spider - challenge course that opened in 2002.
The Spinning Tree - rocking tug that opened in 2009. Designer: Zierer.
Teacups - spinning tea cups. Designer: Zierer.
Traffic School - kids can drive their own car, opened in 1990. Height limit max.
Trampolines - trampolines.
Treasure Hunt - challenge course that opened in 1996 and expanded in 2010.
Volcano - climbing course that opened in 2002.
Water park
The water park opened in 1989 and is included in the admission price.
Children´s Complex - water play area for kids that opened in 1989.
Surf Hill - body slide that opened in 1989.
Vandslagen - family rafting ride that opened in 2011.
Water Cycline - funnel ride that opened in 2007.
Water Slide - a long body slide] that opened in 1989.
Wave Pool - a large wave pool that opened in 1993 - is heated to 27 degrees.
Wild River - three different tube rides that opened in 1989.
Water Cannon - free fall and two loops - opened in 2015
Water Fall - a 35 metre water slide that goes in only one direction: Down!
Shows
The park hosts various special events throughout the summer season including motor cycle meet, open air music concerts and more.
Extras
Arcade Games
Test Your Skill Games
External links
Amusement parks in Denmark
Buildings and structures in Jammerbugt Municipality
1975 establishments in Denmark
Amusement parks opened in 1975 |
17344266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champhone%20district | Champhone district | Champhone is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
Settlements
Tansoume
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
23580799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilakaratne%20Withanachchi | Thilakaratne Withanachchi | Thilakaratne Withanachchi is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He lost a re-election bid in 2010.
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 |
20486041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz%20Pyka | Tadeusz Pyka | Tadeusz Pyka (May 17, 1930 – May 23, 2009) was a former Polish communist politician, who served as a Deputy Prime Minister of Poland. In August 1980, he led a government commission which attempted to end a strike in the Polish city of Gdańsk, but he was replaced on August 21 without an explanation offered by state radio at the time for the change.
Political career
Pyka was educated in the engineering of metallurgy. Pyka was a deputy to the Sejm, the Polish legislative body, for three consecutive terms from 1972 to 1980. In 1974, he became a deputy to the Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers Party. He was also a Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from October 23, 1975 to August 24, 1980, and a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers Party until 1980. In 1980, he was also briefly a deputy to a member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party. During the period of martial law in Poland in 1981 he was interned for a year and had charges pressed against him.
Gdańsk negotiations
In August 1980, due to economic difficulties, workers in the Polish city of Gdańsk went on strike. Around the middle of that month, the Polish government declared that it had created a commission that would converse with the strikers. The commission was led by Pyka, who was a relative newcomer to the inner circle of the communist Polish United Workers' Party, and a "junior man" when compared to Poland's other Deputy Prime Ministers. He was described as a "minor Party functionary" and a "close ally of Edward Gierek", the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. Pyka stated that he would have "nothing to do" with the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee, the main representative body of the Gdańsk strikers, especially with members Lech Wałęsa and Andrzej Gwiazda, as well as Anna Walentynowicz. Pyka argued that the Strike Committee was illegal, and that it did not represent the workers it claimed to. He was replaced as leader of the commission with Mieczysław Jagielski on August 21. State Polish Radio at the time gave no explanation as to why Pyka was replaced.
Post-political career
He was a professor of economics at the Górnośląska Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa in Katowice. He died on May 23, 2009.
See also
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
References
1930 births
2009 deaths
Polish economists
Polish United Workers' Party members
Deputy Prime Ministers of Poland |
17344271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody%20School%20%28Eastman%2C%20Georgia%29 | Peabody School (Eastman, Georgia) | Peabody School, also known as Peabody High School, is an historic school building located on Herman Avenue in Eastman, Georgia. Built in 1938, it was designed by Eastman-born American architect Edward Columbus Hosford, who is noted for the courthouses and other buildings that he designed in Florida, Georgia and Texas. The brick building's design includes elements of the Colonial Revival style. The segregated school educated the African-American high school students of Eastman and most other parts of Dodge County. In 1950, the school became an elementary school serving grades 1-8 after a new high school opened. It was closed in 1970 and its students were integrated into Dodge County High School and other formerly all-white public schools in Dodge County.
On November 20, 2004, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was vacant at the time. The school, which is owned by the United Concerned Citizens of Dodge County, received a $16,000 grant for its rehabilitation in the same year.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dodge County, Georgia
References
External links
Dodge County High School history
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Buildings and structures in Dodge County, Georgia
Edward Columbus Hosford buildings
Colonial Revival architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
National Register of Historic Places in Dodge County, Georgia |
20486043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teagueia%20teaguei | Teagueia teaguei | Teagueia teaguei is a species of orchid endemic to Ecuador.
References
Pleurothallidinae
Orchids of Ecuador
Plants described in 1979 |
23580802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunaratna%20Weerakoon | Gunaratna Weerakoon | Muhudugama Hewage Gunaratna Weerakoon (10 November 1947 – 24 December 2021) was a Sri Lankan teacher and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister. He died on 24 December 2021, at the age of 74.
References
Sources
1947 births
2021 deaths
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Provincial councillors of Sri Lanka
Alumni of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura
People from Galle District |
26722331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Lord | Daniel Lord | For the Catholic writer see Daniel A. Lord
Daniel Lord (September 23, 1795 – March 4, 1868) was a prominent New York City attorney. His firm was eventually joined by his son-in-law Henry Day and son Daniel Lord Jr. to form Lord Day & Lord. John Jacob Astor was among Lord's clients.
Early life
Lord was born in Stonington, Connecticut September 23, 1795. He was a son of Phebe ( Crary) Lord (1773–1847) and Dr. Daniel Lord (1767–1845). His father, a doctor, moved the family to New York City while Lord was a toddler. He graduated from Yale College in 1814.
Career
Lord was a legal contemporary of Chief Justices Thomas J. Oakley and William Alexander Duer, Chancellors Reuben H. Walworth and James Kent, and Spencer, Wood, Ogden Hoffman, Stevens, Hill, and Bradford.
In 1818, Lord opened his firm as a solo practitioner. By 1848, he was joined by his son-in-law, Henry Day, and son, Daniel Lord Jr., to form Lord, Day & Lord. John Jacob Astor was among Lord's clients. The firm operated until October 1994.
Personal life
On May 16, 1818, Lord was married to Susan DeForest (1799–1879), a daughter of Lockwood DeForest and Mehitabel ( Wheeler) DeForest. Together, they were the parents of:
Daniel DeForest Lord (1819–1894), who married Mary Howard Butler (1823–1880), a daughter of Attorney General Benjamin Franklin Butler, in 1844. After Mary's death, he married Elizabeth Riley.
John Crary Lord (1821–1873), who married Margaret Hawley (1825–1909), a daughter of Gideon Hawley, in 1846.
Phoebe Lucretia Lord (1823–1890), who married Henry Day in 1849.
James Couper Lord (1827–1869), who married Margaretta Hunter Brown (1829–1898), a daughter of banker James Brown of Brown Bros. & Co., in 1852.
Sarah Lord (b. 1829), who married Henry C. Howells in 1887.
Edward Crary Lord (1831–1892), who married Emily Maria Livingston (1842–1892), a daughter of Gerard William Livingston (grandson of Robert Livingston, 3rd Lord of Livingston Manor), in 1864.
George DeForest Lord (1833–1892), a lawyer who married Frances Theodora Shelton, in 1877.
Lord died at his home in New York on March 4, 1886. His death in 1868 was attributed to "paralysis". After a funeral held at Rev. Dr. Spring's Church at 35th Street and Fifth Avenue, he was buried at the New York Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue in New York.
References
1795 births
1868 deaths
Yale University alumni
Lawyers from New York City
19th-century American lawyers |
17344275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanthaboury%20district | Khanthaboury district | Khanthaboury is the old name of Savannakhet city, which since 2005 has been named Kaysone Phomvihane (). It is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
23580807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayantha%20Wijesekara | Jayantha Wijesekara | N. W. M. Jayantha Wijesekara is a Sri Lankan politician and former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka |
20486072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin%20Stadium | Goodwin Stadium | Goodwin Stadium was a stadium in Tempe, Arizona. It hosted the Arizona State University Sun Devils football team until they moved to Sun Devil Stadium in 1958, as well as the team for local Tempe High School until 1969. The stadium held 15,000 people at its peak and was opened in 1936. The first football game played was on Friday, October 3, 1936, when the Arizona State Teacher's College Bulldogs defeated California Institute of Technology 26–0. The last football game played was on September 20, 1958, when ASU beat Hawaii 47–6 in front of 19,000 fans.
The stadium was named for Garfield Goodwin, former mayor of Tempe, member of the Arizona State Teachers College Board of Education and receiver on the 1899 Tempe Normal School football team.
Construction
Goodwin Stadium first hosted the Sun Devils in the 1936 season, after the completion of its west side grandstand. The western portion was a Public Works Administration project, built at a total cost of $92,000. This first grandstand had room for 4,000 spectators. The contractor for Goodwin Stadium was Del E. Webb Construction Company. The engineer for Goodwin Stadium was L.M. Fitzhugh.
The eastern portion was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1940–41. Designed by influential Phoenix architects Lescher & Mahoney (with Kemper Goodwin as one of the project's superintendents), it cost $87,500 to build and seated an additional 5,300. In 1946, to accommodate overwhelming growth in the university, a men's dormitory was added to the grandstand at a cost of $275,000. The dormitory housed 88 men at normal capacity. The East stands also served as Haigler Hall, a men's dormitory. It was named after Charles Haigler, a member of the first football team at Tempe Normal School.
Martin Luther King address
On June 3, 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered an address at Goodwin Stadium, titled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity". The address was not noted in many biographies of King and was only found in 2013, when a woman discovered it along with reels from civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale's radio show at a Goodwill store. University president G. Homer Durham, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), showed progressivism in inviting King to speak at the university, since the LDS Church did not fully recognize racial equality until 1978.
Demolition and site reuse
By the 1970s, Goodwin Stadium had fallen into disuse, while the land it sat on was needed by the university. In 1976, the west side of Goodwin Stadium was knocked down, with the east side following in 1978. A road (Lemon Street) was extended through the property; a parking garage now occupies the southern half of the footprint, while several buildings of the W. P. Carey School of Business were constructed on the site north of the extended Lemon Street. A plaque placed on the northwest corner of the parking garage, at College Avenue and Lemon Street, commemorates Goodwin Stadium's existence.
References
External links
Recording of "Religious Witness for Human Dignity"
Defunct college football venues
American football venues in Arizona
Arizona State Sun Devils football venues
Sports venues in Tempe, Arizona
Arizona State University buildings
Del E. Webb buildings |
26722355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20lightweight%20pair | Rowing at the 2010 South American Games – Men's lightweight pair | The Men's lightweight pair event at the 2010 South American Games was held over March 22 at 10:00.
Medalists
Records
Results
References
Final
Lightweight Pair M |
23580808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltic%20acid | Deltic acid | Deltic acid or dihydroxycyclopropenone is a chemical substance with the chemical formula C3O(OH)2. It can be viewed as a ketone and double alcohol of cyclopropene. At room temperature, it is a stable white solid, soluble in diethyl ether, that decomposes (sometimes explosively) between 140 °C and 180 °C, and reacts slowly with water.
Derivatives
Deltate and salts
Deltic acid is considered an acid because it is a particularly acidic enediol, with hydroxyl groups relatively easily losing their protons (pKa1 = 2.57, pKa2 = 6.03), leaving behind the symmetric deltate anion, .
The first deltate salts (of lithium and potassium) were described in 1976, also by Eggerding and West. Lithium deltate Li2C3O3 is a water-soluble white solid. Like the other cyclic dianions with formula , the deltate anion has a pronounced aromatic character which contributes to its relative stability.
Analogs
An analog of the deltate anion can be obtained by replacing the three oxygen atoms (=O or −O−) by cyanoimino groups (=N−C≡N or −N=C=N−) to yield the symmetric anion . Replacement of the three oxygen atoms by dicyanomethylene (=C(CN)2) provides an oxidizing species that is readily reduced to a stable radical anion and dianion.
Synthesis
Deltic acid was originally obtained by photolysis of the ester bis(trimethylsilyl) squarate, which converted into bis(trimethylsilyl) derivative. Upon irradiation with UV light, the disilyl compound decarbonylates. Decomposition of the latter by butanol yielded deltic acid.
The acid can also be prepared by reaction of silver squarate and trimethylsilyl chloride.
The deltate anion has also been obtained by direct cyclotrimerization of carbon monoxide at ambient conditions. Carbon monoxide dissolved in pentane reacted with a uranium coordination compound yielding a deltate anion bound to two uranium atoms.
See also
Acetylenediol
Croconic acid
Rhodizonic acid
Cyclopropenone
References
Non-benzenoid aromatic carbocycles
Ketones
Oxocarbons
Cyclopropenes
Enediols |
26722356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuela%20Priemer | Manuela Priemer | Manuela Priemer (born November 19, 1978 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria) is a retired female hammer thrower from Germany. She set her personal best (67.26 metres) on June 4, 2003 at a meet in Cottbus.
Achievements
References
1978 births
Living people
People from Weiden in der Oberpfalz
German female hammer throwers
World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany
Sportspeople from Bavaria |
23580809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20Bowl | Bubble Bowl | Bubble Bowl refers to multiple entities in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise:
An ability unlocked after the first major boss battle in the 2003 video game SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom and its 2020 remake.
A parody of an American football halftime show in the season 2 episode Band Geeks.
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17344280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlborough%20railway%20stations | Marlborough railway stations | Marlborough railway stations refers to the two railway stations which served Marlborough, Wiltshire, England; the town supported two railway routes and Savernake, the junction station at first, later had a second station.
A branch line was built by an independent railway friendly to the Great Western Railway (GWR) from Savernake to Marlborough in 1864. A north–south railway, later to be part of a long-distance trunk route, opened from Swindon to its own station at Marlborough in 1881, extending south to Andover in 1881, running over the branch line at first. Later the company built its own duplicate line to by-pass the GWR line.
The two routes came under the same management at the "Grouping" of the railways in 1923 and some rationalisation took place. Passenger services to Marlborough were withdrawn in 1961 and goods services in 1964.
The Great Western Railway Branch
Marlborough Railway
On 11 November 1862, the Berks and Hants Extension Railway (B&HER) opened a broad gauge railway line from Hungerford, itself originally the terminus of a branch line from Reading, to Devizes. At Devizes the new line linked up with the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway branch line from Trowbridge which had opened in 1857. The line was worked by the larger Great Western Railway (GWR).
Although Marlborough was an important market town, the new B&HER main line passed some distance to the south, near the village of Burbage. Local businessmen promoted an independent branch line, the Marlborough Railway, to connect their town to the Savernake station of the B&HER. It opened on 15 April 1864; it was 5 miles 49 chains (9.0 km) in length, and built using the broad gauge. There were no intermediate stations, and trains departed from a new platform at Savernake.
This line too was worked by the GWR, and the B&HER and the Marlborough Railway were absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1886; the Marlborough Railway was purchased for £9,250 in cash. Both lines were converted to standard gauge in 1874.
Marlborough GWR station
The GWR station in Marlborough was to the south-east of the town centre, on the west side of Salisbury Road; it had a substantial L-shaped red brick building with waiting rooms for both first-class and ordinary passengers. It had a single platform, and goods facilities were provided at the northern end. There was also a separate goods yard to the south of the station and an engine shed to the north east near the buffer stops.
Marlborough GWR station became the focus for road traffic in the area, with horse buses at first along the Bath road; motor buses were introduced in 1904. Many of the bus services were operated by the GWR.
The Midland and South Western Junction Railway
The Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway
Original plans for railways in the Marlborough area had focused on a scheme for a north–south line to link Swindon with Andover, passing through Marlborough. Though the GWR branch line got to Marlborough first, the north–south plans were revived with an Act in 1873, and the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway was built in two halves. The northern section, from Swindon Town south to Marlborough, was opened in July 1881; the southern section, from Andover Junction north to Grafton and Burbage, opened the following year, 1882.
The new Marlborough station opened as a terminus just to the east of the existing GWR station. It had a station building on the up platform (towards Swindon) with a huge canopy. There was a goods yard behind the up platform to the north west of the passenger station with a large goods shed.
Links to the GWR
Having built its lines from the north and the south, the financially strapped SM&AR then found that it could not join them, being unable to afford to persuade landowners to sell their property to build the missing link. Instead, it built a short link within Marlborough to the GWR branch line just south of Marlborough GWR station and another link from the GWR's Berks and Hants Extension Railway just east of Savernake station southwards to Grafton and Burbage station. From February 1883, SM&AR through trains used the GWR Marlborough branch and a short section of the B&HER main line, including Savernake station. A condition of the GWR lease was that passengers wanting to change at Savernake to other GWR services had to use the GWR trains from Marlborough.
The Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway
In 1884, the SM&AR combined with the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway, which ran northwards from Swindon Town, first to Cirencester and then, from 1891, into Cheltenham Lansdown. The combined line was called the Midland and South Western Junction Railway (M&SWJR) and with its links northwards from Cheltenham to the Midlands and southwards from Andover over the Sprat and Winkle Line to the south coast ports it became a true through line.
The Marlborough and Grafton Railway
With the northern extension to Cheltenham complete, the M&SWJR turned its attention in the early 1890s to resolving its problem at Marlborough, where it was paying £1,000 a year to run over the GWR Marlborough branch tracks. The company negotiated successfully with the Marquess of Ailesbury to run a new line from the M&SWJR station in Marlborough, through a 640-yard tunnel and across Savernake Forest. The new section then crossed the GWR's Berks and Hants Extension line and joined the southern section of the original SM&AR line just north of Grafton and Burbage station.
The new double-track section was called the Marlborough and Grafton Railway and was given parliamentary approval in 1893. It opened for through traffic on 26 June 1898, at which point the link just outside Marlborough station to the GWR branch line was closed. The only intermediate station on the new section was at Savernake, about 200 yards from the GWR Savernake station but not connected to it.
The Marlborough and Grafton Railway was formally taken over by the M&SWJR in 1899, and for the next quarter century Marlborough had regular services on both lines. The April 1910 timetable, for example, shows each line offering about eight services a day, though the GWR did not run trains on Sundays.
Rationalisation after the Grouping
Station renaming
The Railways Act 1921 grouped most of the railways in mainland Great Britain into four large companies, and the Midland and South Western Junction Railway was incorporated into the Great Western Railway, its rival for the rail traffic at Marlborough. For a few years, the GWR did nothing to rationalise the anomaly of having two parallel lines running into the town, but it did rename the stations. Confusingly the former GWR stations were named Marlborough High Level and Savernake Low Level, while the former M&SWJR stations were renamed as Marlborough Low Level and Savernake High Level.
1926 link
In 1926, the GWR reopened the 1883 link between the two lines just outside the two Marlborough stations, enabling trains from the main line junction at Savernake Low Level to pass through Marlborough on to the north.
1933 link
Further changes came in 1933. The GWR built a second link between its original branch line and the M&SWJR line much nearer Savernake and closed the original branch and station in Marlborough to passenger traffic. The goods yard at Marlborough GWR station was retained, but was accessed from the north through the Marlborough M&SWJR station using the link that had been restored in 1926.
All passenger services were rerouted to the M&SWJR station at Marlborough. The GWR chose to operate the double track M&SWJR line as two separate single track lines: the former up line (towards Swindon) was used for the branch services from Savernake Low Level while the through north–south services which passed through Savernake High Level all ran on the former down line. This odd arrangement persisted into British Railways days.
Decline and closure
World War II
The Midland and South Western Junction line was very heavily used for troop and other military movements across Salisbury Plain in the Second World War, but after the war both passenger and goods traffic declined sharply in competition with road transport. Marlborough, about midway between London and Bath/Bristol, had become a focus for long-distance east–west bus services and the railway found it difficult to compete.
Closure
The whole line closed for passenger services in 1961, including the remaining branch line service from Savernake Low Level. Before the closure, there had been one last twist in the intertwined history of the two lines and the various stations. In September 1958, a landslip blocked the main line close to Savernake High Level station. Through services were diverted back through Savernake Low Level, as they had been from 1883 to 1898, but this time using the later 1933 link between the lines, and Savernake High Level station closed. This arrangement, however, lasted only three years until passenger services were withdrawn.
Goods traffic continued to Marlborough from Savernake for a further three years, with the GWR station's goods yard remaining open until May 1964 and the M&SWJR station's goods facilities holding on until September 1964. There were occasional passenger services too in this period, associated with Marlborough College excursions.
The sites today
Both Marlborough stations have disappeared beneath new developments in the town.
Routes
Marlborough High Level
Marlborough Low Level
References
Disused railway stations in Wiltshire
Marlborough High Level
Marlborough Low Level
Marlborough GWR
Marlborough MandSWJR
Marlborough GWR
Marlborough MandSWJR
Marlborough, Wiltshire
1864 establishments in England |
20486085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%20Delaplane | Stanton Delaplane | Stanton Hill ("Stan") Delaplane (12 October 1907 – 18 April 1988) was a travel writer, credited with introducing Irish coffee to the United States. Called "last of the old irreplaceables" by fellow-columnist Herb Caen, he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for 53 years, winning a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in 1942.
Early life
Delaplane was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended high school there and in Santa Barbara and Monterey, California.
Career
Delaplane's career as a journalist began as a writer for Apéritif Magazine from 1933 to 1936, when he joined the San Francisco Chronicle as a reporter He won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1942 for a depiction of the State of Jefferson, a state that residents of far northern California and southern Oregon proposed semi-seriously in order to publicize their grievances. He also won National Headliner Awards in 1946 and 1959. In 1944 and 1945 he served as a war correspondent in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.
Irish coffee
After drinking Irish coffee at Shannon Airport in Ireland, Delaplane convinced Jack Koeppler, then owner of the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco, to start serving it at his bar. On November 10, 1952, the two spent hours perfecting the Irish method for floating the cream on top of the coffee, reportedly to the point where Delaplane almost passed out on the cable car tracks outside.
Postcards
Beginning in 1953 Delaplane published a syndicated humorous travel column called "Postcards". In later years Delaplane would write his travel dispatches (which he called "postcards") from his home on Telegraph Hill, finishing them over a martini and cigarettes by the piano at the Washington Square Bar and Grill before sending them to the newspaper building by messenger. His writing style was characterized by very short sentences and sentence fragments, which he said was for the benefit of San Francisco Municipal Railway riders who had to read the paper while being jostled by the commuter train. He was known for exaggerating and sometimes fictionalizing his stories, and wrote often of the North Beach neighborhood and various eccentric people who lived in San Francisco. About his writing style, British commentator Alistair Cooke wrote, "Stanton Delaplane wrote like a young and happy and wholly successful pupil of Hemingway. He rarely wrote sentences of more than six or seven words and he could go weeks without calling on an adjective. His peculiar magic, which I often probed into and never discovered, was to keep these bare sentences rollicking along in the most effortless way, running as clean as spring water over the bed of a brook. He could not help being an entertaining writer and that is a gift that very few writers indeed can legitimately claim from the double-domed philosophers to the light-weight journalists."
Ding dong daddy
Delaplane's second Headliner award was for a semi-fictionalized account of Francis Van Wie, a Muni conductor arrested for bigamy for keeping 18 wives. Delaplane promoted the story into a nationwide sensation, calling Van Wie "The Ding-Dong Daddy of the D Car Line" after a popular Louis Armstrong song, "Ding Dong Daddy of Dumas" (in reality, Van Wie never worked on the D line). The story inspired the American swing revival band the Cherry Popping Daddies to write a new song about Van Wie, "Ding-Dong Daddy of the D Car Line", which Warren Sapp and Kym Johnson performed as part of their second-place finish in Season 7 of Dancing With The Stars.
Delaplane's final column ran the day he died, and was a reminiscence of old days in North Beach.
Published works
See also
Feuilleton
Causerie
References
1907 births
1988 deaths
American columnists
Writers from Chicago
Writers from San Francisco
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting winners
San Francisco Chronicle people
20th-century American non-fiction writers |
26722378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan%20fritillary | Balkan fritillary | The Balkan fritillary (Boloria graeca), is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
It is found in the Alps and the Balkans. The larva feeds on Viola species.
The orange upperside has a brown basal suffusion adorned with various marks of brown color, submarginal round spots and lines forming festoons. The hindwing forms an angle at its anterior edge. The underside of the forewings is identical, that of the hindwings presents silver designs, a line of small circles and greenish marbling in the female
External links
Leps It
Butterflies of Bulgaria
Boloria
Butterflies described in 1870
Butterflies of Europe
Taxa named by Otto Staudinger |
23580812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiswa%20Warnapala | Wiswa Warnapala | Watareke Arachchilage Wiswa Warnapala (26 December 1936 – 27 February 2016) was a Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Higher Education and member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Alumni of the University of Peradeniya
1936 births
2016 deaths
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sinhalese academics
Sinhalese writers
Higher education ministers of Sri Lanka |
20486089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nails%20%281979%20film%29 | Nails (1979 film) | Nails is a 1979 Canadian short documentary film directed by Phillip Borsos. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, and was named Best Theatrical Short in 1980 at the 1st Genie Awards.
Synopsis
A blacksmith is seen labouring at his forge, shaping nails from single strands of steel rods. The scene shifts from this peaceful setting to the roar of a 20th-century nail mill, where banks of machines draw, cut and pound the steel rods faster than the eye can follow.
References
External links
Watch Nails at NFB.ca
1979 films
1979 documentary films
1979 short films
Canadian short documentary films
English-language Canadian films
Documentary films about technology
Films directed by Phillip Borsos
Films without speech
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
National Film Board of Canada short films
Best Theatrical Short Film Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Nail (fastener) |
26722383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%20Moayedi | Paris Moayedi | Paris Moayedi (born 1938) is the entrepreneur who expanded Jarvis plc from a small construction business into one of the UK's largest engineering contractors.
Career
Born in Iran, brought up in the Mount Damavand area, and educated at Alborz High School in Tehran, Moayedi came to the UK in the 1958 and studied at Bradford University before becoming a site engineer at a business which was subsequently acquired by Amec. In 1983 he joined Walter Lawrence, a housebuilder, where he was appointed to establish a new division.
In 1994 he was appointed Chief Executive of Jarvis plc which he expanded from a small construction business into one of the UK's largest engineering contractors. He resigned in 2003 after Jarvis faced an investigation into its maintenance of the railway track following the seven fatalities in the rail crash at Potters Bar.
He is now involved with Tetronics International, an international waste management company and Advanced Plasma Power, a small waste to energy business based in Swindon.
He lives in a 15th-century thatched house in Essex that used to belong to the singer Roger Whittaker.
References
1938 births
Living people
Alborz High School alumni
Alumni of the University of Bradford
Iranian businesspeople |
20486105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.416%20Taylor | .416 Taylor | The .416 Taylor is a rifle cartridge. According to Ken Waters in Pet Loads, it was created by Robert Chatfield-Taylor in the early 1970s, with the first rifle in this caliber being a factory barreled Winchester Model 70. The case is based on the .458 Winchester Magnum necked down to accept .416 caliber bullets.
Usage
The .416 Taylor uses a bullet diameter. With maximum loads, the cartridge is capable of propelling a bullet at an average of from a barrel yielding a muzzle energy of . The work on this caliber (performed by Waters) was done with an experimental factory Ruger Model 77. He reported that an absolute maximum load of certain listed powders would push a bullet to , thereby equaling (and perhaps exceeding) the performance of the .416 Rigby (presuming moderate temperatures and barometric pressures). Waters also reported that bullets could exceed when propelled by certain listed powders. Under normal hunting conditions, the Taylor cartridge is therefore capable of taking any of the largest and most dangerous game animals in the world.
Reports from various internet gunboards indicate that shooters and gunsmiths are rebarreling Browning BAR .338 Winchester Magnum rifles with .416 Taylor barrels thereby creating semi-automatic hunting rifles in a true dangerous game caliber.
Origin
The cartridge was created to replace the magnum length .416 Rigby which at that time was nearly obsolete, with a cartridge that would fit into a standard length bolt-action rifle. The shorter action rifles are not only easier to carry in heavy cover, but also make it more convenient to carry more ammunition. The advantages to cartridges in .416 inch bullet diameter are that they generally present the shooter with less recoil and flatter trajectory than the larger .458 caliber dangerous game rifles (like the .458 Winchester Magnum). They also have more striking power and penetration than medium bores like the .375 H&H Magnum. The Taylor cartridge is simply a necked down .458 Winchester Magnum with no changes. They have the same shoulder height and angle as the .264 Winchester Magnum. The 416 Taylor was a SAAMI standardized cartridge, and was offered as a standard production item by A-Square until it closed in 2011.
See also
List of rifle cartridges
10 mm caliber
References
416 Taylor
Wildcat cartridges |
26722397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20lightweight%20double%20sculls | Rowing at the 2010 South American Games – Women's lightweight double sculls | The Women's lightweight double sculls event at the 2010 South American Games was held over March 22 at 10:20.
Medalists
Records
Results
References
Final
Lightweight Double Scull W |
17344281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biswendra%20Paswan | Biswendra Paswan | Vishwendraman Pashwan () is a Nepalese politician and human rights activist. He was the chairman of the Dalit Janajati Party. He the president of the Bahujan Shakti Party and an avowed Ambedkarite. He was a member of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly. He served as Minister of Science, Technology, Environment and Population, Govt. of Nepal. He belongs to Dalit community, and follows Buddhism.
Vishwendra Paswan is known as the "Ambedkar of Nepal".
In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the Dalit Janajati Party won 1 seat through the Proportional Representation vote. The party selected Paswan as its representative in the assembly.
References
Living people
Dalit Janajati Party politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ambedkarites
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly
Members of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly
Nepalese Buddhists
Dalit politicians |
26722399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Louis%20Blues%20%28disambiguation%29 | St. Louis Blues (disambiguation) | The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Louis Blues or Saint Louis Blues may also refer to:
"Saint Louis Blues" (song), a blues tune and song by W. C. Handy, published in 1914
Saint Louis Blues F.C., an Australian rules football team in the United States Australian Football League
St. Louis Blues (1929 film), a two-reel short directed by Dudley Murphy
St. Louis Blues (1939 film), a film directed by Raoul Walsh
St. Louis Blues (1958 film), a feature film
Saint Louis Blues (2009 film), 2009 French film
St. Louis Blues (album), a 1958 album by Nat King Cole
St. Louis blues (music), a type of blues music
St. Louis Blues, a defunct American football team that played the 1934 season in the American Football League (1934)
St. Louis Jr. Blues, a Junior A ice hockey team in Affton, Missouri |
17344283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nong%20district | Nong district | Nong is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
Settlements
A Alao
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
26722400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLC5A4 | SLC5A4 | The low affinity sodium-glucose cotransporter also known as the sodium/glucose cotransporter 3 (SGLT3) or solute carrier family 5 member 4 (SLC5A4) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC5A4 gene. It functions as a sugar sensor.
References
Further reading
Solute carrier family |
17344287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outhoumphone%20district | Outhoumphone district | Outhoumphone District is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
17344290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfield%2C%20Baltimore | Mayfield, Baltimore | Mayfield is a small community in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. It is bounded by Erdman Avenue on the south, Chesterfield Avenue on the north, Crossland Avenue on the east and Lake Montebello on the north and west. Homeowners belong to the Mayfield Improvement Association.
Demographics
According to the 2000 US Census, 955 people live in Mayfield with 77% White and 18.8% African-American. The median family income is $80,191. 94.9% of the houses are occupied and 85.1% of those are occupied by the home's owner.
Schools
Mayfield has two elementary schools: Montebello Elementary (Public grade school K-5) and St. Francis of Assisi School (Catholic grade school K-8). St. Matthew's Christian Pre-School is available for children 3 and 4 years old. Public high school students generally attend nearby Mervo or City highschools.
References
External links
Mayfield Improvement Association
, including undated photo and boundary map, at Maryland Historical Trust
Mayfield listing at CHAP includes map
Demographics from Neighborhood Indicators Alliance
Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore
Northeast Baltimore |
17344307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phine%20district | Phine district | Phine District is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
26722408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian%20College%20of%20Aviation%20Technology | Nigerian College of Aviation Technology | The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology is a higher education institute in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. It is funded by the Civil Aviation Department in the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Aviation.
Formerly known as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Training Centre, the school was established in 1964.
History
The Nigeria College of Aviation Technology was formally inaugurated in 1964 through an Act of Parliament. It began operations in 1966 with technical support from the United Nations Development Programme and the International Civil Aviation Organization. It was designed to be a training center for Nigerian and African pilots, aircraft maintenance engineers, navigation aid technicians and it subsequently created a flying school, air traffic services and communications school and aeronautical electronics and telecommunications school to meet its objectives. In the late 1970s, it began giving specialized training courses in instrument landing systems, jet simulation, airline transport, and VHF omnidirectional range. In 1977, it admitted its first female student.
Operations
It has a fleet of about 26 training aircraft. These consist of 14 single-engine TAMPICO TB9, 5 single TRINIDAD TB20, 3 twin-engine Beech 58, 2 BELL 206 Helicopters, a B737 aircraft for cabin crew training and 1 TBM 850 aircraft for flight training. As of 2010, about 6,500 students had graduated from the college, which offers course in flying, aircraft maintenance, air traffic control and aeronautical telecommunications.
Chief Dayo Abatan was appointed chairman of the college in February 2009.
In 2010, the college was seeking to become a degree-awarding institution through affiliation with a foreign university.
A Nigerian domestic airline, Arik Air, started a scholarship plan in October 2006 for training pilots and aircraft engineers. The first 15 students for the Standard Pilot Course were to graduate in November 2008.
The World Bank tendered for a study on equipment, infrastructure and training needs for the college in November 2008, a preliminary step before allocating funding. As of 2009 although the college undertook initial training of commercial pilots, courses in learning to fly new aircraft types and refresher courses were mostly done outside Nigeria. In January 2010 the president of Aviation Round Table, Captain Dele Ore, called for increased funding for the college so it could meet its statutory obligations.
In March 2014, Captain Samuel Akinyele Caulcrick was appointed rector of the college.
In January 2017, Capt. Abdulsalami Mohammed was appointed the Rector/CE of the College. He assumed office immediately after he was pronounced the new Rector of the College.
Incidents
In July 2008, a trainer jet missed the runway and crashed into the fence. The pilot was injured, and the jet slightly damaged. Another incident occurred in 2005.
See also
List of polytechnics in Nigeria
External links
NCAT Carrier Portal
References
Aviation schools
Technological universities in Nigeria
Universities and colleges in Kaduna State
Educational institutions established in 1964
1964 establishments in Nigeria
Zaria |
26722411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barwa%2C%20Rajasthan | Barwa, Rajasthan | Barwa is a village located in the Bali tehsil of Pali district of Rajasthan state, amidst the Aravalli Range.It is dominated by Rajpurohit (gundecha) .It is said that the rajpurohit gundecha migrated from chittaurgarh (mewar) to godawd in 15th century than Thakur Badh singh ji gundecha of Chandrayat lineage of mada established barwa .The village is divided into five poll (gates) namely korka poll,darvaja poll,gopal poll, Badi poll,Th.jethu singji'poll.Barwa is one of the most flourish village in the pali district .The village and the surrounding area was controlled by the rajpurohit (Gundecha's) till independence (for around 600 years) and It is one of the most popular village in pali district
Demographics
The population of Barwa is 2,874 according to the 2001 census, where male population is 1,396 and female population is 1,478.
There are many temples in the village like Shree Lakshmi Narayan Temple,{मुख्य मन्दिर सभी मन्दिर व गांव इनके अधिन है) Shree Vishwakarma MANDIR Shree Mahadevji Temple, Shree Sariyadeviji Temple, Shree Charbhuja Mandir, Thakurji Mandir (Badipaul), Shree Rohinimataji (गाँव की कुलदेवी). Satimata, Vageshvari mataji,वागेेेेेेश्वरी माताजी मन्दिर माताजी ढाणी
hanuman temple kika doly, kala bheru, gora bheru, shitla mata mandir.
The famous pilgrim of Shree Aatmanadji Samadhi and temple is also in temple. पर्यटन उद्योग द्वारा आयोजित - बालाजी पैलेस जहा देश-विदेश के पर्यटक रुकते है
External links
Website of Barwa
Villages in Pali district |
26722414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurr%20River | Spurr River | The Spurr River is a short stream in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It rises from the outflow of Beaufort Lake at and flows east-southeast into Lake Michigamme at .
The river flows along the south side of US 41/M-28 for most of its course. To the north of the road is a high ridge. There is a lookout tower at the top with views of Beaufort Lake, George Lake, and Ruth Lake to the south of the ridge and the smaller Trout Lake, Middle Lake, and Coon Lake to the north.
The source of the river, Beaufort Lake, is the last and largest in a series of three small lakes. Ruth Lake is fed by Nestoria Creek from the west and Canal Town Creek from the south. The outflow from a series of smaller lakes to the east, Coon Lake, Middle Lake, and Trout Lake enters Ruth Lake from the northeast. George Lake lies between Ruth Lake and Beaufort Lake.
The river is entirely within Spurr Township in Baraga County. Both the Spurr River and Spurr Township take their name from the Spurr Mountain mining settlement of the Spurr Mountain Iron Company near Imperial Heights.
References
Rivers of Michigan
Rivers of Baraga County, Michigan
Tributaries of Lake Michigan |
23580817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hup%20language | Hup language | The Hup language (also called Hupdë, Hupdá, Hupdé, Hupdá Makú, Jupdá, Makú, Makú-Hupdá, Makú De, Hupda, and Jupde) is one of the four Naduhup languages. It is spoken by the Hupda indigenous Amazonian peoples who live on the border between Colombia and the Brazilian state of Amazonas. There are approximately 1500 speakers of the Hup language. As of 2005, according to Epps, Hup is not seriously endangered – although the actual number of speakers is few, all Hupda children learn Hup as their first language.
History
Although their territory was the target of forced transferrals throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, due to their isolation, the Naduhup were among the least affected, since they were protected by the geography of their land. They were also the target of several Catholic missions, though those ultimately failed, as the Naduhup refused to send their children to Catholic education centres.
Contact with the Tucanoan people, also known as the River Indians, who live along the rivers rather than in the forests, has significantly impacted the Naduhup, both culturally and linguistically. Since before European contact, the Naduhup and Tukanoan peoples have engaged in trade, the Naduhup providing labour and hunted meats and the Tucanoan providing agricultural goods. However, the Naduhup are viewed as inferior by the Tucanoan, because of their linguistic and lifestyle differences. Because of this inequality, most Naduhup people can understand and/or speak a Tucanoan, while it is the opposite vice versa – very few, if any Tucanoan people speak Hup.
Language profile
Relatively few linguistic materials of Hup are available, due to the isolation of the Hupda. Incomplete vocabulary lists and dictionaries were established in 1955 (Giacone) and 1993 (Erickson and Erickson). The most complete descriptive grammar of Hup, A Grammar of Hup, was written by Patience Epps in 2005, was updated in 2008, and outlines Hup phonology, parts of speech, morphology, aspect, tense, modality, among many other features.
Hup is one of four languages in the Naduhup (Makú) family. Though Makú is the term most commonly used to refer to this language family, there is controversy over its usage, since it is also an ethnic slur, translating to “without language”, used by the Tukanoan towards the Naduhup. There has not been a consensus on a replacement term, although Epps proposed “Naduhup”, which combines the names of the four members of the language family - Nadëb, Dâw, Hup, and Yuhup.
Phonology
Consonants
There are nineteen contrasting consonants in Hup, with the twentieth /p’/ occurring in the morpheme-initial position in only one word of only some Hup dialects. /j/, /g/, and /ç/ only appear in morpheme-final position, while all other consonants may appear in morpheme initial, medial, and final position. Hup has glottalized consonants of both stops and approximants which can be seen in the chart below. This language also has nasal allophones of the voiced stops.
Adapted from Epps (2005), p. 40.
Vowels
Hup contains a large segmental phonemic inventory, in comparison to the Tukanoan languages that neighbour it geographically. Hup vowels are composed of nine contrasting sounds, with no occurring diphthongs:
However, these nine sounds occur only in non-nasal contexts. In nasal morphemes, there are only six distinct vowels:
Adapted from Epps (2005)
According to Epps (2005), this indicates that the contrast between mid-vowels and high/low vowels are neutralised in nasal contexts. Nasalisation is morphemic at the syllable level and targets all segments – generally, every syllable is either fully nasal or fully oral.
Tonality
Hup tonality functions in what is called a word-accent system – there is a word-level tone contrast system; the contrast is restricted to one syllable per word, which is predictable and also exhibits other features of stressed syllables (greater intensity, longer duration, and higher pitch). There are two tones: rising and high, which only appear in nouns and adjectives.
Morphology
Nouns and verbs are open class, while adjectives are closed class. Nouns usually appear as arguments of clauses and can appear bare in the clause, while verbs must be inflected in some way. Hup is highly agglutinative and concatenative, with a high rate of synthesis and low rate of phonological fusion of morphemes. Therefore, its morphemes are easily segmented. Roots typically undergo compounding, while formatives are affixed or cliticised.
Personal pronouns
Adapted from Epps (2005), p. 138
Semiverbal "Verby" nouns
Some nouns of Hup are semi-verbal, namely those which have to do with the passage of time, as well as periods of time, which are “inherently progressive and impermanent.”
“Passage of time” words:
wəhə́d "old man"
wɑ́ "old woman"
dóʔ "child"
“Periods of time” words:
wɑ́g "day"
j'ə́b "night"
While these words belong to the noun class (they typically appear as arguments of a clause, and aspectual inflection is not required), they have verb-like qualities, such as occurrence in verbal compounds (which is normally restricted to only verbs):
Respect markers
The enclitic =wəd, derived from the word for “old man” wəhə́d, can be inserted as a respect marker when referring to spiritual beings or other humans. The feminine form of this is =wa.
This marker is usually used to refer to someone older or of higher status, though it can also be used to indicate someone to be feared, especially when used to refer to dangerous spirits.
The usage of =wəd is also not necessarily respectful. The enclitic can also be affixed to children’s names as a sign of affection, comparable to doing the same in English with the titles “Mister” or “Miss”.
Syntax
Case and agreement
Hup is nominative-accusative. All subjects are unmarked, while the object and other noun cases are suffixed. Which suffix is used can depend on number, animacy, type of noun, and grammatical function, as shown in the table below. Case marking extends also to the noun phrase and relative clause, and the suffixes attach to the final constituent of the phrase.
Adapted from Epps (2005), p. 143
Though the object case and directional oblique markers are almost identical phonologically, the only difference being the stress, directional oblique is mainly used to indicate direction, and sometimes, location, in which it coincides with oblique case.
Semantics
Plurals
The plurality marker for nouns is =d'əh and follows an animacy hierarchy: humans, animals, and inanimates. For humans, plural marking is obligatory, though exception is made for a non-specific referent.
However, the marker is present for groups of people, which are considered conceptually plural.
Animals are generally also marked for plurality, but differ in that the marker is not obligatory for groups of animals. As with humans, non-specific referents are also not marked.
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|núp nutæ̌n yɑʔɑ́md'əh hɨd wæd-nɨ́h-ɑy-ɑ́h
|this today jaguarPL 3pl eat-NEG-INCH-DECL
|"So today jaguars don’t eat (people)." (Epps (2005), p. 168)
Inanimate objects are not marked for plurality and rely on numerals to indicate such. Plural inanimate entities are regarded with low importance, due to usually having low conceptual salience, and therefore are also almost always unmarked for number in discourse as well.
Abbreviations
OBJ:object
RESP:respect marker
ITG:intangible
COOP:cooperative
DIR:directional oblique
DYNM:dynamic
FLR:following marker
VENT:ventive
References
Patience Epps (2008) A Grammar of Hup. Mouton de Gruyter.
Moore, Barbara J.; Franklin, Gail L. Breves notícias da língua Maku-Hupda. Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979
External links
Hup Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
Hup basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Hup Collection of Patience Epps at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Contains audio recordings and transcriptions of Hup language materials, "most from the Middle Tiquié River (primarily villages of Tat Dëh / Taracua Igarapé and Barreira Alta). A few texts from other communities, including Umari Norte of the upper Tiquié."
Languages of Brazil
Nadahup languages |
26722420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone%20Mathes | Simone Mathes | Simone Mathes (born 13 March 1975 in Stadtsteinach, Bavaria) is a retired female hammer thrower from Germany. She set her personal best (67.97 metres) on 31 May 2004 at a meet in Fränkisch-Crumbach. Mathes also competed in the discus throw and the shot put. She is a five-time national champion in the women's hammer throw (1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, and 1999).
Achievements
All results in the women's hammer throw event
References
1975 births
Living people
People from Stadtsteinach
German female hammer throwers
German female discus throwers
German female shot putters
Sportspeople from Bavaria |
23580819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duleep%20Wijesekera | Duleep Wijesekera | Ganepola Arachchige Duleep Pandula Perera Wijesekera is a Sri Lankan politician. He is a member of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and member of the Sri-Lankan parliament for the Gampaha District since 2004. He was the Deputy Minister of Disaster Management in the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
He was removed from his ministerial position by president Maithripala Sirisena on 29 October 29, 2017. On 30 October 2017 he crossed over to the opposition. The crossover was not valid since the meeting in the parliament was a committee meeting on 30 October and not a regular parliament sitting day.
See also
Politics of Sri Lanka
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sinhalese politicians
1957 births |
23580849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pure%20in%20Heart | The Pure in Heart | The Pure in Heart is a novel by Susan Hill. It is the second in a series of seven crime novels which contains The Various Haunts of Men and The Risk of Darkness.
References
Novels by Susan Hill
2005 British novels
British crime novels
Chatto & Windus books |
6911194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20commercial%20video%20games%20released%20as%20freeware | List of commercial video games released as freeware | This is a list of commercial video games released as freeware; games that, in their original license, were not considered freeware, but were re-released at a later date with a freeware license, sometimes as publicity for a forthcoming sequel or compilation release.
Some of the following games are not freely redistributable software, as they have only been made available as a free download as freeware, but may only be downloaded from certain websites and with the explicit permission of the copyright owner. Consult the software license agreement.
For games that were originally released as freeware, see List of freeware video games. For free and open-source games, and proprietary games re-released as FLOSS, see List of open source video games. For proprietary games with released source code (and proprietary or freeware content), see List of commercial video games with available source code.
Available games
The following formerly paid games have been made available as freeware, and are still in that status:
Games no longer freely distributed
The following are commercial games that were once released as free downloads but were not freely redistributable software.
Airborne Ranger (1988), a stealth 2D game by MicroProse. It was released as freeware by Atari to promote Airborne Rangers. A free registration was required to download the game. After Airborne Rangers wasn't released, the Airborne Ranger page and the download link were removed. The game is still mentioned as freeware and many forums and sites have the now dead link to the game page. The legal situation now is unclear because the installer has no disclaimer.
Area 51 (2005), a first person shooter by Midway Games. Its free release was sponsored by the US Air Force. It later changed hands and its freeware status was removed.
B-17 Flying Fortress (1992), a flight simulator by MicroProse.
Battlefield 1942 (2002), a first person shooter by Electronic Arts, was available on Origin until it was removed, due to GameSpy shutting down.
Betrayal at Krondor (1993), a role-playing game by Dynamix.
Caesar (1992), a city-building game by Sierra.
Dragonsphere (1994), a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by MicroProse. Released as freeware by Atari in 2011 on GOG.com. The rights were brought by Tommo in 2015 and, after the expiration of the deal with Atari, began to charge for it.
Gateway (1992), an adventure game by Legend Entertainment.
Grand Theft Auto (1997)
Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)
Red Baron 3D (1998), a flight game by Sierra.
Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War (2006), a real-time strategy/third-person shooter by Stainless Steel Studios and Midway Games. Re-released as ad-supported freeware, sponsored by the US Air Force.
The Sims 2 (2004), a life simulation game by Maxis and Electronic Arts. It was released as freeware for a limited time on Origin on July 16, 2014 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Sims 2. It was removed from Origin on July 31, 2014.
The Suffering (2004), a horror third/first person shooter developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games. It was released free in September 2008 sponsored by the US Air Force, but is no longer available due to a new copyright holder.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (2001), a tactical shooter by Ubisoft. Released in an ad-supported free download version in 2007 for a limited time; available to US residents only.
Wild Metal Country (1999), was released as freeware in 2004 but is no longer available on the download page.
Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, text adventure games by Infocom.
References
Freeware games |
26722429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20single%20sculls | Rowing at the 2010 South American Games – Women's single sculls | The Women's single sculls event at the 2010 South American Games was held over March 22 at 10:40.
Medalists
Records
Results
References
Final
Single Scull W |
26722451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Security%20Council%20Resolution%20930 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 930 | United Nations Security Council resolution 930, adopted unanimously on 27 June 1994, after recalling resolutions 772 (1992) and 894 (1994), the Council noted with satisfaction that a democratic and non-racial government had been established in South Africa, and terminated the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA).
The efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and UNOMSA, together with the Organisation of African Unity, Commonwealth of Nations and the European Union were commended. Finally, the Council decided to remove the item titled "The question of South Africa" from the matters of which it was seized. International sanctions on the country were lifted in Resolution 919.
See also
List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 901 to 1000 (1994–1995)
Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa
South African general election, 1994
South Africa under apartheid
References
External links
Records of the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA) (1992–1994) at the United Nations Archives
Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
0930
1994 in South Africa
0930
June 1994 events |
23580850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly%20Men%27s%20Association | Ugly Men's Association | The Ugly Men's Voluntary Worker's Association of Western Australia Inc., generally shortened to the Ugly Men's Association or Ugly Men was a uniquely Western Australian fund-raising and charitable organisation established in 1917. Previously, a Mrs Alicia Pell had organised an "Uglie Man" competition to raise funds for the Red Cross in Kalgoorlie. The East Perth Football Club then built on the concept to raise funds for the Perth Children's Hospital and the War Patriotic Fund. The football club's work developed into a successful grassroots organisation with the first branch opening in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley and focusing on supporting cases of hardship caused by war.
The Ugly Men were a major force in the cultural life for both men and women in 1920s Perth, with membership mainly from the lower and middle working-classes. Membership during the 1920s was about 2,000, with 21 branches across the Perth metropolitan area. Members organised dances, social events and busy bees to raise funds and build houses for war-widows and others in need. "Ugly Man" competitions were popular events, with nominations and voting requiring a coin donation.
The popularity of the Ugly Men peaked with the establishment of the annual Uglieland carnivals in Perth city and Fremantle, which raised about £12,000 each year. The White City, Perth amusement park was at times known as Uglieland due to the Ugly Men's Association administering the park at various stages in its history. An Uglieland fairground on the corner of Market and Phillimore Streets in Fremantle (now Pioneer reserve opposite Fremantle Railway Station) ran from 1922 to 1936 by the Fremantle Ugly Men's Association to raise funds for underprivileged children.
Uglieland carnivals were highly anticipated annual events. Crowds in the thousands were drawn to the bright lights, live music and open air festivities. A selection of rides (including roller coasters, toboggans and chair-a-planes) and live shows by circus performers and illusionists kept guests entertained well into the evening. But it was Ugly Men's late night gambling and the infamous dance floor that eventually brought the organisation into disrepute.
By the late 1920s, The West Australian had joined a choir of voices from the public and clergy calling for closure of the Uglieland carnivals at White City: "... there still flourishes in the city a place which, at best is an architectural eyesore and a moral disgrace. Situated at the foot of William-street, and forming one of the few blots on the picturesque riverfront of Perth...White City, also, contains a large open-air -dance floor on which youths, with their hats on their heads, perform intricate and sometimes immodest, steps with, young women whom, prob- ably they have never seen before...Since its inception, White City has proved to be a magnet, for larrikins and loafers, who, in various stages of intoxication, make for its gates when the hotels are closed."Caving to mounting public pressure, the Western Australian government ordered the closure of White City in 1929, effectively bringing an end to the Ugly Men's reign over Perth's social scene. After losing their major fundraising activity, the Ugly Men fell into inactivity during the 1930s. In 1948, the organisation was declared defunct.
Although based in Western Australia, the organisation did spread to other states, particularly in rural centres, and was closely associated with the New Settlers' League and the United British Immigrants' Association, both established to assist new immigrants from the United Kingdom.
The Lotteries Commission of Western Australia was established in 1933 to raise funds for hospitals and community organisations, taking over many of the activities of the Association. Long-serving president and vice-president of the Ugly Men's Association, Alec Clydesdale and Harry Mann, were both appointed to the first Commission board.
References
External links
Ugly Men Photo Gallery from the State Reference Library of WA
History of Western Australia
Health charities in Australia
East Perth Football Club
1917 establishments in Australia
Organizations established in 1917
1948 disestablishments in Australia
Non-profit organisations based in Western Australia |
26722453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henan%20Elephants%20%28baseball%29 | Henan Elephants (baseball) | Henan Elephants is a team of the Chinese Baseball League which started to participate the league in the 2010 season.
Baseball in China
Sport in Beijing |
26722457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarria%20%28disambiguation%29 | Sarria (disambiguation) | Sarria or Sarrià may refer to:
Sarrià, Barcelona, a neighbourhood in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, the Barcelona district containing Sarrià
Sarrià Stadium, a former football stadium in Sarrià, Barcelona
Sarrià (Barcelona Metro), a station of the Barcelona Metro
Callosa d'en Sarrià, a municipality in the Valencian Community
Sarrià de Ter, a municipality in Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Sarria, a municipality in the province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Sarria (comarca), a comarca in the province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain |
23580875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C17H21NO3 | C17H21NO3 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C17H21NO3}}
The molecular formula C17H21NO3 (molar mass: 287.35 g/mol) may refer to:
Dihydromorphine
Etodolac
Galantamine
Mesembrenone
Ritodrine
Thesinine
Molecular formulas |
6911203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbox | Lightbox | A lightbox is a translucent surface illuminated from behind, used for situations where a shape laid upon the surface needs to be seen with high contrast.
Types
Several varieties exist, depending on their purpose:
Various backlit viewing devices:
A container with several lightbulbs and a pane of frosted glass on the top. It is used by photography professionals viewing transparent films, such as slides. This device was originally used to sort photographic plates with ease. When laid flat, it may be called a light table. Generally, a lightbox uses light similar to daylight (5,000–6,000 kelvins (K)) and has uniform light strength on the glass pane.
In the form of vertical panels, they can also be found mounted on the walls of hospitals and medical offices to review X-ray images (X-ray illuminator)..
In the science field, lightboxes are often used for looking at bacterial growth and allow better visualization for PCR plates.
A lighted display panel used for advertising purposes. The panel can be illuminated by fluorescent light bulbs or LED lighting strips. The efficiency of light boxes improved dramatically after the introduction of LED technology. The user inserts a graphic, which can be changed easily. Some light boxes are designed especially for outdoor purposes so they are more weatherproof.
An advertising format at Google Ads that allows users to click and expand an ad in order to engage with it.
The fabric reflectors that attach to studio lighting via a connector to create soft lighting by diffusing the strobe flash are called "light boxes". They generally come in various rectangle or octagon shapes. Interior reflectors can be white, silver or gold to alter the temperature of light. Baffling inserts are also available.
A variation of this is a box, with one open end, made of diffusing material, to allow the photographing of a sample object with no shadows. It is also called light tent or photo cube.
A folder used on stock photography to allow a user to organize digital photos. Photos can be assigned to a viewable lightbox folder by subject, for later convenience, or used to compile unrelated photos for a specific project layout. Lightboxes also allow graphic designers to show clients options for a project in one simple uncluttered folder.
The card-reader near the door in a hotel room, used as the main electric switch
See also
Light table
Blueprint
Heliographic copier
Thermal copier
Verifax copier
References
Photography equipment
ru:Лайтбокс |
23580901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4H9NO2 | C4H9NO2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C4H9NO2}}
The molecular formula C4H9NO2 (molar mass: 103.12 g/mol) may refer to:
α-Aminobutyric acid
β-Aminobutyric acid
γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA)
2-Aminoisobutyric acid
3-Aminoisobutyric acid
Nitroisobutane
n-Nitrobutane
Butyl nitrite
Dimethylglycine
Isobutyl nitrite
Molecular formulas |
17344310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltzie%20Lee | Cheltzie Lee | Cheltzie Lee (born 21 April 1993) is an Australian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 national champion and represented Australia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She also competed at seven ISU Championships, achieving her best result, tenth, at the 2011 Four Continents.
Personal life
Cheltzie Lee was born 21 April 1993 in Campbelltown, New South Wales. Her African American mother, Renita, is from Louisiana, and her Chinese father was born in Bangladesh. She practiced gymnastics from age six to twelve. She was left with a permanent spinal defect after a car accident in 2007.
Lee attended Mt Carmel Catholic High School. She then decided to pursue a Bachelor of Inclusive/Primary Education and Disability Studies. In 2017, she married Australian freestyle skier and 2014 Winter Olympian Sam Hall.
Career
Lee began learning to skate as a five-year-old, at Canterbury Ice Rink. She debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2007 and placed 23rd at the 2008 World Championships.
Lee began the 2009–2010 season at the 2009 Nebelhorn Trophy, competing to earn a spot for Australia in the ladies' event at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She finished as the first alternate. After Israel decided not to send Tamar Katz, Lee was named to the Australian Olympic team. At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, she placed 18th in the short program with a score of 52.16 points (a personal best) to qualify for the free skate. She finished 20th overall at the Olympics and 17th at the 2010 World Championships. Kylie Fennell, Gloria Pracey, and Andrei Filippov coached her at the Sydney Figure Skating Club.
During the 2010–2011 season, Lee placed tenth at the 2011 Four Continents Championships and 21st at the 2011 World Championships.
Lee decided to take a year off to concentrate on her university studies and to "live a little". She returned to competition in June 2012, winning the Hollins Trophy at her home rink of Canterbury and the 2012 WinterSun in Boondall, Queensland.
Lee hoped to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics but injuries hindered her training in later years; she tore her posterior cruciate ligament and was also diagnosed with osteitis pubis.
Programs
Competitive highlights
JGP: Junior Grand Prix
References
External links
1993 births
Living people
Australian female single skaters
Sportswomen from New South Wales
Australian people of Chinese descent
Australian people of African-American descent
Olympic figure skaters of Australia
Figure skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
People educated at Sydney Distance Education High School
Figure skaters from Sydney |
26722460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20quadruple%20sculls | Rowing at the 2010 South American Games – Men's quadruple sculls | The Men's quadruple sculls event at the 2010 South American Games was held over March 22 at 11:00.
Medalists
Records
Results
References
Final
Quadruple Scull M |
26722462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%2098%20%28Iran%29 | Road 98 (Iran) | Road 98 is a road in south-eastern Iran connecting Guatr to Chabahar and Jask and to Bandarabbas via Road 91.
References
External links
Iran road map on Young Journalists Club
Roads in Iran |
23580910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Bonfim | Leo Bonfim | Leonardo Augusto Bonifácio (born 14 January 1983 in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná), commonly known as Léo Bonfim, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for S.C. Salgueiros 08 in Portugal as a central defender.
Football career
After playing youth football for Cruzeiro Esporte Clube and Vila Nova Futebol Clube, Léo Bonfim began his senior career in 2002 with amateurs Sociedade Desportiva Serra Futebol Clube. Four years later he competed with Associação Portuguesa de Desportos in the Série B, remaining in the same division in the next season, with Ceará Sporting Club.
During the winter transfer window of 2007–08, Portuguese top level team Vitória de Setúbal brought Bonfim to his ranks. After only one league match during the entire campaign he left for another team in the country, second division's Gondomar SC.
In the 2009 summer Bonfim signed with NK Olimpija Ljubljana in the Slovenian First League, but after one season he returned to Portugal, joining Boavista F.C. in level three.
References
External links
Prva Liga profile
1983 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Association football defenders
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players
Ceará Sporting Club players
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Vitória F.C. players
Gondomar S.C. players
Boavista F.C. players
Associação Naval 1º de Maio players
S.C. Salgueiros players
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) players
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Slovenia
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia |
17344315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seponh%20district | Seponh district | Seponh is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
26722493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goms | Goms | Goms may refer to:
Goms (region), the upper most part of the Valais, Switzerland
Goms (district), in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
Goms, Valais, a municipality in Valais, Switzerland, created in 2017
GOMS, method in human–computer interaction |
6911209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem%20%28klezmer%20band%29 | Golem (klezmer band) | Golem is a rock-klezmer band from New York City. They mix traditional Eastern European Jewish music with original material sung in Yiddish, English, Russian, as well as Ukrainian, French, Serbian-Croatian, and Romany.
Golem was created in November, 2000 by Annette Ezekiel Kogan, bandleader, vocalist and accordionist. The group describes itself as "Eastern European Jewish folk-rock". The group performs internationally throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, as well as France, Germany, Ukraine, the U.K, Poland and Sweden.
Biography
Annette Ezekiel Kogan formed Golem in 2000. Before even putting the band together she contacted David Krakauer, who was then curating the weekly "Klezmer Brunch" at the downtown venue Tonic, and asked him for a gig. Krakauer agreed, and Ezekiel Kogan put together the first lineup for Golem’s debut.
Golem recorded its first EP Golem in 2001, followed by the self-produced full-length albums Libeshmertzn (Love Hurts) (2002) and Homesick Songs (2004).
In June, 2005, Golem recreated a "mock wedding", based on an old Catskills’ tradition, at the Knitting Factory in New York. An entire Jewish wedding ceremony took place before 200 "guests", complete with rabbi, chuppah, wedding party, and bride and groom in drag. The event was featured on the front page of the NY Times Arts section.
Golem’s music continued to evolve, moving from reinterpretations of traditional songs to more and more original material.
In 2005, Golem signed with the NY indie label, Jdub Records (which launched the career of Matisyahu) and remained with Jdub until the label closed in 2011. Golem released two albums on Jdub : Fresh Off Boat (2006) and Citizen Boris (2009), both produced by Emery Dobyns (Patti Smith, Antony and the Johnsons).
Numerous guest artists participated in Golem’s recordings, including Amanda Palmer, Lenny Kaye, Mike Gordon and Brandon Seabrook.
In June, 2014, Golem released the album Tanz, produced by Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu) on the Mexican world music label, Discos Corasón (Buena Vista Social Club).
Golem performed live on an episode of Season 4 of Louis CK’s acclaimed television comedy, Louie, in June 2014.
Golem performs in rock clubs, festivals, theaters, as well as at private events.
Influences and genres
Golem combines elements of rock, punk, and klezmer. Lyrics are mainly in English, Yiddish and Russian. Golem’s music is an undefinable hybrid characterized by a relentless beat and intense, theatrical energy.
Meaning of the name "Golem"
The band's name refers to the golem, a legendary Jewish monster figure from the Talmud and Jewish folklore, a being created out of clay by mystical rabbis in order to protect the endangered Jewish community, but who, when out of control, was turned back into clay. The band Golem describes itself as a collective monster that treats traditional Jewish Eastern European music with the utmost respect but without timidity or resistance to change.
Discography
Studio albums
Golem (debut EP) (2001)
Libeshmertzn (Love Hurts) (2002)
Homesick Songs (2004)
Fresh Off Boat (2006)
Citizen Boris (2009)
Tanz (2014)
Music videos
"Warsaw is Khelm" (2006)
"Charlatan-Ka" (2008)
"Freydele" (2014)
"Chervona Ruta" (2015)
"Vodka Is Poison" (2016)
Compilations and soundtracks
Ukraine do Amerika (2008)
Generation P (2011)
Russendisko (2012)
Putumayo’s A Jewish Celebration (2013)
References
External links
Official site.
NPR's Fresh Air: Review of Tanz
Robert Christgau's review of Tanz
Jazz Weekly: Review, Golem Tanz
Tablet: Klezmer Band Golem to Appear on ‘Louie’
"Warsaw is Khelm" artist commentary
Klezmershack: Review of Homesick Songs
Blender: Review of Citizen Boris
News story on Voice of America, Ukrainian Service
Report in "Window On America" (Voice of America, Ukrainian Service)
Musical groups from New York (state)
Gypsy punk groups
Klezmer groups
Yiddish culture in New York City
Jewish rock groups
Jewish folk rock groups
Jews in punk rock
Musical groups established in 2000
2000 establishments in New York (state) |
17344324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songkhone%20district | Songkhone district | Songkhone is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
26722526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka%20Pogroszewska | Agnieszka Pogroszewska | Agnieszka Pogroszewska (born February 20, 1977) is a retired female hammer thrower from Poland. She set her personal best (67.98 metres) on June 8, 2001 at a meet in Poznań.
She represented Poland at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics and competed at the European Athletics Championships in 1998 and 2002. Pogroszewska has also taken part in the Summer Universiade, finishing eleventh in 2001 and improving to win the bronze medal at the 2003 Summer Universiade.
Competition record
References
1977 births
Living people
Polish female hammer throwers
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Universiade bronze medalists for Poland
Competitors at the 2001 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade |
26722538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20John%20the%20Baptist%20School | St. John the Baptist School | St. John the Baptist School may refer to:
India
St. John the Baptist High School, Thane
United Kingdom
St. John the Baptist School (Aberdare), Wales
St. John the Baptist School (Woking), Surrey
United States
St. John the Baptist Parish School Board, Louisiana
St. John the Baptist School (Minnesota)
St. John the Baptist High School (St. Louis, Missouri)
St. John The Baptist School (Alden, New York)
St. John The Baptist School (Peabody, Massachusetts)
St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School, West Islip, New York |
20486119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carr%20Lightship | North Carr Lightship | North Carr is the last remaining Scottish lightship . She is in length, in beam and 268 tons.
The purpose of the vessel was to warn mariners by sight, light or sound of the dangers of the North Carr rocks which are situated 1.7 miles off Fife Ness at the turning point for vessels sailing between the Forth and the Tay. The North Carr is currently berthed in the Victoria Dock, Dundee, awaiting restoration as an exhibition space.
History
She was built by A. & J. Inglis Ltd, (part of Harland and Wolff) for the Northern Lighthouse Board for £15,000 at Pointhouse Shipyard, Glasgow in 1932 and completed on 27 February 1933. In service she was anchored off Fife Ness until 1975. From then she served as a tourist attraction in Anstruther harbour. She is the third and last vessel to carry the name - the first was borrowed from Trinity House London, the English counterpart of Northern Lighthouse Board. The second was purpose built in Dundee, reported to have sat so low in the water that her decks were always awash and the only way up to the light was up a rope ladder in the rigging - no mean feat at the best of times.
She created quite a stir in Edinburgh on account of her fog horn being tested while lying at ¾ mile outside Granton in the Firth of Forth. As the fog horn had a range of approximately 10 miles, north Edinburgh could hear it loud and clear and the complaints to the office, newspapers and police were numerous - particularly as it was being sounded in clear weather. "Hundreds of city dwellers have had no sleep over three consecutive nights"; "The most flagrant individual breach of the peace is as nothing compared with the ceaseless boom and consequent suffering of the past three nights"; "Firth of Forth torment"; "An Edinburgh grievance which has left rankling memories in the selection of Granton for the fog horn test" were typical of statements made and written at the time .
On 8 December 1959, the lightship was the subject of a tragic rescue mission. After the lightship broke her moorings and began to drift in heavy seas, the Broughty Ferry lifeboat (The Mona) was launched. Her crew of eight was lost when the lifeboat capsized. The lightship and its crew survived and after repair was towed back to its station.
After decommissioning
The lightship was used as a museum in Anstruther for years after she left service. She was purchased from a scrapyard in 2010 for £1 and funds were sought by the charity Tay Maritime Action (Taymara) to restore her as an exhibition space on the Dundee waterfront. However, due to a lack of funding, the lightship is yet to receive the new lick of paint or restoration she needs. She is currently docked in the West Victoria Dock near to .
Further reading
References
External links
Lightships of the United Kingdom
Ships of Scotland
Ships and vessels of the National Historic Fleet
Ships built by Harland and Wolff
History of Dundee |
23580933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan%20Akku%C5%9F | Sinan Akkuş | Sinan Akkuş (born 17 December 1971) is a Turkish-German director, writer and actor.
Life and work
Sinan Akkuş was born in Turkey. As a child he moved to Germany in 1973. After graduating from high school in Kassel, he studied philosophy, German language and literature from 1992 to 1994. In 1994 he also began studying visual communication with a focus on film and television.
In addition, Akkuş worked for the film and television production company kigali-films, where he was involved in camera work, editing and conception of corporate videos. In 1995 he attended the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión as an exchange student in Cuba. In 2000 he graduated from the Kunsthochschule Kassel with a focus on film and television.
Afterwards, Akkuş made a few short films, which received several awards and honours. His short film Lassie (2002), for example, received the rating especially worthwhile from the German Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW). His feature film debut Evet, ich will! (2008) also received this rating. In this Culture clash - comedy, Akkuş takes on the subject of marriage among and by ethnic Turks in Germany and the associated difficulties. The film received the audience award Lüdia at the Kinofest Lünen in November 2008 and was released in German cinemas on 1 October 2009.
In 2015, Akkuş feature film 3 Türken und ein Baby, to which he also wrote the screenplay and in which the German rapper Eko Fresh and the actors Kostja Ullmann and Kida Khodr Ramadan play the leading roles, was released in German cinemas. 3 Türken und ein Baby received the rating worthwhile from the Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW) and was nominated for the Civis Media Prize in 2015. One of the last director's works by Akkuş, the television film Fischer sucht Frau was nominated for the TV Producer Award at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2018.
Akkuş also appears as an actor. Among others, he played in the first season of the ProSieben - TV series Stromberg the character Sinan Turçulu, a colleague and one of the strongest competitors of the series main character Bernd Stromberg. Turculu also appears in the feature film Stromberg - Der Film of the series. In the TV series Dr. Psycho – Die Bösen, die Bullen, meine Frau und ich Akkuş had a guest appearance in the episode Der Türke, where he played a police informer.
Furthermore, Akkuş was also active as a juror for film festivals such as the Bamberger Kurzfilmtage or the Independent Days International Filmfest and works as a lecturer at the acting school IAF - Internationale Akademie für Filmschauspiel in Cologne.
Filmography (selection)
Director / screenwriter
1997: Zeig Dich (short film), (director, screenwriter)
2003: Lassie (short film), (director)
2004: Sevda heißt Liebe (short film), (director, screenwriter, producer)
2008: Evet, ich will! (feature film), (director, screenwriter)
2015: 3 Türken und ein Baby (feature film), (director, screenwriter)
2018: Fischer sucht Frau (television film), (director)
2019: Fast perfekt verliebt (television film), (director)
Actor
2000: Fußball ist unser Leben (Film)|Fußball ist unser Leben (feature film) - Directed by Tomy Wigand
2000: …und das ist erst der Anfang (feature film) – Directed by Pierre Franckh
2001: Sheriff (feature film) – Directed by Mihael Langauer
2003: Lassie (short film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
2004: Stromberg (TV series), (Appearance in 8 episodes) – Directed by Arne Feldhusen
2007: Dr. Psycho – Die Bösen, die Bullen, meine Frau und ich (TV series) – Directed by Richard Huber
2008: Evet, ich will! (feature film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
2013: Dear Courtney (feature film) – Directed by Rolf Roring
2013: 00 Schneider – Im Wendekreis der Eidechse (feature film) - Directed by Helge Schneider
2013: King Ping – Tippen Tappen Tödchen (feature film) - Directed by Claude Giffel, Dirk Michael Häger
2014: Stromberg – Der Film (feature film) – Directed by Arne Feldhusen
2015: 3 Türken und ein Baby (feature film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
2016: Die Gelben Teufel (short film) – Directed by Bernd Hackmann
2018: Fischer sucht Frau (television film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
2019: Fast perfekt verliebt (television film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
Other
2009: The Village (Köy), (short film), (cinematographer) – Directed by Mustafa Dok
Awards and nominations
2001: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Award at the Day of the German Short Film for Sevda heißt Liebe
2002: Audience Award at the film festival Kinofest Lünen for Lassie
2003: Audience Award at the Exground Filmfest in Wiesbaden, Germany for Lassie
2003: Nomination at the German Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in the category Best Short Film for Lassie
2008: Merit Award at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival for Evet, ich will!
2008: Nomination for the award MFG Star at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival for Evet, ich will!
2009: Prize Lüdia at the film festival Kinofest Lünen in the category Best Feature Film for Evet, ich will!
2009: Berndt-Media-Award at the film festival Kinofest Lünen in the category Best Film Title for Evet, ich will!
2010: Nomination at the German Film Critics Association Awards in the category Best Feature Film Debut for Evet, ich will!
2015: Nomination at the Civis Media Prize in the category CIVIS European Cinema Prize for 3 Türken & ein Baby
References
External links
1971 births
Turkish emigrants to Germany
Living people
Mass media people from Kassel
German male film actors
German male television actors
Turkish male film actors
Turkish male television actors
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors
People from Erzincan
Actors from Kassel |
23580936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGP%20Inline%20Memory%20Module | AGP Inline Memory Module | AGP Inline Memory Module (AIMM) also known as Graphics Performance Accelerator (GPA) is an expansion card that fits in the AGP slot of PC motherboards based on Intel 815 chipsets with onboard graphics, like the ASUS CUSL-2 with an AGP Pro slot and Abit SH6 with an AGP Universal slot. It is intended to be a mid-level cost solution between shared graphics memory and dedicated graphics memory found on more expensive discrete AGP expansion card. AIMM cards are special memory modules that are used as dedicated video memory (display cache) to store Z-buffering and they usually have 4MB of 32-bit wide SDRAM.
References
Computer memory form factor
Intel chipsets |
6911211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Gato%20Negro | El Gato Negro | El Gato Negro (The Black Cat) is the name of two fictional American comic book superheroes created by Richard Dominguez and featured in the Azteca Productions' Universe. Both characters made their first appearance in El Gato Negro #1 (October 1993).
In the comic's continuity, Agustin Guerrero was the first to hold the title of El Gato Negro in the 1950s, creating the pseudonym in order to form a successful career in lucha libre. His motives soon changed however, as he decided to use his talents to fight the criminal element that plagued South Texas. Agustin later retired the alter ego in the late '60s, only for his grandson to adopt it three decades later. Agustin was first introduced as a major supporting character and there are plans to release a series featuring his own exploits as El Gato Negro.
Francisco Guerrero, the second and current incarnation of El Gato Negro, is Agustin's grandson. Francisco makes his living as a social worker in South Texas and devotes most of his free time volunteering for community service. Growing tired of the increasing crime rate in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and haunted by the murder of his friend Mario, Francisco continues the legacy of El Gato Negro, spending his nights fighting against crime. This version often receives comparison to Batman, which is in fact one of the character's many influences.
Publication history
Early years
The El Gato Negro characters were created by comic book artist and writer Richard Dominguez, both making their first published appearance in El Gato Negro #1 (October 1993) published under Dominguez's own Azteca Productions imprint. The original series followed the adventures of Francisco Guerrero, a social worker living in Edinburg, Texas and grandson to the original El Gato Negro, who adopted his grandfather's former nom de guerre in order to avenge the death of his best friend. The series also introduced Agustin Guerrero, the original El Gato Negro of the early '50s and late '60s, as a major supporting character. Although the character officially retired from his former vigilante-activities, Agustin did appear in costume at the climax of the first story-arc entitled, "Unknown passing, Unforgettable Return" (El Gato Negro #1-3).
Dominguez had originally intended to introduce El Gato Negro as member of a largely Latino superhero group dubbed Team Tejas, but after placing considerably more emphasis on his character development, Dominguez ultimately decided to abandon the Team Tejas project for a later date. The character's secret identity, Francisco Guerrero, was devised to have direct ties to the Mexican Revolution. His given name was borrowed from Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa, while the surname Guerrero was mainly chosen for its English-translation "warrior", although Dominguez has hinted at a more historical significance, one which has yet to be revealed. Meanwhile, the shared alter-ego of El Gato Negro originated from an abandoned settlement by the name of "El Gato", located south of Pharr, Texas.
The character's personality and visual design was greatly influenced by Dominguez's own favorite pulp and comic book superheroes (most noticeably Batman) along with classic Mexican luchadors such as El Santo. Another strong influence was Lee Falk's The Phantom, a crime-fighter believed to be immortal but is in fact descended from 20 previous generations of crime-fighters who all adopted the same persona. This, along with Dominguez's own appreciation of the Silver Age of Comics, inspired the creation of a predecessor to the modern-day El Gato Negro. This character is now known as Agustin Guerrero, a former luchador-turned-adventurer of the late '50s and '60s.
The Francisco Guerrero incarnation of El Gato Negro became a popular character soon after his introduction, the first printing of the series actually sold-out within two months. A notable 1997 issue revived Margarito C. Garza's Relampago character, his first published appearance in nearly fifteen years. The series was later placed on hiatus during the late '90s, although the character consistently made appearances in other media.
2000s
In 2004, rather than return to the original series, Dominguez launched a brand new series continuing the adventures of El Gato Negro entitled, "El Gato Negro: Nocturnal Warrior". For this, Dominguez enlisted the aid of Michael S. Moore to serve as writer and co-plotter, having previously worked together on the first published issue of Team Tejas. The series also featured the work of guest penciller Efren Molina, while Dominguez acted as letterer and inker. The combination of Moore's writing style and Molina's pencils gave the new series a few stylistic changes from its predecessor.
Plans to release a compilation series of the original El Gato Negro series are currently in the works. A brand new limited series entitled Lucha Grande Comics which will feature the early adventures of Agustin Guerrero is also in development.
Fictional character biographies
Agustin "Gus" Guerrero
Separated from the Texas Battalion while on a raid, Agustin became lost in the harsh jungles of Korea only to encounter an exiled Japanese warrior and assassin known as "The Black Cat". Forming an alliance, the Black Cat properly trained the lost Tejano in martial arts and stealth. After being rescued and discharged from the military, Agustin returned to South Texas to begin a career in Lucha Libre. Recognizing a recurring cat motif in his life, Agustin chose the identity of El Gato Negro, promising to bring bad luck to his opponents. However, it was his vigilante activities outside of the ring that made him a legend among the communities of South Texas. Agustin's incarnation of El Gato Negro had become so much a part of the local folklore that few even acknowledge his existence, referring to him as a "fairy tale". His motives soon changed, however, as he decided to use his talents to fight the criminal element that plagued South Texas. Agustin later retired the alter ego in the late 1960s, only for his grandson to adopt it three decades later.
Francisco "Pancho" Guerrero
The second and current El Gato Negro, Francisco Guerrero is a social worker by day and a vigilante by night. The citizens of Southwest Texas believe Francisco to be the original El Gato Negro, returning once again to rid Texas of evil. Prior to becoming the new El Gato, Francisco was growing tired of the increasing crime rate in his hometown of Edinburg, Texas. The final straw being the death of his friend, Mario, a border patrol officer who was overpowered and murdered by several drug-runners. Deciding to take action, with the permission of his grandfather, Francisco adopted the moniker of El Gato Negro and operated as the Nocturnal Warrior for several months, successfully fighting against crime. Despite being popular with the citizens of his community, El Gato Negro is constantly being hunted by local law enforcement led by police Captain Miguel Bustamonte, Francisco's best friend and Mario's older brother.
Antonio Trujillo
A former member of the EZLN in the Mexican state of Chiapas, Antonio emigrated to Edinburg, Texas, United States, along with his wife Rosarita, where they both struggled to adjust to their new lives. Fortunately, social worker Francisco Guerrero helped to get the couple settled in their new home and gain citizenship. Antonio later landed a job at a local mechanic shop, eventually becoming an owner of his own establishment Taller Trujillo. Francisco confided with his friend his identity as El Gato Negro, and in return for his help, Antonio constructs much of the tools he needs to fight crime.
In other media
Film adaptation
As of January 2016, Richard Dominguez is currently working with writer-turned-director Michael S. Moore in directing and filming a live-action short-film adaptation titled El Gato Negro: Prey.
Television adaptation
In February 2019, Deadline Hollywood reported that MGM Television is developing an El Gato Negro television series, with Diego Boneta starring and executive producing the series through his production company Three Amigos, and with Joel Novoa co-executive producing. In September 2019, Robert Rodriguez joined the project to direct and executive produce, with the series set to be on Apple TV+.
References
External links
El Gato Negro's MySpace page
Official Blog
Official Site of Richard Dominguez
Azteca Productions' Comicspace page
Azteca Productions characters
Fictional detectives
Comic martial artists
Fictional boxers
Fictional luchadores
Fictional Ninjutsu practitioners
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