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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%20Trail%20Iron%20Bridge
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Gateway Trail Iron Bridge
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The Gateway Trail Iron Bridge is a historic camelback truss bridge on the Gateway State Trail in Stillwater Township, Minnesota, United States. The bridge has stood in three locations in Minnesota. Its main span was built of wrought iron in 1873—before steel became the preferred material for metal bridges—and erected in Sauk Centre in Central Minnesota. Designated Bridge No. 5721, it was refurbished and moved in 1937 to rural Koochiching County in northern Minnesota, where it became known as the Silverdale Bridge. It was relocated to its present site in east-central Minnesota in 2011 and renamed Bridge No. 82524. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 for its state-level significance in engineering. It was nominated as a rare example of a wrought iron truss bridge with ornamental detailing.
Description
The historic main span of the Gateway Trail Iron Bridge is a camelback through truss of pin-connected wrought iron. It spans in eight panels. Its bracing members are decorated with ornamental latticework. It originally had a wood deck but was given a lightweight concrete deck during the 2011 relocation to accommodate equestrian use. The side railings were retained from its 1937 iteration, though respaced according to modern safety standards. Although it was a visual departure from its historic appearance, cables were strung above the railings to protect horseback riders and bicyclists from being thrown off the bridge in the case of an accident.
History
The bridge was originally constructed over the Sauk River in the city of Sauk Centre. It was completed in 1873, accommodating horse and buggy traffic on the town's Main Street. At some point it was dismantled and put into storage in Sauk Centre.
In 1937 the bridge was taken out of storage and reassembled at , about two miles southwest of Silverdale in Koochiching County. There it carried Minnesota State Highway 65 over the Little Fork River. Steel, which had come into favor for bridges in the 1890s, was used for the new approaches on either end. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Bridge No. 5721" in 1998.
Within a few years, however, it was clear that Bridge 5721 was insufficient for the demands of modern traffic, particularly the logging trucks common in northern Minnesota. An analysis in 2006 determined that the bridge was insufficient for highway use but retained its historic design integrity and was a candidate for rehabilitation in a less rigorous context. The Minnesota Department of Transportation collaborated with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to determine possible new locations. One was identified on the Gateway State Trail where the rail trail intersected a county highway on a level crossing. Bridge 5721 was dismantled in 2009 and put in storage while the new site was prepared. In May 2011 the reassembled truss was hoisted into place. It now serves pedestrians, bicyclists, and horses much as it did in its first incarnation.
See also
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Minnesota
References
External links
Gateway Trail Iron Bridge
2011 establishments in Minnesota
Bridges completed in 1873
Bridges completed in 2011
Transportation buildings and structures in Washington County, Minnesota
Former road bridges in Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Minnesota
Pedestrian bridges in Minnesota
Relocated buildings and structures in Minnesota
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Truss bridges in the United States
Wrought iron bridges in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaw%20Gizewiusz
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Gustaw Gizewiusz
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Gustaw Herman Marcin Gizewiusz, or Gustav Gisevius (May 21, 1810 – May 7, 1848) was a Polish political figure, folklorist, and translator. He was married to a Mazur Polish woman, who encouraged him to become a political figure. He was born in Pisz (Johannisburg). From 1835 he was also an Evangelical-Lutheran pastor in Ostróda.
In the 19th century a Polish national revival begun in the areas of the partitioned state as well as in those territories that were lost to Poland before the partitions (Silesia, Farther Pomerania). In Masurian area - which was under Polish suzerainty until the 17th century - there was a Polish linguistic, though not yet widespread political revival.
The local Prussian authorities were hostile to the movement and, beginning in the 1830s, attempted to eradicate the Polish language from schools in Masuria. The authorities' efforts however failed to bring the effects expected by the Prussian state. The defending action of the Polish population during the first half of the 19th century was led by Krzysztof Celestyn Mrongowiusz and Gizewiusz who became involved in the movement to counteract Germanization in Masuria. He encouraged the Mazurs to maintain their Polish language and culture by publishing Polish-language texts for use in schools. He also recorded Mazurian folk songs which were later published in Oskar Kolberg's Dzieła Wszystkie. He died in Ostróda (Osterode). In his honor, Łuczany (Lec, Lötzen), his ancestor's hometown, was renamed Giżycko.
Further reading
Sławomir Augusiewicz, Janusz Jasiński, Tadeusz Oracki, Wybitni Polacy w Królewcu. XV-XX wiek, Olsztyn, Littera, 2005,
References
1810 births
1848 deaths
People from Pisz
Polish Lutheran clergy
Polish Lutherans
Polish folklorists
People from East Prussia
People from Ostróda
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay%20High%20School%20%28Oregon%2C%20Ohio%29
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Clay High School (Oregon, Ohio)
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Clay High School is a public high school in Oregon, Ohio, United States, east of Toledo. It is the only high school in the Oregon City School District. The school is named for Jeremiah Clay, who donated his farmland for the school to be built on.
Over the last few years the Clay High School Campus has undergone remodeling. An addition was made to the main building, while the old elementary and the Annex were demolished. The Main building also was gutted and redone.
The school colors are green and yellow. Their nickname is the Eagles, after their mascots Eddy and Edna the Eagle. Clay was a member of the Great Lakes League until 2003 when they joined the Toledo City League. Clay's joining of the TCL made them the second non-Toledo team to join the league (Cardinal Stritch 1971-1994) though they have played the Toledo City League schools for years prior to joining. In 2011, Clay joined the newly formed Three Rivers Athletic Conference as a charter member.
Demographics
Career Technical Education Programs
Clay High School offers Career Technical Education (CTE) programs, also sometimes referred to as Career Tech, as a form of vocational education. The current CTE programs offered are:
Automotive Technologies
Construction Trades
Cosmetology
Culinary Arts
Engineering Design & Development
Environmental & Agriculture
Integrated Machining & Engineering
Marketing
Medical Technologies
Musical Theatre
Programming & Software Development
Athletics
Ohio High School Athletic Association Team State Championships
Boys Baseball – 1979
Performing Arts
Marching, Concert, and Symphonic Band
The modern band program at Clay was started by Clay graduate and saxophonist Nancy Fox Bricker in 1952, cementing the band as a marching band known as the Clay High School Fighting Eagle Marching Band. After Mrs. Bricker became ill and her husband assumed directing duties, Clay graduate Charles Neal was made the new director in 1967. The traditions of the Clay band were continued and expanded by its next director, Clay graduate Brian Gyuras, whom was named the new director in 1999 and brought back student direction of the band. The current director of the band is Joseph Kuzdzal, whom has held the position since 2019.
The band performs at Clay football games, and during the off season performs concerts and other parades. The band is split into two sections based on grade level, the concert band for freshmen and sophomores, and the symphonic band for juniors and seniors. The band also has multiple subgroups, in the form of jazz band and pep band. The band also claims the largest Alumni band in Ohio, which performs every other year during the homecoming football game.
Concert Chorale
Clay High School includes a choir program in the form of Concert Chorale. The program educates students in various subjects of good musicianship, and contributes to an enrolled student's fine arts credit needed to graduate. The program also puts on multiple concerts throughout the school year, and performs at other events. The current director of the program is Thom Sneed.
The Concert Chorale is also host to Varsity Voices, an audition based group which learns additional music outside of the school day to perform at concerts. The program also formerly had two gender based groups, a men's chorus and an all female chorus named "Bel Canto".
Theater Department
Aside from the Musical Theatre CTE program, Clay High School also has a theatre group in the form of the CHS Limelighters. The group typically puts on three productions per school year, and membership is open to the Clay student body. The group puts on a combination of musicals, plays, and one-acts and is under the direction of Thom Sneed, Leah Walsh, and Elizabeth Gibson.
Notable alumni
A. J. Achter - Former pitcher Michigan State University, currently plays for the Los Angeles Angels
Chris Fussell - Former pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles
Jordan Kovacs - Former safety and captain for the University of Michigan football team, currently a defensive quality control coach for the Cincinnati Bengals
Justin Thomas - Pitcher with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League
Eric Herman - NFL Offensive Guard for the Indianapolis Colts.
References
External links
Oregon City Schools Official website of Oregon City Schools
High schools in Lucas County, Ohio
Public high schools in Ohio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanischer%20Schulgarten%20Burg
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Botanischer Schulgarten Burg
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The Botanischer Schulgarten Burg (7.5 hectares) is a botanical garden for students maintained by the municipal Schulbiologiezentrum Hannover organization. It is located at Vinnhorster Weg 2, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, and open weekdays.
The garden was established in 1927 to provide practical botany experiences to students. As of 1974 it became headquarters of the Schulbiologiezentrum Hannover, which also maintains schools in three other locations (Freiluftschule Burg, Zooschule Hannover, Botanischer Schulgarten Linden).
Its grounds contain a range of habitats including ponds, alder and birch groves, deciduous forest, and meadow, in which students can understand scientific and environmental topics. It also contains theme gardens as follows: genetics and evolution, herbs, vegetables, fruit, aromatic plants, geographic garden, sun and energy, small organic experiments, and insects. The garden's perennial nursery (1500 m²) raises plants for school gardens, including a tropical greenhouse (200 m²) cultivating rainforest plants.
See also
List of botanical gardens in Germany
References
Botanischer Schulgarten Burg
Schulbiologiezentrum Hannover
BGCI entry
Botanischer Schulgarten Burg
Botanischer Schulgarten Burg
Geography of Hanover
Tourist attractions in Hanover
Buildings and structures in Hanover
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornea%20plana
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Cornea plana
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Cornea plana may refer to:
Cornea plana 1, an eye condition
Cornea plana 2, an eye condition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tant%20Strul
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Tant Strul
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Tant Strul was a Swedish punk rock band that are considered as the leading all female punk rock band in Sweden, although they at times had a male member. The last setting before they split up was: vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Kajsa Grytt, keyboardist Malena Jönsson, bassist Liten Falkeholm, drummer Nike Markelius, and cellist Sebastian Öberg (from the Flesh Quartet).
History
The band started in 1981 with band members Kärsti Stiege (the mother of Swedish pop star Lykke Li), Liten Falkeholm, Kajsa Grytt, Malena Jönsson and Micke Westerlund. Kärsti left after the first two singles, and Micke left after the first LP "Tant Strul" (1981) and was replaced by Nike. The band now consisted of four women: Kajsa Grytt, Malena Jönsson, Liten Falkeholm and Nike Markelius. After the second LP "Amason" (1983), Sebastian Öberg joined the group. After the third LP "Jag önskar dig" (1984) the group split up.
Their style of music got softer over the years, and by the time the cellist Öberg joined the group they could hardly be called a punk rock group any more. After the split, Kajsa Grytt and Malena Jönsson formed a duo who released two LP's with laid back songs, based on Malena's piano and Kajsa's voice: "Historier från en väg" (1986) and "Den andra världen" (1988). Then Kajsa Grytt became a solo artist who so far has released four albums: "Kajsa Grytt" (1990), "Revolution" (1994), "Är vi på väg hem" (2003) and "Brott och straff" (2006).
Before joining Tant Strul, Kajsa Grytt was briefly a member of Pink Champagne, and Liten Falkenholm played with Eldkvarn.
References
External links
Kajsa Grytt official internet page
SvD article on the 2005 reunion
Swedish punk rock groups
Feminism in Sweden
1981 establishments in Sweden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Clooney%20Sings%20the%20Lyrics%20of%20Ira%20Gershwin
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Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
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Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin is a 1979 album by Rosemary Clooney, of songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
Track listing
"But Not for Me" – 5:47
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" – 2:58
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" – 4:58
"Fascinating Rhythm" – 2:56
"Love Is Here to Stay" – 3:48
"Strike Up the Band" – 3:46
"Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Jerome Kern) – 4:24
"They All Laughed" – 4:05
"The Man that Got Away" (Harold Arlen) – 6:00
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" – 3:29
All lyrics by Ira Gershwin, all music by George Gershwin, other composers noted.
Personnel
Rosemary Clooney - vocal
Scott Hamilton - tenor saxophone
Warren Vaché - cornet, flugelhorn
Roger Glenn - flute
Cal Collins - guitar
Nat Pierce - piano
Chris Amberger - double bass
Jeff Hamilton - drums
References
1979 albums
Concord Records albums
George and Ira Gershwin tribute albums
Rosemary Clooney albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Wang
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Linda Wang
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Linda Hsien Wang (born 19??) is an American actress. She traces her ancestry to Shanghai and Shandong, she was raised in Queens, New York. Also known as Linda Wang, Linda H. Wang and Wáng Xiànlíng (王憲苓). She has been profiled in Chinese-language media in the United States.</ref> She currently resides in the Los Angeles area.
Biography
Early life and education
At seven years old, Linda Wang began modeling for Kodak film. Later, during her first year in high school, she auditioned for the part of Field Reporter in Pushing Hands. The Oscar award winning director Ang Lee told her she was just too young for the part. They spent half an hour talking about Wang's pen and ink artwork "Repeating" which at the time was being exhibited at the New York Transit Museum. However, Wang stated Lee also gave her valuable advice on where to study and how to continue to pursue her acting career. Three months later, Wang auditioned and was accepted to study for two years under the teen program with Herbert Berghof (co-founder, with wife Uta Hagen, of the HB Studio, NYC). She then went on to New York University, and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Academy.
Career
Film
Linda Wang's Hollywood film career includes a heartbreaking role in Neal Hollander's controversial film Birds of Passage as "Fu Ling" opposite Stacy Keach. The film was banned in certain locations in China due to the One-Child Policy story line, and was instead filmed on location in the Philippines and South China sea. She also starred with actor Ernie Rivera in the Indie film Red Betta, directed by Allena Rennee. Additional notable appearances were in The Violent Kind, Scarred City, Dead Air, Dark City and What Ever Happened to Mason Reese? which was directed by Brett Ratner.
Her off-screen film credit was in the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder. Wang had previously worked as a Chinese script translator for the producer and writer David Milch on several episodes of his HBO hit television show Deadwood. She had openly expressed her regrets for not standing up for her rights for screen credit for her work on Deadwood to Milch. Wang was later recommended by Milch to one of the casting directors of the film Tropic Thunder and was immediately hired by producer Eric McLeod as the Chinese script translator to aid writers Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen during pre-production. She was asked to come back but would only work under the condition that she received screen credit for her work. McLeod agreed and Wang went on to work as the on-set script translator for director Ben Stiller and dialogue coach for Robert Downey, Jr., as well as All actors with in the film such as Reggie Lee and Brandon Soo Hoo that had Chinese dialogue in the film.
Linda Wang played an evil villain named Contessa Dell"Oro, a non-Asian role, as the leader of an army of commandos who plot to destroy all human life on earth with the devastating X-bomb Nuclear Missile in a dark comedy called Blonde Squad
Linda Wang was in the film Low Down, which won Best Cinematography Award in the US Dramatic category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Written by: Amy Albany and Topper Lilien. Directed by: Jeff Priess. Stars: Elle Fanning, Glenn Close, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Taryn Manning, Caleb Landry Jones and Flea. (Cast by Justine Baddeley & Kim Davis-Wagner ) Intriguingly, Wang had previously worked with Hawkes on the HBO series Deadwood as a Chinese translator and character during the show in 2004 to 2005. The award-winning film is about Joe Albany, a well-known jazz musician; the story line was told through the wise eyes of his young daughter, Amy Elle Fanning. Low Down chronicles the torrid, true life of jazz pianist Joe Albany. Born into her beloved father's unorthodox segment of society, Amy's improvisational adolescence evolves in the shadow of Joe's struggle between his musical genius and a suffocating heroin addiction. Low Down was also at the November 2015 Lineup of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. The prestigious award is considered the Chinese Oscar. Elle Fanning Wins Best Actress Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Low Down.
Linda Wang was in Martin Scorsese's Revenge of the Green Dragons, which she shot in her home town Elmhurst, Queens, New York. The film had its world premiere on September 10, 2014, at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, and then went on to be screened at a number of other international film festivals. Written by : Michael Di Jiacomo. Stars: Ray Liotta, Harry Shum, Jr., Justin Chon, Kevin Wu and Jin Auyeung. Directed by the Dual Andrews -Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo (Cast by Avy Kaufman) Wang played the mother of two boys drawn into the world of Asian gangs in Queens, New York. The film Revenge of the Green Dragons is close to heart to Wang due to the fact that the lead characters including the victims and youth gang members all grew up with her from elementary school. Interesting fact; The film female character Tina Sham in real life was Wang's best friend in junior high school who later was tragically murdered alongside Sham's boyfriend Tommy Mach in Sands points, Long Island, by the malicious Queens, New York gang The Green Dragons. Wang was quoted saying in a recent interview: "The lead character Tina Sham was one of my real-life best friend. Unfortunately, she was tragically kidnapped, killed. Her disappearance and death broke my heart into a thousand pieces..." (Quoted from an article -Actress Linda Wang gives the lowdown on her role in the biopic drama 'Low Down' and her Life ... )
Linda Wang recently was just in a feature film My Favorite Five with Steven Williams, Rochelle Aytes and Brian White directed by Paul Hannah currently on Netflix, CENTRICTV and BET. Recently, Linda Wang was in a film "Girls on Film" in collaboration with as Kodak. Shot on Kodak 35mm and 16mm motion picture film and the new KODAK Super 8 Camera, stars Suki Waterhouse, Poppy Jamie, Linda Wang and Anya Varda which was filmed in Los Angeles, CA. Suki Waterhouse, Poppy Jamie, Linda Wang, Anya Varda all used their first name in the film.
Television
Wang has appeared on HBO's Deadwood, House M.D., Comedy Central’s The Naked Trucker & the T Bone Show, and the Spanish series Secretos. She also had a cameo role on 8 Simple Rules as David Spade's speed date. For several years, Wang worked on numerous sketch comedy skits on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien show, most notably as the recurring masturbating bear's girlfriend. Wang also appeared alongside Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan as the three Nagano Geishas on Saturday Night Live. She has also had roles in the soap operas One Life to Live, Port Charles, Another World, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and Days of Our Lives. Wang also made a guest appearance in children's television including Sesame Street and Mathnet.
Linda Wang can be seen doing a skit with Tracy Morgan and Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wang will also be co-starring with John Schneider, Carmen Electra, Dennis Haskins and Miguel A. Núñez Jr on a New TV Pilot called Back Nine directed by Jason Filardi and written by Mark Perez for Spike TV.
Linda Wang worked on Sports Show with Norm Macdonald, a pilot for Comedy Central with Norm Macdonald and Ben Hoffman.
Linda Wang appeared as officer Maria Lee in Secretos (Ep: Persa) a crime series, currently airing on Hulu Channel worldwide.
Linda Wang recently was recurred on the TV pilot Dragon Palace
Theatre
Wang's theatre experience includes starring as Rose Choy in Serenade In Blue written by Tony Award-nominated playwright Jerome Coopersmith, and directed by the Emmy Award-winning director Yanna Kroyt Brandt at the prestigious Lincoln Center Theater, New York City. Linda also starred as Pocahontas in an AEA stage production of Disney Friends around the World. For the past few years, you may seen a glimpse of Linda Wang's 3-minute stand-up comedy act at the M Bar on Sunset Blvd.
Voice-overs
Linda Wang was the former Citibank worldwide Chinese Mandarin spokesperson for five years. She has also had Chinese Mandarin voice-overs in multiple voice commercials, including the Standard Federal Savings bank, The American Diabetes Foundation, Hepatitis B Foundation, Anti-smoking USA, AT&T, MasterCard, Magellan, IDT, Colgate, Apple Savings bank, Holdcom, Bizfon, Honey Bunches Oats, Ford Motor Company, US Postal services, Berkley Productions, Smirnoff, Western Union, San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, Red Rock Casino and Honda Accord. She is in her third year as voice of the Mandarin Chinese spokesperson spot for AIG, alongside actress Stockard Channing. She also provided the voice of "Sexy bathhouse girl" in the video game James Bond 007: Rogue Agent—GoldenEye among others. She also provided the voice of Ming in Amy Tan's children's animated series Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat.
Music videos
In 2007, Linda Wang appeared in the music video "Home" for the Irish pop group Westlife. In 2014 you will see Linda Wang in a film starring Flea of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers called Low Down directed by Jeff Preiss which won the Best Cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival 2014.
Modeling
As a former Miss Teen Pola Asia, Linda Wang is the upcoming spokesmodel for Soho Sportswear for the Asian market. She was asked to design a few items under the Linda Wang Line. Linda Wang worked on a T-Mobile Commercial with Burt Reynolds and Paris Hilton in A Chinese Herb shop. She was quoted as saying Burt Reynold made faces when Paris Hilton was late on set. Reynold spoke about Viagra and working with Jackie Chan on the film The Cannonball Run. Having been previously a Pantene Pro-V hair model, Wang has also been chosen as the first female hand-model for Scrabble in 75 years. Recently, Linda Wang was chosen to be Face Model on BIOLASE print ad worldwide., In summer of 2015 and 2016, Wang did a campaign for Costco which will appeared in the Chinese section. Wang completed an International UPS commercial for USA and China in 2018.
Charity work
Since March 1997, Linda Wang has been a volunteer member promoting "Kids for Kids", the New York City Pediatric AIDS foundation benefit. In Los Angeles, Wang participated in the VERB Campaigns for both Disney and Nickelodeon TV, a program designed to encourage children to take the hour gained from the fall time change to be more active physically. She also participates in various animal protection organizations' charitable events. In the summer of 2005 Wang begin to Volunteer out of pocket to distribute bag called "A bag of smile" for the Homeless with in the City of Los Angeles and Orange County. This monthly program where Wang pre-prepared individually a large size sandwich bag with a bottle of water,a pair of sox, banana, nut mix, mini sun block and tooth paste. "A bag of smile" program has reached over 10,000+ homeless people within the last 12 years.
References
External links
Linda Wang on Myspace
Actresses from Los Angeles
Actresses from New York City
American female models
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
American voice actresses
New York University alumni
Living people
People from Queens, New York
Actresses from Taipei
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American actresses
20th-century American actresses
American actresses of Chinese descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Elizabeth%20railway%20station
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Port Elizabeth railway station
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Port Elizabeth railway station is a railway station, located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
In 1873, Prime Minister John Molteno of the Cape Colony commenced work on connecting Port Elizabeth to the developing national railway network, resulting in the station complex being located in the historic central district, near the harbour. The prosperity which followed the construction of railways to the interior earned for the port the designation of "the Liverpool of South Africa."
Passenger services operating from the station include:
Metrorail - operates frequent commuter trains to Uitenhage and the surrounding suburbs during weekdays, with a reduced service over weekends
Shosholoza Meyl - operates daily inter-city trains to Johannesburg and Bloemfontein. You can also get to Cape Town, Kimberley, Pietermaritzburg and Durban (by changing trains in Bloemfontein), to East London (by changing trains in Noupoort, Colesberg or Bloemfontein), to Mthatha (by changing trains in Noupoort and Amabele) or to Grahamstown (by changing trains in Alicedale)
Premier Classe - operates twice-weekly luxury trains to Cape Town via George and Oudtshoorn.
The Apple Express narrow-gauge tourist train to Avontuur operates from the separate station in Humewood Road near King's Beach. It departs regularly for Thornhill Village via a rail bridge over the Van Stadens River, the highest narrow-gauge rail bridge in the world.
See also
Donkin Heritage Trail
References
Railway
Transport in Port Elizabeth
Metrorail (South Africa) stations
Shosholoza Meyl stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlynch%20Priory
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Barlynch Priory
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Barlynch Priory (also known as St Nicholas's Priory and sometimes spelled Barlich Priory) in Brompton Regis, Somerset, England was an Augustinian priory founded by William de Say between 1154 and 1189 and dissolved in 1537.
In the late 15th century the prior was John Chester, one of the sons of Alice Chestre who made donations to the church. In 1524 the priory was at its largest with nine canons.
The only visible remains are some fragments of walling attached to Barlynch farmhouse, which have been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 182). It has been added to the Heritage at Risk Register because of the risk of collapse.
Some of the stained glass from a Jesse window at the Priory is now in the St Peter's Church in Huish Champflower.
References
Augustinian monasteries in England
Monasteries in Somerset
Religious organizations established in the 1100s
Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
Scheduled monuments in West Somerset
12th-century establishments in England
1539 disestablishments in England
Structures on the Heritage at Risk register in Somerset
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20wing
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Channel wing
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The channel wing is an aircraft wing principle developed by Willard Ray Custer in the 1920s. The most important part of the wing consists of a half-tube with an engine placed in the middle, driving a propeller placed at the rear end of the channel formed by the half-tube.
Development
In 1925, Willard Custer had himself observed how very strong winds had managed to lift the roof of a barn. Custer realized that the high velocity of the wind created a lower pressure above the roof while the pressure remained high inside, literally blowing the roof off. This low pressure above/high pressure below is the same phenomenon that allows an airplane wing to provide lift even though in this case the barn itself was obviously not moving.
Custer studied the phenomenon, and by 1928 he had made the first models of a wing with a half-tube-formed section instead of the usual wing profile. This was patented in 1929. Development of the half-tube channel wing was then refined further, and on November 12, 1942, the CCW-1 (Custer Channel Wing 1) airplane was flying for the first time. Custer built additional experimental aircraft; the last one was CCW-5, of which a few were manufactured in 1964.
Functional principle
Custer's summary of his invention was that the key to the lift created by a wing is the velocity of the stream of air passing over the wing, not the velocity of the airplane itself: It's the speed of air, not the airspeed!
A wing functions because the air over the wing has a lower pressure than the air under it. The conventional aircraft must reach a significant minimum speed before this pressure differential become large enough that it generates sufficient lift to become airborne.
In Custer's channel wing the rotating propeller will direct a stable stream of air backwards through the channel. A propeller will at the low pressure side normally be supplied by air from all directions. Since the half-tube prevents air from being drawn from below, the air will be sucked through the channel instead. This creates a strong low pressure area in the channel, which again generates a lift.
Applications and limitations
The layout was not successfully proven in an aircraft for a long time, though Custer showed theoretically and experimentally that the principle was capable of vertical flight. Since they were built with conventional rudders needing some minimum airspeed to be functional, none of the aircraft designed by Custer were capable of full vertical takeoff, but instead were characterized as STOL (short takeoff and landing). The required runway for takeoff was very short, however, for the CCW-1, for the CCW-2, with a take off speed of as low as . Full vertical takeoff is theoretically feasible, but would require additional modifications and means of control.
Custer investigated both aircraft with pure channel wings as well as aircraft with additional conventional wings located outside the channels. The construction functions very well at relatively low speeds. At higher speeds, at high propeller RPM, oscillations would occur in the areas around the propeller, causing increased noise as well as creating long term destructive vibrations in the structure.
The twin engine layout featuring two channel wing features was the most tested configuration. The twin layout had a higher risk of loss of control during a single engine failure situation, and required very high nose up attitude for STOL flight compared to conventional twin engine aircraft.
Two of Custer's CCW aircraft survive. The CCW-1 is located at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum in Suitland, Maryland. The CCW-5, which was based on the Baumann Brigadier executive aircraft, is exhibited at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Pennsylvania.
Later, research performed by NASA concluded that the advantage in lift and field length performance achieved did not offset the layout's many deficiencies in climb and high speed ability, and problems meeting certification requirements for general aviation. The main issue is that the semi-circular beam wing configuration incurs increased profile drag and weight penalties over a conventional wing of the same lifting planform, and a common straight wing could provide almost the equivalent lift enhancement when exposed to the same slipstream-induced increased dynamic pressure.
Hybrid Channel Wing
From 1999–2004 A joint research project led by Georgia Institute of the Technology Research Institute in Atlanta was funded by Langley Research Center. Aircraft were tested using channel wing principle layouts with circulation control devices that leveraged the Coandă effect. Performance of the wing was increased, and angle of attack was lowered, reducing some of the drawbacks of the design. The resultant design has been patented.
Channel wing principle aircraft examples
References
Further reading
External links
Custer-Channelwing Website Archive
Another Custer Channel Wing Website
Video of Custer explaining his theories and actual flight footage
Pictures of the Custer CCW-1 National Air and Space Museum
Pictures of the Custer CCW-5 Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
Modern channelwing aircraft design Stavatti designed channelwing transport for the 2000s
Custer's Channel Wing
Aircraft wing design
Wing configurations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheung%20Wah%20Estate
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Cheung Wah Estate
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Cheung Wah Estate () is a mixed TPS and public housing estate in Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is the first public housing estate in Fanling Town, consisting of ten residential blocks completed from 1984 to 1986. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 6A in 2004.
Houses
Demographics
According to the 2016 by-census, Cheung Wah Estate had a population of 13,109. The median age was 49.2 and the majority of residents (99 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.7 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$22,490.
Politics
Cheung Wah Estate is located in Cheung Wah constituency of the North District Council. It was formerly represented by Chan Yuk-ming, who was elected in the 2019 elections until July 2021.
See also
Public housing estates in Fanling
References
Residential buildings completed in 1984
Residential buildings completed in 1986
Fanling
Public housing estates in Hong Kong
Tenants Purchase Scheme
Housing estates with centralized LPG system in Hong Kong
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldin%20Adilovi%C4%87
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Eldin Adilović
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Eldin Adilović (born 8 February 1986) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
International career
Adilović made his official debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a December 2010 friendly match against Poland, his second and final international appearance.
Honours
Player
Željezničar
Bosnian Premier League: 2011–12, 2012–13
Bosnian Cup: 2011–12
Individual
Performance
Bosnian Premier League Top Goalscorer: 2011–12 (19 goals)
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Zenica
Association football forwards
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina under-21 international footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina international footballers
NK Čelik Zenica players
NK IB 1975 Ljubljana players
NK Ivančna Gorica players
NK Nafta Lendava players
FC Lustenau players
FK Mughan players
Győri ETO FC players
FK Željezničar Sarajevo players
Samsunspor footballers
Şanlıurfaspor footballers
Kayseri Erciyesspor footballers
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
2. Liga (Austria) players
Azerbaijan Premier League players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
TFF First League players
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
Expatriate footballers in Austria
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate footballers in Azerbaijan
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Therriault
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Gene Therriault
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Gene Therriault (born January 31, 1960) is an American politician who served as a member of the Alaska Senate, representing the Q district from 2001 to 2009. He served as the Senate President from 2003–2006 and as Senate Minority Leader from 2007–2008. Previously he was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1992 through 2000.
References
External links
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1960 births
Alaska Republicans
Alaska state senators
Living people
Members of the Alaska House of Representatives
People from North Pole, Alaska
Presidents of the Alaska Senate
21st-century American politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg%20Leg%20%28album%29
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Peg Leg (album)
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Peg Leg is an album by jazz bassist Ron Carter, originally released on LP in 1978 and released on CD in 1991 by Fantasy Studios.
It was recorded in November 1977 and prominently features Carter on piccolo bass. Often carrying the melody the instrument is a focus of 3 of the album's 6 tracks, while fellow bass player Buster Williams performs the conventional role of the instrument on those tracks. The rhythm section is completed by piano and percussion (on all but 1 track), and guitar on 4 tracks. The standard jazz-ensemble is further augmented, on all 6 tracks, by woodwinds (see below).
Carter uses a piccolo bass tuned a fourth higher than a normal double bass (low to high: A-D-G-C).
Track listing
All compositions by Ron Carter except where noted
"Peg Leg" - 8:08
"Sheila's Song (Hasta Luego, Mi Amiga)" - 6:14
"Chapter XI" - 5:41
"Epistrophy" (Thelonious Monk) - 7:33
"My Ship" (Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin) - 5:10
"Patchouli" - 7:06
Personnel
Ron Carter - piccolo bass, bass, percussion
Kenny Barron - piano
Jay Berliner - guitar
Buster Williams - bass (tracks 1, 3 and 4)
Ben Riley - drums, percussion
Woodwinds arranged and conducted by Robert M Freedman:
Jerry Dodgion - flute, piccolo flute, alto flute, clarinet
George Marge - flute, piccolo flute, oboe, clarinet
Walter Kane - flute, bassoon, clarinet
Charles Russo - clarinet, bass clarinet
References
1978 albums
Milestone Records albums
Ron Carter albums
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandu%20Bandaranaike
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Pandu Bandaranaike
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Chakrawarthi Pandukabhaya Dias Bandaranaike (commonly known as Pandu Bandaranaike ) (born 31 August 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician. He was a Member of Parliament from the Gampaha Electoral District.
Born to the Bandaranaike family, his father was S. D. Bandaranayake, Member of Parliament from Gampaha from 1952 to 1989 and Dorin Dias Bandaranaike. He was educated at S. Thomas' Preparatory School and at D. S. Senanayake College. He worked as a reforestation officer in the State Timber Corporation, until he resigned in 1993 to contest the Provincial Council of the Western Province and was elected a Member of Provincial Council. In 1994, he was elected to Parliament from Gampaha. In 2009, he was appointed the Minister of Religious Affairs and later served as Deputy Minister of Indigenous Medicine.
He married Mrkalandalage Jeewani Namal Gunawardana, daughter of Air Chief Marshal Terance Gunawardana, former Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force. They have one son Chamith Praween Dias Bandaranaike.
References
Parliament profile
1962 births
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Alumni of D. S. Senanayake College
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romborama
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Romborama
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Romborama is the debut studio album by Italian electronic duo The Bloody Beetroots. It was released on August 21, 2009. Some tracks are taken from earlier Bloody Beetroots releases, for example "Butter" can also be found on the Rombo EP.
The track "Warp 1.9" reached number 23 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2009, the world's largest music poll. The track "Butter" was featured in a commercial for season 2 of MTV's Jersey Shore and in Fifa 09
To date Romborama has sold over 2,000,000 copies.
Track listing
"Romborama" (featuring All Leather) - 3:43
"Have Mercy on Us" (featuring Cécile) - 5:48
"Storm" - 3:43
"Awesome" (featuring The Cool Kids) - 2:33
"Cornelius" - 4:13
"It's Better a DJ on 2 Turntables" - 3:48
"Talkin' in My Sleep" (featuring Lisa Kekaula) - 5:29
"Second Streets Have No Name" (featuring Beta Bow) - 3:04
"Butter" - 4:35
"WARP 1.9" (featuring Steve Aoki) - 3:23
"FFA 1985" (featuring Sky Ferreira) - 3:23
"Theolonius" (King Voodoo) - 4:51
"Yeyo" (featuring Raw Man) - 3:32
"Little Stars" (featuring Vicarious Bliss) - 2:42
"WARP 7.7" (featuring Steve Aoki) - 3:57
"Make Me Blank" (featuring J*Davey) - 3:52
"House No. 84" - 3:53
"Mother" - 3:38
"I Love the Bloody Beetroots" - 5:32
"Anacletus" - 3:17
"Come La" (featuring Marracash) (bonus track) - 2:42
"Little Stars" (featuring Vicarious Bliss (Instrumental)) (bonus track) - 2:41
The song "It's Better a DJ on 2 Turntables" was secretly released unfinished under the alias of 'The Bollocks Brothers'.
References
The Bloody Beetroots albums
2009 debut albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Robert%20Cummins
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James Robert Cummins
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James Robert Cummins or Cummings, aka: "Windy Jim" (January 31, 1847 – July 9, 1929) was an American criminal.
Cummins lived near Kearney, Missouri and rode with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War, most often assigned to follow "Bloody" Bill Anderson. A known horse thief, he joined up with the James-Younger Gang after the war and was involved in the train robberies at Winston and Blue Cut, Missouri. After the breakup of the James Gang, he became a farmer in Arkansas and actually tried to turn himself in several times, but no one believed he was really Jim Cummins. At the age of 63 he married Florence Sherwood and lived to an old age.
In 1903 he published a memoir of his time with the James-Younger gang, "Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself, The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and Their Comrades, Including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerrillas, By One Who Rode With Them: A True But Terrible Tale of Outlawry." He died in the Old Soldiers Home at Higginsville Missouri on July 9, 1929.
References
External links
1847 births
1929 deaths
People from Kearney, Missouri
James–Younger Gang
American outlaws
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nie%20Bichu
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Nie Bichu
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Nie Bichu (; 2 January 1928 – 20 April 2018) was a Chinese politician. He served as Mayor and acting Party Secretary of Tianjin.
Biography
Nie was born in Tianjin in 1928, with his ancestral home in Hunan Province. He studied at Yaohua School in Tianjin from 1935 to 1946, and graduated from Beiyang University (now Tianjin University) in 1950. He had four siblings, two of whom died early. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1948 and was a member of its 13th Central Committee.
Nie served as mayor of Tianjin from October 1989 to June 1993 and Chairman of Tianjin People's Congress from June 1993 to May 1998. When Tan Shaowen, Party Secretary of Tianjin, died in February 1993, Nie served as acting Party Secretary for a month before Gao Dezhan was appointed as Tan's replacement. In the early 1990s, he successfully lobbied the central government to allow Tianjin to implement housing reform after the example of Shanghai.
Nie died on 20 April 2018 at the age of 90.
References
1928 births
2018 deaths
People's Republic of China politicians from Tianjin
Mayors of Tianjin
Yaohua High School alumni
Tianjin University alumni
Members of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin%20Martin
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Marvin Martin
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Marvin Martin (born 10 January 1988) is a French professional footballer who plays for Championnat National 2 club Hyères. He plays as a creative play-making midfielder and is described as a player with "very good technique on the ball" and "excellent vision", which compensates for his relatively small frame. Martin is a former France international, having appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2012.
Club career
Early career
Martin was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and hails from the Porte de Vanves area. He therefore grew up close to the Parc des Princes and regularly attended Paris Saint-Germain games, developing a passion for the French capital club. He began his football career at Club Athlétique de Paris at the age of six and, after two years at the club, joined sports club Montrouge CF in the southern Parisian suburbs. Martin's commitment to football accelerated after the France national team won the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He described the victory as "the moment I wanted become a professional player". While playing at Montrouge, Martin trained and played alongside Hatem Ben Arfa, Issiar Dia, Flavien Belson and Dominique Malonga. The quartet were beneficial to the under-13 team that won the Coupe de Paris in 1997, defeating PSG in the final.
After showing potential at Montrouge, Martin attended trials at the Clairefontaine academy with hopes of earning selection to the prestigious school. Following the conclusion of the camp, however, he was not selected, though his domestic teammate Hatem Ben Arfa was. Citing the player's failure to earn a spot at Clairefontaine, a coach at Montrouge later stated, "I do not know if it gave him added strength, but in any case, he continued to work instead of feeling sorry for himself." In 2002, Martin drew interest from professional club Sochaux after being spotted by club scout Christian Puxel. Club officials offered the player a trial. He accepted the offer and made the trek east to Montbéliard. In July 2002, Martin signed an aspirant (youth) contract with the club after impressing during a trial match held at the Stade Auguste Bonal.
Sochaux
Upon his arrival to the club, Martin was inserted into the club's prestigious youth academy and quickly developed a rapport with future teammates Ryad Boudebouz, Sloan Privat, Geoffrey Tulasne and Frédéric Duplus. Martin was influenced to train hard in the academy by former club player Camel Meriem, as well as academy graduates Jérémy Ménez and Mevlüt Erdinç who established themselves at Sochaux at a young age. In 2007, he played on the club's under-19 team that won the Coupe Gambardella. Sochaux defeated Auxerre 5–4 on penalties in the final match, which was played at the Stade de France. As a result of the youth team's cup success, several players on the team, including Martin, were promoted to the club's Championnat de France Amateur team in the fourth division. In the 2007–08 Championnat de France Amateur season, Martin appeared in a team-high 32 matches and scored three goals as the reserve team finished fourth in its group.
Following the conclusion of the 2007–08 season, Martin signed his first professional contract after agreeing to a three-year deal with the club. He was, subsequently, promoted to the senior team and assigned the number 26 shirt by manager Francis Gillot. Martin made his professional debut on 30 August 2008 in a 2–1 league defeat to Marseille, appearing as a substitute. Two weeks later, he made his first professional start in a 2–1 loss to Toulouse. In the team's next four league matches, Gillot inserted Martin as a starter. After the stint of consecutive starts, he rotated between the bench and the first eleven for the rest of the campaign. On 13 May 2009, Martin scored his first professional goal in a 3–0 victory over Monaco. He finished the campaign with 30 total appearances scoring only one goal.
In the 2009–10 season, following the departure of Romain Pitau, Martin was inserted into the starting lineup as his replacement by Gillot for the season. He was a vocal point in the midfield assisting on a goal in the team's second match of the season against Bordeaux. On 26 September 2009, he scored a goal in a 2–1 loss against Nancy and, in the following week, netted the game-winning goal against Le Mans. On 21 January 2010, Martin signed a contract extension with the club until 2014. Martin's play-making abilities began to develop and flourish during the season as he assisted on game-winning goals in victories over Lorient, Rennes and Lille. In the Coupe de France, he contributed to the club's reaching the quarter-finals as he scored a double in a 4–1 rout of amateur club Beauvais in the Round of 16. Martin finished the successful individual campaign with 40 total appearances, four goals and four assists.
Martin's importance within the team was further bolstered in the 2010–11 season after the departure of the club's primary playmaker, Stéphane Dalmat. Martin switched to the number 14 shirt in reference to the 14th arrondissement of Paris and was tipped to replace him by Gillot. The young midfielder responded positively and scored his first goal of the season on 14 August 2010 in a 3–2 loss against Saint-Étienne. The following month, he scored a goal described by the local media as a "moment of magic" in a 4–0 victory over Nice. Martin developed a strong simpatico with strikers Brown Ideye and Modibo Maïga, as well as winger Nicolas Maurice-Belay assisting on several of each player's goals. By the end of January 2011, Martin had assisted on a league-leading ten goals, which included both goals in the team's 2–1 win over Arles-Avignon on 7 August, another two in a 3–1 win against Caen, and one in a 5–1 thrashing of Rennes on 29 January. Martin also scored a goal in the win over Rennes. His performances during the campaign led to his teammates and friends playfully nicknaming him "Little Xavi" in reference to the Barcelona star playmaker. Because of his great performances in midfield throughout the league campaign, Martin was one of four players nominated for the UNFP Young Player of the Year, along with Mamadou Sakho, Yann M'Vila and André Ayew.
Lille
On 20 June 2012, French club Lille confirmed on its website that Martin had joined the club after agreeing to a five-year deal. The transfer fee was undisclosed and the midfielder joined the club on 1 July.
On 13 July 2016, Martin joined newly promoted Ligue 1 club Dijon on loan, after Lille coach Frédéric Antonetti stated the player was not part of his plans for the forthcoming season. On 11 August 2017, following his return from loan at Dijon, he was released from his contract at Lille.
Reims
On 14 August 2017, Martin joined Ligue 2 side Reims on a one-year contract with the option of two further years. Martin helped Stade de Reims win the 2017–18 Ligue 2, helping promote them to the Ligue 1 for the 2018–19 season.
Later career
In 2019, Martin signed for Chambly. He played in the club’s two seasons in Ligue 2. In 2021, he signed for Hyères, a club competing in the Championnat National 2.
International career
During his development years, Martin went unnoticed by youth national team coaches. After establishing himself as a professional, he was called up to the France under-21 team in November 2008 to participate in a friendly against Denmark. Martin made his youth international debut in the match as a starter. He was substituted out after 61 minutes as France won the match 1–0. Martin featured with the team for the rest of the campaign as France failed to qualify for the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which effectively ended Martin's under-21 career. On 26 May 2011, after a successful league season with Sochaux, Martin was called up to the senior national team by Laurent Blanc for June fixtures against Belarus, Ukraine and Poland. The midfielder described the call up as "a dream" and made his senior international debut on 6 June in the team's friendly match against Ukraine, appearing as a second-half substitute with the match drawn 1–1. In the match, Martin scored two goals and assisted on another, which was scored by fellow debutante Younès Kaboul, as France won the match 4–1. As a result of his double, Martin became only the fourth French international, after Jean Vincent, Zinedine Zidane and Bafétimbi Gomis, to score twice on his debut.
Career statistics
Club
International
Source:
France score listed first, score column indicates score after each Martin goal
Honours
Reims
Ligue 2: 2017–18
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Paris
French footballers
France under-21 international footballers
France international footballers
Association football midfielders
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
Lille OSC players
Dijon FCO players
Stade de Reims players
FC Chambly Oise players
Hyères FC players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
UEFA Euro 2012 players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20de%20Rugy
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François de Rugy
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François Henri Goullet de Rugy (; born 6 December 1973) is a French politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2018 and Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition from 2018 to 2019.
Since 2007, he has represented the Loire-Atlantique department, with an interruption between 2018 and 2019, originally as a member of the Democratic and Republican Left group, which includes his former political party Europe Ecology – The Greens. In 2015, he joined the Ecologist Party and later the La République En Marche group in Parliament. In 2017, he defeated Jean-Charles Taugourdeau and Laure de la Raudière for the presidency of the National Assembly.
He was appointed Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition after the resignation of Nicolas Hulot. De Rugy resigned from his ministership less than a year following his appointment after allegations of excessive spending of public funds for private use. He regained his seat in Parliament.
De Rugy did not seek re-election at the 2022 parliamentary election.
Biography
Early political career
First elected to the National Assembly in the 2007 legislative election, he was reelected in 2012. In 2012, he was elected to the co-presidency of the newly-founded Ecologist group, alongside Barbara Pompili. In 2015, he broke with Europe Ecology – The Greens to form a new party with Jean-Vincent Placé, the Ecologist Party, which supported the administration of President François Hollande. He was succeeded as group co-president by Cécile Duflot before regaining the office following the Pompili's appointment as Secretary of State for Biodiversity.
As a member of the National Assembly, he supported the 2015 Intelligence Act and 2016 Labour Act.
In 2016, he announced a campaign for the 2017 Socialist Party presidential primary in which he secured 3.8% of the vote in the first round, outstripping polls. Though he promised to support the primary winner, he reneged on that commitment in late February, instead backing Emmanuel Macron over Benoît Hamon. De Rugy was subsequently invested by En Marche! in the upcoming legislative election.
Presidency of the National Assembly
On 18 May 2016, François de Rugy succeeded Denis Baupin as a Vice President of the National Assembly. He has resigned as group co-president the previous day. On 27 June 2017, De Rugy was elected President of the National Assembly after being chosen as candidate by the La République En Marche group with 353 votes (out of 577 members).
Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition
On 4 September 2018, De Rugy was appointed Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. He replaced Nicolas Hulot who had announced his resignation on 28 August 2018 on France Inter. On 10 July 2019, online magazine Mediapart revealed that €63,000 of public money had been spent on refurbishment of De Rugy's official apartment in Paris (including €19,000 on a dressing room). The magazine also published photographs of lobster and champagne dinners. On 16 July 2019, De Rugy resigned as Ecology Minister.
Return to the National Assembly
On 17 August 2019, François de Rugy regained his seat in the National Assembly. In September 2020, he was a candidate to succeed Gilles Le Gendre as LREM group president in the National Assembly. He came in third behind Christophe Castaner and Aurore Bergé. In the final round, he endorsed Bergé.
In the 2021 regional election, De Rugy led the LREM list in Pays de la Loire (supported by the Democratic Movement and Radical Movement), which placed fifth, with 11.9% of the vote in the first round and 8.20% in the second round.
In addition to his committee assignments, De Rugy chaired the France-Taiwan parliamentary friendship group.
In February 2022, De Rugy announced that he would not stand in the 2022 elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
References
External links
Champagne, homard… Les luxueux dîners de François de Rugy aux frais de l’Assemblée nationale
1973 births
Living people
Europe Ecology – The Greens politicians
Sciences Po alumni
Politicians from Nantes
La République En Marche! politicians
Presidents of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of Parliament for Loire-Atlantique
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20and%20Computing
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Business and Computing
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A Business and Computing is a dual degree program offered jointly by some computing and business schools. The program generally lasts four-five years instead of seven-eight years to complete separate the two degrees and results in the candidate earning both a Bachelor of Business degree and a Bachelor of Computing degree. Graduating Business and Computing students may choose to work on computing/technical matter, or enter the business world, or even enjoy the gray area between business and computing fields such as IT security officer, IT consultant, etc. Even though a majority of Business and Computing graduate from a single university, there are people who earn these degrees from different universities.
Degree Overview
A course which allows you to develop both technical skills and business knowledge. Learning and understanding technical computer skills in the systems analysis and software engineering, alongside gaining experience in finance, simulation and project management.
Covering computing subjects such as algorithms, software engineering, social implications of computing, data structure, operating systems and fundamental mathematics, with business subjects such as accounting, human resource management, business policy/communication, law, finance, marketing and organizational behaviour.
Earning you both a Bachelor of Computer Science degree and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.
Core Computing modules
Managing Information – Understanding the management techniques that are used to collect information to communicate it within and outside an organization, helping enable managers to make quicker and better decisions.
Information System – Understanding a set of integrated components which collect, store and process data, that can also deliver information, knowledge and digital products.
Software Engineering – Understanding the application that covers the technical aspects of building software systems, and also maintains management issues, including budgeting and directing programming teams.
Database Principles and Applications – Understanding the core technology and base of information system, that provides basic knowledge to help develop information systems which lays a good foundation for scientific research and subsequent professional courses.
Multimedia and Human Computer Interaction – Understanding the inter-disciplinary field which brings together physiology and computer science to understand people’s human’s interaction with technology.
Communications and Networking – Understanding the several type of networking, such as intranet, extranet and internet and how computers or devices connected to one another can exchange data.
Core Business Modules
Managing organisations – Investigating organisational behaviour and human resource management.
Management and Information Technology – Gaining knowledge in understanding the concepts, debates and issues in areas of change management, project management, and information technology management/systems development.
Universities
Business and Computing dual degrees are studied in only certain universities around the world, combined most commonly with computer science or Business Administration. Countries include the United States, United Kingdom, Canada Singapore, Ireland, Zimbabwe , Kenya and Uganda. Six universities that teach the degree are:
United States
Stanford Graduate School of Business located in California teaches MS in Computer Science/MBA degree which is a three-year course that will contain studying MBA courses in the first year, and both computer science and Business and in your second and third year.
New Jersey Institute of Technology located in New Jersey teaches BS in Computing and Business degree which is a four-year course that will contain both Computer Science and Business courses.
Canada
University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, both located in Waterloo, Ontario region jointly teaches Business Administration and Computer Science Double Degree which is a five-year course that will cover subjects from computer programming, operating systems at University of Waterloo to business communication and human resource management at Wilfrid Laurier University. A similar program is offered exclusively at Wilfrid Laurier University with lower admission requirements and automatic admission into co-op compared to the mandatory admission of the former program.
Singapore
Nanyang Technological University located in Jurong West teaches Double Degree Programme Bachelor of Business (Information Technology) and Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) which is a four-year course teaching subjects from computing systems, computational thinking to strategic management, compiler techniques.
Saudi Arabia
http://www.psu.edu.sa
located in Riyadh in Prince Sultan University which is a four years course that will cover subjects from Computer and Business
Zimbabwe
University of Zimbabwe
Located in Harare; capital city of Zimbabwe. Offers Honours Bachelor of Business Studies and Computing Science (HBSCT) as a four year program. This is viewed as a highly prestigious degree program reserved for top notch students. Alumni of the HBSCT program have found opportunities as Systems Analysts, Software Development Management Posts in Commercial and Financial Services, Insurance, Banking and the Public Sector, IT auditors and Digital marketing specialists. Basically they become all rounders in their areas of interest; in business and tech related fields.
Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology located in Juja a town in Kenya. Offers Bachelor of Science Business Computing as a four year program.
References
Business education
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon%20Collings
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Algernon Collings
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Algernon William Collings (4 September 1853 — 14 May 1945) was an English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire.
He was born in Sarratt in Hertfordshire and died at his home in Burghfield Common in Berkshire.
Collings made a single first-class appearance, during the 1874 season, against Yorkshire. Batting in the tailend, he scored a single run in the only innings in which he batted, as his team won the match by an innings margin.
External links
Algernon Collings at Cricket Archive
1853 births
1945 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
People from Three Rivers District
People from Burghfield
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Branget
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Françoise Branget
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Françoise Branget (born 8 August 1953 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire) was the deputy representing Doubs's 1st constituency of the National Assembly of France. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1953 births
Living people
People from Chalon-sur-Saône
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Gu%C3%A9got
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Françoise Guégot
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Françoise Guégot (born August 11, 1962 in Oullins, Metropolis of Lyon) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented Seine-Maritime's 2nd constituency, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement from 2007 to 2017.
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1962 births
Living people
People from Oullins
The Republicans (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
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Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Hostalier
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Françoise Hostalier
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Françoise Hostalier (born August 19, 1953 in Beauvais, Oise) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented Nord's 15th constituency from 2002 to 2012.
She campaigned for François Fillon in the first round of the 2017 French presidential election, she supported Marine Le Pen in the second round.
Biography
Françoise Hostalier holds a master's degree in mathematics and was a certified professor of mathematics from 1976 until 1993. After having been an Inspector of the Paris Academy from 1996 to January 2000, she was Inspector General of National Education ( IGEN) in the School and School Life group until 2016. She has been Honorary Inspector General of National Education since October 2016.
She joined the Republican Party in 1981 and became a deputy for the Nord department from 1993 to 1995. In 1995, she became Secretary of State responsible for School Education to the Minister of National Education in the first government of Alain Juppé. She was a member of the national office of the PPDF (chaired by Hervé de Charette) and vice-president of Liberal Democracy (created and chaired by Alain Madelin). After the dissolution of Liberal Democracy, she joined the Valois Radical Party, chaired by André Rossinot, and was a member of the National Office. She is a member of the Political Bureau of the Union for a Popular Movement and the National Secretary for Human Rights. Locally, she is vice-president of the UMP federation in the Nord department.
In 2007, she again became a UMP deputy in the fifteenth constituency of the North with 51.87% of the vote against the socialist candidate Françoise Polnecq. A member of the National Defense and Armed Forces Commission, she is particularly interested in the issue of OPEX (external operations) and the situation in Afghanistan, Chad and Côte d'Ivoire.
She was beaten by the PS candidate Jean-Pierre Allossery during the legislative elections of 2012. Member of the association of former deputies, she supported the candidacy of François Fillon for the presidency of the UMP during the congress of autumn 2012.
During the 2017 presidential campaign, she was the coordinator of François Fillon's campaign in the North. After elimination at the end of the first round, she refused the "republican front" and declared to vote Marine Le Pen in the second round against Emmanuel Macron.
She supported the candidacy of Laurent Wauquiez and later Christian Jacob for the presidency of the Republicans. She was elected National Councilor of the Republicans and member of the Northern Federal Office.
References
1953 births
Living people
People from Beauvais
Radical Party (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Women government ministers of France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Imbert
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Françoise Imbert
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Françoise Imbert (born September 16, 1947) is a French politician. She was the member of the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2017 for Haute-Garonne's 5th constituency, as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
References
1947 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E127%20series
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E127 series
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The is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated on local services by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan since 1995, and also by the third-sector railway operator Echigo Tokimeki Railway since March 2015 as the ET127 series. The design is derived from the 209 series commuter EMU.
Variants
E127-0 series: 13 x 2-car sets built for the Niigata area (originally used on Echigo Line, Hakushin Line, Uetsu Main Line)
E127-100 series: 12 x 2-car sets for Matsumoto area (Oito Line, Shinonoi Line)
ET127 series: 10 x former E127-0 series 2-car sets operated by Echigo Tokimeki Railway (ETR) since March 2015
All types use the same DT61A motor bogies and TR246A trailer bogies found on the 701 series EMUs.
Operations
, E127 series train sets are used on the following lines.
E127-100 series
Oito Line ( – )
Shinetsu Main Line/Shinonoi Line ( – )
Chuo Main Line (Shiojiri – , Shiojiri – – )
ET127 series
Myoko Haneuma Line
Shinetsu Main Line ( – )
Former operations
E127-0 series (until March 2015)
Shinetsu Main Line (Nagaoka – Niigata)
Hakushin Line
Uetsu Main Line ( – )
E127-0 series (until March 2022)
Yahiko Line
Echigo Line ( – )
E127-0 series
Thirteen two-car sets were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Tokyu Car, and delivered to Niigata Depot in March 1995 (sets V1 to V6) and November 1996 (sets V7 to V13) for use on Echigo Line, Hakushin Line, and Uetsu Main Line local services. They entered service on 8 May 1995.
The sets can be coupled to form a six-car formation at maximum, and can be used on wanman driver only operation services.
On 14 March 2015, ten E127-0 series train sets were transferred to the third-sector railway operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway for use on the renamed Myoko Haneuma Line and reclassified as ET127 series. Set V3 was withdrawn from service in October 2014, leaving just two sets, V12 and V13, in the ownership of JR East. These two sets were used mainly on Yahiko Line and Echigo Line services until March 2022.
Formation
, two two-car sets, V12 and V13, are in operation, based at Niigata Depot, formed as shown below, with one motored "Mc" car and one non-powered trailer "Tc" car.
The KuMoHa E127 car has one PS30 cross-arm type pantograph.
The KuHa E126 car has a toilet and wheelchair space.
E127-100 series
Twelve two-car sets were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, JR East (Tsuchizaki Factory), and Tokyu Car, and delivered to Matsumoto Depot in November and December 1998 for use on Ōito Line and Shinonoi Line local services. They entered service on 8 December 1998. The external styling differs from the earlier E127-0 series, resembling the 701 series design. Sets A7 to A12 have a second de-icing pantograph on the KuHa trailer car.
Formation
, twelve two-car sets (A1 to A12) based at Matsumoto Depot, are in operation, and formed as shown below, with one motored "Mc" car and one non-powered trailer "Tc" car, and car 1 at the Matsumoto end.
Car 1 has one PS34 single-arm pantograph. (Also on car 2 for sets A7 to A12.)
Car 2 has a toilet and wheelchair space.
Interior
ET127 series
From 14 March 2015, ten former JR East E127-0 series train sets were transferred to the third-sector railway operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway for use on the renamed Myoko Haneuma Line, which was a section of the original Shin'etsu Main Line. The train sets were reclassified as ET127 series.
Formation
, Echigo Tokimeki Railway operates ten ET127 series two-car train sets, numbered from V1 to V10. The train sets are based at Naoetsu Depot.
One train set is configured to have one motored "Mc" car coupled with one non-powered trailer "Tc" car, as shown below:
The ET127 car has one cross-arm type pantograph.
Build histories
The build histories of individual sets are as follows
E127-0 series
E127-100 series
References
External links
JR East E127 series
Electric multiple units of Japan
East Japan Railway Company
Train-related introductions in 1995
Tokyu Car rolling stock
Kawasaki multiple units
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
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2007–08 Eccellenza
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This is a list of division winners and playoff matches in the regionally organized Eccellenza 2007–2008, which is the 6th level of Italian football. A total of 36 teams are promoted to Serie D for the 2008–09 season. The first-placed team from each of the 28 divisions is promoted directly. The seven winners of the national playoffs are also promoted. Finally, the 36th spot is reserved for the winner of the Coppa Italia Dilettanti. This year, the winner was Hinterreggio, which also won direct promotion as divisional winner in the region of Calabria, thus Pro Settimo & Eureka won promotion as Coppa Italia Dilettanti runners-up.
Division winners
Regional playoffs
A number of playoff tournaments were organized by some Regional Committees in order to choose a team for each of the Eccellenza rounds.
The following Regional Committees decided instead not to organize regional playoffs, instead choosing to directly appoint regular season runners-up for the national playoffs:
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: Brixen
Veneto: Albignasego (A), Edo Mestre (B)
Friuli-Venezia Giulia: Manzanese
Lazio: Aprilia (A), Boville Ernica (B)
Abruzzo: Casoli
Piedmont & Valle d'Aosta
Girone A
Playoff finals
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Girone B
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Lombardy
Girone A
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Girone B
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Girone C
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Tuscany
Girone A
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Girone B
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Emilia-Romagna
Girone A
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Girone B
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Marche
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Umbria
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Molise
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Campania
Girone A
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Girone B
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Apulia
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Basilicata
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Calabria
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Sicily
Girone A
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Girone B
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Sardinia
Playoff semifinals
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Playoff finals
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Notes
(ag) — Qualified through away goals rule.
(b) — Qualified as best-placed team in regular season.
National playoffs
Rules
The national playoffs involved a total of 28 teams, respectively the regional playoff winners or the second-placed teams in case regional playoffs were not organized by the correspondent committee. A total of two two-legged rounds are played in order to fill the remaining seven Serie D spots.
First round
Played on May 25 and June 1
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Played on June 8 and 15
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Notes and references
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Rishad Bathiudeen
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Rishad Bathiudeen is a Sri Lankan parliamentarian and former senior cabinet minister. He is the leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) Party, a registered political party in Sri Lanka. Bathiudeen was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Vanni Electoral District in December 2001 and was re-elected in April 2004, after which he was again re-elected in April 2010 and 2015 June from the same Electoral District which comprises Vavuniya, Mannar and Mullathivu Administrative Districts. Rishad Bathiudeen holds a National Diploma in Technology (NDT) in Civil Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Engineering (C.I.E.) in the UK.
On 19 October 2020, he was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department during a raid in Dehiwela, where he is charged with criminal misappropriation of public funds, and violation of election laws with regard to the transportation of IDPs in government-owned SLTB buses to vote at the 2019 presidential election.
Legal Issues
Wilpattu deforestation
Environmental organizations filed a writ application in court against the illegal clearing of the Kallaru Forest Reserve and the construction of a housing project, which is adjacent to the Wilpattu National Park. The Court of Appeal upheld the view that it was illegal to cut down trees and construct houses in a protected forest reserve and held the Minister responsible, Bathuideen, accountable to the damage by exercising the 'Polluter Pays Principle' under Environmental law. Bathuideen was hence ordered to bear the full cost, which is over Rs. 1 billion, to reforest the Kallaru Reserve.
Alleged ties with extremists
In the aftermath of the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings Bathiudeen was accused of having ties with the bombers and interfering with the investigations in an attempt to release arrested suspects. According to the Army Commander Mahesh Senanayake, Bathiudeen called him three times first to confirm if a person was arrested and after ignoring him twice the commander confirmed that the person was arrested. Bathiudeen then mentioned the suspect's father and asked what can be done to which the army commander replied asking him to call back in one and a half years as he has the authority to detain him that long. Further a house belonging to his sister was rented out to the terrorists to which Bathiudeen stated that his sister was in Canada. Further he denied that his brother had any business dealings with the father of the bombers and also stated that the IDB under him provided materials to the terrorists legally as they provide materials to small and medium enterprises and did not know their use. As a result of the allegations members of the Joint Opposition signed a No Confidence Motion against Bathiudeen consisting of 10 charges including the arrest of Abdul Hanuth who was a secretary to Bathiudeen and a Maulavi who was an advisor to Bathiudeen. Further it also accused him of influencing the police not to arrest suspects under Prevention of Terrorism Act allowing them to be give bail on 6 May 2019,
On 31 May, Athuraliye Rathana Thera began a hunger protest requesting the removal of Muslim politicians with alleged ties to bad people including Rishad Bathiudeen and Hizbullah. There were several protests by Sinhala and Tamil as well as Hindu, Christian and Muslim figures and organisations in support of the thera including by relatives of the bomb blasts.
The protests were also supported by the Mahanayaka theras and Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith visited the fasting thera.
On 5 June, the All Island Canteen Owners' Association Chairman (AICOA) complained that Bathiudeen abused the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) to mistreat Sinhalese businessmen and also distributing food commodities unfit for human consumption through Lanka Sathosa. On 7 June, S. B Dissanayake and Dilan Perera and several other organisations filed charges against Bathiudeen to the CID including two murders, providing Sathosa vehicles to extremists as well as using state owned resources and removing whistleblowers from ministries after resigning. The Sinhala Buddhist Nationalist Ravana Balaya also provided a file with evidence against him to the Police Headquarters to be sent to the CID. In turn Bathiudeen filed a complaint against S. B and Wimal Weerawansa.
On 24 April 2021, Sri Lanka Police arrested Bathiudeen in connection with the attacks. Bathiudeen's brother was also arrested as well.
Alleged abuse of workers in household
J. Ishalini, a 16-year-old domestic worker who was living in Bathiudeen's house was hospitalized on 3 July 2021 for burn injuries and died on the 15 July. She had been brought to the Bathiudeen household in 2020 when she was still 15 years old.
Judicial Medical Officer (JMO)'s postmortem report showed evidence of possible long term sexual abuse for a long period but could not confirm if it happened in the Bathiudeen household or in her own household.
The investigations resulted in two maids accusing Shiyabdeen Ismath, the brother-in-law of Bathiudeen of raping them. Shiyabdeen Ayesha, wife of Badiutheen, her father Mohammed Shiybdeen, brother Shiyabdeen Ismath and the broker who brought Ishalini to the Bathiudeen household, Ponnaiah Pandaram were arrested by the police. In August 2021 another worker alleged sexual abuse and the police claimed that there had been another suicide of a domestic worker in the past.
See also
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
References
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Industries ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
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Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
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People from Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Prisoners and detainees of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Moor engineers
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Sri Lankan Muslims
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandula%20Basnayake
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Bandula Basnayake
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Basnayake Mudiyanselage Bandula Basnayake (born 20 January 1947) is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government minister.
References
1947 births
Living people
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20world%20featherweight%20boxing%20champions
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List of world featherweight boxing champions
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Championship recognition
Public Acclamation: 1884 to 1921
Champions were recognized by wide public acclamation. A heavyweight champion was a boxer who had a notable win over another notable boxer and then went without defeat. Retirements from the ring periodically led to a "true" champion going unrecognized, or for several to be recognized by the public for periods of time. Typically, public interest in having a single, "true" champion resulted in claimants to the heavyweight title being matched with one another; the winner of that bout was subsequently deemed the champion, with the claim (and title lineage) of the defeated boxer largely forgotten.
Sanctioning Bodies: 1921 to present
The National Boxing Association (NBA), was formed in 1921 as the first organization aimed at regulating boxing on a national (and later global) level. The prominence of New York City as the epicenter of boxing would lead to a governmental entity, the powerful New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC), to join the NBA in sanctioning bouts as "world championships." A third entity, with lesser public recognition inside the USA, the European Boxing Union (EBU), would follow suit, with this triumvirate typically (but not always) recognizing the same boxers as world champions.
At its 1962 convention the NBA's non-U.S. members exploited a membership rule and took control of the organization, rebranding it the World Boxing Association. The (WBA), was joined a year later by a combination of state and national boxing commissions (including the NYSAC and IBU) to form a separate sanctioning body, the World Boxing Council (WBC). Each organization would later have a spin-off competing sanctioning body emerge: the International Boxing Federation (IBF), which was formed by members of the United States Boxing Association in 1983; and the World Boxing Organization (WBO), which was formed in 1989. A fifth significant (but not as publicly accepted) body came in the form of the International Boxing Organization (IBO), in 1991, and today there are over a dozen sanctioning organizations, of varying degrees of public acceptance, sanctioning bouts as for a world championship and proclaiming their title winners "Champion of the World."
See also
List of current boxing champions
List of current female world boxing champions
List of undisputed boxing champions
List of WBA world champions
List of WBC world champions
List of IBF world champions
List of WBO world champions
List of The Ring world champions
List of British world boxing champions
References
External links
Featherweight Champions
World boxing champions by weight class
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Albert Jull
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Albert Edward Jull (6 December 1864 – 24 September 1940) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party, the United Party and from 1938 the National Party.
Canada
Jull was born in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, in 1864. He received his education in Brantford at various public schools.
Life in New Zealand
He came to New Zealand with his parents in 1877. He arrived in Waipawa in 1881, for some years was engaged in store-keeping, and subsequently established himself in the brewing industry. Jull was chairman of the Waipawa County Council, was elected president of the New Zealand Counties Association in 1901, was for some years chairman of the Waipawa Town Board and of the District Hospital Board, and in 1894 was president of the New Zealand Fire Brigades' Association. He is an enthusiastic Oddfellow, is a Past Provincial Grand Master of the Hawke's Bay district, and in 1906 represented the district at the biennial conference held at Nelson. He chaired the Napier Harbour Board for 20 years, a role from which he retired in 1932.
Political activity
Jull first stood for the rural Hawke's Bay Region electorate of Waipawa in 1911 for the Liberal Party, coming second to George Hunter. Jull came second again in 1914 and 1919. In the , he was one of four candidates in the electorate as an Independent, coming third.
Jull represented the Waipawa electorate from the 1930 by-election after the death of Hunter.
In the 1935 election he was defeated by Labour's Max Christie. In 1938 he won the seat back from Christie, and held it until his death.
Jull died suddenly in Waipawa on 24 September 1940.
Notes
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
1864 births
1940 deaths
New Zealand National Party MPs
New Zealand Liberal Party MPs
People from the Hawke's Bay Region
People from Fort Erie, Ontario
Canadian emigrants to New Zealand
Local politicians in New Zealand
United Party (New Zealand) MPs
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1911 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1914 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1919 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1922 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1935 New Zealand general election
New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Jupiter%20trojans%20%28Trojan%20camp%29%20%28100001%E2%80%93200000%29
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List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (100001–200000)
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This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 100001–200000 .
100001–200000
This list contains 298 objects sorted in numerical order.
top
References
Trojan_1
Jupiter Trojans (Trojan Camp)
Lists of Jupiter trojans
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein%20Ahamed%20Bhaila
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Hussein Ahamed Bhaila
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Hussain Ahamed Bhaila (born 18 May 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government minister.
References
1949 births
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress politicians
Sri Lankan Moor politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
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Rolf Ridderwall
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Rolf Lennart "Riddarn" ("the Knight") Ridderwall (born 20 November 1958) is a retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender. He played for Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish Elite League almost his entire career. Ridderwall won the Golden Puck as the top player in Sweden for the 1989-90 season.
Family
His son, Stefan Ridderwall, is also a hockey goaltender, and his nephew, Calle Ridderwall, is currently playing professional ice hockey in Germany with the Düsseldorfer EG of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
References
External links
Rolf Ridderwall Biography and Statistics - Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
1958 births
Living people
AIK IF players
Djurgårdens IF Hockey players
Ice hockey players at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Olympic ice hockey players of Sweden
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Ice hockey people from Stockholm
Swedish ice hockey goaltenders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbergslids%20IK%20Fotboll
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Redbergslids IK Fotboll
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Redbergslids IK is a now defunct Swedish football club which was located in Gothenburg. They played in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan, once in 1930–31, but were relegated. They were also punished for paying their players, which was against the rules at that time, by being demoted to the bottom of the Swedish football league system. Notable players of the club included Gunnar Gren and Sven Rydell.
In the top division of Sweden the club attracted an average crowd of 8,898.
References
Redbergslids IK
Redbergslids IK
Redbergslids IK
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Ben McAdoo
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Benjamin Lee McAdoo (born July 9, 1977) is an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as a consultant for the Dallas Cowboys in 2021 and quarterbacks coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2020. McAdoo was most notably the head coach of the New York Giants from 2016 to 2017, after serving as their offensive coordinator the previous two years under former head coach Tom Coughlin. He was fired from that position on December 4, 2017 following a 2–10 start, along with benching longtime starting quarterback Eli Manning. At the time of his termination, his 28 regular season games were the fewest by a Giants coach since 1930. Prior to working for the Panthers, McAdoo has also served as an assistant coach for several college football teams, as well as for the New Orleans Saints, the San Francisco 49ers, and the Green Bay Packers.
Early life
McAdoo was born in Homer City, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Homer-Center Junior/Senior High School in 1995. McAdoo attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and earned a degree in health and physical education. Later, he received his master's degree in kinesiology from Michigan State University.
Coaching career
Early career
While attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), McAdoo began working as an assistant high school coach in his sophomore year of college. He returned to his alma mater Homer-Center to be an assistant coach for the 1996 and 1997 seasons, then he was an assistant at Indiana Area High School from 1998 to 1999. McAdoo graduated from IUP summa cum laude in health and physical education.
He then became a graduate assistant for the Michigan State Spartans football team under head coach Bobby Williams while pursuing a master's degree in kinesiology at Michigan State University. In the 2001 season, McAdoo earned his first collegiate coaching position as a graduate assistant for special teams and offense.
McAdoo was the offensive line and tight ends coach at Fairfield University for the 2002 season, in what would be the final season for the Fairfield Stags football team. In 2003, McAdoo became a graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburgh under head coach Walt Harris and helped the team in the 2003 Continental Tire Bowl.
After initially accepting an assistant coach position at Akron, McAdoo resigned to become offensive quality control coach for the New Orleans Saints in 2004 under head coach Jim Haslett. McAdoo interviewed with offensive coordinator Mike McCarthy.
McAdoo coached tight ends and offensive tackles at Stanford for the 2005 spring camp, then resigned to be assistant offensive line and quality control coach for the San Francisco 49ers, reuniting with Mike McCarthy. In 2006, McCarthy became head coach for the Green Bay Packers and added McAdoo to his staff as tight ends coach. McAdoo coached tight ends for the Packers until the 2011 season, and then coached quarterbacks from 2012 to 2013. McAdoo was a member of the coaching staff of the 2010 Packers team that won Super Bowl XLV.
New York Giants
Offensive coordinator (2014–2015)
In 2014, McAdoo joined Tom Coughlin’s staff as the offensive coordinator for the New York Giants. In his first season as offensive coordinator, the Giants offense improved from the 28th-highest-scoring offense in 2013 under Kevin Gilbride to 13th in 2014. In 2015, the offense took another leap forward, becoming the sixth-highest-scoring offense despite losing starting left tackle Will Beatty, starting wide receiver Victor Cruz, and starting tight end Larry Donnell for most of the season due to injury.
Head coach (2016–2017)
On January 14, 2016, McAdoo was named the Giants’ 17th head coach in franchise history. On September 11, 2016, McAdoo won his first game as head coach when the Giants defeated the Dallas Cowboys 20–19. The Giants finished the 2016 season with an 11–5 record under McAdoo, tying the franchise record held by Dan Reeves for most regular season wins by a first year head coach. The Giants returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2011, but lost to the Green Bay Packers 38–13.
The Giants' 2017 season was marred by numerous player injuries and other known controversies, which included some players being suspended for team violations, slumping the Giants to an 0–5 start, the first for the team since 2013 before getting a road victory in Week 6 against the Denver Broncos. On November 28, 2017 McAdoo replaced Eli Manning with Geno Smith prior to the Week 13 game against the Oakland Raiders, which ended Manning's 210-consecutive start streak. This marked an uproar in the NY Giants community and was widely seen as the nail in the coffin for McAdoo's tenure with the Giants. After losing 24–17 to the Oakland Raiders and sitting at 2–10, McAdoo was fired by the Giants on December 4, 2017, along with general manager Jerry Reese.
Jacksonville Jaguars
On February 11, 2020, McAdoo was hired by the Jacksonville Jaguars as their quarterbacks coach. He was let go following the season.
Dallas Cowboys
On May 26, 2021, McAdoo was hired by the Dallas Cowboys as a consultant.
Carolina Panthers
On January 24, 2022, McAdoo was hired by the Carolina Panthers as their offensive coordinator under head coach Matt Rhule, replacing Joe Brady.
Personal life
McAdoo is married to his wife Toni, a fellow native of Homer City. They have a daughter and a son.
Head coaching record
References
1977 births
Living people
Carolina Panthers coaches
Fairfield Stags football coaches
Green Bay Packers coaches
High school football coaches in Pennsylvania
Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumni
Michigan State Spartans football coaches
Michigan State University alumni
National Football League offensive coordinators
New Orleans Saints coaches
New York Giants coaches
New York Giants head coaches
People from Homer City, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Panthers football coaches
San Francisco 49ers coaches
University of Pittsburgh alumni
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Françoise Olivier-Coupeau
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Françoise Olivier-Coupeau (3 July 1959 – 4 May 2011) was a member of the National Assembly of France.
Olivier-Coupeau was born in Laval, Mayenne. She represented the Morbihan department (5th constituency), and was a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. She was a member of the National Defence and Armed Forces Committee.
References
1959 births
2011 deaths
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
21st-century French women politicians
20th-century French women politicians
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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Arthur Davidson (equerry)
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Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson, (12 November 1856 – 16 October 1922) was a British soldier and courtier.
Davidson was born in Shooter's Hill, Kent, and grew up in Welwyn, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Henley Grammar School and Bute House School, Petersham. In September 1875 he was commissioned Sub-Lieutenant in the 4th Foot, but a year later transferred to the 60th Rifles and was posted to the 2nd Battalion in India. Soon afterwards he was promoted Lieutenant. He took part in the Second Afghan War in 1878–1880 and was appointed ADC to Lieutenant-General Sir Donald Stewart, and later to Major-General Ross. He served in the Boer War in 1881 and fought at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir in 1882. In 1883 he was appointed Assistant Inspector of Army Signalling at Aldershot, a position he held until 1889, with the temporary rank of Captain. In 1885 he was promoted substantive Captain and a month later promoted Brevet Major in belated recognition of his services in Afghanistan five years earlier. He took part in the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1885.
In 1890 Davidson was appointed ADC to Field Marshal The Duke of Cambridge. He was promoted substantive major in 1893 and lieutenant-colonel in 1895, and on the duke's resignation as Commander-in-Chief later the same year entered the Royal Household as Groom in Waiting in Ordinary to The Queen. He was promoted to Equerry in Ordinary in January 1896, and continued to hold the position when Edward VII acceded to the throne in 1901. He was appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order 4th Class (MVO) in 1896, and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1901. Appointment as Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) came in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902, and he was invested by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 8 August 1902. He was promoted Brevet colonel on 23 September 1902 and retired from the Army later the same year.
He later became Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse and Assistant Private Secretary to the King, while also remaining an Equerry. In 1906 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO). On King Edward's death in 1910 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the Accession Honours and then appointed Extra Equerry to the new King George V and Equerry to Queen Alexandra, holding both positions until his death at Sandringham. He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in the 1921 Birthday Honours.
Davidson is commemorated in a composition for solo bagpipes composed by clan piper to Clan Davidson, Lindsay Davidson.
Footnotes
References
Obituary, The Times, 17 October 1922
1856 births
1922 deaths
People from Shooter's Hill
People from Welwyn
King's Royal Rifle Corps officers
British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
British military personnel of the First Boer War
British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War
Equerries
Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
King's Own Royal Regiment officers
Assistant Private Secretaries to the Sovereign
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Arthur Davidson
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Arthur Davidson may refer to:
Sir Arthur Davidson (equerry) (1856–1922), British Army officer and equerry to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V
Arthur Davidson (footballer, born 1875) (1875−1961), Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy
Arthur Davidson (motorcycling) (1881–1950), American co-founder of Harley-Davidson
Arthur Davidson (footballer, born 1912) (1912–2002), Australian rules footballer for Hawthorn
Arthur Davidson (politician) (1928–2018), British Labour MP for Accrington, 1966–1983
See also
Arthur Davison, rugby league player
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Chandrasekaran
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P. Chandrasekaran
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Periyasamy Chandrasekaran (; 17 April 1957 – 1 January 2010) was a Sri Lankan trade unionist, politician and government minister.
Early life and family
Chandrasekaran was born on 17 April 1957 in Talawakelle in central Ceylon. He was educated at Sumana Demala Maha Vidyalayam, Talawakelle, St. Patrick's Vidyalayam, Talawakelle and Highlands College, Hatton. Following the death of his father he gave up his education to support his family.
Chandrasekaran was married Shanthini Devi. They had two daughters.
Career
Chandrasekaran became interested in politics at a young age and wrote articles in Tamil newspapers. He joined the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC), becoming its vice-president in 1977. He was elected to the Talawakele Lindula Urban Council in 1982, Nuwara Eliya District Development Council in 1985 and Nuwara Eliya Divisional Council in 1987. He left the CWC in 1989 and formed the Up-Country People's Front (UCPF).
Chandrasekaran was one of the Democratic People's Liberation Front's (DPLF) candidates in Nuwara Eliya District at the 1989 parliamentary election but the DPLF failed to win any seats in Parliament. He was arrested in 1990. The draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act was used to arrest him 1993. He was elected to the Central Provincial Council whilst in custody.
Chandrasekaran was one of the UCPF's candidates for Nuwara Eliya District at the 1994 parliamentary election. He was elected and entered Parliament. He was re-elected at the 2000, 2001 and 2004 parliamentary elections.
After being elected to Parliament in 1994 he supported the new People's Alliance government. He held several ministerial appointments thereafter: Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce (1994); Deputy Minister of Estate Housing (1994–99); Project Minister of Estate Infrastructure (2001); Minister of Community Development; Deputy Minister of Irrigation and Water Management (2001–04); and Minister of Community Development and Social Inequity Eradication (2007–10).
Chandrasekaran was a diabetic but drank whiskey which resulted in him suffering alcohol-related illnesses. He was receiving treatment from Northwick Park Hospital and St Mark's Hospital in the UK. Doctors had recommended that he stops drinking and after 4–6 months undergo liver transplant. According to his wife Chandrasekaran didn't follow the medical advice.
Chandrasekaran, who was at his home in Rajagiriya, failed to wake up on the morning of 1 January 2010. He was taken to the private Nawaloka Hospital where he was pronounced dead on admission. An autopsy revealed he had died of alcoholic cirrhosis.
Electoral history
References
1957 births
2010 deaths
Cabinet ministers of Sri Lanka
Ceylon Workers' Congress politicians
Deputy ministers of Sri Lanka
Indian Tamil politicians of Sri Lanka
Indian Tamil trade unionists of Sri Lanka
Local authority councillors of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the Central Provincial Council
People from Central Province, Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Hindus
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Up-Country People's Front politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDS%20Akebono%20%28DE-201%29
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JDS Akebono (DE-201)
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JDS Akebono (DE 201) was a destroyer escort (or frigate) of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Akebono was one of the first indigenous Japanese warships to be built following World War II. Akebono was laid down in 1954 as a steam turbine powered "B type" ASW escort, the only ship of its class, for comparison with two similar diesel powered ships, the s. Akebono entered service in 1956 and remained in use until 1976.
Design and construction
The Japanese Marine Safety Force (later to become the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force) authorised the purchase of three "B type" escort vessels as part of the Financial Year 1953 programme. Of the three ships, two of which were to be powered by diesel engines (the Ikazuchi class) and the third by steam turbines, to be called Akebono.
The equipment of the three escorts was similar, with two American guns, four 40 mm Bofors guns, a Hedgehog anti-submarine projector and eight K-gun depth charge launchers. Akebono had a twin-shaft machinery installation, with geared steam turbines producing which could propel the ship at a top speed of compared with the of the less powerful Ikazuchi class.
Akebono was laid down at the Ishikawajima Tokyo shipyard on 10 December 1954. She was launched on 15 October 1955 and completed on 20 March 1956.
Operations
Akebono was re-armed in March 1958, when her original 3-inch guns were replaced by more modern, autoloading 3 inch guns, with 1 Bofors gun, four K-guns also removed. Akebono was discarded in 1976.
References
Blackman, Raymond V. B. Jane's Fighting Ships 1960–61. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1960.
Gardiner, Robert and Stephen Chumbley. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press, 1995. .
Frigate classes
1955 ships
Akebono
Ships built by IHI Corporation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Hale%20%28footballer%29
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Ken Hale (footballer)
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Kenneth Oliver Hale (18 September 1939 – 5 January 2015) was an English football player and manager. He played as an inside forward for Newcastle United, Coventry City, Oxford United, Darlington and Halifax Town, and scored 84 goals from 420 appearances in the Football League. He had a brief spell as player-manager of Darlington in 1972, and went on to manage Hartlepool from 1974 to 1976.
Managerial statistics
Source:
References
1939 births
2015 deaths
People from Blyth, Northumberland
English footballers
Association football inside forwards
Newcastle United F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
Oxford United F.C. players
Darlington F.C. players
Halifax Town A.F.C. players
English Football League players
English football managers
Darlington F.C. managers
Hartlepool United F.C. managers
English Football League managers
Footballers from Northumberland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Lee
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Ken Lee
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Kenneth or Ken Lee may refer to:
Ken Lee (businessman) (1932–2007), co-founder of Bing Lee stores in Australia
Ken Lee (linebacker) (born 1948), American football linebacker
Kenneth B. Lee (1922–2010), Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Kenneth E. Lee (born 1961), Pennsylvania politician
Ken Lee (RAF officer) (1915–2008), British Second World War flying ace
Kenneth K. Lee (born 1975), United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
J. Kenneth Lee (1923–2018), civil rights attorney
See also
"Ken Lee", an English-phonetic cover of "Without You" by Badfinger, sung by Valentina Hasan on Bulgarian Music Idol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Sharp%20%28suffragist%29
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Evelyn Sharp (suffragist)
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Evelyn Jane Sharp (4 August 1869 – 17 June 1955) was a key figure in two major British women's suffrage societies, the militant Women's Social and Political Union and the United Suffragists. She helped found the latter and became editor of Votes for Women during the First World War. She was twice imprisoned and became a tax resister. An established author who had published in The Yellow Book, she was especially well known for her children's fiction.
Early life
Evelyn Sharp, the ninth of eleven children, was born on 4 August 1869. Sharp's family sent her to a boarding school for just two years, yet she successfully passed several university local examinations. In 1894, against the wishes of her family, Sharp moved to London, where she worked as a private tutor and wrote several novels including All the Way to Fairyland (1898) and The Other Side of the Sun (1900).
In 1903 Sharp, with the help of her friend and lover, Henry Nevinson, began to find work writing articles for the Daily Chronicle, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Manchester Guardian, a newspaper that published her work for over thirty years. Sharp highlights the importance of Nevinson and the Men's League for Women's Suffrage: "It is impossible to rate too highly the sacrifices that they (Henry Nevinson and Laurence Housman) and H. N. Brailsford, F. W. Pethick Lawrence, Harold Laski, Israel Zangwill, Gerald Gould, George Lansbury, and many others made to keep our movement free from the suggestion of a sex war."
Sharp's journalism made her more aware of the problems of working-class women and she joined the Women's Industrial Council and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. In the autumn of 1906 Sharp was sent by the Manchester Guardian to cover the first speech by actress and novelist Elizabeth Robins. Sharp was moved by Robins' arguments for militant action and she joined the Women's Social and Political Union.
The impression she made was profound, even on an audience predisposed to be hostile; and on me it was disastrous. From that moment I was not to know again for 12 years, if indeed ever again, what it meant to cease from mental strife; and I soon came to see with a horrible clarity why I had always hitherto shunned causes.</blockquote>
Militant activism
Evelyn's mother, Jane, concerned at her daughter having joined the WSPU made her promise not to do anything that would result in her being imprisoned. Although she wrote in Votes for Women about Elsie Howey, dressed as Joan of Arc, a girl on a white horse leading a procession of hundreds of suffragettes to a meeting at the Aldwych Theatre on 17 April 1909 (fittingly the day before Joan of Arc was beatified) as representing "a battle against prejudice that is as ancient as it is modern", and befriended suffragette Helen Craggs and others, Sharp did keep her promise for five years, until her mother absolved her from that promise in November 1911. Although I hope you will never go to prison, still, I feel I cannot any longer be so prejudiced, and must leave it to your better judgment. I have really been very unhappy about it and feel I have no right to thwart you, much as I should regret feeling that you were undergoing those terrible hardships. It has caused you as much pain as it has me, and I feel I can no longer think of my own feelings. I cannot write more, but you will be happy now, won't you. (Jane Sharp, letter to her daughter (November, 1911)
Evelyn immediately became active in the militant campaign, and later that month she was imprisoned for fourteen days.
<blockquote>My opportunity came with a militant demonstration in Parliament Square on the evening of November 11, provoked by a more than usually cynical postponement of the Women's Bill, which was implied in a Government forecast of manhood suffrage. I was one of the many selected to carry out our new policy of breaking Government office windows, which marked a departure from the attitude of passive resistance that for five years had permitted all the violence to be used against us.
Sharp in March 1912, also acted as go-between for the leaders of WSPU taking a cheque for £7,000 to be authorised by Christabel Pankhurst to transfer funds to the personal account of Hertha Ayrton to avoid confiscation after the Scotland Yard raid on the Clement's Inn offices.
Sharp was an active member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. In August 1913, in response to the government tactic of keeping prisoners that would hunger strike until they were too weak to be active by means of the Cat and Mouse Act (Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913), permitting their re-arrest as soon as they were active, Sharp was chosen to represent the WWSL in a delegation to meet with the Home Secretary, Reginald McKenna and discuss the Cat and Mouse Act. McKenna was unwilling to talk to them and when the women refused to leave the House of Commons, Mary Macarthur and Margaret McMillan were physically ejected and Sharp and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence were arrested and sent to Holloway Prison.
With Nevinson, the Pethick-Lawrences, the Harbens, the Lansburys, Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, Evelina Haverfield and Lena Ashwell, Sharp was a founder member of the United Suffragists which opened to men and women and attracting members from NUWSS and WSPU perhaps disillusioned with tactics of each of these groups, on 14 February 1914.
First World War resistance
Unlike most members of the women's movement (a notable exception being Sylvia Pankhurst who also rejected the nationalist line), Sharp was unwilling to end the campaign for the vote during the First World War. When she continued to refuse to pay income tax she was arrested and all of her property confiscated, including her typewriter. A pacifist, Sharp was also active in the Women's International League for Peace during the war. She would later record:
Personally, holding as I do the enfranchisement of women involved greater issues than could be involved in any war, even supposing that the objects of the Great War were those alleged, I cannot help regretting that any justification was given for the popular error which still sometimes ascribes the victory of the suffrage cause, in 1918, to women's war service. This assumption is true only in so far as gratitude to women offered an excuse to the anti-suffragists in the Cabinet and elsewhere to climb down with some dignity from a position that had become untenable before the war. I sometimes think that the art of politics consists in the provision of ladders to enable politicians to climb down from untenable positions.
During the First World War the Votes for Women newspaper continued to appear, but with a much-reduced circulation, and it struggled to remain financially viable. Sharp reoriented the paper to appeal more to middle-class women, with the slogan "The War Paper for Women". Although she personally came to oppose the war, she ensured that the paper maintained a neutral stance on it. At the end of the war, the Representation of the People Act 1918 gave (some) women the right to vote and the United Suffragists, who published the newspaper disbanded, and presented Sharp with a book signed by the members.
After the First World War
After the Armistice, Sharp, now a member of the Labour Party, worked as a journalist on the Daily Herald and also for the Society of Friends in Germany. She wrote two studies of working-class life, The London Child (1927), illustrated by Eve Garnett, and The Child Grows Up (1929).
In 1933 Sharp's friend Margaret Nevinson died. Soon afterwards, aged 63, she married Margaret's husband, Henry Nevinson, by then aged 77. Their love affair had lasted many years withstanding complications of friendship and marriage.
Sharp wrote the essay on Mary Wollstonecraft for the 1934 book Great Democrats by Alfred Barratt Brown.
Sharp's autobiography, Unfinished Adventure, was published in 1933. It was republished by Faber in 2009.
Sharp was a member of the Women's World Committee Against War and Fascism along with Ellen Wilkinson, Vera Brittain and Storm Jameson.
Sharp died in a nursing home in Ealing on 17 June 1955.
Quotations
Reforms can always wait a little longer, but freedom, directly you discover you haven't got it, will not wait another minute.
Primary sources
Sharp's papers, including Diaries of Evelyn Sharp, 1920–37, 1942–7, are in the care of the Bodleian Library.
See also
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
References
Citations
Evelyn Sharp (1933, John Lane, London), Unfinished Adventure: selected reminiscences from an Englishwoman's life
Angela V. John (2006), War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century: The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson
Angela V. John (2009, The University of Manchester), Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955
External links
Biography at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1869 births
1955 deaths
British political journalists
British children's writers
Place of birth missing
English anti-fascists
British women children's writers
British women journalists
British women novelists
19th-century British novelists
19th-century British women writers
19th-century British writers
British autobiographers
20th-century British writers
20th-century British women writers
Women autobiographers
Women's Social and Political Union
Women's page journalists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20Suite%20%28The%20Rascals%20album%29
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Freedom Suite (The Rascals album)
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Freedom Suite is the fifth studio album (a double album) by rock band The Rascals, released on March 17, 1969. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and also reached number 40 on the Billboard Black Albums chart, the last Rascals album to appear there.
History
Freedom Suite was an ambitious effort and something of a concept album. Packaging included a shiny silver gatefold album cover, with a photograph of the band pasted on the front, colored sleeves with the song lyrics printed on them, and illustrations drawn by members of the group. The latter varied from idealistic visions of trumpeting angels to Eastern-influenced sketchings to drummer Dino Danelli's faithful homage to El Greco's Christ. The inclusion of three instrumentals comprising one complete album of the two-record set—one polished track ("Adrian's Birthday," named in honor of recording engineer Adrian Barber), one jam session ("Cute"), and a Danelli drum solo ("Boom")—seemed to reviewer and critic Richie Unterberger as an effort by The Rascals to establish themselves as an "album" group rather than a "singles" group.
The first LP of the set contained conventional songs, while the second contained the instrumentals. Various session musicians, including bassist Chuck Rainey and saxophonists King Curtis and David "Fathead" Newman, augmented the band's normal line-up on several selections.
The album's content was packaged differently based on format and territory. In North America, the full Freedom Suite album, including the instrumentals, was available in a double album package on LP and on reel-to-reel tape. Cassette and 8-track tape editions, however, were packaged as either one double-play album or as two single albums ("Freedom Suite" and "Music Music") and could be purchased independently. In Great Britain, only the first record of the double album was distributed, with the instrumentals and inserts omitted completely.
The album contained the Rascals' last #1 hit single "People Got To Be Free," which was released in advance of the album in mid-1968. "A Ray of Hope/Any Dance'll Do" (November 1968) and "Heaven/Baby I'm Blue" (February 1969) were also issued as singles.
The political climate of the time helped fuel the songwriting efforts for Freedom Suite; most notably, "People Got to Be Free" was inspired by the April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and "A Ray of Hope" by the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (the latter song's figurative "ray of hope" is surviving Kennedy brother Ted Kennedy). Cavaliere was quoted in Billboard magazine, remarking "After King and Kennedy and what happened in Chicago (i.e., the demonstrations and resulting police actions at the 1968 Democratic National Convention), we just had to say something."
Prior to this album, the Rascals' primary vocalists Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati co-authored most of the band's original songs. On Freedom Suite, however, that trend began to change, with Cavaliere credited as sole author of four of the album's vocal tracks. Brigati's songwriting and vocal contributions would continue to decline on subsequent albums.
Reception
The album was RIAA-certified as a gold record on April 21, 1969, rising to #17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. It also reached #40 on the Billboard Black Albums chart, the last Rascals album to appear there.
It was not especially well received; critic Lester Bangs would later write that Freedom Suite suffered from "excess," while critic Dave Marsh would later write that it "sowed the seeds of the group's demise, [as it] reflected an attempt to join the psychedelic craze."
Writing for Allmusic, critic Thom Jurek wrote of the album "if that outing [Once Upon a Dream] had been ambitious and even visionary, the double Freedom Suite, released in 1969 as the group's fifth album, was off the map. The band dug in and wrote a single LP's worth of solid tunes including a quartet of fine singles."
Track listing
Record One: Freedom Suite
Side One
"America the Beautiful" (Felix Cavaliere) – 2:50
"Me and My Friends" (Gene Cornish) – 2:42
"Any Dance'll Do" (Cavaliere) – 2:19
"Look Around" (Eddie Brigati, Cavaliere) – 3:03
"A Ray of Hope" (Brigati, Cavaliere) – 3:40
Side Two
"Island of Love" (Brigati, Cavaliere) – 2:22
"Of Course" (Brigati, Cavaliere) – 2:40
"Love Was So Easy to Give" (Cornish) – 2:42
"People Got to Be Free" (Brigati, Cavaliere) – 2:57
"Baby I'm Blue" (Cavaliere) – 2:47
"Heaven" (Cavaliere) – 3:22
Record Two: Music Music
Side Three
"Adrian's Birthday" (Cavaliere, Cornish, Dino Danelli) – 4:46
"Boom" (Danelli) – 13:34
Side Four
"Cute" (Brigati, Cavaliere, Cornish, Danelli) – 15:10
Certifications
US-Gold (500,000 copies sold).
Personnel
The Rascals
Felix Cavaliere - organ, piano, lead vocals except as indicated below, backing vocals
Eddie Brigati - conga drums and tambourine on "Cute", lead vocals on "Any Dance'll Do" and "Island of Love", backing vocals
Gene Cornish - guitar, lead vocals on "Me & My Friends" and "Love Was So Easy to Give", backing vocals
Dino Danelli - drums
Additional musicians
Chuck Rainey, Richard Davis, Gerald Jemmott - bass guitar
David Brigati - backing vocals
King Curtis - tenor saxophone solo on "Of Course"
David Newman - tenor saxophone solo on "Adrian's Birthday"
Production
Arif Mardin, Charles Morrow - arrangements
Adrian Barber, Tom Dowd, Don Casale - recording engineers
References
1969 albums
Atlantic Records albums
The Rascals albums
Albums produced by Arif Mardin
Albums produced by Felix Cavaliere
Albums arranged by Arif Mardin
Albums produced by Eddie Brigati
Albums produced by Gene Cornish
Albums produced by Dino Danelli
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K. N. Choksy
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Kairshasp Nariman Choksy, PC, MP (7 February 1933 – 5 February 2015) (known as K. N. Choksy) was a Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
He was Cabinet Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. He had also served as Cabinet Minister of Constitutional & State Affairs from 1993 to 1994 under President D. B. Wijetunga and was a member of parliament from 1989 to 2010 continuiosly.
Early life
Kairshasp N. Choksy belongs to the small, yet well established and respected, Parsi community of Sri Lanka, of which he was the Anjuman former chairman. He was born in Colombo on 7 February 1933. His paternal grandparents had migrated to Colombo from Surat, North of Bombay, in the year 1885 to manage an established business house in the Coconut oil industry at Colombo, belonging to a Bombay Parsi family.
His maternal grandparents were also settled in Colombo, in the export-import trade in food-commodities. They donated the building and land called "Navroze Baug", which is the religious centre of the Colombo Parsi residents.
Kairshasp's father, Nariman K. Choksy, was born in Sri Lanka around the start of the 20th century. He was the first Parsi Advocate in the country. Establishing a lucrative practice on the civil side, he was bestowed the honour by the then British Government of being appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1947, and later served as a Judge of the country's Supreme Court from 1951. With the enactment of Sri Lanka's Citizenship Laws after the Country's independence in 1948, Nariman Choksy found himself (and a few other well established settlers of Indian origin) as becoming "stateless". Upon this being brought to the notice of the incumbent Government, a law was enacted by Parliament in 1950 under which Nariman Choksy qualified for citizenship as a "Distinguished Citizen" of the Country.
Legal career
Choksy received his primary education at S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Kollupitiya, being one of the first students to be admitted to the school at its founding in 1938. He then continued his secondary education at S. Thomas' College Mount Lavinia. From boyhood, he imbued the legal atmosphere in his father's Law Chambers and being called to the Sri Lankan Bar as an Advocate in 1958 rapidly established himself in a leading practice in the civil courts of the metropolis of Colombo. Choksy was appointed as President's Counsel in 1981. He appeared as lead-Counsel on one side or the other in many a civil Cause-celebre.
During the period 1989 to 1992, he successfully defended the country's President Ranasinghe Premadasa, as his Senior-Counsel, in a Petition filed seeking to annul the President's election. The case took 525 days of hearing before five Judges of the Supreme Court, with 911 witnesses testifying.
Political career
He entered the Sri Lanka Parliament in February 1989 as a nominated Member on the National List. The Sri Lankan Constitution makes provision for a limited number of such appointments, so that the Professional and Academic communities could find representation in the Legislature without having to contest at elections.
He held office in Parliament as Minister for Constitutional Affairs and State Affairs from 1993 to 1994, and thereafter as the Country's Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka from 2001 to 2004. Choksy was a Member of Parliament from 1989 to 2010 continuiosly.
Family
Choksy is married to Freny (née Cooper) from Bombay. They have three sons. The eldest, Jamsheed, is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and History and Director of Middle Eastern Studies. He is a scholar in Zoroastrianism and has published several books on religion. The second son, Khursheed, is executive director at the United States Chamber of Commerce in Washington. The third son, Vishtasp, has taken to the family tradition of the Law and practices as a Lawyer in Colombo, the third generation of Choksys to excel in his chosen profession.
See also
Vishtasp Kairshasp Choksy
References
External links
Three generations of Choksys at the Bar
1933 births
2015 deaths
Sri Lankan people of Parsi descent
Sri Lankan Zoroastrians
Alumni of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
Alumni of S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Kollupitiya
20th-century Sri Lankan lawyers
Ceylonese advocates
President's Counsels (Sri Lanka)
United National Party politicians
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
Finance ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan people of Indian descent
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Champika Premadasa
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Abathenna Devayalage Champika Premadasa (born November 4, 1948) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
1948 births
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
Deputy ministers of Sri Lanka
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevudine
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Clevudine
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Clevudine (INN) is an antiviral drug for the treatment of hepatitis B (HBV). It is already approved for HBV in South Korea and the Philippines. It is marketed by Bukwang Pharmaceuticals in South Korea under the tradenames Levovir and Revovir.
Researchers in South Korea are testing clevudine at lower doses in combination with adefovir for continued use.
It is a nucleoside analog.
References
Nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors
Pyrimidinediones
Organofluorides
Arabinosides
Halohydrins
Hydroxymethyl compounds
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjorgji%20Mojsov
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Gjorgji Mojsov
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Gjorgji Mojsov (Macedonian: Ѓopѓи Mojcoв, born 27 May 1985 in Kavadarci) is a professional football coach and former player. Currently he is an assistant coach at Tikvesh in the Macedonian first division.
Club career
He has previously played with Macedonian clubs FK Pelister, FK Vardar and FK Rabotnički, Romanian Oțelul Galați, Hungarian Győri ETO FC and Serbian FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac.
Personal life
He is the older brother of Macedonian international defender Daniel Mojsov.
References
External links
Gjorgji Mojsov at football-lineups.com
Gjorgji Mojsov Stats at Utakmica.rs
1985 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kavadarci
Serbian people of Macedonian descent
Association football midfielders
Macedonian footballers
North Macedonia youth international footballers
FK Pelister players
FK Vardar players
FK Rabotnički players
ASC Oțelul Galați players
Győri ETO FC players
FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac players
FK Horizont Turnovo players
FK Renova players
FC Zhetysu players
FK Sileks players
FK Tikvesh players
Macedonian First Football League players
Liga I players
Serbian SuperLiga players
Kazakhstan Premier League players
Macedonian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Romania
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Expatriate footballers in Serbia
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20H.%20Cegu%20Isadean
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M. H. Cegu Isadean
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Mohamed Hasan Cegu Isadean (born 12 May 1944) is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government minister. He is the founder and chairman of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress and immensely contributed to the development of the party during that time, and is also believed as the person who has written the party's constitution.
He served as the opposition leader of merged North-Eastern provincial council as well and held many deputy ministerial and ministerial portfolios such as Export Development, Mass Media Information, Rural Economic Development and Highways.
References
1944 births
Living people
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Malays
Sri Lankan Muslims
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville%20Colonels%20all-time%20roster
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Louisville Colonels all-time roster
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The following is a list of players and who appeared in at least one game for the Louisville Colonels franchise of Major League Baseball from through . This includes the Louisville Eclipse of the American Association, as well as the Colonels of both the AA and the National League. Players in bold are in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
A
Nick Altrock
Bill Anderson
Wally Andrews
B
Norm Baker
Charley Bassett
Burley Bayer
Ollie Beard
Charlie Bell
Ned Bligh
Charlie Bohn
George Boone
Amos Booth
George Borchers
Eddie Boyle
Kitty Brashear
Grant Briggs
Dan Brouthers
Lew Brown
Tom Brown
William Brown
Pete Browning
Hercules Burnett
Dick Butler
C
Tom Cahill
Scoops Carey
Fred Carl
Pete Cassidy
Elton Chamberlain
Bill Childers
Bob Clark
Win Clark
Dad Clarke
Fred Clarke
Josh Clarke
Fritz Clausen
Monk Cline
Billy Clingman
Hub Collins
Jimmy Collins
John Connor
Paul Cook
Henry Cote
Harry Croft
Jack Crooks
Amos Cross
Joe Cross
Lave Cross
Joe Crotty
Billy Crowell
Bert Cunningham
D
Ed Daily
Jack Darragh
Harry Davis
Ren Deagle
George Decker
Tom Delahanty
Jerry Denny
Charlie Dexter
Buttercup Dickerson
Joe Dolan
Patsy Donovan
Harry Dooms
John Doran
Pete Dowling
Tom Dowse
Denny Driscoll
Sam Dungan
John Dyler
E
Billy Earle
Henry Easterday
Red Ehret
Bones Ely
Charlie Emig
Dude Esterbrook
Frank Eustace
Roy Evans
John Ewing
F
Clay Fauver
Charles Fisher
Warren Fitzgerald
Pat Flaherty
Patsy Flaherty
Ed Flanagan
Paddy Fox
Chick Fraser
Frank Freund
Eddie Fusselback
G
John Galligan
Mike Gaule
Billy Geer
Joe Gerhardt
Tom Gettinger
Pete Gilbert
Jack Glasscock
Bill Gleason
Jack Gleason
Herb Goodall
John Grim
Billy Gumbert
H
Irv Hach
Charlie Hamburg
Jerry Harrington
Topsy Hartsel
Bill Hassamaer
Gil Hatfield
John Healy
Guy Hecker
Jack Heinzman
George Hemming
Ducky Hemp
Art Herman
Bill Hill
Ducky Holmes
Dummy Hoy
Rudy Hulswitt
Bill Hunter
I
Bert Inks
John Irwin
J
Hughie Jennings
Abbie Johnson
Alex Jones
Jim Jones
Mike Jones
Ri Jones
K
Mike Kelley
Bill Kemmer
Ted Kennedy
John Kerins
Fred Ketcham
Matt Kilroy
Tom Kinslow
Malachi Kittridge
Bill Kling
Phil Knell
Joe Kostal
Charlie Krehmeyer
Bill Kuehne
L
Fred Lake
Bob Langsford
Sam LaRocque
Juice Latham
Tacks Latimer
Tommy Leach
Jack Leary
Thomas Long
Jim Long
Pat Luby
Con Lucid
Henry Luff
Luke Lutenberg
M
Denny Mack
Reddy Mack
Bill Magee
Lou Mahaffey
Frank Martin
Harry Maskrey
Leech Maskrey
Al Mays
Harry McCaffery
Barry McCormick
Tom McCreery
Mike H. McDermott
Mike J. McDermott
Alex McFarlan
Dan McFarlan
Herm McFarland
Ambrose McGann
Tom McLaughlin
George Meakim
Jouett Meekin
Jock Menefee
Ed Merrill
Bill Merritt
Tom Messitt
Bert Miller
Doggie Miller
Joe Miller
Dan Minnehan
Tom Morrison
Tony Mullane
Clarence Murphy
Miah Murray
N
Kid Nance
Joe Neale
George Nicol
O
John O'Brien
Dan O'Connor
Tim O'Rourke
P
Harrison Peppers
Pat Pettee
Fred Pfeffer
Dan Phelan
Deacon Phillippe
Ollie Pickering
Gracie Pierce
George Pinkney
Doc Powers
Walt Preston
Walter Prince
Q
R
Toad Ramsey
Harry Raymond
John Reccius
Phil Reccius
Nick Reeder
Billy Rhines
Danny Richardson
John Richter
Claude Ritchey
Jim Rogers
Chief Roseman
Bill Rotes
Jack Ryan
S
Ben Sanders
Jimmy Say
Al Schellhase
Bill Schenck
Harry Scherer
Ossee Schreckengost
Emmett Seery
Dan Shannon
Frank Shannon
Tim Shinnick
Frank Shugart
Harry Smith
Heinie Smith
Ollie Smith
Pop Smith
Skyrocket Smith
Tom Smith
Cooney Snyder
Harry Spies
Ed Springer
General Stafford
Farmer Steelman
Len Stockwell
Tom Stouch
Sammy Strang
Scott Stratton
Joe Strauss
Charles Strick
Dan Sullivan
Sleeper Sullivan
Tom Sullivan
Dan Sweeney
Pete Sweeney
Lou Sylvester
T
Billy Taylor
Harry Taylor
Tom Terrell
Frank Todd
Phil Tomney
John Traffley
George Treadway
Mike Trost
Larry Twitchell
U
V
Farmer Vaughn
Peek-A-Boo Veach
Lee Viau
W
Rube Waddell
Jack Wadsworth
Honus Wagner
John Warner
Farmer Weaver
Sam Weaver
Pete Weckbecker
Curt Welch
Tub Welch
Jack Wentz
Perry Werden
Joe Werrick
Gus Weyhing
Lew Whistler
Bill White
Ed Whiting
Bill Whitrock
Harry Wilhelm
Dave Wills
Bill Wilson
George Winkleman
Jimmy Wolf
Walt Woods
Joe Wright
Y
Z
Fred Zahner
Chief Zimmer
External links
Baseball Reference
Major League Baseball all-time rosters
Louisville Colonels, Roster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Province%20of%20Matera
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List of municipalities of the Province of Matera
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The following is a list of the 31 municipalities (comuni) of the Province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Matera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%20Richley
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Len Richley
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Lionel "Len" Richley (2 July 1924 – after 1970) was an English footballer who made 72 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half for Hartlepools United in the 1950s. He went on to manage non-league clubs Holbeach United and King's Lynn and league clubs Rochdale and Darlington.
Managerial statistics
Source:
References
1924 births
Year of death missing
Footballers from Gateshead
English footballers
Association football wing halves
Tonbridge Angels F.C. players
Crystal Palace F.C. players
Hartlepool United F.C. players
Holbeach United F.C. players
English Football League players
English football managers
Holbeach United F.C. managers
King's Lynn F.C. managers
Rochdale A.F.C. managers
Darlington F.C. managers
English Football League managers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20Route%20747
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Ohio State Route 747
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State Route 747 (SR 747) is a north–south state highway in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. It connects with SR 4 at both ends, from a signalized intersection in Glendale at the south end to a signalized intersection approximately west of SR 63 near Monroe at the north end, bypassing Fairfield and Hamilton in the process. SR 747 is also known as Princeton-Glendale Road.
Route description
Along its way, SR 747 passes through northern Hamilton County and southern Butler County. No portion of SR 747 is included within the National Highway System, a system of routes deemed most important for the country's economy, mobility and defense.
History
When it was designated in 1937, SR 747 followed the same routing between SR 4 in Glendale and SR 4 near Monroe that it utilizes to this day. The highway has not experienced any major changes to its routing since it was established.
Major intersections
References
747
Transportation in Butler County, Ohio
Transportation in Hamilton County, Ohio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramalingam%20Chandrasekar
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Ramalingam Chandrasekar
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Ramalingam Chandrasekar (born 22 January 1963) is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
1963 births
Living people
Sri Lankan Hindus
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Deputy chairmen of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20M.%20Chandrasena
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S. M. Chandrasena
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Samarakoon Mudiyanselage Chandrasena (born May 3, 1955) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister. He has one child. His brother is former chief minister of North Central province, S. M. Ranjith. He is a famous politician in Anuradhapura District.
References
1955 births
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
People from Anuradhapura
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Clooney%20Sings%20the%20Music%20of%20Cole%20Porter
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Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Cole Porter
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Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Cole Porter is a 1982 album by Rosemary Clooney, of songs by Cole Porter.
Track listing
"In the Still of the Night" – 3:22
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" – 4:10
"I Get a Kick Out of You" – 3:43
"Get Out of Town" – 3:22
"I Concentrate on You" – 5:53
"Just One of Those Things" – 4:07
"I've Got You Under My Skin" – 3:52
"It's De-Lovely" – 3:09
"You're the Top" – 3:14
"Anything Goes" – 3:01
All music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
Personnel
Rosemary Clooney – vocal
Scott Hamilton - tenor saxophone
Warren Vache - cornet and flugelhorn
David Ladd - flute
Cal Tjader - vibraphone
Nat Pierce - piano
Cal Collins - guitar
Bob Maize - bass
Jake Hanna - drums
References
1982 albums
Cole Porter tribute albums
Concord Records albums
Rosemary Clooney albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20massacres%20in%20Peru
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List of massacres in Peru
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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Peru (numbers may be approximate):
References
Peru
Massacres
Internal conflict in Peru
Massacres
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song%20Seon-mi
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Song Seon-mi
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Song Seon-mi (born September 13, 1974) is a South Korean actress.
Career
Song Seon-mi won second place at the Super Elite Model Contest in 1996, then transitioned from a modeling career to acting a year later in the television drama Model (1997).
In 1998, Song made her film debut playing dual roles as an art gallery employee and a soldier's ex-girlfriend in Lee Jeong-hyang's critically acclaimed romantic comedy Art Museum by the Zoo, opposite Ahn Sung-ki. This was followed by the gangster comedy My Boss, My Hero (2001). Though Song is more active in television, notable in her filmography are two arthouse films by auteur Hong Sang-soo. For Woman on the Beach (2006), she and her co-stars agreed to appear in the film even without reading Hong's script. While in The Day He Arrives (2011), Song played a film studies professor who frequents a bar in Bukchon.
Back on the small screen, her popularity rose when she played a young housewife in Precious Family (2004), written by Kim Soo-hyun. Leading roles followed in The Secret Lovers (2005), One Day Suddenly (2006), Green Coach (2009), Mrs. Town (2009), and Dandelion Family (2010), as well as a supporting role in the well-received medical drama Behind the White Tower (2007).
In 2012, Song was cast as a capable trauma nurse in Golden Time. She later reunited with its director Kwon Seok-jang in Miss Korea (2013), set in 1997 during the IMF crisis.
Song starred in her first ever period drama in 2013's Blooded Palace: The War of Flowers. She drew praise for her portrayal of the Crown Princess Lady Kang, Crown Prince Sohyeon's wife, despite controversy involving a breastfeeding scene.
Personal life
Song married art director Go Woo-seok, who she met through mutual acquaintances and dated for one year, on June 29, 2006.
In 2009, she left talent agency Contents Entertainment to join a new agency set up by her former manager Mr. Yu, Hoya Entertainment; this resulted in a breach of contract lawsuit.
Then in January 2013, Song was charged with slander for allegedly insulting Mr. Kim, CEO of Contents Entertainment, at a press conference for a drama held in July 2012.
On August 21, 2017, her husband, Go Woo-seok, was murdered by a 28-year-old man during an argument.
Filmography
Television series
Film
Variety show
Theater
Book
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
20th-century South Korean actresses
21st-century South Korean actresses
L&Holdings artists
People from South Chungcheong Province
South Korean film actresses
South Korean stage actresses
South Korean television actresses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humewood%20Road%20railway%20station
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Humewood Road railway station
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Humewood Road railway station is a railway station located in Humewood, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
A separate station to the main Port Elizabeth railway station, built in 1899, it is the southern terminus of the narrow gauge Avontuur Railway, which at is the longest 2 ft gauge railway in the world. The Humewood Road-Humansdorp section of the Avontuur Railway was opened on November, 1905.
References
Buildings and structures in Port Elizabeth
Railway stations in South Africa
Transport in the Eastern Cape
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Leneuf%20de%20la%20Valli%C3%A8re%20de%20Beaubassin
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Michel Leneuf de la Vallière de Beaubassin
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Michel Le Neuf de la Vallière de Beaubassin (the elder) (1640 – 1705) was a military figure who became a governor of Acadia under French control. He was the son of Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie and Marguerite Legardeur, who both originally came from Normandy and together with their extended families settled in Canada.
The Le Neuf family came from Caen, France, and settled in Trois-Rivières, Canada, in 1636. They were the first nobles to settle in New France and held positions of power and prestige through several generations.
References
External links
Leneuf, Michel (the elder)
1640 births
1705 deaths
Military personnel from Caen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypenodinae
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Hypenodinae
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The Hypenodinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae. Adult moths of most species of this subfamily lack small, simple eyes near the large, compound eyes and have quadrifine (four-veined) hindwing cells. The micronoctuid moths are an exception because they possess simple eyes and bifine (two-veined) hindwing cells.
Taxonomy
Phylogenetic studies have shown that this subfamily should include the micronoctuid moths as a Micronoctuini tribe.
Genera
Tribe unassigned
Anachrostis Hampson, 1893
Dasyblemma Dyar, 1923
Dyspyralis Warren, 1891
Hypenodes Doubleday, 1850
Luceria Walker, 1859
Parahypenodes Barnes & McDunnough, 1918
Schrankia Hübner, [1825]
Tribe Micronoctuini
See Micronoctuini for subtribes and genera.
References
Moth subfamilies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jag%20Mundhra
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Jag Mundhra
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Jagmohan "Jag" Mundhra (29 October 1948 – 4 September 2011) was an Indian director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for his early career as an American exploitation film writer-director.
Family and early life
Mundhra was born at Nagpur and grew up in a Marwari locality in Calcutta in a conservative family where films were frowned upon. He nevertheless nurtured a secret ambition to become a filmmaker. His childhood, as of other Indians of his generation, was a tough one, counting pennies for the tram that rode to the other, affluent side of the city, and withstanding his family's strict traditions. According to Mundhra, "The family was very conservative and my grand mother was very strict and we were allowed to see maybe a couple of films a year and that too of the Har Har Mahadev variety. ... Even as a child I never saw myself as a young Marwari boy but a lot beyond that. In those days, the word global citizen was not there, but inside I felt like one".
A key influence on Mundhra was his admission to the highly competitive and prestigious IIT Bombay. In his words, "I had studied in a Hindi medium school up to 9th grade and always admired people who spoke English fluently. IIT taught me a lot of humility. In my wing, there were students who were from different states, and as far as English went, this person from Bihar who couldn't speak English to save his life outshone everyone else with his brilliance. I did well, but realized very early on while in IIT that engineering was not for me. I would be very unhappy if I was to live my life being an engineer, but I stuck it out because I didn't want to let my parents down". He pursued a master's degree in electrical engineering but switched to a PhD program in motion pictures at University of Michigan, before embarking on his film career.
Career
After his first dramas, Suraag (1982), and the socially-relevant film, Kamla (1984), Mundhra directed, in the late 1980s and the 1990s, a string of horror and erotic thriller movies for theatrical distribution and direct to video, including The Jigsaw Murders (1988), Hack-O-Lantern (1988), Night Eyes (1990), The Other Women (1992), L.A. Goddess (1993), Sexual Malice (1994), Tales of The Kama Sutra: The Perfumed Garden (2000), and Tales of The Kama Sutra 2: Monsoon (2001).
Beginning with Bawandar (2000), which he directed under the name Jagmohan, Mundhra was back to issue-oriented films. Bawandar is about the fight of a poor woman for justice and was based on the story of a Rajasthani woman, Bhanwari Devi. After the film's release, Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, called Mundhra and said, "Aapke bawandar ne bada bawander machaya hai." He gave Rs 50,000 and land to Bhanwari Devi and also money for her son's education. To Mundhra, "It's not a movie about rape, but the empowerment of a woman. This character could be fictitious and yet the story would have had the same powerful message". In his own words, Kamla, Bawandar and Provoked (2006) are his trilogy of strong female-centric films.
At the time of his death, Mundhra was working on a film based on the life of Sonia Gandhi. Mundhra was also a life member of the International Film & Television Club of the Asian Academy of Film & Television.
Filmography
Suraag (1982)
Kamla (1984)
The Jigsaw Murders (1988)
Hack-O-Lantern (1988)
Night Eyes (1990)
Legal Tender (1991)
The Other Women (1992)
L.A. Goddess (1993)
Sexual Malice (1994)
Improper Conduct (1994)
Tales of The Kama Sutra: The Perfumed Garden (2000)
Tales of The Kama Sutra 2: Monsoon (2001)
Bawandar (2000)
Personal life
Mundhra is the father of Academy Award-nominated director/producer Smriti Mundhra.
Death
Mundhra died in Mumbai on 4 September 2011, aged 62, from pneumonia and multiple organ failure.
References
External links
1948 births
2011 deaths
IIT Bombay alumni
Michigan State University alumni
American film directors of Indian descent
Indian male screenwriters
Hindi-language film directors
Indian emigrants to the United States
Indian documentary filmmakers
American screenwriters of Indian descent
American people of Indian descent
American businesspeople
Deaths from pneumonia in India
Film directors from Maharashtra
Artists from Nagpur
Film producers from Maharashtra
20th-century Indian film directors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Cuvillier
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Frédéric Cuvillier
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Frédéric Cuvillier (born at Boulogne-sur-Mer on 9 December 1968) is a French politician who, until his appointment as Junior Minister for Transport and the Maritime Economy at the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy by President François Hollande on 16 May 2012, was a member of the National Assembly of France, where he represented the 5th constituency of Pas-de-Calais on behalf of the Parti Socialiste. He was mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer from 22 November 2002 until 2012, when he became Secretary of State for Transport and the Maritime Economy.
Career
National government
Secretary of State for Transport and the Maritime Economy (renamed Transport, the Sea and Fisheries) at the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy : 16 May 2012 – 25 August 2014
Elected posts
National Assembly of France
Member of the National Assembly of France for the 5th constituency of Pas-de-Calais : 2007–2012 (Became minister in 2012). Elected in 2007, re-elected in 2012.
General council
Member of the Pas-de-Calais General Council for the Canton of Le Portel : 2004–2007 (Resigned)
Agglomeration community council
Chairman of the Boulonnais Agglomeration Community : 2008–2012 (Resignation).
Vice-chairman of the Boulonnais Agglomeration Community : 1996–2008 (Re-elected in 2001)
Member Boulonnais Agglomeration Community : Since 1996. Re-elected in 2001, 2008.
Municipal council
Mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer : 2002–2012 (Resignation). Re-elected in 2008
Deputy mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer : 1996–2002 (Re-elected in 2001)
Member of Boulogne-sur-Mer Municipal Council : since 1996 (Re-elected in 2001, 2008)
References
1968 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
People from Boulogne-sur-Mer
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Meisch
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Claude Meisch
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Claude Meisch (born 27 November 1971, in Pétange) is a Luxembourg politician with a degree in financial mathematics from Trier university. Meisch was appointed Minister of Education in 2013 in the government of Xavier Bettel. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 1999 and Mayor of Differdange since 2002. He was President of the Democratic Party (DP) from 2004 until 2013, of which he has been a member since 1994.
Born in Pétange, in the south-west of the country, Meisch attended the town's Lycée technique Mathias-Adam, before studying at the University of Trier, in Germany. After graduating, he worked for the private Banque de Luxembourg. Meisch was Vice-President of the Democratic and Liberal Youth, the DP's youth wing, from 1995 until 2000.
Meisch ran for the Chamber of Deputies, to represent Sud, in the 1999 election. Meisch finished sixth amongst DP candidates, with the top four being elected. However, the election saw the DP become kingmakers, giving them enough leverage over the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) to allow them to appoint seven Democratic deputies, including Henri Grethen and Eugène Berger, to the new government. Grethen insisted that Berger be appointed along with him, specifically so that Meisch could enter the Chamber. With Grethen and Berger required to vacate their seats to take up their government positions, Meisch filled in the gap and entered the Chamber of Deputies on 12 August 1999.
In the 2004 legislative election, Meisch was re-elected to the Chamber directly, placing second amongst DP candidates in an election that saw the party's representation from Sud reduced from four to two. The result was bad for the DP across the country, losing five seats and seeing them replaced as the Christian Social People's Party's (CSV) coalition partners by the LSAP. After the election, Lydie Polfer resigned as DP President, having served the term limit imposed by the party's statutes. Meisch was the only candidate put forward to replace her, and recorded a 90% vote in his favour (between him and none of the above), holding the position since 10 October 2004.
The 2005 election to Differdange communal council saw Meisch score an 'historic' victory, in leading the DP to buck the national trend and greatly increase their vote: winning 43% of the vote and winning eight seats. Meisch thus remained as mayor, heading a coalition with the Greens, although the size of the victory allowed Meisch to choose his coalition partner from any of the other three parties.
In the 2009 legislative election, Meisch was re-elected, winning more votes that any other Democratic candidate in the entire country, and winning more than twice as many votes as Eugène Berger, who placed second on the DP list in Sud. The party nationwide fell 1.1% of the vote and lost a seat. Immediately after the election, Meisch ruled out a coalition with the CSV, so the DP continued in opposition.
In 2020, Meisch was at the centre of controversy when, as Minister of Education, he forced the Luxembourgish public schools to reopen in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic despite protests from the teachers union (SNE) and an online petition from 23,000 concerned parents urging him not to do so. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Education stated that "parents have no say in the matter".
Footnotes
External links
Chamber of Deputies official website biography
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Luxembourgian economists
1971 births
Living people
People from Pétange
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Burnett%20%28New%20Zealand%20politician%29
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Thomas Burnett (New Zealand politician)
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Thomas David Burnett (25 November 1877 – 30 November 1941) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party, and joined the National Party after the 1935 election.
Early life
Burnett's parents were Andrew Burnett and Catherine Burnett from Strathnaver in the Scottish Highlands, with the locality named after the river of the same name. His parents arrived in Canterbury, New Zealand in 1861 and proceeded to the Mackenzie Basin. In May 1864, they selected the Mount Cook Station, so named after the adjacent mountain, and developed it into a sheep station.
Burnett was born on 25 November 1877, according to the contemporary advertisement, at the "residence" of the Burnetts. Later sources record his place of birth as Timaru or Cave (some north-west of Timaru), The Burnetts had eight children and to provide better access to education, they purchased land in Cave in 1873 and built a homestead there. To be even closer to the schools in Timaru, Andrew Burnett had a home built in Timaru's Perth Street in 1876; this house became the South Canterbury Museum after Thomas Burnett's death.
Burnett received his education at Timaru Main Primary and Timaru Boys' High School.
Farming
Upon leaving school, Burnett worked on Mount Cook Station, which he inherited on his father's death in 1927. In late 2015, the property was for the first time put up for sale, after 151 years in family ownership.
Political career
Burnett was for some years a member of the Mackenzie County Council. In the , he challenged Charles Talbot of the Liberal Party, the incumbent in the electorate. Burnett was successful, with a narrow majority of 31 votes, a 0.47% margin.
He represented the rural Temuka electorate until his death in 1941.
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.
Community involvement
TD was an advocate of extensive tree planting on a bare landscape and there is an unusual and well-known inscription to that effect on the Burkes Pass monument. In about 1918, Burnett had the memorial built with the wording “Ye who enter the portals of the Mackenzie to found homes, take the word of a child of the misty gorges and plant forest trees for your lives, so shall your mountain facings and river flats be preserved for your children’s children and for evermore – 1917.” A century later the creep of wilding pines from Mount Cook Station into the surrounding country would have brought no joy to him. He paid for another memorial at the Mackenzie Pass to commemorate outlaw James Mackenzie who drove a mob of stolen sheep through the pass and thereby became the first European to explore what became the Mackenzie Country. He had St. David's Memorial Church built in Cave.
As the instigator of the Downlands Water Supply he won wide praise for a scheme that provided a reliable water supply to the hill country west of Timaru, known as Downlands. The £200,000 project, built between 1938 and 1940, takes water from the Tengawai River and disperses it through 1,400 kilometres of pipes.
The Burnett's Cave property, Aorangi, is opposite the St David's Church. The grand gates were built during the 1933 depression by Charlie Groves and illustrate the class structure of the time, with a main gate for the residents and separate side gates, one for English workers, the other for Irish workers. It was perhaps a joke.
A memorial to the work of T.D.Burnett along the road near Cave says”
“Erected by grateful ratepayers to commemorate the work of THOMAS DAVID BURNETT
in fostering the Downlands Water Supply.
Here weary beasts shall drink for many a day,
Here travellers shall rest beside the way,
And think upon the man whose wise forethought
Such lasting work of loving kindness wrought.
As he once stood, his monument shall stand,
A steadfast witness in a changing land."
TD died in 1941 and is buried on a hill slope on Mount Cook Station. The coffin was moved by dray then manhandled to Rock Etam where the gravesite overlooks the majestic Tasman Valley. TD was a big man and the coffin was lead-lined. A cairn marks the spot.
Family and death
His mother died on 9 July 1914 after a short illness. His father died in September 1927. Thomas Burnett died on 30 November 1941, survived by his wife, his son and his daughter.
References
External links
Burnett biography hosted by Rootsweb
New Zealand National Party MPs
Reform Party (New Zealand) MPs
1877 births
1941 deaths
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates
People educated at Timaru Boys' High School
Local politicians in New Zealand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Copeland
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Ann Copeland
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Ann Copeland is the pen name of Virginia Walsh Furtwangler (born December 16, 1932), an American-Canadian writer. She was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1989 Governor General's Awards for her short story collection The Golden Thread.
Biography
Born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, she was educated at the Catholic University of America and Cornell University. She married Albert Furtwangler in 1968, and moved to Sackville, New Brunswick, where Albert taught at Mount Allison University.
She has published five short story collections and an instructional guide to writing fiction.
She returned to the United States in 1996, and is currently a professor emeritus at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
Selected works
At Peace (1978)
The Back Room (1979)
Earthen Vessels (1984)
The Golden Thread (1989)
Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore (1994)
The ABCs of Writing Fiction (1996)
Season of Apples (1996)
Awards and honors
Shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1989 Governor General's Awards
References
1932 births
Living people
American women short story writers
Canadian women short story writers
20th-century Canadian short story writers
Cornell University alumni
Writers from New Brunswick
Writers from Hartford, Connecticut
20th-century Canadian women writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Dayaratna
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P. Dayaratna
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Petikirige Dayaratna (born October 1, 1936) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was elected to Ampara electorate in 1977 as a Member of Parliament from the United National Party.
Biography
Petikirige Dayaratna was born on October 1, 1936. His parents were Petikirige Wimalasena and Dehipitiyage Leelawathie Gunawardene of Wethera village, Polgasowita. Born in the maternal ancestral home in the hamlet of Godigamuwa in Kalutara District, he received his basic education in the school of his home town, Wethara, and in 1947 entered Ananda College, Colombo, to complete his secondary education. In 1961, he gained admission to Brighton Technical College, England, where he graduated as an electrical engineer in 1965 and returned home on April 23, 1965. On May 17, 1965, he joined state service as an Assistant Electrical Engineer of Gal Oya Development Board stationed at Ampara.
In 1965 he was appointed the electrical engineer of the Department of Government Electrical Undertakings, which, during his tenure of office, became the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB).
At the 1970 General Election, Ampara was the citadel of leftist forces, and Dayaratna, who resigned from government service and contested the Ampara seat, lost to his rival, Somaratne Senarath, a staunch leftist from Ampara.
While serving as the electrical engineer of CEB in August 1967, Dayaratna was elected as the President of the Mandala Mahaviharaya Buddhist Society of Ampara Town and under the guidance of Ven. Dodamduwe Dhammaratana Nayaka Thera, completed the construction work of the Cetiya within two years.
Dayaratna married Deepthika Dayaratna on June 2, 1971. The couple have three children.
With the blessings of then UNP Leader J. R. Jayewardene, he contested the Ampara seat at the 1977 General Election and won with a majority of 8,000 votes recording the first-ever victory for the UNP in Ampara electorate.
In October 1978 he became the District Minister for Ampara, in 1981 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Power and Energy and became Minister in 1987. In February 1989 he was given the portfolio of Lands, Irrigation and Mahaweli Development and in April 1991 he was made the Minister of Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Social Welfare.
Although the UNP lost power at the General Election in 1994, Dayaratna was re-elected as a UNP member for Ampara District. He was re-elected at the subsequent elections held in 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2010. He was the Minister of Health, Nutrition and Welfare of under the UNF Government. In 2007 he joined the UPFA with 17 others to support Mahinda Rajapaksa, but joined the UNP in 2015.
See also
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
References
External links
1936 births
Living people
Members of the 8th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sinhalese engineers
District ministers of Sri Lanka
Social affairs ministers of Sri Lanka
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Lefebvre
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Frédéric Lefebvre
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Frédéric Lefebvre (; born 14 October 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French politician who served as Secretary of State for Trade, Small and Medium Enterprises, Tourism, Services, Liberal professions and Consumption under the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, François Baroin, in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. From 2008 to 2009 and from 2013 until 2017, he was a member of the National Assembly, representing the Hauts-de-Seine department. He is also the founder of l'Ame Nord, a non-profit organization dedicated to serve the interests of French residents living in the US and Canada.
Political career
Lefebvre was first elected to the National Assembly in the 2007 elections. In parliament, he served on the Finance Committee from 2007 until 2009. In 2008, he introduced an amendment to President Nicolas Sarkozy's immigration law to allow illegal foreign employees to apply for work permits if their employers can show they are important to the economy.
Lefebvre was the UMP's candidate in the for First constituency for French residents overseas (for French expatriates in Canada and the United States) in the 2012 legislative election, but lost against Corinne Narassiguin, who received 54.01% of the votes. On 15 February 2013, the Constitutional Council canceled the election and said Corinne Narassiguin ineligible. He topped the first round of the early parliamentary elections, and after the second round, 9 June 2013, he was elected against the Socialist candidate, Frank Scemama, with 53.72% of the vote. He subsequently served on the Defence Committee from 2013 until 2017.
Lefebvre was a candidate in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
In the 2017 elections, Lefebvre lost his re-election race against Roland Lescure, the candidate of La République En Marche! (LREM); Lescure won 80 percent of the vote, to Lefebvre's 20 percent.
In November 2017, Lefebvre was among the co-founders of Agir and served as the party's vice-chairman. In 2019, however, he joined LREM.
References
External links
His official site
1963 births
Living people
People from Neuilly-sur-Seine
Politicians from Île-de-France
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Agir (France) politicians
Secretaries of State of France
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
La République En Marche! politicians
20th-century French lawyers
Members of Parliament for French people living outside France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryne%20Douglas%20Pearson
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Ryne Douglas Pearson
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Ryne Douglas Pearson (born August 15, 1964) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and YouTube cooking show host.
His YouTube channel "Cooking With Ry" focuses on outdoor cooking, grilling, and barbecue.
Works
Novels
Art Jefferson series:
Cloudburst, AKA Thunder One (1993)
October's Ghost (1995)
Capitol Punishment (1995)
Simple Simon (1996)
Simon Sees (2018)
Top Ten (1999)
Confessions (2010)
All for One (2010)
The Donzerly Light (2010)
District One series:
Cop Killer (2013)
Short story collections
Dark and Darker (2010). Contains 4 short stories:
"Beholder"
"Creation"
"The Key"
"Shark"
Short stories
Uncollected short stories.
"Get A Good Tree Or Die Trying" (2011)
Nonfiction
Do Not Call... or Else (2013)
Films
Mercury Rising (1998), based on the 1996 novel Simple Simon
Knowing (2009), wrote the concept story and helped write the script, also co-producer.
References
External links
1964 births
American male screenwriters
Living people
American male novelists
People from Los Angeles
Novelists from California
Screenwriters from California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Reiss
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Frédéric Reiss
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Frédéric Reiss (born 12 November 1949) is a French teacher and politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2002 elections, representing the Bas-Rhin department. On the local level, he is the mayor of Niederbronn-les-Bains, Bas-Rhin.
Political career
In parliament, Reiss has been serving on the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education since 2002. In this capacity, he was the parliament's rapporteur on the national budget for research in 2020.
In addition to his committee assignments, Reiss is part of the French-Moldovan Parliamentary Friendship Group. In 2019, he also joined the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.
Other activities
Franco-German Youth Office, Member of the Board of Directors
Political positions
Ahead of the 2017 elections, Reiss endorsed François Fillon as the Republican's candidate for president. Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, he publicly declared his support for Michel Barnier as the Republicans’ candidate. He did not seek re-election in the 2022 French legislative election.
References
1949 births
Living people
People from Haguenau
Mayors of places in Grand Est
Radical Party (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
The Social Right
Modern and Humanist France
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
French people of German descent
Members of Parliament for Bas-Rhin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham%20rail%20disaster
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Soham rail disaster
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The Soham rail disaster occurred on 2 June 1944, during the Second World War, when a fire developed on the leading wagon of a heavy ammunition train. The wagon contained a quantity of high explosive bombs. The train crew had detached the wagon from the rest of the train and were drawing it away when the cargo exploded. The fireman of the train and the signalman at Soham signalbox were killed and several other people injured. The driver, Benjamin Gimbert, and fireman, James Nightall, were both awarded the George Cross for preventing further damage which would have occurred if the rest of the train had exploded.
Details
At 12.15 a.m. on 2 June 1944 a heavy freight train left Whitemoor marshalling yard, near in Cambridgeshire. The train comprised WD Austerity 2-8-0 engine No. 7337, 51 wagons and brake van heading for Ipswich. The cargo on the train consisted of 44 wagons containing a total weight of 400 tons of bombs and a further 7 wagons containing other components e.g. tail fins. On board the engine were 41-year-old driver Benjamin Gimbert and 22-year-old fireman James Nightall; the train guard was Herbert Clarke.
About 90 minutes later the train was approaching Soham station when the driver looked back to see flames coming from the leading wagon which contained 44 general purpose bombs - a total weight of . Gimbert brought the train to a stop and, rather than running for safety, instructed Nightall to uncouple the first wagon from the rest of the train. Nightall managed this quickly although the fire was now quite serious. Gimbert started to draw the wagon away and had moved it about and was still alongside the platforms at Soham station when the bombs went off. A much more severe explosion was averted by the men's actions.
The resulting blast killed Nightall immediately. Signalman Frank Bridges, who was on the opposite platform, died the next day. Gimbert, though badly injured, survived. Guard Clarke, although stunned by the blast and suffering from shock, managed to walk to the next signal box to warn the signalman there what had happened. Apart from these four men, five others suffered severe injuries and another 22 minor injuries. The explosion created a crater in diameter and deep, the station buildings were almost demolished and there was damage severe or moderate to over 700 properties within .
Despite the severity of the explosion, emergency repairs meant that the line was open to freight traffic within eighteen hours and passenger traffic resumed the next day.
Locomotive 7337 was extensively damaged by the explosion but was repaired and returned to service. It later served on the Longmoor Military Railway in Hampshire as No. 400 Sir Guy Williams, and was scrapped in 1967.
Cause
The cause of the fire was never fully explained. The wagon had previously been used to carry a load of bulk sulphur powder and although it would have been cleaned in between loads, the possibility remained that some of the powder was still present. Although the wagon was sheeted, the theory advanced was that a cinder from the engine had landed in the wagon and had ignited some sulphur which in turn set alight the wooden body of the wagon.
Aftermath
Although this was still a sizeable explosion, the effect and damage was little compared to what would have happened if the entire train load of bombs had exploded. The conduct of the driver and fireman in attempting, and succeeding, in reducing the result of the incident was recognised by the award in July 1944 of the George Cross to both men. The citation for the awards read
As an ammunition train was pulling into a station in Cambridgeshire, the driver, Gimbert, discovered that the wagon next to the engine was on fire. He immediately drew Nightall's attention to the fire and brought the train to a standstill. By the time the train had stopped the whole of the truck was enveloped in flames and, realising the danger, the driver instructed the fireman to try to uncouple the truck immediately behind the blazing vehicle. Without the slightest hesitation Nightall, although he knew that the truck contained explosives, uncoupled the vehicle and rejoined his driver on the footplate.
The blazing van was close to the station buildings and was obviously liable to endanger life in the village. The driver and
fireman realised that it was essential to separate the truck from the remainder of the train and run it into the open. Driver
Gimbert set the engine in motion and as he approached a signal box he warned the signalman to stop any trains which were
likely to be involved and indicated what he intended to do. Almost immediately the vehicle blew up. Nightall was killed and
Gimbert was very severely injured.
Gimbert and Nightall were fully aware of the contents of the wagon which was on fire and displayed outstanding courage and resource in endeavouring to isolate it. When they discovered that the wagon was on fire they could easily have left the train and sought shelter, but realising that if they did not remove the burning vehicle the whole of the train, which consisted of 51 wagons of explosives, would have blown up, they risked their lives in order to minimise the effect of the fire. There is no doubt that if the whole train had been involved, as it would have been but for the gallant action of the men concerned, there would have been serious loss of life and property.
Memorial
A permanent memorial was unveiled on 2 June 2007 by Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester followed by a service in St Andrew's Church, Soham. The memorial is constructed of Portland stone with a bronze inlay depicting interpretive artwork of the damaged train as well as text detailing the incident.
Both Gimbert and Nightall had Class 47 locomotives named after them, although the nameplates have since been transferred to Class 66 locomotives. However, 47579 also retains its name in preservation.
Soham station was closed to passengers in 1965. After over 50 years it was reopened in December 2021. A plaque in memory of the four railwaymen involved was unveiled at the reopening.
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Soham Online: The 2 June 1944 train explosion
Railway accidents and incidents in Cambridgeshire
History of Cambridgeshire
1944 in England
Railway accidents in 1944
20th century in Cambridgeshire
Accidents and incidents involving London and North Eastern Railway
1944 disasters in the United Kingdom
June 1944 events
Soham
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Starcke%20House%20%28703%20Main%20Street%29
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Richard Starcke House (703 Main Street)
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The Richard Starcke House is a historic house located at 703 Main Street, Bastrop, Texas, United States. The house was built in 1913 by Richard Starcke, a prominent Bastrop businessman, for himself and his wife Mary.
The house is a clapboard covered modified American Foursquare design with some Victorian architecture, American Craftsman and Prairie School elements incorporated.
In 1931, Richard died. Mary remained in the home. Upon her death in 1961, the house passed through several owners and, in 1966, into bank foreclosure. The house was purchased at auction by Lt. Col. Johnnie Zinn and Ernestine Moncure Zinn. The house served as the Zinn's home until 1987 and entered the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.
Carla and Chris Dickson subsequently purchased the house in 1994 and operated "The Colony Bed and Breakfast" until the death of Mrs. Dickson in 2005. Julie Hart and Paula Pate purchased the house in 2007 and reopened it in May, 2008 as the "Magnolia Inn Bed and Breakfast".
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Bastrop County, Texas
References
Houses in Bastrop County, Texas
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
National Register of Historic Places in Bastrop County, Texas
Houses completed in 1913
1913 establishments in Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9rique%20Massat
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Frédérique Massat
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Frédérique Massat (born 14 January 1964) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the Ariège department, and is a member of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left.
References
National Assembly of France profile
1964 births
Living people
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anura%20Kumara%20Dissanayaka
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Anura Kumara Dissanayaka
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Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake (, ; born 24 November 1968) is a Sri Lankan politician who is currently serving as the leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He served for a time as Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Lands and Irrigation. Dissanayake was named the leader of JVP at the 7th national convention of the party, held on 2 February 2014. He was in the Parliament since September 2000.
Career
He was the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation in the 2004 SLFP, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna joint government under President Chandrika Kumaratunge.
2019 Presidential Election
On 18 August 2019, the National People's Power Movement announced that Dissanayake would be its 2019 Presidential Candidate.
Electoral history
References
External links
Parliament profile
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1968 births
Candidates in the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
National People's Power politicians
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Buddhists
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Candidates in the 2022 Sri Lankan presidential election
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Castle%20%28band%29
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Dark Castle (band)
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Dark Castle is an American doom metal band formed by guitarist–vocalist Stevie Floyd and drummer–vocalist Rob Shaffer in 2005. They released their first full-length album, Spirited Migration, in 2009.
Discography
Studio albums
Spirited Migration (At A Loss Recordings, 2009)
Surrender to All Life Beyond Form (Profound Lore Records, 2011)
EPs
Flight of Pegasus (self-released, 2007)
References
External links
Dark Castle (official MySpace site)
Dark Castle (official Facebook site)
Musical groups established in 2005
American doom metal musical groups
Heavy metal musical groups from Florida
American musical duos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Montarsolo
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Paolo Montarsolo
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Paolo Montarsolo (16 March 1925 – 31 August 2006) was an Italian operatic bass particularly associated with buffo roles.
Biography
Montarsolo was born in Portici. After vocal studies in Naples and Milan, he made his debut at the Teatro San Carlo in 1949 and at La Scala in 1951, first singing small roles but quickly established himself in buffo roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gioachino Rossini, and taking part in many revivals of 18th-century operas by composers such as
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Luigi Cherubini, Domenico Cimarosa, Giovanni Paisiello, etc.
In 1954, he began appearing outside Italy, notably in Vienna, Salzburg, Paris, London, Glyndebourne, and made his American debut in 1957 at the Dallas Opera, subsequently appearing at the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Besides the 18th- and 19th-century Italian repertoire, he also gained considerable acclaim in character roles such as Fra Melitone, Geronte, Gianni Schicchi, Baron Ochs, the Doctor in Wozzeck, as well as roles in many contemporary works by Rota, Tosatti, etc.
He retired from the stage in 1997, but remained active as a stage director and teacher. He died in Rome in 2006.
Sources
Guide de l'opéra, Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, Fayard, 1986.
Opera News, Obituaries, November 2006.
External links
Interview with Paolo Montarsolo, October 3, 1981
Operatic basses
1925 births
2006 deaths
People from Portici
20th-century Italian male opera singers
Italian basses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalocornea
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Megalocornea
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Megalocornea (MGCN, MGCN1) is an extremely rare nonprogressive condition in which the cornea has an enlarged diameter, reaching and exceeding 13 mm. It is thought to have two subforms, one with autosomal inheritance and the other X-linked (Xq21.3-q22). The X-linked form is more common and males generally constitute 90% of cases.
It may be associated with Alport syndrome, craniosynostosis, dwarfism, Down syndrome, Parry–Romberg syndrome, Marfan syndrome, mucolipidosis, Frank–ter Haar syndrome, crouzon syndrome, megalocornea-mental retardation syndrome etc.
Clinical features
Eyes are usually highly myopic. There may be 'with the rule' astigmatism. Lens may be luxated due to zonular streaching.In rare cases, it might be associated with intellectual disabilities.
References
External links
Megalocornea - eMedicine ophthalmology; May 15, 2009; Thomas A Oetting, MD, Mark A Hendrix, MD
An Infant With Enlarged Corneas - medscape
Congenital disorders of eyes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew%20Fallon
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Bartholomew Fallon
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Bartholomew Fallon, Irish goldsmith, fl. 1676 - c.1700.
Bartholomew Fallon was a 17th-century goldsmith based in Galway. He is first mentioned in the will of Dominick Martin (to whom he was probably apprenticed) dated 26 January 1676, in which Martin willed him some of his tools. Fallon continued working as a goldsmith till as late as 1700. His are among the oldest surviving examples of the Claddagh Ring, in many cases bearing his signature.
See also
Claddagh Ring
Richard Joyce, goldsmith
References
The Tribes of Galway, p. 60, Adrian James Martyn, Galway, 2001.
People from County Galway
Irish goldsmiths
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Halicarnassus
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Siege of Halicarnassus
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The siege of Halicarnassus was fought between Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 334 BC. Alexander, who had no navy, was constantly being threatened by the Persian navy. It continuously attempted to provoke an engagement with Alexander, who would not oblige them. Eventually, the Persian fleet sailed to Halicarnassus, in order to establish a new defense. Ada of Caria, the former queen of Halicarnassus, had been driven from her throne by her younger brother Pixodarus of Caria. When Pixodarus died, Persian King Darius had appointed Orontobates satrap of Caria, which included Halicarnassus in its jurisdiction. On the arrival of Alexander in 334 BC, Ada, who was in possession of the fortress of Alinda, surrendered the fortress to him.
Orontobates and Memnon of Rhodes entrenched themselves in Halicarnassus. Alexander had sent spies to meet with dissidents inside the city, who had promised to open the gates and allow Alexander to enter. When his spies arrived, however, the dissidents were nowhere to be found. A small battle resulted, and Alexander's army managed to break through the city walls. Memnon, however, now deployed his catapults, and Alexander's army fell back. Memnon then deployed his infantry, and shortly before Alexander would have received his first defeat, his infantry managed to break through the city walls, surprising the Persian forces. Memnon, realizing the city was lost, set fire to it and withdrew with his army. Strong winds caused the fire to destroy much of the city.
Alexander committed the government of Caria to Ada; and she, in turn, formally adopted Alexander as her son, ensuring that the rule of Caria passed unconditionally to him upon her eventual death. During her husband's tenure as satrap, Ada had been loved by the people of Caria. By putting Ada, who felt very favorably towards Alexander, on the throne, he ensured that the government of Caria, as well as its people, remained loyal to him.
Sources
Cartledge, Paul. Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past. Woodstock, NY; New York: The Overlook Press, 2004 (hardcover, ); London: PanMacmillan, 2004 (hardcover, ); New York: Vintage, 2005 (paperback, ).
Halicarnassus
Halicarnassus
334 BC
History of Muğla Province
330s BC conflicts
Bodrum
Halicarnassus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salinda%20Dissanayake
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Salinda Dissanayake
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Salinda Dissanayake (1 May 1958 – 5 August 2019) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was member of Parliament from Kurunegala District and Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Nation Building.
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1958 births
2019 deaths
Sinhalese engineers
Sri Lankan Buddhists
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
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
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Acacia moirii
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Acacia moirii, commonly known as Moir's wattle, is a subshrub which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It grows to between 0.15 and 0.6 metres high and has densely hairy leaflets. The globular golden-yellow flower heads appear from May to August, followed by hairy seed pods which are around 4 cm long and 5 to 6 mm wide.
Taxonomy
The type specimen was collected near Cape Riche by A.J. Moir in 1901.
Three subspecies are currently recognised:
A. moirii subsp. dasycarpa Maslin
A. moirii E.Pritz. subsp. moirii
A. moirii subsp. recurvistipula Maslin
Distribution
The species occurs on sandplains, undulating plains, hills and rises in an area between Eneabba, Manypeaks and Jerdacuttup as well as east of Esperance in the Cape Arid area.
See also
List of Acacia species
References
moirii
Acacias of Western Australia
Fabales of Australia
Taxa named by Ernst Pritzel
Plants described in 1904
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladen%20Lambuli%C4%87
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Mladen Lambulić
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Mladen Lambulić (; born 9 July 1972) is a Montenegrin football manager and former player.
Playing career
Lambulić played for Radnički Beograd and Zemun in the First League of FR Yugoslavia, before moving abroad to Belgium and signing with Denderleeuw in 1999. He subsequently returned to FR Yugoslavia and joined his mother club Zeta in 2000. During the 2002 winter transfer window, Lambulić moved abroad for the second time and signed with Hungarian side MTK Budapest. He spent the next seven and a half years with the club, winning the Nemzeti Bajnokság I in the 2007–08 season.
Managerial career
After hanging up his boots, Lambulić started his managerial career at Zeta in 2014.
Honours
MTK Budapest
Nemzeti Bajnokság I: 2007–08
Szuperkupa: 2008
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Podgorica
Serbia and Montenegro footballers
Montenegrin footballers
Association football defenders
FK Radnički Beograd players
FK Zemun players
FK Zeta players
MTK Budapest FC players
FC Sopron players
Újpest FC players
Kecskeméti TE players
First League of Serbia and Montenegro players
Belgian First Division B players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate footballers
Montenegrin expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Montenegrin football managers
FK Zeta managers
FK Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje managers
OFK Petrovac managers
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Sport in Catalonia
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Sport has an important incidence in Catalan life since the beginning of the 20th century. The main sports in Catalonia are football, basketball, handball, rink hockey, tennis, and motorsport.
One of the main sport events held ever in Catalonia were the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Structure
Most of the Catalan Sports Federations have a lot of tradition and some of them participated in the foundation of International Sports Federations, as the Catalan Federation of Rugby, that was one of the founder members of the Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur (FIRA) in 1934.
Catalonia has officially recognised national teams in some sports competing in world and European championships as Catalonia, but in most sports Catalan sportspeople compete within Spanish national teams.
The best Catalan teams use to participate in European competitions.
Main sports
Football
Football is considered the most important sport in Catalonia and was introduced in the late 19th century by a combination of British immigrant workers, visiting sailors and students returning from Britain.
Catalonia also began to produce a number of football clubs including Palamós Foot-Ball Club founded in 1898 and Català SC and Foot-Ball Club Barcelona, both founded in 1899.
Soon there were enough clubs to organize a league and in December 1900, Alfons Macaya, the president of Hispania AC, offered a trophy, La Copa Macaya, that eventually evolved into the Catalonia championships that were played until 1940, when they were disbanded during Franco's dictatorship.
Today, football in Catalonia is organized by the Catalonia Football Federation, founded in 1903, and teams from Catalonia compete in La Liga, the Copa del Rey, the Copa Catalunya and several European competitions as the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.
The biggest clubs are FC Barcelona, which has won 5 European Champions leagues, 4 UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, and RCD Espanyol, which has been twice runner-up of the UEFA Cup. Both play in La Liga.
The Catalonia national team's first match was in 1912 in Paris, against France. In the recent years they have played with Argentina, Brazil, Basque Country and Colombia.
Basketball
Basketball was played for the first time in Catalonia in 1913, in the school Vallparadís of Terrassa, encouraged by Alexandre Galí and Artur Martorell. After the First World War the Frenchman Emile Tiberghien incorporated the basketball in his gym in Barcelona. Despite these early experiences, it is commonly accepted that basketball was introduced in Catalonia in 1922 by Father Eusebi Millan when organized the first team in the School "Escoles Pies de St. Anton" in Barcelona.
That year, 1922, was born the first club in Catalonia, the Basketball-Ball Laietà Club (now Club Esportiu Laietà). In those days, basketball was developed mainly through the educational centers and associations of popular and Catholic character. The first game is played in the field of CE Europa on 8 December 1922, with a final scoreboard: Europa 8-Laietà 2.
On 15 April 1923 began the first Catalan Basketball Championship that was played until 1957 (except the period of the Civil War). It was undoubtedly the most important competition held in Catalonia before the birth of the Spanish league.
Since 1980 the Catalan Basketball Federation organizes a new Catalan basketball league, played by the best Catalan teams of the ACB league.
FC Barcelona Bàsquet (2 Euroleagues) and Joventut Badalona (1 Euroleague) are the most successful Catalan basketball teams.
Some Catalan players are or have been playing in the NBA, as Pau Gasol, Raúl López, Juan Carlos Navarro, Marc Gasol and Ricky Rubio.
Handball
In 1941 were played the first handball matches in Catalonia and one year later was founded a Handball Federation in Catalonia. Then handball was developed over Catalonia, increasing the number of teams every year, being 80 clubs in 1958. Barcelona held the first European Clubs Cup in 1958, a competition ideated by the French Federation.
For the decades of 40's and 50's some handball competitions were held with 11 players, like the Catalonia Championships.
But finally the 7 players game was the one that continued.
During the 80's and 90's decades the Catalan Federation organized the Catalan league, played by the best Catalan clubs. In 1997 was replaced by the Pirenees league adding teams from the south of France and the coorganization of the Ligue Languedoc Roussillon. FC Barcelona is the team that has won more times both competitions.
FC Barcelona is one of the best clubs of Europe, with 8 EHF Champions Leagues, 5 EHF Cup Winners' Cups, 18 Liga ASOBAL, 12 Catalan Leagues, 12 Pirenees leagues, and several more cups. BM Granollers is the other historical Catalan handball club that plays in the Liga ASOBAL.
Enric Masip is one of the best Catalan players ever, with 6 EHF Champions Leagues, 2 EHF Cup Winners' Cups and 7 ASOBAL leagues.
Rink hockey
The first rink hockey match played in Catalonia was in 1915 with the Indian Hoquei Club and the Sport Hoquei Club, but it were only the preliminaries. In 1925 some matches were played regularly and in 1928 was founded the Catalan Federation. The first Catalonia's Championship was played in 1930 and began a full developing for the sport around Catalonia.
The most successful teams are FC Barcelona, with 19 European League Championships, Reus Deportiu with 7 and Igualada HC with 6. They play in the OK Liga.
In the 1992 Summer Olympics, held in Barcelona, Roller hockey was one of three demonstration sports included in the official Olympic programme. This sport's widespread popularity and the existence of top-level competitive teams in Catalonia (such as FC Barcelona and Reus Deportiu) prompted the Organizing Committee to suggest its inclusion in the Olympic programme.
In 2004 the Federació Catalana de Patinatge was admitted by the International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS) as a provisional member, and as such it took part in the 2004 Rink Hockey World Championship B in Macau. Catalonia national team won all its matches and was crowned as 2004 B's World Champions and gained the right to be in the 2005 Rink Hockey World Championship. But in the following FIRS congress, in Fresno, the official recognition was revoked because of the opposition of the Spanish federation, in an assembly full of irregularities as the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled. in the case known as the Fresno Case. A new assembly was thus held in Rome, as the CAS verdict had decided, and Catalonia's application was rejected again. Because of this decision, Catalonia could not participate in the 2005 World Championship, that finally was won by Spain, with a team composed by all the players from Catalonia.
Since 2004, Catalonia national teams have competed in the Blanes Golden Cup with other national teams, winning the trophy six times by the men's team and three times by the ladies team.
In 2006 the Catalan roller skating Federation was admitted to the South American Rink Hockey Confederation and nowadays plays in the South American Championships. In 2010, the Catalonia men's team won the Copa América, and in 2011 the women's national team won also the competition.
Motorsport
Motorsport has a long tradition in Catalonia involving many people, with some world champions and several competitions organized since the beginning of the 20th century. The Circuit de Catalunya, built in 1991, is one of the main motorsport venues, holding the Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, the Spanish F1 Grand Prix, a DTM race, and several other races. Also of note is the Montjuïc street circuit which regularly hosted the Spanish F1 and motorcycle Grands Prix up to the 1970s.
Motorcycling is one of the historical sports, with motorcycle road racing world champions as Àlex Crivillé, Sito Pons, Emilio Alzamora and Dani Pedrosa. In addition Sete Gibernau was one of the top Grand Prix riders in the first half of the 2000s. Also there are many Catalan Motorcycle manufacturers as Derbi, Bultaco, Gas Gas, Montesa and OSSA.
Motorcycle trials is also a sport practiced by many Catalans, as the world champions Jordi Tarrés (7 times), Adam Raga (6 times), Toni Bou (10 times) and Laia Sanz (11 times), and many competitions are organized around the country.
Rallies have several Catalan motorcycle champions as Nani Roma (1 Dakar Rally), Marc Coma (
3 Rally Dakar and 3 times rallies cross country world champion), Jordi Arcarons (4 times runner-up in the Dakar Rally) and recently Laia Sanz (First Female Category Dakar Rally 2011).
In car rallies, the Rally Catalunya is one of the races of the World Rally Championship since 1991. The first edition of Rally Catalunya was in 1957.
Tennis
Tennis began to be practiced in Catalonia in the late 19th century, in cities such as Barcelona or Reus, by some British people established in Catalonia and members of the Catalan bourgeoisie.
In 1904 was founded the Lawn Tennis Association of Barcelona, who joined as a full member in the Lawn Tennis Association (the international federation in those days). Later, in 1913, it was transformed into Lawn Tennis Association of Catalonia. In 1917 was played the first Catalan Tennis Championship. In all these tournaments, the Barcelona LT was an important organizer.
In 1923 was played the first Indoor World Championship in Barcelona.
Some Catalan players have won Roland Garros: Sergi Bruguera (1993, 1994), Albert Costa (2002) and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1989, 1994, 1998); US Open: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1994), and the Masters Cup: Àlex Corretja (1998). And also some medals have been won by Catalan tennis players in the Olympic Games: Jordi Arrese, silver in 1992, Sergi Bruguera, silver in 1996, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, silver in 1996 and silver in 1992 in doubles.
The main tournament is Torneo Godó, held in Barcelona on clay surface.
Sports with officially recognized Catalonia national team
Korfball
Korfball has been played in Catalonia since 1982, and is managed by the Catalan Korfball Federation (FCK).
In 1997 the International Korfball Federation admitted the Catalan Federation of Korfball as a provisional member, and in 2005 it was granted full membership.
Catalonia's national team has played 4 World Championships, reaching the 4th place in 2011, 3 European Championships -with a 5th place in 2010 and a 6th place in 2006- and has won the 2005 Korfball European Bowl.
The Catalan competition is divided into a "First division" and 2 "Second divisions" with a number of teams such as C.K. Vacarisses, C.E. Vilanova i la Geltrú, C.K. Assessoria Vallparadís, C.K. Cerdanyola, C.K. Badalona – La Rotllana, Sant Llorenç K.C., Unió Korfbalera Sant Adrià de Besòs, K.C. Barcelona, C.K. Castellbisbal, K.E.C.A., Korfball Valldemia and A.A.E.I.E.S. Secretari Coloma de Barcelona.
Club Korfball Vallparadís has won 2 Europa Shields, in 2009 and 2011.
Pitch and putt
Pitch and putt is played in Catalonia since the "1980's" when Martin Withelaw build a course in Solius (Santa Cristina d'Aro, Girona). The interest on Pitch and putt has been growing since then, with more than 14,000 players in 2008 associated to Catalan Federation of Pitch and Putt (FCPP), and more than 30 courses.
In 1999 the "Associació Catalana de Pitch and putt" was one of the founders of the European Pitch and Putt Association, the governing body that develops pitch and putt in Europe and stages a biennial European Team Championships, which Catalonia won in 2010 and has reached the second place three times.
In 2006 the "Federació Catalana de Pitch and putt" participated in the creation of the Federation of International Pitch and Putt Associations (FIPPA), that stages a World Cup, that Catalonia has won twice (2004 and 2006)
Futsal
Futsal in Catalonia is managed by Catalonia Futsal Federation (FCFS) (Federació Catalana de Futbol Sala), affiliated to European Union of Futsal in 2004 and recognised by the World Futsal association (AMF) in 2006. And it's also managed by Catalonia Football Federation (FCF) for the teams that play the FIFA game.
Catalonia national futsal teams represent Catalonia in AMF World Cups and UEFS Futsal Championships.
Catalonia men's national team has played five times the UEFS European Championships, reaching the second place in 2006, and twice in AMF Futsal World Cup, in 2007 and 2011. Also played in the 2007 AMF World Tournament in Yakutia, with the sixth place.
Catalonia women's national team were the Champions in the first Women's World Championship, held in Reus in 2008. In the European Championships 2004 were the runners-up.
Bowling
The Catalan Bowling Federation was admitted by the International Federation of Bowling in 2007.
In ten-pin bowling they have played in the World and European Championships, the AMF World Cup and the Mediterranean Challenge Cup.
In nine-pin bowling, Catalonia national team played in the 2011 World Championship in Sarajevo.
Catalan skittles () are also an ancient Catalan game, early documented in years 1376 and 1402, that consists in knocking down exactly five of the six skittles.
Rugby league
Rugby league in Catalonia is managed by the Catalan Association of Rugby League
The Perpignan-based club Catalans Dragons, which plays in the Super League, is helping the development of rugby league in southern Catalonia.
The first competition took part in 2008, with 3 teams. In 2009 the first Catalonia Championship was played, with 9 teams.
Catalonia national team played their first competition in 2009, the RLEF Euro Med Challenge, with Morocco and Belgium. as opponents. Before this, they had played two test matches with Czech Republic and Morocco. In 2010 they played with Czech Republic in Prague.
Australian rules football
Australian rules football has been played in Catalonia since 2000 and is organized by the Catalan Australian Football League (LFAC). Catalonia is member of the Aussie Rules International and Aussie Rules Europe, and has played 4 European Cups (2005, 2007, 2008 and 2010).
The LFAC was officially created in 2005 and the first teams joining were Belfry Valls, Cornellà Bocs, Valls Fire and Alt Camp.
In 2009 the Catalan league is played by teams of several territories that speak Catalan language: Belfry Valls, Cornellà Bocs (southern Catalonia), Andorra Crows (Andorra), and Perpinyà (Northern Catalonia).
Touch rugby
Catalonia was admitted by the Federation of International Touch in 2009. They played the 2011 Touch Football World Cup in Scotland.
Darts
The Catalan Darts Federation was recognised by World Darts Federation in September 2011, playing the 2011 World Cup in Ireland.
Quidditch
The Associació de Quidditch de Catalunya was officially recognized as an independent NGB by the International Quidditch Association in 2015. Their first appearance was in the 2015 IQA European Games held in Sarteano, Italy. They reached seventh place out of twelve teams, beating Team Spain 160*–70.
Other sports
Cycling
In the same way as much of the rest of Europe, cycling was one of the first sports to gain popularity in Catalonia, since the 1880s. The first cycling body was the Club Velocipèdic of Barcelona (1884) followed by the Sport Ciclista Català. In 1893 the Bonanova velodrome was built with a length of 400 meters, considered one of the best in Europe at the time. In 1895 the Reus velodrome and in 1896 the Lleida velodrome were constructed.
In 1897 the Catalan Cycling Union was founded, which governed cycling in Catalonia.
In 1911 the first edition of Volta a Catalunya was held, making it the third oldest cycling stage race in the world, behind only the Tour de France (1903) and the Giro d'Italia (1909).
Other important races in Catalonia are the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme (1963) and Escalada a Montjuïc (1965).
The main velodrome in Catalonia is the Velòdrom d'Horta.
Rugby union
Rugby union was introduced in Southern Catalonia in 1921, when Baldiri Aleu i Torres founded the Unió Esportiva Santboiana. In 1922 the Catalan Rugby Federation was founded, which was one of the founding members of the Paris-based FIRA – Association of European Rugby, from which it was expelled at the behest of Franco's fascist regime. It has still to be readmitted.
In Southern Catalonia UE Santboiana, who have won the Spanish championship seven times, and FC Barcelona, are the best Catalan rugby union teams that compete in the División de Honor.
In Northern Catalonia, USA Perpignan are the best-known Catalan club. They compete in the French Top 14 and also in European competitions.
Water sports
Swimming was introduced in Catalonia by Bernat Picornell, founder of Club Natació Barcelona in 1907. In 1908 this club organized the first Copa Nadal swimming race in the Barcelona Harbour and the first water polo match. Main waterpolo clubs are CN Barcelona (1 Euroleague), CN Catalunya (1 Euroleague), CNA Barceloneta and CN Sabadell (1 LEN Women's Champions' Cup).
In synchronized swimming, Gemma Mengual is the best swimmer, and the best club is CN Kallipolis.
Field hockey
In 1907, alumni of the Ateneu Calasanç in Terrassa began playing field hockey, a sport that already practiced the English people living in Catalonia, and founded the Lawn Hoquei Club Calassanç in 1911. Terrassa is where traditionally has been practised, with a lot of teams as Egara (2 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup), Atlètic de Terrassa (2 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup, RC Polo (1 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup) and CD Terrassa.
Major sports facilities
Catalonia has several of the best sports facilities in the world:
Notes and references
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J. H. A. Tremenheere
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James Henry Apperley Tremenheere (30 October 1853 – 28 October 1912) was an Indian-born English colonial official and cricketer. His report recommended that the British government should allot lands for the Scheduled Castes to overcome the social discrimination they faced. These lands were later identified as Depressed Class condition lands (பஞ்சமி நிலம்).
Life
He was the son of Charles William Tremenheere. He was born in Poona, and educated in England at Lancing College, where he played cricket for the school.
He passed the entry examination for the Indian Civil Service in 1873, and completed his training in 1875. He arrived in India in November 1875, and worked first in Madras. He was moved to Mysore in 1883, but was later returned to Madras.
In 1891 Tremenheere was Collector for Chingleput, and reported on the depressed castes, at a time of local famine. He described the poor condition of a group of Paraiyars at Senneri. He suggested improving their position with respect to land ownership. He took into account the report of his predecessor, Lee Warner, and attributed the social problem he met to the mirasi system. The report's conclusions, however, were resisted by the Board of Revenue. Tremenheere became Collector and magistrate at Kistna in 1894. He was appointed Collector for the Niligris in 1896.
Tremenheere retired in 1901. He died in Scotland, at Inglismaldie Castle in Edzell and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.
Cricket
J.H.A. Tremenheere was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm round-arm medium pace bowler who played for Gloucestershire. He made a single first-class appearance, during the 1872 season, aged just 18, against Surrey. From the lower order, he scored 7 runs in the only innings in which he batted, as his team secured a win by an innings margin.
Works
The Lesbia of Catullus (1897), translator
Family
Tremenheere married Jessie Retallack van Anken.
Notes
1853 births
1912 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
Burials at Brookwood Cemetery
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Ghost Online
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Ghost Online also known as Ghost Soul and GO was a free fast-paced action-based sidescrolling, massively multiplayer online game that is currently released in South Korea, Japanese, Chinese, Thailand and Malaysian-English.
On July 8, the Global version went into Open Beta, but was closed down on June 3, 2009. Created by Netgame, which is a division of MGame USA Inc.(Taiwan and China 搞鬼 is a free, 2D computer graphics, side-scrolling MMORPG developed by the Korean company MGame. Several versions of the game are available for specific countries or regions, and each is published by various companies such as GameFlier, Gemscool and OurGame. Although playing the game is free, many player appearances and gameplay enhancements can be purchased from the GhostShop using real currency.
In the game, players defend the "World" from ghost monsters and develop their character's skills and abilities, as in typical role-playing games. There is a soul system that allows players absorb souls from monsters. Players can interact with others in many ways, such as through chatting, trading. Groups of players can band together in parties to hunt monsters, and share the rewards. Players can fight each other with the game PvP system. Players can also band in a guild to battle with other guilds. Ghost Online also many quests, some of which allow the player to obtain new skills.
Story
Lord Tai He and his apprentices rid the world of Demons, but Tai He himself had used forbidden magic that corrupted his soul. So he had to go to the western lands, to find the sacred herb to cleanse it. The player is Tai He for a short time, learning the basics in Batu Caves. After defeating a clone, Tai He eats the herb, dies and is reborn as your character.
Gameplay
There are six character classes in the game. The main source of gold (in-game currency) and experience points are the monsters in the game. They are found in most fields outside of the cities and towns, and portals leading to maps with monsters (usually from a town) are colored red.
Shutdown
As of June 3, 2009, the game was shut down (USA version), with two other games, which are The Legend of Ares and Holic online, by Mgame USA. The reason for termination was that the three games were not producing enough revenue. Ghost Online Malaysia was shut down on 31 August 2009.
The Vietnam version also shut down on January 31, 2009.
The game was re-released in June 2012, under the name Soul Saver Online with a few minor changes.
Recently, the Thailand version also shut down on March 11, 2014.
Official game websites
Official Korean Site
Official North American Site
Official Taiwan Ghost Online Website
2005 video games
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games
Video games developed in South Korea
Windows games
Online games
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Ercan Durmaz
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Ercan Durmaz (born August 16, 1965) is a Turkish-German actor.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
1965 births
German people of Turkish descent
German male film actors
German male television actors
Turkish male film actors
Turkish male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Istanbul
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Yellagonga Regional Park
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Yellagonga Regional Park is in Perth, Western Australia, in the City of Wanneroo and the City of Joondalup. The park was established in 1989 by the Western Australian government and protects of land, including of Wanneroo wetlands – including Lake Joondalup, Beenup Swamp, Walluburnup Swamp and Lake Goollelal.
The park contains heritage buildings, including Perry's Cottage, Cockman House and Luisini Winery, and recreation areas such as Neil Hawkins Park. It is named after Yellagonga, leader of the Mooro people.
History
Under the Perth Metropolitan Region Scheme, much of the park's area was reserved in 1975. The park was named Yellagonga Regional Park in 1990, in honour of the regional Whadjuk Noongar leader during European settlement, Yellagonga. For local Aboriginal people the area forms part of their Dreaming. The site also has historical significance related to the development of the City of Wanneroo.
Geography and species
Yellagonga Regional Park consists of high elevation sloping dunes, separated by interdunal swales that contain the park's lakes and wetlands. The western side of the park is quite steep, with a central plateau of up to elevation. The eastern and southern parts of the park have a gentler slope towards Lake Goollelal and Walluburnup Swamp.
In 1996, the Department of Environmental Protection identified 217 species of flora, including 103 introduced species. The park has no recorded species of Declared Rare Flora but does have significant species, such as Jacksonia sericea, Conostylis bracteata, Hibbertia cuneiformis, Amyema miquelii, Lechenaultia linarioides and Ricinocarpus glaucus.
Over 120 bird species have been recorded in the park, with 18 species using the park for breeding grounds. A number of the recorded species are migratory birds recognised under international agreements. Three species of birds found in the park (Carnaby's cockatoo, Australasian bittern and peregrine falcon) are protected under the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950.
The impact of humans on Yellagonga National Park is extensive in areas. Many areas were previously used for farming and these are still being rehabilitated. The grassed parkland areas have led to the invasion of natural areas by aggressive introduced grass species, and weeds are also an issue. Development of roads, utilities (such as power lines and drainage outlets) and service corridors has degraded the natural landscape. Erosion is also a problem in areas, caused by tracks and pathways created by pedestrians in unsuitable locations such as slopes.
Historical significance
The park contains three locations listed on the Western Australian Heritage Register: Perry's Paddock, Cockman House and Luisini Winery. Two native title claims have also been made on areas of the park by Aboriginal Australians.
Perry's Paddock, at Lot 1 Ocean Reef Road, is a registered heritage site. Land tenure is held by the Western Australian Planning Commission and it is part of the City of Wanneroo. Perry's Paddock is notable because it is the location of Wanneroo's first land grant, surveyed in 1838, and Picnic Race Days were held at the site in the 1920s. Perry's Cottage was built around 1850 and is an example of a building based on an English design adapted to local conditions. The cottage was restored in 2012.
The paddock used to contain the original Wanneroo Primary School building. This was moved to the site by the City of Wanneroo in 1992 as part of a planned historical village that did not go ahead. In 2007 the City of Wanneroo approved moving the school building to Neville Park at a cost of approximately $250,000, after concerns about bushfires at Yellagonga Regional Park. The move was completed on 10 March 2009.
Cockman House is a house built for settler James Cockman around 1870, and it is the oldest residence in Wanneroo. Luisini Winery, located on Lakeway Drive in Kingsley, was built in 1929.
There are two heritage trails within Yellagonga Regional Park, the Lake Joondalup Trail and the Yaberoo-Budjara Heritage Trail. The Lake Joondalup Trail explores the development of Wanneroo, and the Yaberoo-Budjara Trail between Lake Joondalup and Yanchep National Park explores areas of significance to Aboriginal Australians and European settlement.
Development
There have been ongoing proposals for developments in Yellagonga Regional Park. The City of Joondalup and the City of Wanneroo commissioned a feasibility study for an environment centre at the park in 2007. The study recommended the environment centre's placement at Lot 1 Lakeside Drive, Joondalup or Scenic Drive, Wanneroo. The City of Joondalup called for additional consultation and studies in March 2008, particularly on the financing the construction and running of the environment centre and its education programs.
The National Trust has proposed redeveloping Luisini Winery to create a museum of early winemaking and wine appreciation. Their proposal, which also includes a restaurant, environment centre and car park, was approved by the City of Joondalup on 27 March 2007.
The park was allocated funds by the Department of Environment and Conservation in September 2008 to build roads, a shelter, and bicycle and pedestrian paths.
References
External links
Parks and Wildlife Service: Yellagonga Regional Park
Heritage places of Western Australia
Joondalup
Wanneroo wetlands
1989 establishments in Australia
Parks in Perth, Western Australia
Regional parks in Western Australia
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George Irwin (football manager)
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George Irwin (born 7 January 1891) was manager of the English football clubs Crystal Palace (1939–47) and Darlington (1950–52). He also made appearances in the Football League for Crystal Palace and Reading.
Playing career
Irwin began his career at West Bromwich Albion, but did not make a first team appearance for the club. He signed for Crystal Palace in 1921, as understudy to Jack Alderson. After two seasons he moved on to Reading where he spent a further three seasons before retiring as a player.
Coaching career
Irwin then moved into coaching, initially with Southend United, before moving to Sheffield Wednesday where he also served as assistant manager, and was on the staff when Wednesday won the 1935 FA Cup Final. Irwin returned to Crystal Palace, as coach, in 1937 before being appointed manager in 1939. He remained with Palace during the years of wartime football winning regional league titles in 1940, 1941 and 1946. However the first post-war season (1946–7) resulted in a disappointing eighteenth place in the Third Division South and Irwin resigned thereafter. He remained at Crystal Palace as a scout before being appointed manager of Darlington in 1950, where he remained for two seasons.
Managerial statistics
References
External links
George Irwin at holmesdale.net
Crystal Palace F.C. managers
Darlington F.C. managers
1891 births
Year of death missing
Crystal Palace F.C. players
West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
Reading F.C. players
Sportspeople from Smethwick
English Football League players
Association football goalkeepers
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. non-playing staff
English footballers
Date of death missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinicius%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201989%29
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Vinicius (footballer, born 1989)
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Vinicius Galvão Leal (born August 12, 1989, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer currently under contract for Austrian side Union Sparkasse Pettenbach.
Club career
Debreceni VSC
Club Statistics
Club statistics
Updated to games played as of August 4, 2012.
References
External links
MLSZ
1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Porto Alegre
Brazilian footballers
Association football forwards
Debreceni VSC players
Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC players
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Brazilian expatriate footballers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machatas%20of%20Europos
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Machatas of Europos
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Machatas, son of Sabattaras from Europos, was a Macedonian proxenos of Delphians in late 4th century BC. As the inscription says: "the Delphians gave proxenia, euergesia (benefaction), promanteia (priority in consulting the oracle), proedria (privilege of reserved seats at the theatre), prodikia (the right to priority in a trial) to Machatas and his descendants, the same as it is given to every proxenos". The decree is issued by archon Hierondas and bouleutai (chancellors) Heraklidas, Eualkeus and Echyllos.
References
FD III 4:405 Delphi — 325–300 BC
A History of Macedonia: Historical geography and prehistory by N. G. L. Hammond v.1 (1972), p. 168
Upper Macedonians
Proxenoi
4th-century BC Greek people
People from Kilkis (regional unit)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech%20Maskrey
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Leech Maskrey
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Samuel Leech Maskrey (February 11, 1854 – April 1, 1922) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played five seasons in the majors, from 1882 to 1886, for the Louisville Eclipse/Colonels and Cincinnati Red Stockings. His brother, Harry Maskrey, was his teammate on the 1882 Eclipse.
After spending the 1887 to 1889 seasons playing minor league baseball, Maskrey was part of a contingent sent to England in 1890 by Albert Spalding at the behest of the newly-formed professional National League of Baseball of Great Britain. This organization had sent a letter to the American Spalding requesting help in establishing a league. They requested eight to ten players to coach and convert the existing players (whose primary game was usually soccer). Spalding sent a skilled manager, Jim Hart, along with players Maskrey, William J. Barr, Charles Bartlett, and J. E. Prior. Maskrey was the only one of the players who had played in the majors to that point, and he stayed there for one season as a player-manager of Preston North End.
Following his sojourn in England, Maskrey returned to the U.S. minor leagues in 1891, where he played for the Tacoma team in the Pacific Northwestern League. After spending the 1892 season with the Atlanta Firecrackers of the Southern Association, part of which he spent as a player-manager, he retired and went into the hotel business with his brother Harry.
References
External links
1854 births
1922 deaths
19th-century baseball players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Louisville Eclipse players
Louisville Colonels players
Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) players
Topeka Capitals players
Milwaukee Cream Citys players
Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players
Des Moines Prohibitionists players
Atlanta Firecrackers players
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
People from Mercer, Pennsylvania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM-905
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AM-905
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AM-905 (part of the AM cannabinoid series) is an analgesic drug which is a cannabinoid agonist. It is conformationally restricted by virtue of the double bond on its side chain, leading an increased affinity for and selectivity between CB1 and CB2 receptors. It is a potent and reasonably selective agonist for the CB1 cannabinoid receptor, with a Ki of 1.2 nM at CB1 and 5.3 nM at CB2.
See also
AM-906 - The corresponding Z or cis isomer
HU-243 - Double bond replaced by geminal methyls for Thorpe–Ingold effect
References
Benzochromenes
Primary alcohols
Phenols
AM cannabinoids
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerdau%20%28river%29
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Gerdau (river)
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The Gerdau is a long, left (western) source river for the Ilmenau in the north German state of Lower Saxony.
The river rises in the eastern part of the Lüneburg Heath on the northeastern edge of the Südheide Nature Park. From its source, which is located in the Brambostel Moor Nature Reserve, north of the 94 m high Faßberg, the Gerdau flows by the villages of Eimke and Gerdau towards Uelzen. South of Uelzen it merges with the Stederau to form the Ilmenau.
Tributaries
See also
List of rivers of Lower Saxony
References
Rivers of Lower Saxony
Lüneburg Heath
Rivers of Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s%20Bay%20Trading%20Company
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Hudson's Bay Trading Company
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Hudson's Bay Trading Company, L.P. was an American portfolio company for NRDC Equity Partners, a private equity company. Hudson's Bay Trading Company was founded in 2008.
NRDC Equity Partners was founded by Robert Baker and Richard Baker of National Realty and Development Corp., and William Mack and Lee Neibart of AREA Property Partners. Richard Baker served as President CEO of NRDC Equity Partners.
On January 23, 2012, The Financial Post reported that Baker had dissolved Hudson’s Bay Trading Co., and Toronto-based Hudson's Bay Company will now operate both The Bay and Lord & Taylor. This new entity will be run by The Bay CEO Bonnie Brooks. CEO Brendan Hoffman will leave Lord & Taylor and take over as CEO at the department store chain Bon Ton. Baker will remain governor and CEO of the business and Donald Watros will stay on as chief operating officer.
Assets
Canada
Hudson's Bay Company, a Canadian retail company consisting of:
The Bay, a high-end department store chain
Zellers, a mass-market department store
Home Outfitters, a home decor retailer
Fields, a variety store chain
United States
Lord & Taylor, a high-end department store chain
References
External links
NRDC Equity Partners
National Realty & Development Corp.
AREA Property Partners
Lord & Taylor
Hbc Department Stores
Hudson's Bay Company
Retail companies established in 2008
Retail companies disestablished in 2012
Retail companies based in New York City
Holding companies of Canada
Holding companies established in 2008
Holding companies disestablished in 2012
Holding companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykes%20Brothers
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Lykes Brothers
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Lykes Brothers Inc, is a corporation founded by the Lykes Family of Tampa, Florida, in 1910. This family would become the largest landowners in Florida, the ninth largest landowners in the United States and the wealthiest in Tampa Bay.
In the 1870s Dr. Howell Tyson Lykes abandoned a medical career in Columbia, South Carolina and took over a family cattle ranch in rural Hernando County north of Tampa. The Lykes Family started the first school in this county in Spring Hill, Florida and the library at the county seat, Brooksville, Florida also bears the Lykes name. Spring Hill refers to the community that grew up around the Lykes Family home called Spring Hill, which is distinct and separate from the later development by the Deltona Corporation by the same name. The family cemetery is located outside of Brooksville.
In 1895, Dr. Lykes moved to Ballast Point in Tampa, Florida where he began shipping cattle to Cuba. Gradually, his seven sons joined the family operations which incorporated in 1910 as Lykes Brothers. This corporation would come to comprise interests in land, citrus, phosphate mining, timber (eucalyptus, pine), sugarcane, a major shipping line (Lykes Brothers Steamship Company), cattle and meat processing, banking (First Florida Bank) and Lykes Insurance Company.
In the 1930s, Lykes Bros. purchased the Lykes Ranch in West Texas, south of Alpine.
By the 1950s, Lykes Bros. Steamships was the largest U.S. shipping line, with 54 cargo ships operating out of Gulf ports. A Lykes Bros. ship would be the first to sail into Shanghai harbor after the U.S. established relations with mainland China. A leader in citrus concentrate, the $15 million Lykes Pasco citrus-processing plant was the biggest in Florida. The corporation took a blow when La Candelaria, the Lykes estate east of Havana, was nationalized during the Cuban Revolution. It is now a cooperative farm.
See also
Lykes Palmdale Airport
Lykes Building
Muse, Florida
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Lykes Ranch (FL) website
Conglomerate companies established in 1910
Companies based in Florida
Companies based in Tampa, Florida
Real estate companies established in 1910
1910 establishments in Florida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohana%20Dissanayake
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Rohana Dissanayake
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Disanayake Mudiyanselage Rohana Kumara Dissanayake is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1958 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Forrest
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Bill Forrest
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William Forrest (28 February 1908 – February 1965) was manager of the English football club Darlington from 1946 to 1950. Between 1929 and 1945 he played 307 League matches for Middlesbrough FC.
Managerial statistics
External links
English footballers
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Darlington F.C. managers
1965 deaths
1908 births
People from Tranent
Association footballers not categorized by position
English football managers
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