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26825241#0 | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring is a 1997 Bollywood film, produced and directed by Basu Bhattacharya.
The film stars Rekha, Om Puri, Navin Nischol and Daisy Irani in the main roles. The film went on to receive both critical acclaim and commercial success, the latter of which had eluded Basu in his last few films. Subsequently, spurred on by this success, Basu was even planning to remake the film in English, though he died in June 1997, at the age 62. The film's success was described as blurring the gap between Indian art and commercial cinema, where art film makers, dealing with serious issues, used a musical format to make the film more commercially appealing, thus reaching a wider audience. Rekha received a nomination of 1997 Star Screen Award for Best Actress. |
26825241#1 | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring | In the movie, Rekha had the controversial role of a married woman who turns into a prostitute, which was severely criticized by the audience. About her role in the movie, Rekha said, "After 'Aastha: In the Prison of Spring' people had a lot to say about my role of a wife who moonlights as a prostitute. I don't have problems playing anything. I've reached a stage where I could do justice to any role that came my way. It could be role of a mother, a sister-in-law; negative, positive, sensational or anything." |
26825241#2 | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring | The movie is remarkable for its explicit love scenes. |
26825241#3 | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring | Mansi (Rekha) and Amar (Om Puri) have been married for years, and have a daughter by this marriage. Amar is employed full-time, while Mansi looks after the household chores and their daughter. Amar earns a steady income, which enables the family to live comfortably, but they cannot afford to be extravagant at all. One day while buying shoes for her daughter, Mansi realizes that shoes are really expensive, and wants to leave the store without purchasing them. Another woman customer named Reena (Daisy Irani) offers to pay for the shoes, as she feels sorry for Mansi. Mansi reluctantly accepts Reena's offer to pay for the shoes, not realizing that Reena has paid for these shoes with a secret agenda that will open a new door in Mansi's life dragging her to prostitution to satisfy materialistic needs. |
26825241#4 | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring | The film was seen as follow up of the noted trilogy Basu Bhattacharya made around marital discord in the 1970s, with "Anubhav" (1971), "Avishkaar" (1973) and "Griha Pravesh" (1979). Aastha turned out to be Basu's last movie, and is set again in the institution of marriage, although here Basu illustrates his response to the growing materialism in the 1990s and explores its impact on modern, urban marriage, as well as moral values. A bored and restless housewife, who has a young school-going daughter, awakens to her sexuality post mid-life, and in the process falls into the trap of prostitution. She wants material comforts (consumerism) and finds her professor husband's (Om Puri) income inadequate for it. She agrees to have a liaison with another man (Navin Nischol), in exchange for gifts and money, in the absence of her husband, who is shown as being highly principled. Though later, she is unable to reconcile with the new reality, as guilt and remorse regarding her choices, soon overshadow the joys of her few found comforts and sexual escapades. |
26825241#5 | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring | It remains one of few films in Bollywood, which explore a woman's sexuality outside marriage, |
26825241#6 | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring | The soundtrack is composed by Shaarang Dev with the lyrics penned by Gulzar. |
26825251#0 | National Register of Historic Places listings in Clayton County, Georgia | This is a list of properties and districts in Clayton County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). |
26825252#0 | 1987 UEFA European Under-16 Championship | The 1987 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the fifth edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. France hosted the championship, during May 25 and June 3, 1987. 16 teams entered the competition. Although Italy won the final match against the Soviet Union, UEFA withdrew Italy's title, because they had played Roberto Secci, inscribed with an irregular document. No European title was awarded. The top three countries qualified for the 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship in Canada. |
26825263#0 | Alfred Keene | Alfred Keene (1873 – 1 March 1955) was a British fencer. He competed at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. |
26825275#0 | János Forgách | Count János Forgách de Ghymes et Gács () (24 October 1870 – 25 September 1935), was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Hungarian origin who played a prominent role during World War I and in particular the July Crisis. |
26825275#1 | János Forgách | Born in Gács (now Halič) on 24 October 1870 into a prominent Hungarian noble family as son of Count Antal Forgách de Ghymes et Gács (1819–1885), who had been of the few Hungarian magnates taking the side of Austria in 1848 and served as Section Chief in the Imperial Foreign Ministry in the 1850s. In 1908, he married Gabriella Lovassy de Szakál (1889–1972) in Budapest and the couple had three children. |
26825275#2 | János Forgách | In October 1905, Count Forgách received his first major posting as minister at Rio de Janeiro. In June 1907, he transferred to Belgrade where he played a significant role during the Bosnian crisis of 1908. However, he discredited himself the following year during the so-called Friedjung Process which involved forgery of documents a highly publicised treason trial in Agram (now Zagreb) and was sent into professional exile in 1911 as minister at Dresden. |
26825275#3 | János Forgách | With the appointment of Count Berchtold as Imperial Foreign Minister in 1912, Count Forgách made a comeback in the autumn of 1913 as Second Section Chief (equivalent to head of the Political Section) at the Ballhausplatz. A good friend of Count Berchtold from a young age, he became one of the Foreign Minister's closest advisors and confidants. Together with Count Hoyos, Berchtold's "chef de cabinet", he was one of the so-called young rebels, a group of younger diplomats who favoured a more aggressive foreign policy of the Dual Monarchy. During the July Crisis of 1914, Count Forgách played a significant role in the preparations of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia and was a vocal advocate for war against Serbia. |
26825275#4 | János Forgách | Considered talented and ambitious, Count Forgách remained in his post at the Ballhausplatz until January 1917. In 1918, he was dispatched to Kiev as a representative of the Dual Monarchy. After the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in November 1917, Austria-Hungary had negotiated a separate peace treaty with the newly created Ukrainian People's Republic that was signed on 9 February 1918. The so-called Bread Peace was supposed to solve the Dual Monarchy's food supply problem, but as Count Forgách quickly discovered this proved to be an illusion. He remained in Kiev until November 1918 as the situation in Ukraine only became more and more chaotic. |
26825275#5 | János Forgách | After the war, Count Forgách retired and spent his remaining years in Budapest where he died on 25 September 1935. |
26825287#0 | Arthur Renowitzky | Arthur Renowwitzki |
26825287#1 | Arthur Renowitzky | He was born on an Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota on September 22, 1987. Due to his father being in the military he has lived in various parts of Northern California; Berkeley, Vallejo, Fresno, Modesto, Castro Valley, Alameda, grew up most of his life in San Leandro and now resides in San Lorenzo. |
26825287#2 | Arthur Renowitzky | Arthur also composes music. It has helped alleviate his situation. He dedicates his lyrics to the dangers of gun violence. He has recorded many records and has collaborated with many of today's most known Bay Area musicians. Currently, AR's video to the songs "Smile" "Dreaming of Walking" "Life Ain't Easy" "I'm Thankful" "Don't Take My Shine" can be seen on regular rotation on the famed music video program CMC. He became an innocent victim of senseless gun violence and as a result he is now paralyzed. He has dreams of walking again and works hard at making that a reality. Check out his latest music video "Dreaming Of Walking" on YouTube. He cites, "Never give up and keep it pushing". Arthur has appeared on national television, on radio stations, he speaks frequently to juvenile hall incarcerated youth, high schools, he has been a key note speaker at numerous events and is now well known in Hollywood for his music and Activism in California communities. He is an advocate against senseless youth violence and has a passion for spreading spinal cord injury awareness. |
26825287#3 | Arthur Renowitzky | Arthur Renowitzky is an accomplished musical artist, activist, and actor. |
26825287#4 | Arthur Renowitzky | Arthur Renowitzky is the executive director and co-founder of Life Goes On Foundation (LGO) a nonpolitical/nonprofit organization working in the state of California to help bring an end to violence amongst youth and encouraging positive lifestyle through extracurricular activities. |
26825287#5 | Arthur Renowitzky | Additionally, Arthur has interviewed with over 50 different media outlets where he discussed his role in ending gun violence. Arthur has also presented his ‘story’ to over 130 high schools and
middle schools, as well as juvenile halls, disciplinary camps, Boys & Girls Club(s), YMCA, Oakland City Hall, churches and many hospitals and rehabilitation facilities. It is estimated that Arthur has addressed over 100,000 youth on the dangers of gun violence and how they must have the strength to be good citizens and find positive ways to overcome their life obstacles. As Arthur often says “If I can get one kid, just one, to hear my story about how senseless gun violence damaged me but how I overcame this life obstacle with no remorse or need for revenge – and that kid decides to play sports, volunteer or anything besides picking up a gun, I HAVE DONE MY JOB!” |
26825287#6 | Arthur Renowitzky | Renowitzky plays for the BORP All Stars a semi professional wheelchair basketball team. He credits wheelchair basketball for bringing him out of his depression from the shooting. One day after a hand cycling experience, he met with a wheelchair basketball coach and found a new passion, strength and confidence. Now he shares his love for basketball when he coaches for the Boys and Girls Club, Boys basketball team in San Leandro. |
26825287#7 | Arthur Renowitzky | In recognition of his work, Arthur was named a Home Town hero by the Bay Area News Group for the summer of 2009 and also received a citation of appreciation from the Oakland Mayoral Council Against Violence that same year. |
26825287#8 | Arthur Renowitzky | Arthur co-starred in the documentary film "Shine" in 2012.
http://shinethefilm.com/ |
26825287#9 | Arthur Renowitzky | Arthur cites American inspirational public figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Pauley Perrette, Michael Jordan, Eminem, Steve Jobs, Nas, Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, 2Pac, Stephen Curry, as major influences, with 2Pac being his biggest. He stated: "There are many others, but those are the ones that come to mind at this time. Those public figures and artists are basically the template to my format as an Artist. They all capture me with their contribution to the world, whether it be the music, acting, vibe, delivery, cadence, entrepreneurship or just their inspiring personal story." |
26825290#0 | Oren Harman | Oren Harman is an award-winning writer and historian of science. |
26825290#1 | Oren Harman | Oren Harman was born in Jerusalem on January 25, 1973. He grew up and was educated in Jerusalem and in New York City, where he attended the Collegiate School of Boys and excelled at soccer (he was dubbed "the little Israeli magician" by New York "Newsday"). He graduated from Hebrew University Secondary School in Jerusalem. Harman's books have been translated into Polish, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Malayalam. His book, "The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness", won the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of Science and Technology and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Harman's latest book is Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) |
26825290#2 | Oren Harman | Following three years of service in an elite IDF military unit, Harman studied history and biology at Hebrew University, where he graduated summa cum laude. He then received M.Sc. and D.Phil. degrees with distinction from Oxford University, before spending two years at Harvard University, conducting research and teaching in the Department of History of Science. |
26825290#3 | Oren Harman | Harman was subsequently awarded the Alon Award for academic excellence, and was elected in 2003 to the Young Academy of Sciences of Israel. Since 2008 he is Chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar-Ilan University and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His fields of expertise include the history and philosophy of modern biology, evolutionary theory, the evolution of altruism, 20th-century genetics, the cultural history of science, and historical biography. |
26825290#4 | Oren Harman | Harman has been a frequent contributor to The New Republic, and Haaretz Magazine, and is the co-creator of the Israeli Oscar-nominated documentary series "Did Herzl Really Say That?", which explores changing cultural identities in Israel. His work has been featured in Science, Nature, The New York Times, The Times, TLS, The New York Review of Books, The Economist, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Radio Lab, and many others. |
26825318#0 | National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Georgia | This is a list of properties and districts in Fayette County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). |
26825325#0 | Douglas Godfree | Douglas Godfree (16 October 1881 – 5 August 1929) was a British fencer and modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. |
26825348#0 | Star of Said Ali | The Star of Said Ali (French: "Étoile de Said Ali"), also "Orde of the Ster van Said Ali" was instituted in 1886 by King Saidi Ali ibn Saidi Omar, ruler of Bambao, first king of the united Grande Comore. The decoration is an Order of Merit. |
26825348#1 | Star of Said Ali | The first jewel was a typical Arab piece of silver embellished with a number of diamonds and words in Arabic. The ribbon was woven of dark red silk and embroidered with golden stars. Said Ali established the Order to recognize meritorious service by civilian or military personnel. |
26825348#2 | Star of Said Ali | As the prince and his subjects were Muslims a star was chosen as a design and not a cross. |
26825348#3 | Star of Said Ali | The later design was awarded in four classes, Its second design is based on a double-sided five-pointed star of dark green enamel with gold ball finials at the end of each point. Diamonds were no longer used. The star is layered over rays of gold between each arm. A raised Arabic inscription is encircled in the center of the star. This is suspended from a large golden crescent with small green enamel star(s) on it (three on the Commander grade and one on the Knight grade). The original metal design of this Order varies considerably from the later enameled version.
The Ordre de l'Étoile d'Anjouan was related to this order. |
26825349#0 | Bones (season 4) | The fourth season of the American television series "Bones" premiered on September 3, 2008, with a two-hour episode and concluded on May 14, 2009, on Fox. The show changed time slots again, airing on Wednesdays at 8:00 pm ET before moving to Thursdays at 8:00 pm ET in 2009. The season consisted of 26 episodes and averaged 10.8 million viewers. |
26825349#1 | Bones (season 4) | The season premieres with its first two-part episode, "Yanks in the U.K." which was filmed on-location in the United Kingdom. Due to the season's extended episode count of 26 and multiple pre-emptions, Fox aired seven episodes throughout the month of April 2009, with new episodes airing on Monday and Wednesday, along with its regular timeslot of Thursday. This season sees the return of The Grave Digger, who was last seen in the second season. This time, The Grave Digger captures Booth. After Booth is rescued, the team discovers the true identity of The Grave Digger.The fourth season of "Bones" was released on DVD (subtitled "Body Bag Edition") in region 1 on October 6, 2009, in region 2 on October 26, 2009 and in region 4 on October 27, 2009. This was the first season to be released on Blu-ray, and was only released in region A alongside the region 1 DVD release. The region 1 DVD set only includes 22 episodes of season four, as the first four episodes of the season were made available as bonus episodes on the season three DVD set. While the Blu-ray release, and the region 2 and 4 versions include all 26 episodes of the season. Special features include two featurettes—"Androgyny: Playing Haru Tanaka" and "Squints in Training"; three extended episodes—"The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond", "The Doctor in the Den" and "The Girl in the Mask". Also included are deleted scenes and a gag reel. |
26825349#2 | Bones (season 4) | General references |
26825359#0 | Spécialités de la Maison | Spécialités de la Maison is a cookbook containing more than 200 recipes by a wide array of early 20th Century celebrities and socialites. The book was originally published in 1940 under the direction of Anne Morgan in order to raise funds for her nonprofit organization, the American Friends of France, which sought to bring relief to the French population in wartime. Reprinted in 1949, "Spécialités de la Maison" includes recipes by Salvador Dalí, Christian Dior, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, and Helen Keller among other luminaries. |
26825359#1 | Spécialités de la Maison | Most recently, "Spécialités de la Maison" was reprinted with a preface and select biographies by former "Art + Auction" editor Christine Schwartz Hartley and a foreword by "Vanity Fair" editor Graydon Carter. |
26825376#0 | Lockhart Leith | Captain Lockhart Leith (2 June 1876 – 30 November 1940) was a British fencer and Royal Navy officer. He competed in the individual sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. |
26825376#1 | Lockhart Leith | Leith was the son of Walter Leith of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. He was educated at Burney's Royal Naval Academy, Gosport and joined HMS "Britannia" in 1890. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 September 1898, and among his early postings was a temporary posting to in 1902. He was promoted to commander on 31 December 1910 and captain on 31 December 1916. |
26825376#2 | Lockhart Leith | Leith served with distinction during the First World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1917 and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1919 New Year Honours. He was awarded the Navy Cross from the United States in 1920 and retired in 1922. |
26825376#3 | Lockhart Leith | Leith died in 1940 after an operation and was survived by his wife Norah ("née" Barry). |
26825385#0 | Traianus (magister peditum) | Traianus (died August 9, 378 at Adrianople) was a Roman general under Emperor Valens with whom he died in the battle of Adrianople. |
26825385#1 | Traianus (magister peditum) | Between 367 and 368 he held the military office of "dux Aegypti". While in office, he and the "praefectus augustalis" Eutolmius Tatianus protected the Arian bishop Lucius of Alexandria. He was also ordered to rebuild the "Caesareum" and he started the building on May 1, 368. |
26825385#2 | Traianus (magister peditum) | Between 371 and 374 he was "comes rei militaris" in the East, where, together with the Alamannic king Vadomarius he fought the Sasanids. At the end of the winter, the Sasanid king Sapor II gathered his army and moved against the Roman territory. Emperor Valens sent Vadomarius and Traianus against him, with a strong army and the order to keep the Sasanids under control but to avoid provoking them into battle. However, at Vagabanta the Sasanid cavalry forced the Roman infantry into contact: the infantry first tried to break contact, but then defeated the enemy. The following encounters had alternate results and so, at the end of summer, the generals signed a truce and retired. In 374, while he commanded the Roman troops in Armenia, he was secretly ordered by Valens to kill king Papas (Pap). Traianus obtained Papas' confidence and invited him to dinner: during the banquet, Traianus left the room and a killer killed Papas. |
26825385#3 | Traianus (magister peditum) | Later he was promoted to the rank of "magister peditum" and was sent in Thracia to fight the Gothic War. In 377 the Goths had been allowed to enter Roman territory but, oppressed by Roman officers, had rebelled and had sacked Adrianople, gathering under the leadership of Fritigern. Emperor Valens was at the time at Antioch, in Syria, where he was preparing the war against the Sasanids. The Emperor decided to send two of his generals, Profuturus and Traianus, to Thracia with fresh troops. The two generals decided to fight the bulk of the enemy army with their Armenian troops, which had proved valiant, and succeeded in pushing the Goths inside the valleys, where they hoped to defeat them by hunger. The Roman troops were, nonetheless, vastly inferior by number to the Goths, and, since the expected reinforcements led by Frigeridus did not arrive, Traianus and Profuturus decided to retire and to unite to the units of Richomeres near the city of "Ad Salices" ("Near the Willows", close to Marcianopolis in Moesia). Here the Romans and the Goths fought the battle of the Willows: the Romans fought a huge number of Goths (Gothic soldiers with their families) who had entrenched behind a wall of wagons, then forced them to open-field battle. At first the Roman left wing broke, but thanks to the reinforcement of local troops, the Romans were able to sustain the fight until the night came, despite receiving huge losses. |
26825385#4 | Traianus (magister peditum) | When the news of the bloody battle arrived in the East, Valens sent West more troops under the "magister equitum" Saturninus, who was to substitute the two generals. When he returned to Constantinople, Valens accused Traianus of cowardice, but thanks to the support of the "magistri militum" Arinthaeus and Victor, Traianus put the blame on Valens' persecution of the Nicenians. |
26825385#5 | Traianus (magister peditum) | In 378 Traianus was exonerated in favour of Sebastianus, but he was later recalled in service. Traianus followed Valens, who wanted to defeat the Goths before the arrival from the West of his nephew Gratian with the Western army. Valens fought the Goths in the battle of Adrianople (August 9, 378); here, while the Roman troops were shattering around, Traianus noted that the Emperor had been left alone by his guards, and the two of them fell on the battlefield. |
26825394#0 | Anthony Chalke | Anthony Chalke was a British fencer. He competed in the individual sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. |
26825403#0 | Akun Tehdas | Akun Tehdas (English: Aku's Factory) is the third album by Eppu Normaali. It was released on 19 February 1980. On the album, the band lastly switched their style from punk rock to new wave. Mikko Saarela wasn't Eppu Normaali's bassist on the album, but he still wrote lyrics to it. Akun Tehdas was the first album to include Mikko "Vaari" Nevalainen on bass. |
26825411#0 | Église Notre Dame (Clisson) | Église Notre Dame is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Clisson, France. It was founded by Olivier V de Clisson in the 14th–15th century. The church was razed during the War in the Vendée, and later renovated under the Empire in the early 19th century. It was completely demolished and rebuilt in 1887–88 by Nantais architect René Ménard. |
26825420#0 | Hurting (song) | "'Hurting'" is a song written and performed by Canadian singer Karl Wolf from his third studio album, "Nightlife". A remix version of the song that features Sway, was released as the official single. It was a hit for him on the Canadian Hot 100 charts in 2010 making its debut on the chart dated on March 20, 2010. It has been going up the charts to reach #55 on the chart dated on the issue of April 17, 2010. |
26825420#1 | Hurting (song) | The music video was shot for the original version of the song. The story line depicts Karl Wolf as a boxer and his love object and her rejection which causes his heartbreak. The female role is played by Nicole Holness. For his boxing scenes, Karl Wolf was trained by Howard Grant and Otis Grant makes a cameo appearance during the fight commenting on the game, Many boxing scenes were filmed in TKO Fightclub and the Grant Brothers Gym. |
26825420#2 | Hurting (song) | The music video was directed by Karl Wolf himself and produced by Radar Films and Lone Wolf Entertainment with Michel Grondin as executive producer and Denis Filion as production manager. Bernard Couture was director of photography and Gregory Nowak as artistic director. |
26825424#0 | Dracula the Undead (novel) | Dracula the Undead is a sequel written to Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula", written by Freda Warrington. The book was commissioned by Penguin Books as a sequel to Stoker's original novel for the centenary of the latter's first publication. It takes place seven years after the original. It was originally published in 1997, and was brought back to print in 2009. |
26825424#1 | Dracula the Undead (novel) | It is seven years since a stake was driven through the heart of the infamous Count Dracula. Seven years which have not eradicated the terrible memories for Jonathan and Mina Harker, who now have a young son. To lay their memories to rest they return to Transylvania, and can find no trace of the horrific events. But, beneath the earth, Dracula's soul lies in limbo, waiting for the Lifeblood that will revive him. |
26825427#0 | H. Evan James | H. Evan James (1 August 1866 – 1956) was a British Olympic fencer. He competed at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics. |
26825429#0 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | On 28 October 1995, a fire broke out in the subway system of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, between the stations Ulduz and Nariman Narimanov. According to official figures, the fire killed 289 people: 286 passengers (including 28 children) and three rescue workers, while 270 people were injured. The fire was deemed to have been caused by electrical malfunction, but the possibility of deliberate sabotage was not excluded. |
26825429#1 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | Although a number of people who evacuated the train survived, the fire remains the world's deadliest subway disaster. One person, Chingiz Babayev, was posthumously awarded the title of the National Hero of Azerbaijan for saving passengers' lives. |
26825429#2 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | The Ulduz and Nariman Narimanov metro stations serve the northern part of Azerbaijan's capital, Baku. The tunnel between them was equipped with a controllable ventilation system, but had a relatively narrow cross-section (height , width ). |
26825429#3 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | Before 1995 the deadliest subway accident was the Malbone Street Wreck of 1918 in New York City, which killed as many as 93 people. The deadliest subway conflagration before 1995 was the Paris Métro train fire of 1903, which killed 84. |
26825429#4 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | The fire, caused by an electrical fault, occurred during the Saturday evening rush hour at about 6:00 p.m. The affected train, consisting of five fully loaded cars, had just left Ulduz station for Nariman Narimanov. The passengers in car number 5 smelled smoke. Later, passengers in car 4 observed white smoke, which soon turned black and caused irritation. The putative electrical malfunction (a sparkover or electric arc in electrical equipment in the rear of the fourth car) stopped the train about 200 meters from Ulduz station. When the train stopped, the tunnel became filled with smoke. The driver reported the incident and demanded that the power be cut. However, lethal emissions of carbon monoxide from the burning synthetic materials in the cars quickly affected the passengers. Because of difficulties opening the doors in one of the cars, the passengers were forced to evacuate through another car. Some 15 minutes after the fire started, the ventilation system was switched to exhaust mode and much of the smoke was drawn in the direction of evacuation. Several people were electrocuted while trying to grasp cables in order to escape the blazing train. |
26825429#5 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | The majority of those killed (including 28 children) were found inside the train, most of them either crushed or trampled to death. Forty bodies were found inside the tunnel. Survivors recalled sparks flying from high-voltage cables just after the train left the Ulduz station. One of the passengers, Tabil Huseynov, 45, described the situation as follows: "As soon as the train entered the tunnel, I saw a flash. Then the flames enveloped the train car, there was a sound of breaking glass, and the lights went out. People started breaking windows to get out. We were starting to suffocate." |
26825429#6 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | The estimated number of victims varied after the fire. Morgue officials reportedly counted at least 303 bodies, while the independent Azerbaijani news agency Turan quoted medical officials as saying the number of people killed was 337. A two-day mourning period was declared. Lukoil rendered $9,000 in financial aid to the families of victims. |
26825429#7 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | The government inquiry commission concluded that the fire was caused by an electrical fault. The fire started in the traction motor of one railway car. No explosives were found. The commission's chairman, Deputy Prime Minister Abbas Abbasov, mentioned "outdated Soviet" equipment. Yet two mysterious large holes on the side of one of the wrecked carriages were reportedly found and Azeri national TV quoted experts as saying the holes indicated the use of an explosive device. President Heydar Aliyev told a U.S. official that while preliminary information indicated a technical fault, the fire was "possibly an organised act of sabotage". |
26825429#8 | 1995 Baku Metro fire | The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan convicted two persons for criminal negligence. The metro operator was sentenced to 15 years in prison and the station traffic controller 10. |
26825432#0 | Walter Thomas Mills | Walter Thomas Mills (1856–1942) was an American socialist activist, educator, lecturer, writer, and newspaper publisher. He is best remembered for the role he played in the Socialist Party of America during the first decade of the 20th Century as one of the leaders of the organization's moderate wing. He also was a key actor in the labor movement of New Zealand as a founder of the United Labour Party in 1912. He returned to the United States in 1914 with the advent of World War I and worked unsuccessfully to keep the country out of the bloody European conflict, eventually leaving the socialist movement in the 1920s. |
26825432#1 | Walter Thomas Mills | Walter Thomas Mills — he was known by his contemporaries by his full name — was born May 11, 1856 in Duane, New York, the son of a Quaker farmer, Charles Mills, and his wife, Mahetabel Ladd Mills. The family moved to Iowa when Walter was a boy and he worked at a variety of jobs in his youth to save up enough money to put himself through college. |
26825432#2 | Walter Thomas Mills | Mills was a graduate of Oberlin College, a liberal arts school in Oberlin, Ohio, where he earned his Bachelor's degree. He went on to earn a Master's degree from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio in 1898. |
26825432#3 | Walter Thomas Mills | After finishing his education, Mills became active in the cause of alcoholic prohibition, a cause which forced him to think about social issues in a large context. As a result of reading and introspection about such matters, Mills turned his attention to socialism in the 1880s. Together with the Rev. A.J. Jutkins in 1886 Mills launched a Chicago magazine called "The Statesman: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Problems of Practical Politics, Co-Operative Industry, and Self-Help." His first book, "The Science of Politics," was published by Funk and Wagnalls one year later. |
26825432#4 | Walter Thomas Mills | Driven by his beliefs to public speaking on political themes, Mills soon developed oratorical expertise which was acknowledged by political friends and enemies alike. This reputation as a vigorous platform speaker, combined with Mills' shortness of stature — he stood just 4 feet and 6 inches (1.37 meters) tall — lead some detractors to mockingly refer to Mills as "The Little Giant," a twisted reference to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Presidential debate opponent Stephen A. Douglas. |
26825432#5 | Walter Thomas Mills | Mills was initially involved in a series of socialist-themed educational and living schemes of dubious soundness. He organized a so-called People's University in Berrien Springs, Michigan in the first years of the 20th Century, soliciting funds and then exiting the project immediately before its collapse. He repeated this basic plan in Kansas City, Missouri, renting a cavernous building on adjacent to the city's stockyards, furnishing it at great expense, soliciting annual subscriptions to a publiication called "The Socialist Teacher," and then quitting the project after just three months. |
26825432#6 | Walter Thomas Mills | Mills was similarly involved in colony schemes in Michigan, Kansas City, and Colorado, all of which drew cash infusions from outside investors before failing in short order. |
26825432#7 | Walter Thomas Mills | Regardless of whether his series of economic catastrophes was by design or bad luck, the skilled orator Mills was anxiously sought as a public speaker on socialist themes throughout the country, usually under the auspices of states controlled by electorally-oriented "constructive socialists." Mills' predilection for appearing on the scene of factional wars and forcefully advocating the moderate line has led him to be characterized by one historian of the period as an oratorial gun for hire consciously employed by moderate factionalists in various states to rally the troops. |
26825432#8 | Walter Thomas Mills | In the summer of 1903, moderate socialists won majority control of Central Branch of Local Seattle of the Socialist Party — the largest of seven branches in the city — and brought Mills to Seattle on behalf of the local. Mills was anathema to radical newspaper publisher Hermon F. Titus, the head of the powerful left wing faction in the Socialist Party of Washington, who saw Mills as a living embodiment of middle class reformism. |
26825432#9 | Walter Thomas Mills | After hearing Mills' presentation, a committee of the Local Seattle, Central Branch, headed by William McDevitt, drafted a resolution endorsing Mills as "an uncompromising, class-conscious, and revolutionary Socialist" and upbraiding Hermon Titus's newspaper for participating in a "plan to silence Mills by driving him off the Socialist lecture platform, and by blacklisting him in the eyes of the Socialist Party." |
26825432#10 | Walter Thomas Mills | This proved to be a red flag to the Reds. Titus railed against "the Mills men" using "packed" meetings to gain control of the Central Branch and the Seattle City Central Committee in the absence of other delegates. "They will stop at nothing in the way of injustice," Titus indignantly proclaimed. Washington state remained bitterly divided along factional lines for the rest of the decade. |
26825432#11 | Walter Thomas Mills | The arrival of Walter Thomas Mills as a Seattle resident in 1906 energized the embattled moderate faction, which had in the previous year managed to deprive the revolutionary socialists of their center of power, the Pike Street Branch of Local Seattle, through a reorganization orchestrated by the Seattle City Central Committee only to see lose Local Seattle lose its charter and be reorganized by the left wing-dominated State Executive Committee. Mills persuaded the Seattle moderates who had been cast aside by the Socialist Party of Washington and who had organized themselves as the "Propaganda Club of Seattle" to rejoin the Socialist Party, with a view to winning control. |
26825432#12 | Walter Thomas Mills | Throughout early 1907 Mills conducted Sunday afternoon meetings independent or the regularly scheduled Sunday afternoon propaganda meetings of Local Seattle, using these gatherings as a means of making contact with Socialists discontented with the left wing state organization and leadership of the reorganized Local Seattle. By the first of June, Mills' Sunday meetings — scheduled in direct conflict with the regular Sunday propaganda meetings of the left wing-dominated officialdom, had resulted in "steadily diminished" crowds being drawn by the left and a great expansion of the size and confidence of the moderate faction. "This is a great setback from the time when the revolutionary element had absolute control in the party some four or five months ago," left wing adherent Harry Ault declared. |
26825432#13 | Walter Thomas Mills | The situation was complex, however. In March 1907, Mills had been charged by the British Columbia Dominion Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Canada with having advocated "compromise and fusion" in a speech delivered in Victoria on December 28, 1906, in which Mills urged support of the Canadian Labor Party. Having gotten wind of Mills' fusionist heresy, left wing Washington State Committee member Alfred Wagenknecht wrote to the BC Dominion Executive Committee on February 20, 1907, soliciting a complaint against Mills. The Dominion Executive Committee complied on March 6 with a letter to the Washington State Executive Committee, which lead to charges being preferred against Mills. Both sides began to organize frantically for the May Washington State Convention, which was seen as the means by which the dilemma could be overcome by Mills forces — a majority at the convention for the moderates would mean a new State Committee and an end to pressure. |
26825432#14 | Walter Thomas Mills | Mills was brought to trial before the Local Seattle on Sunday, April 28, 1907 at 10 am on the Victoria speech. Before the largest mass meeting of Local Seattle in the organization's history, charges were read by J.G. Morgan, Secretary of the Socialist Party of Canada. Mill pleaded "not guilty" and the point was reached where Morgan was to make his opening statement and to introduce his evidence. Suddenly, Mills was given the floor and he made a motion of adjournment, which was quickly seconded and carried amid the whooping and shouting of his supporters. |
26825432#15 | Walter Thomas Mills | Despite being outnumbered in the city of Seattle and unable to discipline Mills through Local Seattle, the left wing still held the reins of the State Committee, which continued to mull over the situation into June. At its June 10, 1907 meeting, the State Executive Committee (formerly the Local Quorum) discussed the situation at length and telegraphed a forthcoming action to the membership in a tersely-worded report by State Secretary Richard Krueger that he had been instructed "to communicate with all the state committeemen and inform said committeemen of all the facts" regarding the failure of Local Seattle to "deal in a constitutional manner with the charges against Walter Thomas Mills." |
26825432#16 | Walter Thomas Mills | On June 23, 1907 the State Executive Committee tabulated a poll of the members of the State Committee and instructed the State Secretary to prepare evidence in proper documentary form and to notify Local Seattle to do likewise, with the deadline for submission of its defense given of 30 minutes before the start of the next scheduled meeting of the SEC. Evidence from both sides was heard at the July 7, 1907 meeting of the SEC, and the evidence sent out to the members of the left wing-dominated State Committee for decision. The results were announced on Sunday, July 21, 1907 — a unanimous vote to revoke the charter of Local Seattle for its failure to take action against Walter Thomas Mills. Hermon Titus's right-hand man at the Seattle "Socialist," Harry Ault, claimed to speak for "a large number of members of Local Seattle, perhaps even a majority" when he declared:
"These comrades are disgusted with the rule or ruin policy of the opportunists, who, though they have been defeated in every state convention and in every referendum in which they have crossed swords with the revolutionists, persist in creating strife and dissension in the party in this state.
"The importation of Walter Thomas Mills is merely the culminating act of a band of desperate filibusterers, who, having been foiled in their attempts to control the party, resort to this means to disrupt it and organize it anew upon their plan." |
26825432#17 | Walter Thomas Mills | Mills-dominated Local Seattle was once again cast adrift by the Socialist Party of Washington, a deep split which deprived the SPW of its largest Local and virtually insured that the matter would be appealed to the national level at the party's forthcoming convention of 1908. |
26825432#18 | Walter Thomas Mills | In 1910 Mills left the United States to conduct what he called a "World-Round Lecture Tour," heading first for England. Mills chronicled his thoughts and adventures in a regular column in the pages of Victor L. Berger's Milwaukee weekly, the "Social-Democratic Herald." The first of these letters from the road appeared in the October 22, 1910 edition of the "Herald." |
26825432#19 | Walter Thomas Mills | In 1911, Mills was invited by the Trades and Labour Councils of New Zealand to tour the country, speaking on the cause of labor unity. Similar in climate to the Pacific Northwest from whence he most recently hailed, Mills was quickly engrossed with the mission of uniting the deeply divided labor and left wing political movements of New Zealand and he wound up putting down roots. |
26825432#20 | Walter Thomas Mills | Mills was criticized by radical trade unionists such as Pat Hickey, Paddy Webb and Bob Semple for his emphasis on organizing the staid middle class. During the 1911 election campaign Mills faced Scott Bennett in a series of highly publicized debates which emphasized the ideological issues which split the New Zealand labor movement. |
26825432#21 | Walter Thomas Mills | Mills was instrumental in the founding of the United Labour Party of New Zealand (ULP) on Easter Sunday 1912. The existence of this new moderate organization sharpened the heated conflict even further, with the bitterness in Auckland even periodically erupting into fist fights. Mills travelled thousands of miles on his organizing mission, speaking to public meetings across both islands of the country. |
26825432#22 | Walter Thomas Mills | While many unions refused to affiliate with the ULP, Mills still played a large role at a 1913 conference to mobilize the New Zealand labor movement against the government of William Massey. Mills managed to convince the various factions at the conference to merge into two new organizations vaguely following American institutions: the United Federation of Labour and the Social Democratic Party. Many of Mills' old enemies joined him in repudiating an exclusive reliance on industrial militancy in favor of parallel political action. |
26825432#23 | Walter Thomas Mills | Mills left the country with his wife as suddenly as he arrived in 1914, returning to the United States. |
26825432#24 | Walter Thomas Mills | Upon returning to America in 1914, Mills once again became involved in the activities of the Socialist Party of America. Despite his renown as one of the most moderate voices in the Socialist Party, Mills was a devoted anti-militarist, perhaps owing to his Quaker background. Mills authored a pamphlet against the European war published by the SPA and spoke out publicly on anti-war themes. |
26825432#25 | Walter Thomas Mills | Later in the 1910s, Mills was attracted to the newly formed Non-Partisan League (NPL), a cooperatively-oriented radical rural organization founded by former Socialist Arthur C. Townley and particularly strong in the Upper Midwestern states of North Dakota and Minnesota. Mills turned his attention away from the Socialist Party and became fully engaged in the activities of the NPL, having completely left the Socialist Party prior to 1922. |
26825432#26 | Walter Thomas Mills | Walter Thomas Mills died May 7, 1942 in Los Angeles, California. |
26825437#0 | Michael Taylor (demoniac) | Michael Taylor (born circa 1944) became notable in England in 1974 as a result of the Ossett murder case and his alleged demonic possession. |
26825437#1 | Michael Taylor (demoniac) | Taylor lived in Ossett, West Yorkshire, working as a butcher. In 1974, Taylor's wife, Christine, stated to a Christian Fellowship Group to which Taylor belonged, that his relationship with the lay leader of the group, Marie Robinson, was "carnal" in nature. Michael Taylor admitted that he felt evil within him and eventually attacked Robinson verbally, who screamed back at him. During the next meeting, Michael Taylor received an absolution, but nevertheless, his behaviour continued to become more erratic. As a result, the local vicar called in other ministers experienced in deliverance in preparation to cast out the demons residing within the man. |
26825437#2 | Michael Taylor (demoniac) | The exorcism, which occurred on 5–6 October 1974 at St. Thomas’s Church in Gawber, was headed by Father Peter Vincent, the Anglican priest of St. Thomas's, and was aided by a Methodist clergyman, the Rev. Raymond Smith. According to Bill Ellis, an authority on folklore and the occult in contemporary culture, the exorcists believed that they had: "In an all-night ceremony...invoked and cast out at least forty demons, including those of incest, bestiality, blasphemy, and lewdness. At the end, exhausted, they allowed Taylor to go home, although they felt that at least three demons—insanity, murder, and violence—were still left in him." |
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