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rettenberg is a municipality in the district of oberallgäu in bavaria in germany. rettenberg is twinned with the village la frénaye in northern france (close to le havre). rettenberg is the southernmost village with breweries ("engelbräu" and "zötlerbrauerei") in germany.
sonthofen is the most southerly town of germany. it is in the oberallgäu region of the bavarian alps. oberstdorf is farther south but is not a town. in 2005, sonthofen was awarded "alpenstadt des jahres" (alpine city of the year).
in world war ii sonthofen was bombed twice. this was because adolf hitler had built the "ordensburg sonthofen" in sonthofen. young boys were trained there for nazi party organisations. sonthofen was given town rights on 18 august 1963.
lennart nilsson (24 august 1922 – 28 january 2017) was a swedish photographer. he was known for his photographs of human embryos and other medical subjects once thought not to be photographable. he was also known for his extreme macro photography. his book, "a child is born" (1965), featured many of his photographs. he...
nilsson died on 28 january 2017 at the age of 94.
sulzberg is a municipality in the district of oberallgäu in bavaria in germany. since 1990, sulzberg has been twinned with the municipality chailland (mayenne) in france.
lauda air flight 004 was a scheduled international passenger flight from kai tak, hong kong, china to wien-schwechat international airport, vienna, austria via don mueang international airport, bangkok, thailand. on 26 may 1991, the boeing 767-3z9er operating the flight under the callsign ng004 (lauda 4, lda004) suffer...
the positions of the left engine thrust reverser actuators along with data from the electronic engine control (eec) and the cockpit voice recorder (cvr) indicate that the left engine thrust reverse system deployed while the airplane was at approximately .78 mach (478 kn, 550 mph, 885 km/h), climbing through 24,700 feet...
the true cause of the reverser deployment was never found because all of the wires and the digital flight data recorder were destroyed in the crash, but it was thought to be caused by a short circuit that opened both valves for a split second, allowing the reverser to activate.
lauda air flight 004 took off from runway 21l in don mueang at 23:02 ict. 5 minutes and 45 seconds into the flight, where the pilots received a "rev isln val" warning on the eicas, to which captain welch replied, "that keeps coming on", indicating that the warning would come on, then extinguish. this probably made the ...
at 23:17 pm ict (local time, 4:17z pm), nine minutes after the first warning, while climbing past 24,500 feet, the left engine thrust reverser activated, the reverser plume causing asymmetrical lift that took away 25 percent of the original lift away from the left wing. almost immediately, the aircraft assumed a hard l...
the aircraft's tail section broke completely free of the main assembly, causing the rest of the aircraft to assume a near vertical nose down position, as the aircraft exceeded 660 knots (mach 1). the wings then broke free of the aircraft, and the remaining fuel inside the fuel tanks ignited into a massive fireball, and...
passengers and crew.
josef thurner, the copilot, once flew as a co-pilot with niki lauda on a lauda boeing 767 service to bangkok, a flight that was the subject of a "reader's digest" article in january 1990 that depicted the airline positively. macarthur job stated that thurner was the better known of the crew members. thomas j. welch, th...
geoffrey james "geoff" nicholls (28 february 1948 – 28 january 2017) was a british musician and keyboardist. he was best known as a member of the heavy metal band black sabbath. he did not perform with the band after 2004. he was born in birmingham.
nicholls died from lung cancer on 28 january 2017 at the age of 68.
insular italy ( or just ) is one of the five official statistical regions of italy used by the national institute of statistics (istat), a nuts1 level region.
insular italy is defined only for statistical and for some elections and includes the two main italian islands: sicily and sardinia, together with other small islands and archipelagos next to them.
sicily is the largest mediterranean island with an area of . to the east, it is separated from the italian mainland by the strait of messina, about wide in the north, and about wide in the southern part. its highest point is mount etna (), the largest active volcano in europe with an altitude of . the longest river of ...
sardinia is the second largest mediterranean island with an area of . to the east is the tyrrhenian sea that separates the island from mainland italy, and to the north is the strait of bonifacio that separates sardinia from the french island of corsica. its highest point is punta la marmora () with an altitude of . the...
insular italy has 2 of the 20 regions of italy, including 24 provinces and 1,789 comuniː
the "comuni" with more than 100,000 persons living in them areː
lucia bosè (' borloni"'; 28 january 1931 – 23 march 2020) was an italian actress. she reached peak fame during the time of italian neorealism in the 1940s and 1950s. she appeared in the movies "under the olive tree", "story of a love affair" (both 1950), "the lady without camelias" (1953), "death of a cyclist" (1955) a...
bosè was born in milan. she was married to spanish bullfighter luis dominguín from 1955 to 1967. the couple had three children, including miguel (b. 1956, panama city). she was the grandmother of bimba bosé (1975–2017).
on 23 march 2020, during the covid-19 pandemic in spain, bosè died of pneumonia caused by covid-19 in segovia. she was 89.
many clouds (21 april 2007 – 28 january 2017) was a thoroughbred racehorse. he was best known for winning the hennessy gold cup (2014), the grand national (2015) and the cotswold chase (2015, 2017).
many clouds was bred in ireland but was trained in united kingdom.
many clouds died on 28 january 2017 in cheltenham, gloucestershire. he collapsed after winning his second cotswold chase and died from a pulmonary haemorrhage. he was nine.
gerardus willem "wim" anderiesen jr. (2 september 1931 – 27 january 2017) was a dutch footballer. he played as a defender at club level from the early-1950s to the mid-1960s. he played for ajax from 1951 to 1961. he later played for holland sport.
anderiesen was born in amsterdam, north holland. he was the son of and named after wim anderiesen (1903–1944). he died on 27 january 2017 in heerhugowaard at the age of 85.
smith & wesson (s&w) is an american firearms manufacturing company. their headquarters are in springfield, massachusetts. the company was founded in 1852. smith & wesson's pistols and revolvers have become standard issue to police and military forces. smith & wesson firearms are very popular among sport...
smith & wesson is also known for the many types of ammunition it has introduced over the years. many cartridge calibers bear the s&w name. for example, the .500 s&w magnum.
horace smith and daniel b. wesson founded the smith & wesson company in 1852. the purpose was to develop a lever action pistol. but by 1854 the company was failing. they sold the company to a shirt manufacturer named oliver winchester. in 1866, winchester renamed the company winchester repeating arms company. that ...
the civil war.
one of the most popular pistols during the war was the smith & wesson model 2. many civil war soldiers purchased the no 2 revolver privately. between 1861 and 1874, over 77,000 were produced. smith & wesson became so profitable that the two partners were the wealthiest men in springfield by 1865.
one of the most popular calibers during the civil war was the .44 caliber. the partners realized they needed to produce a pistol in this caliber. by 1870 s&w introduced the .44 metallic cartridge which was a major improvement over the .44 percussion cap models used in the war. to use this new cartridge, the company...
in 1880 s&w introduced the first double-action revolver. it was designed to use the .32 s&w caliber cartridge. by this time wesson's three sons, walter h., frank l., and joseph h., were active in the company. in 1887, frank l. wesson died but his brothers continued as partners in the company.
in 1887 a new concealed hammer design for police was made. variations of this design are still being made. in 1899, s&w brought out its most famous design, the military & police pistol. it was a double-action which set a standard for modern revolvers. it also introduced what has become a very popular caliber, t...
early 20th century.
in 1904, daniel b. wesson died. but without his guidance the two sons could not agree on the future direction of the company. this period of weak leadership continued for some time. in 1908 the company introduced a new line of .44 caliber pistols called the .44 new century, but was soon renamed the smith & wesson t...
smith & wesson received large government contracts for military revolvers from the american government. the company expanded to produce the firearms. but management problems, labor disputes and a new workforce all caused problems for production. as a result, the us government stepped in to manage s&w until the ...
after the war a surplus of military arms and imports of low cost guns caused sales to drop. under harold wesson, the company manufactured other items to try to keep up profits. they made sewing machines, handcuffs, washing machines and toilet parts. but none of these items made the company profitable.
about this time, bullet-proof vests came into use. gangsters quickly adopted them so that bullets traveling at under 1,000 fps would not penetrate them. s&w immediately began experimenting with improved bullets. they also used the famous firearms expert bill jordan as a consultant to help develop a new much more po...
world war ii and after.
by the start of the war s&w was nearly bankrupt. the company was now run by carl r. hellstrom. under his management the company concentrated its efforts on handguns and the company began to expand. in 1965 the wesson family sold the company to the bangor punta corporation. the company began producing firearms acces...
on march 17, 2000, smith & wesson made an agreement with us president bill clinton. it agreed to make changes in the design and distribution of its firearms. this was in return for "preferred buying program" to offset the loss of revenue as a result of anticipated boycott. all authorized s&w dealers and distrib...
after an organized campaign by the nra and nssf, thousands of retailers and tens of thousands of firearms consumers boycotted smith & wesson.
acquisition by saf-t-hammer.
on 11 may 2001, saf-t-hammer corporation acquired smith & wesson from tomkins plc for $15 million usd. this was a fraction of the $112 million originally paid by tomkins. the smith & wesson purchase was chiefly brokered by saf-t-hammer president bob scott. he had left smith & wesson in 1999 because of a dis...
on 15 february 2002, the name was changed to smith & wesson holding corporation.
in december 2014, smith & wesson holding announced it was paying $130.5 million for battenfeld technologies. this is a columbia, missouri-based designer and distributor of hunting and shooting accessories. this was part of a plan to merge all its existing smith & wesson, m&p and thompson center arms accesso...
in august 2016 the company bought crimson trace, a laser-sight manufacturer, for $95 million. they bought taylor brands, a tool and knife maker, for $85 million. in november 2016 the company bought ust brands, a survival equipment maker, for $32.3 million. on november 7, 2016, smith & wesson announced that it would...
ni yulan is a chinese business lawyer. in 2016, she received the international women of courage award.
ni fought for property rights for people who lost their homes because of building for the 2008 beijing olympics. she went to prison many times. in prison she was beaten and lost the use of her legs. she applied for a passport to travel to the u.s. to receive the award, but the chinese government refused.
the tirso () is the most important river of sardinia for its length and the size of its drainage basin. it starts on the mountains of the centre of the island and ends in the mediterranean sea.
the river was known in sardinia as "riu de aristanis" ("river of oristano") or, simply, "riu mannu" (the "big river"). the name tirso began to be used in modern times following ptolemy that named it in ancient times as "thyrsos" (, "mouth of the tirso river").
the tirso river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .
its discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) depends of the season; its average discharge is but is very low during summer.
the tirso river starts in the buddusò plateau, on the slopes of "punta pianedda", at an elevation of about , to the north of the "comune" of bitti. from here, the river flows to the southwest.
finally, after , it flows into the gulf of oristano in the sea of sardinia (mediterranean sea). the river enters the sea at about to the north of the city of oristano.
the river forms the "omodeo lake", an artificial lake that is long and wide; it is one of largest artificial lake in italy.
it flows through 81 comuni.
most tributaries of the tirso are small streams; the main tributaries are:
both rivers are left tributaries of the tirso.
theodorus johannes franciscus "theo" brokmann jr. (born 3 july 1922) is a dutch former footballer. he played as a striker. he played for ajax from 1939 to 1951.
brokmann was born in amsterdam, north holland. he was the son of and named after theo brokmann (1893–1956).
michael tönnies (19 december 1959 – 26 january 2017) was a german footballer. he was born in essen. he played as a striker. he played from 1978 to 1994.
tönnies was best known for playing for msv duisburg, playing in 179 league games and scoring over a hundred goals. he also played for schalke 04, spvgg bayreuth, 1. fc bocholt, rot-weiss essen and wuppertaler sv. he held a bundesliga record, scoring the fastest hat-trick (three goals). he held the record from 1991 unti...
tönnies died on 26 january 2017 at the age of 57.
piet ouderland (17 march 1933 – 3 september 2017) was a dutch footballer and basketball player. he was born in amsterdam, north holland.
as a footballer, ouderland played as a striker. he played ajax, az alkmaar and the netherlands national team. for ajax, he made 261 total appearances with the club between 1955 and 1964. this made him a member of club van 100. he also made seven appearances with the national team in 1962 and 1963. as a basketball playe...
henry-louis de la grange (26 may 1924 – 27 january 2017) was a french musicologist. he was known for being known as a biographer of gustav mahler. he was born in paris. la grange began working as a music critic in 1952, writing articles for the "new york herald tribune" and "the new york times", and the magazines "oper...
la grange died in paris on 27 january 2017 from complications of pneumonia, aged 92.
sir francis christopher buchan bland (29 may 1938 – 28 january 2017) was a british businessman and politician. he was born in yokohama, japan.
he was deputy chairman of the independent television authority (1972), which was renamed the independent broadcasting authority in the same year, and chairman of london weekend television (1984) and of the board of governors of the bbc (1996 to 2001), when he took up a position as chairman of british telecommunications...
before leaving bt, he became chairman of the royal shakespeare company, in 2004.
bland died on 28 january 2017 in clanville, hampshire from complications of prostate cancer, aged 78.
the number one observatory circle is the official residence of the vice president of the united states and the second family. it is located on the northeast grounds of the u.s. naval observatory in washington, d.c. and it has been the residence of every vice president since 1974.
waltenhofen is a municipality in the district of oberallgäu in bavaria in germany. on 1 january 1972, the previously independent municipality of memhölz was incorporated into waltenhofen. on january 1 1976, niedersonthofen was added, and on april 1, 1976 martin im allgäu was also added. the mayor has been eckhard harsc...
weitnau is a municipality in the rural district oberallgäu in bavaria/germany. weitnau is in the foothills of the allgäu alps.
alexander streicher became the mayor in 2008.
weitnau became twinned with magné in france in 1986.
kaniyan pungundranar is an influential tamil poet and philosopher who lived during the sangam age. he was said to be born in the village of mahibalanpatti in tirupattur taluk of sivagangai district, tamil nadu.
kaniyan pungundranar composed two poems in tamil in purananuru and natrinai. his poem in purananuru is a famous poem, it starts with the lines of yaadhum oore yavarum kelir speaks about unity. dr. a.p.j. abdul kalam, the former president of india spoke about these lines in the united nations organisation. at present, t...
andreas sparman or andreas palmcron (1609 – november 30, 1658) was a swedish doctor. he was the personal physician to queen christina and king charles x gustav of sweden. he is most known for his book, "sundhetzens speghel", which is considered to be the best medical book of the century, and is sometimes considered to ...
andreas sparman was born andreas schomerus in sparrsätra parish, uppsala county, sweden. he died in
stockholm. when he wrote his dissertation in 1629, he used the name "schomerus", but later changed his name to sparrman, for his birthplace. he was knighted in 1647 with the name palmcron.
sparman's father was nikolaus olai. his mother was susanna andersdotter. his first wife was helena isaksdotter. his second wife was susanna lilliecrona. he had a daughter, brita susanna palmkron, with his second wife.
sparman studied medicine in the city of leiden, in the netherlands. after he returned to sweden he became the city doctor for stockholm. later, he was the personal doctor to queen christina and charles x gustav of sweden.
in connection with the plague epidemic in 1638, sparman wrote an educational book about the plague. it was a summary of how to prevent and treat the disease. it was published again during plague epidemics in 1652 and 1710.
in 1642, sparman wrote the most complete book ever published about preventive health care, "sundhetzen's speghel, uthi hwilken man beskodhar sundhetzens natur..." or "mirror of health, from which one may learn the nature of health, the principle causes of all diseases which chiefly undermine health, together with the r...
it is considered the best "läkebok" or medical book of the century. part of the book is written in the form of the alexandrine french poetry meter. it was probably based on some foreign works. sparman's book warned about the medical dangers of alcohol.
because of the severe "rödsots" or dysentery epidemics, in 1652 sparman wrote about how to prevent dysentery.
sparman also translated the hymns of the psalms. he got permission to publish them, but they were never published.
elkin fernando ramírez zapata (26 october 1962 – 29 january 2017) was a colombian singer-songwriter. he was best known as the lead singer of the rock band kraken. he was also a member to bands such as kripzy (1981–1982) and ferrotrack (1983–1984). he joined kraken in 1985. he was born in medellín, antioquia.
ramírez died from brain cancer on 29 january 2017 in medellín. he was 54.
walter herbert "walt" streuli (september 26, 1935 – january 19, 2017) was an american professional baseball player. he played as a catcher. he appeared in six major league baseball games over parts of three seasons with the 1954–1956 detroit tigers.
streuli was born in memphis, tennessee. he studied at rhodes college. streuli died in greensboro, north carolina on january 19, 2017, aged 81.
r-dropping also called non-rhoticity or post vocalic r-lessness happens to english-speakers when the "r" sound is not pronounced after a vowel. then the words "car" and "card" both sound like "cah" and "cahd". that happens for most speakers in england and some speakers in the united states, especially in the boston and...
the pronunciation of the r is kept in the scottish, irish and most of the u.s. and canada versions of spoken english. the r-droppers include most of england, wales, australia, new zealand and south africa.