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Chunyu is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 12,600 people in the ward, from 11,593 in 2012.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyu%20%28ward%29
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Gode Gode is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 8,569 people in the ward, from 7,884 in 2012.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godegode
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In 1992, the American National Standards Institute adopted ANSI/ASME Y14.1 Decimal Inch Drawing Sheet Size and Format, which defined a regular series of paper sizes based upon the de facto standard in × 11 in "letter" size to which it assigned the designation "ANSI A". This series also includes "ledger"/"tabloid" as "ANSI B". This series is somewhat similar to the ISO 216 standard in that cutting a sheet in half would produce two sheets of the next smaller size. Unlike the ISO standard, however, the arbitrary aspect ratio forces this series to have two alternating aspect ratios. ANSI/ASME Y14.1 has been revised or updated in 1995, 2005, 2012 and 2022. It had an accompanying standard, ANSI/ASME Y14.1M, that defined metric drawing paper sizes based upon ISO 216 and ISO 5457. ASME Y14.1 and ASME Y14.1M have now been revised and consolidated into one document, ASME Y14.1-2020, Drawing Sheet Size and Format, published on 18 December 2020.
With care, documents can be prepared so that the text and images fit on either ANSI or their equivalent ISO sheets at 1:1 reproduction scale.
Size F does not continue the alphabetic series, because it does not exhibit the same aspect ratios.
Sizes G, H, J and K are roll formats. G size is in (571.5 mm) high, but variable width up to 90 in (2286 mm) in increments of in. Such sheets were at one time used for full-scale layouts of aircraft parts, wiring harnesses and the like, but today are generally not needed, due to widespread use of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM).
See also
References
American National Standards Institute standards
Stationery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/ASME%20Y14.1
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Ipera is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 8,362 people in the ward, from 12,870 in 2012.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipera
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Kibakwe is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 18,521.
The water supply of Kibakwe is currently (2014) being improved by a German Evangelical community.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibakwe
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Kimagai is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 7,977 people in the ward, from 7,340 in 2012.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimagai
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Milioner is third studio album by Macedonian pop musician, Elena Risteska. The album was released in Serbia by City Records in q2, 2008. The albums contains the same songs from the album 192, just sang in Serbian.
Track listings
"92"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Elena Risteska & Aida Buraku
"Milioner"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Elena Risteska & Aida Buraku
"Kreveta Dva"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Aida Buraku
"Bye, Bye"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Aida Buraku
"Usne Boje Tamnog Mastila"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Snezana Vukomanovic
"Esen Vo Mene"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Kaliopi
"Romeo i Julija"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Elena Risteska i Aida Buraku
"Ninanajna"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Rade Vrčakovski
"Iskrene Suze"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Elena Risteska
"Ne Mogu"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Kaliopi
"Ni Na Nebo Ni Na Zemja"
music: Darko Dimitrovarrangement: Darko Dimitrovlyrics: Aleksandar Ristovski
"Ljubav Nije Za Nas"
music: Aleksandar Covicarrangement: Aleksandar Coviclyrics: Alek Aleksov
Release history
References
2008 albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milioner%20%28album%29
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Luhundwa is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 13,217 people in the ward, from 12,161 in 2012.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhundwa
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Lumuma is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 12,974.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumuma
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Massa is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania, located south zone of Mpwapwa District that is among the wards of Rudi Division. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 9,812. who mostly practice agricultural activities; livestoke keeping and farming activities for both commercial and food products.
Currently this ward comprise 5 villages; namely, Winza, Chogola, Makose, Njiapanda, and Mkoleko.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massa%20%28Tanzanian%20ward%29
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Matomondo is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 13,660.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matomondo
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Several players for the Slovak football team ŠK Slovan Bratislava have been outstanding, in terms of goalscoring or in terms of appearances for the Slovak or Czechoslovak national teams.
Most goals
Jozef Adamec 170
Emil Pažický 123
Anton Moravčík 109
Marián Masný 103
Ján Čapkovič 100
Best scorers
Emil Pažický 19 (1954/55)
Ján Čapkovič 19 (1971/72)
Marián Masný 16 (1980/81)
Peter Dubovský 22 (1991/92), 23 (1992/93)
Pavol Masaryk 15 (2008/09)
Most matches in national team
Marián Masný 75
Róbert Vittek 74
Ján Popluhár 62
Szilárd Németh 59
Anton Ondruš 58
ŠK Slovan Bratislava
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovan%20Bratislava%20statistics%20and%20records
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Vasinae, common name the vase snails or vase shells, are a taxonomic subfamily of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the family Turbinellidae.
Shell description
The radula on the lingual membrane occur in three series, the central recurved, toothed at the tip, the lateral not versatile; the central tooth is broad, few-toothed; the lateral teeth are narrow, strong, with a single large denticle. The mantle is enclosed, with a straight siphon.
The operculum is ovate, acute, with the nucleus apical.
The shell is more or less turbinate, with plaits on the middle of the columella.
Shells of species in this subfamily are fairly large, very thick, and heavy. The shells have low spires and have plaits on the columella.
Genera
Genera within the subfamily Vasinae include:
Altivasum Hedley, 1914
Enigmavasum Poppe & Tagaro, 2005
† Fyfea Finlay & Marwick, 1937
Tudivasum Rosenberg & Petit, 1987
Vasum Röding, 1798
Synonyms
Cynodonta Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Vasum Röding, 1798
Globivasum Abbott, 1950: synonym of Vasum Röding, 1798
Scolymus Swainson, 1835: synonym of Vasum Röding, 1798
Tudicula H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864: synonym of Tudivasum Rosenberg & Petit, 1987 (junior homonym of Tudicula Ryckholt, 1862)
Volutella Perry, 1810: synonym of Vasum Röding, 1798
References
External links
Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
Abbott R.T.(1950) - The Genera Xancus and Vasum in the Western Atlantic; Johnsonia v. 2 19-32
Abbott, R. T. (1959). The family Vasidae in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 1 (1): 15-32
Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397.
Turbinellidae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasinae
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Mazae is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics reported 8,717 people in the ward, from 8,021 in 2012.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazae
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Mbuga is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 6,318 people in the ward, from 5,813 in 2012.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbuga
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Mima is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 17,341.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mima%20%28Tanzanian%20ward%29
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Mlunduzi is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 16,908.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlunduzi
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Mpwapwa Mjini is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 23,190 people in the ward, from 21,337 in 2012.
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Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpwapwa%20Mjini
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Tribhuwannagar is a village development committee in Sarlahi District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,515 people living in 391 individual households.
It is located on the eastern outskirts of Malangawa.
References
External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sarlahi District
Populated places in Sarlahi District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribhuwannagar%2C%20Sarlahi
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Hansl Krönauer (23 April 1932 in Benediktbeuern - 21 March 2011) was a German folk-singer and composer.
His career started around 1955 when he performed typical Bavarian music. In 1970, he had his first and biggest success Golden schimmern meine Berge, a Number-1-Hit for three months in German folk-charts Lustige Musikanten. In 1971, Golden schimmern meine Berge was elected the most popular German folk-song of the year. Other successful titles followed until 1990.
He later ran a restaurant in Benediktbeuern. He was married and had a daughter who is also a singer.
Selected discography
"Golden schimmern meine Berge" (1970)
"Sohn der herrlichen Berge" (1971)
"Westerwald, wie bist du schön" (1977)
"Der König und die Sennerin" (1984)
"Fremde Erde" (1986)
"Die allerschönste Mundart" (1987)
"Das Mutterlied" (1990)
References
German male singers
German composers
1932 births
2011 deaths
20th-century German male musicians
20th-century German musicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansl%20Kr%C3%B6nauer
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Rudi is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 18,694.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi%20%28Tanzanian%20ward%29
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Ving'hawe is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 12,712 people in the ward, from 12,277 in 2012.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ving%27hawe
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Wotta is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 10,538.
References
Wards of Dodoma Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotta
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Return of the DJ, Vol. 1 is a 1995 compilation released by Bomb Hip-Hop Records. This project was the first all dj/all scratching (turntablist) album ever released. It has been re-released in 1997 with new album artwork, Return of the DJ, Vol. 1 compilation and a collection of beats for DJ's ('Peanut Butter Breaks'). Return of the DJ is known as the first all-DJ album, helping to start the careers of turntablists such as DJ Q-bert, Cut Chemist, DJ Z-Trip, and others.
Track listing
"Death of Hip-Hop" - Kool DJ E.Q. - 3:21
"Ghetto on the Cut" - DJ Ghetto - 5:25
"Rob Get’s Busy" - Rob Swift - 4:08
"The Bomb Drops" - Jeep Beat Collective - 4:03
"Scratch Monopoly Pt. II" - Beat Junkies - 4:52
"Invasion of the Octopus People" - Invisibl Skratch Piklz (Q-Bert, Disk, Shortkut) - 5:02
"U Can Get With Discs or U Can Get With D.A.T." - DJ Z-Trip - 3:41
"The Chronicles (i will always love h.e.r.)" - Peanut Butter Wolf - 5:38
"Terrorwrist (beneath the under)" - Mix Master Mike - 5:39
"The Track" - ASAP Productions (Yutaka, Honda, Aladdin) - 4:43
"Lesson 4 : The Radio" - Cut Chemist - 5:30
"Suckas (sucka dj dis)" - DJ Babu - 3:06
References
Hip hop compilation albums
1995 compilation albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20of%20the%20DJ%2C%20Vol.%201
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Dietmar Otto Schönherr (; 17 May 1926 – 18 July 2014) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1944 and 2014. He was famous for playing the role of Major Cliff Allister McLane in the German science fiction series Raumpatrouille. He was born in Innsbruck, Austria. He was married to the Danish actress Vivi Bach from 1965 until her death in 2013. In 2011 he was awarded with the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class.
Selected filmography
(Young Eagles) (1944) - Theo Brakke
Les Amours de Blanche-Neige (1947) - Joe Burton
Das Fräulein und der Vagabund (1949) - Gerhard Renken
(1951) - Vigo, Leutnant der Grenzpolizei
Love's Carnival (1955) - Leutnant Hans Rudloff
Bonjour Kathrin (1956) - Duval
(1956) - Müller-Staen jr.
(1956) - Ferry Singer
Das Mädchen Marion (1956) - Günter Legler, Turnierreiter
Made in Germany (1957) - Dr. Roderich Zeiss
Die verpfuschte Hochzeitsnacht (1957) - Alexander Schulze
Just Once a Great Lady (1957) - Stefan Riehl
Spring in Berlin (1957) - Hannes Delk
Doctor Bertram (1957) - Kurt Losch
The Elephant in a China Shop (1958) - Clemens
(1958) - Peter Benrath
(1958) - Herbert Thanner
Sehnsucht hat mich verführt (1958) - Albert Hermann
Frauensee (1958) - Ferry Graf Chur
Die unvollkommene Ehe (1959) - Rolf Beckmayer
Every Day Isn't Sunday (1959) - Mitja Burganoff
Jons und Erdme (1959) - Direktor der Seifenfabrik
(1959) - Willi Schultz
Beloved Augustin (1960) - Franz von Gravenreuth
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (1960) - Gaston
(1960) - Fritz Merlin
Brainwashed (1960) - Rabbi
Ingeborg (1960) - Peter
(1960) - Michael Böhm
Beloved Impostor (1961) - David Ogden
(1961) - Dr. Georg Holst
Melody of Hate (1962) - Dr. Elmer
The Longest Day (1962) - Häger's Aide (uncredited)
Commando (1962) - Petit Prince
The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962) - Martin Thorwald
His Best Friend (1962) - Marius Melichar
Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1962) - Günter Krüger
(1963) - Inspektor Eric Harvey
(1963) - Richard
Mystery of the Red Jungle (1964) - Ted Barnekow
(1964) - Klaus Petermann
The Monster of London City (1964) - Dr. Morely Greely / Michael
Victim Five (1964) - Dr. Paul Bryson
The Secret of the Chinese Carnation (1964) - Dr. Cecil Wilkens
(1965) - Hans Rothe
Coast of Skeletons (1965) - Piet Van Houten
Mozambique (1965) - Henderson
A Holiday with Piroschka (1965) - Alfi Trattenbach
Come to the Blue Adriatic (1966) - Walter Thomas
Raumpatrouille (1966, TV series, 7 episodes) - Cliff Allister McLane
(1966) - Toni
Kommissar X – Drei grüne Hunde (1967) - Allan Hood / George Hood
(1968) - Christian Bongert
April - April (1969) - Ambassador
Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something! (1970) - Narrator
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower (1970, TV film) - Bredford King
(1978, TV film) - Police Lieutenant Anderson
(1984) - Talk show host
The Death of the White Stallion (1985) - Caspar von Schenkenstein
A Crime of Honour ( A Song for Europe, 1985, TV film) - Junger
Raffl (1985) - Pfarrer
Tanner (1985) - Steiner
Torquemada (1989)
Reporter (1989, TV series) - Chief Editor Herbst
(1989) - Brasser
Journey of Hope (1990) - Massimo
Mirakel (1990)
(1992) - Gustav Hohenstein
By Way of the Stars (1992, TV miniseries) - Friedrich Brunneck
(1992) - Joshua Jordi
Family Passions (1993–1994, TV series) - Jürgen Haller
Rosen aus Jericho (1994)
Jeden 3. Sonntag (1995)
Es war doch Liebe? (1995)
Eine fast perfekte Scheidung (1997) - Dr. Hofbauer
Back in Trouble (1997) - Dinkelmann
Am I Beautiful? (1998) - Juan
The Cry of the Butterfly (1999) - Paulina's Grandfather
Leo & Claire (2001) - Anwalt Dr. Richard Iphraim Herz
(2001, TV film) - Jon Kamphoven
Handyman (2006) - Dr. Meyer
References
External links
Interviews with Dietmar Schönherr in the Online Archive of the Österreichische Mediathek (in German). Retrieved 29 July 2019
1926 births
2014 deaths
Austrian male film actors
Austrian male television actors
20th-century Austrian male actors
21st-century Austrian male actors
German television talk show hosts
Actors from Innsbruck
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietmar%20Sch%C3%B6nherr
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Najsłabsze ogniwo was the Polish version of the game show Weakest Link aired from 1 March 2004 to 22 December 2005 on TVN. The show was hosted by Kazimiera Szczuka. The show pitted eight contestants against each other for a pot of 27,000 złotys (PLN). This show was watched usually by 3 million viewers (average 1,5 million).
The game's prizes for questions
1. question correct • 100 zł
2. question correct • 300 zł
3. question correct • 600 zł
4. question correct • 900 zł
5. question correct • 1,300 zł
6. question correct • 1,800 zł
7. question correct • 2,400 zł
8. question correct • 3,000 zł
References
Polish game shows
2004 Polish television series debuts
2006 Polish television series endings
TVN (Polish TV channel) original programming
The Weakest Link
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najs%C5%82absze%20ogniwo
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Carlos Emilio Juan Zurita y Delgado, Duke of Soria and Hernani (born 9 October 1943 in Antequera), is a Spanish physician and the husband of Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria. He is a brother-in-law of King Juan Carlos I and the uncle of the current Spanish king, Felipe VI.
He was born to Carlos Zurita y González-Vidalte and wife María del Carmen Delgado y Fernández de Santaella in Antequera, Málaga, Spain.
The Duke of Soria is a retired medical doctor, as his father, and was a specialist in the respiratory and circulatory system. He studied at the medical faculty of the University of Seville, where he obtained a licentiate in medicine with accompanying award "Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura" for extraordinary merit in 1967. He received his doctorate with a scholarship at the Spanish College in Bologna, Italy. In 1971, the duke gained the position of teacher service manager of the Spanish National College of the Thorax Illness.
He married Infanta Margarita, on 12 October 1972 in Estoril at St. Anthony's Church. They have two children:
Don Alfonso Juan Carlos Zurita y de Borbón (b. Madrid, 9 August 1973).
Doña María Sofía Emilia Carmen Zurita y de Borbón (b. Madrid, 16 September 1975). She has a son, Carlos, born on 28 April 2018 in Madrid.
In 1989, the Duke and the Duchess of Soria created the Fundación Cultural Duques de Soria (The Duke and Duchess of Soria Cultural Foundation), its objective is to stimulate the Spanish language and culture. The Foundation cooperates with universities and Spanish cultural institutions to contribute to the cultural and scientific development in Spain.
The Duke of Soria is President of the Spanish Federation of the Museums Friends Associations and President of the Friends of Prado Museum Foundation. He is also a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine.
In 2003, the Duke and Duchess of Soria were awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise for their work in promoting science and culture.
In 2013, Queen Sofia presided over an act of homage to Carlos, for his 25 years at the head of the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation. The event was attended by his wife, the Infanta Margarita, and his two children, Alfonso and María.
Honours
In 2003, the Duke and Duchess of Soria were appointed Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise of Spain.
References
External links
Royal Household of HM the King official website (English and Spanish)
The Duke and Duchess of Soria Cultural Foundation website (Spanish)
1943 births
Living people
People from Antequera
Spanish physicians
University of Seville alumni
Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Zurita%2C%20Duke%20of%20Soria
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Darwell Wood is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Battle in East Sussex.
Species
Most of the wood is made-up of coppices of hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) with oak (Quercus robur) standards.
Under the dense tree canopy, mosses mainly grow with a few patches of bluebells (Hyacinthoides nonscripta),also blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) and wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) can be found. On the higher grounds, the woodland becomes more open, with silver birch (Betula pendula) and hazel (Corylus avellana) and some
sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) coppice areas.
The ground flora of the woodland has wood sage (Teucrium scorodonia), bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) and sanicle (Sanicula europaea).
On the west of the site, calcareous (chalky) soils help support an ash (Fraxinus excelsior) growth underplanted by mosses, ramsons (Allium ursinum), bee and pyramidal orchids (Ophrys apifera) and (Anacamptis pyramidalis).
The streams which pass through the site have eroded deeply into the rock layer to produce steep sided valleys. These valleys have alder (Alnus glutinosa), with local abundances of grey willow (Salix cinerea) above a ground flora of pendulous sedge (Carex pendula), water mint (Mentha aquatica), opposite-leaved golden saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) and ragged robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi).
References
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwell%20Wood
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Howard Williams Johnson (born November 28, 1956, in Miami, Florida) is a former American soul/disco singer, and founder of the group Niteflyte. He charted two songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart during the 1980s – "So Fine", which spent one week at No. 1 in 1982, and "Let This Dream Be Real," which reached No. 19 in 1983.
Career
R&B vocalist Howard Johnson started out in Miami, performing in local bars and clubs until the appearance of a life-changing business contact. That was Sandy Torano, a guitarist and producer associated with performers such as the Commodores and Phyllis Hyman. Johnson was his choice for a new vocalist and thus began the singer's recording career in 1977, as the group Niteflyte under Ariola records. The project lasted for only two albums but A&M later signed Johnson to a solo contract.
A trio of close associates; Kashif, Paul Laurence Jones, and Morris Brown produced Keepin' Love New (1982), Johnson's first album. Both "So Fine" and the title track did very well in the UK Singles Chart. The singer recorded two more albums for the label: Doin' It My Way (1983), produced by the System, and The Vision (1985), some of which was handled by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. In 1986 Johnson recorded the ballad "Perfect Timing" with singer Donna Allen which appeared on her debut album of the same name. In 1989, the singer returned to A&M as part of the duo Johnson & Branson with Regis Branson.
Throughout the 1990s, Johnson did not record any new albums. He returned in the new millennium collaborating again with Regis Branson. He released Packed and Waitin''' on Soul Japan Records in 2002. Roughly a decade later, Johnson's A&M albums were reissued by the Netherlands' PTG label.
Discography
Studio albums
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| 1982
| Keepin' Love New
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| 1983
| Doin' It My Way| align=center | —
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| 1985
| The Vision| align=center | —
| align=center | 46
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| 1989
| Johnson and Branson (with Regis Branson)
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| 2002
| Packed and Waitin' (Japan only, with Regis Branson)
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| align=center | —
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| 2010
| Howard Johnson| align=center | —
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CompilationsHoward Johnson – Doin' It My Way / The Vision'' (2007)
Singles
References
External links
Howard Johnson Discography at Discogs.
Official website
Living people
Singers from Miami
American soul singers
American boogie musicians
American dance musicians
1956 births
20th-century African-American male singers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Johnson%20%28soul%20singer%29
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Varnashilpi Venkatappa Award is an award conferred annually by the Government of Karnataka for excellence in painting.
Civil awards and decorations of Karnataka
Indian art awards
Indian painting
Year of establishment missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnashilpi%20Venkatappa%20Award
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Nicholas Burgess Farrell (born 2 October 1958) is an English journalist and the author of Mussolini: A New Life.
Early life
Farrell was born in London, on 2 October 1958. He attended The King's School, Canterbury, and studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, earning his B.A. on 20 June 1980. He completed his apprenticeship and his National Certificate Examination exam in October 1984.
Career
He worked as journalist for the Sunday Telegraph from 1987 to 1996, later moving to The Spectator from April 1996 to July 1998. Farrell then moved to Forlì, Italy, married an Italian woman and joined the Italian journalist association, at first working for the local newspaper La voce di Romagna and later for the national publication Libero.
Farrell's most famous article is a 2003 interview with Silvio Berlusconi for The Spectator, where the Italian prime minister made statements which sparked criticism in Italy.
Today he writes mainly for Libero, which is a liberal conservative newspaper supportive of centre-right politics.
His 2003 book, Mussolini: A New Life, described Benito Mussolini as an unfairly maligned leader whose “charisma” and Machiavellian adroitness were “phenomenal”; it was acclaimed by British novelist and academic Tim Parks as a "welcome" revisionist biography.
References
Works
"A Chip off the Old Block?", the Independent, 25 June 2003.
Mussolini: A New Life (2003) (cloth) (paper)
Living people
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
English male journalists
1958 births
The Spectator people
English emigrants to Italy
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Radio y Televisión de Hidalgo is the state television and radio agency of the Mexican state of Hidalgo.
RTVH was founded in 1982 and began broadcasting on TV that year, signing on XHPAH channel 3. Its Pachuca radio station came to air in December 1985. As a result of a legal error, the state radio network lost most of its coverage in 2022.
Radio stations
As of August 2023, only XECPHH-AM (the former XEHGO-AM) and XHAPU-FM on the air. The Jacala and Tlanchinol stations, formerly XHAWL-FM and XHIND-FM, are projected to return at the end of 2023 and at an unspecified future date. XHAPU-FM will leave the air in November 2023.
The state network previously covered most of the state's population. However, it lost all of its radio concessions in 2022 (except for XHAPU, to expire without renewal in 2023) due to failure to renew. As a result of federal laws that protect 10 percent of FM spectrum for community and indigenous radio stations, the Federal Telecommunications Institute denied attempts to open the allotments for the state government to bid on. Of the five made available, plus the additional FM for Huejutla de Reyes, two received competing applications from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, delaying their award to either applicant. The failure to renew also resulted in the arrest of the former director of RTVH.
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In March 2018, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51), XHPAH (21), XHTHI (14) and XHTUH (22) were assigned new channels for continued digital operations.
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Public radio in Mexico
Public television in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 1982
Television stations in Hidalgo
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Kaminey () is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language action film written and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and produced by Ronnie Screwvala under UTV Motion Pictures, featuring Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Amole Gupte in the lead roles. Set against the backdrop of the Mumbai underworld, Kaminey follows a rivalry between a pair of twins, one with a lisp and the other with a stutter, over the course of a single day.
Bhardwaj co-wrote the script with Sabrina Dhawan, Abhishek Chaubey, and Supratik Sen. He bought the original script for from Kenyan writer Cajetan Boywhom he had mentored at a scriptwriting workshop in Uganda. Kaminey was released on 14 August 2009 and became a box-office success worldwide, grossing over against a production and marketing budget of . The film's soundtrack album, composed by Bhardwaj, also became a commercial success, with the song "Dhan Te Nan" topping the charts on various platforms.
Kaminey received widespread critical acclaim, with several critics and media publications placing it at number one on their listings of "Best film of the year". Since its release, the film has attained cult status. It received several awards and nominations at ceremonies across India. At the 55th Filmfare Awards, it received ten nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor; it won the award for Best Special Effects. At the 57th National Film Awards, Kaminey won two awards — Best Audiography for Subash Sahoo and Special Jury Award for its editing by A. Sreekar Prasad.
Plot
Charlie Sharma and Sanjay Kumar Sharma (Guddu) are twins who were raised in Mumbai. Charlie lisps while Guddu stutters. Charlie likes to take shortcuts to fulfill his dream of becoming a bookmaker at the racecourse where he works for three criminal brothers who fix races. He is closer to the youngest brother Mikhail than to Guddu, to whom he is hostile. A jockey deceives Charlie when he bets on a horse during a fixed race, losing all of his savings. Seeking revenge, Charlie locates the jockey in an upmarket city hotel.
At the same hotel, policemen Lobo and Lele kill three drug dealers and collect a guitar case containing cocaine, which they must deliver to drug lord Tashi. Charlie and his men invade the jockey's hotel room and take all his possessions. The ensuing chase leads to the hotel car park where Lobo and Lele are placing the guitar case in their van. Charlie and his men seize the van to escape from the jockey's men and realise they have stolen a police vehicle, whilst also discovering the cocaine, which Charlie steals to sell. The policemen, upon returning, discover that the cocaine is missing and set out to find Charlie.
Meanwhile, Guddu's lover Sweety, sister of the politician Sunil Bhope, reveals that she is pregnant with Guddu's child and expresses her wish to marry Guddu. They marry later that night. Bhope hears about his sister's actions and sends his men to apprehend the lovers. Bhope's men gatecrash Guddu's wedding and beat him, then realise that he is a migrant from Uttar Pradesh. This enrages Bhope, who orders his men to kill Guddu and return Sweety to his house so he can arrange a marriage for her. Sweety fights off her brother's henchmen and escapes with Guddu.
Charlie tells Mikhail about the cocaine, who is delighted. When Charlie returns to retrieve the case, Bhope and his men are waiting inside the van. One of Bhope's men recognises Guddu as Charlie's twin and Bhope demands that Charlie reveal Guddu's whereabouts. An inebriated Mikhail interrupts their conversation and is killed by Bhope.
On the way to the airport, Guddu realises that Sweety has faked her stutter. At a petrol station, Lobo and Lele notice the pair. Mistaking Guddu for Charlie, they arrest him. They assault Guddu, refusing to believe that he is Charlie's twin brother until Guddu's mobile phone rings; the caller is revealed to be Bhope. Lobo and Lele agree to exchange Charlie for Guddu and Sweety on a train. The policemen take Guddu and Sweety to Bhope's house, where Bhope reveals that a local builder will pay him to marry Sweety to the builder's son. Guddu bargains with Bhopeif he retrieves the cocaine-filled guitar case for Bhope, he will get Sweety. Bhope sends his henchmen with Guddu to retrieve the guitar case from Charlie's house.
The policemen assault Charlie, who refuses to negotiate, realising that the policemen are in as much trouble as himself. Charlie outwits the policemen, takes them hostage and negotiates with Tashi to exchange the guitar case for . Charlie sends the policemen to deliver the details to Tashi and returns to his house to retrieve the cocaine. At Charlie's house, Guddu arrives with Bhope's men. Sweety hears about Bhope's plans to kill Guddu and shoots at the members of her household. Guddu finds the case and fights Charlie, who lets Guddu go. Guddu takes the cocaine to the police, who bug him. Guddu arrives at Bhope's house the same time as Tashi and his gang, with Charlie as their hostage. Bhope and Tashi negotiate to trade the drugs, but Charlie snatches the guitar case and threatens to destroy it if Guddu and Sweety are not released. The lovers escape as the police arrive, leading to a shooting spree in which the cocaine is destroyed. Charlie's bosses arrive to avenge Mikhail's death but are killed along with Bhope, Tashi and their henchmen. Charlie is shot and wounded.
Sweety gives birth to Guddu's twins and Charlie opens a bookmaking counter at the racecourse. Charlie is engaged to Sophia, a woman earlier featured in his dream.
Cast
Shahid Kapoor as Charlie Sharma & Sanjay Kumar 'Guddu' Sharma (Double Role)
Priyanka Chopra as Sweety Shekhar Bhope
Amole Gupte as Sunil Shekhar Bhope a.k.a. Bhope Bhau, Sweety's brother
Deb Mukherjee as Mujeeb
Shiv Kumar Subramaniam as Lobo
Chandan Roy Sanyal as Mikhail
Shashank Shende
Tenzing Nima as Tashi
Hrishikesh Joshi as Lele
Rajatava Dutta as Shumon
Harish Khanna as Afghani
Carlos Paca as Cajetan
Eric Santos as Ragos
Vishal Bhonsle as Steve
Satyajit Sharma as Francis
Adil Hussain as Flight Purser
Neha Shitole as Sweety's friend
Aakash Dahiya
Production
Development
During a scriptwriting workshop held by Mira Nair in 2005, Cajetan Boy, a Kenyan writer from Nairobi, showed Vishal Bhardwaj a script about twin brothers from the city's slums and the events that occur in their lives during a 24-hour period. Bhardwaj liked Boy's approach to the script; Nair and Bhardwaj discussed it and thought it was a typical Bollywood masala film. Boy sent Bhardwaj another draft of his script. Three years later, Bhardwaj asked Boy to sell him the idea, and he later bought the script for US$4,000. Bhardwaj revisited the idea and added some Bollywood elements and a dark, serious side to the script. He worked on the original idea with writers Sabrina Dhawan, Abhishek Chaubey and Supratik Sen. He included Dhawan in writing the screenplay because as he thought she would give it a "solid structure". Bhardwaj said that during the writing of the screenplay, most of the original ideas were changed and the climax was "Indianized". His re-worked version now included one brother with a stammer and the other with a lisp. Bhardwaj said that despite the complicated structure, Kaminey is "anything but arty" and could not alienate audiences in any part of India, and that it is a simple story but with a complicated structure. Dhawan said that the film's script was complex and has multiple stories which required excessive writing and rewriting to make each character sound distinct.
The media showed concern over the film's title, deeming it "odd", and some people were shocked because of the title, which can be translated into English as "mean". However, the makers said that "kaminey" is not a negative term and is actually a term of endearment. According to Bhardwaj, the idea for the title came from a scene from Gulzar's Ijaazat (1987), in which the lead actor (Naseeruddin Shah) refers to the actress in a loving manner; it was the first time that he heard the word used that way. Bhardwaj told Rediff, "when the script of this film was written, it was like discovering your own mean side. The format of the film is of a caper and all the characters in this film, excluding one, has an agenda. So I thought it was an apt title for the film".
Casting
Shahid Kapoor was cast in the film's lead role. Several media outlets reported that Bhardwaj considered many actors before casting Kapoor in the role, which he refused. Bhardwaj refuted the claims, saying, "There is a huge difference between discussing and narrating and offering someone a film and I would like to clear up the rumour by saying that Kaminey was never offered to anyone else and so no one rejected it." Kapoor said that he accepted the role after reading the script. Priyanka Chopra was cast to play Sweety, the lead female role. She initially turned down the role, saying she felt it was a boys' film and her eight-scene part did not seem good enough. However, Bhardwaj persuaded her to accept the role.
The idea for casting the screenwriter Amole Gupte came from the casting director Honey Terhan. Gupte said that when he received a call from Terham, he thought it was a joke. He stated, "A man named Honey introduced himself as Vishal Bhardwaj's casting director and offered me a very important role. I banged the phone down not believing a word of what he said". However, after meeting Bhradwaj and hearing a script reading, he loved the story and accepted the offer. The actors Chandan Roy Sanyal, Shiv Subramnayam, Hrishikesh Joshi, Rajatava Dutta and Deb Mukherjee were cast in supporting roles. For the role of drug dealer Tashi, Bhardwaj chose his friend Tenzing Nimaa tour operator in Mussooriesaying he had the character and attitude he wanted, and a weird sense of humour.
Characters
Bhardwaj instructed the film's entire cast and crew to watch caper classics such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Snatch (2000), Pulp Fiction (1994) and True Romance (1993) to study the nuances and become familiar with the genre. Shahid Kapoor played both Charlie and Guddu, twin brothers with speech impediments; Charlie has a lisp and Guddu stammers. The producers did not want them to look like caricatures, so Kapoor prepared for both roles by meeting and interacting with speech therapists and people with these impediments. According to Kapoor, the producers wanted to find out about the medical reasons for the impediments and their mental effects. They met specialists and thoroughly researched stammering and lisping. Kapoor said that each role had its own challenges. Charlie's physique was very different from Kapoor's and it took him nearly a year to change the look of his body. He found changing from one character to the other difficult.
Chopra described her character Sweety as "feisty and vivacious". She said, "Sweety is very busy, and does not have time to take care of her looks and apply make up. Her only aim in life is to bunk her lectures and visit her boyfriend's college or stay in his hotel, and eventually marry him." Chopra described both her character and herself as being "outspoken and fun-loving" as well as honest and unable to "hide something that is wrong". She said she had a different cultural background to Sweety, and found it challenging to convincingly portray a Maharashtrian Marathi girl. She had to adopt body language and a Maharashtrian accent to suit the character. She learnt the Marathi Language to make the character as authentic as possible, which she found difficult. Chopra said: "I am speaking a lot of Marathi in the film. It was difficult for me because it's a difficult language and I am not good at Marathi. But I think it's my luck that through Kaminey I got to learn one more language."
Gupte described his character as mercurial and found playing him a physical delight. Gupte said his character keeps the frame unpredictable and that it provided him with a foil to express rage and anguish. He worked a lot on his characterisation and tried to bring in his own references from European and Japanese cinema. Chandan Roy Sanyal described his character Mikhail as provocative, mad, wicked and humorous. Subramnayam and Joshi, who played Lobo and Lele respectively, described their characters as the most corrupt policemen in their department at the Anti-Narcotics Bureau. They said that to prepare for the roles they followed the script and Bhardwaj's instructions to get the characters right. Mukherjee prepared for his role as Mujeeb by reading the script and understanding the characters and discussing it with Bhardwaj. Dutta, who played Shumona Bengali criminal involved in fixing horse races and arms dealingsaid that he did not have much time to prepare for his role because he was given the script after he arrived in Mumbai, where Bhardwaj briefed him.
Filming
Principal photography commenced in mid-2008, and the film was mostly shot in Mumbai. During a late night shoot for a scene in Pune, Chopra received minor injuries. Chopra was supposed to ride a motorcycle with Kapoor seated on the pillion seat. Both fell off the motorcycle as it skidded on mud. Kapoor was unhurt but Chopra received scratch marks and bruises. It was reported that Kapoor suffered from several injuries while shooting. During filming, Chopra became hoarse because she had to scream her lines; an essential part of her role as an "extremely vocal Maharashtrian girl." Some important railway sequences were shot at Wadi Bunder Yard near Sandhurst Road. Kapoor found filming for both of his characters at nearly the same time very difficult; he would shoot them on alternate days.
Themes and influences
According to the Hindustan Times, Kaminey "is the first attempt to deal with reality in a mature, matter of fact manner." Unlike other Hindi films, in which the female lead is Sita, the protagonist is Rama and the antagonist is Ravana, the characters in Kaminey are nuanced humans in "layered and complex" situations. Namrata Joshi from Outlook wrote that Kaminey reflects Bhardwaj's "enduring fascination for underdogs, characters on the margins of society and the morally compromised". Bhardwaj told Rediff.com that the film deals with "themes that affect our lives directly", and "is a reminder that we all have a dark side, and often we are not fully aware of that side". Rakesh Bedi from The Economic Times wrote, "Bhardwaj presents the two warring brothers with speech defects. In today's world of logorrhea, communication is fraught with many dangers: misunderstandings, paranoias, recriminations, conflicts. Everyone speaks but no one understands. Bhardwaj gave the twins verbal impediments to show that the world has now been so hardwired to convoluted and calamitous communication that it needs silence or a speech defect to hash things out." He continued, "[w]ith some glitches, Bhardwaj has almost re-birthed the Hindi film". The film also explores sex and sexuality, which according to Bedi were explored in a "radically different and refreshing" way, and the director "daringly takes it a step further". When Sweety becomes pregnant, the couple "decide to carry the pregnancy to term after a bit of hesitation. So she literally pushes her man into marriage. (Had Bhardwaj abjured marriage, it would have been a complete break but the nuptials were essential to the drama of the film.)" The Daily Beast said that "for aficionados of the Hindi-language genre, Kaminey is a revolutionary manifesto. It takes classic Bollywood tropes—estranged brothers, a case of mistaken identity, high drama approaching slapstick comedy—and presents them with Hollywood-style realism instead of Bollywood's wink-nudge mix of melodrama and posturing.
Bhardwaj has been influenced by many directorsincluding Manmohan Desai, Subhash Ghai, Quentin Tarantino and Francis Ford Coppolaand combines these influences in his work. Rakesh Bedi wrote that "Bhardwaj keeps displaying his vision throughout the film". Reviewers have compared the film's multi-plot narrative to those of several films by Tarantino, Guy Ritchie and the Coen Brothers. Reviewers said that the film mostly belongs to the level of Pulp Fiction; Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express called it "Bollywood's first all-the-way-out-to-there pulp fiction". Bedi wrote, "there's Buñuel in the Bengali dons, there's Kurosawa ... in that surreal train car in which Charlie lives, there's Ray in money-floating dreams that Charlie has". Keshav Chaturvedi of the Hindustan Times compared the apocalyptical gang war in the climax to Apocalypse Now (1979). He said, "Bhardwaj just demolishes the cliches of Bollywood. In ripping apart the stereotype, he gives us a prototype: a Bollywood that deals with alienation, ... angst, ... and atrocity." A review in The Times of India said that the film's climax reaches the level of Reservoir Dogs, and described it as "absolutely riveting stuff, with the camera going on a hitherto unexplored journey in Indian cinema."
Soundtrack
Vishal Bhardwaj composed the music soundtrack for Kaminey and Gulzar wrote the lyrics. The album contains five original songs, two remixes and one theme song; it was released on 6 July 2009. The song "Dhan Te Nan" is a rehashed version of a song originally composed by Vishal Bhardwaj for an episode of the Zee TV series Gubbare. The soundtrack album was commercially successful after its release, especially "Dhan Te Nan", which topped the charts across various platforms.
The soundtrack album received positive reviews from music critics. Rediff.com rated the album 4.5 out of 5, labelled it a "masterpiece" and wrote, "Bhardwaj has delivered a soundtrack that is lethally explosive. Not that we expected anything less. And trust Gulzar to artfully craft a really long fuse for the Kaminey bomb, making sure the tracks stay afire long before and after they actually go boom." Joginder Tuteja from Bollywood Hungama gave a rating 4 out 5 and wrote, "Kaminey is certainly not a run of the mill album and this is where its prime strength lies. The album boasts of at least three chartbuster tracks'Dhan Te Nan' (sure shot superhit), 'Thode Bheege' (must for the hearts in love) and 'Raat Ke Dhai Baje' (for some 'masti' and 'hungama'). Songs like 'Fatak' and 'Kaminey' are innovative and situational which showcase the range of Vishal Bhardwaj. Add to that the 'Go Charlie Go – Theme Music' and you know that Kaminey is yet another addition to some excellent albums that have hit the stands during last one month." Planet Bollywood rated the album 8.5 out of 10 and said it is the best soundtrack released that year, and that "[i]t has experimentations with both music and lyrics". Indo-Asian News Service praised the soundtrack and said that " ... "Kaminey" is easily among 2009's finest scores. Experimental in its sound, yet very mainstream in appeal. Vishal Bhardwaj has proved his mettle yet again."
Marketing and release
The teaser poster of Kaminey was received positively by critics. The trailer, which introduces four characters; one lisping, one stuttering, a woman yelling about having raped a man and one jeering at the lisper, received positive reviews. Critics kept their expectations high due to Bhardwaj's previous films, and said the trailer was like a comic book which introduces the characters of Kapoor and Chopra differently. The theatrical trailers and the music generated interest for the film. The film's marketing also involved public appearances by Chopra and Kapoor.
The makers of the film were disappointed by the Censor Board for Film Certification's decision to grant the film an "A" certificatemeant for viewers 18 years or olderinstead of a "U/A" certificate that they had expected. Bhardwaj said, "It was an injustice to us. There is no abusive language used in the film and the violence is of 'comic book kind'." The Censor Board asked him to replace dialogue which mentioned the city of Pilibhitwhich they said was a sensitive constituencywith a fictitious city name. He replaced Pilibhit with Barabanki." The film was subject to some controversies. A First Information Report was filed by Jagannath Sena Sangathan at a police station in Puri against the film for allegedly denigrating Lord Jagannath. According to them, a scene in which the text "Apna Hath Jagannath" is seen in a toilet on a semi-clad model had hurt religious sentiments. The objectionable portion of the scene was removed from the prints released in the state of Orissa. A complaint supported by a caste group backed by a Samajwadi Party MP about the use of the name of a community "teli" in the song "Dhan Te Nan"which was considered derogatory to the Teli communitywas filed with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Censor Board reacted to the complaint, insisting on the replacement of the word, which was later replaced with "Dilli".
Kaminey was scheduled to release on 5 June 2009. However, the release was postponed because of problems between the producers and multiplexes in India. The film was released on 14 August 2009 on 1,200 screens worldwide. Because of the 2009 flu pandemic, the film was not released in the Maharashtra regionincluding Mumbai and Punebecause the multiplexes in these cities were closed by the Maharashtra government for three days as part of precautionary measures against swine flu. Moser Baer Home Videos released Kaminey on DVD in October 2009 across all regions in a two-disc pack complying with the NTSC format. One disc contains the film and additional content including a "making of the film" documentary, the original beginning and deleted scenes, while the other contains a random free film. VCD and Blu-ray versions were released at the same time. Bollywood Hungama critic Joginder Tuteja rated the DVD 4 out of 5, praising the bonus features and the packaging. Airtel Digital TV premièred the film on its Pay Per View service on 12 September 2009. The satellite rights for Kaminey were syndicated between Star India & Viacom 18 before being internalized by the former in 2020, and a world television première of the film was broadcast on Colors on 28 February 2010. The film is also available on Netflix.
Indiagames also released a maze mobile video game based on the film.
Critical reception
Kaminey received widespread critical acclaim from critics who praised many aspects of the film. Raja Sen of Rediff.com rated the film 4.5 out of 5 and wrote, "Kaminey is startlingly clever, an innovative film with genuine surprises. A kind of film whose success we ought all pray for because it'll prove smart cinema works." The Indian Express gave a rating of 4 out of 5, calling it "Bollywood's first all-the-way-out-to-there pulp fiction". Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the film 4 stars out of 5, called it a "must watch" and wrote, "[i]t's an unpredictable crime drama that combines violence and dark humor in a manner that's reminiscent of the films of Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie and the Coen Brothers. And yet Kaminey is so original and inventive in the manner in which it takes Bollywood's favorite formulatwin brothersand turns it on its head." He praised the writingwhich he said was the film's real strength, the non-linear screenplay and the dialogue, and wrote that the film has "the best performance you will see by an ensemble cast in a long time". Nikhat Kazmi from The Times of India rated the film 4 out of 5, and said it is "Bollywood's first film which is full of brains, brawn and belligerence besides being a bravura attempt to rewrite the tried and tested idiom of desi movielore. Kaminey is a smart and balsy film that brings Hollywood to Bollywood which catapult the viewer into the dark, violent world of crime and criminals, leaving you no time to blink or breathe easy ... Tarantino, take a bow. Brave new Bollywood is here."
Anupama Chopra gave a rating of 4 out of 5 and wrote "Kaminey is the best Bollywood film I've seen this year. It's an audacious, original rollercoaster ride. Written and directed by Vishal Bharadwaj, Kaminey requires patience and attention but the pay off is more than worth it." Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated the film 4 out of 5 and wrote "Kaminey is bold, stark, funny and unpredictable and is a film with an attitude. Like it or leave it, but you'd never be able to ignore it. Word from the wise: Go for this hatke (different) experience!" Zee News also rated the film 4 out of 5 and said, "Bhardwaj has once again delivered a powerful film that completely bowls you over with its splendid script, riveting narrative and stellar performances by lead pairShahid and Priyanka [who] have a cracking on-screen chemistry that certainly reminds you of yesteryears on-screen couples." The review also said, "Kaminey is an engrossing flick that does not let you move from your seat!" Kaveree Bamzai of India Today rated the film 4 out of 5 and said it "is dark, melodramatic, poetic and ultimately operatic". He also said, "Its lyrics are the blow-up-your-brains-out kind ... and its music, composed by the multi-talented Bharadwaj is perfectly in sync with a narrative that doesn't pause for breath." Namrata Joshi from Outlook gave a rating of 4 out 5 and called Kaminey "a strikingly anarchic, unusually energetic, quirky and frenetic film". Sudhish Kamath of The Hindu gave the film 4 stars and wrote, "Kaminey takes the post-postmodern noir genre to a whole new level, to a sophistication the Indian audience isn't used to. Watch it at least twice to fully appreciate this masterpiece." Writing for Variety, critic Joe Leydon described the film as a "tasty cinematic masala that is energetically entertaining, if not consistently coherent".
Box office
Kaminey was successful throughout India, with occupancy around 90% across multiplexes. The film was successful across most single screens, and collected in India during the opening weekend. In its first week of release, the film collected in India. Because of the delayed release in Maharashtra, it lost about . However, the film profited in Mumbai after its release in Maharashtra on Monday and during its run, and it had earned within four weeks. Kaminey earned worldwide; Box Office India declared it a hit and it became a commercial success.
Overseas, the film grossed around in North America, the UAE, the UK and Australia during the opening weekend. The film's most successful overseas market was North America. It collected around in 10 days from international markets and proved to be a commercial success outside India.
Legacy
Film director Shekhar Kapur praised the film, saying, "Kaminey catapults Indian Cinema in modernity beyond Tarantino". He said that Kaminey would be able to compete with any film in the world in terms of its design, performances, inherent narratives, editing and pace. Filmmaker Karan Johar labelled it a cult film, describing it as "edgy ... cult and geniusely performed and executed! Go get a shot of new age cinema and cinematic bravery!" The film became the most widely debated and dissected Bollywood film after Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's 2006 film Rang De Basanti. Rajeev Masand, and Rediff.com rated it as the best film of the year. Raja Sen said the performances were among the best performances of 2009. Gupte, Roy Sanyal and Kapoor were placed at numbers six, three and one respectively as the best performances of 2009 by a Hindi actor by Rediff.
Rediff.com placed Chopra at number one as the best performance of 2009 by a Hindi actress. Chopra said, "[y]ou don't get to work in a fantastic movie like Kaminey and play someone like Sweety every day". Hindi Film News said Kaminey was the best Bollywood film of the decade. It ranked Shahid Kapoor's performance at number four for the finest performance by a Bollywood actor for the decade, and in a public poll the song "Dhan Te Nan" was voted the thirteenth-best Bollywood song of the decade. Rediff.com also included the film on its list of "Top 25 Hindi Action Films of all Time". Since its release, the film has gained a cult following and is regarded as a cult film of the 2000s decade of Bollywood.
Awards and nominations
Kaminey has received several awards and nominations in categories ranging from recognition of the film itself, to its cinematography, direction, screenplay, music and cast performances. At the 55th Filmfare Awards, the film received ten nominationsmore than any other filmfor awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. However, it won only the award for Best Special Effects. The film also won two National Film Awards; Best Audiography for Subash Sahoo and Special Jury Award for Film Editing at the 57th National Film Awards for A. Sreekar Prasad. It received eleven nominations at the 5th Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Award and won two, one of which was Best Actress for Chopra.
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Douglas M. Sloan is a curriculum theorist and author. He was a professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University for three decades. He is a proponent of anthroposophy-based education.
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His 1971 book The Scottish Enlightenment and the American College Ideal argued that American education owed its roots to influential Presbyterian Scots who never feared an educated populace unlike their counterparts in the Anglican church. It contributed to a larger ongoing intellectual discussion about Scottish and American relations (e.g., Ian Charles Cargill Graham's 1956 Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707–1783 and Andrew Hook’s 1975 Scotland and America: A Study of Cultural Relations, 1750–1835). In the mid-1980s Sloan edited the collection of essays published as The Computer in Education: a Critical Perspective (Columbia University Press, 1985). His 1993 book, Insight-Imagination: The Emancipation of Thought and the Modern World "argues that a fundamental transformation of our ideas about knowing, our selves, and our world is not only possible, but necessary. The key to this transformation lies in an understanding of 'insight-imagination'--the involvement of the thinking, feeling, willing, valuing person in knowing." Resource Center for Redesigning, . His 1994 book Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education focuses on the rise and fall of various mainline American Protestant churches' engagements with higher education, noting that this now almost forgotten and often overlooked theological renaissance—begun by evangelicals of neo-orthodoxy in the 1930s—would fully blossom in March 1953 with the launch of an essentially new journal The Christian Scholar. Its morph into the journal Soundings fifteen years later would signal the renaissance's abrupt end.
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The Tithe Barn at Cumhill Farm in Pilton, Somerset, England, was built in the 14th century as a tithe barn to hold produce for Glastonbury Abbey. It is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The barn, of coursed and squared rubble, was originally built in the 14th and 15th centuries to hold the produce from farms in the area who paid one tenth of their produce to Glastonbury Abbey as the landowner. It is one of four surviving monastic barns built by the Abbey, the others being the Tithe Barn, Manor Farm, Doulting, the West Pennard Court Barn and the Glastonbury tithe barn, now the Somerset Rural Life Museum.
During the Second World War, farms in Pilton were used to train the Women's Land Army, including Cumhill Farm and the medieval barn.
Despite being commonly referred to as the tithe barn, little evidence exists to suggest the barn actually stored tithes. It is possible that it was instead built to store produce farmed from land owned by Glastonbury Abbey, rather than that offered as tithes, but may have stored tithes at a later date. Literature produced by the Pilton Barn Trust in the 1990s referred to it as "Pilton Barn" or the "Abbey Barn" and in 1963 a reverend local to the area claimed in the Cheddar Valley Gazette that another barn, since demolished, was actually responsible for storing tithe payments in the village.
Restoration
On 9 June 1963 lightning set fire to the thatched roof, and it remained a wreck until Michael Eavis, organiser of the Glastonbury Festival, bought it in 1995, and presented the barn to the Pilton Barn Trust.
The project was made possible with a grant of £400,000 from English Heritage. The Glastonbury festival contributed a further £100,000.
A new roof structure replicating the original, using a combination of traditional carpentry techniques and modern technology, has been built by Peter McCurdy, with skills used when recreating the Globe theatre in London, from English oak which came from Northumberland. The roof frame consists of a cruck construction which sits high in the walls, with an arcade plate then carrying the apex of the roof above.
McCurdy was also assisted by a local team run by Jon Maine who designed and erected the complex scaffolding both internally and externally, and then used 8000 36"-long oak hand-split (riven) battens to tile the roof with over 30,000 hand-made plain tiles.
In addition to the new roof a new floor was laid, including a wide strip in Blue Lias Stone and 44 cubic metres of lime concrete used to fill the expanses either side. It is said to be the largest expanse of lime concrete flooring anywhere in Europe.
The restoration was nominated for the annual Wood Awards, which recognise and encourage outstanding design, craftmanship and installation in joinery and structures in wood. It was awarded the prize as the Best Use of British Timber Award and Structural Timber Award in 2005. It also received the Royal Institute of British Architects Town and Country Design Award in the same year.
It was officially opened on Friday 1 April 2005 by local historian Sir John Keegan, and is now used for public events such as medieval fairs, dances, weddings, parties, Somerset Arts Week and village events.
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RMS Atrato was a UK steamship that was built in 1888 as a Royal Mail Ship and ocean liner for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. In 1912 she was sold and became the cruise ship The Viking. Late in 1914 she was requisitioned and converted into the armed merchant cruiser HMS Viknor. She sank in 1915 with all hands, a total of 295 Royal Navy officers and men.
Building
In the 1880s RMSP introduced a series of larger new ships to improve its scheduled services between Southampton, South America and the Caribbean. The first was the , built by Caird and Company and launched in 1886. She was RMSP's first new ship to have a hull of steel rather than iron.
After Orinocos success RMSP ordered two more ships to an improved and enlarged version of the design from Robert Napier and Sons of Govan. Atrato was launched on 22 September 1888, followed by , which was launched in 1889. Before these were completed RMSP ordered two more from Napier: the slightly larger in 1889 and launched in 1890.
Atratos registered length was , her beam was and her depth was . Her tonnages were and .
Orinoco had only a small amount of deck housing, and was the last square-rigged sail-steamer to be built for RMSP. The four Napier-built ships were more modern, each with a full superstructure deck and rigged as a three-masted schooner. Atrato was the first RMSP ship to be built without yards. The smaller sail plan was based on the increasing economy and reliability of their engines.
Atratos boilers had a working pressure of 150 lbf/in2. She had eight of them, supplying steam to one three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine that was rated at 687 NHP and drove a single screw. This gave her a top speed of on trials and a service speed of .
Atrato was designed to meet the standards for an armed merchant cruiser, for which the UK Government would pay a subvention. However, in April 1888, before she had been launched, the Admiralty deemed that she her engine was not powerful enough, and she lacked enough capacity for armament, for the subvention to be paid for her.
Atrato had berths for 176 passengers in first class staterooms, 42 people in second class, and nearly 400 emigrants in steerage class. Her cargo capacity was 2,524 tons and her coal bunkers 1,109 tons. She had of refrigerated storage space for provisions, using a dry-air refrigeration system with a discharge rate of of air per hour. She had tanks for of fresh water.
Atrato was launched on 22 September 1888, named after the Atrato River in Colombia. RMSP named all of its ships after rivers; many of them with Hispanic names to reflect its trade with Latin America. RMSP registered her in London. Her UK official number was 95512 and her code letters were KWSH.
Civilian service
Atratos maiden voyage began from Southampton on 17 January 1889. As well as her passengers, mails and a full cargo she carried in her strong room £120,000 in sovereigns, jewellery worth £2,000 and silver bars worth £400. She called at Carril, Vigo and Lisbon, and then crossed the Atlantic to South America. There she worked her way down the east coast, calling at Pernambuco, Maceió, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Magdalena, Thames and Clyde joined the same South American route over the next 18 months, but after her maiden voyage Atrato was switched to join Orinoco on RMSP's Caribbean route. All five ships had long and successful careers.
The five ships' furnaces suffered from heat damage, so in 1891 they were lined with zinc. In 1899 Day, Summers and Company of Southampton raised the boats on Atrato, Magdalena, Thames and Clyde "to a boat deck clear of the promenade" at a cost of more than £5,000. In 1903 Atrato, Magdalena and Clyde were fitted with bronze propellers costing another £5,000. In 1901 Atratos hull was painted white. This was short-lived as the new colour showed any grime, rust and soot, and white paint was three times the price of black. In 1902 RMSP reversed the policy and the ship was returned to her original colour. In May 1905 RMSP ordered insulation and refrigeration to be fitted to part of their cargo space to enable Orinoco and Atrato to carry fresh fruit.
By 1910 Atrato was equipped for submarine signalling and wireless telegraphy. The Marconi Company supplied and operated her wireless equipment.
In October 1912 the Viking Cruising Company of London bought Atrato and renamed her The Viking. She became a cruise ship, touring the waters of northern Europe. By 1913 her wireless call sign was MVK.
Naval service and loss
Despite having rejected Atrato as an armed merchant cruiser in 1888, the Admiralty requisitioned her after the UK entered the First World War in 1914. She was fitted out, armed, and commissioned as HMS Viknor. She was placed under the command of Commander EO Ballantyne with a complement of 22 officers and 273 ratings and assigned to the 10th Cruiser Squadron.
On 28 December 1914 Viknor went on patrol from the River Tyne, and on 1 January she joined "B" patrol off the north coast of Scotland. The patrol was ordered to find and stop the neutral Norwegian America Line ship , which the UK Government believed was carrying a suspected German spy. Viknor found Bergensfjord, detained her and escorted her to Kirkwall in Orkney. There the suspect and a number of other prisoners were transferred to Viknor, which then left for Liverpool.
Viknor never reached her destination. On 13 January 1915 she sank with all hands in heavy seas off Tory Island, County Donegal, Ireland. She sent no distress signal. Some wreckage and many corpses washed ashore on the northern coast of Ireland.
It is thought she struck a German naval mine, possibly one of those laid by the German auxiliary cruiser Berlin. Her wreck was found in 2006, and in 2011 a scuba diver placed a White Ensign on it in memory of her complement.
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– includes detailed composition of Viknors crew numbers
– includes underwater photograph of part of Viknors wreck.
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Margot Trooger (2 June 1923 – 24 April 1994) was a German film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1976. She was born in Rositz, Germany, and died in Mörlenbach, Germany.
Selected filmography
Ich mach dich glücklich (1949) - Waitress at store bar (uncredited)
When the Heath Dreams at Night (1952) - Helga
Shooting Stars (1952) - Herta Wernicke
The Confession of Ina Kahr (1954) - Margit Kahr
Secrets of the City (1955) - Paula
Roses in Autumn (1955) - Johanna
(1962, TV miniseries) - Marian Hastings
(1962) - Katharina
Eleven Years and One Day (1963) - Fanni Gruber
Ein Frauenarzt klagt an (1964) - Lotte Hartmann
Tre per una rapina (1964) - Margot Weimer
Der Hexer (1964) - Cora Ann Milton
Traitor's Gate (1964) - Dinah
Neues vom Hexer (1965) - Cora Ann Milton
(1965) - Margret Brinkmann
Heidi (1965) - Fräulein Rottenmeier
The Doctor Speaks Out (1966) - Frau Sidler
(1967) - L'Américaine
Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen (1967) - Marilyn Oland
Jet Generation - Wie Mädchen heute Männer lieben (1968)
I'm an Elephant, Madame (1969) - Mrs. Nemitz
Pippi Longstocking (1969) - Mrs. Prysselius
(1969) - Jertrude
Van de Velde: Das Leben zu zweit - Sexualität in der Ehe (1969) - Elisabeth
(1969, TV film) - Queen Isabella
Pippi Goes on Board (1969) - Mrs. Prysselius
Wir hau'n den Hauswirt in die Pfanne (1971) - Lenchen Kleinschmidt
Bleib sauber, Liebling! (1971) - Frau Stubenrauch
Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler (1974) - Fräulein Landgraf
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1994 deaths
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German television actresses
People from Altenburger Land
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The Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield are historical monuments at the entrances to Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky. The monuments were the second monument in Mayfield established by the United Daughters of the Confederacy; the first being the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield in downtown Mayfield. The gates were the third choice for monuments, chosen mostly due to their relatively low cost. The UDC intended them to not only be a monument to the residents of Graves County who served the Confederate States of America, but also a civic improvement.
Description
The monuments are three pairs of stuccoed poured concrete gateposts, six in total, each. When closed. the main pair's gates read "The United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial". The main pair have bronze plaques. The main pair of gateposts are each two feet wide and ten feet tall, with 27 feet between them. The center pair has no road between them; they are three feet wide, ten feet tall, and 285 feet away from the main gates. The third set are 330 feet away from the center gates, two feet wide and ten feet tall.
National Register of Historic Places
On July 17, 1997, the posts and gates were one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. One other monument on the list, the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield, is nearby in downtown Mayfield; the only other one in Graves County is the Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley. In Maplewood Cemetery are the Wooldridge Monuments, also on the National Register. The only other gateway on the list is the Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman.
Gallery
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Gates in the United States
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Mark Bassin is a geographer and specialist on Russian and German geopolitics. He is currently employed as a professor in historical and contemporary studies at Södertörn University.
Life
Mark Bassin was born in 1953. Bassin gained his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983.
He has received personal fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Remarque Institute at New York University, the American Academy in Berlin, the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center in Sapporo, and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. Between 1 July 1988 and 1 December 1988, he was a research scholar at the Kennan Institute working on challenges to Siberian development.
His research has also been supported by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), NCEEER, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Ford Foundation.
In 1995, he was a recipient of the Chester Penn Higby Prize from the American Historical Association.
From 1996 to 2004, he served as Secretary for the Commission for the History of Geographic Thought of the International Geographical Union.
From 2006 to 2009, his research was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
Since 1999, Bassin has been Associate Editor for the journal Geopolitics.
He has been a consultant for the World Economic Forum, and is a founding member of the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow, in which capacity he meets yearly with the Russian President and members of his government.
In 2017, he was awarded the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
He is an Associate Fellow of the Swedish Institute.
Teaching positions
He has taught at UCLA, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and University College London, and held visiting positions at the Universities of Chicago, Copenhagen, and Pau in France. In March 2005, while a visiting professor of geography at University College London, Bassin was invited to Russia as part of a UK expert group to meet with Vladimir Putin.
Until 2010, he was a professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham. In 2010, he became a professor at Södertörn University. His teaching and research interests include political, cultural and historical geography, as well as contemporary politics in Russia, Germany and Poland. He has also been a visiting professor at Uppsala University.
He has also been a speaker at the Centre of European Studies at Harvard University.
Publications
Books
Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East 1840-1865. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism - Russian and East European Studies. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
Space, Place, and Power in Modern Russia: Essays in the New Spatial History - NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2018.
Journals and articles
Classical Eurasianism and the Geopolitics of Russian Identity
Eurasianism “Classical” and “Neo”: The Lines of Continuity
“Civilizations and their Discontents: Geography and Geopolitics in the Huntington Thesis,” article in Geopolitics
“Ethno-Landscapes and Ethno-Parasites: Lev Gumilev’s Ecology of Ethnicity,” chapter in Ethnosymbolism: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity and Nationalism. Essays in Honor of Anthony Smith; Athena Leoussi and Stephen Grosby, eds; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
“Geographies of Imperial Identity,” chapter in The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. II, Dominic Lieven, ed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
“The Morning of our Motherland (painting by Fedor Shurpin)” chapter in The Russian Visual Documents Reader, Valerie Kievelson and Joan Newberger, eds, New Haven: Yale University Press
2006 “Mackinder’s Heartland and the Politics of Space in post-Soviet Russia” (with K.E. Aksenov), Geopolitics 11: 1
2005 “Blood or Soil? The volkisch movement, the Nazis, and the legacy of Geopolitik,” chapter in How Green were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Marc Cioc, and Thomas Zeller, eds, Athens OH: Ohio University Press: 204-242
2005 “The Political Spaces of Modernity,” Conoscere il mondo: Vespucci e la modernitè (Memoire Geografiche, Nuova Serie, 5): 163–176.
2005 «Россия между Азии и Европы: идеологическое конструирование географического пространства» chapter in Российская империя в современной зарубежной литературы [The Russian Empire in Contemporary Foreign Literature] Paul Werth, Aleksei Miller, and Pavel Kabytov, eds. Moscow: Зарубежная Литература, pp. 277–310.
2004 “Historical Geography: Locating Time in the Spaces of Modernity” (with Vincent. Berdoulay), chapter in Human Geography: A History for the 21st Century, Georges Benko and Ulf Strohmeyer, eds. London: Arnold: 64–82.
translated as: “La Géographie historique: localiser le temps dans les espaces de la modernité” (with Vincent Berdoulay), chapter in Horizons géographiques, Georges Benko and Ulf Strohmeyer, eds. Paris: Brèal: 291–338. Translation of 2004a.
2004 “The Two Faces of Contemporary Geopolitics,” Progress in Human Geography 28: 620-626
2004 “Tristes Toponymies: What’s Wrong with Eurasia,” Ab Imperio 1: 178–183.
2003 География и Идентичность в Постсоветской России [Geography and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia]; Edited (with Konstantin E. Aksenov). St. Petersburg. Геликон-Плюс: 2003, 271pp.
2003 “Between Realism and the ‘New Right’: Geopolitics in Germany in the 1990s,” Transactions IBG 28:3 New Series: 350-366.
2003 “Politics From Nature: Environment, Ideology, and the Determinist Tradition,” chapter in A Companion to Political Geography, John Agnew, Katherine Mitchell, and Gerard Toal, eds. Basingstoke: Blackwell; 14-29
2003 “The Greening of Utopia: Nature, Social Vision, and Landscape Art in Stalinist Russia,” chapter in Architectures Of Russian Identity, 1500–Present, James Cracraft and Dan Rowland, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 150–171.
2003 "Siberia as discursive space: The geo-psychology of nationalism in 19th century Russia", Годишњак за друштвену историју/Annual for Social History (Belgrad) 10: 1-2: 27-50
2003 “Classical Eurasianism and the Geopolitics of Russian Identity,” Ab Imperio 2: 257–267.
Translated as: «Классическое евразийство и геополитки русской идентичности» chapter in Новая Имперская История Постсоветского Пространства [New Imperial History of Post-Soviet Space], Ilya Gerasimov, Sergei Glebov, Aleksandr Kaplunovskii, Marina Mogil’ner, Aleksandr Semenov, eds. Kazan: Центр Исслед. Нац. и Империи, 2004: 563–572.
2003 «К вопросу о географии национальной идентичности» [Questioning the Geography of National Identity], in 2003a: 10–17.
2002 “Imperialer Raum/Nationaler Raum: Sibirien auf der kognitiven Landkarte Rußlands im 19. Jahrhundert“ [Imperial Space/National Space: Siberia on the Cognitive Map of Russia in the 19th Century], Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft 28:3, pp. 378–403 [in German]
2002 “Мыслить пространством: Eurasia And Ethno-Territoriality In Post-Soviet Maps,” chapter in S.K Frank and I.P. Smirnov, eds, Zeit-Räume. Neue Tendenzen in der historischen Kulturforschung aus der Perspektive der Slavistik (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Bd. 49): 15–35.
2001 “Renaissance der Geopolitik” [The Renaissance of Geopolitics], Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin) No. 17523 (9 September), p. B4 [in German]
2001 `“Reading the Natural and the Social,” Intro. to Nature as Space: (re)understanding Nature and Natural Environments, Guven Sargen, ed, Ankara: MfY/METU; pp. 1–11.
References
External links
"River of Dreams: Fleeting Visions of a Siberian Mississippi", Review of Bassins's book Imperial Visions, by Ilya Vinkovetsky.
American geographers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Geopoliticians
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Adrian Wichser (born March 18, 1980) is a retired Swiss ice hockey winger, who played for different clubs in the Swiss National League A (NLA), including EHC Kloten, HC Lugano, ZSC Lions and Rapperswil-Jona Lakers. He won the Swiss national championship in 2003 and 2008 as well as the Champions Hockey League in 2009. Wichser was the leading scorer of the NLA in the 2002-03 campaign.
Internationally, he won 99 caps for the Swiss men's national team, participating in the 2006 Winter Olympics and five World Championships.
He announced his retirement in April 2018 and became a skill coach.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
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1980 births
Living people
Florida Panthers draft picks
GCK Lions players
HC Lugano players
HC Thurgau players
Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
EHC Kloten players
Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland
Sportspeople from Winterthur
Ice hockey people from the canton of Zürich
Swiss ice hockey centres
SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers players
ZSC Lions players
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Alberto Martín was the defending champion, but lost in the first round.
Fernando Vicente won the title, defeating Sébastien Grosjean 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–3) in the final.
Seeds
Younes El Aynaoui (quarterfinals)
Karim Alami (second round)
Hicham Arazi (quarterfinals)
Sébastien Grosjean (final)
Marc Rosset (first round)
Fernando Vicente (champion)
Mariano Puerta (semifinals)
Arnaud di Pasquale (semifinals)
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
External links
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) – 2000 Grand Prix Hassan II Men's Singles draw
2000 ATP Tour
Singles
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Vis Unda 20000? (ვის უნდა ოცი ათასი?, Who Wants Twenty Thousand?) is a Georgian game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The show is hosted by Mamuka Gamkrelidze and later Dmitry "Duta" Skhirtladze. The main goal is to win 20,000 ₾ by answering 15 multiple-choice questions correctly. There are four lifelines - 50:50, Phone a Friend, Ask the Audience and Switch the Question. Vis Unda 20000? is shown on the Georgian TV station Rustavi 2. When a contestant gets the fifth question correct, they will leave with at least 100 ₾, or at least 1,600 ₾ (earlier 1,000 ₾) from the tenth question onwards.
2009 reboot
After a four-year absence, the show returned on September 23, 2009.
Money Tree
Winners
The first winner is Manana Maisuradze, who won 20,000 ₾ in 2001. On February 22, 2011, the grand prize was won by Garry Kasparov and his wife, Daria Kasparova. This episode was mainly in Russian with Georgian subtitles.
External links
Official website
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
2000 Georgia (country) television series debuts
2005 Georgia (country) television series endings
2009 Georgia (country) television series debuts
2011 Georgia (country) television series endings
Georgia (country) television series
2000s Georgia (country) television series
2010s Georgia (country) television series
Rustavi 2 original programming
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Japanese people in the Netherlands include expatriates from Japan and their descendants, as well as Dutch citizens of Japanese ancestry.
As of 2009, there were 7,524 persons of Japanese origin living in the Netherlands, according to the figures of the Statistics Netherlands office. In general, they are transient foreign residents employed by Japanese companies.
Demography and distribution
According to a 1996 survey, 80% of Japanese in the Netherlands consisted of Japanese company employees and their families. Another 10% were Japanese civil servants on overseas postings, researchers, and students. The remainder were long-term residents, largely Japanese women married to Dutch men. Most live in Amsterdam. However, there are also about 150 living in Maastricht, mostly employees of Mitsubishi and their spouses and children.
Statistics Netherlands' 2009 figures with regards to persons of Japanese background show:
5,985 persons born in Japan (2,691 men, 3,294 women)
1,539 locally born persons of Japanese background (783 men, 756 women), of which:
1,140 had one parent born outside of the Netherlands (582 men, 558 women)
399 had both parents born outside of the Netherlands (201 men, 198 women)
For a total of 7,524 persons. This represented growth of about 2.4% over the previous year's total, and about 18% over the total for 1996, the earliest year for which statistics are made available. However, they still form only a minute proportion, little over two-tenths of a percent, of all persons of foreign background in the Netherlands.
Education
Amsterdam has one Japanese-medium day school, The Japanese School of Amsterdam. There is also the Japanese School of Rotterdam.
The Saturday Japanese supplementary schools in the Netherlands include: Japanese Saturday School Amsterdam (JSSA; アムステルダム日本語補習授業校 Amusuterdamu Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō), The Hague-Rotterdam Japanese Saturday School (ハーグ・ロッテルダム日本語補習授業校 Hāgu Rotterudamu Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō) in Rotterdam, Stichting the Japanese School of Tilburg (ティルブルグ日本語補習授業校 Tiruburugu Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō), and Stichting Maastricht Japanese Supplementary School (ティルブルグ日本語補習授業校 Tiruburugu Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō).
The Maastricht school was founded in 1992 as an outgrowth of the Joppenhoff International School. It began with 15 students, and grew as large as 30, but declined in concert with the economy, and as of 2004 enrolled just 20 students. The Saturday School of The Hague and Rotterdam was formed in 1996 from a merger of the two separate Saturday Japanese schools of those cities.
The Tilburg school is held at Beatrix College, and formerly at .
Employment
The workplace is one of the most important sites of cross-cultural encounters for Japanese working in the Netherlands. Japanese company offices in the Netherlands are generally small in size, numbering less than 100 employees. The decision-making processes in Japanese and Dutch corporate cultures are superficially similar, both relying on achieving consensus from stakeholders and subordinates rather than devolving decision-making authority to a single person. The need for Japanese expatriate middle-managers to refer plans back to headquarters in Japan, in addition to the emphasis on collective responsibility for the results of plans agreed to by consensus, means that decision-making in Japanese companies proceeds more slowly than in Dutch companies. Nevertheless, Dutch employees in Japanese companies perceive the decision-making process as achieving better and more thorough results despite its slow pace.
Japanese expatriate employees in the Netherlands put in longer hours than local employees. Dutch employees feel that their Japanese superiors and colleagues put in such long hours because they use their time inefficiently; furthermore, they feel little pressure to adopt those same working hours, asserting that the Japanese managers simply receive more benefits and salary in line with their increased responsibility. However, their Japanese colleagues resent this attitude, feeling that Dutch colleagues "leave work undone on their desk and go home", leaving it for the late-working Japanese to complete. Japanese managers find they have to delineate job requirements and responsibilities more explicitly for Dutch employees than they would for Japanese employees in Japan, due to the local cultural emphasis on individual responsibility above collective responsibility.
Cuisine
As of 2000, when eating outside the home, Japanese expatriates in the Netherlands most commonly patronised Chinese restaurants (29% of meals eaten out); Japanese restaurants run a close second at 25%, Italian restaurants at 19%, and French restaurants at 10%. However, they derided the Japanese restaurants of the Netherlands as low-quality and expensive. They also cook Japanese food at home, though in a pattern different from that in Japan; they consumed less fish and more meat dishes (especially nikujaga), and often have to find substitutes for preferred vegetables which are unavailable locally. Preparing Japanese food was often viewed as troublesome due to these limitations, and many Japanese wives expressed that they only prepare such dishes because their husbands prefer them; when the husbands are away, they cook Western-style food instead. However, the community in Amsterdam at least had some Japanese-style grocery stores available locally. For the community in Maastricht, fewer such options were available; many crossed the border to Germany to do their shopping in Düsseldorf and took advantage of the many specialised grocery shops which have popped up to serve the city's significant Japanese community, or banded together and order groceries—especially fish prepared in the Japanese style—to be shipped down from Amsterdam. Another common option was to grow herb seasonings, especially garland chrysanthemum, perilla, and cryptotaenia, in one's own back garden.
Notable individuals
Cornelia van Nijenroode, merchant
Mariko Peters, politician, civil servant, lawyer
Saartje Specx
Kai Verbij
See also
Japan–Netherlands relations
References
Notes
Sources
(Archive)
Further reading
External links
Japanners in Nederland
Asian diaspora in the Netherlands
Ethnic groups in the Netherlands
Japanese diaspora in Europe
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Mount Washington Transit Tunnel is an important public transportation link in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The tunnel connects Station Square to South Hills Junction, and is used only by Pittsburgh Light Rail cars and buses of the Port Authority of Allegheny County. The tunnel changes 204.54 feet in elevation from its north portal at 750.36 feet above sea level to its south portal at 954.90 feet above sea level, resulting in a grade of 5.86%. With the cessation of bus service in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel in 2019, the Mount Washington Transit Tunnel is the only tunnel in the United States shared by bus and rail services.
History
The tunnel was built by Booth and Flinn for Pittsburgh Railways to overcome the barrier of Mount Washington to the development of electric streetcar services to points south. Excavation was started October 6, 1902, and the tunnel was officially opened December 1, 1904. The tunnel was paved around the rails to allow for joint use by bus and trolley traffic in 1973.
The Transit tunnel is located almost in line with the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Tunnel, which was at a much higher elevation. That tunnel was originally a coal mine accessed from the top of an incline on the river side. It was later opened at the back and used to run through to other coal mines in the Saw Mill Run valley. The Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad operated passenger service through the tunnel from 1873 until 1892, after which passengers journeyed instead via the new Castle Shannon Incline, while coal trains continued to use the old route through the tunnel. From 1909 the main passenger service became Pittsburgh Railways streetcars running from the Transit Tunnel into the Castle Shannon route at South Hills Junction. Because of the related nature of the two tunnels, an urban legend persists that the Transit Tunnel was originally a coal mine.
Accidents
Two spectacular runaway accidents are associated with the tunnel, which is on a steep gradient averaging over 6 percent, and curves as the north portal is reached.
On December 24, 1917, Knoxville service car 4236 ran away downhill after becoming detached from the wire and derailed and overturned on the curve into Carson Street. The car slid on its side until hitting a telegraph pole which ripped the roof off. Twenty-one people were killed and 80 were injured; the claims from the accident sent Pittsburgh Railways into receivership.
On October 29, 1987, a 1700-series all-electric PCC car began to exceed the tunnel's speed limit as it entered the south portal after departing South Hills Junction. The operator, realizing the car could neither stop nor take the sharp curve from the transitway to the Panhandle Bridge ramp, ordered all the passengers to move to the back, and radioed the PAT central dispatcher to clear Station Square. The car left the rails and took Smithfield Street instead (the trolleys' original route downtown, until 1985), crossing Carson Street, sideswiping a PAT bus and a truck, and knocking out a fire hydrant. Miraculously, the car stayed on its wheels, and finally stopped next to the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, the former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie station building at Station Square. Thirty-seven people were injured, four seriously, but there were no fatalities. All three braking systems on the car had failed: the drum, dynamic, and magnetic rail brakes. Most of the 1700 series cars were found to have electrical defects, prompting PAT to retire all of their remaining PCC's that had not been rebuilt as 4000 series cars. Consequently, PAT was left with a shortage of cars, which contributed to the closure of the Overbrook line in 1993.
See also
Pittsburgh Railways
Pittsburgh Light Rail
South Busway
Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Tunnel
References
External links
- Southern portal
- Northern portal
Railroad tunnels in Pennsylvania
Tunnels in Pittsburgh
5 ft 2½ in gauge railways in the United States
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Charles "Tal" Harris (4 February 1903 - 1 October 1963) was a Welsh international rugby union scrum-half who represented Wales and played club rugby for Aberavon.
Rugby career
Harris played for Aberavon during their 'golden era' which saw the team crowned Welsh Club Champions four consecutive years from the 1923/24 to the 1926/27 season. While playing for Aberavon, Harris was awarded his one and only Welsh cap against the touring Australian Waratahs. The match took place on 26 November 1927 at the Cardiff Arms Park, and although the Welsh forwards showed strength and commitment, were out-classed by the tourist back play.
In 1931, while still with Aberavon, Harris was part of the joint Neath / Aberavon team that narrowly lost to the 1931 touring South Africans. Harris was challenged to the position by Neath's Cliff Evans, but Harris was considered more experienced and tougher. The match was a close contest, and with three minuted left on the clock the score line was 3-3 after the Welsh side had taken an early lead; but the tourist fought back and scored a try with the last move of the game. During the match, Harris and his Aberavon team mate Wilf Selby were considered the better pairing than the South African duo of Danie Craven and Bennie Osler, but the Welsh team's threequarter line was believed to have let them down with slow distribution.
International matches played
Wales
New South Wales Waratahs 1927
The Tal Harris Appreciation Society
The Tal Harris Appreciation Society was formed in 1994, dedicated to the memory of Tal Harris. They journey to Dublin every two years on the occasion of the Ireland v Wales rugby union match.
Bibliography
References
Wales international rugby union players
Welsh rugby union players
Rugby union scrum-halves
1903 births
1963 deaths
Rugby union players from Cardiff
Neath RFC players
Aberavon RFC players
Maesteg RFC players
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"William Hickey" is the pseudonymous byline of a gossip column published in the Daily Express, a British newspaper. It was named after the 18th-century diarist William Hickey.
The column was first established by Tom Driberg in May 1933. An existing gossip column was relaunched following the intervention of the Express's proprietor Lord Beaverbrook. It was titled "These Names Make News". Driberg described the new feature as "...an intimate biographical column about...men and women who matter. Artists, statesmen, airmen, writers, financiers, explorers..."
Historian David Kynaston calls Driberg the "founder of the modern gossip column", which moved away from genteel chit-chat towards commentary on social and political issues. The tone of the column was described by biographer Richard Davenport-Hines as "wry, compassionate, and brimm[ing] with...open-minded intelligence". Driberg continued to write the column until 1943.
The column has been written by numerous anonymous journalists over the decades. In the 1960s, it was written by columnist Nigel Dempster.
References
External links
Daily and Sunday Express website
Gossip columnists
British columnists
Daily Express
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Björn Vleminckx (; born 1 December 1985) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Born in Boom, Antwerp, Vleminckx began his career with Beveren and joined in July 2005 Oostende on loan. In summer 2006 he signed with KV Mechelen.
In June 2009, he signed a four-year contract until July 2013 with N.E.C. who paid a transfer of €1.8 million to Mechelen for the 23-year-old striker. At N.E.C. he became the top goalscorer in the Eredivisie during the 2010–11 season, with 23 goals.
In March 2011, Vleminckx signed a contract starting from June 2011 at Club Brugge. Brugge paid €3.3 million to NEC as transfer sum.
In January 2013, Vleminckx signed a loan contract until end of season 2012–2013 at Gençlerbirliği. In his first match with the club, he had a successful debut in scoring four goals in a 5–3 win against Antalyaspor.
In June 2013, he signed a two-year contract with Kayseri Erciyesspor.
In August 2016, he agreed to the termination of his contract with Göztepe.
In August 2016, Vleminckx moved to the Belgian Second Division team Antwerp agreeing a two-year contract. A year later, after the club had reached promotion to the Belgian First Division A, it was announced he was no longer part of the club's plans and that he would be allowed to train with the first team.
He trained with the reserve team of Antwerp in nearly two years but however decided to stay at the club until his contract ran out in July 2019. Already in February 2019 it was confirmed, that Vleminckx would join FC Oppuurs ahead of the 2019/20 season. The transfer was also confirmed by Vleminckx himself on 29 May 2019.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
Honours
Individual
Eredivisie top scorer: 2010–11
Best sportsman of Nijmegen 2011
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
People from Boom, Belgium
Belgian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Belgium men's international footballers
K.S.K. Beveren players
K.V. Oostende players
K.V. Mechelen players
NEC Nijmegen players
Club Brugge KV players
Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers
Kayseri Erciyesspor footballers
Göztepe S.K. footballers
Royal Antwerp F.C. players
Challenger Pro League players
Belgian Pro League players
Eredivisie players
Süper Lig players
Belgian expatriate men's footballers
Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Footballers from Antwerp Province
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Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov (; 21 June 1892 – 7 September 1938) was a Soviet politician, chemist, engineer and academic; at one time personal secretary to leader Vladimir Lenin.
Biography
Born in Krasnoye Selo, in Saint Petersburg, his parents were Pyotr Mikhailovich Gorbunov and Sofia Vasilievna Gorbunova. Pyotr was an honoured citizen who worked as an engineer and later as a director of a paper factory not far from Saint Petersburg. Sofia Vasilievna descended from the Pechatkin family and was a joint owner of the factory, of which her husband was a director. Both Gorbunov's parents owned a number of middle-sized houses. In 1911, they bought an estate of about in Yamburg. Pyotr Mikhailovich was a liberal who founded a school for the children of workers at his factory. His brother was the naturalist Grigoriy Petrovich Gorbunov. Gorbunov graduated from the Petrograd Institute of Technology and received a diploma in chemistry and technology. From his student years he was a convicted ed Marxist and actively participated in the February Revolution.
Gorbunov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour (b) in July 1917 and quickly started to work in the apparatus of the Soviet government with the recommendation of Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich.
Gorbunov was secretary of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and wrote of the period immediately following the Bolshevik seizure of power:
On 17 July 1918, Gorbunov received a coded telegram from Alexander Beloborodov, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Ural Regional Soviet, regarding the shooting of the former Tsar Nicholas II and his family, with instructions to pass on the message to Yakov Sverdlov without delay. Sverdlov announced the tsar's death to the All-Russian Congress of Soviets the following day.
He served in his role as Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars until 1930, continuing to serve under the Premierships of Alexei Rykov and Vyacheslav Molotov after the death of Lenin.
From 1923 to 1929 he was rector of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. From 1935 he was a full member and In 1937 he was secretary of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
During the Great Purge, Gorbunov was indicted for espionage, sentenced to death and executed in 1938.
He was rehabilitated in 1954.
References
External links
Gorbunov, Nikolai Petrovich in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
1892 births
1938 deaths
People from Krasnoye Selo
Soviet politicians
Old Bolsheviks
Great Purge victims from Russia
People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Soviet engineers
Soviet chemists
Soviet rehabilitations
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Karl John (24 March 1905 – 22 December 1977) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 50 films between 1933 and 1977.
Early life
John was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Danzig. But he soon discovered his love for the stage and moved to Berlin where he took acting lessons.
Career
At 26 he made his debut performance at a theater in Boleslawiec. John made his first film appearance in the 1932 thriller The White Demon which also starred Hans Albers in the lead role. Throughout the 1930s he played numerous roles at various theaters throughout Nazi Germany. In 1938, John came to the prestigious Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
At the outbreak of World War II John appeared in many German propaganda films made by the Reichs Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under the auspices of Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels. He played soldiers and sailors, he also voiced information films on the role of dive bombers, tanks and submarines. However, in 1943 he was sentenced to death by the People's Court for espousing "defeatist views" after Goebbels became aware he had been making "jokes about Hitler". His sentence was commuted to service in Wehrmacht.
After World War II, John played several roles in various anti-war German films. In 1947 he starred in In Those Days and Love 47, an adaption of Wolfgang Borchert's play The Man Outside. John also played a Gestapo agent in Peter Lorre's only directorial outing, the German-language Der Verlorene in 1951.
Throughout the 1950s John often portrayed members of the Wehrmacht such as in Des Teufels General (1955), Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (1957) and Fabrik der Offiziere (1960). In 1962 John played a German general in Darryl F. Zanuck's international 1962 war epic The Longest Day.
In the 1960s, he appeared in several stage productions based on adaptation of the works of British writer and journalist, Edgar Wallace. In the 1970s John also made guest appearances on West German television crime shows including Derrick, Tatort and Der Kommissar.
Throughout his career John continued to do voice over work. In 1959 he became the voice of Paul Temple in an eight-part radio play based on the works of Francis Durbridge. The series was directed by future award winner Willy Purucker.
Death
On 20 December 1977, the 72-year-old John collapsed shortly before a performance of "Moon Over the River" by Pavel Kohout at the Theater Gütersloh in Gütersloh. He died two days later at the city hospital from cardiovascular disease. He was buried at Friedhof Heerstraße in Berlin.
Selected filmography
The White Demon (1932)
When the Cock Crows (1936) - Piepers Gustav
(1937) - Graf Kostja Wolfgoff
Unternehmen Michael (1937) - Leutnant Hassenkamp
Der Lachdoktor (1937) - Peter Karst, Lehrer
Legion Condor (1939)
Bal paré (1940) - Erstchargierter Franz Stanglmayer
Die unvollkommene Liebe (1940) - Kristas Brudr Gustl
Kora Terry (1940) - Chef der Kraftmännertruppe
Fahrt ins Leben (1940) - Seekadett Gerhard Bartels
My Life for Ireland (1941) - Raymond Davitt
Above All Else in the World (1941) - Olt. Hassencamp
Der Weg ins Freie (1941) - Fritz
U-Boote westwärts! (1941) - Matrosenobergefreiter Drewitz
Stukas (1941) - Oberleutnant Lothar Loos
Two in a Big City (1942) - Bernd Birckhoff
Andreas Schlüter (1942) - Martin Böhme
Melody of a Great City (1943) - Klaus Nolte
In Those Days (1947) - Peter Keyser / 1. Geschichte
Unser Mittwochabend (1948) - Erik
The Last Night (1949) - Harald Buchner, Oberleutnant
Love '47 (1949) - Beckmann
The Lost One (1951) - Hösch, alias Nowak
The Smugglers' Banquet (1952) - Hans
The Man Between (1953) - Inspector Kleiber
No Way Back (1953) - Friedrich Schultz
Des Teufels General (1955) - Ingenieur Karl Oderbruch
Hotel Adlon (1955) - Herr von Malbrand
Urlaub auf Ehrenwort (1955) - Köhler
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959) - Generaloberst Hoth
Two Times Adam, One Time Eve (1959) - Wickström
Sacred Waters (1960) - Seppi Blatter, Romans Vater
(1960) - Major Frey
(1961) - Debras
The Longest Day (1962) - Gen. Wolfgang Häger
Der Hexer (1964) - Shelby
Neues vom Hexer (1965) - Dr. Mills
(1968, TV miniseries) - Hohmann
Sabine (1974) - Dr. Gerd Hesse
Pusteblume (1974) - Ricks Vater
Derrick (1976, Season 3, Episode 8: "Auf eigene Faust") - Euler
Sorcerer (1977) - 'Marquez'
Notes
Citations
Sources
Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Die Schauspieler, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Produzenten, Komponisten, Drehbuchautoren, Filmarchitekten, Ausstatter, Kostümbildner, Cutter, Tontechniker, Maskenbildner und Special Effects Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts. Band 4: H – L. Botho Höfer – Richard Lester.'' Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3, p. 230
External links
1905 births
1977 deaths
German male film actors
German male television actors
20th-century German male actors
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is a former Japanese football player. His younger brother Seiji is also a footballer.
Club career
Koga was born in Okawa on September 8, 1978. After graduating from high school, he joined the Nagoya Grampus Eight in 1997. He became a regular player as a center back from 1998. The club won the 1999 Emperor's Cup. He moved to Kashiwa Reysol in 2007. Although he played as a regular player, he lost his place due to an injury in 2010. He then moved to Júbilo Iwata in August 2010. After playing for two seasons, he moved to his local club Avispa Fukuoka in 2012. He retired at the end of the 2015 season.
National team career
In August 1995, Koga was selected by the Japan U-17 national team for the 1995 U-17 World Championship and he played full time in all three matches. In June 1997, he was also selected by the Japan U-20 national team for the 1997 World Youth Championship, but he did not play in any matches.
Club statistics
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Association football people from Fukuoka Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
Japan men's youth international footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Nagoya Grampus players
Kashiwa Reysol players
Júbilo Iwata players
Avispa Fukuoka players
Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games
Men's association football defenders
Asian Games competitors for Japan
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Tlaxcala Televisión is a public television station operated by the Coordinación de Radio, Cine y Televisión de Tlaxcala (CORACYT) which serves the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. Tlaxcala Televisión's programming primarily consists of cultural and educational content, along with news and sports coverage.
TDT was founded in the early 1980s and traces its roots to the breakup of Televisión Rural de México, which operated a channel 12 in Tlaxcala.
In the 1990s, the state television station ceased all local production; this returned in 2000.
In the late 2000s through to 2017, the state network was known as "TDT, La Televisión de Tlaxcala", predating the conversion of the network to digital television, or televisión digital terrestre. All digital stations in Mexico carry the -TDT suffix. The state network renamed to Tlaxcala Televisión in 2017.
Transmitters
Tlaxcala Televisión uses a network of five terrestrial television transmitters to provide statewide coverage. Its transmitters are the only television stations licensed directly to Tlaxcala.
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Except for XHSPM and XHTCL, the state network went digital-only on December 31, 2015. The San Pablo del Monte and Calpulalpan stations converted on December 15, 2016.
In February 2017, XHTLX was approved to move from channel 22 to 23 by the IFT.
References
Public television in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 1988
Mass media in Tlaxcala City
Television stations in Tlaxcala
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Kutalli is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dimal. The population at the 2011 census was 9,643. The village is populated by Albanians & Aromanians.
Geography
Closest places to Kutalli: Samaticë (2 miles), Pobrat (1 mile), Drenovicë (1 mile), Rërës (1 mile), Protoduar (2 miles), Sqepur (2 miles), Goricani Çlirimi (2 miles), Malas-Gropë (2 miles).
References
Administrative units of Dimal, Albania
Former municipalities in Berat County
Villages in Berat County
Populated places disestablished in 2015
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Jozef Karel (13 September 1922 in Humenné – 26 September 2005 in Košice) was a Slovak football player and coach. A midfielder, he played for SAC Sečovce, Snaha Košice, Slávia Prešov, ŠK Bratislava and shortly for Red Star Saint-Ouen on a loan. He was selected to the France Football Top 20 Midfielders on the World in 1965.
Karel made one appearance for the First Slovak Republic in 1944 and seven appearances for the Czechoslovakia national team.
He started his managing career in Piešťany where he spent two years and he went on with his work in Prešov, Jednota Košice (he led to the First League), Slavoj Trebišov, Martin, C.D. Saprissa (he won the title) and Kuwait.
References
External links
1922 births
2005 deaths
Sportspeople from Humenné
Footballers from the Prešov Region
Slovak men's footballers
Czechoslovak men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Slovakia men's international footballers
Czechoslovakia men's international footballers
Dual men's international footballers
ŠK Slovan Bratislava players
Red Star F.C. players
Deportivo Saprissa managers
Slovak football managers
FC VSS Košice managers
Czechoslovak football managers
1. FC Tatran Prešov managers
Czechoslovak expatriate men's footballers
Czechoslovak expatriate football managers
Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate football managers in Costa Rica
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The Great North of England Railway (GNER) was an early British railway company. Its main line, opened in 1841 was between York and Darlington, and originally it was planned to extend to Newcastle.
Mergers
In 1846 it was absorbed by the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway. Soon afterwards, the combined company was renamed the York and Newcastle Railway. In 1847, this amalgamated with the Newcastle and Berwick Railway to form the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway and this amalgamated with other railways in 1854 to form the North Eastern Railway (NER).
Locomotives
Locomotive list
Notes
GNER = Great North of England Railway
NER = North Eastern Railway
Names and NER numbers may not be in correct order (source is vague)
References
Further reading
Railway companies established in 1836
Railway lines opened in 1841
Railway companies disestablished in 1846
1836 establishments in England
North Eastern Railway (UK)
1846 disestablishments in England
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Lumas is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Kuçovë. The population at the 2011 census was 3,981.
References
Former municipalities in Berat County
Administrative units of Kuçovë
Villages in Berat County
Populated places disestablished in 2015
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is a Japanese football manager and former professional player who played as a defensive midfielder. He made over 600 career appearances for Kashiwa Reysol and stayed with them for his entire career. He is currently first-team coach for J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol.
Playing career
Otani was born in Nagareyama on 6 November 1984. He joined J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol from youth team in 2003. He debuted in 2003 and played many matches as defensive midfielder from 2004. Although he became a regular player summer 2005, Reysol was relegated to J2 League end of 2005 season. In 2006, he played many matches as left side back and left side midfielder and was promoted to J1 in a year. From 2007, he played as regular left side back.
From Summer 2009, he was returned to his original position, defensive midfielder under new manager Nelsinho Baptista and played as regular defensive midfielder for a long time. Reysol also won the 2nd place in 2008 Emperor's Cup. However the club results were sluggish and was relegated to J2 end of 2009 season again. Reysol won the champions in 2010 season and was returned to J1 in a year. In 2011, Reysol won the champions in J1 League first time in the club history.
From 2012, Reysol won the champions in 2012 Emperor's Cup and 2013 J.League Cup.
Club statistics
Honours
Kashiwa Reysol
J.League Division 1: 2011
J.League Division 2: 2010, 2019
J.League Cup: 2013
Emperor's Cup: 2012
Japanese Super Cup: 2012
Suruga Bank Championship: 2014
References
External links
Profile at Kashiwa Reysol
1984 births
Living people
People from Nagareyama
Association football people from Chiba Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Kashiwa Reysol players
Men's association football midfielders
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Trade Union Committee for Popular Resistance was an Egyptian organisation of local labour committees, mobilised during the 1956 Suez Crisis for the sake of national defense. In total around 50 local committees were organised, some with hundreds of members. The main leader of the movement was Yusuf Darwish. The Egyptian government was however wary of the formation of workers militias, especially since the movement was influenced by communists. On November 26, 1956, the law office of Darwish was closed by the government (but was re-opened soon afterwards, following protests). The committees were disbanded soon after the end of the war.
References
Suez Crisis
Trade unions in Egypt
Political organisations based in Egypt
Trade unions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Egypt
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Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970.
Biography
Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858–1928), Hauptmann (Captain) in the Prussian Army. He grew up at his family's estates in the Province of Posen and attended the gymnasium secondary school in Godeberg. Having passed his Abitur exams, he was called up for military service as a cadet in World War I, but soon was dismissed due to a pulmonary disease.
In 1917 he gave his debut as a theatre actor at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin and from 1918 to 1920 continued his career at the Hamburg Kammerspiele. Back in Berlin he performed in avant-garde plays by Carl Sternheim, as well as in several revue entertainments and kabarett venues. Later he returned to classical theatre with engagements at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, performing as The Imaginary Invalid, Mephistopheles, but also as Captain of Köpenick or as Meckie Messer in Brecht's Threepenny Opera.
From 1920 onwards, Meyerinck starred as a silent film actor, whereby he developed a distinctive appearance with his high forehead and moustache, often emphasizing his hypnotic expression by sporting a monocle. He was able to continue his career in the sound film era by his unmistakable rasping voice, which perfectly added to his physiognomy, having a standing order for scoundrels and charlatan roles.
Commonly identified as a homosexual he ran the risk to be imprisoned by the Nazi authorities like his friend Kurt von Ruffin, nevertheless, he performed in numerous entertainment films of Nazi cinema. After World War II, Meyerinck remained one of the busiest film actors in West German cinema. He starred as quirky official, devious noble or impostor in numerous film comedies, often together with Peter Alexander and young Ilja Richter but also in several Edgar Wallace films of the 1960s. The magazine Der Spiegel called Meyernick's role in numerous films a "comical Erich von Stroheim, who parodied Prussianism and made it ridiculous". He also continued as a theatre actor, from 1966 in the ensemble of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.
Hubert von Meyernick made one of his few Hollywood film appearances in Billy Wilder's film satire One, Two, Three (1961), portraying in a memorable supporting role the penniless aristocrat Count Waldemar von und zu Droste-Schattenburg, who adopts Horst Buchholz for financial reasons. Meyernicks skills in English were rather limited, so he was dubbed by German-American character actor Sig Ruman. The Jewish Billy Wilder spoke about Meyernick in a 1997 interview with Der Spiegel: "I remember a gay actor, we called him Hubsi, Hubert von Meyernick. He never vaunted himself for that, but during the Kristallnacht he went along the Kurfürstendamm and called: If somebody among you is Jewish, follow me! He cached the people in his apartment. Yes, there were decent people, whose words you could believe, that it was hard to do resistance during that time. People like Meyernick were marvelous, wonderful."
Meyerinck died from heart failure in Hamburg. He is buried in the Schladen cemetery near Braunschweig.
Filmography
Desire (1921) - Role (uncredited)
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1921, part 1–7) - Gehilfe von Mann mit der Narbe
The Lost Shoe (1923) - Minor Role
Manon Lescaut (1926) - The Younger Bli
People to Each Other (1926) - Feinschmecker
The Flames Lie (1926) - Ein Liebhaber
Aftermath (1926) - Heino
Doña Juana (1928) - Dichter Don Alfonso
The Old Fritz (1928, part 2) - Graf Cobenzl
Beating Heart (1928) - 3. Ehemann
Under the Lantern (1928) - Gustave Nevin
The First Kiss (1928) - James Twist
The Secret Courier (1928) - Duc d'Orléans
The Burning Heart (1929)
Diane (1929) - Tichon, Kammerdiener
The Model from Montparnasse (1929) - Sleeper conductor
Triumph of Love (1929) - Flemming
Jenny's Stroll Through Men (1929) - Lorenz, Modezeichner
Three Around Edith (1929) - Scherbe
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (1930)
Love's Carnival (1930) - Benno von Klewitz - Leutnant
The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (1930) - Attaché
The Sacred Flame (1931) - (uncredited)
The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931) - Museumsführer
My Wife, the Impostor (1931)
Der Schlemihl (1931) - Baron Stechling
The Company's in Love (1932) - Fritz Willner - Filmautor
For Once I'd Like to Have No Troubles (1932) - Görner - Friseurgehilfe
Der schwarze Husar (1932)
The White Demon (1932) - Marquis d'Esquillon
Contest (1932) - Schneckendorf
When Love Sets the Fashion (1932) - Mr. Farell
The Empress and I (1933) - Flügeladjutant
Manolescu, Prince of Thieves (1933) - Der Kellner im Hotel Ritz
Die Nacht der großen Liebe (1933) - Konsulatssekretär
Ein gewisser Herr Gran (1933) - Hauptmann Gordon
(1933) - 3. Gast Lissys
Dream of the Rhine (1933) - Conny
Her Highness the Saleswoman (1933) - Paul
Des jungen Dessauers große Liebe (1933) - Graf von Syringen
The Only Girl (1933)
Tambour battant (1933)
The Fugitive from Chicago (1934) - Werner Dux
The World Without a Mask (1934) - E.W. Costa
Frühlingsmärchen (1934) - Karlchen Wolf, Librettist aus Finsterwalde
The Big Chance (1934) - Georg, ihr Sohn
The Island (1934) - Graf Squeelen, erster Botschaftsrat
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1934) - Lynge, Bankier
(1934) - Prof. Mertens
She and the Three (1935) - André Nicol
Die Katz' im Sack (1935) - Louis Grevenelle
Winter Night's Dream (1935) - Degenfels
Everything for a Woman (1935) - Maxwell, ein dunkler Ehrenmann
Ein falscher Fuffziger (1935) - Wallner, Betrüger
Barcarolle (1935) - Lopuchin
Ein Mädel aus guter Familie (1935) - Direktor Hollmann
Last Stop (1935) - Marcel Steiner, Direktor des Salon 'Flora'
Ein ganzer Kerl (1935) - Baron von Petersen
The King's Prisoner (1935) - Von Beichlingen
If It Were Not for Music (1935) - Kusjmitsch von Prschitschkin
April, April! (1935) - Müller, Reisender
Königstiger (1935) - Vicomte d'Aubert
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (1935) - Rittmeister Lensberg
Es flüstert die Liebe (1935) - Lenoir
Paul and Pauline (1936) - Apotheker Knullingen
Stjenka Rasin (1936) - Borodin
Family Parade (1936) - Vetter Max
Orders Are Orders (1936) - Rittmeister von Schlackberg
Fräulein Veronika (1936) - Theo
Thou Art My Joy (1936) - Dr.Hofreuter - Lawyer
Game on Board (1936) - Marquis de la Tour
The Voice of the Heart (1937) - Kammerdiener der Prinzessin
The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna (1937) - Oskar Brenner
Don't Promise Me Anything (1937) - Dr. Elk
Strife Over the Boy Jo (1937) - Monsieur Merminod
The Irresistible Man (1937) - Marquis de Rossignol
Ein Volksfeind (1937) - Redakteur Fink
Fanny Elssler (1937) - Polizeipräfekt
After Midnight (1938) - Ricin
Frühlingsluft (1938) - Graf Rasumirksi
Anna Favetti (1938) - Hotelgast
The Deruga Case (1938) - Riedmüller
So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (1938) - Reporter Droste (uncredited)
The Night of Decision (1938) - Chef des Modesalons
Women for Golden Hill (1938) - Tanzmanager
Bel Ami (1939) - Redakteur Varenne
The Leghorn Hat (1939) - Rosalba
Salonwagen E 417 (1939) - Kuhlemanns Komplize
Hello Janine! (1939) - Jean
Wibbel the Tailor (1939) - Knillich
Kitty and the World Conference (1939) - Carter
Robert Koch (1939) - Fähnrich Graf
A Woman Like You (1939) - Verkäufer im Sportgeschäft
Maria Ilona (1939) - Pizzi, der Scherenschnittkünstler
We Danced Around the World (1939) - 2. Theaterdirektor in Stockholm
Der Weg zu Isabel (1940) - Bü-Bü
Passion (1940) - Graf Christian
(1940) - Auktionator
Angelika (1940) - Kabarett-Direktor
The Star of Rio (1940) - Monsieur Louis Borinage
Golowin geht durch die Stadt (1940)
Die Rothschilds (1940) - Baron Vitrolles
Trenck, der Pandur (1940) - Herr von Sazenthal
Das Herz der Königin (1940) - Sir John - d*er englische Gesandte
Kora Terry (1940)
(1940) - Ballettmeister Petit
Venus on Trial (1941) - Dr.Knarre, Sachverständiger
(1941) - Rat Haschke
Was geschah in dieser Nacht (1941) - Werner Gebhardt
Two in a Big City (1942)
Weiße Wäsche (1942)
Der große Schatten (1942) - Voß, Schauspieler
Diesel (1942) - Herr von Lorrenz (uncredited)
Ein Zug fährt ab (1942) - Frisör Schön
Münchhausen (1943) - Prinz Anton Ulrich
Leichtes Blut (1943) - Möllendorf
Ich habe von dir geträumt (1944) - Empfangschef
Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl (1944) - Max Vieregg
Shiva und die Galgenblume (1945)
Das Mädchen Juanita (1945) - Verwandter des Konsul Henselings
Tell the Truth (1946)
In the Temple of Venus (1948) - Raimondo
The Adventures of Fridolin (1948) - Der falsche Biedermann
The Court Concert (1948)
Blocked Signals (1948) - Der Baron
The Great Mandarin (1949) - Chinesischer Staatsbeamter
Love '47 (1949) - Direktor Engelbrecht
Amico (1949) - Schwarz, Oberkellner
Nothing But Coincidence (1949) - Schönheitssaloninhaber
Artists' Blood (1949) - Ricardo Pisetti - Manager
Kätchen für alles (1949) - Ein Herr
The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan (1949) - Wedekind
The Blue Straw Hat (1949) - Ciapollini
Der große Fall (1949) - Ein dunkler Ehrenmann
Unknown Sender (1950) - Schmoll, Lehrer
Who Is This That I Love? (1950) - Zauberer
Kein Engel ist so rein (1950) - Mohrbutter
My Niece Susanne (1950) - Oscar, Friseur
Maharadscha wider Willen (1950) - Knirps - Generalsekretärs des Wunderfriseurs
Love on Ice (1950) - Hoteldirektor Schabratzky
The Man in Search of Himself (1950) - Direktor Cattoni
Trouble in Paradise (1950)
The Disturbed Wedding Night (1950) - Frank Betterton, Lawyer
The Girl from the South Seas (1950)
Die Sterne lügen nicht (1950) - Baron v. Malachowsky alias Emil Branske
A Rare Lover (1950) - Poule, Verlege
The Midnight Venus (1951) - Director Meyer
(1951) - Neumann
Engel im Abendkleid (1951)
Hilfe, ich bin unsichtbar (1951) - Professor Orsini
Das späte Mädchen (1951) - Buchhändler
The Dubarry (1951) - Stranitzky, Schmierendirektor
The Colourful Dream (1952) - Brandini
The Thief of Bagdad (1952) - Hussa Hussa
Klettermaxe (1952) - Dobnika
That Can Happen to Anyone (1952) - Walputzke
Weekend in Paradise (1952) - Empfangschef
I'm Waiting for You (1952) - Studienrat Schwarze
Traumschöne Nacht (1952) - Maroni, Theaterdirektor
We'll Talk About Love Later (1953) - Herr Wilmar, Inhaber Kosmetik-Salon
Heute nacht passiert's (1953) - Textilkaufmann Schulz
Knall and Fall as Detectives (1953) - Stapler
They Call It Love (1953) - Balancourt
Not Afraid of Big Animals (1953) - Kunstreiter
Fanfare of Marriage (1953) - Hornisse
The Bogeyman (1953) - Hoteldirektor
Columbus Discovers Kraehwinkel (1954)
Maxie (1954) - Felix, Diener
Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern (1954)
Ten on Every Finger (1954) - Director des Lido
Marriage Impostor (1954) - Meister Philippe
The Missing Miniature (1954) - Tänzer
The Blue Danube (1955) - Baron Philipp
Music, Music and Only Music (1955) - Bieberich
The Spanish Fly (1955)
Ball at the Savoy (1955) - Max
Love, Dance and a Thousand Songs (1955) - Director Winkler
The Forest House in Tyrol (1955) - von Langer, Staatsanwalt
Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone (1955) - Weckenberg
IA in Oberbayern (1956) - Diener Fritz
Die wilde Auguste (1956) - Baron von Freitag
Dany, bitte schreiben Sie (1956) - Geschäftsführer Schnattke
The Stolen Trousers (1956) - Signore Ricoli
Hilfe - sie liebt mich (1956) - Direktor der "Elysée-Bar
Küß mich noch einmal (1956) - Direktor Landinger
The Captain from Köpenick (1956) - (uncredited)
Santa Lucia (1956) - Tutu
Zu Befehl, Frau Feldwebel (1956) - Kriegsgerichtsrat Kronberg
Manöverball (1956) - Hauptmann Brothusen
Sommerliebe am Bodensee (1957) - Oberkelalner
Tolle Nacht (1957) - Herr Lemke, Schauspieler
Tired Theodore (1957) - Wilhelm Schulze
Two Bavarians in the Jungle (1957) - Jawassis
Das Glück liegt auf der Straße (1957) - Generaldirektor Kartzer
Siebenmal in der Woche (1957) - Füllkrug
The Mad Bomberg (1957) - Pfarrer
Weißer Holunder (1957) - Taddäus von Zylinski
Träume von der Südsee (1957) - Kapitän
Vacanze a Ischia (1957) - Colonnello Manfredi
Heute blau und morgen blau (1957) - Sanitätsrat Schlucker
Europas neue Musikparade 1958 (1957) - Wuttke
Ferien auf Immenhof (1957) - Dr. Westkamp
The Spessart Inn (1958) - Polizeimajor
(1958) - Alfons Spadolini
Rosemary (1958) - Kleye
The Csardas King (1958) - Szegedy
The Star of Santa Clara (1958) - Freddy
Piefke, der Schrecken der Kompanie (1958) - Fürst Paul XIII. von Krakelsburg-Kummerstein
Love, Girls and Soldiers (1958) - Major von Siebenstern
Die Seeteufel von Angostura (1958)
Skandal um Dodo (1959) - Graf Udo von Pleitenstein
La Paloma (1959) - Direktor Bauer
Bobby Dodd greift ein (1959)
Melodie und Rhythmus (1959) - Orlando / Himself
Der lustige Krieg des Hauptmann Pedro (1959) - Moritz von Persipan, Kriegsminister
The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959) - Pickler - der Bürochef
Salem Aleikum (1959) - Polizeichef Pierre Duval
The Man in the Black Derby (1960) - Chef der russischen Atomdelegation
The Haunted Castle (1960) - Oberregierungsrat von Teckel / Obrist von Teckel
(1960) - Herzog
Schlußakkord (1960)
Mein Mann, das Wirtschaftswunder (1961)
Festival (1961)
The Adventures of Count Bobby (1961) - Mr. Cower
The Secret Ways (1961) - Hermann Sheffler
Junge Leute brauchen Liebe (1961) - Monsieur Terrier
Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel (1961) - Adv. Diffenthal
(1961) - Schulrat
Robert and Bretram (1961) - Kriminalkommissar Wolf
One, Two, Three (1961) - Count von Droste Schattenburg
Freddy and the Millionaire (1961) - Direktor Walloschek
The Turkish Cucumbers (1962) - Rubin y Soliman
Der verkaufte Großvater (1962) - Friedrich Wilhelm Dünkelberg
Das ist die Liebe der Matrosen (1962) - Freiherr von Mumpitz
So toll wie anno dazumal (1962) - Mandler
Wenn die Musik spielt am Wörthersee (1962) - Axel Bender, Evelyns Vater
Wedding Night in Paradise (1962) - Gustav Säuerling, Bonbonfabrikant
Das schwarz-weiß-rote Himmelbett (1962) - Oberst Pusslitz
...und ewig knallen die Räuber (1962) - Herr von Merlyn
Das Kriminalmuseum (1963, TV Series) - Rittmeister a.D. von Rellstab
Allotria in Zell am See (1963) - Hauptmann Hans Hajo von Gestern
...denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol (1963) - Oskar Ortshaus
The Girl from the Islands (1964) - Direktor Dingelmeyer
DM-Killer (1965) - Chief Prosecutor
Neues vom Hexer (1965) - Judge Matthews
Ich kauf' mir lieber einen Tirolerhut (1965) - Hubert Krempe
The Sinful Village (1966) - Anwalt
The Hunchback of Soho (1966) - General Edward Perkins
Brille und Bombe - Bei uns liegen Sie richtig! (1967) - Der Hoteldirektor
Glorious Times at the Spessart Inn (1967) - General Teckel
When Ludwig Goes on Manoeuvres (1967) - von Below
Im Banne des Unheimlichen (1968) - Sir Arthur
Otto ist auf Frauen scharf (1968) - Dr. Zwyfalt
The Gorilla of Soho (1968) - Sir Arthur
Donnerwetter! Donnerwetter! Bonifatius Kiesewetter (1969) - Felix, Dekanatsfaktotum
The Man with the Glass Eye (1969) - Sir Arthur
Ein dreifach Hoch dem Sanitätsgefreiten Neumann (1969) - Oberstabsarzt Dr. Treppwitz
Charley's Uncle (1969) - Most
Dr. Fabian: Laughing Is the Best Medicine (1969) - General von Kottwitz
When the Mad Aunts Arrive (1970) - Herr Storz
Keine Angst Liebling, ich pass schon auf (1970) - Portier vom Hotel Central
(1970) - Notar
References
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1896 births
1971 deaths
20th-century German male actors
German male film actors
German male silent film actors
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The were a class of two destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy by Yarrow Shipbuilders of Scotland. These were the last Japanese destroyers ordered from overseas shipyards. While still under construction, one ship was transferred to Italy in 1916.
Background
The failure of Japanese shipbuilders with the s left the Japanese navy without a large destroyer capable of extended blue ocean operations. The Parsons steam turbines of the Umikaze class were plagued with maintenance issues, as well as tremendous fuel consumption. The navy then returned to its previous mainstay for new technology and equipment, Yarrow shipyards in the United Kingdom, ordering two vessels to a new design in the 1911 fiscal budget.
However, Yarrow, along with other British shipyards, had a large backlog of orders, and it was not until 1915 that the new vessels could be completed, and due to the outbreak of World War I, not until 1919 before Urakaze was turned over to Japan.
Design
The Urakaze-class vessels made use of oil-fired Brown-Curtiss turbine engines, and had the distinction of being the first vessels built for Japan to be designed for use without coal. The initial design called for diesel engines, however, due to the outbreak of World War I, Yarrow could not obtain necessary gear components from Germany.
Armament was slightly less than that of the Umikaze class, with a single QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I – IV mounted on the small forecastle forward of the bridge and four QF 3 inch 12 pounder guns, two amidships, one of the stern, and one mounted on a tall pedestal just aft of the smokestacks. The Urakaze class was also the first Japanese class of destroyers to use the 533-mm diameter torpedoes.
Operational history
Urakaze was turned over to the Imperial Japanese Navy too late to see combat service in World War I. It was used for many years in patrols on the Yangzi River. It was retired in 1936, and used as a training vessel for the Yokosuka Special Naval Landing Forces. It was sunk in an air attack by United States Navy aircraft on 18 July 1945.
Due to a strong request from the British government, Kawakaze was sold by Japan prior to completion to the Regia Marina of Italy. Italy was one of the Allies of World War I, and faced a severe shortage of modern warships. Kawakaze was completed as Audace, and later modified into the controller of the radio-controlled target ship , and saw considerable combat service in the Mediterranean. During World War II, the ship was captured by the German Kriegsmarine, and renamed TA20. The vessel was sunk during the action of 1 November 1944 near Pag Island in the Adriatic Sea.
Ships
Notes
References
External links
Materials of IJN: Urakaze class destroyer
Destroyer classes
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Nikolaos Zorbas (; 1844–1920) was a Greek soldier, most notable as the nominal leader of the Military League which organized the Goudi coup in 1909.
Life
His family was from Magnesia in Asia Minor and he was born in Athens. After studying at the Hellenic Military Academy, he finished his studies in France and Belgium. He fought during the Greco-Turkish War (1897), and in 1909, as a colonel, he was chosen as the leader of the clandestine Military League. After the league organized the Goudi coup in August 1909, he was appointed Minister of Military Affairs in the Stephanos Dragoumis government and retired in 1911 as a Major General.
Zorbas died in Athens.
1844 births
1920 deaths
Military personnel from Athens
Ministers of Military Affairs of Greece
Greek colonels
Hellenic Army officers
Greek military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1897)
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
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The Lebanese Special Operations Command (LSOCOM) ( Kiyadat al Kouwat al Khasa al Loubnanya) is the joint Special Operations command of the Lebanese Armed Forces which groups Lebanon's elite units. The command is part of the Lebanese Armed Forces.
Background
The command was founded as a result of the lessons the army learned in the Nahr el Bared Operation. The Lebanese Special Forces spearheaded the attack on the camp in which 169 soldiers died and were the workhorse in the battle and the key to the success of the campaign. Nahr el Bared was the first occasion where these regiments were able to prove themselves capable, especially at counter-terrorism operations, which prompted the Lebanese Army Command to start planning to expand them.
Structure
The LSOCOM includes Lebanon's 4 Special Forces Regiments:
Marine Commandos Regiment
Commando Regiment (Also known as the Maghaweer)
Lebanese Air Assault Regiment
Counter-Sabotage (Moukafaha) Branch and the Strike Force (Kouwa el-Dareba) Anti-Terrorism Branch
Future
At formation, the size of the force was around 5,000 soldiers; however, the plan is to build a force the size of two to three brigades.
See also
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Lebanon
References
Military units and formations of Lebanon
Counterterrorism
Military units and formations established in 2008
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The 2008–2009 Cyclo-cross Superprestige events and season-long competition takes place between 12 October 2008 and 12 February 2009. Eight events are organised.
Results
Men
Season standings
In each race, the top 15 riders gain points, going from 15 points for the winner decreasing by one point per position to 1 point for the rider finishing in 15th position.
See also
2008–2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup
2008–2009 Cyclo-cross Gazet van Antwerpen
External links
Cyclo-cross.info
Official website
S
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Cyclo-cross Superprestige
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The Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE Group) was the liberal–centrist political group of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2019. It was made up of MEPs from two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and the European Democratic Party, which collectively form the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
The ALDE Group traced its unofficial origin back to September 1952 and the first meeting of the Parliament's predecessor, the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community. Founded as an explicitly liberal group, it expanded its remit to cover the different traditions of each new Member State as they acceded to the Union, progressively changing its name in the process. Its immediate predecessor was the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group (ELDR).
The ALDE Group was the fourth-largest group in the Eighth European Parliament term, and previously participated in the Grand Coalition (the coalition designed to provide a majority) during the Sixth Parliament (2004–2009). The pro-European platform of ALDE was in support of free market economics and pushed for European integration and the European single market.
On 12 June 2019, it was announced that the successor group in alliance with La République En Marche! would be named Renew Europe.
History
The ALDE Group traced its unofficial ancestry back to the Liberal members present at the first meeting of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (the Parliament's predecessor) on 10 September 1952, but the Group was officially founded as the Group of Liberals and Allies on 23 June 1953.
As the Assembly grew into the Parliament, the French Gaullists split from the Group on 21 January 1965 and the Group started the process of changing its name to match the liberal/centrist traditions of the new member states, firstly to the Liberal and Democratic Group in 1976, then to the Liberal and Democratic Reformist Group on 13 December 1985, then to the Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 19 July 1994 to match the European political party of the same name.
In 1999, the Group partnered with European People's Party–European Democrats (EPP-ED) group to form the Grand Coalition for the Fifth Parliament. The customary split of the Presidency of the European Parliament between Groups in the Coalition meant that the Group achieved its first President of the European Parliament on 15 January 2002, when Pat Cox was elected to the post to serve the latter half of the five-year term. The Group lost its Grand Coalition status after the 2004 elections.
On 13 July 2004, the Group approved a recommendation to unite with MEPs from the centrist political party at the European level called the European Democratic Party (EDP) founded by François Bayrou's Union for French Democracy, the Labour Party of Lithuania and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy of Italy.
The Group accordingly became the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) on 20 July 2004, to match the eponymous transnational political alliance, although the two European-level parties remained separate outside the European Parliament. The MEP Graham Watson of the British Liberal Democrats became the first chair of ALDE.
In May 2019, speaking at a debate leading up to the 2019 European Parliament election, ALDE President Guy Verhofstadt announced that following the election, the group intended to dissolve and form a new, centrist alliance with Emmanuel Macron's "Renaissance" list.
Membership
Membership by party in Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Parliaments
The national parties that are members of ALDE are as follows:
Membership at formation
In September 1952, the third-largest grouping in the Common Assembly was the Liberal grouping with 11 members. The Group of Liberals and Allies was officially founded on 23 June 1953. By mid-September 1953, it was again the third-largest Group with 10 members.
Structure
Subgroups
ALDE was a coalition of liberal and centrist MEPs. It did not have formal subgroups, although the MEPs fell naturally into two informal subgroups, depending on whether they associated with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party or the European Democratic Party.
Organisation
The Bureau was the main decision making body of the ALDE Group and is composed of the leaders of the delegations from each member state that elects ALDE MEPs. The Bureau oversaw the ALDE Group's main strategy and policies and was headed by a chair (referred to as the Leader). The day-to-day running of the Group was performed by its secretariat, led by its Secretary-General.
The senior staff of ALDE as of July 2012 were as follows:
The chairs of ALDE and its predecessors from 1953 to 2019 are as follows:
Academic analysis
Along with the other political groups, ALDE has been analysed by academics on its positions regarding various issues. In short, it's a group of cohesive, gender-balanced centrist Euroneutrals that cooperate most closely with the EPP, are ambiguous on hypothetical EU taxes and supportive of eventual full Turkish accession to the European Union.
References
External links
Archives of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, at the Historical Archives of the European Union
ALDE Group in the European Parliament (official website)
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
European Parliament party groups
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Forever Version is the debut album from Jamaican reggae deejay Dennis Alcapone. It was released in 1971 by Studio One, and features Alcapone toasting over some of the label's greatest hits. The album was engineered by Sylvan Morris who left large parts of the original vocal tracks in the mix, with Alcapone appearing to answer back to the singers. Tracks which formed the basis for the album include Larry Marshall's "Nanny Goat" (on "Nanny Goat Version"), The Cables' "Baby Why", Carlton and The Shoes' "Love Me Forever" ("Forever Version"), two tracks from The Heptones ("Baby Version" and "Sweet Talking Version"), and one from The Wailers ("Dancing Version"). The album was reissued by Heartbeat Records on compact disc in 1991, and again in an expanded form in 2007, with six bonus tracks.
Track listing
Original release
2007 Deluxe Edition
References
1971 debut albums
Albums produced by Coxsone Dodd
Dennis Alcapone albums
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is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defender.
National team career
In June 2005, Kobayashi was selected Japan U-20 national team for 2005 World Youth Championship. At this tournament, he played full time in all 4 matches as defensive midfielder.
Club statistics
Honours
Club
Kashiwa Reysol
J2 League: 2010
Yokohama F. Marinos
Emperor's Cup: 2013
References
External links
Profile at Sagan Tosu
1985 births
Living people
People from Hamura, Tokyo
Association football people from Tokyo Metropolis
Japanese men's footballers
Japan men's youth international footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Kashiwa Reysol players
Yokohama F. Marinos players
Sagan Tosu players
Criacao Shinjuku players
Men's association football defenders
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Gisela Hahn (born Gisela Drenkhan; 13 May 1943) is a German film actress. She has appeared in more than 40 films since 1964. She was born in Briesen.
Selected filmography
The Merry Wives of Tyrol (1964) - Reni
In Bed by Eight (1965) - Schülerin
DM-Killer (1965) - Püppi
Neues vom Hexer (1965) - Susan Copperfield
Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
Kommissar X – In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen (1966) - Stella
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (1967) - Meisje
Sladky cas Kalimagdory (1968) - Marta
Revenge (1969) - Milly
La servante (1970) - Karin
They Call Me Trinity (1970) - Sarah
Gradiva (1970)
Arriva Durango... paga o muori (1971) - Margot
Tiger Gang (1971) - Jacky Clay
Quando gli uomini armarono la clava e... con le donne fecero din don (1971) - Sissi
Long Live Your Death (1971) - Orlowsky's Wife
Zambo, il dominatore della foresta (1972) - Grace Woodworth
César and Rosalie (1972) - Carla
Incensurato provata disonestà carriera assicurata cercasi (1972) - Moglie di zaccherin
Emil and the Piglet (1973) - Lärarinnan
Es knallt - und die Engel singen (1974) - Jennifer Adam
Commissariato di notturna (1974) - The German Girl
Julia (1974) - Myriam
White Fang to the Rescue (1974) - Katie
Chi ha rubato il tesoro dello scia? (1974)
Substitute Teacher (1975) - Gym Teacher
Victory March (1976)
The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976) - Babette
A Common Sense of Modesty (1976) - Ursula Kerr
Le seminariste (1976) - Annalisa - the au-pair Girl
Mister Scarface (1976) - Clara
Battaglie negli spazi stellari (1978) - Dr. Helen Parker
Ernesto (1979) - Mother of Ilio and Rachele (uncredited)
Disco Fieber (1979)
White Pop Jesus (1980) - Stella Young
Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980) - Brigittes Mutter
Contamination (1980) - Perla de la Cruz
El caníbal (1980) - Jane
Forest of Love (1981)
Banana Joe (1982) - Woman in Perfume Advertisement
(1982) - Angela
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1943 births
Living people
People from Wąbrzeźno
People from West Prussia
German film actresses
20th-century German actresses
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Jacob Earl "Jake" Fickel (January 31, 1883 – August 7, 1956) was a general officer and an instructor of aviation in the United States Army. He served as a private, corporal and sergeant, prior to being commissioned an officer and rising to the rank of major general.
Military career
Fickel was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 31, 1883. He enlisted in the Regular Army when he was 21 years old. He served as a private, corporal, sergeant, and first sergeant of Company K, 27th Infantry of the United States Army. He was stationed at Fort Hayes, Fort Sheridan, and Fort Leavenworth. In 1907, Fickel was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry. He then joined the 29th Infantry at Fort Douglas. In August of that year, the regiment went to the Philippine Islands, where Fickel served at Fort William McKinley with Second Lieutenant Henry H. Arnold. In 1909, he returned to the United States and was stationed at Fort Jay on Governors Island in New York Harbor. He was there through 1911. He then went to Fort Niagara until November 1913.
Fickel returned to the Philippine Islands for a second tour with the 13th Infantry. He served at Fort William McKinley again, and at Camp McGrath, until March 1917. He was then assigned to duty as an instructor at the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he remained until November of that year. Fickel was then ordered to Washington, D.C., for duty with the headquarters of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. He served there until May 1918.
Fickel was next ordered to Rockwell Field in California as a student officer at the flying school. Upon completion of his course in November 1918, he assumed command of Carruthers Field in Texas, where he remained until January 1919. Fickel was then ordered back to Washington, where he served in the Office of the Chief of Air Service until March 1921. His next duty was with the Spruce Production Corporation of Portland, Oregon, until the summer of 1922. He then returned to Washington for a two-year tour of duty as Chief of the Supply Division of the Air Service.
In June 1925, Fickel graduated from the Air Corps Technical School at Langley Field. In June 1926, he graduated with honors from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. His next served as executive officer of the Materiel Division at McCook Field until 1930, with the exception of a three-month period in 1927, during which he attended the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field in Texas.
Fickel then attended the Army War College in Washington, D.C. He graduated in June 1931. His next duty was as Chief of the Buildings and Grounds Division in the Office of the Chief of Air Corps, also in Washington. He was there until January 1935. From February 1935 to June 1936, Fickel was Commandant of the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field. His was next Air Officer of the Ninth Corps Area, with headquarters at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, until March 1939, when he was assigned to command the 1st Wing, General Headquarters Air Force at March Field in California. In February 1940, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Air Corps in Washington, D.C. Fickel was assigned to Riverside, California, in 1940, as Air District Commander, becoming the first Commanding General of the Fourth Air Force on December 18, 1940. He was reassigned to command the District No. 3 (Western) Technical Training Command, Oklahoma, on March 5, 1942. He retired in 1946 in San Antonio, Texas. Fickel died of a heart attack while visiting his son in Wiesbaden, Germany, on August 7, 1956.
Aerial gunnery pioneer
Fickel became the first aerial gunner in America. These experiments led to low-recoil machine guns. Soon thereafter, machine guns were added to planes for air-to-ground attack and air-to-air fighting. The first airplane machine guns were patented by Samuel Neal McClean|de. McClean sold his rights to the Automatic Arms Company in late 1910. Isaac Newton Lewis, working for the company, later improved the technology on this airplane machine gun system. The first use of an airplane machine gun in combat was in August 1914, with the first recorded airplane shot down in air-to-air fighting in October of that year. By 1915, air combat was an integral part of fighting in World War I.
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1883 births
1956 deaths
Air Corps Tactical School alumni
American aerospace engineers
Aviation pioneers
Aviators from Iowa
People from Des Moines, Iowa
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
United States Army Air Forces generals
United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I
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Crescent Beach in Lockeport, Nova Scotia, Canada is a white sand beach causeway that connects the peninsula of Lockeport to mainland Nova Scotia. Due to the town's proximity to the beach and closeness to major shipping lanes, Lockeport is often referred to as the 'Beachtown of the North Atlantic'. Crescent Beach was featured on the Canadian 1954 series fifty-dollar bill. The scenery on the bill depicts a stormy day at Ginger Hill.
Crescent Beach Centre
The Crescent Beach is also home to an interpretative centre. Its displays include a history of the town, First nation's fishing techniques, and a collection of marine oddities, such as swordfish eyes, and shark jaws. There is a selection of artifacts on hand, and there are also a number of interactive exhibits for children and adults.
In addition to the interpretive centre, the Crescent Beach Centre is also home to a visitor information centre.
Beaches of Nova Scotia
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Otllak is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Berat. The population at the 2011 census was 9,218.
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Former municipalities in Berat County
Administrative units of Berat
Villages in Berat County
Populated places disestablished in 2015
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The 78th edition of the KNVB Cup (at the time called Amstel Cup) started on August 12, 1995. The final was played on May 16, 1996: PSV beat Sparta 5–2 and won the cup for the seventh time. A total of 60 clubs participated.
Teams
All 18 participants of the Eredivisie 1995-96, four of which entering in the knock-out stage
All 18 participants of the Eerste Divisie 1995-96
22 teams from lower (amateur) leagues
Two youth teams
Group stage
The matches of the group stage were played between August 12 and September 16, 1995. 56 clubs participated, 28 advanced to the next round.
E Eredivisie; 1 Eerste Divisie; A Amateur teams
Knock-out Stage
First round
The matches of the first knock-out round were played on November 28, 29 and 30, 1995. The four highest ranked Eredivisie clubs from last season entered the tournament this round.
E four Eredivisie entrants
Round of 16
The matches of the round of 16 were played on January 24, 1996.
Quarter finals
The quarter finals were played on February 28, 1996.
Semi-finals
The semi-finals were played on April 6, 1996.
Final
PSV would participate in the Cup Winners' Cup
See also
Eredivisie 1995-96
Eerste Divisie 1995-96
External links
Results by Ronald Zwiers
1995-96
1995–96 domestic association football cups
1995–96 in Dutch football
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Sifet Podžić (born 1 May 1959) is a Bosnian politician and former Army commander who served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2023. He has been a member of the Democratic Front since 2013.
Podžić is a former member of the national House of Peoples and the first Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has also served as the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ambassador to Bulgaria.
Early life and education
Podžić was born in Žepa, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 May 1959. He holds a degree in diplomacy from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo.
Minister of Defence (2019–2023)
Appointment
On 23 December 2019, Podžić was appointed by the Democratic Front as Minister of Defence in the government of Zoran Tegeltija.
Tenure
On 14 July 2021, Podžić and the Bosnian Foreign Minister Bisera Turković met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels.
In August 2021, Bosnian Presidency members Željko Komšić and Šefik Džaferović, without including third member Milorad Dodik, instructed the Ministry of Security to be available for putting out the wildfires in Herzegovina which had formed a few days before. This came after Dodik refused to give consent on the Bosnian Armed Forces to use its military helicopters to help in putting out the fires, because the consent of all three members of the Presidency is required for the military force's helicopters to be used. On 19 August, Dodik justified himself saying that the "Helicopters are 40–50 years old. The people flying them have courage. Of course, that is not the only reason why I did not participate in the Presidency sessions. That reason is well known and it will remain so." However, on 23 August, Podžić reacted to Dodik's statement, saying "The helicopters are perfectly fine, the only reason they didn't help in putting out the fires is Dodik."
In October 2021, Podžić canceled a military exercise between the Serbian Army and the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina due to the "bad COVID-19 epidemiological situation in the country and because of the small number of vaccinated members of the Armed Forces." This was met with outrage by Chairman of the Council of Ministers Zoran Tegeltija, who sent a request for the removal of Podžić as minister to the national Parliament. Some days later, he submitted the decision on the dismissal of Podžić to the House of Representatives. On 26 October, the majority of the House of Representatives members voted against Tegeltija's decision and did not support Podžić's dismissal.
Podžić was succeeded as Minister of Defence by Zukan Helez on 25 January 2023, following the formation of a new government presided over by Borjana Krišto.
Personal life
Podžić is married and has two children. Besides his native Bosnian, he speaks English and Slovene fluently.
Health
On 17 October 2022, Podžić was rushed to hospital and had emergency surgery to remove a blood clot in his abdominal aorta. He was placed into the intensive care unit the next day. Podžić recovered and was discharged from hospital on 21 October.
References
External links
Minister of Defence profile
1959 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Sarajevo
Military of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ambassadors of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Bulgaria
Members of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Government ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Defence ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Philip Hamburger is an American legal scholar. Hamburger holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School (1982) and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University (1979).
Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at the Columbia University School of Law. He is a legal historian and a scholar of constitutional law. Before moving to Columbia, Hamburger was John P. Wilson Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was also director of the Bigelow Program and the Legal History Program. He was previously Oswald Symyster Colclough Research Professor at George Washington University Law School and, before that, he taught at the University of Connecticut Law School. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia Law School and was the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern Law School. Early in his career, he was an associate at the law firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP in Philadelphia. In 2017, Philip founded the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group which protects constitutional freedoms from violations by the Administrative State.
Scholarship
Hamburger is a leading scholar of the First Amendment who has studied "Jefferson's thinking and actions with respect to matters of church and state". He is known for arguing that "the First Amendment, originally thought to limit the government, has been increasingly interpreted by the Court to mean limiting religion and confining it to the private sphere."
Hamburger has criticized Justice Hugo Black, who served on the Supreme Court 1937 to 1971, arguing that Black's views on the need for separation of Church and State were deeply tainted by prominent roles in the Ku Klux Klan, which, beyond its well-known role as an anti-Black extremist hate group, also harbored extreme anti-Catholic views. Hamburger relies on Black's biographers who say he was a KKK member and actively campaigned for Senate in 1926 at nearly all of Alabama's 148 KKK Klaverns, where he attacked the Catholic Church. Biographer Newman quotes his campaign manager as saying Black "could make the best anti-Catholic speech you ever heard."
Publications
Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2021)
Liberal Suppression: Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech, University of Chicago Press (2018)
Is Administrative Law Unlawful? (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
"Beyond Protection," Columbia Law Review (2009)
Law and Judicial Duty (Harvard University Press, 2008) excerpt and text search
Separation of Church and State (Harvard University Press, 2002)
"Religious Liberty in Philadelphia," Emory Law Journal (2005)
"The New Censorship: Institutional Review Boards," Supreme Court Review (2004)
Separation of Church and State (Harvard U.P,. 2004) excerpt and text search
"More is Less," Virginia Law Review (2004)
"Law and Judicial Duty," George Washington Law Review (2003)
"Liberality," Texas Law Review (2002)
"Revolution and Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion in City of London v. Wood," Columbia Law Review (1994)
References
Further reading
Peter Steinfels, "Beliefs; Behind the concept of the separation of church and state, a scholar finds some unsettling origins," []1131F935A35754C0A9649C8B63 New York Times, July 6, 2002 ]
Columbia University faculty
Living people
American legal scholars
Scholars of constitutional law
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Yale Law School alumni
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Poshnjë is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dimal. The population at the 2011 census was 7,375.
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Administrative units of Dimal, Albania
Former municipalities in Berat County
Villages in Berat County
Populated places disestablished in 2015
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James Aspinall Turner (1797 – 28 September 1867) was a British businessman, entomologist and Whig politician.
He was the son of John Turner of Mayfield, near Bolton, and his wife, Elizabeth Aspinall of Liverpool. He was a descendant of John Turner who had fought against the Old Pretender in 1715.
Turner was a prominent cotton manufacturer and merchant in Manchester. He made his home at Pendlebury Hall and was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant of Lancashire. In 1845, he formed the Manchester Commercial Association. The association, of which he was president, was a protectionist body that broke away from the pro-free trade Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
In the mid-nineteenth century the parliamentary borough of Manchester was represented by two Radical members of parliament, John Bright and Thomas Milner Gibson. In order to unseat them the Conservative Party stood aside at the 1857 general election and Turner and John Potter were elected as "Palmerstonian Whigs". In 1858 he was appointed a member of the royal commission on army clothing. He stood down from parliament at the 1865 general election.
Apart from his business and political activities, Turner was a renowned entomologist. He founded the Manchester Field Naturalist Club, and was a member of the Royal Entomological Society. He was chairman of the committee of Manchester New College (now Harris Manchester College, Oxford) from 1840 to 1852.
J A Turner died in London in September 1867, aged 70.
Legacy
Turner is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of African gecko, Chondrodactylus turneri.
Wrote "Remarks on the Linnaean Order of Insects" in 1827. See Canadian Entomologist, 1926, Vol. 58 #12, pg. 287 for review of book by Weiss.
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1797 births
1867 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1857–1859
UK MPs 1859–1865
People from Bolton
People from Pendlebury
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Manchester
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Lyme Regis railway station was the terminus of the Lyme Regis branch line in the west of the English county of Dorset. Serving the coastal resort town of Lyme Regis, it was sited high above the town centre as a result of the hilly nature of the local area. The line straddled the county boundary so that although the terminus was in Dorset most of the line lay in the neighbouring county of Devon.
History
Opened under the Light Railways Act 1896, it was operated from the start by the London and South Western Railway. The line then passed on to the Southern Railway in 1923 and the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then transferred to the Western Region in 1963, but the station and branch line were closed by the British Railways Board in November 1965.
Buildings
A small wooden building served the single platform. The station also had a signal box and engine shed, and a small goods shed.
The station closed with the branch in 1965.
The site today
The former site is now a small industrial estate. The station building was moved to Alresford on the Watercress Line, a heritage line in nearby Hampshire.
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Lyme Regis station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Lyme Regis station on Sub Brit
Disused railway stations in Dorset
Former London and South Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1903
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Beeching closures in England
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Blagaj is a historic village and protected heritage site in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the south-eastern region of the Mostar basin, in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton. It stands at the edge of Bišće plain and is one of the most valuable mixed urban and rural built environments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, distinguished from other similar built environments in its urban layout. Blagaj was most likely named for its mild weather patterns since blaga in Serbo-Croatian means "mild".
Blagaj is situated at the spring of the Buna river and a historical tekke (tekija or Dervish monastery). The Blagaj Tekija was built around 1520, with elements of Ottoman architecture and Mediterranean style and is considered a national monument. Blagaj Tekke is a monastery built for the Dervish.
Sources
Vrelo Bune, the source of the Buna river, is a strong karstic spring. The river flows west for approximately and joins the Neretva near the village Buna. The historic site of the Blagaj Fort (also Stjepan-grad or Stipan-grad), on the hill above Blagaj, was the seat of Grand Duke of Bosnia, Stjepan Vukčić, and the birthplace of Bosnian queen Katarina Kosača-Kotromanić.
History
During the classical antiquity there existed an Illyrian fortress and a Roman castrum. During the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian, several fortified towns were built in the area. Blagaj was mentioned in Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ work De Administrando Imperio as Bona, then part of Zahumlje (Hum).
In the late 12th century, during the rule of Stefan Nemanja (Grand Principality of Serbia), prefect Jurko raised a church dedicated to saints Cosmas and Damian. In the 14th century, during the reign of Bosnian Ban Stjepan II Kotromanić, Hum became part of the Bosnian state. In the 15th century Sandalj Hranić Kosača and his nephew Stephen Vukčić Kosača ruled the Hum and Blagaj territory until the arrival of the Ottomans in 1466. Blagaj is also known as a residential area of Bosnian rulers and particularly of royal families Hranić and Kosača.
In historical sources Blagaj was first mentioned in 1423. During the period of the Ottoman Empire, Blagaj was the seat of the Blagaj Vilayet, and was divided into several neighborhoods. The city had seven mosques, two inns, four musafirhana (guest houses), a madrasa (Bosnian: medresa), two maktab, seven mills and four stone bridges on the river Buna. Bosniaks were majority until 1835, during the Austro-Hungarian period Christians constituted twice as many. An Orthodox Church was built in 1893 and a Roman Catholic church in 1908.
Architecture
The earliest Blagaj settlement was located at the foot of the Blagaj fort, where the road runs down from the fort and intersects with the Nevesinje road. There was too little trade for a commercial centre to emerge and in an agricultural environment of this kind the circumstances did not give rise to an urban settlement. The urbanization of the area (in the form we know today) was defined in the second half of the 15th century, and its structure was shaped during the 16th century.
Historical sources frequently refer to mediaeval fortress Blagaj Fort (Stjepan grad) as a distinct territorial entity. During the Ottoman period construction of buildings was initiated in the fortress outskirts (houses and public edifices.
The residential areas were formed as urban quarters or mahalas, with buildings facing inwards - onto their courtyards. Resident complexes display evidence of a high standard of living and the Velagić house complex is one of the most valuable of this type in Herzegovina. The town mostly developed along the right bank of river Buna because the left bank is somewhat steeper and less suitable for construction.
Public buildings were positioned quite deliberately within the urban structure as a whole. Among the first edifices was the Careva (Imperial) mosque constructed in 1521, which helped the settlement acquire the status of kasaba. It was followed by the construction of Karađoz-beg bridge from 1570 and then the Leho bridge.
Using bold structural solutions played a vital role in architecture of Blagaj: addition of pillars and vaults, along with other structural elements, is quite evident. Barrel vaults, which were common in mosques, the tekke and the hammam – were raised to a high degree of perfection and made an entirely free ground plan possible. The synchronization of artisan crafts and construction techniques on the one hand and the development of the settlement on the other has left a mark on the Blagaj's image as a distinctive urban centre in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the reign of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Blagaj still retained its oriental-settlement character in its overall appearance as well as in its architectural and compositional details despite the obvious deterioration of the urban fabric.
Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 2,531.
See also
Neretva
Mostar
Buna, Mostar
Počitelj
Stolac
Vrelo Bune
Buna
Vrelo Bunice
Bunica
Trebižat
Bregava
Hutovo Blato
References
External links
Virtual tour of the Blagaj Tekke
Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Archaeological sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina
National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina
World Heritage Tentative List for Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Roshnik is a commune in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Berat. The population at the 2011 census was 2,513. The Köprülü family of Ottoman viziers came from this municipality.
Geography
Roshnik is located in northern Berat County and is part of Berat municipality. It borders the commune of Vërtop to the south, Zhepë to the east, Berat and Otllak to the west, and Lumas to the north. Roshnik is approximately 9km (5.5mi) from the main city of Berat.
It is subdivided into the following villages: Bogdan i Poshtëm, Bogdan i Sipërm, Dardhë, Karkanjoz, Kostren i Madh, Kostren i Vogël, Mimias, Perisnak, Qafë Dardhë, Roshnik Qendër, Roshnik i Vogël, Vojnik, Rabjak.
Demographics
As of the 2011 census, the municipality has 2,513 residents in 1,298 housing units, with a population density of .
535 residents, 21% of the total population, were under the age of 14. There were 288 people who were older than 65, accounting for 11% of the population. The gender ratio is roughly even, with 1,259 females and 1,254 males.
Notable person
Köprülü Mehmed Pasha
References
Former municipalities in Berat County
Administrative units of Berat
Populated places disestablished in 2015
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Velabisht is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality Berat. According to a 2011 census, the population of the village was 8,453. A old Ottoman bridge is located inside the village.
References
Former municipalities in Berat County
Administrative units of Berat
Villages in Berat County
Populated places disestablished in 2015
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Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus (), commonly known as RR Campus, is a constituent college of Tribhuvan University (TU). It is also the largest college for the Humanities and Social sciences studies. It provides under-graduate and master's degree level programs. The college was named after Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, second wife of the then King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev.
Notable people
Aaryan Sigdel, popular actor
Astalaxmi Shakya, Nepali politician
Bipin Karki, Nepalese actor
Bhuwan Dhungana, Nepali poet and writer
Buddhisagar, Nepali writer and poet
Neeta Dhungana, Nepali actress
Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah, Indian politician
Sulochana Manandhar, Nepali poet, writer
Swapnil Smriti, Nepali writer
Udit Narayan, popular singer
Gallery
See also
Pulchowk Campus
Tribhuvan University
Nepal Law Campus
Shanker Dev Campus
Institute of Medicine, Nepal
Padma Kanya Multiple Campus
Amrit Campus
Ayurveda Campus, Kirtipur
References
1961 establishments in Nepal
Tribhuvan University
Constituent campuses of Tribhuvan University
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The 2008–2009 Cyclo-cross Gazet van Antwerpen takes place between 1 November 2008 and 22 February 2009.
Men results
See also
2008–2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup
2008–2009 Cyclo-cross Superprestige
External links
Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee
Cyclo-cross BPost Bank Trophy
Gazet van Antwerpen
Gazet van Antwerpen
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The 1790 Footprints refer to a set of footprints found near the Kīlauea volcano in present-day Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii. Resulting from an unusually explosive eruption, they may be associated with a series of battles in the area in 1790.
Background
The 1782 Battle of Mokuōhai gave Kamehameha I control of the west and north sides of the island of Hawaii, but Keōua Kuahuula and his uncle Keawemauhili were able to escape.
For a few years, while Kamehameha was occupied with Maui and the arrival of Europeans to Kona, Keōua ruled Kaū and Keawemauhili ruled Hilo.
By 1790, Keawemauhili and Kamehameha had made peace. Keawemauhili aided Kamehameha's invasion of Maui that same year. This cooperation broke an agreement between Keawemauhili and Keōua. Keōua, angered, raided some of the lands of Kamehameha while he was in Maui at the Battle of Kepaniwai.
Keōua then attacked and killed his uncle at Hilo. Kamehameha returned from Maui to the Big Island, and Keōua ambushed them in a thick forest of Paauhau, but the battle was inconclusive (near coordinates ). Kamehameha counterattacked and drove Keōua back, in what is known as the Battle of Koapapaʻa. Kamehameha had brought a cannon salvaged from the ship ' captured at Kaūpūlehu. Keōua captured the piece, but did not have gunpowder nor expertise to use it effectively. After heavy losses on both sides, the commanders each decided to retreat to their secure territory.
The footprints were thought to have been left by Keōua's forces in their retreat. While passing Kīlauea, they made offerings to the goddess Pele and made camp. As the volcano started to erupt, they thought they might have made some offense, so he split his group into three and stayed to make more offerings.
Two parties of warriors were overwhelmed by a pyroclastic eruption while crossing the desert. Only one party of three survived the eruption. The footprints were attributed by early geologist Thomas Jaggar to those warriors who were killed in this event.
Keōua would be killed later in 1791 at Kawaihae.
The Ancient Hawaiians kept elaborate oral histories, but did not accurately count years from the Christian era. One important event in the oral history was which means "the falling sand" in the Hawaiian Language.
This corresponded to an eruption witnessed in 1790 by British sailor John Young.
It probably was given the specific name because it was an unusual kind of eruption for Hawaiian volcanoes.
Surveyor Frederick S. Lyman used the 1790 date to estimate people's birthdates during his 1857 tax assessment.
New research
More recent research indicates that some or all of the footprints may in fact be attributable to everyday activities, and not to the war parties.
Extensive surveys were done in 1998 and 2000 including radiocarbon dating the few samples of charcoal that could be found. A large number of habitation sites and trails were counted, indicating the area was in use for hundreds of years during the eruption cycle of 1500 to 1790.
Modern forensic techniques applied in 2008 determined that many of the footprints were made by women and children, not warriors. They were probably already in the area chipping off sharp chunks of glass to use as tools, and left the footprints while escaping during a lull in the eruption.
Keōua's groups, however, were at the summit, and some were killed instantly by the following blast of poison gas, not by the actual falling of the ash. Although sometimes called "fossilized", the imprints are not old enough to be true fossils. The fine ash was probably made into thick mud by a rain triggered in the eruption, which then quickly solidified in the tropical sun and was preserved in the arid desert.
Recognition
The footprints were found accidentally by geologist Ruy H. Finch in the hardened ash of the Kaʻū Desert while he was trying to investigate a 1919 eruption that produced Mauna Iki (small mountain). Although the National Park had been formed by then, these lands were owned by the Territory of Hawaii. In 1938 the area was proposed as a bombing practice range, resulting in protest from conservation groups. On June 20, 1938, the Federal Government bought the land to add to the park, with the bombing range limited to four and a half square miles. The Army never used the land, but the Navy caused some injuries to fishermen in 1945. In June 1950 the bombing range was returned to the park after being cleared of unexploded ordinances.
In 1941 the Civilian Conservation Corps built a trail and shelter. It is designated as Hawaii state archaeological site number 10-61-5505 and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 7, 1974, as site number 74000351.
Access to the area is via southwest of the park headquarters on the Hawaii Belt Road, State Highway 11. From this trailhead (coordinates ) the Footprints Trail leads about a mile southeast to the area. The site can also be accessed by the Kaū Desert trailhead on Crater Rim Drive at coordinates . These trails or roads might be closed during high levels of volcanic activity.
References
National Register of Historic Places in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Battles involving Hawaii
Conflicts in 1790
Ancient Hawaii
Natural disasters in Hawaii
1790 in Hawaii
18th-century disasters in Oceania
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Ura Vajgurore, formerly known as Ura e Hasan Beut, is a town and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it was merged with the former municipalities (now municipal units) Cukalat, Kutalli and Poshnjë to form a new municipality, that was officially renamed to Dimal in April 2021. The seat of the municipality Dimal is the town Ura Vajgurore, that was not renamed in 2021. The population at the 2011 census was 7,232.
History
Ruins in the style of the old Gorica bridge in Berat attest to the existence of early inhabitants and what would later become the town today. The contemporary city has its origins in recent displacements of residents from nearby villages over the last 100 years. The building of bridges has been the mark of continuity in the town's history. Known by various names, such as Bridge of Hasan Bey, the contemporary name comes from a cement and iron bridge believed to have been built by the Italians as infrastructure for oil pipelines that connected Kuçovë with Vlorë. Local residents call it the "Old Bridge." Today it is a small town, known as a crossroad between Berat and Kuçovë.
Ura Vajgurore was the scene of violent riots in 1997 between supporters of the political parties PS and PD, in the context of the Albanian Civil War that was ignited by failing pyramid schemes. Four police officers were killed and six others were injured.
Geography
The town is situated on both banks of the river Osum, at the foot of low mountains.
Demographics
The population is composed of a mix between locals who are from the other side of town, with predominantly Orthodox surnames, and migrants of the 1960s onwards who originate from villages near Berat, and nearby villages such as Fief, Kutalli, Konizbalte, etc.. Primarily a middle to low-aged population, similar to other Albanian communities in transition, Ura Vajgurore has witnessed an increase in external and internal migration, and immigration of people from mountainous villages of Berat. The economy has long been recognized for surface mining of stone, and recently for processing granulated stone, lime, etc.. The main activities are trade, transport, etc..
Culture
The town contains a number of educated residents with higher education in distinction to the rest of the population. There are a few notable personalities that originate from this city, like Llazar Fype (writer). Of considerable notoriety is the local Polyphonic Albanian folk music group.
Notable people
Llazar Fype, writer
References
Administrative units of Dimal, Albania
Towns in Albania
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Ruins is an Australian black metal band, based in Hobart, Tasmania. The band was formed somewhere between 2000 and 2002 by Alex Pope (formerly of Sea Scouts) and Dave Haley (The Amenta, Blood Duster and Psycroptic).
Recording
Ruins began as a recording project, featuring Pope supplying vocals, guitar and bass, with Haley on drums. It has been incorrectly reported that Haley is merely a session player in the band, and he has publicly dismissed such views as nonsense. The band consists of two core-members used on recordings, with extra live members added for shows, similar to Norwegian black metal band, Satyricon. Initial recordings were intended for demo purposes only, but were decided later to be of sufficient quality for public use. Their first recording, Atom and Time, was released in 2004 by Blacktalon Media.
Their debut full length album Spun Forth as Dark Nets was engineered by Joe Haley, Dave's brother and member of the live Ruins line-up. From the response to their recordings, Ruins decided to recruit session musicians to play live.
Live
Joe Haley and Kai Summers joined Ruins as live session members on guitar and bass respectively. When Summers has been unavailable for shows, Tom Void has filled in. However, Summers remains the full-time live member. Ruins have toured extensively across Australia and New Zealand, supporting many well-known overseas bands including Satyricon, Celtic Frost, Immortal, Pig Destroyer, and Wolves in the Throne Room.
Current
Their third release, Cauldron (2008), was repressed on limited edition vinyl by Debemur Morti Productions. Front the Final Foes, which was released in late 2009, showcased a heavier production style, and less introspective songwriting.
Pope contributed vocals to fellow Tasmanian Moribund Records label mates, Thrall's album, Away from the Haunts of Men.
Releases
Atom and Time EP (2004)
Spun Forth as Dark Nets (2005)
Cauldron (2008)
Front the Final Foes (2009)
Place of No Pity (2012)
Compilations
Blacktalon Media – Legions – Opening of the Southern Gate double compilation, 2004 – featuring the Ruins track "Desolation".
Prime Cuts – A Blaze in the Southern Skies compilation, 2007 – featuring the Ruins track "Suicidal Pulse".
References
External links
Interview with Dave Haley from Metal Underground.com
Neurotic Records Artist Biography
Stomp Product Description - Ruins Cauldron
Australian black metal musical groups
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"Criminology" is the second solo single by Wu-Tang Clan rapper Raekwon, from his debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., featuring Ghostface Killah, like many of the songs of the album. The song starts with dialogue from the film Scarface, where Alex Sosa insults Tony Montana through phone, calling him a "fucking little monkey", because he failed to blow up the activist's car, then the first verse is performed by Ghostface Killah, and the second by Raekwon, without a chorus. The B-side of the single is "Glaciers of Ice". The song peaked at #43 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Ghostface Killah wrote his verse in San Francisco, and requested that RZA make a beat for the song.
The song was sampled later by Mos Def, for his song "Mathematics".
Background
Producer RZA later illustrated "That was me trying to produce like a DJ, produce a breakbeat. Ghost actually asked me to make one of those beats. You listen to old DJ tapes. That's how I made that song, and he wanted this shit to sound like a breakbeat. He had a rhyme that he knew was going to change the game - that was the verse that got him recognized. Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs called up and was like 'Yo, he killed that shit. He ripped that shit.'"
Track listing
"Criminology" (LP Version)
"Criminology" (Instrumental)
"Glaciers of Ice" (LP Version)
"Glaciers of Ice" (Instrumental)
Samples
"I Keep Asking You Questions" by Black Ivory
"Why Marry" by The Sweet Inspirations
Dialogue from the film Scarface
Chart positions
1995 singles
Song recordings produced by RZA
Mafioso rap songs
Songs written by Ghostface Killah
Songs written by Raekwon
Songs written by RZA
Raekwon songs
Ghostface Killah songs
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{{Infobox scientist
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Gustav Wallis (1 May 1830 – 20 June 1878) was a German plant collector who introduced over 1,000 plant species to Europe, many of which were named after him. He was particularly focused on orchid hunting during the Victorian orchid craze, but also was the first European collector of plants such as large-leaved Anthurium specimens that continue to be among the most sought after today.
Early life
Wallis was born in Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany, where his father was an advocate. Wallis was deaf and mute until six years of age, and it was not until 1836 that he was able to talk. As a consequence, he suffered from a speech defect during his entire life.
In about 1836 his father died, leaving his mother a widow with six children. With no means of support, she found it necessary to leave Lüneburg and move to Detmold, her native town. It was here that Wallis attended school and, in the surrounding mountains and forests, developed the love of nature and botany which later gave him the desire to travel abroad and visit the tropics. As a youth, Wallis had great energy and an indomitable will, and despite his speech impediment he acquired considerable proficiency in foreign languages, an accomplishment which stood him in good stead during the course of his career.
At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a goldsmith but, disliking the work, he quit and took an apprenticeship with a gardener at Detmold. At the end of his apprenticeship, he obtained employment in Munich, from where he often visited the Alps to collect and study plants.
In 1856, Wallis went to southern Brazil, where he set up a horticultural establishment for a German firm but, following the bankruptcy of the parent company, the branch was forced to close and Wallis was left practically penniless.
Jean Linden
In 1858, he was engaged as a plant-collector by Jean Linden’s orchid company, L’Horticulture Internationale, of Brussels. Wallis then began a hazardous journey, crossing the continent of South America, starting at the mouth of the River Amazon and traversing the total length to its source, exploring the river and many of its more important tributaries.
In 1866, Wallis was exploring the low-lying areas where the Rio Negro meets the Amazon, when he came across an unknown Cattleya species growing among the branches of macucus trees. Wallis was able to send a large shipment to Linden, who named the new species Cattleya eldorado, and the following year had more than 700 plants of the new species in bloom on display in Paris.
James Veitch & Sons
In 1870, he was engaged by James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, London, who sent him to the Philippines to search for orchids of the Phalaenopsis species which were indigenous to those islands. Although he was able to make sufficient finds to send a shipment back to England, including Paphiopedilum argus, P. haynaldianum, Dendrobium amethystoglossum and Lilium philippinense, the mission proved too expensive to be considered a success and Wallis had to be recalled.
In December 1872, he was sent to Colombia, where he had explored previously, returning in 1874 with many finds, including two giant-leaved Anthuriums, A. veitchii and A. warocqueanum, as well as several interesting and valuable orchids, including various species of Masdevallia.
Later career and death
His contract with Veitch was terminated in 1874, but he continued to collect plants in South America at his own expense, commencing his last journey at the end of the summer of 1875, when he left to explore the northern and central regions of the continent. Whilst in Colombia, he discovered Zamia wallisii but his samples were lost; it was only in the 1980s that the plant was re-located.
He was next heard of in Panama, dangerously ill with yellow fever and malaria. He recovered from his illness and was able to re-commence work, but his second attack, combined with dysentery, proved fatal. His last letter was dated Cuenca, Ecuador, 24 March 1878, where, according to the collector Edward Klaboch, Wallis died in hospital on 20 June.
Honours
Amongst the plants named after Wallis are:Anthurium wallisiiBatemannia wallisiiCalathea wallisii Dieffenbachia seguine subvar. wallisiiDracula wallisiiEpidendrum wallisiiGrammatophyllum wallisiiH.G. Reichenbach f. Orchideae Wallisianae novae. Linnaea vol.41: 99-118 1877Homalomena wallisiiHoulletia wallisii Masdevallia wallisiiOdontoglossum wallisiiSpathiphyllum wallisiiStenospermation wallisiiWallisia, (genus, family Bromeliaceae)Zamia wallisii''
References
External links
Article on www.orchids.co.in
19th-century German botanists
1830 births
1878 deaths
People from Lüneburg
Veitch Nurseries
Botanists active in South America
Plant collectors
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Yemen Mobile is a CDMA 2000 network provider founded in Yemen in 2004 by the Yemen ministry of telecommunication and it is the first CDMA network operator in the Middle East. Yemen Mobile CDMA system is based on the HUAWEI Technologies. According to the 3GPP2 standard, CDMA 2000 system is fully compatible with IS-95 cellular phones, so it is normal that any IS-95 phone is supported by Yemen mobile. In 2012, Yemen mobile implemented ZTE network beside Huawei network as well as using LG-Nortel network in some eastern parts of the country. Yemen Mobile is the first 3G company in Yemen that provides CDMA 20001x and EVDO services. Yemen mobile was established in 2004 as a third wireless operator in Yemen and initially provided the circuit switch services beside to packet switch services which enable its customers to use data services and the Internet at a speed of 153 kbit/s as a maximum rate by implementing CDMA20001x which is 2.5G technology according to 3GPP2 standard. By 2007, it had become a corporation company and jumped to the top of mobile operators in the country in term of subscribers number and coverage.
Beginning in January 2021, Yemen Mobile became the first mobile network operator in Yemen to provide 4G LTE internet. In the end of 2022 Yemen mobile became the biggest telecom company according to the number of subscribers in Yemen. It had 10 million subscriber in total.
See also
MTN Group, GSM provider in Yemen, previously known as Spacetel and currently known as YOU.
Sabafon, GSM provider in Yemen.
References
External links
Yemen Mobile website
PDF file from HUAWEI, the China CDMA manufacturer and provider
Telecommunications companies of Yemen
Mobile phone companies of Yemen
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Allendale Columbia School (often shortened to Allendale Columbia or abbreviated as A.C.) is an independent, nonsectarian, college preparatory school for students in nursery through twelfth grade in Rochester, New York, USA. The Columbia School for girls, established in 1890 by Caroline Milliman and Alida Lattimore, and the Allendale School for boys, established in 1926 by a group of Rochester businessmen, merged in 1972 to form the current co-educational school. Allendale Columbia students come from 28 different school districts in the greater Rochester, New York region, as well as from 10 different countries. International students live in two houses on campus. The school was named by Worth magazine as of one of the top 100 feeder schools to Ivy League universities. It was also ranked as the best private high school in Monroe County by Niche and The Post-Standard. Newsweek named Allendale Columbia as one of the best STEM schools in America.
Mission statement
"At Allendale Columbia, we prepare students for the world they will inherit. In our trusting and responsive environment, students in nursery through grade 12 grow in confidence and develop scholastic independence. Together, our students and teachers imagine, design, and create in order to make a positive impact locally and globally."
Faculty
Allendale Columbia has sixty-nine teachers. Of the twenty-five Upper School faculty members, 96% hold advanced degrees.
Campus
Allendale Columbia School occupies more than in Pittsford, New York that stretches to Oak Hill Country Club. The school is separated into three divisions: Lower School, Middle School and Upper School. The school also offers pre-primary school for children 18 months to three years old. While these divisions each have their own areas on campus, they share many common spaces, including a 500-seat performance center, library, dining commons for locally sourced lunches, and athletic, music and arts facilities. The students change buildings for various classes and use the entire campus throughout their day.
The main buildings house 41 classrooms, five science laboratories, nine computer laboratories (three classroom and six mobile), three music classrooms, two art studios, a darkroom, a digital photography laboratory, a foreign language laboratory, a library, a performance center, two gymnasia, and a science wing.
In 2012, the school opened residences for foreign students, and it hosts 25-35 international students from as many as 15 different countries and four continents.
In 2013, students began organizing and hosting an annual TEDx conference on campus, as an independently organized TED event.
In 2014, Allendale Columbia School created a summerLEAP partnership with School 17 of the Rochester City School District to provide summer enrichment programs for RCSD students.
In 2015, the school unveiled a new design and innovation laboratory with 3D printers, Mac computers, drafting tables, and tools. That year, the school also partnered with the Hybrid Learning Consortium. It creates a globalized learning community offering a diverse variety of online courses to students around the world.
In 2016, the school celebrated its 125th anniversary.
Athletics
Allendale Columbia School is merged with The Harley School for interscholastic sports competition in grades 7 through 12. The two schools began coordinating their athletic programs during the 1972–1973 school year. The joint program is referred to as Harley Allendale Columbia (HAC) and originally competed as the Harley-Allendale Columbia Braves. In 1997, students of both schools voted to change the team name from the Braves to the Wolves. Team supporters are known as the Wolfpack.
The HAC enforces a "no-cut" athletic program, and varsity places are guaranteed for any committed seniors. The HAC co-ordination exists to enhance the interscholastic athletic program of both schools by combining student bodies and resources, as well as faculty for coaching purposes. The school has had success in the Section V Finger-Lakes West Division, including sectional titles in boys' and girls' tennis, boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' cross country and boys' and girls' basketball.
V = Varsity, JV = Junior Varsity, M = Modified
Notable alumni
Alison Castle, photographer and author
Carson Cooman, Composer-in-Residence at Harvard University
Richard C. David, politician and Mayor of Binghamton, New York
Taye Diggs (later transferred to School of the Arts (Rochester, New York), actor
Nancy Northup, President of the Center for Reproductive Rights
Katelin Schutz, physicist and cosmologist
Kristen Wiig, actress and comedian, student, 1987-89
References
External links
Official website
Private high schools in New York (state)
Private K-12 schools in New York (state)
Preparatory schools in New York (state)
Schools in Monroe County, New York
Private middle schools in New York (state)
Private elementary schools in New York (state)
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A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Bedfordshire.
Locations
Locations formerly within Bedfordshire
For windmills in Eaton Socon see List of windmills in Cambridgeshire.
Sources
Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is
Maps
1765 Thomas Jeffrey
Notes
Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.
References
Bedfordshire
Windmills
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Reinaldo Oudinot (or Renauld Oudinot) was a French military engineer from the 18th century, who became most famous for his hydraulic works on the Portuguese harbours of Porto, Aveiro, Leiria and Funchal. Even though he was born and educated in France, he started his career in Portugal, where he developed several projects on different fields such as: architecture, urban planning, hydraulic engineering and agriculture development. In 1803, he was to become one of the most ranked engineers on the Portuguese army as he was promoted to Brigadier of the Royal Engineers.
First years
Reinaldo Oudinot was born in 1744 in Sampigny on the diocese of Verdun in France. It has been written that after finishing his degree in engineering he travelled to England, arriving in Portugal in 1766. On 5 September he signed in the Portuguese Army, beginning his military career with the post of infantry helper. In his first years he worked at the Province of Estremadura where Later in 1768 he joined the team of Gilherme Elsden on the surveys for Tejo, upgrading to Infantry Officer on 8 February.
Leiria (1773-87)
In 1773 Reinaldo Oudinot was nominated to be the head-director of the Hydraulic works in the Lis River in Leiria. During this assignment, he developed several surveys of the Pinhal de Leiria.
The project developed by Oudinot to the Lis river had two stages: the first, consisted of the regularization of the river channel through the cleaning of the sands and the establishment of the river into a straight line; the second, consisted of the construction of a floodwall to prevent future floods to happen over the lands in the south.
During these improvements on the harbour, the consort king D. Pedro III, heir of these lands, valued the work of Oudinot, allowing him to expand his ideas for the harbour in 1778.
In 1787, after the death of D. Pedro, the succeeding prince D. João ordered an inspection on the hydraulic works made on the Lis River. This inspection resulted in a new project proposal by sergeant major Manuel Caetano de Sousa, who contested the hydraulic project of Reinaldo Oudinot. These actions cause Oudinot to be removed from the direction of the harbour.
Although the presence of Reinaldo Oudinot was no longer required in Leiria, a short time later he was assigned to work on Porto, to open and clean the harbour of Douro River. During this time, he developed an astonishing amount of work that extended to architecture design and urban planning.
Porto (1789-1804)
After staying 15 years in Leiria, Reinaldo Oudinot was nominated to travel to Porto to examine the harbour of Douro River. He arrived in October 1789, with the instructions made by the minister José Seabra da Silva. These instructions provided him information about the site and which points to work on the harbour. One month later, Oudinot sent to José Seabra da Silva, a plan with the project to be made. In this plan he answers the demands by making a dyke on the north side of the harbour, on the river mouth, which connected the lighthouse S. Miguel-o-Anjo to the Fort of S. João Baptista. The idea was to allow the regular movement of the waters oriented by the dyke to dredge up the silt from Douro. The project was approved and in February 1790 the Queen D. Maria I ordered the beginning of the procedures. The Infantry Officer Faustino Salustiano da Costa e Sá was nominated to be Oudinot's assistant.
Five days after the approval, the Queen demanded the construction of two military barracks for the troops in Porto, Saint Ovídio and Casa Pia. This assignment was also given to Oudinot.
From 1789 to 1804, Oudinot presented several projects that consisted not just of the opening and cleaning of the harbour but also of the redesigning of Douro's riverfront. This urban project for the riverfront of Douro consisted of the development of five places: São João da Foz, Massarelos, Ribeira do Porto, Guindais and Freixo. Along with these improvements, Oudinot also proposed the construction of a seaside road connecting these five points, providing distribution and harmony to this urban plan.
In his plan for the riverfront from 1791, Reinaldo Oudinot combined the three most important aspects for development: hydraulic, urban and military. By expanding the Fort of S. João Baptista and designing a new urban structure of regular blocks and squares, Oudinot completely restructured the river mouth of Douro. Even though this project wasn't built due to insufficient funds, the ideologies used by Marques de Pombal in the Downtown of Lisbon are clearly visible on this plan.
Póvoa de Varzim (1791)
Throughout the year 1789, Reinaldo was designated to travel to the town of Póvoa de Varzim (30 km north of Porto) to study the conditions of the site and later develop an urban project for the village. The project's main goal was to improve the village infrastructure with the development of three constructions: the transportation of water to the centre of the village by making a new aqueduct; the second, the design of a Central Square for the village, a place for commercial activities and social gathering (this project-square would be accompanied with the construction of the village's City hall and Market); and third, the construction of a Port so the fishing boats could safely anchorage in difficult weather. On the 26th of 1791, Reinaldo Oudinot completed the project, mailing the plans and budget to the Minister José Seabra da Silva.
The strategies developed by Oudinot to Póvoa de Varzim helped the village establish a political and social centre, thanks to the square. This square (later named as Praça de Almada), was designed as a rectangular space, connecting the two main communities at the time, the historic centre, on the countryside, and the fishing community on the seaside.
All these projects were made during this 15-year period where he worked for the Government of Porto. In 1801, in an early stage of the War of the Oranges, Reinaldo Oudinot took charge as Governor of the Troops of Porto replacing João Correia de Sá, who died that same year.
Aveiro (1802-04)
During his work in Porto, Reinaldo Oudinot and his assistant and son-in-law Luis Gomes de Carvalho were nominated to work on the Vouga river in Aveiro in 1802. This assignment also had the purpose of developing the harbour and opening of the river mouth.
For two years, Reinaldo Oudinot and his partner presented different projects and solutions for the harbour, being only constructed the dyke for the Lagoon. Due to the floods happening in Madeira Island in the beginning of 1804, Oudinot left Aveiro, leaving the works on the Lagoon in the hands of Luis Gomes de Carvalho. This construction later revealed to be a success in 1808. A 'Jardim Oudinot' public park is a testimony of this work, along the Ria da Costa Nova in the Nazaré district of Aveiro, Portugal.
Madeira (1804-07)
After the great floods in Madeira Island in 1803, Reinaldo Oudinot was designated to work in the reconstruction of Funchal. For this assignment he was elevated to brigadier of the Royal Engineers. In his first months spent on the island, he developed a strategy for the reconstruction of the riversides of Funchal, which was presented in April 1804. Some time later, he presented a plan showing the state of the city after the floods of 1803. In this plan Oudinot proposed an urban expansion of Funchal to the West, which he called "The New City to Build". This plan was never constructed, however, according to researchers, it might have had a major influence on the development of Funchal. In 1805, Oudinot presents a new plan for the city, signed by his assistant Capitan Feliciano de Mattos de Carvalho. Later in 1806, his constructions would successfully sustain the floods.
Reinaldo Oudinot later died on 11 February 1807 in Funchal. Even though he stayed in Madeira Island only three years, he developed an astonishing amount of work that played a major role on the reconstruction of the city of Funchal, after the great floods of 9 October 1803.
Personal life
Reinaldo Oudinot was first married to Dª Maria Vicência de Mengui in France. They had only one daughter, Dª Maria Paula Oudinot who married Luis Gomes de Carvalho, a military engineer who later became Oudinot's assistant and follower on the harbour of Aveiro.
After his wife death, he remarried in 1802 to Dª Vicencia do Carmo Locatelli, daughter of the Italian João Batista Locatelli. They had three children, João Reinaldo, Maria Augusta and Thereza Josephina. The Oudinot's family were established in Aveiro and Leiria for many years, and can still be found descendants.
It has been written that Reinaldo Oudinot is brother of Nicolas-Charles Oudinot, Duke of Reggio and Marshal of France.
Military Ranks and Cities
Infantry Helper (3 September 1766) - Province of Estremadura
Infantry Officer (29 December 1767) - River Tejo / Leiria
Sergeant Major (20 March 1780) - Leiria
Lieutenant Colonel (22 November 1784) - Leiria / Porto / Póvoa de Varzim
Colonel of the Royal Engineers (12 December 1791) - Porto / S. Martinho do Porto / Aveiro
Governor of the Troops of Porto (4 January 1801, after the death of the Governor D. João Correia de Sá)
Brigadier of the Royal Engineers (14 December 1803) - Funchal
References
1744 births
1807 deaths
French engineers
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The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, a historic regiment of the British Army. The museum is located within Caernarfon Castle in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, North Wales. Admission is included with entry to the castle.
History
The museum was established as the Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum at Caernarfon Castle on 2 June 1960.
Collection
The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum has a collection and displays, containing links to the regiment's fourteen Victoria Crosses and the writers and poets who have served their country when enlisted in the regiment; men such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Hedd Wyn, David Jones and Frank Richards, and extensive displays relating the long history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers over the centuries.
References
External links
Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum at Ogilby Trust
Military and war museums in Wales
Regimental museums in Wales
Museums in Gwynedd
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Caernarfon
1960 establishments in Wales
Museums established in 1960
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Ingvald Godal (26 October 1934 – 28 January 2019) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party and later the Conservative Party. For the former party he was a State Secretary as well as mayor of Vinje; for the latter party he served four terms in the Norwegian Parliament. He was also involved in various organizations, most latterly the Norwegian Support Committee for Chechnya.
Professional career
Born in Aker as the son of a vicar and a teacher, he took his secondary education at Hamar Cathedral School in 1953. He spent one year in the His Majesty The King's Guard before enrolling in higher education. In 1959 he graduated from the Heriot-Watt University as an engineer. During his time here, he had chaired the British chapter of the Alliance of Norwegian Students Abroad from 1957 to 1959.
From 1960 to 1965 he worked for the Ministry of Works in the Northern Region, at that time a federal division of Nigeria, and from 1965 to 1969 he worked for Norconsult in Uganda and other countries. From 1969 to 1970 he worked with civil relief during the Nigerian Civil War. He then spent one year in Asplan before settling in Vinje, Telemark to run a private business. Ultimately, from 1982 to 1985, he was chief administrative officer in Vinje municipality.
Political career
A member of the Centre Party, he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment in 1972, when the cabinet Korvald assumed office. He lost this job when the cabinet Korvald fell following the 1973 election. However, he was elected mayor of Vinje municipality in 1975, and served through one four-year term. He was then a member of the municipal council for three years, sitting in the executive committee. He had chaired the local party chapter in Oslo from 1969 to 1971, and chaired the regional chapter in Telemark from 1979 to 1981. During both these periods he was a member of the national board of the Centre Party.
Godal was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1985, but had changed his allegiance to the Conservative Party. He was re-elected in 1989, 1993 and 1997, finally retiring ahead of the 2001 election. During the first term he was a member of the Standing Committee on Energy and Industry. In 1989 he changed to the Standing Committee on Defence, as well as serving one month as a member of the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee. During the last two terms he was a full member of both these committees.
Godal was previously involved in defence politics as vice president of the pro-military organization from 1985 to 1987. He also chaired the regional chapter of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities from 1975 to 1979, the nationwide hydropower interest group Nationwide Association of Hydropower Municipalities from 1977 to 1985, and the Norwegian Support Committee for Chechnya from 2002 to 2007 of which he was a board member.
He published several non-fiction books about different countries. His 2003 book Tsjetsjenia: der enkene blir selvmordsbombere () included a preface written by Anna Politkovskaya.
Godal was decorated Commander of the Order for Merits to Lithuania in 2012.
He died on 28 January 2019 at the age of 84.
Selected works
References
1934 births
2019 deaths
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Mayors of places in Telemark
Norwegian state secretaries
Hamar Katedralskole alumni
Alumni of Heriot-Watt University
Norwegian non-fiction writers
Writers about Africa
21st-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
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Sinjë is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Berat. The population at the 2011 census was 3,351.
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Former municipalities in Berat County
Administrative units of Berat
Villages in Berat County
Populated places disestablished in 2015
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"You're Not Sorry" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her second studio album, Fearless. It was released for download via the iTunes Store as a promotional from the album on October 28, 2008, by Big Machine Records. Swift was inspired to write "You're Not Sorry" by an ex-boyfriend who she realized was the contrary to what he had appeared to be. Produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman, "You're Not Sorry" is a rock power ballad with gentle piano in the verses and dramatic electric guitar in the build-up. A remix version for the television episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, in which Swift made an appearance, was later released.
Some critics praised the production of "You're Not Sorry", but others took issue with the balladic production as overdone. The song peaked at number 11 on both the Canadian Hot 100 and the US Billboard Hot 100. In the United States, it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). On the Fearless Tour (2009–2010), Swift performed a mashup of "You're Not Sorry" and Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around". She included it as part of a mashup with "Back to December" and OneRepublic's "Apologize" on her next tour, the Speak Now World Tour. She also sang the track at the 44th Academy of Country Music Awards in 2009.
Swift released a re-recorded version, "You're Not Sorry (Taylor's Version)", as part of her re-recorded album Fearless (Taylor's Version) (2021). The re-recorded version charted on the Canadian Hot 100 and the Billboard Global 200.
Background
"You're Not Sorry" was written by Swift and produced by Nathan Chapman alongside Swift. It was inspired by an ex-boyfriend who was later revealed to be opposite of what Swift had originally thought. Swift recalled that, at first, "He came across as prince charming." As the relationship continued, Swift was informed of numerous secrets about her boyfriend she was not aware of. "And one by one, I would figure them out. I would find out who he really was," she said. She wrote "You're Not Sorry" in an emotional state, which she described as "the breaking point", where she thought to herself, "'You know what? Don’t even think that you can keep on hurting me.'" The circumstances reached a point where she felt she had to walk away. "You're Not Sorry" was first released as a promotional single from Fearless on October 28, 2008, as part of Countdown to Fearless, an exclusive campaign by the iTunes Store. The song was reissued on March 5, 2009, as remix, the same day she made her guest appearance on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the episode "Turn, Turn, Turn". The remix was featured in the episode.
A re-recorded version of "You're Not Sorry", titled "You're Not Sorry (Taylor's Version)", was released on April 9, 2021, as the ninth track from Fearless (Taylor's Version), the re-recorded version of Fearless. The re-recording was part of Swift's move after a public dispute with Big Machine and talent manager Scooter Braun over the acquisition of the master recordings to her past albums.
Composition
"You're Not Sorry" is four minutes and 21 seconds long. Critics described it as a power ballad with minimal influences of country, contrary to Swift's self-identity as a country musician at the time. Jordan Levin of The Miami Herald characterized the song as a "rebellious rock tune". Anna Rosales from the Evansville Courier & Press thought the track has a "hard rock edge" to it. The song is set in common time and has a slow tempo of 67.5 beats per minute. It is written in the key of E♭ minor and Swift's vocals span two octaves, from G♭3 to C♭5. It follows the chord progression E♭m–C♭–G♭–D♭.
The musical arrangement contains a prominent pop hook in its refrains, according to Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine. Rob Sheffield in Rolling Stone described the track as a "dramatic piano-and-strings ballad". "You're Not Sorry" features a soft piano introduction, and in the refrains progresses with dynamic, loud electric guitars, which eventually reach a solo. The production additionally incorporates cello and strings. Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette compared "You're Not Sorry" to a "chanteuse a la Tori Amos". In the lyrics, the protagonist criticizes an ex-lover who betrayed her trust. Sheffield, in a review for Blender, noted the lyrics to "You're Not Sorry" had many "tingling pheromones". Kyle Anderson from MTV said that the theme of "You're Not Sorry" is more serious than the "dreaminess" of the previous upbeat Fearless tracks: "the weight of the lyrics actually weighs down the arrangement (it literally sounds like it's being played just a hair too slow, which creates a palpable tension)."
The re-recorded "You're Not Sorry (Taylor's Version)" features an identical production, but critics also commented that Swift's vocals became richer and deeper. Joe Coscarelli opined that the production of the re-recording sounded "fresh and refined", an improvement from the original. Music professor Michael A. Lee observed that on "You're Not Sorry (Taylor's Version)", Swift's vocals are less nasal and come more from the chest, the background vocals are more subdued, and the strings are recorded in a closer proximity to the microphones.
Critical reception
Music critics gave "You're Not Sorry" mixed reviews. Sheffield in Blender described the track as "drippy" and opined that it is not as effective as other upbeat Fearless tracks. Todd Martens from the Los Angeles Times deemed Swift's vocals weak. Nick Catucci of New York commented that "You're Not Sorry" contrasts with Swift's identity as a country-music artist because the track "isn't the stuff of redneck women but earnest suburban princesses". Catucci said that although he could come up with better songs by other singer-songwriters in the last ten years, "this bittersweet bit of pop fluff succeeds splendidly. She's an American idol, on her own terms." Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine was more favorable, remarking that the production of "You're Not Sorry" showcases Swift's songwriting with a prominent hook. Craig Rosen of The Hollywood Reporter said the song proved Swift's crossover potential beyond country music.
Retrospectively, critics have considered "You're Not Sorry" one of Swift's weaker songs in her catalog. Hannah Mylrea in NME (2020) ranked it 146th out of 161 songs in Swift's discography, calling it "overdone". Nate Jones from Vulture ranked it 122nd in a ranking of Swift's 179 tracks, describing it as an "unflinching kiss-off song". In Rolling Stone, Sheffield placed it at number 111 in his 2021 ranking of Swift's 206-song catalog, highlighting the track for showcasing her vocal development from her debut album. Brittany Spanos from the same magazine praised Swift's singing for conveying the dramatic sentiments: "Her voice pierces through the sound of her band for one of her first truly dramatic vocal deliveries." Joe Coscarelli from The New York Times said he had admired Swift's songwriting "You're Not Sorry" but felt the production "[plods] a little"; after the re-recorded version was released, Coscarelli became more appreciative of the track.
Chart performance
"You're Not Sorry" debuted and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 2008, becoming the week's highest debut. After being featured in the CSI series, supported by the remix, "You're Not Sorry" re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 67. It is one of the 13 Fearless tracks that charted within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, breaking the record for the most top 40 entries from a single album. It spent a total of five weeks on the Hot 100. On the Pop 100 chart compiled by Billboard, the track peaked at number 21. By December 2011, "You're Not Sorry" had sold 653,000 copies in the United States. In 2017, the song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for surpassing one million units based on sales and streaming. In Canada, it peaked at number 11 on the Canadian Hot 100.
Live performances
Swift performed "You're Not Sorry" on all venues of her first headlining concert tour, the Fearless Tour, which extended from April 2009 to June 2010. During each performance, Swift donned a black cocktail dress with sparkly ornaments along the stomach. She began the performance by sitting on a bench, playing black grand piano. Midway through "You're Not Sorry", Swift ceases playing the piano and commences to sing a cover version of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" while whipping her hair, maintaining on the bench. Throughout the remainder of the performance, she intermingled between the two songs as smoke swirled and lightning was projected on the stage. Jon Pareles of The New York Times referred to the performance as one of the night's highlights at the August 27, 2009, concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Reed Fischer of Miami New Times attended the March 7, 2010, concert at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida and, of the cover of "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around", said, "That, and some extended beating on an oil drum sculpture, made for the only unsavory moments of the night." Alice Fisher of the United Kingdom magazine The Observer believed the performance at the May 7, 2009, concert at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, England "was undermined by the way Swift writhed on her stool and awkwardly thumped the piano lid in one of the most unconvincing displays of passion I've seen since Footballers' Wives finished." Swift also performed the song at an exclusive performance, hosted by 95.8 Capital FM, the 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards, and the 2009 CMA Music Festival. During her Speak Now World Tour, she used elements of "You're Not Sorry" and "Apologize" while performing "Back To December". She also performed the song three times during the Red Tour and the first night in Houston on the Eras Tour.
Charts
"You're Not Sorry"
"You're Not Sorry (Taylor's Version)"
Certifications
References
2000s ballads
2008 songs
Songs written by Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift songs
Song recordings produced by Taylor Swift
Song recordings produced by Nathan Chapman (record producer)
Song recordings produced by Chris Rowe
Big Machine Records singles
Rock ballads
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The Sistema Michoacano de Radio y Televisión (Michoacán State Radio and Television System or SMRTV) is the public broadcaster of the Mexican state of Michoacán. It includes statewide FM and TV networks, as well as an AM radio station in the state capital of Morelia. SMRTV's programming primarily consists of scientific, cultural and educational content, along with news and sports coverage.
Television
Programming
SMRTV's television network includes its own productions as well as programs from other public broadcasters, such as Canal Once's Once Noticias. Canal 22 and Deutsche Welle are also among SMRTV's major program suppliers.
SMRTV also produces two daily editions of "SM Noticias", which are carried on AM, FM and TV.
Transmitters
SMRTV uses a network of terrestrial television transmitters to provide statewide coverage.
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While all stations hold authorizations for digital television, none were on the air as of late 2015; several stations reduced power in order to qualify for an extension of one year to build digital facilities. SMRTV digital transmitters use virtual channel 16.
The Huetamo transmitter was authorized in January 2017.
In March 2018, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51), XHPMG (22) and XHMOR (14) were assigned new channels for continued digital operations.
FM radio
The state FM network is headed by XHREL-FM 106.9 in Morelia. Its program schedule is largely musical, with the exception of SMRTV news programs and one program from MVS Radio.
Transmitters
12 transmitters offer statewide FM service.
AM radio
XEREL-AM 1550 in Morelia broadcasts an alternate program schedule to FM, with agricultural news, programs directed at the Morelia area and some music. The station operates with one kilowatt of power.
References
External links
Public television in Mexico
Public radio in Mexico
Mass media in Morelia
Radio stations in Michoacán
Spanish-language radio stations
Television stations in Michoacán
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The was a rocket used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the final stages of World War II.
Development and design
The Type 4 rocket mortar was developed in the final stages of World War II by the Imperial Japanese Army Technical Bureau, as a relatively low-cost, easy to produce weapon, which had an advantage of greater accuracy over conventional mortars in that it fired a spin-stabilized projectile. The first units were deployed in 1943, and were used in limited numbers in combat during the Battle of Iwo Jima and Battle of Okinawa. Due to its ease of construction, it was produced in limited numbers and distributed to hidden arsenals for use as last-ditch weapons during the projected Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Unlike the Type 4 20 cm rocket, which could be launched from an ordinary pipe or culvert with sufficient diameter, wooden rails, or even directly from a slope in the ground, the Type 4 40 cm rocket required specially designed launch rails.
References
Bishop, Chris (eds) The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II. Barnes & Nobel. 1998.
Chamberlain, Peter and Gander, Terry. Heavy Field Artillery. Macdonald and Jane's (1975).
McLean, Donald B. Japanese Artillery; Weapons and Tactics. Wickenburg, Ariz.: Normount Technical Publications 1973. .
US Department of War, TM 30-480, Handbook on Japanese Military Forces, Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
External links
Type 4 on Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page
Notes
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Rocket artillery
400 mm artillery
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1943
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Tërpan is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Poliçan. The population at the 2011 census was 1,716.
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Administrative units of Poliçan
Villages in Berat County
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The Enterprise was an early steamboat operating on the Willamette River in Oregon and also one of the first to operate on the Fraser River in British Columbia. This vessel should not be confused with the many other vessels, some of similar design, also named Enterprise. In earlier times, this vessel was sometimes called Tom Wright's Enterprise after one of her captains, the famous Tom Wright.
Construction
Enterprise was built at Canemah, Oregon in the fall of 1855 by Capt. Archibald Jamieson, Captain A.S. Murray, Amory Holbrook and John Torrence, in the fall of 1855, for the upper Willamette trade. Her officers on the first trip upriver to Corvallis (then known as Marysville) were: Jamieson, captain ; Chandler, purser; and Torrence, engineer. George A. Pease was afterward employed as pilot, and John Marshall, engineer.
Operations on the Willamette River
From 1855 to 1858 Enterprise was operated on the Willamette River, running between Oregon City, Canemah, and Corvallis. At that time Corvallis was considered to be the head of navigation on the Willamette. Merchants above Corvallis tried to get Captain Jamieson to bring Enterprise, which he then commanded, above Corvallis, but he would not go farther than Orleans, then a small settlement on the east side of the river across from Corvallis.
Transfer to British Columbia
In July 1858, Jamieson sold Enterprise to Capt. Thomas A. Wright. Jamieson used the money from the sale of Enterprise to build the steamer Onward. Tom Wright became one of the most famous steamboat captains in the Pacific Northwest. Like Jamieson, Wright was one of a family in the steamboat business. His father was Capt. John T. Wright, who was the owner of other steamboats, such as Sea Bird and Commodore. The other two sons, also steamboat captains, were George S. Wright and John T. Wright, Jr.
Tom Wright's plan for Enterprise was to take the vessel into British waters to serve the Fraser River Gold Rush. The first part of the journey began by moving Enterprise from the upper to the lower Willamette River by lining the vessel over Willamette Falls. These falls could not be navigated by steamboats, and indeed Captain Jamieson was later killed when a vessel under his command was accidentally swept over them and destroyed. Lining was procedure where a heavy cable was attached to the vessel, and then to a well-anchored windlass on shore. Little by little the cable would be let out to allow the vessel to gradually pass over the falls to the lower river.
Wright then took Enterprise down the lower Willamette and Columbia rivers to Astoria, Oregon. Once there, Wright arranged for an ocean-going steamship to tow Enterprise to Victoria, British Columbia. Victoria, then the largest settlement on the Pacific Coast of North America north of San Francisco. Enterprise left Astoria under tow, but the strong waves on the Columbia Bar caused Enterprise to be so terribly racked that the vessel began leaking, and it was only by luck that they got Enterprise back into shallow water at Astoria before she sank. She was raised and repaired, and started again in August for Victoria, again under tow.
Operations in British Columbia
Enterprise arrived in Victoria in the middle of August 1858. 'Other steamboats that arrived at Victoria at almost the same time that summer were Wilson G. Hunt, Martin White, and Maria.
Enterprise with other American steamboats obtained a license from the governor of British Columbia to operate in British territory. Enterprise was the second steam-powered vessel to operate on the Fraser River, and had been brought up to Victoria in July 1858. The first vessel was another American steamer, the Umatilla ex Fashion from the Columbia River. Enterprise was very successful on the Fraser River, earning $25,000 in one trip up to Murderer's Bar, near Fort Hope, BC. 25,000 miners went into the Fraser diggings in the summer of 1858, but by the winter only 3,000 remained.
With the drop in the population of miners, by the fall of 1858, Enterprise was one of only two steamboats operating on the Fraser River, the other being Maria, under Capt. William A. Lubbock. For a time at least, the two boats divided the traffic between them, with Maria running upriver from Fort Langley to Fort Hope and other points, and Enterprise running between Fort Langley and Victoria, on Vancouver Island. With a monopoly on transport, the two boats were able to raise freight rates from $4 to $7 per ton in the summer to $60 a ton. Beans that cost 3 cents a pound in Victoria cost 75 cents in Lytton, British Columbia.
On December 9, 1858, Enterprise was caught in the ice on the Fraser River between Fort Hope and Fort Langley. The vessel was short on food and accommodations, and so 114 of the passengers decided to leave the steamer and walk the remaining distance to Fort Langley. In the cold weather, this proved a mistake, as they had inadequate clothing and insufficient clothing and camping provisions to make the journey. After three days in the ice, Captain Wright was able to hack the Enterprise free. He then cruised up and down the river, eventually rescuing all of the passengers, many of whom were suffering from frostbite.
Enterprise built for the Willamette River was not strong enough to regularly cross the often stormy Strait of Georgia, which was the body of water that separated Vancouver Island from the mouth of the Fraser River on the mainland. The Wrights however had no choice in the matter if they were to remain in business, because the vessel they had been running on the route, the Sea Bird was destroyed by fire in the Strait of Georgia on September 7, 1858, while en route from Victoria to Fort Langley. By the spring of 1859, Capt. John T. Wright was able to replace Sea Bird by purchasing an interest in the sidewheeler Eliza Anderson, and arranging to have the Anderson brought from Portland, Oregon where she had been recently built, to Victoria, BC, where she arrived in late March, 1859. This allowed the Wrights to run the heavier more durable Anderson across the Straits to Fort Langley, while returning Enterprise to the 'Fraser River to make the run up from Fort Langley.
On March 30, 1859, with Captain Tom Wright in command, Enterprise set out upriver from Fort Langley (after meeting the Anderson). The river was rising high with the rapidly melting snowfall, and with a new boiler installed in the Enterprise Captain Wright hoped to take the vessel all the way to Fort Yale. Only one other steamboat had ever made it to Fort Yale, the Umatilla which by then was no longer on the Fraser River. This time, Captain Wright was unable to go further up than Fort Hope. Enterprise was not powerful enough to beat the strong currents forming whirlpools in the river. Another constant hazard were logs caught in the river bottom, forming "snags" which could damage or destroy a steam vessel.
Failed transfer to Chehalis River
To command a steamboat at a time when there were neither roads nor railroads in the Pacific Northwest was to be in a spectacular opportunity to earn money. Tom Wright never became rich because he could never settle down to running a vessel on a particular route for a sustained period of time. As soon as he mastered one route, he would be looking for another one. In June 1859 Captain Wright was ready to make another change. Hearing of homesteading activity beginning in the valley of the Chehalis River, in the western part of what is now Washington, Wright determined to take Enterprise to the Chehalis. This would require the lightly built Enterprise to be towed, in this case by the Eliza Anderson west through the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then south down the coast line of the Pacific Ocean to Grays Harbor.
The Chehalis River flows into Grays Harbor on its eastern shore, near where the modern cities of Aberdeen and Hoquiam, Washington are now located. Wright begin this journey from Victoria on July 8, 1859, with Eliza Anderson towing Enterprise. In the Strait of Juan de Fuca Enterprise broke a shaft on her sternwheel, and the entire expedition was forced to turn back to Esquimalt, where Enterprise had to wait for a replacement shaft to be brought in from San Francisco.
Run to San Juan Islands
Enterprise was repaired by the end of July 1859, and by that time there was a demand for steamers to carry troops to the San Juan Islands. At that time the boundary between the United States and British Columbia was in dispute, with both countries claiming the San Juan Islands. British and American garrisons were established on San Juan Island. At one point a soldier shot a pig belonging to a partisan of the opposing country, and as a result the otherwise bloodless standoff became known as the Pig War. Steamboats in the area received contracts from both countries to move troops and supplies to the islands in connection with the dispute. Once Enterprise was repaired, Tom Wright postponed his plans to move the vessel to the Chehalis to take advantage of the increase in business, making a run on August 1, 1859, from Victoria to San Juan Island carrying passengers.
Completed transfer to Chehalis River
Following the San Juan Island trip, Tom Wright was finally able to get Enterprise around Cape Flattery and south to Grays Harbor and the Chehalis River. Wright's plan had been to earn huge freight rates and passenger fares from what he had thought would be the booming population in the Chehalis valley, Wright worked Enterprise to the head of navigation on the Chehalis, sinking three times on the way. When he finally arrived at the headwaters, Wright found not a booming population ready to pay lots of money for steamboat service, but only five farmers who offered to sell Wright a few eggs, butter and vegetables for fifty dollars. Disgusted with the situation, Wright tied up the Enterprise and returned to Puget Sound.
By the spring of 1860, Wright was able to arrange a government contract to transport troops down the Chehalis River to Grays Harbor, and so was able to recoup some of his losses. Once the government contract work expired, there was no further business in the Grays Harbor area. Unable to move the lightly built vessel again on the open ocean, Wright dismantled Enterprise at Grays Harbor, with the machinery being shipped to China.
See also
Enterprise (1862)
Notes
Further reading
Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake -- Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985
Newell, Gordon R., and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats, Bonanza Books, New York, NY (1958)
Steamboats of Washington (state)
Steamboats of the Willamette River
Gold rushes
Paddle steamers of British Columbia
Steamboats of Oregon
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Combpyne railway station was the intermediate station on the Lyme Regis branch line in East Devon, England. Serving the village of Combpyne, it was sited high on the sharp bend that changed the course of the line from south to an easterly direction.
History
Opened on 24 August 1903 by the Axminster and Lyme Regis Railway, which was authorised under the Light Railways Act 1896, it was operated from the start by the London and South Western Railway then by the Southern Railway. The line then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. A camping coach was positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1963. The line was transferred to the Western Region of British Railways in January 1963. It was then closed by the British Railways Board on 29 November 1965.
Buildings
A station consisted of a single short platform with a station house on a nearby road.
The site today
The former station house still exists.
References
Further reading
External links
Compyne station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Combpyne station on Sub Brit
Disused railway stations in Devon
Former London and South Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1903
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Beeching closures in England
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Vërtop is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Poliçan. The population at the 2011 census was 4,919.
Notable people
Jani Vruho
References
Administrative units of Poliçan
Villages in Berat County
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Lino Liviabella (7 April 1902 – 21 October 1964) was an Italian composer. Liviabella was born in Macerata. In 1936 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "La vittoria" ("The Victor"). He died, aged 62, in Bologna.
Selected works
Chamber music
Sonata No. 1 in A minor for violin and piano (1920–1928)
Natale, Suite for violin and piano (1923)
Sonatina per l'Elevazione for violin and harmonium (1924)
Canzonetta for violin and piano (1925)
Aria for violin and organ or harmonium (1925)
String Quartet No. 1 (1926)
Danza for violin solo (1926)
Adagio for oboe and piano (1926)
S. Francesco, Meditazione for viola, 2 violins, double bass and organ (1926)
Due espressioni liriche (2 Lyric Expressions) for string quartet (1927)
Preludio in modo minore for 2 violins, cello and harmonium (1928)
String Quartet No. 2 (1929)
Bululù, Marionetta meccanica del romanzo “Eva ultima” di Massimo Bontempelli for violin and piano (1930)
Canto andaluso for violin and piano (1930)
Sonata ciclica for cello and piano (1931)
Sonata No. 2 in One Movement for violin and piano (1932)
Lento for flute, 2 violins, piano and harp
Sonata No. 3 in One Movement for violin and piano (1934)
Largo for cello and piano (1936)
Canto per la Prima Comunione di Laura e Lucio for violin and harmonium (1942)
Pastorale for violin or oboe and piano (1943)
Lucio e Renato, Marcetta for violin and piano (1944)
Scherzo for oboe and piano (1948)
String Quartet No. 3 in One Movement (1948)
Piano Trio (1948)
Sonata No. 1 in One Movement (Prima Sonata in un tempo) for viola and piano (1950)
Divertimento for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp (1950–1953)
Divertimento for flute, cello and piano (1954)
String Quartet No. 4 "La melanconia" (1955)
Concerto in One Movement for violin and piano (1956)
Tre momenti (3 Moments) for viola and piano (1956)
Tre pezzi (3 Pieces) for flute and harp or piano (1956)
Tre pezzi (3 Pieces) for flute, oboe, and harp or piano (1956)
Sette duetti miniatura (7 Miniature Duets) for violin and viola (1957)
Sonata No. 2 for viola and piano (1957)
Quattro brani nuziali (4 Wedding Songs) for viola and organ or harmonium (1961)
Operas
Santina (1922)
Zanira (1924)
Antigone (1942)
La Conchiglia (1955)
Canto di Natale (1963)
References
External links
profile
1902 births
1964 deaths
Italian male composers
Olympic silver medalists in art competitions
People from Macerata
20th-century Italian composers
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
20th-century Italian male musicians
Olympic competitors in art competitions
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