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The 22177/22178 Mahanagari Express is an express train, belonging to Indian Railways, that runs between Mumbai CSMT and in India. It operates as train number 22177 from Mumbai CSMT to Varanasi Junction and as train number 22178 in the reverse direction. Mahanagri Express is converted ICF coaches into LHB coaches in year 2023.
Coach composition
The train consists of 22 coaches:
1 AC II Tier
2 AC III Tier
14 Sleeper coaches
4 General
2 Second-class Luggage/parcel van
Traction
Mumbai CSMT–Varanasi Junction: BSL/ET WAP-4
As Indian Railways completed its 100% Electric conversion on this route it is now regularly hauled by Itarsi or Bhusawal-based WAP-4 from Mumbai CSMT to Varanasi Junction
Rake sharing arrangement
It has no RSA with any trains.
Timetable
22177- Leaves Mumbai CSMT at night 12:10 AM and reaches Varanasi next day morning 4:40 AM IST
22178- Leaves Varanasi Jn every day at 11:20 AM IST and reaches Mumbai CSMT next day at afternoon 2:15 PM IST.
Route and halts
The important halts of the train are:
Central
Nashik Road
Mahanagari ExpressMahanagari Express
References
Named passenger trains of India
Rail transport in Maharashtra
Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh
Passenger trains originating from Varanasi
Transport in Mumbai
Railway services introduced in 1981
Express trains in India
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Andrew Davidson (born April 12, 1969) is a Canadian novelist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Born in Pinawa, Manitoba, he graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the University of British Columbia in 1991, and worked as a teacher in Japan before returning to Canada.
He has so far published just one novel, The Gargoyle, a psychological thriller about love, religion, mental illness and medieval history, for which he received an unprecedented advance of $1.25 million.
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
Canadian male novelists
Writers from Manitoba
People from Eastman Region, Manitoba
Writers from Winnipeg
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Jones v Lipman [1962] 1 WLR 832 is a UK company law case concerning piercing the corporate veil. It exemplifies the principal case in which the veil will be lifted, that is, when a company is used as a "mere facade" concealing the "true facts", which essentially means it is formed to avoid a pre-existing obligation.
Facts
Mr Lipman contracted to sell a house at 3 Fairlawn Avenue, Chiswick, Middlesex (now Ealing W4), to Mr Jones for £5,250. He changed his mind and refused to complete. To try to avoid a specific performance order, he conveyed it to a company formed for that purpose alone, which he alone owned and controlled.
Judgment
Russell J ordered specific performance against Mr Lipman and formed company.
See also
UK company law
Notes
References
United Kingdom company case law
United Kingdom corporate personality case law
High Court of Justice cases
1962 in case law
1962 in British law
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Roots Of Style is Toshinori Yonekura's 12th original studio album. The album was recorded in New York City with producer "Prince Charles" Alexander.
Track list
Personnel
Toshinori Yonekura - Vocals, background vocals
Prince Charles Alexander - Production, drum programming
Cliff "Big Daddy" Branch - Keyboards, drum programming
Elai Tubo - drum programming
Ira Siegel - Guitar
Fulani Hart - Keyboards
Shindigg - Bass
Production
Executive Producer - Toshinori Yonekura
Producer - Prince Charles Alexander, Fulani Hart
Co-Producer - Cliff "Big Daddy" Branch
Vocal arrangement - Toshinori Yonkeura
Mastering - Chris Gehringer
Art Direction - Tomoaki Sakai
Design: Azusa Irie
Styling - Shuhei Yomo, Ryohei Oasa
Hair & Make-Up - Toshinori Yonekura
Photography - Takayuki Okada
Charts
Album - Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)
References
Toshinori Yonekura albums
2002 albums
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Kačina is a significant Empire style castle in Svatý Mikuláš in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. In 1945, it was designated a national property.
History
Kačina was built from 1806 to 1824 in place of the defunct medieval village of Kačín as a prestige mansion of the supreme burgrave of the Kingdom of Bohemia and president of the governorate, Jan Rudolf Chotek (1748–1824). The architectural scheme was drawn up by Saxon royal architect Christian Franz Schuricht (1753–1832) from Dresden. In the last few years of construction, Johann Philipp Jöndl (1782–1870) also controlled the construction. He also eminently influenced the final appearance of the castle.
Functionally, the castle is divided into three parts. The main (central) building with exquisite halls was the residence of the family, with two-quarter circle adjacent lower wings with pillared colonnades where the guest rooms were situated. To those wings were connected other pavilions. On the right one is situated the mansion's chapel and theatre, which were finished in the first half of the 19th century. On the left one, there is an extensive library dating from the 16th to 19th century.
The castle is surrounded by a vast park that was founded already in 1789, according to the plan of famous Viennese botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817). It was completed thirteen years earlier than the castle itself.
External links
Website of Czech castles
Kutná Hora District
Castles in the Czech Republic
Castles in the Central Bohemian Region
Museums in the Central Bohemian Region
Historic house museums in the Czech Republic
National Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic
Palace theatres
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Weller at the BBC is a 2008 live compilation of Paul Weller's BBC performances recorded between 1990 and 2008. Four physical versions were released: a 4-disc CD box set, a 2-disc CD set of highlights, 3-disc LP set and a DVD plus a 13-disc download-only version with 188 tracks from iTunes.
Track listing
4-disc box set
Disc 1:
Fly on the Wall (Johnnie Walker – Live 5.9.92)
Pink on White Walls
Amongst Butterflies
Wild Wood (Saturday Sequence – Johnnie Walker – 2.10.93)
Hung Up
Out of the Sinking (band version)
Clues
Whirlpools' End (Lunchtime Show – Emma Freud – 26.10.94)
Out of the Sinking (acoustic version) (Lunchtime Show – 1.11.1994)
Broken Stones (band version)
Time Passes
The Changingman
I Walk on Gilded Splinters (Evening Session – 8.5.95)
Broken Stones (acoustic version)
You Do Something To Me (Simon Mayo – 12.9.95)
Brushed
Peacock Suit
Up in Suzes' Room
Friday Street
Mermaids
The Poacher (Evening Session Live – 10.6.97)
Disc 2:
Driving Nowhere (Mark Goodier – 23.11.97)
Friday Street (acoustic version) (BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope – Live in the Studio 19.9. 97)
Science (BBC Radio 1 Jo Wiley – 1997)
Wishing on a Star
Thinking of You (BBC Radio 2 The Drivetime Show With Johnnie Walker – 1.9.04)
Corrina, Corrina
Early Morning Rain
Foot of the Mountain (Mark Lamarr For Jonathan Ross – 8.1.05)
To The Start of Forever
Out of the Sinking (BBC Radio 2 Janice Long – 4.3.05)
Paper Smile
Come On/Let's Go (The Drivetime Show With Stuart Maconie – 28.7.05)
Amongst Butterflies
Frightened
That's Entertainment (Mark Lamarr: Sold on Song – 11.2.06)
All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You)
Cold Moments
Push It Along
Pretty Flamingo (Mark Lamarr: God's Jukebox – 5.7.08)
Disc 3:
My Ever Changing Moods (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
A Man of Great Promise (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
Kosmos (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
Speak Like a Child (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
Just Like Yesterday (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
Work To Do (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
Pity Poor Alfie (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
What's Goin On (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Uh Huh Oh Yeh! (Always There To Fool You!) (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Hercules (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Bull-Rush / Magic Bus (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Above The Clouds (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Everything Has A Price To Pay (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Headstart For Happiness (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Into Tomorrow (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Porcelain Gods (Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995)
Stanley Road (Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995)
Can You Heal Us (Holy Man) (Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995)
Disc 4:
Shadow of the Sun (Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995)
I Walk on Gilded Splinters w/ Noel Gallagher (Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995)
Out of the Sinking (Finsbury Park 09.06.1996)
Hung Up (Finsbury Park 09.06.1996)
Sunflower (Finsbury Park 09.06.1996)
Broken Stones (Finsbury Park 09.06.1996)
Fly on the Wall (Finsbury Park 09.06.1996)
Tales From the Riverbank (Finsbury Park 09.06.1996)
Peacock Suit (London Victoria Park 08.08.1998)
Heavy Soul (London Victoria Park 08.08.1998)
Science (London Victoria Park 08.08.1998)
I Didn't Mean To Hurt You (BBC Radio Theatre 09.11.1998)
Brand New Start (BBC Radio Theatre 09.11.1998)
Wild Wood (BBC Radio Theatre 09.11.1998)
Friday Street (BBC Radio Theatre 09.11.1998)
The Changingman (BBC Radio Theatre 09.11.1998)
2-disc Highlights
Disc 1:
Fly on the Wall
Wild Wood
Hung Up
Clues
Out of the Sinking
Broken Stones
You Do Something To Me
Brushed
Peacock Suit
The Poacher
Driving Nowhere
Friday Street
Thinking of You
Corrina, Corrina
Early Morning Rain
To The Start of Forever
Come On/Let's Go
Amongst Butterflies
That's Entertainment
All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You)
Push It Along
Pretty Flamingo
Disc 2:
My Ever Changing Moods (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
Kosmos (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
Just Like Yesterday (Town and Country Club 05.12.1990)
What's Goin On (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Everything Has A Price To Pay (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Headstart For Happiness (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Into Tomorrow (London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992)
Can You Heal Us (Holy Man) (Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995)
Shadow of the Sun (Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995)
I Walk on Gilded Splinters w/ Noel Gallagher (Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995)
Sunflower (Finsbury Park 09.06.1996)
Tales From The Riverbank (Finsbury Park 09.06.1996)
Peacock Suit (London Victoria Park 08.08.1998)
Science (London Victoria Park 08.08.1998)
I Didn't Mean To Hurt You (BBC Radio Theatre 09.11.1998)
Brand New Start (BBC Radio Theatre 09.11.1998)
The Changingman (BBC Radio Theatre 09.11.1998)
DVD
13-Disc Digital Download Edition
Disc 2
Reason to Believe (Gary Crowley Greater London Radio 16 May 1995) 2:16
Black Sheep Boy (Gary Crowley Greater London Radio 16 May 1995) 2:12
Fly on the Wall (Gary Crowley Greater London Radio 16 May 1995) 3:30
Broken Stones (Simon Mayo – Recorded 31 August 1995 Transmitted 8/5/1995) 2:29
You Do Something to Me (Simon Mayo – Recorded 31 August 1995 Transmitted 8/5/1995) 3:23
Porcelain Gods (Gary Crowley Show 29 July 1996 – Greather London Radio) 5:07
Peacock Suit (Gary Crowley Show 29 July 1996 Greater London Radio) 3:27
All the Pictures on the Wall (Gary Crowley Show 29 July 1996 – Greather London Radio) 3:47
Foot of the Mountain (Gary Crowley Greater London Radio 29 July 1996) 4:52
Up in Suzes' Room (Gary Crowley Show 29 July 1996 – Greather London Radio) 4:26
The Circle (Gary Crowley Show 29 July 1996 – Greather London Radio) 2:31
Driving Nowhere (Gary Crowley Show 29 July 1996 – Greather London Radio) 2:58
I Shall Be Released (Gary Crowley Show 29 July 1996 – Greather London Radio) 3:02
As You Lean into the Light (Greater London Radio 24 April 1997) 2:45
Brushed (Evening Session – Live 10/6/1997) 3:46
Peacock Suit (Evening Session – Live 10/6/1997) 3:04
Up in Suzes' Room (Evening Session – Live 10/6/1997) 4:35
Friday Street (Evening Session – Live 10/6/1997) 2:30
Mermaids (Evening Session – Live 10/6/1997) 3:12
The Poacher (Evening Session – Live 10/6/1997) 3:15
Heavy Soul, Pt. 1 & 2 (Evening Session – Live 10/6/1997) 7:42
Disc 3
Driving Nowhere (Mark Goodier – Transmitted 23 November 1997) 2:49
Waiting on an Angel (Mark Goodier Transmitted 23.11.97) 3:58
Friday Street (Kaledoscope Live in the Studio 19 September 1997) 2:30
Science (Jo Whiley Recorded 1997) 3:34
Wishing on a Star (The Drivetime Show With Johnnie Walker Date 1/9/2004) 3:29
Thinking of You (The Drivetime Show With Johnnie Walker Date 1/9/2004) 3:10
Corrina, Corrina (Mark Lamarr For Jonathan Ross 8/1/2005) 2:26
Early Morning Rain (Mark Lamarr For Jonathan Ross 8/1/2005) 3:59
Foot of the Mountain (Mark Lamarr For Jonathan Ross 8/1/2005) 3:20
Early Morning Rain (Janice Long 4/3/2005) 3:49
To the Start of Forever (Janice Long 4/3/2005) 4:24
Out of the Sinking (Janice Long 4/3/2005) 3:07
Paper Smile (The Drivetime Show With Stuart Maconie) 3:01
Come On / Let's Go (The Drivetime Show With Stuart Maconie) 3:00
Roll Along Summer (Jonathan Ross 10/6/2006) 3:42
I Wanna Make It Alright (Jonathan Ross 10/6/2006) 3:35
All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You) 4:07
Cold Moments (Mark Lamarr – God's Jukebox 5/7/2008) 4:56
Push It Along (Mark Lamarr – God's Jukebox 5/7/2008) 2:48
Pretty Flamingo (Mark Lamarr – God's Jukebox 5/7/2008) 2:41
Disc 4 – London Town and Country Club 05.12.1990
My Ever Changing Moods 5:50
A Man of Great Promise 2:25
Round & Round 4:41
Kosmos 6:43
Homebreakers 5:49
The Strange Museum 3:29
The Whole Point II 2:43
Speak Like a Child 2:56
Just Like Yesterday 5:35
Precious 3:54
Headstart for Happiness 3:22
Work to Do 2:55
Pity Poor Alfie 3:22
Disc 5 – London Royal Albert Hall 13.10.1992 Disc 1
What's Goin On? 4:00
Uh Huh Oh Yeh! (Always There to Fool You!) 3:35
Man in the Corner Shop 3:22
(When You) Call Me 3:31
Hercules 4:05
Bull-Rush / Magic Bus 5:12
Round & Round 4:04
Above the Clouds 4:00
Arrival Time 8:27
Everything Has a Price to Pay 3:34
Disc 7 – Phoenix Festival 13.07.1995
The Changingman 3:59
Hung Up 2:44
Has My Fire Really Gone Out? 3:44
Whirlpools' End 6:04
Uh Huh Oh Yeh! 3:09
Out of the Sinking 3:43
I Didn't Mean to Hurt You 3:55
Porcelain Gods 6:40
Stanley Road 4:12
You Do Something to Me 3:33
Can You Heal Us (Holy Man) 4:05
Shadow of the Sun 8:42
Sunflower 3:58
Into Tomorrow 3:15
Broken Stones 3:07
Woodcutter's Son 5:41
The Swamp Song feat. Noel Gallagher 2:46
I Walk on Gilded Splinters feat. Noel Gallagher 3:58
Disc 8 – London Finsbury Park 09.06.1996
The Changingman 3:56
I Walk on Gilded Splinters 4:18
Out of the Sinking 3:32
Hung Up 2:41
Sunflower 4:02
Broken Stones 3:26
Fly on the Wall 3:19
Wild Wood 3:33
Tales from the Riverbank 3:22
Foot of the Mountain 5:04
You Do Something to Me 3:32
Can You Heal Us (Holy Man) 4:08
Woodcutter's Son 5:30
Whirlpools' End 7:48
Disc 9 – Cardiff 11.05.1997
I Walk on Gilded Splinters 4:19
Peacock Suit 2:55
Porcelain Gods 7:00
Heavy Soul 7:10
Broken Stones 3:21
Friday Street 2:26
The Changingman 3:30
Woodcutter's Son 6:06
Mermaids 3:06
Sunflower 4:01
Into Tomorrow 3:22
Disc 10 – London Victoria Park 08.08.1998Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 17 were previously released as part of Modern Greats the best of Paul Weller in 1998 on the bonus Live CD Live Classics. Also broadcast as a highlights set on Lamacq Live.
Into Tomorrow 3:30
Peacock Suit 2:58
Friday Street 2:22
Mermaids 3:10
Sunflower 4:00
Out of the Sinking 3:37
Science 3:54
Heavy Soul 8:09
As You Lean into the Light 2:59
Wild Wood 3:43
Up in Suzes' Room 4:42
Can You Heal Us (Holy Man)
The Changingman 3:34
Porcelain Gods 5:26
Woodcutter's Son 5:23
I Walk on Gilded Splinters w/ Noel Gallagher 4:21
Broken Stones 3:44
References
BBC Radio recordings
2008 live albums
2008 compilation albums
2008 video albums
Live video albums
Paul Weller live albums
Paul Weller video albums
Universal Records compilation albums
Universal Records live albums
Universal Records video albums
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is a railway station in Chikugo, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by JR Kyushu.
Lines
The station is served by the Kagoshima Main Line and is located 129.7 km from the starting point of the line at .
In addition, the station is served by the Kyūshū Shinkansen and is located 47.9 km from the starting point of the line at . All Tsubame services and some Sakura services stop at the station.
Layout
The station is actually two separate facilities which share a common forecourt. The Kagoshima Main Line station, located slightly to the west, consists has two side platforms serving two tracks at grade. The station building, a modern concrete structure houses a waiting room, and a ticket window. Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a footbridge which is equipped with elevators. There is a tourism information centre located at the entrance to the station.
Management of the Kagoshima Main Line station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket counter which is equipped with a Midori no Madoguchi facility.
The Shinkansen station is located across the forecourt to the east of the conventional station, connected by a sheltered walkway. This station consists of a side and an island platform, designated as platforms 11, 12 and 13, serving three elevated tracks. The station building is built into the elevated structure and houses a waiting area and a ticket window staffed by JR Kyushu. Access to the platforms is by steps, escalators of elevators.
Platforms
History
The station was opened by Japanese Government Railways (JGR) on 20 July 1928 with the name as an additional station on the existing Kagoshima Main Line track. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over control of the station. With the inauguration of the Kyushu Shinkansen service to the station, the station building was moved 500 metres south and reopened with new Shinkansen platforms on 12 March 2011 and renamed Chikugo-Funangoya. The location of the old station was converted into a maintenance depot.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,049 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 159th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.
See also
Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen#History
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Chikugo-funagoya Station (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928
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Charles Pierre Claret, comte de Fleurieu ( ) (2 July 1738, Lyon – 18 August 1810) was a French Navy officer, explorer, hydrographer and politician. He served as Minister of the Navy under Louis XVI, and was a member of the Institut de France. He was brother to botanist Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette.
Life
Ancien Regime
Fleurieu was born in Lyon. He joined the Navy on 31 October 1755 at Toulon as a Garde-marine, aged just 13 and a half. He subsequently took part in the campaigns of the Seven Years' War— which ended in 1763— participating in the battles of Mahon, Lagos, and Les Sablettes and rising to brigadier in the gardes de la marine company, and then enseigne de vaisseau. In suggesting de Fleurieu's promotion to ensign, on 23 March 1762, the Minister wrote to the king:
On 1 July 1765 he was made Enseigne de port, and on 27 July he went to Paris to study horology with Ferdinand Berthoud.
He took part in a one-year sea campaign to test Berthoud's first marine chronometer, in an attempt to beat Britain in the race to find a reliable way to calculate longitude. The chronometers he thus refined with Ferdinand Berthoud for their later experiments were the object of major struggles with the king's horologer, Pierre Le Roy. Finally Claret de Fleurieu and Berthoud were entrusted with the task, setting out on the testing expedition from autumn 1768 to 11 October 1769 on the corvette Isis under Fleurieu's command. The chronometers almost invariably indicated the hour as accurately after the ship had left port, as if they were still on land. Knowing the actual local time at each present location by astronomy, they could easily determine the ship's exact position and longitude on a chart. The results of their observations was published in 1773 under the title Voyage fait par ordre du roi, pour éprouver les horloges marines ("Voyage made by order of the king, to test marine chronometers"). We can also cite among his major works le Neptune du Nord or l'Atlas du Cattegat et de la Baltique, an atlas of the Kattegat and the Baltic Sea that took him 25 years.
Made lieutenant de vaisseau on 1 October 1773, then deputy inspector of naval charts and plans, he also became deputy inspector of the naval academy on 15 May 1776. He was presented to the king and named capitaine de vaisseau on 5 December 1776 and soon afterwards director of ports and arsenals in January 1777, a post heading the fleet's organization of matériel, works and movements created specially for him by Louis XVI and one he held for 15 years. In it he directed nearly all planning for naval operations in the 1778-83 war against England as part of France's involvement in the American Revolutionary War, as well as all the French voyages of discovery such as that of La Pérouse.
French Revolution
The king made him Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies on 26 October 1790. He and the king wanted to separate the naval and colonial ministries, but the Assemblée nationale thought otherwise, and he resigned on 15 April 1791. Later that year he was made guardian of the Dauphin, later Louis XVII. He remained in the Tuileries on 10 August 1792, in support of Louis XVI right up until the critical point, but fortunately for him the revolutionaries did not discover this. In the midst of the Reign of Terror, in September 1793, Charles Pierre was arrested due to a letter of recommendation Louis XVI had sent to the Assemblée nationale, published in the Universal Monitor on 17 April 1791, in which he first demanded Charles' nomination as the Dauphin's governor. He remained imprisoned with his wife in the Madelonnettes for 14 months; they were finally released to find their homes, furniture, lands and resources dispersed and destroyed. A letter to the section des piques in the prison. discovered in Robespierre's house. speaks of a first arrest, which may suggest Charles was arrested several times and transferred from prison to prison. After the fall of Robespierre he was made a member of the Bureau des longitudes and of the Institut after M. de Bougainville's resignation in 1795. In 1797 (year V) he was elected deputy for the Seine in the Council of Ancients under the name Claret-Fleurieu. He remained so until the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor when he was excluded from the council. He was elected a member of the Conseil d'État on 24 December 1799.
First French Empire
On 30 September 1800, as Minister Plenipotentiary, he signed a treaty of friendship and commerce between France and the United States at Morfontaine, alongside Joseph Bonaparte. A member of the Council of State in 1800, he presided over its naval section and was interim Minister of the Navy several times during 1803 and 1804. He was named Quartermaster General of the emperor Napoleon's household and of the Imperial civil list on 10 July 1804.
On 24 July 1805 he was elected a member of the Sénat conservateur and made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. On 1 August 1805, he was made Governor of the Tuileries and the Louvre, taking the oath before the Emperor on 8 September that year. On 2 February 1806 he was elected one of the seven senators who composed the Council of Administration within the Senate for that year. In 1808 he was made Councilor of State for life and an Imperial Count. On 7 September of that same year, Napoleon put him in charge of the investigation into the French defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar.
He died in Paris from a devastating cerebral hemorrhage, a few seconds after embracing his two daughters. Napoleon rewarded his services by giving him a state funeral and having his remains transferred to the Panthéon.
Marriage and issue
At 54 he married Aglaé-Françoise Deslacs d'Arcambal; they had one son who died young, Caroline (Madame de Saint-Ouen, from whom his descendants trace their line) and a second daughter.
Works
Mémoires sur la construction des navires, 1763 ;
Histoire générale des navigations de tous les peuples ;
Examen critique d'un mémoire publié par Mr Leroy, horloger du roi, sur l'épreuve des horloges propres à déterminer les longitudes en mer, et sur les principes de leur construction, London and Paris.
Voyage entrepris en 1768 et 1769 pour éprouver les horloges marines (2 vols., Paris, 1773);
Une carte du grand Océan Atlantique, 1776 ;
Découvertes des Français en 1768 et 1769 dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle-Guinée, et reconnaissance postérieure des mêmes terres par des navigateurs anglais qui leur ont imposé de nouveaux noms ; précédées de l'abrégé historique des navigations et des découvertes des Espagnols dans les mêmes parages, Paris, 1790, with 12 maps
Longitude exacte des divers points des Antilles, et de l'Amérique du Nord (1773);
Les Antilles, leur flore et faune (1774);
Le Neptune Américo-septentrional, 1780 ;
Découvertes des Français dans le Sud Est de la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1768 et 1769, Paris, 1790 ;
Précis de l'affaire relative à la dénonciation de Fleurieu, ministre de la marine, par un commis de la marine, Paris, 1791.
Voyage autour du monde par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique ; auquel on a joint des recherches sur les terres australes de Drake, et un examen critique de voyage de Roggeween, avec cartes et figures, Paris, years VI-VIII, 4 vol.
Vol I (Archive.org)
Vol II (Archive.org)
Vol III (Archive.org)
Vol IV (Archive.org)
Le Neptune des mers du Nord, 1794.
Histoire des aventuriers espagnols, qui conquérirent l'Amérique (1800).
Sous sa direction, rédaction par Rigobert Bonne du Neptune américo-septentrional, 1778-1780, et par Buache du Neptune du Cattégat et de la Baltique, 65 f., 1809
He also revised Jean Nicolas Demeunier's 1775 translation of Voyage de Phipps au pôle boréal, and edited the Notes géographiques et historiques printed with accounts of La Pérouse's voyage.
He died before finishing his Histoire générale des Navigations.
He also edited the Voyage autour du monde which was written in 1790 and 1792 by Étienne Marchand, year VI (1798).
Namesakes
the Fleurieu Peninsula to the south of Adelaide in Australia was named after him by the French explorer Nicolas Baudin as he mapped the south coast of Australia in 1802.
an island (discovered in 1798 by Matthew Flinders, then explored by Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet) at the northwest extremity of Tasmania was also named after him.
Sources
"M. le Comte de Fleurieu" by M. Frédéric Chassériau
Archives nationales, 2 JJ 92 à 103. – Fastes de la Légion d'Honneur.
Delambre, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. le comte de Fleurieu. –
Discours sur Fleurieu par Raillon, 1810.
Notice sur Fleurieu par Salverte, s. d. et par. Chassériau, 1856.
Archives biographiques françaises, I, 403, p. 354-377
Bulletin des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire, N° XXXVI, p. 373, by Eusèbe Salverte --
Annales des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire, vol. 4 of the 3rd subscription, and 12th of the collection. Article from the bulletin signé Eusèbe Salverte.
Annales maritimes coloniales, p. 85-102, by the Chevalier Delambre. Recueilli par M. Bajot.
Journal de l'armée navale, journal "le moniteur", Archives nationale de la marine.
Biographie nouvelle des contemporains [1787-1820] de Antoine-Vincent Arnault page 170-171
Dernières années du règne et de la vie de Louis XVI, de François Hue, René Du Ménil de Maricourt, Henri de L'Epinois (p. 328-329)
La vie et les mémoires du général Dumouriez, de Charles François Du Périer Dumouriez, p. 175-177.
Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la dernière année du règne de Louis XVI, d'Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville
Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés à nos jours, par P. Levot
Mémoires inédits de madame la comtesse de Genlis pour servir à l'histoire des XVIIIème et XIXème siècles.
External links
Family site
His genealogy on Geneanet de samlap
1738 births
1810 deaths
Military personnel from Lyon
French explorers
French hydrographers
Scientists from Lyon
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Burials at the Panthéon, Paris
Counts of the First French Empire
Members of the Sénat conservateur
Ministers of Marine and the Colonies
French Navy admirals
Members of the Council of Five Hundred
French military personnel of the American Revolutionary War
French military personnel of the Seven Years' War
Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
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Human influenza hemagglutinin (HA) is a surface glycoprotein required for the infectivity of the human influenza virus. The HA-tag is derived from the HA-molecule corresponding to amino acids 98-106. HA-tag has been extensively used as a general epitope tag in expression vectors.
Many recombinant proteins have been engineered to express the HA-tag, which does not generally appear to interfere with the bioactivity or the biodistribution of the recombinant protein. This tag facilitates the detection, isolation and purification of the protein of interest.
The HA-tag is not suitable for detection or purification of proteins from apoptotic cells since it is cleaved by Caspase-3 and / or Caspase-7 after its sequence DVPD, causing it to lose its immunoreactivity. Labeling of endogenous proteins with HA-tag using CRISPR was recently accomplished in-vivo in differentiated neurons.
Sequence
The DNA sequences for the HA-tag include: 5'-TAC-CCA-TAC-GAT-GTT-CCA-GAT-TAC-GCT-3' or 5'-TAT-CCA-TAT-GAT-GTT-CCA-GAT-TAT-GCT-3'. The resulting amino acid sequence is YPYDVPDYA (Tyr-Pro-Tyr-Asp-Val-Pro-Asp-Tyr-Ala).
See also
Protein tag
SpyTag
References
Further reading
Biochemistry detection methods
Biochemical separation processes
Influenza A virus
Viral structural proteins
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What Kind of World is the debut album from Jamaican vocal trio The Cables. It was released in 1970 by Studio One, and collects tracks from singles the group recorded for the label. Backing was provided by Studio One house band the Soul Vendors, which included musicians such as Jackie Mittoo, Eric Frater, and Leroy Sibbles. The album has been described as "a masterpiece of early reggae", and "the most perfect of Studio One vocal albums".
The album was re-issued on CD in 1991 by Heartbeat Records.
Track listing
"Baby Why"
"Be a Man"
"What Am I to Do"
"Got to Find Someone"
"No New Love"
"What Kind of World"
"My Broken Heart"
"Cheer Up"
"Let Them Talk"
"Love Is a Pleasure"
References
External links
The Cables - What Kind of World, Roots Archives
1970 debut albums
The Cables albums
Heartbeat Records albums
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Class 74 may refer to:
NSB Class 74, a Norwegian passenger train.
British Rail Class 74, a British electro-diesel locomotive
DRG Class 74, a class of German 2-6-0 passenger tank locomotives operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn comprising:
Class 74.0-3: Prussian T 11, PKP Class OKi1
Class 74.3: LBE T 10
Class 74.4-13: Prussian T 12, PKP Class OKi2, SNCB 69, SNCF 130 TC
Class 74.66: various locomotives taken over by the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1949
Class 74.67: ditto
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Adaviravulapadu is a village in Nandigama mandal, located in NTR district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Demographics
According to 2011 Census of India, the village has a population of 2,101: 1038 female and 1063 male.
References
Villages in NTR district
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The 12533 / 12534 Pushpak Express is a Superfast category train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between and Mumbai in India. It operates as train number 12533 from Lucknow Junction to Mumbai CSMT and as train number 12534 in the reverse direction.
It is named after the mythological flying chariot Pushpak which is mentioned as the chariot of Ravana.
Service
The 12533/12534 Pushpak Express covers the distance of 1426 kilometres in 25 hours 15 mins as 12533 Pushpak Express and maintains an average speed of 56 km/h and 1428 km in 22 hours 45 mins as 12534 Pushpak Express with an average speed of 63 km/h.
As the average speed of the train is more than 55 km/h, its fare includes a Superfast surcharge.
Locomotive
Prior to June 2014, it was hauled by 3 locomotives during its journey. A WDM-3A locomotive from either Lucknow or Jhansi shed hauled the train from to after which a Bhusawal-based WAP-4 hauled the train until following which a WCAM-3 powered the train for the remainder of the journey until Mumbai CSMT.
With progressive electrification of the Lucknow–Jhansi sector, Bhusawal-based WAP-4 began hauling the train until from Lucknow Junction to Igatpuri, following which a WCAM-3 took over for the remainder of the journey until Mumbai CSMT.
With Central Railway completing the changeover of 1500 V DC traction to 25 kV AC traction on 6 June 2015, the train was to hauled by WAP-4 but from 2016, this train is now end to end hauled by Ajni-based WAP-7 locomotive .
Coaches
As with most train services in India, coach composition may be amended at the discretion of Indian Railways depending on demand.Now from 30 October 2021 this train has been upgraded to new brand LHB coach up and down.
SLR consists of Luggage coach
Gen consists of Unreserved coaches
H consists of First Class AC 1 coach
A consists of AC 2 Tier coach
M consists of AC 3 Tier Economy coach
S consists of Non-AC Sleeper coach
Routing
The 12533/34 Pushpak Express runs via , , , ,Nashik Road to Mumbai CST.
See also
Bandra Terminus–Lucknow Weekly Express
Pune–Lucknow Express
References
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/railways/dc-to-ac-conversion-on-mumbais-central-railways-rail-route-completed/articleshow/47582271.cms
External links
Passenger trains originating from Lucknow
Transport in Mumbai
Named passenger trains of India
Rail transport in Maharashtra
Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh
Express trains in India
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Tjupi Band is a Central Australian Indigenous band from the community of Papunya, Northern Territory. They sing in Luritja and English and play desert reggae. The lineup changes depending on who is available and can include Kumunjay Daniels, Sammy Butcher, Jeremiah Butcher, Jason Butcher (from Spin.FX), Malcolm Karpa (from Spin.FX), Esau Marshall (from Spin.FX), Dwayne Abbott, Ethan McDonald, Samuel Inkamala, Desmond Inkamala, George Butcher, Leslie Pearce, keanu Nelson(tjupi band back up vocals) and Peter Lowson. Tjupi Band were featured on an episode of triple j tv's The Hack Half Hour which covered an annual Alice Springs concert, the Bush Bands Bash and won a spot at Triple J's One Night Stand concert in Alice Springs.
Discography
Kuunyi (Poor Thing) (2004) – CAAMA
Kutju Ngarala (2008) – CAAMA
Yananyinya (I'm Going) (2011)
References
External links
Myspace page
Bio at Artpost
page at Triple J Unearthed
Northern Territory musical groups
Indigenous Australian musical groups
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Bulgarian-Latvian relations are foreign relations between Bulgaria and Latvia. Bulgaria is represented in Latvia through its embassy in Warsaw (Poland) and through an honorary consulate in Riga. Latvia is represented in Bulgaria through its embassy in Warsaw (Poland) and through an honorary consulate in Sofia.
Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe, the European Union and NATO.
European Union
Latvia joined the EU in 2004. Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007.
See also
Foreign relations of Bulgaria
Foreign relations of Latvia
Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union
External links
Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Bulgaria
Bulgarian president on two-day state visit to Latvia The America's Intelligence Wire 21-MAR-05
Sofia, Riga Plan Coordinated Missions Abroad March 21, 2005
Bulgaria's President Heads for Latvia March 21, 2005
September 29, 2000 Bulgaria, Latvia pave way to lifting visa requirement
Bulgaria, Latvia Exchange EU Pre-accession Experience December 4, 2003
Bulgaria, Latvia sign free trade agreement. 16-OCT-02
Meeting-Ognian Gerdjikov–President of Latvia 05.12.2003
Latvian Foreign Minister and Bulgarian Ambassador discuss Bulgaria's accession to the EU. 15 Nov 2006
Latvia
Bilateral relations of Latvia
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is a train station located in Sawara-ku, Fukuoka. The station symbol is three wavy blue lines, representing Muromi River.
Lines
Platforms
Vicinity
Muromi Post Office
Muromi River
Muromi Kindergarten
Fukuoka Expressway - Route 1
Fukuoka Elementary School
Muromi Wings Dormitory
History
July 26, 1981: Opening
December 12, 2003: Introduction of platform screen doors for the first time in Kyūshū
References
Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1981
Kūkō Line (Fukuoka City Subway)
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Walka (lit. Struggle) was a Polish-language newspaper published from Tel Aviv by the Communist Party of Israel between 1958 and 1965. Its editor-in-chief was Adolf Berman. Whilst other Communist Party weeklies experienced a gradual decline in readership after 1956, Walka had a moderate growth as a result of the wave of immigration from Poland in 1961. Its weekly circulation was 929 in April 1961, 1,058 in May 1961, 986 in August 1961, 1,095 in June 1962, 1,114 in December 1962, 1,149 in June 1963 and 1,116 in December 1963.
When the Communist Party went through a split in 1965, the editors of Walka sided with Meir Vilner and his new party Rakah.
References
1958 establishments in Israel
1965 disestablishments in Israel
Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Tel Aviv
Non-Hebrew-language mass media in Israel
Newspapers established in 1958
Publications disestablished in 1965
Communist newspapers published in Israel
Polish-language newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in Israel
Mass media in Tel Aviv
Polish-Jewish culture in Israel
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The 3 Skypephone S2 is a UMTS, GSM and VoIP mobile phone. The phone is the successor to 3 Skypephone and the second phone from the 3 Skypephone Series.
iSkoot
The 3 Skypephone S2 runs on the iSkoot for Skype platform to provide its Skype service. iSkoot's shutdown of this service on 20 January 2011 caused this phone to show a non-functioning "click to upgrade" link, although some other phones were not affected. No warning was given by Three for this shutdown, and visiting the Three website shows they removed the Skypephone from their product offerings. This violates Three's own terms and conditions and the "Free Skype forever" promise leaving customers very angry and unable to use the arguably main functionality of this phone.
In the box
Handset
Battery 1150 mAh. (AH-02)
Battery cover.
Personal stereo hands free kit (via mini-USB connector).
USB cable.
Mains charger (USB connector).
3 user guide.
Quick start guide for Skype.
Additional guides
Specifications
The specifications released are as follow:
Dimensions: 102.7 x 45 x 14mm
Weight: 95g
Display: 2.2in QVGA
Battery: 1150mAh
CPU: ARM variant as runs BREW operating system (see ARM architecture)
Memory: 50Mb onboard
External memory: Micro SD up to 4Gb
Camera: 3.2Mpx camera
HSDPA support: Up to 2.6Mbit/s
Additional features:
HSDPA modem dongle
Facebook application
Many native Brew applications.
RSS reader
Stereo handsfree and USB cable included
The battery life is as follows:
Standby 320 hours
Talk Time 270 minutes
Video Talk Time 170 minutes
Supported functionality
Bluetooth stack with OBEX file transfer and A2DP support
Streaming video (can receive TV channels, watch movies or YouTube over the 3G network)
Streaming audio
Free Skype-to-skype calls
E-mail
T9 dictionary
3.2Mpx camera
Video recording
Audio recording
MP3 player (can also play WMA and AAC files)
Memory: 50Mb onboard
External memory: Micro SD up to 4Gb
PC Suite synchronization (With Vista support)
HSDPA support: Up to 2.6Mbit/s
HSDPA modem dongle
Podcasting with Mobilcast (unofficially supported)
Supports Java ME applications such as Opera Mini and many Java ME games.
Facebook always on application, change your status and easily access your profile, friends, inbox, pokes and more.
Charging via standard mini USB cable. (Though its own charging unit (wall plug) and USB to mini USB cable are included, any standard mini USB cable can be used to charge the skypephone in various locations or when traveling.)
Brew games
Not supported functionality
Only Western Eu Latin Alphabets are supported, Cyrillic as used in Russian/Bulgarian and probably many other languages is not supported with all skype, web browser and text messages (SMS).
3 Skypephone S2x
The 3 Skypephone S2x is an upgrade of the 3 Skypephone S2. It is a slightly different shape and design and has a slightly poorer camera.
See also
3 Skypephone Series
3 Skypephone S1
Skype
Hutchison 3G (3)
BREW
References
External links
3 (company)
Skype
Amoi mobile phones
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Polychrysia moneta, the golden plusia, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm (Europe, Asia Minor, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, and northwest Iran).
Technical description and variation
The wingspan is 32–37 mm. Forewing pale golden, diffusely tinged in median area with brown and sprinkled with black scales; the veins brown; the median shade conspicuously dark brown, thick, angled in middle: lines brown, double; the inner acutely angled on subcostal, below middle inwardly curved; outer line lunulate dentate; basal area flaked with golden scales; a pale golden apical blotch, cut and edged below by the brown submarginal line, which is rarely plain below middle; orbicular stigma large, oblique, horseshoe-shaped, with broad silvery outline and gold and brown centre, coalescing with a similar but inverted mark on vein 2; reniform hardly traceable; hindwing shining fuscous;the fringe pale.
Biology
The moth flies from May to October depending on the location.
Larva dull dark green, black spotted, living when young in the heart of the central shoots; later, with dark dorsal vessel, limited by several whitish lines and a white lateral line. The larvae feed on Delphinium, Artemisia absinthium and Artemisia vulgaris.
References
External links
Golden Plusia at UKmoths
Funet Taxonomy
Fauna Europaea
Lepiforum.de
Vlindernet.nl
Plusiinae
Moths of Europe
Moths described in 1787
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Kittiwake is the name of two species of gull. It may also refer to:
Aircraft
Saunders Kittiwake, a Saunders Roe flying boat design
Shapley Kittiwake, a British 1930s gull-wing monoplane
Mitchell Kittiwake, a British single-engine sporting aircraft
Boats
Kittiwake 23, an American sailboat design
Culture
Kittiwake Island, a 1954 opera by Alec Wilder
The Kittiwakes, a British folk band
Kittiwake Press, a United Kingdom publisher: see List of publishers
Places
Kittiwake Coast, a part of the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador
Kittiwake oil field, an oil field in the North Sea: see List of oil and gas fields of the North Sea
Ships
Kittiwake, a trawler, converted to the World War II minesweeper of the United States Navy
Kittiwake, an Irish light-vessel: see Lightvessels in Ireland
, a Kingfisher-class sloop of the British Royal Navy, a 1930s patrol vessel
, a United States Coast Guard Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat: see List of United States Coast Guard cutters
USFS Kittiwake, later US FWS Kittiwake, a fishery patrol vessel in the fleet of the United States Bureau of Fisheries and Fish and Wildlife Service fleets from 1919 to ca. 1945 that previously served in the United States Navy as
, a World War II submarine rescue ship of the United States Navy
Trains
Kittiwake (60120), a LNER Peppercorn Class A1 British steam locomotive
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The Lashkar Express runs between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai, Maharashtra and Agra Cantt. in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. It is a weekly train and runs from Mumbai on Fridays & from Agra Cantt. on Saturdays. The name "Lashkar" comes from Lashkar in Gwalior.
Route
Main towns on the way are Gwalior, Jhansi, Bhopal, Itarsi, Nashik. The train covers a distance of 1,334 km in 22 h 55 min.
Train No
Train number 12161: Mumbai to Agra Cantt., leaves Mumbai (Lokmanya Tilak Terminus) at 16:25 hrs on Fridays.
Train number 12162: Agra Cantt. to Mumbai, leaves Agra Cantt. at 23:50 hrs on Saturdays.
The train has a RSA with 12107-Mumbai Lucknow Superfast Express, 12173-LTT PBH Udyognagari Express and 12153 LTT Habibganj Express.
Coach Compositions are as follows-
For MUMBAI AGRA 12161-
Engine-SLR1-LD1-GEN1-GEN2-A1-B3-B2-B1-S11-PC1-S10-S9-S8-S7-S6-S5-S4-S3-S2-S1-UR3-SLR2.Total-22 Coaches.
Locomotion
Loco Link from LTT to Agra Cantt (Agc) is BSL WAP 4
Express trains in India
Trains from Agra
Transport in Mumbai
Rail transport in Maharashtra
Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh
Named passenger trains of India
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Thermosediminibacterales is an order of Gram positive bacteria in the class Clostridia.
References
Bacteria orders
Clostridia
Thermophiles
Anaerobes
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Baron Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel (11 September 1912, Tours - 9 December 1992, Paris), was a French nobleman, soldier and diplomat.
He was Aide-de-Camp to Charles de Gaulle in 1940 and escaped to England with the General on 17 June 1940 with the help of General Sir Edward Spears. Geoffroy Chodron was the first officer to sign up with the Free French Forces, established by De Gaulle when he was in London.
From 1941 he served as De Gaulle’s private secretary and would later command a squadron of the 1er régiment de marche de Spahis marocains (1st Spahi Regiment), formed out of other units.
After the War, he returned to the French Foreign Ministry before holding several important appointments, including that of Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 16 March 1962 until 20 April 1972.
Family
The Chodron de Courcel family, who were landed gentry (or petite noblesse), were created Barons by Emperor Napoleon III.
He was the only son of Baron Louis de Chodron de Courcel (1874-1962), by his wife married Alice Lambert-Champy (1886-1967); S.E. Baron Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel had three sisters:
Louise: married Xavier Baudon de Mony
Elisabeth: married Olivier, comte de Chastellux
Henriette: married Louis, marquis de Lasteyrie.
His grandfather, Baron Alphonse Chodron de Courcel, was French Ambassador to London from 1894 until 1898.
Honours
Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur
Compagnon de la Libération
See also
Chodron de Courcel family
Bernadette Chirac
Notes
1912 births
1992 deaths
Concorde
Military personnel from Tours, France
French military personnel of World War II
Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom
Companions of the Liberation
Nobility of the Second French Empire
Barons of France
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Lixnaw Hurling Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in the north of County Kerry, Ireland. They primarily play in competitions organised by the Kerry County Board of the GAA, such as the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship, and also in competitions organised by the North Kerry Hurling Board. The club is principally concerned with the game of hurling but many of their players also play gaelic football, many with Finuge. The club has won 9 Kerry Senior Hurling Championships, 10 Kerry Minor Hurling Championships and 5 Kerry Under-21 Hurling Championships.
History
While the history of hurling in Lixnaw long precedes the founding of the GAA, the club was officially founded in 1888. As reported in the Kerry Sentinel newspaper on Saturday, 17 November 1888, the new club was designated Erin's Hope - Lixnaw and Irremore Branch. The first president was John Trant with Michael Ryan as vice-president. William O'Halloran and John J. Quilter were honorary secretaries with Denis Daly as treasurer. The first club captain was Thomas McCarthy with John Brosnan as vice-captain.
During the following year the separation of the sporting codes became evident with hurling being principally played in Lixnaw and football in Irremore. The hurling club in Lixnaw went by the moniker "Sir Charles Russell" for a time, in honour of an Irish statesman and supporter of Irish Home Rule and the Irish Land League. The naming of clubs and teams in such a fashion being commonplace at the time. The division of the Lixnaw and Irremore elements of the branch took place at this time and the latter competed with some success in the Kerry Football Championship. The Irremore area continues as a source of players for both Finuge and St. Senan's Gaelic football clubs. While football was also played in Lixnaw at this time, the predominance of hurling was increasingly evident.
When neighbouring Ballyduff, representing Kerry, successfully contested the 1891 All-Ireland hurling final, they included players from Kilmoyley and Ardfert and three men from Ahabeg in Lixnaw, Maurice Fitzmaurice, Maurice Kelly and John Murphy.
Roll of honour
Kerry County Board
Kerry Senior Hurling Championship (9) 1933, 1954, 1983, 1985, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2018
Kerry Under 21 Hurling Championship (5) 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2016
Kerry Minor Hurling Championship (10) 1958, 1963, 1965, 1974, 1976, 1997, 2004, 2012, 2014, 2015
Kerry Minor B Hurling Championship (1) 2006
Kerry Intermediate Hurling Championship (1) 1973
Kerry Junior Hurling Championship (3) 1954, 1995, 1999
Kerry Senior Hurling League Division 1 (2) 1979, 1982
North Kerry Hurling Board
North Kerry Senior Hurling Championship (3) 1964, 1998, 2011
North Kerry Intermediate Hurling Championship (5) 1973, 1976, 1995, 2022, 2023
North Kerry Under 21 Hurling Championship (2) 1978, 2016
North Kerry Junior Hurling Championship (1) 1988
North Kerry Minor Hurling Championship (11) 1956, 1961, 1965, 1976, 1983, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2015, 2016, 2017
North Kerry Minor B Hurling Championship (3) 1993, 1995, 2018
North Kerry Senior Hurling League (13) 1942, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1982, 1983, 2010, 2016, 2017
North Kerry Senior B Hurling League (6) 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2012
North Kerry Intermediate Hurling League (2) 1964*,1977 (* as Ballinclogher)
North Kerry Junior Hurling League (6) 1942*, 1944*, 1948, 1958*, 1960*, 1994 (* as Ballinclogher)
County Senior Championship Winning Captains
1933: Joe McCarthy
1954: Jim Hogan
1983: Moss McKenna
1985: Moss Allen
1999: Trevor McKenna
2005: Fergus Fitzmaurice
2007: Patrick Dowling
2014: Maurice Corridan
2018: Darragh Shanahan
Famous players
Maurice Fitzmaurice,
Steve Grady (Co-founder of The North Kerry Hurling Board),
John McElligott,
Jack Kennedy (Co-founder of Ladies Walk Club),
Moss Fitzmaurice,
Christy Ring (guest appearance),
Eugie Stack,
Jimmy Hogan,
Richie McElligott (nominated for Sunday Independent GAA Team of the Century in 1984 and in whose honour the All-Ireland U20B hurling championship trophy is named),
Topper McElligott,
Moss Lyons,
Johnny Conway,
Sean Flaherty,
Paul Galvin,
Eamonn Fitzmaurice,
Ricky Heffernan,
John "Tweek" Griffin,
James Flaherty,
Michael Conway,
Shane Conway
Notable External Managers
Aside from the team management, coaching and training functions provided to Lixnaw hurling teams since its establishment by members of the club itself, there have also been a number of managers from outside the club who have been influential, particularly since the start of the 21st century. The following former Limerick, Cork and Tipperary players have had management and training roles with the club's senior team in particular.
Éamonn Cregan
Liam O'Donoghue
Brian Begley
Ciaran Carey & Mark Foley
Seánie McGrath
Conor Gleeson
Barry Hennessy
Colours and crest
The club has worn a green and gold jersey from the earliest records available. The traditional pattern worn is green with a gold hoop.
The use of an alternate kit to address a clash of colours has only occurred since 2003, when it was used for the first time in the Kerry Senior Championship final. As is generally the case with all GAA clubs, its use is not agreed to lightly given the strong affiliation between club and colours. The alternate or change kit used by many clubs is a variation or inverse of the normal kit or will use a neutral white jersey. Atypically, Lixnaw have adopted the use of a distinctive blue jersey, which mirrors the alternate kit (based on the Munster GAA colours) used by the Kerry team over many decades. While the green and gold jersey is synonymous with Lixnaw, the blue alternate has been associated with a number of memorable successes on the field of play.
The club's crest was designed in 2001 and consists of an image of the Hermitage in Lixnaw with a representation of the nearby river Brick and a salmon on a shield and circlet bearing the name of the club, celtic knotwork and crossed hurleys.
References
External links
Lixnaw Official Website - http://www.lixnawgaa.ie/
Lixnaw Official Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LixnawGAAClub
Lixnaw Official Twitter - @LixnawGAA
Gaelic games clubs in County Kerry
Hurling clubs in County Kerry
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Jonathan Greatorex (born 1970) is a British music educator who became nationally known for his involvement in the "Salters Hill Scandal" in Lambeth and has subsequently gone on to become one of the UK's leading consumer rights activists & broadcasters.
Career
He began his professional musical career at the age of 10 as a Choral Scholar at Llandaff Cathedral. From there he went on to Christ College before completing his studies at the London College of Music under the tutelage of John McCabe, Michael Goldthorpe and the late Pamela Bowden.
He is an Early Years, Primary and Junior Music Specialist. He has been Head of Music at some of London’s leading girls’ day schools and has experience from Choral Training to "Music Information Technology". His work with children has been recorded and broadcast on national radio stations.
He was Head of Music at James Allen's Preparatory School in London from where he moved to being Head of Music at Croydon High School Junior Department for 5 years before relocating to Wales in 2007 where he now works full-time as a freelance musical consultant and commercial photographer as well as being a fully qualified Pilot.
He is the author of a new scheme of work for music education, which can be delivered by specialist and non-specialist music teachers from the Foundation Stage to Key Stage 2. He also specialises in composing accessible music for Junior School children and has composed music for several musicals.
Salters Hill and after
He became famous for his legal action against Lambeth Council following the "Salters Hill Scandal" where he exposed a parking scam within the London Borough of Lambeth, estimated to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds. The case against Lambeth ended up with Greatorex recovering £176 of costs in the County Court, following the Parking Adjudicator's ruling that Lambeth had acted "Wholly Unreasonably" in pursuing the case.
He is currently continuing his involvement in consumer rights issues by spearheading the "Light Up Powys" street light campaign, WorkBully, the campaign to put an end to workplace bullying and is now a regular broadcaster for both radio and television on various matters relating to consumer and civil rights.
He lives in North Wales with his wife and daughter.
References
London Evening Standard
Croydon Guardian
Croydon Guardian
BBC TV News
Shropshire Star
BBC News
External links
WorkBully.org
British music educators
Consumer rights activists
Living people
Anti-bullying activists
Workplace harassment and bullying
1970 births
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Teochew string music or Chaozhou xianshi ( also called "string-poem music") is classed as a type of music (chamber music for strings and woodwind, literally 'silk/bamboo') although it typically uses stringed instruments only. It is found in northeastern Guangdong and parts of Fujian and also in regions with overseas Teochew populations, such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States. The Chaoshan region of Guangdong, bordering on Fujian and comprising the cities of Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang, forms its own cultural sphere. Teahouses often accompany with Chaozhou music.
History
Developed from a fusion of elements, popular song, arias of Chinese opera, ancient melodies and pieces of Buddhist music, string music falls into two styles: () is music of the Confucian school that can be performed as an independent instrumental music genre or at weddings and other ceremonies and that aims at elegance and nobility, while () is principally the music of the theatre, though it may be played independently: it cultivates a sober, rustic style.
Instruments
The instruments most commonly employed include several varieties of two-stringed bowed lutes; the () erxian () or () the lead instrument in the Hakka style, shorter and higher-pitched than the ), the tihu (of lower pitch than the , adapted from the Cantonese gaohu) and the big and small yehu (coconut shell body), as well as several types of plucked lutes: the pipa, large and small sanxian (a fretless bass instrument like the shamisen), qinqin (four-stringed with short, fretted neck and round body), (four-stringed with long, fretted neck and round body) and . Other than this, the (zither) and yangqin (a hammered dulcimer thought to derive from the Iranian santur) are played as well as percussion instruments: a hand-held wooden clapper (), a pair of "temple" blocks ( and ) that mark the beat, and a small drum (). Cello is sometimes also used, particularly in the style performed in the area of Shantou.
Characteristics
The ten characteristic compositions of are
(, 'Grief of Wang Zhaojun')
()
(, 'Jackdaws Play in the Water')
(, 'The Oriole's Cry')
(, 'High Moon')
(, 'Great Eight Beats')
(, 'Flock of Geese on the Shore')
(, 'The Male Phoenix Seeks the Female')
('Five Knots of the Chain')
(, 'Adding Flowers upon Brocade')
The form of each of these pieces resembles a suite () of variations upon a stock melody (qupai or 'noted tune'). These are called or 'beat' variations and follow an ordered sequence with changes of tempo and measure (most pieces have six or eight beat measures). Augmentation and diminution of the melody is used, so that it may repeatedly double in speed through the variations. The technique of introduces a division-like filling in of the melody with figures such as repeated notes and neighbouring or passing notes. Perfect-fourth transposition of the melody () also occurs, though the tonal centre remains constant.
Four or five main modes () are traditionally identified. However, while elsewhere in China such modes are mainly defined by absolute pitch and by the degree of the pentatonic scale that is taken as the key-note (thus setting the intervals of the scale), the conception of mode, rather like the Indian raga system, includes motif, ornament and intonation. Pitch is not absolute but the scale is usually constructed on a key-note approximating to western concert F – F. Modes are pentatonic but all derive from a seven-note scale: no notice is taken of the starting and finishing tones of the melody in determining the mode and the key-note remains the same in every mode. Tunes may be adapted to a new mode, but the mode remains constant throughout any performance of the suite.
Apart from the major pentatonic scale two further tones, corresponding to a (sharp) perfect fourth and a (flat) major seventh, are employed. The "missing" steps of the scale in each mode may be used in ornament but are not part of main mode structure. The mode ("Light III Light VI") is the standard major pentatonic. But ("Light III Heavy VI") calls for a heavy string-pressure upon the sixth degree, raising it to the seventh. ("Heavy III Heavy VI"), similarly, applies this upward string-bend to the third degree as well, raising it to the fourth. The fourth common scale, called ("Live V"), resembles this last but avoids the plain third degree and instead uses a heavy vibrato on the second degree. This is said to be the most characteristic mode of the region.
Chaozhou drum music includes the big drum and gong, the small drum and gong, the dizi set drum and dong and su drum and gong ensembles. The current Chaozhou drum music is said to be similar to the form of the Drum and Wind Music of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
References
Anon, Sizhu yue : musique poétique à cordes de Chaozhou, China.org, retrieved April 2009
Prof. Mercedes M. Dujunco, The Birth of a New Mode? Modal Entities in the Chaozhou Xianshi String Ensemble Music Tradition of Guangdong, South China, in Ethnomusicology Online, Issue 8, 2003, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, retrieved April 2009
Chinese styles of music
Teochew music
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Mniotype satura, the beautiful arches, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm.
Technical description and variation
C. satura Schiff. (= porphyrea Esp.) (32 b). Shorter- and broader-winged than melanodonta [Mniotype melanodonta (Hampson, 1906)] . Forewing dull reddish throughout, more or less hidden by the purplish black suffusion; the upper stigmata, the basal patch, the submarginal area, and the subterminal line all dull reddish; the wedge-shaped marks before the last much shorter and less conspicuous; otherwise as in melanodonta; hindwing dark brownish-fuscous, with cellspot and slight outer line marked; a pale terminal streak at anal angle. Larva reddish brown, darker along dorsum; dorsal line interrupted and obscure; spiracular yellowish green; an obscure subdorsal row of oblique
grey streaks.
The wingspan is 40–50 mm.
Biology
The moth flies from July to October depending on the location.
The larvae feed on various woody plants and deciduous trees.
References
External links
Beautiful Arches at UKmoths
Lepiforum.de
Vlindernet.nl
Cuculliinae
Palearctic Lepidoptera
Taxa named by Michael Denis
Taxa named by Ignaz Schiffermüller
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Latvia – Ukraine relations are foreign relations between Latvia and Ukraine. Until 1991, both countries were part of the Soviet Union and before 1918 part of the Russian Empire. Both countries established diplomatic relations on February 12, 1992.
In January 2022, during the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Latvia announced it would send FIM-92 Stinger air defense systems to Ukraine. The air defense systems were delivered in February 2022, shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Latvia immediately condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine during its first hours and declared its readiness to accept refugees from Ukraine and suspended the issuance of Latvian visas to Russian citizens.
Resident diplomatic missions
Latvia has an embassy in Kyiv.
Ukraine has an embassy in Riga.
See also
Foreign relations of Latvia
Foreign relations of Ukraine
Ukrainians in Latvia
Latvians in Ukraine
References
External links
Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Ukraine
Latvian embassy in Kyiv
Ukrainian embassy in Riga
Ukraine
Bilateral relations of Ukraine
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Latvia–Poland relations are foreign relations between Latvia and Poland. Both countries enjoy good relations and are close allies. There are around 57,000 Poles living in Latvia.
Both countries are full members of the European Union, NATO, OECD, OSCE, Bucharest Nine, Three Seas Initiative, Council of Europe, Council of the Baltic Sea States and HELCOM.
History
Present-day Latvia was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in its entirety until 1621, and then partially until the Partitions of Poland. It endured several Swedish invasions during the Polish–Swedish wars of 1600–1611, 1617–1618, 1621–1625, 1626–1629, 1655–1660 and 1700–1721. The Battle of Kircholm at modern Salaspils, Latvia, in which the Poles defeated the more numerous invading Swedes in 1605, is considered one of the greatest victories in Polish military history. It is commemorated in Salaspils.
In the 19th century, both Poles and Latvians were subjected to Russification policies within the Russian Empire. After World War I, both Latvia and Poland regained independence, and the nations became allies against the invading Soviet Russians. In January 1920 a joint Polish and Latvian force defeated the Red Army in the Battle of Daugavpils. The Polish victory in the Battle of Warsaw in August 1920, secured both Polish and Latvian independence. Both countries shared a common border in the interbellum.
In 1922, Poland and Latvia were among signatories of the Warsaw Accord, which however did not enter into force, as its other signatory Finland did not ratify it under pressure of Germany, which was hostile to Poland. Instead, in 1925, Poland and Latvia together with Finland and Estonia signed a convention on conciliation and arbitration in Helsinki.
In 1937–1938, both ethnic Poles and Latvians in the Soviet Union were subjected to genocidal campaigns carried out by the NKVD, known as the Polish Operation and the Latvian Operation respectively. Following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Poland and Latvia were both to be occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. During the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union at the start of World War II in September 1939, there were some 29,000 Polish citizens in Latvia, and soon 2,000 Polish refugees arrived to Latvia. Aleksandra Piłsudska, widow of pre-war Polish leader Józef Piłsudski, with daughters Wanda and Jadwiga fled through Latvia to Sweden. Poland was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union since 1939, while Latvia was occupied solely by the Soviet Union since June 1940. Both nations were under common oppression, and many Poles and Latvians were forcefully deported by the Russians to Siberia. In the course of Operation Barbarossa, from mid-1941, both countries were entirely occupied by Germany.
In 1942, Polish Prime Minister-in-Exile Władysław Sikorski's intervention to British and American authorities thwarted Soviet attempts to obtain Allied approval for the planned annexation of Latvia and eastern Poland.
In 1944–1945, both countries were again occupied by Soviet forces. Soviet repressions and deportations of both Latvian and Polish citizens continued. Poland's formal independence was eventually restored, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, while Latvia was annexed into the Soviet Union, thus both had no relationship until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
After the fall of the USSR, both countries re-established diplomatic relations on August 30, 1991.
Modern relations
April 12, 2010, was declared a day of national mourning in Latvia to commemorate the 96 victims of the Smolensk air disaster, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria Kaczyńska.
The Polish Air Force takes part in the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission to guard the airspace over the Baltic states including Latvia. Since 2017, a Polish military contingent has been stationed in Latvia as part of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence defense forces.
In 2022, Latvian and Polish gas grids were connected, following the commissioning of the GIPL interconnection, also providing Latvia with a connection to the EU gas market.
NATO and EU
Poland joined NATO in 1999, whereas Latvia joined NATO in 2004. Both countries became members of the European Union in 2004.
Resident diplomatic missions
Latvia has an embassy in Warsaw.
Poland has an embassy in Riga.
Gallery
See also
Foreign relations of Latvia
Foreign relations of Poland
Poles in Latvia
2004 enlargement of the European Union
References
External links
Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Poland
Latvian embassy in Warsaw (in Latvian and Polish only)
Polish embassy in Riga
Poland
Bilateral relations of Poland
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PICAP is a Catalan record label headquartered in Castellar del Vallès, Spain. It was founded in 1984.
History
PICAP supports Catalan authors and performers. While respecting the performer's linguistic expression, it gives preferential support to the Catalan language.
Its debuted as a record label in 1984 with four maxi-singles that appeared simultaneously: the synthpop band Programa, Javier Asensi, pop group Oslo, and hard-rock artist Rockson.
, Maria-Josep Villarroya, , Gato Pérez, and Joan Soler Boronat were among PICAP's first artists. The first commercial success of the new record label was Catalan humorist .
In the last years of the 1980s, the band Grec, a PICAP artist, joined in a wave of funk music similar to that of other new bands that were starting their careers in those days (such as Duble Buble and N'Gai N'Gai).
The band Sau, after the success achieved on PICAP with Quina nit, signed for a multinational record label. The band Sangtraït, however, stayed with PICAP and prepared its fourth album Contes i llegendes at a time when Catalan rock had reached its peak. Rock and "Cançó" became PICAP's main genres with notable artists in both genres.
In 1991, Lluís Llach joined the record label because of its prestige and trustworthiness, then established ties with Companyia Elèctrica Dharma, Tomeu Penya, Raimon, Maria del Mar Bonet, and Marina Rossell. In 1993, the record company received National Music Awards in Catalonia for their releases. In the late 1990s, the Valencian band Al Tall published with PICAP.
The record company began reissuing CDs of historic Catalan music recordings, including the catalog of . Also included were LPs of artists like Iceberg, Pegasus, , Grup de Folk, , Jaume Sisa, and . The recordings came from labels like or from the artists themselves, such as or .
Artist roster
From the catalogues of Edigsa, PDI, and Als 4 vents
Josep Vicenç Foix
Grau Carol
Remei Margarit
Josep Maria Espinàs
Delfí Abella
Salvador Escamilla
Josep Carner
Salvador Espriu
Els 4 gats
Orfeó Lleidatà
Dodó Escolà
Francesc Heredero
Clementina Arderiu
Marià Manent
Antoni Ros Marbà
Coral Sant Jordi
Carles Riba
Queta & Teo
Francesc Pi de la Serra
Els 4 Z
Cobla Barcelona
Catalonia Jazz Quartet
Duo Ausona
Maria Cinta
Germanes Ros
Picapedrers
Els Xerracs
Els Corbs
Gil Vidal
Mauné i els seus dinàmics
Quartet vocal Clara Schumann
L’esquitx
Jovelyne Jocya
Jacinta
Jeannette Ramsay
Joe Martin
Orfeó Enric Morera
Brenner’s folk
Dos + un
Núria Espert
Miquelina Lladó
Salomé
Cor Madrigal
Marian Albero
Núria Feliu
Pere Quart
Joan Manuel Serrat
Albert Vidal
Isidor
Eddie Lee Mattison
Pere i Joan Francesc
Maria Pilar
Jordi Fàbregas
Miró Casabella
El grup de 3
Elisa Serna
Maria e Xavier
Xoan Rubia
Els Consellers
Jaume Arnella
Teresa Rebull
Agustí Bartra
Falsterbo 3
Gualberto
Quilapayún
Guillermina Motta
Maquina (person)
Tapi
Ara va de bo
Enric Barbat
Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona
Grup de folk
Jei Noguerol
Tapiman
Jarka
Vicent Torrent
Jordi Soler
Hamster
Miquel Cors
Guima & Shabbath
Enric Barbat
Peter Roar
Esquirols
Daniel Viglietti
Dolors Laffitte
Maria Laffitte
Toti Soler
Joan Baptista Humet
Els Sapastres
Orquestra Mirasol
Jordi Sabatés
Iceberg
Barcelona Traction
Ovidi Montllor
Al Tall
Quintín Cabrera
Ramon Muntaner
Blay Tritono
Música Urbana
Secta Sònica
Companyia Elèctrica Dharma
Francisco Curto
Oriol Tramvia
Mirasol Colores
Rafael Subirachs
Badabadoc
Xesco Boix
Colla Jacomet
Josep Tarradellas
Josiana
Cobla Selvatana
Jordi Farràs
Aguaviva
Jazzom
La Alegre Banda
Melodrama
Doberman
Los Auténticos
Liquid Car
Cathy
Víctor Manuel Muñoz
Canela
Orquestra Català
Lluís el Sifoner
Alejandro Jean
Lluciana Sari
Sausalito
Orquestra Pasapoga
Huapacha Combo
Pernil Latino
Curroplastic
Pegasus
Teverano
Suck Electrònic
Carraixet
Programa
Julio Alberto y Carmen
Tet i Àlex
Tango?
Santi Vendrell
Cobla Mediterrània
Burning
Cobla Miramar
Deneb
Gato Pérez
Astrolabio
Orquestrina Galana
Grup Gavina
Orquestra Plateria
Xavier Cugat
El sac de danses
Albert Pla
Peret
Ia Clua
Jordi Batiste
Los Sírex
Lluís Llach
Tete Montoliu
Pere Tapias
Esqueixada Sniff
From the catalogue of Picap
Rockson
Oslo
Hèctor Vila
Programa
Maria del Mar Bonet
Grec
La Madam
La Murga
Han
Grup Terra Endins
Maria-Josep Villarroya
Quilapayún
Manel Camp
Tradivàrius
Ambtainer
Fuck off
Disseny
Max Sunyer
Sangtraït
Paco Muñoz
Eugenio
Sau
Pixamandurries
Tancat per defunció
Josep Tero
Manzano
Parking
Jaque al rey
Ja t'ho diré
Companyia Elèctrica Dharma
Santi Arisa
i-6
Nakki
Terratrèmol
Tots sants
Zoo il·lògics
Orquestra Maravella
Salzburg
Fora des sembrat
La Fosca
Bitayna
Marc Durandeau
Quercus Suber
Miquel del Roig
Modest Moreno
Gema 4
Jose Angel Navarro
Nats
Rovell d’ou
Arizona Baby
Sui Generis
Santi Arisa
Port Bo
Empordà Fusió
Tomeu Penya
Alius
Tela Marinera
Lliris
Tralla
Carles Cases
El Cimarrón
Marina Rossell
Quars
Pep Sala & La banda del bar
Roger Mas
La Rural Company
Sílvia Comes
Lídia Pujol
Dyango
Adirà Puntí
Ramoncín
Loquillo
Pastora
Mariona Comellas
Mar Endins
Bluestereo
Los Amaya
Cobla De Cambra de Catalunya
Pa d’angel
Xató
The Companys
Túrnez & Sesé
Keympa
Ginesa Ortega
Rockness
Inèdits
Entregirats
Muhel
Victor Gioconda
Naltrus
Narcís Perich
Outsider
Inti Illimani
Rafa Xambó
Aljub
Ramon Sauló
References
Pujol, Carles. Picap 20 anys, del vinil al DVD. Picap, S.L. 2004, B-40.354-2004
Google translation
Google translation
Google translation
Google translation
Google translation
Specific
External links
Official Web
Facebook Picap
Twitter Picap
Youtube Picap
Catalan music
Record labels established in 1984
Spanish record labels
IFPI members
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Eurois occulta, the great brocade or great gray dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in northern and central Europe, North Asia and central Asia to the Pacific Ocean and Japan. Also the northern parts of North America (coast to coast in Canada, south in east to Virginia and the Great Lakes states) ( a Holarctic distribution). In addition, it is found in Greenland and Iceland. In the south in northern Spain and on the Balkan peninsula.
Description
The wingspan is 50–60 mm. Forewing pale grey, more or less suffused with dark grey; a black streak from base below cell; stigmata large, grey, with black outlines, the cell dark: inner and outer lines filled in with whitish; submarginal line formed of large black and white teeth; hindwing fuscous, the fringe white. This fine species occurs - The form implicata is nearly black, a mountain form, found in Finland, on the Harz Mts. in Germany, and in Scotland. — ab. extricata Zett. from Lapland is an intermediate form.
It has been suggested, based partly on pupal remains in peat, that outbreaks of this species played a role in the collapse of Viking settlements in Greenland. These deposits at Anavik are now dried out and any potential evidence has been lost.
Larva brown, darker-mottled: dorsal and subdorsal lines yellowish; spiracular white; a series of oblique lateral dark stripes; on various low plants. The larvae feed on Myrica gale, Vaccinium, birch, willow and other herbaceous plants.
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References
External links
Great Brocade at UK Moths
Funet Taxonomy
Lepiforum.de
Vlindernet.nl
Noctuinae
Moths described in 1758
Moths of Japan
Moths of Europe
Moths of North America
Moths of Asia
Moths of Iceland
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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Currently, Belarus has an embassy in Riga, while Latvia has an embassy in Minsk. The countries share 161 km as it relates to their common border. In May 2021 the relations were de facto terminated as both countries were expelling each other's diplomats of the corresponding embassy, Latvia was insisting to use an inaccurate opposition flag as a representation for Belarus in the Ice Hockey World Championship in Riga over the Ryanair Flight 4978 diplomatic row. Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei called Latvia's move 'an act of international vandalism' and called for an apology and return the legal green, red and white flag to its original place. The Belarusian government reacted with expelling every Latvian diplomat including the Ambassador inside the country, with Latvia following with the same response. The Zurich-based International Ice Hockey Federation sided with Belarus and asked the mayor of Riga to urgently take down the IIHF flags to protest to what the body called a political gesture.
History
Pre-history
Prior to 1945
After Latvia gained independence, several organizations for the Belarusian minority were established, however, after the 1934 Latvian coup d'état, and the German occupation of Latvia during World War II that followed a couple year later, these organizations were eradicated.
Soviet era (1945-1990)
During the period where the two nations were part of the Soviet Union, Latvia saw an influx of migrants from Belarus. During Perestroika, new organizations for Belarusians in Latvia were established.
Modern era
The two countries signed a "Declaration on the Principles of Good-Neighborly Relations" on 16 December 1991 and established full bilateral relations on 7 April 1992. Embassies were opened in both countries in 1993 and consulates general the following year. The current border was established by an agreement on 21 February 1994, finalized on April 10, 2013. On 7 April 2016, Latvijas Televīzija and the National State Television and Radio Company of Belarus signed a cooperation agreement, which provided for the exchange of materials, as well as work on joint projects in the future. 60 twin city and partner agreements have been signed between Belarusian and Latvian regions.
The Latvian and Belarusian capitals are still due to host the 2021 IIHF World Championship, even in spite of the diplomatic rift of 2020.
Rifts in relations
Political conflicts began after Alexander Lukashenko came to power in 1994, when Latvian politicians expressed concern over his statements about rapprochement with Russia. In May 2001, Latvian Defense Minister Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis said in a radio interview that "Our probable enemy is objectively in the east" and that "Europe objectively believes that there is the last totalitarian regime in Europe". After a protest by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry declared a protest, Prime Minister Andris Berzins condemned the minister's statement.
The year 2004 saw a sharp deterioration in Latvian-Belarusian relations, set by President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, whose government encouraged personal efforts by U.S. Senator John McCain to restore democracy in Belarus. The Open Belarus organization was founded in Latvia during this time, calling on future Latvian MEPs to prioritize observance of freedom of speech in Belarus. In 2011, Latvia condemned the conviction of opposition leader Ales Bialiatski, calling on Belarus to ensure the observance of human rights and the holding of democratic elections, as well as to release political prisoners. Despite this action, the European Council on Foreign Relations in its 2013 report classified Latvia as a "sloth" among the nations of the European Union in calling for a more democratic Belarusian government. In 2012, the Belarusian government expressed indignation at the open ing of the Monument to the Defenders of Bauska honoring the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS. The Foreign Ministry of Belarus called the erection of the monument a "clear desecration of the memory of the fallen", citing the fact that members of the legion were involved in the killings of Red Army personnel, Belarusian partisans and civilians. The following year, it included a chapter on Latvia in a government report entitled "Violations of human rights in certain countries of the world in 2012".
In 2020, protests in Belarus against the outcome of the presidential elections of 9 August 2020 occurred. On response, Latvia, as well as the governments of Lithuania and Estonia, were the first to declare Lukashaneko as the illegitimate leader Edgars Rinkēvičs, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, declared the list of persons (including Lukashenko) who were banned from entering Latvia, supporting other individual sanctions against Belarusian officials responsible for the crackdown that followed the election. Latvia also condemned the post-election violence during meetings of the Nordic-Baltic Eight and the European Union.
Diplomatic exchanges
In general, there is only one case of a meeting of the heads of state of the two countries is known. This occurred on 5 September 1997 in Vilnius, when President Guntis Ulmanis met with President Alexander Lukashenko. In 2019, as part of the Latvia 100 celebrations in Minsk, Ulmanis visited Belarus and met Lukashneko, this time as the former president. During this visit, he reiterated calls by the Latvian leadership for Lukashenko to visit Riga. In 2020, the planned visit of Alexander Lukashenko to Riga was postponed (later cancelled) due to COVID-19 at the request of Latvian President Egils Levits during a phone call. The invitation was first made by Raimonds Vējonis in 2017.
Other officials of both countries (i.e. the heads of governments and foreign ministers) have met more frequently than the two presidents. On 11 July 2007, a historic meeting was held between Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis and his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Sidorsky in the forest on the Latvian-Belarusian border. This was due to sanctions being imposed on Belarus, which meant that Sidorsky could not enter any nation of the European Union. This meeting caused a stir among Belarusian activists, however represented a thaw in bilateral relations. In January 2020, Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš visited Minsk for talks with Lukashenko and Syarhey Rumas. In May 2016, Mayor of Riga Nils Ušakovs arrived in Minsk, where he opened the "Riga Corner" at the Komarovsky Market.
Resident diplomatic missions
Belarus has an embassy in Riga and a general consulate in Daugavpils.
Latvia has an embassy in Minsk and a consulate in Vitebsk.
Ambassadors
From Latvia to Belarus:
Agnis Tomass (1992)
Jānis Lovniks (1992-1993)
Ingrīda Levrense (1993-1997)
Egons Neimanis (1997-2000)
Maira Mora (2000-2004)
Mihails Popkovs (2004-2010)
Mārtiņš Virsis (2015-2019)
Einars Semanis (2019-)
From Belarus to Latvia:
Valentin Velichko (1993-1997)
Mikhail Marynich (1999-2001)
Vadim Lamkov (2002-2005)
Alexander Gerasimenko (2006-2013)
Marina Dolgopolova (2013—2018)
Vasily Markovich (2018-2020)
Diasporas and cross-culture
At the beginning of 2017, 3,034 citizens of Belarus lived in Latvia. In total, 69,298 ethnic Belarusians live in Latvia, making them the second largest national minority in the country (about 3.3% of the population). Since Perestroika, various organisations of the Belarusian diaspora have been created, the oldest one being Svitanak , established in 1988. Following the wave of political refugees from Belarus after the brutal crackdown of the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, another organisation, Supolka , was established.
The authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko has also been facilitating the creation of loyal diaspora organisations since 1994, which culminated in 2005 with the establishment of the Union of Belarusians of Latvia (; ), often abbreviated to SBL. In 2010, the union received gratitude from President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers. In 2017, members of the union organized jubilee celebrations in honor of the 950th anniversary of Minsk. Every year, the SBL organizes the Days of Belarusian Culture () throughout Latvia. On this day, celebrations and festivals are organized throughout the country. In 2017, the Days of Belarusian Culture in Latvia were dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the births of Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala. The special guests of the celebrations were Pesniary, invited from Minsk.
Notable people
Artur Karvatski, Latvian-born Belarusian handball player
Otto Schmidt, Soviet scientist born in Belarus to a Latvian mother known for developing higher education and science in Soviet Russia.
Kastus Jezavitau, Latvian-born Belarusian politician and defence minister of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
Boļeslavs Sloskāns, Latvian-born Belarusian Catholic bishop, supporter of the Belarusian language and the Belarusian diaspora in Western Europe and North America during the Cold War
See also
Foreign relations of Belarus
Foreign relations of Latvia
Belarus–EU relations
References
Belarus–Latvia relations
Latvia
Belarus
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Dividing the Estate is a play by Horton Foote. The play premiered at the McCarter Theatre in 1989 and Off-Broadway in 2007, winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.
Overview
Set in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas, in 1987, it focuses on the Gordons, a clan of malcontents ruled by octogenarian matriarch Stella that must prepare for an uncertain future when plunging real estate values and an unexpected tax bill have a negative impact on the family fortune. Stella's children - predatory Mary Jo, complacent Lucille, and alcoholic Lewis - engage in a debate about whether or not they should divide the estate while their mother is still alive in order to ensure themselves financial independence.
Productions
The play premiered at the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey in 1989. Presented by Primary Stages Theater, it opened on September 27, 2007 at the Off-Broadway 59E59 Theaters, where it ran until October 27. Directed by Michael Wilson, the cast included Elizabeth Ashley as Stella, Hallie Foote as Mary Jo, Penny Fuller as Lucille, and Gerald McRaney as Lewis.
Horton Foote won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and the Obie Award for Playwriting.
The production transferred to Broadway for a limited engagement with its original cast presented by the Lincoln Center Theater Company and Primary Stages Theater. It began previews at the Booth Theatre on October 23, 2008, officially opened on November 20, and closed on January 4, 2009 after 50 performances and 31 previews.
Critical response
In his review in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called the play "deeply funny" and stated, "Mr. Foote's authorial gaze is focused with satiric sharpness while retaining its elegiac sense of life's transience." David Rooney of Variety thought it was "distinctly old-fashioned . . . with an air of familiarity" but added, "Spend time with Foote's richly human characters and concerns about the play's dustiness quickly fade. The Chekhovian intrusion of past upon present, the melancholy acknowledgement of a world in decline, the gentle but tart humor, the clear-eyed compassion tinged with despair - these qualities remind us why the 91-year-old playwright remains such a distinctively expressive voice in contemporary American drama."
Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News said the play "goes for laughs and succeeds, and at the same time comments on more sweeping notions of avarice, entitlement and carpetbagging karma. It's not as profound or ambitious as Broadway's other multigenerational melee, August: Osage County, but Foote's fine play does go down easy." In USA Today, Elysa Gardner observed, "The folks we meet in Estate . . . can be immensely irritating, but they're not, well, bad people — or, truth be told, terribly interesting ones."
Awards and nominations
2009 Tony Awards:
Best Play (nominated)
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, Hallie Foote (nominated)
References
External links
Dividing the Estate at Lincoln Center Theater
1989 plays
Comedy plays
Plays by Horton Foote
Off-Broadway plays
Broadway plays
Plays set in Texas
Fiction set in 1987
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Caldicellulosiruptor is a genus of thermophilic, anaerobic, Gram-positive, non-spore forming bacteria. Originally placed within the highly polyphyletic class Clostridia, order Thermoanaerobacterales and family Thermoanaerobacterales Family III according to the NCBI and LPSN, it is now thought to lie outside of the Bacillota. Caldicellulosiruptor is known to degrade and ferment complex carbohydrates from plant matter, such as cellulose and hemicellulose (hence its name), and certain species in the genus have been identified as potential candidates for biofuel production.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
See also
List of bacterial orders
List of bacteria genera
References
Thermoanaerobacterales
Bacteria genera
Thermophiles
Anaerobes
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Nafka minnah (Aramaic: נפקא מינה, lit. "emerges from it" ) is a Talmudic phrase used in analytical debates. It is often used in the phrase Mai nafka minnah? (מאי נפקא מינה), which asks, "What is the practical difference?"
Terminology
The question mai nafka minnah is a way of testing the difference between two or more explanations for a given law, by investigating the different practical halachic rulings that would follow from each explanation. In other words, it means "so how do they differ in practice?"
It is contrasted with the question be-mai peligei, which also means "how do they differ", but implies that the two views have the same practical consequences and that the difference is the intellectual process by which they are arrived at (for example, which Biblical verse is the relevant authority).
Example
Examples of a nafka minnah abound, both in Jewish law as derived from the Talmud, as well as in any situation that presents multiple rationales for a particular item.
To begin the Shabbos meals, kiddush is recited, followed by the eating of challah. During kiddush, the challah should be covered, which has led to a market for commercially available challah covers that are often beautifully decorated with embroidery or other designs. There are three reasons given for this practice:
As a commemoration of the manna, which was covered by dew.
As a mechanism to allow for the wine to be consumed prior to the bread. In Jewish law, blessings are recited prior to the consumption of food or drink, and when faced with multiple food and drink items, there are laws stipulating which items should precede which others. Bread, as a staple food item, precedes all other foods and, in fact, the blessing recited over bread covers other food items (with some exceptions). If the bread was allowed to remain uncovered during the kiddush, its preferential status would be belittled (known as kadima, literally "precedence" or "priority") when the wine is consumed first.
As a display of honor for the Shabbos meals (יקרא דשבתא – lit. "preciousness of Shabbos"). The notion of covering the challah is based on giving each course a sense of newness and fanfare by allowing it to "make an entrance." Each course is therefore brought out separately, rather than having them all at the table when the meal begins. Because the challah is supposed to be on the table during kiddush, though, it is kept covered until it is ready to be served.
Now that the custom to cover the challah has been established together with its three reasons, one could ask what the nafka minnah would be between the three reasons—how would a difference in practice occur as a result of one rationale being dominant over another? Each of the following bullets represents a distinct nafka minnah:
If the covering of the challah is because of kadima, the challah may be uncovered immediately after kiddush; if because of the manna or honor, the challah should not be uncovered just because kiddush is over, but should remain covered until after hamotzi (the blessing over the challah) is recited.
Kiddush is not recited at the third meal. If covering the challah is because of the dew or honor, it should be covered at the third meal as well; if because of kadima, there is no wine to disrupt the sequence of blessings and no cover is necessary.
Because the dew enveloped the manna on both the top and bottom, the challah should be covered both above and below; if because of kadima or honor, a simple napkin placed over the challah would do.
If covering the challah is because of kadima, only food items that precede wine in the sequence of blessings should be covered at the time of kiddush or remain off the table until after kiddush. This would include only bread (which has a blessing of hamotzi) and cake (which has a blessing of mezonos); if covering is because of the dew, only challah needs to be covered; if because of honor, even gefilte fish, coleslaw and other foods on the table should be covered (or brought to the table only when their respective course begins).
If one makes kiddush over the challah (which is not ideal, but certainly permitted if one does not have wine), there is no issue of kadima and perhaps none of honor either, and no cover should be necessary; if because of dew, the challah should still be covered.
Reconciliation
In practice, bread is not covered except on Shabbos and Jewish holidays with Shabbos-like work restrictions because bread eaten on a weekday is not tied to the manna. It is only on Shabbos, when two loaves are required as a commemoration of the double portion of manna that was given in the wilderness in honor of Shabbos, that we link our bread to the manna that was enveloped in dew.
Many people do not cover the other foods on the table during kiddush.
The Mishnah Berurah asserts that when making kiddush on challah, one should place one's hands on the challah cover until one reaches the actual blessing on the bread, uncover the challah and place one's hands on the challah itself for that blessing and then recover the challah and once again grab the challah through the cover for the concluding words of the kiddush.
Quoting the Aruch Hashulchan, Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchatah asserts that, while "it is not the custom to cover the challah during the third meal," some do indeed cover them to follow the other reasons.
References
Aramaic words and phrases
Talmud concepts and terminology
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Eupithecia nanata, the narrow-winged pug, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1813. It can be found all over Europe including Russia (north to Kola Peninsula) and Ukraine. In the Alps it occurs up to above sea level and in the Pyrenees to 2400 meters. The species prefers dry or boggy heathlands.
The wingspan is . Eupithecia nanata is a variable species. The forewings are pointed. The ground colour of the forewings ranges from gray to brown to yellowish brown. In the midfield a contrasting dark lateral band sets itself apart: it initially runs at right angles from the costa. The black discal spot is sometimes unclear. There is a marginal white wavy line, which continues on the hindwings. These are partially paler than the forewings and have a small black discal spot. The fringes are brindled grey or brown and white. See also Prout.
The caterpillars appear in two colour variations: at the beginning of the flowering of the food plant they have an alternating greenish and reddish colour with distinct reddish diamond-like spots on the back. The lateral stripes are white and interrupted. At the main flowering time of the food plants, the caterpillars show only a reddish and violet colour spectrum and are thus visually excellently protected from predators.
The moths fly from March to September depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Calluna species and sometimes Achillea millefolium.
Subspecies
Eupithecia nanata nanata
Eupithecia nanata gelidatoides Warnecke, 1951 Iceland
Eupithecia nanata zebrata Wolff, 1929 Faroe Islands
Eupithecia nanata kozhantschikovi Wehrli, 1929 (raised to species status as Eupithecia kozhantschikovi)
Etymology
The scientific name of the species is derived Latin nanus (meaning a dwarf).
References
External links
Lepiforum e.V.
De Vlinderstichting
nanata
Moths described in 1813
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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The Church of St. John Baptist, Cirencester is a parish church in the Church of England in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
The building reflects architectural styles since the 12th century. The chancel and attached chapel represent the oldest part with the nave having been rebuilt twice and the tower added in the 15th century. The south porch was built by Cirencester Abbey around 1480 and only connected to the church in the 18th century.
It is built of Cotswold stone and is one of the "largest parish churches in England". It contains various tombs and monuments with some fragments of medieval stained glass and wall paintings.
History
The church is medieval. It is renowned for its perpendicular porch, fan vaults and merchants' tombs.
The chancel is the oldest part of the structure, and construction of the current church started in the 12th century on the site of an earlier Saxon one. It was widened in about 1180. Around 1240 the nave was completely rebuilt. The east window dates from around 1300. The original stained glass of the east window has long since disappeared and it is now filled with fifteenth century glass from other parts of the church.
To the north of the chancel is St. Catherine's Chapel which dates from around 1150. It contains a wall painting of St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child, and vaulting given by Abbot John Hakebourne in 1508 when major reconstruction took place funded by the wool trade making it an example of a Wool church. To the north of St. Catherine's Chapel is the Lady Chapel, first built in 1240 and extended in the 15th century. The tower was built and supported by buttresses around 1400.
The Trinity Chapel dates from 1430 to 1460 and was endowed for a priest of the nearby Abbey to say masses for the souls of Kings and Queens. It contains a squint which enabled the priest to synchronise the celebration of mass with that at the high altar. The nave was completely rebuilt between 1515 and 1530 and is a remarkable example of late Perpendicular Gothic architecture. The tower is fifteenth century and remarkable for the large buttresses which shore it up at its junction with the nave. The great south porch which adjoins the market place was built around 1500 at the expense of Alice Avening. It is elaborately decorated. It was built by Cirencester Abbey around 1480, as an administrative centre and only connected to the church in the 18th century. Between the dissolution of the monasteries and its connection to the church it was used as the town hall. The nave was again rebuilt between 1516 and 1530.
In 1642 the church was used to imprison local citizens overnight after the skirmishes in the town during the English Civil War.
During the 1860s George Gilbert Scott led a team undertaking a Victorian restoration to strengthen the church, which included moving many of the bodies interred under the nave to the Lady Chapel. This reduced the level of the floor and introduced sub floor voids. These were investigated during alterations carried out in 2008 and 2009, which discovered evidence of the various periods of the church's construction.
In 2019 a design competition was started to commission statues for niches on the church wall, to replace those removed and lost in 1963.
Architecture and fittings
The Cotswold stone church is long and wide. The three-stage buttressed tower is high. This makes it one of the "largest parish churches in England".
The layout of the church includes a three-bay chancel and three-bay aisled nave. The nave includes arcades of tall piers with carved angels at the tops supporting arches and windows. The west tower houses bells which have been added to and recast, mostly by Rudhall of Gloucester, over the centuries.
The three-storey south porch has carved oriel windows and crenellated parapets topped by decorative pinnacles. The interior is a profusion of panelling in the chambers.
The pulpit dates from the 15th century. The octagonal font was carved in the 14th century. It was returned to the church in the 19th century after it had been discovered in the abbey grounds. The brass chandeliers were made in Bristol in 1701.
There are several stained glass windows. Some of these include fragments of medieval glass but are largely 18th century by Hardman & Co. The east windows of the chancel and south chapel were built around 1300.
There are some surviving fragments of wall paintings particularly in St Catherines chapel, and a wide variety of tombs and monuments. The silver gilt "Boleyn Cup" was made in 1535 for Anne Boleyn and given to the church by Elizabeth I.
Organ
The church possesses a pipe organ built by Father Willis in 1895 with a case by George Gilbert Scott. It was renovated by Rushworth and Dreaper in 1955 and rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 2009.
Parish status
The church is in the combined parish which includes: Holy Trinity Church, Watermoor and St. Lawrence, Chesterton.
Record of incumbents
Thomas Marshall 1558
Thomas Perpointe 1562
William Aldsworth 1574
Thomas Woodlande 1578
John Mortimer 1580
John Stone 1581
Philip Jones 1586
Henry Bishop 1587
Robert Butler 1592
Heymo Leigh 1594
Richard Dyer 1610
John Burgoyne 1616
Alexander Gregory 1632
Thomas Carles 1663–1675†
Jeremiah Gregory 1675–1690 (son of Alexander Gregory)
Joseph Harrison 1690–1753†
Samuel Johnson 1753–1778
Martin Stafford Smith 1778–1789
William Shippen Willes 1789–1806
Henry Anthony Pye 1806–1839†
William Frederick Powell 1839–1868
James Ogilvy Millar 1869–1881
Henry Rudge Hayward 1881–1898 (as Archdeacon of Cirencester from 1883)
John Stewart Sinclair 1898–1908 (appointed Archdeacon of Cirencester)
William Aubrey Robins 1909–1922 (later Archdeacon of Bedford)
Lewis Westmacott 1922–1940
Ronald Huntley Sutch 1941–1962 (as Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1951)
Rowland Edward Hill 1962–1978
John Arthur Lewis 1978–1988 (appointed Archdeacon of Cheltenham)
Hedley Ringrose 1988–1998 (appointed Archdeacon of Cheltenham)
Michael St. John-Channell 1999–2006
James Butterworth 2006–2008
Leonard Doolan 2008–2017
Graham Morris 2018–
References
Cirencester
Cirencester Saint John
Cirencester
Cirencester
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Harry Harding may refer to:
Harry Harding (political scientist) (born 1946), American politician scientist, China specialist
Harry Harding (politician), Canadian politician, member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
Harry Harding, stage name Hazza, Australian singer and television presenter
See also
Henry Harding (disambiguation)
Harold Harding (1900–1986), British civil engineer
Harold Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer
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The Leader (24 October 1909 – 6 September 1967) was one of the most influential English-language newspapers in India during British Raj. Founded by Madan Mohan Malviya, the paper was published in Allahabad. Under C. Y. Chintamani, a dynamic editor from 1909 to 1934, it acquired a large readership in North India. His clash with Motilal Nehru over issue of his freedom as editor, meant that Motilal left within a year, thereafter between 1927 and 1936, Chintamani was not only the Chief Editor of the newspaper, but also the leader of the opposition in the U. P. Legislative Council. Indian National Congress leader, Moti Lal Nehru was the first Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Leader, and the paper remained politically charged through its existence, many of Mahatma Gandhi's writings were also published in it, and it is repository of important writing of that generation.
Archives
The Duke University Library System has newspaper copies from 1963 to 6 September 1967 on microfilm, apart from British Library, Asia, Pacific and African Collections and University of Cambridge, South Asian Studies Centre.
References
External links
The Leader at British Library
1909 establishments in India
1967 disestablishments in India
English-language newspapers published in India
Defunct newspapers published in India
Newspapers established in 1909
Publications disestablished in 1967
Mass media in Prayagraj
Madan Mohan Malaviya
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Checkmate is a 2008 Marathi-language thriller film written and directed by Sanjay Jadhav, produced by Kanchan Satpute and Chandrashekhar Mahamuni. The film stars Ankush Chaudhari, Swapnil Joshi, Rahul Mehendale, Sonali Khare, Sanjay Narvekar.
Plot
Vishal, Mohan, and Tushar fall victim to a fraudulent scheme promising to double their money. When their attempts to seek help from the authorities fail, Vishal takes matters into his own hands by raiding the scheme operator Bhalya's hideout. He manages to escape with the money by orchestrating a fake death for Mohan and Tushar. However, Bhalya discovers that Tushar is alive and takes him to his boss, Sampatrao Mahabal.
Vishal and Mohan eventually find themselves at Sampatrao's location, where a chilling ultimatum awaits. Sampatrao demands that Vishal must either genuinely eliminate Mohan and Tushar or return the embezzled money. In an attempt to evade this dire situation, Mohan devises a ruse proposing a fictitious scheme to repay Sampatrao ₹50 Crore within 30 days. Agreeing to this proposal, Sampatrao keeps Tushar in captivity until the promised sum is returned. To ensure compliance, Sampatrao dispatches his brother Rajan to accompany Vishal and Mohan, serving as a watchful eye on their every move.
Cast
Ankush Choudhary as Vishal Korgaonkar
Swapnil Joshi as Mohan Bhave
Rahul Mehendale as Tushar Jaikar
Sonali Khare as Sunila
Sanjay Narvekar as Rajan Mahabal
Anand Abhyankar as Shekhar Divadkar
Vinay Apte as Sampatrao Mahabal
Bharat Ganeshpure as Raghu Jangam
Sandesh Jadhav as Inspector Sandesh Jadhav
Ravi Kale as Inspector Rane
Ravi Patwardhan as Vishal's father
Hrudaynath Rane as Bhalya
Uday Sabnis as Inspector Zende
Chinmayee Sumeet as Sulochana Mahabal
Smita Talwalkar as Mohan's mother
Resham Tipnis
Madhura Velankar
Priya Khopkar
Asit Redij
Music
The film has only one song which is composed by Ajay–Atul and Sunil Kaushik with lyrics written by Earl D'souza & Ajay Atul.
References
External links
2000s Marathi-language films
2008 films
Films scored by Ajay–Atul
Films directed by Sanjay Jadhav
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The anime series 'Junjō Romantica' is based on the yaoi series Junjō Romantica by Shungiku Nakamura.
Produced by Studio Deen, the anime episodes follow the manga series of the same name by Shungiku Nakamura. Premiering in Japan on TV Hokkaido on April 10, 2008, the series' first season ran for twelve episodes until its conclusion on June 26, 2008. A second season premiered on the same channel on October 12, 2008, where it also ran for twelve episodes. On August 29, 2013, it was announced that more episodes are in production.
The third season began airing on July 8, 2015.
The series uses four pieces of theme music: two opening themes then two ending themes. Pigstar performs both opening themes, with the song used for the opening theme, and for the second season. For the ending theme, by Script is used for the first season's episodes, while by Juned is used for the second. The opening theme in the third season is "Innocent Graffiti" by Fo'xTails and the ending theme is "Kawaranai Sora" (変わらない空 -|lit "Unchanging Sky") by Luck Life.
Episode listing
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
References
External links
Official Junjo Romantica anime site
Official Studio Dean Junjo Romantica anime site
Junjo Romantica
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Platyptilia gonodactyla, also known as the triangle plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in temperate Asia and Europe. It was first described by the Austrian entomologists, Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775.
Distribution
This species can be found in the Palearctic realm. It has a widespread distribution in Britain.
Habitat
These moths inhabit open, grassy areas, waste ground, meadows and spruce forest edge.
Description
The wingspan is 22–28 mm. They have pale brown or grayish wings with chestnut coloured markings towards the tips. This species is very similar to Platyptilia nemoralis, and Platyptilia calodactyla but it shows a very small scaletooth at the dorsum of the third lobe.
The caterpillars are about six millimeters long at the end of March. They have a glossy black head and black mouthparts, prothoracal shield and thoracic legs. The body is yellow, with a broad reddish back.
Biology
The moths fly from May to October depending on the location and are active at dusk and night. This species has two generation a year, in June and in late July–September.
The larvae feed on coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) and sometimes also butterbur (Petasites species). The larvae of the spring generation feed in the stem from the base up to the receptacle of the flower head, with pupation taking place either there or on a leaf. The summer generation are miners. The mine consists of a small, transparent, irregularly shaped full depth mine and there are often several in a single leaf. The frass is granular but there is little to be seen, or it is missing completely. After some time the larvae feeds freely on the underside of the leaf or under a folded leaf margin.
References
External links
Lepiforum
gonodactyla
Leaf miners
Moths described in 1775
Moths of Asia
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Michael Denis
Taxa named by Ignaz Schiffermüller
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My 3 Sisters (Spanish title:Mis 3 hermanas) is a successful Venezuelan telenovela written by Perla Farías and produced by RCTV in 2000.
Scarlet Ortiz and Ricardo Alamo starred as the main protagonists with Roxana Diaz as the main antagonist; Carlos Cruz, Dad Dager, Chantal Baudaux starred as co-protagonists.
Plot
Augusto (Carlos Cruz) and his three sisters Silvia "La Generala", Lisa "La Perfecta" and Beatriz "La Beba" were practically left as orphans after the death of their mother and the unknown whereabouts of their father who abandoned them years ago. Now, Augusto had to place his dreams on hold in order to support his siblings. Now Augusto works as a building materials sales manager at his uncle's company where he works with his wife Margarita (Roxana Diaz) a selfish and ambitious woman who is tired of Augusto's constant support for his sisters and their lack of economic stability. Margarita sets her eyes on Santiago (Ricardo Álamo), a handsome engineer who works to shut down the medical clinic where Lisa (Scarlet Ortiz) works. Lisa and Santiago fall in love with each other. But the problem facing their relationship is that Santiago is engaged to marry Barbara, daughter of Ernesto who is Santiago's boss.
Cast
Starring
Scarlet Ortiz as Lisa Estrada Morandi: Medical nurse studying to become a doctor, Augusto's, Silvia's and Beatriz's sister, Margarita's sister-in-law, Jacinto's daughter, Vicente's god-daughter, Santiago's lover. Marries Santiago at the end of the show.
Ricardo Álamo as Santiago Ortega Díaz: Architect at Solís Construction, Barbara's fiancee, Margarita's one-night stand , Lisa's lover, Eloiza's son. Marries Lisa at the end of the show.
Roxana Díaz as Margarita Álvarez de Estrada: Construction sales person, Augusto's wife, Santiago's one-night stand.
Carlos Cruz as Augusto Estrada Morandi: Margarita's dedicated husband, brother to Silvia, Lisa and Beartiz, Jacinto's son. Later married to Barbara, Vicente's god-son. Marries Barbara at the end of the show.
Also starring
Roberto Moll as Jacinto Estrada / Jaime Contreras: Augusto, Silvia, Lisa and Beatriz's long-lost father, Delia's husband, famous medical doctor.
Dad Dáger as Silvia: Former housewife and later advertising executive. Carlos dedicated wife, mother of twin daughters. Elder sister to Lisa and Beatriz.
Ricardo Bianchi as Carlos Salas: Theatre actor, Silvia's dedicated husband, Augusto, Lisa and Beatriz's brother-in-law.
Chantal Baudaux as Beatriz / La Beba: Youngest child of the Estrada family, high school student, Francisco's girlfriend. Marries Francisco at the end of the show.
Jonathan Montenegro as Francisco Moreno: La Beba's love interest, Roberto's enemy.
Marlene De Andrade as Barbara Solis Quintero: Ernesto and Sofia's daughter, Anibal's sister, dedicated friend of Isabel, Santiago's fiancee. Marries Augusto at the end of the show.
Yul Bürkle as Anibal Solís Quintero: Son of Ernesto and Sofia, Barbara's older brother, Isabel's former lover, obsessed with Lisa. Goes to jail for Augusto's attempted murder.
Yoel Borges as Roberto Giovanni: Don Giovanni's son, worker at Giovanni pizzeria, member of local gang, Beatriz's boyfriend, hates Francisco.
Mirela Mendoza as Isabel Méndez: Art gallery owner, Barbara's best friend, Anibal's former lover, in love with Augusto.
Rodolfo Renwick as Javier: Gym trainer, Santiago's best friend.
Jerónimo Gil as Dr. Gustavo Martínez: Doctor at clinic, in love with Lisa.
Virginia Lancaster as Mimí
Special participation
Manuel Salazar as Ernesto Solís: Owner of Solís Construction, Sofia's wife, father to Anibal and Barbara.
Flor Elena González as Delia Contreras: Dedicated wife of Jacinto, medical laboratory specialist.
Marisela Buitriago as Sofía Quintero de Solís: Socialite, Ernesto's wife, mother to Anibal and Barbara, Álvaro's lover.
Antonio Cuevas as Vicente Quintana: God-father to Augusto, Silvia, Lisa and Beatriz.
Luis Alberto de Mozos as Álvaro Galindez: Lawyer to the Solís family, Ernesto's friend and adviser, Sofia's lover.
Gioia Lombardini as Eloiza Díaz Ortega: Mother of Santiago.
Verónica Cortés as Ángela Morandi de Estrada
Samuel González as Augusto Estrada Morandi
Recurring
Gabriela Santeliz as Anabel
César Bencid as Dr. Serpa
José Félix Cárdenas as Germán
Víctor Rosa-Branco as Ernesto Solano
Gerardo Soto as Iván Gil
Aura Rivas as Ligia Díaz
References
External links
Mis 3 hermanas episode summaries at
Drama 🇲🇾 Hati Yang Dikhianati
Mis 3 hermanas at
RCTV telenovelas
2000 telenovelas
2000 Venezuelan television series debuts
2000 Venezuelan television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Caracas
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Al-Karmil or El-Carmel () was a bi-weekly Arabic-language newspaper founded toward the end of Ottoman imperial rule in Palestine. Named for Mount Carmel in the Haifa district, the first issue was published in December 1908, with the stated purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization".
The owner, editor and key writer for the newspaper was Najib Nassar, a Palestinian Arab Christian and staunch anti-Zionist, whose editorials warning of the dangers posed by Zionism to the Palestinian people were often reprinted in other Syrian newspapers.
Beginning in the 1920s, Najib's wife Sadhij Nassar (c.1900 – c.1970) was also a key editor, administrator and journalist for the newspaper. Besides writing, she also translated articles from the foreign press, and was editor from 1941 to 1944, when the British Mandate authorities refused to grant her a permit.
After the demise of the Ottoman empire in the wake of World War I, Al-Karmil continued to be published during British Mandatory rule in British Palestine well into the 1940s.
Editorial policies
Anti-Zionism
Writing of Al-Karmil and another early Arab Palestinian newspaper, Filastin, Rashid Khalidi characterizes them as "instrumental in shaping early Palestinian national consciousness and in stirring opposition to Zionism." Khalidi contends that almost immediately after the publication of its first issue in December 1908, al-Karmil "became the primary vehicle of an extensive campaign against Zionist settlement in Palestine."
Najib Nassar, owner, editor and journalist for the paper, not only printed news items and editorials concerning Zionism and its aims, but also re-published articles on Zionism from other Arabic newspapers based in Cairo, Beirut and Damascus, such as al-Muqattam, al-Ahram, al-Mufid, al-Ittihad al-'Uthmani, and al-Muqtabas, as well as from Istanbul-based al-Hadara and Jaffa-based Filastin. Further, Nassar devoted detailed coverage to the activities and aims of Zionist organizations in Palestine and abroad. Between March and June 1911, al-Karmil published a sixteen-part series on "Zionism: Its history, objective, and importance" that was later released as a 65-page booklet. The material included condensed translation of the article on Zionism from the Encyclopedia Judaica, and Nassar's comments. The booklet concluded by describing the efforts of Theodor Herzl on behalf of Zionism, calling for men like Herzl, "...who will forget their private interests in favor of the public good," to step forth from among the Palestinian population to oppose Zionism. Nassar's purpose was to incite public opinion against Zionism, whose aims and activities he viewed as a threat to the Arab character of Palestine, but he also focused on alerting the public to instances in which the ruling Ottoman and later British authorities were colluding with Zionists to facilitate Jewish land purchases.
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Najib Nassar spoke out against Turkish entry into the conflict and was put on a wanted list. Accused of spying for the British against Ottoman Turkey and its German allies, he fled from his home in Haifa to Nazareth, and from there, wandered over the Galilee and the eastern bank of the River Jordan. He went on the run for three years, living with Bedouin goat herders in the hills of what is now the Israeli Galilee, West Bank and northern Jordan, narrowly escaping capture.
Women's rights
In 1926, al-Karmil began publishing a "women's page" (Safhat al-nisa) that was edited by Sadhij Nassar, Najib Nassar's wife, who also served as an editor and director of administration for the newspaper as a whole. Her journalistic contributions between 1926 and 1933 have been characterized as a kind of "one-woman press", wherein she commented on a wide range topics, including women's activities locally, regionally, and internationally. Encouraging women to raise their male and female children equally and to take up work to facilitate their economic independence, Sadhij Nassar also urged women to get involved in politics, while avoiding factionalism in favor of unity. For example, in the late 1920s, Nassar wrote, "You are responsible. Yes, you Palestinian Arab ladies, Muslim and Christian, you are responsible for the integrity of the nation (its "watan") and keeping Palestine Arab as it was until now. Every woman will spread the spirit of cooperation among the sons of the Arabs in the souls of her children." In 1930 Sadhij Nassar was a founding member and secretary of the Arab Women's Union in Haifa, which was one of the more militant branches of the women's movement during the British Mandate period.
Relationship with the ruling authorities
Ottoman rule
In its early years, al-Karmil′s editorial line reflected a positive approach toward the ruling imperial authorities, the Turkish Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), but by 1911, like most other pan-Arabist thinkers, it switched to opposing the CUP because of its perceived bias in favor of Zionism. Among the contributing writers to al-Karmil were many who had participated in the Arab revolt of 1916, such as Druze intellectual Ali Nasir al-Din and educator and journalist Hamdi al-Husayni.
British Mandate rule
In the late 1930s, Sadhij Nassar was described by the British authorities as "a menace to public security" and a "prominent agitator". Arrested in March 1939 by British police and held in administrative detention under the Defense Emergency Regulations in a women's prison in Bethlehem until February 1940, when she was detained because "she was actively engaged in subversive propaganda." After her release, she returned to editing al-Karmil, serving as the editor between 1941 and 1944, when the newspaper was operating without a permit after the British authorities had refused to issue one. She continued her activities in the women's movement until 1948, when she became a refugee and wrote for various publications in London and in Damascus, where she tried to open a branch of the Arab Women's Union. She is believed to have died in Damascus during the 1970s.
References
Bibliography
External links
Al-Karmil on Jrayed - Arabic Newspaper Archive of Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine by the National Library of Israel
Anti-Zionism in Mandatory Palestine
Defunct newspapers published in the Ottoman Empire
Newspapers published in Mandatory Palestine
Newspapers established in 1908
Mass media in Haifa
1908 establishments in Ottoman Syria
1944 disestablishments in Mandatory Palestine
Publications disestablished in 1944
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is a railway station in Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). The station opened on March 12, 2011.
Lines
Shin-Ōmuta Station is served by the Kyushu Shinkansen.
Platforms
External links
JR Kyushu - Shin-Ōmuta Station
Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 2011
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A blind arcade or blank arcade is an arcade (a series of arches) that has no actual openings and that is applied to the surface of a wall as a decorative element: i.e., the arches are not windows or openings but are part of the masonry face. It is designed as an ornamental architectural element and has no load-bearing function.
Similar structures
Whereas a blind arch is usually a single arch or a series of joined arches as a frieze (sometimes called Lombard band), a blind arcade is composed of a series of arches that have well-defined columns in between its arches.
A blind arcade may resemble several s (false/blank windows or sealed-up windows) or blind niches that are side by side.
Examples
Blind arcades are a common decorative features on the facades of Romanesque and Gothic buildings throughout Western Europe, and are also a common feature in Byzantine Orthodox churches in Eastern Europe, and in Armenian churches.
See also
Dwarf gallery
Flying butress
References
External links
Dictionary of French Architecture from the 11th to 16th century/Volume 1/Blind Arcade
The Monasery of Marmashen
Arcades (architecture)
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Hellmuth Becker (12 August 1902, Alt Ruppin, Neuruppin – 28 February 1953) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. In World War II, he led the SS Division Totenkopf and was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Post-war, Becker was tried by Soviet authorities twice, for war crimes and sabotage and was executed in 1953, after the second trial.
Career
Born in 1902, Becker joined the army in 1920 and left it in 1932 with the rank of Sergeant major (Wachtmeister). In 1933, he joined the SS and met Wilhelm Bittrich and Hermann Priess. In 1935, Becker was transferred to the SS Totenkopf Standarte "Oberbayern", stationed at the SS-Übungslager Dachau, which later became part of the SS Division Totenkopf. On 9 November 1940, Becker was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander of the SS-Totenkopf-Regiment. From 1942 to 1944 he held the rank of an SS-Standartenführer and saw active duty in the Totenkopf-Division. Early in 1944, he was transferred to SS-Führungshauptamt and in March, he assumed command of the 36th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, SS Division Reichsführer-SS in Italy. On 21 June, he is promoted to SS-Oberführer and in July, commander of the 3rd SS-Panzerdivision Totenkopf. The 1 October 1944 he is promoted to SS-Brigadeführer.
In December 1944, the division was moved to Hungary for the battles around Budapest. The division crossed the Danube River to Vienna, attempting to surrender to the U.S. forces. Under the terms of Germany's capitulation, the surrender was refused and the unit was handed over to the Soviet Red Army.
Becker proved himself a brutal, ruthless and debauched man, even by SS standards according to official Waffen-SS inquiries: "On the Eastern Front, Becker has raped Russian women in public and has appeared completely drunk on several occasions in the frontlines as regimental commander. In Spring 1943, he had organised prostitutes to come to his command centre and on the 20th April 1943, he had all the artillery sent a ten-minute salute salvo to celebrate the Führer’s birthday. Even on the Western front on Christmas 1942, he had organised an orgy for his regiment in the officers' casino. He had destroyed furniture, broken windows and had a horse rode to death by his fellow officers."
Trials, convictions and execution
In November 1947, he was put on trial before a Soviet military court in Poltava and sentenced to 25 years in prison with hard labour for war crimes. While serving his sentence, Becker "tried his jailers' patience" by attempting to manufacture explosives, leading to his retrial. "The personification of the brutal Landsknechts who formed the high-ranking officers of the Waffen-SS", he was convicted and executed in February 1953.
Awards
Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (24 May 1940) & 1st Class (26 June 1940)
German Cross in Gold on 26 September 1942 as SS-Standartenführer in SS-Totenkopf Regiment 3
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Knight's Cross on 7 September 1943 as SS-Standartenführer and commander of the SS Regiment Theodor Eicke.
Oak Leaves on 21 September 1944 as SS-Oberführer and commander of the SS Division Totenkopf
See also
Main article List SS-Brigadeführer
References
Citations
Bibliography
1902 births
1953 deaths
German rapists
People from Neuruppin
SS-Brigadeführer
Recipients of the Gold German Cross
Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Waffen-SS personnel
Nazis convicted of war crimes
Nazis executed by the Soviet Union by firearm
Military personnel from Brandenburg
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Tinga Tinga Tales is a British flash animated children's television series based on African folk tales and aimed at 4 to 6-year-olds. It was commissioned by the BBC for its CBeebies channel. Named after Tingatinga art from Tanzania, Tinga Tinga Tales was produced in Nairobi, Kenya, by Homeboyz Animation, a studio of approximately 50 people. The music is produced by Kenyan singer-songwriter Eric Wainaina. The series comprises 55 episodes and is also available on BBC iPlayer.
The series was first conceived by Claudia Lloyd, head of the animation division at the London-based Tiger Aspect Productions, while travelling through Africa. The first three episodes premiered on the BBC website in early February 2010. The distribution rights have been bought by Entertainment Rights (which in 2009 merged with Classic Media, then in 2012 it was acquired by DreamWorks Animation and renamed into DreamWorks Classics).
Synopsis
Tinga Tinga Tales is centred around various animated animals, and employs music, dialogue and colourful imagery to tell African folk tales about the origins of animals, each narrated by Red Monkey, and answer questions such as "Why do monkeys swing in the trees?" and "Why do flamingos stand on one leg?".
Characters
Main characters
Red Monkey (voiced by Eugene Muchiri (UK)/Geoffrey Curtin (US)): Red Monkey is the narrator of all of the episodes.
Elephant (voiced by Lenny Henry): Elephant has a trunk that cleans his friends.
Lion (voiced by Patrice Naiambana): Lion is the king of Tinga Tinga.
Tortoise (voiced by Shaun Parkes): Tortoise is the genius.
Hippo (voiced by Johnnie Fiori): Hippo lives in a water hole.
Tickbird (voiced by Tameka Empson (UK)/Elizabeth Curtin (US)): Tickbird is the smallest main character.
Orange Monkey (voiced by Ben Spybey)
Yellow Monkey (voiced by Faraaz Meghani)
African characters
Buffalo (voiced by Lenny Henry)
Bat (voiced by Prince Abura (UK)/Jules de Jongh (US))
Frog (voiced by Wakanyote Njuguna)
Warthog (voiced by Kennie Andrews)
Porcupine (voiced by Catherine Wambua)
Crocodile (voiced by Edward Kwach)
Chameleon (voiced by Patrick Kayeki (UK)/Kerry Shale (US))
Hare (voiced by Felix Dexter (UK)/John Guerrasio (US))
Vulture (voiced by Felix Dexter (UK)/Lorelei King (US))
Giraffe (voiced by Miriam Margolyes)
Lizard (voiced by Junior Simpson)
Eagle (voiced by Ninia Benjamin)
Mosquito (voiced by Ninia Benjamin)
Bushbaby (voiced by Bhumi Patel)
Cheetah (voiced by Angelina Koinange (UK)/Sophie Okonedo (US))
Cubs (voiced by Tracy Rabar, Mikayla Odera, Cullie Ruto)
Snake (voiced by Johnny Daukes (UK)/Dan Russell (US))
Aardvark (voiced by Johnny Daukes)
Puffadder (voiced by Johnny Daukes)
Jackal (voiced by Terence Reis)
Rhino (voiced by Terence Reis)
Ants (voiced by Terence Reis)
Chief Ant (voiced by Peter King)
Lieutenant Ant (voiced by Eric Wainaina)
Wildebeests (voiced by Terence Reis)
Zebra (voiced by Eddie Kadi (UK)/Dan Russell (US))
Parrot (voiced by Eddie Kadi)
Flamingo (voiced by Flaminia Cinque)
Ostrich (voiced by Janet Suzman)
Camel (voiced by Paul Shearer (Season 1)/Jim Cummings (Season 2))
Dragonfly (voiced by Corine Onyango)
Leopard (voiced by Dona Croll)
Hyena (voiced by Stephen K Amos)
Millipede/Pediless (voiced by Stephen K Amos)
Baboon (voiced by Anton Rice)
Guinea Fowl (voiced by Rosemary Leach)
Meerkat (voiced by Morwenna Banks)
Impala (voiced by Claudia Lloyd)
Bees (voiced by Claudia Lloyd)
Queen Bee (voiced by Penelope Keith)
Cricket (voiced by Derek Griffiths)
Tinga Tinga Birds (voiced by Atemi Oyungu, Muthoni Mburu)
North American characters
Skunk (voiced by Derek Griffiths)
Caterpillar/Butterfly (voiced by Akiya Henry)
Squirrel (voiced by Miriam Margolyes)
Woodpecker (voiced by Akiya Henry)
Owl (voiced by Meera Syal)
Flea (voiced by Akiya Henry)
Crow (voiced by Achieng Abura)
Hen (voiced by Lindiwe Brown Mkhize)
Spider (voiced by Jocelyn Jee Esien)
Hummingbird (voiced by Maureen Lipman)
Mole (voiced by Sophie Thompson)
Asian characters
Peacock (voiced by Cyril Nri)
Ocean characters
Whale (voiced by Ruth Madoc)
Crab (voiced by Terence Reis)
Fish (voiced by Claudia Lloyd)
Mysterious characters
Majitu the Giant (voiced by Colin McFarlane)
The Sleeping Stones (voiced by Nonso Anozie)
The Wind (voiced by Terence Reis)
Episodes
Series overview
Pilot (2008)
0. Tinga Tinga Tales (2008)
Series 1 (2010)
1. Why Elephant Has a Trunk (15 February 2010)
2. Why Snake Has No Legs (16 February 2010)
3. Why Hippo Has No Hair (17 February 2010)
4. Why Tortoise Has a Broken Shell (18 February 2010)
5. Why Hen Pecks the Ground (19 February 2010)
6. Why Bat Hangs Upside-down (22 February 2010)
7. Why Warthog is So Ugly (23 February 2010)
8. Why Owl's Head Turns All the Way Round (24 February 2010)
9. Why Monkeys Swing in the Trees (25 February 2010)
10. Why Tickbird Sits on Hippo's Back (26 February 2010)
11. Why Frog Croaks (3 March 2010)
12. Why Spider Has a Tiny Waist (4 March 2010)
13. Why Vulture is Bald (5 March 2010)
14. Why Giraffe Has a Long Neck (6 March 2010)
15. Why Porcupine Has Quills (7 March 2010)
16. Why Lizard Hides Under Rocks (10 March 2010)
17. Why Crocodile Has a Bumpy Back (11 March 2010)
18. Why Jackal Howls at the Moon (12 March 2010)
19. Why Hare Hops (13 March 2010)
20. Why Mosquito Buzzes (16 March 2010)
21. Why Rhino Charges (19 April 2010)
22. Why Caterpillar is Never in a Hurry (20 April 2010)
23. Why Lion Roars (23 April 2010)
24. Why Zebra Has Stripes (24 April 2010)
25. Why Flamingo Stands on One Leg (28 April 2010)
26. Why Woodpecker Pecks (29 April 2010)
Series 2 (2010–11)
27. Why Ostrich Sticks Her Head in the Ground (22 November 2010)
28. Why Camel Has a Hump (23 November 2010)
29. Why Wildebeest Stampede (24 November 2010)
30. Why Chameleon Changes Colour (25 November 2010)
31. Why Leopard Has Spots (26 November 2010)
32. Why Hyena Has Short Back Legs (29 November 2010)
33. Why Ants Work Together (30 November 2010)
34. Why Flea Jumps (1 December 2010)
35. Why Hummingbird Hums (2 December 2010)
36. Why Baboon Has a Bare Bottom (3 December 2010)
37. Why Bees Sting (6 December 2010)
38. Why Peacock Struts (7 December 2010)
39. Why Aardvark Has a Sticky Tongue (8 December 2010)
40. Why Whale Spouts (9 December 2010)
41. Why Parrot Can't Keep a Secret (10 December 2010)
42. Why Bushbaby Has Big Eyes (21 March 2011)
43. Why Guinea Fowl Has Dots (22 March 2011)
44. Why Buffalo Has Horns (23 March 2011)
45. Why Puffadder Sheds His Skin (24 March 2011)
46. Why Eagle Rules the Skies (25 March 2011)
47. Why Skunk Smells (26 March 2011)
48. Why Cricket Chirrups (27 March 2011)
49. Why Mole Lives Underground (28 March 2011)
50. Why Squirrel Gathers Nuts (29 March 2011)
51. Why Meerkat is Always on the Lookout (30 March 2011)
52. Why Cheetah Has Tears (31 March 2011)
Home Media
The series was released on DVD in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures UK and Classic Media.
References
External links
(archived)
Miscellaneous Crew
2010 British television series debuts
2010 Kenyan television series debuts
2011 British television series endings
2011 Kenyan television series endings
2010s British children's television series
2010s Kenyan television series
BBC children's television shows
British children's animated adventure television series
Kenyan animated television series
British flash animated television series
British television shows based on children's books
Animated television series about elephants
Animated television series about lions
Animated television series about monkeys
Animated television series about turtles
2010s British animated television series
Television series by Tiger Aspect Productions
Television series by Endemol
DreamWorks Classics
CBeebies
British preschool education television series
Animated preschool education television series
2010s preschool education television series
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Lewis Wormser Harris (1812–1876) was an Irish bill-broker, financier, member of the Dublin Corporation and prominent member of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation. He was the first Jew elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, but died before he could take office.
Background
Harris was born Samuel Wormser on 5 April 1812, to Isaac Samuel Wormser and Sheinle Ephraim, in Aldingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. He moved to Ireland in 1821, living in the residence of a Charles Harris, a watchmaker, and soon after adopted the surname Harris. He operated very successfully as a financier with offices in Suffolk Street, Dublin.
Political career
In 1874, he was elected Alderman of Dublin Corporation representing the South Dock Ward, the first member of Dublin's Jewish community to hold such a position. In 1876 he was the first Jew elected as Lord Mayor; however, he died just before he was due to take up the office.
Jewish community
On three occasions he was President of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation: 1847-48, 1851–52, and 1860–63. In 1853, he was involved in the foundation of the synagogue in Stafford Street.
Family
Lewis was married twice, first to Caroline Ellen Picard (1817-1855). She was born Hendel b. Raphael Picard in Strasbourg, France. They married in 1836 and had four children: Alfred, Hannah (Annie), Morris (Moshe) and Raphael.
After his first wife's death, Lewis married Juliette Joseph (1821-1908) in 1857 with whom he had five children: Herbert, Ernest, Lionel Simon, Arthur and Walter. Juliette died in Brighton in 1908 and was interred at Ballybough Cemetery, Dublin, one of the last people to be buried at that cemetery.
Lewis' son Alfred Wormser Harris was also elected an Alderman for Dublin Corporation and like his father was President of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation from 1867 to 1873. In 1880 Alfred stood for election in Kildare as a Liberal.
Death
Harris died on 1 August 1876 in Bray, County Wicklow.
References
1812 births
1876 deaths
German emigrants to Ireland
Irish Jews
Irish people of German-Jewish descent
Lord Mayors of Dublin
19th-century Irish Jews
19th-century Irish politicians
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Bobby McLeod (1947 – 30 May 2009) was an Aboriginal activist, poet, healer, musician and Yuin elder. He was from Wreck Bay Village, Jervis Bay Territory. He was involved in the fight for Aboriginal rights in Australia and travelled the world speaking about cultural lore, health and healing.
Life
Bobby was born in 1947, the oldest of 6 kids, and a descendant of the Jaimathang, Gunai Kurnai, Monero, Wandandian, and Yuin people from south eastern Australia. He grew up at Worragee, an Aboriginal community outside Nowra. His father, Arthur, was a labourer, a boxer, and an alcoholic. His mother, Isabelle, was active in the Worragee-Wreck Bay chapter of the Country Women's Association and the local Baptist church. Her father was Robert Brown, the first Aboriginal stipendiary magistrate. His father's father was a black tracker on the NSW south coast. Bobby started his singing career in the Baptist Youth Fellowship choirs. He learnt to play the guitar from Jimmy Little's family.
Bobby completed his Intermediate at Nowra High School in 1963, excelling at sport. His family moved to the new "model suburb" of Green Valley in Sydney's south-west. In 1966, a Sydney City Mission report on the suburb described "a lack of community life, a breakdown in family life, large numbers of deserted wives, needy children and bewildered people". Within two years of moving there, Bobby had been sentenced to five years in jail for assault and robbery after a fight at Blacktown RSL.
After being released from prison in 1968, Bobby played rugby league for the Redfern All Blacks.
Bobby was in prison a second time in 1973 when his father died. He wrote his first song, "Wayward Dreams", after attending the funeral on day release.
After being released from jail, Bobby lived at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of parliament house in Canberra. On 28 February 1974, he achieved some notoriety when he "arrested" Francis Herbert Moy, an assistant secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs (DAA), at gunpoint. The incident happened in the DAA offices in Canberra.
Earlier that day there had been a land rights demonstration when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrived at Parliament House for the opening of parliament.
Bobby had gone into the DAA office with Reuben John Smith and Neville Foster, looking for the department head, Barrie Dexter, who was away in Tasmania at the time. They held Moy and three other DAA staff members in the office for an hour and a half. Bobby allegedly told them "I'm going to keep you here for four or five days and teach you to starve".
After about an hour Charlie Perkins arrived from outside parliament house and convinced Bobby to give him the gun. Charlie removed the bullets from the gun, which he later handed over to the police. The fact that there were no bullets in the gun when it was given to the police meant that Bobby was only charged with possession of an unlicensed gun, rather than the much more serious charge that would have followed if it had been loaded.
Bobby was fined $40 for the incident and put on a 12-month good behaviour bond. He remained grateful to Charlie Perkins for having the presence of mind to remove the bullets. The matter was discussed in parliament.
A few days after the incident, during an interview on ABC radio, Bobby said "I would die for my people, I'm not frightened of that".
After that, Bobby left Canberra for Melbourne, where he played with a group called the Kooriers with Paul and Dudley (aka Doug) Meredith, a couple of musicians from Cherbourg in Queensland. They played a lot of union gigs and recorded a demo tape at the ABC studios. According to Bobby, the Kooriers music expressed "the confusion and frustration of Aborigines and their cultural dilemma which came as a result of westernisation".
Bobby said later that the reason why the Kooriers didn't go further than they did was because they drank too much. When the Meredith brothers left Melbourne, he immersed himself even more deeply in alcohol, singing here and there, but mostly devoting his life to drinking. He hit rock bottom in 1983 when he went into an alcohol-related coma for seven days, and nearly died. That was his wakeup call and he returned to Nowra, after an absence of twenty years, and gave up drinking permanently.
In 1987, Bobby played at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. While he was there, he met people from the Enrec recording studio and ended up recording with them, Buddy Knox and Mick Lieber. This led to his first album Culture Up Front being released by Larrikin Records in 1987.
In 1990, Bobby, along with Vic Simms, Roger Knox and the Euraba band were invited to North America by Indigenous Americans, to play prisons and reservations. When he got back to Australia, he recorded his second album Spirit Mother, backed by the Flying Emus. Talking about the change of mood from his previous album, Bobby said "[......] if you sing about the sorrow of things, it sort of keeps people in that sadness. So what I did [with Spirit Mother] was to try and change it to find out what was good about being me and stuff."
Inspired by his experiences with Indigenous people in Canada, Bobby set up the Doonooch Aboriginal Healing and Cultural Centre at Wreck Bay in 1990 - initially as an attempt to address the high levels of violence found in Aboriginal communities. 'Doonooch' refers to the owl dreaming.
In the early 1990s, he started the Doonooch dance group, primarily as a way to keep young Aboriginal people away from alcohol and other drugs and provide them with gainful employment and a cultural and spiritual awakening. In 2000 the Doonooch dancers performed at the Olympic Games opening ceremony and at the World Indidgenous Forum in Noumea.
In 2002 Bobby McLeod co-taught, along with Dr. Tom Balistrieri, an engineering class at Worcester Polytechnic Institute titled, Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Technology. The class focused on Life Lore and Dead Lore and how engineers must take this into account when designing and building projects. Bobby lived in the home of Tom and Kathryn Balistrieri during that time.
McLeod's album Dumaradje was nominated for Best World Music Album at the 2005 ARIA Awards.
"Wayward Dreams" was featured in both the SBS documentary and the accompanying cd, Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music.
Selected performances
Oz Against Apartheid, 26 June 1986, Selina's Coogee Bay Hotel
With Roger Knox and Euraba Band, 5 December 1986, The Settlement, Chippendale
Tamworth Country Music Festival, 1987, Tamworth
Festival of Pacific Arts, August 1988, Townsville
Building Bridges Music Festival, 26 January 1990, Bondi Pavilion
Afrika Night, 24 March 1990, Paddington Town Hall
Support People of the Rainforests, 14 October 1990, Paddington Town Hall
Discography
Albums
Awards and nominations
ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.
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References
1947 births
2009 deaths
Australian indigenous rights activists
Indigenous Australian musicians
Indigenous Australian writers
Writers from New South Wales
20th-century Australian poets
Australian male poets
20th-century Australian musicians
20th-century Australian male writers
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Rysselberghe may refer to:
Van Rysselberghe family, Belgian family of artists
Théo van Rysselberghe (1862–1926), Belgian neo-impressionist painter, after whom is named:
18643 van Rysselberghe, an asteroid.
Bernard Van Rysselberghe (1905–1984), Belgian cyclist.
Dorian van Rijsselberghe (born 1988), Dutch sailor.
Jacqueline van Rysselberghe (born 1965), Chilean politician.
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Van Rysselberghe is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Van Rysselberghe family, Belgian family of artists
Bernard Van Rysselberghe (1905–1984), Belgian cyclist
Dorian van Rijsselberghe (born 1988), Dutch sailor
Dutch-language surnames
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Mittelndorf is a village in Saxony, Germany, situated in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge. It was one of the villages that composed the municipality of Kirnitzschtal. Since 1 October 2012, it is part of the town Sebnitz.
History
The oldest structure of the village is the mill (Mittelndorfer Mühle), built in 1518.
Geography
Mittelndorf is located in the mountain range of Saxon Switzerland, not too far from the river Kirnitzsch. It lies on the S154 road, which links Bad Schandau and Sebnitz, between the villages of Altendorf and Lichtenhain. It is from Sebnitz and Bad Schandau, from Pirna, from Děčín (in the Czech Republic) and circa from Dresden.
Climate
Transport
Mittelndorf has got a rail stop on the Bautzen–Bad Schandau railway, situated in the forest close to the village. This stop has a rare peculiarity for a train station situated on a normal national rail line: it has not a road to reach it but a simple forest trail. A similar thing in Europe could be found, for example, in the stations of Kloster Marienthal (Engers-Au line, Germany); Pertosa, in southern Italy; or Corrour, in Scotland.
The village is also served by the suburban tramway line "Kirnitzschtalbahn" Bad Schandau–Lichtenhainer Wasserfall, with the stops of Mittelndorfer Mühle (at the mill) and Forsthaus, not too far from Mittelndorf.
See also
Mittelndorf railway station
References
External links
Former municipalities in Saxony
Sebnitz
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Chojnów may refer to:
Chojnów in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland
the Gmina Chojnów district, also in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Chojnów in the Masovian Voivodeship in Poland
the Chojnów Landscape Park, also in the Masovian Voivodeship
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Lithuania–Ukraine relations are foreign relations between Lithuania and Ukraine. Both countries are members of the Lublin Triangle, OSCE, Council of Europe, World Trade Organization and United Nations. Lithuania supports Ukraine's European Union and NATO membership. Lithuania has an embassy in Kyiv and Ukraine has an embassy in Vilnius.
History
Ever since the rule of Gediminas in the 1300s much of present-day Ukraine was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Between 1569 and 1795 Poland and Lithuania formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth which incorporated much of what is now Ukraine. Following the partitions of Commonwealth, the bulk of Lithuania and present-day Ukraine fell to the Russian Empire. Both countries formed part of the USSR (Ukraine since 1922, Lithuania since 1944) until 1991.
A number of agreements were signed in November 2009 including the mutual recognition of university qualifications and cooperation in preserving cultural heritage; furthermore, Lithuania promised assistance to Ukraine in its aspirations to become a member of the European Union.
In 2014, the Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė voiced her support for Ukraine in the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War. In January 2015, Lithuania requested a United Nations Security Council meeting due to the ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Later on, Vytautas Landsbergis declared that he believes the Minsk agreement to be "worse than Munich".
In 2021, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted the importance of Lithuania's support for Ukraine's European Union and NATO aspirations, while the Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda noted that Lithuania supports Ukraine's progress and welcomes reforms in Ukraine.
Following the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lithuania has strongly condemned the invasion and called for military, economic and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. In the prelude of invasion, on 13 February 2022, Lithuania sent FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems and ammunition to Ukraine. Military aid further continued and, according to the Lithuanian Minister of National Defence, as of 21 November 2022, the total aid to Ukraine amounted to €660 million, of which the military aid was €240 million.
Overview
According to the 2016 census, 17,679 ethnic Ukrainians were living in Lithuania, mostly in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Jonava, and Visaginas. Moreover, Lithuania is a popular destination for the Ukrainian migrants and over 21,800 Ukrainians have work-based residence permits. The Ukrainians evaluate Lithuania positively.
Over 7,000 ethnic Lithuanians are living in Ukraine and are represented by the Lithuanian community of Ukraine organization there. Lithuania consistently supports Ukraine in Russo-Ukrainian War. Lithuania has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine joining NATO.
Gallery
See also
Embassy of Ukraine in Vilnius
Foreign relations of Lithuania
Foreign relations of Ukraine
Ukraine–EU relations
Ukrainians in Lithuania
Lithuanians in Ukraine
Accession of Ukraine to the European Union
References
External links
Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign affairs: list of bilateral treaties with Ukraine (in Lithuanian only)
Lithuanian embassy in Kyiv (in Lithuanian and Ukrainian only)
Ukrainian embassy in Vilnius
Bilateral relations of Ukraine
Ukraine
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Lofthouse and Outwood railway station served the Outwood area of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was opened by the Methley Joint Railway in 1869, 1876 and closed in 1957. Here the line from Lofthouse Junction on the line between Cutsyke and Methley of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway joined the GNR line between Leeds and Wakefield in a triangular junction, of which the station formed the southern corner. It was situated south of Outwood railway station which was opened in 1988 and south of the bridge of Lingwell Gate Lane.
References
Disused railway stations in Wakefield
Former Methley Joint Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1869
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1958
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Sideridis reticulata, commonly known as the bordered Gothic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm, from the Iberian Peninsula throughout Europe and the temperate regions of Central Asia and the Russian Far East. In the north it occurs in Fennoscandia south of the Arctic Circle. In the south it ranges to the Mediterranean. It rises to over 2000 metres above sea level in the Alps.
Technical description and variation
The wingspan is 32–37 mm. Forewing dark fuscous, with a purplish sheen when fresh; all the veins white, between outer and submarginal lines black with pale outlines; claviform stigma black and broad; upper stigmata concisely outlined with pale, the reniform with a central pale line; a slight pale apical streak; submarginal line white; hindwing fuscous, the basal half, especially in male, considerably paler; — unicolor Alph. is said to have no violet tinge; but this is always the case when the insect has been out for any length of time.
Biology
The moth flies from May to August depending on the location.
Larva greenish or pinkish ochreous, irrorated (speckled) with darker; dorsal line faint; lateral lines black and well-marked; head brown. The larvae feed on Saponaria officinalis, Silene vulgaris and Polygonum aviculare.
The species has disappeared from the United Kingdom as a resident species during the first decade of the 21st century.
References
External links
Bordered Gothic at UKmoths
Funet Taxonomy
Lepiforum.de
Vlindernet.nl
Hadenini
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1781
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The Changi Tree, also known as The Time Tree, was a tree in Singapore that was noted for its height of 76 meters. The species of the tree is unclear, but it was either Hopea sangal or Sindora wallichii. It has been said that Changi was named after this tree. It has been recorded that Changi was named after Neobalanocarpus heimii by the legendary botanist H.N. Ridley. However, there has been no evidence that the tree had ever been in Changi.
History
The Changi Tree started appearing on maps at around 1888. The tree was a major landmark due to its height.
In February 1942, during World War II, the tree was cut in order to prevent the Japanese from using the tree as a ranging point. According to folklore, the fall of the tree would cause the fall of Singapore itself.
In February 2001, the Singapore Tourism Board planted a new "Changi tree" at the Changi Museum.
See also
List of individual trees
References
Flora of Singapore
Individual trees in Singapore
1940s individual tree deaths
Destroyed individual trees
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Donald MacLennan (March 22, 1875 – October 19, 1953) was a lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Inverness County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 to 1925 and then Inverness—Richmond in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1940 as a Liberal member. MacLennan sat for Margaree Forks division in the Senate of Canada from 1940 to 1953.
He was born in Margaree, Nova Scotia, the son of Donald MacLennan and Flora MacDonald. MacLennan was educated at Saint Francis Xavier College. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University in 1905. In the same year, he married Mathilda McDaniel. He was called to the bar in the following year and set up practice at Port Hood. MacLennan was president of the Eastern Journal Publishing Company. He served on the municipal council for Port Hood in 1907 and was named treasurer for Inverness County in 1910. MacLennan ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in 1926, but was elected in 1935. He was called to the Senate on January 29, 1940 and remained in that position until his death at the age of 76.
References
Allison, D & Tuck, CE History of Nova Scotia, Vol. 3 (1916) p. 267-8
1875 births
1953 deaths
Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia
Canadian senators from Nova Scotia
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Belarus and Lithuania established diplomatic relations on 24 October 1991, shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The two countries share of common border. Lithuania's border with Belarus is the country's longest border. For Belarus it is its 3rd-longest border.
Vilnius hosts multiple Belarusian civil society organizations, such as European Humanities University, Belarusian refugees such as Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, remains of national heroes the two countries share like Konstanty Kalinowski and has been the birthplace of Belarusian literature (Francysk Skaryna). Vilnius is the closest capital of an EU member state to Minsk. It is also the primary foreign shopping and air transit hub (via Vilnius and Kaunas airports) for Belarusians from Minsk and beyond. Minsk is the foundational place of Belarusian Lithuanian community organization, 1996 – Lithuanian Sunday school. In 1998, Lithuanian culture and art days were held here. In 2004, a Lithuanian school-course was established. In 2005 September 4 Belarusian Lithuanian Community Congress took place in Minsk. On the initiative of the Lithuanian association Vytis founded in 2012 (chairman Vladas Bublevičius), a Lithuanian language school for children has been held in the premises of the Lithuanian Embassy since 2013, courses for adults at the Maksim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University, in 2014 an evening of poetry and songs My Lithuania was organized at the Republican Center for National Cultures. From 2019 November a Lithuanian Sunday school has been operating in the Lithuanian language office of the Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maksim Tank. Grodno is a popular foreign shopping and tourism location for many Lithuanians due to its close proximity to the Lithuanian border and overall historical importance to Lithuania.
History
Until the 20th century
The relations between ancestors of Belarusians and Lithuanians (Eastern Slavs and Balts) have been developing since ancient times; their close communication is shown by archaeological and linguistic data. From the 13th century to the end of the 14th century in the current territory of Belarus, the former principalities of Polotsk, Minsk, Turov and others were annexed by the expanding Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL). The Slavic provinces of the GDL were called "Lithuanian Ruthenia" (Litovskaja Rus). From 1566 to 1772, six of the nine GDL voivodeships were Belarusian with the remaining 3 being Lithuanian. Belarusian and Lithuanian nobles, partly townsmen and peasants, together defended the GDL, participated in the liberation movement, especially in the uprisings of 1830-31 and 1863-64. Throughout the 19th century in both states, the Polish-speaking nobility remained, but cherished the cultural and political traditions of the GDL. From the 19th century to the early-20th century, joint social democratic organizations operated in Lithuania and Belarus.
First half of the 20th century
In 1918 Lithuania was one of the first countries to recognize the independence of Belarus. After its territory was occupied by the Red Army in 1918, the Belarusian government in exile operated for some time in the temporary capital of Lithuania, Kaunas. According to an agreement between Lithuania and Belarus, the Grodno region was given to Lithuania, Belarusian units formed there took part in the Lithuanian independence struggle. There were six Belarusian representatives in the Council of Lithuania.
In 1940, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic transferred cities and surroundings of Švenčionys, Dieveniškės, Druskininkai to the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic that were mostly inhabited by Lithuanians. According to a 26 September 1940 meeting protocol of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, narrated during the meeting that previously he discussed with the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin the issue of the territorial transfers between the Byelorussian SSR and the Lithuanian SSR and Stalin said to him that if he will not transfer territories where there are many Lithuanians he will be punished.
After the restoration of independence
On 20 December 1991, the Supreme Council of Lithuania recognized the independence of Belarus, with the same happening vice versa seven days later. On 30 December 1992, an agreement on diplomatic relations was signed in Minsk. The Belarus–Lithuania border is defined by a February 1995 treaty, with the ground demarcation of the border being completed in 2007. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made two official visits to Lithuania in 1995 and September 2009. On 27 October 2010, President Dalia Grybauskaitė became the first ever Lithuanian head of state to the Belarusian capital of Minsk, as well as the second leader of an EU member nation to visit Belarus (Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the first). In April 2020, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and Lukashenko had the first tête-à-tête conversation in 10 years. In May 2019, former president and Member of the European Parliament Rolandas Paksas paid a visit to Belarus for the first time in an official capacity, discussing proposals to stabilize the military-political situation in the Baltic Sea.
Rifts in relations
Each country hosts opposition figures for the other, with Belarus sheltering coup-leader Vladimir Uskhopchik and Lithuania harboring Belarusian opposition figures. Lithuania has attempted to encourage a European orientation in Belarusian leadership, and has pursued trade deals and cooperation among law enforcement agencies. Sharing of information led to the arrest of Belarusian human-rights activist Ales Bialiatski, resulting in European condemnation of both countries.
Lithuania has been a vocal critic of the Astravets Nuclear Power Plant which was built close to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. On 7 February 2019, the Meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention decided that Belarus had violated the convention in choosing a construction site for its nuclear power plant.
Following the Lukashenko government's crackdown after the disputed 2020 Belarus Presidential elections, which were widely regarded as unfree and unfair, Belarusian opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya fled to Lithuania. On 12 August Lithuania opened its borders to all Belarusians for humanitarian purposes due to the crackdown on protests. Two days later on August 14, Lithuania became the first EU state to openly reject the legitimacy of Alexander Lukashenko as the President of Belarus. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said "We can not call Mr. Lukashenko legitimate because there were no free democratic elections in Belarus".
Following the Ryanair Flight 4978 incident on 23 May 2021, during which Belarus officials arrested two passengers, opposition activist and journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, the relations between the countries have further deteriorated. On 25 May 2021 Lithuanian parliament announced ban for all flights from and to Lithuania via Belarus airspace.
Belarus is reported to be the main source (93%) of illegally smuggled cigarettes in Lithuania.
2021 migrant crisis
In June 2021, Lithuanian officials claimed that Belarusian authorities could encourage illegal migration from Iraq and Syria to Lithuania by organizing groups of refugees and helping them to cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. State-owned travel company Tsentrkurort was named as one of the performers of illegal migration. A number of roomy planes from Bagdad and Istanbul full of possible migrants were said to land in Minsk airport. Belarusian indepdendent journalists checked the airport and claimed that the majority of passengers arrived from Iraq and Turkey were men aged 30–50 who were met by two travel agencies. It was assumed that the state support of illegal migration could be carried out for political reasons. On 7 July 2021, Lithuania declared state of emergency due to influx of migrants from Belarus. Statement of Alexander Lukashenko about possible emergence of armed migrants was considered to be a threat.
According to investigation of Lithuanian LRT, the most frequent category of migrants, Iraqi Kurds, claimed that they were told that entering European Union via Belarus is legal. After a few days in Belarusian hotels migrants were collected, taken to the border and set the direction of movement on foot claiming that the car will wait them in Lithuania. It was reported that they paid up to €15,000 for travel and a US$3,000–4,000 deposit. According to the investigation of Belarusian reform.by, people from Middle East believe that they should destroy their passport in to avoid deportation from EU. Anonymous sources in Belarusian border guards claimed that their bosses started to encourage cigarette smuggling via checkpoints and to encourage gaps in border cover. Another border guard told reform.by about receiving a verbal order to turn a blind eye to illegal migrants.
In July 2021, Lithuanian Seimas passed a law (signed by president Gitanas Nausėda on 21 July) making deportation of illegal migrants from Lithuania easier.
By August 2022 more than 13,000 people had been pushed back to Belarus since August 2021 and a 502 km 4m high fence with razor wire, along the border had been completed.
After Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 18 January 2023, Lithuanian government renounced the agreement signed with Belarus on the principles of cross-border cooperation. The bill terminated the agreement signed by the governments of Lithuania and Belarus in Vilnius on June 1, 2006, to set out areas of cross-border cooperation between the two neighbouring countries.
One of the two rail crossings was closed in February 2023 because of excessive smuggling from Belarus to Lithuania and Kaliningrad.
In August 2023, following a survey, Lithuania announced that 254 Russian and 910 Belarusian citizens living in Lithuania posed a threat to national security and that their residence permits will be revoked.
Two of the six road border crossings will be closed by Lithuania on 18 August 2023 due to concerns over Wagner Group mercenaries and smuggling.
Resident diplomatic missions
Belarus has an embassy in Vilnius and a consulate-general in Klaipėda.
Lithuania has an embassy in Minsk and a consulate-general in Grodno.
See also
Belarus–European Union relations
Litvinism
Lithuanians in Belarus
External links
Belarusian embassy in Vilnius
Lithuanian embassy in Minsk (in Lithuanian and Russian only)
Lithuanian general consulate in Hrodna (in Lithuanian and Russian only)
Diena.lt -- Prezidentė Dalia Grybauskaitė Minske 2010-10-20
References
Lithuania
Belarus
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The Solide expedition was the second successful circumnavigation by the French, after that by Bougainville. It occurred from 1790 to 1792 but remains little known due to its mainly commercial aims, in the fur trade between the northwest American coast and China. It was led by the French navigator Étienne Marchand (1755–1793).
See also
European and American voyages of scientific exploration
Notes and references
External links
http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=3661
Marquesas Islands
1790 in France
1790 in science
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Lithuania – United Kingdom relations are foreign relations between the United Kingdom and Lithuania.
Lithuania and the UK formally established diplomatic relations on 20 December 1922. The UK never recognised de jure the Soviet annexation of 1940. The UK recognised the restoration of Lithuanian independence on 27 August 1991. Both countries re-established diplomatic relations in October 1991. The United Kingdom has an embassy in Vilnius and an honorary consulate in Klaipėda. Lithuania has an embassy in London and five honorary consulates (in Northern Ireland, Northumberland, Scotland, Wales and the West Midlands).
Overview
There are around 100,000 Lithuanian people living in the United Kingdom. Both countries are full members of NATO.
The current ambassador to Lithuania is Brian Olley, ambassador to the UK is Renatas Norkus.
In 2006, the Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II paid a visit to Lithuania.
Gallery
See also
Foreign relations of the United Kingdom
Foreign relations of Lithuania
Lithuanians in the United Kingdom
References
External links
British Foreign and Commonwealth Office about relations with Lithuania
British embassy in Vilnius
Lithuanian embassy in London
Bilateral relations of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation is a band from the Netherlands playing a mix of ska, jazz, rocksteady, reggae and soul, with a strong 1960s influence.
Discography
2015: Knock-Turn-All (WTF Records)
2007: Motiv Loco (Megalith Records)
2005: Sunwalk U.S. (Megalith Records)
2005: Sunwalk (Grover Records)
2004: Black Night - Bright Morning (Grover Records)
2003: Shake Your Foundation! (Grover Records)
Current members (as of 2011)
Arjen Bijleveld - Trombone
Zoot - Sax
Joep van Rhijn - Trumpet
Jeroen van Tongeren - Guitar
Merijn van de Wijdeven - Bass
Hidde Wijga - Keys
Dimitri Jeltsema - Drums
External links
Official website
Musical groups from Rotterdam
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The Pomeranians () are a German people native to the historical region of Pomerania. In modern times, its population inhabits Germany, including the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Nowadays there are about 10 million descendants of Germans in Brazil, a part of these Brazilians are of Pomeranian origin.
History
In the High Middle Ages, groups of people migrated to Pomerania during the Ostsiedlung. These migrants, consisting of Germans from what is now Northwestern Germany, Danes, Dutch and Flemings, gradually outnumbered and assimilated the West Slavic tribes of the Rani, Liutizians and Slavic Pomeranians. The evolving society () was speaking the East Pomeranian, Central Pomeranian and Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch dialects of Low German. Mostly German immigration continued until the 20th century. The Thirty Years' War caused a severe population drop: only one-third of the pre-war Pomeranian population survived. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many Pomeranians emigrated to prospering West German industrial centers or overseas during the Ostflucht. Low German was gradually replaced by Standard German, though spoken with an accent. After World War II, most of the former Province of Pomerania became Polish, and nearly all Pomeranians living east of the Oder-Neisse line fled or were expelled to post-war Germany. Therefore, Pomeranians today live not only in Western Pomerania but are dispersed all over Germany and other countries.
References
Pomerania
Ethnic groups in Germany
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Antoine Jean Marie Thévenard (7 December 1733, in Saint-Malo – 9 February 1815, in Paris) was a French politician and vice admiral. He served in the French ruling regimes of Louis XVI, those of the Revolution, Napoleon I and Louis XVIII, and is buried at the Panthéon de Paris. His son Antoine-René Thévenard, capitaine de vaisseau, was killed at the Battle of Aboukir whilst commanding the 74-gun Aquilon.
Career
Thévenard was born to Antoine Thévenard, a senior officer in the merchant navy, and Jeanne Moinet. He began sailing as a lieutenant in 1747 on merchantmen captained by his father, and went on to sail for the Compagnie des Indes.
Aged 12 he embarked on a Compagnie des Indes ship and fought in several battles. He became a lieutenant in 1754 and destroyed the English establishments on the Newfoundland coast and took part in the pirate François Thurot's expedition to Ireland (1759). He earned the rank of Capitaine de vaisseau in the Compagnie des Indes in 1764, and earned his first command of an East Indianer in 1768.
Thévenard enlisted in the French Royal Navy in 1770, where his rank in the Compagnie des Indes earned him the rank of Commander. He was appointed Knight of the Order of Saint Louis and rose to captain in 1773, commanded the Lorient fleet from 1779, was promoted to Brigadeer of the naval armies in 1784, and eventually to Chef d'escadre in 1783.
In May 1791, Thévenard replaced Fleurieu as ministre de la Marine under Louis XVI, but resigned in September 1791, fallen out of favour because of his political opinions against the French Revolution.
Promoted Vice-amiral in 1793, he commanded the fleets at Brest, then Toulon, then Rochefort, and became Préfet maritime of Lorient then Toulon in 1801, where he remained until 1815.
In October 1799, Thévenard presided at the court-martial of Rear-Admiral Perrée, to examine the events of the action of 18 June 1799, in which he had lost his ships. He similarly presided at the court-martial following the capture of the Guillaume Tell in 1800, and the enquiry on the conduct of Rear-Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley at the Battle of Trafalgar. In 1809, he investigated the capitulation of Flessingen.
On 5 February 1810 he was made a comte d'Empire and member of the Sénat conservateur. In this capacity, he voted for the dismissal of Napoléon in 1814, which earned him an appointment to the Chambre des Pairs by Louis XVIII after the Bourbon Restoration in 1814. On 27 December 1814, he was promoted Commandeur in the Order of Saint-Louis.
Thévenard died on 9 February 1815 and was interred in the Panthéon in Paris.
Memberships
1771 : Member of the Académie de Marine
1787 : Member of the Académie des Sciences
Honours
1773 : Knight of the Ordre de Saint-Louis. He was promoted to Commander on 27 December 1814, under the Bourbon Restoration.
1804 : Grand officer of the Légion d'honneur
buried in the Panthéon
Works
By Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard
Rapports à l'Académie de Marine
Services militaires des officiers de l'ancienne Compagnie des Indes
Sur une École de marine à Lorient
Sur le Commerce des Indes-Orientales
Calculs pour tirer un vaisseau à terre
Comparaison des courbes de fer à celles de bois
Observations sur l'ordonnance de la marine du 27 Septembre 1776
Projet de guerre contre les Anglais
Mesurer avec précision la profondeur de la mer en sondant
Nouvelle édition du Neptune oriental
Sur l'établissement d'un port de secours à Pontrieux
Expérience sur l'air dans les vaisseaux désarmés
Essai sur les phares
Observations météorologiques
Sur le doublage en cuivre des vaisseaux, les toiles à voiles, la circulation du sang, la pêche à la sardine, la conservation des gens de mer, le commerce entre la France et les États-Unis
Sur l'Île de la Trinité
Sur l'enduit nommé galgale
Sur le magnétisme animal
Sur les Volcans, l'Artillerie, la Mécanique, la Lumière, le Nivellement de la Mer Rouge, la Résistance des Fluides, le Passage du raz de Sein ou de Fontenay
All the above were later re-printed in four volumes as Mémoires relatifs à la marine.
Notes and references
Notes
References
Bibliography
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1815 deaths
Politicians from Saint-Malo
Ministers of Marine and the Colonies
French Navy admirals
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The Ministry of the Navy () was a section of the French government – apart from the Ministry of War – that was in charge of the French navy and colonies.
The ministry combined the administration of the navy, the colonies like New France and seaborne trade helping for example the French East India Company. A widely held view at the time was that for states to be powerful, wealthy and prestigious, colonies in the New World need to be maintained for their consequent trade. The maintenance of colonies through naval operations not only served to improve the stature of the state, but was also helpful in destroying their European rivals in North America.
After the Second World War, the Ministry of the Navy was merged with the War Ministry, absorbing the role of the Minister of the Navy and Colonies, with a Minister of National Defence directing the entire military French forces.
Creation and history
Since the 16th century, the Secretary of State of the Navy (French: Secrétaire d'État de la Marine) was responsible for the French early navy and colonies.
In 1624, Louis XIII's first minister, Cardinal Richelieu created the first model of the modern French Navy, also known as the Marine or La Royale, run by the Secretary of State of the Navy. The official French Marine was not established until 7 March 1669 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert. At this time, the ministry of marine became an official government department with a permanent staff, holding offices at Versailles. All of the policies and procedures for the marine were established by Colbert.
The Secretary of State of the Navy was responsible for the administration of both the navy (the "marine royale") and civilian (merchant marine) fleets, and for all France's ports, arsenals, consulates, and colonies, as well as the guardianship for all her commercial companies.
The two French royal fleets (the Ponant fleet and Levant fleet) were put under the control of Colbert from 1662, whilst he was "intendant des finances" and "minister of state"—but not "secretary of state" : he only became secretary of state in 1669 after having bought his way into the post. From then on, right up to the French Revolution, a secretary of state had responsibility for the fleet.
To his two original offices (the bureau du Ponant and bureau du Levant) other services were added over time:
Archives department, 1669
Office of the Ponant consulates, 1709
Office of the colonies, 1710
Bureau des classes, 1711
Department of maps and plans, 1720
Office of the Levant Consulates, 1738, which was in 1743 merged with the Office of the Ponant Consulates under the name of Office of Commerce and Consulates
These different offices and departments were regrouped into four super-departments by marshal de Castries in 1786.
In 1791, the Secretary of State of the Navy was changed to Minister of the Navy. Before the 1890s, this position also usually had responsibility for France's colonies, and was usually known as Minister of the Navy and Colonies (French: Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies). In 1947 the naval ministry was absorbed into the Ministry of Defence.
Science, Colonies, and the Navy
During King Louis XIV’s time in power, came the official founding of the Ministry of Navy in 1669. During this time in French science, research was largely funded by ministers to the King and the King himself. This union of government and science led to endeavors with the objective of bolstering the nation’s intellectual equity along with obtaining goods. The Ministry of Navy was used by the government and the crown to enact science during this time, especially in regards to colonies around the world, and especially in the West Indies. The French minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert put into place policy in the West Indies that would further the prosperity of the French empire. In 1664 he launched the West India Company which was given control over a large portion of the American hemisphere and along the coast of Africa.
France’s scientific infrastructure quickly became some of the most advanced in the world and was used to maintain and start up colonies globally. The resources collected from the colonies were both intellectual and material, in an attempt to bring much esteem to the nation. France was dependent on the Ministry of Navy in helping to relay reliable information as to the locations of the colonies that were established.
Moving forward from the 1600s-1700s, France continued colonial-scientific efforts into the 1800s and 1900s. One such case is their attempts to establish colonies in Algeria during the 1830’s. Due to the efforts of Chasseloup-Laubat, a scientist working for France, the Ministry of Navy was given access to iron covered and steam powered naval vessels. In Paris, France 1931, the government put on the Exposition coloniale internationale. The major emphasis was on the aquatic nature of the exposition and showcasing fish and other organisms from their different colonies. The Ministry of Navy was responsible for gathering these samples and then returning them safely to France.
Personnel
At the head of the marine was the Ministre de la Marine, manned by a French statesman. Ministers of Marine typically came from families of administrative nobility (La Plume), such as the Phelypeaux's. From 1690 until 1749, a Phelypeaux was secretary and minister in charge of the marine and its colonies. The most prominent of the family was Jean-Frederic Phelypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain et Maurepas. Under his guidance, the marine regained much of the strength and prestige that it had lost during the period of the Regencies (1715–1726). As well, he was able to ascertain much larger than normal budgets for the Marine. Thus under Jean-Frederic's leadership, France was able to regain its reputation as a maritime power.
List of ministers
References
Bibliography
Jean-Philippe Zanco, Dictionnaire des Ministres de la Marine 1689-1958, S.P.M. Kronos, Paris 2011.
Naval Minister
Pre-Confederation Canada
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Rear Admiral Charles John Austen CB (23 June 1779 – 7 October 1852) was an officer in the Royal Navy and the youngest brother of novelist Jane Austen. He served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and beyond, eventually rising to the rank of rear-admiral.
Family and early life
Charles was born in 1779 as the sixth and youngest son of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra Leigh. His elder brother, Sir Francis Austen, also joined the Navy, and eventually became Admiral of the Fleet. Charles joined the Royal Naval Academy in July 1791, and by September 1794, he had become midshipman aboard . He subsequently served aboard and . While serving aboard the Unicorn, Austen assisted in the capture of the 18-gun Dutch brig Comet, the 44-gun French frigate Tribune, and the French transport ship Ville de l'Orient.
After transferring to Endymion he helped in the driving into Hellevoetsluis of the Dutch ship of the line Brutus. As a result of the latter action Austen was promoted to lieutenant on 13 December 1797, and appointed to HMS Scorpion. He was aboard Scorpion long enough to be present at the capture of the Dutch brig Courier, after which he transferred to HMS Tamar. Aboard Tamar, Austen was frequently involved in attacks and engagements with gunboats and privateers out of Algeciras. He returned to the Endymion in April 1800. On one occasion he set off in a small boat in a gale with only four other men, and succeeded in boarding and taking possession of the 18-gun Scipio, with 149 men aboard. He kept control of her until the following day when Endymion could complete the capture. After his continued good service under Captain Charles Paget, the Admiralty promoted Austen to commander and he took command of the sloop on 10 October 1804.
Command
Austen spent the next five years serving on the North American Station, based at St. George's Town, at the East End of the developing Imperial fortress of Bermuda (where the Royal Naval Dockyard had yet to be completed at the West End), in British North America. He was promoted to Commander and given command of HMS Indian, a sloop newly built in Bermuda (when ashore, he lived at Alnwick, near to Convict Bay and St. George's Garrison). He was promoted to captain on 10 May 1810 when he was given command of the 74-gun , which was then the flagship of Sir John Borlase Warren. Austen moved again the following September, joining . Between November 1811 and September 1814 Austen served as captain of , based at the Nore and flying the flag of Sir Thomas Williams. He was then given command of the 36-gun frigate and after the outbreak of hostilities with France Austen was dispatched in command of a squadron with and to hunt a Neapolitan squadron suspected to be at large in the Adriatic. After Naples had surrendered Austen was active in the blockade of Brindisi. Lord Exmouth then sent him on to search of a French squadron, but with the end of the war with France in the intervening period he briefly turned his attention to suppressing piracy in the region. He successfully captured two pirate vessels in the port of Pavos, but disaster struck when the Phoenix was wrecked off Smyrna on 20 February 1816, through the ignorance of her pilots.
Austen was appointed to the 46-gun on 2 June 1826, and was sent to the Jamaica station as the second in command. He was active in combating the slave trade and had considerable success, intercepting a number of slave ships bound for the United States and the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico. He commanded the Aurora for two and a half years, until she was paid off in December 1828. Sir Edward Griffith Colpoys nominated Austen to become his flag captain aboard on the North American and West Indies Station. Austen remained here until being forced to be invalided home after a severe accident in December 1830. Austen recovered and returned to service, being appointed to HMS Bellerophon on 14 April 1838. He was awarded a pension on 28 August 1840. During the Oriental Crisis of 1840, Britain waged an undeclared war against Mohammed Ali the Great, the vali (governor) of Egypt who was attempting to make the House of Ali the new ruling family in the Ottoman Empire by deposing the House of Ottoman. He sailed with the Bellerophon to the Mediterranean, and was active at the bombardment of Acre on 3 November 1840. As a result of his good service during the bombardment he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 18 December 1840. Austen and the Bellerophon returned home, where the latter was paid off in June 1841.
Flag rank and death
Austen was advanced to rear-admiral on 9 November 1846, and was appointed commander-in-chief in the East Indies and China Station on 14 January 1850, hoisting his flag the following day. He commanded the British expedition during the Second Anglo-Burmese War but died of cholera at Prome on 7 October 1852, at the age of 73. On 30 April 1852 Austen had been thanked for his services in Burma by the Governor-General of India, The Marquess of Dalhousie, who subsequently also formally recorded his regret for Austen's death.
Austen is buried in the Esplanade Cemetery, in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka his grave was rediscovered in 1984/1985.
It is presumed that the monument at the Esplanade burial ground in Trincomalee, is merely a cenotaph (as per J. Penry Lewis - ‘List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon’ 1913). Because records do not indicate any last rites being given to Austen, thus it may appear that he was given a Burial at sea with full naval honours, and subsequently had his remains transported to Trincomalee.
There is also a memorial at St. Anne’s Church in Portsmouth for Austen.
Family and issue
Austen married Frances Palmer, the youngest daughter of the late Attorney General of Bermuda, in 1807. The two had three children together. After the death of Frances in 1814, Charles married his late wife's sister Harriet Palmer in 1820, which was at that time contrary to church law and illegal in England, remaining so until the passage of the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907 . The couple produced four children, two of them sons, and one of whom followed his father into the Navy. Austen was close to his older sister Jane, and is said to have offered naval vocabulary to help her revise the second edition of Mansfield Park.
Footnotes
Notes
Citations
References
Hill, Constance (1902) Jane Austen: her homes & her friends. (John Lane)
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Mowaffak Allaf () (1927–1996) was a Syrian diplomat, and a former ambassador to the United Nations. Allaf served as the Under-Secretary-General of the UN in Geneva, and headed the Syrian delegation to the Madrid peace conference and the subsequent peace talks with Israel.
Allaf held a diploma in international relations from the University of Damascus, and was awarded the "Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in Gold with Sash" by Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in February 1987.
References
1927 births
1996 deaths
Permanent Representatives of Syria to the United Nations
Damascus University alumni
People from Damascus
Recipients of the Grand Decoration with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria
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Stansaab AS was a company founded in 1971 in Barkarby, outside Stockholm, Sweden. The company was a joint venture between Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT), Saab-Scania, the car and aeroplane manufacturer and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company’s primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications. In 1972, the company purchased the data terminal operations of Facit.
In 1978, it was merged with the Data Saab division of Saab to create Datasaab. In 1981, Ericsson, believing that growth in telecoms would be lower than that in IT, purchased Datasaab and integrated it with two of its own divisions to form Ericsson Information Systems (EIS).
One of the most successful products of the company was the Alfaskop range of data terminals.
References
Defunct companies of Sweden
Defunct computer hardware companies
Saab
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is a train station located in Sawara-ku, Fukuoka in Japan. Its station symbol is a wisteria flower in violet.
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Vicinity
Sawara Ward Office
Sawara Civic Center
Fukuoka City Education Center
Sawara Public Health Center
Sawara Post Office
Sawara Library
Sawara Police
several Elementary and Junior High Schools
Forest Management Office
Fujisaki Bus Terminal
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Railway stations in Japan opened in 1981
Kūkō Line (Fukuoka City Subway)
Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture
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Ciliata is a genus of fishes in the family Lotidae, with these currently recognized species:
Ciliata mustela (Linnaeus, 1758) (fivebeard rockling)
Ciliata septentrionalis (Collett, 1875) (northern rockling)
Ciliata tchangi S. Z. Li, 1994
References
Lotidae
Ray-finned fish genera
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Raskolnikow is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene. The film is an adaptation of the 1866 novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
The film is characterised by Jason Buchanan of AllMovie as a German expressionist view of the story: a "nightmarish" avant-garde or experimental psychological drama. It premiered at the Mozartsaal in Berlin.
Cast
Gregori Chmara as Rodion Raskolnikow
Elisabeta Skulskaja as Mother of Rodion Raskolnikow
Alla Tarasova as Sister of Rodion Raskolnikow
Andrei Zhilinsky as Rasumichin
Mikhail Tarkhanov as Marmeladow
Mariya Germanova as Wife of Marmeladow
Maria Kryshanovskaya as Sonja, daughter of Marmeladow
Pavel Pavlov as (investigating judge)
Toma as Alona Iwanowa, (the usurer)
Petr Sharov as Swidrigailow
Ivan Bersenev as (a member of the petite bourgeoisie)
Reception
In a retrospective review by Tim Pulleine in the Monthly Film Bulletin that the film was "a conventional prestige opus of the day." Pulleine opined that the dramatisation of the novel was "tolerably effective, barring a few lapses into excessive histrionics (Marmeladov's expiatory confession of alcoholism might have looked extreme in a temperance melodrama)." Pulleine also found that the "most basic problem [...] is that the set designs create a rebarbative dichotomy within the film, since-apart perhaps from the sequences taking place on the stairway leading up to a pawnbroker's flat-the performers are not spatially integrated into the settings but remain obstinately on a separate plane of stylisation."
References
Bibliography
Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.
External links
Films of the Weimar Republic
1923 films
1923 drama films
German black-and-white films
German silent feature films
Films directed by Robert Wiene
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Films based on Crime and Punishment
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The School of Arabic Studies (in Spanish Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA) is a research Institute of the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) with headquarters at the Houses of the Chapiz in Granada.
This building, declared an Object of Cultural Interest according to Spanish legislation, is made up of two former Morisco houses located in the well-known Granada district of Albaicín. The School was born in 1932, when the Schools of Arabic Studies of Madrid and Granada were created with the aim of "protecting and encouraging Arabic studies in Spain". In its early stages, the Granada School was entitled to teach Arabic language and civilization, Hebrew language, Muslim cultural and political history, Islamic law and institutions, Arabic dialectology, art and archaeology. In 1939, after the Spanish Civil War, the School became a part of the newly created Spanish National Research Council and, consequently, it was devoted to research according to the guidelines of this institution. The School of Arabic Studies of Granada is nowadays the only Institute that keeps the original name, after the School of Madrid took other names, and the only CSIC Institute entirely devoted to Arabic studies. The School has a sole department, called "Department of Arabic Studies", which is made up of four research groups dealing with history of al-Andalus, Arabic historiography, medieval archaeology, Islamic architecture, natural science in al-Andalus, Arabic biographical literature, Islamic law, and edition and translation of Arabic texts.
External links
Main page of School Arabic Studies
Research institutes in Andalusia
Arab studies
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Grevillea × semperflorens is a grevillea cultivar originating from England. It grows up to about 2 metres in height and has yellow-green flowers.
The cultivar was first formally described in 1937 by F.E. Briggs in The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London as Grevillea semperflorens.
See also
List of Grevillea cultivars
References
Semperflorens
Cultivars of Australian plants
Proteales of Australia
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Shin Sung-rok (born November 23, 1982) is a South Korean actor. He frequently appears in films and television series, but is better known an active in musical theatre.
Early life
Shin had initially aspired to become a basketball player together with his brother Je-rok, who is two years younger. Both brothers attended Whimoon High School, known as one of Seoul's top high school basketball programs. An injury prompted Shin to reconsider another career and he transferred to Anyang Arts High School. He majored in Theater and Film at the University of Suwon but subsequently dropped out after being cast in a play.
Career
Shin made his acting debut in 2003, but found it difficult to find acting jobs since directors were reluctant to cast the 189 centimeter-tall aspiring actor in supporting or minor roles. Thinking he would have a better chance if he gained more acting experience and honed his craft on the stage, Shin switched gears and joined the theater company Hakchon.
When Shin performed in his first musical Moskito, there were only 20-25 audience members in the 500-seat hall. Despite feeling depressed and frustrated, he said the experience made him strong and helped him become an actor with plenty of guts.
While doing the musical Dracula, Shin was cast in his first substantial onscreen role, in the risqué cable drama Hyena (2006). Supporting roles in dramas and films followed, notably in Thank You (2007) and My Life's Golden Years (also known as All About My Family, 2008). He also appeared on season 1 of the MBC dating reality show We Got Married as a "fake couple" with female comedian Kim Shin-young.
Mainstream breakthrough still eluded Shin, but in theater his star was rising. In 2007, Shin was picked from 400 auditionees for the lead role Solomon in Dancing Shadows, a musical adaptation of the realist play Forest Fire by celebrated Korean playwright Cha Beom-seok. He later received a Best New Actor nomination from the Korea Musical Awards.
As Shin starred in one hit musical after another, he continued to impress critics with his acting performances, his strong and powerful baritone vocals and his delicate and clear alto notes. He is now considered a top musical star, even drawing fans from outside Korea to his shows.
Definitely Neighbors (2010) further boosted his TV profile; for his role as a difficult chef who falls in love with an older divorcee, Shin won Best Supporting Actor in a Weekend/Daily Drama at the 2010 SBS Drama Awards. His most popular drama yet was the romantic comedy My Love from the Star (2013), in which he appeared as a villainous businessman. This was followed by supporting roles in the 2014 series Trot Lovers (as a talent agency CEO), Liar Game (as the host of a reality show), and The King's Face (as a face reader).
Despite branching out to film and television, Shin has maintained that his heart will always belong to the stage, and has stated, "I feel more affection toward the stage [rather than TV]. I think it is the stage where actors learn life and understand the meaning of acting. It is where I learned how to act and where I gained confidence. I think the core of my life will remain on the stage" (The Korea Herald, 2007). "The musical is like my old home and it made me what I am now, so I can't stop performing the musicals however busy I get" (The Korea Times, 2009)
In September 2021, Shin decided not to renew his contract with HB Entertainment. Later on September 27, 2021, Shin signed a contract with Screening ENT.
Personal life
Shin has a younger brother. Shin Jae-rok is a former professional basketball player who had short stints with Anyang KT&G Kites and Changwon LG Sakers before retiring. He became a chef and has since opened his own restaurant. Both of them appeared on KBS talk show Happy Together on July 30, 2015.
Shin began dating ballerina Kim Joo-won in 2011; Kim was a principal dancer with the Korea National Ballet for 15 years from 1988 to 2003, and currently teaches at Sungshin Women's University. The pair broke up after four years of dating in August 2015.
In June 2016, Shin married a non-celebrity office worker in Hawaii. In November the same year, Shin became a father to a daughter.
Filmography
Television series
Film
Television show
Theater
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Shin Seong-rok at HB Entertainment
Shin Sung-rok Fan Cafe at Daum
South Korean male film actors
South Korean male television actors
South Korean male musical theatre actors
South Korean male stage actors
1982 births
Living people
Male actors from Seoul
21st-century South Korean male actors
South Korean baritones
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Robert Hamilton Kennedy (December 30, 1869 – August 24, 1951) was a farmer, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Colchester County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 to 1920 as a Liberal-Conservative member. His son, Cyril Kennedy became a Canadian Member of Parliament.
He was born in Brookfield, Nova Scotia, the son of James Kennedy and Mary Jane Hamilton. He worked on the family farm and then went to Manitoba in 1890, returning two years later and entering the lumber trade. In 1893, Kennedy worked as a carpenter in Massachusetts. He came back to Nova Scotia again later that year and from then on worked as a farmer and lumber merchant, also operating sawmills. In 1896, Kennedy married Bessie Jane Ross. He served nine years as a member of the Colchester County council. He also was quartermaster in the militia for the Pictou, Colchester and Hants counties and was commissioned during the First World War as a captain in the 78th Pictou Regiment but did not serve overseas. Kennedy died in a car accident in Truro on August 24, 1951.
Kennedy served in the 35th General Assembly of Nova Scotia and 36th General Assembly of Nova Scotia representing Colchester County alongside Frank Stanfield.
References
1869 births
1951 deaths
Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs
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Antoine Claude Nicolas Valdec de Lessart (25 January 1741, Château de Mongenan, Portets, near Bordeaux – 9 September 1792, Versailles ) was a French politician. He was the illegitimate son of the Baron de Gasq, Président of the Parlement de Guyenne.
Life
Before 1790
A director of the Compagnie des Indes, he became Maître des requêtes in 1767 then in October 1788 one of the three commissaries charged with discussing and examining everything on the financial administration. Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart was one of the intimates of Jacques Necker. Louis XVI of France made him one of the commissaries charged with reconciling the three orders of the Estates General.
Revolution
On 4 December 1790, he was summoned to the Contrôle général des finances, then on 25 January 1791 moved to the Interior Minister, all the while holding onto the finance portfolio. At the Financial ministry, Étienne Clavière and the Girondins preyed on his management of the post, whilst at the interior ministry Camille Desmoulins, Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron and Jean-Paul Marat reproached his sympathies for the refractory clergy. During the Varennes affair, he revealed himself as a docile executor of the orders of the Legislative Assembly. He was then made interim Naval Minister in September 1791 and interim Minister of Foreign Affairs that October when the main concern was the bellicose activities of the emigres based in Treves and Mayence. The threat to go to war with their hosts, the Rheinish Electors, sufficed to have the émigré armies ordered to disband. However, that December the emperor of Austria announced Austrian troops would support the Rheinish electors and war with Austria became a real possibility. That possibility was welcomed by the Assembly and de Lessart could do little to prevent it (He did send Talleyrand to London in January 1792 to seek English neutrality if not support). The Assembly resented de Lessart's cautious - some said treasonable - approach and on 1 March voted to have him impeached.
Unpopular and unable to arrest the march to war desired by Jacques Pierre Brissot, he was indicted under Girondin pressure on 10 March 1792. He was transferred to the High Court at Orléans and after 10 August 1792 the trial of prisoners by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris was decided upon. Claude Fournier-L'Héritier was charged with bringing them as far as Paris, but instead stopped at Versailles and massacred 44 of the 52 prisoners entrusted to him, including Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac, Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart and Charles-Xavier Franqueville d'Abancourt.
See also
9 September massacres
External links
Notice biographique de Nicolas de Valdec de Lessart, extract from Les ministres des Finances de la Révolution française au Second Empire, Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France, 2007, 376 p, ()
1741 births
1792 deaths
People from Gironde
Ministers of Marine and the Colonies
People killed in the French Revolution
Burials at the Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles
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French Ministers of Finance
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Guus Lutjens (13 August 1884 – 25 April 1974) was a Dutch footballer who earned 14 caps for the Dutch national side between 1905 and 1911, scoring five goals. He played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag.
References
External links
Player profile at KNVB
Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl
1884 births
1974 deaths
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's international footballers
Footballers from Arnhem
Men's association football forwards
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William Munroe may refer to:
William Munroe (American soldier) (1742–1827), American soldier in the American Revolutionary War
William Munroe (pencil maker) (1778–1861), first American pencil maker
William Munroe (Scottish soldier) (1625–1719), Scottish soldier
William R. Munroe (1886–1966), United States Navy admiral
See also
William Munro (disambiguation)
Billy Munro (disambiguation)
William Monroe (disambiguation)
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Eloi Hubert "Lo" La Chapelle (22 June 1888 – 23 July 1966) was a Dutch footballer who played as a goalkeeper for amateur side HVV Den Haag. He also earned one cap for the Dutch national side in 1907, and participated at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal.
Biography
On 21 December 1907, the tall goalkeeper of the then reigning champions HVV from Den Haag earned his first cap for the Dutch national side in a friendly match against England amateurs at Darlington, as a last-minute substitution for first-choice goalkeeper Reinier Beeuwkes. La Chapelle conceded a resounding 12 goals on his international debut in a 2–12 defeat, which still is the heaviest loss in the history of the Netherlands national team, making La Chapelle the goalkeeper who has conceded the most goals in a single Dutch international and also the one with the biggest average of goals conceded per game since he never earned any other cap. The following year, he was part of the Dutch squad that contested the football tournament of the 1908 Olympics in London where the team won the bronze medal. However, he was not awarded a bronze medal due to have not played.
References
External links
Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl
1888 births
1966 deaths
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for the Netherlands
Footballers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Footballers from Bogor
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Men's association football goalkeepers
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is a train station located in Sawara-ku. The station's symbol is based on a pen, a pencil, and the letter "N" because the Nishijin area has many schools. The station has the station number "K04".
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Vicinity
Department Stores (Daiei, Best Denki, etc.)
Freshness Burger
Fukuoka City Museum
Fukuoka City Central Library
Fukuoka Tower
Nishijin Mall
Seinan Gakuin University
High Schools and Elementary Schools
Shuyukan Senior High School
Fukuoka Memorial Hospital
Yoshimura Hospital
References
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1981
Kūkō Line (Fukuoka City Subway)
Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture
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Ryhill railway station was situated on the Barnsley Coal Railway, later the MS&L, Great Central and London and North Eastern Railway.
History
The station opened for passenger traffic on 1 September 1882. It was renamed Ryhill and Wintersett on 1 March 1927 and closed by the LNER on 22 February 1930.
The station consisted of two flanking wooden platforms with wooden buildings, the main buildings being on the Barnsley bound side, and a signal box just off the end of the Barnsley - bound platform. The platforms were linked by a standard footbridge.
Another station, Ryhill Halt, served the village on the Dearne Valley Railway from 1912 to 1951, about half a mile to the south-east.
Accidents and incidents
On 13 December 1911, a freight train was derailed at the station due to the locomotive crew being incapacitated.
References
Source
Railways around Wakefield and Pontefract, John Farline and Peter Cookson, Wyvern Publications.
External links
Wintersett station on navigable 1947 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in Wakefield
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1930
Former Great Central Railway stations
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La Niñera may refer to:
La Niñera (Argentine TV series), an Argentine sitcom, based on the U.S. TV series The Nanny
La niñera (Mexican TV series), a Mexican sitcom, based on the U.S. TV series The Nanny
See also
List of foreign adaptations of The Nanny
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Jordan Wesley Smith (May 24, 1864 – May 6, 1948) was a physician and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Queen's County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 to 1920 as a Liberal member.
He was born in Selma, Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of Richard Morris Smith and Sarah Ann Gaetz. After studying at the normal school in Truro, Smith taught school for five years. He then studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland as well as Johns Hopkins University. He practiced at the Hebrew Hospital in Baltimore for a year before returning to Nova Scotia, setting up practice at Liverpool in 1895. In 1902, Smith married Alma E. Hunt. He was a member of the Freemasons and also of the Independent Order of Oddfellows and Independent Order of Foresters. He died in Liverpool.
References
Allison, D & Tuck, CE History of Nova Scotia, Vol. 3 (1916) p. 563-4
1864 births
1948 deaths
People from Hants County, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs
Nova Scotia Teachers College alumni
University of Maryland, Baltimore alumni
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni
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Kilgarvan is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Kilgarvan, County Kerry, Ireland. They play in the Intermediate Hurling Championship and Division 2 county league. Kilgarvan play football in Division 5 of the county league and in the Kenmare District Board championship and County Novice Championship.
History
The club was founded in 1889. It was one of the five founding clubs of competitive hurling in Kerry. In 1889 Kilgarvan was one of five clubs who competed in the first Kerry Senior Hurling Championship. Kilgarvan won three Kerry Senior Hurling Championship in 1953, 1956 and 1958. In 2007 Kilgarvan became the first Kerry club to win a Munster Hurling club game when they beat Caherline from Limerick in the Quarter-final of the Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship on a scoreline of 2-11 to 2-09. Later they were then beaten by Moyle Rovers 2-17 to 4-05 in the semi-final. In 2008 made more history by becoming the first Kerry club to make it to a Munster Final when they made the Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship Final, however they lost out to Cork side Dripsey on a scoreline of 2-11 to 1-03.
Honours
Hurling
Kerry Senior Hurling Championship: (3) 1953, 1956, 1958
Kerry Intermediate Hurling Championship: (11) 1972, 1981, 1982, 1984, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2018, 2019, 2022
Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship: Runners-up 2008
Kerry Junior Hurling Championship: (1) 2005
Kerry Under-21 hurling championship: (4) 1972, 1987, 1988, 1989, (with Kenamre) 2019 (with Kenmare/Dr. Crokes)
Kerry Minor Hurling Championship: (3) 1959, 1983, 2010 (with Kenmare)
Kerry Senior Hurling League Division 2: (5) 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2019
Kerry Senior Hurling League Division 3: (2) 1994, 2007
South Kerry Senior Hurling Championship: (11) 1999, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019
South Kerry Senior Hurling League: (6) 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014
South Kerry Junior Hurling Championship: (4) 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012
South Kerry Junior Hurling League: (2) 2006, 2007
Football
Munster Junior B Football Championship: (2) 2018, 2023
Kerry Novice Football Championship: (2) 2018, 2022
Kerry Novice Shield 2: (2) 1999, 2001
Kenmare District Board Senior Championship (Finnegan Cup): (1) 1961
Kenmare District Board Intermediate Championship (Murphy Cup): (1) 2003
Kenmare District Board Junior Championship (Purcell Cup): (2) 1991, 1998
Kenmare District Board Senior League (Spillane Cup): (1) 1983
County Championship Winning Captions
1953: Ritchie Purcell
1956: Paudie Healy
1958: Denis Hegarty
References
External links
Official Kilgarvan GAA Club website
Gaelic games clubs in County Kerry
Gaelic football clubs in County Kerry
Hurling clubs in County Kerry
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is a Japanese politician. He was director of the Hokkaidō-Kitami University. From 1995 he served as governor of Hokkaidō for two terms totalling 8 years. He was chairman of the board of Sapporo University. He was associate professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture.
Summary
Tatsuya Hori originally comes from Tomakishi, Karafuto (Vakhrushev, Sakhalin). He was raised in Engaru, Hokkaidō in Abashiri Subprefecture. In 1958 he graduated from Hokkaidō University Department of Agriculture and entered service in the Hokkaidō government.
Under Governor Takahiro Yokomichi, he was assistant director of the Public Works Department, room monitor for the governor, and municipal utility administrator. He served as lieutenant governor. In 1995 he ran and won election to the office of governor as an independent with the support of the New Frontier Party, the Japan Socialist Party, the Democratic Socialist Party, and the Justice Party. He was reelected to a second term with the support of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Party, the Justice Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the Democratic Socialist Party.
In 1997, after the bankruptcy of the Hokkaidō Colonization Bank, he declared a state of emergency and called for a restructuring of Hokkaidō, but public utilities expenses deteriorated for which he will always be remembered. He gave up running for a third term. After stepping down as governor, he assumed the office of board chairman of Sapporo University in August 2008.
Career summary
March 1958 graduated from the Hokkaidō University Department of Agriculture
April 1958 hired by the Hokkaidō Government Agency
June 1993 became Lieutenant Governor
9 April 1995 elected Governor of Hokkaidō with 1,636,360 votes
11 April 1999 re-elected Governor of Hokkaidō with 1,593,251 votes
9 August 2004 became chairman of the board of Sapporo University
References
1935 births
Living people
Governors of Hokkaido
Politicians from Hokkaido
People from Sakhalin Oblast
Hokkaido University alumni
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Aimo Pagin is a French pianist, born in 1983. He trained under Rena Shereshevskaya (Strasbourg Conservatory), Dominique Merlet (Conservatoire de Paris) and Leon Fleisher (Peabody Institute). Pagin was prized at the 2005 Enescu Competition, and subsequently won the XI Premio Pianistico di Napoli. He has also been prized at the 2007 Cidade de Ferrol (2nd to Evgeny Starodubtsev) and Campillos (3rd prize) international competitions, both in Spain.
Pagin has performed internationally as a soloist and a chamber musician. In addition, he has served regularly as an accompanist for his mother, Silvia Marcovici.
Pagin played in Bucharest with the Philharmonic instead of Radu Lupu in March 2009 and was invited to play at the Tonhalle Zürich by David Zinman.
References
Musicians Gallery
Concello de Ferrol
Alink-Argerich Foundation
El Diario Montañés
Radio Praha
Festival de Ushuaia
External links
www.aimopagin.com
21st-century French male classical pianists
1983 births
Living people
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Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé, 8th Duke of Brissac (14 February 1734 – 9 September 1792), was a French military commander and peer of France. He was the second son and eventual heir of Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé, 7th Duke of Brissac, who was a Marshal of France.
Life and career
One of the most prominent men at the courts of Louis XV and Louis XVI, he was a Grand Panetier of France, governor of Paris, capitaine colonel of the Cent-Suisses of the Garde du Roi, and a knight in various orders. In his later years, he became the fond lover of Louis XV's last mistress, Madame du Barry.
In 1791, he became commander in chief of the King's Constitutional Guard. On 29 May 1792, the Assembly dissolved this corps, suspecting it of royalist and counter-revolutionary sympathies and accusing the Duke of Brissac of encouraging this and writing a speech ordering his men to go over to the king. He was sent to prison in Orléans to await judgement by the high court before being transferred to Versailles, but the prisoners were separated from their escort and freed by a group of bandits.
He was killed in the 9 September massacres, and his body was mutilated. His head was thrust on a pike and taken on foot by a band of his killers and thrown into a window of Madame du Barry's apartment, at which sight she fainted. With little spirit but much force and courage, he held off his murderers for a long time, receiving several wounds before finally being cut down by a sabre.
Always distinguished for his devotion to Louis XVI, he replied to someone praising him for his conduct: "I only do what I must do for my ancestors and my family". He is mentioned in the fifth verse of Jacques Delille's poem la Pitié, and anecdotes about him are to be found in Paris, Versailles et les provinces.
Marriage and issue
In 1760, he married Adélaïde Diane Mancini (1742–1808), daughter of Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, who was the Duke of Nevers and a grandson of Philippe Jules Mancini (nephew of Cardinal Mazarin). Together, they had two children:
Adélaïde (1765–1820), who married in 1782 with Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart, Duke of Mortemart
Jules Gabriel Timoléon (1771–1775), who died during childhood
After the death of Louis Hercule in 1792 without a living male-line descendant, the ducal title passed to Timoléon de Cossé (1775–1848). He was the eldest son of Hyacinthe-Hugues de Cossé, Duke of Cossé (1746–1813), whose father was René-Hugues de Cossé, Count of Cossé (1702–1754). René-Hugues was the third son of Artus de Cossé, 5th Duke of Brissac (1668–1709), the father of the 6th and 7th Dukes of Brissac. After Timoléon de Cossé died in 1848, the ducal title was held by his successive descendants in the male line.
Sources
1734 births
1792 deaths
People of the Ancien Régime
French counter-revolutionaries
Military governors of Paris
Dukes of Brissac
People killed in the French Revolution
Burials at the Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles
Politicians from Paris
Dukes of France
Peers of France
French nobility
Military personnel from Paris
House of Cossé
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Mike Dempsey is a British graphic designer.
Career
From the late 1960s, Dempsey worked in British publishing houses. He created stamps for the Royal Mail, the brand identity for English National Opera, and South Bank Centre
His won 10 silver and gold awards from British Design & Art Direction (D&AD). He was a Design Advisor to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and was President of Design & Art Direction (D&AD).
He was made a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 1994
He was Master of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry from 2005 to 2007 and is currently the external design advisor to the Design Council.
References
External links
Fontana Modern Masters Dempsey's time as Art Director of Fontana Books in 1974-79.
British graphic designers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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The Parson's Widow (), aka The Witch Woman, is a 1920 Swedish comedy drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film is based on a story Prestekonen by Kristofer Janson.
Plot
Söfren, a recent seminary graduate, and his fiancee Mari make their way on foot through a Norwegian forest to a village where a church is in need of a pastor. Mari's father won't allow her to marry until Söfren obtains a full-time church assignment.
Söfren learns that he is competing with two other men who are affluent scholars from Copenhagen. The three men wait outside the church until the verger calls them in, one by one, to deliver their trial sermons.
The first candidate delivers a sermon on the creation story that promptly puts the entire congregation to sleep. The second candidate is summoned and announces that his sermon topic is "Balaam's ass and God's strange power by which He was able to open the jaws of a dumb animal so that it might speak like a man!" (Numbers 22:28-30)
The verger comes out to summon Söfren and finds him doing handstands. Söfren bounds into the church, surveys the congregation and begins:
"Now, two learned applicants have appeared here before me. One of them took us to Eden, and that is as far back as we can go. Let him stay there! The other one chose the text: Am I Not An Ass? But what has an ass to do on the pulpit? My friends, I will not take you to Eden -- you are too clever. But I will take you to the bowels of the earth, deep in the roaring jaws of Hell!" The congregation is enthralled by Söfren's "fire and brimstone" sermon. Söfren concludes: "And so my friends, beware that you are not swallowed up by the roaring jaws of Hell!"
Söfren's rivals from Copenhagen host a dinner for the townspeople and feel obliged to invite Söfren. The church committee announces that Söfren is their choice for pastor. The committee spokesman then adds that Margarete Pedersdotter, the widow of the previous pastor, has exercised her right to demand that her husband's successor marry her.
Dame Margarete, who is at least a half-century older than Söfren, enters the room. The two pastoral candidates from Copenhagen bolt from the room, hastily climb on their horses and gallop away.
Margarete doesn't take a seat near Söfren but chooses to sit next to the fireplace. Gradually the townspeople also leave the dining hall. After a lengthy period of silence, Margarete approaches Söfren and asks, in that it has grown dark outside, if he would walk with her to the parsonage.
When they reach the parsonage, Margarete invites Söfren inside. As Söfren takes note of the fine furnishings, Magarete lays out another repast, which Söfren devours greedily despite having just come from the town dinner. While he is eating, Margarete asks Söfren if he has a fiancee. Söfren hesitates, then assures her that he does not.
Margarete mentions that it is much too late for Söfren to head back to the inn and suggests he stay in an upstairs room. The next morning Söfren puts on a fine suit of clothes, far superior to his own garments, that was laid out by his bed during the night. Söfren goes downstairs. Margarete is sewing and the table has been set with a fine breakfast of herring, bread and butter, and a canister of schnapps.
After Söfren finishes the schnapps, Margarete takes on the appearance of a smiling 20-year-old. Margarete asks if he would like to marry her; Söfren replies in the affirmative. Margarete calls in her two servants from the next room as witnesses of Söfren's proposal. Margarete assures Söfren they will have separate sleeping quarters and maintain separate lives.
Söfren leaves to tell Mari what has happened, and Margarete follows at a distance. A tearful Mari asks Söfren how Margarete bewitched him and Söfren suggests she had hexed the herring. Margarete arrives and confronts Söfren—who is this woman? Söfren replies that Mari is his sister and asks that she be allowed to stay in the parsonage, to which Margarete assents.
Söfren and Margarete are married. The next morning, Söfren is upset when Margarete's female servant shakes debris from a rug on him from a balcony. Margarete's male servant gives Söfren a raspberry when asked to stop whistling.
Söfren confronts Margarete: "In the future, I suggest you and your companions be less high and mighty. For I am master of this house." Margarete goes to a window and taps on it to summon the bearish male servant. She instructs him: "Master Söfren is too big for his boots. Give him a drubbing!" Afterward, Margarete advises her husband: "I suggest you concentrate on prayer and sermons. Do not play master here. I am master of this house!"
Söfren makes several unsuccessful attempts to have time alone with Mari. One day he notices Margarete climb the ladder to the loft of the barn. Söfren removes the ladder, hoping to trap Margarete in the loft, and goes in search of Mari. Mari, however, is also in the loft, and she starts to climb down without noticing that the ladder has been moved. Mari falls to the ground and Söfren rushes over and calls up a warning to Margarete: "Be careful, Dame Margarete! The ladder is gone!"
Söfren carried Mari into the house and learns that she has broken a thigh bone and suffered a concussion but will recover.
Margarete takes on the role of Mari's nurse and, in return, Söfren begins to grow fond of Margarete.
One day, as Margarete and Söfren sit by Mari's bedside, Margarete confesses: "My first husband and I were engaged for many years when he applied for the post here and learned he could have it only if he wedded the parson's widow. We knew that the widow was weak and could scarcely live long. It was a sore temptation to us. God forgive us ... we built our happiness on the hope of another's death."
That prompted Söfren to confess: "Mari and I are not sister and brother -- she is my fiancee. We have also waited for your death, Dame Margarete."
Margarete appears to have initially been taken aback, then her face softens and she murmurs "Poor children!"
From that moment, Söfren and Mari have no trouble spending time together and Margarete spends most of her time in the churchyard, visiting her husband's grave.
One morning Margarete does not come down to breakfast. Söfren and Mari go to her bedroom, where they find her in a peaceful repose after dying in her sleep. Söfren finds a note beside the bed: "Do not forget, when my mortal remains are taken away, to put a horseshoe over the door and to strew linseed after me so that I shall not haunt you."
Margarete is buried beside her husband. As Söfren and Mari stand over her grave, Söfren remarks: "We owe her a great debt, Mari. She taught you to keep a good home and she taught me to be an honorable man."
Cast
Einar Rød as Söfren
Hildur Carlberg as Margarete Pedersdotter
Greta Almroth as Mari
Olav Aukrust as First Candidate
Emil Helsengreen as Steinar The Gardener
Mathilde Nielsen as Gunvor
Lorentz Thyholt as The Beadle
Kurt Welin as Second Candidate
Trivia
Both exterior and interior shots were filmed at the Garmo Stave Church and the Maihaugen museum.
About the restoration
An acetate duplicate negative derived from an acetate master made from the now-lost camera negative was scanned by the Swedish Film Institute in 2018. Full-length intertitles were re-created from an original text-list, with a design based on a handful of surviving flash-titles in the master. The color scheme with both tintings and tonings was also re-created from notes in the master.
Bibliography
37th Pordenone Silent Film Festival Catalogue: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto XXXVII Edizione
References
External links
Prästänkan, Norsk FilmInstitutt (image from film)
1920 films
1920 comedy-drama films
Swedish black-and-white films
Swedish silent films
Films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Swedish comedy-drama films
Silent comedy-drama films
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Max M. Leon (1904 – November 2, 1984) was an impresario, radio producer, conductor, musicologist, opera manager, referee, and businessman. He had a wide array of talents and interests which led him towards a highly diversified career in many fields from running and owning WDAS (AM) from 1950 to 1979, refereeing for polo sporting events, and owning and operating Whole-Sum Products, a candy factory, for more than four decades. He also was a highly accomplished musician, serving as the founder and conductor of the Philadelphia Pops Orchestra (a predecessor to Philly Pops) and working as the general manager of the Opera Company of Philadelphia.
Biography
Born in Poland to Jewish parents, Leon came to the United States at the age of 16. He began his career working for the Whole-Sum Products candy factory in Philadelphia in the 1920s during which time he also played a variety of instruments in "Max Leon and his Musical Eagles", a local dance band. Leon eventually became the general manager of Whole-Sum Products and later bought the company in 1934, which he kept going into the 1970s. He created the formula for the marshmallow that was used in Breyers chocolate marshmallow ice cream. The company also had contracts with Acme Markets.
Leon continued to be active with several amateur musical groups in Philadelphia during the 1930s. He eventually ended up studying conducting with Paul Breisach, a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Martin Rich at the Curtis Institute of Music, and Eugene Ormandy, famed director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Leon financed and founded the Philadelphia Pops Orchestra in 1943 and became the principal conductor. The orchestra was made up of musicians primarily from the Philadelphia Orchestra. He conducted concerts with the orchestra for many years. From 1963–1975 he served as president of the board of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, also serving as general manager from 1972–1975 after the departure of Anthony Terracciano. He oversaw that company's merger with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company to form the Opera Company of Philadelphia (OCP) in 1975. From 1975–1978 he served as OCP's first General Director.
On October 19, 1950, Leon bought WDAS-AM from William Goldman, moving the station from Ocean City, New Jersey to Philadelphia. He then relocated the station from Center City to Fairmount Park, where he built a world class facility with new towers and transmitter. He ran the station, which was marketed towards the black community, for almost three decades. In October 1979 he sold the station to the National Black Network. He was also the owner of KNTO, a radio station located in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Subsequent to his broadcasting career, Mr. Leon owned and trained numerous thoroughbred race horses.
Leon died in Philadelphia in 1984. He was inducted posthumously into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame in 2007.
References
External links
Biography of Max Leon at broadcastpioneers.com
1904 births
1984 deaths
American male conductors (music)
American radio producers
Impresarios
Jewish American musicians
Jewish classical musicians
Opera managers
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
20th-century American conductors (music)
20th-century American musicologists
20th-century American male musicians
20th-century American Jews
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Johann Heinrich Hermann "Dé" Kessler (11 August 1891 – 6 September 1943) was a Dutch football and cricket player.
Football
Kessler - along with brother Tonny and cousins Boeli and Dolf - played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler also won 21 caps for the Dutch national side between 1909 and 1922, scoring nine goals. After playing alongside each other in a match against England in March 1913, the Kessler brothers became the first brothers to represent the Netherlands together in an international match.
Cricket
Kessler played for the Netherlands national cricket team. He played five matches for them between 1921 and 1925, including two against the Free Foresters and one against the MCC. In August 1922 he scored a century against Ingoniti, scoring 100 not out in the second innings of the match.
References
External links
Player profile at KNVB
Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl
1891 births
1943 deaths
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's international footballers
Dutch cricketers
People from Garut
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Kessler family
Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies
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The 9 September massacres were two series of massacres of prisoners at Versailles on 9 September 1792 during the French Revolution. They occurred in the context of the September Massacres. Claude Fournier was accused of complicity in them. Those killed included Charles d'Abancourt, Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart and Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac.
Context
The prisoners of Orléans
The prisoners of Versailles
The following evening, the assassins returned to the écuries de la Reine, now known as the prison of Versailles, to carry out a second massacre of 30 inmates.
External links
Diagnopsy : Les massacres de septembre
Quid : see the chapter Constitution du 3-9-1791. Haute Cour nationale
1792 events of the French Revolution
fr:Massacres du 9 septembre 1792 à Versailles
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Alexander "Lex" Miller (1908 – May 15, 1960) was a New Zealand Presbyterian minister, author, and Stanford University theologian. Violence towards black activists during the Montgomery bus boycott led Miller to question commitments to nonviolence as noted by Martin Luther King Jr. himself in letter sent April 1957.
Life
Miller was born in 1908 at Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland to parents Rev. Matthew & Mrs Leonora Miller. He was the eldest of three brothers. There he married his wife Jean C MacLaren and had a son, David.
Education
Miller received is Masters from Auckland University, and later went on to Columbia University in the U.S. where he received his doctorate.
The conferral of the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Pacific School of Religion in 1958 was recognition of his contributions, both personal and theological, to theological education.
Career
Lex Miller's career had three sides: The articulation of the Christian faith in the academic setting, the service of the Christian Church, both his own Presbyterian denomination and Protestant Christianity at large, and the bringing of Christianity to bear on the social, economic, and political spheres of secular life.
Of these three ends, the last is a thread running throughout his life. In a day when passions ran high over pacifism, the labor movement, and unemployment, he accumulated an impressive jail record in New Zealand from picketing and pacifist demonstrations. In New Zealand he served as a Presbyterian divine and was active in the Student Christian Movement. He also became a huge influence in making the later philosopher and logician Arthur Norman Prior a "quick and keen convert" to Miller's Barthian calvinism. Arthur Prior and Alexander Miller worked together on the Student Christian Movement magazine Open Windows.
He later went to Detroit in a liaison job between Christian students and industrial workers. It was there that he impressed Reinhold Niebuhr by his activities, and was recommended by Niebuhr as a Lecturer in Religion at Stanford University.
He was the first Professor of Religion at Stanford and in 1950 inaugurated their Department of Religion and became its Head. University). His students were brought through an unusually wide gamut of theological subject-matter and an approach to a theology concerned with the real world.
He delivered the William Belden Noble Lectures at Harvard in 1957, which were published as his 1958 book The Man in the Mirror. He wrote two books for Niebuhr’s ‘Christian Faith’ series. In total, he authored 8 books.
Ministry
Ordained in the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand in 1937, he occupied pastorates there, in England, and in Scotland. While in London Docklands; the area was subjected to continuous bombing attacks and he saw his first Presbyterian Church charge destroyed by the bombing. He then became Assistant to the Rev George MacLeod in the Iona Community. From 1943 to 1945 he was associated with Sir George MacLeod in the Iona Community in Scotland. He served as Pastor in Napier, New Zealand from 1945-1948.
While at Stanford he was a member of the Presbytery of San Jose of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. He was much in demand as lecturer and preacher in churches and church groups of all denominations.
His theology, rooted in the great Reformation traditions and enlivened by the work and personal influence of Reinhold Niebuhr, sought a responsible and intelligible articulation of the Biblical heritage.
At his death, he was a member-at-large of the Central Committee of the National Student Christian Federation, a member of the Message Committee of the National Council of Churches, and a fellow of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education.
Person
Stanford University's 1960 Memorial Resolution reports that Lex Miller "retained a rare humility of spirits informed by a study faith and accompanied by a nonchalance about himself," and they would "remember him as a colleague who combined wisdom with innocence, humor with piety, energetic support of academic freedom with unswerving devotion to Christian truth. His own life bore eloquent testimony to a quotation from Karl Barth, which he used as a motto for his Noble Lectures: 'Man is the creature made visible in the mirror of Jesus Christ.'
"Lex was not a pliable personality. He held tenaciously to whatever aspects of truth (that) gripped him. He ventured his whole existence on what he believed; and, because he was sometimes intellectually mistaken, ... he occasionally stumbled.
But he never altered his convinced conduct just because the results hurt himself."
These reports on the quality his character were attested to by all those who knew him, including the well known Dr. Gene Scott, who was a student of his at Stanford in the mid-1950s.
Books by Alexander Miller
The Christian Significance of Karl Marx (1946)
Christian Faith and My Job (1946)
Biblical Politics: Studies in Christian Social Doctrine (1943)
Christian Vocation in the Contemporary World (1947)
The Renewal of Man: A 20th Century Essay on Justification by Faith (1955)
The Man in the Mirror (1958)
Faith and Learning: Christian Faith and Higher Education in Twentieth Century America (1960)
References
External links
A memorial resolution for Miller hosted at Stanford University website
1908 births
1960 deaths
Columbia University alumni
20th-century New Zealand writers
20th-century New Zealand male writers
Stanford University Department of Religious Studies faculty
University of Auckland alumni
Scottish emigrants to New Zealand
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INCEIF UNIVERSITY was set up by Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia) in 2005 to develop human capital for the global Islamic finance industry. Commonly known as INCEIF – The Global University of Islamic Finance, it is the only university in the world dedicated to Islamic finance. INCEIF is part of Malaysia's initiative to promote education in Islamic finance for the domestic and international finance community.
In August 2007, the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia accorded INCEIF the university status. In February 2009, Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Tan Sri Dato' Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz was officially proclaimed as the first Chancellor for INCEIF. The proclamation is in accordance with the constitution of INCEIF where Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar, as the Chairman of INCEIF's Board of Directors, assumes the position of Chancellor. The proclamations were made during the first convocation in 2009 when INCEIF admitted its first batch of graduates, who completed the flagship programme Chartered Islamic Finance Professional (CIFP).
Apart from its academic programmes, which are CIFP, Masters in Islamic Finance Practice (MIFP), MSc in Islamic Finance and PhD in Islamic Finance, INCEIF also undertakes customised executive education programmes and industry-focused applied research. The curriculum at INCEIF is structured with inputs from Shariah scholars and industry players to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and industry experience. Its faculty members provide INCEIF students with mentoring relationships and opportunities for professional development. INCEIF is governed by a Governing Council. Supporting the Governing Council is the Professional Development Panel whose role is to set performance standards to ensure a high quality of programme content and the Executive Committee.
Academic Programmes
INCEIF offers the following programmes:
Chartered Islamic Financial Professional (CIFP) - a postgraduate qualification aimed at producing professionals with the knowledge, analytical tools and perspectives in Islamic finance.
Professional Certificate in Islamic Finance (PCIF) - a certification to qualify an Islamic Finance practitioner, which can be done sitting from anywhere in the world.
Executive Masters in Islamic Finance (EMIF) - a postgraduate programme aimed at producing industry practitioners with global insight, analytical tools and holistic knowledge in Islamic Finance, which can be done sitting from anywhere in the world.
The Masters in Islamic Finance Practice (MIFP) is a postgraduate programme aimed at producing industry practitioners with global insight and holistic knowledge in Islamic Finance.
The MSc in Islamic Finance – a programme addressing key areas of Islamic economics, finance and Shariah from both the theoretical and applied aspects.
Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic Finance – an industry-driven programme concerning Islamic and conventional finance.
Key Partnerships (As at January 2014)
Malaysia
Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNIRAZAK)
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UNISZA)
BNP Paribas
Prudential BSN Takaful Berhad
OCBC Al-Amin
Hay Group
International
Islamic Financial Services Board
Islamic Development Bank
World Bank
University of Reading (UK)
University of East London (UK)
Kuwait Finance Research Ltd (Kuwait)
Capital Market Licensing & Training Agency (Turkey)
Capital Market Board of Turkey (Turkey)
Istanbul Sehir University (Turkey)
University International of Rabat (Morocco)
CESAG (Senegal)
Kenya School of Monetary Studies (Kenya)
College of Banking and Financial Studies (Oman)
References
External links
WDIBF Website
INCEIF Website
Islamic banking and Takaful chapter of the Malaysian Financial Sector Masterplan
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Hermann Anton Joseph "Tonny" Kessler (20 April 1889 – 15 February 1960) was a Dutch football player. Kessler, along with brother Dé and cousins Boeli and Dolf, played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler won three caps for the Dutch national side between 1907 and 1913, scoring one goal. After playing alongside each other in a match against England in March 1913, the Kessler brothers became the first brothers to represent the Netherlands together in an international match.
References
External links
Player profile at KNVB
Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl
1889 births
1960 deaths
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's international footballers
Footballers from The Hague
Men's association football forwards
Kessler family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonny%20Kessler
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Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette (11 August 1729, Lyon – 1 October 1793, Lyon) was a French botanist. He corresponded with Rousseau and his official botanical abbreviation is Latourr.
Family
His father, Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette (1692–1776), belonged to Lyon's magistrature and was ennobled by Louis XV, and Marc's brother was the navigator Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu.
Life
In 1770 he published his Voyage au mont Pilat dans la province du Lyonnais, contenant des observations sur l'histoire naturelle de cette montagne. In this book he described the natural history of the Pilat massif and gave a list of the plants found there.
In 1787, botanist Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy published Tourrettia, which is a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Bignoniaceae. It was named in Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette's honor.
He died at Lyon.
Works
Voyage au mont Pilat dans la province du Lyonnais, contenant des observations sur l'histoire naturelle de cette montagne, & des lieux circonvoisins ; suivi du catalogue raisonné des plantes qui y croissent. (Regnault, Avignon, 1770).
Démonstrations élémentaires de botanique. (Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, Lyon, 1773).
References
Pierre Jacquet (1999). Un botaniste lyonnais méconnu du dix-huitième siècle : Marc-Antoine Claret de La Tourrette (1729–1793). Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 68 (4), pp. 77–84.
"Éloge de M. de Fleurieu", by M. de Bory, 1776 in "Manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Lyon ou notices sur leur ancienneté, de Antoine-François Delandine"
Almanach astronomique et historique de la ville de Lyon et des provinces, 1787, par Aimé de la Rohe, p. 88.
External links
Genealogy on geneanet samlap
His page on the Fleurieu family site
1729 births
1793 deaths
Scientists from Lyon
18th-century French botanists
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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2009 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 3. During this off-year election, the only seats up for election in the United States Congress were special elections held throughout the year. In total, only the seat representing New York's 23rd congressional district changed party hands, increasing the Democratic Party's majority over the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives, 258–177.
However, there were also several gubernatorial races and state legislative elections, and numerous citizen initiatives, mayoral races in several major cities, and several types of local offices on the ballot.
Although the number of elections was relatively small considering it was an off-year election, Republicans dominated. Winning all statewide races including a senate race in Massachusetts, one of the most solidly Democratic states in the nation. These results represented the first in a pattern of Republican dominance in non-general election years during the Obama Presidency. Just one year later in 2010 Republicans gained 63 seats in the House of Representatives, six Senate seats, and 12 Governor's Mansions (net +6 gain). The pattern was repeated in 2014 when Republicans won unified control of Congress.
Federal elections
In total, there were five special elections to the United States House of Representatives during 2009. The only election which changed party hands (from Republican to Democratic) was in New York's 23rd congressional district.
Also, a primary election was held in Massachusetts on December 8, 2009, for the senate seat left open by the death of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy; the general special election for that later seat occurred on January 19, 2010.
State elections
Gubernatorial elections
New Jersey and Virginia, along with the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, held gubernatorial elections in 2009. Both governorships in New Jersey and Virginia changed party hands from Democrat to Republican. This is the last time, both governors flipped parties in the same election. Meanwhile, the local Covenant Party maintained control of the governorship of the Northern Mariana Islands. This is the last time this seat would be up in an off-year.
State legislative
Legislative elections were held for the New Jersey General Assembly, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature. Both chambers of the Northern Mariana Islands legislature were up, which remains the last time they were up in this class of elections.
Democrats maintained control of the lower house of the New Jersey legislature, and Republicans did so in the lower chamber in Virginia. This remains the last time Democrats won more state legislative chambers and seats than Republicans.
Local elections
Cities, counties, school boards, special districts, and others elected members in 2009. Several large cities held mayoral elections in 2009, including: New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Antonio, and Detroit. Memphis, Tennessee also had a special election to replace former mayor Willie Herenton.
Some of these mayoral elections included the following:
Albuquerque, New Mexico – Richard J. Berry (R) defeated Incumbent Mayor Martin Chavez (D).
Albany, New York – Incumbent Mayor Gerald Jennings (D) defeated Working Families Party candidate Corey Ellis and Nathan LeBron (R).
Anchorage, Alaska – Dan Sullivan (R) was elected mayor.
Atlanta, Georgia – Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) was term-limited. Kasim Reed (D) defeated Mary Norwood (D) in a runoff election.
Austin, Texas – Incumbent Mayor Will Wynn (D) was term-limited.
Boston, Massachusetts – Incumbent Mayor Thomas Menino (D) defeated Michael F. Flaherty (D).
Buffalo, New York – Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown (D) defeated Michael Kearns (D).
Charlotte, North Carolina – Anthony Foxx (D) defeated John Lassiter (R)
Detroit, Michigan – Incumbent Mayor Dave Bing (D) defeated Tom Barrow (D)
Henderson, Nevada – Incumbent Mayor James B. Gibson (D) was term-limited. He was succeeded by Democrat Andy Hafen.
Houston, Texas – Incumbent Mayor Bill White (D) was term-limited. In a runoff election, Annise Parker (D) defeated Gene Locke (D).
Jersey City, New Jersey- Incumbent Mayor Jerramiah Healy (D) defeated Louis Manzo (D), L. Harvey Smith (D) and other minor candidates.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Incumbent Mayor Rick Gray (D) defeated Charlie Smithgall (R).
Los Angeles, California – Incumbent Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) defeated Walter Moore (R).
Manchester, New Hampshire – Ted Gatsas (R) elected mayor succeeding mayor Frank Guinta (R).
Minneapolis, Minnesota – Incumbent Mayor R.T. Rybak (DFL) was re-elected.
New York City, New York – Incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) was re-elected.
North Las Vegas, Nevada – Incumbent Mayor Mike Montandon (R) was term-limited. He was succeeded by Republican Shari Buck.
Omaha, Nebraska – City councilman Jim Suttle was elected mayor after incumbent Mike Fahey declined to run for re-election.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Incumbent Mayor Luke Ravenstahl (D) was re-elected.
Rochester, New York – Incumbent Mayor Robert Duffy (D) was unopposed. (The next year, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of New York.)
San Antonio, Texas – Incumbent Mayor Phil Hardberger was term-limited. He was succeeded by Democrat Julian Castro.
Seattle, Washington – Incumbent Mayor Greg Nickels (D) defeated in the primary in August 2009. Mike McGinn (D) defeated Joe Mallahan (D).
St. Paul, Minnesota – Incumbent Mayor Chris Coleman (DFL) was re-elected.
Syracuse, New York – Incumbent Matt Driscoll (D) was term limited. Stephanie Miner (D) defeated Steve Kimatian (R) and Conservative Otis Jennings.
Tulsa, Oklahoma – Mayor Kathy Taylor did not seek re-election. Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr. (R) defeated Tom Adelson (D).
References
2009
November 2009 events in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20United%20States%20elections
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Ward E. Jones is a scholar at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he is a professor of philosophy. He joined the department in 1999.
His DPhil. thesis, entitled The View from Here: A First-person Constraint on Believing was completed in 1998 at Oxford University. While finishing his thesis, Jones spent three years teaching philosophy at various colleges in Oxford.
Jones has published in the areas of epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and metaphilosophy.
With a 1997 paper, 'Why Do We Value Knowledge', published in American Philosophical Quarterly, he won regard as one of the early contributors to the nascent debate on the Meno problem. In collaboration with Samantha Vice, he has edited and contributed to Ethics at the Cinema, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
Turning to metaphilosophy in 2013, he completed a short manuscript, entitled 'Dissensus and the Value of Philosophy', on the value of philosophy to the non-philosopher'. It is currently under consideration at publishers.
He is currently co-editor of Philosophical Papers, published by Routledge.
External links
Philosophical Papers .
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Academic staff of Rhodes University
20th-century South African philosophers
21st-century South African philosophers
Philosophers of mind
Epistemologists
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Goran Filipec (born 1981 in Rijeka) is a Croatian concert pianist.
Biography
During his early career Filipec won top prizes at international piano competitions (José Iturbi International Music Competition in Los Angeles in 2009; Concurso de Parnassos in Monterrey in 2010; Gabala International Piano Competition in Azerbaijan in 2009; Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Franz Liszt - "Premio Mario Zanfi" in Parma in 2011).
Filipec has performed internationally, having performed at the Carnegie Hall, Auditorium di Milano, Mariinsky Theatre, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest, Philharmonie de Paris and other concert halls of Europe, North and South America and Japan.
He studied piano at the Academy "Ino Mirkovich", and got a doctorate in music from Sorbonne University, he later specialized at the Hochschüle für Musik Köln, Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute, Moscow state conservatory "P.I.Tchaikovsky" and the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. His most important piano teachers were Naum Grubert, Oxana Yablonskaya and Natalia Trull.
He founded the Société Franz Liszt de Genève, a group based on researching and promoting Franz Liszt's music.
Discography
2016 – Franz Liszt: Paganini Studies (CD) /Naxos Records
2014 – Ivo Maček: Complete piano works & Sonata for violin and piano (CD) /Naxos Records
2012 – Liszt’s anniversary resonances (2CD) / Goran Filipec Productions
2006 – Goran Filipec plays Rachmaninov & Mussorgsky (CD) / Eroica Classical Recordings
References
Poderoso y sutil, en cantidades justas
Pianista para el fin del mundo
Beethoven brilló en Tierra del Fuego
Gran prólogo para el Festival de Ushuaia
Artist's website
Zagreb Concert Management
Classical Artists Worldwide
References
External links
F. Liszt: Réminiscences de Norma (Bellini) - Goran Filipec, piano
Goran Filipec à la Boîte à Music by Jean-François Zygel: Guerre et Paix
Ivo Maček - Complete piano works - Goran Filipec, piano
S. Rachmaninoff: Moment Musical Nr. 4 - Goran Filipec, piano
F. Chopin: Polonaise op. 53 "Heroique" - Goran Filipec, piano
S. Rachmaninoff: Moment Musical Nr. 2 - Goran Filipec, piano
Croatian classical pianists
1981 births
Living people
21st-century classical pianists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goran%20Filipec
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