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The following is a bibliography of non-presidential U.S. political memoirs. Many of them were written by the stated author and one or more ghostwriters.
U.S. Supreme Court
The Majesty of the Law : Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice (2003; ), by Sandra Day O'Connor, 102nd U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1981–2006
Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences (2001; ), by Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1967–1991
My Beloved World (2003; ), by Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 2009–Present
U.S. Cabinet
Secretary of State
Hard Choices (2014), by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State under President Obama 2009–2013
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011; ) by Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State 2005–2009 and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs 2001–2005
Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises (2003), by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977
Madam Secretary: A Memoir (2003), by Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton
Ending the Vietnam War : A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War (2002), by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977
Chances of a Lifetime (2001), by Warren Christopher, Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, 1993–1997
Years of Renewal (2000), by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977
In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era (1998), by Warren Christopher, Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, 1993–1997
The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989–1992 (1995; ), by James A. Baker, Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush, 1989–1992
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993; ), by George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, 1982–1989
Inner Circles: How America Changed The World (1992), by Alexander Haig, Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, 1981–1982, and White House Chief of Staff under President Richard Nixon, 1973–1974
Hard Choices: Critical Years in America's Foreign Policy (1983), by Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980
Years of Upheaval (1982), by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977
The White House Years (1979) by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977
As I Saw It (1990), by Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961-1969
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), by Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1949–1953
All in One Lifetime (1958), by James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1945–1947
The memoirs of Cordell Hull (1948; ASIN B0006D7AEA), by Cordell Hull, Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933–1944
Speaking Frankly (1947), by James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1945–1947
Secretary of the Treasury
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (2014), by Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama, 2009–2013
Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower (2015), by Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, 2006–2009
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (2010), by Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, 2006–2009
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington (2003), by Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton, 1995–1999
In History's Shadow: An American Odyssey (1993), by John Connally, former Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon, and Mickey Herskowitz
For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington (1988), by Donald Regan, Secretary of the Treasury, 1981–1985, and White House Chief of Staff, 1985–1987, under President Ronald Reagan
Secretary of Defense
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times (2022; ), by Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense 2019-2020.
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (2014), by Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense 2006–2011.
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace (2014; ) by Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense 2011-2013, Director of the CIA 2009-2011, White House Chief of Staff 1994-1997, Director of the OMB 1993–1994, Congressman 1977–1993.
Star Spangled Security: Applying Lessons Learned over Six Decades Safeguarding America (2012; ) by Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense 1977–1981, and Joyce Winslow.
Known and Unknown: A Memoir (2011; ) by Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense 1975–1977 and 2001–2006.
Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon (1990), by Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense 1981–1987.
The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office (1968), by Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense 1961–1968.
Other Cabinet positions
Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir (1988), by Terrel H. Bell, Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan
Advising Ike : The Memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1993; ), by Herbert Brownell, Attorney General under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953–1957, and John P. Burke
Inside: A Public and Private Life (2004), by Joseph A. Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter
Arthur Flemming, Crusader at Large: A Memoir (1991; ), by Bernice Flemming; Arthur Flemming: Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Justice: The Memoirs of Attorney General Richard Kleindienst (1985; ), by Richard Kleindienst, Attorney General under President Richard Nixon, 1972–1973
Locked in the Cabinet (1997; ), by Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton
Law and Justice in the Reagan Administration: The Memoirs of an Attorney General (1991; ), by William French Smith, U.S. Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, 1981–1985
The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate (1985), by Maurice Stans, Secretary of Commerce under President Richard Nixon
U.S. Cabinet-level administration offices
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Politics, Pollution and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir (2003), by Russell E. Train, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1973–1978
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan revolution failed (1986), by David Alan Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan
White House Chief of Staff
(For the former White House Chiefs of Staff who served in a more senior position, see above)
The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (1994), by H.R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff under President Richard Nixon
Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency (1982), by Hamilton Jordan, White House Chief of Staff under President Jimmy Carter
No Such Thing as a Bad Day: A Memoir (2001), by Hamilton Jordan, White House Chief of Staff under President Jimmy Carter
Chief of Staff: Lyndon Johnson and His Presidency (2004), by W. Marvin Watson, White House Chief of Staff under President Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. ambassadors
The United States in Honduras, 1980–1981: An Ambassador's Memoir (2000; ), by Jack R. Binns, Ambassador to Honduras, 1980–1981
Rogue Ambassador: An African Memoir (1997; ) by Smith Hempstone, Ambassador to Kenya, 1989–1993
Madame Ambassador: The Shoemaker's Daughter (2002; ), by Mari-Luci Jaramillo, Ambassador to Honduras, 1977–1980
American Diplomacy in Turkey: Memoirs of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1984; ), by James W. Spain, Ambassador to Turkey, 1980–1981
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Put the White House On Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir (2004; New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005; ), by Joseph C. Wilson, IV, Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe, 1992–1995
Heads of federal agencies (sub-cabinet level)
At the Center of the Storm : My Years at the CIA (2007; ), by George Tenet and Bill Harlow, Director of Central Intelligence 1997–2004
My FBI : Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror (2005; ), by Louis J. Freeh, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 1993–2001
Full Faith and Credit: The Great S & L Debacle and Other Washington Sagas (2000; ), by L. William Seidman, FDIC/RTC chairman under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (1996/2007; ) by Robert Gates, Director of Central Intelligence 1991–1993
Command of the Seas (1989/2001; ) by John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981–1987
The Craft of Intelligence (1963; ), by Allen W. Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence 1953–1961
White House staff positions
(for White House Chief of Staff see "U.S. Cabinet-level administration offices" above)
The Clinton Wars (2003), by Sidney Blumenthal, former advisor to President Bill Clinton
Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room (2003), by Michael K. Bohn, former director of the Situation Room
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (2004; ), by Richard A. Clarke, former National Security Council counterterrorism advisor
Truth To Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education (2002), by Lanny J. Davis, Special Counsel to the President during Bill Clinton’s second term (1996–1998) and currently a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board under President George W. Bush
Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House (2005), by Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush, 2001–2003
Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton (2003), by David Gergen, former advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton
White House Daze: The Unmaking of Domestic Policy in the Bush Years (1998), by Charles Kolb, Assistant Deputy for Domestic Policy under President George H. W. Bush
A Political Education: A Washington Memoir (1972) by Harry McPherson, Special Counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson
Behind the Oval Office: Getting Reelected Against All Odds (1998), by Dick Morris, former political strategist to President Bill Clinton
What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990), by Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
The Ring of Power: The White House Staff and its Expanding Role in Government (1988), by Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., former White House staff member under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford
The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond (2000) by Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., former White House staff member under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford
All Too Human: A Political Education (1999; ), by George Stephanopoulos, senior advisor to President Bill Clinton
POTUS Speaks: Finding the Words that Defined the Clinton Presidency (2000; ), by Michael Waldman, former speechwriter to President Bill Clinton
The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me About Politics, Leadership, and Life (2005; ), by Dick Wirthlin, former chief political strategist for President Ronald Reagan, and Wynton C. Hall
Remembering America: a voice from the sixties (1988) by Richard N. Goodwin, a speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Bains Johnson. Also part of Robert Kennedy's and Eugene McCarthy's campaigns in 1968.
The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House (2019) by Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, overseeing the administration’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming, 2009–17
Miscellaneous
All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President (1994; ), by James Carville, former campaign strategist for Bill Clinton, and Mary Matalin, former campaign director for George H. W. Bush, with Peter Knobler
Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places (1989; ), by Ann Richards, Governor of Texas, with Peter Knobler
A Fighting Chance, by Senator Elizabeth Warren.
A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic (2013; ), by David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City, with Peter Knobler
What a Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals (2007; ), by Terry McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia, with Steve Kettmann
See also
List of autobiographies by presidents of the United States
List of memoirs by first ladies of the United States
List of political career biographies
U.S. representative bibliography (congressional memoirs)
U.S. senator bibliography (congressional memoirs)
Notes
Political bibliographies
Memoirs
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Muscle reading, also known as "Hellstromism", "Cumberlandism" or "contact mind reading", is a technique used by mentalists to determine the thoughts or knowledge of a subject, the effect of which tends to be perceived as a form of mind reading. The performer can determine many things about the mental state of a subject by observing subtle, involuntary responses to speech or any other stimuli. It is closely related to the ideomotor effect, whereby subtle movements made without conscious awareness reflect a physical movement, action or direction which the subject is thinking about. The term "muscle reading" was coined in the 1870s by American neurologist George M. Beard to describe the actions of mentalist J. Randall Brown, an early proponent of the art.
History
Muscle reading is also known by the names of those who have used it in popular performances. The success of one early performer, Stuart Cumberland, led to the technique's alternate name of Cumberlandism. The fame of the mentalist Axel Hellstrom led to it widely being called Hellstromism. Performers such as J. Randall Brown, Erik Jan Hanussen, Franz Polgar, Kreskin, and Nader Hanna have also used muscle reading successfully in their acts.
In 1924, magician Carl Hertz noted that "mind-reading is nothing but muscle-reading. In all the cases where the mind-reader is supposed to lead a person to a hidden object, the spectator is guided entirely by an involuntary movement of the subject's muscles." The mentalist Washington Irving Bishop could drive a car blindfolded by muscle reading techniques.
Kreskin, one of the most accomplished performers of muscle reading in modern times, can tell a driver where to go in a car while a subject holds his wrist (or vice versa). In one of his books he relates the technique to the children's game within which a hidden object is located by feedback of "hot" or "cold".
June Downey had studied the practice of muscle reading from a psychological perspective. She has been described as an expert on the subject of muscle reading.
Technique
The technique relies on the assertion that the subject will subconsciously reveal their thoughts through very slight involuntary physical reactions, also known as ideomotor responses. The performer can determine what the subject is thinking by recognising and interpreting those responses. Muscle reading may be billed by some entertainers as a psychic phenomenon, where the audience will be told that by creating physical contact with the subject, a better psychic connection can be formed. In fact, the contact allows the performer to read more subtle reactions in the subject's motor functions that may not be apparent without contact, such as muscle control and heart rate.
Because muscle reading relies so heavily on the subject's subconscious reactions to their environment and situation, this technique is used commonly when performing stunts dealing with locating objects in an auditorium or on stage, and as such, it can be done 'clean' by the magician skilled in reading body language.
Performers often instruct the subject to imagine voicing instructions, which presumably amplifies the reactions of the subject, thus promoting the idea that the trick involves genuine thought transference or mind-reading. However the subject who is "thinking directions" has a physical, kinaesthetic reaction that guides the performer so that he or she can, for example, locate a specific place on a wall on which to place a pin, without prior knowledge of where the pin should go.
Knowledge of muscle reading is a technique that is also reportedly used by poker players to hide their reactions to the game, as well as to read the other players for potential bluffs and/or better hands.
See also
Billet reading
Cold reading
Ideomotor effect
References
Further reading
George M. Beard. (1882). The Study of Trance, Muscle-Reading and Allied Phenomena in Europe and America. New York.
H. J. Burlingame. (1891). Mind-Readers and Their Tricks. In Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap books: Or, Modern Magicians and Their Works. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co. pp. 108-127
June Downey. (1908). Automatic Phenomena of Muscle-Reading. The Journal of Philosophy 5: 650-658.
June Downey. (1909). Muscle-Reading: A Method of Investigating Involuntary Movements and Mental Types. Psychological Review 16: 257-301.
External links
http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/muscle%20reading.html - James Randi on the subject
http://dict.die.net/muscle%20reading/ - dictionary definition
Marom mor mentalist
Magic tricks
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George Andrew Davis Jr. (December 1, 1920 – February 10, 1952) was a highly decorated fighter pilot and flying ace of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, and later of the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He was killed in action during a combat mission in northwestern Korea, in an area nicknamed "MiG Alley". For his actions during the Korean War, Davis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and promoted from major to lieutenant colonel.
Born in Dublin, Texas, Davis joined the United States Army Air Corps in early 1942. He was sent to the Pacific Theater after pilot training and flew in the New Guinea and Philippine campaigns, scoring seven victories over Japanese aircraft. He quickly gained a reputation as a skilled pilot and accurate gunner whose "daredevil" flying style contrasted with his reserved personality.
Davis did not see action in Korea until late 1951. Despite this, he achieved considerable success flying the F-86 Sabre fighter jet, quickly rising to become the war's ace of aces and downing fourteen North Korean, Chinese, and Soviet aircraft before his death in February 1952. During his final combat mission in northwestern Korea, Davis surprised and attacked twelve Chinese MiG-15 fighter jets, downing two of the MiG-15s before he was shot down and killed. Davis was the only flying ace of the United States to be killed in action in Korea. Controversies remain surrounding the circumstances of his death.
Davis is the fourth-highest US scoring ace of the Korean War, with a total of 14 victories added to the 7 he scored in World War II. He is one of seven US military pilots to become an ace in two wars, and one of 31 US pilots to be credited with more than 20 victories.
Early life
Davis was born in Dublin, Texas, on December 1, 1920. He was the seventh of nine children born to George Davis Sr. and Pearl Love Davis. During his childhood, Davis also briefly lived in Maple, Texas. Davis attended Morton High School in Morton, Texas. Davis then attended Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas. After obtaining a degree, he returned to Texas. He took up farming for a time with his family before eventually deciding to join the military.
Friends and colleagues would later describe Davis as quiet, calm, and reserved as well as a natural leader. When flying, he would become "cool and calculating" in combat. He did not drink alcohol or smoke tobacco, unlike many other pilots, and he had a subdued personality despite his "daredevil" flying style.
Davis married Doris Lynn Forgason, and was survived by three children, Mary Margaret Davis (born 1944) and George Davis III (born 1950). His wife was six months pregnant with their third child, Charles Lynn Davis, at the time of his death in 1952.
Military career
World War II
On March 21, 1942, Davis enlisted in the United States Army in Lubbock, Texas, just after the US entry into World War II. On June 3, he was appointed an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps. He was moved to Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas, for pre-flight training, which he completed in August. He was then moved to Jones Field in Bonham, Texas, for primary flight training. During this training, he got his first 60 hours of flight time aboard a Fairchild PT-19 trainer aircraft. Then he flew for another 74 hours during Basic Flight Training in Waco, Texas, and underwent a final stint of training aboard the T-6 Texan at Aloe Field in Victoria, Texas. On February 16, 1943, Davis completed his training, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army Reserve, and was immediately ordered into active duty with the Army Air Forces. By this time he had accrued 314 hours of flight time.
Davis's first assignment was to join the 312th Bombardment Group based at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky, where he became qualified to fly the P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. He continued training there until August 1943, when the group was ordered to the Pacific Theater of Operations.
New Guinea
Davis was flown to Port Moresby, New Guinea, where he was quickly reassigned to the 342nd Fighter Squadron, 348th Fighter Group of the Fifth United States Air Force. The group flew the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane. By December, his unit moved to Finschhafen, where it was able to operate over the Solomon Sea against the air forces of the Empire of Japan, and he quickly earned the ironic nickname "Curly" because of his straight black hair. Davis was known among the pilots to be particularly confident. Davis served under the command of Colonel Neel E. Kearby, who himself would later receive the Medal of Honor. Many of the other pilots in the unit would quickly become aces as they participated in the conflict.
Davis's first combat experience came when his unit was sent on a patrol to Cape Gloucester on December 31, 1943, in support of the New Britain campaign as the Battle of Cape Gloucester began. However, the 15 aircraft were diverted to Arawe to the southwest to counterattack Japanese aircraft that were targeting Allied convoys during the Battle of Arawe. En route, they encountered 11 Japanese D3A Val and A6M Zero aircraft attacking an Allied convoy from to . They immediately ambushed the Japanese planes. Davis quickly attacked a disorganized formation of the aircraft, downing a D3A Val as it completed a bombing run. By the end of the short battle, eight Japanese aircraft had been shot down and only one American plane had been damaged.
The next combat mission was on February 3, 1944. Sixteen P-47s were escorting a flight of B-24 Liberators on a bombing mission over Wewak. When they were west of the target area, they were ambushed by a flight of Nakajima Ki-43 Oscars and Kawasaki Ki-61 Tony aircraft at . As the American aircraft rushed to the defense of the bombers, Davis managed to attack and shoot down a Ki-61 that had been attacking another P-47. In all, seven Japanese aircraft were destroyed in the attack. The next day, Davis was promoted to first lieutenant.
For the next several months, Davis's unit undertook patrol and escort missions in the Cape Gloucester area and around the islands of Saidor, Manus, and Momote. Through May, these actions were relatively uneventful, except for one fighter sweep mission from Wewak. From May to August, Davis flew 69 missions, including several dive-bombing attacks on Japanese positions on Hansa Bay. From September to November, Davis flew another 40 missions, including six patrols between Wakde Island and Hollandia. On November 14, Davis was promoted to the temporary rank of captain.
Philippines
Around December 1944, the unit began supporting missions in the Philippines and was moved to Tacloban Airport on Leyte Island. On December 10, after five uneventful weather-probing missions, Davis and the unit were assigned an escort mission. The aircraft were instructed to cover a flotilla of troop transports that were moving from Baybay to Oromoc Bay. En route, they were attacked by four Ki-61 Tony aircraft at . After a series of quick maneuvers, Davis climbed to and took advantage of the sun's glare to ambush two aircraft below him. He pursued them as far as Cebu Island. He closed to within of the pair before destroying the first with his machine guns, and then the second near Negros Island as it attempted to dive for cover in a cloud.
The unit undertook eight more patrol missions over Mindoro, covering Allied convoys.
On December 20, Davis was in one of twelve Thunderbolts patrolling Mindoro when eight A6M Zeroes were spotted attempting to ambush the flight from behind. Davis managed to rake the cockpit of one Zero and kill the pilot, earning him his fifth victory and the status of flying ace. Immediately after this, however, Davis's P-47 was struck by machine-gun fire from another aircraft, damaging the propeller and left wing components. On December 24, on a mission to escort several B-24s on a bombing mission of the Japanese-held Clark Field at Luzon, Davis shot down two more Zeroes that were part of a group of Japanese aircraft attempting to harass the bombers. Davis was awarded a Silver Star for this action.
Between the date of this action and February 19, 1945, Davis flew another 47 missions, most of them entailing the escorting of bombers or ships, and a few of them consisting of ground-attacks, but he saw little or no aerial combat during that time. On February 19, he was withdrawn from the front to begin certification on the P-51 Mustang, logging 45 hours of training time on the aircraft through the end of March. He returned to combat duty only briefly in April, flying in three combat missions as a copilot aboard a B-25 Mitchell bomber. On May 3, 1945, he was reassigned to Goodfellow Field at San Angelo, Texas, helping to train new pilots and serving as an operations officer for the base until the end of the war.
During his World War II service, Davis flew 266 missions, accruing a total of 705 combat hours and destroying seven Japanese aircraft. For these exploits, he was awarded the Silver Star, two Distinguished Flying Crosses and nine Air Medals. By the end of this war, Davis had over 2,200 hours of flight time.
Postwar
After the war's end, Davis served in several administrative positions in the United States. On August 10, 1945, he was assigned to the 556th Air Base Unit at Long Beach, California. On August 24, 1946, he was offered a commission as a first lieutenant in the active duty Army Air Corps, demoting him from his temporary rank but effectively allowing him to stay in the military despite the demobilization and downsizing of the US military. Several weeks later, on September 7, Davis was ordered to the 554th Air Base Unit in Memphis, Tennessee, where he served on one of the Army Air Corps aerobatic demonstration teams, the predecessors to the United States Air Force Thunderbirds.
Davis returned to front-line units on January 6, 1947, when he was moved to the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 1st Fighter Group. He remained with this formation for most of the year. On September 18, 1947, the United States Air Force was created as a separate branch of the US Military. Davis was commissioned as a captain in the new branch. During his time with the 71st Squadron, Davis attended Air Tactical School and Tyndall Air Force Base. He was also a flight commander and air inspector while with the unit.
Korean War
Upon the outbreak of the Korean War, Davis continued to serve in the 71st Squadron and did not see combat in the initial phase of the war. As it progressed, however, Davis began training on the F-86 Sabre (Sabrejet), the latest jet engine-powered fighter. On February 15, 1951, he was promoted to major and in October 1951 he was assigned to the headquarters of the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, which was based in Japan and operating aircraft throughout Korea. Davis was thus sent to the conflict as a fighter pilot.
Command and success
During a patrol on November 4, 1951, Davis was credited with a "probable" victory over a Russian-made MiG-15 fighter jet of the Soviet Air Force or Chinese Air Force, giving him his first victory of the Korean War. On November 10, Davis was given command of the 334th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, a unit of the 4th Wing. Davis and his squadron were relocated to Kimpo Airfield to allow them the best access to "MiG Alley" in North Korea, where much of the air-to-air combat took place. Of his leadership, subordinates often praised the quality of his training; Davis spent a great deal of time training new and younger pilots in tactics during his command. Commanders noted he often led by example, and Davis was known to be greatly respected, even among his rival ace pilots. He gained the nickname "One Burst Davis" for his extremely accurate shooting.
From November 1 to 26, he flew 17 missions in the Sinanju and Uiju areas, most resulting in no combat. On November 27, Davis was leading a formation of eight F-86s on a patrol near Sinanju, when they spotted and attacked six MiG-15s. He immediately downed one of the MiGs, striking its fuselage and forcing the pilot to bail out. He pursued a second MiG-15 to Koch'ong-ni and damaged it, forcing its pilot to bail out, as well. In all, four of the MiG-15s were destroyed by Davis's patrol.
For several more days, Davis led relatively quiet patrols, until November 30, Davis's 22nd combat mission in Korea. Around 16:00, Davis's flight of eight F-86s spotted a large group of nine Tupolev Tu-2 bombers from the Chinese 8th Bomber Division, escorted by 16 Lavochkin La-11 fighters from the Chinese 2nd Fighter Division near Sahol along the Yalu River. The force was en route to a bombing mission on Taehwado Island in the Pansong archipelago. Davis maneuvered the patrol into position for a firing pass on the bombers. He completed four attack runs on the formation, being continuously attacked by the La-11 fighters, which were unable to hit his aircraft. In spite of being separated from his wingmen, he managed to destroy two of the bombers and cause the crew of a third to bail out. By this time, another group of F-86s arrived to continue the fight, as Davis's aircraft were low on ammunition and fuel. As the flight attempted to withdraw, one of Davis's pilots, Raymond O. Barton, called for help. Davis flew to Barton's aid and found Barton's damaged aircraft under attack from 24 MiG-15s of the Chinese 3rd Fighter Division arriving as reinforcement. As two MiG-15s prepared a final attack on Barton, Davis swooped through their pass and scored direct hits on one, killing the Chinese flight leader who commanded the MiG pack. The second broke off its attack. Davis then escorted Barton's damaged aircraft back to base, landing with only of fuel left in his tanks. For the day's actions, Davis was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. The Taehwado bombing mission forced the Chinese Air Force to end all bombing missions for the rest of the war, while the "hat trick"-plus-one of downing four Chinese aircraft in the fight resulted in raising Davis's confirmed victory count in Korea to six, making him the fifth jet ace of the war and the first man in the history of the US military to become an ace in two wars. At this point, Davis wrote to his family that he expected to be home by Christmas, but then the Air Force extended his tour of duty.
On December 5, Davis flew his next combat mission, his 23rd of the war. While on a search-and-destroy patrol over Rinko-do, Davis spotted two MiG-15s, shooting one down and forcing the other to withdraw. Ten minutes later, he spotted another MiG-15 preparing to attack near Haech'ang and destroyed it as well.
On December 13, another group of MiG-15s attacked Davis during a morning patrol near Yongwon. Davis destroyed one MiG, and as a second MiG attempted to target his wingman, Davis outmaneuvered it and shot it down. At the end of the patrol, Davis had amassed 10 victories, making him the first double ace of the war. During an afternoon patrol commanding twenty-two F-86's, Davis spotted fifty MiGs in the Sunchun, South Korea area heading further south towards the Taechon area. He surprised and destroyed one MiG, and then turned on another in an aggressive attack that forced the MiG pilot to bail out. After 30 combat missions in Korea, Davis had 12 victories.
After this successful series of patrols, Davis was ordered to conduct only one patrol a day to minimize the risk to him. The order had previously been sent on December 1, but Davis had apparently ignored it. Both the Air Force and Davis's family had growing concerns that Chinese and Soviet pilots would be gunning for Davis, given his success and fame. By this point, Davis had 12 victories, and the second-highest scoring aces each had sixDavis was averaging one victory for three missions.
In January, Davis wrote home, expressing frustration at the slow logistics of replacement aircraft parts, claiming this was slowing down missions. He also began to express contempt for the F-86, feeling at times it was being outperformed by the MiG and that "something will have to be done" to give the UN pilots more of an advantage in combat. He also said that he had begun to grow tired of the constant publicity about him. "They're trying to make a hero of me and I find it rather embarrassing", he wrote in a letter. At other times, Davis indicated he preferred to stay in combat.
In late January 1951, the Air Force told Davis it wanted to rotate him back to the United States. By this point, Davis held every record for a jet pilot, including most victories in all types of aircraft, most MiGs destroyed and most victories over propeller-driven aircraft. However, the Air Force determined it had no capable replacement who could command Davis's squadron, and other pilots indicated they wanted him to stay, considering him to be an able and effective leader.
Death and controversy
On February 10, 1952, Davis flew his 59th and last combat mission of the war in an F-86E Sabre (tail number 51-2752); the circumstances of Davis's death and the identity of the person who killed him remain controversial. That day, he led a flight of four F-86s on a patrol near the Yalu River, near the Manchurian border. Davis's group was part of a larger UN force of 18 F-86s operating in the area. As Davis's patrol reached the border, one of his F-86 pilots reported he was out of oxygen, prompting Davis to order him to return to base with his wingman. As Davis continued patrolling with one wingman, Second Lieutenant William W. Littlefield, and cruising at an altitude of , they spotted a flight of 12 MiG-15s of the Chinese 4th Fighter Division heading in the direction of a group of US F-84 Thunderjets conducting a low-level bombing mission on North Korean communication lines.
The MiGs were below Davis and Littlefield and had not noticed them. Without hesitating, Davis immediately flew behind the MiG-15 formation and attacked them from the rear. His surprise attack destroyed one of the MiG-15s, and he quickly turned to the next closest MiG and destroyed it before it could outmaneuver him. By this time, Davis and Littlefield had overtaken many of the MiGs, and some that were behind them began firing. Davis then moved to target a third MiG at the front of the formation, but as he was lining up his shot a MiG scored a direct hit on Davis's fuselage, causing his aircraft to spin out of control. Littlefield said later that he had spotted Davis's landing gear open, indicating hydraulic failure, and that he had attempted to defend Davis's aircraft as it lost altitude until Davis crashed and died. Littlefield reported that he had not seen Davis bail out of his aircraft. Davis was declared missing in action and presumed killed. Intense aerial searches of the area later revealed no evidence that Davis had survived the crash. Indeed, a week after the incident, the Chinese military searched the region and recovered Davis's body, which was found in the crashed aircraft. The Chinese never returned Davis's body to the United States.
In his four months in Korea, Davis had scored 14 confirmed victories, one probable victory and two aircraft damaged, bringing his career-total victory count to 21. By the end of the war, he was ranked fourth among pilots, surpassed by Joseph C. McConnell, James Jabara, and Manuel J. Fernandez, after his death. Immediately after receiving a report of Davis’ mission, his fellow ace Colonel Harrison Thyng, commander of the 4th Wing, recommended Davis for the Medal of Honor. On April 15, 1953, Davis was posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Davis's cenotaph is located in the City of Lubbock Cemetery in Lubbock, Texas. Also buried at this cemetery is musician Buddy Holly and Medal of Honor recipient Herman C. Wallace. In April 1953, Davis's wife and family received his Medal of Honor from Air Force Chief of Staff, General Nathan F. Twining, at Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock.
Length of tour
After Davis's death, US Representative George H. Mahon (D-19) ordered an investigation into why Davis had remained in Korea after becoming a fighter ace. US military policy was to rotate pilots to stateside duty once they became aces, both so that they could train other pilots and so that they would not be killed in action. Mahon had been requesting that Davis be rotated back to the US up until a month before his death.
Davis's wife, Doris Davis, expressed anger toward the Air Force after his death, claiming that he had wanted to return to the United States after he became an ace, but had not been allowed to. She also claimed that he had been forced against his will into combat duty in Korea. Her complaints caused media attention to become focused on the Far East Air Force and its policies regarding the rotation of troops and pilots into and out of duty in Korea. Davis's wife had been a vocal opponent of the war since its beginning; she publicly denounced it after Davis's death, which widows of American soldiers rarely did during the war.
Necessity of action
Subsequent to Davis's death, some historians have questioned whether his actions had been necessary under the circumstances. Barrett Tillman (author, military aviation) contended that Davis's Medal of Honor had merely been a public-relations move by the US military to quell questions surrounding his death and to draw attention away from his wife's vocal opposition to the war. The Medal of Honor citation credited Davis with saving the F-84 formation, but the formation of F-86s that Davis was leading actually outnumbered the MiG-15s, so arguably Davis could easily have drawn them into the battle. Still, fellow pilots attested to Davis's bravery. Fellow ace William T. Whisner said, "George Davis was the best fighter pilot I ever knew. The only thing he didn't have was concern of his own life."
As the Korean War progressed, other pilots began to describe Davis as "more brazen, more aggressive, and more willing to take risks in Korea than he was during World War II." He became increasingly contemptuous of the Soviet and Chinese MiG pilots he faced as time went on, leading to other pilots thinking that he may have underestimated the skills of his opponents, and that this may have been a contributing factor in causing his death.
Identity of the shooter
Forty years after Davis's death, the identity of the person who shot Davis down, long assumed to be Chinese pilot Zhang Jihui, became a matter of dispute. Although Zhang had been credited by the Chinese with having shooting down Davis's F-86, after Russia declassified its involvement in the war Russian sources claimed that the pilot responsible had actually been Mikhail A. Averin (). Davis was the highest-ranking American Korean War ace at the time and the only American ace killed in action during the war. His death would have been a huge propaganda victory for the nation whose pilot was responsible for shooting him down. Davis's death at the hands of a Chinese pilot would also have been seen as avenging the losses inflicted by him over Taehwado Island on November 30, 1951. About 36 MiG-15s from the Chinese 4th Fighter Division were involved in the February 10 engagement in which Davis was killed, and Zhang was among the group. According to Zhang's own report after the battle, while the MiGs were en route to intercept Davis's group, he and his wingman became separated from the main element. As Zhang was trying to rejoin his formation, he spotted a group of eight F-86s in the area between Taechon and Chongye at 07:40. Zhang and his wingman then swung down onto the tails of two Sabres and opened fire. Zhang claimed that he had shot down both Sabres, but that reinforcements had soon thereafter destroyed his MiG and killed his wingman.
The publicity surrounding Davis's death soon caught Chinese attention. To determine whether Davis was killed by Zhang, given the absence of gun camera footage, the 4th Fighter Division sent out two search teams, on February 16 and 18. They recovered the wreckage of an F-86E, along with Davis' body and his belongings. His dog tag is currently on display at the Dandong Korean War Museum. The search team also discovered that the crash site was within of where Zhang had ejected from his own aircraft, and that Zhang's 12th Regiment was the only unit that had operated near the area at the time. In light of these findings and the testimonies from ground troops that had witnessed the battle, Zhang was credited by the Chinese military with having shot down Davis's F-86.
However, according to the recollections of the pilots of the Soviet 64th Aviation Corps, both Zhang and his wingman were probably shot down by Davis, who was, in turn, surprised and shot down by Averin, who had been scrambling to save the Chinese MiGs. Lieutenant General Georgy Lobov (), commander of the 64th Aviation Corps, also states in his memoirs that Davis was killed by a Soviet pilot.
Both China and Russia took credit for Davis's death, and there has been no conclusive evidence either way. Regardless of the uncertainty surrounding Davis's death, Zhang became a household name in China. The Chinese military later awarded Zhang the title of Combat Hero, 1st Class for this action.
Aerial victories
Throughout his career, Davis was credited with 21 confirmed victories, one probable victory and two aircraft damaged. This made him one of only 30 US pilots to gain more than 20 confirmed victories over their careers. He had been known to be an extremely talented pilot and was especially accurate at deflection shooting, even from long distances against moving targets. Davis was one of 1,297 World War II aces from the United States, with seven confirmed kills during that war. He later became one of 41 Korean War aces from the United States, with 14 confirmed victories during that war. At the time of his death, he was the top-scoring ace from the US, making him the ace of aces. By the end of the war, he was the fourth-highest-scoring ace.
During the Korean War, Davis's accomplishments were particularly noteworthy. He was the only F-86 pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor, and he was one of very few pilots who were able to score multiple kills on a single patrol. This was an extremely rare feat, which Davis accomplished on four occasions and which was rivaled only by fellow ace James Jabara who also scored a notable number of double victories. In shooting down four Chinese aircraft on November 30, 1951, Davis scored the most kills in a single day of any pilot in the war. Davis also took the shortest time to become a double ace; just 17 days in Korea. The next best pilot achieved the feat in 51 days.
Davis is one of six US Air Force pilots and seven US pilots overall who achieved ace status as both a piston-engined pilot in World War II and as a jet pilot in a later conflict. The others are Francis S. Gabreski, James P. Hagerstrom, William T. Whisner, Vermont Garrison and Harrison Thyng, as well as John F. Bolt of the US Marine Corps.
Military awards
Davis's military decorations and awards include:
Medal of Honor citation
Davis was the third of four members of the US Air Force to be awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War, after Louis J. Sebille, John S. Walmsley Jr. and before Charles J. Loring Jr. All four Air Force recipients of the MOH were pilots who were killed in action and the only USAF members to be awarded the Army version of the medal.
Distinguished Service Cross citation
See also
List of Korean War air aces
List of Korean War Medal of Honor recipients
List of World War II aces from the United States
Notes
References
Sources
External links
Medal of Honor Society homepage
1920 births
1952 deaths
United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipients
American Korean War flying aces
American military personnel killed in the Korean War
American World War II flying aces
Aviators from Texas
Aviators killed by being shot down
People from Cochran County, Texas
People from Dublin, Texas
Recipients of the Air Medal
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)
Recipients of the Silver Star
United States Air Force officers
Korean War recipients of the Medal of Honor
American aviation record holders
Military personnel missing in action
United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II
Military personnel from Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Andrew%20Davis%20Jr. |
Edgewood High School is a public high school in Trenton, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Edgewood City School District which serves students in the city of Trenton, the village of Seven Mile, and Wayne Township. The current facility opened in 2012 just outside the city of Trenton on Busenbark Road.
Athletics
Edgewood athletic teams are known as the Cougars. The Cougars and Lady Cougars compete in the Southwest Ohio Conference (SWOC) ].
Notable alumni
Zach Apple, Olympic Gold Medalist, Professional Swimmer
Notes and references
External links
District website
High schools in Butler County, Ohio
Public high schools in Ohio
2012 establishments in Ohio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood%20High%20School%20%28Trenton%2C%20Ohio%29 |
Barry Cuthbert Jones (6 March 1893 – 1 May 1981) was an actor seen in British and American films, on American television and on the stage.
Biography
Jones was born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands in 1893. He started his acting career on the British stage in 1921. He performed in his first film, Shaw's Arms and the Man as Bluntschli in 1932. In 1935, he originated the role of King Stephen in Ivor Novello's stage musical, Glamorous Night.
A character actor in many films, often portraying nobility, he had a starring role in the film Seven Days to Noon. He also played Mr. Lundie in the 1954 film adaptation of Brigadoon, and Polonius in the 1953 U.S. television adaptation of Hamlet. He appeared as Claudius in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a sequel to 20th Century Fox's biblical epic, The Robe. This character was Caligula's uncle and became the new Emperor after Caligula's death.
Jones died at the age of eighty-eight in Guernsey.
Selected filmography
Women Who Play (1932) as Ernest Steele
Number Seventeen (1932) as Henry Doyle
Arms and the Man (1932) as Captain Bluntschli
The Gay Adventure (1936) as Darnton
Murder in the Family (1938) as Stephen Osborne
Squadron Leader X (1943) as Bruce Fenwick
Frieda (1947) as Holliday
Dancing with Crime (1947) as Gregory
The Calendar (1948) as Sir John Garth
Uneasy Terms (1948) as Inspector Gringall
That Dangerous Age (1949) as Arnold Cane
The Bad Lord Byron (1949) as Colonel Stonhope
Twelve O'Clock High (1949) as Lord Haw-Haw (voice, uncredited)
Madeleine (1950) as Lord Advocate
Seven Days to Noon (1950) as Professor Willingdon
The Mudlark (1950) as Speaker (uncredited)
The Clouded Yellow (1951) as Nicholas Fenton
White Corridors (1951) as Dr. Shoesmith
Appointment with Venus (1951) as Provost
The Magic Box (1951) as The Bath Doctor
Plymouth Adventure (1952) as William Brewster
Hamlet (1953) as Polonius
Return to Paradise (1953) as Pastor Corbett
Prince Valiant (1954) as King Luke
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) as Claudius
Brigadoon (1954) as Mr. Lundie
The Glass Slipper (1955) as Duke
Alexander the Great (1956) as Aristotle
War and Peace (1956) as Prince Mikhail Andreevich Rostov
Saint Joan (1957) as De Courcelles
The Safecracker (1958) as Bennett Carfield
The 39 Steps (1959) as Professor Logan
Karolina Rijecka (1961) as Admiral
A Study in Terror (1965) as Duke of Shires
The Heroes of Telemark (1965) as Professor Logan (final film role)
Appearances in TV series
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1953–1961)
Robert Montgomery Presents (1955–1956) as Captain Whalley
The Saint (1963) as Otis Q. Fennick
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Patrick Holt
The Outer Limits (1963) as Dwight Hartley
Martin Chuzzlewit (1964) as Martin Chuzzlewit the Elder
The Spread of the Eagle (1963) as Julius Caesar
Sherlock Holmes (1965) as Charles Augustus Milverton
Sources
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies published by Harper-Collins –
References
External links
1893 births
1981 deaths
20th-century British male actors
British expatriate male actors in the United States
British male film actors
British male stage actors
British male television actors
Guernsey male actors
People educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Jones%20%28actor%29 |
Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was a bacterial geneticist and an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University.
Personal life
Bunting was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry A. and Mary Shotwell Ingraham; she was known as "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Her father was an attorney; her mother was the head of the national YWCA and helped found the USO during World War II. Bunting graduated from Vassar College in 1931, and earned master's (1932) and doctoral degrees (1934) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in agricultural bacteriology.
While at Wisconsin, she met Henry Bunting, then a medical student, who went on to teach pathology at the Yale University School of Medicine. They married in 1937, and had one daughter and three sons. He died of brain cancer in 1954. In 1975, Bunting married Clement A. Smith, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School; he died in 1988.
Professional life
Bunting, a microbiologist who did work in bacterial genetics, taught and conducted research at Bennington College, Goucher College, Yale University, and Wellesley College before becoming dean, in 1955, of Douglass College, the women's school at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She was named president of Radcliffe in 1960. The same year, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Once at Radcliffe, Bunting gained national attention for identifying a societal problem she called a "climate of unexpectation" for girls, which resulted in "the waste of highly talented educated womanpower." She told Time:
'Adults ask little boys what they want to do when they grow up. They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress. We don't care what women do with their education.'
Bunting brought change to Radcliffe. During her tenure, Radcliffe women began to receive Harvard degrees, women were admitted to the university's graduate and business schools, and the Radcliffe Graduate School merged with Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She also founded the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, a multidisciplinary postgraduate center of advanced studies for women; it was later renamed the Bunting Institute in her honor.
Bunting was named "Outstanding Woman of the Year" in the field of education by Who's Who, and received the National Institute of Social Scientists' gold medal in 1962. In 1964, Bunting took a leave of absence from Radcliffe to serve on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; she was the first woman to ever do so. Bunting was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was awarded over a dozen honorary degrees. Smith College, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Vermont are a few of the schools to have honored her.
She left Radcliffe in 1972, and became special assistant to the president of Princeton University, where she remained until 1975. She retired to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then to New Hampshire, where she died in 1998.
See also
Radcliffe College History
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
References
External links
Papers, 1926-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1978 (bulk). Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Other sources
Elaine Yaffe, Mary Ingraham Bunting: Her Two Lives, Frederic C. Beil, 2005.
Significant Dates in Radcliffe's History
1910 births
1998 deaths
American microbiologists
Presidents of Radcliffe College
Harvard University people
Radcliffe College faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences alumni
Bennington College faculty
Yale University faculty
Rutgers University faculty
Educators from Brooklyn
Educators from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Vassar College alumni
Wellesley College faculty
Women microbiologists
People from Hanover, New Hampshire
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American scientists
20th-century American biologists
Scientists from New York (state)
American women academics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Bunting |
Sir Robert Way Harty, 1st Baronet (27 December 1779 – 10 October 1832) was a British politician and Whig Member of Parliament representing Dublin City for a few months in 1831.
He was born the youngest son of Timothy Harty (d. 1799) of Kilkenny and Mary, the daughter of John Lockington.
Harty was appointed High Sheriff of Dublin City for 1811-12 and was the Lord Mayor of Dublin when elected to Parliament. He was created 1st Baronet (Harty of Prospect House, Dublin) in 1831. The formal creation, according to Leigh Rayment, was 30 September 1831, but it must have been known about earlier as The Times (of London) in its edition of 23 May 1831 reporting the result of the Dublin election, referred to Harty as a Baronet.
In the UK General Election of 1831 Harty was, on 19 May 1831, declared elected to one of the two seats for Dublin City. The defeated Tory candidates presented an election petition against Harty and his colleague Louis Perrin. The Whig MPs were unseated in August and a new election ordered. Harty was never again to stand for election to Parliament.
He was married to Elizabeth, the daughter of John Davis of Eden Park and Prospect House, Co. Dublin; by his wife, Mary, daughter of Charles Jones (d.1788) of Killincarrig House, Co. Wicklow. They had 4 sons and 3 daughters. He was succeeded in his title consecutively by his eldest son, Robert and his youngest son, Henry Lockington.
His daughter Emma Jane Adelaide (1828–1919) married George Henry Haigh DL JP (1829–1887) of The Shay, Halifax, and Grainsby Hall, Lincs in 1859.A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, sixth edition, vol. I, Bernard Burke, Harrison, 1879, p. 707 The Haighs had made their fortune in the industrial revolution (as mill owners, merchants and bankers) and had entered the ranks of the landed gentry. In addition to estates in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire they owned a country house in Merionethshire called "Aber Iâ". This property was later made famous as Portmeirion by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. Their eldest son was George Henry Caton Haigh (1860–1941).
References
Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
1779 births
1832 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1831–1832
Lord Mayors of Dublin
Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies
High Sheriffs of Dublin City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Harty |
Klaus Sulzenbacher (born 3 February 1965 in Kitzbühel, Austria) is a former Nordic combined skier.
Between 1983 and 1991 he won 14 World Cup competitions, and also won the World Cup twice. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, he won silver in the 15 km individual competition, and bronze in the 3 x 10 km team competition. At the 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he finished second in the 15 km individual competition, and won in the 3 x 10 km team event. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, he won bronze medals in both the 15 km individual and 3 x 10 km team competitions.
Sulzenbacher grew up in Kitzbuehel, Tyrol, which is often considered Austria's mecca of Alpine skiing. That he went to train in Nordic skiing in his youth, and not in Alpine styles, is remarkable given that at the time virtually the entire well-funded Austrian Ski Federation system was geared towards Alpine ski racing. Sulzenbacher must be credited for breaking new ground. As Austria's first successful Nordic skier, Sulzenbacher is regarded as cornerstone for the successes of both Mario Stecher and Felix Gottwald. With four Olympic medals, he is among Austria's most successful Olympic competitors. Following his retirement from competition, he now works as a physiotherapist in Stams.
External links
1965 births
Living people
Austrian male Nordic combined skiers
Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Austria
Olympic silver medalists for Austria
Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
Nordic combined skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Nordic combined skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Nordic combined skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
FIS Nordic Combined World Cup winners
People from Kitzbühel
Skiers from Tyrol (state)
Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Sulzenbacher |
The Bad Dürkheim lift () was a gondola lift located in Bad Dürkheim (in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate). From 1973 on, it linked the Wurstmarkt in the city centre with the Teufelsstein in the Haardt Mountains, situated to the northwest of the lower station.
Set down on eight pillars, the cableway bridged a distance of 1,270 metres at a height difference of 165 metres, featuring 43 small cabins.
Service on the gondola lift was abandoned in 1981, when some residents denied the right to let their estates be crossed. The owner acquired new easements in 1999, theoretically allowing for the cable car to run again. However, the summit station and a large number of cabins burnt out in a 2000 arson attack. As a result of the arson, the pillars were removed in 2005.
In December 2006, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate approved the reconstruction of the system. The current owner expected it to be fully operational by 2008.
References
External links
Citizen's group website about the cable car
Lost Ropeways entry
Gondola lifts in Germany
Buildings and structures in Rhineland-Palatinate
Buildings and structures destroyed by arson
1973 establishments in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20D%C3%BCrkheim%20lift |
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1957. This listing is the complete, 30 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at March 2014).
Statutory Instruments
The Airways Corporations (General Stall, Pilots and Officers Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1957 SI 1957/ 87
The Visiting Forces Act (Application to Colonies) (Amendment) Order, 1957 SI 1957/103
The Coal Industry (Superannuation Scheme) (Winding Up, No. 11) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/156
The Petroleum-Spirit (Conveyance by Road) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/191
The Coal Industry Nationalisation (Superannuation) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/319
The Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Ignition Apparatus) Amendment (No. 1) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/347
The Oil in Navigable Waters (Transfer Records) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/358
The Transferred Undertakings (Pensions of Employees) (Amendment) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/438
The National Health Service (Superannuation) (England and Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/788
The Petroleum (Liquid Methane) Order 1957 SI 1957/859
The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Federation of Nigeria Government Ships) Order 1957 SI 1957/861
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/972
The Superannuation (English Local Government and Northern Ireland Civil Service) Interchange Rules 1957 SI 1957/1155
The Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/1157
The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Italian Republic) Order 1957 SI 1957/1368
The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Federal Republic of Germany), Order 1957 SI 1957/1369
The Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Barbados) Order, 1957 SI 1957/1371
The Agriculture (Ladders) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/1385
The Agriculture (Power Take-off) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/1386
The British Transport Commission (Male Wages Grades Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/1455
The Double Taxation Relief (Estate Duty) (Pakistan) Order 1957 SI 1957/1522
The Copyright (International Organisations) Order 1957 SI 1957/1524
The Superannuation (National Physical Laboratory and Civil Service) Transfer Rules 1957 SI 1957/1586
The Justices of the Peace Act, 1949 (Compensation) Regulations 1957 SI 1957/1681
The Superannuation (Roehampton Hospital and Civil Service) Transfer Rules 1957 SI 1957/1723
The National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Israel) Order 1957 SI 1957/1879
The Superannuation (Wartime Social Survey and Civil Service) Transfer Rules 1957 SI 1957/1989
The Consular Conventions (Federal Republic of Germany) Order 1957 SI 1957/2052
The Consular Conventions (Italian Republic) Order 1957 SI 1957/2053
The Superannuation (English Local Government and Northern Ireland Health Service) Interchange Rules 1957 SI 1957/2197
The Census of Distribution (1958) (Restriction on Disclosure) Order, 1956 SI 1957/1860
The Greenwich Hospital School (Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1956 SI 1957/1894
The Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (New Zealand) Order 1956 SI 1957/1895
The Coal Mines (Cardox and Hydrox) Regulations 1956 SI 1957/1942
The Stratified Ironstone, Shale and Fireclay Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1956 SI 1957/1943
The Mines (Manner of Search for Smoking Materials) Order 1956 SI 1957/2016
The Visiting Forces (Designation) Order 1956 SI 1957/2041
The Visiting Forces (Military Courts-Martial) (Amendment) Order 1956 SI 1957/2043
The Visiting Forces (Royal New Zealand Air Force) (Amendment) Order 1956 SI 1957/2044
The Sheriffs' Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 1956 SI 1957/2081
Unreferenced Listings
The following 4 items were previously listed on this article, however are unreferenced on the authorities site, included here for a "no loss" approach.
Dearne Valley Water Board Order 1957 SI 1957/1153
North East of Birmingham-Nottingham Trunk Road (Breedon-On-The-Hill Bypass) Order 1957 SI 1957/1829
Alkali, Works (Registration) Order 1957 SI 1957/2208
Mid-Wessex Water (No. 2) Order 1957 SI 1957/2233
References
External links
Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National Archive
UK SI's on legislation.gov.uk
UK Draft SI's on legislation.gov.uk
See also
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Lists of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201957 |
The Hy-Drive was a Chrysler Corporation semi-automatic transmission introduced in 1953 in US-market Plymouths. It was a hybrid manual transmission equipped with a torque converter, like an automatic. Although Hy-Drive cars had a clutch pedal like a traditional manual transmission, it was only used to put the car in gear. Once underway, the driver could upshift and downshift using the gear shift without using the clutch or even lifting off the accelerator.
The industry was caught by surprise by the advent of the automatic transmission in the early-to-late-1940s. General Motors' Dynaflow, introduced by Buick in 1948, was a smash hit with the public, very soon being fitted in over 80% of new Buicks. (GM's fully automatic Hydramatic, which debuted in 1939, was in 70% of Pontiacs that year.) Chrysler had previously offered a Fluid Drive fluid coupling (not a torque converter, as it did not multiply the torque) on their manual transmissions, and the Hy-Drive was an evolution of this. It was sold by Plymouth for the entire 1953 model year, and into April of the 1954 model year, when the fully automatic PowerFlite became available. About 75,000 cars came equipped with this transmission.
Trivia
The Hy-Drive was so large it required a complete reengineering of the engine compartment and transmission tunnel.
Export Plymouth-based Dodges and DeSotos could be ordered with Hy-Drive.
Hy-Drive transmissions shared the engine's lubricating oil, requiring 11 quarts (10.4 L) for an oil change.
See also
List of Chrysler transmissions
References
Flory, J. "Kelly", Jr. American Cars 1946-1959. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Coy, 2008.
Notes
Chrysler transmissions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy-Drive |
Nordwalde (literally: north woods) is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
It is situated in the Münsterland area, approximately 12 km south-east of Steinfurt and 20 km north-west of Münster. The distance to the Dutch border is about 30 km.
Neighbouring municipalities
Greven
Emsdetten
Altenberge
Steinfurt
Division of the town
Nordwalde consists of 6 districts:
Nordwalde
Feldbauerschaft
Kirchbauerschaft
Scheddebrock
Suttorf
Westerode
Twin towns
Amilly, France
Treuenbrietzen, Germany
References
External links
Steinfurt (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordwalde |
Frankland may refer to:
People
Edward Frankland (1825–1899), English chemist
George Frankland (1800–1838), English surveyor and Surveyor-General of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
Henry Frankland (1690–1738), administrator of the English East India Company, President of Bengal
Jocosa Frankland (1531–1587), English philanthropist
Juliet Frankland (1929–2013), British mycologist
Noble Frankland (1922–2019), British historian
Percy F. Frankland (1858–1946), British chemist
Richard Frankland (born 1963), Australian playwright, scriptwriter and musician
Richard Frankland (1630–1698), English nonconformist, founder of the dissenting Rathmell Academy
Rosemarie Frankland (1943–2000), Welsh beauty pageant contestant and actress
Shan Frankland, fictional character
Thomas Frankland (disambiguation), several people
William Frankland (disambiguation), several people
Places
Frankland, Western Australia
Frankland Group National Park, Queensland, Australia
Frankland Peak, mountain in South West Tasmania
Frankland River (Western Australia)
Frankland River (North West Tasmania)
Frankland Range, Mountain range in South West Tasmania, Australia
State of Frankland or State of Franklin, an unrecognized autonomous United States territory created in 1784
Francia or Frankland, a European territory inhabited and ruled by the Franks from the 3rd to the 10th century
Other
Frankland baronets The Frankland Baronetcy, of Thirkelby in the County of York, was created in 1660 and is extant.
Frankland (HM Prison), a prison near Durham, England
Howard Frankland Bridge, the central bridge spanning Old Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg, Florida to Tampa, Florida | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankland |
Isabelle Delobel (born 17 June 1978) is a French former competitive ice dancer. With partner Olivier Schoenfelder, she is the 2008 World champion, the 2007 European champion, and the 2008 Grand Prix Final champion.
Delobel and Schoenfelder retired from competitive skating following the 2010 Winter Olympics, having skated together for two decades.
Career
Delobel was born on 17 June 1978 in Clermont-Ferrand. She began skating at age six and began ice dancing after only a year in singles. She skated with her brother, Laurent, for three years. She later moved to train in Lyon.
Delobel and Schoenfelder were paired together in 1990 by coach Lydie Bontemps on the suggestion of Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov. They won a silver medal at 1996 Junior Worlds before turning senior prior to the 1996–97 season. They won their first Grand Prix medal at the 1999 Skate Canada. Early in their career, they were coached by Muriel Boucher-Zazoui in Lyon, France. Tatiana Tarasova and Nikolai Morozov were their choreographers from 1998 to 2002 and their coaches from 2000 to 2002 in Newington, Connecticut. While practising a lift at French Nationals in December 2001, Delobel tore an abdominal muscle, keeping her off the ice for six weeks and forcing the team to miss the European Championships. Feeling more comfortable in France, Delobel and Schoenfelder decided to return to Lyon and Boucher-Zazoui after the 2001–2002 season.
They won their first national championship in the 2002–2003 season. Delobel and Schoenfelder worked with choreographer Pasquale Camerlengo for the 2005–2006 season.
Delobel and Schoenfelder often finished just outside the medals at major events, including a 4th place at the 2006 Olympics, less than two points behind the bronze medalists. The following season, they won their only European title but were unable to win a medal at Worlds.
Delobel and Schoenfelder did not repeat as European champions the following year, finishing second. They then went on to win the 2008 World Championships. They were first in both the compulsory and original dance portions of the event, and second in the free dance. They considered retiring but decided to continue competing.
They began the 2008–09 season with wins in all three Grand Prix appearances – Skate America, Trophée Eric Bompard, and the Grand Prix Final. During their gala exhibition performance at the Grand Prix Final in December 2009, Delobel suffered a shoulder injury and underwent surgery on 5 January 2009, causing them to miss the remainder of the season.
Delobel became pregnant during the injury layoff. She and Schoenfelder trained cautiously, with Marie-France Dubreuil substituting for Delobel in lifts. Dubreuil, along with Patrice Lauzon, also choreographed their final free dance. Occasional falls caused Delobel to leave the ice in late July.
Delobel's son was born in October and she returned to the ice toward the end of the month, beginning three-a-day sessions and intense physical training in November. They also skipped French Nationals and the European Championships in order to spend more time on training. The two returned in time for the Vancouver Olympics, competing just four-and-a-half months after she had given birth and announcing it would be their final competition. They finished sixth and retired from competitive skating. They continue to skate together in shows.
Personal life
Delobel's twin sister, Véronique Delobel, also competed in the French national championships and internationally.
Delobel married Ludovic Roux, a bronze medalist at the 1998 Olympics in team Nordic combined, in June 2009, and their son, Loïc, was born on 2 October 2009.
Programs
(with Schoenfelder)
Competitive highlights
(with Schoenfelder)
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Clermont-Ferrand
French female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for France
Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Lyon
French twins
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
Season-end world number one figure skaters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Delobel |
HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then loaned as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. It was restored in 1987 and is now part of the UK's National Historic Fleet.
Design
The Doterel class were a development of the Osprey-class sloops and were of composite construction, with wooden hulls over an iron frame. The original 1874 design by the Chief Constructor, William Henry White was revised in 1877 by Sir Nathaniel Barnaby and nine were ordered. Of 1,130 tons displacement and approximately 1,100 indicated horsepower, they were armed with two 7" muzzle-loading rifled guns on pivoting mounts, and four 64-pound guns (two on pivoting mounts, and two broadside). They had a crew of around 140 men.
Construction
Gannet was laid down at Sheerness Royal Dockyard in 1877 and launched on 31 August 1878. She was commissioned on 17 April 1879, and was classified as both a sloop of war and a colonial cruiser. She was capable of nearly 12 knots under full steam or 15 knots under sail.
History
The primary purpose of ships of the Gannet's class was to maintain British naval dominance through trade protection, anti-slavery, and long term surveying.
Shadowing the War of the Pacific
Gannet served her first commission from 17 April 1879 to 20 July 1883 on the Pacific Station under Admiral Rous de Horsey. She sailed from Portsmouth, across the Atlantic and via Cape Horn to the port of Panama City on the Pacific coast of Central America. She spent much time shadowing the events of the War of the Pacific before embarking on a patrol around the Pacific. She returned to Sheerness to pay off in July 1883, and underwent a two-year refit.
The Mediterranean and the Mahdist War
Gannet recommissioned at Sheerness on 3 September 1885 and sailed to join the Mediterranean Fleet. She was initially used to support the forces of Major-General Sir Gerald Graham during the first Suakin Expedition in the Sudan. Anti-slavery patrols took her into the Red Sea, searching suspicious ships. On 11 September 1888, she was recalled from a mid-commission refit at Malta and ordered to relieve at the besieged port of Suakin, Sudan. On 17 September she engaged anti-Anglo-Egyptian forces led by Osman Digna for nearly a month, firing 200 main armament shells and nearly 1,200 Nordenfelt rounds. Gannet was relieved by on 15 October and paid off at Malta on 1 November 1888.
Survey in the Mediterranean
Gannet recommissioned almost immediately on 10 November 1888 and was assigned to perform surveying work throughout the Mediterranean. She paid off from her third commission in December 1891.
Final commission
She recommissioned on 26 January 1892 and spent three years conducting survey work in both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. She returned to Chatham and decommissioned on 16 March 1895.
Harbour service
After four months out of commission, in December 1895, Gannet was transferred to harbour service in Chatham where she remained until 1900, when she was placed on the list of non-effective vessels. In the autumn of 1900, Gannet was leased to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Company as an accommodation hulk at Port Victoria railway station on the Isle of Grain.
Training ship President
In 1903 Gannet was ordered to relieve the original HMS President of 1829, which had served as the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve drill ship in London Docks since 1862, and underwent major alterations to convert her into a drill ship. Renamed HMS President, she took up her new duties as the headquarters ship of the London Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the South West India Docks in June 1903. In 1909 the ship was renamed President II and in the spring of 1911, was relieved by HMS Buzzard, again finding herself on the list of non-effective vessels.
Dormitory ship on the Hamble
In 1913 Gannet was loaned to C. B. Fry, and was stationed in the River Hamble, and became a dormitory ship for the Training Ship Mercury (where she retained her name President). The school took young boys who otherwise might not have many options in life, and trained them to join the Royal Navy. The ship served in this capacity until 1968 when the school was closed.
Preservation
Back in Royal Navy stewardship, the ship was turned over to the Maritime Trust so that she could be restored. In 1987 the Chatham Historic Dockyard chartered Gannet from the Maritime Trust and started a restoration programme to return the ship to its 1888 appearance — the only time she saw naval combat. In 1994 ownership of the vessel was passed to the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, where, listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, she remains on display as a museum ship.
In the news, March 2009
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, on his first visit to US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C. in March 2009, gave the new American President a gift of a pen holder made from the wood of Gannet, reflecting her role in Victorian anti-slavery efforts. This gift was reciprocated with a collection of 25 DVDs of classic American "Hollywood" films.
Citations
References
External links
Historic Dockyard, Chatham
Training Ship Mercury, Hamble
Doterel-class sloops
Ships built in Sheerness
1878 ships
Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom
Survey vessels of the Royal Navy
Training ships of the Royal Navy
Museum ships in the United Kingdom
Ships and vessels of the National Historic Fleet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Gannet%20%281878%29 |
No. 432 Squadron RCAF was a squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force formed during the Second World War.
History
It was first formed at RAF Skipton-on-Swale in May 1943, as part of No. 6 Group of RAF Bomber Command. The unit was equipped with Wellington Mk.X bombers.
The squadron deployed to RAF East Moor in mid-September, equipping with Lancaster Mk.IIs in October. In February 1944 they changed to Halifax Mk.IIIs, upgrading these to Halifax Mk.VIIs in July.
As part of a Royal Canadian Air Force public relations plan, the town of Leaside officially "adopted" No. 432 Squadron RCAF. Formed and adopted on 1 May 1943 the squadron took the town's name as its nickname, becoming 432 "Leaside" Squadron RCAF. The sponsorship lasted the duration of the war.
The squadron was disbanded at East Moor in May, 1945.
On October 1, 1954, it was reformed as a fighter squadron at CFB Bagotville flying the Canadian designed Avro CF-100. The squadron was again disbanded on October 15, 1961.
Manuel Sharko and Jack Stacy were mid-upper gunners in their respective Halifax bombers during the war.
References
Book Reference: The East Moor Experience by Brian Shields
External links
Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons
Canadian Article XV squadrons of World War II
Military units and formations established in 1943
Military units and formations disestablished in 1961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20432%20Squadron%20RCAF |
Jean-Jacques Daniël Dony (24 February 1759 – 6 November 1819) was an inventor and industrialist. He invented a procedure for the production of pure zinc, and opened a mine in Moresnet.
Biography
Dony was born on 24 February 1759 in Liège. He studied to become a priest, but in 1797 took over his father's business as a cattle transporter.
Dony invented a procedure for the industrial production of totally pure zinc. In 1806, Napoleon granted him a monopoly for the exploitation of the zinc mines of Moresnet, now in Liège Province, Belgium. The mines were successful, and his company became Europe's largest producer of zinc. These mines continued operating until 1880.
From the exploitation of the Moresnet mines rose the 'Vieille Montagne Association' (French for Old Mountain), which later expanded its operations abroad (to France, Germany and Sweden (Zinkgruvan) among others). The activities of the association of the Old Mountain were taken over in 1989 by the Union Minière (Mining Union) group, which is known since 2001 as Umicore.
In 1809, Dony opened a factory in Liège, but ran into financial difficulties, and was forced to sell 75% of his stocks. In 1819, he was declared bankrupt, and died in Bois-l'Évêque on 6 November 1819, at the age of 60.
References
External links
Umicore
1759 births
1819 deaths
19th-century Belgian inventors
Businesspeople from Liège | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Dony |
"Only U" is a song by American singer Ashanti from her third studio album, Concrete Rose (2004). The song's introduction uses a sample of Club Nouveau's 1986 song "Why You Treat Me So Bad". "Only U" is a rock-tinged song, that finds Ashanti in love and willing to do anything to be with the one she loves, no matter the cost.
Released on October 18, 2004, as the album's lead single, the track reached number thirteen on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 2005. It peaked at number two in the United Kingdom and number four in Ireland, becoming her most successful single in both countries. The song received generally favorable reviews from music critics, with most praising its sensual lyrics, guitar riff and her vocal performance.
Background and release
After her successful second studio album Chapter II (2003), which topped the Billboard 200 chart and was certified Platinum, spawned two hit singles, "Rock wit U (Awww Baby)" and "Rain on Me", and earned her three Grammy nominations, Ashanti released her first Christmas album called Ashanti's Christmas in 2003. However, the album received overwhelming negative reviews and did not provide much success on the charts.
Later in September 2004, she collaborated with Ja Rule and R. Kelly on the track "Wonderful" for Rule's sixth studio album R.U.L.E. The song was a success, topping the UK Singles Chart and peaking inside the top 10 in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, as well as reaching the top 20 in Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany. A month later, on October 18, 2004, "Only U" was serviced to US urban radio, and on October 26, the song was released through iTunes and Amazon as the lead single from Ashanti's third studio album, Concrete Rose (2004). The song was released to radio stations on January 11, 2005.
Remix
The official remix was included on Ashanti's 2005 compilation album Collectables by Ashanti, and features Caddillac Tah, Young Merc, Ja Rule, and Black Child. There is a second official remix that replaces Caddillac Tah and Young Merc with Dipset rappers Cam'ron and Juelz Santana.
Composition and lyrics
"Only U" was written by Ashanti, Seven Aurelius, and Irv Gotti, with production handled by the latter two. "Only U" is a rock-tinged song. The song's introduction uses a sample of Club Nouveau's 1986 song "Why You Treat Me So Bad", followed by a guitar riff, taken from the song "Presence" by Aurelius. Lyrically, "Only U" has Ashanti imagining a man providing sexual pleasure for her, finding herself always standing by his side or looking for reasons to be close to him, acting out of character and falling for him more with each day.
"Oh I can't wait to get next to you/ Oh I just can't leave you alone/ Boy you got me doing things that I would never do," she sings. In the chorus, she emphasizes that the guy is only one who makes her feel in love and turned on, "Only u can make me feel and only u can take me there," she chants.
Critical reception
"Only U" received generally favorable reviews from music critics. Hattie Collins of The Guardian called it "a deliciously dark song." Chuck Arnold of People Magazine wrote that "the rock-edged 'Only U,' show Ashanti truly blossoming." Khalil Regarty of The Age called it "a No. 1-single-by-numbers in which Aurelius' Linkin Park-style guitar riffs sit atop a shuffling beat the Trackmasters or the Neptunes could have put their hands to." Low Key of MV Remix wrote that "'Only U' finds Ashanti taking a risk with a rock-influenced sound, which thankfully works out well. Ashanti sounds better than ever over Seven Aurelius smashing guitar riffs and ambient sirens, making for one of her best efforts yet." Steve Jones of USA Today praised the song for having "engaging beats and airy vocals," writing that "it works well."
"The Bland Is Out There" review was positive, writing that, "The beat complements Ashanti's slight voice It's the one single so far which has fit right into her range. There isn't any high-pitched screaming or an excess of 'baby's' for her to sing. 'Only U' is...worth a listen." Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times was mixed, writing that the song "revolves around a corroded keyboard line that sounds distinctly menacing - that is, until Ashanti arrives, singing, 'Ooh, I can't wait to get next to you'." Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine called it a "promising edgy, rock-leaning" song.
Chart performance
"Only U" proved to be successful on the charts. In the United States, the song debuted at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart issue dated November 24, 2004, and peaked at number 13 on the chart issue dated January 22, 2005. In March 2005, the single was certified gold. The song was also a success on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, peaking at number 10, while it also peaked at number 8 on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart and number 19 on the Top 40 Mainstream chart. In the United Kingdom, the song was even more successful, debuting at number 2, becoming her most successful solo single in the United Kingdom. On the Irish Singles Chart, the song debuted and peaked at number 4, on the chart issue dated January 27, 2005.
The song also reached top-twenty positions in several countries. In New Zealand, "Only U" debuted at number 31, on February 7, 2005, and peaked at number 14, on February 14, 2005. In Switzerland, the song was her best solo single on the charts, peaking at number 12 on the Swiss Singles Chart. In Germany, the song also peaked at number 12, on the German Singles Chart. In the Flanders region of Belgium, the song debuted at number 36 before peaking at number 17 in its second week. In the Netherlands, the single debuted and peaked at number 18 on the Dutch Top 40 chart. Elsewhere, the song attained top-forty positions. In the Wallonia region of Belgium, the song debuted at number 38 before climbing to its peak of number 23 in its second week. In Australia, the song debuted and peaked at number 24 on the ARIA Charts. In Austria, the song debuted at number 41, while it peaked at number 30, in its fourth week. In France, the song debuted and peaked at number 33 on the SNEP chart week of March 26, 2005.
Music videos
There are two official versions of the video, both directed by Hype Williams and shot in Vancouver and Mexico City. It is notable for making use of a blue-hue effect in numerous shots with overt noir and neo-noir influences in many shots. The first version is the original video (which has an alternate version itself) and the second version is the Dance Version, which was only aired on BET.
Original version
The original version is shot in widescreen format but the slots that are normally left black at the top and bottom of the screen were replaced with upside down or reversed images of the main shot in the middle of the screen, which flickered back and forth to give the illusion that two scenes were playing at once. The alternate version had the scenes shown in regular widescreen format with the shots and the top and bottom of the screen plain black. It opens with a Blade Runner-inspired environment and imagery of Ashanti's face projected onto a skyscraper—similar to a scene in Blade Runner. In addition, there is a scene where she is sitting down on a seat while smoking as she appears to be watching something through a projector—again, a shot similar to that of a scene in Blade Runner. The rest of the video features Ashanti in various situations, posing and wearing a variety of outfits. In one scene, Ashanti is in the shower and in another she is inside a cocoon-like lamp as air gushes from beneath, creating a vacuum effect—reminiscent of the scene in Blade Runner where Zhora goes to dry her hair inside a clear, fishbowl-like dryer. The video ends with her and a group of female dancers performing the song in concert. Bottles of Herbal Essences hair products are seen during the shower scene as Ashanti was the then-new spokesperson for the haircare company. Seven Aurelius, who co-wrote and produced the song, makes a guest appearance at the beginning and at the end of the video playing the guitar.
Dance version
The "Dance version" of the video consisted of the dance scene that is also shown at the end of the original video, with Ashanti and the back-up dancers dancing throughout the entire video. Seven Aurelius makes a cameo appearance in this version as well at the beginning and at the end of the video as the guitar player. Director Hype Williams featured his signature style of widescreen format in this version of the video also, except the slots that are normally left blank at the top and bottom of the screen were replaced with upside down or reversed images of the main shot in the middle of the screen.
Track listings
US 12-inch single
A1. "Only U" (clean)
A2. "Only U" (instrumental)
A3. "Only U" (a cappella)
B1. "Turn It Up" (featuring Ja Rule—clean)
B2. "Turn It Up" (featuring Ja Rule—main)
B3. "Turn It Up" (featuring Ja Rule—instrumental)
UK 12-inch single
A1. "Only U" – 3:07
B1. "Turn It Up" (radio edit featuring Ja Rule) – 4:21
B2. "Spend the Night" – 3:30
UK CD1
"Only U" – 3:07
"Turn It Up" (radio edit featuring Ja Rule) – 4:21
"Spend the Night" – 3:30
"Only U" (video)
UK CD2 and European CD single
"Only U" – 3:07
"Turn It Up" (radio edit featuring Ja Rule) – 4:21
French CD single
"Only U"
"Wonderful" (remix with Ja Rule and R. Kelly)
Australian CD single
"Only U"
"Turn It Up" (featuring Ja Rule)
"Only U" (Kelly G's club mix)
"Only U" (video)
Japanese CD single
"Only U" (radio edit)
"Only U" (remix)
"Only U" (instrumental)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
"Split (Only U)"
"Split (Only U)" is a song by Dutch disc jockey and producer Tiësto and American disc jockeys and producers the Chainsmokers. It was released on August 31, 2015, in the Netherlands. The song is included in the soundtrack of the 2016 action movie, Collide.
Background
In the track, Tiësto and the Chainsmokers used a sample of "Only U". The track was premiered during Tiësto's set at Ultra Europe 2015 in Split, Croatia. The title of the track comes from the name of the city.
Reviews
Fabien Dori from French webmedia Guettapen praises the track that he considered as "excellent", despite the fact that he notices a second part of the track with a "too offensive" sound of the synthetisers."
Music video
The music video premiered on Spinnin' Records' official YouTube Channel on September 3, 2015. The music video was directed by Joe Zohar and produced by Moving Box Studios. The music video starts with the Chainsmokers waking up after a party in their hotel room of Las Vegas. They receive a scoffer Snapchat message from Tiësto and decide to get revenge. They decide to kidnap him while he is producing music in his room. With a bag on his head, they bring him out of Las Vegas to kill him in the desert after that the prisoner digs his own tomb. Later, for the night, the duo guest two girls in their room to spend the night together. But, they die after a retaliation of the new walking dead.
Track listings
Digital download (MF132)
"Split (Only U)" – 5:06
2017 translucent blue 7-inch vinyl
"Split (Only You)" (extended mix) – 5:06
"Split (Only You)" (radio edit) – 4:18
Charts
References
2004 singles
2004 songs
2015 singles
American pop rock songs
Ashanti (singer) songs
Music videos shot in Canada
Music videos shot in Mexico
Music videos directed by Hype Williams
Songs written by Andrew Taggart
Songs written by Ashanti (singer)
Songs written by Channel 7 (musician)
Songs written by Irv Gotti
Songs written by Tiësto
Spinnin' Records singles
Tiësto songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only%20U |
An ear trumpet is a tubular or funnel-shaped device which collects sound waves and leads them into the ear. They are used as hearing aids, resulting in a strengthening of the sound energy impact to the eardrum and thus improved hearing for a deaf or hard-of-hearing individual. Ear trumpets were made of sheet metal, silver, wood, snail shells or animal horns. They have largely been replaced in wealthier areas of the world by modern hearing aid technology that is much smaller and less obtrusive, albeit more expensive.
A sound trumpet does not "amplify" sound. It takes the sound power received over a large area and concentrates it into a smaller area. The received sound is louder, but no power has been created in the process.
History
The use of ear trumpets for the partially deaf dates back to the 17th century. The earliest description of an ear trumpet was given by the French Jesuit priest and mathematician Jean Leurechon in his work Recreations mathématiques (1634). Polymath Athanasius Kircher also described a similar device in 1650.
By the late 18th century, their use was becoming increasingly common. Collapsible conical ear trumpets were made by instrument makers on a one-off basis for specific clients. Well-known models of the period included the Townsend Trumpet (made by the deaf educator John Townshend), the Reynolds Trumpet (specially built for painter Joshua Reynolds) and the Daubeney Trumpet.
The first firm to begin commercial production of the ear trumpet was established by Frederick C. Rein in London in 1800. In addition to producing ear trumpets, Rein also sold hearing fans and speaking tubes. These instruments helped concentrate sound energy, while still being portable. However, these devices were generally bulky and had to be physically supported from below. Later, smaller, hand-held ear trumpets and cones were used as hearing aids.
Rein was commissioned to design a special acoustic chair for the ailing King of Portugal, John VI of Portugal in 1819. The throne was designed with ornately carved arms that looked like the open mouths of lions. These holes acted as the receiving area for the acoustics, which were transmitted to the back of the throne via a speaking tube, and into the king's ear.
Finally in the late 1800s, the acoustic horn, which was a tube that had two ends, a cone that captured sound, and was eventually made to fit in the ear.
Johann Nepomuk Mälzel began manufacturing ear trumpets in the 1810s. He notably produced ear trumpets for Ludwig van Beethoven, who was starting to go deaf at the time. These are now kept in the Beethoven Museum in Bonn.
Toward the late 19th century, hidden hearing aids became increasingly popular. Rein pioneered many notable designs, including his 'acoustic headbands', where the hearing aid device was artfully concealed within the hair or headgear. Reins' Aurolese Phones were headbands, made in a variety of shapes, that incorporated sound collectors near the ear that would improve the acoustics. Hearing aids were also hidden in couches, clothing, and accessories. This drive toward ever-increasing invisibility was often more about hiding the individual's disability from the public than about helping the individual cope with his problem.
F. C. Rein and Son of London ended its ear trumpet-manufacturing activity in 1963, as both the first and last company of its kind.
Pinard horn
A Pinard horn is a type of stethoscope used by midwives that is designed similarly to an ear trumpet. It is a wooden cone about 8 inches long. The midwife presses the wide end of the horn against the pregnant woman's belly to monitor heart tones. Pinard horns were invented in France in the 19th century, and are still in use in many places worldwide.
See also
Cochlear implant
Hearing aid
History of hearing aids
Stethoscope
References
External links
Hearing Aid Museum
Phisick Medical Archives
Packington Collection
Hearing aids
Deafness | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear%20trumpet |
The Schauinslandbahn is a gondola lift in the Black Forest area of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It links a lower station in the municipality of Horben, near the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, with an upper station near the summit of the Schauinsland mountain. The line is operated by VAG Freiburg, the city transport operator for Freiburg. The same company operates that city's tram and bus network, including bus route 21 that links the lower station of the Schauinslandbahn to the terminus of tram route 2 at Günterstal.
At in length, the line is reportedly the longest gondola lift in Germany. It was the first suspended cable car in the world to provide continuous operation of multiple cabins, as opposed to the shuttle style operation of the aerial tramway.
History
In the first years of the 20th century, several proposals were made to link Freiburg to Schauinsland. The extension of city tram route 2 on segregated track to Günterstal in 1913 was intended as the first section of a high speed tramway that would connect with a proposed rack railway to the mountain's summit. Other proposals included an aerial cableway, proposed by Professor Georg Benoit of the University of Karlsruhe, and a much longer adhesion railway from Freiburg Hauptbahnhof via Schauinsland to Todtnau. The outbreak of the First World War stopped any further progress on these plans.
After the war it was eventually decided to build a suspended cable car line from a point close to the intended start point of the previously planned rack railway. The line was privately built and owned, opening on 17 July 1930 after three years of construction. It was built to Professor Benoit's design, using one carrying cable and two traction cables. There were 10 cabins, a maximum of 8 of which could be used at any time, and each cabin carried up to 22 passengers and a conductor.
The design of the line involved cabins being attached at the stations onto the cables. In 1932, a mistake by the conductor when hitching the cabin onto the cable led to a cabin dropping and killing 2 passengers and the conductor. This led to a major review of the technology and the procedures guiding it; the resulting recommendations were rapidly included in ropeway construction elsewhere, especially in Switzerland.
During the Second World War, the Schauinslandbahn was used to provide transport to military hospitals established on the Schauinsland mountain. Because of the danger of air attack during 1944 and 1945, the line was operated only at night.
The line was acquired by the city of Freiburg in 1968, and merged into VAG in 1982. In 1987, the line closed for modernisation. The original cabins were replaced by 37 smaller cabins that did not require a conductor, thus significantly reducing the number of staff needed to operate the line. During periods of high demand, up to 30 cabins can operate at once, giving a total passenger throughput of more than 500 per hour. Several proposals have been made to complete the originally intended extension of tram route 2 to connect with the Schauinslandbahn, but this has never happened and through passengers still use a connecting bus.
Operation
The line operates seven days a week throughout the year. It runs continuously from 0900 to 1700, with later service from July to September. The line is not included in VAG's normal tram and bus tariff, and the adult return fare is currently €12, with reduced fares for children and families.
The line has the following technical parameters:
Altitude of lower station:
Altitude of upper station:
Height difference:
Length of line:
Maximum incline: 44.5%
Average incline: 21%
Cabins: 37
Capacity per cabin: 11 passengers
Hourly capacity: 500/700 passengers
Journey time: 15 minutes
Haulage speed:
Minimum cabin interval: 57 seconds
References
External links
Schauinslandbahn page on the VAG Freiburg web site
Schauinslandbahn web site
Gondola lifts in Germany
Tourist attractions in Freiburg im Breisgau
Buildings and structures in Freiburg im Breisgau
Transport in Freiburg im Breisgau | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schauinslandbahn |
Meet Me in Miami is a 2005 New Zealand film directed by Eric Hannah and Iren Koster and starring Carlos Ponce, Tara Leniston, Eduardo Verastegui, and Ayşe Tezel. The film received positive reviews despite its limited release.
Plot
Luis was 12 when he met Julia. She was staying at the hotel with her family while on holiday, and when the two met, the connection was instant. They spent the summer together, laughing, playing and wishing it would never end. When it was finally time for Julia to return to her native New Zealand, the two made a promise to meet back at the fountain the same time every year. Each year Luis waited, but no Julia.
Now 10 years later, Luis finally decides it's time to put destiny to the test. Dragging along his best friend Eduardo, they board a plane to New Zealand determined to find Julia and win her back.
Cast
External links
2005 films
New Zealand comedy films
2005 comedy films
2000s English-language films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet%20Me%20in%20Miami |
Air Marshal Sir Aubrey Beauclerk Ellwood, (3 July 1897 – 20 December 1992) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.
RAF career
Educated at Marlborough College, Ellwood joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916. During his service as a fighter pilot in the First World War, he scored ten victories (all in the Sopwith Camel) to become a double flying ace, being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in the process. Having been awarded one of the first permanent commissions in the Royal Air Force in 1919, he was appointed Officer Commanding No. 5 Squadron in India in 1932 before returning to the UK in 1937 to join the Directing Staff at the RAF Staff College.
Ellwood served in the Second World War as Deputy Director of Bomber Operations before becoming Air Officer Commanding No. 18 Group in January 1943 and then Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Coastal Command in March 1944. He completed his was service as Director-General of Personnel.
After the war Ellwood was appointed the Air Officer Commanding in Chief Bomber Command. His next and last tour was as Air Officer Commanding in Chief Transport Command before retiring in January 1952.
In retirement he became Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset. Also Governor & Commandant of the Church Lads' Brigade from 1954 to 1970.
References
External links
Imperial War Museum Interview
|-
1897 births
1992 deaths
Deputy Lieutenants of Somerset
English aviators
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
People educated at Marlborough College
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
Royal Air Force air marshals of World War II
Royal Naval Air Service aviators
Royal Naval Air Service personnel of World War I | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%20Ellwood |
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1968.
1-100
Preston Manor Mine (Lighting) Special Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/38
Chudleigh Knighton Tunnel Mine (Lighting) Special Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/39
West Golds Mine (Lighting) Special Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/40
Removal and Disposal of Vehicle Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/43
101-200
Broadway New Pit Tunnel Mine (Lighting) Special Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/103
Mainbow Mine (Lighting) Special Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/104
Bermuda Constitution Order 1968 S.I. 1968/182
201-300
Police Cadets (Scotland) Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/208
301-400
401-500
Dangerous Drugs (Supply to Addicts) Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/416
501-600
601-700
701-800
801-900
Nangiles and the Janes Mine (Storage Battery Locomotives) Special Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/868
901-1000
Port of Tyne Reorganisation Scheme 1967 Confirmation Order 1968 S.I. 1968/942
1001-1100
Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Rules 1968 S.I. 1968/1053 (Referenced incorrectly in one S.I. as 1968/1058)
Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) (Length of Ship) Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/1072
Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) (Deck Cargo) Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/1089
1101-1200
Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) (Exemption) Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1116
1201-1300
Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/1231
Criminal Appeal Rules 1968 S.I. 1968/1262
1301-1400
Superannuation (Judicial Offices) Rules 1968 S.I. 1968/1363
Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/1366
Patents Rules 1968 S.I. 1968/1389
Trunk Roads (40 m.p.h. Speed Limit) (No.29) Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1393
Trunk Roads (40 m.p.h. Speed Limit) (No.30) Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1394
1401-1500
1501-1600
1601-1700
Minister for the Civil Service Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1656
Barnsley Water Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1660
Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1699
1701-1800
1801-1900
Parliamentary Commissioner (Department and Authorities) Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1859
Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (France) Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1869
1901-2000
Act of Adjournal (Criminal Legal Aid Fees Amendment) 1968 S.I. 1968/1933
Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (Exemption No. 7) Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1947
Tendring Hundred Water Order 1968 S.I. 1968/1962
2001-2100
Anthrax (Cautionary Notice) Order 1968 S.I. 1968/2005
Superannuation (Public and Judicial Offices) (Amendment) Rules 1968 S.I. 1968/2071
See also
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
References
External links
Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National Archive
UK SI's on legislation.gov.uk
UK Draft SI's on legislation.gov.uk
Lists of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201968 |
"Chosen One" is a song by Swedish band The Concretes from their second album, In Colour. It was released as the lead single from that album in 2006.
Track listings
Scandinavian release
CD LFS019
"Chosen One" - 3:08
"Reverberation" - 2:54
"Postpone It" - 3:46
UK release
7" LF019
"Chosen One" - 3:08
"Reverberation" - 2:54
7" LFX019
"Chosen One" (demo version)
"Postpone It" - 3:46
CD LFCD019
"Chosen One" - 3:08
"Reverberation" - 2:54
"Postpone It" - 3:46
"Chosen One" (video)
Charts
References
2006 singles
2006 songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosen%20One%20%28The%20Concretes%20song%29 |
Timothy James Harvey (born 20 November 1961) is a British racing driver, best known for being the 1992 British Touring Car Champion, and the 2008 and 2010 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain champion. A household name in the 1990s, Harvey won sixteen races in the British Touring Car Championship between 1987 and 1995, and competed in the series until 2002. He was also the winner of the invitational Guia Race of Macau touring car event, in 1989.
After leaving touring car racing, Harvey moved into the one-make Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain series; after two guest drives in 2003, including one victory, Harvey competed full-time from the 2004 season onwards. In seven full seasons in the championship, Harvey finished in the top four of the final championship standings in each season, and left the series after a class victory in the Porsche Carrera World Cup meeting at the Nürburgring, with a series record of 35 overall victories. Along with media commitments for television broadcaster ITV4, and their coverage of the British Touring Car Championship, Harvey currently competes in the British GT Championship; sharing a Porsche with Jon Minshaw, for the Trackspeed team.
BTCC career
Born in Farnborough, London, Harvey first raced in the BTCC in 1987, taking three Class A wins in a Rover Vitesse In 1988 and 1989 he dovetailed sports car racing with BTCC outings, before finishing third in Class A in 1989 and 1990.
He was 8th overall in 1991. His 1992 title was achieved while driving a BMW 318 coupe, run by Vic Lee Motorsport. He won five of the last seven races, having previously only won once. A dramatic final race saw him beat John Cleland and reigning champion Will Hoy to the title, after Hoy suffered an engine failure and Cleland clashed with Harvey's team-mate Steve Soper. He had a difficult 1993 season developing the Renault 19 for the new Renault entry but still managed to win the European Grand Prix support race in lurid conditions, while he was outpaced by team-mate Alain Menu in 1994 in the new Laguna. He raced for Volvo in 1995, using his wealth of experience to develop the all new Volvo 850 saloon, finishing 5th overall and taking 2 wins but generally unable to match team-mate Rickard Rydell. His experience was then used to develop the new Peugeot 406, signing with the French marque in 1996 but was unable to deliver the win that eluded Peugeot during the heyday of the supertouring years. He drove for Peugeot in the 1996, 1997 and 1998 seasons, his best year being 1997 where he finished 9th in the championship, which included two 2nd-place finishes, and strong drives in the wet at Thruxton.
After a couple of years away, his last BTCC years were 2001 (8th overall in a JSM Alfa Romeo) and 10th in 2002 (reuniting with Vic Lee to drive one of his Peugeots, before quitting the series to pursue a media career).
The Alfa Romeo 147 that Tim Harvey raced is now owned by Allitalia – an Independent Italian Auto Specialist based in North Wales.
Porsche Carrera Cup
He has raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup for several years, finishing second to Richard Westbrook in 2004 and Damien Faulkner in 2006. In 2007, Harvey drove for Redline Racing in the new 997 Porsche GT3 in the British edition of the Carrera Cup. With stars such as Faulkner, Westbrook, Danny Watts and Richard Williams no longer competing, and Tim now in the top team of 2006, he started as title favourite, but finished up second again, by just four points behind James Sutton.
In 2008 he continued to battle for the title, making his 100th series start (from just 106 races in total). Tim won the Porsche Carrera Cup Drivers Championship, on 21 September at Brands Hatch. He holds series records for podium finishes and fastest laps. He finished third in 2009, taking his first win of the year in race 6 at Thruxton and a double win at Snetterton. He then opened 2010 with nine wins in the first ten races (by contrast, he took 4 wins en route to the 2008 title). He wrapped up the 2010 title with one race to spare at Brands Hatch on 9 October with a second-place finish behind Stephen Jelley to ensure that he could not be caught by championship runner up Michael Caine. Following a puncture in race 20 which saw Harvey fail to score points for the first time in the season, Harvey claimed the 2010 Porsche Carrera Cup GB Championship by 10 points, with 11 race wins (vs. Caine's 7). Harvey's two wins at Croft on 20 June saw him become the most successful driver in the history of the championship, with 33 race wins at the time (beating Richard Westbrook's 31 wins). He would end the season 4 clear, with 35 wins, and over 150 podiums.
At the end of May 2011, Harvey announced he was quitting the championship with immediate effect, citing difficulty in adapting to regulation changes as his motivation and allowing up and coming Kieran Vernon the opportunity to benefit from his seat in the Motorbase Performance car. He explained during the ITV4 coverage of the Oulton Park BTCC round on 5 June 2011 that he was not entirely retiring from racing and would be reappearing somewhere before long whilst continuing to commentate for ITV.
In what may have been his last Porsche race, Harvey won the Porsche Carrera Cup GB race held at a wet Nürburgring in Germany as part of the Porsche Carrera World Cup. Harvey finished 13th overall, ahead of a number of the faster Supercup models.
Other racing
Harvey has also been a prolific winner in sports cars. A distinguished career in international motorsport has given him a deep-seated knowledge of the business and substantial reserves of experience. A factory driver for Spice in the halcyon days of the World Sportscar Championship saw Tim battling the Jaguars and Mercedes Benz during the 1989 and 1990 seasons. He twice won the BRDC C2 Championship in 1988 and 1989. He has also contested the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times, winning his class in 1987. He won the British Sports Car Championship in 1999.
He is a double winner of the Oulton Park Gold Cup in 2000 and 2001, joining previous winners Stirling Moss, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart and many others. Tim has made sporadic albeit successful outings in the British GT Championship, winning alongside various drivers in 2004 and 2005.
Harvey has also been a Touring car winner internationally, coming first in the Macau Grand Prix street race in 1989 and the Wellington International in 1994. He has successfully raced in Japan, Australia, South Africa and all over Europe.
On 19 June 2011, Tim won a Round of the Ginetta GT Supercup at Croft.
Tim also competes occasionally in enduro events on a motorcycle.
Other work
Aside from his racing, Tim combines his commentary and presenting work for ITV and Motors TV with various other motorsport roles, including acting as driver coach for many up and coming young British drivers. He has also coached the Oxford University Motor Drivers Club to success in the British Universities Karting Championship.
In 2008, Tim was appointed Director of the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) SuperStars program, designed to support the most promising young British drivers both financially and in an advisory role.
In 2021 he appeared at a event in his hometown at Motorsport UK's new HQ to talk with Jason Plato, Matt Neal and the former's Fuelling Around co-host Dave Vitty.
Racing record
Complete European Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete British Touring Car Championship results
(key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded all races 1996 onwards) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded – 1987–1990, 2001 onwards, 1987–1990 in class) (* signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap – 1 point awarded 1998 onwards)
– Race was stopped due to heavy rain. No points were awarded.
‡ Endurance driver
Complete World Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Bathurst 1000 results
* Super Touring race
Le Mans 24 hours results
Complete British GT results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap in class)
† Not eligible for points as invitation driver.
References
External links
1961 births
Living people
British Touring Car Championship drivers
British Touring Car Championship Champions
English racing drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
British GT Championship drivers
British Formula 3000 Championship drivers
People from Bicester
Sportspeople from Farnborough, London
Porsche Supercup drivers
World Sportscar Championship drivers
Porsche Carrera Cup GB drivers
Ginetta GT4 Supercup drivers
Peugeot Sport drivers
BMW M drivers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Harvey |
The Holborn Division was one of four divisions of the Hundred of Ossulstone, in the county of Middlesex, England.
The other divisions were named Finsbury, Kensington and Tower.
The area was to the north of the liberty of Westminster, and was included entirely within the County of London on its creation in 1889. It gave its name to the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn created in 1900. The area is now covered by the London Borough of Camden and the northern section of the City of Westminster.
In 1829 the Holborn Division contained the following "parishes, townships, precincts and places":
The combined parishes of St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury
The combined parishes of St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr
The liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place
The liberty of the Rolls
The parish of St Pancras
The parish of St John, Hampstead
The parish of St Marylebone
The parish of Paddington
The precinct of the Savoy
External links
Map of Divisions of Ossulstone Hundred – the map indicates that technically the Westminster Division was an independent constituent of the Holborn Division.
Hundreds and divisions of Middlesex
History of local government in London (pre-1855) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holborn%20division |
Joseph Issoufou Conombo (9 February 1917 – 20 December 2008) served as Prime Minister of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 7 July 1978 to 25 November 1980. Born in the department of Kombissiri, he attended medical school in Dakar, Senegal, then served in the French forces during World War II.
In 1951, Conombo was elected to the French National Assembly, a position he held until Upper Volta gained independence in 1959, even serving as undersecretary of state (1954–1955) in the government of Pierre Mendès France. He served as mayor of Ouagadougou from 1961 to 1965. As a doctor, he was director general for public health (1966–1968), and minister of foreign affairs (1971–1973). He served as prime minister until the military coup led by Saye Zerbo that overthrew the government of President Sangoulé Lamizana. Conombo died on 20 December 2008 at the age of 91.
Biography
Born on 9 February 1917 in Tampinko in a farming family, he studied medicine and obtained his doctor's degree in Dakar in 1942. Senegalese firefighter during the Second World War, Joseph Conombo was elected in 1948 advisor to the French Union, then MP for Upper Volta (1951–1958). He then became Secretary of State for the Interior of the Pierre Mendès France Government (from 4 September 1954 to 20 January 1955).
From the independence of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso from 1984), acquired in 1960, Joseph Conombo becomes successively:
first vice-president of the Voltaic National Assembly (1961),
mayor of Ouagadougou (1961–1965) capital of the country,
Member of Parliament(1970–)
and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1971–1974).
His career finally culminates with his accession to the post of Prime Minister of Upper Volta (from 7 July 1978 to 25 November 1980). Following a military coup, he was imprisoned for four years and released in 1985. He is the source of the twinning of the municipality of Illfurth in Alsace and Kombissiri in Burkina Faso.
References
Obituary
1st page on the French National Assembly website
2nd page on the French National Assembly website
1917 births
2008 deaths
People from Centre-Sud Region
People of French West Africa
Foreign ministers of Burkina Faso
Prime Ministers of Burkina Faso
Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic
Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic
Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Mayors of Ouagadougou
French military personnel of World War II
21st-century Burkinabé people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Conombo |
Heinrich Ludwig Ferdinand von Arnim (15 September 1814 – 23 March 1866) was a German architect and watercolour-painter. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and mainly worked in Berlin and Potsdam.
Life
Arnim was born in Treptow an der Rega in Pomerania (present-day Trzebiatów, Poland), the son of Prussian Captain Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim and his wife Henriette, née Gadebusch. He trained as a land surveyor and studied architecture at the Royal Prussian Building School (Bauakademie) in Berlin between 1833 and 1838. Having completed his studies, he joined the Berlin Architects' Association in 1839, from 1840 he worked as site foreman under Friedrich Ludwig Persius and in 1844 was appointed building inspector official.
Upon Persius' death in 1845, Arnim became a member of the Berlin City Palace building committee under Friedrich August Stüler and house architect of the Hohenzollern prince Charles of Prussia at his residence in Klein-Glienicke. He was employed from 1846 as a teacher, from 1857 as a professor at the Bauakademie in Berlin and achieved the title of a court architect in 1849. From 1855 to 1863 Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau employed him to rebuild the palace and gardens of Branitz (near Cottbus). 1862 saw him become the advisor on courtly architecture in the Potsdam department of Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse (1795–1876).
Arnim died in Berlin in 1866 at the age of 51. He was entombed in the part of the Potsdam-Bornstedt cemetery (near the tomb of his mentor Ludwig Persius); nearby were buried the famous Sello family of court gardeners.
Works
1841–44, collaboration in the construction of the Church of the Redeemer, Sacrow under Ludwig Persius
1845–48, The Church of Peace (Sanssouci) in Potsdam, together with Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse, following the plans of Ludwig Persius and Friedrich August Stüler
1846, Norman Tower on the Ruinenberg, according to plans by Ludwig Persius
1848, Neoclassical Villa belonging to Major General von Haacke; in Potsdam, Jägerallee 1
1850, Klosterhof at Glienicke Palace (with structural elements of the former La Certosa monastery in the Venetian Lagoon)
1859/60, Late-classical Villa Arnim in Potsdam, Weinbergstraße 20
1860/61 Villa Arndt, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 63, Potsdam (carried out by August Ernst Petzholtz)
1860, Neo-Gothic redesign of Nennhausen Palace (formerly held by Philipp Friedrich August Wilhelm von Briest, father of Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, at that time the property of the Rochow noble family)
1860–61, Redesign of the Glienicke hunting lodge
1863/67, Swiss houses (Schweizerhäuser) in Klein Glienicke (an exclusive residential district in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße, Louis-Nathan-Allee and Waldmüllerstraße). Four of the originally ten buildings survive.
1864–68, Neo-Gothic castle church in Kröchlendorff (Nordwestuckermark)
See also
List of German painters
References
1814 births
1866 deaths
People from Trzebiatów
19th-century German architects
19th-century German painters
19th-century male artists
German male painters
Artists from the Province of Pomerania
Architects from Berlin
Ferdinand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20von%20Arnim |
Olivier Schoenfelder (born 30 November 1977) is a French retired ice dancer and coach. With partner Isabelle Delobel, he is the 2008 World champion, the 2007 European and the 2008 Grand Prix Final champion.
Career
Schoenfelder began skating after seeing Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay at an ice show and switched to ice dancing after only six months in singles.
Delobel and Schoenfelder were paired together in 1990 by coach Lydie Bontemps on the suggestion of Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov. They won a silver medal at 1996 Junior Worlds before moving up to the senior ranks prior to the 1996–97 season. They won their first Grand Prix medal at the 1999 Skate Canada. Early in their career, they were coached by Muriel Boucher-Zazoui in Lyon, France. Tatiana Tarasova and Nikolai Morozov were their choreographers from 1998 to 2002 and their coaches from 2000 to 2002 in Newington, Connecticut. While practising a lift at French Nationals in December 2001, Delobel tore an abdominal muscle, keeping her off the ice for six weeks and forcing the team to miss the European Championships. Feeling more comfortable in France, Delobel and Schoenfelder decided to return to Lyon and Boucher-Zazoui after the 2001–2002 season.
They won their first national championship in the 2002–03 season. Delobel and Schoenfelder worked with choreographer Pasquale Camerlengo for the 2005-06 season.
Delobel and Schoenfelder often finished just off the podium at major events, including a 4th place at the 2006 Olympics, less than two points behind the bronze medalists. The following season, they won their only European title but were unable to win a medal at Worlds.
Delobel and Schoenfelder did not repeat as European champions the following year, finishing second. They then went on to win the 2008 World Championships. They were first in both the compulsory and original dance portions of the event, and second in the free dance. They considered retiring but decided to continue competing.
They began the 2008–09 season with wins in all three Grand Prix appearances – Skate America, Trophée Eric Bompard, and the Grand Prix Final. During their gala exhibition performance at the Grand Prix Final in December 2009, Delobel suffered a shoulder injury and underwent surgery on 5 January 2009, causing them to miss the remainder of the season.
Delobel became pregnant during the injury layoff. She and Schoenfelder trained cautiously, with Marie-France Dubreuil substituting for Delobel in lifts. Dubreuil, along with Patrice Lauzon, also choreographed their final free dance. Occasional falls caused Delobel to leave the ice in late July.
Delobel's son was born in October and she returned to the ice toward the end of the month, beginning three-a-day sessions and intense physical training in November. They also skipped French Nationals and the European Championships in order to spend more time on training. The two returned in time for the Vancouver Olympics, competing just four-and-a-half months after she had given birth and announcing it would be their final competition. They finished sixth and retired from competitive skating. They continue to skate together in shows.
Schoenfelder now coaches in Lyon. Among others, he coaches Lucie Myslivečková / Neil Brown and Louise Walden / Owen Edwards.
Personal life
Schoenfelder studied ballet before taking up skating, as his mother is a ballet instructor. Schoenfelder studied journalism and has done some television commentating.
In May 2005, he married Isabelle Pecheur. They have a son together, Gabriel, born on 26 October 2006.
Programs
(with Delobel)
Competitive highlights
(with Delobel)
References
External links
Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder official website
1977 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Belfort
French male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for France
Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
Season-end world number one figure skaters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier%20Schoenfelder |
Ruppia, also known as the widgeonweeds, ditch grasses or widgeon grass, is the only extant genus in the family Ruppiaceae, with eight known species. These are aquatic plants widespread over much of the world. The genus name honours Heinrich Bernhard Rupp, a German botanist (1688-1719). They are widespread outside of frigid zones and the tropics.
Description
The leaf is simple and not rhizomatous. They can be annual (commonly) or perennial (rarely); stem growth is conspicuously sympodial, but sometimes is not. These species are adapted to be in brackish water (and salt marshes). The leaves are small or medium-sized. Their disposition can be alternate, opposite, or whorled (usually alternate except when subtending an inflorescence). Even, lamina keep entire and are setaceous or linear. The leaf just shows one vein without cross-venules. Stomata are not present. The mesophyll leaks calcium oxalate crystals. The minor leaf veins do not present phloem transfer cells and leaks vessels.
These plants have stems without secondary thickening and xylem without vessels. The sieve-tube plastids are P-type. The root xylem does not present vessels.
These plants are hermaphroditic, with anemophilous or hydrophilous pollination. The flowers are ebracteate, small, and regular. Commonly, the flowers are aggregated in ‘inflorescences’, but sometimes they are solitary. Often, they grow in racemes, spikes, or umbels. The scapiflorous inflorescences are terminal, in short spikes, or subumbelliform racemes, sometimes one- or few-flowered. They do not have hypogynous disks. These flowers do not have perianth absent, except when small staminal appendages are regarded as perianth segments. The androecial members are all equal. The androecium just presents two fertile stamens with sessile anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits. The pollen is polysiphonous and its grains are three-celled and nonaperturate.
The gynoecium (2–)4(–16) is superior, carpelled, and euapocarpous. The carpel is not stylate, apically stigmatic with the stigma peltate, or umbonate. These flowers only present one ovule pendulous, nonarillate, campylotropous, bitegmic, and crassinucellate. The placentation is apical and embryo-sac development is of the polygonum type. Before fertilization, they fuse polar nuclei. The fruit is drupaceous and fleshy, forming an aggregate. The fruiting carpel is indehiscent, commonly on a long, spirally twisted peduncle, with each drupelet becoming very long-stalked. The fruit contains one nonendospermic seed with starch. The embryo can be straight or slightly curved. Membranous testa do not have phytomelan.
Taxonomy
The Cronquist system of 1981 placed the family in order Najadales of subclass Alismatidae in class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons] in division Magnoliophyta [=angiosperms].
The APG II system of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system of 1998) does recognize such a family and places it in the order Alismatales, in the clade monocots.
According to the AP-Website the family is doubtfully distinct from the family Cymodoceaceae: the plants in the three families Cymodoceaceae, Posidoniaceae, and Ruppiaceae form a monophyletic group.
A genus-level taxonomy was briefly revised by Zhao and Wu, including the following species in the world:
species
Ruppia bicarpa - Western Cape, South Africa
Ruppia cirrhosa* - temperate regions: Europe, Asia, north + south (but not tropical) Africa, North America, West Indies, Argentina *The name is a homotypic synonym of R. maritima
Ruppia didyma - Mexico, West Indies
Ruppia drepanensis - western + central Mediterranean
Ruppia filifolia - southern South America, Falkland Islands
Ruppia maritima - seashores and lakeshores around the world
Ruppia megacarpa - Australia, New Zealand, Asia (Korea, Japan, and Russia)
Ruppia occidentalis - Canada, USA
Ruppia polycarpa - Australia, New Zealand (incl Chatham Islands)
Ruppia spiralis - seashores and lakeshores around the world
Ruppia tuberosa - Australia
Marine grasses families: Zosteraceae, Cymodoceaceae, Ruppiaceae and Posidoniaceae. Related families: Potamogetonaceae, Zannichelliaceae (not consistently).
Phylogeny and evolution
The first molecular phylogeny of the monogeneric family discerned three distinct species, R. tuberosa, R. megacarpa, and R. polycarpa, and one species complex comprising six lineages. The species complex, named R. maritima complex, was later updated as a group of eight lineages. These studies revealed that multiple hybridization and polyploidy events as well as chloroplast capture have occurred in the evolution of the genus.
Phytochemistry
These plants present an anatomy non-C4 type. Seven labdanes have been identified from this genus:
ent-14,15-Dinor-8(17)-labden-13-one
Methyl ester of (ent-12S)-15,16-Epoxy-12-hydroxy-12-oxo-8(17),13(16),14-labdatrien-19-oic acid.
(-)-15,16-epoxy-8(17),13(16),14-labdatrien-19-ol.
Methyl ester of (-)-15,16-epoxy-8(17),13(16),14-labdatrien-19-oic acid.
(-)-15,16-Epoxy-8(17),13(16),14-labdatrien-19-al.
(-)-15,16-Epoxy-8(17),13(16),14-labdatrien-19-yl acetate
(ent-13E)-8(17),13-Labdadien-15-ol
Three steroids have been also isolated:
(3β,5α,6β,7α,22E,24R)-Ergosta-8(14),22-diene-3,6,7-triol.
(3β,5α,6β,7α,22E,24R)-Ergosta-8,22-diene-3,6,7-triol
(24R)-Ergost-4-ene-3,6-dione.
References
External links
Ruppiaceae in the Flora of North America
NCBI Taxonomy Browser
links at CSDL, Texas
Brackish water plants
Alismatales genera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruppia |
On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf, which seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes about the isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability that disease may bring and how it can make even the maturest of adults feel like children again.
Composition and publication
The essay was written in 1925, when she was 42 years old, while she was in bed shortly after experiencing a nervous breakdown. It first appeared in T. S. Eliot's The Criterion in January, 1926, and was later reprinted, with revisions, in Forum in April 1926, under the title Illness: An Unexploited Mine.
It was then published as a standalone volume by Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1930, in a small edition of 250 copies typeset by Woolf herself. It was later included in two collections of her essays, The Moment and Other Essays (1947) and Collected Essays (1967). By 2001, however, it had been out of print for 70 years. In 2001, scholars were exploring the rare book collection of Smith College looking for overlooked works by Woolf to re-examine for an upcoming conference on Woolf, which led them to the Hogarth Press copy of "On Being Ill." The essay was republished by Paris Press in 2002.
Summary
Woolf spends a great portion of the essay comparing her moments of illness to regular daily life. Her piece indicates that she preferred the former over the latter; in fact, while ill, she was greatly inspired creatively since there were no distractions or responsibilities in her way, and she could enjoy some of her favorite pastimes like reading books, or even simply staring at the sky. She loved to gaze at it so much that two full pages of the essay are dedicated to what she saw when she looked up. Whatever it is that she chose to do, she could do it without being judged, which she really appreciated.
Another privilege of illness in Woolf's eyes is its aspect of childhood. When ill, she can get the same type of undivided attention from her caregivers as a child can get from their mother, which provides her with the sense of protection she always longed for. However, she explains that this regression may happen due to the vulnerable and unpredictable grounds of illness, which are not always so enjoyable. They may lead to loneliness and isolation at times.
All of these thoughts were Woolf's attempts at answering one overarching question: why do literature and culture not have illness as one of their central themes, like love and battle? It is so common and change-inducing, yet it was not discussed nearly as much as she would expect during her time. To further explore this, she discusses how the English language as well as its authors allow matters of the mind to be easily expressed, but not those of the body.
Analysis
Woolf's descriptions of mind and body indicate that the Cartesian answer to the mind-body problem that says the two are separated did not resonate with her. She questions those who have so long written about the mind and its doings but ignore the body although they are "slaves" to each other, showing that she believed the two are one in the same and should be treated like so not only in literature, but in culture as well. This complements her idea that language does not do justice to what the body goes through in the face of illness.
Her appreciation for the nothingness that being ill allows her to enjoy also shows her realization that this condition gives people the opportunity to be removed from the busyness of life and from the sense of belonging to society even if only for a second and perhaps start paying attention to the small details of the world that many times go by unnoticed. She even refers to these moments as "moments of being." In her eyes, what this ultimately does is that it gifts people with an almost mystic superpower to give a new meaning to things, as they are able to look beneath the surface and develop a completely new understanding of existence.
Considering that throughout Woolf's lifetime she was at different points diagnosed with influenza, pneumonia, and depression, which caused countless nervous bouts and eventually led her to take her own life, she experienced all of these moments and feelings once and again, which explain her reverence for what illness does to whomever it strikes.
Although Woolf's main claim in this essay was that illness needed a bigger place in literature, its role had already expanded by the time she was writing. However, this had been done mostly by male writers like Thomas Mann or Marcel Proust, and her efforts helped give women's voices more recognition in the area.
Reception
Although the work was printed in multiple venues during Woolf's lifetime, it did not attract sustained critical attention until it was republished in 2002, at which point it experienced a resurgence of interest. The essay was included on the Los Angeles Times list of best poetry for 2002. It became particularly popular with doctors, scholars of medical history, and academics who have experienced severe illness.
References
External links
"On Being Ill", full text of Woolf's essay at Project Gutenberg
Books by Virginia Woolf
1926 essays
Works originally published in The Criterion
Hogarth Press books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Being%20Ill |
Chongzuo (; ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region near the Sino-Vietnamese border. It is home to one of China's largest Zhuang populations.
Geography and climate
Chongzuo is located in southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It borders Nanning to the east, Baise to the north, Fangchenggang to the south and Lạng Sơn, Vietnam to the west. The Zuo or Left River and the You or Right River have their confluence in Chongzuo after which the river becomes the Yong River. Chongzuo is mountainous and hilly with numerous karst formations similar to Guilin and northern Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay. Its area is , of which is forested.
Chongzuo's climate is humid subtropical and monsoon-influenced. January's average temperature is and in July it is . Within the prefecture, the annual mean is . There are 330 frost-free days. 年降水量1100-1300mm之间，远低于Guangxi其他地区
History
Chongzuo is one of the earliest centers of Zhuang culture. Important sites dating back to the stone age have been found here. The Rock Paintings of Hua Mountain along the Ming River at Huashan date back 1800 to 2500 year and are one of the largest groups of pictographs in China and in the world. On several cliff faces are hundreds of large red pictographs depicting a large battle. The red pigment is still bright and vivid and individual figures, weapons, and animals are easy to distinguish. The cliffs, part of the sacred Frog Mountain, were important site to the early Zhuang.
In 214 BC, during the Qin dynasty, Chongzuo was part of the Xiang () commandry. Chinese general Feng Zicai beat back a French attack here at the Battle of Bang Bo in 1885. Sun Yat-sen fired the first cannon shot of the anti-Qing revolution in Chongzuo in 1907. In the 1930s, after fomenting rebellion in other parts of Guangxi, Deng Xiaoping helped organize the peasants and workers here during the Longzhou rebellion and eventually formed the Red Army's 8th Army. Later, in 1979, the Chinese army invaded Vietnam from here.
Administration
Chongzuo has 1 district, 1 county-level city, 5 counties, 57 towns, 72 townships, 146 residential communities, and 1,724 villages.
District:
Jiangzhou District ()
County-level city:
Pingxiang City ()
Counties:
Fusui County ()
Daxin County ()
Tiandeng County ()
Ningming County ()
Longzhou County ()
Demographics
Chongzuo's population is 2,347,700. 88% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group. The rest include Han, Yao, and other ethnic groups.
These figures are based on the following official statistics:
Economy
Forestry and agriculture are two of Chongzuo's biggest industries. Oranges, rice, beans, corn, cassava, cinnamon, bananas, vegetables, durian, pineapples, longan, and tea are all major crops, but sugarcane is the center of Chongzuo agriculture. Farm raised animals include beef and dairy cattle, sheep, ducks, chickens, geese, and bees. Aquaculture for fish is also big. Chinese medicinal herbs are picked from the wild and also grown. Important mineral resources include manganese, gold, ferberite, coal, barite, bentonite, uranium, and vanadium. It is China's biggest manganese producer and the world's biggest producer of bentonite. Other industries include export infrastructure, paper, forest products such as timber and turpentine, building materials, pharmaceuticals, and electronics manufacturing.
Flora and fauna
Chongzuo has amazing biodiversity with more than 4000 species of plants and more than 450 kinds of animals. There are more than 30 rare and protected animals including white headed and Indo-Chinese black langurs, crested striped hornbills, pangolins, and clouded leopards. 1/4 of China’s wild animal species can be found in Chongzuo.
Tourism
Chongzuo is famous for its beautiful natural scenery. The most famous attraction is Detian Waterfall in Daxing County along the border with Vietnam. It is the second largest waterfall along a national border after Niagara Falls and was one of the crossing points for China’s army during the brief Sino-Vietnamese War. Nearby there is the Tongling Gorge accessible only through a cavern from an adjoining gorge. Rediscovered only recently, it has many species of endemic plants, found only in the gorge, and used to be used as a hideout by local bandits whose treasure is occasionally still found in the cliff-side caves. West of Chongzuo city, there are several forest and animal preserves, some with minor tourist facilities.
Zhirendong
These findings might give some support to the claim that modern humans from Africa arrived at southern China about 100,000 years BP (Zhiren Cave, Mulanshan), Chongzuo City: 100,000 years BP; and the Liujiang hominid: controversially dated at 139,000–111,000 years BP).
Notable people
Tan Haoming (1871–1925) - a member of the Old Guangxi Clique, born in Chongzuo Longzhou County, Zhuang.
Huang Xianfan (1899–1982) - a Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator, born in Chongzuo Fusui County, Zhuang.
See also
Detian – Ban Gioc Falls
References
External links
Cities in Guangxi
Prefecture-level divisions of Guangxi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongzuo |
The M6 Presto-Matic was a Chrysler Corporation semi-automatic transmission produced from 1946 to 1953. It was a special manual transmission with a fluid coupling. Although it had just two forward gears, an electric overdrive unit was attached and useful in either gear for a total of four forward speeds.
The driver would use the clutch pedal any time when selecting low, high, or reverse gear. Once underway, the accelerator could be eased and the car would engage the overdrive. With the Fluid Drive coupling, the car could be brought to a halt in gear without releasing the clutch and would creep like an automatic.
The Presto-Matic name was only used on Chrysler-brand cars. DeSoto called the transmission the Tip-Toe Shift, while Dodge used Gyro-Matic, Fluid-Matic, Fluidtorque, or Gyro-Torque. Chrysler and DeSoto sold the unit from 1946 to 1953, while Dodge did not introduce it until 1948. Plymouth introduced their Hy-Drive semi-automatic in 1953, but all were replaced by the PowerFlite hydraulic automatic in 1954.
Operation
Attached to the transmission was an “underdrive” with a reduction gear of 1.75/1. The shift lever was column-mounted and had three positions: Low (in the “2nd” position of a conventional 3-speed manual unit), High (in the “3rd” position), and Reverse (same as the 3-speed). The clutch had to be depressed every time the gear shift lever was moved. When the lever was put in Low, the car started in “underdrive” low; when the vehicle reached a minimum speed of , the driver lifted his foot off the accelerator, the underdrive unit would kick out and the car would be in Low. Similarly, with the lever in High position, the car would start in underdrive high, and at any speed above , the driver would lift his foot and the car would “shift” into direct drive.
This configuration had the effect of providing 4 gear ratios:
Underdrive Low, 3.57/1,
Low 2.04/1,
Underdrive High, 1.75/1,
High, 1/1.
In order for the unit to work without gear clashing, it contained a freewheeling device (in Underdrive, Low and High), and the Owner's manual cautioned drivers not to use “1st or 3rd” gear when descending hills because there was no engine compression braking in those free-wheeling ranges. Generally, most drivers started an M6 car in High and accomplished the shift to direct drive somewhere between 13 and 25 MPH by releasing the accelerator pedal and waiting for the “clunk” that signaled the disengagement of the underdrive. An M6 car would automatically shift from High down to underdrive high when car speed dropped below approximately 11 MPH.
References
See also
Vacamatic
List of Chrysler transmissions
Chrysler transmissions
Automatic transmission tradenames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto-Matic |
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1964.
Prison Rules 1964 SI 1964/388
The Road Vehicles (Index Marks) Regulations 1964 SI 1964/404
Benefit Regulations 1964 SI 1964/504
Sheffield Water Order 1964 SI 1964/670
Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (Exemption No. 1) Order 1964 SI 1964/964
Washing Facilities Regulations 1964 SI 1964/965
Sanitary Conveniences Regulations 1964 SI 1964/966
Examination of Steam Boiler Reports (No 1) Order 1964 SI 1964/1070
Industrial Training (Construction Board) Order 1964 SI 1964/1079
Industrial Training (Engineering Board) Order 1964 SI 1964/1086
Artificial Insemination of Pigs (Scotland) Regulations 1964 SI 1964/1171
Artificial Insemination of Pigs (England and Wales) Regulations 1964 SI 1964/1172
Act of Adjournal (Rules for Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings) 1964 SI 1964/1409
Act of Adjournal (Criminal Legal Aid Fees) 1964 SI 1964/1410
Legal Aid (Scotland) (Expenses of Successful Unassisted Parties) Regulations 1964 SI 1964/1513
Plant Varieties and Seeds (Northern Ireland) Order 1964 SI 1964/1574
Act of Sederunt (Legal Aid Rules) 1964 SI 1964/1622
Barnsley Corporation (Reduction of Compensation Water) Order 1964 SI 1964/1866
Diplomatic Privileges (Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies) Order 1964 SI 1964/2043
War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Scheme 1964 SI 1964/2058
External links
Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National Archive
UK SI's on legislation.gov.uk
UK Draft SI's on legislation.gov.uk
See also
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Lists of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201964 |
No. 119 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force, flying with RAF Coastal Command during the Second World War. It was the only RAF unit flying the Short G class and Short C class flying boats.
History
Formation in World War I
No. 119 Squadron was originally formed on 1 January 1918 at RAF Andover to become a day bomber unit. It flew various aircraft, including Airco DH.4s and Airco DH.9s in the working up period spent at RAF Duxford and later RAF Thetford, but failed to become operational and was disbanded at RAF Wyton on 6 December of the same year.
Reformation in World War II
On Flying boats
The squadron was reformed from 'G' flight at RAF Bowmore, Strathclyde on 13 March 1941, as part of No. 15 Group of Coastal Command. The unit was equipped with the three Short G class and two Short C class (Clio and Cordelia) flying boats, re-equipping with the Catalina Mk.Ib in June 1941. The squadron deployed to RAF Pembroke Dock on 4 August, becoming non-operational there for lack of serviceable aircraft until they moved to RAF Lough Erne on 19 April 1942, where they re-equipped with the Catalina Mk.IIIa the next month. In August they returned to Pembroke Dock, changing to Sunderland Mks.II and IIIs in September. The squadron was disbanded on 17 April 1943 at Pembroke Dock.
On biplanes
On 19 July 1944 however, 119 Squadron was reformed by redesignation of a flight of No. 415 Squadron RCAF at RAF Manston, equipped with Albacore Mk.Is, taking over the aircraft as well as the squadron code, 'NH' (till this moment the aircraft of no. 119 sqn had only carried single-letter individual aircraft codes). They deployed to RAF Swingfield and (very briefly) RAF Beccles before being based at RAF Bircham Newton in September, flying anti-shipping patrols and hunting for German E-boats and R-boats. In October 1944 detachments of the squadron were sent to B.65/Maldeghem, B.63/St. Croix and B.83/Knocke-Le Zoute in Belgium and added German midget-submarines to its prey. In January 1945 they re-equipped with the ASV-equipped Swordfish Mk.III which aided in the hunt on midget-submarines, destroying three before their final mission was flown on 8 May 1945. The squadron disbanded at Bircham Newton on 25 May 1945.
One of the Swordfish flown by the squadron, Swordfish Mk.III, NF370 is preserved and displayed at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, painted in its original 119 Squadron markings.
Aircraft operated
References
Notes
Bibliography
Bowyer, Michael J.F. and John D.R. Rawlings. Squadron Codes, 1937-56. Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1979. .
Flintham, Vic and Andrew Thomas. Combat Codes: A full explanation and listing of British, Commonwealth and Allied air force unit codes since 1938. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 2003. .
Halley, James J. The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918-1988. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. .
Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001). .
Rawlings, John D.R. Coastal, Support and Special Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft. London: Jane's Publishing Company Ltd., 1982. .
Thomas, Andrew. "Light Blue 'Stringbags':The Fairey Swordfish in RAF Service". Air Enthusiast, No. 78, November/December 1998. Stamford, UK:Key Publishing. ISSN 0143-5450. pp. 73–77.
External links
No. 119 Squadron RAF movement and equipment history
RAF site of No. 119 Squadron
119 Squadron
119 Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20119%20Squadron%20RAF |
Brown-brown is a purported form of cocaine or amphetamine insufflation mixed with smokeless gunpowder. This powder often contains nitroglycerin, a drug prescribed for heart conditions, which might cause vasodilation, permitting the cocaine or amphetamine insufflation to move more freely through the body. This, in turn, is believed to allow for a more intense high. The term may also refer to heroin.
Brown-brown is reportedly given to child soldiers before West African armed conflicts. One former child soldier, Michel Chikwanine, has written a graphic novel with Jessica Dee Humphreys called Child Soldier, about the experience of being captured at the age of 5 by rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including being given brown-brown. "The rebel soldier who had hit me used a long, jagged knife to cut my wrist and rubbed powder into the wound. They called it Brown Brown – a mixture of gunpowder and a drug called cocaine. Right away, I began to feel like my brain was trying to jump out of my head."
In media and culture
Films
The fictional character Yuri Orlov (portrayed by Nicolas Cage) uses the drug in Liberia in the film Lord of War (2005).
It is also portrayed being used by Liberian child soldiers during their preparations for a combat/assault mission in the French/Liberian film Johnny Mad Dog (2008).
Several characters in the film Beasts of No Nation (2015) are seen snorting a substance, possibly cocaine, possibly heroin, that is mixed with gunpowder and burned.
It is referenced in The White Chamber as a drug used to enhance war efforts.
Literature
In the novel Beasts of No Nation (2005) and its 2015 film adaptation, brown-brown is used by many of the child soldiers and the Commandant.
Ishmael Beah describes using brown-brown, cocaine, and other drugs while he was a child soldier in Sierra Leone, in his memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007).
In the mystery novel The Madness of Crowds (2021), 17th book of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, one of the characters, Haniya Daoud, from Sudan, describes how brown-brown was used on child soldiers.
Television
In 1000 Ways to Die episode 4.5, titled "Killing Them Softly" (2011), Tomo, a Sierra Leonean warlord, dies after snorting brown-brown with diamond dust in it, which cut through the lining of his lungs, breaching arteries and blood vessels.
In the Funimation dub for the anime series Crayon Shin-Chan, the character Musae Koyama (aunt of the titular character, Shin Nohara) is renamed Bitzi Nohara and is presented as a photographer who is recovering from a brown-brown addiction after traveling to Africa and becoming romantically involved with a gun runner who trained child soldiers.
Appears in the Riverdale TV series.
Appears in The Great TV series.
Alluded to in the Bluey children's TV series.
Video games
In the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001), Raiden divulges his experience as a child soldier and references the use of brown-brown.
Controversy
According to Brendan I. Koerner, the use of cocaine mixed with gunpowder may be less prevalent than reports indicate, as cocaine would be difficult to source during armed conflicts, especially in the African continent. Brown pills that were referred to as cocaine were most likely amphetamine. The first actual documentation of the term "brown-brown" was a 2005 Norwegian NGO report that stated the term refers to heroin.
See also
Brown (disambiguation)
References
Cocaine
Stimulants
Adulteration | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-brown |
A power symbol is a symbol indicating that a control activates or deactivates a particular device. Such a control may be a rocker switch, a toggle switch, a push-button, a virtual switch on a display screen, or some other user interface. The internationally standardized symbols are intended to communicate their function in a language-independent manner.
Description
The well-known on/off power symbol was the result of the logical evolution in user interface design. Originally, most early power controls consisted of switches that were toggled between two states demarcated by the words On and Off. As technology became more ubiquitous, these English words were replaced with the universal symbols line "|" for "on" and circle "◯" for "off" (typically without serifs) to bypass language barriers. This standard is still used on toggle power switches.
The symbol for the standby button was created by superimposing the symbols "|" and "◯"; however, it is commonly interpreted as the numerals "0" and "1" (binary code); yet, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) holds these symbols as a graphical representation of a line and a circle.
Standby symbol ambiguity
Because the exact meaning of the standby symbol on a given device may be unclear until the control is tried, it has been proposed that a separate sleep symbol, a crescent moon, instead be used to indicate a low power state. Proponents include the California Energy Commission and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Under this proposal, the older standby symbol would be redefined as a generic "power" indication, in cases where the difference between it and the other power symbols would not present a safety concern. This alternative symbolism was published as IEEE standard 1621 on December 8, 2004.
Standards
Universal power symbols are described in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60417 standard, Graphical symbols for use on equipment, appearing in the 1973 edition of the document (as IEC 417) and informally used earlier.
Unicode
Because of widespread use of the power symbol, a campaign was launched by Terence Eden to add the set of characters to Unicode. In February 2015, the proposal was accepted by Unicode and the characters were included in Unicode 9.0. The characters are in the "Miscellaneous Technical" block, with code points 23FB-FE, with the exception of , which belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows" block.
In popular culture
The standby symbol, frequently seen on personal computers, is a popular icon among technology enthusiasts. It is often found emblazoned on fashion items including t-shirts and cuff-links. It has also been used in corporate logos, such as for Gateway, Inc. (circa 2002), Staples, Inc. easytech, Exelon, Toggl and others, as record sleeve art (Garbage's "Push It") and even as personal tattoos. In March 2010, the New York City health department announced they would be using it on condom wrappers. The 2012 television series Revolution, set in a dystopian future in which "the power went out", as the opening narration puts it, stylized the second last letter 'o' of its title as the standby symbol. The power symbol was a part of exhibition at MoMA. In the anime Dimension W, Kyouma Mabuchi wears a Happi with the power symbol on his back. In the television series Sense8, the hacktivist character Nomi has a tattoo of the power symbol behind her ear.
The symbol, rotated clockwise by 90 degrees so it looks like a capital G, becomes part of the logo for Channel 5's programme The Gadget Show.
On 15th October 2019, 786 employees of Volkswagen Group United Kingdom Limited formed the world's largest human power symbol at Millbrook Proving Ground.
See also
List of international common standards
Reset button
References
External links
IEC/ISO Database on Graphical Symbols for Use on Equipment
IEC Graphical Symbols for Use on Equipment
ISO/IEC/JTC1 Graphical Symbols for Office Equipment, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pictograms
IEC standards
IEEE standards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20symbol |
City Confidential is an American documentary television show, originally transmitted on the A&E Network, which singled out a community during each episode and investigated a crime that had occurred there. Rather than being a straightforward procedural, the installments began by focusing on the history and spirit of the city chosen. Often, the crime and persons involved highlighted a unique feature of that community. Additionally, the show analyzed not only the crime itself, but also the impact that the crime, ensuing investigation and legal proceedings, had had on the community at large.
Part of City Confidential success was the wide variety of American cities the show covered. The show premiered in 1998 and featured communities that varied in size and prominence, from the smallest village to the largest urban areas. Examples include medium-sized cities such as Newberry, South Carolina; Saddle River, New Jersey; Little Rock, Arkansas; and St. Charles, Missouri; and major cities such as Boston, Massachusetts, New Orleans, Louisiana; Miami, Florida; and Los Angeles, California.
The original narrator of City Confidential, Paul Winfield, was involved from the show's premiere in 1998 until his death in 2004. He was replaced by actor Keith David. The show was produced by Jupiter Entertainment. City Confidential aired the last episode of its original run in December 2005.
On September 27, 2021, A&E announced that the series would be revived, hosted by actor Mike Colter and produced by Propagate, with the first new episode set to air on October 28, 2021.
Episodes
References
External links
A&E (TV network) original programming
1990s American crime television series
2000s American crime television series
1990s American documentary television series
2000s American documentary television series
1998 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in the United States
True crime television series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Confidential |
Jakub Arbes (12 June 1840, Prague (Smíchov) – 8 April 1914) was a Czech writer and intellectual. He is best known as the creator of the literary genre called romanetto and spent much of his professional life in France.
Life and Politics
A native of Smíchov in Prague, Arbes studied under Jan Neruda, for whom he had a lifelong admiration, and later he studied Philosophy and Literature at Prague Polytechnic. In 1867, he began his career in journalism as editor of Vesna Kutnohorská, and from 1868 to 1877, as the chief editor of the National Press. Arbes was also an editor of political magazines Hlas (The Voice) and Politiks (Politics), and a sympathizer of the Májovci literary group. During this time, Arbes was persecuted and spent 15 months in the Czech Lipa prison, for leading opposition to the ruling Austro-Hungarian Empire. He left Prague soon after, spending time in Paris and the South of France as part of the intellectual community there. In France, he was an associate of other "Bohemian Parisiens" such as Paul Alexis, Luděk Marold, Guy de Maupassant, Viktor Oliva, and Karel Vítězslav Mašek, as well as the French writer Émile François Zola.
Writer
Arbes worked with contemporary writers including Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, Josef Svatopluk Machar and his mentor Jan Neruda, and was influenced by the English-language writers Lord Byron and Edgar Allan Poe. He translated many of Poe's writings into French and Czech, and named his son Edgar. Arbes was also strongly influenced by Émile Zola's theory of the experimental novel. Arbes wrote about the urban working classes and promoted his ideas of utopian socialism. His work incorporates the themes of moral justice, free thinking and rationalism, and also featured autobiographical elements. His characters were often creative and rebellious free-thinkers, whose intellectual abilities made them independent, but were eventually destroyed by non-conformism.
His most well-known works are his "romanettoes", written in the 1860s and the 1870s, predecessors of the modern detective story. They are mostly set in Central Europe, and they usually feature a gothic mystery, which is resolved by logical reasoning. Arbes's "romanettoes" introduced technical knowledge and scientific reasoning into modern literature.
Newton's Brain
Among Arbes's most influential works was Newton's Brain (1877). In this story, two ideas coincide: the brain of the genius and trickster, apparently dies at the Battle of Königgrätz in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. However, he has not died and instead is able to procure a replacement for his injured brain, which is the brain of Isaac Newton. Subsequently, he uses Newton's knowledge of the laws of nature to overcome them, using a strange device to travel faster than the speed of light, and also to photograph the past. In the end, the narrator's friend discloses to the audience that this device is human imagination. However, it is a very precise instrument and can be used to reconstruct the truth of history, in this case the Battle of Königgrätz. Newton's Brain was published 18 years before H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, and has been considered a strong influence on Wells. Zola wrote that Arbes "is not a poet, not an artist, but rather a writer, and one of considerable stature, by which I mean an intellectual experimenter, a mind of a certain intellectual partiality and from a specific social background, an author with a socially critical and ameliorative tendency, and an educator rather than a discoverer in spheres of soul and form".
Legacy
A public square in central Prague is named in his honour, as well as several other squares and streets in Czech cities.
Works
Romanettos
Ďábel na skřipci (1865)
Elegie o černých očích (1865–1867)
Svatý Xaverius (1873)
Sivooký démon (1873)
Zázračná madona (1875)
Ukřižovaná (1876)
Newtonův mozek [[Newton's Brain] (1877)
Newton's Brain, trans. Josef Jiří Král, 1892; newly edited, Sublunary Editions, 2021
Akrobati (1878)
Zborcené harfy tón (1885–1886)
Lotr Gólo (1886)
Duhový bod nad hlavou (1889)
Duhokřídlá Psýché (1891)
Kandidáti existence
Etiopská lilie
Novels
Moderní upíři
Štrajchpudlíci
Mesiáš
Anděl míru
Kandidáti existence
Český Paganini
Záhadné povahy
Z duševní dílny básníků
Journalism
Epizody
Pláč koruny české neboli Nová persekuce
See also
List of Czech writers
References
External links
Czech male writers
Czech journalists
1840 births
1914 deaths
Writers from Prague
Czech Technical University in Prague alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub%20Arbes |
Alexander Ross Gordon (11 July 1893 – 21 January 1957), known as Harry Gordon, was a popular Scottish entertainer, comedian and impressionist, touring throughout Scotland and further afield. From the 1920s through the 1950s Gordon also produced a large number of recordings, including several under assumed names. He was known as the Laird of Inversnecky, a fictional Scottish town he used in his comic routines, which ended up becoming the nickname for Inverness.
Life and career
Harry Gordon was born in Aberdeen as Alexander Gordon, one of five sons and a daughter. He attended King Street and Central schools, before leaving for work as an insurance clerk to help with the family finances. His first public appearance on stage may have occurred at age 12 as Princess Chrysanthemum at Gilcomston Parish Church. By the time he was fifteen years old, he decided to pursue a full-time career as an entertainer. He began to develop his stage skills at various venues in northeast Scotland.
An important turning-point in his career was the 1909 formation of a Pierrot troupe, with whom Gordon played in many open-air performances. The company formed in the village of Banchory, which influenced Gordon's most famous creation, Inversnecky. Gordon began to appear at many theatres in northeast Scotland and did seaside shows in the summer. He was physically unfit for active service in World War I but participated in the war effort as an entertainer.
After the war Gordon often performed in Aberdeen at His Majesty's Theatre and the Beach Pavilion, originally a wooden concert hall which was replaced in 1928 by a more permanent structure. Gordon often was the master of ceremonies at the Beach Pavilion and eventually leased the theatre himself before its closure in 1941. He had a homely and chatty style, establishing an intimate rapport with his audience. With his Doric accent and local knowledge he became one of Scotland's most popular entertainers. He also appeared many times before the microphone of the BBC's local radio station in Aberdeen, 2BD, which operated between 1923 and 1929.
Gordon often worked with comic foil Jack Holden and perfected his pantomime act into one of Scotland's most acclaimed. His appeal never did transfer well to England, though he worked abroad and on cruise ships. In December, 1956 he suffered a severe attack of influenza, and died in the Royal Infirmary at Glasgow in January, 1957. His work is still remembered and has formed the basis of a one-man stage show about his career.
References
External links
Recordmine.com article on Harry Gordon
University of Glasgow brief biography of Harry Gordon
1893 births
1957 deaths
People from Aberdeen
Scottish impressionists (entertainers)
Scottish entertainers
Vaudeville performers
Scottish male comedians
20th-century Scottish comedians
20th-century British comedians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Gordon%20%28entertainer%29 |
Margarita Aleksandrovna Drobiazko (; born 21 December 1971) is a Russian retired ice dancer. She began competing for Lithuania in 1992 when she teamed up with Povilas Vanagas. With Vanagas, she is the 2000 World bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, a two-time European bronze medalist (2000, 2006), the 1999 Skate Canada champion, and competed in five Winter Olympics, finishing as high as 5th.
Career
Drobiazko began skating at age six – she became interested after seeing children learning to skate at an outdoor rink. She convinced her mother, who wanted her to become a ballerina, to let her try skating. At age 12, she took up ice dancing and was coached first by Natalia Linichuk and then Natalia Dubova. She initially competed with Oleg Granionov for Russia.
Drobiazko was paired with Lithuanian skater Povilas Vanagas by Tatiana Tarasova in Moscow. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, they decided to represent Lithuania. Vanagas said, "It was difficult at the beginning because there was a lot of friction between Russia and Lithuania. Since Rita is Russian, it caused many problems." They moved to Kaunas, Lithuania and began training with Elena Maslennikova. In 1995, they began working also in England with Betty Callaway, Jayne Torvill, and Christopher Dean.
In 1999, Drobiazko and Vanagas began spending time with Elena Tchaikovskaia in Moscow, while continuing to work with Maslennikova in Kaunas. They were also coached by Lilija Vanagiene and Anatoliy Petukhov. Drobiazko and Vanagas retired from competition following the 2001–2002 Olympic season, but returned to competition in 2005 to compete at their fifth Olympics. In preparation for the 2005–2006 season, they worked with Maslennikova, Rostislav Sinicyn, Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva, Gintaras Svistunavicius, and David Liu, in the United States, Germany, Russia, and Lithuania. Drobiazko and Vanagas became the first and only figure skaters to compete at five Olympics. They retired again in 2006 following the World Championships.
Their choreographers included Elena Maslennikova, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Elena Tchaikovskaia, Tatiana Pomerantseva, Elena Kholina, Yuri Puzakov, Vasily Kleimenov, and Gintaras Svistunavicius.
Personal life
Drobiazko was born in Moscow, but lived in Magadan, the Russian far north-east, until the age of six. Since the Olympics require citizenship of the country represented, Drobiazko obtained Lithuanian citizenship in 1993. She has been married to Vanagas since June 2000.
In the summer of 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Drobiazko played a role in a ballet Swan Lake on ice with Vanagas in Sochi that was organized by former Olympic champion Tatiana Navka. On 10 August 2022, Lithuania's president Gitanas Nausėda signed a decree stripping off the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas from both skaters.
On 15 September 2023, Lithuania's president Gitanas Nausėda signed a decree stripping Margarita Drobiazko of her Lithuanian citizenship due to her "public support for the Russian Federation during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine".
Programs
(with Povilas Vanagas)
Competitive highlights
(ice dance with Povilas Vanagas)
References
External links
Drobiazko & Vanagas – Official website
Care to Ice Dance? – Drobiazko & Vanagas
1971 births
Living people
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Lithuanian female ice dancers
Lithuanian people of Russian descent
Olympic figure skaters for Lithuania
Figure skaters from Moscow
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in figure skating
Universiade silver medalists for Lithuania
Competitors at the 1993 Winter Universiade | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita%20Drobiazko |
Michael Tolan (born Seymour Tuchow, November 27, 1925 – January 31, 2011) was an American actor.
Early life and education
The son of Morris Tuchow, Tolan was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Central High School and Wayne State University in Detroit and studied under Stella Adler and at Stanford University.
Career
Tolan's early acting experience came on radio station WXYZ in Detroit, where he was heard on The Green Hornet and The Lone Ranger. He also worked with the Actors Company. In 1948, he performed in summer stock theater in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Tolan appeared primarily in stage roles in his early career, with only minor parts in films of the early 1950s. His stage roles include Romanoff and Juliet and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, his Broadway debut. His film credits included Fort Worth (1951), The Savage (1952), Hiawatha (1952), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Hour of the Gun (1967), The Lost Man (1969), John and Mary (1969), The 300 Year Weekend (1971), Talk to Me (1984) and Presumed Innocent (1990).
He acted mostly on television from the mid-1950s on, including an appearance on the 1960 CBS summer series, Diagnosis: Unknown, a role in The Doctors and the Nurses, and a continuing role as Jordan Boyle on "The Senator" segments of the anthology umbrella TV series The Bold Ones (1970–71). He appeared in a 1967 episode of The Rat Patrol, "The Fifth Wheel Raid", where he is credited as Michael Tolin (versus Tolan). He also appeared in three episodes of Mission: Impossible, entitled "Trial by Fury," "The Play," and "Terror." He had a recurring role on three episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Dan Whitfield, Mary's night-school teacher & boyfriend. He also made guest appearances on such television series as The Invaders, The F.B.I., Mannix, Kojak, Nichols, The Outer Limits, McMillan and Wife, and Law & Order. His last known television appearance was on an episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1994.
Tolan appeared in the Bob Fosse film All That Jazz (1979) as lead character Joe Gideon's cardiologist, Dr. Ballinger.
Tolan also helped found the American Place Theatre, of which he wrote:
"We wanted to attract some of the writers who wrote fine, intelligent, deep material about American life, and see if we could interest them in writing for the theater".
Personal life
Tolan had two marriages, both of which ended in divorce; at the time of his death, he was partnered with Donna Peck, with whom he lived in Ancram, New York. He had previously married actress Rosemary Forsyth on June 28, 1966. The couple had one child and divorced in 1975.
Death
Tolan died January 31, 2011, at a Hudson, New York, hospital from kidney failure.
Selected filmography
The Enforcer (1951) - James (Duke) Malloy
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) - Leo Daly
Fort Worth (1951) - Mort Springer
The People Against O'Hara (1951) - Vincent Korvac (uncredited)
The Savage (1952) - Long Mane
Hiawatha (1952) - Neyadji
Julius Caesar (1953) - Officer to Octavius
Second Chance (1953) - Antonio (uncredited)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) - Lazarus
Roseanna (1967) - Elmer B. Kafka
Hour of the Gun (1967) - Pete Spence
The Rat Patrol - Season 2 Episode 13 (1967) - Kabir
Journey into Darkness (1968) - Craig Miller (episode 'Paper Dolls')
The Lost Man (1969) - Insp. Carl Hamilton
John and Mary (1969) - James
The 300 Year Weekend (1971) - Dr. Marshall
All That Jazz (1979) - Dr. Ballinger
Talk to Me (1984) - Dr. Ronald Webster
Presumed Innocent (1990) - Mr. Polhemus
Perfect Stranger (2007) - Judge
References
External links
1925 births
2011 deaths
Male actors from Detroit
American male film actors
American male television actors
Wayne State University alumni
Male actors from Los Angeles
People from Hudson, New York
Stanford University alumni
Deaths from kidney failure
20th-century American male actors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Tolan |
Isoamyl acetate, also known as isopentyl acetate, is an organic compound that is the ester formed from isoamyl alcohol and acetic acid, with the molecular formula C7H14O2. It is a colorless liquid that is only slightly soluble in water, but very soluble in most organic solvents. Isoamyl acetate has a strong odor which is described as similar to both banana and pear. Pure isoamyl acetate, or mixtures of isoamyl acetate, amyl acetate, and other flavors in ethanol may be referred to as banana oil or pear oil.
Production
Isoamyl acetate is prepared by the acid catalyzed reaction (Fischer esterification) between isoamyl alcohol and glacial acetic acid as shown in the reaction equation below. Typically, sulfuric acid is used as the catalyst. Alternatively, p-toluenesulfonic acid or an acidic ion exchange resin can be used as the catalyst.
It is also produced synthetically by the rectification of amyl acetate.
Applications
Isoamyl acetate is used to confer banana or pear flavor in foods such as circus peanuts, Juicy Fruit and pear drops. Banana oil and pear oil commonly refer to a solution of isoamyl acetate in ethanol that is used as an artificial flavor.
It is also used as a solvent for some varnishes, oil paints, and nitrocellulose lacquers. As a solvent and carrier for materials such as nitrocellulose, it was extensively used in the aircraft industry for stiffening and wind-proofing fabric flying surfaces, where it and its derivatives were generally known as 'aircraft dope'. Now that most aircraft wings are made of metal, such use is mostly limited to historically accurate reproductions and scale models.
Because of its intense, pleasant odor and its low toxicity, isoamyl acetate is used to test the effectiveness of respirators or gas masks.
Occurrence in nature
Isoamyl acetate occurs naturally in many plants, including apple, banana, coffee, grape, guava, lychee, papaya, peach, pomegranate, and tomato. It is also released by fermentation processes, including those used for making beer, cognac, and whisky.
Isoamyl acetate is released by a honey bee's sting apparatus where it serves as a pheromone beacon to attract other bees and provoke them to sting.
References
Flavors
Insect pheromones
Ester solvents
Acetate esters
Sweet-smelling chemicals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoamyl%20acetate |
Povilas Vanagas (; born 23 July 1970) is a Lithuanian ice dancer. With his wife Margarita Drobiazko, he is the 2000 World bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, a two-time European bronze medalist (2000, 2006), the 1999 Skate Canada champion, and competed in five Winter Olympics, finishing as high as 5th.
Career
Vanagas began skating at age three. His mother, Lilija Vanagiene, was Lithuania's national skating coach. Vanagas won six national titles in men's singles. At age 18, he was drafted into the Soviet Union army and sent to Moscow, Russian SFSR. Given a choice between becoming a soldier or skating full-time, Vanagas chose to become an ice dancer.
Tatiana Tarasova paired Vanagas with Russian ice dancer Margarita Drobiazko in Moscow. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, they decided to represent Lithuania. Vanagas said, "It was difficult at the beginning because there was a lot of friction between Russia and Lithuania. Since Rita is Russian, it caused many problems." They moved to Kaunas, Lithuania and began training with Elena Maslennikova. In 1995, they began working also in England with Betty Callaway, Jayne Torvill, and Christopher Dean.
In 1999, Drobiazko and Vanagas began spending time with Elena Tchaikovskaia in Moscow, while continuing to work with Maslennikova in Kaunas. They were also coached by Lilija Vanagiene and Anatoliy Petukhov. Drobiazko and Vanagas retired from competition following the 2001–2002 Olympic season, but returned to competition in 2005 to compete at their fifth Olympics. In preparation for the 2005–2006 season, they worked with Maslennikova, Rostislav Sinicyn, Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva, Gintaras Svistunavicius, and David Liu, in the United States, Germany, Russia, and Lithuania. Drobiazko and Vanagas became the first and only figure skaters to compete at five Olympics. They retired again in 2006 following the World Championships.
Their choreographers included Elena Maslennikova, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Elena Tchaikovskaia, Tatiana Pomerantseva, Elena Kholina, Yuri Puzakov, Vasily Kleimenov, and Gintaras Svistunavicius.
In the summer of 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vanagas played a role in a ballet Swan Lake on ice with Drobiazko in Sochi that was organized by the Kremlin. On August 10, Lithuania's president Gitanas Nausėda signed a decree stripping off the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas from both skaters.
Personal life
Vanagas is fluent in Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, and English. While competing, he was a caregiver for an elderly woman. Vanagas has been married to Drobiazko since June 2000.
In the summer of 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vanagas and Drobiazko played a role in a ballet Swan Lake on ice in Sochi that was organized by former Olympic champion Tatiana Navka. On August 10, 2022, Lithuania's president Gitanas Nausėda signed a decree stripping off the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas from both skaters.
On September 15, 2023, Lithuania's president Gitanas Nausėda signed a decree stripping Povilas Vanagas' wife and professional partner, Margarita Drobiazko, of her Lithuanian citizenship due due to due to her "public support for the Russian federation" during the Ukraine War.
Programs
(with Margarita Drobiazko)
Competitive highlights
(ice dance with Margarita Drobiazko)
References
External links
Drobiazko & Vanagas - Official website
Care to Ice Dance? - Drobiazko & Vanagas
1970 births
Lithuanian male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for Lithuania
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Kaunas
Universiade medalists in figure skating
Lithuanian emigrants to Russia
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Universiade silver medalists for Lithuania
Competitors at the 1993 Winter Universiade | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Povilas%20Vanagas |
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya (24 November 1880 – 17 December 1959) was an Indian independence activist and political leader in the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was also the first governor (1 November 1956 – 13 June 1957) of Madhya Pradesh. His books include Feathers and Stones, The History of Congress, and Gandhi and Gandhism.
Early life and education
Born in Gundugolanu village, Krishna district (now part of Eluru district) in Andhra Pradesh to a Telugu Niyogi Brahmin family, Pattabhi graduated from the Madras Christian College, fulfilled his ambition to become a medical practitioner by securing a M.B.C.M. degree.
Career
Medical and early political career
He started his practice as a doctor in the coastal town of Machilipatnam, headquarters of Krishna District and the political centre of Andhra. He left his lucrative practice to join the freedom fighting movement. During the years 1912–13, when there was a great controversy over the desirability of forming a separate province for Andhra, he wrote a number of articles in "The Hindu" and other journals explaining the need for immediate formation of linguistic provinces.
At the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916, he demanded the formation of separate Congress circle for Andhra. The demand was opposed by Mahatma Gandhi, but as Tilak supported Pattabhi, the Andhra Congress Committee came into existence in 1918. He was a member of the Working Committee of the Congress for a number of years and the President of Andhra Provincial Congress Committee in 1937–40.
Publications and imprisonment
He ran for the presidency of the Indian National Congress as the candidate closest to Mohandas Gandhi, against Netaji Subash Chandra Bose in Tripuri Session of 1939 (in Madhya Pradesh) . He lost owing to Netaji's rising popularity and the belief that Pattabhi favoured the inclusion of Tamil-majority districts in a future Telugu state in independent India.
Serving on the Congress Working Committee when the Quit India Movement was launched in 1942, Pattabhi was arrested with the entire committee and incarcerated for three years without outside contact in the fort in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. During this time he maintained a detailed diary of day-to-day life during imprisonment, which was published later as Feathers and Stones. He is also the author of The History of the Congress published in 1935 with an introductory note given by the Rajendra Prasad. His other popular publication was Gandhi and Gandhism .
High office
He ran successfully for Congress presidency in 1948, winning with the support of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India. He was a member of the J.V.P. Committee (Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and Pattabhi) which formally rejected the reorganization of states on linguistic lines but after a 56-day hunger strike by Potti Sriramulu the formation of Andhra State without Madras City took place. Prior to this he served as a member in the Constituent Assembly, in 1952 he was elected to Rajya Sabha. Pattabhi also served as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 1956 to 1957.
Andhra Bank
With the financial support of Srimantu Raja Yarlagadda Sivarama Prasad Bahadur, Sitaramayya established Andhra Bank in Machilipatnam on 28 November 1923 which is currently one of the major commercial banks of India. Its present headquarters is located at Hyderabad. The head office of Andhra Bank, "Pattabhi Bhavan", is named after him. He also started Andhra Insurance Company, Krishna Jilla Co-Operative Bank in Krishna District Bhagyalakshmi Bank.
Notes
References
External links
Pattabhi's biography
FreeIndia.org – B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya's biography
Congress Sandesh – Pattabhi Sitaramayya's biography
Presidents of the Indian National Congress
Indian independence activists from Andhra Pradesh
Governors of Madhya Pradesh
Telugu politicians
1880 births
1959 deaths
People from Krishna district
Members of the Constituent Assembly of India
Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh
Prisoners and detainees of British India
Andhra movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhogaraju%20Pattabhi%20Sitaramayya |
Isoamyl alcohol is a colorless liquid with the formula , specifically (H3C–)2CH–CH2–CH2–OH. It is one of several isomers of amyl alcohol (pentanol). It is also known as isopentyl alcohol, isopentanol, or (in the IUPAC recommended nomenclature) 3-methyl-butan-1-ol. An obsolete name for it was isobutyl carbinol.
Isoamyl alcohol is an ingredient in the production of banana oil, an ester found in nature and also produced as a flavouring in industry. It is a common fusel alcohol, produced as a major by-product of ethanol fermentation.
Occurrence
Isoamyl alcohol is one of the components of the aroma of Tuber melanosporum, the black truffle.
The compound has also been identified as a chemical in the pheromone used by hornets to attract other members of the hive to attack.
Isoamyl acetate is a component of the natural aroma of bananas, especially the Gros Michel variety.
Extraction from fusel oil
Isoamyl alcohol can be separated from fusel oil by either of two methods: shaking with strong brine solution and separating the oily layer from the brine layer; distilling it and collecting the fraction that boils between 125 and 140 °C. Further purification is possible with this procedure: shaking the product with hot limewater, separating the oily layer, drying the product with calcium chloride, and distilling it, collecting the fraction boiling between 128 and 132 °C.
Synthesis
Isoamyl alcohol can be synthesized by condensation of isobutene and formaldehyde which produces isoprenol and hydrogenation. It is a colourless liquid of density 0.8247 g/cm3 (0 °C), boiling at 131.6 °C, slightly soluble in water, and easily dissolved in organic solvents. It has a characteristic strong smell and a sharp burning taste. On passing the vapour through a red-hot tube, it decomposes into acetylene, ethylene, propylene, and other compounds. It is oxidized by chromic acid to isovaleraldehyde, and it forms addition compounds crystals with calcium chloride and tin(IV) chloride.
Uses
Besides its use in the synthesis of banana oil, isoamyl alcohol is also an ingredient of Kovac's reagent, used for the bacterial diagnostic indole test.
It is also used as an antifoaming agent in the chloroform isoamyl alcohol reagent.
Isoamyl alcohol is used in a phenol–chloroform extraction mixed with the chloroform to further inhibit RNase activity and prevent solubility of RNAs with long tracts of poly-adenine.
Drugs
IAA is also used as the reactant in the synthesis of the following list of drugs:
Amixetrine
Amoproxan
Camylofin
Fenetradil
References
Primary alcohols
Alkanols | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoamyl%20alcohol |
Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (24 December 1891 – 18 December 1983) was the first Premier of West Bengal, India from 15 August 1947 to 14 August 1948. He also served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the "Progressive Democratic Alliance Front" government from 2 November 1967 to 20 February 1968.
Early life
Prafulla Chandra Ghosh was born in a Gowala Family on 24 December 1891 at a remote village, Malikanda, in Dhaka district, British India (now Bangladesh) as son of Purna Chandra Ghosh and Binodini Devi. Both his parents were religious devout and simple persons. Prafulla Ghosh was a brilliant student throughout his academic life and always stood first with scholarship. Prafulla had very rural upbringing and enjoyed cultural festivals such as Jatra, Kirtan, Padavali Gan, and also participated in agricultural activities.
Prafulla first attended Jagannath College and then moved to Dhaka where he graduated with B. A. (First Class First) and B. Sc (Chemistry) in 1913. In 1916, he obtained his M. A. and M. Sc (Chemistry) as first class first in both. Immediately, he joined research in Chemistry at Dhaka University. In 1919, he joined Presidency College, Calcutta as Demonstrator. In Jan 1920, he started work at Calcutta Mint as ASA master and he was the first Indian to be employed in that position. He was awarded doctorate in 1920 in Chemistry by Calcutta University.
Political life
Ghosh developed an interest in the Swadeshi Movement early on, but was most impressed and inspired by the ideas of armed revolution propagated by the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti, which he joined in 1909. However, the methods of the Samiti for raising money through theft and then defending the same in Court eventually alienated him, and he finally quit in 1913 to focus on academia. During the same time, while working for the Damodar flood relief, he met Surendranath Banerjee and other moderate leaders. Yogendra Nath Saha introduced him to the non-violent principles of Mahatma Gandhi. At the beginning, Gandhian principles did not impress him but he was moved by Gandhi's speech at Dhaka in December 1920 and soon afterwards met with him in Calcutta. In January 1921, he resigned from his position at the Calcutta Mint and along with other members of the Anami Sangh joined the Freedom Struggle.
Family
His great-granddaughter is Priyanka Yoshikawa, who won the 2016 Miss World Japan contest.
Bibliography
The theory of profits
India as known to ancient and mediaeval Europe
Mahatma Gandhi, as I saw him
West today
Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā
Mahātmā Gāndhī
Prācīna Bhāratīẏa sabhyatāra itihāsa
References
1891 births
1983 deaths
Bengali Hindus
Politicians from Kolkata
University of Calcutta alumni
Chief Ministers of West Bengal
Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
Chief ministers from Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal
20th-century Indian politicians
People from Dhaka District
Politicians from Dhaka Division
Pogose School alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prafulla%20Chandra%20Ghosh |
Olive Deering (nee Corn; October 11, 1918 – March 22, 1986) was an American actress of film, television, and stage, active from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. She was a life member of The Actors Studio, as was her elder brother, Alfred Ryder.
Early life
Deering was the daughter of Zelda "Sadie" (née Baruchin) and Max Corn, a dentist.
Her brother was actor Alfred Ryder. She began attending the Professional Children's School when she was age 11.
Career
Stage
Her first stage role was a walk-on bit in Girls in Uniform (1933). She appeared onstage in Moss Hart's Winged Victory, Richard II (starring Maurice Evans) and Counsellor-at-Law (starring Paul Muni). She received kudos for her performance in the Los Angeles production of Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer. Other stage appearances included No for an Answer, Ceremony of Innocence, Marathon '33, The Young Elizabeth, They Walk Alone, and Garden District.
In 1940, siblings Deering and Ryder co-starred in Medicine Show on Broadway. In 1980, Deering and Ryder appeared in The Harold Clurman Theater's production of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play. Although Williams maintained an apartment across the street in the Manhattan Plaza, he did not attend a performance. Deering received good notices for the play.
Film
The films she appeared in included Shock Treatment and Caged. In 1948, director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Miriam, the Danite girl who loves Samson, in his film Samson and Delilah. In his autobiography, DeMille wrote that Deering was "one whose talent and dedication to her art should carry her very far in the theater, whether on screen or stage." DeMille cast her again as the biblical Miriam, sister of Moses, in The Ten Commandments (1956).
Radio
Deering also appeared on many radio programs, which included Lone Journey, True Story and Against the Storm, playing in more than 200 television programs, including Desdemona on the Philco Summer Playhouse production of Othello.
Television
Deering's early television appearances included co-starring in "The Unconquered", an episode of Somerset Maugham TV Theatre, on November 19, 1950, and appearing in an episode of Suspense on June 12, 1951. Others included the role of murderess Rebecca Gentrie in the 1958 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Empty Tin". On June 6, 1962, she starred in "Journey to Oblivion", an episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre.
She had a supporting role in the Sci Fi series Outer Limits in the episode "The Zanti Misfits", which aired on December 30, 1963. One of her later television appearances was in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, titled "One of the Family" (original air date February 8, 1965).
Personal life and death
Deering married film director Leo Penn on February 19, 1947 in Los Angeles, California; they later divorced.
A Democrat, she supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.
She died of cancer at the age of 67, and was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. She had no children and was survived by her brother Alfred Ryder.
Film appearances
Radio appearances
Television appearances
References
External links
1918 births
1986 deaths
Actresses from New York City
American film actresses
American radio actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
Burials at Kensico Cemetery
Jewish American actresses
20th-century American actresses
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
New York (state) Democrats
20th-century American Jews | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20Deering |
Jindřich Šimon Baar (7 February 1869, Klenčí pod Čerchovem – 24 October 1925, Klenčí pod Čerchovem) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style, but later severed the ties with that movement. As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of the countryside.
Born into a peasant family, he did religious studies and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1892. As a priest, he strived, unsuccessfully, for reforms in the church.
Works
Among his novels are:
Cestou křížovou (1900) – the first fruit, autobiographic description of the uneasy life as a reform priest
Pro kravičku (1905)
Farská panička (1906)
Farské historky (1908)
Jan Cimbura (1908) – highly idealized depiction of peasant life
historical trilogy: Paní komisarka (1923), Osmačtyřicátníci (1924) and Lůsy (1925)
He also published several short stories and collections of fairy tales.
See also
List of Czech writers
References
External links
Biography
Museum of Jindřich Šimon Baar in Klenčí pod Čerchovem
English translation of Jan Cimbura by Blanch Zelmer
1869 births
1925 deaths
People from Domažlice District
20th-century Czech Roman Catholic priests
Czech novelists
Male novelists
Czech male writers
19th-century Czech Roman Catholic priests | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jind%C5%99ich%20%C5%A0imon%20Baar |
Mukhu Gimbatovich Aliyev (, ; ; born August 6, 1940) is a Russian politician who served as the 2nd Head of the Republic of Dagestan, a federal subject of Russia. He was born in the village of Tanusi, Khunzakhsky District, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Ethnically, he is Avar. He was the speaker of the Republic's parliament before being accepted as the President by the Dagestan parliament on February 20, 2006, having been nominated by the Russian President Vladimir Putin to replace Dagestan's long-time leader Magomedali Magomedov.
Aliyev was succeeded by Magomedsalam Magomedov on February 20, 2010. In line with the Russian Federation's constitution, Magomedov was nominated by federal President Dmitry Medvedev and approved by the republic's People's Assembly.
Honours and awards
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland":
2nd class (February 18, 2010) – for services to the state and personal contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic
3rd class (November 14, 2005) – for outstanding contribution to strengthening Russian statehood and the merits of legislative activity
4th class (December 25, 2000) – for his courage and dedication shown during the performance of their civic duty to protect the constitutional order of the Republic of Dagestan, strengthening friendship and cooperation between nations and years of diligent work
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Badge of Honour
Major achievements
Although reign of Mukhu Aliyev was smooth without any major breakthroughs Mukhu is famous in Dagestan in standing against transfer of two villages located on Russia/Azerbaijan border to Azerbaijan.
References
1940 births
Living people
Party leaders of the Soviet Union
Full Cavaliers of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Heads of the Republic of Dagestan
Avar people
Members of the Central Committee of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhu%20Aliyev |
Stearns may refer to:
Places in the United States
Stearns, Kentucky
Stearns, Wisconsin
Stearns County, Minnesota
Stearns Scout Camp
Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara, California
Others
Stearns (automobile)
Stearns (crater), a lunar crater named after Carl Leo Stearns
Stearns (surname)
2035 Stearns, an asteroid named after Carl Leo Stearns
See also
Stearnes (disambiguation)
Sterns (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stearns |
The Finsbury Division was one of four divisions of the Hundred of Ossulstone, in the historic county of Middlesex, England. The area of the Finsbury Division is now the core of modern north London. The other divisions were named Holborn, Kensington and Tower. Ossulstone hundred was divided in the seventeenth century, with each of the four divisions replacing the hundred for most administrative purposes.
Area
The division stretched from the boundary of the City of London north to the border between Middlesex and Hertfordshire. In 1899, the area was divided, with the southern section becoming part of the new County of London, and the northern section remaining in Middlesex.
The area is now covered by four London Boroughs: Islington, parts of Barnet, Haringey, and Hackney.
Later use of the name "Finsbury"
Under the Reform Act 1832, part of the Division became the Parliamentary Borough of Finsbury. A smaller area became the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury in 1900. The placename "Finsbury" now generally refers to part of the London Borough of Islington within the former metropolitan borough.
Constituent parishes
The Finsbury Division contained the following "parishes, townships, precincts and places" (listed with current London borough)
Inner Parishes (Included in the district of the Metropolitan Board of Works 1855, County of London 1889)
The parish of St Luke (Islington)
The liberty of Glasshouse Yard (Islington)
The parish of St Sepulchre (Islington)
The parish of St James, Clerkenwell (Islington)
The parish of St Mary, Islington (Islington)
The parish of St Mary, Stoke Newington (Hackney)
The Charterhouse (Islington)
Outer Parishes
Finchley (Barnet)
Friern Barnet (Barnet)
Hornsey (Haringey)
External links
Map of Inner Parishes of Finsbury Division
Map of Outer Parishes of Finsbury Division
Hundreds and divisions of Middlesex
History of the London Borough of Haringey
History of the London Borough of Hackney
History of the London Borough of Islington
History of the London Borough of Barnet
History of local government in London (pre-1855) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finsbury%20division |
Allen Kenneth Watson (born November 18, 1970) is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher who played for several teams between 1993 and 2000, and a current high school baseball coach.
Amateur career
Allen Watson was born in Jamaica, New York on November 18, 1970. He is a graduate of Christ The King Regional High School in Middle Village, New York and attended New York Institute of Technology. In 1990, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
Professional career
Watson was picked by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the 1991 Major League Baseball draft after completing his junior year at New York Tech. He was selected as a NCAA Division I All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association as a designated hitter. He spent the next two years in the Cardinals' minor league system, making his Major League debut on July 8, 1993.
In 1995, the Cardinals traded Watson, Doug Creek, and Rich DeLucia, to the San Francisco Giants for Royce Clayton and Chris Wimmer. At the end of the 1996 season, the Giants traded Watson and Fausto Macey to the Anaheim Angels for J. T. Snow. He pitched with the Angels in 1997–1998, obtaining a career-high twelve wins as a starting pitcher in 1997. On June 14, 1997, Watson gave up the first-ever grand slam in interleague play, to Rich Aurilia of the San Francisco Giants.
Over the next three years, he played for the Seattle Mariners, New York Mets and New York Yankees, mostly in a relief role or as a spot starter.
New York Yankees (1999–2000)
On July 3, 1999, Watson signed with the New York Yankees. Watson was used as a reliever during his time with the Yankees, and had his best tenure with them, going 4–0 with a 2.10 ERA to finish the 1999 season. His play earned him a spot on the postseason roster, where he pitched one inning in the 1999 American League Championship Series against the Red Sox. Watson gave up two hits, two walks, and one strikeout as the Yankees defeated Boston. Watson did not pitch in the 1999 World Series. On November 5, 1999, he was granted free agency, but he re-signed with the Yankees on December 7.
In 2000, Watson's ERA ballooned to 10.23 and he appeared in only 17 games. He pitched 22 innings and did not record a win or loss, while finishing only 9 games for the team. Despite his dismal performance during the season, he was placed on the Yankees' postseason roster, but did not appear in any games. He won his second World Series when the Yankees defeated the Mets in five games. Watson later had surgery to repair his shoulder, which caused him to miss the entire 2001 season. Watson returned to the Yankees during spring training in 2002, but made only one start. He retired after spring training.
Post-baseball career
Watson is currently working as a personal pitching coach for prospective athletes in Queens and Long Island. He works primarily out of The Cage located on Metropolitan Avenue in Ridgewood. Watson also runs baseball clinics for all ages in Oceanside, New York at South Shore Sports Complex and at East Coast Sports Academy.
On December 20, 2007, Watson was named in Jason Grimsley's affidavit as having used performance-enhancing drugs. Watson and Grimsley were teammates on the 1999-2000 New York Yankees. In a statement released by his agent, Watson denied these accusations by stating:
I at no time over my professional baseball career used steroids or any performance-enhancing drugs. Not then, not now, not ever.
Bagel incident
In their baseball memoir The Yankee Years, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci recount an incident where Watson was horsing around in the Yankee clubhouse and threw a bagel towards a clubhouse attendant, just as Yankee owner George Steinbrenner walked in. When the bagel hit Steinbrenner, he demanded to know who threw it. When Watson confessed, Steinbrenner remarked "I figured it was you, Watson. That's why it didn't hurt."
References
External links
1970 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Anaheim Angels players
Arkansas Travelers players
Baseball coaches from New York (state)
Columbus Clippers players
Falmouth Commodores players
Gulf Coast Yankees players
Hamilton Redbirds players
Lake Elsinore Storm players
Long Island Ducks players
Louisville Redbirds players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Midland Angels players
NYIT Bears baseball players
New York Mets players
New York Yankees players
Baseball players from Queens, New York
San Francisco Giants players
San Jose Giants players
Savannah Cardinals players
Seattle Mariners players
St. Louis Cardinals players
St. Petersburg Cardinals players
Tampa Yankees players
Vancouver Canadians players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Watson |
Michel Brunet (born December 31, 1970) is a Canadian former ice dancer. With Jennifer Boyce, he is the 1994 Nations Cup bronze medallist and two-time Canadian national silver medallist. With Chantal Lefebvre, he is the 1999 Four Continents silver medallist and four-time Canadian silver medallist. They also competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Brunet retired from competition in 1999. He married Brigitte Gauthier, with whom he has two sons, Frédéric and Cédric, born in the early 2000s.
Results
With Richer
With Boyce
With Lefebvre
References
1970 births
Canadian male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
Living people
Sportspeople from Gatineau
20th-century Canadian people
French Quebecers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Brunet%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, founded by the late Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in partnership with Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. It has been awarded annually since 1991 for "the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or the American Civil War era."
Laureates
The prize has been split equally between two entries on six occasions (1992, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2014). Recipients of the $50,000 prize have included:
See also
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
American Civil War
References
External links
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-events/national-book-prizes/gilder-lehrman-lincoln-prize
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/national-book-prizes
http://www.gettysburg.edu/lincolnprize/
https://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/history/about/faculty/johnson/index.html
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300219753/mourning-lincoln
Historiography of the American Civil War
American history awards
Awards established in 1991
Gettysburg College
1991 establishments in Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20Prize |
Objectivity can refer to:
Objectivity and subjectivity, either the property of being independent from or dependent upon perception
Objectivity (science), the goal of eliminating personal biases in the practice of science
Journalistic objectivity, encompassing fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and nonpartisanship
Objectivity, a YouTube channel by Brady Haran
Principle of material objectivity, a principle in continuum mechanics
Objectivity/DB, an object-oriented database management system produced by Objectivity Inc.
See also
Neutrality (philosophy)
New Objectivity, German art movement
Objective (disambiguation)
Objectivism (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity |
Guildford County School (GCS) is a co-educational day school on Farnham Road (A31), Guildford, England, 200 metres from Guildford town centre. It has around 1050 students enrolled, including the Sixth Form. It is run by its headmaster Steve Smith.
The school first opened as an all girls Grammar School in 1905. In September 2004, the school was granted Specialist Music College status, designated by the Department for Education and Skills. Julian Lloyd Webber and Howard Goodall are patrons of the school. The school was then granted academy status in 2013.
History
Grammar school
The school opened the gates in 1905 at its first premises on Nightingale Road and then moved in 1906 to its current site at Farnham Road. A Block is the oldest building and more buildings were added during the following sixty-nine years.
Comprehensive
In 1977, the girls' grammar school became a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school. Between 1977 and 1979, a second teaching block was built together with another gymnasium (the 'New Gym').
The school became grant-maintained in September 1990 and three years later a three-storey building named "Cobbett Block" after the former Chairman of Governors was opened by the then MP David Howell alongside the Headmaster David Smith. The school became a Foundation School in 2000 and an Academy School in 2013.
Notable former pupils
Gina Radford, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England (2015 to 2019)
References
External links
Official website
Secondary schools in Surrey
Academies in Surrey
Schools in Guildford
Specialist music colleges in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford%20County%20School |
IOB may stand for:
Indian Overseas Bank, a public sector bank in India
Input/Output Block, see Execute Channel Program
Inside Outside Beginning, a file representation format for tagging tokens
Institute of Development Policy and Management, Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid en -beheer (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Intelligence Oversight Board, of the U.S. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Iranian oil bourse, a commodity exchange | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOB |
William Spring Hubbell (January 17, 1801 – November 16, 1873) was an American politician and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York, serving one term from 1843 to 1845.
Biography
He was born in Painted Post (Steuben County), New York. He was postmaster and later town clerk of Bath, New York, then a member of the state assembly in 1841.
Congress
He was elected as a Democrat to the 28th Congress (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845), and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860.
Death
William Spring Hubbell died in Bath, New York. His home at Bath, known as the George W. Hallock House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
References
External links
1801 births
1873 deaths
People from Painted Post, New York
New York (state) postmasters
Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
People from Steuben County, Indiana
19th-century American politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Spring%20Hubbell |
Melquiades Morales Flores (born 22 June 1942) is a Mexican lawyer and politician, affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Between 1999 and 2005 he served as governor of the state of Puebla.
Born in the small town of Esperanza, Puebla, Morales studied law at the Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), where he also later taught. He has held various positions within the PRI's party structure, including a time as leader of the party in both the city of Puebla, Puebla, and in the state. In 1984 he served as Puebla's Secretary of the Interior, and has represented Puebla in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In 1998 he requested a leave of absence from his senatorial seat in order to seek the Puebla governorship.
In 2006 Melquiades Morales went back to the political spotlight, running for the second time trying to get a seat in the Senate, representing the state of Puebla, headlining the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) / Alianza por México nomination alongside Mario Alberto Montero Serrano.
His son Fernando Morales Martínez is also a politician.
References
External links
Biography
1942 births
Living people
Governors of Puebla
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Politicians from Puebla
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
20th-century Mexican politicians
Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla alumni
Academic staff of the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqu%C3%ADades%20Morales |
Petr Bezruč () was the pseudonym of Vladimír Vašek (; 15 September 1867 – 17 February 1958), a Czech poet and short story writer who was associated with the region of Austrian Silesia.
His most notable work is Silesian Songs, a collection of poems about the inhabitants of Silesia, written over many years.
Life
Petr Bezruč was born Vladimír Vašek in Opava in 1867 to Antonín Vašek and Marie Vašková (née Brožková). Antonín was a teacher and public intellectual who published the first Czech-language newspaper in Silesia, Opavský Besedník.
Bezruč had five siblings; three brothers, Ladislav, Otakar, and Antonín; and two sisters, Olga and Helena.
In 1873, his family was forced to move to Brno due to his father's pro-Czech activities. Bezruč grew up in Brno, but spent the summers in the town of Háj ve Slezsku, where his father Antonín would hunt. In 1880, Antonín died of tuberculosis.
In 1881, Petr Bezruč began studying at the Slovanské Gymnázium in Brno (today's Gymnázium Kapitána Jaroše). From 1885 to 1888, Bezruč studied classical philology at Charles University in Prague, but he never completed his studies. During his time in Prague, Bezruč became more and more melancholic and introverted. He did, however, meet several authors who would be influential in his later life, including Jan and Vilém Mrštík, and learned from professors including T. G. Masaryk and Otakar Hostinský.
In 1888, Bezruč moved back to Brno, because his family was in a tough financial situation. He published his first work, the short story Studie z Café Lustig, under the pseudonym Ratibor Suk in the magazine Švanda Dudák. In 1891, after completing trade school to work as a postal officer, he was sent to the small town of Místek.
Bezruč's time in Místek from 1891 to 1893 was crucial for Silesian Songs. Much of the material for the poetry came from Bezruč's experiences there. In particular, he was deeply struck by the extreme poverty of the region and the resilience of the local people.
In 1893, Petr Bezruč's best friend, Ondřej Boleslav Petr, committed suicide, and Bezruč requested to be transferred back to Brno. In 1894, Bezruč's mom died and he began to take care of his younger brother Antonín, as well as to visit his brother Ladislav in Kostelec na Hané, which marked the beginning of his deep connection towards the Haná region.
In 1899, he sent poetry to the magazine Čas, using the pseudonym Petr Bezruč for the first time. Editor Jan Herben immediately recognized the quality of the poetry, and wanted to publish three poems, but because of Austrian censorship was only able to publish one. Over the next few years, Bezruč had his poetry published regularly in Čas. His first collection of poems was published in book form in 1903. In 1909, his poems were published with the collection title Silesian Songs for the first time.
In 1915, Bezruč was accused of writing two pro-Russian poems which appeared in the French magazine L’Indépendance Tchéque, which were signed P.B., but actually written by Jan Grmela. Bezruč was arrested under charges of treason, which was punishable by death. The military court found him innocent after failing to find evidence he had written the poems, but nevertheless moved him to a jail in Brno. With his literary success rising, including a translation of Silesian Songs to German, he was released later in 1916, although lawsuits continued until October 1918.
In the last forty years of his life, Silesian Songs was printed more and more frequently, and Bezruč was considered a Czech national poet. At the same time, however, he became more and more introverted and isolated from society. He enjoyed hiking in the Beskydy mountains.
Bezruč never published a work of the same acclaim as Silesian Songs. In 1945, he was awarded the title of národní umělec (national artist) by the Czechoslovak government.
From 1939 until his death, he lived in Kostelec na Hané. He died in the Olomouc hospital in 1958 at the age of 90. He was buried in Opava.
Works
Bezruč's fame is almost entirely due to the poetry collection Silesian Songs, which generally portrays the people of Silesia as an oppressed group, suffering from foreign exploitation and the negative effects of industrialization. The poems are intended for a working class audience. The themes of the poems could resonate with any colonized group of people, or people feeling left behind by modernization. Specific poems in the collection deal with themes such as love, poverty, oppression at the hands of other ethnicities, and poems about specific towns or locations.
Dispute over the authorship of Silesian Songs
Due to the fact that Petr Bezruč never wrote a similarly well-acclaimed collection of poems in his long life, as well as due to several details in the poems themselves, some critics have argued that Silesian Songs may in fact have multiple authors. Author and literary historian Jan Drozd argued that Vladimír Vašek co-wrote Silesian Songs with his friend Ondřej Boleslav Petr, and that Petr Bezruč is their collective pseudonym. Folklorist and rock musician Jaromír Nohavica argues that Ondřej Boleslav Petr is the author of around 10 of the poems in the Silesian Songs collection.
In 2014, the Czech Literature Bureau of the Czech Academy of Sciences published a new edition of Silesian Songs and criticized the hypothesis that anyone other than Vladimír Vašek wrote any of the poems in the collection.
His birthplace
During his lifetime his fame was such that his birthplace became a heritage site. Today this building is managed by the Silesian Museum in Opava. The museum actually contains the documents belonging to 85 important people of literature. This makes the building and its contents to be of national importance. Actually the building is not the birthplace as the actual building was destroyed during World War Two. This building was built on the site of his birth after a campaign starting in 1946 and finishing in 1956. In 1958 it was decided that this museum should be managed by Opava's Silesian museum. The museum also owns the copyright to his works in line with his instructions.
Bibliography
Poetry
Slezské písně (Silesian Songs) (1899–1900) - one of the fundamental books of Czech poetry
Stužkonoska modrá (The Blue Underwing) (1930)
Přátelům a nepřátelům (To My Friends and Enemies) (1958)
Prose
Povídky ze života (Tales of Life) (1957) - short stories
See also
List of Czech writers
References
1867 births
1958 deaths
Writers from Opava
Czech poets
Czech male poets
Charles University alumni
Writers from Austria-Hungary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%20Bezru%C4%8D |
Bangaram () is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language action film directed by Dharani (in his Telugu debut). This film has Pawan Kalyan in the title role and Meera Chopra, Sanusha, Ashutosh Rana, Mukesh Rishi, Raja Abel, and Reema Sen in supporting roles. The film is produced by A.M. Ratnam, who previously produced Kushi (2001). The music was composed by Vidyasagar.
Plot
Bangaram is a reporter at a news channel who dreams of getting into an international news channel of BBC. To fulfill his dream, he needs Peddi Reddy's signature but gets entangled with his daughters Sandhya and Vindhya. Later, Bhooma Reddy wins over Peddi's heart and is able to convince him to marry Sandhya to his brother, but Sandhya already has her own love story with Vinay. Bangaram, feeling guilty about foiling Sandhya's escape plan and the mean looks from Vindhya, decides to help her by taking her to the city. Later, Vinay also loses contact with them because of the confusion caused by a bomb blast. Bangaram is able to find Vinay with the help of a driver and his company. Bhooma and his goons chase them, but each time, Bangaram saves Sandhya and Vinay. Unable to capture Sandhya, Bhooma kidnaps Vindhya and blackmails Bangaram that his brother will marry her if Sandhya is not returned. Bangaram goes to Bhooma, kills him and his henchmen, and saves Vindhya. In the end, it is revealed that Bangaram ultimately finds his own love during a train journey.
Cast
Soundtrack
The music for this film has been composed by Vidyasagar. The audio of the film was launched on 16 March 2006 at a silent function arranged at Sunethra School for Blind at Pedda Amberpet in the outskirts of Hyderabad on the evening of 16 March.
Release
The Hindu wrote that "Though the subject is interesting, the director fails to handle it properly".
References
External links
2000s Telugu-language films
2000s chase films
2006 action films
2006 films
Journalism adapted into films
Indian action films
Indian chase films
Films scored by Vidyasagar (composer)
Films directed by Dharani
Films about journalism
Films about journalists
Films about the mass media in India
Films about mass media people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangaram%20%28film%29 |
was a professional Go player.
Biography
Miyashita became a 9 dan in 1960. He had many students, including Ishibashi Chinami, Hanawa Yasutoki, Tokimoto Hajime, Kanno Kiyonori, and Miyashita Suzue.
Titles & runners-up
1913 births
1976 deaths
Japanese Go players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidehiro%20Miyashita |
Chad Michael Murray (born August 24, 1981) is an American actor, writer and former model. He is best known for his roles in drama series and romantic comedy films. He played the lead role of Lucas Scott in The WB/CW teen drama series One Tree Hill (2003–09, 2012), and recurring roles as Tristin DuGray on Gilmore Girls (2000–01), Charlie Todd on Dawson's Creek (2001–02), and Edgar Evernever on Riverdale (2019), all on the same network.
He starred in the film A Cinderella Story (2004) and had supporting roles in Freaky Friday (2003) and Fruitvale Station (2013). He went on to star in Chosen (2013–14), Sun Records (2017) and Sullivan's Crossing (2023–present), and appeared in a supporting role in Marvel-ABC series Agent Carter (2015–16) and a recurring role in Fox's Star (2018–19). Murray has written a graphic novel with lead illustrator Danijel Žeželj titled Everlast (2011), and a novel co-authored with Heather Graham titled American Drifter (2017).
Early life
Chad Michael Murray was born in Buffalo, Western New York and was raised by a single father, Rex Murray, who worked as an air traffic controller. His mother left the family when Chad was 10-years-old. He has five siblings, consisting of an older sister, three younger full brothers, and a younger half-brother from his father's second marriage, and has two step-siblings, consisting of a step-sister and a step-brother. Murray is of Scottish, English, German, Swiss-German and Polish descent.
Murray attended Clarence High School in Clarence, New York. He became a fan of literature and played football. As a teenager, he worked at the Dipson Theatres in Eastern Hills Mall. In his late teens, he broke his nose. This led to reports during his career that he had received a nose job. Murray clarified in a 2004 interview, "I got jumped in a Burger King when I was 18 and had my nose put on the other side of my face. It was three guys [...] The doctors didn't even bother running X-rays. They just reset it. But it wasn't a nose job—I hate the fact that people say it was a nose job!"
Career
1999–2002: Modeling, Gilmore Girls and Dawson's Creek
Murray won a scholarship to attend a modeling convention in Orlando, Florida, where he met an agent who encouraged him to go to Los Angeles for a week and see what happens. He subsequently got a manager and moved to Hollywood in 1999. Murray began modeling for brands such as Skechers, Tommy Hilfiger and Gucci.
In 2000, he guest starred as Dan on the MTV drama anthology series Undressed on the episode "Scared Stiffy" which aired on March 8 as part of its second season. Later that year, Murray was cast in the role of rich kid Tristin DuGray on The WB television series Gilmore Girls as a recurring character in the first season which debuted on October 5 and in an episode of the second season the next year. The series became a hit and Murray would go onto become a staple actor on the network for the rest of the decade. He ended his debut year on screen appearing on the November 16 episode of the CBS crime drama Diagnosis: Murder during its eighth season.
In 2001, he was cast in a television pilot for The WB, the family drama Murphy's Dozen, which revolved around 12 children and their parents in an Irish American family in New Jersey. The lead actress Kathy Baker signed on in March and the pilot was screened for the network in May but was not picked up for the fall season. Murray portrayed the role of teenage David Alexander in science fiction film Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 which released on September 7. Murray was cast in the role of womanizer Charlie Todd on The WB's hit television series Dawson's Creek as a recurring character in the fifth season which premiered on October 10. He next appeared on an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation which aired on CBS on October 3, 2002, during its third season.
2003–2010: Freaky Friday, One Tree Hill and A Cinderella Story
In 2003, Murray began the year appearing in the family drama television film A Long Way Home, also known as Aftermath, playing the role of Sean in a family trying to reconcile following domestic sexual abuse. He next played the lead role of Luke Hartman on The WB's western television film The Lone Ranger which aired on February 26 and served as a backdoor pilot for a potential series run. Murray was cast in the role of love-interest Jake in the Walt Disney Pictures comedy film Freaky Friday, starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, which released in theaters on August 6. It was Disney's third adaptation of the 1972 children's novel of the same name authored by Mary Rodgers. The film was a critical and a major box office success, earning roughly $161 million worldwide.
Later that year, he was cast in the lead role of Lucas Scott on The WB series One Tree Hill which debuted on September 23, 2003. The first-season finale garnered 4.50 million viewers. The series was one of The WB's most successful programs the year it began and continued with impressive ratings after the network merged with rival UPN to become The CW in 2006. The series earned Murray six Teen Choice Award nominations over the years, including winning Choice TV – Breakout Actor in August 2004 and Choice TV Actor – Drama in August 2008. Stemming from the series' popularity, he and his One Tree Hill co-stars became official endorsers for MasterCard, K-Mart, Cingular Wireless and the Chevy Cobalt.
In 2004, Murray starred as Austin Ames in the romantic comedy film A Cinderella Story alongside Hilary Duff which released in July 16. The film was a box office success, earning $70.1 million worldwide, but was panned by critics. The film earned Murray the award for Choice Movie – Breakout Actor in August 2004 and several more nominations at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards. He is the first person to win their awards for Breakout Actor in both the TV and Movie categories in the same year. Murray was listed as one of "TV's Sexiest Guys" by People magazine in November 2004.
He next co-starred as Nick Jones in the horror film House of Wax which released theatrically on May 6, 2005. The film earned Murray two more Teen Choice Award nominations, including winning Choice Movie Actor – Action/Thriller in August 2005. Murray was listed as one of "Fall TV's Sexiest Guys" by People magazine in September 2005, and was the cover model for Teen People magazine that same month. He played the role of Private Jordan Owens in the Iraq War drama film Home of the Brave, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel and 50 Cent, which test released in theaters on December 6, 2006, before a limited theatrical release on April 17, 2007.
Murray was listed at #12 on AOL Television's list of "TV's 50 Hottest Hunks Ever" on November 4, 2008. In May 2009, it was reported that Murray would not be returning to One Tree Hill for its seventh season. A video of Murray was recorded in which he was telling fans that they did not want him back because they wanted to save money. However, creator Mark Schwahn said in an interview that Murray had been offered "great things" to return to the show.
In 2010, Murray played the love-interest of Alicia Keys in her music video for "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" which premiered on BET's 106 & Park on May 12. The video depicts the burgeoning romance of a young interracial couple reimagined across different eras, from the 1950s through the 2000s. It won Outstanding Music Video at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards in March 2011. Murray played the role of Ethan McAllister in the drama television film Lies in Plain Sight which aired on Lifetime on October 3, 2010. He played the love-interest Patrick Kerns in the television film Christmas Cupid, alongside Christina Milan and Ashley Benson, which premiered on ABC Family on December 12.
2011–2015: Chosen, Agent Carter and independent films
On August 29, 2011, The CW announced that Murray would return for a guest appearance as Lucas Scott in the final season of One Tree Hill. The episode aired on February 22, 2012, as part of the concluding ninth season. He then played the male lead Jamie Tworkowski in the biographical drama film To Write Love on Her Arms which premiered on March 11, 2012, at the Omaha Film Festival where it won the Encore Award. The film is based on the true story of Tworkowski's founding of the Florida-based non-profit organization of the same name helping those struggling with addiction, mental illness and self-injury, and received a limited theatrical release on March 3, 2015.
He next played the role of Thatcher in the short film The Carrier which premiered on April 27, 2012, at the USA Film Festival. On March 12, it was reported that he was cast to play the male lead Spider Elliot in a television pilot for ABC, Scruples, with Claire Forlani playing the female lead Billy Orsini and with Natalie Portman serving as an executive producer. The potential series, adapted from Judith Krantz's pioneering 1979 debut bonkbuster novel of the same name, was not picked up by the network. Murray next starred as Dylan in the Funny or Die short First Kiss alongside Rachael Leigh Cook which released on September 11.
In 2013, Murray played the role of Officer Ingram in the biographical drama film Fruitvale Station, which chronicles the last day of Oscar Grant, portrayed by Michael B. Jordan, who was shot and killed by a BART police officer in Oakland, California. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19 before releasing theatrically on July 12, becoming a critical and box office success, earning $17.4 million from a budget of under a million. Murray next played male lead Andy Wyrick in the horror film The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia which released on February 1. The film, inspired by the true events surrounding the Wyrick family, is Murray's first role playing a father. He guest starred as Officer Dave Mendoza in the crime drama series Southland on two episodes during its concluding fifth season which premiered on TNT on February 13. It marked his on-screen union with its co-star Ben McKenzie (Officer Ben Sherman), who had played Ryan Atwood on popular teen drama The O.C. that debuted the same year as OTH.
On October 9, 2013, it was reported that Murray was cast to join action-thriller series Chosen on Crackle. He played the lead role of Jacob Orr in the second season which premiered on December 12 that year and in the third season which released on April 15, 2014. Murray played the role of Jay in comedy film Cavemen which premiered on October 26 at the 2013 Austin Film Festival before a limited theatrical release on February 7, 2014. He played the role of Tanner McCoy in comedy film A Madea Christmas which released theatrically on December 13, 2013. Murray next co-starred in the apocalyptic thriller film Left Behind, playing the role of Cameron "Buck" Williams, alongside Nicolas Cage and Jordin Sparks. The film, based on the novel series of the same name authored by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, was released on October 3, 2014.
On August 29, 2014, it was announced that Murray was cast in the role of Agent Jack Thompson in the ABC spy thriller series Agent Carter, part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first season premiered on January 6, 2015, and the second season premiered on January 19, 2016.
Later in 2015, he guest starred on the Fox black comedy series Scream Queens on a November 24 episode during its first season, playing Chad Radwell's older brother Brad. Murray starred as the male lead "P.K." in the romantic drama film Other People's Children which premiered on August 15 at the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival where it won the Best of Festival award. It received a limited theatrical release on December 25. In order to portray a homeless heroin addict, Murray lost 25 lbs (11.34 kg) of weight, stating that he exercised for three-and-a-half weeks, burning 3,000 calories a day while eating only 1,400 to 1,600 calories a day from a diet consisting of "oatmeal, egg whites, salads, chicken [and] tuna."
2016–2022: Sun Records, Star and Fortress
Murray starred as Henry in the western film Outlaws and Angels which premiered on January 25 at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, before a limited theatrical release on July 15. On March 14, 2016, it was reported that Murray was cast to star as Sam Phillips in the CMT biographical drama series Million Dollar Quartet. On December 14, the eight-episode miniseries was retitled Sun Records, before premiering on February 23, 2017.
In 2018, he played the male lead Brett Beauchamps in the drama television film The Beach House, alongside Minka Kelly and Andie MacDowell, which premiered on the Hallmark Channel on April 28. He next played the male lead Jack in horror film Camp Cold Brook which premiered on August 25 at the HorrorHound Film Festival, before a limited theatrical release on February 14, 2020. On August 27, 2018, it was reported that Murray was cast in a recurring role as Xander McPherson, the toxic love-interest of Cassie Brown as played by Brandy Norwood, in the third season of the musical drama Star which premiered on Fox on September 26.
On February 8, 2019, it was reported that Murray was cast in a recurring role as Edgar Evernever in the third season of The CW drama Riverdale. He starred as Luke Miller on television film Write Before Christmas alongside Torrey DeVitto on Hallmark Channel on November 17.
In 2020, Murray starred as Brett Hollister in the television film Love in Winterland which premiered on the Hallmark Channel on January 11. He next starred as Paul Barnett in the film Too Close for Christmas which received a limited theatrical release on November 13, before premiering on Lifetime on December 4. The film marks the first in a series of on-screen collaborations with Jessica Lowndes.
In 2021, he starred as Joel Sheehan in the film Colors of Love which received a limited theatrical release on February 4, before premiering on GAC Family on October 23 under the title An Autumn Romance as its first original movie. The film, based on the 2014 novel Tycoon's Kiss authored by Jane Porter, is the second with Murray and Lowndes together. He starred as Brody Bradshaw in the television film Sand Dollar Cove which premiered on the Hallmark Channel on June 26. He starred as Gabe on the television film Angel Falls Christmas which premiered on GAC Family on November 26, marking the third film between Murray and Lowndes. He starred as Kevin Vaughn on the television film Toying with the Holidays which premiered on Lifetime on December 18. He played Steve in hotel booking website Hotels.com's commercial.
2023–present: Sullivan's Crossing
On June 1, 2022, it was announced that Murray was cast as the male lead Cal Jones on the drama series Sullivan's Crossing alongside Morgan Kohan as the female lead Maggie Sullivan and Scott Patterson as her father Sully Sullivan. The Canadian series, based on the American novel series of the same name authored by Robyn Carr, premiered on CTV on March 19, 2023.
Writing career
Murray authored a graphic novel, Everlast, which released in November 2011. In November 2017, he released American Drifter: An Exhilarating Tale of Love and Murder, which he co-authored with novelist Heather Graham. The romantic thriller was inspired by a dream.
Personal life
In May 2004, Murray became engaged to his One Tree Hill co-star Sophia Bush, and they married on April 16, 2005, in Santa Monica, California. They announced their separation in September 2005. In February 2006, Bush filed for an annulment citing fraud. Bush's petition was denied, and instead the pair were granted a divorce in December 2006.
On April 6, 2006, it was reported that Murray was engaged to Kenzie Dalton, an actress and Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2006 runner-up. The day before, Murray escorted Dalton to the North Carolina Azalea Festival Queen's Welcoming Ceremony, where Dalton served as part of the "Princess' court" and wore her engagement ring. The two first met in August 2005 when Dalton appeared as an extra on One Tree Hill on the sixth episode during its third season. On September 20, 2013, it was reported that they had ended their engagement of nearly seven-and-a-half years, with Murray's representative telling media that they had "quietly parted ways earlier in the year." The couple were pictured together as late as August 1.
In September 2013, Murray began dating his Left Behind co-star, Australian actress Nicky Whelan. The two were first pictured together leaving the Chateau Marmont on September 19. The next month, Murray joined Whelan on the second season of Chosen. The couple separated in April 2014 after roughly eight months of dating.
In 2014, Murray began dating his Chosen co-star Sarah Roemer. In January 2015, it was announced that he and Roemer had married, and were expecting their first child. They have three children: a son, born in 2015, and two daughters, born in 2017 and 2023.
Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
Commercials
Bibliography
Everlast (2011)
American Drifter: An Exhilarating Tale of Love and Murder (2017), co-authored with Heather Graham
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official website
Bio at TVGuide.com
Bio at Starpulse.com
1981 births
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male models
American male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Buffalo, New York
Male actors from New York (state)
Male models from New York (state)
Actors from Buffalo, New York
People from Clarence, New York
21st-century American male writers
American male novelists
American people of English descent
American people of German descent
American people of Polish descent
American people of Scottish descent
American people of Swiss-German descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20Michael%20Murray |
The Max Rady College of Medicine is a medical college of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and is one of several departments of the university's Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.
Opening in 1883 as the Manitoba Medical College, it is the first medical school of the Prairie provinces. The college has 27 academic departments, institutes, and administrative units found throughout the university's Bannatyne campus, the Health Sciences Centre, and other Winnipeg health sciences facilities. The college also consists of several centres, institutes, and research groups, often in partnership with other health sciences organizations.
In 2009, there were 957 applicants for 110 MD spots. The average GPA was 4.16 (out of 4.5) and the MCAT average was 10.72 in 2009. The nearby University of Winnipeg also offers a pre-medical studies program.
History
The Manitoba Medical College was privately founded by physicians and surgeons in the nascent days of Winnipeg, when hospitals were only beginning to appear and the need for a medical school in the Prairies was starting to become evident.
In 1883, failing to convince others of building a medical school, 13 young prospective doctors petitioned the Manitoba Legislature to charter the Manitoba Medical College as a private medical college. They applied for an Act of Incorporation for a medical college, for which 2 key principles were agreed upon: first, the degrees would be granted by the University of Manitoba, not the Medical College; second, the Medical College would be founded by established practitioners, maintaining the continued involvement and responsibility of the physicians in the Winnipeg community.
On 13 November 1883, the School Board assented to use of the Central Collegiate Institute (26 Isabel Street) for the Medical College. On the evening of Thursday, 15 November 1883, James Kerr, the first Dean of Medicine, delivered his inaugural address to the School:This fact, I think, is somewhat characteristic of the country in which we live and its extraordinary progressive tendencies, for I believe it to be the first time in the history of medicine that the student requested that he should be supplied with teachers, instead of teachers soliciting the students to be taught.A week later, the first lecture at the college was given by Dr. R. J. Blanchard. Initially held in a temporary space, the Medical College was moved to a building located on 561 McDermot Avenue, at the corner of Kate Street; this original building would eventually be sold and turned into the St. Regis Apartments.
In 1892, the Manitoba Medical College saw its first female graduate, Hattie Foxton, who passed her exams with first-class standing for Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery.
In 1884, the Medical College building was given a large expansion. In 1897, the Bacteriological Research Building of the Manitoba Medical College was designed by architect Charles Henry Wheeler.
In 1900, the University of Manitoba Act allowed the U of M to do its own teaching and appoint full-time professors to the Medical College, which it did in 1904 (bacteriologist, physiologist, botanist, and physicist). A year later, an obstetrics department was also added.
Despite a large expansion just years earlier, the college still could not accommodate the demand for more space. As result, in 1906, the college was moved to a building on 750 Bannatyne Avenue, at the corner Emily Street. The facility was built in 1905 by local contractors S.B. Ritchie & P. Burnett and was designed by architect James H. Cadham. The second building of the college, at 770 Bannatyne, was erected in 1921.
In 1919, the Manitoba Medical College was absorbed by the University of Manitoba, becoming its Faculty of Medicine.
In 1932, the college adopted an official quota system to reduce the number of Jews entering the medical profession. The antisemitic quota system was instituted by Dr. Alvin Trotter Mathers, the Dean of the college. The quota system was abolished in 1945–1946.
In 1955, a building was built to house the library, microbiology, and cafeteria wing of the Manitoba Medical College, and opened the following year. Located on McDermot Avenue, the building now houses the College of Rehabilitation Sciences. The Faculty of Medicine also added various other new buildings including: the Chown Building (753 McDermot Ave.) in 1965 at the south end of the Medical College Building; the Basic Medical Services Building (730 William Ave.), completed in 1974, located across Bannatyne Avenue from the Medical College Building and originally attached by overhead walkway; and the Brodie Centre (727 McDermot Ave.), built on the east side of the Medical College Building and dedicated in 1996.
The University of Manitoba, Faculty of Medicine's Arms were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on 15 August 2008.
The Manitoba Medical Alumni Association erected the Medical Corps Memorial in dedication to the memory of the graduates and students of the University of Manitoba Medical College who had laid down their lives during the 1885 North West Rebellion (1 name); 1900 South African War (1 name); and The Great War of 1914–18, or World War I, (7 names). Part of the Memorial reads, "In enduring remembrance of the Graduates and students of this school who laid down their lives in Wars of the Empire, their names are here inscribed by the Manitoba Medical Alumni Association.... To you from falling hands we throw the torch. Be yours to hold high."
In 2014, the university brought together its health-sciences community to form the Faculty of Health Sciences, into which the Faculty of Medicine was incorporated along with the Faculties of Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy and Schools of Dental Hygiene and Medical Rehabilitation. Today, the former Faculty of Medicine is known as the College of Medicine within the health sciences faculty.
In 2016, the college changed its name to the Max Rady College of Medicine as part of a legacy honouring Max and Rose Rady, cemented by Ernest and Evelyn Rady, through the Rady Family Foundation, who announced a $30-million gift to the university on 12 May 2016—the largest philanthropic gift in the university's history.
Departments
The college consists of 22 academic departments found throughout the U of M Bannatyne Campus, the Health Sciences Centre (HSC), and other Winnipeg health sciences facilities. Each department is involved in teaching, research, service and clinical activities with an academic staff of approximately 1,630 faculty members.
The Department of Community Health Sciences (CHS) was created in 1987 through the merging of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (SPM) and the Division of Community and Northern Medicine (CNM).
Centres
The college also consists of several centres, institutes, and research groups, often in partnership with other health sciences organizations. Some exist as units within the Faculty of Medicine.
Notable alumni and faculty
John C. Boileau Grant – Professor of Anatomy (1919–1930) – Author of Grant's Atlas of Anatomy and Grant's Dissector
William Boyd – Professor of Pathology (1919–1937) – Author of Surgical Pathology, Pathology of Internal Disease, Textbook of Pathology and Introduction to Medical Science
References
External links
Faculty of Medicine – University of Manitoba
Annual Report of the City of Winnipeg: Historical Buildings & Resources Committee - The Year Past 2019
Medicine
Manitoba
1883 establishments in Manitoba
College of Medicine - University of Manitoba
College of Medicine - University of Manitoba
College of Medicine - University of Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Manitoba%20College%20of%20Medicine |
GDDR4 SDRAM, an abbreviation for Graphics Double Data Rate 4 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory, is a type of graphics card memory (SGRAM) specified by the JEDEC Semiconductor Memory Standard. It is a rival medium to Rambus's XDR DRAM. GDDR4 is based on DDR3 SDRAM technology and was intended to replace the DDR2-based GDDR3, but it ended up being replaced by GDDR5 within a year.
History
On October 26, 2005, Samsung announced that it developed the first GDDR4 memory, a 256-Mbit chip running at 2.5 Gbit/s. Samsung also revealed plans to sample and mass-produce GDDR4 SDRAM rated at 2.8 Gbit/s per pin.
In 2005, Hynix developed the first 512-Mbit GDDR4 memory chip.
On February 14, 2006, Samsung announced the development of 32-bit 512-Mbit GDDR4 SDRAM capable of transferring 3.2 Gbit/s per pin, or 12.8 GB/s for the module.
On July 5, 2006, Samsung announced the mass-production of 32-bit 512-Mbit GDDR4 SDRAM rated at 2.4 Gbit/s per pin, or 9.6 GB/s for the module. Although designed to match the performance of XDR DRAM on high-pin-count memory, it would not be able to match XDR performance on low-pin-count designs.
On February 9, 2007, Samsung announced mass-production of 32-bit 512-Mbit GDDR4 SDRAM, rated at 2.8 Gbit/s per pin, or 11.2 GB/s per module. This module was used for some AMD cards.
On February 23, 2007, Samsung announced 32-bit 512-Mbit GDDR4 SDRAM rated at 4.0 Gbit/s per pin or 16 GB/s for the module and expects the memory to appear on commercially available graphics cards by the end of year 2007.
Technologies
GDDR4 SDRAM introduced DBI (Data Bus Inversion) and Multi-Preamble to reduce data transmission delay. Prefetch was increased from 4 to 8 bits. The maximum number of memory banks for GDDR4 has been increased to 8. To achieve the same bandwidth as GDDR3 SDRAM, the GDDR4 core runs at half the performance of a GDDR3 core of the same raw bandwidth. Core voltage was decreased to 1.5 V.
Data Bus Inversion adds an additional active-low DBI# pin to the address/command bus and each byte of data. If there are at more than four 0 bits in the data byte, the byte is inverted and the DBI# signal transmitted low. In this way, the number of 0 bits across all nine pins is limited to four. This reduces power consumption and ground bounce.
On the signaling front, GDDR4 expands the chip I/O buffer to 8 bits per two cycles, allowing for greater sustained bandwidth during burst transmission, but at the expense of significantly increased CAS latency (CL), determined mainly by the double reduced count of the address/command pins and half-clocked DRAM cells, compared to GDDR3. The number of addressing pins was reduced to half that of the GDDR3 core, and were used for power and ground, which also increases latency. Another advantage of GDDR4 is power efficiency: running at 2.4 Gbit/s, it uses 45% less power when compared to GDDR3 chips running at 2.0 Gbit/s.
In Samsung's GDDR4 SDRAM datasheet, it was referred as 'GDDR4 SGRAM', or 'Graphics Double Data Rate version 4 Synchronous Graphics RAM'. However, the essential block write feature is not available, so it is not classified as SGRAM.
Adoption
The video memory manufacturer Qimonda (formerly Infineon Memory Products division) has stated it will "skip" the development of GDDR4, and move directly to GDDR5.
See also
List of interface bit rates
References
External links
X-Bit Labs (GDDR4 closing in)
X-Bit Labs (GDDR4 achieving 3.2 GHz)
DailyTech (ATI X1950 Now September 14)
DailyTech (ATI Radeon X1950 Announced)
(Samsung Shipping Production GDDR4)
Samsung Mass Producing Most Advanced Graphics Memory: GDDR4, press release
SDRAM
South Korean inventions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDDR4%20SDRAM |
is a professional Go player.
Biography
Mimura became a professional in 1986. He was promoted to 9 dan in 2000. He is married to Makihata Taeko.
Promotion record
Titles and runners-up
External links
GoBase Profile
Nihon Ki-in Profile (Japanese)
1969 births
Living people
Japanese Go players
People from Kitakyushu | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu%20Mimura |
Charles Isham Taylor (January 20, 1875 – February 23, 1922) was an American second baseman, manager and executive in Negro league baseball. Born in Anderson, South Carolina, he was the oldest among four sons of a Methodist minister—including Candy Jim, Ben and Johnny—who made a remarkable impact on black baseball.
After serving in the 10th Cavalry during the Spanish–American War in the Philippines, Taylor attended Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1904 he started the first black professional baseball team in Birmingham, Alabama, the Birmingham Giants, recruiting from Southern colleges.
In 1914 he became half-owner, along with Thomas Bowser, and manager of the Indianapolis ABCs, and over the next several seasons developed the team into a power rivaled only by Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants.
When World War I drew off many players from his roster, he personally toured Washington, D.C., with them, pointing out the various government institutions and instilling in them a sense of their duty to their nation.
He was also a co-founder and vice president of the Negro National League before his death at age 47 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His widow, Olivia Taylor, continued to operate the ABC's for three years, with his brother Ben as manager for the first year, before the team folded in 1926.
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum awards The C.I. Taylor Legacy Award to the best manager of each MLB league annually.
References
Bibliography
Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. .
External links
and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
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Negro league baseball executives
Birmingham Giants players
Indianapolis ABCs players
West Baden Sprudels players
Negro league baseball managers
Baseball players from Anderson County, South Carolina
1875 births
1922 deaths
20th-century African-American people
American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
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Gérard Kango Ouédraogo (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ kɑ̃ɡo wedʁaɔɡo]; September 19, 1925 – July 1, 2014) was a Burkinabé statesman and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 13 February 1971 to 8 February 1974. He was subsequently President of the National Assembly of Upper Volta from October 1978 to November 25, 1980.
Overview
Gérard Ouédraogo was born in Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso. He served in the French National Assembly from 1956 to 1959. In May 1998, he was the Honorary President for Life of the Alliance for Democracy and Federation–African Democratic Rally (ADF/ADR), which is led by his son, Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo. Ouédraogo died on 1 July 2014.
Biography
Gérard Ouédraogo was born on September 19, 1925, in Naba Kango Cave, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso. The name Kango originally came from Kaongo, meaning "the field that surrounds a palace or a concession." He is a former student of the Terrason de Fougères Modern School on Bamako.
Subsequently, he continued to play an important role in the political life of the country, notably by sitting in the National Assembly for the constituency of Ouahigouya and being one of the leaders of the Voltaic Democratic Union (VDU), member of the African Democratic Rally. He was the Prime Minister of Upper Volta from 1971 to 1974, under the presidency of Sangoulé Lamizana.
The political route of Ouédraogo began on 2 January 1956 with him in an election as a member of the Palais Bourbon in Paris, under the banner of the Progressive Voltaic Party (PPV), resulting from the termination of the Voltaic Democratic Union which until then had a quasi-monopoly on the political scene of the country. He was also the vice-president of the Grand Council of French West Africa in Dakar, then Minister of Finance from 1958 to 1959. Afterwards, he had accumulated the positions: Director of African and Malagasy Affairs, representative of UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) in the Upper Volta and Chairman of the Political and Administrative Affairs Committee of the Territorial Assembly of Upper Volta. He became the first ambassador of the independent Upper Volta in Britain on 1960 to 1966. Continued his ascension to become Prime Minister of Upper Volta from 1971 to 1974 under the presidency of Sangoulé Lamizana, his party, Voltaic Democratic Union (VDU) and African Democratic Rally triumphed without a shot in the legislative consultations of December 20, 1970 by winning 37 deputies. He was the president of the National Assembly of Upper Volta from 1978 until 1980.
Ouédraogo was the founding president of several political movements, including the Mouvement de regroupement voltaïque (VRM). As one of the leaders of the Voltaic Democratic Union and African Democratic Rally, and a member of the African Democratic Rally (ADR), he had become a member of the Upper Volta in the Fourth Republic, and in the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. He was the ambassador of the new independent state of Upper Volta in Britain from 1960 to 1966. The honorary president of the parties was also a city councilor of the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In favor of the 1991 democratic opening of Burkina Faso, Gérard Kango Ouédraogo was elected deputy in May 1992 and reelected in May 1997. On 23 September 1997, he resigned voluntarily from the National Assembly. One of the founding fathers of the African Democratic Rally in Upper Volta was named Honorary President during the merger of the Alliance for Democracy and Federation and the African Democratic Rally. After all of his achievements, he retired from political life.
While seated as the President of the National Assembly during the coup d'état of Saye Zerbo on November 25, 1980, he was imprisoned several times under the dictatorships of Saye Zerbo, Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré . Since the easing of the regime, headed by the head of state in the early 1990s, he was elected twice under the Fourth Republic, and resigned on 27 May 1998. He died on 1 July 2014 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at the age of 88.
References
Review of Gérard Kango Ouédraogo's 2009 autobiography: Un "éléphant" retrace les 60 ans de lutte politique pour l'Afrique. APA NEWS, 12 February 2009.
1925 births
2014 deaths
People from Nord Region (Burkina Faso)
People of French West Africa
National Centre of Social Republicans politicians
Alliance for Democracy and Federation – African Democratic Rally politicians
Prime Ministers of Burkina Faso
Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic
Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Presidents of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso
21st-century Burkinabé people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard%20Kango%20Ou%C3%A9draogo |
Domination is the fourth full-length studio album by death metal band Morbid Angel, released in 1995. This was Morbid Angel's last album under the label Giant Records before the label dropped the band. The band then re-signed with their former label, Earache Records. This is also the first Morbid Angel album to feature Hate Eternal frontman Erik Rutan on guitars and keyboards, who later left the band following this album, though he would return to the band for Gateways to Annihilation.
The CD cover is shown here. The LP artwork is a similarly styled image of statues in a desert. Initial copies came in a green jewelcase. There was also a limited edition "Slime Pack" planned, which was never released after several packs leaked before shipping and the slime-substance was found to be toxic.
A music video was produced for the song "Where the Slime Live".
David Vincent left the band in 1996 after the end of Domination tour cycle and was replaced by Steve Tucker. Vincent rejoined Morbid Angel in 2004 and appeared on their 2011 album Illud Divinum Insanus before leaving the band once again in 2015.
Track listing
Personnel
Morbid Angel
David Vincent – bass, vocals
Trey Azagthoth – guitars, keyboards
Erik Rutan – guitars, keyboards
Pete Sandoval – drums
Production
Morbid Angel – arrangement, production
Bill Kennedy – production, engineering, mixing
Mark Prator – assistant engineering
Eric Cadieux – programming, digital editing
Alan Yoshida – mastering
References
1995 albums
Earache Records albums
Morbid Angel albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domination%20%28Morbid%20Angel%20album%29 |
George W. Wallace Jr. (born May 30, 1938) is a Liberian who served as the foreign minister of Liberia from 2006 to 2007. He took office early in 2006, having been appointed to the cabinet of the incoming president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and confirmed by the Senate. Wallace has had a long career as a Liberian diplomat and ambassador through all of its governments during the past several decades. In a cabinet reshuffle on August 22, 2007, he was replaced as foreign minister by Olubanka King Akerele and became special adviser to President Johnson Sirleaf instead.
Wallace was born to George Wallace and Elizabeth Yebade Wallace in Monrovia, Liberia.
Political career
Zero-tax treatment
During a visit to Liberia with Chinese President Hu Jingtao, Mr. Bo Xilai and Wallace, signed a document to increase the scope of zero-tariff treatment for goods imported from Liberia to 442 tax items.
References
Americo-Liberian people
Liberian diplomats
Foreign Ministers of Liberia
Living people
1938 births
Ambassadors of Liberia
Politicians from Monrovia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Wallace%20%28diplomat%29 |
is a professional Go player. A territorial player who is adept at invading and living within opponent's spheres of influence, Yamada won his first major title, the Oza, in 1997. He has two older brothers, Shiho Yamada and Wakio Yamada.
Biography
Yamada began playing Go at the beginning of his school career. Two years later, he became a pupil of Yorimoto Yamashita, who adjudged Yamada to be a 6 dan amateur at the time. He was often praised for his extensive studying and deep reading. Yamada became a professional in 1989. In his first year as a professional, Yamada scored a record of 23 wins and six losses.
Yamada won the "New Player Award" in 1992 and won his first title, the Shin-Ei, in 1993. He was also winner of the top Oteai section that same year. Yamada won another young players tournament, the Shinjin-O, in 1997. He continued at a winning rate of 80% – including an 18-game winning streak, for which he won an award – up until his first major title challenge: the Oza in 1997. It was at that time the nickname, "King of Cool", was bestowed upon him by Go journalist John Fairbarn.
He defeated title-holder Ryu Shikun three to one to claim his first major title, but then lost the title the following year to O Rissei. In 1999, Yamada reached the semi-finals of the challenger tournament for the Oza. He was invited to participate in the 1st Chunlan Cup in 1998. In 1999, Yamada reached the semi-finals of the Samsung Cup, losing to Lee Chang-ho by resignation. The following year Yamada reached the finals, but lost again to another Korean player, Yoo Changhyuk, three to one.
Yamada won the 7 dan division of the 23rd Kisei tournament when he defeated Naoki Hane on 22 April 1999. In the first round of the main tournament, Yamada defeated Hiroyuki Hiroe. In the second round, Yamada faced the previous Kisei runner-up, Norimoto Yoda, and lost. While challenging for the Kisei title, Yamada reached the final of the 8th Ryusei in 1999, defeating Michihiro Morita. At the end of 1999, Yamada finished 8th in the top prize winners with ¥23,627,000. Yamada was a part of the Japanese team at the 1st Nongshim Cup in 2000. He was eliminated in his only game against Chang Hao. In May 2000, Yamada was promoted to 8 dan.
Yamada finished 15th in most prize money for 2001 with ¥12,919,960. In 2003, Yamada won the award for most consecutive victories with 18. He won his 600th career game in 2004, the third fastest ever at 15 years and 6 months. Three years later, Yamada won his 700th game, becoming the second fastest to reach 700 wins. In 2004, Yamada reached the finals of the Gosei tournament, his first major title challenge in six years. Yamada was the first player to be promoted from 8 dan to 9 dan for cumulative victories in 2006. He challenged for the Honinbo title that same year, losing to Shinji Takao in six games. Yamada challenged for the Oza title twice more in 2009 and 2010, losing both times to title holder Cho U. He won the NHK Cup in 2010.
Promotion record
Career record
1989: 23–6
1990: 23–6
1991: 39–5
1992: 35–10
1993: 39–9
1994: 40–10
1995: 40–14
1996: 40–12
1997: 47–11 (most wins in Japan)
1998: 47–19
1999: 21–18
2000: 39–20
2001: 38–15
2002: 32–13 (through 4 October 2002)
2004: 33–21
2006: 35–23
2007: 33–18
2008: 31–18
2009: 29–20
2010: 25–25
2011: 17–3 (as of 26 June 2011)
Titles and runners-up
References
1972 births
Japanese Go players
Living people
Sportspeople from Osaka
Asian Games medalists in go
Go players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimio%20Yamada |
John Vincent may refer to:
Politicians
John Vincent (MP), Member of Parliament for Chichester and Midhurst
John Carter Vincent (1900–1972), diplomat
M. John Vincent, Indian politician from Tamil Nadu
John Vincent (American politician), American politician from Montana
Sports
John Vincent (American football), American college football coach
Johnny Vincent (footballer) (1947–2006), English footballer
Religion
John Vincent (Carmelite) (1864-1943), Spanish priest, Venerable, born Juan Vicente Zengotitabengoa Lasuen
John H. Vincent (1832–1920), American Methodist bishop and theologian
John Ranulph Vincent, South African Anglican priest
John Vincent (bishop) (1894–1960), bishop of Damaraland, 1952–1960
Music
John Vincent (composer) (1902–1977), American composer
Johnny Vincent (1927–2000), record producer
Others
John Vincent (British Army officer) (1764–1848), British general
John Vincent (historian) (1937–2021), British historian
John Vincent (lawyer), American lawyer, New York District Attorney in 1880s
John Vincent (restaurateur) (born 1971), co-founder of Leon Restaurants
John Vincent (sailor) (1879–1941), English seaman and member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
John Painter Vincent (1776–1852), English surgeon
See also
Jean Vincent (1930–2013), footballer
Jon Vincent (1962–2000), adult film actor
Jack Vincent (1904–1999), English ornithologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Vincent |
James Turner Morehead (January 11, 1799 – May 5, 1875) was the younger brother of North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead and a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.
He was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, on January 11, 1799; he attended the common schools and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1819. A lawyer, Morehead studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greensboro, North Carolina, before going into politics. First, he served as commissioner of Greensboro in 1832, 1834, and 1835; then as a member of the North Carolina Senate in 1835, 1836, 1838, 1840, and 1842. He was also a trustee of his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, from 1836 to 1868.
In 1850, he was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851 - March 4, 1853); after his term was up, he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress.
After retiring from national politics, he resumed the practice of his profession, and also engaged in agricultural pursuits and operated an iron works. Morehead died in Greensboro, N.C., on May 5, 1875. He is interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery there.
See also
Thirty-second United States Congress
References
External links
U.S. Congressional Biographical Directory
John Motley Morehead : 200th birthday celebration, 1796-1996 / Robert Lindsay Morehead, Anne Fulcher Nelson, Charles E. Lovelace, Jr.
NCpedia
The King of Rockingham Country and the Original Bridge to Nowhere - The Story of B.F. Mebane
The Morehead Family of North Carolina and Virginia
1799 births
1875 deaths
People from Rockingham County, North Carolina
Morehead family
American people of Scottish descent
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
North Carolina state senators
19th-century American businesspeople | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Turner%20Morehead%20%28North%20Carolina%20politician%29 |
Park Street may refer to:
Places in England
Park Street, Hertfordshire, a village
Park Street, a location in Slinfold parish, West Sussex
Streets in England
Park Street, Bristol
Park Street, Mayfair, London
Former name of Parks Road, Oxford
Streets elsewhere
Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Park Street, Kolkata, India
Park Street, Sydney, Australia
See also
Park Street station (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Street |
So Yokoku (蘇耀国, born September 11, 1979) is a professional Go player.
Biography
So became a professional in 1994. He was originally from China, and moved to Japan in 1991.
Titles
References
External links
Nihon Ki-in page
1979 births
Living people
Chinese Go players
Sportspeople from Guangzhou
Japanese Go players
Chinese emigrants to Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20Yokoku |
Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe is an EP by the Firesign Theatre. It was released in 1979 by Rhino Records.
Development
The Firesign Theatre introduced its Nick Danger character, played by Phil Austin, in 1969 as a 28:11 track on side 2 of its second album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.
The character was revived in 1976 for a live show by Austin and David Ossman in 1976. In the 1970s, Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin's Tandem Productions bought the rights to Danger for a TV series to star George Hamilton as Danger; and in 1978, New Line Cinema began negotiations to make a movie starring Chevy Chase as Danger. Both projects ended in development limbo, and rights to the Danger character reverted to the Firesigns.
In December 1978, the Firesign Theatre began writing five short (2:24) episodes of The Case of the Missing Shoe for a possible syndicated daily Nick Danger radio series (similar to Chickenman which aired in the late 1960s). When the syndication went unsold, Austin approached Rhino Records and secured a deal to release the five episodes on a 12-minute extended play (EP) record. Recording began in January 1979.
Plot
Five short radio episodes involve Nick Danger's attempt to find out what has happened to his missing left shoe. The plot thickens as he quickly discovers that everyone's left shoe is missing. Each episode begins with a traditional old-time radio style introduction by an announcer with an organ in the background and each show also includes a commercial parody (including commercials for "Ma Rainey's wholesome moleskin cookies" and "Gerald Ford commemorative cheese flags"). Besides Nick Danger himself, some of the other regular Nick Danger characters appear, including Lt. Bradshaw, Nancy, and Rocky Rococo.
Release history
This album was issued simultaneously on EP and Cassette.
Rhino RNEP 506
Rhino RNC 506
It was reissued in 2008 as part of The Firesign Theatre's Box of Danger (Shout! Factory 826663–10780),
References
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External links
Firesign Theatre. Firesign Theatre. 19 January 2006 <http://www.firesigntheatre.com/>.
Firesign Theatre. Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe. Rhino Records, 1979.
"FIREZINE: Linques!." Firesign Theatre FAQ. 22 February 2006 <http://firezine.net/faq/>.
Smith, Ronald L. The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide''. Iola: Krause, 1996.
1979 EPs
The Firesign Theatre albums
Rhino Records EPs
Comedy EPs
1970s comedy albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Danger%3A%20The%20Case%20of%20the%20Missing%20Shoe |
Susan Elizabeth "Susie" Wynne (born March 6, 1965 in Syracuse, New York) is an American former ice dancer and current figure skating analyst and commentator. She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics with Joseph Druar. The duo won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice. She later competed with Russ Witherby. Since retiring from skating, she has worked as a television figure skating analyst for the Fox and ABC networks.
She has also worked as a coach. She coached Ben Agosto early in his career.
Wynne grew up in Camillus, NY.
Results
With Druar
With Witherby
References
Bibliography
A Basic Guide to Figure Skating, United States Olympic Committee, 2002
Navigation
Sportspeople from Syracuse, New York
American female ice dancers
American sports announcers
Figure skating commentators
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
1965 births
Living people
Goodwill Games medalists in figure skating
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Wynne |
The Kensington Division was one of four divisions of the Hundred of Ossulstone, in the county of Middlesex, England.
The other divisions were named Finsbury, Holborn and Tower. Ossulstone hundred was divided in the seventeenth century, with each of the four divisions replacing the hundred for most administrative purposes.
Area
The division lay to the west and north west of the liberty of Westminster, and in 1889 it was divided, part passing to the new County of London and part remaining in Middlesex.
The area is now covered by four London Boroughs: Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, most of Ealing and part of Hounslow.
Constituent Parishes
The Kensington Division contained the following "parishes, townships, precincts and places" in 1829:
The parish of Kensington
The parish of St Luke, Chelsea
The parish of Fulham
The hamlet of Hammersmith
The parish of Chiswick
The parish of Ealing
The parish of Acton
External links
Map of the Divisions of Ossulstone Hundred at British History Online
Hundreds and divisions of Middlesex
History of local government in London (pre-1855) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington%20division |
James Turner Morehead (May 24, 1797 – December 28, 1854) was a United States Senator and the 12th Governor of Kentucky. He was the first native-born Kentuckian to hold the governorship of the state. A member of Henry Clay's National Republican Party, Morehead entered politics just as his party was beginning to challenge the Democratic Party's dominance in the state.
Morehead was nominated for lieutenant governor at his party's nominating convention in Baltimore, Maryland in 1831, and was elected on a split ticket with Democratic governor John Breathitt. He ascended to the governorship upon Breathitt's death in 1834. Saddled with a shortened term, Morehead was not able to formulate a significant legislative agenda, and stuck to the politically safe issue of internal improvements during his term. When his party changed its name to the Whig Party and wrested control of the General Assembly from the Democrats in the summer of 1834, Morehead hosted the new party's first nominating convention in Frankfort.
Following his term as governor, Morehead returned to the state legislature. An opponent of abolitionism, he accompanied John Speed Smith to Ohio to secure the return of slaves owned by Kentuckians. He was later appointed to the U.S. Senate, where he remained a close ally of Clay's. In 1847, he retired to Covington, Kentucky, practicing law until his death in 1854. The city of Morehead, Kentucky, is named in honor of Governor Morehead.
Early life and career
James Turner Morehead was born on May 24, 1797, near Shepherdsville, Kentucky, in Bullitt County. His parents, Armistead and Lucy (Latham) Morehead, moved to Russellville, Kentucky, when he was very young, and he was educated at the public schools in that city. He attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1813 to 1815. He then returned to Russellville, where he studied law under circuit court judge H. P. Broadnax and John J. Crittenden. He was admitted to the bar in 1818, and commenced practice in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
On May 1, 1823, Morehead married Susan A. Roberts; the couple had two children. He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives representing Warren County from 1828 to 1831. While there, he served on the Committee on Internal Improvements, and reported a bill for state subscription to the Maysville-Lexington Turnpike Company in 1831.
Governor of Kentucky
In 1831, Morehead was also a delegate to the National Republican Party Convention in Baltimore, Maryland that nominated Henry Clay for president. During the convention, he was nominated for the office of lieutenant governor. Though his National Republican running mate, Richard A. Buckner, was defeated by Democrat John Breathitt, Morehead was elected the ninth Lieutenant Governor.
Governor Breathitt died of tuberculosis on February 21, 1834, and Morehead was sworn in as governor the following day. The replacement of a Democratic governor with one from the rival National Republican party caused a great deal of angst among Democrats, but the ascendancy of Democrat James Guthrie to president of the state senate and Morehead's willingness to retain Breathitt's secretary of state, Lewis Saunders, did much to allay their fears.
Later that year, the National Republican party began to re-brand itself as the Whig Party, a name that first appeared in the Lexington Intelligencer on April 25, 1834. On July 4, 1834, Governor Morehead hosted the party's first convention in Frankfort. Kentuckians flocked to the "new" party en masse, and the legislative elections of August 1834 saw the party garner majorities in both houses of the state legislature. Flexing their political muscles, the majority party ousted Guthrie from his post as president of the Senate and by a vote of 90–40, and sent John J. Crittenden instead of Guthrie to the U.S. Senate in 1835.
In his first address to the legislature, Morehead recommended a plan of expanded internal improvements, including improvements along the state's rivers. The legislature responded by creating a state board of internal improvements, and named Morehead the ex-officio president of the board. In this role, he authorized many surveys of Kentucky's rivers and formulated several plans for improvements, but most of them were blocked by the Panic of 1837. One improvement that did proceed was construction of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad, which was completed in 1835. Though education was not a high priority for Governor Morehead, the Kentucky Common School Society and the Kentucky Association of Professional Teachers were formed during his term.
Later career
Following his service as governor, Morehead resumed his legal practice in Frankfort, Kentucky. In March 1837, he was commissioned by Governor James Clark to act as an agent for the state, selling bonds to fund internal improvements. He returned to the state House from 1837 to 1838, representing Franklin County. He was president of the Kentucky Board of Internal Improvements from 1838 to 1841, and in 1839, he and John Speed Smith were chosen as commissioners to the state of Ohio to secure the return of Kentucky-owned slaves as property of their masters. They were successful in this endeavor.
Learned in Kentucky history, Morehead published An Address in Commemoration of the First Settlement of Kentucky, which contained original information regarding the early settlement of Boonesborough, Kentucky, in 1840. In 1846, he published another book, Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings at Law.
In 1841, Morehead was elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1847. There he was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Committee on Retrenchment. During his service in the Senate, he defended a federal bank bill and opposed the annexation of Texas, though he supported the U.S.-Mexican War after it began. He was also a staunch supporter of fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay.
After his time in Congress, he continued the practice of law in Covington, Kentucky, until his death. He was interred in the State lot of Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky. The city of Morehead, Kentucky, was named after him.
References
Bibliography
Further reading
Dictionary of American Biography
Jillson, W.R., ed. "Early Political Papers of Governor James T. Morehead." Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society 22 (September 1924): 272–300, 23 (January 1925): 36–61.
External links
James Turner Morehead at The Political Graveyard
1797 births
1854 deaths
People from Bullitt County, Kentucky
American people of Scottish descent
Baptists from Kentucky
Kentucky National Republicans
Kentucky Whigs
American proslavery activists
Whig Party United States senators from Kentucky
Governors of Kentucky
National Republican Party state governors of the United States
Whig Party state governors of the United States
Lieutenant Governors of Kentucky
Members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
Kentucky lawyers
Transylvania University alumni
Burials at Frankfort Cemetery
19th-century American lawyers
19th-century Baptists
19th-century American politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20T.%20Morehead%20%28Kentucky%20politician%29 |
Jacques Foccart (31 August 1913 – 19 March 1997) was a French businessman and politician, best known as a chief adviser to French presidents on African affairs. He was also a co-founder of the Gaullist Service d'Action Civique (SAC) in 1959 with Charles Pasqua, which specialized in covert operations in Africa.
From 1960 to 1974, Foccart was Secretary-General for African and Malagasy Affairs under Presidents Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou, and was pivotal in maintaining France's sphere of influence in sub-Saharan Africa (or Françafrique) by putting in place a series of cooperation accords with individual African countries and building a dense web of personal networks that underpinned the informal and family-like relationships between French and African leaders. After de Gaulle, Foccart was seen as the most influential man of the Fifth Republic. But through SAC, he was considered to be involved in various coups d'état in Africa during the 1960s. Nevertheless, Foccart retained his functions during Georges Pompidou's presidency (1969–74).
In 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing replaced Foccart with the young deputy whom he had himself trained. He was then rehabilitated in 1986 by the new Prime minister Jacques Chirac as an adviser on African affairs for the two years of "cohabitation" with socialist president François Mitterrand. When Chirac finally gained the presidency in 1995, the 81-year-old Foccart was brought back to the Elysée palace as an advisor. He died in 1997. According to the international affairs magazine The National Interest, "Foccart was said to have been telephoning African personalities on the subject of Zaire right up to the week before his death."
Early life and career
Jacques Foccart was born on August 31, 1913, in Ambrières-les-Vallées, Mayenne, in west-central France, to a family of white planters from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. He married his wife, Isabelle Fenoglio, in 1939 and worked as a trader before World War II where he ran an import and export business. He was a sergeant in the French army during the war and later joined the French Resistance after France fell in 1940. He became close to Charles de Gaulle during the war and helped facilitate the latter's return to power in 1958. Foccart became secretary-general of Rally of the French People (RPF), a Gaullist party, in 1954 during the French Fourth Republic.
Postcolonial Africa
Foccart played a central role in what became known as Françafrique, France's sphere of influence over its former colonies in sub-Saharan Africa. He was instrumental in putting in place the dense web of personal networks (or réseaux), a central feature of Françafrique, that underpinned the informal and family-like relationships between French and African leaders, which would go on to survive until the 1990s.
According to the US conservative magazine The National Interest, Jacques Foccart played "an essential role" in the negotiation of the Cooperation accords with the newly independent African states, former members of the French Community created in 1958. These accords involved the sectors of finance and economy, culture and education, and the military. There were initially eleven countries involved: Mauritania, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Niger, Chad, Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, and Madagascar. Togo and Cameroon, former UN Trust Territories, as well as, later on, Mali and the former Belgian territories (Ruanda-Urundi, now Rwanda and Burundi, and Congo-Kinshasa), together with some of the ex-Portuguese territories, and Comoros and Djibouti, which had also been under French rule for many years but became independent in the 1970s, were also later included.
The whole ensemble was put under a new Ministry of Cooperation, created in 1961, separate from the Ministry for Overseas Departments and Territories (known as the DOM-TOM) that had previously run them all. The National Interest review asserts that this "Cooperation Ministry, focal point of the new evolving French system in Africa, regarded Foccart both as their "guarantor" and their advocate with de Gaulle. If the General had conceived the apparatus (though in fact some of it simply happened by improvisation), Foccart was the machine minder."
Close to Zaire dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, he was, in 1967, an important actor in the French support of the Biafran secession, through the use of mercenaries.
National Interests review of his biography goes on with Foccart's admission that the French secret services eliminated the Cameroonian Marxist leader Félix-Roland Moumié in 1960. Furthermore, it quotes "some reports" which "suggested that Foccart and Houphouët spoke on the phone every Wednesday, and there is no doubt that he considered the Ivoirian leader the African centerpiece of his network. They operated together on a number of issues. Interventions such as that in Gabon in 1964 and Chad in 1969 were encouraged by the Foccart-Houphouet tandem. The most significant collaboration between Foccart and Houphouet was the way they tried to persuade de Gaulle to back the Biafran secession from Nigeria in 1967. Despite the pressures they exerted, however, de Gaulle refused to recognize Biafra, and, in retrospect, so guarded and elliptical are some of Foccart's statements that one cannot be sure what he really wanted or expected from de Gaulle at the time."
Jacques Foccart remained in service under Georges Pompidou's presidency (1969–1974). In 1972, Mongo Beti's Cruel hand on Cameroon, autopsy of a decolonization was censored upon its publication by François Maspero by the Ministry of the Interior Raymond Marcellin on the request, brought forward by Jacques Foccart, of the Cameroon government, represented in Paris by the ambassador Ferdinand Oyono.
Foccart was then replaced by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1974–81) with , whom he had trained himself. According to National Interest, he was critical of two special operations carried on under Giscard d'Estaing: the fiasco of the mercenary landing in Benin in January 1977 (with which he denies having had any connection, and would not have supported because it was badly conceived and executed); and "Operation Barracuda", the military intervention that deposed Emperor Bokassa in September 1979. Journiac died on 6 February 1980, in a mysterious plane crash in Northern Cameroon.
Foccart was then rehabilitated in 1986 by new Premier Chirac as an adviser on African affairs for the two years of the "cohabitation". When Chirac finally made it to the presidency in 1995, Foccart was brought back to the Elysée at the age of eighty-one, in the main because he still had remarkable contacts with African leaders such as President Omar Bongo of Gabon, who he served as his advisor on African affairs for a number of years after 1974. He would criticize the devaluation of the CFA franc in January 1994 under Balladur's government, a month after Houphouët-Boigny's death.
Domestic activities
However, his role was not limited to Africa, as he was also charged by De Gaulle with the secret services and with the following of the elections, in particular concerning the choice of the candidates during the 1960s. The SAC (Service d'Action Civique) helped him for those shady missions. Foccart also admitted in Foccart Parle that relations with the SDECE intelligence agency were his concerns. National Interest observes that "His biographer's claim that General de Gaulle asked Foccart to reorganize the SDECE (in view of the tainting of both the armed forces and the intelligence agencies by the movement for Algerie Francaise) is indirectly confirmed, but there is not a clear picture of the organization of the barbouzes."
With François de Grossouvre, Jacques Foccart also helped to create the Department Protection Security (DPS), security organization of the far-right Front National party led by Jean-Marie Le Pen.
1990s
In 1995, Jacques Foccart was part of president Jacques Chirac's visit to Morocco, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Gabon, all countries led by friends of Françafrique.
Such had been his influence on French colonial and post colonial policy that when he died on March 19, 1997, "For those involved with what has come to be known nowadays as "Françafrique", denoting the special French sphere of influence in Africa, many, along with Albert Bourgi of Jeune Afrique, saw Foccart's death as 'the end of an epoch.' "
The publication of his memoirs under the format of interviews at the end of his life, and the Journal de l'Elysée also published, in which, starting from 1965, Jacques Foccart transcribed his daily meetings with De Gaulle, have proved an invaluable resource for the knowledge of French policies in Africa.
Furthermore, at his trial in 2006, mercenary Bob Denard, who was tried for his 1995 coup d'état in the Comoros, alleged that Foccart had supported him.
See also
Colonialism and decolonization
French colonial empires and Colonization of Africa
Bob Denard, a French mercenary involved in various coups in the Comores and elsewhere
Françafrique, France's sphere of influence over its former colonies in sub-Saharan Africa
Omar Bongo, president of Gabon
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of Côte d'Ivoire
Gnassingbé Eyadéma, president of Togo until his death in 2005 (replaced by his son Faure Gnassingbé)
References
Bibliography
Pierre Péan L'Homme de l'Ombre (Man of the Shadows) Fayard, (1990)
Affaires Africaines (African Business), Fayard, (1983)
Jacques Foccart, Foccart parle, interviews with Philippe Gaillard, Fayard - Jeune Afrique
tome I, 1995, 500 pp.,
tome II, 1997, 523 pp.,
Jacques Foccart, Journal de l'Élysée, Fayard - Jeune Afrique
tome 1 : Tous les soirs avec de Gaulle (1965-1967), 1997, 813 pp.
tome 2 : Le Général en mai (1968-1969), 1998,
tome 3 : Dans les bottes du Général, (1969–1971), 1999, 787 pp.,
tome 4 : La France pompidolienne (1971-1972), 2000,
tome 5 : La Fin du gaullisme (1973-1974), 2001
Jean-François Miniac, Les grandes affaires criminelles de l'Orne, de Borée, (2008). ( about Emile Buffon, François Van Aerden and Foccart in Orne during the war.)
External links
Assassination of Félix-Roland Moumié, a Camerounian nationalist leader
1913 births
1997 deaths
People from Mayenne
Rally of the French People politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Foccart |
is a professional Go player. He was born in Japanese occupied Manchukuo, and was raised in Ehime Prefecture.
Biography
Tōno became a professional in 1951. In 1970, he became a 9 dan. He is affiliated to the Kansai Ki-in.
Title & runners-up
External links
GoBase Profile
Sensei's Library Profile
1939 births
Japanese Go players
Living people
Japanese people from Manchukuo
Sportspeople from Ehime Prefecture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroaki%20T%C5%8Dno |
OutSystems is a Low-code development platform which provides tools for companies to develop, deploy and manage omnichannel enterprise applications.
OutSystems was founded in 2001 in Lisbon, Portugal.
In June 2018 OutSystems secured a $360M round of funding from KKR and Goldman Sachs and reached the status of Unicorn.
In February 2021 OutSystems raised another $150M investment from a round co-led by Abdiel Capital and Tiger Global Management, having a total valuation of $9.5 Billion.
OutSystems is a member of the Consortium of IT Software Quality (CISQ).
Products
OutSystems is a low-code development platform for the development of mobile and web enterprise applications, which run in the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid environments.
In 2014 OutSystems launched a free version of the platform that provides developers with personal cloud environments to create and deploy web and mobile applications without charge. The current version is 11.53, for both the paid and unpaid versions.
References
External links
Cloud computing providers
Cloud platforms
2001 establishments in Portugal
Low Code Application Platform | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutSystems |
County Route 549 (CR 549) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends from Main Street (Route 166) at County Route 527 in Toms River to County Route 547 at Monmouth CR 21 in Howell. The highway has the distinction of being the only 500-series route left with two separate spur routes.
The highway passes through Ocean and Monmouth counties and is maintained by its respective county, but there are several indications that the highway at one point may have been or was originally planned to be state maintained. There are a few mileposts left along the southern section of the highway that have a "NJDT" label on the bottom right corner. Also, the only "at grade" cloverleaf in New Jersey exists on CR 549, and on the bridges there exists a stamp in the concrete that reads "1975". No other county bridges have their dates stamped into them.
CR 549 mostly travels through Ocean County. The highway makes frequent turns onto separate roads. The route in its northern segment is a two-lane, rural road, but it becomes a four-lane arterial after crossing the Garden State Parkway all the way to Toms River Township. County Route 549 handles more traffic than any other county route in all of Ocean County; it is a major link between the townships of Toms River and Brick. As the route is plagued by chronic congestion, the county has invested millions of dollars into upgrading this corridor. The most recent improvement was from Cedar Bridge Avenue (CR 528) to Beaverson Boulevard. It included widening, signal modification, and the extension of Beaverson Boulevard to meet Old Hooper Avenue. Ongoing improvements are being made between Beaverson Boulevard and Church Road, where widening and reconstruction should help alleviate some congestion in that area.
Route description
CR 549 begins at an intersection with Route 166 and the southern terminus of CR 527 in Toms River, Ocean County, heading east on four-lane undivided Water Street. The road runs through the commercial downtown of Toms River a short distance to the north of the Toms River. The route turns north onto Hooper Avenue, which passes through more of the downtown area before heading into residential areas and narrowing to two lanes. Upon crossing Route 37, CR 549 becomes a six-lane divided highway with jughandles that passes through commercial areas, narrowing to four lanes. The road heads to the west of the Seacourt Pavilion shopping center and intersects CR 571 at an at-grade cloverleaf interchange. Following this, the roadway passes to the west of the Ocean County Mall, widening to six lanes again. The road narrows back to four lanes at the CR 94 intersection as it passes more shopping centers, turning more to the northeast. CR 549 enters wooded areas as it passes an entrance to Ocean County College and comes to an intersection with the northern terminus of the southern CR 549 Spur. Past this intersection, the route makes a turn to the north again and enters more commercial areas, crossing CR 620 before entering Brick Township. Here, CR 549 becomes Brick Boulevard and intersects CR 631 before continuing past more development with three northbound lanes and two southbound lanes. After the CR 66 junction, the road carries two lanes in each direction as it reaches intersections with CR 624 and CR 528, turning more to the northeast. CR 549 comes to an intersection with CR 631, at which point CR 549 splits from Brick Boulevard by heading northwest on Chambers Bridge Road, with CR 631 continuing north on Brick Boulevard. The four-lane undivided road passes shopping centers and crosses Route 70. After this intersection, CR 549 widens into a four-lane divided highway again and passes more businesses, turning into an undivided road again as it comes to a partial interchange with the Garden State Parkway that has access to and from the southbound direction of the parkway.
Immediately after this interchange, the road crosses the Metedeconk River (South Branch) into Lakewood Township and turns north, coming to the Route 88 intersection. At this point, CR 549 becomes two-lane undivided Lanes Mill Road and enters forested areas with some homes, turning northeast as it comes to the eastern terminus of CR 526. Immediately after, the route crosses the Metedeconk River (North Branch) back into Brick Township and passes more residential and business areas, heading west of a park and ride lot, before intersecting CR 63. At this intersection, CR 549 turns east onto Burnt Tavern Road and has an interchange with the Garden State Parkway again, this time providing full access. After the parkway, CR 549 turns north onto Lanes Mill Road, with CR 632 continuing east on Burnt Tavern Road. The Brick Park & Ride serving NJ Transit buses to New York City is located along the ramp from CR 549 to the northbound Garden State Parkway. The road passes residential subdivisions and continues northeast onto Sally Ike Road, with CR 12 heading northeast along Lanes Mill Road. The route comes to an intersection with the northern CR 549 Spur, and CR 549 turns northwest onto Herbertsville Road, with CR 14 continuing north on Sally Ike Road. The route crosses into Wall Township, Monmouth County and passes under the Garden State Parkway before entering wooded areas with some homes. The road enters Howell Township and intersects CR 21, running northwest through wooded areas of Allaire State Park. CR 549 comes to its northern terminus at CR 547, with the road continuing northwest as CR 21.
In Monmouth County, CR 549 is signed as east–west.
History
The Fischer Boulevard Extension was proposed in the late 1990s to alleviate severe congestion on Hooper Avenue (County Route 549) from Toms River into Brick. It would have continued Fischer Boulevard (County Route 549 Spur) north through undeveloped land near Ocean County College, before connecting with Church Road near its intersection with North Bay Avenue near the Garden State Parkway overpass. The extension would have moderated traffic on 549 as traffic from the northern and western parts of Toms River could use the extension to get to the shore area. Since Fischer Blvd ends at its intersection with Hooper Avenue, all traffic has to take Hooper to get to their destination whether it is to Brick or the western sections of Toms River. The plan has been in the works but has been stalled for several years.
Major intersections
CR 549 Spur
Southern section
County Route 549 Spur, abbreviated CR 549 Spur, is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The southern segment extends from Route 37 to Hooper Avenue (CR 549) in Toms River Township. The southern spur runs along Fischer Boulevard and with the recent completion of a widening project, the highway has been fully reconstructed from Bay Avenue (CR 571) to Hooper Avenue (CR 549). Fischer Boulevard is a major commuting route in Toms River.
Major intersections
Northern section
County Route 549 Spur, abbreviated CR 549 Spur, is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The northern segment extends from Route 88 and Ocean CR 630 in Point Pleasant to Sally Ike Road (CR 549) in Brick Township. The northern spur runs along Herbertsville Road and is a two-lane road for its entire length, except when it meets Route 70 (a four-lane road with left-turning lanes).
Major intersections
See also
References
External links
County Route 549 signs and pictures
New Jersey 5xx Routes
CR 549 (Greater New York Roads)
549
549
549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Route%20549%20%28New%20Jersey%29 |
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo (born December 31, 1953, in Boussouma) is a Burkinabè statesman. He was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 1996 to 2000 and Chairman of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Education and professional career
In 1972, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo obtained the Baccalaureate series C (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) with honours at the Lycée Philippe Zinda Kaboré in Ouagadougou.
After studying higher mathematics in preparatory classes for the Grandes Ecoles at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon, France, he was simultaneously admitted in 1974 to the entrance examinations of five French Grandes Ecoles, including his eventual choice, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, from which he graduated in 1977.
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo also holds a bachelor's degree in General Economic Studies as well as a bachelor's degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Paris I (Panthéon-SORBONNE) with the distinction “Public Economy and Economic Policy”.
Returning to Burkina Faso at the end of his studies in France, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo was hired in October 1977 as Economic Affairs Adviser at the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Industrial development.
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo taught for four years, between 1978 and 1984, the course in Analytical Accounting and Forecasting Management at the University of Ouagadougou (University Institute of Technology).
In 1980 he joined the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) as a Financial Officer at the Financial Division of FOSIDEC in Ouagadougou.
In 1981 he was appointed Head of the Financial Division of FOSIDEC, a position he held until 1983 when he became Financial Advisor to the Secretary General of ECOWAS.
In July 1985 he was promoted to Deputy Executive Secretary in charge of Economic Affairs at ECOWAS in Lagos, Nigeria. He was then renewed in 1989 by the Council of Ministers of this organization.
In 1993, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo was appointed Vice-Governor of the CBWAS (Central Bank of West African States) in Dakar, Senegal.
Political background
On 6 February 1996, Mr. Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo was appointed Prime Minister, Head of Government of Burkina Faso, a post he held until 6 November 2000, after being successively reappointed after the legislative elections of May 1997 and the presidential elections of November 1998.
From September 1996 to June 1997, he was Minister of the Economy and Finance.
He was elected Member of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso in the legislative elections of May 1997.
From 2001 to 2011 Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burkina Faso in Brussels with jurisdiction over the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. He is also Permanent Representative to the European Union, the International Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and, from 2001 to 2004, to the World Trade Organization (W.T.O.).
During his term as ambassador, he was chairman of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) Committee of Ambassadors. During this period he chaired the Committee of Ambassadors and various working groups such as those on cotton or on the future of the OACPS groups. He also put his expertise to good use in the organization of the 6th Summit of OACPS Heads of State and Government which took place in Accra in 2008. In accordance with the provisions of the Cotonou Agreement, he also participated in sending OACPS missions to various countries (Chad, Djibouti and Mauritania).
From 2012 to 2016, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo is President of the ECOWAS Commission at Abuja to Nigeria.
Work with ECOWAS
In this role, he spoke out against the 2012 Malian coup d'état, calling it "a threat to the entire region".
Distinctions
Grand Officer of the National Order and Grand Cross of Burkina Faso
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo was elevated to the rank of Grand Officer of the National Order on December 11, 1996 then to the dignity of Grand Cross of the National Order on December 8, 2016, at Ouagadougou.
Commander of the Order of Merit of the International Military Sports Council
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo received an honorary distinction as Commander of the Order of Merit of the International Council for Military Sport in 2000, at Ouagadougou.
Grand Officer of the National Order of Benin
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo was raised to the rank of Grand Officer of the National Order of Benin in Cotonou on October 24, 2014.
Commander of the National Order of Senegal
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo was raised to the rank of Commander of the National Order of Senegal in Dakar February 18, 2016.
Commander of the National Order of Ivory Coast
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo was raised to the rank of Commander of the National Order of Ivory Coast on March 17, 2016, in Abidjan.
Commander of the National Order of Togo
Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo was raised to the rank of Commander of the National Order of Togo on March 9, 2016, in Lome.
2020 presidential elections
Following several messages and calls, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo decided to respond to the various concerns of the Burkinabe people by running as a candidate in the presidential elections of 2020. In September 2020, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo is officially invested by his party "Agir ensemble".
References
1953 births
Ambassadors of Burkina Faso to the United Kingdom
Living people
Prime Ministers of Burkina Faso
Ministers of Finance of Burkina Faso
Congress for Democracy and Progress politicians
21st-century Burkinabé people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadr%C3%A9%20D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9%20Ou%C3%A9draogo |
Richard Spaight Donnell (September 20, 1820 – June 3, 1867) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in New Bern, North Carolina; was the grandson of United States Founding Father Richard Dobbs Spaight.
Early life
A scion of a pioneering and aristocratic family, he was raised on his father's plantation and town homes and was taught by tutors before attending the elite New Bern Academy. Because of his religious and academic qualifications he was admitted to Yale College where he gained further education in civil and church law and history. Subsequently, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill starting in 1839 and studied law. Subsequently, he was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in New Bern, N.C.
Military service
He later joined the North Carolina militia and raised a force for the state as was the practice and socially required responsibility of gentlemen of his age. His militia unit organized volunteers for the Mexican-American war. As commanding officer Donnell trained and hired the captains and lower ranking officers.
Political career
During the war he was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849). However, his support for the war cost him the support of other Whigs and he was not a candidate for renomination in 1848. After the war he resumed the practice of law in Washington, North Carolina and became involved in state politics until the controversies of abolition and the election of 1860.
Originally supportive of maintaining union, as a delegate to the State secession convention in 1861 Donnell was a proponent of a national constitutional convention to resolve that crisis. When that proposal was shot down by the Republican Party and Abolitionists, and following orders of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln which called up the militia to occupy the southern states, he voted in support of secession.
During the American Civil War he was elected to the North Carolina General Assembly of 1862–1864, and served as speaker. Because of his experience in military organization his counsel on military matters was sought and he helped develop and organize the state for war footing.
Along with others of his generation, the war was costly to his family's standing. The Union's total war campaign against fellow Americans was unexpected and his family's finances and wealth which had developed when the state was a mere colonial frontier outpost suffered heavily. Several properties were burned by invading and looting Union soldiers. At the end of the war he was hunted by Union army forces until an armistice was declared.
With the establishment of peace North Carolina was invited back into the Union. Due to his historical leadership in the state he was elected to the State constitutional convention of 1865. He was subsequently elected to the 1866 Congress but was refused entrance by the Radical Republican Rump Congress.
When the Republican coup d'état of 1867 was launched he was arrested by the Army along with the rest of the North Carolina State leadership. His health and wealth broken he died under Army detention in New Bern, North Carolina. His family's properties, including that established by his grandfather a Founding Father, never recovered. He is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery.
See also
Thirtieth United States Congress
References
External links
Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
1820 births
1867 deaths
Politicians from New Bern, North Carolina
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
19th-century American politicians
People from Washington, North Carolina
Yale College alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Spaight%20Donnell |
R v Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 606 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the doctrine of vagueness. The Court held that laws can be struck down as a violation of section 7 where they are so vague as to violate fundamental justice.
Background
A number of pharmacies were charged with conspiracy "to prevent or lessen competition" under section 32(1)(c) of the Combines Investigation Act for the sale of prescription drugs and dispensing services prior to June 1986. They challenged the provision on the basis that it violated section 7 of the Charter on account of its vagueness.
At trial, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia found in favour of the pharmaceutical companies and overturned the conviction. On appeal the court overturned the verdict and found in favour of the Crown.
The issue before the Supreme Court was:
whether section 32(1)(c) of the Act infringed s. 7 of the Charter because of vagueness arising from the use of the word "unduly"; and
whether section 32(1)(c) infringed section 7 by reason of the mens rea required by the offence.
The Court held that section 32(1)(c) of the Act was sufficiently clear and was not in violation of the Charter. Justice Gonthier wrote for a unanimous Court.
Reasoning of the court
Justice Gonthier observed that the doctrine of vagueness under section 7 was founded in the doctrine of the rule of law. Specifically, "the principles of fair notice to citizens and limitation of enforcement discretion". A law will be in violation of section 7 for vagueness if "it so lacks in precision as not to give sufficient guidance for legal debate." (p. 643)
The requirement of "fair notice" means that there must be awareness of the law. The citizen must have an "understanding that certain conduct is the subject of legal restrictions." The "limitation of law enforcement discretion" is directed at the content of the law, which requires that a law "not be so devoid of precision in its content that a conviction will automatically flow from the decision to prosecute." (p. 636)
The term "legal debate" was intended to reflect and encompass the principles of vagueness in the "fuller context of an analysis of the quality and limits of human knowledge and understanding in the operation of the law." (p. 640) This requires that the law sets out "the boundaries of permissible and non-permissible conduct".
In all the threshold for vagueness is a high one. Gonthier gave a list of factors to consider when determining if a provision is vague:
the need for flexibility and the role of courts in interpreting the law;
the impossibility of absolute precision, a standard of intelligibility being preferable; and
the possibility that a given provision may be susceptible to a number of interpretations which can co-exist.
On the facts, the impugned provision of the Act was found not to be vague. The Court examined the wording of the provision and considered the context of the Act in the area of commercial law, and found that "Parliament has sufficiently delineated the area of risk and the terms of debate to meet the constitutional standard."
See also
List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Lamer Court)
External links
case summary from mapleleafweb.com
Section Seven Charter case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
1992 in Canadian case law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20v%20Nova%20Scotia%20Pharmaceutical%20Society |
is a professional Go player.
Biography
Honda became a professional in 1961. He was promoted to 9 dan in 1973. He won the Kansai Ki-in's Oteai four times. He also visited China twice, in 1973 and 1985 for Go related business.
Titles & runners-up
External links
GoBase Profile
Sensei's Library Profile
1945 births
Japanese Go players
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunihisa%20Honda |
These are lists of battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815).
Coalition Wars
List of battles of the War of the First Coalition (20 April 1792 – 18 October 1797)
List of battles of the War of the Second Coalition (1798/9 – 1801/2)
List of battles of the War of the Third Coalition (1803/1805–1805/1806)
List of battles of the War of the Fourth Coalition (9 October 1806 – 9 July 1807)
List of battles of the War of the Fifth Coalition (10 April – 14 October 1809)
List of battles of the War of the Sixth Coalition (3 March 1813 – 30 May 1814)
List of battles of the Hundred Days (War of the Seventh Coalition) (15/20 March – 8 July / 16 August 1815)
Other French Revolutionary Wars
Haitian Revolution (21 August 1791 – 1 January 1804)
War of the Pyrenees (7 March 1793 – 22 July 1795)
War in the Vendée § Vendée military response (3 March 1793 – 16 July 1796)
French invasion of Switzerland § Battles (28 January – 17 May 1798)
Naval warfare:
Naval campaigns, operations and battles of the French Revolutionary Wars
Other Napoleonic Wars
Timeline of the Peninsular War (1807/8–1815)
Franco-Swedish War (1805–1810)
Gunboat War (1807–1814)
Timeline of the Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814
Timeline of the Finnish War (1808–1809)
Dano-Swedish War of 1808–09
List of battles of the French invasion of Russia (24 June – 14/18 December 1812)
See also
Attrition warfare against Napoleon
Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe
List of battles involving France (disambiguation)
List of wars involving France
List of Marshals of the First French Empire
Military career of Napoleon Bonaparte
French First Republic
First French Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20battles%20of%20the%20French%20Revolutionary%20Wars%20and%20Napoleonic%20Wars |
Recke is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Recke is situated approximately 20 km north-east of Rheine and 25 km north-west of Osnabrück.
Neighbouring municipalities
Ibbenbüren
Hopsten
Mettingen
Voltlage
Neuenkirchen
Sons and daughters of Recke
Hans-Jürgen Klein (born 1952), politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens), member of the Lower Saxony Landtag
Erich Rutemöller (born 1945 in Recke-Steinbeck), football coach
People who are connected to the place
Simon Rolfes (born 1982), German national football player, grew up in Recke
Twin town
Ommen (Overijssel, Netherlands)
References
External links
Official site
Steinfurt (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recke |
Mataji (Hindi माताजी mātājī) is a Hindi term meaning 'respected mother'.
Etymology
"Mātā" (माता) is the Hindi word for "mother", from Sanskrit matri. (मातृ), and the "-jī" (जी) suffix is an honorific suffix used to indicate respect.
Use
"Mataji" is a term used to respectfully address an respectfully (Mother or female sanatani god) in Bharatiya (indian) culture, particularly if she is unknown to the speaker. Another term that is sometimes used is the anglicized "auntie". The term is also used for women spiritual teachers and leaders.
"Mataji" is sometimes used by ISKCON devotees as a title, for example, "Radha Mataji". In some communities, men are encouraged to call all devotee women "Mataji", because according to Vedic culture, all women who are not one's wife are to be treated as one's mother. Many women in ISKCON shun the term and prefer they be called Prabhu, which was a term A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON, used to refer to all members, or Devi, meaning goddess in Sanskrit.
External links
Prabhu ji and Mataji: a discussion on the use of these terms
Hindi words and phrases | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mataji |
1. Fussball-Club Schweinfurt 1905, Verein für Leibesübungen e.V., called 1. FC Schweinfurt 05, Schweinfurt 05, or simply FC 05, is a German association football club established in Schweinfurt (Bavaria) in 1905. It has sections for netball, fistball, field hockey, badminton, gymnastics, rugby, American football, futsal, and athletics.
The club is well known due to successful years in top and second-tier football leagues from the 1930s to the 1970s, and thanks to outstanding individuals. During the late 1930s, Schweinfurt's midfielders Albin Kitzinger and Andreas Kupfer, today considered as two of the best half-back players of all time, formed the core of the Germany national football team and represented their country at the 1938 FIFA World Cup and within the premiere FIFA continent selection Europe XI.
The FC 05 first team, which competes in the tier-four Regionalliga Bayern since the 2013–14 season, is organized within 1. FC Schweinfurt 1905 Fußball GmbH. The club plays its home games at Sachs-Stadion in Schweinfurt.
History
Early years: 1905–1931
At a time when football became more and more popular among broad levels of the population, 1. Fussball-Club Schweinfurt 1905 was founded on 5 May 1905 by a group of sports enthusiasts. The club's first chairman, Pepi Popp, designed the still unchanged FC 05 crest.
The new team played in various local leagues until beginning of the First World War. The home games were held at Hutrasen south of river Main, the later venue of local competitor VfR 07 Schweinfurt. In 1919, Schweinfurt 05 had to move to a new court near Ludwigsbrücke and became member of the tier-one Kreisliga Nordbayern, but relegated after its first season. The team attempted a merger with Turngemeinde Schweinfurt von 1848, which lasted from 1921 to 1923, before the two groups parted ways again and the football division became 1. Fussball-Club Schweinfurt 1905, Verein für Leibesübungen e.V.
While FC 05 did not reap the expected benefits from the brief union, it improved dramatically after re-establishing itself as an independent club. Membership grew significantly and a number of new sports departments were formed within the organization. The football team yielded its first fruits in 1927 by winning the Unterfranken Cup championship, and in 1931, when it became Kreisliga Unterfranken champion.
Years of excellence: 1931–1963
Schweinfurt 05 finally gained first class status again with its entry into the Bezirksliga Bayern in 1931.
After introduction of the Gauliga system in 1933, the club became member of the top-flight Gauliga Bayern thanks to finishing 3rd in Bezirksliga Bayern Nord.
In addition, the team succeeded in winning the 1933 Bavarian Cup championship, but lost 1–2 to VfB Stuttgart in the subsequent Southern German Cup final.
The club experienced an era of successful seasons in the Gauliga years, winning the Gauliga Bayern in 1939 and 1942, and qualifying for the German football championship round.
In the German football championship 1939 competition, Schweinfurt barely missed the semi-final qualification games after three wins in the group stage, where it defeated later 1943 and 1944 German champion Dresdner SC 1–0 in the first leg, but then lost to Dresden 0–1 in the decisive away match.
The team failed in the round of 16 of the 1942 German football championship after a 1–2 loss to SG SS Straßburg.
Schweinfurt made a semi-final appearance in the 1936 Tschammerpokal, when it was defeated 2–3 by FC Schalke 04, the closest it ever came to winning a national title. Again in 1936, the club moved into its newly constructed stadium, the Willy-Sachs-Stadion (today: Sachs-Stadion), a donation by local industrialist and patron Willy Sachs.
At that time, FC 05 midfielders Albin Kitzinger and Andreas 'Ander' Kupfer became renowned in international football as they formed one of the best half-back duos in Europe.
Kitzinger distinguished himself with assuredness on the ball and the calmness in which he distributed the ball.
Kupfer was a player that fascinated the crowds with his elegant ways of playing. He was a master of kicking the ball with just moving his ankle joint.
Kitzinger and Kupfer were an essential part of the famous Germany national team who defeated Denmark 8–0 in Breslau on 16 May 1937. One year later they competed at the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France, and were both called up to represent Germany within the FIFA selection Europe XI in the FA 75th anniversary game against England at Highbury in London.
Due to the Second World War, Schweinfurt 05 merged with Luftwaffen SV Schweinfurt into KSG Schweinfurt for the 1943–44 and 1944–45 Gauliga seasons. The club temporarily had been dissolved in May 1945 under pressure from the occupying powers.
After World War II, the re-established 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 was integrated into the tier-one Oberliga Süd, which, for the first time in German football, introduced the system of contract players in August 1948.
The club stayed in the Oberliga for the duration of the league's existence until the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional league, was founded in 1963.
Schweinfurt reached the round of the last sixteen of the 1954–55 DFB-Pokal, where it lost 0–1 in the replay against FC Schalke 04 after a 1–1 draw in the first match.
On the occasion of the club's 50th anniversary in 1955, Schweinfurt could demonstrate its level when the team defeated German champion Rot-Weiss Essen 3–1, and achieved a 1–1 draw against Everton F.C. from English Football League First Division.
The club made it into the 1957 and 1958 Southern German Cup finals and lost both times, to FC Bayern München and to VfB Stuttgart, respectively.
In 1950, Andreas Kupfer became the first captain of the West Germany national football team in his very final 44th appearance. FC 05 goalkeeper Günter Bernard earned two West Germany caps in 1962, before he joined Bundesliga founding member SV Werder Bremen one year later, and was named in Germany's squad for the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
Second tier years: 1963–1976
1. FC Schweinfurt 05 was one of 46 West German football clubs that applied for admission to the newly established Bundesliga in 1963. However, based on the Oberliga Süd score of its past 12 seasons, the club finally did not qualify for the new league, and thus found itself playing in the second tier Regionalliga Süd.
In the 1965–66 season, Schweinfurt became Southern German Regionalliga champion and made it to the Bundesliga advancement games. Here, the team missed to ascend to the top tier after it was unable to prevail in its qualification group with 1. FC Saarbrücken, FC St. Pauli, and promoted winner Rot-Weiss Essen.
With the introduction of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974, Schweinfurt was founding member of the southern division despite only finishing 15th in the last Regionalliga year. For its first 2. Bundesliga season in 1974–75, the club signed-up former national team striker and Bundesliga top scorer Lothar Emmerich. The team earned an excellent third place and barely missed the advancement games for promotion to Bundesliga.
Yo-yo years: 1976–2016
After the 1974–75 season, FC 05 began to falter: poor results and financial problems saw the club descend first to the Bayernliga (III) and then, for the first time in 1983, to the Landesliga Bayern-Nord (IV).
Schweinfurt 05 became a yo-yo club ascending and descending between tiers III and IV, with just a pair of brief 2. Bundesliga appearances in 1990–91 and in 2001–02.
As 1989–90 Bayernliga champion the club prevailed in the advancement games to 2. Bundesliga, but was not able to keep pace in the new league.
The year before, the team had made it into the last sixteen of the 1989–90 DFB-Pokal, where it lost 0–2 to Eintracht Braunschweig.
In 2001, Schweinfurt was promoted to 2. Bundesliga after finishing 3rd in Regionalliga Süd.
The team's third place finish was enough to let them skip past the amateur side of VfB Suttgart, who were not allowed to advance a second side to the professional ranks.
Despite a decent first half of the tier-two season, FC 05 finally could not avoid relegation after one year.
Disasters happened in 2004 when FC Schweinfurt 05 was forced to leave the Regionalliga Süd (III) because of financial reasons, and in 2005 when the club went bankrupt. The results in the Bayernliga (IV) were annulled, and the team was relegated to the fifth tier Landesliga.
A re-structured club successfully worked its way back into Bayernliga in 2007. After it was relegated again to the now tier-six Landesliga in 2009, the team returned to the Bayernliga immediately the following year. At the end of the 2011–12 season Schweinfurt managed to qualify for the promotion round to the new Regionalliga Bayern (IV) and advanced to the second round, where the team missed out on promotion.
The club finally earned direct promotion to tier-four Regionalliga Bayern in the 2012–13 season by taking the championship in the Bayernliga northern division.
Schweinfurt's first three Regionalliga years, however, were characterized by a permanent but successful struggle against relegation.
Recent years: 2016–today
In 2016, the FC 05 first team was spun off into 1. FC Schweinfurt 1905 Fußball GmbH. By means of the reorganization, the club again established professional structures that shall pave the way back to higher leagues.
Schweinfurt actually experienced an upturn in the 2016–17 season and finished 8th in Regionalliga Bayern. In addition, the team succeeded in winning the Bavarian Cup after a 1–0 victory over SV Wacker Burghausen in the final.
In the 2017–18 Regionalliga, Schweinfurt's ambitioned team was not able to jeopardize the championship of TSV 1860 München, and finally finished 3rd.
1. FC Schweinfurt 05 defeated 2. Bundesliga club SV Sandhausen 2–1 in the 2017–18 DFB-Pokal first round, but then lost 0–4 to later cup winner SG Eintracht Frankfurt.
In the same season, Schweinfurt 05 successfully defended the Bavarian Cup after a 3–1 victory over league competitor SpVgg Bayreuth in the final.
Despite the objective of the 2018–19 Regionalliga championship and promotion to 3. Liga, Schweinfurt clearly missed this chance and finished 4th end of the season.
In the 2018–19 DFB-Pokal first round, the team lost 0–2 to previous season's Bundesliga runner-up and 2018–19 UEFA Champions League competitor FC Schalke 04.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, the original 2019–20 Regionalliga Bayern season was extended until spring 2021, and the 2020–21 season has been cancelled.
In July 2020, the current league leader Türkgücü München was promoted to the 3. Liga, whereas runners-up FC Schweinfurt 05 qualified for the 2020–21 DFB-Pokal.
In the first round cup match, Schweinfurt was defeated 1–4, again by Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04.
1. FC Schweinfurt 05 managed to win the long-desired championship of the finally discontinued 2019–21 Regionalliga Bayern when the club prevailed in a play-off group of the top three eligible teams with Viktoria Aschaffenburg and SpVgg Bayreuth.
However, Regionalliga champion Schweinfurt missed out on promotion to the 3. Liga after a 0–2 on aggregate in the play-offs against TSV Havelse from Regionalliga Nord. In the following two Regionalliga Bayern seasons, the team both times finished in the upper mid-field of the table.
Honours
League
German football championship
Last sixteen: 1942
Oberliga Süd (I)
Third: 1954–55
Gauliga Bayern (I)
Champions: (2) 1938–39, 1941–42
Runners-up: (2) 1936–37, 1942–43†
2. Bundesliga Süd (II)
Third: 1974–75
Regionalliga Süd (II)* (III)**
Champions: 1965–66*
Third: 2000–01**‡
Bayernliga (III)* (IV)**
Champions: (2) 1989–90*‡, 1997–98**
Runners-up: (2) 1981–82*, 1988–89*
Regionalliga Bayern (IV)
Champions: 2019–21
Bayernliga Nord (V)
Champions: 2012–13
Landesliga Bayern-Nord (IV)* (V)** (VI)***
Champions: (3) 1983–84*, 1985–86*, 2006–07**
Runners-up: 2009–10***
Landesliga Bayern-Nordwest (VI)
Champions: 2016–17#
Cup
German Cup/DFB-Pokal
Semi-finals: 1936
Last sixteen: (2) 1954–55, 1989–90
Southern German Cup
Runners-up: (3) 1933, 1957, 1958
Bavarian Cup
Winners: (3) 1933, 2016–17, 2017–18
Unterfranken Cup
Winners: (5) 1927, 1963#, 1996, 2006, 2009
Youth
Bavarian Under 19 championship
Winners: 2001
Runners-up: (4) 1961, 1966, 1968, 2021
Bavarian Under 17 championship
Winners: 2005
Runners-up: 1995
Bavarian Under 15 championship
Winners: 2003
Runners-up: (2) 1986, 1994
† Northern division ‡ Promoted to 2. Bundesliga # Reserve team
Seasons
First team
The season-by-season performance of the club from 1931 until today:
The 1944–45 Gauliga Bayern season operated in five regional divisions. It is unknown whether any of the season's games were played in the Lower Franconia (German: Unterfranken) division.
With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas were abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onward were elevated one tier.
The 2020–21 Regionalliga Bayern season has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, and the original 2019–20 season was extended until spring 2021. In July 2020, the current league leader Türkgücü München was promoted to the 3. Liga and thus suspended from 2019–21 Regionalliga Bayern, and the club's league results have all been annulled. The 2019–21 Regionalliga Bayern champion and participant in the promotion play-offs against the champions of the 2020–21 Regionalliga Nord was determined end of the discontinued season in a double round-robin play-off series with the top three eligible teams Viktoria Aschaffenburg, SpVgg Bayreuth, and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05.
Reserve team
The recent season-by-season performance of the U23 reserve. After the 2017−18 season, the team had been pulled out from future league participation.
Key
German football championship appearances
The club's appearances in German football championship competitions:
* Dresdner SC finished top of the group, level on points with Schweinfurt, due to better scoring
DFB-Pokal appearances
The club's appearances in Tschammerpokal (until 1943) and DFB-Pokal:
* Originally scheduled on 22 August 1943, but adjourned after the allied air-raid on Schweinfurt on 17 August 1943
† Replay
‡ Eintracht Frankfurt won 6–2 on aggregate
# Originally scheduled on 13 September 2020, but postponed after a legal challenge of Türkgücü München regarding the spot allocated to the representative of the Regionalliga Bayern. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and the organisational effort required to host the fixture, Schweinfurt's home leg was held at Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, and without spectators
Stadium
Early grounds
In its first years, 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 played the home games at Hutrasen, the later ground of local competitor VfR 07 Schweinfurt. After the First World War, the club had to move to a court in close proximity, located at Ludwigsbrücke in Schweinfurt. With promotion to Gauliga Bayern in 1933, however, the existing venue proved to be more and more inadequate.
Sachs-Stadion
The club's necessity finally motivated local industrialist Willy Sachs to the donation of a football stadium to the City of Schweinfurt, where the patron designated a privileged right of use for FC Schweinfurt 05. The new Willy-Sachs-Stadion, built by German architect Paul Bonatz, was opened on 23 July 1936 in the presence of leading politicians of the Third Reich. The stadium saw its first game three days later with a 2–2 draw between Schweinfurt 05 and 1935 German champion FC Schalke 04. Attendance record was 22,500 at a friendly between Schweinfurt 05 and 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1954.
Today, the stadium has a capacity of 15,060, where the grandstand hosts 860 covered seats. Besides the football field, the stadium offers track and field facilities, and is equipped with a classical Marathon gate. Premises at the stadium include changing rooms for players, coaches, and referees. Speaker cabins and a press area are available in the grandstand.
The stadium has been renovated and equipped with floodlights in 2001 in order to meet the requirements for 2. Bundesliga. In addition, an electronic scoreboard was contributed by Schweinfurt's large industry. Wavebreakers have been installed on the standing rooms in 2014 to safeguard the stadium's full capacity.
The stadium is listed as historic monument and is thus subject to preservation orders.
As a consequence of Willy Sachs' Nazi affiliation, in June 2021 the Schweinfurt city council decided to rename the sports venue into Sachs-Stadion, in recognition of the value of the former Fichtel & Sachs company for the development of Schweinfurt.
Proposed new stadium
Due to the club's ambitions to promote again to professional leagues with stricter legislations on stadium capacity and equipment,
the city administration commissioned a feasibility study for a new stadium to be realised in Schweinfurt.
Two locations for a football arena with a capacity of 15,000 have been proposed by the German architectural office AS+P, one at former U.S. Conn Barracks, the other close to the existing venue.
Players
Current squad
Notable past players
Albin Kitzinger (MF)
Andreas Kupfer (MF)
Robert Bernard (MF)
Günter Bernard (GK)
Lothar Emmerich (FW)
Erwin Albert (FW)
Michael Glowatzky (FW)
Sebastian Kneißl (MF)
Florian Trinks (MF)
Daniel Adlung (MF)
International caps
Germany national football team (Caps/Goals):
Albin Kitzinger: 44/2
Andreas Kupfer: 44/1
Günter Bernard: 2/0 (3 additional caps for SV Werder Bremen)
Europe XI (Caps/Goals):
Albin Kitzinger: 1/0
Andreas Kupfer: 1/0
Non-playing staff
Current management team
Managerial history
Head coaches of the club from 1929:
Supporters and rivalries
The supporters of Schweinfurt 05 maintain a traditional friendship with the fans of Würzburger FV 04. They have a distinct hostility with fans of Würzburger FV's local rival FC Würzburger Kickers.
References
External links
Official club site
The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
1. FC Schweinfurt 05 profile at Weltfussball.de
Football in Bavaria at FuPa.net
Football results at kicker.de
Fan site (Kugellagerstadt.com)
Association football clubs established in 1905
Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Bavaria
Football in Lower Franconia
Rugby union clubs in Germany
1905 establishments in Germany
Schweinfurt
2. Bundesliga clubs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.%20FC%20Schweinfurt%2005 |
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) classification system is a library indexing system covering the fields of medicine and preclinical basic sciences. The NLM classification is patterned after the Library of Congress (LC) Classification system: alphabetical letters denote broad subject categories which are subdivided by numbers. For example, QW 279 would indicate a book on an aspect of microbiology or immunology.
The one- or two-letter alphabetical codes in the NLM classification use a limited range of letters: only QS–QZ and W–WZ. This allows the NLM system to co-exist with the larger LC coding scheme as neither of these ranges are used in the LC system. There are, however, three pre-existing codes in the LC system which overlap with the NLM: Human Anatomy (QM), Microbiology (QR), and Medicine (R). To avoid further confusion, these three codes are not used in the NLM.
The headings for the individual schedules (letters or letter pairs) are given in brief form (e.g., QW - Microbiology and Immunology; WG - Cardiovascular System) and together they provide an outline of the subjects covered by the NLM classification. Headings are interpreted broadly and include the physiological system, the specialties connected with them, the regions of the body chiefly concerned and subordinate related fields. The NLM system is hierarchical, and within each schedule, division by organ usually has priority. Each main schedule, as well as some sub-sections, begins with a group of form numbers ranging generally from 1–49 which classify materials by publication type, e.g., dictionaries, atlases, laboratory manuals, etc.
The main schedules QS-QZ, W-WY, and WZ (excluding the range WZ 220–270) classify works published after 1913; the 19th century schedule is used for works published 1801–1913; and WZ 220-270 is used to provide century groupings for works published before 1801.
Overview of the NLM Classification categories
Preclinical Sciences
QS Human Anatomy
QT Physiology
QU Biochemistry
QV Pharmacology
QW Microbiology & Immunology
QX Parasitology
QY Clinical Pathology
QZ Pathology
Medicine and Related Subjects
W Health Professions
WA Public Health
WB Practice of Medicine
WC Communicable Diseases
WD Disorders of Systemic, Metabolic, or Environmental Origin, etc.
WE Musculoskeletal System
WF Respiratory System
WG Cardiovascular System
WH Hemic and Lymphatic Systems
WI Digestive System
WJ Urogenital System
WK Endocrine System
WL Nervous System
WM Psychiatry
WN Radiology. Diagnostic Imaging
WO Surgery
WP Gynecology
WQ Obstetrics
WR Dermatology
WS Pediatrics
WT Geriatrics. Chronic Disease
WU Dentistry. Oral Surgery
WV Otolaryngology
WW Ophthalmology
WX Hospitals & Other Health Facilities
WY Nursing
WZ History of Medicine
19th Century Schedule
See also
Dewey Decimal Classification
Colon Classification
Library of Congress Classification
Universal Decimal Classification
References
Citations
Sources
Medical classification
Knowledge representation
Library cataloging and classification | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Library%20of%20Medicine%20classification |
James Morehead may refer to:
James Turner Morehead (North Carolina politician) (1799–1875), Congressional Representative from North Carolina
James T. Morehead Jr. (born 1838), his son, congressman, served in the North Carolina Senate
James Turner Morehead (chemist) (1840–1908), chemist who founded what became Union Carbide
James Turner Morehead (Kentucky politician) (1797–1854), senator and governor of Kentucky
James B. Morehead (1916–2012), American fighter pilot of World War II | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Morehead |
Meeussen is a former Belgian car manufacturer. The brothers Meeussen were car manufacturers between 1955 and 1972. They built a van from a VW Beetle.
References
External links
Meeussen pictures
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Belgium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeussen |
is a professional Go player.
Biography
Morita became a professional in 1984. He was promoted to 9 dan in 1998.
Titles & runners-up
External links
GoBase Profile
Nihon Ki-in Profile
1970 births
Japanese Go players
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michihiro%20Morita |
Krisztina Regőczy (born 19 April 1955) is a former ice dancer from Hungary. Competing with András Sallay, she won the gold medal at the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships and the silver at that year's Winter Olympics. Regőczy coached in the United States for a number of years before returning to Budapest. She is the figure skating sports director for the International Skating Union.
Results
(ice dance with András Sallay)
References
Regőczy Krisztina nem felejti Lake Placid-et, Népszava, 2007.
Navigation
1955 births
Living people
Hungarian female ice dancers
Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for Hungary
Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krisztina%20Reg%C5%91czy |
Lake Fusaro (, , ) is a lake situated in the province of Naples, Italy, in the territory of the community of Bacoli. It is about from Baia, and about from the acropolis of Cumae. It is separated from the sea by a narrow coastal strip. It is a very unusual ecosystem of great interest, characterized by a variety of vegetation specific to the region.
Geography
Thanks to the presence of fresh water springs, Lake Fusaro (known since the 3rd century B.C. as Acherusia Palus), has been known around the world for its great oysters. Mussels are also fished in quantity in the lake.
The lake is surrounded by a number of buildings, including the Royal Casina, the Ostrichina, the Grand Restaurant, the Pavilions (stables) and the Green Park, which were all part of a large business employing around 1,000 people at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, most of these buildings are not used for their original purpose, but still serve as tourist destinations.
Casina Vanvitelliana
The Casina Vanvitelliana is an evocative little house located on a little island of Lago Fusaro, in the municipality of Bacoli.
In 1752 the area of the Fusaro, at the time mostly inhabited, became the hunting and fishing reserve of the Bourbons, who hire Luigi Vanvitelli for the first works for the transformation of the place. When Ferdinando IV ascended to the throne, the interventions were completed by Carlo Vanvitelli, son of Luigi, who in 1782 created the Royal Casino of Caccia on the lake, not far from the shore.
This building, known as Casina Vanvitelliana, was used as the residence of important guests, such as Francis II of Habsburg-Lorraine, who stayed here in May 1819. Inside the building were also welcomed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini and, more recently, the President of the Republic Luigi Einaudi.
From an architectural point of view, the Casina is one of the most refined eighteenth-century productions, somewhat similar to the conformation of the hunting lodge at Stupinigi, designed a few years before by Filippo Juvarra using plastic volumes and large windows.
The building commissioned by the Bourbons in fact has a very articulated plan, composed of three octagonal bodies that intersect one at the top of the other, as a sort of pagoda, with large windows arranged on two levels; in addition a long wooden bridge connects the Casina to the lake shore.
The Casina Vanvitelliana appears in the film Ferdinando e Carolina, by Lina Wertmüller, as well as in Lucio the smuggler by Lucio Fulci (1980).
It was also one of the locations of L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo (2009) with Maria Grazia Cucinotta.
Notes
Attribution
Lakes of Campania
Bacoli
Phlegraean Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusaro%20Lake |
Joseph Pearson Caldwell (March 5, 1808 – June 30, 1853) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Olin, North Carolina, March 5, 1808; attended Bethany Academy, near Statesville, North Carolina; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Statesville, N.C.; served in the State senate in 1833 and 1834; member of the State house of commons 1838–1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; died in Statesville, N.C., June 30, 1853; interment in Old Statesville Cemetery.
His son, Joseph Pearson Caldwell, Jr. (18531911, more commonly referred to as J.P. Caldwell), was the editor of the Landmark newspaper in Statesville, North Carolina.
See also
Thirty-second United States Congress
Thirty-first United States Congress
References
External links
U.S. Congressional Biographical Directory
Caldwell, John T.
Caldwell, John T.
Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
Caldwell, John T.
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
19th-century American politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Pearson%20Caldwell |
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Kryptos may also refer to:
Kryptos (gastropod), a genus of marine snails in the family Buccinidae
Kryptos (band), an Indian heavy metal band
"Kryptos", an episode of the British television series Eleventh Hour
Kryptos, an album by Andreas Vollenweider
See also
Kryptops, a genus of theropod dinosaur
Cryptos, in the list of Dan Dare stories
Krypto (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos%20%28disambiguation%29 |
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