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The number of newspapers in Switzerland was 406 before World War I. It reduced to 257 in 1995. The country was ranked fifteenth for 2014 in the yearly Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders and 8th in 2020.
List
Below is a list of newspapers published in Switzerland.
German language
French language
Italian language
Romansh language
Fegl Ufficial
La Quotidiana
Novitas
Posta Ladina
Ottoman Turkish
Mizan
Russian language
Business in Switzerland
Nasha Gazeta.ch - Наша Газета.ch
English language
Discontinued
Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1991)
Journal de Genève (1826-1991)
Journal de Genève et Gazette de Lausanne (1991-1998)
Le nouveau quotidien (1991-1998), see Le temps
Dimanche.ch (1999-2003)
Metro (Swiss edition only, defunct in 2002)
Heute (2006-2008)
.ch (2007-2009)
News (2007-2009)
Le Matin Bleu (2005-2009)
Schweiz am Sonntag (2007-2017)
See also
List of magazines in Switzerland
List of Media in Switzerland
References
Switzerland
Newspapers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Switzerland |
The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour is a Filmation series that ran on CBS during the 1977–1978 television season. It consisted of the second season of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (six new episodes combined with reruns from the first season), and reruns of The New Adventures of Batman aired together.
For the 1978–1980 seasons, the series was re-titled Tarzan and the Super 7 and expanded to ninety-minutes with additional content. For the 1980–1982 seasons, reruns of the Batman and the Super 7 episodes moved to NBC and Tarzan joined The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour.
Voice cast
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1977)
Robert Ridgely as Tarzan
The New Adventures of Batman (1977)
Adam West as Batman / Bruce Wayne
Burt Ward as Robin / Dick Grayson
Melendy Britt as Batgirl / Barbara Gordon, Catwoman / Selina Kyle
Lou Scheimer as Bat-Mite, Batcomputer
Lennie Weinrib as Commissioner Gordon, Joker, Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Electro, Chameleon, Zarbor, Clayface (2nd Time), Moonman / Scott Rogers, Professor Bubbles, Sweet Tooth
References
External links
CBS original programming
NBC original programming
1970s American animated television series
1977 American television series debuts
1978 American television series endings
Animated television shows based on DC Comics
Animated Tarzan television series
Batman television series by Filmation
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated superhero television series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Batman/Tarzan%20Adventure%20Hour |
Nicolas Billon (born March 22, 1978) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for his plays The Elephant Song, Iceland, and Butcher.
Biography
Nicolas Billon was born in Ottawa, Ontario and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. He is the son of Johanne Archambault and writer Pierre Billon.
The Elephant Song, his first play, premiered at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2004. His second play, The Measure of Love, was produced there in 2005.
A member of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy, Nicolas's version of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters was produced at Soulpepper in 2007, directed by László Marton. He also co-created BLiNK with the other members of the Academy for the Luminato Festival.
In 2009, Billon joined the Tarragon Playwrights Unit. That June, his adaptation of Molière's The Sicilian was one of the hits of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
A few months later, his play Greenland opened at the 2009 SummerWorks Theatre Festival. It was a critical and audience success, and won both the Now Magazine Audience Choice Award and the SummerWorks Outstanding Production Award. Later that year, Billon was voted one of the Top 10 Theatre Artists of 2009 by Toronto's Now Magazine.
Billon was a finalist for and won the 2013 Governor General's Award for Drama for Fault Lines.
His play The Elephant Song was adapted into the 2014 film Elephant Song, directed by Charles Binamé and starring Bruce Greenwood, Xavier Dolan, and Catherine Keener. His screenplay garnered both the 2015 Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the 2015 WGC Screenwriting Award for Features & Mini-Series.
Billon's play, Butcher, premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects in October 2014. The play deals with the theme of justice and features several characters who speak Lavinian, an invented language created by two linguists, Christina Kramer and Dragana Obradović, specifically for the play.
Film
Feature films
Elephant Song (2014)
Short films
Hyperlight (2018)
How Tommy Lemenchick Became a Grade 7 Legend (2016)
A Kindness (2012)
The Exit (2010)
Theatre
Plays
Butcher (2014)
Faroe Islands (2013)
Iceland (2012)
The Safe Word (2011)
Greenland (2009)
The Measure of Love (2005)
The Elephant Song (2004)
Adaptations
Stevenson's Treasure Island (2017)
Aeschylus' Agamemnon (2016)
Brecht & Steffin's Rifles (2014)
Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis (2010)
Molière's The Sicilian (2009)
Chekhov's Three Sisters (2007)
Collaborations
I'm So Close (2010)
BLiNK (2008)
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Writers from Ottawa
Writers from Montreal
Governor General's Award-winning dramatists
Best Screenplay Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Canadian male screenwriters
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
Canadian Film Centre alumni
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian screenwriters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Billon |
Marina Records is a German record label started in 1993 and specialising in indie pop. Acts include Ashby, Pearlfishers, Cowboy Mouth (the Grahame Skinner band, not the better-known American act) and The Bathers.
Marina has also released albums by such acts as Paul Quinn & The Independent Group, Shack (the "lost" Waterpistol album) and Josef K
Discography/Catalogue
Gazelle - Better Days 1993
The Bathers - Lagoon Blues 1993
Gazelle - Better Days 1994
Eight Miles High - Triple Pulse 1994
Gazelle - Time Will Tell 1994
Gazelle - Everything Inside 1994
Paul Quinn & The Independent Group - Will I Ever Be Inside of You 1994
Cowboy Mouth - Life As A Dog 1995
Sugartown - Swimming In The Horsespool 1995
Cowboy Mouth - My Life As A Dog EP 1995
Various Artists - From Marina With Love 1995
The Bathers - Sunpowder 1995
Marina T-Shirt - Music Is Love T-Shirt 1995
Malcolm Ross - Low Shot 1995
Camping - Maritime Strick- und Regenmoden 1995
Shack - Waterpistol 1995
Cowboy Mouth - Love Is Dead 1995
Cowboy Mouth - Sugartown EP 1996
The Secret Goldfish - Aqua-Pet...You Make Me 1996
Mindstore - Lightening The Load 1996
Various Artists - In Bed With Marina 1996
The Bathers - Kelvingrove Baby 1997
Mindstore - Double Sided Walk EP 1997
Adventures In Stereo - Adventures In Stereo 1997
The Pearlfishers - The Strange Underworld Of The Tall Poppies 1997
The Secret Goldfish - Jet Streams 1997
The Pearlfishers - Even On A Sunday Afternoon EP 1997
Mindstore - PC Streets EP 1997
Jazzateers - Here Comes That Feeling 1997
Jazzateers - I Shot The President 1997
Sugartown - Slow Flows The River 1997
Various Artists - Songs For Marshmallow Lovers 1997
Malcolm Ross - Happy Boy 1998
Die Moulinettes - 20 Blumen 1998
The Pearlfishers - Banana Sandwich EP 1998
Die Moulinettes - Herr Rossi Sucht Das Glueck EP 1998
The Pale Fountains - Longshot For Your Love 1998
Adventures In Stereo - Alternative Stereo Sounds 1998
Peter Thomas - Moonflowers and Mini-Skirts 1998
Josef K - Endless Soul 1998
Peter Thomas - Opium 12" EP 1998
The Pearlfishers - The Young Picnickers 1999
Paula - Glueck Und Aerger EP 1999
June & The Exit Wounds - A Little More Haven Hamilton, Please 2000
Paula - Als Es Passiert EP 2000
The Aluminum Group - Introducing... 2000
Paula - Himmelfahrt 2000
Paula - Jimmy EP 2000
Various Artists - Caroline Now! 2000
Paula - Jimmy/Als Es Passierte EP 2000
The Free Design - Cosmic Peekaboo 2001
The Pearlfishers - Across The Milky Way 2001
Ashby - Power Ballads 2001
Roddy Frame - Surf 2002
Peter Thomas - Moonflowers & Mini-Skirts 2003
James Kirk - You Can Make It If You Boogie 2003
The Pearlfishers - Sky Meadows 2003
Benjamin v. Stuckrad-Barre - Autodiscographie 2003
Various Artists - Ave Marina - Ten Years of Marina Records 2004
Der Plan - Die Verschwörung 2004
The Magic Circles - Meet Me In Milan EP 2004
The Pearlfishers - A Sunflower at Christmas 2004
Ashby - Looks Like You've Already Won 2005
The Pearlfishers - The Young Picnickers + Bonus Tracks 2005
Various Artists - The In-Kraut 2005
Various Artists - The In-Kraut - Vol. 2 2006
Various Artists - Goosebumps - 25 Years Of Marina Records 2018
See also
List of record labels
External links
Marina Records - Planet Marina
https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B0812FJS45&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_.lMkEbEA3ER5D
German record labels
Record labels established in 1993
Indie pop record labels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina%20Records |
In 2004, there were nearly 1,000 printed media in Slovenia, including newspapers, magazines and journals.
This article is a list of newspapers published in Slovenia or in Slovene.
Daily
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! style="width:10%;"| Title
! style="width:10%;"| English Title
! style="width:15%;"| Content
! style="width:15%;"| Format
! style="width:2%;"| Est.
! style="width:20%;"| Owner
! style="width:20%;"| Publisher
! style="width:20%;"| Headquarters
! style="width:23%;"| Orientation
! style="width:23%;"| Website
|-
| Delo || Labor || General || Broadsheet || 1959 || FMR, d.d. || Delo, d.d. || Ljubljana || Left-wing, Social liberalism ||
|-
| Dnevnik || Journal || General || Berliner || 1951 || 35%: Državna založba Slovenije (State Publishing House of Slovenia)25,74%: Styria Media International AGand others || Dnevnik, d.d. || Ljubljana || Left-wing ||
|-
| EkipaSN || TeamSN || Daily sports news || / || 1995 || Media24 || Salomon, d.o.o. || Ljubljana || / ||
|-
| Finance || Finances || Daily business and financial news || Berliner || 1992 || Bonnier Group || Časnik Finance, d.o.o. || Ljubljana || Liberalism, Centrism ||
|-
| Slovenske novice || Slovenian News || General || Tabloid || 1991 || Delo, d.d. || Delo, časopisno založniško podjetje d.o.o. (Delo Publishing) || Ljubljana || ? ||
|-
| Večer || Evening || General || Berliner || 1945 || Dober večer || Časnik Večer, d.o.o. || Maribor || Centrism ||
|-
| Svet24 || World24 || General || Tabloid || 2013 || Media24 || Salomon, d.o.o. || Ljubljana || ? ||
|}
Primorske novice (Koper), regional
Abroad
Časopis Porabje, newspaper of Hungarian Slovenes
Glasilo kanadskih Slovencev, newspaper of Canadian Slovenes
Nedelja, Roman Catholic newspaper of Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk in Klagenfurt, Austria
Primorski dnevnik, Slovene daily in Trieste, Italy
Svobodna Slovenija, weekly newspaper of the Argentine Slovenes
In foreign languages
Népújság, Hungarian minority weekly
Historical
List of historical newspapers include also the newspapers that were published German:
1787–1918 Laibacher Zeitung, main German-language newspaper of Ljubljana
See also
List of magazines in Slovenia
References
External links
Slovenia
Newspapers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Slovenia |
As of 2022 there were 8 daily newspapers in Slovakia.
Below is a list of newspapers published in Slovakia.
Daily newspapers
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Title
! Website
! Established
! Owner
! Notes
|-
| SME || website || 1993 || Petit Press || the best-selling Slovak political-oriented daily, centre-right in political orientation
|-
| Korzár || website || 1998 || Petit Press || political-oriented daily on East of Slovakia, the only daily regional newspaper in Slovakia
|-
| Denník N || website || 2015 || N Press || political-oriented daily, centre-right in political orientation
|-
| Pravda || website || 1920 || OUR MEDIA SR || political-oriented daily, centre-left in political orientation, the oldest daily newspaper in Slovakia
|-
| Hospodárske noviny || website || 1993 || MAFRA Slovakia || business-oriented daily
|-
| Nový Čas || website || 1991 || News and Media Holding || tabloid, the best-selling newspaper in Slovakia
|-
| Plus jeden deň || website || 2006 || News and Media Holding || tabloid
|-
| Denník Šport || website || 1947 || Šport Press || sport-oriented daily
|}
Weekly newspapers
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Title
! Website
! Established
! Owner
! Notes
|-
| MY || website || || Petit Press || multi-regional newspaper
|-
| Katolícke noviny || website || 1849 || Spolok svätého Vojtecha || Christian newspaper
|-
| Prešovský večerník || website || 1990 || || regional newspaper based in Prešov
|-
| Roľnícke noviny || website || 1930 || Profi Press|| farming and agricultural newspaper
|-
| Sninské noviny || website || 2002 || || regional newspaper based in Snina
|-
| Záhorák || website || 1960 || Záhorák || regional newspaper
|-
| Zdravotnícke noviny || website || 1952 || News and Media Holding || medical newspaper
|-
| Žilinský večerník || website || 1991 ||Publishing House || regional newspaper based in Žilina
|}
Free regional weekly newspapers
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Title
! Website
! Owner
! Notes
|-
| ECHO || website || Petit Press || multi-regional newspapers
|-
| Pardon || website || Petit Press || multi-regional newspapers
|-
| Regionálne noviny || website || Region Press || multi-regional newspapers
|-
| Bratislavský kuriér || website || Staromešťan || regional newspaper based in Bratislava
|-
| Bratislavské noviny || website || Nivel Plus || regional newspaper based in Bratislava
|}
Other language newspapers
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Title
! Website
! Language
! Established
! Owner
! Notes
|-
| The Slovak Spectator || website || English || 1995 || Petit Press ||
|-
| Új Szó || website || Hungarian || 1948 || DUEL - PRESS ||
|}
Defunct
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Title
! Established
! Ceased publication
! Owner
! Notes
|-
| Košický večer || 1969 || 2004 || Petit Press || daily regional newspaper based in Košice
|-
| Národná obroda || 1990 || 2005 || Pegas 2 Slovakia || daily newspaper
|-
| 24 hodín || 2005|| 2006 || Pegas 2 Slovakia || daily newspaper
|-
| Kysucký večerník || 2013 || 2017 || Publishing House || weekly regional newspaper
|-
| Noviny Poprad || 1990 || 2019 || mesto Poprad || weekly regional newspaper based in Poprad
|-
| Podtatranské noviny || 1960 || 2020 || || weekly regional newspaper based in Poprad
|}
See also
List of newspapers
References
Slovakia
Newspapers
List | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Slovakia |
Roy Ernest Nichols (October 21, 1932 – July 3, 2001) was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band The Strangers for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Fender Telecaster electric guitar. Nichols is considered one of the founders of the country music subgenre the “Bakersfield Sound”, which includes such notable country artists as Haggard, Buck Owens, and Don Rich.
Biography
Roy Ernest Nichols was born in Chandler, Arizona, to Bruce and Lucille Nichols, as the first born of seven children. The Nichols family moved to Fresno, California, when he was two, where they owned a camp for migrant farm workers. Sometimes a traveling gypsy band would stay at the camp and the young Nichols would hide and watch them play. His father Bruce was also a musician, playing upright bass at local dances on the weekends in the San Joaquin Valley. Nichols was drawn to his father’s music. He learned some basic chords from his father and began playing in his father's band on the weekends when he was only 11. By age 14, Nichols began playing weekends with Curly Roberts and the Rangers; he earned $25 a week.
Career
Shortly before his 16th birthday, Nichols met Fred Maddox, of the Maddox Brothers and Rose, a colorful hillbilly band, who heard Nichols playing guitar on Fresno DJ Barney Lee's Saturday-morning radio program. Nichols, still only 16 years old, was earning $90, a considerable amount at the time.
“He could play anything”, remembers Rose Maddox. “He was good at all of it. Every guitar picker in the country wanted to play like him, but none of them ever compared. He was one of a kind, but the music aside, he was like any 16-year-old kid - feisty, causing us trouble. But my mother brought him under.”
At a Maddox show in Mesa, Arizona, a teenaged couple sat in the front row: Buck and Bonnie Campbell Owens, who found themselves fascinated with Nichols' playing. The Maddox Brothers toured out of state for extended periods, so Fred Maddox became Nichols' legal guardian while his brother, Henry Maddox, became the young musician's tutor. While in Las Vegas, although warned by Lula Maddox not to do so, Nichols began sneaking away to gamble, an activity that soon led to the guitarist being fired from the group. In his 18 months with the group, Nichols appeared on records for over 100 songs and played almost every evening.
Returning to the valley, Nichols joined Smiley Maxidon on radio station KNGS in Hanford, California, where he performed for a regular one-hour live broadcast. Nichols stayed up all night playing dances several nights a week while still returning to the station to play his 7 am show.
About a year later, the Texas-born, Bakersfield country music icon Lefty Frizzell hired the young guitarist, where future employer Merle Haggard first saw Nichols play 1953 at the Rainbow Gardens. In 1954, Nichols returned to work for another year at the radio station with Maxidon.
In 1955, Nichols joined Cousin Herb Henson's Trading Post Gang's TV show. For five days a week, this 45-minute live country music show was aired on station KERO in Bakersfield, California. Nichols remained there for 5 of the 11 years the show ran. He also played at the Foothill Club in Long Beach with Billy Mize and Cliff Crofford. He also toured with Johnny Cash during that same time.
In 1960, Nichols joined Wynn Stewart in Las Vegas. Merle Haggard was the band's bass player, and this meeting was the beginning of a long collaboration. Ralph Mooney, who played steel guitar in Stewart's band, also later went on to play that instrument on several of Haggard's recordings along with Norm Hamlet. When asked about his experience with Nichols, Mooney explained, “Roy had a resophonic guitar…you know a dobro that he fretted. Nobody could tune it. Roy was so good with his left hand that he bent the strings in tune as he played depending on where he was on the neck.” When asked what it was like recording those sessions, he replied, "It was really a lot of fun!”
On June 15, 1965, Nichols was hired straight out of Stewart's band by Haggard, and flew to Phoenix, Arizona, to join the singer on his first tour with his band The Strangers. Nichols was the first to be hired for Haggard's new band. While Stewart paid the young guitarist $250 a week, Haggard paid substantially less at $125 a week. Nichols gave three conditions for being hired by Haggard: "I don't drive, I carry my own amplifier, and I know where my bed is every night".
Haggard, who said that Nichols, along with guitarist Chet Atkins, "Were the two most influential guitar players in [the last] century", was nothing but effusive when describing his association with Nichols. "Because of Roy, my career commenced", Haggard said. "He was the stylist that set the pace of the records I recorded in my high period."
Over the next two decades, Merle Haggard and The Strangers had 38 hit songs with 33 in the top 10. During his 22 years with Haggard, Nichols wrote and published 19 of his own songs, one of which, “Street Singer”, was recorded by Haggard and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1970. Nichols continued to tour with Haggard in the United States and overseas with notable performances at Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Gardens, and the White House two times. The Academy of Country and Western Music honored Nichols with nominations for Guitarist of the Year several times, and The Strangers were voted Touring Band of the Year seven times.
Retirement
Nichols retired from the road in March 1987. He was later inducted into the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame in Sacramento, California. Nichols suffered a stroke in February 1996. Losing the use of his left hand as a result, Nichols was unfortunately no longer able to play guitar.
Nichols was being treated for a nonlife-threatening infection at Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield, California, when he had a heart attack and died on July 3, 2001.
References
External links
http://www.bakersfield.com/static/FP/baksound/roy.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li_Kpk_DDoE
The Guitar Styles of Roy Nichols https://vimeo.com/ondemand/terrydownsmusic
1932 births
2001 deaths
People from Chandler, Arizona
American country guitarists
American male guitarists
American country singer-songwriters
20th-century American guitarists
Guitarists from Arizona
20th-century American singer-songwriters
Country musicians from Arizona
20th-century American male musicians
The Strangers (American band) members
American male singer-songwriters
Singer-songwriters from Arizona | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Nichols |
Riordan Roett (born September 10, 1938) is an American political scientist specializing in Latin America. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was assistant professor (1967–1973) and acting director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University and was the Sarita and Don Johnston Professor of Political Science and Director of the Western Hemisphere Program at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. until 2018. He is now Professor and Director Emeritus of Latin American Studies Program at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Roett is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and a former national president of the Latin American Studies Association. In 2001, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil named Roett to the Order of Rio Branco with the rank of Commander. Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, he is a specialist on Brazilian, Mercosur, and Mexican issues and the author of several books on Latin America's political economy.
Roett is a member of the board of directors for a number of closed-end mutual funds at Legg Mason Global Asset Management; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Bretton Woods Committee; recipient of the Order of Rio Branco from the government of Brazil with the rank of commander; recipient of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins from the government of Chile with the rank of gran oficial; recognized for contributions to Johns Hopkins SAIS with establishment of the Riordan Roett Chair in Latin American Studies in 2004; former consultant to Chase Manhattan Bank in various capacities; was a faculty fellow of the World Economic Forum at the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland; served as national president of the Latin American Studies Association; PhD, political science, Columbia University
Since 2011, he has acted as Advisor on the US and Latin America especially for politics to Fair Observer, an online magazine covering global issues from a plurality of perspectives.
Selected published works
The Andes in Focus: Security, Democracy and Economic Reform, co-author, co-editor (2005)
Mexico in the Age of Globalization: Changing Domestic and External Dynamics, co-author, co-editor (2004)
Latin America in a Changing Global Environment, co-author, co-editor (2003)
Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse, co-author, co-editor (2003)
Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America, co-author, co-editor (2000)
Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society (1999, fifth edition)
Mercosur: Regional Integration, World Markets (1999)
Mexico's Private Sector: Recent History, Future Challenges (1998)
Brazil Under Cardoso (1997)
The Mexican Peso Crisis: International Perspectives (1996)
The Challenge of Institutional Reform in Mexico (1995)
Political and Economic Liberalization in Mexico: At a Critical Juncture? (1993)
Mexico's External Relations in the 1990s (1991)
Paraguay: The Personalist Legacy, co-author (1991)
Mexico and the United States: Managing the Relationship
Latin America, Western Europe and the U.S.: Reevaluating the Atlantic Triangle, co-author (1985)
References
1938 births
Living people
American political scientists
Latin Americanists
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Brazilianists
Columbia College (New York) alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riordan%20Roett |
Coade stone or Lithodipyra or Lithodipra () is stoneware that was often described as an artificial stone in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was used for moulding neoclassical statues, architectural decorations and garden ornaments of the highest quality that remain virtually weatherproof today.
Coade stone features were produced by appointment to George III and the Prince Regent for St George's Chapel, Windsor; The Royal Pavilion, Brighton; Carlton House, London; the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; and refurbishment of Buckingham Palace in the 1820s.
Coade stone was prized by the most important architects such as: John Nash-Buckingham Palace; Sir John Soane-Bank of England; Robert Adam-Kenwood House ; and James Wyatt-Radcliffe Observatory.
The product (originally known as Lithodipyra) was created around 1770 by Eleanor Coade, who ran Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory, Coade and Sealy, and Coade in Lambeth, London, from 1769 until her death in 1821. It continued to be manufactured by her last business partner, William Croggon, until 1833.
History
In 1769, Mrs Coade bought Daniel Pincot's struggling artificial stone business at Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, a site now under the Royal Festival Hall. This business developed into Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory with Coade in charge, such that within two years (1771) she fired Pincot for "representing himself as the chief proprietor".
Coade did not invent artificial stone. Various lesser-quality ceramic precursors to Lithodipyra had been both patented and manufactured over the forty (or sixty) years prior to the introduction of her product. She was, however, probably responsible for perfecting both the clay recipe and the firing process. It is possible that Pincot's business was a continuation of that run nearby by Richard Holt, who had taken out two patents in 1722 for a kind of liquid metal or stone and another for making china without the use of clay, but there were many start-up artificial stone businesses in the early 18th century of which only Coade's succeeded.
The company did well and boasted an illustrious list of customers such as George III and members of the English nobility. In 1799, Coade appointed her cousin John Sealy (son of her mother's sister, Mary), already working as a modeller, as a partner in her business. The business then traded as Coade and Sealy until his death in 1813, when it reverted to Coade.
In 1799, she opened a showroom, Coade and Sealy's Gallery of Sculpture, on Pedlar's Acre at the Surrey end of Westminster Bridge Road, to display her products.(See adjacent "Coade and Sealy gallery" image)
In 1813, Coade took on William Croggan from Grampound in Cornwall, a sculptor and distant relative by marriage (second cousin once removed). He managed the factory until her death eight years later in 1821 whereupon he bought the factory from the executors for c. £4000. Croggan supplied a lot of Coade stone for Buckingham Palace; however, he went bankrupt in 1833 and died two years later. Trade declined, and production came to an end in the early 1840s.
Material
Description
Coade stone is a type of stoneware. Mrs Coade's own name for her products was Lithodipyra, a name constructed from ancient Greek words meaning 'stone-twice-fire' (), or 'twice-fired stone'. Its colours varied from light grey to light yellow (or even beige) and its surface is best described as having a matte finish.
The ease with which the product could be moulded into complex shapes made it ideal for large statues, sculptures and sculptural façades. One-off commissions were expensive to produce, as they had to carry the entire cost of creating a mould. Whenever possible moulds were kept for many years of repeated use.
Formula
The recipe for Coade stone is claimed to be used today by Coade Ltd.
Its manufacture required extremely careful control and skill in kiln firing over a period of days, difficult to achieve with its era's fuels and technology. Coade's factory was the only really successful manufacturer.
The formula used was:
10% grog
5–10% crushed flint
5–10% fine quartz
10% crushed soda lime glass
60–70% ball clay from Dorset and Devon
This mixture was also referred to as "fortified clay", which was kneaded before insertion into a kiln for firing over four days – a production technique very similar to brick manufacture.
Depending on the size and fineness of detail in the work, a different size and proportion of Coade grog was used. In many pieces a combination of grogs was used, with fine grogged clay applied to the surface for detail, backed up by a more heavily grogged mixture for strength.
Durability
One of the more striking features of Coade stone is its high resistance to weathering, with the material often faring better than most types of natural stone in London's harsh environment. Prominent examples listed below have survived without apparent wear and tear for 150 years. There were, however, notable exceptions. A few works produced by Coade, mainly dating from the later period, have shown poor resistance to weathering due to a bad firing in the kiln where the material was not brought up to a sufficient temperature.
Demise
Coade stone was only superseded after Mrs Coade's death in 1821, by products using naturally exothermic Portland cement as a binder. It appears to have been largely phased out by the 1840s.
Examples
Over 650 pieces are still in existence worldwide.
Apsley House, No. 1, London. Duke of Wellington's house. The 1819 renovations by architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt included Scagliola ornamentation (that resembles marble inlays) in Coade stone. ()
Athenry Abbey, Ireland, The last de Bermingham to be buried at Athenry was Lady Mathilda Bermingham (d. 1788). The tower collapsed around 1790. Lady Mathilda's tomb, a Coade stone monument, was broken into in 2002. ()
Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Duff House Mausoleum, Wrack Woods. James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife built the mausoleum for his family in 1791, possibly on the site of a Carmelite friary. Built before the Gothic Revival, this is an example of "Gothick" architecture. Typically Georgian – the carvings, including the monument to the first Earl, are in Coade stone. ()
Bargate, a Grade I listed medieval gatehouse in the city centre of Southampton. In 1809 a Coade stone statue of George III in Roman dress was added the middle of the four windows of the southern side. It was a gift to the town from John Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne. ()
Bath, 8 Argyll Street – The Royal Arms of Queen Charlotte are above the entrance to A.H.Hale, (Pharmacy) established 1826.()
Battersea, St Mary's Church The church includes several important monuments from the earlier church. John Camden, (d. 1780), and his eldest daughter Elizabeth Neild, (d. 1791). 'Girl by a funeral urn with a poetic eulogy'. Signed by Coade of Lambeth (1792).()
Becconsall Old Church, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire. The baptismal font, dating from the 18th century, is the form of a vase, and is made from Coade stone.()
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, England. A Coade stone fountain lies west of the bandstand, which was presented in 1850 and was designed by the Birmingham architect, Charles Edge.()
Birmingham Library, displayed in the Library are two large Coade stone medallions, made in the 1770s and removed from the front of the city's Theatre Royal when it was demolished in 1956. These depict David Garrick and William Shakespeare.()
Brighton, Royal Pavilion of King George IV.()
Brighton and Hove Cemetery. Anna Maria Crouch, actress, singer and mistress of George IV, has an elaborate, Grade II-listed, Coade stone table tomb with a carved memorial tablet, friezes with foliage patterns and Vitruvian scrolls, putti and a Classical-style urn.()
Brighton, Stanmer Park, Sussex. Frankland Monument. A Coade stone statue of 1775 by Richard Hayward, erected to commemorate Frederick Meinhardt Frankland (c. 1694–1768), barrister-at-law, MP for Thirsk, son of Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet). Listed at Grade II by English Heritage (NHLE Code 1380952). It was erected at the expense of Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester, who owned Stanmer House and the estate, and his wife Ann, who was Frankland's daughter. The plinth has three stone tortoises and a Latin inscription. The triangular column above has concave sides with oval panels and a cornice with a frieze and some egg-and-dart moulding, all topped by an urn. The monument stands on top of a hill in Stanmer Park.()
Brogyntyn, near Oswestry, Shropshire. Benjamin Gummow designed a portico and other alterations for the Ormsby Gores, 1814–15. He used Coade stone ornamentation on the interior of the portico()
Broomhall House, Dunfermline, Scotland. A 1796 redesign by Thomas Harrison included a semi-circular bay on the south front decorated with three Coade stone panels depicting reclining figures.
Buckingham Palace London, (in a section not open to the public). A frieze with vegetative scrollwork of Coade stone, balconies accessible from the first floor, and an attic with figural sculptures based on the Elgin Marbles. The west front overlooking the main garden features large Classical urns made of Coade stone. ()
Burnham Thorpe – Nelson's Memorial.()
Burton Constable Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, displays 3 figures and a number of 'medallions' above the doors and windows of the Orangerie. In 1966 this was designated as Grade II*. ()
Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire. The Drawing Room features twin fireplaces made from Coade stone, dated to 1789, which originally belonged to the family's house in Belgravia, London. Both are carved, one depicting Faith, Hope and Charity, and the other the Aldobrandini Marriage.()
Carlton House, London.()
Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, ()
Charborough House, Dorset. The park wall, alongside the A31 is punctuated by Stag Gate at the northern extremity and Lion Lodge at the easternmost entrance, with heraldic symbols in Coade stone. These gateways are Grade II listed, as is a third one, East Almer Lodge, further to the west. A fourth gateway, Peacock Lodge, is inside the estate, is Grade II* listed.()
Chelmsford Cathedral, Essex. The nave partially collapsed in 1800, and was rebuilt by the County architect John Johnson, retaining the Perpendicular design, but using Coade stone piers and tracery, and a plaster ceiling.()
Chichester – The Buttermarket. Designed by John Nash (coat of arms engraved with "Coade & Sealey 1808")()
Chiswick High Road, London, Presbytery of brown brick with Coade stone details, three storeys with double-hung sash windows; Grade II listed.()
Chiswick House, London. A couple of large ornate urns in the Italian Garden.()
Clerkenwell, St James's Church Over the west door are the royal arms of George III. Made of Coade stone and dated 1792, they were formerly over the reredos.()
Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire. 'All Saints Church' contains a free-standing monument to Sir William Langham, (d.1812) in the nave, moulded in Coade stone by Bacon Junior.()
Croome Court, Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire. The south face has a broad staircase, with Coade stone sphinxes on each side, leading to a south door topped with a cornice on consoles. ()
Culzean Castle, overlooking the Firth of Clyde, near Maybole, Scotland. The former home of the Marquess of Ailsa. "Cat Gates" – The original inner entrance with Coade stone cats (restored in 1995) surmounting the pillars. The lodge cottages were demolished in the 1950s.(), (See Gallery "Cat gates at Culzean Castle")
Daylesford House, Gloucestershire. The main front was originally to the west, at the centre of which is a projecting semicircular bay, with four Ionic pillars and French Neoclassical garland swags around the architrave, topped by a shallow dome with pointed Coade stone finial, and wings projecting to either side. ()
Doddington Hall, Cheshire, The country house was designed by Samuel Wyatt. An outer double staircase leads up to a doorway flanked by columns and under a blind arch containing a Coade stone medallion containing a sign of the Zodiac. There are similar medallions over the first floor windows in the outer bays.()
Edinburgh, Stockbridge The "Statue of Hygieia" in the St Bernard's Well building by the Water of Leith "is made of coade stone".(). (See additional image in Coade stone Gallery below.)
Edinburgh, Bonaly Tower. Statue of William Shakespeare in Coade stone. ()
Egyptian House, Penzance, Cornwall. There is some dispute over the architect and the date of build, but in 1973, it was acquired by the Landmark Trust, the elaborate mouldings were mainly Coade stone.()
Exeter, 'Palace Gate' – Coade stone doorways on the terrace in 'Palace Gate' between the cathedral and South Street. Several late 18th century houses near Exeter Cathedral have doorway surrounds decorated with a keystone face (chosen from a small range of moulds), and decorative blocks.()
Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Memorial to Frances Brown, daughter in law of Lancelot "Capability" Brown in Coade stone. (). (See adjacent image on right)
Great Yarmouth, Britannia Monument Coade stone caryatids replaced by concrete copies.()
Greenwich, Royal Naval College – Admiral Lord Nelson's Pediment in the King William Courtyard of the Old Royal Naval College was regarded by the Coade workers as the finest of all their work. It was sculpted by Joseph Panzetta in 1813, as a public memorial after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It was based on a painting by Benjamin West depicting Nelson's body being offered to Britannia by a Winged Victory. It was cleaned in 2016. (), (See Nelson Pediment at Top of this article)
Grey Coat Hospital Westminster. The 1707 Acts of Union with Scotland arms of Queen Anne, with her 1702 motto semper eadem ("always the same"), executed in Coade stone. ()
Haberdashers' Hatcham College, Telegraph Hill, Lewisham. A Coade stone statue of Robert Aske stands in the forecourt of the college, formerly Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys' School, in Pepys Road. It dates from 1836 and shows him in the robes of the Haberdashers' Company, leaning on a plinth and holding in his hand the plans of the school built at that time in Hoxton, whence the statue was transferred in 1903.()
Ham House Richmond, on the River Thames near London, has a reclining statue of Father Thames, by John Bacon in the entrance courtyard.
Haldon Belvedere, Devon. Inside is a larger-than-life-size Coade stone statue of General Stringer Lawrence dressed as a Roman general; a copy of the marble statue of him by Peter Scheemakers (1691–1781).
Hammerwood Park, East Grinstead. Coade stone plaques of scenes derived from the Borghese Vase adorn both porticos.()
Harlow, Essex, The Gibberd Garden Coade stone urns originally from Coutts Bank, The Strand, now in the garden created by Sir Frederick Gibberd who died in 1984.()
Heaton Hall, A country house that was remodelled between 1772 and 1789 by James Wyatt. Further additions were made in 1823 by Lewis Wyatt. It is built in sandstone with dressings in Coade stone and is in Palladian style. ()
Herstmonceux Place East Sussex. Circa 1932 it ceased to be a private house and was divided into flats. The north front of the house was built in the late 17th century. The south and east fronts were designed by Samuel Wyatt in 1778. The white panels are made of Coade Stone. (), (See "Herstmonceux Place" in Gallery below)
Highclere Castle, Hampshire. 'London Lodge' (1793), Brick but Coade stone dressed, and wings (1840).(), (See "Highclere Castle, London Lodge" in Gallery below)
Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London. The facade of the Pelican and British Empire Life Insurance Company at 70 Lombard Street in the City of London was rescued before demolition in 1915 and is now displayed in the museum. To adorn its building, Pelican added an allegorical sculptural group to the previously plain facade; the group was designed by Lady Diana Beauclerk and sculpted by John de Veere of the Coade factory. ()
Ifield, West Sussex - St Margaret's Church, There are several other large tombs from the 18th century in the churchyard—some of which are good examples of Coade stone. The George Hutchinson wall memorial in the chancel, designed by local sculptor Richard Joanes, includes Coade stone embellishments. ()
Imperial War Museum, London. Sculptural reliefs above the entrance.()
Kensington Palace, Kensington High Street, London. The lion and unicorn statues on pillars at the entrance to Kensington Palace.(), (See "Lion and Unicorn gate" images in Gallery)
Kew Gardens – The lion and unicorn statues over their respective gates into The Royal Botanical Gardens.(Lion Gate-)(Unicorn Gate-), (See "Kew Lion and Unicorn gates" images above)
Kew Gardens, The Medici Vase, from a pair ordered by George IV.
Lancaster Castle, Shire Hall and Crown Court were completed by 1798 by Thomas Harrison (architect). Six Gothic columns support a panelled vault covering the main part of the courtroom. Around the perimeter is an arcade, and the judge's bench has an elaborate canopy in Coade stone.()
Lancaster, Royal Lancaster Infirmary. The hospital by Paley, Austin and Paley is in free Renaissance style, and built in sandstone with slate roofs. It has an octagonal entrance tower that is flanked by wings. The tower has four stages, and above the entrance is a niche containing a Coade stone statue of the Good Samaritan. ()
Lawhitton, Cornwall. The parish church of St Michael includes two monuments, to R. Bennet (d. 1683) and in Coade stone to Richard Bennet-Coffin (d. 1796). ()
Lea Marston, Warwickshire. The Church Saint John the Baptist contains numerous monuments to members of the Adderley family, including one from 1784 made of Coade stone. ()
Lewes, Lewes Crown Court. Located at the highest point of the old town is the Portland stone and Coade stone facade of the Crown Court (1808–12, by John Johnson).()
Lincoln Castle, Coade stone bust of George III, relocated from atop the Dunston Pillar in 1940. ()
Liverpool. George Bullock (sculptor) statue of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson in Coade stone. (Location unclear) ()
LiverpoolTown Hall. 1802 statue by Charles Rossi - Britannia or Minerva atop Liverpool Town Hall. Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, or Britannia. She is holding a spear, which is a common replacement for Britannia's trident, but that is usually in her right hand. Minerva is commonly depicted with an owl, but she is also the goddess of strategic warfare, so a spear makes sense. Both wear Corinthian helmets. Who is it? - Neither Rossi's own list of commissions, nor a (non-existent) Royal Academy contemporary list of his worksare available, so both Historic England and Pevsner hedge their bets saying "Britannia or Minerva".
Lurgan, Northern Ireland. 42-46 High Street. Decorative stonework with Coade stone keys and sculpted heads.() Provenance unclear.
Lyme Regis, Dorset – Eleanor Coade's country home at Belmont House decorated with Coade stone on its façade.(), (See image of Belmont House at Top of this article)
Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Met") - New York City. Faith, statue in 'overpainted Coade stone', after a model by John Bacon the Elder. 1791.(), (See image at start of this list of 'Examples' above.)
Montreal – Nelson's Column, built 1809. Montreal's pillar is the second-oldest "Nelson's Column" in the world, after the Nelson Monument in Glasgow. The statue and ornaments were shipped in parts to Montreal, arriving in April 1808. William Gilmore, a local stonemason who had contributed £7 towards its construction, was hired to assemble its seventeen parts and the foundation base was laid on 17 August 1809.()
Bank of Montreal. A series of Relief panels based on designs by John Bacon (1740-1799), moulded in Coade stone by Joseph Panzetta and Thomas Dubbin in 1819.()
The Octagon House or the John Tayloe III House in Washington, DC, built 1800 by William Thornton. ()
North Ockendon, Church of St Mary Magdalene, (Havering). A Grade I listed building, The baptismal font and royal arms (made of Coade stone) were both made in 1842. ()
Paço de São Cristóvão, (Palace of Saint Christopher) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In front of the palace is a decorative Coade stone portico, a gift sent by Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, inspired by Robert Adams' porch for "Sion House". ()
Pitzhanger Manor House, Ealing, was owned from 1800 to 1810 by the architect Sir John Soane, who radically rebuilt it. It features four Coade stone caryatids atop the columns of the east front, modelled after those that enclose the sanctuary of Pandrosus in Athens. (), (See Caryatid, Pitzhanger Manor in Gallery below)
Plympton, Devon - St Mary's church, monument to W. Seymour (died 1801) in Coade stone. ()
Portman Square, London. About a third of the north side is in the statutory category scheme, Grade I. No.s 11–15 built in 1773–1776 by architect James Wyatt in cooperation with his brother Samuel Wyatt. First houses in which Coade stone was used. (), (See Portman Square in Gallery below)
Portmeirion, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson,(See "Portmeirion, Lord Nelson section")
Portobello, Edinburgh, Portobello Beach, three Coade Stone columns erected in a community garden, with Heritage Lottery funds in 2006 at 70 Promenade (John Street), Portobello; rescued from the garden of Argyle House, Hope Lane, off Portobello High Street when taken into Council storage in 1989 as a new extension was built onto the house. ()
Preston Hall, Midlothian, Significant features of the interior include four life-size female figures in the stairway, which are made from Coade stone, a type of ceramic used as an artificial stone. ()
Putney Old Burial Ground. The grave of 18th century novelist Harriet Thomson (c. 1719–1787) made of coade stone. ()
Reading, Berkshire. St Mary's Church, Castle Street. The frontage is rendered in stucco while the capitals of the portico are probably formed of Coade stone. ()
Radcliffe Observatory, Tower of the Winds (Oxford). The reliefs of the signs of the zodiac above the windows on the first floor are made of Coade stone by J. C. F. Rossi. () (See Tower of the Winds in Gallery)
Richmond upon Thames. Two examples of the River God, one outside Ham House, the other in Terrace Gardens. (Ham House-) (Terrace Gardens-), (See image in Coade stone Gallery below.)
Rio de Janeiro Zoo entrance. ()
Roscommon, Ireland, Entrance gate to former Mote Park demesne, The Lion Gate, built 1787, consisting of a Doric triumphal arch surmounted by a lion with screen walls linking it to a pair of identical lodges. ()
Saxham Hall, Suffolk has an Umbrello (shelter) constructed of Coade stone in the grounds (), (See "Saxham Hall, Umbrelllo" in Gallery below)
Schomberg House at 81–83 Pall Mall, London, was built for Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg in the late 17th-century. The porch, framed by two Coade stone figures, was added in the late 18th century. Note – The figures that framed the doorway of the original Coade's Gallery, on Pedlar's Acre at the Surrey end of Westminster Bridge Road were made from the same moulds. () (See "Schomberg House" in Gallery below)
Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Lord Hill's Column commemorates General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, with a tall statue on a pillar. The statue was modelled in Lithodipyra (Coade stone) by Joseph Panzetta who worked for Eleanor Coade. ()
South Bank Lion at the south end of Westminster Bridge in central London originally stood atop the old Lion Brewery, on the Lambeth bank of the River Thames. The brewery was demolished in 1950, to make way for the South Bank Site of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Just before the demolition King George VI ordered that both lions should be preserved:
- The lion which originally stood over one of the brewery gates is now painted gold and located at the west-gate entrance of Twickenham Stadium, the home of English rugby. (See Twickenham Stadium Lion section below)
- The lion from the roof of the brewery, now known as the "South Bank Lion", was moved to Station Approach Waterloo, placed on a high plinth, and painted red as the symbol of British Rail. When removed, the initials of the sculptor William F. Woodington and the date, 24 May 1837, were discovered under one of its paws. In 1966, it was moved from outside Waterloo station to the south end of Westminster bridge. (), (See South Bank Lion image at Top of article)
Southwark – Statue of King Alfred the Great, Trinity Church Square. The statue of a king on the stone plinth in the square is Grade II-listed. The provenance is unknown, but it may be either one of eight medieval statues from the north end towers of Westminster Hall (c. late 14th century) or, alternatively, one of a pair representing Alfred the Great and Edward, the Black Prince made for the garden of Carlton House in the 18th century. Analysis in 2021 showed that the top part was of Coade stone but the legs were Roman and of Bath stone.(), (See King Alfred the Great image in Gallery)
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Church Hall, London, pair of statues of schoolchildren on the front of this former School House, replicas outside, listed originals now inside the Hall.()
St Mary-at-Lambeth, Garden Museum, London – Captain Bligh's tomb in the churchyard of St Mary's Lambeth.()
Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire. A large country house, between 1760 and 1770 the house was remodelled by "Athenian" Stuart, the giant portico was added to the front in 1794 by Samuel Wyatt. In front of the house is the portico, which has eight columns in wood faced with slate, and capitals in Coade stone. On the south front is another bowed bay.()
St Mary Magdalene's Church, Stapleford, Leicestershire. In the west wall of the gallery is a Coade stone fireplace, above which are the Royal arms on a roundel.()
Stourhead Gardens The 'Temple of Flora' contains a replica of the Borghese Vase modelled in Coade stone dating from 1770 to 1771.
Stowe Gardens, a grade I listed landscape garden in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.()
- 'The Oxford Gates'. The central piers were designed by William Kent in 1731 Pavilions at either end were added in the 1780s to the design of the architect Vincenzo Valdrè. The piers have coats of arms in Coade stone.
- 'The Gothic Cross' erected in 1814 from Coade stone on the path linking the Doric Arch to the Temple of Ancient Virtue. It was erected by the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos as a memorial to his mother Lady Mary Nugent. It was demolished in the 1980s by a falling elm tree. The National Trust rebuilt the cross in 2017 using several of the surviving pieces of the monument.
- 'The Cobham Monument' is the tallest structure in the gardens. It incorporates a square plinth with corner buttresses surmounted by Coade stone lions holding shields added in 1778.
- 'The Gothic Umbrello' also called the Conduit House a small octagonal pavilion dating from the 1790s. The coat of arms of the Marquess of Buckingham, dated 1793, made from Coade stone are placed over the entrance door.
Teigngrace Devon. James Templer (1748–1813), the builder of the Stover Canal, is commemorated by a Coade stone monument in Teigngrace church.()
Tong, Shropshire - St Bartholomew's Church. The church's north door served as the "Door of Excommunication". A stoneworked version of the Royal Arms of George III, is located above the north door which is made of Coade stone. The monument cost £60 in 1814, and was a present from George Jellicoe to celebrate the Peace of Paris and Napoleon's exile to Elba.()
Towcester Racecourse on the Easton Neston estate – Main Entrance Gate decorated with an array of dogs, urns and vases surmounted by the Fermor arms, signed by William Croggon.(), (See "Towcester racecourse / Easton Neston House" images in Gallery)
Tremadog, Gwynedd, Wales. St Mary's Church Lychgate. Tremadog was founded, planned, named for and built by William Madocks between 1798 and 1811. The Lychgate to the churchyard is spanned by a decorative arch of Coade stone, containing boars, dragons, frogs, grimacing cherubs, owls, shrouded figures and squirrels, while the tops of the towers are surrounded by elephant heads.()
Twickenham Stadium Lion gate. (R.F.U.) The lion was sculpted in Coade stone by William F. Woodington in 1837 and paired with the "South Bank Lion" at the Lion Brewery on the Lambeth bank of the River Thames. It is now located above the central pillar of the Rowland Hill Memorial Gate (Gate 3) at Twickenham Stadium. It was covered with gold leaf prior to the 1991 Rugby World Cup held in England. The Lion brewery was damaged by fire and closed in 1931, and then demolished in 1949 to make way for the Royal Festival Hall. () (See "Twickenham Stadium Lion" image at top of this article)
Twinings' first ever (and still operating) shop's frontispiece, in the Strand, London opposite the Royal Courts of Justice, rediscovered under soot after a century.()
University of Maryland, College Park, United States – The keystone, featuring a carving of the head of Silenus, above the entry to The Rossborough Inn.()
University of East London, Stratford Campus. Statue of William Shakespeare. (See Shakespeare, University of East London image in Gallery)
Weymouth, Dorset. King's Statue, (Weymouth) is a tribute to George III on the seafront.()
Weston Park, in Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire.
- Sundial, 1825. The sundial in the grounds of the hall is in Coade stone, and is high. It has a triangular plan with concave sides. At the bottom is a plinth with meander decoration on a circular base, the sides are moulded with festoons at the top, in the angles are caryatids, and at the top is a fluted frieze and an egg-and-dart cornice. ()
- Two urns and planting basin, 1825. The urns and planting basin are in Coade stone, and are to the southwest of the 'Temple of Diana'. The basin has a diameter of , with a cabled rim to the kerb. The urns are on a base, and each has a short stem, and a wide body with guilloché decoration and carvings of lions' heads. ()
Whiteford House, Cornwall. The stables and a garden folly (called Whiteford Temple) survive. The Temple is owned by the Landmark Trust and let as a holiday cottage. There are Coade stone plaques on the exterior.()
Windsor Castle, St George's Chapel. Mrs Coade was commissioned by King George III to make the Gothic screen designed by Henry Emlyn, and possibly also replace part of the ceiling of St George's Chapel. ()
Woodeaton Manor, Oxford. In 1775 John and Elizabeth Weyland had the old manor house demolished and the present Woodeaton Manor built. In 1791 the architect Sir John Soane enhanced its main rooms with marble chimneypieces, added an Ionic porch of Coade stone, a service wing and an ornate main hall.()
Woodhall Park is a Grade I listed country house, Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire. Limited use of Coade stone in the park.()
Woolverstone Hall, Ipswich, The house, now a school, is built of Woolpit brick, with Coade stone ornamentation. ()
Park Crescent, Worthing, A triumphal arch. The main archway, designed for carriages, contains the busts of four bearded men as atlantes. The two side arches, designed for pedestrians, each contain the busts of four young ladies as caryatids. The Coade stone busts were supplied by William Croggan, successor to Eleanor Coade.()
Birkbeck Image library
In 2020, the library of Birkbeck, University of London, launched the Coade Stone image collection online, consisting of digitised slides of examples of Coade stone bequeathed by Alison Kelly, whose book Coade Stone was described by Caroline Stanford as "the most authoritative treatment on the subject".
Gallery
Modern replication claims
The recipe and techniques for producing Coade stone are claimed to have been rediscovered by Coade Ltd. from its workshops in Wilton, Wiltshire. In 2000, Coade ltd started producing statues, sculptures and architectural ornaments.
See also
Anthropic rock
Baluster
Cast stone
Pulhamite
Notes
References
Works cited
External links
In 2021 Historic England launched a crowd sourced Enrich the List map of Coade stone in England.
Google - My Maps
Historic England. Eleanor Coade and Interactive map of Coade stone sites
Anna Keay of the Landmark Trust discussing Mrs Coade and Coade stone
Birkbeck College Collections - Coade Stone
Gallery of images.
Plate 48: A view of Westminster Bridge, 1791. shows King's Arms Stairs in the foreground (possibly) with a sign advertising Coade's factory.
Imagee of Coade's factory, circa 1800
Plate 38a: Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory 1801
Plate 39a: The entrance to Coade and Sealy's Gallery of Sculpture, Westminster Bridge, 1802
Coade stone factory, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, London, c1800.
Coade and Sealey's Artificial Stone Factory, by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
Thomason Cudworth, restorers of Coade stone.
Coade Ltd, current makers and restorers of Coade stone.
Artificial stone
Stoneware
Ceramic materials | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coade%20stone |
Corpe () is a commune of the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
History
The name Corpe is derived from an old French word for a crow 'Corp'. Corpe is part of the canton of Mareuil-sur-Lay and was originally an agricultural community. It is recorded in the rolls of the Battle of Agincort that Monsegnior de Corpe was captured by the English and held ransom at the sum of 200,000 billets. The price of his ransom reflects the fact that he was a major player in the war as the ransom for a Man at Arms was 1,000 billets. There is no record of any such ransom ever being paid.
More recently as the number of people employed in farming declined due to mechanisation, Corpe grew to accommodate people working in the businesses in and around Luçon due to the good communications. The wealth of shops and businesses in nearby Luçon and Mareuil-sur-Lay means that there are few facilities in Corpe, only a church and a cafe. A new Zone Artisanale is planned at La Frise to accommodate local tradesmen and is due to start construction in 2013.
Geography
The river Smagne forms most of the commune's northern border.
Transportation
The main road from Luçon to La Roche sur Yon (D746) passes very close to the village, the A83 motorway is only 12 km away and the beaches of south Vendée are less than 30 minutes by car. The village is entirely surrounded by farmland and provides a tranquil location which is however well connected.
See also
Communes of the Vendée department
References
Communes of Vendée | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpe |
The Antigua Workers' Union (AWU) or (ABWU) is a national trade union centre of Antigua and Barbuda. It was formed in 1967 after a split from the ATLU. The AWU created the Progressive Labour Movement (UPP) in 1970.
The AWU is led by Senator David Massiah as general secretary. Senator Chester Hughes is president of the union.
The first president of the Antigua Workers' Union was Malcolm Daniel.
See also
List of trade unions
References
External links
www.icftu.org entry in ITUC address book.
Trade Union Confederation of the Americas
Trade unions in Antigua and Barbuda
Trade unions established in 1967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua%20Workers%27%20Union |
The Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs is the head of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs within the United States Department of State. The assistant secretary guides operation of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and advises the secretary of state and the Under Secretary for Political Affairs on matters relating to the area.
The Department of State established the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in 1949, after the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government recommended that certain offices be upgraded to bureau level and after Congress increased the number of Assistant Secretaries of State from six to ten. On November 1, 1966, the department by administrative action changed the incumbent's designation to Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Division of Far Eastern Affairs, established in 1908, was the first geographical division to be established in the Department of State.
List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Far Eastern Affairs, 1949–1966
List of Assistant Secretaries of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1966–present
References
United States–Asian relations
United States–Oceanian relations
United States diplomacy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant%20Secretary%20of%20State%20for%20East%20Asian%20and%20Pacific%20Affairs |
The Congolese Air Force () is the air branch of the Armed Forces of the Republic of the Congo, in the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville).
Former Cold War air force
After achieving independence from France in 1960, the Congolese air force () was started with equipment such as the Douglas C-47s, Broussards and Bell 47Gs, these were followed by Nord Noratlas tactical transports and Sud Alouette helicopter. In the 1970s the air force switched to Soviet equipment. This included five Ilyushin Il-14 and six turboprop Antonov An-24 transports and an An-26 in return for providing bases for Cuban MiG-17 operations over Angola. These fighters and a few MiG-15UTI combat trainers were transferred to the FAC. In 1990 these fighter were replaced by 16 USSR supplied MiG-21MF/bis Fishbeds plus a couple of MiG-21US trainers. Together with a Soviet training mission which stayed until late 1991, during that time there were numerous accidents that involved both Soviet and Congolese personnel. After the Soviets left there was only limited funding for MiG operations and they were withdrawn. Six Mi-8 helicopters were delivered from Ukraine in mid-1997 before the Cobra rebel takeover.
Former personnel and budget
A small, but adequate budget and personnel. Financial aid also came from the former USSR and some personnel were either Soviets or Cubans.
Political and combat role
Its role was as a Communist bastion in central Africa and to counter the politically unstable, pro-Western regime in Zaire (the then former name of the DRC). Its role is now one of countering cross-border smuggling operations, intermittent counterinsurgency actions in the northern provinces and successfully containing the crisis in the DRC along its border. Its first batch of aircraft, the MiG-15s and some of the MiG-17s, arrived in the early 1960s just after the Congo's independence from France and Zaire's independence from Belgium.
It was organised into fighter, counterinsurgency, transport and support wings.
Arms suppliers and personnel training
France, China and the Soviet Union supplied arms and aircraft. The Soviets and Cubans trained the air force as a whole, but France also trained some of its officers.
Aircraft
Current inventory
Retired aircraft
Previous aircraft operated by the Air Force consisted of the MiG-21, MiG-17F, C-47 Dakota, SN.601 Corvette, N.2501F Noratlas, Ilyushin Il-14, Antonov An-24, Antonov An-26, Alouette II, Alouette III, AS365 Dauphin, and the MiG-15UTI.
Arms suppliers and personnel training
France, China and Ukraine supplied the arms and aircraft. France and China also trained the air force as a whole, but France has also trained most of its air force officers.
See also
Armed Forces of the Republic of the Congo
References
Sources
Dorling Kinnersley World reference atlas for 1994
Tri-service pocketbook- Soviet and East European Major Combat Aircraft for 1990,
Tri-service pocketbook- NATO Major Combat Aircraft for 1990,
A news clipping on the helicopter and transport plane of about the same date.
Prentice Hall/Salamander Books book- An Illustrated Guide to Aircraft Markings (1989).
Aircraft information files Bright star publishing File 358 sheet 2
Further reading
Air forces by country
Military of the Republic of the Congo
Aviation in the Republic of the Congo
Congo, Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congolese%20Air%20Force |
"Jerusalem's Lot" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. The story was also printed in the illustrated 2005 edition of King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot.
Setting and style
"Jerusalem's Lot" is an epistolary short story set in the fictional town of Preacher's Corners, Cumberland County, Maine, in 1850. It is told through a series of letters and diary entries, mainly those of its main character, aristocrat Charles Boone, although his manservant, Calvin McCann, also occasionally assumes the role of narrator.
Plot
Charles Boone, in letters addressed to "Bones", describes the arrival of himself and his manservant, Calvin McCann, at Chapelwaite, the neglected ancestral home of Charles's estranged late cousin Stephen. Calvin learns that many people in the nearby Maine town of Preacher's Corners think Charles and Calvin are mad for living in the mansion. The house is said to be "a bad house" with a history of sad events, disappearances, and mysterious noises which Charles attributes to "rats in the walls". Calvin finds a hidden compartment in the library containing an old map of a deserted village called Jerusalem's Lot, a mysterious area the townsfolk avoid. Their curiosity piqued, Charles and Calvin set out to explore the village.
The two find a decayed Puritan settlement. Nothing, including animals, has set foot in the town since its abandonment. Exploring a church, they discover an obscene parody of the Madonna and Child and an inverted cross. At the pulpit, they find a book filled with Latin and Druidic runes entitled De Vermis Mysteriis, or "The Mysteries of the Worm". When Charles touches the book, the church shakes, and something gigantic moves in the ground beneath. The two flee the village.
The Preacher's Corners' inhabitants begin fearing Charles. They chase him from one house with rocks and guns. Charles asks Mrs. Cloris, Chapelwaite's former maid, for information about Jerusalem's Lot. She reveals a rift in Charles' family caused by his grandfather, Robert Boone, trying to steal De Vermis Mysteriis from his brother, Philip (presumably to destroy it). Philip was a minister involved in the occult who, on October 31, 1789, vanished along with the population of Jerusalem's Lot. Charles dismisses it as superstition but cannot forget what he saw in the church.
Calvin discovers a diary in the library, encrypted with a rail fence cipher. Before he can decipher it, Charles takes him into the cellar to check for rats. Hidden behind the walls they find the undead corpses of two of his relatives, Marcella and Randolph Boone. Charles recognizes them as "nosferatu". The two flee the cellar, and Calvin seals the trapdoor.
As Charles recovers from the encounter, Calvin cracks the cipher. The diary, written by Robert Boone, details the history of Jerusalem's Lot and the events leading to the mass disappearance. The village was founded by one of Charles' distant ancestors, James Boon, who was the leader of an inbred witchcraft cult. Philip and Robert took up residence in Chapelwaite, Philip was taken in by Boon's cult, and acquired De Vermis Mysteriis at Boon's behest. Philip and Boon used the book to call forth a supernatural entity referred to as "The Worm". In his final entry, Robert curses the whip-poor-will birds that have descended upon Chapelwaite.
Charles feels compelled to return to Jerusalem's Lot. Calvin tries to stop him but finally relents and accompanies his master. They discover a butchered lamb on the church altar, lying on top of De Vermis Mysteriis. Charles moves the lamb and takes the book to destroy it, but a congregation of undead appears, including Philip and Boon. Charles becomes possessed and begins chanting, summoning forth the Worm. Calvin knocks down Charles, freeing him from possession. Charles sets fire to the book. The Worm lashes out from below, killing Calvin before disappearing. Before Charles can recover Calvin's body, Boon forces Charles to flee. In his final letter to "Bones", Charles announces his intention to commit suicide, ending the Boone family line.
An "editor's note" attributes Charles's letters and the death of Calvin to insanity rather than supernatural occurrences in Jerusalem's Lot. The editor notes that Charles was not the last of his line: a bastard relative still exists, the editor himself, James Robert Boone, who has moved to Chapelwaite to restore the family name. James notes that Charles was right about one thing: "This place badly needs the services of an exterminator. There are some huge rats in the walls, by the sound." The note is dated October 2, the same date as Charles' first letter.
Adaptations
Comics
Artist Glenn Chadbourne adapted "Jerusalem's Lot" for The Secretary of Dreams, a collection of comics based on King's short fiction released by Cemetery Dance in December 2006.
Television
In December 2019, Epix announced it had commissioned a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes for a television adaptation starring Adrien Brody as Captain Charles Boone. In March 2020, Emily Hampshire joined the cast in the role of Rebecca Morgan. The show is titled Chapelwaite.
Filming of Chapelwaite was set to begin in March 2020, but had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On July 5, 2020, filming began in Nova Scotia, and was set to wrap up on December 18, 2020. The show premiered on August 22, 2021.
See also
Stephen King short fiction bibliography
References
1978 short stories
Fiction set in 1850
'Salem's Lot
Short stories by Stephen King
Short stories set in Maine
Cthulhu Mythos short stories
Short stories about zombies and revenants
Fantasy short stories
Horror short stories
Fiction with unreliable narrators
False documents
Short stories set in country houses
Works about missing people
Short stories about witches and witchcraft | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem%27s%20Lot |
The Hoberman Arch was the centerpiece of the Olympic Medals Plaza in downtown Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Following the Olympics, the arch was moved to the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park at the University of Utah where, along with the Olympic cauldron, it was one of the main features and an important part of Salt Lake's Olympic legacy. In August 2014, the arch was removed from the park and placed in storage (where 29 pieces were stolen). The restored arch was placed on display alongside the exit road of the Salt Lake City International Airport in August 2023.
Design and history
The arch was designed by Chuck Hoberman to be used as a mechanical curtain for the Olympic Medal Plaza's stage. It is a semi-circular aluminum structure, which opened like the iris of a human eye. The arch design was inspired by Utah's natural stone arches, such as Delicate Arch. At the time of its construction the arch was the largest unfolding structure in the world.
It took Hoberman four months to design the arch (with support from Buro Happold). Specialized knuckle assemblies, which allowed the arch to expand and contract, were fabricated by Hudson Machine Works in Brewster, NY. These were paired with the arch's structural components and pieced together in its entirety by Scenic Technologies of New Windsor, New York, who spent an additional four months in constructing the arch in their warehouse in New York. It was then disassembled and then trucked to Utah, being reassembled in January 2002, and unveiled to the public and media by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), on January 25, 2002.
When installed at the medal plaza it would open to reveal a large 3D sculpture of the 2002 Olympic logo and a second Olympic cauldron, known as the Hero's Cauldron. The stage not only hosted award ceremonies, where the athletes received their medals, but was used as a concert venue during the Olympics; hosting many performing artists including Creed, Brooks & Dunn and the Dave Matthews Band.
After the games
Following the Olympics, plans to install the arch at a park setting were formulated. Many of Salt Lake's citizens wanted the arch to be used in an amphitheater or some kind of concert venue, possibly at downtown's Gallivan Center or Pioneer Park. But because the arch was a symbol of the 2002 games, the United States Olympic Committee put restrictions on possible future locations for the arch (to protect Olympic sponsors from other businesses who do not have Olympic sponsor contracts). Because of these restrictions, and a lack of consensus among Salt Lake's leaders on where it would go, SLOC announced plans, on December 5, 2002, to install the arch at the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park.
On July 30, 2003, the arch was lifted onto its new base at the park using 3 cranes. The arch was located just outside the park's southern fence and was partly open which allowed visitors to walk through it, while at night the arch was lit with multicolored lights. The arch was removed from the park in August 2014. On December 6, 2014, 29 pieces of the arch were stolen from an impound lot where it had been stored. after which the remaining pieces were moved to an undisclosed location.
On August 29, 2023, the restored arch was unveiled alongside the exit road of the Salt Lake City International Airport. The arch sits atop a new 10–12 foot high base, which includes the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic logos and wording memorializing Salt Lake City as the 2002 host of the games. The reconstruction cost $3.79 million and was completed under the direction of artist Gordon Huether. The installation does not allow the arch to open and close, but does provide lighting at night.
Details
The arch is tall, feet wide, and weighs It is made up of 4,000 individual pieces put together as 96 connected panels and are connected with 13,000 steel rivets. The 96 panels vary in size, but the largest are tall and wide. The panels are also translucent which allowed light from behind to be seen and echoed the 2002 Olympic theme Light the Fire Within. Two 30-horsepower motors controlled eight separate cables which pulled the mechanical curtain open in about 20 seconds. When the arch was fully opened it had folded up into a ring, which framed the stage. It was designed to open and close like the iris of an eye. During the Olympics, it was included in the every evening medal ceremony and when opened, revealed the second Olympic cauldron.
Because of the potential of strong storms during the games, the arch was built to operate in extreme weather, including up to -per-hour winds.
References
External links
Salt Lake 2002 Cauldron Park website
Hoberman Associates - Arch project page
2002 establishments in Utah
2002 sculptures
2002 Winter Olympics
Aluminum sculptures in Utah
Buildings and structures in Salt Lake City
Outdoor sculptures in Utah
Tourist attractions in Salt Lake City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoberman%20Arch |
Lord Beauchamp may refer to:
Baron Beauchamp of Hache
Baron Beauchamp de Warwick
Baron Beauchamp of Powick
Baron Beauchamp de Somerset
Baron Beauchamp of Bletso
Beauchamp, Baron St Amand
Baron Beauchamp of Kidderminster
Viscount Beauchamp, a subsidiary title of the Marquess of Hertford, second creation
Viscount Beauchamp of Hache, a subsidiary title of the Duke of Somerset, first creation
Earl Beauchamp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Beauchamp |
The tourism industry of the Isle of Man has been an important element in the economy for over a century.
History
In the early days visitors were mostly richer British families. Key for the development of the sector in the Victorian Era was the introduction of ferry connections with steamships between Liverpool and the Isle of Man, the Isle of Man Railway, and the Victoria Pier in Douglas.
Later in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the island was the destination for working-class families, mainly from the north of England and from Ireland. In 1964 tourism, which was already in decline, "was still responsible for 75 per cent of the gross value of the production of the major forms of industry: moreover, 21 per cent of the working population found employment in some branch of the tourist industry".
The Edwardian era brought the mass tourism "driven mostly by the Lancashire cotton" industry which gave its workers "a one week 'Wakes week' holiday".
Today
In the 21st century, tourism is rather different. Today the tourist accommodation sector only accounts for 0.3% of the Gross National Income (GNI), and employed 629 people in 2016.
In 2016 an estimated 135,000 tourists stayed in paid accommodation on the island; in addition, almost 100,000 stayed with friends or family, and there were almost 60,000 business visitors including day trippers.
Despite the historical decline in tourism, many tourists visit the island for the famous TT races (about 45,000 in 2017), and for its rolling countryside and coastline.
See also
Registered Buildings of the Isle of Man
:Category:Tourist attractions in the Isle of Man
References
External links | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20the%20Isle%20of%20Man |
Championship Manager 2006 is a computer game in Eidos' Championship Manager series. It is essentially a seasonal update for Championship Manager 5. The game was developed by Beautiful Game Studios (BGS) and was released on Windows on March 31, 2006.
Key features
Possibly the most anticipated new feature for CM 2006 is the updated "Gameplan" 3D match engine, which Eidos/BGS describe as a "3D representation of a football match" . It is not the FIFA/PES-style 3D match engine that some fans have been crying out for but it is another step along from the top-down 2D view. The developers have improved on CM5's single isometric view by promising 11 different camera angles to view the match from.
Player interaction has also been improved greatly, offering 32 different types of interaction - things such as player fines, homesickness and relationships with other players in the team.
The game also includes a more accurate and fully up-to-date database of players and clubs. It does not feature any additional playable leagues to the 26 found CM5, but while this will be a disappointment for some fans, the developers insist that this will help them to improve the quality of data found in the existing playable leagues.
Other versions
A handheld version of the game has been released for Sony's PlayStation Portable on April 7, 2006.
A console version developed by Gusto Games has been released on Xbox and PlayStation 2 in May 2006.
A mobile version of the game, Championship Manager 2006 Mobile was developed by BAFTA award-winning developer Dynamo Games
International update
On 2 June 2006, to tie in with the 2006 FIFA World Cup, an update pack was released on the Championship Manager website, for the PC. This pack fixed minor problems with the original release of the game, and also included a new mode, as never seen before since Beautiful Game Studios took over the series: International Management Mode. The mode allows players to take control of international teams, and take them through their international competitions, such as the world cup.
Glitches
Before the International Update, there were many glitches and problems in the game. A few players playing for Forest Green Rovers had extremely high attributes, but they were still worth only about £40,000. The most famous players were Alex Meechan and Bruno Teixeira. There was also another glitch that let the player buy players without paying wages, among others.
There are also several South American players whose value is far less than the statistics of the player when first bought.
On the Xbox version there are fake players on Manchester United, Chelsea F.C., Plymouth Argyle to name a few.
Some players, such as Cesar Daniel Caceres Canete and Danilo Belic, were the wrong age in the game. Canete started the game as an eight-year-old and Belic 14, meaning that they keep improving for several years.
Some player histories failed to show transfers and instead shows the player's whole career at the one club.
A final glitch let you change the transfer status and value of players you have out on loan, meaning that if you can loan a player you can later sign them for free and often on a lower contract.
See also
Football Manager 2006
Notes
External links
Official Championship Manager website
6MB video of CM2006 - A goal in the new match engine, viewed from the "West TV" camera angle.
Eurogamer review of CM2006
2006 video games
Association football management video games
Beautiful Game Studios games
Eidos Interactive games
Gusto Games games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Portable games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Xbox games
Dynamo Games games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship%20Manager%202006 |
Kagutsuchi (カグツチ; Old Japanese: Kagututi), also known as Hi-no-Kagutsuchi or Homusubi among other names, is the kami of fire in classical Japanese mythology.
Mythology
Kagutsuchi's birth burned his mother Izanami, causing her death. His father Izanagi, in his grief, beheaded Kagutsuchi with his sword, Ame no Ohabari (天之尾羽張), and cut his body into eight pieces, which became eight volcanoes. Kagutsuchi's corpse created numerous deities, which typically includes Watatsumi, Kuraokami, Takemikazuchi, Futsunushi, Amatsumikaboshi, and Ōyamatsumi.
Kagutsuchi's birth, in Japanese mythology, comes at the end of the creation of the world and marks the beginning of death. In the Engishiki, a source which contains the myth, Izanami, in her death throes, bears the water god Mizuhanome, instructing her to pacify Kagu-tsuchi if he should become violent. This story also contains references to traditional fire-fighting tools: gourds for carrying water and wet clay and water reeds for smothering fires.
Name
The name Kagutsuchi was originally a compound phrase, consisting of kagu, an Old Japanese root verb meaning "to shine"; tsu, the Old Japanese possessive particle; and chi, an Old Japanese root meaning "force, power".
Worship
Kagutsuchi is the patron deity of blacksmiths and ceramic workers. He is worshipped in several shrines, one of which is Atago Shrine, near Kyoto.
Popular culture
In the manga and anime Sailor Moon, a character named Hino Rei uses flame magic.
In the manga and anime Fairy Tail, a character named Zancrow uses the Flame God Slayer Magic and has an attack named after Kagutsuchi.
In the manga Noragami, Kagutsuchi appears during the subjugation of Bishamon and is shown to be capable of blowing fire.
In the anime Mai-HiME, Mai's Child is based upon Kagutsuchi.
In the manga and anime Naruto: Shippuden, one of the main characters, Sasuke Uchiha, is shown to have the ability to manipulate the black flames of Amaterasu into various weapons. This is referred to as Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi, which refers to the fire god.
In the anime Ao No Exorcist, the hometown to several of the characters is Kyoto, where a powerful sword was made from long ago by, and had to do with Kagu-Tsuchi.
In the video game series BlazBlue, the main setting of the first two games is the 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi.
In the same video game series, one of the playable characters, Nine the Phantom, has Hi no Kagutsuchi, an enormous fire elemental that can be summoned by her.
In the video game series Brave Frontier, Kagatsuchi is a fire-based battle unit. He's in the form of a centaur, and is described as "a disastrous beast".
In the manga Rurouni Kenshin, the main antagonist of the Kyoto Arc, Shishio Makoto, uses a technique called "The Final Secret Sword: Kagutsuchi" as a last resort "trump card", bringing down a cyclone of flames that his sword can produce at his enemy.
In the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona franchises, Kagutsuchi is a recurring figure in various titles. In some he is a regular demon to be recruited, a sword bearing his name in reference to the novels the franchises are based on, and in others he is a central figure to the plot.
In the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a fire-elemental staff known as "Kagutsuchi's Blood" can be obtained on the Zombies map "Origins".
In the mobile phone game Puzzle and Dragons, developed by Gung-ho, Hino Kagutsuchi is a collectible fire monster.
In the card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, alongside Susanoo, Amaterasu, and Tsukuyomi, Kagutsuchi is one of the 4 Xyz Monsters of Bujin.
In the mobile game Monster Strike, Kagutsuchi is a fire collectible, along with Susano'o, Amaterasu, Inari, Izanami, Izanagi and more.
In the mobile game Dragalia Lost, Kagutsuchi appears as a red Flame-type dragon with golden armor fused to his body, given the title of 'Incandescent General'. He is described as the rival of the game's similarly-dragonized version of Marishi-Ten, with the two of them inadvertently creating a magical hot spring in the Hogo region of Hinomoto, the game's version of Japan, during one of their duels, when Marishiten caused Kagutsuchi's molten blood to seep into the spring's water, permanently heating it and leading the locals to dub it the Bloodspring or Twin-Wyrm Spring in honor of the dragons' eventual friendship. When Kagutsuchi isn't waging war, he's usually basking in a hot spring or frying chicken, which he offers to his allies.
In the manga and anime Gintama, the main weapon aboard the Altana Liberation Army's flag ship Amenotorifune, intended to destroy the Earth, is called "Hinokagutsuchi".
In the video game Ghost of Tsushima, there is a Charm of Kagu-Tsuchi. This charm is granted by finding and honoring the Plum Blossom Shrine.
In the light novel High School DxD: Slash/Dog series, Kagu-tsuchi is the Shinto God of Fire and also the patron deity of the Himejima Clan whom in turned blessed them with the power of spiritual flames. A descendant of the Himejima, Tobio Ikuse is the wielder of the Ame no Ohabari, the divine sword which killed Kagu-tsuchi which is infused with Kagu-tsuchi's divine flames which grant it immense power to kill even a Demon Lord Gressil.
In the video game series The Alchemist Code, the royal family of Wadatsumi, Rising Ashes, which consists of Mitsuha, Kagura, Zeke Crowley and Logi Crowley, uses a fire ability called Kagutsuchi, which takes the form of a phoenix when used. This technique is very powerful against a type of enemy, ogres. In difficult situations, Mitsuha, Kagura and Logi use an advanced form of the fire technique, called "Kagutsuchi Kiraboshi".
Family tree
See also
Kōjin
Takemikazuchi
Akiha Gongen
List of fire gods
Musuhi part of the tymology of Homusubi
Notes
References
Ashkenazy, Michael. Handbook of Japanese Mythology. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, 2003.
Bock, Felicia G., trans. Engi-shiki: Procedures of the Engi Era. ASU Center for Asian Studies (Occasional Paper #17).
External links
Kagutsuchi, Encyclopedia of Shinto
Kagutsuchi on the Japanese History Database.
Crafts gods
Fire gods
Japanese gods
Shinto kami
Smithing gods
Killed deities
Kunitsukami | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagu-tsuchi |
Skelton is a small village and civil parish about north west of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria. It is on the former route of the B5305 road, which is now about to the north. The parish had a population of 1,059 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,153 at the 2011 Census.
The village has a primary school, pub, and Anglican and Methodist churches.
Close to the village is the Skelton transmitting station and the stately home of Hutton-in-the-Forest, the family home of Lord Inglewood.
Skelton Agricultural Show is one of the largest in Cumbria and takes place on the first Saturday in July at Hutton-in-the-Forest.
The large parish of Skelton includes the villages and hamlets of Ellonby, Ivegill, Lamonby, Unthank, Unthank End, Skelton Wood End, Laithes, Hutton End, Hutton Row, New Rent, Braithwaite and Middlesceugh.
In 1934 the parish absorbed the former civil parishes of Hutton-in-the-Forest, and Middlesceugh and Braithwaite, plus part of Dalston.
Hutton-in-the-Forest included New Rent, Hutton End and Hutton Row and was bordered on the east by Hesket-in-the-Forest. "Forest" refers to the ancient royal hunting ground of Inglewood Forest which included all of the present-day Skelton.
Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches beyond the confines of Skelton Parish with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 1,497.
See also
Listed buildings in Skelton, Cumbria
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Skelton (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Civil parishes in Cumbria
Inglewood Forest
Villages in Cumbria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skelton%2C%20Cumbria |
The membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as of December 31, 2022, was 17,002,461. The LDS church is known for its rapid membership growth. While it reduced velocity during recent years and membership growth slowed to below the world growth rate in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2022 the annual growth rate in membership was 1.17%.
Membership defined
The LDS Church defines membership as:
Growth and demographic history
The records of the LDS Church show membership growth every decade since its beginning in the 1830s, although that has slowed significantly. Following initial growth rates that averaged 10% to 25% per year in the 1830s through 1850s, it grew at about 4% per year through the last four decades of the 19th century. After a steady slowing of growth in the first four decades of the 20th century to a rate of about 2% per year in the 1930s (the Great Depression years), growth boomed to an average of 6% per year for the decade around 1960, staying around 4% to 5% through 1990. After 1990, average annual growth again slowed steadily to a rate around 2.2% for the ten years ending 2015, approximately double the average world population growth rate of 1.1% for the same period. The growth rate has not been greater than 3% per year in the 21st century and has decelerated steadily since 2012. The rate has not been above 2% since 2013. In May 2019, however, Phil Zuckerman, Ph.D., of Psychology Today expressed skepticism of how the LDS Church reports growth in membership, noting that while church membership was reported to be rising, separate analysis conducted by journalist Jana Riess showed that reports of Mormon retention, religious participation, teachings and belief have been declining since 2007. By 2019, Mormons represented 51% of the population in their longtime stronghold of Utah, in contrast with 75% in 2000.
Riess made her research public in her book The Next Mormons. Book reviewer Stephen Cranney stated in his review of The Next Mormons that the book "fill[s] the need for a large, representative Latter-day Saint sample." Cranney also stated that "Media outlets and others will occasionally perform one-off surveys that gather Latter-day Saint responses to specific (often political) issues, but generally social scientists, the media, and the public are flying in the dark when it comes to finding representative numbers about Latter-day Saint attitudes and beliefs. Furthermore, the few surveys that do have large numbers of Latter-day Saints (such as the American Religious Identification Survey or the Pew Religious Landscape Surveys) are generic religion surveys, so questions do not reflect concerns, language, or concepts specific to Latter-day Saints."
The church maintains a membership record for every person who meets the church's membership criteria and has it recorded, so verification of the exact number who belong to the church is readily obtainable by church leaders.
LDS Church membership numbers
Table for recent growth
World population numbers as of April 5, 2020.
Table for LDS Church membership numbers
Membership numbers from 1830-2011 come from the 2013 Church Almanac.
See also
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics
References
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Membership
Religious demographics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membership%20history%20of%20the%20Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20of%20Latter-day%20Saints |
Kent Place School is a girls' independent college-preparatory day school (with a coeducational nursery and pre-kindergarten) serving students in preschool through twelfth grade in Summit, Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Kent Place School is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. In 2007, The Wall Street Journal listed Kent Place School as one of the world's top 50 schools for its success in preparing students to enter top American universities.
As of the 2017-18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 602 students (plus 19 in pre-kindergarten) and 78.8 classroom teachers (on an full-time equivalent basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.6:1. The school's student body was 66.0% White, 18.4% Asian, 12.0% Black and 3.7% Hispanic.
Academics
The Primary, Middle, and Upper Schools each include science labs, art studios, and a computer lab. The Arts Center features a 260-seat theater, an art gallery, a dance studio, and practice rooms. Athletic facilities include a field house (gymnasium and weight room), three playing fields, and five tennis courts.
Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses offered at the school include AP Art History, AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP Computer Science, AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Environmental Science, AP European History, AP French Language, AP Latin Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP Music Theory, AP Physics 1, AP Spanish Language, AP Spanish Literature, AP Statistics, AP Studio Art, AP United States History, AP United States Government and Politics, and AP World History. The school also offers additional advanced mathematics courses in multivariable calculus and linear algebra.
Athletics
The Kent Place School Dragons compete in the Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in union County and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). Before the 2010 realignment, the school had participated in the Mountain Valley Conference, which consisted of public and private high schools in Essex County and Union County. With 396 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Non-Public A for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 381 to 1,454 students in that grade range (equivalent to Group I for public schools).
The Upper School offers varsity-level teams in cross-country, soccer, tennis, field hockey, volleyball, basketball, swimming, squash, ice hockey, fencing, indoor track, lacrosse, softball, and outdoor track. Middle School teams are available in basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Physical education classes are also offered in Middle and Upper School in place of a sport. Physical education is required in Primary School and grade six.
The field hockey team won the North II Group I state sectional championship in 1999.
The spring track team was the Non-Public Group B state champion in 2013.
The cross-country team won the Non-Public Group B state championship in 2013.
The track team won the Non-Public Group B indoor track championship in 2014.
The girls' tennis team won the Non-Public A state championship in 2017 and 2019, defeating Pingry School in the tournament final both years. The 2017 team finished the season 21-1, including a 3-2 victory against Pingry for the Non-Public A title.
Notable alumnae
Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur (born 1971), author and activist who works with Malaria No More.
Erika Amato (born 1969), actress, singer and founder of Velvet Chain.
Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), painter, illustrator and writer.
Emily Barton (born 1969), novelist.
Maria Dizzia (born 1974, class of 1993), actress, 2010 Tony nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Play.
Gina Genovese (born 1959), businesswoman and politician who has served as mayor of Long Hill Township.
Alina Habba (born 1984, class of 2002), lawyer best known for representing former President of the United States Donald Trump.
Chisa Hutchinson (born 1980), playwright.
Natalie Enright Jerger, computer scientist.
Judy Joo (born 1974), professional chef, author, and television personality.
Maureen Ogden (born 1928), politician who served seven terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, from 1982 to 1996.
Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey (1924-2017), British public servant and writer.<ref>"The Dowager Marchioness of Anglesey Formidable head of the Women’s Institute who would later chair the Broadcasting Complaints Commission", 'The Times, January 31, 2017. Accessed October 25, 2019.</ref>
Gabrielle Stanton (born 1968), television writer and producer best known for her work on the series Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty''.
Janet Sorg Stoltzfus, (1931–2004), educator, who established the Ta'iz Cooperative School, the first non-religious school in north Yemen.
Amanda Urban (born 1946/47), literary agent.
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Thermoplastic olefin, thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO), or olefinic thermoplastic elastomers refer to polymer/filler blends usually consisting of some fraction of a thermoplastic, an elastomer or rubber, and usually a filler.
Outdoor applications such as roofing frequently contain TPO because it does not degrade under solar UV radiation, a common problem with nylons. TPO is used extensively in the automotive industry.
Materials
Thermoplastics
Thermoplastics may include polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), block copolymer polypropylene (BCPP), and others.
Fillers
Common fillers include, though are not restricted to talc, fiberglass, carbon fiber, wollastonite, and MOS (Metal Oxy Sulfate).
Elastomers
Common elastomers include ethylene propylene rubber (EPR), EPDM (EP-diene rubber), ethylene-octene (EO), ethylbenzene (EB), and styrene ethylene butadiene styrene (SEBS). Currently there are a great variety of commercially available rubbers and BCPP's. They are produced using regioselective and stereoselective catalysts known as metallocenes. The metallocene catalyst becomes embedded in the polymer and cannot be recovered.
Creation
Components for TPO are blended together at 210 - 270 °C under high shear. A twin screw extruder or a continuous mixer may be employed to achieve a continuous stream, or a Banbury compounder may be employed for batch production. A higher degree of mixing and dispersion is achieved in the batch process, but the superheat batch must immediately be processed through an extruder to be pelletized into a transportable intermediate. Thus batch production essentially adds an additional cost step.
Structure
The geometry of the metallocene catalyst will determine the sequence of chirality in the chain, as in, atactic, syndiotactic, isotactic, as well as average block length, molecular weight and distribution. These characteristics will in turn govern the microstructure of the blend.
As in metal alloys the properties of a TPO product depend greatly upon controlling the size and distribution of the microstructure. PP and PE form lamellar crystallites separated by amorphous regions that can grow into a variety of microstructures ranging from single crystals from dilute solution crystallization to fiberous crystals and shish-kabob structures. Thin films from quiescent melts can form spherulitic impinging structures that display cylindrically symmetric birefringence. The PP and PE components of a blend constitute the "crystalline phase", and the rubber and branched PE chains and PE/PP end groups gives the "amorphous phase".
If PP and PE are the dominant component of a TPO blend then the rubber fraction will be dispersed into a continuous matrix of "crystalline" polypropylene. If the fraction of rubber is greater than 40% phase inversion may be possible when the blend cools, resulting in an amorphous continuous phase, and a crystalline dispersed phase. This type of material is non-rigid, and is sometimes called TPR for ThermoPlastic Rubber.
To increase the rigidity of a TPO blend, fillers exploit a surface tension phenomena. By selecting a filler with a higher surface area per weight, a higher flexural modulus can be achieved. Specific density of TPO blends range from 0.92 to 1.1.
Application
TPO is easily processed by injection molding, profile extrusion, and thermoforming. However, TPO cannot be blown, or sustain a film thickness less than 1/4 mil (about 6 micrometers).
References
Thermoplastic elastomers
Materials science
Polymer physics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoplastic%20olefin |
Frank S. Scott (2 December 188328 September 1912) was a United States Army corporal who died during his second enlistment, aged 28, in an aircraft crash. As the first enlisted American to die in an aircraft incident, Scott was memorialized multiple times.
Personal life
Frank S. Scott was born in Braddock, Pennsylvania on 2 December 1883. He and his sister Clara were orphaned in 1889 when their parents died in the Johnstown Flood; they were thereafter raised by an aunt.
US Army
Scott enlisted in the United States Army at Fort Slocum on 2 March 1908, and served with the Field Artillery Branch. In 1911, Private Scott was discharged at Fort Myer (with "excellent"-rated character) from "Battery D, 3rd Regiment, Field Artillery." The very same month, he re-enlisted with "Company G, Signal Corps."
That July, then-Corporal Scott began suffering from a lengthy unknown illness. Upon recovery, he was deemed unfit for his current duties and transferred to the Signal Corps' Aeronautical Division at College Park Flying Field in Maryland. At his new assignment, Scott discovered a penchant for mechanical engineering and was re-tasked from his duties of releasing hot air balloons to becoming chief mechanic for one of the Wright Model B biplanes assigned to the Field.
Death
By 27 September, Second Lieutenant Lewis Rockwell had promised Scott an aircraft-ride on 28 September while testing for his aviator ratings. An officer had asked to be Rockwell's passenger, but since Scott weighed less (having not fully recovered from his 1911 illness), he received the coveted seat; excited about the upcoming flight, Scott joked with a visiting Captain Bernard Rome that he was just 2LT Rockwell's "ballast".
The next day, Rockwell test-flew the plane alone to ensure proper functioning; after reaching and assured that the aircraft was functioning properly, the lieutenant landed and picked up Scott. The takeoff and flight itself were uneventful as the small craft flew at an altitude of for about ten minutes. However, when attempting to land, the plane developed engine problems and began to dive; Rockwell stopped the plane's engine within of the ground, but could not stop the descent and crash. Scott was dead at the scene, and Rockwell died later at Walter Reed General Hospital, having never regained consciousness. More than 300 people watched the crash.
The plane in question had been rebuilt thrice and logged over one thousand flights; it was made of wood, wire, cloth, and glue. The official incident investigation found that the plane's control wires were still intact after the crash. Coupled with eyewitness accounts, the investigatory board determined that pilot error was the cause: Rockwell misjudged the plane's altitude upon descent and could not recover from the dive.
Legacy
Scott and Rockwell were buried in Arlington National Cemetery on 1 October 1912; Scott's grave is numbered 5331-5 in section 13.
On 20 July 1917, in accordance with the standard procedure of naming aviation fields for those servicemembers who died "during the 'experimental' era" of aviation, Scott Field was named for the first American enlisted man to die in an aircraft accident. With Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Thomas N. Barnes as the guest of honor on 20 July 1976, a granite-and-bronze memorial was dedicated to Corporal Scott at the Air Force base named for him. , Scott Air Force Base was the only United States Air Force base named for an enlisted person.
References
See also
1883 births
1912 deaths
accidental deaths in Maryland
aircraft mechanics
burials at Arlington National Cemetery
missing middle or first names
people from Braddock, Pennsylvania
United States Army non-commissioned officers
victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1912
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CKMW-FM is a Canadian radio station licensed to Winkler, Manitoba, serving the Pembina Valley Region broadcasting at 88.9 FM with a country format branded as Country 88. The station is currently owned & operated by Golden West Broadcasting.
CKMW shares its location with sister stations CJEL-FM and CFAM.
History
It first began broadcasting at 6 a.m. on August 1, 1980 at 1530 kHz with the call sign CISV, before moving to 1570 kHz and adopting its current call sign in 1987.
Move to FM
On July 16, 2012, Golden West received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to convert CKMW from the AM band to the FM band. The new frequency previously assigned was 103.7 MHz. On January 8, 2013, the CRTC granted permission for CKMW to broadcast instead on 88.9 MHz, as well as increasing the average effective radiated power (ERP) from 61,000 to 100,000 watts (maximum ERP remains at 100,000 watts) and changing from a directional to a non-directional antenna. The station relaunched as Country 88.9 at 88.9 FM on June 12, 2013. Following its move to FM, CKMW was permitted to simulcast on both AM and FM for a transition period of three months, ending in September; the station ceased broadcasting on AM 1570 on August 30, 2013.
References
External links
Country 88.9
(88.9 MHz)
(Old 1570 kHz frequency)
Kmw
Kmw
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Morden, Manitoba
Winkler, Manitoba
Radio stations established in 1980
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ABWU may refer to:
All Bengal Women's Union, a non-governmental organization
Antigua Workers' Union, a national trade union of Antigua and Barbuda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABWU |
The Latvian National Museum of Art () is the richest collection of national art in Latvia. It houses more than 52,000 works of art reflecting the development of professional art in the Baltic area and in Latvia from the middle of the 18th century until the present time.
The museum is located in building in Riga, which is historically significant. The building at 1, Janis Rozentāls sq. was designed by the German architect Wilhelm Neumann and built in 1905 — it is one of the most impressive historical buildings on the boulevard and is situated next to the Academy of Art. It was the first building in the Baltics to be built for the purposes of a museum. Between 2010 and 2015 museum underwent a reconstruction, during which the total size of the building was doubled.
Gallery
References
External links
Latvian National Museum of Art within Google Arts & Culture
Art museums established in 1905
Art museums and galleries in Latvia
Museums in Riga
National galleries
National museums in Latvia
1905 establishments in the Russian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian%20National%20Museum%20of%20Art |
Schlick or Schlicke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People
Moritz Schlick (1882–1936), German philosopher and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle
Arnolt Schlick (c. 1457–c. 1521), German organist and composer of the Renaissance
Robert H. Von Schlick (1875–1941), German-born United States Army private
Ernst Otto Schlick (1840–1913), German engineer
Katherine Schlick Noe, Professor of Education at Seattle University
Björn Schlicke (born 1981), German footballer
Heinz Schlicke (1912–2006), German-born engineer and author
The Counts von Schlick, who became one of the richest noble families in Bohemia from coins named Joachimsthaler minted from silver found in their land in Joachimsthal.
See also
Schlick's approximation, an approximation of the BRDF of metallic surfaces
Schlick, onomatopoeic slang for female masturbation
Vito Schlickmann (1928–2023), Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate
German-language surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlick |
St John's Marlborough (formerly St John's School and Community College) is a mixed secondary school with academy status in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, for students aged 11 to 18. The school opened in 1975 and is in the south of the town.
History
The school was formed in 1975 as a new comprehensive school, taking over the buildings and many of the staff of the recently closed Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School and the Marlborough Secondary Modern School on Chopping Knife Lane. The grammar school had been founded in 1550. The school's Savernake building was the former secondary modern school.
In 1998 the school was awarded its first specialism in Technology and in 2005 its second in Languages. After the rebuilding of the school on a new site at Granham Hill, the buildings of two former schools were demolished in 2010.
The school converted to academy status in September 2012. It is run by the Excalibur Academies Trust, a multi-academy trust which includes several local primary schools and John O'Gaunt School, Hungerford.
Buildings
Thanks to having taken over the buildings of the former grammar and secondary modern schools, in its early years the school operated on two separate sites. Building work for a new school started in June 2008, at an estimated cost of £26.5 million. The new building was brought into use in late 2009 and was officially opened by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in 2010.
The new building was designed by Re-Format, formerly Format Milton Architects. The single-site project had been many years in the planning due to delays obtaining planning permission for the development of the other site, and complaints from local residents.
Notable alumni
Aaron Hicklin – editor of Out magazine
Lauren Child – children's author and illustrator
Rhys Thornbury – skeleton athlete
Phil Hammond – physician, journalist, broadcaster, comedian and commentator
References
External links
Excalibur Academies Trust
Secondary schools in Wiltshire
Academies in Wiltshire
Educational institutions established in 1975
1975 establishments in England
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Luke James Joyce (born 9 July 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Radcliffe.
Joyce came through the youth team at Wigan Athletic to make his first-team debut in January 2006. He was allowed to sign for Carlisle United six months later, from where he was loaned out to Conference Premier clubs Barrow and Northwich Victoria during the 2008–09 season. He signed with Accrington Stanley in June 2009 and spent the next six years with the club, including over three seasons as captain, making a total of 276 league and cup appearances. He returned to Carlisle United in May 2015 and spent three years with the club, for an overall period of six years and 161 appearances in all competitions over his two spells. He moved on to Port Vale in May 2018, where he would remain a key fixture in the starting eleven for his three seasons at the club. He dropped into non-League football after signing for AFC Fylde in June 2021. He moved on to Radcliffe 12 months later and helped the club to win the 2023 Manchester Premier Cup.
Career
Wigan Athletic
Joyce was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and was at the Academy at Bolton Wanderers from the age of eight until he was released at age ten or eleven. He went on to play Sunday League football and captained the Wigan schools' team. He joined the youth team at Wigan Athletic in June 2003. He made one appearance for the first-team, coming on as a substitute for Josip Skoko in extra time of a 3–3 draw at Leeds United in an FA Cup Third Round replay on 17 January 2006. Manager Paul Jewell said that "he didn't let anybody down" in the game and praised his attitude in training, as did "Latics" youth team coach David Lee. However Joyce did not make an appearance for the club in the Premier League and was allowed to leave the JJB Stadium at the end of the 2005–06 season.
Carlisle United
After a short trial, Joyce joined Carlisle United, initially with the club taking over his Wigan scholarship, signing on a permanent basis in July 2006. He made his debut in League One as an 85th-minute substitute for Simon Hackney in a 2–0 win over Cheltenham Town at Brunton Park on 3 September.
He scored his first senior goal for the "Cumbrians" in a 5–0 victory over Gillingham on 24 March. He was sent off for the first time in his career in a 2–0 defeat at Port Vale on 7 April. He made a total of 16 appearances across the 2006–07 season, helping Neil McDonald's "Blues" to an eighth-place finish. He featured just three times under new manager John Ward during the 2007–08 campaign, though managed to score his second career goal in a 3–2 win over Port Vale on 5 January.
On 27 November 2008, he joined Conference Premier club Barrow on a one-month loan; "Bluebirds" manager David Bayliss said that "Luke will definitely strengthen us but whether he starts or not remains to be seen". He made his debut at Holker Street in the shock FA Cup second round defeat of Brentford.
He remained with the club for five weeks, featuring seven times, before leaving after their FA Cup elimination by Middlesbrough in January 2009.
On 13 March 2009, he joined Northwich Victoria on an initial one-month loan. He scored on his debut for the "Vics" two days later in a 4–1 defeat at Cambridge United. He scored two goals in 12 games for Andy Preece's side, who ended the 2008–09 season being relegated out of the Conference Premier. Nevertheless, he said he enjoyed his time at the Victoria Stadium, and upon returning to Carlisle he found that he was to be released by manager Greg Abbott.
Accrington Stanley
On 25 June 2009, Joyce signed with League Two club Accrington Stanley. He made 50 appearances in the 2009–10 season, scoring one goal. He featured 32 times in the 2010–11 campaign, helping "Accy" to reach the League Two play-offs for the first time, before they were beaten by Stevenage at the semi-final stage. He scored three goals in 47 matches as Stanley finished in 14th-place under the stewardship of Paul Cook at the end of the 2011–12 season; Joyce took over as captain following the departure of Andrew Procter in January 2012. He made 48 appearances across the 2012–13 campaign, with Stanley ending up in 18th-place under new boss Leam Richardson. Joyce played 49 games in the 2013–14 season as Accrington posted a 15th-place finish under the stewardship of rookie manager James Beattie. When the club were bottom of the English Football League in November after failing to win in their first 12 league games, Joyce stood by Beattie, calling him a "good manager and a good bloke". Two months later Beattie returned the favour by calling Joyce an "unsung hero" after he scored his first goal in 22 months to help secure a 2–1 victory over Cheltenham Town. John Coleman returned as manager early in the 2014–15 campaign and kept Joyce as captain, with the midfielder scoring four goals from 50 appearances. Joyce said "it has been an up and down season... overall, I guess it has been a decent season, we have secured our tenth season in the Football League and that's a massive achievement for the club the size of ours, but we are disappointed we haven't finished further up the league".
Return to Carlisle United
On 21 May 2015, Joyce turned down a two-year contract with Accrington to rejoin former club Carlisle United on a two-year deal. He made 42 appearances as United posted a tenth-place finish in League Two at the end of the 2015–16 season, though was booed and criticised by some supporters after suffering from poor form in March, which manager Keith Curle blamed on a "nervous period". He helped Carlisle to record a 2–1 win at Queens Park Rangers in the League Cup, before he missed a penalty in Carlisle's penalty shoot-out defeat to Liverpool at Anfield in the Third Round. Joyce went on to miss just one of Carlisle's 56 games during the 2016–17 season, as the club secured a play-off place with a sixth-place finish before losing to Exeter City in the play-off semi-finals. In the Second Round of the EFL Cup he helped Carlisle to secure a 1–1 draw at Derby County, and then remarkably converted two penalties as Carlisle were beaten 14–13 following 11 rounds of sudden death in the resulting penalty shoot-out. On 29 October, he scored with a long-range strike in a 3–1 home win over Crawley Town, which ended up winning him that month Goal of the Month award for League Two. In April 2017, it was confirmed that Joyce would remain at the club after triggering a one-year extension to his contract. He scored two goals – adding a tap in at Newport County to his strike against Crawley – in 46 appearances during the 2017–18 as Carlisle went on to finish in tenth-position, before leaving the club after rejecting a new 12-month deal on reduced terms offered to him by the managerless club.
Port Vale
On 17 May 2018, Joyce signed a two-year contract with League Two side Port Vale; manager Neil Aspin said that "he is comfortable in possession and was impressive against us for Carlisle". He chose to join the "Valiants" despite receiving a better contract offer from a club playing below the English Football League. He started the 2018–19 season in a central midfield partnership with Manny Oyeleke. However he lost his place to Tom Conlon after Conlon returned to fitness in September, and Joyce went on to admit that "I have not quite performed as well as I would like to and had the influence on games". He continued in indifferent form for the rest of Aspin's tenure and was given permission to look for a new club in January after going seven games without a first-team appearance, though started against Lincoln City on New Year's Day and remained in the first-team thereafter. He became a key player under new manager John Askey in February and ended the season with 35 starts and seven substitute appearances.
On 18 September 2019, he marked his 500th appearance in a Football League fixture as Vale lost 2–0 at league leaders Exeter City; he quipped that "that probably sums up my career really, Exeter away on a Tuesday night". He scored his first goal for the club on 5 October, levelling the scores in what finished as a 3–1 win over Morecambe at Vale Park. In February 2020, it was announced that Joyce had triggered a clause in his contract to keep him at the club until summer 2021. He scored one goal in 43 appearances throughout the 2019–20 season, missing just one league game due to suspension, providing the defensive cover in the holding midfield role to allow players such as Scott Burgess, Jake Taylor and Tom Conlon to get further forward. He was a joint winner of that season's Players' Player of the Year award, along with David Worrall.
On 14 November 2020, Joyce was sent off for a high tackle when Vale were leading Tranmere Rovers 2–0, and the team went on to lose 4–3 in his absence. The team also lost the three games he missed due to suspension. The losing run continued following his return to the team, leading Joyce to say that "losing games hurts... but we just have to deal with". Joyce featured 46 times in the 2020–21 season, but was one of 15 players released by new manager Darrell Clarke in May 2021. Joyce said that he was disappointed not to be offered a new contract but that "I have taken great pride in playing for Port Vale".
AFC Fylde
On 28 June 2021, Joyce agreed a one-year deal with National League North club AFC Fylde; manager Jim Bentley stated that "this is a real big signing for the football club. Luke has proven to be one of the best midfielders in League Two over many seasons. His stats are phenomenal, he's an excellent professional and is very well respected within the game". In joining the "Coasters" he rejected the opportunity to stay in League Two with Oldham Athletic. He featured 34 times in the 2021–22 campaign as Fylde finished in third-place, but did not feature in their unsuccessful play-off campaign and was released in the summer by new manager James Rowe.
Radcliffe
On 20 June 2022, Joyce joined Northern Premier League Premier Division club Radcliffe, having previously been a teammate of manager Bobby Grant at Accrington. He made 46 appearances in the 2022–23 season, including in the Manchester Premier Cup final victory over Wythenshawe Town.
Style of play
Joyce describes himself as a "working player in midfield" who wins the ball and passes it onto more creative teammates. Port Vale manager John Askey stated that "with Luke not only is it his football, his organisation and encouragement helps the other players". His successor, Darrell Clarke, classed Joyce as a deep-lying midfielder.
Coaching career
Joyce holds a UEFA B Licence and by 2019 had set up a junior academy in Westhoughton.
Career statistics
Honours
Radcliffe
Manchester Premier Cup: 2023
References
1987 births
Living people
Footballers from Bolton
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
Wigan Athletic F.C. players
Carlisle United F.C. players
Barrow A.F.C. players
Northwich Victoria F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
AFC Fylde players
Radcliffe F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Northern Premier League players
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CJEL-FM is a Canadian radio station being licensed to Winkler, Manitoba, and serving the Pembina Valley region of Manitoba broadcasting at 93.5 FM. The station airs a hot adult contemporary format branded on-air as The Eagle 93.5 and is owned by Golden West Broadcasting.
History
On October 19, 1999, Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. received approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a new English-language FM radio station programming undertaking at Winkler. The new station would broadcast on the frequency 93.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts.
It first began broadcasting in 2000. The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting.
CJEL shares its location with sister stations CKMW-FM and CFAM.
References
External links
The Eagle 93.5
Jel
Jel
Jel
Winkler, Manitoba
Radio stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJEL-FM |
General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 14 December 1962. Voters elected 65 members of the Legislative Assembly. The election was notable for bringing to power the Rhodesian Front, initially under Winston Field, which set the colony on the course for its eventual Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
Background
The election was the first held under the 1961 constitution which brought in a new electoral system. The chief issue in the elections was the future of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, under which Southern Rhodesia formed a united country with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, under the leadership of Sir Roy Welensky. The United Federal Party government of Sir Edgar Whitehead favoured continuation of the Federation in some form, together with moves towards multiracialism.
Opponents of the Federation had formed the Dominion Party but coming up to the election, the party had suffered division. The Rhodesia Reform Party had been formed by Ian Smith early in 1962 as a more moderate group. Dominion Party leader William Harper resigned in February 1962, stating that he intended this to be the catalyst towards the creation of a united opposition. By mid-March, the Dominion Party and the Rhodesia Reform Party had put together a broad plan for the new Rhodesian Front with Winston Field, from the Dominion Party, as its leader. Field had to call for unity at the first RF congress in September 1962.
Electoral system
The electorate was divided into the 'A roll' and the 'B roll'. The 'A roll' and consisted of people meeting certain income and property qualifications, which were lowered if the person had more extensive education. This in practice meant that 95.2% of those on the A roll were of European descent. The 'B roll' which consisted of those meeting a lesser income cap or a lesser property cap, both lowered for those with a longer education. 91.3% of those on the B roll were of African descent, although some Europeans only qualified for this roll. The figures were exaggerated by a largely successful campaign on behalf of black African nationalist leaders to persuade their supporters not to register to boycott the election. Most black Africans did not qualify for either roll anyway.
There were two different types of place returning members to the House of Assembly. The colony was divided into 50 constituencies each returning a single member, and in addition, there were 15 districts which also returned one member each. For the constituencies, voters from the 'A roll' and the 'B roll' could both vote, with their votes of equal value. Due to the fact that the 'A roll' was substantially larger than the 'B roll', these constituencies were almost entirely elected by Rhodesians of European descent. Theoretically, if the 'B roll' votes was more than a quarter of the total, they would be reduced in value to a quarter, but in practice this never happened due to the low enrollment and low turnout.
Both rolls also voted for the district seats. However, the total votes from the 'A roll' were reduced to equal a quarter of those of the 'B roll' voters. This meant that the district seats were largely elected by Africans.
Campaign
There was a robust campaign, which all understood as leading to a watershed election. Political meetings saw a great deal of heckling. The RF was keen to reassure nervous voters that it supported some continued links with Northern Rhodesia, and campaigned for tougher enforcement of law and order and security. Both the UFP and the RF supported moves to independence but the RF was more keen, and stated that independence could be either within or without the Commonwealth.
The principal division was on race relations. The UFP leader Sir Edgar Whitehead pledged to appoint Southern Rhodesia's first African Minister should he be re-elected. The RF insisted that the UFP's moves were reckless and endangered Rhodesian society. They saw the 1961 constitution as opening the door to African dominance of Europeans "before the former has acquired adequate knowledge and experience of democratic government" and pointed to Kenya, where Europeans had been forced out of the country, as an example of what might happen. The UFP regarded the RF as reactionaries and throwbacks, and a UFP poster depicted a white man identified as an RF supporter with his head literally in the sand.
Results
A win by the UFP was generally expected. The Examiner magazine said "Let no one doubt that the U.F.P. will win hands down; the Establishment always does in Southern Rhodesia." However, much to everyone's surprise (including their own), the RF found itself with a large majority of the Constituencies and an overall majority in the House of Assembly. The UFP took 14 out of 15 of the Districts, with one (Highfield) going to Dr Ahrn Palley as an Independent candidate. The UFP thus numbered 14 Africans out of a caucus of 29, but the party soon ceased to be a force in Rhodesian politics; from 1965 then until the end of minority rule in 1979 no opposition members were elected from the primarily European constituencies, Rhodesia thus would have a dominant party system.
By constituency
District results
Byelections
Matobo
Harry Roberts died on 13 March 1963, which led to a byelection in Matobo on 23 May 1963.
Arundel
Blair Ewing resigned from Parliament on 4 August 1964 for business reasons, leading to a byelection in the Arundel constituency on 1 October 1964. Sir Roy Welensky, former Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, returned to politics in an attempt to regain the seat; prompted by this, the Rhodesian Front decided that a leading party member newly appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, Clifford Dupont, should give up his seat at Charter to oppose him. Sir Roy was unsuccessful, polling only 633 votes to 1,079 for Dupont.
Avondale
The appointment of A.R.W. Stumbles as Speaker of the Southern Rhodesian Parliament on 28 July 1964 led to his resignation on 1 August 1964. A byelection in his Avondale constituency was held on the same day as that at Arundel. Jack William Pithey, for the Rhodesian Front, won with 1,042 votes to 416 for Sidney Sawyer.
Charter
Following Clifford Dupont's resignation on 15 September 1964 to contest Arundel, Roger Tancred Robert Hawkins was elected unopposed on 6 November 1964, to follow him in his previous constituency.
Matabeleland South
Julius Masola died on 8 September 1964, leading to a byelection in the district of Matabeleland South on 26 November 1964. The result was:
References
Source Book of Parliamentary Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1963)
"Rhodesia: The Road to Rebellion" by James Barber (Oxford University Press, 1967)
Elections in Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
General
Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%20Southern%20Rhodesian%20general%20election |
Roger Carter may refer to:
Roger Carter (academic) (1922–2009), law professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Saskatchewan
Roger Carter (American football), American football player
Roger Carter (darts player) (born 1961), American darts player
Roger Carter (Marxist-Leninist candidate), Canadian political candidate
Roger Carter (mathematician) (1934–2022), British mathematician and author
Roger Carter (racing driver) (born 1969), American race car driver | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Carter |
Windows CardSpace (codenamed InfoCard) is a discontinued identity selector app by Microsoft. It stores references to digital identities of the users, presenting them as visual information cards. CardSpace provides a consistent UI designed to help people to easily and securely use these identities in applications and web sites where they are accepted. Resistance to phishing attacks and adherence to Kim Cameron's "7 Laws of Identity" were goals in its design.
CardSpace is a built-in component of Windows 7 and Windows Vista, and has been made available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as part of the .NET Framework 3.x package.
Overview
When an information card-enabled application or website wishes to obtain information about the user, it requests a particular set of claims. The CardSpace UI then appears, switching the display to the CardSpace service, which displays the user's stored identities as visual cards. The user selects a card to use, and the CardSpace software contacts the issuer of the identity to obtain a digitally signed XML token that contains the requested information. CardSpace also allows users to create personal (also known as self-issued) information cards, which can contain one or more of 14 fields of identity information such as full name and address. Other transactions may require a managed information card; these are issued by a third-party identity provider that makes the claims on the person's behalf, such as a bank, employer, or a government agency.
Windows CardSpace is built on top of the Web services protocol stack, an open set of XML-based protocols, including WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-MetadataExchange and WS-SecurityPolicy. This means that any technology or platform that supports these protocols can integrate with CardSpace. To accept information cards, a web developer needs to declare an HTML <OBJECT> tag that specifies the claims the website is demanding and implement code to decrypt the returned token and extract the claim values. If an identity provider wants to issue tokens, it must provide a means by which a user can obtain a managed card and provide a Security Token Service (STS) which handles WS-Trust requests and returns an appropriate encrypted and signed token. During the 2000s, identity providers that didn't wish to build STS could obtain one from a variety of vendors, including PingIdentity, BMC, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, or Siemens.
Because CardSpace and the identity metasystem upon which it is based are token-format-agnostic, CardSpace did not compete directly with other Internet identity architectures like OpenID and SAML. These three approaches to identity can be seen as complementary, because during the 2000s, information cards could be used today for signing into OpenID providers, Windows Live ID accounts, and SAML identity providers.
IBM and Novell planned to support the Higgins trust framework to provide a development framework that includes support for information cards and the Web services protocol stack, thus including CardSpace within a broader, extensible framework also supporting other identity-related technologies, such as SAML and OpenID.
Release
Microsoft initially shipped Windows CardSpace with the .NET Framework 3.0, which runs on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista. It is installed by default on Windows Vista as well as Windows 7 and is available as a free download for XP and Server 2003 via Windows Update. An updated version of CardSpace shipped with the .NET Framework 3.5. The new Credential Manager in Windows 7 uses Windows CardSpace for the management and storage of saved user credentials.
Discontinuation
On February 15, 2011, Microsoft announced that Windows CardSpace 2.0 would not be shipped. Microsoft later worked on a replacement called U-Prove.
See also
Information Card
Higgins project
Shibboleth (Internet2)
Identity management systems
Windows Hello
References
Further reading
Microsoft Open Specification Promise, May 2007.
External links
Software development
Windows CardSpace on .NET Framework documentation site – Developer articles and technical documentation on Windows CardSpace
Microsoft Information Card Kit for ASP.NET 2.0 – ASP.NET Relying Party (RP) code to support CardSpace
Microsoft Information Card Kit for HTML – platform-independent JavaScript and CSS code that detects if the client can use i-cards and provides the corresponding UI support
Open source Ruby RP code for accepting information cards
Open source Java RP code for accepting information cards
Open source C and PHP RP code for accepting cards
Open source C RP code for accepting information cards and STS code for managed i-cards
Open source PHP Security Token Service code for managed cards
Open source C# STS code for managed information cards
Identity selectors
Digital Me – an open-source Identity Selector for Linux and Mac OS X
A plug-in for Apple's Safari implementing an Information Card identity selector
A plug-in for Firefox to activate CardSpace and other identity selectors
Blogs
Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog – Blog from Microsoft's architect for identity
Mike Jones: Self-Issued – Blog on CardSpace, cards, and digital identity from Microsoft's Director of Identity Partnerships
Vittorio Bertocci (archived) – Blog on designing and developing with CardSpace from Microsoft's architect evangelist for Windows Server 2008
Claim-Based Identity Blog (archived) – Blog on CardSpace from its development team
CardSpace
CardSpace
Web services
Federated identity
Discontinued Windows components | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20CardSpace |
Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova (; born 7 January 1972) is a speed skater from Russia and a deputy at the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Career
Zhurova has been competing internationally since 1989, took part in four Olympics, but did not win her first Olympic medal until her fourth Olympics, winning Olympic gold in Turin in 2006, two years after mothering a child. She also became Sprint World Champion in 2006. After her sporting career she became a politician and became Vice Speaker of the fifth State Duma as part of the ruling United Russia party.
Sanctions
On December 9, 2014, Zhurova was sanctioned by the United Kingdom after she voted in favor of a bill making the Republic of Crimea a federal subject of Russia earlier that year. Ten days later, Zhurova was placed on the Canadian sanctions list for the Ukrainian crisis.
In 2023, she criticized at the Canadian Olympic Committee after its CEO David Shoemaker proposed a requirement that Russian athletes must denounce the war in Ukraine before they can compete in Olympic events:
References
External links
Svetlana Zhurova at SkateResults.com
Svetlana Zhurova's athlete profile at cnnsi.com
Photos of Svetlana Zhurova – At Lars Hagen's DESG Photo website
1972 births
Living people
Olympic speed skaters for Russia
Olympic gold medalists for Russia
Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Russian female speed skaters
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Russian sportsperson-politicians
21st-century Russian women politicians
Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism alumni
Fifth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Sixth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Seventh convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Members of the Federation Council of Russia (after 2000)
Anti-Romanian sentiment
Russian individuals subject to European Union sanctions
Russian individuals subject to United Kingdom sanctions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana%20Zhurova |
"The Bewlay Brothers" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. One of the last tracks to be written and recorded for the LP, the ballad has been described as "probably Bowie's densest and most impenetrable song".
Bowie named his publishing company in the late 1970s Bewlay Bros. Music and used the name as a pseudonym for himself, Iggy Pop and Colin Thurston as producers of Pop's 1977 album Lust for Life.
Background
Bowie himself is said to have told producer Ken Scott that it was a track for the American market, because "the Americans always like to read things into things", even though the lyrics "make absolutely no sense".
Reception
Some commentators have seen references in the song to Bowie's half-brother Terry Burns, who suffered from schizophrenia, while others such as Tom Robinson have discerned a "gay agenda". Bowie himself admitted in 1977 that it was "very much based on myself and my brother" and in 2000 he elaborated that it was "another vaguely anecdotal piece about my feelings about myself and my brother, or my other doppelganger. I was never quite sure what real position Terry had in my life, whether Terry was a real person or whether I was actually referencing another part of me, and I think 'Bewlay Brothers' was really about that."
In 2008 Bowie revealed that "Bewlay" was taken from the tobacconist shop chain, House of Bewlay. This he used as "a cognomen - in place of my own. This wasn't just a song about brotherhood so I didn't want to misrepresent it by using my true name. Having said that, I wouldn't know how to interpret the lyric of this song other than suggesting that there are layers of ghosts within it. It's a palimpsest, then". On another occasion he repeated that he "couldn't imagine what the person who wrote that had on his mind at the time".
The coda features Bowie's voice distorted by varispeeding; NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray likened the effect to Bowie's earlier song "The Laughing Gnome", but "in considerably more sinister guise".
Some of these hinted interpretations showed up in the analysis of a Rolling Stone magazine's Readers' Poll: The 10 Best David Bowie Deep Cuts, in which "Bewlay Brothers" came in at #8 (after such hits as "Panic in Detroit", "Station to Station", and "Teenage Wildlife"). Compiler Andy Greene said,
Virtually no entry in the David Bowie songbook has confused the hardcores quite like "The Bewlay Brothers." It was the final track recorded for Hunky Dory and Bowie said at the time the lyrics were nonsense, but in later years he hinted it was inspired by his schizophrenic half-brother Terry. "I was never quite sure what real position Terry had in my life," he said in 2000, "whether Terry was a real person or whether I was actually referencing another part of me, and I think 'Bewlay Brothers' was really about that." Others have seen clear homosexual overtones in the surreal lyrics, but Bowie's never commented on that. He's also only played it five times, and those were all between 2002 and 2004.
John Mendelsohn of Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "'The Bewlay Brothers' sounds like something that got left off The Man Who Sold because it wasn't loud enough. Musically it's quiet and barren and sinister, lyrically virtually impenetrable — a stream-of-consciousness stream of strange and (seemingly) unrelated imagery — and it closes with several repetitions of a chilling chorus sung in a broad Cockney accent, which, if it's any help, David usually invokes when he's attempting to communicate something about the impossibility of ever completely transcending the mundane circumstances of one's birth."
Live versions
The song was performed live for the first time on BBC Radio 2 in 2002. Introducing the song, Bowie told the crowd, "I don't want to do it unless everyone knows this thing. It was from a long time ago. We've never done it on the stage, in a theatre. It's called 'The Bewlay Brothers'." [The crowd applauds.] "You are a bunch of obscurists, aren't you?" Bowie repeats, "We've only ever, ever, ever done this once on a radio show; we've never done this on stage."
Other releases and cover versions
The song appeared in the Sound + Vision box set in 1989.
An alternative mix was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc CD release of Hunky Dory in 1990.
It was included in a self-selected compilation of favourite tracks titled ISELECT in 2008.
The song has been covered live by Elbow and Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, as well as being released as a single by John Howard. A version was included on the self-titled album of cover versions released by the band Replicants in 1995.
Personnel
David Bowie – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
Mick Ronson – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Trevor Bolder – bass guitar
Mick Woodmansey – drums
Rick Wakeman – Mellotron
Film soundtracks
The song appears on the soundtrack of Bitter Lake (2015).
Notes
David Bowie songs
1971 songs
Songs written by David Bowie
Song recordings produced by Ken Scott
Song recordings produced by David Bowie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bewlay%20Brothers |
VX or vx may refer to:
Science and technology
VX (nerve agent), a neurotoxic chemical warfare agent
Chinese VX, structural isomer of VX
V-sub x, another organophosphate nerve agent of the V-series
VX Nano, a brand of optical mouse by Logitech
VX Revolution, a brand of optical mouse by Logitech
Yaesu VX series, compact amateur radio handheld transceivers
VX (videocassette format), an early consumer videocassette format produced by Panasonic
Vx Multiphase Metering Technology for measuring oil, gas and water flowrates without phase separation in oil and gas industry
WeChat () colloquially referred to as "VX", a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent
Transport
ACES Colombia (IATA code VX, 1971-2003), a Colombian airline
Name of the 2013 to 2017 Dodge Viper
Holden Commodore (VX), model of GM Holden's Commodore car
Para-Ski VX, a Canadian powered parachute design
VX, the speed that allows an aircraft the best angle of climb
Virgin America (IATA code VX, 2004-2018), a U.S. airline
Other uses
VX (sport), a ball sport
RPG Maker VX, an RPG Maker game | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX |
Merzbox is a box set compilation by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It consists of 50 CDs spanning Merzbow's career from 1979 to 1997. 30 discs are taken from long out of print releases, while 20 are composed mainly of unreleased material. The box also contains two CD-ROMs, six CD-sized round cards, six round stickers, a poster, a black long-sleeve T-shirt, a medallion, and the Merzbook, all packaged together in a "fetish" black rubber box. It is limited to 1000 numbered copies. A Merzbox Sampler was released in 1997.
The Merzbook, subtitled The Pleasuredome of Noise, is a 132-page hardcover book written by Brett Woodward with over 100 images. It contains an extensive biography, culled from previous interviews and articles, a new interview, and essays by Achim Wollscheid, Jim O'Rourke, Damion Romero, Eugene Thacker, and Jonathan Walker. Masami Akita provides extensive liner notes for each disc. The book was also released separately with the Merzrom included.
The Merzrom is an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, designed by Troy Innocent. A second CD-ROM contains various Extreme press and a catalog. The "Merzdallion" medallion was designed by Marcus Davidson. Art direction and design were by Doriana Corda. Audio mastering was by François Tétaz.
History
Extreme's original plan was to reissue Collaborative, their only vinyl release, for the label's tenth anniversary. There was then discussion of reissuing other early releases, with talk of a ten disc box, the number was finally set at 50 discs. The Merzbox was originally scheduled for release in late 1997, and available for pre-order, but kept getting delayed until it was finally released in 2000. It was officially launched on June 16, 2000 at Sónar, Barcelona, where Merzbow also performed.
Those who had pre-ordered received a two CD album called Decomposition with remixes of Eugene Thacker and Shane Fahey followed by the original tracks, the Merzbox Sampler, and two posters. These were then made available with purchase of the Merzbox for extra money.
The Merzbox was exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna from April 4 to April 7, 2002. Merzbow performed opening and closing concerts. All 60 hours were webcast live.
In December 2002, Georgia Tech's student-run radio station WREK broadcast the entire 50-disc Merzbox without interruption. An article in Creative Loafing described the Merzbow Marathon as "what may be the most obscure and counterintuitive move in the history of radio."
Between the final recordings of the set and its release, Merzbow switched to using a laptop, having first acquired a Macintosh to work on the artwork for the set.
Masami Akita has stated in a 2009 interview that he has enough unreleased material for another 50 CD box. Between 2010 and 2013, he released four 10 box sets of unreleased raw material recorded from 1987 to 1997; Merzbient, Merzphysics, Merzmorphosis, and Duo. 2012 also saw the release of Lowest Music & Arts 1980–1983, a 10 LP box set that included some full-length albums only partially released in the Merzbox. Since 2018, further archival recordings have been released through Japanese label Slowdown Records, including the 60 CD boxset 10×6=60 in 2021.
Album listing
OM Electrique
The first noise recordings of Merzbow. Previously unreleased.
Personnel
Masami Akita – tape recorder, percussion, meditation, guitar, Merztronics, taped drums, voice, water
Metal Acoustic Music
Earliest Merzbow recording available until the release of the Merzbox.
Notes
Side one of the Metal Acoustic Music cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Personnel
Masami Akita – Merztronics, tape recorder, recorded percussion
Remblandt Assemblage
First work using tape manipulation. Only a few copies distributed.
Notes
Mixed at Lowest Music & Arts, 1980
All tracks from Remblandt Assemblage cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, prepared acoustic guitar, noise, tabla, percussion, microphone, voice, radio, concret sounds, egg cutter
Collection Era Vol. 1
The three Collection Era discs are compiled from the ten volume Collection series. The first five volumes were recorded for Ylem and consist of studio sessions with Kiyoshi Mizutani. However, Ylem went out of business before they could be released. Masami Akita then released them himself and recorded five more at home using previous Collection session recordings mixed with new material and effects.
Notes
Mixed at Ylem/Gap Works, Tokyo, 3 June 1981
Tracks 1–2 from Collection 001 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Track 3 from Collection 002 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, ring modulator, violin, tabla, voice, guitar, percussion, drums, radio
Kiyoshi Mizutani – drums on track 1, percussion on track 2, organ on track 3
Collection Era Vol. 2
Note: The contents of CD 5 and CD 6 were switched (5 has eight tracks and 6 has seven), the info below is as it appears in the Merzbook.
Notes
Mixed at Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Tracks 1–4 from Collection 007 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Track 5 from Collection 009 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Tracks 6–7 from Collection 010 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Merztronics tape used on tracks 6–7
Personnel
Masami Akita – taped drums, tabla, guitar, tapes, Synare 3, percussion, ring modulated recorders, voice, endless tape, noise, rhythm box
Kiyoshi Mizutani – wood bass on track 6
Collection Era Vol. 3
Notes
Tracks 1–7 from Collection 008 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Track 8 from Tridal Production cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Personnel
Masami Akita – guitar, tape, damaged tape recorder, bass guitar, Dr. Rhythm, ring modulator, percussion, rubber guitar, violin, tape loops, Synare 3, tabla, drums, synthesizer
Kiyoshi Mizutani – guitar on track 1, piano on track 4, violin on tracks 7–8
Paradoxa Paradoxa
The first Merzbow live performance.
Notes
Mastered from original live recording
Track 1 from Paradoxa Paradoxa cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Track 2 previously unreleased
Personnel
Masami Akita – Merztronix, tape, solar organ on track 2, violin, Dr. Rhythm, alto saxophone, radio, feedback
Kiyoshi Mizutani – solar organ on track 1, violin, tape, piano
Masahiro Kurose – live recording
Material Action for 2 Microphones
"Material Action" was a term for using household objects to make quiet sounds, which were then amplified, inspired by John Cage's "Cartridge Music". The term itself was taken from Otto Muehl. This recording was used as raw material for other works such as Material Action 2 N.A.M.
Notes
Mixed at Lowest Music & Arts Studio, 1981
Tracks 1–2 from Material Action for 2 Microphones cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1981
Personnel
Masami Akita – condenser microphone, environmental percussion, scratched sound, tapes, turntable, radio
Kiyoshi Mizutani – condenser microphone, percussion, additional synthesizer
Yantra Material Action
Originally intended to be the first Merzbow LP, but it went unreleased. Six months later the label then asked again to release the LP, but Akita decided to record new material – which became Material Action 2 N.A.M. Includes reworks of past recordings with added effects and new instrumentation. The liner notes were to have been written by Fred Frith, who heard the tape and liked it.
Notes
Mixed at Junktion Music Works, 1981
All tracks from Yantra Material Action cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1983
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, junks, noise, percussion, radio, drums, guitar
Kiyoshi Mizutani – percussion, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, tapes
H. Kawagishi – sound engineering
Solonoise
Solonoise means "Solar-Noise", inspired by Georges Bataille's The Solar Anus.
Notes
Tracks 1–2 from Solonoise 1 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Track 3 from Solonoise 2 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Personnel
Masami Akita – electronics, ring modulator, violin, voice, treated tapes, acoustic guitar, Nil Vagina tape loop, treated percussion, Synare 3, TV, styrofoam
Kiyoshi Mizutani – violin, electric piano on track 1
Expanded Music
Conceptual works manipulating various inputs using feedback processed audio mixer. Inspired by Stan Brakhage's scratched films.
Notes
Tracks 1-8 from Expanded Music 2 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Track 9 from Musick from Simulation World cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1983
Personnel
Masami Akita – TV test signal, feedback mixer, damaged tape recorder, Dr. Rhythm, tapes, percussion, synthesizer
Nil Vagina Tape Loops
Featuring a four track tape recorder found in the street. A different sound was recorded on each track, and then played back randomly.
Personnel
Masami Akita – Sony 464 tape recorder, Nil Vagina tape loop, treated tapes, percussion, Synare 3, Dr. Rhythm
Notes
Track 1 from Solonoise 2 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Tracks 2–3 from Lowest Music 2 cassette, Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Material Action 2 N.A.M
The first Merzbow LP. The 2 in the title refers to Yantra Material Action, which was meant to be the first LP. Sounds include styrofoam and a typesetting machine (Kiyoshi Mizutani worked at a typesetting company at the time). Includes raw material from Material Action for 2 Microphones.
Notes
All tracks from Material Action 2 N.A.M. LP, Chaos, 1983
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, junk percussion, electro-acoustical noise, organ, tape collage, recording, mixing
Kiyoshi Mizutani – tapes, synthesizer, violin, machine noise
H. Kawagishi – engineering
Mechanization Takes Command
First release on ZSF Produkt. Akita changed the name of his label since he wanted to release other artists. Featuring the Synare 3, which was later destroyed by Bara on stage in the late 90s.
Notes
Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, Asagaya March 1983
All tracks from Mechanization Takes Command cassette, ZSF Produkt, 1983
Personnel
Masami Akita – Pearl drum kit, various percussion, tapes, TV, Synare 3, voice, tabla, Dr. Rhythm, ring modulator, guitar, feedback, synthesizer, recorder, scrap metals, devices
Dying Mapa Tapes 1-2
Title inspired by the Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism. Made with different equipment and instruments than other recordings of the same period. Featuring instruments recorded on tape, then slowed down or played backwards.
Notes
Produced by Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Tracks 1–4 from Dying Mapa I cassette, Aeon, 1983
Track 5 from Dying Mapa II cassette, Aeon, 1983
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, radio, ring modulator, percussion, noise, rhythm box, guitar
Kiyoshi Mizutani – violin, percussion
Dying Mapa Tapes 2-3
Notes
Produced by Lowest Music & Arts, 1982
Track 1 from Dying Mapa II cassette, Aeon, 1983
Tracks 2–3 from Dying Mapa III cassette, Aeon, 1983
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, radio, ring modulator, percussion, noise, rhythm, junk electronics, TV, guitar, bass
Kiyoshi Mizutani – violin, percussion
Agni Hotra
Originally intended to be the second Merzbow LP, but it went unreleased. Includes outtakes from Ushi-tra, which is from the same period. Loops were included on Loop Panic Limited.
Notes
Tracks 1–4 from first Agni Hotra master
Track 5 from second Agni Hotra master
Track 6 appeared with different mix on Ushi-tra cassette, Cause & Effect, 1985
Track 7 from Ushi-tra recording session
Personnel
Masami Akita – distorted tape loops, metals, recorder, tapes, tape reel, percussion, shakujo, bells, noise
Pornoise 1kg Vol. 1
In the 80s Masami Akita had a mail art project called Pornoise, in which he made collages using discarded magazines – in particular pornographic magazines – taken from the trash. These were then sent along with his cassettes, the idea being that his art was like cheap mail order pornography. Pornoise/1kg was released as part of these activities; the 1 kg refers to the total weight of the original package. The voice on "Night Noise White" is taken from the "Halt Tape".
Notes
All tracks from Pornoise/1kg cassette box, ZSF Produkt, 1984
Personnel
Masami Akita – distorted Sony 464, feedback mixer, radio, loop tapes, Synare 3, rhythm box, ring modulator, devices
Kiyoshi Mizutani – taped typesetting machine noise and taped synthesizer on tracks 2–4 with distorted process
Pornoise 1kg Vol. 2
Field recordings on "Dynamite Don Don" include street sounds recorded from a moving bicycle, and a house being demolished across from Akita's apartment.
Notes
All tracks from Pornoise/1kg cassette box, ZSF Produkt, 1984
Personnel
Masami Akita – distorted Sony 464, feedback mixer, loop tapes, Synare 3, ring modulator, field recording tapes, devices
Pornoise 1kg Vol. 3
The voice on "UFO vs British Army" is taken from the "Halt Tape". Some other samples are from horror films.
Notes
All tracks from Pornoise/1kg cassette box, ZSF Produkt, 1984
Personnel
Masami Akita – distorted Sony 464, feedback mixer, loop tapes, Synare 3, ring modulator, devices
Pornoise Extra
Additional tracks from the Pornoise 1kg sessions. Original release had different track titles.
Notes
All tracks from Pornoise/Extra cassette, ZSF Produkt, 1985
Personnel
Masami Akita – feedback mixer, radio, loop tapes, Synare 3, rhythm box, ring modulator, distorted Sony 464, devices
Kiyoshi Mizutani – sampled electric piano
Sadomasochismo / Lampinak
Includes unused tracks for Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets
Notes
Tracks 1–3 from Sadomasochismo cassette, ZSF Produkt, 1985
Tracks 4–6 from The Lampinak cassette, ZSF Produkt, 1985
Personnel
Masami Akita – various metal percussion, chain, loops, noise electronics, Synare 3, tapes
Mortegage / Batztoutai Extra
Original recordings for the Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets album. Includes samples from François Bayle, Conlon Nancarrow, Ivo Malec, Luc Ferrari.
Notes
Track 1 appeared edited on Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets LP, RRRecords, 1986
Track 2 previously unreleased
Track 3 appeared in different order on Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets LP
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, voice, electronics, scrap metals, percussion, field recordings
Enclosure / Libido Economy
First of two cassettes made with raw material from Ecobondage, Vratya Southward being the second.
Notes
Tracks 1–3 from Enclosure cassette, ZSF Produkt, 1987
Track 5 from Enkele Gemotiveerde Produktiemedewerkers compilation, Midas Music, 1990
Track 6 from Network 77 compilation, Network 77, 1990
Personnel
Masami Akita – bowed instruments with piano wires, ring modulator, tapes, feedback mixer, effects, percussion, turntable
Vratya Southward
Second cassette made with raw material from Ecobondage. "Electric Red Desart" includes a field recording of the festival at the Goryō shrine in Kamakura. Masami Akita posted photos of the procession on his blog in 2010.
Notes
Tracks 1–2 from Vratya Southward cassette, ZSF Produkt, 1987
Track 3 previously unreleased
Personnel
Masami Akita – cymbals, various percussion, electronics, paper pipe, tapes, plastic, voice, flute, toy marimba, scratch records, electric violin on tracks 1–2; feedback mixer, piano strings on metal box on track 3
Live in Khabarovsk, CCCP – I'm Proud by Rank of the Workers
First two of three performances. First performance was stopped for being "too wild", so they then played more conventionally. Includes Batztoutai material on backing tape, and Russian radio.
Notes
Recorded live at Jazz-on-Amur '88, Khabarovsk, Russia
Live PA recordings by Russian staff
Remastered from original live recording
Different versions appeared on Live in Khabarovsk, CCCP LP, ZSF Produkt, 1988
Personnel
Masami Akita – electric bowed instruments, tape, radio on track 1; drums, tape on track 2
Kiyoshi Mizutani – piano, low feedback US MP guitar on track 1; piano, guitar on track 2
Storage
Due to issues with sound quality, the recording was edited for the LP release. The full-length recording is released here for the first time. The working title for the album was War Storage, which is now used for the track titles.
Notes
All tracks from Storage LP, ZSF Produkt, 1988
Personnel
Masami Akita – bowed instruments with piano wires, percussion, tapes, effects, guitar
Kiyoshi Mizutani – submitted raw material on track 2
Fission Dialogue
Unreleased tracks from Ecobondage and Storage period.
Personnel
Masami Akita – cymbals, various percussion, electronics, voice, byan, bowed instruments, paper pipe on tracks 1–2; noise electronics, turntable, scrap metals on track 3
Collaborative
Essay by Jonathan Walker from the original LP is reprinted in the Merzbook.
Notes
Track 1 recorded at ZSF Produkt on 8 March 1988
Track 2 produced 1988
Track 3 recorded at ZSF Produkt (live) on 1 May 1988
All tracks from Collaborative LP+7″, Extreme, 1988 [Note: The S.B.O.T.H.I. solo track from the 7″ is not included in the Merzbox]
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, metals, scratch, guitar, mixing on track 3
Kiyoshi Mizutani – samples, guitar, balalaika, byan on track 3
Achim Wollscheid – raw materials on track 1, production on track 2
Crocidura Dsi Nezumi
"Unplugged noise" made using household objects; violin sound is violin bow on plastic cassette case or wood, acoustic guitar is a rubber band, Tibetan trumpet is a toilet paper tube, electrical sounds are made with metal. "Environmental drums" are the floor, gas stove, the spring of a table lamp.
Names are taken from the Latin names of the Dsinezumi shrew, Japanese stoat, and Japanese least weasel. Other titles were inspired by Frank Zappa's song "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" and Sun Ra's album Strange Strings.
Notes
Tracks 1-2 from Crocidura Dsi Nezumi cassette, ZSF Produkt and Banned Production, 1988
Track 3 previously unreleased
Personnel
Masami Akita – environmental drums, bowed instruments, paper pipe, plastic, woods, flute, insects, effects on tracks 1–2; bowed instruments, motor, noise electronics on track 3
KIR Transformation
From a concert with Achim Wollscheid: first Merzbow played, then Wollscheid played using a recording of Merzbow's set, then Merzbow and Wollscheid played together.
Notes
Edited by Achim Wollscheid, 1997
SCUM Vol. 1
SCUM was project to create new works out of previous Merzbow sessions using cut-ups, effects, and mixing. Name taken from the SCUM Manifesto. The track titles influenced by American post-war art. This was last LP record on ZSF Produkt.
Notes
Order of this CD is same as the original master tapes
Tracks 2–5 previously unreleased
All others from Scissors for Cutting Merzbow LP, ZSF Produkt, 1989
Personnel
Masami Akita – electronics, tapes, bowed instruments, percussion, metal junks, motor, piano wires, noise generator, drums, guitar, radio
Kiyoshi Mizutani – junks, effects on raw materials
SCUM Vol. 2
Notes
Order of this CD is same as the original master tapes
Track 4 previously unreleased
All others from Scissors for Cutting Merzbow LP, ZSF Produkt, 1989
Personnel
Masami Akita – electronics, tapes, bowed instruments, percussion, metal junks, motor, piano wires, noise generator, guitar, electric shaver, radio, effects
Kiyoshi Mizutani – guitar, junks, effects on raw materials
Severances
Includes two covers, "Deaf Forever" by Motörhead and the Jimi Hendrix version of "Wild Thing".
Notes
Drum track of "Rap the Khabarovsk" was recorded live in Russia
All tracks from Severances cassette, Discordia/Concordia, 1989
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, turntables, electronix, drum kit, percussion, voice, metal percussion, bowed instruments, electro-shaver, motor, self-made junk
Kiyoshi Mizutani – tape materials: guitar on tracks 1 and 3; keyboard, computer rhythm on track 2
Steel CUM
The EP on Vertical Records was remixed and released without permission, with the cover made using one of Masami Akita's collages. "But a result of EP was fine. So, I'm agreed. But EP is still bootleg."
Notes
Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio 1989
All tracks from Steel Cum cassette, ZSF Produkt, 1990
Some parts appeared on Steel Cum 7″, Vertical, 1992
Personnel
Masami Akita – guitar, drums, tapes, electronics, metal bowed instruments, feedback mixer, turntable
Kiyoshi Mizutani – drums, guitar on some parts
Cloud Cock OO Grand
During the European tour in 1989, Masami Akita could only bring simple equipment, and created a new live electronics style, different from his acoustical and tape based studio work, leading to the harsh noise Merzbow became known for in the 1990s. Cloud Cock OO Grand was the first example of this style, Merzbow's first digital recording, and the only CD on ZSF Produkt.
Notes
Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio 17 April 1990
Track 4 includes live recordings at V2, 's-Hertogenbosch, and Diogenes, Nijmegen, September 1989
All tracks from Cloud Cock OO Grand CD, ZSF Produkt, 1990 [Note: "Modular" is about five minutes longer here than on the original CD]
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, noise electronics, metals, distorted DBX, turntable, loops, bowed instruments, metal harp, short wave
Reiko Azuma – bowed instruments on track 4
Peter Duimelinks – original live recordings
Newark Hellfire, Live at WFMU, USA
Radio session from Merzbow's first American tour.
Notes
Live recording by WFMU
Remastered from original recording at ZSF Produkt Studio
An excerpt appeared on Great American Nude / Crash for Hi-Fi CD, Alchemy, 1991
Personnel
Masami Akita – feedback audio mixer, metals, electronics, electric shaver
Reiko Azuma – metals, bowed instruments
Hannover Cloud
Features outtakes from Hannover Interruption and Cloud Cock OO Grand. "Rocket Bomber" uses raw materials from Sadomasochismo.
Notes
Tracks 1–2 outtakes from Hannover Interruption LP, Dradomel, 1990
Track 3 outtake from Cloud Cock OO Grand CD, ZSF Produkt, 1990
Track 4 different mix appeared on Cloud Cock OO Grand
Personnel
Masami Akita – noise electronics, metals, tapes
Stacy Q, Hi-Fi Sweet Leaf
Originally made as raw material for "Crash for Hi-Fi", "Wing Over", and "Another Crash for High Tide". Includes the use of a scratched Cloud Cock OO Grand CD.
Notes
All tracks no editing
Personnel
Masami Akita – noise electronics, tapes, scratched CD, radio, sound effect records, guitar
Music for True Romance Vol. 1
Backing tracks made for True Romance, a performance art project with Seido and Bara.
Notes
Tracks 1–4 made for Blood Orgy of the She Dolls soundtrack, 1992
Track 5 made for "Isis and Secret Army Hyper Vivisection" performance at MOMA, Kyoto, 1993
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, electronics, disks
Brain Ticket Death
Track 4 samples Brainticket's self-titled song from their album Cottonwoodhill. It's also a reference to Nurse with Wound, who used the same bit on Brained by Falling Masonry.
Personnel
Masami Akita – noise electronics, metals, turntable, bass, guitar
Sons of Slash Noise Metal
Tracks 1 and 3 were made as raw material for recordings of the same period. Track 2 is a remix of a fragment.
Notes
All tracks remastered from original mother tape, no editing
Personnel
Masami Akita – metals, noise electronics, scratched CD, radio, tapes
Exotic Apple
Includes Arthur Lyman samples. Yuuri Sunohara is a director, producer, model etc. for Kinbiken/Right Brain. "Apple Rock" includes unused material originally made for Flying Testicle.
Notes
Track 1 from Melt compilation, Work In Progress, 1992
Track 2 from Land of the Rising Noise compilation, Charnel House, 1993
Personnel
Masami Akita – tapes, noise electronix, metals, guitar, EMS Synthi A, Roland TR-606
Liquid City
Originally intended to be part of a CD+CD-ROM called Scatologic Baroque, but it was canceled. The material for the CD-ROM was use for the book Anal Baroque. Part of the "World Trilogy" with Magnesia Nova and Green Wheels. "Liquid City 17-1-95" was recorded on the same day as the Great Hanshin earthquake. "Tiabguls" is a Throbbing Gristle tribute.
Notes
Track 3 from Entertainment Through Pain compilation, RRRecords, 1995
Personnel
Masami Akita – noise electronics, metals, EMS, voice
Red Magnesia Pink
Outtakes from Red 2 Eyes, Magnesia Nova, and Pinkream.
Personnel
Masami Akita – EMS Synthi 'A', noise electronics, metal, filters, voice
Marfan Syndrome
"Marfan Syndrome for Blue" is Akita's first track to use the EMS synthesiser. Track 2 is a reference to Claes Oldenburg, who creates oversized sculptures of everyday objects, including soft sculptures.
Notes
Track 1 appeared with different mix on Eternal Blue Extreme compilation, Somnus, 1994
Track 4 appeared edited on Coruscanto by Reiko Azuma, Nekoisis, 1995
All others previously unreleased
Personnel
Masami Akita – noise electronics, EMS, Synare 3, metals, rubber bass guitar, telephone signal, tape, voice
Reiko Azuma – voice on tracks 1 and 5
Rhinogradentia
Named after a fictitious order of mammals. Masami Akita performed solo twice as Zecken, playing this style.
Notes
Remixed in 1997
Personnel
Masami Akita – noise electronics, EMS, audio generator, filters
Space Mix Travelling Band
Tracks 1–2 are based on four channel tape: two channels recorded in 1994 and used on tracks of the same period, and two channels of EMS recorded in 1996. Additional EMS and Moog overdub and final mix in 1997.
Notes
Raw materials of tracks recorded during 1994–1996
Track 3 different mix used as raw material for Brisbane–Tokyo Interlace with John Watermann, Cold Spring, 1996
Personnel
Masami Akita – noise electronics, EMS, Moog, metals, voice, tapes
Motorond
Track 1 was the most recent live performance when the Merzbox was compiled.
Notes
All remixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, April 1997
Track 2 last 10 minutes appeared on Non Stop Noise Party, Hond in de Goot, 2000
Personnel
Masami Akita – noise electronics, Novation Bass Station, metals, pressure pedal
Bara – voice
Annihiloscillator
Selection of recent tracks when the Merzbox was compiled. Track 3 is a reference to Marguerite Yourcenar's Dark Brain of Piranesi, an essay about Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Carceri prints.
Notes
Raw material for track 2 recorded live in California, 1995
Track 4 appeared on Merzbow/Kadef split 10″, Dreizehn, 1997
Personnel
Masami Akita – metal, noise electronix, EMS on tracks 1–2, Theremin on tracks 1–4, Moog on track 4
Reiko Azuma – noise on track 2
Bara – voice on track 2
References
Merzbow compilation albums
2000 compilation albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzbox |
The Lamborghini Marco Polo, or Italdesign Marco Polo, was a styling exercise by Italdesign Giugiaro. Introduced in 1982 at the Bologna Motor Show, the Marco Polo was inspired by the Lancia Medusa concept car designed by Italdesign two years prior. The design was originally intended for an upcoming DeLorean DMC-24 sedan, but DMC ran out of money before the concept was finished. Italdesign then recycled the design into a concept for Lamborghini. The wheels on the Marco Polo are standard DeLorean alloys covered by hubcaps. The Marco Polo is not a running prototype, rather the design is only a painted plastic model for aerodynamic research. The Lamborghini badge on the nose of the car was not to imply any design program undertaken with the factory but was a compliment paid by Giugiaro to the famous manufacturer that became noteworthy for pushing the limits of automotive design. Although Lamborghini has a more exciting image to its products, Giugiaro decided to give this study a less aggressive line, preferring instead to focus on aerodynamic efficiency in order to provide a quieter passenger compartment and higher speed while maintaining fuel consumption. As such, the Marco Polo features a Cx of 0.24, compared to the Medusa's 0.26.
The Marco Polo, while a four-seater, has only two doors of the gullwing style, like the ones used on the Marzal, which can be opened from either the front or back seats.
References
External links
Italdesign's Image Gallery Database
See also
Marco Polo
Italdesign concept vehicles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini%20Marco%20Polo |
Aaron Sprinkle (born March 20, 1974) is an American record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington.
Career
His career in music began in high school with a group called BellBangVilla. BellBangVilla became Poor Old Lu and they released a number of albums (see below). Aaron Sprinkle also sang and played lead guitar in Rose Blossom Punch, and has produced albums independently. On his solo releases, he plays almost all instruments except drums. He produced dozens of records for Tooth & Nail Records between 1993 and 2016. In 2005, Sprinkle formed the band Fair with Joey Sanchez, Nick Barber, and Erick Newbill. Fair released its debut album The Best Worst-Case Scenario on Tooth & Nail Records in June 2006. He is the brother of drummer Jesse Sprinkle. Among others, Jesse played with Aaron in Poor Old Lu, was the most recent drummer of Dead Poetic, and was also an early member of Demon Hunter, whose albums Aaron has produced the majority of.
Discography
Solo (1999–present)
Moontraveler (1999)
The Kindest Days (2000)
Really Something EP (2001)
Bareface (2001)
Live: The Boy Who Stopped the World (2003)
Lackluster – Best Of (2004)
Water & Guns (2013)
Real Life (2017)
Escaping Light (2018)
Instrumentals, Vol. 1: Alexandria (2018)
Instrumentals, Vol. 2: Unravel (2019)
Instrumentals, Vol. 3: North Coast (2019)
Instrumentals, Vol. 4: Feather Falling (2021)
Walking Back (2021)
Certainty (2021)
With Poor Old Lu (1990–2002)
In Love with the Greenery (As BellBangVilla) (1990)
Three Song Demo (Cassette only) (1991)
Star-Studded-Super-Step (1992, 1995 & 1998)
Mindsize (1993)
Split 7″ with Mortal (1993)
Sin (1994)
Straight Six (1995)
A Picture of the Eighth Wonder (1996)
In Their Final Performance (1998)
Chrono [1993-1998] (1998)
The Waiting Room (2002)
With Rose Blossom Punch (1997–1999)
Ephemere (1997)
So Sorry to Disappoint You (1999)
Par Avion 7″ vinyl
With Fair (2006–present)
The Best Worst-Case Scenario (2006)
"Carelessness" (CD single) (2006)
Disappearing World (2010)
With Blank Books (2017–present)
EP1 (2017)
Contributions
Solo
"A Christmas Song for All Year Round" (from Happy Christmas Volume 3 – 2001, Tooth & Nail Records)
"I Know There's an Answer (Hang On to Your Ego)" (from Making God Smile: An Artists' Tribute to the Songs of Beach Boy Brian Wilson – 2002, Silent Planet Records)
With Rose Blossom Punch
"Sowing in the Sun" (from Artcore Vol. I – 1996, Tooth & Nail Records)
"Based on a True Story (Demo)" (from Music for Meals: Take Time to Listen Vol. III – 1997, SaraBellum Records)
"See It in Me" (from Artcore Vol. II – Tooth & Nail Records)
Production work
Aaron has production, engineering, or other credits on albums by the following bands:
Aaron Gillespie
Producer, engineering, co-writer, and additional instruments and vocals on Anthem Song
Acceptance
Producer on Black Lines to Battlefields, Phantoms, and Colliding By Design
Adie
Producer on Don't Wait
The Almost
Producer and additional vocals on Southern Weather
Producer on Monster Monster
Anberlin
Producer, engineering, and mixing on Blueprints for the Black Market
Producer and engineering on Never Take Friendship Personal
Producer on Godspeed EP and Cities
Producer and engineering on Vital
Vocal production and engineering on Lowborn
Beth Orton
Blenderhead
Producer on Prime Candidate for Burnout
Brooke Barrettsmith
Producer on Brooke Barrettsmith
Bugs in Amber
Mixing and instruments on Rocketship Letters
Capital Lights
Producer of This Is an Outrage!
Calibretto 13
Producer on Adventures in Tokyo
Copeland
Co-producer of You Are My Sunshine
Damien Jurado
Mixer on I Break Chairs
Dead Poetic
Producer of New Medicines, Vices and The Finest
Demon Hunter
Producer on all albums (except Live in Nashville, 45 Days, War, and Exile.)
Co-producer, programming, and keyboards on Storm the Gates of Hell
Co-producer on Extremist
Keyboards on The Triptych
Disciple
Producer on Long Live the Rebels
Dolour
Co-producer of Suburbiac
Eisley
Co-producer of Marvelous Things E.P. and Room Noises
Emery
Producer on The Question and ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
Additional vocals for ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
Additional instruments and vocals on We Do What We Want
Every Avenue
Producer on Bad Habits
Falling Up
Producer on Crashings
Co-writer and producer on Captiva
FM Static
Producer of What Are You Waiting For?
Co-producer of Dear Diary and My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go!
Gatsbys American Dream
Producer of Why We Fight
Grammatrain
Producer of Lonely House
Hawk Nelson
Co-producer of Letters to the President
Producer of Smile, It's the End of the World
He Is We
Producer of My Forever
Hyland
Producer of Weights & Measures
Icon for Hire
Co-producer on Scripted
Ivoryline
Producer of There Came a Lion and Vessels
Jeremy Camp
Producer and instruments on Restored
Co-producer on Beyond Measure
Jonezetta
Producer of Cruel to Be Young
Joy Electric
Mixer on The Tick Tock Treasury
Co-mixer on Hello, Mannequin
KJ-52
Producer on Behind the Musik (A Boy Named Jonah)
Co-producer on Dangerous
Kutless
Producer on Kutless, Sea of Faces, Strong Tower, Hearts of the Innocent, and Surrender
Co-writer of Sea of Faces
Little Champions
Audio Mixer on Pillow
Mae
Co-producer on Destination: B-Sides
MxPx
Producer on Pokinatcha and Secret Weapon
The Museum
Producer on Let Love Win
New Found Glory
Producer of Makes Me Sick
Nine Lashes
Co-producer of World We View and From Water to War
Number One Gun
Producer of The North Pole Project and Promises for the Imperfect
Pedro the Lion
Co-writer on Control
Poema
Producer of Sing It Now
Project 86
Co-producer on Songs to Burn Your Bridges By
Relient K
Co-producer on Collapsible Lung
Rocky Votolato
Audio mixer on Makers
Ruth
Producer of Secondhand Dreaming
Co-producer of Anorak
The Send
Producer, additional vocals and instruments from Cosmos
Sent By Ravens
Producer of Our Graceful Words
Seven Places
Producer of Lonely for the Last Time and Hear Us Say Jesus
Seventh Day Slumber
Producer of Once Upon a Shattered Life
Sherri Youngward
Producer of Six Inches of Sky
Sometime Sunday
Mixing and instruments on Drain
Soulfood 76
Engineering on Velour
Squad Five-O
Solo guitar on 2 tracks on Fight The System
Starflyer 59
Producer, engineering, and mixing on Old
States
Producer on Room To Run re-release
Stavesacre
Producer, engineering, and instruments on Collective
Swimming With Dolphins
Co-producer of Water Colours
Time to Fly
Producer on Birth. Work. Death
The Divorce
Engineering on The Divorce EP
Thousand Foot Krutch
Producer on Phenomenon, Welcome to the Masquerade, The End Is Where We Begin, Oxygen: Inhale, and Exhale
Wes Dando
Producer and co-engineer on The Tired Hours
Zao
Co-producer on Legendary
References
External links
Poor Old Lu
Fair
Interview @ Christianity Today from early 2004
Aaron Sprinkle on Pure Volume
1974 births
Living people
American male singer-songwriters
Record producers from Washington (state)
American performers of Christian music
Tooth & Nail Records artists
Musicians from Seattle
Singer-songwriters from Washington (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Sprinkle |
Wojciech Świdziniewski (26 July 1975 – 17 September 2009) born in Białystok, is a Polish fantasy writer and columnist. His first short story, The Consecrated (Konsekrowany), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1999. His another short stories were published in Polish magazine Science Fiction, ezine Fahrenheit and fanzine WIDOK z Wysokiego Zamku. His short story The Stone-Masons (Murarze) was nominated for Janusz A. Zajdel Award, in 2001. Świdziniewski died on 17 September 2009 about month before publishing his first fantasy novel Troubles in Hamdirholm (Kłopoty w Hamdirholm).
References
1975 births
2009 deaths
Polish fantasy writers
Polish science fiction writers
Place of death missing
People from Białystok
Artists from Białystok | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech%20%C5%9Awidziniewski |
Liam is a short form of the Irish name Uilliam or the old Germanic name William.
Etymology
The original name was a merging of two Old German elements: willa ("will" or "resolution"); and helma ("helmet"). The juxtaposition of these elements effectively means "helmet of will" or "guardian".
When the Frankish Empire was divided, the name developed differently in each region. In Northern Francia, Willahelm developed first into "Willelm" and then into "Willaume" in Norman and Picard, and "Guillaume" in Ile-de-France French. The Norman form was further developed by the English into the familiar modern form "William".
Origin
Although the names Willahelm and Guillaume were well known in England before 1066, through Saxon dealings with Guillaume, Duc de Normandie, it was viewed as a "foreign" name. The Norman Conquest had a dramatic effect on English names. Many if not most Saxon names, such as Ethelred, died out under the massive influx of French ones. Since the Royal Court now rang with names such as Alain, Guy, Reginald and William, they were quickly adopted by the English, the Welsh, and eventually the Irish.
Within a generation, the "new" names had become so completely assimilated that they were regarded as homegrown, and variant forms evolved and thrived alongside one another. In Wales, both William and Gwilym became popular, as did the short forms Wil and Gwil, and almost every village had its own Gwilym Williams (the final "s" represented "son of" or "descendant of"). The Norman conquest of Ireland followed a similar pattern to that of England a century earlier. Within a generation, the Irish Uilliam was found alongside William, and the short form of both was Liam.
Until the end of the 18th century, Liam was virtually unknown outside Ireland. In the mid-1850s, over a million and a half people left Ireland to escape the catastrophic great famine and, from then on, Irish names were heard everywhere. Liam as an independent name in England and Wales dates from 1932, but it was mainly confined to the families of Irish descent. By 1955, it was recorded for two boys in every 10,000, a figure it maintained until 1975, when it rose to four per 10,000.
Late 20th and early 21st centuries
By 1980, it was clear that Liam was becoming a vogue name in the general population in the United Kingdom and that year it was recorded for 12 boys per 10,000. It continued to gain ground. In 1985, it stood at 20 per 10,000, and by 1990, it was recorded for 100 boys in every 10,000. In 1996, Liam peaked in popularity as the 10th most popular baby name for boys in England and Wales, according to the UK Office for National Statistics.
Liam continued to remain in the top 33 most popular boys names in the UK throughout the first decade of the 21st century but started to steadily decline in 2009.
Meanwhile, according to the Social Security Administration, Liam had been steadily gaining in popularity in the United States and entered the top 50 names for the first time in 2009 at number 49. As Liam gained popularity in the US, climbing to number two by 2013, popularity in the UK plummeted, and it ranked 67th that same year. Liam was among the five most popular names for Hispanic newborn boys and newborn boys of Asian descent in the American state of Virginia in 2022. In Canada, Liam has been the most popular boys name since 2013.
People
Liam Abernethy, Irish hurler
Liam Aiken (born 1990), American actor
Liam Anthony, Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne
Liam Aylward, Irish politician
Liam Brady, footballer
Liam Byrne, British Labour Party politician
Liam Callanan, American author
Liam Clancy, Irish folk singer
Liam "Rory" Clewlow, lead guitar, backing vocals for Enter Shikari
Liam Cunningham (actor), Irish actor
Liam Cunningham (politician), Irish politician
Liam Darville, English footballer
Liam Davison, Australian author
Liam Eichenberg (born 1998), American football player
Liam Fahy, Zimbabwean shoe designer
Liam Finn, New Zealand musician and songwriter
Liam Foran, New Zealand rugby league player
Liam Fox, British politician
Liam Fulton, Australian rugby league player
Liam Gallagher, lead singer of the English rock bands Oasis and Beady Eye
Liam Garrigan, English actor
Liam Gill, Australian rugby union player
Liam Heath, British sprint kayaker
Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
Liam Hendriks (born 1989), Australian baseball player
Liam Highfield, English professional snooker player
Liam Howlett, DJ and member of The Prodigy
Liam Irwin, Gaelic football player
Liam James, Canadian child actor
Liam Kelly (disambiguation)
Liam Lawrence, footballer
Liam Lawson, New Zealander racing driver
Liam Lynch (musician), American singer and dancer
Liam McCullough (born 1997), American football player
Liam McIntyre, Australian actor
Liam McKenna, Irish television presenter
Liam Miller, footballer
Liam Neeson (born 1952), Irish actor
Liam O'Brien, American voice actor
Liam O'Flaherty, Irish writer
Liam O'Neill, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator
Liam Payne (born 1993), English singer and member of the British-Irish boy band One Direction
Liam Plunkett, English cricketer
Liam Ridgewell, footballer
Liam Stapleton, Australian radio presenter
Liam Waite, American actor
Liam Walsh (hurler) (born 1963), Irish hurler
Liam Walsh (boxer) (born 1986), English boxer
Liam Watson (disambiguation)
Liam Watts, drummer for the band the Enemy
Liam Watts, English rugby player in position of prop for Hull Kingston Rovers
Liam Weldon, Irish folk singer
Liam Williams (rugby union), Welsh rugby player
Liam Wilson, bass player for the Dillinger Escape Plan
Liam Wright, Papua New Guinean basketball player
References
Masculine given names
English masculine given names
Irish masculine given names | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam |
"Let's Go" is a song by American rock band the Cars, written by Ric Ocasek for the band's second studio album, Candy-O (1979). A new wave rock song, the song's hook was inspired by the Routers. The song's vocals are performed by bassist Benjamin Orr.
"Let's Go" was released in 1979 as the debut single from Candy-O on Elektra Records. The single was a chart success, reaching number 14 in the United States and charting in multiple other countries. It has since appeared on several compilation albums and has seen critical acclaim.
It was the 100th video to be played on the first day of MTV on August 1, 1981.
Composition
"Let's Go" was described by Brett Milano as "another double-edged anthem" in the liner notes for Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology.
The song's signature hook is a series of claps followed by a shouted "Let's go!", which is derived from the 1962 song "Let's Go (Pony)" by the Routers, as well as a simple synth melody played by Greg Hawkes, using the Sync II lead preset (or a slight variation of it) from a Prophet-5 synthesizer. The song tells the story of a 17-year-old girl and her budding interest in "the nightlife".
Release
"Let's Go" was released as the debut single from Candy-O in June 1979. The song's B-side is a non-album track titled "That's It" that features Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. The single peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US, making it the first song by The Cars to reach the Billboard top 20. The song was an even bigger success elsewhere, hitting the top 10 in multiple countries. In Canada, the track reached #5, and remains the Cars' highest ever charting single in that country. Similarly, "Let's Go" peaked at #6 in Australia, where it remains The Cars' highest charted hit.
Two follow-up singles from Candy-O, "It's All I Can Do" and "Double Life", were released after "Let's Go". Although "It's All I Can Do" was a minor hit, "Double Life" failed to chart.
Reception
Rolling Stone critic Tom Carson described "Let's Go" as "the best cut on Candy-O, while the Billboard review of Candy-O listed the song as one of the "best cuts". Billboard described the song as a "catchy midtempo number" with a guitar-driven "sassy rock sound." Cash Box said it begins "with a crash, moving into a streamlined pop rocker, filled with a futuristic combination of synthesizer blips, handclaps and crunching guitar chording." Record World said that "All the parts are geared for hit status on this fine-tuned mid-tempo rocker." The Fort Worth Star Telegram rated it to be the 8th best single of 1979.
William Ruhlmann, author of The All-Music Guide to Rock, said, "'Let's Go' (the Cars' biggest hit so far) became one of the summer songs of the year," and Hamish Champ, writer of The 100 Best-Selling Albums of the 70s, said the track (as well as its follow-up, "It's All I Can Do"), "give ample evidence of the band's range". AllMusic reviewer Greg Prato said the song was "intensely fun".
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
Sources
Synthmania.com - Prophet-5 Classic polyphonic ana
External links
1979 singles
1979 songs
The Cars songs
Songs written by Ric Ocasek
Song recordings produced by Roy Thomas Baker
Elektra Records singles
Alvin and the Chipmunks songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s%20Go%20%28The%20Cars%20song%29 |
Viliame Seruvakula is a former Fijian military officer who played an instrumental role in the aftermath of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état. He is the son of former politician Ratu Semi Seruvakula.
He attended Ratu Sukuna Memorial, Queen Victoria and Lelean Memorial Schools. He was a member of the Deans Trophy winning Lelean Under-19 Team side that defeated Ratu Kadavulevu School in the Fiji Secondary Schools Rugby Union (FSSRU) competition finals in 1979.
Seruvakula joined the army in the early 1980s and served in the Sinai Peninsula and in Lebanon from 1986 to 1987 as a platoon commander in the Charlie company of the First Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment. He opposed the 2000 coup, and when rebels from the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit mutinied at Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks on 2 November 2000, he led the third infantry battalion in a counter-offensive to retake the barracks from the rebels.
Following the mutiny, Seruvakula made some controversial statements in the media. He alleged that he had been offered F$250,000 to support George Speight's attempted coup in May, and that former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (who led two coups in 1987) had incited the mutiny and attempted to overthrow the military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama. His police statement became the subject of several investigations, and Rabuka was charged but ultimately acquitted as a result of his allegations.
Seruvakula joined the New Zealand Army in 2001. He resigned from the military in early 2006 to take up a post with the Peace and Security division of the United Nations.
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Living people
People educated at Lelean Memorial School
Fijian soldiers
People educated at Queen Victoria School (Fiji)
Fijian expatriates in New Zealand
Fijian expatriates in Lebanon
I-Taukei Fijian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viliame%20Seruvakula |
Robert James "Bob" Fairfoull (born 6 August 1976) is a Scottish musician. He was the bass guitarist for the Scottish rock band Idlewild. He attended Portobello High School in Edinburgh between 1992–96 and was in the same class as Paul Thomson, the drummer from the band Franz Ferdinand.
Roddy Woomble - a friend of Fairfoull and Idlewild's lead singer - asked Fairfoull to join in February 1997 following the departure of Phil Scanlon. His appearance and attitude are classically punk rock and his typical on-stage antics consist of head-banging and jumping around.
Fairfoull became increasingly distant from the band in 2002, often going drinking on his own after shows and sitting separately on their tour bus. On 29 September 2002 he left the band following a show in Amsterdam in "a rain of misdirected punches".
After leaving Idlewild, Fairfoull joined the band Degrassi, having been friends with its members for the past six years and feeling that their music possessed the rock edge that Idlewild had lost. He has had various other projects on the go, along with Degrassi, and has played in Edinburgh with the band Paper Beats Rock, who have supported Blood Red Shoes.
In 2009, when asked if the members of Idlewild remain friends with Fairfoull, Rod Jones stated that "there are no bad feelings between any of us and we have all seen Bob a few times over the last few years and remain on good terms." For his part, Fairfoull did not begrudge the band for carrying on without him and approved of being replaced by his good friend Gavin Fox, though he did remark, "It felt a bit like if you left your wife, and a week later she started shagging your brother." Fifteen years after leaving the band, Fairfoull joined Idlewild onstage as a surprise guest to play several songs at shows marking the 15th anniversary of the album The Remote Part in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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1976 births
Living people
Scottish bass guitarists
21st-century bass guitarists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Fairfoull |
Finis Ewing (July 10, 1773 – July 4, 1841) was the primary founder of the Cumberland Presbyterian Denomination on February 4, 1810.
Biography
Originally ordained by Transylvania Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1803, Ewing became one of the leading ministers in the Second Great Awakening or Great Revival that took place on the American frontier in the early 19th century. When Kentucky Synod turned against the revival movement and moved to discipline what it considered to be rebellious presbyteries, in 1805, Ewing found himself with the outcasts. The synod believed that it was protecting the integrity of the ministry by requiring a classical education prior to ordination. Frontier presbyteries protested that they had an immediate need for ministers and that frontier preachers could hardly be expected to attend Princeton Theological Seminary.
Between 1805 and 1810, the Presbyterian outcasts operated as the Council of Revival Ministers. They tended to their congregations as best they could while attempting to reconcile themselves with the Presbyterian Church (USA). By 1810, it was obvious that a reunion would not happen in the near future. Ewing, along with ministers Samuel McAdow and Samuel King, constituted an independent Cumberland Presbytery on February 4, 1810. Ewing, in particular, hoped that the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA) one day would reunite.
Ewing was among several Protestant ministers who in 1831 helped to inspire the mobs that drove the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri. He wrote in a local newspaper, "The Mormons are the common enemies of mankind and ought to be destroyed."
Ewing was the father of Ephraim Brevard Ewing, who twice served as a justice of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Sources
The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988 by Matthew H. Gore. Published by the Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries (Memphis, Tennessee), 2000.
Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds: Conflicting Visions, Contested Boundaries (Religion in North America) by Stephen C. Taysom, Indiana University Press, 2011, p. 59.
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1773 births
1841 deaths
American Presbyterian ministers
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Latter Day Saint movement in Missouri
Religious leaders from Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finis%20Ewing |
Clatford is a small hamlet (formerly a village) approximately west of the village of Manton and about west of Marlborough, which is the nearest town, in Wiltshire, England. It is just south of the River Kennet and the A4 primary route.
Early in the 12th century, Clatford manor was given to the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Victor-en-Caux (Saint-Victor-l'Abbaye, Seine-Maritime) together with land at Hullavington, some to the northwest. The small Clatford Priory, at times called Hullavington Priory, continued until the 15th century.
In the 14th century Clatford was comparable in size with the neighbouring village of Manton; in 1801 there were 122 inhabitants. Today Clatford is a rural community made up of Clatford Hall with Clatford Farm, several houses clustered around a crossroads and several other houses spread further out.
Clatford Hall dates from the later 16th century and is Grade II* listed.
Clatford is in the civil parish of Preshute.
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Pierre Billon (born June 15, 1937 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a novelist and screenwriter from Quebec.
His son Nicolas Billon is also a noted writer.
Bibliography
Novels
L'ogre de Barbarie (1972)
La Chausse-Trappe (1980)
L'enfant du Cinquième Nord (Mamatowee Awashis) (1983)
Le Livre de Seul (1983)
L'ultime Alliance (1990)
The Children's Wing (English translation of L'enfant du Cinquième Nord) (1996)
Un Bâillement du Diable (1998)
Dans le secret des Dieux (2008)
Screenplays (film)
Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France) (2004)
Daniel et les Superdogs (2003)
Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)(2002)
Screenplays (TV)
Mémoires en fuite (2000)
Que reste-t-il... (2000)
L'enfant des Appalaches (1997)
La présence des ombres (1995)
Une Petite Fille Particulière (1995)
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1937 births
Living people
Writers from Geneva
Screenwriters from Quebec
Canadian male novelists
Canadian screenwriters in French
Swiss emigrants to Canada
Canadian novelists in French
Canadian male screenwriters
20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian male writers
20th-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Canadian male television writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Billon%20%28writer%29 |
The 1997–98 season was the 118th season of competitive football in England.
Overview
Premier League
Arsenal overhauled Manchester United's lead during the final weeks of the season to win the Premiership title. They added the FA Cup two weeks later to become only the second English club to repeat the double.
All three newly promoted teams – Bolton Wanderers, Barnsley and Crystal Palace – were relegated after just one season in the Premiership.
Everton endured their most difficult season for some 50 years. They finished 17th in the Premiership and only avoided relegation because they had a stronger goal difference than 18th-placed Bolton, although Bolton had a goal wrongfully disallowed against Everton in the first ever match played at The Reebok Stadium. Manager Howard Kendall's third reign at the helm came to an end soon afterwards and he was replaced by Walter Smith.
Leeds United and Blackburn Rovers made good progress in the Premiership and achieved UEFA Cup qualification.
Division One
Champions Nottingham Forest and runners-up Middlesbrough won promotion back to the Premiership at the first time of asking. Charlton Athletic won the playoffs to end an eight-year absence from the top flight.
Reading were relegated in bottom place. They were joined on the last day of the season by Manchester City and Stoke City. The blue half of Manchester endured relegation to the third tier of the English league for the first time in its history, despite beating also doomed Stoke 5–2 away on the last day of the season, but neither fans took lightly to relegation, as mass football violence outside outshone the match. Portsmouth and Port Vale won their games to avoid the drop.
Division Two
Graham Taylor's second spell as manager brought instant success as Watford won the Division Two championship. They were joined by runners-up Bristol City and playoff winners Grimsby Town.
Going down to Division Three were Brentford, Plymouth Argyle, Carlisle United and Southend United. Brentford had been losing playoff finalists just 12 months earlier, Plymouth had been promoted to Division Two just two seasons earlier, Carlisle were newly promoted and Southend had endured their second successive relegation.
Division Three
In their first season as a Football League club, Macclesfield Town finished runners-up in Division Three to gain their second successive promotion, a year after winning the Conference. They were joined by champions Notts County, who won the title by 17 points and became the first team since World War II to secure promotion in March, third-placed Lincoln City and playoff winners Colchester United.
Doncaster Rovers suffered an English league record of 34 defeats and won just four games to lose their league status. They were replaced by Conference champions Halifax Town, who regained their league status five years after losing it.
FA Cup
Arsenal became only the second club to have won two doubles after they beat Newcastle United 2–0 and added the FA Cup to their Premiership title triumph.
League Cup
Chelsea beat Middlesbrough 2–0 to give new manager Gianluca Vialli his first major trophy just weeks after being appointed.
Award winners and statistical leaders
Dennis Bergkamp played in Arsenal's double-winning team and was voted both PFA Players' Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year.
Liverpool's 18-year-old striker Michael Owen scored 18 Premiership goals and became the youngest England player of the 20th century. He was voted PFA Young Player of the Year. Owen shared the Premier League Golden Boot with Chris Sutton of Blackburn Rovers and Coventry City's Dion Dublin.
Owen's Liverpool teammate Steve McManaman had 12 assists in the league, placing him behind Manchester United's David Beckham, who was the top goal assists maker in the league.
Successful managers
Arsène Wenger won his first major trophy as Arsenal manager by guiding them to Premiership and FA Cup glory.
Gianluca Vialli, 33, kicked off his management career by winning the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup with Chelsea.
Alan Curbishley finally succeeded in getting Charlton promoted to the Premiership after seven seasons of trying on limited resources.
Dave Bassett succeeded in getting Nottingham Forest promoted back to the Premiership at the first time of asking.
Bryan Robson returned Middlesbrough to the Premiership as Division One runners-up, as well as taking them to runners-up spot in the League Cup.
Graham Taylor began his second spell as Watford manager by winning the Division Two championship and giving his club their first successful season since they were league runners-up back in 1983.
Sammy McIlroy achieved a second successive promotion for Macclesfield Town in their first season of league football.
Alan Buckley achieved promotion for Grimsby Town after their relegation from Division One. Also took the team to Wembley for the first time in its history to win the Associate Members Cup against AFC Bournemouth.
Sam Allardyce took Notts County to the Division Three title with 99 points, the highest tally in any division this season.
Shane Westley won promotion to Division Two just weeks after taking over as manager of Lincoln City.
George Mulhall, 62, returned Halifax Town to the Football League as Conference champions five years after they had been demoted.
Events
Double glory for Arsenal and Chelsea
Arsenal equalled Manchester United's record of two league championship and FA Cup doubles when they overhauled Alex Ferguson's men in the Premiership title race and beat Kenny Dalglish's Newcastle United in the FA Cup final in Arsène Wenger's second season at Highbury.
Chelsea completed the other half of the London double by beating Middlesbrough in the League Cup final and VFB Stuttgart in the Cup Winners Cup final, within three months of 33-year-old striker Gianluca Vialli taking over as player-manager after Ruud Gullit was sacked for arguing about transfer funds with chairman Ken Bates.
Grief for the red and white part of Stoke, and the blue half of Manchester
Although the red half of Manchester reeled in disappointment at being beaten to the Premiership title by Arsenal, the blue half of Manchester had to come to terms with the agony of relegation to the third tier for the first time in their history. City had started the Division One campaign badly and manager Frank Clark (footballer) was sacked in March, with former Everton manager Joe Royle being appointed as his successor.
City went into their final game of the season at Stoke, with both sides knowing that they had to win to stand any chance of avoiding relegation. In the end City won 5–2, but both teams were relegated because Portsmouth and Port Vale won their games.
To the dismay of the Stoke fans, Stoke were relegated in the first season of their new stadium. Many fans did not take to moving to the Britannia Stadium from their sacred old Victoria Ground, which saw its last top flight season with the Potteries club in the 1984/85 season.
Argentina end England's World Cup hopes
England took on Argentina in the Second Round of the World Cup in France, with a classic goal by 18-year-old striker Michael Owen giving them an early lead. The score was 2–2 with 45 minutes played, and early in the second half Diego Simeone fouled David Beckham and sent the 23-year-old midfielder falling to the ground. Beckham, still lying on the ground, reacted by kicking Simeone in the shins and was sent off. The game finished 2-2, and England lost the resultant penalty shoot-out after David Batty and Paul Ince's shots were saved. The trophy was finally won by hosts France.
Famous debutants
8 August 1997: Robbie Keane, 17-year-old striker, scores on his debut for Wolverhampton Wanderers against Norwich City in Division One. On the same day, defender Paul Konchesky makes his debut for Charlton Athletic and becomes their youngest ever player in a competitive match, just 93 days after his 16th birthday.
10 January 1998: Aaron Hughes, 17-year-old defender, makes his debut for Newcastle United their 2–1 away defeat to Sheffield Wednesday in the Premier League.
2 May 1998: Wes Brown, 18-year-old central defender, made his debut for Manchester United as a substitute against Leeds United in the penultimate game of the Premier League season.
2 May 1998: Gareth Barry, 17-year-old Central defender, made his debut for Aston Villa against Sheffield Wednesday in the Premier League
Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour (First Division & Premier League). Number after slash is Premier League only. * indicates new record for competition
League tables
FA Premier League
Arsène Wenger became the first foreign manager to win an English top division title when his Arsenal side went on a storming run in the second half of the season to overhaul a Manchester United side who had looked uncatchable until well into March. Liverpool, inspired by brilliant teenager striker Michael Owen, managed a third-place finish, while fourth place went to a Chelsea side who enjoyed their first top-five finish since 1990 and also added the League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup to their honours list soon after Ruud Gullit was suddenly sacked in favour of Gianluca Vialli. Leeds United finished fifth to earn a return to European competition after two difficult seasons, while Blackburn Rovers also qualified for the UEFA Cup with a sixth-place finish, as did seventh placed Aston Villa whose new manager John Gregory had taken them from the fringe of a relegation battle in the space of three months.
Newcastle United, handicapped by the pre-season departures of Les Ferdinand and David Ginola, as well as the injury-enforced absence of Alan Shearer in the first half of the season, endured a disappointing season in the league as they finished 13th. Ferdinand and Ginola's new club Tottenham could only manage a 14th-place finish.
Going down were all three newly promoted clubs; Crystal Palace, Barnsley and Bolton Wanderers. It was the first occasion when all three newly promoted clubs were relegated from any division. Barnsley remains the most recent of six clubs that so far have only completed one season in the top flight.
Everton, who had been in the top flight since 1954, only survived relegation on goal difference.
Leading goalscorers: Dion Dublin (Coventry City), Michael Owen (Liverpool), and Chris Sutton (Blackburn Rovers) – 18
First Division
The three sides that had been relegated from the Premier League the previous year would (in reverse order) make up the top three teams in Division One this season, resulting in Nottingham Forest being promoted as champions and Middlesbrough as runners-up. The play-offs were won by Charlton Athletic, who beat Sunderland (the third side that were relegated from the previous season's Premier League) in one of the most exciting play-off finals to date, in order to avoid the first-ever feat of a carbon copy of the same teams competing in the Premier League.
FA Cup semi-finalists Wolves missed out on the playoffs, while their local rivals Birmingham only missed out by a single goal – the closest the St Andrew's side had come to reclaiming their top flight place since losing it in 1986. Stockport County finished an impressive eighth in their first season at this level for decades, while Crewe Alexandra finished eleventh in their first second tier campaign since 1895–96.
Reading and Stoke City made up the bottom two; both clubs been in mid-table for most of the campaign, but they totally fell apart later in season and were relegated in bottom place. By far the biggest shock was Manchester City's relegation to Division Two; they had improved in the final weeks of the season, but in a cruel twist all of the clubs above them went on similarly good runs as the season drew to a close, consigning City to the third tier for the first time ever.
Leading goalscorers: Kevin Phillips (Sunderland) and Pierre van Hooijdonk (Nottingham Forest) – 29
Second Division
Watford were promoted as champions under returning manager Graham Taylor, who reversed a decline that the club had been in ever since he previously left the club in 1987. Bristol City were promoted in the runners-up spot, while Grimsby won the play-offs, making an immediate return to Division One after being relegated the previous year.
Southend suffered their second successive relegation, while Carlisle suffered an immediate relegation back to Division Three after the previous year's promotion. Plymouth Argyle were unable to pull off the survival act they had achieved the year before, and went down. Brentford were the final relegated club, as an awful start to the season counted against them in the end, just one season after they had been defeated in the Division Two playoff final – a carbon copy of what had happened to Notts County a year earlier.
Burnley managed to escape relegation at Brentford's expense but this did not save the job of player-manager Chris Waddle, who was replaced with Bury's Stan Ternent. Millwall sacked manager Billy Bonds after just one season, where a late slump had seen them finish 18th (their lowest position for 15 years) and only decent form earlier in the season prevented them from dropping into Division Three.
With Preston failing to mount a promotion challenge, Gary Peters was sacked as manager in early 1998 and replaced with David Moyes, who was appointed manager on a permanent basis at the season's end.
Leading goalscorer: Barry Hayles (Bristol Rovers) – 23
Third Division
Notts County earned a record-breaking promotion, setting a new record for the earliest in the season that any club had earned promotion. Macclesfield Town's first season in the Football League was a huge success, and they were promoted as runners-up. The third and final automatic promotion spot was taken by Lincoln City, who managed promotion despite management and financial problems during the season. Colchester United narrowly missed out on an automatic promotion spot, but made up for this by winning the play-offs.
Doncaster Rovers fell into the Football Conference with a league record 34 defeats, and were replaced by a returning Halifax Town. Brighton were second from bottom once again, but at least their league status was never under any realistic threat due to Doncaster's hopeless form. Similarly, Hull City recorded their lowest-ever finish with a points total that would have seen them finish bottom in most years, but they were kept out of danger by the even worse performances of the two sides below them.
Both Hartlepool and Cardiff managed 23 draws, equalling the record for draws in a season. Both clubs finished in the bottom half of the table, their league status never under any real danger, but the failure to convert draws into victories meant that a promotion challenge was never realistically on the cards for either side.
Leading goalscorer: Gary Jones (Notts County) – 28
Diary of the season
7 July 1997 – Middlesbrough pay £4.5million (a record for a club outside the top flight) for Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson.
10 July 1997 – After two years with Inter Milan, Paul Ince returns to England in a £4.2million move to Liverpool.
15 July 1997 – Liverpool sign Crewe Alexandra midfielder Danny Murphy for £3million and Tottenham Hotspur sign Newcastle United winger David Ginola for £2million.
21 July 1997 – David Hopkin, the player who scored the goal that got Crystal Palace promoted to the Premier League in this year's Division One playoff final, joins Leeds United for £3.25million.
29 July 1997 – Newcastle United sell striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur for £6million.
1 August 1997 – Crystal Palace sign Italy midfielder Attilio Lombardo from Juventus for £1.6million.
7 August 1997 – Footballers Bruce Grobbelaar, Hans Segers and John Fashanu, along with a Thai businessman, are cleared of match-fixing at Winchester Crown Court.
8 August 1997 – Graeme Le Saux returns to Chelsea after more than four years at Blackburn Rovers in a £5million deal – a national record for a defender.
9 August 1997 – Barnsley's first top flight game ends in a 2–1 home defeat by West Ham United. Coventry City, who narrowly survived last season, pulled off a major surprise by defeating FA Cup holders Chelsea 3–2 at Highfield Road. Despite Alan Shearer's absence, Newcastle United beat Sheffield Wednesday 2–1 at home as Kenny Dalglish continues his quest to try to become the first manager to win the English top division title at three different clubs.
11 August 1997 – Manchester United match the new national record for a defender when they sign Henning Berg from Blackburn Rovers for £5million.
13 August 1997 – Leicester City shock Liverpool with a 2–1 league win at Anfield.
16 August 1997 – Arsenal announce plans to relocate from Highbury due to its sub-40,000 capacity and difficulties for expansion.
18 August 1997 – 36-year-old Peter Beardsley leaves Newcastle United in a £450,000 move to Bolton Wanderers.
24 August 1997 – Chelsea record one of the biggest ever away league wins in the Premier League with a 6–0 victory over Barnsley at Oakwell.
25 August 1997 – Blackburn Rovers beat Sheffield Wednesday 7–2 in the league at Ewood Park.
31 August 1997 – The Liverpool-Newcastle United FA Premier League fixture is cancelled as a mark of respect for the late Diana, Princess of Wales, who died earlier in the day in a Paris car crash. The month-end Premier League table shows Blackburn Rovers on a hot run of form under their new manager Roy Hodgson, topping the league on goal difference ahead of defending champions Manchester United, while West Ham United, Chelsea and Arsenal provide the nearest competition. Wimbledon, Aston Villa and Southampton occupy the relegation zone, while newly promoted Bolton Wanderers, Barnsley (playing top division football for the first time) at Crystal Palace have all had a decent first month of the season. Nottingham Forest head the race for a Premier League place as Division One leaders, while Bradford City occupy second place in a division they had been expected to struggle in. West Bromwich Albion, Swindon Town, Sheffield United and Portsmouth complete the top six.
1 September 1997 – Bolton Wanderers move into their new 27,500-seat Reebok Stadium after 102 years at Burnden Park, and draw 0–0 with Everton in the league in their first game there. This result would be pivotal in the end of season positions. Everton survived on goal difference to Bolton Wanderers, who had a clear goal disallowed as the officials failed to see the ball cross the goal-line.
6 September 1997 – There are no major football matches as the entire Football League programme is moved to the previous Friday or the following Sunday on the day of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales (there were no Premier League matches scheduled because of international fixtures).
13 September 1997 – Wimbledon continue their tradition of surprise wins over big clubs by defeating Newcastle United 3–1 on Tyneside.
14 September 1997 – Two resurgent sides, Blackburn Rovers and Leeds United, battle it out in a thrilling Premier League at Ewood Park in which the visitors triumph 4–3.
25 September 1997 – Kevin Keegan returns to football as Fulham FC's "Chief Operating Officer", working in conjunction with new Head Coach Ray Wilkins.
27 September 1997 – Manchester United captain Roy Keane suffers knee ligament damage against Leeds United in a FA Premier League 1–0 defeat at Elland Road and is ruled out for the rest of the season.
30 September 1997 – September ends with Arsenal as Premier League leaders, with Manchester United second. The previous month-end leaders Blackburn Rovers have slipped into fifth place, while Leicester City (without a top division league title to their name) currently occupy third place and are just a single point off the top spot, and Chelsea occupy fourth place. A terrible run of form has pushed Southampton into bottom place, while Barnsley's reasonable start to their first top division season has given way to a series of heavy defeats and they now occupy the next lowest position in the league. The final place in the relegation zone is occupied by Sheffield Wednesday. Nottingham Forest continue to lead the way in Division One, with surprise promotion contenders West Bromwich Albion now second. QPR have crept into the playoff zone at the expense of Portsmouth (who have slumped to 19th). Bradford City, Sheffield United and Swindon Town complete the top six.
2 October 1997 – Bolton Wanderers pay a club record £3.5million for Wimbledon striker Dean Holdsworth.
4 October 1997 – Barnsley's leaky defence continues to show its frailty as they lose 5–0 to league leaders Arsenal at Highbury.
11 October 1997 – England achieve automatic qualification for the 1998 World Cup after drawing 0–0 in Rome with Italy, who must navigate a two-leg playoff.
18 October 1997 – Referee David Ellery changes into a blue top for the second half of the Premier League game between Leeds United and Newcastle United, after his original green shirt clashed with Newcastle's away kit.
24 October 1997 – Paul Peschisolido becomes the first player to join a third-tier club for a seven-figure sum when he joins Fulham for £1.1million from West Bromwich Albion.
25 October 1997 – Barnsley are on the receiving end of yet another heavy defeat, this time a 7–0 hammering by Manchester United at Old Trafford which sends the hosts to the top of the table.
31 October 1997 – Manchester United finish October as Premier League leaders, leapfrogging Arsenal into second place, while Blackburn Rovers have got their title challenge back on track by climbing into third place. Chelsea and Liverpool complete the top five, with the unfashionable Leicester City, Derby County and Wimbledon putting immense pressure on them. A dismal run of form has pushed Bolton Wanderers into bottom place, while Barnsley occupying the next lowest position and Sheffield Wednesday completing the bottom three. Nottingham Forest remain top of Division One, while Swindon Town's surprise challenge for a second promotion in three seasons continues as they now occupy second place. Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion, Bradford City and Charlton Athletic complete the top six.
1 November 1997 – Manchester United boost their own lead of the Premier League with a 6–1 home win over Sheffield Wednesday, which pushes the visitors further into relegation trouble just one season after they narrowly missed out on a UEFA Cup place.
9 November 1997 – Arsenal cut Manchester United's advantage in the Premier League title race by beating them 3–2 at Highbury. Teddy Sheringjam scores twice for United, while Nicolas Anelka scores his first Gunners goal.
12 November 1997 – Michele Padovano, Juventus striker, joins Crystal Palace for £1.7million.
18 November 1997 – Premier League officials express their desire for a two-up, two-down system to operate between the top two divisions in English football, which would spell at end to the traditional three-up and three-down system which has been in use since 1974 (with an exception to four seasons between 1986 and 1995 when the league was being restructured). It also wants to give member clubs the option to withdraw from the Football League Cup.
22 November 1997 – Manchester United bounce back from their Arsenal defeat by returning to London and achieving a 5–2 away win over Wimbledon. Arsenal, meanwhile, suffer a shock 2–0 defeat at struggling Sheffield Wednesday.
29 November 1997 – Iran qualify for the 1998 World Cup at the expense of Australia, whose national coach Terry Venables steps down after one year in charge.
30 November 1997 – November draws to a close with Manchester United still top of the Premier League, with Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers and Leeds United putting up a strong challenge, while Arsenal's title bid appears to be fading away as they now occupy fifth place and are seven points off the top. Everton are now bottom of the top division where they have so far played for 44 seasons in succession, with Barnsley and Bolton Wanderers completing the bottom three. Nottingham Forest are still top of Division One and Middlesbrough are second. The playoff zone is occupied by West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield United, Swindon Town and Charlton Athletic, while Stockport County are on the edge of the playoff zone as surprise contenders for a second successive promotion.
1 December 1997 – Fulham break the Division Two transfer record once again when they pay Blackburn Rovers £2million for defender Chris Coleman.
6 December 1997 –
Former Leeds United and Scotland midfielder Billy Bremner dies aged 54 after suffering a heart attack.
Tottenham's relegation worries are deepened by a 6–1 home defeat at the hands of Chelsea, while Manchester United's title hopes are boosted by a 3–1 away win over Liverpool.
9 December 1997 – Aston Villa overcome FC Steaua București in the UEFA Cup third round with goals from Savo Milošević and Ian Taylor.
19 December 1997 – Liverpool sign USA goalkeeper Brad Friedel from Columbus Crew for £1million.
27 December 1997 – Manchester United agree to sell Czech winger Karel Poborský to Benfica after an unsuccessful 18 months at Old Trafford.
29 December 1997 – The English FA continue investigations into an Asian Betting Syndicate's links with English hooligans and mobsters to continuously shut off floodlights in Premiership stadia to get matches with "unfavourable" results postponed and cancelled. Affected clubs like West Ham, Derby County, Arsenal and Bolton Wanderers all filed official inquiries.
31 December 1997 – 1997 draws to a close with Manchester United now leading by a five-point margin over their nearest contenders Blackburn Rovers. Chelsea, Liverpool and Leeds United complete the top five, but Arsenal are now sixth and now need something little short of a miracle to bring the Premier League trophy to Highbury. Meanwhile, Barnsley prop up the top flight, while Everton and Tottenham Hotspur complete the bottom three. Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest are level on points at the top of Division One, with the playoff zone being occupied by Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic, Sunderland and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
3 January 1998 – Holders Chelsea suffer a first hurdle defeat in the FA Cup when they lost 5–3 to Manchester United, while Conference club Stevenage Borough achieve a shock 2–1 away win over Division One Swindon Town.
10 January 1998 – Barnsley's defensive frailties show no sign of easing as they lose 6–0 to West Ham United at Upton Park.
17 January 1998 – Barnsley boost their survival hopes with a 1–0 home win over Crystal Palace, whose own recent downturn in form is threatening to cost them their Premier League status.
24 January 1998 – Walsall FC's hopes of pulling off a giant-killing feat in the FA Cup fourth round are ended when Manchester United crush them 5–1 at Old Trafford.
25 January 1998 – Stevenage Borough's FA Cup adventure continues when they hold Premier League club Newcastle United to a 1–1 draw at Broadhall Way, though a controversial refereeing decision saw them denied a goal which clearly went over the line and would have made them the first non-league time since Sutton United in 1989 to beat a top division club in the FA Cup.
27 January 1998 – Newcastle United sign Swedish striker Andreas Andersson from AC Milan.
31 January 1998 – Manchester United remain top of the Premier League as January draws to a close, despite losing 1–0 at home to Leicester City. They now lead their nearest rivals Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool by a four-point margin. Arsenal are beginning to rescue their season as they are now fifth in the league and just eight points off the top, with a game in hand. Barnsley remain bottom and Tottenham Hotspur have yet to climb clear of the bottom three, but Everton have jumped clear of the drop zone at the expense of Bolton Wanderers. Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough continue to lead the way in Division One. Charlton Athletic, Sunderland, Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers complete the top six.
4 February 1998 – Stevenage Borough's FA Cup dream ends in the fourth round replay when Newcastle United beat them 2–1 at St James's Park.
9 February 1998 – Michael Owen becomes the youngest-ever England international when he plays in the nation's 2–0 defeat against Chile.
12 February 1998 – The football world is stunned by the dismissal of Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit, who was sacked after a dispute with chairman Ken Bates. 33-year-old striker Gianluca Vialli is installed as player-manager.
14 February 1998 – Five days after his England début, Michael Owen scores his first professional hat-trick, as Liverpool draw 3–3 with Sheffield Wednesday in the top-flight, and Ipswich Town were the high scorers of the day with their five against Huddersfield Town in Division One. Meanwhile, on FA Cup fifth round day, wins for Coventry City, Leeds United and Newcastle United saw them eliminate Aston Villa, Birmingham City and Tranmere Rovers, while Wimbledon and second-tier Wolverhampton Wanderers drew at Selhurst Park, and West Ham United face a replay at Ewood Park after they failed to beat a Blackburn Rovers side who had Kevin Gallacher sent off for an elbow on Eyal Berkovic.
23 February 1998 – Tottenham Hotspur sign Algerian midfielder Moussa Saib from Valencia CF of Spain for £2.3million.
25 February 1998 – Manchester United's FA Cup quest ends with a shock 3–2 defeat by Barnsley in the fifth round replay at Oakwell.
28 February 1998 – February draws to a close with Manchester United still top of the Premier League. They are 11 points ahead of second placed Blackburn Rovers, but third placed Arsenal have played three games less than Manchester United who they trail by 12 points. Liverpool, Chelsea and Derby County are the clubs giving the top three a run for their money. Crystal Palace, yet to win at home this season, are now bottom of the Premier League in a drop zone with includes the other two newly promoted clubs Bolton Wanderers and Barnsley. Everton and Tottenham Hotspur remain under the most direct threat from the bottom three. Middlesbrough are top of Division One with Nottingham Forest in second place. Sunderland, Charlton Athletic, Sheffield United and Stockport County complete the top six.
1 March 1998 – Manchester United enter March eleven points ahead at the top of the FA Premier League, with their nearest contenders Arsenal having 3 games in hand.
8 March 1998 – Barnsley's dreams of marking their first top division season with FA Cup glory are ended when they lost 3–1 at Newcastle United in the quarter-final.
10 March 1998 – Newcastle United sign Greek defender Nikos Dabizas from Olympiakos for £2million.
14 March 1998 – A solitary Marc Overmars goal sees Arsenal beat Manchester United 1–0 at Old Trafford to decrease United's lead to 6 points, plus they have the advantage of 3 games in hand.
28 March 1998 – Notts County, Division Three leaders, become the first English team to win promotion in March. In the Premier League, Manchester United bounce back from their Arsenal disappointment with a 2–0 home win over Wimbledon, while Arsenal keep the pressure intense with a 1–0 win over Sheffield Wednesday. Liverpool keep their slim title hopes alive with a 3–2 win over a Barnsley side battling against relegation.
31 March 1998 – Manchester United remain top of the league by a six-point margin as March ends, but their nearest contenders Arsenal have three games in hand. Liverpool in third place are nine points off the top with a game in hand, and meet United at Old Trafford in 10 days for what could be a decisive game in the title race. Chelsea occupy fourth place and if they finish in the top five then a sixth placed team will automatically qualify for the UEFA Cup for the first time as Chelsea have won the League Cup and new rules regarding European competitions mean that lower-placed teams can qualify for Europe. An unlikely bid for a UEFA Cup place is coming from West Ham United and Coventry City, two means who narrowly avoided relegation last season. Meanwhile, Barnsley, Bolton Wanderers and Crystal Palace continue to occupy the relegation zone. Nottingham Forest remain top of Division One, two points ahead of second placed Middlesbrough and four points ahead of third placed Sunderland. Charlton Athletic, Sheffield United and a resurgent Ipswich Town complete the top six.
5 April 1998 – Arsenal move closer to their second double by beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–0 in the FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park.
6 April 1998 – Newcastle United, who have had a dismal season in the Premier League, are given the hope of FA Cup glory after a semi-final win over Sheffield United at Old Trafford sends them into the FA Cup final for the first time since 1974.
26 April 1998 – Nottingham Forest go six points clear of third-placed Sunderland in the First Division with a win at home to Reading. Sunderland have two matches remaining.
28 April 1998 – Sunderland are beaten, confirming Nottingham Forest's promotion back to the Premier League.
29 April 1998 – An incident in a 0–0 draw between Leicester City and Newcastle United lead to Alan Shearer being investigated by the Football Association, after he appeared to deliberately kick Neil Lennon in the head.
30 April 1998 – April draws to a close with Arsenal now leading by a point ahead of Manchester United and having two games in hand, as United manager Alex Ferguson concedes the title despite his team's 3–0 win over Crystal Palace, whose relegation is confirmed. Meanwhile, Aston Villa have emerged as surprise contenders for a UEFA Cup place after spending most of the season battling relegation, and there will also be a UEFA Cup place for the seventh-placed club if Arsenal beat Newcastle United in the FA Cup final next month. At the other end of the table, Barnsley and Bolton Wanderers remain in the bottom three, but there is still a threat of relegation for Tottenham Hotspur and Everton as well as a Newcastle United side who came close to winning the title last season and the season before. Wimbledon, who only need two points from their final three games to achieve safety, are the only other team under threat of relegation. Nottingham Forest have sealed an immediate return to the top flight as Division One champions, while Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Charlton Athletic are still fighting it out for second place. Sheffield United and Birmingham City are challenging each other for the final playoff place.
3 May 1998 – Arsenal clinch the FA Premier League title with a 4–0 home win over Everton. Manchester City are relegated to Division Two, despite winning 5–2 at also-doomed Stoke City. It is the first time in their history that they will be playing in the third tier of the English league. They are also the first former winners of a European trophy to be relegated to the third tier of their domestic league.
6 May 1998 – In their first game at the title triumph, Arsenal hit relegation form when Liverpool beat them 4–0 at Anfield.
10 May 1998 – The FA Premier League season ends with Arsenal as champions and Manchester United as runners-up one point behind them, with both teams qualifying for the European Cup. The UEFA Cup places go to Liverpool, Chelsea, Leeds United, Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa. Bolton Wanderers, Barnsley and Crystal Palace are relegated. Bolton were the last team to go down – their 2–0 defeat at Chelsea meaning that a 1–1 draw with Coventry City at Goodison Park was enough to achieve survival on goal difference for Everton.
16 May 1998 – Arsenal become the second English team (though with an entirely different set of players) to complete the 'double' when they beat Newcastle United 2–0 in the FA Cup final. Marc Overmars opens the scoring after 23 minutes, followed by 19-year-old Nicolas Anelka's goal in the 69th minute.
23 May 1998 – Derby County pay a club record £2.7million for Argentine defender Horacio Carbonari from Rosario.
25 May 1998 – Charlton Athletic win promotion to the FA Premier League after beating Sunderland 7–6 on penalties following a 4–4 draw in the Division One playoff final.
1 June 1998 – Blackburn Rovers pay a club record £7.5million for Southampton striker Kevin Davies, 21.
5 June 1998 – Aston Villa sign winger Alan Thompson from Bolton Wanderers for £4.5million.
30 June 1998 – David Beckham is sent off for kicking Diego Simeone after he was fouled by him in England's World Cup second round clash with Argentina, and England lose on penalties after a 2–2 draw.
Deaths
10 July 1997: Ivor Allchurch, 67, was capped 68 times and scored 23 goals for Wales between 1950 and 1966, both national records at the time, also helping them qualify for their only World Cup to date in 1958. He scored a total of 249 league goals for Swansea City (then Swansea Town), Newcastle United and Cardiff City.
28 August 1997: Peter Springett, 51, was a goalkeeper for QPR and Sheffield Wednesday during the 1960s and 1970s, keeping goal for QPR in their 1967 League Cup triumph. He served as a policeman in South Yorkshire after retiring as a player, and died after a four-year battle against cancer.
7 December 1997: Billy Bremner, 54, midfielder for Leeds United during the Don Revie era, died after suffering a heart attack two days before his 55th birthday. He helped them win several trophies and managed the club from 1985 to 1988. He also had two spells in charge of Doncaster Rovers. He finished his playing career with Hull City.
24 December 1997: Andy Kerr, 66, played 10 league games at centre-forward for Manchester City in the late 1950s and then scored five goals from 18 games in the 1963-64 season for Sunderland during a career which was mostly spent in his native Scotland.
13 January 1998: Ian Moores, 43, who died of cancer, played as a forward for Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, Orient and Barnsley between 1974 and 1983 before beginning a successful five-year spell with APOEL in Cyprus. He finished his playing career with Tamworth, helping them win the FA Vase in 1989.
22 January 1998: George Marks, 82, played twice for Arsenal in the late 1930s and then kept goal a total of 194 times in postwar league football for Blackburn Rovers, Bristol City and Reading. He kept goal eight times for the England wartime international side.
18 February 1998: Robbie James, 40, played nearly 800 English league games between 1973 and 1994 for clubs including QPR, Leicester City, Swansea City and Cardiff City, and was a Welsh international midfielder. He was with Llanelli as player-manager when he collapsed in a Welsh Football League game against Porthcawl and was certified dead on his arrival at hospital.
26 February 1998: Jimmy Hagan, 80, who played 361 league matches for Sheffield United between 1938 and 1958, and once for England. As a manager he led S.L. Benfica to three successive Portuguese championships between 1970 and 1973.
13 March 1998: Peter Sillett, 65, was a right back for Chelsea when whey won the league championship in 1955. He was capped three times for England and was the older brother of John Sillett, who managed Coventry City to FA Cup glory in 1987. Sir Stanley Matthews rated Sillett as the best defender he had ever played against.
19 March 1998: Jimmy Scoular, 73, was born in Scotland but spent his whole playing career in England, playing 602 league games at wing-half between 1946 and 1964 for Portsmouth, Newcastle United and Bradford Park Avenue, and being capped nine times for Scotland in the early 1950s. He was player-manager of Bradford Park Avenue before managing Cardiff City for nine years and finally spending a year at Newport County before quitting management in 1977 and working for various clubs as a scout.
2 April 1998: Ronnie Dix, 85, was the Football League's youngest goalscorer when he netted for Bristol Rovers in 1928 at the age of 15. He played his last senior game in 1939 for Derby County, by which time he had scored 98 league goals and scored on his only England appearance in 1938.
2 May 1998: Justin Fashanu, 37, the first English footballer to disclose his homosexuality, was found dead in a lock-up garage in East London. He played for Norwich City in the early 1980s and became England's first £1million black footballer when he was sold to Nottingham Forest in 1981. He also had spells at other clubs, including Edmonton, Manchester City, West Ham United, Newcastle United, Torquay United, Airdrieonians and Heart of Midlothian. He was the older brother of striker John Fashanu. Justin Fashanu had fled the US after being arrested in Maryland on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy. Four months after his death, a coroner recorded a verdict of suicide.
31 May 1998: Sammy Collins, 75, scored a club record 204 goals for Torquay United (all in the Third Division South) between 1948 and 1958.
15 June 1998: Keith Newton, 56, was a full-back for Everton, Blackburn Rovers and Burnley. He was selected in England squad for the 1970 World Cup.
27 June 1998: Jack Rowley, 78, was a high scoring centre forward for Manchester United who helped them win their first two trophies under Matt Busby – the FA Cup in 1948 and league championship in 1952. He was the older brother of another goalscoring legend, Arthur Rowley, who played for Leicester City and Shrewsbury Town.
Notes
References | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398%20in%20English%20football |
"Bombers" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was recorded in July 1971 and intended for the album Hunky Dory, but was replaced at the last minute by the cover "Fill Your Heart".
It was released as a promo single by RCA in the US in November 1971, backed by a remix of "Eight Line Poem" that can only be found on this single (both tracks were also issued on an extremely limited edition promotional LP by RCA/Gem). A bootleg version backing "London Bye Ta-Ta" was also released in the early 1970s. The track was eventually given wide release as a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of Hunky Dory in 1990.
The song was officially released for the second time in 2017 on a newly mixed re-issue of the promotional RCA/Gem LP (commonly entitled "Bowpromo") as an exclusive release for Record Store Day.
Track listing
"Bombers" (Bowie)
"Eight Line Poem" (Bowie)
Production credits
Producer:
Ken Scott
Musicians:
David Bowie: vocals, guitar
Mick Ronson: guitar
Trevor Bolder: bass
Mick Woodmansey: drums
Rick Wakeman: piano
Live versions
Bowie played "Bombers" on the BBC show In Concert: John Peel on 3 June 1971. This was broadcast on 20 June 1971 and released in 2000 on the album Bowie at the Beeb.
Bowie played the song during his set at the Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK, in the early hours of 20 June 1971.
Notes
David Bowie songs
1971 songs
Songs written by David Bowie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombers%20%28David%20Bowie%20song%29 |
Eczema herpeticum is a rare but severe disseminated infection that generally occurs at sites of skin damage produced by, for example, atopic dermatitis, burns, long-term usage of topical steroids or eczema. It is also known as Kaposi varicelliform eruption, Pustulosis varioliformis acute and Kaposi-Juliusberg dermatitis.
Some sources reserve the term "eczema herpeticum" when the cause is due to human herpes simplex virus, and the term "Kaposi varicelliform eruption" to describe the general presentation without specifying the virus.
This condition is most commonly caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 or 2, but may also be caused by coxsackievirus A16, or vaccinia virus. It appears as numerous umbilicated vesicles superimposed on healing atopic dermatitis. it is often accompanied by fever and lymphadenopathy. Eczema herpeticum can be life-threatening in babies.
Presentation
In addition to the skin, this infection affects multiple organs, including the eyes, brain, lung, and liver, and can be fatal.
Treatment
It can be treated with systemic antiviral drugs, such as aciclovir or valganciclovir. Foscarnet may also be used for immunocompromised host with Herpes simplex and acyclovir-resistant Herpes simplex.
Epidemiology
Even though the disease may develop at any age it is mostly present in childhood. Those who are affected typically had pre-existing cutaneous condition like atopic dermatitis.
History
Eczema herpeticum was first described by Hungarian dermatologist Moriz Kaposi in 1887. Fritz Juliusberg coined the term Pustulosis varioliformis acute in 1898. Eczema herpeticum is caused by Herpes simplex virus HSV1, the virus that causes cold sores; it can also be caused by other related viruses.
See also
Herpes simplex
List of cutaneous conditions
References
External links
Eczema Herpeticum photo library at Dermnet
Virus-related cutaneous conditions
Herpes simplex virus–associated diseases | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema%20herpeticum |
Tim, Timmy, or Timothy Ryan may refer to:
Political figures
Tim Ryan (Florida politician) (born 1956), American Democratic Party legislator and county commissioner
Tim Ryan (Ohio politician) (born 1973), American Democratic Party legislator and 2020 presidential candidate
Tim Ryan, alternative pseudonym of American Communist Party leader Eugene Dennis (1905–1961)
Sportspeople
Timmy Ryan (1910–1995), Irish hurler for Limerick
Tim Ryan (hurler) (1923–1996), Irish hurler for Tipperary
Tim Ryan (sportscaster) (born 1939), Canadian-born American sportscaster
Tim Ryan (American football, born 1967) (born 1967), American defensive tackle and broadcaster
Tim Ryan (American football, born 1968) (born 1968), American offensive lineman
Tim Ryan (footballer) (born 1974), English footballer
Tim Ryan (rugby union) (born 1984), Irish rugby player
Others
Tim Ryan (actor) (1889–1956), American performer and scenarist
Timothy Ryan (newspaper publisher), American media executive (The Baltimore Sun)
Tim Ryan (1949–2016), Canadian musician, co-founder of band Jackson Hawke
Tim Ryan (engineer), American synthesizer engineer since 1970s, founder of M-Audio
L. Timothy Ryan (born 1958), American chef and president of the Culinary Institute of America
Tim Ryan (country musician) (born 1964), American country music singer-songwriter
Tim Ryan (recovery advocate) (born 1968), American activist, drug abuse interventionist, author, and speaker
Tim Ryan (businessman), chairman of PwC.
Fictional characters
Tim Ryan (Blue Heelers), portrayed by Grant Piro in 1998–99 on Australian TV series Blue Heelers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Ryan |
This is a partial list of notable people affiliated with Wesleyan University. It includes alumni and faculty of the institution.
Administration and faculty
Academia, past and present
Debby Applegate – former faculty, American history, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Hannah Arendt – fellow 1961–1963, Center for Advanced Studies (now the Center for the Humanities), political theorist
Wilbur Olin Atwater (1865 Wesleyan B.S.) – first professor of chemistry; first to quantify the calorie; pioneer, utilization of respiration calorimeter
Reginald Bartholomew – former professor of government; former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, to Spain, to Lebanon
Edgar S. Brightman – faculty 1915–19, philosopher, promulgated the philosophy known as Boston personalism
Nathan Brody – emeritus professor of psychology; known for his work on intelligence and personality
Norman O. Brown – faculty 1946-196?; professor of classics; wrote "Love's Body" and Life Against Death
Judith Butler – faculty 1984–86; philosopher and gender theorist
Walter Guyton Cady – faculty 1902–46; professor of physics; Duddell Medal and Prize
Erica Chenoweth – faculty 2008–12; political scientist, expert on civil resistance movements, Grawemeyer Award winner
Joanne V. Creighton – faculty 1990–94; professor of English; interim president, Wesleyan; 17th president, Mount Holyoke College; interim president, Haverford College
Raymond Dodge – former professor of psychology; experimental psychologist
Henry Duckworth – faculty 1946–51; professor of physics; president, Royal Society of Canada (1971–72)
John Price Durbin - professor of natural science; Chaplain of the Senate, president of Dickinson College
Luigi R. Einaudi – former faculty; professor of government; acting Secretary General of the Organization of American States (2004–05)
Max Farrand – former professor of history
Stephen O. Garrison – founder of the Vineland Training School
Leslie H. Gelb – faculty 1964–67, department of history; Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting; director of project that produced the Pentagon Papers
Richard N. Goodwin – fellow 1965–67, Center for Advanced Studies; advisor, speech writer to U.S. Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Lori Gruen – current faculty, professor of philosophy, working at the intersections of ethical theory and ethical practice
Philip Hallie – faculty for 32 years, philosopher; developed the model of institutional cruelty
Gustav Hedlund – mathematician, one of the founders of symbolic and topological dynamics; visiting professor of mathematics
Masami Imai – current faculty, economist
Karl William Kapp – faculty 1945–50; professor of economics; one of the leading 20th-century institutional economists
Eugene Marion Klaaren – emeritus professor, historian and professor of religion
Stanley Lebergott – emeritus professor, American-government economist and professor of economics; noted for historical unemployment statistics
Charles Lemert – emeritus professor, social theorist and sociologist
Clarence D. Long – former professor of economics; former member, U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, under President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–54, 1956–57)
Andrei Markovits – professor of comparative politics and German studies (1977–83)
David McClelland (1938 Wesleyan B.S.) – professor of psychology in the early 1950s
David McCullough – scholar-in-residence 1982, 1983; two National Book Awards (1978, 1982); two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography or Autobiography (1993, 2002); Presidential Medal of Freedom
Louis Mink – faculty 1952–1983; philosopher of history; responsible for what would later be called the linguistic turn in philosophy of history
Daniel Patrick Moynihan – fellow 1964–67, Center for Advanced Studies; later U.S. Senator, New York
Lawrence Olson – faculty 1966–1988; historian specializing in Japan; developed the Asian-studies program at Wesleyan
Satoshi Omura – visiting faculty in the early 1970s, honorary Max Tishler Professor of Chemistry, 2005; awarded honorary Doctor of Science, 1994; 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Scott Plous – current faculty, professor of psychology
Nelson W. Polsby – former faculty, political scientist; known for study of U.S. presidency and U.S. Congress
Nathan Pusey – former faculty, department of classics; later president of Lawrence University and 24th President of Harvard University
William North Rice (1865 Wesleyan graduate) – professor of geology
Francisco Rodríguez – former professor of economics and Latin American studies
Dana Royer – current faculty, professor of earth & environmental sciences
Walter Warwick Sawyer – faculty 1958–65, professor of mathematics
Hon. Barry R. Schaller – current faculty, teaches bioethics and public-health law, ethics and policy; associate justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
Elmer Eric Schattschneider – faculty, 1930–60, political scientist, namesake for award for best dissertation in U. S. in field of American politics
Carl E. Schorske – professor of history in the 1950s; Pulitzer Prize for History and MacArthur Fellowship
Frederick Slocum – first professor of astronomy, director of the Van Vleck Observatory (1915–44)
Richard Slotkin (MAAE Wesleyan graduate) – Olin Professor of English and American Studies, emeritus; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
William L. Storrs – faculty 1841–46, professor of law; also Congressman from Connecticut; Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
Max Tishler – faculty 1970–89, professor, chemistry; National Medal of Science, Priestley Medal, National Inventors Hall of Fame
Hing Tong – former chairman, mathematics department; known for providing the original proof of the Katětov–Tong insertion theorem
Charles Kittredge True – faculty 1849–60, professor of intellectual and moral science
Jennifer Tucker, historian and biologist
John Monroe Van Vleck (1850 Wesleyan graduate) – faculty 1853–1904, emeritus 1904–12, professor of mathematics and astronomy
Clarence E. Walker - associate professor of history
Jan Willis – emeritus professor of religion and East Asian Studies
Woodrow Wilson – faculty 1888–90; professor, chair, history and political economy; 13th president, Princeton University; 28th President, United States; Nobel Peace Prize
Robert Coldwell Wood – former faculty, political scientist; former 1st Undersecretary and 2nd United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1963–69)
John Wrench – former professor of mathematics, pioneer in using computers for mathematical calculations; National Academy of Sciences
Gary Yohe – current faculty, professor of economics; senior member, coordinating lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; co-recipient, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl – faculty 1974–c. 1995; biographer and psychotherapist
Arts and letters, past and present
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – visiting writer 2008; MacArthur Fellowship (2008)
John Ashbery – Millet Writing Fellow 2010; MacArthur Fellowship; 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award
Jeanine Basinger – current faculty, c. 1970–present, film scholar
Anselm Berrigan – current faculty, poet, Best American Poetry of 2002, 2004
Ed Blackwell – artist in residence, late 1970s; recorded extensively with Ornette Coleman
Anthony Braxton – John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, retired 2013; MacArthur Fellowship; 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master
Robert E. Brown – faculty 1962–1979, professor of music, founded ethnomusicology program at Wesleyan
Neely Bruce – current faculty, professor of music; composer, conductor, pianist, scholar of American music
John Cage – faculty 1961, 1968, composer; affiliated with Wesleyan and collaborated with members of its Music Department from 1950s until his death in 1992
Tony Connor – current faculty, British poet and playwright, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Junot Díaz – Millet Writing Fellow 2009; 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award; MacArthur Fellowship (2012)
Annie Dillard – English faculty for 21 years; 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Eiko & Koma – MacArthur Fellowship; Japanese performance duo; Eiko is current faculty
T. S. Eliot – Nobel Prize in Literature (1948), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964); in the 1960s, special editorial consultant to Wesleyan University Press
Jimmy Garrison – artist in residence, ?–1976, bassist; long association with John Coltrane
Angel Gil-Ordoñez – former professor of music and Director of Orchestra Studies; Spanish conductor
Dana Gioia – visiting writer 1986–1989, American Book Award; Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts (2003–2009)
Roger Mathew Grant – current faculty, expert in music theory
Donald Hall – 14th United States Poet Laureate, 2006–07; National Book Critics Circle Award, 1955; member, editorial board for poetry, Wesleyan University Press (1958–64)
Jon B. Higgins (Wesleyan B.A., M.A., PhD) – faculty 1978–84, scholar and performer of Carnatic Music, Fulbright Scholar
Jay Hoggard (Wesleyan B.A. 1976) – current faculty, vibraphonist
Ana Paula Höfling – professor of dance
Paul Horgan – adjunct professor of English, 1961–71; professor emeritus and permanent author-in-residence, 1971–95; twice winner, Pulitzer Prize for History (1955 and 1976); Bancroft Prize for History
Susan Howe – distinguished visiting writer and faculty 2010–11, 2011 Bollingen Prize
Quiara Alegría Hudes – Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Writing and Theater 2014–2016, visiting writer 2011–12; 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Paul LaFarge – writer, English faculty as of 2010; taught writing at the university on and off since 2002
Alvin Lucier – John Spencer Camp Professor of Music 1970–2010; pioneering experimental composer
William Manchester – faculty 1955–2004; former emeritus professor of history; 2001 National Humanities Medal; The Death of a President, American Caesar
David P. McAllester – faculty 1947–86; professor, anthropology and music; co-founded Society for Ethnomusicology
Makanda Ken McIntyre – former professor of music
Lisa Moore – current faculty, international classical and jazz pianist
V. S. Naipaul – former visiting professor; Nobel Prize in Literature in fiction (2001); Man Booker Prize (1971)
Palghat Kollengode Viswanatha Narayanaswamy – artist in residence; considered to be among the finest Carnatic vocalists of the 20th century
Ramnad Raghavan – faculty for many years, South Indian virtuoso of the mridangam
S. Ramanathan (Wesleyan PhD, ethnomusicology) – faculty, singer (Carnatic music), and musicologist
T. Ranganathan – first artist in residence, beginning in 1963; Carnatic virtuoso of the mridangam
Jean Redpath – artist in residence, 1972–76
Kit Reed – science- and speculative-fiction writer, resident writer and creative writing faculty, 2008-2017
F.D. Reeve – faculty 1962–2002 (English and Russian literature), emeritus professor of letters (2002–2013); poet, translator
Phyllis Rose – faculty 1969–2005, professor of English; literary critic, essayist, biographer
George Saunders – visiting writer, MacArthur Fellowship (2006)
Jonathan Schell – journalist, author, visiting professor in writing 2000–02
Dani Shapiro – current faculty, professor of creative writing
Paula Sharp – former writer in residence in the College of Letters (2003–12)
Joseph Siry – current faculty, leading architectural historian, professor of art and art history
Mark Slobin – current faculty, professor of music
Charles Wilbert Snow – faculty 1921–1952; poet, professor of English; coach, debate team; founder, The Cardinal (literary magazine); Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Connecticut
Mark Strand – former visiting professor; fourth United States Poet Laureate, 1990–91; MacArthur Fellowship; 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Sumarsam (Wesleyan M.A. 1976) – current faculty, former artist in residence; Javanese virtuoso, scholar of the gamelan
Marcus Thompson – former faculty, violist and viola d'amore player, recording artist and educator
Clifford Thornton – faculty 1969–75, jazz composer and musician, UNESCO counsellor on African-American education 1976–87, Black Panther Minister of Art
Deb Olin Unferth – former professor of English and creative writing; nominee, 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award; Pushcart Prizes 2005, 2011
T. Viswanathan (Wesleyan PhD, ethnomusicology 1975) – former professor of music, Carnatic flute virtuoso, 1992 National Heritage Fellowship recipient
Richard Wilbur – faculty c. 1950–80; professor of English; second United States Poet Laureate; twice winner, Pulitzer Prize (1957, 1989); Bollingen Prize
Elizabeth Willis – current faculty, poet; teaches creative writing and literature
Michiyo Yagi – visiting professor in late 1980s; Japanese musician, koto virtuoso
Gorō Yamaguchi – artist in residence, Japanese shakuhachi (vertical bamboo flute) virtuoso
Anuradha Sriram, India playback singer
Alumni
Balzan Prize winners
Charles Coulston Gillispie (1940) – 1997 Balzan Prize; George Sarton Medal; Pfizer Award; professor, history of science, Emeritus, Princeton University
Russell J. Hemley (1977) – physicist; 2005 Balzan Prize (with Ho-Kwang Mao); Director, Carnegie Institution for Science; National Academy of Sciences
Pulitzer prizes
Ethan Bronner (1976) – Pulitzer Prize (Explanatory Journalism, 2001); Battle for Justice (The New York Public Library, one of the 25 best books of 1989)
Lisa Chedekel (1982) – Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (1999); finalist, Pulitzer (2007); George Polk Award; Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting; Worth Bingham Prize
Seth Faison (1981) – journalist, Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting (1994); former Bureau Chief, New York Times (1995–2000); author
Sue Fox (B.A. high honors 1993?) – Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (2004)
David Garrow (1975) – Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1987); Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge University
Alan C. Miller (1976) – Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (2003), Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting (1997), George Polk Award (1996)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (2002) – playwright, winner of Pulitzer Prize in Drama (2016) for Hamilton
Lucille Renwick (1987) – 2 Pulitzers: Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (1998); Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting (1995)
Barbara Roessner (1975) – Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (1999); finalist, Pulitzer (2007, 2003, 2001); Executive Editor, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers (2012–), Managing Editor (2006–09)
Leland Stowe (1921) – Pulitzer Prize (Correspondence, 1930); runner-up for second Pulitzer (Correspondence, 1940)
Lawrence Rogers Thompson (B.A.) – Pulitzer Prize for Biography of Robert Frost (1971); professor of English, Princeton University
Stephen Schiff (1972) – journalist; finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1983)
Wadada Leo Smith composer, musician; finalist, Pulitzer Prize for music (2013)
MacArthur Fellows
The following alumni are fellows of the MacArthur Fellows Program (known as the "genius grant") from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. As this is an interdisciplinary award, recipients are listed here in addition to their listing in their field of accomplishment.
Ruth Behar 1977–88 (first Latin woman named a) MacArthur Fellow; professor, anthropology, University of Michigan; poet, writer
Majora Carter 1984–2005 MacArthur Fellow; environmental justice advocate; urban revitalization strategist; public radio host; 2011 Peabody award
Mary Halvorson 2019 MacArthur Fellow; avant-garde jazz composer and guitarist
James Longley 1994–2009 MacArthur Fellow; documentarian, including Gaza Strip, Iraq in Fragments, Sari's Mother
Lin-Manuel Miranda 2015 MacArthur Fellow; Broadway actor, composer, playwright, and lyricist (In the Heights, Hamilton); 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Musical and Best Original Score, 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner.
Academy, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy awards
Academy awards and nominations
Miguel Arteta (1989) – Student Academy Award, Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award; film director (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt, Cedar Rapids)
Shari Springer Berman (1985) – Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, director, American Splendor (Best Adapted Screenplay); The Extra Man, Cinema Verite
Akiva Goldsman (1983) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, A Beautiful Mind (2001, Best Adapted Screenplay); Golden Globe Award; The Client, A Time to Kill
Michael Gottwald (2006) – producer; 2012 nomination, Academy Award for Best Picture
Dan Janvey (2006) – director, producer; 2012 nomination, Academy Award for Best Picture
Sebastian Junger (1984) – documentarian; Restrepo; 2011 Academy Award nomination; Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary, 2010 Sundance Film Festival
Kenneth Lonergan – playwright, screenwriter, director; nominated for two Academy Awards (2002, Gangs of New York; 2000, You Can Count on Me) and Pulitzer Prize (2001, The Waverley Gallery); Grand Jury Prize, Best Drama, 2000 Sundance Film Festival (You Can Count on Me)
James Longley (1994) – documentarian; Student Academy Award (1994); Academy Award-nominated Iraq in Fragments (2007), Academy Award-nominated Sari's Mother (2008); three jury awards, 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Laurence Mark (1971) – producer, nominated for three Academy Awards: Jerry Maguire, As Good as It Gets, Working Girl; Dreamgirls (won Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy); Independent Spirit Award; Julie & Julia
Roger Weisberg (1975) – documentarian; nominated for two Academy Awards (2000, Sound and Fury; 2002, Why Can't We Be a Family Again) 1994 Peabody Award (Road Scholar); 100 other awards
Paul Weitz (1988) – Academy Award-nominated director, American Pie; About a Boy, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Little Fockers
Joss Whedon (1987) – Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, Toy Story; Speed; director, screenwriter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, The Cabin in the Woods, The Avengers
Allie Wrubel – Academy Award-winning composer, songwriter, Song of the South, song, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" (1947, Best Original Song); Songwriters Hall of Fame
Benh Zeitlin (2004) – filmmaker, composer, director; his Beasts of the Southern Wild garnered four 2012 Academy Award nominations; 2012 Caméra d'Or award, Cannes Film Festival; 2012 Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival
Emmy awards
Emmy awards in journalism
David Brancaccio (1982) – Emmy Award-winning newscaster and host, NOW on PBS; DuPont-Columbia Award; Peabody Award
Dina Kaplan (1993) – 2007 Emmy Award for Spot News
Randall Pinkston (1972) – three-time Emmy Award-winning television journalist; RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award
Stephen Talbot (1970) – television reporter, writer, producer for PBS "Frontline"; two Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards; Edward Murrow Award; DuPont-Columbia Award; Edgar Allan Poe Award
Emmy awards in film and television
Phil Abraham – Emmy Award-winning film and television cinematographer, director
Dana Delany (1978) – two Emmy Awards; actress; television shows China Beach, Presidio Med, Desperate Housewives, Body of Proof; films Tombstone, Fly Away Home
Janet Grillo (1980) – Emmy Award-winning producer; writer and director
Evan Katz – Emmy Award-winning writer, executive producer of television series 24
David Kohan (1986) – Emmy Award-winning co-creator, executive producer, Will & Grace and Good Morning, Miami
Diane Kolyer – Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Children's Program (2004); director, writer, producer
Michael E. Knight (1980) – three Emmy Awards; actor, best known for his role as Tad Martin on All My Children
Jeffrey Lane – five Emmy Awards, Golden Globe, two Peabody Awards, three Writers Guild of America Awards; author, television scriptwriter, film producer
Alan Levin (1946) – three Emmy Awards; maker of documentaries
Marc Levin (1973) – three Emmy Awards (1988, 1989, 1999), documentary filmmaker; 1998 Caméra d'Or award, Cannes Film Festival; 1998 Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival; 1997 DuPont-Columbia Award; founder Blowback Productions (1988)
Bruce McKenna (1984) – Emmy Award-winning television and movie producer, writer; Writers Guild Award; The Pacific
Jim Margolis – six Emmy Awards (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007), writer, producer, co-executive producer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Mary McDonagh Murphy – six Emmy Awards; independent documentary film director, writer and producer
Owen Renfroe – three Emmy Awards; three Directors Guild of America Awards, television soap opera director; former film editor
Matthew Senreich (1996) – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, director; producer, Robot Chicken
Bill Sherman (2002) – Emmy Award-winning composer (2011); currently Musical Director of Sesame Street
Matthew Weiner (1987) – 2011 Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World"; The Atlantic, one of 21 Brave Thinkers 2011; nine Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes; creator, executive producer, writer, Mad Men; screenwriter, supervising producer, The Sopranos
Roger Weisberg (1975) – documentarian; Emmy Award–winning series Help Yourself; Dupont-Columbia Award
Joss Whedon (1987) – Emmy Award, Nebula Award, two Hugo Awards; writer, creator, producer, director, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Bradley Whitford (1981) – Emmy Award-winning actor; television dramas, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip; films, Billy Madison, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Bill Wrubel (1985) – three Emmy Awards (2010, 2011, 2012); co-executive producer, writer Modern Family, Ugly Betty, Will & Grace
Tony and Grammy awards
Bill Cunliffe (1978) – jazz pianist, composer, arranger; 2009 Grammy Award; won 1989 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Award; won several Down Beat Awards; 2 Emmy nominations; 4 Grammy nominations
Thomas Kail (1999) – director; Tony Award winner for Hamilton and nominee for In the Heights
Jorge Arevalo Mateus (PhD) – 2008 Grammy Award (Best Historical Recording); Curator/Archivist, Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives (1996–)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (2002) – creator, composer, lyricist, actor: In the Heights (two Tony Awards, 2008, Best Musical and Best Original Score; Grammy Award, 2009) and Hamilton (three Tony Awards, 2016, Best Musical, Best Book of A Musical, Best Original Score; Grammy Award, 2016)
Jeffrey Richards (producer) (1969) – producer; six Tony Awards; including 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, 2011 The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (Paulus adaptation); August: Osage County (Pulitzer Prize, five Tony Awards); co-producer, Spring Awakening (three Tony Awards, Grammy Award)
L. Shankar (PhD) – Tamil Indian virtuoso violinist, composer; professor of music; 1994 Grammy Award; 1996 Grammy nomination
Bill Sherman (2002) – orchestrator, arranger; 2008 Tony Award, Best Orchestration (In the Heights), 2009 Grammy Award
Frank Wood (1984) – Tony Award-winning actor (Side Man); Angels in America
Academia
Presidents, chancellors, founders
Samuel Rogers Adams (B.A. 1851, M.A. 1856) – president, predecessor of the University of Evansville (1856–61)
David Allison (B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862) – president, Mount Allison University, Canada (1891–1911); 2nd president, Mount Allison College, Canada (1869–78)
John W. Beach (1845) – 7th president, Wesleyan University (1880–87)
Joseph Beech (1899) – co-founder, 1st president, West China Union University in Chengtu, West China
Douglas J. Bennet (1959) – 15th president, Wesleyan (1995–07)
Katherine Bergeron (1980) – 11th president, Connecticut College (2014–)
Anthony S. Caprio (1967) – 5th president, Western New England College (since 1996)
Hiram Chodosh (1985) – 5th president elect of Claremont McKenna College (2013–)
Charles Collins (1837) – 1st president Emory and Henry College (1832–52); 11th president, Dickinson College (1852–60)
Edward Cooke (1838) – 1st president, Lawrence University (1853–59); 2nd President, Claflin Universityb (HBCU) (1872–84); Board of Examiners, Harvard University
Joseph Cummings (1840) – 5th president, Wesleyan (1857–75); 5th president, Northwestern University (1881–90); president, predecessor of Syracuse University (Genesee College)
W. H. Daniels – interim president, Pentecostal Collegiate Institute, antecedent of Eastern Nazarene College
Joseph Denison (1840) – co-founder, 1st president, Kansas State University (1863–73); president, Baker University (1874–79); 1st president, Blue Mont Central College
Nicholas Dirks (1972) – 10th chancellor-designate, University of California, Berkeley (effective June 1, 2013); professor, anthropology, history, and dean, faculty of arts and sciences, Columbia University
Paul Douglass – 6th president, American University (1941–52)
Gordon P. Eaton (1951) – 12th president, Iowa State University (1986–90)
Ignatius Alphonso Few (1838) – co-founder and first president, Emory University
Cyrus David Foss (1854) – 6th president, Wesleyan (1875–80)
E. K. Fretwell (1944) – president, University at Buffalo (1967–78); 2nd chancellor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1979–89); interim president, University of Massachusetts (1991–92); interim president, University of Florida (1998)
Charles Wesley Gallagher (A.B. 1870, A.M. 1873) – 6th president, Lawrence University (1889–93)
Bishop John W. Gowdy (1897) – president, Anglo-Chinese College, in Fuzhou, China (1904–23); president, Fukien Christian University (1923–27)
A. LeRoy Greason (1944) – 12th president, Bowdoin College (1981–90)
William R. Greiner (1955) – 13th president, University at Buffalo (1991–03); also professor, dean, and provost of the University at Buffalo Law School
Burton Crosby Hallowell – 9th president, Tufts University (1967–76)
Abram W. Harris – 14th president, Northwestern University (1906–16); 1st president, University of Maine (1896–06); president, Maine State College (1893–96)
Bishop Erastus Otis Haven (1842) – 2nd president, University of Michigan (1863–69); 6th president, Northwestern University; 2nd Chancellor, Syracuse University; overseer, Harvard University
Clark T. Hinman – 1st president, Northwestern University (1853–54 (death)); president, Albion College (1846–53)
Francis S. Hoyt (1844) – 1st president, Willamette University (1853–60)
Harry Burns Hutchins (1870) – 4th president, University of Michigan (1910–20), twice acting president; dean, University of Michigan Law School; organized law department, Cornell University
Isaac J. Lansing (B.A. 1872, graduate student 1872–73, M.A. 1875) – president, predecessor, Clark Atlanta University (HBCU) (1874–76)
Gregory Mandel - Dean at Temple University Beasley School of Law
Oliver Marcy (1846) – twice acting president, Northwestern University (1876–81, 1890); established the Northwestern University Museum of Natural History, served as its curator
Anthony Marx (1981, attended 1977–79) – 18th president, Amherst College (2003–11); president, New York Public Library (2011–)
Russell Zelotes Mason (B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847) – 2nd president, Lawrence University (1861–65); acting president, (1859–61); mayor, Appleton, Wisconsin
William Williams Mather (A.M. 1834) – acting president, Ohio University (1845)
Bishop Samuel Sobieski Nelles (1846) – 1st chancellor, president, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1884–87); president, Victoria College
John McClintock (1834) – 1st president, Drew Theological Seminary (later, Drew University)
Frank L. McVey (B.A.) – 4th president, University of North Dakota (1909–17); 3rd president, University of Kentucky (1917–40); economist
John W. North – co-founder, University of Minnesota; founding member of its board of regents (1851–60); wrote university's charter
Henry S. Noyes (1848) – twice interim president, Northwestern University (1854–56, 1860–67)
Brother John R. Paige (M.A.) – president, Holy Cross College (2010–); prior vicar general, the Congregation of Holy Cross in Rome
Bishop Charles Henry Payne (A.B. 1856, A.M. 1859) – 3rd president, Ohio Wesleyan University (1876–88)
Humphrey Pickard (B.A. 1839) – 1st president, Mount Allison Wesleyan College, Canada (later known as Mount Allison University) (1862–1869)
Matias Perez y Ponce (B.A.) – founder and first president, Cagayan Teachers College (Philippine Islands) (1948–1968)
John A. Randall (1881) – 4th president, Rochester Institute of Technology (1922–36)
George Edward Reed (1869) – 15th president, Dickinson College (1889–1911); with William Tickett, re-established Dickinson School of Law in 1890
David Rhodes (1968) – 2nd president, School of Visual Arts (incumbent as of 2010)
Edward Loranus Rice (A.B. 1892, Sc.D. 1927) – acting president, Ohio Wesleyan University (1938–39); biologist; scientific consultant to Clarence Darrow before Scopes Trial
William North Rice (1865) – thrice acting president, Wesleyan University (1907, 1908–09, 1918); geologist, earned first PhD. in geology granted by Yale University
B. T. Roberts – founder, predecessor of Roberts Wesleyan College (named in his honor)
Michael S. Roth (1978) – 16th president, Wesleyan University (since 2007); 8th president, California College of the Arts (2000–07)
Richard S. Rust (1841) – co-founder, 1st president, Wilberforce University (HBCU); co-founder, Rust College (HBCU) (named in his honor)
Richard W. Schneider (M.A. 1973) – 23rd president, Norwich University (since 1992)
Edwin O. Smith (1893) – acting president, Connecticut Agricultural College (now the University of Connecticut) (1908)
George Mckendree Steele (B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853) 3rd president Lawrence University (1865–79)
Samuel Nowell Stevens (1921) – 9th president, Grinnell College (1940–54)
Harold Syrett (1935) – President of Brooklyn College
Beverly Daniel Tatum (1975) – 9th president, Spelman College (HBCU) (2002–); acting president, Mount Holyoke College (2002)
John Hanson Twombly (1843) – 5th president, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1871–74); co-founder, Boston University; overseer, Harvard University
Joseph Urgo (M.A.) – president, St. Mary's College of Maryland (since 2010); former acting president, Hamilton College (2009)
Daniel C. Van Norman (1838) — educator, clergyman, and school founder
John Monroe Van Vleck (1850) – twice acting president, Wesleyan (1872–73, 1887–89); astronomer, mathematician
Francis Voigt (1962) – co-founder, president, New England Culinary Institute (incumbent as of 2010)
Clarence Abiathar Waldo (A.B. 1875, A.M. 1878) – twice acting president, Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (1885–86, 1888–89); mathematician
Henry White Warren (1853) – co-founder, Iliff School of Theology
William Fairfield Warren (1853) – co-founder, Wellesley College in 1870; 1st President, Boston University (1873–03); acting president, Boston University School of Theology (1866–73)
Robert Weisbuch (1968) – 11th president, Drew University (since 2005); former president, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Herbert George Welch (B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890) – 5th president, Ohio Wesleyan University (1905–16)
Bishop Erastus Wentworth (B.A. 1837) – 7th president, McKendree College (1846–50)
Georg Whitaker (1861) – 4th president, Wiley College (1888–91) (HBCU); 7th president, Willamette University (1891–93); president, Portland University
Alexander Winchell (B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850) – 1st chancellor, Syracuse University (1872–74)
Elizabeth C. Wright (1897) – principal co-counder and secretary, registrar, and later 1st bursar, Connecticut College
Henry Merritt Wriston (B.A. 1911, M.A.) – 11th president, Brown University (1937–55); 8th president, Lawrence University (1925–37); father of Walter B. Wriston (see below)
Kennedy Odede (2012); founder; Shining Hope for Communities, Nairobi, Kenya
Professors and scholars
David Abram (1980) – philosopher, cultural ecologist
Kenneth R. Andrews (M.A. 1932) – academic credited with foundational role (at Harvard Business School) in introducing, popularizing concept of business strategy
Elliot Aronson (M.A. 1956) – among 100 most eminent psychologist of 20th century
John William Atkinson (1947) – psychologist, pioneered the scientific study of human motivation, achievement, and behavior
Wilbur Olin Atwater (1865) – chemist, leader in development of agricultural chemistry
Adam J. Berinsky (1992) – professor of political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Albert Francis Blakeslee (1896) – botanist, director of the Carnegie Institution for Science; professor, Smith College
George Hubbard Blakeslee (A.B. 1893, A.M. 1897) – professor of history, Clark University; founded the first American journal devoted to international relations
Jennifer Finney Boylan (1980) – author, professor of English, Colby College (1988–)
Lael Brainard – former professor of applied economics, MIT Sloan School of Management
Kenneth Bruffee – emeritus professor of English; wrote first peer tutoring handbook
Leonard Burman (1975) – economist, tax-policy expert; Professor of public affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Leslie Cannold (1987) – academic ethicist; Australian public intellectual
John Bissell Carroll (1937) – psychologist; known for his contributions to psychology, educational linguistics and psychometrics
John C. Cavadini (B.A. 1975) – professor and chair, Theology Department, University of Notre Dame; Vatican adviser; Order of St. Gregory the Great
KC Chan – former professor of finance and dean, business management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Hong Kong Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (since 2007);
Arthur W. Chickering (1950) – educational researcher; known for contributions to student development theories
John H. Coatsworth (1963) – historian of Latin America; provost, Columbia University; dean, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (2007–12)
Marion Cohen (PhD in mathematics (distribution theory)) – mathematician and poet
Kate Cooper – Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester, England
Jeffrey N. Cox (1975) – professor of English literature; leading scholar of late-18th to early-19th-century theater and drama
Norman Daniels (1964) – philosopher, ethicist, and bioethicist, Harvard University
Ram Dass (M.A.) – former professor of psychology, Harvard University; spiritual teacher; wrote book Be Here Now
Marc Davis (1989) – founding director, Yahoo! Research Berkeley
Walter Dearborn (B.A. 1900, M.A.) – pioneering educator, experimental psychologist; helped establish field of reading education; longtime professor, Harvard University
Daniel Dennett (attended) – professor of philosophy, Tufts University; Jean Nicod Prize
Henrik Dohlman (1982) – professor and chair of pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Raymond D. Fogelson – anthropologist; a founder of the subdiscipline of ethnohistory; professor, University of Chicago
Virginia Page Fortna (1990) – professor of political science at Columbia University
Michael Foster – professor of Japanese literature, culture, and folklore; author
Daniel Z. Freedman – physicist, professor of physics and applied mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; co-discovered supergravity
David Garrow (1975) – Pulitzer Prize for Biography; fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge University
Mark H. Gelber (1972) – American-Israeli scholar of comparative literature and German-Jewish literature and culture
Gayatri Gopinath (1994) – scholar of social and cultural analysis; director, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York University
Adolf Grünbaum (1943) – philosopher of science and critic of psychoanalysis and Karl Popper
Saidiya Hartman – professor of African-American literature and history, Columbia University (as of 2010)
Robert H. Hayes (1958) – Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration (1966–2000), Emeritus (since 2001), Harvard Business School
Ole Holsti (MAT 1956) – political scientist, Duke University (1974–1998), emeritus chair (since 1998); creator, inherent bad faith model
Gerald Holton (1941) – emeritus professor of physics and professor of the History of Physics, Harvard University
William G. Howell (1993) – Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at Chicago Harris and a professor in the Department of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago
Shelly Kagan – Clark Professor of Philosophy, Yale University; former Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics, Yale University
Douglas Kahn (M.A. 1987) – Professor of Media and Innovation, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales; Professor Emeritus in Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis; 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship
Edwin W. Kemmerer – economist; economic adviser to foreign governments worldwide; professor, Princeton University
William L. Lane – New Testament theologian and professor of biblical studies
Seth Lerer (1976) – professor of English and comparative literature, Stanford University
Peter Lipton (1976) – Hans Rausing professor and head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Richard M. Locke (1981)- Provost, Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University; former deputy dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Silas Laurence Loomis (1844) – professor of chemistry, physiology, and toxicology, Georgetown University
Delmar R. Lowell – historian and genealogist
Saree Makdisi (1987) – professor of English and comparative literature, University of California, Los Angeles; also literary critic
Harold Marcuse (physics, 1979) – professor of modern and contemporary German history
Harold Marks – British educator
David McClelland (1938) – noted for his work on achievement motivation; co-creator of scoring system for Thematic Apperception Test; professor, Harvard University
Lee C. McIntyre – philosopher of science
Elmer Truesdell Merrill (1881) – Latin scholar; professor of Latin, University of Chicago
Joseph C. Miller (1961) – professor of history, University of Virginia (since 1972)
Indiana Neidell (1989) – historian, host and lead writer of The Great War YouTube channel
Eugene Allen Noble (1891) – president of Centenary University 1902–1908, 3rd president of Goucher College from 1908–1911, 16th president of Dickinson College from 1911–1914
Tavia Nyong'o (B.A.) – historian, Kenyan-American cultural critic; professor, New York University; Marshall Scholarship
Thomas Pickard – Canadian professor of mathematics, Mount Allison University (1848–1869)
Edward Bennett Rosa (1886) – Elliott Cresson Medal, Franklin Institute; professor of physics (1891–1901)
Horace Jacobs Rice (1905) – lawyer, Associate Dean, Northeastern University School of Law, Dean of the College of Western New England School of Law from
Paul North Rice (1910) – librarian, Director of Reference at the New York Public Library, Director of NYU libraries, Director of the Wesleyan University Library 1953-56
Juliet Schor – professor, sociology, Boston College; professor, economics (for 17 years), Harvard University
Sanford L. Segal (1958) mathematician, professor of mathematics, historian of science and mathematics
Ira Sharkansky (1960) professor emeritus, political science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; fellow National Academy of Public Administration
Steven M. Sheffrin (1972) economist and expert on property tax limitations in the U.S.
Horst Siebert – German economist; chair, economic theory, University of Kiel (1989–2003), University of Konstanz (1984–89), University of Mannheim (1969–84)
Neil Asher Silberman – archaeologist and historian
Richard Slotkin (MAEE) – professor of American studies (appears above), published by Wesleyan University Press
Charles H. Smith (1972) – historian of science
Stephen M. Engel, political scientist, professor at Bates College (1998)
Robert Stalnaker – Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; delivered the 2006–2007 John Locke Lectures at Oxford University
H. Eugene Stanley (1962) – recipient, 2004 Boltzmann Medal; professor of physics, Boston University
John Stauffer (MALS 1991) historian, 2002 Frederick Douglass Prize; chair, History of American Civilization and professor of English, Harvard
Leland Stowe (1921) – 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence; recipient, Légion d'honneur; professor and journalist, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (1955–1970), emeritus (1970)
Mark C. Taylor (1968) – philosopher of religion, professor and chair of religion, Columbia University
Lawrence Rogers Thompson (B.A.) – 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Biography; professor of English, Princeton University
Edward Thorndike (1895) – psychologist; work led to theory of connectionism in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy of mind
Lynn Thorndike (1902) – George Sarton Medal; historian; former professor, Columbia University
Robert L. Thorndike (1941) – psychometrician and educational psychologist
Robert M. Thorndike (1965) – professor of psychology known for several definitive textbooks on research procedures and psychometrics
Charles Tiebout (1950) – economist; known for his development of Tiebout model; free rider problem; feet voting
Aaron Louis Treadwell (B.S. 1888, M.S. 1890) – professor, biology and zoology, Vassar College
Albert E. Van Dusen (MA, PhD) – historian, professor of history, University of Connecticut (1949–1983); Connecticut State Historian (1952–1985)
Edward Burr Van Vleck (1884) – mathematician; professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christian K. Wedemeyer (1991) – history of religions faculty, University of Chicago Divinity School
William Stone Weedon (M.S.) – University Professor, University of Virginia (philosophy, mathematics, logic, linguistic analysis)
Kenneth D. West (1973) – professor of economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison; developed (with Whitney K. Newey) the Newey-West estimator
Alexander Winchell (1847) – professor of physics and civil engineering, professor of geology and paleontology at University of Michigan
Caleb Thomas Winchester (1869) – scholar of English literature
Art and architecture
Natalia Alonso (economics 2000) – professional dancer, Complexions Contemporary Ballet; former dancer, Ballet Hispanico
Steven Badanes (1967) – architect; known for his practice, teaching of design/build
I Made Bandem (PhD, ethnomusicology) – Balinese dancer, author; rector, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta
Meredith Bergmann (1976) – sculptor, Women's Memorial (Boston)
Lisa Brown (1993) – illustrator, author
Momodou Ceesay (1970) – African fine artist and writer
George Fisk Comfort – founder, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art
Bradshaw Crandell – artist and illustrator; known as the "artist of the stars"
Jeffrey Deitch (1974) – art dealer, curator, and, since 2010, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
Vincent Fecteau (1992) – sculptor; work in permanent collections, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Ralph Carlin Flewelling – architect
Ellen Forney (1989) – cartoonist; nomination, 2007 Eisner Award; illustrated winner, 2007 National Book Award
Danny Forster (1999) – architect; host, Extreme Engineering and Build It Bigger
Renée Green – artist, sculptor; professor, MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Lyle Ashton Harris (1988) – artist; collage, installation art, performance art
Rachel Harrison (1989) – contemporary sculptor; multimedia artist; Calder Prize
Morrison Heckscher (1962) – art historian and retired curator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dana Hoey (1989) – visual artist working with photography
Jonathan Horowitz (1987) – multimedia artist; sculptor, sound installations
Wayne Howard (1971) – graphic artist; created Midnight Tales
Bruce Eric Kaplan – cartoonist (The New Yorker); television writer, (Six Feet Under; Seinfeld)
Stephan Koplowitz (1979) – choreographer, director; 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts
Abigail Levine – choreographer, dancer
C. Stanley Lewis – artist, professor of art
Paul Lewis 1998 – Rome Prize; director, Graduate Studies, Princeton University School of Architecture; principal, LTL Architects
Glenn Ligon – contemporary conceptual artist; work in collection of the White House
Nava Lubelski (1990) – contemporary artist
Thomas McKnight (artist) – artist; work commissioned by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton and in the permanent collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian Institution
Alix Olson (1997) – performance artist, award-winning slam poet
Jill Snyder (1979) – executive director, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
John Spike (1973) – art historian of Italian Renaissance; contemporary art critic
Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1834–1837) – antebellum humorist, painter, illustrator, author
Lori Verderame (MLS) – best known as "Dr. Lor"; appraiser, American TV show Auction Kings
Robert Vickrey – artist and author; collections in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Ben Weiner (2003) – contemporary artist; oil painting, video
Chris Wink – co-founder, Blue Man Group and Blue Man Creativity Center
Business
Robert Allbritton (1992) – chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), Allbritton Communications; publisher, Politico
Kenneth R. Andrews (M.A. 1932) – credited with foundational role (at Harvard Business School) in introducing, popularizing concept of business strategy
Douglas J. Bennet – former CEO, National Public Radio (1983–93)
William Bissell – sole managing director, Fabindia (1993–)
Jonathan S. Bush – co-founder, president, CEO, athenahealth (as of 2012)
KC Chan – ex-officio chairman, Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (2007–11); former director, Hong Kong Futures Exchange
Tos Chirathivat (1985) – CEO, Central Retail
Robert Crispin (1968) – former president, CEO, ING Group Investment Management Americas (2001–07)
D. Ronald Daniel (1952) – managing partner (1976–88), McKinsey & Company; developed concept, critical success factors
Charles E. Exley, Jr. (1951) – president (1976–91), chairman (1984–91), CEO (1983–91), NCR Corporation
Mallory Factor – merchant banker
John B. Frank (B.A.) – managing principal (since 2007), general counsel (2001–06), Oaktree Capital Management
Mansfield Freeman (1916) – one of original founders, AIG; philanthropist
Jim Friedlich – media executive, Dow Jones & Company (1990–00); founding partner, ZelnickMedia (2001–11); founding partner, Empirical Media Advisors (since 2011)
Pete Ganbarg (1988) – President of A&R, Atlantic Records (as of 2017)
John Hagel III (1972) – co-chairman, Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation (as of 2012); coined the term "infomediary"
Henry I. Harriman – co-founder, New England Power Company
Charles James (1976) – vice president and general counsel, ChevronTexaco
Herb Kelleher (1953) – founder, chairman, president, CEO, Southwest Airlines; chair, board of governors, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (2011–13)
Edward M. Kennedy, Jr. (1983) – co-founder, president (as of 2012), Marwood Group (Wall Street investment firm); attorney (disability law)
George M. La Monte (1884) – chairman, Prudential Insurance Company
Gary Loveman (1982) – president of the Aetna Inc. subsidiary Healthagen (since 2015); former chairman and former CEO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation; former professor, Harvard School of Business
John Macy – president, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1969–72); ran the Council of Better Business Bureau (1972–1979)
Tom Matlack (1986) – entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author
Nick Meyer – president, Paramount Vantage (until December 2008); former president, Lionsgate International, a division of Lionsgate Studios
Candace Nelson – founder, Sprinkles Cupcakes (2005); pastry chef; judge, television series Cupcake Wars (since 2010)
Chuck Pagano (MALS) – chief technology officer, executive vice president of technology, ESPN; Sporting News "Power 100" list (2003 and 2006)
Tom Rogers (1976) – president, CEO, TiVo (since 2005); former chairman, CEO, Primedia; former president, NBC Cable; founded CNBC, established MSNBC
Jonathan I. Schwartz (1987) – president (2004–10), CEO (2006–10), Sun Microsystems; founder, CEO, Lighthouse Design (1989–96)
Marc Shmuger (1980) – chairman, Universal Pictures (until October 2009)
Jonathan Soros (1992) – hedge fund manager and political donor; son of George Soros.
Gideon Stein – founder, former CEO, Omnipod, Inc. (now a division of Symantec)
Steve Spinner – business executive, known for his work as an angel investor and advisor to Silicon Valley startups
Gerald Tsai (1947–48) – founder, CEO, Primerica; pioneered use of performance funds
Laura Ruth Walker (1979) – president, CEO, WNYC Public Radio Station, largest public-radio station in nation; named one of NYC's Most Powerful Women by Crain's New York Business (2009)
Dan Wolf (1979) – founder, president, CEO, Cape Air (since 1988)
Luke Wood (1991) – president, chief operating officer, Beats Electronics
Walter B. Wriston (1941) – commercial banker; former chairman (1979–84), CEO (1967–84), Citibank and Citicorp
Strauss Zelnick (1979) – CEO (2011–), chairman (2007–), Take-Two Interactive; founder, managing partner, ZelnickMedia (2001–); president, chief operating officer (1989–93), 20th Century Fox; CEO, BMG Entertainment (1998–2000)
Film, television, acting
Writers
Carter Bays (1997) – writer, creator, executive producer, How I Met Your Mother
Mark Bomback – screenwriter
Jennifer Crittenden (1992) – writer, producer; two Humanitas Prizes, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Ed Decter (1979) – screenwriter, There's Something About Mary, The Santa Clause 2, The Santa Clause 3
Jennifer Flackett (1986) – screen/television writer, film director; Madeline, Wimbledon, Little Manhattan, Nim's Island and Journey to the Center of the Earth
Liz Friedman – writer, producer; Xena: Warrior Princess, Hack, The O.C., Numb3rs, House; co-creator, writer, executive producer, Young Hercules
Liz W. Garcia (1999) – writer and producer; Dawson's Creek, Wonderfalls, Cold Case; co-created TNT series Memphis Beat
David H. Goodman (1995) – television writer and producer, Fringe, Without a Trace
Willy Holtzman – screenwriter, playwright; Humanitas Prize, Writers Guild Award, Peabody Award
Alex Kurtzman – film, television screenwriter, producer; film: The Legend of Zorro, Mission: Impossible III, Transformers, Cowboys & Aliens, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness; television: Fringe
Catie Lazarus – writer, storyteller and talk show host
Brett Matthews (1999) – writer, TV shows and comics
Craig Thomas (1997) – writer, creator, executive producer How I Met Your Mother
Joss Whedon (1987) – creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and screenwriter & director The Avengers
Zack Whedon (2002) – screenwriter
Mike White (1992) – two Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Awards; co-creator, screenwriter, Enlightened; The Good Girl, Orange County, Chuck & Buck, and the HBO satire comedy miniseries The White Lotus.
Kate Purdy (2001) - Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation; writer, producer, Cougar Town, Enlisted, The McCarthys, Bojack Horseman; co-creator, writer, executive producer, Undone
Directors
Phil Abraham – television director, cinematographer (The Sopranos, Mad Men, Orange is the New Black)
Michael Arias (attended from age 16 to 18) – film director, producer, visual effects artist; filmmaker active primarily in Japan
Miguel Arteta (1989) – film director (The Good Girl, Cedar Rapids)
Michael Bay (1986) – film director (The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys Series, Transformers film series)
Eric Byler (1994) – film director (Charlotte Sometimes, My Life Disoriented, Americanese, TRE)
Jan Eliasberg (1974) – director (television, theatre, and film)
Michael Fields – director
Ruben Fleischer (1997) – director; Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less
Thomas Kail (1999) – film and theatre director
David Kendall – television and film director, producer, and writer; Growing Pains, Boy Meets World, Smart Guy, Hannah Montana, Dirty Deeds, The New Guy
Daisy von Scherler Mayer (1988) – film director (Party Girl, Madeline, The Guru, Woo)
Matthew Penn (1980) – director and producer of television and theatre; NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Sopranos, House, Damages, The Closer, and Royal Pains
Ray Tintori (2006) – director (film and music videos)
Jon Turteltaub (1985) – film director (Cool Runnings, Phenomenon, While You Were Sleeping, National Treasure, 3 Ninjas)
Matt Tyrnauer – director and journalist; Valentino: The Last Emperor (2009), short listed for an Academy Award nomination (2010)
Alex Horwitz (2002) – director; "Hamilton's America"
Benh Zeitlin (2004) – film director (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Actors and others
Bradley Whitford (1981) – actor, The West Wing, Get Out
Edoardo Ballerini – actor, writer, director
Jordan Belfi (2000) – actor
Rob Belushi (2004) - actor, comedian and host of Get a Clue on Game Show Network.
Amy Bloom (1975) – creator, State of Mind
Peter Cambor (2001) – film and television actor; NCIS: Los Angeles
Rob Campbell – actor (film, television, and stage)
Hunter Carson (1998) – actor, screenwriter, producer, director
Philip Casnoff (1971) – Golden Globe-nominated Broadway, television, and film actor (Chess, Shogun: The Musical, North and South, Sinatra)
Lynn Chen (1998) – actress, Saving Face
William Christopher (1954) – actor, Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy, M*A*S*H
Jem Cohen (1984) – Independent Spirit Award, feature filmmaker and video artist
Sarah Elmaleh (2007) - voice actor
Toby Emmerich – producer, film executive, screenwriter; head, New Line Cinema (as of 2008)
Halley Feiffer (2007) – actress, playwright
Beanie Feldstein (2015) – actress
Jo Firestone (2009) actress and comedian
Sam Fleischner (2006) – filmmaker
Bradley Fuller – producer, co-owner of Platinum Dunes
Bobbito García (1988) – hip hop DJ, writer
William "Willie" Garson – actor, White Collar; most known for his portrayal of Stanford on Sex and the City
Max Goldblatt (2005) – actor, writer, director
Matthew Greenfield – Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award, producer of independent films
Adam Hann-Byrd (2004) – actor, Little Man Tate, The Ice Storm, Jumanji
Elisabeth Harnois (2001) – actress, Young Artist Award (1993); Adventures in Wonderland, Pretty Persuasion
Jack Johnson (2009) – actor, best known for performance in Lost in Space
Warren Keith – stage and film actor, director
Chrishaunda Lee – television host, actress
Jieho Lee (1995) – filmmaker
Tembi Locke – actress, has appeared on more than 40 television shows
Lauren LoGiudice – actress and writer
Monica Louwerens (1995) – actress, beauty queen from Canada, competed in 1996 Miss America Pageant
Barton MacLane – actor, playwright, screenwriter; appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s
Lin-Manuel Miranda (2002)-Tony-Award-winning Broadway actor, librettist, and composer
Becky Mode – playwright, actress, television producer
William R. Moses (attended) – television and film actor
Indy Neidell – documentarian, historian, and actor
Julius Onah – filmmaker of Nigerian descent
Amanda Palmer (1998) – director Hotel Blanc (2002); playwright, actress, The Onion Cellar (2006); producer, actress in ART's Cabaret (2010)
Benjamin Parrillo (1992) – actor, Cold Case, 24, NCIS, Boston Legal
Leszek Pawlowicz (1979) – Ultimate Tournament of Champions, 2005; won Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, 1992; won Ben Stein's Money, 1999
Zak Penn (1990) – screenwriter (Fantastic Four, X-Men: The Last Stand, PCU, The Incredible Hulk); director (Incident at Loch Ness, The Grand); co-creator, Alphas
John Rothman (1971) – film, stage, and television actor
Stefan Schaefer (1994) – director, screenwriter, producer, independent films; Confess and Arranged; Fulbright Scholar
Sarah Schaub (2006) – two Young Artist Awards, actress (Promised Land)
Paul Schiff (1981) – film producer (My Cousin Vinny, Rushmore, Mona Lisa Smile, Solitary Man)
Lawrence Sher (1992) – cinematographer and producer, The Dukes of Hazzard, Garden State
Wendy Spero – actress, comedian, writer
Kim Stolz (2005) – America's Next Top Model Cycle 5 finalist
Stephen Talbot (1970) – former TV child actor of the 1950s, 1960s; portrayed Gilbert Bates on Leave it to Beaver
Kim Wayans – actress; member of the Wayans family
Henry Willson – Hollywood talent agent; clients included Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Robert Wagner, Clint Walker; discovered Lana Turner; a large role in popularizing the beefcake craze of the 1950s
Scott Wiper (1992) – director, screenwriter, actor
Angela Yee (1997) – radio personality
Alexander Yellen (2003) – cinematographer
Law
Non-U.S. government judicial figures
George Edwin King (B.A. 1859, M.A. 1861) – 10th Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada (1893–01); Attorney General of New Brunswick (1870–78); Premier of New Brunswick (1870-1871 & 1872-1878); Supreme Court of New Brunswick (1880–93)
Supreme Court of the United States
David Josiah Brewer (1851–54) – 51st Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1890–1910); major contributor to doctrine of substantive due process and to minority rights; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1884–90); U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (1865–69); Kansas Supreme Court (1870–1884)
U.S. Federal appellate and trial courts
Frank R. Alley, III – judge, United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Oregon (as of 2011).
John Baker (A.M. 1879) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Indiana
John D. Bates (1968) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia (2001–); judge, United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (2006–)
Edward G. Biester, Jr. (1952) – judge, United States Court of Military Commission Review (2004–07); Attorney General for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1979–80)
Denise Jefferson Casper (B.A. 1990) – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2010–); 1st black, female judge to serve on federal bench in Massachusetts
Alonzo J. Edgerton (1850) – judge, United States District Court for the District of South Dakota (1889–96); Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Dakota Territory
Katherine B. Forrest (1986) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2011–)
Frederick E. Fuller – federal judge for interior Alaska; appointed in 1912; early champion for the credibility of Alaska natives as witnesses in federal court
Steven Gold (1977) – chief United States magistrate judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1993–)
Terry J. Hatter (1954) – judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles (as of 2011); chief judge, 1998; senior status, 2005
Andrew Kleinfeld (1966) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1991–); judge, United States District Court for the District of Alaska (1986–91)
Martin A. Knapp (1868) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1916–23); judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1910–16); judge, United States Commerce Court (1910–13)
Mark R. Kravitz (1972) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (2003–2012)
Arthur MacArthur Sr. – judge, predecessor, United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1870–87)
James Rogers Miller Jr. (1953) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1970–86)
Patricia Head Minaldi (1980) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (2003–2018)
J. Frederick Motz (1964) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1985–), chief judge (1994–01); United States Attorney for the District of Maryland
Michael S. Nachmanoff, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2021–present), magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2015-2021)
John Wesley North – judge, by Presidential appointment, predecessor, United States District Court for the District of Nevada; founder, Northfield, Minnesota and Riverside, California
Lyle L. Richmond (1952) – associate justice, High Court of American Samoa (in American Samoa, the highest appellate court below U.S. Supreme Court) (1991–); attorney general, American Samoa.
Rachel A. Ruane (1997) – judge, United States Los Angeles Immigration Court (2010–)
Anthony Scirica (1962) – chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Philadelphia) (1987–); judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1984–87)
Dominic J. Squatrito (1961) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (1994–2021); Fulbright scholar
Stephen S. Trott (1962) – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1988–); United States Attorney for the Central District of California
Ronald M. Whyte (mathematics 1964) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1992–)
John Simson Woolson (A.B. 1860, A.M. 1863) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Iowa
U.S. State courts
Raymond E. Baldwin – Chief Justice (1959–63), associate justice (1949–59), Connecticut Supreme Court
Richard C. Bosson (1966) – Chief Justice (2002–06), associate justice (2002–), New Mexico Supreme Court; chief judge, New Mexico Court of Appeals (01–02)
John Moore Currey – eighth Chief Justice (1866–68), associate justice (1864–66), Supreme Court of California
Charles Douglas III (1960–62) – associate justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court (1977–85)
Miles T. Granger (1842) – associate justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
Ernest A. Inglis (1908) – Chief Justice (1853–57), associate justice (1850–53), Connecticut Supreme Court (1950–57)
Fred C. Norton (1950) – associate judge, Minnesota Court of Appeals
James McMillan Shafter – judge, California Superior Court and state legislator in California, Vermont, and Wisconsin
Oscar L. Shafter (1834) – associate justice, Supreme Court of California (1864–1867)
David M. Shea (1944) – associate justice, Connecticut Supreme Court (1981–1992)
David K. Thomson, Associate Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (2019–present)
Arthur T. Vanderbilt – Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court; twice declined nomination, United States Supreme Court
Josiah O. Wolcott – Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery; Attorney General of Delaware
Government and other lawyers
Gerald L. Baliles (1963) – Attorney General of Virginia (1982–1985) and Governor of Virginia (1986-1990).
Tristram Coffin (1985) – U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont (2009–2015)
George C. Conway (1923) – Connecticut Attorney General (1951–1953)
Edmund Pearson Dole (1874) – first Attorney General of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii
Brian E. Frosh (1968) – Attorney General of Maryland (2015-present) Maryland State Senator (1995-2015); Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1995)
Theodore E. Hancock (1871) – New York State Attorney General (1894–1898)
Rusty Hardin (1965) – trial attorney, efforts resulted in U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturning Arthur Andersen's conviction of obstruction of justice
Eddie Jordan (1974) – United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1994–2001); District Attorney of Orléans Parish (2003–2007)
Edward J. C. Kewen (1843) – first Attorney General of California; also Los Angeles County District Attorney (1859–1861)
Theodore I. Koskoff (1913–89) A.B. – trial lawyer
John Gage Marvin (1815–55) A.B. – lawyer; legal bibliographer (Marvin's Legal Bibliography, or A thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch law books); figure in history of California; first California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Charles Phelps (B.A. 1875, M.A.) – first Connecticut Attorney General (1899–1903); Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1897–1899)
Michele A. Roberts (1977) – trial lawyer; named "one of Washington's 100 Most Powerful Women"; partner, Skadden, Arps (2011–)
Abner W. Sibal (1943) – General Counsel, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (1975–1978)
Legal academia
Gabriel J. Chin (1985) – UC Davis School of Law (2011–); "Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 00–07", "50 Most Cited Law Profs Who entered Teaching Since 92"
Hiram Chodosh (1985) – dean, S.J. Quinney College of Law (2006–)
Ward Farnsworth (1989) – dean, University of Texas School of Law at Austin (2012–); former law clerk, Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Shad Saleem Faruqi (B.A., age 19) – Professor of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA (1971–); constitutional consultant to Maldives, Fiji, Timor Leste, Afghanistan, Iraq
Stephen C. Ferruolo (CSS 1971) – dean, University of San Diego School of Law (2011–); Rhodes Scholar; former faculty, Stanford University
John C.P. Goldberg (CSS 1983) – Eli Goldston Professorship, Harvard Law School (2008–); former law clerk, Byron White, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court; expert in tort law and theory, political theory, jurisprudence
Robert J. Harris – attorney and professor, University of Michigan Law School (1959–1974; adjunct faculty member, 1974–2005); Rhodes Scholar
Naomi Mezey (1987) – professor, Georgetown University Law Center (civil procedure, legislation, nationalism and cultural identity) (1997–); Watson Fellow
William Callyhan Robinson (1850–1852) – academician, jurist; professor, Yale Law (1869–95); dean, Columbus School of Law (1898–1911)
Theodore Shaw (1979) – professor, Columbia Law (2011–); 5th President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (2004–08)
Raymond L. Solomon (1968) – dean, Rutgers Law School-Camden (since 1998); professor, University of Chicago Law School, Northwestern University Law School
Barbara A. Spellman (1979) – professor, University of Virginia Law School (2008–); professor of psychology, University of Virginia (since 2007); editor-in-chief of Perspectives on Psychological Science
Arthur T. Vanderbilt (1910) – dean, New York University Law School (1943–48); professor, NYU Law (1914–43)
Charles Alan Wright (1947) – long-time professor, University of Texas School of Law at Austin; was foremost authority in U.S. on constitutional law and federal procedure
Literature
Becky Albertalli (2004) – writer, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and other best-selling works
Steve Almond (1988) – writer, The Best American Short Stories 2010
Stephen Alter – author
Suzanne Berne – novelist, winner of Great Britain's prestigious Orange Prize; professor of English
Kate Bernheimer – author, scholar, editor
Nicholas Birns (1987, attended but did not graduate); literary critic and editor.
Peter Blauner – novelist; Edgar Award, The New York Times Best Seller list,
Amy Bloom (1975) – author, Away (The New York Times Best Seller list, 2007); National Magazine Award, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories
John Briggs (1968) – author, scholar, editor
Andrew Bridge – author, Hope's Boy, New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Best Book of the Year
Ethan Bronner – his novel Battle for Justice was selected by New York Public Library as one of the "Best Books of 1989"
Alexander Chee – writer, 2003 Whiting Writers' Award; former Visiting Writer at Amherst College
James Wm. Chichetto – poet, novelist, critic, lecturer, Catholic priest
Mei Chin – fiction writer, food critic
Kate Colby (1996) – poet, editor, Norma Farber First Book Award
Robin Cook, MD (1962) – medical mystery writer; books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, including Coma, Critical, Outbreak, and 29 others
Michelle Regalado Deatrick – author, poet
Anna Dewdney (1987) – children’s author and illustrator
Paul Dickson (1961) – writer, American English language and popular culture
Melvin Dixon (1971) – author, poet, translator
Beverly Donofrio (1978) – author, Riding in Cars with Boys
Steve Englehart (1969) – comic book writer
Edward B. Fiske (1959) – educational writer; creator of The Fiske Guide to Colleges; former education editor for The New York Times
Laura Jane Fraser (1982) – journalist, essayist, memoirist, and travel writer
Glen David Gold (1966) – author of Carter Beats the Devil, Sunnyside
Amanda Davis (1993) – writer; author of "Wonder When You'll Miss Me"
Elizabeth Graver (1986) – writer; Drue Heinz Literature Prize, O. Henry Award, Pushcart Prize (2001), Best American Essays, Cohen Awards
Daniel Handler (1992) – author (under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket) of A Series of Unfortunate Events (children's book series)
Rust Hills (B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949) – author and fiction editor
Adina Hoffman (B.A. 1989) – essayist, critic, literary biographer; 2013 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize; 2010 Wingate Prize
Albert Harrison Hoyt (1850) – editor and author
Christianne Meneses Jacobs – writer, editor, and teacher
Kaylie Jones – novelist
Sebastian Junger (1984) – author of The Perfect Storm, War; DuPont-Columbia Award; Time magazine Top Ten Non-fiction Books of 2010; National Magazine Award
James Kaplan – novelist, biographer, journalist; 1999 The New York Times Notable Book of the Year; NYT Top 10 Books of 2010; Best American Short Stories
Pagan Kennedy (1984) – author, short listed for Orange Prize; pioneer of the 1990s Zine Movement
Brad Kessler (1986) – novelist, Whiting Writers' Award (fiction, 2007), Dayton Literary Peace Prize; 2008 Rome Prize
Gerard Koeppel (1979) - writer, historian
Christopher Krovatin (2007) – author, musician
Alisa Kwitney – novelist, Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
Brett Laidlaw (1983) – author, Trout Caviar and Blue Bel Air
Seth Lerer (1976) –medievalist and literary critic; 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award (for criticism); 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
Ariel Levy – author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, anthologized in The Best American Essays of 2008 and New York Stories
James Lord – author, including biographies of Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso
Robert Ludlum (1951) – The Bourne Identity, The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, 24 others; 9 of his books have made The New York Times Best Seller list; 290–500 million copies of his books in print
Joanie Mackowski – 2009, 2007 Best American Poetry, 2008 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award, 2003 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
John Buffalo Mailer – author, playwright, and journalist
William J. Mann (M.A.) – novelist, biographer; Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006 by The New York Times
Lew McCreary – editor, author, Senior Editor of the Harvard Business Review
Jack McDevitt – science fiction author; 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel (fifteen-time nominee), 2004 Campbell Award
Leslie McGrath (M.A.) – poet
John P. McKay (1961) – author, Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, professor of history
Scott Mebus – novelist, playwright, composer
Melody Moezzi (2001) – author of War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims
Gorham Munson (1917) – literary critic
Blake Nelson (1984) – author; Grinzane Cavour Prize; novels Girl, Paranoid Park
Charles Olson (B.A. 1932, M.A.) – modernist poet, crucial link between such poets as Ezra Pound and the New American poets, one of thinkers who coined the term postmodernism
Michael Palmer, MD (1964) – medical mystery writer, Side Effects, Extreme Measures; all of his 16 books have made The New York Times Best Seller list
Carolyn Parkhurst (1992) – author of The Dogs of Babel (a New York Times Notable Book) and Lost and Found (both on the New York Times Bestseller List)
Peter Pezzelli – author, including Francesca's Kitchen, Italian Lessons
Daniel Pinchbeck – author
Jason Pinter – novelist and thriller writer
Craig Pospisil – playwright
Michael Prescott (1981) – crime writer, many of whose novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list
Kevin Prufer (1992) – poet, essayist, editor; winner of four Pushcart Prizes, Best American Poetry 2003, 2010
Delphine Red Shirt (MALS) – Oglala Lakota writer, adjunct professor at Yale University and Connecticut College
Spencer Reece – writer and poet, 2009 Pushcart Prize, 2005 Whiting Writers' Award for poetry
Jean Rikhoff – writer and editor
Mary Roach – New York Times Best Selling author; New York Times Notable Books pick (2005); New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice (2008)
Carlo Rotella (1986) – writer, Whiting Writers' Award (nonfiction, 2007), L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award
Ruth L. Schwartz – poet
Sadia Shepard – author, Fulbright Scholar (2001)
Joyce Sidman (B.A. German) – children's writer; 2011 Newbery Honor Award
Maya Sonenberg (1982) – short story writer, 1989 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Tristan Taormino (1993) – author and sex educator
Jonathan Thirkield – poet, 2008 Walt Whitman Award
Wells Tower (1996) – writer, two Pushcart Prizes, Best American Short Stories 2010
Ayelet Waldman (1986) – author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper, and the Mommy-Track Mysteries
David Rains Wallace – author of The Monkey's Bridge (a 1997 New York Times Notable Book) and The Klamath Knot (1984 John Burroughs Medal)
Austin Warren (1929) – literary critic, author, and professor of English
Sam Wasson (2003) – author, film historian, publisher
D.B. Weiss – author and screenwriter
Michael Wolfe – author, poet
Paul Yoon (2002) – writer; 2009 John C. Zacharis First Book Award; O. Henry Award; Best American Short Stories 2006
Lizabeth Zindel – author, working primarily in the young adult (teen) genre
Medicine
Malcolm Bagshaw, MD (B.A. 1946) – 1996 Kettering Prize; "one of the world's foremost experts in radiation therapy"
Andrea Barthwell, MD (B.A.) – named one of "Best Doctors in America" in 1997; Betty Ford Award in 2003
Herbert Benson, MD (1957) – cardiologist; founding president, Mind-Body Medical Institute; professor, Harvard Medical School (as of 2012)
John Benson, Jr., MD (B.A.) – fellow, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1991); IOM named Fellowship in his honor ('10); Abraham Flexner Award ('10)
Charles Brenner (B.A. 1983) – professor, head of biochemistry, University of Iowa (as of 2012); leader, fields of tumor suppressor gene function and metabolism
Thomas Broker (B.A. 1966) – expert, human papilloma viruses; professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham (as of 2012); played central role, discovery of RNA splicing
William H. Dietz, MD (B.A. 1996) – Director, Division of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1997–); fellow, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
Joseph Fins, MD (B.A. 1982) – chief, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College (as of 2012); fellow, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
Michael Fossel, MD (B.A., M.A.) – professor, clinical medicine (as of 2012), known for his views on telomerase therapy
Laman Gray, Jr., MD (1963) – cardiologist; leader, field of cardiovascular surgery; redesigned, implanted world's 1st self-contained AbioCor artificial heart
Scott Gottlieb, MD (1994) – Commissioner of Foods and Drugs (2017-2019), Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services
Michael E. Greenberg (B.A. 1976) – neuroscientist; National Academy of Sciences; chair of the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School (2008-2012)
Allan Hobson, MD (B.A. 1955) – psychiatrist, dream researcher; professor, psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School (as of 2012)
Alex L. Kolodkin (B.A. 1980) – neuroscientist; professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (2005–)
Jay A. Levy, MD (B.A. 1960) – co-discoverer, AIDS virus (1983); professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (as of 2012); editor-in-chief, AIDS journal
Joseph L. Melnick (B.A.) – epidemiologist, known as "a founder of modern virology"; Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal
Anne L. Peters, MD (B.A. 1979) – physician, diabetes expert, and professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC
Ralph Pomeroy, MD (B.A.) – gynecologist, famous for creation of "Pomeroy" tubal ligation; co-founder, the Williamsburg Hospital in Brooklyn, New York
David J. Sencer, MD (B.A. 1946) – Director, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–77); Head, New York City Department of Health ('81–85)
Theodore Shapiro, MD (B.A. 1936) – psychiatrist
Harry Tiebout, MD (B.A. 1917) – psychiatrist, promoted Alcoholics Anonymous approach to patients, fellow professionals, and the public
Peter Tontonoz, MD (B.A. 1989) – professor of pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (2000–)
Military
Brigadier General Allen Fraser Clark, Jr. (1910–90) (B.A.) – United States Army (in the 1960s)
Admiral Thomas H. Collins (four-star rank) (M.A.) – Retired 22nd Commandant, United States Coast Guard (2002–08) (guided Coast Guard after 9/11)
Major General Myron C. Cramer (two-star rank) (B.A. 1904) – 20th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army (1941–45); judge, The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Tokyo, Japan (1946–49)
Rear Admiral Marshall E. Cusic Jr. MD (two-star rank) (B.A. 1965) – Medical Corps U.S. Naval Reserve; Chief, Medical Reserve Corps, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Brigadier General Alonzo Jay Edgerton (B.A. 1850) – American Civil War, Union Army, 67th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops (Bvt. March 13, 1865)
Lieutenant General William H. Ginn Jr. (three-star rank) (1946–48) – United States Air Force; Commander, U.S. Forces Japan and U.S. Fifth Air Force
Brigadier General John E. Hutton MD (B.A. 1953) – U.S. Army; Director, White House Medical Unit; Physician to President Ronald Reagan
Brigadier General Levin Major Lewis (class of 1852) – Confederate States Army, American Civil War; assigned to duty as Brig. General; president of several colleges
Admiral James Loy (four-star rank) (M.A.) – Retired 21st Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard (1998–2002); Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2005)
Brigadier General Robert Shuter Macrum (B.A. 1927) – U.S. Air Force
Brigadier General Samuel Mather Mansfield (1858–60, B.A. 1911) – U.S. Army; engineer
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Dr. Richard W. Schneider (two-star rank) (M.A. 1973) – U.S. Coast Guard; significant role in the transformation of the Coast Guard
Lieutenant General Adolph G. Schwenk (three-star rank) (B.A. 1963) – United States Marine Corps; Commanding Gen., U.S.FMF (Atl.) and U.S. FMF (Eur.)
Rear Admiral (Ret.) R. Dennis Sirois (two-star rank) (M.A. physics) – U.S. Coast Guard; Assistant Commander for Operations
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Patrick M. Stillman (two-star rank) (M.A.) – U.S. Coast Guard, founding father of the Integrated Deepwater System Program
Tuskegee Airman Chuck Stone (B.A. 1948) – Congressional Gold Medal (March 29, 2007); United States Army Air Forces
Brigadier General John B. Van Petten (B.A. 1850, M.A. '53) – Union Army; his Civil War reminiscences became basis for The Red Badge of Courage
Music
Adolovni Acosta – graduate student; classical and concert pianist
Bill Anschell (1982) – pianist, composer; recorded with Lionel Hampton, Ron Carter
John Perry Barlow (1969) – lyricist for the Grateful Dead
Robert Becker – composer and percussionist
Paul Berliner (PhD) – professor of music, Duke University
Marion Brown (M.A. ethnomusicology) – alto saxophonist, composer
Darius Brubeck (1969) – pianist, composer, band leader, professor of music
Kit Clayton – musician and programmer
Tim Cohen (B.A.) – San Francisco-based musician and visual artist
Bill Cole (PhD) – musician; professor of music, Dartmouth College, Amherst College, professor of African-American Studies, Syracuse University
Nicolas Collins (B.A., M.A.) – composer, mostly electronic music; Watson Fellow
Amy Crawford (B.A. 2005) – songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist and producer
Douglas J. Cuomo (attended) – composer
Nathan Davis (PhD) – musician; professor of music, University of Pittsburgh
Stanton Davis (M.A.) – trumpeter, educator
Santi Debriano (M.A.) – double bassist, bandleader
Frank Denyer (PhD) – professor of composition, Dartington College of Arts, South West England
Khalif "Le1f" Diouf (2011) – musician; rapper
Arnold Dreyblatt (M.A. 1982) – composer, based in Berlin, Germany; elected to German Academy of Art
Judy Dunaway (M.A.) – avant-garde composer; creator, sound installations
S. A. K. Durga (PhD) – musicologist, ethnomusicologist, professor of music
Tim Eriksen (M.A. 1993, PhD) – multi-instrumentalist; musicologist; performer, consultant for soundtrack of film Cold Mountain
James Fei (M.A. 1999) – composer and performer, contemporary classical music
Dave Fisher (1962) – lead singer, arranger, The Highwaymen; composer
William Galison – multi-instrumentalist, most famous as harmonica player, composer
Kiff Gallagher (1991) – musician, songwriter, helped create AmeriCorps
Alexis Gideon – composer, multi-media artist
Ben Goldwasser – founding member of Grammy Award-nominated MGMT
Adam Goren (1996) – sole member of synth-punk band Atom and His Package
Mary Halvorson (2002) – guitarist
Jon B. Higgins (B.A., M.A., PhD) – musician; scholar, Carnatic music
Jay Hoggard (1976) – current faculty, Wesleyan; vibraphonist; recorded often
Ashenafi Kebede (1969 M.A., 1971 PhD) – Ethiopian ethnomusicologist
Ron Kuivila (1977) – current faculty, Wesleyan; co-creator, software language Formula
Steve Lehman (2000 B.A.; 2002 M.A.) – composer, saxophonist; Fulbright scholar
David Leisner – classical guitarist, composer; teacher, Manhattan School of Music
Charlie Looker (2003) – musician
MC Frontalot (Damian Hess) (1996) – rapper; innovator of phrase nerdcore
Mladen Milicevic (M.A. 1988) – composer, experimental music, film music
Justin Moyer (1998) – musician and journalist
Dennis Murphy (PhD) – composer, one of the fathers of the American gamelan
Hankus Netsky (PhD) – Klezmer musician, composer
Amanda Palmer (1998) – composer/singer/pianist, The Dresden Dolls
Hewitt Pantaleoni (PhD) – 20th-century ethnomusicologist; known for work in African music
Sriram Parasuram (PhD) – Hindustani classical vocalist; also a violinist
Brandon Patton (1995) – songwriter, bassplayer
Andrew Pergiovanni (B.A.) – composer of "modern classical" and "popular" idioms
Chris Pureka – singer-songwriter
John Rapson (PhD) – jazz trombonist and music educator
Gregory Rogove (2002) – songwriter, indie-music drummer
Steve Roslonek – children's music performer and composer
Santigold (Santi White) – electropop/hip-hop artist
Sarah Kirkland Snider – composer of instrumental music and art songs; co-founder, co-director, New Amsterdam Records
Tyshawn Sorey – musician and composer
Anuradha Sriram (M.A.) – Indian carnatic singer; also, as playback singer, in more than 90 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi films
Carl Sturken (1978 B.A.) – musician, Rhythm Syndicate; songwriter and record producer with Evan Rogers, Syndicated Rhythm Productions
Sumarsam (1976 M.A.) – current faculty, Wesleyan; Javanese musician; virtuoso and scholar of Gamelan
Himanshu Suri (2007 B.A.) – rapper; writer; alternative hip hop group Das Racist
Tierney Sutton (1986) – thrice Grammy Award nominated jazz singer; Jazzweek 2005 Vocalist of the Year
Laxmi Ganesh Tewari (PhD) – Hindustani virtuoso vocalist, professor of music
Stephen Trask (1989) – composer (stage, screen); Obie Award; Grammy nomination
Stephen S. Trott (1962) – early member, The Highwaymen, which originated at Wesleyan; #1 single ("Michael Row the Boat Ashore" 1961)
Andrew VanWyngarden – founding member of Grammy Award nominated MGMT
Victor Vazquez (2006) – musician; rapper; alternative hip hop group Das Racist
T. Viswanathan (1975 PhD) – Carnatic flute virtuoso, professor of music
Dennis Waring (1982 PhD) – ethnomusicologist and Estay Organ historian
Dar Williams (1989) – folksinger
Daniel James Wolf (M.A., PhD) – composer of modern classical music
Peter Zummo (1970, B.A.; 1975, M.A., PhD) – composer, musician (postminimalist)
Karaikudi S. Subramanian – (1985, M.A., PhD) – musician; educationist, Carnatic music
News
Eric Asimov (1979) – restaurant columnist, editor, The New York Times (nephew of Isaac Asimov)
Doug Berman (1984) – Peabody Award-winning producer, launched NPR's Car Talk; creator, other news radio shows
Robert A. Bertsche – two-time winner, National Magazine Award; journalist, editor, media lawyer;
William Blakemore (1965) – correspondent, ABC News, DuPont-Columbia Award
Dominique Browning (1977) – former editor-in-chief, House & Garden
Katy Butler (1971) – journalist, Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, finalist for 2004 National Magazine Award
Marysol Castro (1996) – weather forecaster, CBS The Early Show (2011); weather anchor, contributing writer, ABC Good Morning America Weekend Edition (2004–10)
Jonathan Dube – pioneer, online journalism; print journalist
E.V. Durling – nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and one of the first Hollywood reporters
Jane Eisner (1977) – editor, The Forward, paper's first female editor; former editor, reporter, columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Smokey Fontaine (1993) – editor-in-chief, writer, music critic, Giant (2006–); Chief Content Officer, Interactive One (2007–)
Steven Greenhouse (1973) – reporter, The New York Times; 2010 New York Press Club Awards For Journalism; 2009 Hillman Prize
Ferris Greenslet (1897) – editor, writer; associate editor, Atlantic Monthly; director, literary adviser, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Vanessa Grigoriadis (1995) – National Magazine Award; writer
Peter Gutmann (1971) – journalist, attorney
William Henry Huntington – journalist
Alberto Ibargüen (1966) – CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; former publisher, The Miami Herald
David Karp – pomologist, culinary journalist
Alex Kotlowitz (1977) – George Polk Award; Peabody Award, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Jake Lahut (2017) — campaign reporter, The Daily Beast
Dave Lindorff (1972) – Project Censored Award (2004); investigative reporter, columnist
Stephen Metcalf – critic-at-large and columnist, Slate magazine
Kyrie O'Connor (1976) – journalist, writer, editor
Gail O'Neill – television journalist; former elite African-American fashion model
Charles Bennett Ray – journalist; owner, editor, The Colored American, first black student at Wesleyan in 1832
Jake Silverstein – 4th editor-in-chief (2008–), Texas Monthly, ten-time winner, National Magazine Award; 2007 Pen/Journalism Award; Fulbright Scholar;
Chuck Stone (1948) – journalist; professor of journalism, University of North Carolina; former editor, Philadelphia Daily News
Laura Ruth Walker (1979) – 2008 Edward R. Murrow Award; Peabody Award
Ulrich Wickert (Fulbright Scholar at Wesleyan in 1962) – broadcast journalist in Germany
Michael Yamashita (1971) – award-winning photographer, photojournalist, National Geographic
John Yang (1980) – Peabody Award-winning journalist; two-time winner, DuPont-Columbia Award; NBC News correspondent, commentator (2007–)
Politics and government
Religion
Edward Gayer Andrews (BA 1847) – president, Cazenovia Seminary; later bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church
Osman Cleander Baker (1830–33) – bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church; biblical scholar; namesake of Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas
Lawrence Aloysius Burke (MALS 1970) – 4th archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica; 1st archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau
James Wm. Chichetto – Catholic priest, Congregation of Holy Cross, poet, critic
Davis Wasgatt Clark (1836) – 1st president, Freedman's Aid Society; predecessor, namesake of Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia; bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church
Shira Koch Epstein (1998) – rabbi, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, New York
James Midwinter Freeman – clergyman, writer
William Henry Giler – founder of a seminary and a college; chaplain during the American Civil War
Debra W. Haffner (1985) – Unitarian Universalist minister; director, The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing
Gilbert Haven (1846) – 2nd president, Freedman's Aid Society; early proponent of equality of the sexes; bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church
Robert T. Hoshibata (1973) – Hawaiian bishop, United Methodist Church
Jesse Lyman Hurlbut (1864) – clergyman, author
John Christian Keener (1835) – bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church
Daniel Parish Kidder (1836) – theologian, missionary to Brazil
Isaac J. Lansing (B.A. 1872, M.A. 1875) – Methodist Episcopal minister of Park Street Church; college president, author
Delmar R. Lowell (1873) – minister, American Civil War veteran, historian, genealogist
Willard Francis Mallalieu – bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church
James Mudge (1865) – clergyman, author, missionary to India
Thomas H. Mudge (1840) – clergyman
Zachariah Atwell Mudge (1813–88) – pastor, author
Frederick Buckley Newell (AB 1913) – bishop, The Methodist Church (elected 1952)
William Xavier Ninde (A.B. 1855, D.D. 1874) – bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church (now the United Methodist Church); president, Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
Spencer Reece (1985) – Episcopal priest; chaplain to the Bishop of Spain for the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church (Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal)
Charles Francis Rice (B.A. 1872, M.A. 1875, D.D. 1893) – Methodist minister
William Rice (M.A. 1853, D.D. 1876) – Methodist Minister and librarian
Matthew Richey (M.A. 1836, D.D. 1847) – Canadian minister, educator, and leader in Nova Scotia, Canada
B. T. Roberts (university honors) – co-founder, Free Methodist Church of North America
A. James Rudin (1955) – rabbi, Senior Interreligious Adviser, The American Jewish Committee
James Strong (A.B. 1844, D.D. 1856, LL.D 1881) – creator of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890); acting president Troy University, Troy, New York; mayor
Conrad Tillard (born 1964) - politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist
Moses Clark White (1845) – pioneering missionary in China and physician; first linguistic study of Fuzhou dialect
Royalty
Prince Carlos, Prince of Piacenza, Duke of Parma (B.A. government) – Head of Royal and Ducal House of Bourbon-Parma; member, Dutch Royal Family
Science, technology, engineering, mathematics
David P. Anderson (1977) – mathematician, computer scientist (as of 2012); Space Sciences Laboratory; Presidential Young Investigator Award
Taft Armandroff (1982) – astronomer; director, W. M. Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea (July 1, 2006–)
Harold DeForest Arnold (Ph.B. 1906, M.S. 1907) – physicist; research led to development of transcontinental telephony
Wilbur Olin Atwater (1865) – chemist, agricultural chemistry; known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism
Oliver L. Austin – ornithologist; wrote the definitive study Birds of the World
Susan R. Barry (1976) – neurobiologist, specializing in neuronal plasticity (as of 2012)
Albert Francis Blakeslee (1896) – botanist; leading figure in the genetics; known for research on jimsonweed and fungi
Everitt P. Blizard (1938) – Canadian-born American nuclear physicist, nuclear engineer; known for his work on nuclear reactor physics and shielding; 1966 Elliott Cresson Medal
Byron Alden Brooks (1871) – inventor; author of Earth Revisited
Samuel Botsford Buckley (1836) – botanist, geologist, naturalist
Henry Smith Carhart (1869) – physicist, specializing in electricity; devised a voltaic cell, the Carhart-Clark cell, among other inventions
Kenneth G. Carpenter (1976, M.A. 1977) – astrophysicist (as of 2012); Project Scientist and Principal Investigator, NASA, Hubble Space Telescope Operations
David Carroll (PhD 1993) – physicist, nanotechnologist (as of 2012); director, Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Wake Forest University
Jennifer Tour Chayes (1979) – mathematician, mathematical physicist (as of 2012); National Academy of Sciences; Head, Microsoft Research New England
Charles Manning Child (A.B. 1890, M.S. 1892) – zoologist; National Academy of Sciences; noted for his work on regeneration at the University of Chicago
John M. Coffin (1966) – virologist, geneticist, molecular microbiologist (as of 2012); National Academy of Sciences; Director, HIV Program, National Cancer Institute
Richard Dansky – software developer of computer games and designer of role-playing games (as of 2012)
Henrik Dohlman (1982) – pharmacologist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Russell Doolittle (1951) – biochemist (as of 2012); co-developed the hydropathy index; National Academy of Sciences; 2006 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science; 1989 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Clay Dreslough (1993) – software developer (as of 2012); creator, Baseball Mogul and Football Mogul computer sports games; co-founder, president, Sports Mogul
Gordon P. Eaton (1951) – geologist (as of 2012); 12th Director, United States Geological Service; Director, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (1990–94)
Charles Alton Ellis – mathematician, structural engineer; chiefly responsible for the design of the Golden Gate Bridge
John Wells Foster (1834) – geologist, paleontologist
Daniel Z. Freedman – physicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (as of 2012); co-discovered supergravity; (2006) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics; 1993 Dirac Prize
George Brown Goode – ichthyologist; National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Lee Graham (postdoc study, research) – artificial intelligence, machine learning, evolutionary computation, artificial life; created 3D Virtual Creature Evolution, an artificial evolution simulation program
Leslie Greengard (B.A. 1979) – physician, mathematician, computer scientist; co-inventor, fast multipole method, one of top-ten algorithms of 20th century; Leroy P. Steele Prize; Presidential Young Investigator Award; National Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Engineering
Frederick Grover (1901) – physicist, National Bureau of Standards, precision measurements; electrical engineer
Henry I. Harriman (B.A. 1898) – inventor, patents for many automatic looms; builder, hydroelectric dams
Gerald Holton (1941) – physicist, Emeritus, Harvard University (as of 2012); 10th Jefferson Lecture; George Sarton Medal; Abraham Pais Prize; Andrew Gemant Award
Orange Judd (1847) – agricultural chemist
George Kellogg (1837) – inventor, patent expert; improved surgical instruments
Jim Kurose – computer scientist (as of 2012); 2001 Taylor L. Booth Education Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Oscar Lanford (B.S.) – mathematician, mathematical physicist, dynamical systems theory (as of 2012); Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle equations
Albert L. Lehninger (B.A. 1939) – pioneering research in bioenergetics; National Academy of Sciences
Silas Laurence Loomis, MD (1844) – mathematician, physiologist, inventor; astronomer, United States Coast Survey (1857); dean, Howard University
Emilie Marcus (1982) – Executive Editor, Cell Press; editor-in-chief, the scientific journal Cell; CEO, Neuron (each as of 2012)
Julia L. Marcus (A.M. 2003) – epidemiologist, science communicator, Harvard Medical School
William Williams Mather (A.M. 1834) – geologist, inventor; acting president, Ohio University (1845)
Jerry M. Melillo (B.A. 1965, M.A.T. 1968) – biogeochemist; Associate Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (1996–2000)
George Perkins Merrill (post-graduate study and research) – geologist; National Academy of Sciences (1922)
Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1840) – geologist, paleontologist; discovered at least 80 new species of extinct plants and animals
Frank W. Putnam (B.A. 1939, M.A. 1940) – biochemist; National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fremont Rider (M.A. 1937) – inventor, librarian, genealogist; named one of the 100 Most Important Leaders of Library Science and the Library Profession in the twentieth century
William Robinson (B.A. 1865, M.A. 1868) – inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer; invented first track circuit used in railway signaling, among other inventions
Edward Bennett Rosa (1886) – physicist; specialising in measurement science; National Academy of Sciences (1913); Elliott Cresson Medal
Richard Alfred Rossiter (1914) – astronomer, known for the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect
H. Eugene Stanley (1962) – physicist, statistical physics (as of 2012); National Academy of Sciences; 2008 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize; 2004 Boltzmann Medal
Carl Leo Stearns (B.A. 1917) – astronomer; namesake of asteroid (2035) Stearns and crater Stearns (far side of the Moon)
John Stephenson – invented, patented the first street car to run on rails; remembered as the creator of the tramway
Charles Wardell Stiles (attended) – parasitologist; groundbreaking work, trichinosis, hookworm; 1921 Public Welfare Medal by National Academy of Sciences
Lewis B. Stillwell (1882–1884) – electrical engineer; 1933 AIEE Lamme Medal, 1935 IEEE Edison Medal; IEEE's Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame
Alfred Charles True (1873) – agriculturalist; director, Office of Agricultural Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Mark Trueblood (candidate for PhD in physics) – engineer and astronomer (as of 2012); noted for early pioneering work in development of robotic telescopes; 15522 Trueblood
George Tucker (PhD) – Puerto Rican physicist (as of 2012); former Olympic luger
Nicholas Turro (1960) – chemist, Columbia University (as of 2012); National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 2011 Arthur C. Cope Award; Willard Gibbs Award
John Monroe Van Vleck (1850) – astronomer, mathematician; namesake of Van Vleck crater on the Moon
Jesse Vincent (1998) – software developer (as of 2012); developed Request Tracker while a student at Wesleyan; author, Request Tracker for Incident Response
Christopher Weaver (dual MAs and CAS) – software developer; founder, Bethesda Softworks; spearheaded creation, John Madden Football physics engine; visiting scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry Seely White (1882) – mathematician; National Academy of Sciences; geometry of curves and surfaces, algebraic twisted curves
Activists
Cliff Arnebeck – chair, Legal Affairs Committee, Common Cause Ohio; national co-chair and attorney, Alliance for Democracy
Mansoor Alam – humanitarian
John Emory Andrus (1862) – founder, SURDNA Foundation (1917)
Gerald L. Baliles (1987) – director, Miller Center of Public Affairs (since 2005)
Jeannie Baliles (M.A.T.) – founder and chair, Virginia Literacy Foundation (since 1987); First Lady of Virginia (1986–90)
John Perry Barlow (1969) – co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Fellow, Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society (since 1998)
Andrew Bridge (1984) – advocate for foster children; New York Times best-selling author; Fulbright Scholar
Ted Brown (attended) – libertarian politician, speaker
Eric Byler (1994) – political activist; co-founder, Coffee Party USA
Sasha Chanoff (1994) – founder, Executive Director, RefugePoint (2005–)
Jaclyn Friedman (1993) – feminist writer and activist
Jon Grepstad – Norwegian peace activist, photographer and journalist
Amir Alexander Hasson (1998) – social entrepreneur; 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review'''s TR35 award; founder, United Villages
David Jay – asexual activist and founder of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network
Marc Kasky – consumer activist; co-director, Green Center Institute
Matt Kelley (2002) – founder, Mavin Foundation
Harry W. Laidler (1907) – socialist, writer and politician
Melody Moezzi (2001) – founder, Hooping for Peace, a human-rights organization
Sandy Newman (1974) – non-profit executive, founder of three successful non-profit organizations
Robert Carter Pitman (1845) – temperance advocate
Jessica Posner – 2010 Do Something Award; co-founded Shining Hope to combat gender inequality and poverty in Kibera, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Charles Bennett Ray – first black student, Wesleyan in 1832; abolitionist; promoter, the Underground Railroad
Richard S. Rust (1841) – abolitionist; co-founder, Freedman's Aid Society
Juliet Schor – 2005 Leontief Prize (Wassily Leontief) by the Global Development and Environment Institute
Ted Smith (1967) – environmental activist; founder and former executive director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Chuck Stone – associated with the civil-rights and Black Power movements; first president, National Association of Black Journalists
Conrad Tillard (born 1964) - politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist
Arthur T. Vanderbilt – proponent of U.S. court modernization and reform
Evan Weber – Co-founder, Sunrise Movement
Sports
Tobin Anderson (1995) - head coach of the Iona Gaels men's basketball team (2023–present), Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball team (2022-2023); coached Fairleigh Dickinson when they became the first No. 16 seed out of the First Four to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
Everett Bacon (1913) – football quarterback, pioneer of the forward pass, College Football Hall of Fame
Bill Belichick (1975) – head coach of the New England Patriots; 2004 Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World"; Nine-time Super Bowl participant as head coach, won in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, and 2018 (lost in Super Bowl XLII (2007), Super Bowl XLVI (2011), and Super Bowl LII (2017)); first NFL coach to win three Super Bowls in four years; NFL Coach of the Year three times (2003, 2007, 2010)
Ambrose Burfoot (1968) – first collegian to win the Boston Marathon; won Manchester Road Race nine times; executive editor, Runner's World Magazine
Mike Carlson (1972) – National Football League and NFL Europe pundit (for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom)
Eudice Chong (2016) - professional tennis player, reached #366 in the WTA singles rankings and #153 in the WTA singles rankings
Logan Cunningham (1907–09) – football player and coach
Wink Davenport (1964) – former volleyball Olympic player, coach, and official; father, tennis champion Lindsay Davenport
Richard E. Eustis (1914) – football player and coach
Jeff Galloway (1967) – former American Olympian, runner and author of Galloway's Book on Running''
Frank Hauser (1979) – football coach
Jed Hoyer (1996) – executive vice president and general manager, Chicago Cubs; former general manager (2009–11), San Diego Padres; former assistant general manager (2003–09), interim co-manager (2005–06), Boston Red Sox
Kathy Keeler (1978) – Olympic gold medalist, rowing (member of the women's eight) in the 1984 Olympics; Olympics coach in 1996
Dan Kenan (1915) – football player and coach
Red Lanning – Major League Baseball pitcher and outfielder; played for Philadelphia Athletics
Amos Magee (1993) – professional soccer player, coach; former head coach, Minnesota Thunder, and is Thunder's all-time scoring leader, United Soccer Leagues Hall of Fame
Jeffrey Maier (2006) – college baseball player; notable for an instance of spectator interference at age 12; Wesleyan's all-time leader in hits
Eric Mangini (1994) – former head coach, Cleveland Browns, New York Jets; NFL analyst
Vince Pazzetti (1908–10) – elected to the College Football Hall of Fame
Bill Rodgers (1970) – winner, four New York City Marathons, four Boston Marathons, one Fukuoka Marathon; only runner to hold championship of all three major marathons at same time
Henri Salaun (1949) – squash player; four-time winner, U.S. Squash National Championships (1955, 1957, 1958 and 1961); won, inaugural U.S. Open (1954)
Harry Van Surdam (1905) – elected to the College Football Hall of Fame
Mike Whalen (1983) – athlete and coach
James Wendell (1913) – Olympic silver medalist, 110-meter hurdles, 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm; one of teammates, General George S. Patton
Jeff Wilner (1994) – National Football League player
Bert Wilson (1897) – football player and coach
Field Yates (2009) - sportswriter and analyst for ESPN
Fictional characters
Notes
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Isaac Wilson Joyce (October 11, 1836 – July 28, 1905) was an American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1888.
Early life
Isaac Wilson Joyce was born in Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio on October 11, 1836, to James Wilson Joyce. His father was a farmer. At the age of thirteen, in April 1850, Joyce and his family moved to Indiana. He joined the United Brethren Church. Joyce attended Hartsville College from 1854 to 1856, but left college to assist with the family's photograph business. He later completed college and graduated with a Master of Arts from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in 1872.
Career
In June 1858, Joyce was a preacher at the United Brethren Church and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became a member of the Northwest Indiana Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in September 1859. He was ordained deacon in 1861 by Bishop Matthew Simpson, and an elder by Bishop Thomas Asbury Morris. Around 1867, Joyce became the presiding elder of the Lafayette district. In 1873, Joyce became the pastor at Trinity Church in Lafayette. He worked there for three years.
In October 1876, Joyce became pastor of Bethany Church, a church in Baltimore, Maryland, affiliated with his wife's cousin Charles J. Baker. He remained in Baltimore until the fall of 1877. He was offered to remain with the church, but he declined since the church would not become a regular Methodist church. In 1877, Bishop Edward Raymond Ames arranged for Joyce to join Meridian Street United Methodist Church in Indianapolis, but ultimately Joyce returned to his old conference. In September 1877, Joyce was appointed to Roberts Chapel in Greencastle. He briefly accepted an appointment at Trinity Church in Louisville, Kentucky. In September 1880, Joyce moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. He became a pastor at St. Paul Church in 1880 and served as pastor of Trinity Church from 1883 to 1886. He then returned to St. Paul and remained there until 1888.
Joyce was elected as bishop in May 1888. After becoming bishop, Joyce moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee. He remained there for eight years. He also served as chancellor of U.S. Grant University. In June 1896, Joyce moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and preached at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church. He then supervised conferences in Japan, Korea and China until April 1898. From 1902 to 1904, Joyce visited conferences in South America.
Personal life
Joyce married Caroline Walker Bosserman of La Porte, Indiana, on March 20, 1861. They had two sons, Frank Melville and Wilbur Bruce. Wilbur Bruce died at the age of fourteen months. Their son Frank Meville was a captain in the Second Ohio Battery. Joyce lived at 310 Groveland Avenue in Minneapolis later in life.
In 1875, Joyce suffered a severe illness diagnosed at the time as "congestion of the brain". Joyce died on July 28, 1905, in Minneapolis and is buried in Lakewood Cemetery of that city.
Joyce spelled his last name as "Joice" up until 1863.
Awards and honors
Around 1876, Joyce was conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dickinson College and in 1891, he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of the Pacific.
See also
List of bishops of the United Methodist Church
References
Methodism: Ohio Area (1812–1962), edited by John M. Versteeg, Litt.D., D.D. (Ohio Area Sesquicentennial Committee, 1962).
External links
1836 births
1905 deaths
People from Hamilton County, Ohio
Methodists from Ohio
DePauw University alumni
American Methodist bishops
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Burials at Lakewood Cemetery
19th-century American clergy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Wilson%20Joyce |
Manton is a small village in Wiltshire, England, on the western outskirts of Marlborough just off the A4 Bath Road.
History
A settlement of twelve households and an estate held by Miles Crispin were recorded at Manetone in the 1087 Domesday Book. In the 17th century the estate came into the ownership of the earls and marquesses of Ailesbury, whose seat was nearby at Tottenham House; their ownership continued into the 20th century.
Manton was a tithing of Preshute parish until 1934, when it was transferred to Marlborough civil parish.
Local economy
A small industrial estate on the A4 to the west of Manton houses several businesses including the headquarters of P&M Aviation, a manufacturer of ultralight aircraft.
Amenities
The village primary school is Preshute Primary School, which feeds into St Johns Academy in Marlborough. The village has a pub, the Oddfellows.
The Anglican Church of St George is east of the village, next to Preshute House. This settlement was identified as Preshute as recently as the 1961 (7th series) Ordnance Survey map but on current maps and road signs it is part of Manton. There was a church at Preshute in the 12th century, and possibly earlier; fragments of 12th-century masonry survive. The font of black Tournai marble, 12th century, said to have been brought from St. Nicholas's chapel in Marlborough Castle in the 15th or 16th centuries, is described by Pevsner as a "truly amazing piece". The church was rebuilt, on the same foundations and retaining the 15th-century tower, by T.H. Wyatt in 1854; it is Grade II* listed. Today the parish is part of the Marlborough Anglican Team, together with St Mary's in Marlborough and St John the Baptist at Mildenhall.
The Manton Estate
The Manton Estate is northwest of the village, on the Marlborough Downs in the parish of Preshute. It includes Manton House, Manton Lodge and Manton House Stables, currently operated by thoroughbred horse trainer Brian Meehan. The stables were established in the 1860s by Alec Taylor and then run by his son Alec Taylor, Jr. The estate was purchased by Leeds-born soap manufacturer Joseph Watson (died 1922), who in 1921 won the Oaks with Love in Idleness and came 3rd in the Derby with Lemonora; in 1922 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Manton. Later the estate was acquired by the Sangster family.
References
External links
Villages in Wiltshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manton%2C%20Wiltshire |
Adam Campbell (born Adam Jones; 19 August 1980) is an English actor. He has appeared in films, such as Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), and Wolves at the Door (2016). He played the role of Cal Vandeusen in the horror miniseries Harper's Island (2009). Campbell also appeared as Greg Walsh in the sitcom Great News (2017), and as young Donald Mallard on episodes of NCIS (2014–16, 2020).
Career
Campbell was first cast in Commando Nanny, an unaired sitcom for The WB Television Network, which was originally scheduled to premiere in 2004. He subsequently starred as Grant Fockyerdoder with Alyson Hannigan in the 2006 parody of romantic comedy films, Date Movie, which was a mild success at the American box office. He also starred in You Are Here, an independent film about a group of twenty-somethings, released in 2007. One of his biggest roles was in Epic Movie where he played a lead, Peter Pervertski. Campbell starred in the CBS mini-series Harper's Island as Cal Vandeusen.
In January 2010, Campbell was cast as the voice of Ringo Starr for the cancelled 3D remake of Yellow Submarine.
In 2015, Campbell appeared in the Emmy-nominated Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Logan Beekman, the upper class 'Daddy's Boy' boyfriend of the title character, played by Ellie Kemper.
Between 2017 and 2018, Campbell played Greg Walsh in the NBC sitcom Great News. His character is an executive producer at The Breakdown and main character Katie's boss and love interest.
Personal life
In 2006, Campbell met his wife, American actress and singer Jayma Mays, on the set of the film Epic Movie. They married on 28 October 2007. The couple have one son was born in August 2016.
Filmography
Film
Television
Web
Music videos
References
External links
Living people
1980 births
21st-century English male actors
Alumni of RADA
British expatriate male actors in the United States
English expatriates in the United States
English male film actors
English male television actors
English male voice actors
People educated at Beechen Cliff School
Male actors from Bath, Somerset | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Campbell%20%28actor%29 |
Razorback is a 1984 Australian natural horror film written by Everett De Roche, based on Peter Brennan's 1981 novel, and directed by Russell Mulcahy. The film revolves around the attacks of a gigantic wild boar terrorising the Australian outback, killing and devouring people. It was released theatrically in Australia by Greater Union Film Distributors on 19 April 1984, and in the United States by Warner Bros. on 16 November 1984.
Plot
Jake Cullen is babysitting his grandson at his house in the Australian outback when a massive razorback boar smashes through his house and carries off his grandson to devour. Jake is accused of murdering the child, and while his account of the events are met with considerable scepticism, he is ultimately acquitted due to lack of evidence. The event destroys his credibility, however, and he vows revenge on the boar.
Two years later, American wildlife reporter Beth Winters journeys to the outback to document the hunting of Australian wildlife to be processed into pet food at a run-down factory. Beth gets video footage of two thugs, Benny Baker and his brother Dicko, illegally making pet food and is subsequently chased down by them by car. They catch up, force her off the road and attempt to rape her only to be chased off by the same boar that killed Jake's grandson. Beth attempts to take shelter in her car, but the hog rips off the door, drags her out and eats her. With no witnesses, her disappearance is subsequently ruled an accident by having fallen down an abandoned mine shaft after leaving her wrecked car.
Some time later, Beth's husband Carl travels to Australia in search of her and encounters Jake, whom Beth interviewed during her initial report. Jake refers Carl to the local cannery, where he meets Benny and Dicko. He pretends to be a Canadian visitor and convinces them to take him along on their next kangaroo hunt, only to be abandoned by them when he spoils a potential kill. Carl is then attacked by a herd of wild pigs, spurred on by the giant boar, which chase him through the night and force him to take shelter atop a windmill. The next morning the pigs knock over the windmill, but Carl is saved by landing in a pond at the windmill's base, which the pigs fear to enter.
Once the pigs leave, Carl attempts to make his way back to civilization, all the while suffering from dehydration-induced hallucinations, before finally reaching the house of Sarah Cameron: a friend of Jake who has been studying the local pig population and the only person who believes his story of the giant razorback. While recovering, Carl learns from Sarah that something has been causing the wild pigs excess stress, leading them into unusual behaviour, such as increased aggression and cannibalising their own young. Meanwhile, after learning that Carl had seen the razorback, Jake sets out for the pumping station and manages to shoot it with one of Sarah's tracking darts. He also finds Beth's wedding ring in the boar's faeces, which he returns to a grieving Carl.
Benny and Dicko overhear a radio conversation suggesting that Jake knows what really happened to Beth Winters. Fearful that Jake is attempting to implicate them in her death, Benny and Dicko attack Jake at his camp, breaking his legs with bolt-cutters and leaving him to be killed by the razorback. His remains are later found by Sarah and Carl, along with marks in the dirt made by Dicko's cleaver. Realising that the brothers were responsible for both Beth and Jake's deaths, Carl attacks Benny at the brothers' lair, interrogating him by dangling him over a mine shaft before dropping him into it. As Sarah rounds up a posse to hunt down the razorback, Carl corners Dicko at the cannery when the razorback suddenly appears and mauls Dicko to death. The razorback then chases Carl into the factory, when Sarah arrives and is seemingly killed by the boar.
The boar continues to pursue Carl, and in its maddened rampage, the razorback ends up damaging the cannery's generator, which sends the machines running. Carl lures the boar onto a conveyor belt that throws it into a giant meat grinder, chopping it to pieces. After shutting down the machinery, Carl finds and rescues Sarah, who had merely been knocked unconscious, and the two embrace.
Cast
Production
Razorback was directed by Russell Mulcahy and mostly shot in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Director of photography Dean Semler was hired on the strength of his work in Mad Max 2. Some commentators have written that the film may have been inspired by the 1980 death of Azaria Chamberlain, whose mother was accused of murder after a dingo snatched the infant.
The razorback boar was an animatronic. Effects man Bob McCarron designed a total of six boars for the film, one of them designed to ram vehicles. The shoot used one of the first batches of a new fast film stock developed by Kodak, which resulted in quite high-resolution shots. Mulcahy originally considered Jeff Bridges for the role of Carl, but producer Hal McElroy considered he had too little international appeal.
Although Arkie Whiteley initially signed on for a shower scene in this movie, a week before it meant to be filmed she backed out, claiming that she was not ready to do a nude scene. It was up to designer and make-up man Bob McCarron to convince her to change her mind. For this he took an unusual tactic. As he learned that she was determined not to appear nude, McCarron then hired a body double to appear in the nude scene. When next speaking to Whitely he let slip that he had seen the body double naked to make sure she was right for the shoot. Whitely was curious and asked what the actress was like. McCarron said she was fine but there was a slight cellulite problem around the hips. Whitley then decided that rather than be mistaken for such, she would do the nude scene herself.
Release
Razorback was released in Australia on 19 April 1984, and grossed $801,000 at the box office. The film was given a limited release theatrical run in the US and UK by Warner Bros. from November 16, 1984. It grossed $150,140 at the box office in the United States.
Following various VHS video releases, the film was issued on DVD in Australia by Umbrella Entertainment on 21 September 2005. It was presented in 2.40:1 widescreen with a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack and the original 2.0 Dolby Stereo soundtrack. Special features include the 70-minute featurette "Jaws on Trotters"; an audio interview with actor Gregory Harrison; four brief pre-release deleted scenes with extra gore, sourced from VHS tape; a photo gallery; and an original theatrical trailer.
Razorback was subsequently released on DVD in various other countries, including the US, UK, France and Germany, though they only contain varying quantities of the Australian disc's extras. The US release was by Warner Home Video, as part of the Warner Archive Collection, and only contains 2.0 stereo audio and the theatrical trailer.
In 2014, Umbrella Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray with all of the prior DVDs extras and an additional 84 minutes of cast and crew interviews.
In August, 2018, Umbrella Entertainment released a newly remastered edition Blu-Ray featuring a 4k remaster of the theatrical cut and a VHS-sourced version of the uncut film. In addition to porting over all previous supplements, newly produced extras include an audio commentary by director Russell Mulcahy and the retrospective "A Certain Piggish Nature: Looking Back at Razorback."
In 2023, Umbrella Entertainment is scheduled to release a 4K of the film in July, 2023.
Reception
Razorback received mixed reviews from critics, with several critics comparing the film to Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
Empire awarded the film two out of five stars, writing, "The oddball nightmare style is effective but the prop pig and under par acting let the film down." TV Guide also gave the film two out of five stars, commending the film's cinematography, but stated that the film was "too repetitive (and sometimes simply too silly) to be truly engaging".
Variety gave the film a positive review, writing, "The plot may be a bit familiar, but Razorback is no quickie: it’s an extremely handsome production, beautifully shot by Dean Semler."
Accolades
Legacy
The film has been referenced in the Australian video game Ty The Tasmanian Tiger, in which a monstrous boar named Bull is identified as a Razorback Pig
See also
Boar
Cinema of Australia
References
External links
Razorback at Oz Movies
Razorback at the National Film and Sound Archive
Razorback at Australian Screen Online
1984 films
1984 horror films
1980s action horror films
Australian horror films
Australian action horror films
1980s English-language films
Fictional pigs
Films about pigs
Films directed by Russell Mulcahy
Films set in Australia
Films shot in Australia
Warner Bros. films
Australian natural horror films
Australian monster movies
Desert survival films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorback%20%28film%29 |
The Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron Plaza is located outside the southwestern corner of Rice–Eccles Stadium on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. During the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, the stadium was known as Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium and hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Currently, the plaza contains the 2002 Winter Olympics cauldron surrounded by several plaques displaying photographs and information related to the 2002 Games.
In 2003, the "Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park" was opened at the southern end of Rice-Eccles Stadium, near where the cauldron had stood during the Games. The park contained the cauldron, the Hoberman Arch, and other features such as a visitor center. Overtime, features of the park became disused and some were removed. In 2018, the University of Utah announced it would be expanding the stadium south, requiring the park to be eliminated and the cauldron relocated. The cauldron was removed for refurbishment in 2020, before being installed in the new Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron Plaza, which was unveiled October 29, 2021.
Plaza history
Original park
Construction on the park began October 2, 2002 with a ground-breaking ceremony attended by Olympians Shannon Bahrke and Bill Schuffenhauer. The first phase of construction, which included installing the cauldron and making it operational, was completed in February 2003–in time for the one-year anniversary celebration. The second phase, which included the visitors center, was completed later that summer, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held August 22, 2003. The park cost $12 million to construction, which was paid for with revenue and surplus from the 2002 Games. Following the park's opening, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) turned over control and maintenance of the park to the University of Utah, providing them a $1 million endowment.
The park contained three main highlights: the cauldron, the Hoberman Arch and the visitor center. The park was landscaped with a water feature, plants, stones, and concrete walls. 17 panels—one for each day of the Olympics—were attached to a fence on the park's southern edge. The interior side of each panel described the Olympic highlights and events of its particular day, while the exterior sides bore the same images that were wrapped on buildings in downtown Salt Lake City during the Games. The park (although surrounded by an often locked fence) was open to the public free of charge, with the exception of the film shown in the visitor center. Money from ticket sales for the film, along with the original $1 million endowment helped pay the park's operating costs.
Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron Plaza
As part of an expansion to Rice-Eccles Stadium, plans were developed to remove the park and reinstall the cauldron at a new plaza. The cauldron was removed in February 2020 to undergo a refurbishment. The following year it was installed in the new plaza, which was officially unveiled to the public on October 29, 2021, with athletes Catherine Raney-Norman and Chris Waddell in attendance.
The new plaza allows for unrestricted public access to the base of cauldron and features eight monuments telling the comprehensive story of the Games with photographs and information plaques.
Features
Current
2002 Cauldron
During the games, the Olympic flame burned within the cauldron, which stood above the stadium's southern stands. Following the games, the cauldron was installed at the park and made operational in time for a ceremonial lighting on the first anniversary of the Games. The cauldron, which included a water feature around its base, continued to be lit on special occasions, including the 10th anniversary of the Games in 2012.
To accommodate expansion of Rice-Eccles Stadium, the cauldron was removed from the park on February 14, 2020, and taken to an off-site location where it underwent a refurbishment. The refurbishment included replacing all 738 panes of glass, wiring the structure with LED lights, and replacing the flame mechanisms to improve energy efficiency. The cauldron was installed atop a new pedestal in the plaza, just north of the ticket office (originally constructed as the original park's visitor center), on January 29, 2021.
Former
Hoberman Arch
The Hoberman Arch was located at the Olympic Medals Plaza in downtown Salt Lake City during the Games. It was used as a mechanical curtain for the Medal Plaza's stage, and opened like the iris of a human eye. While in use at the medals plaza, it would open to reveal a large 3D sculpture of the 2002 Olympic logo and a second Olympic cauldron, known as the Hero's Cauldron. The stage not only hosted award ceremonies, where the athletes received their medals, but was used as a concert venue during the Olympics, hosting many performing artists.
Following the Olympics, plans to install the arch in some kind of park were formulated; many of Salt Lake's citizens wanted the arch to be used in an amphitheater or some kind of concert venue. But, because the arch was a symbol of the 2002 Games, the United States Olympic Committee put restrictions on possible future locations for the arch (to protect Olympic sponsors from other businesses who don't have Olympic sponsor contracts). Because of these restrictions, and a lack of consensus among Salt Lake's leaders on where it would go, SLOC announced plans on December 5, 2002, to install the arch in the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park.
On July 30, 2003, the arch was lifted onto its new base at the park using three cranes. While at the cauldron park, it was no longer functional, although was lit with various colored lights at night. It was located just outside the park's southern fence and was partly open which allowed visitors to walk through it. A large plaque was located in front of the arch, which provided details on the arch's design and use during the Olympics, including photographs.
The arch was removed from the park beginning on August 1, 2014.
Visitor center
The park's visitors center was located at the western edge of the park and consisted of an art gallery, theater, and video kiosk area. Large bay windows allowed the cauldron and arch to be seen by visitors from inside the round glass and sandstone building, which also served as a ticket office for the nearby stadium (and continues in that capacity).
The center's theater used to play a 10-minute film which looked back on the Games and their success. This film was displayed using three different screens and special effects such as fog and lights; there was a charge to see the center's film. The presentation began in the dark, while inspiring quotes were played through the theater's sound system. Fog then filled the room, and a single light was displayed on the screens. As that light grew larger, it turned out to be the lantern of a skater, known as the "Child of Light" from the opening ceremony. Skaters were then seen whooshing across the three screens, and a voice sung "there's a flame that burns in every heart"; the athletes were then shown entering the stadium for the opening ceremonies. The film continued with highlights from the opening ceremony, the sporting competitions, and ended with the closing ceremony.
The free areas of the center included the art gallery, which contained more than 50 photographs taken during the Games (originally printed in the Games' official commemorative book), and filmed highlights were available for viewing on interactive kiosks.
See also
Olympic Legacy Plaza, another Olympic heritage plaza in Salt Lake City
References
External links
Archive.org - Former park website
2002 Winter Olympics
Parks in Salt Lake City
University of Utah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic%20and%20Paralympic%20Cauldron%20Plaza%20%28Salt%20Lake%20City%29 |
Shavertown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kingston Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies approximately northwest of the city of Wilkes-Barre and southwest of Scranton. The population of the CDP was 2,019 at the 2010 census.
History
Early history
Shavertown is named for an early settler, Philip Shaver. In 1813, Philip purchased the land that would later become Shavertown from William Trucks, the namesake of Trucksville. That same year, Philip sold the northwest portion of his land to John McClellon. This land would be known as McClellonsville, a small village which was later named Dallas. By 1818, Philip still owned nearly one thousand acres of land in the Back Mountain region.
Philip Shaver was born in 1762 along the Danube River Valley in Vienna, Austria. He migrated to the United States between 1765-1769 with his parents and brothers. Philip Shaver married Mary Ann Wickizer at St. James Lutheran Church (in Greenwich, Warren County, New Jersey, on December 12, 1786). They had 7 children: John Philip, Peter, William G., Elizabeth, James Henry, George, and Asa W. Shaver. Around 1804, Philip and his family arrived in Forty Fort, where they resided until 1810. Philip came to the “Back of the Mountain” in search of a gigantic species of legendary evergreen trees. He was forced to carve out a path from a rugged foot trail and among heavily forested lands, now Route 309. Philip and his sons constructed a sawmill in 1815. This first mill was on the north branch of Toby Creek and located near the Prince of Peace Church on Main Street in Dallas. Philip cut the wood for the first Market Street Bridge in Wilkes-Barre (in 1820).
It is said that after years of watching children labor on farms, Philip wished that the farm girls and boys should learn to read and write. In 1816, he donated the land for the first school in the Back Mountain. The school was a one-room log cabin on the site of the current Back Mountain Memorial Library on Huntsville Road. Philip also set aside lands for a public burying ground “on the hill near the pine grove just south of Dallas Village, on the road to Huntsville.” Philip also designated a plot of land for his family’s graves, visible from Overbrook Road. In November 1826, Philip died after a fatal accident. His left hand was crushed in the cider press that he and his sons were operating. Philip was forced to amputate his own hand and died of blood poisoning a few days later on November 7, 1826. A relative, Bayard Taylor Shaver of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, told of finding that same cider press on a visit to the Shaver farm in 1876. Philip’s headstone rests at the end of the Shaver Cemetery. Inscribed upon his footstone reads a testament to Philip’s vast travels: “Here lies my weary feet.”
Academy Award nominated actor Lee Tracy is buried in Shavertown.
Vice-presidential visit
Shavertown came to national attention in October 2005 when U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney visited the village at the home of Ron and Rhea Simms for a fundraiser for the reelection campaign of Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, who was later defeated in the 2006 U.S. congressional elections by Scranton native and pro-life Democrat Bob Casey, Jr., the state's former treasurer. The fundraiser raised $300,000 for the Santorum campaign.
Geography
Shavertown is located in the western corner of Kingston Township at , along Pennsylvania Route 309. It is directly north of the CDP of Trucksville and directly south of the unincorporated area of Fern Brook (in the neighboring Dallas Township). The borough of Dallas is north along Route 309.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land.
References
Census-designated places in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavertown%2C%20Pennsylvania |
Betsy Stark is an American media executive and former broadcast news correspondent. Since January 2011, she has been managing director of Content and Media Strategy for the global communications firm Ogilvy Public Relations a division of WPP.
In July 2013, PR Week named Stark a “game changer” on its annual Power List, citing her work creating journalistic-quality content to help Ogilvy's clients tell their stories. Her work directing a 13-part video series on behalf of the Government of Mexico was honored with both SABRE and PR Week awards for reputation and crisis management.
Broadcast Journalism Career
Stark is best known for her decades of work as an award-winning financial reporter and anchorwoman, most notably as the Business Correspondent for ABC News. Stark led the network's coverage of business and the economy from 1998 to 2010, a period that included the Great Recession. Her stories appeared on "ABC World News Tonight" with Peter Jennings and Charles Gibson, "Good Morning America," "This Week" and other ABC News programs.
Over the course of her journalism career, Stark won four national Emmy Awards, including a 2005 Business Emmy for her enterprise reporting on “The Broken Pension Promise” and a 2009 Emmy for her contributions to ABC's team coverage of “The Inauguration of Barack Obama.”
She is the winner of two George Foster Peabody Awards, one for her contributions to ABC's coverage of “9/11” and a second for her participation in ABC 2000 the network's coverage of the dawn of the new millennium.
Her story “Motherhood on Madison Avenue: The Neil French Flap,” exploring sexism in the advertising industry, was honored with a 2006 Gracie Award for hard news features from the Alliance for Women in Media.
Stark has interviewed dozens of CEOs, government leaders and top economic policymakers. In 2006 she was invited by The White House to conduct an exclusive interview with Pres. George W. Bush on his stewardship of the economy. But her reporting also focused on the challenges faced by ordinary Americans. Her signature series, “The Kitchen Table Economy,” featured intimate portraits of families affected by the economic crisis. The series put a human face on the worst economic slowdown since the Depression and received wide acclaim. She also frequently reported on workforce issues, gender bias, pay inequities, opportunities for disabled workers, the work-life balance, elder care, the "sandwich" generation and efforts by older workers to reinvent their careers.
While at ABC, Stark was one of the most prolific reporters in all of network television, consistently placing in the Tyndall Report's top 20 for the most on-air appearances. In 2008, during the financial crisis, she was among Tyndall's top five. During the height of the crisis, when Stark appeared on the broadcast almost every evening, ABC World News won the ratings race.
On April 2, 2010, Stark announced that she had been laid off as part of a 25 percent staff downsizing by ABC News.
In late 2010, Stark contributed stories to the PBS NewsHour, including a series of reports on how the tough economy was impacting the 2010 midterm elections, part of PBS' Patchwork Nation project.
In 2010, she also served as guest host of WBUR's On Point, a two-hour national radio program syndicated by NPR.
Stark began her television career as a documentary producer for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program "Inside Story," for which she won a 1983 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting for her work on the CBS News versus William Westmoreland lawsuit.
In 1988, she joined Dow Jones as a correspondent and later senior producer of the weekly "Wall Street Journal Report." In 1996, she became anchor and editor of her own live, daily business news program, "Heard on the Street A.M." Stark also anchored a public affairs program, "Metro Journal," which won an award for local political coverage in its first year.
Personal life
She is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, which has named her one of its most Notable Alumnae.
Ms. Stark is the mother of two children, Ben, a lawyer, and Sara, a writer and art historian. She lives in New York City.
Awards
Holmes Report, Global SABRE Awards, Winner, "Fighting Fire With Fire: Resetting the Media Dialogue For Mexico," Mexico Tourism Board, Ogilvy PR/New York (2012)
PRNews Platinum PR Awards, Honorable Mention, Crisis Management, "Fighting Fire with Fire: Resetting the Media Dialogue for Mexico," Mexico Tourism Board, Ogilvy PR (2012)
National Emmy Awards for “The Broken Pension Promise,”(2005) “ABC 2000,”(1999) and “The CBS-Westmoreland Controversy.”(1983) “The Inauguration of Barack Obama” (2009)
George Foster Peabody Award for “Coverage of 9/11” (2001) and “ABC 2000” (1999)
Gracie Award for “Motherhood on Madison Avenue” (2006)
ICI-American University Award for Excellence in Personal Finance Journalism for “Midwest Floods”
NYSSCPA Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism for “Paying Down the Debt”
References
External links
Smith College: Bucking the Career vs. Family Stereotype
Ogilvy Campaign for Mexico
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Smith College alumni
American television reporters and correspondents
American newspaper reporters and correspondents
American business and financial journalists
The Wall Street Journal people
News & Documentary Emmy Award winners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy%20Stark |
Nagasari is a traditional Indonesia steamed cake, originating from Javanese cuisine, made of rice flour, coconut milk and sugar, filled with a slice of banana and wrapped in banana leaves.
Etymology
Naga in Javanese language means "a big snake; a dragon". It refers to a mythical green snake in the Old Java that brings fertility to the earth. The word is derived from a Sanskrit word naga. Sari means "beautiful; fertile; patient" or "seed; flower".
Nagasari literally means "the seed of the dragon" or "the beautiful dragon". Since the Javanese dragon is often depicted as a green snake, the food is thus given green color.
The word nagasari can also refer to: 1) a specific tree; 2) a specific batik pattern.
Variants
Nagasari comes in green color (the most common) and white (less common). The green color comes from pandan leaves extract. White nagasaris are called legendo in Magelang.
In modern time, people start making different colors of nagasari. Blue nagasari, among them, gets its blue color from butterfly pea flowers.
Nagasari is commonly sold in Indonesian traditional market as a jajan pasar.
In Suriname, which has a significantly large Javanese population, it's pronounced nogosari and consists of rice flour with bananas that are steamed in banana leaf packets.
See also
List of steamed foods
Javanese cuisine
Indonesian cuisine
References
External links
Kue Nagasari recipe (in Indonesian)
Dumplings
Vegetarian dishes of Indonesia
Banana dishes
Kue
Steamed foods | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasari |
Charles Perry, sometimes nicknamed Charlie or Chuck, may refer to:
Politics and law
Charles T. Perry (1812–1872), American politician; mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
Charles Perry (Canadian politician) (1818–1876), Canadian businessman and Member of Parliament
Charles B. Perry (1855–1940), American politician, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Charles D. Perry (1907–1964), American politician, New York state senator
Charles Perry (Texas politician) (born 1962), American politician, Texas state senator
Sports
Charlie Perry (footballer, born 1866) (1866–1927), English footballer
Charlie Perry (Australian rules footballer) (1888–1961), Australian rules footballer
Charles Perry (basketball) (1921–2001), American basketball player
Others
Charles Perry (traveller) (1698–1780), English traveller and medical writer
Charles Perry (bishop) (1807–1891), English Australian cleric, first Anglican bishop of Melbourne
Charles Elliott Perry (1871–1937), New Zealand Anglican clergyman
Charles Stuart Perry (1908–1982), New Zealand librarian
Charles Perry (author) (1924–1969), African American novelist, author of Portrait of a Young Man Drowning
Charles O. Perry (1929–2011), American artist, known for large scale public sculptures
Charles R. Perry (1934–2005), American construction industry leader and businessman in Florida
Chuck Perry (1937–1999), American academic, founding president of Florida International University
Charles Perry (food writer) (born 1941), American culinary historian, journalist, and translator of the Baghdad Cookery Book | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Perry |
Pecel (, Javanese:ꦥꦼꦕꦼꦭ꧀) is a traditional Javanese salad with peanut sauce, usually eaten with carbs (steamed rice, lontong or ketupat).
The simplicity of pecel preparation and its cheap price have contributed to its popularity throughout Java. It has become a food that represents practicality, simplicity, and travel, since the dish is often found along the train journey across Java.
Pecel was introduced to Malaysia, where it is known as pecal, by Javanese immigrants. Pecel is also very popular in Suriname, where it was introduced by the Javanese Surinamese.
History
In Babad Tanah Jawi (circa 17th century), Ki Gede Pemanahan referred to the dish he presented to his guest, Sunan Kalijaga as "pecel-ised boiled vegetables". In Javanese language, "pecel" used to refer to the act of squeezing the water out of something.
Sunan Kalijaga was not familiar with the dish as he came from northeastern part of Central Java, while the dish was native to Yogyakarta. This dish became one of the most popular Javanese dishes soon after it was introduced to other regions of Java, and the word pecel took its current meaning, "a side dish that is made of vegetables and sauce".
Pecel is only one of many Javanese vegetable-based salads. It is similar to lothek, except that lothek is usually served with fried batter or tofu and uses both raw and cooked vegetables.
Ingredients
Main ingredients usually consist of leafy vegetables, bean sprouts (or any other plant sprouts), long beans, and cabbages. Some other types of vegetables can also be added. People may use amaranth leaves, kangkung, cassava leaves, or leaves or any other local plants that are in season. Some modern recipes will add carrots (sliced) into the mix, or replace white cabbages with the red ones to spice up the color.
The sauce is made of roasted (or fried) peanut, asam jawa, coconut sugar, and other spices. It might be served thick or watery, sweet or spicy, depending on the regional variation.
Pecel is usually eaten with rice or rice cake (lontong or kupat). It can also be eaten alone or with fried side dishes, such as, fried tempeh, tofu, etc.; and Javanese crackers, such as krupuk or rempeyek.
Variants
The difference usually lies on the thickness level of the sauce, the taste profiles (spicy, sweet, or savoury). In Central Java, pecel sauce is sweet-savoury with medium thickness, except in northern coast and north-eastern regions where the sauce tends to be more spicy and the sauce is usually a bit thinner than usual. In East Java, especially Madiun, the peanut sauce is very thin and spicy. Lamtoro seeds are often added as a topping.
In Tegal, Central Java, pecel sauce is made of peanut and cassava root. In Surakarta's pecel ndeso, black sesame sauce is used on top of peanut sauce.
In Yogyakarta, pecel is served with bacem (sweet-simmered) tempeh or tofu. In Surakarta, a pecel variant called lothek (alt. spelling: lotek) includes the use of some raw vegetables, lontong, and gorengan. The name "lothek" is derived from "luthik", a wooden spatula used to scoop the peanut sauce from a cowek (grinding bowl).
Pecel tumpang is a pecel smothered with tumpang (tempeh sauce). It a delicacy of Kertosono District in Nganjuk.
Mie pecel or pecel mie, noodles with pecel sauce is common in Central Java as well as Medan. One of them is pecel mie kenyol from Batang, the noodle made from cassava with a chewy texture.
Gallery
See also
Karedok
Tipat cantok
Ketoprak
Lawar
List of salads
Pecel lele
Urap
References
Malaysian cuisine
Javanese cuisine
Sauces
Vegetarian dishes of Indonesia
Vegetable dishes of Indonesia
Street food in Indonesia
Salads
Indonesian salads | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecel |
The Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching (ARLT) was founded in the United Kingdom in 1913 by the distinguished Classical scholar W. H. D. Rouse. It is now known as the Association for Latin Teaching.
It arose from Summer Schools which Rouse organised in order to train Latin teachers in the Direct Method of language teaching, which entailed using the language in everyday situations rather than merely learning grammar and syntax by rote. Summer Schools remain the chief activity of this organisation. A journal entitled Latin Teaching reported on the Summer Schools and included articles on practical teaching of Latin. Contributors included Dorothy L. Sayers.
After the Second World War three developments deeply affected the ARLT:
The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ceased to require proficiency in Latin as a qualification for entry. This meant a sharp reduction in the numbers of school pupils learning Latin.
The Cambridge Latin Course brought many of the principles espoused by Rouse and the ARLT into the mainstream of Latin teaching. This led ARLT to adopt a more supportive, rather than campaigning, approach, offering general encouragement for all Classics teachers.
Three Classical organisations, The Classical Association, the Orbilian Society (now defunct) and the Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching, joined in founding an umbrella organisation: the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT).
ARLT and JACT endured a period of uneasy relations, with some questioning of ARLT's reason for continuing existence, but in time all concerned recognised the need to work together for the common cause against those who willed the demise of Classics teaching. Now the two organisations publish a joint magazine, The Journal of Classics Teaching. ARLT has a website and a blog.
Political Rumblings
During the parliamentary recess in 2021, the Department of Education, fronted by Gavin Williamson announced a £4m scheme to introduce Latin into 40 state schools. Latin is already taught in 3% of stateschools and is permitted under the National Curriculum.
See also
American Classical League
Minimus
References
External links
Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching
Latin-language education
Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20the%20Reform%20of%20Latin%20Teaching |
This is a list of some notable people affiliated with Amherst College.
Notable alumni
College founders and presidents
Edward Jones 1826, Principal of forerunner of Fourah Bay College, Africa (the predecessor of the University of Sierra Leone)
Patrick Hues Mell 1833, Chancellor of the University of Georgia
Edward Duffield Neill 1842, first Chancellor, University of Minnesota, 1858–1861; founder, first president, and professor, Macalester College
William S. Clark 1848, second president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst), co-founder of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University) in Japan
Julius Hawley Seelye 1849, fifth president of Amherst College (implemented the Latin honors system)
Reverend Daniel Bliss 1852, founder and president of American University of Beirut (1866–1902)
James Griswold Merrill, president of Fisk University (1901–1908)
Francis Amasa Walker 1860, third president of MIT (1881–1897)
George Harris 1866, seventh president of Amherst College
William Jacob Holland 1869, fifth Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
Joseph Hardy Neesima 1870, founder of Doshisha University in Japan
Frank Johnson Goodnow 1879, third president of Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Rush Rhees 1883, third president of the University of Rochester (1900–1935)
James Hayden Tufts 1884, acting president, vice-president, dean, and professor, University of Chicago
Frederic B. Pratt 1887, president of Pratt Institute (1893–1937)
Bertrand Snell 1894, president of Clarkson University (1920–1945)
Ernest Hatch Wilkins 1900, president of Oberlin College (1927–1946)
Stanley King 1903, eleventh president of Amherst College
J. Seelye Bixler 1916, 16th president of Colby College
Lewis Williams Douglas 1916, ninth Principal of McGill University
Dexter Keezer 1918, president of Reed College
Charles W. Cole 1927, twelfth president of Amherst College
Richard Glenn Gettell 1933, thirteenth president of Mount Holyoke College
David Truman 1935, fifteenth president of Mount Holyoke College
John W. Atherton 1939, founding president of Pitzer College
Calvin Plimpton 1939, thirteenth president of Amherst College; president of Downstate Medical Center and American University of Beirut
Julian Gibbs 1947, fifteenth president of Amherst College
Charles R. Longsworth 1951, president of Hampshire College, founding vice-president
Ralph Z. Sorenson 1955, seventh president of Babson College (1974–1981), one of co-founders of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in the Philippines
Richard M. Freeland 1963, president of Northeastern University (1996–2006)
David K. Lewis 1964, interim president, provost and dean of faculty, professor, Connecticut College
Colin Diver 1965, current president of Reed College
Richard L. McCormick 1969, former president of Rutgers University; former president of the University of Washington, 1995–2002; vice-chancellor and provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William S. Pfeiffer 1969, current president of Warren Wilson College
Peter Dorman 1970, 15th president of American University of Beirut
Alan Townsend 1988, current interim president of Colorado College
Academics
Philologist and lexicographer Francis Andrew March 1845, principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon
Geologist Benjamin Kendall Emerson 1865, geologist, author, and professor
Political Scientist John Burgess 1867, one of the founders of modern political science
Historian Herbert Baxter Adams 1872, writings introduced scientific methods of investigation, credited with bringing study of politics into realm of social sciences
Librarian Melvil Dewey 1874, of the Dewey Decimal System, founder of American Library Association
Economist John Bates Clark 1875, namesake of the John Bates Clark Medal
Statistician Richmond Mayo-Smith 1875, at the time one of the foremost authorities on the subject
Astronomer David Peck Todd 1875, noted astronomer, leader of significant astronomical expeditions
Political Scientist Frank Johnson Goodnow 1879, scholar of public administration and administrative law, advisor in drafting Chinese constitution in 1913–14 (appears above)
Librarian Ernest Cushing Richardson 1880, noted librarian, theologian and scholar
Historian, author, librarian Frederic Bancroft 1882, namesake of the Bancroft Prize
Philosopher James Hayden Tufts 1884, co-founder of University of Chicago School of Pragmatism
Psychologist Edmund B. Delabarre 1886, pioneer in shape perception, among other fields
Astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan 1899, discovered 16 Asteroids (including 516 Amherstia), wrote standard two volume textbook
Historian Preserved Smith 1901, historian of Protestant Reformation; Prof. at Amherst, Harvard
Economist John Maurice Clark 1905, best known forerunner of American school of pragmatic economics
Educator Claude Fuess 1905, a noted author and historian, 10th Headmaster of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Educator and philosopher Scott Buchanan 1916, founder of Great Books program at St. John's College
E. Merrill Root 1917, writer, educator, and opponent of communism and liberal intrusion into the educational system
Robert Percy Barnes, 1921, American chemist and professor at Howard University; was the first African American faculty member at Amherst College and the first African American person to receive a PhD in chemistry from Harvard University
Gerald Warner Brace 1922, writer, educator, sailor and boat builder
Sociologist Talcott Parsons 1924, one of the most influential sociologists during much of the 20th century; Professor at Harvard from 1927 to 1973.
Chemist Paul Doughty Bartlett 1928, revolutionized the way organic chemistry is taught and practiced in the world
Mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene 1930, helped lay foundations for theoretical computer science
Chemist William Summer Johnson 1936, among the world's leading synthetic organic chemists
American historian, professor, and activist H. Stuart Hughes 1937
Historian John Whitney Hall 1939, pioneer in field of Japanese studies, authority on pre-war Japan
Poet and professor Richard P. Wilbur 1942, second U.S. Poet Laureate; Amherst College professor Robert Frost was Wilbur's teacher and mentor
Linguist and professor Eric P. Hamp 1942, LHD (hon.)'72, The University of Chicago, known for expertise in lesser-known Indo-European languages and dialects.
Poet and translator David Ferry 1946, recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Chemist Julian Howard Gibbs 1947, former President of Amherst College (won the High Polymer Prize of the American Physical Society, 1967)
Neuroscientist James Olds 1947, one of the foremost psychologists of the twentieth century
Political Scientist Richard Fenno 1948, namesake of Fenno's paradox and Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize
Physicist Henry Way Kendall 1950, experimental work provided first evidence of quarks and quark model
Microbiologist Carl R. Woese 1950, redrew taxonomic tree, originator of RNA world hypothesis
Political Scientist Andrew Hacker 1951, novel interdisciplinary work on questions of race, class, and gender
Physical chemist Peter Toennies 1952, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research; recipient, inter alia, of Physics Award of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, Stern-Geriach Gold Medal (experimental physics), Kolos Medal (chemistry) (2005), and Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2006)
Translator and poet Robert Fagles 1955, known for translations of ancient Greek classics, particularly translations of epic poems of Homer
Economist Edmund Phelps 1955, seminal work, natural rate of unemployment, Golden Rule savings rate
Political Scientist Alan Schechter 1957
Scientist David Suzuki 1958, internationally honoured Canadian environmental scientist and activist
Historian John W. Dower 1959, scholar of modern Japanese history, Bancroft Prize
Economist David Bradford 1960, economist, professor at Princeton University
Planetary scientist Andrew Ingersoll 1960, recipient of Kuiper Prize (2007)
Philosopher and law professor James Boyd White 1960, founder of "Law and Literature" movement
MIT Institute Professor John M. Deutch 1961, chairman of Chemistry Dept., Dean of Science, Provost
Musicologist and musician Philip Gossett 1963, one of the world's leading authorities on 19th century Italian music; Prof., Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Rome
Psychologist Roger Tarpy 1963, author of numerous textbooks on learning and memory
Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964, John Bates Clark Medal; former professor at Oxford, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton; work in the theory of markets with asymmetric information and efficiency wages
Sterling Professor of French R. Howard Bloch 1965, Bibliotheque National, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Physical Chemist Robert W. Field 1965, recipient, inter alia, of the Broida Prize, Plyler Prize, Lippincott Award, and Nobel Laureate Signature Award
Physicist Davison E. Soper 1965, recipient of the 2009 Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Philosopher William Lycan 1966, contributions to philosophy of language, mind, epistemology, linguistics
Historian Theodore Rosengarten 1966, scholar of U.S. Southern history
Computer scientist David S. Johnson 1967, computer scientist, head of Algorithms and Optimization Department (research) at AT&T Labs (former Bell Labs)
Bestselling author Daniel Goleman 1968
Anthropologist Loring Danforth 1971, award-winning scholar; pre-eminent expert, Macedonia naming dispute
Ecologist Peter Vitousek 1971, professor of biology at Stanford University; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1992)
Astronomer David Helfand 1973, chair of the department of Astronomy at Columbia University, co-director of Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, professor in physics department
Ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin 1973
Geophysicist, earth and planetary scientist, and astronomer Raymond Jeanloz 1975
Historian Peter Jelavich 1975, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University, specializing in the cultural history of modern Germany
Historian Walter Johnson 1988, Winthrop Professor of History, Harvard University
Economist Gilbert E. Metcalf 1975, John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and professor of economics, Tufts University, specializing in taxation, energy, and climate policy
Mathematician and political scientist Joshua M. Epstein 1976, pioneer in agent based models; modeling of social, economic, and biological systems; groundbreaking work on epidemics and bioterrorism
Historian, author of books on the Vietnam War Christian Appy 1977
Historian Andrew R. Heinze 1977
Bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emanuel 1979, leading medical ethicist
Timothy Luehrman 1979, finance academic (corporate finance and real options)
Rajiv Ratan 1981, scientist
Andrew Kuchins 1981, political scientist and former President of American University of Central Asia
Chemist Amy Rosenzweig 1988, leader in advancing synchrotron-based protein crystallography
Joseph M. Hall, Jr., 1991, Professor of American History, Bates College
Political Scientist Sumantra Bose 1992, professor of Internatl. & Comp. Pol., London School of Economics
Law professor and television correspondent Stephen Vladeck 2001
Art historian Charles C. Eldredge, 1966, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture Emeritus, University of Kansas
Professional athletes and coaches
Steve Partenheimer 1913, third baseman, Detroit Tigers, 1913
Howard Groskloss 1930, infielder, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1930–1932
Harry Dalton 1950, general manager Baltimore Orioles 1965–1971, Los Angeles Angels 1971–1977, Milwaukee Brewers 1977–1991
Doug Swift 1970, linebacker, Miami Dolphins, 1970–1975
Jean Fugett 1972, tight end, Dallas Cowboys 1972–1975, and Washington Redskins, 1976–1979
Freddie Scott 1974, wide receiver, Baltimore Colts, 1974–77, and Detroit Lions 1978–1983
Richard N. Thompson 1980, pitcher, Cleveland Indians, 1985, and Montreal Expos, 1989–1990
John J. Cerutti 1982, pitcher, Toronto Blue Jays, 1985–1990, and Detroit Tigers, 1991
Dave Jauss 1980, bench coach, New York Mets, 2009–present
Dan Duquette, 1980, general manager, Montreal Expos 1991–1994, Boston Red Sox 1994–2002, Baltimore Orioles 2011–2018
Neal Huntington 1991, general manager, Pittsburgh Pirates, 2007–2019
Ben Cherington 1996, general manager, Boston Red Sox, 2011–2015
Alex Bernstein 1997, offensive lineman, Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons, 1997–2000
Willy Workman (born 1990), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Clergy and Biblical scholars
Missionary and linguist Isaac Grout Bliss 1844, translator of the Bible into Kurdish
Missionary and linguist David Oliver Allen 1823, first American Protestant missionary appointed to Bombay, India; first translation of the Bible in the Mahratta language
Biblical scholar Bela Bates Edwards 1824, also editor-in-chief of Bibliotheca Sacra, the oldest continuous theological journal in the United States
Missionary and scholar Elijah Coleman Bridgman 1826, the first American Protestant missionary appointed to China, America's first "China expert"
John H. Burt, Episcopal priest and Eighth bishop of the Episcopal Dicese of Ohio (1967–1983)
Missionary and linguist Justin Perkins 1829, first American Protestant missionary appointed to Iran
Biblical scholar Horatio Balch Hackett 1830
Preacher Henry Ward Beecher 1834
Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley ex 1835, eighth Archbishop of Baltimore
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock 1836, president of Union Theological Seminary (1880–87)
Preacher Benjamin M. Palmer ex 1836, acclaimed orator, Bible-based theologian; confederate preacher
Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington 1839, first Episcopal bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Central New York
Biblical scholar Henry Preserved Smith 1869, professor at Amherst College (1897–1906)
William Greenough Thayer 1885, Episcopal minister and headmaster of headmaster of St. Mark's School
Christian thinker Uchimura Kanzo 1887, founder of Nonchurch Movement of Christianity in Japan
Theologian Robert McAfee Brown 1943, Presbyterian minister, theologian, international leader and activist in social justice, civil rights, and ecumenical causes
Canadian Anglican priest Roland de Corneille 1947, human rights activist
Farzam Arbab 1964, member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Baháʼí Faith
Clark Lowenfield 1980, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast
Buddhist scholar, teacher, and practitioner B. Alan Wallace 1987, translator for dozens of Tibetan lamas in India, Europe, and North America, including the Dalai Lama
Presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of national government
Calvin Coolidge 1895, 30th President of the United States (1923–1929)
George Papandreou 1975, former Prime Minister of Greece (2009–11) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1999–2004, 2009–10)
Antonis Samaras 1974, former Prime Minister of Greece (2012–2015) and leader of New Democracy (2009–2015); Minister for Foreign Affairs (1989–92)
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta 1985, 4th President of Kenya (2013–2022).
Francisco Flores Pérez 1981, 39th President of El Salvador (1999–2004).
Royalty
Albert II 1981, Sovereign Prince of Monaco (2005–)
Cabinet members
Horace Maynard 1838, Postmaster General, cabinet of Rutherford Hayes (prior to 1972, a cabinet office)
Charles H. Allen 1869, Assistant Secretary of the Navy replacing Theodore Roosevelt in McKinley administration
Robert Lansing 1886, United States Secretary of State 1915–1920; nominal head, US Commission to the Paris Peace Conference
William Henry Lewis 1892, first African-American appointed to a sub-cabinet position, Assistant United States Attorney General
Harlan Fiske Stone 1894, United States Attorney General
Calvin Coolidge 1895, twenty-ninth Vice-President of the United States (1921–1923) (appears above)
William F. Whiting 1896, Secretary of Commerce (1928–1929)
Lewis W. Douglas 1916, Director of the Budget, now Office of Management and Budget
John J. McCloy 1919, Assistant United States Secretary of War (1941–1945)
Amon Nikoi 1953, Senior Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Finance; Minister of Finance and Economic Planning (Ghana)
David Bradford 1960, former member of President's Council of Economic Advisors
John M. Deutch 1960, U.S. Director of Central Intelligence in Bill Clinton administration; United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964, former member and Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors
Antonis Samaras 1974, Greek Leader of the Opposition and President of New Democracy; Minister for Foreign Affairs (1989–92)
Francisco G. Flores 1981, former Secretary of Information; President of Congress (El Salvador) (appears above)
Stavros Lambrinidis 1984, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (2011)
Kevin McAleenan 1994, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security (2019)
United States Supreme Court
Harlan Fiske Stone 1894, Associate Justice (1925–1941) and twelfth Chief Justice (1941–1946); the only justice physically to have filled all nine seats on the bench of the United States Supreme Court, having moved by seniority from the most junior Associate Justice to the most senior Associate Justice to the Chief Justice; principal role in upholding President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs
Diplomats and government officials
John Elliot Ward ex 1835, U.S. Minister to China, elected acting Lieut. Gov. of Georgia, U.S. Attorney (GA)
Horace Maynard 1838, Minister to Turkey in Administration of Ulysses S. Grant (appears above)
Edward Duffield Neill 1842, consul to Dublin (appears above)
John C. Caldwell 1855, Min. to Uruguay and Paraguay; con. to Valparaiso, Chile, and San José, Costa Rica
Francis Amasa Walker 1860, Chief of U.S. Bureau of Statistics, Director of both 9th and 10th U.S. census
Arthur Sherburne Hardy ex 1869, Minister Plenipotentiary (Ambassador) to Persia, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Switzerland, and Spain
Walter Wyman 1870, third Surgeon General of the United States
Frank C. Partridge 1882, Solicitor of the Department of State; Min. to Venezuela; con. general to Tangier, Morocco
Sir Herbert Ames 1885, financial director, Secretariat of the League of Nations (Member of Parliament, Canada)
Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng 1885, Ambassador of China to the United States
Dwight Morrow 1895, Ambassador to Mexico, chairman of the Morrow Board
Joseph Bartlett Eastman 1904, Interstate Commerce Commissioner (1919–1944); Federal Coordinator of Railroads
Dr.Warren Fales Draper 1906, Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service (see Physicians)
Leland Olds 1912, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lewis W. Douglas 1916, head, War Shipping Administration; Ambassador to the United Kingdom
John J. McCloy 1919, second president of the World Bank, member of the Warren Commission and Draper Committee (appears above)
Robert H. Thayer 1922, Minister to Romania, Asst. Secretary of State for Ed. and Cultural Affairs
George Yeh 1925, Ambassador to the U.S. from the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Charles W. Cole 1927, ambassador to Chile, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, president of Amherst College
Toshikazu Kase 1927, Japan's first Ambassador to the United Nations
Philip Hall Coombs 1937, first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Robert G. Neumann 1940 MA, Ambassador to Afghanistan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia
Talcott Williams Seelye 1944, Ambassador to Syria, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia; U.S. Presidential Envoy to Lebanon
Edward Ney 1946, Ambassador to Canada
Harry G. Barnes, Jr. 1949, Ambassador to Chile, India, and Romania
Ulric Haynes 1952, Ambassador to Algeria, staff member of the National Security Council
Amon Nikoi 1953, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations; Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund; Chairman and Governor of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Ghana
Hiroaki Fujii 1958, Ambassador of Japan to Thailand, Great Britain (current president of the Japan Foundation)
David Bradford 1960, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury (appears above)
Harold E. Varmus 1961, Director of the National Institutes of Health (1993–2000)
Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the World Bank (appears above)
Kenneth Bacon 1966, Department of Defense spokesman who later served as president of Refugees International
David Kessler 1973, head of Food and Drug Administration (1990–1997)
Jeff Bleich 1983, Ambassador to Australia
Sarah Bloom Raskin 1983, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (2014–)
Stavros Lambrinidis 1984, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights (2011–)
Catherine Lhamon 1993, Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
Senators, Representatives, and other politicians
Representative Edward Dickinson 1823, father of Emily
Representative Lincoln Clark 1825 (Iowa) (Attorney General of Alabama and circuit judge)
Representative James Humphrey 1831 (New York)
Robert Purvis 1831(?), antebellum African-American abolitionist, supporter of Underground Railroad
Representative Nathan Belcher 1832 (Connecticut) (state legislator and lawyer)
Representative Lucien Barbour 1837 (Indiana) (U.S. Attorney)
State Representative Edward Ralph May 1837 (did not graduate), sole delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to support African American suffrage.
Representative David Stuart 1838 (Michigan) (President Abraham Lincoln appointed him brigadier general in Civil War)
Representative Horace Maynard (Tennessee) 1838 (Attorney General of Tennessee) (appears above)
Senator Samuel Clarke Pomeroy ex (1836–38) (Kansas) (mayor; railroad president)
John P. Sanderson 1839, member of Provisional Confederate Congress (Florida)
Representative Martin R. Thayer ex 1840 (Pennsylvania) (state judge)
Representative Charles Delano 1840 (Massachusetts)
Representative Waldo Hutchins 1842 (New York)
Speaker of the House Galusha A. Grow 1844 (Pennsylvania) (24th Speaker) (railroad president)
Representative Julius H. Seelye 1849 (Massachusetts) (president of Amherst College) (appears above)
Representative Charles P. Thompson 1846 (Massachusetts) (U.S. Assistant D. A. and judge)
Representative Samuel M. Arnell 1844(?) (Tennessee)
Representative William Whiting II 1862 (Massachusetts) (state legislator and mayor)
Representative William Shadrach Knox 1865 (Massachusetts)
Representative Francis W. Rockwell 1868 (Massachusetts) (state legislator and judge)
Representative Charles H. Allen 1869 (Massachusetts) (appears above)
Representative Caleb R. Layton 1873 (Delaware) (Delaware Secretary of State and physician)
Representative Lewis Sperry 1873 (Connecticut) (state legislator and lawyer)
Senator and "Speaker of the House" Frederick H. Gillett 1874 (Massachusetts) (37th Speaker)
Representative Henry Stockbridge, Jr. 1877 (Maryland) (Regent of the University of Maryland)
Representative George H. Utter 1877 (Rhode Island)
Representative George P. Lawrence 1880 (Massachusetts) (state legislator and judge)
Senator Frank C. Partridge 1882 (Vermont) (appears above)
Speaker of the House Henry T. Rainey 1883 (Illinois) (40th Speaker)
Representative Edward Bassett 1884 (New York) (a founding father of modern-day urban planning)
Member of Parliament in Canada Sir Herbert Ames 1885 (appears above)
Representative Allen T. Treadway 1886 (Massachusetts) (in office sixteen consecutive terms)
William Estabrook Chancellor 1889, nemesis of Warren G. Harding
Representative George B. Churchill 1889 (Massachusetts) (professor at Amherst College)
Representative and "House minority leader" Bertrand Snell 1894 (New York) (appears above)
Representative Charles B. Law 1895 (New York)
Senator Dwight Morrow 1895 (New Jersey) (appears above)
Representative Albert E. Austin 1899 (Connecticut) (physician and stepfather of Clare Boothe Luce)
Representative Foster Waterman Stearns 1903 (New Hampshire) (regent of the Smithsonian Institution)
Representative Bruce Fairchild Barton 1907 (New York)
Representative Lewis W. Douglas 1916 (Arizona) (appears above) (Council on Foreign Relations)
Representative Augustus W. Bennet 1918 (New York)
Senator Kingsley A. Taft 1925 (Ohio) (judge and chief justice of Ohio Supreme Court)
Representative John Michael Murphy ex 1943 (New York)
Representative Thomas Ballenger 1948 (Ohio) (served consecutive terms, 1986–2005)
Member of Parliament in Canada Roland de Corneille 1947 (appears above)
Senator Thomas F. Eagleton 1950 (Missouri) (1969–1987), one-time running mate of George McGovern (Missouri Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor)
Richard W. DeKorte 1957 New Jersey, Energy Czar and former member and majority leader of the New Jersey General Assembly
Representative Robert H. Steele 1960 (Connecticut, 1970–1975)
Paul Offner 1964 Wisconsin State Legislature, and educator
Stephen Hartgen 1966, Idaho House of Representatives (2008–current) and former editor and publisher of the Times-News
Representative Thomas M. Davis III 1971 (Virginia)
Eric Kriss 1971, former Massachusetts Secretary for Finance and Administration
Samuel I. Rosenberg 1972, member of the Maryland House of Delegates; law professor
Peter Franchot 1973, Maryland Comptroller and former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Representative Martin Hoke 1973 (Ohio) (1993–1997)
Antonis Samaras 1974, member of the European Parliament; former member of the Greek Parliament (appears above)
George Papandreou 1975, member of the Greek Parliament; leader of PASOK, opposition party (appears above)
Eric T. Schneiderman 1977, New York Attorney General, former deputy minority leader
Bradley Campbell 1983, New Jersey Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection
Stavros Lambrinidis 1984, member and Vice-President of European Parliament (2004–2011) from Greece (appears above)
Senator Chris Coons 1985 (Delaware)
Craig M. Johnson 1993, member of New York State Senate
Rob Witwer 1993, member of Colorado House of Representatives
Paul Rieckhoff 1998, Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
John Buchanan Robinson, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional district (1891–1897)
Erastus G. Smith, Wisconsin State Assembly and educator
Alan Webber 1970, Mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico (appears below)
Governors and Premiers, elected and appointed
Alexander H. Bullock 1836, Governor of Massachusetts (state legislator, judge, and mayor)
Charles L. Robinson 1839 (?), first Governor of Kansas (1861–1863), first elected "territorial Governor" of Kansas (physician, abolitionist, and regent of the University of Kansas)
Charles Bartlett Andrews 1858, Governor of Connecticut
Dave Freudenthal 1973, twice Governor of Wyoming, former U.S. attorney
Lucius F. C. Garvin 1862, twice Governor of Rhode Island
Charles H. Allen 1869, first civil Governor of Puerto Rico (appears above)
George H. Utter 1877, Rhode Island Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Secretary of State
Calvin Coolidge 1895, Governor, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (mayor) (appears above)
John J. McCloy 1919, U.S. military Governor and High Commissioner of Germany (appears above)
William Henry Hastie 1925, first African-American civil Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Adélard Godbout, Premier of Québec (1936; 1939–1944), majored in agronomy from the Amherst Agricultural College
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (1985–1989), studied economics, political science and government at Amherst
Lawyers and judges
Henry M. Spofford 1845, Justice, Louisiana Supreme Court
Addison Brown ex 1852, U.S. District Court judge (New York) (one of the founders of N.Y. Botanical Gardens)
Charles Bartlett Andrews 1858, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (appears above)
Henry Stockbridge, Jr. 1877, Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals (1911–1926) (appears above)
Albert S. Bard 1888, Lawyer and Civic Activist in New York City, Albert S. Bard Award is named after him
William H. Lewis 1888, lawyer, Assistant US Attorney General; first college football player and All-American
Luther Ely Smith 1894, lawyer and founder of Gateway Arch National Park
Harlan Fiske Stone 1894, professor and Dean of Columbia Law School (appears above)
John Teele Pratt 1896, lawyer, philanthropist, music impresario and financier
Charles Hamilton Houston 1915, legal architect of school desegregation strategy; first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review and first to receive SJD; Spingarn Medal
John J. McCloy 1919, name partner in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; adviser of nine presidents
James Focht McClure, Jr. 1913, U.S. District Court Judge (Pennsylvania)
Leonard Page Moore 1919, Federal appellate judge (Second Circuit), 1957–1971; senior status, 1971; U.S. Attorney, 1953–1957
Robert H. Thayer 1922, lawyer, naval officer and diplomat
William Henry Hastie 1925, first African-American U.S. District Court judge (Virgin Islands); first black Federal appellate judge and Chief Judge (Third Circuit); dean of Howard University Law School; editor of the Harvard Law Review; Spingarn Medal
Benjamin J. Davis Jr. 1925, African-American graduate of Harvard Law School, radical lawyer, member of New York City Council, and a communist who was jailed for his beliefs
Kingsley A. Taft 1925, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (appears above)
Donald G. Murray 1934, plaintiff in Murray v. Pearson
Nauman Scott 1934, U.S. District Court judge (Louisiana) (1970–2001)
Robert M. Morgenthau 1941, District Attorney of New York County and former U.S. Attorney
William H. Webster 1947, U.S. District Court judge (Missouri) and Federal Appellate judge (Eighth Circuit) (also U.S. Attorney, 1960–1961; awarded National Security Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom)
Alexander M. Keith 1950, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota State Supreme Court; Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
James J. White 1956, leading scholar of commercial law, Professor of Law at Michigan University
Philip H. Lilienthal 1962, humanitarian and AIDS activist; founder of WorldCamps
Peter Messitte 1963, U.S. District Court judge (Maryland)
James T. Giles 1964, U.S. District Court judge (Pennsylvania), Chief Judge (1999–2006)
Colin Diver 1965, former professor and Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School (appears above)
John C. Coffee 1966, professor, Columbia Law School
William P. Alford 1970, Professor and Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
Samuel H. Mays 1970, U.S. District Court judge (Tennessee)
William W. Fisher 1976, professor, Harvard Law School
William J. Kayatta Jr. 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals judge
Paul M. Smith 1976, winning attorney of Lawrence v. Texas (Supreme Court practitioner)
Eric T. Schneiderman 1977, New York Attorney General
William Z. Stuart 1811-1876, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
Patrick Fitzgerald 1982, U.S. Attorney; U.S. Dept. of Justice Special Counsel in charge of investigating the Valerie Plame affair
Karin Immergut 1982, U.S. Attorney
Scott Kafker 1981, Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Michael P. Shea 1989, U.S. District Court judge (Connecticut)
Businesspeople
John Abele 1959, founder and director of Boston Scientific
Frank Lusk Babbott 1878, jute merchant, art collector, patron, and philanthropist
Bruce Fairchild Barton 1907, co-founder of precursor to BBDO, head of BBDO until 1961 (appears above)
Clarence Birdseye ex 1910, food preservationist, founder of Birds Eye Foods, National Inventors Hall of Fame
Charles R. Blyth 1905, investment banker, partner at Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co.
Charles Brewer 1981, entrepreneur and founder of Mindspring Enterprises, an internet service provider
Benjamin P. Cherington 1996, vice president of player personnel for the Boston Red Sox
Wei Christianson 1985 (BA political science), co-CEO Asia of Morgan Stanley
Daniel Collamore Heath 1868, publisher, founder of D.C. Heath and Company, now part of Houghton Mifflin
Harry Dalton 1950, executive of American Major League Baseball; general manager of three major league baseball teams
Arthur Vining Davis 1888, president and chairman of Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa); founder of Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Daniel F. Duquette 1980, baseball executive; general manager of two major league baseball teams
Henry Clay Folger 1879, Standard Oil president, Folger Shakespeare Library founder
William E. Ford 1983, CEO of General Atlantic
Martin S. Fox (1924–2020), publisher
George N. Gillett, Jr. ex-chairman of Booth Creek Management Corp., owns interests in food industry and sports teams
H. Irving Grousbeck 1956, current managing partner of the Boston Celtics, co-founder of Continental Cablevision, professor at Stanford Business School
Amos Hostetter, Jr. 1958, former chief executive officer of MediaOne
Neal Huntington 1991, general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Daniel Willis James 1863, head of Phelps, Dodge, and Company, philanthropist
Jeff Jordan 1981, venture capitalist; partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Eric Kriss 1971, co-founder of Bain Capital, former CEO of MediQual Systems (appears above)
Thai Lee 1980, founder and CEO of SHI International, billionaire
Richard LeFrak 1967, chairman and CEO of LeFrak
Glen Lewy 1971, member, Council on Foreign Relations; National Chair of the Anti-Defamation League; lawyer and venture capitalist
Dave MacLennan 1981, CEO of Cargill
John J. McCloy 1919, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, Council on Foreign Relations, and Ford Foundation
Charles E. Merrill ex 1908, founder of Merrill Lynch
John S. Middleton 1977, former owner of the John Middleton Co. and part owner of the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB)
Dwight Morrow 1895, partner at J.P. Morgan & Co.
Edward N. Ney 1946, CEO of Young & Rubicam
Frits van Paasschen 1983, former CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Worldwide, Inc.; former CEO of Coors Brewing Company
Charles Millard Pratt 1879, company secretary of Standard Oil
George Dupont Pratt 1893, conservationist and philanthropist
Harold I. Pratt 1899, oil industrialist
Herbert L. Pratt 1895, head of Standard Oil
Hugh B. Price 1963, former President of the National Urban League
Lloyd Schermer 1950, CEO of Lee Enterprises; chairman of predecessor of the Newspaper Association of America
Martin S. Schwartz 1967, Wall Street trader, author, profiled in national bestseller "Market Wizards"
Gary Shilling, financial analyst and commentator
Winthrop H. Smith, Jr. 1971, entrepreneur; CEO of Summit Ventures; former executive vice president of Merrill Lynch; member, Council on Foreign Relations
Sung-Joo Kim 1981, chairman and CEO of MCM Group; founder and former director of Sung Joo International in South Korea
John Tarnoff 1973, senior executive at DreamWorks Animation, head of Show Development
Sigourney Thayer 1918, American theatrical producer, World War I aviator, and poet
Alan Webber 1970, former managing editor of the Harvard Business Review, co-founder of Fast Company
Robert W. Wilson (philanthropist) 1946, hedge fund manager and philanthropist
Sarah Meeker Jensen, 1977, FAIA, architect and medical planner
Jide Zeitlin, 1985, former CEO of Tapestry, Inc., former Chair of Amherst College Board of Trustees
Directors of Central Intelligence (DCI), CIA, and the FBI
John M. Deutch 1960 (1995–96)
Stansfield Turner ex 1945 (1977–81) (president of U.S. Naval War College, 1972–74)
William H. Webster 1947 (1987–91) (FBI Director, 1978–87)
Nobel Prize winners
Henry W. Kendall 1950 (1990, Physics)
Edmund Phelps 1955 (2006, Economics)
Harold E. Varmus 1961 (1989, Physiology or Medicine)
Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964 (2001, Economics)
Jeffrey C. Hall 1967 (2017, Physiology or Medicine)
Crafoord Prize winner
Carl R. Woese 1950 (2003, Microbiology)
Pulitzer Prize winners
Alfred Friendly 1933 (1968, International Reporting)
Richard P. Wilbur 1942 (1957, Poetry; 1989, Poetry) (U.S. Poet Laureate; National Book Award; Bollingen Prize; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize; Edna St. Vincent Millay award; Frost Medal) (appears above)
James I. Merrill 1947 (1977, Poetry) (twice named recipient of National Book Award, 1967 and 1979; National Book Critics Circle Award; Bollingen Prize; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry)
Tad Mosel 1947 (1961, Drama)
William S. McFeely 1952 (1982, Biography) (Lincoln Prize)
John W. Dower 1959 (2000, General Non-Fiction) (National Book Award) (appears above)
Walter Allen McDougall 1968 (1986, General Non-Fiction)
Blair Kamin 1979 (1999, Criticism)
Richard Read 1980 (1999, Explanatory; 2001, Public Service (team))
Debby Applegate 1989 (2007, Biography)
MacArthur Fellowship winners
Carl R. Woese 1950, microbiologist
Theodore Rosengarten 1966, historian; National Book Award; National Book Critics Circle Award
Raymond Jeanloz 1975, geophysicist, earth and planetary scientist, and astronomer
Kellie Jones 1981, art historian and curator
Rosanne Haggerty 1982, leading creator of solutions to homelessness
David Foster Wallace 1985, novelist
Thomas W. Mitchell 1987, law professor
Amy Rosenzweig 1988, chemist
Andrea Dutton 1995, paleoclimatologist
National Medal of Science winners
Paul Doughty Bartlett 1928, chemist
Stephen Cole Kleene 1930, mathematician
William Summer Johnson 1936, chemist
Carl R. Woese 1950, microbiologist
Harold E. Varmus 1961, physician
Astronauts
Robert A. R. Parker 1958 (B.A., astronomy and physics; PhD, Caltech (Astronomy)); physicist
Jeffrey A. Hoffman 1966 (B.A., astronomy; PhD, Harvard University (Astrophysics)); astrophysicist; mem. Spanish Academy of Engineering
Engineers, inventors, and scientists
Alvan Wentworth Chapman 1830, botanist and physician, wrote the first comprehensive description of U.S flora beyond the northeast
Amiel Weeks Whipple ex 1840, military engineer, surveyor of the First transcontinental railroad
William Rutherford Mead 1867, engineer
Arthur Sherburne Hardy ex 1869, engineer, professor of civil engineering and mathematics
John Mason Clarke 1877, New York state paleontologist and geologist
L. Hamilton McCormick 1881, inventor, scientist, and author
Frank Lewis Nason 1882 A.B., 1885 M.A., mining engineer and writer; the mineral nasonite is named after him
Hubert Lyman Clark 1892, zoologist, curator of echinoderms at Harvard, awarded Clark Medal
Robert Stanley Breed 1898, biologist
Clarence Birdseye ex 1910, father of frozen food, businessperson, National Inventors Hall of Fame
Preston Bassett 1913, charter member of NASA; pioneer in instruments for aviation; inventor, engineer
Alfred Romer 1917, paleontologist, a key figure in evolutionary research, Prof. at Chicago and Harvard
Charles Drew 1926, M.D., developed system of separating liquid blood cells from solid plasma and storing and reconstituting them
Melvin Kranzberg 1938, creator of Kranzberg's laws of technology; co-founder of Society for the History of Technology
Lloyd Conover 1947, chemist and inventor of tetracycline; National Inventors Hall of Fame
Craig Call Black 1954, paleontologist
Lewis Joel Greene 1955, American-Brazilian biochemist, Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit
Steve Baer ex 1960 (studied physics and mathematics at Amherst), inventor of the postgeodesic system called the zome
Jonathan Borden 1984, application of computer science to neurobiology; professor of neurosurgery
Julie Segre 1987, epithelial biologist, Chief of the Human Genome Research Institute
Kellyn LaCour-Conant, biologist and restoration ecologist
Physicians
Dr. Walter Wyman 1870, Surgeon General of the United States from 1891 to 1911 (appears above)
Dr. James Ewing 1888, namesake of Ewing sarcoma; eminent experimental oncologist; helped found progenitor of the American Cancer Society; responsible for the creation of present-day Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City
Dr. Walter Childs Wood, 1886, chief surgeon at Brooklyn Hospital and professor of surgery at Long Island University; later a Connecticut state legislator
Dr. Warren Fales Draper 1906, Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service and member of General Dwight Eisenhower's staff in Europe during World War II; his medical care program for miners won the Lasker Group Award in 1956
Dr. Charles R. Drew 1926, inventor of blood plasma preservation system, established first Red Cross blood bank, Spingarn Medal
Dr. Lloyd Saxon Graham 1943, epidemiologist
Dr. Harold E. Varmus 1961, Nobel Prize for his studies of the nature and control of oncogenes; former Director of the National Institutes of Health
Dr. David D. Burns 1964, influential psychotherapist, central role in the development of Cognitive Therapy
Dr. James Kocsis 1964, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
Dr. Robert Yarchoan 1971, played a significant role in discovering and developing the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS
Dr. David Kessler 1973 former Head of the Food and Drug Administration, former Dean of Yale School of Medicine, and former Dean and Vice Chancellor University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Bruce D. Perry 1977, psychiatrist, internationally recognized authority on children in crisis
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel 1979, Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania; former Chair of the Department of Bioethics at NIH
Dr. D. Drew Pinsky 1980, talk-show host
Entertainers
Playwright Clyde Fitch 1886, distinguished dramatist, wrote over 60 plays
Actor Emery B. Pottle 1899 (actor in 88 silent films and motion pictures)
Actor Burgess Meredith 1931, Academy Award–nominated
Actor Douglas Kennedy 1936, television and film actor, star of Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1955–1956)
Playwright Tad Mosel 1947 (New York Drama Critics Award) (appears above)
Theater critic, director, playwright, author Robert Brustein 1947, founding director of Yale Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theater; The New Republic, drama critic; Polk Award (1964)
Oscar and Emmy Award–winning composer Fred Karlin 1958
Musician and Grammy Award–winning music producer Jim Rooney 1960
Actor Ken Howard 1966, a Tony Award– and Emmy Award–winning actor
Actor Stephen Collins 1969, award-winning theater, television, and film actor
Composer Jim Steinman 1969, songwriter and producer for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, and Celine Dion
Magician Raymond J. Teller 1969, of Penn and Teller
Writer and director Henry Bromell 1970, wrote, produced Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure
Writer Robert Stuart Nathan 1970, wrote, produced ER, Law & Order
Composer Mason Daring 1971
Comedian and actor Lawrence J. Miller 1975, Max Keeble's Big Move, The Nutty Professor, 10 Things I Hate About You
Writer and director Caroline Thompson 1978, screenplays for Edward Scissorhands, The Addams Family, The Secret Garden
Director David O. Russell 1981E
John Cerutti 1982, major-league baseball pitcher and broadcaster
Writer and director Susannah Grant 1984, screenplays, Pocahontas, Ever After, Erin Brockovich
Actor John Michael Higgins 1985
Musician Jonatha Brooke Mallet 1985, singer-songwriter
Musician Jennifer Kimball 1986, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
Composer Harold Meltzer 1988, 2004 Rome Prize, 2004 Charles Ives Fellowship
Actor Jeffrey Wright 1987, Tony Award–, Emmy Award–, and Golden Globe Award–winning actor
Actor/Comedian Matt Besser 1989, founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade
Actor John Cariani 1991, on Law & Order and in the musicals Something Rotten! and The Band's Visit
Actress Sarah Goldberg 1996, on 7th Heaven and Judging Amy
Composer Harris Wulfson 1996
Actor Hamish Linklater 1998, on The New Adventures of Old Christine and American Dreams
Actor Rob Brown 2006, on Coach Carter and Finding Forrester; lead role of Ernie Davis in The Express: The Ernie Davis Story
Comedian, actress, and writer Aparna Nancherla 2005, on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
Podcaster David Chen, 2006, host and producer of /Film and The Tobolowsky Files
Musician Tim Eriksen of folk-punk band Cordelia's Dad
Actor and playwright Everett Glass
Radio and TV show host Dr. Drew Pinsky
Musician Chelsea Cutler, singer-songwriter, producer
Artisans
Printer Ronald Gordon 1965, established the Oliphant Press, New York City
Authors and artists
* Jerome Allen 1851, author
William J. C. Amend III 1984, FoxTrot cartoonist
Edward Deming Andrews 1916, historian and leading authority on the Shakers
Calvin Baker 1994, novelist, author of Naming the New World, Once Two Heroes, and Dominion
Chris Bohjalian 1982, novelist; his novel Midwives was a Publishers Weekly best book and an Oprah Winfrey book club selection
Thomas Boswell 1969, sports columnist
Dan Brown 1986, author of The Da Vinci Code, novelist
Rafael Campo 1987, poet, practising physician; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dan Chiasson 1993, poet, recipient of the Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Writer's Award
Sonya Clark 1989, artist and professor, United States Artists Fellow 2011, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award 2006
Harlan F. Coben 1984, novelist; first writer to receive an Edgar, a Shamus, and an Anthony Award
Ted Conover 1983, journalist and author, National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction (2000)
Thomas Cornell 1959, painter and printmaker; Professor of Art at Bowdoin College
Darby N. Conley 1994, Get Fuzzy cartoonist
Walter Alden Dyer 1900, author and journalist
Andre du Bouchet ex 1945, French poet, won "Prix national de poesie" (National Poetry Prize – France)
Philip D. Eastman 1933, Children's author
Thomas Flanagan 1945, writer, National Book Critics Circle Award (1979)
Amy Fox 1997, playwright
Jared French 1925, painter, master of magic realism
Alfred Friendly 1933, journalist, managing editor of the Washington Post (appears above)
Lauren Groff 2001, author, recipient of the Pushcart Prize and author of The Monsters of Templeton and Delicate Edible Birds
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor 1897, journalist, father of photojournalism; first full-time editor of National Geographic Magazine
John S. Hagmann 1959, architect
Charles Hallock 1854, author
Jonathon Keats 1994, artist and author
Jonathan Landman 1974, journalist, deputy managing editor of the New York Times
Alan Lelchuk, novelist, Visiting Writer 1982–1984
Michael Light 1986, photographer, creator of the books Full Moon and 100 Suns
Tracye McQuirter, 1988, cookbook author and vegan activist
George B. Mallon 1887, journalist; an editor and writer for The Sun
Joseph Moncure March 1920, Poet and essayist, The Wild Party and The Set-Up
William Rutherford Mead 1867, architect of McKim, Mead, and White (appears above)
Stephen Mitchell 1964, Translator, anthologist, poet, and author
Cullen Murphy 1974, editor of the Atlantic Monthly and writer, Prince Valiant comic strip
Andrew Nagorski 1969, journalist, senior editor at Newsweek
Catherine Newman, memoirist and novelist
Warren Olney 1959, journalist, host, executive producer of PRI program To the Point; Emmy Award
Graydon Parrish 1999, artist and realist painter
Charles Patterson 1958, Author and historian
Fred Pfeil 1971, literary critic and novelist, O. Henry Award, New York Times "Notable Book of the Year"
Edward C. Potter ex 1882, sculptor of the New York Public Library Main Branch lions
Julie Powell 1995, author
Stephen Rodefer 1963, poet and painter, one of founders of the Language Poetry Movement
Terry Rodgers 1969, painter
John Ross 1979, novelist, Unintended Consequences, also the designer of a version of the Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum revolver
J. G. Sandom 1978, novelist, writer of thrillers, mysteries; also founded first interactive advertising agency
Kate Seelye 1984, journalist
Walt Simonson 1968, comic book artist and writer, winner of multiple Shazam awards and 2010 Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award
Benjamin Eli Smith 1877, editor
Margaret Stohl 1989, author of thirteen novels including Beautiful Creatures and many Marvel comics
Wylie Sypher 1927, writer
Aatish Taseer 2001, writer and journalist
Scott F. Turow 1970, novelist, The Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent; also a practising lawyer
Carl Vigeland, author; Associate Secretary for Public Affairs 1978-1983
David Foster Wallace 1985 (appears above), novelist
Herbert Dickinson Ward 1884, author and journalist
William Hayes Ward 1856, editor-in-chief of the New York Independent
Bill Wasik 1996, author and editor at Wired, inventor of the flash mob
Richard Wilbur 1942, poet, won two Pulitzer Prizes and was Poet Laureate of the United States (appears above)
Military
Amiel Weeks Whipple ex 1840, Brigadier General, Brevet Major General, Civil War
Edward Duffield Neill 1842, army and hospital chaplain in Union Army, Civil War; private secretary of presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
Francis Amasa Walker 1860, brevet brigadier general (II Corps, Army of the Potomac), Civil War
Dwight W. Morrow 1895, chief civilian aide to General John J. Pershing, World War I
Albert E. Austin 1899, regimental surgeon, World War I
John J. McCloy 1919, U.S. Distinguished Service Medal; Legion of Honor (France); Sylvanus Thayer Award
John Michael Murphy ex 1943, U.S. Distinguished Service Cross, Korean War
Robert McAfee Brown 1943, United States Navy chaplain
Admiral Stansfield Turner (ret) ex 1945, former commander-in-chief Allied Forces Southern Europe within NATO; commander U.S. forces in Japan and Korea; commander of U.S. Second Fleet
Paul Rieckhoff 1998, served in the U.S. Army in Iraq War, nationally recognized authority on war in Iraq issues pertaining to troops, military families, and veterans; founder and executive director of IAVA; author of Chasing Ghosts
Other notables
John Henry Boalt 1857, engineer, lawyer, and judge; namesake of the school of law (Boalt Hall) at the University of California, Berkeley
Robert Billingham 1979, Olympic silver medalist in sailing (1988, Soling Class)
Eric Britton 1960, political scientist and sustainability activist
Don Cohan 1951, Olympic bronze medalist in sailing (1972, Dragon Class)
Joseph Gallup Cochran 1842, American Presbyterian missionary to Qajar Iran
Kelly Close 1990, diabetes patient advocate
Ruth Davidon 1987, gold and silver medalist, 1994 Goodwill Games
Orson Squire Fowler 1834, Phrenologist
Sylvester Graham ex 1827, American reformer, temperance minister, and father of Graham crackers
Jim Guest 1962, President, Consumers Union
J. Franklin Jameson 1879, received first doctorate in history at Johns Hopkins University, instrumental in founding National Archives
James Jordan 1952, best known for his work at BBDO advertising agency
Theodore Levin 1973, ethnomusicologist
Asa Lovejoy 1830 (?), Oregon pioneer; co-founder, city of Portland; mayor, Oregon City; speaker of house of Oregon Territorial Legislature
Richmond Mayo-Smith 1875 Economist
Augustus Post 1895, founder of the American Automobile Association (AAA), early aviator, and American adventurer
Jonathan D. Torrance, Amherst student who died in a class hazing accident in 1847
William James Rolfe 1849, Shakespearean scholar
Kimmie Weeks 2005, global activist and humanitarian who founded Youth Action International
Walter Zanger 1956, Rabbi, tour guide and television personality
Notable faculty
Wande Abimbola, Scholar in Residence (Comparative Religious Ethics), in the early 1980s and 1990s
Charles Baker Adams 1834, Prof. of Astronomy, Zoology, and Natural Sciences, 1847–1853
Hadley Arkes, Prof. of Political Science since 1966
Clarence Edwin Ayres, Prof. of Economics, 1920–1923, principal thinker of the Texas school of institutional economics
Theodore Baird, Prof. of English, 1927–1969
Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn, Prof. of Paleobotany and Paleontology, 1941–1946
Amrita Basu, Prof. of Political Science (South Asian politics, Women's Studies), 1981–1987, 1989–present
David W. Blight, Prof. of History, 1990–2003, winner of Bancroft Prize, Lincoln Prize
George B. Churchill 1889, Prof. of English Literature, 1898–1925
Henry Steele Commager, Prof. of History, 1956–1992
Constance Congdon, Playwright-in-Residence, 1993–2018
Benjamin DeMott, Prof. of Humanities, 1950–1990, 1990–2005 (Emeritus)
Lawrence Douglas, Prof. of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought since 1991, Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Benjamin Kendall Emerson 1865, Prof. of Geology, 1872–1917 (appears above)
Robert Frost, Prof. of English, 1916–1938, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the Bollingen Prize
Norton Garfinkle, Prof. of Economics and Economic History, c. 1957–1967
Alexander George, Prof. of Philosophy
Edward Hitchcock, noted geologist and the third President of Amherst College (1845–1854)
George Kateb, Prof. of Political Science, 1957–1987
Nicholas Kurti, former Distinguished Visiting Prof. of Physics, a leading experimental physicist in his era
Anthony Lake, Prof. of International Relations, 1981–1984, former National Security Advisor
Henry Littlefield, dean of students, football and wrestling coach, 1968–1976, known for his political interpretation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Archibald MacLeish, Prof. of English, 1963–1967, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes; the National Book Award; the Bollingen Prize; an Academy Award (screenplay); Librarian of Congress; Presidential Medal of Freedom
Jen Manion, Prof. of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, historian, author
Jim Mauldon, Walker Professor of Mathematics (retired 1990)
Hermann J. Muller, Prof. of Biology, 1940–1945, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Roland Merullo, Prof. of Creative Writing 2002–2003, novelist and memoirist
Austin Sarat, Prof. of Political Science and Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought since 1974
Eric Sawyer, Prof. of Music (composition and theory) since 2002, award-winning composer
John Servos, Prof. of Science, past president of the History of Science Society
Anita Shreve, Prof. of Creative Writing in the 1990s, award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction
Henry Preserved Smith 1869, Prof. of Religion, 1897–1906
Lewis Spratlan, Prof. of Music, 1970–2006, 2006 (Emeritus), winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music
Ilan Stavans, Prof. of Spanish since 1993
William Taubman, Prof. of Political Science; winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in biography and the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography
Rowland Abiodun, Prof. of Art, the History of Art, and Black Studies,1997 - present, distinguished author and historian of African Art
Robert Thurman, Prof. of Religion, 1973–1988, selected by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential Americans
Ronald Tiersky, Prof. of Political Science since 1973
Jim Ostendarp, head football coach 1959–1991, president of the American Football Coaches Association 1982
David Peck Todd 1875, Prof. of Astronomy, 1881–1917, 1917 (Emeritus) (appears above)
William Seymour Tyler, 1830, Prof. of Latin, Greek, and Greek literature, 1836–1893
Stark Young, Prof. of English, 1915–1921, Order of the Crown of Italy
Colston Warne, Prof. of Economics, 1930–1969, co-founder of Consumers Union, and president of its board of directors 1936–1979
Perez Zagorin, Prof. of History, 1947–1949
References
External links
Amherst College people
Amherst College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Amherst%20College%20people |
The Canadian Duality Flag (; also called the Canadian Unity Flag) is an unofficial flag that was originally circulated to demonstrate the unity of Canada during the lead-up to the 1995 Quebec referendum, at rallies for the "no" side. The Duality Flag design was chosen to represent explicitly the Francophone and Anglophone populations on the national flag by adding blue stripes to the red sections, roughly in proportion to the number of Canadians who are primarily French-speaking. The blue was chosen as it is the main colour that is used on the flag of Quebec.
See also
Flag of Canada
Flag of Quebec
References
1995 in Canada
Activism flags
Flags of Canada
National symbols of Canada
Political history of Quebec
Unofficial flags | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Duality%20Flag |
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William Beresford (politician) (1797–1883), British politician
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William Horsley-Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies (1811–1893), Anglo-Irish peer
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William Bereford (died 1326), English judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Beresford |
Luiz Carlos Bombonato Goulart, known as Luizão (born 14 November 1975), is a Brazilian football pundit and retired footballer, who played as a forward.
He was capped 12 times by Brazil, scoring two goals in the last game of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Qualification vs Venezuela, a 3–0 Brazilian victory. This victory classified Brazil to the World Cup and confirmed Luizão as part of the victorious squad coached by Luiz Felipe Scolari, conquering the fifth world title for Brazil.
Career
Luizão was born in Rubinéia. He is one of the few players, alongside Antônio Carlos, Müller, Neto and César Sampaio that played for the four major clubs of São Paulo: Santos Futebol Clube, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, Sport Club Corinthians Paulista and São Paulo Futebol Clube. He managed to be the top goalscorer of at least one tournament for each one of them, except for Santos, where he underachieved.
Luizão bloomed at Guarani Futebol Clube, playing alongside close friends Djalminha and Márcio Amoroso. Luizão (with Djalminha) was then transferred to Palmeiras, where he won many titles, including a São Paulo State Championship under the command of Vanderlei Luxemburgo, where he scored 22 of 102 squad goals.
He then followed Djalminha to La Liga's Deportivo de La Coruña, but unlike the talented playmaker, Luizão failed to settle. He returned to Brazil to Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama. In July 2002, he had another unsuccessful abroad stint, with German Bundesliga side Hertha BSC, leaving the side in January 2004.
The 35-year-old forward (), who was a free agent after terminating his contract with São Caetano. He came to sign with other teams as Guaratinguetá, but has not played in any match for them.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Club
Paraná
Campeonato Paranaense: 1993
Palmeiras
Campeonato Paulista: 1996
Vasco da Gama
Campeonato Carioca: 1998
Copa Libertadores: 1998
Corinthians
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1999
Campeonato Paulista: 1999, 2001
Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1999
FIFA Club World Cup: 2000
São Paulo
Campeonato Paulista: 2005
Copa Libertadores: 2005
Flamengo
Copa do Brasil: 2006
International
Brazil
FIFA World Cup: 2002
Summer Olympic bronze medal: 1996
Individual
Bola de Prata (Brazilian Silver Ball): 1994
Copa do Brasil Top Scorer: 1996
Copa Libertadores Top Scorer: 2000
References
External links
Living people
1975 births
Footballers from São Paulo (state)
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Brazil men's international footballers
Brazil men's under-20 international footballers
2002 FIFA World Cup players
Copa Libertadores-winning players
FIFA World Cup-winning players
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
La Liga players
Bundesliga players
Deportivo de La Coruña players
Olympic footballers for Brazil
Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista players
Hertha BSC players
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas players
CR Flamengo footballers
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense players
Guarani FC players
Paraná Clube players
São Paulo state football team players
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras players
Santos FC players
São Paulo FC players
CR Vasco da Gama players
Nagoya Grampus players
Guaratinguetá Futebol players
Rio Branco Esporte Clube players
Associação Desportiva São Caetano players
J1 League players
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz%C3%A3o%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201975%29 |
A Christmas Album is the first Christmas album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor released on a limited-edition basis in 2004, with distribution through Hallmark stores. The albums were also not carried by all Hallmark Cards stockists.
Track listing
"Winter Wonderland" with Chris Botti (Dick Smith, Felix Bernard) – 3:36
"Go Tell It on the Mountain" (Traditional) – 3:48
"In the Bleak Midwinter" (Traditional) – 4:18
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Natalie Cole (Frank Loesser) – 4:19
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (Haven Gillespie, John Frederick Coots) – 2:58
"Jingle Bells" (Traditional) – 3:55
"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" with Toots Thielemans (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 3:54
"Deck the Halls" (Traditional) – 2:51
"Some Children See Him" (Alfred Burt, Wihla Hutson) – 4:41
"Who Comes This Night" (Dave Grusin, Sally Stevens) – 4:17
"Auld Lang Syne" (Traditional) – 3:41
The album originally came with an online code that could be used to download an outtake from the sessions, a cover of Joni Mitchell's "River". In 2006, Taylor's regular label, Columbia Records, reissued the album under a new title (James Taylor at Christmas) and cover. This new version also altered the track listing, with "Deck the Halls" removed and two other songs ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and the aforementioned cover of "River") added.
Personnel
James Taylor – lead vocals, guitars (2, 6, 8, 11), arrangements (2, 3, 6, 8)
Dave Grusin – arrangements, acoustic piano (1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11), celesta (7, 10)
Larry Goldings – melodica (2, 3, 11), harmonium (3, 8, 11), organ (6), acoustic piano (7)
John Pizzarelli – guitars (1, 5, 7, 11)
George Doering – guitars (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
Michael Landau – guitars (2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11)
Dave Carpenter – bass (1, 5, 7, 10, 11)
Jimmy Johnson – bass (2, 3, 4, 6)
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (1–7, 11)
Luis Conte – percussion (2, 4, 6, 10)
Michael Fisher – percussion (8)
Ralph Williams – bass clarinet (1)
Gary Gray – clarinet (1)
Bill Liston – clarinet (1)
Dan Higgins – flute (1)
Phil Ayling – English horn (1), oboe (1)
Chris Botti – trumpet (1)
Toots Thielemans – harmonica (7)
David Lasley – backing vocals (1, 2, 8, 10)
Kate Markowitz – backing vocals (1, 2, 8, 10)
Arnold McCuller – backing vocals (1, 2, 8, 10)
Andrea Zonn – violin, backing vocals (1, 2, 8, 10)
Natalie Cole – lead vocals (4)
Strings (1–5, 7, 9, 10)
Ralph Morrison – concertmaster
Steve Erdody, Paula Hochhalter and Cecilia Tsan – cello
Edward Mears – contrabass
Karen Elaine Bakunin, Brian Dembow, Marlow Fisher, Roland Kato and Vicki Miskolczy – viola
Jackie Brand, Bruce Dukov, Julie Gigante, Alan Grunfield, Clayton Haslop, Tamara Hatwan, Natalie Leggett, Ralph Morrison, Claudia Parducci, Sara Parkins, Katia Popov, Josefina Vergara, Margaret Wooten and Kenneth Yerke – violin
Production
Dave Grusin – producer, liner notes
Don Murray – recording, mixing
Charlie Paakkari – assistant engineer
Robert Vosgien – mastering at Capitol Mastering (Hollywood, California).
Gary Borman – management
Barbara Rose Granatt – management
James Taylor – liner notes
References
James Taylor albums
Christmas albums by American artists
2004 Christmas albums
Folk rock Christmas albums
Pop rock Christmas albums
Albums recorded at Capitol Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Christmas%20Album%20%28James%20Taylor%20album%29 |
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher (born October 21, 1984, in Prévost, Quebec) is a Canadian short track speed skating athlete at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
A student in ecology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she won a bronze medal in the 500m short track speed skating event on February 15, 2006, at the Winter Olympics. She finished ahead of fellow Canadian Kalyna Roberge with a time of 0:44.759.
On February 22, along with Alanna Kraus, Tania Vicent, Amanda Overland and Kalyna Roberge, Leblanc-Boucher helped win a silver medal for Canada in the women's 3000m relay.
Leblanc-Boucher announced her pregnancy in 2006 and gave birth to her first child, William, born in late June 2007. She went on to have two more children, Ben and Stella, and had planned to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in her home country but could not qualify.
Leblanc-Boucher made headlines in February 2014 when she posted an advertisement on Kijiji selling her Olympic silver medal and the skates she competed in from the 2006 Winter Olympics. After being inspired watching the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia, she expressed interest in competing in the sport once again, seeking offers that would help with her finances. Her asking prices were listed at $1 million for the medal and $7,000 for the skates, excluding the individual bronze medal she won in the 500m race. In March 2014, it was reported she would not have to sell her medal or skates as her Kijiji advertisement resulted in sponsor offers to help fund her comeback at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Leblanc-Boucher now plans to resume training to return to competition in preparation for the upcoming Olympic season.
References
Sports Reference
1984 births
Living people
Canadian female short track speed skaters
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic short track speed skaters for Canada
Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Quebec
Canadian female speed skaters
21st-century Canadian women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anouk%20Leblanc-Boucher |
Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn (died c. 1286) was a Welsh king who was lord of the part of Powys known as Powys Wenwynwyn and sided with Edward I in his conquest of Wales of 1277 to 1283.
Gruffydd was the son of Gwenwynwyn and Margaret Corbet. He was still a child when his father, who had been driven out of his princedom by Llywelyn the Great, died in exile in 1216. He spent his youth in England, maintained by the king, and did not return to Wales until after Llywelyn's death. When Dafydd ap Llywelyn was forced to come to terms with King Henry III of England in 1241, Gruffydd was given most of the lands formerly held by his father, paying homage to Henry for them. Around this time he married, Hawise, daughter of John Lestrange of Knockin.
When Llywelyn ap Gruffudd increased his power in Wales after 1255, Gruffydd continued to support the crown, and in 1257, he was again driven into exile. In 1263, he agreed to transfer his allegiance to Llywelyn under threat of being stripped of his lands, and this was confirmed at the Treaty of Montgomery in 1267. In 1274, Gruffydd, his wife Hawise and his son Owain were all involved with Llywelyn's brother Dafydd ap Gruffydd in a plot to assassinate Llywelyn. Dafydd was with Llywelyn at the time, and it was arranged that Owain would come with armed men on 2 February to carry out the assassination; however he was prevented by a snowstorm. Llywelyn did not discover the full details of the plot until later that year, when Owain confessed to the Bishop of Bangor. He said that the intention had been to make Dafydd Prince of Gwynedd, and that Dafydd would then reward Gruffydd with lands. When Llywelyn discovered the details of the plot he sent envoys to Welshpool to summon Gruffydd to appear before him, but Gruffydd fled to England. He settled in Shrewsbury and used it as a base for raids on Llywelyn's lands, probably encouraged by the king. After the war of 1277, when Llywelyn was forced to cede his lands outside Gwynedd, Gruffydd was again given his lands back. He became embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute with Llywelyn over lands in Arwystli. Llywelyn wanted the issue resolved by Welsh law while Gruffydd wanted English law used and was supported by King Edward I of England.
Gruffydd supported King Edward in the final war of 1282, although by now he was an old man. There have been suggestions that his eldest son Owain may have been involved in the killing of Llywelyn at Cilmeri in December that year.
At the end of the Welsh War of 1282–1283, the principality of Powys Wenwynwyn was abolished and the family – now Marcher Lords – adopted the surname de la Pole meaning "of Poole" referring to their family seat in Poole (modern Welshpool). For his loyalty to Edward I, the king permitted Baron de la Pole to begin building (or re-building) Powis Castle. After 1283 his estate became increasingly controlled by his son Owain and he died some time between February 1286 and the end of 1287.
Owain divided the lands he inherited with his brothers, by arrangements later recorded in detail in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for 1342, pages 496–7.
He was buried in the Black Friars Priory in Shrewsbury.
References
Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Kari Maund (2006) The Welsh kings: warriors, warlords and princes (Tempus)
David Stephenson, Medieval Powys: Kingdom, Principality and Lordships 1132–1293 (Bodell and Brewer, 2016).
1280s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
Monarchs of Powys
13th-century Welsh monarchs
Welsh princes
House of Mathrafal
Burials in Shropshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruffydd%20ap%20Gwenwynwyn |
Pyrococcus furiosus is a heterotrophic, strictly anaerobic, extremophilic, model species of archaea. It is classified as a hyperthermophile because it thrives best under extremely high temperatures, and is notable for having an optimum growth temperature of 100 °C (a temperature that would destroy most living organisms). P. furiosus belongs to the Pyrococcus genus, most commonly found in extreme environmental conditions of hydrothermal vents. It is one of the few prokaryotic organisms that has enzymes containing tungsten, an element rarely found in biological molecules.
Pyrococcus furiosus has many potential industrial applications, owing to its unique thermostable properties. P. furiosus is used in the process of DNA amplification by way of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) because of its proofreading activity. Utilizing P. furiosus in PCR DNA amplification instead of the traditionally used Taq DNA polymerase allows for a significantly more accurate process. The thermodynamic stability of P. furiosus''' enzymes is useful in the creation of diols for laboratory and industrial purposes. Certain superoxide dismutases found in P. furiosus can be introduced into plants to increase their tolerance in environmentally stressful conditions and ultimately their survival.
Properties Pyrococcus furiosus is a strictly anaerobic, heterotrophic, sulfur-reducing archaea originally isolated from heated sediments in Vulcano, Italy by Fiala and Stetter. It is noted for its rapid doubling time of 37 minutes under optimal conditions, meaning that every 37 minutes the number of individual organisms is multiplied by two, yielding an exponential growth curve. Each organism is surrounded by a cellular envelope composed of glycoprotein called an S-layer. It appears as mostly regular cocci—meaning that it is roughly spherical—of 0.8 µm to 1.5 µm diameter with monopolar polytrichous flagellation.
A glycoprotein notable to archaea species makes up the majority of the composition of P. furiosus flagella. Aside from potentially using them for swimming, these flagella were observed under lab conditions in use for unique applications such as forming cell to cell connections during stationary growth phase. They are additionally utilized as cable-like connectors to adhere to various solid surfaces such as sand grains in the habitat in which this species was discovered. This may lead to the formation of microcolonial biofilm-like structures.P. furiosus grows between 70 °C (158 °F) and 103 °C (217 °F), with an optimum temperature of 100 °C (212 °F), and between pH 5 and 9 (with an optimum at pH 7). Since it uses fermentation of carbohydrates, it grows well on yeast extract, maltose, cellobiose, β-glucans, starch, and protein sources (tryptone, peptone, casein, and meat extracts) through the Embden-Meyerhoff pathway. This is a relatively wide range of sources when compared to other archaea. Growth is very slow, or nonexistent, on amino acids, organic acids, alcohols, and most carbohydrates (including glucose, fructose, lactose, and galactose). The metabolic products of P. furiosus are CO2 and H2. The presence of hydrogen severely inhibits its growth and metabolism; this effect can be circumvented, however, by introducing sulfur into the organism's environment. In this case, H2S can be produced through its metabolic processes seemingly for the purpose of detoxication or energy conservation, not energy production. While many other hyperthermophiles depend on sulfur for growth, P. furiosus does not.P. furiosus is also notable for an unusual and intriguingly simple respiratory system, which obtains energy by reducing protons to hydrogen gas and uses this energy to create an electrochemical gradient across its cell membrane, thereby driving ATP synthesis. This could be a very early evolutionary precursor of respiratory systems in all higher organisms today.
Genomics
The sequencing of the complete genome of Pyrococcus furiosus was completed in 2001 by scientists at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. The Maryland team found that the genome has 1,908 kilobases, including 2,065 open reading frames (ORFs) that encode proteins. A study performed in 2005 revealed 17 new ORFs specific to Pyrococcus furiosus that were not originally annotated, bringing the number of ORFs up to 2,082.
A lab strain of Pyrococcus furiosus named COM1 is commonly used for its "high plasticity" and ability to take up foreign DNA, owing to its high recombination and transposon activity. It has 1,571 more base pairs than the referenced NCBI genome, and 10 more insertion sequences (ISs). These ISs have deactivated 13 genes and many more are altered, but the strain's growth is yet comparable to its parent strain.
Enzymes
Alcohol dehydrogenases Pyrococcus furiosus possesses several highly thermostable alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs): the short-chain AdhA, the iron-containing AdhB, the zinc-containing AdhC, and more. Each of these ADHs are NADP-dependent, and serve to replenish NADP+ by using the NADPH produced by fermentation to reduce aldehydes to alcohols. The aldehydes are also products of fermentation and are toxic to the cell, so removal is necessary. P. furiosus ADHs typically have a broad range of aldehyde substrates they can use, and they can also catalyze the reverse reaction (oxidation of alcohols) using ethanol, 1,3-propanediol, and other alcohols for substrate. As with most of the archaea's enzymes, the ADHs are sensitive to oxygen.
Oxidoreductases Pyrococcus furiosus has five unique tungsten-containing oxidoreductases that are part of its NAD(P)H-independent glycolytic pathway. These enzymes function optimally above 90 °C. The first to be discovered was aldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase, or AOR, which utilizes tungsten, sulfur, and iron to catalyze the oxidation of aldehydes and reduce ferredoxin (this being the electron carrier instead of NAD(P)H). As this was the first, all tungsten-containing oxidoreductases are said to be part of the AOR family. The next oxidoreductase to be discovered was glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ferredoxin oxidoreductase, or GAPOR, which utilizes tungsten and iron to catalyze the oxidation of specifically glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate. GAPOR only functions under anaerobic conditions, as with many enzymes in P. furiosus. Another oxidoreductase is formaldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase, or FOR, which catalyzes the oxidation of aldehydes into carboxylic acids. This enzyme utilizes four types of cofactors: tungsten, iron, sulfur, and calcium. The next oxidoreductase, WOR4, does not help oxidize aldehydes, but rather has a role in the reduction of elemental sulfur (S0) into H2S. This uses the same cofactors as FOR, and is only found in P. furiosus cells that are grown in the presence of elemental sulfur. The fifth and final oxidoreductase is named WOR5, and it has a broad specificity for aromatic and aliphatic aldehyde species.
An oxidoreductase species in P. furiosus that does not contain tungsten is pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase, or POR, which catalyzes the final step of the glycolytic pathway. It is possible that POR is an ancestor of mesophilic pyruvate oxidoreductases. There is also the indolepyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase, or IOR, which utilizes iron and sulfur to catalyze the "oxidative decarboxylation of aryl pyruvates."
Uses
In DNA amplification
A DNA polymerase was discovered in P. furiosus that was thought to be unrelated to other known DNA polymerases, as no significant sequence homology was found between its two proteins and those of other known DNA polymerases. This DNA polymerase has strong 3'-to-5' exonucleolytic activity and a template-primer preference which is characteristic of a replicative DNA polymerase, leading scientists to believe that this enzyme may be the replicative DNA polymerase of P. furiosus. It has since been placed in the family B of polymerases, the same family as DNA polymerase II. Its structure, which appears quite typical for polymerase B, has been solved as well.
Since the enzymes of P. furiosus are extremely thermostable, the DNA polymerase from P. furiosus (also known as Pfu DNA polymerase) can be used in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification process. The PCR process must use a thermostable DNA polymerase for automated in vitro amplification and originally used Taq DNA polymerase. However, since purified Taq DNA polymerase lacks exonuclease (proofreading) activity, it cannot excise mismatched nucleotides. Researchers discovered in the early 1990's that the Pfu DNA polymerase of P. furiosus does actually possess a requisite 3’-to-5’ exonuclease activity allowing for the removal of errors. Subsequent tests utilizing Pfu DNA polymerase in the PCR process revealed a more than tenfold improvement over the accuracy of using Taq DNA polymerase.
In production of diols
One practical application of P. furiosus is in the production of diols for various industrial processes. It may be possible to use the enzymes of P. furiosus for applications in such industries as food, pharmaceuticals, and fine-chemicals in which alcohol dehydrogenases are necessary in the production of enantio- and diastereomerically pure diols. Enzymes from hyperthermophiles such as P. furiosus can perform well in laboratory processes because they are relatively resistant: they generally function well at high temperatures and high pressures, as well as in high concentrations of chemicals.
In order to make naturally derived enzymes useful in the laboratory, it is often necessary to alter their genetic makeup. Otherwise, the naturally occurring enzymes may not be efficient in an artificially induced procedure. Although the enzymes of P. furiosus function optimally at a high temperature, scientists may not necessarily want to carry out a procedure at . Consequently, in this case, the specific enzyme AdhA was taken from P. furiosus and put through various mutations in a laboratory in order to obtain a suitable alcohol dehydrogenase for use in artificial processes. This allowed scientists to obtain a mutant enzyme that could function efficiently at lower temperatures and maintain productivity.
In plants
The expression of a certain gene found in P. furiosus in plants can also render them more durable by increasing their tolerance for heat. In response to environmental stresses such as heat exposure, plants produce reactive oxygen species which can result in cell death. If these free radicals are removed, cell death can be delayed. Enzymes in plants called superoxide dismutases remove superoxide anion radicals from cells, but increasing the amount and activity of these enzymes is difficult and not the most efficient way to go about improving the durability of plants.
By introducing the superoxide reductases of P. furiosus into plants, the levels of O2 can be rapidly reduced. Scientists tested this method using the Arabidopsis thaliana plant. As a result of this procedure, cell death in plants occurs less often, therefore resulting in a reduction in the severity of responses to environmental stress. This enhances the survival of plants, making them more resistant to light, chemical, and heat stress.
This study could potentially be used as a starting point to creating plants that could survive in more extreme climates on other planets such as Mars. By introducing more enzymes from extremophiles like P. furiosus into other species of plants, it may be possible to create incredibly resistant species.
In researching amino acids
By comparing P. furiosus with a related species of archaea, Pyrococcus abyssi, scientists have tried to determine the correlation between certain amino acids and affinity for certain pressures in different species. P. furiosus is not barophilic, while P. abyssi is, meaning that it functions optimally at very high pressures. Using two hyperthermophilic species of archaea lessens the possibility of deviations having to do with temperature of the environment, essentially reducing the variables in the experimental design.
Besides yielding information about the barophilicity of certain amino acids, the experiment also provided valuable insight into the origin of the genetic code and its organizational influences. It was found that most of the amino acids that determined barophilicity were also found to be important in the organization of the genetic code. It was also found that more polar amino acids and smaller amino acids were more likely to be barophilic. Through the comparison of these two archaea, the conclusion was reached that the genetic code was likely structured under high hydrostatic pressure, and that hydrostatic pressure was a more influential factor in determining genetic code than temperature.
History Pyrococcus furiosus was originally isolated anaerobically from geothermal marine sediments with temperatures between and collected at the beach of Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Italy. It was first described by Karl Stetter of the University of Regensburg in Germany, and a colleague, Gerhard Fiala. Pyrococcus furiosus actually originated a new genus of archaea with its relatively recent discovery in 1986.
The name means "fireball" in Greek, to refer to the extremophile's round shape and ability to grow in temperatures of around 100 degrees Celsius. The species name '' means 'rushing' in Latin, and refers to the extremophile's doubling time and rapid swimming.
References
Further reading
External links
Type strain of Pyrococcus furiosus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
KEGG Genome : Pyrococcus furiosus
Euryarchaeota
Archaea described in 1993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrococcus%20furiosus |
Circus Caper, known as in Japan, is the title of a side-scrolling Nintendo Entertainment System video game where the player controls a young boy on a quest to save his sister who has been kidnapped by the circus. The game was released in 1989 by Toho and received poor reviews.
Plot
In Circus Caper, a boy named Tim takes his sister Judy to a circus show. However, the two siblings can't afford to enter. A clown offers the children tickets if they beat him in a dice game. After beating him, the clown says there is only one ticket left, so Tim lets his sister go in. After the show, Tim goes to pick up his sister, and is greeted by Mr. Magic, who has kidnapped her. Tim then enters the circus to try and rescue his sister. At the end of the game, Judy reveals to Tim that she was going to be used as a knife-throwing target, and the two go home.
In the Japanese version, based on the anime Moeru! Oniisan, Yukie has been kidnapped by Dra Gon, a dragon. It is up to Kenichi and his friends Hidou, Rocky, and Shiranui to save her. Many characters from the anime appear in the show, including Duck Nicholson, as well as the Narrator talking in the cutscenes. At the end of the game, it is revealed Dra Gon was actually Duck Nicholson in disguise.
Gameplay
The single-player, side-scrolling action game takes the player through various levels, each with a circus theme, fighting various enemies and bosses until he finally defeats the ringmaster and saves his sister.
The player starts out in the game with little life, and few weapons, but he can collect various icons to increase how many direct hits that he can withstand, keys to open doors, along with various circus items to shoot as projectiles.
Many of the levels can be avoided altogether by just walking backwards and back through the curtain from where the player begins. This will take him right to that level's boss battle.
Bonus levels include guiding a bear to jump over flames, avoiding boulders in a car, using Rodan as target practice and meeting Godzilla at the circus grounds.
Release
The Japanese version's title screen features the theme song from the anime, Dreamy Dreamer by Yuko Ishikawa, played in the key of B, rather than the key of D.
The USA version has a number of changes from the Japanese versions. Mainly minigame and RPG elements were removed, the stages were modified and the setting was changed to a circus. The Japanese version also features several credits screens at the end which were removed from the USA version. The soundtracks also differentiate (for the most part). In the Japanese version, instead of weapons, your character shouted quote bubbles and the stages are in a different order.
References
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Platformers
1989 video games
Video games developed in Japan
Toho
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Single-player video games
Godzilla games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus%20Caper |
Pivot is a United States rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina featuring Brian Kelly on vocals, Eric Hambright on guitar, Mike Hambright on bass, and Phil Cicco on drums.
Discography
1999 - Self Titled EP
2003 - Simple Machines
2006 - The Dream
2009 - 5 Days
2012 - Enter the Exosphere
American progressive rock groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot%20%28American%20band%29 |
Which Witch is a musical written by Norwegian singers/composers Benedicte Adrian and Ingrid Bjørnov.
The storyline for Which Witch was derived from the witch finder's manual Malleus Maleficarum, and the original script was written by Adrian and Bjørnov's manager Ole A. Sørli. The lyrics of the early concert versions were written by Helen Hampton in collaboration with Adrian, Bjørnov and Sørli.
The first performance was in Grieghallen, Bergen on May 27, 1987, with Adrian playing the female lead, and Bjørnov as musical director. The material was constantly developed throughout a period of eight years, resulting in several national and international tours presenting continuously updated concert versions of the musical.
The "Operamusical" Which Witch opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in London on October 22, 1992 and ran for 76 performances, after a critical savaging. It has been described as "the second worst West End musical of all time", a "bizarre musical", and "a dire rock opera".
The London version was followed by a rather more successful Norwegian tour, and further performances of a Norwegian version in Holmenkollen, Oslo during the summer of 1994.
Which Witch has, since its premiere in May 1987, been performed a total of 142 times in concert version in the following countries: Norway, Canada, USA, the Netherlands, England, Spain, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The total attendance figure is approx. 276,000.
Recordings
Which Witch- the original studio album (released 1987).
Which Witch på Slottsfjellet live concert double album (released 1990).
Which Witch - London Cast Album (released 1993).
Total record sales are in excess of 110,000 units. Licensed productions have been staged in several European countries.
References
External links
Witch Witch - The Operamusical - Official website.
1986 musicals
Musicals based on European myths and legends
Norwegian musicals
Rock operas
West End musicals
Musicals based on books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which%20Witch |
Alejandro Oms Cosme (March 13, 1896 – November 5, 1946) was a Cuban center fielder in Negro league baseball and Latin American baseball, most notably with the Cuban Stars (East). Born in Santa Clara, Las Villas, he died at age 50 in Havana.
Oms played winter ball in the Cuban League from 1922 to 1946. He led the league in batting average three times, in 1924/25 (.393), 1928/29 (.432), and 1929/30 (.380), and won the Cuban League's Most Valuable Player Award in 1928/29. He ranks second all-time for career batting average in the Cuban League (behind Cristóbal Torriente) with an average of .345. He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1944.
Notes
References
External links
and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
NLB Players Association
1896 births
1946 deaths
Cuban baseball players
Cuban House of David players
Leopardos de Santa Clara players
New York Cubans players
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Old Deer Park is an area of open space within Richmond, owned by the Crown Estate, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. It covers of which are leased as sports grounds for sports, particularly rugby and golf. Despite the name, there are now no deer in the park.
Location
The park is bounded generally by the River Thames to the west, Kew Gardens to the north and, across a trunk road, urban areas of Richmond town to the east and south. Owned by the Crown Estate, the park forms part of a larger retained historic and biodiverse landscape incorporating part of Richmond, Kew and Isleworth. The lowest, western parts of the park constitute flood storage areas, which provide emergency flood relief around Richmond semi-tidally submerged Lock.
Old Deer Park's heritage as a historic royal landscape in a favoured riverside location has become compromised over recent decades by instances of inappropriate recreational and parking development, general neglect, and insufficient control of tree planting. A long-term strategy is now being implemented to arrest and reverse this decline.
History
In the mid-16th century, Richmond Palace was a favourite residence of Queen Elizabeth I and in 1574 she granted "Our park of Isleworth otherwise called the Newe Parke of Richmonde" to Edward Bacon. This statement was made even though Isleworth parish and manor lay on the Middlesex bank opposite the Surrey bank of Richmond — the Abbey of Syon in Isleworth was tied to that of Sheen on the other respective bank, which had jointly for centuries owned the estate.
Queen Elizabeth died at Richmond in 1603. Later that year her successor, King James I of England, established a hunting park by adding monastic land to the existing park and creating an enlarged area of . This then became known as The New Park of Richmond. The present name "Old Deer Park" was adopted after 1637 when James's son King Charles I established the much larger Richmond Park on the other side of the town. During the eighteenth century Richmond Lodge was located in the Park, which served as the summer home of George, Prince of Wales (the future George II) and his wife Princess Caroline following their dispute with his father George I.
The majority of park is now occupied by the Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club, and this has been so since 1892. Within the club's boundaries are two 18-hole courses, plus a separate area within which lies the Grade I listed King's Observatory, established by King George III in 1769. To the south-west of the Observatory, under the fairway of the 14th hole of the outer golf course, lie the foundations of the former Carthusian Sheen Priory, founded by Henry V in 1414.
Construction of the railway line westwards from Richmond Station in 1847/8 restricted the access from Richmond Green to Old Deer Park, except for one narrow bridge. Eighty-five years later a new arterial road (the "Great Chertsey Road"), complete with a high ramped approach to a new bridge over the Thames (Twickenham Bridge – built in 1933), was also constructed across the southern end of the park, close to and roughly parallel with the railway. This heightened the sense of separation between town and park – alleviating this problem is also part of the new strategy.
Beside the River Thames in the park are a pair of stone obelisks. They were built in 1769, and were originally installed to align telescopes used by the King's Observatory to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun that year.
The park was used to accommodate 5,000 of the 8,000 Scouts attending the 1st World Scout Jamboree in 1920. The public open spaces are occasionally used for circuses, funfairs and other events.
Cricket ground
Old Deer Park has been used a venue for cricket since at least 1867, when Richmond played a United South of England Eleven. During its history, the ground has played host to a number of Middlesex Second XI and Surrey Second XI matches.
Despite historically being within Surrey, the ground has played host to List-A matches involving Middlesex, the first of which saw them Nottinghamshire in the 2000 Norwich Union National League. In 2001 the Middlesex Cricket Board played their only List-A match at the ground in the 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy against Berkshire. From 2000 to 2004, the ground held 5 List-A matches, the last of which saw Middlesex play Scotland in the 2004 totesport League.
Starting in the 2003 Twenty20 Cup against Kent, Middlesex have used the ground for six Twenty20 matches to date.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Richmond Cricket Club.
Main elements of the park
Accessed from the A316:
Informal sport area, with open recreation areas, football, rugby and other pitches
Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club courses
King's Observatory
Richmond Athletic Ground, home to Richmond rugby club
Richmond Swimming Pool & Lido, now called Pools on the Park
Public car park and miscellaneous commercial buildings
Accessed from the A307:
Sports Ground with rugby, cricket, tennis, archery and bowls
References
External links
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames: Old Deer Park
1603 establishments in England
Cricket grounds in London
Deer hunting
Obelisks in England
Old Deer Park
Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Rugby union stadiums in London
Sport in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Sports venues completed in 1867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Deer%20Park |
The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is one of three spotted owl subspecies. A western North American bird in the family Strigidae, genus Strix, it is a medium-sized dark brown owl native to the Pacific Northwest. An important indicator species, the northern spotted owl remains threatened due to continued population decline from human-caused habitat destruction and competition with invasive species, its main competitor being the barred owl.
Description
Northern spotted owls have dark brown plumage with white spots and no ear tufts. They are typically around sixteen to nineteen inches in length and one to one and one sixth pounds. Females are about 10-20% larger than males. Their wingspan is approximately 42 inches. They are a mainly nocturnal species, and form long-term pair bonds. While most owls have yellow to red-orange colored eyes, northern spotted owls are one of the few owls with darkish to black-colored eyes.
Vocalizations
Thirteen different sounds of hoots, whistles, and barks have been identified to be sounds of the northern spotted owl, with females having higher pitched calls than males. Of the three different styles of calls, hoots appear to be most commonly used to announce things, such as territory and prey. The whistles are often used by the females to present themselves to the males, and the barks during territorial issues between owls.
Distribution and habitat
The northern spotted owl primarily inhabits old growth forests in the northern part of its range (extreme southwestern Canada to southern Oregon) and landscapes with a mix of old and younger forest types in the southern part of its range (Klamath region and California). The subspecies' range is the Pacific coast from extreme southern British Columbia to Marin County in northern California.
Most spotted owls inhabit federal lands (Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service lands), although significant numbers occur on state lands in Washington, Oregon, and California, as well as tribal and private properties.
Northern spotted owls range on 500,000 acres of the 7.6 percent of private forestlands managed by Native American tribes in the state of Washington. Federally recognized tribes are treated as sovereign governments, and each recognized tribe is responsible for their own management plans for the northern spotted owls in their area. Regardless of tribal or private ownership, however, the United States federal government requires all land owners and inhabitants to comply with the Endangered Species Act.
The northern spotted owl nests in cavities or on platforms in large trees. It will also use abandoned nests of other species. Northern spotted owls remain in the same geographical areas unless forced out from harsh conditions or lack of food.
Diet
The northern spotted owl diet consists of small mammals (91.5%), birds (4.3%), insects (4.1%), and other prey (0.1%). These prey are most nocturnal (91.9%) or active during the day and night (4.8%), which corresponds to the primarily nocturnal nature of the northern spotted owl. The main species consumed by the northern spotted owl are northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus), woodrats (Neotoma fuscipes and N. cinerea), red tree voles (Arborimus longicaudus), western red-backed voles (Clethnonomys californicus), deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), and gophers (Thomomys spp.). Consumption of these small mammals varies by habitat region and proliferation of small nocturnal mammals. Recent invasion of barred owls (Strix varia) into the northern spotted owl range has resulted in decreased food availability due to overlap in dietary preferences.
Behavior
The northern spotted owl is intolerant of habitat disturbance. Each nesting pair needs a large amount of land for hunting and nesting, and will not migrate unless they experience drastic seasonal changes, such as heavy snows, which make hunting difficult. Their flight pattern is distinct, involving a series of rapid wingbeats interspersed with gliding flight. This technique allows them to glide silently down upon their prey.
Reproduction
Northern spotted owls reach sexual maturity at two years of age, but do not typically breed until three years of age. Males and females mate in February or March, with the female laying two or three eggs in March or April. Eggs are incubated by the female for around thirty days until hatching. After hatching, the young owls remain in the nest and the adult female provides primary care. Fledgling occurs in 34 to 36 days. The hunting and feeding is done by the male during this time. The young owls remain with the parents until late summer to early fall. They leave the nest and form their own winter feeding range. By spring, the young owls' territory will be from 2 to 24 miles from the parents.
Conservation
There are fewer than 1,200 pairs in Oregon, 560 pairs in Northern California, and 500 pairs in Washington. Washington alone has lost over 90 percent of its old growth forest due to logging which has caused a 40-90 percent decline of the Northern Spotted Owl population.
The worldwide IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status for the spotted owl species is "Near Threatened" with a decreasing population trend. As the IUCN Red List does not track subspecies, this status is applied to species across its whole range in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
The population in British Columbia has become almost extinct. From an original population of at least 1,000, fewer than 100 breeding pairs were left in the 1990s. The Canadian population was declared endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada under the 2002 Species at Risk Act, now numbers less than 100 breeding pairs of birds. By 2002 it was 30 breeding pairs, and by 2005 just 22 individuals containing 6 breeding pairs. A captive breeding and release program mooted in 2006 removed 10 individuals from the wild. It started in 2007 in Langley with the goal of producing owls in captivity for release into protected habitat to prevent the extirpation of the species from Canada. The short-term goals of the Program include growing the captive population to 10 breeding pairs and releasing 10-20 offspring per year into the 300,000 hectares of protected old-growth forest. Long-term the Breeding Program aims to recover the wild population to self-sustaining numbers, approximately 300 adults, over the next 10–20 years.
In 2021, there were only 3 individuals left in the wild in Canada. The wild population dwindled down to a single female inhabiting the forests of the Spuzzum First Nation. The captive breeding program saw three males released nearby in August 2022, but one was brought back into captivity after being hit by a train and the other two died of unknown causes in May 2023. The captive breeding population has around 30 individuals.
The northern spotted owl was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act throughout its range of northern California, Oregon and Washington by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on June 23, 1990 citing loss of old-growth habitat as the primary threat. The USFWS previously reviewed the status of the northern spotted owl in 1982, 1987 and 1989 but found it did not warrant listing as either threatened or endangered. Logging in national forests containing the northern spotted owl was stopped by court order in 1991.
Controversy
In 1990, the logging industry estimated up to 30,000 of 168,000 jobs would be lost because of the owl's status, which agreed closely with a Forest Service estimate. Harvests of timber in the Pacific Northwest were reduced by 80%, decreasing the supply of lumber and increasing prices. However, jobs were already declining because of dwindling old-growth forest harvests and automation of the lumber industry. One study at the University of Wisconsin–Madison by environmental scientists argued that logging jobs had been in a long decline and that environmental protection was not a significant factor in job loss.
From 1947 to 1964, the number of logging jobs declined 90%. Starting with the Wilderness Act of 1964, environmental protection saved 51,000 jobs in the Pacific Northwest.
The controversy pitted individual loggers and small sawmill owners against environmentalists. Bumper stickers reading Kill a Spotted Owl—Save a Logger and I Like Spotted Owls—Fried appeared to support the loggers. Plastic spotted owls were hung in effigy in Oregon sawmills. The logging industry, in response to continued bad publicity, started the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. While timber interests and conservatives have cited the northern spotted owl as an example of excessive or misguided environmental protection, many environmentalists view the owl as an "indicator species," or "canary in a coal mine" whose preservation has created protection for an entire threatened ecosystem.
Protection of the owl, under both the Endangered Species Act and the National Forest Management Act, has led to significant changes in forest practices in the northwest. President Clinton's controversial Northwest Forest Plan of 1994 was designed primarily to protect owls and other species dependent on old-growth forests while ensuring a certain amount of timber harvest. Although the result was much less logging, industry automation and the new law meant the loss of thousands of jobs.
The debate has cooled somewhat over the years, with little response from environmentalists as the owl's population continues to decline by 7.3 percent per year. In 2004 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reaffirmed that the owl remained threatened, but indicated that invasion by barred owls into the range and habitat of the spotted owl was also a cause of declining spotted owl populations.
In 2007, the USFWS proposed a new recovery plan intended to guide all management actions on lands where spotted owls occur, and to aid in recovery of the species. Early proposals were criticized by environmental groups as significantly weakening existing protections for the species. The Obama administration reversed proposals that would have increased logging on Bureau of Land Management administered lands. Recent discussion has been focused on two novel approaches. One of these would emphasize wildfire management as key to owl persistence on the east side of the Cascades, and in the Klamath province. Another proposal, on control of barred owl populations through culling, has been criticized by some animal rights and other activists.
Federal biologists were considering in 2010 whether removal of competing barred owls would allow expansion of spotted owl populations.
In early 2021, the Trump administration removed more than 3 million acres of Pacific Northwest land from the protected habitat of the northern spotted owl, 15 times the amount it had previously proposed opening to the timber industry. Aurelia Skipwith, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, stated that "these common-sense revisions ensure we are continuing to recover the northern spotted owl while being a good neighbor to rural communities within the critical habitat" even though northern spotted owl populations continue to decline. This was reversed by the Biden administration in 2021, restoring previous protections.
Influence of barred owl invasion
Population decline of northern spotted owl
The barred owl is an owl species native to the Eastern United States, but has invasively expanded west into the habitat ranges of the northern spotted owl. Invasion of barred owls into the northern spotted owl’s habitat has occurred recently, with all of northern spotted owl territory now also inhabited by the barred owl. Barred owls have a diet of small mammals (74.7%), other birds (8.3%), amphibians (6.4%), bugs (5.6%), crayfish (3.0%), fish (1.5%), reptiles, snails and slugs, and earthworms (<1.0% each). This diet is similar to the northern spotted owl, and the addition of barred owls to the northern spotted owl’s range creates increased competition for food. In the same areas, northern spotted owls require around three to four times more range than barred owls, which places more strain on the northern spotted owls. As barred owl population densities increase, the strain of food competition will worsen for northern spotted owls.
The greater diversity of diet in the barred owl, notably in the amphibians, crayfish, and fish consumed, threatens ecological stability due to extended predation now experienced by affected species. The additional food sources also give an advantage to the barred owl over the northern spotted owl, worsening the northern spotted owl's ability to compete. Paired with more predation of prey that is shared between the barred owl and the northern spotted owl, the introduction of the barred owl in these areas may have unknown long term effects on the ecological balance of these habitats. The most drastic effect is on the northern spotted owl population, which is estimated to have decreased at an annual rate of 3.8% from 1985 to 2013. This population loss is directly related to the presence of barred owls. The Diller et al. (2016) study demonstrated that lethal removal of barred owls resulted in the northern spotted owl populations to increase, while populations of northern spotted owls continued to decrease if barred owl populations were left alone. Should northern owl habitat areas continue to be protected under the Northwest Forest Plan and other related legislation, solutions to regulate barred owl populations could reverse the population decline of the northern spotted owl. Without intervention, continued annual decrease in population levels would ultimately end in extinction of the northern spotted owl.
Hybridization
Northern spotted owls and barred owls have been shown to be capable of producing hybrid offspring. Previous geographical isolation had prevented prior hybridization, and current ones are difficult to distinguish from nonhybrids without using genetic testing techniques. However, of those differences that are discernable, hybrids tend to be larger and lighter colored than northern spotted owls, with similar facial features to barred owls. All hybridization occurred between male northern spotted owls and female barred owls. Cross-breeding amongst the species is a very limited event, and likely insufficient to be significantly detrimental to either species. Direct competition between species for habitat space and food is determined to be much more significant issues in affecting both target populations. There has also been genetic evidence of cross breeding between northern spotted owls and California spotted owls (S. o. occidentalis), but since both are subspecies of the same species, this is not truly considered hybridization.
See also
Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon
References
External links
Spotted Owl - Cornell
Northern Spotted Owl Breeding Program in Canada
Woodland Park Zoo Fact Sheet
Factsheets
Enchanted learning
Seattle Times News Source
2004 status review and biological assessment
northern spotted owl
Native birds of the Northwestern United States
Subspecies
northern spotted owl
northern spotted owl | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20spotted%20owl |
Kadiivka or Stakhanov is a city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the Komyshuvakha River, a right tributary of the Luhan.
The city is incorporated as a city of oblast significance. Its population is approximately
The city came under the control of the breakaway pro-Russia Luhansk People's Republic (LPR / LNR) in early 2014. In September 2022, Russia declared the incorporation of all LPR territory into Russia.
Name
The name Kadiivka (; ) dates back to 1898. The city was briefly renamed Sergo, or Serho () between 1937 and 1940, before returning to the name Kadiivka in 1940 to 1978.
On 15 February 1978, the city was renamed Stakhanov (; ) after the famous Soviet miner Alexei Stakhanov, who started his career there.
On 12 May 2016, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada voted to change its name back to Kadiivka as a result of decommunization laws. The Luhansk People's Republic, and later Russian, occupation authorities who militarily control the city have not recognized this decision and maintain the name Stakhanov; the name change has had a largely symbolic meaning as a result.
History
Founding
Kadiivka has its origins in the mid-19th century in the settlement of Shubynka, when coal mining was developing in the region. It became known as Kadiivka in 1898.
Soviet times
From 1919, the city came under the power of the Bolsheviks. A local newspaper has been published in the settlement since September 1930. In 1931, the session of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee decided to build a new orderly city. The pond in the center was filled in, and a square was built in its place, which existed until the early 1970s. Kadiivka received city status in 1932.
During the Second World War, the city was occupied by German troops from July 1942 until September 1943. A Soviet labor camp for German prisoners of war operated at Kadiivka during the Second World War.
In November 1944, three districts (city district councils) were created: Illichivskyi, Bryanskyi, and Golubivskyi.
In the 1950s, the city encompassed settlements that were later separated into separate cities — Brianka, Pervomaisk, and Kirovsk (now Golubivk). In the fall of 1954, a technical school was opened in Kadiivka, where 280 high school graduates began their studies.
The city was renamed in 1978 in honor of Alexei Stakhanov, a Soviet coal miner famous for purportedly setting a new record of coal mining output using his own innovative working methods and inspiring the Stakhanovite movement.
Pro-Russian and Russian occupation (2014-present)
Stakhanov fell under control of the Luhansk People's Republic in early 2014 amidst the war in Donbas. Starting mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast; they took over Stakhanov on 2 May 2014.
In October 2015, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine opened a Forward Patrol Base in the city, meaning that a small number of international monitors were due to be permanently based here. The OSCE left the city shortly before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
With Russia's Wagner Group having significant bases in Kadiivka, Ukrainian forces have reportedly scored repeated hits on them, with multiple casualties.
Economy
The city has traditionally been a major coal-mining town, though its importance has declined as its natural resources have been depleted and alternative fuels have gained prominence. The city has several coal mines today.
It also has been important as a metallurgical and machine-building center, and contains the Stakhanov Railway Car Building Works, the Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant and the . In 1985, in the Soviet Union, the city was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Transport
The city formerly had electric city transport in the form of both trams and trolleybuses. Tram traffic opened on February 15, 1937, and trolleybus traffic opened on March 1, 1970. Tram traffic closed on November 11, 2007, and trolleybus traffic closed on August 31, 2011, while it is elsewhere reported that it was suspended on September 11, 2008, with its newer LAZ trolleybuses bought by Antratsyt. As the years went on, the number of trams dwindled from 38 in 1973 to 4 in 2007, of which only 2 would run.
Demographics
In 1991, the population was 112,700 people, by 2013 this had fallen to 77,593.
As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:
Ethnicity
Ukrainians: 46.1%
Russians: 50.1%
Belarusians: 1%
Other: 2.9%
Language
Russian: 85.3%
Ukrainian: 13.0%
Belarusian: 0.1%
Armenian: 0.1%
City municipality
The Municipality of Kadiivka also includes two other cities:
Almazna
Irmino
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Kadiivka include:
Grisha Filipov (1919–1994), Bulgarian politician
References
Alchevsk Raion
Cities in Luhansk Oblast
Cities of regional significance in Ukraine
Populated places established in the Russian Empire
Soviet toponymy in Ukraine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadiivka |
Ulverston Victoria High School (UVHS) is a secondary school and sixth form located in the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, England. It is the successor school to Ulverston Grammar School and Victoria Secondary Modern, which were combined in 1967 to form Ulverston Comprehensive School. This school ultimately became UVHS.
Admissions
UVHS is a comprehensive school and takes its pupils from the local area as well as from Barrow-in-Furness, Grange-over-Sands and Coniston. The school also has a Sixth Form.
Sport
The school's most notable sporting achievements include winning the BSOA Large Secondary School Orienteering crown for 19 of the last 21 years. The orienteering team came back from the 2017 World Schools Orienteering Championship with a silver medal for the junior girls team and individual gold and silver medals for Year 9 pupil, Merryn Stangroom.
Music
UVHS Swing Band won the national SSAT competition for function bands in 2013, headlining at the Liverpool Echo Arena. The band has recorded 2 CDs with the Royal Marines and has also appeared live on Blue Peter as well as on Classic FM, Radio 2 and Radio Cumbria. In 2018 they played at Disneyland Paris on Bastille day.
The Wind Band consists of between 90 and 100 players aged from 11 to 18. The band regularly tours abroad, including Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Salzburg and the Netherlands. In 2014 they performed a live concert on Dutch TV and have also appeared live on Belgian and Spanish TV in the past as well as Czech and British radio.
Richard Butler, head of music, was awarded an MBE in the New Years Honours list 2018.
Notable former pupils
(Includes Ulverston Grammar School and Victoria Secondary Modern)
Sir Wilfred Burns CB CBE, town planner
Richard Parsons, educational study guide author and founder and owner of CGP
William Pearsall, Quain Professor of Botany at University College London from 1944 to 1957, President of the Institute of Biology from 1957 to 1958
Colin Pickthall, Labour MP for West Lancashire from 1992 to 2005
Dame Kathleen Raven, nurse, Chief Nursing Officer in the DHSS from 1958 to 1972
Rt Rev Martin Wharton, Bishop of Newcastle since 1997
John Eccleston, puppeteer, writer, presenter and actor
George Elokobi, former professional footballer and current manager of Maidstone United
Jess Gillam, saxophonist
See also
Town Bank Grammar School, a defunct school in the town, the endowment of which contributed to the school's early development
References
External links
Ulverston Victoria High School - UVHS
Ulverston Victoria High School Sixth Form
Secondary schools in Westmorland and Furness
Ulverston
Community schools in Westmorland and Furness | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulverston%20Victoria%20High%20School |
Jay Hickman (born May 23, 1973) is an American film and voice actor, best known for his prolific voice work on English language dubs of Japanese anime shows for ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks and Funimation.
Career
Hickman lent his voice to the character of Mark in the 2002 Canadian film Touching Wild Horses, starring Jane Seymour. He has also a number of on-screen appearances, including an uncredited bit part in the 1998 film Rushmore opposite television and movie actress Alexis Bledel and Apollo 11. In anime, he is known as the voice of Kurama from Elfen Lied, Kagetane Hiruko from Black Bullet, Crusty from the Log Horizon series and Ryuya from Air.
Filmography
Anime
Live-action roles
References
External links
Jay Hickman at Crystal Acids
1973 births
Living people
American male voice actors
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Hickman%20%28actor%29 |
Newbiggin is a small village in Cumbria, North West England. It is in the Dacre civil parish about west of Penrith. It lies at sheltered from the prevailing south-westerly wind by Flusco Pike, higher.
It is described as a "non-nucleated village," lying for a mile along either side of the C3019 between the A66 and the B5288.
There are at least six other villages in Cumbria with the same name, which is derived from the Old English ‘new biggin', or new house. Locally this village is referred to as the "Stainton Newbiggin," to distinguish it from the others.
Geography
Geologically, the village is situated on a junction between carboniferous limestone and Penrith sandstone. The Putnam Fault passes to the west of the village. There is a line of springs and wells which runs through the village, and these sources of water may have been the motivation for the original human settlement of this site.
History
Prehistory
There is evidence of human activity at Newbiggin since the very earliest times. Remains of Neolithic burials were found on Flusco Pike in 1875. Such finds are likely to date from 3000 BC or earlier. The 1775 enclosure maps of Newbiggin and Stainton identify several fields in Newbiggin as containing standing stones. Taylor recorded the remains of a line of standing stones running between Newton Reigny and Newbiggin. Several of the stones can still be seen in the fields or gardens in Newbiggin.
Roman era
The Romans' invasion of Britain in 55 BC, and the subsequent garrisoning of several thousand soldiers and their horses at the Roman Wall required enormous amounts of grain, meat, timber and animals. There is evidence that much of the land south of Carlisle provided these commodities with an extensive grid network or farms and access roads. Several quern-stones, used for grinding grain, have been discovered in Newbiggin, and identified as probably Roman in origin. This suggests some sort of minor Roman settlement in Newbiggin, perhaps a smallholding or farm. A Roman coin hoard has been found near Newbiggin with material dated from 400AD. Roman remains have also been found nearby at Stainton and Blencowe.
Viking era
Norwegian and Danish settlement in Cumbria took place from the 10th Century onwards. The layout of the village houses with crofts and garths leading off the common lands at Flusco suggests that the first organised settlement was Danish. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of Viking activity in Newbiggin is the silver jewellery found at Flusco Pike. The first find was in 1785 Further discoveries took place in 1830 and 1989. The finds consisted of massive silver brooches, the largest of which was over 20 inches (51 cm) long. Some of the hoard are now on display in the British Museum. The brooches are so large and ostentatious it is likely that they were owned by a Viking of very high status. Were these objects just lost or deliberately buried? It has been suggested that the objects could have belonged to Ealdred, the Danish King of Northumbria who probably encamped nearby before being defeated in a battle with the army of King Æthelstan near Dacre in 927.
Middle Ages
The earliest mention of Newbiggin after the Norman Conquest is in the Carlisle Episcopal Records of 1133-1292 which details the tithes due from "Timparon and Newbiggin." The sum of 33 shillings (£1.75) suggests that the village was comparatively wealthy, since Stainton's tithes were set at less than half that amount (16s.) and Hutton-in-the-Forest only 1s. The mediaeval village of Newbiggin is considered to have been larger than the present village.
In the 14th century Newbiggin seems to have been part of the Blencowe estate. Subsequently the lands were owned by the Dacre family, the Countess of Arundel, and latterly the Howards of Greystoke. Now Dalemain is the estate most closely associated with Newbiggin, lying in the same parish of Dacre.
Newbiggin appears on the earliest maps of Cumberland such as Saxton's map of 1576. This is perhaps surprising, given its small size and population. However, it may be a reflection of the presence of Tymparon Hall in the village, the home of a wealthy and notable family.
Early modern era
Many of the older houses in Newbiggin date from the late 17th century when the relationship between England and Scotland became more settled and raiding and reiving ceased. Although mainly a farming community, it has been suggested that the village was on a drove route which was used in preference to a route through Penrith, which would have involved paying tolls. The area at the north end of the village is known as ‘Clickham,' a name associated elsewhere in the UK with drove routes. At this time the centre of the village would have been open pasture where water supplies were available for the cattle to drink. Old residents remember gates across the road at either end of the village. probably north at Tymparon and south at Haw Bank. Records exist of the Newbiggin blacksmith shoeing cattle when they were being driven between the Solway Marshes and Yorkshire.
Life in Newbiggin in the 18th century was documented by a Mr George Thompson in his book, "A Sentimental Tour from Newbiggin to London." Mr Thompson was a resident of Newbiggin and during his time in the village built the folly on Flusco Pike. In his book he describes a festival held in the village in 1784 to celebrate the renovation of the village wells. He describes a parade through "our long village," followed by a speech given by Mr Hassell of Dalemain.
However, the quiet rural life of farming and stockbreeding was transformed in the early 19th century by the start of large-scale quarrying of limestone and the arrival of the railway.
Newbiggin Jury
The Newbiggin Jury is a relic of the old manorial system. Usually of twelve men, it was responsible for upholding law and order, administering the Poor Law of the Barony of Greystoke; and maintaining the common lands remaining after the Enclosure Act of 1775. These included public quarries, lanes and byways, village greens, lime kilns, common land and watering places. They were responsible for the employment and paying the wages of a rabbit and mole catcher, a quarryman and a carter. They also raised money to build the school and the adjoining schoolteacher's house.
The Newbiggin Jury Records exist as far back as 1799. Among the entries are a resolution to sack the mole catcher for failing in his duty, the appointment of his replacement, and an account of the annual dinner held at Greystoke Castle for Jurymen.
The Newbiggin Jury (and the neighbouring Stainton Jury) were active until the early 1980s. A challenge that they were not a legal entity was successful, and their duties and responsibilities were passed to Dacre Parish Council. As a committee of the council they still hold an annual meeting at which tenancies of the Jury Land are auctioned.
Economy
West of the modern village is Flusco Quarry. Large-scale quarrying on Flusco Pike began in 1922. Initially this provided stone for railway ballast and the construction industry. But the limestone had far greater value as a constituent of mortar, and for fertilizer, and over the next forty years a huge quarrying operation took place. Much of the output was transported from the site by the railway and the two operations between them provided employment for many local people. However, mineral extraction ceased in the 1960s. The quarry is now used as a landfill site and recycling centre, and the site of the lime works and the associated sidings are a commercial estate.
At the northern end of the village is the Hanson plc Blencowe Limestone Quarry and Blockworks. This was originally owned by the same company who opened the brick and cement works at Edenhall, east of Penrith.
Transport
The former Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway runs through the north end of the village, where a station was situated. Opened in 1865, it was initially a single-track line, but the section between Redhills and Blencow railway station was widened to double track in 1901. The extension to the stonework required for the bridge abutments can still be seen on those close to Newbiggin.
It was originally planned to name the station after the village. However, the operating company also had a station at Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby, only a few miles away, and it was thought that the duplication of names would cause confusion with ticketing and operational matters. Accordingly, the station was named Blencow (without a final ‘e.') It was one of the first on the line to be illuminated by "modern" acetylene lights.
Sidings west of the station, towards Keswick, served Flusco Quarry and Harrison's Limeworks. In 1936 a siding was constructed to the Blencowe (sic) Lime Company's works. This ran across what is now Mandale's coal yard to the current Hanson's brick plant. Within the works there was an extensive narrow-gauge railway system with its own wagons and engines.
The station was used by local people to get to work along the line, particularly to Threlkeld Quarry, where villagers were employed. One resident recalls his mother taking eggs to sell at Penrith market on the train.
The cutting beyond the station, towards Keswick, was the site of a tragedy in 1940. St Andrew's cutting was subject to severe winter snow-drifting. Concrete fencing had been erected above the cutting, but with little effect. In 1940 it had been blocked for five days and was being dug out by railway staff and 80 soldiers. Wagons shunted into the cutting to collect the snow ran into the team of diggers without warning. Three men were killed and seven injured.
Other serious incidents occurred near the station. The stretch of line eastwards towards Penrith was a steep descent. In 1901 a coke train derailed and slid down the embankment just east of road bridge at Newbiggin. There were also several runaways on this section, when rolling stock ended up at Penrith Station. Fortuitously, no serious injuries occurred with these incidents.
The line closed to all traffic in 1972.
A regular bus service to the village ceased in 2016.
Community
In years past the village hosted a shop, a post office, a public house, a garage and a village hall. The shop and post office closed over twenty years ago. The Joiners Arms, at the southern or Stainton end of the village was purchased by a developer, and closed in 2001. The garage and 4x4 showroom continues to thrive. The village hall newbigginvh.co.uk replaced the old hall in 2010 at a cost of £245,000. It is heated by a ground-source heat pump, and generates over 6.5MW annually from its photo-voltaic panels. It is highly valued by the community and provides a wide range of events and activities for both young and old.
See also
Listed buildings in Dacre, Cumbria
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Dacre (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page)
Villages in Cumbria
Dacre, Cumbria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbiggin%2C%20Dacre |
Illinois Route 123 (IL-123) is an east–west state highway in central Illinois, USA. long, it stretches from Historic Route 66 at Williamsville to Illinois Route 125 near Pleasant Plains.
Route description
All of IL-123's route is contained within Sangamon and Menard counties. Major towns located on or adjacent to IL-123 include Athens, Petersburg, and Williamsville.
New Salem, the home of Abraham Lincoln in the 1830s, has been reconstructed as Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site near Petersburg on IL-123.
History
SBI Route 123 was what Illinois 123 is now, plus a road from Ashland south to Alexander at Interstate 72/U.S. Route 36. In 1999, Illinois 123 was truncated on its southern end to Illinois 125. In October 2003, Illinois 123 was extended east to Williamsville, replacing some of Illinois Route 124 in the process as well as all of Sangamon County Route 11.
Major intersections
References
123
Transportation in Sangamon County, Illinois
Transportation in Menard County, Illinois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%20Route%20123 |
is a throw in judo. It is one of the traditional forty throws of judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the first group, Dai Ikkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of Kodokan Judo. It is also part of the current official throws of Kodokan Judo. It is classified as a hand technique, te-waza, and is the second throw performed in the Nage-no-kata. Seoi nage literally means "over the back throw", but has also been translated as a "shoulder throw", as the opponent or uke is thrown over the thrower or tori's shoulder.
Variations
Eri Seoi Nage/kata-eri-seoi-nage: tori grips the sleeve and lapel on the same side.
Illustration Kata-eri-seoi-nage/eri seoi nage
The specific techniques of morote-seoi-nage (two hands seoi-nage), or eri-seoi, are usually generalised as simply seoi-nage.
morote-seoi-nage:
The distinctive technical aspect of this classification is that tori (the one executing the technique) grips with their two hands, as opposed to Ippon Seoi Nage, in which only one hand remains gripping while the other slides under uke's (the one receiving the technique)
reverse seoi-nage:
reverse seoi-nage involves spinning up to 360 degrees so that uke ends up being thrown backwards rather than forward, as in other variations. Renowned seoi-nage martial artists are Isao Okano and Toshihiko Koga, and renowned reverse seoi-nage judoka is Choi Min-ho, who popularised the variation.
It is banned in competitions under IJF rules as uke is unable to breakfall properly.
Origin
Seoi nage is likely to have developed from the jujutsu throw empi nage in which an arm bar is used as leverage to throw uke over tori’s shoulder.
See also
Kodokan
The Canon Of Judo
Ippon Seoinage
Isao Okano
Toshihiko Koga
Notes
References
Ohlenkamp, Neil (2006) Judo Unleashed basic reference on judo. .
Further reading
External links
Information on the Techniques of Judo
Example video demonstration
Judo technique
Throw (grappling) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoi%20nage |
r.e.m.IX is a 2002 remix album of songs by R.E.M. from its 2001 album Reveal. Copies of that album were given to well-known remixers to see what they could do with its tracks and the band's favorite results were compiled to form this album. Out of the twelve original tracks on Reveal, six are found among the ten tracks on this album—there are two different versions of "The Lifting" and four of "I've Been High." "I'll Take the Rain" was the only one of Reveals three singles to be included on r.e.m.IX.
The album has never been commercially released, but it was made available as a free download from the band's Web site and as a promotional Compact Disc and vinyl LP from Warner Bros. Records. This was the second promotional music download from R.E.M. (after Not Bad for No Tour) and was intended to introduce their music to a wider audience.
Critical reception
The album received mixed-to-poor reviews. Flak Magazines James Norton praised it for the precedent it sets for other artists to release free music, but considers the music "stuffy" and lacking fun. Mark Reed of Drowned in Sound agreed that the music was boring and both reviewers criticized the apparently random track listing and choice of remixes.
Track listing
All songs written by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe
"The Lifting" (Now It's Overhead mix by Andy Lemaster) – 4:41
"The Lifting" (Knobody/Dahoud Darien for 12 Nations) – 5:07
"I'll Take the Rain" (Jamie Candiloro) – 6:11
"She Just Wants to Be" (Jamie Candiloro) – 5:03
"I've Been High" (Matthew "Intended" Herbert) – 5:19
"I've Been High" (Knobody/Dahoud Darien for 12 Nations) – 4:01
"I've Been High" (Chef) – 4:56
"I've Been High" (Her Space Holiday/Marc Bianchi) – 5:01
"Beachball" (Chef) – 6:16
"Summer Turns to High" (Her Space Holiday/Marc Bianchi) – 4:25
References
External links
Download page at REMhq.com
2002 remix albums
R.E.M. remix albums
Warner Records remix albums
Albums produced by Pat McCarthy (record producer)
Albums free for download by copyright owner
House music remix albums
Trip hop remix albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.e.m.IX |
Hamilton West railway station serves the Hamilton West area of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in Scotland, lying on the Argyle Line.
It is situated near the headquarters of South Lanarkshire Council; the Hamilton campus of the University of the West of Scotland; Hamilton Sheriff Court; and the Hamilton Racecourse. It is situated next to New Douglas Park, home to Hamilton Academical Football Club.
The station is operated by ScotRail Trains who also provide all passenger services.
History
The station was once part of the Caledonian Railway and later, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. It was originally opened by the Caledonian in September 1849, as the terminus of their branch line from Newton and was originally known simply as Hamilton. The branch was then extended to and also to Ferniegair (to join existing routes southwards to Strathaven & Coalburn) in December 1876 - a new Hamilton Central station serving the town was opened on this route at the same time, with the former terminus renamed Hamilton West and rebuilt for through traffic.
Services south of Haughhead Junction to & Coalburn ended in October 1965 due to the Beeching Axe, but the line as far as was reopened in 2005. The Hamilton Circle line was electrified by British Rail in 1974, as part of the wider scheme to electrify the northern end of the West Coast Main Line.
Facilities
Both platforms can be accessed via the footbridge at the Clydesdale Street entrance with disabled access available on platform 2 using a ramp which can also be accessed from Clydesdale Street by continuing past the main station entrance and following the footpath on the left, beside the adjacent bus stop.
A ticket office is staffed between 06:20 and 20:04 Monday-Saturday alongside a self-service ticket machine within the shelter beside the ticket office on platform 1. There are no ticketing facilities on platform 2 although both platforms have two ScotRail Smartcard validators each.
Accessible toilets are available on platform 1, next to the ticket office, and can be unlocked on request by asking staff in the ticket office. Sheltered seating is provided on platform 1 in both the ticket office and the same shelter that houses the self-service ticket machine whilst open-air seating is available on platform 2.
The station has a dedicated 191-space car park with 2 disabled parking spaces. The station also has 16 bicycle storage locations in the form of lockers and stands.
Services
Off-peak Monday to Saturday:
2tph to via Glasgow Central Low Level.
2tph to via .
2tph to .
1tph to .
1tph to .
On Sundays the service pattern is:
2tph to via Glasgow Central Low Level.
1tph to via .
2tph to .
1tph to .
Trains travelling westbound to , and depart from platform 1, whilst trains travelling eastbound to , , and depart from platform 2.
References
External links
RAILSCOT - Hamilton Branch
Railway stations in South Lanarkshire
Former Caledonian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Buildings and structures in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
1849 establishments in Scotland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20West%20railway%20station |
The Tropical Park Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race currently run at Gulfstream ParkHallandale Beach, Florida in mid-December. It is an ungraded stakes race for 3-year-olds with a purse of $75,000 run over the turf at miles.
Prior to 2014, the race was held at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida. The race was once held in early January, often on New Year's Day, which made it the first "derby" of the year. In 2011, Calder ran the race twice: once in January and again in October. In 2012 and 2013, it was run in October only. In 2014, the race was moved to Gulfstream Park and run in December.
Inaugurated in 1976, the Tropical Park Derby was named for the old Tropical Park Race Track in Miami. It was once thought of as the first step on the American Triple Crown trail. In 2006, Barbaro became the first winner of the race to subsequently win the Kentucky Derby.
Due to financial pressure, Calder did not run the race in 2009. The race was downgraded from a Grade III race in 2011 by the American Graded Stakes Committee.
The race has been run under the following combinations of distance and surface:
miles on turf - 2014–present
miles on turf - 1994-2013 (except in 2002 and 2012 when weather conditions caused the race to be moved to the main track)
miles on dirt - 1976-1985
miles on dirt - 1986-1993
Past winners
2015 - Solemn Tribute
2014 - Sky Flight
2013 - Amen Kitten
2012 - Csaba
2011 (October) - Oligarch
2011 (January) - King Congie
2010 - Fly by Phil (Eduardo Núñez)
2008 - Cowboy Cal (John Velazquez)
2007 - Soldier's Dancer (Cornelio Velásquez)
2006 - Barbaro
2005 - Lord Robyn
2004 - Kitten's Joy
2003 - Nothing to Lose
2002‡- Political Attack (Mark Guidry)
2001 - Proud Man
2000 - Go Lib Go
1999 - Valid Reprized
1998 - Draw Again
1997 - Arthur L.
1996 - Ok By Me
1995 - Mecke
1994 - Fabulous Frolic
1993 - Summer Set
1992 - Technology
1991 - Jackie Wackie
‡ In 2002, the race was run off the turf, but retained its GIII status.
Notes
External links
Calder Race Course official website
Tropical Park Race Track
Recurring sporting events established in 1976
Horse races in Florida
Calder Race Course
Flat horse races for three-year-olds
Turf races in the United States
Triple Crown Prep Races
Graded stakes races in the United States
1976 establishments in Florida | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Park%20Derby |
The Hanwha Eagles () are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Daejeon. They are a member of the KBO League. The Eagles' home ballpark is Hanwha Life Eagles Park. The Eagles have won the Korean Series once, in 1999, and the league pennant twice. As of 2023, the Eagles have played in the postseason 13 times, being the runner-up in the Korean Series five times.
History
Founded in 1985 as the Binggrae Eagles (Binggrae was the then-trademark of Hanwha's confectionery branch), they debuted in 1986 as the seventh franchise of the league. Japanese-born pitcher Jang Myeong-bu went 1–18 with a 4.98 ERA in the 1986 season. The team went 31–76 overall in 1986, and Jang retired after the season.
The Eagles made it to the Korean Series four times in their first seven years of existence (in 1988, 1989, 1991, and 1992), losing each time. In 1993, the club changed its name to Hanwha Eagles after Binggrae's separation from Hanwha conglomerate.
Pitchers Song Jin-woo and Jung Min-cheul were the team's one-two punch through the 1990s and much of the 2000s. Song played for the team for 21 seasons, between and . He currently holds several KBO pitching records, including his 210 wins, 2,048 strikeouts, and 3,003 innings pitched. He is the only pitcher in KBO League history to win 200 games, and the only one to strike out 2,000 or more batters. Jung, for his part, played 16 seasons for the Eagles (1992–1999 and 2002–2009). He won at least ten games for the team for eight straight seasons, from 1992 through 1999.
The club was renowned for its slugging percentage from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, nicknamed the "Dynamite Bats" in reference to explosive products under one of Hanwha's main business lines. The 1999 championship team was led by American imports Dan Rohrmeier and Jay Davis, as well as Koreans Song Ji-man and Chang Jong-hoon, and had a slugging percentage of .487, the highest team total in KBO League history.
The Eagles made it back to the Korean Series in 2006, again falling short. The Eagles did not make the KBO playoffs for eleven years, from 2008 through 2017, despite going through five managers during that time, including the KBO's two winningest managers, Kim Eung-ryong (2013–2014) and Kim Sung-keun (2015–2017).
Han Yong-duk was hired as Eagles' manager in 2018 (he had been a caretaker manager for the team in 2012), and in his first full season he succeeded in bringing the team to the postseason for the first time since 2007. On 7 June 2020, however, Han resigned as manager after a 14th straight loss, and was replaced by the team's minor league manager (and former television announcer), Choi Won-ho. The team also revamped its roster, sending ten players to the minor-league KBO Futures League team — including veterans An Young-myung, Jang Si-hwan, Lee Tae-yang, Song Kwang-min, and Lee Sung-yul — and bringing up nine players to the KBO League team. After tying the record for the KBO's longest losing streak at 18, on 14 June 2020, the Eagles escaped a 19th-straight defeat after a long struggle: Hanwha won a suspended game against Doosan Bears thanks to Roh Tae-hyung's walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth inning.
On 27 November 2020, Carlos Subero was announced as the Eagles' new manager.
Season-by-season records
Personnel
Current lineup
Managers
Bae Seong-seo (1986–1987)
Kim Yeong-duk (1988–1992)
Kang Byeong-cheol (1993–1998)
Lee Hui-su (1998–2000)
Lee Kwang-hwan (2001–2002)
Yu Seung-an (2003–2004)
Kim In-sik (2005–2009)
Han Dae-hwa (2010–2012)
Han Yong-duk (2012) (caretaker)
Kim Eung-ryong (2013–2014)
Kim Sung-keun (2015–2017)
Lee Sang-gun (2017) (caretaker)
Han Yong-duk (2018–2020)
Choi Won-ho (2020) (caretaker)
Carlos Subero (2020–2023)
Choi Won-ho (2023–present)
Retired numbers
The Eagles have four retired numbers on their roster. Those are for the infielders Chang Jong-hoon (35) and Kim Tae-kyun (52), and the pitchers Jung Min-cheul (23) and Song Jin-woo (21).
References
General
Specific
External links
Official website
KBO League teams
Baseball teams established in 1985
1985 establishments in South Korea
Sport in Daejeon
Hanwha | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanwha%20Eagles |
Red Water is a 2003 American made-for-television horror film starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Gideon Emery and Coolio. When former oil rig worker turned fishing captain John Sanders (Lou Diamond Phillips) agrees to help when his ex-wife's company in extracting oil upriver and a group of thugs working for a Jamaican gangster search for $3 million buried underwater in the sam bayou, a large man-eating bull shark finds its way in the river and wreaks havoc. The film originally premiered on TBS Superstation on August 17, 2003.
Production and release
The film originally aired on the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in August 2003, and became one of the highest-rated movies in the station's history. Directed by Charles Robert Carner and produced by Michael G. Larkin and Mitch Engel, the film tells the story of a bull shark which wreaks havoc as it makes its way up a river in Louisiana.
Plot
A small oil rig located on a small river in Louisiana hits it big and former oiler John Sanders (who quit when a blowout occurred on a rig he was the boss of and four men died) and his friend Emery are hired to take his ex-wife Kelly and her boss to the location. Nearby, some thugs go diving for stolen goods that have been dumped in the river. Unfortunately, at the same time, a huge bull shark enters the river. Emery's people, a local tribe, believe that the shark is the physical manifestation of a spirit that supposedly protects the area where the well is located, brought forth as a form of vengeance for the driller's activities.
The shark begins to terrorize the area, killing several people, and an attempt by locals to kill it only drives it right back up the river, towards the oil rig. As a result of all the chaos, a $10,000 reward is posted for the shark's death. Unfortunately, John, Emery, Kelly and her boss are captured by the three thugs, and Kelly's boss is shot in the leg and ultimately bleeds to death. The oil rig has a blowout, killing two workers. The shark arrives and kills several people, seemingly taunting the crew by swimming around the rig.
The thugs force John and Kelly to dive for and recover the loot, while the thugs drink, mock each other and plot what to do with the money. One of the thugs kills one of his cohorts in order to keep the money for himself and his partner, Jerry. John manages to escape from the thugs and, after helping Kelly and Emery to escape, shoots the fuel tank on his boat, killing one of the thugs. The only one remaining, Ice, (Coolio) is killed by the shark while attempting to retrieve the money himself.
John manages to lure the shark under the oil rig and Emery activates the drill, dropping it into the shark's mouth, finally killing it. John, Kelly and Emery retrieve a tooth from the shark as proof of its death (the shark had bitten John on the foot, breaking off the tooth), and debate whether to collect the reward, but Emery, still believing the shark to have been a spirit in physical form, suggests that now that it is dead, they should just let it rest in peace. John heeds Emery's advice and tosses the tooth into the river, where it sinks to the bottom. Seconds later, the trio are found by the local sheriff, who shows up in a helicopter to check on them.
Cast
Lou Diamond Phillips as John Sanders
Kristy Swanson as Dr. Kelli Raymond
Coolio as Ice
Jaimz Woolvett as Jerry Collins
Rob Boltin as Emery Brousard
Langley Kirkwood as Brett van Ryan
Dennis Haskins as Captain Dale Landry
Gideon Emery as Gene Bradley
Charles Dumas as Hank Ellis
Clive Scott as Grandpa Gautreau
Nicholas Andrews as André Gautreau
Hilton Myburgh as Vidrine
Garth Collins as Lacombe, Oil Rig Worker
Tumisho Masha as Rick (as Tumisho K. Masha)
Shirley Davidson as Tricia
Lord Jason Scott as Sgt. S. Davies Deputy
See also
List of killer shark films
External links
2003 television films
2003 films
2000s monster movies
American monster movies
American natural horror films
Films about sharks
Films about shark attacks
Films directed by Charles Robert Carner
TBS original films
Films set in Louisiana
2000s American films
Sony Pictures direct-to-video films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Water |
Blue Mountain Pottery was a Canadian pottery company located in Collingwood, Ontario. It was founded in 1953 by Dennis Tupy and Jozo Weider (b. 1908 in Zhilina Czechoslovakia) and closed in 2004. Originally producing hand-painted ski motifs on purchased blanks, production of the red clay items started in 1953-1954. It went on to produce various types of pottery, from animal figurines to jugs, pots and vases. The company's products have a large fan base and are collected worldwide.
Blue Mountain Pottery items feature a unique, trademarked glazing process known as "reflowing decorating." Two different liquid glazes, one light and one dark in colour, were applied. During the firing process the glazes would run, creating streaking patterns unique to each piece.
Blue Mountain Pottery items were available in the traditional green hues, but also in harvest gold, cobalt blue, mocha, pewter, red, brown and white.
This pottery is widely collected and has spawned the Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club.
External links
Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club
Blue Mountain Pottery
References
Art pottery
Ceramics manufacturers of Canada
Collingwood, Ontario
Companies based in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 1953
Defunct manufacturing companies of Canada
History of manufacturing in Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Mountain%20Pottery |
"Five Years" is a song by the English musician David Bowie, released on his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott, it was recorded in November 1971 at Trident Studios in London with his backing band the Spiders from Mars − comprising Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey. As the opening track on the album, the song introduces the overarching theme of the album: an impending apocalyptic disaster will destroy Earth in five years and the being who will save it is a bisexual alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust. While the first two verses are told from a child narrator's perspective, the third is from Bowie's, who addresses the listener directly. As the track progresses, it builds intensity, before climaxing with strings and Bowie screaming the title.
Since release, "Five Years" has received critical acclaim from music critics, with the majority complimenting Bowie's songwriting and Woodmansey's drum track. It has since been regarded as one of Bowie's greatest songs and by some commentators as one of the greatest opening tracks of all time. Bowie performed the song frequently throughout the Ziggy Stardust, 1976 Isolar, 1978 Stage and 2003 Reality tours. It has been remastered multiple times, including in 2012 for its 40th anniversary; this remaster was later included on the box set Five Years (1969–1973) in 2015, which took its title from this song.
Composition and lyrics
"Five Years" was recorded on 15 November 1971 at Trident Studios in London. Co-produced by Ken Scott, Bowie recorded it with his backing band known as the Spiders from Mars − comprising guitarist Mick Ronson, bassist Trevor Bolder and drummer Mick Woodmansey. Also recorded on this day were "It's Gonna Rain Again" and "Shadow Man", which both remain unreleased. It begins with a "slow-quick-quick" drumbeat from Woodmansey that creates an "ominous" atmosphere before Bowie begins his vocals. Author David Buckley describes the drum pattern as "heartbeat-like". The opening line, "Pushing through the market square", likely refers to the Aylesbury market square in Buckinghamshire, England. Biographers Nicholas Pegg and Peter Doggett both note the track's building intensity, especially in Bowie's vocal performance – moving from calm to screaming, as reminiscent of English musician John Lennon's 1970 solo album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, particularly on its opening track "Mother". Unlike Lennon's basic arrangements on that album, "Five Years" contains autoharp before adding acoustic guitar and strings at the second verse. According to Doggett, "by the finale, the orchestral players were fighting for air against amplified guitar static, scraping despairingly at their own instruments while the last of the human race screamed around them."
The lyrics break the news that the Earth only has five years left before it gets destroyed by an impending apocalyptic disaster. The first two verses are from the point of view of a kid, who hears this news for the first time and goes numb as it sinks in. Like the rest of the album, Bowie uses American slang and pronunciations, including "news guy" and "cop" (instead of "newsreader" or "policeman", respectively). In Ziggyology, Simon Goddard also cites the influence of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, one of Bowie's favourite books which contains the similar line "woulda killed him if they hadn't drug me off". By the third verse, Bowie addresses the listener directly, which was a rarity in rock lyrics at the time. Bowie observes us blissfully unaware of our fate through "jump cuts" of urban decay, including in fantasies of Americana using stereotypes: – the Cadillac, the "black", the "queer" and a girl carelessly enjoying a milkshake in an ice cream parlor. According to Bowie, "we don't even know we're being sung about." Because of this, Bowie proclaims that he "feels like an actor" and "with a flock of misfits and minorities gathering around him," he declares "I want you to walk", indirectly introducing the character of Ziggy Stardust, a bisexual alien rock star who will save the Earth from the impending disaster, who is introduced directly in the third track "Moonage Daydream". Pegg writes: "It's a classic example of the dexterity and economy of Bowie's best songwriting: with its scant few lines 'Five Years' drips with implication." The track ends with Bowie screaming the title as the Spiders join in, transforming the "histrionics" into "jolly pub chant." It fades out with the same drumbeat as the beginning, which "allows the listener to catch his or her breath" before another beat begins the next track, "Soul Love".
Later in the 1970s, Bowie claimed to have chosen the length of time, five years, as a result of a dream in which his deceased father told him he must never fly again and would die in five years, in response to a question about his fear of flying. Pegg notes another inspiration for the track is a poem Bowie had kept as part of his cabaret act in 1968: Roger McGough's "At Lunchtime A Story of Love", which tells the story of a "sexual abandon" that erupts on a bus when news arrives that the world will end at lunchtime. It contains imagery that Bowie adapted for "Five Years": the bus suddenly stops "to avoid a mother and child in the road", while the bus conductor strikes up "some sort of relationship with the driver." Spitz and Doggett both note the thematic resemblance to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 1963 song "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", which also describes an impending disaster. In 1973, Bowie elaborated on the scenario described in "Five Years" in an interview with Rolling Stone:
In The Complete David Bowie, Pegg attributes Bowie's "half-sung, half-spoken" vocal performance to American musician Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground, notes that the "gathering omens of doom" are similar to the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar, and directly correlates the "violent images of societal breakdown" to The War of the Worlds and The Day of the Triffids. He believes these violent images signals essence in Bowie's new subject matter: "human longing and bruised relationships, expressed in the poignantly tacky idiom of British sci-fi." He further writes that the theatrical process of "dissimulation" mirrors Bowie's own sense of alienation, noting that on his previous album Hunky Dory, he was "living in a silent film", but now "feels like an actor" as, "Frankenstein-like", he breathes life into his new creation: Ziggy Stardust.
In his 2016 book On Bowie, Rob Sheffield addresses the common supposition that the repeated line "My brain hurts a lot" in the chorus might be a reference to the "Gumby Brain Specialist" sketch on the satirical television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, although the sketch first aired in November 1972, a full year after "Five Years" was recorded.
Release and reception
"Five Years" was released as the opening track on Bowie's fifth studio album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on 16 June 1972 by RCA Records. The song has received critical acclaim from music critics, with the majority complimenting Bowie's songwriting and Woodmansey's drum track. Multiple critics have called it one of the greatest opening tracks of all time. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes that "Five Years", along with "Lady Stardust" and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide", "have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll." Ned Raggett, also of AllMusic, described the track as "easily one of the greatest album-opening songs ever". He praises the song's ability to introduce the album concept as a whole and argues that it stands out on its own as well. He further names Bowie's vocal performance as one of his greatest, particularly calling out his delivery of the line "I never thought there'd be so many people". Pegg also described the track as one of the album's finest songs and, with the opening drumbeat, has "earned a place in rock history as one of the all-time classic album openings." Writers of Rolling Stone, in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, similarly describe "Five Years" as "one of the all-time great album openers," continuing: "with doomy drums and a chanting choir to announce the end of the world and the dawn of the new Bowie era." Ian Fortnam of Classic Rock, when ranking every track on the album from worst to best, placed the song at number three, praising Bowie's ability to speak directly to the listener and bring them into the "heart of the narrative." He believed the lyric regarding "[seeing] you in an ice cream parlor" sparked a connection between Bowie and a teenaged constituency that would "last a lifetime." He concluded saying: "As hairs involuntarily rose on the back of countless necks, Bowie's enduring star was born." Reviewing the album for its 40th anniversary, Jordan Blum of PopMatters praised Bowie's songwriting, calling the melody and harmonies "superbly restrained and affective". He writes that although Bowie would explore a similar concept on 1974's Diamond Dogs, "he never expressed it with more straightforward desperation than he does here."
"Five Years" has since been called one of Bowie's greatest songs by multiple publications, including by Mojo magazine, who listed it as his 26th best track in 2015. Following Bowie's death in 2016, Rolling Stone listed "Five Years" as one of his 30 essential songs. Ultimate Classic Rock, in their list of Bowie's ten best songs, listed "Five Years" at number nine, calling it an "epic opening to Bowie's greatest album". They continued: "Lyrically, it paints one of Bowie's most vivid pictures in a song, while musically it builds into a chaotic crescendo highlighted by the ominous sense of panic in Bowie's voice during its climax." In 2018, NME listed it as Bowie's 12th greatest song. The same publication placed the song at number 500 in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2014.
Live versions and legacy
Bowie recorded "Five Years" for the BBC radio programme Sounds of the 70s: Bob Harris on 18 January 1972 and this performance was broadcast on 7 February 1972. In 2000, this recording was released on the Bowie at the Beeb album. Bowie performed the song on Old Grey Whistle Test on 8 February 1972. This performance, broadcast on television later the same day, is included on the DVD version of Best of Bowie.
The 1972 Bowie song, "All the Young Dudes", is said to reference the song. According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in "Five Years"; the news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie explains: "'All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."
Bowie performed the song frequently throughout the Ziggy Stardust, 1976 Isolar and 1978 Stage tours. Performances from these tours have been released on Live Santa Monica '72, Live Nassau Coliseum '76, in a medley with "Life on Mars?", as well as Stage and Welcome to the Blackout, respectively. The track was to be the closing number of Bowie's 1985 Live Aid set at London's Wembley Stadium but was dropped the day before the concert to allow time for the broadcast of the famous appeal video featuring "Drive" by the Cars as its soundtrack. The song was not performed again by Bowie until his 2003 Reality Tour. A performance from November of that year was included on the A Reality Tour DVD and the album of the same title. The track was performed by Bowie with Arcade Fire at the 2005 Fashion Rocks concert in New York as well as "Life On Mars?" and Arcade Fire's own song "Wake Up".
The song, along with the entire Ziggy Stardust album, has been remastered multiple times, including in 1990 by Rykodisc, and in 2012 for its 40th anniversary. The 2012 remaster and a 2003 remix by producer Ken Scott were included in the box set Five Years (1969–1973) in 2015, which took its title from this song. "Five Years" was also used in the title of the BBC2 documentary David Bowie – Five Years – The Making of an Icon in 2013.
The song was inspiration for the 2018 pre-apocalypse television show Hard Sun. The song was covered by the English new wave band Duran Duran in 2021, marking the fifth anniversary of Bowie's death.
Personnel
Personnel per Kevin Cann and Chris O'Leary.
David Bowie – lead vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar
Mick Ronson – piano, autoharp, electric guitar, backing vocals, string arrangements
Trevor Bolder – bass
Mick Woodmansey – drums
See also
Ecological grief
References
Sources
David Bowie songs
1972 songs
Songs written by David Bowie
Song recordings produced by Ken Scott
Song recordings produced by David Bowie
Songs about death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20Years%20%28David%20Bowie%20song%29 |
The Progressive Canadian Party fielded several candidates in the 2006 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.
Quebec
Outremont: Philip Paynter
Philip Paynter was a political science and economics student at Concordia University in 2006. He received 94 votes (0.23%), finishing seventh against incumbent Liberal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre.
Ontario
Beaches—East York: Jim Love
Love was born on February 24, 1956, in Port Arthur, Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from York University, and is now a management consultant in Toronto. He is a managing partner in Performance Advantage, and also works with Innovate Inc. in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Love is a member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants, and was awarded his Fellowship as a Certified Management Consultant (FCMC) in 2007 in recognition of his contributions to management consulting and his long record of community service. Formerly, Love was a vice-president of the DMR group from 1997 to 2003 and prior to that a Principal with Ernst & Young. He is also a musician, and received a Juno nomination for an album he recorded with the group Sphere. He also has a gold record for the children's music hit song "Sharing".
Love joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1995, and became president of its Beaches—East York association. Love opposed the Progressive Conservative Party's merger with the Canadian Alliance in 2003-2004, and following the merger became one of 100 Progressive Conservatives to form the Progressive Canadian Party. He was an organizer for the new party in the 2004 election, and became party president in 2005 by a unanimous vote of the national council. He also chaired the party's National Election Campaign in the 2006. Love has argued that the Progressive Conservative Party's merger with the Alliance was conducted to purge the party of David Orchard's growing influence, rather than to "unite the right" in Canada (Toronto Star, 12 November 2005).
He received 183 votes (0.36%) in 2006, finishing fifth against Liberal incumbent Maria Minna.
Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington: Jeffrey Bogaerts
Bogaerts has worked in Information Technology since 1978, and is the president of J.D. Bogaerts Enterprises Inc. He has produced products for the provincial and federal governments, for NATO, and for private companies.
He campaigned for the Lanark—Carleton Progressive Conservative nomination in 2003, shortly before the party's merger with the Canadian Alliance (Ottawa Citizen, 25 June 2003). Bogaerts supported the rights of local farmers who were shooting overpopulated deer herds that threatened area property, despite legal prohibitions against their actions (Kingston Whig-Standard, 16 June 2003).
Bogaerts's 2006 campaign website featured a prominent image of Sir John A. Macdonald, who represented the area during the 1880s. Like his Conservative Party opponent, he called for the entrenchment of property rights in the Canadian Constitution. He received 735 votes (1.24%) in 2006, finishing fifth against Conservative incumbent Scott Reid.
Sudbury: Stephen Butcher
Stephen L. Butcher is a graduate of the Aerospace Engineering Technology program at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). He has worked at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, and operates Mid-North Water Purification and Pumps. Butcher helped organize a Neighbourhood Watch program in the community of Copper Cliff, and is active with police and aviation issues.
Butcher was a member of the centre-right Progressive Conservative Party of Canada before that party merged with the more right-wing Canadian Alliance to create the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. He originally supported the merger, and was a candidate for the party in the 2004 federal election. He attracted some controversy during this campaign for saying that Canada should exercise caution when bringing "foreign doctors" into Canada. Butcher later clarified that he believed it was inappropriate for Canada to entice doctors to emigrate from medically underserviced areas in the global south. Some took issue with his comments, arguing that Canada's medical system would collapse without doctors from other countries.
Butcher intended to seek the Conservative nomination again for the 2006 election, but withdrew shortly before the vote. The nomination was won by Kevin Serviss. Butcher subsequently left the Conservative Party, charging that Serviss was a special-interest candidate who should not have been permitted to seek the nomination. He also argued that the Conservative Party was drifting too far to the right under Stephen Harper's leadership, and would pursue a socially conservative agenda if it came to power. He chose to run for the Progressive Canadian Party instead. In an interview with the Sudbury Star during this election, he cited Pierre Trudeau as his favourite Canadian politician.
Windsor West: Chris Schnurr
Schnurr (born in Wingham, Ontario) is the assistant to the Director of Development and Stewardship Officer of University Advancement at the University of Windsor (Windsor Star, 1 October 2005) He also operates a graphic design business. A former member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he describes himself as fiscally conservative and socially moderate (Windsor Star, 6 January 2006).
He has called for greater AIDS/HIV awareness in the Windsor gay community (Star, 7 December 2004). Before joining the Progressive Canadian Party, he planned to vote for the Liberals in the 2006 election because of concerns about the Conservative Party's social policies (Star, 19 April 2005). In 1999, he organized the first gay pride parade in Sarnia (Globe and Mail, 23 August 1999).
In 2005, Schnurr wrote a Letter to the Editor supporting the energy policies of the former provincial government of Mike Harris, which required energy consumers to pay the real cost of electricity. Schnurr argued that the policy encouraged conservation, and criticized the succeeding governments of Ernie Eves and Dalton McGuinty for supporting artificially lower rates (Star, 10 August 2005). He has also called upon the government to address rising gas prices, otherwise they could be faced with a renewed demand for the nationalization of the oil industry (Star, 14 September 2005).
Schnurr has argued against affirmative action policies for universities, describing such policies as reverse discrimination (Star, 7 April 2003). He was an opponent of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Star, 13 December 2002).
He was a candidate for city council for the City of Windsor municipal election in November 2006 .
He received 614 votes (1.29%), finished fifth out of seven against New Democratic Party incumbent Brian Masse during the 2006 federal election.
Chris Schnurr resigned from the Progressive Canadian Party as their Communications Director and Health Critic, along with President Jim Love and Leader Tracy Parsons in November 2007.
Markham—Unionville: Fayaz Choudhary
M. Fayaz Choudhary is a Creative/Futuristic minded small business man who started his first business while still in school (22 years ago) and continues run his thriving business in greater Toronto
Born Pakistan, Fayaz chose Canada as the land of opportunity and freedom to call home for himself and his family. He and his wife of 13 years, Tayyaba, are the parents of twin boys, Munam and Afraz, and two daughters, Samahat and Sabahat.
Starting with a degree in Science from the University of Karachi, Pakistan, His love of learning has earned him additional skills in various fields of computers and electronics.
Using that knowledge, Fayaz Choudhary became a Local Radio producer on 770AM running state of the Art web radios and web TV. He is also the founder of first Urdu community web radio in Canada.
An active member of the community, Fayaz’s love of learning and youth inspired him to create and finance the “Munam’s scientific inventor’s award 1993, 1994, and 1995” for teens
Fayaz Choudhary is committed to support the needs of other hard working Canadians because he believes that any man who works hard enough could aspire to any job in a country of opportunity like Canada.
A man who delights in helping others, Fayaz Choudhary characterizes this opportunity to serve by running as a candidate with a simple slogan. “We will build our future together!”
Footnotes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20Canadian%20Party%20candidates%20in%20the%202006%20Canadian%20federal%20election |
Gary Graham (11 August 1945 – 24 June 2019) ONL, was a Canadian musician born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. His early musical education began at the Banff Centre while still a teenager and continued at the Music School of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and later at McGill University in Montreal.
A long-time resident of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Graham was the founding musical director of Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador. He directed several dozen musical theatre productions over the years. Graham worked as the musical director of the Stephenville festival during its heyday under the direction of Maxim Mazumdar, directing professional casts at home in Newfoundland and on national and international tours.
Graham devoted most of his adult life to the success of the careers of hundreds of amateur performers. As a choral director, Graham was well decorated. His choirs received prizes at the regional, provincial, national and international levels. He toured his choirs across both sides of the Atlantic, receiving some of the highest honours available to amateur choral groups. As a teacher of performance, Graham's students have established thriving careers at the highest levels in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Graham was invested as a member of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2004 for his role in the development of the musical, cultural and artistic life on the West Coast of the province.
Graham died on June 24, 2019, aged 73.
Honours
Appointments
2004: Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (ONL)
Medals
2012: Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Honorary degrees
2013: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Doctor of Laws (LLD)
References
External links
Biography from Order of Newfoundland and Labrador
Members of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador
Musicians from Newfoundland and Labrador
Living people
1945 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Graham%20%28musician%29 |
Ejura is a town and the capital of Ejura/Sekyedumase, a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Ejura has settlement population of 70,807 people. Ejura is the largest maize producing district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is in the far north of the region, near the Afram River. Ejura is connected by highways with the towns of Mampong, Yeji and Techiman. Ejura is home to the Digya National Park / Kujani Game Reserve.
History
2021 shooting
On June 28, 2021, two people were shot and killed by the security personnel in Ejura and four others were injured during a demonstration which turned violent. Ejura people are also ashanti people. They are living from agriculture. The traditional celebration of these people is Sikiyerene based on yam production.
References
People from Ejura
Emmanuel Boakye born 1985 Ahodwo family Ejura footballer Ajax Amsterdam
Populated places in the Ashanti Region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejura |
Lambeg may refer to:
Lambeg drum, a large Irish drum
Lambeg, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Lambeg railway station, Lambeg, Northern Ireland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambeg |
Chatelherault railway station serves the villages of Ferniegair and Allanton on the outskirts of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is named Chatelherault after the nearby Chatelherault Country Park.
History
The station was opened as Ferniegair on 1 December 1866 as a terminus for trains approaching from the south on the Caledonian Railway's Coalburn Branch. Passengers for Glasgow had to transfer to Hamilton by coach. It was rebuilt and relocated as a through station on 2 October 1876, with trains continuing to Motherwell railway station on the Clydesdale Junction Railway. The Caledonian Railway closed the station on 1 January 1917, though the line itself continued to carry passengers until October 1965 and freight until 1968.
Re-opening
The station is on the Argyle Line, and was officially re-opened on 9 December 2005 by First Minister Jack McConnell as part of the extension of the Argyle Line to include Larkhall.
Services
From the re-opening in December 2005, trains ran on Mondays and Saturdays every 30 minutes north-west to via Singer and south to . A trial (for one year) Sunday service commenced from December 2007 with an hourly service in each direction, and due to high uptake was made permanent in December 2008.
, the frequency remains unaltered, but northbound trains now run to (southbound trains still start from Dalmuir). The hourly Sunday service runs to/from via .
References
External links
New Link for Larkhall opens – BBC News Scotland website
RAILSCOT on Larkhall re-opening
RAILSCOT on Coalburn Branch
RAILSCOT on Mid Lanark Lines
Video footage of Chatelherault railway station
Railway stations in South Lanarkshire
Former Caledonian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1876
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1876
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2005
Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Buildings and structures in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
1866 establishments in Scotland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatelherault%20railway%20station |
Frontier California, Inc. is a Frontier Communications-owned operating company providing telephone service in former Verizon regions. This included Southern California cities such as Long Beach, Seal Beach, Lakewood, Norwalk and Santa Monica.
History
GTE was originally the largest non-Bell System telephone company, and the number-two telephone service provider in the United States. It entered California by acquiring the Associated Telephone Company in 1926. It would later merge with Western Utilities Corporation and its affiliates in 1964; the number-three (non-Bell System) provider, Continental Telephone (ConTel), in 1991; and former Bell System member Bell Atlantic in 2000.
GTE was made up of many small "mom and pop" telephone companies that had been purchased to form the General Telephone System, this led the California Public Utilities Commission, in the mid-1960s to proclaim GTE "the worst telephone company in California, bar none." However, in the years following the report, GTE replaced most of its switching equipment, and much of its plant in Southern California. This led to a higher level of service compared to Pacific Bell.
When the 213 area code was being split into 213 and 310, Pacific Bell, then the manager of the 213 area code, chose to split the 213 area code in such a fashion that every single prefix that served a GTE customer was moved into the new 310 area code, while many of Pacific Bell's customers remained in the 213 area code.
GTE California completed the transition from mechanical to electronic switching by 1992.
In the 1990s, GTE California underwent several changes. In 1993, GTE purchased ConTel. Its subsidiary ConTel of California, Inc., which also served parts of Nevada and Arizona, was absorbed into GTE California.
In 2000, GTE was purchased by Bell Atlantic, becoming Verizon. GTE California was then renamed "Verizon California, Inc."
In 2010, operations in Arizona, Nevada, and some of California (mostly in areas near state borders), including some former Contel of California regions, were sold to Frontier Communications, becoming Frontier Communications of the Southwest.
In April 2020, Frontier Communications filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. Frontier lists a total debt of $21.9 billion.
Sale to Frontier
On February 5, 2015, Verizon Communications announced a sale of its remaining wired telecom operations in California, Florida, and Texas to Frontier Communications. Verizon California is included in the sale. The transaction closed in the first half of 2016.
Verizon California transitioned to Frontier Communications on April 1, 2016.
Sources
FCC History: Verizon California, Inc.
References
External links
Official Frontier Communications website
Frontier Communications
Communications in California
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Mass media in Los Angeles
Telecommunications companies established in 1929
1929 establishments in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%20California |
EN World, also known as Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG News, is a British-owned tabletop role-playing game news and reviews website. The website is run and owned by Russ Morrissey ("Morrus"). It reports current news and provides insight into major product releases before they are officially unveiled. EN World was the original host of the ENNIE Awards.
The site's forums are a gathering place for over a quarter-million gamers. In addition to discussing games, members also participate in play-by-post games on the EN World message boards.
ENnies
Beginning in 2002, EN World hosted the ENnies in association with the Gen Con gaming convention. The ENnies is an award show recognizing the best role-playing game products and publishers for the preceding year. The ENnies were officially known as the "Gen Con EN World RPG Awards" from 2002-2019. As of 2017, the awards are run by business manager Stacey Muth. In 2019, EN World owner Russ Morrissey retired from the awards, which were officially renamed "The ENnies".
EN Publishing
EN Publishing was established in 2001 and is the publishing arm of EN World. It has published over 300 books, including the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. (WOIN) role-playing game system, EN5ider magazine, and the official Judge Dredd (role-playing game). In 2016 Angus Abranson joined EN Publishing as business director. Abranson left in 2019 and was replaced by Jessica Hancock, while Marc Langworthy joined as 2000 AD line manager.
In August 2020, EN Publishing announced a project code-named Level Up, an advanced adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. In October of the same year, the company announced the Awfully Cheerful Engine, a comic-book-inspired tabletop game.
History
EN World was founded in 2000. It grew from the earlier "Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News" site, which was active from 1999-2001 and was the primary source of information about the third edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game before its release by Wizards of the Coast.
In 2005, the EN World GameStore was launched as a platform for selling downloadable RPG products. The GameStore allowed sellers to use their profits to purchase other products or transfer the money to PayPal. Buyers could transfer funds from PayPal or a similar service to purchase any non-free product. However, the GameStore was sold to DriveThruRPG in 2006.
EN World began experimenting with media content in 2012, starting with a six-episode animated show 'The Perturbed Dragon', video coverage of DragonMeet and the Battle of the Bards music competition.
In 2018, the site launched its official podcast, "Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk," a weekly program that provides insight into tabletop role-playing game news.
References
External links
EN World
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News (archive)
Role-playing game websites | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EN%20World |
Swing with Scooter is a DC Comics teen-humor American comic book published from 1966 to 1972. It starred a British teenage musician nicknamed Scooter who lived in the US.
Publication history
Swing with Scooter was published by DC Comics for 36 issues (cover-dated July 1966 - Nov. 1972). The series was an attempt at drawing upon the popularity of young British musicians such as the Beatles, and the teen humor market served by Archie Comics. Scooter was created by writers Barbara Friedlander, a writer of DC romance comics, and Jack Miller and artist Joe Orlando.
Henry Scarpelli took over as artist with issue #14, giving the comic a more cartoony, Archie-style look.
The entire DC humor line was cancelled between 1971 and 1972, including Leave It to Binky, Date with Debbi and Swing with Scooter.
Fictional character biography
The protagonist, Scooter, was a British teenage musician who left his band, the Banshees, and moved to Plainsville, USA. His nickname came from the scooter that he used as a vehicle. No last name was given. His supporting characters included Cookie, Kenny, Malibu, and Penny, and in the course of his series, Scooter met extraterrestrials as well as Batman, Superman and other members of the Justice League of America.
References
1966 comics debuts
1972 comics endings
DC Comics titles
Teen comedy comics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing%20with%20Scooter |
Atari: 80 Classic Games in One!, known as Atari Anthology on consoles, is a video game collection developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Atari Interactive. The title is a compilation of 80 video games previously published by Atari, Inc. and Atari Corporation, reproducing Atari's games from its arcade and Atari 2600 game console platforms. Many games permit one to play each title at varying speeds, with time limits, or with a shifting color palette.
Extra contents include original arcade artwork and scans of the instruction manuals for the Atari 2600 games, video interviews with Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Windows desktop themes, DirectX 9 runtime, Adobe Reader 5.1 English version.
Support for Stelladaptor 2600 to USB interface, and 24-bit color wallpapers for Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, Pong, Super Breakout, and Tempest themes are available as patches.
Games
Atari arcade games
Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe
Battlezone
Black Widow
Centipede
Crystal Castles
Gravitar
Liberator
Lunar Lander
Major Havoc
Millipede
Missile Command
Pong
Red Baron
Space Duel
Super Breakout
Tempest
Warlords
Atari 2600 games
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
A Game of Concentration (PC only)
Adventure
Air-Sea Battle
Asteroids
Atari Video Cube (Console only)
Backgammon (Console only)
BASIC Programming (PC only)
Battlezone
Blackjack
Bowling
Breakout
Canyon Bomber
Casino
Centipede
Circus Atari
Codebreaker (PC only)
Combat
Crystal Castles
Demons to Diamonds
Desert Falcon
Dodge 'Em
Double Dunk
Flag Capture
Football
Fun With Numbers
Golf
Gravitar
Hangman (Console only)
Haunted House
Home Run
Human Cannonball
Math Gran Prix
Maze Craze
Millipede
Miniature Golf
Missile Command
Night Driver
Off the Wall
Outlaw
Quadrun
Radar Lock
RealSports Baseball
RealSports Football
RealSports Tennis
RealSports Volleyball
Sky Diver
Slot Machine
Slot Racers
Space War
Sprintmaster
Star Raiders
Star Ship
Steeplechase
Stellar Track
Street Racer
Submarine Commander
Super Baseball
Super Breakout
Super Football
Surround
Swordquest: Earthworld
Swordquest: Fireworld
Swordquest: Waterworld
Video Checkers
Video Chess
Video Olympics
Video Pinball
Warlords
Yars' Revenge
Marketing
As part of Atari's 40th anniversary, free download of Atari: 80 Classic Games in One! was also available in the following General Mills boxed cereal products: Cinnamon Toast Crunch (17 oz.), Lucky Charms (16 oz.), Honey Nut Cheerios (17 oz.), Cheerios (18 oz.) and Cocoa Puffs (16.5 oz.).
A free Atari: 80 Classic Games in One! CD could also be found inside General Mills boxed cereals in Canada.
Atari Anthology includes the following changes:
The Windows desktop themes, DirectX 9 runtime, and Adobe Reader 5.1 English version have been removed.
The Atari 2600 titles Atari Video Cube, Backgammon, and Hangman have been added.
The Atari 2600 titles A Game of Concentration, BASIC Programming, and Codebreaker have been removed.
Unlockable game challenges, which add challenges by reaching predetermined goals in specific games.
Atari Classics Evolved
This compilation, published for PlayStation Portable in 2007, includes 11 arcade classics from Atari Anthology (such as Asteroids and Super Breakout) and also 50 Atari 2600 titles (that are unlockable). Also, every arcade title has an "evolved" version with new graphics and sounds. To unlock the 2600 games, the player must win all awards in all arcade titles.
Reception
The console versions of the game received "mixed or average" reviews, while the PC version received "generally favorable" reviews, according to according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
External links
The 80 Classic Games
Atari Inc. Atari 80 Classic Games in One page
Digital Eclipse Software, Inc page
Digital Eclipse support page for Atari: The 80 Classic Games
Anthology
Digital Eclipse Software, Inc page: Playstation 2, Xbox
Atari page: Playstation 2, Xbox
2003 video games
PlayStation 2 games
Xbox games
Windows games
Atari video game compilations
Video games developed in the United States
RenderWare games
Digital Eclipse games
Multiplayer and single-player video games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20Anthology |
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