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The Pontyfenni Formation is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in England
References
Geologic formations of England
Ordovician System of Europe
Ordovician England
Ordovician southern paleotemperate deposits
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Wales |
The impossible trinity (also known as the impossible trilemma or the Unholy Trinity) is a concept in international economics and international political economy which states that it is impossible to have all three of the following at the same time:
a fixed foreign exchange rate
free capital movement (absence of capital controls)
an independent monetary policy
It is both a hypothesis based on the uncovered interest rate parity condition, and a finding from empirical studies where governments that have tried to simultaneously pursue all three goals have failed. The concept was developed independently by both John Marcus Fleming in 1962 and Robert Alexander Mundell in different articles between 1960 and 1963.
Historically in advanced economies, the periods pre-1914 and 1970–2014 were characterized by stable foreign exchange rates and free capital movement, whereas monetary autonomy was limited. The periods 1914–1924 and 1950–1969 had restrictions on capital movement (e.g. capital controls), but exchange rate stability and monetary autonomy were present.
Policy choices
According to the impossible trinity, a central bank can only pursue two of the above-mentioned three policies simultaneously. To see why, consider this example (which abstracts from risk but this is not essential to the basic point):
Assume that world interest rate is at 5%. If the home central bank tries to set domestic interest rate at a rate lower than 5%, for example at 2%, there will be a depreciation pressure on the home currency, because investors would want to sell their low yielding domestic currency and buy higher yielding foreign currency. If the central bank also wants to have free capital flows, the only way the central bank could prevent depreciation of the home currency is to sell its foreign currency reserves. Since foreign currency reserves of a central bank are limited, once the reserves are depleted, the domestic currency will depreciate.
Hence, all three of the policy objectives mentioned above cannot be pursued simultaneously. A central bank has to forgo one of the three objectives. Therefore, a central bank has three policy combination options.
Options
In terms of the diagram above (Oxelheim, 1990), the options are:
Option (a): A stable exchange rate and free capital flows (but not an independent monetary policy because setting a domestic interest rate that is different from the world interest rate would undermine a stable exchange rate due to appreciation or depreciation pressure on the domestic currency).
Option (b): An independent monetary policy and free capital flows (but not a stable exchange rate).
Option (c): A stable exchange rate and independent monetary policy (but no free capital flows, which would require the use of capital controls).
Currently, Eurozone members have chosen the first option (a) after the introduction of the euro. By contrast, Harvard economist Dani Rodrik advocates the use of the third option (c) in his book The Globalization Paradox, emphasising that world GDP grew fastest during the Bretton Woods era when capital controls were accepted in mainstream economics. Rodrik also argues that the expansion of financial globalization and the free movement of capital flows are the reason why economic crises have become more frequent in both developing and advanced economies alike. Rodrik has also developed the political trilemma of the world economy where "democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full."
Theoretical derivation
The formal model underlying the hypothesis is the uncovered Interest Rate Parity condition which states that in absence of a risk premium, arbitrage will ensure that the depreciation or appreciation of a country's currency vis-à-vis another will be equal to the nominal interest rate differential between them. Since under a peg, i.e. a fixed exchange rate, short of devaluation or abandonment of the fixed rate, the model implies that the two countries' nominal interest rates will be equalized. An example of which was the consequential devaluation of the Peso, that was pegged to the US dollar at 0.08, eventually depreciating by 46%.
This in turn implies that the country implementing the peg has no ability to set its nominal interest rate independently, and hence no independent monetary policy. The only way then that the country could have both a fixed exchange rate and an independent monetary policy is if it can prevent arbitrage in the foreign exchange rate market from taking place - by instituting capital controls on international transactions.
Trilemma in practice
The idea of the impossible trinity went from theoretical curiosity to becoming the foundation of open economy macroeconomics in the 1980s, by which time capital controls had broken down in many countries, and conflicts were visible between pegged exchange rates and monetary policy autonomy. While one version of the impossible trinity is focused on the extreme case with a perfectly fixed exchange rate and a perfectly open capital account, a country has absolutely no autonomous monetary policy the real world has thrown up repeated examples where the capital controls are loosened, resulting in greater exchange rate rigidity and less monetary-policy autonomy.
In 1997, Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor brought the term "trilemma" into widespread use within economics. In work with Jay Shambaugh, they developed the first methods to empirically validate this central, yet hitherto untested, hypothesis in international macroeconomics.
Economists Michael C. Burda and Charles Wyplosz provide an illustration of what can happen if a nation tries to pursue all three goals at once. To start with they posit a nation with a fixed exchange rate at equilibrium with respect to capital flows as its monetary policy is aligned with the international market. However, the nation then adopts an expansionary monetary policy in order to try to stimulate its domestic economy.
This involves an increase of the monetary supply, and a fall of the domestically available interest rate. Because the internationally available interest rate adjusted for foreign exchange differences has not changed, market participants are able to make a profit by borrowing in the country's currency and then lending abroad a form of carry trade.
With no capital control, market players will do this en masse. The trade will involve selling the borrowed currency on the foreign exchange market in order to acquire foreign currency to invest abroad and this tends to cause the price of the nation's currency to drop due to the sudden extra supply. Because the nation has a fixed exchange rate, it must defend its currency and will sell its reserves in order to buy its currency back. However, unless the monetary policy is changed back, the international markets will invariably continue until the government's foreign exchange reserves are exhausted, thereby causing the currency to devalue, thus breaking one of the three goals and also enriching market players at the expense of the government that tried to break the impossible trinity.
A 2022 study of the Classical Gold Standard period found that the behavior of advanced economies to international shocks was consistent with the impossible trilemma.
Possibility of a dilemma
In the modern world, given the growth of trade in goods and services and the fast pace of financial innovation, it is possible that capital controls can often be evaded. In addition, capital controls introduce numerous distortions. Hence, there are few important countries with an effective system of capital controls, though by early 2010, there has been a movement among economists, policy makers and the International Monetary Fund back in favour of limited use.
Lacking effective control on the free movement of capital, the impossible trinity asserts that a country has to choose between reducing currency volatility and running a stabilising monetary policy: it cannot do both. As stated by Paul Krugman in 1999:
Historical events
The combination of the three policies, Fixed Exchange Rate, Free Capital Flow, and Independent Monetary Policy, is known to cause financial crisis. The Mexican peso crisis (1994–1995), the 1997 Asian financial crisis (1997–1998), and the Argentinean financial collapse (2001–2002) are often cited as examples.
In particular, the East Asian crisis (1997–1998) is widely known as a large-scale financial crisis caused by the combination of the three policies which violate the impossible trinity. The East Asian countries were taking a de facto dollar peg (fixed exchange rate), promoting the free movement of capital (free capital flow) and making independent monetary policy at the same time. First, because of the de facto dollar peg, foreign investors could invest in Asian countries without the risk of exchange rate fluctuation. Second, the free flow of capital kept foreign investment uninhibited. Third, the short-term interest rates of Asian countries were higher than the short-term interest rate of the United States from 1990–1999. For these reasons, many foreign investors invested enormous amounts of money in Asian countries and reaped huge profits. While the Asian countries' trade balance was favorable, the investment was pro-cyclical for the countries. But when the Asian countries' trade balance shifted, investors quickly retrieved their money, triggering the Asian crisis. Eventually countries such as Thailand ran out of dollar reserves and were forced to let their currencies float and devalue. Since many short-term debt obligations were denoted in US dollars, debts grew substantially and many businesses had to shut down and declare bankruptcy. The disorderly collapse of fixed exchange rate regimes in Asia was anticipated in Obstfeld and Rogoff, who showed that empirically almost no fixed exchange rate regime had survived five years once the capital account was opened.
See also
Capital controls
Fixed exchange rate
Floating exchange rate
Liberal paradox
Mundell–Fleming model
Triffin dilemma
Notes
References
Further reading
Oxelheim, L. (1990), International Financial Integration, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
International macroeconomics
Foreign exchange market
Paradoxes in economics |
Eunidia somaliensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1948.
References
Eunidiini
Beetles described in 1948 |
Robert Cornelius Murphy (born July 19, 1988) is a Filipino-American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the co-founder and the CTO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University.
He was named as one of "100 Most Influential People in 2014" by Time. In 2015, Murphy was first listed and became the second-youngest billionaire in the world by Forbes.
Early life
Murphy was born on July 19, 1988, in Berkeley, California. His mother grew up in the Philippines, and emigrated to the United States.
Murphy grew up in Berkeley, California and was educated at the School of the Madeleine, a private Roman Catholic grade school there. He received his secondary education at Saint Mary's College High School, also a private Catholic high school in Berkeley.
Education
Murphy graduated in 2010 from Stanford University in Stanford, California, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematical and computational science. He was also a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity along with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown.
==Career==
Murphy was recruited by Spiegel after they finished working on a failed startup called Future Freshman, a website that helped high school kids get advice when applying to colleges. In 2011, Murphy co-founded a disappearing-image messaging app called Picaboo. The name was later changed to Snapchat. After graduating from Stanford, Murphy spent a year working as a software engineer at Revel Systems (an iPad point of sale system for restaurants). Until Snapchat could secure venture capital funding, he used half of his paycheck to cover the cost of Snapchat's server bills.
At Snapchat, Murphy has led the engineering and research teams. Murphy has also worked with Snapchat's Snap Labs team, which produced Spectacles camera glasses in 2018. At the time of Snapchat's IPO in 2017, Murphy and Spiegel held over 45% of the company's total stock. They also held over 70% of the voting power.
In February 2017, Murphy and Spiegel pledged to donate up to 13,000,000 shares of Class A common stock to their newly created Snap Foundation, which will support the arts, education and youth non-profits, over the course of 15–20 years.
Personal life
Murphy is a native of California. In 2015, he was recorded as the 1,250th-richest person in the world, by Forbes Magazine. In 2015, Murphy ranked as the #15 U.S. Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40. As of 2016, he was ranked #374 on the Forbes 400. In 2018, Murphy purchased the former Pacific Palisades estate of "Green Acres" actor Eddie Albert for the asking price of $19.5 million. In 2021, he purchased a property on the Manhattan Beach Strand for $14.5 million.
References
1988 births
Living people
American technology company founders
American billionaires
American people of Filipino descent
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
People from Berkeley, California
People from Venice, Los Angeles
Stanford University alumni
21st-century American businesspeople |
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The Dutch units of measurement used today are those of the metric system. Before the 19th century, a wide variety of different weights and measures were used by the various Dutch towns and provinces. Despite the country's small size, there was a lack of uniformity. During the Dutch Golden Age, these weights and measures accompanied the Dutch to the farthest corners of their colonial empire, including South Africa, New Amsterdam and the Dutch East Indies. Units of weight included the pond, ons and last. There was also an apothecaries' system of weights. The mijl and roede were measurements of distance. Smaller distances were measured in units based on parts of the body – the el, the voet, the palm and the duim. Area was measured by the morgen, hont, roede and voet. Units of volume included the okshoofd, aam, anker, stoop, and mingel. At the start of the 19th century the Dutch adopted a unified metric system, but it was based on a modified version of the metric system, different from the system used today. In 1869, this was realigned with the international metric system. These old units of measurement have disappeared, but they remain a colourful legacy of the Netherlands' maritime and commercial importance and survive today in a number of Dutch sayings and expressions.
Historical units of measure
When Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD, his empire included most of modern-day Western Europe including the Netherlands and Belgium. Charlemagne introduced a standard system of measurement across his domains using names such as "pound" and "foot". At the Treaty of Verdun, the empire was divided between Charlemagne's three grandsons and Lothair received the central portion, stretching from the Netherlands in the north to Burgundy and Provence in the south.
Further fragmentation followed and with it various parts of the empire modified the units of measures in a manner that suited the local lord. By the start of the religious wars, the territories that made up the Netherlands, still part of the Holy Roman Empire, had passed into the lordship of the King of Spain. Each territory had its own variant of the original Carolingian units of measure. Under the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the seven Protestant territories that owed a nominal allegiance to the Prince of Orange seceded from the Holy Roman Empire and established their own confederacy but each kept its own system of measures.
Weight
Pond
pond (pound) (Amsterdam) – 494.09 g (1.0893 lb) (with variations, now 500 g)
A pond was divided into sixteen ons. A pond was roughly about the same size as a modern pound. It was generally around 480 grams, but there was much variation from region to region. The most commonly used measure of weight was the Amsterdam pound.
one Amsterdam pound (scale weight) (Amsterdams pond – waaggewicht) was 494.09 grams,
one Gorinchem pound (Gorinchems pond) was 466 grams,
one Utrecht heavy pound (Utrechts zwaar pond) was 497.8 grams.
After the metric system was introduced in 1816, the word pond continued to be used, but for 1 kilogram. This doubling in size of the pond in one fell swoop created a good deal of confusion. The name "kilogram" was adopted in 1869, but the pond was only eliminated as a formal unit of measurement in 1937. Pond is still used today in everyday parlance to refer to 500 g, not far from its historical weight. The word pond is also used when referring to the pound used in English-speaking countries.
Ons
ons, once (ounce) – pond = 30.881 g (1.0893 oz) (with variations, now 100 g)
An ons was of a pond. An ons was generally around 30 grams, but there was much variation. The figures provided above for the weight of the various pounds used in the Netherlands can be divided by 16 to obtain the weights of the various ounces in use. After the metric system was introduced, the word ons continued to be used, but for 100 g. The ons was eliminated as a formal unit of measurement in 1937, but it is still used today in everyday parlance to refer to 100 g. In the Netherlands today the word ons does not commonly refer to its historical weight of around 30 g (the exact weight depending on where you were), but to 100 g.
Last or Scheepslast
scheepslast – 4,000 Amsterdam pond =
Meaning literally a "load", a last was essentially the equivalent of of shipping space. A last in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the 17th century was about the same as 1,250 kg, becoming later as much as 2,000 kg.
In the Dutch fishery, a last was a measurement of the fish loaded into the various types of fishing boat in use (e.g. a bomschuit, buis, sloep or logger). The last of these could take 35 to 40 last of fish, the exact amount depending on the location. In the South Holland fishing villages of Scheveningen and Katwijk, it amounted to 17 crans (kantjes) of herring; in Vlaardingen 14 packed tons. A cran (kantje) held about 900 to 1,000 herring. In Flanders a last was about 1,000 kg of herring. The term fell out of use when the herring fishery disappeared.
Apothecaries' system
In the Netherlands (as in English-speaking countries) there was an apothecaries' system of weights.
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! Unit !! Symbol !! Division !! Grains !! Grams
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! medicinal pound (medicinaal pond)
| unicode|lb || 12 ons || 5760 || 373.241 72
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! medicinal ounce (medicinaal ons)
| ℥ || 8 drachmen || 480 || 31.103 477
|-
! dram (drachme)
| ℨ || 3 scrupels || 60 || 3.887 9346
|-
! scruple (scrupel)
| ℈ || 20 grein || 20 || 1.295 9782
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! grain (grein)
| gr. || || 1 || 0.064 79891
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Length
Mijl
one Dutch mile or mijl () = about 5½–6¼ km
The usual or was actually the league, the Celtic unit of distance notionally equivalent to an hour's walk (), varying over different terrain. This was usually standardized at the value of 20,000 feet, although the foot varied over time and from region to region. The Amsterdam foot produced a mijl of around 3.52 miles or 5.66 km, while the Rhenish foot produced one of 3.9 miles or 6.28 km.
In specific contexts, a separate mile might be used. Sailors used a nautical or geographical mile () based on varying divisions of an equatorial degree. The traditional version was identical to the German and Scandinavian nautical mile of 4 minutes of arc of an equatorial degreeor about 7.4 km. Some, however, used the Portuguese maritime league () of of a degree or about 5.56 km. The "Netherlands mile" was also used as a direct synonym for the kilometer between the beginning of Dutch metrification in 1816 and the completion of the reforms in 1869. (Within Dutch, the word has now fallen out of use except in fixed expressions and references to English and international nautical units.)
Roede
The roede (literally, "rod") was generally somewhat smaller than the English rod, which is 16.5 feet (or 5.0292 metres). However, the length of a roede, and the number of voeten in a roede, varied from place to place. There could be anywhere from 7 to 21 voeten in a roede. The roede used in the Netherlands for the measurement of long distances was generally the Rijnland rod. Other rods included:
one Rijnland rod (Rijnlandse roede) (= 12 Rijnland feet) was 3.767 m
one Amsterdam rod (Amsterdamse roede) (= 13 Amsterdam feet) was 3.68 m
one Bloois rod (Blooise roede) (= 12 feet) was 3.612 m
one 's-Hertogenbosch rod (s-Hertogenbosche roede) (= 20 feet) was 5.75 m
one Hondsbos and Rijp rod (Hondsbosse en Rijp roede) was 3.42 m
one Putten rod (Puttense roede) (= 14 feet) was 4.056 m
one Schouw rod (Schouwse roede) (= 12 feet) was 3.729 m
one Kings rod (in Friesland) (Konings roede) (= 12 feet) was 3.913 m
one Gelderland rod (Geldersche roede) (= 14 feet) was 3.807 m
Today the word roede is not in common use in the Netherlands as a unit of measurement.
El
The length represented by the Dutch ell was the distance of the inside of the arm (i.e. the distance from the armpit to the tip of the fingers), an easy way to measure length. The Dutch "ell", which varied from town to town (, was somewhat shorter than the English ell (114.3 cm). A section of measurements is given below:
one The Hague ell or standard ell (Haagse of gewone el) = 69.425 cm
one Amsterdam ell (Amsterdamse el) = 68.78 cm
one Brabant ell (Brabantse el) = 69.2 cm or 16 tailles one Delft ell (Delfsche el) = 68.2 cm
one Goes ell (Goesche el) = 69 cm
one Twente ell (Twentse el) = 58.7 cm
In 1725 The Hague ell was fixed as the national standard for tax purposes and from 1816 to 1869, the word el was used in the Netherlands to refer to the metre. In 1869 the word meter was adopted and the el, disappeared, both as a word and as a unit of measurement.
Voet
The voet ("foot") was of the same order of magnitude as the English foot (), but its exact size varied from city to city and from province to province. There were 10, 11, 12 or 13 duimen (inches) in a voet, depending on the city's local regulations. The Rijnland foot which had been in use since 1621 was most commonly used voet in the both Netherlands and in parts of Germany. In 1807, de Gelder measured the copy of the Rijnland foot in the Leiden observatory to be while Eytelwien found that the master copy that was in use in Germany was – a difference of 0.03%. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Dutch settlers took the Rijnland foot to the Cape Colony. In 1859, by which time the colony had passed into British control, the Cape foot was calibrated against the English foot and legally defined as 1.033 English feet ().
The following is a partial list of the various voeten in use the Netherlands:
one Rijnland foot (Rijnlandse voet) (= 12 Rijnland inches) was 31.4 cm
one Amsterdam foot (Amsterdamse voet) (= 11 Amsterdam inches) was 28.3133 cm
one Bloois foot (Blooise voet) was 30.1 cm
one 's-Hertogenbosch foot ('''s-Hertogenbossche voet) was 28.7 cm
one Hondsbos and Rijp foot (Honsbossche en Rijpse voet) was 28.5 cm
one Schouw foot (Schouwse voet) was 31.1 cm
one Gelderland foot (Geldersche voet) was 29.2 cm
Today the word voet is not in common use in the Netherlands as a unit of measurement, except when referring to the English foot.
Palm
kleine palm (small palm) – 3 cm (1.18 in)
grote palm (large palm) – 9.6 cm; after 1820, 10 cm
Duim
The duim (nl) ("thumb", but translated as "inch") was about the width of the top phalanx of the thumb of an adult man. It was very similar to the length of the English inch (2.54 cm). Its exact length and definition varied from region to region, but was usually one-twelfth of a voet, though the Amsterdamse duim was one eleventh of an Amsterdamse voet.
one Amsterdam inch (Amsterdamse duim) was
one Gelderland or Nijmegen inch (Gelderse of Nijmeegse duim) was 2.7 cm
one Rijnland inch (Rijnlandse duim) was 2.61 cm
When the "Dutch metric system" (Nederlands metriek stelsel) was introduced in 1820 the word duim was used for the centimeter, but in 1870 was dropped. Today the word duim is not in common use in the Netherlands as a unit of measurement except when referring to the English inch. The word is still used in certain expressions such as "drieduims pijp" (three-inch pipe) and "duimstok" (ruler or gauge).
AreaMorgenmorgen was 8,516 square metres (with variations).
"Morgen" is Dutch for "morning". A morgen of land represented the amount of land that could be ploughed in a morning. The exact size varied from region to region. The number of roede in a morgen also varied from place to place, and could be anywhere from 150 to 900.
one Rijnland morgen (Rijnlandse morgen) = 8,516 square metres (Divided into 6 honts. A hont was divided into 100 square Rijnland rods. So there were 600 Rijnland rods in a morgen. A Rijnland rod was divided into 144 square Rijnland feet.)
one Bilt morgen (Biltse morgen) = 9,200 square metres
one Gelderland morgen (Gelderse morgen) = 8,600 square metres
one Gooi morgen (Gooise morgen) = 9,800 square metres
one 's-Hertogenbosch morgen (Bossche morgen) = 9,930 square metres (Divided into 6 loopense = 600 square roede = 240,000 square feet.)
one Veluwe morgen (Veluwse morgen) = 9,300 square metres
one Waterland morgen (Waterlandse morgen) = 10,700 square metres
one Zijp or Schermer morgen (Zijper of Schermer morgen) = 8,516 square metres
During the French occupation, measurements were standardised and regional variations eliminated. Initially, the Napoleonic king Louis Napoleon decreed in 1806 that the Rijnland morgen would be used throughout the country, but this only lasted a few years. It wasn't long before the metric system was introduced. Since then land has been measured in square metres (hectares, ares and centiares).HontA hont consisted of 100 roede.The exact size of a hont of land varied from place to place, but the Rijnland hont was 1,400 square metres. Another name for hont was "honderd", a Dutch word meaning "hundred". The word hond is derived from the earlier Germanic word hunda, which meant "hundred" (or "dog"). After the metric system was introduced in the 19th century, the measurement fell into disuse.RoedeA square roede was also referred to as a roede. Roede (or roe) was both an area measurement as well as a linear measurement. The exact size of a roede depended on the length of the local roede, which varied from place to place. The most common roede used in the Netherlands was the Rijnland rod.
one Rijnland rod (Rijnlandse roede) was 14.19 m2
one Amsterdam rod (Amsterdamse roede) was 13.52 m2
one 's-Hertogenbosch rod (Bossche roede) was 33.1 m2
one Breda rod (Bredase roede) was 32.26 m2
one Groningen rod (Groningse roede) was 16.72 m2
one Hondsbos rod (Hondsbosse roede) was 11.71 m2
When the Dutch metric system (Nederlands metriek stelsel) was introduced in 1816, the old names were used for the new metric measures. An are was referred to as a "square rod" (vierkante roede). The rod and the square rod were abandoned by 1937, but the Rijnland rod (Rijnlandse Roede), abbreviated as "RR2", is still used as a measurement of surface area for flowerbulb fields.VoetRijnlandse voet (Rijnland square foot) – 0.098596 m2 (1.0163 sq ft)
Hertogenbossche voet ('s-Hertogenbosch square foot) – 0.082369 m2 (0.8866 sq ft)
A square voet was also called a voet. The word voet (meaning "foot") could refer to a foot or to a square foot. The exact size of a voet depended on the length of the local voet, which changed from region to region. The most commonly used voet in the Netherlands was the Rijnland foot.
Volume
The Dutch measures of volume, as with all other measures, varied from locality to locality. The modern-day equivalents are therefore only approximate and equating litres with quarts will not unduly distort the results (1 litre = 1.057 US quarts = 0.880 UK quarts) Okshoofdokshoofd (oxhead) – 6 ankers = 232 litres
A okshoofd (earlier spelling: oxhoofd) was a measurement of volume representing the volume held by a large barrel of wine. The measurement was also used for vinegar, tobacco and sugar. The measurement is still used by businesses in the wine and spirits trade. There were six ankers in an okshoofd.
There is a saying in Dutch: "You can't draw clean wine from an unclean oxhead". (Men kan geen reine wijn uit een onrein okshoofd tappen.)Aamaam – 4 ankers = 155 litres
There were four ankers in an aam. It was used for measuring the volume of wine. The size of an aam varied from place to place. It was anything from 141 to 160 litres.Ankeranker (anchor) = approximately 38.75 litres
An anker was a measure of volume representing the volume held in a small cask holding around 45 bottles.Stoopstoop – anker = 2.4 litresMingelmingel – stoop = approximately 1.21 litres
Dutch metric system
In 1792, the southern part of the Netherlands was incorporated into the First French Republic, and in 1807, the rest of the Netherlands was incorporated into what had now become the First French Empire and as a result the Netherlands was forced to accept the French units of measurement. In 1812, France replaced the original metric system with the mesures usuelles.
Under the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Kingdom of the Netherlands which included Belgium and Luxembourg was established as a buffer state against France. Under the Royal decree of 27 March 1817 (Koningklijk besluit van den 27 Maart 1817), the newly formed Kingdom of the Netherlands abandoned the mesures usuelles in favour of the "Dutch" metric system (Nederlands metrisch stelsel) in which metric units were given the names of units of measure that were then in use. Examples include:Length1 mijl (mile) = 1 kilometre (1 statute mile = 1.609 km)
1 roede (rood) = 10 metres
1 el (ell) = 1 metre (1 English ell of 45 in = 1.143 m)
1 palm (hand) = 10 centimetres (1 English hand = 10.16 cm)
1 duim (inch) = 1 centimetre (1 inch = 2.54 cm)
1 streep (line) = 1 millimetre (1 English line = 2.12 mm)Area1 bunder = 1 hectare
1 vierkante roede (square rod) = 1 are or 100 m2Volume1 wisse or teerling el = 1 cubic metre.
1 mud (bushel) = 100 litres
1 kop (cup) = 1 litre (1 Australian cup = 250 ml)
1 maatje (small measure) = 100 millilitres
1 vingerhoed (thimble) = 10 millilitresWeight'
1 pond (pound) = 1 kilogram (1 pound avoirdupois = 0.454 kg)
(though in modern colloquial speech, 500 g is also known as a pond.
1 ons (ounce) = 100 grams (1 ounce avoirdupois = 28.35 g)
1 lood (lead) = 10 grams
1 wigtje (small weight) = 1 gram
1 korrel (grain) = 0.1 gram
In 1816, the Netherlands and France were the only countries in the world that were using variations of the metric system. By the late 1860s, the German Zollverein and many other neighbouring countries had adopted the metric system, so in 1869 the modern names were adopted (Wet van 7 April 1869, Staatsblad No.57). A few of the older names remained officially in use, but they were eliminated when the system was further standardised by the 1937 Act on Weights and Measures (IJkwet), though the pond is now used colloquially to mean half a kilogram.
Modern metric system
Today the Netherlands uses the International system of units (SI).
Nomenclature
The metric system in the Netherlands has virtually the same nomenclature as in English, except:
the "-er" spelling is used (e.g. kilometer),
there is no plural form (e.g. "three metres" is expressed as "drie meter"),
ton is Dutch for "tonne". Ton is also used to refer to an amount of currency worth 100 thousand.
a few metric measurements unfamiliar to most English speakers are sometimes used to refer to property measurements (e.g. are and centiare).
Standards
On 30 October 2006, the Weights and Measures Act was replaced by the Metrology Act. The organisation currently responsible for weights and measures in the Netherlands is a private company called the Nederlands Meetinstituut'' (NMi). Literally, this means "Dutch Institute of Measures", but the organisation uses its Dutch name in English. The company was created in 1989 when the Metrology Service (Dienst van het IJkwezen) was privatised. At first, the sole shareholder was the Dutch government, but in 2001 the sole shareholder became TNO Bedrijven, a holding company for TNO, the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.
See also
Historical weights and measures
SI
Weights and measures
Kosten unit
Notes
References
External links
NMI (Nederlands Meetinstituut (NMi) There is some information in English, but very little on the historical system.)
VSL Dutch Metrology Institute
Cor Snabel's page on Old Dutch Measures (A comprehensive collection of links and information.)
Pieter Simons' page on "Oude Maten" (Dutch only)
Oscar van Vlijmen's page on "Historische eenheden Nederland en België" (Dutch only)
Dutch Weights and Measures Collectors Society
Systems of units
History of science and technology in the Netherlands
Units of measurement by country |
Henry Forbes Bigelow (May 12, 1867 – August 12, 1929) was an American architect, best known for his work with the firm of Bigelow & Wadsworth in Boston, Massachusetts. He was noted as an architect of civic, commercial and domestic buildings. In an obituary, his contemporary William T. Aldrich wrote that "Mr. Bigelow probably contributed more to the creation of charming and distinguished house interiors than any one person of his time." Numerous buildings designed by Bigelow and his associates have been listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Early life
Bigelow was born in Clinton, Massachusetts to Henry Nelson Bigelow (1839–1907) and Clarissa Nichols (née Forbes) Bigelow (1841–1876). His father was the managing agent of the Bigelow Carpet Company of Clinton, which had been founded by his father and uncle. His great uncle, Erastus Brigham Bigelow, invented the carpet loom. His maternal grandfather was Franklin Forbes.
He graduated from St. Mark's School in 1884. He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a B.S. in 1888. While there, he was a member of the fraternity of Delta Psi (aka St. Anthony Hall). After graduating from college, he took post-graduate classes in Europe for a year.
Career
In 1889, Bigelow received his first commission—designing new buildings for St. Mark's School, his preparatory school where his father had been a trustee since 1883. As he lacked a practice of his own, construction of the building was entrusted to architects from the Boston firm of Winslow & Wetherell under George Homans. Wetherell and Walter T. Winslow. Bigelow traveled abroad for several months during construction, and when he returned to Boston he joined Winslow & Wetherell as an architect.
In February 1899, Bigelow became a partner in the firm, which became Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow. When Wetherell retired in 1900, it became Winslow & Bigelow. Winslow died in January 1909. That same year Philip Wadsworth, a draftsman with the firm since 1907, became partner and Bigelow became senior partner of the renamed Bigelow & Wadsworth. Their offices were located at 3 Hamilton Place in Boston. The partnership was expanded in 1928 to include two architects already working with the firm, Edward A. Hubbard and Giles M. Smith. The firm changed its name to Bigelow, Wadsworth, Hubbard & Smith. He worked there until his death.
Bigelow was an architectural traditionalist, and almost all of his buildings were designed in the Colonial Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, or Gothic Revival styles of architecture, as well as buildings in the related Federal Revival and Tudor Revival styles. Some exceptions appear in his early career, when some of his designs included elements of the English Arts and Crafts style and Italian or Spanish Revival style.
Bigelow designed three mansions for his family. In 1899, he renovated a house at 1073 Brush Hill Road in Milton, Massachusetts into a stucco Italian villa that the family used as a summer house until 1917. His primary residence was at 142 Chestnut Street on Beacon Hill in Boston. Designed by Bigelow in 1915 in the Italian style, the family mansion featured a large courtyard. In June 1916, an entire issue of The American Architect was dedicated to this house, with eighteen full-page photographs. Another family summer home was Pineapple Court, a Spanish Revival style villa at 89 West Street in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.
His last work, the Art Deco Ansin Building for the Boston Electric Illuminating Company, was in its final phases of design at the time of his death.
Professional affiliations
Bigelow became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1901 and was elected to the College of Fellows in 1905. He was an associate fellow in the Boston Society of Architects and a member of the Boston Architectural Club. In 1917, he was appointed to the Visiting Committee for the School of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Starting in 1919, he was a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, serving as chairman of the committee on the new wing and as a member of the museum committee. He was also a member of the Boston Art Commission.
Personal life
On October 14, 1896, Bigelow married Eliza Frothingham Davis (1871–1907) in All Saints' Church in Boston. She was the daughter of Maria L. Robbins and the Hon. Edward L. Davis of Boston and Worcester. Their children were Henry Davis Bigelow (1897–1974), Edward Livingston Bigelow (1899-1975) and twins Chandler Bigelow (1900–1987) and Nelson Bigelow (1900–1988). Eliza died in Tours in 1907.
On June 1, 1912, he married Susan Thayer (1885–1942) in Lancaster, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Susan Spring and Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer, a member of the wealthy Boston Brahmin Thayer family. His children by the second marriage were Eugene Thayer Bigelow (1913–1990) and Henry Forbes Bigelow Jr. (1922–1944).
He was a member of the Hoosie Whisick in Canton, the Norfolk Hunt Club, the Puritan Club, the Somerset Club, the Tavern Club, and the Union Club of Boston. He was a trustee of St. Marks School and was an Episcopalian.
Bigelow died in 1929 at his summer home in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts at the age of 62.
Selected works
Notes
Gallery of architectural works
References
1867 births
1929 deaths
People from Clinton, Massachusetts
St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
St. Anthony Hall
Architects from Boston
20th-century American architects
19th-century American architects
American Episcopalians |
Seventh Fleet or 7th fleet may refer to:
United States Seventh Fleet
7th Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)
See also
Seventh (disambiguation)
Fleet (disambiguation)
Sixth Fleet (disambiguation)
Eighth Fleet (disambiguation) |
```go
package volume
import (
"io/ioutil"
"testing"
"github.com/docker/cli/cli/config/configfile"
"github.com/docker/cli/internal/test"
"github.com/docker/docker/api/types"
"github.com/docker/docker/api/types/filters"
volumetypes "github.com/docker/docker/api/types/volume"
"github.com/pkg/errors"
// Import builders to get the builder function as package function
. "github.com/docker/cli/internal/test/builders"
"gotest.tools/assert"
"gotest.tools/golden"
)
func TestVolumeListErrors(t *testing.T) {
testCases := []struct {
args []string
flags map[string]string
volumeListFunc func(filter filters.Args) (volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody, error)
expectedError string
}{
{
args: []string{"foo"},
expectedError: "accepts no argument",
},
{
volumeListFunc: func(filter filters.Args) (volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody, error) {
return volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody{}, errors.Errorf("error listing volumes")
},
expectedError: "error listing volumes",
},
}
for _, tc := range testCases {
cmd := newListCommand(
test.NewFakeCli(&fakeClient{
volumeListFunc: tc.volumeListFunc,
}),
)
cmd.SetArgs(tc.args)
for key, value := range tc.flags {
cmd.Flags().Set(key, value)
}
cmd.SetOutput(ioutil.Discard)
assert.ErrorContains(t, cmd.Execute(), tc.expectedError)
}
}
func TestVolumeListWithoutFormat(t *testing.T) {
cli := test.NewFakeCli(&fakeClient{
volumeListFunc: func(filter filters.Args) (volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody, error) {
return volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody{
Volumes: []*types.Volume{
Volume(),
Volume(VolumeName("foo"), VolumeDriver("bar")),
Volume(VolumeName("baz"), VolumeLabels(map[string]string{
"foo": "bar",
})),
},
}, nil
},
})
cmd := newListCommand(cli)
assert.NilError(t, cmd.Execute())
golden.Assert(t, cli.OutBuffer().String(), "volume-list-without-format.golden")
}
func TestVolumeListWithConfigFormat(t *testing.T) {
cli := test.NewFakeCli(&fakeClient{
volumeListFunc: func(filter filters.Args) (volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody, error) {
return volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody{
Volumes: []*types.Volume{
Volume(),
Volume(VolumeName("foo"), VolumeDriver("bar")),
Volume(VolumeName("baz"), VolumeLabels(map[string]string{
"foo": "bar",
})),
},
}, nil
},
})
cli.SetConfigFile(&configfile.ConfigFile{
VolumesFormat: "{{ .Name }} {{ .Driver }} {{ .Labels }}",
})
cmd := newListCommand(cli)
assert.NilError(t, cmd.Execute())
golden.Assert(t, cli.OutBuffer().String(), "volume-list-with-config-format.golden")
}
func TestVolumeListWithFormat(t *testing.T) {
cli := test.NewFakeCli(&fakeClient{
volumeListFunc: func(filter filters.Args) (volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody, error) {
return volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody{
Volumes: []*types.Volume{
Volume(),
Volume(VolumeName("foo"), VolumeDriver("bar")),
Volume(VolumeName("baz"), VolumeLabels(map[string]string{
"foo": "bar",
})),
},
}, nil
},
})
cmd := newListCommand(cli)
cmd.Flags().Set("format", "{{ .Name }} {{ .Driver }} {{ .Labels }}")
assert.NilError(t, cmd.Execute())
golden.Assert(t, cli.OutBuffer().String(), "volume-list-with-format.golden")
}
func TestVolumeListSortOrder(t *testing.T) {
cli := test.NewFakeCli(&fakeClient{
volumeListFunc: func(filter filters.Args) (volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody, error) {
return volumetypes.VolumeListOKBody{
Volumes: []*types.Volume{
Volume(VolumeName("volume-2-foo")),
Volume(VolumeName("volume-10-foo")),
Volume(VolumeName("volume-1-foo")),
},
}, nil
},
})
cmd := newListCommand(cli)
cmd.Flags().Set("format", "{{ .Name }}")
assert.NilError(t, cmd.Execute())
golden.Assert(t, cli.OutBuffer().String(), "volume-list-sort.golden")
}
``` |
```html
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Naftali Mountains () is a mountain range between Lebanon and Upper Galilee, Israel.
The western side gradually changes into the highlands of southern Lebanon. The eastern side sharply descends into the Hula Valley of Israel.
They are a part of the watershed between the basins of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
The area was the place of heavy fighting in 1948 during the Israel War of Independence.
Israeli populated places in the mountains (from north to south) are: Misgav Am, Margaliot, Manara, Ramot Naftali, Malkia, Avivim, Dishon.
References
External links
Naftali Mountains Forest in the Golan Heights
Mountains of Israel
Upper Galilee |
The Manhattan School is a historic schoolhouse located on Gold Street in Manhattan, Nevada. Built in 1913, the school was the third in Manhattan. The first school had opened in 1906, shortly after a gold rush in the community, and the second opened in 1908; however, by 1911 the local school district had 65 students and had outgrown its original buildings. Manhattan's voters unanimously passed a bond proposal for the new school the following year. Area contractor Angus McDonald built the school the year after. Upon its completion, a benefit party was held at the school to provide money for its furniture and a piano.
The single-story building has a vernacular design with a central entrance foyer, a hipped roof, a bell tower atop the foyer, and a flagstaff on the site of the roof. When the building was constructed, both the interior and exterior were covered by patterned metal plates. The plates were decorated based on their location; for instance, the plates on the outer walls were designed to resemble ashlar stone, and the plates on the roof resembled shingles. While most of the exterior plates have since been covered, the interior plates and the plates on the foyer's gable are still in place.
The Works Progress Administration added an outhouse added outside of the school in the 1930s. While the WPA built 1,100 outhouses in Nevada, the outhouse is one of only three they built in southern Nevada. The outhouse is considered a contributing feature to the school's historic nature.
Manhattan's population dropped as its gold industry faded in the 1940s, and by 1955 the school closed, as it only had three students. Due to an increase in gold prices in the 1970s, though, Manhattan began to grow again. The school reopened as a library in the following decade. The Smoky Valley Library District acquired the library from the county in 2002 and subsequently renovated it to include a museum and community center.
The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 2004.
References
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada
National Register of Historic Places in Nye County, Nevada
School buildings completed in 1913
1913 establishments in Nevada |
11 Dreams is the third album by Danish extreme metal band Mercenary, released through Century Media Records. The original version was released in 2004, that being in Europe, the American version was released one year later, in 2005. The U.S. release contained two bonus tracks, one being a 3D version of the song "11 Dreams", and another being a radio edit of the song. This is the first album featuring Mike Park on drums and Martin Buus on lead guitars. This is also the final album to feature founding member Henrik "Kral" Andersen on bass guitar and death growls.
Reception
"Denmark's Mercenary are following bands like In Flames and Soilwork in terms of adding more symphonic and melodic elements to their brand of extreme metal with their latest release 11 Dreams. A greater emphasis is placed on catchy vocal hooks, where the clean vocal passages from Mikkel Sandager trade off with the more aggressive death/black metal stylings from bass player Henrik 'Kral' Andersen."
"Highly progressive, Mercenary are influenced by bands like Soilwork, In Flames, Nevermore, Sentenced, and pretty much anything Scandinavian and influential, as well as occasionally throwing in a bit of thrash."
Track listing
Personnel
Jakob Mølbjerg – rhythm guitar
Mikkel Sandager – clean vocals
Henrik "Kral" Andersen – death growls, bass
Morten Sandager – keyboards
Mike Park – drums
Martin Buus – lead guitar
Guest appearances
Monika Pedersen – additional vocals on "Firesoul" and "Falling"
Jacob Hansen – backing vocals on "Sharpen the Edges"
Ziggy – backing vocals on "Sharpen the Edges"
Production
Art by Niklas Sundin
References
2004 albums
Century Media Records albums
Mercenary (band) albums
Albums produced by Jacob Hansen |
George Henry Thomson (born 19 May 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for side Harrogate Town.
Career
Born in Melton Mowbray, Thomson started his career at Nottingham Forest as a 12 year old in 2004 and was in their academy for six years. After leaving Forest he had an 18-month spell at Glenn Hoddle's academy in Spain and Jerez Industrial, but made his competitive footballing debut for Conference North side Hinckley United against Gloucester City on 3 December 2011. He came on as a 78th-minute substitute for Danny Bragoli as the match ended in a 2–2 draw. The next season, Thomson moved to fellow Conference North side Histon, making his debut on 21 August 2012 against Boston United. He started in the 6–0 defeat for the club. After another season, Thomson moved to King's Lynn Town where he scored a hat-trick for the club in their FA Cup match against AFC Fylde.
In January 2015, Thomson signed with Conference National side Chester. He made his debut for the club on 24 January against Kidderminster Harriers. He came on as an 84th-minute substitute for Brad Abbott as Chester won 1–0. Thomson scored his first goal for the club on 10 March 2015 against Torquay United. His 29th-minute goal was the only one in a 1–0 victory. In November 2015, Thomson joined F.C. United of Manchester on a one-month loan, which was later extended to a two-month loan. He made his debut for the club on 21 November in a 2–2 draw against Nuneaton Borough. A few weeks later, on 19 December, Thomson scored his first goal for United in a 3–2 victory over Nuneaton Borough.
On 16 January 2016, it was announced that Thomson had been sold by Chester to F.C. United on a permanent basis for an undisclosed fee. He spent a season and a half with Manchester before moving to Harrogate Town. He made his debut for Harrogate Town on 5 August 2017 against Nuneaton Borough. He started and scored the first goal for Harrogate in a 4–0 victory. Thomson would go on to finish his first season with the club by helping his side earn promotion to the National League and scoring 11 goals. Two seasons later, on 2 August 2020, Thomson helped Harrogate earn promotion again to League Two. He scored the first goal in a 3–1 victory in the National League playoff final against Notts County. Later that month, he extended his contract with the club.
Career statistics
Honours
King's Lynn Town
Northern Premier League Division One South: 2012–13
Harrogate Town
National League North play-offs: 2018
National League play-offs: 2020
FA Trophy: 2019–20
References
External links
Profile at the Harrogate Town website
1992 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Melton Mowbray
Footballers from Leicestershire
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Chester F.C. players
Daventry Town F.C. players
F.C. United of Manchester players
Harrogate Town A.F.C. players
Hinckley United F.C. players
Histon F.C. players
King's Lynn Town F.C. players
National League (English football) players
English Football League players |
```javascript
// CodeMirror, copyright (c) by Marijn Haverbeke and others
// Distributed under an MIT license: path_to_url
(function(mod) {
if (typeof exports == "object" && typeof module == "object") // CommonJS
mod(require("../../lib/codemirror"));
else if (typeof define == "function" && define.amd) // AMD
define(["../../lib/codemirror"], mod);
else // Plain browser env
mod(CodeMirror);
})(function(CodeMirror) {
"use strict";
var listRE = /^(\s*)(>[> ]*|- \[[x ]\]\s|[*+-]\s|(\d+)([.)]))(\s*)/,
emptyListRE = /^(\s*)(>[> ]*|- \[[x ]\]|[*+-]|(\d+)[.)])(\s*)$/,
unorderedListRE = /[*+-]\s/;
CodeMirror.commands.newlineAndIndentContinueMarkdownList = function(cm) {
if (cm.getOption("disableInput")) return CodeMirror.Pass;
var ranges = cm.listSelections(), replacements = [];
for (var i = 0; i < ranges.length; i++) {
var pos = ranges[i].head;
var eolState = cm.getStateAfter(pos.line);
var inList = eolState.list !== false;
var inQuote = eolState.quote !== 0;
var line = cm.getLine(pos.line), match = listRE.exec(line);
if (!ranges[i].empty() || (!inList && !inQuote) || !match) {
cm.execCommand("newlineAndIndent");
return;
}
if (emptyListRE.test(line)) {
cm.replaceRange("", {
line: pos.line, ch: 0
}, {
line: pos.line, ch: pos.ch + 1
});
replacements[i] = "\n";
} else {
var indent = match[1], after = match[5];
var bullet = unorderedListRE.test(match[2]) || match[2].indexOf(">") >= 0
? match[2].replace("x", " ")
: (parseInt(match[3], 10) + 1) + match[4];
replacements[i] = "\n" + indent + bullet + after;
}
}
cm.replaceSelections(replacements);
};
});
``` |
Tarmount is a town and commune in M'Sila Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 9438.
References
Communes of M'Sila Province
Cities in Algeria |
Curtis Sylvester Lowe, Sr. (November 15, 1919 – October 29, 1993) was an American jazz saxophonist.
Lowe was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1919, and raised in Oakland, California. While he is best known professionally as a tenor and baritone saxophonist, he first learned to play soprano saxophone as a youth. He studied briefly in Alabama before deciding to take up music full-time, playing in traveling bands before the outbreak of World War II. He then enlisted in the United States Army in 1941 then transferred to the United States Navy in 1942; his unit band was full of noteworthy jazz musicians, including Vernon Alley, Wilbert Baranco, Buddy Collette, Jerome Richardson, Ernie Royal, and Marshall Royal. In the 1950s he worked extensively with Lionel Hampton and also played with Dave Brubeck, Little Esther, Johnny Otis, and Gerald Wilson; he also led his own five-piece ensemble in 1952-1953. In 1958 he began a decade-long association with Earl Hines. Lowe was active locally in the Bay Area into the 1980s and died there in October 1993 at the age of 73.
References
External links
1919 births
1993 deaths
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Jazz musicians from California
American male jazz musicians
Musicians from Oakland, California
20th-century American male musicians
United States Navy personnel of World War II
20th-century American saxophonists |
Susanne Wollschläger (born May 5, 1967 in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Germany, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 (Seoul, South Korea) for West Germany.
References
databaseOlympics
sports-reference
External links
1967 births
Living people
German female field hockey players
Female field hockey goalkeepers
Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Sportspeople from Duisburg
Place of birth missing (living people)
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century German women |
Mercurius (, ; ; 224/225 – 250 AD) was a Roman soldier of Scythian descent who became a Christian saint and martyr. He was born in the city of Eskentos in Cappadocia, in Eastern Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). According to Christian tradition, he was the soldier who killed Julian the apostate during his campaign in Persia. Saint Mercurius was also widely known by his Arabic-language name Abu-Sayfain, Abu-Sifin or Abu-Sefein in Egyptian Arabic (; ) which means "father of two swords", referring to the second sword given to him by the Archangel Michael.
St. Mercurius was born around 225 A.D. in Cappadocia (Eastern Asia Minor) into a family of Scythian descent. His parents were converts to Christianity and they called him "Philopater" or "Philopatyr" (a Greek name which means 'Lover of the Father'). They raised him in a Christian manner. When he grew to adulthood (at the age of 17), he enlisted in the Roman army in the reign of Emperor Decius. He gained a great reputation among his superiors as a swordsman and a tactician in many battles. During this period, it is said that the Emperor grew very close to him.
Traditional biography
Family
Some accounts state that Philopater was born in Eskentos in Cappadocia. However, others refer to Rome as his place of birth. Mercurius was the son of Yares, an officer in the Roman army. One day, while Yares was hunting in the forest with his father, the two were attacked by an animal. The animal jumped on Yares' father, causing Yares to faint. While Yares was unconscious, he had a vision with a brilliant light and a voice saying:Yares, I am your God who loves you. I know that you have a good heart and that you hate the pagan idols. I want to inform you that your son, Philopatyr, will become like a tree bearing good fruits, and because of him, I will bless you and your wife. Philopatyr will be my witness and will defy all prejudice in my name.
Yares, his wife, and his son were baptized shortly after. All three were given new names. Yares became Noah, his wife became Saphina, and Mercurius became Philopater. News of their baptism spread quickly in the city and the prince ordered them to be arrested and thrown to wild animals. However, the animals did not harm them and the prince decided to release Noah and his family.
When the Barbarians attacked, Noah went to fight them. He was taken prisoner and was brought to their territory, where he was kept for seventeen months. When the war finally ended, he went back to his city and joined his family, but died shortly after.
Military career of Saint Mercurius
After the death of Mercurius' father Noah, the pagan Roman Emperor Decius (ruled 249–251) chose him to replace his father. Described as very strong and courageous, Mercurius earned the respect of his fellow soldiers and gained renown as a swordsman. When the Barbarians attacked Rome, Decius went out to fight them but became afraid when he saw how many there were. Mercurius then came to him and said, "Do not be afraid, because God will kill our enemies and will bring us victory."
After several days of fighting, the Archangel Michael appeared to Mercurius holding a shining sword. The saint took the sword from the archangel, hence the name Abu Sayfain - "the father of two swords": a military sword and a divine sword. He conquered the Barbarians. When Decius heard news of the triumphant victory, he named Mercurius as a prince.
Martyrdom of Saint Mercurius
Nonetheless, in 249, Decius began his persecution of Christians, compelling everyone to offer sacrifices to his pagan gods. The Archangel Michael appeared to Mercurius and told him to remember God and not be fearful of persecution. The saint was encouraged and spent the whole night praying fervently, confessing his weakness to God.
The Emperor sent messengers to summon Mercurius to the palace, saying: "Dear Mercurius, let us go offer incense to the gods who helped us attain victory in the war." As they were leaving, Mercurius slipped through the crowd and went away. However, one of the guards reported his absence, and the Emperor called Mercurius and asked him: "Is it true that you refused to worship the idols who helped us during the war?" Mercurius declared himself a Christian, saying, "I do not worship anyone except my Lord and my God, Jesus Christ."
The Emperor tried to persuade him to give up his faith but failed. He then ordered Mercurius to be stripped of his rank and tortured. Fearing a revolt because the people loved Mercurius, the emperor had him bound in iron fetters and sent him to Caesarea. Mercurius was beheaded on 4 December 250 AD. He was only 25 years old.
Other traditions
After the end of the first persecution, the place of the saint's burial was revealed. Mercurius appeared to a poor man in the city and told him that he was "Mercurius, the Martyr of the Lord". "My body is buried in Cappadocia Gardens, under the old house on the way to the royal palace. My body looks as white as snow, because Jesus was present at the time of my martyrdom", said the saint.
The next morning, the man went to dig under the old house. He began to smell the scent of perfume, seeing the body of the saint. The news spread quickly and many people came to take a look at the blessed body. They moved it temporarily to the local church until they built a new church bearing his name where Mercurius' body was buried with respect and devotion.
A few years later, the Catholicos of Armenia and the Chief bishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church, visited Egypt and met with the Patriarch of Alexandria, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The latter asked him if Egypt could have part of the relics of Saint Mercurius to be placed in the church that bears his name in Egypt. On 9 Paoni (16 June), part of the blessed relics of Saint Mercurius were transferred to Egypt.
According to one tradition, Saint Basil once prayed before an icon on which Mercurius was portrayed as a soldier carrying a spear. He asked God not to permit the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363) to return from his war against the Persians and resume his oppression of Christians. The image of the holy Great Martyr Mercurius depicted on the icon became invisible, only to reappear later with a bloodied spear. Julian the Apostate, on his Persian campaign, was mortally wounded by the spear of an unknown saracen soldier.
The nuns and their abbess, Tenmav Irini at the Abu Sefein Monastery in Cairo credit the saint's intercession for the reversal of a government decision to confiscate their property for the Defense Ministry.
According to local folklore, after Tamav Irini prayed for Abu Sefein's intercession, he appeared, in one way or another, to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Egyptian locals claim him to have become a crypto-christian to this day.
See also
Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew
References
External links
Account of his life on University College Cork website, with bibliography
Coptic account
Coptic Synexarium
St Philopateer Mercurius at the Church of St Mary and St Merkorious, Sydney
www.tamavireneforall.com All about St Mercurius in the words of Tamav Irene the Abbess of the convent of St Mercurius, Old Cairo, Egypt.
Catholic Online: Saint Mercurius
Santiebeati: Saint Mercurius
220s births
250 deaths
Saints from Roman Anatolia
Cappadocian Greeks
3rd-century Christian martyrs
Angelic visionaries
Michael (archangel)
Military saints |
The 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 90th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 9 May 1976 and ended on 26 September 1976.
Kerry were the defending champions.
On 26 September 1976, Dublin won the championship following a 3-8 to 0-10 defeat of Kerry in the All-Ireland final. This was their 19th All-Ireland title, their first in two championship seasons.
Dublin's Jimmy Keaveney was the choice for Texaco Footballer of the Year.
Results
Connacht Senior Football Championship
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Finals
Leinster Senior Football Championship
First round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Munster Senior Football Championship
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Finals
Ulster Senior Football Championship
Preliminary round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Finals
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Semi-finals
Final
Championship statistics
Miscellaneous
Leitrim recorded their first win over Mayo since 1959 after a replay.
Cork Athletic Grounds changed its name to Pairc Ui Chaoimh after Pádraig Ó Caoimh.
3 Provincial finals end in a draw and to a replay in the same year for the first time since 1924 (CLU) and never since (as of 2019) Connacht, Munster and Ulster. 1888, 1903 & 1915 were the only other years up to 1976 to have had multiple provincial final draws.
The All-Ireland final was Dublin's first win over Kerry since the All-Ireland semi-final of 1934.
Top scorers
Overall
Single game
References
External links
"From the archives: Preview of 1976 Ulster SFC final between Derry and Cavan". BBC Sport. 26 April 2020. |
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust in England formed by the merger of Surrey and Hampshire Borders, Surrey Oaklands and North West Surrey Partnership NHS trusts in April 2005, with an emphasis on the mental sides of healthcare.
The trust runs:
April Cottage in Horley
Larkfield in Horley
St Peter's Site in Chertsey
Loddon Alliance in Basingstoke
Mid Surrey Assessment and Treatment Service
St Ebbas, Hillcroft, West Park Hospital, The Shieling, Ethel Bailey Close and Oakglade in Epsom
The Ridgewood Centre in Camberley
Farnham Road Hospital (Mental Health Unit) in Guildford
Redstone House and Margaret Laurie House Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit in Reigate
Redstone House and the Crisis House in Redhill, Surrey
Fairmead in Staines
Oaklands in Caterham
Courthill House in Chipstead, Surrey
Rosewood in Charlwood
The Old School House in Oxted
Willows at Woking Community Hospital.
It plans to buy the Jubilee Complex at Headley Court, near Leatherhead, a former rehabilitation centre for injured soldiers. This would provide about 44 mental health beds, which could save the trust money spent on placements in private hospitals. It placed 320 patients with private providers in 2020-21, at a cost of £7.8 million.
Operation
It is one of three large trusts in the South East Coast area which may compete to offer new services in its area, the others being Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and Sussex Partnership NHS Trust.
The Trust's memory services serving a minority of its area, Runnymede and West Elmbridge, achieved the top rating in a national accreditation scheme developed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2012.
In November 2013 the Trust was inspected by the Care Quality Commission whose teams spent three days checking the Trust's services. They found "safety and suitability concerns" and warned that male and female patients’ privacy was "compromised because people could be seen by other patients in their rooms at any time" and that patients were "not always involved in making decisions about their care". There have also been significant breaches of patient confidentiality.
The Trust runs the Hope Service for young people in Surrey with Surrey County Council, and Guildford and Waverley Clinical Commissioning Group. It works with about 50 young people at any one time who suffer from depression, suicidal feelings, ADHD, eating disorders, family difficulties and family breakdown.
It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2254 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.59%. 61% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 565% recommended it as a place to work.
In 2021 it was overspending by almost £200,000 a month because of demand for children’s services, with increases in demand for children’s services of up to 40% since the COVID-19 pandemic in England began.
See also
List of NHS trusts
Healthcare in Surrey
References
NHS foundation trusts
NHS mental health trusts
Health in Surrey
Health in Hampshire |
{{Infobox book |
| name = Dublin: Foundation (US title The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga)
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = Dublin foundation.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = First edition cover
| author = Edward Rutherfurd
| cover_artist =
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| series = The Dublin Saga
| genre = Historical novel
| publisher = Century Hutchinson
| pub_date = 4 March 2004
| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
| pages = 804 pp (first edition, hardback)
| isbn = 0-7126-8000-4
| isbn_note = (first edition, hardback)
| oclc= 54507587
| preceded_by =
| followed_by = Ireland: Awakening
}}Dublin: Foundation (2004) (also known in North America as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga or sometimes simply Dublin) is a novel by Edward Rutherfurd first published in 2004 by Century Hutchinson and then by Seal Books and Doubleday Canada.
It is a work of historical fiction and centers on a number of families and their descendants in and around the area of Ireland that is now Dublin. It begins in AD 430 with the love affair of a prince (Conall) and the daughter of an Irish chief (Deirdre) from the area of Dubh Linn . It concludes in AD 1533, with the disappearance of the Staff of Saint Patrick. Historical characters include Saint Patrick, Brian Boru, Strongbow, and King John of England, among others.
Chapters
Prologue - Emerald Sun
Dubh Linn (AD 430)
Tara (AD 430)
Patrick (AD 450)
Vikings (AD 981)
Brian Boru (AD 999)
Strongbow (AD 1167)
Dalkey (AD 1370)
The Pale (AD 1487)
Silken Thomas (AD 1533)
Publishing history
2004, UK, century Hutchinson () 4 March 2004, hardback, (First edition)
2004, USA, Doubleday (), pub date ? March 2004, hardback (as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga)
2004, Canada, Doubleday Canada (), pub date ? March 2004, hardback (as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga)
2004, Canada, Random House Large Print Publishing (), pub date ? March 2004, large print hardback (as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga)
2005, UK, Arrow Books (), Pub date 5 May 2005, paperback (as Dublin)
2005, USA, Ballantine Books (), Pub date ? March 2005, paperback (as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga)
2006, USA, Seal Books (), Pub date ? ? 2006, paperback (as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga'')
References
2004 British novels
Historical novels
Novels by Edward Rutherfurd
Novels set in Dublin (city)
Hutchinson (publisher) books |
Sataniv (; ; ; ) is an urban-type settlement in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sataniv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:
Until 18 July 2020, Sataniv belonged to Horodok Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three. The area of Horodok Raion was merged into Khmelnytskyi Raion.
Jewish History
A Jewish community was organized in Sataniv in the second half of the 16th century, in the kingdom of Poland. Jews in Sataniv were involved in the import of goods from the east, leasing of estates and customs dues, manufacture of alcoholic drinks, and goldsmithery.
The town was periodically attacked by the Tatars and Cossacks, including combined attacks in 1651 and from the Cossacks in 1703. The synagogue in Sataniv was built as a fortress to allow the Jews and the wider community to defend themselves in such attacks.
In the 18th century Sataniv was Podolia's leading community. In 1756 its dayyanim (religious judges) held a trial of the Frankists. In 1765 there were 1,369 Jews paying the poll tax in Sataniv. The Jews there were involved in international commerce, traveling to fairs in Leipzig, Breslau, and Frankfurt, until the Second Partition of Poland of 1793, when Sataniv was incorporated into Russia.
The Hebrew writer and maskil Isaac Satanow lived in Sataniv, and was active there in the latter half of the 18th century. He, Menachem Mendel Lefin, and Alexander b. Ẓevi Margaliot, all of whom also lived in the town, were among the pioneers of the Haskalah movement. From the end of the 18th century and during the 19th, Sataniv was an important center of Hasidism.
Until 1862 the Jewish settlement there was restricted by the authorities, because of Sataniv's closeness to the Austrian border. The Jewish population was 2,848, 64% of the total, in 1897. In 1919, Jews in Sataniv underwent pogroms by Ukrainian nationalists. In 1926 Satanov probably had 2,359 Jews, then declining to 1,516, or 40% of the total population. A rural Jewish council existed in the Soviet period. On 6 July 1941 the Germans entered Sataniv, and on 14 [15(?)] May 1942 Ukrainian police locked 286 Jews into two cellars, letting them suffocate. (The remains of the 286 victims were found on 27 July 2020). Throughout 1942, 210 Jews were shot. The Germans murdered 800 people according to official numbers, most of them Jews.
See also
Three hares
External links
Sataniv in the JewishGen ShtetLinks project
The murder of the Jews of Sataniv during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.
References
Urban-type settlements in Khmelnytskyi Raion
Zbruch
Proskurovsky Uyezd
Jewish Ukrainian history
Holocaust locations in Ukraine |
Mompox may refer to:
Santa Cruz de Mompox, a town in northern Colombia
Mompox Province, a historical province of Colombia |
Notable alumni of the University of Idaho College of Law.
Federal Judges
U.S. Circuit Judges
Blaine Anderson, class of 1949, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1976–88), District Court Judge for the District of Idaho (1971–76)
Danielle J. Forrest, class of 2004, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2019–present)
Thomas Nelson, class of 1962 (LL.B.), United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1990–2003), senior judge (2003–11)
U.S. District Judges
Amanda Brailsford, class of 1993, District of Idaho (2023–present), Idaho Court of Appeals (2019–23)
Edward Lodge, class of 1961 (LL.B), District of Idaho (1989–2015), senior judge (2015–19), bankruptcy judge (1988–89)
Ray McNichols, class of 1950 (LL.B), District of Idaho (1964–85), senior judge (1981–85)
Harold Ryan, class of 1950 (LL.B), District of Idaho (1981–92), senior judge (1992–95)
Fred Taylor, class of 1926 (LL.B), District of Idaho (1954–71), senior judge (1971–88)
U.S. Magistrate Judges
Candy Dale, class of 1982, District of Idaho (2008–2022)
Mikel H. Williams, class of 1969, District of Idaho (1984–2008)
Bankruptcy Judge
Noah G. Hillen, class of 2007, District of Idaho (2020–present)
Terry L. Myers, class of 1980, District of Idaho (1998–2020)
Jim D. Pappas, class of 1977, District of Idaho (1990–present)
State Judges
Supreme Court Justices
Stephen Bistline, class of 1949, Idaho Supreme Court (1976–94)
Larry Boyle, class of 1972, Idaho Supreme Court (1989–92), U.S. Magistrate Judge (1992–2008)
Roger Burdick, class of 1974, Idaho Supreme Court (2003–21); Chief Justice (2011–15, 2017–20)
Joel Horton, class of 1985, Idaho Supreme Court (2007–18)
Robert Huntley, class of 1959, Idaho Supreme Court (1982–89)
Dan Eismann, class of 1976, Idaho Supreme Court (2001–17); Chief Justice (2007–11)
Wayne Kidwell, class of 1964, Idaho Supreme Court (1999–2004), Attorney General of Idaho (1975–79)
Charles McDevitt, class of 1956, Idaho Supreme Court (1989–97); Chief Justice (1993–97)
John Stegner, class of 1982, Idaho Supreme Court (2018–present)
Linda Copple Trout, class of 1977, Idaho Supreme Court (1992–2007); Chief Justice (1997–2004)
Jesse Walters, class of 1963, Idaho Supreme Court (1997–2003), judge on the Idaho Court of Appeals (1982–97)
Colleen Zahn, class of 2000, Idaho Supreme Court (2021–present)
Court of Appeals Judges
David Gratton, Idaho Court of Appeals (2009-present)
Michael P. Gibbons, Nevada Court of Appeals (2015–present)
Molly Huskey, class of 1993, Idaho Court of Appeals (2015–present)
John Melanson, class of 1981, Idaho Court of Appeals (2009–17)
Darrell Perry, class of 1976, Idaho Court of Appeals (1993–2009)
Roger Swanstrom, class of 1956 (LL.B), Idaho Court of Appeals (1982–93)
Politicians
Executive Branch
Governors
Jim Risch, class of 1968, Governor of Idaho (2006–07), U.S. Senator (2009–present), Lieutenant Governor of Idaho (2003–06, 2007–09)
Lieutenant Governors
David Leroy, class of 1971, Lieutenant Governor of Idaho (1983–87), Idaho Attorney General (1979–83)
Attorneys General
Tony Park, class of 1963, Idaho Attorney General (1971–75)
Bob Robson, class of 194x (LL.B), Idaho Attorney General (1969–71)
Lawrence Wasden, class of 1985, Idaho Attorney General (2003–23)
United States Attorney
Bart Davis, class of 1980, United States Attorney for Idaho (2017–21)
Thomas E. Moss, United States Attorney for Idaho (2001-2010)
Other Executive Branch officials
Dave Bieter, class of 1986, Mayor of Boise (2004–2020)
Hamer Budge, class of 1936, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1969–71), U.S. Representative from 2nd district (1951–61)
Abe Goff, class of 1924 (LL.B), commissioner on the Interstate Commerce Commission, U.S. Representative from 1st district (1947–49)
Legislative Branch
United States Senator
Jim McClure, class of 1950 (LL.B.), United States Senator from Idaho (1973–91), United States Representative from Idaho's 1st congressional district (1967–73)
Herman Welker, class of 1929 (LL.B), United States Senator from Idaho (1951–57)
United States House of Representatives
Bill Sali, class of 1984, United States Representative from Idaho's 1st congressional district (2007–09)
Business Leaders
Frank Shrontz, class of 1954 (LL.B), chairman and chief executive officer of Boeing
Academia
References
University of Idaho
University of Idaho alumni |
Francisco Javier Bermejo Caballero (born 9 March 1955) is a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Atlético Madrid. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
References
Living people
1955 births
Sportspeople from Badajoz
Footballers from the Province of Badajoz
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Olympic footballers for Spain
Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Atlético Madrid footballers |
```java
package app.nzyme.core.ethernet;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
public class L4MapperTools {
public static L4AddressData fieldsToAddressData(String prefix, ResultSet rs) throws SQLException {
return L4AddressData.create(
rs.getString(prefix + "_mac"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address"),
rs.getInt(prefix + "_port"),
GeoData.create(
rs.getInt(prefix + "_address_geo_asn_number"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address_geo_asn_name"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address_geo_asn_domain"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address_geo_city"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address_geo_country_code"),
rs.getFloat(prefix + "_address_geo_latitude"),
rs.getFloat(prefix + "_address_geo_longitude")
),
L4AddressAttributes.create(
rs.getBoolean(prefix + "_address_is_site_local"),
rs.getBoolean(prefix + "_address_is_loopback"),
rs.getBoolean(prefix + "_address_is_multicast")
)
);
}
public static L4AddressData fieldsToAddressDataNoMac(String prefix, ResultSet rs) throws SQLException {
return L4AddressData.create(
null,
rs.getString(prefix + "_address"),
rs.getInt(prefix + "_port"),
GeoData.create(
rs.getInt(prefix + "_address_geo_asn_number"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address_geo_asn_name"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address_geo_asn_domain"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address_geo_city"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address_geo_country_code"),
rs.getFloat(prefix + "_address_geo_latitude"),
rs.getFloat(prefix + "_address_geo_longitude")
),
L4AddressAttributes.create(
rs.getBoolean(prefix + "_address_is_site_local"),
rs.getBoolean(prefix + "_address_is_loopback"),
rs.getBoolean(prefix + "_address_is_multicast")
)
);
}
public static L4AddressData fieldsToAddressDataNoGeoNoAttributes(String prefix, ResultSet rs) throws SQLException {
return L4AddressData.create(
rs.getString(prefix + "_mac"),
rs.getString(prefix + "_address"),
rs.getInt(prefix + "_port"),
null,
null
);
}
}
``` |
Baba Meydan-e Zirrah (, also Romanized as Bābā Meydān-e Zīrrāh; also known as Bābāmeydān) is a village in Rostam-e Yek Rural District of the Central District of Rostam County, Fars province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 1,160 in 247 households, when it was in the former Rostam District of Mamasani County. The following census in 2011 counted 755 people in 192 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Rostam County. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 1,250 people in 346 households. It was the largest village in its rural district.
References
Rostam County
Populated places in Fars Province
Populated places in Rostam County |
A subaltern () is a primarily British military term for a junior officer. Literally meaning "subordinate", subaltern is used to describe commissioned officers below the rank of captain and generally comprises the various grades of lieutenant.
United Kingdom
In the British Army, the senior subaltern rank was captain-lieutenant, obsolete since the 18th century. Before the Cardwell Reforms of the British Army in 1871, the ranks of cornet and ensign were the junior subaltern ranks in the cavalry and infantry respectively, and were responsible for the flag. A subaltern takes temporary command of proceedings during Trooping the Colour. Within the ranks of subaltern, in a battalion or regiment, a Senior Subaltern may be appointed, usually by rank and seniority, who is responsible for discipline within the junior officer ranks and is responsible to the adjutant for this duty, although the adjutant is ultimately responsible to the commanding officer for the discipline of all the junior officers within the unit.
Women's ranks
From 1941 to 1949, the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) of the British Army used the ranks of second subaltern and subaltern, which were equivalent to second lieutenant and lieutenant respectively. From 1949 to 1950, the ATS's successor organization, the Women's Royal Army Corps, also used the same ranks until it abandoned them in favour of regular British Army ranks. Princess Elizabeth held the rank of second subaltern in the ATS during World War II.
United States
The Continental Army carried over the rank structure from the British Army including the subaltern ranks of lieutenant, cornet, ensign and subaltern. Continental Army subalterns ranks were supposed to wear green colored cockades in their hats. State militias in the American Revolutionary War period had ensign and sometimes subaltern ranks, with the subaltern rank below the ensign rank where they coexisted. In 1800, the United States Army's cornet, ensign and subaltern ranks were replaced by second lieutenant. In 1862, the United States Navy began using the ensign rank, which began using a gold bar as insignia in 1922. Second lieutenants received the gold bar insignia in 1917. When the United States Air Force became a separate military branch from the Army, it kept the Army's commissioned officers ranks and insignia.
See also
Officer (armed forces)
Warrant officer
Lieutenant grades
Lieutenant commander
Lieutenant (junior grade)
Sub-lieutenant
References
Military ranks of the British Army
Military ranks of the United States |
```smalltalk
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using Microsoft.DotNet.PlatformAbstractions;
namespace Dotnet.Script.DependencyModel.Environment
{
public class ScriptEnvironment
{
public static readonly ScriptEnvironment Default = new ScriptEnvironment();
private readonly Lazy<string> _targetFramework;
private readonly Lazy<string> _installLocation;
private readonly Lazy<string> _platformIdentifier;
private readonly Lazy<string> _runtimeIdentifier;
private readonly Lazy<bool> _isWindows;
private readonly Lazy<string> _nuGetStoreFolder;
private readonly Lazy<DotnetVersion> _netCoreVersion;
private string _overrriddenTargetFramework;
private ScriptEnvironment()
{
_netCoreVersion = new Lazy<DotnetVersion>(GetNetCoreAppVersion);
_targetFramework = new Lazy<string>(() => _netCoreVersion.Value == DotnetVersion.Unknown ? "net472" : _netCoreVersion.Value.Tfm);
_installLocation = new Lazy<string>(GetInstallLocation);
_platformIdentifier = new Lazy<string>(GetPlatformIdentifier);
_runtimeIdentifier = new Lazy<string>(GetRuntimeIdentifier);
_isWindows = new Lazy<bool>(() => PlatformIdentifier == "win");
_nuGetStoreFolder = new Lazy<string>(GetPathToNuGetStoreFolder);
}
public bool IsWindows => _isWindows.Value;
public string PlatformIdentifier => _platformIdentifier.Value;
public string RuntimeIdentifier => _runtimeIdentifier.Value;
public string TargetFramework => _overrriddenTargetFramework ?? _targetFramework.Value;
public string InstallLocation => _installLocation.Value;
public string ProccessorArchitecture => RuntimeEnvironment.RuntimeArchitecture;
public string NuGetStoreFolder => _nuGetStoreFolder.Value;
public DotnetVersion NetCoreVersion => _netCoreVersion.Value;
public bool IsNetCore => _netCoreVersion.Value != DotnetVersion.Unknown;
public void OverrideTargetFramework(string targetFramework)
{
if (_targetFramework.IsValueCreated)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException($"Cannot override target framework because a value {_targetFramework.Value} has already been resolved and used.");
}
_overrriddenTargetFramework = targetFramework;
}
private static string GetPlatformIdentifier()
{
if (RuntimeEnvironment.OperatingSystemPlatform == Platform.Darwin) return "osx";
if (RuntimeEnvironment.OperatingSystemPlatform == Platform.Linux) return "linux";
return "win";
}
private static DotnetVersion GetNetCoreAppVersion()
{
GetNetCoreVersion();
// path_to_url#L156
var codeBase = typeof(System.Runtime.GCSettings).GetTypeInfo().Assembly.CodeBase;
var pattern = @"^.*Microsoft\.NETCore\.App\/(\d+\.\d+)(.*?)\/";
var match = Regex.Match(codeBase, pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
if (!match.Success)
{
return DotnetVersion.Unknown;
}
var tfm = match.Groups[1].Value;
var version = match.Groups[1].Value + match.Groups[2].Value;
return new DotnetVersion(version, $"netcoreapp{tfm}");
}
public static string GetNetCoreVersion()
{
var assembly = typeof(System.Runtime.GCSettings).GetTypeInfo().Assembly;
var assemblyPath = assembly.CodeBase.Split(new[] { '/', '\\' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
int netCoreAppIndex = Array.IndexOf(assemblyPath, "Microsoft.NETCore.App");
if (netCoreAppIndex > 0 && netCoreAppIndex < assemblyPath.Length - 2)
return assemblyPath[netCoreAppIndex + 1];
return null;
}
private static string GetInstallLocation()
{
return Path.GetDirectoryName(new Uri(typeof(ScriptEnvironment).GetTypeInfo().Assembly.CodeBase).LocalPath);
}
private string GetDotnetBinaryPath()
{
string basePath;
if (IsWindows)
{
basePath = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles);
}
else
{
basePath = "usr/local/share";
}
return Path.Combine(basePath, "dotnet");
}
private string GetPathToNuGetStoreFolder()
{
var processArchitecture = GetProcessArchitecture();
var storePath = Path.Combine(GetDotnetBinaryPath(), "store", processArchitecture, TargetFramework);
return storePath;
}
private static string GetProcessArchitecture()
{
return RuntimeEnvironment.RuntimeArchitecture;
}
private static string GetRuntimeIdentifier()
{
var platformIdentifier = GetPlatformIdentifier();
#if NET8_0
return $"{platformIdentifier}-{GetProcessArchitecture()}";
#endif
if (platformIdentifier == "osx" || platformIdentifier == "linux")
{
return $"{platformIdentifier}-{GetProcessArchitecture()}";
}
var runtimeIdentifier = RuntimeEnvironment.GetRuntimeIdentifier();
return runtimeIdentifier;
}
}
public class DotnetVersion
{
public static DotnetVersion Unknown = new DotnetVersion("unknown", "unknown");
public DotnetVersion(string version, string tfm)
{
Version = version;
Tfm = tfm;
var versionMatch = Regex.Match(input: Version, pattern: @"^(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?");
if (versionMatch.Success && versionMatch.Groups[1].Success)
Major = int.Parse(versionMatch.Groups[1].Value);
if (versionMatch.Success && versionMatch.Groups[2].Success)
Minor = int.Parse(versionMatch.Groups[2].Value);
if (Major >= 5)
{
Tfm = $"net{Major}.{Minor}";
}
}
public string Version { get; }
public string Tfm { get; }
public int Major { get; }
public int Minor { get; }
}
}
``` |
Gonianotus is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Rhyparochromidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe.
Species:
Gonianotus angusticollis Linnavuori, 1953
Gonianotus barbarus Montandon, 1890
References
Hemiptera of Europe
Rhyparochromidae |
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Parahorismenus is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
Rafael Andrade Navarrete (February 25, 1856, Ardales – June 21, 1928) was a Spanish politician and lawyer.
He was Minister of Public instruction and Fine Arts during the reign of Alfonso XIII. As a member of the Conservative Party, he began his political career as a deputy for Teruel (province) in the elections of 1896, which he would retain in successive elections until 1920. In 1921 he was named as a senator. He was minister of Public Instruction between 25 October and 9 December 1915 and between 11 June and 3 November 1917 in individual governments presided over by Eduardo Dato. For some time he was also President of the Council of State of Spain.
1856 births
1928 deaths
People from the Province of Málaga
Conservative Party (Spain) politicians
Education ministers of Spain
Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Spanish Restoration
Members of the Senate of Spain
Politicians from Andalusia |
```go
package types
import (
sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
)
// Verify interface at compile time
var (
_ sdk.Msg = (*MsgSetWithdrawAddress)(nil)
_ sdk.Msg = (*MsgWithdrawDelegatorReward)(nil)
_ sdk.Msg = (*MsgWithdrawValidatorCommission)(nil)
_ sdk.Msg = (*MsgUpdateParams)(nil)
_ sdk.Msg = (*MsgCommunityPoolSpend)(nil)
_ sdk.Msg = (*MsgFundCommunityPool)(nil)
_ sdk.Msg = (*MsgDepositValidatorRewardsPool)(nil)
)
func NewMsgSetWithdrawAddress(delAddr, withdrawAddr string) *MsgSetWithdrawAddress {
return &MsgSetWithdrawAddress{
DelegatorAddress: delAddr,
WithdrawAddress: withdrawAddr,
}
}
func NewMsgWithdrawDelegatorReward(delAddr, valAddr string) *MsgWithdrawDelegatorReward {
return &MsgWithdrawDelegatorReward{
DelegatorAddress: delAddr,
ValidatorAddress: valAddr,
}
}
func NewMsgWithdrawValidatorCommission(valAddr string) *MsgWithdrawValidatorCommission {
return &MsgWithdrawValidatorCommission{
ValidatorAddress: valAddr,
}
}
// NewMsgFundCommunityPool returns a new MsgFundCommunityPool with a sender and
// a funding amount.
func NewMsgFundCommunityPool(amount sdk.Coins, depositor string) *MsgFundCommunityPool {
return &MsgFundCommunityPool{
Amount: amount,
Depositor: depositor,
}
}
// NewMsgDepositValidatorRewardsPool returns a new MsgDepositValidatorRewardsPool
// with a depositor and a funding amount.
func NewMsgDepositValidatorRewardsPool(depositor, valAddr string, amount sdk.Coins) *MsgDepositValidatorRewardsPool {
return &MsgDepositValidatorRewardsPool{
Amount: amount,
Depositor: depositor,
ValidatorAddress: valAddr,
}
}
``` |
Shum Gora (: "Noise Hill") is a massive kurgan (tumulus) situated in Peredolskaya Volost, near the bank of the Luga River, Batetsky District, Novgorod Oblast, northwestern Russia, about 60 km west of Novgorod.
The hill was formerly involved in local liturgical practice.
19th century sources record that three crosses standing on its top, but by the 20th century these had been removed. During the mid 19th century, there used to be processions, with pilgrims walking three times around the hill before ascending it to "listen to the noise" and leave small sacrifices in a pit at the top. People suffering from headache used to put sand from the pit in their ears.
These practices are described by A. A. Panchenko in 1998.
The site and the associated folk customs were first described by M. Bystrov in 1879. Bystrov records the tradition that the sand from the hill had miraculous power on Trinity Sunday, and that if the hill was ascended on that day, the sound of bells could be heard if one "listened in a special way", and that on this day, pilgrims from as far as 50 miles away would come to the hill in hope of curing headaches.
The kurgan has not been excavated, but in 2002 a georadar survey was performed by the Russian Federal Geological Institute (ВСЕГЕИ), and in 2003 to 2004, the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences has done experimental surveys testing non-intrusive archaeological methods. The kurgan is 14.6 m in height and 70 m in diameter, comparable in proportion to the largest Migration era tumuli in Scandinavia such as Raknehaugen.
Aleksashin (2006) discusses a boulder with a monogrammatic inscription he found on the hill in 2003. He compares the inscription to Carolingian monograms and based on this revives the theory which identifies Rurik, the founder of the Kievan Rus, with Rorik of Dorestad.
References
External links
Shum Gora (countrysite.spb.ru)
Archaeological sites in Russia
Kurgans
Geography of Novgorod Oblast
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Novgorod Oblast
Anti-Swedish sentiment |
Canzoni is the seventh album released by Fabrizio De André. It was issued in 1974 by Produttori Associati and reissued several times by Ricordi and BMG. Uniquely for a De André release, eight of the album's eleven tracks are covers or translations; the final track, "Valzer per un amore" ["Waltz for a love"], is De Andre's vocal version of an instrumental waltz by composer Gino Marinuzzi, entitled "Valzer campestre" ["Country Waltz"]. According to De André's recollections, a 78-rpm record of the song was playing in his mother's house as he was being born. The other three tracks are re-recording of early compositions which De André originally recorded in the early Sixties, when he was signed to Karim. The album's peculiar structure is mainly the result of De Andre's record label at the time wanting to release a "filler" album, in the same vein as his 1968 collection Volume 3.
Track listing
All tracks written by Fabrizio De André, except where noted.
Side A
Via della Povertà [Desolation Row] (Bob Dylan, translated by De André and Francesco De Gregori) - 9:37
Le passanti [Les passantes] (Music by Jean Bertola, lyrics by Antoine Pol, translated by De André) - 3:51
Fila la lana [File la laine] - (Robert Marcy, translated and adapted by De André) - 2:40
La ballata dell'amore cieco (o della vanità) - 3:05
Suzanne (Leonard Cohen, translation by De André) - 3:26
Side B
Morire per delle idee [Mourir pour des idées] - (Georges Brassens, translated by De André) 4:26
La canzone dell'amore perduto - 3:21 (music by Georg Philipp Telemann; musical adaption and lyrics by De André)
La città vecchia - 3:23
Giovanna d'Arco [Joan of Arc] (Leonard Cohen, translated by De André) - 4:50
Delitto di paese [L'assassinat] (Brassens, translated by De André) - 3:55
Valzer per un amore (music by Gino Marinuzzi, lyrics by De André) - 3:37
The songs
Lyrically co-written by De André with his colleague and friend Francesco De Gregori at the very start of a collaboration which will produce the bulk of De André's next album Volume 8, "Via della Povertà" [literally "Poverty Way"] is a faithful translation (both on a textual and a musical level) of Bob Dylan's lengthy 1965 folk rock ballad "Desolation Row", originally featured on Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. It is a complex and meticulous examination of various people in various states of impoverishment (also including several fictional characters) by an omniscient, external narrator. In the last verse, the narrator speaks directly to another person, stating that the whole content of the song is part of a letter he received from that person, and reminding them that the people described up to then are neither monsters nor heroes, but ordinary people. The final lines reveal the sender of the letter as someone who also lives on "Poverty Way".
Alternate lyrics
In 1975, during his earliest live performances of "Via della Povertà", De André occasionally took advantage of the song's repetitive structure to replace three verses in the song (the fourth-to-last, third-to-last and second-to-last ones) with new verses, written by himself, focusing on political satire and completely unrelated to Dylan's lyrics or to the translation. One such performance, from 28 November 1975 in Brescia Palasport, is featured as a hidden track at the end of the second CD from the 2012 box set I concerti ["The concerts"], a full compendium of De André's live activity. In this performance, the new verses target Giorgio Almirante, Gianni Agnelli, Indro Montanelli (initially called "Montagnelli", then with his correct surname), Enrico Berlinguer and Pope Paul VI.
"Le passanti" ["The passers-by"], a translation of a Georges Brassens original from 1962 (based on a 1918 poem by French symbolist poet Antoine Pol), is dedicated by the singer "to every woman thought of as a lover", and, consequently, to all women. He goes on to describe some of them, living unremarkable lives, and melancholically concludes that he will find solace from his moments of solitude through his memories of "all the beautiful passers-by [I] didn't manage to hold on to".
"Fila la lana" ["Spin the wool"], although superficially presented as a traditional ballad from the Middle Ages, is actually a 1948 composition by French songwriter Robert Marcy. It is about knights and warriors returning from a war, except for a Seignor who was killed and left his woman behind. In the chorus, she is described as endlessly spinning her wool, waiting for a homecoming which will never happen.
"La ballata dell'amore cieco (o della vanità)" ["The ballad of blind love (or of vanity)"] includes one of De André's darkest lyrics ever, freely based on a poem by Jean Richepin. It tells the story of an honest man who falls madly in love with a vain woman "who didn't love him at all". She urges him to bring her his mother's heart "to feed [her] dogs"; he duly complies by killing his mother and gruesomely ripping out her heart. Afterwards, the woman asks the man to slash the four veins in his wrists, effectively killing himself. Hypnotized by a mindless love, he does just that. At the end of the song, the woman is upset when she sees him dying happily and still in love, while realizing that she obtained nothing at all from him: neither love, nor affection, "but just the dried blood from his veins." The extremely dark, macabre mood of the lyrics is offset by the music, based on a jaunty Dixieland arrangement, which turns the entire piece into a musical tragicomedy.
"Suzanne", De André's translation of a 1966 song by Leonard Cohen, originally written as a poem and later released on Cohen's Songs of Leonard Cohen album, is about a love affair between a young man and a travelling (possibly seafaring) woman. The song also includes a passing mention of Jesus, described as a sailor who speaks to drowned people (a metaphorical reference to Jesus's walking on water miracle); the couple imagines Jesus watching them "from his wooden tower" and blessing them.
"Morire per delle idee" ["Dying for ideals"], another song translated by De André from a Brassens original, is a satirical, skeptical song about the so-called "martyrs for ideals" (either political or religious ones), which De André has frequently met during his lifetime. He bitingly remarks that dying for ideals "okay, but dying a slow death" is useless, because all ideals are short-lived and meant not to be remembered at all by the posterity.
"La canzone dell'amore perduto" ["The song of lost love"] features a sweet, nostalgia-laden arrangement based on a flugelhorn melody (actually written by Georg Philipp Telemann, although the German composer was left uncredited) over an orchestral backing, and a subdued lyric exploring a recurring theme of De André's: his denial of the romantic notion that love is eternal. Indeed, he compares a love affair to withering flowers, stating that even the strongest and most passionate love relationship is going to die just like flowers; the person that the song is addressed to, though, is also described as very likely to restart everything as soon as they meet someone new. The song was covered by Franco Battiato on his 1999 album Fleurs, with a simplified arrangement based exclusively on strings.
"La città vecchia" ["The old (side of the) city"], a mazurka originally recorded by De André in 1965 for Karim, is set in the old part of Genoa, where he spent his teenage years, and depicts its narrow alleyways - traditionally home to prostitutes, drunkards, criminals and other marginalized people. Taking the first two lines almost directly from a poem by Jacques Prévert ("The sun of the good Lord doesn't shine on our parts/It already has too much to do in the rich quarters"), the singer mentions a relationship between an "old professor" and a prostitute, stating that he is going to waste most of his hard-earned pension on her; he also warns him not to look down on her and the other people in the "old town", as they, in spite of how low and filthy their moral status may be, are all "children [and] victims of this world." The original 1965 recording of this song was yet again a victim of the strict Italian censorship at the time; indeed, in the lyrics as originally recorded, the old professor mentioned in the second part of the song refers to the prostitute he is in love with as a "kind of slut" (specie di troia in Italian), which, also in the original lyrics, was rhymed with alla tua gioia (i.e. "[she puts a price tag] on your joy"). These lines, in a hastily re-made new recording, were changed with pubblica moglie ("public wife") and ...alle tue voglie ("...to your desires").
"Giovanna d'Arco", De André's adaption of a Cohen original from 1971, depicts the legendary French heroine while she burns at the stake; she talks to the fire and lets herself be consumed by it, as she is "tired of the war" and longing to wear "a wedding dress, or something white" (a reference to the fact that she was always dressed as a man). Each of the four verses in the song ends with a "la-la-la" refrain.
"Delitto di paese" ["Village crime"], the third and last Brassens adaption within this album, is a neutral account (almost in the style of a crime story in a paper) of a murder occurring in a small town: an aged man falls in love with a much younger girl, but she and an accomplice of hers murder him after finding out that he is "flat broke". They also search the victim's apartment, looking for money, but they find nothing else than "bills and court judgements." At the end, the narrator loses his detachment to describe the perpetrators earning a place in Heaven by crying over the dead body; upon being sentenced to death and hanged, they do ascend to Heaven - much to the chagrin of "some bigots".
"Valzer per un amore", De André's vocal remake of "Valzer campestre" (a very traditional waltz from 1909 by Gino Marinuzzi), originally recorded in 1964 for Karim, features yet another melancholy-imbued lyric about the fickleness of love: the singer says that all manifestations of love from a man to a woman, such as hugs, kisses, caresses and (pointedly) love songs, will mean nothing and will end up as completely forgettable (and forgotten) when she will be very old and he will have been dead for a long time. De André's lyrical approach on this song was influenced by a 16th-century sonnet by Pierre de Ronsard (also freely translated by William Butler Yeats in 1893), entitled Quand vous serez bien vieille ["When you are very old"]. The sonnet's first verse is as follows:
"When you are very old, in the evening, by candlelight,
Sitting by the fire, winding and spinning,
You will say, singing my verses, marveling:
Ronsard celebrated me in the time when I was beautiful."
References
1974 albums
Fabrizio De André albums |
The Forever King is a fantasy book written by Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy, the authors of Grandmaster, which reached #3 on The New York Times bestseller list. The Forever King is the first in the Forever King Trilogy. The second title is The Broken Sword: King Arthur Returns while the third book is called The Third Magic. Robert Jordan, author of The Wheel of Time calls The Forever King "a fresh and exciting view of the Arthur legend.”
Set in modern and medieval times, the antagonist Saladin has lived through many of the world's ages by using the Holy Grail, until he loses it. The Cup finds its way into the hands of ten-year-old Arthur Blessing. Now Hal Woczniak must protect Arthur and the Grail from the madman Saladin, who kills anyone that ever stands in his way or between him and the Cup. The Forever King is 55 chapters divided into three sections titled, “Book One: The Boy,” “Book Two: The Cup,” and “Book Three: The King.”
Summary
From the front inside flap of The Forever King:
In a darkened house not far from the place where Camelot may once have stood, a madman schemes.
Once the cup that men call the Holy Grail was his. Soon it will be his again. The Grail's protectors are few and weak: an alcohol-soaked ex-FBI agent; a courtly old gentleman who once, long ago, held awesome power; and a ten-year-old boy.
Arthur Blessing is no ordinary boy. The Grail is his by chance, this time, but the power to keep it-is his by right.
Now he must stay alive long enough to use that power.
Arthur needs a defender, a man of great strength, skill, purity, and faith. Fate has given him Hal Woczniak, a broken-down drifter plagued by nightmare memories of a dead child. When Hal quit the FBI, he practically quit the human race as well.
Now, at the darkest time in his life, he is offered the chance to redeem himself.
One he failed to save a child. Once he failed to save a world.
He will not fail again.
Main characters
Arthur Blessing (also known as King Arthur)- ten-year-old Chicago boy that finds the Holy Grail and is the reincarnated Arthur of England.
Hal Woczniak (also known as the Siege Perilous, Galahad)- drunk ex-FBI agent that fights to protect Arthur and is the reincarnated Sir Galahad.
Merlin (also known as Mr. Goldberg, Bertram Taliesin)- wizard of Camelot and mentor of Arthur who seeks to give Arthur the Cup.
Saladin (also known as Mr. X, King Saladin, the Saracen Knight)- antagonist who has lived for thousands of years and will stop at nothing to get the Holy Grail back.
Secondary characters
Bohort- a knight of the Round Table.
Chastain- Scotland Yard lab agent that assists Candy in the investigation.
Chief- director of the FBI that Hal calls on for help.
Constable James “Jack” Nubbit- dense local constable first put in charge of finding Arthur.
Dr. Mark Coles- Saladin's doctor in the asylum Maplebrook.
Emily Blessing- brilliant but easily distressed aunt that raised Arthur Blessing.
Frank Morton- director of the game show “Go Fish.”
Gaheris- a knight of the Round Table.
Gawain, the green knight- a knight of the Round Table.
Hafiz Chagla- one of Saladin's men and the electrician at Maplebrook that helped him escape.
Hamid Laghouat- one of Saladin's men, an Algerian that worked as an assistant at the Bournemouth library while Saladin was at Maplebrook.
Higgins- Scotland Yard lab agent that assists Candy in the investigation.
Inspector Brian Candy- Scotland Yard inspector sent to help Hal and Emily find Arthur.
Jeff Brown- abducted boy that Hal could not save from a burning building when he was still an FBI agent.
Joe Starr- host of the CBS gameshow “Go Fish” that Hal plays.
Kanna- a caveman that lived for hundreds or thousands of years with the Cup before Saladin stole it from him.
Launcelot- a knight of the Round Table.
Lionel- a knight of the Round Table.
Lucan- a knight of the Round Table.
Matilda Grimes- old English woman that is Wilson-on-Hamble's tax collector, village clerk, and building inspector. She keeps the county records and helps Hal find the house where Arthur is being kept.
Mordred- twelve-year-old boy and alleged son of Arthur. He stabs Arthur in battle which kills Arthur, although not before Arthur stabs Mordred back- killing him.
Mrs. Sloan- inn keeper in England where Hal and Emily stay.
Mustafa Aziz- one of Saladin's men.
Nimue (also known as The Lady of the Lake)- wild but beautiful young woman that lives in the woods and can talk to animals.
Perceval- a knight of the Round Table.
Tom Rogers- boy that comes to see Camelot and hear the hoof beats of the knights riding each St. John's Eve.
Tristam- a knight of the Round Table.
Vinod Abad- one of Saladin's men.
References
Cochran, Molly, and Warren Murphy. The Forever King. New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1992. Print. .
External links
The Forever King at Google Books
Review at Publishers Weekly
1992 novels
Fiction about reincarnation
Modern Arthurian fiction
Tor Books books |
The Open Group Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3) is a maturity model for managing information security. It aims to ensure that security processes in any organization are implemented so as to operate at a level consistent with that organization’s business requirements. O-ISM3 defines a comprehensive but manageable number of information security processes sufficient for the needs of most organizations, with the relevant security control(s) being identified within each process as an essential subset of that process.
History
The original motivation behind O-ISM3 development was to narrow the gap between theory and practice for information security management systems, and the trigger was the idea of linking security management and maturity models. O-ISM3 strove to keep clear of a number of pitfalls with previous approaches.
The looked at Capability Maturity Model Integration, ISO 9000, COBIT, ITIL, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and other standards, and found some potential for improvement in several fields, such as linking security to business needs, using a process based approach, providing some additional details (who, what, why) for implementation, and suggesting specific metrics, while preserving compatibility with the most popular IT and security management standards.
Availability
The Open Group provides the standard free of charge.
References
Data security
Security
Information governance
Methodology
Open Group standards |
Sidi Bou Othmane is a town in Rehamna Province, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 5,066.
The famous Battle of Sidi Bou Othman was fought here on 6 September 1912, between the French colonial forces and the army of Ahmed al-Hiba.
References
Populated places in Rehamna Province |
Ferenci is a village in Vižinada municipality in Istria County, Croatia.
Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 63. It was 89 in 2001.
References
Populated places in Istria County |
The Great Songs of Roy Orbison is an album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records that was released in the United States in February 1970.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated
Side one
"Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart" (P) 1966
"Cry Softly Lonely One" (Joe Melson, Don Gant) (P) 1967
"Penny Arcade" (Sammy King) (P) 1969
"Ride Away" (P) 1965
"Southbound Jericho Parkway" (Bobby Bond) (P) 1969
Side two
"Crawling Back" (P) 1965
"Heartache" (P) 1968
"Too Soon to Know" (Don Gibson) (P) 1966
"My Friend" (P) 1966
"Here Comes the Rain, Baby" (Mickey Newbury) (P) 1967
Produced by Wesley Rose and Jim Vienneau
except "My Friend" & "Southbound Jericho Parkway" Produced by Don Gant
Arrangers: Bill McElhiney, Jim Hall, Emory Gordy, Jr., Tupper Saussy
Roy Orbison albums
1970 greatest hits albums
albums produced by Wesley Rose
MGM Records compilation albums |
Batería de Aspiroz is a battery located in San Fernando in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. It is a small defensive fortification that was used during the Siege of Cadiz, and is part of the whole defensive system of bastions and batteries that protected the southern entrance of Islote de Sancti Petri in the early nineteenth century along with the Castillo de Sancti Petri and two batteries, Batería de Urrutia and Batería de San Genís. Since it is located further north than the other fortifications, it is more open to the sea, and its size and armament was much lower. It was protected under the general declaration of the Decree of April 22 of 1949 and Law 16/1985 by the Patrimonio Histórico Españo (Spanish Historical Heritage).
References
Buildings and structures in San Fernando, Cádiz
Forts in Spain
Aspiroz |
Jérôme Paul Bonaventure Alday (c.1763 – 1835) was a French violinist, composer and music publisher who spent most of his active career in Dublin, Ireland. He was the only composer in early 19th-century Ireland known to have written symphonies.
Life
Alday was born in Perpignan as a member of a musical family that included his father (whose first name is unknown), his elder brother François (c.1761 – after 1835) and the latter's sons Francisque and Ferdinand, all of whom became composers resident in Lyon. In musical reference works, there is considerable confusion regarding the ascription of compositions to either of these four musicians as their names mostly appear as "Alday" only.
Paul Alday studied with Giovanni Battista Viotti in Paris, where he participated as a violinist in the Concerts spirituels between 1783 and 1790. He also published four of his own violin concertos in Paris during these years. He next reappears in Oxford in 1793 when he married the French harpist Adélaïde Rosalie Delatouche. In this city he published three of his string quartets. By 1804, he had moved to Edinburgh.
Still in the same year he is recorded as having performed in Cork and Dublin and then settled in the latter city for the rest of his life. He appeared both as a soloist in violin concertos and as leader of orchestras including the Anacreontic Society (1819–1828), of which he was secretary (1824–1830), and The Sons of Handel. In 1810, Alday took over the music shop of Francis Rhames, moving it to 10 Dame Street in 1815, which he continued until his death in Dublin in 1835. Here, he sold sheet music and musical instruments and also published music under his name.
Music
Alday made a name for himself as a violinist, composer, and successful business man in Irish musical life of the early 19th century. His two Grand Symphonies, one in C major and one in D major, both written around 1819 and performed by the Anacreontic Society in February 1820, are today regarded as the only symphonies written in Ireland in the first half of the 19th century. The Andante movement of the Second Symphony was described as "a production of the first-rate order ... (which) must always be a desideratum to the selection of every lover of instrumental music".
Selected works
Orchestral music
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 2 (Paris, c.1785)
Violin Concerto in B flat major (Paris, c.1788)
Violin Concerto in A major (Paris, c.1788)
Violin Concerto in D minor (Paris, 1789; also Berlin, c. 1800)
Concertante Symphony in C major for two violins and orchestra (c.1788; Paris, c.1800)
Symphony No. 1 in C major (Dublin, c.1819)
Symphony No. 2 in D major (Dublin, c.1819)
Chamber music
Airs variés pour le violon avec accompagnement de basse, two volumes (Paris, 1786 and 1788)
Trois Duos (E flat major, G major, G minor), for violin and viola (Paris, not dated)
Mélanges for two violins (Paris, not dated)
"God Save the King", with Variations, for two violins (London & Oxford, c.1795)
A Grand Pastoral Overture, for piano with violin and cello ad lib (London?, c.1795)
Three string quartets (B flat major, A major, C minor) (London & Oxford, c.1795)
Horn Quintet (before 1805), unpublished
Perche ti lagni mio ..., Polacca (London & Dublin, c.1807), for voice, violin and piano
A Pocket Volume of Airs, Duets, Songs, Marches etc., for one melodic instrument and piano (Dublin, c.1812)
Piano music
The Blue Bells of Scotland, with Variations (Dublin, c.1805), for piano or harp
A Collection of Favourite Airs etc. with Variations (Dublin, c.1810)
The Favorite Air of Paddy O'Carrol (Dublin, c.1810)
The Celebrated Ballad of Sweet Robin (Dublin, c.1810)
His Excellency the Earl of Whitworth's Grand March and Welcome to Ireland (Dublin, c.1815)
Installation, Marches, ... Dedicated to ... the Knights of St Patrick (Dublin, c.1815)
P. Alday's Select Collection of Country Dances (Dublin, 1815, 1820, 1825)
Alday's Select Collection of Country Dances, Waltzes, Quadrilles etc. (Dublin, annually, 1815–1820)
Favorite Dances (Dublin, n.d.)
Bibliography
Ita M. Hogan: Anglo-Irish Music, 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966).
entries in modern encyclopaedias: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition; Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), second edition; The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland.
References
External links
BnF Data
Free scores by Paul Alday at IMSLP
Alday's entry in the Dublin Music Trade database
1763 births
1835 deaths
18th-century Irish classical composers
18th-century French male classical violinists
19th-century Irish classical composers
French Classical-period composers
Composers for piano
French emigrants to Ireland
French music publishers (people)
Irish male classical composers
People from Perpignan
Pupils of Giovanni Battista Viotti
String quartet composers
Musicians from Dublin (city)
19th-century Irish male musicians |
Kok Ksor (Jarai: Ksor Kok, born 1945 in Gia Lai Province, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, died in USA on 9 January 2019), was a member of the Jarai ethnic group and the President of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc., an organization, begun as an RSO at the University of Chicago, which states that its mission is to preserve the lives, rights and culture of the Montagnard people.
Kok Ksor was also a member of the Transnational Radical Party (TRP), a non-government agency that investigates human rights abuses in the world.
External links
Khmerkrom.com
The Montagnard Foundation, Inc.
Relatives of Kok Ksor forced to confess 'wrongdoings' in Vietnam
Fostering a revolution?
Vietnam's Tribal Injustice
Transnational Radical Party
1945 births
2019 deaths
Vietnamese pacifists
Vietnamese exiles
Jarai people
People from Gia Lai Province |
Matthew Philip Edwards (born 1 August 1991) is an English born, Scottish footballer, who is currently unattached. He has played for Leeds United and Rochdale as a goalkeeper.
Career
Leeds United
Born in Liverpool, England, Edwards started his career at Manchester United but never received a professional contract. He then continued his career playing in the youth teams at Leeds United. He signed his first professional contract for Leeds in 2008 aged 17. In January 2009 he joined Salford City on a month's loan deal, before he was released by Leeds in summer that year.
Rochdale
After his release by Leeds, he joined up with Keith Hill at Rochdale as cover for Kenny Arthur. He made his Rochdale debut on the 27 November 2010 in a 1–1 draw at home to Oldham Athletic, coming on as a substitute for injured Josh Lillis. In December 2010 he signed a contract extension with Rochdale. In May 2011, Matty put pen-to-paper on yet another six-month deal at Spotland, which was later extended to the end of last season.
Edwards made seven appearances for the first team in the 2011–12 season, before signing yet another short-term contract with the club.
After the end of the 2012–13 season his contract was not renewed by Keith Hill.
International career
Edwards was selected for the Scotland national under-21 football team in April 2012 and he appeared as a substitute in the second half in a 4–1 defeat against Italy. He is eligible to represent Scotland because his maternal grandmother was born in Airdrie.
References
External links
1991 births
Living people
English people of Scottish descent
English men's footballers
Footballers from Birkenhead
Men's association football goalkeepers
Leeds United F.C. players
Salford City F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
English Football League players
Scotland men's under-21 international footballers |
```javascript
'use strict';
/*
* This test is a regression test for joyent/node#8900.
*/
const common = require('../common');
const TEST_DURATION = common.platformTimeout(1000);
let N = 3;
const keepOpen =
setTimeout(
common.mustNotCall('Test timed out. keepOpen was not canceled.'),
TEST_DURATION);
const timer = setInterval(common.mustCall(() => {
if (--N === 0) {
clearInterval(timer);
timer._onTimeout =
common.mustNotCall('Unrefd interval fired after being cleared');
clearTimeout(keepOpen);
}
}, N), 1);
timer.unref();
``` |
Nizhneye Vorovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kichmegnskoye Rural Settlement, Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2002. There are 2 streets.
Geography
Nizhneye Vorovo is located 12 km southeast of Kichmengsky Gorodok (the district's administrative centre) by road. Koryakovskaya is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District |
Tatjana Ječmenica (born 14 April 1949 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina) is a former international table tennis player and coach from Serbia and Slovenia.
Table tennis career
When she was less than 16 years old, Ječmenica competed in the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She reached the third round in singles, while in mixed doubles with Istvan Korpa reached the fourth round and in team competition won eight place for the National team of former Yugoslavia.
Ječmenica played at the European Table Tennis Championships held in London in 1966. In singles she reached last 64, in doubles with Cirila Pirc reached last 32 and in mixed doubles with Istvan Korpa reached last 32.
In 1966 in Szombathely, Hungary, she played at European Youth Championship (Junior) and won doubles with Mirjana Resler. In singles she won the third place.
At X International Tournament, held In Ruse, Bulgaria, 1966, she won the 1st place women doubles with Cirila Pirc. Also in In 1966, Brasov, Romania, at Balkan Championship, in team event Jecmenica and Cirila Pirc won the 2nd place for former Yugoslavia national team.
Apart from mentioned tournaments Jecmenica played on many other international table tennis tournaments like London European Championship 1965, Paris International 1965, Berlin 1966, Magdeburg 1966, Prague 1966 etc.
In 1966 and 1967 she played at the European Champions Cup as a member of STK Novi Sad with Radmila Stojšić and Sonja Skakun. In both competitions she reached the quarter-finals.
Jecmenica won four National Champion titles, three in woman doubles with Radmila Stojšić, in 1966, 1967 and 1968, and one in mix doubles with Istvan Korpa in 1965. She won two National titles in womans team competitions in 1966 and 1967. Also, in 1964 and 1965, as a junior player she won two Junior National titles in singles competitions.
Ječmenica played 53 times for the National Team of former Yugoslavia. In 1965 she received the award as the most successful junior sportsman of the city of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. In 1966 Tatjana was announced as the best junior sportswoman of the year. She finished her competitive sport career at the age of 19. Later she continued to contribute to Table Tennis sport through the sports association. She volunteered as a coach in Bergkvara, Sweden and Maribor, Slovenia.
References
Yugoslav table tennis players
Living people
Serbian female table tennis players
Slovenian table tennis players
Slovenian female table tennis players
1949 births
Sportspeople from Banja Luka |
Aaron Michael Hicks (born October 2, 1989) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Minnesota Twins and New York Yankees.
Hicks was drafted by the Twins in the first round of the 2008 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2013 with the Twins and was traded to the Yankees after the 2015 season. The Yankees released Hicks during the 2023 season and he signed with the Orioles.
Early life
Hicks grew up in Long Beach, California, attending Woodrow Wilson Classical High School, where he was a star baseball player. He also attended Major League Baseball's (MLB) Urban Youth Academy, designed to promote baseball in urban areas.
Career
Minor leagues
A switch hitter, Aaron was drafted by Minnesota Twins in the first round of the 2008 MLB draft out of Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. In his first professional season, Hicks was tabbed a 2008 Baseball America Rookie All-Star and named the top prospect in the Twins' organization. He batted .318 with four home runs, 27 runs batted in, twelve stolen bases and 28 walks for the Gulf Coast League Twins to earn a Gulf Coast League postseason All-Star nod. In 2009, Hicks batted .251 with four home runs, 29 RBIs, ten steals and 40 walks for the Beloit Snappers. He returned to Beloit in 2010 and hit .279 with eight home runs.
Playing for the Fort Myers Miracle in 2011, he hit .242 with five home runs. In 2012, he hit .286 with 13 home runs for the New Britain Rock Cats. After being sent down from the major leagues in August, for the 2013 season in AAA he batted .222 with the Rochester Red Wings.
Aaron was a top 100 prospect by Baseball America four times.
Minnesota Twins (2013–2015)
On March 24, 2013, it was announced that Hicks would be the starting center fielder for the Minnesota Twins. He chose his new number to honor Dave Winfield, who wore 32 for the Twins. He was sent down to AAA on August 1, and was not called back up in 2013.
In 2013, Hicks batted .192 in 281 at bats, with a .259 on-base percentage. Jim Souhan of the Star Tribune wrote that he became: "the latest unpaid spokesman for the Public Service Announcement that reminds baseball fans not to believe anything they see in spring training."
Despite his underwhelming 2013 performance, Hicks was named the starting center fielder for the 2014 season. Hicks' 2014 season did not show improvement at the plate. Through 47 games, Hicks hit .201 and was demoted to Double A on June 9.
Hicks gave up switch hitting during the 2014 season due to a lack of confidence in his ability to bat left-handed. However, he went back to switch hitting less than a month later.
For the 2015 season, Hicks hit .256 with 11 home runs and 33 RBIs in 97 games.
New York Yankees (2016–2023)
2016–2018
On November 11, 2015, the Twins traded Hicks to the New York Yankees for John Ryan Murphy. The Yankees targeted Hicks due to his athleticism, strong throwing arm, and ability to hit left-handed pitching.
During a game against the Oakland Athletics on April 20, 2016, Hicks made a throw that nabbed Danny Valencia at home plate for an out. The throw was recorded at , the fastest throwing speed recorded by Statcast. In 123 games of 2016, Hicks batted .217 with eight home runs and 31 RBI.
In early June 2017, with just 154 at bats, Hicks had already hit more home runs (10) and RBIs (34) than in all of last season. As of June 9 he ranked seventh in the majors in both OBP and OPS. On April 13, 2017, Hicks hit two home runs; one batting left handed and one batting right handed. He drove in all three runs as the Yankees won 3-2 over the Tampa Bay Rays. Hicks suffered an oblique injury in late June, causing him to go on the 10-day disabled list. On September 3, Hicks was again placed on the 10-day disabled list due to a left oblique injury. He returned from the DL on September 26. Hicks ended the season with 15 home runs, 52 RBIs, and a .266 average, all career highs.
On March 30, 2018, the Yankees placed Hicks on the 10-day disabled list due to a strained right intercostal muscle. He was reinstated from the DL on April 12 and hit an inside-the-park home run against the Detroit Tigers on the next day. Hicks would hit another inside-the-park-home run against the Kansas City Royals on May 19, becoming the first Yankee since Mickey Mantle in 1958 to hit two inside-the-park-home runs in a single season. On July 1, Hicks hit three home runs in one game against the Boston Red Sox. Hicks ended the season with 27 home runs, 79 RBIs, and 119 hits, all career highs.
2019–2023
On January 11, 2019, Hicks signed a one-year, $6 million contract to remain with the Yankees. On February 25, Hicks signed a seven-year, $70 million contract extension, replacing the one-year deal. The deal includes a $12.5 million club option for 2026, a $1 million buyout and a $2 million signing bonus. He began the 2019 year on the 10-day injured list due to a lower back strain. On May 6, he was optioned to the Tampa Tarpons for a rehab assignment. On June 24, against the Blue Jays, Hicks hit a home run that helped the Yankees tie a league record with 27 straight games hitting a home run. On June 29, 2019, Hicks became the first MLB player to hit a home run in Europe during the first inning of the Red Sox-Yankees 2019 London Series. On September 10, Hicks left the game with an elbow injury. It was revealed that Hicks was diagnosed with a right flexor strain in his right elbow since August 3, and that Tommy John surgery would be necessary to correct the problem. The Yankees ruled Hicks out for the rest of 2019 due to his elbow injury.
On October 11, 2019, Aaron Hicks told a New York Post reporter that he would be on the ALCS roster against the Houston Astros. The following day, the Yankees announced that they had reinstated Hicks from the 60-day injured list and added him to the roster, replacing Luke Voit. He revealed that after his Tommy John surgery recommendation, he had decided not to have surgery immediately and engaged in light physical activity on his own. After a week, he visited the Yankees’ spring training complex to work out his elbow. Following a few weeks of regular exercise, it was determined that he would not in fact require surgery and he joined his team on the road in Houston. He later underwent the surgery, and was expected to miss 8–10 months.
With COVID-19 pandemic delaying the start of the season by over four months, Hicks was able to return to play in the intra-squad scrimmage match just eight months post surgery. In 54 games, Hicks batted .225 with six home runs and 21 RBIs.
On May 21, 2021, Hicks underwent surgery to repair a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist, which was expected to end his season. On May 30, Hicks was placed on the 60-day injured list. In 32 games for the Yankees, Hicks posted a .194/.294/.333 batting line with 4 home runs and 14 RBIs.
On July 6, 2022, Hicks hit his first career grand slam while pinch hitting for Matt Carpenter as part of a 16-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Fellow outfielder Aaron Judge, whom Hicks eventually replaced in center field, had hit a grand slam earlier that night, making the pair the first two players with the same first name to hit grand slams in the same game. On September 23, Hicks hit a 405–foot home run off of Rich Hill of the Boston Red Sox for his 100th career home run. In 2022, Hicks batted .216/.330/.313 with 8 home runs and 40 RBIs.
Oswaldo Cabrera began the 2023 season for the Yankees as their starting left fielder, with Hicks on the bench. Hicks played in 28 games for the Yankees, batting .188/.263/.261 with one home run and five RBI. On May 20, 2023, Hicks was designated for assignment after Greg Allen was added to the roster. The Yankees released Hicks on May 26.
Baltimore Orioles (2023–present)
On May 30, 2023, Hicks signed a one-year, major league contract with the Baltimore Orioles following an injury to Cedric Mullins. His $483,871 Orioles salary is a prorated share of the $720,000 MLB minimum. He had four RBI which included a first-inning three-run homer off Tyler Glasnow in an 8–6 away win over the Rays on June 20. He responded to a hostile crowd at Yankee Stadium with a fifth-inning one-out solo homer to right off Clarke Schmidt in an 8–4 loss in his second game against his previous team on July 4.
Personal life
Hicks' father, Joseph, was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 12th round of the 1975 amateur draft, but his career was ended early by an eye injury. This led Joseph to push his son into golf before baseball. Hicks is an accomplished golfer, having competed in numerous youth golf tournaments. After making baseball his focus, he has continued to play golf and played in a PGA Tour event in 2019.
On October 27, 2021, Hicks got engaged to professional golfer Cheyenne Woods. They married in February 2022, and their son was born in April 2022. They reside in Scottsdale, Arizona.
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Baseball players from Long Beach, California
African-American baseball players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Minnesota Twins players
New York Yankees players
Baltimore Orioles players
Gulf Coast Twins players
Beloit Snappers players
Fort Myers Miracle players
Mesa Solar Sox players
New Britain Rock Cats players
Norfolk Tides players
Bravos de Margarita players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Rochester Red Wings players
Wilson Classical High School alumni
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people |
Jewish disabilities were legal restrictions, limitations and obligations placed on European Jews in the Middle Ages. In Europe, the disabilities imposed on Jews included provisions requiring Jews to wear specific and identifying clothing such as the Jewish hat and the yellow badge, paying special taxes, swearing special oaths, living in certain neighbourhoods, and forbidding Jews to enter certain trades. In Sweden, for example, Jews were forbidden to sell new pieces of clothing. Disabilities also included special taxes levied on Jews, exclusion from public life, restraints on the performance of religious ceremonies, and linguistic censorship. Some countries went even further and outright expelled Jews, for example England in 1290 (Jews were readmitted in 1655) and Spain in 1492 (readmitted in 1868).
The disabilities began to be lifted with Jewish emancipation in the late 18th and 19th centuries. In 1791, Revolutionary France was the first country to abolish disabilities altogether, followed by Hungary in 1840 and Prussia in 1848. Hungary enacted the full emancipation on 29 July 1849. Emancipation of the Jews in the United Kingdom was achieved in 1858 after an almost 30-year struggle championed by Isaac Lyon Goldsmid with the ability of Jews to sit in parliament with the passing of the Jews Relief Act 1858. The newly united German Empire abolished Jewish disabilities in Germany in 1871.
The first Jewish settlers in North America arrived in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654. They were forbidden to hold public office, open a retail shop, or establish a synagogue. When the colony was seized by the British in 1664 Jewish rights remained unchanged, but by 1671 Asser Levy was the first Jew to serve on a jury in North America.
In the Russian Empire Jewish disabilities were completely abolished after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
See also
Christian privilege
Dhimmi
Disabilities (Catholics)
Jewish question
Jewish quota
Pale of settlement
Ghetto benches
References |
Jeffrey Barber is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Jeff Barber was a gamer from Columbia, Missouri, who joined the volunteer staff of Pagan Publishing and collaborated with John Scott Tynes on early adventures and other games. He co-wrote "Grace under pressure" with Pagan publishing's staff, the book is currently out of print. When Pagan moved to Seattle, Barber and others left Pagan as a result, and went on to found Biohazard Games, publishers of Blue Planet (1997). Fantasy Flight Games spent 2000 pushing out a new line of RPG products: a new edition of Barber's and Greg Benage's Blue Planet. He is one of the author of the Midnight campaign setting.
Bibliography
Killer Crosshairs, Biohazard Games 1995.
References
External links
Living people
People from Columbia, Missouri
Role-playing game designers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
The Plainedge Union Free School District is a school district which serves the hamlets of Plainedge and North Massapequa.
Administration
The current Superintendent is Dr. Edward A. Salina Jr. The school board is currently composed of President Catherine Flanagan, Vice President Raymond Paris and trustees Jennifer Maggio, Dr. Lynnda Nadien, Dr. Joseph Netto, Sonny Spagnuolo and Sisi Townson.
The principals of the elementary schools are Emily O'Brien (Eastplain), Joseph A. Maisano (John H. West), and Jennifer Thearle (Schwarting), with Sara Azizollahoff serving as assistant principal at all elementary schools. The principal of the middle school is Anthony DeRiso and assistant principals Jennifer Wiesman and Vito Mannino. The deans of the middle school are Casey Kornharens and Brian Wipperman. The principal of the high school is Robert Amster and the assistant principals are Jennifer Vitale and Kevin Burgoyne.
History and organization
The first Plainedge school was housed in a two-room, wood-frame schoolhouse that became known as the "Annex." It served the district until about 1952 when the John H. West elementary school was built. It was then updated and used as the school district's administration office.
On February 19, 1985, the Plainedge School Union's Board of Education was sued by Carl McCall for a refusal to promote her allegedly based on her gender.
The school district is composed of 3 elementary schools, John H. West elementary, Eastplain elementary and Charles E. Schwarting elementary. The middle school is Plainedge Middle School and the high school is Plainedge High School. Former schools include Robert E. Picken elementary, which was sold to the Town of Oyster Bay to serve as a smaller town hall for the southern part of the town; Northedge Elementary (then Kindergarten), which was knocked down to make room for the new Middle School; Baldwin Drive Elementary and Southedge Junior High, which were demolished and the land sold for housing; and Sylvia Packard Middle School, which was shut down after the school, at 40 years of age, was deemed inefficient to serve the continuing needs of the community.
Since Plainedge is not an official town, its students come from parts of Massapequa, North Massapequa, Bethpage, Seaford and Farmingdale.
As a result of school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Plainedge school district arranged a community effort to turn on stadium and porch lights between 8:20 and 8:40PM on May 1, 2020, to honor the graduating senior class.
Notable alumni
Manjul Bhargava, mathematician and recipient of the Fields Medal (2014)
Edward Byrne, New York City Police officer killed on duty in 1988
Steve Guttenberg, actor
Jim Hodder, drummer with Steely Dan
John Melendez, television writer and radio personality
References
School districts in Nassau County, New York |
Anne Hee Hiong Ngu is an Australian-American computer scientist known for her research on middleware and quality of service for web services and the Internet of things. She is a professor of computer science at Texas State University.
Education and career
Ngu was educated at the University of Western Australia, where she earned bachelor's degrees in science and in computer science (with honours) in 1981 and 1982, and completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 1990. She became a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, beginning in 1992 and retaining a position there as an adjunct associate professor until 2006. In the meantime, in 2002, she moved to Texas State University in 2002, as an associate professor of computer science, and was promoted to full professor in 2010.
Recognition
Ngu was one of the 2013 winners of the Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Texas State University gave her their Presidential Distinction Award in Services in 2014 and again in 2017.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Australian women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Western Australia alumni
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Texas State University faculty |
The men's 90 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 15 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the third-heaviest of the men's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of of body mass.
As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to his chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until his arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.
Results
Key: NMR=No marks recorded
References
Men's 090 kg |
Hazel is an album by the experimental rock band Red Krayola, released in 1996 by Drag City.
Critical reception
The Austin Chronicle wrote that "although a lot of Hazel is presented in a cut-and-paste carnival of strange narratives, short bursts of guitar/synthesizer, and bold U-turns galore, songs like 'I'm So Blasé' and 'Larking' capture the same infinite pop energy Chris Bell once reigned in." Magnet wrote that it possessed "a leaner, more subtle weirdness than previous records."
Track listing
Personnel
Werner Büttner
Michael Baldwin
David Grubbs
George Hurley
Lynn Johnston
Hei Han Khiang
John McEntire
Albert Oehlen
Jim O'Rourke
Stephen Prina
Elisa Randazzo
Mary Lass Stewart
Mayo Thompson
Tom Watson
Christopher Williams
References
External links
1996 albums
Drag City (record label) albums
Red Krayola albums |
{{Infobox mobile phone
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}}Lenovo K6 Power is a midrange Android smartphone launched by Lenovo Group Limited in September 2016. The device supports TheaterMax technology with a VR headset. It is the successor of Lenovo K5 Plus.
Specifications
Design
The phone has a unibody metal (aluminium) design. It has a 5.0 inch display. Its physical dimensions are 141.9 x 70.3 x 9.3 mm (Length x Width x Thickness) and it weighs 145 grams.
Hardware
The phone features a 5.0 inch FHD display with 441 ppi pixel density. It comes with two storage variants of 16 GB with 2 GB RAM and 32 GB with 3 GB or 4 GB of RAM. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 SoC with an octa core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 processor and Adreno 505 GPU. It has a 13 MP rear camera and 8 MP selfie camera. It has a 4000 mAh Li-Po battery.
SoftwareLenovo K6 Power''' runs on Android Marshmallow 6.0 and is upgradable to Android Nougat 7.0.
Latest version K33_S231_171114_ROW
Custom ROM
LineageOS 18.1 for Lenovo K6 Power
LineageOS 18.1 for Lenovo K6 Power (Daily Build)
TWRP Recovery for Lenovo K6 Power
Variant
K33a42 - Lenovo K6 Power - 4GB/32GB - 4000 mAh
K33a42 - Lenovo K6 Power - 3GB/32GB - 4000 mAh
K33a48 - Lenovo K6 - 3GB/32GB - 3000 mAh
K33b36 - Lenovo K6 - 2GB/16GB - 3000 mAh
References
K6 Power
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2016
Discontinued smartphones |
Kawęczyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piaski, within Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of Piaski, south-east of Świdnik, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin.
References
Villages in Świdnik County |
The men's 1500 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 10 August.
Records
Schedule
Results
Round 1
First 3 (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the final.
Final
References
1500 M
1500 metres at the European Athletics Championships |
James Dahlberg is an emeritus professor of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on the biology of RNA. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1996.
Education
Dahlberg earned his bachelor's degree from Haverford College in 1962 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. He completed his postdoctoral training at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge with Frederick Sanger from 1966 to 1968 followed by additional work at the University of Geneva from 1968 to 1969.
Career
Dahlberg joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin Department of Physiological Chemistry, which eventually became the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, in 1969. He was promoted to full professor in 1974. He retired from the university in 2005, but still manages a small lab. He and colleague Lloyd smith formed Third Wave Technologies, a company that produced a technology to detect genetic variations. He was on the board of the Morgridge Institute for Research from 2009 to 2014 and served briefly as interim CEO.
Honors and awards
1974 – Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
1996 – Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
References
External links
Oral History from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
21st-century American chemists
Haverford College alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
David A. Zarling is a co-founder, president and CEO of Colby Pharmaceutical Company and an oncology drug development scientist and entrepreneur. Zarling also has been a part of teams that successfully licensed technology to start-up companies, one of which subsequently achieved significant market capitalization.
Early life and education
Zarling was a S. L. Brown Scholar and holds a BA with Honors in Biology, an MA in Molecular Biology/ Biological Sciences from Dartmouth College, a Ph.D. in Virology/Oncology, with emphasis on pharmaceutical drug development, from Baylor College of Medicine and an Executive MBA in Marketing/Finance from Pepperdine University.
Career
Zarling was employed at SRI International as a program director in the pharmaceutical drug development division, where he led a team which developed drug targets, oncology drug candidates and development of companion diagnostic product candidates. Some of these were developed for public international companies and others were out-licensed to public and private companies. At SRI, he also managed contract research for pharmaceutical and biotech companies and worked in drug development and consulting teams for domestic and international pharma and biotech companies. He led or was part of drug and associated companion diagnostic product development teams transitioning pre-clinical small molecule drugs into the clinic and he performed his doctoral work on small molecule anti-cancer drugs.
Before starting Colby Pharmaceutical Company, Zarling was a president and CEO of Pangene Corporation (PGC, Mt View, CA), a service company which provided drug and drug target development services in pharmaceuticals, genomics & cancer. Pangene was formed within and spun-out from SRI International, formerly Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA. Zarling co-founded PGC as a spin-out company from SRI International's pharmaceutical drug development/genomics/cancer programs in the SRI Life Sciences Division, where he was a manager and program director. PGC sold its target bio-validation services to several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and achieved significant revenues. At SRI, and in collaboration with the SRI wholly owned for profit subsidiary, Sarnoff Corporation, Zarling helped organize, secure funding for and co-led a biotechnology platform based product development group. This group was responsible for significant new business and product development, including IP and product candidates, which were successfully out-licensed.
Zarling was also an Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of California San Francisco and has had several successful collaborations with clinical and pre-clinical investigators at major cancer and other research centers. He also has numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications, many issued US and Foreign patents and a deal sheet record for responsive and successful deals.
Selected publications
Discovery of gene families and alternatively spliced variants by RecA-mediated cloning. Zeng H, Allen E, Lehman CW, Sargent RG, Pati S, Zarling DA., Genomics. 2002 Nov;80(5):543-51
References
External links
Colby Pharmaceutical Company Website
SRI International
David Zarling at GTCbio's 5th Annual Cancer Drugs R&D Conference
American manufacturing businesspeople
Living people
Dartmouth College alumni
Pepperdine University alumni
Baylor College of Medicine alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American biologists |
Senator Metcalf or Metcalfe may refer to:
Members of the United States Senate
Jesse H. Metcalf (1860–1942), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1924 to 1937
Lee Metcalf (1911–1978), U.S. Senator from Montana from 1961 to 1978
Thomas Metcalfe (Kentucky politician) (1780–1855), U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1848 to 1849
United States state senate members
George R. Metcalf (1914–2002), New York State Senate
Jack Metcalf (1927–2007), Washington State Senate
Ralph Metcalf (Washington politician) (1861–1939), Washington State Senate
Steve Metcalf (fl. 1990s–2000s) North Carolina State Senate
Wilder Metcalf (1855–1935), Kansas State Senate |
Norwood is a historic plantation house and farm located near Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1819, and consists of a two-story, three bay, brick main block with two-story, brick side wing in the Federal-style. The front facade features a classical one-story, one-bay portico with Doric order columns. Also on the property are the contributing brick meathouse, which dates to the same period as the main house; a late 19th-century frame tenant house; and several late 19th-century agricultural buildings.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
References
Plantation houses in Virginia
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Clarke County, Virginia
Federal architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1819
Houses in Clarke County, Virginia |
Rodzima Wiara (meaning "Native Faith") is a Polish Rodnover religious organization, founded in 1996 by Stanisław Potrzebowski in Wrocław as Zrzeszenie Rodzimej Wiary (meaning "Union of Native Faith"). The name was changed to the current one in 2000.
Zrzeszenie Rodzimej Wiary was registered with the Polish Ministry of the Interior's registry of denominations and churches on March 4, 1996. The official activity of organization was started on March 23, 1996 during the Veche of the Followers in Wrocław.
Rodzima Wiara is a member of the European Congress of Ethnic Religions and of the Rodnover Confederation.
References
External links
Modern pagan organisations based in Poland
Modern pagan organizations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Poland |
The Sinaia Agreement was concluded on 18 August 1938 between Romania, France and the United Kingdom. It entered into force on 13 May 1939.
The agreement provided for most of the powers of the European Danube Commission, including the control of the Danube maritime navigation from Brăila to the Black Sea, to be transferred to the Romanian state. All of the ships of the Commission became the Romanian state's property.
On 16 May 1939, three days after the treaty went into effect and ended the Commission's authority over the Lower Danube, the Commission's flag was hauled down at Sulina and the Romanian flag was hoisted in its place. On 25 May, the Romanian flag was hoisted aboard a vessel of the Commission, marking the end of a system which had lasted for 82 years, since 1856. The Commission continued to nominally exist, but only as a counselor.
References
Treaties of the Kingdom of Romania
Treaties of the French Third Republic
Treaties of the United Kingdom
Treaties concluded in 1938
France–Romania relations
Romania–United Kingdom relations
Greater Romania
1938 in Romania
Interwar-period treaties |
Koltsovo may refer to:
Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
Koltsovo, Yekaterinburg, a former urban-type settlement in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia; now a part of the city of Yekaterinburg
Koltsovo Airport, an airport in Yekaterinburg, Russia
See also
Koltsov |
Results of Rally Argentina (27º Rally Argentina), 6th round of 2007 World Rally Championship, was run on May 3–6:
Results
Retirements
Kristian Sohlberg - mechanical - accident (SS12);
Petter Solberg - mechanical - engine (SS17);
Nasser Al-Attiyah - mechanical - lost wheel (SS18);
Leszek Kuzaj - mechanical - lost wheel (SS18);
Amjad Farrah - mechanical (SS19);
Stefano Marrini - mechanical - radiator (SS20);
Fumio Nutahara - mechanical - fuel tank (SS21);
Spyros Pavlides - mechanical - suspension (SS21);
Loris Baldacci - mechanical - driveshaft (SS22);
Fabio Frisiero - mechanical - turbo (SS22);
Mirco Baldacci - mechanical - engine (SS22);
Special Stages
All dates and times are ART (UTC-3).
Championship standings after the event
Drivers' championship
Manufacturers' championship
External links
Results on official site - WRC.com
Results on eWRC-results.com
Results on RallyBase.nl
Argentina
2007
Rally |
Ginette Martenot (1902–1996) was a French pianist, and an expert and leading performer on the twentieth-century electronic instrument the ondes Martenot, which was invented by her brother Maurice. At the age of sixteen, she entered the Paris Conservatory, where she studied counterpoint and fugue with the composer Arthur Honegger. She gave the first performance (and subsequently made recordings) as solo ondist in Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie, with Yvonne Loriod taking the solo piano part.
Martenot taught the composer Serge Nigg.
Martenot composed and performed the score for the 1964 Canadian short documentary, Le Monde va nous prendre pour des sauvages. (English title: People Might Laugh at Us.) Directed by Françoise Bujold and Jacques Godbout, the film depicts Mi'kmaq children on a reserve in Maria, Quebec.
She was the sister of Madeleine Martenot, a pianist and pedagogue.
Notable performances
On December 10, 1949, Ginette Martenot performed on the ondes Martenot in the premier of Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The part was written for Martenot herself, with Messiaen describing her as "the only possible ondiste" for his work, and "the perfect virtuoso," in a 1949 letter to Serge Koussevitzky.
Awards
On April 20, 1995, Martenot was admitted to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the rank of Commandeur.
Martenot received a Grand Prix for conducting an ensemble of ondes Martenot in a performance of Messiaen's unpublished 1937 work, Fête des belles eaux.
Publications
"Voies nouvelles pour présenter la musique à l'enfant," [New methods for introducing music to children] by Ginette Martenot. Published in the international education review, "Pour l'Ère Nouvelle," January 1933.
"Influence du rhythme et du temps rhythmique sur l'enfant," [The influence of rhythm and rhythmic meter on the child] by Ginette and Maurice Martenot. Published in the international education review, "Pour l'Ère Nouvelle," July 1934.
References
External links
Ginette Martenot (in French)
1902 births
1996 deaths
Musicians from Paris
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Ondists
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
20th-century French classical pianists |
Branislav Jovanović (; born 21 September 1985) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Zvezdara.
Club career
Jovanović made his senior debuts with Jedinstvo Surčin. He also played for Beograd in the Serbian League Belgrade, before moving to Cypriot club Ethnikos Achna. In the 2009 winter transfer window, Jovanović returned to his homeland and signed with Serbian SuperLiga side Napredak Kruševac.
In June 2009, Jovanović signed a four-year contract with Partizan. He helped the side defend the league title in the 2009–10 season. After an unsuccessful negotiation with Turkish side Galatasaray, Jovanović signed for Serbian SuperLiga club Rad on the last day of the 2010 summer transfer window.
In the 2013 winter transfer window, Jovanović moved abroad for the second time and joined Israeli side Hapoel Acre. He spent three and a half years at the club, collecting over 100 appearances across all domestic competitions (Premier League, State Cup and Toto Cup).
In August 2016, Jovanović returned to Serbia and signed with Voždovac. He moved back to Israel six months later and joined Hapoel Ashkelon. After playing for Hapoel Ramat Gan, Jovanović rejoined his former club Rad in early 2019.
International career
On 7 June 2011, Jovanović made his international debut for Serbia, replacing Dejan Stanković as a substitute in a 0–0 friendly draw against Australia.
Honours
Partizan
Serbian SuperLiga: 2009–10
References
External links
Men's association football midfielders
Cypriot First Division players
Ethnikos Achna FC players
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
FK Beograd (Serbia) players
FK Jedinstvo Surčin players
FK Napredak Kruševac players
FK Partizan players
FK Rad players
FK Voždovac players
Footballers from Belgrade
Hapoel Acre F.C. players
Hapoel Ashkelon F.C. players
Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim F.C. players
FK Proleter Novi Sad players
Israeli Premier League players
Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers
Serbia men's international footballers
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Serbian men's footballers
Serbian SuperLiga players
1985 births
Living people |
is a Japanese football player. He plays for Albirex Niigata on loan from Kashiwa Reysol.
Career
Daichi Tagami joined J2 League club V-Varen Nagasaki in 2016.
Club statistics
Updated to end of 2018 season.
References
External links
Profile at V-Varen Nagasaki
1993 births
Living people
Ryutsu Keizai University alumni
Association football people from Chiba Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
V-Varen Nagasaki players
Kashiwa Reysol players
Albirex Niigata players
Men's association football defenders
Universiade bronze medalists for Japan
Universiade medalists in football |
Firestone may refer to:
Flint or firestone
Firestone (surname)
Places
Liberia
Firestone District, Margibi County, Liberia
United States
Firestone (Phoenix, Arizona), a listing on the National Register of Historic Places in Phoenix, Arizona
Firestone, Colorado, a town in Weld County, Colorado
Companies
Firestone Building Products, headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Firestone Diamond Mining, Avontuur and Oena in Namaqualand, South Africa
Firestone Employees Society, New Zealand Trade Union
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, an American company, a subsidiary of Bridgestone
Firestone Vineyard, Santa Barbara, California, US
Firestone Walker Fine Ales, Paso Robles, California, US
Other uses
Firestone (LACMTA station), a Los Angeles, California bus station, United States
Firestone (Pern), a fictional rock in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
"Firestone" (song), a song by Kygo featuring Conrad Sewell
See also
Firestone Country Club, in Akron, Ohio, United States
Firestone Fieldhouse, a multipurpose arena in Malibu, California, United States
Firestone High School, on the northwest side of Akron, Ohio, United States
Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, the main library at Princeton University, United States
The Voice of Firestone, a weekly broadcast of classical music which appeared on the NBC radio network
Feuerstein |
A secret society is an organization with activities or inner functions concealed from non-members.
Secret society or Secret Society may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Secret Society (album), a 2006 album by Europe
Secret Society (band), an American hip-hop group
"Secret Society" (Justice League), an episode of the animated series Justice League
Secret Society, a BBC documentary series that led to the Zircon affair
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, an American steampunk big band
Secret Society of Second-Born Royals, a 2020 American contemporary science fantasy action superhero film
Secret Society of Super Villains, a fictional group of comic book characters
The Secret Society, a 2015 book about Cecil Rhodes, by Robin Brown
Other uses
Secret Society (Persia), played a role in the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1911
See also
Society (disambiguation)
High society (disambiguation) |
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``` |
Bratislava main railway station (Slovak: Bratislava hlavná stanica, abbreviated as Bratislava hl.st.; Hungarian: Pozsony főpályaudvar) is the main railway station of the city of Bratislava, Slovakia. It averages about 60,000 passengers per day.
Apart from domestic routes, international routes from this station include trains to Austria, Croatia (summer only), Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, and Switzerland.
Etymology
Prior to 1919 the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and was known as "Pressburg", in German, and "Pozsony", in Hungarian. The station was named Pressburger Hauptbahnhof and Pozsony főpályaudvar in those languages.
History
The first station building, a two-storey building at Šancová 1, now serves as the headquarters of the railway police. It was built in 1848 as the terminus for the Vienna - Gänserndorf - Bratislava (Pressburg) and Břeclav - Bratislava (Pressburg) lines. The second building, which is used to this day, was built after the completion of the Budapest - Párkány (Štúrovo) - Bratislava line in 1905 to the design of Ferenc Pfaff, who was the Hungarian State Railways's main architect at the time. Originally it was built in eclectic style, however in 1960 it underwent a major reconstruction, when the exterior was completely changed to be more "socialist" in nature. The frescos were added to the interior at the same time. The foyer, colloquially called "Skleník" (meaning "greenhouse"), was added to the second building in 1987 as an extension, which was meant only as a temporary solution already during its construction. This extension was scheduled to be demolished during the reconstruction of the Franz Liszt Square, which, though, has never been started by the investor, what led into a lawsuit by the city and the state-owned railway company. That caused a stall to any changes for many years. Newest plans by the railway company are just to renew the foyer and surrounding area, until a new station will be built.
In 1883, a connection was added to the Bratislava-Rača station, which was connected to the line to Žilina. The line to the Nové Mesto station is the most recently added line, and it was built in 1962
At first, the station also had freight loading and unloading facilities. One unique feature was the "vínovod" ("wine transport system"), which consisted of tubing from the station to the Palugyay family's wine cellars. Gravity flow drew wine from trains into barrels in the cellars. The station also had a ropeway conveyor to Patrónka (cartridge factory) which produced ammunition cartridges, colloquially known as "patróny". As passenger traffic increased, freight operations were progressively relocated to other stations in the city.
The station's engine house by the stabling yard was built after the removal of the old stabling yard, which was formerly in the space occupied by platforms 3-5.
On January 1, 1919, as Czechoslovak troops were about to enter the city, negotiations between representatives of the Pressburg population, led by Paul Wittich, and Entente officers, led by the Italian Colonel Barreca, took place at the Pressburg railway station.
Current situation
Current rail traffic exceeds the station's track capacity, which occasionally becomes evident in a domino effect caused by delayed trains. One suggested solution is to transfer some of the trains to the Nové Mesto and Petržalka stations, which currently have unused track capacity.
Future reconstruction
Since 2000, there have been plans to reconstruct not only the station but also the surrounding area, most importantly the Franz Liszt Square. The investor is the company I.P.R. Slovakia and the cost was estimated at €232,357,432 in 2008. In 2003, the Bratislava City Magistrate agreed with the project. In 2006, the Old Town district of Bratislava and the Regional Environment Office decided to allow I.P.R. Slovakia to cut down 630 trees worth €230,000 and shrubs worth of €14,000. The decision is final and according to experts, when executed it will forever change the micro-climate of the area. Since 1 September 2007 a new City plan came into effect in Bratislava and in 2008 the Old Town district informed the investor that he needs another agreement from the Bratislava City Magistrate.
Access
Bratislava main station serves as the hub for the local public transport service (MHD). It can thus be conveniently accessed from all parts of Bratislava. Many buses and trolleybuses terminate here as well as almost all of the night buses for which station serves as the hub.
Tram routes number 1 and 2 commence at the station and serve both the old town and the new town. In 2012 the government allocated part of a €420m transport funding package towards the construction of a segregated light rail line from the main station to the Šafárik Square and Janíkov Dvor, and modernisation of the existing tram route to Dúbravka.
Military shelter
Bratislava main station features one of the city's major war shelters built during the communist era, to protect citizens from air raids or attacks with weapons of mass destruction. As with many other similar structures in Bratislava, it is inaccessible and not widely known to the public. Built in the 1950s, it is located underneath the Jaskový rad Street and nearby houses and its designed capacity is 1,500 people. The main entrance can be found at the very end of the tunnel leading to platforms, after leaving the tunnel, the entrance is behind a small metal door built into the massive rock wall.
The shelter features several hallways, rooms, a command centre, air filtering and power generating machinery and toilets. There are two emergency exits, one behind Hotel Spirit and the other behind the building known as U Matúša, which in the past featured a pub with the same name, both on private property. The shelter belongs to the Railways of Slovak Republic.
Services
See also
Transport in Bratislava
Bratislava-Petržalka railway station
References
External links
Railway station Bratislava hlavná stanica (SK/EN)
Station Reconstruction Project
Biography of architect Ignatz Fiegler (SK)
Railway stations in Bratislava
Ferenc Pfaff railway stations
Railway stations in Slovakia opened in 1848 |
Douglas Matías Arezo Martínez (born 21 November 2002) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Peñarol, on loan from Spanish club Granada and the Uruguay national team.
Club career
An academy graduate of River Plate Montevideo, Arezo made his professional debut on 14 July 2019 in a 0–0 draw against Progreso. He scored his first professional goal on 10 August 2019, in a 2–1 league win against Juventud.
On 31 January 2022, Spanish club Granada announced the signing of Arezo on a four-and-a-half-year deal.
On 20 January 2023, Arezo returned to Uruguayan league by signing for Peñarol on a loan deal until the end of the year.
International career
Arezo is a former Uruguay youth international and has represented his nation at 2017 South American U-15 Championship and 2019 South American U-17 Championship. He scored five goals including a hat-trick against Ecuador in the latter tournament and finished second in top scorers list.
In March 2023, Arezo received his first call-up to the senior team for friendly matches against Japan and South Korea.
Career statistics
Club
International
Scores and results list Uruguay's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Arezo goal.
Honours
Club
Granada
Segunda División: 2022–23
Individual
Uruguayan Primera División Team of the Year: 2020
References
External links
2002 births
Living people
Footballers from Montevideo
Men's association football forwards
Uruguayan men's footballers
Uruguay men's youth international footballers
Uruguay men's international footballers
Uruguayan Primera División players
La Liga players
Club Atlético River Plate (Montevideo) players
Granada CF footballers
Peñarol players
Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain |
Aurorazhdarcho is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatoid pterosaur known from the Late Jurassic period (early Tithonian stage) of what is now Bavaria, southern Germany.
History
First discovery
A specimen, originally classified as Pterodactylus micronyx (now Aurorazhdarcho micronyx), was one of the earliest, if not the earliest, documented pterosaur fossil ever found. The holotype specimen of P. micronyx, also known as the "Pester Exemplar", was originally part of the private fossil collection held by Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria. Evidence suggest that the Pester Exemplar was unearthed at some point between 1757, when Maria Anna was recovering from serious cases of pneumonia and tuberculosis, after which she began collecting fossils, and 1779, when the specimen was first studied by scientists. This overlaps with the possible time of discovery of the holotype specimen of Pterodactylus antiquus, often considered the first pterosaur found, which was unearthed sometime between 1767 and 1784.
The Pester Exemplar consists of a jumbled and partially dis-articulated juvenile pterosaur skeleton lacking a skull. Because of this, and the unusual (and at the time totally unknown) anatomy of pterosaurs, the specimen was originally misidentified as a decapod crustacean when it was first studied by Ignaz von Born, a prominent Enlightenment naturalist. In 1871, the specimen was sold, along with the rest of Maria Anna's collection, to the Royal Hungarian University of Buda in Hungary, from which it was later transferred to the collection of Pest University when the university relocated. (In 1950, the name of the university changed again to Eötvös Loránd University).
In 1856, Hermann von Meyer illustrated the Pester Exemplar, and designated it the type specimen of his new species Pterodactylus micronyx after comparison with the newly recognized and better-preserved pterosaur specimens, all of which were lumped together at that time into the single genus Pterodactylus. However, by 1960, Peter Wellnhofer was not able to locate the specimen in the Hungarian National Museum or in the collections of Eötvös Loránd University. Wellnhofer therefore considered the specimen lost, and designated a neotype. The Pester Exemplar was re-discovered in 1982, during a re-organization of the collections in Eötvös Loránd University, and so the status of type specimen for P. micronyx reverted to it.
Discovery of adult specimen
In 1999, amateur paleontologist Peter Kaszmekat uncovered a fossil of a pterosaur in the Blumenberg Quarry, northwest of Eichstätt, in layers of the Solnhofen limestone. The fossil was prepared by Gerhard Stoebener and acquired by the Swiss Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. Based on the specimen, the type species Aurorazhdarcho primordius was named and described by Eberhard Frey, Christian A. Meyer and Helmut Tischlinger in 2011. The generic name is derived from Latin aurora, "dawn" and Kazakh Azhdarcho, the name of a mythical dragon. The specific name means "primordial" or "the very first" in Latin.
The holotype of Aurorazhdarcho, NMB Sh 110, was found in the Upper Eichstätt Formation dating to the early Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic, 150 million years ago. It consists of a nearly complete skeleton, three-dimensionally preserved on a single slab with the counterplate having been removed, lacking the skull and neck. However, the head and neck are present as impressions, movement of these elements on the bottom of the lagoon the carcass descended on leaving a natural mould covered by organic remains in the form of calcium phosphate flakes made visible by the UV-photography of Tischlinger. That the head and neck are now absent is explained by the animal being killed by a partially failed attack by a predator, almost ripping off these parts, after which the body quickly sank. Subsequent bloating would then have caused the head to drift away. The individual was probably subadult and, as indicated by the fusion of the ischiopubes in the pelvis, a male as it lacks a wide birth canal.
In 2013, Bennett compared the holotype specimen of Aurorazhdarcho primordius to the specimens of the species "Pterodactylus" micronyx (named by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1856). He found that some of the supposed distinguishing features of A. primordius, such as length of the metacarpal IV equal to the length of the radius and ulna, or first wing finger phalanx being the longest element in the wing, are in fact also present in the skeletons of the specimens of "P." micronyx; in addition, limb proportions in the holotype specimen of A. primordius matched those of "P." micronyx. Bennett concluded that Aurorazhdarcho primordius and "Pterodactylus" micronyx are in fact conspecific; he retained Aurorazhdarcho as a genus distinct from Pterodactylus, but he considered the specific epithet primordius to be a junior synonym of the epithet micronyx.
As noted by Bennett, the taxonomy of Aurorazhdarcho micronyx is further complicated by the author's earlier suggestion that "Pterodactylus" micronyx specimens are in fact juveniles of Gnathosaurus subulatus, which if confirmed would make the former a junior synonym of the latter. G. subulatus is only known from the holotype incomplete mandible and the isolated skull; this makes comparison difficult, because skulls are only known in small, juvenile specimens of A. micronyx, while the large specimens, including NMB Sh 110, lack it. Thus, Bennett stated that until a large specimen with an associated skull and skeleton is discovered, which would make it possible to establish or reject the synonymy of Gnathosaurus and Aurorazhdarcho, the genus Aurorazhdarcho should be used to contain the species A. micronyx.
Additional likely synonyms of P. micronyx are Pterodactylus nettecephaloides and P. redenbacheri. While both of these names are older than A. micronyx, Olshevsky in 1991 considered them nomina oblita ("forgotten names"), and therefore not senior synonyms.
Description
Aurorazhdarcho was a relatively small pterosaur. The combined elements of a single wing of the type specimen have the extended length of . The impressions indicate the head was elongated with the eye socket in a high position. The snout might have carried a high, rounded, crest. The impression of the neck is relatively short and shows signs of a throat pouch.
The shoulder girdle was by the describers reconstructed with a low shoulder joint. The legs were relatively long with the shinbone over a third longer than the thighbone. In the wing the metacarpals were very elongated, the fourth metacarpal being longer than the lower arm. The first to fourth phalanges of the wing finger have the respective length of , , , and .
As mentioned before, the skull is only known in small, juvenile specimens. The skull was elongate, with its superior margin markedly concave upward, and slender, elongated rostrum. Its jaws had up to 18 closely spaced, long, gently curving teeth per jaw side. The anterior teeth were angled anteriorly, while the posterior teeth were shorter and more upright. The upper and lower teeth interlocked; according to Bennett (2013) they formed a basket for sieving food items from water, though the lack of a pumping mechanism suggests a function more akin to spoonbill jaws, wading with the jaws open and closing them when catching individual prey, much as in other ctenochasmatoids.
Phylogeny
Aurorazhdarcho was by the describers assigned to the Azhdarchoidea and placed in a new family, the Protazhdarchidae, of which it is the only named member. It would then be the oldest known azhdarchoid with the dubious exception of the "Doratorhynchus" material.
The describers rejected the use of a cladistic analysis to establish the phylogeny. Using the comparative method they found that Aurorazhdarcho was closest in proportions to the ctenochasmatid Ctenochasma elegans, a species also known from the Solnhofen, but they concluded that Aurorazhdarcho belonged to the Azhdarchoidea because it shared certain evolutionary key adaptations with that group, the most decisive of which they considered to be the low shoulder joint. The position of the shoulder joint with Ctenochasma could not be established but the describers assumed it was higher because of the closer relation of that taxon with Pterodactylus.
Bennett in 2013, based on the analysis of all known specimens of Aurorazhdarcho micronyx and taking its short neck and pedal morphology into account, considered this species to be a ctenochasmatid.
Below is a cladogram following Vidovic and Martill, 2017, highlighting the positions of several possible aurorazhdarchians, including Aurorazhdarcho:
See also
Timeline of pterosaur research
References
Late Jurassic pterosaurs of Europe
Ctenochasmatoids
Fossil taxa described in 2011
Tithonian life |
```php
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use Closure;
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return mb_strtoupper($value, 'UTF-8');
};
},
];
``` |
Judson Jerome (February 8, 1927 in Tulsa, Oklahoma – August 5, 1991 in Xenia, Ohio) was an American poet, author, and literary critic, perhaps best known for having written the poetry column for Writer's Digest for over thirty years, beginning in 1959. He also taught poetry at Antioch College, where his students included Gregory Orr and Mark Strand.
Hemingway emendation
Jerome is involved in the scholarly conversation surrounding a controversial amendment to Ernest Hemingway's 1933 short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: in 1956, Jerome — then an assistant professor of English at Antioch College — wrote to Hemingway to inquire about a section of dialogue which he saw as problematic. Hemingway responded to Jerome with the thirteen words "I just read the story and it continues to make sense to me."; however, when A Clean, Well-Lighted Place was republished posthumously in Scribner's Magazine in 1965 and in all future editions, the passage in question had been changed to address the concern Jerome and other scholars had raised. Whether Scribner's was correct in making the emendation remains a subject of debate among Hemingway scholars, with the note to Jerome serving as evidence against the emendation.
References
External links
Hayes Walker's recollections of his longtime correspondence with Jerome
the Judson Jerome collection, at Boston University
Four poems by Jerome, published with permission from his widow
Thirty-seven poems by Jerome, published with permission from his widow
Antioch College faculty
Deaths from lung cancer
Writers from Tulsa, Oklahoma
1927 births
1991 deaths
20th-century American poets |
Esmaeil Bale (born 16 September 1985) is an Iranian footballer who plays for Etka Gorgan F.C. in the Azadegan League.
Club career
Bale joined Etka Gorgan F.C. in 2009 after spending the previous season at Mes Rafsanjan F.C. He was also a member of Shamoushak Noshahr F.C. team who gained promotion into The Iranian Premier League in 2005.
Statistics
References
1985 births
Living people
Etka Gorgan F.C. players
Shamoushak Noshahr F.C. players
Mes Rafsanjan F.C. players
Iranian men's footballers
Sanat Sari F.C. players
Men's association football defenders
People from Nowshahr
Footballers from Mazandaran province |
Préneron (; ) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
Geography
Localisation
Hydrography
The Auzoue flows north through the western part of the commune.
Population
See also
Communes of the Gers department
References
Communes of Gers |
Eretmocera malelanensis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 2014. It is found in South Africa (Limpopo).
References
malelanensis
Moths described in 2014
Moths of Africa |
Shanghai railway station (; Shanghainese: Zånhae Hutsuzae) is one of the four major railway stations in Shanghai, China, the others being Shanghai South, Shanghai Hongqiao, and Shanghai West (Shanghaixi).
The station is located on Moling Road, Jing'an District, to the North of the city centre. It is governed by Shanghai Railway Bureau and is one of the most important hubs of the railway network in China.
History and development
Shanghai station is called "the new railway station" by locals since it replaced Shanghai North railway station (also known as "Old North railway station", or "Old North Station" - 老北站 by locals) as the city's main train station in 1987. In the late '80s, the old North railway station was inadequate to handle the increasing railway traffic in Shanghai. The government then decided to pull down the Shanghai East (freight) railway station and build a new railway station at the same place. On 28 December 1987, the North railway station was closed. At the same time, the new Shanghai railway station was built and started its operation.
In 2006, some railway lines of the station were moved to the reopened Shanghai South railway station, which lessened the increasing pressure of passenger traffic. In August 2006, a decision was made to renovate the aging station and its surrounding area. Many new ticket machines were installed to increase efficiency.
In June 2008, in order to co-operate with the opening of World Expo Shanghai 2010, Shanghai Government and Zhabei District carried out a new renovation called the "Shanghai Railway Station North Plaza Comprehensive Transportation Hub Project" with a total investment over 4.1 billion RMB.
On May 29, 2010, the renovation was completed. It expanded the north building from to , refurbished the south building and added a new designed wave-shaped roof over the platform.
In late 2015, rumours of the demolition of the Shanghai railway station arose. Many locals had believed this because of the many residential developments and needlessness of the station as there are already the Shanghai Hongqiao, Shanghai South, and Shanghai West stations. However, this rumour has been rejected by the Shanghai Municipal Government.
Connections
Most long-haul, non high-speed trains bound for Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province and the North (i.e. destinations north of the Yangzhe River) depart from Shanghai railway station. It also offers regional high-speed CRH trains to Nanjing and Hefei as well as overnight high-speed trains to Beijing and Xi’an.
It offers
T trains (special fast trains that only stop at main stations) to Dalian, Beijing, Ürümqi, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Xian, Lanzhou, Jinan, Tongling, Tianjin, Taizhou and Ningbo in mainland China, as well as across the border to Kowloon in Hong Kong.
K trains (fast) to Anyang, Guiyang, Changsha, Guangzhou, Kunming, Wuhan, Yinchuan, Xining, Nanchang, Zhanjiang, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Yichang, Chongqing, Fuyang, Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Baotou, Qingdao, Tianjin, Taiyuan, Harbin, and Jilin.
In addition, a lot of pass-by trains from the north to the south of China also use Shanghai station as an intermediate stop.
Transportation
Shanghai station can be reached by taking Shanghai Metro Line 1, 3 or 4. Due to its pervasive connections with the Shanghai street network, the station is also accessible by numerous bus lines and by taxi. Taxis are not allowed to stop directly in front of the station, but at an underground taxi stop.
Gallery
See also
Shanghai Hongqiao railway station
Shanghai South railway station
Shanghai West railway station
Rapid transit in the People's Republic of China
References
External links
Shanghai Train Guide - Timetables, tips, routes, and schedules
Railway stations in Shanghai
Stations on the Beijing–Shanghai Railway
Stations on the Shanghai–Kunming Railway
Stations on the Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway
China–Hong Kong border crossings
Jing'an District
Railway stations in China opened in the 1980s
Railway stations opened in 1987 |
Üçtepe (literally "three hills"), also spelled Üçtəpə or Uchtepe or Uchepe or Uch Tappeh or Ooch Tappeh or Owch Tappeh, is a Turkic place name and may refer to the following places:
Turkey
Üçtepe, Bismil
Üçtepe, Erdemli, Mersin Province
Üçtepe, İmamoğlu, Adana Province
Üçtepe, Yağlıdere, Giresun Province
Azerbaijan
Üçtəpə, Baku
Üçtəpə, Goygol
Üçtəpə, Jalilabad
Iran
Uch Tappeh, East Azerbaijan
Uch Tappeh, Golestan
Uch Tappeh, Kabudarahang, Hamadan Province
Uch Tappeh, Malayer, Hamadan Province
Uch Tappeh, Markazi
Uch Tappeh, West Azerbaijan
Uch Tappeh-ye Kord, West Azerbaijan Province
Uch Tappeh-ye Qaleh, West Azerbaijan Province
Owch Tappeh, Zanjan
Owch Tappeh-ye Gharbi Rural District, in East Azerbaijan Province
Owch Tappeh-ye Sharqi Rural District, in East Azerbaijan Province |
Nağdalı or Nagdali or Nagdaly or Nakhdalli or Nagadaly may refer to:
Nağdalı, Absheron, Azerbaijan
Nağdalı, Lachin, Azerbaijan |
Poland competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The country's delegation included 91 athletes.
Natalia Partyka, who represented Poland in table tennis, also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was one of only two athletes competing at both the Beijing Paralympics and the Beijing Olympics, the other being South Africa's Natalie du Toit in swimming.
Medallists
Sports
Archery
Men
|-
|align=left|Tomasz Leżański
|rowspan=2 align=left|Men's individual recurve standing
|596
|14
|W 97-88
|L 102-108
|colspan=4|did not advance
|-
|align=left|Ryszard Olejnik
|550
|21
|L 89-102
|colspan=5|did not advance
|-
|align=left|Janusz Bułyk
|rowspan=2 align=left|Men's individual recurve W1/W2
|549
|28
|L 88-104
|colspan=5|did not advance
|-
|align=left|Piotr Sawicki
|593
|15
|W 104-89
|W 104-99
|L 98-102
|colspan=3|did not advance
|-
|align=left|Tomasz Leżański Ryszard Olejnik Piotr Sawicki
|align=left|Men's team
|1739
|6
|colspan=2
|L 191-202
|colspan=3|did not advance
|}
Women
|-
|align=left|Alicja Bukańska
|rowspan=3 align=left|Women's individual recurve standing
|533
|17
|L 96-98
|colspan=5|did not advance
|-
|align=left|Małgorzata Olejnik
|541
|11
|Bye
|W 98-85
|W 101-88
|L 85-98
|L 101-105
|4
|-
|align=left|Wiesława Wolak
|513
|19
|L 79-82
|colspan=5|did not advance
|-
|align=left|Alicja Bukańska Małgorzata Olejnik Wiesława Wolak
|align=left|Women's team recurve
|1587
|5
|colspan=2
|W 166-162
|L 178-194
|L 182-184
|4
|}
Athletics
Men's track
Men's field
Women's track
Women's field
Cycling
Men's road
Women's road
Equestrian
Powerlifting
Men
Women
Rowing
Shooting
Men
Women
Swimming
Men
Women
Table tennis
Men
Women
Wheelchair fencing
Men
Women
Wheelchair tennis
Men
Women
See also
Poland at the Paralympics
Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics
References
External links
Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official Site
International Paralympic Committee
Nations at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
2008
Paralympics |
The Cayemite long-tailed amphisbaena (Amphisbaena caudalis) is a worm lizard species in the family Amphisbaenidae. It is endemic to Haiti.
References
Amphisbaena (lizard)
Reptiles described in 1928
Taxa named by Doris Mable Cochran
Endemic fauna of Haiti
Reptiles of Haiti |
Michael (Michel) Confino (1926–2010) was a historian of 18th and 19th century Russia.
Biography
Confino was born in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria. He began his academic studies at the University of Sofia. He moved to Israel in 1948 and continued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Confino earned his PhD at the Sorbonne.
In 1959 he joined the teaching staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he formed and headed the Russian Studies Department. In 1970 Confino joined Tel Aviv University, and in 1971 he founded the Institute of Russian and Eastern Europe studies, which he headed until 1977. Between 1980 and 1985 Confino served as a visiting professor at the universities of Stanford, Harvard, Duke, Chicago and some institutions in Europe.
Confino specialized in researching the history of Russia and the problems of Europe's agricultural comparative framework of the social structure, under different regimes, both past and present. He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 1993 Confino was awarded the Israel Prize in History, and in 2003 The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture.
One of his children is the historian Alon Confino.
Publications
On Intellectuals and Intellectual Traditions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russia (Spring, 1972)
External links
Michael Confino, at Johns Hopkins University site.
Michael Confino, at the "EMET Prize" site.
References
1926 births
2010 deaths
Bulgarian Jews in Israel
Bulgarian emigrants to Israel
Israeli people of Bulgarian-Jewish descent
École pratique des hautes études alumni
EMET Prize recipients in the Humanities
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Historians of Russia
Israel Prize in history recipients
Israeli historians
Writers from Sofia
University of Paris alumni
Israeli expatriates in France |
Malikwad is a village which is located in the Belgaum district of Karnataka state, India. It is located on the banks of the Doodhganga River. The river acts as the border between Karnataka and Maharashtra. Due to the border separation, the people in the area are bilingual; many can speak as well as write both Kannada and Marathi languages. Facilities in the village include schools, a library, and public toilets. Agriculture is a mainstream source of income of the village. It is regarded as one of the highest sugarcane producing villages. Along with sugarcane, farmers also grow different kinds of fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes and bananas. Almost one member of every family in the area is in the Indian army, so people have called this village “Sainik Malikwad,” the word “sainik” meaning “soldier.”
The infrastructure of the village is very simple. It has a main road that connects the highway to the village. As soon as one enters the village, there is the Ganesh temple, and as the villagers are devout, there are eight temples throughout the village. Roads are surfaced and among the traditional village houses stand some larger buildings. In the middle of the village is a wada located upon a hill; this is the house of the sarkar who ruled the village a long time ago, and their family still lives there. There is a society office which distributes grains, rice, and oil to the poor families. At the end of the road is the Gram Panchayat Karyalay, an office which holds all records of villagers.
References
Villages in Belagavi district |
The Moeopsyllini form a flea tribe in the family Pulicidae.
References
External links
Pulicidae
Insect tribes |
Armand Joseph Bruat (Colmar, 26 May 1796 – Montebello, off Toulon, 19 November 1855) was a French admiral.
Biography
Bruat joined the French Navy in 1811, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. His early career included far-ranging sea duties: in 1815, he served in Brazil and the West Indies. From 1817 to 1820 he was with French forces in the Levant. Then, until 1824, he was stationed first in Senegal and then the Pacific.
As a Lieutenant, Bruat took part in the 1827 Battle of Navarino as maneuver officer on Breslaw. In 1830, he received command of the brig Silène and cruised off Algiers, taking a number of prizes. As Silène followed the Aventure commanded by Félix-Ariel d'Assigny (1794-1846), she was wrecked and the crew was captured during the shipwreck of Dellys, 110 men being massacred. While captive, Bruat managed to transmit observations on the state of the defences of Algier to admiral Duperré.
After the Invasion of Algiers, Bruat was promoted to captain and awarded commanded the Iéna, off Portugal. He then served on Triton, before supervising naval constructions in Toulon from 1841.
In 1843, he was made the Governor of the Marquesas Islands. During this time, he was also France's agent at the court of Queen Pomare of Tahiti, where he was able to convince her to acknowledge a French protectorate over her realm.
In 1849, Bruat became Governor-General of the Antilles and in 1852 was promoted to vice admiral. In 1854, during the Crimean War, he was named Commander of the French Fleet in the Black Sea. He died at sea from cholera, near Toulon, on his flagship, the Montebello, on 19 November 1855.
Honours
Grand officer of the Legion of Honour
Namesake of Cape Bruat, a former name of Musu Dan in North Korea
Sources and references
External links
1796 births
1855 deaths
People from Colmar
Admirals of France
French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
French military personnel of the Crimean War
Governors of French Polynesia
Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Knights of the Holy Sepulchre
Governors general of the French Antilles
Deaths from cholera |
The Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier took place on 28 July 1488, between the forces of King Charles VIII of France, and those of Francis II, Duke of Brittany, and his allies. The defeat of the latter signalled the end to the "guerre folle" ('Mad war'), a feudal conflict in which French aristocrats revolted against royal power during the regency of Anne de Beaujeu. It also effectively precipitated the end of the independence of Brittany from France.
Causes
Brittany, Burgundy, and England had been repeatedly allied to resist the expansion of the French state. In the aftermath of the death of Charles the Bold of Burgundy in 1477, the Burgundian threat to French power was all-but eliminated. Brittany became the main base for the feudal aristocrats in the League of the Public Weal, an alliance founded by Charles the Bold to resist the centralisation of power in the king.
By 1488 the regime of Duke Francis had been severely weakened by conflict between his prime-minister Pierre Landais and a group of aristocrats led by the Prince of Orange John IV of Chalon-Arlay. Landais was keen to strengthen ties with England. His opponents secured French support for an armed incursion to overthrow and execute Landais in 1485, after which Jean de Rieux became de facto chief minister.
Francis was keen to secure the independence of Brittany and to construct a network of alliances to achieve that objective, offering the prospect of marriage to his daughter and heir Anne of Brittany to several possible allies. Rebel lords from the League, notably Louis d'Orleans, had sought sanctuary in Brittany. The French saw this as a violation of royal rights, and demanded the return of the lords, asserting that they had the right to take them by force if Francis refused.
Background
Under the leadership of Louis II de la Trémoille, the French royal army had struck against Vannes and Fougères, controlling access to Brittany. The French attempted to take control of the major strategic strongholds.
The Bretons had sought support from various rebel lords and opponents of expanding French power. Alain d'Albret, a rebel lord, believing he would marry Anne, had reinforced the Breton army with 5,000 troops supplied by the king of Spain. Maximilian I of Austria also sent 1,500 men. Henry VII of England was also approached for support, but refused to send troops and instead attempted to negotiate a deal with the French to stop the invasion. However the English knight Edward Woodville, Lord Scales, defied Henry and brought over a small force of 700 archers he had gathered from his base in the Isle of Wight. The Bretons decided to create the impression that Henry had changed his mind and had sent a large force of longbowmen, dressing 1,300 of their own men in the English cross of St George and adding them to Lord Scales' troops to create a vanguard of 2,000 men.
Despite this concentration of forces the Breton alliance was still significantly outnumbered. It was further weakened because Maximilian I was diverted by a rebellion in Flanders, which was being supported by Marshal de Esquerdes. The Breton forces thus comprised a mix of local troops with Gascons, Germans, English longbowmen, and non-Breton aristocrats who were challenging royal power.
The French army included Swiss and Italian mercenaries, and also some pro-royal Breton noblemen. It had the most powerful artillery of the era.
The battle
The Breton commander de Rieux positioned his forces on a ridge around a mile to the south of Mézières-sur-Couesnon. French forces arrived at the field in disparate groups, with no idea that the Bretons were so close. The Bretons initially had the advantage that the French were fragmented and not arrayed in battle order. Lord Scales and de Rieux were in favour of a rapid attack on the French before they could manoeuvre into effective battle order, but d'Albret insisted on redeploying his troops. As a result, de la Trémoille had time to place his army in a defensive formation. The Breton vanguard under Lord Scales then led the attack in an arrow-head formation.
According to Jean Molinet, "the English archers showed great courage, for each of the opposing parties fought for victory." Scales himself was apparently killed at some point in this stage of the battle. Nevertheless, the French were forced to pull back, giving the archers a chance to attack the French lines, causing panic, which was stemmed by the French commanders.
Meanwhile, the Breton centre under d'Albret was moving forward, having been suffering significant casualties from the powerful French artillery in its static position. The redeployment caused a gap to open in the Breton lines. Jacques Galliota, an Italian captain in the French army, immediately asked permission from Trémoille to exploit the opportunity. Trémoille agreed, and Galliota led a cavalry attack on the weakened position. Galliota himself was killed, but the Italians opened a gap through which the cavalry passed. D'Albret and de Rieux failed to deploy their own cavalry in time to stem the gap, and Trémoille quickly sent in more French troops. At the same time there was a massive explosion in one of the magazines behind the Breton lines, probably caused by stray shot. Panic ran through the Breton army, leading to a rout of their forces.
Consequences
The defeat of Francis II forced him to accept a treaty which deprived him of power by requiring him to expel foreign princes and troops from Brittany. It also restricted his ability to marry his children to suitors of his choosing and required that he cede territory in Saint-Malo, Fougères, Dinan, and Saint-Aubin to the king as a guarantee that in the absence of a male successor the king would determine the succession. Francis died a few months later leaving only a daughter, Anne of Brittany, so the treaty was used to force her, as his successor, to marry King Charles VIII, and then Louis XII.
The battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier also destroyed the power-base of the warring princes. Edward Woodville was killed, along with his entire force. Louis of Orleans (the future Louis XII), and Jean IV, Prince of Orange were captured. Alain d'Albret and the Maréchal de Rieux succeeded in escaping, and played an important part in continuing the conflict. Despite the French victory, the guerre folle dragged on for three more years until December 1491, when Charles married Anne.
Role in Breton nationalism
Since the emergence of modern Breton nationalism in the 19th century, the battle has been portrayed as the moment when Brittany lost its independence, despite the three years of struggle which followed it and the continued nominal independence of the Duchy into the 16th century. It is thus regarded by nationalists as a tragic episode in the history of Brittany. In the words of Leon Meur, "the battle of Saint-Aubin rang the death-knell of Breton independence". The Breton nationalist Célestin Lainé, who sided with Nazi Germany in World War II, stated that his SS-affiliated Bezen Perrot militia was the first Breton force to have fought against France since the battle. At his death he requested that his ashes be scattered on the spot.
The Breton National Party placed a cross at the site of the battle in 1932. To mark the 500th anniversary of the battle a large monument was erected in 1988, comprising a raised platform with plaques commemorating the forces involved, surmounted by a shield bearing the Breton Ducal coat of arms and a Cross pattée. The Breton nationalist organization Koun Breizh commemorates the battle at the site on the last Sunday of every July, and the far-right nationalist group Adsav also commemorates it in September.
A plan in 2000 to bury domestic waste on the site of the battle caused such protests from the Breton movement that the project was abandoned. A "cairn of liberty" was built at the site of the proposed dump. Breton nationalist groups subsequently acquired part of the land with the intention of creating a sculpture park and visitor centre.
References
Sources
L'État Breton, tome 2 de l' Histoire de la Bretagne et des pays celtiques, Morlaix, Éditions Skol Vreizh, 1966
Philippe Contamine, Bataille de Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, in Jacques Garnier dir. Dictionnaire Perrin des guerres et batailles de l'histoire de France, Paris : Perrin, 2004.
Georges Minois. Anne de Bretagne. Paris : Fayard, 1999.
Philippe Tourault. Anne de Bretagne. Paris : Perrin, 1990.
Collectif d’universitaires des universités de Brest, Nantes, Rennes, Toute l’histoire de Bretagne, dans l'Ile de Bretagne et sur le continent, ouvrage in-8°, 800 pages, éditions Skol- Vreizh, Morlaix 1996
Jean Kerhervé, L'État Breton aux XIVe et XVe siècles, 2 vol., Maloine, 1987. . 2-224-01704-9
Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie, Membre de l'Institut, Histoire de la Bretagne, 6 volumes in-quarto, Plihon Editeur, Imprimerie Vatar, Rennes 1905-1914.
Jean-Pierre Legay et Hervé Martin, Fastes et malheurs de la Bretagne ducale 1213-1532, Editions *Ouest-France Université, 435 pages, Rennes, 1982
Antoine Dupuy, Histoire de l'union de la Bretagne à la France, 2 vol. de 447 p et 501 p., Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1880.
Battles involving France
Breton nationalism
Military history of Brittany
1488 in Europe
1480s in France
Ille-et-Vilaine
Conflicts in 1488 |
The 2006 BC Lions season was the 49th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 53rd overall. The Lions finished in first place in the West Division for a third consecutive season with a 13–5 record and won the 94th Grey Cup over the Montreal Alouettes. Lions quarterback Dave Dickenson was named the game's Most Valuable Player after completing 18 of 29 passes for 184 yards and rushing for 53 yards on six carries. Placekicker Paul McCallum tied a Grey Cup record by kicking six field goals en route to being named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian. The Lions won their fifth Grey Cup championship in franchise history and first since 2000 when they also defeated the Alouettes.
During the regular season, the Lions were dominant, led by slotback Geroy Simon who caught 105 passes for a club record 1856 yards and 15 touchdowns. Simon was named the league's Most Outstanding Player, becoming the fifth BC Lions player to win the award. Defensive end Brent Johnson was named the league's Most Outstanding Canadian and Most Outstanding Defensive Player, defensive tackle Aaron Hunt was named the league's Most Outstanding Rookie, and offensive tackle Rob Murphy was named the league's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman. Defensive back Mark Washington was awarded the CFLPA's Outstanding Community Service Award and head coach Wally Buono won the Annis Stukus Trophy as the CFL's Coach of the Year, making it the third time he won the award. The only CFL major trophy not won by the Lions was the CFL's Most Outstanding Special Teams Award, won by Calgary Stampeders kicker Sandro DeAngelis. The Lions had 10 Western All-Stars and a league leading seven Western All-Stars.
Offseason
CFL draft
Preseason
Games played with white uniforms.
Regular season
Season standings
Season schedule
Games played with colour uniforms.
Games played with white uniforms.
Games played with alternate uniforms.
Player stats
Passing
Rushing
Receiving
Team
Coaching staff
Awards and records
Wally Buono, – CFL's Scotiabank Coach of the Year
Aaron Hunt (DT), – CFL's Most Outstanding Rookie Award
Brent Johnson (DE), – CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award
Brent Johnson (DE), – CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award
Rob Murphy (OG), -CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award
Geroy Simon (SB), – CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award
Geroy Simon (SB), – Rogers Fans' Choice Award
Mark Washington (DB), – CFLPA's Most Outstanding Community Service Award
2006 CFL All-Stars
Korey Banks, Defensive Back
Otis Floyd, Linebacker
Brent Johnson, Defensive End
Barron Miles, Safety
Rob Murphy, Offensive Tackle
Geroy Simon, Wide Receiver
Tyrone Williams, Defensive Tackle
Western Division All-Star selections
Korey Banks, Defensive Back
Otis Floyd, Linebacker
Aaron Hunt, Defensive Tackle
Brent Johnson, Defensive End
Carl Kidd, Special Teams
Dante Marsh, Cornerback
Barron Miles, Safety
Rob Murphy, Offensive Tackle
Geroy Simon, Wide Receiver
Tyrone Williams, Defensive Tackle
Playoffs
Games played with alternate uniforms.
West Final
November 12, 2006
@ BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, BC
Dave Dickenson completed 27-of-37 passes for 274 yards and three touchdowns, as the BC Lions defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders, 45–18, to score a franchise playoff-record points total and reach the 94th Grey Cup against Montreal. The Lions will play the Montreal Alouettes, who beat the Toronto Argonauts 33–24 in the East Final. BC, who finished first in the West Division for the third straight season, lost the 2004 Grey Cup to Toronto and were downed by Edmonton in the 2005 West Final.
Grey Cup
November 19, 2006
@ Canad Inns Stadium, Winnipeg, MB
Scoring summary
BC Lions (25) – TDs, Ian Smart; FGs Paul McCallum (6); cons., McCallum.
Montreal Alouettes (14) – TDs, Robert Edwards; FGs Damon Duval; cons., Duval; safety touch (2).
First Quarter
BC—FG McCallum 34-yard field goal 4:49
BC—FG McCallum 35-yard field goal 12:26
BC—FG McCallum 24-yard field goal 14:15
Second Quarter
BC—TD Smart 25-yard run (McCallum convert) 4:12
MTL—FG Duval 43-yard field goal 13:18
BC—FG McCallum 30-yard field goal 15:00
Third Quarter
MTL—Safety McCallum concedes in end zone 8:47
MTL—TD Edwards 2-yard run (Duval convert) 13:00
Fourth Quarter
BC—FG McCallum 21-yard field goal 4:17
BC—FG McCallum 47-yard field goal 6:28
MTL—Safety McCallum concedes in end zone 13:17
References
BC Lions
BC Lions seasons
Grey Cup championship seasons
2006 in British Columbia |
Delphia is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States. It still maintains a U.S. Post Office with the zip code 41735.
References
Unincorporated communities in Perry County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky |
Kuwaiti architecture is a style of architecture unique to Kuwait, a country founded in the early 18th century.
Before the discovery of oil, Kuwait has an economy reliant on maritime trade, shipbuilding, caravan trade and the pearl industry. The economy improved by the discovery of oil, enabling more economic growth.
History
Kuwait City was surrounded by a wall with five gates in the 18th century, but it was demolished when the new masterplan was implemented in 1952. Apart from the city wall, Kuwait was protected by two forts: one in the city, and the other one at Jahra known as the "Red Fort".
Kuwait's traditional building materials were stone collected from the sea or rubble stone covered with thick mud plaster, mud brick and sometimes Cora stone. Wood was rare, though mangrove poles imported from East Africa were used for roofs, as were some other few select woods from India. Early Kuwaiti architecture was relatively simple and intuitive, with a focus on maintaining the privacy of the house. Houses had simple and basic exterior designs, and most artistic touches were found on main doors and windows. These houses having to accommodate the communal and tight-knit nature of Kuwaiti society were divided into separate quarters accommodating different members of one family, usually the male children of the owner of the house and their wives. It is common to find central courts, as is the case in other Arab countries, that served as a gathering place for the families. Some families, often those that were more affluent, would have multiple courtyards and their houses would also be larger.
Later, during the 18th century, a typical Kuwait merchant house was built in the Ottoman style that reached the city from Basra. Ottoman features included projecting wooden balconies enclosed with wooden screens or mashrabiya and covered wooden doorways which sometimes included European motifs. The extreme heat of the city made wind catchers and ventilation a necessity for most houses. Thus, some houses installed wind catchers. Lewis Pelly, a Political Resident, described Kuwait in the 1860s as:
A clean, active town, with a broad and open main bazaar, and numerous solid stone dwelling houses stretching along this strand and containing some 20,000 inhabitants, attracting Arab and Persian merchants from all quarters by the equity of its rule and by the freedom of its trade.
Within the city, there were a number of mosques, most of which have been rebuilt several times. The oldest mosques in Kuwait are the Alkhamis Mosque, built between 1772 and 1773, and the Abd AlRazzag Mosque built in 1797. Before the 9th century, minarets were rare, consisting of small square towers covered with small roof canopies.
In 1952, the British planning firm of Minorprio, Spenceley and MacFarlane were hired to design the first master plan of Kuwait. The plan was based loosely on Ebenezer Howard's Garden City and the firms experience with New Towns.
Modern architecture in Kuwait is mostly in the International style, although there are several buildings that demonstrate a relationship with Middle Eastern themes. One of the most well known examples of Kuwaiti modern architecture is the water towers, consisting of tall pointed conical spires above a spherical water tank. Kuwait Towers is also considered Kuwait's most prominent architectural achievement. Kuwait Towers were completed in 1978 and designed by VBB, Sune and Joe Lindström, Stig Egnell, and Björn & Björn Design (Malene Björn). Together, the Kuwait Towers and the water towers serve as a connected water infrastructure. The project was nominated for The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 1978-1980 Cycle. The National Assembly of Kuwait is also a landmark building, designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon and completed in 1972.
Gallery
See also
List of tallest buildings in Kuwait
References
Architecture |
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings are an English blues rock band founded and led by bassist Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. Other personnel have varied depending on availability, an arrangement described in The Telegraph as "a fluctuating squad of veterans". Their concerts and albums tend to emphasize cover songs of blues, R&B and early rock and roll hits from the 1950s.
History
Wyman formed the Rhythm Kings after leaving the Rolling Stones in 1993 following their worldwide tour in support of Steel Wheels and a short hiatus from the music industry, citing a desire to work in smaller clubs and avoid the pressure of being in one of the most successful rock bands in the world.
On 10 December 2007, Wyman and his band appeared alongside a reunited Led Zeppelin at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at the O2 in London.
In 2009, ex-Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor was invited as a guest performer with Wyman's Rhythm Kings.
The band have not performed live since 2014, and last released a studio album - Studio Time - in 2018.
Discography
Studio albums
Struttin' Our Stuff (October 1997)
Anyway the Wind Blows (February 1999)
Groovin' (May 2000)
Double Bill (May 2001)
Just for a Thrill (May 2004)
Studio Time (2018)
Live albums
Rhythm Kings Live (November 2005)
Live Communication (September 2011)
Compilation albums
Studio Time (April 2018)
Singles
"Groovin'" / "Can't Get My Rest at Night" / "Gambler's Lament" (2000)
"That's How Heartaches Are Made" / "I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)" (2004)
Video albums
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings in Concert (2002)
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings - Let the Good Times Roll (2004)
Featured musicians
Touring members
Bill Wyman bass guitar and vocals
Gary Brooker keyboards and vocals
Georgie Fame keyboards and vocals
Mike Sanchez keyboards and vocals
Beverly Skeete vocals
Janice Hoyte vocals
Eddie Floyd vocals
Graham Broad drums
Albert Lee guitar and vocals
Andy Fairweather-Low guitar and vocals
Martin Taylor guitar
Terry Taylor guitar and vocals
Nick Payn saxophone
Frank Mead saxophone
Geraint Watkins keyboards and vocals
Gary U.S. Bonds vocals
Studio guests
Paul Carrack vocals
Eric Clapton guitar
Tommy Emmanuel guitar
Peter Frampton guitar
George Harrison guitar
Mark Knopfler guitar
Mick Taylor guitar
Odetta vocals
Anita Kelsey backing vocals
Nicky Hopkins piano
Chris Stainton keyboards
Max Middleton keyboards
Ringo Starr drums
Ray Cooper percussion
Axel Zwingenberger piano
See also
Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band
World Classic Rockers
References
External links
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings Official Site
English blues rock musical groups
Musical collectives
Musical groups established in 1997
Musical groups from London
The Rolling Stones |
Anne Vachon-Pasquier (born in 1945) is a Canadian emeritus professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences at Laval University, (Quebec) since 2003. Her teachings and research have had focus on the field of ancient Christianity, particularly in ancient Christian literature.
Education
In 1980 Pasquier earned her PhD at the Université Laval with her thesis L'Évangile selon Marie (BG 1): introduction, texte, traduction et commentaire.
Contributions
Pasquier has taught several courses, has regularly offered seminars on religious rhetoric and literary approaches in Biblical studies, she has contributed to the teaching of several core courses in religious studies and studies programs alumni and attended summer schools. Pasquier produced educational material that is still in use today and has always been concerned with disseminating knowledge to non-university audiences.
She has, among other things, published more than thirty articles and more than a dozen books as an author, scientific editor of ancient texts or editor of collective works. She sits on the editorial boards of several scientific journals and she has edited numerous thematic issues. She has been a member of the Ancient Christianity and Late Antiquity Research Group and the Nag Hammadi Coptic Library Research Group, both of which have received significant grants. She continues to be actively associated with research through her participation in the Nag Hammadi Coptic Text Editing Project, directed by professor Louis Painchaud.
Some works
Thesis
Books
References
Further reading
Living people
Academic staff of Université Laval
Canadian women academics
Canadian Roman Catholic theologians
1945 births
Université Laval alumni |
Dog Jack is a 2010 American war drama film based on the book of the same name by Florence W. Biros. The film is inspired by the true story of the mascot of the 102nd Pennsylvania Regiment during the American Civil War.
Overview
The story revolves around a boy named Jed (Benjamin Gardner), who escaped from slavery to join the Union Army during the American Civil War, and was accompanied by his dog Jack (the namesake of the story). The dog became the regiment's mascot during the war.
The film was shot mostly in and around the borough of Darlington, Pennsylvania just outside the city of Pittsburgh. Other locations included North Freedom, Wisconsin, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.
It was an official selection in the St. Louis International Film Festival, Black Harvest Film Festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival, and the International Family Film Festival. It won Best Drama at the San Diego Black Film Festival.
It premiered at Pittsburgh's Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial, which was one of the shooting locations of the film. Dog Jack had a limited theatrical release before releasing nationwide on DVD January 31, 2012 by Screen Media Films, available at Redbox, Family Video, Walmart, Target, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, among others.
See also
Edward T. McDougal
External links
References
2010 films
2010 war drama films
American Civil War films
Films about dogs
Films based on American novels
Films based on military novels
Films set in Pittsburgh
American war drama films
2010 drama films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
Screen Media films |
In geometry, the tangent cone is a generalization of the notion of the tangent space to a manifold to the case of certain spaces with singularities.
Definitions in nonlinear analysis
In nonlinear analysis, there are many definitions for a tangent cone, including the adjacent cone, Bouligand's contingent cone, and the Clarke tangent cone. These three cones coincide for a convex set, but they can differ on more general sets.
Clarke tangent cone
Let be a nonempty closed subset of the Banach space . The Clarke's tangent cone to at , denoted by consists of all vectors , such that for any sequence tending to zero, and any sequence tending to , there exists a sequence tending to , such that for all holds
Clarke's tangent cone is always subset of the corresponding contingent cone (and coincides with it, when the set in question is convex). It has the important property of being a closed convex cone.
Definition in convex geometry
Let K be a closed convex subset of a real vector space V and ∂K be the boundary of K. The solid tangent cone to K at a point x ∈ ∂K is the closure of the cone formed by all half-lines (or rays) emanating from x and intersecting K in at least one point y distinct from x. It is a convex cone in V and can also be defined as the intersection of the closed half-spaces of V containing K and bounded by the supporting hyperplanes of K at x. The boundary TK of the solid tangent cone is the tangent cone to K and ∂K at x. If this is an affine subspace of V then the point x is called a smooth point of ∂K and ∂K is said to be differentiable at x and TK is the ordinary tangent space to ∂K at x.
Definition in algebraic geometry
Let X be an affine algebraic variety embedded into the affine space , with defining ideal . For any polynomial f, let be the homogeneous component of f of the lowest degree, the initial term of f, and let
be the homogeneous ideal which is formed by the initial terms for all , the initial ideal of I. The tangent cone to X at the origin is the Zariski closed subset of defined by the ideal . By shifting the coordinate system, this definition extends to an arbitrary point of in place of the origin. The tangent cone serves as the extension of the notion of the tangent space to X at a regular point, where X most closely resembles a differentiable manifold, to all of X. (The tangent cone at a point of that is not contained in X is empty.)
For example, the nodal curve
is singular at the origin, because both partial derivatives of f(x, y) = y2 − x3 − x2 vanish at (0, 0). Thus the Zariski tangent space to C at the origin is the whole plane, and has higher dimension than the curve itself (two versus one). On the other hand, the tangent cone is the union of the tangent lines to the two branches of C at the origin,
Its defining ideal is the principal ideal of k[x] generated by the initial term of f, namely y2 − x2 = 0.
The definition of the tangent cone can be extended to abstract algebraic varieties, and even to general Noetherian schemes. Let X be an algebraic variety, x a point of X, and (OX,x, m) be the local ring of X at x. Then the tangent cone to X at x is the spectrum of the associated graded ring of OX,x with respect to the m-adic filtration:
If we look at our previous example, then we can see that graded pieces contain the same information. So let
then if we expand out the associated graded ring
we can see that the polynomial defining our variety
in
See also
Cone
Monge cone
Normal cone
References
Convex geometry
Algebraic geometry
Variational analysis |
Grace Jewett (1876-1946) was an American architect in the early 20th century. She was one of the pioneer women in architecture, and successfully developed her career in San Francisco after the devastation caused by the earthquake and fire in 1906. Jewett studied at the Pratt Institute in New York from 1900-1902, and her career spanned from 1902-1943.She is most well known for her success in designing apartment buildings, but she also worked on various industrial facilities. In 1913, Jewett opened her own practice in downtown San Francisco. She also often collaborated with Italian architect Italo Zanolini.
Some of Jewett's most significant industrial designs include a factory for American Machine Works, a warehouse on 8th street, and a garage on Bush street. She is also known for her design of the Women's Club of San Mateo in the early 1920s.
After moving to Los Angeles in 1923, it is unknown if Jewett continued her career in architecture because of a lack of records. In 1945, she officially retired as an architect. Ms. Jewett was partially crippled, and in her later life relied on the help of her longtime friend and partner, Erskine Hathaway. On April 12, 1946, Grace Jewett committed suicide, and the news reached the Oakland Tribune, but there was no mention of her achievements in architecture.
See also
List of California women architects
References
American architects
California women architects
1876 births
1946 deaths
1946 suicides
Suicides in California |
Umbskaya Volost () was an administrative division (a volost) of the Novgorod Republic and later of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR. Its seat was in Umba.
The volost was established by the Novgorodians in the second half of the 15th century. It was lost by the Novgorod Republic to the Grand Duchy of Moscow after the Battle of Shelon in 1471.
In the 16th century, most of the Kola Peninsula's territory was under the administration of Kolsky Uyezd. Umbskaya and Varzuzhskaya Volosts were the only territories of the peninsula which were a part of Dvinsky Uyezd.
In 1784, when Arkhangelsk Oblast of Vologda Viceroyalty was transformed into Arkhangelsk Viceroyalty, Umbskaya Volost was transferred under the jurisdiction of the new viceroyalty's Kolsky Uyezd. When the viceroyalty was transformed into Arkhangelsk Governorate in 1796, the volost's jurisdiction again changed accordingly.
In 1828, Poryegubskaya Volost was merged into Umbskaya Volost.
The volost was abolished on , 1841, when volosts of Arkhangelsk Governorate's uyezds were enlarged. Umbskaya Volost, along with Varzuzhskaya Volost and the territory of the Terskaya Lapps, became a part of new Kuzomenskaya Volost.
The volost was later restored, and was a part of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate in 1883. When Kolsky Uyezd was restored on , 1883, Umbskaya Volost was one of the six volosts transferred to it.
The volost became a part of Murmansk Governorate at the time of its establishment in 1921, and was abolished on August 1, 1927 along with the rest of the volosts of Murmansk Governorate when the latter was transformed into Murmansk Okrug, redistricted, and transferred to the newly created Leningrad Oblast.
References
Notes
Sources
Arkhangelsk Governorate volosts
15th-century establishments in Russia
1841 disestablishments
States and territories disestablished in 1927
Novgorod Republic |
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