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Ross Daly (born 29 September 1952 in King's Lynn, Norfolk) is a world musician who specializes in music of the Cretan lyra. Although of Irish descent, he has been living on the island of Crete for over 35 years.
Biography
Ross Daly has traveled the world, mainly in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, studying various forms of local music traditions.
In 1982, he established an educational institution called Labyrinth Musical Workshop, in the village of Crete, twenty kilometers south of the capital city of Herakleion. More than 250 instruments that Daly collected during his travels are displayed.
Since 2002, the Labyrinth Musical Workshop hosts seminars and "master classes" with teachers of traditional music from around the world, attracting students from around the world. Labyrinth Musical Workshop was founded to initiate, mainly young people, a creative approach to traditional musical idioms from various parts of the world.
In 1990, Daly designed a new type of Cretan lyra that incorporates elements of raki, the byzantine lyra, and the Indian sarangi. The result was a lyra with three playing strings of 29 cm in length (the same as the standard Cretan lyra), and 18 sympathetic strings which resonate on Indian-styled jawari bridges (the number of sympathetic strings was later increased to 22).
Daly has released more than 35 albums of his compositions and of his own arrangements of traditional melodies collected during his travels.
In the Summer of 2004, he was the artistic director of the cultural program of the Olympic Games for the Olympic city of Heraklion on the island of Crete, titled "Crete, Music Crossroads". He organized and artistically supervised 15 concerts with the participation of 300 musicians from all over the world, including Jordi Savall, Eduardo Niebla, Huun Huur Tu, Habil Aliyev, Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan, Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz, Chemirani Trio, Adel Selameh.
Ross Daly is the originator of the term Contemporary Modal Music, which refers to contemporary compositional works which draw their influences and inspiration from the broader world of Modal musical traditions which are found primarily (although not exclusively) in the vast geographical region between Western Africa and Western China. Composers of Contemporary Modal Music initially study intensively various of these traditions and subsequently compose new works in which they freely integrate influences and elements from these idioms into their work. The Musical Workshop Labyrinth, of which Ross Daly is the founder and artistic director, has been very active in promoting and supporting this type of composition as it crosses ethnic and other lines as well as stressing contemporary creative work in musical idioms which are usually considered to be “traditional” and therefore with their “creative center” in the past. Ross Daly himself disputes this notion, believing instead that the epithet “traditional” implies above all an element of timelessness in which the contributions of the past, present, and future are equally important and relevant to the creative process.
In the European Elections of 2009, he was the candidate with the Ecologists Greens.
Discography
Oneirou Topi (1982)
Lavyrinthos (1984)
Ross Daly (1986)
Anadysi (1987)
Elefthero Simio (1989)
7 songs and 1 Semai (with Spyridoula Toutoudaki) (1989)
Kriti 1 (with Manolis Manassakis) (1989)
Pnoe (with Vassilis Soukas) (1990)
Hori (1990)
the Circle at the Crossroads (1990)
Kriti 2 (with Babis Chairetis aka “Vourgias”)
Selected Works (1991)
An Ki (with Djamchid Chemirani) (1991)
Mıtos (1992)
Cross Current (with Djamchid Chemirani & Irshad Khan) (1994)
Naghma (with Paul Grant, Bijan Chemirani & Nayan Ghosh) (1998)
At The Cafe Aman (1998)
Synavgia (1998)
Beyond The Horizon (2001)
Gulistan (with Bijan Chemirani) (2001)
Kin Kin (2002)
Music Of Crete (2002)
Iris (2003)
Mıcrokosmos (2003)
Echo Of Time (2004)
Spyrıdoula Toutoudaki - Ross Daly / Me Ti Fevga Tou Kerou (2004)
Live At Theatre De La Vılle / Avec Le Trio Chemıranı (2005)
White Dragon (2008)
The Other Side (2014)
Tin Anixi Perimenes (with Vassilis Stavrakakis, Giorgos Manolakis) (2015)
Osi Hara’Houn ta Poulia (with Evgenia Damavoliti-Toli) (2016)
Lunar (with Kelly Thoma) (2017)
Concerts at festivals
Daly has performed in many venues and festivals:
Musicaves, Givry (71), France (2013)
Kala Kathoumena, Nicosia (Old City), Cyprus (2012)
Bourges, France (2008)
Al Dhafra Concert Hall, Abu Dhabi (2008)
Rainforest World Music Festival, Sarawak, Malaysia (2008)
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France (1992–93, 2002,2003,2005, 2008)
Nikos Kazantzakis Theater, Herakleion, Crete (1996, 1999, 2001, 2008)
Jerusalem Oud Festival (2008)
San Sebastien Festival, Spain (2008)
Purcell Room, London (2007), Clarinet Festival, Bretagne (2008)
Pieśń naszych korzeni, Song of our Roots, Jarosław, Poland (2008)
Emirates Palace Theater (2006, 2007)
Nuremberg, Germany (1992, 2006)
Migration Festival, Taipei, Taiwan (2006)
International Lute Festival, Tetouan, Morocco (2006)
Madrid Summer Festival, Sabatini Gardens, Spain (2006)
International Festival, Warsaw, Poland (2006)
Manresa Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2006)
Municipal concert hall, Kayseri, Turkey (2006)
Athens Concert Hall, (1993, 2006)
Cairo Opera House (2006)
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall, Istanbul, Τurkey (1997, 2005, 2006)
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland(2005)
Konzerthaus Mozart Saal, Vienna, Austria (2005)
San Francisco World Music Festival, U.S.A (2005)
State Theatre Company, Adelaide, Australia (2005)
Skala Aglantza Nicosia, Cyprus (2005)
Oslo Cathedral (2004)
Södra Teatern, Stockholm, Sweden (2004)
World Music Festival, Skopje, Macedonia (1999, 2003)
Urkult Festival, Nämforsen, Sweden (2003)
Festival de Saint Chartier, France (2003)
Copanhagen, Denmark (1995–97, 2003)
Thessaloniki Concert Hall (2002)
Rudolstadt Festival, Germany (2002)
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, U.K (1998, 2000, 2002)
Protestant Church, Brussels, Belgium (2001)
Isle of Wight Festival (2000)
Archaeological Museum, Madrid, Spain (1998–99, 2001)
Festival of Murcia, Spain (1999)
WDR, Munich, Germany (1999)
Lycabbetus theatre, Athens (1987,91,93,98)
Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Greece (1992, 1998, 2022)
Aarhus, Denmark (1997)
Huset theatre, Ahlborg, Denmark (1995–97)
Passionskirche, Berlin (1994,95,96)
Les Nuits Atypiques Festival, Langon, France (1995)
Luxemburg Concert Hall (1992, 1994)
WDR Wuppertal, Germany (1992)
Frankfurt, Germany (1992)
Epidaurus Theatre, Greece
References
Irish folk musicians
Cretan musicians
Greek musicians
Living people
1952 births
People from King's Lynn
English people of Irish descent
British expatriates in Greece |
Syntaracta is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Geometridae |
Roderick Robert Grant is a Scottish rugby union coach and former player. He played as a flanker for Border Reivers, Edinburgh and Scotland sevens between 2006 and 2015, and has coached at the Scottish Rugby Academy and Edinburgh. Since 2019, he has been forwards coach for Ulster.
Early life
Grant was born in Jwaneng, Botswana to Scottish parents and soon after moved to Cape Town, South Africa. He attended Western Province Prep School where he started playing rugby at the age of 11. From there he moved on to Bishops where he continued his sporting career. It was here that Grant was selected to play for the South African under-15 and under-16 waterpolo sides. Halfway through his high school career he moved out of the Western Cape to the Midlands of Natal to attend Hilton College.
It was here that his rugby career really started to take shape moving from the centres to the back row. Grant played for the school's first XV as well as the Natal Schools side. Upon completing high school, Grant moved to Scotland where he began his professional career.
Rugby runs in Roddy's family: his grandfather (Bob) and great-uncle (George) were international referees, the latter was also Scotland full back in 1950 and 1951 and manager of the 1977 Lions in New Zealand, and Grant's father played for British Universities.
Career
He joined Border Reivers in summer 2006 as an apprentice, and the following January he made his debut for the professional team as a substitute in the Magners League match against Newport Gwent Dragons at Rodney Parade. He was awarded the 2008 John Macphail Scholarship, allowing him to have a summer playing for Auckland University club in New Zealand.
Grant started as open-side flanker in all five of Scotland's matches in the 2006 Under 19 Rugby World Championship in Dubai in April 2006. Later that year he made his international sevens debut for Scotland in the Dubai tournament which opened the IRB's 2006–07 series. He played in six of the tournaments in that series. That season, too, he had his Scotland Under-20 debut in the February 2007 match against England in Bath, and he continued in that team for the game against France in Bourg-en-Bresse.
In November 2008 he was the Scottish Thistles’ joint-top scorer with 45 points (nine tries) in the Singapore international sevens, and he went on to play in the Scotland squad in the 2008–09 IRB tournaments in Wellington (New Zealand), San Diego (USA), Hong Kong, Adelaide, Twickenham and Murrayfield as well as the RWC Sevens in Dubai, where he scored four tries in helping Scotland to win the Plate competition. Over the 2008–09 sevens season he scored 23 tries, and his points tally of 115 was second only to Colin Gregor’s 171.
Grant also played two games for Scotland A in the IRB Nations Cup success in Bucharest in June 2009. His debut was as a replacement in the win against Russia, and his first start followed four days later in the victory against Uruguay. That same month he signed a professional contract with Edinburgh, and his Scotland A career continued with a replacement appearance in the 38–7 win against Tonga at Netherdale, Galashiels, in November 2009. Grant was subsequently nominated for Young Player of the Season in the Celtic League for season 2009–10. Grant trained with the senior Scotland squad during the 2010 Six Nations Championship.
On 26 December 2013, Grant made his 100th appearance for Edinburgh, leading the team out onto the Murrayfield pitch for the Boxing Day Pro12 derby clash with Glasgow Warriors.
In March 2015, Grant signed a new contract with Edinburgh until 2016. In August 2015, he scored a hat-trick of tries against Romania's Rugby World Cup side. Edinburgh won the match 31–16. In December 2015 he was forced to retire following an injury.
Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Grant joined the Scottish Rugby Academy and in May 2017 was promoted to Edinburgh forwards' coach. Since 2019 he has been forwards' coach for Ulster.
References
External links
Profile, scotlandrugbyteam.org
Profile, edinburghrugby.org
1987 births
Living people
Border Reivers players
Edinburgh Rugby players
Male rugby sevens players
Rugby union flankers
Scotland 'A' international rugby union players
Scotland international rugby sevens players
Scottish rugby union players
South African people of Scottish descent
Alumni of Hilton College (South Africa)
Ulster Rugby non-playing staff
Scottish rugby union coaches
South African rugby union players
South African rugby union coaches
Rugby union players from Cape Town
Rugby sevens players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for Scotland |
Vallanes () is a village in the east of Iceland close to Egilsstaðir.
References
Populated places in Eastern Region (Iceland) |
North Dakota is a state in the Midwestern United States. The development of the region's Bakken formation has led to an oil boom economy and produced one of the lowest unemployment rates in the United States and renewed population growth in the state. Oil and gas is now the state's largest contributor to the economy, replacing the agricultural sector.
Largest firms
This list shows firms in the Fortune 500, which ranks firms by total revenues reported before January 31, 2018. Only the top five firms (if available) are included as a sample.
Notable firms
This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the state. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations which have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct.
See also
List of cities in North Dakota
References
Companies
North Dakota |
Cassina Gambrel Was Missing is a 1999 novel by William Watkins.
Plot
Set against turbulent events in Memphis, Tennessee in the late 1970s, the novel concerns a young, white, college student named Jackson Taylor who befriends an older black woman named Cassina Gambrel. As the protagonist's fortune and world expands, Cassina's narrows. Years later, Jackson begins a search for his former friend and the book takes on a cynical tone, bordering on bitterness, while the story unfolds through a series of revealing flashbacks.
Reception and characteristics
The novel has been described as part coming-of-age story and part comedy of manners and garnered praise for the author's ability to draw keen characterizations with few words and to juggle a non-linear narrative with skill.
References
1999 American novels
Novels set in Memphis, Tennessee
Nonlinear narrative novels |
Adebisi Shank were a three-piece instrumental rock trio from Wexford, Ireland consisting of guitarist Lar Kaye, bass guitarist Vincent McCreith and drummer Michael Roe. The band was signed to Richter Collective in Ireland, before the record label closed in December 2012, Big Scary Monsters in the United Kingdom, Sargent House in the United States and Parabolica in Japan. Their name is a reference to the Oz character Simon Adebisi. Their style of music was described as "seriously upbeat math-rocky craziness". In September 2014, the band announced their breakup, with each member pursuing different paths. They released three studio albums and one extended play in their career.
History
The band formed in August 2006, after both drummer Mick Roe and guitarist Lar Kaye, who worked together in math rock band Terrordactyl, collaborated with bass player Vinny McCreith, who at the time worked on a solo chiptune project named The Vinny Club. The group's name, which derives from the Oz character Simon Adebisi, was picked by guitarist Larry Kaye when they needed a name quickly. Not long after their formation, in July 2007, the band released their first EP, titled This is the EP of a band called Adebisi Shank. They released the EP on DIY label Armed Ambitions and this led to the band later in 2007 touring across continental Europe with Marvins Revolt.
In early 2008 they toured Japan, supporting LITE and the EP's release on their new Japanese label, Parabolica.
In 2010 they were also nominated for a Choice Music Prize and played in Vicar Street in front of a sold-out crowd. They lost to Two Door Cinema Club's debut album Tourist History.
For the release of their second album, the band signed to US label and management company Sargent House, offering North American label support and worldwide management. This signing is significant for the band as they have always had a desire to tour the United States; however, they only wanted to do it if they could find a record label to support them. Prior to the release of their second studio album, in 2010, the band played a 14-date tour across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, including festival appearances at Indiependence, Castlepalooza, Off The Cuff and Glasgowbury. In 2011 the band won Best Album, Best Rock Act and Best Design at The Digital Socket Awards 2011, a music awards show organized by Irish music bloggers.
In late 2012, Kaye revealed that he had formed an electropunk supergroup trio called No Spill Blood. The band was formed with members from other bands like Hands Up Who Wants To Die?, Elk, and Magic Pockets and released their debut EP on 31 July 2012.
Across July 2012 the band engaged on a New Tunez tour which went across Ireland, which gave the band an opportunity to debut and perform new, unreleased material.
On 18 September 2013, the band announced the completion of their upcoming third album, having released it on 12 August 2014, to positive reviews from fans and critics alike. On 24 September of the same year, the band announced they would be breaking up after a last overseas tour. The band said Kaye and McCreith would continue with the music business, with Kaye playing with his other band All Tvvins, and McCreith would be producing and mixing, as well as some work with video games and as a solo artist under the name VMC Sound. He also has plans to continue with his duo Speed of Snakes. Roe, on the other hand, is a business lecturer at Dublin music college BIMM.
Characteristics
Musical style
Adebisi Shank have a style of music described as "seriously upbeat math-rocky craziness" and have self-described themselves as robot-rock. Allmusic describes them as fusing "frenetic hardcore-influenced math rock with the epic scope of post-rock, the freewheeling intensity of heavy metal, and the dancefloor-shredding sensibilities of electronic dance music." Despite being an instrumental band the group uses distorted vocal effects in songs, treating their voices as if they are a part of their musical ensemble, with the band stating they would never use "clean vocals" in their music. The band incorporates several different instruments into their ensemble, utilising: guitars, drums, synthesizers, marimbas, horns, vocoder, percussion ensemble and "musical instruments we're not sure have even been invented yet."
The band's style has been compared to math rock bands such as Don Caballero and Battles, as well as also having their style compared to the "triumphant guitar harmonies of Fang Island with the mathematic precision of Battles, the genre-surfing playfulness of Daft Punk and churning intensity of Health." The band's influences are diverse, ranging through several different genres, including: Prince, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Oingo Boingo, Nirvana, Queen, Thin Lizzy, Paul Simon, Justice, Andrew WK, Jamie Lidell, Caribou, Vangelis, Steely Dan, Thomas Dolby, Arthur Russell, The Beach Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Talking Heads, My Bloody Valentine, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Reich, Debussy, Tangerine Dream, OutKast, Lindsey Buckingham, Burt Bacharach, Le Butcherettes, The Brecker Brothers, R. Kelly, Éric Serra, Michael Jackson.
Live performances
Adebisi Shank live performances have been described typically as relentless. A significant part of both the band's image and live performances is the bass player Vincent McCreith wearing a mask. The mask covers his entire face and resembles a scarf. When asked in an interview about the purpose of the mask McCreith commented saying: "I’d hate for the band to become famous purely because of the bass players rugged good looks and deep blue eyes."
Members
Lar Kaye – guitar (2006–2014)
Vincent McCreith – bass guitar (2006–2014)
Michael Roe– drums, percussion (2006–2014)
Discography
Studio albums
Extended plays
Awards and nominations
Choice Music Prize
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The Digital Socket Awards
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References
External links
Official website (archived)
Musical groups established in 2007
Irish musical trios
Irish rock music groups
Musical groups from County Wexford
Irish experimental rock groups
Sargent House artists |
Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon, (13 September 1917 - 16 May 1993), was a British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords, and academic administrator. The only son of Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, he succeeded to the title of Baron Kenyon on his father's death in 1927.
Life
Lord Kenyon was educated at Eton and then Magdalene College, Cambridge. As a peer he was active across many fields of public life including education, museums and health.
Lord Kenyon was president of the University College of North Wales in Bangor (part of the University of Wales), from 1947 to 1982. Through the university he was behind the revival of the Gwasg Gregynog Press, which printed traditional hand-bound books from metal type and woodcut illustrations, and he was chairman of the press from 1978 to 1991.
He was president of the National Museum of Wales from 1952 to 1957, trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1953 to 1988 and member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1966 to 1993. He was credited with growing the NPG from a small specialist museum to "one of the great national galleries".
He was chairman of the Wrexham, Powys and Mawddach Hospital Management Committee from 1960 to 1974, and then chairman of the Clwyd Area Health Authority, 1974–1978.
As Flintshire county councillor he was appointed to their first records committee and was an active supporter of Flintshire Record Office (later Clwyd Record Office). He was also elected to the North Wales Police Authority.
He was a director of Lloyds Bank.
He was a Justice of the Peace in 1944. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for Flintshire in 1948, an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem , and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972. He was a provincial grandmaster for the Freemasons of North Wales.
He married Leila Cookson in 1946 and had three children - two sons, one of whom pre-deceased him and one daughter. He died in Gredington, Shropshire, on 16 May 1993, aged 75.
References
External links
Kenyon records, Flintshire Record Office
Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
1917 births
1993 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Deputy Lieutenants of Flintshire
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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Mazal (, also Romanized as Maz‘al) is a village in Howmeh-ye Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Ramhormoz County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 45, in 11 families.
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Populated places in Ramhormoz County |
Giovanni de Silvio or Jimmy Kelly (fl. 1900–1914) was an American saloon keeper, political organizer and underworld figure in New York City during the start of the 20th century. He was the owner the Fourteenth Street saloon The Folly as well as the popular Mandarin Cafe in Chinatown, located in the notorious "Bloody Angle" along Doyers Street, and was a hangout for politicians, gang leaders and other noted criminals of the era. His cafe was also the scene of several violent incidents, especially during the Tong War, which included, in 1910, the fourth attempted suicide of Chinatown character John "Dippy" Rice and the 1912 murder of Hen Ken Yum, the latter a high-level member of the On Leong Tong and a lieutenant of Mock Duck.
He himself controlled a small gang of thugs-for-hire and was an ally of the Eastman Gang, particularly Jack Zelig, but later became involved in an underworld rivalry with Chick Tricker and Jack Sirocco. For several years, he feuded with Tricker and Sirocco over control of Chinatown's graft and was the main competitor of their establishment The Flea Bag. He became a major political organizer for Tammany Hall, successful in taking power in Chinatown following the arrest of Monk Eastman in 1904, and was eventually awarded control of the district by Tammany politicians. Both Tricker and Sirocco resisted Kelly's attempts to take over but were forced out after a police raid led to the close of The Flea Bag.
1905
In May 1905, he was assaulted in the Bowery near Great Jones Street by members of the Five Points Gang under Paul Kelly. Although he received only minor injuries, bouncers from The Folly and New Brighton began fighting each other resulting in three men being stabbed and the murder of "Eat 'Em Up" Jack McManus. Both Kelly and Tricker were both assaulted in separate incidents shortly before McManus's murder, Kelly being stabbed in the back with a stiletto on First Avenue near Fourth Street.
1908
In November 1908, while walking to his home, he was attacked by members of the Humpty Jackson Gang shortly after hosting a ball at Tammany Hall. He was shot in the stomach but eventually recovering from his wounds and refusing to identify his attackers. He received special protection from the New York Police Department and had a particularly close relationship with Detective Charles Becker. While in attendance at Sirocco's annual ball at Tammany Hall in February 1912, Becker overheard plans to murder Kelly and spent the rest of the night with several other officers guarding Kelly's place. Although no attack took place that night, Becker searched Sirocco's Little Rock headquarters at Broome Street and confiscated a rifle and two revolvers. The cafe was under guard for three more days when, while walking through the Bowery with Louie the Lump, an unidentified gunman fired at them from a hallway. Neither men were hit but later that day another attempt was made while the two were at Baxter Street after walking through Mulberry Bend Park. Once again, the unknown gunman missed but Louie fired three shots in return injuring day laborer Patrick McKenna as a result. Louie the Lump was taken into custody along with another man, suspected by police to be the shooter, while Kelly ran to Elizabeth Street Station where he asked for protection. Sirocco was later arrested on an unrelated charge but released on bail. Louie the Lump was a known associate of Kelly, at times acting as his bodyguard, and participated in attacking "hangers on" from Sirocco's gang and planting weapons on them for police to find when they were arrested. The alleged assassin was identified as Charles I. "Game" Sola, both he and Louie the Lump standing trial for the gunfight, and the case against Kelly's bodyguard was dismissed.
By mid-July, a number of establishments were closed and put under police guard following a series of violent gang fights which had broken out within a 10-hour period on the night of June 5. These included Sirocco's place at Chatham Square, Chick Tricker's Bowery emporium, the Chatham Club and three other Fourteenth Street saloons where the majority of the fighting occurred. Only Kelly's Mandarin Cafe was allowed to stay open, despite of it having a police guard as well. He was later one of several men arrested during official inquiry during the Becker-Rosenthal trial but was not implicated in the actual murder according to Deputy Commissioner Dougherty.
1913
This feud eventually came to a head in 1913 in a dispute over their respective bouncers being hired as private security, known then as "strong arm squads", for sporting events and other occasions. Matters worsened when Detective Val O'Farrell, in charge of hiring security for Madison Square Garden, refused to hire several of his men for the annual six-day bicycle race being held at the venue. On the morning of December 12, a gunfight broke out between members of his club and those from Sirocco's near Madison Square Garden. Around 2:00 am, a group of Sirocco's men left Madison Square Garden and were ambushed near the corner of Fourth Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street by Kelly's men firing from behind a Madison Avenue trolley car. Although the gunfight was brief, an estimated fifty rounds had been used and ended only until gunmen on both sides ran out of ammunition. No one was reported injured, the passengers on the trolley avoiding being hit by dropping to the floor, despite the large number of spectators entering and leaving Madison Square Garden to watch the annual six-day bicycle race being held.
Most of the participants were able to escape as police from local precincts investigating the gunfire began entering the area. Kelly's gunmen, according arriving to police officers, were picked up by a large black touring car which they began firing at hoping to shoot out the tires. The car was last seen heading towards Second Avenue but police were unable to pursue them. Two of Sirocco's men, Tony Rossa and Frank Jula, were arrested by police and taken to Jefferson Market Court where they were arraigned and held on a $2,000 bail. The two had no previous criminal record but had ties with Jack Sirocco and were believed to have thrown away their weapons. Six empty revolvers were found by police at the scene.
References
Further reading
Fowler, Gene. Beau James: The Life & Times of Jimmy Walker. New York: Viking Press, 1949.
Levinson, Edward. I Break Strikes!. New York: Arno, 1969.
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American people of Italian descent
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Delaware Township is a township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population at the 2010 Census was 4,489, an increase over the figure of 4,341 tabulated in 2000.
History
The Allenwood River Bridge, Hopper-Snyder Homestead, William Kirk House, and Warrior Run Presbyterian Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (3.21%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 4,341 people, 1,678 households, and 1,241 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 1,765 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 98.80% White, 0.28% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.14% from other races, and 0.35% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.53% of the population.
There were 1,678 households, out of which 31.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.1% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.0% were non-families. 21.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the township the population was spread out, with 24.5% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.7 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $39,219, and the median income for a family was $45,950. Males had a median income of $30,138 versus $21,417 for females. The per capita income for the township was $17,442. About 7.0% of families and 10.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 16.1% of those age 65 or over.
References
Populated places established in 1774
Townships in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Townships in Pennsylvania |
Fuerzas Unidas por Nuestros Desaparecidos en Nuevo León (FUNDENL) is a non-governmental organisation formally established in 2012 in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. Its primary purpose is to search for and locate victims of forced disappearance or by individuals, as well as to encourage and support the defence, promotion and respect for human rights. FUNDENL is formed by relatives of missing persons and people who carry out solidarity accompaniment or activists who empathise with the issue.
The organisation began with two mothers of missing persons who exhausted the institutional means to search for their sons; together with solidarity activists, they gathered more families to search for their relatives and loved ones by their own means. Their main slogan is "Because they were taken alive, and we want them alive".
FUNDENL, in addition to carrying out search work; also has a registry of missing persons in Nuevo Leon and other states of the country; participates in national meetings on the subject of missing persons; denounces cases of disappearance in public spaces; publishes papers to disseminate their struggle and communicate the problem nationally and internationally. Among the activities and acts of collective memory that have been carried out is Embroidery for Peace in Nuevo Leon (Bordados por la Paz), among other artistic practices.
Raising awareness about forced disappearance is also part of the NGO's advocacy. This is because people who have been disappeared are stigmatised and criminalised by society. FUNDENL has launched campaigns on social media to make citizens aware that disappearance happens more commonly than people think.
The members of FUNDENL carried out practices of memory by appropriating and redesigning a public space in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, which became known as "La Plaza de la Transparencia" (The Plaza of Transparency). In that place there was a monument made of metal and glass where they began to place the names of their disappeared relatives with the intention that upon their return, their own relatives would remove their names from the monument, today this place is known as "The Plaza of the Disappeared" and the monument was transformed into a space for their memory.
Among its international advocacy is the struggle of one of the members and founders, Irma Leticia Hidalgo, mother of Roy Rivera Hidalgo who has been missing since January 11, 2011. She took her case to the UN Human Rights Committee, which recognised that the Mexican State "did not prove that the investigation into the disappearance of Roy Rivera Hidalgo had been carried out with due diligence". Likewise, the Committee considered that Leticia Hidalgo "has sufficiently substantiated her allegations and that the State Prosecutor's Office has not duly refuted that the disappearance is attributable to the State".
Search for missing people
FUDENL created a platform called "Huellas de Vida: Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas en Nuevo León" which is a citizen's tool with a humanitarian approach, developed by FUNDENL, the American Jewish World Service and the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de Información Geoespacial. This platform has the objective of documenting information related to Missing Persons, unidentified located persons and personal objects located in clandestine burial sites in Nuevo Leon, so that this data can be consulted and analysed in a public way and identify patterns or coincidences that can help in the search and location of Missing Persons. FUNDENL mentions that the idea was born after detecting that when a garment or object, which could belong to a missing person, was handed over to the authorities, it was only archived, that is why they created this database that will be complemented with national and international information that will be shared by other collectives.
In addition to this tool that helps to create a database and to relate findings, FUNDENL has been trained in "tools and legal knowledge about the registration of human remains, so that they can assist and request the authorities the correct application of search protocols", these trainings were provided by the Research Group in Social and Forensic Anthropology. On August 30, 2019, an Independent Forensic Group was formalised, made up of Anthropologists and Archaeologists in solidarity with FUNDENL's cause. These professionals have accompanied the organisation since 2014, when they began field search work and independent exhumations. In 2014, FUNDENL, together with the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team, achieved the full identification of Brenda Damaris González Solís, who disappeared on July 31, 2011. In 2017, field searches were conducted in the municipality of García, Nuevo León where thousands of human remains were found. In addition, during 2018 the Forensic Group through FUNDENL trained the Attorney General's Office in archaeological techniques applied in the field, the use of drone and photogrammetry.
References
2022 establishments in Mexico
Crime in Nuevo León
Human rights in Mexico
Missing person cases in Mexico
Human rights organizations based in Mexico |
The Atik Behram-begova džamija (Mosque of Atik Behram Bey), better known as Šarena džamija (Colourful Mosque), is the oldest mosque in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Name
The name of Atik was given to this mosque because it is probably the oldest mosque in Tuzla. It also acquired the name of Behram Bey due to the Behram-begova medresa being placed in front of it, and because the mosque was probably renewed and maintained as part of the same waqf (vakif). Due to the decorated interiors, it is called the Colorful Mosque (Šarena džamija).
Architecture
The mosque was built on a small hill, the size is 10x10m and dominates the environment. Before the fire of 1871, it was built of clay, with a wooden cupola. After its rebuilding in 1888, it had a dome of solid materials, but this was quickly replaced by a tile roof. On the ground floor there are ten windows made of iron with cross bars. The interior of the mosque is decorated with various furniture. The minbar is built in Arabic style. The minaret consists of several parts, so it is squared from the base to the top of the mosque wall with a narrow roof on three sides. The mosque, as well as the harem itself, is secured by a rock-wall support wall with a concrete slab.
See also
Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
List of mosques in Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
Buildings and structures in Tuzla
Mosques in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ottoman mosques in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sunni mosques |
The FIL European Luge Championships 1934 took place in Ilmenau, Germany under the auspices of the Internationaler Schlittensportsverband (ISSV - International Sled Sports Federation in ), a forerunner to the International Luge Federation.
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Medal table
References
Men's doubles European champions
Men's singles European champions
Women's singles European champions
FIL European Luge Championships
Ilmenau
1934 in luge
Luge in Germany
1934 in German sport |
Ilia Popov (born 17 May 1982) is a Russian sledge hockey player. In 2013 he and his team won the bronze medal at the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships which were hosted in Goyang, South Korea. In the 2014 Winter Paralympics, he won the silver medal with Russia.
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Russian sledge hockey players
Paralympic sledge hockey players for Russia
Paralympic silver medalists for Russia
Ice sledge hockey players at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in sledge hockey
21st-century Russian people |
Henrytown is an unincorporated community in Fillmore County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
History
Henrytown was platted in 1854. The community was named for Henry Onstine, an early settler. The Henrytown post office closed in 1902.
References
Unincorporated communities in Fillmore County, Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Minnesota |
Fleur de Lis Hotel was a 13th century hotel in the city of Canterbury, Kent, England. It is recorded that Charles Dickens stayed there. The hotel was eventually demolished in 1958.
History
Fleur de Lis was one of the oldest hotels, established over 700 years ago. It was located on 34 High Street, Canterbury, Kent, England. Fleur-de-lis means lily (in French, and mean 'flower' and 'lily' respectively) that is used as a decorative design or symbol.
Parts of the building date back to the 13th century. It is recorded that Charles Dickens stayed there and took his meals in the coffee room overlooking High Street.
As a hotel, the Fleur de Lis Hotel had single and double bedrooms, and a bar and restaurant that served breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner. It was advertised as close to a cathedral, railway stations, and a general post office.
The hotel is mentioned as early as 1376. In the back of the building was a livery stable and the Fleur de Lis tap, which can be dated to 1372. An engraving from 1808 on a post card shows the 13th century windows in the courtyard of the hotel with carved corbels. The same corbels can be seen in a 1895 photograph that show the back of the building next to The Cherry Tree Freehouse pub on 10 White Horse Lane.
Thomas Paramore, Esquire of Monkton, Kent said in his will of 1637, that he gave his dwelling called "the Fleur de luce in Canterbury, to his nephew Thomas Paramore, on condition that he paid to the mayor and aldermen 100 pounds and the same to be lent to five poor shopkeepers of the city."
The 1824 city directory said:
On September 14, 1872, the Mayor's annual banquet was held at the Fleur de Lis Hotel, by the landlord Samuel Prentice. The room was decorated with flowers and plants that were supplied by the Earl of Mountcharles, Captain Lambert, and Mr. Mount. Those that were in attendance were the aldermen and councilors, including Canterbury Mayor George Furley.
In the 20-century, the hotel was used for various functions including city elections and for local society meetings. In 1906, postcards show photographs of the hotel's Coffee Room, lounge, and dining room. On September 8, 1910, Ben Twyman sold the hotel and several lots. At that time, there was still a livery stable in the back and the Fleur de Lis tap.
The hotel was demolished in 1958. The three-story building that replaced it has two retail stores. Today, the Fleur de Lis tap is the home of the Cherry Tree Freehouse pub at 10 White Horse Lane.
See also
List of hotels in Kent
List of mayors of Canterbury
References
External links
Fleur de Lis hotel
Hotels in Kent
Listed buildings in Kent
Buildings and structures in Canterbury
Demolished hotels in the United Kingdom
Buildings and structures demolished in 1958 |
Participatory Chinatown is a video game released and implemented in May 2010 to engage people in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood in the master planning process. It is a multiplayer game designed to be played in a large physical space. Players assume the role of a fictional character in the Chinatown neighborhood and they go on one of three missions: find a job, find a place to live, or find a place to socialize. In the first part of the game, players assume the role of their characters. In the second part of the game, they can act as themselves, and they are asked to prioritize values for the planning process. The players' comments and decisions are shared with decision-makers in the community to help with the development of the neighborhood.
The game was designed by the Engagement Game Lab at Emerson College in partnership with Muzzy Lane, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and the Asian Community Development Corporation. In 2011, the game was named the best "direct impact game" by the organization Games for Change.
References
Chinatown, Boston |
Heřmánkovice () is a municipality and village in Náchod District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants. It is located on the border with Poland.
Administrative parts
The village of Janovičky is an administrative part of Heřmánkovice.
Sights
The main landmark of Heřmánkovice is the Church of All Saints. It was built in the Baroque style in 1720–1726 by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, according to the design by his father Christoph Dientzenhofer. For its value it has been protected as a national cultural monument since 2022.
References
Villages in Náchod District |
Codonosiga is a genus of choanoflagellate in the family Codonosigidae. It is currently considered as a synonym of Codosiga, with 29 species in the family.
References
Footnotes
James-Clark, H. (1868). On the Spongia Ciliatae as Infusoria Flagellata; or, observations on the structure, animality, and relationship of Leucosolenia botryoides, Bowerbank. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1 (3): 305–340. Also published in the Proceedings of this Society on June 20, 1866 (vol. 11, p. 15), in the American Journal of Science in November 1866, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History in January 1867, and in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History in 1868 (4th ser., vol. 1: 133–142, 188–215, 250–264).
Stein, F. von (1878). Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere nach eigenen Forschungen in systematischer Reihenfolge bearbeitet III. Abtheilung. Die Naturgeschicnte der Flagellaten oder Geisselinfusorien. Mit 24 Küpfertaflen. I. Halfte, den noch nicht abgeschlossenen allgemeinen Theil nebst Erklärung der Sämmtlichen Abbildungen enthaltend. pp. 1–154, pls I-XXIV. Leipzig: Verlag von WilhEngelmann.
External links
Codonosiga at AlgaeBase
Eukaryote genera
Craspedida |
This is a list of conflicts in Eritrea arranged chronologically from the early modern period to the present day. This list includes: colonial wars, wars of independence, revolutions, civil wars, riots, massacres, terrorist attacks, and any battles that occurred within the territory of what is today known as the, "State of Eritrea" but were themselves only part of a theater of a world war.
Early modern period
Ottoman Eyalet of Jeddah and Habesh
1557–1624 Ottoman conquest of Habesh
Late modern period
Italian Eritrea
1895–1896 First Italo-Ethiopia War
13 January 1895 Battle of Coatit
Contemporary history
Italian Eritrea
3 October 1935 – May 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
3 October 1935 – December 1935 De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia
Italian East Africa
10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 World War II
10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 East African Campaign
5 February 1941 – 1 April 1941 Battle of Keren
Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea
1 September 1961 – 29 May 1991 Eritrean War of Independence
24 July 1967 – One-hundred-seventy-two men had been killed in Hazemo.
1967 – Fifty students suspected of being members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) had been hanged in the center of the town of Agordat.
17 January 1970 – Sixty village elders in Elabared had been rounded up for supporting the Eritrean Liberation Front and killed.
30 November 1970 – One-hundred-twenty people in Basik Dera had been rounded up into the local mosque and the mosque's doors had been locked, the building had then been razed and the survivors shot.
1 December 1970 – Ethiopian Army units had surrounded and killed six-hundred-twenty-five people in Ona, then burnt down the village.
28 December 1974 – Forty-five students in Asmara had been strangled to death using piano wires, their bodies dumped in alleyways and doorsteps.
2 February 1975 – During an engagement against both the EPLF and ELF, the Ethiopian Army had attacked the church where eighty to one-hundred-three villagers in Woki Duba had taken refuge.
14 February 1975 – Shortly after an EPLF attack on two Ethiopian divisions, Ethiopian troops had fired upon and killed somewhere between three-hundred-thirty-one to three-thousand civilians who had been gathered in churches, homes and schools of Asmara and other nearby villages.
9 March 1975 – After several ELF attacks on the town, the Ethiopian Army had retaliated on the local population by killing two-hundred-eight in Agordat.
August 1975 – Two-hundred-fifty villagers in Om Hajer had been machine gunned in front of a river to prevent escape.
April 1988 – Three killed by aerial attacks in Agordat.
5 December 1988 – Four-hundred had been killed in She'eb who had been mostly women and children.
3 April 1990 – 4 April 1990 – Aerial attacks in Afabet had killed sixty-seven and wounded one-hundred-twenty-five.
24 April 1990 – Aerial attacks and cluster bombs in Massawa had killed fifty and wounded one-hundred-ten.
1977–1978 Battle of Massawa
1977 – Siege of Barentu
17 March 1988 – 20 March 1988 Battle of Afabet
8 February 1990 – 10 February 1990 Battle of Massawa
Ethiopian Empire
February 1972 – 13 October 1974 First Eritrean Civil War
Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia
February 1980 – 24 March 1981 Second Eritrean Civil War
Transitional Government of Ethiopia
15 December 1995 – 17 December 1995 Hanish Islands conflict
State of Eritrea
6 May 1998 – 25 May 2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian War
10 June 2008 – 13 June 2008 Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict
1 January 2010 Eritrean–Ethiopian border skirmish
References
See also
List of wars involving Eritrea
Eritrean Defence Forces
Eritrean Army
Eritrean Air Force
Eritrean Navy
Military history of Africa
African military systems to 1800 CE
African military systems 1800 CE — 1900 CE
African military systems after 1900 CE
Military history of Eritrea
Conflicts |
Reggie Keely (born June 9, 1991) is an American professional basketball player who plays for Þór Akureyri of the Úrvalsdeild karla. He played collegiately for the Ohio Bobcats.
College career
Keely played four seasons for Ohio University, the team he committed to in 2008. In his time with the Bobcats, he scored a total 1,131 points for the team. This made him the fifth all-time scorer for Ohio. Keely is also the seventh all-time blocker for the Bobcats with a total of 107 blocks.
Honours
MAC All-Tournament Team (2013)
All-MAC Third Team (2013)
Statistics
Professional career
Keely's professional career started in 2013, when he signed with the Den Helder Kings in the Netherlands. After 10 games Keely was waived by the Kings.
For the 2014–15 season he signed with BC Apollo Amsterdam. After 2 games he signed with the Hungarian team Sopron KC. After a short try-out he returned to Apollo.
On February 18, 2015, he signed with MZT Skopje of the Macedonian First League.
On December 28, 2017, Keely joined Faros Larissas of the Greek Basket League.
On August 24, 2018, Keely signed a one-year deal with Czech club BC Brno.
In November 2021, Keely signed with Þór Akureyri of the Úrvalsdeild karla.
References
External links
Dutch Basketball League profile and statistics
Ohio Bobcats bio
https://m.instagram.com/reggiekeely1?igshid=1derb7nd6rw54
1991 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic
American expatriate basketball people in Finland
American expatriate basketball people in Greece
American expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands
American expatriate basketball people in North Macedonia
American expatriate basketball people in Romania
American expatriate basketball people in Slovakia
American expatriate basketball people in Slovenia
American men's basketball players
Apollo Amsterdam players
Basketball players from Ohio
BC Brno players
Cleveland Heights High School alumni
Den Helder Kings players
Dutch Basketball League players
Gymnastikos S. Larissas B.C. players
KK MZT Skopje players
Kobrat players
Ohio Bobcats men's basketball players
People from University Heights, Ohio
Power forwards (basketball)
Sportspeople from Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball) players
Þór Akureyri men's basketball players
KK Kansai Helios Domžale players
American expatriate basketball people in Iceland |
Alternative or alternate may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Alternative (Kamen Rider), a character in the Japanese TV series Kamen Rider Ryuki
AlterNative, academic journal
The Alternative (film), a 1978 Australian television film
The Alternative, a radio show hosted by Tony Evans
120 Minutes (2004 TV program), an alternative rock music video program formerly known as The Alternative
The American Spectator, an American magazine formerly known as The Alternative: An American Spectator
Music
Alternative (album), a B-sides album by Pet Shop Boys
The Alternative (album), an album by IAMX
"Altern-ate", a song by H-el-ical//, 2020
Alternative rock, also known as "alternative music" or simply "alternative"
Sports
Alternate (sports), a replacement or backup for a regular or starting team player
Mathematics and science
Alternativity, a weaker property than associativity
Alternate leaves, a classification in botanical phyllotaxis
Politics
Alternative (Mauritania), political party
The Alternative (Denmark), a green political party in Denmark
The Alternative (France), electoral coalition
The Alternative (Palestine), a former electoral alliance of several socialist Palestinian groups
Alternativa (Kosovo political party), a liberal political party in Kosovo
Alternativa (Italian political party), a populist political party in Italy
Alternativa (North Macedonian political party), an Albanian political party in North Macedonia
See also
Alternate (theatre)
Alternate reality (disambiguation)
Alternatives, a Canadian non-governmental organization
Alternating (disambiguation)
Alternative culture, a variety of subcultures existing along the fringes of mainstream culture
Alternative education, non-traditional education
Alternative facts, expression associated with political misinformation coined in 2017
Alternative media, media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
Alternative music (disambiguation)
Alternative press (disambiguation)
The Alternate (disambiguation)
Alternative science (disambiguation) |
Orazio Querci (1875, Rome –1970) was an Italian entomologist mainly interested in butterflies.
Querci established a butterfly dealership in Florence.
He supplied World butterflies to many museums including the Natural History Museum, London , the Museum of Philadelphia (via R.C. Williams), the Museum of Barcelona and the Bocage Museum (National Museum of Natural History), Lisbon, Portugal . The Museo Civico di Zoologia holds a collection of Apennine Lepidoptera (" Querci-Romei" collection) and the Zoological Museum of the Sapienza University of Rome holds further specimens. Querci also supplied European butterflies to Roger Verity. Orazio Querci collected extensively in Spain and Portugal also in Cuba.
Works
Verity, R. & Querci, O. (1923): An annotated list of the races and seasonal polymorphism of the Grypocera and of the Rhopalocera of Peninsular Italy. Ent. Rec. 35 (Supplement)
References
Cesare Conci and Roberto Poggi (1996) ''Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75: 159–382.
Italian entomologists
1875 births
1970 deaths |
HMS Blast was a of the Royal Navy, one of ten such vessels commissioned in 1695 to support land assaults on continental ports. Over a 30-year period she saw service in the fleets of Admirals Berkeley and Byng and took part in the British victory at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718.
In 1721 she was converted to a storeship in British-controlled Port Mahón, and was broken up there in 1724.
References
Bibliography
Further reading
1690s ships
Ships built by the Blackwall Yard
Bomb vessels of the Royal Navy |
The Men's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 shooting event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was competed on 19 September. It was won by Jonas Jacobsson, representing Sweden.
Preliminary
19 Sept. 2004, 09:00
Final round
19 Sept. 2004, 12:30
References
M |
WSB may refer to:
Broadcasting
WSB (AM), a radio station (750 AM) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States
WSB-FM, a radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States
WSB-TV, a television station (channel 32, virtual 2) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States
WSB-TV tower
WSBB-FM, a radio simulcast of WSB (AM) (95.5 FM) licensed to Doraville, Georgia, United States
People
William Seward Burroughs I, inventor of a calculating machine
William S. Burroughs, popular writer from the Beat Generation and son of the above
William S. Burroughs Jr., son of the above
Sports and games
World Series Baseball (disambiguation), a video game series published by Sega
World Series of Boxing
World SuperBike, another name for the Superbike World Championship
Other uses
r/wallstreetbets, an investing subreddit on Reddit
Weak Stability Boundary, a low energy transfer that allows spacecraft to change orbits using very little fuel
World Scout Bureau, a division of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
World Security Bureau, a fictional intelligence agency on the long-running soap opera General Hospital
WSB Universities, group of private universities in Poland
WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza in Poland
Wynental- und Suhrentalbahn, a former narrow gauge railway company in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland |
Edward Fouhy (November 30, 1934 – May 13, 2015) was an American journalist and television news executive.
Biography
Fouhy was born in Boston on November 30, 1934, and grew up in neighboring Milton. His father, Joseph, was a payroll clerk at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. His mother Mary was a medical secretary at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was graduated in 1956 on University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He launched his broadcast career as news director for WBZ-TV. He was starting as producer of CBS Morning News in 1966.
References
External links
1934 births
2015 deaths
Businesspeople from Boston
People from Chatham, Massachusetts |
Events in the year 1820 in Portugal.
Incumbents
Monarch: John VI
Events
22 January – Battle of Tacuarembó
Liberal Revolution
24 August – Military revolt in Porto
Establishment of a provisional junta of the Supreme Government of the Kingdom, in Porto
15 September – Military revolt in Lisbon
Establishment of an interim government, in Lisbon
28 September – Establishment of a unified provisional junta
22 November – Instruções, first election law
December – Cortes election
References
Portugal
Portugal
Years of the 19th century in Portugal |
Ramada is a large American multinational hotel chain owned by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. As of December 31, 2022, it operates 851 hotels with 120,344 rooms across 63 countries under the Ramada brand.
Name
The Ramada name derives from the Spanish term rama (meaning "branch"). Temporary open-air structures called "ramadas" (meaning "porch" or "arbor"), made of brush or branches (similar to an arbor) were popular in Arizona during harvest time. Company websites commonly refer to the structure as a "shady resting place".
History
Longtime Chicago restaurateur Marion W. Isbell (1905–1988) founded the chain in 1953 along with a group of investors including Michael Robinson of McAllen, Texas (who later went on to start Rodeway Inns in the early 1960s) and Del Webb of Phoenix (who owned the New York Yankees and went on to establish his own lodging chain, Hiway House, in 1956). Other original investors of Ramada Inns included Isbell's brother-in-law Bill Helsing; Max Sherman, a produce operator from Chicago dubbed "The Tomato King"; Chicago attorneys Ezra Ressman and Mort Levin; and Frank Lichtenstein and Robert Rosow of San Antonio, Texas.
Early in 1952, Marion W. Isbell received a phone call from his brother-in-law, Bill Helsing. Bill informed him of a hotel deal in Flagstaff, AZ that he was going to invest in and wanted to know if Marion would be interested in joining him. This first investment resulted in a rapid return on capital.
Ramada opened its first hotel, a 60-room facility, on U.S. Route 66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1954 and set up its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where the chain built the Sahara Hotel on North 1st Street downtown in 1956 (which later became the Ramada Inn Downtown) and a 300-room Ramada Inn in the 3800 block of East Van Buren in 1958 that would become the chain's flagship property and headquarters. Like his contemporary, Holiday Inn hotel-chain founder Kemmons Wilson, Isbell devised the idea of building and operating a chain of roadside motor hotels when, while on a cross-country trip with his wife Ingrid and their three children, he noted the substandard quality of roadside motor courts along US highways at the time. He had the idea to develop a chain of roadside motor hotels conveniently located along major highways which would provide lodgings with hotel-like quality at near-motel rates plus amenities such as TV, air conditioning, swimming pools, and on-premises restaurants.
From its start in the 1950s until around 1976, Ramada's logo featured a friendly bald innkeeper, dubbed "Uncle Ben". He sported an apron (later a suit and tie) and held a top hat in one hand; in the other hand was a red trumpeted banner that read "Ramada Inn Roadside Hotels". From 1976 to 1982, the chain's logo was a simple rounded rectangle that read "Ramada Inn" in the original design's gothic Western-style lettering. of the original design. From 1982 to 2004, Ramada changed to a revised, rounded rectangular design with more "modern" lettering.
At one point the chain was owned by Ramada Inns, Inc., a holding company set up by Isbell to oversee Ramada's various divisions including hotel operations, franchising, real estate, and equipment purchasing. Under Isbell's leadership, Ramada grew into one of the nation's largest lodging chains during the 1960s and 1970s with 100 Ramada Inns in operation by 1964, which grew to 250 in 1970 and nearly 650 by 1976. By the late 1970s, Ramada ranked as the second-largest hotel chain in the U.S. behind industry leader Holiday Inn. Also during the 1970s, Ramada expanded into worldwide operation by opening new hotels in various European nations and on other continents.
Marion W. Isbell served as president and CEO of Ramada until 1970 when he resigned from the presidency and turned it over to his son, William M. Isbell. The senior Isbell continued as the chain's CEO until his retirement in 1972, then Chairman of the Board until 1979. William M. Isbell would serve as Ramada's president and CEO until 1981.
Ramada developed a chain of in-hotel restaurants similar to the Howard Johnson's restaurants, operating them under various names including Uncle Ben's Kitchen, Ramada Pancake Cottage, and Chez Bon, as well as other names used by individual franchises. The company-owned Ramada restaurants became defunct in 1990, though the franchised hotels still include on-premises restaurants.
Split of hotel and casino operations
In an attempt to revive the company's lagging business in 1989, Ramada Inns, Inc. decided to split its hotel/restaurant businesses and its gaming businesses. The Ramada hotels and restaurants were sold for $540 million to New World Development Company and the gaming business which included the Tropicana Las Vegas, Tropicana Atlantic City, and Ramada Express in Laughlin, Nevada, were spun off to a new company called Aztar Corporation. In the original deal for the gaming business, Ramada shareholders were to get $7 in cash per share plus half a share of the new Aztar Corporation. However, this changed quickly to a new deal where shareholders would receive $1 per share plus one share of Aztar Corporation. In the late 1990s, Ramada was sold to Cendant Corporation of New York City.
Cendant/Wyndham ownership
Under Cendant's (and now Wyndham's) ownership, Ramada franchises Ramada Inn, Ramada Limited, Ramada Plaza, and Ramada Suites in the United States and Canada. Ramada itself no longer directly or indirectly owns or operates any of the Ramada hotels. Outside of the U.S. and Canada, Ramada hotels are owned and operated or franchised by Ramada International, which was owned by hotel operator Marriott International. However, in 2004, Ramada International was purchased by Cendant, giving Cendant the worldwide rights to the Ramada name. Ramada International remains separate from the Ramada operations in the United States and Canada. In 2006, Cendant spun off its hotel operations, including Ramada, to Wyndham Worldwide.
Hotel tiers
The chain offers different hotel "tiers" based on price and services offered.
Ramada Limited—budget-oriented properties, typically with no on-site restaurant, though a pool and deluxe continental breakfast are standard. Some Ramada Limiteds consist of rooms mixed with suites or entire suites.
Ramada Inn/Inn & Suites/Suites—full-service properties with swimming pools, exercise rooms, room service, and free breakfast items. If there is no restaurant on site, a convenience store is usually on the premises. Some hotels have mixed rooms and suites, and a few are entirely suites.
Ramada Hotel/Hotel & Suites/Hotel & Resort—found only outside the US, these are full-service hotels with room service, a full-service restaurant, and fully developed fitness centers. Many of the international hotels also offer suites in addition to rooms, and a few have a resort and hotel together.
Ramada Plaza—lower "upscale" properties offering business centers, full restaurants, enhanced room service, and concierges at many locations.
Ramada Resorts—found in locations outside the USA; located in tourist destinations and high-traffic locations.
One of the "tiers" is no longer part of Ramada:
Ramada Renaissance—a division of upscale businesses and resort hotels begun in 1982. When Ramada was sold in 1989, the new owners divided the Renaissance Hotels brand into its own chain and then sold it to Marriott in 1997.
International
In Australia, Ramada Inn Parkville was a traditional motel in Parkville, Melbourne affiliated with the Australian "Golden Chain" group of hotels and motels. It underwent extensive renovation at one point but was known locally for its use of the Uncle Ben vintage logo and idiosyncratic abbreviation of the word "kilometre" on its signage. The motel was rebranded in c.2006–09 as "Parade Inn" and was demolished less than a decade later, making way for a residential development.
In the United Kingdom, Jarvis Hotels Ltd were the largest franchisee of the Ramada brand. They operated corporately as "Ramada Jarvis Hotels". Six of the properties were bannered as Country Collection hotels; they are properties that were historic buildings that had been owned by local business magnates and in beautiful landscaped gardens. Ramada Jarvis went into liquidation in September 2011, ceasing trade on every hotel formerly franchised from Ramada. Ramada's United Kingdom operations came to an end. Shortly after, selected Days Hotels were rebranded as Ramada hotels, bringing the brand back to the United Kingdom.
Ramada manages three properties in Indonesia. Two are located at Bali, and one at Surakarta.
Ramada International manages three hotels on Sri Lanka's western coast, under the "Ramada" name, including one in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo. The Ramada Colombo used to be the Holiday Inn Colombo but management has changed.
Ramada International also operates three hotels in Pakistan, under the same name "Ramada", in cities including Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and Multan. Ramada Lahore Gulberg II is opening soon in 2020. Ramada Lahore is opening on Cooper Road in 2023.
Ramada manages one property in Mongolia, which is located in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar.
It was announced that Ramada would open new units in Brazil by 2016.
A new hotel is to be opened in Nepal by AB holdings under Wyndham by Ramada.
See also
Ramada International
References
External links
Wyndham brands
Hotels established in 1953
Companies based in Morris County, New Jersey
1953 establishments in Arizona
Hotel chains in the United States
2004 mergers and acquisitions |
Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Kelantan (قصه ڤلايران عبدالله ك كلنتن; English: The story of Abdullah’s voyage to Kelantan) was a Malay literary work of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir. It was first published in 1838 in Singapore, and considered as the first Malay literary text being published commercially.
The work recounts Abdullah’s voyage from Singapore to Kelantan with his companions, Grandpre and Baba Ko An to submit a letter from Sir George Bonham, Governor of Straits Settlements to Sultan of Kelantan. His writing includes his experiences during his stops in Pahang and Terengganu as well as what he experienced in Kelantan. This work also contains his advice to Malay rulers and comparisons he made between the British system of governing with that of Malay rulers.
The first edition of the story was written both in Latin and Jawi, while the second edition (1852) was printed only in Jawi script. In 1855 the Dutch scholar J. Pijnappel later published special editions for students of Malay language. All these editions became references to H.C. Klinkert for his own edition intended for students in Dutch East Indies.
A translation into English was made by A.E. Cooper and published in 1949 by the Malaya Publishing House, Singapore.
In Malaysia, the story was re-published in 1960 by the editor Kassim Ahmad. In 2005, it was edited by Amin Sweeney and published as part of a collection of complete works of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir.
References
Malay-language literature
Works by Munshi Abdullah |
The Sportfreunde Stuttgart is a German association football club from the city of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg.
History
1874 to 1945
The club was formed, as a gymnastics club, on 18 April 1874, under the name of Turnverein Heslach. In June 1889, the club changed its name to Turnverein Karlsvorstadt.
On 20 June 1896, a separate football club, the Fußballclub Karlsvorstadt, was formed. In 1900, it merged with two other clubs, the F.C. Adler and the F.C. Askania to form the Stuttgarter Sportfreunde 1896.
The club was a founding member of the Südkreis-Liga in 1908, then the highest level of play in the Baden-Württemberg region. In 1909 the club participated in the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy in Italy, which is believed to be the precursor of the World Cup. The club existed there as a mid-table side but, in 1912–13, after a league reduction from 13 to eight clubs the previous season, it came last and was relegated. In this era, the club had Eugen Kipp in its ranks, who played 18 times for Germany between 1908 and 1913, 16 of those as a Sportfreunde player.
After the First World War, on 2 August 1919, Turnverein Karlsvorstadt and Stuttgarter Sportfreunde 1896 merged to form the current club, Stuttgarter Sportfreunde 1896. The team made a return to the highest league in the region, which was now the Kreisliga Württemberg and came third in 1919–20.
Sportfreundes most successful season came in 1921–22. It took out the title in its local division, the Kreisliga Württemberg having been split into two regional divisions. In the Württemberg-final, it managed to defeat Stuttgarter Kickers 1–0 and 3–2. From there, it advanced to the Württemberg-Baden championship, where it overcame Karlsruher FV 1–0 and 1–1. Advancing to the Southern German championship, it lost 0–1 to Borussia Neunkirchen in the semi-finals.
The next season saw the club missing out on qualification for the new Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden and Sportfreunde was relegated to the second tier, where it stayed until 1926, when it earned promotion. The club managed to survive for four seasons in the Bezirksliga but was relegated once more in 1930. A fifth place in 1927–28 was its best result.
The club recovered from its temporary decline and, in 1933, it qualified for the Gauliga Württemberg, the new highest level of play in the region. It belonged to this league for the duration of its existence, until 1945. It this time, the club produced good results and finished runners-up in the league three times, never quite making it to the German championship finals.
1945 to 2013
With the resumption of football in Germany after the Second World War, Sportfreunde was grouped in the tier-two Landesliga Württemberg, which it won in 1946–47. This earned the club promotion to the Oberliga Süd, where it played for one last season in the top flight. The club came a distant last in the league in 1947–48, conceding 100 goals and being relegated back to the Landesliga. Sportfreunde became a mid-table side in this league, failing to qualify for the new 2nd Oberliga Süd in 1950 and thereby dropping another level to what was now the tier-three Amateurliga Württemberg.
The team continued to struggle against relegation but in 1954, it dropped down another level. The club made a brief recovery, earning promotion to the Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg in 1961 but being relegated again in 1964. After this, Sportfreunde never reached the higher levels of Württemberg football again, descending to the lower amateur leagues instead, to the extent that the new millennium saw it playing tier-eight football.
On 9 April 1987, the club changed its name to Sportfreunde Stuttgart 1874. The club suffered relegation from the Kreisliga A Stuttgart-Group 3 (IX) in 2008–09, finishing second-last. After two seasons in the Kreisliga B, the club returned to the Kreisliga A again in 2011. Since then the club has been achieving good results in the league, finishing runners-up in 2012 and 2013. It won promotion for a season to the Bezirksliga but was immediately relegated to the Kreisliga A in 2014 and the Kreisliga B in 2015.
Honours
The club's honours:
Kreisliga Württemberg (I)
Champions: 1922
Gauliga Württemberg (I)
Runners-up: 1936, 1940, 1943
Landesliga Württemberg (II)
Champions: 1947
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.
References
External links
Official team site
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg
Association football clubs established in 1896
Sports clubs and teams established in 1874
1874 establishments in Germany
Football in Stuttgart |
Bubong, officially the Municipality of Bubong (Maranao and Iranun: Inged a Bubong; ), is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 26,514 people.
Geography
Barangays
Bubong is politically subdivided into 36 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks while some have sitios.
Bagoaingud
Bansayan
Basingan
Batangan
Bualan
Poblacion (Bubong)
Bubonga Didagun
Carigongan
Bacolod
Dilabayan
Dimapatoy
Dimayon Proper
Diolangan
Guiguikun
Dibarosan
Madanding
Malungun
Masorot
Matampay Dimarao
Miabalawag
Montiaan
Pagayawan
Palao
Panalawan
Pantar
Pindoguan
Polayagan
Ramain Bubong
Rogero
Salipongan
Sunggod
Taboro
Dalaon
Dimayon
Pindolonan
Punud
Climate
Demographics
Economy
References
External links
Bubong Profile at the DTI Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index
[ Philippine Standard Geographic Code]
Philippine Census Information
Local Governance Performance Management System
Municipalities of Lanao del Sur |
Yuri Valeryevich Medvedev (; born 3 January 1990) is a Russian former football player.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Arsenal-2 Tula on 12 July 2014 in a game against FC Avangard Kursk.
He made his Russian Football Premier League debut on 21 March 2015 for FC Arsenal Tula in a game against PFC CSKA Moscow.
References
External links
Career summary by sportbox.ru
1990 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russian Premier League players
FC Dynamo Moscow reserves players
FC Arsenal Tula players
Men's association football defenders |
Cardinal Hayes High School is an American Catholic high school for boys in the Concourse Village neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, New York. The school serves the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. It is a member of the Catholic High School Athletic Association. The building was constructed in the Art Deco style. It is named after Cardinal Patrick Joseph Hayes, a previous archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
History
Cardinal Hayes was dedicated on September 8, 1941, by Archbishop Spellman. Cardinal Hayes' current rival is Mount Saint Michael Academy. The two schools' football teams have met annually since 1942 on Thanksgiving Day. Cardinal Hayes also takes part in non-annual football rivalries with Cardinal Spellman High School and Archbishop Stepinac High School for the Fathers' Club Trophy and the Father John Dubois Memorial Trophy, respectively. Throughout the years, the school has been staffed by Archdiocesan Priests, De la Salle, Xavieran, Marist and Irish Christian Brothers. The school today is largely staffed by lay faculty.
Notable alumni
George Carlin, stand-up comedian (did not graduate)
Bob Chlupsa, Major League Baseball (MLB) player
Stalin Colinet, National Football League (NFL) player, class of 1992
Willie Colon, NFL champion
Don DeLillo, author and playwright
Cartier Diarra, professional basketball player
Steve Dillon, MLB player
George Dzundza, television and film actor
James Feldeine (born 1988), American-Dominican basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
John F. Good (1936–2016; class of 1954), FBI agent who created the Abscam sting operation
David Gonzalez, journalist for The New York Times
Jim Jones, rapper from group Dipset (did not graduate)
Damon Lopez, professional basketball player
Kevin Loughery, National Basketball Association (NBA) player, Detroit Pistons, Baltimore Bullets; player-coach Philadelphia 76ers
Jamal Mashburn, NBA player, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, and New Orleans Hornets
Andrew C. McCarthy, columnist and former Assistant U.S. Attorney
Bernard McGuirk, executive producer of Imus in the Morning radio and television program.
Richard Mulligan, film, stage and television actor.
Roscoe Orman, actor (attended briefly)
George Pérez, illustrator and writer of comic books
Regis Philbin, television personality
Mario Runco, Jr., U.S. astronaut and former NASA mission specialist
Bobby Sanabria, American (Latin jazz) drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, educator
Martin Scorsese, Oscar-winning filmmaker
Lawrence A. Skantze (1928–2018; class of 1946), U.S. Air Force four-star general
John Sweeney, President AFL–CIO 1995–2009; recipient of the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom
Gerry Ward, basketball player; first-round pick in the 1963 NBA draft
References
External links
Boys' schools in New York City
Educational institutions established in 1941
Eggers & Higgins buildings
Roman Catholic high schools in the Bronx
Concourse, Bronx
Art Deco architecture in the Bronx
1941 establishments in New York City |
Jacopino del Conte (1510–1598; also spelled Iacopino) was an Italian Mannerist painter, active in both Rome and Florence.
A native of Florence, Jacopino del Conte was born the same year as another Florentine master Cecchino del Salviati (whom Conte outlived by 35 years) and, like Salviati and a number of other painters, he initially apprenticed with the influential painter and draftsman Andrea del Sarto.
Conte's first frescoes, including Annunciation to Zachariah (1536), Preaching of Saint John the Baptist (1538), and Baptism of Christ (1541) were in the Florentine-supported Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato, in Rome. The Preaching fresco was based on a drawing by Perin del Vaga. In 1547–48, in collaboration with Siciolante da Sermoneta, Conte completed the fresco decoration of the chapel of San Remigio in San Luigi dei Francesi. In 1552, he painted another work for the San Giovanni Decollato Oratory, the altarpiece Deposition, whose designs are sometimes attributed to Daniele da Volterra.
Although the specific dates of his birth and death were not documented, in his final year Jacopino del Conte would have been 89 years old.
References
External links
Italian Paintings: Florentine School, a collection catalog containing information about the artist and their works (see pages: 203-204)
Image of Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist (1535), by Conte at National Gallery, Washington D.C.
Image of The Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth and the infant Baptist, by Conte at The Fitzwilliam Museum in UK
1510 births
1598 deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Florence
Renaissance painters |
is a subregion of Kyushu.
This northern region encompasses the prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, and Ōita.
History
Before 1963 it was called North Kyushu (Kitakyūshū, 北九州) until the city of Kitakyūshū was formed. The name of the city means North Kyushu in Japanese. To avoid confusion the name of the region was changed.
It is the most urbanized and industrialized part of the Kyushu region.
For the purposes of development analysis, the area is construed to include Yamaguchi Prefecture on Honshū. Although Yamaguchi is not part of Kyushu, it is a functional satellite of the Kanmon Straits metropolitan area.
The region is part of the Taiheiyō Belt and comprises the Northern Kyushu Industrial Zone (:ja:北九州工業地帯)
See also
Fukuoka-Kitakyūshū
Kyūshū
Southern Kyūshū
Notes
References
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128
External links
Kyushu Tourism Information, Northern Kyushu maps |
Gerry Ó Colmáin (1924 – 3 November 2008) was an Irish boxer. He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
References
1924 births
2008 deaths
Irish male boxers
Olympic boxers for Ireland
Boxers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
Heavyweight boxers |
The 2022 British Superbike Championship season was the 35th British Superbike Championship season. The title was won by Bradley Ray. The season was marred by the death of Chrissy Rouse a few days after an incident during the final race at Donington Park.
Teams and riders
Race calendar and results
Championship standings
Riders' championship
Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.
References
British Superbike Championship
Brttish Superbike
Superbike |
Gualdrada Berti dei Ravignani (Florence, c. 1168 - Poppi, 1226) was a member of the Ghibelline nobility of twelfth-century Florence, Italy. A descendant of the Ravignani family and daughter of the powerful Bellincione Berti, Gualdrada later married into the Conti Guido family. Her character as a pure and virtuous Florentine woman is called upon by many late medieval Italian authors, including Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Giovanni Villani.
Biography
Gualdrada was born around 1168 in Florence, Italy. Her father, Bellincion Berti, was the powerful Ghibelline head of the Ravingnani family. Around 1180, Gualdrada became the second wife of Count Guido Guerra III "il Vecchio," an important general of the Guelph party (the rival political party to her father's). This marriage was politically advantageous for Florence, as it stopped the ongoing hostile relationship between the Conti Guido family and the city. Gualdrada continued to work as a mediator between the Conti Guido and Florence, with records showing her acting as a head of her family to free a monastery owned by the Guidi from an armed Florentine threat. The four of her sons that lived into adulthood established the four branches in which the Conti Guido family split. Gualdrada lived longer than her husband and died in 1226 in the Poppi Castle, a medieval castle in Poppi, Tuscany, which was owned by one of her sons.
A Symbol of Virtue
Gualdrada's status as a famous Florentine woman and symbol of virtue was cemented by an episode first recounted in Nuova Cronica by mid-fourteenth-century Florentine historian Giovanni Villani. The historical reliability of this story, however, has been contested by scholars, as it is said to take place in 1209, a time where there is evidence of Gualdrada's sons already being adults. Despite these inconsistencies, Gualdrada's legacy as a symbol of virtue is heavily entwined with this story reported by Villani.
In this role, Gualdrada is one of four women of her time to be written about in Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris (On Famous Women), a collection of biographies of notable women ranging from the Bible and classical antiquity to Boccaccio's contemporaries. In his biography of Gualdrada, Boccaccio calls upon Villani's episode: during a festival in a Florentine cathedral, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV spotted Gualdrada from his seat and was impressed with her beauty. He admired her youthful innocence, the way she dressed, and her personality. He asked who she was to the man beside him, describing her as having a "beautiful face that ... surpasses all the others in dignity." The emperor did not know that the man he was asking coincidentally was Gualdrada's father, Bellincione Berti. He responded to the emperor stating that if he wished, he could get Gualdrada to kiss him. Gualdrada overheard this exchange and bravely objected, stating that "no living man would ever kiss her except her husband," solidifying her character as one of womanly virtue and purity. The emperor was both stunned and impressed by Gualdrada's response. Learning that he was speaking to her father, he praised her in an eloquent speech addressed to everyone present and celebrated her virtue. As he was leaving the festival, he summoned one of his barons, called Guido, and promoted him to a count. He then presented to Gualdrada a large dowry consisting of Casentino and a part of the territory of Romagna. Gualdrada was then given to Guido in marriage.
Although this specific event most likely did not happen, Gualdrada was still married to Count Guido and was still a Florentine figure worthy of admiration for her mediation between the Conti Guido family and Florence.
In the sixteenth century, a room in Palazzo Vecchio of Florence was dedicated to Gualdrada as a personification of virtue. The so-called Room of Gualdrada (Sala di Gualdrada) was located in the quarters of Eleanor of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, and it features a painted ceiling of the episode recounted by Villani and Boccaccio painted by the Flemish artist Stradanus, also known as Giovanni Stradano, surrounded by detailed scenes of sixteenth-century Florence and allegories of virtue.
In Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante mentions Gualdrada in his Divine Comedy. Her name appears in Canto XVI, line 37 of Inferno, when Dante meets the Florentine man, Guido Guerra V, in the ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell reserved for the sodomites. Dante describes Guerra as the "grandson of the good Gualdrada," giving him the honor of coming from an admirable family and using Gualdrada's image of a virtuous and good woman to do so.
Dante himself was not only a Florentine, but a (White) Guelph, so the marriage between Gualdrada, a member of a notable Ghibelline clan, to Guido Guerra III, a Guelph leader, which ended hostilities between the two factions in the city of Florence, is an event that would be understandably important to him and worthy of praise and admiration. This is especially likely since Dante started writing Inferno soon after he had been exiled from Florence for his political alignment as a White Guelph.
Dante's respect for Gualdrada extends beyond her to her family as well. Her father, Bellincion Berti, is mentioned in Canto XV, lines 112-113 and Canto XVI, line 99 of Paradiso XV as a model citizen and a symbol of the virtue of old Florence.
References
12th-century Italian women
12th-century Italian nobility
13th-century Italian women
Virtue ethics
Florence in fiction
Characters in the Divine Comedy
1160s births
1226 deaths
Year of birth uncertain |
Henny Vrienten (27 July 1948 – 25 April 2022) was a Dutch musician best known as the singer and bassist of the popular 1980s ska pop band Doe Maar. He also composed television and film scores.
Biography
Early days
Vrienten began his career in the late 1960s as a member of the local outfit Les Cruches. In the early 1970s, he wrote songs for others and released his first single as Ruby Carmichael. In 1977, Vrienten released his debut solo album, Paul Santos, which he recorded with US producer Tom Salisbury. "Lift Me Up Higher" was extracted as a single.
Also in the 1970s, he began working with singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot in the studio and on stage. While recording the 1975 album Waar ik woon en wie ik ben, Vrienten met keyboard player Ernst Jansz and drummer Johnny Lodewijks. The latter suggested they form a reggae band. The Rumbones, led by the vocals of Frenchman Cris Lester, toured from October to November 1977 and split up immediately after. Vrienten moved on to Sammie America's Gasphetti, recorded demos at his garage, and did another tour with De Groot.
Doe Maar: 1980–84
Subsequently, Jansz asked Vrienten to join his band Doe Maar, but the songwriter declined, thinking that a Dutch-language group playing for fun would not survive. In 1980, however, he changed his mind. Vrienten joined Doe Maar in time for the recording of their second album, Skunk. He delivered three songs and co-designed the green/pink sleeve as the band's trademark colours.
The record was belatedly released in March 1981. The lead single, "32 Jaar", became a hit. The follow-up, "Smoorverliefd", missed the Top 40, but with the 1982-released "Doris Day", Doe Maar broke through and become key figures of the New Dutch Wave explosion. Initially, they enjoyed their newfound popularity, but six months down the line, doubts started to creep in.
In March 1983, by which time the fourth album, 4us, was released, the band temporarily retreated from publicity. This completely backfired, as Doe Maar-mania grew even bigger.
In between tours of Belgium and the Netherlands Antilles, Vrienten recorded his first Dutch-language solo album and second overall, Geen Ballade, which he released in March 1984, a few weeks before Doe Maar played two farewell shows for the live broadcast.
Instead of embarking on a solo tour, Vrienten decided to explore new territory: he wrote TV and film scores, including for the Dutch Sesame Street, and produced music for other artists.
Solo career
From 1986 to 1991, Vrienten played oldies like "Teddy Bear's Picknick" with Magnificent Seven, whose members included singer/advert composer and unofficial fifth Doe Maar member, .
A new solo album was in the pipeline but held back by the release of a best-of album. The expected Doe Maar revival never happened, and in early 1992, Mijn Hart Slaapt Nooit, Vrienten's third studio record, saw the light of day. As with Geen Ballade, the album received minimal promotion. At the end of the year, all Doe Maar members reunited to support the 1960s outfit CCC Inc., which featured Ernst Jansz and Joost Belinfante, at their 25th-anniversary concert.
In the mid-1990s, a new generation of Dutch-language acts emerged, and Henny ended up collaborating with rap group Osdorp Posse.
Doe Maar: the reunion: 1999
In 1999, the four-piece rock band BLØF spent a whole tour playing Doe Maar tribute shows. Doe Maar members attended the show at the Amsterdam Paradiso and on 1 November 1999, they announced their reunion for one last album and a 25-date tour of the Netherlands and Belgium, consisting of eight club shows, a record-breaking sixteen-night residency at the Rotterdam Ahoy, and a stadium show at the Antwerp Sportpaleis. The album Klaar was released in April 2000; the band were finally acknowledged by the pop critics who had previously criticized them for singing in Dutch.
Further work: 2000–2022
In 2008, Vrienten recorded an album with contemporaries Frank Boeijen and Henk Hofstede (frontman of The Nits), titled Aardige jongens. They promoted it with a theatre tour.
In 2010, Vrienten appeared in Ali B op volle toeren, a programme in which young Dutch rappers exchange songs with established artists. He contributed "32 Jaar Later", a sequel to the song that gave Doe Maar their first top 40 hit in 1981.
In 2014 and 2015, he released two solo albums and went on tour, accompanied by his son Xander (Jett Rebel's bass-player at the time) and the three-piece rock band My Baby.
In 2016, Vrienten formed the supergroup with Golden Earring guitarist George Kooymans and Boudewijn de Groot. They released two albums in 2017 and toured until March 2020 with a setlist of collaborative songs and solo material.
In 2019, Vrienten and his son appeared in a self-made documentary on bass players, a sequel to 2013's Gitaarjongens, which explored the joy of playing guitar. The two became the artists-in-residence on the talk show De Wereld Draait Door during its final season. A new solo album, Tussen de Regels, was released at the end of September.
In 2021, the Doe Maar farewell tour was cancelled due to Vrienten's ill health.
On 25 April 2022 Henny Vrienten died of lung cancer at the age of 73.
Discography
Solo
Paul Santos (1977)
Geen ballade (1984)
Mijn hart slaapt nooit (1991)
Nacht – De soundtrack (2006)
Aardige jongens (2008)
En toch... (2014)
Alles is anders (2015)
Tussen de regels (2019)
Studio albums with Doe Maar
(1981)
(1982)
(1983)
(2000)
Live albums with Doe Maar
(1983)
Het afscheidsconcert – Live in de Maaspoort 's-Hertogenbosch (1995)
Hees van Ahoy (2000)
(2012)
Dub albums
Doe de dub (dub version of the Doe Maar album Doris Day & andere stukken – 1982)
Hot Dub (dub version of the album Bamboo reggae by Chris Hinze – 1984)
Raymond Van Het Groenewoud
Habba (1985)
The Magnificent 7
The Best of the Worst (1990)
Vreemde Kostgangers
Vreemde Kostgangers (2017)
Nachtwerk (2017)
Soundtracks
Film
(1985)
(1986)
Spoorloos (1986)
(1989)
(1990)
(1992)
(1992)
Part Time God (1993)
Oeroeg (1993)
Max (1994)
Sur Place (1996)
Left Luggage (1998)
Madelief: Krassen In Het Tafelblad (1998)
Abeltje (1998)
Kruimeltje (1999)
De Verlossing (2001)
The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
La balsa de piedra (2002)
Pietje Bell (2002)
Verder dan de maan (2003)
Pietje Bell 2: de jacht op de Tsarenkroon (2003)
Sonny Boy (2011)
Tot altijd (2012)
Everybody Happy (met Triggerfinger) (2016)
Television
Drie recht, één averecht (1988)
De Vereenigde Algemeene (1992)
Kongo (1997)
Unit 13 (1997–98)
Het Klokhuis (1999–)
Sesamstraat (1999–)
De geheime dienst (2000)
Sinterklaasjournaal (2001–)
Ernstige Delicten (2002–04)
Petticoat (2016)
Theater
Ciske de Rat (musical) (2007–09)
References
External links
1948 births
2022 deaths
Dutch male singer-songwriters
Dutch singer-songwriters
Dutch pop singers
Dutch male guitarists
Dutch film score composers
Male film score composers
Musicians from Tilburg
People from Hilvarenbeek
21st-century Dutch male singers
21st-century Dutch singers
20th-century Dutch male singers |
Ōgi Station is the name of multiple train stations in Japan:
Ōgi Station (Hyōgo) (青木駅)
Ogi Station, a railway station on the Karatsu Line in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, Japan
Ōgi Station (Saga), a railway station on the Matsuura Railway in Arita, Saga Prefecture, Japan
See also
Ogi Station |
Mashare is a settlement in the Kavango East Region of Namibia, just east of Rundu, the regional capital. It is the district capital of Mashare Constituency.
The settlement hosted a leprosarium until the early 1980s when the Namibian War of Independence led to its closure. The hospital accommodated thousands of patients with leprosy from Namibia, Angola, and Botswana. Until , Mashare is home to the biggest community of leprosy patients in Namibia who live together voluntarily due to their shared experience of stigma and isolation.
References
Leper colonies
Populated places in Kavango East
Medical and health organisations based in Namibia |
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"github.com/zclconf/go-cty/cty"
"github.com/zclconf/go-cty/cty/convert"
"github.com/zclconf/go-cty/cty/gocty"
)
type expandDynamicSpec struct {
blockType string
blockTypeRange hcl.Range
defRange hcl.Range
forEachVal cty.Value
iteratorName string
labelExprs []hcl.Expression
contentBody hcl.Body
}
func (b *expandBody) decodeDynamicSpec(blockS *hcl.BlockHeaderSchema, rawSpec *hcl.Block) (*expandDynamicSpec, hcl.Diagnostics) {
var diags hcl.Diagnostics
var schema *hcl.BodySchema
if len(blockS.LabelNames) != 0 {
schema = dynamicBlockBodySchemaLabels
} else {
schema = dynamicBlockBodySchemaNoLabels
}
specContent, specDiags := rawSpec.Body.Content(schema)
diags = append(diags, specDiags...)
if specDiags.HasErrors() {
return nil, diags
}
//// for_each attribute
eachAttr := specContent.Attributes["for_each"]
eachVal, eachDiags := eachAttr.Expr.Value(b.ctx)
diags = append(diags, eachDiags...)
if !eachVal.CanIterateElements() && eachVal.Type() != cty.DynamicPseudoType {
// We skip this error for DynamicPseudoType because that means we either
// have a null (which is checked immediately below) or an unknown
// (which is handled in the expandBody Content methods).
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid dynamic for_each value",
Detail: fmt.Sprintf("Cannot use a %s value in for_each. An iterable collection is required.", eachVal.Type().FriendlyName()),
Subject: eachAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: eachAttr.Expr,
EvalContext: b.ctx,
})
return nil, diags
}
if eachVal.IsNull() {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid dynamic for_each value",
Detail: "Cannot use a null value in for_each.",
Subject: eachAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: eachAttr.Expr,
EvalContext: b.ctx,
})
return nil, diags
}
//// iterator attribute
iteratorName := blockS.Type
if iteratorAttr := specContent.Attributes["iterator"]; iteratorAttr != nil {
itTraversal, itDiags := hcl.AbsTraversalForExpr(iteratorAttr.Expr)
diags = append(diags, itDiags...)
if itDiags.HasErrors() {
return nil, diags
}
if len(itTraversal) != 1 {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid dynamic iterator name",
Detail: "Dynamic iterator must be a single variable name.",
Subject: itTraversal.SourceRange().Ptr(),
})
return nil, diags
}
iteratorName = itTraversal.RootName()
}
var labelExprs []hcl.Expression
if labelsAttr := specContent.Attributes["labels"]; labelsAttr != nil {
var labelDiags hcl.Diagnostics
labelExprs, labelDiags = hcl.ExprList(labelsAttr.Expr)
diags = append(diags, labelDiags...)
if labelDiags.HasErrors() {
return nil, diags
}
if len(labelExprs) > len(blockS.LabelNames) {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Extraneous dynamic block label",
Detail: fmt.Sprintf("Blocks of type %q require %d label(s).", blockS.Type, len(blockS.LabelNames)),
Subject: labelExprs[len(blockS.LabelNames)].Range().Ptr(),
})
return nil, diags
} else if len(labelExprs) < len(blockS.LabelNames) {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Insufficient dynamic block labels",
Detail: fmt.Sprintf("Blocks of type %q require %d label(s).", blockS.Type, len(blockS.LabelNames)),
Subject: labelsAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
})
return nil, diags
}
}
// Since our schema requests only blocks of type "content", we can assume
// that all entries in specContent.Blocks are content blocks.
if len(specContent.Blocks) == 0 {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Missing dynamic content block",
Detail: "A dynamic block must have a nested block of type \"content\" to describe the body of each generated block.",
Subject: &specContent.MissingItemRange,
})
return nil, diags
}
if len(specContent.Blocks) > 1 {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Extraneous dynamic content block",
Detail: "Only one nested content block is allowed for each dynamic block.",
Subject: &specContent.Blocks[1].DefRange,
})
return nil, diags
}
return &expandDynamicSpec{
blockType: blockS.Type,
blockTypeRange: rawSpec.LabelRanges[0],
defRange: rawSpec.DefRange,
forEachVal: eachVal,
iteratorName: iteratorName,
labelExprs: labelExprs,
contentBody: specContent.Blocks[0].Body,
}, diags
}
func (s *expandDynamicSpec) newBlock(i *dynamicIteration, ctx *hcl.EvalContext) (*hcl.Block, hcl.Diagnostics) {
var diags hcl.Diagnostics
var labels []string
var labelRanges []hcl.Range
lCtx := i.EvalContext(ctx)
for _, labelExpr := range s.labelExprs {
labelVal, labelDiags := labelExpr.Value(lCtx)
diags = append(diags, labelDiags...)
if labelDiags.HasErrors() {
return nil, diags
}
var convErr error
labelVal, convErr = convert.Convert(labelVal, cty.String)
if convErr != nil {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid dynamic block label",
Detail: fmt.Sprintf("Cannot use this value as a dynamic block label: %s.", convErr),
Subject: labelExpr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: labelExpr,
EvalContext: lCtx,
})
return nil, diags
}
if labelVal.IsNull() {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid dynamic block label",
Detail: "Cannot use a null value as a dynamic block label.",
Subject: labelExpr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: labelExpr,
EvalContext: lCtx,
})
return nil, diags
}
if !labelVal.IsKnown() {
return nil, diags
}
if labelVal.IsMarked() {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid dynamic block label",
Detail: "Cannot use a marked value as a dynamic block label.",
Subject: labelExpr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: labelExpr,
EvalContext: lCtx,
})
return nil, diags
}
labels = append(labels, labelVal.AsString())
labelRanges = append(labelRanges, labelExpr.Range())
}
block := &hcl.Block{
Type: s.blockType,
TypeRange: s.blockTypeRange,
Labels: labels,
LabelRanges: labelRanges,
DefRange: s.defRange,
Body: s.contentBody,
}
return block, diags
}
type expandMetaArgSpec struct {
rawBlock *hcl.Block
countSet bool
countVal cty.Value
countNum int
forEachSet bool
forEachVal cty.Value
}
func (b *expandBody) decodeMetaArgSpec(rawSpec *hcl.Block) (*expandMetaArgSpec, hcl.Diagnostics) {
spec := &expandMetaArgSpec{rawBlock: rawSpec}
var diags hcl.Diagnostics
specContent, _, specDiags := rawSpec.Body.PartialContent(expandableBlockBodySchema)
diags = append(diags, specDiags...)
if specDiags.HasErrors() {
return spec, diags
}
//// count attribute
if countAttr, exists := specContent.Attributes["count"]; exists {
spec.countSet = true
countVal, countDiags := countAttr.Expr.Value(b.ctx)
diags = append(diags, countDiags...)
countVal, _ = countVal.Unmark()
spec.countVal = countVal
// We skip validation for count attribute if the value is unknwon
if countVal.IsKnown() {
if countVal.IsNull() {
diags = append(diags, &hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid count argument",
Detail: `The given "count" argument value is null. An integer is required.`,
Subject: countAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: countAttr.Expr,
EvalContext: b.ctx,
})
return spec, diags
}
var convErr error
countVal, convErr = convert.Convert(countVal, cty.Number)
if convErr != nil {
diags = diags.Append(&hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Incorrect value type",
Detail: fmt.Sprintf("Invalid expression value: %s.", tfdiags.FormatError(convErr)),
Subject: countAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: countAttr.Expr,
EvalContext: b.ctx,
})
return spec, diags
}
err := gocty.FromCtyValue(countVal, &spec.countNum)
if err != nil {
diags = diags.Append(&hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid count argument",
Detail: fmt.Sprintf(`The given "count" argument value is unsuitable: %s.`, err),
Subject: countAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: countAttr.Expr,
EvalContext: b.ctx,
})
return spec, diags
}
if spec.countNum < 0 {
diags = diags.Append(&hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid count argument",
Detail: `The given "count" argument value is unsuitable: negative numbers are not supported.`,
Subject: countAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: countAttr.Expr,
EvalContext: b.ctx,
})
return spec, diags
}
}
}
//// for_each attribute
if eachAttr, exists := specContent.Attributes["for_each"]; exists {
spec.forEachSet = true
eachVal, eachDiags := eachAttr.Expr.Value(b.ctx)
diags = append(diags, eachDiags...)
spec.forEachVal = eachVal
if !eachVal.CanIterateElements() && eachVal.Type() != cty.DynamicPseudoType {
// We skip this error for DynamicPseudoType because that means we either
// have a null (which is checked immediately below) or an unknown
// (which is handled in the expandBody Content methods).
diags = diags.Append(&hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "The `for_each` value is not iterable",
Detail: fmt.Sprintf("`%s` is not iterable", eachVal.GoString()),
Subject: eachAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: eachAttr.Expr,
EvalContext: b.ctx,
})
return spec, diags
}
if eachVal.IsNull() {
diags = diags.Append(&hcl.Diagnostic{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "Invalid for_each argument",
Detail: `The given "for_each" argument value is unsuitable: the given "for_each" argument value is null. A map, or set of strings is allowed.`,
Subject: eachAttr.Expr.Range().Ptr(),
Expression: eachAttr.Expr,
EvalContext: b.ctx,
})
return spec, diags
}
}
return spec, diags
}
``` |
Marsal (; ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Geography
Marsal is located on a marshy alluvial plain, surrounded by two branches of the Seille River. This old town on the ancient Roman road from Metz to Strasbourg was marked by salt mining, emerging in the form of salt springs.
Toponymy
Marsal's name in Roman times was Marosallum. The word Marosallum is a combination of two terms, one Gallic (maro) and the other Latin (sallum), which together mean approximately the Great Saltworks.
History
Archaeological remains dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age have been discovered in the vicinity of Marsal.
An urban agglomeration called Marosallum developed in early Roman times. Marosallum was a stop on the Roman road linking Metz (Divodurum) to Strasbourg (Argentorate).
The ancient name of the town was shortened to Marsallum in Merovingian times. The town seems to have continued to derive its wealth from the salt works, as evidenced by the presence of a "place à sel" reported in 682 or 683.
From the 11th century onwards, the Bishopric of Metz and the Duchy of Lorraine fought over control of the region's saltworks.
The chronicles of Richer de Senones mention the existence in the 13th century of a young woman, nicknamed the Sybille de Marsal, who was reputed to live without eating. Bishop Jacques de Lorraine and a number of priests and gentlemen who accompanied him were unable, despite several days of observation, to discover who was feeding her.
On September 2, 1663, Louis XIV captured the town. Numerous documents testify to the capture of Marsal, such as a tapestry from the Gobelins called Réduction ou Reddition de Marsal, which relates the handing over of the keys of the town to the king. The tapestry is based on a model by Charles Le Brun. Jean de La Fontaine also wrote a sonnet about the capture of Marsal.
The king then entrusted the military engineer Vauban with the task of improving the fortifications.
Marsal's Ancien Régime military cemetery is where the remains of several disabled veterans of the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.
During World War I, Marsal was bombed in 1915.
Following the defeat of June 1940, Marsal was once again annexed to the German Reich. Most of the population was expelled and welcomed in the South of France. The village was not French again until 1945.
In 1968, the "Mage de Marsal" affair hit the headlines: two of the six children of Maurice Gérard, known as "Swami Matkormano", the guru who runs an esoteric community in his large building, and Josiane Gérard, known as "the high priestess Alféola", mysteriously disappeared.
Culture and historical heritage
Sights and architecture
The Roman road that served Marosallum from opposite sides of the Seille valley.
The Salt Museum (Musée départemental du sel) presents salt production techniques, from prehistory to the present day.
La Porte de France (gate of France) was classified as a historic monument on March 6, 1928; dating back to 1663, the Notre-Dame gate defended the main access to Marsal and was extensively modified in the first half of the 17th century.
Maison du gouverneur de la saline (the house of the saltworks' governor) was built in 1625 by Jean La Hiere, it was modified in the 18th century, abandoned during the French Revolution and rebuilt in 1823–1824.
L'Arsenal was built in 1848, this 13-bay building, sold to private owners, has retained its original appearance.
Le Pavillon de Bourgogne from 1666, is a former barrack which became the headquarters of the civil hospice in 1813, then a girls' school in 1889. Today, it has been converted into rental accommodation.
La Place d'Armes was once home to the village's covered market, as well as the town hall and washhouse... Today, the square forms the center of the village, lined with notables' houses with 18th-century facades.
See also
Communes of the Moselle department
Parc naturel régional de Lorraine
References
External links
Communes of Moselle (department)
Vauban fortifications in France |
Pandit Damodar Hota (; 25 December 1935 – 5 February 2022) was an Indian classical vocalist, musicologist, composer, and guru based in Odisha, India. He was an exponent of Hindustani classical music as well as Odissi classical music (Udra Paddhatiya Sangita).
His primary research on Odissi classical music in the 1960s was groundbreaking in uncovering the historical roots, distinct ragas, talas, and lakshyanas of the music.
Career
A Top Grade artist of Doordarshan and All India Radio, he started learning music from his mother Smt. Dandimani Devi and father Sri Gopinath Hota who was skilled in Odissi music and Mardala. He also learned from the elderly musicians of the Jaga-Akhadas of Puri and the Jagannath Temple. He continued higher training in Odissi music under Guru Nrusingha Nath Khuntia.
He was a chief disciple of Padmashree Pt. Balwant Rai Bhatt (Bhav Rang) and Pandit Pt. Omkarnath Thakur (Pranav Rang). His compositions bear the pen name 'Swar Rang'.
He attended the College of Music and Fine Arts at Banaras Hindu University. For his Doctor of Music (Sangeet Pravin) degree, he was awarded the Pandit Mirashi Buwa Puraskar. He held Madhyama Purna in Tabla and Visharad in Pakhawaj.
He served as principal and senior faculty of Hindustani vocal music at Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya.
Teaching
Pandit Hota had been teaching music in the gurukula tradition since 1963. He was the founder and chief guru of Swar Rang, an institution of Hindustani Classical and Udra Paddhatiya Sangita. To aid teaching and preservation, he authored numerous books notating and discussing the practice, compositions, theory, and historical aspects of both forms of music. Many of the books are used as syllabus work across Odisha. From 2007 to 2016, Pandit Hota organized the annual Tridhara National Music Conference to spread knowledge of Udra Paddhatiya Sangita alongside the two other forms of Indian Classical Music. Pandit Hota established the Sri Jagannath Institute of Udra Padhhatiya Sangeet for research and training in Udra Paddhatiya Sangita (Odissi music).
Death
He died in Bhubaneswar on 5 February 2022, at the age of 86.
Published works
Kisora Chandrananda Champu Lahari
Udra Paddhatiya Mela Raga Tala Lakhyana (in 7 parts)
Hindustani Sangeeta Lahari (in 5 parts)
Lakhyana O Swara Malika Lahari (part 1)
Srimandira Sangeeta Mala (in 2 parts)
Sangeet Shashtra (part 1)
Bharatiya Sangeeta Ra Itihasa (in 2 parts)
Udra Paddhatiya Mela Raga Tala O Prabandha Lakhyana (part 1)
References
1935 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Indian male classical singers
Hindustani singers
People from Puri
Gwalior gharana
Indian music educators
Banaras Hindu University alumni
Odissi music
Recipients of the Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi award |
The Original Disco Man is the 48th studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in July 1979, by Polydor Records. Brandye were credited for backing vocals and the front cover photograph was taken by Joel Bernstein.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Brad Shapiro and Randy McCormick; except where indicated
References
1979 albums
James Brown albums
Albums produced by Brad Shapiro
Polydor Records albums |
WPAN (channel 53) is a television station licensed to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States, and also serving Pensacola. Its main channel primarily airs programming from Blab TV, a locally based channel that produces local infomercials and paid programming. Owned by B&C Communications, WPAN maintains transmitter facilities near Molino, Florida.
History
The Fort Walton Beach Broadcasting Company applied in 1982 for a new television station on channel 53 to serve that city, a plan that had been gestating since 1980. Construction began in 1983, with the station to be based at a site near Tupelo Avenue and 4th Street in Fort Walton Beach.
WPAN intended to sign on in December 1983, but tower completion delays pushed the launch into 1984. The new station, which went on air on February 14, represented a $4 million investment. Programs telecast included family-oriented syndicated shows, movies, and sports. However, Fort Walton Beach could not operate the station from a financial standpoint, and it closed at midnight on November 16, 1986; one minority partner noted they simply could not sell enough advertising.
Channel 53 returned to the air on July 1, 1988, under the aegis of Franklin Broadcasting. The station's new programming included more religious fare. It operated only sporadically, and at one point, it was affiliated with the short-lived Star Television Network. By 1991, it was partially simulcasting WJTC in Pensacola in an agreement primarily conceived to allow some of that station's programs to be seen on cable systems otherwise unable to carry it. However, it would be dark for a full two years from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, the revival of must-carry legislation pushing channel 53 into more cable homes led to Franklin reviving WPAN, as did a contract with BLAB-TV (an acronym for "Basic Local Area Broadcasting"). BLAB, which produced local infomercials and sponsored segments for local businesses that aired on cable, purchased 37 hours a week of airtime on WPAN starting November 1; remaining hours were filled by ValueVision and Video Catalog, home shopping services.
Several attempts were made by Franklin over the years to sell the station, and it was silent for much of 2013 and 2014 pending sale. Neal Ardman was listed as managing the station in early 2013, when it began to air Cozi TV. It returned in 2014 with programming from the Soul of the South Network. From May 2015 to May 2016, WPAN was off the air under special temporary authority to be silent, as Franklin could not pay the electricity bill and had been placed into receivership; on May 16, WPAN returned to the air under new owners B&C Communications as an affiliate of the Vibrant TV Network, and then in February 2019, after the Vibrant TV network ceased operations, it switched to carrying Antenna TV.
WPAN went off the air in October 2019 due to a dispute with the tower owner, who expected the debt from the prior owners to be repaid in order to gain access to the transmitter. Since the station needed to move to channel 21 as part of the FCC repack, it opted to construct a new tower in Molino to offer market-wide coverage for the first time. WPAN returned to the airwaves in October 2020 after filing for another silent STA due to the tower situation. BLAB also returned to channel 53.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Former translator
The station formerly operated a repeater, W50CF, in Mobile, Alabama, which broadcast on analog channel 50 (and prior to that was W69AU channel 69). The translator was sold to Word of Life Community Church in Chickasaw, Alabama, before going off the air for good to make way for the digital signal of WFGX.
References
PAN
Television channels and stations established in 1984
1984 establishments in Florida
Tri-State Christian Television affiliates |
Richard Fort may refer to:
Richard Fort (Liberal politician, born 1822) (1822–1868), English politician, MP for Clitheroe, 1865–1868
Richard Fort (Liberal politician, born 1856) (1856–1918), English politician, MP for Clitheroe, 1880–1885
Richard Fort (Conservative politician) (1907–1959), English politician, MP for Clitheroe,1950–1959 |
The Queen of Sheba (; ; ) is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon. This account has undergone extensive Jewish, Islamic, Yemenite and Ethiopian elaborations, and it has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in Asia and Africa.
Modern historians identify Sheba with the South Arabian kingdom of Saba in present-day Yemen and Ethiopia. The queen's existence is disputed among historians.
Narratives
Biblical
The Queen of Sheba (, in the Hebrew Bible; , in the Septuagint; ; ), whose name is not stated, came to Jerusalem "with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones" (1 Kings 10:2). "Never again came such an abundance of spices" (10:10; 2 Chronicles 9:1–9) as those she gave to Solomon. She came "to prove him with hard questions", which Solomon answered to her satisfaction. They exchanged gifts, after which she returned to her land.
The use of the term or 'riddles' (1 Kings 10:1), an Aramaic loanword whose shape points to a sound shift no earlier than the sixth century BC, indicates a late origin for the text. Since there is no mention of the Fall of Babylon in 539 BC, Martin Noth has held that the Book of Kings received a definitive redaction around 550 BC.
Sheba was quite well known in the classical world, and its country was called Arabia Felix. Around the mid-1st millennium BC, there were Sabaeans also in Ethiopia and Eritrea, in the area that later became the realm of Aksum. There are five places in the Bible where the writer distinguishes Sheba (), i.e. the Yemenite Sabaeans, from Seba (), i.e. the African Sabaeans. In Ps. 72:10 they are mentioned together: "the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts". This spelling differentiation, however, may be purely factitious; the indigenous inscriptions make no such difference, and both Yemenite and African Sabaeans are there spelled in exactly the same way.
Although there are still no inscriptions found from South Arabia that furnish evidence for the Queen of Sheba herself, South Arabian inscriptions do mention a South Arabian queen (mlkt, Ancient South Arabian: ). And in the north of Arabia, Assyrian inscriptions repeatedly mention Arab queens. Furthermore, Sabaean tribes knew the title of mqtwyt ("high official", ). Makada or Makueda, the personal name of the queen in Ethiopian legend, might be interpreted as a popular rendering of the title of mqtwyt. This title may be derived from Ancient Egyptian m'kit () "protectress, housewife".
The queen's visit could have been a trade mission. Early South Arabian trade with Mesopotamia involving wood and spices transported by camels is attested in the early 9th century BC and may have begun as early as the 10th. A recent theory suggests that the Ophel inscription in Jerusalem was written in the Sabaic language and that the text provides evidence for trade connections between ancient South Arabia and the Kingdom of Judah during the 10th century BC
The ancient Sabaic Awwām Temple, known in folklore as Maḥram ("the Sanctuary of") Bilqīs, was recently excavated by archaeologists, but no trace of the Queen of Sheba has been discovered so far in the many inscriptions found there. Another Sabean temple, the Barran Temple (), is also known as the 'Arash Bilqis ("Throne of Bilqis"), which like the nearby Awam Temple was also dedicated to the god Almaqah, but the connection between the Barran Temple and Sheba has not been established archaeologically either.
Bible stories of the Queen of Sheba and the ships of Ophir served as a basis for legends about the Israelites traveling in the Queen of Sheba's entourage when she returned to her country to bring up her child by Solomon.
Christian
Christian scriptures mention a "queen of the South" (, ), who "came from the uttermost parts of the earth", i.e. from the extremities of the then known world, to hear the wisdom of Solomon (Mt. 12:42; Lk. 11:31).
The mystical interpretation of the Song of Songs, which was felt as supplying a literal basis for the speculations of the allegorists, makes its first appearance in Origen, who wrote a voluminous commentary on the Song of Songs. In his commentary, Origen identified the bride of the Song of Songs with the "queen of the South" of the Gospels (i.e., the Queen of Sheba, who is assumed to have been Ethiopian). Others have proposed either the marriage of Solomon with the Pharaoh's daughter, or his marriage with an Israelite woman, the Shulamite. The former was the favorite opinion of the mystical interpreters to the end of the 18th century; the latter has obtained since its introduction by Good (1803).
The bride of the Canticles is assumed to have been black due to a passage in Song of Songs 1:5, which the Revised Standard Version (1952) translates as "I am very dark, but comely", as does Jerome (Latin: Nigra sum, sed formosa), while the New Revised Standard Version (1989) has "I am black and beautiful", as the Septuagint ().
One legend has it that the Queen of Sheba brought Solomon the same gifts that the Magi later gave to Jesus. During the Middle Ages, Christians sometimes identified the queen of Sheba with the sibyl Sabba.
Coptic
The story of Solomon and the queen was popular among Copts, as shown by fragments of a Coptic legend preserved in a Berlin papyrus. The queen, having been subdued by deceit, gives Solomon a pillar on which all earthly science is inscribed. Solomon sends one of his demons to fetch the pillar from Ethiopia, whence it instantly arrives. In a Coptic poem, queen Yesaba of Cush asks riddles of Solomon.
Ethiopian
The most extensive version of the legend appears in the Kebra Nagast (Glory of the Kings), the Ethiopian national saga, translated from Arabic in 1322. Here Menelik I is the child of Solomon and Makeda (the Ethiopic name for the queen of Sheba; she is the child of the man who destroys the legendary snake-king Arwe) from whom the Ethiopian dynasty claims descent to the present day. While the Abyssinian story offers much greater detail, it omits any mention of the Queen's hairy legs or any other element that might reflect on her unfavourably.
Based on the Gospels of Matthew (Matthew 12:42) and Luke (Luke 11:31), the "queen of the South" is claimed to be the queen of Ethiopia. In those times, King Solomon sought merchants from all over the world, in order to buy materials for the building of the Temple. Among them was Tamrin, great merchant of Queen Makeda of Ethiopia. Having returned to Ethiopia, Tamrin told the queen of the wonderful things he had seen in Jerusalem, and of Solomon's wisdom and generosity, whereupon she decided to visit Solomon. She was warmly welcomed, given a palace for dwelling, and received great gifts every day. Solomon and Makeda spoke with great wisdom, and instructed by him, she converted to Judaism. Before she left, there was a great feast in the king's palace. Makeda stayed in the palace overnight, after Solomon had sworn that he would not do her any harm, while she swore in return that she would not steal from him. As the meals had been spicy, Makeda awoke thirsty at night and went to drink some water, when Solomon appeared, reminding her of her oath. She answered: "Ignore your oath, just let me drink water." That same night, Solomon had a dream about the sun rising over Israel, but being mistreated and despised by the Jews, the sun moved to shine over Ethiopia and Rome. Solomon gave Makeda a ring as a token of faith, and then she left. On her way home, she gave birth to a son, whom she named Baina-leḥkem (i.e. bin al-ḥakīm, "Son of the Wise Man", later called Menilek). After the boy had grown up in Ethiopia, he went to Jerusalem carrying the ring and was received with great honors. The king and the people tried in vain to persuade him to stay. Solomon gathered his nobles and announced that he would send his first-born son to Ethiopia together with their first-borns. He added that he was expecting a third son, who would marry the king of Rome's daughter and reign over Rome so that the entire world would be ruled by David's descendants. Then Baina-leḥkem was anointed king by Zadok the high priest, and he took the name David. The first-born nobles who followed him are named, and even today some Ethiopian families claim their ancestry from them. Prior to leaving, the priests' sons had stolen the Ark of the Covenant, after their leader Azaryas had offered a sacrifice as commanded by one God's angel. With much wailing, the procession left Jerusalem on a wind cart led and carried by the archangel Michael. Having arrived at the Red Sea, Azaryas revealed to the people that the Ark is with them. David prayed to the Ark and the people rejoiced, singing, dancing, blowing horns and flutes, and beating drums. The Ark showed its miraculous powers during the crossing of the stormy Sea, and all arrived unscathed. When Solomon learned that the Ark had been stolen, he sent a horseman after the thieves and even gave chase himself, but neither could catch them. Solomon returned to Jerusalem and gave orders to the priests to remain silent about the theft and to place a copy of the Ark in the Temple, so that the foreign nations could not say that Israel had lost its fame.
According to some sources, Queen Makeda was part of the dynasty founded by Za Besi Angabo in 1370 BC. The family's intended choice to rule Aksum was Makeda's brother, Prince Nourad, but his early death led to her succession to the throne. She apparently ruled the Ethiopian kingdom for more than 50 years. The 1922 regnal list of Ethiopia claims that Makeda reigned from 1013 to 982 BC, with dates following the Ethiopian calendar.
In the Ethiopian Book of Aksum, Makeda is described as establishing a new capital city at Azeba.
Edward Ullendorff holds that Makeda is a corruption of Candace, the name or title of several Ethiopian queens from Meroe or Seba. Candace was the name of that queen of the Ethiopians whose chamberlain was converted to Christianity under the preaching of Philip the Evangelist (Acts 8:27) in 30 AD. In the 14th-century (?) Ethiopic version of the Alexander romance, Alexander the Great of Macedonia (Ethiopic Meqédon) is said to have met a queen Kandake of Nubia. The tradition that the biblical Queen of Sheba was an ingenuous ruler of Ethiopia who visited King Solomon in Jerusalem is repeated in a 1st-century account by Josephus. He identified Solomon's visitor as a queen of Egypt and Ethiopia
Historians believe that the Solomonic dynasty actually began in 1270 with the emperor Yekuno Amlak, who, with the support of the Ethiopian Church, overthrew the Zagwe dynasty, which had ruled Ethiopia since sometime during the 10th century. The link to King Solomon provided a strong foundation for Ethiopian national unity. "Ethiopians see their country as God's chosen country, the final resting place that he chose for the Ark – and Sheba and her son were the means by which it came there". Despite the fact that the dynasty officially ended in 1769 with Emperor Iyoas, Ethiopian rulers continued to trace their connection to it, right up to the last 20th-century emperor, Haile Selassie.
According to one tradition, the Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel, "Falashas") also trace their ancestry to Menelik I, son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. An opinion that appears more historical is that the Falashas descend from those Jews who settled in Egypt after the first exile, and who, upon the fall of the Persian domination (539–333 BC), on the borders of the Nile, penetrated into the Sudan, whence they went into the western parts of Abyssinia.
Several emperors have stressed the importance of the Kebra Negast. One of the first instances of this can be traced in a letter from Prince Kasa (King John IV) to Queen Victoria in 1872. Kasa states, "There is a book called Kebra Nagast which contains the law of the whole of Ethiopia, and the names of the shums (governors), churches and provinces are in this book. I pray you will find out who has got this book and send it to me, for in my country my people will not obey my orders without it." Despite the historic importance given to the Kebra Negast, there is still doubt to whether or not the Queen sat on the throne.
Judaism
According to Josephus (Ant. 8:165–173), the queen of Sheba was the queen of Egypt and Ethiopia, and brought to Israel the first specimens of the balsam, which grew in the Holy Land in the historian's time. Josephus (Antiquities 2.5‒10) represents Cambyses as conquering the capital of Aethiopia, and changing its name from Seba to Meroe. Josephus affirms that the Queen of Sheba or Saba came from this region, and that it bore the name of Saba before it was known by that of Meroe. There seems also some affinity between the word Saba and the name or title of the kings of the Aethiopians, Sabaco.
The Talmud (Bava Batra 15b) insists that it was not a woman but a kingdom of Sheba (based on varying interpretations of Hebrew mlkt) that came to Jerusalem. Baba Bathra 15b: "Whoever says malkath Sheba (I Kings X, 1) means a woman is mistaken; ... it means the kingdom (מַלְכֻת) of Sheba". This is explained to mean that she was a woman who was not in her position because of being married to the king, but through her own merit.
The most elaborate account of the queen's visit to Solomon is given in the Targum Sheni to Esther (see: Colloquy of the Queen of Sheba). A hoopoe informed Solomon that the kingdom of Sheba was the only kingdom on earth not subject to him and that its queen was a sun worshiper. He thereupon sent it to Kitor in the land of Sheba with a letter attached to its wing commanding its queen to come to him as a subject. She thereupon sent him all the ships of the sea loaded with precious gifts and 6,000 youths of equal size, all born at the same hour and clothed in purple garments. They carried a letter declaring that she could arrive in Jerusalem within three years although the journey normally took seven years. When the queen arrived and came to Solomon's palace, thinking that the glass floor was a pool of water, she lifted the hem of her dress, uncovering her legs. Solomon informed her of her mistake and reprimanded her for her hairy legs. She asked him three (Targum Sheni to Esther 1:3) or, according to the Midrash (Prov. ii. 6; Yalḳ. ii., § 1085, Midrash ha-Hefez), more riddles to test his wisdom.
A Yemenite manuscript entitled "Midrash ha-Hefez" (published by S. Schechter in Folk-Lore, 1890, pp. 353 et seq.) gives nineteen riddles, most of which are found scattered through the Talmud and the Midrash, which the author of the "Midrash ha-Hefez" attributes to the Queen of Sheba. Most of these riddles are simply Bible questions, some not of a very edifying character. The two that are genuine riddles are: "Without movement while living, it moves when its head is cut off", and "Produced from the ground, man produces it, while its food is the fruit of the ground". The answer to the former is, "a tree, which, when its top is removed, can be made into a moving ship"; the answer to the latter is, "a wick".
The rabbis who denounce Solomon interpret 1 Kings 10:13 as meaning that Solomon had criminal intercourse with the Queen of Sheba, the offspring of which was Nebuchadnezzar, who destroyed the Temple (comp. Rashi ad loc.). According to others, the sin ascribed to Solomon in 1 Kings 11:7 et seq. is only figurative: it is not meant that Solomon fell into idolatry, but that he was guilty of failing to restrain his wives from idolatrous practises (Shab. 56b).
The Alphabet of Sirach avers that Nebuchadnezzar was the fruit of the union between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. In the Kabbalah, the Queen of Sheba was considered one of the queens of the demons and is sometimes identified with Lilith, first in the Targum of Job (1:15), and later in the Zohar and the subsequent literature. A Jewish and Arab myth maintains that the Queen was actually a jinn, half-human and half-demon.
In Ashkenazi folklore, the figure merged with the popular image of Helen of Troy or the Frau Venus of German mythology. Ashkenazi incantations commonly depict the Queen of Sheba as a seductive dancer. Until recent generations, she was popularly pictured as a snatcher of children and a demonic witch.
Islamic
The Temple of Awwam or "Mahram Bilqis" ("Sanctuary of the Queen of Sheba") is a Sabaean temple dedicated to the principal deity of Saba, Almaqah (frequently called "Lord of ʾAwwām"), near Ma'rib in what is now Yemen.
In the above verse (ayah), after scouting nearby lands, a bird known as the hud-hud (hoopoe) returns to King Solomon relating that the land of Sheba is ruled by a Queen. In a letter, Solomon invites the Queen of Sheba, who like her followers had worshipped the sun, to submit to God. She expresses that the letter is noble and asks her chief advisers what action should be taken. They respond by mentioning that her kingdom is known for its might and inclination towards war, however that the command rests solely with her. In an act suggesting the diplomatic qualities of her leadership, she responds not with brute force, but by sending her ambassadors to present a gift to King Solomon. He refuses the gift, declaring that God gives far superior gifts and that the ambassadors are the ones only delighted by the gift. King Solomon instructs the ambassadors to return to the Queen with a stern message that if he travels to her, he will bring a contingent that she cannot defeat. The Queen then makes plans to visit him at his palace. Before she arrives, King Solomon asks several of his chiefs who will bring him the Queen of Sheba's throne before they come to him in complete submission. An Ifrit first offers to move her throne before King Solomon would rise from his seat. However, a jinn with knowledge of the Scripture instead has her throne moved to King Solomon's palace in the blink of an eye, at which King Solomon exclaims his gratitude towards God as King Solomon assumes this is God's test to see if King Solomon is grateful or ungrateful. King Solomon disguises her throne to test her awareness of her own throne, asking her if it seems familiar. She answers that during her journey to him, her court had informed her of King Solomon's prophethood, and since then she and her subjects had made the intention to submit to God. King Solomon then explains that God is the only god that she should worship, not to be included alongside other false gods that she used to worship. Later the Queen of Sheba is requested to enter a palatial hall. Upon first view she mistakes the hall for a lake and raises her skirt to not wet her clothes. King Solomon informs her that is not water rather it is smooth slabs of glass. Recognizing that it was a marvel of construction which she had not seen the likes of before, she declares that in the past she had harmed her own soul but now submits, with King Solomon, to God (27:22–44).
The story of the Queen of Sheba in the Quran shares some similarities with the Bible and other Jewish sources. Some Muslim commentators such as Al-Tabari, Al-Zamakhshari and Al-Baydawi supplement the story. Here they claim that the Queen's name is Bilqīs (), probably derived from or the Hebraised pilegesh ("concubine"). The Quran does not name the Queen, referring to her as "a woman ruling them" (), the nation of Sheba.
According to some, he then married the Queen, while other traditions say that he gave her in marriage to a King of Hamdan. According to the scholar Al-Hamdani, the Queen of Sheba was the daughter of Ilsharah Yahdib, the Sabaean king of South Arabia. In another tale, she is said to be the daughter of a jinni (or peri) and a human. According to E. Ullendorff, the Quran and its commentators have preserved the earliest literary reflection of her complete legend, which among scholars complements the narrative that is derived from a Jewish tradition, this assuming to be the Targum Sheni. However, according to the Encyclopaedia Judaica Targum Sheni is dated to around 700 similarly the general consensus is to date Targum Sheni to late 7th- or early 8th century, which post-dates the advent of Islam by almost 200 years. Furthermore, M. J. Berdichevsky explains that this Targum is the earliest narrative articulation of Queen of Sheba in Jewish tradition.
Yoruba
The Yoruba Ijebu clan of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria, claim that she was a wealthy, childless noblewoman of theirs known as Oloye Bilikisu Sungbo. They also assert that a medieval system of walls and ditches, known as the Eredo and built sometime around the 10th century CE, was dedicated to her.
After excavations in 1999 the archaeologist Patrick Darling, known as “the architect”, was quoted as saying, "I don't want to overplay the Sheba theory, but it cannot be discounted ... The local people believe it and that's what is important ... The most cogent argument against it at the moment is the dating."
In art
Medieval
The treatment of Solomon in literature, art, and music also involves the sub-themes of the Queen of Sheba and the Shulammite of the Song of Songs. King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba was not a common subject until the 12th century. In Christian iconography Solomon represented Jesus, and Sheba represented the gentile Church; hence Sheba's meeting with Solomon bearing rich gifts foreshadowed the adoration of the Magi. On the other hand, Sheba enthroned represented the coronation of the virgin.
Sculptures of the Queen of Sheba are found on great Gothic cathedrals such as Chartres, Rheims, Amiens, and Wells. The 12th century cathedrals at Strasbourg, Chartres, Rochester and Canterbury include artistic renditions in stained glass windows and doorjamb decorations. Likewise of Romanesque art, the enamel depiction of a black woman at Klosterneuburg Monastery. The Queen of Sheba, standing in water before Solomon, is depicted on a window in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Renaissance
The reception of the queen was a popular subject during the Italian Renaissance. It appears in the bronze doors to the Florence Baptistery by Lorenzo Ghiberti, in frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli (Campo Santo, Pisa) and in the Raphael Loggie (Vatican). Examples of Venetian art are by Tintoretto (Prado) and Veronese (Pinacotheca, Turin). In the 17th century, Claude Lorrain painted The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (National Gallery, London).
Piero della Francesca's frescoes in Arezzo (c. 1466) on the Legend of the True Cross contain two panels on the visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon. The legend links the beams of Solomon's palace (adored by Queen of Sheba) to the wood of the crucifixion. The Renaissance continuation of the analogy between the Queen's visit to Solomon and the adoration of the Magi is evident in the Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi (c. 1510) by Hieronymus Bosch.
Literature
Boccaccio's On Famous Women () follows Josephus in calling the Queen of Sheba Nicaula. Boccaccio writes she is the Queen of Ethiopia and Egypt, and that some people say she is also the queen of Arabia. He writes that she had a palace on "a very large island" called Meroe, located in the Nile river. From there Nicaula travelled to Jerusalem to see King Solomon.
O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi" contains the following description to convey the preciousness of the female protagonist's hair: "Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts."
Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies continues the convention of calling the Queen of Sheba "Nicaula". The author praises the Queen for secular and religious wisdom and lists her besides Christian and Hebrew prophetesses as first on a list of dignified female pagans.
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus refers to the Queen of Sheba as Saba, when Mephistopheles is trying to persuade Faustus of the wisdom of the women with whom he supposedly shall be presented every morning.
Gérard de Nerval's autobiographical novel, Voyage to the Orient (1851), details his travels through the Middle East with much artistic license. He recapitulates at length a tale told in a Turkish cafe of King Soliman's love of Balkis, the Queen of Saba, but she, in turn, is destined to love Adoniram (Hiram Abif), Soliman's chief craftsman of the Temple, owing to both her and Adoniram's divine genealogy. Soliman grows jealous of Adoniram, and when he learns of three craftsmen who wish to sabotage his work and later kill him, Soliman willfully ignores warnings of these plots. Adoniram is murdered and Balkis flees Soliman's kingdom.
Léopold Sédar Senghor's "Elégie pour la Reine de Saba", published in his Elégies majeures in 1976, uses the Queen of Sheba in a love poem and for a political message. In the 1970s, he used the Queen of Sheba fable to widen his view of Negritude and Eurafrique by including "Arab-Berber Africa".
Rudyard Kipling's book Just So Stories includes the tale of The Butterfly that Stamped. Therein, Kipling identifies Balkis, "Queen that was of Sheba and Sable and the Rivers of the Gold of the South" as best, and perhaps only, beloved of the 1000 wives of Suleiman-bin-Daoud, King Solomon. She is explicitly ascribed great wisdom ("Balkis, almost as wise as the Most Wise Suleiman-bin-Daoud"); nevertheless, Kipling perhaps implies in her a greater wisdom than her husband, in that she is able to gently manipulate him, the afrits and djinns he commands, the other quarrelsome 999 wives of Suleimin-bin-Daoud, the butterfly of the title and the butterfly's wife, thus bringing harmony and happiness for all.
The Queen of Sheba appears as a character in The Ring of Solomon, the fourth book in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Sequence. She is portrayed as a vain woman who, fearing Solomon's great power, sends the captain of her royal guard to assassinate him, setting the events of the book in motion.
In modern popular culture, she is often invoked as a sarcastic retort to a person with an inflated sense of entitlement, as in "Who do you think you are, the Queen of Sheba?"
Film
Played by Gabrielle Robinne in La reine de Saba (1913)
Played by Betty Blythe in The Queen of Sheba (1921)
Played by France Dhélia in Le berceau de dieu (1926)
Played by Dorothy Page in King Solomon of Broadway (1935)
Played by Leonora Ruffo in The Queen of Sheba (1952)
Played by Gina Lollobrigida in Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Played by Winifred Bryan in Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963)
Played by Anya Phillips in Rome '78 (1978)
Played by Halle Berry in Solomon & Sheba (1995)
Played by Vivica A. Fox in Solomon (film) (1997)
Played by Aamito Lagum in Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
Music
Solomon (composed in 1748; first performed in 1749), oratorio by George Frideric Handel; the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from this work is often performed as a concert piece
La reine de Saba (1862), opera by Charles Gounod
Die Königin von Saba (1875), opera by Karl Goldmark
La Reine de Scheba (1926), opera by Reynaldo Hahn
Belkis, Regina di Saba (1931), ballet by Ottorino Respighi
Solomon and Balkis (1942), opera by Randall Thompson
The Queen of Sheba (1953), cantata for women's voices by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
"Black Beauty" (1970), song by Focus
“Leila, the Queen of Sheba” (1981), song by Dolly Dots
“The Original Queen of Sheba” (1991), song by Great White
Machine Gun (1993), by Slowdive
"Aïcha" (1996), by Khaled
"Makeda" (1998), French R&B by Chadian duo Les Nubians
"Balqis" (2000), song by Siti Nurhaliza
"Thing Called Love" (1987), song by John Hiatt
Television
Played by Halle Berry in Solomon & Sheba (1995)
Played by Vivica A. Fox in Solomon (1997)
Played by Andrulla Blanchette in Lexx, Season 4, Episode 21: "Viva Lexx Vegas" (2002)
Played by Amani Zain in Queen of Sheba: Behind the Myth (2002)
Played by Yetide Badaki in American Gods as Bilquis
See also
Barran Temple, also known as "Throne of Bilqis"
Arwa al-Sulayhi
Biblical and Quranic narratives
Bilocation
Hadhramaut
Legends of Africa
List of legendary monarchs of Ethiopia
Minaeans
Qahtanite
Qataban
Sudabeh
Banu Hamdan
Belqeys Castle
Mount of Belqeys (Queen of Sheba) (Persian Wikipedia)
References
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Thaʿlabī, Qiṣaṣ ̣(1356 A.H.), 262–4
Kisāʾī, Qiṣaṣ (1356 A.H.), 285–92
G. Weil, The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud ... (1846)
G. Rosch, Die Königin von Saba als Königin Bilqis (Jahrb. f. Prot. Theol., 1880) 524‒72
M. Grünbaum, Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sagenkunde (1893) 211‒21
E. Littmann, The legend of the Queen of Sheba in the tradition of Axum (1904)
L. Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews, 3 (1911), 411; 4 (1913), 143–9; (1928), 288–91
H. Speyer, Die biblischen Erzählungen im Qoran (1931, repr. 1961), 390–9
E. Budge, The Queen of Sheba and her only son Menyelek (1932)
J. Ryckmans, L'Institution monarchique en Arabie méridionale avant l'Islam (1951)
E. Ullendorff, Candace (Acts VIII, 27) and the Queen of Sheba (New Testament Studies, 1955, 53‒6)
E. Ullendorff, Hebraic-Jewish elements in Abyssinian (monophysite) Christianity (JSS, 1956, 216‒56)
D. Hubbard, The literary sources of the Kebra Nagast (St. Andrews University Ph. D. thesis, 1956, 278‒308)
La Persécution des chrétiens himyarites au sixième siècle (1956)
Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research 143 (1956) 6–10; 145 (1957) 25–30; 151 (1958) 9–16
A. Jamme, La Paléographique sud-arabe de J. Pirenne (1957)
R. Bowen, F. Albright (eds.), Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia (1958)
Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Bible (1963) 2067–70
T. Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia (1972) 1270–1527
W. Daum (ed.), Die Königin von Saba: Kunst, Legende und Archäologie zwischen Morgenland und Abendland (1988)
J. Lassner, Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam (1993)
M. Brooks (ed.), Kebra Nagast (The Glory of Kings) (1998)
J. Breton, Arabia Felix from the Time of the Queen of Sheba: Eighth Century B.C. to First Century A.D. (1999)
D. Crummey, Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (2000)
A. Gunther (ed.), Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade (2005)
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Bharti Dayal (born December, 1961 in Samastipur) is an Indian artist who specializes in Madhubani art.
Biography
Dayal was born in the Darbhanga district of North Bihar, the Mithila region famous for Madhubani painting. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Science and right after completed her Master in Science (M.Sc).
Work
From a young age, Dayal has been learning Madhubani painting from her mother and grandmother. She pursued the art form professionally from 1984, subsequent to completing her formal education in science. She has striven to bring innovation in the traditional art practiced in Mithila, and train other women artists from the region at her studio in New Delhi.
Her style is known for bringing a contemporary cast to traditional Madhubani art using modern media such as acrylic and canvas. She paints with natural, vegetable-based colors. Her renditions of Krishna and Radha depict undercurrents of "love, longing, and peace".
Exhibitions
Dayal has held numerous exhibitions of her work nationally and internationally. Her Madhubani art was the subject of a documentary shown on French television in 1995. A show of her works in acrylic on canvas painted between June 2015 and June 2016 was organized by the Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA).
Dayal's seven Madhubani paintings, which are a combination of traditional art with contemporary modern subjects, are included in the book The New Bihar. Her illustration for the book's cover includes a girl riding a bicycle, symbolizing the "empowerment of women and the quest for education", and a fish, which denotes the theme of "rainbow agriculture", or the blending of agricultural pursuits to enhance rural income. Book authors N.K. Singh and Nicholas Stern have observed: "Bharti's use of the traditional style on contemporary themes can contribute to the revival of Madhubani art".
Awards
AIFACS
Millennium award
National Merit awards
2006: India's National Award for excellence in handicrafts
Publications
Cover art
Cover Art for 'Language Politics and Public sphere in North India .,Making of the Maithili Movement by Mithilesh kumar jha .publisher:Oxford university press ;
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Jayaraman Gowrishankar (born 1956) is an Indian medical microbiologist. Gowrishankar received his M.B.B.S. degree from the Christian Medical College, Vellore. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Melbourne.
He was a Scientist and Group Leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad.
In 2000, he was positioned as director for Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics..He served as director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali from 2019 to 2024.
He was awarded in 1991, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category. He was awarded in 2013, the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, for his contribution towards the field of science.
Civilian Honours
Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India.
Research Awards
INSA Medal for Young Scientists, 1986
CSIR Young Scientist Award, 1987
BM Birla Prize. 1991
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 1991
JC Bose Fellowship, 2007
The 2012 Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award - American Society for Microbiology
Research highlights
Discovery of the operon and its exquisite osmotic regulation
Enunciation of a new hypothesis that toxic RNA-DNA hybrids (R-loops) are prone to occur from nascent untranslated transcripts in E coli.
References
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Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science
1956 births
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Indian microbiologists
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Theodore Tengerdi (; died May/October 1308) was a Hungarian prelate at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, who served as Bishop of Győr from 1295 to 1308. Prior to that, he was provost of Székesfehérvár and vice-chancellor in the royal court, and briefly elected Bishop of Vác.
Early career
Theodore was born into a prominent Transdanubian family, which originated from Tengerd in Fejér County. His father was vice-judge royal Nicholas I, who bought the village and the surrounding lands in 1256. Theodore had two elder brothers, Nicholas II and Ladislaus I, who actively participated in the royal military campaigns against the Kingdom of Bohemia in the early 1270s. Ladislaus had a daughter Anne, who married James Hahót. The brothers' branch died out by the middle of the 14th century. The Rumi and the Botka de Széplak noble families descended from Theodore's uncles.
As the youngest one, Theodore entered ecclesiastical service. Consequently, he attended the University of Bologna, a university record preserved his name in February 1269, when his debt (18 pounds) was settled by another Hungarian student Paul in his name. He bore the title of "magister", demonstrating his education and skills in science. Theodore was first mentioned by contemporary records in 1274, when Ladislaus IV of Hungary recovered the estate of Sitke and donated Chueföld, which then belonged to Szolgagyőr Castle (present-day ruins in Hlohovec, Slovakia), to the three brothers for the bravery and loyalty of Nicholas and Ladislaus in the previous years. He elevated into the dignity of provost of Szeben (today Sibiu, Romania) by 1284, serving in this office until 1287. Simultaneously, he also acted as a personal notary of King Ladislaus IV. Theodore was also a confidant of the queen mother, Elizabeth the Cuman and the queen consort Elizabeth of Sicily: the two queens jointly donated Dencs and Sztupán, accessories to the Segesd lordship, to Theodore and Ladislaus in June 1284 (their brother Nicholas died by then).
Ladislaus made Theodore as his vice-chancellor in 1286. In the next year, he was also elected provost of Székesfehérvár, thus he held both offices simultaneously, which have traditionally belonged together in the previous decades. During his appointment, he was granted Iváncsa by the king's spouse, Queen Elizabeth of Sicily. A single charter from 1289 also styled him as Bishop-elect of Vác, but he was unable to take the office for unknown reasons.
Crown guard and bishop
It is possible that Theodore supported Archbishop Lodomer, who entered into an alliance with the rebellious Kőszegi family against the immoral and weak-handed Ladislaus IV and agreed to offer the crown to the king's distant relative Andrew the Venetian, who arrived to Hungary in early 1290. However Andrew was captured and surrendered him to Duke Albert. Ladislaus was assassinated by his favored Cuman subjects on 10 July 1290. Following the assassination, Lodomer managed to free Andrew from his captivity in order to crown king. As provost of Székesfehérvár, Theodore also functioned as guardian of the Holy Crown of Hungary. Upon Andrew's arrival, his unidentified opponents tried to bribe Theodore not to hand over the crown jewels to the soon-to-be-king, but the provost refused them. Archbishop Lodomer crowned Andrew king in Székesfehérvár on 23 July 1290.
Theodore was a staunch supporter of Andrew III throughout his reign. He retained his positions of vice-chancellor and provost of Székesfehérvár too. He was one of the main organizers of the diet, which took place in Óbuda in the first days of September 1290, where Andrew III promised to preserve the rights and privileges of the nobility. As vice-chancellor, Theodore drafted the text of the laws. At his own request, one of the articles stated "the old right of the church of Fehérvár to the position of vice-chancellor to be held", thus officially combined the two dignities, confirming the existing customary law. The Hungarian diplomacy already began a search for a suitable spouse for their new king before his release from captivity and the coronation. After the closure of the diet, Theodore traveled to Kuyavia in the Kingdom of Poland to escort Andrew's fiancée Fenenna, the daughter of Ziemomysł of Kuyavia to Hungary. The wedding took place before the end of 1290. Theodore sent a large army (banderium) to Andrew's military campaign against the Duchy of Austria in the summer of 1291. Thereafter the concluded peace treaty prescribed the destruction of the fortresses that Albert of Austria had seized from the Kőszegis, who, in response, rose up in open rebellion against Andrew in spring 1292, acknowledging Charles Martel of Anjou, as King of Hungary. The royal troops subdued the rebellion by July, but Ivan Kőszegi captured and imprisoned Andrew during his journey to Slavonia in August. Theodore arrived to the province with his army. He saved the royal property, jewels, and treasures from the robbers, and transferred them to the royal court. Alongside other lords and bishops, Theodore negotiated with the notorious Ivan Kőszegi over the liberation of Andrew. He was among those partisans, who sent their relatives – his brother Ladislaus and nephews – as hostages to the Kőszegis, thus Andrew was freed. As a result, they were granted Halásztelek by Andrew III in January 1293. Theodore and his relatives bought Békásmegyer for 120 silver denari from Ladislaus Balog, lector of Buda chapter. The family also acquired forts and towers in the nearby Margaret Island.
Theodore Tengerdi was elected Bishop of Győr around April 1295. Therefore he was replaced as provost of Székesfehérvár by Gregory Bicskei still in that month, but, despite the aforementioned law, which legitimized a custom right, he retained the office of vice-chancellor until 1297, when Bicskei succeeded him in those dignity too. Theodore attended the diet in Pest in the summer of 1298, which authorized Andrew to destroy forts built without permission and ordered the punishment of those who had seized landed property with force. The Diocese of Győr, which laid in the borderlands between the expansionary Kőszegi and Csák domains, was threatened constantly by looting and plundering raids. Ivan Kőszegi pillaged and unlawfully seized the bishopric's several lands in Western Transdanubia. In response, Theodore excommunicated the treacherous and greedy lord, but without any consequences and results. During his episcopate, Theodore donated privileges to the fishermen and millers of the nearby Révfalu (today a borough of Győr).
Interregnum
Andrew III died in 1301. With his death, the House of Árpád, the first royal dynasty of Hungary, ended. A period of Interregnum and civil war between various claimants to the throne – Charles of Anjou, Wenceslaus of Bohemia, and Otto of Bavaria – followed Andrew's death and lasted for seven years. It is plausible that Theodore initially supported the claim of Wenceslaus, alongside the majority of the Hungarian prelates. However the arriving papal legate Niccolo Boccasini convinced most of the bishops to accept Charles's reign. Upon the invitation of Pope Boniface VIII, Theodore was a member of that Hungarian clerical delegation, which visited the Roman Curia and met the pope and Charles' grandmother Mary, Queen of Naples. Pope Boniface, who regarded Hungary as a fief of the Holy See declared Charles the lawful king of Hungary on 31 May 1303. The Hungarian prelates, led by Stephen, Archbishop of Kalocsa traveled further to the Neapolitan court, while Theodore returned to Hungary. He already resided in Szombathely on 24 June 1303.
To strengthen his son's position, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia came to Hungary at the head of a large army in May 1304. However, his negotiations with the local lords convinced him that his son's position in Hungary had dramatically weakened. Accordingly, he decided to take his son back to Bohemia and even took the Holy Crown of Hungary with himself to Prague. According to the narration of the Steirische Reimchronik ("Styrian Rhyming Chronicle"), perceiving the intrigue, Theodore Tengerdi and his small accompaniment caught up to the royal escort before crossing the border. There, the bishop asked and begged King Wenceslaus not to take the Holy Crown and the royal insignia out of the Kingdom of Hungary, but the Bohemian king replied angrily the crown is not entitled to anyone more than the rightful king who is his son, and the Holy Crown must be kept where the king resides. Theodore and his banderium participated in the invasion of Bohemia in the autumn of 1304. Theodore Tengerdi died sometimes between May and October 1308, when he was succeeded by Ivan Kőszegi's illegitimate son Nicholas, who was Theodore's deputy as provost of the collegiate chapter of St. Adalbert church in Győr prior to that.
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RT-20 is the designation applied to two distinct military systems:
RT-20 (missile), the Soviet missile
RT-20 (rifle), the Croatian rifle |
A steelyard balance, steelyard, or stilyard is a straight-beam balance with arms of unequal length. It incorporates a counterweight which slides along the longer arm to counterbalance the load and indicate its weight. A steelyard is also known as a Roman steelyard or Roman balance.
Structure
The steelyard comprises a balance beam which is suspended from a lever/pivot or fulcrum which is very close to one end of the beam. The two parts of the beam which flank the pivot are the arms. The arm from which the object to be weighed (the load) is hung is short and is located close to the pivot point. The other arm is longer, is graduated and incorporates a counterweight which can be moved along the arm until the two arms are balanced about the pivot, at which time the weight of the load is indicated by the position of the counterweight.
Mechanism
The steelyard exemplifies the law of the lever, wherein, when balanced, the weight of the object being weighed, multiplied by the length of the short balance arm to which it is attached, is equal to the weight of the counterweight multiplied by the distance of the counterweight from the pivot.
History
According to Thomas G. Chondros of Patras University, a simple steelyard balance with a lever mechanism first appeared in the ancient Near East over 5,000 years ago. According to Mark Sky of Harvard University, the steelyard was in use among Greek craftsmen of the 5th and 4th centuries BC, even before Archimedes demonstrated the law of the lever theoretically. The Latin name statera comes from the Ancient Greek στατήρ (statḗr). Roman and Chinese steelyards were independently invented around 200 BC. Steelyards dating from AD 100 to 400 have been unearthed in Great Britain. Steelyards and their components have also been excavated from shipwrecks of the Byzantine period in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, such as the 7th-century wreck at Yassi Ada, Turkey, and the mid-first millennium shipwreck at Black Assarca Island, Eritrea. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the name "steelyard" is derived from steel combined with yard, influenced by an allusion to the Steelyard, the main trading base of the Hanseatic League in London in the 14th century.
Large steelyard balances (known as cart balances), both public and private, were a common feature in agricultural areas in England from the eighteenth century forward. An example of a public cart steelyard remains at Soham, Cambridgeshire and another is to be seen at Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Function
Steelyards of different sizes have been used to weigh loads ranging from ounces to tons. A small steelyard could be a foot or less in length and thus conveniently used as a portable device that merchants and traders could use to weigh small ounce-sized items of merchandise. In other cases a steelyard could be several feet long and used to weigh sacks of flour and other commodities. Even larger steelyards were three stories tall and used to weigh fully laden horse-drawn carts.
Scandinavian variant
A Scandinavian steelyard is a variant which consists of a bar with a fixed weight attached to one end, a movable pivot point, and an attachment point for the object to be weighed at the other end. Once the object to be weighed is attached to its end of the bar, the pivot point, which is frequently a loop at the end of a cord or chain, is moved until the bar is balanced. The bar is calibrated so that the object's weight can be read off directly from the position of the pivot. This type is known in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
See also
Weigh house
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This page is an overview of the qualification criteria for the 2008 UCI Road World Championships.
Elite events
Elite men's road race
Qualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours during 2008. Results from January to the middle of August would count towards the qualification criteria on both the 2008 UCI ProTour and the UCI Continental Circuits across the world, with the rankings being determined upon the release of the numerous tour rankings on 15 August 2008.
Elite women's road race
Qualification will be based mainly on the 2008 UCI Nation Ranking as of 15 August 2008. The first five nations in this classification qualified 7 riders to start, the next ten nations qualified 6 riders to start and the next 5 nations qualified 5 riders to start. Other nations and non ranked nations had the possibility to send 3 riders to start. Moreover, the outgoing World Champion and continental champions are qualified to take part in the race on top of the nation numbers.
Elite men's time trial
All National Federations were allowed to register four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions may take part.
Elite women's time trial
All National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.
Under-23 events
Men's under-23 road race
Men's under-23 time trial
All National Federations were allowed to register four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions may take part
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Morney Plains Station, most commonly referred to as Morney Plains, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in south west Queensland.
It is situated about west of Windorah and east of Birdsville in the channel country close to the border with South Australia.
The property is currently owned by S. Kidman & Co. and occupies an area of with a carrying capacity of 14,000 head.
History
The traditional owners of the area are the Karuwali, who have lived there for tens of thousands of years. Their huts were constructed by a framework of arched branches covered in grass, leaves and soil. Their diet included the wild rice which grew in the region and their graves were mounds over which large logs were placed. Part of their mourning rites included covering their bodies with white clay which they called copi.
Karuwali (also known as Garuwali, Dieri) is a language of far western Queensland. The Karuwali language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Diamantina Shire Council, including the localities of Betoota and Haddon Corner.
The lease was first taken up, on Karuwali tribal lands, by pioneer and pastoralist John Costello in the late 1860s or early 1870s. William Barker bought Morney Plains in 1876 along with the 1,000 head of cattle it was stocked with from the Collins brothers.
The property was owned by Weir and Scott in 1881 when it was visited by a journalist who described it as "splendid country with hardly any grass on it simply to want for sufficient rainfall". The writer had been riding in a southerly direction along the Diamantina River and had described the area near the station as being lightly timbered stony country with large areas of saltbush and cotton bush. In 1887 the homestead was washed away following exceptionally heavy rains in the area and the heaviest flooding known at the time.
In 1927 the property was acquired by Ernest Castine for £27,500. Castine bought the property at auction from Coles Brothers Limited following the death of Thomas Kidman. The property occupied an area of and was stocked with 7,500 head of cattle and 200 horses, and well watered by over four artesian bores.
Airmail delivery to remote properties in outback South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland commenced in 1949. Morney Plains along with other remote properties including Mungerannie, Clifton Hills, Glengyle, Davenport Downs, Mulka, Mount Leonard, Durrie, Cordillo Downs, Tanbar Station, Durham Downs, Nappa Merrie, Lake Pure and Naryilco were also on the route.
Craig Lasker and Nikki Smith have managed the property since 2000 after short stints at Ruby Plains Station and then Mooraberree Station, an outstation at Morney Plains. Drought struck in 2001 and continued through 2002, with the herd being reduced from 13,000 to 3,000 head of cattle. In 2003 a heavy downpour caused more damage than relief and later the same year the homestead burnt down killing the couple's two children. Despite the tragedy the couple stayed at Morney Plains and were still managing it in 2012.
In 2013, the station was struck by drought again, requiring water to be piped from a bore to the homestead once the water in the dams had run dry.
See also
List of ranches and stations
List of the largest stations in Australia
References
Stations in Queensland
South West Queensland |
Als die Götter starben (When the Gods Died) is a 1963 science fiction novel by German author Günther Krupkat about contact between humans and an alien race from the distant planet "Meju." After the discovery of alien diaries on the Martian moon Phobos in the 21st century, a frame narrative tells the interconnected stories of human power struggles in ancient Mesopotamia and alien flight from a distant planet following a cataclysm. A 1989 poll ranked it as the seventh most popular East German science fiction novel.
References
Bibliography
Fritzsche, Sonja. Science Fiction Literature in East Germany. Oxford; New York: Lang, 2006.
Neumann, Hans-Peter. Die grosse illustrierte Bibliographie der Science Fiction in der DDR. Berlin: Shayol, 2002.
Steinmüller, Angela and Karlheinz. Vorgriff auf das Lichte Morgen. Passau: Erster Deutscher Fantasy Club, 1995.
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In Australia, Lower North Shore refers to the northern suburbs of Sydney adjoining Sydney Harbour. The three bodies of water that surround the Lower North Shore are Lane Cove River on its western border, Sydney Harbour on its south side, and Middle Harbour on its east. The Lower North Shore borders the Upper North Shore when the Lane Cover River and Middle Harbour are at their closest.
Lower North Shore encompasses suburbs belonging to the local government areas of Municipality of Mosman, City of Willoughby, Municipality of Lane Cove, and North Sydney Council. The Lower North Shore, in this narrow sense, roughly corresponds with the Parish of Willoughby, a cadastral unit used for land title purposes.
When the regional name is used in a wider sense, the suburbs of , , and , which lie west of the Lane Cove River, are sometimes also considered part of the Lower North Shore, although more often the term North Shore applies to the suburbs between Middle Harbour and the Lane Cove River.
The Lower North Shore suburbs adjacent to the water are Longueville, Northwood, Neutral Bay, Greenwich, Waverton, Wollstonecraft, Mosman, Cremorne, Lane Cove, Lavender Bay, McMahons Point, Milsons Point, Cammeray, North Sydney, Chatswood, Artarmon, Willoughby, Crows Nest, Riverview, Castlecrag, and Northbridge.
The region is home to hundreds of parks and reserves, including Sydney Harbour National Park and the Lane Cove National Park. Local sportsgrounds include North Sydney Oval, the region's largest in capacity, followed by Chatswood Oval.
Major waterways in the region include Port Jackson, the Lane Cove River, the Parramatta River, Middle Harbour and the many creek systems that branch out from these main aquatic lifelines.
The Lower North Shore is the location of Kirribilli House and Admiralty House, the official residences in Sydney of the Prime Minister of Australia and Governor-General of Australia respectively.
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Dyulya is a village in Ruen Municipality, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria.
References
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E11EVEN Miami is a multilevel nightclub located in downtown Miami. The night club was opened February 5, 2014.
History
Construction of E11EVEN Miami was completed in 2013, and it was first opened to the public on February 5, 2014.
Ventures
Housing
In 2021, the club ventured into residential housing.
Cryptocurrency
On January 18, 2018, the North American Bitcoin Conference chose the Ultraclub to host the conference.
On April 13, 2021, E11Even Miami became the first nightclub to accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Notable attendees
The night club has been noted for hosting several high profile patrons.
In August 2016, Drake and Rihanna were spotted kissing at the club.
According to TMZ, in February 2020, Post Malone reportedly gave away $50,000 in singles to the crowd inside of E11Even Miami.
On September 25, 2021, G-Eazy was spotted in 11Even Miami after his public break up with singer Halsey.
References
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Course Completed () is a 1987 Spanish drama film written, produced and directed by José Luis Garci. The film was an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards.
Awards
The film was an Academy Award nominee as Best Foreign Film. Garci won the Goya Award as Best Director.
See also
List of submissions to the 60th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
1987 films
1980s Spanish-language films
Asturias in fiction
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Ernest Charles Rolls (born Josef Adolf Darewski; 6 June 1890 – 20 January 1964) was a British theatre producer, of Russian Jewish heritage, who lived and worked in Britain and Australia.
Early life and career
He was born in 1890, probably in Vienna, Austria (according to most sources and the 1901 UK census), or possibly in Warsaw, Poland, and was one of five children of a Russian Jewish opera singer, Eduard Darewski, born in Minsk. The family moved to Manchester, England, in 1894, and then to London in 1899. Among his brothers were composer and conductor Herman Darewski, and songwriter Max Darewski.
By 1910, he had started working as a theatrical producer, and adopted the name Ernest C. Rolls. He managed the actress Eva Moore, but was sued by her for non-payment of earnings. He produced a controversial "re-telling" of the story of the Garden of Eden, The Dawn of Love, at the London Palladium in 1911, and several revues. These included Ragmania (1912) and Full Inside (1914), which featured several Australian chorus girls and where he met singer and comedienne Jennie Benson (1884–1979); they married in 1920. He also produced Venus Ltd. (1915), Hanky-Panky (1917), Any Old Thing (1917), and the cross-dressing revue Splinters in 1919. Many of his productions were characterised by the copious use of glamorous female chorus and ballet performers, and lavish sets, in the style of Charles B. Cochran. Rolls frequently collaborated with his brothers Herman and Max Darewski on the musical numbers.
In 1921, after losing money on his productions of Laughing Eyes (featuring Ninette de Valois) and Oh Julie, he was declared bankrupt. The following year, he was found guilty of indecent exposure to two women outside the window of his home, and was sentenced to three months imprisonment, later reduced on appeal. Though his career in London faltered as a result, he put on a pantomime, Aladdin, and his wife Jennie was then invited to perform on J. C. Williamson's new Tivoli vaudeville circuit in Australia.
In Australia
Rolls moved to Australia with his wife in 1924, initially as her manager, but soon became active in theatrical productions. He produced Aladdin in Melbourne, with Jennie Benson in the title role, and regularly visited New York to secure the rights to new revues and musicals. In 1928, he mounted the first Australian production of Jerome Kern's Sunny, and followed with a production of Rio Rita. He "produced some of the most lavish Ziegfeld-type revues Australia has ever seen. His recipe for success was songs, dances, comedy and girls - lots of beautiful girls - the more scantily clad the better."
Over the following decade, he worked with all the main theatre companies and managers in Australia, both in Melbourne and Sydney. He joined forces with entrepreneur George Marlow, but as a result of the growth of talking pictures and the Great Depression, the Marlow-Rolls company went into voluntary liquidation. In 1930 Rolls formed his own production company, staging a series of revues at St James Theatre in Sydney, and the following year took over the lease of the Palace Theatre, Melbourne. He introduced nudity in some of his revues, such as Tout Paris in 1933, but with little success until introducing comedies such as Flame of Desire, which he attempted but failed to turn into a film. He then moved to New Zealand, and leased a chain of theatres.
In 1938 he joined the board of J. C. Williamson's, and was appointed chief producer of the new Australian and New Zealand Theatres Ltd (ANZT). Although the new scheme was not a financial success, Rolls is credited with presenting its most creative and successful shows, including The Women by Clare Boothe Luce, with an all-female cast; and the glamorous revue Folies d’Amour. Financial pressures on Rolls himself, and on the company, led him to return to Britain in 1939.
Later life and death
Back in Britain, his ventures had little success, his presentation of Clare Boothe Luce's A Margin of Error closing after 45 performances. During the Second World War, he produced revues in regional centres around the country, with his wife as the leading lady, and he also attempted to revive the careers of some music hall performers as their business manager, producing shows in Paddington. Between 1956 and 1963, he managed a "Dancing Waters" show, in various British seaside resorts.
He died in London in 1964 at the age of 73. His wife Jennie died in 1979, at the age of 95.
References
External links
J. Alan Kenyon, Memoirs, 2020, including anecdotes about Rolls
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is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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John Pawlowski (born September 6, 1963) is an American baseball coach and former pitcher. He played college baseball at Clemson for coach Bill Wilhelm from 1983 to 1985 and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 2 seasons from 1987 to 1988. He then served as head coach of the College of Charleston Cougars (2000–2008), the Auburn Tigers (2009–2013) and the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (2016–2022).
Playing career
Pawlowski attended Seton Catholic Central High School in Binghamton, New York and played college baseball at Clemson.
Pawlowski had a short career in the Major Leagues with the Chicago White Sox where he played on the 1987 and 1988 teams, appearing as a pitcher in eight total games.
Coaching career
On June 20, 2008, Pawlowski was named the head baseball coach of the Auburn Tigers. In 2009, his first season with Auburn, the Tigers finished with a 31–25 record, and just 11 wins in Southeastern Conference (SEC) play. In 2010, he responded with a 38–17 and 20 SEC win season, making it the most SEC wins an Auburn team has ever had in the regular season. The team had a losing league record for the next three seasons, however, and Pawlowski was fired at the end of the 2013 season.
On June 4, 2015, Pawlowski was named the head coach of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. On May 18, 2022, Pawlowski submitted his resignation effective at the end of the season.
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Dongshan Township ( or ), may refer to:
Dongshan Township, Bama Yao Autonomous County, a township in Bama Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Dongshan Township, Quanzhou County, a township in Quanzhou County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Dongshan Dong Ethnic Township, Suining County, an ethnic township in Suining County, Hunan, China.
Dongshan Township, Puge County, a township in Puge County, Sichuan, China.
Dongshan Township, Tongjiang County, a township in Tongjiang County, Sichuan, China.
Dongshan Township, Shanxi, a township in Fanzhi County, Shanxi, China.
Dongshan Township, Qinghai, a township in Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai, China.
Dongshan Township, Inner Mongolia, a township in Songshan District of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China.
Dongshan Township, Wenshan, a township in Wenshan City, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunan, China.
Dongshan Township, Xiangyun County, a township in Xiangyun County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China.
Dongshan, Yilan, a township in Yilan County, Taiwan. |
The Power Macintosh 6200 (also sold under variations of the name Performa 6200, Performa 6300 and Power Macintosh 6300) is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from May 1995 to July 1997. The 6200 is the PowerPC-based replacement for the Quadra 630, with the same form factor and price range. In early 1997, the rather different Power Macintosh 6300/160 / Performa 6360 based on the Power Macintosh 6400 was introduced. The whole line was discontinued when the desktop model of the Power Macintosh G3 was released.
In addition to the many Performa variants, it also includes model numbers above 6300 (which would normally indicate a different model). The model numbers above 6260 use a PowerPC 603e processor, but are otherwise virtually identical. Finally, some computers with model numbers that indicate they belong to the 6200/6300 family (the above-mentioned Power Macintosh 6300/160 and its Performa version 6360) are rather different on the inside. Generally, the 6200 and 6300 are closely related to the Power Macintosh 5200 LC and 5300 LC. For nearly every 6000-series (desktop) model, there is a 5000-series (all-in-one) model with an integrated CRT screen.
Power Macintosh 6200 / 6300
The 6200 shares its logic board with the Power Macintosh 5200 LC. The internal bus structure consists of three buses:
A 64-bit 75 MHz 603 bus connecting the CPU, 256K L2 cache, and ROM. This is the front-side bus.
A 32-bit 37.5 MHz 68040 bus connecting the memory, video, and I/O controllers. A custom integrated circuit, Capella, bridged this bus to the 603 bus. Capella is very similar to a northbridge chip.
A 32-bit 16 MHz I/O bus managed by a custom integrated circuit, PrimeTime II, which is similar to a southbridge (computing) chip.
On January 27, 1996, the 6300 and 6310 models were introduced, with a new 100 MHz PowerPC 603e CPU. On April 22, 1996, the 6320 and 6300/120 were released. These upgraded the CPU speed to 120 MHz. The 6300/120 was sold as a business model in the Asia market. In all cases the front-side bus speed matched the CPU speed, and the 68040 or northbridge bus speed was increased to 40 MHz. The rest of the logic board remained the same.
Models
Standard equipment on all 6200/6300 models includes an LC-PDS slot, a 1.4 MB SuperDrive with manual insert, two RS-232/422 serial ports, one external SCSI port, one ADB port, monophonic sound input port, internal stereo speakers, and a DB-15 video output port. The internal modem is in a 112-pin expansion slot, allowing for aftermarket modems. There is also an external modem port, but it is covered over by a piece of plastic. If the plastic seal is removed and the internal modem is removed, the external port is usable.
All machines also shipped with an AppleDesign keyboard, ADB Mouse II, and (excepting the 6216CD and 6220CD) an Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display.
Introduced May 1, 1995:
Power Macintosh 6200/75: The 6200 was only sold in Asia under this name. Includes a 500 MB hard drive. $2300 USD.
Performa 6200CD: Basically identical to the Power Macintosh 6200, but comes with a 1 GB hard drive, a 14.4k modem, a bundled monitor and software.
Introduced July 17, 1995:
Performa 6216CD: The 6200CD without the monitor.
Performa 6218CD: The 6200CD with 16 MB of RAM instead of 8 MB.
Performa 6220CD: The 6218CD without the monitor, but with a TV / video in/out card.
Performa 6230CD: The 6220CD with a hardware MPEG decoder card.
Introduced August 28, 1995:
Performa 6205CD: The 6200CD with a 28.8k Global Village TelePort modem instead of a 14.4k one.
Performa 6214CD: The 6200CD with a different software bundle.
Introduced October 12, 1995:
Performa 6210CD: The 6205CD with a different software bundle.
Introduced October 16, 1995:
Performa 6300CD: The 6290CD with 16 MB of RAM and a bundled monitor. Sold only in North America.
Introduced January 27, 1996:
Performa 6290CD: The Power Macintosh 6200 with a 100 MHz 603e processor and one 1.2 GB hard drive. Only sold in North America.
Introduced February 14, 1996:
Performa 6310CD: Identical to the 6300CD, but only sold in Asia and Europe.
Introduced April 22, 1996:
Performa 6320CD: The 6290CD with a 120 MHz 603e processor, with a bundled monitor and a TV/video card.
Introduced June 19, 1996:
Performa 6260CD: The 6290CD with an 800 MB hard drive. Only sold in Europe and Asia.
Introduced June 27, 1996:
Power Macintosh 6300/120: The 6290CD with a 120 MHz 603e processor and 16 MB of RAM. Sold only in Asia.
Power Macintosh 6300/160 / Performa 6360
The Power Macintosh 6300/160 (also sold as the Performa 6360) was introduced on October 17, 1996. It retains the desktop form factor introduced with the 6200, but is built around the "Alchemy" motherboard that was first introduced with the Power Macintosh 5400/120. This board has a 64-bit data path and 64-bit DIMM RAM, PCI slot, and Comm Slot II (incompatible with the earlier Comm Slot). It also includes two GeoPort external serial ports. NuBus cards are not supported.
Standard equipment on the 6300/160 and 6360 include a 1.2 GB IDE hard drive, an 8X CD-ROM, full stereo input (unlike the 6200/6300 series, which combined stereo input into monophonic sound), one internal speaker (compared to two on the 6200/6300 series), and support for increased display resolutions with higher bit depth, notably 800x600 16-bit color at 60 Hz and 1024x768 8-bit color at 60 or 70 Hz. The 6360's power supply unit is increased to 150 watts.
While the 6360 was designed from the start to support JEDEC-standard 5-volt, 64-bit, 168-pin, EDO 70ns DIMMs with a 2k refresh rate, the logic board did not initially support EDO RAM. A user servicing the machine would need to examine the serial numbers on the on-board RAM to see whether EDO is supported. The 6360 has two DIMM slots, which can be populated by one or two chips of varying sizes up to 64 MB. Combined with the on-board 8 MB RAM, this provides a maximum memory of 136 MB. Because the board only supports linear memory organization, no performance benefit is provided if two chips of the same type are installed. The board also does not support refresh rates beyond 2k.
An optional "High-Performance Module for Power Macintosh 6360" that plugged into an internal cache slot was available from Apple authorized resellers that provide a 256 KB L2 CPU cache. Third-party modules in 256 KB, 512 KB and 1 MB sizes were also sold.
Models
Introduced October 17, 1996:
Power Macintosh 6300/160: 160 MHz PowerPC 603ev-based desktop computer. Sold only in Europe and Asia.
Power Macintosh 6360/160
Performa 6360: Identical to the Power Macintosh 6300/160. Software package included Adobe PhotoDeluxe, Edmark's Thinkin' Things Collection 2, Broderbund's The Amazing Writing Machine, SurfWatch parental control software, clip-art, and electronic dictionaries. $1,499. Sold only in North and South America.
Timelines
References
External links
Performa 6360 at apple-history.com
Power Macintosh 6200, 6300/120 and Macintosh Performas at EveryMac.com
6200
Macintosh Performa
6200
Computer-related introductions in 1995 |
Rafael Santos Bergamasco or simply Rafael Akai (born January 17, 1986 in Presidente Prudente), is a Brazilian striker currently playing for Olímpia Futebol Clube.
Career
Rafael Akai signed for Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, and made his senior debut in the Campeonato Paulista on 19 March 2006, after manager Ademar Braga rested his first team for an upcoming Copa Libertadores match. He would make a total of four appearances for Corinthians, scoring once, in the 2006 Paulista before being sent on loan to Paraguayan side Club 2 de Mayo and later signing for São José Esporte Clube.
Rafael Akai made 4 goals in the Paranaense Championship 2008 playing for Londrina and moved to FC Rostov in the Russian First Division on loan.
Contract
9 December 2005 to 31 January 2008
References
External links
CBF
Brasileirão de verdade começa agor
Com golaço de Élton, Corinthians empata com Paulista
Favoritos ao acesso predominam na Seleção da Rodada da A-2
Son heves Tevez
Profile
1986 births
Living people
People from Presidente Prudente
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Mirassol Futebol Clube players
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube players
Associação Desportiva São Caetano players
Paraná Clube players
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista players
São José Esporte Clube players
FC Rostov players
Ceará Sporting Club players
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from São Paulo (state) |
is a Japanese actor, tarento, and former idol singer. His real name is .
Tagawa is a resident of Chōfu, Tokyo. He is represented by Sun Music Production.
Tagawa's wife is actress Kumiko Fujiyoshi.
Discography
Singles
Albums
Best album
Filmography
Films
Music, variety programmes
Informal, cultural programmes
TV drama
Radio
Stage
Advertisements
Bibliography
References
External links
Genki ni naru! Taiwan: Shira rezaru Shin Kita no Miryoku
Japanese male actors
Japanese television personalities
Japanese idols
Actors from Kyoto Prefecture
1959 births
Living people |
Andrei Vasilyevich Martynov (; born 17 September 1965) is a former Turkmenistani professional footballer.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1988 for Köpetdag Aşgabat. He played 1 game in the UEFA Cup 1992–93 for FC Torpedo Moscow.
Honours
Turkmenistan Higher League champion: 1993.
References
1965 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Soviet men's footballers
Turkmenistan men's footballers
Turkmenistan men's international footballers
Russian Premier League players
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC Torpedo-2 players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Sibir Novosibirsk players
Men's association football defenders
FC Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo players
FK Köpetdag Aşgabat players
FC Erzu Grozny players
FC Sibiryak Bratsk players |
Aruba first competed at the Olympic Games in 1988, and has participated in each Summer Olympic Games since then. Aruba has yet to win any Olympic medals.
Between 1952 until 1984, Aruban athletes competed as part of the Netherlands Antilles. This arrangement changed, when Aruba became a separate entity ("land") of Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1986. The Aruban Olympic Committee was formed in 1985 and recognized in 1986. As of January 2021, Aruba had not competed in any Winter Olympic Games.
Participation
Timeline of participation
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
Flagbearers
See also
Netherlands Antilles at the Olympics
External links |
The 2007 Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament was held at Brooks Field in Wilmington, North Carolina, from May 23 through 26. The event determined the champion of the Colonial Athletic Association for the 2007 season. Third-seeded VCU won the tournament for the fourth time and earned the CAA's automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Entering the event, former member East Carolina had won the most championships, with seven. Among active members, Old Dominion and VCU led with three titles while George Mason and UNC Wilmington had won twice each and William & Mary had won once.
Format and seeding
The top six teams from the CAA's round-robin regular season qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. The top four seeds were awarded by tiebreakers as VCU, Old Dominion, Delaware, and UNC Wilmington all finished with the same record in conference. George Mason earned the fifth seed by tiebreaker over Georgia State, as the Patriots and Panthers had the same conference winning percentage. They played a double-elimination tournament.
Bracket and results
All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.
Most Valuable Player
John Leonard was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Leonard was a pitcher and outfielder for VCU.
References
Tournament
Coastal Athletic Association baseball tournament
Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament
Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament
College baseball tournaments in North Carolina
Baseball competitions in Wilmington, North Carolina |
Benedict is a city in McLean County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 68 at the 2020 census. Benedict was founded in 1906.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 66 people, 32 households, and 18 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 35 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 95.5% White, 1.5% African American, and 3.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.0% of the population.
There were 32 households, of which 25.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were married couples living together, 6.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 43.8% were non-families. 37.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.06 and the average family size was 2.67.
The median age in the city was 47 years. 21.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.1% were from 25 to 44; 30.3% were from 45 to 64; and 24.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 40.9% male and 59.1% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 53 people, 22 households, and 13 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 27 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 100% White.
There were 22 households, out of which 27.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.1% were married couples living together, 4.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families. 27.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.79.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 18.9% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 32.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 120.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.8 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $32,188, and the median income for a family was $10,625. Males had a median income of $36,250 versus $16,250 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,303. There were 40.0% of families and 21.9% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 50.0% of those over 64.
References
Cities in North Dakota
Cities in McLean County, North Dakota
Populated places established in 1906
1906 establishments in North Dakota |
The 1927–28 League of Ireland was the seventh season of the League of Ireland. Shamrock Rovers were the defending champions.
Bohemians won their second title.
Overview
For the first time since the foundation of the League, the teams were the same as the previous season.
Teams
Table
Results
Top goalscorers
See also
1927–28 FAI Cup
References
Ireland
League of Ireland seasons
Lea |
Utricularia albiflora is a terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae). It is endemic to Queensland, Australia.
See also
List of Utricularia species
References
Carnivorous plants of Australia
Flora of Queensland
albiflora
Lamiales of Australia |
Tokumbo "Tumbo" Abanikanda (pronounced: A-banna-conda) (born December 25, 1986) is a former professional American and Canadian football linebacker. He was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos as a street free agent in 2009. He played college football for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles.
Early years
Abanikanda attended Osborne High School in Marietta, Georgia. Coming out of high school, he was two star recruit. According to Rivals.com, Abanikanda ran a 4.62 forty yard dash, benched 330 pounds, with 20 repetitions. Abanikanda was headed to Illinois until a final push from Southern Miss changed his mind.
College career
In 2008, as a senior at the University of Southern Mississippi, Abanikanda recorded 94 tackles, 11 tackles for a loss, three forced fumbles, two sacks, a pass broken up and one interception.
Professional career
After going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft, Abanikanda was invited to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie camp, but was not signed.
Following his backup plan, Abanikanda signed with the Edmonton Eskimos on May 26, 2009. After the release of Derrick Doggett on June 10, Abanikanda's main competition for the starting weakside linebacker spot is fellow import rookie Mark Restelli also in his first year with Edmonton. Abanikanda debuted for Edmonton on June 17 in a preseason game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders and recorded three tackles while Restelli had one tackle and an interception. Eskimos head coach Richie Hall has called Abanikanda and Restelli's battle the closest one in camp so far. Hall also stated that he hoped, "one player outperforms the other player" in Edmonton's next preseason game against the BC Lions on June 21." During training camp, his head coach called him "T. A." because he couldn't pronounce his name. Eventually, he was released on June 25, 2009, as a final cut with Restelli winning the job, however he could end up on the Eskimos' practice roster. He was re-signed to the practice roster on June 29, 2009, only to be released again on July 12.
Scouting career
Abanikanda has spent time as a scout for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League.
References
1986 births
Living people
American football linebackers
Players of Canadian football from Atlanta
Canadian football linebackers
Edmonton Elks players
Players of American football from Atlanta
Southern Miss Golden Eagles football players
Atlanta Falcons scouts |
Gigi Savoia (born 30 November 1954), also known as Luigi Savoia, is an Italian actor.
Career
Savoia was born in Naples. He debuted in theatre in 1980 with Pescatori, written by Raffaele Viviani and directed by Mariano Rigillo. Currently he recites in Eduardo De Filippo's comedy Le voci di dentro directed by Francesco Rosi.
Filmography
Film
1986 - Terno Secco - Directed by Giancarlo Giannini
1989 - Scugnizzi - Directed by Nanni Loy
1993 - Malesh - Directed by Angelo Cannavacciuolo
1993 - Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto - Directed by Nanni Loy
1999 - Prima del tramonto - Directed by Stefano Incerti
2002 - Solino - Directed by Fatih Akin
2003 - Il mare, non c'è paragone - Directed by Eduardo Tartaglia
2019 - Rosa Pietra e Stella - Directed by Marcello Sannino
Theatre
1980 - Pescatori - Directed by Mariano Rigillo
1981 - L’arbitro - Directed by Mariano Rigillo
1981 - Ditegli sempre di sì - Directed by Eduardo De Filippo
1982 - Chi è cchiu' felice 'e me! - Directed by Eduardo De Filippo
1983 - Tre cazune fortunate - Directed by Eduardo De Filippo
1983 - Il turco napoletano - Directed by Eduardo De Filippo
1984 - La bisbetica - Directed by Giancarlo Sepe
1985 - O’ Scarfalietto - Directed by Armando Pugliese
1985 - Don Giovanni - Directed by Armando Pugliese
1986 - Non ti pago - Directed by Luca De Filippo
1988 - Svenimenti - Directed by Antonio Calende
1989 - Flaiano-Silone-D’Annunzio - Directed by Giorgio Albertazzi
1990 - Memorie di Adriano - Directed by Maurizio Scaparro
1991 - Aida - Directed by Armando Pugliese
1992 - Questi fantasmi! - Directed by Luca De Filippo
1994 - Casa di frontiera - Directed by Gigi Proietti
1995 - Attori comici affittasi – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1995 - Na mugliera zitella – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1995 - Non mangiare il pollo con le dita – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1995 - Il monaco nel letto – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1996 - Morte di carnevale – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1996 - Pescatori – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1996 - Vico – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1997 - Toledo di notte – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1997 - Assunta Spina – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1997 - Napoli 1900 – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1997 - Don Giovanni – Directed by Franco Però
1997 - Il matrimonio di Figaro – Directed by Mico Galdieri
1998 - L’ultimo scugnizzo – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1999 - La Figliata – Directed by Gigi Savoia
1999 - Re Minore – Directed by Gigi Savoia
2000 - I casi sono due – Directed by Gigi Savoia
2003 - Vuoto di scena – Directed by Gigi Savoia
2003 - A’ Nanassa – Directed by Gigi Savoia
2003 - Ci sta un Francese, un Inglese e un Napoletano – Directed by Edoardo Tartaglia
2004 - Ridi Pagliaccio Ridi – Directed by Gigi Savoia
2004 - Amare Donne all’Infinito – Gigi Savoia
2005 - Comico Napoletano – Directed by Gigi Savoia
2005 - I veri fantasmi – Directed by Peppe Miale
2006 - L’ultimo scugnizzo – Directed by Gigi Savoia
2006 - L’ultimo giorno di un condannato a morte
2003/2006 - Napoli milionaria! – Directed by Francesco Rosi
2006/2008 - Le voci di dentro – Directed by Francesco Rosi
2022 - Il Muro di Napoli - Directed by Gigi Savoia
Television
1990 - Il Riscatto - Directed by Leon Ichaso
2001 - La Squadra
2001 - Incantesimo
2003 - Casafamiglia
2004 - Un posto al sole
2016 - La Famiglia - Television Hollanda
References
The New York Times Movies
https://web.archive.org/web/20110607014800/http://www.timeout.com/film/chicago/people/343561/gigi-savoia.html
http://www.fandango.com/gigisavoia/filmography/p271640
https://archive.today/20130125123608/http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Gigi_Savoia/1516271
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:271640~T2
http://www.defilippo.it/stag_06_07/loca_06_07.htm
http://skyitalia.it/showactor.do;jsessionid=3DFF56A7BFE8351D24B91B73619674D2?id=12078
External links
1954 births
Living people
20th-century Italian male actors
21st-century Italian male actors
Italian male film actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian male television actors
Male actors from Naples |
Randy Pettapiece (born ) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the riding of Perth—Wellington as MPP from 2011 until he stood down at the 2022 election.
Background
Pettapiece was born and raised on a farm near Cottam, Ontario. He owns a decorating business.
Politics
Pettapiece served two terms as a councillor for the township of North Perth, Ontario.
In the 2011 provincial election, he ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Perth—Wellington. He defeated Liberal incumbent John Wilkinson by 210 votes. He was re-elected in the 2014 election defeating Liberal candidate Stewart Skinner by 2,486 votes.
He is the party's critic for Community and Social Services and for Horse Racing.
Electoral record
References
External links
1949 births
Living people
People from Perth County, Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
21st-century Canadian politicians |
Zinman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Zinman (born 1936), American conductor and violinist
John Zinman, American film and television writer and producer
Jonathan Zinman (born 1971), professor
Stella Zinman
See also
Zinman Furs, an American fur coat company |
Tonbridge railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the town of Tonbridge, Kent. It is from London Charing Cross via . Trains calling at the station are operated by Southeastern and Southern.
Tonbridge forms a junction between the South Eastern Main Line, the Hastings Line and the Redhill–Tonbridge line. There are four platforms. Platform 4 is a terminating platform.
There are extensive yards and storage sidings on both the east and west sides of the station.
History
The South Eastern Railway (SER) first reached Tonbridge (then known as Tunbridge) in May 1842. The site of the original station was on the east side of the road bridge over the railway, opposite its current location to the west of the bridge. The building of the station obliterated the last remains of Tonbridge Priory. At the time, the line ran to London Bridge via Redhill and Croydon, using the Brighton Main Line. It served as a temporary terminus until December 1842, when the line reached Ashford. A couple of years later the through line to Dover opened. A small engine shed was built; the date of opening is uncertain but it is presumed to date from the opening of the line. On 20 September 1845, a branch to opened. The station was later renamed Tunbridge Junction. Over the next seven years the branch was extended to Hastings. Access to the line to Hastings was via an indirect link which required a reverse. This arrangement lasted until 1857 when a steeply climbing direct route was opened.
However, being forced to share tracks with its rival, the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, as well as competition from the London, Chatham & Dover Railway meant that the SER decided to build a new route from London Bridge, which ran via and . The cut-off joined the main line at Tonbridge. This prompted a rebuild of the station, and in 1864 it was rebuilt on its current site with four platforms. The original station was demolished in 1865 after closure, but the entrance gateways are still in situ. The down side entrance is in Vale Road opposite Sainsbury's, and the up side entrance is in Priory Road, forming the entrance to the car park.
The cut-off opened in 1868. Soon afterwards, a larger engine shed was built, but still on the opposite side of the bridge to the main part of the station. In May 1893, the station changed its name to Tonbridge Junction, following the change in the town's name to avoid confusion with the larger Tunbridge Wells. At that time, there were two through platforms, two through roads, and two bay platforms at the west end of the station. These bay platforms served the lines to Redhill and . The indirect line to Tunbridge Wells remained in use until about 1913, after which it was closed and the track dismantled. By November 1919, the up platform station roof bore the name TONBRIDGE in white letters. This feature was a navigational aid for aircraft.
Under the Southern Railway, the station was renamed Tonbridge in July 1929. It was rebuilt in 1935, with the bay on the south side of the station converted to a through platform. This entailed the construction of a new section of bridge under the road outside the station.
By May 1958, the brick station building fronting the main road had been rebuilt with a tiled facade. The Sevenoaks to Dover line via Tonbridge was electrified in 1961 when the Southern Region improved train frequencies and faster journey times were introduced under British Railways as part of the Kent Coast Electrification. The line south to Tunbridge Wells and Hastings was electrified in 1986 by British Rail, and finally the line to Redhill was electrified in 1993 also by British Rail as part of the Eurostar/Channel Tunnel route improvement works.
Eurostar trains ran through Tonbridge station until the first section of the High Speed line was built through Kent, to cut down journey times from London to the Channel Tunnel. The transfer happened on 28 September 2003. The station was refurbished in 2011–12.
In 2015, the station gained a resident cat, Saffie. The 8-year-old animal needed a new home when her owners moved house. Staff at the station adopted her. Saffie died in March 2018.
Platforms
Platforms 1 and 2 are an island platform.
Platform 1 for Southern trains to/from Redhill (which terminate here from the west) and to/from Maidstone West and Strood (which terminate here from the east).
Platform 2 for trains from Dover, Ramsgate and Hastings to London via Sevenoaks.
Platform 3 is an island platform, and Platform 4 is a west-facing bay.
Platform 3 for all trains to Dover and Ramsgate via Ashford International and to Hastings via Tunbridge Wells.
Platform 4 for trains to/from London (which terminate here from the west)
Services
Services at Tonbridge are operated by Southeastern and Southern using , , and EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
4 tph to London Charing Cross (semi-fast)
2 tph to via (1 semi-fast, 1 stopping)
1 tph to
1 tph to via
1 tph to
During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional half-hourly service between London Charing Cross and Tunbridge Wells. There are also additional peak hour services to and from London Cannon Street and the service to Dover Priory is extended to and from Ramsgate via .
The station is also served by a limited number of morning, mid afternoon and late evening services to via .
Tonbridge yard and sidings
There are extensive yards and storage sidings (tracks) on both the east and west sides of the station.
To the east of the station are Tonbridge East Sidings, four sidings and a two-track shed used by Network Rail for maintenance equipment storage and materials delivery. These occupy part of the site of the former engine shed.
Further down the line towards Paddock Wood, there is the now disused Tonbridge Postal Siding. This was opened in 1995 with a new down "slow" line to handle mail and parcels traffic for the nearby Royal Mail sorting office. Its use was short-lived owing to the loss of most mail traffic to road haulage.
To the west, between the Redhill line and the West Yard, the four electrified 'Jubilee' sidings are used to stable trains. The adjacent West Yard, operated by GB Railfreight, has sixteen non-electrified tracks and is now mainly used for stabling engineers' trains. The West Yard was built in 1941 as part of the improvements needed for freight train traffic during World War Two, and is spanned by a long footbridge carrying a public footpath between Douglas Road and Clare Avenue.
Tonbridge Power (signal) Box stands at the eastern entrance to the Jubilee sidings and West Yard. Built in 1962, it is still in limited operational use.
Adjacent to the main London line there are two short electrified sidings (Tonbridge Down Main sidings).
Accidents
On 1 January 1846, a bridge over the River Medway collapsed in a flood. A train driver was killed when he tried to jump clear of the train.
On 30 September 1866, four carriages which had been slipped from a Dover bound train to be worked to ran through the station and collided with some empty carriages in a siding. Eleven people were injured.
On 23 October 1899, a passenger train from Redhill collided with the buffer stop in the bay platform. Sixteen people were injured.
On 23 January 1903, a passenger train from London collided with the buffer stop in the bay platform. Five people were injured.
On 5 March 1909, a train travelling towards Redhill overran a signal and collided with the boat train from Charing Cross to Dover. Two railway staff were killed and eleven passengers injured. A third train was prevented from crashing into the wreckage by the prompt actions of two travelling ticket inspectors. As a consequence of the accident, the Royal Train carrying King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra was diverted at Chislehurst Junction to take a different route to Dover.
On 23 August 2020, Class 377 electric multiple unit 377317 was derailed at the exit of the Jubilee Sidings.
References
Sources
External links
Kent Rail - Tonbridge
Tonbridge Line Commuters - Tonbridge
Tonbridge
Railway stations in Kent
DfT Category B stations
Train driver depots in England
Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1842
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1864
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1864
Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway
Railway stations served by Southeastern
Rail accidents caused by a driver's error
Railway sidings
1842 establishments in England |
In Psychological drama or psychodrama is a sub-genre of drama that places emphasis on psychological elements. It often overlaps with other genres such as crime, fantasy, black comedy, and science fiction, and it is closely related with the psychological horror and psychological thriller genres. Psychological dramas use these genres' tropes to focus on the human condition and psychological effects, usually in a mature and serious tone.
Psychological dramas explore thematic elements such as abandonment, coming-of-age problems, denialism, disability, distorted sequences, dysfunctional relationships, human sexuality, mental disorders, mood swings, odd behaviors, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychological abuse, psychedelic art, social issues, and other serious discussions that highlighted the characters' portrayal.
Known filmmakers
Paul Thomas Anderson - An American filmmaker known for his depictions of flawed characters and exploration of subjects and themes such as dysfunctional families, alienation, loneliness and redemption. Known psychological dramas of his include Magnolia (1999), There Will Be Blood (2007), and The Master (2012).
Hideaki Anno - A Japanese filmmaker whose best known work, Neon Genesis Evangelion, delves into heavy psychological themes in its latter half.
Darren Aronofsky - An American filmmaker, well known for directing some of the most notoriously visceral psychological dramas in the 21st century, such as the cult classic film, Requiem for a Dream (2000), and others that subjects of actor's career resurgence and deal with melodramatic themes and surrealism in films such as The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), Mother! (2017), and The Whale (2022).
Ingmar Bergman - A Swedish filmmaker, regarded by many as one of the greatest directors in European cinema, who applied his creative and avant-garde vision to psychological drama films such as Persona (1966).
Bernardo Bertolucci - An Italian filmmaker, who is known for exploring "sexual relations among characters stuck in a psychological crisis" such as in his erotic film Last Tango in Paris (1972).
Sofia Coppola - An American filmmaker, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, known for psychological drama films such as The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Lost in Translation (2003).
Alejandro González Iñárritu - A Mexican filmmaker who has directed numerous films that focus on aspects of the human condition, notably The Death trilogy; Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006) as well as his fourth feature, Biutiful (2010).
Charlie Kaufman - An American director and screenwriter, who explored universal themes like identity crisis, mortality, and the meaning of life through a metaphysical or parapsychological framework, as shown in films like his directorial works, Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Anomalisa (2015).
Krzysztof Kieślowski - A Polish filmmaker, known for his psychological drama films such as the Three Colours trilogy.
Akira Kurosawa - A Japanese filmmaker, considered among the greatest directors of all time, who directed psychological dramas such as Drunken Angel (1948) and Ikiru (1952).
Yorgos Lanthimos - A Greek filmmaker known for his themes about absurdity, animal cruelty, odd behaviors, dark humors, and unrequited relationships.
Tom McCarthy - An American filmmaker and actor, well known for his critically acclaimed independent films The Station Agent (2003) and The Visitor (2007).
Brillante Mendoza - A Filipino filmmaker, known for his independent psychological drama films like The Masseur (2005) and Captive (2012).
Gaspar Noé - An Argentine avant-garde filmmaker shares an attenuated use of narrative, generally assaulting and often illegible cinematography, confrontational subject material, a treatment of sexual behavior as violent rather than mutually intimate, and a pervasive sense of social nihilism or despair, with such his polarizing feature films as I Stand Alone (1998), Irréversible (2002), 8 (2008), Enter the Void (2009), and Vortex (2021).
Steven Soderbergh - An American filmmaker, well known for his independent films featuring explorations of the human condition, such as in his critically acclaimed debut Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989).
Andrei Tarkovsky - A Soviet and Russian filmmaker, known for his philosophical and psychological movies dealing with existence, faith and dreamlike memories, such as Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975) and Stalker (1979).
Denis Villeneuve - A French Canadian filmmaker, primarily known for directing drama and science fiction films featuring psychological elements such as Maelstrom (2000), Enemy (2013), and Arrival (2016).
Lars von Trier - A Danish artistic filmmaker with a confrontational examination of issues and controversial subject matters such as Europa (1991), Riget (1994-2022), Breaking the Waves (1996), Antichrist (2009), and Melancholia (2011).
Notable examples
Films
Early examples
Psychological drama is possibly known one of the fewest and oldest of film subgenres in the early-20th century, with the earliest examples are The Whispering Chorus (1918) and Greed (1924). Other early examples of popular psychological drama films in the early-to-mid 20th century include:
La vuelta al nido (1938)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Death of a Salesman (1951)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Snake Pit (1948)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Modern examples
1960s - Lolita (1962)
1970s - Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Taxi Driver (1976), Equus (1977)
1980s - Ordinary People, The Ninth Configuration (both 1980), Pink Floyd - The Wall, Sophie's Choice (both 1982), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
1990s - Schindler's List (1993), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Shine (1996), Good Will Hunting (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club (both 1999)
2000s - Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Hours (2002), Elephant, Harvie Krumpet (both 2003), Little Children (2006), Funny People, Mary and Max (both 2009)
2010s - Shame, Sucker Punch (both 2011), It's Such a Beautiful Day, Aparisyon, Jagten (all three in 2012), Whiplash (2014), All I See Is You (2016)
2020s - The Father (2020), The Power of the Dog (2021)
Television
The Affair
Bates Motel
Beef
Criminal
Bojack Horseman - an adult animated tragicomedy series depicts darker psychological themes for its realistic take on depression, trauma, addiction, self-destructive behavior, racism, sexism, sexuality, and the human condition.
The Cry
A Death in California
The Handmaid's Tale
Maniac
Ray Donovan
This Is Us
Yellowjackets
Video games
To the Moon (2011) - an independent video game that is considered to be a psychological drama. It was inspired by Kan Gao's grandfather's condition and the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Irrational (2019) - a psychological drama story-driven game made in RPG Maker MV. The story focuses on Lucy, a young woman struggles of living with generalized anxiety.
Rainswept (2019) - an adventure and murder mystery game about an emotional story set in an immersive and atmospheric game world dealing with themes of love, relationships and unresolved trauma.
Memories Of East Coast (2021) - A debut game of an immersive visual novel experience that brings you on a journey through memory, nostalgia and guilt.
Anime and manga
A Silent Voice
Akagi
Chicago
The Flowers of Evil
The Fruit of Grisaia
Himizu
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Scum's Wish
The Tatami Galaxy
Welcome to the N.H.K.
When Marnie Was There
Wonder Egg Priority
Others
Literature - The Winter Wives (2021)
Novel - Saint X
Theater play - The Chinese Lady
Novel - Trish
See also
Social thriller
Melodrama
Tragedy
Courtroom drama
Postmodernist film
Social issues
References
Psychological drama films
Psychological drama television and other works
Psychological fiction
Drama films
Drama television series
Drama genres
Drama
Film genres
Television genres
Video game genres |
NGC 485, also commonly referred to as PGC 4921 or GC 270, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 86 million light-years from Earth and was discovered on January 8, 1828 by astronomer William Herschel. It was later also observed by Heinrich d'Arrest and Herman Schultz. When NGC 485 was originally categorized in the New General Catalogue by John Louis Eil Dreyer in 1888, it was incorrectly described as a "considerably faint, pretty large, round, 8th magnitude star 3 1/2 arcmin to southwest".
See also
Spiral galaxy
List of NGC objects (1–1000)
Pisces (constellation)
References
External links
SEDS
Spiral galaxies
Pisces (constellation)
0485
4921
Astronomical objects discovered in 1828
Discoveries by William Herschel |
General elections were held for the first time in Cambodia on 1 September 1946. The Democratic Party won 50 of the 67 seats, with voter turnout estimated to be 60%.
Results
References
Cambodia
Elections in Cambodia
General
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results |
Adaina excreta is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Peru (Carabaya), Argentina and Ecuador.
Adults are on wing in January, June, October and November.
References
Moths described in 1930
Oidaematophorini |
Psilotaceae is a family of ferns (class Polypodiopsida) consisting of two genera, Psilotum and Tmesipteris with about a dozen species. It is the only family in the order Psilotales.
Description
Once thought to be descendants of early vascular plants (the Psilophyta of the Devonian period), Psilotaceae have been shown by molecular phylogenetics to be ferns (Polypodiopsida), and a sister group of the Ophioglossaceae. The family contains two genera, Psilotum and Tmesipteris. The first genus, Psilotum, consists of small shrubby plants of the dry tropics commonly known as "whisk ferns". The other genus, Tmesipteris, is an epiphyte found in Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia.
All members of Psilotaceae are vascular plants without any true roots. Rather, the plants are anchored by an underground system of rhizomes. The small, stem-like gametophytes of Psilotaceae are located in this rhizome system, and they aid in a plant's nutrient absorption through the soil. This is primarily achieved through saprotrophic feeding on organic soil matter and mycorrhizal interactions.
Psilotaceae do not have leaves. Some species have leaf-like structures called enations which have no vascular tissue except for a small bundle at the base. These are almost peg-like, stubby and are generally not considered true leaves, though they likely evolved from them. Members of Tmesipteris may appear to have leaves, but these are really phylloclades, or flattened stems.
The sporangia of Psilotaceae are fused together into small and distinctive yellow balls called synangia (shown in the picture of P. nudum above). These synangia are located off the stems of the plants. They contain two sporangia each in Tmesipteris species, and three sporangia each in Psilotum species. A thick tapetum nourishes the developing spores, as is typical of eusporangiate ferns like Psilotaceae.
Classification
In the molecular phylogenetic classification of Smith et al. in 2006, Psilotales, containing the single family Psilotaceae comprising Psilotum and Tmesipteris, was placed with the order Ophioglossales in the class Psilotopsida. The linear sequence of Christenhusz et al. (2011), intended for compatibility with the classification of Chase and Reveal (2009) which placed all land plants in Equisetopsida, made it a member of subclass Ophioglossidae, equivalent to Smith's Psilotopsida. The placement of Psilotales in subclass Ophioglossidae has subsequently been followed in the classifications of Christenhusz and Chase (2014) and PPG I (2016).
In the past Tmesipteris has been placed in its own family, Tmesipteridaceae, but this has not been maintained in the system of Smith et al. and later classifications.
References
External links
Introduction to the Psilotales
Fern families |
Johannes Albertus du Toit (born 2 October 1975 in Windhoek, South-West Africa) is a Namibian rugby union loosehead prop with Plymouth Albion. He played with Namibia at the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
Club career
1996 : Western Province U21s ()
1997–2000 : Stellenbosch University ()
2000 : Western Province ()
2001–2003 : Border Bulldogs ()
2003–2006 : Griquas ()
2007–2008 : Boland Cavaliers ()
Since Sept 2008 : Plymouth Albion ()
References
1975 births
Living people
Expatriate rugby union players in England
Expatriate rugby union players in South Africa
Namibia international rugby union players
Du Toit, Jan
Namibian expatriate rugby union players
Namibian expatriate sportspeople in England
Namibian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
Namibian rugby union players
Plymouth Albion R.F.C. players
Rugby union players from Windhoek
Rugby union props
Du Toit, Jan
2007 Rugby World Cup players
2011 Rugby World Cup players |
Ualikhanov (, ) is a district of North Kazakhstan Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Kishkenekol. Population:
Geography
Lakes Siletiteniz and Teke are located in the eastern part of the district.
References
Districts of Kazakhstan
North Kazakhstan Region |
Bulbophyllum lemurense is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.
References
The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
lemurense |
Christian Amatore (born 9 December 1951 in Algeria) is a French chemist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He is an author of works in electrochemistry.
Biography
Coming from a modest family (Sicilian by his father, Swedish by his mother), he spent a large part of his childhood in Algeria in several garrison towns of Laghouat, Hain-el-Adjar, Sidi Bel Abbès where his father was an NCO of the Foreign Legion. He followed his father's advice "if you are intelligent but you have no education, you remain mute" and followed brilliant studies in Algeria and then in France where his Blackfoot family was repatriated: first to the Lycée Pascal-Paoli in Corte, then to the Lycée Thiers in Marseille where he completed two years of preparatory classes, and finally to the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm - Paris) where he obtained the agrégation de chimie in 1974. At the age of 18, he opted for French nationality. Following his thesis at the University of Paris-VII under Jean-Michel Savéant, he was recruited by CNRS as a Research Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry. After this, he left for the United States for two years as Assistant Professor in an organometallic chemistry research laboratory where he met Mark Wightman at Indiana University with whom he had a pioneering role in the development of ultramicroelectrodes that he applied in artificial synapses. In 1984, he returned to France to found his laboratory at the ENS and became Director of the Chemistry Department at the ENS in 1997. He held these management functions until 2006.
Career
Normalien (1971), agrégé de chimie (1974), docteur ès sciences (1979), docteur honoris causa from several European and Asian universities
Research Director at the CNRS, Professor at the ENS.
Correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences in April 1996, member in November 2002.
Delegate for Education and Training of the French Academy of Sciences (2011)
Member of the steering committee of the Fondation Écologie d'Avenir.
Awards
2018 Fray International Sustainability Award at SIPS 2018
References
1951 births
Living people
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
20th-century French chemists
21st-century French chemists |
Fahd Mohamad Saleh () (born 3 April 1985 in Homs, Syria) is a Syrian football goalkeeper. He played for Al-Asalah in the Jordan League Division 1.
On 8 October 2017 he signed for The Prince Charles Sunday League Team who play in the Mansfield Division 3 in England. Goalkeeping Coach for AFC Mansfield club in England season 2019 - 2020.
References
1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Homs
Men's association football goalkeepers
Syrian men's footballers
Syrian expatriate men's footballers
Syrian expatriate sportspeople in Jordan
Expatriate men's footballers in Jordan
Al-Karamah SC players
Syrian Premier League players |
The Junior men's race at the 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Auckland, New Zealand, at the Ellerslie Racecourse on March 26, 1988. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.
Complete results, medallists,
and the results of British athletes were published.
Race results
Junior men's race (8.031 km)
Individual
†:Cosmas Ndeti of finished 2nd in 23:31 min, but was disqualified.
Teams
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 96 athletes from 25 countries in the Junior men's race, one athlete less than the official number published.
(5)
(5)
(6)
(2)
(5)
(4)
(1)
(3)
(5)
(1)
(5)
(6)
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(1)
(5)
(6)
(3)
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(6)
(3)
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See also
1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
References
Junior men's race at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships
IAAF World Cross Country Championships
1988 in youth sport |
Montreat Conference Center (also known as the Mountain Retreat Association) located in Montreat, North Carolina, United States, is a conference center serving the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The word "Montreat" is a portmanteau of the words "mountain" and "retreat."
Geography
Montreat Conference Center is located just east of Asheville, North Carolina and in close proximity to Black Mountain, North Carolina. Montreat consists of approximately of land, of which are protected under a conservation easement.
History
1897 – A group of ecumenical church leaders, led by United Church of Christ minister John Collins, formed the Mountain Retreat Association (MRA). Its purpose was to establish an interdenominational resort and retreat center.
1905 - J.R. Howerton and the Synod of North Carolina purchased of the valley to be owned by the Mountain Retreat Association.
1907 - The Mountain Retreat Association holds the first Presbyterian conference.
1922 - Construction completed on Anderson Auditorium, a large meeting space able to seat 1,500 people.
1924 - A concrete dam was constructed (to replace an old wooden one) with funds donated by Susan Graham and her son, Allen. The resulting Lake Susan, a prominent feature in Montreat, was named in her honor.
1924 - Construction of the Assembly Inn was completed.
1926 - The Presbyterian Church in the United States opens the Historic Foundation of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches at Montreat.
1933 - Montreat Normal School became first Montreat Junior College and then Montreat-Anderson College.
1967 - The Town of Montreat was incorporated.
1974 - The Mountain Retreat Association and Montreat-Anderson College became two separate organizations. Montreat-Anderson College then became Montreat College.
1983 - The Mountain Retreat Association became known as Montreat Conference Center when the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America reunited with the Presbyterian Church (US) to become the Presbyterian Church, USA.
2004 - of Montreat was placed under a conservation easement to protect the valley from development.
2006 - The Presbyterian Historical Society’s office at Montreat is closed and the collection moved to other repositories.
References
External links
Presbyterian Heritage Center located in Montreat.
Official website of Montreat, NC
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Religious organizations established in 1897
Organizations based in North Carolina |
Old Asbury Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at Walnut and 3rd Streets in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was the first Methodist church in Wilmington. The church is a two-story, three bay, "L"-shaped stuccoed stone structure in a vernacular Italianate style. The original section was built in 1789, and subsequently enlarged in 1820, 1825, 1838, and 1845. The chapel wing to the north was added in 1875.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
References
External links
Historic American Buildings Survey in Delaware
Methodist churches in Delaware
Italianate architecture in Delaware
Churches completed in 1789
Churches in Wilmington, Delaware
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
1789 establishments in Delaware
National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware
18th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
Italianate church buildings in the United States
Cemeteries established in the 1780s |
Felice is a name that can be used as both a given name, masculine or feminine, and a surname. It is a common name in Italian, where it is equivalent to Felix. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Arts and literature
Film and theatre
Felice Andreasi (1928–2005), an Italian actor
Felice Farina (born 1954), an Italian film director
Felice Jankell, a Swedish actress
Felice Minotti (1887–1963), an Italian actor
Felice Orlandi (1925–2003), an Italian-American actor
Felice Schachter (born 1963), an American actress
Music
Felice Alessandri (1747–1798), an Italian musician
Felice Anerio (c. 1560–1614), an Italian composer
Felice Blangini (1781–1841), an Italian composer
Felice Bryant (1925–2003), an American musician
Felice Chiusano (1922–1990), an Italian singer
Felice DeMatteo (1866–1929), an Italian-American composer
Felice Giardini (1716–1796), an Italian musician
Felice Lattuada (1882–1962), an Italian composer
Felice Romani (1788–1865), an Italian librettist, poet, and scholar
Felice Rosser, an American actor and musician
Felice Taylor (born 1948), an American singer
Felice Varesi (1813–1889), a French-Italian singer
Visual art
Felice Abrami (1872–1919), an Italian painter
Felice Beato (1932–1909), an Italian-British photographer
Felice Boscaratti (1721–1807), an Italian painter
Felice Boselli (1650–1732), an Italian painter
Felice Cappelletti (1656–1738), an Italian painter
Felice Carena (1879–1966), an Italian painter
Felice Casorati (1883–1963), an Italian painter
Felice Cerruti Bauduc (1818–1896), an Italian painter
Felice Cervetti (1718–1779), an Italian painter
Felice Cignani (1660–1724), an Italian painter
Felice Damiani (1530–1608), an Italian painter
Felice Feliciano (1433–1479), an Italian calligrapher
Felice Ficherelli (1605–1660), an Italian painter
Felice Giani (1758–1823), an Italian painter
Felice Ludovisi (1917–2012), an Italian painter
Felice Pazner Malkin (born 1929), an Israeli artist
Felice Polanzani (c. 1700–after 1771), an Italian engraver
Felice Quinto (1929–2010), an Italian photographer
Felice Riccio (1542–1605), an Italian painter
Felice Rix-Ueno (1893–1967), an Austrian textile artist
Felice Schiavoni (1803–1881), an Italian painter
Felice Scotto (active early 15th century), an Italian painter
Felice Torelli (1667–1748), an Italian painter
Felice Varini (born 1952), a Swiss artist
Felice Giuseppe Vertua (1820–1862), an Italian painter
Felice Vinelli (c. 1774–1825), an Italian painter
Other
Felice Arena, an Australian children's author and illustrator
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998), an American author and motivational speaker, born Felice Buscaglia
Felice Cavallotti (1842–1898), an Italian politician and author
Dré Steemans (1954–2009), a Belgian radio and TV host, who used the stage name Felice Damiano
Felice delle Piane (born 1940), an Italian art historian
Felice Noordhoff (born 2000), Dutch fashion model
Military and politics
Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762–1841), a Corsican nobleman and military officer
Felice Napoleone Canevaro (1838–1926), an Italian admiral and politician
Felice Casson (born 1953), an Italian politician
Felice Cavallotti (1842–1898), an Italian politician and author
Felice Chilanti (1914–1982), an Italian journalist and resistance member
Felice Cornicola, an 8th-century Venetian statesman
Felice D. Gaer (born 1946), an American human rights activist
Felice Guarneri (1882–1955), Italian economist and politician
Felice Orsini (1819–1858), an Italian revolutionary
Felice Platone (1896–1962), an Italian lawyer, politician, and resistance member
Felice Schragenheim (1922–1944), a German Jewish resistance fighter
Religion
Felice Cavagnis (1841–1906), an Italian canon lawyer and cardinal
Felice Figliucci (c. 1525–c. 1590), an Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian
Felice Leonardo (1915–2015), an Italian bishop
Felice Antonio Monaco (1611–1667), an Italian cleric, Bishop of Martirano
Pope Sixtus V (1521–1590), born Felice Peretti di Montalto
Science and technology
Felice Bisleri (1851–1921), an Italian pharmacist
Felice Casorati (mathematician) (1835–1890), an Italian mathematician
Felice Fontana (1730–1805), an Italian physicist
Felice Frankel, an American science photographer
Felice Giordano (1825–1892), an Italian engineer and geologist
Felice Ippolito (1915–1997), an Italian engineer and geologist
Felice Lieh-Mak (born 1941), a Hong Kong psychiatrist
Felice Matteucci (1808–1887), an Italian hydraulic engineer
Sports
Association football
Felice Berardo (1888–1956), an Italian footballer
Felice Borel (1914–1993), an Italian footballer
Felice Cavaliere (born 1981), an Italian footballer
Felice Centofanti (born 1969), an Italian footballer
Félix Demaría (1912–date of death unknown), an Argentine footballer, also known as Felice
Felice Evacuo (born 1982), an Italian footballer
Felice Gasperi (1903–1982), an Italian footballer
Virgilio Levratto (1904–1968), an Italian footballer, sometimes referred to by his middle name, Felice
Felice Mancini (born 1965), an Italian footballer and coach
Felice Mariani (footballer) (born 1918), an Italian footballer
Felice Mazzu (born 1966), a Belgian football manager
Felice Natalino (born 1992), an Italian footballer
Felice Piccolo (born 1983), an Italian footballer
Felice Prevete (born 1987), an Italian footballer
Félix Romano (1894–1970), an Argentine footballer, also known as Felice, who played for the French and Italian national teams
Felice Soldini (1915–1971), Swiss footballer
Felice Vecchione (born 1991), an Italian-German footballer
Racing
Felice Benasedo (born 1922), an Italian motorcycle racer
Felice Bonetto (1903–1953), an Italian racing driver
Felice Nazzaro (1881–1940), an Italian racing driver
Felice Tedeschi (born 1962), an Italian racing driver
Other
Felice Chow (born 1977), a Trinidad and Tobago rower
Felice Darioli (born 1947), an Italian cross-country skier
Felice De Nicolo (born 1942), an Italian skier
Felice Fanetti (1914–1974), an Italian rower
Felice Gimondi (born 1942), an Italian cyclist
Felice Herrig (born 1984), an American martial artist
Felice Mariani (judoka) (born 1954), an Italian judoka
Felice Mueller (born 1989), an American rower
Felice Puttini (born 1967), a Swiss cyclist
Felice Rama, an Italian rugby union coach
Felice Soldini (born 1915), a Swiss footballer
Felice Torza (1920–1983), an American golfer
Writers
Felice Chilanti (1914–1982), an Italian journalist and resistance member
Felice Newman, an American author and sex educator
Felice Picano (born 1944), an American writer
Felice Schwartz (1925–1996), an American feminist writer
Other
Felice Bauer (1887–1960), a Silesian woman who was engaged to Franz Kafka
Felice Mario Boano, an Italian automobile coachbuilder
Felice Colombo (born 1937), an Italian businessman
Felice Duffy, an American attorney and public speaker
Felice Lifshitz, an American historian
Felice della Rovere (c. 1483–1536), an illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II
Felix Pedro (1858–1910), an Italian immigrant, born Felice Pedroni, who discovered gold in Alaska
Surname
Felice (surname)
See also
De Felice
Félicien
Felise |
State leaders in the 3rd century BC – State leaders in the 1st century BC – State leaders by year
This is a list of state leaders in the 2nd century BC (200–101 BC).
Africa
Africa: Northcentral
Libya
Cyrene (complete list) –
Ptolemy Apion, King (c.147–96 BC)
Africa: Northeast
Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt (complete list) –
Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Pharaoh (204–181 BC)
Cleopatra I Syra, Regent (187–176 BC)
Ptolemy VI Philometor, Pharaoh (181–164, 163–145 BC)
Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator, Pharaoh (169–164, 144–132/131, 126–116 BC)
Cleopatra II, Queen (175–164 BC, 163–127, 124–116 BC)
Ptolemy VIII Physcon, Pharaoh (169–164 BC, 144–132/131 BC, 126–116 BC)
Cleopatra III, Queen (142–131 BC, 127–101 BC)
Ptolemy IX Lathyros, Pharaoh (116–110 BC, 110–109 BC, 88–81 BC)
Ptolemy X Alexander I, Pharaoh (110–109 BC, 107–88 BC)
Berenice III, Pharaoh (101–88 BC, 81–80 BC)
Nubia
Kingdom of Kush (complete list) –
Arqamani, Qore (3rd–2nd century BC)
Adikhalamani, Qore (early 2nd century BC)
Shanakdakhete, Kandake (late 2nd century BC)
Tanyidamani, Qore (2nd–1st century BC)
Africa: Northwest
Algeria
Numidia (complete list) –
Vermina, King (202 BC–?)
Archobarzane, King (?)
Massinissa, King (202–148 BC)
Micipsa, King (148–118 BC)
Adherbal, King (118–117, 117–112 BC)
Hiempsal I, King (117 BC)
Jugurtha, King (117–105 BC)
Gauda, King (105–88 BC)
Morocco
Mauretania (complete list) –
Bocchus I, King (c.110–c.80s BC)
Asia
Asia: East
China
Western Han, China (complete list) –
Gaozu, Emperor (202–195 BC)
Hui, Emperor (195–188 BC)
Qianshao, Emperor (188–184 BC)
Houshao, Emperor (184–180 BC)
Wen, Emperor (180–157 BC)
Jing, Emperor (157–141 BC)
Wu, Emperor (141–87 BC)
Asia: Southeast
Vietnam
Triệu dynasty (complete list) –
Zhao Tuo, King (203–137 BC)
Zhao Mo, King (137–122 BC)
Zhao Yingqi, King (122–115 BC)
Zhao Xing, King (115–112 BC)
Zhao Jiande, King (112–111 BC)
Asia: South
India
Maurya Empire (complete list) –
Devavarman, King (202–195 BC)
Shatadhanvan, King (195–187 BC)
Brihadratha, King (187–180 BC)
Satavahana dynasty (Purana-based chronology) –
Krishna, King (205–187 BC)
Satakarni I, King (187–177 BC)
Purnotsanga, King (177–159 BC)
Skandhastambhi, King (159–141 BC)
Satakarni II, King (141–85 BC)
Shunga Empire (complete list) –
Pushyamitra Shunga, Emperor (185–149 BC)
Agnimitra, Emperor (149–141 BC)
Vasujyeshtha, Emperor (141–131 BC)
Vasumitra, Emperor (131–124 BC)
Bhagabhadra, Emperor (c.110 BC)
Sri Lanka
Anuradhapura Kingdom (complete list) –
Ellalan, King (205–161 BC)
Dutugamunu, King (161–137 BC)
Saddha Tissa, King (137–119 BC)
Thulatthana, King (119–119 BC)
Lanja Tissa, King (119–109 BC)
Khallata Naga, King (109–104 BC)
Valagamba, King (104–103, c.89–77 BC)
Pulahatta, King (103–100 BC)
Asia: West
Kingdom of Bithynia (complete list) –
Prusias I Cholus, King (228–182 BC)
Prusias II Cynegus, King (182–149 BC)
Nicomedes II Epiphanes, King (149–127 BC)
Nicomedes III Euergetes, King (127–94 BC)
Bosporan Kingdom (complete list) –
Hygiainon, King (c.220–c.200 BC)
Spartacus V, King (c.200–c.180 BC)
Pairisades III, King (c.180–c.150 BC)
Pairisades IV, King (c.150–c.125 BC)
Pairisades V, King (c.125–108 BC)
Cappadocia (complete list) –
Ariarathes IV, King (220–163 BC)
Ariarathes V, King (163–130 BC)
Orophernes, King (157 BC)
Ariarathes VI, King (130–116 BC)
Ariarathes VII, King (116–101 BC)
Ariarathes VIII, client King under Rome (101–96 BC)
Characene (complete list) –
Hyspaosines, King (c.127–124 BC)
Apodakos, King (c.110/09–104/03 BC)
Colchis (complete list) –
Saulaces, King (2nd century BC)
Commagene (complete list) –
Ptolemaeus, King (163–130 BC)
Sames II, King (130–109 BC)
Mithridates I, King (109–70 BC)
Elymais (complete list) –
Kamnaskires I Megas Soter, client King under Parthia (c.147–c.145 BC)
Kamnaskires II Nikephoros, client King under Parthia (c.145–c.139 BC)
Okkonapses, client King under Parthia (c.139/8 BC)
Tigraios, client King under Parthia (c.138/7–c.133/2 BC)
Darius, client King under Parthia (before c.129 BC)
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (list) –
Euthydemus I, King (c.230–c.200 BC)
Demetrius I, King (c. 200–c. 180 BC)
Euthydemus II, King (c.180 BCE)
Antimachus I, King (c.185–170 BC)
Pantaleon, King (190s or 180s BC)
Agathocles, King (c.190–180 BC)
Demetrius II, King (155–150 BC)
Eucratides I, King (170–c.145 BC)
Plato, co-King (c.166 BC)
Eucratides II, King (145–140 BC)
Heliocles I, King (c.145–130 BC)
Indo-Greek Kingdom (complete list) –
Demetrius I, Greco-Bactrian King and Indo-Greek King (c.205–171 BC)
Pantaleon, King of Arachosia and Gandhara (c.190–185 BC)
Agathocles, King of Paropamisade (c.190–180 BC)
Antimachus I, Greco-Bactrian King (185–170 BC)
Apollodotus I, King of Paropamisade, Arachosia, Gandhara, and Punjab (c.180–160 BC)
Antimachus II, King of Paropamisadae, Arachosia, Gandhara, and Punjab (c.172–167 BC)
Demetrius II, King of Bactria (c.155–150 BC)
Menander I, King of Paropamisadae, Arachosia, Gandhara, and Punjab (155/150–130 BC)
Zoilos I, King of Paropamisade and Arachosia (c.130–120 BC)
Agathokleia, Regent, Queen of Gandhara and Punjab (c.130–125 BC)
Lysias, King of Paropamisade and Arachosia (120–110 BC)
Strato I, King of Gandhara and Punjab (125–110 BC)
Antialcidas, King of Paropamisade, Arachosia, and Gandhara (115–95 BC)
Heliokles II, King of Gandhara and Punjab (110–100 BC)
Polyxenios, King of Paropamisade and Arachosia (c.100 BC)
Demetrius III, King of Gandhara and Punjab (c.100 BC)
Philoxenus, King of Paropamisade, Arachosia, Gandhara, and Punjab (100–95 BC)
Judea: Hasmonean dynasty (complete list) –
Judas Maccabeus, Leader of the Maccabees (167–160 BC)
Jonathan Apphus
Leader of the Maccabees (160–152 BC)
High Priest (152–143 BC)
Simon Thassi, High Priest (142–135 BC) and Prince (141–135 BC)
John Hyrcanus, High Priest and Prince (134–104 BC)
Aristobulus I, King and High Priest (104–103 BC)
Alexander Jannaeus, King and High Priest (103–76 BC)
Nabataea (complete list) –
Aretas I, King (c.169 BC)
Aretas II, King (120/110–96 BC)
Osroene (complete list) –
Aryu, King (132–127 BC)
Abdu, King (127–120 BC)
Fradhasht, King (120–115 BC)
Bakru I, King (115–112 BC)
Bakru II, King (112–94 BC)
Parthian Empire (complete list) –
Arsaces II, King (211–191 BC)
Phriapatius, King (191–176 BC)
Phraates I, King (176–171 BC)
Mithridates I, Great King, Shah (171–138 BC)
Phraates II, Great King, Shah (138–127 BC)
Artabanus II, Great King, Shah (127–124 BC)
Mithridates II, Great King, Shah (124–88 BC)
Attalid kingdom of Pergamon (complete list) –
Attalus I Soter (241–197 BC)
Eumenes II, King (197–159 BC)
Attalus II Philadelphus, King (160–138 BC)
Attalus III, King (138–133 BC)
Pontus (complete list) –
Mithridates III, King (c.210–c.190 BC)
Pharnaces I, King (c.190–c.155 BC)
Mithridates IV Philopator Philadephos, King (c.155–c.150 BC)
Mithridates V Euergetes, King (c.150–120 BC)
Mithridates VI, King (120–63 BC)
Seleucid Empire (complete list) –
Antiochus III, the Great, King (223–187 BC)
Seleucus IV Philopator, King (187–175 BC)
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King (175–163 BC)
Antiochus V Eupator, King (163–161 BC)
Demetrius I Soter, King (161–150 BC)
Alexander I Balas, King (150–145 BC)
Antiochus VI Dionysus, King (145–142 BC)
Demetrius II Nicator, King (145–138, 129–126 BC)
Diodotus Tryphon, King (142–138 BC)
Antiochus VII Sidetes, King (138–129 BC)
Alexander II Zabinas, King (129–123 BC)
Seleucus V Philometor, King (126/125 BC)
Cleopatra Thea, Coregent (126–121 BC)
Antiochus VIII Grypus, King (125–96 BC)
Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, King (114–96 BC)
Europe
Europe: Balkans
Macedonia: Antigonid dynasty (complete list) –
Philip V, King (221–179 BC)
Perseus, King (179–168 BC)
Andriscus/ Pseudo-Philip VI, King (149–148 BC)
Odrysian kingdom of Thrace (complete list) –
Seuthes IV, King (215–190 BC)
Pleuratus I, King (213–208 BC)
Amatokos III, King (184 BC)
Cotys IV, King (171–167 BC)
Teres III, King (c.149 BC)
Beithys, King (140–120 BC)
Cotys V, King (120–? BC)
Europe: East
Dacia (complete list) –
Rubobostes, King (2nd century BC)
Oroles, King (2nd century BC)
Europe: South
Roman Republic (complete list) –
Eurasia: Caucasus
Armenia (complete list) –
Orontes IV, King (c.212–200 BC)
Artaxias I, King (190/189–160/159 BC)
Tigranes I, King (159–123 BC)
Artavasdes I, King (123–95 BC)
Iberia (Kartli) (complete list) –
Sauromaces I, King (234–159 BC)
Mirian I, King (159–109 BC)
Pharnajom, King (109–90 BC)
References
State Leaders
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William John Paskin (born 1 February 1962) is a South African former professional footballer who made 164 appearances in the Football League playing for West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Stockport County, Birmingham City, Shrewsbury Town, Wrexham and Bury. He also played in South Africa, in the North American Soccer League, in Hong Kong, Belgium and Norway. He played as a forward.
Career
Paskin was born in Cape Town. He began his football career domestically with Hellenic, then spent the 1984 North American Soccer League season with Toronto Blizzard. He played 16 games and scored 10 goals, including scoring in the second game of the three-game Championship Game series: Toronto lost that game 3–2 and lost the series 2–0 to the Chicago Sting. Paskin's next port of call was Hong Kong, where he played for South China and Seiko, and represented Hong Kong against the South Korean national team in the 1986 Chinese New Year Cup. In the 1986–87 Belgian First Division season, he played for K.V. Kortrijk.
Paskin made his Football League debut for West Bromwich Albion in the 1988–99 season, and played 25 league games before moving on to Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of £75,000 at the end of the season. He scored only three goals in his 34 league appearances for the club, and spent periods on loan at Stockport County, Birmingham City and Shrewsbury Town, before joining Wrexham on a free transfer in February 1992. Paskin scored 14 goals from 60 games in all competitions for the club, and in July 1994 signed for Bury on a free transfer. He played quite frequently in his first season at Bury, though more often as a substitute, then sustained an injury which kept him out for much of the 1995–96 season. By the end of that season he was anxious to leave the club, and was released in May 1996.
He spent a few weeks with Fredrikstad FK in the Norwegian Second Division before finishing his career in his native South Africa with his former club Hellenic.
References
External links
Toronto Blizzard profile
1962 births
Living people
Soccer players from Cape Town
South African men's soccer players
South African expatriate men's soccer players
Men's association football forwards
Hellenic F.C. players
Toronto Blizzard (1971–1984) players
Birmingham City F.C. players
South China AA players
Seiko SA players
K.V. Kortrijk players
West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Stockport County F.C. players
Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Bury F.C. players
Cape Town Spurs F.C. players
Fredrikstad FK players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Belgian Pro League players
English Football League players
Hong Kong First Division League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong
South African expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong
Expatriate men's footballers in England
South African expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Wales
South African expatriate sportspeople in Wales
Expatriate men's footballers in Norway
South African expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
South African expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
South African expatriate sportspeople in Canada
White South African people |
Clifford is an unincorporated community in Lincoln, Oneida, and Price counties, Wisconsin, United States. Clifford is located in the towns of Somo in Lincoln County, Lynne in Oneida County, and Knox in Price County. The community is located on U.S. Route 8 east of Prentice.
References
Unincorporated communities in Lincoln County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Oneida County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Price County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin |
Barry Goudreau (born November 29, 1951) is an American musician. He was one of two original guitarists for the rock band Boston alongside founder Tom Scholz; both Scholz and Goudreau shared lead and rhythm guitar parts.
Before Boston
Goudreau had developed a musical interest at an early age and got his first guitar, an acoustic which he borrowed from a friend, at age 11. He began taking lessons and by age 13, joined his first band, the "Tornadoes". At age 15, he joined another band with future Boston bandmate drummer Sib Hashian. They would often play at nightclubs, sometimes seven times a week. Later, he met up with Brad Delp and Fran Sheehan, both future members of Boston. He auditioned for Delp's band, but did not make the cut.
When he went to college at Boston University, he sought to get a degree in Geology. He tried to put music aside to focus on school, but he soon met up with Tom Scholz who was right across the river at MIT.
with Boston
Goudreau worked with Tom Scholz and Brad Delp as early as 1969 on an initial set of demo tapes, where he performed all of the rhythm and lead guitar work. These early attempts to attract record label interest did not succeed.
Later, Scholz re-worked and re-recorded some of these demo songs and wrote several new songs for a second set of demo tapes, this time with Scholz performing all of the guitar, bass and keyboard parts. This second demo set won a recording contract with Epic Records.
In late 1979, Scholz became involved in legal and contractual battles with the band's manager, and later with CBS. Thereafter, he informed the members of Boston that he would not be working on Boston material for at least a year and that they should feel free to do solo projects.
After Boston
By this time, Goudreau had written many songs in hopes that Scholz would incorporate them into the next Boston LP. Scholz did not express interest in using any of Goudreau's work. In 1980, Goudreau recorded his first solo LP titled Barry Goudreau, using Brad Delp and Fran Cosmo (Fran would join Boston in 1991) on vocals, and Sib Hashian on drums. The record company sought to cash in with this "almost Boston" line-up. The LP successfully hit the airwaves with the songs "Dreams" and "Mean Woman Blues". Scholz was unhappy with the album being put out and contacted Epic Records to stop further promotion of the album. Ultimately, it was this album that triggered Scholz to ask Goudreau to leave Boston.
In 1984, Goudreau formed the band Orion The Hunter and released a debut LP. This time, Fran Cosmo appeared as lead vocalist, while Delp provided backing vocals and co-wrote five of the album's songs. The album included the single "So You Ran". The band then added keyboardist and backing vocalist Brian Maes and toured in support of Aerosmith in 1984 but ultimately broke up in 1985.
In 1990, Goudreau formed the band RTZ (Return to Zero). Delp left Boston to join the band. RTZ experienced some success with the hits "Face the Music" written by Goudreau and Maes and "Until Your Love Comes Back Around" written by Maes. Delp and Goudreau felt that the record company was not supporting the band to the best of their abilities, and asked to be released from their contract. They later signed with MTM Records; however, Delp departed shortly after to rejoin Boston.
In 1997, Goudreau appeared with the Lisa Guyer Band on the album Gypsy Girl and in 2000 on the album Leap of Faith.
In 1998, RTZ regrouped to release their second album Lost with less success than the debut.
In 2003, Goudreau and Delp teamed up for their independent recording of Delp and Goudreau. The single "It's What You Leave Behind" received limited radio airplay.
In 2005, Goudreau and the members of RTZ released two CDs of songs that were earmarked for the never-realized third RTZ CD. The albums were released in the USA on Briola Records as Lost in America and Found in America. Goudreau continues to perform with Sheehan in small, local venues in the greater Boston area. He also played occasionally with Delp and Hashian until their deaths in 2007 and 2017, respectively.
On October 16, 2007, Goudreau released one final song with Delp on vocals titled "Rockin' Away". According to Goudreau, "'Rockin' Away' was written in the summer of 2006 for the 30th Anniversary of the release of the first "Boston" record. It was the last song that Brad and I wrote together. In it, Brad reflects on how he became involved in music, and thanks his many fans for their years of loyalty. It was my hope that the song might lead to a rekindling of my relationship with the band. Unfortunately it did not." The song was a minor hit in early 2008, charting up to #18 on the America's Music ranking of rock radio airplay.
Goudreau was a member of Ernie and the Automatics with Sib Hashian, Tim Archibald, Brian Maes, Michael Antunes and "car guy" Ernie Boch, Jr. Their debut album Low Expectations was released on February 17, 2009. Ernie and the Automatics disbanded in 2011.
After Delp's death, the remaining RTZ members reunited to record "Set The Songbird Free", which was written by Brian Maes. "We wanted this to be a tribute to the love and respect that we all share for our bandmate and friend Brad," recalls Maes.
On February 25, 2012, Goudreau played a three-hour set with Sheehan and others in the "All Star Jam" to benefit the Sydney and Berne Davis Art Center in Ft Myers Florida.
Goudreau formed Barry Goudreau's Engine Room with Brian Maes, Tim Archibald, Tony DePietro, Mary Beth Maes, Joanie Cicatelli and Terri O'Soro. They released their first CD "Full Steam Ahead" in September 2017. Since 2014, Goudreau has also toured with the American Vinyl All Star Band, which also includes Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. Goudreau also occasionally appears with Scrap Metal, a supergroup formed by Gunner and Matthew Nelson, twin sons of Musician Ricky Nelson.
On September 3, 2022, Goudreau was inducted into the New England Music Hall of Fame while on stage at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom.
Goudreau now lives with his wife Connie in Swampscott, Massachusetts. They have two children: Sean, a mortgage executive, and Michele, a health and wellness coordinator. They also have three grandchildren, Alyssa, Sammy and Matthew.
Discography
with Boston
Boston (1976)
Don't Look Back (1978)
Greatest Hits (1997)
Solo
Barry Goudreau (1980)
with Orion the Hunter
Orion the Hunter (1984)
with RTZ
Return to Zero (1991)
Lost (1998)
Lost and Found (2004)
"Set The Songbird Free ..." (single) (2007)
with Brad Delp
Delp and Goudreau (2003)
"Rockin' Away" (single) (2007)
with Ernie and the Automatics
Live at The Real Blues Festival (2006)
Low Expectations (2009)
with Barry Goudreau's Engine Room
Full Steam Ahead (2017)
The Road (2021)
References
External links
1951 births
Living people
Musicians from Boston
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
Boston (band) members
People from Swampscott, Massachusetts
Guitarists from Massachusetts
20th-century American guitarists |
In Good Company is an album by saxophonist Ted Brown with guitarist Jimmy Raney recorded in 1985 and released on the Dutch label, Criss Cross Jazz. The CD rerelease added five alternate takes in 1990 renaming the album Good Company and displaying Jimmy Raney's name more prominently.
Reception
David R. Adler of AllMusic observed "In Good Company makes a nice companion piece to Warne Marsh's Back Home ... There's some good Tristano-oriented bop writing here." noting "Ted Brown and guitar legend Jimmy Raney are essentially co-leaders here, teaming with a stellar rhythm section".
Track listing
"Blimey" (Ted Brown) – 4:49
"We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 5:56
"Lost and Found" (Hod O'Brien) – 6:40
"Sir Felix" (Jimmy Raney) – 4:37
"Instant Blue" (O'Brien) – 7:01
"Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 4:49
"People Will Say We're in Love" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:13
"Lost and Found" [alternate take] (O'Brien) – 6:24 Bonus track on CD reissue
"We'll Be Together Again" [alternate take] (Fischer, Laine) – 6:29 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Blimey" [alternate take] (Brown) – 5:09 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Sir Felix" [alternate take] (Raney) – 4:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
"People Will Say We're in Love" [alternate take] (Rogers, Hammerstein) – 6:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
Ted Brown – tenor saxophone
Jimmy Raney – guitar
Hod O'Brien – piano
Buster Williams – bass
Ben Riley – drums
References
Ted Brown (saxophonist) albums
Jimmy Raney albums
1985 albums
Criss Cross Jazz albums
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio |
De Man Zonder Hart is a 1937 Dutch drama film directed by Léo Joannon.
Cast
... Jean Sourdier
Dolly Mollinger ... Sylvette. his former secretary
Elias van Praag ... The man of the barrel organ
John Gobau ... Jeanton, the murdered companion of Soudier
Ank van der Moer ... Heilsoldate
Greta Eichenveld ... The daughter
External links
1937 films
Dutch black-and-white films
1937 drama films
Films directed by Léo Joannon
Dutch multilingual films
Dutch drama films
1937 multilingual films
1930s Dutch-language films |
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