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10669746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belalc%C3%A1zar%2C%20Caldas | Belalcázar, Caldas | Belalcázar () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas.
References
Municipalities of Caldas Department |
24737151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peniche | Peniche | Peniche may refer to:
Places
Peniche, Portugal
Peniche Fortress
People
Count of Peniche, a Portuguese title
Arturo Peniche (born 1962), Mexican actor
Kari Ann Peniche (born 1984), American actress
Karla Peniche (born 1988), Mexican model, TV actress and beauty pageant
Peniche Everton Romualdo (born 1979), Brazilian footballer
Yuliana Peniche (born 1981), Mexican actress
Other
Peniche (fluid dynamics), material inserted between a half-model and the wall of a wind tunnel, used to reduce the effect of the boundary layer
Péniche (barge), a French barge. Associated with the Freycinet gauge for locks in France
G.D. Peniche, Portuguese football team
See also
Péniche Hôtel, a type of floating hotel on a peniche
Péniche Opéra, a French opera company based on a peniche |
73217769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukekohe%20East%20Explosion%20Crater | Pukekohe East Explosion Crater | The Pukekohe East Explosion Crater, also known as the Pukekohe East Crater, is one of the best preserved and most prominent volcanoes of the South Auckland volcanic field in New Zealand. The basalt maar erupted approximately 680,000 years ago.
Geology
The Pukekohe East Explosion Crater erupted an estimated 680,000 years ago. It is one of the best preserved volcanoes in the South Auckland volcanic field, and one of the few well-preserved basalt craters in New Zealand.
The crater is approximately one kilometre in diameter, and is found on privately owned land. Pukekohe East Road and Runciman Road run along the crest of the crater.
History
During the early colonial era of New Zealand, it was known as Papach's Crater. In 1863, the Pukekohe East Presbyterian Church was built on the rim of the crater. The church was used as a military stockade during the Invasion of the Waikato, most notably during the Defence of Pukekohe East, when a Māori taua (war party) of approximately 200 men from Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Pou iwi attacked the church in September 1863.
The Geoscience Society of New Zealand scheduled the crater as a nationally important feature.
References
Franklin Local Board Area
Geography of Auckland
Landforms of the Auckland Region
Maars of New Zealand
Volcanism of New Zealand
Geology of New Zealand
Volcanoes of the Auckland Region |
1715616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton%20Lock | Shelton Lock | Shelton Lock is a small suburb in the south of the city of Derby, England, United Kingdom, located between Chellaston and Allenton.
The area gets its name from the lock on the Derby Canal that once ran through the area. The only traces of the canal's existence are seen in the form of a road bridge, the lock stones, and a cycle path which covers it. The canal was shut in the 1960s but there are plans to re-excavate it. The site of Fullen's Lock is located just a few hundred yards along the present-day cycle path from Shelton Lock bridge, and a children's playground close to the site still bears the name.
Merrill College is the local secondary school. It was located on Jubilee Road but was demolished – the new Merrill College is in Allenton (the old Thomas Moore school). The area also has an infant and junior school. Chellaston Road is the main road through the area, where a lot of inter-war private housing can be found.
The George V Jubilee Estate was built in 1935 to commemorate King George V's silver jubilee and this lies to the west of Jubilee Road. St Edmund’s Church on Sinfin Avenue by the Derby architect Arthur Eaton was opened in 1939. The Sinfin Avenue estate was built in the 1970s, and includes a number of council and private houses. To the rear of the estate are fields and woodland, which are part of Sinfin Moor – as well as the disused railway which goes towards Chellaston. Significant areas of these fields and woodland have now been built on forming the Bonnie Prince housing estate.
A spur of the M64 motorway was planned to pass through this area towards the Rolls-Royce works. This was never built and the route was instead used for the A50 road; Shelton Lock is connected to this by the A514.
Gallery
References
External links
Photos of Shelton Lock
Derby Canal
Geotagged photo album of Chellaston & Shelton Lock
Areas of Derby
Transport in Derby
Canals in Derbyshire
Locks of England |
18024746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her%20Grave%20Mistake | Her Grave Mistake | Her Grave Mistake is a 1914 American silent Western film featuring Lon Chaney and Murdock MacQuarrie. Very little is known about who wrote or directed this film. The film is now considered to be lost.
Plot
Roger Grant, foreman of the "Circle S" Ranch on the Mexican border, is engaged to Isabel Norris, the old ranch-owner's daughter. Grant receives word from the national guard warning him that there may be an attack by Mexicans on the pumping station at the reservoir and that he should arm his cowboys to protect it until troops can arrive. Nunez, a Mexican spy, breaks into the ranch house to steal the letter that Grant received.
When she goes to rendezvous with Grant at the ranch house, Isabel is attacked by Nunez and is choked unconscious. Grant finds Isabel on the floor and he is blamed for assaulting her. The cowboys chase after him, but Isabel awakens, finds a piece of Nunez's hat on the floor and rides out after the posse to tell them that Grant is innocent. Meanwhile, the Mexicans have attacked the reservoir, but Grant battles them all single-handed until Isabel and the reinforcements arrive. Nunez is captured and Grant is vindicated.
Cast
Murdock MacQuarrie as Roger Grant
Agnes Vernon as Isabel Norris
Seymour Hastings as Isabel's father, the ranch owner
Lon Chaney as Nunez
Reception
Moving Picture World wrote: "A Mexican borderline story.....The chief interest centers about an attack on the pumping station...There is good suspense toward the close of this, and the climax is exciting."
Motion Picture News wrote: "The story is not at all original, but Mr. MacQuarrie has a way of putting anything over he tries."
References
External links
1914 films
1914 Western (genre) films
1914 lost films
1914 short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
English-language Western (genre) films
Lost American Western (genre) films
Silent American Western (genre) films
Universal Pictures short films
1910s American films
1910s English-language films |
50641384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Marta%20crater | Santa Marta crater | Santa Marta crater is a newly confirmed impact crater in Piauí State, northeastern Brazil. It is in diameter and it is estimated to have formed between 100 and 66 Ma, during the Late Cretaceous.
Description
Its impact origin was first proposed by S. Master and J. Heymann in 2000 based primarily on satellite remote sensing data and was confirmed more than a decade later after conclusive evidence of shock metamorphism such as breccia and shatter cones were found.
See also
Umm al Binni lake
References
Impact craters of Brazil
Cretaceous impact craters
Cretaceous Brazil
Landforms of Piauí
Geology of Brazil |
5637628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20of%20the%20Devil%202 | Art of the Devil 2 | Art of the Devil 2 (Thai: ลองของ or Long khong) is a 2005 Thai horror film directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, Art Thamthrakul, Yosapong Polsap, Putipong Saisikaew, Isara Nadee, Pasith Buranajan and Seree Pongniti (known collectively as the "Ronin Team"). It was released by Five Star Production.
A sequel in name only to a 2004 film Art of the Devil, this film is about a teacher, named Aajaan Panor (portrayed by Napakpapha Nakprasitte), who is humiliated by some students. She turns to black magic to exact revenge.
Plot
Two years ago, six school friends – Ta, Kim, Por, Tair, Noot, and Ko – were faced with a grudge. Ta's mother died when he was young, and his father remarried Ta's teacher, Miss Aajaan Panor. Kim was his former girlfriend (but is now dating Por, who is a nerd). The tomboyish Tair and stylish singer Noot might be lovers (though this is never made clear), and Ko is their fun-loving friend.
During their last year at high school, Miss Panor seduces Por (though this is not known to his friends). Por subsequently discovers he's not the only one in her bed. In addition to being married to Ta's father, Miss Panor is also having an affair with the sports coach. Fuelled by jealousy, Por suggests filming Panor and the coach to 'prove her infidelity' to Ta's father. The friends, save for Kim, do so, and broadcast it to the entire school. The coach soon discovers it was them and holds the group at gunpoint while he sexually abuses them, with Noot being the most frequent student he sexually advances on.
Seeking revenge, the students approach a shaman who agrees to curse the coach. The shaman also warns the group that once black magic is used, it will haunt them forever. A few days later, Por goes back to the shaman and asks him to curse Miss Panor, too. The coach dies in which numerous fish hooks appear from his body while his family’s healer attempted to heal the wounds he received during his catfish fishing trip. Miss Panor, who is embarrassed at her sexual exploits being revealed, is found stabbing herself repeatedly in the legs. She subsequently becomes a recluse, returning home to her cottage on the river, away from the city.
In the present, the six friends gather together after Ta's father committed suicide in order to head to the remote village to visit the mausoleum of his father’s ashes and pay their respects to Miss Panor. Upon arrival at Panor's cottage on the river, Noot's cell phone rings; her uncle wants her to return because her father is in the hospital, so she makes her goodbyes and heads back to the city. Miss Panor is a polite hostess (if a little distant), and Ta's great-grandmother seems harmless enough, though he warns everyone that she is a bit senile. As the group stays at the cottage, Kim experiences some strange occurrences around it such as, the door moving on its own, a white figure appearing underwater, and witnessing Ta's great-grandmother devouring a cat.
Miss Panor retires to a secret hut in the jungle, where she has several corpses gathered round, all of them sitting at desks, like students. Each corpse has a photo attached to it, indicating which former student it represents.
At dinner that night, as the friends eat the soup Panor has made for them, each student spits out something suspicious: Ko spits up a fingernail with Doraemon painted on it, Por spits up a piece of tongue with a piercing on it, Kim spits up an eye contact lens and Tair an eyeball. The group realizes that the meat, which is actually dismembered body parts added in the soup, is in fact, Noot. It is implied that after Noot left the cottage, she was captured, tortured, killed, and dismembered by Miss Panor. They search the cottage for Miss Panor. Kim finds a video camera with a tape that shows Miss Panor killing and cannibalizing the shaman who cursed her, and then rushing towards the camera with a tree branch raised and bringing it down on whoever is holding the camera.
Tair begins to have hallucinations of rotting corpses shambling around everywhere. The group flees the house and sees a light outside. They call to a nearby boat for help, but it drives past them. The driver takes a fatal fall from the boat after seeing Miss Panor coming towards him from the other side, which sinks. Kim tumbles into the water and has a vision of Panor and Ta's father. In the vision, Panor is shown torturing Ta's father by ripping off his toenails, on the premise that if she hobbles him, he can't leave her. When Panor leaves the room, Ta's father shoots himself in the head to end his suffering. Kim relates this to the others, and they find the gun. In the same room, there are also some jars filled with pickled mangoes. In one of these jars, the group finds Ta's dead father.
The group runs to the house's dusty old shrine to hide and pray. Tair has a laughing fit and is temporarily possessed by Miss Panor. Ko threatens Tair with the gun, but suddenly starts to writhe and flail as dozens of geckos claw their way out of his body, killing him.
The youths now decide to split up: Por and Ta go off into the jungle to find Panor, leaving Kim and Tair sitting outside the shrine, with Tair (now free of possession) still seeing visions of corpses. She panics and runs off, and Kim follows into the dense jungle. The boys hear Kim fall down. They run to find her, but are separated. Ta finds Kim and wrenches a piece of metal from her leg. Alone, Por has creepy visions of Panor. Ta leaves Kim to look for Por. Tair bursts from the jungle, cowering away from her visions. After seeing Kim as a walking corpse and in hysterics, Tair gouges and rips out her own eyes, ultimately killing herself.
Por finds Kim, who appears to him as Miss Panor, taunting him about their love affair. Firing the gun at Kim, but Ta rescues her just in time. Por runs off into the jungle and discovers Panor chanting in her secret hut. Por flees, but a vision of Panor appears before him, hamstrings him, and starts pulling out his teeth; Por crawls away and confesses that he had a love spell placed on Panor causing her to seduce him, became jealous when he found out she was also sleeping with the coach and took part in filming them and then placing a pain-inducing curse on Panor as punishment. Suddenly, his vision clears and he sees Kim and Ta. Kim is repulsed by Por's confession; she and Ta leave Por in the jungle.
Miss Panor arrives, ties up Por, and takes him to her secret hut. She stabs him in the neck with a syringe full of a paralytic agent, then pours boiling water down his throat and slowly burns every inch of his skin with a blowtorch.
In the jungle, Ta is carrying Kim on his back. She begs him to continue without her, but he refuses. The two of them come across a small shrine, on which is hanging Noot's bag. Her cell phone rings: it's her uncle, wondering where she is.
In the secret jungle hut, Miss Panor is performing CPR on fatally burned Por in order to inflict more torture on him. Meanwhile, police officers converge outside the hut. As Miss Panor starts to use a power drill on Por's head, the officers break in and shoot her.
Kim is rushed to a hospital. She recovers, and Ta comes to visit her. As they chat, the TV in Kim's room broadcasts a news show, which reports that the five students who visited Miss Panor are dead. Also discovered in the secret hut was Ta's charred corpse.
In horror, Kim turns to see that Ta is actually a badly burned, walking corpse. He never went with them to visit Miss Panor; he was already dead by then. As he pets Kim's hand, Ta explains: the video of Panor eating the shaman was taken by Ta's father, who had threatened divorce after witnessing the tape of her and the coach. For this, Panor tortured him and he killed himself. Panor locked Ta's great-grandmother in a closet and left her to starve. It was Ta's great-grandmother who had told Panor that in order to break the spells placed on her she had to kill the shaman that was paid to perform them and eat his flesh. She also warned Panor that it could drive her insane (it does). It also becomes clear that the coach had also placed a love spell on Panor to instigate their affair just like Por did. Miss Panor was the victim of all these spells. Her attempt to free herself and seek revenge led her into insanity. She tortured Ta in all the ways that will be experienced by his friends. Ta's vengeful spirit had lured the group there so they could feel the pain that he went through. He only saved Kim from being killed because he still loves her.
A flashback of their days in school returned. Kim and a classmate had a crush on Ta. Kim makes a bet with her classmate that if Ta doesn't court Kim within a week, she will "offer" Ta to her. Kim was then seen with the shaman who appeared earlier, who warns her, "Once you start, it will follow you till you die." She receives a clay doll and thanks the shaman.
The film ends with Kim jumps out of the hospital window to her death, holding the clay doll the shaman gave her. Ta's burnt form lies beside her declaring his love for her.
Nominations
Napakpapha (better known in Thailand as Mamee) was a nominee for best actress for the Bangkok Critics Assembly's 2005 awards. She was also nominated as best supporting actress for the Thailand National Film Awards. This nomination was protested by Mamee and Five Star Production, who asserted that Mamee should have been nominated in the best actress category. Five Star then boycotted the awards ceremony.
Film festivals
2006 Bangkok International Film Festival
2006 New York Asian Film Festival
2006 Fantasia Festival
References
External links
2005 films
2005 horror films
Five Star Production films
Thai ghost films
Films about witchcraft
Thai-language films
Thai horror films
Thai supernatural horror films
Thai sequel films |
2299601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20chief%20scouts%20of%20the%20Polish%20Scouting%20and%20Guiding%20Association | List of chief scouts of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association | Naczelnik ZHP (Chief Scout) is beside the President of the ZHP, the highest function in the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP).
Chief scouts of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association - since 1918
Chief scouts of Boy Scouts 1919-1939
Stanisław Sedlaczek - 1919-1921,
Henryk Glass - 1921-1924,
Adolf Heidrich - 1924-1925,
Stanisław Sedlaczek - 1925-1931,
Antoni Olbromski - 1931-1936,
Tomasz Piskorski - p.o. 1936,
Zbigniew Trylski - 1937-1939,
Lechosław Domański - 1939.
Chief scouts of Girl Guides 1919-1939
Maria Wocalewska - 1919-1923,
Zofia Wocalewska - 1923,
Helena Sakowiczówna - 1923-1924,
Maria Uklejska - 1924-1925,
Zofia Wilczyńska - 1925-1926,
Jadwiga Falkowska - 1926-1927,
Maria Uklejska - 1927-1928,
Anna Dydyńska-Paszkowska - 1928-1931,
Jadwiga Wierzbiańska - 1931-1937,
Maria Krynicka - 1937-1945.
Chief scouts of the Szare Szeregi 1939-1945
hm. Florian Marciniak - September 27, 1939 - May 6, 1943,
hm. Stanisław Broniewski - May 12, 1943 - October 3, 1944,
hm. Leon Marszałek - October 3, 1944 - January 18, 1945.
Chief scouts of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (outside of Poland) - since 1945
among others:
Naczelnik of the Boy Scouts
hm. Eugeniusz Konopacki 1946 - 1947
hm. Ryszard Białous 1947 - 1948
hm. Kazimierz Burmajster 1948 - 1951
hm. Zbigniew Fallenbüchl 1951 - 1952
hm. Wojciech Dłużewski 1952 - 1955
hm. Ryszard Kaczorowski 1955 - 1967
hm. Jerzy Witting 1967 - 1974
hm. Jacek Bernasinski 1974 - 1988
hm. Bogdan Szwagrzak 1988 - 1994
hm. Edward Jaśnikowski 1994 - 2000
hm. Edmund Kasprzyk 2000 - 2006
hm. Andrzej Borowy from 2006 - 2012
hm. Marek Szablewski 2012 - 2019
hm. Franek Pepliński 2019–Present
Naczelnik (Naczelniczka) of the Girl Guides
hm. Teresa Ciecierska - to 2006
hm. Ania Gebska 2006 -
Chief scouts of Boy Scouts 1945-1948
hm. Michał Sajkowski - December 1944 - May 1945,
hm. Roman Kierzkowski - May 1945 - 1948.
Chief scouts of Girl Guides 1945-1948
hm. Kazimiera Świętochowska - December 1944 - May 1945,
hm. Wiktoria Dewitz - May 1945 - 1948.
Chief scouts 1956-1964
hm. Zofia Zakrzewska 1956-1964.
Chief scouts of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association - since 1964
hm. PL Wiktor Kinecki - 1964-1969,
hm. PL Stanisław Bohdanowicz - 1969-1974,
hm. PL Jerzy Wojciechowski - 1974-1980,
hm. PL Andrzej Ornat - 1980-1982,
hm. PL Ryszard Wosiński - 1982-1989,
hm. Krzysztof Grzebyk - 1989-1990,
hm. Ryszard Pacławski - 1990-2000,
hm. Wiesław Maślanka - 2000-2005,
hm. Teresa Hernik - 2005-2007,
hm. Małgorzata Sinica - 2007-2017,
hm. Anna Nowosad - 2017-2021
hm. Grzegorz Woźniak - 2021-2022
hm. Martyna Kowacka - since 2022
See also
Scouting Ireland Chief Scout
Scouting and Guiding in Poland
Chief |
25517988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukharchuk | Kukharchuk | Kukharczuk is a Ukrainian surname derived from the occupation kukhar / kucharz, a cook.
Kukharczuk may refer to:
Ilya Kukharchuk (b. 1990), a Russian football (soccer) player
Nina Kukharchuk (1900–1984), maiden name of the late wife of a Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev
Slavic-language surnames
Ukrainian-language surnames |
56095005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aamhi%20Doghi | Aamhi Doghi | Aamhi Doghi () is a Marathi-language feminist drama film starring Mukta Barve and Priya Bapat, directed by Pratima Joshi and produced by Puja Chhabria. It is an adaptation of the short story Paus Ala Motha by the late author Gauri Deshpande.
Plot
Savitri (Priya Bapat) lives in Kolhapur with her father Jagdish Sardesai (Kiran Karmarkar), a well-known lawyer. Jagdish is an emotionally unavailable, distant and cold man, who believes in practical and rational behavior. He is also an authoritarian father. In the absence of a mother and a busy father, Savitri (Savi) is brought up largely by servants and staff of the large house in which they live. Despite refusing to remarry after the death of his wife (Savi's mother), Jagdish brings home a new bride Amla (Mukta Barve) from one of his work trips, when Savi is 15 years old, without consulting or informing her. Although she is upset about this, she eventually develops curiosity and also begins a genial friendship with Amla, who she calls 'Ammi'.
While Savi and Ammi are very different (Ammi is illiterate whereas Saavi is a school-topper, Saavi is hot-headed and stubborn while Ammi is quiet and patient) they both bond and look forward to each other's company. Ammi also tries to bring emotional depth to the cold and distant relationship between father and daughter. However, things between the two come to a head and Savi leaves home to pursue higher studies in Mumbai.
While in Mumbai, Savi completes her Masters, topping the university and gets a fellowship at a research institute of her choice. She also befriends Ram (Bhushan Pradhan) who is enamoured by her outspoken honesty, practicality and straightforwardness. Soon, Savi moves into a rented apartment and begins a relationship with Ram. Despite her father's calls, she does not go back to Kolhapur. One day, as she is leaving to attend an office party thrown for her by her boss, Ammi shows up at her door. She informs Savi that her father passed away 15 days ago but did not want to inform her. She shows Savi his will, wherein he leaves his entire property to Saavi, on the condition that she allow Ammi to live with her as her mother. Savi is initially angry at her father's actions, but lets Ammi stay with her. Saavi and Ammi once again come close and bond with each other, with Savi even introducing Ammi as her 'mother' instead of 'stepmother', like she would earlier.
In the meanwhile, Ram and Savi start having relationship trouble as Ram is pressured into marrying by his family. He wants to marry Savi, but Savi doesn't believe in the institution of marriage. After an argument, Ram leaves for Nagpur, his family home, for an office project. He tells Savi he doesn't know when he will return. A few weeks later, Savi finds out from mutual friends that Ram has married an old family friend. Savi is upset but doesn't show it, focusing instead on why Ram would choose to marry such an ordinary girl. At this time, Ammi consoles her, telling her she should be happy that Savi and Ram only knew love in their relationship, and not the 'practicalities' of marriage that Savi detested.
As Savi gets back to normal, she comes home to find Ammi shivering in bed. Ammi faints and Savi takes her to the hospital, where she finds that Ammi is in the last stage of leukemia. She is further shocked when the doctor tells her Ammi has known about this all along. Ammi then tells her that their fathers were classmates. Savi's father knew of Ammi's sickness when they married. Ammi came from a very poor family and had nothing. Once when Savi's father came to visit them in Belgaum, Ammi had just lost her father, and had no one else, nor any money. Taking pity on her, and with the assumption that she would make a good companion for Savi, her father married Ammi, however they never had any sexual relations. She tells Savi her father cared for her very well, arranging for medicines, doctors and more whenever necessary.
As she breathes her last, she tells Savi not to bottle up her feelings, to set them free, just as she believes in freedom in relationships. When Ammi dies, Savi finally cries for the first time in her life. Savi sells her childhood home in Kolhapur, choosing to only keep the things that remind her of Ammi and open herself up to others, just as she did with Ammi.
Cast
Mukta Barve as Amla
Priya Bapat as Savitri
Bhushan Pradhan as Ram
Aarti Wadagbalkar as Neha
Production
Mukta Barve and Priya Bapat were signed for playing lead roles in November 2017. The film is directed by Pratima Joshi, who is known for her role as an actress, designer and co-director. The film is produced by Puja Chhabria under the banner of White Swan Studios.
The film is the second time the actors Mukta Barve and Priya Bapat have collaborated, after the 2010 film Aika Dajiba.
See also
Gauri Deshpande
References
External links
2018 films
Films shot in Mumbai
2010s Marathi-language films
Indian drama films
2018 drama films |
56964466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronans%20Apotek | Kronans Apotek | Kronans Droghandel Apotek AB, doing business as Kronans Apotek, is a Swedish pharmacy company. The pharmacy chain is owned by the Finnish company Oriola Oyj-KD, which is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Kronans Apotek has 326 pharmacies across Sweden, and over 65,000 customer visits per day.
Kronans Apotek is Sweden's third largest pharmacy chain with more than 300 stores from Trelleborg in the south to Malmberget in the north. As of April 8, 2013, Kronans Apotek AB operates as a subsidiary of Oriola Oyj. Oriola is also a pharmaceutical wholesaler and also markets supplies. Since 2013, the company operates pharmacy operations under the name of Kronans Apotek. Kronens Apotek has a turnover of around 7 billion SEK a year. In Sweden, Laastari has begun to work with Kronans Droghandel Apotek. A company named ICT has previously handled the customer service to Kronans Apotek, which, through its owner early in 2013, bought the chain Medstop with 69 pharmacies.
After deregulation, Kronans Apotek expanded their supply chain to include retail stores. This resulted in existing retailers expanding their supply chain upstream, as did Apoteket Hjärtat, who now have their own supplier, Apo-Pharma. Through the agreement between Tamro AB and Kronans Apotek, a number of pharmaceutical companies undertake to distribute drugs on the Swedish market only through one of these companies. Nowadays, the association has been handed over to the Crown's drug distribution in Gothenburg, purchasing and reselling the drugs at the price determined by the association.
Corporate affairs
Pharmaceuticals are delivered mainly to pharmacies from the wholesalers Tambro AB and Kronans Apotek, These two companies trade in pharmaceuticals, known as single-channel distribution. Wholesalers in Sweden, two companies hold licenses to supply medical goods to pharmacies, Kronans Droghandel (KD) and Phoenix. Both wholesalers hold a market share of approximately 50%.
Sales
In November 2017, total sales increased by more than 400% compared with the same period last year. The number of visits also doubled in comparison with the previous year.
History
Early history (1700s-1959)
Apoteket Strutsen in Gothenburg was run by the pharmacist Franz Martin Luth in the early 1700s. In 1907, Gustaf Bernström became the owner of Kronans Apotek, and he also had a decisive influence on the pharmacy Lejonet between 1908 and 1920, when the sister who widowed Vitus Anderson formally stood as the owner of the pharmacy. In 1959 a consortium owned by the company Kronans Droghandel was bought.
Growth (1960-2009)
In 1964, sales in Kronans Apotek amounted to 31,3 million SEK, of which 28.0 million SEK were to pharmacies. Following the initialization of the apothecary in 1971, Kronans Droghandel continued with the distribution of pharmaceuticals to state-controlled Apoteket, later Apoteket AB. When the drug supply investigation in 1969 submitted its report these were: Apotekernes Droghandel AB, Kronans Droghandel, Apoteksvarva Vitrum Apotekare, Astra Distribution and AB Pharmaceutical Distribution.
2009-present
The company was owned 80% by Oriola, and 20% by Kooperativa Förbundet KF. As of November 2012, Kronans Droghandel is owned 100% by Oriola-KD. In 2013, Oriola-KD acquired a Swedish pharmacy chain Medstop, Medstop and Kronans Droghandel were merged into a single pharmacy chain, Kronans Apotek. The purchase meant that the market share was 21% and comprised 290 pharmacies. It also meant that the addition of KD helped boost the company's distribution wing to represent some 72% of Orion's total revenue. That company remained separate from Oriola. In September 2017, Kronans Apotek was nominated for Svenska Designpriset along with at least 4 apps. On January 1, 2018, Kronans Apotek will replace old plastic bags with new ones with 100% recycled plastic LDPE.
See also
Medicine
Apoteket
Helsinki Stock Exchange
References
External links
Official website
Health care companies established in 1907
Swedish companies established in 1907
Health care companies of Sweden
Companies based in Stockholm |
19683818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassop%20Hall | Hassop Hall | Hassop Hall is a 17th-century country house near Bakewell, Derbyshire, which was operated as a hotel until it closed on 29 September 2019. It is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The Manor was owned by the Foljambe family until the 14th century when it passed by the marriage of Alice Foljambe to Sir Robert Plumpton. His son Sir William Plumpton served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1453. The Plumptons sold the estate in 1498 to Catherine Eyre.
The manor house was substantially rebuilt in the early 17th century by Thomas Eyre. During this period the Eyres were strongly Royalist and during the Civil War the family allowed the Hall to be garrisoned by the King's Army. In 1646 the estate was sequestered by the Commonwealth and Rowland Eyre was obliged to compound at a cost of £21,000 for its return.
The house was rebuilt in about 1774. In 1814 it was inherited by Francis Eyre, who had wrongly claimed the title of 6th Earl of Newburgh.
The claim to the earldom was based upon the marriage of Francis Eyre (d. 1804) to Mary Radclyffe, daughter of Charles Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Derwentwater, (3rd son of Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater) and Charlotte Maria Livingstone, 3rd Countess of Newburgh. Although Mary's brother and his son had succeeded as 4th and 5th Earl of Newburgh, Mary's claim (and therefore that of Francis) ultimately proved subordinate to that of a daughter by an earlier marriage.
In 1816–17 Francis Eyre built a Roman Catholic chapel, Church of All Saints, Hassop, next to the entrance lodge of the hall; the design, by Joseph Ireland, was based on that of Inigo Jones' St Paul's Covent Garden. The building was later transferred to the Diocese of Nottingham. From 1827 Eyre altered the house itself considerably, creating a substantial mansion with a south front of three storeys and seven bays alternately canted to full height, and a pedimented Tuscan order doorway.
In 1833 Mary Dorothea Eyre, who married Charles Leslie, inherited the Hassop estate. In 1919 the Leslie family sold it to Sir Henry Stephenson. The Stephenson family sold the house and grounds in 1975 to Thomas Chapman, who converted it into an hotel. Thomas Chapman's sons, Richard and Tom, ran the hotel in later years. The hall was sold to care home owner John Hill and his wife Alex, and returned to private residential use in 2019.
See also
Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire Dales
Listed buildings in Hassop
References
Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire
Country houses in Derbyshire
History of Derbyshire |
55394533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr%20Musolitin | Volodymyr Musolitin | Volodymyr Musolitin (; born 11 March 1973) is a former Ukrainian footballer.
International goal
Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first.
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Footballers from Odesa
Soviet men's footballers
Ukrainian men's footballers
Ukraine men's international footballers
SC Odesa players
FC Chornomorets Odesa players
FC CSKA-2 Kyiv players
FC CSKA Kyiv players
FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka players
FC Vorskla Poltava players
FC Vorskla-2 Poltava players
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players
FC Odesa players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
Ukrainian Second League players
Men's association football forwards |
53089197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne%20Neumann | Susanne Neumann | Susanne "Susi" Neumann (29 May 1959 – 13 January 2019) was a German author, chairwoman of a labour union, and cleaner. She gained public recognition after an appearance on the German talk-show Anne Will.
Neumann is known for her direct speech, criticism of fixed-term employment contracts and advocacy for social justice. She is furthermore known for her talk with German vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel about the crumbling middle class.
She wrote a book about her concerns and experiences, which was published in 2016. In 2018, Neumann supported the Aufstehen movement.
Life
Neumann was born in Gelsenkirchen and came from a civil servant family. She graduated with the Mittlere Reife school-leaving certificate and started an apprenticeship as home decorator. She abandoned this apprenticeship when she became pregnant and worked as a cleaner in Gelsenkirchen from 1981.
She was a trade unionist and joined the Building and Construction Union and became a union official on regional and federal commissions.
Publications
In her book Frau Neumann haut auf den Putz – Warum wir ein Leben lang arbeiten und trotzdem verarmen (Ms. Neumann hits the nail on the head – why we work for a lifetime and still become impoverished) published in 2017, she and co-author outline social conditions in Germany, how its welfare state has degenerated and why people have multiple jobs but still do not earn enough money. Neumann also writes about her own experiences.
References
1959 births
2019 deaths
People from Gelsenkirchen
Social justice activists
Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
German trade unionists
Aufstehen
German women writers
German non-fiction writers
German women trade unionists |
1467086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow%20Shipbuilders | Yarrow Shipbuilders | Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited (YSL), often styled as simply Yarrows, was a major shipbuilding firm based in the Scotstoun district of Glasgow on the River Clyde. It is now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships, owned by BAE Systems, which has also operated the nearby Govan shipyard (formerly Fairfields) since 1999.
History
Origins in London
The company was founded by Alfred Yarrow, later Sir Alfred Yarrow, 1st Baronet, in the year 1865 as Yarrow & Company, Limited. Originally it was based at Folly Wall, Poplar, then in 1898 as the company grew, Yarrow moved his shipyard to London Yard, Cubitt Town. Hundreds of steam launches, lake and river vessels, and eventually the Royal Navy's first destroyers, the , were built at Yarrow's London shipyards between 1869 and 1908. Yarrow was also a builder of boilers, and a type of water-tube boiler developed and patented by the company was known as the "Yarrow boiler", first used in a torpedo boat in 1887 and later used for a number of applications, from the propulsion plant of to the LNER Class W1 locomotive. The diversification into boiler manufacturing, including large boilers for electricity generation, meant that the company survived the lean years for shipbuilding. Alfred Yarrow was an inventive naval engineer, and was responsible for a number of novel introductions into service which led to the development of increasingly fast warships. Ultimately in the Royal Navy and abroad it became known that a "Yarrow ship was a fast ship", with the company building the first naval vessel globally to exceed 30 knots and then, later, 40 knots. Sir Alfred Yarrow was knighted for services to the war effort in 1916. He was a notable benefactor to many charities.
Move to Glasgow
Despite a move of yards, Yarrows outgrew its London site and this and the cost of land and labour in London led to a second move to what was at that time a greenfield site at Scotstoun in the west of Glasgow, beginning in 1906. Between 4,000 and 5,000 tons of material had to be transported, from models to heavy machine tools. A train-load of from forty to fifty wagons left the works at Poplar every day. The first vessel launched from the new works at Scotstoun on 14 July 1908 was the lead ship of the Pará-class destroyers for the Brazilian Navy. Sir Harold Yarrow, eldest son of Sir Alfred, supervised the move to Scotland whilst still in his early twenties, and ran the company in Scotland. The company also established the Coventry Ordnance Works joint venture in 1905, building a large factory near to its Scotstoun Shipyard in 1910. During the First World War, the company developed the pioneering Erskine artificial limb with Sir William Macewen and Sir Harold Yarrow was one of the founders of the Erskine Hospital for disabled ex-servicemen. Yarrow workshops were used to manufacture artificial limbs at no profit.
The Yarrow company was one of the world's leading builders of destroyers and frigates from early on, building ships for both the Royal Navy and numerous export customers. For many years until the 1960s Yarrow also built a large number of merchant ships, specialising particularly on Riverboat vessels for the rivers and lakes of Burma, India, Africa and South America.
Several of these vessels were built to serve on lakes that had no navigable access to deliver them by sea. They were therefore built as "knock downs"; that is, they were assembled temporarily in the shipyard, disassembled into a large number of sections and transported to the lake, and there assembled permanently and launched. Yarrow's Scotstoun yard built the "knock down" ferry for Nyasaland in 1949. She was completed and launched on Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) in 1951. The yard built three "knock down" ferries for Lake Victoria in East Africa. was built in Scotstoun in 1960 and reassembled at the Kenyan port of Kisumu on the lake in 1961. The train ferries and were built in Scotstoun in 1965 and reassembled at Kisumu in 1965 and 1966.
In total Yarrow built approximately 400 ships on the Clyde – these can be traced in detail in the Clyde-built Ship Database.
The yard continued to expand during the post-war period, acquiring and integrating the shipyard of the neighbouring Blythswood Shipbuilding Company, which had itself been founded in 1919, to the east of the Yarrow yard in 1964. The new acquisition was used by Yarrow to extend their Shipyard, with the construction of three covered building berths and a six-storey Technical Office Block undertaken in the former Blythswood shipyard site during the late 1960s, with the aid of a government grant. Other neighbouring yards was acquired to lengthen the waterfront and provide additional facilities, the price of one being negotiated by Sir Eric Yarrow on the golf course with Sir John Hunter. Eric Yarrow had followed his father on his death as chairman in 1962, becoming the third generation of the family to lead the firm.
During this period, Yarrow was involved in designing and building many of the Royal Navy's post-war escort fleet; including the Type 81 Tribal class, Type 14 Blackwood class and the Type 12M Rothesay-class frigates. The company was also involved in the Leander class programme. During the 1960s ships were built for the navies of South Africa, Chile, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand and Iran.
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and aftermath
In 1968 the Company became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders which collapsed in 1971. Yarrows had already left the UCS joint venture by April 1970 however, as the only profitable division of the joint venture. In 1974 it acquired the neighbouring Elderslie Dockyard, owned by Barclay Curle, which lay to the west of the Yarrow yard and included an extensive complex of three drydocks originally built in 1904 (No. 1 Dry Dock), 1933 (No. 2 Dry Dock) and 1965 (No. 3 Dry Dock). During this period Yarrow was involved in the Type 12I Leander-class frigate programme as well as the for the Chilean Navy and the design of the for the Indian Navy.
The long-term investment in facilities and strong manufacturing credentials, combined with the development of the Yarrow Admiralty Research Department (YARD) ensured that when the number of warship yards was dramatically reduced by the Navy in the 1970s, Yarrows was chosen as one of mainstream contractors alongside Swan Hunter, Vosper (for the Type 21s) and Cammell Laird. The Type 21 was the first type in the Navy to be a combined Gas Turbine and Diesel design, using the marine variant of the Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbine (also used in Concorde). 5 out of 8 Type 21s, 10 out of 14 Type 22s, 12 out of 16 Type 23s and all the Type 45s were built at Scotstoun, demonstrating the firm's dominance in the market for medium-sized RN surface vessels. The sleek, good looks and the sporting performance of the Type 21 frigates led to the captains of the ships being called "boy racers". The vessel could stop from full speed in twice the length of the ship. HMS Ardent was destroyed by Argentinian aircraft in Falkland Sound in May 1982. All of the Yarrow built Type 21s served in the Falklands
Nationalisation
In 1977 the Labour government of James Callaghan passed the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 which nationalised Yarrow (Shipbuilders), Limited, and grouped it with other major British shipyards as a division within British Shipbuilders. Nationalisation was opposed by the owners, and by the minority Conservative party. The last ship launched under private ownership was , a Type 22 launched by Audrey Callaghan, wife of the Prime Minister. Investment continued in the yard, with the construction of a large GRP fabrication hall at the western end of the yard, adjacent to the Elderslie dry docks during the late 1970s. Dry dock No.1 was also covered over. This was in preparation for the project, although only two vessels of the class were eventually built at Yarrow. The long-disused hall was subsequently demolished in 2008. The parent company, Yarrow PLC, retained ownership of non-shipbuilding assets, including YARD Ltd. Yarrow plc was subsequently sold to the CAP Group in 1986, and in turn was owned by Sema Group plc and Schlumberger.
Privatisation
The succeeding government of Margaret Thatcher began a privatisation programme and the profitable Yarrow was one of British Shipbuilders' early divestitures. It was sold in 1985 to GEC's GEC-Marconi division, becoming Marconi Marine (YSL). GEC began a programme of major capital investment, culminating in the construction of a large Module Hall, north of the covered building berths, in 1987. The principal work undertaken during this period was on the Type 22 Broadsword class and Type 23 Duke class frigates for the Royal Navy and the for the Royal Malaysian Navy as well as the Type 45 Destroyers for the Royal Navy. In 1999 Marconi Electronic Systems was sold to British Aerospace, creating BAE Systems. Marconi Marine (YSL) then became part of BAE Systems Marine. Since 2009, YSL is part of BAE Systems Surface Ships, a BAE Systems subsidiary.
Ships built by Yarrow Shipbuilders
Clyde-class RNLI lifeboats
Charles H Barrett (70-001)
Grace Paterson Ritchie (70-002)
Royal Malaysian Navy
(F76) ex-Black Star, ex-HMS Mermaid
(F24)
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Yarrows Ltd. (Canada)
Yarrows Ltd. was a major ship yard located in Esquimalt, British Columbia on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Established in 1893 as the Esquimalt Marine Railway Co., later B.C. Marine Railway Co., by W. Fitzherbert Bullen, it ran small marine railways in Victoria and Vancouver. Sir Alfred Yarrow purchased the yard in 1913, renamed it Yarrows Ltd., and installed his son, Norman Yarrow, as manager . From its early start building ships for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the yard expanded during the First World War to repair and refit many vessels for the Royal Navy, employing up to 800 men. In the late 1920s, the larger Esquimalt graving dock was completed. During the Second World War the company produced corvettes, frigates, landing ships, and transport ferries for the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy, as well as freighters. Other work included arming civilian ships and refitting at least one as a troop carrier. At its peak, 3,500 men and women worked for Yarrows in the yard. After the war, the Yarrow family sold the yard to Burrard Dry Dock, with the deal completed on April 15, 1946. The yard was closed in 1994 and the graving dock and property are now part of the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt.
References
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Defunct shipbuilding companies of Scotland
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70712402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majd%20al-Din%20Baghdadi | Majd al-Din Baghdadi | Abū Saʿīd Sharaf ibn al-Muʾayyad ibn Abī l-Fatḥ al-Baghdādī (1170–1219), best known as Majd al-Din Baghdadi, was an important Sufi shaykh ("master") of the Kubrawiya school of Sufism. Baghdadi's students included Najm al-Din Razi (died 1256) and Razi al-Din Ali Lala (died 1244). His most significant work was Tuḥfat al-barara fī l-masāʾil al-ʿashara ("The gift of the pious in ten questions"), written in Arabic. Baghdadi also wrote several Persian works, including Risāla fī l-safar ("Treatise on [spiritual] travel"), as well as poems and letters.
He was the older brother of Baha al-Din Baghdadi.
References
1170 births
1219 deaths
Kubrawiya order
Sufis
Arabic-language writers
Persian-language writers |
33534236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstemon%20navajoa | Penstemon navajoa | Penstemon navajoa is a rare species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common name Navajo Mountain beardtongue, or Navajo beardtongue. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from San Juan County.
This perennial herb reaches 20 to 40 centimeters in maximum height. It produces blue flowers with white beards, blooming taking place in July and August. It grows in open areas in coniferous forest habitat.
There are only five known occurrences of this plant, mainly high on Navajo Mountain within the Navajo Nation. It may face threats from wildfire and firefighting efforts.
References
navajoa
Flora of Utah
San Juan County, Utah
Navajo Nation |
31616669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dzen-ji%20%28Naruto%29 | Ryōzen-ji (Naruto) | (lit. Vulture Peak Temple) is a Kōya-san Shingon temple in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Temple 1 of the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage, the main image is of Shaka Nyorai. Said to have been founded by Gyōki during the Tempyō era, its buildings are more recent replacements after damage by fires. Located close to the crossing point for pilgrims from the Kansai region, Yūben Shinnen identified the temple as No.1 in his Shikoku henro michishirube of 1687 and subsequent guidebooks followed suit. It is customary to return to Ryōzen-ji as an orei mairi or thanksgiving visit upon completing the pilgrimage, although this may be a relatively recent development.
See also
Tōrin-in
Vulture Peak
Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage
References
Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Japan
Buddhist temples in Tokushima Prefecture
Kōyasan Shingon temples
Jingū-ji
Naruto, Tokushima
Temples of Gautama Buddha
Shikoku Pilgrimage Sites |
26514881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian%20Cr%C4%83ciun | Cristian Crăciun | Cristian Crăciun (born 16 November 1972) is a retired Romanian football player.
External links
1972 births
Living people
Footballers from Galați
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Astra Giurgiu players
ASC Oțelul Galați players
Liga I players |
14769794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Saints%20Church%2C%20Marple | All Saints Church, Marple | All Saints Church is in Church Lane, Marple, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. In the churchyard is the tower of an earlier church, which is also listed at Grade II. The church is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Chadkirk.
History
The first church on the site was a small timber-framed building erected in the second half of the 16th century. The first recorded service took place in 1588. In 1803 the building was in a ruinous condition and it was decided that a new church should be built. In 1808 Robert Goldsmith was appointed as architect and the church was completed in 1811 at a cost of £4,000 (). A major financial contributor to the building of the church was Samuel Oldknow, a local cotton manufacturer. In 1816 a peal of bells arrived and in 1826 an organ was installed. By the 1870s the church was too small for the congregation and the building was unsuitable for expansion so it was decided that a new church should be built. The new church was built to the south of the old church. J. Medland Taylor and Henry Taylor were appointed as architects and the church cost £6,056 (). It was consecrated on 30 June 1880. In the following years some services were still held in the old church but its condition deteriorated and by 1964 it was considered to be dangerous and (save its tower) it was demolished. The tower was strengthened and the bells re-hung in it, making it a free-standing bell-tower.
Architecture
Tower
The separate tower is in four stages with string courses between the stages. At the west is a door with a rusticated surround and a two-light window. In the third stage is a clock face. Above this are lancet bell openings. The parapet has plain pilasters and square pinnacles.
Inside the tower are memorials. Pevsner considers that the best is a tablet by John Flaxman in memory of Rev. Kelsall Prescot, who died in 1823, showing him standing and instructing boys. The monument to Samuel Oldknow, who died in 1828, is by Francis Legatt Chantrey, but Pevsner considers it to be disappointing. A monument to Elizabeth Isherwood, who died in 1835, is by Manning and shows a woman kneeling by an urn. Other monuments are to Nathaniel Wright who died in 1818, showing a cherub with an extinguished torch, and to John Clayton who died in 1848 and shows a standing woman with a lamp and a torch.
There is a ring of eight bells. Six of these, which came from Stockport parish church in 1816, were cast by Rudhall of Gloucester in 1731. The other two bells are by John Taylor and Company and are dated 1963.
Church
The church is built in stone with a patterned tiled roof. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, and a two-bay chancel. At the east end is a five-light window and at the west end is a rose window.
In the church the chandelier and font were removed from the old church. Also in the church are memorials to the Bradshaw-Isherwood family. The organ was built by Conacher and Wadsworth and extended by Walker in 1972. The parish registers date from 1655.
External features
The lych gate dated 1893 is listed at Grade II. Also listed at Grade II are a stable and coach house from the early 19th century erected for the use of the owner of Marple Hall when visiting the church, and the adjacent hearse house, also dating from the early 19th century.
The churchyard contains the war graves of nine soldiers of World War I and two soldiers and two airmen of World War II.
Gallery
See also
List of churches in Greater Manchester
Listed buildings in Marple, Greater Manchester
References
Church of England church buildings in Greater Manchester
Grade II listed churches in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport
Gothic Revival architecture in Greater Manchester
Churches completed in 1880
19th-century Church of England church buildings
Religious organizations established in the 1580s
Diocese of Chester
16th-century Church of England church buildings
All Saints Church
1880 establishments in England |
16059617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nojima%20Fault | Nojima Fault | is a fault that was responsible for the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995 (Kobe Quake). It cuts across Awaji Island, Japan and it is a branch of the Japan Median Tectonic Line which runs the length of the southern half of Honshu island. The fault line itself and part of the damage caused by the Great Hanshin earthquake is preserved within the Nojima Fault Preservation Museum.
IUGS geological heritage site
In respect of it being 'the fault that caused the 1996 Kobe earthquake', the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) included the 'Nojima Fault' in its assemblage of 100 'geological heritage sites' around the world in a listing published in October 2022. The organisation defines an IUGS Geological Heritage Site as 'a key place with geological elements and/or processes of international scientific relevance, used as a reference, and/or with a substantial contribution to the development of geological sciences through history.'
References
Seismic faults of Japan
First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites |
1115591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Castillon | Battle of Castillon | The Battle of Castillon between the forces of England and France took place on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne (later Castillon-la-Bataille). Historians regard this decisive French victory as marking the end of the Hundred Years' War.
On the day of the battle, the English commander, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, believing that the enemy was retreating, led his army in an attack on a fortified French encampment without waiting for reinforcements. Talbot then refused to withdraw even after realizing the strength of the French position, causing his men to suffer severe casualties from the French artillery. Castillon was a major European battle won through the extensive use of field artillery.
The battle led to the English losing almost all their holdings in France, especially Gascony (Aquitaine), an English possession for the previous three centuries. The balance of power in Europe shifted, and political instability ensued in England.
Background
The breakdown of the 1420 Treaty of Troyes began the final stage of the Hundred Years' War. This period from 1420 to 1453 is characterized by Anne Curry as the "wars of the Treaty of Troyes" for control of the crown of France.
After the 1451 French capture of Bordeaux by the armies of Charles VII, the Hundred Years' War appeared to be at an end. The English primarily focused on reinforcing their only remaining possession, Calais, and watching over the seas. After three hundred years of Plantagenet rule, the citizens of Bordeaux considered themselves as subjects of the English monarch and sent messengers to Henry VI of England demanding that he recapture the province.
On 17 October 1452, the Earl of Shrewsbury landed near Bordeaux with a force of 3,000 men. A feared and famous military leader, Talbot was rumoured to be seventy-five or eighty years old, but it is more likely that he was around sixty-six at the time. With the cooperation of the townspeople, Talbot easily took the city on 23 October. The English subsequently took control over most of western Gascony by the end of the year. The French had known an English expedition was coming, but had expected it to come through Normandy. After this surprise, Charles prepared his forces over the winter, and by early 1453 he was ready to counterattack.
Prelude
Charles invaded Guyenne with three separate armies, all headed for Bordeaux. Talbot received 3,000 additional men, reinforcements led by his fourth and favourite son, John, the Viscount Lisle. The French laid siege to Castillon (approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Bordeaux) on 8 July. Talbot acceded to the pleas of the town leaders, abandoning his original plan to wait at Bordeaux for more reinforcements, and set out to relieve the garrison.
The French army was commanded by committee; Charles VII's ordnance officer Jean Bureau laid out the camp to maximize French artillery strength. In a defensive setup, Bureau's forces built an artillery park out of range from Castillon's guns. According to Desmond Seward, the park "consisted of a deep trench with a wall of earth behind it which was strengthened by tree-trunks; its most remarkable feature was the irregular, wavy line of the ditch and earthwork, which enabled the guns to enfilade any attackers". The park included up to 300 guns of various sizes, and was protected by a ditch and palisade on three sides and a steep bank of the River Lidoire on the fourth.
Talbot left Bordeaux on 16 July. He outdistanced a majority of his forces, arriving at Libourne by sunset with only 500 men-at-arms and 800 mounted archers. The following day, this force defeated a small French detachment of archers stationed at a priory near Castillon. Despite earlier plans to wait for reinforcements, Talbot pressed his men onward to the French camp, believing the rest of his men would arrive soon.
Battle
Along with the morale boost of victory at the priory, Talbot also pushed forward because of reports that the French were retreating. However, the cloud of dust leaving the camp which the townsmen indicated as a retreat was in fact created by camp followers departing before the battle.
The English advanced but soon ran into the full force of the French army. Despite being outnumbered and in a vulnerable position, Talbot ordered his men to continue fighting. Historian A.J. Pollard suggests this seemingly reckless behaviour from Talbot may be due to the fact that his "pride and honour were at stake for he had already ordered his men to battle when he discovered the strength of the French position". The only Englishman who remained mounted in the battle, he also did not wear armour due to previous agreements with the French when he was released from captivity in Normandy.
According to David Nicolle, the battle itself was "highly characteristic of the period" with the strong field fortification of the French and the small-arms fighting of the battle. In many ways, this battle played out like the Battle of Crécy in "reverse". The French guns obliterated the advancing soldiers, with each shot reportedly killing six men at a time. Talbot's reinforcements continued to arrive at the battle, only to suffer the same fate in their turn. Despite the odds against the English, the battle lasted over an hour until a thousand-strong Breton cavalry force led by Peter II, Duke of Brittany, crashed into their right flank, sending them into retreat.
The battle ended in an English rout, and both Talbot and his son were killed. There is some debate over the circumstances of Talbot's death, but it appears that his horse was killed by a cannon shot, and its mass pinning him down, a French archer in turn killed him with an axe.
Aftermath
The Anglo-Gascon force which had not participated in the battle, along with the survivors of the rout, totaling up to 5,000 men, including John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal, sought refuge in the castle of Castillon. The day after the battle, Jean Bureau besieged the castle with his artillery, and the defenders surrendered on July 19, becoming prisoners of war.
With Talbot's death and the destruction of his army, English authority in Gascony eroded and the French retook Bordeaux on 19 October. It was not apparent to either side that the period of conflict was over. In hindsight, the battle marks a decisive turning point in history, and is cited as the endpoint of the period known as the Hundred Years' War. This was a major European battle won through the extensive use of field artillery.
Henry VI of England lost his mental capacity in late 1453, which led to the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses in England. Some have speculated that learning of the defeat at Castillon led to his mental collapse. The English Crown lost all its continental possessions except for the Pale of Calais, which was the last English possession in mainland France, and the Channel Islands, historically part of the Duchy of Normandy and thus of the Kingdom of France. Calais was lost in 1558. The Channel Islands have remained British Crown Dependencies to the present day, except for their German occupation during World War II.
A casualty after the battle of Castillon was Pierre II de Montferrand, husband of Mary Plantagenet, illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Bedford and a granddaughter of Henry IV of England. While returning to France after being exiled in England, Montferrand was arrested and taken to Poitiers where he was tried by a commission. Having been found guilty he was beheaded and quartered, possibly on the orders of Charles VII, at Poitiers, in July 1454. Montferrand was one of only a few nobles known to have been executed for treason during the reign of Charles VII.
Notes
References
Curry, Anne. (1993). The Hundred Years War. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Lace, William W. (1994). The Hundred Years' War. San Diego: Lucent Books.
Nicolle, David. (2012). European Medieval Tactics (2): New Infantry, New Weapons, 1260–1500. Botley: Osprey Publishing.
Pollard, A. J. (1983). John Talbot and the War in France, 1427–1453. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, Inc.
Seward, Desmond. (1978). The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337–1453. New York: Atheneum.
Wagner, John A. (2006). Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
Further reading
Allmand, C. T., ed. (1973). Society at War: The Experience of England and France During the Hundred Years War. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
Allmand, C. T. (1988). The Hundred Years War: England and France at war, c. 1300–c. 1450. New York: Cambridge Press.
Burne, A. H. "The Battle of Castillon, 1453: the end of the Hundred Years War" History Today (Apr 1953) 3#4 pp 249–256.
Curry, Anne. (2003). The Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453. New York: Routledge.
Vale, M. G. A. (1970). English Gascony, 1399–1453: A Study of War, Government, and Politics during the Later Stages of the Hundred Years' War. New York: Oxford Press.
Wright, Nicholas. (1998). Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside. Suffolk: Boydell.
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Castillon from French medieval history page
A contemporary newsletter describing the battle
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53572339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%27ad-II | Ra'ad-II | The Ra'ad-II (,"Thunder-2") is a standoff and an air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) derived from the Hatf-VIII Ra'ad. It was first publicly unveiled on the Pakistan Day Parade on 23 March 2017,
The Ra'ad features extended range, changes in its control mechanism, its guidance and enhanced flight control systems.
Testing and unveiling
On 18 February 2020, Ra'ad-II was test-fired from the Pakistan Air Force's Mirage-IIIR platform. The test was overseen by Ra'ad-II program manager, the Strategic Plans Division, developing contractor, NESCOM, and the Pakistan Air Force and Army's Strategic Commands.
According to the ISPR, it significantly enhanced Pakistan's air delivered strategic standoff capability on land and at sea.
Technical design
Data provided by the Inter-Services Public Relations, the Ra'ad-II has an extended range of and has a conventional tail fin configuration compared to the twin tail configuration of the previous version.
It has a new "X" type tail as opposed to previous versions large horizontal tails. It has a length of , and is much lighter than the previous weapon system. Design and control surfaces changes to Ra'ad-II allows to integrate with the JF-17 Thunder platform— the PAF's primary strike platform.
Aerial-based deterrence
Both Hatf-VIII Ra'ad and Ra'ad-II are seen as providing Pakistan the aerial nuclear deterrence against the much larger Indian Air Force and their air defenses in an event of large scale conventional war.
In a view of one former PAF's former fighter pilot, Ra'ad "treetop-hugging [alcm] with its minuscule radar cross-section should be a good antidote to the Indian acquired of S-400 Truimf." While the Islamabad-based Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS) analyst maintained that the Ra’ad-II is "Pakistan's response to Indian development of the Nirbhay cruise missile."
Similar missiles
AGM-158 JASSM (USA)
CJ-10 (China)
KEPD 350 (Germany/Sweden)
Kh-65SE (Russia)
SOM (Turkey)
Saber
Storm Shadow (France/UK)
References
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Air-to-surface missiles of Pakistan
2020 in Pakistan
Air-launched missiles
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 2020 |
11163239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibulata | Mandibulata | Mandibulata, is one of two major clades of living arthropods alongside Chelicerata. It comprises the extant groups Myriapoda (millipedes & centipedes, among others) and Pancrustacea (including insects and crustaceans, among others). The name "Mandibulata" refers to the mandibles, a modified pair of limbs used in food processing, the presence of which are characteristic of most members of the group. Members of the group are referred to as mandibulates.
Molecular phylogenetic studies suggest that the living arthropods are related as shown in the cladogram below. Crustaceans do not form a monophyletic group as insects and other hexapods have evolved from within them.
See also
Atelocerata
Marrellomorpha
Myriochelata
Pancrustacea
Crustaceomorpha
Antennulata
Arachnomorpha
References
Arthropod taxonomy |
6353887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAM-67%20Crossbow | GAM-67 Crossbow | The GAM-67 Crossbow was a turbojet-powered anti-radar missile built by Northrop's Ventura Division, the successor to the Radioplane Company who developed the Crossbow's predecessor, the Q-1 target drone.
Development
In the late 1940s, the Radioplane Company developed a set of prototypes of the Q-1 target series, which used pulsejet or small turbojet engines. Although the Q-1 series was not put into production as a target, it did evolve into the USAF RP-54D / XB-67 / XGAM-67 Crossbow anti-radar missile, which was first flown in 1956. It was also considered as a platform for reconnaissance, electronic countermeasures, and decoy roles.
The Crossbow had a cigar-shaped fuselage, straight wings, a straight twin-fin tail, and an engine inlet under the belly. It was powered by a Continental J69 turbojet engine, with 4.41 kN (450 kgf/1,000 lbf) thrust. Two Crossbows could be carried by a Boeing B-50 Superfortress bomber, while four Crossbows could be carried by a Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber.
The Crossbow's speed was not enough to allow it to get far ahead of the launching bomber before it ran out of fuel. Only 14 Crossbows were built before the program was cancelled in 1957, in favor of the Longbow, essentially a supersonic version of the same concept. Longbow was eventually cancelled as well. None of the alternative roles were taken up either, with all work on the concept ending in 1960. However, it did point the way to the range of missions that would be performed by UAVs in later decades.
References
Early versions of this article contained material that originally came from the web article Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Greg Goebel, which was published into the Public Domain.
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65251507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papanikolas | Papanikolas | Papanikolas, Παπανικόλας is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Helen Z. Papanikolas (1917–2004), Greek-American ethnic historian, novelist, and folklorist
Michalis Papanikolas (born 1993), Greek professional footballer
Greek-language surnames |
40303480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy%20Barr | Kathy Barr | Kathy Barr (born Marilyn Sultana Aboulafia; June 4, 1929 – June 21, 2008) was an American vocalist who performed and recorded popular, jazz, musical theater, and operettas. Her stage name was drawn from the first and married surname of her maternal grandmother, Katie Barr.
Biography
Barr was born on June 4, 1929, in the Bronx, New York, to Ovadia "Ovid" Aboulafia (1900–1978), who, himself, was born in Çeşme, Turkey, and Eabeta "Tessie" Barr (1908–1978), a native New Yorker.
Barr flourished from the 1950s through the mid-1960s in musical theater, nightclubs, television, and radio. She was acclaimed for her coloratura soprano range, three and one-half octaves by at least one account (see Annotations below, "Vocal Range Context"), and her ability to sing pop, jazz, and classical.
Upon marrying for the second time, in 1965, Barr retired from as a recording artist, although she continued to perform club dates (one-nighters) and regional musical theater productions until around 1968. These later roles included Billy Dawn (Judy Holliday's role) in Born Yesterday (November 25, 1967–January 7, 1968) at the Hamlet Street Theater (now named the Rauh Theater) in Pittsburgh; and a hymn singer seeking to save men's souls in Guys and Dolls, starring Tony Martin, at the Meadowbrook Theater Restaurant in Cedar Grove, New Jersey (May 29, 1968–June 30, 1968).
Personal life
Her first marriage was to Milton ("Milt" or "Milty") Leon Schwartz (1901–1992), on June 20, 1954, in The Bronx. Schwartz, who was years older, had been a saxophonist with the Al Trace Orchestra; he was co-owner with Ralph Mitchell (né Ralph Michelev; 1916–2004) of the acclaimed Chicago jazz club the Preview Lounge, at 7 West Randolph Street, that ran from about 1945 until the summer of 1960. At the same address, Schwartz and Mitchell also owned the Modern Jazz Room (formerly the Encore Room and formerly Mambo City), upstairs.
Her and Schwartz' marriage was annulled in New York Supreme Court on May 28, 1956, refereed by Ed Koch (who years later become Mayor of New York City).
In 1958, news media reported that Aboulafia was officially changing her name to Kathy Barr.
In 1965, in Manhattan, under her birth name, "Marilyn Aboulafia," she married Irwin M. Glickman (1930–2011). In 1966, she and Glickman had a daughter — Sylvia Beth Glickman. In 1968, reflecting on her disappointment about her first marriage, Barr confided that she was happy in her second marriage and declared, "This time, I wanted to work at it."
Barr died in Hollywood, Florida, on June 21, 2008.
Her daughter Sylvia married Jeffrey Zina Johnston in 2005. Sylvia and Jeff had two sons, both born in Hollywood, Florida: John Michael Thunder Johnston, born in 2005, and Lightning James Marshall Hawk Johnston, born in 2008.
Discography
Albums
Singles
‡ Audio courtesy of YouTube
Radio transcription disc
→ via Rand's Esoteric OTR, a blog of Randy Riddle () at randsesotericotr.podbean.com. Note: The program, hosted by Lt. Bob Osterberg, USMC (né Robert Pierce Osterberg; 1929–2016), interviewed Kathy Barr and featured tracks from her new album, Follow Me. The show title, Magic in Music, is titled Magic of Music on the AFRTS disk label.
Musical theater roles
Marinka, as Marinka (leading soprano role)
Winter Garden Theatre, New York
Australia touring production
Tivoli circuit, Melbourne: Opened May 28, 1948, at the Tivoli Theater, Melbourne
At the age of 19, Barr was elevated to the role of Marinka after being the understudy for Kathryn Grayson
Wizard of Oz, as Dorothy Gale (leading soprano role)
Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, August 1 thru August 6, 1949
References
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Citations
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12188495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle-billed%20hermit | Needle-billed hermit | The needle-billed hermit (Phaethornis philippii) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.
Taxonomy and systematics
The needle-billed hermit is monotypic. It and the straight-billed hermit (P. bourcieri) were at one time placed in genus Ametrornis that was later merged into Phaethornis. The needle-billed hermit and Koepcke's hermit are sister species and may form a superspecies.
Description
The needle-billed hermit is long. Males weigh and females . It is one of the few hermit hummingbirds with a nearly straight bill. Its upperparts are dark bronzy green with a dull rufous rump. The tail is mostly dark green. The innermost pair of tail feathers are longer than the others and have long white tips; the others have broad buffy rufous tips. The face has a black "mask" bordered with narrow pale streaks. The underparts are orange.
Distribution and habitat
The needle-billed hermit is found in eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western Brazil south of the Amazon River as far east as the Tapajós River. It inhabits the understory of lowland rainforest. It is mostly found in terra firme forest but also occurs in várzea forest, bamboo thickets, and plantations. In elevation it ranges only as high as .
Behavior
Feeding
The needle-billed hermit is a "trap-line" feeder like other hermit hummingbirds, visiting a circuit of a wide variety of flowering plants for nectar. It also consumes small arthropods.
Breeding
The needle-billed hermit's breeding season or seasons have not been determined but appear to span at least from June to September. One nest was suspended from the underside of a leaf tip.
Vocalization
The needle-billed hermit's song is "a continuous series of single, upslurred high-pitched 'tsee' notes".
Status
The IUCN has assessed the needle-billed hermit as being of Least Concern, though its population size and trend are not known. It is generally thought to be locally common and occurs in some protected areas.
References
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Birds of the Bolivian Amazon
Birds of the Brazilian Amazon
Birds of the Peruvian Amazon
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70387092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino%20Sisask | Heino Sisask | Heino Sisask (31 December 1928 – 21 January 2023) was an Estonian politician, racewalker, and sports personality.
He was born in Sirvaste, Tartu County. In 1952 he graduated from Tartu State University's Faculty of Law.
He started his athletics exercising under the guidance of Valter Kalam. He focused on race walking. He was two-times Estonian champion in race walking. From 1950 to 1952 he was a member of Estonian national athletics team.
From 1964 to 1974 he was the chairman of Estonian SSR Sport Committee. From 1964 to 1974 he was a member of Soviet Union's Olympic Committee. From 1984 to 1995 he was a chairman of Estonian Gymnastics Federation, and from 1995 to 2001 its vice-president. From 1992 to 1999 he was a member of Estonian Olympic Committee.
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1928 births
2023 deaths
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Estonian sportspeople
Estonian politicians
University of Tartu alumni
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13800460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier%20Woods | Xavier Woods | Austin Watson (born September 4, 1986) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Xavier Woods and is part of The New Day. Watson also makes public appearances outside of wrestling under the name Austin Creed.
Watson previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Consequences Creed, and was a one-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with Jay Lethal as The Lethal Consequences. After signing with WWE in 2010, he was assigned to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) under the ring name Xavier Woods. FCW was later closed and rebranded as NXT, where Woods worked until he was called up to the main roster in 2013. In 2014, Woods formed The New Day alongside Big E and Kofi Kingston, and has since become a record seven-time SmackDown Tag Team Champion, four-time Raw Tag Team Champion, and one-time NXT Tag Team Champion, making him an overall 12-time tag team champion in WWE. New Day's second reign with the Raw Tag Team Championship was the longest tag team title reign of any male tag team championship in WWE history until that record was broken in February 2021. In October 2021, Woods became the 22nd winner of the King of the Ring tournament and briefly went by the name of King Woods. With his NXT Tag Team Championship win in 2022, Woods also became a Tag Team Triple Crown Champion.
Since 2015, Watson, as Austin Creed, has hosted a gaming YouTube channel titled UpUpDownDown, where he invites fellow WWE performers, gaming personalities, friends, and guests to play games. He was also a host on the G4 television network, which covers video games, following its revival in 2020 until its end in 2022.
Early life
Watson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He graduated from Sprayberry High School but there are also rumors that he graduated at Pebblebrook High School instead in 2004. Later that year, he began studying psychology and philosophy at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated with a master's degree in psychology and a bachelor's degree in philosophy.
Professional wrestling career
Early years (2005–2007)
While attending Furman University, Watson began training for a career in professional wrestling and, in 2005, began wrestling part-time with Rob Adonis' Ultimate Christian Wrestling promotion. While in the Greenville, South Carolina-based World Wrestling Council, he developed his Austin Creed gimmick, which is based heavily on the character Apollo Creed from the Rocky series.
During his time in NWA Anarchy, Creed was part of a tag team called Awesome Attraction with Hayden Young. The pair had one of the longest title reigns in the promotion's history after defeating Justice Served (Jason Justice and Mike Free) in Cornelia, Georgia on April 7, 2007. In 2006, Creed won NWA's Most Popular Wrestler, voted for by the NWA fans.
In 2007, Watson took a day off from college to show up unannounced at the main building of Deep South Wrestling (DSW), then a developmental territory of WWE, and apply for a job as a wrestler; coincidentally, his future New Day partner Kofi Kingston (then using the ringname "Kofi Nahaje Kingston") was working in the ring the exact moment he arrived, marking the first meeting between the two. DSW accepted to give Creed a tryout, although WWE would officially cut ties with DSW shortly before he received a contract. On July 12, 2007, Creed defeated Murder-One in a tournament finals to win the vacant DSW Heavyweight Champion, becoming the first wrestler to hold the title without the company being affiliated with WWE; the company closed its doors the following October 11, making Creed the final DSW Heavyweight Champion.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007–2010)
X Division (2007–2008)
Creed appeared at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Bound For Glory pay-per-view event, teaming with Ron Killings as the replacement for Adam "Pacman" Jones. Creed wrestled under the name Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed. His union with Ron Killings was dubbed Truth and Consequences, which was a combination of Killings' nickname "The Truth" and Creed's nickname "Consequences" as well as a play on words on the game show of a similar name.
On October 21, 2007, it was reported that Creed had signed a contract with TNA. The signing was reported when Creed appeared on the radio show Trash Talking Radio on October 23 with Tommy Cairo and Sabian. His signing was also confirmed later at a NWA Anarchy show where Creed was presented with the contract by TNA Booking Director Bill Behrens. Following Bound For Glory, Creed was not seen on TNA television for months after Killings asked for and was later granted his release from the company.
On February 10, 2008, Creed wrestled in a dark match before Against All Odds. He teamed with Sonjay Dutt defeating The Rock 'n Rave Infection. On the March 13 episode of Impact!, a promo video with the words "prepare to face the consequences" showed Creed training and announced that he would make his return at the Lockdown pay-per-view on April 13. The following week, the return date was changed to April 10. On the April 10 episode of Impact!, Creed made his in-ring return and defeated Jimmy Rave of The Rock 'n Rave Infection, thus qualifying for the Xscape match at Lockdown. During the match, Creed eliminated Shark Boy, but was later eliminated by Curry Man. Creed later wrestled in the first ever TerrorDome match at Sacrifice, which was won by Kaz.
At Hard Justice, Creed faced Petey Williams for the X Division Championship, but lost after interference from Sheik Abdul Bashir. On the September 4, 2008, episode of Impact!, he won a number one contenders match against Bashir for the right to face Williams again at No Surrender for the X Division Title. However, the match was later changed to a triple threat after Bashir repeatedly attacked Creed and ultimately, Bashir won the match and the X Division title. At Bound for Glory IV on October 12, 2008, Creed was defeated by Bashir in another match for the X Division Championship.
Lethal Consequences (2008–2010)
On the October 30, 2008, episode of Impact!, Creed, along with Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, Jay Lethal, Petey Williams, Eric Young, ODB and The Motor City Machineguns formed a faction of younger wrestlers, known as The Frontline, to oppose The Main Event Mafia.
On January 8, 2009 (taped December 16, 2008), fellow Frontline member Lethal chose Creed to cash in his Feast or Fired briefcase with, and the pair won the World Tag Team Championship from the champions Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm). Creed and Lethal went on to be named Lethal Consequences, a combination of their respective names. Beer Money, Inc. regained their titles in a three-way match at Genesis. at Against All Odds, Creed and Lethal got their rematch but failed to regain the titles.
For the next few months, Creed and Lethal teamed with the Motor City Machineguns to try and unmask Suicide. At Against All Odds, Lethal Consequences lost to Beer Money, Inc., At Destination X, Creed competed in an Ultimate X match for the TNA X Division Championship which was won by Suicide. At Lockdown, Creed competed in a Xscape match for the X Division Championship which was won by Suicide. At Sacrifice, Lethal Consequences and Eric Young defeated The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) and Sheik Abdul Bashir. At Slammiversary, Creed competed in a King of the Mountain match for the X Division Championship which was won by Suicide. At Hard Justice, Creed competed in a Steel Asylum match which was won by Daniels.
On the October 1, 2009, episode of Impact!, Creed and Lethal were part of a 5-man ladder match for a future X Division Title match. During the match, Amazing Red, who ended up winning the match, performed a hurricanrana driver, which caused Creed to projectile vomit after his head hit the mat.
At Bound for Glory, Lethal Consequences (Consequences Creed and Jay Lethal) lost to The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) on the preshow. at Final Resolution, Creed competed in a Feast or Fired match but failed to win the match.
Watson was released from TNA on March 29, 2010.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2010)
On April 4, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) announced Watson, under his Consequences Creed ring name, as a participant in the first Super J Tag Tournament. On May 8, Creed and his partner Kota Ibushi were eliminated from the tournament in the first round by the team of Gedo and Kushida. Creed returned to New Japan on June 28, 2010, teaming up with IWGP Heavyweight Champion Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma in the J Sports Crown Openweight 6 Man Tag Tournament. After defeating Tamon Honda, Kentaro Shiga and Makoto Hashi in the opening round, the trio was eliminated from the tournament in the second round by Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka and Tomohiro Ishii.
On July 10, Creed defeated Brian Milonas, U-Gene and Tommaso Ciampa to win East Coast Wrestling Association's 2010 Super 8 Tournament.
World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
Developmental territories (2010–2013)
On July 22, 2010, it was announced that Watson had signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In a 2016 interview, Watson revealed that he got hired by showing up unannounced to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), a developmental territory of WWE, to apply for a job as wrestler; his future New Day partner Kofi Kingston, who had coincidentally met him on the day Watson had similarly showed up in DSW in 2007, happened to be in the room yet again when Watson entered. WWE had originally wanted to sign Watson full-time, but as he had six months left before finishing college, he turned down the offer; instead, they agreed to let him work part-time until he graduated from college, and gave him a full-time contract afterwards.
Watson, using his real name, made his debut for FCW on July 29, 2010, in a tag team match, where he and Percy Watson were defeated by Brodus Clay and Donny Marlow. Following his debut, he was then added to FCW's official website under the name Xavier Woods. In October, Woods began to team up with Wes Brisco and they took part in a tag team turmoil match on October 14, where they defeated three other teams. On November 4, Woods and Brisco defeated Johnny Curtis and Derrick Bateman to become the Florida Tag Team Champions. On December 1, Woods and Brisco vacated the Tag Team Championship after Brisco was sidelined with an injury. With Brisco sidelined with an injury, Woods teamed up with Marcus Owens to take on Damien Sandow and Titus O'Neil for the vacant Florida Tag Team Championship, but were unsuccessful. Following this, Woods began performing as a singles competitor throughout 2011 and 2012, though without much success.
After WWE rebranded its developmental territory, FCW, into NXT, Woods made his televised debut on the October 31, 2012, episode of NXT with a loss to Leo Kruger. While picking up wins on NXT over the likes of El Local and Jake Carter, Woods began using the gimmick of a fanboy of 1990s popular culture that saw him implement his legitimate fandom of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z, and other 1990s pop culture into his matches and attire. He stopped using this gimmick once he was called up to WWE's main roster.
Teaming with R-Truth (2013–2014)
On the November 18, 2013, episode of Raw, Woods made his main roster debut as he teamed with fellow TNA alumnus and former tag-team partner R-Truth to defeat 3MB (Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal). The following week on Raw, Woods defeated Heath Slater in his singles debut match while being accompanied by R-Truth and The Funkadactyls (Naomi and Cameron). On the November 29 episode of SmackDown, Woods began a feud with Brodus Clay, after Clay took offense to Woods using his entrance music and The Funkdactyls as his valets. Later that night, Woods suffered his first loss when he and R-Truth lost to Tons of Funk (Clay and Tensai). On the December 2 episode of Raw, Woods and Truth defeated Tons of Funk in a rematch. On the December 9 episode of Raw, Woods lost to Clay. On the December 11 episode of Main Event, Woods and Truth defeated Tons of Funk to end the feud.
On April 6, 2014, Woods made his WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania XXX, where he competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, but failed to win the match. Woods and Truth then began a feud with the debuting Alexander Rusev, and were defeated by him in singles encounters. At Extreme Rules, Woods and Truth was defeated by Rusev in a handicap match. After that loss, Woods and Truth's team quietly disbanded.
The New Day (2014–present)
On the July 21 episode of Raw, after Big E and Kofi Kingston suffered another loss as a team in a recent string of defeats, Woods came down to address them. He went on to state that they could not "get ahead by kissing babies and shaking hands" and that now is "their time" and offered to form a stable. The duo accepted Woods' offer, and on the next day's Main Event, Woods managed Big E and Kingston to a decisive victory over Heath Slater and Titus O'Neil. On the July 29 episode of Main Event, Woods filled a commentary role while he and his group observed a match wrestled by the WWE Tag Team Champions, The Usos. The trio then temporarily separated as on the August 8 episode of SmackDown, both Big E and Kingston reverted to wrestling singles matches with no sign or mention of the other two members of the group. Woods also joined the broadcast team alongside Rich Brennan on August 28 episode of Superstars. Despite being disbanded on WWE television; Woods, Big E, and Kingston continued their alliance at house shows. On the September 26 episode of SmackDown, Woods competed in an Intercontinental Championship No. 1 contender battle royal, which was won by Cesaro.
From the November 3 episode of Raw, WWE began airing vignettes for Woods, Big E, and Kingston, with the stable billed as The New Day, and presented as overly-positive babyface characters. The New Day made their in-ring debut on the November 28 episode of SmackDown in a winning effort against Curtis Axel, Heath Slater, and Titus O'Neil. They started a brief feud with Gold and Stardust, which Kingston and Big E defeated Gold and Stardust at the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pre-show on December 14. At WrestleMania 31, Woods competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, where he was eliminated by eventual winner, Big Show.
On the April 6, 2015, episode of Raw, The New Day turned heel, after fans responded negatively to the group. During this time, Woods especially would trash-talk with their opponents and the crowd during matches. On the April 20 episode of Raw, The New Day defeated The Lucha Dragons via countout to become the number one contenders for the WWE Tag Team Championship, after Woods held onto Sin Cara's feet to prevent him from re-entering the ring. At Extreme Rules, Big E and Kingston defeated Tyson Kidd and Cesaro to win the WWE Tag Team Championship, after a distraction from Woods. Woods was then given a share of the title and the trio defended the titles under the Freebird Rule. Big E and Kingston retained titles against Kidd and Cesaro on SmackDown and at Payback, with Woods interfering in both matches. At Elimination Chamber, The New Day retained the title in the first ever tag team Elimination Chamber match, where all three members were allowed to compete. At Money in the Bank, Woods and Big E lost the titles to The Prime Time Players (Titus O'Neil and Darren Young), but regain the titles at SummerSlam for the second time. The next night on Raw, The New Day were attacked by returning The Dudley Boyz, which ended with Woods being put through a table with a 3D. The New Day retained the titles against The Dudley Boyz at Night of Champions and Live from Madison Square Garden events by disqualification, and at Hell in a Cell by pinfall. The New Day retained the championship at TLC in a triple threat tag team ladder match against The Lucha Dragons and The Usos. They retained their title against The Usos at Royal Rumble.
Despite portraying heels, New Day's strong in-ring performances and entertaining segments garnered positive reactions from critics and live audiences and the trio turned face after mocking The League of Nations (Sheamus, Alberto Del Rio, King Barrett, and Rusev), as the crowd was starting to get behind them. The New Day retained the titles at Roadblock, after defeating Sheamus and King Barrett, but lost against them at WrestleMania 32 in a six-man tag team match. The New Day then retained their championship at Extreme Rules against The Vaudevillains and at the Money in the Bank against The Vaudevillains, Enzo Amore and Big Cass and Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson in a fatal four-way tag team match. On July 19, Woods, along with his fellow The New Day teammates, was drafted to Raw brand as part of WWE draft. On July 22, The New Day became the longest reigning WWE Tag Team Champions in history, breaking the record of 478 days previously set by Demolition. After SmackDown established the SmackDown Tag Team Championship after the brand split, the titles held by The New Day were renamed the Raw Tag Team Championship. They retained the titles against Gallows and Anderson at SummerSlam and Clash of Champions. On the October 31 episode of Raw, The New Day revealed that they were made captain of Team Raw for the Survivor Series tag team elimination match at Survivor Series. At the event, they were the first team eliminated although Team Raw still went on to win the match. On the November 21 episode of Raw, The New Day successfully retained their titles against Team Raw's sole survivors, Cesaro and Sheamus. At Roadblock: End of the Line, The New Day lost the Raw Tag Team Championship to Cesaro and Sheamus, ending their record-breaking championship reign at 483 days. The New Day then received a rematch, but failed to reclaim the championships. The New Day would then go on to host WrestleMania 33.
On April 11, 2017, The New Day were moved to the SmackDown brand as part of the Superstar Shake-up. They started a feud with The Usos, facing them for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship at Money in the Bank, which they won by countout. At Battleground, Woods and Kingston defeated The Usos to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship for the first time, but lost the titles back to The Usos at SummerSlam. On the September 12 episode of SmackDown Live, The New Day defeated The Usos to win back the championship in a Sin City Street Fight, but lost them again to The Usos at Hell in a Cell. The New Day failed to regain the titles from The Usos at Clash of Champions in a fatal four-way tag team match also involving the team of Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin, and Aiden English and Rusev. On the December 26 episode of SmackDown Live, general manager Daniel Bryan revealed a tournament for the vacant United States Championship. In this tournament, Woods defeated Aiden English in the first round, but lost to Jinder Mahal in the semi-finals. On January 28, 2018, Woods entered the Royal Rumble match at number 12, but was eliminated by Mahal. At Fastlane, The New Day faced The Usos for the Smackdown Tag Team Championship, but went to a no contest after inference from The Bludgeon Brothers. At WrestleMania 34, The New Day would face The Usos and The Bludgeon Brothers in a triple threat tag team match for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships, but failed to capture the titles. On July 21, general manager Paige scheduled a tag team title tournament, with the winning team earning the right to challenge The Bludgeon Brothers for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship at SummerSlam. The New Day defeated SAnitY in the semi-finals and Cesaro and Sheamus in the finals. At SummerSlam, The New Day won the match by disqualification, meaning The Bludgeon Brothers retained their titles, but two days later on SmackDown Live, The New Day defeated The Bludgeon Brothers in a no disqualification match to capture the titles for a third time. On October 16, Woods and Big E lost the titles against The Bar on SmackDown 1000.
On January 27, 2019, at Royal Rumble, Woods entered the Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated by Drew McIntyre. In the lead-up to WrestleMania 35, Woods's teammate Kofi Kingston was attempting to earn a shot at the WWE Championship and after many attempts, Mr. McMahon granted him the title shot after Woods and Big E defeated Gallows and Anderson, Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura, The Bar, The Usos, and Daniel Bryan and Rowan in a tag team gauntlet match. Following WrestleMania, Woods and Big E later earned another SmackDown Tag Team Championship opportunity at Extreme Rules. At the event, Woods and Big E defeated Daniel Bryan and Rowan, and Heavy Machinery to win the titles. Woods and Big E lost the titles to The Revival at Clash of Champions. During a WWE live event on October 21, Woods suffered a legitimate achilles injury and it was reported that the injury would sideline him for six months to a year.
On the October 9, 2020, episode of SmackDown, Woods returned from injury, where he teamed with Kingston to defeat Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura, winning their seventh SmackDown Tag Team Championship. After the match, as part of the 2020 Draft, Kingston and Woods were drafted to the Raw brand, splitting them from Big E, who remained on the SmackDown brand. On the October 12 episode of Raw, New Day would exchange tag team titles with Raw Tag Team Championship holders The Street Profits, who were drafted to SmackDown. This would mark Kingston and Woods' third reign with the Raw titles as a team (fifth for Kingston individually), New Day's 10th tag team championship reign in WWE as a team, and Woods' 10th tag team championship reign individually. On December 20, at TLC, Kingston and Woods lost the Raw Tag Team Championship to The Hurt Business (Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin). Woods and Kingston then would win back the titles from Alexander and Benjamin on March 15, 2021, during the live broadcast of Raw, marking Woods' fourth reign with the Raw Tag Titles, and overall 11th Tag Team Championship reign in WWE. They would hold the championship until WrestleMania 37 where they lost the titles to AJ Styles and Omos.
As part of the 2021 Draft, Woods – along with his tag team partner Kingston – were drafted to the SmackDown brand, which took effect on October 22. Before that, Woods entered the 2021 King of the Ring tournament, representing Raw, where he defeated Ricochet in the first round and Jinder Mahal in the semi-finals. At Crown Jewel on October 21, Woods defeated SmackDown's Finn Bálor in the final to win the tournament and become "King of the Ring"; his first individual accolade in WWE. On the following episode of SmackDown, with the team now officially members of the SmackDown brand, The New Day had a coronation for Woods. Kingston introduced Woods and adorned him with a cape, crown, and scepter, and Woods' ring name was changed to King Woods. On the January 14, 2022 edition of SmackDown, Woods was diagnosed with a torn plantaris, rendering him unable to compete for 4–6 weeks.
On the March 25, 2022 edition of SmackDown, Woods made his return, reverting to Xavier Woods, defeating Ridge Holland in a match. Kingston & Woods then challenged Sheamus & Ridge Holland to a match at WrestleMania, but lost. On December 10, at Deadline, Woods and Kingston defeated Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) to win NXT Tag Team Championship for the first time and also the third WWE Tag Team Triple Crown winners by winning NXT Tag Titles.
As part of the 2023 WWE Draft, Woods, along with teammate Kingston, was drafted to the Raw brand.
Other media
Woods's wrestling persona is playable in eight video games: TNA Impact!: Cross the Line as Consequences Creed, and in WWE 2K15, WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, WWE 2K20, WWE 2K22, and as a crossover character in Brawlhalla, as Xavier Woods. In addition, Woods appears in Super Bomberman R and as a costume in Fall Guys. Under the Xavier Woods moniker, he played Mortal Kombat's Raiden in NetherRealm Studio's mobile game, WWE Immortals.
Woods's life was spotlighted, along with Adam Rose and Corey Graves, on ESPN's E:60 special on WWE titled "Behind the Curtain", which aired May 5, 2015. He made an appearance in fellow wrestler Emma's short-lived YouTube cooking channel Taste of Tenille in 2015. Woods was featured playing tambourine and trombone on the Postmodern Jukebox cover of "What is Love" music video.
In 2017, Woods made his voice acting debut as the character Vincent Mensah in the PlayStation 4 video game 2064: Read Only Memories. He also published The Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It with fellow New Day members Big E and Kofi Kingston.
In 2015, Woods, under his Austin Creed moniker, started a YouTube channel called UpUpDownDown, where he invites fellow WWE performers, gaming personalities, friends, and guests to play games. In August 2018, it won a Guinness World Record for Most Subscribed-to Celebrity Video Gaming Channel, with 1.6 million subscribers.
Woods is a recurring cast member of Penny Arcade's live Dungeons & Dragons campaign Acquisitions Incorporated as of 2019. He performs at various PAX conventions playing the role of Bobby Zimmeruski, a Goliath Barbarian with an obsession for violence and a deep love of cheese.
Watson, along with Big E and Kofi Kingston, appeared in an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where they did a rendition of their catchphrase during a segment about Mount Rushmore.
In February 2020, Woods announced his partnership with Riot Games to create Esports experiences.
In November 2020, Woods, alongside fellow The New Day members Big E and Kingston, was added as playable DLC characters in the video game Gears 5, sporting custom armour in the colors of The New Day's ring attires; the three recorded dialogue specifically for the game.
On November 24, 2020, Woods was announced as one of the new hosts for the revival of G4.
Film
Personal life
Watson has two bachelor's degrees in psychology and philosophy, a master's in psychology, and as of 2015, announced that he is currently working towards earning a PhD in educational psychology from Capella University.
Watson is an avid fan of video games. He has a tattoo of the Wingcrest from The Legend of Zelda series on his left forearm. He also has a Twitch account under the username AustinCreed. He won the annual WWE 2K tournament in 2015.
Watson married Jess Watson in 2015 and their son was born in 2017.
Championships and accomplishments
Deep South Wrestling
DSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time, final)
East Coast Wrestling Association
ECWA Super 8 Tournament Champion (2010)
Florida Championship Wrestling
FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Wes Brisco
NWA Anarchy
NWA Anarchy Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hayden Young
Most Popular Wrestler (2006)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Tag Team of the Year (2015, 2016)
Ranked No. 58 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016
Ranked No. 8 of the top 50 tag teams in the PWI Tag Team 50 in 2020
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jay Lethal
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Best Gimmick (2015) – The New Day
WWE
WWE Raw Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston (2), and Kofi Kingston (2)
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship (7 times) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston (6), and Kofi Kingston (1)
NXT Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kofi Kingston
Third Tag Team Triple Crown Champion – with Kofi Kingston
King of the Ring (2021)
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship Tournament (2018) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston
WWE Year-End Award (1 time)
Men's Tag Team of the Year (2019) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston
Slammy Award (1 time)
Ring Gear of the Year (2020) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston
Notes
References
External links
Xavier Woods on YouTube
1986 births
21st-century professional wrestlers
African-American male professional wrestlers
American male professional wrestlers
American sportspeople of Ghanaian descent
American YouTubers
FCW Florida Tag Team Champions
Living people
Professional wrestlers from Georgia (U.S. state)
Sportspeople from Marietta, Georgia
TNA/Impact World Tag Team Champions
WWF/WWE King's Crown Champions/King of the Ring winners
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions
WWE Raw Tag Team Champions |
49762666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Maine%20Question%202 | 2016 Maine Question 2 | Maine Question 2, formally An Act to Establish The Fund to Advance Public Kindergarten to Grade 12 Education, was a citizen-initiated referendum question that appeared on the Maine November 8, 2016 statewide ballot. It sought to increase state aid to public schools by instituting a surcharge of 3% on Maine income taxes for those with income above $200,000 a year. As the Maine Legislature declined to enact the proposal as written, it appeared on the ballot along with elections for President of the United States, Maine's two U.S. House seats, the Legislature, and various local elections.
The question was passed by roughly 10,000 votes. The surtax created by the question was repealed as part of state budget negotiations on July 3, 2017 that added $162 million to public education funding from general revenue.
Background
In 2003, Maine voters passed a referendum calling for the state to pay for 55% of the cost of operating public schools, as a way to reduce pressure on local property taxes. That percentage had never been met. To attempt to reach that target, a group called Stand Up for Students announced that it would start a petition drive to implement a 3% surcharge on Maine income taxes paid on those with incomes above $200,000 a year, estimated to be the top 2% of earners in Maine. It is estimated that such a tax surcharge would result in $110 million a year in revenue.
The petition drive was carried out by some paid signature gatherers, but was largely done by volunteers from the Maine Education Association and the Maine People's Alliance, a liberal organizing group. MEA members were offered $25 Visa gift cards for every 100 signatures they gathered. The office of Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap certified that the proposal qualified for the ballot on March 2, 2016, stating that 66,849 signatures were valid.
The exact wording of the question was disputed. Secretary Dunlap proposed the wording "Do you want to establish a fund to support kindergarten through 12th grade public education by adding a three percent surcharge on Maine taxable income above $200,000?". During the required public comment period before the wording was finalized, the Governor's Office filed an objection to the proposed wording, stating that the word 'tax' or 'surtax' should be used instead of 'surcharge'. Doing so, they stated, would have been consistent with prior referendums calling for generating revenue. A Stand Up for Students spokesman called the objection an effort to confuse voters, citing tax cuts enacted by Governor Paul LePage. Dunlap had until June 24 to make a final decision, which was only possible to appeal by going to court.
Dunlap released the final wording of the question on June 23, which read as "Do you want to add a 3% tax on individual Maine taxable income above $200,000 to create a state fund that would provide direct support for student learning in kindergarten through 12th grade public education?"
Campaign
The Maine State Chamber of Commerce formed a PAC called No on Question 2 on August 2, 2016. Chamber President Dana Connors said that while they support strong education funding, it should be done in a manner that does not affect the economy. He went on to state that such a tax would discourage professionals from living in Maine.
Notable endorsements
Supporters
Maine Association of School Libraries
Maine Children's Alliance
Maine Education Association
Maine Parent Teacher Association
Maine Small Business Coalition
Machinists (IAM) Local S7
Maine People's Resource Center
Maine People's Alliance
Maine AFL–CIO
Maine State Employees Association
Maine Center for Economic Policy
Opponents
John Baldacci, former Governor of Maine
Paul LePage, Governor of Maine
Stephen Bowen, former Commissioner of the Maine Department of Education
Jim Rier, former Commissioner of the Maine Department of Education
Maine Heritage Policy Center
Maine State Chamber of Commerce
Bangor Daily News
MaineToday Media newspapers; Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel
Polling
Results
Uncertified results indicated that Question 2 passed by a margin of around 10,000 votes. Due to the closeness of the result, opponents of Question 2 filed a petition for a recount, then withdrew their petition on November 29.
Repeal
The creation of the surtax became a point of contention in state budget negotiations for the 2017–2018 budget, with Governor LePage and minority House Republicans opposed to any tax increases in the budget. A budget that did not eliminate the surtax passed the Republican-controlled Maine Senate, but not the House, leading to a shutdown of Maine state government at the end of the fiscal year on June 30. Three days later, negotiators agreed to, and LePage signed, a budget that eliminated the surtax but added an additional $162 million for public education to the budget.
References
External links
Stand Up for Students, supporters of the initiative
No Gain 2 Maine opponents of the initiative
United States education law
2016 Maine ballot measures
Taxation in Maine |
43900993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Morocco%20Tennis%20Tour%20%E2%80%93%20Kenitra%20%E2%80%93%20Doubles | 2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra – Doubles | Gerard Granollers and Jordi Samper-Montaña were the defending champions, but they lost in the final to Dino Marcan and Antonio Šančić, 1–6, 6–7(3–7).
Seeds
Draw
Draw
References
Main Draw
Morocco - Kenitra - Doubles
2014 Doubles
Kenitra - Doubles |
37629237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba%E2%80%93Malaysia%20relations | Cuba–Malaysia relations | Cuba–Malaysia relations refers to bilateral foreign relations between Cuba and Malaysia. Diplomatic relations were established on 6 February 1975, Cuba opened its embassy in Kuala Lumpur on 1997, while Malaysia opened its representation in Havana in February 2001. Both are the members of Group of 77, Non-Aligned Movement and United Nations.
Cultural exchange
The Cuban Embassy in Malaysia used to operate an art gallery named Casa Cuba, in a bungalow in Peringgit, Malacca to promote the works of Cuban artists such as paintings, lithographs and ceramics.
Economic relations
In 2001, Cuba was granted US$10m palm oil credit facility by Malaysia to purchase 35,000 tonnes of palm oil under the Palm Oil Credit and Payment Arrangement (POCPA) scheme. Both countries co-operate in the area of biotechnology in the field of research and production of vaccines. The Cuban government has provide a scholarships for Malaysian students to pursue their medical studies and humanities in Cuba. Until 2014, the relations are limited to biotechnology and culture, thus Cuba announced their interest to expand the relations more further towards other fields such as healthcare, tourism and education. In 2016, the Malaysian side also keen to expand their bilateral relations with the invitation of Cuban companies to participate in major trade shows organised by the country each year and ratified the position of their country against the economic blockade to the Caribbean nation. In 2018, Cuba extended their invitation to Malaysia to explore the possibility of producing Cuban vaccines in the country.
Further reading
Cubanos residentes en Malasia celebran natalicio de Martí y 55 Aniversario de la Revolución. Nación y Emigración
References
External links
Embassy of Cuba in Malaysia with concurrent accreditations to Philippines and Brunei Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cuba)
Malaysia
Bilateral relations of Malaysia |
58637893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Higonnet | Margaret Higonnet | Margaret Randolph Higonnet (born Margaret Randolph Cardwell) is an American author, teacher and historian who currently serves as a Professor Emerita at University of Connecticut.
Early life and education
Higonnet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and came from an academic family – her mother a librarian and her father a professor. Later, the family moved from New Orleans to Maryland and then to Saint Louis, Missouri. Later, they would spend years in Pasadena, California, Vienna, Austria and Mexico City, Mexico. Margaret was the second of four girls and attended schools for girls and women. The family lived one year in Vienna, an occupied city where the impact of World War II was very visible. Higonnet attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating A.B. Magna cum laude in German in 1963. She also studied at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and University College London between 1963 and 1967. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University with distinction in 1970. Higonnet began her teaching career as in Instructor at the department of English at George Washington University in 1967.
Career
Higonnet started teaching English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut in 1970.
Higonnet has been President of the American Conference on Romanticism, the American Comparative Literature Association, and FILLM (Fédération internationale de langues et littératures modernes). She created the Gender Studies Committee of the ICLA, and was President of the ICLA committee on comparative literary history CHLEL. Higonnet has held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the Rockefeller Foundation, Instituto Juan March, the Fulbright Scholar Program and the DAAD.
She has worked on a range of topics including comparative literature, the literature of World War I, feminist theory, suicide, and children's literature. Her recent edited volume, "Nurses at the Front and Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall" recover women's writings about World War I, as did her anthology, "Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I." She edited two collections of papers in comparative journals drawn from meetings of CHLEL: “New Europe, New Literary Histories,” (YCGL) and “Gender in Literary History” (CCS).
Awards and honors
Best critical article of 1987 ("Narrative Fractures and Fragments"). Children's Literature Association, Literary Criticism Award
Best critical article of 1992 ("Civility Books"). Children's Literature Association, Literary Criticism Award.
"Behind the Lines, Across Boundaries: A Conference in Honor of Margaret R. Higonnet,” University of Connecticut, September 22–23, 2016
Personal life
Higonnet married Harvard University professor Patrice Higonnet in 1976; they have one daughter Ethel, born in 1979.
Bibliography
Books (author)
Books (editor)
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with Barbara Rosen, Children's Literature.. |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale U. P.|year=1985 }}
with Sonia Michel, Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars.. |location=New Haven|publisher=Yale U. P. |year=1987 }}
with Maria de Valdes, New Visions of Creation |location= Tokyo |publisher= U. Tokyo P. |year=1993}}
with Joan Templeton, Reconfigured Spheres: Literary Representations of Feminine Space |location=Amherst, Massachusetts |publisher= U. Massachusetts P. |year=1994 }}
with Beverly Clark, Girls, Boys, Books, Toys. |location=Washington, DC|publisher=Johns Hopkins U.P. |year=1999 }}
Guy Adams Cardwell, Stories and Poetry. New Britain: Hitchcock, 2005.
with Jarrod Hayes and William Spurlin, Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identity across Time and Cultures |location=New York|publisher=Palgrave. |year=2010 }}
with Susan Solomon, Margaret Hall's Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country. |location=Boston|publisher=Massachusetts Historical Society |year=2014 }}
References
External links
https://english.uconn.edu/margaret-higonnet/
UCONN Faculty webpage
People from New Orleans
1941 births
University of Connecticut faculty
21st-century American historians
Bryn Mawr College alumni
Yale University alumni
George Washington University faculty
Living people
Historians from Louisiana |
15471635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisne%27s%201st%20constituency | Aisne's 1st constituency | The 1st constituency of the Aisne is a French legislative constituency in the Aisne département.
Description
Aisne's 1st constituency stretches from the centre of the department to its eastern border, and includes the city of Laon. The seat was held by one man, René Dosière, from 1988 to 2017, with the exception of between 1993 and 1997, when it was captured the Gaullist RPR.
Unusually the second round at the 2012 election featured two candidates from the left René Dosière and Fawaz Karimet of the official Socialist Party.
The constituency was taken by Aude Bono-Vandorme as part of the En Marche! landslide victory in the 2017 election.
Historic Representation
Election results
2022
2017
2012
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party
! colspan="2" | 1st round
! colspan="2" | 2nd round
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | René Dosiere
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Left
| DVG
|
| 29.11%
|
| 42.19%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Aude Bono
| style="text-align:left;" | New Centre-Presidential Majority
| NC
|
| 26.49%
|
| 38.60%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Fawaz Karimet
| style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party
| PS
|
| 21.47%
|
| 19.21%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Louis Roux
| style="text-align:left;" | National Front
| FN
|
| 15.81%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Claudine Brunet
| style="text-align:left;" | Left Front
| FG
|
| 3.82%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Claire Bril
| style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist
| ECO
|
| 0.78%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Marie-Paule Gosset
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Right
| DVD
|
| 0.72%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Loup Pernelle
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
| EXG
|
| 0.67%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Carole Philippot
| style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist
| ECO
|
| 0.62%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Damien Peiffer
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Right
| DVD
|
| 0.52%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots
|
| 1.18%
|
| 2.29%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
|
| 59.44%
|
| 58.33%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions
|
| 40.56%
|
| 41.67%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result
| colspan="2" style="background-color:" | DVG HOLD
|}
2007
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party
! colspan="2" | 1st round
! colspan="2" | 2nd round
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | René Dosiere
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Left
| DVG
|
| 25.06%
|
| 56.28%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Gaëdic Blanchard-Douchain
| style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement
| UMP
|
| 29.62%
|
| 43.72%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Fawz Karimet
| style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party
| PS
|
| 20.17%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Louis Roux
| style="text-align:left;" | National Front
| FN
|
| 5.68%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Eric Delhaye
| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic Movement
| MoDem
|
| 4.50%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Nicolas Trevillot
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Right
| DVD
|
| 2.72%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Paul Henry Hansen-Catta
| style="text-align:left;" | Divers
| DIV
|
| 2.59%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Claudine Brunet
| style="text-align:left;" | Communist
| COM
|
| 2.11%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Marie-Claude Laffiac
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
| EXG
|
| 2.01%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Catherine Arribas
| style="text-align:left;" | The Greens
| VEC
|
| 1.87%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Sylvie Legras
| style="text-align:left;" | Movement for France
| MPF
|
| 1.49%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Loup Pernelle
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
| EXG
|
| 1.38%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Louisette Bibaut
| style="text-align:left;" | Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions
| CPNT
|
| 0.61%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Pascal Matis
| style="text-align:left;" | Divers
| DIV
|
| 0.19%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total
| VALID VOTES
| 100%
| VALID VOTES
| 100%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots
|
| 1.87%
|
| 3.16%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
|
| 61.35%
|
| 62.12%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions
|
| 38.65%
|
| 37.88%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result
| colspan="2" style="background-color:" | DVG GAIN
|}
References
Sources
Official results of French elections from 1998:
1 |
43667983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucocharis%20hagenella | Glaucocharis hagenella | Glaucocharis hagenella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by David E. Gaskin in 1985. It is found in Papua New Guinea.
References
Diptychophorini
Moths described in 1985 |
60230482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Short%20English%20Chronicle | A Short English Chronicle | A Short English Chronicle (also Short English Chronicle) is a chronicle produced in England in the first half of the 15th century. It is currently held in Lambeth Palace Library, and although it begins its coverage in 1189, its content is thin until it reaches 1422. It covers the years from then until 1464 (the year in which it is thought to have been created) in greater depth, ending with the marriage of the Yorkist King Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville and the capture of the deposed Lancastrian King, Henry VI. It is one of a number of chronicles and writings emitting from London in the early 15th century, and it presents national political events from a London perspective.
The chronicle was first published in 1880 by James Gairdner and has remained a source for historians into the 20th century, generally more for what it tells them regarding the creation and use of chronicles than its historiographical value. Gairdner suggested that while it was severely lacking in the first few hundred years of its chronology, the details Short Chronicle provided on the reigns of Henry and Edward made it useful.
Manuscript
The manuscript is held in Lambeth Palace Library as MS 306, although other, often more fragmentary copies, exist in other manuscripts. It is written in English in the neat professional style of a 15th-century scribe. It is structured in three parts. The first section briefly relates ancient English mythology—probably from a Brut-style chronicle—the second, linking section, contains mangled verse based on John Lydgate's history of the kings of England; and the third is the chronicle narrative proper.
Gairdner's publication
The chronicle's author originally titled it Cronycullys of Englonde; who the author was, though, remains unknown. The name A Short English Chronicle was first bestowed upon it by the historian James Gairdner, when he published it as part of his Three English Chronicles collection, published by the Selden Society in 1880.
Description
Scholars consider the Short English Chronicle to be what they term a dead chronicle, as it ceases at a definite point with no later continuation, although the last two (unused) pages in the book have been pre-prepared with ruled lines. McLaren suggests that this may indicate that whoever compiled the chronicle was willing for it to be somehow later continued, and, indeed, John Stow used some of this space for his own commentary. Gairdner describes the manuscript in Lambeth Palace in his introduction to the published piece. It is, he says, "a stout folio volume" composed of 80 leaves.
Physically, the book has a Tudor period-ornamental binding—itself "very much worm-eaten"—made of wood. This, in turn, is covered by leather, although the back has been replaced more recently than the front. There were once book clasps holding the tome together, but these have both long-since disappeared. One of the covers, says Gairdner, still possesses the brass nails that once held the clasp embedded within it, while the other possesses some of the clasps' ornamental fittings. The leather covers are imprinted with decorative lozenge shapes—"filled with foliated ornaments and a framework parallel with the edges"—and the Beaufort family's coat of arms is prominent. By the mid-16th century, it had come into the possession of the antiquarian John Stow, who added many of his own comments to the manuscript, although in the event Stow hardly used it as a source for his own monograph—the 1598 Survey of London—as he had most of his material from elsewhere.
Relationship to other chronicles
There were, over the course of the 15th century, "hundreds" of chronicles written in London. Since they were all written anonymously, it is impossible to discern the motivation of their authors in creating them.
Origins
Based on the fact that all three of the chronicle's sections are written in the same scribal hand, the historian Mary-Rose McLaren has posited that it was composed by either a single individual or possibly a workshop. It was probably the result of a specific commission; less likely, she says, is that it was created by the author for his own personal use. It may have its origins in the City of London's own chronicle, as, until it reaches the year 1446, it follows the events recorded in the latter closely, consisting mainly of lists of bailiffs and keepers of the City, and then mayors and sheriffs, although the Short Chronicle omits, confuses and transposes a number of early 13th-century sheriffs and subsequently falls behind. Thompson suggests that it "adds heavily to the meagre outlines" laid out in William Worcester's chronicle. The Short Chronicle was not alone in this: all the chronicles which came out of London in this period were built around "an inflexible, historical spine, their listed succession of chief city officials". It also borrows heavily from the Brut Chronicle in its early sections. There were multiple chronicles written in London in the early 15th century, and, while they probably shared a now unknown common source, they did not copy directly from each other. This meant that including the Short Chronicle, they generally provide much the same detail—and a low level of it—in their treatment of reigns and events up until around 1377. With the accession of Richard II, comments McLaren, they "begin to deviate wildly", and the Lambeth MS particularly begins to provide fuller descriptors. In 1435, it becomes even more expansive.
The mythological section of the chronicle has generally not been considered historiographically useful by historians: Gairdner wrote that the portion was "absolutely destitute of historical value" and in the early-20th century, Charles Lethbridge Kingsford commented that in abridging the Brut as he did, the author of the Short Chronicle omitted "almost all that was of peculiar interest". From that point the chronicle develops individuality and detail in its descriptions of events, although Kingsford notes that all the surviving copies that he knew of missed out a couple of years, not re-commencing until 1450, beginning "This yere the Kynge helde his Parlement at Westmester. And that same yere was all Normande lost". The main prose of the chronicle is written in a 15th-century hand, but marginalia and, more rarely, factual corrections, have been added in a hand dating from the reign of King Henry VII. Gairdner suggests the binding's Tudor provenance due to the fact that the hand that has added the marginalia has also added further chronological dates and events from Henry VII's reign after the paper had been cut by the book binder.
Content
Although written in the 15th century, it begins with the accession of King Richard I in 1189, and stops in the middle of King Edward IV's first reign in 1465. It also contains a number of receipts for medical products and pieces of verse; although these are, comments Flenley, of "varying length and merit". The oldest portion of the original 15th-century manuscript still extant in the 20th century covers the years 1417–1420; everything else that is known comes from Stow's own transcripts. Beginning with Diocletian—described as King of Syria—the first 17 leaves cover English history up to the Norman Conquest. Leaves 17 through to 31 list successive English monarchs from William the Conqueror to King Henry VI. The historical narrative continues with the reigns of Kings Richard I and his brother John (between 1189 and 1215) up to leaf 38, from there to 47 is covered the reigns of Edward I, II and III (1272–1377). King Richard II continues for the next four leaves, taking the story up until his deposition in 1399 and the accession of the first Lancastrian King, Henry IV whose reign until 1412 covers the next three leaves. The reign of Henry V is between leaves 54-58, until his death in 1422. This is followed by his son, Henry VI, and is also the longest section, covering 20 leaves. The last two leaves of the narrative cover the first four years of King Edward IV.The chronicle is at its most detailed regarding the 15th century, particularly Jack Cade's Rebellion and the accession of Edward IV; Gairdner suggested that this portion of the chronicle was an "original and independent authority" for the period 1422 to about 1465, with King Edward's clandestine marriage to Elizabeth Woodville being the last event it covers. Alexander L. Kaufman has also suggested that this indicates that the compiler was contemporaneous.
The post-1399 versions are notable for their clear pro-Lancastrian bias and focus on King Henry V's victories in France, for example at Rouen, for the purposes of propaganda. However, there is still much of legendary material, such as that of Albina; indeed, the historian Clair Valente has described it as "enthusiastic" in its rendition of these aspects of English history; she has also called it "one of the best records of rumours and propaganda, if not of the event themselves." The chronicle is less detailed on individuals. The historian Patricia-Ann Lee has commented on how even the Queen is treated "perfunctorily", although also notes that it does take part in laying the foundations for her future stereotyping in the 1450s.
Kaufman has also commented upon the similarities of the text in the Short English Chronicle and MS Gough 10 at the Bodleian Library, as they both "present fairly objective" and "methodically written" chronologies of summer 1450. It is one of many 15th-century chronicles that "dwell on...narratives of treason". The historian Roger Nicholson has suggested that this is not only because chroniclers had an inherent desire to write about evildoers and their acts, but that, in their writings, treason "often seems an index of a more general disorder". Either way, he says, it is ranked alongside poor weather and concomitant failed harvests in the social significance chroniclers bestowed upon it. McLaren has argued that, to authors such as that of the Short English Chronicle—who dwelt on a great rain that occurred in 1367 in some detail—"if the perceived battle between order and disorder can be expressed in the actions of individuals, it is also present in the London chroniclers' accounts of weather, particularly rains."
Audience
The 14th century witnessed a decline in monastic chroniclers, and by the following century there were few monasteries in England—or the rest of Europe—producing the quality and quantity of work that the heyday of monastic writing had seen in the 12th and 13th centuries. There was, however, a growth in popular demand for literature written in the vernacular; as the historian A. R. Myers put it, by laymen for laymen. And, since it only took "one literate person to make a text available to an entire household", a chronicle's circulation could have ultimately been broad. London, being closer to the royal court and the biggest mercantile centre in the country, was naturally well-suited to become a centre of literary patronage and production. As a result, many works—like the Short Chronicle—had a London-centric perspective. This did not mean that they ignored events around the country; on the contrary, says Nicholson, London chronicles provided a "national, central stage" for events which had taken place outside of London but ended up inside London. For example, the execution of Aubrey de Vere—son of the Lancastrian Earl of Oxford—whose final journey began in Westminster Palace but finished on Tower Green, and was thus described in great detail in the Short Chronicle.
Major events chronicled
Major events—particularly in the reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV—are chronicled within the Short Chronicle.
The executions of Aubrey de Vere and his father in 1462 are treated as examples of how the new King—sent from God to win his crown in battle—was given instant knowledge of their treason ("the whiche tresonnes God sent the kynge himself knowleche"), and Nicholson suggests that the chronicler is demonstrating the extent of the King's power.
The Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, which saw the death of Richard, Duke of York and the destruction of his army was suggested to be not a deliberate counter-offensive to the Lancastrian Queen, Margaret of Anjou, but the result of an ambush; the royal army "lay in her wey at Wakefelde to stope hem... [intending to] slowe the Duke of Yorke"; the chronicle may be suggesting that it was less of a battle—knowingly entered into—and more of an ambush. Likewise, the Chronicle barely discusses the two sides' next encounter the following year at the Battle of St Albans, but the author does dwell floridly on the march of the Queen's army south (having "reysed all the northe and all other pepull by the wey"), in which southern towns such as Peterborough and Grantham were sacked ("compelled, dispoyled, rubbed and distroyed all maner of catell vertayll and riches") by the northern army.
Notes
References
Bibliography
15th-century manuscripts
English chronicles
Historical literature
History of literature in the United Kingdom |
26902563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20Juno | Mother Juno | Mother Juno is an album by the Gun Club, released in 1987. It was produced by Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins.
"Yellow Eyes" was originally entitled "Funky Junkie"; "Nobody's City" was originally "Sleepy Times Blues." The original recordings of Mother Juno were released as Mother Berlin in 2015 on Bang! Records, containing an additional track, "Country One."
In 2023, Mother Juno was re-released with remastered tracks, including 12” single versions of the songs “The Breaking Hands”, “Crabdance”, and “Nobody’s City”.
Additional demos are included from the aforementioned Mother Berlin sessions.
Production
The album was recorded in Berlin. The recording took 14 days. The cover used a painting by Claus Castenskiold, the Danish-born painter.
Release
The album did well on the independent and college charts, peaking at #3 on the UK indie and #1 on the CMJ charts.
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote: "On songs like 'The Breaking Hands' ... producer Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins spins a delicately layered web of sound; more straightforward numbers like the shimmying 'Thunderhead' recast the old energy in slightly more linear terms, although guest Blixa Bargeld does his best to tilt 'Yellow Eyes' on its axis." The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "swamp music for thinking people."
Track listing
Original 1987 album
All tracks composed by Jeffrey Lee Pierce
"Bill Bailey" – 3:39
"Thunderhead" – 3:28
"Lupita Screams" – 3:12
"Yellow Eyes" – 6:30
"The Breaking Hands" – 4:12
"Araby" – 3:01
"Heart" – 3:59
"My Cousin Kim" – 2:47
"Port of Souls" – 4:49
2005 Remaster (SFTRI 765)
All tracks composed by Jeffrey Lee Pierce
"Bill Bailey"
"Thunderhead"
"Lupita Screams"
"Yellow Eyes"
"The Breaking Hands"
"Araby"
"Heart"
"My Cousin Kim"
"Port of Souls"
"Crabdance"
"Nobody's City"
2023 Remaster (Extra Term Audio LLC)
All tracks composed by Jeffrey Lee Pierce
"Bill Bailey" – 3:39
"Thunderhead" – 3:28
"Lupita Screams" – 3:12
"Yellow Eyes" – 6:30
"The Breaking Hands" – 4:12
"Araby" – 3:01
"Heart" – 3:59
"My Cousin Kim" – 2:47
"Port of Souls" – 4:49
“The Breaking Hands” 12” version - 4:18
“Crabdance” 12” version - 2:59
“Nobody’s City” 12” version - 4:09
“Port of Souls” (demo) - 5:27
“Araby” (demo) - 3:06
“Lupita Screams” (demo) - 3:21
“Funkie Junkie (Yellow Eyes)” (demo) - 6:42
“Hearts” (demo) - 4:13
“Bill Bailey” (demo) - 3:46
“Sleepy Time Blues (Nobody’s City)” (demo) - 4:16
“My Cousin Kim” (demo) - 2:46
“Thunderhead” (demo) - 3:34
“The Breaking Hands” (demo) - 4:34
“Crab Dance” (demo) - 3:06
“Country One” (unreleased instrumental, demo) - 3:10
Personnel
The Gun Club
Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, guitar, whistle
Kid Congo Powers - guitar
Romi Mori - bass; lead guitar on "The Breaking Hands"
Nick Sanderson - drums
with:
Blixa Bargeld - guitar on "Yellow Eyes"
Technical
Lincoln Fong - engineer
André Giere - assistant engineer
Claus Castenskiold - sleeve painting
References
1987 albums
The Gun Club albums
Albums produced by Robin Guthrie |
22596002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erminia%20Giuliano | Erminia Giuliano | Erminia Giuliano (; born December 31, 1955) is a former member of the Giuliano clan of the Camorra, based in the district of Forcella, Naples. Her nickname was Celeste ("Sky-blue") on account of her bright, blue eyes.
Taking over the Giuliano clan
She took over the Giuliano clan crime business after the arrest of her brother Luigi Giuliano in early 2000, who was the last of the five male family members to be arrested. Luigi would eventually become a pentito in September 2002 and testify against various Camorra figures, including members of his own clan. She became the boss because the only direct male heir to the family business still unimprisoned, Giuliano's nephew Pio Vittorio Giuliano, was deemed inept.
She was ranked as one of Italy's 30 most dangerous criminals, and eventually arrested on December 23, 2000, after being a fugitive for over 10 months. Her speciality within the clan was counterfeiting banknotes.
Personality
She had a violent streak: if bored as a young woman she would say: "I have to shoot someone." She allegedly stabbed a rival female gang leader in 1997, and drove a car into the shop window of another enemy in 1999. One high-profile friend was the football star Diego Maradona when he played for Napoli. The Giuliano clan’s interests included drugs and illegal betting on football matches. Carmine, one of Erminia's brothers, said later that Maradona would do anything for cocaine, even if Napoli lost the Italian championship.
Arrest
Police raided her daughter's house in the Forcella quarter of Naples shortly after midnight and found her in a secret room concealed behind a kitchen cupboard and a sliding wall panel. "She was a true leader, with all the qualities usually associated with crime godfathers," according to the Naples police chief, Carlo Gualdi.
She insisted on a shower and visit from her hairdresser, before she donned high heels, a fake leopard-skin coat and handcuffs, and told her daughters: "I'm counting on you now. I am relaxed. I have taught you all the true values in life."
Release
Since her release from prison, Erminia Giuliano lives in Formia, Lazio. In 2019, the Italian State seized her assets due to a patrimonial issue regarding to a mafia-type criminal conspiracy sentence that she was convicted in the past.
See also
Camorra
Luigi Giuliano
Giuliano clan
Notes
Further reading
1955 births
Camorristi
Fugitives
Giuliano clan
Living people
Italian female gangsters
People from the Province of Naples |
73323305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922%E2%80%9323%20Gold%20Cup | 1922–23 Gold Cup | The 1922–23 Gold Cup was the 11th edition of the Gold Cup, a cup competition in Northern Irish football.
The tournament was won by Cliftonville for the 1st time.
Group standings
References
External links
Northern Ireland - List of Gold Cup Winners
1922–23 in Northern Ireland association football |
52227338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhujiajian%20Island | Zhujiajian Island | Zhujiajian Island () is a national park located in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China. It is the 5th largest island among the thousands in the Zhoushan Island Complex.
References
National parks of China
Zhejiang |
38964993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20FIA%20GT%20Nogaro%20round | 2013 FIA GT Nogaro round | The 2013 FIA GT Nogaro, also known as 2013 Easter Cup (French: Coupes de Pâques 2013) was the first of six rounds in the 2013 FIA GT Series season. It took place at the Circuit Paul Armagnac in France between 30 March – 1 April 2013. The race was the first race under the newly renamed FIA GT Series after the FIA GT1 World Championship name was discontinued due to no GT1-spec cars competing.
The most notable entrants are nine-times World Rally Championship champion Sébastien Loeb racing with his own team and former professional football goalkeeper Fabien Barthez competing racing in the Gentleman Trophy with SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion. Also competing in the race is reigning FIA GT3 European Championship Teams champions HTP Gravity Charouz as well as one of the reigning Drivers' champions from 2012 Maximilian Bühk who will enter in the Pro Cup. His team mate last season Dominik Baumann also competes in the series for Grasser Racing in the Pro-Am Cup.
Qualifying
Qualifying result
Qualifying took place on Saturday 30 March and determined the grid for the Qualifying Race the next day. Rather than the usual knockout qualifying sessions seen in the past series, there were two qualifying sessions for all twenty-four cars. The fastest ten times from the two combined sessions would go through to the Superpole session where they would compete for pole position. Seeing as the first session was partly wet, everybody set their fastest time in session two. As a result, the fastest ten drivers from session two went through to the Superpole session.
René Rast set the fastest time in the Superpole session for Belgian Audi Club Team WRT and would start in pole position for the Qualifying Race.
Race results
Class winners in bold.
Qualifying Race
Championship Race
Nogaro
Nogaro |
474854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Dreams | Robot Dreams | Robot Dreams (1986) is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie. The title story is about Susan Calvin's discovery of a robot with rather disturbing dreams. It was written specifically for this volume and inspired by the McQuarrie cover illustration. All of the other stories had previously appeared in various other Asimov collections. Four of the stories are robot stories, while five are Multivac stories.
The companion book, which also showcases McQuarrie's illustrations (and includes Asimov essays in addition to short stories), is titled Robot Visions.
Contents
It contains a foreword by Asimov as well as the following stories:
"Little Lost Robot" (1947), a Robot story
"Robot Dreams" (1986), a Robot story
"Breeds There a Man...?" (1951)
"Hostess" (1951)
"Sally" (1953), a Robot story
"Strikebreaker" (1957)
"The Machine that Won the War" (1961), a Multivac story
"Eyes Do More Than See" (1965)
"The Martian Way" (1952)
"Franchise" (1955), a Multivac story
"Jokester" (1956), a Multivac story
"The Last Question" (1956), a Multivac story
"Does a Bee Care?" (1957)
"Light Verse" (1973), a Robot story
"The Feeling of Power" (1958)
"Spell My Name with an S" (1958)
"The Ugly Little Boy" (1958)
"The Billiard Ball" (1967)
"True Love" (1977), a Multivac story
"The Last Answer" (1980)
"Lest We Remember" (1982)
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Robot Dreams for White Dwarf #90, and stated that "The title story is new and quite good; the rest is familiar Asimovian reprint material."
Reviews
Review by Don D'Ammassa (1987) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #89 February 1987
Review by Nik Morton (1987) in Vector 138
Review by David V. Barrett (1987) in Vector 138
Review by Tom Easton (1987) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1987
Review by L. J. Hurst (1988) in Paperback Inferno, #74
Review by Ian Sales (1990) in Paperback Inferno, #82
Review by Michael Tolley (1992) in SF Commentary, #71/72
References
External links
0-441-01183-7 Robot Dreams from Google Books
1986 short story collections
American short story collections
Berkley Books books
Foundation universe books
Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov
Short stories about robots |
44733912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naseib%20Obaid%20Sebait%20Araidat | Naseib Obaid Sebait Araidat | Naseib Obaid Sebait Araidat is a paralympic athlete from United Arab Emirates competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Naseib competed in all three sprint events at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. He won a silver medal in the T52 400m.
References
External links
Paralympic athletes for the United Arab Emirates
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic silver medalists for the United Arab Emirates
Emirati wheelchair racers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) |
434590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cat (disambiguation) | A cat is a domesticated mammal of the Felis catus species.
Cat or CAT may also refer to:
Animals
Felidae (the cats or felids), a family of Carnivorans
Pantherinae (big cats), a subfamily
Felinae (small cats), the other subfamily
Arts and entertainment
Comic books
Cat (comics), a list of various characters
Confidential Assassination Troop, a manhua by Fung Chin Pang from 2003
Film and television
the title character of Cat Ballou, a 1965 film
Cat (Red Dwarf), a character on the sci-fi sitcom
Cat, a character on CatDog
Cat MacKenzie, a character on Family Affairs
Cat Valentine (Victorious), a character in Victorious and Sam & Cat
CAT (2022 TV series), Indian crime thriller streaming television series
Music
Cat Records, 1954–1956, an R&B subsidiary of Atlantic Records
Cat Records (TK label), 1969–1980
Cat #1, a 1994 album by Peter Criss
"Cat", by C418 from Minecraft - Volume Alpha, 2011
"Cat", a song by Relient K from the 2016 album Air for Free
Video games
C.A.T.: Cyber Attack Team, 2003
Businesses and organisations
Based in the United States
Caterpillar Inc., a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment
Secret Service Counter Assault Team
Based in the United Kingdom
Cambridge Antibody Technology, a biotechnology company
Centre for Alternative Technology, a charity and eco-centre in mid Wales
Competition Appeal Tribunal, a public body
Other businesses and organisations
CAT Telecom, a telecoms operator in Thailand
Committee Against Torture, a United Nations treaty body
Crew Against Torture (Russia), a Russian non-governmental organisation
Education
Common Admission Test, in India
Cognitive Abilities Test, in the United States
Computerized adaptive testing, a method for administering tests
Elsewhere
Kingdom of Cat, an early-Mediaeval Pictish kingdom in what is now Scotland
Cat Cays, a pair of reef islands in the Bahamas
Cat Island (disambiguation)
Science, technology and mathematics
Biology, medicine and psychology
Biochemistry
CAT, the gene for Catalase
Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, an enzyme and antibiotic resistance gene
Methcathinone or cat, a drug
TAT, a codon for the amino acid Histidine
Psychology
Communication accommodation theory
Cognitive analytic therapy
Other uses in biology and medicine
Calibrated automated thrombogram (CAT or CT), a coagulation test
CAT scan or CT scan, a medical imaging X-ray technology
Combat application tourniquet, a tourniquet developed for use in field combat situations
Conidial anastomosis tubes, a specialised hyphae emerging from some asexual fungal spores
Computing
CAT twisted pair cabling CATegories of wire used for ethernet connections
CAT (phototypesetter) (Computer Assisted Typesetter), a 1972 phototypesetter
cat (Unix), a Unix utility that concatenates and lists files
Cat, a clone of the Apple II home computer
Canon Cat, a desktop computer
Computer-assisted translation or computer-aided translation
Computer Aided Transceiver
Novation CAT, a modem series
Mathematics
Cat, the category of small categories in category theory
CAT(k) space, a type of metric space
Other technologies
Catadioptric system, in optics
Catalytic converter, an exhaust device
Cherenkov Array at Themis, an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope
Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
People
Cat (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
Cat Glover (born 1968), American choreographer, dancer and singer
Cat Power (born 1972), American singer-songwriter (real name: Charlyn Marshall)
Cat Rambo (born 1963), American writer and editor
Cat Stevens (born 1948), British singer-songwriter (real name: Yusuf Islam)
Places
Turkey
Çat, a town and district in Erzurum Province
Çat Dam, on the Abdülharap River in Adıyaman Province
Sports
Talleres de Córdoba, also known as Club Atlético Talleres, a sport club from Córdoba, Argentina
Transportation and aviation
American bus transit systems
Camarillo Area Transit, Camarillo, California
Canby Area Transit, Oregon
Capital Area Transit (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania
Capital Area Transit (Raleigh), North Carolina
Clemson Area Transit, South Carolina
Collier Area Transit, Florida
Aviation
Civil Air Transport, a former Chinese airline, in later years owned by the CIA
, a defunct airline of France
Clear-air turbulence
CAT (magazine), a civil airline simulation and training journal
Other uses in transport
Caterham railway station, Surrey, England
Center for Appropriate Transport, a community center for bicycles in Eugene, Oregon
City Airport Train, Vienna, Austria
(Whitby) cat, an early collier (ship) type
Perth Central Area Transit
Other uses
Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese/Gurung zodiac sign
.cat, a top-level domain for Catalan language and culture
Canadian Army Trophy, a tank gunnery competition
Central Africa Time, a time zone
The Central Atlas Tamazight language
Certified Accounting Technician
Coital alignment technique, a sexual position
Cat o' nine tails or the cat, a flogging instrument
cat, ISO 639-2 and -3 codes for the Catalan language
See also
The Cat (disambiguation)
Cats (disambiguation)
Kat (disambiguation)
Qat (disambiguation) |
4004522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfric | Wulfric | Wulfric or Wolfric is an Old English masculine given name, composed of wulf "wolf" and the suffix -ric "realm, power". In some English language contexts, Ulric is a derivative of Wulfric (although Ulric may also be a variant of Ulrich). Wulfric is a cognate of the Norse name Rikiwulf.
People
Wulfric Spot (died ), Earl of Mercia and Chief Councillor of State to King Ethelred
Wulfric of Haselbury ( - 1154), hermit and miracle worker
Fictional characters
The chief protagonist in Wulfric the Weapon Thane by Charles W. Whistler
The middle name of Albus Dumbledore, a main character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
Wulfric Bedwyn, Duke of Bewcastle, in Mary Balogh's Slightly series
Wulfric, one of the main characters in Outlander (film)
Wulfric, a main character in World Without End (Follett novel) by Ken Follett
Wulfric, the eighth and last Gym Leader to be challenged in Pokémon X and Y
Wulfric the Wild, a common-born ally of the King Alfred the Great, primary protagonist in Gary Whitta's novel Abomination
Wulfric, a rare blade awakened from the Beastly Core Crystal in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. |
2475672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropinirole | Ropinirole | Ropinirole, sold under the brand name Requip among others, is a medication used to treat Parkinson's disease (PD) and restless legs syndrome (RLS). In PD the dose needs to be adjusted to the effect and treatment should not be suddenly stopped. It is taken by mouth.
Common side effects include sleepiness, vomiting, and dizziness. Serious side effects may include pathological gambling, low blood pressure with standing and hallucinations. Use in pregnancy and breastfeeding is of unclear safety. It is a dopamine agonist and works by triggering dopamine D2 receptors.
It was approved for medical use in the United States in 1997. It is available as a generic medication. In 2020, it was the 156th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 3million prescriptions.
Medical uses
Ropinirole is prescribed for mainly Parkinson's disease, RLS and extrapyramidal symptoms. It can also reduce the side effects caused by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, including Parkinsonism syndrome as well as sexual dysfunction and erectile dysfunction caused by either SSRIs or antipsychotics.
Dosage
Ropinirole is available in various preparations, ranging from a 0.25 mg tablet to a 5 mg tablet. The primary reason is dose titration. Prolonged-release tablets are available in 2–8 mg doses.
For Parkinson's disease, the maximum recommended dose is 24 mg per day, taken in three separate doses spread throughout the day for the immediate-release formulation. The maximum dose recommendations of ropinirole for subjects with end stage renal disease (ESRD) should be reduced by 25% compared with those recommended for subjects with normal renal function. A 25% dose reduction represents a more straightforward dosage regimen in terms of available tablet strength, compared with a 30% dose reduction.
For RLS, the maximum recommended dose is 4 mg per day, taken 1 to 3 hours before bedtime. A 52-week open label study had a mean dosage of 1.90 mg, once daily 1 to 3 hours before bedtime.
Side effects
Ropinirole can cause nausea, dizziness, hallucinations, orthostatic hypotension, and sudden sleep attacks during the daytime. Unusual side effects specific to D3 agonists such as ropinirole and pramipexole can include hypersexuality, punding and compulsive gambling, even in patients without a history of these behaviours.
Ropinirole is also known to cause an effect known as "augmentation" when used to treat restless legs syndrome, where over time treatment with dopamine agonists will cause RLS symptoms to become more severe. This usually leads to constant dosage increases in an attempt to offset the symptom progression. Symptoms will return to the level of severity they were experienced at before treatment was initiated if the drug is stopped; however, both ropinirole and pramipexole are known to cause painful withdrawal effects when treatment is stopped and the process of taking a patient who has been using the medication long-term off of these drugs is often very difficult and generally should be supervised by a medical professional.
Pharmacology
Ropinirole acts as a D2, D3, and D4 dopamine receptor agonist with highest affinity for D3, which are mostly found in the limbic areas. It is weakly active at the 5-HT2, and α2 receptors and is said to have virtually no affinity for the 5-HT1, GABA, mAChRs, α1, and β-adrenoreceptors.
Ropinirole is metabolized primarily by cytochrome P450 CYP1A2 to form two metabolites; SK&F-104557 and SK&F-89124, both of which are renally excreted, and at doses higher than clinical, is also metabolized by CYP3A4. At doses greater than 24 mg, CYP2D6 may be inhibited, although this has been tested only in vitro.
Society and culture
It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Cipla, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and Sun Pharmaceutical. The discovery of the drug's utility in RLS has been used as an example of successful drug repurposing.
Lawsuits
In November 2012, GlaxoSmithKline was ordered by a Rennes appeals court to pay Frenchman Didier Jambart 197,000 euros ($255,824); Jambart had taken ropinirole from 2003 to 2010 and exhibited risky hypersexual behavior and gambled excessively until stopping the medication.
References
External links
Amines
Dopamine agonists
Indolines
Lactams
GSK plc brands
Aphrodisiacs
Wikipedia medicine articles ready to translate |
39482513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Marshall | Adam Marshall | Adam John Marshall (born 4 September 1984), an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Minister for Agriculture and Western New South Wales in the second Berejiklian ministry since April 2019. Marshall is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and has represented Northern Tablelands since a 2013 by-election, as a member of The Nationals.
Marshall has previously served as the Minister for Tourism and Major Events and the Assistant Minister for Skills from January 2017 until March 2019 in the first Berejiklian ministry.
Following the Cabinet reshuffle from Dominic Perrottet, Marshall was removed from the Agriculture and Western New South Wales portfolios.
Early years and education
Marshall received his elementary education while attending Gunnedah South Public School before completing his secondary studies at Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School where he earned the higher school certificate. In his final year he was voted by his peers as the "person most likely to be Australian Prime Minister", which is a prediction he is also said to have made as a youth, to fellow students on the school bus.
Political career
Elected to Gunnedah Shire Council in 2004, aged 19, Marshall became deputy mayor and then mayor of Gunnedah, an office his father once held, after the 2008 local government elections. During his time as Mayor, Marshall served as president of the Country Mayors' Association and Senior Vice-President of the Shires Association of NSW. Marshall moved to Armidale in 2012, resigning from the council, and commenced studying commerce at the University of New England, prior to his endorsement as a candidate for the March 2013 by-election held after sitting independent member Richard Torbay was forced out of politics amid allegations of corruption.
Marshall would claim victory on election night having receiving over 60% of the vote, subsequently being declared the winner with a margin of more than 30%. This was not considered an upset; in 2011, the Nationals would have won it with a majority of 26.1 percent in a "traditional" matchup with Country Labor. Marshall won a full term almost as easily in 2015, boosting his majority to 27.1 percent, the third-safest in the state. He was reelected in 2019, and now sits on a majority of 33.8 percent, the safest in the state.
During his preselection bid ahead of the Northern Tablelands by-election in 2013, it was revealed that Marshall once held concurrent membership with both the Nationals and Labor from 2001 to 2003, while also being employed on the staff of independent Member for Tamworth, Peter Draper. Country Labor organiser Courtney Roche said Marshall would have been deemed to be a card carrying member of the party until 2004, after which his membership expired.
Having served on several standing, select and statutory Parliamentary Committees, as well as in the position of Temporary Speaker, Marshall was appointed to the position of Parliamentary Secretary for Northern New South Wales and Renewable Energy on 25 August 2016.
Following the resignation of Mike Baird as Premier, Gladys Berejiklian was elected as Liberal leader and sworn in as Premier. The first Berejiklian ministry was subsequently formed with Marshall sworn in as the Minister for Tourism and Major Events, and Assistant Minister for Skills with effect from 30 January 2017. Following the 2019 state election Marshall was appointed as the Minister for Agriculture and Western New South Wales in the second Berejiklian ministry with effect from 2 April 2019.
Personal life
Marshall has an honorary membership to the Gunnedah Rotary Club as well as a life membership to the Gunnedah Jockey Club.
On 27 June 2014, Marshall was stopped for a random breath test while driving and returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.112. On 15 July he pleaded guilty to and was convicted for mid range drink driving. Marshall's counsel argued in mitigation that he was suffering from a head cold which may have impaired his awareness of his level of intoxication. He was disqualified from driving for nine months and fined $2,000. It was subsequently revealed that Marshall had incurred 17 speeding offences since 2002, and that his licence had been suspended on three occasions between 2003 and 2011. He was able to avoid a fourth suspension in May 2014 by entering into a good-behaviour bond.
On 24 June 2021 it was reported that Marshall had contracted COVID-19. This led to the state parliament being locked down, with MPs unable to enter or leave for a period of time. As he had been in the Parliament during a debate on the state budget whilst he was infectious, there were initial concerns that he may have infected Gladys Berejiklian but this did not happen.
References
External links
National Party - NSW Nationals - Northern Tablelands
1984 births
Living people
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales
21st-century Australian politicians |
23157263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg%20Ice%20Hockey%20Federation | Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation | The Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation (, , ) is the governing body that oversees ice hockey in Luxembourg.
Monique Scheier-Schneider has served as the general secretary of the federation since 1992.
National teams
Luxembourg national ice hockey team (men)
Luxembourg men's national junior ice hockey team (under-20)
Luxembourg men's national under-18 ice hockey team
2017 Luxembourg participation
References
External links
Luxembourg at IIHF.com
Official homepage of FLHG
Ice hockey governing bodies in Europe
National members of the International Ice Hockey Federation
Ice
Sports organizations established in 1912
1912 establishments in Luxembourg |
2815563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaghat%20district | Balaghat district | Balaghat district is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in Central India. The town of Balaghat serves as its administrative headquarters.
Balaghat is known for its tile factories, rice mills and forests.
History
At the beginning of the 18th century, the district was divided among two Gond kingdoms; the portion of the district west of the Wainganga was part of the Gond kingdom of Deogarh, while the eastern portion was part of the Garha-Mandla kingdom.
The Deogarh kingdom was annexed by the Bhonsle Marathas of Nagpur in 1743, and shortly thereafter conquered all but the northern section of the district. This section, together with the rest of the Garha-Mandla kingdom, was annexed in 1781 to the Maratha province of Saugor, then under control of the Maratha Peshwa. In 1798, the Bhonsles also obtained the former Garha-Mandla territories.
In 1818, at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Maratha War, The Nagpur kingdom became a princely state of British India. In 1853, the Nagpur kingdom, including Balaghat District, was annexed by the British, and became the new province of Nagpur. Balaghat District was then divided among the British districts of Seoni and Bhandara. Nagpur Province was reorganized into the Central Provinces in 1861.
Balaghat District was constituted during the years 1867 - 1873 by amalgamation of parts of the Bhandara, Mandla and Seoni districts. The headquarters of the district was originally called "Burha" or "बूढ़ा". Later, however, this name fell into disuse and was replaced by "Balaghat", which was originally the name of the district only. Administratively, the district was divided into only two tehsils, Baihar tehsil in the north, which included the plateau region, and Balaghat tehsil in south, which included the more settled lowlands in the south. The new district was part of the Central Provinces Nagpur Division.
After Indian Independence in 1947, the Central Provinces became the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. In 1956, Balaghat District became part of the Jabalpur Division of Madhya Pradesh, when the districts to the south of Balaghat, including Old Bhandara (current Bhandara and Gondia), and Nagpur districts, were transferred to Bombay State.
Balaghat name signifies “above the ghats” and is due to the fact that the original purpose of Government in constituting the District was to effect the colonization of the tracts above the ghats.
In the middle of the 19th century, the upper part of the district was a lightly settled, and an ancient Buddhist temple of cut stone is suggestive of a civilization which had disappeared before historic times. The first Deputy-Commissioner of the district, Colonel Bloomfield is believed as the pioneer or the creator of Balaghat District whom encouraged the settlement of Baihar tehsil with Powar Rajputs from the Wainganga Valley. About that time one Lachhman Panwar established the first villages on the Paraswada plateau. Malanjkhand is a copper mine in the region.
In 1868-1869 the rains ceased a month before time, causing the failure of the lowland rice crop and a famine. The district suffered very severely from the famine of 1896-1897, when the output of all crops fell to only 17 percent of normal. The district suffered again in 1899-1900, when the rice crop failed again, falling to only 23 percent of normal. The population in 1901 was 326,521, having decreased 15% in the decade 1891-1901, due to the effects of famine.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the district had only of paved roads, together with of unpaved roads. The Jabalpur-Gondia railway line through the district was completed in 1904, with six stations in the district.
Balaghat District is currently a part of the Red Corridor.
In MP Balaghat district has significant mineral deposits and a number of forests. Balaghat comes under the Bhandara dist. Raghuji is the first Maratha who came to this place from Kirnapur Side.
In 1845, Lord Dalhousie started the tradition of adoption (गोद लेने की प्रथा ). Through this tradition states of the Gond rulers were added to the British states, at that time the actual name of this place was BARAHGHAT. For the fixing of this name the name a proposal was sent to the capital of that time Calcutta before 1911. The name Barahghat drives because all the names of hills contain the word ghat, In which Masen Ghat, Kanjai Ghat, Ranrama Ghat, Basa Ghat, Dongri Ghat, Selan Ghat, Bhaisana Ghat, Saletekri Ghat, Dongaria Ghat, Kavahrgarh ghat, Ahmadpur ghat, Teepagarh Ghat are important. When this word was sent to Calcutta it merged with ANGL word and the name was Baraghat. When this was returned from there the name changed "L" as Balaghat means in the position of "R" which was permitted and the District got its name as Balaghat. On 1 November 1956 it was declared as Independent District of newly created State of Madhya Pradesh.
Geography
Balaghat District is located in the southern part of Jabalpur Division. It occupies the south eastern portion of the Satpura Range and the upper valley of the Wainganga River. The district extends from 21°19' to 22°24' north latitude and 79°31' to 81°3' east longitude. The total area of the district is 9,245 km2. Balaghat District is bounded by Mandla District of Madhya Pradesh to the north, Dindori District to the northwest, Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh state to the east, Gondia and Bhandara districts of Maharashtra state to the south, and Seoni District of Madhya Pradesh to the west. The Main language spoken in district is Hindi, Gondi, Chattishgarhi and Pawari in Baihar & Ukwa, Pawari in Paraswada, Northern parts of Balaghat Tehsil and Bharveli, Kalari in Lanji & kirnapur, Pawari in western parts i.e. Waraseoni, Katangi & Lalbarra and Marathi in the southern part of district.
The Wainganga and its tributaries are the most important rivers in the district. The town of Balaghat is situated on the Bank of River Wainganga, which flows north to south through the district and Enters in Balaghat District by Merging with Thanwar river near Nainpur of Mandla District. The Bagh, Nahra and Uskal rivers are tributaries of the Wainganga. The Bawanthadi and Bagh rivers define the boundary with Maharashtra.
The southern part of the Vindhyan Range up to Katangi is called Lower Bhander Range. Beyond this point the escarpment enclosing the land-locked valley of Sirampur and the hill range in continuation is called the Kaimur Range.
Geographically the district is divided into three parts:
The southern lowlands, a slightly undulating plain, cultivated and drained by the Wainganga, Bagh, Deo, Ghisri and Son rivers.
The long narrow valley known as the Mau Taluka, lying between the hills and the Wainganga river, and comprising a long, narrow, irregular-shaped lowland tract, intersected by hill ranges and peaks covered with dense jungle, and running generally from north to south.
The plateau, in which is situated the Raigarh Bichhia tract, comprising irregular ranges of hills, broken into numerous valleys, and generally running from east to west. The highest points in the hills of the district are as follows: - Peaks above Lanji, 2300 or ; Tepagarh hill, about .; and Bhainsaghat range, about . above the sea. The Banjar, Halon and Jamunia rivers, tributaries of the Narmada, drain a portion of the upper plateau.
Economy
About 33% of the manganese production in India comes from Balaghat District. The recently discovered copper deposit at Malanjkhand is regarded as the largest in the country. Bauxite, Kyanite, Marble, Dolomite, Clay and limestone are the other main minerals of the district.
In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Balaghat one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 24 districts in Madhya Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).
Divisions
Administratively, the district is divided into eleven development blocks/Tehsils viz : Balaghat, Baihar, Birsa, Paraswada, Katangi, Waraseoni, Lalbarra, Khairlanji, Lanji, Kirnapur, and Tirodi.
Transport
The Jabalpur-Balaghat section of South East Central Railway runs north to south through the district, along the valley of the Satpura Mountains and Wainganga River valley . The line was formerly narrow gauge () for its entire length, but the section between Balaghat to Gondia was converted to broad gauge in 2005–06, connecting Balaghat to India's national broad gauge network for the first time. Work is underway to convert the Balaghat-Jabalpur section to broad gauge as well which is complete now and trains run from Vidisha to Gondia. A Broad gauge line runs to west from Balaghat to Katangi. And there is a line to Bharveli for manganese transport
Balaghat is directly connected by bus with larger cities such as Bhopal, Nagpur, Indore Jabalpur, Raipur, Durg etc.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census Balaghat District has a population of 1,701,698, roughly equal to the nation of The Gambia or the US state of Nebraska. This gives it a ranking of 288th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–11 was 13.56%. Balaghat has a sex ratio of 1021 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 78.29%. 14.39% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 125,426 (7.37%) and 383,026 (22.51%) of the population respectively.
Hindus are 89.29%, Buddhists are 4.24% and Muslims are 2.26%. Other religions (mainly tribal tradition) is 3.41%.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 40.85% of the population in the district spoke Hindi, 16.41% Marathi, 9.64% Powari, 9.35% Gondi, 5.33% Chhattisgarhi, 5.22% Lodhi and 1.18% Kalari as their first language. 9.55% of the population spoke another variety classed under Hindi.
As per the 2001 Census, the total population of the district is 1,497,968, of which 1,236,083 is rural population and 129,787 is urban. Out of the total population, 113,105 are Scheduled Caste and 298,665 are Scheduled Tribes. The no. of males was 682,260 and the no. of females was 683,610. According to the District website the total area of the district is 9245 km2, making the population density 162 persons per km2.
In the 1991 Census, the total population of the district was 1,365,870.
Villages
Seoti
Kokna
Bhanegao
Dhoriya Padaswada
Binora
Jamdi
Kandri
Bhanegaon
Hirri
Kirnapur
Hatta
Flora and fauna
About 80% of the district's area is covered with forest. it is also the District of Madhya Pradesh which has maximum Forest Density. Teak (Tectona grandis), sal (Shorea robusta), bamboo and saja are the main trees. Fauna includes tiger, leopard, bear, nilgai, deer, and gaur, and birds like peacock, Red Bulbul and Koyal. Kanha National Park (Mukki) lies in the district.
Notes
References
External links
Balaghat district website
Balaghat map (ICA Online)
Attribution
Districts of Madhya Pradesh
1867 establishments in India |
21032395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieros%C5%82aw%2C%20Greater%20Poland%20Voivodeship | Sierosław, Greater Poland Voivodeship | Sierosław is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tarnowo Podgórne, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Tarnowo Podgórne and west of the regional capital Poznań.
References
Villages in Poznań County |
6124398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiko%20Casilla | Kiko Casilla | Francisco "Kiko" Casilla Cortés (; born 2 October 1986) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He started playing for Real Madrid, but only represented the reserve teams in the early stage of his career. He went on to appear in 126 competitive matches for Espanyol over six La Liga seasons before returning to his previous club in 2015, with whom he won three UEFA Champions League titles as backup to Keylor Navas. In 2019–20, he won promotion to the Premier League with Leeds United.
Casilla won one cap for Spain, in 2014.
Club career
Real Madrid
Born in Alcover, Tarragona, Catalonia, Casilla did not enjoy much playing time in his two-year stint with Real Madrid reserve side, Real Madrid Castilla. In the 2005–06 season, he played in Segunda División after having graduated from the C team, being only third choice after Jordi Codina and David Cobeño.
After only four appearances, Casilla was expected to receive more opportunities after the departure of Cobeño. However, Codina became the starter and Antonio Adán, a fellow youth graduate, the backup, and Casilla ended up playing only in the last game of the campaign, with an eventual relegation befalling.
Espanyol
In August 2007, Casilla was acquired by RCD Espanyol on a free transfer. On 20 January 2008, he made his debut in La Liga in a 1–2 away loss against Real Valladolid, coming on as a substitute for injured Iñaki Lafuente two minutes after half-time as the habitual starter Carlos Kameni was away on international duty. That month, news surfaced that Arsenal were interested in acquiring the young Spaniard's services.
Barred by Kameni and new signing Cristian Álvarez, Casilla joined Segunda División B side Cádiz CF on loan for 2008–09. The move was extended for the entirety of the following campaign after the Andalusians returned to division two, and he again started most of the season, but the team was immediately relegated.
Casilla still sat on the bench for Espanyol's first game in 2010–11 but, on 31 August 2010, moved again on loan, to second division club FC Cartagena. Subsequently, returned to the Pericos, he constantly battled for first-choice status with Álvarez.
After the Argentine left, Casilla became the undisputed starter. On 1 February 2015, he was sent off against Sevilla FC for handling Iago Aspas' shot outside of the penalty area, and his replacement Pau López could not prevent an eventual 2–3 defeat.
Return to Real Madrid
On 17 July 2015, Casilla returned to Real Madrid on a five-year contract for €6 million. He made his competitive debut on 31 October, in a 3–1 win over UD Las Palmas.
Casilla played understudy to Keylor Navas in his first season, appearing in seven official matches. Two of those came in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, as the tournament ended in conquest.
On 9 August 2016, Casilla was in goal for injured Navas in the 3–2 victory against fellow Spaniards Sevilla for the UEFA Super Cup, in Trondheim. He managed to contribute more in his second year, and the club won the national championship after a five-year wait. His Champions League input consisted of the 2–1 group phase defeat of Sporting CP, as they again emerged victorious in the competition.
Casilla made two appearances in the Champions League and 17 in all competitions during 2017–18, as Madrid won their third consecutive and 13th overall title in the tournament. In the following campaign, after the summer signing of Chelsea's Thibaut Courtois, he was further demoted down the pecking order.
Leeds United
On 17 January 2019, the 32-year-old Casilla moved abroad for the first time in his career and signed a four-and-a-half-year contract at Leeds United of the English Championship. He made his debut nine days later, in a 2–1 win against Rotherham United.
In September 2019, Casilla was accused of racially abusing Charlton Athletic forward Jonathan Leko in a match between the two teams. He was charged by The Football Association but remained available for selection during the investigation. On 28 February 2020, he received an eight-game ban and £60,000 fine after being found guilty.
Casilla played his first game in the Premier League on 16 January 2021, in a 0–1 home loss to Brighton & Hove Albion. He was second-choice to young Frenchman Illan Meslier over the season.
On 12 July 2021, Casilla was loaned to Elche CF for the next Spanish top-division season. Initially a starter, he eventually lost his place to Edgar Badia.
Casilla's contract at Leeds was terminated by mutual consent on 31 July 2022.
Getafe
On 10 August 2022, Casilla joined Getafe CF on a one-year deal.
International career
Casilla represented Spain at under-21 level once, playing 29 minutes in a 2–0 friendly defeat of France in Benidorm. On 29 August 2014, he was called up to full side manager Vicente del Bosque's 23-man squad for matches against France and Macedonia in September, as third-choice behind Iker Casillas and David de Gea. He only made his debut, however, on 18 November, replacing the former for the last 14 minutes of a friendly with Germany in Vigo and being beaten by Toni Kroos for the game's only goal.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Real Madrid
La Liga: 2016–17
Supercopa de España: 2017
UEFA Champions League: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
UEFA Super Cup: 2016, 2017
FIFA Club World Cup: 2016, 2017, 2018
Leeds United
EFL Championship: 2019–20
References
External links
Stats and bio at Cadistas1910
1986 births
Living people
People from Alt Camp
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from the Province of Tarragona
Men's association football goalkeepers
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Real Madrid C footballers
Real Madrid Castilla footballers
RCD Espanyol B footballers
RCD Espanyol footballers
Cádiz CF players
FC Cartagena footballers
Real Madrid CF players
Elche CF players
Getafe CF footballers
Premier League players
English Football League players
Leeds United F.C. players
UEFA Champions League winning players
Spain men's youth international footballers
Spain men's under-21 international footballers
Spain men's international footballers
Catalonia men's international footballers
Spanish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in England
Race-related controversies in the United Kingdom |
14500613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etorki | Etorki | Etorki is a firm cheese made in the French Basque country, at Mauléon-Licharre in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department. It is made from pasteurized sheep milk and pulp pressed, not cooked, then matured for seven weeks.
Etorki is produced in ten-inch by four-inch cylinders weighing ten pounds. Cheese critics describe Etorki as "smooth, supple, and velvety."
See also
List of sheep milk cheeses
References
French cheeses
Sheep's-milk cheeses |
57985459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20San%20Francisco%20Dons%20football%20team | 1948 San Francisco Dons football team | The 1948 San Francisco Dons football team was an American football team that represented the University of San Francisco as an independent during the 1948 college football season. In their first season under head coach Joe Kuharich, the Dons compiled a 2–7 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 216 to 123.
San Francisco was ranked at No. 89 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.
Schedule
References
San Francisco
San Francisco Dons football seasons
San Francisco Dons football |
12284837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Delegate%20%28AM-217%29 | USS Delegate (AM-217) | USS Delegate (AM-217) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was awarded one battle star for service in the Pacific during World War II. She was decommissioned in May 1946 and turned over to the Republic of China. Named ROCS Yung Ho (PF-53) in the Republic of China Navy, she served until September 1962 when she was stricken. Her ultimate fate is not reported in secondary sources.
Career
Delegate was launched 28 March 1943 by Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Tampa, Florida; sponsored by Miss L. Bourget; and commissioned 30 April 1945.
Delegate sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, 14 July 1945 and called at Guantánamo Bay, San Pedro, Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, and Saipan before arriving at Usuki Bay, Kyūshū, 3 November as escort for two LST's. She swept mines in Tsushima Straits from 15 to 22 December, then supervised Japanese minesweepers clearing the northern Futagami minefields from 20 to 26 January 1946. Delegate arrived at Kure 6 February to provide logistics support for the YMSs engaged in widening the swept channel to that port.
Delegate left Kure, Japan, 24 February 1946 and arrived at Subic Bay, Luzon, 5 March to have her armament removed. On 8 April she sailed for Shanghai, China, arriving 5 days later. She was decommissioned and turned over to the State Department 29 May 1946 for further transfer to the Republic of China, by which she was renamed and reclassified, ROCS Yung Ho (PF-53). She was decommissioned and struck from the Republic of China Navy on 1 September 1962; her ultimate fate is not reported in secondary sources.
Awards
Delegate received one battle star for World War II service.
References
External links
Admirable-class minesweepers
Ships built in Tampa, Florida
1943 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United States
Admirable-class minesweepers of the Republic of China Navy |
68229125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coryphaenoides%20brevibarbis | Coryphaenoides brevibarbis | Coryphaenoides brevibarbis, also called the shortbeard grenadier, is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Macrouridae.
Description
Coryphaenoides brevibarbis is pale brown in colour, with the lips, lining of gill cavities and peritoneum black. It is up to in length. Its premaxillary teeth are in a narrow/broad band, while the lower jaw has one row of teeth. Its snout is low and blunt, barely protruding, hence the name brevibarbis ("short beard").
Habitat
Coryphaenoides brevibarbis lives in the North Atlantic Ocean; it is bathypelagic, living at depths of .
Behaviour
Coryphaenoides brevibarbis feeds on crustaceans, mysids and worms, using olfaction and its lateral line to find prey. Lifespan is about 14–15 years. Cyclocotyloides bergstadi and Chondracanthodes deflexus are parasites living in its gills. Many nematode parasites are also found in it.
References
Macrouridae
Fish described in 1899
Taxa named by George Brown Goode
Taxa named by Tarleton Hoffman Bean |
67141633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyrella | Argyrella | Argyrella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.
Its native range is Africa.
Species:
Argyrella amplexicaulis
Argyrella angolensis
Argyrella bambutorum
Argyrella canescens
Argyrella linearis
Argyrella phaeotricha
Argyrella richardsiae
Argyrella sessilis
References
Melastomataceae
Melastomataceae genera |
1082487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Koenig | Alexander Koenig | Alexander Ferdinand Koenig (20 February 1858 – 16 July 1940) was a German naturalist and zoologist. Making use of the family wealth earned from the sugar business, he went on collection expeditions and founded what is now known as the Museum Koenig in Bonn in 1912.
Biography
Koenig was born at St Petersburg, Russia, the third son of his father Leopold (1821–1903) who was a successful merchant involved in the sugar trade. Leopold was the son of Thuringian baker Johann Georg Koenig (1785–1856) and learned to process sugar at a young age. He married Caroline and obtained a loan from his mother-in-law to establish a successful sugar factory and at the height of the business they employed nearly 20000 people and held farms across Ukraine. Alexander Koenig grew up in Bonn where his father owned Villa Koenig (now called Villa Hammerschmidt). Koenig became interested in natural history at an early age and started to collect specimens in a private natural history cabinet at the villa. His schooling involved frequent changes due to conflicts with teachers. In 1873 he went to a school near Kösen, followed by the Arnoldinum at Burgsteinfurt until 1880. He spent the next two years at a gymnasium in Demmin, Pomerania and while on a walk he met Margarethe Westphal, whom he married in 1884. He then studied zoology at the universities of Greifswald, Kiel, Berlin and Marburg, where he received his doctorate in with a thesis on Mallophaga, "Ein Beitrag zur Mallophagenfauna". He funded expeditions to the Spitzbergen region of the Arctic and to Africa, where he visited Egypt and Sudan along with his wife Margarethe — on six separate occasions he traveled to the Nile.
His father provided funds for Alexander to conduct his collection expeditions. He also provided money for the construction of a museum building. With his collections he founded the Museum Koenig in Bonn and it was inaugurated on September 3, 1912, the birthday his wife. The building was designed by Gustav Holland. The museum collection includes specimens Koenig collected from even early in his life. Construction of the museum stopped in 1914 following the outbreak of World War I. The family lost all their former assets following the Russian revolution of 1917. The museum served as housing for a military hospital and the collections were kept in the basement. It was reopened only after Koenig was able to negotiate with the German Reich and it was reopened on May 13, 1934. Koenig was given various honours and a street in Burgsteinfurt was named after him. He died at Blücherhof Manor in Mecklenburg Castle which he had purchased in 1904. His wife died on 14 May 1943. As honorary citizens of Bonn, they were buried in the Bonn South Cemetery. Alexander-Koenig-Strasse was named in his honour in Bonn.
Selected works
Ein Beitrag zur Mallophagenfauna (1884)
Avifauna Spitzbergensis : Forschungsreisen nach der Bären-Insel und dem Spitzbergen-Archipel, mit ihren faunistischen und floristischen Ergebnissen (with Otto Le Roi), 1911 – Birdlife of Spitzbergen: research trips to Bear Island and the Svalbard archipelago, with its faunal and floristic results.
Katalog der nido-oologischen Sammlung (Vogeleiersammlung) im Museum Alexander Koenig (4 volumes, 1932) – Catalogue of nido-oological specimens (bird egg collection) in the Alexander Koenig Museum.
Die Vögel am Nil : von seiner Mündung bis in das Gebiet seiner Quellflüsse (Weisser Nil) auf Grund eigener Reisen und Beobachtungen in Wort und Bild dargestellt (2 volumes 1936) – The birds of the Nile region.
References
External links
Museum Koenig
Koenig Museum information
German naturalists
19th-century German zoologists
German ornithologists
Scientists from Bonn
University of Greifswald alumni
University of Marburg alumni
University of Kiel alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
1858 births
1940 deaths
20th-century German zoologists
Expatriates in the Russian Empire |
19198428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholto%20Taylor | Sholto Taylor | Sholto Taylor (born 1 September 1972) is a New Zealand wheelchair rugby player, and a member of the national team, the Wheel Blacks.
He has competed with the Wheel Blacks at several international events, including the 1996 Summer Paralympics, the 2000 Summer Paralympics (winning bronze), the 2004 Summer Paralympics (gold), and the 2006 World Championships (silver). Taylor was the flagbearer of New Zealand's delegation at the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Paralympics. His team finished in fifth place at those games.
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
New Zealand wheelchair rugby players
Paralympic wheelchair rugby players for New Zealand
Paralympic gold medalists for New Zealand
Paralympic bronze medalists for New Zealand
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair rugby
Wheelchair rugby players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair rugby players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair rugby players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair rugby players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Ngāti Kahungunu people |
26691036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Borough%20of%20Bradford | County Borough of Bradford | The County Borough of Bradford was a local government district with city status in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1847 to 1974.
Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and a county borough in 1888, making it administratively independent of the West Riding County Council. It was honoured with city status on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, with Kingston upon Hull and Nottingham. The three had been the largest county boroughs outside the London area without city status. The borough's boundaries were extended to absorb Clayton in 1930, and parts of Rawdon, Shipley, Wharfedale and Yeadon urban districts in 1937.
Bradford City Hall was opened on 9 September 1873 as the seat of local government. The Venetian Gothic sandstone building was designed by local architects Lockwood and Mawson and is Grade I listed.
The borough was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, and created the centre of the new Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, which inherited the city status, by a merger with the Municipal Borough of Keighley, the urban districts of Baildon, Bingley, Denholme, Ilkley, Shipley and Silsden, along with part of Queensbury and Shelf Urban District and part of Skipton Rural District, all in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
References
County boroughs of England
County Borough of
Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 |
50998875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Hilliard | Harry Hilliard | Henry Hilliard (7 November 1826 – 19 March 1914) was an Australian cricketer. He played in New South Wales' first match, in 1856, against Victoria, and was the last surviving player from either side.
Life and career
Harry Hilliard played in Sydney when he was 12 for the Union Club against the Military. On one occasion in his youth he was jailed for two days for absconding from his cabinet-making apprenticeship in order to play cricket.
A batsman and good fielder who occasionally kept wicket and bowled, Hilliard played in New South Wales' first match, in 1855-56, against Victoria, and in the next four of what became an annual match. His highest score was 20, against Victoria in 1856-57, the fourth-highest score in a low-scoring match. He and William Gilbert Rees, W. G. Grace's cousin, added 32 for the second wicket in New South Wales' first innings, the highest partnership of the match. He top-scored for New South Wales in his last match, scoring 15 in the first innings of a match in which New South Wales made 44 and 42 and Victoria won easily. New South Wales' highest total in these five matches was 86.
A stroke a few months after his last match in 1860 ended his playing career. He was unable to walk for some time afterwards, but by swimming daily he gradually recovered. He kept up his daily swim for 40 years.
He and his wife had a large family. After his stroke a benefit concert was held for them at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Sydney.
He remained a keen spectator of interstate cricket for the rest of his life, never missing a match, in Sydney or Melbourne, between New South Wales and Victoria. He also followed the Australians on their tour of England in 1878.
He spent most of his working life as a maker and repairer of cricket bats. He was the last surviving player from the first match between New South Wales and Victoria.
See also
List of New South Wales representative cricketers
References
External links
1826 births
1914 deaths
Cricketers from Sydney
Australian cricketers
New South Wales cricketers |
12355371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritchardia%20napaliensis | Pritchardia napaliensis | Pritchardia napaliensis is a species of palm tree that is endemic to the island of Kauai in Hawaii, United States. It inhabits gulch slopes in coastal mesic forests on the Nā Pali coastline, especially in the vicinity of Hooluu Valley. P. napaliensis reaches a height of and a trunk diameter of .
References
napaliensis
Plants described in 1981
Trees of Hawaii
Endemic flora of Hawaii
Critically endangered plants
Biota of Kauai
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Harold St. John |
37895601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choe%20Sang-rim | Choe Sang-rim | Choe Sang-rim (; 17 November 1888 – 6 May 1945) was a Korean independence activist, Presbyterian priest, and educator during the Korea's independence movement.
Life
Born in Gijang-gun, Dongrae on 17 November 1888, Choe graduated from Pyongyang Missionary School () in 1926, and became a priest for Dongraeeup Church.
In 1933, he moved to Namhaeeup Church, and in 1937 became a President of Gyeongsangnam-do Presbyterian Conference ().
Starting from October 1938, Choe refused to participate in worship of the Japanese Emperor, which was required by law in the 1930s (see Christianity in Korea: Korean nationalism). He then initiated the movement of antagonism towards Japanese Shinto Shrine worship by focusing on Namhae area.
As the movement of antagonism towards Japanese Shinto Shrine worship was prohibited by the Japanese colonial power during that time, Choe was eventually arrested and remanded in Pyongyang prison along with other anti-Japanese Shrine worship activists.
While still imprisoned, Choe succumbed on 6 May 1945 to the lasting effects he had endured while being tortured. In 1991, the government of South Korea conferred the Order of Merit for National Foundation on Choe Sang-rim.
See also
Christianity in South Korea
References
Ministry of Patriots' and Veterans' Affairs (South Korea)|https://web.archive.org/web/20130504203822/http://english.mpva.go.kr/
The History of Korean Church's persecution ()
(최훈, 예수교문서선교회), 1979
The history of Korean religious faith experiences ()(고택구편, 복음세계사), 1954
1888 births
1945 deaths
Korean priests
Assassinated Korean politicians
20th-century executions by Japan
Executed Korean people
Korean Christians
Recipients of the Order of Merit for National Foundation
People executed by torture
People from Busan
Korean torture victims
1940s assassinated politicians
Korean independence activists |
68535933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Paul%27s%20Conversion%20Church%2C%20Saba | St. Paul's Conversion Church, Saba | The St. Paul's Conversion Church is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church located in the town of Windwardside on the Caribbean island of Saba, a dependent territory with the status of special municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is one of three Catholic Churches on the island, along with Sacred Heart Church and Holy Rosary Church.
History
The church was constructed of stone between 1859 and 1860 under the supervision of Fr. Manuel Romero from Venezuela, making it the oldest Catholic Church on the island.
Gallery
References
External links
Official Facebook
Roman Catholic churches in Saba
Buildings and structures in Saba
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1860
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the Netherlands |
24105360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%20Tasman%20Series | 1973 Tasman Series | The 1973 Tasman Series was a motor racing competition staged in New Zealand and Australia for cars complying with the Tasman Formula. The series, which began on 6 January and ended on 25 February after eight races, was the tenth Tasman Series. Officially known as the Tasman Championship for Drivers, it was organised jointly by the Motorsport Association New Zealand Incorporated and the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport. The championship was won by Graham McRae, driving a McRae GM1 Chevrolet.
Races
The series was contested over eight rounds.
Points system
Points were awarded at each race on the following basis:
All races were counted towards the final totals for each driver.
Series standings
References
External links
Tasman Cup (F5000) races 1970-1975, www.oldracingcars.com
1973
Tasman Series
Tasman Series
Formula 5000 |
12546674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Kid | Our Kid | Our Kid were a British vocal group discovered by the ITV show, New Faces, winning an edition of the programme on 1 May 1976, although they did not go on to reach the series grand final. They then had a number two hit single on the UK Singles Chart in 1976 with "You Just Might See Me Cry", which peaked on 3 July 1976. The track was released on the Polydor label, and spent eleven weeks in the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Roger Greenaway and Barry Mason. Further singles "I Can't Live Without You" and "Romeo and Juliet" were not successful.
The band came from Liverpool and consisted of four boys in their early teens. The lead vocalist was Kevin Rowan (born 1964); Rowan later left the band and was replaced by Frankie Jones. The other members were Brian Farrell (b. 1963), Terry McCreith (b. 1961) and Terry Baccino (b. 1961). Baccino replaced original member David Newall (b. 1965) who left the band two weeks before New Faces to concentrate on a new band called Young World with Ian McNabb and Chris Sharrock (who went on to form The Icicle Works). Newall still performs today with the international corporate showband 'Spy Candy'. Our Kid appeared in summer season at Great Yarmouth and completed the full season. Their exposure was hampered somewhat by education authorities refusing them permission to take part in performances. For example, on 21 June 1976 a scheduled appearance on Blue Peter was cancelled at the last minute, when Liverpool City Council's Education Department refused to issue a licence for them to take part, as 21 days notice had not been given.
Lack of further chart activity left Our Kid with the one-hit wonder tag.
References
Musical groups established in 1976
English pop music groups
Musical groups from Liverpool |
24706774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20Dreams | Hollywood Dreams | Hollywood Dreams is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom. The film stars Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, David Proval, Karen Black, Eric Roberts, and Seymour Cassel.
Plot
Aspiring actress Margie Chizek (Frederick) seeks Hollywood stardom and finds rejection, romance, publicity and epiphanies along the way.
Sequel
The film spawned a sequel released in 2010 titled Queen of the Lot.
References
External links
Review at The New York Times
Review at Variety
2006 comedy-drama films
2006 films
American comedy-drama films
Films directed by Henry Jaglom
2006 comedy films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
72994598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamil%20Al-Sufri | Jamil Al-Sufri | Jamil Al-Sufri (10 December 1921 – 4 March 2021), pen name Wijaya, was a nobleman, historian and teacher from Brunei who previously served as a member of the Royal Council, member of the Royal Succession Council, member of the Islamic Religious Council, and member of the Privy Council. He has also been referred to as the National Historian. He wrote works on the country's history, ancestry, customs and traditions, royal titles, Malay Islamic Monarchy (MIB), education, writings on Brunei heroes, and other topics. Notably, he is also the half brother of Abdul Aziz Umar.
Biography
Career
From 1 January 1939, through 31 December 1946, Jamil Al-Sufri worked as a Trainee Teacher for the Government of Brunei. After leaving the service, he was rehired and given the positions of Director of the Language Board of Brunei from 1961 until 1964, and Director of the Language and Literature Bureau (Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka) from 1977 to 1981. Since the Brunei History Center's founding in 1982, he has served as its director till his death. The late Pehin held a number of significant posts before Brunei achieved complete independence in 1984 and contributed to the development of Brunei. He also served on many councils, such as the Royal Succession Council (Majlis Mesyuarat Mengangkat Raja), and the Privy Council.
The idea of creating a Federation of Malaysia to unite Malaya, the colony of Singapore, and the three (British) Borneo regions was put out in 1961 by Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister of Malaya. At first, everyone was on board with the concept, but Brunei and Singapore would later back out. It was during the meeting between then Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III and A.M. Azahari with Jamil Al-Sufri in presence. He firmly held his ground on accusing A.M. Azahari of being a liar.
Death
At seven in the morning, the National Historian, who was 99 years old, passed away at Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Hospital on 4 March 2021. At Kampong Mabohai in Bandar Seri Begawan, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah paid his final respects to Jamil Al- Sufri on Wednesday morning of 4 March 2021. The funeral prayer was offered by the Sultan under the direction of Abdul Aziz Juned, the State Mufti.
Personal life
Jamil was married to Siti Hara Taha (died 2012), and together they have a daughter, Normah Suria Hayati, permanent secretary of Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources.
Books
Awards and honours
Awards
S.E.A Write Award (2010)
Honours
Jamil Al-Sufri was given the title of Yang Berhormat (The Honourable) Pehin Jawatan Dalam Seri Maharaja, and earned the following honours;
Family Order of Seri Utama (DK II) – Dato Seri Utama
Order of Seri Paduka Mahkota Brunei Second Class (DPMB; 23 September 1965) – Dato Paduka
Order of Paduka Seri Laila Jasa Second Class (DSLJ; 23 September 1967) – Dato Seri Laila Jasa
Omar Ali Saifuddin Medal (POAS; 23 September 1963)
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Medal (PHBS)
Pingat Bakti Laila Ikhlas (PBLI)
Meritorious Service Medal (PJK)
Long Service Medal (PKL; 23 September 1959)
References
1921 births
2021 deaths
Bruneian Muslims
Bruneian educators
Bruneian historians
Members of the Legislative Council of Brunei
Members of the Privy Council of Brunei
S.E.A. Write Award winners
Bruneian writers |
57954381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20German%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Singles | 2018 German Open – Singles | Leonardo Mayer was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Nikoloz Basilashvili, 4–6, 6–0, 5–7. This was Basilashvili's first ATP World Tour title, as well as the first ATP title won by a Georgian player since Alexander Metreveli.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Seeds
Qualifiers
Lucky loser
Thiago Monteiro
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
References
Main draw
Qualifying draw
German Open - Singles
2018 International German Open |
32114940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaxymorpha | Metaxymorpha | Metaxymorpha is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:
Metaxymorpha alexanderiensis Nylander, 2008
Metaxymorpha apicalis (van de Poll, 1886)
Metaxymorpha apicerubra Thery, 1923
Metaxymorpha dohertyi Thery, 1923
Metaxymorpha gloriosa Blackburn, 1894
Metaxymorpha grayii (Parry, 1848)
Metaxymorpha hanloni Nylander, 2008
Metaxymorpha hauseri Thery, 1926
Metaxymorpha hilleri Nylander, 2004
Metaxymorpha hudsoni Nylander, 2001
Metaxymorpha imitator Neef de Sainval, 1994
Metaxymorpha landeri Nylander, 2001
Metaxymorpha mariettae Nylander, 2004
Metaxymorpha meeki Thery, 1923
Metaxymorpha nigrofasciata Nylander, 2001
Metaxymorpha nigrosuturalis Neef de Sainval & Lander, 1993
Metaxymorpha pledgeri Nylander, 2001
Metaxymorpha sternalis Hoscheck, 1931
References
Buprestidae genera |
74523708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Meerbusch%20Challenger%20%E2%80%93%20Singles | 2023 Meerbusch Challenger – Singles | Bernabé Zapata Miralles was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.
Jan Choinski won the title after defeating Camilo Ugo Carabelli 6–4, 6–0 in the final.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
References
External links
Main draw
Qualifying draw
Meerbusch Challenger - 1
2023 Singles |
37627843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymphorodes%20spodogramma | Asymphorodes spodogramma | Asymphorodes spodogramma is a moth of the family Agonoxenidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1986. It is found in French Polynesia.
References
Moths described in 1986
Agonoxeninae
Moths of Oceania
Endemic fauna of French Polynesia |
16441410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1835%20Gajdariya | 1835 Gajdariya | 1835 Gajdariya, provisional designation , is a stony Koronian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 12.5 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 30 July 1970, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. It was named after Russian writer Arkady Gaidar.
Characteristics
The S-type asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, which is named after 158 Koronis and consists of about 300 known bodies with nearly ecliptical orbits. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.6–3.1 AU once every 4 years and 9 months (1,741 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 1° with respect to the ecliptic. Its spectra is that of an S-type asteroid with a geometric albedo of about 0.24. It has a rotation period of 6.33 hours.
Naming
It was named in honor of Soviet–Russian writer and children's author Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941), who joined the partisans and became a machine gunner during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Gaidar was killed in combat in October 1941. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
001835
Discoveries by Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova
Named minor planets
19700730 |
58584533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey%20Bee%202.5 | Honey Bee 2.5 | HoneyBee 2.5 is a 2017 Malayalam language romantic drama film produced by Lal under the banner of Lal Creations. The film stars Askar Ali and Lijo Mol Jose in the lead roles along with Asif Ali, Lal, Bhavana, Lena and Harisree Asokan. The film is directed by Shyju Anthikkad. The music is composed by A. M. Jose. The screenplay was based on a story written by Lal.It was a derivative of Honey Bee 2:Celebrations.
It was a derivative of Honey Bee 2: Celebrations.The peculiarity of the film is that it was shot during the break intervals of the set of Honey Bee 2: Celebrations.
Plot
Vishnu, a youngster who has a great potential to become an actor, is cast in a character role in the film, but for one or the other reason the character given to him slips out of his hand. He was not ready to give up and tries his maximum to take up the character. Meanwhile, Kanmani, actress Bhavana's make up artist, falls in love with him and helps him to better realise the character.
Cast
Askar Ali as Vishnu
Lijomol Jose as Kanmani
Asif Ali as himself
Lal as himself
Bhavana as herself
Harisree Asokan as himself
Baburaj as himself
Sreenath Bhasi as himself
Arun as himself
Jean Paul Lal as himself
Sachy as himself
Lena as herself
Joy Mathew as himself
Dileesh Pothan as Director Thomas George
Ponnamma Babu as herself
Balu Varghese as himself
Indian Pallassery as Madhu
Hareesh Perumanna as Usman
Sreenivasan as himself
Jayasurya as himself (cameo appearance)
Vinayakan as himself (cameo appearance)
Soundtrack
The music is composed by A M Jose.
"Aminathatha"- Lal
References
External links
2017 films
Indian comedy thriller films
2010s comedy thriller films
Indian sequel films
2010s Malayalam-language films
2017 comedy films
Films directed by Shyju Anthikkad
Malayalam films in series |
62527617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Think%20It%27s%20Love | I Think It's Love | "I Think It's Love is a song recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson. It was released as the first single to the album, Precious Moments.
Charts
References
External links
Genius: I Think It's Love - Lyrics
1986 singles
1986 songs
Jermaine Jackson songs
Songs written by Jermaine Jackson
Songs written by Michael Omartian
Songs written by Stevie Wonder |
34926886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20flammans | Boletus flammans | Boletus flammans is a species of bolete fungus found in North America. It was described scientifically by Esther A. Dick and Wally Snell in 1965.
See also
List of Boletus species
List of North American boletes
References
External links
flammans
Fungi described in 1965
Fungi of North America |
50926717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Taipei%20women%27s%20national%20ice%20hockey%20team | Chinese Taipei women's national ice hockey team | The Chinese Taipei women's national ice hockey team is the ice hockey team representing Taiwan internationally in women's competition. The team is overseen by the Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey Federation, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The team was formed in 2014 and competed in the IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia Division I tournament, which it has won on two occasions, currently competes in IIHF Women's Ice Hockey World Championships Division 2B.
History
The Chinese Taipei women's national ice hockey team played its first game in November 2014 at the 2015 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia Division I tournament. Chinese Taipei won their opening game of the tournament against Hong Kong and went on to win their three other games which included a second win against Hong Kong and two wins against Thailand. Chinese Taipei finished the tournament at the top of the standings and won the gold medal. The team returned to competition in March 2016 for the 2016 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia Division I tournament. The tournament had expanded to five teams and included India, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Chinese Taipei finished at the top of the standings after winning all four of their games and claimed their second tournament title. The tournament also included the team's 21–0 defeat of Malaysia, their largest win in internal competition.
International competitions
World Championship
2017 – Finished in 33rd place (1st in Division IIB Qualification, Promoted to Division IIB)
2018 – Finished in 29th place (2nd in Division IIB)
2019 – Finished in 29th place (1st in Division IIB, Promoted to Division IIA)
2020 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022 – Finished in 25th place (4th in Division IIA)
2023 – Finished in 26th place (4th in Division IIA)
Women's Challenge Cup of Asia
2015 Division I – 1st
2016 Division I – 1st
2019 Top Division – 2nd
Team roster
For the 2016 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia Division I
All-time record against other nations
Last match update: 18 March 2022
References
External links
IIHF profile
Ice hockey in Taiwan
Ice hockey
Women's national ice hockey teams in Asia |
54232857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsythia%20koreana | Forsythia koreana | Forsythia koreana, commonly called gaenari (Hangul:개나리) or Korean goldenbell tree, is a species in the olive family, Oleaceae. It grows to about . The leaves are oval in shape, have teeth, and are long. The front of the leaf is dark green and the back is dark blue, but both sides are hairless.
References
Endemic flora of Korea
Flora of Korea
Forsythieae |
59903246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delma%20grayii | Delma grayii | Delma grayii, also known commonly as Gray's legless lizard, Gray's scalyfoot, and the side-barred delma, is a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
Etymology
The specific name, grayii, is in honor of British herpetologist John Edward Gray.
Geographic range
D. grayii is found in the Australian state of Western Australia, mainly along the central portion of the west coast.
The type locality was original given, in error, as "the interior of Southern Africa".
Habitat
The preferred natural habitats of D. grayii are forest and shrubland.
Description
D. grayii is limbless.
Reproduction
D. grayii is oviparous.
References
Further reading
Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. .
Kluge AG (1974). "A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae". Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (147): 1–221. (Delma grayii, p. 94).
Smith A (1849). Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; Consisting Chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected during an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836; Fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa:" Together with a Summary of African Zoology, and an Inquiry into the Geographical Ranges of Species in that Quarter of the Globe. [Volume III. Reptilia.] London: Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury. (Smith, Elder and Co., printers). 78 plates + unnumbered pages of text. (Delma grayii, new species, Plate 76, figures 2, 2a–2c + two unnumbered pages). (in English and Latin).
Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. .
Pygopodids of Australia
Delma
Reptiles described in 1849
Endemic fauna of Australia |
8595055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20Mall | Jefferson Mall | Jefferson Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Louisville, Kentucky, the largest city in Kentucky. The mall is located near the intersection of Interstate 65 and Outer Loop in southern Louisville. Jefferson Mall is the only major mall in southern Jefferson County, and the only of Louisville's six regional shopping centers (400,000+ square feet) serving the south and west county; the others are located in the east county.
Jefferson Mall opened in August 1978, named for the county in which it is located. The mall was developed by Richard E. Jacobs Group of Cleveland, Ohio and included of space. Jefferson Mall's original anchor stores included JCPenney, Sears, and Stewart Dry Goods. Shillito's opened a store in the mall in October 1979.
The mall was sold in 2000 to CBL & Associates Properties of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Louisville's daily newspaper, The Courier-Journal, described the mall as "overlooked" in the Louisville retail scene, not as popular as Oxmoor Center and Mall St. Matthews in eastern Jefferson County. At the time, Jefferson Mall had not been updated substantially since its opening except for the addition of a food court in 1999. The mall's first major renovation was completed in 2003 and included new entrances.
The mall's current anchor stores are Dillard's and JCPenney. There are 95 permanent stores and of leased space.
In March 2005 Macy's assumed operation of the former Shillito's, then closed in April 2017 as part of a company-wide downsizing. The former Macy's became Round One Entertainment in December 2018.
On October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing in January 2019 as part of a plan to close 142 stores nationwide which left Dillard's and JCPenney as the only traditional anchors left.
References
External links
Economy of Louisville, Kentucky
Shopping malls in Kentucky
Shopping malls established in 1978
CBL Properties
Buildings and structures in Louisville, Kentucky
Tourist attractions in Louisville, Kentucky |
3488422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Cassiopeia | USS Cassiopeia | USS Cassiopeia (AK-75) was a in the service of the US Navy in World War II. She was the only ship of to bear this name. She is named after the Northern Hemisphere constellation Cassiopeia.
Construction
Cassiopeia was launched 15 November 1942 as liberty ship SS Melville W. Fuller by Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 504; sponsored by Mrs. C. F. Calhoun; acquired by the Navy 27 November 1942; and commissioned 8 December 1942.
Service history
Cassiopeia sailed from San Francisco 21 December 1942 with cargo for Nouméa, where she arrived 12 January 1943. From this base, she offered essential support to the operations in the consolidation of the northern Solomons, carrying the varied necessities of war throughout the South Pacific. Between 19 June and 11 July, the cargo ship voyaged to Auckland, New Zealand, to reload, then returned with voyages from Nouméa to Guadalcanal until 9 August. Another resupply mission and a brief repair period in New Zealand preceded her resumption of South Pacific operations in November.
This pattern of ferrying vital supplies in the South Pacific alternating with voyages to New Zealand to reload continued until 6 June 1945, when Cassiopeia cleared Auckland for San Francisco, the Panama Canal Zone, and Norfolk, where she arrived 25 October.
Decommissioning
The cargo ship was decommissioned 21 November 1945, and transferred to MARCOM for disposal the same day.
Final disposition
Cassiopeia was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Virginia, on 21 November 1945.
On 21 June 1961, the Navy requested her for testing purposes, on 27 June 1961, she was transferred back to the Navy to be used as a target by , in the VACAPES area.
Awards
Cassiopeia received one battle star for World War II service.
References
Bibliography
External links
Crater-class cargo ships
World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
Ships built in Richmond, California
1942 ships
James River Reserve Fleet |
14042220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spunk/This%20Is%20Crap | Spunk/This Is Crap | Spunk/This is Crap is a rarities album by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols. It was included with the 1996 reissue of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
It features a reissue of the Spunk bootleg, without talking between tracks and with nine additional tracks.
Track listing
"Seventeen"
"Satellite"
"No Feelings"
"I Wanna Be Me"
"Submission"
"Anarchy in the UK"
"God Save the Queen"
"Problems"
"Pretty Vacant"
"Liar"
"EMI"
"New York"
"Problems"
"No Feelings"
"Pretty Vacant"
"Submission"
"No Feelings"
"EMI"
"Satellite"
"Seventeen"
"Anarchy in the UK"
Notes
Tracks 1-4, 8-11 & 16 were not included in the Sex Pistols Box Set.
Tracks 1-5 recorded at Dave Goodman sessions, Riverside/Denmark St, July 1976
Track 6 recorded at Dave Goodman sessions, Wessex Studios, October '76
Tracks 7-12 recorded at Dave Goodman sessions, Gooseberry Studios, January 1977
Tracks 13-15 recorded at Chris Spedding sessions, Majestic Studios May 1976
Tracks 16-20 recorded at Chris Thomas Never Mind the Bollocks… sessions, Wessex, summer 1977
Track 21 recorded at Dave Goodman sessions, Riverside/Denmark St, July 1976
References
Sex Pistols compilation albums
1996 compilation albums |
56914628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Cupidon | Ernest Cupidon | Ernest M. Cupidon was a Jamaican comedian and actor. He performed in an adaptation of Herbert George de Lisser's novel Susan Proudleigh and was known for his use of dialects and patois. He is credited by being the first actor to bring Caribbean dialect performance to Jamaican theatre and has been referred to as a "central figure" in the country's dramatic history during this era. Cupidon was active in the 1930s Jamaican entertainment industry.
During his career he collaborated with other artists including Vere Johns and Tony Abelton. With Ableton he performed as the "Cuoea and Abes" duo during the 1920a and 1930s. Part of his work was to participate in theatrical mock trials representing defendants being persecuted for their race. He was also known for his impersonations of women on stage.
References
Jamaican actors
Jamaican comedians |
231395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Baddow | Great Baddow | Great Baddow is an urban village and civil parish in the Chelmsford borough of Essex, England. It is close to the city of Chelmsford and, with a population of over 13,000, is one of the largest villages in the country.
History
Great Baddow's name is believed to have been derived from the River Beadwan, now known as the River Chelmer, which marks the northern boundary of the village. Beadwan is thought to be a Celtic word of uncertain meaning, possibly birch stream or a reference to the goddess Badbh.
In the Saxon period, the manor of Great Baddow was held by the Earls of Mercia and in the 13th century by Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale whose widow launched a legal challenge over its ownership on his death in March 1295. After passing to the Crown, Henry VIII later granted it to Catherine of Aragon. During the reign of Edward VI, it was held by the Paschals, before being sold to J.A. Houblon in 1736.
According to information in the local Church of St Mary, the rebel leader Jack Straw led an ill-fated crowd (the men of Essex) from the churchyard to London, in one of the risings in the 1381 Peasants' Revolt.
In 1731, Jasper Jeffrey founded Great Baddow Free School and, in 1830, two National Schools were built. By 1933, there were 7 daily schools, 2 daily and Sunday schools, and a further 2 boarding schools.
Great Baddow is recorded as having had a population of 1,445 in 1801, a figure that had risen to 2,022 in 1841. White's Directory of Essex 1848 reports Great Baddow as being 'one of the handsomest villages in Essex' having 'many scattered farms and neat houses', also noting that it had an annual pleasure fair on 14 May.
William Calcraft, the hangman and a cobbler by trade, was born at Baddow in 1800.
Following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, responsibility for the poor of Great Baddow was removed from the parish and transferred to the Chelmsford Union on 10 August 1835.
The Post Office Directory of Essex 1851, which lists the principal residents and trade persons of the parish of Great Baddow, includes 24 farmers, 8 beer retailers, 4 shoemakers, 3 blacksmith, 2 dressmakers and notes that the vicar is residing in the Vineyards.
The Great Baddow Mast – a former Chain Home radar transmitter tower, originally sited at RAF Canewdon – was moved to the outskirts of Great Baddow at around 1954 and is used by BAE Systems for equipment testing. The last remaining example of a Chain Home tower maintaining its platforms, it was made a listed building by Historic England in October 2019 and given a Grade II status.
Development
During the early part of the 20th century, Great Baddow grew through ribbon development towards Chelmsford and Galleywood. In 1936, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company opened the Marconi Research Laboratory in Great Baddow (now BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Laboratories), bringing together their various radio, television and telephony research teams in a single location. As the electronics industry developed, the campus expanded during the 1940s and 1950s to include research into radar, general physics, high voltage, vacuum physics and semiconductors. Great Baddow expanded considerably in the 1950s with the construction of Rothmans Estate, which provided housing for workers at Marconi's and English Electric Valve Company in Chelmsford. The village has continued to expand over subsequent years.
The Vineyards, in the centre of the old village, was once a Georgian house set in wooded grounds which later became a hotel. It was demolished in the mid-1960s before the advent of conservation legislation, to make way for the construction of the Vineyards shopping centre and later the Marrable House office block, both constructed with a 'scale, form, layout and architecture' that Chelmsford Council now considers to 'jar with its historic surroundings'. Despite this, the shopping centre continues to thrive and, since refurbishment in the 2000s, the flats above are highly regarded and sought-after properties. Marrable House, a six-storey office block was described at the time of its construction in 1968 as "one of the worst examples of town and country planning in the country" and subsequently once voted as one of England's ugliest buildings, was demolished in the Spring of 2016, and was replaced with a 53-flat development, made up of one to two bedrooms in two buildings, named Heron Gate; the development was completed in spring
2018. A corner of the grounds of the former Vineyards mansion were retained and form a green area to the west of the Vineyards development. A library was also opened on the western edge of the development in September 1981, replacing the former building in Bell Street.
In 1967, a fire station was opened in Great Baddow to replace the former station which occupied a converted hut in Brewery Fields, Galleywood; it was once part of the Galleywood race course complex.
Great Baddow has three pubs: the White Horse, Blue Lion and The Star; The Beehive and King's Head pubs have closed in recent times. There is also a family-run brewery, the Chelmsford Brewing Company. The former Baddow Brewery, previously owned by the Baddow Brewery Co Ltd, built in 1868 and extended in 1878 by George Scamell, is now a Grade II building and houses local businesses. Great Baddow is also home to the Pontlands Park Country Hotel and the Baddow Antique Centre.
The centre of Great Baddow is now a conservation area and contains over 30 listed buildings.
Geology
Great Baddow lies to the south east to central Chelmsford, on higher ground that is thought to mark the edge of the main ice mass during the Anglian glaciation. An outcrop of glacial sand and gravel 3 km long and 0.8 km wide is beneath the village, which used to be extracted from several pits in the area, including Beehive Pit (now beneath Harbeard Tye), Baddow Hall Pit (now beneath Baden-Powell Close), to the south of the A1114 Princes Road (now in the grounds of Moulsham High School) and on what is now an area of open land off Waterson Vale. Smaller pits were also located off the Galleywood Road (near what is now Hollywood Close) and off Pitt Chase. The area is overlain with head, while the lower levels of the sand and gravel are mixed with London Clay. A Sarsen stone from the Beehive Pit used to stand outside The Beehive pub.
Education
The village secondary school is Great Baddow High School, a sports and science college on Duffield Road. Primary schools include Baddow Hall Infant and Junior Schools at the border of Great Baddow, Beehive Lane County Primary School, Larkrise Primary School, (formerly Rothmans Primary School), and Meadgate County Primary Schools.
Nearby villages include
Galleywood
Sandon
Danbury
Little Baddow
Rettendon
Moulsham
Chelmer Village
References
External links
http://www.ingreatbaddow.co.uk/ Business and Community Life in Great Baddow. Replacing Great Baddow On-line, which goes offline on 30 January 2011.
The Great Baddow Blog – News From Around Great Baddow
Great Baddow Parish Council
Website for the Great Baddow Team Ministry – includes a history of the village
Great Baddow Online – Website for the village community
Pictures of Great Baddow Pubs in the 1970s
The Beehive Public House
Baddow Life – The Life of Great Baddow
Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Chelmsford |
56167699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice%20Merrill | Justice Merrill | Justice Merrill may refer to:
Charles Merton Merrill (1907–1996), associate justice and chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court
Edward F. Merrill (1883–1962), associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Pelham J. Merrill (1907–1991), associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
See also
Justice Merrell (disambiguation) |
70809518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalie%20Louise%20of%20Courland | Amalie Louise of Courland | Duchess Amalie Louise of Courland (23 July 1687 – 18 January 1750), , official titles: Herzogin in Livland, zu Kurland und Semgallen, Fürstin zu Pilten, was a duchess from the House of Kettler and through marriage Fürstin of Nassau-Siegen. She was regent of the Principality of Nassau-Siegen (part of the County of Nassau) for her stepson Frederick William II in the period 1722–1727.
Biography
Amalie Louise was born in Mitau on 23 July 1687 as the third daughter of Duke Frederick Casimir of Courland and his first wife Princess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen.
Amalie Louise married at the in Bayreuth on 13 April 1708 to her first cousin Fürst Frederick William Adolf of Nassau-Siegen (, Siegen, 20 February 1680 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 13 February 1722), the eldest son of Fürst William Maurice of Nassau-Siegen and Princess Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg. Frederick William Adolf was the widower of Landgravine Elisabeth Juliana Francisca of Hesse-Homburg. Amalie Louise was not only a first cousin of her husband Frederick William Adolf, but also of his first wife Elisabeth Juliana Francisca.
On the death of his father in 1691, Frederick William Adolf succeeded his father as the territorial lord of the Protestant part of the principality of Nassau-Siegen and co-ruler of the city of Siegen. He possessed the district of Siegen (with the exception of seven villages) and the districts of Hilchenbach and Freudenberg. He shared the city of Siegen with the Catholic Fürst of Nassau-Siegen. Frederick William Adolf also succeeded his father as count of Bronkhorst, lord of , , and , and hereditary knight banneret of the Duchy of Guelders and the County of Zutphen. Following the death of Frederick William Adolf in 1722 he was succeeded by Frederick William II, the only son from the first marriage. But because the latter was still a minor, he was under the custody and regency of his stepmother Amalie Louise until 1727.
After her regency, Amalie Louise continued to live in the Nassauischer Hof, which has been called Untere Schloss since the mid-18th century. The northern wing of the palace is still called the Kurländer Flügel after her.
Amalie Louise' stepson Frederick William II died in the Nassauischer Hof in Siegen on 2 March 1734, he was only 27 years old. On 19 June, his widow Sophie Polyxena Concordia of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein gave birth to the fifth daughter. Thus, there were no male heirs and the Dowager Fürstin was compelled to accept that the Catholic Fürst William Hyacinth would take possession of the Reformed lands and the city of Siegen. However, the Fürsten Christian of Nassau-Dillenburg and William Charles Henry Friso of Nassau-Diez also laid claim to the inheritance. Their soldiers occupied the Nassauischer Hof in Siegen, while William Hyacinth was in Spain. In order to drive out this occupation by Nassau-Dillenburg and Nassau-Diez, Elector Clemens August of Cologne called in the Landesausschuß in his countries bordering the Siegerland. On 20 August 1735, peasants from Cologne crossed the borders of the Principality of Nassau-Siegen and plundered "was ihnen vorkam" ("what was in front of them"). On 23 August they were admitted to the (Catholic) castle and advanced with two to three thousand men to the (Reformed) Nassauischer Hof. But the armies of Nassau-Dillenburg and Nassau-Diez, united with the citizens of Siegen, forced the troops from Cologne to flee. Thus, the Reformed part of Siegerland remained under the rule of Nassau-Dillenburg and Nassau-Diez, and the Catholic part remained under the imperial administration.
During the visits to his German lands in 1741 and 1742, Prince William IV of Orange-Nassau stayed with Amalie Louise and her daughter-in-law Sophie Polyxena Concordia in the Nassauischer Hof in Siegen.
Amalie Louise died at the in Siegen on 18 January 1750. She was buried on 23 March 1750 in the there.
Issue
From the marriage of Amalie Louise and Frederick William Adolf the following children were born:
Sophia Wilhelmine Adolphina (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 28 February 1709 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 16 December 1710).
Charles Frederick (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 4 March 1710 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 25 December 1710).
Wilhelmine Charlotte Louise (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 25 April 1711 – Untere Schloss, Siegen, 7 March 1771).
Augusta Amelie (Siegen, 9 September 1712 – Wittgenstein Castle, Laasphe, 22 February 1742), married in Siegen on 6 May 1738 to Count Frederick of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (Berlin, 29 January 1708 – 9 June 1756). He later remarried the youngest sister of Augusta Amelie.
Louis Ferdinand (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 29 March 1714 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 26 February 1715).
Caroline Amelie Adolphina (Siegen, 26 November 1715 – Laubach, 10 August 1752), married at Wittgenstein Castle in Laasphe on 11 February 1751 to Count Christian August of Solms-Laubach (Wetzlar, 1 August 1714 – Laubach, 20 February 1784).
William Maurice (Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 1 March 1717 – Nassauischer Hof, Siegen, 5 August 1719).
Elizabeth Hedwig (Siegen, 19 April 1719 – Wittgenstein Castle, Laasphe, 10 January 1789), married in Siegen on 12 June 1743 to Count Frederick of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (Berlin, 29 January 1708 – 9 June 1756). He was the widower of an older sister of Elisabeth Hedwig.
Ancestors
Notes
References
Sources
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Princesses of Nassau
People from Jelgava
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18th-century women rulers |
28298568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurema%20desjardinsii | Eurema desjardinsii | Eurema desjardinsii, the angled grass yellow, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, found in Africa.
The wingspan is 35–38 mm for males and 37–40 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round, depending on rainfall.
The larvae feed on Chamaecrista mimosoides and probably Hypericum aethiopicum.
Subspecies
Eurema desjardinsii desjardinsi (Madagascar, Comoro Islands)
Eurema desjardinsii marshalli (Butler, 1898) (Kenya, South Africa)
References
Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate 22e
Butterflies described in 1833
desjardinsii |
37548524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Infamous%20discography | Lord Infamous discography | This is the discography of late American rapper, Lord Infamous.
Albums
Solo albums
Albums With Black Rain Ent/Club House Click
Albums With Three 6 Mafia
The Serial Killers (DJ Paul & Lord Infamous)
Albums With Tear Da Club Up Thugs
Singles
As lead artist
As Featured On
Music videos
As lead artist
As Featured On
References
Hip hop discographies
Discographies of American artists
it:Discografia dei Three 6 Mafia |
21865328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuina%20%28moth%29 | Tuina (moth) | Tuina is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae.
Species
Tuina cingulata Walker, 1854
Tuina maurella Draudt, 1919
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Lithosiini
Moth genera |
4543199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Kattuk | Peter Kattuk | Peter Kattuk (2 June 1950 – 20 November 2019) was a Canadian politician from Nunavut.
Early life
He was born in the Belcher Islands, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) and lived in Sanikiluaq.
Career
He was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Hudson Bay in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 to 2008.
Prior to becoming an MLA, Kattuk was the mayor of Sanikiluaq and worked with local organizations.
Death
He died in 2019 at the age of 69.
References
1950 births
2019 deaths
Inuit from the Northwest Territories
Inuit politicians
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
21st-century Canadian politicians
Mayors of places in Nunavut
People from Sanikiluaq
Inuit from Nunavut |
57475430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christer%20Gulld%C3%A9n | Christer Gulldén | Christer Gulldén (born 13 August 1960) is a Swedish wrestler. He competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he reached the bronze final in Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg. His international results include a bronze medal at the 1981 European Championship.
He is uncle to handball player Isabelle Gulldén.
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gothenburg
Swedish male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Sweden
Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics |
6649679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Codrington | George Codrington | George Ricardo Codrington (born 26 November 1966) is a Canadian former cricketer and former ODI captain, who played in five ODIs from 17 May 2006 to 21 August 2006.
International career
On his debut, he top scored for Canada with 45 not out against Bermuda. He also appeared in the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland. He is a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler. He was made captain of the Canadian team for their matches in South Africa in late 2006 owing to the absence of usual captain John Davison.
Domestic career
After captaining Barbados in an inter-island under 21 competition in the West Indies, George Codrington first travelled to England in 1986 as part of a Viv Richards scholarship with Curtly Ambrose and Samuel Skeete. All three played in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition, Codrington with Birkenhead Park, Ambrose with Chester Boughton Hall and Skeete with Oxton. After playing at Walsden in 1987, Codrington returned to the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition in 1988 with Chester Boughton Hall.
Coaching career
Codrington has taken a coaching position for the Canada Women's national cricket team.
References
1966 births
Living people
Canadian cricketers
Canada One Day International cricketers
Canadian cricket captains
Cricketers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Barbadian emigrants to Canada
Barbadian cricketers
Cricketers from Saint Michael, Barbados
Canadian cricket coaches
Barbadian cricket coaches
Black Canadian sportspeople
Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada |
24445660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Diard | William Diard | William Diard (April 26, 1924 – March 8, 2009) was an American operatic tenor, teacher, musician, and actor.
Birth
William Diard was born in Floral Park, New York on April 26, 1924.
Career
He earned degrees in vocal performance from the Hartt School of Music, The Juilliard School, and the Naples Conservatory. He made his debut at the New York City Opera in 1961, as Nanki-Poo in The Mikado. His concert debut took place at New York's Town Hall, also in 1961. Diard's career began as a youngster. His great-aunt, the French prima donna, Fatmah Diard, a protegee of Jules Massenet, acquainted him with serious music and the French language. At the age of eight he sang with the Paulist Choir in New York, later becoming tenor soloist with "Chanticleer," touring Europe and the Far East. He recorded for RCA Victor. In 1966, he appeared in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Markheim at the New Orleans Opera (opposite Norman Treigle and Audrey Schuh), later retiring to Hadlyme, CT, where the Diards made appearances and taught in their private studio. The following year he joined the voice faculty at the Hartt School where he taught until his retirement in 1988.
Marriage
Diard met his wife, Gloria Aliani, while singing a performance of La bohème in 1956 in Miami, Florida. Aliani was making her debut as Mimì to Diard's Rudolfo. They married later that year and began concertizing together. In 1960, they were signed with National Artists Corporation. Engagements with symphony orchestras followed. At Hartt, Diard studied with Virginia and Frederich Schorr (renowned bass-baritone of the Metropolitan Opera).
Death
He died in Lyme, Connecticut at the age of 84.
References
1924 births
2009 deaths
American operatic tenors
University of Hartford Hartt School alumni
University of Hartford Hartt School faculty
Juilliard School alumni
People from Floral Park, New York
20th-century American male opera singers
American expatriates in Italy |
54549486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mosques%20in%20Cambodia | List of mosques in Cambodia | This is a list of mosques in Cambodia.
See also
Islam in Cambodia
Lists of mosques
References
External links
Cambodia
Mosques |
35920624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Estridge | Larry Estridge | Larry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929.
Estridge fought African-American middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories over heavyweight Frank Yarchan, Estridge had a rematch with Gans for the colored title. On 11 August 1924 in Queensboro Stadium in Queens, New York, Estridge defeated Gans on points. It was his last defense of the title, which went into abeyance as African American Tiger Flowers won the world middleweight crown the following year.
Estridge never earned a shot at the world title. His status as a contender began to decline after he lost to future light-heavyweight champion Paul Berlenbach on 26 December 1924. Larry Estridge, who weight 155¾ lbs. to Berlenbach's 163¾ lbs., lost via a T.K.O. in the second round. His record was 38–2–1 at the time. Estridge won his next three fights but lost to Frankie Schoell on 13 March 1925, when they appeared as part of the undercard at Madison Square Garden that was topped by a fight between Berlenbach and former world light-heavyweight champion Battling Siki.
Estridge again won three fights before to losing to Sergeant Sammy Baker on 1 June 1925. He then racked up a record of six victories, three losses and a draw in his next 10 fights before he met Baker again on 7 May 1926. Baker K.O.-ed him in the second round, the first of 13 straight defeats. In his last loss of the streak, and the penultimate fight of his career, his former nemesis Paul Berlenbach K.O.-ed him in the eighth round of their fight on 22 May 1928. His last fight was against lightly regarded Mickey Taylor on 21 February 1929, whom he scored a T.K.O. against in the fifth round.
Professional boxing record
All information in this section is derived from BoxRec, unless otherwise stated.
Official record
All newspaper decisions are officially regarded as “no decision” bouts and are not counted in the win/loss/draw column.
Unofficial record
Record with the inclusion of newspaper decisions in the win/loss/draw column.
References
External links
1902 births
Middleweight boxers
World colored middleweight boxing champions
Year of death missing
British male boxers
British expatriates in the United States
Saint Kitts and Nevis emigrants to the United Kingdom |
58578791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawar%20Mohammed | Jawar Mohammed | Jawar Mohammed (; ግእዝ፡ ጃዋር መሐመድ born 12 May 1986) is an Ethiopian political analyst and activist. One of the founders of the Oromia Media Network (OMN), Jawar was a leading organizer of the 2014–2016 Oromo protests. He has been credited with toppling the incumbent government in February 2018 and helping Abiy Ahmed to power.
Early life and education
Jawar Mohammed was born on 12 May 1986 in the Dhumuga, Arsi Province bordering Hararghe. His father was Arsi Oromo, of Muslim faith, while his mother an Orthodox Christian; the inter-religious union was novel but gained acceptance within the community.
Jawar began his formal education at a Catholic school in Asella. He attended secondary school in Adama until 2003, when he was awarded a scholarship to study at the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore, from which he graduated in 2005. He described his experience at the UWC as awakening his consciousness to his own Oromo identity. He graduated from Stanford University in 2009 with a degree in political science, and acquired a Master's in human rights from Columbia University, in 2012.
Legal issues
On 30 June 2020, Jawar along with Bekele Gerba, Eskinder Nega and Sintayew Chekol were arrested by government amidst a riot sparked after singer Hachalu Hundessa murder. They were charged with terrorism in context of "inciting violence" at the crackdown. On On 5 February 2021, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Chief Commissioner Daniel Bekele said that "very close supervision is required to prevent any grave threat to their health and life and that reasonably justified demands of the prisoners must be addressed" following reports indicating their health condition deterioration and undergoing hunger strike at prison.
On 7 January 2022, the Ethiopian government announced it would release several political prisoners including Jawar, stating it was "to pave the way for a lasting solution to Ethiopia’s problems in a peaceful, non-violent way" through a “national dialogue”.
References
External links
Official Jawar Mohammed Facebook
1986 births
Living people
People from Oromia Region
Ethiopian journalists
Ethiopian activists
Ethiopian politicians
Stanford University alumni
Columbia University alumni
Hunger strikers
Ethiopian emigrants to the United States
People educated at a United World College
Oromo politicians |
30736075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukey | Sukey | Sukey is an organisation which emerged in Britain on 28 January 2011, with the aim of improving communications among participants in the student demonstrations. Its immediate aim was to counteract the police tactics of kettling, by co-ordinating information electronically and transmitting it to the protesters, allowing them to avoid the police kettle.
Sukey was founded by Sam Carlisle and Sam Gaus during the occupation by students at University College London. It also featured prominently in the documentary "The Real Social Network" produced by Quark Films; which centred around the use of technology during the protests and the occupation. During a demonstration, Sukey’s multi-platform news, communications and logistical support system displays realtime police and protest behaviour in a way that protesters on the street can access on their mobile telephones.
Sukey combines validated information sourced directly from protesters via social media feeds including Twitter, Facebook and others with news that comes in by SMS text messages, TV and radio. Sukey recirculates that information back into the crowd using a combination of smartphones and standard feature mobile phones.
Sukey was released on 28 January 2011 and field tested at the peaceful student protests in London on 29 January.
The organization's name is a reference to ending police kettles; Sukey is named after the nursery rhyme 'Polly Put The Kettle On', which ends when a character called Sukey is instructed to take the kettle off again.
Sam Gaus went on to use technology developed for the Sukey project for his final major project; a more abstracted crowd sourced mapping project called Croud, the code of which can be found on GitHub.
See also
Student activism
Sousveillance
References
Further reading
Digitized Lives: Culture, Power, and Social Change in the Internet Era by T.V. Reed
The Spatiality of Control: ICT and Physical Space in Social Protest
Student protests in London
Groupware |
12859538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouin-Plumoison | Bouin-Plumoison | Bouin-Plumoison () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
Geography
A small village situated some 2 miles (3 km) west of Hesdin on the D149 road.
Population
See also
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
References
Communes of Pas-de-Calais
Artois |
30019796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngatshang%20Gewog | Ngatshang Gewog | Ngatshang Gewog (Dzongkha: སྔ་ཚང་) is a gewog (village block) of Mongar District, Bhutan.
References
Gewogs of Bhutan
Mongar District |
6393539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Varco | Percy Varco | Percy Varco (17 April 1904 – 29 January 1982) was an English professional football centre-forward.
Varco was born in Fowey, Cornwall and played for his local side Fowey Town before moving to Southern League Torquay United. He left Plainmoor in 1924 to join Aston Villa for a fee of £200, scoring twice in 10 league games for the West Midlands side. He subsequently moved to Queens Park Rangers (4 goals in 16 league games), before joining Norwich City in 1927. He quickly became a hero at The Nest, scoring 32 times in his first season, including 10 goals in his first 7 league games. In 1929, after 37 goals in just 57 league games for Norwich (and 47 in 65 overall), he moved to Exeter City and continued to be a prolific goalscorer, netting 41 goals in 81 league games. He moved to Brighton and Hove Albion in 1932, but played just once for the Seagulls before returning to Cornwall where he played for non-league sides St Austell and St Blazey.
In later life he spent two spells as Mayor of Fowey. Varco was known as a "brilliant conversationalist".
References
1904 births
1982 deaths
People from Fowey
English men's footballers
Torquay United F.C. players
Aston Villa F.C. players
Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
Norwich City F.C. players
Exeter City F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
A.F.C. St Austell players
St Blazey A.F.C. players
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from Cornwall |
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