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18349624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miechowice%2C%20W%C5%82oc%C5%82awek%20County | Miechowice, Włocławek County | Miechowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brześć Kujawski, within Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Brześć Kujawski, west of Włocławek, and south of Toruń.
References
Villages in Włocławek County |
1810391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singles%20%28Nirvana%20box%20set%29 | Singles (Nirvana box set) | Singles is a box set by the American rock band Nirvana, released in Europe in December 1995.
Background
The box set was produced in response to unofficial versions of it that had been released previously.
Content
The box set contains all six CD singles from the band's two Geffen Records-released studio albums, Nevermind, released in September 1991, and In Utero, released in September 1993. It includes "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come as You Are", "Lithium" and "In Bloom", released from 1991 to 1992 to promote Nevermind, and "Heart-Shaped Box" and the double A-side "All Apologies"/"Rape Me", released in 1993 to promote In Utero. It does not include the planned third In Utero single, "Pennyroyal Tea", which was canceled after the death of vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994.
Although released in Europe, the Nevermind singles are the American versions, with the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" single lacking the studio version of "Drain You," and the "Lithium" single lacking the band's cover of the Wipers song "D-7," both of which appeared on the European versions of those singles. "In Bloom" and the two In Utero singles were not released in the US.
All singles appear in slimline jewel cases.
Track listing
All written by Kurt Cobain, except when noted.
CD1: "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" (edit) (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) – 4:39
"Even in His Youth" – 3:06
"Aneurysm" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) – 4:46
CD2: "Come as You Are"
"Come as You Are" – 4:39
"Endless, Nameless" – 6:43
"School" [live, Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington; October 31, 1991] – 4:18
"Drain You" [live, Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington; October 31, 1991] – 5:01
CD3: "In Bloom"
"In Bloom" – 4:14
"Sliver" [live, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, California; December 28, 1991] – 2:15
"Polly" [live, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, California; December 28, 1991] – 3:00
CD4: "Lithium"
"Lithium" – 5:02
"Been a Son" [live, Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington; October 31, 1991] – 2:02
"Curmudgeon" – 1:31
CD5: "Heart-Shaped Box"
"Heart-Shaped Box" – 4:38
"Milk It" – 3:54
"Marigold" (Grohl) – 2:34
CD6: "All Apologies/Rape Me"
"All Apologies" – 3:47
"Rape Me" – 2:51
"Moist Vagina" – 3:59
Chart performance
Despite being a box set of six separate CD singles the release was eligible to chart on the Danish Singles Chart, remaining in the Top 20 for 11 weeks and peaking at number 5. The release was also eligible to chart on the French Singles Chart, remaining on the chart for 8 weeks and peaking at number 17. The release peaked at number 15 on the Australian Kent Music album chart and remained on the chart for a total of twelve weeks.
Charts
Singles was eligible to chart on the singles chart in Denmark and France, and on the albums chart in the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Singles charts
Album charts
References
Compilation albums published posthumously
Nirvana (band) compilation albums
1995 compilation albums
Geffen Records compilation albums |
65293084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankash%C5%AB | Sankashū | is a collection of poems by Saigyō, most probably made by the poet himself, and issued .
Dating
Because the collection contains no poems from the last decade of Saigyō's life, 1180-90, he is thought to have closed it c.1180, and circulated it thereafter.
Divisions
The collection contains 1552 poems, His early translator, Hei-Hachuro Honda, valorised Saigyō's poems of solitude over those that were involved in more communal activities. Later critics, however, have paid more attention to how his poetry was rooted both in his private life and the public life of his society.
See also
References
Further reading
Ito Yoshio ed., Sanka-shū (Tokyo 1047)
Burton Watson trans., Poems of a Mountain Home (NY 1991)
External links
The monk Saigyo
Classical Japanese Database - has some poems by Saigyō in translations and in the original Japanese
Classic
Late Old Japanese texts
Heian period in literature
12th-century poetry |
4106944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Senate%2C%20District%2017 | Texas Senate, District 17 | District 17 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Harris county in the U.S. state of Texas.
The current Senator from District 17 is Joan Huffman.
Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 17 has a population of 804,162 with 605,764 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.
Election history
Election history of District 22 from 1992.
2018
2014
2012
2010
2008
2006
2002
1998
1994
1992
District officeholders
Notes
References
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Brazoria County, Texas
Fort Bend County, Texas
Harris County, Texas |
23806773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Billes | Dave Billes | Dave Billes is a Canadian former Corvette racer before opening Performance Engineering Ltd. He was later Jacques Villeneuve (elder)'s car owner in CART IndyCar competition in the early 1980s, and entered two cars in the 1985 Indianapolis 500.
He was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 1994.
Death: January 21,2023
IndyCar win
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Racing drivers from Ontario
Canadian racing drivers |
64444620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper%20Scape | Hyper Scape | Hyper Scape was a free-to-play first-person shooter battle royale game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game was notable for its integration with video game live streamers which allowed viewers on Twitch to affect the outcome of a match.
The open beta for Microsoft Windows was released on July 12, 2020. The game was released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 11, 2020. It received mixed reactions, with praise for its graphics, map design and deviations from the genre but criticism for its unbalanced gunplay and game mechanics. The game failed to meet expectations from players, with Ubisoft announcing that they would start overhauling the game's gameplay and systems. The game shut down on April 28, 2022.
Gameplay
The game's main mode shares elements with other battle royale games, where up to 100 players are dropped on to a map that slowly shrinks over time with players seeking to eliminate the competition. One main difference between Hyper Scape and other popular battle royale games is that in Hyper Scape, insteading of a circle shrinking as the game progresses, random sectors of the map disappear. The game however differs in that once the last sector closes, a crown appears, any player that is able to hold on to the crown for 60 seconds is automatically declared the winner. Alternatively, the game also ends when only one player or team remains.
Throughout the game, players can find both weapons as well as special abilities known as "Hacks," such as letting the player transform into a giant ball from which they can bounce around, or letting them become invisible. Players can only have two weapons and hacks available at a time, although each item can be swapped out during a round.
When a player is killed in the squad game mode, they become an "Echo". While Echos can't kill any opponents they are able to "ping" other members of their team to alert them to dangers or points of interest. When an enemy is killed, they drop a revive point which allows a team to respawn fallen teammates.
Throughout the match the AI host can modify the game world, including revealing every enemy on the game's minimap, giving weapons infinite ammo or turning on a low-gravity mode. Viewers watching the game on Twitch can vote, which will help the AI decide what modifications to turn on.
Like many games in the Battle Royale genre, Hyper Scape uses a tiered battle pass as a reward system for its players. Each season, there will be a battle pass with 100 tiers, each of them including at least one reward. The technical test had a free battlepass with 10 tiers, with 2 player skins at tier 10. The open beta had a 30 tier battle pass. Possible rewards include new champions along with player skins, weapon skins, melee weapons, deployment pods, emblems and sprays, none of which give the player any competitive advantage. Some battle pass rewards would require an Amazon Prime Gaming membership to claim those rewards.
In order to move up a tier on the battle pass, players need to gain 200 experience points. Those points can be obtained in many ways; completing daily and weekly challenges, performing well in games as well as watching and interacting with Twitch streamers will net you experience points. Ubisoft insists that playing the game is still the best way to rank up; players can only earn up to 400 experience points - or 2 tiers - per day, whereas there is no limit when actually playing the game.
Synopsis
The game takes place in the year 2054 in Neo Arcadia, part of a metaverse created by the company Prisma Dimensions. Within this metaverse, players do battle with each other in a sport known as Crown Rush. The setting has been likened to that of The Oasis found in Ready Player One.
Over the decades leading up to the 2050s, the world grows darker. Climate disasters, massive migration, rise of job automation and unemployment, and the like cause the gap between the 99% and the 1% to grow even greater. The huge tech giant Prisma Dimensions created the HYPER SCAPE, a virtual hyper-connected global network, with employment, academic, and entertainment functions. However, strange and shady events have recently been happening in the game. Players vanishing in the real world, hackers damaging portions of the simulation, and a few daring souls must find the dark secret somewhere in the simulation, before it is too late.
Development
In development for two years, the game was designed around the idea of "Game as a spectacle." This came about because the developers noticed that, with live streaming services like Twitch, the developers, as well as gamers in general, were watching games about as much as they were playing them, with director Christophe Guyot noting that they weren't only answering to gamers anymore, but rather also to viewers. Thus the team " wanted to bring streamers, players, and viewers together into one thing".
Although teased by Ubisoft, the game was officially revealed on July 2, 2020, when many streamers on Twitch suddenly began playing it with a trailer being released later in the day. The Verge compared this to both Apex Legends and Valorant which were also announced in such a manner.
On January 27, 2022, Ubisoft posted that the game would be shutting down in 90 days, on April 27.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" from critics according to review aggregator Metacritic. During the game's beta release, it was one of the most-viewed games on Twitch.tv, though it failed to maintain this momentum when the game was released in full in August. Ubisoft announced in October 2020 that the game had failed to meet the expectations from players and the company, and revealed that they would start overhauling the game's gameplay and systems.
References
External links
2020 video games
Ubisoft games
Battle royale games
Free-to-play video games
Inactive multiplayer online games
First-person shooters
First-person shooter multiplayer online games
Fantasy sports video games
PlayStation 4 games
Video games adapted into comics
Video games developed in Canada
Video games set in the 2050s
Windows games
Xbox One games
Cyberpunk video games
Science fiction video games
Products and services discontinued in 2022 |
32103193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20care%20fraud | Health care fraud | Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging in fraud are always seeking new ways to circumvent the law. Damages from fraud can be recovered by use of the False Claims Act, most commonly under the qui tam provisions which rewards an individual for being a "whistleblower", or relator (law).
Recent news and statistics
The FBI estimates that Health Care Fraud costs American tax payers $80 billion a year. Of this amount $2.5 billion was recovered through False Claims Act cases in FY 2010. Most of these cases were filed under qui tam provisions.
Over the course of FY 2010, whistleblowers were paid a total of $307,620,401.00 for their part in bringing the cases forward.
Federal Statute
Under federal law, health care fraud in the United States is defined, and made illegal, primarily by the health care fraud statute in states
(a)Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice—
(1) to defraud a financial institution; or
(2) to obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, any of the money or property owned by, or under the custody or control of, any health care benefit program,
in connection with the delivery of or payment for health care benefits, items, or services, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. If the violation results in serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of this title), such person shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and if the violation results in death, such person shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both.(b)With respect to violations of this section, a person need not have actual knowledge of this section or specific intent to commit a violation of this section.
Types
There are several different schemes used to defraud the Health care system.
Billing for services not rendered
Upcoding of services
Upcoding of items
Duplicate claims
Unbundling
Excessive services
Unnecessary services
Kickbacks
Copied and pasted entries into the medical record
Billing for services not rendered
Often done as a way of billing Medicare for things that never happened. This can involve forging the signature of those enrolled in Medicare, and the use of bribes or "kickbacks" to corrupt medical professionals.
Upcoding of services
Billing Medicare programs for services that are more costly than the actual procedure that was done.
Upcoding of items
Similar to upcoding of services, but involving the use of medical equipment. An example is billing Medicare for a power-assisted wheelchair while only giving the patient a manual wheelchair.
Duplicate claims
In this case a provider does not submit exactly the same bill, but changes some small portion like the date in order to charge Medicare twice for the same service rendered. Rather than a single claim being filed twice, the same service is billed two times in an attempt to be paid twice.
Unbundling
Bills for a particular service are submitted in piecemeal, that appear to be staggered out over time. These services would normally cost less when bundled together, but by manipulating the claim, a higher charge is billed to Medicare resulting in a higher pay out to the party committing the fraud.
Excessive services
Occurs when Medicare is billed for something greater than what the level of actual care requires. This can include medical related equipment as well as services.
Unnecessary services
Unlike excessive services, this fraudulent scheme occurs when claims are filed for care that in no way applies to the condition of a patient, such as an echo cardiogram billed for a patient with a sprained ankle.
Kickbacks
Kickbacks are rewards such as cash, jewelry, free vacations, corporate sponsored retreats, or other lavish gifts used to entice medical professionals into using specific medical services. This could be a small cash kickback for the use of an MRI when not required, or a lavish doctor/patient retreat that is funded by a pharmaceutical company to entice the prescription and use of a particular drug. Other forms of payment that could be illegal kickbacks include paid speaking positions at events, consulting contracts, and research grants.
People engaging in this type of fraud are also subject to the federal Anti-Kickback statute.
Examples
In the case United States ex rel. Donigian v. St. Jude Medical, Inc., No. 06-CA-11166-DPW (D. Mass.) St. Jude Medical, Inc. agreed to pay $16 million to quiet allegations of paying kickbacks to physicians. The whistleblower was able to provide detailed insider information as to the nature of the kickbacks, which ranged from entertainment to sporting event tickets and other gifts. The relator in this case was awarded $2.64 million.
The case United States et al., ex rel. Jim Conrad and Constance Conrad v. Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc, et al., No. 02-cv-11738-NG (D. Mass.) involved a drug manufacturer selling a drug, Levothroid, that had never been approved by the FDA. These allegations settled for $42.5 million due to multiple whistleblowers stepping forward to provide detailed information on the alleged fraud. The collective reward to the relators in this case was over $14.6 million.
Copied and pasted entries into the Electronic Medical Record may constitute fraud. A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration pulmonologist at the Montgomery, Alabama facility copied and pasted data entered by other physicians into electronic medical records that he signed. The VA Office of the Medical Inspector reported this finding to Congress in 2013.
In the UAE, some doctors and hospital managers have done a lot of fraud. They conduct unnecessary surgeries so that they can make extra money.
In the case United States ex rel. Brown v. Celgene Corp., CV10-3165, drug company Celgene agreed to pay $280 million on the eve of trial. The settlement resolved allegations that the company marketed and sold cancer drugs Thalomid and Revlimid for non-FDA approved uses.
In the case US v. Javaid Perwaiz, former OBGYN Perwaiz, a gynecologist from Pakistan and in Virginia, performed unnecessary surgeries on women. He was charged with 26 counts of health care fraud, 33 counts of false statements related to health care matters, 3 counts of aggravated identity theft, and 1 count of criminal forfeiture-health care fraud. He faced a maximum of 539 years (6,648 months) if convicted of all counts. The jury found him guilty of 23 counts of health care fraud and 30 counts of false statements related to health care matters. He faced 475 years. That would give him 10 years for 13 health care fraud counts and 20 years for 10 others because those 10 others resulted in serious bodily injury, and 5 years for false statements related to healthcare matters. When prosecutors asked for 50 years, they returned with 9 more. According to Federal Bureau of Prisons, Perwaiz is currently incarcerated at FCI Cumberland Camp and his release date is February 16, 2070.
Reporting fraud
There are many ways to report cases of fraud. If a patient or health care provider believes they have witnessed Health Care Fraud, they are encouraged to contact the FBI via either their local office, telephone, or the online tips form.
If, however, they want to ensure the government actively investigates the alleged fraud, they are encouraged to contact legal counsel from an experienced firm that specializes in qui tam litigation under the False Claims Act. A good legal team can advise potential whistleblowers of their rights, protections, and what evidence is necessary to solidify a case against the group leading the fraud.
See also
Healthcare fraud
Medicare fraud
References
External links
Masterminds Behind Pharmaceutical Fraud Deserve Prison Time
Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report, US Dept of Health and Human Services
Fraud
Healthcare in the United States
Medical crime |
73632103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eardley%20Perera | Eardley Perera | John Eardley Russel Perera PC (20 October 1925 - 31 December 2004) was a Sri Lankan lawyer and the 2nd president of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (1977–78). He was a member of the Law Commission and the Council of Legal Education. Mr. Perera was in the first batch of President's Counsel appointed in 1981, having refused silk as a Queen's Counsel in 1967.
Early life and education
Born on 20 October 1925, in Moratuwa, he was the third son, of Mr. and Mrs. C.S.A. Perera. Perera received his initial education at St. Bridget’s Convent in Colombo and subsequently attended St. Sebastian’s College for the latter.
His father was a Proctor of the Supreme Court and Notary Public, his elder brother Herman J.C. Perera was a proctor and was also a subsequent BASL President (being the only Proctor to do so), and President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ceylon, and his uncles Shelton de Silva and Andrew de Silva were leading lawyers as well. Eardley and Herman are only two brothers to ever become BASL Presidents history.
Legal career
In 1944, Perera enrolled in the Ceylon Law College. Then after passing his Advocates’ Examinations, he was admitted to the Bar on 24 August 1948, after doing his apprenticeship in the Chambers of Mr. Nihal Gunasekera.
In 1977, he was elected as the 2nd President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) and at the time was the senior most Past President of the BASL following the death of Dr. Hector Wilfred Jayewardene Q.C.
In 1967, Perera was offered the honour of being appointed Queen’s Counsel but declined it. However, he was appointed as a President's Counsel in 1978 when the practice was re-commenced under the new Constitution.
Family
Perera had 5 children, Charith, Surith, Ravith, Preemali and Vijiththree. 3 Perera's children Ravith, Preemali and Vijith are also lawyers.
Death and legacy
Perera died on 31 December 2005, in his memory a bust of Perera was unveiled by Chief Justice Asoka de Silva at the Colombo Law Library.
References
1925 births
2004 deaths
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan lawyers
President's Counsels (Sri Lanka)
Ceylonese advocates
People from British Ceylon |
18557844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Colombian%20Americans | List of Colombian Americans | This is a list of notable Colombian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Colombian American or must have references showing they are Colombian American and are notable.
List
Artists and designers
Esteban Cortázar (1984–) – fashion designer
Miguel Gómez (1974–) – photographer
Guilloume – Colombian minimalist artist, self-described master of "Bolismo"
Greg Giraldo – comedian
René Moncada – Colombian-born American artist
Lari Pittman – painter
Gala Porras-Kim – conceptual artist
R. J. Palacio – author and graphic designer
Diego Suarez (1888–1974) – garden designer known for his work at James Deering's Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida.
Anchors and TV personalities
Julie Banderas – Fox News anchor
Monica Fonseca (1982–) – television presenter, journalist and blogger
Ingrid Hoffmann – Colombian-American television personality and restaurateur
Actors
Odette Annable – American actress of Colombian, French, and Cuban descent
Moisés Arias – American actor
Yancey Arias – American actor of Colombian and Puerto Rican descent
Stephanie Beatriz – American actress of Colombian father
Lillo Brancato – Colombian-born American actor (A Bronx Tale, The Sopranos).
Héctor Luis Bustamante – Colombian American actor
Sasha Calle – Colombian American actress
Sofia Carson – Colombian American Actress known for the movie Descendants
Adriana Cataño – American actress and television host
Alyssa Diaz – American actress of Colombian and Mexican-American descent
Paula Garcés – actress
Isabella Gomez – Colombian-born American actress
Diane Guerrero – American actress of Colombian descent
Nico Greetham – Actor and dancer of Colombian descent best known for participating in So You Think You Can Dance and Power Rangers Ninja Steel.
Zulay Henao – film and television actress
Thom Adcox-Hernandez – American voice and television actor of Colombian descent (Falcon Crest, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, Gargoyles)
Andrew Keegan – actor, mother is Colombian.
John Leguizamo (1964–) – actor and comedian
Kika Perez – born Ilva Margarita Perez, Colombian-American actress and TV host
Danny Ramirez (1992–) – American actor of Colombian and Mexican descent
Carolina Ravassa (1985–) – Colombian-born American actress
Sonya Smith – American actress best known for her roles in telenovelas. Her mother is Venezuelan and her father is of Colombian partially descent.
Diego Tinoco (1997–) – actor, his father is Mexican and his mother Ecuadorian from Colombian descent.
Paola Turbay (1970–) – actress, TV host and beauty queen
Brittany Underwood – American actress to Colombian mother
Wilmer Valderrama – actor. He is of Colombian and Venezuelan descent.
Carlos Valdes – Colombian-born American actor, Cisco Ramon on the TV series The Flash
Alexa Vega – American actress from Colombian father
Makenzie Vega – American actress, young sister of Alexa Vega
Sofía Vergara (1972–) – Colombian actress, known for the series Modern Family
Rachel Zegler – She is of Colombian and Polish descent
Melissa Navia – actress, known for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Musicians
Kali Uchis (1994–) – Colombian-American singer and songwriter
Lil Pump – Florida rapper born to Colombian parents (as stated in an interview with J. Cole)
Psycho Les – hip hop emcee of the group The Beatnuts
Adassa – American reggaetón singer-songwriter also known as the "Reggaetón Princess". She was born to Afro-Colombians parents.
Ryan Cabrera – American singer born to a Colombian father and an American mother
Jason Castro – singer-songwriter
Freddy Cricien – American emcee and vocalist for the hardcore band Madball
Robo (1955–) – drummer (Black Flag, Misfits)
Kike Santander – Colombian songwriter and producer naturalized in the United States in 2004
Yasmin Deliz – American singer-songwriter, model and actress of Dominican and Colombian and Venezuelan parentage.
Carlos Dengler (1974–) – former bassist of the band Interpol
Santiago Durango – guitarist (Big Black, Naked Raygun)
Alex González (musician) (1969–) – American-born musician of Cuban and Colombian origin.
Danny Mercer – Colombian American recording artist, songwriter, and producer
Ericson Alexander Molano – Gospel Christian singer
Erick Morillo – Colombian-American DJ, music producer and record label owner
Billy Murcia – drummer (New York Dolls).
Marty Stuart – American country music singer-songwriter. He is of French, English, Choctaw, and Colombian descent.
Tonedeff – American rapper, producer, and singer-songwriter. He was born to a Cuban mother and a Colombian father.
Andrés Useche – Colombian American writer, film director, graphic artist, singer-songwriter and activist.
DJ Yonny – American DJ, producer and remixer.
Rob Swift – (born Robert Aguilar) American hip hop DJ and turntablist group The X-Ecutioners as of late 2005 and as of 2006; with Mike Patton's project Peeping Tom. Rob Swift is on the faculty of Scratch DJ Academy in New York City.
Soraya (1969–2006) – Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer.
Sports
Roberto Guerrero (1958–) – Formula One racecar driver
Juan Pablo Montoya (1975–) – Formula One, Indy and Cart racecar driver
Juan Agudelo – soccer player
Kiko Alonso – NFL player
Alejandro Bedoya – American soccer player
Daniel Barrera – American professional soccer player
Lou Castro – first Latin American born player to play in Major League Baseball in the United States, and the first Latin American since player Esteban Bellán in 1873 as a professional baseball player.
Diego Corrales (1977–2007) – world champion boxer, father is Colombian and mother is Mexican
Scott Gomez – retired NHL player. Half Colombian and half Mexican.
Melissa Gonzalez – hurdler and sprinter. Parents are Colombian; she holds American citizenship by birthright.
Diego Gutiérrez – retired Colombian American footballer
Eliot Halverson – American figure skater
George Hincapie – cyclist
Carlos Llamosa – soccer player
Oscar Mercado – MLB player
Travis Pastrana – American motorsports competitor and stunt performer who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several events
Fuad Reveiz (1963–) – former NFL player
Johnny Torres – Colombian-American soccer midfielder and coach
Fernando Velasco – former NFL player
Models
Manuela Arbeláez – model (The Price Is Right).
Maria Checa – Colombian-American model and actress.
Journalists
Nina García (1965–) – fashion journalist and critic (Project Runway, Elle, Marie Claire).
Omar Jimenez – journalist and correspondent for CNN
Adrian Lamo – hacker and journalist.
Manuel Teodoro (1960–) – journalist (CBS News, Univision) (also has Filipino descent).
Politicians
Diana Farrell – member and one of two deputy directors of the United States National Economic Council (NEC) in the administration of President Barack Obama.
Jeff Frederick – former member of the General Assembly of Virginia.
Ruben Gallego – U.S. Representative for Arizona's 7th congressional district
José Sarria – first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States
Lina Hidalgo – county judge for Harris County, Texas
Scott Perry (politician) – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district
Writers
James Cañón – Colombian author
Mo Rocca – American writer, journalist, comedian and political satirist to Colombian (mother) and Italian (father) descent.
Andrés Useche – Colombian American naturalized writer, film director, graphic artist and singer/songwriter
Jaime Manrique – Colombian American novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and translator.
R. J. Palacio – Mexican-born American author to Colombian parents.
Scientists
Jaime Imitola – neuroimmunologist
Juan B. Gutierrez – mathematician and author
Rodolfo Llinás (1934–) – neuroscientist
Guillermo Owen – mathematician
Ana María Rey – physicist
Others
Medaria Arradondo, Minneapolis police chief
José Luis Castillo (activist) – Colombian-American activist, politician, and non-profit community liaison in south Florida. He was born to a Dutch mother and a Colombian father in Netherlands. He lives in Florida.
Arturo Escobar – Colombian-American anthropologist primarily known for his contribution to postdevelopment theory and political ecology
Carlos Goez (1939–1990) – founder of the original Pomander Book Shop in New York
Will Jimeno – police officer, 9/11 survivor, portrayed in World Trade Center
Andre Melendez (1971–1996) – better known as Angel Melendez, was a Club Kid and drug dealer who lived and worked in New York City
Beto Pérez – Colombian born American dancer and choreographer who created the fitness program Zumba in the 1990s
Cristina Pérez – judge
Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1923–2011) – Colombian billionaire
Alejandro Santo Domingo (1977–) – Colombian American financier
Al Williamson (1931–2010) – American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western and science-fiction/fantasy.
George Zamka – NASA astronaut
Laura DePuy (1971–) – Colombian-American colorist who has produced work for several of the major comics companies, including DC Comics, Marvel Comics and CrossGen.
References
Colombian Americans
Americans
Colombian Americans
Colombian |
1674816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallym%20University | Hallym University | Hallym University (한림대학교) is a private university located in Chuncheon, Gangwon, Republic of Korea. Hallym University was established in 1982. In 1995 it was designated by the Ministry of Education as one of a handful of universities entitled to receive the financial support of the Ministry for their specialization programs. After that, it continued to be so designated consecutively for five years. In addition, it has acquired the status of "distinguished university," the title granted by the Ministry of Education, three years in a row, and has also been selected for funding by the Brain Korea 21 Project.
History
1982 Dr. Yoon Duck-Sun, the Chairman of the Il-Song Education Foundation, founds Hallym University. Dr. Kim Taek-Il begins his service as first president. A total of 228 students are enrolled in four departments: English, Social Work, Biology, and Medicine.
1984 The Schools of Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Medicine plus the Liberal Education Department are established. Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, one of five hospitals affiliated with the university, opens.
1986 Dr. Hyun Seung-Jong is installed as second president.
1987 Graduate programs for the master's degree are accredited.
1988 University reorganization authorized (College of Humanities, College of Social Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, College of Medicine. four colleges, two divisions).
1989 Start of full-scale operations at Hallym University. Inauguration of 1st president, Hyun Seung-Jong. Establishment of a Ph.D. program is authorized. Inauguration of the 2nd chairman of the foundation, Yoon Dae-Won.
1990 Establishment of Hallym Academy of Sciences.
1992 Inauguration of 2nd president, Chung Bum-Mo.
1994 Establishment of the Graduate School of Business authorized.
1995 Establishment of the Foreign Language Education Center. Establishment of the Center for Social Education.
1996 Inauguration of 3rd president, Lee Sang-Joo.
1998 Inauguration of 4th president, Han Dal-Sun.
2000 Opening of the Ilsong Arts Hall.
2001 Establishment of the Graduate School of Public Health.
2002 Establishment of the Industry-University Cooperation Center
2003 Inauguration of 5th president, Lee Sang-Woo. Establishment of the Center for Teaching & Learning. Hallym University is honored as a "Top 10" university in Korea by Joong-Ang Daily Newspaper. Hallym University proclaims University Identification.
2004 Hallym International School is established. Hallym International Dormitory is opened.
2005 Education Center for Aging Society is opened. Tae-gye building is opened.
2006 Il-song Memorial library is opened.
2007 Inauguration of 6th president, Choongsoo Kim.
2008 Inauguration of 7th president, Lee Youngsun.
2012 Inauguration of 8th president, Ro Kunil.
Awards
Honored as a Top 10 University in Korea by the Joong-Ang Daily Newspaper in 2003.
Placed among Asia's Top 100 and Korea's Top 19 Universities by Cho-Sun Daily Newspaper & QS APPLE in 2009.
Placed as Top 4 of Education Section and Top 1 of Communication Section in Korea by Kyung-Hyang Daily Newspaper in 2010.
One university among "Advancement of College Education - Well Teaching Universities, Top 11" in Korea by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in 2010.
Placed as Top 4 of The Conditions of Education in Universities by the Joong-Ang Daily Newspaper in 2011.
Placed as Korea's Top 19 and Asia's Top 100 Universities by Cho-Sun Daily Newspaper & QS APPLE in 2012.
Selected as a university among "Dream Universities for the Young People" in Korea by Dong-A Daily Newspaper in 2013.
International relations
The Hallym International Affairs Section mainly manages domestic and International agreements, and has a focus on globalization, in order to keep up with international trends. It supports foreign student affairs, regarding their admission and academic life.
Hallym University has concluded agreements with 85 universities in 23 countries to carry out academic exchanges of professors, students, and researchers.
Academics
Colleges
In general curricula, the division offers composition, computer operations, English conversation, Chinese writing, and physical education to prepare for a global society.
It also offers foreign language courses, as well as courses in arts education, teaching, and public service.
The division manages a composition-consulting office to develop writing ability. With two full-time professors, the office offers a writing consultation service for students via e-mail, web page, and interview.
Department
College of Humanities: Departments of Korean Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Philosophy, History, Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies.
College of Social Sciences: Departments of Communications, Psychology, Sociology, Social Welfare, Politics and Public Administration, Law and Public Administration.
College of Business: Departments of Business, Finance, Economics.
College of Natural Sciences: Departments of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Electronphysics, Chemistry, Life Science, Biomedical Science, Food Science and Nutrition, Environmental Sciences and Biotechnology, Speech Pathology and Audiology, Physical Education.
College of Information & Electronic Engineering: Division of Information Engineering and Telecommunications.
College of Medicine: Program of Medical Sciences, Division of Nursing.
College of International Studies (C.I.S): Program of International Studies.
Graduate schools
Master’s Degree Program
College of Humanities Korean language and literature, English language and literature,
History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Social welfare, Law,
Economics, Business administration, Finance, Political Science,
Communication, Financial Economics
Natural Sciences Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics,
Biomedical Sciences, Food science and nutrition,
Environmental sciences and biotechnology, Nursing science,
Biomedical gerontology, Speech pathology & audiology,
Molecular medicine
Engineering- Computer engineering, Electronics engineering
Art & Physical Education
Medicine- Medical Science
Ph.D. program
Humanities and Social Sciences Korean language and literature, English language and literature,
History, Economics, Business administration, Political Science,
Sociology, Social welfare, Law, Psychology, Finance, Communication
Natural Sciences Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, Biomedical Sciences,
Food science and nutrition, Environmental sciences and biotechnology,
Biomedical gerontology, Speech pathology & audiology,
Molecular medicine, Social public health
Engineering Computer engineering, Electronics engineering
Art & Physical Education Physical education
Medicine Medical Science
Department
Graduate School of Business: Master of Business Administration (MBA), Advanced Management Program (AMP).
Graduate School of Social Welfare: Master of Social Welfare, Master of Gerontology, Master of Family Therapy, Master of Audiology, Master of Speech Pathology.
Graduate School of International Studies: Department of Convention Management, Department of Japanese Studies.
Graduate School of Public Health: Public Health, Elderly and Family Health Care.
Graduate School of Clinical Dentistry: Oral & Maxillofacial Implantology, Clinical Orthodontics, Esthetic Restorative Dentistry.
Graduate School of Clinical Nursing Science.
International Rankings
Successive presidents
1st - Dr. Hyeon Seung-Jong
2nd - Dr. Jeong Beom-Mo
3rd - Dr. Lee Sang-Ju
4th - Dr. Han Dal-Seon
5th - Dr. Lee Sang-Woo
6th - Dr. Choongsoo Kim
7th - Dr. Lee Young-Sun
8th - Dr. Ro, Kun Il
9th - Dr. Choongsoo Kim
Notable alumni
Lee Ji-hoon, actor
References
External links
Hallym University (English)
Hallym University (Korean)
Hallym University (Chinese)
Universities and colleges in Gangwon Province, South Korea
Chuncheon
Chuncheon
1982 establishments in South Korea
Private universities and colleges in South Korea |
30807984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Haven%20Morgan | Ann Haven Morgan | Ann Haven Morgan (born "Anna" May 6, 1882 – June 5, 1966) was an American zoologist and ecologist.
Biography
One of three children of Stanley G. Morgan and Julia A. Douglass Morgan, Anna Morgan was born in Waterford, Connecticut and attended Williams Memorial Institute in New London, Connecticut. In 1902, Anna joined Wellesley College then transferred to Cornell University. After receiving a B.A in 1906, she worked as an assistant and instructor for the Mount Holyoke College department of zoology until 1909. At Cornell University, she was awarded a Ph.D. in 1912 with a dissertation titled, A Contribution to the Biology of the May-fly, after which she became a professor at Mount Holyoke College. Morgan became an associate professor in 1914, then a full professor in 1918. From 1916–1947 she was the chair of the Mount Holyoke zoology department, serving until she retired. During this period, in the summer months she also taught marine zoology at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. She died of stomach cancer in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Her research and instruction focused on limnology, animal hibernation, and ecological and environmental issues. She authored three books on zoology. The 1933 edition of American Men of Science listed her along with two other women among the 250 total entries. She was awarded research fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences.
Bibliography
Kinships of Animals and Man (1955)
Field Book of Animals in Winter (1939)
Field Book of Ponds and Streams: an Introduction to the Life of Fresh Water (1930)
References
External links
Ann Haven Morgan papers at Mount Holyoke College
EarlyWomenInScience.com: Biodiversity exhibition, Ann Haven Morgan section
1882 births
1966 deaths
American ecologists
American non-fiction environmental writers
Women ecologists
American entomologists
Women entomologists
American ichthyologists
Women ichthyologists
American taxonomists
Women taxonomists
American limnologists
Mount Holyoke College faculty
Cornell University alumni
People from South Hadley, Massachusetts
Scientists from Massachusetts
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American zoologists
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American women writers
American nature writers
Women limnologists
American women academics
20th-century American botanists |
36605422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintcent | Vintcent | Vintcent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Vintcent (1866–1943), South African cricketer
Nevill Vintcent (1902–1942), South African aviator
Vintcent van der Bijl (born 1948), South African cricketer
See also
Vincent
Masculine given names |
13730553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20of%20Chicago%3A%2040th%20Anniversary%20Edition | The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition | The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary is a double greatest hits album, and the thirty-first album overall, by American rock band Chicago, released by Rhino Records on October 2, 2007. It consists of two discs containing 30 of Chicago's top 40 singles. It is the fourth compilation of past hits released by their label since beginning of the decade. Most of the songs on this compilation are presented as their shorter length radio-single edits, as opposed to the album versions. It also features "Love Will Come Back" without Rascal Flatts' vocals.
The 39 tracks of The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning holds all the tracks of 40th Anniversary except for the tracks 13-15 on disc 2.
Although no indication is given on the discs or the cover, the album could also be considered as Chicago XXXI (31) in their canon, as it is preceded by Chicago XXX (30) in 2006, and followed by Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus in 2008. This is further emphasized by the display of albums on the band's website.
Track listing
Personnel
Chicago
Dawayne Bailey – guitar, vocals
Peter Cetera – bass, vocals
Bill Champlin – guitar, keyboards, vocals, group member
Donnie Dacus – guitar, vocals
Laudir DeOliveira – percussion, congas, vocals
Bruce Gaitsch – guitar
Keith Howland – guitar, vocals, group member
Tris Imboden – drums, group member
Terry Kath – guitar, vocals
Robert Lamm – keyboards, vocals, lyrics, songwriting, group member
Lee Loughnane – trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals, lyrics, songwriting, group member
James Pankow – trombone, vocals, lyrics, songwriting, group member
Walter Parazaider – vocals, woodwinds, lyrics, songwriting, group member
Chris Pinnick – guitar
Jason Scheff – bass, vocals, group member
Daniel Seraphine – percussion, drums, vocals
Production
Producer – Jay DeMarcus, David Foster, James William Guercio, James Newton Howard, Ron Nevison, Phil Ramone, Chas Sandford, Mike Engstrom, Cheryl Pawelski
Album cover design – Mark Paul Rosenmeier
Design – Joshua Banker, Don Jr. Garlock, Vincent Gonzales, Jim Jamitis, Jean Krikorian, Arnaud Leger, Al Mainwaring, Craig Stevens, Ashley Underwood
Photography – Jimmy Katz
Remastering – David Donnelly
Liner notes – Bill DeYoung
Product Manager – Mike Engstrom
Project assistant – Scott Webber
Supervisor – Jeff Magid
Editorial Supervision – Vanessa Atkins, Sheryl Farber
Annotation – Steve Woolard
Certifications
References
2007 greatest hits albums
Rhino Records compilation albums
Albums produced by Bruce Fairbairn
Albums produced by Phil Ramone
Albums produced by James William Guercio
Albums produced by David Foster
Albums produced by Ron Nevison
Chicago (band) compilation albums |
53436522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycyrrhiza%20yunnanensis | Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis | Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis, is a plant species in the pea family, Fabaceae, native to China.
References
yunnanensis
Flora of Asia |
4131769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian%20piastra | Sicilian piastra | The piastra was the distinct currency of the Kingdom of Sicily until 1815. In order to distinguish it from the piastra issued on the mainland Kingdom of Sicily (also known as the Kingdom of Naples), it is referred to as the "Sicilian piastra" as opposed to the "Neapolitan piastra". These two piastra were equal, but were subdivided differently. The Sicilian piastra was subdivided into 12 tarì, each of 20 grana or 120 piccoli. The oncia was worth 30 tarì (2½ piastra).
In 1815, a single piastra currency was introduced for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Two Sicilies piastra.
Coins
In the late 18th century, coins were circulating in denominations of 3 piccoli, 1, 2, 10 and 20 grana, 2, 3, 4 and 6 tari, 1 piastra and 1 oncia. These were struck in copper up to the 2 grana, with the higher denominations in silver. In 1801, copper 5 and 10 grana were introduced, followed by a gold 2 oncia in 1814.
Following the adoption of the unified currency for the two Sicilies, copper coins were issued in 1835 and 1836 bearing the name "Siciliana", in denominations of ½, 1, 2, 5 and 10 grana. It is unclear whether these coins were denominated in Two Sicilies grana or the old Sicilian grana (worth half as much).
Riveli
From a Riveli in 1607 Catania, also a Riveli in 1811 Avola, the Sicilian money system can be readily extracted. It was:-
1 onze = 30 Tari, 1 Taro = 20 Grani, 1 Grano = 6 piccioli.
On both of these historic documents, the denomination piastra was not used.
A Sicilian coin commonly available for sale today is the 120 grana silver piece, weighing an ounce. It is called, in the supplementary description of this silver piece, one piastre.
However, in 1823 George Crabb, in his Universal Technological Dictionary Volume 2, in addition to supporting the above relative values of onze, tari and grani in accounting, lists 120 grani as equivalent to one florino. Crabb also lists the ponto, the carlino, the ducat and the scudo or crown and their equivalence to the grano, however no mention of the piastre.
References
Obsolete Italian currencies
Modern obsolete currencies
Kingdom of Sicily
1815 disestablishments |
74064252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal%20Basketball%20Association | Nepal Basketball Association | The Nepali Basketball Association (NeBA) (Nepali: नेपाल बास्केटबल संघ (नेबा) is the governing body of basketball in Nepal.
Background
The Nepal Basketball Association was established and registered in 1989 AD with National Sports Council of Nepal. It is affiliated with International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Asian Basketball Federation (FIBA ASIA), and Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC). NeBA promotes sportsmanship and peace through basketball while also following and honoring the Olympic movement, and it is working hard to develop basketball in Nepal. The current President of NeBA is Bhim Singh Gurung.
References
National members of FIBA Asia
Basketball in Nepal |
64183229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim%20ibn%20al-Walid | Muslim ibn al-Walid | Abu al-Walīd Muslim ibn al-Walīd al-Anṣārī (; 130 H/748 AD– 207 H/823 AD), also known as Ṣarī‘ al-Ghawānī (, "The One Knocked Down by the Fair"), was among the finest poets of the early Abbasid period, and mawla of the Ansar. As worded by Hilary Kilpatrick, he was patronized by Abbasid dignitaries, one of the first masters of the "refined" badiʿ style, best known for wine and love songs, also composed panegyrics.
As worded by the Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, he was born and brought up in Kufa. He moved to Baghdad in the reign of Harun al-Rashid before the Barmakid debacle of 187 H/794 AD.
He gained favour by Al Fadl bin Sahl, a wazeer in the reign of the seventh Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn and was appointed as a postmaster in Jurjān (Gorgan in present-day Iran) by al-Maʾmūn and remained and later in Isfahan. He withdrew from poetry after Al Fadl was murdered and led a lonely life until his death. He is buried in Gorgan.
Edition and translation
M. J. de Goeje's edition (1875)
Notes
Poetsgate.com: ديوان صريع الغواني
References
740s births
823 deaths
Poets from the Abbasid Caliphate
8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
Arabic-language poets
Muslim panegyrists
People from Kufa |
72769351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Weyer%20Creigh | Dorothy Weyer Creigh | Dorothy Weyer Creigh (born 12/4/21, Hastings, Nebraska; died 1/2/82, Hastings) was a historian who specialized in the history of Nebraska. She is listed by Lincoln City Libraries as a significant Nebraska author.
Creigh was chosen to write the story of Nebraska that was published by W.W. Norton as part of their 50-state series to mark the United States Bicentennial of 1976. She won the Mari Sandoz Award from the Nebraska Library Association in 1981.
References
1921 births
1982 deaths
American women historians
Historians from Nebraska
Writers from Nebraska |
128488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwood%2C%20North%20Dakota | Harwood, North Dakota | Harwood is a city in Cass County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 794 at the 2020 census. It has become a bedroom community of the nearby Fargo-Moorhead area. Harwood was founded in 1881.
History
Harwood was platted in 1881 when the Great Northern Railroad was extended to that point. The city was named in honor of A. J. Harwood, the original owner of the town site. A post office has been in operation at Harwood since 1881.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 718 people, 241 households, and 216 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 248 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.6% White, 0.1% African American, 0.8% Native American, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.1% of the population.
There were 241 households, of which 45.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 83.0% were married couples living together, 2.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 10.4% were non-families. 6.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 2.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.98 and the average family size was 3.12.
The median age in the city was 34.4 years. 29.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 31.6% were from 25 to 44; 28.3% were from 45 to 64; and 5.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 51.4% male and 48.6% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 607 people, 192 households, and 174 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 201 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 99.01% White, 0.33% from other races, and 0.66% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.66% of the population.
There were 192 households, out of which 56.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 84.9% were married couples living together, 3.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 8.9% were non-families. 5.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.16 and the average family size was 3.31.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 33.8% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 32.8% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 2.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 105.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $57,500, and the median income for a family was $60,625. Males had a median income of $39,625 versus $24,479 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,191. About 1.7% of families and 1.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.8% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
Notable person
Dane Boedigheimer, actor and filmmaker who created The Annoying Orange.
References
Cities in Cass County, North Dakota
Cities in North Dakota
Populated places established in 1881
1881 establishments in Dakota Territory |
57705539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thy%20Geekdom%20Con | Thy Geekdom Con | Thy Geekdom Con is a multi-genre convention held annually at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, PA. The convention has a wide array of activities that feature panels, live performances, video game tournaments, artist alley, dealers room, and celebrity guests.
Programming
The convention typically offers panels, workshops, and live performances. In past years there have been panels on comic books, video gaming, costuming, and other topics within popular culture. The live performance portion has had live bands, DJs, hypnotists, Rocky Horror Picture Show performances, karaoke, and Love Live! dance performances.
The video game area consists of both free play and tournaments. Past video game tournaments have consisted of Super Smash Bros., Tekken, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Marvel Vs. Capcom, Mortal Kombat, and Dragon Ball FighterZ There is also an area dedicated to tabletop games where board games and RPGs are played.
Throughout the weekend celebrity guests sign autographs and host panels for the attendees.
History
The first convention was held on April 18 of 2015 in Glen Mills, PA. The following three conventions were held at varying venues in the Wilmington, Delaware area from November 2015 to November 2017. Each year the convention growing in both attendance and space used. The convention expanded to two days in 2017. Thy Geekdom Con would move to the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center and become a 3-day event in 2018. The move was to better accommodate the attendance the convention has drawn. In 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic the convention was cancelled & deferred to 2021. The decisions to do so was to ensure the health and safety of the local community.
Event history
See also
List of multigenre conventions
References
External links
Thy Geekdom Con Website
Multigenre conventions
Recurring events established in 2015
2015 establishments in Pennsylvania
Annual events in Pennsylvania
Festivals in Pennsylvania
Tourist attractions in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Conventions in Pennsylvania |
1964622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron%20Jerome | Cameron Jerome | Cameron Zishan Rana-Jerome (born 14 August 1986), known as Cameron Jerome, is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Bolton Wanderers.
Jerome began his career as a trainee with Huddersfield Town, Grimsby Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough before signing a professional contract with Cardiff City in the summer of 2004. He quickly became a regular at Ninian Park and after scoring 20 goals in the 2005–06 season he was signed by Birmingham City for a fee of £3 million. He spent five years at St Andrew's where he experienced two promotions and two relegations and also helped the side win the 2011 Football League Cup.
Jerome joined Stoke City in August 2011 for a fee of around £4 million and was mainly used as an impact player by Tony Pulis. After not figuring in new manager Mark Hughes' plans Jerome joined Crystal Palace on loan for the 2013–14 season. Jerome joined Norwich City in August 2014, and after 138 appearances in three-and-a-half years, he signed for Derby County in January 2018. After a spell at Turkish club Göztepe, he joined Milton Keynes Dons in October 2020 on a free transfer and spent 18 months with Luton Town before signing for Bolton Wanderers in January 2023.
Club career
Early career
Jerome was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and is of Grenadian descent. As a youth, Jerome played for Stile Common, alongside Anthony Griffith, Fraizer Campbell, and Reuben Noble-Lazarus, who all went on to enjoy careers as professional players. Griffith and Jerome also played for Yorkshire Counties. Jerome later joined home town club Westend Juniors before moving on to Huddersfield Town as a junior, then moved on via Grimsby Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough to gain a contract at Cardiff City, after being recommended by reserve team manager Paul Wilkinson. Jerome played under Wilkinson in Grimsby's youth system, but after Wilkinson left Blundell Park to take up his position with Cardiff in October 2003, Jerome was released by replacement Neil Woods for being a disruptive influence.
Cardiff City
Described by the BBC as "one of Cardiff's rising stars", Jerome made his debut in a 0–0 draw with Leeds United on 2 October 2004, as a substitute for Andy Campbell. He scored his first professional goal in his second senior appearance in League Cup tie against Bournemouth, before going on to score seven goals in 32 appearances in the 2004–05 season, and was in a good run of form in the 2005–06 season, finishing top scorer for Cardiff with 20 goals.
His hot form earned him a contract with second-city club Birmingham City. The move not only benefitted Jerome but also helped Cardiff as they used the transfer money to sign Michael Chopra, Stephen McPhail and Glenn Loovens.
Birmingham City
Jerome signed for Birmingham City on 31 May 2006, for a transfer fee reported as an initial £3 million, potentially rising to £4m. Jerome made his debut as a 66th-minute substitute against Colchester United at St Andrew's on 5 August. However, it was a debut to forget, as he was sent off within five minutes of entering play elbowing an opponent in the face. He netted his first goal for Birmingham against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road on 12 September.
Jerome scored his first Premier League goal after 32 seconds of the away match against Derby County on 25 August 2007; his second goal of that game confirmed Birmingham's first win of the 2007–08 season. He finished the season as Birmingham's second top goal scorer with 7 goals in 33 games as Birmingham were relegated. However, the Blues immediately bounced back in the 2008–09 season by finishing second in the Championship. Jerome's 10 goals in 45 appearances were only bettered by veteran partner Kevin Phillips in the Birmingham attack. He scored the first goal in the West Midlands derby match against Wolverhampton Wanderers as Birmingham won 2–0.
In July 2009, Jerome signed a new five-year contract with the club. He scored a spectacular first goal of the 2009–10 season to give his club a 2–1 lead against Liverpool, described as "the kind of goal that only the likes of Gerrard usually scores at Anfield"; he "fended off the irritation of Mascherano and unleashed a thunderous shot which dipped over keeper Reina." Jerome hit a purple patch as the Blues notched up a club-record fifteen consecutive games unbeaten in the Premier League, scoring crucial goals against Stoke City, Manchester United and two versus Blackburn Rovers. His tenth goal of the season, a header from James McFadden's cross, came in a 5–1 defeat away to Manchester City. Two weeks after the final game of the season, Jerome's goals total rose to 11 when he was awarded an extra goal by the Dubious Goals Committee for his attempt against Burnley, which had originally been given as an own goal by Brian Jensen.
Jerome was a 92nd-minute substitute as Birmingham won the 2011 League Cup, defeating favourites Arsenal 2–1 at Wembley Stadium.
Stoke City
On 31 August 2011, the last day of the transfer window, Jerome signed a four-year contract with Premier League club Stoke City for an undisclosed fee, believed by Sky Sports to be £4 million. He scored on his Stoke City debut in the UEFA Europa League against Dynamo Kiev to earn his side a 1–1 draw away from home. He scored against Maccabi Tel Aviv in a 3–0 win but was then sent off for two bookable offences. Jerome scored his first League goal for Stoke against Wigan Athletic on 31 December 2011; it was his first league goal for more than 13 months. He was used in a squad rotation system by manager Tony Pulis, something which he admitted he would have to accept. He continued to make an impact as a substitute, scoring against West Bromwich Albion and Everton. However, he began to vent his frustration at his lack of starts.
The 2012–13 season began with Jerome again on the bench and almost joining Blackburn Rovers on loan. In a rare appearance, against Newcastle United on 28 November 2012 coming on as a substitute, he provided an assist for Jonathan Walters and then scored the winning goal. On 29 December, Jerome "lashed into the top corner from 30 yards" to score Stoke's third goal in a 3–3 draw with Southampton in the final minute of the match. He scored his third and final goal of the season in a 2–1 win against Reading on 9 February 2013. Stoke ended the season in 13th position with Jerome making 30 appearances of which nine were starts. At the end of the season Tony Pulis was replaced by Mark Hughes and Jerome criticised Pulis' lack of squad rotation. – "There's no guarantees [for places under Hughes] but before in the old regime, there was a guaranteed XI who played. No matter what happened, how you trained or if you came on and did well in the games you were involved in, you were still never going to start."
On 5 August 2013, Jerome admitted an FA charge of breaching betting regulations. He was fined £50,000 and was also severely warned as to his future conduct by the FA.
Loan to Crystal Palace
On 2 September 2013, Jerome joined Crystal Palace on loan for the 2013–14 season. He made his debut for the club on 14 September, coming on as a 64th-minute substitute for Dwight Gayle in a 2–0 defeat away at Manchester United. After a poor start to the season Ian Holloway left Palace by mutual consent and Tony Pulis was appointed manager on 23 November. Despite Jerome criticising Pulis towards the end of his time at Stoke, he started and scored against his former club Cardiff City on 7 December. In total Jerome played 29 times for the Eagles scoring twice as they finished in 11th position.
Norwich City
On 20 August 2014, Jerome joined Championship club Norwich City for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £1.5 million. He scored his first goal for the club on 13 September in a 4–2 away victory over Cardiff City. His goal was the fourth of Norwich's second-half goals, in a game which they came from 2–0 behind to win. Jerome scored twice in a 3–0 win three days later away at Brentford. He scored another two on 20 September against former club Birmingham City, taking his tally to five goals in four league matches. He scored his sixth goal on 4 October in a draw with Rotherham United that kept Norwich top of the table. He added another two on 31 October as Norwich beat Bolton 2–1.
After an impressive first season at Norwich, Jerome was voted third in the club's annual Player of the Season competition. Norwich finished third, just short of automatic promotion, and qualified for the playoffs. They reached the final against Middlesbrough, and Jerome scored the opening goal in a 2–0 victory for the Canaries. Jerome had an effective game, frustrating Middlesbrough with his frequent pressing, and was named man of the match.
On 6 August 2016, Jerome scored in the 4–1 win away to Blackburn Rovers on the opening day of the 2016–17 season. On 21 August, he scored Norwich's only goal in the East Anglian derby, which ended in a 1–1 draw at Portman Road. Jerome scored his 16th and last goal of the season in the 7–1 thrashing of Reading on 8 April 2017.
Derby County
On 16 January 2018, Jerome joined Derby County on a one-and-a-half-year contract. The fee, officially undisclosed, was reported by Sky Sports as £1.5 million. He scored his first goal for Derby in a 3–0 home win against Brentford on 3 February, and finished the season with 6 from 20 appearances, including a goal in the play-off semi-final, as Derby failed to gain promotion.
Göztepe
On 31 August 2018, Jerome joined Turkish Süper Lig club Göztepe for an undisclosed fee. His first goal for the club opened the scoring in a 3–2 home win against Konyaspor on 30 September.
Milton Keynes Dons
On 9 October 2020, Jerome returned to England following his release from Göztepe. Milton Keynes Dons manager Russell Martin moved to bring his former teammate to the club on a free transfer of an undisclosed length. Jerome made his league debut for the club the following day in a 2–1 defeat to Portsmouth, and scored his first goal for the club a week later in a 2–0 home win over Gillingham.
Luton Town
In June 2021, Championship club Luton Town confirmed Jerome would join them when his contract with MK Dons expired.
Bolton Wanderers
Having found travelling from his home in the north-west of England increasingly problematic, Jerome left Luton Town on 27 January 2023 after his contract was cancelled by mutual consent. The same day, he signed for League One club Bolton Wanderers on an eighteen-month contract. On 2 April, he came on as a substitute in the 2023 EFL Trophy Final against Plymouth Argyle. Bolton went on to win 4–0.
International career
Jerome made 10 appearances for England U21 between 2005 and 2008 without scoring.
In October 2022, Jerome agreed to represent Grenada.
Personal life
Jerome's younger brother, Sam, played football for Leeds United's youth teams until May 2009. Jerome grew up supporting Manchester United.
Career statistics
Honours
Birmingham City
Football League Championship runner-up: 2006–07, 2008–09
Football League Cup: 2010–11
Norwich City
Football League Championship play-offs: 2015
Bolton Wanderers
EFL Trophy: 2022–23
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Huddersfield
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Cardiff City F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Stoke City F.C. players
Crystal Palace F.C. players
Norwich City F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
Göztepe S.K. footballers
Milton Keynes Dons F.C. players
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
English Football League players
Premier League players
Süper Lig players
England men's under-21 international footballers
Black British sportsmen
English expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
English expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
English sportspeople of Grenadian descent |
36574954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Arabian%20Legion | Free Arabian Legion | The Free Arabian Legion (; ) was the collective name of several Nazi German units formed from Arab volunteers from the Middle East, notably Iraq, and North Africa during World War II.
Operational history
Origins
At the beginning of April 1941, Iraqi politician Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, along with several more Iraqi officers who were part of the nationalist group Golden Square, overthrew the pro-British regime in the Kingdom of Iraq. The new pro-Nazi government sought German and Italian support for an Iraqi revolt against British forces in the country. Contact was established with the Axis powers with the help of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini, a Nazi supporter who had been living in Iraq since he had fled imprisonment from Mandatory Palestine shortly before the war.
In May 1941, the Anglo-Iraqi War began with British forces entering Iraq. Adolf Hitler had agreed to send Luftwaffe squadrons to support Iraq as well as Sonderstab F, a special mission headed by Hellmuth Felmy which was to support the revolt and raise a German-led Arab brigade.
By the end of May, the Iraqi forces had been beaten by the British, and al-Husseini and al-Gaylani fled to Iran and then Germany. After the defeat, a number of Arab sympathisers were shipped out of the Middle East through French Syria and ended up in Cape Sounion, Greece.
Units
Hellmuth Felmy had by June been given command of Army Group Southern Greece and was to continue the raising of the German-Arab units through Sonderstab F, which had now been expanded and "should be the central field office for all issues of the Arab world which affect the Wehrmacht". Consequently, the two units and were created. Sonderverband 288 contained only a small proportion of Arab soldiers. However, the term Free Arabian Legion was not the name of any specific unit, but an all-encompassing name for all Arabic units in the German Army.
Sonderverband 287
was formed on 4 August 1942, with much help from Amin al-Husseini and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and consisted of mostly of Iraqi and Syrian Muslims, bolstered by former prisoners of war and other volunteers.
The 3rd battalion of Sonderverband 287 was taken from the unit and sent as the Deutsche-Arabische Lehr-Abteilung to the Caucasus in September 1942. It was part of the Axis offensive into the region and the German plan to seat the Iraqi government-in-exile there. It was then to use the region as a springboard for conquering Iraq. The plan never came to be and the unit never saw action following heavy German setbacks in late 1942. The unit was sent to the battle in Tunisia via Italy in January 1943. There, the Deutsche-Arabische Lehr-Abteilung was placed on the southern flank of the Axis army and was used to recruit more local Arabs who formed a second battalion of auxiliaries, who were used for guard duty and as construction troops. The whole unit was captured along with the rest of all Axis forces in Africa in May 1943.
The remaining soldiers of the 3rd battalion, i.e. the Deutsche-Arabische Lehr-Abteilung, who had not been sent to North Africa, were used, together with Muslims from French North Africa, to form the German-Arab Battalion 845 in the summer of 1943. It served in the Peloponnese region of Greece as part of the 41st Fortress Division from November 1943. It participated in the Greek partisan war, particularly against ELAS. In October 1944, it was withdrawn from Greece to Yugoslavia, and in early 1945 was strengthened with the addition of Arabs from a battalion of Arab volunteers that was disbanded before it was fully formed. It ended the war near Zagreb as part of the 104th Jäger Division.
The 1st and 2nd battalions of the Free Arabian Legion who had not been part of the Deutsche-Arabische Lehr-Abteilung were used to replace losses and rebuild Grenadier Regiment 92 together with a light battery and light pioneer company on 2 May 1943, which was then renamed Grenadier Regiment 92 (MOT) on 5 June 1944. The regiment moved to Yugoslavia to fight against Partisans and was part of Army Group F. The regiment suffered heavy losses in the fighting near Belgrade in October 1944, and what remained of it became part of the 2nd Panzer Army, where it was rebuilt into Panzergrenadier Brigade 92 in January 1945. The whole army capitulated in disarray in Austria in May 1945.
Sonderverband 288
consisted mostly of Germans, but with a cadre of Arab translators and a mobile printing company that could produce Arabic-language leaflets as well as a squad for the operation of oil production facilities. By January 1942, the whole unit was transferred to Libya to defend against British forces in the North Africa Campaign. The unit was planned to eventually be used in an invasion of the Middle East via Egypt, but this never came to be. After several months of fighting, the unit was renamed Panzer Grenadier Regiment Africa, and was eventually captured by American forces following the capitulation of all Axis forces in North Africa in May 1943.
See also
Azerbaijani Legion
Free Indian Legion
Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world
Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts and related articles, especially under
Amin al-Husseini#Recruitment
13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)
23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd Croatian)
References
Further reading
External links
Far-right politics in Africa
Foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht
Military units and formations established in 1941
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
Military history of Iraq
Military history of Syria
Arab collaborators with Nazi Germany |
36360912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20C.%20Cassidy%20School | Lewis C. Cassidy School | The Lewis C. Cassidy Academics Plus School was an historic elementary school that was located in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was part of the School District of Philadelphia.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Demolition of the building began in September 2021.
History and architectural features
This historic building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built between 1922 and 1924. It is a three-story, nine-bay by five-bay, brick building that sits on a raised basement. Designed in the Colonial Revival style, it features large stone arch surrounds on the first level, a projecting entrance pavilion, a double stone cornice, and a brick parapet topped by stone coping.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Demolition of the building began in September 2021. The new school construction will be complete in June 2023.
References
External links
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
School buildings completed in 1924
School District of Philadelphia
Overbrook, Philadelphia
Public elementary schools in Philadelphia
1924 establishments in Pennsylvania |
56546034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreodytes%20sanmarkii | Oreodytes sanmarkii | Oreodytes sanmarkii is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It has a holarctic distribution, found in aquatic habitats in Europe, northern Asia (excluding China), and North America. It has an affinity toward low-velocity currents and pebbly microhabitat substrates. It was described by Finnish entomologist Carl Reinhold Sahlberg in 1826.
Subspecies
There are two named subspecies of Oreodytes:
Oreodytes sanmarkii alienus (Sharp, 1873)
Oreodytes sanmarkii sanmarkii (C. R. Sahlberg, 1826)
References
Further reading
Dytiscidae
Beetles described in 1826 |
49512696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbal%20Assembly%20constituency | Hebbal Assembly constituency | Hebbal Assembly constituency is one of the assembly segments of Karnataka state. It is a part of Bengaluru Urban district and comes under Bengaluru North parliamentary constituency.
Members of Legislative Assembly
^By election
Election results
2023
2018
2016 bypoll
2013
References
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/current-affairs/270116/hebbal-bypoll-congress-old-guard-turns-tide-for-sharief.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/assemblypolls/karnataka/election-results.html
Assembly constituencies of Karnataka
Bangalore Urban district |
51635222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotts%20Gasworks%20Park%20Greyhound%20Track | Shotts Gasworks Park Greyhound Track | Shotts Gasworks Park Greyhound Track was a greyhound racing track in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The mining communities of Shotts were instrumental in bringing greyhound racing to Shotts. The first track in the town was situated off Station Road just south of Foundry Road and was around the Gasworks Park football pitch, home to Shotts Battlefield FC.
Racing took place from 20 August 1934 and during November 1936 there was a petition signed by 1,014 people in support of the dog track because
the General Purposes Committee of Lanark County Council refused to grant Thomas Rae a betting licence for the track. The track which remained independent (not affiliated to a governing body) closed on 11 March 1939 and moved to a new site called Shotts Stadium.
References
Defunct greyhound racing venues in the United Kingdom
Greyhound racing in Scotland
Sports venues in North Lanarkshire
Shotts |
46727608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorshipMob | WorshipMob | WorshipMob is an American worship music collective from Colorado Springs, Colorado, and they were formed on March 15, 2011 by Sean Mulholland. They were signed to the Integrity Music label, releasing their first studio album, Carry the Fire, in 2015. This album was their breakthrough release upon the Billboard magazine Christian Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts.
Music history
The collective's music recording career commenced in 2015, with the studio album, Carry the Fire, and it was released on March 3, 2015 by Integrity Music. This album was their breakthrough release upon the Billboard magazine charts, where it placed on the Christian Albums chart at No. 33 and on the Heatseekers Albums chart at No. 24.
Members
Sean Mulholland
70-80 ministry leaders from 30 local churches
Discography
References
External links
Official website
Christian Review Magazine article pages 36-39
Musical groups established in 2011
Musical groups from Colorado
American Christian musical groups
2011 establishments in Colorado |
13761370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspleniineae | Aspleniineae | Aspleniineae is a suborder of ferns in the order Polypodiales. It is equivalent to the clade eupolypods II in earlier systems; it is also treated as a single very broadly defined family Aspleniaceae. The suborder generally corresponds with the order Blechnales as described by J. L. Reveal in 1993. Aspleniineae includes some important ferns, including Onoclea sensibilis, the sensitive fern, which grows as a virtual weed throughout much of its temperate North American range, and ferns of the genus Thelypteris, a genus that has shown remarkable speciation. It also includes one of the more common horticultural ferns, Matteuccia struthiopteris, the ostrich fern.
Taxonomy
In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the group is treated as the suborder Aspleniinae, and divided into 11 families. Alternatively, it may be treated as a single, very broadly circumscribed family Aspleniaceae sensu lato, which is then divided into subfamilies. The relationship between the two approaches is shown in the table below.
Phylogenic relationships
The following diagram shows a likely phylogenic relationship between the families of Aspleniineae (as eupolypods II), based on Lehtonen (2011), and Rothfels & al. (2012).
References
Polypodiales |
34663791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicennia%20rumphiana | Avicennia rumphiana | Avicennia rumphiana is a species of tropical mangrove in the family Acanthaceae. It is considered vulnerable by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in the 2008 assessment. , Plants of the World Online considered it to be only a variety of Avicennia marina, Avicennia marina var. rumphiana. In the Malay language it is known as api api bulu.
Description
Avicennia rumphiana is one of the tallest mangroves sometimes growing to tall with a girth of but is usually much smaller than this. The trunk has buttresses and roots which spread shallowly across the substrate and send up numerous pneumatophores. These are short vertical roots and are used for gas exchange. The bark is smooth and a dark shade of grey. The leaves are in opposite pairs, oval, sometimes spoon-shaped, glossy green above and yellowish-brown felted beneath. The individual flowers are over across and in a globular cluster, both calyx and petals being hairy. The fruit capsules are also felted and contain a single seed.
Distribution and habitat
Avicennia rumphiana is endemic to south east Asia. Its range includes Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It grows on the upper half of the foreshore preferring sandy or firm mud substrates.
Status
Avicennia rumphiana is a fast-growing species and one of the first to colonize new areas. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species considers it is vulnerable because it has a patchy distribution, is uncommon in some areas and is in general decline. It grows in the upper part of the intertidal zone where it is most vulnerable to human activities and habitat destruction. In the event of rising sea levels, as is expected to happen due to global warming, mangrove zones will be displaced upwards on the beach.
Uses
Avicennia rumphiana is one of a number of species of mangrove planted for coastal defence. The timber is used for building construction but makes poor firewood, only being used for smoking fish and other products. The flowers produce plenty of nectar which is collected by foraging bees to make honey. The seeds are eaten as a boiled vegetable.
Etymology
The generic name is in honour of the Mediaeval Persian physician Avicenna (980–1037).
The specific name is in honour of the German-born Dutch-speaking naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumphius (Georg Eberhard Rumpf, 1627–1702) who studied the natural history of eastern Indonesia while working there for the Dutch East India Company.
References
rumphiana
Central Indo-Pacific flora |
23158859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komoshtitsa | Komoshtitsa | Komoshtitsa () is a village in Northwestern Bulgaria.
It is located in Yakimovo Municipality, Montana Province.
See also
List of villages in Montana Province
External links
The Britons who swap the UK for the poorest part of the EU, 12 March 2014, BBC
Villages in Montana Province |
39845204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bridge%20of%20Light%20%28album%29 | The Bridge of Light (album) | The Bridge of Light is an album by Apocalypse, recorded live in concert. The album is divided in two acts. Act I is composed by individual songs and Act II tells the story of a boy trying to find answers about himself in an abandoned park in the Christmas Day. Eloy Fritsch plays keyboards including analog synths and Hammond organs. His brother Ruy plays guitar. Singer Gustavo Demarchi also plays flute. The guest violin player is Hique Gomez.
Track listing
Next Revelation
Dreamer
Ocean Soul
Last Paradise
The Dance of Down
Meet Me
Wake Up Call...
...To Madeleine
Escape
Welcome Outside
Meeting Me Earthcrubbs
Follow The Bridge
Not Like You
Musicians
Eloy Fritsch: electronic keyboards, Organ, Minimoog, vocals
Ruy Fritsch: electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
Chico Fasoli: drums, percussion, vocals
Gustavo Demarchi: lead vocals, flute
Magoo Wise: bass guitar
Hique Gomez: violin, vocals
References
2008 live albums
Apocalypse (band) albums
Concept albums |
32007324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omiodes%20meyricki | Omiodes meyricki | Omiodes meyricki is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Charles Swinhoe in 1907 and is found on Sulawesi in Indonesia.
References
Moths described in 1907
meyricki |
23661626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolusanthus | Bolusanthus | Bolusanthus speciosus (tree wisteria) is a species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It is the only member of the genus Bolusanthus .
Description
It is a small deciduous tree, which can grow up to tall. It has black, fissured rough bark and also drooping branches. Between September and October, when the tree has no leaves it begins to bloom, with lilac blue flowers. Later it produces a seed capsule, the grey pods contain 3-8 smooth, bright yellow or brown seeds.
The wood is very hard, heavy and yellow in colour. It can be used for axe-handles, wagon spokes and fencing poles. The tree is also grown in gardens due to the attractive flowers.
Distribution
It is native to KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Provinces (of South Africa), Eswatini, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is found in low to medium elevations in woodland or wooded grasslands.
Taxonomy
The genus name of Bolusanthus is in honour of Harry Bolus, (1834 – 1911) who was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist, and 'anthus' the Greek word for flower.
It was first published and described by (Bolus) Hermann Harms (a German botanist) in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 2: 15 in 1906.
References
Flora of Southern Africa
Trees of Africa
Sophoreae
Plants described in 1899
Monotypic Fabaceae genera
Taxa named by Hermann Harms |
2824735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Turner%20%28musician%29 | Mike Turner (musician) | Michael A. Turner (born June 5, 1963), also known as Emtee, is an English-born Canadian musician and producer. He is best known as the former lead guitarist and founding member of the band Our Lady Peace and current member of alternative rock supergroup Crash Karma.
Life and career
Born on June 5, 1963, in Bradford, England, Turner grew up heavily influenced by punk rock. His first guitar was a gift from his mother on his seventeenth birthday. He played in a variety of bands during the 1980s.
Turner moved to Ontario, Canada at the age of eighteen. He studied English literature at the University of Western Ontario. He lived in Saugeen-Maitland Hall at the University of Western Ontario along with fellow Our Lady Peace band member Duncan Coutts.
Our Lady Peace
1991–2001
In late 1991, Turner placed an ad in Toronto-based Now newspaper in search of musicians. Michael Maida, a criminology student at the University of Toronto, was the first to reply. The two formed a band called As If, inviting Jim Newell as drummer and a friend of Turner's, Paul Martin, to play bass. After they played a number of gigs in Oshawa with sets containing a mix of original and cover material, Martin departed soon after, and the band placed an ad for a replacement bassist. Chris Eacrett, a business student at Ryerson University, replied and was accepted after an audition. During that time, Turner and Maida attended a music seminar where they met songwriter and producer Arnold Lanni, the owner of Arnyard Studios. The band, with Lanni, commenced writing new material and recorded some material under the As If name.
Soon thereafter, the band's name was changed to Our Lady Peace, with Maida changing his first name to Raine to avoid confusion, after a Mark Van Doren poem of the same name. It took the band eventually a year and half of constant back and forth talks with Sony to secure a record deal. With encouragement from their producer Lanni and his management team, the band performed some gigs in Eastern Ontario and Montreal in conjunction with The Tea Party eventually supporting acts. It was not until Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin heard a song of OLP on the radio that he asked them to be a support on his tour. and Alanis Morissette.
Turner left Our Lady Peace in late 2001, citing musical and creative differences.
2021–present
In the summer of 2021, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida announced that Mike Turner was involved with the production of their tenth studio album, Spiritual Machines 2. Maida stated that it wouldn't "be right" to make a sequel to Spiritual Machines without Turner. The first Spiritual Machines album, released in 2000, was the last Our Lady Peace studio album Turner had been fully involved with prior to his original 2001 departure from the band.
Turner was also a featured special guest during Our Lady Peace's 2022 cross-country "The Wonderful Future Theatrical Experience" live tour, where he appeared in holographic form as well as performed live on stage at select venues. It was Turner's first time playing live with the band in over 20 years.
Crash Karma, other projects
After his 2001 departure from Our Lady Peace, he began producing music and played guitar in the Canadian band Fair Ground, with Harem Scarem guitarist Pete Lesperance. Turner was approached by Amir Epstein of Zygote and Edwin of I Mother Earth about forming a band after they met while recording in Turner's Toronto based studio. With the addition of Jeff Burrows of The Tea Party, Crash Karma released their first single "Awake" in 2009 followed by a debut album in March 2010.
Inspired by his work with producers Arnold Lanni and Bob Rock, he became very interested in the production side of music, and decided to produce and write full-time.
He experimented with live recordings, using a small mobile recording rig of his own design. He also built a private recording studio in his home, taking on projects for labels like Capitol, EMI and Sony. Turner then opened a public recording studio in Toronto called The Pocket with a few partners from the music industry. The partnership has since dissolved although Turner remains active at the studio hosting diverse artists including Alert the Medic, Shaye, Luke Doucet, Hawksley Workman, Sloan, and Feist. Recordings from The Pocket, with Turner producing have won two Canadian Broadcast awards, one in 2009 for "Afflicted" by Age of Days and again in 2011 for Crash Karma as Rock Group of the Year.
Contributions and awards
Discography
Our Lady Peace
Naveed (1994)
Clumsy (1997)
Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch (1999)
Spiritual Machines (2000)
Gravity (2001)
Spiritual Machines 2 (2021)
Fair Ground
Down In It (2006)
Crash Karma
Crash Karma (2010)
Rock Musique Deluxe (2013)
Award wins and nominations
References
1963 births
Living people
Crash Karma members
English male guitarists
English male singers
English rock guitarists
English emigrants to Canada
Musicians from Bradford
Musicians from Toronto
University of Western Ontario alumni
Our Lady Peace members
20th-century English singers
21st-century English singers
20th-century British male singers
21st-century British male singers |
27947197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%20Plunket%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Fingall | Luke Plunket, 1st Earl of Fingall | Lucas More Plunket of Killeen, County Meath (before 1602 – 29 March 1637), styled Lucas Môr, tenth lord Killeen, created Earl of Fingall on 26 September 1628, was an Irish peer.
Biography
Plunket was the elder son of Christopher Plunket, 9th Baron Killeen, and Jenet, daughter of Sir Lucas Dillon, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer and his first wife Jane Bathe. He succeeded to the barony in January 1613.
Plunket was created Earl of Fingall by King's letter of 26 September 1628, "on account of the good testimony which the King had received as to his honour and virtue, and for the encouragement of his continuance in such courses". He was granted 2,400 acres in County Cavan; he was one of the founders of the town of Virginia, County Cavan.
He sat on the Irish House of Lords Committee for Privileges in the Parliament of 1634–5. He was a staunch Roman Catholic and an advocate for The Graces, the programme of religious concessions promised by the English Crown in the 1620s, but never implemented. As a result, he clashed with the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the formidable Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, who was determined to reject the Graces.
Family
Plunket married first Elizabeth FitzGerald, daughter of Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare and Lady Frances Howard. She died, probably of bubonic plague, in 1611.
Plunket married secondly Susannah, daughter of Edward Brabazon, 1st Baron Ardee and Mary Smythe. They had two sons Christopher, who succeeded as 2nd Earl, and George, from whom later Earls of Fingall were descended; and a daughter, Eleanor, who married Andrew Nugent.
Plunket married thirdly Eleanor, daughter of Dudley Bagenal and Mabel FitzGerald, and widow of Sir Thomas Colclough of Tintern Abbey, County Wexford. She died in 1632.
He married fourthly Margaret, daughter of Nicholas St Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth and his second wife Mary White, and widow of Jenico Preston, 5th Viscount Gormanston.
Notes
References
The O’Donnells of Tyrconnell – A Hidden Legacy, by Francis Martin O'Donnell, published by Academica Press LLC in London and Washington, D.C., 2018, (750 pages; see pages 149–150) (). .
1637 deaths
Nobility from County Meath
17th-century Irish people
Year of birth unknown
Year of birth uncertain
Earls of Fingall |
12233762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valesius | Valesius | Valesius is a Latinization of the Sabine name "Volusus". Prior to the foundation of the Roman Republic, the intervocal s underwent rhotacization, producing "Valerius", one of the more prominent gentes in Rome. People commonly known by the name Valesius include:
Valesius (Sabine), the founder of the Secular Games
Henricus Valesius, the Latinized classical form of Henri Valois, a French philologist; Valois is a corruption of Val d'Oise, "Oise River Valley" |
6557412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%20It%20Up | Even It Up | "Even It Up" is a song recorded by the rock band Heart. It was released in 1980 as the first single from the band's fifth studio album Bebe le Strange. The song is an uptempo rock and roll number which lyrically is sung by a woman who is demanding that her lover "even it up" by reciprocating the effort that she has put forth in their relationship.
Cash Box said it has "steamy lead guitar riffs" and "aggressively sensual lead vocals."
This song is the first of three Heart tunes to utilize the Tower of Power horn section, along with their cover of Aaron Neville's "Tell It Like It Is" and "Tall Dark Handsome Stranger" from 1990's Brigade.
"Even It Up" peaked at number 33 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
"That song was written in about '79 or '80, and it was definitely a response to being obstructed as women in the rock field. There are so many systemic things that get thrown up in front of you, different glass walls and stuff. We were speaking out against it then," said singer Ann Wilson.
Chart performance
References
Heart (band) songs
1980 singles
Songs written by Sue Ennis
Songs written by Nancy Wilson (rock musician)
Songs written by Ann Wilson
Epic Records singles
1980 songs
Song recordings produced by Mike Flicker |
53211873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarashi%20Ranjan%20Mukherjee | Sarashi Ranjan Mukherjee | Sarashi Ranjan Mukherjee (1919–1991) was an Indian surgeon and a neurobiologist. Born on 24 November 1919 in Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal to Narayan Mukherjee and Kamala Devi, he was known for his studies on a number of diseases such as hypertension, hypothermia and epilepsy. He was the younger brother of Asima Chatterjee, a renowned organic chemist and was her collaborator in her researches on the pharmacological activity of marsilin, an anticonvulsant drug. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1968. He died on 24 January 1991, at the age of 71.
References
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Medical Science
1919 births
1991 deaths
20th-century Indian medical doctors
Indian medical writers
Indian neurosurgeons
Medical doctors from Kolkata
20th-century surgeons |
15584797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick%20George%20Smith | Fredrick George Smith | Fredrick George Smith was a British mechanical engineer. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1872 and died in 1956. He was appointed manager of the Highland Railway's Lochgorm Works in 1903, and promoted to Assistant to the Chief Mechanical Engineer, Peter Drummond in 1903.
After Drummond's departure for the Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1911, Smith was appointed to replace him, albeit under the old title of Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent. His only design for the Highland Railway was the River Class, which was rejected by the Chief Engineer, causing his resignation. He went on to take a post in the Ministry of Munitions and in 1918 entered the steel industry.
References
Locomotive builders and designers
1872 births
1956 deaths
People from Newcastle upon Tyne |
26126842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule%20615 | Minuscule 615 | Minuscule 615 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 560 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. Tischendorf labeled it by 138a and 173p.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles on 202 paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page.
The order of books: Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles. Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.
It contains Martyrium Pauli.
Text
Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.
History
The manuscript once belonged to J. P. Pinelli.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. Scholz examined it very slightly. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
Formerly it was labeled by 138a and 173p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 615 to it.
The manuscript currently is housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (E. 102 sup.), at Milan.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules
Biblical manuscript
Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Catalogus graecorum Bibliothecace Ambrosianae (Mediolani 1906), vol. I, pp. 353-354.
Greek New Testament minuscules
15th-century biblical manuscripts
Manuscripts of the Ambrosiana collections |
24372651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setovia | Setovia | Setovia was an Illyrian fortified settlement of the Delmatae.
It was located at an unknown location in the modern-day Sinjsko polje, and was besieged by Octavian's Roman troops in 34–33 BC. Some Roman stone inscriptions were found near Vrlika and Kijevo that indicate Setovia was nearby.
See also
List of ancient cities in Illyria
References
Former populated places in the Balkans
Cities in ancient Illyria
Illyrian Croatia |
4391090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa%20Ayrinhac | Numa Ayrinhac | Numa Ayrinhac (5 September 1881 – 23 March 1951) was a French-Argentine artist. He was born in Espalion (France) in 1881 of Joseph Sixte Ayrinhac and Marie Eulalie Durand, and moved with his parents aged five to the new settlement of Pigüé, Saavedra, Argentina. He is famous for painting portraits of Eva and Juan Domingo Perón.
He died in Buenos Aires on March 23, 1951.
External links
Biographical sketch (French General Consulate, Argentina)
1881 births
1951 deaths
People from Espalion
Occitan people
French emigrants to Argentina
People from Buenos Aires Province
Naturalized citizens of Argentina
Argentine portrait painters
20th-century Argentine painters
Argentine male painters
20th-century Argentine male artists |
13861451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%20Pittsburgh%20Pirates%20season | 1968 Pittsburgh Pirates season | The 1968 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 87th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 82nd in the National League. The Pirates finished sixth in the league standings with a record of 80–82.
Offseason
October 3, 1967: Billy O'Dell was released by the Pirates.
October 13, 1967: Larry Shepard named manager of the Pirates.
November 28, 1967: Dennis Ribant was traded by the Pirates to the Detroit Tigers for Dave Wickersham.
November 28, 1967: Chuck Hiller was selected by Pirates from Philadelphia Phillies in the Rule 5 major league draft.
November 29, 1967: Bill Short was sold by Pirates to the New York Mets.
December 2, 1967: Bob Oliver was traded by the Pirates to the Minnesota Twins for Ron Kline.
December 3, 1967: Jim Pagliaroni was sold by the Pirates to the Oakland Athletics.
December 15, 1967: Woodie Fryman, Bill Laxton, Don Money and Harold Clem (minors) were traded by the Pirates to the Philadelphia Phillies for Jim Bunning.
January 8, 1968: Frank Taveras was signed by the Pirates as a non-drafted free agent.
January 27, 1968: Tom Dettore was drafted by the Pirates in the 3rd round of the 1968 Major League Baseball draft (secondary phase). Player signed March 29, 1968.
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Game log
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 1 || April 10 || @ Astros || 4–5 || Dierker || Pizarro (0–1) || — || 21,320 || 0–1
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 2 || April 11 || @ Giants || 3–1 (15) || Face (1–0) || Linzy || Moose (1) || 7,844 || 1–1
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 3 || April 13 || @ Giants || 2–1 || McBean (1–0) || Perry || — || 11,488 || 2–1
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 4 || April 14 || @ Dodgers || 3–0 || Bunning (1–0) || Osteen || — || 27,136 || 3–1
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 5 || April 15 || @ Dodgers || 2–3 || Singer || Veale (0–1) || — || 16,214 || 3–2
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 6 || April 17 || Astros || 13–4 || McBean (2–0) || Lemaster || — || 30,779 || 4–2
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 7 || April 19 || Giants || 2–5 || Marichal || Bunning (1–1) || — || 24,224 || 4–3
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 8 || April 20 || Giants || 0–1 || Sadecki || Veale (0–2) || — || 8,156 || 4–4
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 9 || April 21 || Giants || 10–0 || McBean (3–0) || McCormick || — || 17,337 || 5–4
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 10 || April 22 || Dodgers || 3–5 || Brewer || Moose (0–1) || Billingham || 7,963 || 5–5
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 11 || April 24 || Dodgers || 4–3 || Bunning (2–1) || Osteen || Face (1) || 4,938 || 6–5
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 12 || April 26 || @ Cardinals || 1–2 || Gibson || Veale (0–3) || — || 39,866 || 6–6
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 13 || April 27 || @ Cardinals || 5–7 || Briles || McBean (3–1) || Hoerner || 20,863 || 6–7
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 14 || April 28 || @ Cardinals || 2–4 || Carlton || Sisk (0–1) || — || 20,562 || 6–8
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 15 || April 29 || Cubs || 7–4 || Blass (1–0) || Jenkins || Moose (2) || 5,603 || 7–8
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 16 || April 30 || Cubs || 4–3 || Pizarro (1–1) || Hartenstein || — || 3,710 || 8–8
|-
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 17 || May 1 || Cubs || 4–0 || McBean (4–1) || Nye || — || 5,449 || 9–8
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 18 || May 2 || Cubs || 0–1 || Niekro || Bunning (2–2) || — || 7,249 || 9–9
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 19 || May 3 || @ Phillies || 2–3 || Farrell || Kline (0–1) || — || 9,433 || 9–10
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 20 || May 4 || @ Phillies || 2–3 || Hall || Face (1–1) || — || 15,834 || 9–11
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 21 || May 5 || @ Phillies || 5–2 || Wickersham (1–0) || Jackson || Moose (3) || 9,407 || 10–11
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 22 || May 6 || @ Braves || 2–1 || Bunning (3–2) || Jarvis || Kline (1) || 9,131 || 11–11
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 23 || May 7 || @ Braves || 1–2 || Upshaw || McBean (4–2) || — || 6,610 || 11–12
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 24 || May 8 || @ Braves || 4–3 (14) || Kline (1–1) || Upshaw || Face (2) || 7,035 || 12–12
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 25 || May 9 || @ Braves || 2–4 || Reed || Moose (0–2) || Britton || 5,704 || 12–13
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 26 || May 10 || Phillies || 2–1 || Veale (1–3) || Fryman || Face (3) || 9,397 || 13–13
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 27 || May 12 || Phillies || 2–1 || McBean (5–2) || James || — || 12,203 || 14–13
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 28 || May 13 || Cardinals || 0–1 || Briles || Bunning (3–3) || — || 10,082 || 14–14
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 29 || May 15 || Cardinals || 0–1 || Carlton || Blass (1–1) || — || 9,461 || 14–15
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 30 || May 16 || Cardinals || 3–0 || Veale (2–3) || Washburn || — || 9,595 || 15–15
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 31 || May 17 || Reds || 2–3 || Maloney || McBean (5–3) || Abernathy || 13,499 || 15–16
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 32 || May 18 || Reds || 3–8 || McCool || Bunning (3–4) || — || 3,670 || 15–17
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 33 || May 19 || Reds || 3–9 || Culver || Blass (1–2) || Kelso || 9,458 || 15–18
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 34 || May 20 || @ Mets || 1–2 || Koosman || Veale (2–4) || — || 12,221 || 15–19
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 35 || May 21 || @ Mets || 3–4 (17) || Taylor || Moose (0–3) || — || 8,188 || 15–20
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 36 || May 22 || @ Cubs || 13–6 || Sisk (1–1) || Niekro || Wickersham (1) || 5,075 || 16–20
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 37 || May 24 || @ Reds || 8–5 || Kline (2–1) || Culver || — || 9,379 || 17–20
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 38 || May 25 || @ Reds || 5–4 (12) || Sisk (2–1) || McCool || — || 12,153 || 18–20
|- bgcolor="ffffff"
| 39 || May 26 || @ Reds || 8–8 (7) || || || — || 9,672 || 18–20
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 40 || May 30 || Mets || 3–6 || Koosman || Bunning (3–5) || Koonce || || 18–21
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 41 || May 30 || Mets || 4–5 || Selma || Veale (2–5) || Jackson || 19,779 || 18–22
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 42 || May 31 || Braves || 2–5 || Niekro || McBean (5–4) || — || 7,301 || 18–23
|-
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 43 || June 2 || Braves || 8–4 || Kline (3–1) || Cloninger || — || || 19–23
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 44 || June 2 || Braves || 5–10 || Jarvis || Moose (0–4) || Niekro || 21,491 || 19–24
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 45 || June 3 || @ Dodgers || 0–2 || Osteen || Veale (2–6) || — || 14,568 || 19–25
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 46 || June 4 || @ Dodgers || 0–5 || Drysdale || Bunning (3–6) || — || 30,422 || 19–26
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 47 || June 5 || @ Dodgers || 1–2 (10) || Singer || McBean (5–5) || — || 14,660 || 19–27
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 48 || June 6 || @ Dodgers || 2–4 || Sutton || Sisk (2–2) || — || 14,112 || 19–28
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 49 || June 7 || @ Astros || 5–0 || Blass (2–2) || Giusti || — || 14,578 || 20–28
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 50 || June 8 || @ Astros || 2–3 || Lemaster || Bunning (3–7) || Buzhardt || 21,447 || 20–29
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 51 || June 9 || @ Astros || 3–1 || Moose (1–4) || Cuellar || Kline (2) || 12,862 || 21–29
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 52 || June 10 || @ Giants || 0–8 || Marichal || Veale (2–7) || — || 4,356 || 21–30
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 53 || June 11 || @ Giants || 7–4 || Kline (4–1) || Sadecki || Face (4) || 7,807 || 22–30
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 54 || June 12 || @ Giants || 2–4 || Bolin || Bunning (3–8) || Linzy || 4,771 || 22–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 55 || June 13 || @ Giants || 8–7 || Sisk (3–2) || Linzy || Face (5) || 6,028 || 23–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 56 || June 14 || Astros || 3–0 || Moose (2–4) || Lemaster || — || 8,603 || 24–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 57 || June 15 || Astros || 13–2 || Veale (3–7) || Wilson || — || 5,005 || 25–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 58 || June 16 || Astros || 3–1 || Blass (3–2) || Cuellar || Face (6) || || 26–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 59 || June 16 || Astros || 11–2 || Sisk (4–2) || Dierker || Kline (3) || 8,448 || 27–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 60 || June 17 || Astros || 4–3 || McBean (6–5) || Giusti || Face (7) || 5,887 || 28–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 61 || June 18 || Dodgers || 3–2 (10) || Ellis (1–0) || Aguirre || — || 13,721 || 29–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 62 || June 19 || Dodgers || 2–1 || Veale (4–7) || Singer || — || 10,799 || 30–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 63 || June 20 || Dodgers || 7–3 || Blass (4–2) || Sutton || — || || 31–31
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 64 || June 20 || Dodgers || 2–3 (10) || Billingham || Face (1–2) || Purdin || 19,838 || 31–32
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 65 || June 21 || Giants || 0–3 || Bolin || McBean (6–6) || — || 16,222 || 31–33
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 66 || June 22 || Giants || 3–10 || McCormick || Moose (2–5) || — || 15,617 || 31–34
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 67 || June 23 || Giants || 1–2 || Marichal || Bunning (3–9) || — || 16,843 || 31–35
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 68 || June 25 || @ Cardinals || 3–2 || Veale (5–7) || Carlton || Walker (1) || 26,927 || 32–35
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 69 || June 26 || @ Cardinals || 0–3 || Gibson || McBean (6–7) || — || || 32–36
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 70 || June 26 || @ Cardinals || 3–1 || Blass (5–2) || Jaster || Kline (4) || 30,641 || 33–36
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 71 || June 28 || @ Phillies || 10–1 || Bunning (4–9) || Fryman || — || 18,994 || 34–36
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 72 || June 29 || @ Phillies || 1–0 || Moose (3–5) || Jackson || — || 17,052 || 35–36
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 73 || June 30 || @ Phillies || 5–2 || Veale (6–7) || Farrell || — || 8,884 || 36–36
|-
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 74 || July 2 || @ Mets || 2–1 || McBean (7–7) || Selma || Face (8) || 27,350 || 37–36
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 75 || July 3 || @ Mets || 8–1 || Blass (6–2) || Ryan || — || 14,909 || 38–36
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 76 || July 4 || @ Mets || 3–2 || Kline (5–1) || Koosman || — || || 39–36
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 77 || July 4 || @ Mets || 3–4 || Cardwell || Bunning (4–10) || Taylor || 29,587 || 39–37
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 78 || July 5 || @ Cubs || 4–0 || Veale (7–7) || Nye || — || 16,040 || 40–37
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 79 || July 6 || @ Cubs || 1–6 || Jenkins || Walker (0–1) || — || || 40–38
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 80 || July 6 || @ Cubs || 2–10 || Ross || Sisk (4–3) || — || 30,794 || 40–39
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 81 || July 7 || @ Cubs || 4–5 || Regan || Veale (7–8) || — || || 40–40
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 82 || July 7 || @ Cubs || 3–4 || Regan || Face (1–3) || — || 32,447 || 40–41
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 83 || July 11 || Phillies || 0–5 || Jackson || Veale (7–9) || — || || 40–42
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 84 || July 11 || Phillies || 1–4 || Short || Moose (3–6) || Boozer || 15,371 || 40–43
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 85 || July 12 || Phillies || 2–3 || James || Bunning (4–11) || Boozer || 9,206 || 40–44
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 86 || July 13 || Phillies || 2–3 (16) || Short || Ellis (1–1) || — || 6,869 || 40–45
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 87 || July 14 || Cubs || 2–6 || Niekro || McBean (7–8) || — || 19,335 || 40–46
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 88 || July 15 || Cubs || 1–2 (10) || Jenkins || Walker (0–2) || — || 6,648 || 40–47
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 89 || July 16 || Mets || 3–2 || Kline (6–1) || Selma || — || 6,123 || 41–47
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 90 || July 17 || Mets || 8–2 || Blass (7–2) || Koosman || — || || 42–47
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 91 || July 17 || Mets || 4–5 || Koonce || Walker (0–3) || Taylor || 8,974 || 42–48
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 92 || July 18 || Mets || 0–3 || Seaver || McBean (7–9) || — || 6,234 || 42–49
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 93 || July 19 || @ Braves || 2–0 || Moose (4–6) || Reed || — || 17,286 || 43–49
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 94 || July 20 || @ Braves || 2–1 || Veale (8–9) || Niekro || — || 20,771 || 44–49
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 95 || July 21 || @ Braves || 6–0 || Blass (8–2) || Pappas || — || 25,109 || 45–49
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 96 || July 23 || Reds || 6–7 (12) || Arrigo || Face (1–4) || Lee || 8,739 || 45–50
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 97 || July 25 || Reds || 0–2 || Culver || Veale (8–10) || Carroll || 5,797 || 45–51
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 98 || July 26 || Cardinals || 1–9 || Briles || Blass (8–3) || — || || 45–52
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 99 || July 26 || Cardinals || 5–4 (10) || Kline (7–1) || Granger || — || 23,515 || 46–52
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 100 || July 27 || Cardinals || 0–4 || Carlton || Moose (4–7) || — || 12,147 || 46–53
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 101 || July 28 || Cardinals || 7–1 || McBean (8–9) || Jaster || — || 14,926 || 47–53
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 102 || July 29 || Braves || 3–2 || Veale (9–10) || Reed || — || 7,357 || 48–53
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 103 || July 30 || Braves || 8–5 || Blass (9–3) || Johnson || Sisk (1) || || 49–53
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 104 || July 30 || Braves || 5–4 (10) || Kline (8–1) || Niekro || — || 11,624 || 50–53
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 105 || July 31 || @ Reds || 2–8 || Arrigo || Moose (4–8) || — || || 50–54
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 106 || July 31 || @ Reds || 10–1 || Ellis (2–1) || Ritchie || Face (9) || 14,780 || 51–54
|-
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 107 || August 1 || @ Reds || 6–1 || Sisk (5–3) || Maloney || Face (10) || 10,926 || 52–54
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 108 || August 2 || @ Giants || 3–1 || McBean (9–9) || Perry || — || 6,423 || 53–54
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 109 || August 3 || @ Giants || 0–7 || Sadecki || Veale (9–11) || — || 9,251 || 53–55
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 110 || August 4 || @ Giants || 0–2 || Bolin || Bunning (4–12) || — || 18,151 || 53–56
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 111 || August 5 || @ Dodgers || 0–1 (10) || Brewer || Blass (9–4) || — || 17,851 || 53–57
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 112 || August 6 || @ Dodgers || 4–1 || Moose (5–8) || Drysdale || Kline (5) || 15,732 || 54–57
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 113 || August 7 || @ Dodgers || 2–6 || Sutton || McBean (9–10) || — || 13,848 || 54–58
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 114 || August 8 || @ Astros || 4–3 || Kline (9–1) || Cuellar || Face (11) || 14,851 || 55–58
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 115 || August 9 || @ Astros || 1–2 || Shea || Ellis (2–2) || — || 15,270 || 55–59
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 116 || August 10 || @ Astros || 3–16 || Coombs || Blass (9–5) || — || 12,814 || 55–60
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 117 || August 10 || @ Astros || 7–4 || Kline (10–1) || House || — || 25,814 || 56–60
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 118 || August 11 || @ Astros || 1–5 || Dierker || Sisk (5–4) || Giusti || 16,892 || 56–61
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 119 || August 13 || Giants || 0–3 || Marichal || Veale (9–12) || — || 9,135 || 56–62
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 120 || August 14 || Giants || 1–2 (10) || Perry || Kline (10–2) || — || 6,926 || 56–63
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 121 || August 15 || Giants || 2–0 || Blass (10–5) || Bolin || — || 6,859 || 57–63
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 122 || August 16 || Dodgers || 4–8 || Drysdale || McBean (9–11) || Billingham || 8,221 || 57–64
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 123 || August 17 || Dodgers || 3–0 || Moose (6–8) || Kekich || Kline (6) || 8,181 || 58–64
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 124 || August 18 || Dodgers || 5–1 || Veale (10–12) || Sutton || — || 17,423 || 59–64
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 125 || August 19 || @ Reds || 3–8 || Arrigo || Bunning (4–13) || — || 6,659 || 59–65
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 126 || August 20 || @ Reds || 8–3 || Ellis (3–2) || Ritchie || Kline (7) || 8,103 || 60–65
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 127 || August 21 || @ Reds || 19–1 || Blass (11–5) || Maloney || Face (12) || 8,155 || 61–65
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 128 || August 22 || @ Reds || 5–7 || Abernathy || Sisk (5–5) || — || 7,195 || 61–66
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 129 || August 23 || @ Cardinals || 2–3 (11) || Hoerner || Kline (10–3) || — || 34,845 || 61–67
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 130 || August 24 || @ Cardinals || 6–4 || Face (2–4) || Gibson || — || 31,019 || 62–67
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 131 || August 25 || @ Cardinals || 2–4 || Briles || Ellis (3–3) || Hoerner || 26,756 || 62–68
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 132 || August 26 || @ Braves || 4–0 || Blass (12–5) || Pappas || — || 7,491 || 63–68
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 133 || August 27 || @ Braves || 4–3 (11) || Kline (11–3) || Britton || Face (13) || 6,633 || 64–68
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 134 || August 28 || Cardinals || 0–8 || Gibson || Veale (10–13) || — || 11,197 || 64–69
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 135 || August 29 || Cardinals || 0–5 || Washburn || Moose (6–9) || — || 7,681 || 64–70
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 136 || August 30 || Braves || 0–2 || Pappas || Ellis (3–4) || Raymond || 5,896 || 64–71
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 137 || August 31 || Braves || 8–0 || Blass (13–5) || Reed || — || 4,671 || 65–71
|-
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 138 || September 1 || Braves || 7–8 (11) || Raymond || Kline (11–4) || Britton || 5,650 || 65–72
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 139 || September 2 || Astros || 6–1 || Veale (11–13) || Cuellar || — || || 66–72
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 140 || September 2 || Astros || 4–3 (10) || Dal Canton (1–0) || Ray || — || 6,225 || 67–72
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 141 || September 3 || Astros || 3–2 || Ellis (4–4) || Dierker || Walker (2) || 3,003 || 68–72
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 142 || September 6 || Mets || 2–1 || Blass (14–5) || McAndrew || — || 4,082 || 69–72
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 143 || September 7 || Mets || 3–4 || Koosman || Bunning (4–14) || Taylor || 4,002 || 69–73
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 144 || September 8 || Mets || 3–0 || Veale (12–13) || Seaver || — || 5,424 || 70–73
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 145 || September 9 || Phillies || 7–8 (15) || Short || Dal Canton (1–1) || — || 2,664 || 70–74
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 146 || September 11 || Phillies || 6–8 (12) || Wagner || McBean (9–12) || Farrell || || 70–75
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 147 || September 11 || Phillies || 6–4 || Blass (15–5) || Wise || Walker (3) || 2,789 || 71–75
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| 148 || September 13 || @ Mets || 0–2 || Koosman || Moose (6–10) || — || 17,245 || 71–76
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| 149 || September 14 || @ Mets || 6–0 || Veale (13–13) || Seaver || — || 15,676 || 72–76
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| 150 || September 15 || @ Mets || 3–0 || Blass (16–5) || Cardwell || — || 33,838 || 73–76
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| 151 || September 16 || @ Phillies || 6–1 || Ellis (5–4) || Wise || — || 2,087 || 74–76
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| 152 || September 17 || @ Phillies || 4–2 || Moose (7–10) || Short || Dal Canton (1) || 2,576 || 75–76
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| 153 || September 18 || @ Phillies || 1–2 || Johnson || Veale (13–14) || Wagner || 2,463 || 75–77
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| 154 || September 20 || Cubs || 5–0 || Blass (17–5) || Jenkins || — || 4,478 || 76–77
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 155 || September 21 || Cubs || 5–1 || Ellis (6–4) || Niekro || — || 3,429 || 77–77
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| 156 || September 22 || Cubs || 5–1 || Moose (8–10) || Holtzman || Dal Canton (2) || 27,405 || 78–77
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| 157 || September 23 || Reds || 6–9 || Kelso || Kline (11–5) || Carroll || || 78–78
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 158 || September 23 || Reds || 2–1 (10) || Kline (12–5) || Kelso || — || 4,232 || 79–78
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 159 || September 24 || Reds || 2–0 || Blass (18–5) || Nolan || — || 4,044 || 80–78
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| 160 || September 25 || Reds || 0–3 || Maloney || Ellis (6–5) || — || 4,577 || 80–79
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 161 || September 27 || @ Cubs || 1–4 || Holtzman || Moose (8–11) || Regan || 2,384 || 80–80
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| 162 || September 28 || @ Cubs || 3–4 || Jenkins || Blass (18–6) || — || 10,940 || 80–81
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| 163 || September 29 || @ Cubs || 4–5 || Regan || Moose (8–12) || — || 16,860 || 80–82
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| Legend: = Win = Loss = TieBold = Pirates team member
Opening Day lineup
Notable transactions
June 7, 1968: 1968 Major League Baseball draft
Milt May was drafted by the Pirates in the 11th round of the 1968 Major League draft.
Bruce Kison was drafted by the Pirates in the 14th round of the 1968 Major League draft.
June 27, 1968: Juan Pizarro sold by the Pirates to the Boston Red Sox.
July 15, 1968: Bill Virdon was signed as a free agent by the Pirates (Virdon, who was on the coaching staff, was activated as a player-coach while Freddie Patek was on the DL).
August 13, 1968: Bill Virdon was released by the Pirates.
August 19, 1968: Bill Henry was released by the Pirates.
Roster
Statistics
Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
Pitching
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Farm system
Notes
References
1968 Pittsburgh Pirates team page at Baseball Reference
1968 Pittsburgh Pirates Page at Baseball Almanac
Pittsburgh Pirates seasons
Pittsburgh Pirates season
Pittsburg |
178312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard%20Leberecht%20von%20Bl%C3%BCcher | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (; 21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (sovereign prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal). He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Blücher was born in Rostock, the son of a retired army captain. His military career began in 1758 as a hussar in the Swedish Army. He was captured by the Prussians in 1760 during the Pomeranian Campaign and thereafter joined the Prussian Army, serving as a hussar officer for Prussia during the remainder of the Seven Years' War. In 1773, Blücher was forced to resign by Frederick the Great for insubordination. He worked as a farmer until the death of Frederick in 1786, when Blücher was reinstated and promoted to colonel. For his success in the French Revolutionary Wars, Blücher became a major general in 1794. He became a lieutenant general in 1801 and commanded the cavalry corps during the Napoleonic Wars in 1806.
War broke out between Prussia and France again in 1813 and Blücher returned to active service at the age of 71. He became a leading hero of the Germans in the struggle to end foreign domination of their lands. He was appointed full general over the Prussian field forces and clashed with Napoleon at the Battles of Lützen and Bautzen. Later he won a critical victory over the French at the Battle of Katzbach. Blücher commanded the Prussian Army of Silesia at the Battle of the Nations where Napoleon was decisively defeated. For his role, Blücher was made a field marshal and received his title of Prince of Wahlstatt. After Napoleon’s return in 1815, Blücher took command of the Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine and coordinated his force with that of the British and Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington. At the Battle of Ligny, he was severely injured and the Prussians retreated. After recovering, Blücher resumed command and joined Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, with the intervention of Blücher's army playing a decisive role in the final allied victory.
Blücher was made an honorary citizen of Berlin, Hamburg and Rostock. Known for his fiery personality, he was nicknamed Marschall Vorwärts ("Marshal Forward") by his soldiers because of his aggressive approach in warfare. Along with Paul von Hindenburg, he was the most highly decorated Prussian-German soldier in history: Blücher and Hindenburg are the only Prussian-German military officers to have been awarded the Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. A statue once stood in the square that bore his name, Blücherplatz, in Breslau (today Wrocław).
Biography
Early life
Blücher was born on 21 December 1742 in Rostock, a Baltic port in northern Germany, then in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. His father Christian Friedrich von Blücher (1696–1761), was a retired army captain, and his family belonged to the nobility and had been landowners in northern Germany since at least the 13th century. His mother was Dorothea Maria von Zülow (1702–1769), who also belonged to an old noble family from Mecklenburg.
Gebhard began his military career at the age of 16, when he joined the Swedish Army as a hussar. At the time, Sweden was at war with Prussia in the Seven Years' War. Blücher took part in the Pomeranian campaign of 1760, where Prussian hussars captured him in a skirmish. The colonel of the Prussian regiment, Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling (a distant relative), was impressed with the young hussar and had him join his own regiment.
Blücher took part in the later battles of the Seven Years' War, and as a hussar officer, gained much experience in light cavalry work. In peace, however, his ardent spirit led him into excesses of all kinds, such as the mock execution of a priest suspected of supporting Polish uprisings in 1772. As a result, he was passed over for promotion to major. Blücher submitted a rude letter of resignation in 1773, which Frederick the Great replied to with "Captain Blücher can take himself to the devil" (1773).
Blücher settled down to farming. Within 15 years, he had acquired financial independence and had become a Freemason. During Frederick the Great's lifetime, Blücher could not return to the army. However, the monarch died in 1786, and the following year, Blücher was reinstated as a major in his old regiment, the Red Hussars. He took part in the expedition to the Netherlands in 1787, and the next year was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In 1789, he received Prussia's highest military order, the Pour le Mérite, and in 1794, he became colonel of the Red Hussars. In 1793 and 1794, Blücher distinguished himself in cavalry actions against the French, and for his victory at Kirrweiler on 28 May 1794, he was promoted to major general. In 1801, he was made a lieutenant general.
Napoleonic Wars
Blücher was one of the leaders of the war party in Prussia in 1805, and he served as a cavalry general in the disastrous campaign of 1806. At the double Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Blücher fought at Auerstedt, repeatedly leading the charges of the Prussian cavalry, but without success. During the retreat of the broken armies, he commanded the rearguard composed of Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe's corps. With the capitulation of the main body after the Battle of Prenzlau on 28 October, he found his march toward the north-east blocked. He led the remnant of his corps away to the north-west. Reinforcing his numbers with a division previously commanded by Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Blücher and his new chief of staff, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, reorganised his forces into two small corps totaling 21,000 men and 44 cannons. Nevertheless, he was defeated by two French corps at the Battle of Lübeck on 6 November. The next day, trapped against the Danish frontier by 40,000 French troops, he was compelled to surrender with less than 10,000 soldiers at Ratekau. Blücher insisted that clauses be written in the capitulation document that he had had to surrender due to lack of provisions and ammunition, and that his soldiers should be honoured by a French formation along the street. He was allowed to keep his sabre and to move freely, bound only by his word of honour. He was soon exchanged for future Marshal Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, and was actively employed in Pomerania, at Berlin, and at Königsberg until the conclusion of the war.
After the war, Blücher was looked upon as the natural leader of the Patriot Party, with which he was in close touch during the period of Napoleonic domination, but his hopes of an alliance with Austria in the war of 1809 were disappointed. In this year, he was made general of cavalry. In 1812, he expressed himself so openly on the alliance of Russia with France that he was recalled from his military governorship of Pomerania and virtually banished from the court.
Following the start of the War of Liberation in the spring of 1813, Blücher was again placed in high command, and he was present at Lützen and Bautzen. During the summer truce, he worked on the organisation of the Prussian forces; when the war was resumed, he became commander-in-chief of the Army of Silesia, with August von Gneisenau and Karl von Müffling as his principal staff officers and 40,000 Prussians and 50,000 Russians under his command during the autumn campaign. The most conspicuous military quality displayed by Blücher was his unrelenting energy.
The irresolution and divergence of interests usual in Sixth Coalition armies found in him a restless opponent. Knowing that if he could not induce others to co-operate, he was prepared to attempt the task at hand by himself, which often caused other generals to follow his lead. He defeated Marshal MacDonald at the Katzbach, and by his victory over Marshal Marmont at Möckern led the way to the decisive defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig. Blücher's own army stormed Leipzig on the evening of the last day of the battle. This was the fourth battle between Napoleon and Blücher, and the first that Blücher had won.
On the day of Möckern (16 October 1813), Blücher was made a field marshal. He later earned the nickname "Marshal Forwards" due to his energetic energy. And after the victory, he pursued the French with his accustomed energy. In the winter of 1813–1814, Blücher, with his chief staff officers, was mainly instrumental in inducing the Coalition sovereigns to carry the war into France itself.
The Battle of Brienne and the Battle of La Rothière were the chief incidents of the first stage of the celebrated 1814 campaign in north-east France, and they were quickly followed by victories of Napoleon over Blücher at Champaubert, Vauchamps, and Montmirail. The courage of the Prussian leader was undiminished, though, and his victory against the vastly outnumbered French, at Laon (9 and 10 March) practically decided the fate of the campaign. However, his health had been severely affected by the strains of the previous two months, and he now suffered a breakdown, during which he lost his sight and suffered a delusion that a Frenchman had impregnated him with an elephant. Dominic Lieven wrote that the breakdown, "revealed the fragility of the coalition armies' command structure and just how much the Army of Silesia had depended on Blücher's drive, courage, and charisma.... The result was that for more than a week after the battle of Laon, the Army of Silesia... played no useful role in the war".
After this, Blücher infused some of his energy into the operations of the Prince Schwarzenberg's Army of Bohemia, and at last this army and the Army of Silesia marched in one body directly towards Paris. The victory of Montmartre, the entry of the allies into the French capital, and the overthrow of the First Empire were the direct consequences.
Blücher was in favour of punishing the city of Paris severely for the sufferings of Prussia at the hands of the French armies, but the allied commanders intervened. According to the Duke of Wellington, one of Blücher's plans involved blowing up the Jena Bridge near the Champ de Mars:
In gratitude for his victories in 1814, King Frederick William III of Prussia created Blücher Prince (Fürst) of Wahlstatt (in Silesia on the Katzbach battlefield). The king also awarded him estates near Krieblowitz (now Krobielowice, Poland) in Lower Silesia and a grand mansion at 2, Pariser Platz in Berlin (which in 1930 became the Embassy of the United States, Berlin). Soon afterward, Blücher paid a visit to England, where he was received with royal honours and cheered enthusiastically everywhere he went.
When Oxford University granted him an honorary doctorate (doctor of laws), he is supposed to have joked that if he was made a doctor, they should at least make Gneisenau an apothecary; "...for if I wrote the prescription, he made the pills."
Hundred Days and later life
After the war, Frederick William III gave Blücher properties in the area of Neustadt (now Prudnik). In November of the same year, Blücher leased Kunzendorf, Mühlsdorf, Wackenau and Achthuben to a local farmer, Hübner, in exchange for 2,000 thalers, rolls of linen cloth and yarn. His wife also moved to Kunzendorf. While living in the area of Neustadt, he financed the families of the fallen soldiers, gave a few liters of beer to the local parish priest every day, and paid a doctor from Neustadt to treat the poor. Thanks to his efforts, a health resort called "Blücher's Spring" was established in Kunzendorf (it was destroyed together with the castle as a result of the battles of the Neustadt in 1945).
After the war, Blücher retired to Silesia. However, the return of Napoleon from Elba and his entry into Paris at the start of the Hundred Days, called him back to service. He was put in command of the Army of the Lower Rhine, with Gneisenau serving again as his chief of staff. At the outset of the Waterloo Campaign of 1815, the Prussians sustained a serious defeat at Ligny (16 June), in the course of which the old field marshal lay trapped under his dead horse for several hours and was repeatedly ridden over by cavalry, his life saved only by the devotion of his aide-de-camp Count Nostitz, who threw a greatcoat over his commander to obscure Blücher's rank and identity from the passing French. As Blücher was unable to resume command for some hours, Gneisenau took command, drew off the defeated army, and rallied it. In spite of Gneisenau's distrust of Wellington, he obeyed Blücher's last orders to direct the army's retreat towards Wavre, rather than Liège, to keep alive the possibility of joining the Prussian and Wellington's Anglo-allied armies together.
After bathing his wounds in a liniment of rhubarb and garlic, and fortified by a liberal internal dose of schnapps, Blücher rejoined his army. Gneisenau feared that the British had reneged on their earlier agreements and favored a withdrawal, but Blücher convinced him to send two corps to join Wellington at Waterloo. He then led his army on a tortuous march along muddy paths, arriving on the field of Waterloo in the late afternoon. In spite of his age, the pain of his wounds, and the effort it must have taken for him to remain on horseback, Bernard Cornwell states that several soldiers attested to Blücher's high spirits and his determination to defeat Napoleon:
With the battle hanging in the balance, Blücher's army intervened with decisive and crushing effect, his vanguard drawing off Napoleon's badly needed reserves, and his main body being instrumental in crushing French resistance. This victory led the way to a decisive victory through the relentless pursuit of the French by the Prussians. The two Coalition armies entered Paris on 7 July.
Blücher remained in the French capital for a few months, but his age and infirmities compelled him to retire to his Silesian residence at Krieblowitz. At the invitation of the British government, he made another state visit to England, to be formally thanked for his army and his role in the Waterloo Campaign. When his carriage stopped on Blackheath Hill, overlooking London, he is said to have exclaimed, "What a city to sack!" He died at Krieblowitz on 12 September 1819, aged 76. After his death, an imposing mausoleum was built for his remains.
When Krieblowitz was conquered by the Red Army in 1945, Soviet soldiers broke into the Blücher mausoleum and scattered the remains. Soviet troops reportedly used his skull as a football. After 1989, some of his remains were taken by a Polish priest and interred in the catacomb of the church in Sośnica (German: Schosnitz), three km from the now Polish Krobielowice.
Assessment
Napoleon characterized him as a very brave soldier with no talent as a general, but he admired his attitude, which he described as a bull that looks all around him with rolling eyes and, when he sees danger, charges. Napoleon thought of him as stubborn and untiring, knowing no fear. He called him an old rascal who would be always get up on his feet again and be ready for the next battle as, following a sound defeat, Blücher had, almost instantly, returned to attack him vigorously again.
It was to be said later among the Prussian military that Blücher established "a Prussian way of war" that had abiding influence:
More generally, Blücher was a courageous and popular general who "had much to be proud of: energy, controlled aggression and a commitment to defeating the enemy army."
Campaigns
1760: Pomeranian Campaign (as Swedish soldier; captured by Prussia; changed sides)
Seven Years' War
1787: Expedition to the Netherlands with Red Hussars
1793–1794: French campaigns with Red Hussars
1806: Auerstedt, Pomerania, Berlin, Königsberg
1813: Lützen, Bautzen, Katzbach, Möckern, Leipzig
1814: Brienne, La Rothière, Champaubert, Vauchamps, Château-Thierry, Montmirail, Laon, Montmartre
1815: Lower Rhine (Battle of Ligny), Battle of Waterloo
Publications
His campaign journal covering the years 1793 to 1794 was published in 1796:
Kampagne-Journal der Jahre 1793 und 1794 (Berlin: Decker, 1796)
A second edition of this diary, together with some of Blücher's letters, was published in 1914:
Vorwärts! Ein Husaren-Tagebuch und Feldzugsbriefe von Gebhardt Leberecht von Blücher, introduced by General Field Marshal von der Goltz, edited by Heinrich Conrad (Munich: G. Müller, [1914])
His collected writings and letters (together with those of Yorck and Gneisenau) appeared in 1932:
Gesammelte Schriften und Briefe / Blücher, Yorck, Gneisenau, compiled and edited by Edmund Th. Kauer (Berlin-Schöneberg: Oestergaard, [1932])
Ancestry
Family and descendants
Blücher was married twice: in 1773 to Karoline Amalie von Mehling (1756–1791) and, after her death, in 1795 to Katharine Amalie von Colomb (1772–1850), sister of General Peter von Colomb. While this second marriage was without issue, by his first marriage Blücher had seven children, of whom two sons and a daughter survived infancy,
Franz Ferdinand Joachim (1778–1829), major general in the Prussian army, wounded in battle in 1813 and thereafter mentally ill;
Friedrich Gebhardt Lebrecht (1780–1834).
Bernhardine Friederike (1786–1870).
The marshal's grandson, Count Gebhard Bernhard von Blücher (1799–1875), was created Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt (Serene Highness) in Prussia, a hereditary title in primogeniture, the other members of his branch bearing the title count or countess. In 1832, he bought Raduň Castle in the Opava District and in 1847 the lands at Wahlstatt, Legnickie Pole, all of which remained in the family until the flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1945, which forced the family into exile in their mansion Havilland Hall in Guernsey, acquired by the 4th prince and his English wife, Evelyn, Princess Blücher. Later the family moved to Eurasburg, Bavaria. The present head of the House of Blücher von Wahlstatt is Nicolaus, 8th Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt (born 1932), the heir apparent is his son, hereditary count Lukas (born 1956).
Honours
He received the following orders and decorations:
Legacy
Museums
The Rhineland town of Kaub has a museum dedicated to Blücher, commemorating in particular his crossing the Rhine with the Prussian and Russian armies, on New Year's night 1813–1814, in pursuit of the French.
Statues
After Blücher's death, statues were erected to his memory at Berlin, Breslau, Rostock, and Kaub (where his troops crossed the Rhine in pursuit of Napoleon's forces in 1813).
Blücher is honoured with a bust in the Walhalla temple near Regensburg.
Locomotives and ships
In gratitude for Blücher's service, George Stephenson, the pioneering British locomotive engineer, named a locomotive after him. The small mining village a few miles from Stephenson's birth place in Wylam also bears the name Blucher in honour of him.
The Blucher was named after him, after the original ship was captured by the British and the new owners named it for him.
Three ships of the German navy have been named in honour of Blücher. The first to be so named was the corvette , built at Kiel's Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG (later renamed the Krupp-Germaniawerft) and launched 20 March 1877. Taken out of service after a boiler explosion in 1907, she ended her days as a coal freighter in Vigo, Spain.
On 11 April 1908, the Panzerkreuzer SMS Blücher was launched from the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel. This ship was sunk on 24 January 1915 in the First World War at the Battle of Dogger Bank.
The Second World War German heavy cruiser Blücher was completed in September 1939, and pronounced ready for service on 5 April 1940 after completing a series of sea trials and training exercises. The vessel was sunk four days later near Oslo during the invasion of Norway.
Film portrayals
Blücher was played by German actor Otto Gebühr in the 1929 film Waterloo. In 1932, he was the subject of the biographical film Marshal Forwards, in which he was played by Paul Wegener. It was part of a group of Prussian films released during the era.
He was portrayed by Soviet actor Sergo Zakariadze in the 1970 Soviet-Italian film Waterloo.
Miscellany
Blücher also has a boarding house named after him at Berkshire based Wellington College. The Blucher, as it is known, is a boys' house renowned for sporting and academic prowess.
A popular German saying, ran wie Blücher gehen ("to charge like Blücher"), meaning that someone is taking very direct and aggressive action, in war or otherwise, refers to Blücher. The full German saying, now obsolete, relates to the Battle of the Katzbach in 1813: "ran wie Blücher an der Katzbach gehen" ("to advance like Blücher at Katzbach"), describing vigorous, forceful behaviour.
Vasily Blyukher's last name was given to his family by a landlord in honour of Gebhard.
Near Twickenham Stadium is the Prince Blucher pub.
See also
Evelyn Princess Blücher
Blücher Order
Blucher shoe
Blüchern
Brothers von Blücher
Notes
References
Sources
— The pages numbers are given as offsets in the electronic view, these will vary from the page numbers in a physical book
Attribution
Further reading
Eyck, Erich. "Marshal Blücher" History Today (1951) 1#9 pp 41–47. online
External links
Blüchers Zug von Auerstedt bis Ratekau und Lübecks Schreckenstage (1806) – German publication about Blücher
This source gives "Black Hussars" for the name of his old regiment (altered in the 11th edition to "Red Hussars").
1742 births
1819 deaths
People from the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Field marshals of Prussia
Prussian military personnel of the Seven Years' War
Prussian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Princes in Germany
German Freemasons
Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class)
Recipients of the Iron Cross (1813)
Recipients of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
Recipients of the Gold Sword for Bravery
Grand Crosses of the Military Order of Maria Theresa
Knights Grand Cross of the Military Order of William
Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Military personnel from Rostock |
1865548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops%20%28provincial%20electoral%20district%29 | Kamloops (provincial electoral district) | Kamloops was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 1903 to 2009. The provincial constituency should not be confused with the former federal electoral district of Kamloops, which encompassed a much larger area.
For other ridings named Kamloops or in the Kamloops-Shuswap-Thompson area, please see Kamloops (electoral districts).
Kamloops voted for the winning party in every election it was contested, from the riding's creation in 1903 up until its final election in 2005.
Demographics
Electoral history
|Conservative
|Frederick John Fulton
|align="right"|517
|align="right"|51.14%
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|Liberal
|John Francis Deane
|align="right"|494
|align="right"|48.86%
|align="right"|
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,011
!align="right"|100.00%
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|- bgcolor="white"
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|Conservative
|Frederick John Fulton
|align="right"|534
|align="right"|54.88%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Liberal
|John Donald Swanson
|align="right"|439
|align="right"|45.12%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|973
!align="right"|100.00%
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|- bgcolor="white"
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|- bgcolor="white"
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|}
|Conservative
|James Pearson Shaw
|align="right"|872
|align="right"|64.40%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Liberal
|Henry Maxwell Vasey
|align="right"|482
|align="right"|35.60%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,354
!align="right"|100.00%
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|- bgcolor="white"
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|Conservative
|James Pearson Shaw
|align="right"|931
|align="right"|70.11%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Liberal
|Raymond Findlay Leighton
|align="right"|397
|align="right"|29.89%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|1,328
!align="right"|100.00%
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|- bgcolor="white"
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|- bgcolor="white"
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|}
|Liberal
|Frederick William Anderson
|align="right"|1,519
|align="right"|61.27%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|2,479
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
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|}
|Liberal
|James Reginald Colley
|align="right"|1,212
|align="right"|41.38%
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|align="right"|unknown
|Conservative
|Edwin Arthur Meighen
|align="right"|997
|align="right"|34.04%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|2,929
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
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!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Conservative
|John Ralph Michell
|align="right"|1,531
|align="right"|50.25%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Liberal
|James Reginald Colley
|align="right"|1,516
|align="right"|49.75%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|3,047
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|66
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
|Robert Henry Carson 1
|align="right"|1,836
|align="right"|44.76%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|George Richmond Williams
|align="right"|1,360
|align="right"|33.15%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|4,102
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|85
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|1 Brother of Ernest Crawford Carson, Conservative MLA for Lillooet. Both became cabinet ministers in their respective governments. Their father, Virginian Robert Carson, came west via the Sierra Nevada passes to California and, coming north for the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, homesteaded on Pavilion Mountain on one of BC's earliest ranches.
|}
|Liberal
|Robert Henry Carson
|align="right"|1,786
|align="right"|38.89%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Conservative
|Alfred Hugh Bayne
|align="right"|1,461
|align="right"|31.82%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|George Faulds Stirling
|align="right"|1,345
|align="right"|29.29%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|4,592
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|47
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|George Richmond Williams
|align="right"|1,893
|align="right"|39.01%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|4,853
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|54
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|Charles Archibald Smith
|align="right"|2,751
|align="right"|35.53%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|7,743
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|105
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
|Thomas Palmer Wilson
|align="right"|2,017
|align="right"|24.87%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
|Victor Mauro
|align="right"|1,144
|align="right"|14.11%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|8,109
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|53
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|CCF
|Ronald Edmund Green
|align="right"|2,828
|align="right"|27.15%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Liberal
|Thomas Palmer Wilson
|align="right"|1,437
|align="right"|13.80%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Progressive Conservative
|Peter John Millward
|align="right"|1,374
|align="right"|13.19%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|10,416
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|531
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
|Nicholas Harvey Kalyk
|align="right"|2,000
|align="right"|18.20%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|10,990
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|63
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
|Malcolm Bates (Mack) Bryson
|align="right"|4,860
|align="right"|28.96%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|16,783
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|120
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
|George William Mercer
|align="right"|5,691
|align="right"|24.43%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Progressive Conservative
|John Archibald Willoughby
|align="right"|3,243
|align="right"|13.92%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|Terrence Andrew Shaw
|align="right"|48
|align="right"|0.21%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|23,291
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|154
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
|Donald Norman Carter
|align="right"|4,464
|align="right"|14.84%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|30,078
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|236
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Progressive Conservative
|Murray Regis Pratt
|align="right"|2,273
|align="right"|7.62%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|29,824
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|545
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Independent
|Andrew Lapa
|align="right"|972
|align="right"|2.63%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|Christopher Keith Sumner
|align="right"|259
|align="right"|0.70%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|36,972
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|356
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|Liberal
|Norman A. Morrison
|align="right"|1,277
|align="right"|1.87%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|Independent
|Leon Mikulin
|align="right"|282
|align="right"|0.41%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|unknown
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|68,174
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|1,148
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|6 Seat increased to two members from one..
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=7|7 Later elected in the riding of Dewdney and grandson of Social Credit figure Tilly Rolston..
|}
|-
|NDP
|Arthur Charbonneau
|align="right"|8,926
|align="right"|43.67%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$26,908
|-
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|20,440
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|247
!align="right"|1.19%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|20,687
!align="right"|71.65%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|-
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|22,878
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|172
!align="right"|0.75%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|23,050
!align="right"|69.56%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|-
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|20,360
!align="right"|100.00
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|174
!align="right"|0.85
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|20,534
!align="right"|72.46
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|-
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|23,667
!align="right"|100.00
!align="right"|
|}
Sources
BC Stats - 2001 (pdf)
Results of 2001 election (pdf)
2001 Expenditures (pdf)
Results of 1996 election
1996 Expenditures (pdf)
Results of 1991 election
1991 Expenditures
Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Elections BC Historical Returns
Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia
Kamloops |
30498632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among%20Giants | Among Giants | Among Giants is a 1998 British film directed by Sam Miller and written by Simon Beaufoy. It is set in Yorkshire, and stars Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths and James Thornton. The plot came about after Beaufoy was refused permission to make a documentary on electricity pylon painters in Pembrokeshire, and converted the idea into fiction. The script predates that of The Full Monty, but only found a producer in the wake of the earlier film's success.
The practicalities of shooting atop electricity pylons, not to mention insurance difficulties, meant that a safer mock-up pylon was made for the actors. This proved unconvincing: Postlethwaite remarked that "I don't believe we are up there, and if you don't sell that shot you don't sell the rest of the pylons," and so some material was re-shot on real pylons after training from Electricity Board climbing experts.
Around the time of the film's release, the Bedford van converted for use as a camper van—dubbed "the shagging wagon" in the film—was stolen and burnt out in Sheffield.
Plot
Ray (played by Pete Postlethwaite) is a middle-aged Sheffield father of two, down on his luck. Separated from his wife, his life revolves around his close friendship with his much younger flatmate Steve (James Thornton) and a passion for climbing.
One summer, the pair and their loose gang of workers gain illicit, cash-in-hand employment painting the electricity pylons of the Yorkshire Moors. Their deadline is tight and their terms of employment precarious, but both are grateful for money and the opportunity to climb daily.
The pattern of life is interrupted by the arrival of footloose Australian backpacker Gerry (Rachel Griffiths). Attractive, and a talented climber, she and Ray fall in love and become a couple despite Steve's apparent interest.
Ray harbours some reluctance at Gerry's wild ways, but manages to overcome these to propose marriage. Gerry too is doubtful that her wandering days are over, and wonders if she can live the staid existence on offer, despite her love for Ray. Things come to a head when she and Steve, both clearly affected by the backpacking bug, are caught drinking vodka atop a tall pylon.
Abseiling recklessly to face an angry Ray, she and Steve are fired on the spot.
In a confrontation, Gerry tells Ray that she cannot commit to the relationship, nor be tied down. Meanwhile, Ray's friendship with an increasingly jealous Steve is also in trouble, and the younger man moves out of the flat, planning his own travels to India. He and Gerry have a brief sexual encounter, but back out when they recognise the wrongs of their actions.
Gerry waits on Ray's doorstep, hoping for some form of reconciliation, but is rejected. Upset, and undertaking a solo rock climb, she falls and is hospitalised with serious injuries. As Ray is being told this by an emotional Steve, the pylons are electrified as Ray's gang are still at work, and the crew are lucky to escape without electrocution.
This heralds the end of the summer's work, and their elusive paymaster Derek, the electricity company official, arrives on the scene. He is apologetic at the mistake, but cannot say when the workers will receive their pay.
The film ends on an uncertain note, with Steve departing for India, a recovered Gerry deciding to return to Australia, and Ray left standing on the Moors contemplating his scant options.
Cast
Pete Postlethwaite as Ray
Rachel Griffiths as Gerry
James Thornton as Steve
Lennie James as Shovel
Andy Serkis as Bob
Rob Jarvis as Weasel
Alan Williams as Frank
Amanda Burns as line dancer
Reception
Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film with a positive review and three stars, particularly pleased by the performances of Postlethwaite and Griffiths—"when you look at them, you always know how their characters are feeling"—and writing that the film was "thick with atmosphere."
David Stratton of Variety was less complimentary, writing that the film was not "in the same league" as The Full Monty, was predictable, and despite the efforts of the cast, suffered from "less attractive characters, and a rather dull plot."
References
External links
Among Giants at the British Film Institute
1998 films
1998 drama films
British drama films
Films set in Sheffield
Fox Searchlight Pictures films
Films with screenplays by Simon Beaufoy
1998 directorial debut films
Films directed by Sam Miller
1990s English-language films
1990s British films
English-language drama films |
63165121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Anderson%20%28bowls%29 | Claire Anderson (bowls) | Claire Anderson née Claire Walker (born 1992) is a Scottish international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
She has won the indoor National triples in 2015 and 2018, the indoor pairs in 2016, the British indoor triples in 2016 and the pairs in 2017.
In 2020, she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, she was selected as part of the team to represent Scotland at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. She participated in the women's pairs and the women's fours events. In the fours, her team won the bronze medal. One week later in the pairs partnering Emma McIntyre, she won a bronze medal, losing to Malaysia in the semi final.
Personal life
In 2019, she married former indoor world champion Stewart Anderson.
References
Scottish female bowls players
Living people
1992 births |
26891864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberg%20Castle%2C%20Aargau | Iberg Castle, Aargau | Iberg Castle () is a ruined castle located on Iberg mountain in the municipality of Riniken in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Only a few remnants of the ruins are visible.
Castle History
The castle was built in the 11th Century on the northeastern edge of Iberg Mountain. This site consisted of a main building, a gatehouse and two outbuildings. Surrounding the site was the castle moat, which should protect against attacks from the south. As there are no written records of the castle nor the inhabitants, the only information about the castle comes from archaeological investigations. The castle was abandoned around 1200 or possibly later, at the end of the 12th or at the beginning of the 13th Century when a fire destroyed the castle. During reconstruction, the moat was expanded and additional towers were added. However, the castle was abandoned before completion of work, possibly due to resistance from Murbach Abbey.
Since the area around the castle was held by the House of Habsburg and Murbach Abbey, it is likely that the castle was founded by the Habsburgs or by a Habsburg vassal.
See also
List of castles and fortresses in Switzerland
References
External links
Information about Iberg Castle from the website of Riniken
Castles in Aargau
Ruined castles in Switzerland |
35659185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Centre%20Against%20Racism | Norwegian Centre Against Racism | The Norwegian Centre Against Racism or Anti-Racism Centre (Norwegian: ; NCAR) is a non-governmental organization based in Oslo, Norway established in 1983. The organization’s main objective is to achieve a socially just society through the fight against racism and discrimination. The Centre works toward its objective through the documentation and prevention of racism, racism awareness, and the mobilization of the minority population in Norway.
Main activities
The Norwegian Centre Against Racism consists of a political management structure and three main departments:
Agenda X: An activity center for the minority youth population of Norway in which life skill workshops and summer camps are organized.
JobbX: A free job application course for minorities between the ages 16 and 26 in Norway. The course teaches how to search for jobs, create a CV, fill out job applications, and interview skills.
The Counseling Office: The office offers counseling to those who have experienced ethnic and racial discrimination.
Other involvement
The Jewish community of Oslo et al. v. Norway and the Case against Tore Tvedt
On August 19, 2000, the 'Bootboys', a Norwegian Extremist Group organized a march in Askim to commemorate Rudolf Hess, a Nazi leader. Terje Sjolie headed the march and gave a speech honouring Hess. The following year, Sjolie was charged by the Division Attorney of Oslo for violating section 135a of the Norwegian Penal Code. When appealed, the Supreme Court found that the prohibition of Nazism to be against the right to freedom of speech. The Norwegian Centre Against Racism and Jewish organizations appealed the verdict to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) stated the verdict violated articles four and six of the ICERD Convention. The CERD Committee concluded that Sjolie's statements violated the articles and it should not be protected under Norwegian freedom of speech. In relation to the court case and the Centre's appeal, in 2006, Tore Tvedt in an interview with Verdens Gang stated he wished to 'cleanse out the Jews', in addition to other anti-semitic statements. In response to the appeal of the Sjolie Case, the Norwegian Centre Against Racism and the Norwegian Jewish organizations took an effort to prevent a similar situation from occurring again despite the case being acquitted by the Borgarting Court of Appeals. Tore Tvedt received a forty five day sentence for his statements.
Tea Time
The Norwegian Centre Against Racism organized Tea Time as a community building project. Tea Time encourages Norwegian Muslims to invite their neighbours to their homes for tea to break down prejudices through the discussion of life experiences and asking questions to better understand one another. The Centre concluded the contact between the Muslim population and the 'native' Norwegian was on a downward slope and Tea Time would help create unity. The Norwegian government has helped fund the events and the Queen Sonja and Princess Mette-Marit of Norway have attended a Tea Time event as a solidarity pact with the project and its importance towards the unity of the Norwegian population. The results according to the Islamic Information Portal dictates that Tea Time has opened up 200 homes and within the first month, 300 events occurred. Negative attitudes towards Muslims in Norway as a result has fallen by 40%.
Migrant access to health care
In the 2015 Red Cross Report, the Norwegian Centre Against Racism and other humanitarian organizations, with the Norwegian Red Cross, submitted a joint appeal to the Norwegian government to give migrants access to healthcare. The appeal claims that the lack of healthcare to migrants is inconsistent with human rights principals.
NGO Alternative Report, 2015
The NGO Alternative Report is a supplemental commentary by the Norwegian Centre Against Racism and eighteen other Norwegian non-governmental organizations; in response to Norway's twenty-first and twenty-second Periodic Report submitted under the ninth article of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The States Parties of the Convention committed to anti racist principles in many aspects of society, the ninth article requires agreeing States Parties to submit a report on 'the legislative, judicial, administrative or other measures which they have adopted and which give effect to the provisions of this Convention.' Through the NGO Alternative Report, each non-governmental organization contributed their expertise and research to recommend an implementation of various humanitarian policies from grounds of determination, legal aid, unaccompanied asylum seeking minors and other asylum seekers to the elimination of all racial discrimination in Norway's approach to the Convention's principles. The Norwegian Centre Against Racism addressed the issue of cells for solitary confinement. According to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture stated the solitary confinement cells in prisons such as Trandum are 'unsuitable for detention of any kind.' In 2015, the Norwegian Centre Against Racism Trandum in which the cells were improved, however the organization criticized the prison's lack of mental health professionals to address the mental state of prisoners in order to prevent instances such as self-mutilation and suicide. Another case the Centre addressed within the Report was the twenty-first recommendation of hate speech and hate crimes. July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik, a far-right Norwegian terrorist committed the 2011 Norway attacks; the Norwegian Centre Against Racism documented an increase in attacks against visible minorities on the day as the terrorist was perpetuated as a person from Muslim descent. The report addressed the issue to further analyze of the relationship between Breivik, racism, Islamophobia, and Norway; to focus on right-wing extremism rather than resorting to race.
Criticism
Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere, written by Birte Siim, examines the ethno-cultural diversity through the feminist perspective. The author studies various 'about us' pages on non governmental organization websites to understand the organizations' scope on humanitarian issues. In reference to the Norwegian Centre Against Racism, Siim states the Centre has a limited indications of gender equality. The Centre prioritizes gender and ethnicity as relative issues; in addition, dignifies gender equality to be an issue for the European Union.
Leadership
In 2015, Permanent Staff of the Professional Policy Department were as follows:
Executive Vice President: Hatem Ben Mansour
Deputy Chairman: Mari K. Linløkken
Senior Adviser: Vivian Brattsti Sørensen
Secretary: Fida Jeries Baarli
Adviser: Maria Wasvik
References
External links
Human rights organisations based in Norway
Anti-racist organizations in Europe
Anti-racism in Norway
Organizations with year of establishment missing
Opposition to antisemitism in Europe |
52276506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vailoatai%2C%20American%20Samoa | Vailoatai, American Samoa | Vailoatai is a village in southwestern Tutuila, the main island of American Samoa. It is located on the eastern end of Leone Bay. The village is known for its beautiful malae (ceremonial village-green), nested along the island's rugged southern coast and lined by the fale tali mālō (guest houses) of its village chiefs.
The original name of the village was Tuāulu. In 1926, Tuāulu and another village called Vailoa, combined to form the Vailoa-tai village. Although the village is officially named Vailoatai according to the American Samoa Constitution, "Vailoa-tai" really only refers to the area of village towards the sea ["tai" - the side towards the sea or seaside]. Other areas of the village include Vailoa-uta ["uta"- the side towards the land or inland] and Falīlī. Together, the village as a whole is commonly referred to as Vailoa.
Vailoatai along with Taputimu, Itū'au (Malaeloa) and Fūtiga form the itūmālō (county/district) of Tuālātai. The village serves as the county's principality as the titular head of the district (fa'asuaga) is located here.
Etymology
The Vailoa name is short for "le vai na le iloa" (the unknown/unseen water) in reference to the legend of a time long ago when King Tuimanu'a and his traveling party stopped in the area and the difficulty they encountered in their search for water.
Another version is that the Vailoa name is short for "vai-vai-loloa" (land always covered with water) in reference to the Vailoa-uta area that was covered by water or a lake. The area is still prone to flooding during heavy rains due to its geography.
Pre-1900 History
Vailoatai is a historical marker of the Ātua (a political district of 'Upolu) migration to Tutuila with many Vailoa family names originating from the Ātua sub-district of Faleālili. The village honors this legacy to this day, recognizing Faleālili in its fa’alupega (ceremonial greetings).
The migration of Ātua families to Tutuila occurred after the defeat of Mālietoa by Tui Ātua in the 16th century. The political effect of this migration was the addition of six more counties to the original four counties of Tutuila to make the overall organization of the island in keeping with the 'Upolu pattern.
The village and the district became a proponent of this government (mālō) as can be seen in the old Samoan parable, the War between Tuveve and Sātele.
Fofō ma Aitūlagi (an honorific that is still used to refer to the entire western district) became le Falelima i Sisifo (the five houses of the west), which includes Ālātaua, Fofō, Leāsina (Aitūlagi), Tuālā-tai and Tuālā-uta (Ma’upū) counties.
Sua ma Vāifanua (an honorific that is still used to refer to the entire eastern district) became le Falelima i Sasa’e (the five houses of the east), which includes Itū'au (ma Nofoa), Ma’opūtasi (Launiusaelua), Sā’ole, Sua and Vāifanua counties.
The HTC Tuā'olo, of the Ma'opūtasi district, is the protector of the salutation, Faleagafulu (the ten houses of Tutuila); this was a gift Queen Salamāsina gave to the Tui Manu’a during her installation as Samoa's first Tafa'ifā (holder of the four pāpā titles). The Manu'a king would then bestow the title upon the HTC to thank PC Mauga for his hospitality during a visit to Tutuila on his return trip home.
The raising of the U.S. flag over Tutuila saw the end of Ātua's influence over the island, much to the relief of local chiefs who were tired of the endless wars in 'Upolu. They did not want to remain under the control of 'Upolu paramount chiefs, Germany or Great Britain. PC's Sātele of Vailoa and Fuimaono of Aoloau/Vailoa were two of the signatories to the Tutuila Deed of Cession in 1900.
Fa'alupega: Ceremonial Greetings of VailoataiMethodist Church in Samoa (1985), O Le Tusi Fa'alupega o Samoa Atoa, Page 249
Afio mai lau afioga Sātele o le alo o Salamāsina
Afio mai alo o Fānene
Susū mai le sa'o o Tuiāsina ma le 'āiga sā Tuiāsinā
Alala mai lau tōfā Maiavatele, ma le fofoga ole Availopā
Mamalu mai le 'āiga Faletolu ma Faleālili
Alo o Fānene (Te'o & Tuatagaloa), Le 'Āiga Sā Tuiāsinā (Ki, Fui, & Sama), Faletolu (Maiavatele, Availopā & Fa’aua'ā), and Faleālili (Fau, Seumālō, & Tuiloma).
Although the above is the only referenced/cited fa'alupega the contributor has for the village, it is not the one currently in use. Refer to a chief of the village for the correct fa'alupega.
20th Century
In 1907, the village celebrated the opening of its first Christian chapel with the London Missionary Society (LMS). LMS missionaries note that an elaborate feast marked the special occasion with attendance by dignitaries and family members from around the island.
In 1915, the Manu'a islands suffered severe damage from a hurricane, and the village hosted (among other villages in Tutuila) many residents from Manu'a while relief efforts took place there.
In 1926, the three-part village council of Vailoa (-uta), Tuāulu, and Falīlī decided to consolidate the village to where it is now called Vailoa-tai.
In 1934, the Marist Le'alā School for boys opened up in the area between Vailoatai and Taputimu. The school, however, is no longer in existence.
During World War II, U.S. Marines built an airstrip that spanned Leone, Vailoa-uta and Taputimu. The whole area was leased by the American Samoa Government and the federal government to construct a back-up airstrip for the main airport at Tafuna during World War II. It was started early in 1943 - probably in January. It was completed on 30 September 1943.
Unfortunately, the airstrip could not be used due to prevailing winds, which made take-offs difficult. Only two planes were able to make use of the airstrip before it was abandoned. Government facilities and residential units have since been built over the old airstrip.
In September 1965, Leone High School was opened in the Vailoa-uta area of the village. The school was designed for students from the Western District and transfer students from Manu'a. Village elders note that the malae of Vailoa was once located where the high school stands today.
In May 1968, the government radio station WVUV-AM moved from Utulei and began operations at its new quarters in Vailoatai, next to Leone High School.
In the early 70's, Governor Haydon pushed to privatize the station despite opposition from the Fono. By 1975, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the application by Radio Samoa, Ltd. to take over WVUV-AM from the government.
By the late 90's, the old station had gone off air and is now defunct. South Seas Broadcasting, Inc. bought what was left of the station, and in 2008, opened WVUV-FM at the Aitūlagi Building office complex in Tafuna.
Flag Day
Vailoatai has been a proud participant in the territory's annual celebration and commemoration of the April 17, 1900 raising of the American flag, performing the siva ma pese (song and dance) portion of the Flag Day event in 1988, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2012 and 2014.
The village regularly participates in the Flag Day's cricket (men's and women's) games and fautasi (traditional Samoan long boat) races.
However, the last year the village fautasi, the Fa'asaulala, participated in the annual race was 2014.
The village also performed its siva ma pese program for the Independent State of Samoa's celebration of their independence day in 2010 and 2012.
Founding Legend
In the book, Ole Manuō o Tala Tu’u ma Fisaga o Tala Ave, the village of Vailoa defeated the cannibal king Tuife’ai with the assistance of two brothers from Ātua, High Chiefs Lutu and Solosolo. The two brothers then sailed further east and established themselves as Sa'ousoali'i of Launiusaelua.
Tuāulu was specifically set aside to prepare human sacrifices for Tuife'ai during his reign. A forceful blow was applied to the back of the head, or tuāulu, using a traditional heavy war club like the talavalu.
In 1926, Tuāulu and Vailoa combined to form the Vailoatai village.
Tuife'ai is a title that has many tala (legends) from Manu'a, Tutuila and 'Upolu. Sunia notes that the title goes back as far as 500 A.D., and that the Tuife'ai of that time is responsible for the first failed invasion of the Manu'a kingdom. The title established familial ties with the Mālietoa in the 13th or 14th century.
Historical Sites
Asotau is the name of the village malae. It is a historical marker of the Tafa'ifā I’amafana's failed invasion of Manu’a in the 18th century. The counties of Sua and Vāifanua rallied under PC Le’iato to expel I’amafana's forces from Tuālātai, where the king sought refuge under the protection of his relative, PC Sātele, during his retreat from Manu’a.
After a battle ensued, the conflict was resolved peacefully via a traditional style intercession known as a seumālō. King I’amafana and his forces returned to 'Upolu, and the village took the words ‘aso tau’ (Day of War) as the name of its malae to commemorate the event.
If you look closely, you'll notice that the layout of the malae was modeled after that of a Samoan chiefly guesthouse. Each of the faletalimālō at the perimeter of the malae is like each of the posts of a guest house, just on a larger scale.
Notable people
Adele Salamāsina Sātele-Galea’i (March 25, 1951 - August 4, 2012). Dr. Sātele-Galea'i was the former Director of the Office of Manpower Resources (today, Dept. of Human Resources) from 1983-1985, and President of the American Samoa Community College from 2000-2007.
Elisara, Le'alā (1936-2019). Museum Curator for the Jean P. Haydon Museum in Fagatogo. Remembered for her efforts to encourage local arts. In 1999, Governor Tauese Sunia appointed her as Director of Arts Council.
Eni Fa'aua'ā Hunkin Faleomavaega Jr. (August 15, 1943 – February 22, 2017) was an American Samoan politician who served as the territory's lieutenant governor and congressional delegate.
Fa’aua'ā Kataferu Elisara, High Talking Chief (HTC).
Fagaoalii Sātele Sunia (c. 1946 – September 5, 2015) was an American Samoan literacy advocate and educator. She served as the First Lady of American Samoa from January 1997 to March 2003 during the tenure of her husband, former Governor Tauese Sunia, who died in office in 2003.
Galumalemana William "Bill" Guthrie Sātele, High Chief (HC), was a longtime businessman who also served as the Chief Revenue Officer, Budget Officer, Director of Parks & Recreation, Historic Preservation Office and Fono liaison for the American Samoa Government (ASG); served three terms as the Faipule for the Tuālā-tai district.
Lopā Seti, High Talking Chief (HTC), Member, HR, Tuālā-tai 1995-2000. US Army Retired. Both he and Representative Avegalio Aigamaua met with Samoa's Deputy Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele and the leader of the opposition, Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese, to obtain support for changing that country's name back to Western Samoa in 1997.
Lopā Dr. Tiamu, High Talking Chief (HTC), Member, HR, Tuālā-tai, 1967-68. Dr. Lopā received his training in dentistry at the Central Medical School in Fiji, returning in 1957.
Maiavatele Pouono Hunkin, High Talking Chief (HTC), Senator, Tuālā-tai County, 1978-80. Maiava was the composer of some of the most popular Samoan songs such as OkaOka La’u Honey, Manu o le Vaveao and Le Itumalo Talofa. He taught public schools in both American and Western Samoa.
Tuatagaloa Eni Hunkin, High Chief (HC), One of the Tuālā-tai delegates to the Am. Samoa 1960 Constitution Convention that addressed many important issues to include U.S. citizenship for the people of the territory.
Tuiā Laumoli, (1948-2001), High Chief (HC), Member, HR, Tuālā-tai, 1987-94.
Tuiāsina Le'aeno Reed (1924-1988), High Chief (HC), Member, HR, Tuālā-tai, 1965-66. One of the Tuālā-tai delegates to the Am. Samoa 1960 Constitution Convention. Later President of the Senate 1971-72, as Senator for Itu'au County under the Le'aeno matai title. Led the effort to create a retirement program for ASG employees.
Notable Landmarks
Faleāpoi Point
Leone High School is a senior high school in Vailoatai and Leone, Western District, American Samoa.
Le'alā Shoreline National Natural Landmark is and was designated in 1972.
Le'alā Sliding Rock is a natural rock formation between Vailoatai and Taputimu, which is a scenic landmark as well as a natural playground or slide. It is located in Tuālātai in the Western District of Tutuila.
Papafa'ase'e Cove
Pupuāloa Point
Vailoatai Crater
Demographics
References
Villages in American Samoa
Tutuila |
41068628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar%20Tomov%20%28politician%29 | Aleksandar Tomov (politician) | Aleksandar Trifonov Tomov () (born 27 April 1954) is a Bulgarian politician, economist, and academic.
Biography
Education
In the 1970s, Tomov was a student at the UNWE and Leningrad University. He completed his primary, secondary and university education with excellent marks. In 1984, Tomov earned a doctoral degree in the field of economics. Tomov has made specializations in political science and macroeconomics in Sofia and London.
Academic career
In addition to his political career, Tomov has also worked as a professor and lecturer in the political science department (of which he is one of the founders in 1985) at Sofia University. He has further taught courses at the Karl Marx Institute of Economics in Sofia. Tomov has authored six books. In 1995, Tomov was appointed as the director of the EastWest Institute in New York City for a period of three years.
Politics
In 1990, Tomov was elected to the 7th Grand National Assembly of Bulgaria as a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. He was also a member of the 36th and 38th National Parliaments. Tomov served as Deputy-Prime Minister in the Dimitar Popov government, the first one since the collapse of the communist system in 1989.
In 1993, he established the Citizens' Union for the Republic (Bulgarian: Гражданско обединение за републиката), which was initially not envisioned as a political party. However, it evolved into the Bulgarian Euro-Left in 1997.
Tomov was formerly vice-chairman of the supreme council (Bulgarian: Висш съвет) of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and was among the founders of the Bulgarian Euro-Left in 1997, eventually being elected (and reelected in 2000) as its leader after receiving more votes than his main opponent Elena Poptodorova. The Euro-Left officially became a political party in 1998. He has been critical of the delayed social democratization of the BSP party in the 1990s.
In 1996, Tomov was a candidate to become President of Bulgaria (with Lyudmil Marinchevski as his running mate) and finished in fourth place, earning 3.16% of the votes cast.
Since 2003, Tomov has been the leader of the Bulgarian Social Democracy party. In 2013, his party expressed support for the "Bulgarian Spring" (Bulgarian: Българска пролет) protest movement.
Kremikovtzi AD
In 2009, Tomov came under legal scrutiny due to allegedly abusing his position during his time as chairman of the managerial board of Kremikovtzi. In early 2011, the Sofia City Court found Tomov guilty of siphoning off money (15 million leva) from Kremikovtzi, imposing a prison sentence. In 2013, the Appellate Court decided that the case needs a review and returned it to the court of first instance, with the trial recommencing in April 2014. In February 2015, the Sofia City Court declared Tomov not culpable.
Sport
Tomov is also well known for his involvement in various capacities with the CSKA Sofia football club. He was instrumental in bringing Indian businessman Pramod Mittal to Bulgaria in relation to a number of Kremikovtzi deals. Mittal eventually became the owner of the "armymen" in December 2006 before selling the club to Titan Sport EAD in early 2009. Tomov served as the president of CSKA Sofia between 5 December 2006 and 5 June 2008 as well as from July 2008 to 9 April 2009.
In the summer of 2008, Tomov was blamed by some sections of the reds' supporters due to the team not receiving a license for European club competitions. In the summer of 2013, he was credited with playing a vital role in preventing the team's likely bankruptcy. Tomov was the main CSKA Sofia shareholder and de facto owner (with Lira Investment providing the main part of the financing) of the club between the second half of 2013 and April 2015. He has been against the idea of a deliberate declaration of insolvency and the creation of a new unofficial successor company as a solution to the debts accumulated by the club.
Personal life
Tomov has three children named Rada, Lidia and Alexander. His wife Kalina is an expert on psychology. Tomov's sister, Tatyana, is an academic at Sofia University whose area of expertise covers the social policies of European countries. One of Tomov's great-grandfathers perished in the April Uprising.
In addition to his native Bulgarian, he is also conversant in English and Russian. In an interview with the press, Tomov identified drawing as one of his hobbies. Since February 2015, Tomov has a profile on Facebook.
Honours
Churchill award (1999) - for his contribution to the development of Bulgaria - United Kingdom relations.
References
Books
External links
Official website
1954 births
Living people
Politicians from Sofia
Bulgarian Socialist Party politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Bulgaria)
Government ministers of Bulgaria
Academic staff of Sofia University
University of National and World Economy alumni
Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics alumni
Candidates for President of Bulgaria |
45366104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotilde%20%28opera%29 | Clotilde (opera) | Clotilde is an opera () in two acts by Carlo Coccia. The Italian-language libretto was by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered on 8 June 1815 at Teatro San Benedetto, Venice.
Clotilde was especially appreciated for the usage of the chorus. A contemporaneous Italian writer wrote: "Nobody after Mayer has understood how a composer can take advantage of a sensible usage of the chorus. Coccia did it in this opera, avoiding those screams heard too often before". Francesco Regli in its Dizionario biografico stated: "With Clotilde Coccia taught how a chorus has to be written".
Clotilde was performed also in Paris in 1821, but it was unsuccessful.
In modern times, this opera was revived for the first time at the Teatro Coccia in Novara, on 7 November 2003. This production was recorded and published on CD. In his review of the Novara performance, which used different versions of the opera, the Italian music critic Giangiorgio Satragni noted "the resounding of features of Rossini's style" and emphasized, among the pieces of the opera, Emerico's cavatina "Soave all'anima" and Clotilde's aria "Deh! Tu guida", but judged the work on the whole as "implacable nineteenth-century operatic routine".
Roles
Synopsis
Act 1
The marriage between the Count Emerico and Clotilde has been arranged, but the two betrothed have never seen personally each other. Emerico's squire Sivaldo has been entrusted with the task of leading Clotilde to the castle, but he tries to deceive Emerico, replacing Clotilde with his sister Isabella. Clotilde should be killed by the courier Tartufo, but Tartufo does not have the courage to carry out the crime and allows Clotilde to flee disguised as peasant. Clotilde asks for help the inhabitants of a nearby village and obtains hospitality from the innkeeper Jacopone, who plans to abuse her.
Short time later, Emerico arrives in the inn, where a party for him and his bride is being prepared. Emerico has made Isabella's acquaintance, convinced that she be Clotilde, and is disappointed by her haughtiness. During the preparations for the party, the same Clotilde plays the role of the bride: she is introduced as a cousin of Jacopone but does not find the strength of revealing her true identity. However, Emerico is enthralled by her gentleness and gives her a rich present. Isabella recognizes Clotilde, is afraid that the deceit be discovered and drags Emerico away
Act 2
Clotilde finds the courage to reveal the trickery sending a letter to Emerico by means of Tartufo, then the same Tartufo and Jacopone give evidence in favour of Clotilde. Sivaldo and Isabella try without success to convince Emerico that the true cheat is Clotilde. Emerico is dubious and cannot make a decision. Finally, Clotilde notes that Emerico is wearing a locket that she had sent to him before knowing him. Clotilde defies Isabella to tell what the locket contains and when Isabella does not manage to do that, while Clotilde does, all becomes clear.
Emerico would like to punish Sivaldo and Isabella but Clotilde, happy for the recovered love, asks him to forgive them.
Recordings
References
External links
Libretto
Operas by Carlo Coccia
Italian-language operas
Operas
1815 operas
Libretti by Gaetano Rossi |
43621496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Southeast%20Missouri%20State%20Redhawks%20football%20team | 2010 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team | The 2010 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team represented Southeast Missouri State University as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Tony Samuel, the Redhawks compiled an overall record of 9–3 with a mark of 7–1 in conference play, winning the OVC title. Southeast Missouri State received an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Football Championship playoffs, where the Redhawks lost in second round to the eventual national champion, Eastern Washington. The team played home games at Houck Stadium in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2006 was the first and only winning season in Samuel's tenure as Southeast Missouri State's head coach. It was also the Redhawks's first winning season since 2002 and first-ever FCS playoff appearance.
Schedule
Personnel
Coaching staff
References
Southeast Missouri State
Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football seasons
Ohio Valley Conference football champion seasons
Southeast Missouri State
Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football |
296848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Donald%20Wade | John Donald Wade | John Donald Wade (September 28, 1892 – October 9, 1963) was an American biographer, author, essayist, and teacher.
Early life
Wade was born in Marshallville, Georgia. His father was a country doctor who served as a surgeon in the Civil War. Wade was descended from the first governor of Georgia, John Adam Treutlen.
Wade received his bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia in 1914. While a student there, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa. Wade later earned a master's degree from Harvard University in 1915. Since Harvard didn't have a concentration in American literature at that time, Wade completed his Doctorate at Columbia University in 1924, studying under Dr. Trent. He served in World War I.
Career
Wade was a teacher at the University of Georgia between 1919 and 1926 where he was a key founder of the graduate program in American literature.
Wade developed an interest in biography and published Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study in the Development of Culture in the South in 1925 and published a biography of Methodist Church leader John Wesley in 1930. His research for his Wesley biography was financed by a Guggenheim grant and took him to England to gather information. Wade researched and wrote 116 biographical sketches for the Dictionary of American Biography and served as an assistant editor for that work in 1927 and 1928.
By 1930 Wade was teaching at Vanderbilt University as a member of the English faculty and became involved with the Southern Agrarians. Wade is probably best remembered for his contribution to the Agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand, which was named by Wade and published that year. His contribution to the manifesto was "The Live and Death of Cousin Lucius," an exemplum of the Agrarian life. He also contributed to the Agrarian follow-up to "I"ll Take My Stand" with his essay "Of the Mean and Sure Estate."
He returned to the University of Georgia to be the head of the Department of Language and Literature, a position he held for many years.
In the 1930s and 1940s Wade wrote critical essays on Southern culture and biographical sketches of Southern literary and political figures that were published in learned journals such as the Virginia Quarterly. He also continued to support his agrarian ideals in his writing.
In 1941 he co-edited Masterworks of World Literature. In 1950 he retired from active teaching but continued to work as founding editor of The Georgia Review and was active in his local community, forming the Marshallville Foundation to foster his home town. He became a horticulturist and planted many gardens with plants from all over the world.
Death
Wade died on October 9, 1963, in Marshallville.
External links
John Donald Wade at New Georgia Encyclopedia
20th-century American biographers
American book editors
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
University of Georgia faculty
Vanderbilt University faculty
University of Georgia alumni
Harvard University alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Southern Agrarians
1892 births
1963 deaths
People from Macon County, Georgia
Writers of American Southern literature |
73290631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leocarpus%20fragilis | Leocarpus fragilis | Leocarpus fragilis is a myxogastrid or acellular slime mold of the genus Leocarpus. L.fragilis can be found on leaf litter, typically in temperate and boreal forests where the ground litter is acidic. It has been found on all continents except Antarctica but is most commonly found in the northern hemisphere. Its round fruiting bodies are a recognizable yellow, orange-brown.
References
Physaraceae |
72079905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuccari%20%28surname%29 | Zuccari (surname) | Zuccari is an Italian surname. Notable people with the name include:
the surname of a family of notable Italian painters living in the 16th century:
Ottaviano Zuccari and his sons
Taddeo Zuccari (1529-1566) and
Federico Zuccari (c. 1540-1609);
Anna Radius Zuccari (1846–1918), Italian writer
Carlo Zuccari (1703-1792), Italian composer and violist
Federigo Zuccari (1783 –1817), Italian astronomer
See also
Zuccari (disambiguation)
Zuccaro |
17526884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira%20Nagar%2C%20Chennai | Indira Nagar, Chennai | Indira Nagar () is a neighbourhood in Chennai, India.
The region was developed by the Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It contains residential plots, apartments, commercial complexes, large arterial roads, school zones, bus terminals, and slums.
Indira Nagar is an example of a government-planned town established by the TNHB. In comparison to other TNHB developments such as Anna Nagar, K.K. Nagar, Ashok Nagar, and Besant Nagar, Indira Nagar is relatively small-scale. The Indira Nagar station, part of the Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System, serves the neighbourhood. Hindu Senior Secondary School is located in the area.
Neighbourhoods in Chennai |
67603547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich%20Savings%20Bank%20Building | Greenwich Savings Bank Building | The Greenwich Savings Bank Building, also known as the Haier Building and 1356 Broadway, is an office building at 1352–1362 Broadway in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Constructed as the headquarters of the Greenwich Savings Bank from 1922 to 1924, it occupies a trapezoidal parcel bounded by 36th Street to the south, Sixth Avenue to the east, and Broadway to the west. The Greenwich Savings Bank Building was designed in the Classical Revival style by York and Sawyer.
The exterior, wrapping around the three sides of the building, consists of a base of rusticated stone blocks, atop which are Corinthian-style colonnades. Structurally, the building consists of a steel frame. Inside is an elliptical banking room with limestone Corinthian columns, granite walls, a marble floor, and a coffered, domed ceiling with a large skylight. The bronze tellers' screens contain sculptures of Minerva (symbolizing wisdom) and Mercury (representing commerce).
The Greenwich Savings Bank Building opened in May 1924 and operated as the headquarters of that bank until 1981. Afterward, the building was occupied by other banks for two decades. The building was purchased by Chinese appliance company Haier in 2001 and soon afterward was renamed for Haier. The banking space was turned into an event space called Gotham Hall, while Haier occupied the basement through 2014. The building's facade and lobby were made New York City designated landmarks in 1992, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Site
The Greenwich Savings Bank Building is on the northern sidewalk of 36th Street, running the entire block between Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the east and Broadway to the west, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building's land lot covers . The building has a frontage of about on Broadway, on 36th Street, and on Sixth Avenue. Because Broadway runs diagonally to the Manhattan street grid, the land lot is trapezoidal, with the western facade on Broadway running at an irregular angle.
Prior to the construction of the Greenwich Savings Bank Building, the two-story Sheridan Building occupied the site. The land was owned by the Van Ingen estate immediately before the bank had purchased it in 1921. The neighborhood had become dense after World War I with the construction of hotels and stores, as well as the development of what is now the Garment District of Manhattan. The site to the south once contained the New York Herald Building, the Renaissance Revival-style headquarters of the New York Herald. Because the Herald Building had a loading dock from 36th Street, the bank's design does not include any entrances from 36th Street to alleviate congestion there.
Architecture
The Greenwich Savings Bank Building was designed by bank architects York and Sawyer in a Classical Revival style, with a limestone and sandstone exterior. It was built by Marc Eidlitz & Son. The building consists of six stories above a basement, with a steel-framed internal superstructure. When the building was erected in the 1920s, freestanding bank buildings in New York City were becoming more prevalent, and many such structures were being constructed with classical design details. According to the New York City Department of City Planning, the building has a gross floor area of .
At the building's opening, The Wall Street Journal dubbed it "a wonderful piece of architectural work". Architect magazine wrote, "it seems worth while to express appreciation of all those concerned in the construction of the bank and in the furnishing of all its varied details".
Facade
Wrapping around three sides of the building, the facade consists of a base of rusticated pink granite walls, above which are Corinthian-style columns. The main facade of the Greenwich Savings Bank Building is on Broadway, where there is a projecting rusticated podium, a portico, and an attic. The Sixth Avenue facade, at the rear, is similar to the Broadway facade but is slightly narrower because the Sixth Avenue frontage is the shortest of the three street frontages. The building is tall, equal to a six- or seven-story building, but when completed it was smaller than many neighboring buildings.
Base
At the center of the Broadway facade is an entryway with a molded surround approached by four steps made of pink granite. The entrance doorway contains a double door made of bronze with classical reliefs. The soffits under the doorway have square and rectangular molded panels. An electric sign is hung beneath the top of the entryway. An eared tablet with the carved words is inscribed above the top of the entryway, flanked by carved griffins. There were once metal plaques with the owner's name on either side of the doorway. On either side of the entryway are three window openings. The opening closest to the entrance on each side contains bronze frames. The two outer openings on each side contain iron grills over them, surrounded by brass frames.
On 36th Street, there are ten windows, grouped as five each on the west and east ends of the facade. The eight inner windows contain iron grills above them. There are no doors on 36th Street.
On Sixth Avenue, the base is largely similar to that on Broadway. There is a molded doorway and bronze double doors near the center of this facade. Because the site slopes upward slightly toward the east, there are no stairs in front of this doorway. In addition, the eared tablet above the Sixth Avenue facade instead bears the carved word . There are three windows on either side of the doorway, the outer two of which have iron grills and the inner of which has bronze frames. South of the projecting podium is a single window at ground level. Because of the narrower width, there is no corresponding window on the northern end of the Sixth Avenue facade, which instead has an employee entrance and bronze gate.
Colonnades
All three sides contain fluted Corinthian columns that measure about high and about in diameter. On Broadway, above the first-floor podium, is a Corinthian octastyle, a portico with eight columns. Behind the colonnade, the ceiling of the portico is divided into coffers. Behind the colonnade are rusticated blocks, as well as three large arched windows topped by archivolts. There are antae and unfluted pilasters on either side of the octastyle. The bottom of the colonnade consists of a dado, which corresponds to the second floor and is topped by a fret design. The dado contains five rectangular windows: three corresponding to the arches above them and two outside the colonnade. An entablature, with an architrave and frieze, runs above the columns and pilasters, wrapping around to the other two facades. Above that is a cornice with modillions, as well as cymatium containing lions' heads.
On 36th Street, the colonnade consists of nine engaged columns, which are all fluted. To either side of the engaged columns are unfluted pilasters. A dado runs across the second floor and contains eight windows, four on each end of the 36th Street facade. On each end, the windows are arranged as one between the pilasters and three beside the outermost fluted columns. When the Greenwich Savings Bank Building had been designed, the bank's building committee had decided it would be better to articulate the 36th Street facade with engaged columns instead of flat pilasters.
On Sixth Avenue, the colonnade is also an octastyle, and the ceiling of the portico is coffered. However, the arrangement of windows behind the colonnade is different from that on Broadway. Within the dado, there are four rectangular windows, two each on the extreme ends of the facade. Above is a single arched window with an archivolt, which is flanked by a pair of rectangular windows. There are antae and unfluted pilasters only on the south side of the octastyle.
Attic
On Broadway, the attic is faced with smooth limestone. The attic once contained letters with the bank's name on them, which were replaced by those of later owners. A long inscription above the attic on Broadway welcomed bank visitors. This inscription was written by the Rev. Russell Bowie, who at the time of the building's opening served as Grace Church's rector. A similar modification has been made on the Sixth Avenue facade, which also had letters with the bank's name on them. There is also a covered inscription on the Sixth Avenue facade, a sentence about the building's founding and previous locations. Above the attic is a denticulated cornice.
On 36th Street, the attic contains raised panels on the outer ends of that facade. The panels are aligned with the pilasters in the building's intermediate story. Three windows were installed on the attic sometime between 1967 and 1971 to allow computers to be installed in the attic. One window is installed between each set of pilasters, while the third window is installed above the leftmost column of the colonnade.
Interior
Vestibules
On the west side of the ground floor, leading from Broadway, is a vestibule shaped as an irregular octagon. This vestibule has a travertine marble floor that is bordered by Belgian black marble. A strip of black-and-white tesserae and a double strip of black tesserae run around the black marble floor. The center of the floor surface has a lozenge measuring , which has a depiction of a black-tesserae triton within a green-and-white marble background and a black-and-white tesserae border. The walls have wrought bronze radiator grills. Above the double door facing Broadway is a transom window with five panes. The ceiling is made of plaster and has shallow coffers. The vestibule on the east side of the ground floor, leading from Sixth Avenue, has nearly identical materials to the Broadway vestibule, but with taller dimensions. The Sixth Avenue vestibule is also cruciform and symmetrical, rather than being irregularly shaped.
From the Broadway entrance vestibule, a revolving door leads east to another octagonal space, a foyer. This room has a symmetrical shape consisting of alternating longer and shorter sides, with the longer sides corresponding to the four cardinal directions. The foyer floor is made of travertine with tesserae. The center of the floor surface has a medallion showing a brass ship on green marble waves, surrounded by the name of the bank. The foyer has a limestone wall interspersed with sandstone to create a warm tone. While the west wall has the revolving door, the walls to the north, south, and east have heavy decorative bronze grills. The shorter walls, which correspond to the intercardinal directions (northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast), contain radiator grills, above which are capitalized inscriptions with gold fillings. The ceiling design consists of a square at the center, with a rosette as well as a hexagonal lantern hanging from the rosette.
South of the Broadway foyer is an irregularly shaped space that was used as a comptroller's office. The comptroller's office has a coffered ceiling, moldings on the walls, two stone columns, and doorways from the foyer and banking room. North of the foyer is a stair hall with a coffered ceiling and smooth stone walls, which leads to a staircase with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The western wall of this stair hall has a vestibule leading to the boardroom; this vestibule has wooden walls and a plaster ceiling. In both the stair hall and the boardroom vestibule, the floor is tiled similarly to in the Broadway foyer.
Banking room
The elliptical banking room was designed to maximize space usage in the trapezoidal lot. It is accessed from the Broadway vestibule on the west and the Sixth Avenue vestibule on the east. Its location was intended to allude to a central working space. This room measures about long on its west–east axis and wide on its north–south axis. The floors are paved in marble with numerous contrasting colors, in a pattern intended to resemble antique pavement. The borders are made of black and buff mosaic tiles, and the floor tiles are divided into panels with sea-green lozenges and black mosaic at their centers. The tellers' counter, at the center of the room, is made of black and gold marble, surmounted by a bronze counter screen with a gold finish. The tellers' counter is supported by numerous sculptural pairs of Minerva (symbolizing wisdom) and Mercury (representing commerce), which are regularly spaced. Around the perimeter of the room are four desks and four counters atop bronze brackets, with beveled-glass tabletops. There are also eleven benches with decorative bronze legs.
A podium made of rusticated limestone and sandstone runs around the banking room. Eight sconces are mounted on the podium, four each on the north and south walls. The west and east walls have a Corinthian loggia atop the podium, similar to the exterior. There are paneled bronze double doors under either loggia, each of which is flanked by a pair of bronze torch lamps. The columns and antae above each set of doors are made of limestone, and the capitals of each column are fabricated of cast stone. The columns rise about . Between each pair of columns are bronze balustrade panels that contain diagonal "X" patterns. Behind these loggias are the Broadway and Sixth Avenue mezzanines. On both the north and south walls, between the loggias, are five blind window openings above the fret. Two of these blind openings are topped by tablets with inscriptions relating to thrift.
A cast stone frieze, with motifs of swags and a candelabra, runs near the top of the wall. An entablature with another inscription runs just beneath the ceiling. The ceiling is composed of a coffered plaster dome hanging from a steel frame. At the center of the ceiling is a light diffuser with a bronze chandelier hanging from it. The space is illuminated by skylight measuring long and wide. Several small trolleys were hung from the ceiling to assist in cleaning the skylight. The skylight is about above the floor at its highest point.
Other spaces
Besides the foyers, vestibules, and banking room, the Greenwich Savings Bank Building is composed of a basement and six office stories. The basement was described as containing lockers, toilets, storage, and other rooms primarily found in a regular savings bank. The vault was reached directly from the stair hall on the north side of the Broadway vestibule, with a coin lift and a stair down to vault level. The vault door, weighing with a thickness of , was designed by Frederick S. Holmes and was the second-largest in the United States at the time of the building's completion, surpassed only by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's vault. There was a telephone and small emergency exit in the vault. The vault still existed by the 2000s, but the layout of the basement had changed drastically.
Two mezzanines were placed at the second story, one each on Broadway and Sixth Avenue. The bank officers' workspaces were placed on the Broadway mezzanine, since the officers did not require immediate access to the banking facility. The north wall of the Broadway mezzanine connects to the barrel-vaulted staircase that leads from the Broadway vestibule. The space has three walls with wooden wainscoting on the north, south, and west, while the east wall overlooks the banking hall loggia. The wainscoting only rises to the lower edge of the large arched windows that face Broadway. The remainder of the walls are clad in rusticated stone, with metal grilles in the window opening, while the ceiling has coffers. There is a room with a fireplace, wood-paneled walls, and doors to other rooms on the south side of the Broadway mezzanine. The president's room was in the southwest corner of that mezzanine, while the committee room adjoined it.
The Sixth Avenue mezzanine is similar but simpler in design to the Broadway mezzanine. The windows lack grills, the ceiling lacks coffers, and the north and south walls lead to other rooms, elevators, and fire stairs.
The other floors contained various spaces. There was a kitchen and pantry on the north side of the sixth floor, above the banking room, which served two officers' dining rooms facing Broadway and an employees' dining room facing Sixth Avenue. There was also a rest area for the clerks. The dining rooms and rest area opened onto the rooftop where there was an open space for employee leisure. There was also a dormitory area for workers. By the 2000s, the third and fifth stories were used only for storage. The fourth story had one small office and the sixth story had several offices, but these were completely redesigned from their original detail.
History
The Greenwich Savings Bank was founded in 1833 and was originally headquartered at 10–12 Carmine Street near Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The original headquarters was relocated in 1839 to 11 Sixth Avenue. The bank further relocated in 1846 to 41 Sixth Avenue and in 1854 to 71-75 Sixth Avenue. In 1892 the bank moved to the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 16th Street, further north in Chelsea. By the 1920s, development was moving northward in Manhattan, and the bank wanted a new site that was centrally located, in anticipation of further growth.
Development
In early 1921, the Greenwich Savings Bank purchased land at Broadway and 36th Street in midtown for about $1.4 million. The next year, a building committee had been organized to determine a design for the structure. The committee had decided to create a building with many elements in the Corinthian order. Furthermore, as the bank's headquarters had been on Sixth Avenue for nearly all of its history, the committee planned a facade to face Sixth Avenue as well. By early 1922, York and Sawyer were hired as architects while Marc Eidlitz & Son were awarded the general contract. York and Sawyer might have been selected because of their previous work with the bank's officers, albeit not necessarily in a banking context.
Work could not begin until existing tenants' leases expired on May 1, 1922. Afterward, demolition commenced on the existing structures at the site. The architect of record, Charles M. Dutcher of York and Sawyer, filed plans with the Manhattan Bureau of Building in June 1922 with the bank estimated to cost $1 million. The application described the building as one-and-two stories tall. Shortly after, a $500,000 loan was taken out on the building's construction. The cornerstone of the new building was ceremonially laid on December 6, 1922. By the next year, the columns were being erected. The new bank building was projected to be the second-largest in Midtown, after the Bowery Savings Bank building at 110 East 42nd Street. At the time, the Greenwich Savings Bank had 94,026 accounts and a combined $92 million.
By January 1924, the building was scheduled to open the following month. On May 17, 1924, two days before the new Broadway headquarters' opening, one hundred million dollars of the Greenwich Savings Bank's holdings were moved from the old headquarters, using armored cars guarded by heavily armed policemen. At the time, this represented the second most valuable movement of bank holdings in New York City history, behind only the relocation of the Bowery Savings Bank. Two days later, the Greenwich Savings Bank opened to the public. With the opening of the new headquarters, the previous headquarters became one of the bank's branches.
Use as bank
At the Greenwich Savings Bank's hundredth anniversary, nine years after the new building's opening, the bank had 131,156 accounts and $154 million in deposits. York and Sawyer filed plans in 1940 to add office space to the Greenwich Savings Bank Building at a cost of $100,000. The new office space, equivalent to one-third of a full story, was to be constructed between the trusses that held up the ceiling of the banking area. The work was to be conducted by general contractor Eglehart, Caldwell & Scott Inc. as well as consulting engineers Meyer, Strong & Jones Inc. and H. Balcom Associates.
With bank deregulation in 1980, the Greenwich Savings Bank started having big losses and, in 1981, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the New York State Banking Department sought buyers for the bank. The building was then occupied in 1981 by the Metropolitan Savings Bank, followed in 1985 by the Crossland Savings Bank. With the closure or downsizing of bank branches in the late 20th century, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) proposed designating several major bank interiors in 1990, including the Crossland Bank Building, the Manufacturers Hanover Building, and the Apple Bank for Savings Building. The building became a Crossland Federal Savings Bank branch in January 1992 after the FDIC seized the Crossland Savings Bank. The LPC designated the Greenwich Savings Bank Building and the interior banking hall as a landmark on March 3, 1992. By then, the building was owned by Gerald and Malcolm Rosenberg, who were recorded as being opposed to the landmark designation.
Office and event venue conversion
Leslie Wohlman Himmel and Stephen J. Meringoff of the firm Himmel & Meringoff Properties acquired the Greenwich Savings Bank Building in 1999 for an undisclosed sum. It had taken the company ten years to acquire the building's ownership, land lease, mortgages, and interior leases. The firm planned to rent out in the building for $1.65 million per year, with a tenant who could sign a long-term triple net lease running for at least 10 years. They created several renderings for alternative uses of the banking hall, including an auditorium, trading floor, restaurant, and store. HSBC, which occupied the banking space, was planning to relocate to a much smaller space at 1350 Broadway. Himmel & Meringoff had not wanted to sell the building, but they were forced to reject several potential applicants for having insufficient credit.
HSBC departed in May 2001, and Haier America, a subsidiary of the Chinese appliance company Haier, purchased the building the following month for $14 million. The sale excluded of development rights associated with the building, which a buyer could potentially transfer to a nearby structure. Haier planned to operate a showroom and restaurant in the banking space, leasing the restaurant operations to another entity, and making 1356 Broadway the headquarters for its operations in the Americas. According to Haier America CEO Michael Jemal, the company wished to keep the interior publicly accessible. Gruzen Samton Architects was planning a renovation of the landmark interiors. In 2002, Haier renamed the structure the Haier Building. Haier installed its executive offices in the basement, as well as a reception area with a 122-bottle wine cellar. On the top floor, Haier displayed products to potential customers.
For a short time after its offices opened, Haier had used the banking area as a showroom for its products, including refrigerators and air conditioners; this use was seen as wasteful and, in August 2002, the company marketed the banking area as an event venue called Gotham Hall. An event management company was contracted to operate Gotham Hall and leased several of the Haier Building's large rooms through 2033. The old banking room, board room, and executive office were rented out for corporate events, private parties, and other functions. The events at Gotham Hall have attracted guests such as U.S. President Barack Obama, actress Eva Mendes, and fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger.
By 2004, Haier employed 120 people in the building. To prevent pigeon droppings, the owners installed bird-trap cages on the facade, which prompted investigations from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 2005. Haier moved its North American headquarters to Wayne, New Jersey, in 2014, relocating about 200 workers. The Greenwich Savings Bank Building was placed for sale in June 2015 for an unknown sum. The same year, Isaac Chetrit and Ray Yadidi bought the building's air rights for $26 million.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets
List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets
References
Notes
Citations
Sources
External links
Gotham Hall website
1924 establishments in New York City
Bank buildings in Manhattan
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Bank company headquarters in the United States
Broadway (Manhattan)
Buildings and structures completed in 1924
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Neoclassical architecture in New York City
New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan
New York City interior landmarks
Office buildings in Manhattan
Sixth Avenue
New York State Register of Historic Places in New York County |
4034431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981%20Wimbledon%20Championships%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20singles | 1981 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles | John McEnroe defeated the five-time defending champion Björn Borg in a rematch of the previous year's final, 4–6, 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–4), 6–4, to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1981 Wimbledon Championships. It was his first Wimbledon singles title and third major singles title overall. Borg was attempting to equal William Renshaw's record of six consecutive Wimbledon titles and Roy Emerson's all-time record of 12 major titles.
During this tournament, McEnroe famously shouted "You cannot be serious!" to the chair umpire in response to a serve being called "out". The disagreement took place on June 22 during his first round match against Tom Gullikson.
Seeds
Björn Borg (final)
John McEnroe (champion)
Jimmy Connors (semifinals)
Ivan Lendl (first round)
Gene Mayer (withdrew before the tournament began)
Brian Teacher (second round)
Brian Gottfried (second round)
Roscoe Tanner (second round)
José Luis Clerc (third round)
Guillermo Vilas (first round)
Víctor Pecci (first round)
Peter McNamara (quarterfinals)
Yannick Noah (first round)
Wojciech Fibak (fourth round)
Balázs Taróczy (third round)
Vitas Gerulaitis (fourth round)
Gene Mayer withdrew due to injury. He was replaced in the draw by lucky loser Mike Estep.
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
1981 Wimbledon Championships – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Men's Singles
Wimbledon Championship by year – Men's singles |
50159099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316%20Superliga%20de%20Voleibol%20Masculina | 2015–16 Superliga de Voleibol Masculina | Superliga de Voleibol Masculina 2015–16 was the 52nd (LII) season since its establishment in 1965. The 2015–16 regular season started on October 3, 2015, and finished on April 2, 2016.
Championship playoffs began on 9 April. Starting with semifinals, the two semifinal winners will advance to the Final to fight for the championship title to the best of three matches.
Defending champions were Unicaja Almería, by winning 2014–15 championship final 3–1 to CAI Teruel.
The championship was decided in a thrilling five-games series, winning Unicaja Almería the fifth and final match, and becoming champions for the eleventh time in its history.
Competition format
12 teams played in a round-robin format. Upon completion of regular season, the top four teams play Championship's playoffs, while two bottom teams are relegated to Superliga 2.
During regular season, points are awarded as following:
a win by 3–0 or 3–1 means 3 points to winner team,
a 3–2 win, 2 points for winner team & 1 for loser team.
Championship playoffs is played to best of 3 games.
2015–16 season teams
Regular season standings
Championship playoff
All times are CEST, except for Canary Islands which is WEST.
Bracket
To best of five games.
Semifinals
Match 1
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Match 2
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Match 3
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Final
Match 1
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Match 2
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Match 3
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Match 4
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Match 5
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Final MVP: Borja Ruiz
Top scorers
(Regular season and playoff statistic combined.)
References
External links
Official website
2015 in volleyball
2016 in volleyball
Superliga de Voleibol Masculina
2015 in Spanish sport
2016 in Spanish sport
Spain |
7457165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noemi%20Lung | Noemi Lung | Noemi Lung Zaharia (born May 16, 1968) is a retired butterfly, freestyle and medley swimmer from Romania, who won two individual medley medals at the 1988 Olympics. A year before she collected a record five gold medals at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb.
In 1990 she moved to the United States, where she received a scholarship in 1995 and graduated in management from the Florida International University in Miami. She was women's swimming Head Coach at the Florida University from 2002 to 2010. In 2020, she received a PhD in sports leadership from the United States Sports Academy. Since 2010 she is the Director of the Aquatic and Fitness Center at Miami Dade College North campus in Miami, FL, before becoming an assistant professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville. Since December 1995 she is married to the Olympic handball player Cristian Zaharia.
References
1968 births
Living people
Romanian female butterfly swimmers
Romanian female freestyle swimmers
Romanian female medley swimmers
Sportspeople from Baia Mare
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Olympic swimmers for Romania
Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
Olympic silver medalists for Romania
Place of birth missing (living people)
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Universiade medalists in swimming
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Romania
Universiade bronze medalists for Romania
Medalists at the 1987 Summer Universiade
20th-century Romanian women |
3389722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Remington%20Steele%20episodes | List of Remington Steele episodes | The following is a list of episodes for the television show Remington Steele; included are the many film references made throughout the series.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1982–83)
Season 2 (1983–84)
Season 3 (1984–85)
Season 4 (1985–86)
Season 5 (1987)
References
Remington Steele |
56384627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20Eden | Esther Eden | Esther Eden Fernandes is an Indian singer-songwriter based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She rose to fame in 2014 when singer Jessie J invited her to perform at her concert at the Red Fest DXB. In 2016, as an independent artist she premiered her debut single "Phoenix".
Personal life
Eden was born in Goa, India, and moved to the UAE when she was 7 months old and has lived there ever since. She pursued BA in songwriting at BIMM, Berlin.
Career
In 2014, British singer Jessie J visited Al Diyafah High School where Esther Eden was studying and watched Eden perform an original song. She then invited Eden to perform at her concert at the Red Fest DXB and within a few hours Eden was performing for a crowd of over 10,000 people. Eden was invited to participate in the pilot series of "Inspired" created by White Cube Studios Abu Dhabi. Eden was also invited to speak for a TedX event in Dubai, where she spoke about how music can help a student.
Her music got the attention of the major music label Universal Music MENA and on 5 November 2015, Eden signed a recording contract with UMM. Jessie J even tweeted to the young teen saying 'how proud she was'
Eden went on to perform for the Red Fest DXB in February 2016 in her own strength as an independent artist and premiered her debut single "Phoenix" for a crowd of around 15,000 people, and alongside Fifth Harmony, LMFAO, Trey Songz and Adam Lambert. Phoenix was subsequently released in February 2016, produced by Joshua Williams. She was part of the Red Bull Bass camp in Feb 2016.
The song that Eden performed for Jessie J was released in May 2016 and was titled "Is this love" which hit the UK Music Week charts. The music video was released in August 2016. This song was produced by White Cube Studios, Abu Dhabi. Her next single 'Here we go' was released on 28 October 2016 which was a collaboration with Shaun Warner. She went on to perform for the Beats on the Beach 2016, alongside Big Sean and Sean Paul.
Eden has been nominated for an award in the "Young Achiever" category for the Emirates Woman 'Woman Of The Year' Awards 2016.
She performed for Step Music Fest with other regional acts in April 2017. Eden was named the Brand Ambassador for Sennheiser in the Middle East in March 2017. Eden's next single 'Blue Case' was released in 2018.
Discography
Singles
"Phoenix" (25 February 2016)
"Is this love" (12 May 2016)
"Here we go" (28 October 2016)
"BitterSweet" Love" (30 June 2017)
"Blue Case" (2018)
"Calm before the Storm" (2019)
"My Own Way" (2019)
"Easy" (2019)
Album
Solitaire (18 November 2016)- Universal Music MENA
My Own Way (2020)- Universal Music MENA
References
External links
Esther Eden on Facebook
Esther Eden on Twitter
Esther Eden on Instagram
Esther Eden on Youtube
1997 births
Living people
Singers from Goa
Women musicians from Goa
Musicians from Dubai
Indian women singer-songwriters
Indian singer-songwriters
Indian women pop singers
Indian women jazz singers
Indian emigrants to the United Arab Emirates
Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
21st-century Indian women singers
21st-century Indian singers |
544650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Wave%20Bay | Big Wave Bay | Big Wave Bay or Tai Long Wan () is the name of several bays in Hong Kong:
Big Wave Bay, Hong Kong Island
Big Wave Bay Beach, Hong Kong
Tai Long Wan, Chi Ma Wan
Tai Long Wan (Sai Kung District)
Tai Long Wan, Shek Pik |
32714245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20Paulo%20Neves%20de%20Carvalho%20Government%20School | Professor Paulo Neves de Carvalho Government School | Professor Paulo Neves de Carvalho Government School (Escola de Governo Paulo Neves de Carvalho) is a Brazilian state funded single institution of higher education, based in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The school offers undergraduate, masters, specialization and extension programs in the area of Public Administration. The School of Government is part of the João Pinheiro Foundation, and is linked to the government of Minas Gerais through the Secretary of State for Planning and Management (SEPLAG).
The School of Government of the João Pinheiro Foundation was established in 1992 with the mission to promote the modernization and professionalization of the government and to improve the training of technical staff at the local, state and federal levels, promoting new management techniques and developing studies and research in public administration.
Public Administration Program
The Public Administration Program, known as CSAP, guarantees its graduates the automatic naming to the initial level of the career of specialist in Public Policy and Government Management, which integrates the structure of the Executive Branch of the State of Minas Gerais. The CSAP is the only university in the country with this feature. The course lasts eight semesters and, in addition to free tuition, each student receives a monthly bursary equivalent to the Brazilian minimum wage.
In 2006, the School of Government was considered the best administration program in Brazil according to the Ministry of education. Since then, it has consistently scored 5 on the IGC (General Course Index of the Ministry of Education), the highest possible score.
The School of Government of the João Pinheiro Foundation was one of only 27 Brazilian institutions of higher education to score 5 (maximum) in the IGC released in 2011, and it was considered the 9th best among the 2.136 institutions evaluated. In the IGC 2013, the most current one, the School of Government has kept the highest score and was considered the 11th best among the 2.023 institutions evaluated.
References
External links
Escola de Governo Paulo Neves de Carvalho
1992 establishments in Brazil
Buildings and structures in Belo Horizonte
Universities and colleges in Minas Gerais
Educational institutions established in 1992
State universities and colleges in Brazil |
70232788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Prospect%20League%20season | 2022 Prospect League season | The 2022 Prospect League season is the 13th season of collegiate summer baseball in the Prospect League, a collegiate summer baseball league in the Midwestern United States, since its creation in June 2009. There are 16 Prospect League teams, split evenly between Eastern and Western Conferences. These conferences are then split up between the Ohio River Valley, Wabash River, Great River, and Prairie Land divisions.
The Cape Catfish entered the season as defending champions, having defeated the Lafayette Aviators, two games to one, in the league's 2021 championship series.
Season schedule
Very little changed for the 2022 season, with the only difference in the team lineup being an ownership and name change for the Springfield, Ill. franchise as the Sliders became the Lucky Horseshoes. A new franchise for Jackson, Tennessee, was announced, which will take the field beginning with the 2023 season at the former home of the class Double-A Jackson Generals, The Ballpark at Jackson.
The 16 teams in the league are split evenly between two conferences Eastern and Western. These two conferences are then split up into four divisions, Ohio River Valley, Wabash River, Great River, and Prairie Land.
The season will be played with a 60-game schedule, which is split between two halves, with the first-half ending on July 4 and second-half ending on August 6. The first-half winners in each division will host the second-half winners in a one-game divisional championship round. (If the same team wins both halves, the team with the next-best second-half record makes the playoffs).
Regular season standings
First half standings
Eastern Conference
Western Conference
Second half standings
Eastern Conference
Western Conference
Full season standings
Eastern Conference
Western Conference
y – Clinched division
x – Clinched playoff spot
Statistical leaders
Hitting
Pitching
Awards
End of year awards
TBD
Playoffs
Format
The Divisional Championship Round consists of one winner-take-all game between the winner of the first half in each division and the division's second-half winner (If the same team wins both halves, the team with the next-best second-half record makes the playoffs). Division Championship games will take place August 7.
The winners of the divisional games advance to the Conference Championship Round. Again, this is a one-game, winner-take-all game between the two winners of the division championship games in the Eastern Conference and the two-division championship game-winners in the Western Conference. These games will take place August 9.
The Eastern and Western Conference champions play each other in the best-of-three Prospect League Championship Series. Game one is August 11, hosted by the team with the lesser regular-season record. After a travel day, game two is August 13. If necessary, game three will take place August 14, at the same stadium as game two. The team with the best overall record gets to pick to either host game one or games two and three.
Playoff bracket
See also
2022 NCAA Division I baseball season
2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
2022 College World Series
2022 NCAA Division III baseball tournament
References
Prospect League season |
45443159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20U.S.%20F2000%20Winterfest | 2015 U.S. F2000 Winterfest | The 2015 U.S. F2000 Cooper Tires Winterfest was the fifth year of the winter racing series promoted by the U.S. F2000 National Championship. It consisted of five races held during two race meets during February 2015 and served as preparation for the 2015 U.S. F2000 National Championship.
The championship was won by Cape Motorsports driver Nico Jamin, after his race victory in the final race at Barber Motorsports Park, which awarded double points after one of the track's scheduled three races was canceled due to bad weather. Jamin finished five points clear of Afterburner Autosport's Victor Franzoni, who won two races and lost a third due to a rules infraction. A further three points behind in third place was the only other race winner, Jake Eidson of Pabst Racing Services, who won two races at NOLA Motorsports Park.
Drivers and teams
Race calendar and results
The series schedule, along with the other Road to Indy series schedules, was announced on November 3, 2014.
Championship standings
Drivers' championship
Teams' championship
References
External links
U.S. F2000 National Championship seasons
U.S. F2000 Winterfest
U.S. F2000 Winterfest
U.S. F2000 Winterfest
2015 in formula racing |
28467205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%20Without%20Love | Heaven Without Love | Heaven Without Love (, "a crack in heaven") is a Serbian-language Croatian drama film directed by Vladimir Pogačić, adapted from a novel by Milan Tuturov. It was released in 1959. The film was poorly received.
Plot
In Belgrade, Marija, a pharmacy student (Ljubica Jović) marries a medicine student, Slobodan Marković (Milan Puzić), in order to solve her existential issues. They grow older and their relationship changes. Slobodan abuses and ignores her, convinces her to have an abortion as she gets pregnant, and cheats on her with a nurse, so she starts a tragic love affair with Pavle Borovac (Antun Vrdoljak), a young journalist whom she meets at a beach.
Cast
Ljubica Jović as Marija Marković
Milan Puzić as Slobodan Marković
Tatjana Beljakova as Branka
Severin Bijelić as Inspector Naumović
Antun Vrdoljak as Pavle Borovac
Branko Tatić as Obrad Kratić
Zoran Longinović as Police Department Chief
Reception
The film was poorly received upon its release and was criticised for its perceived advocacy of Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy. Utilising psychological realism, the film was part of a trend of decreasing emphasis on ideology and regime compliance in Communist cinema towards the late 1950s. Tomislav Šakić of Kino Tuškanac likens the film to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane in its form as it tells the story from the point of view of a police investigation, and considers it an early feminist film for its portrayal of abortion.
References
External links
1959 films
1950s Croatian-language films
Films directed by Vladimir Pogačić
Jadran Film films
Croatian romantic drama films
Films set in Belgrade
1959 drama films
Yugoslav romantic drama films |
25411480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Register%20of%20Historic%20Places%20listings%20in%20Columbia%20County%2C%20Arkansas | National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbia County, Arkansas |
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbia County, Arkansas.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Columbia County, Arkansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
There are 23 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Current listings
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Former listings
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See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places listings in Arkansas
References
Columbia County |
56049055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem%20Newcomb | Lem Newcomb | Leamon Robinson Newcomb (28 November 1903 – 3 July 1964), known as Lem Newcomb, was an English footballer who played as a right half in the Football League for Darlington, Millwall and Southport. He was on the books of Middlesbrough without playing League football for them, and also played non-league football for Stillington Juniors, Stockton Malleable Institute and Sittingbourne.
In 1960, he took over as manager of Southport. Ill-health forced his retirement in March 1964, and he died in July of that year.
Notes
References
1903 births
1964 deaths
Footballers from County Durham
English men's footballers
Men's association football wing halves
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Darlington F.C. players
Sittingbourne F.C. players
Millwall F.C. players
Southport F.C. players
English Football League players
English football managers
Southport F.C. managers
English Football League managers
People from Stillington, County Durham |
18072843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Page%20%28priest%29 | Anthony Page (priest) | Anthony Page (1563 – April 1593) was an English Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.
Life
Page was born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, in 1563. He was of gentle birth and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 23 November 1581. He entered the English College, at Reims on 30 September 1584 along with Joseph Lambton, and received minor orders in April 1585. He was ordained deacon at Laon on 22 September 1590, and priest at Soissons on 21 September 1591. Anthony Champney, who was his contemporary at Reims, in his manuscript history of the reign of Elizabeth I of England, as quoted by Richard Challoner, describes him as "of more than common learning and piety, and as having endeared himself to all by his singular candour of mind and sweetness of behaviour."
On Candlemas 1593, there was a great search for priests ordered in the north, and he was found at Heworth Manor near York, in a hiding place at the bottom of a haystack. He was condemned for being a priest, under the Jesuits, etc. Act 1584, and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York in 30 April 1593.
Anthony Page was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987 as one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, whose feast day is 4 May.
See also
Catholic Church in the United Kingdom
Douai Martyrs
References
Attribution
The entry cites:
Richard Challoner, Missionary Priests, I, no. 98:
Clark, Register of Oxford University, II (Oxford, 1887-9), 105;
Thomas Francis Knox, Douay Diaries (London. 1878), 202, 205, 234, 241.
1563 births
1593 deaths
16th-century English Roman Catholic priests
English beatified people
People executed under Elizabeth I by hanging, drawing and quartering
16th-century venerated Christians
Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales
Executed people from London
People from Harrow on the Hill
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
English expatriates in France |
8459383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory%20Gamburtsev | Grigory Gamburtsev | Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamburtsev (; – June 28, 1955) was a Soviet seismologist and academician from Saint Petersburg, Russia who worked in the area of seismometry and earthquake prediction.
Life
Gamburtsev was born on March 23, 1903, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1926. From 1938 onward, he worked at the Geophysical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, serving as its director from 1949 to 1955. In 1946, Gamburtsev became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and in 1953 he became full member of the Academy. Gamburtsev developed a new design of seismographs and created their theory. He proposed a new method for the mineral exploration, so called correlation refraction method, and the deep sounding method for monitoring the Earth crust. He died on June 28, 1955, in Moscow.
Honors
Gamburtsev received several government awards for his scientific work, including the USSR State Prize (1941), the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945), and the Order of Lenin (1953). The Gamburtsev Mountain Range, a range of sub-glacial mountains near Dome A in Eastern Antarctica, was discovered in 1958 by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition and named after him in the same year; Val Gamburtsev, an oil deposit in Nenets Autonomous Okrug, (part of Arkhangelsk Oblast), is also named for him.
References
External links
G.A. Gamburtsev and the problem of earthquake prediction
1903 births
1955 deaths
Scientists from Saint Petersburg
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Russian geophysicists
Russian seismologists
Soviet inventors
Soviet physicists
Soviet seismologists
Russian scientists |
227432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Columbus | USS Columbus | Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Columbus, the first two after the explorer Christopher Columbus, and the other two after Columbus, Ohio, the capital of the state.
, a 24-gun armed ship purchased for the Continental Navy in 1775, and active until she was captured and burned in 1778
, a 74-gun ship of the line commissioned in 1819, and in periodic service until 1861 when she was sunk to prevent capture
, a heavy cruiser commissioned at the very end of World War II, converted to a guided missile cruiser CG-12 in 1959, and decommissioned in 1975
, a attack submarine commissioned in 1993 and in active service
United States Navy ship names |
5884576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgettable%20%28Nat%20King%20Cole%20song%29 | Unforgettable (Nat King Cole song) | "Unforgettable" is a popular song written by Irving Gordon. The song's original working title was "Uncomparable"; however, the music publishing company asked Gordon to change it to "Unforgettable". The song was published in 1951.
Nat King Cole version
The most popular version of the song was recorded by Nat King Cole in 1951 from his album Unforgettable (1952), with an arrangement written by Nelson Riddle. A non-orchestrated version of the song recorded in 1952 is featured as one of the seven bonus tracks on Cole's 1998 CD reissue of 1955's otherwise completely instrumental album, Penthouse Serenade. On March 30, 1961, Nat King Cole recorded the tune anew in a stereo version (with Ralph Carmichael and his Orchestra) of the Riddle arrangement, for the album The Nat King Cole Story (1961).
In 1991, after Elvis Presley's musical director Joe Guercio had the idea, Cole's original 1951 recording of the song was edited and reworked to create a duet with his daughter, Natalie. The remixed version reached number 14 on the Hot 100, matching the peak position of the original version on the Billboard Best-Selling Pop Singles chart, and also number three on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The song also won three awards at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards (1992): Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.
Nat Cole's original recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.
Chart history
Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole version
American singer Natalie Cole included a cover of the song on her album Unforgettable... with Love (1991). The song, reworked as a "virtual duet" with her father, Nat King Cole, reached number three on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, number one on the Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary chart, and number two on the Australian Singles Chart. The performance of the song at the 1992 Grammy Awards was released on the 1994 album Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume I.
Critical reception
Billboard commented, "Through the magic of digital technology father and daughter duet on this timeless song that swells with lush orchestration and moving harmonies."
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
Other cover versions
Semprini with Rhythm Acc. recorded it in London on March 26, 1952, as the third melody of the medley "Dancing to the piano (No. 14) - Part 1. Hit Medley of Foxtrots" along with "Slow Coach" and "Cry". It was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10263.
Other cover versions were performed or recorded by:
Sampled by song
Nas on "Can't Forget About You" (2006)
References
1950s jazz standards
1951 songs
1991 singles
Capitol Records singles
Elektra Records singles
Nat King Cole songs
Natalie Cole songs
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
Grammy Award for Song of the Year
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Sia (musician) songs
Song recordings produced by David Foster
Songs written by Irving Gordon
Music published by Bourne Co. Music Publishers
Pop standards
Walt Disney Records singles |
17721373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Spiro | Stephen Spiro | Stephen Spiro (1939–2007) was a political activist known for his opposition against the Vietnam War and his advocacy of an ideology that opposes abortion, capital punishment, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Opposing the Vietnam war based on the theory of Just War, he objected to being conscripted, but as the law only allowed for conscientious objection to all wars, he was convicted of avoiding conscription and given a suspended sentence of five years. He was later pardoned by President Gerald Ford.
Early life
Born in the Bronx, Spiro attended Xavier High School in Manhattan. He attended the University of Chicago and later received bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from Fairleigh Dickinson University. While at the University of Chicago, his studies in economics and politics led him to become suspicious of government in all its forms. He joined the Student Peace Union and studied Catholic peace traditions, eventually becoming active in the Catholic Worker movement. He later described himself as a "Biblical anarchist and a radical pacifist."
Opposition to war
Spiro opposed the Vietnam War as not conforming to the Catholic theory of just war. As the conscription laws in the United States allowed for conscientious objection only on the grounds of opposition to all war, Spiro was labeled a "selective conscientious objector" and was convicted of avoiding the draft. His case was championed by the newly formed Catholic Peace Fellowship; Daniel Berrigan, Tom Cornell, and Thomas Merton all lobbied on his behalf. The sincerity of his beliefs were recognized, as he received a five-year suspended sentence for his actions, and he was later pardoned by President Gerald Ford. He was "more proud of the conviction than the pardon" and throughout his life he referred to himself as a "political criminal."
Spiro also opposed the Gulf War and the Iraq War. In the last years of his life, he was the President of the New Jersey Catholic Peace Fellowship and he often engaged in counter-recruitment, setting up information tables in front of military recruiting offices in New Jersey.
Anti-abortion movement
Spiro was active in the Right to Life movement. He regularly attended the March for Life and met with legislators. He advocated a consistent life ethic, also known as the seamless garment argument. This argument states that the right to life leads to opposition to abortion, capital punishment and war as a single consistent moral position. He would often bring anti-war signs to anti-abortion rallies (and vice versa), sparking arguments with his fellow protesters.
References
1939 births
2007 deaths
American anti–Vietnam War activists
American conscientious objectors
American anti-abortion activists
Catholic Workers
Fairleigh Dickinson University alumni
People from the Bronx
Recipients of American presidential pardons
Roman Catholic activists
Xavier High School (New York City) alumni
American Christian pacifists
Catholic pacifists
Activists from New York (state)
Catholics from New York (state) |
39917584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20World%20Archery%20Championships%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20team%20compound | 2005 World Archery Championships – Women's team compound | The women's team compound competition at the 2005 World Archery Championships took place in June 2005 in Madrid, Spain. 87 archers took part in the women's compound qualification round with no more than 4 from each country, and the 16 teams of 3 archers with the highest cumulative totals (out of a possible 20) qualified for the 4-round knockout round, drawn according to their qualification round scores.
Seeds
Seedings were based on the combined total of the team members' qualification scores in the individual ranking rounds. The top 16 teams were assigned places in the draw depending on their overall ranking.
Draw
References
2005 World Archery Championships
World |
25240369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyre%20%28musician%29 | Wyre (musician) | Kevin Waire, best known by his stage name Wyre, is a Kenyan R&B and reggae musician. He is known for being a member of the groups Necessary Noize and East African Bashment Crew, as well as his solo career.
He has released two solo albums. The latest album, Ten Years Wiser, was named for his 10-year spanning career in music. As a solo artist, he has performed in various African countries, including Nigeria and Uganda. He has collaborated with various artists, including P-Square, 2Face Idibia of Nigeria. Other notable collaborations that he has done have been with Jamaica's Alaine, Cecile, and Morgan Heritage.
He is reputed for his consistence and relevance in the music industry having maintained an industry presence actively since the late 1990s. One of the ways Wyre has maintained this longevity is having several collaborations locally and internationally. Among the local Kenyan artists that he has collaborated with include Nazizi, Kidis, Prezzo, Khaligraph Jones, Vigeti, Nonini, JB Maina, Benjamin Kabaseke.
Well known for his stage performance, alongside Ian and Qqu of N.I.X.
He also worked as a producer at Tedd Josiah's Blu Zebra Studios and has established his own record label Love Child Records where he has signed among others, Verbal, another Kenyan dance hall artist .
Discography
Solo albums:
Definition of a Love Child (2006)
Ten Years Wiser (2009)
Lion (2015)
Awards
Won:
2006 Kisima Music Awards - Best Ragga
2007 Kisima Music Awards - Best Ragga
2013 International Reggae and World Music Awards - Best New Entertainer
2015 Bingwa Music Awards - Ever Relevant Artist
Nominated:
2005 Kora Awards - Best East African Male Artist
2006 Channel O Music Video Awards - Best Afro-pop video ("Chuki") & Best R&B video ("Chuki")
2006 Pearl of Africa Music Awards - Best Kenyan Male Artiste
2007 Pearl of Africa Music Awards - Best Kenyan Male Artiste.
2008 Pearl of Africa Music Awards - Best Kenyan Male Artiste
References
External links
Wyre - a fan site
Kenyan musicians
Kenyan record producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
63248512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese%20of%20Lilybaeum | Diocese of Lilybaeum | The Diocese of Lilybaeum (Latin - Dioecesis Lilybaetana) was a diocese of the Roman Catholic church until the 9th century, when it was suppressed. It was revived as a titular see in 1966.
History
Lilybaeum (now Marsala) was an ancient city in western Sicily, with a huge Christian cemetery with catacombs and small hypogei. An ancient tradition without historical confirmation states that the diocese began in the first half of the 2nd century and that its first bishop was a Saint Eustace. According to Praedestinatus, a work by an unknown author in southern Gaul around the mid 5th century, the Gnostic Valentinus' disciple Heracleon began preaching in Sicily, but was firmly opposed by Eustace bishop of Lilybaeum and Theodore bishop of Palermo, who both denounced him to Pope Alexander I (105-115). The second traditional bishop was the martyr Gregorius or Gregory, living between the 3rd and 4th centuries but only recorded in the life of the 7th-8th century Saint Gregorius, bishop of Girgenti.
The first historically-confirmed Bishop of Lilybaeum was the mathematician and astronomer Pascasinus, captured and taken to Africa by the Vandals. After his return to Sicily he wrote a letter to Pope Leo I in 442–443, mentioning an event in the diocese in 417, meaning it had definitely been founded by that date. Leo I sent Pascasinus a letter via the other Sicilian bishops in 447. Pascasinus later became Leo's legate to the 451 Council of Chalcedon, which at the pope's request definitively fixed the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring.
No further bishops of Lilybaeum are known until the 6th century, when the letters of Gregory the Great mention Theodore (in a letter of 593 and seems to have died in February 595) and Decius (elected and consecrated in September 595 and still in post at the time of a letter in 599). One of these letters mentions that Adeodata, a woman from a patrician family, had founded a nunnery dedicated to the martyr saints Peter, Laurence, Hermes, Pancras, Sebastian and Agnes in her house in Lilybaeum. At that time Sicily was part of the Byzantine Empire and - as emerges in the letters - Sicily's dioceses reported directly to Rome rather than having a metropolitan bishop. Another bishop of the diocese, Elijah, took part in the 649 synod in Rome, whilst Theophanes was one of the church fathers at the Second Council of Nicea in 787.
In the meantime, following the First Iconoclastic Controversy, Leo III the Isaurian removed Sicily from Rome's jurisdiction and placed it under the Patriarch of Constantinople around 732. Lilybaeum appeared as one of the suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Syracuse in the Notitia Episcopatuum edited under Leo VI the Wise and dating to the early 10th century., though that situation was theoretical since the island had been conquered by the Arabs in 827 and there was no news from the diocese.
When the Normans conquered Sicily in the 11th century the Diocese of Lilybaeum was not reestablished, with its territory instead assigned to a new Diocese of Mazara del Vallo with its seat at Mazara.
In 1966 Lilybaeum was made a titular see of the Roman Catholic church, currently held by Giuseppe Leanza, apostolic nuncio to the Czech Republic.
Diocesan bishops
Saint''' Eustace † (2nd century)
Saint Gregory † (3rd-4th century)
Pascasinus † (before 442/443 - after 451)
Theodore † (before 593 - died before February 595)
Decius † (before September 595 - after 599)
Elijah † (mentioned in 649)
Theophanes † (mentioned in 787)
Titular bishops
Henrique Hector Golland Trindade, O.F.M. † (27 March 1968 - 16 March 1971; dismissed)
Nicola Cavanna † (21 June 1971 - 1 August 1977; translated to be bishop of Asti)
Carlos Alberto Nicolini † (28 October 1977 - 29 December 1984; translated to be bishop-coadjutor of Salto)
Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez, O.F.M. (14 June 1985 - 6 November 1989; translated to be Archbishop of Sucre)
Giuseppe Leanza, 3 July 1990 – present
References
Bibliography
Rocco Pirri, Sicilia sacra, vol. I, Palermo 1733, pp. 492–493
Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, Venezia 1870, vol. XXI, pp. 548–549
Francesco Lanzoni, Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604), vol. II, Faenza 1927, pp. 642–644
External links
Titular see - Catholic Hierarchy
Titular see on Giga Catholic
Diocesi di Mazara del Vallo on BeWeB - Beni ecclesiastici in web'' (con indicazioni sulla diocesi di Lilibeo)
Marsala
5th-century establishments in Italy
9th-century disestablishments in Europe
Lilybaeum
History of Sicily
Lilybaeum |
14821792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81osice%2C%20Lower%20Silesian%20Voivodeship | Łosice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship | Łosice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Długołęka, within Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
It lies approximately north of Długołęka, and north-east of the regional capital Wrocław.
References
Villages in Wrocław County |
629741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Breton%E2%80%94Canso | Cape Breton—Canso | Cape Breton—Canso is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. Its population in 2011 was 75,247. It is the successor to Bras d'Or (later known as Bras d'Or—Cape Breton), which was represented in the House of Commons from 1997 to 2004.
Demographics
From the 2016 census
Languages (mother tongue): 90.8% English, 6.5% French, 1.2% Mi'kmaq, 0.4% German, 0.2% Dutch, 0.1%Mandarin, 0.1% Arabic, 0.1% Scottish Gaelic, 0.1% Tagalog
Average age: 46.4
Average household size: 2.3
Geography
The district includes eastern Guysborough County, and the western, southern and eastern coasts of Cape Breton Island. Communities include Glace Bay, Louisbourg, Inverness, Chéticamp, St. Peters, Port Hawkesbury, Mulgrave, Guysborough, Dominion and Canso. The area is 9,438 km2.
Political geography
In 2008, the Liberals won most of their support on Cape Breton Island, whereas the mainland portion of the riding voted Conservative with a few Liberal and NDP pockets The Conservatives and the NDP both won a small handful of polls on the island, and the Greens won a poll containing Judique.
History
The riding of Bras d'Or was created in 1996 from parts of Cape Breton Highlands—Canso and Cape Breton—East Richmond ridings.
Bras d'Or was renamed "Bras d'Or—Cape Breton" in 1998. It was abolished in 2003. Most of its territory (except for the community of Sydney River) was incorporated into a new riding called "Cape Breton—Canso", and it also added a portion of Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough on the mainland.
Under the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding gained 9% of its new territory from Central Nova.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Cape Breton—Canso
2021 general election
2019 general election
2015 general election
2011 general election
2008 general election
2006 general election
2004 general election
Bras d'Or–Cape Breton
2000 general election
Bras d'Or
1997 general election
See also
List of Canadian federal electoral districts
Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
References
Notes
External links
Riding history for Bras d'Or (1996–1998) from the Library of Parliament
Riding history for Bras d'Or—Cape Breton (1998–2003) from the Library of Parliament
Riding history for Cape Breton—Canso (2003– ) from the Library of Parliament
Nova Scotia federal electoral districts
Politics of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Guysborough County, Nova Scotia
Inverness County, Nova Scotia
Richmond County, Nova Scotia |
38034058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beydritten | Beydritten | Beydritten was first a suburban estate and then a quarter of Königsberg, Germany, located north of the city center. Its territory is now part of the Leningradsky District of Kaliningrad, Russia.
The estate of Beydritten was situated north of the Ringchaussee and Ballieth and west of Quednau. Documented in 1389 as Bayderithen, its name was of Old Prussian origin and referred to a personal name. The estate had its own school. The fort IV Geisenau, named in 1894, was built near Beydritten as part of the new Königsberg fortifications constructed from 1872 to 1894. Beydritten was incorporated into the city of Königsberg in April 1939.
Notes
References
1389 establishments in Europe
Former subdivisions of Königsberg
Populated places established in the 1380s |
15214305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20Live | Alabama Live | Alabama Live is the first live album by the American band Alabama. Their first live compilation, it was released in 1988 and was a Number One album on Top Country Albums. The album includes live renditions of various singles from the band's career, as well as the album tracks "Red River", "Fireworks" and "Gonna Have a Party". Also included is a cover of the Marshall Tucker Band's "Can't You See", which Alabama had never included on any of their studio albums.
Track listing
Side One
"Can't Keep a Good Man Down" (Bob Corbin) – 3:44
"Tennessee River" (Randy Owen) – 7:48
"Take Me Down" (J.P. Pennington, Mark Gray) – 4:50
"Love in the First Degree" (Jim Hurt, Tim DuBois) – 2:56
"Red River" (Bud McGuire, George Pearce) – 4:04
"Dixieland Delight" (Ronnie Rogers) – 5:10
"Lady Down on Love" (Owen) – 3:51
Side Two
"If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" (Dan Mitchell, Murry Kellum) – 3:32
"Fireworks" (Ronnie Scaife, Phil Thomas, Kenny Durham) – 3:58
"When We Make Love/There's No Way" ("When We Make Love" by Lisa Palas, Will Robinson, John Jarrard; "There's No Way" by Troy Seals, Mentor Williams) – 3:31
"Gonna Have a Party" (Bruce Channel, Kieran Kane, Cliff Cochran) – 5:32
"Can't You See" (Toy Caldwell) – 7:41
"My Home's in Alabama" (Owen, Teddy Gentry) – 8:16
Personnel
Alabama
Jeff Cook – keyboards, electric guitar, fiddle, vocals
Randy Owen – electric guitar, vocals
Teddy Gentry – bass guitar, vocals
Mark Herndon – drums
Guest musicians
Costo Davis – keyboards
Joe "Dixie" Fuller – percussion
Production
Alabama – producers
Harold Shedd – producer
Dave Hewitt – recording engineer
Kooster McAllister – recording engineer
Jim Cotton – mix engineer
Paul Goldberg – mix engineer
Joe Scaife – mix engineer
David Zammit – additional live and mix engineer
Ed "K-9" Celletti – assistant engineer
Phil Gitomer – assistant engineer
Peter Hefter – assistant engineer
Robert Kinkle – assistant engineer
Fritz Lang – assistant engineer
J.B. Matteotti – assistant engineer
Milan Bogdan – digital editing
Benny Quinn – digital editing, mastering
Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location
Kym Juister – art production
Mary Hamilton – art direction, design
Jim "Señor" McGuire – photography
Charlie McGallen – hand tinting
Cheryle Riddle – hair stylist
Ann Payne Rice – make-up
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Sources
Alabama (American band) albums
Albums produced by Harold Shedd
1988 live albums
RCA Records live albums |
24751534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barking%20frog | Barking frog | Barking frog may refer to:
Craugastor augusti (barking frog or eastern barking frog), a frog in the family Craugastoridae found in Mexico and the southern United States
Limnodynastes fletcheri (barking marsh frog), a frog in the family Myobatrachidae that is native to southeastern Australia
Animal common name disambiguation pages |
27079463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Schoppert | James Schoppert | Robert James "Jim" Schoppert (May 28, 1947 – September 2, 1992) was an Tlingit Alaska Native artist and educator. His work includes woodcarving, painting, poetry, and essays. He has been described as an innovator, whose works pushed the boundaries of what was expected from Northwest Coast art.
Throughout his career he spoke on behalf of Alaska Native artists and visual artists in general. He taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) as a guest professor and gave presentations and lectures at elementary schools throughout the states of Alaska and Washington.
Early life
Schoppert was born in Juneau, Alaska to a father of German descent and a Tlingit ( or ) mother.
Career
In 1973, Schoppert came to Anchorage for a construction job which, it turned out, was no longer available. On February 26 of that year, using the last of his money, he bought a piece of soapstone and carved an owl. He put it up for sale at the urging of his sister and was able to sell it quickly, which marked the formal beginning of his career as an artist. Understanding that knowledge was important, he went on to earn a BFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a MFA from the University of Washington. But "his apprenticeship was with himself" according to Steven Brown, associate curator at the Seattle Art Museum. Continuing to produce work while still an undergraduate, he won first place in the statewide Earth, Fire and Fiber juried show in 1976. This sculpture should have been an indication of things to come as it was a separation from his customary work which would define him as an artist and create controversy and curiosity in later years. Although he created art using the formline, he chose a different approach for a great deal of his work that did not neatly fit into either mainstream or Northwest Coast art. He was quoted as saying "There is tremendous pressure for conformity from collectors and scholars, who want work that fits into the classic definition of Northwest Indian art. When things don't fit their expectations there's a raised eyebrow, and a sort of suggestion of 'What do we do with it now?'". This mindset is what allowed Schoppert to create his most recognizable pieces which are large carved panels made of multiple planks, painted in colors not associated with historical Tlingit carving, and the planks rearranged to create an entirely new look and a break from established methods and formline. Examples of this style are seen in his works Teasing Eagle and Raven Opens Box of Stars.
During his career as an artist he also served on the state arts councils of both Alaska and Washington. He created the North Coast Indian flat design that is on the entrance to the west end of the I-90 tunnel in Seattle. There are several of his works throughout Alaska and Washington. This includes one of the last pieces he made, a large carving for the Port of Seattle to be installed at the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
Artwork
Schoppert's artwork covered a wide range of techniques such as woodcarving, abstract paintings, drawings, mask making, and, most notably, his large, carved panel pieces. The wood panel pieces are also what created some controversy over whether his art was mainstream or Northwest Coastal. Schoppert learned that the Tlingit formline that was considered the customary method was only a relatively recent development among the Northwest Indian. It was his opinion that enforcing the practices of the 1850s or 1950s as the rule for all time amounted to artistic tyranny. He has been quoted as saying "Learn the rules, then break them". When talking about his panels, his intention was to further the art by following what he considered its natural progression. "If Art has a Master, Imagination cracks the whip".(1987) It is clear that he was true to his beliefs when examining his work. He went beyond the boundaries of established Northwest Coastal art and was a contributor to the evolution of contemporary Native art.
Although Schoppert is best known for his panels, he also produced several pieces that followed conventional methods and formline design. This is most evident in his mask making, an example of Jim using this style can be found in his mask Forehead Mask (1977) and Mussel Shell Rattle (1992). In addition he had several paintings and drawings that incorporate Indigenous subject matter but do not use of formline.
Exhibitions
1984: "The New Native American Aesthetic", Marilyn Butler Gallery, Santa Fe
1984: C.N. Gorman Museum at University of California, Davis
1985: "New Ideas from Old Traditions", Yellowstone Arts Center
1985: North Central Washington Museum, Wenatchee, WA
1985: "Visage Transcended: Contemporary Native American Masks", American Indian Contemporary Arts Gallery, San Francisco
1985: Second Biennial Invitational, Heard Museum, Phoenix
1986: "What is Native American Art?'"
1989: "Native American Expressions of Surrealism", Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle
1990: "Northern Lights", SunRunner, Ojai, CA
1990: "Eleven Stories", Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle
1991: "Eleventh Anniversary Show", Stonington Gallery, Seattle
1991: "Raw Materials", Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle
1991: "A Northern Perspectives", The Legacy Ltd., Seattle
1992: "Salmon:Ritual and Resource," Stonington Gallery, Seattle
1992: "Visions of Alaska", Denise Wallace Gallery, Santa Fe
1992: "Instrument of Change: Retrospective Exhibition", Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center New York City
Posthumous
Schoppert's final exhibition was hosted by the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center seven years after he died, putting together a traveling exhibit that contained 50 pieces of art, and selected essays and poems as a tribute to a great Alaska Native artist and recognized him as transformational "whose unique artistic expression contributed to the evolution of contemporary native art". Sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian, this exhibit was displayed in the Smithsonian Institution from October 3, 1999, to February 6, 2000, at the museum's George Gustav Heye Center.
References
External links
Seattle PI Archives, "Memorial Service for Tlingit Artist Robert James Schoppert"
Seattle International Airport Permanent Art List
Alaska Art James Schoppert biography
1947 births
1992 deaths
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20th-century American male artists
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20th-century Native American artists
20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas
American male sculptors
Alaska Native people
American people of German descent
Artists from Anchorage, Alaska
Artists from Seattle
Native American painters
Native American sculptors
Native American woodcarvers
Native American writers
Northwest Coast art
People from Juneau, Alaska
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University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty
University of Washington alumni
Sculptors from Washington (state)
Native American male artists |
15766389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Earth | Action Earth | Action Earth is an Australian environmental series that airs on The Weather Channel and FOX8 on the hour, every hour. It is narrated by Olympic medallist Ian Thorpe.
Action Earth was produced as a 20-part series, with each episode 5 minutes long. Each episode focuses on a different environmental aspect, and aims to educate the public on how to improve our planet.
Fox8 original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts |
44797724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihomir%20%28village%29 | Tihomir (village) | Tihomir is a village in Kirkovo Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria.
References
Villages in Kardzhali Province |
58065010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayasu%20Nomura | Masayasu Nomura | was a Japanese molecular biologist.
Nomura was born in April 1927, a native of Hyōgo Prefecture, and completed a bachelor's degree and doctorate at the University of Tokyo. Nomura began work in 1957 as a postdoctoral researcher in the United States, alongside Sol Spiegelman, James Watson, and Seymour Benzer. Nomura returned to Japan in 1960, to teach at the Osaka University Institute of Protein Research. Three years later, Nomura accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was named a full professor in 1966, and remained on the faculty until 1984, when he moved to the University of California, Irvine as Grace Bell Professor of Biological Chemistry. Awarded the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1971, Nomura gained membership into the National Academy of Sciences itself in 1978. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology, as well as the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Danish Academy of Science. Nomura died in California on 19 November 2011, aged 84.
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1927 births
2011 deaths
Japanese expatriates in the United States
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University of Tokyo alumni
Academic staff of Osaka University
University of California, Irvine faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
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Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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Date of birth missing |
34196780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20conferencing | Live conferencing | Live conferencing refers to the live streaming of interactive audio and video presentations, lectures, meetings, and seminars to the global audience with the help of a camera and conferencing equipment. Such equipment lets businesses connect and coordinate with remote workforces located in different region, engage them in productive real-time discussions, and record individual or group responses.
Live conferencing enables presenters to transmit and share information beyond geographical boundaries with anytime, anywhere access. The prominent live conferencing solution or equipment manufacturers include: Panasonic, Sony, Polycom, Avermedia, Accordent, MediaPointe, ClearOne, LifeSize, Tandberg, Kedacom, etc. The live conferencing services allow presentations, events, lectures, and meetings to be recorded and shared at the same time to a geographically dispersed audience – on or off office or corporate work facility.
The Live Conferencing leverages instant sharing of information from one place to another with just an internet connection and personal computers such as desktops, laptops, and tablet computers using the popular TCP/IP connection. The cutting-edge design and interface of the equipment combined with cloud technologies, enables both individual and group participation in the session. Individual or a group of individuals can interact using a single PC with the remote presenter(S) to share information, brainstorm ideas, and analyze data.
Applications
Education
Simultaneous lectures in and off the classroom. Instructors can web cast and deliver live lectures to the students sitting inside and outside the classroom – enabling complete interaction with Q/A features, live chat, and real-time quizzes.
Expert lectures. Live conferencing lets K-12 and universities to invite the interest of regional and international experts on a subject and let them communicate and instruct audience from their preferred or existing locations.
Lecture retention. Live conferencing can be used to retain classroom lectures through instant recording. The recorded lectures can be distributed to the audience with or without editing in an instant to eliminate manual note taking and encourage students to focus on the lectures during the class.
Corporate
Interactive executive meetings—Live conferencing serves as a smart tool for conducting interactive live meetings between corporate executives, regional managers, and different district or state offices and staff.
Seminars around the globe—It helps corporate and businesses to hold virtual seminars, called Webinars, and invite public or private audience to watch live speaker sessions, participate through feedback forms, and collaborate on phone.
Web conferencing and screen sharing—Interactive live conferencing is also used to stimulate user interest with online video collaboration and desktop sharing or screen cast. The screen cast feature lets the presenter to share his/her desktop screen with the audience and process information through different simulations, web content, and PowerPoint presentations.
Healthcare
Remote patient monitoring—In healthcare units, live conferencing equipment is used to monitor in-patients from remote locations. It is installed in rooms to monitor the health status of a patient, who has chronicle diseases, to save physicians time.
Healthcare trainings—Live conferencing is an effective method of delivering Interactive Live lectures and Trainings to the remote practitioners, physicians, and staff for continued productivity and improved performance.
Features of equipment
Enhancing existing communication infrastructure and corporate collaboration, Live conferencing forwards following typical features:
End to end web-based communication with VoIP and audio and video conferencing incorporated.
Real time live conferencing of audio and video sessions.
Instantaneous recordings of presenter audio and video and multimedia content such as animations, web pages, screen casts, annotations, highlights, still images, documents, graphs, etc.
Live chat between the presenter and the audience. Plus, dedicated chat rooms for visitors.
Pre-conference or lecture registration to approve and disapprove or limit audience.
Embedding features to let presenters incorporate live conferencing as Google+ hangouts or Facebook conferences.
Real time quizzes, feedbacks, polls, and survey forms to evaluate students, know the comprehension level of the audience, and gather participant feedback.
Integration with interactive whiteboards, LCD panels, multimedia projectors, document cameras, tablet computers, audience response system, and other presentation or smart room equipment.
Ultimate screen sharing to the live audience.
On-screen editing of content, Web graphics, program codes, and simulations.
Intuitive calendar applications to plan and schedule live events and avoid conflicts.
Hardware versus software
, live conferencing is becoming ubiquitous. It is influencing users with the influx of knowledge, communication edge provided. Live conferencing equipment includes hardware and software aspects to bring complete solutions. However, some software based live conferencing solutions require no hardware infrastructure except a camera and computer to stream, record, and evaluate the audience.
These software applications work independently of dedicated hardware and make installation and operations faster and easier with user-friendly Web based or local area network. Both hardware and software based solutions bring the most common features of live conferencing as stated above.
Benefits of using equipment
Live conferencing equipment with cutting-edge technologies and comprehensive features provide several benefits:
Cost saving—Most live conferencing equipment and solutions integrate with existing hardware or corporate infrastructure to save cost. Further, live conferencing saves traveling and lodging cost spent in attending in-person seminars or meeting.
Reduced communication time—Live conferencing enables instant communication with just few clicks. It requires no traveling and can be connected any time beyond geographical boundaries. Live conferencing saves communication time through organization wide network of networking points.
Increased efficiencies—Live conferencing improves student performance, comprehension, and employee satisfaction with immediate communication and leverages managers and instructors to address problems right away.
Ease of Use—Live conferencing equipment is usually easy-to-use built with familiar interfaces and standard technologies.
See also
Videoconferencing
References
Citations
Teleconferencing
Groupware
Assistive technology
Videotelephony
Video |
12438153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anales%20de%20F%C3%ADsica | Anales de Física | Anales de Física was a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in all areas of physics published by the Royal Spanish Society of Physics (Real Sociedad Española de Física). It continued Anales de la Real Sociedad Española de Física y Química/Serie A, Física and its first independent title was:
Anales de Física, 1968 (vol 64) to 1980 (vol. 76; , CODEN: ANFIA6)
From 1981 (vol. 77 (1981) to Vol. 87 (1992) the journal was split in two sections:
Anales de Física/Serie A, Fenómenos e Interacciones (, CODEN: AFAIDU),
Anales de Física/Serie B, Aplicaciones, Métodos e Instrumentos (, CODEN: AFBIDZ).
Finally, the journal was renamed to
Anales de Física, 1992 (vol. 88) to 1998 (vol. 94; , CODEN: AFISEX)
Publication ceased after issue no. 2, 1998, when the journal was merged with several other European journals in the European Physical Journal. The Royal Spanish Society of Physics is now publishing two other journals entitled Revista Española de Física and Revista Iberoamericana de Física.
External links
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Physics journals
Academic journals established in 1968
Publications disestablished in 1998
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32270579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudaltha | Pseudaltha | Pseudaltha is a genus of moths of the family Limacodidae.
Species
Pseudaltha atramentifera Hering, 1931
Pseudaltha eboris Solovyev, 2009
Pseudaltha sapa Solovyev, 2009
References
, 2009, Notes on South-East Asian Limacodidae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea) with one new genus and eleven new species. Tijdschrift voor Entomology 152 (1): 167-183.
Limacodidae genera
Limacodidae
Taxa named by Erich Martin Hering |
62704269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyla%20The%20Band | Leyla The Band | Leyla The Band is a Turkish rock band. Its formation was announced in March 2013 on the social media accounts for the TV series Leyla and Mecnun. The series' leading actor Ali Atay served as the main vocalist for the band. Other members included director Onur Ünlü on drums, Serkan Keskin on bass guitar, Osman Sonant on keyboard, Fırat İkisivri on guitar, Sarp Aydınoğlu on percussion and Sarper Aksoy on clarinet. The band's first song and musiv video "Yokluğunda" was first played during an episodes of Leyla and Mecnun and later uploaded on YouTube. The music video was viewed over 100 million times on YouTube and became one of the most viewed videos in Turkey in 2013. Their second song "Aşk Bitti" expanded their fan base. It was followed by a third song titled "Zaman".
The first concert of the group was held on 21 May 2013 in Jolly Joker Istanbul. The most crowded concert was held in Küçükçiftlik Park with 7 thousand people on 16 September 2013 under the slogan "Farewell to Leyla and Mecnun & Hello to I Miss Too". Serkan Keskin, one of the members of the group, explained that the group was disbanded because they did not intend to make money from music and the world of music was a very different world for them.
References
External links
Turkish alternative rock groups
Musical groups from Istanbul |
74684263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Chan%20Kum%20Tong | Gordon Chan Kum Tong | Gordon Chan Kum Tong is an Australian professional rugby league player for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL).
Playing career
Early career
Chan played for Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles.
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
Chan made his first grade debut on round 26 of the 2023 NRL season, and converted a penalty kick for the Manly club in their 42–24 win against Canterbury.
References
External links
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles NRL profile
Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles NSWRL profile
Rugby league project profile
Living people
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles players
Rugby league hookers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
4944060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipaliwini%20Savanna%20%28town%29 | Sipaliwini Savanna (town) | Sipaliwini Savanna, also called Sipaliwini, is a Tiriyó village on the Sipaliwini River in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village lies next to the Sipaliwini Airstrip. The nearest village in Suriname is Alalapadu which is located 60 kilometres north on a map, but due to the twists and turns of the river, the town of Kwamalasamutu which lies 83 kilometres west is easier to reach. The Brazilian village of Missão can be reached by an unpaved path.
The electricity facilities were destroyed during the Surinamese Interior War, and only a couple of private diesel generators remained operating. As of November 2019, the village has 24 hours of electricity using solar panels. There is a school, a clinic and a church. The economy depends on small scale agriculture.
References
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Populated places in Sipaliwini District |
27028082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Lambo | Josh Lambo | Joshua Gregory Lambo (born November 19, 1990) is an American former professional football placekicker who played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
Lambo began his athletic career as a goalkeeper in soccer. He was selected in the first round of the 2008 MLS SuperDraft by FC Dallas. Despite being a member of the team for three seasons, he never played in an MLS match. After retiring from soccer at the age of 21, he began playing college football for Texas A&M from 2012 to 2014.
He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2015, playing for the Chargers for two seasons. He was then signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars partway in the 2017 season. With the Jaguars, he was a Second-team All-Pro in 2019 and was released partway in the 2021 season. He subsequently had brief stints with the Pittsburgh Steelers' practice squad and the Tennessee Titans between 2021 and 2022.
Early life
Born in Lansing, Michigan, Lambo moved with his family to Crystal Lake, Illinois, when he was a small child. He played club soccer for the Chicago Magic before moving to Middleton, Wisconsin, in the summer of 2005, where he attended Middleton High School for less than two months before signing a Generation Adidas contract and joining the USA Residency Program in Bradenton, Florida. In 2006, and at the age of 15, he spent the summer training with Premier League club Everton during their tour of the United States on the recommendation of USMNT international Tim Howard and was invited to Finch Farm, before being offered a professional contract on the provision that he could secure an EU passport due to his Greek heritage.
Professional soccer career
Club career
Lambo was drafted in the first round (8th overall) of the 2008 MLS SuperDraft by FC Dallas. He played in the MLS Reserve Division, and was a named first team substitute on several occasions, but missed most of the second half of the 2008 season after he broke his jaw in a reserve team game. Lambo never played in an MLS match, but did appear for his team in an international friendly match versus Costa Rica’s CS Herediano in June 2009.
Lambo was loaned to USSF Division 2 Professional League expansion team FC Tampa Bay for the 2010 season. He made his professional debut on May 14, 2010, in a 2–1 victory over the Carolina RailHawks.
Lambo was waived by Dallas at the end of the 2011 season. He went on trial with D.C. United and Sheffield United in January 2012. After turning down offers from the NASL and the chance of becoming a MLS pool goalkeeper, he retired from professional soccer at the age of 21.
International career
Lambo made two appearances for the United States U-17 national team during the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup after starting the competition as a substitute. He made his debut in the third and last group stage match against Belgium, playing the whole game and keeping a clean sheet against a side that fielded future Premier League players Eden Hazard and Christian Benteke, and was the goalkeeper in the 2–1 loss against Germany in the round of 16. He was an unused substitute for the United States U-20 national team at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
College career
In the fall of 2012, Lambo enrolled at Texas A&M University and joined the football team as a placekicker. He became starting field goal kicker after overtaking Taylor Bertolet during the 2013 season (Bertolet remained the kick-off specialist). His first career appearance came on September 22, 2012, when he made an extra point against South Carolina State. His first game-winning field goal came against Ole Miss on October 12, 2013. With the game tied at 38 and only four seconds remaining in the game, Lambo kicked a 33-yard field goal to win the game for the Aggies. Lambo converted 50 of 51 extra point attempts in the 2013 season and all 59 extra point attempts for the 2014 season. He went on to compete in the 2015 NFLPA Collegiate Bowl.
Professional American football career
San Diego / Los Angeles Chargers
On May 2, 2015, after going undrafted in the 2015 NFL Draft, Lambo signed a contract as a free agent with the San Diego Chargers. Lambo was brought in for competition for the kicker spot. On September 5, Lambo won the starting job over the incumbent veteran Nick Novak. He displayed a strong leg during exhibition games, while Novak did not have a touchback in the final half of the 2014 season.
In the 2015 season, Lambo converted 26 of 32 field goal attempts.
On December 24, 2016, in a game against the 0–14 Cleveland Browns, Lambo missed a game tying field goal in the final seconds of the game, allowing the Browns to claim the win. In the 2016 season, Lambo converted 42 of 46 extra point attempts and 26 of 32 field goal attempts.
On September 2, 2017, Lambo was released by the Chargers after losing the starting kicker job to rookie Younghoe Koo.
Jacksonville Jaguars
On October 17, 2017, Lambo signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. On November 12, 2017, Lambo made a game-winning 30-yard field goal in overtime to give the Jaguars a 20–17 win over the Los Angeles Chargers. In the 2017 season, Lambo converted 22 of 24 extra point attempts and 19 of 20 field goal attempts. He converted all nine extra point attempts and all four field goal attempts in the Jaguars' postseason run.
In Week 8 of the 2018 season, Lambo kicked a new career-long 57-yard field goal against the Philadelphia Eagles. He was placed on injured reserve on December 28, 2018, with a groin injury. In the 2018 season, Lambo converted 19 of 20 extra point attempts and 19 of 21 field goal attempts in 13 games.
On February 13, 2019, Lambo signed a four-year, $15.5-million contract extension with the Jaguars. In Week 4, Lambo converted two extra points and went 4-for-4 on field goals, including the game-winning 33-yarder as time expired in a 26–24 win over the Denver Broncos, earning him AFC Special Teams Player of the Week. In Week 7, Lambo hit all four of his field goals and an extra point in a 27–17 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, earning him his second AFC Special Teams Player of the Week award of the season. In the 2019 season, Lambo converted 19 of 20 extra point attempts and 33 of 34 field goal attempts.
On September 23, 2020, Lambo was placed on injured reserve with a hip injury. He was activated on October 22. In Week 9, Lambo kicked a career-long and franchise-tying 59-yard field goal against the Houston Texans. However in the same game, he re-injured his hip on an onside kick attempt and was placed on season-ending injured reserve on November 9, 2020.
On October 19, 2021, Lambo was released by the Jaguars.
On December 15, Lambo accused first-year Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer of kicking him in the leg during warmups before the team's final preseason game. This accusation would ultimately play a pivotal role in Meyer's firing early the next day. He later filed a lawsuit against the team alleging that Meyer created a hostile work environment and the Jaguars did nothing to stop it.
Pittsburgh Steelers
On November 2, 2021, Lambo was signed to the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad. He was released on November 11.
Tennessee Titans
On November 16, 2022, Lambo signed with the Tennessee Titans as an injury replacement for Randy Bullock. Lambo made three of his four extra point attempts in a 27–17 win over the Green Bay Packers. He was waived on November 21.
Retirement
On March 17, 2023, Lambo retired from professional sports.
Statistics
Personal life
Lambo has been married twice: firstly to Amy, and then a second time, to Megan Menefee from 2018 to 2021.
References
External links
Texas A&M Aggies bio
1990 births
Living people
American football placekickers
American men's soccer players
Men's association football goalkeepers
American people of Greek descent
FC Dallas draft picks
FC Dallas players
USSF Division 2 Professional League players
Tampa Bay Rowdies players
Texas A&M Aggies football players
United States men's under-20 international soccer players
United States men's youth international soccer players
Soccer players from Chicago
People from Middleton, Wisconsin
Sportspeople from Dane County, Wisconsin
People from East Lansing, Michigan
Soccer players from Wisconsin
San Diego Chargers players
Footballers who switched code
IMG Academy alumni
Players of American football from Wisconsin
Los Angeles Chargers players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
Tennessee Titans players
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Pittsburgh Steelers players |
52492624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choeromorpha%20irrorata | Choeromorpha irrorata | Choeromorpha irrorata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1857.
References
Choeromorpha
Beetles described in 1857 |
40663046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frue%20Plads | Frue Plads | Frue Plads (literally "Square of (Our) Lady") is a public square located on the north side of the Church of Our Lady in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It occupies a rectangular space which is bounded on the other sides by University of Copenhagen's main building to the north, Nørregade to the west and pedestrianized Fiolstræde to the east.
History
In the Middle Ages, Our Lady's Square was located a little further to the north while the current square occupies the grounds of Church of Our Lady's graveyard. A new residence for the Roskilde Bishops was built on the square in about 1420, shortly after Eric of Pomerania had taken over Copenhagen Castle. After the Reformation, University of Copenhagen took over the building complex. It was later expanded with various new buildings.
In 1644, Simon Paulli took the initiative of converting one of the university's buildings overlooking Church of Our Lady's graveyard into an anatomical theatre, Domus Anatomica, although Paulli did not hold his first public lecture until 3 March 1645. The building was completely destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 and subsequently replaced by Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum on Købmagergade.
The British bombardment of Copenhagen on 3–5 September 1807 hit the area hard. Its main building and the professorial residences on the corners of Fiolstræde and Store Kannikestræde were destroyed by fire together with the church. It was subsequently decided not to reconstruct the graveyard but to create a new square in its place. Christian Frederik Hansen, who was responsible for the rebuilding of Church of Our Lady, was also charged with the design of a new building for Our Lady's School on Fiolstræde at the eastern end of the square. The school wished to change its name to Copenhagen Cathedral School but this was rejected after protests from Roskilde Cathedral School and the name was instead changed to Metropolitan School in 1917. The building was taken over by the university when the school moved to new premises in Nørrebro in the 1930s.
Denmark's economy suffered greatly from the war with England and many public buildings needed to be rebuilt after the bombardment. The university therefore had to use Regensen and various other temporary premises around the city while they waited for a new home to be built. In 1819, Peter Malling, one of C. F. Hansen's students, was charged with the design of a new main building. His proposal was well received but far too expensive and in 1922 the project was once again put on hold. In 1829 when the plans were finally revived, it was in a smaller version.
A set of bunkers was constructed in the square during World War II. They were removed after the war.
Architecture
Malling's main building for the university is built to a Neo-Gothic design. It is flanked by the gables of the Community Building (Kommunitetsbygningen) on Nørregade and Copenhagen University Library on Giolstræde. One of few buildings at the site that survived the bombardment in 1807, the former dates from the Middle Ages. In his design of the university library, which was completed in 1861, Johan Daniel Herholdt has tried to balance the gable on Frue Plads with that of the Community Building in terms of design and proportions.
The former Metropolitan School on Fiolstræde is now known as the Metropolitan Annex. It is a simple, Neoclassical building typical of C. F. Hansen's style. At the other end of the square, on Nørregade, is the Bishop's House where the Bishop of Copenhagen has his official residence and office.
Sculptury
In front of the university is a series of busts, depicting prominent alumni:
Vilhelm Thomsen, linguist, 1842-1927
. The bust was created by L. Brandstrup in 1921 and installed on the square in 1929.
Johan Nicolai Madvig, linguist, 1804–86. The bust was created by Vilhelm Bissen in 1874 and installed on the square in a larger version in 1887.
Henrik Nicolai Clausen, theologian, 1793–1877. The bust was created by Vilhelm Bissen in 1858 and installed on the square in a larger version in 1878.
Joakim Frederik Schouw, botanist, 1789–1852. Created by Vilhelm Bissen in 1851 and installed on the square in 1854.
Japetus Steenstrup, zoologist, 1813–97. Created by Vilhelm Bissen in 1866 and installed on the square in a larger version in 1898.
Niels Bohr, physicist, 1885–1962. Created by J. Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 1957.
Another three busts are mounted on pillars along the south side of the square. They depict the composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse and the bishops Hans Lassen Martensen Jacob Peter Mynster.
A new memorial dedicated to the scientist Inge Lehmann was installed on the square in 2017. The monument was designed by Elisabeth Toubro.
Arts & craft market
Every year in August, since 1983, Frue Plads plays host to an annual arts & craft market, Kunsthåndværkermarkedet. It is the largest market of its kind in Denmark, featuring 130 professional artists and craftsmen in 2013.
Image gallery
References
External links
Arts & Craft Market, official website
Squares in Copenhagen
Odonyms referring to religion |
16139055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisela%20Uhlen | Gisela Uhlen | Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German film actress and occasional screen writer.
Biography
Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck in Leipzig, Germany as fourth child of Luise Frieda and distillery owner and former opera singer Augustin Schreck.
At the Leipziger Konservatorium she enrolled in a modern dance class, and learnt classical ballet and acrobatics at the opera school. At 15 she decided to become a theatre actress and chose the stage-name Gisela Uhlen. After her final examination as a dancer and during her training period she married ballet teacher Herbert Freund.
At 17 she appeared for the first time at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. In 1938 Heinrich George brought her to the Berliner Schiller-Theater, where she was active until the end of the war. But even before her first stage appearance she had made film tests with Universum Film AG (Ufa), and thereby obtained the leading actress role in the 1936 film . After the war performance of this film was prohibited. Uhlen played a young organist whose lover volunteered to go to the front and there died.
From 1936 through 1960, Uhlen appeared in 23 films, and in 1960 she steered her career into television. Her career was active throughout her lifetime, with her having more than 56 television appearances into 2006, entirely in the German and European realm.
She married six times, most notably to German writer, director and producer Hans Bertram, with whom she had daughter Barbara Bertram, who also became an actress, but with little success. With Wolfgang Kieling she had a daughter Susanne Uhlen, who is now a successful German actress. During the Cold War, and following her divorce from Hans Bertram, Uhlen fled into East Germany to avoid a custody battle over their daughter, an unusual move in a time when most people were attempting to escape from East Germany, but moved to West Berlin in 1960.
Filmography
Stage appearances
Books
Umarmungen und Enthüllungen. Berlin : Parthas-Verl., 2002.
Meine Droge ist das Leben. Weinheim : Beltz, Quadriga, 1993.
Mein Glashaus. Frankfurt/M : Ullstein, 1991.
References
External links
Gisela Uhlen Partial Filmography with Plot Synopsis
Gisela Uhlen - Postcards, movie cards, covers, books and articles
German wikiquote entry
1919 births
2007 deaths
German film actresses
Best Actress German Film Award winners
Actors from Leipzig
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni
German stage actresses
German television actresses
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses |
3596862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20districts%20of%20Haryana | List of districts of Haryana | Haryana, with 22 districts, is a state in the northern region of India and is the nation's eighteenth most populous. The state borders with Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north and Rajasthan to the west and south. The river Yamuna defines its eastern border with Uttar Pradesh. Haryana also surrounds Delhi on three sides, forming the northern, western and southern borders of Delhi. Consequently, a large area of Haryana is included in the National Capital Region. Chandigarh is the capital of Punjab and Haryana jointly.
History
On 1 November 1966 Haryana was constituted as a separate state with seven districts, according to the partition plan of the then East Punjab. The seven districts were Rohtak, Jind, Hisar, Mahendragarh, Gurgaon, Karnal, Ambala. The partition was based on the linguistic demographics and was held after the recommendation of Sardar Hukam Singh—the then Speaker of the Lok Sabha—Parliamentary Committee. A further 15 districts were added later by re-organizing the erstwhile districts. The First Chief minister of Haryana was Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma.
In 2016, Charkhi Dadri district was carved out of the larger Bhiwani.
Administration
A district of Haryana state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a Deputy Commissioner or District Magistrate, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrate or the deputy commissioner is assisted by a number of officers belonging to Haryana Civil Service and other state services.
A Superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues of the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Haryana Police Service and other Haryana Police officials.
A Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service is responsible for managing the Forests, environment and wild-life related issues of the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Haryana Forest Service and other Haryana Forest officials and Haryana Wild-Life officials.
Sectoral development is looked after by the district head of each development department such as PWD, Health, Education, Agriculture, Animal husbandry, etc. These officers belong to the various State Services.
List
The Government of Haryana has divided Haryana state in the following 22 districts:
See also
List of tehsils of Haryana
References
General
Specific
Districts
Haryana |
57198479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachybrachis%20immaculatus | Pachybrachis immaculatus | Pachybrachis immaculatus is a species of case-bearing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.
References
Further reading
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Beetles described in 1801 |
14810106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Eelma | Eduard Eelma | Eduard Eelma (7 April 1902 – 16 November 1941) until 1937 Eduard-Vilhelm Ellmann, was an Estonian footballer — one of the most famous before World War II. He played 59 times for Estonia national football team scoring 21 goals. He debuted on 23 July 1921, against Sweden. He participated in Summer Olympics in Paris 1924. He spent most of his playing career at Tallinna JK. Eduard Eelma's international career lasted from 1921 to 1935 and his goalscoring record of 21 international goals was only beaten in 2002, by Indrek Zelinski and later by Andres Oper.
Eduard Eelma was arrested by NKVD in Tallinn in summer 1941, sentenced to death and executed in Prison No. 1 in Kirov on 16 November 1941.
Statistics
International
Honours
Club
Kalev
Estonian champion: 1923
Tallinna
Estonian champion: 1926, 1928
Estonia Tallinn
Estonian champion: 1934, 1935
International
Estonia
Baltic Cup: 1929, 1931
External links
History of Eduard Ellman-Eelma on rsssf.com
References
1902 births
1941 deaths
Footballers from Saint Petersburg
Estonian men's footballers
Estonia men's international footballers
Nonpersons in the Eastern Bloc
Estonian people executed by the Soviet Union
Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for Estonia
JK Tallinna Kalev players
Men's association football forwards |
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