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67618317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Cambridge%20City%20Council%20election | 2021 Cambridge City Council election | The 2021 Cambridge City Council election took place on 6 May 2021 to elect members of Cambridge City Council in England. This was on the same day as other nationwide local elections.
Results summary
Ward results
Percentages are calculated by dividing the total number of votes by the number of seats available, then dividing the total each candidate received by that number, and multiplied by one-hundred.
Abbey
Arbury
Castle
Cherry Hinton
Coleridge
East Chesterton
King's Hedges
Market
Newnham
Petersfield
Queen Edith's
Romsey
Trumpington
West Chesterton
References
Cambridge
2021
2020s in Cambridge |
69516954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Trn%C4%9Bn%C3%BD | Milan Trněný | Milan Trněný (born 6 March 1971) is a Czech former professional tennis player.
Trneny, who had a best singles ranking of 471, featured in the 1991 Prague Open main draw, losing his first round match in three sets to Dimitri Poliakov. His best doubles ranking was 264 and he made one ATP Challenger doubles final.
ATP Challenger finals
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
Czech male tennis players
Czechoslovak male tennis players |
50575826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassin%20Chadili | Yassin Chadili | Yassin Chadili (born 10 August 1988) is a French professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder. He has previously played for Boulogne, where he made 17 appearances in Ligue 2, and Épinal.
Personal life
Chadili as born in France and is of Moroccan descent.
Career statistics
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Dunkirk
Footballers from Nord (French department)
French men's footballers
French sportspeople of Moroccan descent
Men's association football midfielders
US Boulogne players
SAS Épinal players
CS Sedan Ardennes players
Olympique Grande-Synthe players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players |
49440107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Fives%20Foundation | High Fives Foundation | High Fives Foundation is a Lake Tahoe-based, national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Located in Truckee, California, the foundation provides grants for rehabilitation support to athletes with life-altering injuries as a result of mountain sports. It also promotes awareness of injury prevention. Athletes such as Nick Fairall and Julia Mancuso are involved with the foundation.
History
High Fives Foundation was founded in 2009 by Roy Tuscany. Tuscany suffered a spinal cord injury resulting in immediate lower body paralysis while skiing in 2006. In 2008, Tuscany hosted his first event called High Fives, which was a skiing contest for the best 540 rotation at the Sugar Bowl Resort. The event-based fundraising format became the primary revenue source. In August 2016, High Fives Foundation announced the Stowe Country Club in Vermont as the host for its second annual charity golf tournament.
Programs and initiatives
The foundation's Empowerment Fund provides grants to disabled winter action sports athletes and athletes recovering from life-altering injuries. The foundation expanded its mission to help people injured in summer mountain sports.
In 2011, the High Fives Foundation along with action sports professional J.T. Holmes created the BASICS Program Services (Being Aware Safe In Critical Situations). The program has produced five safety education documentaries, which are shown in schools, ski clubs, and to industry professionals around the country. Decorated freeskier Daron Rahlves is a program mentor.
The CR Johnson Healing Center is a 2,400 square foot training facility in Truckee, California, that provides resources for athletes in the process of rehabilitation such as physical therapy, acupuncture, active release techniques, and personal training.
High Fives Foundation created the Military to the Mountains program which enables United States military veterans injured during tour of duty to ski in Squaw Valley. In 2016, the foundation helped its 100th athlete with the Military to the Mountains program. In May 2016, High Fives Foundation received a $150,000 donation from Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows for its Military to the Mountains program.
Filmography
References
External links
High Fives Foundation official site
BASICS videos
Choices awareness video
Charities based in California
Lake Tahoe
Parasports organizations in the United States |
26965916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307%20Burnley%20F.C.%20season | 2006–07 Burnley F.C. season | The 2006–07 season was Burnley's 7th season in the second tier of English football. They were managed by Steve Cotterill in his third full season since he replaced Stan Ternent at the beginning of the 2004–05 season.
Appearances and goals
Source:
Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.
Players with names struck through and marked left the club during the playing season.
Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Burnley.
Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.
Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward
Transfers
In
Out
Matches
Championship
Final league position
League Cup
1st Round
FA Cup
3rd Round
References
Burnley F.C. seasons
Burnley |
31402302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhanamala | Madhanamala | Madhanamala is a 1947 Tamil language film starring Sriram, T. R. Rajani, P. B. Rangachari, Vidwan Srinivasan, P. S. Veerappa, R. N. Nambiar, S. R. Janaki, T. S. Jaya, V. Rajalakshmi and V. Kumar. The film was directed by K. Vembu and produced by S. Soundararajan of Tamil Nadu Talkies.
Plot
The story revolves around Vikraman, a young man who asks for the celebrated court dancer Madhanamala during celebrations organised by a king who offers a gift to all those present. As a result, the king gets angry and banishes Vikraman from the kingdom. Vikraman, however, still manages to find Madhanamala and they both fall in love. Disguised as a sadhu, Vikraman meets Madhanamala and they spend a night together. Soon, though, Vikraman gets caught. In the end, after some tribulations, Vikraman is reunited with Madhanamala.
Cast
Sriram as Vikraman
T. R. Rajanias Madhanamala
P. B. Rangachari as the fake sadhu
Vidwan Srinivasan as the poet
P. S. Veerappan
M. V. Mani as the king
Soundtrack
M. S. Gnanamani composed the songs, for which the lyrics were written by C. S. Varadarajan.
References
1948 films
1940s Tamil-language films
Indian black-and-white films
Films scored by M. S. Gnanamani |
6761233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Savchenko%20%28boxer%29 | Viktor Savchenko (boxer) | Viktor Grigorievich Savchenko (, born 17 September 1952) is a retired Ukrainian amateur middleweight boxer. He won the European title in 1977, the world title in 1978, and two Olympic medals in 1976 and 1980. Savchenko was the Soviet middleweight champion in 1977 and 1980. He retired in 1982 with a record of 241 wins out of 271 bouts, and the same year graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State Institute of Physical Culture. He later defended a PhD in pedagogy, and became department head and then rector at the same institute. He also served as a board member of the Ukrainian Boxing Federation and headed the Sports and Physical Culture Committee of Verkhovna Rada.
References
1952 births
Living people
Light-middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for the Soviet Union
Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in boxing
Ukrainian male boxers
Soviet male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Second convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Ukrainian sportsperson-politicians |
31627084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Suite%20%28Coates%29 | London Suite (Coates) | The London Suite, also known as London Every Day, is a suite of orchestral music by the English composer Eric Coates.
The Suite was completed in 1933 when Coates was 47.
It consists of three movements:
I. Covent Garden (Tarentelle)
II. Westminster (Meditation)
III. Knightsbridge (March)
The work was extremely popular when it was first published, no doubt helped by part of the third movement, Knightsbridge, being used as the theme tune for a BBC Radio chat show programme called In Town Tonight which was broadcast initially on the National Programme from 1933 and then switched to the Home Service in 1939 where it continued until 1960. The BBC received such a large number of requests for the name of the piece by post that they had slips of paper printed specifically to help with the demand.
Gerrard Williams arranged the military band edition of the suite for Chappell's Army Journal. Paul V. Yoder also arranged the march for Chappell & Co.
Orchestration
The London Suite is scored for:
Violin I & II
Viola
Cello
Bass
Flute I & II
Clarinet I & II
Oboe I & II
Horns I – IV
Trumpets I & II
Trombones I & II
Harp
Timpani
Percussion: Triangle, Side Drum, Bass Drum, Cymbals (clashed), Cymbal (suspended), Glockenspiel, Tubular Bells and Gong.
London Again
Such was the popularity of the London Suite that in 1936 Coates wrote a sequel to it called the London Again Suite; the title pre-empted critics that he was writing about "London again". The movements are as follows:
I. Oxford Street (March). A busy shopping thoroughfare.
II. Langham Place (Elegie). Langham Place is the location of BBC Broadcasting House.
III. Mayfair (Valse). A fashionable and expensive residential area of London.
The second movement references the composer's close association with the BBC, being based on a B♭ B♭ C motif; this movement quotes the "Knightsbridge" March made famous by In Town Tonight and concludes with the chimes of Big Ben which closed down broadcasting for the day. The work received its premiere by the BBC Theatre Orchestra under Stanford Robinson.
Other "London" works by Coates
London Bridge, March (1934)
London Calling, March (1943)
Holborn, March (1950)
References
Compositions by Eric Coates
Orchestral suites
Compositions for symphony orchestra
1933 compositions
Music about London |
26218953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Last%20Five%20Girlfriends | My Last Five Girlfriends | My Last Five Girlfriends is a 2009 British romantic black comedy film
directed by Julian Kemp starring Brendan Patricks, based on pop-philosopher Alain De Botton's book, Essays In Love (U.S. title On Love).
Plot
After yet another failed relationship, 30-something Duncan (Brendan Patricks) decides to quiz his last five girlfriends to find out what went wrong in order to figure out how to find love. With advice from bizarre sources and intense flights of fancy, finally Duncan realises that love is a battleground where only the fittest can survive.
Cast
Brendan Patricks as Duncan
Naomie Harris as Gemma
Kelly Adams as Wendy
Cécile Cassel as Rhona
Jane March as Olive
Edith Bukovics as Natalie
Michael Sheen as Burnam
Mark Benton as Alan
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill as Will
Sarah Rodriguez as Paula
Reception
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 32% based on reviews from 19 critics.
References
External links
2009 films
British comedy films
Films directed by Julian Kemp
2000s English-language films
2000s British films |
8248445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Caudwell | Sarah Caudwell | Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn (/ˈkoʊbərn/ KOH-bərn; 27 May 1939 – 28 January 2000), a British barrister and author of detective stories. Her series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999 centered on a group of young barristers practicing in Lincoln's Inn, narrated by a Hilary Tamar, a professor of medieval law whose gender is never specified, who fills the role of detective.
Biography
Early years
Sarah Cockburn was born on 27 May 1939 in Weir Road, London. Her father was Claud Cockburn, the left-wing journalist, and her mother was Jean Ross, a journalist and political activist who was the model for the character Sally Bowles in Christopher Isherwood's Cabaret. Her parents were unmarried and her father left three months after Sarah's birth.
Caudwell's three half-brothers Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn, and Patrick Cockburn are journalists. She was the half-sister-in-law of Leslie Cockburn and Michael Flanders. Journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders, and actress Olivia Wilde are her half-nieces.
During World War II, she lived in Welwyn and Stevenage, Hertfordshire, with her mother and maternal grandmother. In 1945, they moved to Cheltenham. She and her mother moved to Scotland in the 1950s, where she attended Aberdeen High School for Girls. She received her MA in classics from the University of Aberdeen in 1960 and won a scholarship to study in Greece.
She then studied law at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. She was one of the first two female students invited to speak at the Oxford Union, after her friends Jenny Grove and Rose Dugdale dressed in men's clothes to gain entrance to the male-only debating chamber and had then canvassed support for the admission of female students. She graduated with her BCL in 1962.
Career
On coming down from Oxford, she lectured on Law at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. She then spent a year at Cité Universitaire des Jeunes Filles at Nancy, receiving a diploma in French law. Having been called to the Bar in 1966, she joined the Chancery bar. She practised as a barrister first at the Middle Temple and then at Lincoln's Inn, specialising in property and tax law. She later joined Lloyds Bank, where she specialised in international tax planning and became a senior executive in the trust department. It was at this time that she started to write.
Fellow barrister John Tackebury praised her accomplishments at the bar: "As a woman, she had to have had a first-class mind to join the Chancery bar, to have built up a successful practice and to have become a senior executive at Lloyds... All these institutions were highly resistant to women at a senior level, and certainly to a woman who smoked a pipe."
Personal life and death
She was a lifelong pipe-smoker, and inveterate crossword solver, reaching the final of The Times Crossword Competition more than once. For many years, she lived in Barnes, London, with her mother and aunt. She died of throat cancer on 28 January 2000 in Whitehall, London.
Writing
Hilary Tamar series
This series of four books, described as "legal whodunits", were written over a period of twenty years. Their primary setting is the top floor of 62 New Square at Lincoln's Inn, where four young junior barristers have their chambers: Michael Cantrip, Desmond Ragwort, Selena Jardine and Timothy Shepherd. While the last named only appears sporadically, taxes barrister Julia Larwood, who works in the adjacent premises, is a regular visitor and is in effect the fifth member of the group. These characters are in some ways thinly drawn (Selena is highly organized and efficient, Julia is clumsy and chaotic, Cantrip is casual and modern, Ragwort is elegant and conservative), never communicating in anything other than an ironic tone, so that even when they are in deadly danger the atmosphere remains uniformly light-hearted.
Acting as a kind of parent to the group is the first-person narrator, Professor Hilary Tamar. Professor Tamar, a former tutor of Timothy Shepherd, also acts as the main detective, although other characters make contributions to the eventual solutions. Professor Tamar is frequently physically removed from the action and is kept informed by a series of improbably long letters and telexes. This distancing is amplified by Caudwell's strategy of not specifying Tamar's gender and never specifying the reason for the strong bond which the character enjoys with the young advocates. The plots are intricate, carefully realised, and strongly tied to the locations chosen, these being Venice, Corfu, Sark and an English village. The author's expertise in tax law is frequently brought into play, inheritance law being relevant to financial motives for murder. She was particularly popular among other legal professionals, including American jurist Robert Bork, who was once quoted as saying, "In my opinion, there can't be too many Sarah Caudwell novels".
Other writing
Caudwell collaborated on crime fiction-related acrostics with Michael Z. Lewin and with Lawrence Block and others for The Perfect Murder.
She also wrote a play, The Madman's Advocate, which was given a rehearsed reading in Nottingham in 1995: a study of Daniel M'Naghten's attempt in 1843 to assassinate Sir Robert Peel and the resulting establishment of the M'Naghten Rule as a legal standard for defining the sanity of a defendant in law.
Awards
The Shortest Way to Hades was nominated for the Best Novel award at the 1986 Anthony awards. Caudwell won the 1990 award for The Sirens Sang of Murder in the same category.
In 2010 the Japanese edition of The Sibyl in Her Grave was shortlisted for the Best Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Decade (2000-2009).
Bibliography
Hilary Tamar novels
Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981)
The Shortest Way to Hades (1985)
The Sirens Sang of Murder (1989)
The Sibyl in Her Grave (2000), published posthumously
Other works
The Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime (1991) (with Lawrence Block, Tony Hillerman and Jack Hitt)
Contributions to anthologies
2nd Culprit: An Annual of Crime Stories (1994)
3rd Culprit (1994)
Malice Domestic 6 (1997)
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000), published posthumously
Women Before the Bench (2001), published posthumously
The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime (2002), published posthumously
References
Sources
St James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, Fourth Edition; 1990. Jay Pederson (ed.), "Sarah Caudwell", pp. 162–63.
External links
Article on Sarah Caudwell
1939 births
2000 deaths
Cockburn family
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
English mystery writers
Cozy mystery writers
Anthony Award winners
Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford
Deaths from cancer in England
English women novelists
20th-century English novelists
20th-century English women writers
Women mystery writers
People educated at Harlaw Academy
20th-century English lawyers
20th-century pseudonymous writers
Pseudonymous women writers
20th-century British women lawyers |
26916932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Harper%20%28antiques%20expert%29 | David Harper (antiques expert) | David Kingsley Harper (born 1967 in Middlesbrough, England) is an antiques expert, artist, speaker and writer.
Harper's first television role was in 2005 as presenter of Channel 4's Natural Born Dealers. He has been featured on Through the Keyhole and Ready Steady Cook, and has presented pieces for The Heaven and Earth Show, The One Show, Inside Out and Countryfile Summer Diaries.
In April 2010 he won the first series of Antiques Road Trip, raising £2488 for Children in Need from a starting budget of £200. In addition to regular appearances on Antiques Road Trip, he appears as an antiques expert on Bargain Hunt, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and Cash in the Attic.
Personal life
Harper grew up in England and Zimbabwe. His early career involved shipping antiques to and from the United States. He later became the director of a British PLC company importing antique style rubberwood furniture from the Far East. He has homes in Barnard Castle and London.
References
British antiquarians
1967 births
British television personalities
Living people
People from Middlesbrough |
21770290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ambrose%20%28Royal%20Navy%20officer%29 | John Ambrose (Royal Navy officer) | Rear-Admiral John Ambrose (ca. 1705 – 26 March 1771) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He was promoted to post-captain in March 1734, and appointed to , in which ship he was employed in the Channel and Mediterranean until September 1740, when he was transferred to the 60-gun . In this ship he continued for the next eighteen months, carrying out successful cruises against the enemy's privateers on the north coast of Spain, and on the coast of Portugal. He was then sent out to join the Mediterranean Fleet, and was present in the Battle of Toulon on 11 February 1744.
Captain Ambrose was afterwards charged before a court-martial with having neglected his duty on that occasion; with firing and continuing to fire on the enemy whilst altogether out of range, with not having assisted when in extreme danger, with not having covered and protected the fire-ship when he might and should have done so, and finally with 'disobedience to His Majesty's instructions and the signals and commands of the admiral, neglect of naval discipline, and being one of the principal causes of the miscarriage of His Majesty's fleet.' The court held these charges to be proved in the principal part; but considering that he had always borne the character of a vigilant and diligent officer, and that his failure in the action was apparently due to a mistake in judgement, his judges sentenced him to be only cashiered during His Majesty's pleasure and to be fined one year's pay, to be given to the chest at Chatham. In 1748 he was restored to his rank and half-pay, and in April 1750 was advanced to be a rear-admiral on the retired list. He died on 26 March 1771.
References
Royal Navy rear admirals
Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession
1700s births
1771 deaths
Year of birth uncertain |
70156126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md.%20Abu%20Zafor%20Siddique | Md. Abu Zafor Siddique | Md. Abu Zafor Siddique is a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
Early life
Siddique was born on 2 January 1959. He completed his bachelor's degree and masters in law from the University of Rajshahi.
Career
Siddique became a lawyer of the District Courts in 1985.
In 1998, Siddique became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.
On 18 April 2010, Siddique was appointed a judge of the High Court Division.
Siddique was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division on 15 April 2012.
In November 2017, Siddique, Justice Md. Shawkat Hossain, and Justice Md. Nazrul Islam Talukder issued a verdict in the Bangladesh Rifles revolt case. He observed in the verdict that the mutineers wanted to destabilize the country and government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Siddique in a hearing on 1 March 2018 declared the parliamentary membership of Nizam Hazari to be legal after a petition was filed challenging it based in Hazari's past conviction in an arms case.
In March 2020, Siddique and Justice A. S. M. Abdul Mobin granted permanent bail to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a defamation case filed in Narail District after Khaleda Zia questioned the number of deaths in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 2015 at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh. They revoked the bail later on the same day after the Government of Bangladesh objected. The bail granted lasted for two hours.
In June 2021, Siddique and Justice K. M. Hafizul Alam, ordered the arrest of four, including two lawyers, for forging a bail order of the High Court Division. He elevated to the Appellate Division from High Court on December, 2022 by superseding many of his colleagues.
Personal life
Siddique's son, Md Jumman Siddiqui, failed Bangladesh Bar Council examinations multiple times but yet had his name in a gazette listing the lawyers allowed to practice in the supreme court. Justices Tariq ul Hakim and Md Iqbal Kabir of the supreme court issued an order to halt the notice and asked why his name was listed in the gazette.
References
Living people
1959 births
University of Rajshahi alumni
20th-century Bangladeshi lawyers
Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices
21st-century Bangladeshi lawyers |
32812951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Alexander%20Ogilvy%2C%201st%20Baronet | Sir Alexander Ogilvy, 1st Baronet | Sir Alexander Ogilvy, 1st Baronet (died 1727) was a Scottish politician and judge, lord of session under the title Lord Forglen.
Life
He was the second son of George Ogilvy, 2nd Lord Banff, and Agnes Falconer, only daughter of Sir Alexander Falconer, 1st Lord Falconer of Halkerton.
Ogilvy was involved in a legal dispute with Sir Alexander Forbes of Tolquhoun. On 28 March 1685 he was sued by Forbes for the value of a silver cup, which Forbes alleged had been taken out of his house, On 23 April he pursued Forbes for defamation, the result being that the council fined Forbes 20,000 merks, one half to the king's cashier. The king's half of the fine was subsequently remitted, but the council compelled Forbes to pay Ogilvy's half.
Ogilvy was created a baronet 29 June 1701, and sat in the Parliament of Scotland as the member for the burgh of Banff in 1701-2 and 1702–7. His family home was Forglen House in the north but in Edinburgh, where the law courts are, he lived on Anchor Close, off the Royal Mile. The house had pleasant gardens on its north side edging onto the Nor' Loch, containing a pleasant summerhouse.
In the late 18th century he was a member of the Crochallan Fencibles, a club which met at Dawney's Tavern on Anchor Close in Edinburgh.
In June 1703 he and Lord Belhaven were ordered into custody for having quarrelled in the parliament house in the presence of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, the Lord High Commissioner, and come to blows. On 30 June it was moved that, as they had acknowledged their offence, they should be set at liberty; but Queenserry would not consent until the queen's pleasure was known. Ultimately, Lord Belhaven, for striking Ogilvy, was ordered to pay a fine of £5,000, and to ask pardon on his knees at the bar of the Lord High Commissioner; Queensberry dispensed with the kneeling.
On 26 March 1706 Ogilvy was appointed a lord of session, and he took his seat on 23 July following, with the title Lord Forglen. He was also named one of the commissioners for the union with England, which he strongly supported in the Scottish Parliament. He died 3 March 1727.
Family
By his first wife, Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John Allardice of Allardice, Kincardineshire, Ogilvy had four sons, of whom the second, Alexander, succeeded him, and the others died without issue. By his second wife, Mary, daughter of David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, and widow of Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmerton, he left no issue.
Notes
Attribution
Year of birth missing
1727 deaths
Forglen
Burgh Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Younger sons of barons
Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1689–1702
Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1702–1707 |
36693127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Pike%20%28sport%20shooter%29 | John Pike (sport shooter) | John Franklin Pike (1861 – 25 February 1919) was a British sport shooter. Competing for Great Britain, he won a gold medal in team trap shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
References
1861 births
1919 deaths
British male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Great Britain
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
Olympic medalists in shooting
20th-century British people |
55859701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Cainberg | Linda Cainberg | Linda Cainberg (born 10 July 1986) is a Finnish handball player for HIFK Handboll and the Finnish national team.
References
1986 births
Living people
Finnish female handball players
Sportspeople from Vantaa |
38717571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiplimo%20Kimutai | Kiplimo Kimutai | Kiplimo Kimutai (born December 10, 1981) is a male long-distance runner from Kenya.
Achievements
References
1981 births
Living people
Kenyan male long-distance runners
Kenyan male marathon runners |
15144407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpa-an%20District | Hpa-an District | Hpa-An District (Phlone ; , ) is a district of the Karen State in Myanmar. It consists 5 towns and 1490 villages.
2014 population was 783,510.
Townships
The district contains the following townships:
Hpa-an Township
Hlaingbwe Township
Thandaunggyi Township
External links
Hpa-an District
Hpa-an District
References
Districts of Myanmar
Kayin State |
67608636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolata | Dolata | Dolata is a surname. It may refer to:
Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata (born 1983), Polish volleyball player
Ulrich Dolata (born 1959), German sociologist
Zbigniew Dolata (born 1965), Polish politician
See also
Polish-language surnames |
25765747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaragoza%2C%20San%20Luis%20Potos%C3%AD | Zaragoza, San Luis Potosí | Zaragoza is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí in central Mexico.
References
Municipalities of San Luis Potosí |
17348672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Binning | Jimmy Binning | James Binning (21 December 1922 – 1991) was a Scottish footballer who played for Arbroath and Dumfries side Queen of the South.
Career
From the season 1948–1949 until his departure, Binning scored six goals in his 84 league games for Arbroath. Binning was a 1951 signing from Arbroath for Queen of the South. Half a century later another distinguished player would make the same journey, Jim Thomson. Binning gave Queens seven years service at full-back, playing 288 senior games for Queens.
When Binning arrived at Queens already there were Scotland cap Billy Houliston, goalkeeper Roy Henderson, fellow full back Dougie Sharpe and forward Jim Patterson (251 strikes makes Patterson the goals king of Queens). Goal scoring winger Bobby Black joined in 1952. At different levels all six would be selected to represent Scotland except Henderson who was selected six times as reserve goalkeeper. After winning the Scottish League 'B' division in 1951 Binning played in the early and mid-1950s period of Queens regular top division mid table finishes. This was under the management of Jimmy McKinnell Junior.
International football
Binning was recognised internationally when he was given a Scottish League XI cap in 1954, against the English League at Stamford Bridge. Although selected for the 22 man squad for the 1954 FIFA World Cup, the Scottish Football Association only budgeted to take 13 players (including only one goalkeeper) to the finals in Switzerland. Binning was one of the players who stayed at home on reserve with the likes of Bobby Combe and Ernie Copland. Ex-Queens inside forward George Hamilton did travel after Bobby Johnstone with drew through injury.
References
External links
Jimmy Binning full career profile on the official Queen of the South website
1922 births
1991 deaths
Arbroath F.C. players
Men's association football fullbacks
People from Blantyre, South Lanarkshire
Queen of the South F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Football League representative players
Scottish men's footballers
Scottish Junior Football Association players
Strathclyde F.C. players
1954 FIFA World Cup players |
28992633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Oswald%27s%20Church%2C%20Lassington | St Oswald's Church, Lassington | St Oswald's Church was an Anglican church in the village of Lassington and the civil parish of Highnam, Gloucestershire, England. Only the tower survived to the present day, and it is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The tower is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
History
Construction of the tower began in the late 11th century. The church was initially a chapel of St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester. The nave and south porch of the church were in Norman style, and the chancel was Early English. A third stage was added to the tower in the 14th century. In 1678 a south chapel was demolished, and the following year the south wall of the chancel was rebuilt and two new windows were added. A major restoration was carried out in 1875 by Medland and Son. This consisted of demolishing all the church except for the tower, rebuilding it on its original footings, and adding an organ chamber and vestry on the north side of the chancel. The fabric of the building deteriorated during the 20th century, and by 1970 there were holes in the roof. It was declared redundant in 1972, and the body of the church was demolished in 1975, leaving only the tower. The tower was restored the following year. It had been vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 6 September 1974.
Architecture
The tower is constructed in lias rubble with a stone slate roof. It is in three stages, and it has a pyramidal roof with an iron cross on its apex. In the bottom stage is a round-headed doorway on the east side and a narrow round-headed lancet window on the west. The middle stage has a lancet window on the south face. In the top stage are wider trefoil-headed bell openings containing stone louvres.
See also
List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the English Midlands
References
Grade II* listed churches in Gloucestershire
English churches with Norman architecture
11th-century church buildings in England
Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust |
14139504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafford%20Mill | Trafford Mill | Trafford Mill is a water mill ¾ mile (1.2 km) to the north of the village of Mickle Trafford, Cheshire, England (). It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
History
The earliest documentary reference to the Trafford Mill is in the Cheshire Chamberlains' Accounts of 1302–03. Further documentary records of the mill are in 1464 in the records of the Troutbeck family and in the Land Tax returns between 1784 and 1832. The building was offered for lease in an October 1767 edition of the Chester Chronicle. It was described in that advertisement in the form it is in now as 'this new built corn mill' thus dating the building at around 1760, nearly 100 years older than previously thought. It was sold at the Shrewsbury Sale of 1917 at which time it consisted of a three-floor corn mill, including two undershot water wheels (one of which was out of repair), a drying kiln, a barn, a stable and a shippon. In 1952 it ceased to be a working mill and was taken over by the North West Water Authority (now United Utilities). It was in a derelict condition and in the 1970s it was re-roofed and other repairs were made. Further repairs were made in 1998.
Structure
It's an 'L' shaped building constructed largely in brick with a Welsh slate roof and a brick chimney. There is evidence that at least part of the foundations are laid on an oak raft though the foundations at the northern end appear to be sandstone. It has a long L-shaped plan in two storeys with a 12-bay west front.
The current mill was built in the 18th century. Two wheels and wheelpits are present. The north wheelpit has a cast iron single-spoke wheel connected to flour sifting machinery that is dated 1883. It is thought that this end of the building was built on mediaeval foundations. This would explain the installation of a single spoke wheel as this form is the only one narrow enough to fit in either of the two channels separated by a sandstone pier. The south wheelpit has a restored low breast wheel and a complete train of machinery driving three pairs of French burr stones. The ground floor has a quarry tiled floor and a cast iron fireplace.
Future plans
In 2001, a company limited by guarantee was set up. Its intention was to seek charitable status and to raise money to convert the mill into a museum and visitor centre. There have been 3 unsuccessful attempts to win lottery money. However a log burning heating system has been installed after an application to the Mersey Basin project and several smaller amounts of money gained that have helped to pay for tools and a polytunnel. In 2007, a kitchen garden was set up on the site of the former smallholding. This is maintained by volunteers. A group made up of the volunteers and local interested parties and called 'Friends of Trafford Mill' has been set up.
See also
Listed buildings in Mickle Trafford
References
Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
History of Cheshire
Watermills in Cheshire |
62415477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikorta%20castle | Ikorta castle | Ikorta castle is a historical castle of Ksani dukes (eristavs) in the eastern Georgia, near the city of Gori in the village of Kvemo-Ikorta (Lower Ikorta) on the bank of river Artseula. The current remnants of the castle are Ikorta church and the citadel. Presumably dating to the 17th-18th centuries, the exact time of its construction is not known. The castle was built most probably when Ksani eristavs moved from Kvenipnevi to Akhalgori and obtained Ikorta as one of their residences. The Ikorta church served as the burial place for eristavs, and currently numerous gravestones can be found inside and around it.
History
The exact construction time is not known, and presumable dates to the 17th-18th century, when Ksani eristavs lead the rebellion against Iran. In 1732 Kartli was fighting against lezgins, who were completely defeated under the walls of Ikorta castle. In 1736 Iranian troops of Nader shah were defeated by Ksani eristav Shanshe by the castle.
Architecture
The castle consisted of two parts, the lower and the upper. The vast lower part contained the Ikorta church and probably the dukes' palace, and only fragmentary traces of the wall can be found scattered around, as well as a tower in the southeastern part. The upper citadel has a roughly rectangular shape, with two towers: one quadrangular and another circular. The quadrangular tower, in the northwestern part of the fortress, was built earlier than the circular tower, in the southwest. Only three stories remain in the quadrangular tower. It was made of stones. The entrance was from the south. Single and doubled arrowslits still can be seen on its walls. The circular tower was originally smaller than the current, which was restored in 18th century. The more preserved western wall is 4-5 m high, but its upper part was ruined. The eastern wall was connected to the lower fortress by wooden stairs.
See also
Ikorta church
References
Buildings and structures in Shida Kartli
Castles and forts in Georgia (country)
17th-century fortifications
18th-century fortifications |
41166505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neha%20Jhulka | Neha Jhulka | Neha Jhulka is an Indian Film and TV actress. She mainly appeared in South Indian Films as well as Bollywood and Telugu Movies.she started her acting career in 2007 with the Telugu movie Okkadunnadu. in the same year, she played in the Telugu movie Viyyala Vari Kayyalu and the Bollywood movie Kaisay Kahein. Neha Jhulka also appeared in two television serials; Dill Mill Gayye and Geet – Hui Sabse Parayi.
Filmography
Films
TV shows
Music videos
Chal Hun, Malkit Singh, King of Bhangra... Female Lead
''Kya Tujhe Pata Hai, Abhijeet Sawant- Female Lead
References
External links
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Indian film actresses
Living people
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Assamese cinema
Actresses in Hindi television
Indian television actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Year of birth missing (living people) |
29097399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Park%20Street%20Cemetery | South Park Street Cemetery | South Park Street Cemetery, formerly known as the 'Great Christian Burial Ground', was one of the earliest non-church cemeteries in the world. The cemetery houses numerous graves and monuments belonging to British soldiers, administrators, and their families. It is also the final resting place of several prominent personalities, including Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and Sir William Jones. It is located on Mother Teresa Sarani (also known as Park Street), Central Kolkata, India.
History
The burial ground, along with a new road leading to it, known as the Burial Ground Road, was built in 1767. The cemetery and the road were later renamed Park Street after a private deer park established by Sir Elijah Impey. By the year 1785, the cemetery had been extended on the northern side of Park Street. Even though a marble plaque at the cemetery gate reads “South Park Street, Opened:1767, Closed:1790”, the burials continued in the 1830s, until a vast new cemetery was opened to the east of the Lower Circular Road.
After the independence of India, the Park Street cemeteries were decided to be leveled off, as funding for the colonial civil cemeteries were withdrawn. This decision met with resistance from Anglo-Indian citizens of Calcutta. In 1953, the North Park Street Cemetery was decided to be demolished, and the income obtained by leasing the land was used to upkeep the South Park Street Cemetery. In the late 1970s, the cemetery came under the purview of the Association for the Preservation of Historical Cemeteries in India (APHCI) and the Christian Burial Board.
In 1984, Apeejay Trust attempted to demolish the cemetery in order to build an arts center, which was later stopped by an intervention from the Calcutta High Court. Nevertheless, substantial damage had already been done by then, and many graves were lost. The grave of Charles Stuart was destroyed (and was later restored) and the demolition of Derozio's grave had been initiated. In the early 2000s, a restoration project was launched to conserve the cemetery's heritage and prevent its further deterioration.
Notable tombs
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831), teacher and poet, pioneer of the Young Bengal movement
Sir William Jones (1746–1794), philologist and scholar, founder of the Asiatic Society
Lieutenant-General Sir John Clavering (c.1722–1777), army officer and diplomat
Augustus Cleveland (1754-1784), colonial administrator
Captain Edward Cooke (1772–1799), Royal Navy officer
George Bogle (1746–1781), diplomat
Colonel Robert Kyd (1746–1793), founder of the Indian Botanic Garden
Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821), Surveyor General of India
Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Blacker (1778-1826), Surveyor General of India
Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, 6th Baronet (1754–1818), politician
Major-General Charles Stuart (1758–1828), army officer and Indophile, popularly known as “Hindoo Stuart”
Walter Landor Dickens, son of English novelist Charles Dickens. He was buried initially in Bhowanipore war cemetery, and the tombstone was later moved here in 1987.
Grave no. 363 of an unknown woman (d. 1825) whose epitaph reads “A virtuous mother”.
Architecture
The cemetery is considered to be an important example of colonial-era architecture, with its Gothic-style tombs and monuments, mixed with the rich flavor of the Greek, Egyptian, and Indo-Saracenic styles. In certain instances, elements from Hindu architecture and Islamic tombs have also been adopted. Many of the monuments in the cemetery are adorned with intricate carvings, sculptures, and epitaphs. The structures are primarily constructed of sandstone, marble, and bricks, and feature a variety of shapes and sizes, ranging from simple headstones to grand mausoleums.
Gallery
References
Further reading
The South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta, published by the Association for the Preservation of Historical Cemeteries in India, 5th ed. (2009)
BACSA. South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta: Register of graves and standing tombs from 1767. London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 1992.
Drost, Alexander, Tod und Erinnerung in der kolonialen Gesellschaft. Koloniale Sepulkralkultur in Bengalen (17.-19. Jahrhundert), Jena: Leander Wissenschaft, 2011. https://www.academia.edu/5444685
External links
The Great Cemetery of Asia
Anglican cemeteries in India
Roman Catholic cemeteries in India
Christianity in Kolkata
1767 establishments in India
1767 establishments in the British Empire
Cemeteries established in the 18th century |
20135481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington%20Downs | Wilmington Downs | Wilmington Downs is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Eastbourne in East Sussex. The site includes a Scheduled Monument, the Long Man of Wilmington, a turf cut figure which may be of prehistoric origin.
This site is mainly chalk grassland on the steep slope of the South Downs. It is important for invertebrates, including two protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, the wart-biter grasshopper and the snail Monacha cartusiana. There are also several unusual species of lichens and mosses.
References
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex |
46284503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins%20Geller%20Rudman%20%26%20Dowd%20LLP | Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP | Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP ("Robbins Geller") is an American law firm headquartered in San Diego, California. It is a plaintiffs law firm specializing in securities litigation and shareholder rights cases.
History and notable cases
In 2010, the previous firm Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman and Robbins ceased and Robbins Geller was formed. The founding attorneys were Darren J. Robbins, Paul J. Geller, Samuel H. Rudman, and Michael J. Dowd.
In 2011, the firm secured a $627 million settlement in In re Wachovia Preferred Sec. & Bond/Notes Litigation. The global recovery, including $590 million from Wells Fargo and $37 million from Wachovia's auditor, KPMG, was one of the largest recoveries under the Securities Act of 1933 arising out of the credit crisis. The suit focused on Wachovia's exposure to "pick-a-pay" loans, which the bank's offering materials assured were of "pristine credit quality." Investors alleged that these loans were made to subprime borrowers, many of whom defaulted, which ultimately led to a massive impairment of the bank's mortgage portfolio, and alleged that Wachovia's offering documents materially misstated and failed to disclose the true nature and quality of Wachovia's mortgage loan portfolio, which exposed the bank to tens of billions of dollars in losses on mortgage-related assets and misled investors. Robbins Geller was one of the firms appointed to represent the class.
In 2014, the firm obtained approval of a $590 million settlement with three private equity firms: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, The Blackstone Group, and TPG Capital. The accusations were that the three firms colluded with one another to drive down the prices of corporate takeover targets. This resulted in investors receiving less per share for their shares in the target companies. The case was filed as Kirk Dahl, et al. v. Bain Capital Partners, LLC, et al.
In 2015, the firm obtained a $400 million class action settlement with Pfizer Inc. in Jones v. Pfizer Inc. Pfizer was accused of misleading investors in connection with off-label marketing, making false statements to shareholders, and making misleading statements about various government investigations.
In 2016, Robbins Geller obtained a settlement of $1.575 billion after 14 years of litigation in Jaffe v. Household Int'l, Inc. (now HSBC Finance).
In 2018, the firm represented the lead plaintiff in the $1 billion settlement in the In re American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. Litigation, a class action regarding alleged violations of Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933.
The firm represents Tesla shareholders in a suit against the company's directors for its acquisition of SolarCity. In 2020, all board members except Elon Musk settled for $60 million. The firm previously sued Tesla officers and directors in 2013 over misrepresenting their financials and again in 2018 when Elon Musk tweeted he was taking the company private at $420 per share.
In 2023 the firm began representing shareholders in a class action lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturer Catalent Pharma Solutions with shareholders claiming violations of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Shareholders who purchased stock between August 2021 and October 2022 and who want to file as lead plaintiffs in the suit have until April 25, 2023 to file a claim.
Controversies
In 2014, the firm was sanctioned for filing a frivolous securities fraud lawsuit against Boeing related to the 787 Dreamliner airplane. In his sanction order, the federal judge wrote that Robbins Geller "failed to verify the allegations so as to remain ignorant of the truth, and this conduct is reckless and unjustified." In 2021, the firm was removed from a case by U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton for filing a "misleading" brief because the firm had failed to mention its former pension fund client actually made more money through investments in a fund that shorted the underlying asset. Stanton wrote, "In the world of securities law, that is a definition of fraud." Ten days later, U.S. District Judge Gary Brown sharply criticized the firm for falsely claiming the court had jurisdiction over a securities class action: The firm filed the suit in Long Island but left out the fact that its clients were located in Manhattan and Oklahoma. The firm said the omission was inadvertent.
Accolades
Robbins Geller and many of its attorneys have been recognized by various law publications and organizations.
Best Lawyers selected Darren J. Robbins, Paul J. Geller, Michael J. Dowd, Patrick J. Coughlin, Spencer A. Burkholz, Travis E. Downs III, David W. Mitchell and Dennis J. Herman to its "2018 Best Lawyers in America" list, and named the firm one of the "Best Law Firms."
The Legal 500 ranked Robbins Geller Tier 1 in "Securities Litigation: Plaintiff" and ranked the firm highly in "M&A Litigation: Plaintiff."
The National Law Journal named Randall J. Baron as a 2016 M&A Trailblazer.
The National Law Journal named the firm to its "Elite Trial Lawyers" finalist list in 2014-2016 and 2018, named the firm as the Securities Winner for 2016, and named the firm to its "Plaintiffs' Hot List" for 2004-2009, 2011, 2013-2014.
Law360 named the firm as one of the nation's Securities Practice Groups of the Year for 2015-2017.
U.S. News ranked Robbins Geller a National Tier 1 Firm for 2013-2018.
References
Law firms established in the 20th century
Law firms based in San Diego
Intellectual property law firms |
20780824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frede%20Castberg | Frede Castberg | Frede Castberg (4 July 1893 – 4 November 1977) was a Norwegian jurist. The son of Johan Castberg, he served as professor and rector at the University of Oslo as well as president of The Hague Academy of International Law.
Personal life
Frede Castberg was born in Vardal as the son of jurist and politician Johan Castberg (1862–1926) and his wife Karen Cathrine Anker (1867–1932). He was the paternal great-grandson of priest and politician Peter Hersleb Harboe Castberg, grandson of customs surveyor and politician Johan Christian Tandberg Castberg, nephew of violinist Torgrim Castberg and first cousin of illustrator Johan Christian Castberg. On the maternal side Frede Castberg was the nephew of Katti Anker Møller.
Castberg was married twice. The first marriage, to Synnøve Reimers (died 1990), lasted between 1921 and 1925, and produced one daughter. In February 1927, Castberg married his cousin Ella Anker (died 1974). They had two daughters, born in late 1927 and in 1933.
Career
Like his father, Frede Castberg had an academic career. He enrolled as a student of law in 1911 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1914. He held various jobs as a jurist in 1915 and 1916, before being issued grants to undertake further studies abroad. He studied public law in France and England from 1916 to 1917, in Germany in 1919 and in Austria in 1921. From 1919 he was employed at the University of Oslo as a research fellow. He took the dr. juris degree in 1921, and was hired as a consultant at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in the same year. He left his post as research fellow in 1924, having been engaged as a secretary and advisor in the dispute between Norway and Denmark over Greenland. In 1925 he was hired permanently as a consultant in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1928 Castberg was appointed professor of jurisprudence at the University of Oslo. He specialized in constitutional law, administrative law, philosophy of law and public international law. Among his most important publications were Norges statsforfatning (two volumes, 1933), Folkerett (1937), Rettsfilosofiske grunnspørsmål (1939), Norge under okkupasjonen; rettslige utredninger 1940–1943 (1945) and Freedom of Speech in the West (1960). Castberg also became known to the general public, through lectures in radio and television. In addition, Castberg served as rector of the university from 1952 to 1958. During his time as rector, political science was introduced as a separate discipline, being given its own department.
Castberg retired as a professor in 1963. From 1962 to 1976 he presided over the curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law, an institution seated in the Peace Palace together with the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and currently presided by Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Among Castberg's most important publications in this period are La philosophie de droit (1970), Den europeiske konvensjon om menneskerettighetene (1971), Minner om politikk og vitenskap fra årene 1900–1970 (1971) and Rett og revolusjon i Norge (1973).
Frede Castberg died in 1977 in Oslo.
References
1893 births
1977 deaths
Norwegian jurists
Norwegian legal scholars
Academic staff of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
Rectors of the University of Oslo
Norwegian legal writers
The Hague Academy of International Law people |
3186969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Mason | Max Mason | Charles Max Mason (–), better known as Max Mason, was an American mathematician. Mason was president of the University of Chicago (1925–1928) and the third president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1929–1936).
Mason's mathematical research interests included differential equations, the calculus of variations, and electromagnetic theory.
Education
B.Litt., 1898, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Göttingen, 1903.
Dissertation: "Randwertaufgaben bei gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen" (Boundary value functions with ordinary differential equations)
Advisor: Hilbert
Career
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1903–1904, Instructor of Mathematics.
Yale University, 1904–1908, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1908–1909, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Associate Professor of Mathematics.
University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1909–1925, Professor of Physics.
National Research Council, 1917–1919, Submarine Committee. (Invented a submarine detection device, which was the basis for sonar detectors used in World War II.)
University of Chicago, 1925–1928, President.
Rockefeller Foundation, 1928–1929, Director, Natural Sciences Division.
Rockefeller Foundation, 1929–1936, President.
Palomar Observatory (California), 1936–1949, Chairman of the team directing the construction of the observatory.
On , he appeared on Edgar Bergen's radio show to chat about the new observatory and trade jokes with Charlie McCarthy. In 1948, he, along with Lee A. DuBridge, William A. Fowler, Linus Pauling, and Bruce H. Sage, was awarded the Medal for Merit by President Harry S. Truman.
Notes and references
External links
Archival collections
Max Mason papers, 1898-1961, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Max Mason papers, 1750-1815, Royal Observatory Edinburgh
Charles Mason papers, 1750-1815, American Philosophical Society
1877 births
1961 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
Mathematics educators
Medal for Merit recipients
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
People from Madison, Wisconsin
Presidents of the Rockefeller Foundation
Presidents of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago faculty
University of WisconsinMadison alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Yale University faculty |
49401720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaishiki%20No.1 | Kaishiki No.1 | The was the first successful Japanese-designed and constructed airplane. It was designed by Captain Yoshitoshi Tokugawa and was first flown by him on October 13, 1911, at Tokorozawa in Saitama Prefecture.
There is a replica displayed in the Tokorozawa Aviation Museum, located near the place where the aircraft's first flight took place.
Specifications
References
External links
Pusher aircraft
Rotary-engined aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1911 |
15827914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorgues | Lorgues | Lorgues (; ) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.
It is situated 13 km (8 mi) southwest of the city of Draguignan, seat of the larger arrondissement of Draguignan. In 2019, Lorgues had a population of 9,054.
Geography
Location
Lorgues is situated in the center of the department of the Var between the Mediterranean Sea and the Gorges du Verdon/Lac Sainte Croix. The town can be reached via the A8 motorway (20 km away) or the SNCF Les Arcs-Draguignan railway station (12 km); by air, Toulon-Hyères Airport is 45 minutes away, Nice Côte d'Azur Airport 1 hour 10 minutes, and Marseille Provence Airport 1 hour 30 minutes.
Its setting has been favourable for the town, with Lorgues lying where two ancient routes cross. One, north-south, climbs from the Mediterranean coast into the interior while the other, east-west, is part of the long inland route from Italy to the Rhône Valley that runs along the foot of the high plateaus. This focus of communication has resulted in Lorgues being an important market town and regional centre throughout its history.
Relief
In terms of geology Lorgues is, for the most part, underlain by Triassic and Jurassic limestones which give rise to gentle hills and narrow flat-bottomed valleys, the most important of which are the valleys of the rivers Argens and Florièye which border the commune on the south and east. The town centre stands at an elevation of 210m, with the hill of Saint Ferréol to the east rising to 320m.
The limestones are important in that they absorb rainwater into cracks and crevices in winter, releasing it through countless springs during the heat of summer. Water is a precious resource in Provence and the relative abundance of springs and streams in the Lorgues area has been vital for cultivating crops and trees. In the years before steam power, running water supplied power for mills to grind olives and grain.
Climate
Lorgues has been favoured with respect to climate. It is high enough above the plain of the Var to be cooled by summer breezes while being low enough and sufficiently sheltered to avoid the bitter winter winds that sweep across the plateau to the north. Nevertheless, it has known both droughts and deep frosts: both of which have had impacts on agriculture.
Water
Water is abundant in Lorgues, an essential for the growth of a town. The town long used two nearby water sources: the Canal and the Pond (today, the supply comes from the local springs of Ste Foy and Entraigues). The naturally sloping terrain of the town allowed maximum use of these canals. The wash-house and its fountain were the obligatory meeting point for women, young people and also animals.
The canals were scrupulously maintained until the 1930s, as was the washhouse on Canal Street. The Canal flowed until the heat wave of 2003; now it flows intermittently, but its bed has been completely excavated, because of severe flooding in 2010.
These canals, and the many fountains still present in the older parts of the town, were used to water the gardens, as at the Lower Fountain (Font basse, 13th century), and also served to run olive oil mills. They were also an ornament to the town, such the Fontaine de la Noix (1771) or more recently the Fontaine des Demoiselles (2011). Other older ones, as the Fountain of the Pump, brought their water to the inhabitants of the medieval town.
History
Pre-history to Roman times
The oldest solid evidence of human settlement around Lorgues are two Bronze Age tombs (dolmen) in the hamlet of St Jaume, testimony to a very old settlement, around 2,000 to 3,000 BC. On the wooded hill of Saint-Ferréol that overlooks the town to the east are the remains of an oppidum: a fortified settlement that acted as a refuge for the community in the troubled centuries before Rome brought stability to the area.
Lorgues’ status as a market town and regional centre began during the long period of stability (over 500 years) which marked Roman rule in Provence. Latin gave rise to the Provencal language, and the adoption of Christianity was to shape the history of Lorgues, as can be seen from its numerous chapels and other religious buildings.
Medieval Lorgues
The period from the end of the Roman empire to the 11th or 12th century is poorly documented. Lorgues developed as a small market town, deeply rooted in agriculture, a regional centre for church, education and legal matters, a place for matters of trade and travel. In the 12th century the Knights Templar of the Ruou Commandry (Commanderie du Ruou) acquired an interest in Lorgues and for nearly two centuries dominated the town where they probably took responsibility for the welfare of its inhabitants. Despite not being involved in fighting in France the Templars retained a military outlook and oversaw the creation of ramparts, towers and fortified gateways around the ancient part of Lorgues, which can still be seen even though only a few of the original twelve towers and nine gates now remain.
During the 13th to 15th centuries Lorgues continued to grow. Its status as a free independent town within the County of Provence was confirmed in 1402 by Louis II and again in 1486 by René d’Anjou, Count of Provence. In 1474 Count René permitted the town to expand to the east of the old fortified area (the castrum). The result was Place Neuve (New Square) and additional buildings to the south. In 1486 the old county of Provence was absorbed into the kingdom of France, although French did not become the official language for another 60 years.
16th to 18th century
Despite episodes of epidemics and plagues, and the Wars of Religion, Lorgues continued to grow in the 16th century, with many new religious buildings (some have been converted to other use, others no longer exist) in addition to town houses. In 1579 the town withstood a siege of six weeks during the Wars of Religion, during which a fountain in the old town (still in use) kept working and so enabled the defenders to resist. Olives were the most important crop and the town had at least seventeen olive presses.
In 1623 the present ‘campanile’ – open bell tower – was erected by raising the height of a tower at the corner of the old ramparts. Many houses were built to the south of what is now the Avenue de la Republique, in the area to the west of the new collegiate church of Saint Martin which was the town’s major building project in the early 18th century (1704–29). A livestock market was held from around the 18th century on the edge of the old town in Les Aires Neuves, now Place Accarisio, where wheat was also threshed. One of the eight olive oil mills in Lorgues, the mill of Saint Martin (1776) can be seen in the square; it got its power from the local canal.
Lorgues was one of 12 vigueries (an area for administering justice and finance) in Provence, and the Palais de Justice (1768) in Place Neuve was built to house the law courts. A symbol of civil pride, the Fountain of the Walnut (Fontaine de la Noix) was erected in 1771.
The period of the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century did not affect Lorgues greatly, even though the town retained sympathies to the monarchy. Under the new constitution of 1790, France was organised into 83 departments, and Lorgues became part of the Var.
Modern Lorgues
Nineteenth-century Lorgues was marked by prosperity, during which the population rose to around 5,000. Many large houses were built along the Boulevard de la République, a grand town hall (mairie) was also built and a large public school building erected. French olive oil began to face competition from cheaper imports, resulting in a switch to the vine as a preferred crop.
The population began to decline at the end of the 19th century, and suffered a particular blow after the First World War when some 93 men were killed. The war memorial was erected in 1921 in a garden on the site of today’s Marius Trussy Square. War trophies – a cannon and four shells – contributed to its decoration. When it was decided in 1958 to level the garden at street level to make a square, the monument was moved to the Place d’Antrechaus, at the top end of Boulevard de la République, where it stands today, although without the war trophies.
In the confusion of the Allied landings in Provence in August 1944, Lorgues suffered civilian deaths from air attack and also the loss of 22 of its young men by the retreating Germans. In consequence the town was awarded the Croix de guerre 1939-1945.
After the war the population of Lorgues remained low and it continues as a small town dependent on agriculture. However the ‘discovery’ of the south of France as a holiday destination in the 1960s led to growth, especially with the construction of the A8 autoroute and the TGV train line. Tourism is now an important part of the economy. Many of the older buildings in Lorgues have become residences or put to other use: for example, the Cultural Centre was once a convent and some of the old olive mills are now homes or restaurants.
Much work has been done to make the older part of the town fit for the 21st century without destroying its character. In the medieval part of the town, new squares have been created where older buildings have had to be demolished. The latest, inaugurated in February 2020, is the Square of Queen Joanna.
Coat of arms
Lorgues' coat of arms is first recorded in the mid-17th century. It has changed slightly over the years through Revolution and Restoration, but the emblems of the lion and the dog supporting a fleur-de-lys have been consistent: the animals symbolise the town’s motto “Strength and Fidelity” (Force et Fidélité).
Politics and administration
Lorgues is part of the Dracénie Provence Verdon agglomeration, created in 2000, which groups 23 communes (listed below in alphabetical order).
Draguignan; Ampus; Bargemon; Bargème; Callas; Châteaudouble; Claviers; Comps-sur-Artuby; Figanières; Flayosc; La Bastide; La Motte; La Roque-Esclapon; Le Muy; Montferrat; Les Arcs; Lorgues; Saint-Antonin-du-Var; Salernes; Sillans-la-Cascade; Taradeau; Trans-en-Provence; Vidauban.
In December 2020 Lorgues was chosen to become a Petite Ville de Demain (Small Town of Tomorrow) in recognition of its efforts to improve the life of its inhabitants and that of the small communities surrounding the town with a commitment to a more ecological development.
Demography
Lorgues reached a population peak of 5,509 in the late 18th century, which it was not to pass again until the 1980s. It stayed fairly stable at over 4,000 for the next 90 years, only starting to decline at the end of the 19th century. As with many French towns, the population dropped considerably after the First World War to around 2,500, and grew only slowly after that. It was not until the mid-1960s, when the area became popular as a holiday and retirement destination, that the population began to grow, which it steadily did from the late 1960s to reach around 9,000 by 2018.
Economy
The remains of Lorgues’ agricultural heritage can be found in the many old mills (flour or olive oil), bread ovens and wine presses. The town is still surrounded by numerous vineyards, with around 14 main producers whose wine is exported as well being sold locally. Although the number of olive trees has declined (there were said to be over 20,000 trees in the late 19th century), olives are still harvested.
With the rise in popularity of the area as a place for holidays and retirement, many services have developed to meet the needs of second-home owners and for those wishing to build or maintain their homes. With its position between the sea and the Gorges du Verdon, Lorgues is ideally situated as a tourist destination, and attracts large numbers, not only from other parts of France but other countries, in the season. A large number of restaurants in and around the town help to cater for them as well as the resident population.
As well as a range of shops catering for everyday needs, Lorgues holds the largest market in the Dracénie region every Tuesday morning. A wide range of fruit, vegetables, fish, poultry, meat, bread, clothes and many other products, are on offer. In the summer months, a Friday market showcases local producers, mostly fruit, vegetables, cheeses and wines.
Heritage
As the section on Lorgues’ history indicates, there are many old buildings and monuments, in and around the town. Many have been preserved thanks to the efforts of the local heritage society, the Friends of Saint-Ferréol and Old Lorgues (Association des Amis de Saint-Ferréol et Vieux Lorgues). A selection is mentioned below and more information can be found on the Association’s website.
Lorgues old town (‘castrum’)
The medieval town is the core of Lorgues, with its narrow, winding streets. Many towers from the old defensive system can still be seen, such as the Sarrasine Gate. Outside the original walls are rows of houses dating from the 16th century onwards, and later buildings such as the Palais de Justice, the 17th century lawcourts. Maps for exploring the old town, its chapels and its fountains are available from the Tourist Office.
The town hall (mairie) and old school were built in the 19th century when the town was expanding.
Religious buildings
Lorgues has an important heritage of chapels. Many of the oldest are situated on the roads leading into the town and feature a porch, a “halle”, a protection against bad weather. Some of them took on a new function over time, as chapels to hamlets, others today are privately owned and have been converted to secular use or abandoned.
In the 17th and 19th centuries some chapels were built by religious communities: Saint Ferréol and Saint François date from the 17th century; the 19th century chapels are now either in private hands or no longer used. The 18th century saw the building of the Collegiate Church of Saint Martin to replace the old parish church of the same name.
Few chapels have been able to keep their original decoration, paintings, altarpieces, frescoes, reliquary busts and statues. Some that have are Sainte-Anne, Saint-Ferréol, Saint-François and especially Notre-Dame de Ben-Va, which contains early 16th-century frescos. Others have only preserved relics of furnishings, such as Saint-Honorat, Saint-Jaume, Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Notre-Dame de Florièyes. All have been altered by the vicissitudes of history: invasions, revolution and rural exodus.
Some of the chapels can be visited by appointment with the Tourist Office or at certain other times of the year.
Other monuments
As mentioned in the section on pre-history, Bronze Age tombs (particularly the dolmen of Pey-cervier) and a pre-Roman fortification (oppidum) have been found in the area, although not much remains, particularly of the latter.
Daily life
Lorgues has a strong scholastic presence, with two nursery and two primary schools. The secondary schools (collège and lycée) draw in students from other towns and villages in the area.
There is a long tradition of active societies in Lorgues, particularly those offering different kinds of sports, but there are also many cultural and social associations.
The town is well supplied with doctors, dentists, nurses and other health professionals, and contains a number of pharmacies. The nearest hospital is in Draguignan.
The Catholic parish of Lorgues includes Saint-Antonin and Le Thoronet. The main parish church is the large collegiate church of Saint Martin, which dominates the town. The Protestants have used the small chapel of Saint Honorat since 1980 for monthly services. An old shepherd's dwelling (bergerie) has been transformed into a mosque for Muslim worship.
See also
Bibliography
Courdouan, François (1864). Histoire de La Commune de Lorgues, Aubry Paris. (Available as a free e-book on books.google.fr.)
Marcel, Alain (2017). Lorgues: Le Temps retrouvé, Editions Equinoxe. (A limited edition book with excellent illustrations).
Marcel, Alain (2009). Lorgues, Mémoire en images Tome 1, Edition Sutton.
Marcel, Alain (2011). Lorgues, Mémoire en images Tome 2, Edition Sutton.
Nardin, Louis (1972). Lorgues cité franche de Provence. Available as a low price download at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k33254491.texteImage
Related articles
Communes of the Var department
References
External links
Town of Lorgues website
Lorgues tourist office (site in French only)
Association of the Friends of Saint-Ferréol and Old Lorgues
Lorgues Memory and Patrimony
Communes of Var (department) |
16465874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltinho%20Biological%20Reserve | Saltinho Biological Reserve | Saltinho Biological Reserve () is a Biological Reserve near Tamandaré in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
It contains a sample of the tropical Atlantic Forest biome.
History
The reserve lies in the Rio Formoso and Tamandaré municipalities of Pernambuco.
The reserve, which covers of Atlantic Forest biome, was established on 21 September 1983.
It is managed by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.
Objectives included protecting rare, endemic and threatened species of native flora and fauna, helping preserve and restore the Atlantic Forest in the state, and supporting scientific research.
Location
The terrain is coastal plain of sedimentary origin, with small hills and ridges. Altitude ranges from .
The soils are very deep and well-drained.
The Saltinho river, after which the reserve is named, originates a few kilometres upstream from the reserve, and is dammed in the reserve to supply water to the city of Tamandaré.
The average annual temperature is .
Annual rainfall is .
Status
As of 2009 the Biological Reserve was a "strict nature reserve" under IUCN protected area category Ia, with a terrestrial area of .
Protected species include oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), the shrimp Atya scabra, and the birds Willis's antbird (Cercomacroides laeta), white-eyed foliage-gleaner (Automolus leucophthalmus), black-cheeked gnateater (Conopophaga melanops), rufous gnateater (Conopophaga lineata), blue-crowned motmot (Momotus momota), scalloped antbird (Myrmeciza ruficauda), great-billed hermit (phaethornis malaris), white-shouldered antshrike (Thamnophilus aethiops) and long-tailed woodnymph (Thalurania watertonii).
References
Sources
Biological reserves of Brazil
Protected areas of Pernambuco
Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest
1983 establishments in Brazil
Protected areas established in 1983 |
40030634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%83t%C4%83lin%20Vraciu | Cătălin Vraciu | Cătălin Ciprian Vraciu (born 21 January 1989) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a forward or midfielder for FC Bacău.
Club career
He made his debut on the professional league level in the Liga I for Botoșani on 21 July 2013 as a starter in a game against CFR Cluj.
Honours
FCM Bacău
Liga III: 2010–11
FC Botoșani
Liga II: 2012–13
Aerostar Bacău
Liga III: 2017–18, 2019–20
References
External links
Living people
1989 births
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Liga I players
Liga II players
Liga III players
FCM Bacău players
FC Botoșani players
FCM Dunărea Galați players
ACS Poli Timișoara players
ACS Foresta Suceava players
CS Aerostar Bacău players
Footballers from Bacău |
56512623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdolna%20Bartha | Magdolna Bartha | Magdolna Bartha (20 December 1929 – 14 October 2004) was a Hungarian cross-country skier. She competed in the women's 10 kilometres at the 1960 Winter Olympics, at Squaw Valley in California, finishing in 23rd place.
References
External links
1929 births
2004 deaths
Hungarian female cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Hungary
Cross-country skiers at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Skiers from Budapest |
58785245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon%20Lodge%20No.%2022 | Lebanon Lodge No. 22 | The Lebanon Lodge No. 22, at 106 W. Aztec in Gallup, New Mexico, was built in 1932. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
It is Decorative Brick Commercial in style. It was built as a Masonic lodge meeting hall.
From 2011 to 2017 it housed the Stronghold Church, and since 2017 is the offices of the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments.
References
Masonic buildings in New Mexico
National Register of Historic Places in McKinley County, New Mexico
Buildings and structures completed in 1932 |
39287139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irshad%20Panjatan | Irshad Panjatan | Irshad Panjatan (born 7 September 1931) is an Indian actor and veteran mime artist, based in Berlin, who introduced the art form to India during the 1960s. He started his career as stage actor, acted in few Bollywood films, and later received acclaim as mime artist. He toured through West-Asian and European countries in 1971, which led him to Berlin, where he settled down. Over the years he has even acted in a few Hollywood and German films, Manitou's Shoe (2001), Free Rainer (2007), God is No Soprano (2003) and Iron Sky (2012).
Early life and family
Panjatan was born in Hyderabad, where he grew up with seven siblings, including his elder brother, Dr. Abid Hussain (1926 – 2012), who later became an economist, civil servant and diplomat.
Career
Panjatan started his career as an aviation engineer, however he left the city for Delhi in 1950 to pursue his passion for theatre and acting. He trained in Kathakali under Raghavan Nair and later under Narendra Sharma, a disciple of Uday Shankar. He started his career as an actor with the Hindustani Theatre, the theatre group of Begum Qudsia Zaidi. In 1957, he enacted a night theft scene in play Charudatta, in which he used no dialogues. However, a review of Marg magazine, called it "..very good Pantomime", this intrigued him and ventured into learning the art form. Soon, he happened to see a local mime artist perform on the streets of Delhi, and in the next hour he learned all that he could from him, and started practicing and improvising on his own.
He performed his first mime play in 1962 in Delhi, thus introducing mime to India in the 1960s, which earned him wide acclaimed. Hindustani Theatre closed and he began to focus mainly on mime, though he also acted in a few Bollywood films during this period, including K.A. Abbas's Saat Hindustani (1969), wherein he played a role of a Portuguese spy.
Though trained in the Marcel Marceau style, he developed his individualistic style and language, and soon he started touring with his solo mime act. The Films Division also made some public service documentary with him, including Kilonewala (1971) and Six, Five, Four, Three, Two (on Family Planning), before he left for his tour outside India, to West Asian and European countries. After leaving India, he first performed at the Lahore Women's college and eventually reached Germany where he later settled, and has continued performing as a solo artist ever since. Over the years, he has acted in a few German and Hollywood films, Iron Sky and God is no Soprano, Der Schuh des Manitu (Manitou's Shoe) (2001), Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2003) and Reclaim Your Brain (2007)
He married Ingrid Sattler in 1975, and opened a mime school in Berlin, where he continues to live. He gave his last mime performance in December 2008 in Pune at the annual 'Theatre Beyond Words' festival organized by Amol Palekar, where he performed his solo act, 'Walk of Life'. Five years later in July 2012, while visiting family in his home town, he gave a lecture-demonstration on mime in Hyderabad at Lamakaan.
Filmography
Film
Aasmaan Mahal (1965)
Bambai Raat Ki Bahon Mein (1967) - Sevakram
Saat Hindustani (1969)
Heer Raanjha (1970)
Chhoti Bahu (1971) - Servant
Bikhre Moti (1971) - Raju
Der Schuh des Manitu (2001, Manitou's Shoe) - Häuptling Listiger Lurch
Der Ärgermacher (2003, The Troublemaker) - Der Inder
God is No Soprano (2003)
Kebab Connection (2004) - Indischer Taxifahrer
Free Rainer (2007, Reclaim Your Brain) - Gopal
Iron Sky (2012) - Indian Representative
The Physician (2013) - Pharmacist
Marry Me - Aber bitte auf Indisch (2015) - Ankur
Buddha's Little Finger (2015) - Buddha
Bullyparade: Der Film (2017) - Costa
Television
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2003, TV Movie) - Flunky
References
External links
1931 births
Living people
Indian male stage actors
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Indian mimes
Male actors from Hyderabad, India
Indian emigrants to Germany
Indian male film actors |
14217567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20Jones | Jefferson Jones | Jefferson Jones (1817 – 1879) was a 19th-century American army colonel. He is best known for his role in leading the secessionist Kingdom of Callaway as its king in the 1860s.
The source of Jones' rank of colonel is uncertain. He does not appear on lists of officers of the United States Army, either regular or volunteer. He may have had a commission in the Confederate Army or the Missouri State Guard, the latter of which was formed from secessionist Missourians.
The Kingdom of Callaway was a county in Missouri that did not agree with the politics of either side in the American Civil War. As a result, it went on its own for a time. What made Callaway unique was that the Union general John B. Henderson signed a peace treaty with the Kingdom in October 1861, thus lending legitimacy to its existence.
The Union Army invaded Callaway, and Jones's administration was unable to stop it.
Jones was subsequently captured by Union forces and convicted for treason at a court martial. He was originally sentenced to solitary confinement, but the sentence was reduced to being confined to the limits of St. Louis. He remained in the city for the remainder of the war.
After the war, he was active in Democratic Party politics and was elected a state representative in 1875. He suffered a heart attack while he was giving a speech in 1876 and died in 1879.
References
Strauss, Erwin S., "How to Start Your Own Country." Paladin Press, 1997.
People of Missouri in the American Civil War
American separatists
Self-proclaimed monarchy
1817 births
1879 deaths
Missouri Democrats |
10229913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMAX%20Motorsport | SAMAX Motorsport | SAMAX Motorsport was a racing team owned by Peter Baron that competed primarily in the Rolex Sports Car Series but also spent one year in the IndyCar Series.
Team history
The team was founded in 2005 by fielding a car for Mark Greenberg at the 6 Hours of Mont Tremblant. Shortly after that race the team ran the #7 Riley-Pontiac Daytona Prototype co-owned by millionaire businessman Brian Tuttle, Greg Wilkins and Dave Lacey and the #17 Porsche 911 GT3 in Grand Am. In 2006, Milka Duno joined the Daytona Prototype team, bringing with her sponsorship from Citgo. The team of Duno, Patrick Carpentier, Darren Manning, and Ryan Dalziel finished 2nd overall in the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona, the team's best Grand Am finish and the best finish in a major sports car race for a female driver. SAMAX fielded a second Prototype in the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona for Roger Yasukawa, Tomáš Enge, Chris Festa, and Christian Montanari that finished 6th.
On March 23, 2007, the team announced that it would enter the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series. They ran Duno with Citgo sponsorship in 6 races during the 2007 season, including the Indianapolis 500. French-Canadian driver Jean-Francois Dumoulin replaced her in the prototype. The team did not return to the IndyCar Series in 2008 as Duno moved to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, but continued in the Rolex Sports Car Series with their BMW-Riley being driven by Dalziel and Henri Zogaib. The team of Dalziel and Zogaib captured the team's first Daytona Prototype victory in the 5th race of the season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Despite the success, the team did not return for 2009. Reportedly, Zogaib had been funding the racing venture through employing a Ponzi scheme in which he had conned the Dalziel family for $550,000 USD and owes SAMAX owner Peter Baron $450,000 in team expenses and $800,000 in investments Baron had made in the Ponzi scheme.
In 2010, Baron re-entered team ownership with the new Starworks Motorsport team.
Racing results
Complete IRL IndyCar Series results
(key)
References
External links
Official team website
IndyCar Series teams
Grand American Road Racing Association teams
Auto racing teams in the United States |
5816644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20Brigade | Planetary Brigade | Planetary Brigade is a comic book series published by Boom! Studios. It was created by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Joe Abraham. Originally a two issue mini-series, Planetary Brigade is a sister book to Hero Squared, and shares some of the same characters.
History
First mini-series
In issue #1 we travel back to a time before the events of Hero Squared #1 and are introduced to "the most amazing collection of heroes ever assembled", the Planetary Brigade. As the story begins we discover a serious threat from another universe is about to emerge, and several members of the Brigade are already on the scene.
In issue #2 the heroine known as Third Eye senses a magical disturbance, and her Planetary Brigade teammates Mr. Brilliant and the Purring Pussycat manage to set aside their verbal jousting for a short time to stumble upon the source of the trouble. A man who is being used as a portal so that extra-dimensional demons can enter "our" universe from an infernal realm. As the team gathers to fight the hordes, the Third Eye faces the difficult task of the closing the portal.
Planetary Brigade: Origins
A three-issue series title Planetary Brigade: Origins appeared in 2006–2007. The first issue showed the first time the team's founding members fought together, and the origin of their nemesis Mister Master. The second and third issues showed the backstory of Purring Pussycat, who reveals hidden depths that were not obvious from the earlier two-issue series. The flashback sequence in the second issue takes place before the original miniseries, while the third issue takes place afterward.
Trades and collections
Both miniseries were collected in the 2007 trade paperback titled Planetary Brigade. They were also included, along with the various Hero Squared series, in Hero Squared Omnibus (2017).
Member profiles
Captain Valor - Real name Milo Stone. The moral compass of the group, stuck pointing to the 1960s. Valor has old-fashioned superhero ideals.
Earth Goddess - Six foot eight inches tall she's like Storm and Wonder Woman slapped together, literally: from the waist up, her right side is black, and her left is white. Lisa was chosen to be the human vessel for the conscience of Gaia, the earth mother. Earth Goddess is a fierce warrior in battle, using her superstrength, flight and orb.
Grim Knight - Stephen wields the enchanted Excalibur sword and rides his enchanted horse, Guinevere. The team's pessimist, sadist and token sociopath.
Mauve Visitor - A member of the alien Prissuvian race, his vessel was shot down by the US military four years ago, and he has since been living off their budget, pretending to do superhero work. He has a crush on Mr Brilliant.
Mister Brilliant - Cybernetically augmented senses, a genius intellect, and an "Ultichair" with enough firepower to take down several small nations. Mr Brilliant lives in a comic shop and publishes his adventures in his own comic book.
Purring Pussycat - She's a reformed supervillain, a former protégé of Mister Master, the team's original nemesis. Feral powers.
Third Eye - A powerful mystic and teleporter. She can transport her consciousness onto another hero, but it leaves her body unconscious and vulnerable. She has a habit of materializing in a room without even a warning puff of smoke. Third Eye was kidnapped as a baby and raised by demons. She is the realist of the group, the one who knows what must be done and is prepared to take on the burden of that responsibility.
Resources
Giffen and DeMatteis interview about Hero Squared, Newsarama
Boom! Studios titles
Superhero teams
2006 comics debuts |
34174421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etimesgut%20YHT%20Maintenance%20Facility | Etimesgut YHT Maintenance Facility | The Etimesgut High-speed rail maintenance facility (), officially known as the Main High-speed rail Maintenance Facility (), is a passenger rail yard used exclusively for YHT high-speed train-sets in Ankara, Turkey. Located in the Etiler neighborhood in northwestern Etimesgut, it is the second largest rail yard in Turkey spanning over .
The yard contains a large high-speed rail maintenance shop together with a high-speed rail focused training facility for employees. A wide turning loop, facing east, spans the perimeter of the facility. Ankara West YHT station is under construction, just south of the facility, and will become a main railway station in west Ankara; it is scheduled to open by December 2017.
Entrance to the facility is via the D.140, from the north.
Construction of the facility began in late 2013, on land bought from the Etimesgut Sugar Factory, and completed in February 2016. It is owned by the Turkish State Railways.
References
See also
Ankara Tren Garı
Ankara West YHT station
Rail yards in Turkey
2016 establishments in Turkey |
62276754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Winnipeg%20Jets%20broadcasters | List of Winnipeg Jets broadcasters | Bell Media holds regional television rights to the Winnipeg Jets, under a 10-year contract that began in the inaugural season (2011–12). Jets games not shown by the league's national broadcast partner, Rogers Media, are televised by The Sports Network (TSN) on its regional channel TSN3 for viewers in the Jets' home region, which includes Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories (shared with the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers outside of Manitoba), and parts of Northwestern Ontario (shared with the Toronto Maple Leafs). Viewers outside of the Jets' home region can view regional TSN3 broadcasts through a paid subscription for out-of-market games from the NHL or one of its broadcast partners.
Radio
Radio broadcasts are carried by CJOB in Winnipeg and southern Manitoba.
Winnipeg Jets I
Winnipeg Jets II
Television
Dennis Beyak serves as the play-by-play announcer for the Jets, calling games on TSN3. He is joined by Kevin Sawyer, who provide the colour commentary, and rinkside reporter Sara Orlesky. TSN3 colour commentary duties were formerly handled by Shane Hnidy, who moved to AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain to cover the Vegas Golden Knights in 2017.
Winnipeg Jets I
Winnipeg Jets II
See also
Historical NHL over-the-air television broadcasters
Winnipeg Jets (1972–96)
List of Arizona Coyotes broadcasters
References
External links
Broadcast Schedule | Winnipeg Jets - NHL.com
TSN Announces 2018-19 Winnipeg Jets Regional NHL Broadcast Schedule, Featuring 60 Regular Season Games
Jets & Bell Media announce 10-Year broadcast deal
Lists of National Hockey League broadcasters
Winnipeg Jets lists
The Sports Network |
22015940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepioloidea%20pacifica | Sepioloidea pacifica | Sepioloidea pacifica, also known as the Pacific bobtail squid, is a species of cuttlefish native to the southern Pacific Ocean; it occurs off New Zealand in the west and in the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges in the east.
The type specimen was collected off New Zealand and is deposited at the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington. Sepioloidea pacifica was first described as a species in 1882 by T.W. Kirk.
Morphology
Mantle
Male mantles can grow up to 19 mm in length, and female mantles can grow up to 26 mm in length.
Suckers
Sepioloidea pacifica have rows of 5 biserial suckers, with the largest suckers closer to the edge of the arms.
References
External links
Deep sea photography
Cephalopods of Oceania
Cuttlefish
Molluscs described in 1882
Molluscs of New Zealand
Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean |
13858104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%20Pittsburgh%20Pirates%20season | 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates season | The 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 57th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise and their 52nd in the National League. The Pirates maintained a seven-game lead in the NL on September 1, but went 12–16–1 for the rest of the season and relinquished the lead to the Chicago Cubs on September 28, losing to the Cubs on Gabby Hartnett's "Homer in the Gloamin'". The Pirates finished second in the league with an 86–64 record.
Offseason
February 22, 1938: Tommy Thevenow was signed as a free agent by the Pirates.
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Game log
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 1 || April 19 || @ Cardinals || 4–3 || Klinger (1–0) || Weiland || — || 19,865 || 1–0
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 2 || April 20 || @ Cardinals || 9–4 || Tobin (1–0) || Johnson || — || 1,957 || 2–0
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 3 || April 21 || @ Cardinals || 6–5 || Brown (1–0) || Bush || — || — || 3–0
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 4 || April 22 || Reds || 7–4 || Lucas (1–0) || Vander Meer || Bauers (1) || 20,500 || 4–0
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 5 || April 23 || Reds || 6–2 || Blanton (1–0) || Schott || — || — || 5–0
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 6 || April 24 || Reds || 2–1 || Tobin (2–0) || Davis || — || 16,012 || 6–0
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 7 || April 25 || Cubs || 8–6 || Brown (2–0) || Logan || — || 9,235 || 7–0
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 8 || April 26 || Cubs || 3–5 (10) || Carleton || Swift (0–1) || — || 7,523 || 7–1
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 9 || April 27 || Cubs || 6–5 || Brown (3–0) || French || Klinger (1) || 9,537 || 8–1
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 10 || April 28 || Cardinals || 3–5 || Weiland || Tobin (2–1) || McGee || 8,033 || 8–2
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 11 || April 30 || @ Reds || 0–2 || Davis || Bauers (0–1) || — || — || 8–3
|-
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 12 || May 1 || @ Reds || 1–4 || Hollingsworth || Swift (0–2) || Schott || 14,439 || 8–4
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 13 || May 2 || @ Reds || 6–8 || Vander Meer || Blanton (1–1) || Benge || — || 8–5
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 14 || May 3 || Dodgers || 2–7 || Pressnell || Tobin (2–2) || — || 2,266 || 8–6
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 15 || May 4 || Dodgers || 9–5 || Bowman (1–0) || Posedel || — || 2,431 || 9–6
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 16 || May 5 || Dodgers || 4–2 || Lucas (2–0) || Hoyt || — || 2,031 || 10–6
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 17 || May 6 || Giants || 7–11 || Melton || Brown (3–1) || Coffman || 10,648 || 10–7
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 18 || May 7 || Giants || 5–6 || Brown || Bowman (1–1) || — || 16,064 || 10–8
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 19 || May 8 || Bees || 2–1 (12) || Brown (4–1) || Fette || — || 7,512 || 11–8
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 20 || May 9 || Bees || 5–7 (10) || Hutchinson || Brandt (0–1) || Shoffner || 1,219 || 11–9
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 21 || May 13 || @ Cubs || 4–1 (10) || Brown (5–1) || French || — || — || 12–9
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 22 || May 15 || @ Cubs || 4–3 (11) || Swift (1–2) || Root || — || 15,494 || 13–9
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 23 || May 17 || @ Bees || 0–1 || Shoffner || Bauers (0–2) || — || 2,800 || 13–10
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 24 || May 18 || @ Bees || 1–2 (14) || Turner || Brown (5–2) || — || 2,070 || 13–11
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 25 || May 19 || @ Bees || 3–4 (11) || Hutchinson || Sewell (0–1) || — || 2,359 || 13–12
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 26 || May 20 || @ Dodgers || 5–7 || Mungo || Lucas (2–1) || Pressnell || 4,749 || 13–13
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 27 || May 21 || @ Dodgers || 5–4 || Tobin (3–2) || Hamlin || — || 14,610 || 14–13
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 28 || May 22 || @ Giants || 2–18 || Hubbell || Brandt (0–2) || — || 30,343 || 14–14
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 29 || May 23 || @ Giants || 4–3 || Brown (6–2) || Gumbert || Bauers (2) || 5,364 || 15–14
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 30 || May 25 || @ Phillies || 1–2 || Walters || Tobin (3–3) || — || 1,000 || 15–15
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 31 || May 27 || Cubs || 0–5 || Lee || Klinger (1–1) || — || 3,010 || 15–16
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 32 || May 28 || Cubs || 3–9 || Bryant || Bauers (0–3) || — || 4,014 || 15–17
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 33 || May 29 || Cubs || 2–1 || Lucas (3–1) || French || — || 7,050 || 16–17
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 34 || May 30 || Cardinals || 5–4 (17) || Klinger (2–1) || McGee || — || — || 17–17
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 35 || May 30 || Cardinals || 6–9 || Davis || Bowman (1–2) || — || 20,000 || 17–18
|-
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 36 || June 1 || Giants || 4–1 || Bauers (1–3) || Melton || — || 4,001 || 18–18
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 37 || June 3 || Giants || 6–5 || Klinger (3–1) || Gumbert || — || 8,513 || 19–18
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 38 || June 4 || Dodgers || 4–3 (11) || Swift (2–2) || Pressnell || — || 4,168 || 20–18
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 39 || June 5 || Dodgers || 5–10 || Posedel || Bowman (1–3) || Tamulis || 6,800 || 20–19
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 40 || June 6 || Dodgers || 4–9 || Butcher || Lucas (3–2) || — || 1,594 || 20–20
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 41 || June 8 || Bees || 4–1 || Klinger (4–1) || Fette || — || 2,765 || 21–20
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 42 || June 9 || Bees || 5–3 || Brown (7–2) || Turner || — || 4,410 || 22–20
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 43 || June 10 || Phillies || 2–3 || Mulcahy || Bauers (1–4) || — || 1,034 || 22–21
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 44 || June 11 || Phillies || 4–3 || Swift (3–2) || Walters || — || 3,811 || 23–21
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 45 || June 12 || Phillies || 11–5 || Brown (8–2) || Passeau || — || 4,826 || 24–21
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 46 || June 14 || @ Giants || 3–5 || Schumacher || Bauers (1–5) || — || 5,334 || 24–22
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 47 || June 15 || @ Giants || 2–0 || Tobin (4–3) || Melton || — || 5,874 || 25–22
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 48 || June 16 || @ Giants || 10–2 || Klinger (5–1) || Hubbell || — || 6,880 || 26–22
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 49 || June 17 || @ Phillies || 4–3 (10) || Brown (9–2) || Hollingsworth || — || 4,000 || 27–22
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 50 || June 18 || @ Phillies || 3–5 || Mulcahy || Bauers (1–6) || Passeau || — || 27–23
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 51 || June 19 || @ Phillies || 14–4 || Tobin (5–3) || Sivess || — || — || 28–23
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 52 || June 19 || @ Phillies || 16–3 || Blanton (2–1) || LaMaster || — || 10,000 || 29–23
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 53 || June 21 || @ Dodgers || 9–3 || Bauers (2–6) || Tamulis || — || 25,527 || 30–23
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 54 || June 23 || @ Dodgers || 1–8 || Pressnell || Swift (3–3) || — || 3,258 || 30–24
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 55 || June 25 || @ Bees || 8–7 || Brown (10–2) || Hutchinson || Bauers (3) || 5,614 || 31–24
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 56 || June 28 || Reds || 2–5 || Vander Meer || Bauers (2–7) || — || — || 31–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 57 || June 29 || Reds || 5–4 || Swift (4–3) || Cascarella || — || 3,470 || 32–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 58 || June 30 || Reds || 3–1 || Blanton (3–1) || Walters || — || 3,685 || 33–25
|-
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 59 || July 2 || Cardinals || 5–1 || Klinger (6–1) || McGee || — || 3,892 || 34–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 60 || July 3 || Cardinals || 6–5 (12) || Brown (11–2) || Shoun || — || — || 35–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 61 || July 3 || Cardinals || 6–2 (8) || Bauers (3–7) || Henshaw || — || 20,000 || 36–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 62 || July 4 || @ Reds || 2–1 || Blanton (4–1) || Davis || — || — || 37–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 63 || July 4 || @ Reds || 3–2 || Swift (5–3) || Walters || — || 22,400 || 38–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 64 || July 8 || @ Cardinals || 6–2 || Klinger (7–1) || McGee || — || — || 39–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 65 || July 9 || @ Cardinals || 8–7 || Brown (12–2) || Lanier || — || 2,859 || 40–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 66 || July 10 || @ Cardinals || 5–2 || Blanton (5–1) || Macon || — || — || 41–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 67 || July 10 || @ Cardinals || 4–3 || Bauers (4–7) || Weiland || Bowman (1) || — || 42–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 68 || July 11 || @ Cubs || 5–3 || Tobin (6–3) || French || Brown (1) || — || 43–25
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 69 || July 12 || @ Cubs || 14–6 || Brandt (1–2) || Carleton || Sewell (1) || — || 44–25
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 70 || July 13 || Dodgers || 5–10 || Pressnell || Brown (12–3) || — || 5,561 || 44–26
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 71 || July 14 || Dodgers || 3–2 (11) || Tobin (7–3) || Fitzsimmons || — || 7,802 || 45–26
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 72 || July 15 || Dodgers || 4–9 || Hamlin || Swift (5–4) || — || 4,512 || 45–27
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 73 || July 16 || Giants || 7–3 || Klinger (8–1) || Melton || — || 15,197 || 46–27
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 74 || July 17 || Giants || 1–2 || Hubbell || Tobin (7–4) || — || — || 46–28
|- bgcolor="ffffff"
| 75 || July 17 || Giants || 7–7 || || || — || 43,241 || 46–28
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 76 || July 18 || Giants || 7–4 || Blanton (6–1) || Gumbert || Swift (1) || 8,638 || 47–28
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 77 || July 19 || Phillies || 8–0 || Brandt (2–2) || Mulcahy || — || 2,472 || 48–28
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 78 || July 20 || Phillies || 0–11 || Hollingsworth || Klinger (8–2) || — || — || 48–29
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 79 || July 20 || Phillies || 4–1 || Bauers (5–7) || Sivess || — || 6,000 || 49–29
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 80 || July 21 || Phillies || 5–4 || Brown (13–3) || Smith || — || 10,535 || 50–29
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 81 || July 22 || Bees || 4–3 || Blanton (7–1) || Turner || — || 4,749 || 51–29
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 82 || July 23 || Bees || 2–4 || MacFayden || Bauers (5–8) || Errickson || — || 51–30
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 83 || July 24 || Bees || 5–4 (15) || Tobin (8–4) || Hutchinson || — || — || 52–30
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 84 || July 24 || Bees || 4–2 (6) || Brandt (3–2) || Lanning || — || — || 53–30
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 85 || July 26 || @ Phillies || 5–6 || Sivess || Brown (13–4) || — || 1,500 || 53–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 86 || July 27 || @ Phillies || 4–2 || Bauers (6–8) || Hallahan || — || — || 54–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 87 || July 28 || @ Phillies || 9–2 || Tobin (9–4) || Hollingsworth || — || 2,000 || 55–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 88 || July 29 || @ Dodgers || 7–6 || Bowman (2–3) || Pressnell || Swift (2) || 2,582 || 56–31
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 89 || July 30 || @ Dodgers || 9–2 || Blanton (8–1) || Tamulis || Brown (2) || 8,523 || 57–31
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 90 || July 31 || @ Dodgers || 3–4 || Posedel || Swift (5–5) || — || 27,719 || 57–32
|-
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 91 || August 2 || @ Bees || 1–3 || Lanning || Tobin (9–5) || — || 2,451 || 57–33
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 92 || August 3 || @ Bees || 9–4 || Blanton (9–1) || Turner || Brown (3) || 7,844 || 58–33
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 93 || August 3 || @ Bees || 5–3 || Bowman (3–3) || Reis || — || 7,844 || 59–33
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 94 || August 4 || @ Bees || 3–4 || MacFayden || Brown (13–5) || — || 1,834 || 59–34
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 95 || August 5 || @ Giants || 3–5 || Brown || Klinger (8–3) || — || 18,535 || 59–35
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 96 || August 7 || @ Giants || 5–1 || Tobin (10–5) || Gumbert || — || — || 60–35
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 97 || August 7 || @ Giants || 13–3 || Brandt (4–2) || Hubbell || — || 50,468 || 61–35
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 98 || August 9 || Cardinals || 1–0 || Bauers (7–8) || Henshaw || — || 5,000 || 62–35
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 99 || August 10 || Cardinals || 0–5 (7) || Warneke || Klinger (8–4) || — || 14,000 || 62–36
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 100 || August 12 || Cubs || 3–9 || Lee || Tobin (10–6) || — || 14,962 || 62–37
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 101 || August 13 || Cubs || 5–11 || Dean || Blanton (9–2) || Page || 15,332 || 62–38
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 102 || August 14 || Cubs || 2–0 || Bauers (8–8) || Root || Brown (4) || 24,193 || 63–38
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 103 || August 15 || Reds || 2–6 || Cascarella || Brown (13–6) || Davis || 6,143 || 63–39
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 104 || August 16 || Reds || 10–0 || Blanton (10–2) || Davis || — || 6,253 || 64–39
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 105 || August 17 || @ Cardinals || 4–3 (10) || Swift (6–5) || Henshaw || — || 2,725 || 65–39
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 106 || August 18 || @ Cardinals || 1–5 || Weiland || Bauers (8–9) || — || — || 65–40
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 107 || August 20 || @ Cubs || 5–2 || Lucas (4–2) || Dean || Swift (3) || — || 66–40
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 108 || August 21 || @ Cubs || 4–6 || Lee || Blanton (10–3) || Russell || — || 66–41
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 109 || August 21 || @ Cubs || 1–6 || Carleton || Bauers (8–10) || — || 40,402 || 66–42
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 110 || August 22 || @ Cubs || 4–2 || Tobin (11–6) || Bryant || — || — || 67–42
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 111 || August 23 || Bees || 0–6 || Lanning || Klinger (8–5) || — || 12,294 || 67–43
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 112 || August 23 || Bees || 4–3 (14) || Brown (14–6) || Errickson || — || 12,294 || 68–43
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 113 || August 24 || Bees || 6–2 || Bauers (9–10) || Hutchinson || — || 4,040 || 69–43
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 114 || August 25 || Phillies || 1–2 || Butcher || Blanton (10–4) || — || — || 69–44
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 115 || August 25 || Phillies || 1–2 (11) || Hallahan || Lucas (4–3) || — || 3,093 || 69–45
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 116 || August 26 || Phillies || 4–6 || Smith || Tobin (11–7) || Sivess || — || 69–46
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 117 || August 27 || Phillies || 6–1 || Brandt (5–2) || Hollingsworth || — || 5,889 || 70–46
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 118 || August 28 || Dodgers || 5–8 || Pressnell || Bauers (9–11) || — || 16,045 || 70–47
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 119 || August 29 || Dodgers || 10–1 || Blanton (11–4) || Posedel || — || 3,425 || 71–47
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 120 || August 30 || Giants || 7–1 || Tobin (12–7) || Coffman || — || — || 72–47
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 121 || August 31 || Giants || 5–6 || Wittig || Bauers (9–12) || — || — || 72–48
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 122 || August 31 || Giants || 12–3 || Lucas (5–3) || Melton || — || 43,586 || 73–48
|-
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 123 || September 1 || Giants || 6–0 || Klinger (9–5) || Schumacher || — || 28,839 || 74–48
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 124 || September 2 || Cardinals || 10–11 || Weiland || Blanton (11–5) || McGee || 4,480 || 74–49
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 125 || September 3 || Cardinals || 0–6 || Macon || Tobin (12–8) || — || 7,759 || 74–50
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 126 || September 4 || Cardinals || 5–3 || Bauers (10–12) || Henshaw || — || 12,187 || 75–50
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 127 || September 5 || Cubs || 0–3 || Lee || Brandt (5–3) || — || — || 75–51
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 128 || September 5 || Cubs || 3–4 || Bryant || Tobin (12–9) || — || 42,545 || 75–52
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 129 || September 7 || @ Reds || 7–1 || Klinger (10–5) || Derringer || — || 8,839 || 76–52
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 130 || September 8 || @ Reds || 3–5 || Vander Meer || Blanton (11–6) || — || 29,043 || 76–53
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 131 || September 10 || @ Cardinals || 14–7 || Brown (15–6) || Macon || — || 3,632 || 77–53
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 132 || September 11 || @ Cardinals || 4–6 || Dean || Bauers (10–13) || — || 15,739 || 77–54
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 133 || September 14 || @ Giants || 0–3 || Schumacher || Blanton (11–7) || — || — || 77–55
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 134 || September 14 || @ Giants || 3–10 || Gumbert || Brandt (5–4) || — || 28,185 || 77–56
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 135 || September 15 || @ Giants || 7–2 || Tobin (13–9) || Melton || — || 4,978 || 78–56
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 136 || September 16 || @ Bees || 7–6 (11) || Swift (7–5) || MacFayden || — || 8,296 || 79–56
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 137 || September 16 || @ Bees || 4–5 || Errickson || Bowman (3–4) || — || 8,296 || 79–57
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 138 || September 17 || @ Bees || 2–1 || Klinger (11–5) || Shoffner || — || — || 80–57
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 139 || September 18 || @ Phillies || 1–0 || Bauers (11–13) || Hollingsworth || — || — || 81–57
|- bgcolor="ffffff"
| 140 || September 18 || @ Phillies || 1–1 (5) || || || — || 1,500 || 81–57
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 141 || September 22 || @ Dodgers || 6–0 || Tobin (14–9) || Fitzsimmons || — || — || 82–57
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 142 || September 22 || @ Dodgers || 11–6 || Klinger (12–5) || Hamlin || Brown (5) || — || 83–57
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 143 || September 23 || Reds || 4–5 (12) || Walters || Brown (15–7) || — || 7,429 || 83–58
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 144 || September 24 || Reds || 4–1 || Bauers (12–13) || Vander Meer || — || 11,318 || 84–58
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 145 || September 25 || Reds || 5–3 || Lucas (6–3) || Derringer || Swift (4) || 27,147 || 85–58
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 146 || September 27 || @ Cubs || 1–2 || Dean || Tobin (14–10) || Lee || 42,238 || 85–59
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 147 || September 28 || @ Cubs || 5–6 || Root || Brown (15–8) || — || 34,465 || 85–60
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 148 || September 29 || @ Cubs || 1–10 || Lee || Bauers (12–14) || — || — || 85–61
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 149 || September 30 || @ Reds || 1–7 || Derringer || Tobin (14–11) || — || — || 85–62
|- bgcolor="ccffcc"
| 150 || September 30 || @ Reds || 4–2 || Bauers (13–14) || Moore || — || 8,361 || 86–62
|-
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 151 || October 1 || @ Reds || 6–9 || Weaver || Brown (15–9) || — || 6,351 || 86–63
|- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 152 || October 2 || @ Reds || 4–5 || Vander Meer || Tobin (14–12) || — || 14,007 || 86–64
|-
|-
| Legend: = Win = Loss = TieBold = Pirates team member
Opening Day lineup
Roster
Player stats
Batting
Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
Pitching
Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Farm system
LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Carthage
Notes
References
1938 Pittsburgh Pirates team page at Baseball Reference
1938 Pittsburgh Pirates Page at Baseball Almanac
Pittsburgh Pirates seasons
Pittsburgh Pirates season
Pittsburg Pir
1930s in Pittsburgh |
29205514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacettepe%20University%20Medical%20School | Hacettepe University Medical School | Hacettepe University Medical School is a medical school located at Hacettepe University Medical Center in Ankara, Turkey.
History
Hacettepe University Medical School began with the establishment of The Child Health Department affiliated with Ankara University Medical School on February 2, 1954.
Official seal
The emblem of the University was designed in 1967 by Dr. Yücel Tanyeri, then a second year medical student, in the likeness of a stag – the symbol of a Hittite deity discovered at the royal tombs in Alacahöyük. Inspired by this archeological symbol common to the region, the Stag was chosen as the symbol of the University, and was abstracted to represent a lowercase "h" – the first letter of the university's name.
Achievements
On February 24, 2011, Turkish surgeon Dr. Serdar Nasır and his team successfully performed the country’s second full face transplant at the university's hospital in Ankara after almost one month the first transplant of its sort in Turkey. The 25-year-old patient, Cengiz Gül's face was badly burnt in a television tube implosion accident when he was two years old. The donor was 40-year-old N. A. (his family did not allow his identity to be revealed), who experienced brain death two days before the surgery following a motorcycle accident which occurred on February 17.
The surgery team accomplished at the same time another transplant, world's first-ever double-arm and double-leg limb transplant on 25-year old Şevket Çavdar using the organs of the same donor.
Notable people
Serdar Nasır, Associate Prof. Dr. at Institute of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
References
External links
International Students Office
Hacettepe University EU Office
Faculty of Medicine
Hacettepe University Medical School Facebook Page
Hacettepe University
Medical schools in Turkey |
39906382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-e%20Algher | Tang-e Algher | Tang-e Algher () is a village in Sar Asiab-e Yusefi Rural District, Bahmai-ye Garmsiri District, Bahmai County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 33, in 5 families.
References
Populated places in Bahmai County |
18486816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members%20of%20the%20South%20Australian%20Legislative%20Council%2C%201975%E2%80%931979 | Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1975–1979 | This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1975 to 1979.
This period operated under transitional arrangements following the rearrangement of the Council from a restricted-franchise house with ten provinces each electing two members, to a 22-member house elected to staggered terms on an open franchise, proportional representation model. Due in part to a constitutional requirement that those elected at the 1973 election serve six-year terms, the next Council election was in 1979 even though the next Assembly election was held in 1977.
Liberal MLC Frank Potter died on 26 February 1978. Trevor Griffin was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy on 7 March 1978.
References
"Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1837–2007", Parliament of South Australia, 2007.
"History of South Australian Elections, 1857–2006", Dean Jaensch, 2006.
Members of South Australian parliaments by term
20th-century Australian politicians |
51285316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Cloud%20Datastore | Google Cloud Datastore | Google Cloud Datastore (Cloud Datastore) is a highly scalable, fully managed NoSQL database service offered by Google on the Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Datastore is built upon Google's Bigtable and Megastore technology. Google Cloud Datastore allows the user to create databases either in Native or Datastore Mode. Native Mode is designed for mobile and web apps, while Datastore Mode is designed for new server projects.
History
Originally released as a feature in Google App Engine in 2008, Cloud Datastore was announced as a standalone product in 2013 during Google I/O. In 2018 at the Google Cloud Next conference, the second-generation Firestore database was opened to general availability, with a backward-compatibility mode. Google provides a path for automatically upgrading a legacy Datastore database to Firestore in Datastore mode.
GQL
Google Cloud Datastore database has a SQL-like syntax called "GQL" (Google Query Language). GQL does not support the Join statement. Instead, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships can be accomplished using ReferenceProperty(). This shared-nothing approach allows disks to fail without the system failing. Switching from a relational database to Cloud Datastore requires a paradigm shift for developers when modeling their data.
See also
Azure Cosmos DB
Amazon DynamoDB
Oracle Cloud NoSQL DB
References
External links
Official website
Google Cloud Platform site
Cloud Datastore
Cloud storage |
12035438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biber | Biber | Biber may refer to:
Biber (surname)
Biber (geology), a timespan in the glacial history of the Alps
Biber (submarine), a World War II German midget submarine
Biber, a bridge-carrying version of the German Leopard 1 tank
Biber (LaTeX), a BibTeX replacement for users of Biblatex
Biber (Switzerland) (also spelled Biberli), a traditional Swiss gingerbread confection
Urfa Biber, Turkish dried pepper
Biber salçası, paste made from chili peppers and salt
Biber (magazine), Austrian news magazine for immigrants
Rivers
Biber (Alp), a river in Switzerland, tributary to the Alp
Biber (Danube), a river in Bavaria, Germany, tributary to the Danube
Biber (Möhne), a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, tributary of the Möhne
Biber (Rhine), a river in Germany and Switzerland, tributary to the Rhine
Biber (Schleuse), a river in Thuringia, Germany, tributary to the Schleuse (Weser basin)
See also
Beber (disambiguation)
Bieber (disambiguation)
Related surnames
Bóbr
Buber
Bobrowski |
22184170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolasena | Nolasena | Nolasena is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Nolasena ferrifervens, is found in India, Sri Lanka, Borneo and the Philippines. Both the genus and species were first described by Francis Walker in 1858.
Description
Palpi porrect (extending forward), where the second joint fringed with hair above, and third acute at apex. Antennae minutely ciliated. Forewings with slightly acute apex. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing (fusing) to form an areole.
The species' wingspan is 18–21 mm. Forewings are olive coloured. There are two broad and colourful oblique bands. Both bands running from the costa to the inner margin. Costal dots near the apex are white. Forewings with double, oblique, dark antemedial fasciae. Postmedial fascia more irregular, white edged, and dark coloured. Head broad, olive brown and covered with smooth scales. Labial palps long, porrect and pale beige or pale olive brown. Thorax and abdomen olive brown and are stout and short. Legs pale beige or pale yellowish grey. Hindwings are dark greyish brown.
References
Calpinae
Monotypic moth genera
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1857 |
47746194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro%20Sosa | Alejandro Sosa | Alejandro "Alex" Sosa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1983 American crime film Scarface and the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours. He is an international Bolivian drug lord and the chief supplier of cocaine for his business partner Tony Montana. Only when Sosa was betrayed did his relationship with Tony Montana end. Sosa is portrayed by Paul Shenar in the film. He is based on the Bolivian drug lord Roberto Suárez Gómez.
Overview
Scarface (1983)
Alejandro Sosa is presented in the film as a Bolivian landowner, hailing from a rich family, educated in England and currently the business brain and drug overlord of an empire that stretches across the Andes region. He is immensely wealthy and has wide-reaching political and criminal connections, both in Latin America and in the United States.
Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) sends Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and Omar Suarez (F. Murray Abraham) to make a drug deal with Sosa who asks them to guarantee the buying of a certain amount of cocaine every month. After some issues, Montana promises Sosa to talk with Lopez about sharing the risk. When Sosa is informed that Suarez was previously a police informant, Suarez is beaten by Sosa's henchmen and then hanged to death from a helicopter, which Tony witnesses. Sosa gives immediate respect to Tony due to his honesty and straightforward demeanour, even agreeing that Omar fooling Lopez "could happen to anyone". When Lopez hears of the developments, he refuses to believe that Omar was a "stoolie" and even suspects that Tony has some ulterior motives. Lopez and Tony separate after the argument and the latter propose marriage to Lopez's girlfriend Elvira Hancock. When Lopez becomes aware of Tony's aspirations regarding Elvira, he sends two hitmen to have him killed. The plan backfires and Tony kills the two hitmen. Tony then goes to Lopez and has his right-hand man Manny kill Lopez and Tony then kills a corrupt police detective after Lopez confesses to hiring the hitmen to kill Tony. Tony becomes a drug lord in Miami and for a while, enjoys a period of mutual business prosperity with Sosa.
When Tony Montana is arrested for tax evasion, Sosa offers to use his government contacts to keep Montana from going to prison. In exchange, Montana is to assassinate a journalist who is threatening to expose Sosa's illicit activities. Montana agrees and heads to New York City with Sosa's henchman Alberto "The Shadow", planning to detonate a bomb in the journalist's car. However, the journalist is unexpectedly accompanied by his wife and children, causing Montana to call off the hit. Shadow refuses and intends to detonate the bomb, causing Montana to shoot The Shadow in the head. Later, when Montana reaches his home, Sosa calls him angrily and inquires about the incident. Montana offends him and in retaliation, the infuriated Sosa sends his assassins to Montana's home to finish him. Despite the casualties he inflicts, Montana is ultimately killed in the attack when Sosa's personal hitman "The Skull" sneaks up behind him, and shoots Montana in the back with a double-barrel shotgun, causing him to fall into the fountain with the symbolic "The World Is Yours" globe sign above it. This is notably similar to the final scene of the original Scarface film.
Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006)
In the 2006 action-adventure video game Scarface: The World is Yours, the ending of the film treatment was altered to establish that Tony won the climactic battle against Sosa's men, escaping before the police showed up, although Sosa had succeeded in ending Tony's drug empire. Tony quits using cocaine and the game focuses on Tony's efforts to rebuild his old drug empire on the ashes of his old one and to exact revenge upon Sosa.
Sosa is not seen (though his voice is heard through much of the game) until the final mission where he held a meeting with Gaspar Gomez and George Sheffield regarding the fact that Tony has taken over all of Miami and is now after them. Montana confronts Sosa in his living room after killing Gomez and Sheffield, and wiping out Sosa's men in his mansion in Bolivia. Sosa tells Montana he warned him not to betray him, but Montana did, referring to the incident with the journalist in the film. Sosa says that in their business, sometimes children have to be killed, particularly so "heroes don't go on 60 Minutes", referring to the journalist who on national TV named him and many of his allies as reputed drug traffickers. Montana then executes Sosa by shooting him 30 times with an AK-47 (with an under-barrelled Remington 870), unloading the entire magazine, and leaving his bullet-riddled corpse slumped against his couch. Tony Montana heads back to Miami, Florida where he proceeds to celebrate his control of the city's drug trade, Sosa's assassination, and the destruction of Sosa's drug empire.
Reception, influence and legacy
The character of Alejandro Sosa was well received. Complex has ranked Sosa as 27th in its list of 50 best villains in movie history. Rapper Pitbull said in 2014 that "I wanted to be Sosa – educated, good-looking, a good dresser". The song "Criminology" by Wu-Tang Clan rapper Raekwon, from his debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., begins with a dialogue between Montana and Sosa where Sosa calls the former a "fucking little monkey". Rapper Chief Keef popularly goes by the nickname "Sosa" and he named his fifth child "Sno" meaning "The White Sosa". Montana's killing, ordered by Sosa, has been listed by Complex as the 1st one in its "Top 50 Movie Assassinations" list. The character Colonel Sanders in the South Park episode "Medicinal Fried Chicken" is similar to Sosa.
References
Further reading
External links
Alejandro Sosa on IMDb
Fictional Bolivian people
Fictional characters based on real people
Fictional murderers of children
Fictional murdered people
Fictional criminals in films
Crime film characters
Scarface (1983 film)
Fictional drug dealers
Fictional crime bosses
Film characters introduced in 1983
Fictional mass murderers
Fictional gangsters
Fictional Hispanic and Latino American people in video games
Male film villains |
3103099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aby%20with%20Greenfield | Aby with Greenfield | Aby with Greenfield is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 196. It consists of the villages of Aby and Greenfield. The parish is situated approximately south-east from Louth.
Greenfield
Greenfield was a hamlet and chapelry, with a church dedicated to Saint Mary. According to a field investigator's report from 1964: "There are no surface indications of desertion - other than the Priory - nor is there local knowledge or tradition of a village and church".
Greenfield Priory was a Cistercian nunnery founded before 1153 and suppressed in 1536.
References
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District |
2772933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirikou%20and%20the%20Sorceress | Kirikou and the Sorceress | Kirikou and the Sorceress (, ) is a 1998 traditional animation feature film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba. The film was originally released on 9 December 1998. It is a co-production between companies in France (Exposure, France 3 Cinema, Les Armateurs, Monipoly, Odec Kid Cartoons), Belgium (Radio-Télévision belge) and Luxembourg (Studio O, Trans Europe Film) and animated at Rija Films' studio in Latvia and Studio Exist in Hungary.
It was so successful that it was followed by Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages, released in 2005, and adapted into a stage musical, Kirikou et Karaba, first performed in 2007. Another follow-up, Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes, was released in late 2012.
Plot
In a little West African village, an unusual boy named Kirikou is born, who can speak before birth and walk immediately after birth. After Kirikou's mother tells him that an evil sorceress, Karaba, has dried up their spring and eaten all the men of the village except for one, he decides to accompany the last warrior, his uncle, to visit her and try to stop her.
Kirikou manages to trick the sorceress and save his uncle by waiting inside his uncle's hat and pretending that it is magic. Additionally, he saves the village's children from being kidnapped both by the sorceress's boat and tree, and kills the monster who was drinking all the village's water, gaining trust and stature in the eyes of the previously skeptical villagers. With the help of his mother and various animals, Kirikou then evades Karaba's watchmen and travels into a forbidden mountain to ask his wise old grandfather about the sorceress.
His grandfather tells him that she is evil because she suffers from a poisoned thorn in her back, which causes her great pain and also gives her great power. After learning this, Kirikou manages to take the sorceress's stolen gold, thus luring her outside to where he can trick her and extract the poisoned thorn. As a result, the sorceress is cured of her suffering, and she kisses Kirikou, who then becomes an adult.
When Kirikou and Karaba arrive back at the village, no one believes that the sorceress is cured until a procession of drummers arrive with Kirikou's grandfather. The drummers turn out to be the sorceress's watchmen and henchmen restored to their original human forms, the missing men of the village, whom she hadn't eaten after all.
Cast
French voice cast
Doudou Gueye Thiaw: Child Kirikou
Awa Sene Sarr: Karaba
Maimouna N'Diaye: Kirikou's mother
Robert Liensol: Kirikou's grandfather
William Nadylam: Adult Kirikou
Sébastien Hébrant: Adult Kirikou
Rémi Bichet: Adult Kirikou
Thilombo Lubambu: Kirikou's uncle
Marie Augustine Diatta: the force woman
Moustafa Diop: the fetish on the roof
Isseu Niang: the small woman
Selly Raby Kane: Zoé, the big girl
Erick Patrick Correa: Boris, the big boy
Adjoua Barry: Boulette, a girl
Charles Edouard Gomis Correa: a boy
Marie-Louise Shedeye Diiddi: the little girl
Abdoulayé Diop Yama: the old person
Josephine Theodora M'Boup: a woman
Tabata N'Diaye: the old woman
Samba Wane: fetish talked
Aminatha N'Diaye: a mother
François Chicaïa: man of the village
N'Deyé Aïta N'Diaye: woman of the village
Abdou El Aziz Gueye: man of the village
Boury Kandé: woman of the village
Assy Dieng Bâ: Karaba's scream
Michel Elias: animal sounds
English voice cast
Theodore Sibusiso Sibeko: Kirikou
Antoinette Kellermann: Karaba
Fezile Mpela: Uncle
Kombisile Sangweni: The Mother
Mabutho Kid Sithole: The Old Man
Swahili voice cast
Samson Komeka: Kirikou
Japanese voice cast
Ryūnosuke Kamiki: Kirikou
Atsuko Asano: Karaba
Kaori Yamagata: Mother
Brazilian voice cast
Thiago Keplmair: Kirikou
Sandra Mara Azevedo: Karaba
Alessandra Araújo: Mother
Marcelo Pissardini: Uncle
Walter Cruz: Grandfather
Eleu Salvador: The Old Man
Fábio Lucindo: Boris, the big boy
Production
The film is a co-production of Les Armateurs, Trans Europe Film, Studio O, France 3 cinéma, RTBF and Exposure in France, Odec Kid Cartoons in Belgium and Monipoly in Luxembourg. It was animated at Rija Films' animation studio in Latvia and Studio Exist in Hungary, with backgrounds painted at Les Armateurs and Paul Thiltges' animation studio, Tiramisu, in Luxembourg, digital ink and paint and compositing by Les Armateurs and Odec Kid Cartoons in Belgium and voices and music recorded in Senegal.
The original French voice acting was performed by a cast of West African actors and schoolchildren and recorded in Dakar. The English dubbing, also directed by Ocelot, was made in South Africa. A dub of the film in the Swahili language was produced in Tanzania in 2009 through the help of the Danish Film Institute (DFI) and John Riber of Media for Development in Dar es Salaam.
Controversy
The film contains many instances of nudity that reflect the non-sexualized view of the human body in the West African culture depicted. This was controversial enough in the U.S. and the U.K. to prevent its release. Eventually, the British Film Institute gave the film a few screenings in the U.K., and in the U.S. specialist distributor Artmattan released it to a small but appreciative African-American audience.
Release
The film has been licensed by distributors in numerous countries, including:
Argentina – Prodifilms
Brazil – Cult Filmes (VHS), Paulinas Multimídia (DVD)
Canada – Remstar Distribution
Denmark – Angel Films A/S
France – Gébéka Films
Germany – MFA Filmdistribution
Italy – Mikado Film
Japan – Albatros Film (2003, theatrical), Ghibli Cinema Library/Buena Vista Home Entertainment (DVD/VHS)
Russia – RUSCICO (2004, video)
Spain – Alta Classics S.L. Unipersonal
United Kingdom – British Film Institute
United States – ArtMattan Productions (2000, dubbed)
Video game
Kirikou, developed by Étranges Libellules for the Playstation, Planet Interactive for the Game Boy Color and Krysalide for the Microsoft Windows.
Soundtrack
Music for the film was created by Senegalese artist Youssou N'dour. The ending theme for the film is called "Kirikou by Boubacar Mendy", released on Virgin EMI.
Accolades
Notes
External links
Kirikou and the Sorceress official USA Web site
Kirikou and the Sorceress official USA Web site to purchase DVD
Kirikou et la sorcière at Le Palais des dessins animés
BBCi review
The Guardian review
Annecy Cristal for a Feature Film winners
1998 animated films
1998 fantasy films
1998 films
Belgian animated fantasy films
1990s children's adventure films
1990s children's fantasy films
1990s French animated films
French fantasy adventure films
Films directed by Michel Ocelot
French animated fantasy films
Luxembourgian animated fantasy films
1998 directorial debut films
Animated films about witchcraft
Films set in pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa
Animated coming-of-age films
1990s French-language films
French-language Belgian films
Obscenity controversies in film
Animated films set in Africa
Animated films based on folklore |
64566106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead%20Town%20Hall | Maidenhead Town Hall | Maidenhead Town Hall is a municipal building in St Ives Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England.
History
A medieval guildhall was constructed in the High Street around 1430 and replaced by a larger guildhall, designed by Theodosius Keene in the Italianate style, in 1777. In the late 1950s, Maidenhead Borough Council decided to demolish the aging 18th guildhall and replace it with a modern facility.
The site selected for the new building had previously been occupied by a 16th century mansion known as St Ives Place. King Henry VIII granted St Ives Place to Anne of Cleves for life as part of his divorce settlement with her in 1541. In the 18th century, it had become the home of Peniston Powney, the MP for Berkshire and by the early 1920s it was owned by another politician, Lord Desborough.
The new building, which was designed by North & Partners and Sir Hubert Worthington in the Neo-Georgian style, was officially opened by the Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, in June 1962. The Desborough Suite, which was created to offer conferencing and theatre facilities, was named in honour of the former owner of St Ives Place.
The building was used as a location for several of the "Carry On" series of films starting with Carry On Doctor in 1967. It was the meeting place of Maidenhead Borough Council until 1974 when it became the headquarters of the enlarged Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council. The town hall was extensively refurbished, to a design by McBains Cooper, at a cost of £1.6 million, in 2014, and proposals for the refurbishment of the Desborough Suite, a cost of £2 million, were approved in 2019.
References
City and town halls in Berkshire
Buildings and structures in Berkshire
Government buildings completed in 1962 |
38035326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedenskirche%20%28K%C3%B6nigsberg%29 | Friedenskirche (Königsberg) | The Friedenskirche (Peace Church) was a Protestant church in eastern Königsberg, Germany.
The church was opened on 26 June 1913 along Königstraße. Originally subordinated to Altrossgarten Church, it became an independent parish in 1924. The church was also colloquially known as the Hofkirche because it stood in a garden. Its pastors included H. Federmann and Ernst Czygan. The church was heavily damaged during the 1945 Battle of Königsberg and then demolished by the Soviet administration in Kaliningrad during the 1960s.
References
1913 establishments in Germany
1945 disestablishments in Germany
Buildings and structures in Germany destroyed during World War II
Destroyed churches in Germany
Former churches in Königsberg
Lutheran churches in Königsberg
20th-century Lutheran churches in Germany
Churches completed in 1913
Christian organizations established in 1924 |
53704502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Regulatory%20Review | The Regulatory Review | The Regulatory Review is an online, daily publication devoted to coverage of regulatory news, analysis, and commentary. It is produced under the auspices of the Penn Program on Regulation and operated by students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The Regulatory Review's content includes essays produced by the publication's staff members as well as regular contributions from scholars, public officials, attorneys, and others interested in regulatory developments.
History
The Regulatory Review dates to 2009, when it was originally known as RegBlog. At that time, University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Cary Coglianese placed a blogging component on the website of the Penn Program on Regulation (PPR). Coglianese named the blog "RegBlog"—a name intended to convey the blog's purpose as a platform devoted to coverage of regulation. The blog's content initially comprised occasional short posts about regulatory news items and other related developments.
Content was added to the site on an intermittent basis, until then-Penn Law student Jonathan Mincer presented a plan to create a student-run infrastructure based around the regular production of content. After that student-run organization became active, a new website was constructed for RegBlog that no longer relied on the stock blog functionality that had been built into the initial PPR website. RegBlog's new site was launched in April 2011, which marked the beginning of RegBlog as a publication in a form similar to what The Regulatory Review is today, featuring new content every weekday of the year.
A subsequent redesign of the RegBlog website was carried out in November 2013, an undertaking that involved placing RegBlog onto a new platform and giving it the graphical look that it retained until another redesign in March 2017.
This most recent redesign was part of a larger initiative by the members of RegBlog's 2016–2017 Editorial Board under the leadership of former editor-in-chief Kim Kirschenbaum. This initiative also included changing the publication's name in March 2017 from RegBlog to The Regulatory Review.
Content
The Regulatory Review features coverage on regulatory topics, including administrative law, environmental regulation, financial regulation, health care, network neutrality, occupational safety and health, regulatory politics, telecommunications, and transportation, among other issues. It also features long-form essays written by contributors who occupy positions in government, academia, the nonprofit sector, and the private sector. In addition to publishing essays contributed by regulatory experts, The Regulatory Review features content authored by student staff members.
The Regulatory Review also periodically publishes "series," collections of essays organized around common themes or topics. Examples of notable series include "Regulating Police Use of Force," "Artificial Intelligence and the Administrative State," "A Debate over the Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis," "Rooting Out Regulatory Capture," "Bringing Expertise to the Gun Debate," "Comparing Nations’ Responses to COVID-19," "Racism, Regulation, and the Administrative State," and "Regulation in the Era of FinTech."
Recent leadership
Professor Coglianese is the publication's faculty advisor.
Notable contributors
External links
Penn Program on Regulation
References
University of Pennsylvania
American law journals
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Administrative law journals
Student newspapers published in Pennsylvania |
2908894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts%20Library%20Association | Massachusetts Library Association | The Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) is the Massachusetts, United States professional library association that "advocates for libraries, librarians, and library staff, defends intellectual freedom, and provides a forum for leadership, communication, professional development, and networking to keep libraries vital." MLA publishes standards for library services to Massachusetts children and young adults. MLA sponsors an annual conference, as well as continuing education programs and organizational reports of interest. The current President of MLA is Esme Green, Director of the Goodnow Library in Sudbury.
History
MLA was founded in 1890 as the "Massachusetts Library Club". The gavel that has been passed down from president to president is said to be made from the wood of the USS Constitution. The MLA had a committee called The Art Club that created sets of photographs for travelling art exhibits that would rotate through Massachusetts member and associate libraries as early as 1900.
In 1962 MLA's Intellectual Freedom Committee gave testimony before the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission opposing the suppression of Henry Miller's book Tropic of Cancer supporting Massachusetts residents' freedom to read.
Publications
MLA has acted as both a publisher of authors such as Robert Frost as well as an author on many state standards for library services to different populations.
Books We Like: Sixty-two Answers to the Question...
Standards for Public Library Services to Children in Massachusetts
Standards for Public Library Services to Young Adults in Massachusetts
Bay State Libraries, the MLA newsletter published quarterly (January, April, July, and October), focuses on items of interest to the association and to Massachusetts librarians in general.
The MLA has developed a Library Use Value Calculator spreadsheet, which is used by many libraries throughout the United States.
Committees
Conference Committee
Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibilities Committee
Jordan Miller Committee (annual storytelling program)
Leadership and Management Section
Legislative Committee
Library Information Technologies Section
Membership Committee
Personnel & Education Committee
Public Relations Committee
Sections
Technical Services Section
Paralibrarian Section
Youth Services Section
Affiliated organizations
Massachusetts Friends of Libraries (MFOL)
Massachusetts Library Trustees Association
The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC)
Massachusetts School Library Association (MSLA)
American Library Association (ALA) (See also: Wikipedia article on the American Library Association)
New England Library Association (NELA)
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
References
External links
Massachusetts Library Association (MLA)
New England Library Association website
Library consortia in Massachusetts
Library Association
1890 establishments in Massachusetts |
55788703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamChaser%20Tour%20%28Jessica%20Simpson%29 | DreamChaser Tour (Jessica Simpson) | The DreamChaser Tour was the debut concert tour by American recording artist Jessica Simpson. It supported her second studio album, Irresistible and visited United States.
Background
In contrast to her previous co-headlining tour with 98 Degrees, Simpson wanted "DreamChaser" to present her as a singer and a performer, in the mold of Spears. Simpson decided to make the tour risque by adding more backup dancers and wearing skimpier clothing. She took dance lessons for the tour, as she felt that she had to transform herself into a performer. The tour was set up on a portable stage called the "Extreme Mobile Venue", with a capacity to hold 10,000 people, and ran in mall parking lots. The arena featured a stadium stage, complete with a sound system and lights. Arrangements for concertgoers to bungee jump, climb a rock wall, and go mechanical surfing while the singer was not performing were also provided. The venue featured interactive games and exhibits, and was supported by a -high ramp for extreme motorcycle riders. The tour openers included Eden's Crush, Youngstown, Toya, and Plus One. It was choreographed by Dan Karaty.
The tour launched on August 7, 2001, at Corpus Christi, Texas, and ran twenty-five dates through mid-September. Tickets price ranged between $29.99 and $39.99. In an interview with Deseret News, Simpson said that it "was a fun tour. That was like a preparation for me. It was one of those things where I just wanted to go out and meet all my fans." A video tape, titled Dream Chaser, was released on January 22, 2002, which included Simpson's biography, music videos, behind-the-scenes looks at "Irresistible" and "A Little Bit", and footage from the tour. The tape reached number twenty-five on Billboard Top Music Videos chart, for the issue dated February 9, 2002.
Setlist
"Hot Like Fire"
"I Think I'm In Love With You"
"I've Got My Eyes On You"
"When You Told Me You Loved Me"
"A Little Bit"
"What's It Gonna Be"
"Imagination"
"Final Heartbreak"
"Where You Are"
"For Your Love"
"His Eye On The Sparrow" / "I Believe I Can Fly"
"I Wanna Love You Forever"
"Forever In Your Eyes"
"I Never"
Encore
"Irresistible" (contains elements of So So Def Remix)
Tour dates
References
Works cited
2001 concert tours |
314428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupie | Groupie | A groupie is a fan of a particular musical group who follows the band around while they are on tour or who attends as many of their public appearances as possible, with the hope of meeting them. The term is usually derogatory, mostly describing young women, and sometimes men, who follow these individuals aiming to initiate a sexual encounter with them or to offer them sex quid pro quo. The term is also used to describe enthusiastic fans of athletes, admirers of public figures in other high-profile professions, and gold diggers who seek to marry up into the high society by offering themselves as free escorts for celebrities and high-net-worth individuals who attend house parties, functions and yacht tours.
Origin in music
The word groupie originated around 1965 to describe teen-aged girls or young women who began following a particular group or band of musicians on a regular basis. The phenomenon was much older; Mary McCarthy had earlier described it in her novel The Company She Keeps (1942). Some sources have attributed the coining of the word to The Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman during the group's 1965 Australian tour; but Wyman said he and his bandmates used other "code words" for women on tour.
A prominent explanation of the groupie concept came from Rolling Stone magazine, which published an issue devoted to the topic, Groupies: The Girls of Rock (February 1969), which emphasized the sexual behavior of rock musicians and groupies. Time magazine published an article, "Manners And Morals: The Groupies", later that month. Also that year, journalists Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne released a largely autobiographical novel called Groupie (1969). The following year, a documentary film titled Groupies (1970) was released.
Female groupies in particular have a long-standing reputation of being available to celebrities, pop stars, rock stars, and other public figures. Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant is quoted as distinguishing between fans who wanted brief sexual encounters, and "groupies" who traveled with musicians for extended periods of time, acting as a surrogate girlfriend, and often taking care of the musician's wardrobe and social life. Women who adopt this role are sometimes referred to as "road wives". Cynthia Plaster Caster, Cleo Odzer, Barbara Cope (The Butter Queen) and The GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), with Pamela Des Barres, in particular, as de facto spokeswoman, are probably the best-known groupies of this type.
A characteristic that may classify one as a groupie is a reputation for promiscuity. Connie Hamzy, also known as "Sweet Connie", a prominent groupie in the 1960s, argues in favor of the groupie movement and defends her chosen lifestyle by saying, "Look, we're not hookers, we loved the glamour". However, her openness regarding her sexual endeavors with various rock stars is exactly what has enhanced the negative connotations surrounding her type. For example, she stated in the Los Angeles Times article "Pop & Hiss" (December 15, 2010): "Hamzy, unlike the other groupies, was never looking to build relationships. She was after sex, and she unabashedly shared intimate moments with virtually every rock star—even their roadies—who came through Arkansas." However, some groupies also downplayed the sexual connotations of the term. Speaking about the "groupie" label, former baby groupie Lori Mattix stated, "I feel like it's been degraded somewhere along the way, and it was never meant to be negative. Groupies in the old days were girlfriends of the band. They were classy and sophisticated, but now you hear the word groupie and you think of hookers and strippers."
Des Barres, who wrote two books detailing her experiences as a groupie—I'm with the Band (1987) and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up (1993)—as well as another non-fiction book, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon, asserts that a groupie is to a rock band as Mary Magdalene was to Jesus. Her most recent book, Let's Spend the Night Together (2007), is a collection of wildly varied interviews with classic "old school" groupies including Catherine James, Connie Hamzy, Cherry Vanilla, DeeDee Keel, and Margaret Moser. Des Barres described Keel as: "One of the most intimidating dolls ... a slim strawberry blonde who won the highly prized job of Whisky office manager after her predecessor Gail Sloatman met Frank Zappa and became what we all wanted to be." Keel was one of the few who has stayed connected in Hollywood and with bands for nearly four decades. Des Barres, who married rock singer/actor Michael Des Barres, also persuaded cult actress Tura Satana, singer and model Bebe Buell, actress Patti D'Arbanville, and Cassandra Peterson, better known as "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark", to talk about their relationships with musicians.
Also according to Des Barres' book, there is at least one male groupie, Pleather, who followed female celebrities such as Courtney Love and members of the 1980s pop group The Pandoras.
The "groupie" label, as it was used in the music scene, has been criticized by some feminist scholars for diminishing the role that women played in supporting and creating music. Norma Coates, a scholar of media and cultural studies, notes that Rolling Stone's 1969 special report on groupies also included profiles of women who were not groupies at all but rather musicians in their own right. According to model and groupie Bebe Buell, groupies sometimes became music celebrities in their own right. Speaking about "baby" groupies Sable Starr and Lori Mattix, she stated, "Every rock star that came to L.A. wanted to meet them, it wasn't the other way around." Music critic Ralph J. Gleason noted that as the prominence of the most well-known groupies increased, they became the "people that others looked to when determining whether a band was 'cool.'
American space program
During the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo American space programs in the 1960s, women would hang around the hotels of Clear Lake in Houston, home to many astronauts, and Cocoa Beach in Florida near the rocket launching site at Cape Canaveral, "collecting" astronauts. Joan Roosa, wife of Apollo 14 Command Module Pilot Stu Roosa, recalled: "I was at a party one night in Houston. A woman standing behind me, who had no idea who I was, said 'I've slept with every astronaut who has been to the Moon.' ... I said 'Pardon me, but I don't think so'."
Sports
Groupies also play a role in sports. A puck bunny is an ice hockey fan whose interest in the sport is primarily motivated by sexual attraction to the players rather than enjoyment of the game itself. Primarily a Canadian term, it gained popular currency in the 21st century, and in 2004 was added to the second edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary which defines it as follows:
Puck bunny: a young female hockey fan, especially one motivated more by a desire to meet the players than by an interest in hockey.
The term is somewhat analogous to the term "groupie" as it relates to rock and roll musicians. Sociological studies of the phenomenon in minor league hockey indicate that self-proclaimed "puck bunnies" are "'proud as punch' to have sex with the [players]", as it confers social status on them. However, these transitory relationships are often contrasted with those of girlfriends, with whom players have more stable, long-term relationships.
"Buckle bunnies" are a well-known part of the world of rodeo. The term comes from a slang term for women ("bunnies"), and from the prize belt buckles awarded to the winners in rodeo, which are highly sought by the bunnies. According to one report, bunnies "usually do not expect anything more than sex from the rodeo participants and vice versa".
In a 1994 Spin magazine feature, Elizabeth Gilbert characterized buckle bunnies as an essential element of the rodeo scene, and described a particularly dedicated group of bunnies who are known on the rodeo circuit for their supportive attitude and generosity, going beyond sex, to "some fascination with providing the most macho group of guys on Earth with the only brand of nurturing they will accept".
Recently, in Irish sport, particularly in Gaelic Athletic Association sports the term "Jersey Puller" or "Jersey Tugger" has been used to describe females who are romantically interested in players. The term refers to the pulling of a player's top. The term can range from who look to be romantically linked with senior intercounty players to local players playing for their parish.
In popular culture
Film
Groupies (1970), documentary
200 Motels (1971), by Frank Zappa about life on the road.
Almost Famous (2000) depicts groupies who call themselves "band aids".
The Banger Sisters (2002) depicts two middle-aged women who used to be friends and groupies when they were young.
School of Rock (2003), referenced when Dewey Finn (Jack Black) (when creating a band and crew composed of prep school students) gives three schoolgirls the roles of groupies, until one of them—Summer Hathaway (Miranda Cosgrove)—learns what a groupie is and is appalled; Dewey subsequently gives her the more important role of band manager.
Secret Lives of Women: Groupies (2009), a reality television spot featured the Beatle Bandaids (a modern day vintage groupie troupe), Pamela Des Barres, and the Plastics (professional groupies).
In Woody Allen's movie Midnight in Paris (2011), Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) comments that Adriana is taking the word "art groupie" to a whole new level.
Evil Dead Rise (2023), the protagonist, Beth Bixler (Lily Sullivan), is constantly called a groupie by the deadite entities to mock her.
Literature
Music
Groupies
The GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), is a band organized by Frank Zappa in the late 1960s, composed of seven groupies: Miss Pamela (Pamela Des Barres de facto spokeswoman), Miss Sparky (Linda Sue Parker), Miss Lucy (Lucy McLaren), Miss Christine (Christine Frka), Miss Sandra (Sandra Leano), Miss Mercy (Mercy Fontentot), and Miss Cynderella (Cynthia Cale-Binion)
Songs
"Pick Me, I'm Clean" and "Road Ladies", both by Frank Zappa.
On December 16, 2014, KXNG Crooked, a.k.a. Crooked I of Slaughterhouse (Shady Records) released a song called "Groupie" featuring Shalé, produced by Jonathan Hay and Mike Smith from the album Sex, Money and Hip-Hop.
The song "La Groupie" featured by Reggaetón singers De La Ghetto, Ñejo, Lui-G 21 Plus, Nicky Jam and Ñengo Flow contains explicit vocabulary and expressions for women considered as groupies.
Michael Jackson's songs "Dirty Diana" and "Billie Jean" both describe sexual encounters with groupies.
The song "Look Away" by Iggy Pop was written for rock and roll groupie Sable Starr.
New Riders of the Purple Sage recorded a song titled "Groupie". The chorus goes "She really ain't no groupie/She said so in a movie/At least that's what she said to me."
Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell wrote a song they titled "Groupie", which was recorded by Delaney & Bonnie. The song was covered by The Carpenters under the title "Superstar" and it became one of their most popular hits. Besides the title change, the duo changed the lyric in the second verse from "I can hardly wait to sleep with you again" to the somewhat less suggestive "I can hardly wait to be with you again."
Grand Funk Railroad recorded their song "We're an American Band", which included the line "Sweet, sweet Connie was doing her act/She had the whole show and that's a natural fact." This lyric is referring to groupie Connie Hamzy.
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show recorded the novelty song "Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie".
The song "Little Miss Honky Tonk" by Brooks & Dunn praises the singer's girlfriend stating "I wouldn't give her up for a thousand buckle bunnies."
The song "Star Star" by The Rolling Stones, originally titled "Starfucker", from their album Goats Head Soup (1973) is an infamous, profanity-laden song that speaks candidly of the groupie scene of the early 1970s.
The song "Groupie Love" by Lana Del Rey, featuring A$AP Rocky off her album Lust for Life (2017), connotes the relationship between an artist with a type of fan—usually a young woman which seeks for emotional or sexual intimacy, involved in obsessive adoration of entertainers such as musicians, actors, athletes, and even political figures.
The song "Famous Groupies" by the band Wings on the album London Town (1978) tells about a pair of groupies and the damage they leave behind.
The song "Sick Again" by the band Led Zeppelin on their album Physical Graffiti (1975) is about the L.A. groupie scene in the early 1970s.
The song "Summer '68" by the band Pink Floyd on their album Atom Heart Mother (1970) was written about keyboardist Richard Wright's encounter with a groupie.
Stan Rogers described his song "You Can't Stay Here" on his album Northwest Passage (1981) as "[a]n only slightly tongue-in-cheek look at the 'groupie' problem".
The song "Psycho" by the band System of a Down on their album Toxicity (2001) makes several references to groupies, such as the line "So you want to see the show? You really don't have to be a ho. From the time you were a Psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy."
Television
In Sons of Anarchy, the groupies who hang around the fictional SOA motorcycle club are referred to as "Crow Eaters"; in season 6, Jax's ex-wife Wendy tells Tara, Margaret, and Lowen she was a "Crow Eater" for a year before marrying Jax.
References
External links
Article about firefighter and police groupies after 9/11/01.
Human sexuality
Women and sexuality
Lifestyles |
26734650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovation%20Viper | Ovation Viper | The Ovation Viper is an electric guitar made by Ovation Guitar Company from 1977 to the early 1980s; it was available with two single-coil pickups (1271), and Viper III, with a third middle pickup (1273).
For a time, Ovation reused the Viper name for an acoustic electric guitar, the Yngwie J. Malmsteen Signature Viper, available in two models - YM68 (steel string) and YM63 (nylon string), introduced in 2012.
In late 2015, the reinvigorated Ovation announced a new incarnation for the Viper brand with a couple of Signature Series electric guitars, a Kevin Cronin model, another for Dave Amato (both of REO Speedwagon).
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37068678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Giuseppe%20Peranda | Marco Giuseppe Peranda | Marco Giuseppe Peranda (Macerata, c. 1625 – 12 January 1675 in Dresden) was an Italian musician and composer active in Germany.
Life
He was one of the most notable Italian musicians in Germany during the early Baroque alongside Vincenzo Albrici, Carlo Pallavicino and Giovanni Andrea Bontempi in Dresden. These four Italian Kapellmeisters were well rewarded – they earned yearly salaries of 1,200 Reichstalers while Heinrich Schütz, at this point semi-retired, earned 800 Reichstalers a year. A contemporary, Agostino Rossi, records him as being a native of Macerata but his musical style shows an education in Rome. From 1651 Perenda was an alto singer in the chapel of Johann Georg II of Saxony as he combined his own chapel choir with that of his father's. In 1661 Peranda became Vizekapellmeister and in 1663 Kapellmeister, as successor of Albrici. His opera Dafne (composed in collaboration) was performed to open the Opernhaus am Taschenberg in Dresden. In 1670 he made a journey to Italy, from which two masses and a motet remain in the Kroměříž residence. In 1672 he was promoted again, to Hofkapellmeister, possibly since Christoph Bernhard had taken a better offer in Hamburg. In 1675 Peranda died, and since unlike some Italian musicians he had never converted to Lutheranism, was buried in Marienstern Abbey in Dresden.
Works
Only an estimated third of his works survive:
1668: Markus-Passion (Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unseres Herren Jesu Christi)
1668: Weihnachtshistorie (lost)
1671: Dafne (Opera with Giovanni Andrea Bontempi)
1673: Jupiter und Jo (lost – a collaboration with Bontempi or Constantin Christian Dedekind)
1675: Il sacrificio di Jefte (i.e. Jephtha, lost, libretto survives)
References
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36229253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangli%20Assembly%20constituency | Sangli Assembly constituency | Sangli Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.
Overview
Sangli constituency is one of the eight Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Sangli district.
Sangli is part of the Sangli Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments in this district, namely Miraj, Khanapur, Palus-Kadegaon, Tasgao-Kavathemahakal and Jat.
Members of Legislative Assembly
See also
Sangli
List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha
References
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Sangli |
30670304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Palchinsky | Peter Palchinsky | Peter Akimovich Palchinsky (; –22 May 1929) was a Russian engineer who played a significant role in the introduction of scientific method into Russian industry.
Biography
Palchinsky was born on 9 October 1875 in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate to the family of Ioakim Fyodorovich Palchinsky and Aleksandra Vasilyevna Palchinskaya (née Tchaikovskaya), the sister of Russian revolutionary Nikolai Tchaikovsky. Not long after, he moved with his mother and four siblings to Kazan, a city on the Volga river in Tatarstan. He was the oldest of all his siblings. He grew up with his mother in the Volga river city of Kazan. He developed an early interest in science which led him to enroll as a student at the Mining Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1893. This was one of the elite engineering institutions of Tsarist Russia. There he mixed with leading Russian scientists and was introduced to radical politics.
In 1901, Palchinsky was recruited by the Russian government to investigate the living conditions of workers in the coal mines of the Don Basin; however, his criticism of the workers' living conditions was not well received. Shortly after the Revolution of 1905 Palchinsky became interested in the Socialist Revolutionary Party, which at the time was the largest party in Russia. He sympathized with the moderate wing of the party and was sharply critical of the radicals. He was implicated in the 1905 effort of the revolutionaries to declare a separate democratic. It is not clear if he was an active participant in the movement or just a sympathizer. Because there was no hard evidence to convince the Russian government that Palchinsky had an active role in the movement, he was not brought to trial, but instead exiled under the emergency powers granted to the police during revolutionary turmoil.
He emigrated from Russia moving to London, Turin and Rome. In 1911 he directed the mining department of the World Industrial Exhibition in Turin.
After his 8-year exile, Palchinsky and his wife returned to their native land in 1913. He was deputy chair of the Imperial Russian Central War Industry Committee during the First World War. After the February Revolution in 1917 he held several positions in the provisional government. While probably not a formal member, he associated himself with the moderate wing of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and supported the war effort against Germany. In 1917, Bolsheviks arranged for a takeover of the provincial government and imprisoned ministers and other officials of the Provisional Government including Palchinsky.
Palchinsky resisted the Bolsheviks rule; however, gradually, certain aspects of the new Soviet political system appealed to him and many of his associates. Their commitment to creating a planned economy, to industrialization, and to science and technology were promising to Palchinsky.
Palchinsky believed that the obstacles to the Russia's industrial advancement were not technological, but political, social, and educational. He argued that Russian engineers were not equipped to deal with the competitive world because Russian engineers did not approach problems in a "academic-dilettantish" way. Instead, they took on every problem as a purely technical one and assumed that if a solution incorporated the latest science, then it was the best solution.
Palchinsky worked with the Soviet Authorities and the Communist party in planning industry and increasing the strength of Russia, but he was strongly against any takeover by the Party of any organization of which he was a member. He opposed the interests of the Communist Party. During this time, policies started by the Bolsheviks and Stalin emphasized huge projects controlled by Moscow. These projects did not include consideration for local conditions and safety was sacrificed to output. This did not set well with Palchinsky as he had seen firsthand the death and destruction caused when consideration of local conditions and safety measures were not taken. He continued to criticize these projects and was arrested in April 1928.
After the Shakhty Trial, prosecutor Krylenko wanted a bigger show trial of engineers. He tortured Palchinsky so he would take on the role of the leader of a state-wide conspiracy. Palchinsky did not give in. He was executed in 1929.
Legacy
Palchinsky was vilified by Soviet propaganda, and then mostly forgotten, but he is given a much more favourable hearing in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (1974), pt.1 and November 1916 (1984) which present him as a clear-eyed, hard-working spokesman of the engineer community.
In 1996 Loren Graham published The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union which used an account of Palchinsky's life to illustrate the role of technology in the first decade of Soviet society.
Further reading
John, Redford (1996-02). Peter Plalchinsky. Retrieved on 2007-04-11
Graham, Loren (1996). The Ghost of The Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union * Vesilind, P. Aarne (2010). Engineering Peace and Justice: The Responsibility of Engineers to Society , p. 54 "Peter Plalchinsky's greatest problem was that he took seriously the idea that engineers should hold paramount the health, safety and welfare of the public."
Hartford, Tim (2012). Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. , p. 30 "few advisors face the fate of Peter Palchinsky..."
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, Arkhipelag GULAG). P.36-37 "GPU collegiums and proletarian courts... gasped to learn... of new vile deeds [done by] Palchinsky, von Meek, and Velichko..."
References
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63241011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20occupation%20of%20Tangier%20%281940%E2%80%931945%29 | Spanish occupation of Tangier (1940–1945) | The Spanish occupation of Tangier (1940-1945) was a temporary enlargement of the Spanish Morocco during World War II.
History
During World War II, the Tangier International Zone was invaded and occupied by Francoist Spain.
On 14 June 1940, a few days after the Italian declaration of war after the German invasion of France, Spain seized the opportunity and, amid the collapse of the French Third Republic, a contingent of 4,000 Moorish soldiers based in the Spanish Morocco occupied the Tangier International Zone, meeting no resistance.
Historians claim that it was done with the excuse that it was a prevention of a possible Italian conquest of Tangier.
Despite the claim that the occupation was a "provisional" measure, the operation was the realization of a long-standing wish and prelude to a potential occupation of French Morocco that did not happen because Rabat ultimately rallied to the new Vichy regime. The Mendoub, the sultan's representative, was expelled in March 1941, further undermining French influence in Tangier's affairs.
Despite calls by the writer Rafael Sánchez Mazas and other Spanish nationalists to annex Tangier, the Franco regime publicly considered the occupation a temporary wartime measure. A diplomatic dispute between Britain and Spain over the latter's abolition of the city's international institutions in November 1940 led to a further guarantee of British rights and a Spanish promise not to fortify the area. In May 1944, although it had served as a contact point between him and the later Axis Powers during the Spanish Civil War, Franco expelled all German diplomats from the area.
Following the August 1945 Paris Conference on Tangier between the United Kingdom, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, an isolated Spain accepted the conditions lined up in the former on 19 September 1945 and retired from Tangier on 11 October 1945.
Tangier then returned to the pre-war status of an international zone.
See also
Spain during World War II
Meeting at Hendaye (23 October 1940)
Evacuation of the Gibraltarian civilian population during World War II (June 1940)
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
Spain in World War II
History of Tangier
World War II occupied territories |
72755910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balta%20notulata | Balta notulata | Balta notulata, also known by the common name small-spotted cockroach, is a species from the genus Balta. By the 1960s it was spread in an area between Sri Lanka, Japan and Easter Island. Already in 1980s it was a domicilary cockroach in Madang Province.
References
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Cockroaches |
10890101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude%20Esterbrook | Dude Esterbrook | Thomas John "Dude" Esterbrook (June 20, 1857 – April 30, 1901) was an American Major League Baseball player from Staten Island, New York who played the majority of his games at third base, but did play many games at first base. Esterbrook played for seven different teams during his 11-year career, and had his biggest success in , while playing for the New York Metropolitans, when he batted .314, and was among the leaders in many other batting categories.
In , Esterbrook was named the manager, or "Captain" as it was known then, of the Louisville Colonels. After only ten games, and only two wins, the team owner determined that due to the team's record and his manager's confrontational behavior, Esterbrook would be fired and replaced by Jimmy Wolf.
Esterbrook died at the age of 43 when he leaped from a train, in Middletown, New York, that was transporting him to a mental hospital. He is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
See also
List of Major League Baseball player–managers
References
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1857 births
1901 suicides
1901 deaths
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19th-century baseball players
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Louisville Colonels players
Louisville Colonels managers
Brooklyn Grooms players
Baseball players from Staten Island
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59692790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet%20Parsons | Harriet Parsons | Harriet Oettinger Parsons (1906 – 1983) was an American film producer, actress, director, and magazine writer; one of the few female producers in the United States at the time. Her mother was famed gossip columnist Louella Parsons.
Biography
Beginnings
Harriet Oettinger Parsons was born in 1906 in Burlington, Iowa, the daughter of Louella Parsons and Harry Martin.
She appeared as "Baby Parsons" in several movies, which included The Magic Wand (1912), written by her mother. Harriet attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1928.
Writing
She began working as writer for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 1928 but left after a year to become a columnist and associate editor for Photoplay as well as writing for other magazines such as Liberty. She left to write for Hearst's International News Service and Universal Service in 1931 and worked there until 1933, when she went to work for Columbia Pictures as a producer. She wrote for The Los Angeles Examiner from 1935 through 1943; had a syndicated column for Hearst from 1938–1940 (Hollywood in Review); and had her own weekly radio show on NBC in 1938, Hollywood Highlights.
Producer career
In 1933, she began working for Columbia Pictures producing their Screen Snapshots documentary shorts and in 1940 she moved to Republic Pictures, directing and producing a series of documentary shorts called Meet the Stars, in which she commented on the goings-on of Hollywood A-listers. She produced her first feature film, Joan of Ozark, in 1942 and was then hired by RKO as a feature film producer in 1943. When Howard Hughes took over, Parsons was one of the only producers he kept on. She worked at RKO for 12 years, although the experience was a frustrating one: The studio often reassigned stories she'd chosen to other producers. She was one of only three female producers active in the United States from 1943 to 1955 (the others being Virginia Van Upp and Joan Harrison). Parsons bought a home in the Deep Well neighborhood of Palm Springs, California in 1955. From 1956 to 1957 she worked for 20th Century Fox Television. She also co-produced Benn Levy's play Rape of the Belt on Broadway in November 1960.
Personal life
In 1931, she and actor Edward Woods announced their engagement; it was broken off by 1932. She married actor and playwright King Kennedy in September 1939; the couple separated in 1944. Parsons sued him for divorce in March 1945, citing cruelty. Parsons' marriage was a classic "cover" for her lesbianism and she and King hardly ever lived together, and by the 1950s she was living with publicist Lynn Bowers.
Parsons adopted a daughter, Evelyn Farney, who became a dancer.
She was a co-founder (with her mother) of the Hollywood Women's Press Club and was a director and member of the entertainment committee member of the Hollywood Canteen during World War II.
Death
Parsons died in 1983 at the age of 76 after suffering from cancer for two years. She was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
Selected filmography
Joan of Ozark (1942)
The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Night Song (1947)
I Remember Mama (1948)
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
Clash by Night (1952)
Susan Slept Here (1954)
References
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1983 deaths
American film producers
American people of German-Jewish descent
American women film producers
People from Palm Springs, California
20th-century American women
20th-century American people
Women film pioneers |
38796678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid%20Mehr | Bid Mehr | Bid Mehr (, also Romanized as Bīd Mehr and Bīdmehr) is a village in Fathabad Rural District, in the Central District of Baft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 17, in 5 families.
References
Populated places in Baft County |
1041657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20II%2C%20Duke%20of%20Saxe-Coburg%20and%20Gotha | Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Ernest II (; 21 June 181822 August 1893) was Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 29 January 1844 to his death in 1893. He was born in Coburg to Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. His father became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as Ernest I) in 1826 through an exchange of territories.
In 1842, Ernest married Princess Alexandrine of Baden in what was to be a childless marriage. Two years later, he became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha when his father died. Ernest supported the German Confederation in the Schleswig-Holstein Wars against Denmark, sending thousands of troops and becoming the commander of a German corps; he was instrumental in the 1849 victory at the battle of Eckernförde against Danish forces. After King Otto of Greece was deposed in 1862, the British government put Ernest's name forward as a possible successor. Negotiations concerning this failed for various reasons—not least of which was that he would not give up his beloved duchies in favor of the Greek throne.
A supporter of a unified Germany, Ernest watched the various political movements with great interest. While he initially was a great and outspoken proponent of German liberalism, he surprised many by switching sides and supporting the more conservative (and eventually victorious) Prussians during the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars and subsequent unification of Germany. His support of the conservatives came at a price however, and he was no longer viewed as the possible leader of a political movement. According to historian Charlotte Zeepvat, Ernest became "increasingly lost in a whirl of private amusements which earned only contempt from outside".
Ernest and his only full sibling, his younger brother Prince Albert (consort to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom), were born 14 months apart and raised as though twins. They became closer upon the separation and divorce of their parents as well as the eventual death of their mother. Their relationship experienced phases of closeness as well as minor arguments as they grew older. After Albert's death in 1861, Ernest published anonymous pamphlets against various members of the British royal family. However, he accepted Albert's second son, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, as his heir-presumptive. Upon Ernest's death at Reinhardsbrunn, Alfred succeeded to the ducal throne.
Early life
Ernest, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was born at Ehrenburg Palace in Coburg on 21 June 1818. He was the elder son of Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (later Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and his first wife Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. He was soon joined by a brother, Prince Albert, who would later become the husband of Queen Victoria. Though Duke Ernest fathered numerous children in various affairs, the two boys would have no other legitimate siblings. In 1826, their father succeeded as Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha through an exchange of territories after the death of the duke's uncle, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
There are various accounts of Ernest's childhood. When he was fourteen months old, a servant commented that Ernest "runs around like a weasel. He is teething and as cross as a little badger from impatience and liveliness. He is not pretty now, except his beautiful black eyes." In May 1820, his mother described Ernest as "very big for his age, as well as intelligent. His big black eyes are full of spirit and vivacity." Biographer Richard Hough writes that "even from their infancy, it was plainly evident that the elder son took after his father, in character and appearance, while Albert strongly resembled his mother in most respects." Ernest and his brother often lived with their grandmother the Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld until her death in 1831.
He and Albert were brought up and educated together as if they were twins. Though Albert was fourteen months younger, he surpassed Ernest intellectually. According to their tutor, "they went hand-in-hand in all things, whether at work or at play. Engaging in the same pursuits, sharing the same joys and the same sorrows, they were bound to each other by no common feelings of mutual love". Perhaps the aforementioned "sorrows" related to their parents' marriage; it was not happy, and Duke Ernest I was continually unfaithful. In 1824, Ernest I and Louise divorced; she subsequently left Coburg and was disallowed from seeing her sons again. She soon remarried to Alexander von Hanstein, Count of Pölzig and Beiersdorf, dying in 1831 at the age of thirty. The year after her death, their father married his niece Duchess Marie of Württemberg, who was his sister Antoinette's daughter. Their stepmother was thus also their first cousin. The duke and his new duchess were not close, and would produce no children; while the boys formed a happy relationship with their stepmother, Marie had little to no input in her stepsons' lives. The separation and divorce of their parents, as well as the later death of their mother, left the boys scarred and in close companionship with each other.
In 1836, Ernest and Albert visited their matrimonially eligible cousin Princess Victoria of Kent, spending a few weeks at Windsor Castle. Both boys, especially Albert, were considered by their family to be a potential husband for the young princess, and they were both taught to speak competent English. Their father at first thought that Ernest would make a better husband to Victoria than Albert, possibly because his sporting interests would be better received by the British public. However, most others favored Albert over Ernest as a possible husband. Temperamentally, Victoria was much more like Ernest, for both were lively and sociable with a love for dancing, gossip, and late nights; conversely, this fast pace made Albert physically ill. Victoria believed Ernest had a "most kind, honest, and intelligent expression in his countenance", while Albert "seemed full of goodness and sweetness, and very clever and intelligent." No offer of marriage was forthcoming for either brother however, and they returned home.
Ernest entered military training later that year. In April 1837, Ernest and Albert and their household moved to the University of Bonn. Six weeks into their academic term, Victoria succeeded as Queen of the United Kingdom. As rumors of an impending marriage between her and Albert interfered with their studies, the two brothers left on 28 August 1837 at the close of the term to travel around Europe. They returned to Bonn in early November to continue their studies. The brothers travelled to England again in 1839, at which time Victoria found her cousin Albert agreeable, and soon proposed. This connection would have many implications for Ernest in the future; for example, he was selected as godfather for Albert's second daughter Princess Alice, and would eventually come to give her away at her wedding, only months after Albert's death.
Thanks to his widespread royal connections, he travelled widely at this stage of his life. In 1840 and 1841 he went to Spain and Portugal; in Portugal another cousin, Ferdinand, was King Consort.
Marriage
Various candidates were put forward as a possible wife for Ernest. His father wanted him to look to a woman of high rank, such as a Russian grand duchess, for a wife. One possibility was Princess Clémentine of Orléans, a daughter of Louis Philippe I, whom he met while visiting the court at the Tuileries. However, such a marriage would have required his conversion from Lutheranism to Roman Catholicism, and consequently nothing came of it. She later married his cousin Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Ernest was also considered by Dowager Queen Maria Christina as a possible husband for her young daughter Isabella II of Spain, and by Queen Victoria for her cousin Princess Augusta of Cambridge.
In Karlsruhe on 3 May 1842, Ernest married 21-year-old Princess Alexandrine of Baden. She was the eldest daughter of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and Princess Sophie of Sweden, daughter of the deposed King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. Though he gave his consent, his father was disappointed that his first son did not do more to advance the concerns of Coburg. The marriage did not produce any issue, though Ernest apparently fathered at least three illegitimate children in later years.
Ernest had suffered from a venereal disease in his late teens and early twenties, most likely as the consequence of living a wild, promiscuous lifestyle. He had come to behave in such a fashion by the tutelage of his father, who took his sons to "sample the pleasures" of Paris and Berlin, to Albert's "horror and shame". Ernest had been so visibly deteriorating in appearance as a result that Sarah Lyttelton, a lady-in-waiting of Queen Victoria, observed at Windsor Castle in 1839 that he was "very thin and hollow-cheeked and pale, and no likeness to his brother, nor much beauty. But he has fine dark eyes and black hair, and light figure, and a great look of spirit and eagerness". Later that year, Albert counselled his brother against finding a wife until his 'condition' was fully recovered. He further warned that continued promiscuity could leave Ernest incapable of fathering children. Some historians believe that while he himself was able to father other children, the disease rendered his young wife infertile. Ernest was married for 51 years and with his wife visited Queen Victoria in Paris in 1890.
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
On 29 January 1844, Ernest's father died in Gotha, one of the territories their family had recently acquired. Ernest consequently succeeded to the duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Ernest II.
Development of a constitution
Extravagant to a great degree, Ernest had many money troubles throughout his reign. In January 1848, Ernest visited his brother in the midst of political unrest in Germany. Upon his return, he also discovered unrest in Coburg. One of the many concerns related to finances. Although Ernest had a large inheritance, he also had frequent debts. There were increasing calls to nationalize most of his property. Indeed, Albert had to intervene at one point and spare his brother the embarrassment of losing one of his Coburg properties.
During the 1848 turmoil in Germany, Albert had been constructing his own liberal reform plan, under which a single monarch, chancellor, and parliament would unite the German states; in addition, each state would retain its own current ruling dynasty. As this plan pertained to his brother, Ernest was given a copy in the hope that he would develop his own liberal constitution. Ernest subsequently made a few concessions, but his position remained sound, not counting the increasing problem of his debts. A constitution was drafted and promulgated in 1849 in Gotha, though one had existed in Coburg since 1821. In 1852, both constitutions were converged into one, which converted the personal union of the two duchies into a real union; the duchies were now inseparable, with a common set of institutions. During the political turmoil, timely concessions and Ernest's popular habit of mingling with "the people in their pleasures" were instrumental in keeping him from losing his throne. Furthermore, various contemporary sources state that Ernest was an able, just and very popular ruler, which may have also helped keep him in power.
Schleswig-Holstein wars
From 1848 to 1864, Denmark and the German Confederation fought over control of the two duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Historically, the duchies had been ruled by Denmark since medieval times, but there remained a large German majority. This majority was sparked to rebellion after Frederick VII of Denmark announced on 27 March 1848 the duchies would become an integral part of Denmark under his new liberal constitution. Prussia soon became involved, supporting the uprising and beginning the First Schleswig War. Ernest sent 8,000 men initially, adding to the army sent by the German Confederation. He also desired to be given a military job during the war, but was refused, as it was "extremely difficult to offer me a position in the army of Schleswig-Holstein corresponding to my rank", according to his memoirs. He agreed to a smaller command, coming to lead a Thuringian contingent; he commented in a letter to his brother that "I should have declined any other command of the kind, but I could not refuse this one, as, in the present condition of our States, it is important to keep the executive power in our hands". As commander of a German corps, Ernest was instrumental in winning the 5 April 1849 battle of Eckernförde against Danish forces, capturing two frigates. Also at this time, Ernest took an interest in the Frankfurt Parliament and may have hoped to be chosen German Emperor, but instead he urged King Frederick of Prussia to take that position, albeit unsuccessfully. Ernest also brought about a Berlin conference of German princes in 1850; he highly valued such opportunities for the political influence they brought him.
Relationship with Victoria and Albert
The first war ended in 1851, but would resume in 1864. During this interlude, Ernest fervently opposed the marriage of his nephew Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ('Bertie'), to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, a daughter of the future Christian IX of Denmark (and therefore an enemy of the German states). He believed that such a match flew in the face of German interests. Albert replied angrily: "What has that got to do with you?... Vicky has racked her brains to help us to find someone, but in vain...We have no [other reasonable] choice". Albert agreed there were going to be problems with the match, but as he could find no alternative bride, he wrote to Ernest that keeping the affair a private matter (and outside the realm of government) was "the only way to prevent a break with Prussia and the only way to keep the game in our own hands, impose the conditions that we think necessary, and as far as we can, take off its political edge". Albert also warned his son of Ernest's endeavors to interfere with the match, commenting, "Your uncle...will try his hand at this work. Your best defence will be not to enter on the subject, should he broach it".
Soon after writing these letters, Prince Albert died on 14 December 1861. His death helped Ernest repair his relationship with his sister-in-law, as Victoria had been becoming increasingly angry over Ernest's objections to the Danish match. The two brothers had always been close, whatever their disagreements, and Albert's death left Ernest "wretched", noted Victoria in a letter to her eldest daughter. The death did not solve their argument however; seeing that his direct involvement had failed to persuade Victoria, Ernest tried a new tactic. He began to spread gossip about Alexandra and her family, saying that her mother Princess Louise "had illegitimate children and Alexandra had flirtations with young officers"; he also wrote to Louise herself, warning that Bertie would be an unfortunate choice for a husband. Additionally, Ernest met with his nephew at Thebes, most likely attempting to discourage him from the match in person. In an 11 April letter, Victoria unhappily noted to her eldest daughter, "You did not tell me that Bertie had met Uncle Ernest at Thebes...I am always alarmed when I think of Uncle Ernest and Bertie being together as I know the former will do all he can to set Bertie against the marriage with Princess Alix". Despite Ernest's disapproval, Bertie was duly married to Alexandra on 10 March 1863.
His close relationship with the English court gave him a position of great influence, and the marriage of his niece, Princess Victoria, to Prince Frederick William further strengthened his ties to Prussia, and in 1862 he offered to make his troops available to the King of Prussia in case of war. But his liberalism caused increased suspicion in Germany of the Coburg influence. Prussian conservatives would soon turn against him, and in particular he was opposed by Prussian Minister President Otto von Bismarck.
During the American Civil War, the Duke assigned Ernst Raven to the position of consul in the state of Texas. On 30 July 1861, Raven applied to the Confederate Government for a diplomatic exequatur and was accepted.
Nomination for the Greek throne
On 23 October 1862, Otto of Bavaria, King of Greece, was deposed in a bloodless coup. The Greeks were eager to have someone close to Britain and Queen Victoria replace Otto; some desired to allow Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (her second son) to succeed as King of Greece. He was elected with 95% of the vote in the Greek head of state referendum of 1862. After his ineligibility was confirmed however, the Greeks began looking for other possible candidates, which included Duke Ernest at the British government's suggestion. To their and Victoria's reasoning, if Ernest were to take the Greek throne, Alfred could immediately take up his inheritance and succeed Ernest as duke (the Prince of Wales having passed his claim to the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on to his younger brother). Many were in favor of his nomination, including Prime Minister Lord Palmerston as well as Ernest's sister-in-law. In a letter written to her uncle Leopold I of Belgium, Victoria stated her support for a new royal branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as Leopold had been chosen as King of the Belgians in 1831), as well as her desire for her second son, Alfred, to succeed his uncle in the duchy. As negotiations continued however, she began to lose enthusiasm for the idea.
There were problems to the nomination; Ernest had no legitimate children, and thus would have had to adopt one of the princes of his house to succeed him as King of Greece. To solve this problem, Ernest suggested to Palmerston that he simply take the title Regent of Greece and hold the kingdom in trust for his chosen heir. He also stipulated that if he accepted the throne, it should be subject to certain guarantees by the other powers. The apparent deal-breaker, though, was the fact that Ernest wanted to acquire the Greek throne and still maintain control of his "safer" duchies. In the end, the British cabinet thought the proposed conditions unacceptable. His recommendations having been turned down, Ernest in turn refused. In 1863, the Greek throne was accepted by another member of a royal family: the Princess of Wales' younger brother Prince William of Denmark. Ernest would later comment, "That this cup was spared me, I always regarded as a piece of good fortune".
Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars
Ernest, like his brother, was in favor of a unified but federal German state. In seeking to realize this goal, Ernest liked to dabble in whatever political system promised the most success. He subsequently watched the growth of liberalism in Germany with much interest and tried to build links with the movement's leaders. During Albert's lifetime, Ernest took a close interest in the movement for reform, and was perceived as a progressive within Germany. His favorable view of liberalism caused his duchy to become an asylum for political refugees from other German states. In 1863, he attended the liberal Frankfurt Conference, which was openly avoided by more conservative Prussia. Though his attendance made him no friends in Prussia, he developed such strong contacts in Austria that many looked to him as a potential leader in the mounting conflict between the northern and southern powers. He grew tired of the advice he received from Albert on the subject however; as Ernest "was by no means inclined to consent to an energetic rule such as I adopted immediately afterwards for the perfection of the constitutional system", according to Albert's letters.
The Austro-Prussian War of 1866 was triggered by the desire of German conservative leaders to unify, albeit on different terms than their liberal counterparts. Ernest urged Prussian leaders against the impending war, and was an active advocate of the Austrian cause. Though Ernest normally followed more liberal politics than many of his counterparts, he began switching his views to align more closely with Bismarck by the mid-1860s. Despite this change in his private political views, he still had strong publicly known ties to Austria, where his cousin Alexander, Count Mensdorff, was Foreign Minister, and no one foresaw that Ernest would immediately side with the better-equipped Prussians upon breakout of the war. His reasoning is usually understood as acting in the best interests of his duchies, and by extension, of himself. Some influence came from Bismarck, who explained his policy and tactics in a letter to Ernest. Regardless, it was seen as a betrayal of former friends; Queen Victoria commented that Ernest "might have agreed to neutrality—for that might be necessary, but to change colours I cannot think right".
Ernest was fortunate in his support of victorious Prussia; for his services he received the forest of Schmalkalden. Many other petty German dukes, princes, and kings who had supported Austria suffered immensely at Hohenzollern hands. Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, and Nassau for instance were all annexed to Prussia at the expense of their respective rulers. Though he had only recently changed his political views, Ernest was allowed to ride at the head of his battalion during the victory parade. His eldest niece Prussian Crown Princess Victoria ("Vicky") was for one pleased with his Prussian support and commented "I am not accustomed to hearing so much praise of Coburg here. [Ernest] was not among the crushed and beaten foe, it is sad enough as it is to see so many of one's friends suffering from the effects of their miscalculations". Victoria's husband Crown Prince Frederick William was also pleased with Ernest's decision, writing in his journal 28 September 1871, that the duke's "society always affords me peculiar pleasure, especially...when his heart beats so warmly for Germany".
Ernest's support of the Prussians in the Austro-Prussian War and later Franco Prussian War meant he was no longer the potential leader of a political movement; although it was true that he had been able to retain his duchies, it had come at a price. According to historian Charlotte Zeepvat, Ernest "was increasingly lost in a whirl of private amusements which earned only contempt from outside". Ernest funneled his political thoughts into the private sphere, preferring to write covertly sponsored articles in the Coburg press that became increasingly embittered against England. In 1886, Ernest published Co-Regents and Foreign Influence in Germany, a pamphlet that greatly angered his family; though produced anonymously, no one doubted that it was written by Ernest. It attacked Vicky as a disloyal German that was too dependent on her mother, and declared that she had been too indiscreet in passing along confidential information during both war and peacetime. Queen Victoria was furious, writing to Vicky, "What you told me of Uncle E and that pamphlet is simply monstrous. I assure you that I felt great difficulty in writing to him for his birthday, but I wrote it as short and cool as I could consistently with civility". "Dear Uncle Ernest does us all a great deal of harm by his odd ways and uncontrollable tongue with his very lively imagination".
Later years
Later in his reign, Ernest's actions managed to continually anger his sister-in-law. Though Victoria loved Ernest because he was Albert's brother, she was displeased that Ernest was writing his memoirs, worrying about their contents mainly in regard to her dead husband. Despite their disputes, Ernest still met with Victoria and her family occasionally. In 1891, they met in France; Victoria's lady-in-waiting commented "the old Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has been here today with his wife. He is the Prince Consort's only brother and an awful looking man, the Queen dislikes him particularly. He is always writing anonymous pamphlets against the Queen and the Empress Frederick, which naturally creates a great deal of annoyance in the family".
Throughout his reign, Ernest had been known for his extravagance and womanizing; as he grew older, Ernest enjoyed gossip and was "now a thoroughly disreputable old roué who enjoyed the outrage provoked by his actions", leading Vicky to declare that her uncle "was his own enemy". His behavior and manner of dress increasingly became a joke for younger generations. His great-niece Marie of Edinburgh would later describe Ernest as "an old beau, squeezed into a frock-coat too tight for his bulk and uncomfortably pinched in at the waist, sporting a top hat, lemon coloured gloves, and a rosebud in his lapel". He put on weight and though on paper his wealth was large, he was still constantly in debt.
An excellent musician and amateur composer all his life, Ernest was a great patron of the arts and sciences in Coburg, often giving awards and titles to members of the artistic and scientific world, such as Paul Kalisch, a German opera singer and the English chemist William Ernest Bush. Ernest composed songs, hymns, and cantatas, as well as musical pieces for opera and the stage, including Die Gräberinsel (1842), Tony, oder die Vergeltung (1849), Casilda (1851), Santa Chiara (1854), and Zaïre, which met with success in Germany. He could also draw and play the piano. One of his operas, Diana von Solange (1858), prompted Franz Liszt the following year to write an orchestral Festmarsch nach Motiven von E. H. z. S.-C.-G., S.116 (E. H. z. S.-C.-G. was short for Ernst Herzog zu Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha). However, its production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1890 inspired dismal reviews, with one spectator commenting that its "music was simply rubbish". Ernest was also an avid hunter and sportsman; one contemporary remarked that he was "one of the foremost and keenest sportsman produced by the present century". In addition, Ernest was an enthusiastic patron of everything connected with natural history, for instance traveling to Abyssinia with the German zoologist Alfred Brehm in 1862. That journey was chronicled in a book, Reise des Herzogs Ernst von Sachsen-Koburg-Gotha nach Ägypten, published in 1862. He also published his memoirs in three volumes: Aus meinem Leben und aus meiner Zeit (1888–1890).
Ernest II died at Reinhardsbrunn on 22 August 1893 after a short illness. “When the news of the duke's death reached the secluded Hinter - Riss, the deepest consternation took possession of the people, amongst whom the prince and the duchess had passed, as they often used to say, the happiest days of their long, eventful lives. In him they lost a kind, dear master and a good friend, who was for ever willing to help where help was needed. If it took half a century to win the affection and confidence of these self-retained hardy mountain people, his memory will a century hence be as green as are the firs and pines that cling so tenaciously to their native rock; and the deeds and words of the popular “Herr Herzog” will there be spoken of when in the outer world his name will be remembered only by the historian. The dead sportsman's hunting - knife, which I saw so often in his strong hand, is now lying before me, a cherished memento, kindly sent me by the stricken dowager-duchess a few weeks after the funeral. It will ever remind me, not so much of a sportsman prince, as of a prince among sportsmen.” From the book: Sport in the Alps in the Past and Present, An Account of the Chase of the Chamois, Red Deer, Bouquetin, Roe-deer, Capercaillie, and Black-cock, with Personal Adventures and Historical Notes and Some Sporting Reminiscences of H.R.H. the Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha – William Adolphus Baillie-Grohman. As fitting as these final words was the act that closed this long and distinguished sporting career, for less than an hour before that fatal attack of apoplexy, his master hand had brought down two royals ! A lifelong sportsman, his last words were apparently "Let the drive commence!" His funeral was held in the Morizkirche in Coburg; thousands of spectators came to the funeral, including Emperor Wilhelm II and the Prince of Wales. He is buried in the ducal mausoleum in the which he himself had built in 1853–58.
Ernest was succeeded by his nephew Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
Inheritance to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
For much of Ernest's reign, the heir presumptive to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was his only sibling Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. When it became increasingly clear that Ernest would be childless, the possibility of a personal union between his duchies and the United Kingdom became real, a reality that was deemed undesirable. Special arrangements were made by a combination of constitutional clauses and renunciations to pass Ernest's throne to a son of Albert while preventing a personal union. Consequently, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, his brother's second eldest son, was designated the childless Ernest's heir presumptive, when his older brother, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom), renounced his succession rights.
Issues arose over authority to control the upbringing of his heir-presumptive. As head of the Coburg family, Ernest would normally have been able to arrange Alfred's education and general upbringing unchallenged. This however was not the case. Alfred was torn between his British birth and his German inheritance. This was partly because Alfred was second-in-line to the United Kingdom until the birth of his nephew Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, in 1864. One example of the many problems of his education concerned the language he would speak. Although he grew up learning German, his native language was decided to be English. In addition, a naval career was chosen for Alfred, a common profession for a British prince but almost unheard of for a German prince. Ernest also wanted Alfred to be educated in Coburg, but his brother refused. Albert's refusal most likely stemmed from the negative British reaction that would have inevitably occurred and the fact that Albert was fearful of Alfred's moral development. Thus, despite Ernest's protests, he went unheeded in Albert's lifetime. In 1863, Ernest told Victoria that it was time for Alfred to leave the navy and enter a German university. By March of the following year, it was decided that Alfred would attend Bonn University but be left to consider his future, as he was having reservations over permanently residing outside England. The matter was eventually resolved; Alfred came to accept his inheritance, and Victoria understood and accepted that Ernest needed to be involved in the upbringing of his heir-presumptive, with a strong German element added to his education and (carefully chaperoned) visits to Coburg.
In media
Ernest appears in the 2016 ITV series Victoria, portrayed by David Oakes. He is inaccurately depicted as having an affair with Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland. In real life, Ernest likely never met the Duchess; he was already married at the time, and the Duchess was twelve years older than him.
Honours
German honours
Foreign decorations
:
Grand Cross of the Royal Military Order of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 23 April 1836
Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, 1 March 1844
: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, 18 November 1839
Kingdom of France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, May 1843
: Stranger Knight of the Garter, 12 December 1844
: Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, 1852
: Grand Cross of the Southern Cross
: Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, 20 April 1883
: Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion, 16 December 1839
: Grand Cross of the Cross of Takovo
Ancestry
See also
List of Knights and Ladies of the Garter
List of members of the House of Wettin
List of famous big game hunters
Rosine Stoltz
Schloss Ketschendorf
References
Sources
Primary
, four volumes.
Secondary
External links
Biography of Ernest II at the German National Library.
Biography of Ernest II at the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
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1893 deaths
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Princes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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19th-century classical composers
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Biography
A native of Tokyo, Fuji studied acting at the Aoyama Gakuin University, and subsequently joined the Ein Theatrical Company. Her work was usually on-stage or in voice-over studios, but occasionally she would also appear in films. Her most famous role to this date is that of Kayako Saeki, the vengeful ghost in the Ju-on series, which she subsequently played in The Grudge series later on as well. She first played Kayako in the 1998 short movie Katasumi, part of the Gakkô no kaidan G collection. She then reprised her role in the direct-to-video film Ju-on and its sequel, Ju-on 2.
When director Takashi Shimizu decided to direct two additional instalments for a broader theatrical release, which he called (Ju-on: The Grudge and Ju-on: The Grudge 2), Fuji played the character of Kayako twice more. When the films were subsequently remade for an American audience as The Grudge and The Grudge 2, she returned as Kayako again. However, she declined the role in The Grudge 3 which subsequently went to Aiko Horiuchi.
Filmography
Films
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Stoss is transitioning from active duty.
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Arthur Elliot (artist) (1809–1892), British artist
Arthur Elliot (politician) (1846–1923), Scottish Liberal Unionist politician
Arthur Elliott (photographer) (1870–1938), South African photographer
Arthur G. Elliott Jr. (1916–2003), American politician from the state of Michigan
Arthur Elliott (footballer) (1870–?), English footballer
Arthur J. Elliot II (1933–1968), American naval officer |
54452553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius%20Vettius%20Cossinius%20Rufinus | Gaius Vettius Cossinius Rufinus | Gaius Vettius Cossinius Rufinus (fl. 306316) was a politician and senator of the late Roman Empire.
In 306 he was made proconsul of Achaea, but Maxentius' revolt in Rome prevented Rufinus from taking up the post, since Maxentius did not have jurisdiction in Achaea. He was curator (i.e., official in charge of maintenance) of the via Flaminia, of the Tiber riverbed and of Rome's drains, corrector, or governor, of Regio X Venetia et Histria, the province of Diocletian that covered Tuscia Umbria and Campania, all under Maxentius.
Wanting to gain the Roman Senate's support, Constantine honoured Rufinus despite his having been a supporter of his rival Maxentius and made him comes Augusti nostri (i.e., to Constantine's colleague in the east, Licinius). Three senators were elected praefectus urbi under Constantine, including Rufinus from 20 August 315 to 4 August 316. Constantine was sure enough of Rufinus' loyalty that he sent him to the east under the authority of Licinius. Rufinus also became consul for 316.
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See also
Department of Education (Philippines)
References
High schools in Laguna (province)
Schools in Santa Rosa, Laguna
Educational institutions established in 1990
1990 establishments in the Philippines |
54363640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrofauna | Necrofauna | Necrofauna are species that were previously extinct and have been biologically revived or recreated by the process of de-extinction.
Necrofauna are proxies or imitations of their former species and not identical replicas. Due to a number of technological, biological and environmental factors, they are considered a new type organism altogether. Revive & Restore, a nonprofit organization that supports pursuing de-extinction research with transparency to the public, describes the creation of necrofauna as a result of “transfer[ing] the genes that define the extinct species into the genome of the related species, effectively converting it into a living version of the extinct creature."
While the existence of necrofauna is still largely hypothetical, a Pyrenean ibex was the first and only animal to have undergone the de-extinction process with moderate success. The "unextinct" or revived animal was born, but then died several minutes later due to a lung defect.
Necrofauna and the de-extinction movement are highly controversial within conservation and scientific circles. Many conservationists argue that creating necrofauna could potentially distract from the urgency of saving endangered species that are still alive. Concerns have also been raised pertaining to the possible damaging impacts ecology could face in the wake of introducing a new species into an environment.
Etymology
The term necrofauna is a portmanteau consisting of two morphemes. The first morpheme, “necro,” comes from the Greek prefix necro, meaning death. “Fauna,” meanwhile, refers to the animals that inhabit a particular time period or environment and is derived from the Greek name Fauna, the Roman goddess of earth and fertility.
Alex Steffen is referred to as the first person to coin the neologism “necrofauna” in Jason Mark’s Earth Island Journal article titled “Back From the Dead.” The word was used in the context of describing the phenomenon of "charismatic necrofauna," which expresses the possibility that only certain charismatic species may be chosen as candidates for de-extinction based on human preferences, or that such resurrection efforts could distract from helping less "charismatic" species that are currently endangered.
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He competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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International
Club career
Yangon United
In September 2017, he played his first match for Yangon United in a 1 - 0 win over Hantharwady United. He had a clean sheet in his first appearance in Yangon United. He replaced the injured Kyaw Zin Htet.
Myanmar National Under-22 Football Team
He was the starting goalkeeper for the country's U-22 team in the 2017 South East Asian Games.
2019 South East Asian Games Best XI
He show good form in this tournament. So he became best goal keeper in the 2019 South East Asian Games.
Honours
National Team
Tri-Nation Series (India)
Runners-up (1):2023
References
1997 births
Living people
People from Yangon Region
Burmese men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Myanmar National League players
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SEA Games bronze medalists for Myanmar |
38178633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Galli | Philippe Galli | Philippe Galli (8 July 1956, Strasbourg) is a French prefect.
Biography
He graduated from ENA (École nationale d'administration) in 1988.
He is prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis since June 2013. He was also prefect of Corrèze (2005–2008), prefect of Loir-et-Cher (2008–2010) and prefect of Ain (2010-2013).
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Knights of the Legion of Honour |
60569940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Salaman | Nina Salaman | Pauline Ruth "Nina" Salaman () (15 July 1877 – 22 February 1925) was a British Jewish poet, translator, and social activist. Besides her original poetry, she is best known for her English translations of medieval Hebrew verse—especially of the poems of Judah Halevi—which she began publishing at the age of 16.
An advocate for women's education and suffrage, Salaman was a prominent member of the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage, the Federation of Women Zionists, and the Union of Jewish Women. She was the first woman to deliver a sermon in a British Orthodox synagogue and to be elected president of the Jewish Historical Society of England, though her declining health prevented her from taking office.
Early life
Pauline Ruth Davis was born on 15 July 1877 at Friarfield House, Derby, the second of two children of Louisa () and . Her father's family were Jewish precision instrument makers, who had immigrated to England from Bavaria in the early nineteenth century. A civil engineer by trade, Arthur Davis mastered the Hebrew language, becoming an accomplished Hebraist noted for his study of cantillation marks in the Tanakh. The family moved to Kilburn, London when Nina was six weeks old, later settling in Bayswater. Davis gave his daughters an intensive scholarly education in Hebrew and Jewish studies, and took them regularly to the synagogue.
The Davises moved in learned Jewish circles, and friends of Nina's parents included the families of Nathan Adler, Simeon Singer, Claude Montefiore, Solomon Schechter, Herbert Bentwich, and Elkan Adler. Arthur Davis was one of the "Kilburn Wanderers"—a group of Anglo-Jewish intellectuals that formed around Solomon Schechter in the 1880s—members of which took an interest in Nina's work and helped her find publishers for her writings.
Career
Early career
Nina's first published translation, of Abraham ibn Ezra's The Song of Chess, appeared in the Jewish Chronicle on 22 June 1894. Later that year, she contributed an essay and a poem on "The Ideal Minister of the Talmud" to the Jewish Quarterly Review, then under the editorship of Claude Montefiore and Israel Abrahams, and continued thereafter publishing translations of medieval Hebrew poetry in the Jewish press. Israel Zangwill, an acquaintance of her father, provided her with an introduction to Mayer Sulzberger of the Jewish Publication Society of America, which published her Songs of Exile by Hebrew Poets in 1901. The collection, which attracted widespread attention, included translations of poems by Judah Halevi, Abraham ibn Ezra, Eleazar ben Killir, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils, and Meir of Rothenburg, as well as passages from the Talmud and Midrash Rabba.
From about 1900, her father worked with Herbert M. Adler, nephew of Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler, on a multivolume edition of the Machzor with a new and modern translation. Nina and her sister, Elsie, both contributed to the work, devoting themselves to translating the metrical sections of the original into poetry, while their father rendered the prose. The festival prayer book was published as Service of the Synagogue in 1904–9, and became commonplace in synagogues across the English-speaking world.
Marriage and family
Nina met physician Redcliffe Salaman at the New West End Synagogue in July 1901, during Shabbat services. Redcliffe was one of the twelve children of Myer Salaman, a wealthy London ostrich feather merchant. His family had emigrated to England from Holland or the Rhineland in the eighteenth century. They were formally engaged ten days later and married on 23 October 1901, after which Redcliffe temporarily relocated to Berlin to complete advanced training in pathology. He was appointed director of the Pathological Institute at the London Hospital in 1902, but ceased to practice medicine the following year after developing pulmonary tuberculosis. The Salamans spent the winter of 1903–1904 in Montana-sur-Sierre and Montreux, Switzerland, where Redcliffe slowly regained some weight. Upon their return to England, they moved to a thirty-room Elizabethan country house, Homestall, in Barley, Hertfordshire, a small village near Cambridge.
Nina and Redcliffe Salaman lived comfortably in a kosher and Shabbat-observant home with numerous servants, and returned to London frequently to observe Jewish festivals and attend committee meetings. Nina and Redcliffe Salaman became active in the Jewish community at Cambridge, and entertained generations of Jewish students at their home. Nina travelled frequently to the town to use the university library and meet with Israel Abrahams, reader in Talmudic and rabbinic literature. Like her father before her, she personally educated her six children at their Hertfordshire home until they went to boarding school (at Clifton College and Bedales School), teaching her sons to read Hebrew before they learned to read English.
Later career
Salaman continued after her marriage to write in the columns of Jewish periodicals, including the Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Quarterly Review, the Menorah Journal, and the Jewish Guardian. A passionate Jewish nationalist, Salaman published in 1916 one of the first English translations of Hatikvah, and later composed the marching song for the Judaeans, the Jewish regiment that participated in the British effort to seize Palestine from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, in which her husband served as medical officer.
A book of original poetry appeared in 1910 to favourable reviews, entitled The Voices of the Rivers, which includes a hymn for the 9th of Av. The following year she released as a gift book for Jewish children Apples and Honey, a collection of poetry and prose by Benjamin Disraeli, Emma Lazarus, George Eliot, Israel Zangwill, Jessie Sampter, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, and others. Salaman's most important work was her Selected Poems of Jehudah Halevi, the second of a series of twenty-five volumes of Jewish Classics issued by the Jewish Publication Society. Released in 1924 after twelve years of preparation, the volume is divided into four sections (The Journey to Zion, Love and Bridal Songs, Poems of Friendship, and Devotional Poems) and contains an introduction by Salaman on the life of Halevi and his work. The translation was based on the Hebrew text from Chaim Brody's edition of Halevi, revised by him for the collection.
Activism and community work
Besides her scholarly work, Salaman served as vice-president of the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage, in which position she advocated for the right of women to vote in synagogue elections and for Hebrew education for Jewish girls, was an active member of the and the Union of Jewish Women, and helped establish the Tottenham Talmud Torah for Girls in North London, to which she donated the royalties of her books. She also participated in various non-Jewish charities, such as the Women's Institute at Barley. At Friday evening services on 5 December 1919, she became the first woman to deliver a sermon in a British Orthodox synagogue, when she spoke on the weekly parashah, Vayishlach, to the Cambridge Hebrew Congregation. The event was met with controversy; Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz supported Salaman, and ruled that since she only went up to the bimah after the concluding prayer, no religious law had been violated.
Salaman was appointed to the council of the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1918, and was elected president in 1922. Her ailing health prevented her from taking office, however, and her husband was elected in her stead.
Death and legacy
Nina Salaman died of colorectal cancer at Homestall on 22 February 1925, aged 47. The funeral was held three days later at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery, where the Chief Rabbi officiated and delivered a eulogy, customarily forbidden on Rosh Hodesh except at the funeral of an eminent scholar. An American memorial service was held by Ray Frank-Litman on 28 April, at which Moses Jung, Jacob Zeitlin and Abram L. Sachar made eulogistic remarks. Abraham Yahuda, Herbert M. Adler, Herbert Loewe, Sir Israel Gollancz, Israel Zangwill, Norman Bentwich, and others published tributes in her memory.
Salaman's children were (1902–1994), pathologist and cancer researcher; Arthur Gabriel Salaman (1904–1964), general practitioner; Raphael Arthur Salaman (1906–1993), engineer; Ruth Isabelle Collet (1909–2001), painter and printmaker; and (1914–2005), mezzo-soprano. A sixth child, Edward Michael, the twin brother of Arthur, died in 1913 at the age of nine. Salaman's granddaughter, Jenny Manson, is Chair of Jewish Voice for Labour. Another granddaughter, Nina Wedderburn (; 1929–2020) was a medical researcher and married Labour politician Bill Wedderburn.
A portrait of Nina Salaman by Solomon J. Solomon was acquired by the Jewish Museum London in March 2007.
Selected bibliography
References
External links
Works of Nina Salaman at the Online Books Page
1877 births
1925 deaths
19th-century English women writers
19th-century English poets
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10688762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcabuco | Arcabuco | Arcabuco is a town and municipality in the Ricaurte Province, part of the Colombian Department of Boyacá. Arcabuco is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with the urban centre at an altitude of . The municipality borders Moniquirá and Gámbita in the north, Villa de Leyva and Chíquiza in the south, Cómbita in the east and Gachantivá and Villa de Leyva in the west. The department capital Tunja is to the south.
Etymology
The name Arcabuco comes from Chibcha and means either "Place of the intricate scrublands" or "Place enclosed by the hills".
History
The area of Arcabuco in the times before the Spanish conquest was inhabited by the Muisca. Their territory was part of the Muisca Confederation, a loose collection of rulers. Arcabuco was part of the zacazgo, with the zaque based in Hunza.
Modern Arcabuco was founded on October 22, 1856 by Celedonio Umaña and Leopoldo Rodríguez.
Economy
The economy of Arcabuco is centered around agriculture and livestock farming. Apart from the agricultural products potatoes and strawberries, the town is known as a large producer of almojábanas.
Climate
Arcabuco has a subtropical highland climate (Cfb) with moderate to heavy rainfall year-round.
Named after Arcabuco
Arcabuco Formation, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous dinosaur tracks-containing geologic formation
Born in Arcabuco
Cayetano Sarmiento, professional cyclist
Gallery
References
Municipalities of Boyacá Department
Populated places established in 1856 |
67563747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%3A%20Live%20in%20Rio%201994 | Discovery: Live in Rio 1994 | Discovery: Live in Rio 1994 is the fourth live album by English duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 30 April 2021 by Parlophone. It was recorded in December 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as part of the Discovery Tour. It was originally released as a concert film on VHS and LaserDisc in 1995, before being reissued in its original standard-definition video format on DVD and Blu-ray alongside the live album in 2021.
Critical reception
Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Paul Simpson called the release on CD and DVD "long overdue" and the concert "electric", writing that "the duo know when to dial the energy down a notch from time to time, so that everyone involved avoids the risk of short circuiting and burning out" and "the arrangements totally embrace the type of hyper-glitzy Euro-dance which was everywhere at the time". Emma Harrison of Clash felt that the concert "showcases their musical prowess with ease", describing it as "an exhilarating celebration of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's illustrious back catalogue". Nadine Smith of Pitchfork complimented the "queerer take" on Blur's 1994 song "Girls & Boys", as well as Tennant and Lowe "seamlessly" mashing up their own tracks "One in a Million" and "Left to My Own Devices" with "contemporary club cuts" "Mr. Vain" by Culture Beat and "The Rhythm of the Night" by Corona, respectively. Smith also felt that by doing reinterpretations of other's work as well as their own, the duo "suggest pop's potential as a living medium beyond recorded product, a songbook of standards that express universal sentiments but are open to individual reinterpretation". She concluded that "In their hands, the setlist becomes a collage, curating a century of pop music history in one jukebox."
Track listing
Charts
References
2021 live albums
Parlophone live albums
Pet Shop Boys live albums |
368889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts%20of%20Iron | Hearts of Iron | Hearts of Iron is a grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Strategy First. Based on the Europa Engine, it was originally released in 2002 for Microsoft Windows. A Mac OS X version was released by Virtual Programming the following year. In 2004, Atari, SA published Hearts of Iron: Platinum, an updated version that sought to improve several aspects of the game.
Hearts of Iron allows the player to take control of a nation in the world and guide it through World War II and the years immediately before and after it. Hearts of Iron is the first game in the eponymous series of grand strategy wargames. Three additional games have been released in the series: Hearts of Iron II, Hearts of Iron III, and Hearts of Iron IV.
Gameplay
Players play as a nation in the world in the years leading up to, during, and immediately after World War II. There are three main alliances in the game: the Allies, the Axis, and the Comintern. Nations in the game can attempt to join these alliances. Players can also control their nation's economy, government, and military. The game ends when there is only one alliance left or when the end date is reached; the winning alliance is determined through a victory point system, with points being given to alliances that control key regions or cities.
Sequels
A sequel to Hearts of Iron, Hearts of Iron II, was released in 2005. Two spin-offs were created for Hearts of Iron II: Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game and Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game. The third game in the series, Hearts of Iron III was released on August 7, 2009. Hearts of Iron – The Card Game was released as a free-to-play, browser-based collectible card game on October 3, 2011. East vs. West – A Hearts of Iron Game was scheduled to release in 2014, but was canceled. Hearts of Iron IV, the fourth main installment in the series, was released on June 6, 2016.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Tom Chick of Computer Games Magazine summarized Hearts of Iron as "an ambitious mess, a noble mess, certainly a well-intentioned mess, but ultimately a mess nonetheless".
Hearts of Iron: Platinum
Hearts of Iron: Platinum was released in 2004 with the intention of improving several elements of the original game. According to Metacritic, Hearts of Iron: Platinum received slightly more favorable reviews than the original Hearts of Iron.
Ban in China
The game was banned in the People's Republic of China because of the game's depiction of Taiwan under Japanese control and Tibet, Sinkiang, and Manchuria as independent nations (historically, Manchuria was a Japanese puppet state and Taiwan was under Japanese control for most of the time period depicted in the game).
See also
Chronology of grand strategy video games
List of Paradox Interactive games
List of World War II video games
References
Further reading
External links
Official series website
2002 video games
Computer wargames
Classic Mac OS games
MacOS games
Paradox Interactive games
Real-time strategy video games
Censored video games
Windows games
World War II grand strategy computer games
Video games developed in Sweden
Strategy First games
Works banned in China
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Virtual Programming (company) games |
18258824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Blanche | Queen Blanche | Queen Blanche may refer to:
Queens regnant
Blanche I of Navarre (1387–1441)
Blanche II of Navarre (1424–1464)
Queens consort
Blanche of Castile (1188–1252), queen consort of France
Blanche of Artois (1248–1302), queen consort of Navarre
Blanche of Anjou (1289–1310), queen consort of Aragon
Blanche of Namur (1320–1363), queen consort of Sweden and Norway
Blanche of Navarre (1331–1398), queen consort of France
Objects
Queen Blanche, painting by Albert Edelfelt (1877) |
68218862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Klimovi%C4%8Dov%C3%A1 | Linda Klimovičová | Linda Klimovičová (born 18 June 2004) is a Czech tennis player.
She has a career-high combined junior ranking of 31, achieved on 25 October 2021.
Klimovičová made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Prague Open, where she received a wildcard into the doubles tournament.
Junior career
Junior Grand Slam results - Singles:
Australian Open: –
French Open: 1R (2022)
Wimbledon: SF (2022)
US Open: 1R (2021)
Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles:
Australian Open: –
French Open: 2R (2022)
Wimbledon: QF (2022)
US Open: 2R (2021)
At the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, she reached semifinal of the girls' singles event as her biggest junior Grand Slam result.
Senior career
In April 2022, she won her first ITF Circuit title at the $15K Sharm El Sheikh tournament in doubles event alongside her compatriot Dominika Šalková. Later, in August 2022, she reached her first singles ITF Circuit final at the $15K Bydgoszcz tournament but lost to Valeriia Olianovskaia. The following year in February, she won her first ITF Circuit title at the $15K Sharm El Sheikh tournament, defeating Katarína Kužmová.
Performance timeline
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Doubles
Current after the 2023 Australian Open.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner–ups)
Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner–ups)
Junior finals
ITF Finals
Singles: 11 (3 titles, 8 runner-ups)
Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)
References
External links
2004 births
Living people
Czech female tennis players
21st-century Czech women |
1139086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromo-DragonFLY | Bromo-DragonFLY | Bromo-DragonFLY (or 3C-Bromo-Dragonfly, DOB-Dragonfly) is a substance related to the phenethylamine family. It acts as a potent full agonist for the 5-HT2A receptor.
History
Bromo-DragonFLY was first synthesized by Matthew Parker in the laboratory of David E. Nichols in 1998. As with the earlier and less potent dihydrofuran series of compounds nicknamed FLY, Bromo-DragonFLY was named after its superficial structural resemblance to a dragonfly.
Pharmacology
Bromo-DragonFLY demonstrates potent affinity at the 5-HT2A receptor (Ki 0.04 nM), similarly potent affinity at the 5-HT2C receptor (Ki 0.02 nM), and moderate affinity for the 5-HT2B receptor (Ki 0.19 nM). Bromo-DragonFLY is also a MAO-A inhibitor, and thus strongly inhibits oxidative deamination of 5-HT, increasing its risk profile.
Chemistry
The first synthesis of racemic Bromo-DragonFLY was reported by David E. Nichols in 1998 and was an expansion upon earlier research into the tetrahydrobenzodifuran analogue of DOB. The 1998 synthesis of racemic Bromo-DragonFLY starts from hydroquinone, which is dialkylated with 1-bromo-2-chloroethane, brominated, and treated with n-butyllithium to yield the tetrahydrobenzodifuran ring system. After formylation of the ring system, the nitropropene derivative was obtained by condensation with nitroethane under ammonium acetate catalysis. The nitropropene derivative was then reduced with lithium aluminium hydride to yield the amine intermediate, which was protected with trifluoroacetic anhydride. Following para-bromination with elemental bromine and oxidation of the tetrahydrobenzodifuran ring system with DDQ, the trifluoroacetyl protecting group of the amine was removed to give Bromo-DragonFLY as a racemic mixture of the R and S enantiomers.
In 2001, David E. Nichols reported an enantiospecific synthesis of Bromo-DragonFLY which allowed the individual R and S enantiomers to be studied. Further research determined that (R)-(-)-Bromo-DragonFLY possessed greater binding affinity at the 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptors than (S)-(-)-Bromo-DragonFLY. To synthesize the more active R enantiomer, a derivative of D-alanine was reacted with 2,3,6,7-tetrahydrobenzodifuran in a Friedel–Crafts acylation, yielding an intermediate containing a β-keto moiety which was removed by treatment with triethylsilane in trifluoroacetic acid. After para-bromination and oxidation of the ring system with DDQ, the amine was deprotected yielding (R)-(-)-Bromo-DragonFLY.
Dosage
Data on toxicological significance and dosage of Bromo-DragonFLY remains elusive due to lack of human consumption, however commonly reported recreational dose of this substance is in the range of 500-1000μg. However, a death have been reported at approximately 700μg Bromo-DragonFLY.
Toxicity
The toxicity of Bromo-DragonFLY appears to be fairly high for humans, with reports of at least five deaths believed to have resulted from Bromo-DragonFLY in Norway, Sweden,
Denmark,
Finland
and the United States.
Laboratory testing has confirmed that in October 2009, a batch of Bromo-Dragonfly was distributed, mislabeled as the related compound 2C-B-FLY, which is around 20x less potent than BDF by weight. This mistake is believed to have contributed to several lethal overdoses and additional hospitalizations. The batch implicated in these deaths also contained significant synthesis impurities, which may have contributed to the toxicity.
Vasoconstrictive action resulting from severe overdose of Bromo-DragonFLY is known to have caused tissue necrosis of the extremities in at least one case. In September 2007, a 35-year-old Swedish male required amputation of the front part of his feet and several fingers on one hand after taking a massive (but unknown) overdose; reportedly, the compound acted as a long-acting efficacious vasoconstrictor, leading to necrosis and gangrene which became apparent several weeks after the overdose occurred. Treatment was of limited efficacy in this case, although tolazoline is reportedly an effective treatment where available.
Overdose-associated disturbing experiences and health problems have been described. One case in 2008 in England involved inhalation of vomit, causing nearly fatal asphyxia. Seizures have also been reported.
On October 3, 2009, a 22-year-old male from Copenhagen died after ingesting Bromo-DragonFLY. His friend described the trip saying, "It was like being dragged to hell and back again. Many times. It is the most evil [thing] I've ever tried. It lasted an eternity."
On May 7, 2011, in the United States, two young adults died after overdosing on Bromo-DragonFLY, which they thought was 2C-E, and several others were hospitalized during the same incident. Because they took a dosage appropriate for 2C-E, those who took the drug received, in some cases, 100x the normal dose. Both deaths followed seizures, vomiting blood, and terrifying hallucinations.
Drug prohibition laws
United States
Bromo-DragonFLY is unscheduled at federal level in the United States but could be prosecuted if it is sold for human consumption, Bromo Dragonfly is listed as a Schedule I in Oklahoma.
Canada
As of Oct 12, 2016, Bromo-DragonFLY is listed in Schedule III of the Canadian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act: "2C-phenethylamines and their salts, derivatives, isomers and salts of derivatives and isomers", a broad definition which corresponds to anything with a 2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine core, including (but not limited to) the 2C family (including e.g. βk-2C-B), the DOx chemical class, the TMA family, Aleph aka DOT, NBOMe, the 25x-NBx series, and of course, Bromo-DragonFLY itself (see this article).
United Kingdom
Bromo-DragonFLY is widely reported by the media as being a Class A drug. However, as of 2014, it remains unclear to what extent it is covered by the UK phenylethylamine catch-all clause, with commentators noting both the structural similarities and differences to the phenylethylamine class. If the prosecution could demonstrate structural similarity in court, it would be considered a Class A substance but as a benzodifuran it is significantly different to this class. It is not explicitly named in the misuse of drugs act. It would be covered by the UK Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 but only if is sold or traded for human consumption.
Sweden
Sveriges riksdag added Bromo-Dragonfly to schedule IV ("substances, plant materials and fungi that hasn't any or without nothing medical use") as narcotics in Sweden as of Jan 3, 2008, published by Medical Products Agency in their regulation LVFS 2007:14 listed as Bromo-Dragonfly, brombensodifuranyl-isopropylamin. Bromo-DragonFLY was first classified as "health hazard" by Sveriges riksdags health ministry under the act (translated Act on the Prohibition of Certain Goods Dangerous to Health) as of Jul 15, 2007, in their regulation SFS 2007:600 listed as brombensodifuranylisopropylamin (Bromo-Dragonfly), making it illegal to sell, purchase, buy, retail or possess.
Denmark
On December 3, 2007, the drug was banned in Denmark. The substance has been declared illegal by health minister Jakob Axel Nielsen, following recommendations from the Danish Health Ministry. It is currently classified as a dangerous narcotic and therefore its possession, manufacture, importation, supply or usage is strictly prohibited. Anyone involved in such activities can face legal action.
Norway
Bromo-DragonFLY is currently on the Norwegian narcotics list.
Poland
Currently, Bromo-DragonFLY is an uncontrolled substance in Poland.
Romania
The chemical compound has been added as an illegal substance under the Law 143/2000 on February 10, 2010.
Australia
As of 9 September 2011, Bromo-DragonFLY was added to Schedule 2 of the Queensland Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987.
Nationally, the drug is listed under Schedule 9 (Prohibited) of the Poisons Standard. Accordingly, the drug is prohibited in all states and territories.
Finland
As of 12 March 2012, Bromo-DragonFLY is an illegal designer drug.
See also
2C-B
DOB
DOB-FLY
2C-B-FLY
PiHKAL
Notes
References
Bromo-dragonfly – livsfarlig missbruksdrog
Per, 35, blev stympad av dödsdrogen - Vårdades i respirator i tio dygn efter att ha tagit Bromo-Dragonfly
Bromoarenes
Designer drugs
Entheogens
Psychedelic phenethylamines
Serotonin receptor agonists
Substituted amphetamines
Heterocyclic compounds with 3 rings
Benzofurans |
2274379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Field%20Guide | Golden Field Guide | The Golden Field Guides are a series of larger pocket-sized books that were created by Western Publishing and published under their "Golden Press" line (mostly used for children's books at the time), as a related series to the Golden Guides. Edited by Herbert Zim and Vera Webster, the books were written by experts in their field and illustrated with a simple straightforward style.
Unlike the Golden Guides, the Field Guides went more in-depth, being more aimed at the high school/college level. They also had sturdier covers, obviously intending that they be used in the field. Most note that they are a "Guide to Field Identification" on the cover. To go more in-depth and intended as both identification and educational, most of the Field Guides limited themselves to North America, while the Golden Guides were usually worldwide.
The series, updated, was relaunched in 2001 as "Golden Field Guides by St. Martin's Press". Certain titles have been discontinued, such as the Amphibians of North America and Families of Birds books.
Series list
Amphibians of North America, by Hobart Muir Smith (1978) — discontinued by St. Martin's Press
Birds of North America, by Chandler Robbins and Bertel Bruun (1966)
Eastern Birds, by James Coe (1994) — limited release in original but continued by St. Martin's Press
Families of Birds, by Oliver L. Austin (1971) — originally published as a Golden Guide (small format) and later, slightly modified, as Golden Field Guide (large format); later discontinued by St. Martin's Press
Reptiles of North America, by Hobart Muir Smith, Edmund D. Brodie, David M. Dennis, and Sy Barlowe (1982)
Minerals of the World, by Charles A. Sorrell (1973) — later renamed Rocks and Minerals
Seashells of North America, by R. Tucker Abbott (1968)
Skyguide, by Mark R. Chartrand and Helmut K. Wimmer (1982) — later renamed Night Sky
Trees of North America, by C. Frank Brockman and Rebecca A. Merrilees (1968)
Wildflowers of North America, by Frank D. Venning and Manabu C. Saito (1984)
There were some other "Golden Guides" issued but not normally considered part of the regular series.
Associated Series list
National Parks of the World, by Kai Curry-Lindahl, Jean-Paul Harroy, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (1972) — volumes 1 & 2
A Golden Guide to Environmental Organizations, by Bruce W. Halstead (1972)
The Golden Guide to Lawns, Trees and Shrubs, by John Strohm (1961)
The Golden Guide to Flowers A Handbook for Home Gardeners, by John Strohm (1962)
References
External links
Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press
Series of books
Natural history books |
29227207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab%C4%ABte%20Station | Babīte Station | Babīte Station is a railway station on the Torņakalns – Tukums II Railway.
References
External links
Railway stations in Latvia
Railway stations in the Russian Empire opened in 1877 |
36297004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porky%27s%20Bear%20Facts | Porky's Bear Facts | Porky's Bear Facts is a 1941 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon animated short directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on March 29, 1941, and stars Porky Pig. The voices were performed by Mel Blanc.
This short is an adaptation of the Aesop fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper".
Plot
The attitudes of the two central characters in this cartoon short - Porky Pig and an unnamed bear - form the main plot of this Aesop fable adaptation, with Porky taking the role of the tireless, hard-working ant and the bear the role of the grasshopper, the lazy indigent who would rather do nothing.
The short opens on Porky plowing his land, whistling and singing a happy, carefree song, "As Ye Sow So Shall Ye Reap," to the tune of "The Girl With The Pigtails In Her Hair". The animals similarly work hard, with several spot gags providing these examples. Porky is also shown stockpiling his basement and canning food in anticipation of leaner times.
The scene then pans over to the neighbor's farm, where a lazy bear is strumming on his ukulele, the song "Working Can Wait" (a parody of the song "Heaven Can Wait") extolling the virtues of not having to work and just relax. Several animals on the farm—hens playing games, a cow reading "Ferdinand the Bull" and a mouse reading "Of Mice and Men"—have taken up the lazy farmer's habits; the dog is lying asleep at his side.
The months pass, and in January a fierce blizzard strikes the area. The scene shifts to the bear's shack, and he quickly realizes he has no food. After rummaging through the house to find so much as a morsel, he finds nothing in his cupboards. After describing a delicious feast, the bear's dog finds empty cans, prompting both the bear and his canine companion to hurriedly search the cans for food. They find one bean in a can, but just as they are saying grace, the mouse steals the bean. The bear cries and bemoans his fate as the dog remarks, "I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to eat me!" Just as he says that, the bear has silverware in hand and goes after the dog.
The bear stalks his pet dog outside, the dog begging off ... until both walk past Porky's window and see that he and his dog have sat down to dinner. The bear and his pet knock on the door and ask to join Porky for dinner, but the pig slams the door on them, saying, "You've buttered your bed, now sleep in it!" Just as he heads back to the table, he sees the "love thy neighbor" sign at the door, and he feels obligated to invite his lazy neighbors in. The bear quickly feasts at the table.
At the end, the bear remarks that he has learned his lesson and vows not to be hungry again next winter. Then, he spots spring about to arrive ... the bear sprints back to his porch, singing "Working Can Wait."
References
External links
1941 films
1941 animated films
Looney Tunes shorts
Animated films about bears
Short films directed by Friz Freleng
1940s American animated films
Animated films based on Aesop's Fables
Porky Pig films
Films scored by Carl Stalling
American black-and-white films
Films with screenplays by Michael Maltese |
18656664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyran%20Smith | Tyran Smith | Tyran Carl Smith (born 15 March 1974) is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s.
He along with Darrien Doherty and Blake Green are the only three players in the game's history to date to have the distinction of playing first grade for seven different NRL clubs. He now works as a player agent.
Playing career
Over a 13-season career, he played in the NSWRL Premiership, Australian Rugby League, Super League and finally the National Rugby League. During this time, he competed for a record seven clubs and represented both New Zealand and the Aotearoa Māori, competing for the later at the 2000 World Cup. He retired in 2005 with a long-term neck injury.
Smith made his first-grade debut for South Sydney in Round 17, 1993 against Manly-Warringah at the Sydney Football Stadium, with the match finishing in a 38-10 loss. Smith spent four years at Souths, although his time there was not very successful, with the club spending most of that period towards the bottom of the ladder.
Smith played for Souths in their upset 1994 Tooheys Challenge Cup final victory over Brisbane.
In 1997, Smith joined North Queensland who had joined the rival Super League competition during the Super League war. Smith then left North Queensland mid-season to join the Hunter Mariners. However, Smith only featured in two games for the club, including its final-ever game which was against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in Round 18, 1997.
After the Hunter Mariners were liquidated, Smith joined the Auckland Warriors and featured in ten games for them before signing with the Balmain Tigers for the 1999 season, Balmain’s final year as a stand-alone entity before they merged with fellow foundation club Western Suburbs to form the Wests Tigers as part of the NRL's rationalisation strategy.
A member of the inaugural Wests Tigers side at the start of the 2000 season, Smith was named the club's player of the year.
In 2002, Smith joined the Canberra Raiders and spent four years at the club, including the Raiders’ 2003 and 2004 finals campaigns.
Later years
Smith is the brother-in-law of fellow NRL footballer Anthony Mundine, having married his sister, Kellie.
He is now a Director of Sportsplayer Management alongside John Hopoate.
His son Reimis Smith is currently on the roster of the Melbourne Storm.
References
External links
NRL profile
1974 births
Living people
New Zealand Māori rugby league team players
New Zealand national rugby league team players
South Sydney Rabbitohs players
New Zealand Warriors players
Canberra Raiders players
North Queensland Cowboys players
Hunter Mariners players
Balmain Tigers players
Wests Tigers players
Rugby league players from Auckland
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby league player agents |
5649608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocar | Monocar | The Monocar was a French automobile manufactured in Paris from 1936 until 1939. It was a small single-seater three-wheeler, and was powered by a 173 cc two-stroke engine.
References
David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles.
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France |
56687067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%20Alice%20Lubega | Florence Alice Lubega | Florence Alice Lubega (5 November 1917 – 28 October 2021) was a Ugandan politician and the first female Ugandan to join Parliament in the independent Uganda in May 1962. She was one of the first female legislators of Uganda, being a member of the Legislative Council (LEGCO). She was also a member of the first Ugandan Parliament, and Deputy Minister for Community Development and Labour.
Background and education
Florence Lubega was the daughter of Buganda Premier Samuel Wamala and Erina Nantongo.
She was educated at Gayaza Girls' School before joining Buloba Teachers' College. Later she was the first female to be admitted to Makerere College School before joining Oxford University. Upon completion of her university studies in 1946, she returned to teach English at Makerere University.
Personal life
Florence Lubega was married to Saulo Lubega, a teacher at Mityana secondary school and a former minister of finance Buganda government Florence Lubega outlived her children and she had four brothers; the late Israel Magembe Wamala [the musician]of Nakasajja in Kyaggwe, Wamala Steven Ssempasa, who lives in the United Kingdom, Paul Musoke Wamala, a former tourism operator who now lives in Luzira, a Kampala suburb and the late Wamala Herbert Dagirira.
She died on 28 October 2021, a week shy of her 104th birthday.
References
External links
Uganda's first woman MP clocks 100
Will new women leaders carry on the legacy?
1917 births
2021 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Uganda
20th-century Ugandan women politicians
20th-century Ugandan politicians
Women members of the Parliament of Uganda
Ugandan centenarians
Women centenarians |
36226521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Ward%20Howe%20School | Julia Ward Howe School | The Julia Ward Howe School, also known as the Julia Ward Howe Academics Plus Elementary School is an historic American school that is located in the Fern Rock neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
History and architectural features
This building was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards and built between 1913 and 1914. It is a three-story, five-bay, brick building that was created in the Tudor Revival style. It features a central limestone entrance and terra cotta trim and decorative panels. The school was named for abolitionist and author Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910).
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
References
External links
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
Tudor Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
School buildings completed in 1914
Olney-Oak Lane, Philadelphia
1914 establishments in Pennsylvania |
8028391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Afghanistan | Cinema of Afghanistan | Cinema was introduced to Afghanistan at the beginning of the 20th century. Political troubles slowed the industry over the years; however, numerous Pashto and Dari films have been made both inside and outside Afghanistan throughout the 20th century. The cinema of Afghanistan entered a new phase in 2001, but has failed to recover to its popular pre-war status.
History
Emir Habibullah Khan, who reigned from 1901 to 1919, introduced film to Afghanistan, but in the royal court only. In 1923–24, the first projector or "magic box" or mageek lantan ('magic lantern') – showed the first silent film in Paghman to the public. The first Afghan film, Love and Friendship, was produced in 1946.
In Kabul, the Behzad Cinema became the first theatre in Afghanistan, and Cinema Park was also among the earliest to have been built in the 1950s. Among the most prominent cinemas in Kabul before the 1990s were the Pamir, Ariana, Aryob, Barikot and Baharestan cinemas.
When the Afghan Film Organization was established in 1968, it produced documentaries and news films highlighting the official meetings and conferences of the government. All these films were shown in cinemas before feature films, which were usually from India. The first feature film made in Kabul by Afghan Film using Afghan artists was Like Eagles (1969) directed by Khair Zada. Another claim to first Afghan feature is Afghan Film's three-part The Times (1970), which comprised Smugglers, Suitors and Friday Night. Other films from this period, sometimes produced by other film companies and often with Russian-trained directors, included Difficult Days/ (1974),The Statues are Laughing/Mujasemeha Mekhandad (1976), and Village Tunes. All of these films were shot in black and white. Film artists of this era included Toryali Shafaq, Khan Aqa Soroor, Rafeeq Saadiq, Azizullah Hadaf, Mashal Honaryar and Parvin Sanatgar.
The first color films produced by Afghan Film in the early 1980s, often propaganda, included Run Away/Farar (1984), Saboor Soldier/Saboor Sarbaaz (1984), 1986's Love Epic/Hamaseh Ishq (1986), 'Ash' (Khakestar), 'Last Wishes' (Akharin Arezo) and The Immigrant Birds/Pardehaje Mohajer (1987). These films, usually shown only in urban areas, became popular.
During the late 1960s and 1970s Soviet aid included cultural training and scholarships for students interested in studying film. However, since Afghanistan had no film academy, future filmmakers had to apprentice on the job. The three civil wars of the 1990s were not conducive to creative work and many people working in the Afghan film industry escaped to Iran or Pakistan, where they were able to make videos for NGOs. The new government banned production of films in 1993.
When the Taliban took power in 1996, cinemas were attacked and many films were burnt. The Taliban forbade the viewing of television and films and cinemas were closed, either becoming tea shops or restaurants or falling into a state of disrepair. Habibullah Ali of Afghan Film hid thousands of films, buried underground or in hidden rooms, to prevent their destruction by the Taliban. Teardrops was the first post-Taliban film in 2002, and the first film since Oruj in 1990. On November 19, 2001, Bakhtar was the first cinema to re-open its doors, where thousands of people entered that day.
Afghan Film Organization
Afghan Film also known as Afghan Film Organization (AFO) were former Afghanistan's state-run film company. It was established in 1968 and the last president was Sahraa Karimi, the first female head of the organisation.
Reemergence
Since 2001, the cinema of Afghanistan has slowly started to re-emerge from a lengthy period of silence. Before the September 11th attacks, Afghanistan-based Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf attracted world attention to Afghanistan with Kandahar (2001). The film brought the cinema of Afghanistan to the Cannes film festival for the first time in history. Later Samira Makhmalbaf, Siddiq Barmak, Razi Mohebi, Horace Shansab, Yassamin Maleknasr and Abolfazl Jalili made a significant contribution to Dari (Persian) cinema in Afghanistan.
Barmak's first Persian/Pashto film Osama (2003) won several awards at film festivals in Cannes and London. Barmak is also director of the Afghan Children Education Movement (ACEM), an association that promotes literacy, culture and the arts, founded by Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The school trains actors and directors for the emerging cinema of Afghanistan. In 2006 Afghanistan joined the Central Asian and Southern Caucasus Film Festivals Confederation.
In the 1970s and 1980s, it was not difficult to get women to act in films. The war and the Taliban rule changed the situation, but they now are increasingly represented in the cinema of Afghanistan. Actresses like Leena Alam, Amina Jafari, Saba Sahar (now also a director) and Marina Gulbahari have emerged over the last decade.
Apart from cinema in Persian, Pashto cinema is also flourishing in Afghanistan. Several Pashto language films have been made since the fall of the Taliban, including some by foreigners like Good Morning Afghanistan (2003) by Camilla Nielsson.
Kabullywood (2017) is a comedy-drama directed by Louis Meunier that was shot entirely in Kabul. As part of the movie, Meunier crowdfunded the renovation of the once-prosperous Aryub Cinema in the city, but without it opening as planned.
The public cinema industry has not managed to recover, with many cinemas in Kabul either falling into disrepair or attracting low numbers of customers. The issue reached national attention at the end of 2020 when the municipality decided to demolish the neglected but historic Cinema Park, sparking protests by activists.
B-movies
There are a number of films produced both inside and outside Afghanistan that are considered B-movies due to the low production quality and audience reach. These films are targeted mainly at an Afghan audience and rarely make it to the non-Afghan audiences or the international film festivals.
Outside Afghanistan
Many filmmakers fled the country due to war, and began to make films outside Afghanistan. Some films made outside Afghanistan include the Shirin Gul-o-Shir Agha trilogy made in Russia, Foreign Land, Loori, Sheraghai Daghalbaaz, In the Wrong Hands (2002), Shade of Fire, Asheyana and Khana Badosh in the UK, Do Atash and Waris in the Netherlands, 3 Friends and Al Qarem (2006) in the United States, Shekast in Pakistan, Aftaab e Bighroob in Tajikistan, Kidnapping in Germany, and Gridami in Italy.Most notable of all were Academy Award submission FireDancer (2002) and French-based film Earth and Ashes (2004).
Foreign films
Many foreign films were made within Afghanistan, including Indian films like Feroz Khan's Dharmatma (1975) and Khuda Gawah (1992), and the American film The Beast (1988).
Some films made in or relating to Afghanistan have been made, including Rambo III (1988), Kabul Express (2006), Escape From Taliban (2003) and the British film In This World (2002). The Hollywood-produced The Kite Runner (2007) earned a nomination in the 80th Academy Awards for Best Original Score.
In the mid-20th century one of the most popular foreign films that ran in Kabul's cinemas was the American epic Gone with the Wind (1939).
Notable individuals
Writers/Directors/Producers
Mir Hamza Shinwari
Engineer Ahmed Latif
Roya Sadat
Sahraa Karimi
Saeed Orokzai
Atiq Rahimi
Abdul Wahid Nazari
Siddiq Barmak
Saba Sahar (Afghanistan's first female film director)
Barmak Akram, Kabuli Kid - Wajma
Salim Shaheen - Nominated for Cannes Film Festival
Superstars
Actors
Nassir Aziz
Ibrahim Tughyan
Saeed Orokzai
Faqir Nabi
Youssof Kohzad
Saboor Toofan
Salam Sangi
Mir Hamza Shinwari
Salim Shaheen
Haji Kamran
Mamnoon Maqsoodi
Actresses
Marina Golbahari
Leena Alam
Fereshteh Hosseini
Shamila Shirzad
Hasiba Ebrahimi
Yasamin Yarmal
Sahraa Karimi
Adela Adem
Notable films
These films have had either theatrical distribution or won awards at prestigious film festivals. They also appear on IMDb's Most popular list.
Kandahar (2001) - 20+ Film festivals
Osama (2003) Winner of Golden Globes
Earth and Ashes (2004)
Zolykha's Secret (2006)
Kabuli Kid (2008)
Opium War (2008)
Buzkashi Boys (2012)- Oscar nominee
The Black Tulip (2010)
The Patience Stone (2012)
Madrasa (2013)
Wajma (2013), an Afghan Love Story
A Few Cubic Meters of Love (2014)
Mina Walking (2015)
A Letter to the President (2017)
Black Kite (2017)
Why? (2019)
Feature films
Zolykha's Secret (2007; in Persian) is also among the first feature films from post-Taliban Afghanistan, which played to full houses at major film festivals. The film's director, Horace Ahmad Shansab, trained young Afghan filmmakers and made the film entirely on location in Afghanistan.
Emaan (2010) was screened at Reading Cinemas in Australia. This is the first time an Afghan film has been screened at Reading. It was the winner of 2011 South Asian Film Festival in Canberra for Best Story and Best Film.
Notable short films include No Woman (2015) and We are postmodern.
Documentary films
Documentaries have been made in Afghanistan since the Taliban, most notably 16 Days in Afghanistan by Mithaq Kazimi and Postcards from Tora Bora by Wazhmah Osman.
The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, a documentary shot by award-winning British director Phil Grabsky was released in 2001 and went on to win awards worldwide.
There is also a monthly magazine, Theme, that is published by Afghan Cinema Club that focuses on Afghan and international cinema.
Highest grossing
The highest grossing Afghan film is Osama, earning $3,800,000 worldwide from a budget of only $46,000. The film was very well received by the Western cinematic world. It gathered a rating of 96% based on 100 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes.
See also
Cinema of the world
References
External links
Oscar Nominations
Afghan cinema
Afghan Cinema - Network for Afghan filmmakers
IMDB: Afghanistan
Movie Movie - A chronological history of Afghan cinema from 1946 to the present day.
Afghan culture |
63328726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20FIS%20Cross-Country%20Australia/New%20Zealand%20Cup | 2019 FIS Cross-Country Australia/New Zealand Cup | The 2019 FIS Cross-Country Australia/New Zealand Cup was a season of the Australia/New Zealand Cup, a Continental Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began on 27 July 2019 in Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia and concluded on 5 September 2019 in Snow Farm, New Zealand.
Calendar
Men
Women
Overall standings
Men's overall standings
Women's overall standings
References
External links
2019 Overall Standings Men
2019 Overall Standings Women
FIS Cross-Country Australia/New Zealand Cup
FIS Cross-Country Australia/New Zealand Cup seasons
2019 in cross-country skiing |
52983542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Ministers%20%28band%29 | Prime Ministers (band) | Prime Ministers is a rock band from Ecuador, formed in 2008. The band consists of Ernesto "E" Estrada (lead vocals, guitars and piano), Alejandro "Alex" Zon (drums), Fabio "Shaggy" López (guitars and vocals) and Alejandro "Ale" Carrau (bass).
History
Prime Ministers formed as a band in 2008. They released their first album Take a Ride in 2009 and were invited to perform at music festivals including South By Southwest, in Austin, Texas (USA) and Rock al Parque in Bogota (Colombia).
Their singles "Smoking Monkeys" and "Under Your Spell" reached the number one in Radio and the video for "Far From Free" went to number one in MTV Latino. They were chosen as one of the 50 Best bands of the year.
Prime Ministers' first video "Smoking Monkeys" reached the top 10 in MTV Latin America.
In 2010, the song "Under Your Spell" was included in the program Los 100 + Pedidos, an annual program broadcast on MTV Latin America.
In February 2011, they released a new video for the single "Far From Free", arriving at number one out of the top 10 most requested videos of MTV Latin America. "Far From Free" was also selected to be part of the official music of the telenovela , broadcast to all Latin America and for the US by MTV.
In July 2011, they closed the first day of the annual Rock al Parque music festival in Bogotá, Colombia
In January 2012, the Mayor of the Metropolitan District of Quito, the and the institution Mis Bandas Nacionales de Ecuador presented Prime Ministers with two awards: The Gold Medal and the MBN Statuette for their international performance.
On March 15, 2012, the Prime Ministers performed at SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.
In June 2014 they released their second album, NOW, produced by Max Heyes. This was their first release in the United States.
To promote the album, Prime Ministers performed at festivals including The Great Escape (Brighton, UK) and Rock X La Vida (Mexico), touring with the Chilean band La Ley throughout United States and Mexico.
The video for the first single, "Take It Back" won the Best Video of the Year Award from the institution Mis Bandas Nacionales de Ecuador.
Prime Ministers released the first single "New Beginnings" from their third record, Asymmetric, on January 24, 2017. The track was described by PureVolume as having a "bouncy, rocking vibe that will make your head bob back and forth."
Discography
Albums
Take A Ride (2009)
Now (2014)
Asymmetric (2017)
Singles
"Smoking Monkeys" - January 2010
"Under Your Spell" - March 2010
"Far From Free" - September 24, 2010
"Take It Back" - March 31, 2014
"New Beginnings" - January 24, 2017
See also
Music of Ecuador
Ecuadorian rock
References
Musical groups established in 2008
Ecuadorian alternative rock groups
Ecuadorian rock music groups
Ecuadorian musical groups |
8716687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Doctors | The Doctors | The Doctors may refer to:
The Doctors (1963 TV series), a 1963–1982 American daytime soap opera
The Doctors (1969 TV series), a 1969–1971 British nighttime drama
The Doctors (2016 TV series), a South Korean drama
The Doctors (talk show), an American daytime talk show
"The Doctors" (Doctor Who), an announced title of the Doctor Who episode "Twice Upon a Time"
See also
Die Ärzte (German for "The Physicians" or "The Doctors"), a rock band
Doctor (disambiguation) |
53897637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy%20Akumu | Teddy Akumu | Anthony "Teddy" Akumu Agai (born 20 October 1992) is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for J1 League club Sagan Tosu and the Kenya national team.
Career
Born in Rachuonyo, Akumu has played club football for Gor Mahia, Al Khartoum and ZESCO United. In January 2020, he moved to Kaizer Chiefs.
He was announced as the first foreign signing of J1 League club Sagan Tosu, joining the club for the 2023 season.
He made his international debut for Kenya in 2011.
References
1992 births
Living people
People from Homa Bay County
Sportspeople from Nyanza Province
Kenyan men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Kenya men's international footballers
Gor Mahia F.C. players
Khartoum NC players
ZESCO United F.C. players
Kaizer Chiefs F.C. players
Sagan Tosu players
Kenyan Premier League players
South African Premier Division players
Kenyan expatriate men's footballers
Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in Sudan
Expatriate men's footballers in Sudan
Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in Zambia
Expatriate men's footballers in Zambia
Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan |
33174123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87avu%C5%9Flu%2C%20Karata%C5%9F | Çavuşlu, Karataş | Çavuşlu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Karataş, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 234 (2022).
References
Neighbourhoods in Karataş District |
73292686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulbothrix%20johannis | Bulbothrix johannis | Bulbothrix johannis is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found on Réunion, it was formally described as new species in 2015 by Didier Masson, Michel Benatti, and Emmanuël Sérusiaux. The type specimen was collected by the first author from Bélouve (Salazie) at an altitude of , where it was found growing on the bark of Erica reunionensis. All known localities of the lichen are in Réunion National Park, at altitudes ranging between . The species epithet, derived from the Latin Johannes, honours Australian lichenologist John Elix, "who was the first to suspect it was an undescribed taxon and for his generous help and support on many occasions".
Bulbothrix johannis is comparable to Bulbothrix pseudofungicola, but its are wider, ranging from 0.4 to 2.0 mm as opposed to 0.4–1.1 mm. Additionally, it has laminal isidia that frequently mature into , larger and , and longer ascospores measuring 6.0–9.0 μm, while B. pseudofungicola has ascospores ranging from 4.0 to 6.0 μm in length.
References
Parmeliaceae
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2015
Lichens of Réunion
Taxa named by Emmanuël Sérusiaux |
71709618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piel%20a%20Piel | Piel a Piel | Piel a Piel () is the second studio album by Spanish singer Marcos Llunas, released in 1994 by PolyGram Latino. The album was produced and mainly written by Spanish singer-songwriter Juan Carlos Calderón, and was promoted by its lead singles "Guapa", "Mañana" and "La de Siempre".
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Piel a Piel liner notes:
Performance credits
Marcos Llunas – vocals, arranger
Robbie Buchanan – piano, keyboards, programing
Pablo Aguirre – piano, keyboards, programing
John "J.R." Robinson – drums
Abraham Laboriel – bass
Neil Stubenhaus – bass
Michael Landau – electric guitar
George Doering – acoustic guitar
Luis Conte – percussion
Dan Higgins – saxophone, flute, synthesizer
Francis Benítez – background vocals
Leyla Hoyle – background vocals
Kenny OBrian – background vocals
Isela Sotelo – background vocals
Mary Jamison – background vocals
Michael Markman – concert master, violin
Olga Babtchinskaia – violin
Walter Gomes Desouza – violin
James Getzoff – violin
Edith Markman – violin
Hakop Mekinian – violin
Dennis Molchan – violin
R.F. Peterson – violin
Guillermo Romero – violin
Radzan Kuyumijan – violin
Thi B. Nyugen – violin
Tania Boyaird – violin
Vage Ayrikyan – cello
Waldemar de Almeida – cello
Virginia Burward-Hoy – cello, viola
Armen Ksadjikian – cello, viola
Jorge Moraga – viola
Harry Shirinian – viola
Hershel Wise – viola
Diane Gilbert – viola
Technical credits
Juan Carlos Calderón – producer, arranger, director, choir arrangements
Christina Abaroa – arranger, coordination, producer
Alejandro Monroy – director, arranger
Manuel Calderón – artistic direction
Randy Kerber – strings arrangements
Andy Armer – strings arrangements
Mary Jamison – choir arrangements
Benny Faccone – engineer
Hal Sacks – engineer
Bryan Stott – engineer
Rodolfo Vásquez – engineer
Moogie Canazio – mixer
Mauricio Guerrero – additional engineer
Bernie Grundman – mastering engineer
Manuel Oriona – photography
Javier Romero – graphic design
Recording and mixing locations
Ocean Way Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA – recording
Skip Saylor Recording, Hollywood, CA - recording
Sound Chamber Recorders, Hollywood, CA – recording
Studio Masters, Los Angeles, CA – recording
Westlake Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA – mixing
References
1994 albums
Spanish-language albums
Albums produced by Juan Carlos Calderón |
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