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USS Flamingo (MSC(O)-11/AMS-11/YMS-238) was a built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the third U.S. Navy ship to be named for the flamingo.
History
Flamingo was laid down as YMS-238 on 11 May 1942 by Stadium Yacht Basin, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio; launched, 12 September 1942; completed and commissioned on 23 November 1942.
On 10 November 1944, YMS-238 was damaged when ammunition ship exploded in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island.
YMS-238 was renamed and reclassified as USS Flamingo (AMS-11) on 18 February 1947. She was further reclassified as MSC(O)-11 on 7 February 1955.
Flamingo was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 November 1959. Her fate is unknown.
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YMS-1-class minesweepers of the United States Navy
Ships built in Cleveland
1942 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United States
Maritime incidents in November 1944
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The Bon Accord centre is the second-largest shopping centre complex in Aberdeen, Scotland and serves a large catchment area including the city and surrounding Aberdeenshire.
The centre was constructed as two separate entities: the St. Nicholas Shopping Centre in 1985 and the adjacent Bon Accord Shopping Centre in 1990. Since opening, they have formed one of the most dense retailing areas in Aberdeen, having merged in the early 2000s. The two centres were co-branded until 2018 when the St. Nicholas name was dropped in favour of a unified brand across the property.
Layout
The centre is split into two buildings which effectively join the shopping streets of George Street and Union Street. It has three floors extending to . Parking is attached with around 1,700 spaces. The Bon Accord centre was built in a serpentine shape to maximize shop unit frontage and is covered by a barrel vaulted glazed roof with a high glazed dome. The former St. Nicholas has a more dated, straight-through design with a mostly concrete urban open space on its roof, along with little-used first-floor entrances to some of the businesses.
The northern entrance of the centre is located across the street from a former John Lewis & Partners department store, and the store is connected to the centre via a bridge on the first floor. The John Lewis department store opened on 4 October 1989 and closed in 2020. The bottom floor of the John Lewis department store was subsequently used as a vaccination centre.
History
Work began on the St. Nicholas centre on 26 October 1983, when the foundation stone was laid by the then Lord Provost of the city, Alexander C Collie. During construction, two coin hoards were uncovered, amassing around 7000 coins valued at the time at £35,000. The centre was officially opened on 3 October 1985 by Lord Provost Henry Rae with total retail space covering . The first store, Miss Selfridge, opened its doors three months earlier on 4 July 1985. The Bon Accord centre opened fiv
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Two-time defending champion Rafael Nadal defeated Fernando González in the final, 6–2, 6–2 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2007 Italian Open.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.
Roger Federer (third round)
Rafael Nadal (champion)
Andy Roddick (third round)
Nikolay Davydenko (semifinals)
Novak Djokovic (quarterfinals)
Fernando González (final)
Tommy Robredo (quarterfinals)
Ivan Ljubičić (second round)
James Blake (third round)
Andy Murray (first round)
Tommy Haas (first round)
Tomáš Berdych (quarterfinals)
Richard Gasquet (second round)
David Ferrer (first round)
Mikhail Youzhny (third round)
Juan Carlos Ferrero (second round)
Draw
Finals
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Qualifying
Qualifying seeds
Qualifiers
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
Fifth qualifier
Sixth qualifier
Seventh qualifier
See also
List of tennis tournaments
References
External links
2007 Internazionali BNL d'Italia Singles draw
2007 Internazionali BNL d'Italia Singles Qualifying draw
ITF tournament profile
Men's Singles
Italian Open - Singles
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The 2021 Malaysian Proclamation of Emergency (, ) was a federal proclamation of emergency issued by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia Al-Sultan Abdullah of Pahang to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Malaysia that was in effect from 12 January 2021 to 1 August 2021 nationwide except Sarawak, where the proclamation was not lifted along with other states on 1 August 2021 for the purpose of delaying the Sarawak state election to 2022. However, the proclamation in Sarawak was subsequently lifted on 3 November 2021.
Chronology
On 25 October 2020, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah of Pahang rejected Prime Minister Muhyiddin's request for him to issue a Proclamation of Emergency pursuant to Article 150(1) of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia in response to a spike in COVID-19 cases throughout Malaysia.
On 16 December 2020, Prime Minister Muhyiddin invoked a state of emergency to stop by-elections scheduled to be held in the Bugaya constituency of Sabah and the Gerik constituency in Perak scheduled for January 2021. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdullah had assented to the request to impose the states of emergency within these two electorates in response to a third wave of infections, which had risen to a total of 86,000 cases and 422 deaths by 16 December.
On 12 January 2021, Sultan Abdullah of Pahang issued a federal proclamation of emergency until at least 1 August 2021 to curb the spread of COVID-19 and in response to a political crisis involving Prime Minister Muhyiddin's Perikatan Nasional government. Under this proclamation of emergency, parliament and elections were suspended while the Malaysian government was empowered to introduce laws without parliamentary debate and voting.
Controversies and issues
Nonetheless, some parties, particularly the opposition disputed the real motive for the proclamation of emergency, namely whether the proclamation was issued to curb the COVID-19 pandemic or was politically motivated; the National Alliance government i
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An action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres.
Typically, classical adventure games have situational problems for the player to explore and solve to complete a storyline, involving very little to no action. If there is action, it is generally confined to isolated instances. Classical action games, on the other hand, have gameplay based on real-time interactions that challenges the player's reflexes and eye-hand coordination. Action-adventure games combine these genres by engaging both eye-hand coordination and problem-solving skills.
Definition
An action adventure game can be defined as a game with a mix of elements from an action game and an adventure game, especially crucial elements like puzzles inspired by older adventure games. Action-adventures require many of the same physical skills as action games, but also offer a storyline, numerous characters, an inventory system, dialogue, and other features of adventure games. They are faster-paced than pure adventure games, because they include both physical and conceptual challenges. Action-adventure games normally include a combination of complex story elements, which are displayed for players using audio and video. The story is heavily reliant upon the player character's movement, which triggers story events and thus affects the flow of the game. Popular examples of action-adventure games include The Legend of Zelda, God of War, and Tomb Raider series.
Relationship to other genres
When a game stops being an adventure game and becomes an action game is a matter of interpretation. There are quite a few disagreements in the community and in the media over what actually constitutes an action-adventure game. One definition of the term "action-adventure" may be '"An action/adventure game is a game that has enough action in it not to be called an adventure game, but not enough action to be called an action game." In some cases an
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Of the 2 Rhode Island incumbents, neither were re-elected.
Rhode Island switched to a general ticket for its two seats, instead of electing each one separately. Only one candidate received a majority in the 1800 election, requiring an 1801 run-off election to choose a Representative for the second seat.
See also
List of United States representatives from Rhode Island
United States House of Representatives elections, 1800 and 1801
References
United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island
Rhode Island
Rhode Island
United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
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Chris Eakin is a journalist who was a newsreader on the BBC's 24-hour rolling news channel, BBC News, and a relief presenter on BBC News at One at weekends. He was one of the channel's launch presenters in 1997, and is a published author. He left the BBC on 28 May 2015.
Early life
Eakin was born in Northern Ireland and lived at Helen's Bay in County Down, then briefly moved to Spain. His father was a civil engineer. He moved to Heswall when he was 12. He learned to sail with the Fourth Heswall Sea Scouts, sailing at the West Kirby Marine Lake. He left Calday Grange Grammar School in 1979, which he attended with his two brothers, Michael and Clive.
Career
From 1979-83 he was at Wirral News. From 1983-85, he was a freelance journalist in Cheshire. From 1985-89 he was at the Liverpool Daily Post where he won North West Reporter of the Year. From 1989-90 he worked at Central TV as a journalist. From 1990-97 he was a reporter for Look North at Newcastle upon Tyne. He twice won regional journalist of the year.
BBC News
Eakin was most recently a presenter on BBC News. He has anchored outside news broadcasts from locations including Belgrade, Belfast, Beirut, Buckingham Palace, Tavistock Square in London and numerous UK floods including in Cockermouth, Tewkesbury and Boscastle, Cornwall. He was the main on-site anchor for BBC News after the Glasgow Airport terror attack in 2007. Eakin left the BBC on 28 May 2015 with his final show running from 11 am until 2pm.
Publishing
Eakin's book A Race Too Far describes the 1968 sailing race to be the first person to sail non-stop round the world single-handed.
Personal life
Eakin is a qualified RYA Yachtmaster Offshore. He lives in London with his wife, Deborah, who is a GP. His older brother Michael is Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and his younger brother Clive works in BBC local radio in Warwickshire.
He is a world-class sailor and multiple award-winning skier, and a fan of Creedence Clearwater Reviva
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In the Name of Love may refer to:
Music
Albums
In the Name of Love (Earth, Wind & Fire album) (1996)
In the Name of Love (Peggy Lee album) (1964)
In the Name of Love (Thompson Twins album) (1982)
In the Name of Love (Yasmien Kurdi album) (2005)
In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa, a 2004 album by various artists
Songs
"In the Name of Love" (Martin Garrix and Bebe Rexha song), (2016)
"In the Name of Love" (Monika Kuszyńska song) (2015)
"In the Name of Love" (Thompson Twins song) (1982)
In the Name of Love (Earth, Wind & Fire song), 1996
"Pride (In the Name of Love)", a 1984 song by U2
"Vo Ime Na Ljubovta" ("In the Name of Love"), a 2008 song by Tamara Todevska, Vrčak and Adrian Gaxha
"In the Name of Love", a 2000 song by Eriko Imai
"In the Name of Love", a 1991 song by Rick Astley from Free
"In the Name of Love", a 2016 song by Delta Goodrem from Wings of the Wild
Film and television
In the Name of Love (1925 film), an American film
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy, a 1995 Fox Network made-for-TV film
In the Name of Love, a 2003 documentary film by Yana Gorskaya
In the Name of Love (2008 film), an Indonesian film
In the Name of Love (2011 film), a Philippine film
In the Name of Love (2012 film), a Vietnamese film
In the Name of Love (TV series), a 2014 Chinese television series
See also
In the Name of Love Tour, by Diana Ross
"Stop! In the Name of Love", a 1965 song by the Supremes
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Sidewalk chalk is typically large and thick sticks of chalk (calcium sulfate, gypsum, rather than calcium carbonate, rock chalk) that come in multiple colors and are mostly used for drawing on pavement or concrete sidewalks, frequently four square courts or a hopscotch boards. Blackboard chalk, typically used in educational settings, is shorter and thinner than sidewalk chalk.
There are several different types of sidewalk chalk, typically coming in solid-colored sticks. 3-D sidewalk chalk sets, in which each stick of chalk is created with two particular colors that appear 3-dimensional when viewed through the 3-D glasses that come with the chalk, also exist.
Sidewalk chalk can be cheaply homemade from water, paint and plaster of Paris.
Use
Sidewalk chalk is used at some universities to advertise for events, especially where there is much concrete. Prohibitions are set for where students can chalk, usually limiting it to areas that will be washed away with rain, or areas which are set to be cleaned of chalk markings.
Some teachers promote use of sidewalk chalk on a carpet as an interactive teaching tool.
Although sidewalk chalk is created to allow people to draw on sidewalks or pavement, some law enforcement agencies may prohibit sidewalk drawing in certain areas without first being requested for authorization.
Events
On September 16–17, 2006, a global event was held to promote peace through sidewalk chalk drawings. Chalk4Peace was a project planned by an artist from Arlington, Virginia named John Aaron, who asked children and teens from the age of eight to age eighteen to participate in groups across the world to draw chalk drawings that would illustrate peace for one of the Chalk4Peace events. Designated areas on sidewalks, pavement, and concrete were used for the participants to draw on while volunteers took pictures of the street paintings. Aaron used his own money and donations to provide sidewalk chalk to areas of the world that he believed did not have
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Heemstede is a hamlet in the central Netherlands. It is located 3 km west of Houten, Utrecht. The hamlet is known for Heemstede Castle (1645).
Until 1812, Heemstede was a separate heerlijkheid. Between 1818 and 1857 it was a part of Oud-Wulven, until that municipality merged with Houten. The area had 75 inhabitants around 1850.
History
It was first mentioned in 1219 as in Hemsteden, and means "place with houses". Heemstede is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Houten, and there are no place name signs. Nowadays, it consists of about 20 houses.
Castle Heemstede
A fortified farm called Heemstede was first mentioned in 1323. Between 1398 and 1404, a tower was constructed, and it officially became a castle in 1536. In 1614, the castle became derelict and turned into a ruin. In 1645, a manor house was built about 500 metres to the north. During World War II, it was in use as monastery. In 1971, the building was squatted, and burnt down in 1987. It was rebuilt in 1998 and served as a restaurant which went bankrupt in 2012. The estate is now private property.
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References
Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Houten
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Villena is a city and municipality in the province of Alicante.
Villena may also refer to:
Seigneury of Villena, an ancient feudal state of southern Spain
People with the name
Enrique de Villena, Spanish medieval writer and scientist.
Luis Antonio de Villena, contemporary Spanish poet and writer
See also
Treasure of Villena, a find of gold of the European Bronze Age
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Potamogeton confervoides, common names pondweed, alga-like pondweed, algae-like pondweed, and Tuckerman's pondweed is a species of plant found in North America. It is listed as endangered in Connecticut, as a special concern in Maine, as threatened in Massachusetts, New York (state), Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It is listed as historical in Rhode Island.
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Manohar Shankar Oak (Devanagari: मनोहर शंकर ओक) (May 27, 1933 – May 11, 1993) was a Marathi poet, novelist, and translator from Maharashtra, India.
Oak led a Bohemian life style. An influence of English poets like Allen Ginsberg can be discerned in his poetry. The background of Mumbai metropolis often appears in his poems.
According to critique Poet SHRIDHAR TILVE he developed his own meters of free verse in poems like HE PRIYATAM ANDHAR and marathisised the sanskrut wordification in such a style that it has changed the flavour of Marathi poetic language.
An Anthology of Marathi Poetry, 1945-65 by Dilip Chitre contains translations of some of Oak's poems.
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TIKAHARAN BY Shridhar Tilve SHABDWEL PRAKASHAN 1999
Works
Collections of poems
Aaitya Kavita
Manohar Oakanchya Ainshi Kavita (posthumous publication)
Novels
Charsi
Antarvedi
Marathi-language writers
Marathi-language poets
1933 births
1993 deaths
20th-century Indian poets
Indian male poets
Poets from Maharashtra
20th-century Indian male writers
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Govinda (), also rendered Govind and Gobind, is an epithet of Vishnu and is also used for his avatars such as Krishna. The name appears as the 187th and the 539th name of Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama. The name is also popularly addressed to Krishna, referring to his youthful activity as a cowherd boy.
Etymology
In the word "Govinda", "Govu" means Indriyas. Govinda therefore means the all-pervading, omnipresent ruler of the sense organs, or Indriyas. "Govu" also means 'Vedas'. Hence Govinda is the supreme being who can be known through the Vedas. Govinda can also be translated as "protector of cows".
Interpretations
Govinda is a name of Krishna and also appears as the 187th and 539th name of Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama, the 1,000 names of Vishnu.
According to Adi Shankara's commentary on Vishnu Sahasranama, translated by Swami Tapasyananda, Govinda has four meanings:
The sages call Krishna "Govinda" as He pervades all the worlds, giving them power.
The Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata states that Vishnu restored the earth that had sunk into the netherworld, so all the devas praised Him as Govind (Protector of the Land).
Alternatively, it means "He who is known by Vedic words alone".
In the Harivamsa, Indra praised Krishna for having attained loving leadership of the cows which Krishna tended as a cowherd, by saying, "So men too shall praise Him as Govinda."
In another scripture, Brahma Samhita, Krishna is praised as Govinda, who is eternal and origin of all living beings.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in his commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita, states that Govinda means "master of the senses". In the Mahabharata, when Draupadi's saree was stripped by Dushasana in the court of Hastinapura, it is said that Draupadi prayed towards Krishna (who was in Dwaraka at that time) invoking him as "Govinda" at the instance of extreme distress where she could no longer hold her saree to her chest. For this reason, it is believed that "Govinda" is how the Lord is addressed
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Count Rudolf (living 944), was a count in Lower Lotharingia, who apparently held possessions in the Hesbaye region and in the area of Meuse river north of Maastricht. It has been proposed that he was a son of Reginar II, Count of Hainaut, and thus a member of the so-called Regnarid dynasty.
Although there are no records which associate the brother of Reginar III clearly with any specific geographical area, counties called Avernas and Huste were counties belonging to a count or counts named Rudolf in this period, and it has been proposed that this may have been Rudolf the brother of Reginar.
Attestations
Rudolf is only clearly mentioned in one specific record as brother of Reginar III:
Their uncle Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine, who was senior member of their family was killed in 939 at the Battle of Andernach, and King Otto the Great took firm control of Lotharingia. Flodoard reported that in 944, Rudolf and his brother were allied with King Louis IV of France, and Hugh the Great, Duke of the Franks. Otto requested that Herman I, Duke of Swabia, lay siege to the castle of "Reginar and his brother Rudolf" and quell the rebellion.
Another possible record comes from a later period, where Reginar is associated with a count Rodwold. The two men were both uncles of the same person. Bishop Ratherius wrote his Phrenesis to defend the position he lost as Bishop of Liège, and one of his claims was that his replacement Balderic I (bishop 956-9), had benefited from nepotism, being the nephew of Counts "Regeneri atque Ruoduolti", and the son of the brother of Bishop Balderic of Utrecht. This Rodwold has often been equated to the Rodulf the brother of Reginar mentioned by Floduard.
It is generally accepted that it is the same two brothers who appear next to each other ("Rudolfus comes, Reginherus comes") in a charter by King Otto in 949, confirming the Abbey of Susteren on the Meuse to be a possession of Prüm abbey.
Other charters previous to this appear to show (if they are the
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is a railway station located in the city of Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is a kan'i itaku station, administered by Goshogawara Station, and operated by Tsugaru municipal authority, with point-of-sales terminal installed. Ordinary tickets, express tickets, and reserved-seat tickets for all JR lines are on sale (no connecting tickets).
Lines
Kizukuri Station is served by the Gonō Line. It is 119.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at .
Station layout
Kizukuri Station has one ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station building is attended during normal daylight operating hours.
History
Kizukuri Station was opened on October 21, 1924 as a station on the Mutsu Railway in former Kizukuri Town, and became a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) when the Mutsu Railway was nationalized on June 1, 1927. With the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (successor of JGR) on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East. The current station building, decorated with a huge shakōkidogū statue on its facade, was completed in 1992.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 212 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
Tsugaru Police station
Kizukuri Post Office
Tsugaru City Hall
See also
List of Railway Stations in Japan
Gallery
References
External links
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Aomori Prefecture
Gonō Line
Tsugaru, Aomori
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924
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NGC 7057 is an elliptical galaxy located about 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Microscopium. NGC 7057 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on September 2, 1836.
Group membership
NGC 7057 is a member of a group of galaxies known as the NGC 7060 group. Other members of the group are NGC 7060, NGC 7072 and NGC 7072A.
See also
List of NGC objects (7001–7840)
NGC 7302
References
External links
Elliptical galaxies
Microscopium
7057
66708
Astronomical objects discovered in 1836
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In mathematics, the spin representations are particular projective representations of the orthogonal or special orthogonal groups in arbitrary dimension and signature (i.e., including indefinite orthogonal groups). More precisely, they are two equivalent representations of the spin groups, which are double covers of the special orthogonal groups. They are usually studied over the real or complex numbers, but they can be defined over other fields.
Elements of a spin representation are called spinors. They play an important role in the physical description of fermions such as the electron.
The spin representations may be constructed in several ways, but typically the construction involves (perhaps only implicitly) the choice of a maximal isotropic subspace in the vector representation of the group. Over the real numbers, this usually requires using a complexification of the vector representation. For this reason, it is convenient to define the spin representations over the complex numbers first, and derive real representations by introducing real structures.
The properties of the spin representations depend, in a subtle way, on the dimension and signature of the orthogonal group. In particular, spin representations often admit invariant bilinear forms, which can be used to embed the spin groups into classical Lie groups. In low dimensions, these embeddings are surjective and determine special isomorphisms between the spin groups and more familiar Lie groups; this elucidates the properties of spinors in these dimensions.
Set-up
Let be a finite-dimensional real or complex vector space with a nondegenerate quadratic form . The (real or complex) linear maps preserving form the orthogonal group . The identity component of the group is called the special orthogonal group . (For real with an indefinite quadratic form, this terminology is not standard: the special orthogonal group is usually defined to be a subgroup with two components in this case.) Up to group isom
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Answers in the Form of Questions is 2020 book about Jeopardy! by American author Claire McNear.
In addition to collecting the stories of past champions and the broader history of the game, the book goes into the histories of Alex Trebek and long running champions including Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and James Holzhauer. It also goes behind the scenes on some elements of the show's production.
References
2020 non-fiction books
Jeopardy!
Little, Brown and Company books
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Richard Burgin (June 30, 1947 – October 22, 2020) was an American fiction writer, editor, composer, critic, and academic. He published nineteen books, and from 1996 through 2013 was a professor of Communications and English at Saint Louis University. He was also the founder and publisher of the internationally distributed award-winning literary magazine Boulevard.
Life and career
Richard Burgin was born June 30, 1947, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father, also named Richard Burgin, was the Concertmaster and Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his mother, Ruth Posselt, was a concert violinist, who was the first American-born woman violinist to extensively tour Russia. Both his parents were child prodigies. His sister Diana is a professor, translator, and critic of Russian literature. Burgin went to Brandeis University, where he received a B.A. He later received a Master's with highest honors from Columbia University. His first published book was a collection of interviews he conducted with the Latin American writer, Jorge Luis Borges, while Burgin was still an undergraduate. Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969) was the first book-length series of interviews with Borges in English and has been translated and published in ten foreign language editions. A substantial part of the book was reprinted in Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interviews by Melville House in 2013.
In 1975 he was one of the founding editors of the New Boston Review, now Boston Review magazine. In 1985 he published Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer, which to date has been translated into eight foreign language editions. A major part appeared as a two-part cover story in the New York Times Magazine.
His stories have received numerous prizes and awards, including five Pushcart Prizes. Among his nineteen published books, The Identity Club: New and Selected Stories and Songs (Ontario Review Press, 2005 which included a 20-song d
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Colonel John Henry "Johnny" Bevan (5 April 1894 – 3 December 1978) was a British Army officer who, during the Second World War, made an important contribution to military deception, culminating in Operation Bodyguard, the plan to conceal the D-Day landings in Normandy. In civilian life he was a respected stockbroker in his father's firm.
Bevan had an upper-class upbringing, including an education at Eton and Oxford. During the First World War he fought with the Hertfordshire Regiment in France and later became involved with intelligence analysis. His latter work came to the attention of wartime leaders, including Winston Churchill. Bevan stayed in the army for a while following the end of the war, and then took up a career in stock brokerage. He joined his father's firm, got married, and built up his profile as an honest businessman.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Bevan was recalled to his Territorial Army regiment and assigned as a staff officer during the early campaigns in Norway. In 1941 he was seconded to the London Controlling Section (LCS), a department set up to oversee strategic deception planning for the Allies. Oliver Stanley, the LCS's previous head, was in the process of returning to politics so Bevan was given command of the unit.
Upon his arrival the LCS was struggling to maintain its authority against the armed forces establishment. Bevan and his deputy, Dennis Wheatley, used their social connections (and a broad charter from high command) to enable the department to put plans into operation. In 1943 Bevan helped establish Ops (B) (a deception department within COSSAC) and plan Operation Cockade. Intended to tie up German forces in western Europe, the operation was not a success. However, building on the lessons learned from Cockade (and from Dudley Clarke in the Mediterranean) Bevan created Operation Bodyguard, which historians agree contributed to the success of the Operation Overlord landings in 1944.
Early life
Bevan was born in Lo
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Robert James "Jim" Schoppert (May 28, 1947 – September 2, 1992) was an Tlingit Alaska Native artist and educator. His work includes woodcarving, painting, poetry, and essays. He has been described as an innovator, whose works pushed the boundaries of what was expected from Northwest Coast art.
Throughout his career he spoke on behalf of Alaska Native artists and visual artists in general. He taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) as a guest professor and gave presentations and lectures at elementary schools throughout the states of Alaska and Washington.
Early life
Schoppert was born in Juneau, Alaska to a father of German descent and a Tlingit ( or ) mother.
Career
In 1973, Schoppert came to Anchorage for a construction job which, it turned out, was no longer available. On February 26 of that year, using the last of his money, he bought a piece of soapstone and carved an owl. He put it up for sale at the urging of his sister and was able to sell it quickly, which marked the formal beginning of his career as an artist. Understanding that knowledge was important, he went on to earn a BFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a MFA from the University of Washington. But "his apprenticeship was with himself" according to Steven Brown, associate curator at the Seattle Art Museum. Continuing to produce work while still an undergraduate, he won first place in the statewide Earth, Fire and Fiber juried show in 1976. This sculpture should have been an indication of things to come as it was a separation from his customary work which would define him as an artist and create controversy and curiosity in later years. Although he created art using the formline, he chose a different approach for a great deal of his work that did not neatly fit into either mainstream or Northwest Coast art. He was quoted as saying "There is tremendous pressure for conformity from collectors and scholars, who want work that fits into the classic definition of Northwest Indian
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The Alpha Terrace Historic District is a historic district in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The site consists of twenty-five stone rowhouses, which were built between 1889 and 1894 using a heterogeneous mix of Queen Anne and Romanesque revival architectural influences. Until they were subdivided and individually sold in the 1950s, the properties were part of a single block of upper-middle-class rental units; for a time, U.S. Steel leased a number of the homes for use by corporate executives.
The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 1985. In 1979, it was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks, and in January 1996, the district was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations.
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Historic districts in Pittsburgh
City of Pittsburgh historic designations
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Pittsburgh
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The 1968 South Australian state election was held on 2 March 1968.
Retiring Members
Labor
Frank Walsh, MHA (Edwardstown)
Liberal and Country
Percy Quirke, MHA (Burra)
George Bockelberg, MHA (Eyre)
Thomas Playford, MHA (Gumeracha)
Howard Shannon, MHA (Onkaparinga)
James Heaslip, MHA (Rocky River)
House of Assembly
Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.
Legislative Council
Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour and identified by an asterisk (*).
References
Candidates for South Australian state elections
1960 elections in Australia
1960s in South Australia
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Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill VA (née Conyngham; 1 June 1826 – 24 December 1900) was an English aristocrat and companion of Queen Victoria.
From 1854 to her death, Churchill served as a Lady of the Bedchamber to Victoria; this made her the longest serving member of the queen's personal household. Her role mainly extended to accompanying the queen on her travels and acting as her intermediary in the royal household. Despite her long service, little is known of the details of Lady Churchill's personal life and time serving the queen, for she left no journals or memoirs. Her marriage to Francis Spencer, 2nd Baron Churchill produced one son.
Early life and marriage
Lady Jane Conyngham was born on 1 June 1826, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Mount Charles (later 2nd Marquess Conyngham) and his wife Lady Jane Paget, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey. The younger Jane had two brothers and three sisters. On 19 May 1849, Lady Jane Conyngham married Francis Spencer; he had succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Churchill in 1845. Baron Churchill spent his early years serving in the diplomatic service, and later commanded the Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry. He died on 24 November 1886. They had one son, Victor Spencer (later 1st Viscount Churchill), who was born on 23 October 1864.
Lady of the Bedchamber
Churchill was a devoted friend and trusted advisor of Queen Victoria. Churchill's father had been one of the men in attendance on Victoria's predecessor, William IV, and in 1854 Churchill was appointed as a Lady of the Bedchamber, a position that required her to accompany Victoria to ceremonies and public engagements. Churchill was to hold the position until her death forty-six years later, making her the longest-serving member of the queen's personal household. She was a member of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, Third Class.
The author Greg King describes Churchill as "undoubtedly the most powerful and influential" of the queen's female appointees. One of h
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Kutta is a small village in Ponnampet taluk of Kodagu, in Karnataka state of India. As per census survey 2011, location code number of Kutta is 618078.
Location
Kutta is the southern tip of Kodagu district. It is located at a distance of 86 kms from district headquarters, Madikeri and 32 kms from taluk headquarters, Ponnampet on SH-89 and 260 kms from state capital, Bengaluru.
Geography
Kutta is situated at an elevation of above MSL. The village is bounded by Coffee plantation and Paddy fields to the north, Brahmagiri Mountain Range to the west, Nagarahole to the east and Tholpetty wildlife Sanctuary of Wayanad district to the south. It experiences an annual rainfall of about . Kutta is situated on SH-89 of Karnataka and no major state highway of Kerala is connected to Kutta. Mananthavady (28 kms) and Kalpetta (52 kms) are the two major towns of Kerala, near to Kutta.
National Park and Safari
Kutta (Nanchhi Gate) is one of the three entry points to Nagarhole National Park, the other two being Veeranahosalli Gate and Karmadu Gate (Balele-Mysore Road), the latter does not host safari. The Tholpetty wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala, lies south of Kutta village.
Post Office
Kutta has a post office. The pincode is 571250.
Tourist attractions
Pakshi Pathalam is a hillock near Kutta which can be reached by trekking seven kilometers from Thirunelli temple. There is a cave on the hillock with many bird species.
Iruppu Falls
Kabini backwaters
Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary
White water rafting, Barapole river
Tadiandamol
Banasura Sagar Dam
Banasura Hill
Chembra Peak
SAI Sanctuary
Transportation & Connectivity
Kutta bus station is a terminal for both Karnataka buses and Kerala buses. There is a jeep stand at the end of the street.
Nearest Railway stations are Thalassery railway station (106 kms) and Mysuru Junction railway station (120 kms). Nearest International Airports are Kannur International Airport (106 kms), Calicut International Airport (135 kms) and Mang
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"Operation Time" is the sixth episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by their company Century 21 Productions. Written by Richard Conway and Stephen J. Mattick and directed by Ken Turner, it was first broadcast on 17 November 1967 on ATV Midlands.
Set in 2068, the series depicts a "war of nerves" between Earth and the Mysterons: a race of Martians with the power to create functioning copies of destroyed people or objects and use them to carry out acts of aggression against humanity. Earth is defended by a military organisation called Spectrum, whose top agent, Captain Scarlet, was killed by the Mysterons and replaced by a reconstruction that subsequently broke free of their control. Scarlet's double has a self-healing power that enables him to recover from injuries that would be fatal to anyone else, making him Spectrum's best asset in its fight against the Mysterons.
The plot of "Operation Time" sees the Mysterons threaten to "kill time", confusing Spectrum until the target is found to be a military general who is about to undergo experimental neurosurgery. The episode uncovers two weaknesses in the Mysterons that are explored further in "Spectrum Strikes Back".
Plot
When the Mysterons (voiced by Donald Gray) bizarrely threaten to "kill time", Colonel White (voiced by Donald Gray) sends the Spectrum captains to major cities to watch for potential targets. No promising intelligence surfaces until Captain Magenta (voiced by Gary Files) discovers that the Commander of Western Region World Defence, General J.F. Tiempo – whose surname means "time" in Spanish – is at a clinic in England to undergo neurosurgery. Believing that Tiempo's life is in danger, White has him flown to Cloudbase with his surgeon, Dr Magnus, who insists that the operation – to be carried out with the aid of a pioneering medical device called the "cerebral pulsator" – go ahead as planned. White re
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Bai Shouyi (; February 1909 – March 21, 2000), also known as Djamal al-Din Bai Shouyi, was a Chinese ethnologist, historian, social activist, and writer who revolutionized recent Chinese historiography and pioneered in relying heavily on scientific excavations and reports. A Marxist philosophically, his studies thus take a very class-centric view and reasoning.
Born a son of a Hui merchant in Kaifeng, he became literate in Arabic from his mother and aunt.
Bai argued for the need for increased awareness of Islam and Muslims by the Chinese population in general in 1937, since Muslims numbered 50 million in China alone and western works were the only works available for non-Muslim Chinese to study Muslims living right with them in China. He said Muslims in Western China could either stand as a "defensive wall" or "hinder ...national defence", depending on whether conduct to them was good or bad.
He died in Beijing at the age of 91.
See also
Chinese history
References
Bai Shouyi et al. (2003). A History of Chinese Muslim. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company. . Cover page.
1909 births
2000 deaths
20th-century Chinese historians
Chinese ethnographers
Chinese Muslims
Historians from Henan
Hui people
Writers from Kaifeng
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The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Argentina 2011 took place on 11 October 2011 at 20:00 hrs (Argentine Time) in the Microestadio Malvinas Argentinas in the city of Buenos Aires. Nicolás Vázquez was presented as host. The nominees were presented on 22 August 2011 for 14 categories. Pro-social Award was presented to the Foundation of Southern Ideas Marcelo Tinelli and the lifetime achievement award was given to Cris Morena .
The musical performances during the awards were telecasts Teen Angels. that carry out the single "Que Llegue tu Voz" and "Mirame, Mirate" from their album TeenAngels 5. Dulce Maria, Tan Bionica and Sueña conmigo of performances during the telecast of the event, and each sang a medley of some of his latest hits.
As in previous years, voting was conducted online through the official website of the program. In addition, the network of Facebook page also can vote through Facebook accounts 'fans' first channel.
Background
The editing in Argentina was confirmed in early 2011. Original event earlier this year, but Nickelodeon then confirmed that the show take place after the 2011 Kids Choice Awards Mexico. In August 2011 it was confirmed that the presenter would be Nicolás Vázquez.
Hosts
Nicolás Vázquez
Announcer
Roger (fictional character Nickelodeon)
Performers
The cast of Sueña conmigo ("Sueña Conmigo")
Dulce María ("Ya No")
Tan Bionica ("Ella")
Teen Angels ("Que Llegue tu Voz" and "Mirame, Mirate")
Presenters
Agustín Almeyda
Roger González
María del Cerro
Guido Kaczka
Valeria Baroni
Gabo Ramos
Benjamín Amadeo
Vanessa Leiro
Brenda Asnicar
Franco Massini
Juan Ciancio
MR
Valeria Gastaldi
Evaluna Montaner
Eiza González
Guido Penneli
Favio Posca
Lucia Precul
Santiago Ramundo
Griselda Siciliani
María Eugenia Suárez
Gastón Vietto
Pablo Martínez
Candela Vetrano
Matías Martin
Categories
Newcomer on TV
Favourite Actor
Favourite Actress
Athlete of the Year
Favourite Latin Singer or Band
Favourite International Singer
Favourite Song
Favourit
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John George Robinson CBE, (30 July 1856 – 7 December 1943) was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Central Railway from 1900 to 1922.
Early life
Born at Newcastle upon Tyne, the second son of Matthew Robinson, a locomotive engineer, and his wife Jane, Robinson was educated at the Chester Grammar School, and in 1872 commenced an engineering apprenticeship with the Great Western Railway at Swindon Works, as a pupil of Joseph Armstrong. In 1878 he became assistant to his father Matthew Robinson at Bristol, and in 1884 joined the Waterford and Limerick Railway (which became the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway in 1896) as their locomotive, carriage and wagon assistant superintendent. He was promoted to superintendent the following year.
Great Central Railway
In 1900 Robinson joined the Great Central Railway as locomotive and marine superintendent and in 1902 was appointed chief mechanical engineer. He remained in that post until 1922, when prior to the Great Central's grouping into the London and North Eastern Railway he declined the post of chief mechanical engineer of the LNER, choosing instead to step aside for the younger Nigel Gresley. Robinson was awarded a CBE in 1920.
Robinson's first passenger locomotive design for the GCR was Class 11B (LNER Class D9) 4-4-0, of which 40 were built between 1901 and 1904, the last being withdrawn by British Railways in 1950. Robinson followed in 1913 with the larger Class 11E (LNER D10) "Director" Class 4-4-0 locomotive, which was used on GCR express trains from London Marylebone to Sheffield Victoria and Manchester London Road. Ten were built, followed by eleven "Improved Director" (GCR Class 11F, LNER Class D11) locomotives during 1920–1924.
Robinson's famous GCR Class 8K 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotive was introduced in 1911 and many more were built for the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers in 1917. Some of these reliable locomotives, of which over 400 were bu
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Adam de Senlis (died 1191), also called Adam of Evesham, was a Benedictine monk who became abbot of Evesham Abbey.
Adam de Senlis was a monk of Notre Dame de la Charité-sur-Loire, Nièvre, afterwards joined to Cluny, and became prior of Bermondsey Abbey in 1157, and for that monastery he obtained important privileges in 1160 from Henry II. In 1161 he was made Abbot of Evesham Abbey, where he completed the cloister, finished St. Egwine's shrine, glazed many of the windows, and made an aqueduct. He obtained the right to use episcopal ornaments in 1163, Evesham being the first abbey which obtained the use of the mitre for its abbot. In 1162 he was one of the papal commissioners for delivering the pall to Archbishop Thomas. He died 12 November 1191.
According to John Leland, he was the author of:
Exhortatio ad Sacras Virgines Godestovensis Cœnobii
De miraculo Eucharistiæ ad Rainaldum
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Year of birth unknown
1191 deaths
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Carlo Monti (24 March 1920 – 7 April 2016) was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He won two medals, one individual and one relay, in international athletics competitions.
Biography
Monte competed for an Italy in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his teammates Michele Tito, Enrico Perucconi and Antonio Siddi. In 1946 in the European Championships Monti won the bronze medal in the 100 metres.
Olympic results
National titles
Carlo Monti has won 8 times the individual national championship.
4 wins in the 100 metres (1940, 1941, 1946, 1947)
4 wins in the 200 metres (1941, 1942, 1946, 1949)
See also
Italy national relay team
References
External links
1920 births
2016 deaths
Athletes from Milan
Italian male sprinters
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Italian Athletics Championships winners
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The Battle of Caulk's Field was fought during the War of 1812 in Kent County, Maryland between a small British Army force commanded by Captain Sir Peter Parker and American militia forces commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Philip Reed. Parker, who was operating in the Chesapeake Bay region as part of the British campaign against Baltimore, Maryland, landed on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay to move against Reed's militia encampment. The British attacking force encountered American skirmishers, who conducting a fighting retreat, drawing the British towards the main American line. Parker was mortally wounded during the fight, and the British force withdrew after Parker fell. Later British setbacks at the Battle of North Point and the Battle of Fort McHenry led the British to abandon their campaign against Baltimore. In 2012, the battlefield was the site of an archaeological survey.
Background
In 1814, as part of the War of 1812, Major General Robert Ross of the British Army moved a force into the Chesapeake Bay. Ross' subordinates, Vice Admirals Sir Alexander Cochrane and Sir George Cockburn of the Royal Navy, were in charge of naval actions in the Chesapeake Bay. In late August, Captain Sir Peter Parker of the frigate was sent in the direction of Baltimore, Maryland as a diversion with the intent of drawing American troops away from the Washington, D.C. area. Parker's orders also included raiding the rural areas along the coast of the bay. On August 24, British troops defeated an American force at the Battle of Bladensburg, which opened the path to Washington. The British then burned the American capital. After the destruction of Washington, the British then focused on attacking Baltimore. Parker, who was still operating in the northern portion of the Chesapeake Bay, learned that American militia were encamped near Georgetown, Maryland on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
Battle
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A.J. Carruthers is an Australian-born literary critic and experimental poet.
Biography
A.J. Carruthers (also aj carruthers) was born in Sydney, and is of mixed/Asian heritage. Since 2011, he has been writing a long poem called AXIS. His critical work has focused on North American and contemporary Australian poetry and poetics. He is an editor of Southerly, Rabbit Poetry Journal and the founder of SOd press.
Published works
Books
Stave Sightings: Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems, 1961–2011 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
AXIS Book 1: Areal (Tokyo: Vagabond Press, 2014)
Opus 16 on Tehching Hsieh (Oakland, CA: GaussPDF, 2016)
Ode to On Kawara (Buffalo, NY: Hysterically Real, 2016)
The Tulip Beds: A Toneme Suite (Tokyo: Vagabond Press, 2013
Anthologies
Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2013)
Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Berkeley, CA: Tuumba and Giramondo Press, 2016)
Exhibitions
Selected Works (Non-Objective Writing, SNO Contemporary Art Projects)
References
External links
Biography and list of works at Austlit: the Australian Literature Resource
Biography at Poetry and Poetics (Western Sydney University Writing Society)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Poets from Sydney
Australian literary critics
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American teacher and poet. Some of his poems are "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. He was one of the five Fireside Poets. He was one of the most influential persons in the culture of the 1800s in the USA.
Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine and studied at Bowdoin College. He then spent time in Europe. He returned and became a professor at Bowdoin and, later, at Harvard College. His first major books of poetry were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854 to spend more time writing. He lived the rest of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, living in George Washington's old headquarters building. His first wife, Mary Potter, died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife, Frances Appleton, died in 1861 after her dress caught fire. Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time after she died. He mostly worked on his translation. He died in 1882.
Longfellow mainly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality. His poems often told stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet while he was alive. He was also successful in other countries. Some criticized him for imitating European styles and for writing poems for everyday people. In 1884, Longfellow became the first non-British writer for whom a commemorative bust was placed in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey in London. He is the only American poet represented with a bust.
Early life
Longfellow was born in Maine. One of his grandfathers was a state Senator and the other grandfather had been a Revolutionary War general and a Congressman. Then following his graduation in 1826 from Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow went to Europe to study.
When he returned to the United States three years
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Claude "Screwy" Maddox (1901 – June 21, 1958), born John Edward Moore, was a Chicago mobster and head of the Circus Cafe Gang whose ranks included future Chicago mobsters Anthony "Tough Tony" Capezio, Vincenzo De Mora ("Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, one-time owner of the "Green Mill") and Antonino "Tony" "Joe Batters" Accardo.
Maddox was a member of a gang called Egan's Rats in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, which was absorbed by Alphonse "Big Al," "Scarface" Capone's gang, the Chicago Outfit. During Prohibition, the Circus Cafe Gang was the single North Side organization allied with Capone's Chicago Outfit. A suspect in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Maddox was believed to be involved in at least the early planning stages of the attack. In January 1929, the police discovered Maddox hiding in a vacant building near his West North Avenue headquarters with a drum full of ammunition for Thompson submachine guns as well as a dozen overcoats strewn about the room (inside one of the coats, a loaded .45 pistol was found). It was speculated that a nearby garage (at 1723 North Wood St.) was used to "torch cut" one of the getaway cars used in the massacre, however it later caught fire and exploded. Although initially held in custody, Maddox was later released, having been in court on an unrelated charge during the time of the massacre.
Although the gang was reduced to a satellite by the end of Prohibition, Maddox himself held a high position in the Chicago syndicate until his death in 1958, in his Riverside home, from a heart attack. His funeral was attended by The Outfit heavy hitters and FBI surveillance.
Further reading
Binder, John. The Chicago Outfit. Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
Hucke, Matt and Ursula Bielski. Graveyards of Chicago:: The People, History, Art, and Love of Cook County Cemeteries. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 1999.
Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and Times of Al Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003.
Parr, Amanda Jayne. The True and Complete Stor
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In this Chinese name, the family name is Zong.
Zong Qixiang (Chinese: 宗其香; pinyin: zōng qí xiāng; 1917 – 29 December 1999) was a Chinese painter and a disciple of Xu Beihong.
All one's life
Born in Nanjing, Jiangsu in 1917. In 1943, he graduated from the Art Department of National Central University. In 1946, he followed Xu Beihong to Beiping as a lecturer at the National Beiping Art College. After 1953, he served as a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, director of the teaching and research section of watercolor painting, and director of the landscape department of the Department of Chinese Painting. Member of China Artists Association.
References
External links
Guilin Library of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (page archive backup, stored in Internet Archives)
1917 births
1999 deaths
Chinese painters
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Albert Hartl (1904–1982) was a former Catholic priest in Germany who joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) in 1933 and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, an intelligence agency) the following year.
Early life and education
Hartl studied for the priesthood from 1916 to 1929 at a seminary in Freising and the University of Munich. He was ordained in 1929 by the Archbishop of Munich Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber and began teaching, including at the Freising seminary.
Career with SD
While teaching at Friesing, Hartl became involved with a group of priests who had joined the Nazi Party, and in 1933 he signed up as a paid SD informant. He reported Father Josef Rossberger, apparently his best friend, for anti-Nazi activity, which led to Rossberger's trial and imprisonment, and Hartl becoming a protégé of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SD. Consequently Hartl renounced the priesthood and joined the SD himself. In 1935, according to Gitta Sereny, he became the SD's Chief of Church Information, and was tasked with the collection of information about party members that had close association with the church and collecting information from them. In March 1941, when the Reich Security Head Office was reorganized, he was placed in charge of a Gestapo office known as IV B ("Sects"). Department IV B4, led by Adolf Eichmann, was the office responsible for the deportation of Jews outside Poland.
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1982 deaths
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Holocaust perpetrators
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The Braddock expedition, also called Braddock's campaign or (more commonly) Braddock's Defeat, was a British military expedition which attempted to capture Fort Duquesne (established in 1754, located in what is now downtown Pittsburgh) from the French in the summer of 1755, during the French and Indian War of 1754 to 1763. The British troops suffered defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, 1755, and the survivors retreated. The expedition takes its name from General Edward Braddock (1695–1755), who led the British forces and died in the effort. Braddock's defeat was a major setback for the British in the early stages of the war with France; John Mack Faragher characterises it as one of the most disastrous defeats for the British in the 18th century.
Background
Braddock's expedition was part of a massive British offensive against the French in North America that summer. As commander-in-chief of the British Army in America, General Braddock led the main thrust against the Ohio Country with a column some 2,100 strong. His command consisted of two regular line regiments, the 44th and 48th, in all 1,400 regular soldiers and 700 provincial troops from several British American colonies, and artillery and other support troops. With these men, Braddock expected to seize Fort Duquesne easily, and then push on to capture a series of French forts, eventually reaching Fort Niagara. George Washington, promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Virginia Regiment on June 4, 1754 by Governor Robert Dinwiddie, was then just 23, knew the territory and served as a volunteer aide-de-camp to General Braddock. Braddock's Chief of Scouts was Lieutenant John Fraser of the Virginia Regiment. Fraser owned land at Turtle Creek, had been at Fort Necessity, and had served as Second-in-Command at Fort Prince George (renamed Fort Duquesne by the French), at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers.
Braddock mostly failed in his attempts to recruit Native American allies from
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Snow golf is a sport based on golf but played over snow (or ice) instead of grass. The "greens" are called "whites" and have a maintained snow or ice surface.
It should not be confused with Crackgar, a form of snow golf belonging to the indigenous tribes living in Kalash Valley in Chitral, Pakistan.
History
Evidence for golf as a popular winter pastime in Holland can be seen in numerous 17th-century paintings by renowned artists Aert van der Neer and Hendrick Avercamp. There is also evidence that golf was practiced on snow and ice in Scotland.
Snow golf (ice golf)
A high quality course is constructed each winter in Jämijärvi. A forested nine-hole course known for its 480 meters par-5 hole, tries to emulate the conditions of the summer game to a high degree. It also caters to events such as the Aalto University competition organized in 2011
Recurring events
The annual World Ice Golf Championship has been held on the world's northernmost golf course on the shelf ice near Uummannaq, Greenland since 1997. The course is reformed by the moving ice every year and play is highly dependent on weather conditions and thus, has been canceled several years running. Competitors are allowed a maximum handicap of 36. Clubs with graphite shafts are not recommended, as they can shatter in the extreme temperatures.
A Snow Golf Championship in Argentina has been held in Cerro Castor, Ushuaia since 2008, by José M. García Daroca.
A Snowgolf World Championship for amateurs was held in January 2007 in Abtenau, Austria. The event is hosted as a major Austrian celebrity event and sponsored by the state of Salzburg as part of the touristic scheme. Another Snowgolf World Championship took place in Obertauern, Austria. The new women's World Champion was Sarah Hölzl (Austria).
Another European championship event in snow golf was held in Switzerland during January 13–16, 2011. Seventy-two qualifiers were entitled to play the two-day tournament.
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The 2020 Intrust Super Cup was the PNG Hunters seventh season in the Queensland Cup after securing their future with a four year license from 2019 until 2022. A 28 man squad was announced for the season. However the 2020 QRL season was suspended on 17 March after Round 1 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Season Summary
2020 squad
Squad movement
Gains
Losses
Ladder
The team highlighted in blue has clinched the minor premiership
Teams highlighted in green have qualified for the finals
The team highlighted in red has clinched the wooden spoon
Fixtures
Pre-season
Regular season
Statistics
Honours
References
Queensland Cup
2020 in Australian rugby league
2020 in rugby league by club
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Hu Yuzhi (; September 9, 1896 – January 16, 1986) was a Chinese politician who served as a vice chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the acting chairman of the China Democratic League.
References
1896 births
1986 deaths
Chairpersons of the China Democratic League
Vice Chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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Philemon Majok Kuong (1905–1982) was a South Sudanese politician who advocated for Sudan unity. Majok was born in Ador, Yirol, with a Nuer father and a Dinka Ciec mother. He achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant in the British Police Force during Anglo-Egyptian rule. During World War II, he fought for the British in Ethiopia. Majok's post-war contributions included urban planning and tree planting in Lakes State.
In 1947, Majok represented the Lakes District at a conference, initially opposing a united legislative assembly for Sudan but later supporting it. Majok established a successful farm in Magreng, aiding during the 1954 famine. He served in various political roles, including Minister of Mechanical Transport and founding the Sudan Unity Party in 1964. He was a member of the Sovereignty Council and founded the Sudanese Nile Party. He was elected to the House of Representatives until the 1969 coup, he was later detained by Jaafar Nimeiry.
Majok retired from politics in 1971, managing the Yirol Oil Factory and serving as the President of Yirol Bench Court.
Early life
Philemon Majok Kuong was born in 1905 in Ador, a town located approximately 24 miles northeast of Yirol. His father was Nuer, hailing from Nyuöng, and his mother was Dinka Ciec from Ador. His father had sought refuge in Yirol to escape British persecution.
As a young boy, Majok completed his education at Malek Elementary School (1912–1916) in Bor and later attended Loka Intermediate School.
Police and army career
In 1933, he joined the British Police Force and rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant, the highest rank attainable by a Sudanese individual under colonial rule.
During World War II, he fought on behalf of the British against the Italians in Ethiopia. After the war, he was assigned to administrative duties in the Lakes State, where he organised urban planning and tree planting in Rumbek and Yirol.
Political career
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Aldama Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. The municipal seat is Aldama, Chiapas.
Demographics
As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 8,480, up from 3,635 as of 2005.
As of 2020, the town of Aldama had a population of 2,279.
Localities
Other than the town of Aldama, the municipality had 20 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000.
References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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The View from the Seventh Layer is a collection of 13 short stories by American author Kevin Brockmeier. The stories' genres include fables, science fiction, fairy tales, and a choose-your-own-adventure story. Each of the stories ties to the theme of considering big life questions through ordinary characters and ordinary problems.
Stories
A Fable Ending in the Sound of a Thousand Parakeets
The View from the Seventh Layer
The Lives of the Philosophers
The Year of Silence
A Fable with a Photograph of a Glass Mobile on the Wall
Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth
The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story
The Lady with the Pet Tribble
A Fable Containing a Reflection the Size of a Match Head in Its Pupil
Home Videos
The Air Is Full of Little Holes
Andrea Is Changing Her Name
A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets
References
American short story collections
2008 short story collections
Pantheon Books books
Speculative fiction short story collections
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The Prinzenpalais is a palace, now used as an art museum, in the city of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. The museum houses the modern art collection of the State Museum for Art and Cultural History.
The building dates from 1826 and is in the classical style. It was the residence of the Russian princes Alexander and Peter. Subsequently Grand Duke Niklaus Friedrich Peter occupied the building. In 2003, it became part of the State Museum of Art and Cultural History (with the Augusteum and Schloss Oldenburg) and is an art gallery. The museum concentrates on German artists, ranging from neoclassicism and Romanticism in the mid-19th century to the post-1945 era. The Prinzenpalais building is near the northeast corner of the Schlossgarten Oldenburg. The Augusteum, Elisabeth-Anna-Palais, and Schloss Oldenburg are all close to the museum.
See also
Augusteum (Oldenburg), another art gallery close to the Prinzenpalais
List of visitor attractions in Oldenburg
State Museum for Art and Cultural History
References
External links
1826 establishments in Germany
Buildings and structures completed in 1826
Art museums established in 2003
Buildings and structures in Oldenburg (city)
Tourist attractions in Oldenburg (city)
Museums in Lower Saxony
Art museums and galleries in Germany
Classicist architecture in Germany
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was an important Japanese plant biochemist and microbiologist. He is notable for mid-twentieth century research he did on the thermodynamics of the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis.
Life
Tamiya was a student of Keita Shibata, a plant physiologist, as a student at Tokyo University. Andrew Benson, who was instrumental in understanding carbon fixation in plants considered Tamiya inspirational in his own success as a scientist. Tamiya worked and studied in Japan, Europe, and the United States, collaborating internationally with a variety of scientists.
After World War II, during the Allied Occupation of Japan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Harry C. Kelly selected Tamiya to assist him in evaluating scientific research in Japan. The mission was largely in response to the destruction of cyclotrons by the United States Army acting out of fear the Japanese had been researching and developing a nuclear weapon during the war. One of the cyclotrons destroyed was an instrument that Tamiya required for his research.
In 1953 Tamiya, working with other Japanese scientists, developed techniques for the synchronous culture of the green algae Chlorella, a model organism used by Otto Heinrich Warburg whom Tamiya admired. Tamiya was able with it to culture algal cell lines that were all in the same developmental stage, a technique used by later scientists to decipher the life cycles of other single celled eukaryotic organisms.
In 1966 Tamiya was made a foreign associate member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 1977 he was given the Japanese Order of Culture for his contributions to science in Japan.
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20th-century Japanese botanists
American phycologists
Japanese phycologists
1903 births
1984 deaths
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
20th-century American botanists
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Gregorio Selser (July 2, 1922 — August 27, 1991) was an Argentine journalist and historian. He published an extensive bibliography critical of globalization, imperialism, and covert operations implemented by the CIA in Latin America, in particular.
Selser was born in Buenos Aires. He earned a degree in journalism at the University of Buenos Aires, and in 1955, was hired by the Uruguayan weekly journal, Marcha, as its chief Argentine correspondent. That year, he published his first book, a biography on Nicaraguan nationalist Augusto Sandino. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1956, and joined the editorial board of La Prensa. Selser joined the IPS news agency in 1964.
He and his family left Argentina following the March 1976 coup, and was hired as researcher by the Latin American Institute of Latin American Studies (ILET). His three daughters, Irene, Gabriela and Claudia Selser, each became journalists in their own right.
Selser was recognized by critics as "a Latin Americanist committed to freedom and justice." His books covered a wide array of contentious Latin American issues and events, including the 1903 Separation of Panama from Colombia, the installation of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Alliance for Progress, the 1964 overthrow of Dominican Republic President Juan Bosch and the subsequent U.S. occupation, the 1973 coup in Chile, psy-ops carried out in Latin America, the 1980 Cocaine Coup in Bolivia, the Salvadoran Civil War, the 1989 Operation Just Cause, and other topics.
Selser would be afflicted with a terminal illness, and he committed suicide in Mexico City in 1991.
Works
Sandino, general de hombres libres. Buenos Aires: Pueblos Unidos de América, 1955.
Situación político-social de América Latina (informe de la FUA. Buenos Aires: Perrot, 1957.
El pequeño ejército loco: Operación México-Nicaragua. Editorial Triángulo, Buenos Aires: 1958.
Sandino, general de hombres libres (versión definitiva ampliada en dos to
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"Grace, Replaced" is the eighteenth episode of the first season of the American television series Will & Grace. It was written by Katie Palmer and directed by series producer James Burrows. The episode originally aired on NBC in the United States on April 8, 1999. Actors Molly Shannon, Leigh-Allyn Baker, and Tom Gallop guest starred on "Grace, Replaced".
In the episode, Grace's (Debra Messing) job forces her to work overtime, which leads to Will (Eric McCormack) feeling neglected. As a result, he seeks solace in the company of a new neighbor, Val (Shannon). Meanwhile, Jack (Sean Hayes) is annoyed that he has to perform community service for assaulting a meter maid.
Before the airing, NBC moved the program to Thursdays at 8:30 p.m., after it was a success in the Tuesday lineup. "Grace, Replaced" was the first episode to debut on the Thursday slot. Since then, the episode has generally received positive reviews from television critics. According to the Nielsen ratings system, it was watched by 12.9 million viewers, which resulted in the episode attracting its highest ratings of the season.
Plot
Will (Eric McCormack) feels neglected by his best friend, Grace (Debra Messing), as she spends a lot of time with her work. When Will calls Grace to confirm for a lunch date, Grace cannot go as she is too busy creating interior designs. Later, while doing his laundry, Will meets his new upstairs neighbor, Val (Molly Shannon). Immediately, the two take a liking to one another. The next day, Will visits Grace at work and introduces Val to her. After the two leave, Karen (Megan Mullally)—Grace's friend and socialite assistant—tells Grace that she did not like the way Will and Val acted towards one another. Grace, however, refuses to accept what Karen implies.
Meanwhile, after slapping a meter maid, Jack (Sean Hayes) is ordered to work 40 hours of community service, picking up garbage, and while he does this is forced to wear an orange jumpsuit. While doing community service he
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The 1966 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 29th year with the National Football League and the 21st season in Los Angeles.
The Rams had an 8–6 record, their first winning season since 1958, and only their second since 1955, when the Rams went all the way to the NFL Championship Game. Los Angeles finished in third place in the Western Conference, four games behind the Green Bay Packers. The Rams were led by first-year head coach George Allen, who was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
Roster
Schedule
A bye week was necessary in , as the league expanded to an odd-number (15) of teams (Atlanta); one team was idle each week.
Game summaries
Week 1
Standings
References
Los Angeles Rams
Los Angeles Rams seasons
Los Angeles Rams
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Social Manias are mass movements which periodically sweep through societies. They are characterized by an outpouring of enthusiasm, mass involvement and millenarian goals. Social Manias are contagious social epidemics, and as such they should be differentiated from mania in individuals.
Social Manias come in different sizes and strengths. Some social Manias fail to 'catch fire', while others persist for hundreds of years (although sometimes in severely attenuated form). Common to all is a vision of salvation, a new way of life, which if realized would radically change everyday life, ushering in a new world of freedom and justice.
Examples
The Taiping Rebellion is an excellent illustration, as it was both widespread and destructive and has no modern adherents to whom its use as an example would be a distraction. The Ghost dance which was briefly embraced by Native Americans of the Great Plains in 1890 is another excellent example which may be viewed in some historical perspective, as may The Crusades. Almost any form of religion could be argued to be a long-standing social mania, many of which have persisted through thousands of years.
See also
Moral panic
Social panic
References
Further reading
Jessica Stern, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, Harpercollins, August, 2003, hardcover, 400 pages,
Social movements
Social phenomena
Mass psychogenic illness
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The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi were held on November 8, 2016, to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Mississippi, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on March 8.
Overview
Statewide
By district
Results of the 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi by district:
District 1
Incumbent Republican Trent Kelly, who had represented the district since 2015 ran for re-election. He won a special election to replace the late Alan Nunnelee with 70% of the vote in 2015 and the district had a PVI of R+16.
Republican primary
Candidates
Nominee
Trent Kelly, incumbent U.S. Representative
Eliminated in primary
Paul Clever
Results
Democratic primary
Candidates
Nominee
Jacob Owens
General election
Results
District 2
Incumbent Democrat Bennie Thompson, who had represented the district since 1993, ran for re-election. He won re-election with 68% of the vote in 2014 and the district had a PVI of D+13.
Democratic primary
Candidates
Nominee
Bennie Thompson, incumbent U.S. Representative
Republican primary
Candidates
Nominee
John Boule II
Results
General election
Results
District 3
Incumbent Republican Gregg Harper, who had represented the district since 2009, ran for re-election. He won re-election with 69% of the vote in 2014 and the district had a PVI of R+14.
Republican primary
Candidates
Nominee
Gregg Harper, incumbent U.S. Representative
Eliminated in primary
Jimmy Giles
Results
Democratic primary
Candidates
Nominee
Dennis C. Quinn, candidate for this seat in 2014
Eliminated in primary
Nathan Stewart
Results
General election
Results
District 4
Incumbent Republican Steven Palazzo, who had represented the dis
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The 1997 MAAC men's basketball tournament was held March 1–3 at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York.
Eighth-seeded Fairfield made a cinderella run to win the tournament by defeating in the championship game, 78–72, to win their first MAAC men's basketball tournament.
The Stags received the conference's automatic bid to the 1997 NCAA tournament as the No. 16 seed in the East region.
Format
All eight of the conference's members participated in the tournament field. They were seeded based on regular season conference records.
All three rounds were played at a neutral site at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York.
Bracket
References
MAAC men's basketball tournament
1996–97 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball season
1997 in sports in New York (state)
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Al qunfotha is a small port in Saudi Arabia. It is located in the Tihamah area about 400 km south of Mecca. The area was used as a port for pilgrims when any political instability occurs on the normal peligri.
Ports and harbours of Saudi Arabia
Transport in the Arab League
ar:محافظة القنفذة
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Louise Dieterle Nippert (August 27, 1911 – July 23, 2012) was an American businesswoman who was owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, as well as a patron of the arts and a performer with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Cincinnati Reds
Nippert, along with her husband Louis Nippert, became majority owner of the Reds in 1973, after having an ownership interest in the team since 1966. They sold their majority ownership in 1981, though they retained a minority stake in the team, under Louise Nippert's name, until her 2012 death.
Patron of the arts
Nippert supported the arts. One of the wealthiest persons in Cincinnati, she donated $85 million in 2009 to help maintain Cincinnati's orchestra. She also sponsored the University of Cincinnati's Conservatory of Music.
A classically trained singer, Nippert was a soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 while with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1957.
She also headed the Greenacres Foundation, a non-profit organization with the goal of "[preserving] the land for the education and enjoyment of future generations."
She turned 100 in August 2011 and died in July 2012 in Indian Hill, Ohio.
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1911 births
2012 deaths
American centenarians
Cincinnati Reds owners
Major League Baseball owners
Women centenarians
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Stanley/Aley is a mixed residential and industrial neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It lies in the west-central part of the city on the south side of U.S. Route 54.
Geography
Stanley/Aley is located at (37.666111, -97.370556) at an elevation of . The neighborhood is L-shaped, wrapping around the west and south sides of neighboring McCormick. North of Harry Street, Stanley/Aley consists of the area between Southwest Boulevard in the west, Bonn Street in the east, and U.S. Route 54 in the north. It borders Delano to the northeast and Sunflower to the northwest. South of Harry Street, it consists of the area between Southwest Boulevard in the west, the Arkansas River in the east, and May Street in the south. South Central lies across the river to the east, Southwest lies to the south, and Southwest Village lies to the southwest.
Government
For the purposes of representation on the Wichita City Council, Stanley/Aley is in Council District 4.
For the purposes of representation in the Kansas Legislature, Stanley/Aley is in the 25th district of the Kansas Senate and the 86th and 95th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Education
Primary and secondary education
Wichita Public Schools operates two facilities in Stanley/Aley:
Payne Elementary School
Stanley Elementary School
Colleges and universities
The main campus of Newman University, a private Catholic university, lies immediately west of the neighborhood on West McCormick Street.
Parks and recreation
The city's Department of Park and Recreation maintains one park in the neighborhood: Aley Park. Spanning adjacent to Stanley Elementary School on South Seneca, it includes a basketball court, playgrounds, a skatepark, a swimming pool, tennis courts, and volleyball courts.
Transportation
Meridian Avenue, which runs north–south, is the primary road through Stanley/Aley. Other arterial roads include: McCormick Street, which runs east–west through the far northern part of the neighbo
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Joseph Ginat (, March 6, 1936 – 2009) was an Israeli anthropologist, author, political advisor, and soldier.
Biography
Joseph Ginat was a Sabra, a Jew born in Atarot settlement north to Jerusalem before Israel was created on May 14, 1948. Ginat's grandfather, a Levite, came to live in the Promised Land and to be buried in what he considered to be sacred soil.
Military service
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, at twelve-years-old, Ginat was given a World War I rifle and told to defend the east entry of a small Jewish village north of Jerusalem. He parachuted into the Sinai Peninsula with the Paratroopers Brigade during the Suez Crisis. Ginat fought in the battle of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967 and served as an aide-de-camp to General Moshe Dayan and a recognizant for the tank brigade.
Education and academic career
Ginat received his Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964 and his Master of Arts from Tel Aviv University in anthropology in 1970. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Utah's Department of Anthropology in 1975 submitting a dissertation entitled "A Rural Arab Community in Israel: Marriage Patterns and Woman's Status."
Ginat was an instructor at the University of Haifa from 1974 to 1975, lecturer from 1976 to 1981, senior lecturer from 1982 to 1987, and associate Professor from 1988 to 1996. He was made full Professor at The University of Haifa in 1996.
He served as a visiting professor at numerous other universities:
1970, 1972 — Visiting Instructor, University of Utah
1971, 1975 — Visiting Professor, Brigham Young University, Utah (summers)
1974-1975 — Instructor, University of Haifa, Israel
1976-1981 — Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Haifa
1978 — Visiting Professor, University of Utah (spring, summer)
1979 — Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University (summer)
1981-1982 — Visiting Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
1982-1985 — Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa
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Painting and Travel is an educational television show produced by Roger and Sarah Bansemer. It is broadcast primarily on PBS channels and has found a place in the ranks of PBS educational painting series Bob Ross and The Joy of Painting and Paint This with Jerry Yarnell. The show has aired on 176 television stations.
A typical episode begins with Sarah narrating a video tour of the filming location, which is chosen for its scenic or historic interest. The video tour ends with an introduction to Roger's painting project for the episode. Roger then demonstrates the painting process and teaches painting principles as he does so. His painting demonstration is usually interrupted by Sarah interviewing someone in the area.
Most of the paintings are seascapes and rural scenes.
Roger paints in acrylics and oils, in the impressionist style. All episodes are 30 minutes in length.
Series overview
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2011)
Season 3 (2012)
Season 4 (2012-2013)
Season 5 (2013)
Season 6 (2014)
Season 7 (2015)
Season 8 (2016)
Season 9 (2017)
Season 10 (2018)
References
External links
Roger and Sarah Bansemer's website
2011 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
American non-fiction television series
Works about painting
PBS original programming
Television series about art
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The Hergé Foundation is the official organisation that looks after the world and works of Hergé and his creation The Adventures of Tintin, along with his other comics like Quick & Flupke and Jo, Zette and Jocko. Created from Studios Hergé in 1987 by Fanny Rodwell, Hergé's widow, the Hergé Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation based in Brussels, the birthplace of the creator of Tintin. It runs Hergé's estate, the official Tintin website, and the Hergé museum.
Editions Moulinsart
The foundation has released many books on the subject of Tintin in French under the publishing name .
Awards
On 1 June 2006, the Dalai Lama bestowed the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth Award upon the Hergé Foundation, along with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The award was the Dalai Lama's recognition of Tintin in Tibet, Hergé's most personal adventure. Accepting on behalf of the Hergé Foundation, Hergé's widow Fanny Rodwell stated, "We never thought that this story of friendship would have a resonance more than 40 years later."
Rights issue
The Hergé Foundation has frequently litigated against other entities that attempted to use Tintin images. However, after Moulinsart sued Dutch fanzine Hergé Genootschap (Hergé Society) in 2012 for one million euros for publishing Tintin images without a license, a contract was unearthed whereby Hergé had assigned all the rights of his works to his original publisher Casterman in 1942. At no time has Fanny Rodwell, the widow and sole heir to the foundation, nor her husband Nick Rodwell, who manages the Tintin empire, ever challenged the agreement in the past. The court's decision means Moulinsart never owned the rights they have been asserting. "It appears, from a 1942 document ... that Hergé gave publishing rights for the books of The Adventures of Tintin to publisher Casterman, so Moulinsart is not the one to decide who can use material from the books." said the Hague court's ruling. The document came from a Hergé expe
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Pole Position is a board game published in 1989 by Piatnik.
Contents
Pole Position is a game in which each player has three cars which use cards for movement, and play is on a single lane track.
Reception
Brian Walker reviewed Pole Position for Games International magazine, and gave it 4 stars out of 5, and stated that "As the track differs each time the replay value of the game is high. There is considerable scope for strategy and for frustrating the plans of others. All in all, a fine game."
Pole Position was nominated for the 1988 Spiel des Jahres.
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Board games introduced in 1989
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Gerhart Hecker (11 September 1933 – 1 June 2023) was a Hungarian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Hecker died on 1 June 2023, at the age of 89.
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1933 births
2023 deaths
Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Hungarian male long-distance runners
Hungarian male marathon runners
Olympic athletes for Hungary
Athletes from Budapest
20th-century Hungarian people
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Sir Clive Loehnis KCMG (24 August 1902 – 23 May 1992) was a director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1960 to 1964.
Career
Loehnis was born in 1902 in Chelsea, London. His father, Herman Loehnis, was born in New York, but had become a naturalised British citizen and became a barrister.
Clive Loehnis attended Lockers Park School and then became a Royal Navy officer cadet, training at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and graduating from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He became qualified in signals in 1928 and left the Navy in 1935. In 1938 he returned to the Signals Division of the Admiralty, where he earned the silver oak leaves of a commander before retiring in 1942 and going into the Naval Intelligence Division. When he was demobilised after the war, he joined GCHQ, at that time a semi-covert division of the Foreign Office.
Loehnis was appointed deputy to Sir Eric Jones in 1954. When Jones retired in 1960, Loehis was promoted to the directorship, which he held until 1964. He was knighted in 1962.
Loehnis married Rosemary Ryder in 1929, and the marriage produced a son and a daughter. After leaving GCHQ Loehnis retired to Belgravia, where he died in May 1992.
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1902 births
1992 deaths
Directors of the Government Communications Headquarters
People educated at Lockers Park School
People from Chelsea, London
Royal Navy officers
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Wheels is the plural of wheel.
Wheels or WHEELS may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
The Wheels, a 1960s R&B and blues-influenced rock band
Wheels (Restless Heart album) (1986)
Wheels (The Road Hammers album) (2014)
Wheels (Dan Tyminski album) (2008)
Wheels, a 2006 album by Hometown News
Wheels (EP), a 2005 EP by Cake
Songs
"Wheels" (Restless Heart song), 1987
"Wheels" (The String-A-Longs song), 1960
"Wheels", a 1969 song by The Flying Burrito Brothers from their album The Gilded Palace of Sin
"Wheels", a 2004 song by Cake from their album Pressure Chief
"Wheels" (Foo Fighters song), 2009
"Wheels", a 2008 song by AC/DC from their album Black Ice
"Wheels", a song by Hüsker Dü from Everything Falls Apart
Other
Wheels (novel), by Arthur Hailey
"Wheels" (Adventure Time), a 2017 episode of Adventure Time
"Wheels" (Glee), a television episode
Helen Wheels (Ben 10), a character on the TV series Ben 10
Wheels (film), 1998 Yugoslav film
Wheels, a fictional character of the Burger King Kids Club advertising campaign
Transportation-related
Slang for automobile
WHEELS (California), a bus service in southeast Alameda County, California
Wheels (New Jersey Transit), a suburban bus service
WHEELS, the bus system in Norwalk, Connecticut
Wheels (magazine), an Australian automotive magazine
Wheels Magazine (Sweden), a Swedish automotive magazine
Wheels (TV series), a car and motorbike program on BBC World News India
Sports teams
Detroit Wheels (1973–1974), of the former World Football League
Detroit Wheels (soccer) (1994–1995), a former soccer team
Detroit Wheels (2004–2006), former name of the Detroit Panthers minor league basketball team
Ottawa Wheels (1997), a former Canadian roller hockey team
Other uses
Wheels (nickname), any of several people or fictional characters
Wheels (operating system), for Commodore computers
Wheels Entertainments, a company that operates transportable Ferris wheels
Wheels, another name for the Ophanim in Judeo-Christian tradition
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G 1/13 is a decision issued on 25 November 2014 by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO), holding that in opposition proceedings a retroactive effect of a restoration of a company must be recognised by the EPO. In other words, a restoration of a company has retroactive effect before the EPO when it has such retroactive effect under national law.
Questions referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
The referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal lies from an interlocutory decision T 22/09 from Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.07. The referred questions were:
Answers to the referred questions
The Enlarged Board of Appeal answered these questions as follows:
References
Further reading
: "Opposition procedure - entitlement to file an opposition - general"
: "Opposition procedure - entitlement to file an opposition - examination at any state in the proceedings of entitlement to oppose"
: "Procedural status of the parties - parties to appeal proceedings"
: "Procedural status of the parties - existence of a company"
: "Referral by a board of appeal - general"
: "Referral by a board of appeal - point of law of fundamental importance"
External links
G 0001/13 of 25.11.2014
Decision G 1/13, Official Journal EPO 4/2015, A42 ()
Decision T 22/09 (Party status/Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts/SASOL TECHNOLOGY) of 21 June 2013 (referring decision)
G 2013 1
2014 in case law
2014 in Europe
Jurisdiction
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This is a list of programs currently and soon to be broadcast by Metro Channel. For the previous programs which are airing, see List of programs aired by Lifestyle/Metro Channel.
Current shows on Metro Channel
Metro Channel Original Programming
At The Table (Season 2) (formerly "Chasing Flavors"; 2017–present)
Beached (2018–present)
Casa Daza (Season 2) (2017–present)
Driven (2018–present)
In The Metro (2018–present)
Metro Home (2018–present)
Potluck (Season 2) (2021–present)
Pia's Postcards (2018–present)
Programs broadcast on ABS-CBN (Kapamilya Channel)
Documentary
G Diaries (2017–present)
Religious
Kapamilya Daily Mass (2020–present)
Kapamilya Sunday Mass (2020–present)
Kapamilya Journeys of Hope (2020–present)
Programs broadcast on ANC
Executive Class (2017–present)
Home & Living
Best Houses Philippines
Island Life
Luxe Asia (Season 2)
Luxury Homes Revealed
SMDC The Good Home
The Real Houses of...
Food & Travel
Andy and Ben Eat Australia
Booze Traveller
Check-In
Dreamcatchers
Donal Skehan's Kitchen Hero
Jamie Cooks Italy
United Plates of America
The Wine Show
Tim's Table
Fashion & Style
VideoFashion News
Entertainment & Glamour
Hollywood News Feed
Movie Block
Movie Nights on Metro
Variety
ASAP Natin 'To
Arts.21
Special Coverage
Starting 2015, the channel is the official broadcaster for the following US events (same day or within 48 hours of US telecast):
Primetime Emmy Awards (2014–present)
Hollywood Christmas Parade (first cable channel to do so in the country, 2015–present)
Tournament of Roses Parade (formerly of Studio 23 (now S+A) and aired in Filipino in 2009 on ABS-CBN and in 2018 on Jeepney TV, 2016–2017, 2019–present)
Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016–present)
Metro Channel TV Specials
ABS-CBN Ball (2019)
Binibining Pilipinas (2014–present)
Star Magic Ball (2016–2018)
Pantawid ng Pag-ibig: At Home Together Concert (March 22, 2020) (together with ABS-CBN, S+A, ANC, DZMM Radyo Patrol 630, DZMM Telerad
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Long Tân is a commune (xã) and village in Đất Đỏ District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Vietnam, at . When it was part of South Vietnam, it was in Phước Tuy province.
It is renowned for its rubber plantations, and hosts a very small population of roughly 1,200 people.
The village, along with nearby Long Phước, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, was cleared to make an exclusion zone around the Nui Dat Australian base near Bà Rịa. The destruction of the two villages formed part of the background for the Battle of Long Tan on 18 August 1966, where a small unit of Australian soldiers recorded a victory over a much larger force of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers.
History
The southern tip of Vietnam was colonised by Vietnam late after battles with Champa. Like many villages in the southern tip of Vietnam the village's official Confucian name contains the word 新 (tân) meaning "new". The element 隆 (long) probably means "prosperous". Hence "New Prosperity".
Battle
During this battle, 2,500 Việt Cộng and North Vietnamese attacked 108 Australian troops of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. It is unclear how many Vietnamese were killed but records suggest 240–1,000 Vietnamese were killed, while Australian forces lost 18 in comparison.
The newly arrived 1st Australian Task Force established its Phước Tuy operations base in 1966 at Núi Đất, a piece of high ground surrounded by rubber plantations. The Viet Cong had achieved dominion in the province and decided to inflict a politically unacceptable defeat on the Australians. Their plan was to lure the Australians from their base by firing recoilless rifle and mortar shells into it. They theorised that the Australians would sweep the area around the base in an attempt to stop the attacks, and the Viet Cong would ambush the sweeping forces.
On the night of 16/17 August 1966, the Viet Cong fired a barrage of shells into Núi Đất, wounding 24 Australians. Prior to this event, the Australians had become aware, from radio intercepts and
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Fly Angola (FLA), stylized FLУ AO Angola, is a privately owned airline based in the country of Angola, specifically at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in the nation's capital, Luanda. It is established in September 2018 by a "Portuguese agency" and "backed up" by Angolan investment firm Gestomobil. The airline flies to Angola's provincial capitals from its hub.
Fleet
As of June 2020, the airline only owns one Embraer EMB-145 LR registered D2-FDF filled with 50 standard economy class in a 1-2 configuration, with a second one planned to be ordered once the airline has secured its own Air Operator's Certificate. It is said that the motive behind the single-aircraft order is as a "trial." The airline was planning in late 2019 to buy a 30-seat Embraer EMB-120. The airline's services are performed by a local partner, Angolan airline AeroJet, which owns Fly Angola's AOC.
Destinations
Fly Angola operates domestic flights from Luanda to four major cities.
COVID-19 pandemic
In March 2020, Fly Angola issued a statement on its Facebook account that it will "significantly reduce its activity in the coming days," and "will make adjustments as necessary," in accordance to the Angolan government's measures concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.
Notes
References
External links
Airlines established in 2018
Airlines of Angola
Angolan brands
Airlines of Africa
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This is a list of the largest trading partners of Italy based on data from the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy.
See also
Economy of Italy
List of the largest trading partners of the European Union
List of the largest trading partners of the United States
List of the largest trading partners of Germany
List of the largest trading partners of China
List of the largest trading partners of Russia
List of the largest trading partners of United Kingdom
References
Foreign trade of Italy
Economy-related lists of superlatives
Lists of trading partners
Economy of Italy-related lists
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Thaxton may refer to:
Places
Thaxton, Mississippi
Thaxton, Virginia
People
Charles Thaxton (born 1939), American author on intelligent design
David Thaxton (born 1982), British musical theatre and opera performer
Hubert Mack Thaxton (1909–1974), American physicist
Jae Thaxton (born 1985), American football player
Jim Thaxton (born 1949), American football player
Jon Thaxton (born 1974), English professional boxer
Lloyd Thaxton (1927–2008), American writer, television producer, director, and television host
See also
William L. Thaxton Jr. House
English-language surnames
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L'Aiglon is an opera (drame musical) in five acts composed by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert. Honegger composed acts 2, 3, and 4, with Ibert composing acts 1 and 5. A 2016 reviewer described it as "a singular piece of work" with its "blend of operetta, divertissement, conversation piece, historical pageant and, in the disturbingly powerful fourth act set on the Napoleonic battlefield at Wagram, phantasmagoria peopled with living figures onstage and dead voices off".
Background
The libretto by Henri Cain was based on Edmond Rostand's 1900 play, L'Aiglon ("The Eaglet"), about the life of Napoleon II, who was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, Empress Marie Louise.
It premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 11 March 1937 in a production by Pierre Chéreau. The principal roles were sung by Fanny Heldy and Vanni Marcoux.
At the Paris Opera that August, Heldy repeated her performance alongside Vanni-Marcoux under François Ruhlmann. The work was revived there in 1952 with Géori Boué in the title role under André Cluytens.
The work was revived in February 2016 at the Opéra de Marseille with Stéphanie d'Oustrac in the title role and conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce.
A 1956 French radio recording with Boué conducted by Pierre Dervaux was later issued on CD, and a full studio Decca recording under Kent Nagano, following concert performances in Montreal, was released in 2016.
Roles
Synopsis
The Duke of Reichstadt (Napoleon II), with his faithful footman Séraphin Flambeau, escapes from Austrian imprisonment and visits the old site of the Battle of Wagram, before eventually dying of tuberculosis.
References
Further reading
Kennedy, Michael (2006), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 985 pages,
Spratt, Geoffrey K., The Music of Arthur Honegger, Cork University Press, 1987, p. 544.
Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages,
Operas
French-language operas
1937 operas
Operas set in the 19th century
Operas set in Austr
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Rainton is a village in the Harrogate borough of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated about north of Boroughbridge, north-east of Ripon and south-west of Thirsk. The area has a village green and a maypole. There are approximately 120 houses in Rainton including six listed buildings, several period farm houses, a smithy and a dovecote. The local vernacular building style is sandstone and cobble construction with slate or pantile roof.
History
The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as having 30 ploughlands and belonging to Count Alan of Brittany. The name is thought to have derived from Old English (though it could be Old Norse) of the Tūn of Regna's/Rægen's .
Rainton was historically in the parish of Topcliffe in the North Riding of Yorkshire, part of the township of Rainton with Newby. The township became a separate civil parish in 1866, and in 1974 was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire.
Rainton was a largely agricultural village. However, since 2000, it has become a commuter village, largely due to its close proximity to the A1(M). This in turn has led to an increase in property prices which is evidenced by the large number of barn conversions and property renovations. Rainton continues to host Christmas parties for local children, lunches for retired people, and other social events including a gardening club.
Rainton is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Rainton with Newby. Newby, historically known as Newby-on-Swale, is a deserted medieval village, now occupied by Baldersby Park (also known as Newby Park), the home of Queen Mary's School.
At the 2001 Census, the population of the parish was 354, which had risen to 447 by the time of the 2011 Census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated that the population had fallen slightly to 440.
Facilities
The local school is based at Baldersby St James.
There are two freehold pubs in the village: The Lamb and The Bay Horse which are both traditional village
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Bülbül Hatun (; "Songbird" died 1515) was a consort of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire.
Life
Bülbül Hatun entered in the Bayezid's harem when he was still a prince and the governor of Amasya. She had three children, two daughters, Hatice Sultan and Hundi Sultan (who married Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha), and a son, Şehzade Ahmed. Some indicated her as the mother of Ayşe Sultan, or maybe of an Ayşe Sultan who died in infancy.
According to Turkish tradition, all princes were expected to work as provincial governors as a part of their training. Ahmed was sent to Çorum in 1480, and then to Amasya, and Bülbül accompanied him.
She built and endowed a mosque and a soup kitchen in Ladik. At Amasya, she built another mosque, a school and a fountain. In Bursa she had endowed and built a religious college. She endowed a portion of her properties to the Enderun mosque in 1505.
In 1512, she built another complex and endowed a significant amount of property for its expenses. She designated her son Ahmed, and upon his death Ahmed's eldest daughter and her daughters, as the administrator of
the endowment. Bülbül's delegation of the regency of the endowment through the matrilineal line after his son Ahmed demonstrated that this endowment was established as a precautionary measure in the event that Ahmed failed in his bid for the sultanate.
In 1513, Fatma Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Mahmud (son of Bayezid II), and her husband Mehmed Çelebi were placed under house arrest following the Kızılbaş leanings. She was only pardoned following Bülbül's intercession.
Death
After the death of Şehzade Ahmed in 1513, Bülbül Hatun came to Bursa. She built a tomb for Ahmed, in which she was too buried at her death in 1515.
Issue
Together with Bayezid, Bülbül had at least two daughters and a son:
Hatice Sultan (Amasya; 1463 - Bursa; 1500). She married in first time Muderis Kara Mustafa Pasha in 1479 and she had a son, Sultanzade Ahmed Bey and a daughter, Hanzade Hanimsultan. She was widow
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Havelock Mills in central Manchester were built between 1820 and 1840. It was probably the largest surviving silk mill in the north-west region in the 1970s and had a unique combination of silk and cotton mills on one site. It was a landmark on the Rochdale Canal, overlooking Tib Lock, one of the Rochdale Nine.
Location
The mills were built on the canal side on Great Bridgewater Street. The Manchester and Salford Junction Canal was to the east, and Rochdale Canal's Tib Lock (Lock 89) was to the south.
History
The mill was a large silk mill and early spinning mill. It was granted Grade II listed building status but was demolished in 1992. The site is now occupied by the Evershed Building.
Demolition of the Grade II listed building was controversial but went ahead after protests and a public inquiry. Before demolition, the developer agreed to a programme of structural tests on the building frame sponsored by English Heritage and the Department of Trade and Industry. The designer of the frame is anonymous, but it is in the style of the Manchester engineer William Fairbairn.
After demolition Joe Marsh and Tom Swaile of UMIST arranged for part of the iron frame to be re-erected on the UMIST campus. Assembly on campus was by Percival Brothers of Stockport. Another part of the frame was shipped to Paris and formed the 'gateway' piece to an exhibition at the Pompidou Centre "The Art of the Structural Engineer".
Architecture
Havelock Mills were two interlinked L-shaped multi-storey mills. They were notable in that the mill built in 1820 was a silk-mill and the second, built in 1840 was a fire-proof cotton mill.
The silk mill was of six storeys over a basement and had 18 bays facing Great Bridgewater Street (Nos 72 and 74). The windows had raised sills and wedge lintels. Three bays were blind. The doorways were round-headed with rusticated long-and-short surrounds. The 20-bay west range had segmental-headed windows with raised sills, and loading doors on most floo
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The Refugees are an American folk trio composed of three members: Wendy Waldman, Cidny Bullens, and Deborah Holland. They have released two albums, Unbound (2009) and Three (2012), both on Wabuho Records.
Biography
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriters Wendy Waldman, Cidny Bullens, and Deborah Holland had performed extensively in separate group projects and as solo artists before forming the Refugees in 2007. They released their debut album, Unbound, on Wabuho Records in 2009. Guitar Player magazine described Unbound as "a rootsy outing replete with catchy arrangements and sparkling three-part vocal harmonies." The trio appeared on NPR's Mountain Stage, where they performed two songs from the album as well as "Save the Best for Last", a hit single for Vanessa Williams that was co-written by Waldman, and a cover version of Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love". The Refugees released their second album, Three, in 2012. In a review of the album, Wood & Steel magazine said "the trio's rich musical chemistry is readily on display, giving the record a cohesive sound that often feels as intimate as a living room house concert."
Discography
As a female trio
Unbound (2009)
As a female-and-male trio
Three (2012)
How Far It Goes EP (2019)
References
External links
Official website
The Refugees at Discogs
http://www.deborahholland.net/music/the-refugees/
American folk musical groups
Musical groups established in 2007
American musical trios
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The Wilton Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Wilton, Iowa.
The district is split between Muscatine County and Cedar County. The district serves the city of Wilton, and the surrounding rural areas.
List of schools
The Wilton school district operates two schools, both located in Wilton:
Wilton Elementary School
Wilton Jr-Sr High School
Wilton Jr-Sr High School
Athletics
The Beavers compete in the River Valley Conference in the following sports:
Baseball
2-time Class 2A State Champions (1993, 2005)
Basketball (boys and girls)
Cross Country (boys and girls)
Football
Softball
Track and Field (boys and girls)
Volleyball
Wrestling
2-time Class 1A State Champions (1997, 2002)
See also
List of school districts in Iowa
List of high schools in Iowa
References
External links
Wilton Community School District
School districts in Iowa
Education in Cedar County, Iowa
Education in Muscatine County, Iowa
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USS Wasp (CV/CVA/CVS-18) was one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship, the ninth US Navy ship to bear the name, was originally named Oriskany, but was renamed while under construction in honor of the previous , which was sunk 15 September 1942. Wasp was commissioned in November 1943, and served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning eight battle stars. Like many of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, but was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career, she operated mainly in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Caribbean. She played a prominent role in the manned space program, serving as the recovery ship for five Project Gemini missions: Gemini IV, Gemini VI, Gemini VII, Gemini IX, and Gemini XII. She was retired in 1972, and sold for scrap in 1973.
Construction and commissioning
The ship was laid down on 18 March 1942 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Steel Company, and renamed Wasp on 13 November 1942, shortly after the sinking of the previous Wasp. She was launched on 17 August 1943, sponsored by Miss Julia M. Walsh, the sister of Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, and commissioned on 24 November 1943, with Captain Clifton A. F. Sprague in command.
Service history
World War II
Following a shakedown cruise which lasted through the end of 1943, Wasp returned to Boston for a brief yard period to correct minor flaws which had been discovered during her time at sea. On 10 January 1944, the new aircraft carrier departed Boston, steamed to Hampton Roads, Virginia, and remained there until the last day of the month, when she sailed for Trinidad, her base of operations through 22 February. She returned to Boston five days later and prepared for service in the Pacific. Early in March, the ship sailed south, transited the Panama Canal, arrived at
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Iraak is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 35 km south-east of Mildura, Victoria.
Iraak and nearby localities Nangiloc and Iraan were established as soldier settlement farming areas after World War I, road access to the area being from the west via Boonoonar on what is now the Calder Highway.
The Post Office opened on 22 September 1922 the same day as that of Nangiloc, closing in 1960.
The Karadoc Solar Farm opened in the locality of Iraak in late 2018.
See also
1956 Murray River flood
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Populated places on the Murray River
Mallee (Victoria)
Australian soldier settlements
1922 establishments in Australia
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The Gloria Victis Memorial created in honor of the casualties of universal communism is situated adjacent to the cemetery of the town of Csömör near the North Eastern boundary of Budapest.
Dedication
The memorial, being the first on this subject in the world, was consecrated and blessed on 21 October 2006 marking the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. On that day addresses were delivered by László Tőkés, Rainer Eppelmann and others. The chief patron of the celebration was Viktor Orbán.
Description
The memorial was constructed adjacent to the graves of three Hungarian soldiers who died in 1944. A twin memorial, the work of János Víg is at its center. Placed on the circular stone there are the maps of the four continents shifted with respect to each other, with the affected areas marked with lead castings explaining the extent of the devastation visually. The section of the memorial alluding to '56 can be construed as a victorious flag-carrier warship, indicating the fact that the Hungarian revolution was the first to succeed in forcing a break in the concrete wall of world-communism. In October 2008 a summary in three languages of the Resolution 1481 (2006) of the Council of Europe entitled The Necessity of International Condemnation of the Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Communist Regimes was carved on the back of the "world wall". The two initiators of the aforementioned resolution, Göran Lindblad of Sweden and Latshezar Toshev of Bulgaria were the orators at the ceremony of the handing over of this text. In the years since, the memorial has been enriched by the Holodomor memorial stone donated by the Ukrainian minority in Hungary, by the tablet commemorating the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, as well as the marble tablets honoring the memory of those slaughtered at Katyn and the Romani people (gypsy) and Jewish victims of communism. The memorial was created and is maintained by the Gloria Victis Foundation.
Gallery
Referenc
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John Bisley (fl. 1406–1421) was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Gloucester between 1406 and 1421.
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Politicians from Gloucester
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Gloucester
14th-century births
15th-century deaths
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Pic.Nic is a music festival held annually at the Israel Trade Fairs & Convention Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. The festival is produced by Shuki Weiss Promotion & Production Ltd. and holds as the biggest summer festival in Tel Aviv. Pic.Nic's slogan "A basket Of Music" refers to the variety of music styles that are presented in the festival's lineup, from pop to rock to electronic themes.
2010 Lineup
The first ever Pic.Nic festival was scheduled for the month of June and was spread over two days. The first at June 5, with Placebo as headliners. And the second at June 9, with Pixies as headliners of the evening.
The first day lineup:
Placebo
Klaxons
Gorillaz Sound System
Hank & Cupcakes
The second day lineup:
Pixies
Editors
Carusella
2011 Lineup
Pic.Nic 2011 was announced in early April, 2011. This year the festival will set along three days, with headliners Moby, Duran Duran and Jane's Addiction. Due to Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon illness the band had to postpone their concert to 2012, leaving the festival with only 2 days.
Day 1 lineup:
Moby
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Kaki King
Cohen@Mushon
Day 2 lineup:
Jane's Addiction
Blonde Redhead
Elisha Banai
Cancellations
On June 4, 2010, A day before the opening of the festival, Klaxons and Gorillaz Sound system canceled their shows at the festival in the wake of the flotilla incident with the IDF which occurred the week before. Nevertheless, Placebo still went ahead with their concert and the band J. Viewz and local rock musician Rami Fortis were called to replace them. Two days later, Pixies canceled their planned concert in the festival. However, the festival still went ahead with Editors replacing Pixies as the headliners.
External links
Pic.Nic Official website
Music festivals in Israel
Music festivals established in 2010
Summer events in Israel
Festivals in Tel Aviv
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Boxing was one of the sports held at the 1983 Mediterranean Games.
Medalists
Medal table
References
1983 Mediterranean Games report at the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM) website
1983 Mediterranean Games boxing tournament at Amateur Boxing Results
Medi
Sports at the 1983 Mediterranean Games
1983
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Radio in Argentina is an important facet of the nation's media and culture. Radio, which was first broadcast in Argentina in 1920, has been widely enjoyed in Argentina since the 1930s. Radio broadcast stations totaled around 150 active AM stations, 1,150 FM stations, and 6 registered shortwave transmitters. An estimated 24 million receivers were in use in 2000 (2.4 per household).
History
Radio broadcasting enjoys a long and varied history in Argentina, tracing its origins to a 1910 stay in the southside Buenos Aires suburb of Bernal by Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph. There, he achieved a rudimentary radio transmission with a kite-mounted antenna connected to earphones. Argentine publisher José C. Paz later sponsored Marconi's radio transmission from Italy to Buenos Aires, the first transatlantic broadcast into South America.
Three local medical students, led by Enrique Susini, began their own radio experiments in 1917 and, installing transmission equipment in Buenos Aires' Coliseo Theatre, they broadcast, on August 27, 1920, Parsifal, the first opera on radio and only the second radio broadcast in the World. These installations became LOR Radio Argentina, the World's first formal radio station. The number of receivers in the city at the time: around 20. This station was joined in 1922 by LOX, whose ad for the Los Andes Restaurant is probably the World's first on radio. Several more stations opened in Buenos Aires during Argentina's prosperous 1920s and growing numbers of artists signed contracts for live performances on the growing variety of radio dramas.
Leading stations at the time began broadcasting from the numerous, ornate theatre stages in Buenos Aires, including LR5 Radio Splendid (so named for the venue where its shows were produced, the Grand Splendid Theatre). Among the notable events broadcast live at the time was President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear's inaugural, in 1922, and the 1923 "bout of the century" in Polo Grounds, N
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Ardell William Diessner (July 28, 1923 – March 27, 2021) was an American politician and medical doctor in the state of Minnesota. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was raised in Waconia, Minnesota. Diessner graduated from Waconia High School in 1941. Diessner lived in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. He moved to Afton, Minnesota in 1970. He served in the Minnesota State Senate from 1983 to 1990 as a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, representing district 56. Diessner was a medical doctor, having graduated from the University of Minnesota. Diessner served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1952 in Fort Riley, Kansas, and Korea and was commissioned a captain. Diessner moved to Bella Vista, Arkansas in 2003. He died at his home in Mora, Minnesota.
References
1923 births
2021 deaths
United States Army officers
Politicians from Minneapolis
People from Mora, Minnesota
People from Waconia, Minnesota
People from Washington County, Minnesota
Military personnel from Minnesota
University of Minnesota Medical School alumni
Physicians from Minnesota
Democratic Party Minnesota state senators
American expatriates in South Korea
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Wamba is an unincorporated community in Bowie County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 70 in 2000. It is located within the Texarkana metropolitan area.
History
The Wamba area was first inhabited by squatters around the 1830s, but the community itself was not settled until 20 years later. A post office was established at Wamba in 1897 and remained in operation until 1916, with Laurel B. Fort as postmaster. Its population was 50 in 1910, 40 in 1940, and 70 from 1982 through 2000 with no businesses. It was the site of a water tower built by Clyde Burns.
Geography
Wamba is located near the Red River, northwest of Texarkana in eastern Bowie County. It is on Farm to Market Road 559, a few miles north of Interstate 30 and is the northeasternmost town in Texas.
Education
Wamba is served by the Pleasant Grove Independent School District.
References
Unincorporated communities in Bowie County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
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The 2013 Tashkent Open was a WTA International tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the Tashkent Open, on the 2013 WTA Tour. It took place at the Tashkent Tennis Center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on September 7–14, 2013.
Singles main-draw entrants
1 Rankings as of August 26, 2013
2 Jovanovski was a late entrant and only granted top seeding upon qualification
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Nigina Abduraimova
Arina Folts
Sabina Sharipova
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Tetyana Arefyeva
Bojana Jovanovski
Lyudmyla Kichenok
Kateryna Kozlova
Risa Ozaki
Alexandra Panova
Withdrawals
Before the tournament
Hsieh Su-wei
Karin Knapp
Urszula Radwańska
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of August 26, 2013
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Arina Folts / Guzal Yusupova
Michaela Hončová / Sabina Sharipova
Champions
Singles
Bojana Jovanovski def. Olga Govortsova, 4–6, 7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Doubles
Tímea Babos / Yaroslava Shvedova def. Olga Govortsova / Mandy Minella, 6–3, 6–3
References
Draw
External links
Official website
Tashkent Open
Tashkent Open
2013 in Uzbekistani sport
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John Reginald Piggott is an Australian economist. He is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Education and career
John Piggott graduated with a PhD in Economics from the University of London. He has held continuous full-time academic appointments since graduation. He is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) and Scientia Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
In 2011, he was awarded a UNSW Scientia Professorship in recognition of his international research stature. In that same year he was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Professorial Fellowship and began his term as the Director of CEPAR. He holds Research Fellowships with both CESifo and IZA Institute of Labor Economics. He holds an on-going Visiting Professor position at Zhejiang University, and was Visiting Scholar with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2008-2010.
He has held a range of academic management positions at UNSW Sydney, including two terms as Head of the School of Economics, and seven years as Associate Dean Research.
His Australian policy experience includes membership of both the Henry Tax Review Panel and the Ministerial Superannuation Advisory Committee. Internationally, he worked for nearly a decade with the Japanese Government on pension and ageing issues. John Piggott has been a consultant to several foreign governments on pension issues, including Russia and Indonesia.
In 2018/2019, John Piggott was appointed as a cochair of the Think20 (T20) Task Force on Aging Population during Japan's G20 Presidency, helping G20 nations decide how they will cope with ageing populations.
Research contributions
John Piggott has a long-standing interest in the economics of population agein
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Crazy Woman Crossing is a historic place on the Bozeman Trail, in Johnson County, Wyoming, United States, about twenty miles southeast of Buffalo. Crazy Woman Crossing was one of three major fords used by travelers across creeks and rivers in this area. It is significant as the site of the Battle of Crazy Woman, a skirmish during Red Cloud's War in 1866. The United States pulled out of this territory after negotiation with the Lakota and allies of the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868.
In the 1870s, the US attempted to claim some control of the Bozeman Trail, and the number of emigrants increased on this route. In 1878, August Trabing opened a store nearby to serve travelers on the trail, which came to be known as the Trabing Station. His was the first store in Johnson County. Crazy Woman Crossing became known as the place where what became known as Trabing Road crosses Crazy Woman Creek.
Bozeman Trail
In the spring 1863, John Bozeman and his associates scouted for a direct route from the goldfields at Virginia City, Montana to central Wyoming in order to connect with the Oregon Trail, which was then the major passage in the continental United States to the West Coast. The Bozeman Trail followed many north–south trails which the American Indians had used since prehistoric times to travel through Powder River country. On July 6, 1863, forty-six wagons, eighty-nine men and an unspecified number of women and children crossed the North Platte at Deer Creek (present-day Glenrock, Wyoming) and became the first wagon train to try the new trail.
After travelers crossed the North Platte River, the first three major river crossings on the Bozeman Trail were Powder River Crossing, Crazy Woman Crossing, and Clear Creek Crossing (present-day Buffalo, Wyoming).
At each water ford, travelers would often camp at least one night, to water their stock, review and renew supplies, and collect themselves.
Between 1864 and 1868, the high risk of Lakota and allied attacks resulted
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The following are the national records in athletics in Qatar maintained by Qatar Athletics Federation (QAF).
Outdoor
Key to tables:
A = affected by altitude
X = unratified due to doping violation
NWI = no wind information
Men
Women
Mixed
Indoor
Men
Women
Notes
References
General
World Athletics Statistic Handbook 2022: National Outdoor Records
World Athletics Statistic Handbook 2022: National Indoor Records
Specific
External links
QAF web site
Qatar
Records
Athletics
Athletics
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A love-in is a peaceful public gathering focused on meditation, love, music, sex and/or use of recreational drugs. The term was coined by Los Angeles radio comedian Peter Bergman, creator of comedy group The Firesign Theater, who also hosted the first such event on Easter, 26 March 1967 in Elysian Park.
The term
The term love-in has been interpreted in varying manners, but is often connected to protesting local, social or environmental issues. Such protests were often held in opposition to the Vietnam War. As such, love-ins are largely considered a staple of the 1960s hippie counterculture.
More recently the term is occasionally used figuratively to describe a situation in which people shower praise on one another in excess.
Background
The First Love-in was preceded by the Heavenly Happening, at midnight, on November 16, 1966, on the Sheep Meadow in Central Park, organized by New York Parks Commissioner, Thomas Hoving, and the 'Human Be-In at the Polo Fields in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967.
First Love-in on Easter in Elysian Park
The First Love-in started before dawn. The Los Angeles Free Press promoted the event. 15,000 people crowded in a natural amphitheater in Elysian Park, and listened to the psychedelic rock bands Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Clear Light, and the Flamin' Groovies.
1967 New York Easter Be-in
The New York Easter 1967 be-in was organized by Jim Fouratt an actor, Paul Williams editor of Crawdaddy! magazine, Susan Hartnett head of the Experiments in Art and Technology organization and Chilean poet and playwright Claudio Badal.
References
External links
Sulfiati Magnuson. (1967) Elysian Park Love-In - Getty Images
Michael Ochs. (1967) Elysian Park Love-In - Getty Images
Hippie movement
Anti-war movement
Civil disobedience
Counterculture of the 1960s
Drug culture
Environmental movements
Human sexuality
Love
Meditation
Nonviolence
Nonviolent resistance movements
Opposition to United State
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Colonel Magod Basappa Ravindranath VrC was an Indian Army officer. He was awarded the Vir Chakra for his actions in the Battle of Tololing during Kargil War in 1999. He was commanding the Indian Army's 2 Rajputana Rifles battalion that successfully captured the strategic heights of Tololing, Point 4590 and Black Rock in the Drass sector that dominated the Srinagar - Leh Highway (NH 1D), the first major victory that changed the course of the Kargil War.
Early life
Ravindranath was born to Sarojamma and Magod Basappa in 1959 in Kunduru in Honnali Taluk, Davangere district, Karnataka, India. His father was a school teacher. He completed his school education at Sainik School, Vijayapura.
Military career
Ravindranath attended the National Defence Academy from 1976 to 1979, and then passed out from the Indian Military Academy in 1980. He was commissioned into the 17 MADRAS REGIMENT. He was moved to 21 RAJRIF in Feb 1985. He later commanded 2 RAJPUTANA RIFLES during Kargil Operations. He was first posted to Arunachal Pradesh, and was then posted as an instructor at the military training school in Mhow. He spent five years in Mhow before being posted to a unit on counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), where he served in 1986–87. Ravindranath served again in J&K in 1989–90, 1994–96 and finally in 1999.
Kargil War
During the Kargil War, Ravindranath was the commanding officer of the 2nd battalion, Rajputana Rifles (2 RAJ RIF). 2 RAJ RIF was tasked with capturing the strategic heights of Tololing, Point 4590 and Black Rock in the Dras sector. According to his citation, Ravindranath personally led his battalion's reconnaissance teams under enemy artillery and small arms fire.
On June 12, 1999, during the assault on Tololing, 2 RAJ RIF troops were under constant enemy artillery and heavy automatic fire. Realising the gravity of the situation, Ravindranath reached the spot and quickly restored the situation by his personal influence, which ultimately led to
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Leslie Langdon "Bud" Vivian Jr., March 24, 1919 – October 18, 1995) was an American academic administrator. A lifelong employee at Princeton University, Vivian retired in 1986 after a 37-year administrative career which ended with 16 years as the Director of Community and Regional Affairs. After his death in 1995, classmates from the Princeton University Class of 1942 set up an annual award to honor his service to the community: The Leslie "Bud" Vivian Award for Community Service.
Personal life
Born on March 24, 1919, Vivian was raised in Plainfield, New Jersey and went to preparatory school at Hotchkiss. After Hotchkiss, Bud attended Princeton University, where he served in student government, eventually becoming class vice President of the Princeton University Class of 1942. Vivian graduated with an A.B. in philosophy from Princeton in 1942 after completing a senior thesis titled "An Analysis of the Challenge of Totalitarianism." While at Princeton, Vivian also served as secretary and president of Cap and Gown Club.
He married Anita (Tita) Willis before he was deployed for service in Europe during World War II. Their first child Leslie was born in 1944, followed by daughters Elinor (Lea), Ann and Mary.
In addition to his career at Princeton University, Mr. Vivian was a civic presence applying himself to many causes, including Princeton Community Housing Inc., the Mercer County Heart Fund, the Arts Council of Princeton, the Boy Scouts and the Medical Center at Princeton.
In 1993, Vivian wrote the introduction to William K. Evans' book: "Princeton: A Picture Postcard History of Princeton and Princeton University."
Vivan continued his community activities after leaving Princeton and moving to Martha's Vineyard. He died on October 18, 1995, at his home in Vineyard Haven from prostate cancer.
Military service
Vivian received his ROTC commission during his commencement ceremonies. After training at Fort Bragg, NC, Fort Sill, OK, and Camp Beale, TX; Vivian was assig
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The Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Period Costume Design for Television Series was awarded for the first time in 2000, honoring 1999 television. While it did honor period costumes, it also honored fantasy television, and the award was titled Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Period/Fantasy Television Series. Those two genres were separated into their own awards categories in 2016, resulting in the current award designation.
Winners
1990s
Excellence in Period/Fantasy for Television
2000s
2010s
Excellence in Period Television
2020s
Programs with multiple awards
2 awards
Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
The Crown (Netflix)
Downton Abbey (PBS)
Mad Men (AMC)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Rome (HBO)
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Programs with multiple nominations
6 nominations
Mad Men (AMC)
5 nominations
Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
4 nominations
Game of Thrones (HBO)
That '70s Show (Fox)
The Tudors (Showtime)
3 nominations
Cold Case (CBS)
The Crown (Netflix)
Deadwood (HBO)
GLOW (Netflix)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
2 nominations
The Borgias (Showtime)
Carnivàle (HBO)
Downton Abbey (PBS)
The Knick (Cinemax)
Masters of Sex (Showtime)
Outlander (Starz)
Penny Dreadful (Showtime)
Pushing Daisies (ABC)
Rome (HBO)
Stranger Things (Netflix)
Westworld (HBO)
References
Costume Designers Guild Awards
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Truteau is a surname from France.
People with this name include:
Étienne Truteau (1642–1712), early settler to Longueuil, District of Montreal, Colony of Canada, New France, North America; what is now Longueuil, Quebec, Canada; founder of the Truteau and Trudeau family lineages of North America, including the Canadian political Trudeau family.
Élisabeth Truteau (18th c.), mother of Superior General of the Congregation of Notre Dame Marie-Victoire Baudry (1782–1846)
Flavia Truteau (19th c.), mother of Canadian feminist Caroline Dessaulles-Béique (1852–1946)
(1748–1827; also Jean Trudeau), an explorer of the Missouri Company, founding outposts on the Missouri, the Nebraska, and the Niobrara rivers.
Robert Truteau (1544–1589), earliest known ancestor of the North American Trudeau/Truteau familial lineage, including Étienne Truteau and the Canadian political Trudeau family
See also
Trudeau (surname)
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The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century is the second volume in Francis Parkman's seven-volume history, France and England in North America, originally published in 1867. It tells the story of the French Jesuit missionaries in Canada, then New France, starting from their arrival in 1632.
The book was re-published in 1912 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. It was republished in 1983, along with the other six volumes, in a two-volume unabridged version with notes by David Levin (Library of America). The Little, Brown edition was reprinted by Bison Books, Lincoln, Nebraska in 1997 with a new introduction by Conrad Heidenreich and José António Brandão.
Composition and Sources
The book is largely sourced from the writings of François Le Mercier, a principal member of the Jesuit mission to New France who held the title of Rector at the Jesuit college in Quebec and the General Superior of the missions in New France from 1653 to 1656 and again from 1665 to 1671 when he was appointed procurator and primary of the Jesuit college in Quebec which he held for a year before returning to France. Le Mercier left a large amount of records, most included in the series Relations of the Jesuits. They consist of letters or extracts of letters, as well as short stories or parts of stories from his hand.
Other sources and background information are drawn from a range of French letters and articles from the era as well as historical documents. The book refers often to the writings of French explorer Samuel de Champlain who was the first to explore New France and encounter the Huron people.
External links
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century at Project Gutenberg
1867 books
19th-century history books
History books about New France
Jesuit history in North America
Catholic missions of New France
History books about Catholicism
17th century in North America
History books about Canada
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The 2001 World Table Tennis Championships – men's team (Swaythling Cup) was the 46th edition of the men's team championship.
China won the gold medal defeating Belgium 3–0 in the final. Sweden and South Korea won bronze medals.
Medalists
Final stage knockout phase
Round of 16
Quarter finals
Semifinals
Final
See also
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
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Robert Codrington (c.1602–c.1665) was an English author, known as a translator.
Life
From a Gloucestershire family, Codrington was elected a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 29 July 1619, at the age of 17, and took the degree of M.A. in 1626. After travelling, he returned home, married, and settled in Norfolk. In May 1641 he was imprisoned by the House of Commons for publishing an elegy on the Earl of Strafford.
In later life Codrington lived in London. According to Anthony Wood, he died in the Great Plague of 1665.
Works
Codrington was a prolific writer and translator. His best known work was the Life and Death of Robert, Earl of Essex, London 1646, reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany; Anthony Wood regarded it as a partisan parliamentarian work. It was compiled using contemporary pamphlets. He wrote also the following works:
Translated from French:
Treatise of the Knowledge of God, by Peter Du Moulin, London, 1634.
The Memorials of Margaret de Valois, first wife of Henry IV of France, 1641, 1658, 1662.
The fifth book of Caussin's Holy Court, London, 1650.
Heptameron, or the History of the Fortunate Lovers, by Margaret de Valois, London, 1654.
Shibboleth, or the Reformation of several places in the translation of the French and English Bibles, by J. D'Esparre, 1655. The British Museum Catalogue also attributed to him the translation of A Declaration sent to the King of France and Spain from the Catholiques and Rebells in Ireland, 1642.
Translated from Latin:
The History of Justin, taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius, London, 1654, 1664, 1682.
Robert Sanderson's Several Cases of Conscience discussed, 1660.
Life and Death of Alexander the Great, by Q. Curtius Rufus, London, 1661, 1670, 1673.
Ignoramus, a Comedy, London, 1662. John Sidney Hawkins, in his 1787 edition of this play, commented that Codrington had "preserved more of the satire, and even of the wit and humour of the original, than could well be expected".
Prophecies
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Dorothy Carnegie (born Dorothy Price Vanderpool; 2 November 1912 – 6 August 1998) was an American writer. She was the wife of Dale Carnegie, an American writer and lecturer known for his courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Following her husband's demise, she assumed his position as the leader of the self-improvement empire bearing his name. Additionally, she established herself as an author, penning works like "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook" and "Guiding Your Spouse Towards Success".
Early life and education
Dorothy Carnegie, originally known as Dorothy Price Vanderpool hailed from Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a divorced mother with a young daughter, she faced the responsibility of providing for her family after an ill-fated teenage marriage. In pursuit of personal and professional growth, she enrolled in a Dale Carnegie course held at a Young Men's Christian Association hall. Dorothy attributed the valuable skills she acquired from the course to her remarkable ascent from a stenographer to the esteemed position of senior secretary at Gulf Oil Corporation. Additionally, she demonstrated her leadership abilities by assuming the presidency of the Young Republicans Club in Tulsa.
Works
Dorothy Carnegie wrote several books during her lifetime. These include:
- based upon Dale Carnegie's own notes and ideas.
Personal life
On 5 November 5, 1944, she (who also had been divorced) married Dale Carnegie. From her previous marriage, she had a daughter named Rosemary. With Carnegie, she had a daughter named Donna Dale Dorothy. After Dale's passing, Dorothy Carnegie married David Rivkin from Tulsa in 1976. While she retired from active company management in 1978, she continued to hold the position of chairwoman. Her surviving family includes her husband David Rivkin, daughter Donna Dale Carnegie, three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and three stepchildren. Unfortunately, her other daughter, Rosemary Cr
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In cryptography, a random oracle is an oracle (a theoretical black box) that responds to every unique query with a (truly) random response chosen uniformly from its output domain. If a query is repeated, it responds the same way every time that query is submitted.
Stated differently, a random oracle is a mathematical function chosen uniformly at random, that is, a function mapping each possible query to a (fixed) random response from its output domain.
Random oracles as a mathematical abstraction were first used in rigorous cryptographic proofs in the 1993 publication by Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway (1993). They are typically used when the proof cannot be carried out using weaker assumptions on the cryptographic hash function. A system that is proven secure when every hash function is replaced by a random oracle is described as being secure in the random oracle model, as opposed to secure in the standard model of cryptography.
Applications
Random oracles are typically used as an idealised replacement for cryptographic hash functions in schemes where strong randomness assumptions are needed of the hash function's output. Such a proof often shows that a system or a protocol is secure by showing that an attacker must require impossible behavior from the oracle, or solve some mathematical problem believed hard in order to break it. However, it only proves such properties in the random oracle model, making sure no major design flaws are present. It is in general not true that such a proof implies the same properties in the standard model. Still, a proof in the random oracle model is considered better than no formal security proof at all.
Not all uses of cryptographic hash functions require random oracles: schemes that require only one or more properties having a definition in the standard model (such as collision resistance, preimage resistance, second preimage resistance, etc.) can often be proven secure in the standard model (e.g., the Cramer–Shoup cryptosyst
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Maria Paulina "Marie Pauline" Åhman, née Landby (1812–1904), was a Swedish harpist. She is known as the first known female musician employed at the Royal Swedish Chapel orchestra Kungliga Hovkapellet.
She was a student of the harp player Edward Pratté 1830–35 and was given a position in the royal chapel in 1850 (permanently in 1856). While women had been employed in the royal chapel as vocalists since the employment of Sophia Schröder in 1727, Åhman is the first known woman to have been employed as an instrumentalist. She kept her position until 1881 and was described as very able and dutiful. She retired with a royal pension. She also held public concerts and was in 1870–75 and 1887–91 active as a teacher at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, where she had several famous students.
See also
Anna Lang
References
Europas konstnärer (The artists of Europe)(1887) Arvid Ahnfelt (Swedish)
Anna Ivarsdotter Johnsson och Leif Jonsson: "Musiken i Sverige. Frihetstiden och Gustaviansk tid 1720-1810" (Music in Sweden. The age of liberty and the Gustavian age 1720–1810)
http://www.hovkapellet.com/sv/musiker/visa_musiker.do?musiker_id=954
Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 33. Väderlek - Äänekoski
Svenskt porträttgalleri / XXI. Tonkonstnärer och sceniska artister (biografier af Adolf Lindgren & Nils Personne)
Idun Nr 17, 1892
Further reading
1812 births
1904 deaths
19th-century Swedish musicians
Swedish classical musicians
Swedish harpists
19th-century Swedish women musicians
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Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Paralympics consisted of six events for men.
Participating nations
There were 43 male competitors representing 16 nations.
Medal summary
Medal table
There were 18 medal winners representing nine nations.
Men's events
References
1976 Summer Paralympics events
1976
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