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Sailing (as Yachting) was contested at the 1998 Asian Games from December 8 to December 13. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Ao-dongtarn Jomtien Beach in Pattaya, Chonburi Province.
Medalists
Men
Women
Open
Medal table
Participating nations
A total of 122 athletes from 16 nations competed in sailing at the 1998 Asian Games:
References
Results
External links
Olympic Council of Asia
1998 Asian Games events
1998
Asian Games
Sailing competitions in Thailand
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The 89th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland (its sixth year at this location) on May 24–26, 2016.
Competition
The competition began with 284 contestants (143 boys and 141 girls), winnowed down from 11 million students who participated in local bees around the country. The age range of the spellers was 6 to 15, 70 of whom were making repeat appearances. 29 spellers were relatives of prior contestants. For the first time, a first-grader qualified, 6-year old Akash Vukoti of Texas.
On Tuesday May 24, all contestants took a written test. Then, on May 25, 34 contestants were eliminated when they missed their first word in the first oral round, leaving 251 spellers. By late on May 25, the field had been reduced to 171. After the written scores were added, the field was further reduced to 45 finalists.
The final rounds were held on May 26, beginning with the 45 finalists. After round 4, only 21 spellers were left, and after round 7 there were 10.
Notwithstanding efforts to avoid a third year running of inseparable co-winners (see below), Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga were declared co-champions after 24 championship rounds.
Co-champion Nihar Janga, at age 11, was the first winner since 2002 to win in his first appearance at the national bee. Jairam Hathwar became the second sibling of a past champion (his brother Sriram Hathwar was co-champion in 2014) to win the competition.
Thirteen-year old Snehaa Ganesh Kumar of Folsom, California placed third, falling on "usucapion" in the 16th round, the first championship round. Sylvie Lamontagne of Lakewood, Colorado, also 13, placed fourth, missing "chaoborine" in the 15th round. The final four outlasted all other competitors by a full four rounds. Other finalists, in order, included Smrithi Upadhyayula, Rutvik Gandhasri, Cooper Komatsu, Sreeniketh Vogoti, Mitchell Robson, and Jashun Paluru.
Changes this year
After two consecutive years wher
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Side Pocket is a 1986 pocket billiards video game.
Side Pocket may also refer to:
a side pocket on a Billiard table
a mechanism in a Hedge fund to compartmentalize certain assets
Side Pocket for a Toad, a beer by Tring Brewery
Side pocket mandrel, containing a side pocket, used in oil and gas well completion
"Side Pocket", a 1968 episode of Ironside
"Side Pocket", a song from the 1970 film They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
See also
Pocket, a receptacle in clothing to hold small items
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Sivantos, Inc. (formerly Siemens Hearing Instruments) is the United States affiliate of Sivantos Group, which maintains a global headquarters in Singapore. Sivantos Group (formerly Siemens Audiology Group, a division of Siemens Healthcare) is one of the world's leading manufacturers of hearing aids. They serve hearing care professionals in more than 120 countries, offering hearing aids branded Siemens, Audio Service, Rexton, and A&M. Sivantos, Inc., and is located in Piscataway, NJ, where approximately 500 employees work in manufacturing, research and development, sales, marketing finance, and customer care.
Siemens Hearing Instruments changed its name in 2015 to Sivantos, Inc. when Sivantos Group was spun off from Siemens Audiology Solutions after Siemens AG sold the company to EQT VI and Santo Holding GmbH.
References
External links
Companies based in Middlesex County, New Jersey
Hearing aid manufacturers
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Pamela Theodora Weston (17 October 1921 – 9 September 2009) was a British clarinetist, teacher and writer.
Born in London, she attended Priors Field School. Following two years at the Royal Academy of Music she won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music before studying privately with the noted clarinetist Frederick Thurston. She was a professor of clarinet at the Guildhall from 1951 until 1969. She organised the International Clarinet Association Congress in 1984, the first ever held in the United Kingdom.
Weston's legacy continues in the form of a scholarship for clarinet research at doctoral level, available from the Royal College of Music, recognising the institution's pre-emininence in this area, across both practice and theory.
Publications
Her first book, Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past, published in 1971, was followed by The Clarinet Teacher's Companion (1976), More Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past (1977), Clarinet Virtuosi of Today (1989) and Yesterday's Clarinettists: A Sequel (2002). Weston also published numerous articles in professional journals associated with the clarinet, both in the UK and abroad. She has also written for The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet.
Death
Suffering in her last years from debilitating myalgic encephalomyelitis, she travelled to Switzerland to undertake an assisted suicide at the age of 87 in 2009.
References
1921 births
2009 suicides
2009 deaths
British clarinetists
Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Drug-related suicides in Switzerland
Musicians from London
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
People with chronic fatigue syndrome
Deaths by euthanasia
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Hans-Reinhard Koch (27 November 1929 – 25 April 2018) was a German Roman Catholic prelate. Ordained to the priesthood in 1955, he served as titular bishop of Mediana and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erfurt, Germany, from 1985 to 2004.
Early life and education
Koch was born in Leinefelde in Thuringia as the son of dentist Adolf Koch and housewife Maria Koch. He had two older and two younger siblings. After elementary school in Leinefelde he completed secondary school in Heiligenstadt and Duderstadt where he received his abitur in 1950. He went on to study theology at the seminary in Fulda, Erfurt, and Neuzelle Abbey.
Career
He was ordained priest by bishop Josef Freusberg in Erfurt Cathedral in 1955. After working as chaplain in Nordhausen, he got a position in Kölleda where he worked as pastor for youth in district of Sömmerda. In 1965, he started working at the seminary in Erfurt where he became in charge of the education of priests. In 1968, he started working at the diocesan chancery where he became administrator for priests and lay staff. He served as cathedral priest at Erfurt Cathedral from 1983.
He was appointed auxiliary apostolic administrator of Erfurt-Meiningen and titular bishop of Mediana in May 1985 and ordained bishop by apostolic administrator and titular Bishop Joachim Wanke on 6 July 1985. When the area became Roman Catholic Diocese of Erfurt in 1994, Koch became auxiliary bishop to Wanke. His motto as bishop, Illum oportet crescere, was derived from John 3:30 ("He must become greater; I must become less"). He retired in 2004 at the age 75, the statutory retirement age in the diocese.
Personal life and awards
Koch continued to live in Erfurt after his retirement and enjoyed reading and art. He made a pilgrimage to the church of Klüschen Hagis in 2013, when he was more than 80 years old.
He served for many years on the board of the German Caritas (Deutscher Caritasverband). In 2009, he was awarded the highest award
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Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice (usually called simply Archbold) is the leading practitioners' text for criminal lawyers in England and Wales and several other common law jurisdictions around the world.
It has been in publication since 1822, when it was first written by John Frederick Archbold, and is currently published by Sweet & Maxwell, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters. Forty-three revisions were published prior to 1992 and since then it has been published annually. Its authority is such that it is often quoted in court.
The team of authors is made up of experienced barristers, KCs and judges.
Editors
Magistrates' courts
As far as it covers procedure and practice, Archbold refers to those of the Crown Court. A separate volume, Archbold Magistrates' Courts Criminal Practice covers the magistrates' courts. , Archbold Magistrates' Courts Criminal Practice is now in its 19th edition.
References
External links
The 1st edition of this book (1822), from Google Books .
The 1st American edition of this book (1824), from Google Books .
The 4th edition of this book (1831), from Google Books
The 5th American edition of this book (1846), from Google Books
The 12th edition of this book, republished (with accretions and along with another book by Archbold) in Waterman's Archbold (1853), volume 1 and volume 2 , from Google Books.
The 23rd edition of this book from Internet Archive.
Legal treatises
1822 non-fiction books
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United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 3, 1998, in 36 states and two territories. Going into the election, 24 of the seats were held by Republicans, 11 by Democrats, and one by an Independent. The elections changed the national balance of power by the loss of one Republican and the gain of one Independent, although political party dominance was shifted in nine states. Democrats gained open seats in California and Iowa and defeated incumbents Fob James of Alabama and David Beasley of South Carolina, while Republicans won open seats in Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, and Nevada and the Reform Party won an open Republican governorship in Minnesota. By the end of the election, 23 seats were held by Republicans, 11 by Democrats, one by the Reform Party, and one by an Independent.
The elections coincided with the mid-term elections for the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. With the exception of two states (New Hampshire and Vermont), the governors elected in this election served four-year terms. New Hampshire and Vermont's governors would serve two-year terms.
As of , this election marked the most recent cycle in which Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, and South Carolina elected Democrats to their respective governorships, and by extension, any even-year gubernatorial election in the Deep South. This is also the last time that someone other than a Democrat or a Republican was elected governor in Maine and Minnesota. This would be the last time a third-party candidate (not an independent) would be elected governor of any state, as well as the last time an independent would be elected governor of a state until the 2010 election in Rhode Island. This was the last midterm election until 2022 in which the non-incumbent political party suffered net losses of governorships.
Summary of results
States
Territories and federal district
Closest races
States where the margin of victory was under 1%:
Colorado, 0.7%
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Struggle for the Throne is a 1984 board game published by FASA.
Gameplay
Struggle for the Throne is a Star Trek strategy game in which the players are leaders of powerful Klingon families, each seeking to replace the dying emperor using a combination of strength, diplomacy, influence, and deception.
Reception
Craig Sheeley reviewed Struggle for the Throne in Space Gamer No. 71. Sheeley commented that "Struggle for the Throne is a very good product for FASA; it also puts mini-games back on the market. If you have a lot of sneaky gaming friends, then Struggle for the Throne is worth the steep price."
References
Board games based on Star Trek
Board games introduced in 1984
FASA games
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Highland Hills is a neighborhood in the southern sector of Dallas, Texas. The neighborhood is centered on the intersection of Bonnie View and Simpson Stuart roads. Approximately 78% of the neighborhood is African American, 18% is Hispanic, 2% is white, and 2% are multiracial.
Education
The neighborhood is served by the Dallas Independent School District (DISD). The portion of the neighborhood south of Simpson Stuart Road was served by the Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District until July 1, 2006, when the district was dissolved, and the schools absorbed into DISD. Students in the neighborhood living north of Simpson Stuart Road attend J. N. Ervin Elementary School, Sarah Zumwalt Middle School, and Wilmer-Hutchins High School. Students in the neighborhood living north of Simpson Stuart Road attend either John Neely Bryan, N. W. Harllee, William Brown Miller, or Roger Q. Mills Elementary School, Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School and Classical Academy, and Franklin D. Roosevelt High School.
Libraries
The Highland Hills Branch Library, part of the Dallas Public Library system, is located within the neighborhood.
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The Albatross class is a class of patrol boats in the Portuguese Navy and in the Naval Component of the Timor Leste Defence Force (FDTL). These vessels were built in 1974 and 1975 at the Alfeite Arsenal, Lisbon.
In the Portuguese Navy, the Albatross-class boats are being replaced by Argos and Centauro classes. In 2002, the NRP Albatroz and NRP Açor were transferred to the FDTL, becoming the first craft in its Naval Component. In Timor Leste, they are referred as ''Oecusse'' class.
Units
Portuguese Navy
Macau Maritime and Fiscal Police
Naval Component of Timor Leste
References
Patrol boat classes
Patrol vessels of the Portuguese Navy
Military of East Timor
Ships built in Portugal
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The USS Sangay (AE-10) was an ammunition ship in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. After spending decades in reserve, she was sold for scrapping in November 1980.
History
USS Sangay was named after the Sangay volcano in Ecuador, a tongue-in-cheek reference to what would happen if a munitions ship was hit by enemy fire. She was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 225) as Cape Sable on 30 October 1941 by Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc., Beaumont, Texas; launched on 5 April 1942; sponsored by Mrs. A. Robert Lee; delivered to the War Shipping Administration on 9 September 1942; acquired by the Navy on 25 November 1942; and commissioned on 25 March 1943.
Pacific War
Sangay sailed from Yorktown, Virginia, on 13 May 1943 with a cargo of mines for San Diego. On 30 May, she began the first of four round trips between the west coast and Hawaii, carrying ammunition to Pearl Harbor and returning to San Francisco with defective ammunition and empty shell cases. This duty was completed on 2 October. On 16 November, the ship left San Francisco for the first of five voyages to supply the fleet with ammunition in forward areas.
Sangay's first stop was at Funafuti from 29 November 1943 to 11 January 1944 where, in addition to issuing ammunition to cruisers and destroyers, her crew cleared obstructions in the Te Bua Bua Channel and directed minesweeping operations in the harbor. After resupplying at Pearl Harbor, the ammunition ship moved to the Marshall Islands and issued bombs and fuses to the carriers of Task Force 58 at Majuro from 6 to 9 February, and then transferred the rest of her cargo to barges at Roi between 10 and 14 February and to USS Rainier (AE-5) at Majuro from 17 to 22 February.
She then picked up a fresh cargo of ammunition at San Francisco and issued it to fleet units at Efate on 15 April, Seeadler Harbor from 24 April to 8 May, at Cape Cretin, New Guinea, from 10 to 13 May, at Efate between 18 and 21 May, and at Espiritu Sa
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The NZR G Class was a class of four saddle tank locomotives from English builders Black Hawthorn in the early 1870s. Like the similarly sized D class, they were an attempt to produce a passenger version of the already highly successful F class.
Origin and design
The G class was ordered by the Canterbury Provincial Council. They were derived from the F class, replacing the first of the three driving axles with a four-wheel bogie. It was hoped that the reduced rigid wheelbase would allow the locomotive to provide higher speed passenger services. The type suffered from lack of weight on the driving axles, a driver stating that "it took the 'G' all its time to push its front bogie along, let alone pull a load". They were followed by the L Class which were a more successful attempt to produce a faster F Class.
Service
In the early 1890s the locomotives were progressively transferred to the Picton section, where it was felt that they had been relegated to get rid of them from the busy Hurunui-Bluff section. Their maximum load on the 1 in 37 gradient from Picton was six 4-wheel wagons.
Withdrawal and disposal
All of the locomotives were withdrawn between 1915 and 1919 and were sold for further service in industry.
See also
NZR F class
NZR FA / FB
NZR L class
NZR LA class
Locomotives of New Zealand
References
Citations
Bibliography
Lloyd, W.G. (2002); Register of New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives 1863-1971, Otago Railway & Locomotive Society/Triple M Publications
W.W.Stewart (1970), When Steam Was King, REED
Steam locomotives of New Zealand
Scrapped locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1874
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of New Zealand
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Carl Franklin Hostetter is a Tolkien scholar and NASA computer scientist. He has edited and annotated many of J. R. R. Tolkien's linguistic writings, publishing them in Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon.
Career
NASA
Carl Hostetter joined NASA as a computer scientist at its Goddard Space Flight Center in 1985. In the 1990s, he edited the proceedings of the Goddard Space Conference for some years.
Tolkien scholar
Hostetter is a Tolkien scholar and key figure in the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship. He has written numerous articles on the linguistics of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. He ran the scholarly mailing list Lambengolmor from 2002 to its closure in 2020. He is the editor of the Tolkien linguistics journals Vinyar Tengwar and Tengwestië. By arrangement with Christopher Tolkien, he edited and published a large quantity of J. R. R. Tolkien's writings on his constructed languages in Vinyar Tengwar (in various issues between 1991 and 2007) and in Parma Eldalamberon issues 11 (1995) to 22 (2015).
Reception
John S. Ryan, reviewing the 2000 collection Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (edited by Hostetter and Verlyn Flieger) for VII, called it a "luminous companion" to the 12 volumes of Christopher Tolkien's The History of Middle-earth, and "clearly indispensable". The book won the 2002 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.
The Tolkien scholar Douglas C. Kane, while welcoming the 2021 book The Nature of Middle-earth, writes that Hostetter "appears to overstep his role as editor" by presenting the materials according to his personal point of view. In particular, Kane states that Hostetter wrongly applies Tolkien's remark that The Lord of the Rings was fundamentally religious and Catholic to the whole of the legendarium. Kane calls this contrary to Christopher Tolkien's editorial practice, and "a blatant statement of intent". Kane quotes Verlyn Flieger's remark that Tolkien's work reflects the two sides of his nature
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The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the British soap opera Emmerdale in 1999, by order of first appearance.
Ezra Dingle
Ezra Dingle is Zak Dingle's brother. He appeared in 1999.
Ezra appears a few times during 1999. He is married to Gwen, and has a son and daughters.
Sean Reynolds
Angie Reynolds
Angela "Angie" Reynolds arrived to the village in March 1999 with her husband Sean, son Marc and daughter Ollie. A police sergeant, Angie was eager to move into the village but was frustrated at Sean's delays. She took drastic measures, handcuffing him to the bed until he agreed to sign the contract. She arrested Mandy Dingle after being punched in the face by her.
In 2000, Angie was shocked when Marc was injured in a bus crash, though luckily, his injuries were not critical. Later that year, she was devastated when her best friend, Sarah Sugden, was killed in a barn fire caused by Sarah's adoptive son Andy. Sean accused her of having an affair with Sarah's lover Richie. Then her marriage really hits the rocks when she discovers Sean's affair with Lady Tara Oakwell. Angie took her revenge when she punched her in the face in full view of the punters of The Woolpack. Lady Tara tried to get her arrested but no one claimed to have seen anything. Angie threw Sean out of the house, a move which Ollie resented her for.
In 2001, Angie's father-in-law Len comes to stay following the revelation of Sean and Tara's affair and was happy about it, as he was a great source of comfort for the family. Angie had been miserable and lonely and relented to the attentions of Cain Dingle, a well-known criminal. The fling was exciting and dangerous and she thrived, but the excitement soon wore off. Cain was devastated - he was in love and vowed to get revenge. Meanwhile, Angie and Sean have reconciled and after a holiday together he moves back in. Cain was furious and starts to pursue Ollie, warning Angie to resume the affair or he will sleep with Ollie. Angie was w
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The Conway Daily Sun is a five-day (Tuesday through Saturday) free daily newspaper published in North Conway, New Hampshire, United States, covering the Mount Washington Valley. It has been published since 1989 by Country News Club, and was the forerunner of three other Daily Sun newspapers in New Hampshire and Maine.
The Conway Daily Sun was the first United States daily to publish the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku.
Today
Mark Guerringue, one of the three founders of Country News Club, still serves as publisher of The Conway Daily Sun as of early 2012.
The Daily Sun circulates in several towns of Carroll County, New Hampshire, including Albany, Bartlett (including Glen), Conway (including Intervale and North Conway), Eaton, Freedom, Jackson, Madison (including Silver Lake), Moultonborough, Tamworth (including Chocorua), Ossipee and Wolfeboro; and two towns in Oxford County, Maine: Fryeburg and Lovell.
A complete online PDF can be purchased for a years subscription of 79.99. Making locals hesitant to by in the deal.
Lloyd Jones, Daymond Steer, Brett Guerringue, and Tom Eastman are The Conway Daily Suns staff writers. Several stringers and part-time writers also contribute regularly. Margaret McKenzie is the managing editor, Terry Leavitt edits the health section and Berlin paper. Lloyd Jones also serves as the sports editor. Alec Kerr edits the wire pages and entertainment sections and serves as the paper's entertainment critic.
Citing advertisement revenue issues, The Conway Daily Sun printed its final Monday edition on October 26, 2009. The paper continues to be published Tuesday through Saturday.
Sisters and competitors
Conway was the first free daily to be launched by Dave Danforth, Mark Guerringue and Adam Hirshan. It was joined a few years later by The Berlin Daily Sun. In 2000, Guerringue and Hirshan partnered with Ed Engler to launch The Laconia Daily Sun in the neighboring Lakes Region of New Hampshire. In 2009, Guerringue and Hirshan teamed with
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LC3 or LC-3 may refer to:
LC3 (classification), a para-cycling classification
Little Computer 3, a type of computer educational programming language
Limestone Calcined Clay Cement, a low-carbon cement
Fauteuil Grand Confort, a club chair designed by Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand
MAP1LC3B, a protein involved in autophagy
MAP1LC3A, a protein
LC3 (codec), a Bluetooth audio codec
Rocket launch sites :
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 3, a deactivated US Air Force launch site
Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3, a NASA launch site that has been used by a variety of rocket systems
Xichang Launch Complex 3, an active rocket launch site in the People's Republic of China
See also
Launch Complex 3 (disambiguation)
LCIII (disambiguation)
LCCC (disambiguation)
L3C (disambiguation)
IC3 (disambiguation)
LC (disambiguation)
Technology and engineering disambiguation pages
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Below is list of Catholic schools in the state of New South Wales. It is correct as of June 2023.
Systemic primary schools
Catholic high and K–12 schools
Special schools
See also
List of non-government schools in New South Wales
Catholic Education in the Diocese of Parramatta
Catholic education in Australia
The Seminary of the Good Shepherd
External links
Catholic Education Commission NSW website
Catholic Education Office Sydney
Catholic
Aust
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta
Roman Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay
Roman Catholic Diocese of Wollongong
Roman Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle
Roman Catholic Diocese of Armidale
Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst in Australia
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lismore
Roman Catholic Diocese of Wagga Wagga
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The Devils–Rangers rivalry (also known as the Hudson River rivalry or the Battle of the Hudson River), is an ice hockey rivalry between the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers clubs of the National Hockey League (NHL). The two teams are called "cross-river rivals." This is because Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan, where the Rangers play, is across the Hudson River and less than ten miles from the Prudential Center in downtown Newark (and previously, the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford), the home of the Devils. Travel between both arenas is easily accomplished by both road (usually through the Lincoln Tunnel) and rail (along the Northeast Corridor and PATH).
The Devils and Rangers are two of the three teams that play in the New York City metropolitan area, the other being the New York Islanders. All three teams have fierce, bitter rivalries with each other, as well as with the other (now formerly) Atlantic Division teams, the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins.
History
Early history
The rivalry began in 1982 when the Colorado Rockies moved to New Jersey to become the Devils. For the relocation, they were required to pay massive indemnities to the Rangers, New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers, geographically-proximate teams, for the right to share New Jersey market. Despite the Devils' overall Stanley Cup playoff superiority since the 1990s, the first three playoff series between these teams were all Rangers victories. Their first playoff meeting occurred during the 1992 Stanley Cup playoffs, when the Presidents' Trophy-winning Rangers survived a seven-game Patrick Division semifinals series with the Devils.
Stanley Cup championships of 1994 and 1995
The rivalry's most famous moments, however, are centered around the significance of the teams' meetings during the and seasons.
1994: Rangers win Stanley Cup
Although both teams were the top point-getters in the NHL during the Rangers' championship season of 1993–94 (the Preside
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The .sch file extension is used to indicate a circuit schematic file by various electronic design automation programs, all using different file formats. These types of files are used by:
OrCAD (old versions)
EAGLE (all versions)
Protel (old versions)
Altium (some versions)
KiCad (old versions)
PADS (all versions)
gschem of gEDA suite
See also
Microsoft Schedule (also using this file extension)
References
SCH
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The 1995 Daegu gas explosions occurred at the Daegu Metro Line 1 construction site in Sangin-dong, Daegu, South Korea, on April 28, 1995. The explosion resulted in the death of at least 101 people, including 42 Yeongnam Middle School students, with as many as 202 people injured.
Overview
At 7:52 a.m., an explosion occurred in the underground construction site of the 2nd Section of the Sagley Subway Line 2, located at Yeongnam High School in Sangin-dong, Dalseo-gu, Daegu Metropolitan City. The explosion was caused by a gas leak that occurred when a gas pipeline was accidentally punctured during construction work at the Daegu branch of the Lotte Department Store in Buk-gu, Daegu. The gas leaked into the subway construction site through a nearby sewer, and an unknown source of fire triggered the explosion, which resulted in a 50-meter pillar of fire.
Negligence during the development of the Daegu Department Store was identified as the cause of the accident. Prior to conducting underground excavation at a large construction site, it is essential to contact the company that buried the gas pipe and inquire about its location after obtaining permission from the relevant government office for road excavation. However, in this case, the gas pipe was not reported as damaged to the city gas department until 30 minutes after it was destroyed, resulting in further damage.
The accident occurred during the school day, resulting in 101 deaths, including 42 students at Yeongnam Middle School, 1 teacher, and 2 police officers. In addition, 202 people were injured, and 152 vehicles and 60 houses were damaged, with a total damage cost of 54 billion won.
As a result of the incident, some broadcasting companies discontinued their regular broadcasts. KBS and YTN arranged special coverage or breaking news programming to cover the event.
A housewife initially claimed to have reported the smell of gas four hours before the accident, but she later admitted to lying, stating that she want
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Anconastes is an extinct genus of dissorophoid temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It is known from two specimens from the Late Carboniferous Cutler Formation of north-central New Mexico in the southwestern United States. The genus name derives from two Greek roots, ankos ("mountain glen or valley") and nastes ("inhabitant"), which refers to the type locality of El Cobre Canyon where the specimens were found. The specific name is derived from the Latin word vesperus ("western"). The more complete specimen, the holotype, is a partial skull with articulated mandibles and a substantial amount of the postcranial skeleton. The less complete specimen, the paratype, consists only of the right margin of the skull with an articulated mandible.
Anatomy
When originally described, only three other trematopid taxa were recognized: Acheloma, Actiobates, and "Trematops" (now a synonym of Acheloma); Ecolsonia, which is now considered a trematopid by most workers, had recently been re-described as a dissorophid on the basis of new material. Berman et al. suggested two autapomorphies: (1) an internal naris that is half as wide as it is long; and (2) a dense covering of non-overlapping scales or osteoderms in the dorsal trunk region. They further differentiated Anconastes from Acheloma and "Trematops" by several features: (1) large orbit with a width equal to 1/3 the midline length of the skull; (2) a short suborbital bar with a maxilla entering the orbital margin; (3) pointed snout without prominent dorsomedial expansion of the postparietals; (4) nasals, frontals, and parietals of subequal length; (5) parietals approximately three times the length of the postparietals; (6) frontals not extending beyond the anterior margin of the orbit; (7) large interpterygoid vacuities; (8) an open basicranial joint; and (9) absence of an internarial opening or bone. They differentiated Anconastes from Actiobates by the presence of a quadratojugal contributing substantially to the ventral
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General Sir Peter John Frederick Whiteley, (13 December 1920 – 2 February 2016) was a British Royal Marines officer. He served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1975 to 1977 and then as Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1977 to 1979.
Early life
Whiteley was born on 13 December 1920 in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex. He was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, then an all-boys private school in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and at Bembridge School, a now closed all-boys independent school on the Isle of Wight.
Whiteley was awarded a Newspaper Proprietors' Association scholarship to study at the University of London. However, with the outbreak of the Second World War, he decided to join the military rather than continue his studies.
Military career
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Whiteley volunteered for the Royal Air Force. However, his application was rejected due to his poor eyesight. He then applied to the Royal Marines and was accepted, and he began his officer training. He was commissioned as a probationary second lieutenant on 1 January 1940. On 20 March 1942, his commission was confirmed and he was given the rank of lieutenant with seniority from 14 June 1941. During the war, he served aboard , a battleship, and aboard , a light cruiser. During the latter part of the war, he served with the British Pacific Fleet, which was fighting against the Japanese. He could claim to have fired some of the last shots of the war: on 15 August 1945, during an attack by a Japanese aircraft on his ship, he was attempting to shoot it down when the news of the ceasefire with Japan was received.
Whiteley was selected to become commanding officer of 42 Commando in 1965. He was then appointed commander of 3 Commando Brigade in 1968. He became Commandant General Royal Marines in 1975, was promoted to full general on 17 January 1977, and became Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1977.
Later life
Whiteley served as Lieut
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Khanikhola is a Rural municipality located within the Kavrepalanchowk District of the Bagmati Province of Nepal.
The municipality spans of area, with a total population of 14,398 according to a 2011 Nepal census.
On March 10, 2017, the Government of Nepal restructured the local level bodies into 753 new local level structures.
The previous Phalametar, Dandagaun, Salmechakala, Saldhara and Milche VDCs were merged to form Khanikhola Rural Municipality.
Khanikhola is divided into 7 wards, with Salmechakala declared the administrative center of the rural municipality.
Demographics
At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Khanikhola Rural Municipality had a population of 14,398. Of these, 79.8% spoke Tamang, 17.1% Nepali, 2.6% Magar, 0.2% Newar and 0.3% other languages as their first language.
In terms of ethnicity/caste, 80.2% were Tamang, 7.6% Magar, 4.7% Chhetri, 2.9% Hill Brahmin, 1.3% Kami, 1.0% Majhi, 0.8% Pahari, 0.5% Gurung, 0.4% Damai/Dholi, 0.3% Newar, 0.1% other Dalit, 0.1% Ghale and 0.2% others.
In terms of religion, 84.4% were Buddhist, 14.0% Hindu, 1.0% Prakriti, 0.3% Christian and 0.3% others.
In terms of literacy, 60.3% could read and write, 4.3% could only read and 35.4% could neither read nor write.
References
External links
official website of the rural municipality
Rural municipalities in Kavrepalanchowk District
Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017
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Tehreek-e-Azaadi Jammu and Kashmir (तहरीक-ए-आज़ादी जम्मू और कश्मीर), abbreviated as TAJK, is a terrorist front organisation, run by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. By Indian government, It is claimed to be a front for Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD). In June 2017, it was banned by Pakistan after India raised the issue at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global anti-financial terror body at Paris in February 2017. On 8 June 2017, TAJK was placed on the list of "proscribed organisations" by the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NCTA), an Internal Counterterrorism Authority of Pakistan under Interior Ministry.
See also
Lashkar-e-Taiba
All Parties Hurriyat Conference
Kashmir conflict
al Qaeda
List of designated terrorist organizations
References
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
2017 establishments in Pakistan
Organizations established in 2017
Far-right politics in Pakistan
Jihadist groups in India
Jihadist groups in Pakistan
Jihadist groups in Jammu and Kashmir
Organisations designated as terrorist by India
Organizations based in Asia designated as terrorist
Organisations designated as terrorist by Pakistan
Ahl-i Hadith
Organizations designated as terrorist by the United States
Islamist front organizations
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Higher Kinnerton is a village and community within rural Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales-England border. Its sister village, Lower Kinnerton, is across the border in Cheshire, England.
In the 2001 census it had a population of 1,634, increasing to 1,697 at the 2011 census.
Amenities
The village has a shop, and two public houses, The Swan and The Royal Oak. The parish church is All Saints, which is actually in the parish of Dodleston, England. There is a Scout group called 1st Kinnerton Scouts. The Village Hall hosts various community clubs and events.
The village was awarded Best Kept Community status by Flintshire County Council in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2019.
A planning application for 95 homes to the west of the village was refused on 3 March 2021. The land, adjacent to Kinnerton Meadows and several listed buildings, is believed to have historical significance as falling partly within the site of the medieval Llwydcoed Royal Park.
Education
The village has a primary school, Ysgol Derwen. The local secondary schools are Castell Alun, located in Hope and Hawarden High School in Hawarden.
Governance
The area is an electoral ward for Flintshire County Council, coterminous with the community, which elects one county councillor.
See also
All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton
Kinnerton railway station
References
External links
Photos of Higher Kinnerton and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk
Higher Kinnerton Community Council website
Villages in Flintshire
Communities in Flintshire
Wards of Flintshire
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Parris Island is a district of the city of Port Royal, South Carolina on an island of the same name. It became part of the city with the annexation of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island on October 11, 2002. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau previously defined Parris Island as a census-designated place (CDP) when it was an unincorporated area of Beaufort County. The population was 4,841 at the 2000 census. As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, Parris Island is included within the Beaufort Urban Cluster and the larger Hilton Head Island–Beaufort Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Parris Island was first colonized by Europeans in 1562, when members of a French expedition led by Jean Ribaut temporarily settled on the island. This was the first semi-permanent European settlement in what are now considered the United States. Four years later, a town named Santa Elena was founded here by Spanish Conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. It was the capital of La Florida from 1566 to 1587, during which time Spanish explorers sailed from Santa Elena to explore the Tennessee Valley and Chesapeake Bay. An expedition also traveled overland into the interior to western North Carolina and points west.
After coming under English control, the island was granted to Robert Daniell in 1706 and became known as Port Royal Island. It later came into the hands of Colonel Alexander Parris, sometimes spelled "Paris", Public Treasurer of South Carolina. After his death in 1736, it gradually became known as Parris Island (and the name Port Royal Island was applied to a different one to the north).
Parris Island was captured by the Union Army in 1861 during the American Civil War. It became a coaling station during the war. After the war, through the efforts of African American Congressman Robert Smalls, it continued as a coaling station for the United States Navy and became known as the Port Royal Naval Station. The island was purchased outright in 1883.
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Mubarak al-Fadil led the Umma Reform and Renewal Party, an opposition political party in Sudan, until his arrest in 2007 for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Sudanese government.
References
National Umma Party politicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Sudanese politicians
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Van Hool is a Belgian company, which builds buses. It was founded in 1947 by Bernard Van Hool.
The headquarters are in Koningshooikt (Antwerp).
They have got 15 different buses for the city. 9 of them have got a normal engine, 4 have got an engine that works with gas, and 2 buses have got an electric engine, they are called Trolleybus.
List of all types of Low-Floor-Bus (Citybus):
A 308
A 320
A 300
A 360
A 330
AG 300
AG 500
AGG 300
A 300 CNG (gas engine)
A 320 CNG (gas engine)
A 330 CNG (gas engine)
AG 300 CNG (gas engine)
A 300 T (Trolleybus)
AG 300 T (Trolleybus)
Also they have got 13 different kinds of coachbuses.
List of all types of coachbuses:
913 CL
915 CL
915 TL
T 911 Alicron
T 915 Alicron
T 915 Acron
T 917 Acron
T 917 Astron
T 916 Altano
T 917 Altano
T 918 Altano
TD 924 Astromega
TD 927 Astromega
References
Other websites
Website of VanHool
Transport companies of Europe
Bus transport in Europe
Companies of Belgium
Antwerp (province)
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John Henry Creach (May 28, 1917 – February 22, 1994), better known as Papa John Creach, was an American blues violinist who also played classical, jazz, R&B, pop and acid rock music. Early in his career, he performed as a journeyman musician with Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Stuff Smith, Charlie Christian, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Nat King Cole and Roy Milton.
Following his rediscovery by drummer Joey Covington in 1967, he fronted a variety of bands (including Zulu and Midnight Sun) in addition to playing with Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, the San Francisco All-Stars (1979–1984), Dinosaurs (1982–1989) and Steve Taylor.
Creach recorded a number of solo albums and guested at several Grateful Dead and Charlie Daniels Band concerts. He was a regular guest at the early annual Volunteer Jams, hosted by Charlie Daniels, which exposed him to a new audience that was receptive to fiddle players.
Early life, family and education
Creach was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, near the border of Ohio. As a child, he was introduced to the violin by an uncle, and he received both tutoring in the instrument and conservatory training. Creach and his family moved to Chicago in 1935.
Career
Once he relocated to Chicago, the teenager began playing violin in bars. He performed some symphonic work when he was in his early 20s, which was unusual for a black musician at the time. At one point, he joined a local cabaret trio called the Chocolate Music Bars and toured the Midwest with them.
According to Creach, knowing how to play in a variety of styles was a necessity to survive as a musician in Chicago at the time:
He had some difficulty in learning to play jazz violin, having to adjust his bowing technique, but was helped when he purchased an electric violin in 1943. Moving to Los Angeles in 1945, he played in the Chi Chi Club, worked on an ocean liner for five years, appeared in several films, including with Nat King Cole in Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardeni
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The 2020 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and were officially announced in The London Gazette on 27 December 2019. Australia, an independent Realm, has a separate honours system and its first honours of the year, the 2020 Australia Day Honours, coincide with Australia Day on 26 January.
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country whose ministers advised Her Majesty on the appointments, then by the honour and by the honour's grade (i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander etc.), and then by divisions (i.e. Civil, Diplomatic, and Military), as appropriate.
United Kingdom
Below are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of the United Kingdom with honours within her own gift and with the advice of the Government for other honours.
Privy Councillor
Order of the Companions of Honour
Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE – For services to Music and to Charity
Sir Keith Vivian Thomas FBA – For services to the Study of History
Knight Bachelor
David Julian Bintley CBE – For services to Dance
Humphrey Burton CBE – For services to Classical Music, to the Arts and to Media
Professor Anthony Kevin Cheetham FRS, Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge – For services to Material Chemistry, to UK Science and to Global Outreach
The Right Honourable George Iain Duncan Smith MP - for political and public service
Peter Kenneth Estlin, Lately Lord Mayor of London – For services to International Business, to Inclusion and to Skills
Dr Dennis Barry Gillings CBE – For services to the Advancement of Dementia and to Life Sciences Research
Francis John Stapyl
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Eldon Dedini (June 29, 1921 – January 12, 2006) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere.
Life
Dedini was born in King City, California, on June 29, 1921; his father was a dairy farmer, his mother a schoolteacher. He studied at Salinas Junior College, where Leon Amyx was on the teaching staff, and then at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. There he met Virginia Conroy; they were married on July 15, 1944. They adopted a baby boy called john in 1960.
Dedini died at his home in Carmel, California, on January 12, 2006 at the age of 84.
Exhibitions
Broccoli & Babes: The Cartoons and Posters of Eldon Dedini: November 4, 2005—January 20, 2006 at the Sasoontsi Gallery, Salinas, Calif.
Monterey Museum of Art "Arriola, Dedini, Ketchum" 1982
Awards
Dedini received the National Cartoonists Society's Gag Cartoon Award in 1958, 1961, 1964 and 1988.
Bibliography
Illustrations for Bantam Books editions of Max Shulman works:
Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, (1958) (1959)
Barefoot Boy with Cheek (1959)
Sleep Till Noon (1959)
I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf (1960)
The Feather Merchants
Anyone Got a Match (1965)
The Dedini Gallery. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1961)
A Much, Much Better World. Microsoft Press, Bellevue WA (1985)
Fantagraphics Books published a posthumous collection of his work, An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini in 2006. Introduction by political cartoonist Dennis Renault. The book is bundled with a documentary "Dedini: A Life of Cartoons" by Anson Musselman.
References
Sources
American National Biography Online
New York Times report of death Retrieved January 14, 2006
Monterey Herald obituary Retrieved January 14, 2006 (reprinted at emdashes.com
"Broccoli and Babes," an article by Ben Bamsey in Artworks (winter 2005): 58-63
Dedini's papers and original art are archived at the Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University, which also has on file a videotape of his presentation at the
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In December 1996 the United Nations proclaimed 21 November as World Television Day commemorating the date on which the first World Television Forum was held in 1996.
Opposition to this declaration took the form of 11 abstentions to a vote on the resolution; in expressing their opposition, the delegation from Germany said:
References
Recurring events established in 1996
United Nations days
November observances
History of television
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CRUNCH was a former Saturday morning programming block dedicated to animation on the Canadian television channel YTV. CRUNCH premiered on September 9, 2006, replacing The Zone Summer Weekends hosted by Sugar and Carlos, and "Vortex" hosted by Paula. From its beginning until mid September 2008, it was hosted by Ajay Fry. Starting October 4, 2008, Andy Chapman (not to be confused with Andy from the YTV show, Prank Patrol) became the host.
The theme of the new programming block was a new holiday called "day 6", where there is no homework, chores or hobbies, such as music classes which could interrupt a kid's day during the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (the hours that the CRUNCH programming block aired). YTV promoted the new programming block by inviting kids to download a kit which included door hangers informing others that day 6 was on and no chores and homework were being completed. There were also flyers which contained many of the programming block's slogans and a large notebook poster.
The hosted portions of CRUNCH were different than other programming blocks. Rather than having a host talk for 5 minutes after a show, it was divided into two parts: one during the second commercial break, and one during the credits. Crunch also used special on-screen bugs. Sister block The Zone followed its footsteps on September 3, 2007.
The block ended on September 28, 2013, and was replaced by The Zone Weekend the following week.
See also
List of shows on CRUNCH
External links
CRUNCH website on YTV.com
2006 introductions
2013 endings
YTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Television programming blocks in Canada
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Bernhard Germeshausen (21 August 1951 – 15 April 2022) was an East German bobsledder who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won four medals with three golds (Two-man: 1976, Four-man: 1976, 1980) and one silver (Two-man: 1980).
He also won five medals at the FIBT World Championships with three golds (Two-man: 1981, Four-man: 1977, 1981), one silver (Four-man: 1979), and one bronze (Four-man: 1978).
Prior to his role in bobsleigh, Germeshausen competed in track and field athletics as a decathlete, winning the East German championship in 1974.
He later became a sports instructor.
References
Amrhein, Klaus (2005). Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte der Deutschen Leichtathletik 1898–2005, 2 Bände, Darmstadt: Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft.
Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932–56 and since 1964
Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964
Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
1951 births
2022 deaths
People from Heilbad Heiligenstadt
Bobsledders at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 1980 Winter Olympics
German decathletes
German male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for East Germany
Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Sportspeople from Thuringia
Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
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Graham George Willars known as Graham Willars (20 November 1939 - 20 September 1997) was an English rugby union flanker who played a 338 games for Leicester Tigers from 1959 to 1987, he also coached the side from 1982–87 and was club president from 1991–93.
Playing career
Willars made his Leicester debut as a 19 year old on 17 October 1959 against Cheltenham at Welford Road and played 21 times in his first season. However competition for places was fierce and in 1960/61 he played only 5 times and did not feature at all in either 1961/62 or 1962/63. Willars reappeared in the first team against Waterloo in December 1962 and was then a feature in the team for many years. Willars was club captain in 1968/69 and then again in 1972/73.
Willars' career lasted 27 years and 169 days, spanning 1,154 Tigers games, the longest by both measures of any player for Leicester Tigers. He featured as a player in a record 20 different seasons. At 47 years and 135 days he is also the oldest player to play for the club.
Coaching and administration career
Willars succeeded Chalkie White as Tigers' first team coach and lead the side from 1982–87 leading the side to the final of the 1982-83 John Player Cup, where the side lost to Bristol.
Sources
Farmer,Stuart & Hands, David Tigers-Official History of Leicester Football Club (The Rugby DevelopmentFoundation )
W is for Graham Willars
References
1939 births
1997 deaths
English rugby union players
Rugby union flankers
Rugby union players from Leicester
Leicester Tigers players
Leicester Tigers coaches
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The Bradford House was an historic house in Lewiston, Maine, United States.
The three story brick building was built in 1876 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It was extensively damaged by fire on July 4, 2007, and was later demolished. It was removed from the National Register in 2015.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Androscoggin County, Maine
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Houses completed in 1876
Houses in Lewiston, Maine
Demolished buildings and structures in Maine
National Register of Historic Places in Lewiston, Maine
Former National Register of Historic Places in Maine
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Dreamworld Studios was an auditorium with production facilities located at the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Australia. It is notable for being the location of Big Brother Australias live shows. In 2019, the studio, along with the Big Brother house, was bulldozed to make way for Steel Taipan.
History
Dreamworld Studios opened in 1986 as the Music Bowl. Around 1990, the auditorium's name was changed to Dreamworld Amphitheatre before being renamed Dreamworld Studios in 2001 when Big Brother Australia began production. In August 2019, the venue was demolished to make way for a future attraction for the theme park. In the months prior to its demise, vision of the abandoned house spread across social media. This resulted in numerous trespassers and vandals visiting the compound. Later, four children were charged with arson after they were seen running from the abandoned house at the time that a fire broke out.
Usage
Big Brother
Dreamworld Studios are mostly used during the production of Big Brother Australia. The Big Brother house was located a short walk away from the studios. This allowed live shows to take place in the auditorium. Big Brother was produced at Dreamworld from 2001 until 2008 for Network Ten and from 2012 until 2014 for the Nine Network.
Temporary use
During periods where Big Brother was not in production, Dreamworld Studios have been used for various temporary shows.
In 2004, Dreamworld played host to the Believe in Dreams illusion show at Dreamworld Studios. The show starred John Taylor.
In 2006, a new and improved 'games area' was built at dreamworld studios for Big Brother Friday Night Live and its spinoff show: 'Friday Night Games'.
MTV Plugs Into Dreamworld (sometimes shortened to MTV Plugs In) was a temporary live show held in the Dreamworld Studios amphitheatre for the 2009—2010 summer school holidays. The show was run from 26 December 2009 to 22 January 2010. The 30 minute performance was shown 3 times a day and included a var
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The Catalan Open was a European Tour golf tournament which was played annually from 1989 to 1996, except for 1990. It was played at several different golf courses in Catalonia, Spain. It never had the same full official name two years in a row, due to sponsorship and preferred language changes. The winners included future two-time Masters champion José María Olazábal. The prize fund was £200,000 in 1989 and £300,000 in all other years (plus the usual minor increments to the guaranteed amount for additional players who made the cut). By the final year this was the second smallest purse on the tour.
Winners
Notes
References
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
Former European Tour events
Golf tournaments in Catalonia
1989 establishments in Catalonia
Defunct sports competitions in Spain
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Bhaini is a village in Phillaur in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located from sub district headquarters and from district headquarters. The village is administered by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of the village.
Demography
, The village has a total number of 166 houses and the population of 782 of which 417 are males while 365 are females. According to the report published by Census India in 2011, out of the total population of the village 509 people are from Schedule Caste and the village does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
See also
List of villages in India
References
External links
Tourism of Punjab
Census of Punjab
Villages in Jalandhar district
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Lü Wencheng (吕文成, pinyin: Lǚ Wénchéng, or Lui Man Sing in Cantonese, jyutping: Leoi5 Man4 Sing4) (1898 in Zhongshan - 1981 in Hong Kong) was a Chinese composer and musician. He composed Autumn Moon Over Calm Lake in the 1930s, one of the best known works of Cantonese music.
He also played the yangqin and was a Cantonese opera singer. His music shows a strong influence of the traditional music of the Shanghai area as a result of living almost thirty years there.
Life
Lü was born in 1898 in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, but grew up in Shanghai when at the age of three he and his parents moved to Shanghai. There he developed the gaohu, composed and performed Guangdong yinyue, and made recordings. In 1932, he moved to Hong Kong, where he lived until his death in 1981. His daughter, Lü Hong (吕红), is a professional singer, and the wife of Chinese musician Lui Tsun-Yuen.
Works
Lü is considered to have been a master of Cantonese music (Guangdong yinyue) and Guangdong folk music.
He developed, or co-developed, the gaohu in the 1920s from the erhu by raising its pitch and using steel strings instead of silk, and changing its playing position from on the thigh to between the knees.
He composed Autumn Moon Over the Calm Lake (; pinyin: Píng Hú Qiū Yuè) in the 1930s, and this piece remains to this day one of the best known works of Cantonese music.
His piece "Tiger down the Mountain" (; pinyin: Xià Shān Hǔ) is quoted in the Chinese Rhapsody by Xian Xinghai.
Compositions
Lü composed over 100 pieces, including:
bù bù gāo Higher step by step
chén zuì dōng fēng 沉醉东风 Intoxicated by the easterly wind
jiāo shí míng qín 蕉石鸣琴
luò huā tiān 落花天 Flowers falling from sky
píng hú qiū yuè Autumn Moon Over Calm Lake
qīng méi zhú mǎ 青梅竹马 Happy childhood
qí shān fèng 岐山凤 Phoenix of Mount Qishan
xǐng shī 醒狮 Awakening lion
yín hé huì 银河会 Meeting in the Milky Way
yú gē wǎn chàng 渔歌晚唱 Fisherman's song at dusk
xià shān hǔ 下山虎 Tiger down the Mountain
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Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church is a parish church in the Archdiocese of Hartford located in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. The parish was founded by Lithuanian immigrants within the 20th century. Construction of the church began in 1912.
History
Lithuanians began settling in the Hartford, Connecticut area in the 1890s. In 1894, Father Joseph Zebris, who had been celebrating Mass in Waterbury, Connecticut, began his mission in Hartford, where 20 Lithuanian families had already settled. Father Zebris, founded "The Sons of Lithuania Society" in Hartford in 1896, under the patronage of St. John the Baptist.
In June 1898, Father Zebris was appointed as pastor of a church in New Britain. During the 19th century, many Lithuanians came to the Eastern United States. About 80 immigrants settled in Hartford. Father Zebris organized a meeting for all Lithuanian Hartfordites and those from Windsor and Poquonock to discuss offering Mass on Sundays in Hartford. The immigrants held a July 4 bazaar, and from the proceeds were able to rent a large room in a building on the corner of Sheldon and Main Street. They celebrated their first Mass there on July 17, 1898.
References
Trumpa Hartford'o Lietuvių Kolonijos istorija. - Hartford, 1923. - 40 p.
Auksinis Jubuliejus 1900 - 1950 Įv. Trejybės parapija. - Hartford, 1950.
Diamond Jubilee of Holy Trinity Parish 1900 - 1975. - Hartford, 1975.
90th Anniversary of Holi Trinity R. C. Lithuanian Parish. - Hartford, 1990.
Centennial Jubilee of Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Lithuanian Parish 1900 - 2000. - Hartford, 2000.
Lithuanian pioneer priest of New England
Lithuanian Religious Life in America: A Compendium of 150 Roman Catholic Parishes and Institutions. Eastern United States -
Lithuanian Religious Life in America: A Compendium of 150 Roman Catholic Parishes and Institutions. Pennsylvania
Lithuanian Religious Life in America: A Compendium of 150 Roman Catholic Parishes and Institutions. The Midwest and Beyond
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The 2005 Swiss Figure Skating Championships (officially named and ) were held in Lausanne from January 6 through 8th, 2005. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.
Senior results
Men
Ladies
Ice dancing
External links
results
Swiss Figure Skating Championships
Swiss Figure Skating Championships, 2005
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The Dreamworld Tower is a tower located in the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The Giant Drop and the former Tower of Terror II uses this tower.
Tower design
The tower was designed and manufactured by Intamin, an amusement ride manufacturer. Construction costs of the tower alone exceeded A$1 million. It was the first tower and only of its kind to feature more than one amusement ride. The interior of the tower features a staircase to the top which allows crews to maintain the tower and rides.
Rides
The Giant Drop
The Giant Drop is currently the world's third largest amusement ride, and was, at its debut in 1998, the tallest freefall drop in the world with a drop of . It conceded this title on 7 July 2012 when the Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain with a drop of . Riders can reach a maximum speed of . Riders start up the tower at a leisurely pace and are held suspended in the air for roughly 40 seconds before plummeting towards the ground.
Tower of Terror II
The Tower of Terror II was the world's fourth tallest roller coaster. It was the fifth fastest roller coaster, tying with the Superman: Escape from Krypton roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain for speed. It opened on 23 January 1997 as the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. The actual track travels all the way up to the top of the tower; however, the actual car travels up to about from the top. Riders travel at , and experience up to 4.5gs. The ride was closed permanently on 3 November 2019.
Viewing from other locations
The Dreamworld Tower is able to be viewed with the naked eye from Coochiemudlo Island in Moreton Bay, providing the atmospheric condition allows for this. The projected distance from the tower to the main beach on Coochiemudlo Island is . The closer sugar mill exhaust tower near Jacobs' Well is not to be confused with the viewing of the tower and appears to be the same height. This chimney appears to the left of
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The 1993 KAL Cup Korea Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that was part of the World Series of the 1993 ATP Tour. It was the seventh edition of the tournament and was played in Seoul in South Korea from 19 April through 26 April 1993. Eighth-seeded Chuck Adams won the singles title.
Finals
Singles
Chuck Adams defeated Todd Woodbridge 6–4, 6–4
It was Adams' only title of the year and the 1st of his career.
Doubles
Jan Apell / Peter Nyborg defeated Neil Broad / Gary Muller 5–7, 7–6, 6–2
It was Apell's only title of the year and the 1st of his career. It was Nyborg's only title of the year and the 1st of his career.
References
External links
ITF tournament edition details
KAL Cup Korea Open
Seoul Open
1993 Seoul Open
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The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard ( Leyb-gvardiya, from German Leib "body"; cf. Life Guards / Bodyguard) were military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Russia. Peter the Great founded the first such units in 1683, to replace the politically motivated Streltsy. The Imperial Guard subsequently increased in size and diversity to become an elite corps of all branches within the Imperial Army rather than Household troops in direct attendance on the Tsar. Numerous links were however maintained with the Imperial family and the bulk of the regiments of the Imperial Guard were stationed in and around Saint Petersburg in peacetime. The Imperial Guard was disbanded in 1917 following the Russian Revolution.
History
Peter the Great first established the two senior units of the eventual Imperial Guard, the Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky infantry regiments. Peter formed these two regiments as part of his professionalization of the Russian army after its disastrous defeat by the Swedes at the Battle of Narva, during the early phases of Great Northern War. He was influenced, too, by his distrust of the Streltsy, who had risen against him repeatedly, both during his childhood (which traumatised him) and during his reign.
Later, Empress Anna formed the Izmailovsky Regiment, recruited from her native Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, out of distrust of the other guard regiments (especially the Preobrazhensky) as a result of her paranoia of losing power. The Izmaylovsky Regiment became the official palace guards during Anna's reign.
But the term "leib" was not used until the reign of Empress Elizabeth (1741-1762) during her formation of the Leib Company made up of the grenadiers (especially the Preobrazhensky) who helped put her on the throne.
Revolution of 1905
The Imperial Guard played a key role in suppressing the 1905 Revolution, most particularly at Saint Petersburg on Sunday, 22 (O.S. 9) January 1905 (Bloody Sunday). The Semyonov
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The Llaguno Overpass (Puente Llaguno in Spanish), also known as the Llaguno Bridge, is a bridge in central Caracas, Venezuela, near the Miraflores Palace, made infamous by the events of 11 April 2002, when a shootout took place between the and the pro-government Bolivarian Circles, also known as El Silencio Massacre, causing 19 deaths and 127 injured people. The events preceded the 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt. The military high command refused Hugo Chávez's order to implement the Plan Ávila as a response to protests against him, a military contingency plan by the army to maintain public order last used in 1989 during The Caracazo, and demanded him to resign. President Chávez was subsequently arrested by the military. Chávez's request for asylum in Cuba was denied, and he was ordered to be tried in a Venezuelan court.
Background
11 April march
The crisis came when "workers and business leaders," infuriated by Chávez's "meddling in the state oil company," as the Chicago Tribune put it, joined in "calling for a general strike that cut exports" in support of striking oil workers. The strike began, according to The Washington Post, "as a managerial protest at the state-run oil company, but evolved into a broad effort supported by the country's largest business and labor groups to force Chávez from power." After days of general strikes and protests involving thousands of Venezuelans, on 10 April, a speech was held at the CTV headquarters, where CTV and Fedecámaras held speeches that involved a Brigadier General denouncing Chávez's alleged involvement with FARC, and the announcement of a march the next day with the possibility of an indefinite strike. The march on 11 April was to begin at 9:00am, starting at Parque del Este and ending at the PDVSA headquarters.
On 11 April, just hours before an operation to take over the PDVSA by force was to begin, General Rosendo, knowing the consequences of such an action, talked Chávez out of the plan. Later that day, hundreds of
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The U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets is a subcommittee of the House Committee on Financial Services.
Jurisdiction
The subcommittee reviews laws and programs related to the U.S. capital markets, the securities industry, and government-sponsored businesses, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It also oversees the Securities and Exchange Commission and organizations that regulate themselves, such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, that regulate the securities markets.
Members, 116th Congress
References
Other websites
Official website
Subcommittees of the United States House of Representatives
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The Noida Sector 18 is a metro station on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro. The central hub for shopping destinations in Noida including The Great India Place, DLF Mall of India. Atta Market(street shopping hub of Noida) among others is located just off the metro station.
Station layout
Market place
there is a sector 18 market below the metro station which consists of food places, street food, clothing, electronics, etc. opposite sector 18 market is a wholesale market also called atta market.
Facilities
List of available ATMs at Noida Sector 18 metro station are HDFC Bank and Punjab National Bank.
Connections
Bus
Delhi Transport Corporation bus routes number 33, 33A, 33EXT, 34A, 319, 319A, 323, 347, 443, 491 and 493 serve the station from the Sector 28 bus stop nearby.
In addition, the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) runs the "Yamuna Sarthi" bus service connecting Noida, Greater Noida and the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) areas. It consists of CNG semi-low-floor buses, each with a capacity of 50 passengers, running from the Botanical Garden metro station to Sector 22D in YEIDA area. The buses traverse a circular route covering 13 bus stops, including Botanical Garden metro station, The Great India Place Mall, Amity University, ATS Village in Sector 93A, KPMG, Kondli, Pari Chowk, Parasvnath P3, YEIDA office, Gautam Buddha University, Galgotia University, Dankaur and Sector 22D of the YEIDA area.
There are also some private Force Traveller operators that ply between the Botanical Garden metro station and Pari Chowk, Greater Noida, passing near the Sector-18 station.
See also
List of Delhi Metro stations
Transport in Delhi
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
Delhi Suburban Railway
List of rapid transit systems in India
References
External links
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)
Delhi Metro Annual Reports
UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic
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Phebalium canaliculatum is a species of erect shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is more or less covered with silvery and rust-coloured scales and has thin, cylindrical leaves and dark pink to pale mauve flowers in umbels on the ends of branches.
Description
Phebalium canaliculatum is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and is more or less covered with silvery and rust-coloured scales. The leaves are cylindrical to slightly flattened, about long and wide on a very short petiole. The flowers are dark pink to pale mauve and arranged in sessile umbels on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are about long and joined for about half their length, scaly on the outside but glabrous inside. The petals are elliptical, long and wide, covered with silvery scales on the outside. The filaments of the stamens are pale mauve with a yellow anther. Flowering occurs in May or from July to October.
Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described in 1896 by Ferdinand von Mueller and Ralph Tate from specimens collected by James Drummond "towards Ularing" during Giles's third expedition. It was given the name Eriostemon canaliculatus and the description was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. In 1958, James Hamlyn Willis changed the name to Phebalium canaliculatum, publishing the name change in The Victorian Naturalist.
Distribution and habitat
Phebalium canaliculatum grows on sandplains and hillslopes, sometimes on rock outcrops, in shrubland or mallee between Wongan Hills, Sandstone and Kalgoorlie.
Conservation status
Phebalium canaliculatum is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
References
canaliculatum
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1896
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
Taxa named by Ralph Tate
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1188 Gothlandia, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by astronomer Josep Comas i Solà at the Fabra Observatory in 1930, the asteroid was later named after the ancient name of the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia.
Discovery
Gothlandia was discovered on 30 September 1930, by Catalan astronomer Josep Comas i Solà at the Fabra Observatory in Barcelona, Spain. It was independently discovered by Soviet Grigory Neujmin at Simeiz Observatory on 17 October 1930, and by K. Nakamura at Kyoto Observatory, Japan, on 18 October 1930. The Minor Planet Center, however, only credits the first discoverer. The asteroid was first identified as at Simeiz in September 1917.
Orbit and classification
Gothlandia is a member of the Flora family (), a giant asteroid family and the largest family of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.8–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,184 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.18 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation at Barcelona in 1930.
Physical characteristics
In the SMASS classification, Gothlandia is a stony S-type asteroid, which corresponds to the overall spectral type for Florian asteroids.
Rotation period and poles
Several rotational lightcurves of Gothlandia have been obtained from photometric observations since the 1990s. Lightcurve analysis gave a consolidated rotation period of 3.4916 hours with a brightness variation of 0.81 magnitude (). A high brightness amplitude typically indicates a non-spherical shape.
Modeled lightcurves using data from the Uppsala Asteroid Photometric Catalogue (UAPC) and other sources gave a concurring period 3.491820 hours. In 2013, another modeled lightcurve obtained form photometric data collected by the Catalina Sky Survey
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is a train station in the town of Mihama, Chita District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, operated by Meitetsu.
Lines
Kōwa Station is a terminus the Meitetsu Kōwa Line, and is located 28.8 kilometers from the opposing terminus of the line at .
Station layout
Kōwa Station has a bay platform with two platforms serving four tracks. The station has automated ticket machines, Manaca automated turnstiles and is staffed.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
Station history
Kōwa Station was opened on August 1, 1935 as a station on the Chita Railway. The Chita Railway became part of the Meitetsu system on February 1, 1943. A new station building was completed in March 1979. In 2006, the Tranpass system of magnetic fare cards with automatic turnstiles was implemented.
Other Transportation
Bus routes
Lanes
Ferry terminal is close to this station, and the walk takes 5 minutes, what is more, free shuttle buses operated by Chita Noriai bound for Port of Kowa depart from this station.
Port of Kowa
Meitetsu Kaijō Ferry bound for Cape Irago via Himakajima・Shinojima from Port of Kowa. At Port of Irago which is located near Cape Irago the last ferry board, passengers are able to change ferries operated by Isewan Ferry. This Ferry bound for Nakanogō Station (Near Toba Aquarium).
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 2171 passengers daily.
Surrounding area
Mihama Town Hall
Japan National Route 247
See also
List of Railway Stations in Japan
References
External links
Official web page
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1932
Railway stations in Aichi Prefecture
Stations of Nagoya Railroad
Mihama, Aichi
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Saint John Church is a Roman Catholic church and parish in Middletown, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Norwich.
History
In the early 19th Century, immigrants from Ireland moved in large numbers to Middletown. By 1830 there were enough families there to form a vibrant and close-knit Irish community that desired its own place of worship. In 1841, two acres of land were purchased on the current site of the Church. Most of the future parishioners of Saint John worked across the river in the brownstone quarries of Portland and the owners of the quarries donated large blocks of brownstone to help build the first church.
Oldest Church of the Diocese
Saint John Church was built back in 1843, predating the erection of the Diocese of Norwich on August 6, 1953, by Pope Pius XII, making it the oldest church in the newly organized diocese. The Diocese of Norwich was split from the Diocese of Hartford in 1953, after which Hartford was elevated to an archdiocese.
Buildings
The imposing 1843 Irish-influenced ecclesiastical Gothic Revival church building was designed by architect, Patrick Charles Keely and it was built by local Irish immigrants that were led by prominent local builder Barzialli Sage. The original church that was completed in 1843 was just a small church building and the existing spire for the Church was erected in 1864. There have been three renovations to the exterior of the building. The 1864 building is now the sacristy for St. John's and the current church was finished in 1852. The Church can hold up to one thousand worshipers. The interior walls of the Church were frescoed by William Borgett, a local artist and there have been several interior renovations over the years.
The building is listed as significant contributing property of the City of Middletown Historic District.
St. Elizabeth Convent
During the construction of the Church, it was decided that a convent was to be built. Saint Elizabeth Convent was finished in 1873. The convent was used as
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Zhaoyang District is the only district and the seat of the city of Zhaotong, in the northeast of Yunnan Province, China. It borders the provinces of Guizhou to the southeast and Sichuan to the west.
Administrative divisions
Zhaoyang County has 3 subdistricts, 10 towns, 3 townships and 4 ethnic townships.
3 subdistricts
Fenghuang ()
Longquan ()
Miaoba ()
10 towns
3 townships
Sujia ()
Dazhaizi ()
Tianba ()
4 ethnic townships
References
External links
Zhaoyang District Official Website
County-level divisions of Zhaotong
Districts of China
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Geoffrey Douglas Langlands CMG, MBE, HI, SPk (21 October 1917 – 2 January 2019) was a British educationalist who spent most of his life teaching in and leading schools in Pakistan, instructing many of the country's elite. In World War II he served as a Major in the British Army, and afterwards in the British Indian Army, where he worked to keep the peace during the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947. He transferred to the Pakistani Army at the birth of the country, and returned to a career in education, first of army officers. Then, at the invitation of the President, he joined the so-called "Eton of Pakistan", Aitchison College in Lahore. After 25 years there, he left to lead a military high school, Cadet College Razmak. He ended his career by taking on a new school in Chitral and raising it to internationally high standards; he continued to lead it into his 90s, when it was renamed in his honour Langlands School and College.
Early life
Langlands was born in 1917, with a twin brother, in Hull, England, to a father employed in an Anglo-American company and a mother who was a classical folk dance instructor. His father died in the 1918 flu pandemic that killed millions worldwide. His mother then took her children to her parents' home in Bristol.
She died of cancer ten years later, as soon thereafter did the children's grandfather, leaving Langlands and his siblings without any living relatives. He was given a free place at King's College, Taunton (a private - i.e.fee-paying - school) by its headmaster, a family friend. His older brother received a scholarship to an orphan school in Bristol, and a family friend helped secure positions for the other children.
Career
Military career
In July 1935, Langlands completed his A Level education and began his teaching career in London, the following year at age 18. In September 1936, he was a mathematics and science teacher to second grade students in a school in Croydon. When World War II began in 1939, Lang
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Jean Capelle (died 29 December 1962) was a French athlete. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
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External links
Year of birth missing
Place of birth missing
1962 deaths
Place of death missing
Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
French male marathon runners
Olympic athletes for France
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Raman Bedi (BDS (Bristol), MSc (Manchester), DDS and DSc (Bristol), FDSRCS (Edinburgh and England), FGDP, FPHM) is Professor of Transcultural Oral Health at King's College London and was the Chief Dental Officer of England from 2002 to 2005. He is Chairman of the Global Child Dental Fund, having established the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce, and continues to practise.
Chief Dental Health Officer
Professor Bedi served as the Chief Dental Officer of England from 1 October 2002 to 1 October 2005. Notable developments towards which Bedi contributed in this period include the passage of the Health and Social Care Act (dental clauses) 2004, Water Act (Fluoridation) 2004 and the Section 60 (2005) order reforming the General Dental Council.
Bedi also chaired the English Dental Workforce Review (2004) and completed its implementation targets in October 2005 (namely increasing the primary care workforce by 5% net and generating a 25% increase in dental undergraduate training). Other focuses of Bedi's term included reform of the prison dental service and of the Salaried Dental Service.
In September 2005 he chaired the UK European Union Presidency dental programme.
Academic career
Professor Bedi held the Foundational Chair in Transcultural Oral Health at the Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, and was Director of the National Centre for Transcultural Oral Health from 1996–2002. From 1998–2008 he was the co-director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre at the Eastman Dental Institute.
Professor Bedi is currently Professor of Transcultural Oral Health at King's College London and holds an honorary chair at University College London. He also has an honorary "Extraordinary Professorship" in Paediatric Dentistry at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2007–2010), and chairs at I.T.S. Centre for Dental Studies & Research, India and Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi.
He was President of the British Society
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There are many Prince Charlies Caves in the Highlands, caves where Charles Edward Stuart was said to have sheltered when on the run from the Duke of Cumberland, after the defeat at the Battle of Culloden.
There is one such cave supposedly located on Meilchan, a small green hillock, overlooking Loch nan Uamh in Druimindarroch in Inverness-shire, Scotland. However, there have been many other possible locations suggested. Another cave which Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed in with Ewen MacPherson of Cluny for two weeks in September of 1746 before his final departure for France on 20 September was located around Ben Alder, for which several actual locations have been suggested. There are at least two such caves in South Uist, in Gleann Corghadail and to the north of Beinn Ruigh Choinnich, with a third possible in Èiseabhal.
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References
Landforms of Highland (council area)
Charles Edward Stuart
Caves of Scotland
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Richelieu Foods is a private label food manufacturing company founded in 1862, headquartered in Wheeling, IL. It was previously owned by investment group Brynwood Partners and owned from 2010 by investment group Centerview Partners LLC and sold December 2017 to Freiberger USA Inc., Parsippany, New Jersey, USA, a subsidiary of the German Südzucker AG
The company—which produces frozen pizza, salad dressing, sauces, marinades, condiments to be marketed by other companies as their store brand or white label brand—manufactures over 100 million frozen pizzas and more than 25 million finished crusts annually, reporting more than $500 million in yearly sales.
Companies with private label items from Richelieu include Hy-Vee, Aldi, Save-A-Lot, Sam's Club, Hannaford Brothers Co., BJ's Wholesale Club (Earth's Pride brand) and Shaw's Supermarkets (Culinary Circle brand). The company's own brands have included Chef Antonio, Raveena's, Pizza Presto!, Grocer's Garden, Caterer's Collection, Oak Park, and Willow Farms.
With approximately 1,000 employees, Richelieu Foods operates four manufacturing facilities in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (pizza), Wheeling, IL (Pizza)Washington Court House, Ohio (cold press pizza crusts), Grundy Center, Iowa and Elk Grove Village, Illinois (sauces and dressings).
According to Hoover's, Richelieu Foods' average annual revenue per worker is about $900,000.
History
The company was founded in 1862. By 1956, the company operated as Western Dressing Inc. It was sold to an investment group in 1988. The group had the company expand its line of products. In 1994, Richelieu focused on the contract packing and private label areas. The Western Dressing brand was sold and eventually acquired by Unilever with Richelieu Foods packing the dressing until Unilever took it in-house eight years later, marketing it under the Wish Bone brand. In 2003, a Connecticut private equity firm, Brynwood Partners, purchased the company.
In 2006, the company was named Pizza Manufa
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George Rice may refer to:
George Rice (died 1779) (1724–1779), Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthenshire
George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (1765–1852), his son, British peer and politician; also (MP) for Carmarthenshire
George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor (1795–1869), his son, British peer and politician, also MP for Carmarthenshire
George Rice (racing driver) (1914–2003), American race car driver
George Rice (American football) (1944–2010), American football player
George W. Rice (businessman) (1823–1856), American businessman known for founding the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
George W. Rice (photographer) (1855–1884), Arctic explorer and photographer
George O'Hanlon (1912–1989), American comic actor, born George Rice
George Graham Rice (1870–1943), convicted stock swindler
George Merrick Rice (1808–1894), American businessman from Worcester, Massachusetts
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Genetically modified crops are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering techniques. In most cases, the aim is to introduce a new trait to the plant which does not occur naturally in the species. As of 2015, 26 plant species have been genetically modified and approved for commercial release in at least one country. The majority of these species contain genes that make them either tolerant to herbicides or resistant to insects. Other common traits include virus resistance, delayed ripening, modified flower colour or altered composition. In 2014, 28 countries grew GM crops, and 39 countries imported but did not grow them.
Background
Regulations regarding the commercialisation of genetically modified crops are mostly conducted by individual countries. For cultivation, environmental approval determines whether a crop can be legally grown. Separate approval is generally required to use GM crops in food for human consumption or as animal feed.
GM crops were first planted commercially on a large scale in 1996, in the US, China, Argentina, Canada, Australia, and Mexico. Some countries have approved but not actually cultivated GM crops, due to public uncertainty or further government restrictions, while at the same time, they may import GM foods for consumption. For example, Japan is a leading GM food importer, and permits but has not grown GM food crops. The European Union regulates importation of GM foods, while individual member states determine cultivation. In the US, separate regulatory agencies handle approval for cultivation (USDA, EPA) and for human consumption (FDA).
Two genetically modified crops have been approved for food use in some countries, but have not obtained approval for cultivation. A GM Melon engineered for delayed senescence was approved in 1999 and a herbicide tolerant GM wheat was approved in 2004.
Genetically modified crops cultivated in 2014
In 2014, 181.5 million hectares of genetically modifie
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Godiva is a genus of sea slugs, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Facelinidae.
Species
Species within the genus include:
Godiva brunnea Edmunds, 2015
Godiva quadricolor (Barnard, 1927), the type species
Godiva rachelae Rudman, 1980
Godiva rubrolineata Edmunds, 1964
Species brought into synonymy
Godiva banyulensis (Portmann & Sandmeier, 1960): synonym of Dondice banyulensis Portmann & Sandmeier, 1960
Godiva japonica (Baba, 1937): synonym of Sakuraeolis japonica (Baba, 1937)
Godiva modesta (Bergh, 1880): synonym of Godiva japonica (Baba, 1937)
References
External links
Godiva at: Nudipixel, accessed 2016-12-20.
Facelinidae
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The Spanish Libertarian Movement (, MLE) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist organization founded at the end of the Spanish Civil War by the CNT, the FAI and the FIJL to develop a joint clandestine activity in the interior of Spain, under the Francoist dictatorship, and legal activity in exile, where it dealt with the thousands of anarcho-syndicalist refugees in France. The MLE national council settled in Paris, with Germinal Esgleas acting as general secretary after the death of Mariano Rodríguez Vázquez on June 18, 1939.
History
Birth
On February 26, 1939, after the fall of Catalonia, the CNT, the FAI and the FIJL established the Spanish Libertarian Movement in France, so that from then on the three anarchist organizations acted jointly, especially regarding the assistance to the thousands of anarcho-syndicalist refugees who were in France. The initiative had come from a plenary session of the regional committees of the three components. However, the anarchists who continued to fight in the Center-Levant area denounced the national council of the ML, claiming they only represented Catalan and Aragonese anarchists and, above all, that it was dominated by those who opposed the "collaborationists" - those in favor of continuing to participate in republican institutions, led by anarchists who until then had held positions in the State, such as Federica Montseny - Minister of Health in the government of Largo Caballero, Francesc Isgleas i Piarnau - former Defense Minister of the Catalan government, and Valeri Mas i Casas - Minister of Economy of Catalonia. The dominance of the MLE national council was reinforced with the resignation of Horacio Martínez Prieto, defender of "collaborationism" or "reformism," and the death of Mariano Rodríguez Vázquez, whose post as secretary general was occupied by Germinal Esgleas. The rest of the members of the national council were Germinal de Souza, Pedro Herrera Camarero, Roberto Alfonso, Juan Gallego Crespo, Rafael Iñigo, Serafín
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The Derrinlough briquette factory is a production facility in County Offaly, Ireland, opened in 1957 and planned for closure in June 2023.
History
The factory was constructed by Bord Na Mona from 1957 to 1959, near Birr in County Offaly. Production started in 1959 and it was officially opened in 1960. Part of the cost was financed by a £500,000 loan from Guinness in addition to other borrowings.
The original briquette factory in Lullymore was unable to meet market demands by the 1950s as it could only produce about 40000 tonnes per annum even after modifications. Plans were advanced for two new factories, one located in the Derrygreenagh group of bogs in east Offaly and a second in the Boora group in west Offaly. Construction of Derrinlough started in 1957, with Croghan starting soon after. Derrinlough began production in late 1959 with its official opening in 1960.
The Derrinlough facility has a design capacity of 135000 tonnes per annum. It is the last peat briquette factory in operation in Ireland (Lullymore closed in 1991, and Croghan in 2000, while the newest factory, in Littleton, closed in 2018). Production of peat briquettes is due to finish in Derrinlough in 2024 but due to poor quality raw material stocks and issues with plant reliability, the closure was brought forward to June 2023.
Briquetting process
Peat is delivered to the factory by rail and road and stored in a large shed for blending and feeding to the factory. The blending allows for a more consistent quality of peat by mixing peats of various densities and moistures, and for a continuous 24/7 supply for the process. A typical blend is approximately 1500 tonnes and has a moisture content of between 50% and 56%, with a density of 220 g/l to 300 g/l. The peat is fed to a large buffer bunker and then passed through a 125kw hammer mill to improve consistency. The speed of the flow from the buffer bunker is controlled to allow the correct amount of peat feed to the factory in real time.
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Yi Gwangsu (; 1892–1950) was a Korean writer and poet, and a notable Korean independence and nationalist activist until his later turn towards collaboration with the Japanese. His pen names were Chunwon and Goju. Yi is best known for his novel Mujeong (Heartless), sometimes described as the first Korean novel. Yi Gwangsu was born Yi Bogyeong on February 1, 1892.
Life
Yi Gwangsu was born in 1892 in Jeongju. He was orphaned at about age 10 and grew up with Donghak believers. In 1904, to avoid persecution for his beliefs, he moved to Seoul. In 1905 he went to Japan for his education. Upon returning to Korea in 1913, he taught at Osan School in Jeongju. He later moved back to Tokyo and became one of the leaders of the anti-colonial student movement.
In 1919 he moved to Shanghai and served in the Korean Provisional Government and became president of The Independent, a newspaper in Shanghai. Yi returned to Korea in 1921 and founded the Alliance for Self-Improvement, established on principles of enlightenment and self-help. From 1923 to 1934 Yi pursued a career in journalism working for several newspapers, including two that survive today, the Dong-a Ilbo and the Chosun Ilbo.
Yi was imprisoned in 1937 due to the Self-Cultivation Friendship Association (修養同友會/수양동우회) incident, and released half a year later due to illness. During this period he recanted his anti-Japanese stance and leaned more towards collaboration. In 1939, Yi became the first head of the pro-Japanese Korean Writers Association (朝鮮文人協會/조선문인협회) and lead intense efforts to Japanize (hwangminhwa) Korea. He eagerly adopted the name Kayama Mitsurou (香山光郎) as soon as the Sōshi-kaimei policy came into effect.
In 1945, after Korean independence, Yi fled to the countryside. He was arrested for collaboration in 1949. After the war, the Special Committee for the Investigation of Anti-nationalist Activities found Yi guilty of collaboration. In 1950 Yi was captured by the North Korean army and died in Manpo on Octob
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Muriel Dickson (12 July 1903 – 11 March 1990) was a Scottish soprano who was particularly known for her performances in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. After performing with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for seven years, she sang for four seasons with the Metropolitan Opera and went on to a concert career. In later years, she taught singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and privately.
Early years and D'Oyly Carte
Born Constance Muriel Dickson in Edinburgh, she studied singing in Florence, Italy with Luigi Ricci.
In March 1928 she became a member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, initially as a member of the chorus, performing in the company's repertory of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Her nickname with the company was "Poppy". She had the opportunity, during her first season, to fill in as the principal soprano, Mabel, in The Pirates of Penzance. Soon, she was given the small roles of Fleta in Iolanthe, and, the next year, Ada in Princess Ida. In 1931, she was also given the small part of Ruth in Ruddigore, but she understudied and occasionally performed the leading roles of Mabel in Pirates, the title role in Patience, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Elsie Maynard in The Yeomen of the Guard, and both Casilda and Gianetta in The Gondoliers.
After the departure from the company of Winifred Lawson in 1931, Dickson more regularly performed several of the leading roles, including Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore, Mabel in Pirates, the title role in Patience, Phyllis in Iolanthe, Lady Psyche in Princess Ida, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Rose Maybud in Ruddigore, Elsie in Yeomen, and Gianetta in The Gondoliers. In 1932, she exchanged Psyche for the title role in Princess Ida and took on the new part of Aline in The Sorcerer. She continued to play most of these roles until June 1935. She recorded six of her roles for HMV: Gianetta (1931), Mabel (1931), Rose Maybud (1931), Elsie Maynard (1931), Princess Ida (1932) and Aline (1933). She also sang roles in the
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The Speaker's House is a museum located in Trappe, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania that preserves the home of Frederick Muhlenberg, the First and Third Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The house was built in 1763, bought by Muhlenberg in 1781, and occupied by his family until 1791.
History
Trappe, 1717–1781
The first settlers of Trappe were German immigrants John Jacob Schrack (1679–1742) and his wife Eva Rosina Lang Schrack (1688–1756), who settled there in 1717. The Schracks had seven children: John Joseph, twins Maria Sabina and Anna Maria, Christian, Philip, Elizabeth, and John Jacob Jr. John Jacob Schrack Sr. was a valuable member of the local community and Lutheran church. He operated a tavern known formally as the Sign of Three Crowns but popularly as "the Trap", after which the town was named. In 1742, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, a Lutheran pastor, arrived in Trappe. The Schrack's oldest son, known as John, ran the family tavern after his father's death in 1742. John married a woman named Silence, who was from New England (1712–1777). They had two sons and five daughters. In 1763, they constructed the house later owned by Frederick Muhlenberg, now known as The Speaker's House. After John's death in 1772, his widow Silence Schrack sold the house to James Diemer for £725.
James Diemer married Elizabeth Currie on December 5, 1759, at Gloria Dei Church in Philadelphia. He may be the same James Diemer (d. 1820) of Reading who was active in public service, as a justice of the peace and later a judge (from 1791 to 1819). Diemer sold the property on 6 November 1775 to Michael Connor, a merchant of Philadelphia, for £905. Connor was married on 9 January 1774 to Mary Cottringer or Gatringer. Connor and his wife evidently lived in the house, as Henry Muhlenberg described the Connors as his neighbors. The Connors sold the house on March 1, 1777, to merchant John Patton (1745–1804) for £1,500 only six days before his marriage to Jane Davis (175
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Tabsirat al-Adilla fi Usul al-Din: 'ala Tariqat al-Imam Abi Mansur al-Maturidi (), better known as Tabsirat al-Adilla (), is considered as the second most important kalam book of the Maturidite school, after Kitab al-Tawhid of al-Maturidi himself, composed by Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi.
al-Nasafi's presentation of the issues in this work is more systematic and his style is more accessible than that of al-Maturidi. The book is even more appreciated by the experts than "Kitab at-Tawhid" that it gives more perfect and detailed information about the main principles of the science of kalam. It is probably because of this style that Nur al-Din al-Sabuni (d. 580 A.H. / 1184 A.D.), a later representative of Maturidite school, states that al-Nasafi's work was his main source. And perhaps because of this fact that Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi was appreciated among the specialists in this field with the honourable title "Sahib at-Tabsira" (The author of Tabsira) and became famous among the experts of the science of kalam.
The connection between al-Nasafi and al-Maturidi in the Tabsirat al-Adilla is clear and needs no further proof. Because al-Nasafi admires al-Maturidi, he refers to his ideas several times, and he always supports his views against Mu'tazilite and Ash'arite thinking. In addition, he gives a list of the scholars of the Hanafite-Maturidite school in Transoxania and their works, which is not available in any other source. al-Nasafi throughout Tabsirat al-Adilla refers to the views of al-Maturidi mostly as "qala al-Shaikh al-Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi", without naming his work.
In his explanations, al-Nasafi follows closely the views of al-Maturidi and sometimes gives direct quotations from him. He also gives the views of his opponents in a fairly objective way. In discussing the issues, al-Nasafi develops a semantic analysis, a method not used or really developed by his followers.
Summary
In the second half of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th centuries when Abu
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Margaret Thatcher received numerous honours in recognition of her career in politics. These included a peerage, membership of the Order of the Garter, the Order of Saint John and the Order of Merit, along with numerous other British and foreign honours. These included the Order of King Abdulaziz from Saudi Arabia in 1990. She was also honoured in Kuwait in 1991.
Life peerage
Margaret Thatcher was given a life peerage on her standing down from the House of Commons at the 1992 United Kingdom general election. This allowed her a seat in the House of Lords. She took the title Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire. She sat with the Conservative Party benches.
Coat of arms
As a member of the House of Lords with a life peerage, Thatcher was entitled to use a personal coat of arms. A second coat of arms was created following her appointment as Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter (LG) in 1995. Despite receiving her own arms, Thatcher sometimes used the Royal Arms instead of her own, contrary to protocol.
Commonwealth honours
Foreign honours
Other distinctions
Scholastic
Memberships and fellowships
Freedom of the City
6 February 1980: Barnet
10 January 1983: Falkland Islands
26 May 1989: London
12 December 1990: Westminster
16 September 1998: Zagreb
11 November 2000: Gdańsk
Awards
Places and other things named after Thatcher
Places
(Gyumri): Margaret Thatcher Street.
(Waroona): Thatcher Street.
(Stanley), Thatcher Drive.
: Thatcher Peninsula.
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Madrid: Margaret Thatcher Public School.
Madrid: Plaza Margaret Thatcher.
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Grantham: Roberts Hall in Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School.
Kidderminster: Margaret Thatcher House (Regional Conservative Party Headquarters).
Somerville College, Oxford: Margaret Thatcher Centre.
Chelsea: Margaret Thatcher Infirmary.
Chelsea: Maggie's Club.
West Drayton: Thatcher Close.
(Washington, D.C.): Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.
Other things
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Blaine Township is a civil township of Benzie County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 484. It is located in the southwest portion of the county. There are no significant population centers in the township; the nearest towns are Arcadia to the south, Benzonia to the northeast, and Elberta to the northwest. M-22 is the township's main thoroughfare.
History
Blaine Township was organized from part of what had been Gilmore Township in 1876.
For a very brief period in the early 1890s, a town called Watervale was inhabited in the township along Lower Herring Lake. The town participated in the sawmill boom that brought a period of prosperity to northern Michigan. Abandoned in 1894, the town was made into a summer resort in 1917. Today the resort is known as the Inn at Watervale and the Watervale Historic District. Watervale maintains its nineteenth-century atmosphere and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 7.70%, is water. It is bordered on the north by Gilmore Township, on the east by Joyfield Township, on the south by Arcadia and Pleasanton townships in Manistee County, and on the west by Lake Michigan. Besides Lake Michigan, the township's most distinguishing physical features are Lower and Upper Herring Lakes, connected and fed by Herring Creek, and bluffs at Green Point Dunes (north of the lakes) and Arcadia Dunes.
The township's economy is heavily agricultural, with apples and cherries two prominent crops. Fruit orchards dominate much of the landscape.
Sites of interest
Blaine Township is home to two churches, Herring Lake Church (nondenominational) and Blaine Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). A gravity hill located at the site of Blaine Christian Church on Putney Road near its intersection with Joyfield Road is a well-known local landmark.
Since 1991 the Grand Trave
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African Americans are the largest racial minority in Virginia. According to the 2010 Census, more than 1.5 million, or one in five Virginians is "Black or African American". African Americans were enslaved in the state. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, African Americans were 18.6% of the state's population.
History
The first twenty African slaves from Angola landed in Virginia in 1619 on a Portuguese slave ship. Lynchings, racial segregation and white supremacy were prevalent in Virginia. The first African slaves arrived in the British colony Jamestown, Virginia and were then bought by English colonists.
Great Dismal Swamp maroons fled to swamps in Virginia to escape slavery.
Notable People
Chris Brown
Trey Songz
Missy Elliott
Booker T. Washington
Pharrell Williams
Wanda Sykes
Plaxico Burress
See also
Great Dismal Swamp maroons
Black Southerners
First Africans in Virginia
History of slavery in Virginia
Demographics of Virginia
List of African-American newspapers in Virginia
References
History of slavery in Virginia
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"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular western swing song. The lyrics were written by Grant Clarke and the music was composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. It was copyrighted and published in 1912 by F.A. Mills.
Artists
The song has been recorded by a diverse group of artists, including Bob Roberts (1912), the Tune Wranglers (1936), Pinky Tomlin (1939), Eddy Howard (1947), Jo Stafford (1949), and the Chipmunks (1959). It was also performed by Betty Hutton in the 1945 musical film Incendiary Blonde.
In 1978, Jimmy Stewart made a memorable surprise cameo appearance performing on the piano on the final Carol Burnett Show.
Origin
The song's lyricist and composers are Clarke, Muir and Abrahams. Clarke also wrote "Second Hand Rose". "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" was composed in Brooklyn after an appearance at the home of Abrahams by his nephew, Joe Abrahams, wearing a cowboy outfit. Maurice Abrahams was so captivated by the appearance of his nephew dressed up as a cowboy that he was inspired to write "Ragtime Cowboy Joe". It became a number-one hit song for singer Bob Roberts, also the second best-selling record of 1912.
Original lyrics
As with many popular songs of the era, the verse is often omitted: the refrain's lyrics vary somewhat depending on the performer.
(verse)
Out in Arizona
Where the bad men are,
And the only friend to guide you
Is an evening star,
The roughest and the toughest
Man by far
Is Ragtime Cowboy Joe.
He got his name from singing
To the cows and sheep
Every night they say
He sings the herd to sleep
In a basso
Rich and deep,
Crooning soft and low.
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He always sings
Raggy music to the cattle
As he swings
Back and forward in the saddle
On a horse
That is syncopated gaited
And there's such a funny meter
To the roar of his repeater.
How they run
When they hear that fellow's gun
Because the Western folks all know
He's a high-faluting, scooting, shooting,
Son of a gun from Arizona,
Ragtime Cowboy Joe.
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Peterstow is a village and Civil parish in Herefordshire, England, situated about west of Ross-on-Wye on the A49.
General description
Among the general features of the village is the Parish Church, begun in the Norman period contained windows from 13th and 14th centuries; and so too the chancel. The door had a scissor braced roof. The tower and spire were 15th c. The pulpit was typically for Herefordshire a jacobean example.
A former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, and The Common, with a war memorial in the form of a stone cross bearing the village name. There is also a pub, the Yew Tree, and a village stores and Post office. The village school closed in 1969, and is now a private dwelling. The village bakery is a successful business which has a shop in Ross-on-Wye.
In 1874, a Mr. Thomas Blake gave land for the Wesleyan Methodists to build a chapel. In the simpler architectural style typical of the Primitive Methodists, this was used by the Wesleyans for 50 years. The Chapel was bought by the Parish Church in 1924, and used as a church hall until a few years ago. It was sold because it is not possible to install modern facilities including water supply and drainage. It is now in private ownership.
History
The name of the village has changed several times during the past 1,000 years. The first recorded name Llanpetyr (from 1045–1104) is Welsh. The name Petrestowe was found in 1278. Other variants from 1291 to 1724 are Ecclesiade-Petrestowe; Petrustoye; Petrestowe; and Pitstowe.
Possibly the earliest record of habitation in the area relates to iron ore smelting in Roman, and possibly medieval times. Artifacts relating to this are on display in the Heritage Centre at Ross.
In 1100, Henry I set up 3 royal manors in Herefordshire, including the manor of Wilton, which included Peterstow.
St Peter's Church
St Peter's Church is in the Ross and Archenfield Deanery of the Diocese of Hereford.
The earliest known building was Anglo-Saxon, built on the site of
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Sterling Records Inc. was a small New York record label active from 1945 to 1947.
Sterling's first record, with number 100, was Lillette Thomas and her Boys' 78rpm "Blues for My Daddy". The record company ceased issuing in 1947, and in 1948 Al Trace sued Sterling and obtained an injunction against their use of his name on a recording. Sterling Records, LLC is now a South Florida-based record company owned and operated by Stephen Caputo and Joe Brickman.
Hank Williams
Sterling was notable for issuing early records by Hank Williams before Williams signed to MGM Records. Record issue numbers 201, 204, 208 and 210 were Hank Williams releases.
See also
Maureen McGovern - who recorded for a Sterling Records in New York in 1996.
List of record labels
References
Defunct record labels of the United States
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P. gigantea may refer to:
Pachyaena gigantea, an extinct mammal species in the genus Pachyaena
Panthea gigantea, a moth species found in western North America
Petalura gigantea, the giant dragonfly or south-eastern petaltail, one of the world's largest dragonflies
Phalaenopsis gigantea, an orchid species endemic to Borneo
Pinguicula gigantea, a tropical carnivorous plant species native to Mexico
Pleuroploca gigantea (= Triplofusus papillosus), the Florida horse conch, a species of extremely large predatory subtropical and tropical sea snail
Pouteria gigantea, a plant species endemic to Ecuador
Pseudaneitea gigantea, an air-breathing land slug species
Pseudibis gigantea, the giant ibis, a bird species
Pseudoeurycea gigantea, a salamander species endemic to Mexico
See also
Gigantea (disambiguation)
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Hymenobacter luteus is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Hymenobacter which has been isolated from freshwater sediments from the Jiuxiang tourist cave in the Yunnan province in China.
References
External links
Type strain of Hymenobacter luteus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
luteus
Bacteria described in 2015
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German submarine U-2509 was a Type XXI U-boat (one of the "Elektroboote") of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, built for service in World War II. She was ordered on 6 November 1943, and was laid down on 17 June 1944 at the Blohm & Voss yard at Hamburg, as yard number 2509. She was launched on 27 August 1944, and commissioned under the command of Kapitänleutnant Rudolf Schendel on 21 September 1944.
Design
Like all Type XXI U-boats, U-2509 had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of (o/a), a beam of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two MAN SE supercharged six-cylinder M6V40/46KBB diesel engines each providing , two Siemens-Schuckert GU365/30 double-acting electric motors each providing , and two Siemens-Schuckert silent running GV232/28 electric motors each providing .
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a submerged speed of . When running on silent motors the boat could operate at a speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate at for ; when surfaced, she could travel at . U-2509 was fitted with six torpedo tubes in the bow and four C/30 anti-aircraft guns. She could carry twenty-three torpedoes or seventeen torpedoes and twelve mines. The complement was five officers and fifty-two men.
Fate
U-2509 was sunk on 8 April 1945, by bombs, in the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. U-2509 was caught in an RAF Bomber Command raid made up of Lancaster and Halifax bombers.
References
Bibliography
External links
Type XXI submarines
U-boats commissioned in 1944
U-boats sunk in 1945
World War II submarines of Germany
1944 ships
Ships built in Hamburg
Maritime incidents in April 1945
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Ludvig Karsten (8 May 1876 – 19 October 1926) was a Norwegian painter. He was a neo-impressionist influenced by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse and contemporary French painting. He first participated at the Autumn exhibition in Kristiania in 1901, and had his first separate exhibition in 1904. He is represented at museums in many Scandinavian cities, including several paintings at the National Gallery of Norway. Karsten was known for his bohemian lifestyle and quick temper.
Personal life
Karsten was born in Christiana as the son of builder Hans Heinrich Karsten and Ida Susanne Pfützenreuter. He was a brother of designer Marie Karsten and architect Heinrich Joachim Sebastian Karsten. His daughter Alise was born in 1909 and raised in fosterage, until she later moved to Copenhagen to join her father and stepmother. In 1913 Karsten married the Danish sculptor Michaela (Misse) Frederikke Haslund (1886–1943). Their marriage dissolved in 1917. He died in Paris in 1926, after having fallen down a steep staircase.
Career
Karsten grew up in a wealthy home in Christiania (now Oslo). He started taking drawing lessons 13 years old. In 1893 he made a study tour to Telemark, where he made landscape sketches and portraits, and also joined painter Halfdan Egedius. After graduating from secondary school in 1895, he travelled to Rome, and later to Firenze and Munich. In 1896 he travelled in Spain, and settled for a while in Madrid. He left Spain in 1898, and was enrolled in the Norwegian Armed Forces at Gardermoen for some months. He then travelled to Munich, where he painted En mann og en kvinne, also called Adam and Eve, which has later been located at the Stenersen Museum. He visited Paris in autumn 1900, where he trained on models. In 1901 he was in Åsgårdstrand, where he painted Two Men and Three Boys, which were both shown at his first appearance at the Autumn exhibition in Kristiania in 1901. Karsten returned to Paris, where he spent several years. He was known for his boozing a
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Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.
Biography
Graun was born in Wahrenbrück in the Electorate of Saxony. In 1714, he followed his brother, Johann Gottlieb Graun, to the school of the Kreuzkirche, Dresden, and sang in the Dresdner Kreuzchor and the chorus of the Opernhaus am Zwinger. He studied singing with Christian Petzold and composition with (1664–1728). In 1724, Graun moved to Braunschweig, singing at the opera house and writing six operas for the company. In 1735, Graun moved to Rheinsberg in Brandenburg, after he had written the opera Lo specchio della fedeltà for the marriage of the then crown prince Frederick (the Great) and Elisabeth Christine in Schloss Salzdahlum in 1733. He was Kapellmeister to Frederick the Great from his ascension to the throne in 1740 until Graun's death nineteen years later in Berlin.
Graun wrote a number of operas. His opera Cesare e Cleopatra inaugurated the opening of the Berlin State Opera (Königliche Hofoper) in 1742. Montezuma (1755) was written to a libretto by King Frederick. His works are rarely played today, though his passion cantata Der Tod Jesu (The Death of Jesus, 1755) was frequently performed in Germany for many years after his death. His other works include concertos and trio sonatas. He was known for particularly good text-setting, probably due to his background as a vocalist.
He married twice and had a daughter, who became a singer, from his first marriage and four sons from his second. His great-great-great-great-grandson, Vladimir Nabokov, became an eminent 20th-century novelist.
Works
Stage works
Polydorus (5 acts, 1726–28)
Iphigenia in Aulis (3 acts 1728)
Scipio Africanus (3 acts, 1732)
Lo specchio della fedeltà (3 acts, 1733)
Pharao Tubaetes (5 acts, 1735)
Rodelinda, regina de' langobardi (3 acts, 1741)
Cesare e Cleopatra (3 acts, 1742)
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Ángel Custodio is an outdoor sculpture by Sebastián (Enrique Carbajal), installed in Puebla, in the Mexican state of Puebla.
It was inaugurated on November 7, 2003, during the municipal administration of Luis Eduardo Paredes Moctezuma. The sculpture is 17 meters high and is made of iron with a yellow color that comes from acrylic enamel with bronze.
History
The sculpture was made and inaugurated on November 7, 2003. The work had a cost of 3 million pesos.
In 2017, when the construction of Line 3 of the Red Urbana de Transporte Articulado was planned, it was planned to relocate the monument, along with others that were in the area, which was later discarded.
Reviews
The sculptural work was widely criticized by specialists and the citizens of Puebla due to its appearance. Some people began to call it a "monument to the fallopian tubes", and others considered that it was not suitable because it did not represent the "true spirit of the city"
Artists and specialists indicated that they felt displaced for not being considered to make a sculpture of this magnitude, since there was no previous call. Others criticized the work from a religious point of view, and that the municipal government wanted to impose a religious iconography. Although the piece can be interpreted as a 'winged victory', for some it has other appearances, such as the claws of a crustacean or even a double-headed snake, as Roberto Martínez Garcilaso pointed out.
Even in a survey conducted by a website on the ugliest sculptures in Mexico, the Guardian Angel was the one with the most votes. Although on a technical or plastic level the piece has relevance, it was judged as inappropriate for the context where it was chosen, a traditional neighborhood in the city of Puebla. Until the year of inauguration of the work, Puebla did not have sculptures in public spaces of these dimensions that also used unconventional forms and materials; Although yellow is a color widely used in the area, it was part of t
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The Royal Thai Air Force Museum is located in Don Mueang District, Bangkok, Thailand. It is located on the Phahonyothin Road just to the south of Wing 6 of the domestic terminal of the Don Mueang Airport. It was served by the Royal Thai Air Force Museum BTS station since 16 December 2020.
Overview
The museum was established in 1952 to collect, preserve and restore different airplanes and other aviation equipment used by the Royal Thai Air Force. In addition to one F11C and other rare aircraft, the museum's collection also includes one of only 2 surviving Japanese Tachikawa Ki-36 trainers, the last surviving Vought O2U Corsair, one of 3 surviving Curtiss BF2C Goshawks, a Spitfire and several Nieuports and Breguets.
The museum provides details of Thailand's role in World War II. Imperial Japanese forces landed at various points in Thailand on 8 December 1941, and after resisting for one day, the Thai forces were ordered to cease fire and allow Japanese forces to pass through the kingdom. The Thai government of Field Marshal Pibun Songkram would also declare war on both Britain and the United States in January 1942 (though the declaration was never delivered to the US by the Thai ambassador), and Thailand remained technically a Japanese ally until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, despite the existence of a large anti-Japanese underground. The museum contains several paintings of Thai fighter aircraft intercepting attacking US B-29s, P-38s and P-51s.
Renovation
Since 2012, the Royal Thai Air Force Museum has received basic repair. In 2020 Royal Thai Air Force Museum has renovated the museum to renovation of the Air Force Museum building area to prepare for the Royal Thai Air Force Academic Seminar 2020. The objectives of the renovation is for create an understanding of the RTAF Strategic Direction / Position, which recognizes the national defense industry in accordance with government policy which will lead to concrete Thailand 4.0 and raise awareness in the
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The men's team sprint at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was part of the cycling programme, which took place on 5 April 2018.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows:
Schedule
The schedule is as follows:
All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
Results
Qualifying
The two fastest teams advance to the gold medal final. The next two fastest teams advance to the bronze medal final.
Finals
The final classification is determined in the medal finals.
References
Men's team sprint
Cycling at the Commonwealth Games – Men's team sprint
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Andrew Pickens (September 13, 1739August 11, 1817) was a militia leader in the American Revolution. A planter and slaveowner, he developed his Hopewell plantation on the east side of the Keowee River across from the Cherokee town of Isunigu (Seneca) in western South Carolina. He was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives from western South Carolina. Several treaties with the Cherokee were negotiated and signed at his plantation of Hopewell.
Early life
Pickens was born in 1739 in Bucks County in the Province of Pennsylvania. He was the son of Scots-Irish immigrants, Presbyterians of primarily Scottish ancestry from Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Ireland (in what is today Northern Ireland.) His parents were Andrew Pickens Sr. and Anne (née Davis). But his paternal great-grandparents were ethnic French Huguenots: Robert Andrew Pickens (Robert André Picon) had migrated to England and Northern Ireland; his wife Esther-Jeanne, widow Bonneau, was from La Rochelle, France and had settled in South Carolina along with other Huguenot refugees fleeing religious persecution as Protestants.
His family traveled the Great Wagon Road in the Shenandoah Valley in hopes of finding a new home. Records show they first settled in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. In 1752, his family moved to the Waxhaws on the South Carolina frontier.
Move to frontier South Carolina
Pickens sold his farm there in 1764 and bought land in Abbeville County, South Carolina, near the Georgia border. He married Rebecca Calhoun there and they started a family. In addition to meeting other ethnic Scots-Irish and new immigrants to the area, he became acquainted with his Cherokee neighbors. He built a blockhouse as a base for training.
He established the Hopewell Plantation on the east side of the Keowee River. Several treaty negotiating sessions were held here with the Cherokee. Each resulted in a Treaty of Hopewell. Just across the river was the Cherokee town of Isunigu, also know
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The men's 1500 metres at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 6, 8 and 10 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
With the retirement of defending champion, reigning Olympic Champion and World record holder Hicham El Guerrouj and Olympic silver medalist Bernard Lagat involved in citizenship issues as he moved to the United States, the role of favorite opened up to another Moroccan, Rashid Ramzi who had transplanted his citizenship to Bahrain while continuing to train in Morocco. Returning silver medalist Mehdi Baala didn't make it out of the semi-final round.
The race was led from the start, as it had been two years earlier, by Reyes Estévez who was known as a kicker, leading the field though a casual 60+ second first lap. Alan Webb marked Estévez, nervously trying to figure out a way to take the kick out of the faster runners. Rams added to his tension by coasting up to Webb's shoulder as the second lap began with the rest of the field bunching up behind. Just after the end of the second lap, Webb took off sprinting, timed in 12.3 between 800 and 900 meters. He opened up a four mere lead but Alex Kipchirchir and Ramzi followed by the rest of the field were in hot pursuit. Webb was unable to maintain his breakaway. In the penultimate turn he was passed by Ramzi who did have a breakaway, chased most closely by returning bronze medalist Ivan Heshko. Down the final backstretch Kipchirchir went by on the outside and Olympic bronze medalist Rui Silva squeezed by on the inside, Webb was cooked. From 9th place, deep in the field, Adil Kaouch began a final sprint, passing three as the slowing Webb was an obstacle. Continuing through the final turn, Kaouch passed everybody except Ramzi. Down the final stretch Ramzi's lead looked like it might not be enough but Ramzi was able to hold on for the win. Following Kaouch, Silva was also sprinting, after passing Heshko the medalists were decided. As Kaouch's gaining diminished he continued at his same
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James Cameron Todd (October 13, 1863 - 1915) was a British Anglican canon and schoolmaster, who founded Michaelhouse school in South Africa.
Early life
He was born in Rangoon in British Burma to a father of the same name. His schooling took place at the Royal High School (Edinburgh) from 1874 to 1881. He attended the University of Glasgow from 1881 to 1884 where he graduated with a B.Sc. degree, having been a pupil of Lord Kelvin.
His sister was Margaret Georgina Todd, a doctor and writer who was one of the first students to attend the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women.
Clergyman
He moved to South Africa, and in 1887 he was made deacon by the Rt Revd George Knight-Bruce, Bishop of Bloemfontein. He was curate of Vryburg, Bechuanaland in 1887 and curate of Kimberley, Griqualand from 1887 to 1888.
In 1888, he was admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, having obtained a scholarship. He pursued an M.Sc. degree which he gained with first class honours, resulting in his election as Scholar of the College the following year.
In 1890, he was ordained priest in St. Paul's Cathedral and took up the post of curate at St John's Hammersmith in 1891.
He moved to Natal 1894 as chaplain to the Rt Revd Arthur Hamilton Baynes, Bishop of Natal and became Diocesan Theological Tutor (1894-1899), and was appointed Canon of Natal (1894-1904).
School master
In 1896 he founded Michaelhouse in Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg. When he opened the doors on the first day in August 1896, it was as a private venture with 15 founding boys. Ten of these were boarders, and five were day boys. It is said that without Todd, Michaelhouse would never have been born.
While the school was in Pietermaritzburg, Todd worked to establish the school as the Diocesan College of Natal with its own Board of Governors. He also looked for a suitable country site to relocate the school away from the distractions of town. In 1901, the school moved to its current premises in Balgowan.
In 1903, Todd r
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Whitney Mansion is a historic home located at Loudonville in Albany County, New York. It was originally built about 1840. In the early 20th century it had two large wings and other features added to create the appearance of a noteworthy Georgian Revival style mansion.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Georgian Revival architecture in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1840
Houses in Albany County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Albany County, New York
Loudonville, New York
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Charlie Metro (born Charles Moreskonich; April 18, 1918 – March 18, 2011) was an American professional baseball player, manager, coach and scout. Notably, he was an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics as well as the manager of the Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball.
Metro was born and grew up in Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania, graduating from Nanty Glo High School in 1937, and also worked in the coal mines there during breaks from school. In baseball, he took his last name from his father, Metro Moreskonich, a Ukrainian immigrant. Metro threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed .
Career
Player
At age 18, Metro attended a tryout camp for the St. Louis Browns, then bounced around in the minor leagues. In 1940, he joined the Texarkana Liners, then an independent baseball team but which became affiliated with the Detroit Tigers. Due to his light hitting ability, he was never able to become a full-time starter, although he did make the Tigers club out of spring training in 1943. He was released by the Tigers in 1944, partly because of his attempts to organize a players union.
The Philadelphia Athletics picked him up, and, under Connie Mack, Metro won "a shot" at starting center fielder, although his inability to hit consistently cost him this job.
In 171 major league games played, Metro was credited with 69 hits, with ten doubles, two triples and three home runs. Two of those blows came on consecutive days, June 23–24, 1945, against the New York Yankees' Jim "Milkman" Turner and Hank Borowy. Overall, though, Metro hit a lowly .193 and collected 23 runs batted in.
In the closing weeks of 1945, Metro joined the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League, where in 1946, his last season as a full-time outfielder, he played under another Baseball Hall of Fame manager, Casey Stengel.
Manager, coach and scout
In 1947, he was hired as a player-manager by the Yankees' organization, and in the mid-1950s through 1961
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The Faculty of Economics was one of fourteen faculties at the University of Tübingen. It was dissolved in 2010 in the course of an administrative reform, where the number of faculties was reduced from fourteen to seven. The faculty merged with the former Faculty of Social Sciences ().
The Faculty of Economics was founded in 1817 as the first Economics Faculty in Germany (then named Fakultät für Staatwissenschaften)
Departments
The Faculty of Economics consisted only of the School of Business and Economics.
References
External links
Universität Tübingen: Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät (official website)
University of Tübingen
Universities and colleges established in the 19th century
Business schools in Germany
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Job Johannes "Joop" Gouweleeuw (5 September 1940 – 29 January 2017) was a Dutch judoka. He competed in 93 kg event at the 1965 and 1966 European Judo Championships, winning a silver and gold medal, respectively. He also competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was born in Delft, South Holland.
Gouweleeuw died on 29 January 2017 in Delft, at the age of 76.
Achievements
References
External links
1940 births
2017 deaths
Dutch male judoka
Judoka at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Delft
Olympic judoka for the Netherlands
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Torque magazine is a monthly motorsport magazine which is published by The Race Drivers Academy in the United Kingdom. It was first released in September 2008. The magazine's tag line is that it is 'By Drivers, For Drivers'. The magazine is written solely by racing drivers and includes interviews, guest columnists and articles written by other racing drivers. Whilst the main objective initially was to document news and mini biographies of The Race Drivers Academy's drivers, Torque has since attracted some top motorsport celebrities for interviews and its open stance on many issues has seen it become popular amongst hardcore racing fans. Torque prides itself in being open and honest in its views on the motorsport world.
Torque Online
In October 2008, in addition to the monthly release of the magazine, Torque Online was launched to keep readers up to date with news, competitions and downloadable versions of the magazine. Torque Online is also the most popular method of subscribing to the publication.
Editors
The two main editors of Torque are (were?) students of The Race Drivers Academy which is a company based at Silverstone. Both editors, Richard Puddle and Oliver Lewis, have raced at club and national level in saloon car and single seater racing, whilst contributary writer Chris Dymond, races a Jaguar XKR in FIA GT3.
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Auto racing magazines
Sports magazines published in the United Kingdom
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 2008
Online magazines published in the United Kingdom
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Concord College is an independent co-educational international day/boarding school in Shropshire, England situated in the grounds of Acton Burnell Castle. The college admits students aged between 12 and 19; the majority of whom come from overseas. Concord College excels in academic results with an 85% A*-A at A-level and 82% A*-A at GCSE level.
In 2009, to celebrate its 60th year, Concord was visited by the Princess Royal.
History
The main building of Concord College is Acton Burnell Hall, the manor house of Acton Burnell Castle.
Ranking
In 2016, The Times league table for independent co-educational schools in the UK placed Concord tenth in the UK. In 2022, The Telegraph ranked Concord College's A-level results as 16th amongst all UK independent schools, and 7th for those which offer boarding.
Notable former pupils
Marty Natalegawa, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Zeinal Bava, telecoms entrepreneur
Bowie Cheung (張寶兒), Hong Kong presenter and actress, Miss Hong Kong 2016 contestant
Anthony Chow (周永健), practising solicitor of Hong Kong and England & Wales, former chairman of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, former president of the Law Society of Hong Kong
Pim van Strien, member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2021-)
Notable staff
Principal: Dr Michael Truss
David Moyes worked as a football coach at Concord College while playing for Shrewsbury Town F.C.
See also
Listed buildings in Acton Burnell
References
External links
Official Website
Profile on the Independent Schools Council website
Profile on The Good Schools Guide
Boarding schools in Shropshire
Private schools in Shropshire
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The Nebelkerzenabwurfvorrichtung (abbreviated N.K.A.V.) was a rear mounted grenade dispenser used to disperse the Schnellnebelkerze 39 smoke grenade. It was typically found on German tanks from 1939 through 1942.
Operation
The device carried five smoke grenades, each grenade being held in position by spring loaded catches. The vehicle commander released the grenades one at a time by wire control which operated a ratchet coupled to a camshaft.
Each pull of the control wire rotated the camshaft one fifth of a turn, releasing a smoke grenade, the pin of which was drawn out by a fixed chain, and the ratchet was returned to its original position by a second spring. Five pulls on the control wire would release all five smoke grenades in succession, enabling the vehicle to reverse out of sight into its own smoke screen with the grenades discharging smoke for about 100 to 200 seconds. Later examples of the Nebelkerzenabwurfvorrichtung were fully enclosed in an armored box (N.K.A.V. mit Schutzmantel). The Nebelkerzenabwurfvorrichtung was discontinued beginning in April 1942 because it had not proven to be effective, the main disadvantage being that the resulting smoke screen built up behind the vehicle. It was succeeded by the turret mounted Nebelwurfgerät launcher.
Gallery
See also
Nebelwurfgerät
Minenabwurfvorrichtung
Nahverteidigungswaffe
Notes
References
External links
http://www.panther1944.de/index.php/en/sdkfz-171-pzkpfwg-panther/technik/nebelkerzen-wurfgeraet
http://michaelhiske.de/Allierte/USA/GCWM/Part01/Section_K/01K03.htm
https://www.lexpev.nl/grenades/europe/germany/nebelkerze3939b.html
Grenade launchers of Germany
Tanks of Germany
Smoke grenades
Military equipment introduced in the 1930s
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John Schjelderup Giæver (31 December 1901 – 9 November 1970) was a Norwegian author and polar researcher.
Jónsbú Station in NE Greenland was named after him.
Personal life
He was born in Tromsø in Troms, Norway. He was the son of lawyer John Schjelderup Giæver (1864–1914) and his wife Thyra Høegh (1879–1954). He was the great-great-great-grandson of Jens Holmboe.
John Schjelderup Giæver married Oddbjørg Jacobsen in March 1940 and they had a son in April the same year. However, the marriage was dissolved. Giæver married Anna Margrethe Gløersen in 1948; this time they had a daughter, born 1954.
Career
He took his secondary education in Trondheim in 1920, and then moved back to Tromsø. He started a newspaper career, as sub-editor of Tromsø Stiftstidende from 1921 to 1922. He was editor-in-chief in Vesteraalens Avis from 1922 to 1928 and Tromsø Stiftstidende from 1928 to 1929. He lived as a trapper in north-eastern Greenland from 1929 to 1934. In 1935 he was hired as secretary for Norges Svalbard- og Ishavsundersøkelser, the Norwegian institution for exploration of Svalbard and the Arctic Sea, later renamed into the Norwegian Polar Institute.
During World War II, he first fled to London where he worked as a secretary for the exiled government. From 1941 to 1944, he served with the Royal Norwegian Air Force-in-exile at Little Norway, Canada. In 1944, with the rank of Major, he was sent to Northern Norway to participate in the successful liberation from Nazi occupation. In 1947 he returned to the Norwegian Polar Institute as secretary, and from 1948 to 1960 he was office manager. However, he was still involved in the field as well, leading the wintering party of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition from 1949 to 1952.
Giæver published several books. His literary career began with Illgjerningsmand (A Misdeeder) (1921), which was translated into German in 1923. His book Maudheim. To år i Antarktis (1952), describing the Antarctic Expedition was translated
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The World Group II was the second highest level of Fed Cup competition in 1995. Winning nations advanced to the World Group play-offs, and the losing nations were demoted to the World Group II play-offs.
Indonesia vs. Argentina
Australia vs. Slovakia
Italy vs. Canada
Netherlands vs. Sweden
References
See also
Fed Cup structure
World Group II
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Brevet Colonel Deshabandu George Wilfred Rajapakse, ED (1917-1999) was a Sri Lankan educationist. He was the Commanding Officer, Ceylon Cadet Battalion and Principal of Ananda College.
Born in Kelaniya, Rajapakse received is secondary education at Ananda College, becoming head prefect and captained the college cadet contingent. After completing his schooling, he joined the academic staff of the school as a teacher, serving as hostel supervisor, sports teacher and vice principal. He left Ananda to serve as principle of Isipathana Vidyalaya, Colombo. He served as principle of Ananda College from 1969 to 1981, under the mentorship of P. de S. Kularatne, succeeding Lieutenant Colonel E. A. Perusinghe.
Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the cadet battalion of the Ceylon Defence Force, Rajapakse served as the teacher in charge of cadets in Ananda College. Lieutenant Rajapakse led Ananda College cadet platoon to win the Herman Loos Trophy in 1949 with his platoon sergeant Duleep Wickramanayake. As volunteer officer in the cadet battalion, he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1964. Lieutenant Colonel Rajapakse served as a commanding officer of the Ceylon Cadet Battalion from 1969 to 1973, succeeding Lieutenant Colonel E. A. Perusinghe and was breveted as a Colonel in 1972.
He was married to Kamala Rajapaksha, he was the principal of Musaeus College.
President Premadasa conferred the national honor of Deshabandu on Rajapakse in 1992.
References
Ceylonese military personnel
Ceylonese military personnel of World War II
Sinhalese educators
Ceylonese colonels
Ceylon Cadet Corps officers
Alumni of Ananda College
Deshabandu
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PVSK-Panthers, for sponsorship reasons known as PVSK-Veolia or simply Pécs, is a men's basketball club based in Pécs, Hungary. It was the oldest non-Budapest based basketball club playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A, the first division of Hungary, until 2022, when they were relegated. They played 53 seasons in the top division, which is the second most after MAFC. PVSK-Panthers won one trophy in its history: the Hungarian Cup in 2009.
History
The team was founded in 1944, they played in the 1st division from 1946 to 1950, then after 4 year, from 1955 to 1985 continuously (with once in 1972 in the 2nd league). In 1985 they fall to the 2nd, in 1992 to the 3rd league. In 1994 they moved to Pécsvárad. In 2000 they won the 3rd division and moved back to Pécs, in 2003 they returned into the top flight. In 2009 they won the regular season and the Hungarian Cup, and finished runner-up in the play-offs.
In Pécs, there was another basketball team. In the 1940s and 1950s the PEAC was placed in the 1st division too, and then in the 1990s again under the name of Matáv SE Pécs. Currently they are in the 2nd league.
Honours
Domestic competitions
Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A (National Championship of Hungary)
Runners-up (1): 2008–09
Third place (1): 2006–07
Magyar Kupa (National Cup of Hungary)
Winners (1): 2009
Bronze medal (1): 1983, 2007
Current roster
Season by season
Notable players
Zoltán Horváth (2003–05)
Stojan Ivković (2004–06)
Dragan Aleksić (2005–09)
Krisztián Wittmann (2006–09)
András Ruják (2009–10, 2019–21)
Alex Legion (2012–13)
Brad Loesing (2012–13)
Marino Šarlija (2013–14)
Zoltán Supola (2016–18)
External links
Basketball teams in Hungary
Basketball teams established in 1944
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A Moor's head, since the 11th century, is a symbol depicting the head of a black moor.
Origin
The precise origin of the Moor's head is a subject of controversy. The most likely explanation is that it is derived from the heraldic war flag of the Reconquista depicting the Cross of Alcoraz, symbolizing Peter I of Aragon and Pamplona's victory over the "Moorish" kings of the Taifa of Zaragoza in the Battle of Alcoraz in 1096. The blindfold may originally have been a headband.
Another theory claims that it is the Nubian Saint Maurice (3rd century AD).
The earliest heraldic use of the Moor's head is first recorded in 1281, during the reign of Peter III of Aragon and represents the Cross of Alcoraz, which the King adopted as his personal coat of arms. The Crown of Aragon had for a long time governed Sardinia and Corsica, having been granted the islands by the Pope, although they never really exercised formal control. The Moor's head became a symbol of the islands.
Flags, seals, and emblems
This symbol is used in heraldry, vexillography, and political imagery.
Flag of Corsica
The main charge in the coat of arms in Corsica is a , Corsican for "The Moor". An early version is attested in the 14th-century Gelre Armorial, where an unblindfolded Moor's head represents Corsica as a territory of the Crown of Aragon. Interestingly, the Moor's head is attached to his shoulders and upper body, and he is alive and smiling. In 1736, it was used by both sides during the struggle for independence.
In 1760, General Pasquale Paoli ordered the necklace to be removed from the head and the blindfold raised. His reason, reported by his biographers, was "" The blindfold was thereafter changed to a headband.
The current flag of Corsica is the , is male rather than female, and has a regular knot at the back of the head.
SC Bastia
The Moor's head appears on the logo for the Corsican football team SC Bastia, who play in the French football system's Ligue 2.
Flag of Sardinia
The flag o
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The Cessna 210 Centurion is a six-seat, high-performance, retractable-gear, single-engined, high-wing general-aviation light aircraft. First flown in January 1957, it was produced by Cessna until 1986.
Development
The early Cessna 210 (210 and 210A) had four seats with a Continental IO-470 engine of . It was essentially a Cessna 182B to which was added a retractable landing gear, swept tail, and a new wing.
In 1961, the fuselage and wing were completely redesigned: the fuselage was made wider and deeper, and a third side window was added. The wing planform remained the same; constant chord from centerline to out, then straight taper to chord at from centerline, but the semi-Fowler flaps (slotted, rear-moving) were extended outboard, from wing station 100 to Wing station 122, which allowed a lower landing speed. FAA certification regulations state that a single-engined aircraft must have a flaps-down, power-off stall speed no greater than . To compensate for the reduced aileron span, the aileron profile was changed and its chord enlarged.
The 1964 model 210D introduced a engine and two small child seats, set into the cavity that contained the mainwheels aft of the passengers.
In 1967, the model 210G introduced a cantilever wing replacing the strut-braced wing. Its planform changed to a constant taper from root chord to tip chord.
In 1970, the 210K became the first full six-seat model. This was achieved by replacing the flat leaf springs used for the retractable main landing gear struts (undercarriage) with tapered tubular steel struts of greater length. This allowed the tires to be nested farther to the rear of the fuselage, making room for the full-sized rear seats. The Centurion II was an option introduced in 1970 with improved avionics, and was available in both normally aspirated and turbocharged versions (Turbo Centurion II)
In 1979, the 210N model eliminated the folding doors, which previously covered the two retracted main wheels. The tubular sprin
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The Jackson–Vanik amendment to the Trade Act of 1974 is a 1974 provision in United States federal law intended to affect U.S. trade relations with countries with non-market economies (originally, countries of the Soviet Bloc) that restrict freedom of Jewish emigration and other human rights. The amendment is contained in the Trade Act of 1974 which passed both houses of the United States Congress unanimously, and signed by President Gerald Ford into law, with the adopted amendment, on January 3, 1975. Over time, a number of countries were granted conditional normal trade relations subject to annual review, and a number of countries were liberated from the amendment.
On December 14, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Magnitsky Act (formally titled the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012) that repealed the application of the Jackson–Vanik amendment to Russia and gave normal US trade relations to Russia and Moldova, instead punishing individuals violating human rights.
The amendment is named after its major co-sponsors Henry M. Jackson of Washington in the Senate and Charles A. Vanik of Ohio in the House of Representatives, both Democrats.
Background
Antisemitism in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev
Antisemitism in the Soviet Union once again peaked during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev, following Israeli victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. "Anti-Zionist" propaganda, including the film Secret and Explicit, was often antisemitic in nature. Many of Brezhnev's close advisors, most principally Mikhail Suslov, were also fervent antisemites. Jewish emigration to Israel and the United States, which had been allowed in limited amounts under the rule of Khrushchev, once more became heavily restricted, primarily due to concerns that Jews were a security liability or treasonous. Would-be emigrants, or refuseniks, often required a vyzov, or special invitation from a relative living abroad, for their application to be
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Alfred Peach Hensman (12 May 1834 – 5 October 1902) was a politician and Attorney-General of Western Australia.
Hensman was the second son of John Hensman, solicitor, Northampton, England. He was educated at the University of London, and became B.A. in 1853, and a member of Convocation. He entered at the Middle Temple on 29 May 1852; and was called to the bar on 26 January 1858. He was a revising barrister and author of a "Handbook of the Constitution." In 1883 he was appointed Attorney-General of Western Australia with a seat in the Executive and Legislative Councils. He resigned in 1886 owing to a dispute with the Governor, Sir Frederick Napier Broome, but still resided in Western Australia, and in 1892 was appointed the third judge of the Supreme Court.
He died at The Priory, Chatteris, on 5 October 1902.
His son-in-law, Adam Jameson, was a member of parliament.
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1834 births
1902 deaths
Attorneys-General of Western Australia
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
19th-century Australian politicians
Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
19th-century Australian judges
Colony of Western Australia judges
20th-century Australian judges
Settlers of Western Australia
British emigrants to Australia
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