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511882 | Daisy (advertisement) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daisy%20(advertisement) | Daisy (advertisement)
reads, "We must love one another or die." The words "children" and "the dark" also occur in Auden's poem.
Johnson's majority in the 1964 election was the largest since James Monroe's virtually uncontested 1820 re-election.
The ad has been used or referenced in multiple political campaigns since.... | 11,100 |
511882 | Daisy (advertisement) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daisy%20(advertisement) | Daisy (advertisement)
ad was also re-made in 2010 by the American Values Network and was aimed at getting voters to ask their senators to ratify the New START program. In 2016, Hillary Clinton enlisted Monique Luiz to participate in a sequel of the ad used in her unsuccessful campaign against Donald Trump.
Another chi... | 11,101 |
511882 | Daisy (advertisement) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daisy%20(advertisement) | Daisy (advertisement)
he New START program. In 2016, Hillary Clinton enlisted Monique Luiz to participate in a sequel of the ad used in her unsuccessful campaign against Donald Trump.
Another child actress, Birgitte Olsen, mistakenly claimed she was the child actress in the commercial, and has maintained that position... | 11,102 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
Jean Erdman
Jean Erdman (born February 20, 1916) is an American dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director.
# Biography.
## Early years and background.
Erdman's father, John Piney Erdman, a doctor of divinity and missionary from New England, settled in Honolulu a... | 11,103 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
education, Isadora Duncan interpretive dance. Reflecting on her early dance training Erdman said these two influences taught her that dancing is an "expression of something meaningful to the dancer, not a mere series of lively steps."
From Hawaii, Erdman went to Miss Hall's School for Girls in Pittsfield, ... | 11,104 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
greatest influences: Joseph Campbell and Martha Graham. Campbell, a professor of comparative literature who later became an authority on mythology, was her tutorial advisor. This began a dialogue about the process of individual psycho-spiritual transformation and the nature of art that was to continue throu... | 11,105 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
Bali, Java and India. Speaking of her experiences on this trip and of her later study of world dance cultures inspired by it Erdman said, "by studying and analyzing the traditional dance styles of the world, I discovered that the particular dance of each culture is the perfect expression of that culture's w... | 11,106 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
Spectator in "Every Soul is a Circus", the Speaking Fate in "Punch and the Judy" and the One Who Speaks in "Letter to the World", Graham's ode to the American poet, Emily Dickinson. Dance critic Margaret Lloyd of "The Christian Science Monitor" praised the "felicitous humor" Erdman brought to her role as th... | 11,107 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
that these speaking roles had on Erdman. He attributes her many explorations of the dynamic between word and movement to these early experiences.
As all female Graham dancers of the period Erdman was required to study choreography with Louis Horst, Graham's musical director. Horst presented lecture-demonst... | 11,108 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
Erdman's performance of this dance was the subject of Maya Deren's unfinished 1949 film, "Medusa".
Originally an exploration of primitive style or archaic style, "The Transformations of Medusa" developed from a short study of the two-dimensional form into a complete dance of three sections. Erdman describe... | 11,109 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
in the first short study as Medusa, the beautiful Greek priestess of Athena who became the hideous snake-headed gorgon. Erdman developed the second and third sections following the development of the mythological archetype.
In 1943, at the urging of Campbell and composer, John Cage, Erdman and fellow Graha... | 11,110 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
Tucker. According to Erdman, "Ad Lib" "was considered rather shocking because it incorporated improvisations. At that time it was not considered acceptable to perform improvs in public. That was for the privacy of your studio."
Erdman's other important works of the 1940s were "Daughters of the Lonesome Isl... | 11,111 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
Works of the Season by "Dance Magazine", Doris Hering wrote, "When the dance was over one realized that by means of purely physical and visual elements, Miss Erdman had succeeded in giving a moving picture of the experience of an artist through phases of isolation and realization."
Other dance critics of t... | 11,112 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
be just as strongly evocative."
Reporting on a group concert at the 92nd St YM/YWHA in which Erdman participated Edwin Denby wrote in the "New York Herald Tribune", "Miss Erdman's (approach) is a more original and refreshing one to encounter. There was a lightness in the rhythm, a quality of generosity and... | 11,113 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
own short-wave system to the senses themselves."
From 1950-54, she toured the US annually with her company. From 1954-55 she toured India and Japan as a solo artist, the first dancer to do so since World War II. The report she filed with U.S. State Department helped initiate cultural exchange programs with... | 11,114 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
allegory in six visions inspired by William Blake's poem, "The Tyger") to Ezra Laderman's "Sonata for Violoncello", in which Erdman emerged from and interacted with a metal sculpture by Carlus Dyer, and "Four Portraits" from Duke Ellington's "Shakespeare Album" (1958), a suite of comic portrayals of Shakesp... | 11,115 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
musical collaborations with composer Ezra Laderman which had begun in 1956 with "Duet for Flute and Dancer", inspired by Erdman's interpretation of Debussy's solo flute composition "Syrinx" in her 1948 solo "Hamadryad" and culminating in the 1957 group work "Harlequinade", featuring dancer Donald McKayle, w... | 11,116 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
of a New Nation" (1954) at Bard College. The newly named Jean Erdman Theater of Dance toured the U.S. and gave concerts in New York City. Among the notable works of this period are "Twenty Poems" (1960), a cycle of E. E. Cummings's poems for eight dancers and one actor with a commissioned score by Teiji Ito... | 11,117 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
an adaptation of James Joyce's, "Finnegans Wake". The title is a line from the text found in episode 11.3.359. She became acquainted with the novel during the four and a half year period that her husband collaborated with Henry Morton Robinson to write "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" (1944).
While Joyce... | 11,118 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
becomes the River Liffey flowing through the heart of Dublin. Teiji Ito was the musical director and composed the musical score on a vast array of instruments from around the world including among others, Japanese bass drums, Tibetan cymbals, a violin and an accordion.
"The Coach with the Six Insides" prem... | 11,119 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
In 1964 the work was featured on the CBS's "Camera Three" series and in 1966 WNET Channel 13 produced an interview with both Erdman and Campbell, "A Viewer's Guide to the Coach with the Six Insides". Many dance historians continue to regard "The Coach with the Six Insides" as "the most successful—and celebr... | 11,120 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
and for which Erdman received the Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination.
Erdman was an active teacher throughout her career. In 1948 she opened her own studio where she taught a style-neutral, concept-based technique she developed by combining her study of world dance with anatomical principles. She descr... | 11,121 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
In the summers from 1949 to 1955 she was the artist in residence and head of the dance department at the University of Colorado in Boulder. From 1954–57 she was the chairman of the dance department at Bard College. She was founding director of the dance program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and taught t... | 11,122 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
retrospective." From 1987–93, Erdman served as artistic director of an NEA funded project to create a three volume video archive of these early dance works, "Dance and Myth: The World of Jean Erdman".
## Personal life.
Erdman and Campbell had no children. For most of their forty-nine years of marriage the... | 11,123 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
Maya Deren" (1987)
- "The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell" (1987)
- "Dance and Myth - The World of Jean Erdman" (1990)
# Awards and nominations.
- Awards
- 1972: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography - "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
- 1963: Obie Award - Special Citation - "The Coac... | 11,124 |
511878 | Jean Erdman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Erdman | Jean Erdman
s"
- 1963: Vernon Rice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre - "The Coach with the Six Insides"
- 1993: Heritage Award from the National Dance Association for contributions to dance education
- 1995 Sacred Dance Guild Honorary Lifetime Member awarded at Kalani Honua, Big Island Hawaii
Nominations... | 11,125 |
511906 | Raymond Radiguet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20Radiguet | Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet (18 June 1903 – 12 December 1923) was a French novelist and poet whose two novels were noted for their explicit themes, and unique style and tone.
# Early life.
Radiguet was born in Saint-Maur, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist. In 1917, he mov... | 11,126 |
511906 | Raymond Radiguet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20Radiguet | Raymond Radiguet
provoked scandal in a country that had just been through World War I. Though Radiguet denied it, it was established later that the story was in large part autobiographical.
His second novel, "Le bal du Comte d'Orgel", also dealing with adultery, was only published posthumously in 1924. In addition to ... | 11,127 |
511906 | Raymond Radiguet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20Radiguet | Raymond Radiguet
in the Parisian literary circles as ""Monsieur Bébé"" – Mister Baby) with decadence for his tryst with a model: ""Bébé est vicieuse. Il aime les femmes."" ("Baby is depraved. He likes women." [Note the use of the feminine adjective.]) Radiguet, Hemingway implies, employed his sexuality to advance his c... | 11,128 |
511906 | Raymond Radiguet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20Radiguet | Raymond Radiguet
Diable au corps" is "unretouched and seems shocking, but nothing so resembles cynicism as clairvoyance. No adolescent before Radiguet has delivered to us the secret of that age: we have all falsified it."
# Death.
On 12 December 1923, Radiguet died at age 20 in Paris of tuberculosis, which he contrac... | 11,129 |
511906 | Raymond Radiguet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20Radiguet | Raymond Radiguet
describes Radiguet's funeral:
"The church was crowded with people. In the pew in front of us was the negro band from Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Picasso was there, Brâncuși and so many celebrated people that I cannot remember their names. Radiguet's death was a terrible shock to everyone. Coco Chanel, the c... | 11,130 |
511906 | Raymond Radiguet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20Radiguet | Raymond Radiguet
Bibliography.
- "Les Joues en feu" (1920) – poetry, translated by Alan Stone as "Cheeks on Fire: Collected Poems"
- "Devoirs de vacances" (1921) – poetry (English translation "Holiday Homework")
- "Les Pelican" (1921) – drama, translated by Michael Benedikt and George Wellworth as "The Pelicans"
- ... | 11,131 |
511906 | Raymond Radiguet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond%20Radiguet | Raymond Radiguet
he Book is Coming"
# Film adaptations.
In 1947 Claude Autant-Lara released his film "Le diable au corps", based on Radiguet's novel, and starring Gérard Philipe. Coming just after World War II, the movie caused controversy in its turn. Among the other cinematic versions of Radiguet's story, the heavi... | 11,132 |
511912 | Wellsville, New York (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wellsville,%20New%20York%20(disambiguation) | Wellsville, New York (disambiguation)
Wellsville, New York (disambiguation)
Wellsville, New York is a village and a town in Allegany County, New York, United States.
- Wellsville (town), New York
- Wellsville (village), New York
# See also.
- Wellsville (disambiguation) | 11,133 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
Naval gunfire support
Naval gunfire support (NGFS) (also known as shore bombardment) is the use of naval artillery to provide fire support for amphibious assault and other troops operating within their range. NGFS is one of a number of disciplines encompassed by the term "naval fires". Modern nav... | 11,134 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
and indirect fire, which, to be accurate, requires an artillery observer to adjust fire.
When on the gun line, ships are particularly vulnerable to attack from aircraft coming from a landward direction and flying low to avoid radar detection, or from submarines due to a predictable and steady (no... | 11,135 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
mortars, that fired explosive shells at a high angle. They were typically poor sailing craft that were of limited use outside their specialized role. However, small vessels armed with large mortars saw use as late as the American Civil War, when the Union Navy used them in several attacks on coast... | 11,136 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
by both the French and British during the Crimean War, and by both sides during the American Civil War.
## World War I.
In World War I the principal practitioner of naval bombardment (the term used prior to the Second World War for what was later designated naval gunfire support – NGS) was Brita... | 11,137 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
Here, the fortresses outline tended to blend into the hillside making identification difficult and the guns themselves presented small targets. Mobile howitzers on the plateau presented even greater problems, since these were higher still, and being completely shielded from view proved almost impe... | 11,138 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
A broad beamed hull designed for stability, and a shallow draft to allow close approach to the shore however made them slow vessels that were unsuitable for naval combat. Two s were fitted with BL 18 inch Mk I naval guns, the largest guns ever used by the Royal Navy.
The Germans constructed an ex... | 11,139 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
their technology and techniques necessary to conduct effective bombardments in the face of the German defenders—firstly refining spotting/correction by aircraft (following initial efforts during the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaign), then experimenting with night-bombardment and moving on to adopt I... | 11,140 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
This was a very significant advance, which basically established a firm foundation for naval bombardment as practiced by the RN and USN during the Second World War.
Between 1919–39 all RN battleships/battlecruisers and all new-construction cruisers were equipped with Admiralty Fire Control Tables... | 11,141 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
observers to transmit targeting information and provide almost instant accuracy reports—once troops had landed. Battleships, cruisers and destroyers would pound shore installations, sometimes for days, in the hope of reducing fortifications and attriting defending forces. Obsolete battleships unfi... | 11,142 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
longer bombardment periods—up to two weeks, in some cases—saturating target areas with fire until a lucky few shells had destroyed the intended targets. This alerted an enemy that he was about to be attacked. In the Pacific War this mattered less, as the defenders were usually expecting their isla... | 11,143 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
and was often used to supplement land-based artillery. The heavy-calibre guns of some eighteen battleships and cruisers were used to stop German Panzer counterattacks at Salerno. Naval gunfire was used extensively throughout Normandy, although initially the surprise nature of the landings themselv... | 11,144 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
provided heavy support, along with numerous light cruisers and destroyers. In particular were so-called "Trainbuster" patrols, working with spotter aircraft to destroy North Korean supply trains, as well as railway bridges and tunnels.
In the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa naval gunfire support wa... | 11,145 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
with the battleship USS "New Jersey" for a single tour of duty. NGFS was controlled by the United States Marines Corps First Air-Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (ANGLICO) who provided spotters, usually airborne in light aircraft but sometimes on foot, in all military regions.
In the 1982 Falklands ... | 11,146 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
battery guns against Iraqi targets in the Euphrates Delta. This was the last firing of battleship guns during war, as well as the first use of drone aircraft to observe targets and give targeting corrections
In the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, NGFS was used in support of operations on the Al-Faw Penins... | 11,147 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
for the Shore Fire Control Party and works in the Fire Control Center with other liaison officers to coordinate naval gunfire with close air support, mortars and artillery. The NGLO joins the others in the planning of fire missions in support of the Marine Infantry Regiment.
Additionally, the Uni... | 11,148 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
last battleship, , was decommissioned in 1992 and struck in 2006. The aircraft carrier and sea to land missile have been used instead. Naval guns used on modern ships are smaller caliber weapons, generally with more advanced targeting systems. It is unlikely that the large caliber guns will make a... | 11,149 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
School by Shawn A. Welch, a Colonel in the Army National Guard's Corps of Engineers analyzed the current capacity for naval gunfire support (NGS) and made several conclusions based on the progress made since the retirement of the last two "Iowa"-class battleships. Welch's thesis report, which earn... | 11,150 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
cancelled programs intended to replace naval gunfire support capacity, in the process making no significant gains for offshore fire support since the retirement of the last "Iowa"-class battleship in 1992. This failure by the navy to meet Congressional mandates to improve naval gunfire support cau... | 11,151 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
Armed Service Committee on the risks faced by the Marines in the absence of any effective naval gunfire support.
# Continued naval gunfire support training.
Despite the reduction in calibre size to guns, even ground-based NATO forces' artillery observers (FOs) and Forward Air Controllers (FACs) ... | 11,152 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
participate in field operations, often with a Marine artillery battery to provide simulated naval gunfire support. When available, Marine spotters will call the fire missions for naval ships undergoing their gunnery qualification tests, to provide both parties the opportunity to practice their ski... | 11,153 |
511891 | Naval gunfire support | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval%20gunfire%20support | Naval gunfire support
When available, Marine spotters will call the fire missions for naval ships undergoing their gunnery qualification tests, to provide both parties the opportunity to practice their skills.
One use of naval gunfire in modern operations is to provide Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) for Close... | 11,154 |
511916 | 2004 Nokia Brier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004%20Nokia%20Brier | 2004 Nokia Brier
2004 Nokia Brier
The 2004 Nokia Brier was held from March 6 to 14 at Saskatchewan Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The Nova Scotia team skipped by Mark Dacey defeated the Alberta team of Randy Ferbey in dramatic fashion in the final game played on March 14. Ferbey's team was attempting to become Cana... | 11,155 |
511916 | 2004 Nokia Brier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004%20Nokia%20Brier | 2004 Nokia Brier
Draw 4.
"Sunday, March 7, 1:30 pm"
## Draw 5.
"Sunday, March 7, 6:30 pm"
## Draw 6.
"Monday, March 8, 9:00 am"
## Draw 7.
"Monday, March 8, 1:30 pm"
## Draw 8.
"Monday, March 8, 6:30 pm"
## Draw 9.
"Tuesday, March 9, 9:00 am"
## Draw 10.
"Tuesday, March 9, 1:30 pm"
## Draw 11.
"Tuesday, ... | 11,156 |
511916 | 2004 Nokia Brier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004%20Nokia%20Brier | 2004 Nokia Brier
four teams with the best records at the end of round-robin play meet in the playoff rounds. The first and second place teams play each other, with the winner advancing directly to the final. The winner of the other page playoff game between the third and fourth place teams plays the loser of the first/... | 11,157 |
511916 | 2004 Nokia Brier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004%20Nokia%20Brier | 2004 Nokia Brier
from Nova Scotia (first overall) versus Randy Ferbey's team from Alberta (second overall).
"Friday, March 12, 1:30 pm"
Game two of the page playoffs was between Brad Gushue's team from Newfoundland and Labrador (third overall) versus Jay Peachey's team from British Columbia (fourth overall).
"Friday... | 11,158 |
511916 | 2004 Nokia Brier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004%20Nokia%20Brier | 2004 Nokia Brier
in the 9th, Dacey was 2 down coming home but had last rock advantage. A couple of errors by Ferbey's team and some good shot making, gave Nova Scotia 3 points in the 10th end and the championship.
"Sunday, March 14, 6:00 pm"
# Statistics.
## Top 5 player percentages.
"Round Robin only"
## Team per... | 11,159 |
511916 | 2004 Nokia Brier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004%20Nokia%20Brier | 2004 Nokia Brier
1. Russ Howard
- 2. Terry Odishaw
- 3. Mike Flannery
- 4. Mike Kennedy
## Northern Ontario.
@ Sault Ste. Marie
- 1. Rob Gordon
- 2. Jeff Currie
- 3. Denis Malette
- 4. Al Harnden
## Ontario.
@ Owen Sound
- 1. Mike Harris
- 2. Glenn Howard
- 3. Phil Daniel
- 4. Peter Corner
## Nova Scoti... | 11,160 |
511916 | 2004 Nokia Brier | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004%20Nokia%20Brier | 2004 Nokia Brier
Ste. Marie
- 1. Rob Gordon
- 2. Jeff Currie
- 3. Denis Malette
- 4. Al Harnden
## Ontario.
@ Owen Sound
- 1. Mike Harris
- 2. Glenn Howard
- 3. Phil Daniel
- 4. Peter Corner
## Nova Scotia.
@ Kentville
- 1. Mark Dacey
## Newfoundland and Labrador.
@ Goose Bay
- 1. Brad Gushue
- 2. Mark... | 11,161 |
511919 | Lake Ngami | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Ngami | Lake Ngami
Lake Ngami
Lake Ngami is an endorheic lake in Botswana north of the Kalahari Desert. It is seasonally filled by the Taughe River, an effluent of the Okavango River system flowing out of the western side of the Okavango Delta. It is one of the fragmented remnants of the ancient Lake Makgadikgadi. Although th... | 11,162 |
511919 | Lake Ngami | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Ngami | Lake Ngami
he noticed they had a story similar to that of the Tower of Babel, except that the builders' heads were "cracked by the fall of the scaffolding" ("Missionary Travels", chap. 26). Charles John Andersson (who published "Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries during Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of ... | 11,163 |
511919 | Lake Ngami | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake%20Ngami | Lake Ngami
ad a story similar to that of the Tower of Babel, except that the builders' heads were "cracked by the fall of the scaffolding" ("Missionary Travels", chap. 26). Charles John Andersson (who published "Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries during Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of Southwestern Afri... | 11,164 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
Mutual Defense Assistance Act
The Mutual Defense Assistance Act was a United States Act of Congress signed by President Harry S. Truman on 6 October 1949. For US Foreign policy, it was the first U.S. military foreign aid legislation of the Cold War era, and initially to Europe. The Act fo... | 11,165 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
Administration, to supervise all foreign aid programs, including both military assistance programs and non-military, economic assistance programs that bolstered the defense capability of U.S. allies.
About the same time, the Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951, also known or ref... | 11,166 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
controls were used for both domestic policy and later as an instrument of foreign policy. This is exemplified by the restrictions on export of certain strategic or military items to the Soviet bloc or to other countries which it felt, if permitted, would be detrimental to the foreign polic... | 11,167 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
the production of weapons, and was especially focused on anything that could aid atomic weapons research and construction.
As the Cold War developed, these acts were part of the American policy of containment of Communism. They importantly provided defense assistance to any ally that migh... | 11,168 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
the Cold War.
In the euphoria of the end of World War II, western arsenals dropped down to a dangerous level of weakness and being worn-out. Public funds were, by priority, allocated to reconstruction. Even the US arsenal showed obvious signs of shortages and decay.
Military officials be... | 11,169 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
military aid to strengthen the connectional defenses, having in mind a global resistance to Communist expansion of the signatories.
Truman sent a first bill to Congress on 25 July 1949, the day he ratified the North Atlantic Treaty but congressional opposition forced submission of a new l... | 11,170 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
in annual spending on military aid to $5.222 billion after the outbreak of the Korean War - the very first large scale test of the validity and practicability of the concept, if excepting the logistical support allowed to France during the Indochina War.
# Revival of the US armed forces m... | 11,171 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
needed refunding from the country that benefits any military assistance. Between 1950 and 1967, $33.4 billion in arms and services and $3.3 billion worth of surplus weaponry were provided under the program.
### NATO.
On 4 April 1949, the foreign ministers from 12 countries signed the No... | 11,172 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area".
- Belgium and the Netherlands
- Denmark and Norway
- France :
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- Portugal
- Spain
- Turkey
## Asia.
- Indochinese Peninsula after independence : Vietnam, Laos, ..
- Iran
- Japan:
## Non a... | 11,173 |
511917 | Mutual Defense Assistance Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual%20Defense%20Assistance%20Act | Mutual Defense Assistance Act
given by successive US Governments to right-wing military regimes in accordance with the stated Communist Containment policy - such as the Spain's Francoist State and Portugal's New Order or the Greek Regime of the Colonels, in the wake of the Vietnam War protests, left-wing public opinion... | 11,174 |
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Bibliography.
## General.
- Lawrence S. Kaplan: "A Community of Interests: NATO and the Military Assistance Program, 1948–1951" (1980);
- Chester J. Pach, Jr.: "Arming the Free World: The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945–1950 " (1991);
- Ronald E. Powaski:... | 11,175 |
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world: the United States and regional cooperation in Asia and Europe" Galia Press-Barnathan (2003):
- further related bibliography ( incl. texts, digests, extracts ) on US international politic and diplomacy at : 0-313-27274-3&id=ZDAoVZqHwocC&hl=en&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1 Books.go... | 11,176 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
J. S. Woodsworth
James Shaver Woodsworth (July 29, 1874 – March 21, 1942) was a pioneer in the Canadian social democratic movement. Following more than two decades ministering to the poor and the working class, J. S. Woodsworth left the Methodist Church to sponsor the Social Gospel movement as he felt... | 11,177 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
and became leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, Canada's first Socialist party, which evolved into today's New Democratic Party.
# Childhood.
The oldest of six children, James Shaver Woodsworth was born in Etobicoke Applewood Farm, near Toronto, Ontario, to Esther Josephine Shaver and J... | 11,178 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
in his father's footsteps, J. S. Woodsworth was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1896 and spent two years as a circuit preacher in Manitoba before going to study at Victoria College in the University of Toronto and at Oxford University in England. While studying at Oxford University in 1899, he beca... | 11,179 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
called for the Kingdom of God "here and now". It was not long, however, before Woodsworth became restless as a minister. He had difficulty accepting Methodist dogma, and questioned the wisdom of the Church's emphasis on individual salvation without considering the social context in which an individual ... | 11,180 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
he worked with the poor and immigrant families, and during this time, he wrote and campaigned for compulsory education, juvenile courts, the construction of playgrounds, and other initiatives in support of social welfare.
# Early social activism.
As a Mission worker, Woodsworth had the opportunity to... | 11,181 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
elaborated on concerns related to immigration, and expressed sympathy for the difficulties new immigrants to Canada faced but also offered eugenic interpretations of human abilities and worth based on race. The organization of the book reflects Woodsworth's "hierarchy" with early chapters focusing on "... | 11,182 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
Canadian prairie provinces, investigating social conditions, and writing and presenting lectures on his findings. By 1914, he had become a socialist and an admirer of the British Labour Party.
In 1916, during World War I, he was asked to support the National Services Registration, better known as "con... | 11,183 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
Gibson's Landing, British Columbia. Woodsworth resigned from the Church in 1918 because of its support of the war. "I thought that as a Christian minister, I was a messenger of the Prince of Peace", he is quoted as saying. His resignation was accepted.
# Political involvement.
Woodsworth and his fami... | 11,184 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police charged into a crowd of strikers demonstrating in the centre of Winnipeg, killing one person and injuring 30, Woodsworth led the campaign of protest, and soon became involved in organising the Manitoba Independent Labour Party (ILP).
Woodsworth briefly returned t... | 11,185 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
imprisonment, and the charges were never filed. These events were instrumental in establishing Woodsworth's credentials with the labour movement and in propelling him to a twenty-year tenure in public office. They also affirmed his beliefs in the importance of social activism.
In December 1921, Woodsw... | 11,186 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
unemployment insurance and, even though he was informed by the Clerk of the House of Commons that bills involving federal spending had to be presented by the government, he nonetheless continued to press his case for better labour legislation.
He also pursued constitutional reform such as bringing in ... | 11,187 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
of Canada, a fledgling social justice movement founded in 1921, and inspired Stanley Knowles, then 21, who later became ordained and helped found the New Democratic Party.
Rejecting violent revolution and any association with the new Communist Party of Canada, Woodsworth became a master of parliamenta... | 11,188 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
cornerstone of Canada's social security system. In 1932, Woodsworth toured Europe as a member of the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva.
# Formation of the CCF.
When the Great Depression struck, Woodsworth and the ILP joined with various other labour and socialist groups in 1932 to found a new soci... | 11,189 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
Columbia and, in 1934, the party achieved the same result in Saskatchewan. In the 1935 election, seven CCF Members of Parliament were elected to the House of Commons and the party captured 8.9 percent of the popular vote. The CCF, however, was never able to seriously challenge Canada's party system, wh... | 11,190 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
into World War II. During the debate on the declaration of war, Mackenzie King said: "There are few men in this Parliament for whom I have greater respect than the leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. I admire him in my heart, because time and again he has had the courage to say what lay... | 11,191 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
the next 18 months, his health deteriorated. He died in Vancouver, British Columbia in early 1942, and his ashes were scattered in the Strait of Georgia.
Woodsworth's daughter, Grace MacInnis, followed in his footsteps as a CCF politician.
# Woodsworth's legacy.
Woodsworth strongly influenced Canadi... | 11,192 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
is still held in great respect within the party as well as across Canada.
Woodsworth College of the University of Toronto, and J. S. Woodsworth Secondary School in Ottawa, Ontario (closed in 2005) are named after him. There is also a housing co-operative in downtown Toronto named after him. There is a... | 11,193 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
CCS purchased Woodsworth House from the Woodsworth Historical Society in 1998, with a commitment to keep the Woodsworth name and to continue to display photographs of Woodsworth and reminders of his commitment to the social gospel and social justice.
In 2004, a CBC contest rated Woodsworth as the 100t... | 11,194 |
511907 | J. S. Woodsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20S.%20Woodsworth | J. S. Woodsworth
he social gospel and social justice.
In 2004, a CBC contest rated Woodsworth as the 100th Greatest Canadian of all time.
In October 2010, the town of Gibsons, British Columbia announced that it would be naming a street in a new subdivision after Woodsworth. Woodsworth lived in Gibsons for a short tim... | 11,195 |
511918 | USS O'Hare (DD-889) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20O'Hare%20(DD-889) | USS O'Hare (DD-889)
USS O'Hare (DD-889)
USS "O'Hare" (DD/DDR-889) was a of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Edward "Butch" O'Hare, Medal of Honor recipient, who was shot down at Tarawa on 27 November 1943.
"O'Hare" was laid down at the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 27 Januar... | 11,196 |
511918 | USS O'Hare (DD-889) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20O'Hare%20(DD-889) | USS O'Hare (DD-889)
cruise to Latin America during the summer of 1947. Departing Norfolk, Virginia, early in May 1948 she sailed to the Mediterranean temporarily serving under the United Nations' flag as an evacuation ship off Haifa, Israel, from 24 June through July, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Several goodwill ... | 11,197 |
511918 | USS O'Hare (DD-889) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20O'Hare%20(DD-889) | USS O'Hare (DD-889)
1952 this destroyer received commendations for her efforts after ships had collided at sea, while in 1957 and again in 1961 aviators from the carriers and respectively were plucked from the sea. Meanwhile, to update and increase her value to the Navy, "O'Hare" was converted during 1953 to a radar pi... | 11,198 |
511918 | USS O'Hare (DD-889) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20O'Hare%20(DD-889) | USS O'Hare (DD-889)
on 15 July, firing missions in all four Corps areas in the South. "O'Hare" served as plane guard for aircraft carriers on "Yankee Station" in the Gulf of Tonkin, participated in "Sea Dragon" operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties off North Vietnam. "O'Hare" returned home on 17 December vi... | 11,199 |
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