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1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
around Australia. This has also ended the need for maintaining long-term storage and retrieval systems. The new system speeds up the clearing process, with cheques being able to be cleared at the end of the next weekday after being presented, as opposed to up to the six weekdays under the ... | 14,700 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
bills such as credit card bills
- Transferring funds to other bank accounts, also known as third party transfers
- Payment of wages and salaries
- Government tax refunds and payments
Participants of BECS exchange direct entry or DE files at intervals through the day. Net positions are ... | 14,701 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
are active in Australia including MasterCard, Visa, Diners Club and American Express. The Bankcard scheme is no longer in use.
## BPAY.
BPAY is a bill payment system used in Australia, which is regulated by the four major banks and not by APCA. As of January 2015, the BPAY payments syste... | 14,702 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
systems in Australia are:
- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication Payment Delivery System (SWIFT PDS)
- Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS): CHESS is an automated share transfer and settlement system developed by the Australian Securities Exchange. ... | 14,703 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
Information and Transfer System (RITS) is used by banks and other approved institutions to settle their payment obligations on a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) basis. Final and irrevocable settlement is achieved by the simultaneous crediting and debiting of Exchange Settlement Accounts ... | 14,704 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
much richer remittance information than other systems. The NPP infrastructure supports the independent development of ‘overlay’ services to offer innovative payment services to end-users.
# Regulation.
Regulation of the financial system in Australia is split mainly between the Australian... | 14,705 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
an Australian financial services licence issued to that person by ASIC or fall within a licensing exemption.
APRA is responsible for the licensing and prudential supervision of ADIs (banks, building societies, credit unions, friendly societies and participants in certain credit card schem... | 14,706 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
are neither licensed nor regulated under the Banking Act and are not subject to the prudential supervision of APRA. They may be required to obtain licences under the Corporations Act 2001 or other Commonwealth or state legislation, depending on the nature of their business activities in Au... | 14,707 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
ion of credit to individuals for personal, household or domestic purposes has been regulated by the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, which has been implemented in all Australian states and territories.
Businesses providing financial products and services are required to identify and monitor ... | 14,708 |
1214850 | IK Start | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IK%20Start | IK Start
IK Start
IK Start is a Norwegian football club from the town of Kristiansand that currently plays in 1. divisjon, the second tier of the Norwegian football league system. The club was founded on 19 September 1905. The club's current head coach is Jóhannes Harðarson. The team plays in yellow jerseys, black sho... | 14,709 |
1214850 | IK Start | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IK%20Start | IK Start
club.
Start's style of playing is often described as 'makrellfotball' (mackerel football), meaning the whole team is in constant, coordinated motion. Another feature of their playing style is the so-called 'Start-vippen' (Start-tip), where the ball at a free-kick is tipped up by one player before hit by anoth... | 14,710 |
1214850 | IK Start | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IK%20Start | IK Start
they reached second place, following Vålerenga, after a strong comeback season in the Tippeligaen. For this, Start earned a place in the UEFA Cup 2006.
In 2006, after beating Skála of the Faroe Islands in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, and Drogheda United of Ireland in the second qualifying round... | 14,711 |
1214850 | IK Start | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IK%20Start | IK Start
financial difficulties has plagued Start for several seasons, due to the financial crisis and the Norwegian footballteams overspending, Start being no exception. The last couple of seasons, Start has downsized and saved money, for example by changing the turf on Sør Arena, the hopes being that the savings will... | 14,712 |
1214850 | IK Start | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IK%20Start | IK Start
and Tørum decided to resign hours before a cup-match against Strømsgodset, a match Start won without Tørum. Mons Ivar Mjelde replaced Tørum as head coach, but was not able to save Start from relegation. Start started the 2012 1. divisjon in strong fashion, leading the division and winning important matches and... | 14,713 |
1214850 | IK Start | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IK%20Start | IK Start
atch against Strømsgodset, a match Start won without Tørum. Mons Ivar Mjelde replaced Tørum as head coach, but was not able to save Start from relegation. Start started the 2012 1. divisjon in strong fashion, leading the division and winning important matches and won promotion at the end of the season.
Start ... | 14,714 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
Grafton Correctional Centre
The Grafton Intake and Transient Centre, formerly the Grafton Correctional Centre and the Grafton Gaol, is a heritage-listed medium security prison for males and females, is located in , Clarence Valley Council, New South Wales, Australia. The centre is operated ... | 14,715 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
of Grafton. Correctional facilities were first established in Grafton in 1862 under the supervision of the Office of the Sheriff accommodating up to 48 inmates. A second complex was established but did not contain the required number of cells, was floodprone and unhygienic.
A permanent faci... | 14,716 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
an elaborate gatehouse, featuring a machicolated parapet, a sandstone archway and elaborate panelled doors. The gaol was built by the Holloway Bros. and proclaimed on 8 September 1893. Prisoners were transferred to the new facility in November of the same year.
By 1924, the gaol had been re... | 14,717 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
Royal Commission to oversee reforms to the Australian penal system. As best described by Justice Nagle during proceedings of the Nagle Royal Commission (1976–1978):
Accepting the Nagle Report in 1978, the Wran Labor government began prison reform under the leadership of Dr Tony Vinson.
The... | 14,718 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
by national charities to alleviate the hardship of homelessness.
In June 2010 an inmate was found bleeding to death in his cell. He died several days later in a Brisbane hospital. Serving time for traffic offences, a coronial inquest heard that threats were made against the prisoner's life ... | 14,719 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
inmates transferred to the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre. In June 2012 the O'Farrell government decided to downgrade the facility and the centre now houses up to 64 inmates who are taken into custody or are currently in custody and need to attend court in the Northern Rivers region.
#... | 14,720 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
and visitors. A sterile zone separated the cell ranges from the prison walls. Male and female prisoners were completely segregated with separate cell ranges, exercise yards, bath houses and hospital facilities. The (former) male cell range is largely intact. Workshop and kitchen facilities w... | 14,721 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
the complex, the level of detail depending on the function of the building. The complex has been extended to one side. New watch towers have been built however elements of the original towers remain intact.
# Heritage listing.
The Grafton Gaol complex is significant as it demonstrates the ... | 14,722 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
designed by competition in the late nineteenth century; its design utilises characteristic materials of the Federation period. Its construction is related to the growth and expansion of Grafton.
Grafton Correctional Centre was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April... | 14,723 |
1214861 | Grafton Correctional Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton%20Correctional%20Centre | Grafton Correctional Centre
ggaleya former Olympic sprint canoer, jailed between 2009 and 2011 for dealing ecstasy
- Darcy Duganan Australian bank robber and New South Wales' most notorious prison escape artist. Dugan spent 44 years in various prisons in New South Wales including Grafton Correctional Centre.
- Len La... | 14,724 |
1214875 | Stoke Bruerne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoke%20Bruerne | Stoke Bruerne
Stoke Bruerne
Stoke Bruerne is a small village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, England about north of Milton Keynes and south of Northampton.
# History.
Stoke Bruerne is mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as "Stoche" meaning "an outlying farmstead or hamlet". The form "Stokbruer" is use... | 14,725 |
1214875 | Stoke Bruerne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoke%20Bruerne | Stoke Bruerne
parish is part of Tove Ward, named after the River Tove, of the district council of South Northamptonshire.
The nearby country estate of Stoke Park along Shutlanger Road is occasionally open to the public in August, but all that remains of the main house are the two east and west wings known as Stoke Par... | 14,726 |
1214875 | Stoke Bruerne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoke%20Bruerne | Stoke Bruerne
Telegraph" article. Other walks in and around Northampton are mentioned in the County Council Right of way site.
## Canal Museum.
The village is home to one of the three museums owned and run by Canal & River Trust. The others are at Ellesmere Port and Gloucester Docks.
## Blisworth tunnel.
About half... | 14,727 |
1214875 | Stoke Bruerne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoke%20Bruerne | Stoke Bruerne
heritage and importance on 22-August-2014 (30th anniversary of the reopening of the tunnel in 1984). The Red Wheel is on the blacksmith's forge in Stoke Bruerne.
## Facilities.
There are two canalside public houses, The Boat Inn, and The Navigation, both serving a variety of meals and drinks. There is a... | 14,728 |
1214875 | Stoke Bruerne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoke%20Bruerne | Stoke Bruerne
or 50p after 6pm). The parking restrictions are strictly enforced. A variety of boat trips may be booked from the canalside. Most of the time there is plenty of activity on the canal with boats going through the locks regularly and plenty going in and out of the tunnel.
The village has a cricket club. It... | 14,729 |
1214875 | Stoke Bruerne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoke%20Bruerne | Stoke Bruerne
Council. Extensive additional documentation, including maps, pictures and historical documentation, is available from the South Northants Council's Planning website.
# Railway.
Stoke Bruerne had its own railway station, part of the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (SMJR) and misnamed Sto... | 14,730 |
1214875 | Stoke Bruerne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoke%20Bruerne | Stoke Bruerne
r the south portal. The station building has been converted to a private house and is along the road to Blisworth just outside the village. The line of the railway, and station platform, are still visible and the Blisworth road has a railway bridge still in position near the former station. The railway ra... | 14,731 |
1214880 | Mobilong Prison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobilong%20Prison | Mobilong Prison
Mobilong Prison
Mobilong Prison is an Australian low and medium security prison for men located at Murray Bridge, South Australia. It has a capacity of 327 prisoners.
# External links.
- Mobilong Prison | 14,732 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
Friedrich Martens
Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, also known as Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens ("Фёдор Фёдорович Мартенс") in Russian and Frédéric Frommhold (de) Martens in French ( – ) was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributi... | 14,733 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
Biography.
Born to ethnic Estonian parents at Pärnu in the Governorate of Livonia of Russian Empire, Martens was later raised and educated as a German-speaker. He lost both parents at the age of nine and was sent to a Lutheran orphanage in St. Petersburg, where he successfully completed the full cour... | 14,734 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
legal assistant to Prince Gorchakov, then imperial chancellor.
His book on "The Right of Private Property in War" had appeared in 1869, and had been followed in 1873 by that upon "The Office of Consul and Consular Jurisdiction in the East", which had been translated into German and republished at Ber... | 14,735 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
in Russian and French in parallel columns, contains not only the texts of the treaties but valuable introductions dealing with the diplomatic conditions of which the treaties were the outcome. These introductions are based largely on unpublished documents from the Russian archives.
Of Martens' origin... | 14,736 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
(1879)
- "Russia's Conflict with China" (1881)
- "The Egyptian Question" (1882)
- "The African Conference of Berlin and the Colonial Policy of Modern States" (1887)
In the delicate questions raised in some of these works Martens stated his case with learning and ability, even when it was obvious t... | 14,737 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
the presiding arbitrator in the arbitration of the boundary dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana which followed the Venezuela Crisis of 1895.
He played an important part in the negotiations between his own country and Japan, which led to the peace of Portsmouth (August 1905) and prepared the ... | 14,738 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
He was judge of the Russian supreme prize court established to determine cases arising during the war with Japan.
He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford (D.C.L. October 1902 in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library), Cambridge, Edinburgh and Yale (LL.D. Octobe... | 14,739 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
and circumstances of his ennoblement are not clear. While it is undisputed that he called himself and was referred to as "von" or "de" Martens in publications since the early 1870s, this title might have been bestowed upon him either with one of the more distinguished Russian Orders, or with the title... | 14,740 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
if this entry relates to him or to another noble of the same name. His social advancement was the more remarkable, as it was exclusively based on his professional merits.
# Popular culture.
- Friedrich Martens is featured as the main character in the novel "Professor Martens' Departure" ("Professor ... | 14,741 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
two-volume textbook and pointed out several pro-Russian gaps and biases in its historical part:
"Flagrant lack of objectivity and conscientiousness. The Tsars and Tsarinas invariably appear as pure representatives of peace, conciliation, moderation and justice, whereas the moral qualities of their no... | 14,742 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
range of international administrative law meant, therefore, expanding the dominance of expediency – which is the very opposite of law."
Further, Nussbaum turned his attention to the other (publicist) writings of Martens, mostly the ones published in "Revue de droit international et de législation com... | 14,743 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
that the 1874 article by Martens on the Brussels conference, "It is purely apologetic and has nothing to do with law."
Then, Nussbaum turned to Martens's activities as arbitrator and found them "most conspicuous." In particular, Nussbaum referred to a memorandum of Venezuelan lawyer Severo Mellet Pro... | 14,744 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
essential parts" and concluded:
"The spirit of arbitration will be perverted more seriously if the neutral arbitrator does not possess the external and internal independence from his government, which, according to the conception of most countries of Western civilization, is an essential attrribute o... | 14,745 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
and writer on international law to defend and back up the policies of his government at any price.… Obviously his motivation was overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, political and patriotic. Legal argument served him as a refined art to tender his pleas for Russian claims more impressive or more palata... | 14,746 |
1214871 | Friedrich Martens | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich%20Martens | Friedrich Martens
erved him as a refined art to tender his pleas for Russian claims more impressive or more palatable. He was not really a man of law..."
# See also.
- List of Russian legal historians
- Russian legal history
# Footnotes.
## Biographies.
- Vladimir Pustogarov. (English version 2000) ""Our Martens:... | 14,747 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod or Vaida-Voievod (27 February 1872 – 19 March 1950) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician who was a supporter and promoter of the union of Transylvania (before 1920 part of Hungary) with the Romanian Old Kingdom; he later served 28th Prime... | 14,748 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
in the Budapest Parliament (the Romanian National Party of Transylvania and Banat), becoming an important opponent of the Hungarian governmental policy of Magyarization, and fought for the right of Transylvania to self-determination. Disappointed by the Austrian cause after Franz Ferdinand's assa... | 14,749 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
was to push towards the union with the Romanian Kingdom. He drafted quickly a proposal in that respect and went to his good friend Iuliu Hossu in Gherla to seek his advice. Pondering over the words in the draft, they decided to replace the most radical proposal with the following generic statemen... | 14,750 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
the declaration of self-determination, to the shock of his fellow deputies, who started to throw objects at him. Having prepared his exit in advance, Vaida-Voevod narrowly escaped lynching by leaving quickly through a back door of the Parliament building and hiding in a workers' neighborhood in B... | 14,751 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
In Romania.
Vaida-Voevod joined the Romanian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and was one of its most prominent members throughout the negotiations, as an organizer of press campaigns. During the conference, he joined the Masonic Grand Orient de France in order to secure a more ... | 14,752 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
made King Ferdinand dissolve his government in March 1920, to be replaced by one formed by General Alexandru Averescu's People's Party (a populist movement that had attracted Brătianu's conditional support). Vaida-Voevod's party emerged as the National Peasants' Party in 1926, and he served as it... | 14,753 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
were acting more like Liberals than Peasantists. They crushed strikes by oil workers in Ploiești and by railway workers in Bucharest in February 1933, dissolved Communist Party front organizations and all other 'anti-state' organizations, and proclaimed martial law in a number of cities."
Noneth... | 14,754 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Legionary Movement.
# Later.
On 25 February 1935 he created his own movement, the Romanian Front, which survived through the increasingly authoritarian regime of Carol II, the National Legionary State, Antonescu's regime and most of World War II. It was dissolved after 1944 when Communist Party... | 14,755 |
1214846 | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Vaida-Voevod | Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
his life.
# Bibliography.
- Vasile Ciobanu, "Activitatea diplomatică a lui Alexandru Vaida Voevod la Paris (1918)" ("The Diplomatic Activities of Alexandru Vaida Voevod in Paris (1918)")
- Liviu Maior, "Alexandru Vaida-Voevod între Belvedere și Versailles" ("Alexandru Vaida-Voevod Between Belv... | 14,756 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
Visual anthropology
Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media. More recently it has been used by historians of science and visual culture. Although sometime... | 14,757 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
sandpaintings, tattoos, sculptures and reliefs, cave paintings, scrimshaw, jewelry, hieroglyphics, paintings and photographs. Also within the province of the subfield are studies of human vision, properties of media, the relationship of visual form and function, and applied, collaborative uses of vi... | 14,758 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
in the 1880s, ethnologists used photography as a tool of research. Anthropologists and non-anthropologists conducted much of this work in the spirit of salvage ethnography or attempts to record for posterity the ways-of-life of societies assumed doomed to extinction (see, for instance, the Native Am... | 14,759 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
best known for his films chronicling the lives of Arctic peoples ("Nanook of the North", 1922), became a filmmaker in 1913 when his supervisor suggested that he take a camera and equipment with him on an expedition north. Flaherty focused on "traditional" Inuit ways of life, omitting with few except... | 14,760 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
1940s and early 1950s, anthropologists such as Hortense Powdermaker, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead ("Trance and Dance in Bali", 1952) and Mead and Rhoda Metraux, eds., ("The Study of Culture at a Distance", 1953) were bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on mass media and visual representa... | 14,761 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
including Peter Loizos, would add the name of filmmaker/author David MacDougall to this select group.
In 1966, filmmaker Sol Worth and anthropologist John Adair taught a group of Navajo Indians in Arizona how to capture 16mm film. The hypothesis was that artistic choices made by the Navajo would re... | 14,762 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
Visual Anthropology first found purchase in an academic setting in 1958 with the creation of the Film Study Center at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. In the United Kingdom, The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester was established in 1987 to of... | 14,763 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
Emilie de Brigard (1967), Fadwa el Guindi (2004), and Beate Engelbrecht, ed. (2007). A more recent history that understands visual anthropology in a broader sense, edited by Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby, is "Made To Be Seen: Historical Perspectives on Visual Anthropology". Turning the anthropological l... | 14,764 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
Europe, ethnographic films are shown at the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival in the UK, The Jean Rouch Film Festival in France and Ethnocineca in Austria. Dozens of other international festivals are listed regularly in the "Newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association [NAFA... | 14,765 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
larger areas. By 10,000 BP, a system of well-developed pictographs was in use by boating peoples and was likely instrumental in the development of navigation and writing, as well as a medium of story telling and artistic representation. Early visual representations often show the female form, with c... | 14,766 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
of materials (where the clay came from) and processes (when did firing clay become common), when did weaving begin, what kind of weaving is depicted and what other evidence is there for weaving, and what kinds of cultural changes were occurring in other parts of human life at the time.
Visual anthr... | 14,767 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
State University, Chico: Home to the Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology (ALVA) which offers students use of RED Digital Cinema cameras in its Masters of Anthropology program. Students receive a four-fields degree but complete an ethnographic film as partial fulfillment of their thesis req... | 14,768 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
Anthropology with Media in conjunction with its Sensory Ethnography Lab
- Heidelberg University: The chair of Visual and Media Anthropology offers BA and MA courses in the field of visual and media anthropology.
- New York University: The Program in Culture and Media
- Pontifical Catholic Univers... | 14,769 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
de Antropología Visual (LAV)
- Universitat de Barcelona: postgraduate and Master's programs in Visual Anthropology
- University of British Columbia: The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC
- University College London: offers postgraduate courses that can be taken as part of a master's degree for credit... | 14,770 |
1214879 | Visual anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual%20anthropology | Visual anthropology
programme. It teaches students how to use photography, digital video and sound recording both as research and reporting tools as part of ethnographic research.
- University of London, Goldsmith's College: The anthropology department offers an MA and PhD in Visual Anthropology.
- University of Manc... | 14,771 |
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4. Manchester includes an Oscar nominee, two BAFTA winners, and a BAFTA nominee among its alumni.
- University of Münster: Visual Anthropology, Media & Documentary Practices Programme which accompanies employment. Master of Arts (M.A.) degree within 6 semesters.Provides skills in the area of visual... | 14,772 |
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DPhil degrees with numerous competitive funding opportunities.
- University of South Carolina offers a Graduate Certificate in Visual Anthropology for graduate students enrolled in M.A. or Ph.D. programs in Media Arts and Anthropology but which also serves graduate students in such areas as Educati... | 14,773 |
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given alongside the Ph.D. in Anthropology. A new digitally based program was created in the Fall of 2009 as a [new one year MA program in Visual Anthropology http://dornsife.usc.edu/anth/masters-in-visual-anthropology/ ]. . Since 2009, the program has produced twenty five new ethnographic documentar... | 14,774 |
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Documentary Practices Programme which accompanies employment. Master of Arts (M.A.) degree within 6 semesters.Provides skills in the area of visual anthropology, documentary films, photography, documentary art, culture media and media anthropology.
# See also.
- Ethnofiction
- Ethnographic film
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(Second Edition), Sage: London
- Barbash, Ilisa and Lucien Taylor. "Cross-cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos." Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
- Collier, Malcolm et al.: "Visual Anthropology. Photography As a Research Method." U... | 14,776 |
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Film." Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang Verlag, 2007.
- Grimshaw, Anna. "The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Harris, Claire. 2012. The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet. Univ... | 14,777 |
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
- Martinez, Wilton. 1992. “Who Constructs Anthropological Knowledge? Toward a Theory of Ethnographic Film Spectatorship.” In "Film as Ethnography", D. Turton and P. Crawford, (Eds.), pp. 130-161. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Mead, Margaret... | 14,778 |
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in Research." London: Sage Publications Ltd. 2006.
- Pinney, Christopher: "Photography and Anthropology." London: Reaktion Books 2011.
- Prins, Harald E.L.. "Visual Anthropology." pp. 506–525. In "A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians." Ed. T. Biolsi. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 20... | 14,779 |
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Anthropology, article by Jay Ruby
- Visual anthropology in the digital mirror: Computer-assisted visual anthropology, article by Michael D. Fischer and David Zeitlyn, then both University of Kent at Canterbury
- Legends Asch and Myerhoff Inspire A New Generation of Visual Anthropologists - article... | 14,780 |
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Center for Visual Anthropology of Peru / Centro de Antropología Visual del Perú - CAVP
- Publications
- Visual Anthropology Review
- Resources
- VisualAnthropology.net
- OVERLAP: Laboratory of Visual Anthropology
- Visual Anthropology Archive
- Visual Anthropology Films & Educational Resource... | 14,781 |
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world's cultures and the history of anthropology.
- Audio-Visual Resources (from the website of Prof. Alessandro Duranti, anthropology department, UCLA)
- Films of anthropological and other "ancestors"
- A kiosk of films and sounds in Ethnomusicology - Robert Garfias
- Documentary Educational Re... | 14,782 |
1214889 | James Ross Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Ross%20Island | James Ross Island
James Ross Island
James Ross Island is a large island off the southeast side and near the northeastern extremity of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Prince Gustav Channel. Rising to , it is irregularly shaped and extends in a north–south direction. It was charted in October 1903... | 14,783 |
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the peninsula known as Graham Land, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent.
The island was connected to the Antarctic mainland by an ice shelf until 1995, when the ice shelf collapsed, making the Prince Gustav Channel passable for the first time.
Mendel Polar Station,... | 14,784 |
1214889 | James Ross Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Ross%20Island | James Ross Island
ankylosaur found on James Ross Island by Argentinian geologists Eduardo Olivero and Roberto Scasso in 1986. The dinosaur was recovered from the Campanian stage of the Upper Cretaceous Santa Marta Formation, about south of Santa Marta Cove on the north part of the island. The ankylosaur was not formall... | 14,785 |
1214889 | James Ross Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Ross%20Island | James Ross Island
the lower legs and feet. Little information is available, but the shape of the leg and feet indicate it was a runner, and the size indicates it was probably tall and weighed . This is the second Antarctic theropod discovered, after "Cryolophosaurus".
An ornithopod was found in the Snow Hill Island Fo... | 14,786 |
1214889 | James Ross Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Ross%20Island | James Ross Island
The genus name refers to the site of El Morro on James Ross Island, where the remains of the species were found. The specific name refers to Antarctica.
# Named features.
James Ross Island features several features named by various surveying and exploration groups.
- Brandy Bay (), a bay wide on th... | 14,787 |
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incident.
- Rohss Bay (), a bay 11 nautical miles (20 km) wide, between Capes Broms and Obelisk on the southwest side of James Ross Island. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, and named by him for August and Wilhelm Rohss, patrons of the expedition.
- ... | 14,788 |
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ion.
- Sharp Valley (), a small valley located 1 mile (1.6 km) east-southeast of Stoneley Point on James Ross Island. It was named in 1983 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Michael C. Sharp, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) field assistant in the area, 1981-82.
- Sto... | 14,789 |
1214895 | Alfred Alexander Burt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfred%20Alexander%20Burt | Alfred Alexander Burt
Alfred Alexander Burt
Alfred Alexander Burt VC (3 March 1895 – 9 June 1962) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Details.
Burt was employed as a gas... | 14,790 |
1214895 | Alfred Alexander Burt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfred%20Alexander%20Burt | Alfred Alexander Burt
1915 was the third day of the British offensive known as the Battle of Loos and his battalion was preparing to assault the German lines beside Cuinchy.
The citation for the medal reads:
He received his medal from the King in March 1916 and returned to the front to serve for the remainder of the ... | 14,791 |
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wn Warrior at Westminster Abbey.
He died at the age of 67 in Chesham in 1962, his health having suffered from complications caused by his exposure to a gas attack during the war. There is a road named in his honour in Chesham; Alfred Burt VC close.
# The medal.
His Victoria Cross is held at the... | 14,792 |
1214891 | Alexandru Marghiloman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Marghiloman | Alexandru Marghiloman
Alexandru Marghiloman
Alexandru Marghiloman (4 July 1854 – 10 May 1925) was a Romanian conservative statesman who served for a short time in 1918 (March–October) as Prime Minister of Romania, and had a decisive role during World War I.
# Early career.
Born in Buzău, he entered the Saint Sava Na... | 14,793 |
1214891 | Alexandru Marghiloman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexandru%20Marghiloman | Alexandru Marghiloman
the Allied side and this was the reason he refused a seat in the Ion Brătianu's liberal government.
After the Germans occupied Bucharest, he remained there as the president of the Romanian Red Cross, and acted as a mediator between the German occupation authorities and the Romanian population. He... | 14,794 |
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peace with the Germans, and knowing that Germany would consider the Western Front to be much more important.
Indeed, Marghiloman negotiated and signed a peace treaty (known as the Treaty of Bucharest) with the Central Powers on May 7, 1918, which proved to be very punitive and restrictive for Rom... | 14,795 |
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in his native town.
# Trivia.
In his private life, Marghiloman was also an enthusiastic horse breeder: horses owned by him won the Romanian Derby 28 times. His large estate, the "Albatros Villa" (named after one of his horses) in Buzău, was for a long time a meeting place for Conservative politi... | 14,796 |
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as for a long time a meeting place for Conservative politicians.
Marghiloman gave his name to "Marghiloman coffee", Turkish coffee boiled in brandy.
# References.
- George D. Nicolescu, "Parlamentul Român (1866–1901)" ("Romanian Parliament (1866–1901)"), I. V. Socecu, Bucharest, 1903
- Mircea ... | 14,797 |
1214894 | Nathaniel Burslem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Burslem | Nathaniel Burslem
Nathaniel Burslem
Nathaniel Godolphin Burslem VC (2 February 1837 – 14 July 1865), born in Limerick, Ireland; was by birth both Irish and by descent English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British an... | 14,798 |
1214894 | Nathaniel Burslem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Burslem | Nathaniel Burslem
forerunner of the VC Medal.
On 21 August 1860 at the Taku Forts, China, during the Second China War Lieutenant Burslem, then aged 24 and serving in the 67th Regiment of Foot, British Army, and Private Thomas Lane of his regiment displayed great gallantry for which they were both awarded the VC. They ... | 14,799 |
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