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1215078 | Casuarina Prison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casuarina%20Prison | Casuarina Prison
Casuarina Prison
Casuarina Prison is the main maximum-security prison for Western Australia, located in the Perth suburb of Casuarina. The prison accommodates minimum-, medium- and maximum-security prisoners. It was opened in 1991 to replace Fremantle Prison, which was 130 years old. The prison was th... | 15,000 |
1215078 | Casuarina Prison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casuarina%20Prison | Casuarina Prison
d in 1991 to replace Fremantle Prison, which was 130 years old. The prison was the scene of a riot on Christmas Day 1998. The prison featured in the documentary "" on the National Geographic channel in 2008, following the lives of prisoners and officers.
In 2013 the prison was the setting for the film... | 15,001 |
1215099 | Tangerine Bowl | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tangerine%20Bowl | Tangerine Bowl
Tangerine Bowl
Tangerine Bowl may refer to:
- Tangerine Bowl (1947–1982), a college football game now known as the Citrus Bowl; known as the Tangerine Bowl from 1947 to 1982
- Mazda Tangerine Bowl (in 2002 and 2003), a college football bowl game later called the Russell Athletic Bowl, then the Camping... | 15,002 |
1215049 | Treaty of Bucharest (1918) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty%20of%20Bucharest%20(1918) | Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
The Treaty of Bucharest (1918) was a peace treaty between Romania on the one side and the Central Powers on the other, following the stalemate reached after the campaign of 1916–17 left Romania isolated after Russia's unilateral exit from World War I (see Treaty of... | 15,003 |
1215049 | Treaty of Bucharest (1918) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty%20of%20Bucharest%20(1918) | Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
The rest of the province (starting south of Cernavodă-Constanța railroad up to the Danube and the Sfântu Gheorghe branch, thus leaving the Danube Delta to Romania) remained under the joint Central Powers control. The Central Powers guaranteed the commercial road to the Black Sea for Romania b... | 15,004 |
1215049 | Treaty of Bucharest (1918) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty%20of%20Bucharest%20(1918) | Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
every Romanian ministry, in effect stripping Romania of its independence.
# Aftermath.
The treaty put Romania in a unique situation compared to other German-occupied countries. It completely respected Romania's "de jure" independence, as it did not impose any form of vassalage or protectora... | 15,005 |
1215049 | Treaty of Bucharest (1918) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty%20of%20Bucharest%20(1918) | Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
of 1918.
Although Bulgaria received a part of Northern Dobruja, it continued to lobby Germany and Austria-Hungary for the annexation of the whole province, including the condominium established by the Treaty of Bucharest. After negotiations, a regarding the transfer of the jointly administer... | 15,006 |
1215049 | Treaty of Bucharest (1918) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty%20of%20Bucharest%20(1918) | Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
treaty was denounced in October 1918 by the Marghiloman government. Romania re-entered the war on 10 November 1918, the day before it ended in Western Europe, and the 1918 Treaty of Bucharest was nullified by the Armistice of 11 November 1918. In 1919, Germany was forced in the Treaty of Vers... | 15,007 |
1215049 | Treaty of Bucharest (1918) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty%20of%20Bucharest%20(1918) | Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
d in the Treaty of Versailles to renounce all the benefits provided by the 1918 Treaty of Bucharest. The territorial transfers to Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria were annulled by the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), and the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine (1919), respectively; and the Treaty ... | 15,008 |
1215087 | Ilie Verdeț | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilie%20Verdeț | Ilie Verdeț
Ilie Verdeț
Ilie Verdeț (10 May 1925 – 20 March 2001) was a Romanian communist politician.
Born in Comănești, Bacău County, and a miner from age 12, he joined the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1945. After graduating from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, he climbed through the Party apparatus... | 15,009 |
1215087 | Ilie Verdeț | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilie%20Verdeț | Ilie Verdeț
of the PCR. He held many political posts, including those of Deputy Prime Minister (1966-1974) and Prime Minister of Romania (1979-1982). He was sent by Ceaușescu to solve the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977, but was unable to negotiate and was held hostage for two days (a notion he later denied).
After ... | 15,010 |
1215087 | Ilie Verdeț | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilie%20Verdeț | Ilie Verdeț
0 minutes, after which he was pushed aside by Ion Iliescu, who emerged as the leader of the National Salvation Front. Verdeț founded in 1990 a party named "Partidul Socialist al Muncii" (Socialist Party of Labour), which narrowly entered Parliament in the 1992 elections , but in subsequent elections failed ... | 15,011 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
Alexander Cobbe
General Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe (6 June 1870 – 29 June 1931) was a senior British Indian Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Early life.
Alexander St... | 15,012 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
Anglo-Indian. Alexander had two sisters and four brothers; of the latter two became lieutenant colonels in the British Army and one a captain in the Royal Navy. In 1881 he was a pupil at Eagle House School, Wimbledon. He went on to Wellington College and then followed his elder brother Henry Hercules Co... | 15,013 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
year he was seconded to the Indian Army Staff Corps. This secondment led to his permanent transfer from the South Wales Borderers in 1894. The purpose of the Indian Staff Corps was not only to provide officers for headquarters' staff but, far more broadly, for the native Indian regiments, the army depar... | 15,014 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
medal, the India Medal (1895–1902), with the clasp “Relief of Chitral”. This campaign was one of the many on the Northwest Frontier to quell unrest against British rule.
His next medals, however, were to be gained in Africa. At this time many regiments of the Indian Army were sent to Africa to support ... | 15,015 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
second in command of the 1st Battalion, Central African Rifles, and given the local rank of captain.
## Ashanti War.
By July 1900 Cobbe was commanding the Central Africa Regiment and had been given the local rank of major. Earlier that year, a major rebellion had erupted in West Africa, in what is now... | 15,016 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
heavy fighting Cobbe managed to outflank the enemy and put them to flight, although himself being "severely wounded". This did not prevent some veiled criticism from his commander concerning the delay in putting in the final attack and Cobbe did not feature among the 20 or so individuals mentioned in th... | 15,017 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
Cobbe was individually mentioned: "Captain (local Major) A. S. Cobbe, Indian Staff Corps. – Severely wounded 6 August. He is an Officer to be thoroughly trusted, and commanded in several fights, where he invariably did well. I hope he will be rewarded." Cobbe was indeed rewarded as in November 1900 he w... | 15,018 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
this post he deployed with his men to British Somaliland to take part in the "Mad Mullah War". The Mullah (Mohammed Abdullah Hassan) had been agitating against British rule in the Somaliland protectorate since 1899 and in 1901 a first British expedition beat him and his Dervish forces and caused him to ... | 15,019 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
Central Africa Battalion recovered the situation. The Mullah lost some 700 men and retreated. The British force was not able to continue the pursuit, and returned to Berbera. The Maxim lost during the battle was recovered in the last campaign against the Mullah in 1920, and stands in the Malawi Army’s "... | 15,020 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
the Mullah. He had orders to secure the water supply at Wardair. Having established a zariba (a camp fortified with a thorn hedge) near Gumburu, he had cause to send forward a company of men under Lieutenant Colonel Plunkett to secure the return of a small scouting party. The company was overwhelmed by ... | 15,021 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
seems to have attracted no mention in despatches. The Somali campaign added two clasps to his Africa General Service Medal: "Somaliland 1902–04" and "Jidballi".
As a further reward for his services, in September 1904 Cobbe was "noted for consideration of the Brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on attaini... | 15,022 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
a Staff Officer Grade 1 and in May 1912 he was promoted colonel with seniority from 2 December 1911 although, when appointed an Aide-de-Camp to the King in June 1912, he is described as a brevet colonel. In 1911 he was awarded King George V’s Coronation Medal.
## First World War.
Cobbe's Grade I staff... | 15,023 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
and Quartermaster General with temporary rank of brigadier general. In a despatch of 14 January 1915 Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, mentioned Colonel Cobbe for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A similar mention was published in June 1... | 15,024 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
H. H. Cobbe, DSO, 13th Lancers.
In February 1916 Cobbe handed over his staff job in France and in March was posted back to India as Director of Staff Duties and Military Training in Army Headquarters, while retaining his temporary rank. Following yet another mention for his good services in France, thi... | 15,025 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
Mesopotamia, where he would spend the rest of the war and stay until late 1919. As the commander of III Indian Corps, he served under three successive C-in-Cs, Mesopotamian Field Force, all of whom mentioned him generously in their despatches to the War Office. He was present at the capture of Kut-al-Am... | 15,026 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
the 1914 Star with clasp "5thAug-22ndNov 1914", the British War Medal 1914–1920 and the Victory Medal 1914–1919. France appointed him a Commander of the Legion of Honour, and the King of Italy made him a Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus. In March 1919 he was appointed Knight Commande... | 15,027 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
to the India Office.
Honours continued to come Cobbe's way. In 1922 he was appointed Colonel of his first regiment, The South Wales Borderers. In the New Year Honours of 1928 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and in June 1930 he was appointed ADC General to His Majesty. The fol... | 15,028 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
daughter of Sir Albert Bowen, 1st Baronet, and his wife Alice Anita Crowther. Sir Albert was the lord of the manor of Colworth, in the parish of Sharnbrook. It is not clear how much time Alexander Cobbe was able to spend with his wife in their 21 years of marriage, the First World War certainly caused t... | 15,029 |
1215048 | Alexander Cobbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander%20Cobbe | Alexander Cobbe
mainly staying at Colworth, however, they had two daughters, Winifred Alice (b 1912) and Anne Philippa and a son, Alexander William Locke, known as Bill, born 1919. As a flying officer in the Royal Air Force, Bill Cobbe was killed on 8 September 1940 during the Battle of Britain.
# Legacy.
The headqua... | 15,030 |
1215113 | John Daykins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Daykins | John Daykins
John Daykins
John Brunton Daykins VC MM (Ormiston Farm, Hawick, 26 March 1883 – 24 January 1933, Edinburgh) was a Scottish 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.
# Life.
Daykin... | 15,031 |
1215113 | John Daykins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Daykins | John Daykins
again in the York and Lancaster Regiment and served in Battle of Passchendaele and again on Vimy Ridge. He was in the 2/4th Battalion at Solesmes, Nord in France on 30 October 1918 with a dozen of his platoon.
They rushed a machine-gun and during subsequent severe hand-to-hand fighting Daykins disposed of... | 15,032 |
1215113 | John Daykins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Daykins | John Daykins
to the success of the attack.
When he returned to Jedburgh he was made a burgess. In 1924 he inherited his family's Howden farm when his father died.
# Death and legacy.
Daykins died in 1933 after an accident with a shotgun. He was unmarried and his medals went to his sister. Elizabeth Daykins gave his ... | 15,033 |
1215113 | John Daykins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Daykins | John Daykins
e his medals to the York and Lancaster Regimental Museum which is within Clifton Park Museum, in Rotherham.There is a street in Hawick named for him and Jedburgh decided to lay a commemorative paving stone in 2018. A commemorative event was scheduled to take place in his adopted town of Jedburgh and at Sol... | 15,034 |
1215105 | Arthur Edward Cumming | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20Edward%20Cumming | Arthur Edward Cumming
Arthur Edward Cumming
Brigadier Arthur Edward Cumming VC OBE MC (18 June 1896 – 10 April 1971) was a Scottish 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.
He was born in Kara... | 15,035 |
1215105 | Arthur Edward Cumming | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20Edward%20Cumming | Arthur Edward Cumming
Army Museum).
On 3 January 1942 near Kuantan, Malaya, the Japanese made a furious attack on the battalion and a strong enemy force penetrated the position. Lieutenant Colonel Cumming, with a small party of men, immediately led a counter-attack and although all his men became casualties and he, hi... | 15,036 |
1215105 | Arthur Edward Cumming | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20Edward%20Cumming | Arthur Edward Cumming
were ordered to be evacuated from Singapore before the island was surrendered on 15 February 1942. Cumming commanded a battalion of the 9th Jat Regiment before his promotion to brigadier and command of the 63rd Indian Brigade during the Burma Campaign. From 1944 to his retirement in 1947 Brigadier... | 15,037 |
1215105 | Arthur Edward Cumming | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20Edward%20Cumming | Arthur Edward Cumming
evacuated from Singapore before the island was surrendered on 15 February 1942. Cumming commanded a battalion of the 9th Jat Regiment before his promotion to brigadier and command of the 63rd Indian Brigade during the Burma Campaign. From 1944 to his retirement in 1947 Brigadier Cumming was in com... | 15,038 |
1215115 | Francis Cornwallis Maude | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francis%20Cornwallis%20Maude | Francis Cornwallis Maude
Francis Cornwallis Maude
Colonel Francis Cornwallis Maude (28 October 1828 – 19 October 1900) 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.
Maude... | 15,039 |
1215115 | Francis Cornwallis Maude | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francis%20Cornwallis%20Maude | Francis Cornwallis Maude
owing deed took place on 25 September 1857 at Lucknow, India for which he was awarded the VC:
76 (Maude's) Battery Royal Artillery, the current name for what was his unit at the time, was awarded his name as their title in honour of both his and the units deeds during the battle.
He later ach... | 15,040 |
1215117 | William McNally | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20McNally | William McNally
William McNally
William McNally VC, MM and Bar (16 December 1894 – 5 January 1976) 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.
He was 23 years old, and ... | 15,041 |
1215117 | William McNally | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20McNally | William McNally
gardless of personal safety, rushed the machine-gun post single-handed, killing the team and capturing the gun. Later, at Vazzola on 29 October the sergeant crept up to the rear of an enemy post, put the garrison to flight and captured the machine-gun. On the same day, when holding a newly captured ditc... | 15,042 |
1215094 | Edward Thomas Chapman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Thomas%20Chapman | Edward Thomas Chapman
Edward Thomas Chapman
Edward Thomas Chapman VC, BEM (13 January 1920 – 3 February 2002) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Early life.
Ted Chapman was born in Pontlottyn,... | 15,043 |
1215094 | Edward Thomas Chapman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Thomas%20Chapman | Edward Thomas Chapman
He was wounded at Falaise in the breakout from the Normandy bridgehead.
# Details.
Chapman was 25 years old, and a corporal in the 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, British Army during the Second World War when the following action took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 2 April 194... | 15,044 |
1215094 | Edward Thomas Chapman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Thomas%20Chapman | Edward Thomas Chapman
time firing it over his shoulder while lying supine on his back in a shallow fold in the ground, to cover those bringing him ammunition. He then carried in his Company Commander, an officer, who was lying wounded, but on the way back the officer was killed by further German fire and Corporal Chapm... | 15,045 |
1215094 | Edward Thomas Chapman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward%20Thomas%20Chapman | Edward Thomas Chapman
Coronation Honours List of 1953, he was awarded the British Empire Medal. He died on 3 February 2002 aged 82, and is buried in Panteg cemetery near New Inn, Torfaen and lived until his death in New Inn. He worked at ICI Fibres at Pontypool for 25 years. He was a noted breeder of Welsh Mountain Pon... | 15,046 |
1215095 | Albert Chowne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Chowne | Albert Chowne
Albert Chowne
Albert Chowne, VC, MM (19 July 1920 – 25 March 1945) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Commonwealth forces.
# Early life.
Chowne was born in Sydney. He attended Chatswood Boys Intermediate Hig... | 15,047 |
1215095 | Albert Chowne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Chowne | Albert Chowne
as a platoon message runner, and was later made company runner. The unit, part of the 9th Division, arrived in the Middle East in November 1940 and later joined the North African campaign, defending Tobruk for eight months in 1941. During his time at Tobruk, Chowne transferred to the carrier platoon and w... | 15,048 |
1215095 | Albert Chowne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Chowne | Albert Chowne
Chowne, now commanding a mortar platoon, was awarded the Military Medal for twice crawling close to enemy positions to direct mortar fire. Regarded as exceptionally cool by his comrades, Chowne combined fearlessness with a self-effacing manner.
He was commissioned as a lieutenant in January 1944 and he m... | 15,049 |
1215095 | Albert Chowne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Chowne | Albert Chowne
Dagua Airfield, Chowne attacked an enemy position which was holding up further movement towards Wewak. Seeing that the leading platoon was suffering heavy casualties, Chowne rushed forward and knocked out two light machine guns with grenades and then, calling on his men to follow him and firing his sub ma... | 15,050 |
1215095 | Albert Chowne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Chowne | Albert Chowne
War Memorial.
# Legacy.
Chowne's name is commemorated in several places around Australia. A street in Campbell, Canberra is named. In Willoughby, Sydney, the community facility is called the Albert Chowne Memorial Hall and Chowne Place, both named after him.
On 8 May 2015, Chowne's widow, Daphne Dunne,... | 15,051 |
1215095 | Albert Chowne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Chowne | Albert Chowne
with the prince and "she told him how her first husband Lieutenant Albert Chowne died aged 25 in 1945 – just a year after they married – in a heroic attack on a Japanese machinegun post in Papua New Guinea. The red roses that Lt Chowne had arranged to be sent to his young bride on her birthday arrived jus... | 15,052 |
1215095 | Albert Chowne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Chowne | Albert Chowne
bride on her birthday arrived just before the news he had been killed." It went on to say: "She wed her second husband, Corporal John Dunne, who was captured in Malaya in 1942 and ended up in Changi POW camp ... (regarding the prince) In a show of affection as he leaned down towards her, she touched his f... | 15,053 |
1215114 | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth%20Drew%20Stoddard | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (May 6, 1823 – August 1, 1902) was an American poet and novelist.
Soon after her marriage to Richard Henry Stoddard, the author, she began to publish poems in all the leading magazines, and thereafter, she was a frequent contributor. Her verses w... | 15,054 |
1215114 | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth%20Drew%20Stoddard | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
but a second edition, published in 1888, found a wider circle of readers. They were pictures of New England scenes and characters. In 1874, she published "Lolly Dinks's Doings", a juvenile story.
# Early life and education.
Elizabeth Drew Barstow was born May 6, 1823, in the small coastal town... | 15,055 |
1215114 | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth%20Drew%20Stoddard | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
literary and artistic circles. She assisted her husband in his literary work, and contributed stories, poems and essays to the periodicals. Many of her own works were originally published between 1859 and 1890 in such magazines as "The Aldine", "Harper's Monthly", "Harper's Bazaar", and "The Atl... | 15,056 |
1215114 | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth%20Drew%20Stoddard | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her.
Her most studied work, "The Morgesons" is set in a... | 15,057 |
1215114 | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth%20Drew%20Stoddard | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
lives of her aunt, mother, and sister, Cassandra's success is a striking and radical affirmation of women's power to shape their own destinies. Embodying the convergence of the melodrama and sexual undercurrents of gothic romance and Victorian social realism, "The Morgesons" marks an important t... | 15,058 |
1215114 | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth%20Drew%20Stoddard | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
archetypal or received values of the American past. A pioneering predecessor of regionalist authors Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin, as well as a precursor of American modernism, Stoddard's writing is remarkable for its almost total lack of sentimentality, pervas... | 15,059 |
1215114 | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth%20Drew%20Stoddard | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
love and desire to disdain, aggression, and depression.
# Selected works.
- Stoddard, Elizabeth: "The Morgesons and other writings : published and unpublished", Ed., with an crit. introd. by Lawrence Buell and Sandra A. Zagarell, Philadelphia, Pa. : PENN, Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr., 1996,
# Fu... | 15,060 |
1215120 | Tom Dresser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%20Dresser | Tom Dresser
Tom Dresser
Tom Dresser (1891 – 9 April 1982) 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.
Dresser was born at Laund House Farm, Huby in 1891. He was 25 years old, and a... | 15,061 |
1215120 | Tom Dresser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%20Dresser | Tom Dresser
f Wales's Own), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 12 May 1917 near Roeux, France, Private Dresser, in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain, succeeded in conveying an important message from battali... | 15,062 |
1215077 | British Commonwealth Forces Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British%20Commonwealth%20Forces%20Korea | British Commonwealth Forces Korea
British Commonwealth Forces Korea
British Commonwealth Forces Korea (BCFK) was the formal name of the Commonwealth army, naval and air units serving with the United Nations (UN) in the Korean War. BCFK included Australian, British, Canadian, Indian, and New Zealand. Some Commonwealth ... | 15,063 |
1215077 | British Commonwealth Forces Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British%20Commonwealth%20Forces%20Korea | British Commonwealth Forces Korea
position of BCFK Commander-in-Chief was always held by Australian Army officers, the first being Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson. Liaison between the Commonwealth C-in-C and the UN high command was provided by a subordinate headquarters in Tokyo.
By the time BCFK came into bei... | 15,064 |
1215077 | British Commonwealth Forces Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British%20Commonwealth%20Forces%20Korea | British Commonwealth Forces Korea
Navy usually had at least one aircraft carrier on station during the war. Five British carriers: "Glory", "Ocean", "Theseus", "Triumph", and (a maintenance and aircraft transport carrier) served in the conflict. The Royal Australian Navy provided the carrier HMAS "Sydney". The RN, RAN ... | 15,065 |
1215077 | British Commonwealth Forces Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British%20Commonwealth%20Forces%20Korea | British Commonwealth Forces Korea
of pilots of propeller planes to have shot down a jet.
The only front-line unit from a Commonwealth air force to serve under BCFK was Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) No. 77 Squadron, which initially flew P-51 Mustang fighters and later converted to Gloster Meteor jets. British and C... | 15,066 |
1215077 | British Commonwealth Forces Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British%20Commonwealth%20Forces%20Korea | British Commonwealth Forces Korea
es are buried.
- Korean War Memorial in London
# External links.
- Lt Col. John C. Blaxland, 2004, "The Korean War: Reflections on Shared Australian and Canadian Military Experiences"
- Historical Section, General Staff, Army Headquarters, 1956, "Canada's Army in Korea: the United ... | 15,067 |
1215155 | Thomas Aldrich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Aldrich | Thomas Aldrich
Thomas Aldrich
Thomas Aldrich(e), Aldridge or Aldredge may refer to:
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), American writer, poet, critic and editor
- Thomas Aldriche (by 1515–1562), English politician
- Thomas Aldridge, English actor
- Tommy Aldridge (born 1950), American drummer
- Tom Aldredge (192... | 15,068 |
1215158 | TMF | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TMF | TMF
TMF
TMF may refer to:
- The Music Factory, an originally Dutch brand of pop music television channels, including:
- TMF Nederland
- TMF Flanders
- TMF Australia, now known as MTV Hits
- TMF (UK & Ireland)
- TMF Group, a Dutch multinational in the accounting industry
- Topological modular forms, an E-infinit... | 15,069 |
1215158 | TMF | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TMF | TMF
c Factory, an originally Dutch brand of pop music television channels, including:
- TMF Nederland
- TMF Flanders
- TMF Australia, now known as MTV Hits
- TMF (UK & Ireland)
- TMF Group, a Dutch multinational in the accounting industry
- Topological modular forms, an E-infinity ring spectrum used in algebraic ... | 15,070 |
1215125 | Joseph Jee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Jee | Joseph Jee
Joseph Jee
Joseph Jee (9 February 1819 – 17 March 1899) 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.
Jee was 38 years old, and a surgeon in the 78th Regiment ... | 15,071 |
1215125 | Joseph Jee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Jee | Joseph Jee
t and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Details.
Jee was 38 years old, and a surgeon in the 78th Regiment (later The Seaforth Highlanders Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany's), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the... | 15,072 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13, 1815 – August 27, 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold left home when he was 15 years old. He worked as a journalist, editor, and critic in Philadelphia, New York City, and elsewhere. He bu... | 15,073 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
their work included in one of these editions, although they commented harshly on Griswold's abrasive character. Griswold was married three times: his first wife died young, his second marriage ended in a public and controversial divorce, and his third wife left him after the previous divorce was a... | 15,074 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
after Poe's mysterious death in 1849, Griswold wrote an unsympathetic obituary. Claiming to be Poe's chosen literary executor, he began a campaign to harm Poe's reputation that lasted until his own death eight years later.
Griswold considered himself an expert in American poetry and was an early ... | 15,075 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
and Deborah (Wass) Griswold on February 13, 1815, in Vermont, near Rutland, and raised a strict Calvinist in the hamlet of Benson. He was the twelfth of fourteen children and his father was a farmer and shoemaker. In 1822, the family sold the Benson farm and moved to nearby Hubbardton. As a child,... | 15,076 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
have had a romantic relationship. When Griswold moved away, Foster wrote to him begging him to return, signing his letter "come to me if you love me". Griswold attempted to enroll at the Rensselaer School in 1830, but was not allowed to take any classes after he was caught attempting to play a pra... | 15,077 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Caroline Searles, whom he later married. He was employed as an editor for various publications in the New York area. In October, he considered running for office as a Whig but did not receive the party's support. In 1837 he was licensed as a Baptist clergyman, although he never had a permanent con... | 15,078 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
"Daily Standard" and began to build his reputation as a literary critic, becoming known for his savagery and vindictiveness.
On November 6, 1842, Griswold visited his wife in New York after she had given birth to their third child, a son. Three days later, after returning to Philadelphia, he was ... | 15,079 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
to do so by a relative. He wrote a long poem in blank verse dedicated to Caroline, "Five Days", which was printed in the "New York Tribune" on November 16, 1842. Griswold had difficulty believing she had died and often dreamed of their reunion. Forty days after her entombment, he entered her vault... | 15,080 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
by Lydia Sigourney, three by Edgar Allan Poe, and 45 by Charles Fenno Hoffman. Hoffman, a close friend, was allotted twice as much space as any other author. Griswold went on to oversee many other anthologies, including "Biographical Annual", which collected memoirs of "eminent persons recently de... | 15,081 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
the anthology but the two became friends, exchanging many letters over the years. Wallace eventually ghostwrote Griswold's "Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire" (1847).
"Prose Writers of America", published in 1847, was prepared specifically to compete with a similar anthology by Cornelius Ma... | 15,082 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
as to gather information for a biographical sketch.
In 1843 Griswold founded "The Opal", an annual gift book that collected essays, stories, and poetry. Nathaniel Parker Willis edited its first edition, which was released in the fall of 1844. For a time, Griswold was editor of the "Saturday Eveni... | 15,083 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Days of Washington", was published in 1854. The book is meant to cover events during the presidency of George Washington, though it mixes historical fact with apocryphal legend until one is indistinguishable from the other. During this period, Griswold occasionally offered his services at the pulp... | 15,084 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
in religious beliefs. This difference was strong enough that one of Griswold's friends referred to his wife only as "the little Jewess". On their wedding night, he discovered that she was, according to Griswold biographer Joy Bayless, "through some physical misfortune, incapable of being a wife" o... | 15,085 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
in separate rooms. Neither of the two was happy with the situation, and at the end of April 1846 she had a lawyer write up a contract "to separate, altogether and forever, ... which would in effect be a divorce". The contract forbade Griswold from remarrying and paid him $1,000 for expenses in exc... | 15,086 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
the summer of 1847 made plans to edit an anthology of poetry by American women. He believed that women were incapable of the same kind of "intellectual" poetry as men and believed they needed to be divided: "The conditions of aesthetic ability in the two sexes are probably distinct, or even opposi... | 15,087 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
and even advertised for it, it was never produced. He also helped Elizabeth F. Ellet publish her book "Women of the American Revolution", and was angered when she did not acknowledge his assistance in the book. In July 1848, he visited poet Sarah Helen Whitman in Providence, Rhode Island, although... | 15,088 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
physically and mentally. I do not know what the end will be ... I am exhausted—betwixt life and death—and heaven and hell." In 1849, he was further troubled when Charles Fenno Hoffman, with whom he had become good friends, was committed to an insane asylum.
Griswold continued editing and contribu... | 15,089 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
of Grass", declaring: "It is impossible to image how any man's fancy could have conceived such a mass of stupid filth". Griswold charged that Whitman was guilty of "the vilest imaginings and shamefullest license", a "degrading, beastly sensuality." Referring to Whitman's poetry, Griswold said he l... | 15,090 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
the 19th century to publicly point to and stress the theme of erotic desire and acts between men in Whitman's poetry. More attention to that aspect of Whitman's poetry would only surface late in the 19th century.
## Divorce and third marriage.
After a brief flirtation with poet Alice Cary, Grisw... | 15,091 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Myers to agree to the divorce, Griswold allowed her to keep his daughter Caroline if she signed a statement that she had deserted him. She agreed and the divorce was made official December 18; he likely never saw Myers or his daughter again. McCrillis and Griswold were married shortly thereafter o... | 15,092 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
troubles, that fall, a gas leak in his home caused an explosion and a fire. He was severely burned, losing his eyelashes, eyebrows, and seven of his finger nails. That same year, his 15-year-old daughter, Emily, nearly died in Connecticut. A train she was riding on had fallen off a drawbridge into... | 15,093 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
left Griswold in New York and moved in with family in Bangor, Maine.
## Death.
Griswold died of tuberculosis in New York City on August 27, 1857. Sarah Anna Lewis, a friend and writer, suggested that the interference of Elizabeth Ellet had exacerbated Griswold's condition and that she "goaded Gr... | 15,094 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Frederick Briggs, George Henry Moore, and Richard Henry Stoddard. His remains were left for eight years in the receiving tomb of Green-Wood Cemetery before being buried on July 12, 1865, without a headstone. Although his library of several thousand volumes was auctioned off, raising over $3,000 to... | 15,095 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
throughout the 1840s and 1850s and its first edition went through three printings in only six months. His choice of authors, however, was occasionally questioned. A British editor reviewed the collection and concluded, "with two or three exceptions, there is not a poet of mark in the whole Union" ... | 15,096 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
into obscurity to become, as literary historian Fred Lewis Pattee wrote, "dead ... beyond all resurrection". Pattee also called the book a "collection of poetic trash" and "voluminous worthlessness".
Within the contemporary American literary scene Griswold became known as erratic, dogmatic, prete... | 15,097 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
whose approval writers sought even while they feared his growing power. Even as they tried to impress him, however, several authors voiced their opinion on Griswold's character. Ann S. Stephens called him two-faced and "constitutionally incapable of speaking the truth". Even his friends knew him a... | 15,098 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Museum" on January 28, 1843, but believed to have been written by Poe, asked: "What will be [Griswold's] fate? Forgotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will sink into oblivion, without leaving a landmark to tell that he once existed; or if he is spoken of hereafter, he wi... | 15,099 |
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