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George Wyndham
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George Wyndham University of Glasgow to be Lord Rector of the university for three years. Wyndham was the leader of the "die-hard" opponents in the House of Commons of the Parliament Bill that became Parliament Act 1911. # Family. Wyndham married in 1887 Sibell Mary, Countess Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Lumley, 9...
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George Wyndham
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George Wyndham 1911 he succeeded his father and had the management of a small landed estate on his hands. Wyndham died suddenly June 1913 in Paris, France, aged 49 of a blood clot. He was survived by his wife and one son. Lady Grosvenor died in February 1929, aged 73. There has been speculation over the years that W...
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George Wyndham " - "Ronsard & La Pleiade, with Selections From Their Poetry and Some Translations in the Original Metres" (1906) - "Sir Walter Scott" (1908) - "The Springs of Romance in the Literature of Europe" (1910) address, University of Edinburgh October 1910 - "Essays in Romantic Literature" (1919) edited by ...
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Arthur Wynne
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Arthur Wynne Arthur Wynne Arthur Wynne (June 22, 1871January 14, 1945) was the British-born inventor of the modern crossword puzzle. # Early life. Arthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871, in Liverpool, England and lived on Edge Lane for a time. His father was the editor of the local newspaper the Liverpool Mercury. H...
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Arthur Wynne
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Arthur Wynne in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the "New York World". For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, the letters F-U-N already being filled in....
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Arthur Wynne
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Arthur Wynne of the numbering scheme, the form of Wynne's "Word-Cross" puzzles is that used for modern crosswords. A few weeks after the first "Word-Cross" appeared, the name of the puzzle was changed to "Cross-Word" as a result of a typesetting error. Wynne's puzzles have been known as "crosswords" ever since. # Lat...
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Arthur Wynne
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Arthur Wynne scheme, the form of Wynne's "Word-Cross" puzzles is that used for modern crosswords. A few weeks after the first "Word-Cross" appeared, the name of the puzzle was changed to "Cross-Word" as a result of a typesetting error. Wynne's puzzles have been known as "crosswords" ever since. # Later life and death...
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Johann Rudolf Wyss
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Johann Rudolf Wyss Johann Rudolf Wyss Johann Rudolf Wyss (4 March 178221 March 1830) was a Swiss author, writer, and folklorist who wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem "Rufst Du, mein Vaterland" in 1811, and also edited the novel "The Swiss Family Robinson", written by his father Johann David Wyss, pub...
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Johann Rudolf Wyss
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Johann Rudolf Wyss ed in Bern. Together with Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn he edited the periodical "Alpenrosen". # Works. - "Vorlesungen über das höchste Gut" ("Lectures on the highest good,” 2 vols., Tübingen, 1811) - "Idyllen, Volkssagen, Legend und Erzählungen aus der Schweiz" ("Idylls, folk tales, legends, and stories f...
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Naik (military rank)
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Naik (military rank) Naik (military rank) Naik (Nk; sometimes historically spelled nayak) is the Indian Army and Pakistan Army rank equivalent to corporal. In Tamil, the word naik was used to indicate a lord or governor prior to its use as an equivalent to corporal in British India. The rank was previously used in th...
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Lance naik
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Lance naik Lance naik Lance naik (L/Nk) is the equivalent rank to lance corporal in the Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indian Armies and before 1947, in the British Indian Army, ranking below naik. In cavalry units the equivalent is acting lance daffadar. Like British lance corporals, each wears a single rank chevron. # Se...
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Uranian poetry
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Uranian poetry Uranian poetry The Uranians were a small and somewhat clandestine group of male homosexual poets who published works between 1858, when William Johnson Cory published "Ionica", and 1930. Although most of them were English, they had counterparts in the United States and France. # Origin of the term. Th...
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Uranian poetry The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde", Michael M. Kaylor writes: Given that the prominent Uranians were trained Classicists, I consider ludicrous the view, widely held, that 'Uranian' derives from the German apologias and legal appeals written by Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs in the 1860s, though his co...
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Uranian poetry Love"); the Uranians were opposed to Ulrichs's claims for androphilic, homoerotic liberation at the expense of the paederastic; and, even when a connection was drawn to such Germanic ideas and terminology, it appeared long after the term 'Uranian' had become commonplace within Uranian circles, hence was ...
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Uranian poetry William Johnson Cory, Lord Alfred Douglas, Montague Summers, John Francis Bloxam, Charles Kains Jackson, John Gambril Nicholson, E. E. Bradford, John Addington Symonds, Edmund John, John Moray Stuart-Young, Charles Edward Sayle, Fabian S. Woodley, and several pseudonymous authors such as "Philebus" (John...
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Uranian poetry
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Uranian poetry by the generally saccharine and occasionally misogynistic nature of their poetry. However, historian Neil McKenna has argued that Uranian poetry had a central role in the upper-class homosexual subcultures of the Victorian period. He insisted that poetry was the main medium through which writers such as ...
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Uranian poetry notion of "paiderastia" was not successful because of the conservative Victorian mores of the day. There are only two book-length studies of the Uranians: "Love In Earnest" by Timothy d'Arch Smith (1970) and "Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde" by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006...
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Uranian poetry Oxford", 1994) have contributed more recently to the scant knowledge about this group. Paul Fussell discusses Uranian poetry in his book "The Great War and Modern Memory" (1975), suggesting that it provided a model for homoerotic representations in the war poets of World War I (e.g. Wilfred Owen). # Ref...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne Robert Wynne Robert John Wynne (November 18, 1851 – March 11, 1922) was an American who served as United States Postmaster General from 1904 to 1905, and as Consul General at the American embassy in the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1910. He was also a distinguished and popular journalist for a number of ne...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne and young Robert accompanied him to the front and saw several battles. In 1870, Wynne became a telegraph operator for the "Cincinnati Gazette", living part-time in Washington, D.C. He was hired at the request of General Henry V. Boynton, who led the paper's staff in D.C. and who wanted the very best teleg...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne 1880, Wynne joined the "Gazette" as a full-time journalist. Boynton syndicated Wynne's work to a wide range of newspapers, including the "St. Louis Democrat", "Chicago Tribune", "Pittsburgh Commercial", and "Philadelphia Inquirer". # Public service. In February 1893, Wynne became the private secretary to...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne Postmaster General. He was not Roosevelt's first choice: That had been Indianapolis, Indiana, journalist Harry C. New, but New turned down the post. Wynne, too, was reluctant to take it, but Roosevelt pressured him and he accepted. In this role, Wynne uncovered extensive fraud in the department. He first b...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne was appointed Consul General at the Embassy of the United States in London on January 11, 1905, while still serving as Postmaster General. Incoming President William Howard Taft reaffirmed his posting, and he went to London on April 1, 1905. He resigned in May 1909. He remained in London for the next 19 mo...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne National Fire purchased a half-interest in the Southern Building at 15th and H Streets NW. Trust deeds of $800,000, $450,000, and $325,000 attached to the building. First National Fire was sued by its stockholders for incurring this debt. In January 1912, the company was the focus of a congressional invest...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne When they were counted, Wynne was reelected president of the company on June 17, 1914. The Commercial Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, Maryland, the co-owner of the Southern Building, tried to force a merger with First National in August 1914. Wynne resisted the merger, and demanded that the Southern ...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne Building. Nine days later, First National Fire sold the building to the Walker Company for an undisclosed amount. This allowed the $450,000 and $325,000 trusts to be paid and released. On March 18, the Walker Company sold the building back to First National, incurring a trust deed of $600,000. This trigger...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne 14, and the Walker Company sold it back to First National on February 28 (now subject to a single trust deed of $900,000). On March 7, First National's board of directors agreed to form a new company—the Southern Realty Corporation, with Wynne as its president—to buy the Southern Building. On March 10, Fir...
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Robert Wynne National stockholders who wanted shares in the Walker Company). First National agreed to the Walker Co. sale, leading to a struggle for control of the Southern Building among the three entities. First National filed for voluntary bankruptcy on August 13, 1917. Wynne continued as president of the Southern ...
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Robert Wynne deal to sell the building to the Walker Company was annulled, the sale of the building by First National to Southern Realty affirmed, and tenants sued over skyrocketing rents at the building. Southern Realty's investors unsuccessfully sued in July 1920 to have Southern Realty declared bankrupt. Additional ...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne was also an incorporator, vice president, and director of the Washington and Southern Bank. He helped form the bank in April 1912, and remained with it until August 1913. # Personal life. Wynne married Mary Ellen McCabe, daughter of a wealthy construction contractor. She died in October 1915 of a heart a...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne Smith, Ida Marcella Wynne French, Robert Frank Wynne (a captain in the United States Marine Corps), and Henry B. Wynne. His sons Robert and Henry preceded him in death. Robert saw action in Cuba, the Philippines, and China (during the Boxer Rebellion), and died in March 1912 of tuberculosis contracted whil...
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Robert Wynne
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Robert Wynne rt Frank Wynne (a captain in the United States Marine Corps), and Henry B. Wynne. His sons Robert and Henry preceded him in death. Robert saw action in Cuba, the Philippines, and China (during the Boxer Rebellion), and died in March 1912 of tuberculosis contracted while in China. # Memberships. Wynne was...
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Hams Hall
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Hams Hall Hams Hall Hams Hall is a place near Lea Marston in North Warwickshire, England, named after the former Hams Hall manor house. A power station at Hams Hall was constructed and operated in the late 1920s; a further two power stations began generating electricity in the 1940s and 1950s. By 1993 all three power ...
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Hams Hall
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Hams Hall hook (ham) of the River Tame. As Birmingham and the Black Country developed, the estate faced two problems: loss of land to the west, and lack of water from the river due to industrial pollution. Thus, after Robert Rawlinson's report on the condition of Birmingham in 1848 suggesting the need for a public par...
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Hams Hall
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Hams Hall largest single source of water for Birmingham until the Elan/Claerwen scheme was completed. Following the death of Charles Adderley in 1905, the residual estate was put up for sale in 1911 to pay death duties. Initially purchased by an American shipping magnate, he dismantled the house in 1921. It was reasse...
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Hams Hall
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Hams Hall of Birmingham bought land at Hams Hall, and built an electricity generating station (Hams Hall A), from 1928. Located north of Coleshill Parkway railway station, the location allowed easy access for coal supply trains from the London, Midland and Scottish Railway mainline. Built under the direction of Richard...
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Hams Hall
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Hams Hall and founded an environmental studies centre, re-erecting Lea Ford Cottage (a local medieval timber-framed building) there to preserve it. Still owned by site owner E.ON, it is now known as "Hams Hall Environmental Studies Centre". The area alongside the confluence of the River Blythe and River Tame became the...
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Hams Hall
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Hams Hall of construction companies including Alfred McAlpine to construct a new industrial estate called Hams Hall Distribution Park, The site includes road (M42) and rail access (through the "Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal"). In 2011 the site housed clients including E.ON, Sainsbury's, BMW (engine manufacturing pl...
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Hams Hall
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Hams Hall ms Hall Channel Tunnel Freight Terminal" was opened 11 July 1997 by the then deputy prime minister John Prescott. As of 2010 the site was one of the main international intermodal terminals in the UK. The site was originally operated by Parsec Europe Ltd.; in 2002 Associated British Ports acquired the site le...
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Fire performance
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Fire performance Fire performance Fire performance is a group of performance arts or skills that involve the manipulation of fire. Fire performance typically involves equipment or other objects made with one or more wicks which are designed to sustain a large enough flame to create a visual effect. Fire performance i...
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Fire performance stunts. Performances can be done as choreographed routines to music (this type being related to dance or rhythmic gymnastics); as freestyle (performed to music or not) performances; or performed with vocal interaction with the audience. Some aspect of fire performance can be found in a wide variety of ...
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Fire performance for tourists, have origins in ancient rituals. Both the Angel Dance and the Fire Dance originated in a trance ritual called the "sanghyang", a ritual dance "performed to ward off witches at the time of an epidemic." Also known as the "horse dance" men perform the dance by holding rods representing hors...
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Fire performance dancing; men often perform a dance that involves walking on hot coals.A large fire is created and allowed to burn down until it is a pit of glowing embers. The performers then jump in and out of the pit kicking up the embers to create showers of sparks while women perform a dance while balancing flamin...
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Fire performance fire skills are especially prevalent. Fire performance has become increasingly popular as entertainment at corporate events, street festivals, celebration events and as a precursor to firework displays. # Types. Fire performance has become more popular through the availability of a wider variety of f...
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Fire performance interaction and participation. Modern fire shows can use a very wide range of fire skills and props. See Pembrokeshire Fire Spinners. - Fire theatre: Such shows are theatrical shows which include fire and fire performance as elements of staged dramatic presentations. Often the fire performance is a sm...
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Fire performance fire dancing. Thus, fire fetish refers to a particular style of performance, and not a sexual fetish on the part of the performer, as would pyrophilia. - Erotic fire show: Such shows may be seen as simply a normal improvised fire dance but with emphasis on sexually arousing body gyrations, seductive f...
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Fire performance often a spouse or romantic partner. This performance can be an active and visually exciting form of ritual foreplay. However this type of show is enticing to a select audience. - Ritual fire show: Such shows are usually a fusion of pagan or occult ceremony with fire and fire performance. They focus le...
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Fire performance fire and comedy. This can include lighting parts of their body on fire. # Fire apparatus. Fire performance is usually performed with props that have specifically been made for the purpose. Fire torches, fire staffs, fire poi, fire hula hoops, fire whips, and other fire props are all readily available...
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Fire performance
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Fire performance each end consists of three or more wicks arranged in a wheel. Dragon staves are more often rolled on the body rather than spun. - Fire hoop – hoop with spokes and wicking material attached. - Fan – A large metal fan with one or more wicks attached to the edges. - Fire umbrella – an umbrella-like per...
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Fire performance end, and swung like Indian clubs or tossed end-over-end like juggling clubs. - Fire knife – Short stave with blade attached to the end and wicking material applied to the blade. Fire knives are the traditional Polynesian fire implement and have been in use since the 1940s. - Fire rope dart – A wick, ...
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Fire performance It is also known as a levitation wand, leviwand or flow wand. - Fire sword – either a real sword modified for fire, or one specifically built for the purpose of fire shows. - Chi ball/Fire orb – 2 rings or handles with a wick attached between them by a thin wire. - Fire fingers – Short and thin torc...
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Fire performance to create large plumes of fire. - Fire flogger – A traditional BDSM flogger with kevlar or Technora tails. Can be used for both performance and temperature play - Fire rope/snake – Similar to poi, but has a short 3–5 inch chain attaching the handles to a 12-inch or longer kevlar or Technora rope. - ...
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Fire performance constructed juggling balls, either solid balls dipped in fuel and juggled with protective gloves, or ones designed to contain the flame in the centre of the ball. - Wearable fire – Headdresses, hip belts, arm bands, or other garments made typically of metal with kevlar or Technora torches attached. Ca...
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Fire performance and flame temperature. There is also some geographic variance in fuels used, due local availability and price. Some American fire performers use white gas although most use other fuels due to its low flash point, while British fire performers almost exclusively use kerosene (called "paraffin" in the UK...
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Fire performance uel and performance in appropriate spaces will mean that the risks are minimised. Fire insurance policies all require fire performers to carry fire extinguishers, fire blankets or other fire safety equipment. # Fire arts education. There are organized events in various parts of the world teaching fir...
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Lance daffadar
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Lance daffadar Lance daffadar Lance daffadar is the equivalent rank to corporal in Pakistan, Indian and British Indian Army cavalry units, ranking between acting lance daffadar and daffadar. In other units the equivalent is naik. Like a British corporal, a lance daffadar wears two rank chevrons. Acting lance daffadar...
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Charles Hart (lyricist)
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Charles Hart (lyricist) Charles Hart (lyricist) Charles Hart (born 3 June 1961) is a British lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for writing the lyrics to, and contributing to the book of, Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical "The Phantom of the Opera" and for writing the lyrics to "Bend It Like Beckham...
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Charles Hart (lyricist)
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Charles Hart (lyricist) with "The Times", Hart stated that he began writing lyrics as a child, some of which were "dark and contemplative – precociously murderous and quite, quite feisty"; he was motivated to do so professionally in the 1970s when his grandmother, actress Angela Baddeley, starred in a London stage prod...
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Charles Hart (lyricist)
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Charles Hart (lyricist) a university-educated dilettante, because it uses up all the rubbish in your education. Hart attracted the attention of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh, who were judges of the Vivian Ellis Awards for music theatre writers in which Hart was a finalist with an entry based on "Moll Flan...
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Charles Hart (lyricist)
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Charles Hart (lyricist) both words and music for television, ("Watching", "Split Ends" for Granada TV) and "Love Songs" (BBC Radio). His "Two Studies for String Quartet" premiered in February 2005 at London’s Purcell Room, performed by the Sacconi Quartet. His English lyrics for the opera "Benvenuto Cellini" were part ...
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Charles Hart (lyricist) een nominated twice for a Tony Award. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for writing the lyrics to a new song "Learn to be Lonely" which was sung by Minnie Driver over the final credits to the film version of "The Phantom of the Opera". ## Photography. Hart's photography has appeared o...
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Uranian
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Uranian Uranian Uranian is a 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sex—originally, someone with "a female psyche in a male body" who is sexually attracted to men, and later extended to cover homosexual gender variant females, and a number of other sexual types. The term was first published by activist...
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Uranian
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Uranian "Dionian" ("Dioning"), derived from Aphrodite Dionea, represents the heterosexual gender. Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term "homosexual", which appeared in 1869 in a pamphlet published anonymously by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–82). The term "Uranian" was quickly adopted b...
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Uranian
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Uranian my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. I hold it to be noble—more noble than other forms." The term also gained currency among a group that studied Classics and dabbled in pederastic poetry from the 1870s to the 1930s. The writings of this group are now known by the phrase "Uran...
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Uranian
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Uranian heavens), a birth in which "the female has no part". This Uranian Aphrodite is associated with a noble love for male youths, and is the source of Ulrichs's term "Urning". Another account has Aphrodite as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, and this Aphrodite is associated with a common love which "is apt to be of w...
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Uranian
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Uranian in the English language, was a student of Benjamin Jowett and was very familiar with the "Symposium". However, it has been argued that this etymology, at least for the English-speaking countries, is unrelated to Ulrichs's "coinage". In his volume "Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians", Michael M. Kaylor writes...
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Uranian
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Uranian and gender characteristics (feminine, intermediate, or masculine). The three axes were usually, but not necessarily, linked – Ulrichs himself, for example, was a "Weibling" (feminine homosexual) who preferred the active sexual role. ## Taxonomy of "Uranismus". In these terms, "-in" is an ordinary German suffi...
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Uranian
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Uranian feminine woman - "Uranodioning": A male bisexual - "Uranodioningin": A female bisexual - "Zwitter": Intersex "Urningthum", "male homosexuality" (or "urnische Liebe", homosexual love) was expanded with the following terms: - "Mannling": very masculine, except for feminine psyche and sex drive towards effemi...
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Uranian
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Uranian with tender and passionate feelings for men - Disjunctive, with tender feelings for men but passionate feelings for women ("Homoromantic Heterosexual") - "Virilisierte Mannlinge": Male Urnings who have learned to act like Dionings, through force or habit ("straight-acting gay") - "Uraniaster" or "uranisierte...
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Uranian
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Uranian nsgender-related topics # References. - Michael Matthew Kaylor, "Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde" (Brno, CZ: Masaryk University Press, 2006) - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, "Urania" (Springfield MA, Merriam-Webster Inc, 1995) - Webster's Dictionary of the Engli...
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George Maxwell Richards
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George Maxwell Richards George Maxwell Richards A chemical engineer by training, Richards was Principal of the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad from 1984 to 1996. He previously worked for Shell Trinidad Ltd before joining the University of the West Indies in 1965. He was sworn into...
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George Maxwell Richards
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George Maxwell Richards winning an exhibition (scholarship) to attend Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain. From May 1950 to September 1951, he worked for the United British Oilfields of Trinidad (precursor to Shell Trinidad Ltd.) at Point Fortin. He received a scholarship from them to study chemical engineering. Ri...
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George Maxwell Richards
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George Maxwell Richards West Indies, eventually attaining the post of Professor of Chemical Engineering in October 1970. From August 1980 to May 1985, Richards served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Principal of the University. He served as Acting Principal of the St. Augustine Campus from October 1984 to May 1985, a...
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George Maxwell Richards
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George Maxwell Richards he continued to teach as Professor Emeritus until he was elected President. Richards also served on the Boards of many Trinidad and Tobago companies including that of the state-owned oil company, Trintoc (now Petrotrin), the National Gas Company and the Trinidad Publishing Company. # Presidency...
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George Maxwell Richards
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George Maxwell Richards the only candidate, and the Electoral College met for only three minutes. In May 2009, Richards faced calls to resign for bungling the appointment of the Trinidad and Tobago Integrity Commission, whose members all resigned for various reasons within a week of being sworn in on 1 May 2009, even ...
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George Maxwell Richards
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George Maxwell Richards organizations such as Chairman of both the National Training Board and National Advisory Council and the Institute of Marine Affairs. # Personal life and death. He was married to Jean Ramjohn, an anesthesiologist and cousin of the former President Noor Hassanali. They had two children: a son, ...
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George Maxwell Richards
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George Maxwell Richards y Council and the Institute of Marine Affairs. # Personal life and death. He was married to Jean Ramjohn, an anesthesiologist and cousin of the former President Noor Hassanali. They had two children: a son, Mark, who is also a medical doctor; and a daughter, Maxine, who is a businesswoman. Ri...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto Fiat Punto The Fiat Punto is a supermini car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat from 1993 to 2018, spanning over three generations. The third generation of the car was marketed as the Grande Punto, between 2005 and 2009, and the Punto Evo, between 2009 and 2012, when the bare Punto name was reintrodu...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto beginning of 1994, depending on the market. The Fiat Punto was voted European Car of the Year for 1995, defeating rival Volkswagen Polo by only 78 points. The official launch of the Punto in the United Kingdom was in October 1993, at the London Motorfair. The Punto was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and wa...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto cc, available in three versions. The first, was fitted in the Punto ELX 75 and produced at 6000 rpm while the second, fitted to Punto ELX 85 produced at 6000 rpm. The third was a engine which eventually replaced the 1.1 engine. ## Sporting versions. A Sporting model was also available with a 1.6 8v update...
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Fiat Punto the years, the GT was made in three different "series" with power (1993–1995), (1995–1997) and (1997–1999). ## Convertible. A cabriolet (convertible) version was also available; built by Bertone (rather than at the main Fiat factory), it featured an electric powered fully retracting roof and was one of the...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto Punto were the Punto 6Speed, a 1.1 FIRE Punto 55 with a six speed gearbox, the Punto Selecta with a CVT type automatic gearbox, and the Punto ED (Economical Drive), a 1.1 Punto whose five speed gearbox was designed for high fuel efficiency. # Second generation (1999–2010). The second generation Punto, code...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto the launch event of the hatchback, the Fiat Wish concept car was also presented, which was hardtop convertible version of the Fiat Punto, very similar in styling with the Peugeot 206 CC. The model was conceived by Pininfarina to celebrate the centenary of Fiat. ## Entry level. The 1.1 and 1.4 engines were ...
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Fiat Punto could reach almost . The 1.2 16V model also has a Speedgear CVT equipped variant (with a sequential manual shift mode consisting of six gears, seven for the Sporting model). The 1.8 HGT accelerates from 0 to 60 in 8.0 seconds. It was considered a big improvement in handling over the Punto GT. The HGT was al...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto pump driven by the engine. This resulted in reduced fuel consumption and less environmental impact. It has a fuel economy of , urban and , extra urban for the 1.9 diesel. The 1.8 petrol does , urban and , extra urban. ## Facelift. At the beginning of 2003, Fiat celebrated the rollout of the 5,000,000th pr...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto Fiat produced the 6,000,000th Punto at the Melfi plant. Engine changes included a new 1.4 L 16v engine, alongside the staple 1.2 and 1.2 L 16v variants, and the introduction of two HGT versions, the 1.9 L MultiJet diesel engine and the 1.8 L 16v petrol engine, which could reach almost continued over from th...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto time in Chile in 2007. It ended production in Italy in November 2010. ### Zastava 10. In October 2005, Serbian automotive manufacturer Zastava reached an agreement with Fiat to assemble this version under licence in Kragujevac, Serbia, with the model name Zastava 10. After acquiring a majority stake in Zas...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto Punto was initially released in four different trim leveles: "S", "SX", "ELX" and "HLX", that were later renamed to "Actual", "Active", "Dynamic" and "Emotion". Three special versions of the three door hatchback were also available: "Sporting", "HGT" and "Abarth". The 'Sporting' had a six-speed manual gearbo...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto and hill holder, climate control with double zone heating, MP3 player and subwoofer (HGT only), rear parking sensors and cruise control as an option. A revised instrument panel with a larger display could now show the instant consumption too. ## Engines. Four petrol engines with multi point injection syste...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto sale later on that year. Again styled by Giugiaro, the car is based on the Fiat Small platform developed in joint venture with Opel-General Motors. ## Punto Evo. In September 2009, the Grande Punto was facelifted, with the replacement known as the Punto Evo. It received a new front end in addition to revis...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto placed the Punto Pop 1.2 litre 8v 69 on its list of "The worst cars you can buy right now", describing the car as "An outclassed elderly supermini that kicks out 126 g/km yet takes 14.4 secs to wheeze to 62 mph, and it costs more than £10k." The Grande Punto in India went through a facelift changing the fro...
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Fiat Punto
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Fiat Punto Punto Van. The Punto Van is a compact van designed for the commercial market. It features a petrol 1.2 8v engine, a petrol/CNG 1.2 8v engine and a diesel 1.3 MultiJet 16v engine. # Motorsport. The Punto has always been popular with amateur racing drivers due to its low cost and the wide availability of sp...
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Fiat Punto It is four-wheel drive and powered by a 2.0 L 16 valve engine capable of producing . Also, a turbodiesel front wheel drive rally car has been produced, the Fiat Grande Punto R3D. The Punto was the first diesel car to compete in the Targa Tasmania. The Punto has won several rally championships, specifically...
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Lemuriformes
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Lemuriformes Lemuriformes Lemuriformes is an infraorder of primate that falls under the suborder Strepsirrhini. It includes the lemurs of Madagascar, as well as the galagos and lorisids of Africa and Asia, although a popular alternative taxonomy places the lorisoids in their own infraorder, Lorisiformes. Lemuriform p...
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Lemuriformes
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Lemuriformes teeth of adapids and the toothcomb of extant lemuriforms; however, this view is not strongly supported due to a lack of clear transitional fossils. Instead, lemuriforms may be descended from a very early branch of Asian cercamoniines or sivaladapids that immigrated to northern Africa. Until discoveries of...
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Lemuriformes
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Lemuriformes strepsirrhine taxa had diverged before then. "Djebelemur" from Tunisia dates to the late early or early middle Eocene (52 to 46 mya) and has been considered a cercamoniine, but also may have been a stem lemuriform. Azibiids from Algeria date to roughly the same time and may be a sister group of the djebele...
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Lemuriformes
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Lemuriformes by monkeys and apes today. In Africa, the lorises and galagos diverged during the Eocene, approximately 40 mya. Unlike the lemurs in Madagascar, they have had to compete with monkeys and apes, as well as other mammals. # Taxonomic classification. Most of the academic literature provides a basic framework...
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Lemuriformes
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Lemuriformes the aye-aye (Daubentoniidae) in its own infraorder, Chiromyiformes. In some cases, plesiadapiforms are included within the order Primates, in which case Euprimates is sometimes treated as a suborder, with Strepsirrhini becoming an infraorder, and the Lemuriformes and others become parvorders. Regardless of...
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Lemuriformes
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Lemuriformes When it is divided into three infraorders, the term "lemuriforms" refers only to Madagascar's lemurs, and the toothcombed primates are referred to as either "crown strepsirrhines" or "extant strepsirrhines". Confusion of this specific terminology with the general term "strepsirrhine", along with oversimpli...
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Lemuriformes
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Lemuriformes rimitive" strepsirrhines, lemur ancestors, or a sister group to the living strepsirrhines. They are included in Strepsirrhini, and are considered basal members of the clade. Although their status as true primates is not questioned, the questionable relationship between adapiforms and other living and fossi...
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