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906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
for St. Petersburg or Seattle at the time). His powerful swing sent home runs deep into some of cavernous old Comiskey Park's farthest reaches, including the roof and even the distant (445 ft) center field bleachers, a rare feat at one of baseball's most pitcher-friendly stadiums. On July 31, 1972, Allen bec... | 19,300 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
and mathematical evidence agreed that Allen's clout would've easily surpassed on the fly.
The Sox were favored by many to make the playoffs in 1973, but those hopes were dashed due in large measure to the fractured fibula that Allen suffered in June. (He tried to return five weeks after injuring the leg in ... | 19,301 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
Ron Santo, who was playing a final, undistinguished season with the White Sox after leaving the crosstown Chicago Cubs.
With Allen's intention to continue playing baseball uncertain, the White Sox reluctantly sold his contract to the Atlanta Braves for only $5,000, despite the fact that he had led the leagu... | 19,302 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
in 85 games. He continued his tape measure legacy during his second go-round with the Phillies. On August 22, 1975, Allen smashed a homer into the seldom reached upperdeck at San Diego's Qualcomm (née Jack Murphy) Stadium.
## Oakland Athletics.
Allen played in 54 games and hit 5 home runs with 31 RBIs for ... | 19,303 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
appearance in the 1976 National League Championship Series as a member of the Phillies, batting .222 (2-9) with a run scored as the Phillies were swept by the Reds. Defensively, his best position was at first base, in which he compiled a .989 fielding percentage in 808 games. He also played 652 games at thir... | 19,304 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
sang professionally at Philadelphia night clubs. He once entertained during halftime of an NBA Philadelphia 76ers game. The "Philadelphia Inquirer" printed a review of his performance:
Here came Rich Allen. Flowered shirt. Tie six-inches (152 mm) wide. Hiphugger bell-bottomed pants. A microphone in his hand... | 19,305 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
have ever cheered him for a game-winning home run.
Although his music career was not as substantial or long-lasting as that of Milwaukee Braves outfielder Arthur Lee Maye, Allen gained lasting praise for a recording on the Groovy Grooves label titled, "Echoes of November." The song is featured in the Phille... | 19,306 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
An increasing number of Baseball historians regard him as the best player not inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Allen appeared on the Hall of Fame's 2014 Golden Era Committee ballot (the committee votes every three years since 2011 when Ron Santo was elected by the committee) of 10 selected candidates... | 19,307 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
Rogers Hornsby. James called Allen's autobiography, "Crash", "one of the best baseball books in recent years". For many years Allen held the distinction of the highest slugging percentage among players eligible for but not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. This only ended in 2006, when Albert Belle beca... | 19,308 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
a period so dominated by pitchers that it is sometimes called the "second dead ball era" Of the Major League batters with 500 or more career home runs whose play intersected Dick Allen's career at the beginning or end, only Mickey Mantle's lifetime OPS+ of 172 topped Dick Allen's lifetime 156 OPS+ His career... | 19,309 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
and anabolic steroids, Allen boasted a powerful and muscular physique along the lines of Mickey Mantle and Jimmie Foxx. Indeed, baseball historian Bill Jenkinson ranks Allen with Foxx and Mantle, and just a notch below Babe Ruth, as the four top long-distance sluggers ever to wield a baseball bat. A segment ... | 19,310 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
speed and drive the ball. Two of his drives cleared Connie Mack Stadium's 65-foot-high left field grandstand. Twice Allen cleared that park's 65-foot-high right center field scoreboard: a feat considered virtually impossible for a right-handed hitter.
Detractors of Allen's Hall of Fame credentials argue tha... | 19,311 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
a time of change and protest in the country, and baseball reacted against all that. They saw it as a threat to the game. The sportswriters were reactionary too. They didn't like seeing a man of such extraordinary skills doing it his way. It made them nervous. Dick Allen was ahead of his time. His views and w... | 19,312 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
the White Sox—agreed with Willie Stargell that Allen was not a "clubhouse lawyer" who harmed team chemistry. Asked if Allen's behavior ever had a negative influence on the team, Mauch said, "Never. Dick's teammates always liked him. I'd take him in a minute." According to Tanner, "Dick was the leader of our ... | 19,313 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
said: "I've been around the game a long time, and he's the greatest player I've ever seen play in my life. He had the most amazing season (1972) I've ever seen. He's the smartest baseball man I've ever been around in my life. He taught me how to pitch from a hitter's prospective, and taught me how to play th... | 19,314 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
the game. He was the ultimate team guy." Another Hall of Fame teammate, Mike Schmidt, credited Dick Allen in his book, "Clearing the Bases", as his mentor. In Schmidt's biography, written by historian William C. Kashatus, Schmidt fondly recalls Allen mentoring him before a game in Chicago in 1976, saying to ... | 19,315 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
divide the clubhouse along racial lines. That was a lie. The truth is that Dick never divided any clubhouse."
# See also.
- Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame
- List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders
- List of Major League Baseball c... | 19,316 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
the city where he began his career, saying 'I'd like to think I've grown up.' Suddenly, pennant talk is rampant". "Sports Illustrated".
- Kiersh, Edward (April 13, 1983). "His Inner Turmoil Was Allen's Toughest Adversary". "Philadelphia Inquirer".
## Books.
- Kashatus, William C. (2004). "September Swoon:... | 19,317 |
906097 | Dick Allen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Allen | Dick Allen
. "His Inner Turmoil Was Allen's Toughest Adversary". "Philadelphia Inquirer".
## Books.
- Kashatus, William C. (2004). "September Swoon: Richie Allen, the 1964 Phillies and Racial Integration". University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
- Kashatus, William C. (2017). "Dick Allen: The Life and ... | 19,318 |
906209 | Carl D. Perkins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20D.%20Perkins | Carl D. Perkins
Carl D. Perkins
Carl Dewey Perkins (October 15, 1912 – August 3, 1984), a Democrat, was a politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Kentucky serving from 1949 until his death from a heart attack in Lexington, Kentucky in 1984.
# Early years.
Carl Dewey Perk... | 19,319 |
906209 | Carl D. Perkins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20D.%20Perkins | Carl D. Perkins
He passed the bar and served a term as a commonwealth attorney for the thirty-first judicial district of Kentucky.
In 1938 Perkins married Verna Johnson and they had one son, Carl C. Perkins.
During World War II, Perkins enlisted in the United States Army and served a tour in Europe.
In 1940, Perkins... | 19,320 |
906209 | Carl D. Perkins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20D.%20Perkins | Carl D. Perkins
Congressman from Kentucky's 7th District, Wendell H. Meade. Perkins unseated Meade and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death. Perkins was the chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (Ninetieth th... | 19,321 |
906209 | Carl D. Perkins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20D.%20Perkins | Carl D. Perkins
Lexington, Kentucky after complaining of feeling ill on a flight from Washington. He fell ill on the plane and was pronounced dead of a heart attack on arrival at St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
His funeral was widely attended as he was widely regarded as a popular Kentucky politician ove... | 19,322 |
906209 | Carl D. Perkins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20D.%20Perkins | Carl D. Perkins
House Majority Leader Jim Wright, Congressman William H. Natcher and House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neil who gave the eulogy.
Perkins was succeeded in office by his son, Carl C. Perkins.
# Legacy.
Perkins's legacy of support to education and the under-privileged is shown by the federal student loan called... | 19,323 |
906209 | Carl D. Perkins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20D.%20Perkins | Carl D. Perkins
Kentucky are named after him. The vocational school in Hindman, Kentucky at Knott County Central High School, Carl D. Perkins Job Corps at Prestonsburg and Carl D. Perkins Rehab Center at Thelma are also named in his honor. Kentucky highway 80 in Hazard, Kentucky is named the Carl D. Perkins Parkway. Th... | 19,324 |
906209 | Carl D. Perkins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20D.%20Perkins | Carl D. Perkins
ucky.
Perkins' grave site is in Hindman, Kentucky, in a public cemetery named "Mountain Memory Gardens". However, he was originally buried at a private cemetery near his home in Hindman. In 2007 Perkins's body was moved to where he is presently buried at Mountain Memory Gardens. Verna J. Perkins sold t... | 19,325 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
Seixal
Seixal () is a Portuguese municipality, located in the district of Setúbal, in the region of Lisbon. Its population includes 184,269 inhabitants (2011), situated across the Tagus River estuary from Lisbon, in an area of that includes six parishes. Its seat is the city of Seixal a centre of 31,600 inhabit... | 19,326 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
the name used to describe the geomorphology of the region.
Since the Roman era, the Tagus bay has been a region of human settlement, from many of the archaeological discoveries at Quinta do Rouxinol, in Corroios, and Quinta de S. João, in Arrentela (beginning in the period of the Portuguese Age of Discovery). A... | 19,327 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
river boats and trans-Atlantic ships. At the same time, the tides of the region were used to develop mills, such as the tidal mill in Corroios in 1403, fostering various the millers, caulkers and carpenters along the river. It was in Seixal that the brothers Vasco da Gama and Paulo da Gama built vessels for the ... | 19,328 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
then a division of Almada.
At the beginning of the 16th century, the population of the territory numbers three dozen homes, and by the 18th century there was a population of 400 inhabitants.
After the Liberal revolution, during the administrative reforms of 1836, during the reign of Queen Maria II of Portugal,... | 19,329 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
became an aristocratic retreat for the nobility in nearby Lisbon, resulting in the construction several vacation properties or villas, such as Quinta da Fidalga, Quinta do Alamo, Quinta da Trindade, Quinta de São Pedro and Quinta de Cheiraventos.
Around the bay there are several factories that were important in... | 19,330 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
in the installation of the steelmaker Siderurgia Nacional in 1961.
In 1966, a bridge was inaugurated over the Tagus providing a direct, stable link to Lisbon.
The civil parish of Corroios was created in 1976. On 27 May 1993, the parish of Fernão Ferro was established, following the division of the old parish o... | 19,331 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
which connects to Lisbon.
The Bay of Seixal is part of the Tagus River Estuary, that is fed by several rivers and confluents that extend to the sea; classified as a "Reserva Ecológica Nacional" ("National Ecological Reserve"), the bay and small tributaries are part of one of the most important humid zones in Po... | 19,332 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
was a boom in the population, due to improvements in accessibility and mobility, principally due to public transport, its location to Lisbon and installation of economic activities within the territory. This growth transformed, in a short time, from a territory predominantly rural into an urban municipality, con... | 19,333 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
with ease of access along the river, contributed to the establishment of various industries. By the early 1990s, heavy industry and manufacturing ceased to be an important motivator of the local economy, with the small and medium logistics and service industries established in modern industrial parks: there are ... | 19,334 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
1,500 jobs, and the study redefine the spatial organization of the area occupied by the former National Steel Company (Siderurgia National do Seixal). These two projects converge on the new Economic Activities Park Seixal County, an area with a total of 700 hectares.
Another area of investment in the county is ... | 19,335 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
support and investment incentives, camarários requirements, suitable sites for the installation of economic activities and interpretation of PDM - Municipal Master Plan, as well as other information about the business.
# Transport.
The principal road network that crosses the municipality, guarantees the connec... | 19,336 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
navigation across the Tagus estuary is a vital link economically, as well as a tourist link, with catamaran service provided by Transtejo & Soflusa (with 15 minute service) to Cais do Sodré in Lisbon.
A lowland community, Seixal provides bike paths along the bay that link Amora and Seixal, passing through the p... | 19,337 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
of a three-day music festival with hundreds of Portuguese and international bands and artists across five different stages, in addition to ethnographic demonstrations, gastronomy, social debates, books and music fair, the Avanteatro (theatre) and sporting events. Several foreign communist parties also participat... | 19,338 |
906220 | Seixal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seixal | Seixal
hundreds of Portuguese and international bands and artists across five different stages, in addition to ethnographic demonstrations, gastronomy, social debates, books and music fair, the Avanteatro (theatre) and sporting events. Several foreign communist parties also participate. The events preparation begins fo... | 19,339 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
Julian Fantino
Julian Fantino, (; born August 13, 1942) is a Canadian retired police official and former politician. He was the Conservative Party of Canada Member of the Parliament of Canada for the riding of Vaughan following a November 29, 2010 by-election, until his defeat in 2015. On January 4, 201... | 19,340 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
Veterans Affairs. He was defeated by Liberal candidate Francesco Sorbara in the 2015 election.
Prior to entering politics, Fantino was the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police from 2006 to 2010, Toronto's Chief of Police from 2000 to 2005, and Ontario's Commissioner of Emergency Management from... | 19,341 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
a security guard at Yorkdale Shopping Centre in suburban Toronto. He volunteered as an Auxiliary Police Officer for the Metro Toronto Police from 1964 to 1969 and then joined the force as a Police Constable. He was a member of the Drug Squad and was promoted to Detective Constable. He subsequently served... | 19,342 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
Services Board, the body overseeing the Toronto Police service. Conversations between Maloney and Eng were illegally recorded despite a court order that only the first minute of Maloney's conversations were to be monitored so as to determine whether the individual who he was talking to was on the list of... | 19,343 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
pornography ring. While several men were eventually convicted of crimes not related to the stated purpose of the investigation, such as drug possession and prostitution, no child pornography ring was ever found.
Journalist Gerald Hannon later published a piece in "The Globe and Mail" accusing Fantino of... | 19,344 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
returned to the Greater Toronto Area as Chief of York Regional Police in 1998. His tenure was brief and he returned to the Toronto Police Service two years later. He was succeeded as chief by Robert Middaugh.
# Toronto Police Service chief (2000–2005).
## Policing controversies.
An incident in Septemb... | 19,345 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
appeared to have little patience for protesters: he wanted them to ask police for permission before holding demonstrations. In one report, he commented "a problem is now arising where portions of the public believe that Dundas Square is a public space." In his new position with the OPP, Fantino took an a... | 19,346 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
several people as being under investigation for child pornography. Despite the lack of evidence, and the crown subsequently dropping the charges, at least one of the men publicly identified committed suicide, naming Fantino's intentional destruction of his reputation as the reason for his suicide in the ... | 19,347 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
and robbed suspected drug dealers. In another, plainclothes officers were charged with accepting bribes to help bars dodge liquor inspections. In the third, a group of officers who advocated on behalf of a drug-addicted car thief faced internal charges.
Two of these cases involve the sons of former poli... | 19,348 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
court case of having "unplugged" a special task force investigating corruption charges against the Toronto Police Service's narcotics squad, thereby ignoring the task force's suspicions that another of the force's drug squads was corrupt. Lawyer Julian Falconer argued in court that "When Chief Fantino de... | 19,349 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
settlement costs, which amount to about $5 million a year over six years, were expected, given the number of confrontations police face, suggesting that "people think they are going to get paid off."
# Contract expiry.
Fantino's contract as police chief expired on February 28, 2005. On June 24, 2004, t... | 19,350 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
a "Save Fantino" campaign, and the board was deadlocked on the issue of beginning the search for Fantino's replacement.
Many Fantino supporters claimed that the Mayor at the time, David Miller, was openly hostile to Fantino. Miller had ignored calls to pressure the police board after it voted against Fa... | 19,351 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
February 8, 2005, Fantino was appointed Ontario's commissioner of emergency management by Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty. This move was criticized by the opposition parties in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, both for the lack of transparency in the hiring process and for the perception that the app... | 19,352 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
commissioner (2006-2010).
Fantino was appointed Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police replacing the departed Gwen M. Boniface on October 12, 2006 by the provincial Liberal government; initially for a two-year term. His appointment was criticized by First Nations groups. In March 2008 his contrac... | 19,353 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
cases has come to trial to date. During his term, Fantino has changed the look of the OPP by ordering that the livery for police cruisers be changed to a 1960s era black and white pattern.
Commissioner Fantino's salary, for 2009, was $251,989.44.
## Shawn Brant controversy.
Fantino was criticized by l... | 19,354 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
I can; within your community and everywhere else; to destroy your reputation" and "your whole world is going to come crashing down" NDP MPP Peter Kormos called for Fantino's resignation accusing him of using "pugnacious and bellicose" rhetoric and for engaging in "Rambo-style policing." In the face of de... | 19,355 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
Internal discipline hearing controversy.
In late 2008 and early 2009, Fantino was embroiled in a controversy surrounding his role in an internal discipline case at the OPP, in which Fantino was accused of being petty and vindictive in his actions against the officers. Fantino ordered a hearing into the ... | 19,356 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
was any apprehension of bias on the part of the adjudicator. The OPP dropped the disciplinary case against the two officers on December 15, 2009, the same day Fantino was due to be cross examined by defence lawyer Julian Falconer. The entire process cost more than $500,000 in public money.
## Private pr... | 19,357 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
brought forward by a private complainant, Gary McHale, who alleged that Fantino was illegally influencing or attempting to influence municipal officials in regards to the Caledonia land dispute. The charge against Fantino was stayed in February 2010 as the Crown said there was no reasonable prospect of c... | 19,358 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
for complaining about a death threat by one of their officers. In early 2014 Superior Court Justice H.K. O’Connell sided with the government that the claim of malicious prosecution was not supported by evidence. Brummell has appealed this decision to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. On his web site, Brum... | 19,359 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Fantino's name was floated as a possible candidate in the ensuing leadership election. He ended speculation that he was interested in the job with a letter to the "Globe and Mail".
There were rumours that he may run for Mayor of Vaughan, Ontario in the Oc... | 19,360 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
Fantino announced he would seek the nomination for the federal Conservative Party in the riding of Vaughan. It had been reported Prime Minister Stephen Harper had spoken to Fantino in early October about running as a Conservative and that Fantino was "leaning" toward doing so. A federal by-election had b... | 19,361 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
The group picketed Fantino's campaign office and events, and became registered as a third party with Elections Canada under the name "Against Fantino" (after their use of the term "Conservatives" had been disallowed by the agency) in order to be permitted to spend money on printing and distributing 60,00... | 19,362 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
cabinet shuffle following the 2011 federal election Fantino was promoted to Associate Minister of National Defence.
Following the departure of Bev Oda, Harper named Fantino the new Minister for International Cooperation portfolio on July 4, 2012, replacing him at National Defence with Bernard Valcourt.
... | 19,363 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
closure of eight local offices servicing veterans. In January 2014, Fantino arrived late for a meeting with veterans about the closures and engaged in an angry confrontation with one of the veterans, resulting in accusations that was is inept, rude and insensitive. In May, he was filmed ignoring and walk... | 19,364 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
Erin O'Toole and demoted to the position of Associate Defence Minister.
In the 2015 Canadian federal election, Fantino was defeated by Liberal candidate, Francesco Sorbara in the redistributed electoral district of Vaughan-Woodbridge.
# Assault charge.
On October 1, 2015 a retired construction worker,... | 19,365 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
police baton — and "assault causing bodily harm" against John Bonnici. The Crown dismissed the charge in December 2015 arguing that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.
# Post Political Life.
## Medical Marijuana.
In September 2017, Julian Fantino announced that he was working with Aleafia,... | 19,366 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
benefits of pot in assisting soldiers to deal with anxiety, sleep disorders and PTSD.
## Fantino's allegations of criminal conspiracy, corrupt & illegal behaviour by lawyers, police and a judge.
On September 28, 2017 Julian Fantino swore an affidavit in support of his application to intervene in the ju... | 19,367 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
resources and personnel were "improperly retained, used and co-opted" to help one side in the private civil dispute at the time that Fantino was Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police (but without his knowledge). Fantino further posited in the affidavit that there was a conspiracy involving secret... | 19,368 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
legal case continues.
# Honours and awards.
- Recipient of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Civil Rights Award in Law
- Top Choice Award for Leadership (2005), voted by Italian-Canadians in Toronto, Ontario
- April 14, 2005 he was presented the Key to the City of Toronto by Ma... | 19,369 |
906169 | Julian Fantino | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20Fantino | Julian Fantino
ecipient of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Civil Rights Award in Law
- Top Choice Award for Leadership (2005), voted by Italian-Canadians in Toronto, Ontario
- April 14, 2005 he was presented the Key to the City of Toronto by Mayor David Miller.
- Received a star on the Itali... | 19,370 |
906249 | Robert Laurent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Laurent | Robert Laurent
Robert Laurent
Robert Laurent (June 29, 1890 – April 20, 1970) was an American sculptor, known for his interpretations of the human form. Born in 1890, he died in Cape Neddick, Maine in 1970 at the age of 80.
# Early life.
Laurent was born in Concarneau, Brittany, France in 1890. There, at the age of ... | 19,371 |
906249 | Robert Laurent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Laurent | Robert Laurent
time and met Mimi Caraes, who became his wife. He returned to Brooklyn in 1919.
in 1922, when his mentor Hamilton Easter Field died, he left Laurent his art collection and Brooklyn home. After inheriting this collection, Laurent established the Hamilton Easter Field Foundation with the aide of other New... | 19,372 |
906249 | Robert Laurent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Laurent | Robert Laurent
won the Audubon Sculpture Award in New York in 1945, several first prizes in Hoosier salons, and in exhibits at the John Herron Museum, Indianapolis. He received high distinction in 1954 when was named sculptor in residence at the American Academy in Rome for a year. Laurent was one of 23 American sculpt... | 19,373 |
906249 | Robert Laurent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Laurent | Robert Laurent
x 10 5/8 in. (40.7 x 27.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum
- "Mimi", Smithsonian American Art Museum
- "Polynesian", Smithsonian American Art Museum
- "Shipping" (one-third scale model of Federal Trade Building Relief). 1937. Plaster, wire, and burlap, 29 1/8 x 24 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. (74.1 x 62.2 x 8.... | 19,374 |
906249 | Robert Laurent | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Laurent | Robert Laurent
and Child", 1924. Depicts his wife and young son on smoothly polished white marble. Alabaster relief in wood frame. 17 1/2 x 11 3/4 x 2 in. (44.5 x 29.9 x 5.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum
- "Showalter Fountain", Indiana University Campus, Bloomington, Indiana
- "Salome", Indiana University Esk... | 19,375 |
906261 | Fresno Dome | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fresno%20Dome | Fresno Dome
Fresno Dome
Fresno Dome is a dominant granite dome rising in isolation above the forest of Soquel Meadow in the Sierra National Forest in Madera County, California.
The dome as known to the Mono Indians as "the greeting place" ("wah-me-yelo"). John Muir encountered Fresno Dome, calling it "Wamello", in th... | 19,376 |
906261 | Fresno Dome | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fresno%20Dome | Fresno Dome
ling it "Wamello", in the 1870s, and used its summit to locate Fresno Grove (now known as Nelder Grove).
It is accessible by a trailhead which is a three-mile drive from the Sierra Vista Scenic Byway (part of the National Scenic Byway system). The nearest town is Bass Lake, California, to the south.
At it... | 19,377 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
Fairey Gannet
The Fairey Gannet is a British carrier-borne aircraft of the post-Second World War era developed for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) by the Fairey Aviation Company. It was a mid-wing monoplane with a tricycle undercarriage and a crew of three, and a double turboprop engine driving two ... | 19,378 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
in response to the 1945 Admiralty requirement GR.17/45, for which prototypes by Fairey (Type Q or Fairey 17, after the requirement) and Blackburn Aircraft (the Blackburn B-54 / B-88) were built.
After considering and discounting the Rolls-Royce Tweed turboprop, Fairey selected an engine based on the Arms... | 19,379 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
engine (2,950 hp/2,200 kW) was used in the Gannet AS.1; ASMD.3 (3,145 hp/2,345 kW) in the AS.4; and ASMD.4 (3,875 hp/2,889 kW) in the AEW.3 variant. The Double Mamba engine could be run with one Mamba stopped to conserve fuel and extend endurance for cruise flight. The contra-rotating propellers meant tha... | 19,380 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
from carriers.
In 1958 the Gannet was selected to replace the Douglas Skyraider in the AEW role. In order to accommodate the systems required, the Gannet underwent a significant redesign that saw a new version of the Double Mamba installed, new radome mounted under the aircraft, the tailfin increased in ... | 19,381 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
under a separate canopy directly behind the pilot. After the prototype, a second observer was included, in his own cockpit over the wing trailing edge. This addition disturbed the airflow over the horizontal stabiliser, requiring small finlets on either side. The Gannet had a large internal weapons bay in... | 19,382 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
of the wing span.
The length of the nosewheel shock absorber caused the Gannet to have a distinctive nose-high attitude, a common characteristic of carrier aircraft.
In FAA service, the Gannet generally wore the standard camouflage scheme of a Sky (duck-egg blue) underside and fuselage sides, with Extra... | 19,383 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
on rear fuselage and wings.
# Operational history.
The prototype first flew on 19 September 1949 and made the first deck landing by a turboprop aircraft, on on 19 June 1950, by pilot Lieutenant Commander G. Callingham. After a further change in operational requirements, with the addition of a radar and ... | 19,384 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
(It was originally intended to be the same basic configuration with the guppy radome replacing the bomb bay and retractable radome. The specification was changed, moving the crewmen's positions to be like those in the Skyraider which necessitated a complete redesign of the fuselage and wing centre section... | 19,385 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
and light cargo to the fleet.
The Royal Australian Navy purchased the Gannet AS.1 (36 aircraft). It operated from the aircraft carrier and the shore base near Nowra, New South Wales.
Indonesia bought a number of AS.4 and T.5s (re-modelled from RN AS.1s and T.2s) in 1959. Some Gannets were later acquired... | 19,386 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
1958 – Fairey Gannet AS.1, WN345, suffered a belly landing during a test programme, caused by a partially retracted nosewheel. The pilot tried unsuccessfully to get the gear to deploy. He landed gear-up on a foam-covered runway at RAF Bitteswell, suffering minimal damage. After repair, the Gannet was back... | 19,387 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
double engine failure caused by a phosphor bronze bushing on the idler gear of the port engine's primary accessory drive failing. Fine metal particles from the gear were carried away by the shared oil system of the two engines, causing both to be destroyed. All three crew bailed out near St Austell and su... | 19,388 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
but the primary issue was the failure of the harness quick-release mechanism.
A brief report in "Cockpit", Q4 1973, concerning the accident:
# Operators.
- Fleet Air Arm
- 724 Squadron RAN
- 725 Squadron RAN
- 816 Squadron RAN
- 817 Squadron RAN
- Marineflieger
- "Marinefliegergeschwader" 2 (1958... | 19,389 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
Air Squadron
- 815 Naval Air Squadron
- 816 Naval Air Squadron
- 817 Naval Air Squadron
- 820 Naval Air Squadron
- 824 Naval Air Squadron
- 825 Naval Air Squadron
- 826 Naval Air Squadron
- 831 Naval Air Squadron
- 847 Naval Air Squadron
- 849 Naval Air Squadron
- 1840 Naval Air Squadron Royal ... | 19,390 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra, New South Wales
## Germany.
- On display
- Gannet AEW.3 "XL450", at the Flugausstellung Hermeskeil.
- Gannet AS.4 "UA-113", at the Aeronauticum Marinefliegermuseum Nordholz e.V
- Gannet AS.4 at Technik Museum Speyer
- Gannet AS.4 "UA-106" at Militärhistorisches Mu... | 19,391 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
Airfield and Cornwall at War Museum, Cornwall.
- Gannet ECM.6 "XA459" at White Waltham Airfield, England
- Gannet ECM.6 "XG797" at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire
- Gannet AEW.3 "XL497" at the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum, Scotland
- Gannet AEW.3 "XL502" at Yorkshi... | 19,392 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
Gannet AEW.3 "G-KAEW" ("XL500") undergoing a full restoration to airworthiness
## United States of America.
- Airworthy
- Gannet T.5 "XT752", Wings of Steel Foundation, Wisconsin
# References.
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Smith, Dave. "Hit The Deck." "Flypast", No. 328, November 2008.
- Sturtivant, Ra... | 19,393 |
906231 | Fairey Gannet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairey%20Gannet | Fairey Gannet
W.R. "Fairey Gannet". "Combat Aircraft of the World from 1909 to the Present". New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969 (reprinted 1977). , .
- Thetford, Owen. "British Naval Aircraft Since 1912". London: Putnam, 1978. .
- Velek, Martin, Michal Ovčáčík and Karel Susa. "Fairey Gannet Anti-submarine and Strike ... | 19,394 |
906272 | IBM Lotus Word Pro | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20Lotus%20Word%20Pro | IBM Lotus Word Pro
IBM Lotus Word Pro
Lotus Word Pro is a word processor software produced by IBM's Lotus Software group for use on Microsoft Windows-compatible computers and on IBM OS/2 Warp. Word Pro can be obtained as part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite.
Word Pro was based upon Ami Pro (originally published ... | 19,395 |
906272 | IBM Lotus Word Pro | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20Lotus%20Word%20Pro | IBM Lotus Word Pro
evelopment team added support for tables and renamed the product Ami Pro.
Lotus obtained Ami Pro to round out their office suite by acquiring Samna in 1990. Lotus continued to develop Ami Pro further with version 3 released in 1992. Version 3.1 is the last version of Ami Pro released (all versions w... | 19,396 |
906278 | Sonia Waddell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonia%20Waddell | Sonia Waddell
Sonia Waddell
Sonia Waddell (née Scown, born 19 February 1973) is a New Zealand athlete. She represented her country at a World Junior Championship in hurdles before becoming a rower, in which sport she was twice an Olympic competitor and where she won silver at a World Rowing Championship. She later com... | 19,397 |
906278 | Sonia Waddell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonia%20Waddell | Sonia Waddell
World Junior Championships in Athletics in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
## Rowing.
She first represented her country in rowing at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere, Finland, where she came ninth in the women's quadruple sculls. From 1997 onwards, she competed in the single sculls, and at the World Ro... | 19,398 |
906278 | Sonia Waddell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonia%20Waddell | Sonia Waddell
, and at the World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998, and 1999, she placed tenth, tenth, and fifth, respectively. At the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, she continued to compete in the single sculls, placing sixth and fifth, respectively.
She won a silver medal in the 2001 World Rowing Championships in t... | 19,399 |
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