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420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery –
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy –
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has ... | 20,900 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
the Major-General adds to the song "Man, I'm older than The Beatles, but I'm younger than The Rolling Stones." In the 1983 film "Never Cry Wolf", the hero sings the song. Similarly, in the 2001 time-travel comedy "Kate & Leopold", Leopold sings the song; however, the scene is anachronistic in that ... | 20,901 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
programs. For example, "The Muppet Show" (season 3, episode 52) staged a duet of the song with guest host Gilda Radner and a talking carrot. Radner had requested a seven-foot-tall talking "parrot", but Kermit had difficulty reading her handwriting. In a short cutaway from the 2012 "Family Guy" epis... | 20,902 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
along to the song while listening to it being played as hold music. In a Season 3 episode of "Home Improvement", "Room for Change" (1994), Al Borland, believing that he is in a sound-proof booth, belts out the first stanza but is heard by everyone.
Other examples of television renditions of the so... | 20,903 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
joins in the song, singing, "With many awful facts about the scary hippopotamus!"; the "Mad About You" episode "Moody Blues" (Season 6, Episode 5); and the "Deep Space Homer" episode of "The Simpsons". Sometimes the song is used in an audition situation. For example, in the "Two and a Half Men" epi... | 20,904 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
Brick Breeland in season 1 of "Hart of Dixie" in episode 19, "Destiny & Denial".
Parodies or pastiches of the song have been sung in a number of television programs. For example, the computer-animated series "ReBoot" ended its third season (Episode 39: "End Prog") with a recap of the entire season... | 20,905 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
from "Pirates", "Pinafore" and "Ruddigore", are parodied. When he hosted "Saturday Night Live", David Hyde Pierce's monologue was a parody of the song. In the "Animaniacs" short "H.M.S. Yakko", Yakko sings "I am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual". In the "Scrubs" episode "My Musical", the song... | 20,906 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
written for the book "The Unix Companion" by Harley Hahn, which replaces the military references with Unix trivia and one featured in comic No. 1052 on the webcomic "xkcd" in 2012. This comic then became the subject of numerous musical adaptations. "The Elements" inspired the "Boy Scout Merit Badge... | 20,907 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
received over 2 million views on YouTube.
On the last night of The Proms in 2000, the outgoing conductor, Sir Andrew Davis, sang a pastiche of the song celebrating the festival. When Derek Pattinson retired as Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England in 1990, a choir sang a ... | 20,908 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
that received more than 1.8 million views. Florida gubernatorial candidate Michael E. Arth released a YouTube video in 2010 of him singing "I am the Very Model of a Pragmatic Humanitarian" while using placards as Bob Dylan did in "Dont Look Back". A 2015 YouTube parody satirizing county clerk Kim D... | 20,909 |
420575 | Major-General's Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major-General's%20Song | Major-General's Song
Hand Man" from the 2015 musical "Hamilton" by Lin-Manuel Miranda, refers to himself with irony as "The model of a modern major general", which he rhymes with "men are all" and "pedestal". Miranda commented: "I always felt like 'mineral' wasn't the best possible rhyme." Stephen Colbert opined that s... | 20,910 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
Graham Young
Graham Frederick Young (7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990) best known as the Teacup Poisoner and later the St. Albans Poisoner, was an English serial killer who used poison to kill his victims. He was sent to Broadmoor Hospital in 1962 after poisoning several members of his family. In 1971 whe... | 20,911 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
was separated from his aunt and uncle in order to live with his father and new stepmother.
He was fascinated from an early age by poisons and their effects. In 1959 Young passed his eleven-plus, and went to grammar school.
In 1961, he started to test poisons (including antimony) on his family, enough to ... | 20,912 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
Young himself was violently sick at home.
It even seemed as if the mystery bug had spread beyond their household: a couple of Young's school friends had also been off school ill a couple of times with similar painful symptoms.
In November 1961, Winifred Young was served a cup of tea by her brother one mo... | 20,913 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
whom he claimed had been using the family's teacups to mix shampoo. Unconvinced, Fred searched Graham's room, but found nothing incriminating. Nevertheless, he warned his son to be more careful in future when "messing about with those bloody chemicals".
On Easter Saturday, 21 April 1962, Young's stepmothe... | 20,914 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
desk and spoke to the school's headmaster about his concerns. Young was sent to a psychiatrist, who recommended contacting the police. Young was arrested on 23 May 1962 and confessed to the attempted murders of his father, sister, and friend. The remains of his stepmother could not be analysed because she ... | 20,915 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
to his trial and diagnosed as suffering from a personality disorder, and also schizophrenia (classed under the law then as psychopathic disorder as it was linked to abnormal violence). He was Broadmoor's youngest inmate since 1885.
Subsequent analysis has also suggested signs of the autism spectrum (cf Bo... | 20,916 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
was released after nine years, deemed "fully recovered".
In June 1970, after nearly eight years in Broadmoor, Edgar Udwin, the prison psychiatrist, wrote to the home secretary to recommend his release, announcing that Young "is no longer obsessed with poisons, violence and mischief".
However, in the hosp... | 20,917 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
hospital in February 1971, he began work as a quartermaster at John Hadland Laboratories in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, near his sister's home in Hemel Hempstead. The company manufactured thallium bromide-iodide infrared lenses, which were used in military equipment. However, no thallium was stored on site, ... | 20,918 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
and died. Young had been making tea laced with poisons for his colleagues. A sickness swept through his workplace and, mistaken for a virus, was nicknamed the Bovingdon Bug. These cases of nausea and illness, sometimes severe enough to require hospitalisation, were later attributed to Young and his tea.
Y... | 20,919 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
suffering agony for several weeks, he became Young's fourth and final victim.
At this point, it was evident that an investigation was necessary. Young asked the company doctor if the investigators had considered thallium poisoning. He also told a colleague that his hobby was the study of toxic chemicals. ... | 20,920 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
die.
At his trial at St Albans Crown Court, which started on 19 June 1972 and lasted for ten days, Young pleaded not guilty, and claimed the diary was a fantasy for a novel. Young was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He was dubbed "The Teacup Poisoner".
While in prison, he befriended fellow ser... | 20,921 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
of 1 August 1990, one month before his 43rd birthday. The cause of death was listed as myocardial infarction at an inquest, after a postmortem.
# In popular culture.
A film called "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" is loosely based on Young's life.
In November 2005, a 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl was ar... | 20,922 |
420602 | Graham Young | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graham%20Young | Graham Young
the Butler Report 1975, also led to the expansion in forensic mental health services with the development of regional (now referred to as medium) secure units in most of the health regions in England and Wales. Prior to that there had been only the high security hospitals of Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth... | 20,923 |
420632 | Jan Frederik Gronovius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jan%20Frederik%20Gronovius | Jan Frederik Gronovius
Jan Frederik Gronovius
Jan Frederik Gronovius (also seen as Johann Frederik and Johannes Fredericus) (10 February 1690 in Leiden – 10 July 1762 in Leiden) was a Dutch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus.
John Clayton, a plant collector in Virginia sent him many specimens, as well as manusc... | 20,924 |
420632 | Jan Frederik Gronovius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jan%20Frederik%20Gronovius | Jan Frederik Gronovius
tch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus.
John Clayton, a plant collector in Virginia sent him many specimens, as well as manuscript descriptions, in the 1730s. Without Clayton's knowledge, Gronovius used the material in his "Flora Virginica" (1739–43, 2nd ed. 1762).
He was the son of Jakob... | 20,925 |
420625 | Miles Glacier Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles%20Glacier%20Bridge | Miles Glacier Bridge
Miles Glacier Bridge
The Miles Glacier Bridge, also known as the Million Dollar Bridge, was built in the early 1900s across the Copper River fifty miles from Cordova in what is now the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a multiple-span Pennsylvania truss bridge which completed a railroad line for the Cop... | 20,926 |
420625 | Miles Glacier Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles%20Glacier%20Bridge | Miles Glacier Bridge
access to the bridge is limited to jet boat travel up the Copper River or boat travel downriver from Chitina due to the erosion along the Copper River Highway.
# History.
The Copper River and Northwestern Railway and associated bridges were built between 1906 and 1911 by Michael James Heney. This... | 20,927 |
420625 | Miles Glacier Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles%20Glacier%20Bridge | Miles Glacier Bridge
of the bridge spans, #4, slipped off its foundation after the earthquake.
In 1958, a plaque was placed on the bridge:
This Bridge once served the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad trains, and was converted to a Highway Bridge in 1958. The Bridge crosses the Copper River between two scenic an... | 20,928 |
420625 | Miles Glacier Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles%20Glacier%20Bridge | Miles Glacier Bridge
two glaciers on either bank. Ice calving from the Miles Glacier meant the bridge needed to withstand icebergs, up to 20 feet in height, moving with the 7.2 miles per hour current. Additionally, the river ranged 24 feet in height. The bed of the river was loose sand and gravel to a depth of 20 feet.... | 20,929 |
420625 | Miles Glacier Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles%20Glacier%20Bridge | Miles Glacier Bridge
Actual bridge construction started on 5 April 1909 with span #1 completed in 10.5 days, span #2 in 6 days, span #3 in 10 days and span #4 was completed a month later. The bridge was in full service by July 1910.
# Repairs.
Temporary repairs, consisting of a rudimentary system of cables, I-beams, ... | 20,930 |
420625 | Miles Glacier Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles%20Glacier%20Bridge | Miles Glacier Bridge
was less expensive to repair the bridge than it would be to remove it, or (in a worst-case scenario) clean up if the bridge completely collapsed into the river. Such a cleanup would have been required due to the Copper River salmon runs. The repairs cost $16 million in federal and $3 million in sta... | 20,931 |
420625 | Miles Glacier Bridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles%20Glacier%20Bridge | Miles Glacier Bridge
o repair the bridge than it would be to remove it, or (in a worst-case scenario) clean up if the bridge completely collapsed into the river. Such a cleanup would have been required due to the Copper River salmon runs. The repairs cost $16 million in federal and $3 million in state tax dollars.
# S... | 20,932 |
420634 | Judith Steinberg Dean | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judith%20Steinberg%20Dean | Judith Steinberg Dean
Judith Steinberg Dean
Judith Steinberg Dean (born May 9, 1953) is an American physician from Burlington, Vermont. She is the wife of Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont and past chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Steinberg Dean was the First Lady of Vermont from 1991 until 200... | 20,933 |
420634 | Judith Steinberg Dean | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judith%20Steinberg%20Dean | Judith Steinberg Dean
completing a fellowship in hematology at McGill University in Montreal, Steinberg moved to Burlington, Vermont, with Dean in order to set up their joint medical practice. She uses her family name "Dr. Steinberg" while in her practice to differentiate herself from her husband.
As her husband serve... | 20,934 |
420634 | Judith Steinberg Dean | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judith%20Steinberg%20Dean | Judith Steinberg Dean
wship in hematology at McGill University in Montreal, Steinberg moved to Burlington, Vermont, with Dean in order to set up their joint medical practice. She uses her family name "Dr. Steinberg" while in her practice to differentiate herself from her husband.
As her husband served in the Vermont H... | 20,935 |
420624 | Ecdysone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecdysone | Ecdysone
Ecdysone
Ecdysone is a steroidal prohormone of the major insect molting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone, which is secreted from the prothoracic glands. Insect molting hormones (ecdysone and its homologues) are generally called ecdysteroids. Ecdysteroids act as moulting hormones of arthropods but also occur in othe... | 20,936 |
420624 | Ecdysone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecdysone | Ecdysone
temporal gene transitions within neural stem cells of the fruit fly.
Ecdysone and other ecdysteroids also appear in many plants mostly as a protection agent (toxins or antifeedants) against herbivorous insects. These phytoecdysteroids have been reputed to have medicinal value and are part of herbal adaptogeni... | 20,937 |
420624 | Ecdysone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecdysone | Ecdysone
m cells of the fruit fly.
Ecdysone and other ecdysteroids also appear in many plants mostly as a protection agent (toxins or antifeedants) against herbivorous insects. These phytoecdysteroids have been reputed to have medicinal value and are part of herbal adaptogenic remedies like Cordyceps, yet an ecdystero... | 20,938 |
420637 | Gerry Bermingham | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerry%20Bermingham | Gerry Bermingham
Gerry Bermingham
Gerald Edward Bermingham (born 20 August 1940) is a British politician, and was Labour Member of Parliament for St Helens South from 1983 until 2001.
He was born 20 August 1940 in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Cotton College, Wellingborough Grammar School and Sheffield University,... | 20,939 |
420637 | Gerry Bermingham | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerry%20Bermingham | Gerry Bermingham
Ireland, and educated at Cotton College, Wellingborough Grammar School and Sheffield University, where he obtained a degree in law. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1967, and was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1985. He was a Sheffield City councillor from 1975 to 1979. He contested South East Derby... | 20,940 |
420628 | Jackie Ballard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie%20Ballard | Jackie Ballard
Jackie Ballard
Jacqueline Margaret Ballard (née Mackenzie; born 4 January 1953) has been a charity senior manager, politician and journalist in the United Kingdom. Her former roles include Director General of the RSPCA, Chief Executive of RNID and Chief Executive of Womankind Worldwide.
# Early career.... | 20,941 |
420628 | Jackie Ballard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie%20Ballard | Jackie Ballard
County Council (1993–1997). She stood as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in Taunton in the 1992 general election, coming second, before winning the seat in 1997.
# MP for Taunton.
Ballard was elected the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Taunton, at the 1997 general election, beati... | 20,942 |
420628 | Jackie Ballard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie%20Ballard | Jackie Ballard
suggested that her work with regards to this ban contributed to her losing her seat, which prepared the way for her role as CEO of the RSPCA.
In Parliament, she was spokesperson on Women's Issues and on Local Government from 1997–99, and from 1999 to 2001, was Deputy Home Affairs Spokesman. She was also... | 20,943 |
420628 | Jackie Ballard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie%20Ballard | Jackie Ballard
Iran.
After losing her seat in 2001, Ballard spent some time studying in Iran.""I was lucky enough to have £25,000 redundancy money and no dependants and I realised that for the first time in my life, at the age of 48, I was free. I am divorced, my daughter had just graduated and started work and my mot... | 20,944 |
420628 | Jackie Ballard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie%20Ballard | Jackie Ballard
how the media might have treated Ann Widdecombe or Blair's so called 'babes' if all women MPs here wore the uniform of the chador. Perhaps then the women in Parliament would be taken more seriously as professional politicians doing a job, not as fat or thin women in grey or pink suits. Maybe then I would... | 20,945 |
420628 | Jackie Ballard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie%20Ballard | Jackie Ballard
was facing, she made substantial changes, including 300 job cuts. However, by 2004 the RSPCA had balanced its books and made £7 million savings, seeming to vindicate Ballard's approach.
Ballard was appointed Chief Executive of the RNID in October 2007. She was appointed as the Chief Executive of Womanki... | 20,946 |
420628 | Jackie Ballard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie%20Ballard | Jackie Ballard
pointed as the Chief Executive of Womankind Worldwide in September 2012 but stepped down from the role after only ten months in June 2013.
In December 2009, Ballard was appointed to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority which supervises MPs' expenses. She was one of four members of IPSA who ... | 20,947 |
420621 | Richard Karn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Karn | Richard Karn
Richard Karn
Richard Karn Wilson (born February 17, 1956) is an American actor and former game show host. He is best known for his co-starring role as Al Borland in the 1990s sitcom "Home Improvement" and his tenure as the fourth host of "Family Feud" from 2002 to 2006.
# Early life.
Karn was born Richa... | 20,948 |
420621 | Richard Karn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Karn | Richard Karn
to do a commercial for Michelob beer that was featured during Super Bowl XIV. When he joined the Screen Actors Guild, he was informed there was already a Richard Wilson, prompting him to drop his last name.
# Show business career.
In 1989, his wife Tudi convinced him to move to Los Angeles. He found a pl... | 20,949 |
420621 | Richard Karn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Karn | Richard Karn
another movie and the role had to be recast. Karn was a guest star in the pilot episode but became a regular cast member when the show was picked up by the network.
In 2002, Karn replaced Louie Anderson as the fourth host of the game show "Family Feud". Karn left "Family Feud" in 2006 and was replaced by ... | 20,950 |
420621 | Richard Karn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Karn | Richard Karn
d". Karn left "Family Feud" in 2006 and was replaced by John O'Hurley.
In 2002, Karn made an appearance in The Strokes' music video for "Someday", which featured segments of the band on a fictional showing of "Family Feud" against the band Guided by Voices.
On October 6, 2008, Karn replaced Patrick Duffy... | 20,951 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
HMS Centaur (R06)
HMS "Centaur" was the first of the four light fleet carriers of the Royal Navy. She was the only ship of her class to be completed with the original design configuration of a straight axial flight deck, rather than the newly invented angled flight decks of her three later sister shi... | 20,952 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
a commando carrier like two of her sister ships. "Centaur" was withdrawn from service in August 1965 and sold for scrapping in 1972.
# Completion.
"Centaur" was completed with an axial flight deck, marked by a broken white line running down the middle of the entire length of the flight deck. She beg... | 20,953 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
1953, she was taken in hand at Portsmouth Dockyard, to be fitted with an interim 5.5 degree angled deck, which was already being added to her as yet uncompleted sister ships, and . This required cutting down the port sheerstrake, re-siting the walkways and removing three twin Bofors guns and their dir... | 20,954 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
1954, by Captain H.C.F Rolfe, RN, who was to stay with her until the end of her First Commission.
"Centaur"s initial air group of 25 aircraft, as embarked in July 1954, consisted of nine Hawker Sea Hawk FGA6 of 806 Squadron, nine Hawker Sea Fury FB11 of 810 Squadron, six Grumman Avenger AS anti-subma... | 20,955 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
with her sister ship "Albion" and NATO allies, embarking British troops during the withdrawal from Trieste in October 1954, escorting the royal yacht during a Royal Tour and numerous visits to friendly ports. Whilst at Malta in February 1955, the Sea Furys of 810 Squadron were disembarked and the squa... | 20,956 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
After two months spent in Portsmouth from November 1955, she left for the Far East on 10 January 1956, in company with "Albion". Further changes to her air-group saw the Avengers of 814 Squadron replaced by the re-formed 820 Squadron, with six Fairey Gannet AS4s. After passing through the Suez Canal, ... | 20,957 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
in 1961 to an updated design as . Further exercises were carried out in the Indian Ocean, before heading east to visit Hong Kong and Singapore. She crossed the line for the first time on 26 April "en route" back from Singapore to Devonport via Suez and Malta, arriving on 15 May 1956.
## Modernisation... | 20,958 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
with the planned introduction of the new, heavier second-generation jet fighters such as the Supermarine Scimitar and De Havilland Sea Vixen, rendered the existing Carrier fleet obsolescent. Only (completed in 1955), the rebuilt , and under-construction , due to join the fleet in 1958 and 1959 respect... | 20,959 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
design limitations of the three "Centaur"-class carriers completed in 1953-4 meant that a rebuild to the standard adopted for the other carriers would be difficult, if not impossible. A particular problem was the lack of hangar deck strength, which when the ships were ordered in 1943, was specified to... | 20,960 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
the minimum capability to operate these aircraft. "Centaur" herself was selected for this purpose in May 1956.
Between June 1956 and August 1958, "Centaur" underwent her partial modernisation at Devonport Dockyard. This involved the installation of two BS4 steam catapults forward, the removal of the ... | 20,961 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
were fitted.
## Second commission.
"Centaur" recommissioned at Devonport on 3 September 1958, under the command of Captain Horace R Law, RN. Following the completion of post-refit ship trials in the Channel and South-West Approaches in November, she embarked her air group in preparation for her flyi... | 20,962 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
Mediterranean Fleet based in Malta, before proceeding to the North Atlantic to take part in Exercise Dawn Breeze IV, in company with "Eagle" and the recently rebuilt and re-commissioned "Victorious". During March the Whirlwind helicopters of 845 Squadron were landed due to technical problems with thei... | 20,963 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
pennant number R06 in both scenes). Three surviving Fairey Swordfish biplanes were restored and flown from her decks, and scenes were also shot on the bridge of the carrier, and in the aircrew briefing room. One of the Swordfish was piloted by the test pilot Peter Twiss.
After her brief spell in the ... | 20,964 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
through the Suez Canal in late June, she operated in the Indian Ocean with visits to Kuwait, Aden and Trincomalee, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where she was visited by the Prime Minister, Solomon Bandaranaike, shortly before his assassination in September 1959. After a month-long maintenance period in Sing... | 20,965 |
420579 | HMS Centaur (R06) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS%20Centaur%20(R06) | HMS Centaur (R06)
steamed and carried out 7805 catapult launches, for the loss of one Sea Hawk, two Sea Venoms and a Dragonfly helicopter of the ships flight.
## Third commission.
"Centaur" was refitted at Portsmouth from September 1960 until March 1961, during which the upgraded arrestor wires were fitted and additi... | 20,966 |
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and eight Whirlwind HAS7 of 824 Squadron.
During April she sailed for the Mediterranean to continue flying exercises with her new air-group and met "Hermes" for the first time at Gibraltar. Although she was originally scheduled to cross the North Atlantic for a visit to the USA and Canada, events in ... | 20,967 |
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"Centaur" arrived from Malta in July to relieve "Victorious" on patrol in the Gulf. Iraq recognised Kuwaiti sovereignty in 1963, after Kassim had been killed in a coup.
With a reduction in tension following the decisive action of the Royal Navy to deter the would-be aggressor, "Centaur" was ordered t... | 20,968 |
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she was engaged in flood relief work in Kenya, where the Tana River had burst its banks. Her Whirlwinds helped to ferry essential supplies to the cut-off areas and temporary camps. There was also a brief return to the Gulf in December 1961 when President Kassim of Iraq, resumed threats against Kuwait,... | 20,969 |
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to operate the Buccaneer, however the removal of the Scimitar Squadron did enable her to operate an enlarged squadron of twelve Sea Vixens instead.
On 18 June 1962, a new commanding officer, Captain Philip G Sharp, took over the ship, before she sailed to take part in exercises in the North Sea, foll... | 20,970 |
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caused by the burst of a main steam-pipe in the boiler room and superheated steam at and at a pressure of up to escaping and killing, instantly, the five crew members on duty at the time in the boiler room. Engineering staff isolated the affected boiler and later that morning a rescue team wearing asb... | 20,971 |
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took part in further emergency relief work, this time at home, carrying supplies for isolated communities in Wales and Northern Ireland, cut off by the severe blizzards of the Winter of 1963. On 13 February 1963 she was ordered to proceed East of Suez to provide cover for Hermes which had been detaile... | 20,972 |
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finally ordered to return home, arriving in Portsmouth on 22 May.
There had been speculation during this period that "Centaur" would be converted to a Commando Carrier, similar to her sister-ships, as the MacMillan government had originally only planned to keep her in service until "Eagle" rejoined t... | 20,973 |
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Type 965 air search radar was installed on a lattice foremast (taken from the Air Direction Destroyer "Battleaxe", which had been earmarked for disposal, after being badly damaged in a collision the previous year) at the front of her island. More air-conditioning units were also installed and further ... | 20,974 |
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Sea Vixen FAW1 of 892 Squadron, four Gannet AEW3 of 849 Squadron, A Flight, and the ships flight of one Whirlwind. She also occasionally embarked small detachments of Scimitars seconded from other squadrons. She was destined to be sent to the Far East, however before departing she undertook an emergen... | 20,975 |
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she arrived off Aden in January to continue her work-up, during which time she embarked the six Wessex helicopters of 815 Squadron from RAF Khormaksar to complete her air-group. She was also engaged in providing air support for Operations Damon and Nutcracker, an attempt to put down a rebellion in the... | 20,976 |
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Squadron along with 45 Commando of the Royal Marines. When "Centaur" arrived at Dar-es-Salaam, a company of Royal Marines was landed by helicopter on a football field next to the barracks of the mutineers. The company assaulted the barracks with full force in a chaotic but swift attack. After a call f... | 20,977 |
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with the main culprits being arrested. Many Tanganyikans were jubilant when the country was restored to a stable and peaceful condition. The Royal Marine Band displayed the British forces appreciation of the friendly welcome they had received from the Tanganyikans while restoring the country to stabil... | 20,978 |
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against Singapore and the newly formed Malaysian Federation. During May "Centaur" was ordered to return to the Indian Ocean to provide further support in Aden, where the Radfan rebellion was escalating into a major conflict. Her Wessex helicopters were used to replace RAF Belvedere's suffering from en... | 20,979 |
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with other units of the fleet in the South China Seas, later joining with the Royal Australian Navy Aircraft Carrier, Melbourne in Exercise Stopwatch during August. During September she became directly involved in what became known as the Indonesian Confrontation, when Indonesian troops were parachute... | 20,980 |
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from service later that year, the first of the Royal Navy's modern carrier fleet to be withdrawn. A deployment to the Mediterranean during April, May and June included a number of high-profile port visits and exercises with the fleet, as well as close encounters with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet. She re... | 20,981 |
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no money available to further modernise "Centaur" nor convert her to a Commando Carrier; such funds and resources as might have been available, were already committed to converting the Tiger Class Cruisers to become rudimentary Helicopter Carriers. Her use to the Navy was not quite over however, as sh... | 20,982 |
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Drake at Devonport, and was towed back to Portsmouth later that year, to act as an accommodation ship for Hermes' during the latter ships' refit. In 1970, she was towed to Devonport, where after another spell as an accommodation ship, and with her condition now deteriorating significantly, she was put... | 20,983 |
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Ed Belfour
Edward John Belfour (born April 21, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.
Belfour was born in Carman, Manitoba and grew up playing hockey. He played junior hockey for the Winkler Flyers before going to the University of North Dakota where he helped the school win the NCA... | 20,984 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
a goaltender, currently playing for the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Belfour was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the 2011 class, his first year of eligibility. In addition Belfour is one of only two players to have won an NCAA championship, an Olympic Gold medal, and a Stanley Cup (the other such p... | 20,985 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
wear this for the rest of his playing career.
# Playing career.
## Chicago Blackhawks.
In the 1989–90 season, Belfour began with the Canadian national men's hockey team, but was recalled by the Blackhawks for their postseason and set a 4-2 postseason mark with a 2.49 GAA.
The next season, 1990–91, Belfou... | 20,986 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
in the 2014–2015 season. For his success, he received the Calder Memorial Trophy for outstanding play by a rookie, and is the first person to receive the award under the "Makarov Rule" because he was a year under the new cutoff age of eligibility (26), the Vezina Trophy for best goaltender and the William M.... | 20,987 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
Finals in the 1991–92 season, where they eventually lost in 4 games to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
However, by the 1995–96 season, tension was forming between Belfour and backup goalie Jeff Hackett, very similar to the tension between Belfour and his former backup, Dominik Hašek, which led to Hašek's trade to ... | 20,988 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
Esposito and Glenn Hall. Belfour also ranks fourth in shutouts (30), and second in assists (17). Belfour easily ranks as the Blackhawks' goalie leader in penalty minutes, with 242. Esposito, who played in more than twice as many games and minutes as Belfour, had only 31.
Faced with losing Ed Belfour as an u... | 20,989 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
with the Dallas Stars on July 2, 1997. During the season, Belfour played 61 games and had an astonishing 1.88 GAA as his team won the Presidents' Trophy and made it to the Western Conference Finals only to lose to the Detroit Red Wings.
The next season, the Stars repeated their regular season championship a... | 20,990 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
Hašek's 50, and for the entire Finals, had a 1.26 GAA to Hašek's 1.68.
Belfour backstopped his team to another consecutive finals appearance, winning his second seven-game Western Conference final duel against the Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy. The Stars lost the Cup in double-overtime to the New Jersey ... | 20,991 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
next season.
## Toronto Maple Leafs.
On July 2, 2002, Belfour signed as a free agent with the Toronto Maple Leafs after then Leafs goaltender, Curtis Joseph, chose to sign with the Detroit Red Wings. Belfour rebounded after a dismal season with the Stars, winning a franchise-record 37 games and helping his... | 20,992 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
loss to the Flyers. On April 16 in Game Four at the Air Canada Centre, Ed made 72 saves before losing 3-2 on an overtime goal by Mark Recchi. Belfour finished as runner-up for the Vezina Trophy, won that year by the Devils' Martin Brodeur.
In 2003–04, he posted a 34-19-6 record in 59 games as the Maple Leaf... | 20,993 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
shutouts in the opening round against the Senators, setting a record for shutout streaks in a series. However, in the second round, former teammate Jeremy Roenick eliminated the Leafs by putting a game 6 overtime goal past Belfour.
Belfour did not play during the NHL lockout in 2004–05, instead taking a min... | 20,994 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
over the Florida Panthers.
On December 19, 2005, Belfour moved past Sawchuk with a 9-6 win over the New York Islanders at the Air Canada Centre. He was honoured in a special pre-game ceremony on December 23, 2005, before a game against the Boston Bruins at the Air Canada Centre; the Leafs went on to win the... | 20,995 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
the two goalies were horsing around, despite reports that Belfour assaulted Auld. On February 13, 2007, Belfour tied Hall of Famer Tony Esposito for eighth place on the career shutout list with his 76th in the Panthers' 1-0 blanking of the Montreal Canadiens. Later in the season, another injury to Alex Auld ... | 20,996 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
created much fanfare in the following months. He played his first professional game outside of North America in 18 years on October 31, 2007 with a 4-1 win over Sundsvall. Belfour followed up this game with a shutout streak lasting for 251 minutes, a club record in Leksand. He also broke the record for most ... | 20,997 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
as a bird. It is a strong figure representing individuality, leadership, confidence, and outstanding vision. Its hunting and aggression are characteristics I admire, so when I was thinking of what I wanted on my mask, the eagle was a natural choice". Belfour's eagle has changed dramatically, from a rough Nat... | 20,998 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
which is the name of Belfour's car customization and restoration shop in Freeland, Michigan. Upon seeing Belfour's eagle mask for the first time, Mike Keenan, his head coach when he started in the NHL, nicknamed him "The Eagle".
# International play.
Belfour was selected to represent Canada at the 1991 Can... | 20,999 |
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