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420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
an accomplished tri-athlete in his spare time, collects and rebuilds classic cars, and holds a private pilot's license.
Early in the 2000–01 season, on October 20, Belfour plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge in which Belfour was subdued by police after a woman he was with became frightened by an intoxicate... | 21,000 |
420604 | Ed Belfour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Belfour | Ed Belfour
nization and police officers involved and was fined $3000 for resisting arrest.
Late in the 2006–07 season, Belfour, along with Panthers teammate Ville Peltonen, was arrested on April 9 outside of a South Florida nightclub and was charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer without violenc... | 21,001 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20... | 21,002 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
his mother died, his father having previously abandoned the family. Johnson was then in effect brought up by his older sister Linda when the two were assigned a council flat by their child welfare officer. Linda, then herself only 16, has since been recognised as the hero of Johnson's poignant 2013 memoir ... | 21,003 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
Party in 1971, although he considered himself a Marxist ideologically aligned with the Communist Party of Great Britain. A full-time union official from 1987, he became General Secretary of the union in 1992. By this time, however, as his memoir makes clear, he was more inclined towards the right wing of t... | 21,004 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
Stuart Randall, stood down suddenly. Randall subsequently became a member of the House of Lords.
## In government.
He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Dawn Primarolo in 1997 and achieved his first ministerial post at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 1999. He was moved to the ... | 21,005 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
invasion of Iraq two days later. He responded to such criticism on 21 February 2007 by saying "The whole cabinet believed the intelligence we were presented [with] and we made our case to the British people based on it in good faith. As we all now know, that intelligence was wholly wrong. We will be judged... | 21,006 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
was initially announced on 6 May 2005 as being "Secretary of State for Productivity, Energy and Industry", but after just a week, on 13 May, it was declared that the new title would not be used, after widespread derision of the new name, because the abbreviation for Johnson's title, Productivity, Energy an... | 21,007 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
and proposals, including encouraging parents to spend more time with their children in a bid to help them progress with their literacy and numeracy skills. Johnson has also previously expressed some concerns over diplomas, and has opened up debate in parliament on the subject of what parental situation is ... | 21,008 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
criticised breast cancer patient Debbie Hirst because she attempted to buy the cancer drug Avastin, which the NHS had denied her. Johnson told Parliament, patients "cannot, in one episode of treatment, be treated on the NHS and then allowed, as part of the same episode and the same treatment, to pay money ... | 21,009 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
cost. When the proposed payment became known, Johnson intervened and the Department of Health ordered the trust to withhold more than two-thirds of the severance payment, although its director general of finance, performance and operations said that "it was 'not unfair'" that she should receive the money. ... | 21,010 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
of Home Secretary during a reshuffle, replacing the first female holder of the post, Jacqui Smith.
In October 2009, Alan Johnson sacked the Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), Professor David Nutt. Nutt had accused the government of "distorting" and "devaluing" research evidenc... | 21,011 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
clear and as an advisor you do nothing to undermine public understanding of them. I cannot have public confusion between scientific advice and policy and have therefore lost confidence in your ability to advise me as Chair of the ACMD".
In January 2010, Professor Nutt established the Independent Scientifi... | 21,012 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
of the torture had been "baseless, groundless accusations". He also claimed that Government lawyers had not forced the judiciary to water down criticism of MI5, despite an earlier, draft ruling by Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, delibera... | 21,013 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
Brown and standing as deputy leader. He was successfully nominated onto the ballot paper for Labour Deputy leader with most number of nominations. On 24 June 2007, Johnson was narrowly beaten for the deputy leadership by Harriet Harman. He led in rounds 2 to 4 of the voting, until he was overtaken by Harma... | 21,014 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
Ed Miliband, Johnson again denied speculation that he was a potential leadership candidate.
## Potential London Mayoral candidate.
In 2010, there was much speculation that Johnson was going to stand as a candidate for the London Mayoral election after announcing that he was not going to contest the leade... | 21,015 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
Johnson but that did not happen. In 2012, after Livingstone's defeat by Boris Johnson, many Labour members said that Johnson should have been the Labour candidate. Johnson then revealed that he did consider standing for Mayor of London but he felt that his allegiance was to Hull. However, he said that he w... | 21,016 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
add AV+ as an additional choice in the referendum. In 2010, it was rumoured that he would step down as an MP to trigger a by-election in Hull, to stand on a Proportional representation ticket. He supported the Yes! to Fairer Votes campaign in the referendum on 5 May 2011. He appeared as one of the main Lab... | 21,017 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
to the party ... The precious link between Labour and the unions becomes a liability rather than an advantage when it is allowed to look like a transaction."
## Shadow Chancellor.
Johnson was chosen as Shadow Chancellor in Ed Miliband's first shadow cabinet, appointed on 8 October 2010. His first major s... | 21,018 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
He resigned as Shadow Chancellor on 20 January 2011 after three and a half months in the job, citing personal reasons. He was replaced by Ed Balls.
## Since 2015.
Johnson campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, and was chair of the Labour Party's 'Labour In For Brit... | 21,019 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
this party again otherwise it’s dead and finished and gone". Johnson stood down at the 2017 general election. He was succeeded as MP by Emma Hardy.
# Personal life.
Johnson has been married three times. His first marriage was to Judith Elizabeth Cox, with whom he has one son and two daughters. After thei... | 21,020 |
420600 | Alan Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan%20Johnson | Alan Johnson
"This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood", was published in 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize (2014), and the Orwell Prize, Britain's top political writing award.
His second volume of memoirs, "Please, Mister Postman", was published in September 2014. It won the Specsavers National Boo... | 21,021 |
420656 | New Zealand pea crab | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New%20Zealand%20pea%20crab | New Zealand pea crab
New Zealand pea crab
The New Zealand pea crab, "Pinnotheres novaezelandiae", is a small, parasitic crab that lives most commonly inside New Zealand green-lipped mussels. Adult females are about the size and shape of a pea, while adult males are smaller and flatter. Adult New Zealand pea crabs are ... | 21,022 |
420656 | New Zealand pea crab | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New%20Zealand%20pea%20crab | New Zealand pea crab
female New Zealand pea crabs have a soft-shelled exoskeleton. Their carapace is oval in shape, ranging in size from wide. Sexually mature adult females almost always have eggs that are tucked under their abdomens, giving them a more spherical appearance. Adult females are opaque white in colour. De... | 21,023 |
420656 | New Zealand pea crab | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New%20Zealand%20pea%20crab | New Zealand pea crab
New Zealand pea crabs spend their entire adult lives within a single host. Adult males will only leave their host in order to find a mate. The hard exoskeleton and flattened body shape of the male New Zealand pea crab helps with this endeavour. New Zealand pea crabs are completely reliant on their ... | 21,024 |
420656 | New Zealand pea crab | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New%20Zealand%20pea%20crab | New Zealand pea crab
mussels.
The New Zealand pea crab is endemic to New Zealand and is common throughout the country, inhabiting the North Island, South Island, Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands. The New Zealand pea crab lives most commonly in green-lipped mussels ("Perna canaliculus"), but can also be found in ... | 21,025 |
420656 | New Zealand pea crab | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New%20Zealand%20pea%20crab | New Zealand pea crab
green-lipped mussel, "Perna canaliculus". Given the cryptic behaviour of the male crabs, a novel trapping system was developed to determine whether male crabs would exit their mussel hosts in response to an upstream female crab. Observations of the nocturnal mate-finding behaviour of male crabs wer... | 21,026 |
420656 | New Zealand pea crab | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New%20Zealand%20pea%20crab | New Zealand pea crab
erage 49 min on empty hosts and never left a mussel containing a female conspecific once found, spending 200 min on average to gain entry to the mussel. Male crabs were often observed stroking the mantle edge of the mussel whilst attempting to gain entry, successfully increasing mussel valve gape d... | 21,027 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
Battle of Mühlberg
The Battle of Mühlberg took place near Mühlberg in the Electorate of Saxony in 1547, during the Schmalkaldic War. The Catholic princes of the Holy Roman Empire led by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V decisively defeated the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League of Protestant princes under ... | 21,028 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
Catholics at the diets of Speyer of 1526 and 1529 had failed, sharpening the mutual opposition between the two opposing sides.
The Reformation offered to most independent German states the pretext to affirm their autonomy not only on the religious level, but also on the political one. For some of th... | 21,029 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
Edict. This led to the formation of the Schmalkaldic League (named after the town of Schmalkalden in Thuringia where the pact was stipulated), a militarily defensive alliance with a markedly anti-Habsburg and anti-Catholic stance.
Although the birth of a Protestant coalition inside the Empire imperi... | 21,030 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
his war against the Ottoman Turks in the eastern regions of his lands, the Emperor choose not to oppose the League and to grant wide autonomy to it. The Protestant leaders were therefore left free to support the Reformation and to fight the power of the Catholic bishops in the lands they controlled.
... | 21,031 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
from the east also put Charles in the best possible condition to focus on the internal enemy that endangered the religious and territorial unity of Imperial Germany.
The opportunity to begin the conflict was given by the rivalry between the elector of Saxony John Frederick I and his cousin Maurice, ... | 21,032 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
Emperor decided to take advantage of the divisions between the Protestant armies, and he joined the war in 1547. He occupied Ulm and Württemberg and defeated the Palatine Elector, forcing him to surrender and to leave the League. With the beginning of spring Charles then marched toward Saxony to help... | 21,033 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
uprising in Bohemia, John Frederick took the decision to split his forces and he deployed a large portion of his troops there.
He had also left some small detachments to protect the most vulnerable Saxon cities in order to prevent the entry of Charles' army from the south. With the intention of reac... | 21,034 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
Despite the contrary opinion of his generals, he decided to attack the enemy forces, resting just a few miles away. At dawn on 24 April the first avant-gardes of the imperial army advanced, looking for a way for all the army to cross the river. Helped by the surprise and by the dense fog that had ris... | 21,035 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
troops in Germany and with the help of a local farmer, they managed to spot a ford to use that would allow all the army to cross the Elbe. In addition to this, some veteran soldiers were able to prevent the demolition of a pontoon bridge built by the Saxons, that was immediately used by the Imperial ... | 21,036 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
was to retreat towards Wittemberg. He soon realized though that his army would be too slow to be prepared to march in a short while; moreover he was convinced that only a vanguard of the main imperial army was attacking. So he ordered his troops to prepare for battle.
John Frederick chose to deploy ... | 21,037 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
Titian and assisted to the battle from the rear. The imperial army was made up of about 16-20,000 men. Among them there were the "tercio" of Lombardy, that of Naples, and that of Hungary, led by Álvaro de Sande.
The battle began in the evening; the Saxon army, mainly made up of peasants, succeeded i... | 21,038 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
wings of the Saxon army were defeated, the infantry "tercios", placed at the center, had a good game in breaking enemy resistance, forcing the Protestants to retreat through the adjacent forest. The Elector of Saxony showed great courage on the battlefield but was wounded in the face and captured by ... | 21,039 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
losses, estimated at around 2000-3000 men. In addition the Protestants suffered the almost complete capture of their artillery, ammunition, and banners; many soldiers also ended up prisoners. On the imperial side around fifty soldiers were killed.
John Frederick was responsible for not preparing an ... | 21,040 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
who for his help in the imperial victory was given the control of the Electorate of Saxony. John Frederick was later released in 1552, two years before his death.
The surrender of Philip of Hesse soon afterwards ended the Schmalkaldic War, but the Protestant problem remained unsolved. Many of the pr... | 21,041 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
Lutheranism. That principle ended the project to reunite Germany under a single religious confession.
The town of Mühlberg hosts a small museum dedicated to the battle.
# See also.
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Spanish Empire
- Electorate of Saxony
- Schmalkaldic League
- Equestrian Portra... | 21,042 |
420616 | Battle of Mühlberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Mühlberg | Battle of Mühlberg
unite Germany under a single religious confession.
The town of Mühlberg hosts a small museum dedicated to the battle.
# See also.
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Spanish Empire
- Electorate of Saxony
- Schmalkaldic League
- Equestrian Portrait of Charles V
# References.
- History of Hungar... | 21,043 |
420648 | Alice Thomas Ellis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice%20Thomas%20Ellis | Alice Thomas Ellis
Alice Thomas Ellis
Alice Thomas Ellis (born Ann Margaret Lindholm, 9 September 1932 – 8 March 2005) was a British writer and essayist. She was the author of numerous novels and of some non-fiction, including cookery books. Although her married name was Anna Haycraft, she is best known by her nom-de-... | 21,044 |
420648 | Alice Thomas Ellis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice%20Thomas%20Ellis | Alice Thomas Ellis
age of 19. Shortly afterwards, she entered a convent as a postulant, but had to leave due to a health condition.
In 1956, she married Colin Haycraft, owner of the publishing company, Duckworth. They were happily married until his death in 1995. The couple had seven children (William being the oldest... | 21,045 |
420648 | Alice Thomas Ellis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice%20Thomas%20Ellis | Alice Thomas Ellis
Sin Eater", in 1977 under the pen name Alice Thomas Ellis, which she used in all her subsequent writing.
She was well known as a hostess; her skill at cooking and entertaining was a considerable asset to the Duckworth company. Her cookery books include "All-natural Baby Food" (published Fontana/Coll... | 21,046 |
420648 | Alice Thomas Ellis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice%20Thomas%20Ellis | Alice Thomas Ellis
Trilogy". Her novel "The 27th Kingdom" (1982) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her "Home Life" column in "The Spectator" was published in four volumes. All her work was livened by a dry, dark sense of humour. One of her most famous witticisms is: "There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women l... | 21,047 |
420648 | Alice Thomas Ellis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice%20Thomas%20Ellis | Alice Thomas Ellis
usually the leads, she opposed radical feminists' activism in the Church, and claimed that since the change from the Tridentine Mass she could barely bring herself to attend on Sundays. A regular columnist of the "Catholic Herald" newspaper, she criticised Derek Worlock, the former Archbishop of Live... | 21,048 |
420648 | Alice Thomas Ellis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice%20Thomas%20Ellis | Alice Thomas Ellis
died a year later, on 8 March 2005, at the age of 72.
# Fiction.
- "The Sin Eater" (1977)
- "The Birds of the Air" (1980)
- "The 27th Kingdom" (1982)
- "The Other Side of the Fire" (1983)
- "Unexplained Laughter" (1985)
- "The Clothes in the Wardrobe" (1987) ("Summerhouse Trilogy I.")
- "The ... | 21,049 |
420648 | Alice Thomas Ellis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice%20Thomas%20Ellis | Alice Thomas Ellis
The Other Side of the Fire" (1983)
- "Unexplained Laughter" (1985)
- "The Clothes in the Wardrobe" (1987) ("Summerhouse Trilogy I.")
- "The Skeleton in the Cupboard" (1988) ("Summerhouse Trilogy II.")
- "The Fly in the Ointment" (1990) ("Summerhouse Trilogy III.")
- "The Inn at the Edge of the W... | 21,050 |
420670 | Frontier Conference | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontier%20Conference | Frontier Conference
Frontier Conference
The Frontier Conference is a college athletic conference, founded in 1935 and affiliated with the NAIA. Member institutions are located in the northwestern United States, in the states of Idaho, Montana, and Oregon.
# History.
The Montana Collegiate Conference (MCC) was establ... | 21,051 |
420670 | Frontier Conference | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontier%20Conference | Frontier Conference
Eastern Montana (now MSU-Billings) left for the first incarnation of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in 1988, leaving the Frontier at five members for another decade. The conference opened up outside of Montana for the first time in 1998, with schools from Idaho (Lewis-Clark State) and Utah ... | 21,052 |
420670 | Frontier Conference | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontier%20Conference | Frontier Conference
1984-99. Known as University of Great Falls until 2017.
## Former members.
- Eastern Montana College — school name reflects that used during conference membership, now known as Montana State University Billings.
# Sports.
The Frontier Conference sponsors athletic competition in men's and women's... | 21,053 |
420670 | Frontier Conference | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontier%20Conference | Frontier Conference
basketball, NAIA Division II, in 1993.
Carroll reached the semi-finals in men's basketball in 2005, as did Lewis-Clark State in women's basketball in 2001.
- Football
Carroll has won the NAIA national championship six times: four straight, from 2002–05, also in 2007 and 2010, and has been runner-... | 21,054 |
420670 | Frontier Conference | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frontier%20Conference | Frontier Conference
s did Lewis-Clark State in women's basketball in 2001.
- Football
Carroll has won the NAIA national championship six times: four straight, from 2002–05, also in 2007 and 2010, and has been runner-up twice.
Southern Oregon won the NAIA national championship in the 2014 season.
Montana Tech was th... | 21,055 |
420667 | Sunningdale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunningdale | Sunningdale
Sunningdale
Sunningdale is a populous village with a retail area and a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It takes up the extreme south-east corner of Berkshire, England. It has a railway station on the (London) Waterloo to Reading Line and is adjoined by green buffers including S... | 21,056 |
420667 | Sunningdale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunningdale | Sunningdale
upon Thames and Woking. It is connected to two of these by the A30 old trunk road, via which Camberley benefits from a flyover over the main intersecting road (the A322) at Bagshot. Sunningdale has a railway station on the Waterloo to Reading line. The A30, here bypassed by the M3 motorway a few miles dista... | 21,057 |
420667 | Sunningdale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunningdale | Sunningdale
as Broomhall, was also split between the boroughs of Surrey Heath and Runnymede. This original arrangement caused problems and was resolved after much consultation locally between the two county councils, three borough councils and four parish councils. As a result its former Surrey neighbourhoods merged wi... | 21,058 |
420667 | Sunningdale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunningdale | Sunningdale
Frank Parkinson by the architects Adie, Button and Partners. It was built on the site of an earlier house built in the late 1860s by William Terrick Hamilton. Parkinson’s guests included Winston Churchill and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In 1949, the house was bought by Sir Montague Burton. It later bec... | 21,059 |
420667 | Sunningdale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunningdale | Sunningdale
Park, at the Civil Service Staff College (now the National School of Government) on 9 December 1973, a precursor of the Northern Ireland peace process.
# Notable people.
- Joseph Dalton Hooker lived and died in Sunningdale.
- Agatha Christie lived at Styles in Sunningdale in the early 1920s.
- Darren Cl... | 21,060 |
420667 | Sunningdale | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunningdale | Sunningdale
ational School of Government) on 9 December 1973, a precursor of the Northern Ireland peace process.
# Notable people.
- Joseph Dalton Hooker lived and died in Sunningdale.
- Agatha Christie lived at Styles in Sunningdale in the early 1920s.
- Darren Clarke
- Paul McGinley
- 20th century famous reside... | 21,061 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSL (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was an English-Scottish author who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman.
# Biography.
Fraser was ... | 21,062 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
wishes and study medicine.
## War service.
In 1943, during World War II, Fraser enlisted in the Border Regiment and served in the Burma Campaign, as recounted in his memoir "Quartered Safe Out Here" (1993). After completing his OCTU (Officer Cadet Training Unit) course, Fraser was granted a co... | 21,063 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
to the United Kingdom. Through his father he got a job as a trainee reporter on the "Carlisle Journal" and married another journalist, Kathleen Hetherington. They travelled to Canada, working on newspapers there, before returning to Scotland. Starting in 1953, Fraser worked for many years as a j... | 21,064 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
the film rights enabled Fraser to become a full-time writer. He moved to the Isle of Man where he could pay less tax.
There were a series of further Flashman novels, presented as packets of memoirs written by the nonagenarian Flashman looking back on his days as a hero of the British Army durin... | 21,065 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
"The General Danced at Dawn", a series of short stories which fictionalised his post-war military experience as the adventures of "Dand" MacNeill in a Scottish Highland regiment.
The following year Fraser published a third Flashman, "Flash for Freedom!", as well as a non fiction work, "The Stee... | 21,066 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
and it launched Fraser as a screenwriter.
Following "Flashman at the Charge" (1973), Fraser wrote the screenplay for the movie "Royal Flash" (1975), also directed by Richard Lester. It was not a success at the box office.
There was another collection of Dand McNeill stories, "McAuslan in the R... | 21,067 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
also wrote a biopic of General Stilwell for Martin Ritt which was not filmed.
Fraser tried a more serious historical novel with "Mr American" (1980), although Flashman still appeared in it. "Flashman and the Redskins" (1982) was a traditional Flashman and "The Pyrates" (1983) was a comic novel ... | 21,068 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
"The Hollywood History of the World" (1988). When that film book came out he was reportedly working on a science fiction film "Colossus" and adapting Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" for TV but neither project was filmed.
Following "Flashman and the Mountain of Light" (1990), Fraser wrote a versi... | 21,069 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
a support character.
"Flashman and the Tiger" (1999) consisted of three different Flashman stories. "The Light's on at Signpost" (2002) was a second volume of memoirs, focusing on Fraser's adventures in Hollywood and his criticisms of modern-day Britain. The latter could also be found in "Flash... | 21,070 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
of the British Weights and Measures Association, which opposes compulsory conversion to the metric system.
# Family.
Fraser married Kathleen Hetherington in 1949. They had three children, Simon, Caroline, and Nicholas. He had eight grandchildren. Fraser died on 2 January 2008 from cancer, aged... | 21,071 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
"Flashman and the Mountain of Light" (1990)
- 10. "Flashman and the Angel of the Lord" (1994)
- 11. "Flashman and the Tiger" (1999)
- 12. "Flashman on the March" (2005)
## Short stories.
The "Dand MacNeill" or "McAuslan" stories is a semi-autobiographical series of short stories based on th... | 21,072 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
in the three volumes, with a new introduction.)
## History.
- "The Steel Bonnets" (1971), a history of the Border Reivers of the Anglo-Scottish Border.
- "The Hollywood History of the World: From One Million Years B.C. to Apocalypse Now" (1988, revised 1996) The book discusses how Hollywood d... | 21,073 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
Light's on at Signpost" (2002), a memoir of the author's days writing in Hollywood, interspersed with criticism of political correctness and New Labour.
## Other novels.
- "Mr American" (1980), a novel about a mysterious American in England.
- "The Pyrates" (1983), a tongue-in-cheek novel inc... | 21,074 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
(2007), a comic novel of the Border Reivers, loosely based on the "Candlemass Road", in the style of his earlier novel "The Pyrates."
- "Captain in Calico" (2015), a novel posthumously issued.
## Screenplays.
Fraser wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for:
- "The Three Musketeers" (1973)
- "T... | 21,075 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
filmed:
- adaptation of "The General Danced at Dawn" commissioned in 1972
- "Prince of Thieves" from the Alexandre Dumas' version of the Robin Hood story
- "Bulldog Drummond" – adaptation of the novels commissioned by Thorn EMI in 1985 for producer Tim Burrill
- "Hannah" – adaptation of nove... | 21,076 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
man and a woman from an ancient civilisation trapped in ice - for producer Pierre Spengler, circa 1985
- "Berry and Co" based on a story by Dornford Yates for director Lindsay Anderson
- "Stortebekker" for director Wolfgang Petersen about the medieval German pirate Klaus Störtebeker
- "Quenti... | 21,077 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
articles.
- "Long before the decay of lying", "Chicago Tribune" (1963) [Chicago, Ill] 9 Nov 1969: p6.
## Radio.
Fraser adapted "The Candlemass Road", "Flash For Freedom" and "Flashman At The Charge" for BBC radio plays. Fraser was also a staunch critic of political correctness and enlarged up... | 21,078 |
420617 | George MacDonald Fraser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20MacDonald%20Fraser | George MacDonald Fraser
tic of political correctness and enlarged upon his views on this matter (and others) on the BBC radio show, "Desert Island Discs."
# Popular culture.
Fraser's "Flashman at the Charge" (1973) was serialized in the April and June 1973 issues of "Playboy". The climactic sequence of "Flashman in t... | 21,079 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
Upward Bound
Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States. The program is one of a cluster of programs now referred to as TRiO, all of which owe their existence to the federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (the War on Poverty Program) and the Higher Education Act of 1... | 21,080 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
individual grants, each of which covers a restricted geographic area and provides services to approximately 59,000 students annually. The program focuses on academic and nonacademic resources and activities like visits to museums or tutoring for school work. Students are encouraged to be involved in Upward... | 21,081 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
opportunity to excel in college.
# History.
The program was launched in the summer of 1965 after the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (The Federal War on Poverty) during President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, and was transferred to the Department of Education after the enactment of ... | 21,082 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
tribal organizations.
Each award made averages $4,691 per participant, with the most common award providing $220,000 per grantee in 2004 and $250,000 in 2007. Awards are for four or five years and are competitive. The law providing for Upward Bound is 34 CFR Ch. VI Pt. 645. As federal education grants, Up... | 21,083 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
success determined largely from highly structured annual reports compared to grant objectives. The program is available to students after their eighth grade of school. Two-thirds of selected applicants must be low-income and "potential first-generation college students," with the remaining third of student... | 21,084 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
program (UBMS) was created for students to have the opportunity to excel in the areas of math and science. Upward Bound Math-Science helps strengthen students' math and science skills, particularly those who come from areas that are underdeveloped. UBMS is a program that was put in place by the federal gov... | 21,085 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
process for UBMS is identical to that for Upward Bound, however the programs differ in that UBMS is more geared towards students who are interested in the fields of science and technology. UBMS increased the odds of a student taking a science course by raising the percentage from 78-88% in chemistry and fr... | 21,086 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
of Education (ED) in 2004, provides a detailed analysis of program demographics. Notable alumni of Upward Bound programs include John Quiñones, Angela Bassett, José M. Hernández, Troy Polamalu, Kenny Leon, Donna Brazile, Patrick Ewing, Henry Bonilla, and Viola Davis. The effectiveness and methodology of th... | 21,087 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
Astronomy program for high school students in southern California, that was subsequently adopted by higher education programs such as Dr Daniel Barth's in program at Mount San Jacinto College.
According to a study done by Policy and Program Studies Service of the United States Department of Education, in ... | 21,088 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
program were categorized into distinct groups based on the length of time they participated. The groups were low-duration (1 to 12 months of participation), medium-duration (13 to 24 months of participation) or high-duration (25 or more months of participation), and also as program completers (through grad... | 21,089 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
and the impact of completing the program. The rate at which the students would pursue postsecondary enrollment would increase from 74% to 91%. There are confounding variables in this study, mostly due to the characteristic of students who decide to stay involved in the program and therefore have higher edu... | 21,090 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
of the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, collected by the National Center for Education Statistics, researchers found that only 7% of students eligible for federally funded precollege programs enrolled in such programs. They found that participating students were .576 times as likely not to enroll in... | 21,091 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
vulnerable population. Therefore, these results do not necessitate that Upward Bound is a deficient program, but that the students may require more support than they receive.
Another research study done by the University of Wisconsin explains that many studies may have falsely suggested that Upward Bound ... | 21,092 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
suggests that Upward Bound programs can specifically help more (otherwise discouraged) Latino students pursue dreams of college. There are low rates of enrollment of Latino students due to discouraging factors like “policies that encourage quick job placement over career development, lack of understanding ... | 21,093 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
encourage them that college is attainable. They would also offer more college preparation, guidance in college and help students plan to ensure they not only enroll at an institution but also graduate and find a career. A main drawback of these programs is that many students are unaware that they are avail... | 21,094 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
Upward Bound Math and Science programs in 2009, the Pell Institute performed a re-analysis of positive impacts achieved by the programs. Data reported by the Pell Institute shows positive effects found in legislatively mandated programs. Upward Bound students were more likely to receive a bachelor’s degree... | 21,095 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
in post-secondary education completed a degree within six years of their high school graduation date, in contrast with less than one-tenth of students without supplemental services.
Students enrolled in Upward Bound were shown to be more likely to enroll in a four-year institution than students participat... | 21,096 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
education.
# Perceptions.
## Parents.
In a study of parents of students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Upward Bound program, the vast majority of parents reported that their children took more challenging classes and received better grades after attending the program. Parents repor... | 21,097 |
420659 | Upward Bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound
as budgeting money and reliable communication.
## Participants.
According to a quantitative and qualitative study of 20 participants of an Upward Bound program at a Midwestern community college, some students mentioned that they did not plan to attend college before they attended the Upward Bound program... | 21,098 |
420688 | Pseudorca | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pseudorca | Pseudorca
Pseudorca
Pseudorca is a genus with three members which include "Pseudorca yokoyamai", "Pseudorca yuanliensis" and "Pseudorca crassidens", of which "P. crassidens" (commonly known as the false killer whale) is the only extant member.
"Pseudorca yuanliensis" is found in Pliocene layers in Yuanli, Taiwan, whi... | 21,099 |
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