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3808493 | GFP-cDNA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GFP-cDNA | GFP-cDNA
GFP-cDNA
The GFP-cDNA project documents the localisation of proteins to subcellular compartments of the eukaryotic cell applying fluorescence microscopy. Experimental data are complemented with bioinformatic analyses and published online in a database. A search function allows the finding of proteins containi... | 40,100 |
3808493 | GFP-cDNA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GFP-cDNA | GFP-cDNA
in eukaryotic cells. Subsequently, the subcellular localisation of the fusion proteins is recorded by fluorescence microscopy.
Steps:
## 1. Large-scale cloning.
Any large-scale manipulation of ORFs requires cloning technologies which are free of restriction enzymes. In this respect those that utilise recomb... | 40,101 |
3808493 | GFP-cDNA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GFP-cDNA | GFP-cDNA
project the ORFs are transferred into CFP/YFP expression vectors. For the localisation analysis both N- and C-terminal fusions are generated. This maximises the possibility of correctly ascertaining the localisation, since the presence of GFP may mask targeting signals that may be present at one end of the nat... | 40,102 |
3808493 | GFP-cDNA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GFP-cDNA | GFP-cDNA
the fluorescent protein.
## 2. Transfection of eukaryotic cells, Expression.
The fusion vectors are transfected in Vero cells (monkey kidney fibroblasts). Particularly interesting ORFs are also screened for localisation in PC12 cells and hippocampal neurons.
## 3. Protein localisation.
At different time po... | 40,103 |
3808493 | GFP-cDNA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GFP-cDNA | GFP-cDNA
analysis is facilitated by the bioinformatic search engine Harvester.
## 5. Assignment of subcellular localization category.
Results from the N- and C-terminal fusions are assessed and in turn these data are compared to the bioinformatic predictions. A final subcellular localisation (from approximately 20 ca... | 40,104 |
3808493 | GFP-cDNA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GFP-cDNA | GFP-cDNA
is published?
Every data sheet contains the fluorescence images of both N- and C-terminal fusions, the assigned localization, other localizations, comments and the Swissprot ID. For every protein entry, a link is provided to the corresponding Harvester bioinformatics page.
# How do I use the GFP-cDNA databas... | 40,105 |
3808493 | GFP-cDNA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GFP-cDNA | GFP-cDNA
ce images of both N- and C-terminal fusions, the assigned localization, other localizations, comments and the Swissprot ID. For every protein entry, a link is provided to the corresponding Harvester bioinformatics page.
# How do I use the GFP-cDNA database?
Images of all localised proteins and their bioinfor... | 40,106 |
3808568 | NRW Forum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NRW%20Forum | NRW Forum
NRW Forum
The NRW Forum Wirtschaft und Kultur or Forum NRW is a museum in Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, dealing with the development and the economy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia or regions within it, e.g. the Rhine-Ruhr-region. It is located in the "Ehrenhof" complex, bui... | 40,107 |
3808568 | NRW Forum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NRW%20Forum | NRW Forum
For example, in 1998 there was an exhibition on design in the 1960s for three months, followed by one on the history of the VW Beetle. In 2000 there was a project showing the history, present and future scenarios of the Rhine-Ruhr region; and so on. The exhibitions are mostly based on political, historical, s... | 40,108 |
3808568 | NRW Forum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NRW%20Forum | NRW Forum
Kippenberger – Bodencollage“" (2005)
- "„Alexander McQueen – Catwalk Videos“" (2005)
- "„Vivienne Westwood: Prinzessin Punk“" (2006)
- "„Bruce Nauman – Mental Exercises“" (2006–2007)
- "„Bilder im Kopf“" (2007)
- "„Andy Warhol – Myths“" (2008)
- "„Radical Advertising“" (2008)
- "„Albert Watson – Best o... | 40,109 |
3808568 | NRW Forum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NRW%20Forum | NRW Forum
vertising“" (2008)
- "„Albert Watson – Best of“" (21. September 2008 – 18. Januar 2009)
- "„Michel Comte – Retrospektive“" (1. Februar – 10. Mai 2009)
- "„Deanna Templeton – Scratch My Name on Your Arm“" (4. April – 10. Mai 2009)
- "„U.F.O. – Grenzgänge zwischen Kunst und Design“" (23. Mai – 5. Juli 2009)... | 40,110 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
Spencer Smythe
Spencer Smythe () is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the father of Alistair Smythe.
# Publication history.
Spencer Smythe first appeared in "The Amazing Spider-Man" #25 (June 1965) and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
... | 40,111 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
that Spider-Man found himself chased by a machine with Jameson's face. However, Spider-Man escaped by leaving his Spider-Man suit wrapped in the robot's tentacles.
Smythe, annoyed at the inability of his robot to capture Spider-Man, began to obsess about the Web-Crawler, turning to crime to finance his ... | 40,112 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
to overload from the multitude of spiders Smythe kept there for his research.
Eventually, Smythe's criminal career came to an end when the radioactive materials used in the manufacture of the robots poisoned him, dooming him to a slow and agonizing death. Blaming Jameson and Spider-Man equally for his i... | 40,113 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
Parker, however, had a pretty good grasp of what made mechanical devices tick, and was able to abort the bomb by freezing its controls mere moments before it would have detonated.
During the "" storyline, Spencer Smythe is cloned by Miles Warren and his company New U Technologies.
# In other media.
##... | 40,114 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
do some adjustments.
- Spencer Smythe appeared in "Spider-Man: The Animated Series", voiced by Edward Mulhare. This version was the Spider-Slayers' original creator. He was hired by Norman Osborn to create the Black Widow. As part of the bargain, Osborn would build a hoverchair for Alistair Smythe. At O... | 40,115 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
explodes and Spencer is believed dead. However, it is later revealed that Spencer had survived and was put in cryogenic suspension by the Kingpin in order to maintain Alistair's loyalty. Alistair, after changed into the biomechanical Spider Slayer, eventually discovers that his father is alive with Spide... | 40,116 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
teacher who has a rivalry with Max Modell which is passed onto his son and Norman Osborn who he claimed took his Spider-Slayer work. In the episode "Origins", Smythe is responsible for sabotaging Harry's experiment, resulting in Harry's suspension from Horizon High pending an investigation. Smythe is als... | 40,117 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
attack Oscorp as a diversion so that he can steal the briefcase containing Raymond Warren's spider experiments only to bump into Miles Morales and lose the Electrolis Arachnatis specimen. Later on, he controls a giant Spider-Slayer and competes against his own son to catch Miles. After ejecting from his ... | 40,118 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
Smythe in a "Daily Bugle" article as Oscorp's head of the engineering division and that he is working on significant advancements in robotics. An article published at a later date revealed that Spencer was fired from his position as department head and replaced by his son Alistair Smythe.
## Video games... | 40,119 |
3808559 | Spencer Smythe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer%20Smythe | Spencer Smythe
ced by his son Alistair Smythe.
## Video games.
- Spencer Smythe is featured in the PlayStation 2 and PSP version of "". Like Nick Fury and the Kingpin, he also calls up Spider-Man at specific points of the game. He is shown in alliance with A.I.M. whom he hires to capture J. Jonah Jameson in his plot ... | 40,120 |
3808500 | Museum Kunstpalast | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Museum%20Kunstpalast | Museum Kunstpalast
Museum Kunstpalast
The Kunstpalast is an art museum in Düsseldorf, Germany.
# History.
The Museum Kunst Palast was founded as "Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf", a typical communal arts collection in Germany. The first exhibits were given by the popular regent Jan Wellem, Duke of Palatinate, and his wife An... | 40,121 |
3808500 | Museum Kunstpalast | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Museum%20Kunstpalast | Museum Kunstpalast
advanced arts, whose opening was in 1883, merged with that museum later.
The Kunstmuseum in its actual form opened in 1913, it became a foundation (in private-public partnership) called: "Stiftung museum kunst palast" in 2000.
# Architecture.
The "Ehrenhof" was built in 1925 for the exhibition "Ge... | 40,122 |
3808500 | Museum Kunstpalast | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Museum%20Kunstpalast | Museum Kunstpalast
Rhine-Westphalia) in the same building complex.
# Collection.
The Museum Kunst Palast includes objects of fine arts from Classical antiquity to the present, including drawings, sculptures, a collection of more than 70,000 graphic exhibits and photographs, applied arts and design and one of Europe's... | 40,123 |
3808500 | Museum Kunstpalast | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Museum%20Kunstpalast | Museum Kunstpalast
the 19th century, the 20th century including a large collection of ZERO works, and the present.
# Affiliated Institutes.
- The Archive for artistical photography of the rhenanian artscene (AFORK) is part of the Modern Department and has an extension collection of prints and will be part of a future... | 40,124 |
3808500 | Museum Kunstpalast | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Museum%20Kunstpalast | Museum Kunstpalast
Kunstpalast has already hosted some exhibitions on Old Masters as well, including:
- An exhibition of paintings by Caravaggio (from 2006 to 2007)
- The biggest exhibition of El Greco paintings in Germany since several decades. The exhibition showed their influence on Modern Art. It took place in 20... | 40,125 |
3808500 | Museum Kunstpalast | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Museum%20Kunstpalast | Museum Kunstpalast
intings by Caravaggio (from 2006 to 2007)
- The biggest exhibition of El Greco paintings in Germany since several decades. The exhibition showed their influence on Modern Art. It took place in 2012
- An exhibition of paintings by Spanish baroque painter Francisco de Zurbarán (from 2015 to 2016)
# ... | 40,126 |
3808527 | Skegby Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skegby%20Rural%20District | Skegby Rural District
Skegby Rural District
Skegby was a rural district in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1935.
It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 based on that part of the Mansfield rural sanitary district which was in Nottinghamshire (the rest becoming Blackwell Rural District in Derbyshire).... | 40,127 |
3808527 | Skegby Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skegby%20Rural%20District | Skegby Rural District
that part of the Mansfield rural sanitary district which was in Nottinghamshire (the rest becoming Blackwell Rural District in Derbyshire). It consisted of the parishes of Blidworth, Fulwood, Haywood Oaks, Lindhurst, Skegby, Sookholme and Teversal.
In 1935 the district was abolished under a Count... | 40,128 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
Marco Gabbiadini
Marco Gabbiadini (; born 20 January 1968) is an English former footballer whose career lasted 18 years from 1985 to 2003. He played for 12 different clubs, scoring a total of 226 league goals.
# Playing career.
## York City.
Gabbiadini was born to an English mother and an Italian f... | 40,129 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
time Gabbiadini was 17 he had made his York City debut in a 3−0 defeat to Bolton Wanderers. From then on he quickly established himself in the first team and went on to notch 18 goals in 50 starts and 21 sub appearances for the "Minstermen". He also scored his first hat-trick at the age of 18 during Yo... | 40,130 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
by Smith as the perfect signing. Despite this Gabbiadini's signing was seen as risky, as in order to raise funds to sign him, Smith had to sell one of Sunderland's most popular players, midfielder Mark Proctor, to Sheffield Wednesday. Gabbiadini made his Sunderland debut in a 2−0 defeat to Chester City... | 40,131 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
struck up with Eric Gates. In his first season at the club Gabbiadini scored 21 goals in 35 league appearances to help fire Sunderland to the Third Division championship.
Gabbiadini's second season at Sunderland was just as successful in the Second Division and he proved that he could score at a highe... | 40,132 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
cup matches. He also became Sunderland's first player to win the North East Player of the Year award, which was decided by football writers.
Gabbiadini's third season on Wearside would see his prowess in front of goal continue as his 22 goals in 49 league appearances helped clinch Sunderland's place b... | 40,133 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
own goal, Sunderland went on to claim their place in the First Division as Swindon were refused entry due to a series of financial irregularities by the Swindon Town board.
Gabbiadini found it more difficult in the First Division, Gates had now left the club and the partnership Gabbiadini created with... | 40,134 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
in 9 appearances, including a spectacular six-minute hat-trick against Charlton Athletic at Upton Park on 17 September 1991. Those goals would prove to be his last for the club. His final appearance in a red and white shirt would come four days later in a 2−1 defeat to Grimsby Town at Roker Park on 21 ... | 40,135 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
as a replacement for Ian Wright, who joined Arsenal for £2.5 million in September 1991.
## Derby County.
However, Gabbiadini failed to live up to expectation and he made just 25 starts and scored just seven goals before transferring to Derby County for £1 million four months later, which made Derby t... | 40,136 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
During Gabbiadini's first full season at Derby, he was named Derby's Player of the Year. He would become an established first team player for Derby up until the team got promoted to the Premiership.
In order to survive relegation Derby sought to bring in new players and Gabbiadini found his first team... | 40,137 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
back to England.
## Stoke City.
He was then offered a contract at Stoke City on a monthly basis. Gabbiadini failed to impress for Stoke and scored just once in nine appearances and he was not offered a permanent contract.
## Return to York City.
This saw Gabbiadini return to York in order to resurr... | 40,138 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
went on to score more than 50 goals for the club. During his second season, Gabbiadini helped Darlington reach the play-offs. However, after the first semi-final leg against Hartlepool, Gabbiadini was assaulted by a fan. During that season he was also named as Sky Sports Division Three Player of the Se... | 40,139 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
City at Ninian Park where he managed to score from the halfway line. However, he only managed to score six league goals. During the next two seasons for Northampton, injuries stalled Gabbiadini's progress and he would find it more difficult to establish himself as a regular first team player. He also f... | 40,140 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
who offered him a contract and even let him train with them. However, Gabbiadini decided to sign for archrivals Hartlepool United instead. Gabbiadini's signing was initially met with discontent as a Hartlepool fan had previously assaulted him and he was considered an enemy of the club. However, Gabbiad... | 40,141 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
after making over 750 appearances in all competitions.
# International career.
Gabbiadini represented England U21 in the 1989 Toulon Tournament, which was won by France, his first appearance came in a 3−2 loss against eventual finalists Bulgaria on 5 June 1989, his second coming in another loss, this... | 40,142 |
3808444 | Marco Gabbiadini | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco%20Gabbiadini | Marco Gabbiadini
st House of the Year in the 1999 York Tourism Awards. Gabbiadini has also hinted that he would be interested in television work and was a Sky pundit for Hartlepool's play-off match against Bristol City in 2004.
Since August 2009, Gabbiadini has co-presented Total Sport on BBC Newcastle with Simon Pryd... | 40,143 |
3808581 | Prime Minister of Brunei | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20Minister%20of%20Brunei | Prime Minister of Brunei
Prime Minister of Brunei
The Prime Minister of Brunei (Malay: Perdana Menteri Negara Brunei Darussalam) is the head of government of Brunei. Concurrently, the title is held by the Sultan of Brunei, who is also the head of state of the country. As the Prime Minister, the Sultan and Yang Di-Pert... | 40,144 |
3808581 | Prime Minister of Brunei | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime%20Minister%20of%20Brunei | Prime Minister of Brunei
ay: Perdana Menteri Negara Brunei Darussalam) is the head of government of Brunei. Concurrently, the title is held by the Sultan of Brunei, who is also the head of state of the country. As the Prime Minister, the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan is the head of both the ministerial cabinet and the Leg... | 40,145 |
3808573 | David Davidson (Scottish politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Davidson%20(Scottish%20politician) | David Davidson (Scottish politician)
vid Davidson (Scottish politician)
David Davidson (born 25 January 1943 in Edinburgh) is a former Scottish Conservative and Unionist Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for North East Scotland Region, from 1999 to 2007. Whilst in parliament he was a director of the Scottish Par... | 40,146 |
3808586 | Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suite%20for%20Jazz%20Orchestra%20No.%202%20(Shostakovich) | Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 () is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow (Moscow Radio) b... | 40,147 |
3808586 | Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suite%20for%20Jazz%20Orchestra%20No.%202%20(Shostakovich) | Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
000.
The Suite, in its reconstructed form, consists of the following movements:
Until recently, another eight-movement Suite by Shostakovich had been misidentified and recorded as the second Jazz Suite. This work is now correctly known as the "Suite for Variety Orchestra"... | 40,148 |
3808584 | Stapleford Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stapleford%20Rural%20District | Stapleford Rural District
was a rural district in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1935.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from part of the Shardlow rural sanitary district in Nottinghamshire, and consisted of the parishes of Bramcote, Chilwell, Stapleford and Toton. Two other parishes of Shardlow... | 40,149 |
3808594 | St Bede's Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St%20Bede's%20Grammar%20School | St Bede's Grammar School
St Bede's Grammar School
St. Bede's Grammar School, in Heaton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, was a Roman Catholic boys' Secondary school. The school merged with St. Joseph's Catholic College in September 2014 to form St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College. The school is based over bot... | 40,150 |
3808594 | St Bede's Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St%20Bede's%20Grammar%20School | St Bede's Grammar School
Hall, home of the Rosse family, proved unsatisfactory as the number of pupils continued to grow and a new school was opened in 1939. Since then many additions and alterations have been made to the accommodation. A new technical wing was built in the 1950s, a new refectory and sixth form centre ... | 40,151 |
3808594 | St Bede's Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St%20Bede's%20Grammar%20School | St Bede's Grammar School
classrooms was built in the late 2000s.
From 2008 the school had one federated governing body with St Joseph's Catholic College and Yorkshire Martyrs Catholic College and when Yorkshire Martrys closed in 2010 the boys transferred to St Bede's. An Executive Headteacher was appointed in 2009 to ... | 40,152 |
3808594 | St Bede's Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St%20Bede's%20Grammar%20School | St Bede's Grammar School
Joseph's joined with the sixth form of Yorkshire Martyrs Catholic College to form the Bradford Catholic Sixth Form. When Yorkshire Martyrs closed in 2010 the sixth form transferred to St Bede's and St Joseph's and in 2011 the Sixth Form was renamed St Benedict's Sixth Form.
# Notable former pu... | 40,153 |
3808594 | St Bede's Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St%20Bede's%20Grammar%20School | St Bede's Grammar School
Editor from 1966-71 of the "Catholic Herald"
- John Braine, novelist, first of the angry young men, whose 1957 book Room at the Top became a 1959 film, the first kitchen-sink film, and received six Oscar nominations, winning Best Actress for Simone Signoret in the 1959 Oscars
- Lord Brennan, ... | 40,154 |
3808594 | St Bede's Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St%20Bede's%20Grammar%20School | St Bede's Grammar School
brother of Mike
- Mike Hellawell, footballer, played two international games for England in 1962
- Bernard Hepton, well-known actor in the 1970s for the Kommandant in "Colditz" and Albert Foiret in "Secret Army" (1977-79), and for Toby Esterhase in the 1979 "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
- Mick... | 40,155 |
3808594 | St Bede's Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St%20Bede's%20Grammar%20School | St Bede's Grammar School
Executive from 2007-13 of The Co-operative Group, and from 2002-07 of United Co-operatives
- Martin McEvoy, opera singer
- Paul McKee (mathematician), established election-night TV presentations in 1964, and throughout the 1970s and 1980s, on ITN, with David Nicholas, and deputy chief executi... | 40,156 |
3808594 | St Bede's Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St%20Bede's%20Grammar%20School | St Bede's Grammar School
ic in Canada
- Prof John Murray CBE FDSRCS FMedSci, Dean of Dentistry from 1992-2002 at School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle University, and Professor of Child Health from 1977-92
- John Northard CBE FREng, Chairman from 1991-93 of British Coal, President from 1982-83 of the Institution of Mi... | 40,157 |
3808622 | Dick Annegarn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Annegarn | Dick Annegarn
Dick Annegarn
Dick Annegarn (born in The Hague, 6 May 1952) is a Dutch rock singer-songwriter who sings mostly in French, although on occasion Dutch and English.
# Discography.
## Albums.
- "Sacré Géranium" (1974)
- "Dick Annegarn" (1974)
- "Je te vois" (1974)
- "Mireille" (1975)
- "Anticyclone" (... | 40,158 |
3808622 | Dick Annegarn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Annegarn | Dick Annegarn
"Vélo va" (2014)
- "Twist" (2016)
- "12 Villes 12 Chansons" (2018)
## Singles.
- "Va" (1975)
- "Lille" CD promo (1998)
- "Voleur de chevaux" CD promo (1999)
## Compilations.
- "Bruxelles" (3 first albums + part of the 4th one+ the songs "Va" and "Les Gueux") (1996)
- "Les Années nocturnes" ("Frèr... | 40,159 |
3808622 | Dick Annegarn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dick%20Annegarn | Dick Annegarn
"Twist" (2016)
- "12 Villes 12 Chansons" (2018)
## Singles.
- "Va" (1975)
- "Lille" CD promo (1998)
- "Voleur de chevaux" CD promo (1999)
## Compilations.
- "Bruxelles" (3 first albums + part of the 4th one+ the songs "Va" and "Les Gueux") (1996)
- "Les Années nocturnes" ("Frères ?", "Ullegara" an... | 40,160 |
3808619 | Oh, Play That Thing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh,%20Play%20That%20Thing | Oh, Play That Thing
Oh, Play That Thing
Oh, Play That Thing (2004) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. It is Vol. 2 of "The Last Roundup" series, and follows on from Vol. 1, "A Star Called Henry".
# Plot summary.
Having fallen foul of his erstwhile comrades in the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Henry escapes to Am... | 40,161 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
Convicts in Australia
Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts were transported from Britain to various penal colonies in Australia.
The British Government began transporting convicts overseas to American colonies in the early 17th century. When transportation ended with the start of the Am... | 40,162 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
sail for Botany Bay, arriving on 20 January 1788 to found Sydney, New South Wales, the first European settlement on the continent. Other penal colonies were later established in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1803 and Queensland in 1824, while Western Australia, founded in 1829 as a free colony, ... | 40,163 |
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ship arrived in Western Australia.
The majority of convicts were transported for petty crimes. More serious crimes, such as rape and murder, became transportable offences in the 1830s, but since they were also punishable by death, comparatively few convicts were transported for such crimes. Appro... | 40,164 |
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of shame and cultural cringe. Attitudes became more accepting in the 20th century and it is now considered by many Australians to be a cause for celebration to have a convict in one's lineage. Around 20% of modern Australians, in addition to 2 million Britons, are descended from transported convic... | 40,165 |
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1740. By the time of the American Revolution, London was overcrowded, filled with the unemployed, and flooded with cheap gin. Poverty, child labour, harsh and dirty living conditions and long working hours were prevalent in 19th-century Britain. Dickens' novels perhaps best illustrate this; even s... | 40,166 |
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did not have police forces in the modern sense. Jeremy Bentham avidly promoted the idea of a circular prison, but the penitentiary was seen by many government officials as a peculiar American concept. Virtually all malefactors were caught by informers or denounced to the local court by their victi... | 40,167 |
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due to the economic displacement of much of the population, building pressure on the government to find an alternative to confinement in overcrowded gaols. The situation was so dire that hulks left over from the Seven Years' War were used as makeshift floating prisons. Eight of every 10 prisoners ... | 40,168 |
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Around 60,000 convicts were transported to the British colonies in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Transportation to the Americas ceased following Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War. The number of convicts transported to North America is not verified alth... | 40,169 |
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his expedition to the South Pacific in 1770 made it the most suitable.
On 18 August 1786 the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and civilian personnel to Botany Bay under the command of Admiral Arthur Phillip who was to be the Governor of the new colony. There w... | 40,170 |
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fleet arrived at Botany Bay on 20 January 1788. It soon became clear that it would not be suitable for the establishment of a colony due to "the openness of this bay, and the dampness of the soil, by which the people would probably be rendered unhealthy" and Philip decided to examine Port Jackson,... | 40,171 |
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was initially a high mortality rate amongst the members of the first fleet due mainly to shortages of food. The ships carried only enough food to provide for the settlers until they could establish agriculture in the region. Unfortunately, there were an insufficient number of skilled farmers and d... | 40,172 |
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the situation in Port Jackson.
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bourke was the ninth Governor of the Colony of New South Wales between 1831 and 1837. Appalled by the excessive punishments doled out to convicts, Bourke passed 'The Magistrates Act', which limited the sentence a magistrate could pass ... | 40,173 |
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colony by combating the inhumane treatment handed out to convicts, including limiting the number of convicts each employer was allowed to seventy, as well as granting rights to freed convicts, such as allowing the acquisition of property and service on juries. It has been argued that the suspensio... | 40,174 |
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end of the convict's sentence, seven years in most cases, the convict was issued with a Certificate of Freedom. He was then free to become a settler or to return to England. Convicts who misbehaved, however, were often sent to a place of secondary punishment like Port Arthur, Tasmania or Norfolk I... | 40,175 |
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Lieutenant Philip Gidley King, the island's commandant. This was followed by the wreck of on one of the island's reefs while attempting to land stores.
## Tasmania.
In 1803, a British expedition was sent from Sydney to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) to establish a new penal colony th... | 40,176 |
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at Sullivan's Cove, Tasmania. This later became known as Hobart, and the original settlement at Risdon Cove was deserted. Collins became the first Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land.
When the convict station on Norfolk Island was abandoned in 1807-1808, the remaining convicts and free settl... | 40,177 |
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administration.
The Macquarie Harbour penal colony on the West Coast of Tasmania was established in 1820 to exploit the valuable timber Huon Pine growing there for furniture making and shipbuilding. Macquarie Harbour had the added advantage of being almost impossible to escape from, most attempts... | 40,178 |
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established to replace Macquarie Harbour, as it was easier to maintain regular communications by sea. Although known in popular history as a particularly harsh prison, in reality its management was far more humane than Macquarie Harbour or the outlying stations of New South Wales. Experimentation ... | 40,179 |
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to private individuals as a form of indentured labour. From the early 1840s the Probation System was employed, where convicts spent an initial period, usually two years, in public works gangs on stations outside of the main settlements, then were freed to work for wages within a set district.
Tra... | 40,180 |
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First Fleet in 1788. He chose Sullivan Bay near the present-day Sorrento, Victoria for the first settlement - some 90 km south of present-day Melbourne. About two months later the settlement was abandoned due to poor soil and water shortages and Collins moved the convicts to Hobart. Several convic... | 40,181 |
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Corinella, in November 1826. It comprised an initial 20 soldiers and 22 convicts, with another 12 convicts arriving subsequently. This settlement was abandoned in February 1828, and all convicts returned to Sydney.
The Port Phillip District was officially sanctioned in 1837 following the landing ... | 40,182 |
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were free to work for pay, but could not leave the district to which they were assigned. The Port Phillip District was still part of New South Wales at this stage. Victoria separated from New South Wales and became an independent colony in 1851.
## Queensland.
In 1823 John Oxley sailed north fro... | 40,183 |
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now stands. The settlement was at first called Edenglassie. In 1839 transportation of convicts to Moreton Bay ceased and the Brisbane penal settlement was closed. In 1842 free settlement was permitted and people began to colonize the area voluntarily. On 6 June 1859 Queensland became a colony sepa... | 40,184 |
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George Sound (Albany) in 1826 to help establish a settlement there. At that time the western third of Australia was unclaimed land known as New Holland. Fears that France would lay claim to the land prompted the Governor of New South Wales, Ralph Darling, to send Major Edmund Lockyer, with troops ... | 40,185 |
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send convicts to his state because of labor shortages. Britain rejected sending fixed term convicts, but offered to send first offenders in the final years of their terms.
Most convicts in Western Australia spent very little time in prison. Those who were stationed at Fremantle were housed in the... | 40,186 |
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creating infrastructure for the convict system, including the construction of the Convict Establishment itself.
In 1852 a Convict Depot was built at Albany, but closed 3 years later. When shipping increased the Depot was re-opened. Most of the convicts had their Ticket-of-Leave and were hired to ... | 40,187 |
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In May 1865, the colony was advised of the change in British policy, and told that Britain would send one convict ship in each of the years 1865, 1866 and 1867, after which transportation would cease. In accordance with this, the last convict ship to Western Australia, the "Hougoumont", left Brita... | 40,188 |
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transportable offence.
# Political prisoners.
Political prisoners made up a small proportion of convicts. They arrived in waves corresponding to political unrest in Britain and Ireland. They included the First Scottish Martyrs in 1794; British Naval Mutineers (from the Nore Mutiny) in 1797 and 1... | 40,189 |
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of free settlers entering New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) by the mid-1830s, opposition to the transportation of felons into the colonies grew. The most influential spokesmen were newspaper proprietors who were also members of the Independent Congregation Church such as John Fairfa... | 40,190 |
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on the evils of transportation, and at their request wrote and submitted a tract on the subject.
His views in conjunction with others in the end prevailed. The anti-transportation movement was seldom concerned with the inhumanity of the system, but rather the "hated stain" it was believed to infl... | 40,191 |
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Benjamin Boyd, for reasons of economic self-interest, wanted to use transported convicts from Vam Diemen's Land as a source of free or low-cost labour in New South Wales, particularly as shepherds.
The continuation of transportation to Van Diemen's Land saw the rise of a well-coordinated anti-tra... | 40,192 |
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pay while under sentence. In 1850 the Australasian Anti-Transportation League was formed to lobby for the permanent cessation of transportation, its aims being furthered by the commencement of the Australian gold rushes the following year. The last convict ship to be sent from England, the "St. Vi... | 40,193 |
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Australian colonies between 1788 and 1868 on board 806 ships. Convicts were made up of English and Welsh (70%), Irish (24%), Scottish (5%) and the remaining 1% from the British outposts in India and Canada, Maoris from New Zealand, Chinese from Hong Kong and slaves from the Caribbean.
Only South ... | 40,194 |
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now sustain themselves without the need for convict labour.
# Legacy.
In 2010, UNESCO inscribed 11 Australian Convict Sites on its World Heritage List. The listing recognises the sites as "the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European po... | 40,195 |
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literary works done by a convict while still incarcerated. His best-known work is "A Convict's Tour of Hell". A version of the convict ballad "Moreton Bay", detailing the brutal punishments meted out by commandment Patrick Logan and his death at the hands of Aborigines, is also attributed to Frank... | 40,196 |
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is Marcus Clarke's "For the Term of His Natural Life" (1874), followed by John Boyle O'Reilly's "Moondyne" (1879). "The Broad Arrow" by Caroline Woolmer Leakey was one of the first novels to depict the convict experience, and one of the only to feature a female convict as its protagonist (Marcus C... | 40,197 |
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& Hawk" (1997) and "Solomon's Song" (1999). The title character of Peter Carey's 1997 novel "Jack Maggs" is a reworking of Dickens' Magwitch character. Many modern works of Tasmanian Gothic focus on the state's convict past, including "Gould's Book of Fish" (2001) by Richard Flanagan, a fictionali... | 40,198 |
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the Term of His Natural Life", shot on location at Port Arthur with an unheard-of budget of £7000. This was followed by two more films inspired by Clarke's novel: "The Life of Rufus Dawes" (1911), which draws on Alfred Dampier's stage production of "His Natural Life", and the landmark "For the Ter... | 40,199 |
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