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1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
representing the Old Testament prophets Moses, David, and Isaiah, while audio recordings of passages from the Book of Psalms are played nearby. Further down the corridor, placards detail historical arguments against a literal interpretation of the Bible and conclude that "The elevation of human reason a... | 54,800 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage, and euthanasia. An accompanying placard concludes: "Scripture abandoned in the culture leads to... relative morality, hopelessness and meaninglessness." In the final room in this series, video screens depict the purported results of abandoning a literal inter... | 54,801 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
full of bricks, symbolizing the reparative work of AiG.
The second series of rooms depict a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, arranged around the concept of "The Seven C's of History": creation, corruption, catastrophe, confusion, Christ, cross, and consummation. At the entrance to this ar... | 54,802 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
only of opposite sex couples and their offspring.
The exhibit on corruption shows Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, resulting in the fall of man. Further exhibits depict the aftermath of this event: animals being killed to make garments for Adam and Eve, Cain ... | 54,803 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
this area also features noxious odors and increased temperatures, and AiG General Manager Mike Zovath told the paper that the intent was to make it "the most uncomfortable place in the museum to show how original sin has corrupted the universe".
The "catastrophe", an allusion to the Great Flood recount... | 54,804 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
physical features and detailed bodily movements; his speech patterns, facial expressions, and bodily gestures are in near-perfect sync with his eye, mouth, and head movements; and his hair, skin tone, and musculature closely imitates real human features." The catastrophe displays are further enhanced by... | 54,805 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
that racism increased exponentially following the acceptance of the theory of evolution. A diorama claims that the Tower of Babel explains the dispersal of people after the flood and the rapid divergence of languages during that period.
The final three C's—Christ, cross, and consummation—are presented ... | 54,806 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
and its aftermath could have shaped the world today." Large fossils displayed in glass cases are purported to have been formed as a result of the Great Flood. Large placards illustrate geological models developed by creation scientists at AiG, the Discovery Institute, and the Institute for Creation Rese... | 54,807 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
the museum's gift shop, which contains both souvenirs and AiG print and multimedia publications.
# Programs and events.
In addition to exhibits, the museum hosts a variety of special programs and events. Many focus on creationist concepts or more broadly on Christian themes and teachings. Some of the ... | 54,808 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
was clear from the advertisements that the event was about Christian marriage, which is between a man and a woman, and that one of the men had made a statement in a blog post a month earlier that gave the museum the impression that the couple was planning to be disruptive. The blog requested donations t... | 54,809 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
"Bill Nye the Science Guy". Ham challenged Nye to come to the museum to debate YEC and whether creationism is a viable model of origins. CNN's Tom Foreman moderated the debate. The museum's 900-seat Legacy Hall was sold out within minutes of tickets going on sale. It was estimated that nearly 3 million ... | 54,810 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
communities, as well as cultural commentators. In her 2013 book, "Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First Century America", Jill Stevenson, an associate professor of theatre arts at Marymount Manhattan College, wrote that "The Creation Museum prompts more questions from friends and... | 54,811 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
that perceives itself as threatened, disenfranchised, and misrepresented by mainstream culture."
In the introduction to their 2016 book "Righting America at the Creation Museum", Susan and William Trollinger noted "the Creation Museum lies squarely within the right side of the American cultural, politi... | 54,812 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
to those who do not hold to its creationist tenets", also containing "what can only be described as a house of horrors about the dangers of abortion and drugs and the devil's music". Trollinger and Trollinger called the museum "an impressive and sophisticated visual argument on behalf of young Earth cre... | 54,813 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
"This place doesn't just take on evolution – it squares off with geology, anthropology, paleontology, history, chemistry, astronomy, zoology, biology, and good taste. It directly and boldly contradicts most -onomies and all -ologies, including most theology." Lisa Park, a professor of paleontology at Un... | 54,814 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
evolution. In a press kit released in connection with the Creation Museum's opening, geologist Greg Neyman, founder of Old Earth Ministries, wrote that "The non-Christians (...) will see the museum, and recognize its faulty science, and will be turned away from the church." Catholic theologian John Haug... | 54,815 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
Times", columnist Edward Rothstein wrote, "It is a measure of the museum's daring that dinosaurs and fossils—once considered major challenges to belief in the Bible's creation story—are here so central, appearing not as tests of faith, as one religious authority once surmised, but as creatures no differ... | 54,816 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
museum's opening, about 2,000 educators signed a statement written by the Campaign to Defend the Constitution (DefCon) calling the museum part of a "campaign by the religious right to inject creationist teachings into science education". The National Center for Science Education collected over 800 signa... | 54,817 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
executive director of NCSE; and Alan Leshner, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, each told the Associated Press (AP) that AiG was within its rights to open the museum, but expressed concerns about its effects on science education. Leshner said, "We're not... | 54,818 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
targeted metropolitan areas in 25 states. Commenting on the ad campaign, Steven Newton of the National Center for Science Education said, "I think it's a real shame that there aren't science museums that are competing in the same way, with the same sort of advertising with the same sort of budgets." Aft... | 54,819 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
top to bottom'".
In August 2007, Daniel Phelps, president of the Kentucky Paleontological Society, criticized the Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau for describing the museum on its web site as a walk through history' museum that will counter evolutionary natural history museums that turn... | 54,820 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
updated the museum's description on the web site to read, "A walk through history via the pages of the Bible—exploring how scripture provides an eyewitness account of the beginning of all things." Commenting on the museum's efforts to attract classes of public school students, Zack Kopplin wrote: "At Ha... | 54,821 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
in the journal "Argumentation and Advocacy", authors Casey Kelly and Kristen Hoerl point out that "physical remnants are not available as evidence for events described in the Book of Genesis ... Consequently, the Creation Museum demonstrates the materiality of creationist thinking through its display of... | 54,822 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
and "As for content, I'd give it a negative 5."
Gretchen Jennings, editor of "Exhibitionist", wrote that creationist museums like the Creation Museum are not museums at all, and said that if they applied for accreditation as museums, their applications should be denied. As of 2014, no creationist museu... | 54,823 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
scientists derisively dubbed it the "Fred and Wilma Flintstone Museum". In a 2013 blog post, Ken Ham responded to such criticisms by writing that the Creation Museum is a true museum, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary and the AAM's website.
# Workforce.
The museum operates as a division of ... | 54,824 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
the function and integrity of the ministry". The statement of faith includes "Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation", "the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman", "the great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event", and "no apparent, perceived ... | 54,825 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
law enforcement canines.
In 2015, the Creation Museum and AiG were recognized on the "Cincinnati Enquirer"'s list of top 100 workplaces in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region. The determination was made based on a confidential survey of employees conducted by Workplace Dynamics, an independent rese... | 54,826 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
on making a mockery of hard won scientific knowledge. And the fact that it was being done with such obvious sincerity, somehow made it all the worse." The documentary also featured excerpts from an hour-long debate between Winston and Ham over the relative merits of creationism and evolution that was ai... | 54,827 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
to secure interviews with other people shown in the film: "It was simple: We never, ever, used my name. (...) We even had a fake title for the film. We called it 'A Spiritual Journey'." Maher continued: "The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people... | 54,828 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
adherents still maintain that the Bible is a wholly accurate historical account. By focusing on the more implausible aspects of this reputed infallible document, the Unicorn Museum seeks to illustrate the $27 Million charade that is the Creation Museum and highlight the intellectual laxity that characte... | 54,829 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
them all these great exhibits of how the world was created, and also to reinforce to them the fallacies of evolution and how it was impossible for this world just to all happen by chance." "The Washington Times" reported that the episode's airing "sparked reaction on both sides of the cultural debate" o... | 54,830 |
1403364 | Creation Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Creation%20Museum | Creation Museum
although most press coverage of the museum occurred around its 2007 opening, continuing coverage in "Vanity Fair" and elsewhere "tesif[ied] to people's ongoing curiosity about the venue."
# See also.
- Creation Evidence Museum – similar museum in Glen Rose in Somervell County in central Texas
- List ... | 54,831 |
1403468 | Reginald Lissaman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reginald%20Lissaman | Reginald Lissaman
Reginald Lissaman
Reginald Otto Lissaman (April 24, 1908 in Brandon, Manitoba – August 14, 1974) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1952 to 1969, sitting as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
The son of Frank C. Lissaman, L... | 54,832 |
1403468 | Reginald Lissaman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reginald%20Lissaman | Reginald Lissaman
essive James Creighton by 451 votes. The Liberal-Progressives were in government during this period, and Lissaman sat as a member of the opposition. In 1953-54, he campaigned for the removal of Errick Willis as Progressive Conservative leader.
The PCs won the 1958 election, and Lissaman was handily r... | 54,833 |
9568725 | Weinert Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weinert%20Center | Weinert Center
Weinert Center
The Weinert Center is the home of entrepreneurship education in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The center is dedicated to teaching, research, and service pertaining to entrepreneurial management and enterprise development across the entire UW campus.
# His... | 54,834 |
9568725 | Weinert Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weinert%20Center | Weinert Center
Students take one or more courses in entrepreneurship and other related topics in preparation for roles as business owners and managers, venture capitalists, or consultants to smaller businesses. They are trained to innovate, launch & grow businesses and pursue entrepreneurial dreams.
The center support... | 54,835 |
9568725 | Weinert Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weinert%20Center | Weinert Center
entrepreneurial education. The "Financial Times" has also named it one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the world. The MBA program in Entrepreneurial Management was named the 2009 “National Model MBA Entrepreneurship Program” by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship... | 54,836 |
9568725 | Weinert Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weinert%20Center | Weinert Center
Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE) class that provides them with an applied practicum in starting and growing entrepreneurial businesses. The practicum involves a weekly seminar, hands-on work using lean start-up tools, and interaction with local and national experts on a variety of topi... | 54,837 |
9568725 | Weinert Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weinert%20Center | Weinert Center
an initial gift from James Weinert. Bruce D. Neviaser donated significantly to this investment fund in honor of his father, Daniel H. Neviaser, a prominent Madison civic leader and WAVE advisor.
# Student organizations.
Weinert Center students are involved with many student organizations campus-wide in... | 54,838 |
9568725 | Weinert Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weinert%20Center | Weinert Center
fund in honor of his father, Daniel H. Neviaser, a prominent Madison civic leader and WAVE advisor.
# Student organizations.
Weinert Center students are involved with many student organizations campus-wide including:
- University of Wisconsin Entrepreneur Association
- Net Impact
- Students in Free ... | 54,839 |
9568721 | Nancy Wyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Wyman | Nancy Wyman
Nancy Wyman
Nancy S. Wyman (born April 21, 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician who was the 88th lieutenant governor of Connecticut, from 2011 to 2019. She was state comptroller of Connecticut from 1995 to 2011, and was the first woman elected to that office since it was created in 1786. She cu... | 54,840 |
9568721 | Nancy Wyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Wyman | Nancy Wyman
in public service as vice chairperson of the Tolland Board of Education. She served in this post for four years, but was on the board serving in other roles for five additional years. In 1986, she was elected as the State Representative from the 53rd district of Connecticut, serving in this capacity from 19... | 54,841 |
9568721 | Nancy Wyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Wyman | Nancy Wyman
and their dependents.
Despite the high popularity of Connecticut's last two Republican governors, Wyman has easily won re-election. In 1998 she was challenged by Republican State Representative Christopher R. Scalzo. In 2002, 28-year-old West Haven Republican Justice of the Peace and City Commissioner Stev... | 54,842 |
9568721 | Nancy Wyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Wyman | Nancy Wyman
Groton Republican State Senator Cathy Cook lost to Wyman in 2006.
# Lieutenant Governor (2011–2019).
Democratic candidate for Governor Dan Malloy chose Wyman to be his running mate in the 2010 gubernatorial race. After defeating primary opponent Mary Glassman on August 10, 2010, Wyman became the official ... | 54,843 |
9568721 | Nancy Wyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Wyman | Nancy Wyman
Rob Simmons in Connecticut's second Congressional District. Courtney defeated Simmons by a narrow margin.
# Issues.
Wyman is liberal when it comes to social issues. In March 2007, she testified at a public hearing of the State Legislative Judiciary Committee in support of Bill #7395 – "An Act Concerning M... | 54,844 |
9568721 | Nancy Wyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Wyman | Nancy Wyman
udiciary Committee in support of Bill #7395 – "An Act Concerning Marriage Equality." In her opening statement before the committee, she stated, "To violate the rights of a few is to violate the rights of all." The bill supports same-sex marriage rights in Connecticut. In 2008, same-sex marriage became legal... | 54,845 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
Béja
Béja ( "") is a city in Tunisia. It is the capital of the Béja Governorate. It is located from Tunis, between the Medjerdah River and the Mediterranean, against the foothills of the Khroumire, the town of Béja is situated on the sides of Djebel Acheb, facing the greening meadows, its white terraces and red r... | 54,846 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
Baja under the Arabs and Béja under the French.
The Romans destroyed the old Carthaginian citadel and replaced it with a new one; they built fortifications that are still standing today. Under the Roman domination, Béja became prosperous and was the center of a diocese. According to Sallust, who relates the detai... | 54,847 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
the fortress and took real pleasure in beautifying Béja.
After the Umayyad conquest of North Africa, the city became part of the Umayyad Caliphate.
In 1880 France occupied Tunisia. On April 24, 1881 Béja in its turn was occupied by the column led by Logerot who had arrived from Algeria through the Kef.
## World... | 54,848 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
planes bombed the town for the first time, as a warning. This broke the long period of peace Béja had known for many centuries. The next day, Friday November 20, Béja was heavily bombed by German airplanes for many hours, because of its key position leading to the roads of Tabarka, Mateur, Bizerte and Algeria. The... | 54,849 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
"White Hill" and crossed by the Medjerda River, the features made the city famous for its fertile soil, Béja drew all the masters of the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians set up important trading posts. Their presence is felt through numerous Punic necropolis which have been unearthed in 1887. The Carthaginians, reco... | 54,850 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
climate (Köppen climate classification "Csa").
# Administration.
The Béja is the chef-lieu of the Béja Governorate. The city is since July 13, 1887 a municipality, from that day to today there were built 3 town halls, the last one was built in 1933, the building is now a classified monument.
# Religion.
Like t... | 54,851 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
and synagogues. The oldest mosque of the town is "Great Mosque of Béja" which was built in 944 by the Fatimidis on an old Christian basilica, near it there is another mosque, "The Bey's Mosque", which was built in 1675 by Murad II Bey for Hanafi Muslims of the city and in 1685 Mohamed Bey El Mouradi added a Madras... | 54,852 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
it and build instead of it a bigger one, "The Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire Church". After the independence of Tunisia and the migration of Christians from the country, the church become a cultural centre in Béja.
# Education.
There are 15 elementary schools, 7 preparatory schools, 6 secondary schools and 3 educational ... | 54,853 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
El-Mzara Elementary School
- Al-Iadhi Al-Béji Elementary School
## Preparatory schools.
- Ali Al-Qalsadi Preparatory School
- Ibn Al-Jazar Preparatory School
- Habib Bourguiba Avenue Preparatory School
- Rached Preparatory School
- Béja Al*Moustakbel Preparatory School
- Al-Houria Preparatory School
- Ibn... | 54,854 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
and Computer of Béja
# Historical Places.
Kasbah of Béja : The Kasbah of Béja, is a castle built during the Roman area over the ruins of another Carthaginian castle, the Kasbah was destroyed during the Vandal invasion of Tunisia, it was lately rebuilt by the Byzantine Empire and improved and fortified through th... | 54,855 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
Béja is one of the oldest mosques of the country, built in 944 by the Fatimide Caliph Al-Mansur Billah in 944 on the ruins of an old Roman basilica.
Mosque Al-Jazzar is a very old mosque built by Ahmed Al-Jazzar, a Muslim ascetic, during the Aghlabib era in the 10th century.
The Hanafi Mosque : The Hanafi Mosque... | 54,856 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
Baba Ali Smadhi Mausoleum is mausoleum built 1666 by the Sufi Marabout Ali Smadhi. The Mausoleum played a major role during the Husainid-Pechist civil war, it's also an important cultural and political center of Béja.
The Qadiriyya Mausoleum : The Qadiriyya Mausoleum is a mausoleum belonging to the Qadiri Sufi or... | 54,857 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
Salah Ibn Mohamed Zlaoui who was a very famous Sufist in Béja, the mausoleum was transformed by Jilani Zlaoui, one of Sidi Salah great-grandsons, into a mosque.
Hammam Bousandel : Hammam Bousandel, is a public bath built in the 10th century, the bath is still operative till today.
Sabil Saheb Ettabaâ : Sabil Sah... | 54,858 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
to 1822 (born in Le Bardo but his family is from Béja)
- Ismaïl Fathali – Tunisian Army Chief of Staff
- Wassila Ben Ammar – 2sd Tunisian First Lady from 1962 to 1986
- Ammar Farhat – Famous Tunisian painter
- Slaheddine Ben Mbarek – Former Tunisian minister of National Economy, Commerce, Industry and Agricult... | 54,859 |
1403425 | Béja | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Béja | Béja
iculture
- Guy Bono – Former French MEP from The Socialist Party
- Neji Jouini – Former football referee
- Mohamed Ali Yousfi – Writer and translator
- Maurice Audin – Mathematician, member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause
- Rafiq Belhaj Kacem – Former minister of t... | 54,860 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
Pacific Squadron
The Pacific Squadron was part of the United States Navy squadron stationed in the Pacific Ocean in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Initially with no United States ports in the Pacific, they operated out of storeships which provided naval supplies and purchased food and obtained wat... | 54,861 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
duty. When the Civil War was over, the squadron was reinforced again until being disbanded just after the turn of the 20th century.
# History.
## Formation.
Established in 1821, this small force confined its activities initially to the Pacific waters off South America, North America and Hawaii prote... | 54,862 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
Pacific Squadron's First Sumatran Expedition conflict arose in February 1831. Off the coast of Sumatra on February 7, the American merchant vessel "Friendship" out of Salem was attacked by Malay natives described as "warrior pirates." The Americans were hoping to buy pepper from the natives but were in... | 54,863 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
the Dutch expedition on the west coast of Sumatra later that year. The surviving sailors escaped to a friendly port nearby with the help of a friendly Malay tribal chief, and then obtained the assistance of other American merchantmen to retake the plundered ship. Captain Endecott returned the ship to S... | 54,864 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
just joined the United States Exploring Expedition for circumnavigation of the globe, but were able to bombard Quallah Battoo and engage in the battle of Muckie without making a detour.
## Capture of Monterey.
In 1842 the Pacific Squadron commander Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones received false inf... | 54,865 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
before returning it to the Mexicans on 21 October when Jones discovered that war had not actually been declared.
## Mexican–American War.
### California Campaign.
The Pacific Squadron was instrumental in the capture of Alta California in the Mexican–American War of 1846 to 1848. In the conflict's ea... | 54,866 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
component of boarding or landing parties; they could also be detached for extended service on land. In actual practice, some sailors on each ship were detached from each vessel to supplement the marine force, although rarely more than would compromise a ship's ability to remain functional. The Pacific ... | 54,867 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
Engineers. Frémont, the son-in-law of expansionist U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton, had acted provocatively with California's Mexican government, and sustained a shadowy relationship with the American emigrants who began the Bear Flag Revolt on June 10, 1846 by stealing government horses they feared wo... | 54,868 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
capital city of Monterey, California on 7 July 1846. Two days later on 9 July, USS "Portsmouth", under Captain John S. Montgomery, landed seventy marines and bluejacket sailors at Clark's Point in San Francisco Bay and captured Yerba Buena, which is today's San Francisco, without firing a shot. On July... | 54,869 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
took over as the senior United States military commander in California in late July 1846; his flagship was the frigate USS "Congress". Stockton accepted the California Battalion under Fremont's command to help secure Southern California. The Battalion left for San Diego on the USS Cyane on July 226. Mo... | 54,870 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
keeping Fremont's volunteer force in the California Battalion supplied with black powder, lead shot and supplies as well as transporting them to different California ports. The USS "Cyane" transported Fremont and about 160 of his men to the small port of San Diego which was captured on 29 July 1846 wit... | 54,871 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
commander of Los Angeles, the largest settlement in Alta California with about 1,500 residents. Gillespie had an inadequate force of from thirty to fifty troops stationed there to keep order and garrison the city. The USS "Congress" is credited with capturing the Los Angeles harbor and port at San Pedr... | 54,872 |
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supplied by United States Army Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny, who had arrived from New Mexico, and part of Fremont's California Battalion of about 450 men to retake Los Angeles on 10 January 1847. The result of this Battle of Providencia was the Californios signing the Treaty of Cahuenga on 13 Ja... | 54,873 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
ship removed the old top deck and reduced the gun count from ninety to fifty-four making her less well gunned but much easier to sail. The rebuilt USS "Independence", now classified as a heavy frigate, launched on 4 August 1846 when the nation was already at war with Mexico and departed Boston 29 Augus... | 54,874 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
be muster out and stay in California. They were designated the 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers and fought in the California Campaign and the Pacific Coast Campaign. In August and September the regiment trained and prepared for the trip to California. Three private merchant ships, "Thomas H Perkins"... | 54,875 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
and wood were on their way again by 23 January. The "Perkins" did not stop until San Francisco, reaching port on 6 March 1847. The "Susan Drew" arrived on 20 March 1847 and the "Loo Choo" arrived on 26 March 1847, 183 days after leaving New York. The "Brutus" finally arrived on 17 April 1847.
After de... | 54,876 |
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that the ship "Sweden" arrived with another detachment of soldiers. These soldiers were added to the existing companies of Jonathan D. Stevenson's 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers. These troops essentially took over all of the Pacific Squadron's on-shore military and garrison duties and the Californ... | 54,877 |
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as well. The objective of the campaign was to take Mazatlan, a major supply base for Mexican forces. USS "Cyane" was given credit for eighteen captures and numerous destroyed ships. Entering the Gulf of California, "Independence", "Congress" and "Cyane" seized La Paz on the Baja California Peninsula, a... | 54,878 |
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occurred in which the Pacific Squadron ships provided support. USS "Cyane" returned to Norfolk on 9 October 1848 to receive the congratulations of the Secretary of the Navy for her significant contributions to American victories in Mexico. Other ships headed home too. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, s... | 54,879 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
ships declined as armored steamships were introduced before the American Civil War. The Pacific Squadron was far removed from the fighting during the conflict though some vessels of the squadron were reassigned to duty in the Atlantic and fought in engagements such as the Battle of Forts Jackson and St... | 54,880 |
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William Shubrick, was informed of the incident so the USS "Mohican" was sent to destroy the pirate threat. After arriving in the area in early August, "Mohican"s men discovered that the "Forward" was at Boca Teacapan's harbor in the Teacapan River. A boat expedition was launched and attacked the pirate... | 54,881 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
of sugar from the island to America. However, during the proceedings, Lunalilo died on February 3 of 1874 which suspended negotiations until the electoral process was completed. The wife of the king, Queen Emma ran against the future King Kalakaua and when he won she was very upset and decided to lead ... | 54,882 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
their first repair and coaling station in Pearl Harbor.
## Second Samoan Civil War.
In 1899 another civil war broke out in Samoa between rebels loyal to King Mataafa and federal forces of Prince Tanu. Pacific Squadron Rear Admiral Albert Kautz in USS "Philadelphia" launched an expedition to the islan... | 54,883 |
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the short lived German Samoa that was conquered during World War I.
## Disbandment.
In 1903, the Pacific Squadron consisted of the armored cruiser , the protected cruiser , the unprotected cruiser , and the gunboat "Ranger".
In early 1907, the U.S. Navy abolished both the Pacific Squadron and the Un... | 54,884 |
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Charles Stewart 1821–1823
- Commodore Isaac Hull 1823–1827
- Commodore Jacob Jones 1826–1829
- Commodore Charles C. B. Thompson 1829–1831
- Commodore John Downes 1832–1834
- Commodore Alexander Scammel Wadsworth 1834–1836
- Commodore Henry E. Ballard 1837–1839
- Commodore Alexander Claxton 1839–... | 54,885 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
Bladen Dulany 1853–1855
- Commodore William Mervine September 1855–October 1857
- Commodore John C. Long 1857–1859
- Commodore John B. Montgomery 1859 – January 2, 1862
- Acting Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell January 2, 1862 – October 25, 1864
- Rear Admiral George F. Pearson, October 4, 1864 – 1866... | 54,886 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
1870–1872
- Rear Admiral John J. Almy September 1873 – July 1876
Pacific Squadron 1878–1907
- Rear Admiral Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers 1878–1880
- Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens 1880–1881
- Rear Admiral Lewis Kimberly 1887–1890
- Commodore Joseph S. Skerrett 1892–1893
- Rear Admiral John I... | 54,887 |
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, frigate; 44 guns, 480 crew
- , frigate; 44 guns, 480 crew
- , ship of the line; 74 guns, 780 crew
- , sloop; 20 guns, 200 crew
- , sloop; 20 guns, 200 crew
- , sloop; 20 guns, 200 crew
- , sloop; 16 guns, 150 crew - Stevenson's convoy escort
- , sloop, 16 guns, 150 crew
- , storeship (bark); ... | 54,888 |
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200 crew
- , sloop; 20 guns, 200 crew
- , sloop; 20 guns, 200 crew
- , storeship (sloop); 20 guns, 200 crew
- , storeship
- , storeship
- , storeship
- , steamer
1861-1865
1861
- , screw sloop-of-war, 24 × 9 in (230 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns, 1 × 2 in (51 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren gun, 2 × 3... | 54,889 |
1403475 | Pacific Squadron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Squadron | Pacific Squadron
thbore Dahlgren guns, 1 × 2 in (51 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren gun, 2 × 30-pounder Parrott rifles, 367 men
- , side wheel steam sloop-of-war, 9 × 8-inch guns, complement unknown
- , screw sloop-of-war, 2 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns, 1 × 60-pounder Parrott rifle, 3 × 32-pounder guns, 198 men... | 54,890 |
9568817 | Eddie Fredericks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Fredericks | Eddie Fredericks
Eddie Fredericks
Edrick Reginald Fredericks (born 31 December 1977) is a former South African rugby union player. He played domestic rugby in South Africa for in 1998, for the in 1999, for the in 2000 and again from 2009 to 2011 and for the between 2001 and 2009 and again in 2011 and 2013. He also pla... | 54,891 |
9568817 | Eddie Fredericks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Fredericks | Eddie Fredericks
Reginald Fredericks (born 31 December 1977) is a former South African rugby union player. He played domestic rugby in South Africa for in 1998, for the in 1999, for the in 2000 and again from 2009 to 2011 and for the between 2001 and 2009 and again in 2011 and 2013. He also played Super Rugby for the i... | 54,892 |
9568811 | Purge (video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Purge%20(video%20game) | Purge (video game)
Purge (video game)
Purge or PurgeFinal (formerly known as PurgeJihad), is a free first-person shooter computer game published by Freeform Interactive LLC. "Purge" is an unofficial sequel to the "Future vs. Fantasy" total conversion mod for "Quake", and combines futuristic and magical themes, based o... | 54,893 |
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forces consist of the Android, Cyborg, Commando and Wastelander, while Mages, Fighters, Assassins and Monks make up the Chosen. The player then chooses attributes for his or her character and can customize their character's appearance..
The maps in "Purge" range from small scale for 2 to 24 players,... | 54,894 |
9568811 | Purge (video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Purge%20(video%20game) | Purge (video game)
Assassins and Monks make up the Chosen. The player then chooses attributes for his or her character and can customize their character's appearance..
The maps in "Purge" range from small scale for 2 to 24 players, to large for 10 to 64 players.
# Critical reception.
Both GameSpot and IGN rated "Pur... | 54,895 |
9568759 | Jeffersonia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffersonia | Jeffersonia
Jeffersonia
Jeffersonia which is also known as twinleaf or rheumatism root, is a small genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Berberidaceae. They are uncommon spring wildflowers and grow in limestone soils of rich deciduous forests. "Jeffersonia" was named for United States President Thomas Jef... | 54,896 |
9568759 | Jeffersonia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffersonia | Jeffersonia
petals; the flower resembles bloodroot. The short-lived flower appears in April or May, before the forest canopy appears (see spring ephemeral). The fruit is a green pear-shaped capsule with a hinged top. The characteristic leaves are large and nearly divided in half, giving rise to its common name, twinlea... | 54,897 |
9568759 | Jeffersonia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffersonia | Jeffersonia
in Flora of China)
- "Jeffersonia lobata"
- "Jeffersonia odorata"
- species in homonymic genus
In 1800, Brickell used the name "Jeffersonia" to refer to some plants in the Loganiaceae, thus creating an illegitimate homonym. Species names coined using this illegitimate use of the name:
- "Jeffersonia se... | 54,898 |
9568759 | Jeffersonia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffersonia | Jeffersonia
s.
## America.
Native Americans use "Jeffersonia diphylla" for a variety of medicines.
The Cherokee use an infusion of this plant for treating dropsy, as well as gravel and urinary tract problems, and as a poultice for sores and inflammation.
The Iroquois used a decoction of the plant to treat gall and ... | 54,899 |
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