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Regis).
- Blackheath
- Cradley Heath
- Haden Hill
- Old Hill
- Rowley Village
- Whiteheath
# Famous residents.
- Josie Lawrence – British actress, was educated at Rowley Regis Grammar School (1970–75).
- Pete Williams – bass player with Dexys Midnight Runners between 1978 and 1981, was educated at... | 8,900 |
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– executioner (period in office 1849–1872). George Smith was born in Rowley Regis in 1805 and was a prisoner himself at Stafford when he entered the "trade" as an assistant to William Calcraft. His first job was assisting at the double hanging of James Owen and George Thomas outside Stafford Gaol on 11 Apr... | 8,901 |
343243 | Rowley Regis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rowley%20Regis | Rowley Regis
first private hanging in England (of Thomas Wells see below) in August 1868. He was renowned for his long white coat and top hat which he wore at public hangings. Smith's son, also George, assisted at three executions at Stafford prison. Initially, it is said that he was hired by the Under Sheriff of Staff... | 8,902 |
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utions at Stafford prison. Initially, it is said that he was hired by the Under Sheriff of Staffordshire to save the cost of bringing Calcraft up from London. With the advent of a good rail network, Smith, like Askern and Calcraft, could operate much further afield in later years. George Smith carried out ... | 8,903 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Ambrosian Rite
The Ambrosian Rite, also called the Milanese Rite, is a Catholic Western liturgical rite. The rite is named after Saint Ambrose, a bishop of Milan in the fourth century. The Ambrosian Rite, which differs from the Roman Rite, is used by some five million Catholics in the greater part of th... | 8,904 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
reformed after the Second Vatican Council, partly because Pope Paul VI belonged to the Ambrosian Rite, having previously been Archbishop of Milan. In the 20th century, it also gained prominence and prestige from the attentions of two other scholarly Archbishops of Milan: Achille Ratti, later Pope Pius XI... | 8,905 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
removed material seen as unorthodox by the mainstream church and issued corrected service books which included the principal characteristics distinguishing it from other rites.
According to St. Augustine ("Confessones", IX, vii) and Paulinus the Deacon ("Vita S. Ambrosii", § 13), St. Ambrose introduced ... | 8,906 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
orientalium partium ne populus mæroris tædio contabesceret" (after the manner of the Orientals, lest the people should languish in cheerless monotony); and of this Paulinus the deacon says: "Hoc in tempore primum antiphonæ, hymni. et vigiliæ in ecclesiâ Mediolanensi celebrari cœperunt, Cujus celebritatis... | 8,907 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
liturgical allusions may certainly be explained as referring to a rite which possessed the characteristics of that which is called by his name, until the period of Charlemagne (circ AD 800), there is a gap in the history of the Milanese Rite. However, St. Simplician, the successor of St. Ambrose, added m... | 8,908 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
"Ratio de Cursus qui fuerunt ex auctores" (sic in Cott. Manuscripts, Nero A. II, in the British Museum), written about the middle of the eighth century, probably by an Irish monk in France, is found perhaps the earliest attribution of the Milan use to St. Ambrose, though it quotes the authority of St. Au... | 8,909 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
previously used to be sung in Italy).
According to a narrative of Landulphus Senior, the eleventh-century chronicler of Milan, Charlemagne attempted to abolish the Ambrosian Rite, as he or his father, Pepin the Short, had abolished the Gallican Rite in France, in favour of a Gallicanized Roman Rite. He ... | 8,910 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Mozarabic Rite, was determined on. Two books, Ambrosian and Roman, were laid closed upon the altar of St. Peter's Church in Rome and left for three days, and the one which was found open was to win. They were both found open, and it was resolved that as God had shown that one was as acceptable as the oth... | 8,911 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
have been nearly, if not quite, contemporary with this incident, says nothing about it, but (De Rebus Ecclesiasticis, xxii), speaking of various forms of the Mass, says: "Ambrosius quoque Mediolanensis episcopus tam missæ quam cæterorum dispositionem officiorum suæ ecclesiæ et aliis Liguribus ordinavit, ... | 8,912 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Damian, but he was unsuccessful, and Pope Alexander II, his successor, himself a Milanese, reversed his policy in this respect. St. Gregory VII made another attempt, and Le Brun (Explication de la Messe, III, art. I, § 8) conjectures that Landulf's miraculous narrative was written with a purpose about th... | 8,913 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
riot, and the Cardinal's legateship came to an abrupt end. After that the Ambrosian Rite was safe until the Council of Trent. The Rule of that Council, that local uses which could show a prescription of two centuries might be retained, saved Milan, not without a struggle, from the loss of its Rite, and S... | 8,914 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
in a living rite.
Since his time the temper of the Milan Church has been most conservative, and the only alterations in subsequent editions seem to have been slight improvements in the wording of rubrics and in the arrangement of the books. The district in which the Ambrosian Rite is used is nominally t... | 8,915 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Lutheran. There are traces also of the use of the Ambrosian Rite beyond the limits of the Province of Milan. In 1132-34, two Augustinian canons of Ratisbon, Paul, said by Bäumer to be Paul of Bernried, and Gebehard, held a correspondence (printed by Mabillon in his "Musæum Italicum" from the originals in... | 8,916 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
der kirchl. Liturgie des Bisthums Augsburg) to have remained in the diocese of Augsburg down to its last breviary of 1584, and according to Catena (Cantù, Milano e il suo territorio, 118) the use of Capua in the time of St. Charles Borromeo had some resemblance to that of Milan.
## Recent history.
Impo... | 8,917 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Roman Rite, a new bilingual (Latin and Italian) edition of the Ambrosian Missal was issued in 1966, simplifying the 1955 missal, mainly in the prayers the priest said inaudibly and in the genuflections, and adding the Prayer of the Faithful. The eucharistic prayer continued to be said in Latin until 1967... | 8,918 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
whether the Ambrosian Rite would survive. But in promulgating the documents of the 46th diocesan synod (1966–1973), Cardinal Archbishop Giovanni Colombo, supported by Pope Paul VI (a former Archbishop of Milan), finally decreed that the Ambrosian Rite, brought into line with the directives of the Second ... | 8,919 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
the Ambrosian Missal were implemented in 1978, restoring for example the place of the Creed in the Mass, and the new Ambrosian rite for funerals was issued.
The Ambrosian Missal also restored two early-medieval Ambrosian eucharistic prayers, unusual for placing the epiclesis after the Words of Instituti... | 8,920 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Ambrosian liturgical tradition, and contains in particular, a special rite of light ("lucernarium") and proclamation of the resurrection of Jesus, for use before the Saturday-evening celebration of the Mass of the Sunday, seen as the weekly Easter. Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass in Milan using the Amb... | 8,921 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Church in the writings of St. Augustine and St. Ambrose, and in the anonymous treatise "De Sacramentis", which used to be attributed to the latter, but is not his; but these allusions are naturally enough insufficient for more than vague conjecture, and have been used with perhaps equal justification in ... | 8,922 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
often, as might be expected, in a Roman direction, the changes are singularly few and unimportant, and the Ambrosian Rite of today is substantially the same as that represented in the early Manuscripts. Indeed, since some of these documents come from places in the Alpine valleys, such as Biasca, Lodrino,... | 8,923 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
controversy is not in sight.
The question resolves itself into this: Is the Ambrosian Rite archaic Roman, or a much Romanized form of the Gallican Rite? And this question is mixed with that of the provenance of the Gallican Rite itself. Some liturgiologists of a past generation, notably J. M. Neale and ... | 8,924 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
in 664, attributed the Celtic rule of Easter to St. John, and in the curious little eighth-century treatise already mentioned (in Cott. Manuscript Nero A. II) one finds: "Johannes Evangelista primum cursus gallorum decantavit. Inde postea beatus policarpus discipulus sci iohannis. Inde postea hiereneus q... | 8,925 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Ephesine Rite; he never brought much evidence for this view, being generally contented with stating it and giving a certain number of not very convincing comparisons with the Mozarabic Rite (Essays on Liturgiology, ed. 1867, 171-197). But Neale greatly exaggerated the Romanizing effected by St. Charles B... | 8,926 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
of origin which works out very clearly, though it is almost all founded on conjecture and a priori reasoning. He rejects entirely the Ephesine supposition, and considers that the Orientalisms which he recognizes in the Hispano-Gallican Rite are of much later origin than the period of St. Irenæus, and tha... | 8,927 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
nationality of many of the Bishops of Milan. In his analysis of the Gallican Mass, Duchesne assumes that the seventh-century Bobbio Sacramentary (Bibl. Nat., 13,246), though not actually Milanese, is to be counted as a guide to early Ambrosian usages, and makes use of it in the reconstruction of the prim... | 8,928 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
et littérature religeuses" (II, 173) and in Dom Cabrol's Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie" [s. v. Ambrosien (Rit)].
The other theory, of which Antonio Maria Ceriani and Magistretti are the most distinguished exponents, maintains that the Ambrosian Rite has preserved the pre-Gelasian ... | 8,929 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
The borrowings from the Greek service books have been ably discussed by Cagin (Paléographie musicale, V), but there are Greek loans in the Roman books also, though, if Duchesne's theory of origin is correct, some of them may have travelled by way of the Milanese-Gallican Rite at the time of the Charlemag... | 8,930 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
and the whole question of provenance is further complicated by a theory, into which Ceriani does not enter, of a Roman origin of all the Latin liturgical rites: Gallican, Celtic, Mozarabic, and Ambrosian alike. There are indications in his liturgical note to the "Book of Cerne" and in "The Genius of the ... | 8,931 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Mass.
The main differences in the Mass are:
- The principal celebrant blesses all the readers, not only the deacon.
- The Gospel is followed by a short antiphon.
- The General Intercessions or "Prayers of the Faithful" immediately follow the homily
- The Rite of Peace comes at the beginning of the L... | 8,932 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
has two proper Eucharistic Prayers, used mainly on Easter and Holy Thursday.
- The priest breaks the Host and places a piece in the main chalice before the Lord's Prayer, while an antiphon (the "Confractorium") is sung or recited.
- The "Agnus Dei" is not said.
- Before the final blessing, the people ... | 8,933 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
rich variety of prefaces.
## Liturgical year.
The main differences in the liturgical year are:
- Advent has six weeks, not four.
- Lent starts four days later than in the Roman Rite, so that Ash Wednesday is postponed to a week later than in the Roman Rite, and Carnival continues until "sabato grasso... | 8,934 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
and there are other differences in liturgical colours throughout the year.
## Other.
Other differences are that:
- The Liturgy of the Hours (also known as the Divine Office or Breviary) is different in structure and in various features.
- The liturgical rites of Holy Week are quite different.
- The ... | 8,935 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
white collar.
- Ambrosian chant is distinct from Gregorian chant.
- Some senior priests (notably Provosts and certain Canons) are entitled to wear vestments commonly associated with bishops, including the mitre.
- The liturgical burning of the faro (a large cotton sphere suspended in the air, inside t... | 8,936 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
igitur, when they occur, and the solitary Post Sanctus of Easter Eve, besides the ceremonies of Holy Week, etc., and the Ordinary and Canon of the Mass. There are often also occasional offices usually found in a modern ritual, such as Baptism, the Visitation and Unction of the Sick, the Burial of the Dea... | 8,937 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Psallenda, Completoria, Capitula, Hymns, and other changeable parts, except the Lessons, which are found separately. For the Mass: the Ingressœ, Psalmellœ, Versus, Cantus, Antiphonœ ante and post Evangelium, Offertoria, Confractoria, and Transitoria. The "Manual" often also contains occasional services s... | 8,938 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
late ninth or early tenth century. Described by Delisle, "Anc. Sacr.", LXXI, edited by Ceriani in his "Monumenta Sacra et Profana", VIII, the Ordinary is analyzed and the Canon given in full in Ceriani's "Notitia Lit. Ambr".
- The "Lodrino Sacramentary"; Bibl. Ambr., A. 24, inf., eleventh century. Delis... | 8,939 |
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to the Marchese Trotti; eleventh century. Delisle, "Anc. Sacr.", LXXVI.
- Sacramentary; Bibl. Ambros., CXX, sup., eleventh century. Delisle, "Anc. Sacr.", LXXVII.
- The "Bergamo Sacramentary"; library of Sant' Alessandro in Colonna, Bergamo; tenth or eleventh century. Published by the Benedictines of S... | 8,940 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
di Monza", III,75-77, 82-84.
- "Missale Ambrosianum", of Bedero (near Luino); Bibl. Ambr., D., 87 inf.; twelfth century. Noted by Magistretti in "Della nuova edizione tipica del messale Ambrosiano".
## Antiphoner.
- Antiphoner: "Antiphonarium Ambrosianum"; British Museum, Add. Manuscripts, 34,209; twe... | 8,941 |
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century. Imperfect. Magistretti, "Mon. Vet. Lit. Amb.", II, 19.
- "Manuale Ambrosianum"; Bibl. Ambr., CIII, sup.; tenth or eleventh century. Imperfect. Magistretti, "Mon. Vet. Lit. Amb.", II, 20.
- "Manuale Ambrosianum"; from the Church of Cernusco (between Monza and Lecco); Bibl. Ambr., I, 55, sup.; e... | 8,942 |
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II, 30.
## Rituals.
- "Liber Monachorum S. Ambrosii"; Bibl. Ambr., XCVI, sup.; eleventh century. Magistretti, "Mon. Vet. Lit. Amb.", II, 33, 79-93.
- "Rituale Ambrosianum", from the Church of S. Laurentiolus in Porta Vercellina, Milan; Sacrar. Metrop., H. 62; thirteenth century. Magistretti, "Mon. Vet... | 8,943 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
Beroldus; Bibl, Ambr., I, 158, inf. twelfth century. Published by Magistretti, 1894.
## Pontificals.
- "Pontificale Mediolanensis Ecclesiæ"; Chapter Library, Milan; ninth century. Printed by Magistretti, "Mon. Vet. Lit. Amb.", I
- "Pontificale Mediolanensis Ecclesiæ"; Chapter Library, Milan; eleventh ... | 8,944 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
(St. Charles Borromeo) 1594; (F. Borromeo) 1609-18; (Monti) 1640; (Litta) 1669; (Fed. Visconti) 1692; (Archinti) 1712; (Pozzobonelli) 1751, 1768; (Fil. Visconti) 1795; (Gaisruck) 1831; (Ferrari) 1902.
- Breviaries: (Pre-Borromean) 1475, 1487, 1490, 1492, 1507, 1513, 1522, and many others; (St. Charles B... | 8,945 |
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the Lectionary, and Litanies are in the British Museum.
# English translations.
- "We Give You Thanks and Praise. The Ambrosian Eucharistic Prefaces." translated by Alan Griffiths, first published by The Canterbury Press, Norwich, (a publishing imprint of Hymn Ancient & Modern Limited, a registered cha... | 8,946 |
343240 | Ambrosian Rite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosian%20Rite | Ambrosian Rite
for the Ambrosian Rite.
- The Divine Liturgy of St. Ambrose, as authorized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
# See also.
- Ambrosians
- Rite of the Nivola
# References.
- A. Ratti / M. Magistretti, Missale Ambrosianum Duplex, Mediolani 1913
- Missale Ambrosianum iuxta ritum Sanctae... | 8,947 |
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cclesiae Presbyter Cardinalis Archiepiscopi Mediolanensis promulgatum, Mediolani 1981
- Messale Ambrosiano secondo il rito della santa Chiese di Milano. Riformato a norma dei decreti del Concilio Vaticano II. Promulgato dal Signor Cardinale Giovanno Colombo, arcivescovo di Milano, Milano 1976
- The Rev... | 8,948 |
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Cape Henry Memorial
The Cape Henry Memorial commemorates the first landfall at Cape Henry, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, of colonists bound for the Jamestown settlement. After landing on April 26, 1607, they explored the area, named the cape, and set up a cross before proceeding up the James River. ... | 8,949 |
343252 | Cape Henry Memorial | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cape%20Henry%20Memorial | Cape Henry Memorial
ng General Cornwallis, and led to the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. A statue of Admiral Comte de Grasse and a granite memorial honor those who fought in the battle.
Although not memorialized at the park, this was also the location of the earlier smaller naval Battle of Cape Henry in which Br... | 8,950 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
Internet2
Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government. The Internet2 consortium administrative headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Emeryville, ... | 8,951 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
and provides a secure network testing and research environment. In late 2007, Internet2 began operating its newest dynamic circuit network, the Internet2 DCN, an advanced technology that allows user-based allocation of data circuits over the fiber-optic network.
The Internet2 Network, through its regional ne... | 8,952 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
network performance measurement and management tools, secure identity and access management tools and capabilities such as scheduling high-bandwidth, high-performance circuits.
Internet2 members serve on several advisory councils, collaborate in a variety of working groups and special interest groups, gather... | 8,953 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
Some universities wanted to support high-performance applications like data mining, medical imaging and particle physics. This resulted in the creation of the very-high-performance Backbone Network Service, or vBNS, developed in 1995 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and MCI for supercomputers at educa... | 8,954 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
as the not-for-profit University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) in 1997. It later changed its name to Internet2. Internet2 is a registered trademark.
The Internet2 community, in partnership with Qwest, built the first Internet2 Network, called Abilene, in 1998 and was a prime investor ... | 8,955 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
its capacity from 10 Gbit/s to 100 Gbit/s. In October, 2007, Internet2 officially retired Abilene and now refers to its new, higher capacity network as the Internet2 Network.
In 2010, Internet2 received a $62.5 million American Recovery and Reinvestment ACT grant, which allowed Internet2 to put in place a lo... | 8,956 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
itself is a dynamic, robust and cost-effective hybrid optical and packet network. It furnishes a 100 Gbit/s network backbone to more than 210 U.S. educational institutions, 70 corporations and 45 non-profit and government agencies.
The objectives of the Internet2 consortium are:
- Developing and maintaining... | 8,957 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
to social networking. Some of these applications are in varying levels of commercialization, such as IPv6, open-source middleware for secure network access, Layer 2 VPNs and dynamic circuit networks.
# Achievements.
These technologies and their organizational counterparts were not only created to make a fas... | 8,958 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
now available to Internet2 participants. Neurosurgeons can now video conference with other experts in the field during an operation in a high resolution format with no apparent time lag.
# Application awards.
The "Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications" (IDEA) award (not to be confused with IDEA awards) w... | 8,959 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
and likelihood of broader adoption by its full natural community of potential users
Winners of the award are announced each year at the Spring member meeting:
2006,
2007,
2008.
# Further reading.
- Barnes, Christopher, and Terresa E. Jackson . "INTERNET2: The Backbone of the Future". Brooks Air Force Ba... | 8,960 |
343251 | Internet2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet2 | Internet2
y Poole, Tami Schuyler, and Theresa M. Senft. "History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present". Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
- Van Houweling, Douglas and Ted Hanss, "Internet2: The Promise of Truly Advanced Broadband," in The Broadband Explosion, R. Austin and S. Bradley, Editors, Harvard... | 8,961 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
Junkanoo
Junkanoo (or Jonkonnu) is a street parade with music, dance, and costumes of Akan origin in many islands across the English speaking Caribbean every Boxing Day (December 26) and New Year's Day (January 1), the same as "Kakamotobi" or the Fancy Dress Festival of Ghana. There are also Junkanoo parades ... | 8,962 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
several centuries ago, when enslaved descendants of Africans on plantations in The Bahamas celebrated holidays granted around Christmas time with dance, music, and costumes. After emancipation the tradition continued and junkanoo evolved from simple origins to a formal, organised parade with intricate costumes... | 8,963 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
Igbo origin from the Igbo yam deity "Njoku Ji" referencing festivities in time for the new yam festival. Chambers also suggests a link with the Igbo "okonko" masking tradition of southern Igboland which feature horned maskers and other masked characters in similar style to jonkonnu masks.
Similarities with th... | 8,964 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
an 18th-century Jamaican slave owner/historian, the John Canoe festival was created in Jamaica and the Caribbean by enslaved Akans who backed the man known as John Canoe. John Canoe, from Axim, Ghana, was an Akan from the Ahanta. He was a soldier for the Germans, until one day he turned his back on them for hi... | 8,965 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
Ahanta, Nzima and Ashanti captives were taken to Jamaica as prisoners of war. The festival itself included motifs from battles typical of Akan fashion. The Ashanti swordsman became the "horned headed man"; the Ashanti commander became "Pitchy patchy" who also wears a battledress with what would resemble charms... | 8,966 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
was led by a man who was variously dressed in animal horns, elaborate rags, female disguise, whiteface (and wearing a gentleman's wig!), or simply his "Sunday-go-to-meeting-suit." Accompanied by music, the band marched along the roads from plantation to plantation, town to town, accosting whites along the way ... | 8,967 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
featured in movies including the James Bond film "Thunderball" (erroneously described as a local Mardi Gras-type festival), "After the Sunset" and "Jaws The Revenge", as well as in the season one episode "Calderone's Return (Part II)" of the 1984 television series "Miami Vice", taking place on the fictitious i... | 8,968 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
Festival of the Bahamas". Macmillan Caribbean, 1992.
- Nissenbaum, Stephen. "The Battle for Christmas". New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
- Wisdom, Keith Gordon. Bahamian Junkanoo: An Act in a Modern Social Drama (Dissertation)
- Wood, Vivian Nina Michelle. Rushin' hard and runnin' hot: Experiencing the music ... | 8,969 |
343250 | Junkanoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Junkanoo | Junkanoo
Nissenbaum, Stephen. "The Battle for Christmas". New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
- Wisdom, Keith Gordon. Bahamian Junkanoo: An Act in a Modern Social Drama (Dissertation)
- Wood, Vivian Nina Michelle. Rushin' hard and runnin' hot: Experiencing the music of the Junkanoo Parade in Nassau, Bahamas (Dissertation)... | 8,970 |
343249 | 1921 Canadian federal election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1921%20Canadian%20federal%20election | 1921 Canadian federal election
1921 Canadian federal election
The Canadian federal election of 1921 was held on December 6, 1921, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 14th Parliament of Canada. The Union government that had governed Canada through the First World War was defeated, and replaced by ... | 8,971 |
343249 | 1921 Canadian federal election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1921%20Canadian%20federal%20election | 1921 Canadian federal election
Liberal-Unionists and formed a Union government. A number of Members of Parliament (MPs), mostly Quebecers, stayed loyal to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, however, and they maintained their independence. When Laurier died, he was replaced as leader by the Ontarian Mackenzie King. After the 1919 fed... | 8,972 |
343249 | 1921 Canadian federal election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1921%20Canadian%20federal%20election | 1921 Canadian federal election
general strike of 1919. Meighen had played a key role in violently suppressing the strikers and this earned him the animosity of organized labour.
Meighen attempted to make the "Unionist" party a permanent alliance of Tories and Liberals by renaming it the National Liberal and Conservati... | 8,973 |
343249 | 1921 Canadian federal election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1921%20Canadian%20federal%20election | 1921 Canadian federal election
to vote, thanks to reforms passed by the Conservatives. Five women also ran for office. Agnes Macphail of the Progressive Party was elected as the first woman MP in Canada.
Parliament was split three ways by this election. King's Liberals won a majority government of just one seat but wo... | 8,974 |
343249 | 1921 Canadian federal election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1921%20Canadian%20federal%20election | 1921 Canadian federal election
won only one seat east of Ontario, however. Despite winning the second most seats, it declined to form the official opposition. It would be the only Canadian federal election before 1993 in which a party other than the Liberals or the (Progressive) Conservatives won the second most seats.... | 8,975 |
343249 | 1921 Canadian federal election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1921%20Canadian%20federal%20election | 1921 Canadian federal election
J. S. Woodsworth won his seat largely from his role in the 1919 Winnipeg general strike, and William Irvine and Joseph Tweed Shaw were elected in Calgary.
# Majority or minority?
The government that King formed in the parliament resulting from this election was Canada's first minority g... | 8,976 |
343249 | 1921 Canadian federal election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1921%20Canadian%20federal%20election | 1921 Canadian federal election
majority because of its victory in a by-election in a seat that had been held by the Conservatives.
The Progressive caucus was less united than the Liberals or Conservatives, due to the formation of the Ginger Group and the semi-autonomous United Farmers of Alberta group. The Farmer MPs ... | 8,977 |
343249 | 1921 Canadian federal election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1921%20Canadian%20federal%20election | 1921 Canadian federal election
of bending to the will of the party leader and whip. Many Progressives argued that an MP should be able to vote against the party line so long as the vote was in accordance to his constituents' wishes. As a result, King always found enough Progressive MPs who were willing to back him on c... | 8,978 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
Congress of Gniezno
The Congress of Gniezno (, or "Gnesener Übereinkunft") was an amical meeting between the Polish Duke Bolesław I the Brave and Emperor Otto III, which took place at Gniezno on 11 March 1000. Scholars disagree over the details of the decisions made at the convention, especially wh... | 8,979 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
was put into a tomb at Gniezno Cathedral, which became the ecclesiastical center of Poland.
According to the chronicles of Thietmar of Merseburg, Otto III, who had been a friend and pupil of Adalbert, committed to a pilgrimage from Italy to St. Adalbert's tomb in Gniezno; in his attempt to extend t... | 8,980 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
extended their domains beyond the Oder river, where their claims to power collided with the interests of the Saxon margrave Gero. After his defeat by Gero's troops in 963, Mieszko I decided to come to terms with Emperor Otto I and agreed to pay tribute for this part of his lands. In turn he gained t... | 8,981 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
placed his realm (Civitas Schinesghe) under the protection of Pope John XV according to the "dagome iudex" regest.
When his son Bolesław succeeded him, Poland remained an ally of the Empire in the campaigns against the Polabian Lutici tribes. Emperor Otto II, father of Otto III, died at age 28 in 9... | 8,982 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
the 7th and 15th of March Otto invested Bolesław with the titles "frater et cooperator Imperii" ("Brother and Partner of the Empire") and "populi Romani amicus et socius" as rendered in the 1115 "Gesta principum Polonorum" by the Kraków chronicler Gallus Anonymus, the first author of Polish history.... | 8,983 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
of Wrocław (assigned to Bishop Jan) and the Bishopric of Kołobrzeg in Pomerania (assigned to bishop Reinbern). St. Adalbert's brother Radzim Gaudenty became the first archbishop of Gniezno. Otto III gave Bolesław a replica of his Holy Lance, part of the Imperial Regalia, and Bolesław presented the E... | 8,984 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
one holds that it was attached to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, the nearest German ecclesiastical province. However, generally, the congress is seen as having established complete ecclesiastical independence of the Polish church from Magdeburg.
Bolesław subsequently accompanied Otto III on his wa... | 8,985 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
policies. Bolesław supported Henry's rival, Margrave Eckard I of Meissen, expanded the Polish realm into the March of Lusatia and the Milceni lands, and also took the Bohemian throne at Prague, interfering with Henry's interests. During a meeting with Henry II in Merseburg, Bolesław was attacked by ... | 8,986 |
343248 | Congress of Gniezno | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress%20of%20Gniezno | Congress of Gniezno
he papal consent for his coronation as Polish king. The Pomeranian diocese of Kołobrzeg, founded as a consequence of the Congress of Gniezno, was overthrown by a pagan resurgence of the Pomeranians around 1007, and bishop Reinbern was forced to return to Boleslaw's court.
The creation of the separa... | 8,987 |
343257 | List of craters on Mars: A–G | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20craters%20on%20Mars:%20A–G | List of craters on Mars: A–G
List of craters on Mars: A–G
This is a partial list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter A – G "(see also lists for and )".
Large Martian... | 8,988 |
343257 | List of craters on Mars: A–G | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20craters%20on%20Mars:%20A–G | List of craters on Mars: A–G
sts and science fiction authors; smaller ones (less than 60 km in diameter) get their names from towns on Earth. Craters cannot be named for living people, and small crater names are not intended to be commemorative – that is, a small crater isn't actually named after a specific town on Ear... | 8,989 |
343260 | Claim Jumper | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claim%20Jumper | Claim Jumper
Claim Jumper
Claim Jumper Restaurant and Saloon is an American restaurant chain with more than 30 locations. The company is based in Houston, Texas.
# History.
Restaurateur Craig Nickoloff opened the first Claim Jumper in Los Alamitos, California, on September 27, 1977. The original restaurant had a lar... | 8,990 |
343260 | Claim Jumper | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claim%20Jumper | Claim Jumper
than 30 locations. The company is based in Houston, Texas.
# History.
Restaurateur Craig Nickoloff opened the first Claim Jumper in Los Alamitos, California, on September 27, 1977. The original restaurant had a large menu and an atmosphere inspired by California's Gold Rush of 1849.
## Acquisition by La... | 8,991 |
343258 | Tzvetan Todorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tzvetan%20Todorov | Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov (; ; ; March 1, 1939 – February 7, 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist and geologist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, s... | 8,992 |
343258 | Tzvetan Todorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tzvetan%20Todorov | Tzvetan Todorov
his post as a director of research at the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in 1968. In 1970, he helped to found the journal "Poétique", of which he remained one of the managing editors until 1979. With structuralist literary critic Gérard Genette, he edited the "Collection Poétique",... | 8,993 |
343258 | Tzvetan Todorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tzvetan%20Todorov | Tzvetan Todorov
Dialogical Principle" (1984), "Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps" (1991), "On Human Diversity" (1993), "A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944" (1994), "Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria" (1999), "Hope and Memory" (2000), "Imperfect Garden: T... | 8,994 |
343258 | Tzvetan Todorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tzvetan%20Todorov | Tzvetan Todorov
theory was his definition, in "Introduction à la littérature fantastique" (1970), of the Fantastic, the fantastic uncanny, and the fantastic marvelous. Todorov defines the fantastic as being any event that happens in our world that seems to be supernatural. Upon the occurrence of the event, we must deci... | 8,995 |
343258 | Tzvetan Todorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tzvetan%20Todorov | Tzvetan Todorov
In the fantastic uncanny, the event that occurs is actually an illusion of some sort. The "laws of reality" remain intact and also provide a rational explanation for the fantastic event. Todorov gives examples of dreams, drugs, illusions of the senses, madness, etc. as things that could explain a fantas... | 8,996 |
343258 | Tzvetan Todorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tzvetan%20Todorov | Tzvetan Todorov
Happiness" about the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He focuses on Rousseau's ideas of attaining human happiness and how we can live in 'modern' times.
In one of his major works, "Facing the Extreme", Todorov asks whether it is true the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulags revealed that in... | 8,997 |
343258 | Tzvetan Todorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tzvetan%20Todorov | Tzvetan Todorov
to be sacrificed and everyone is alone. Reports from gulag survivors are similar. However, in his reading of actual survivor testimonies, Todorov says the picture is not that bleak, that there are many examples of inmates helping each other and showing compassion in human relationships despite the inhum... | 8,998 |
343258 | Tzvetan Todorov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tzvetan%20Todorov | Tzvetan Todorov
Prize of the Académie française and the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences; he also is an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He also received the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. In 2015, he was awarded the [Wayne C. Booth] Award for lifetime achievement in narrative st... | 8,999 |
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