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31959224#0 | George Hayes (footballer) | Thomas George Hayes (25 September 1908 – 16 May 1984) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a centre forward or an inside forward. Born in Port Talbot, he played for the Wales Schoolboys team as a youngster and had spells with Port Talbot Athletic and Bridgend Town. In the summer of 1927, Hayes moved to Eng... |
31959224#1 | George Hayes (footballer) | Hayes made his Nelson debut on 17 March 1928 in the 5–4 victory away at Hartlepools United. He scored his first goals for the club the following month, netting twice in the 4–0 home win against Darlington on 7 April, and scoring a consolation goal in the reverse fixture a week later. Hayes made a total of nine league a... |
31959227#0 | Clarence Hovermale House | Clarence Hovermale House, also known as Hovermale-Mendenhall House, is a historic home located at Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, West Virginia. It was built in 1884, and is a two-story, brick Queen Anne style dwelling that follows a modified, ell-shaped "I"-house plan. Also on the property is a shed, built about 1860... |
31959227#1 | Clarence Hovermale House | It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It is located within the Town of Bath Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. |
31959229#0 | Michael Lockman | Michael Lockman (born 29 August 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond, Collingwood and the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
31959229#1 | Michael Lockman | Originally from Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) club East Malvern, Lockman had two separate stints at Richmond. After playing three games for Richmond early in 1986, he was traded to Collingwood where he finished the season. He made the move north to Sydney in 1988 and appeared in the opening 11 rounds of... |
31959229#2 | Michael Lockman | Lockman went on to become a coach and was in charge of TFL Statewide League club Launceston in 1996 and 1997. |
31959234#0 | Fraile Muerto | Fraile Muerto is a town in the Cerro Largo Department of eastern Uruguay. Its name means "Dead Friar". |
31959234#1 | Fraile Muerto | It is located on Route 7, around west-southwest of Melo. |
31959234#2 | Fraile Muerto | It was founded on 3 January 1908. Its original name was "Fructuoso Mazziotta", known also as "Wenceslao Silveira". On 17 July 1918 it was renamed to "Fraile Muerto" and its status was elevated to "Pueblo" (village) by the Act of Ley Nº 6.195 and then raised to "Villa" (town) on 19 December 1957 by the Act of Ley Nº 12.... |
31959234#3 | Fraile Muerto | In 2011 Fraile Muerto had a population of 3,168.
Source: "Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay" |
31959237#0 | MTV Music (Greece) | MTV Music was a Greek pay television music channel that aired non-stop music videos, live performances and artist interviews and it was available only on OTE TV. |
31959240#0 | Delevingne | Delevingne is a surname. It may refer to: |
31959246#0 | Blouson | A blouson or blouse jacket is a coat that is drawn tight at the waist, causing it to blouse out and hang over the waistband. Some of them have a hood. It takes most of its modern traits from the American flight jacket and police blouson. It is related to the Eisenhower jacket. It is considered to be both sportswear and... |
31959246#1 | Blouson | The MA-1 bomber jacket was originally designed for the US military during the 1950s. The MA-2 bomber jacket has now taken its place. |
31959246#2 | Blouson | The "Black jacket" was popularized by Yves Saint Laurent and was donned by some music groups in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Modern flight jackets have been popular with skinheads and scooterboys from the 1980s onwards. |
31959246#3 | Blouson | In 1993, the blouson was worn as the national costume of the United States for the APEC meeting held in Seattle, Washington. In the early 2000s, the jacket was popular casual wear in hip hop fashion. |
31959246#4 | Blouson | The blouson jacket has been worn by several police departments in the United States, Austria, Israel, New Zealand, Germany and the United Kingdom due to its sturdy design, and heavy insulation. The NYPD has used a form of them, since 2010 . |
31959252#0 | Isidoro Noblía | Isidoro Noblía is a small town ("villa") in the Cerro Largo Department of eastern Uruguay. |
31959252#1 | Isidoro Noblía | It is located on Route 8, south of Aceguá on the border with Brazil and north of the city of Melo. |
31959252#2 | Isidoro Noblía | Its status was elevated to "Pueblo" (village) on 15 November 1963 by the Act of Ley Nº 13.167 and then to "Villa" (town) on 20 October 1992 by the Act of Ley Nº 16.312 |
31959252#3 | Isidoro Noblía | In 2011 Isidoro Noblía had a population of 2,331.
Source: "Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay" |
31959258#0 | Ramón Trigo | Ramón Trigo is a small village in the Cerro Largo Department of eastern Uruguay. |
31959258#1 | Ramón Trigo | It is located into a road that splits off Ruta 26 (on its kilometre 388) in a southern direction, about west of the department capital city of Melo. It lies north of Fraile Muerto and Tres Islas. |
31959258#2 | Ramón Trigo | In 2011 Ramón Trigo had a population of 150.
Source: "Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay" |
31959261#0 | Tupambaé | Tupambaé is a village ("pueblo") in the Cerro Largo Department of eastern Uruguay. |
31959261#1 | Tupambaé | It is located on the border with Treinta y Tres Department, on Km. 334 of Route 7, about southwest of Melo. The railroad track Montevideo - Melo pass through the south part of the village. Its closest populated place is Santa Clara de Olimar of Treinta y Tres Department, located to the southwest along Ruta 7. |
31959261#2 | Tupambaé | Its status was elevated to "Pueblo" category on 19 August 1926 by the Act of Ley Nº 7.984. |
31959261#3 | Tupambaé | In 2011, Tupambaé had a population of 1,122.
Source: "Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay" |
31959262#0 | Mataranga family | The Matranga () was an Albanian noble family during 13th and 15th centuries. Members of this family include local rulers, Byzantine officials and writers. After the occupation of Albania by the Ottoman Empire, part of the family emigrated to Italy and settled in the Arbëresh villages of Southern Italy, where they have ... |
31959262#1 | Mataranga family | Before 1284, the Matranga family was either a vassal of Charles of Anjou, in the period when he created Kingdom of Albania, or of his nephew Philip of Taranto. They were first documented in 1297 in a Ragusian document. Members of the Matranga family were attacking Ragusian merchants in the region of Karavasta Lagoon. R... |
31959262#2 | Mataranga family | During this period members of the family were also active in the Byzantine administration. A person named Mataringides, who had a part in a plot against Andronikos II Palaiologos, is mentioned as a student of Manuel Moschopoulos and led to his imprisonment for Manuel has taken a pledge for his student. Another member o... |
31959262#3 | Mataranga family | After the oath of allegiance to Philip of Taranto, the Matrangas continued to maintain close ties with the Angevin family. The advancing Kingdom of Serbia was a source of continuous preoccupation. A certain Paul Mataranga is mentioned in 1319, together with other Albanian lords, in a coalition with Philip of Taranto ag... |
31959265#0 | RS Quba | The RS Quba is a one or two man monohull dinghy in the RS Sailing range of sailing boats. It is a popular boat for beginners. |
31959265#1 | RS Quba | The RS Quba is a suitable dinghy for introducing newcomers to the sport of sailing, but is also a good boat to race. The cockpit is spacious but is also light enough to be handled by children. The RS Quba is quick to rig, easy to carry on the roof-rack and demands virtually no maintenance. The RS Quba is ideal to teach... |
31959265#2 | RS Quba | The RS Quba is a partner in the ISAF Connect to Sailing programme which seeks to revitalise grass roots participation in all categories of sailing outside elite activity and put sailing firmly back into a growth sport with a focus on youth. |
31959268#0 | Battle of Boquerón (1932) | The Battle of Boquerón was a battle fought from September 7-29, 1932, between the Bolivian and Paraguayan armies in and around the stronghold of Boquerón. It was the first major battle of the Chaco War. The outpost ("fortín") of Boquerón, among others, had been occupied by Bolivian troops since late July 1932 following... |
31959268#1 | Battle of Boquerón (1932) | The assault on Boquerón was the first move of the Paraguayan offensive that was aimed to defeat the Bolivian army and capture territory before Bolivia had fully mobilized its army and resources. Paraguayan Lt. Col. José Félix Estigarribia led the attack. The first Paraguayan assault on Boquerón was repulsed. Both sides... |
31959279#0 | El Semillero | El Semillero is a "caserío" (hamlet) in the Colonia Department of southwestern Uruguay. |
31959279#1 | El Semillero | The hamlet is located on Route 50, half way between its junction with Route 1 and the small town of Tarariras. Its distance by road from the capital of the department, Colonia del Sacramento, is about . |
31959279#2 | El Semillero | In 2011 El Semillero had a population of 600.
Source: "Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay" |
31959283#0 | John Herbert Quick House | John Herbert Quick House — also known as "Coolfont" — is a historic home located near Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, West Virginia, US. It was built in 1913, and is a large -story mansion in the Colonial Revival style. The front facade features a two-story pedimented, with a one-story rounded portico topped by a balu... |
31959283#1 | John Herbert Quick House | In 1961 the house and about 1200 surrounding acres were acquired by businessman Sam Ashelman, who went on to establish a hotel called the Coolfont Resort in 1965. The property, including the house, was sold to a real estate developer in 2005. In 2017 the house sold to an unnamed bidder for $225,000 as part of an auctio... |
31959283#2 | John Herbert Quick House | The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. |
31959292#0 | La Paz, Colonia | La Paz is a village in the Colonia Department of southwestern Uruguay. |
31959292#1 | La Paz, Colonia | The village is located on Route 52, south of Route 1. It is about southwest of Colonia Valdense and southwest of Nueva Helvecia. |
31959292#2 | La Paz, Colonia | This village was established in 1858 as a Waldensian colony. |
31959292#3 | La Paz, Colonia | In 2011 La Paz had a population of 603.
Source: "Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay" |
31959297#0 | Los Pinos, Uruguay | Los Pinos or Playa Los Pinos is a village and coastal resort on the Río de la Plata in the Colonia Department of southwestern Uruguay. It is an eastern extension of Playa Fomento and Playa Britópolis, all of which have a small permanent population but form together a sizable summer resort with many streets and houses. |
31959297#1 | Los Pinos, Uruguay | In 2011 Los Pinos had a population of 193.
Source: "Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay" |
31959299#0 | Lee Tae-sung | Lee Tae-sung (born Lee Sung-deok on April 21, 1985) is a South Korean actor. |
31959299#1 | Lee Tae-sung | Lee, who currently plays baseball for the "Playboys" (No.27), has a younger brother, singer Sung Yu-bin (, born 1987), who is a member of BOB4. |
31959299#2 | Lee Tae-sung | Lee registered his marriage in April 2012, but an actual wedding ceremony was not scheduled until March 2013 due to the death of both Lee's grandparents. The couple have a son who was born not long after the death of his grandmother. |
31959299#3 | Lee Tae-sung | Lee entered his mandatory military service on October 29, 2013. It appears his wedding ceremony will be further delayed due to this event according to an announcement made by his management company, Glory MK Entertainment. He will be a full-time reserve officer stationed at the 32nd division training camp in Gongju, So... |
31959299#4 | Lee Tae-sung | — performed: "Flying Butterfly" () by YB |
31959314#0 | Janet Adam Smith | Janet Buchanan Adam Smith OBE (9 December 1905 – 11 September 1999) was a writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature. She was active from the 1930s through to the end of the century and noted for her elegant prose, her penetrating judgement, her independence of mind – and her deep love of m... |
31959314#1 | Janet Adam Smith | Leonard Miall wrote: “Biographer, mountaineer, critic, literary editor, textual scholar, comic versifier, visiting professor, hostess, anthologist, traveller – there seemed to be nothing at which Janet Adam Smith did not shine. And she shone with an intensity that made others glow in response.” |
31959314#2 | Janet Adam Smith | She was born into the old Scots intellectual elite. Her father, Sir George Adam Smith FBA (1856–1942), was a Biblical scholar, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis, at the Free Church College in Glasgow, and then, from 1909 to 1935, Principal of Aberdeen University. Her mother was Lilian Adam Smith, daughter ... |
31959314#3 | Janet Adam Smith | In 1919 she went to Cheltenham Ladies' College, and in 1923 went on to Somerville College, Oxford, where she read English, graduating in 1926. |
31959314#4 | Janet Adam Smith | In 1935 she married Michael Roberts, who was a poet, critic, editor, mathematician, and, like her, a passionate mountaineer. Roberts's anthologies of contemporary verse had already established him as, in T.S. Eliot's phrase, "expositor and interpreter of the poetry of his generation". |
31959314#5 | Janet Adam Smith | They lived in Newcastle upon Tyne (where he taught at the Royal Grammar School), then from 1939 in Penrith (where the school was evacuated during the war). In 1945 the family moved to London, where Michael Roberts had become Principal of the College of St Mark and St John, in Chelsea (which later moved to Plymouth and ... |
31959314#6 | Janet Adam Smith | Michael Roberts died on 13 December 1948. Shortly after, the family moved to a house in the Notting Hill area of London, which remained her home until her death in 1999. In 1965, she married John Dudley Carleton, headmaster of Westminster School from 1957 to 1970. He died on 6 November 1974. |
31959314#7 | Janet Adam Smith | Janet is remembered on her parents grave in Currie churchyard, south-west of Edinburgh. The grave stands in the north-east corner of the modern cemetery extension south of the church. |
31959314#8 | Janet Adam Smith | She joined the BBC in 1928, and from 1930 to 1935 was Assistant Editor of "The Listener". The High Presbyterian ethos of Lord Reith's BBC was no doubt congenial, though she had a sense of humour and an awareness of social change that Reith lacked. As Assistant Editor, she dealt with articles on art, selected reviewers ... |
31959314#9 | Janet Adam Smith | In 1935 she published "Poems of Tomorrow", an anthology of poems from "The Listener", and in 1936 succeeded Michael Roberts as chief reviewer of poetry in T.S. Eliot's quarterly "The Criterion". Between 1936 and 1939 she wrote over a hundred reviews for London weeklies, of books by Scots writers or on Scottish subjects... |
31959314#10 | Janet Adam Smith | Finding herself with three small children in Penrith during the war, while Michael worked in London for the BBC's European Service, she wrote "Mountain Holidays" (1946; reissued 1996), in which she recalled pre-war climbs in Scotland and the Alps. |
31959314#11 | Janet Adam Smith | In London from 1945 onwards, Janet Adam Smith continued to write and edit. To the series "Britain in Pictures", she contributed "Life among the Scots" (1946) and "Children's Illustrated Books" (1948). Her short biography (1937) had already established her as an authority on Robert Louis Stevenson. She now edited the co... |
31959314#12 | Janet Adam Smith | In 1948, left a widow with four young children to educate, she returned to a salaried position in journalism, becoming first assistant literary editor (1949–52), then literary editor (1952–60), of the "New Statesman", still the house magazine of the intellectual Left. It was sometimes described as a pantomime horse: it... |
31959314#13 | Janet Adam Smith | She still found time for her own work: almost 20 years after Michael Roberts had edited, at T.S. Eliot’s invitation, the classic anthology, the "Faber Book of Modern Verse", she matched his achievement with the "Faber Book of Children's Verse" (1953), an enchanting and enduring collection. All the poems were tried out ... |
31959314#14 | Janet Adam Smith | In 1961 and 1964 she was Virginia Gildersleeve Visiting Professor at Barnard College, New York. |
31959314#15 | Janet Adam Smith | When, at the request of the Buchan family, she came to write her magisterial biography of John Buchan (1965), her profound understanding of Buchan's temperament and habit of mind owed much to their common cultural background of the democratic and independent-minded Free Church. |
31959314#16 | Janet Adam Smith | Most of her papers are in the National Library of Scotland, at Edinburgh. In 2013 further papers that had come to light, including letters from Beatrix Potter/Heelis, were donated. |
31959314#17 | Janet Adam Smith | Imbued with the tradition of public service, she was a Trustee of the National Library of Scotland from 1950 to 1985, a remarkable record, and president of the Royal Literary Fund from 1976 to 1984. |
31959314#18 | Janet Adam Smith | She received an honorary degree (Hon. LL.D.) from Aberdeen University in 1962 and was made an OBE in the 1982 New Year Honours for services to Scottish literature. |
31959314#19 | Janet Adam Smith | She was a keen and accomplished hill-walker and mountaineer. When working in London in her twenties, she would sometimes travel back to Aberdeen taking a night train to Aviemore, Kingussie or Blair Atholl, and then walking over the Cairngorm Mountains to Braemar. |
31959314#20 | Janet Adam Smith | In the 1950s she organized many parties of friends and older children to the Alps to climb and to enjoy the pleasures of mobile holidays. She did a number of classic Alpine routes, including the Mer de Glace face of the Aiguille du Grépon (1955) and the traverse of the Meije (1958). She served as Vice-President of the ... |
31959314#21 | Janet Adam Smith | Janet and Michael Roberts had built up a large collection of books on mountaineering, which, along with the collection of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club, provided a basis for establishment in December 1992 of the Oxford Mountaineering Library. This is situated in the Radcliffe Science Library in Parks Road i... |
31959314#22 | Janet Adam Smith | In an obituary published in "The Scotsman" shortly after her death in September 1999, the Scottish novelist and journalist Allan Massie wrote: |
31959314#23 | Janet Adam Smith | “The critical study of Scottish literature owes much to Janet Adam Smith. … Ernest Mehew, the editor of the great Yale University edition of Stevenson's Letters, paid tribute to the ‘leading part’ she played ‘in the revival of critical interest in Stevenson's life and work at a time when he was largely ignored in acade... |
31959314#24 | Janet Adam Smith | “Stevenson was not alone in benefiting from her enthusiastic and discriminating advocacy. Two lectures on Sir Walter Scott and the Idea of Scotland, given at the University of Edinburgh in 1963, gave an impetus to the revival of academic interest in Scott. Her analysis of "Waverley" is unsurpassed. |
31959314#25 | Janet Adam Smith | “But her masterpiece was her biography of John Buchan. It is probably hard for people today to realise just how low Buchan's reputation stood in the early Sixties. He was dismissed as a mere entertainer with disreputable political and social views. Janet Adam Smith corrected misconceptions and restored him to his prope... |
31959314#26 | Janet Adam Smith | “Though she wrote no major work after Buchan, she remained an industrious literary journalist … She remained intellectually alert and eager to read new work into extreme old age. … |
31959314#27 | Janet Adam Smith | “Based in England throughout her adult life, she nevertheless remained committed to Scotland and Scottish literature. Karl Miller was right in seeing her as being an heir of the Edinburgh Reviewers, for she was one of the last representatives of the Scottish Enlightenment, marrying clear and bold thinking to generous f... |
31959339#0 | Esfandiyār (disambiguation) | Esfaniyar or Esfandiar () and similar transliterations may refer to: |
31959358#0 | Corporate veil in the United Kingdom | The corporate veil in the United Kingdom is a metaphorical reference used in UK company law for the concept that the rights and duties of a corporation are, as a general principle, the responsibility of that company alone. Just as a natural person cannot be held legally accountable for the conduct or obligations of ano... |
31959358#1 | Corporate veil in the United Kingdom | The corporate veil in the UK is, however, capable of being "lifted", so that the people who run the company are treated as being liable for its debts, or can benefit from its rights, in a very limited number of circumstances defined by the Courts. It generally only happens when there is wrongdoing by the people/person ... |
31959358#2 | Corporate veil in the United Kingdom | English law recognised long ago that a corporation would have "legal personality". Legal personality simply means the entity is the subject of legal rights and duties. It can sue and be sued. Historically, municipal councils (such as the Corporation of London) or charitable establishments would be the primary examples ... |
31959358#3 | Corporate veil in the United Kingdom | Most companies adopt limited liability for their members, seen in the suffix of "Ltd" or "plc". This means that if a company does go insolvent, unpaid creditors cannot (generally) seek contributions from the company's shareholders and employees, even if shareholders and employees profited handsomely before a company's ... |
31959358#4 | Corporate veil in the United Kingdom | The principle in "Salomon's case" is open to a series of qualifications. Most significantly, statute may require directly or indirectly that the company not be treated as a separate entity. Under the Insolvency Act 1986, section 214 stipulates that company directors must contribute to payment of company debts in windin... |
31959358#5 | Corporate veil in the United Kingdom | A number of other cases demonstrate that in construing the meaning of a statute unrelated to company law, the purpose of the legislation should be fulfilled regardless of the existence of a corporate form. For example, in "Daimler Co Ltd v Continental Tyre and Rubber Co (Great Britain) Ltd", the Trading with the Enemy ... |
31959358#6 | Corporate veil in the United Kingdom | The harsh effect on tort victims, who are unable to contract around limited liability and may be left only with a worthless claim against a bankrupt entity, has been ameliorated in cases where a duty of care in negligence may be deemed to be owed directly across the veil of incorporation.Even if tort victims might be p... |
31959358#7 | Corporate veil in the United Kingdom | "There was no major disagreement between counsel on the legal principles by reference to which a court is entitled to "pierce" or "rend" or "remove" the "corporate veil". It is "hornbook" law that a duly formed and registered company is a separate legal entity from those who are its shareholders and it has rights and l... |
31959365#0 | James Robertson (conductor) | James Robertson CBE (17 June 1912 – 18 May 1991) was an English conductor, best known as musical director of Sadler's Wells Opera. |
31959365#1 | James Robertson (conductor) | Robertson was born in Liverpool and was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, before studying music at the Leipzig Conservatory and the Royal College of Music in London. He joined the music staff of Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1937 and became chorus master and repetiteur of the Carl Rosa Ope... |
31959365#2 | James Robertson (conductor) | In 1954 Robertson left to become conductor of the New Zealand National Orchestra (now the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra), succeeding Michael Bowles. He returned to Britain in 1958, conducting the Carl Rosa company and as a regular guest conductor at Sadler's Wells. |
31959365#3 | James Robertson (conductor) | Robertson was opera adviser to the Théâtre Royale de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1960, followed by a further spell in New Zealand, where he was artistic director of the National Opera (1962–3). In 1964 he became director of the London Opera Centre, where he encouraged many young singers who later achieved success on the ... |
31959365#4 | James Robertson (conductor) | Robertson died in Ruabon, North Wales, aged 79. |
31959381#0 | John Middleton (footballer, born 1956) | John Middleton (24 December 1956 – 3 July 2016) was an English under-21 internationalist football goalkeeper. He won honours playing 137 first team games with Nottingham Forest. After 80 competitive first team games for Derby County he retired due to injury aged 23 in 1980. |
31959381#1 | John Middleton (footballer, born 1956) | Middleton started as an apprentice at Nottingham Forest. Allan Brown gave him his debut aged 17 on 19 October 1974 in a Second Division 1-0 win at West Bromwich Albion. He remained first choice for the next three years playing 137 competitive and non-competitive first team games between 1974 and 1977. |
31959381#2 | John Middleton (footballer, born 1956) | Brian Clough replaced Brown as manager in January 1975 and was joined in July 1976 by his former assistant manager at Derby County, Peter Taylor. Forest immediately went into upswing from the duo being in partnership. Their first trophy was the 1976-77 Anglo-Scottish Cup beating Orient 5-1 in a two leg final in Decembe... |
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