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23574154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nov%C3%A1%20Telib | Nová Telib | Nová Telib is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Kladěruby is an administrative part of Nová Telib.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nov%C3%A1%20Ves%20u%20Bakova | Nová Ves u Bakova | Nová Ves u Bakova is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obrubce | Obrubce | Obrubce is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Obora is an administrative part of Obrubce.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20State%20Route%2087 | Virginia State Route 87 | State Route 87 (SR 87) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for its entire length as Morehead Avenue, the state highway runs from the North Carolina state line, where the highway continues as North Carolina Highway 14 (NC 14)/NC 87, north to its terminus at U.S. Route 220 (US 220) in Ridgeway in southern Henry County.
Route description
SR 87 begins at the North Carolina state line southeast of Ridgeway. The highway continues southeast as NC 14/NC 87 toward Eden. SR 87 heads northwest to the town of Ridgeway. In the center of town, the state highway intersects US 220 Business, which heads north on Main Street and south on Church Street. SR 87 continues northwest a short distance to its northern terminus at US 220 (Greensboro Road).
History
Route 87 was originally numbered State Route 106. When North Carolina extended NC 87 to the Virginia state line in the 1940 renumbering, SR 106 was renumbered SR 87 for continuity.
Major intersections
References
External links
Virginia Highways Project: VA 87
087
State Route 087 |
44500098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Javier%20G%C3%B3mez%20Barrales | Ernesto Javier Gómez Barrales | Ernesto Javier Gómez Barrales (born 7 November 1978) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.
References
1978 births
Living people
Politicians from Puebla
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Puebla |
44500115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluny%20lace | Cluny lace | Cluny lace is a bobbin lace style, worked as a continuous piece. It is a heavy plaited lace of geometric design, often with radiating thin, pointed wheatears (closely woven leaves). It is a guipure style of lace.
History
Cluny lace originated in France. It appeared in the nineteenth century in Le Puy and Mirecourt in Lorraine, reputedly using designs from the Museum of Antiquities at the Hotel Cluny, Paris.
Cluny lace was also made in the English Midland lacemaking areas.
References
External link
Bobbin lace
Textile arts of England |
6902644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Patrick%27s%20Grammar%20School | St Patrick's Grammar School | St Patrick's Grammar School may refer to:
St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick
St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh |
44500136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloepalpus%20aurifacies | Chiloepalpus aurifacies | Chiloepalpus aurifacies is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Chiloepalpus of the family Tachinidae.
External links
Tachinidae
Insects described in 1927
Diptera of South America |
6902653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston%20Calmette | Gaston Calmette | Gaston Calmette (30 July 1858 – 16 March 1914) was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose death was the subject of a notable murder trial.
Biography
Calmette was born in Montpellier. He was educated at Nice, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand and Mâcon, and afterwards entered journalism. In 1884 he joined the staff of Le Figaro, and in 1894 became its editor. In January 1914, Calmette launched a campaign against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, who had introduced progressive taxation and was known for his pacifist stance towards Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis, in 1911. Almost every day Le Figaro produced evidence of a damaging sort against the minister with the object of proving that he used his official position to facilitate speculation on the Paris Bourse. The attitude of Caillaux in the Rochette case of 1911, in which it was alleged by Le Figaro that the director of public prosecutions had been influenced by the ministry to delay the course of justice, was brought forward, and a newspaper campaign of extraordinary violence was the result. Caillaux was urged by some of his colleagues to take legal proceedings against his accusers, but declined.
Assassination
At 6:00 p.m. on 16 March 1914, Calmette entered the offices of Le Figaro in the company of his friend, the novelist Paul Bourget. Caillaux's second wife Henriette was waiting for him, wearing a fur coat and with her hands in a fur muff. To Bourget's surprise, Calmette agreed to see her in his office.
There, Madame Caillaux exchanged a few words with him, then pulled out a .32 Browning automatic pistol she had been concealing within the muff and fired six shots. Calmette was hit four times and was critically wounded, dying six hours later. Caillaux made no attempt to escape and newspaper workers in adjoining offices quickly summoned a doctor and the police. She refused to be transported to the police headquarters in a police van, insisting on being driven there by her chauffeur in her own car, which was still parked outside. The police agreed to this and she was formally charged upon reaching the headquarters.
During the campaign against Joseph Caillaux, which was orchestrated by Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, Le Figaro published several letters from the Minister's private correspondence. Madame Caillaux's motive was fear that the newspaper would also make public a love letter that showed how her husband was already having a relationship with her during his first marriage.
Joseph Caillaux had to resign his post the next day, but during a spectacular trial later that year his wife was acquitted.
Other interests
Calmette was well known for his interest in art, and possessed a fine collection of caricatures and engravings of the First Empire.
Popular culture
Robert Delaunay used an illustration of the assassination as the basis for his 1914 painting Political Drama.
Marcel Proust dedicated Swann's Way, the first volume of his novel In Search of Lost Time, to Calmette 'as a testimony of deep and affectionate recognition'.
Calmette was the brother of the bacteriologist Albert Calmette.
Notes
References
Bibliography
Berenson, Edward The Trial of Madame Caillaux (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, c1992, 1993).
Kershaw, Alister Murder in France (London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1955), 90-117.
External links
Biography
Mme Caillaux tire sur Gaston Calmette
Une épouse outragée
1858 births
1914 deaths
Writers from Montpellier
Assassinated French journalists
French newspaper editors
Burials at Batignolles Cemetery
French male non-fiction writers
Deaths by firearm in France
Le Figaro people |
44500142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20G%C3%B3nz%C3%A1lez%20Mac%C3%ADas | Jesús Gónzález Macías | Jesús Gónzález Macías (born 27 May 1972) is a Mexican politician from the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. From 2007 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nuevo León.
References
1972 births
Living people
People from Tampico, Tamaulipas
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Nuevo León |
20469399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial%200259 | Uncial 0259 | Uncial 0259 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 7th century. The codex contains some parts of the 1 Timothy 1:4-5.6-7, on 2 parchment leaves (12 cm by 10 cm). Written in one column per page, 11 lines per page, in uncial letters.
Text
[transcribed by Kurt Treu]
According to Elliott Treu wrongly deciphered reading οικονομιαν, according to him the manuscript reads οικοδομη.
The nomina sacra contracted. It has two singular readings:
εξετραπτησαν instead of εξετραπησαν
νοσουντης instead of νοουντης.
The text-type of this codex is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.
History
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 7th century.
Currently the codex is housed at the Berlin State Museums (P. 3605) in Berlin.
See also
List of New Testament uncials
Textual criticism
Uncial 0262
References
Further reading
Peter Head, Two Parchments Witnessing First Timothy 1 (2007)
G. H. R. Horseley, "New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity" 2 (Macquarie University, 1982), pp. 125-140.
Elliott, J.K., The Greek Text of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus. (Studies and Documents 26). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1968. p. 19.
Kurt Treu, "Neue Neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung", APF 18 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23-38.
Greek New Testament uncials
7th-century biblical manuscripts |
20469403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunobiki%20Dam | Nunobiki Dam | Nunobiki Dam is a dam in Kobe, in Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan. It is the first concrete gravity dam in Japan. It is situated in Chuo-ku, Kobe, at the foot of the mountain stream Nunohiki and waterfall of the same name. In 2006 with the modernization of water resources and water supply, the dam was designated as important heritage site.
History
The modern water supply plan in Japan was originally drawn up in 1887 but in 1892, Professor William Barton from the British Ministry of Engineering proposed an earth-fill dam with a reservoir capacity of about 31 million tons. Construction began in 1897 and it was completed in 1900. In 2005, the dam was partly reconstructed to incorporate seismic strengthening and sediment dredging was completed.
Gallery
Dams in Hyogo Prefecture
Dams completed in 1900
Buildings of the Meiji period
Important Cultural Properties of Japan |
23574163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obruby | Obruby | Obruby is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
20469414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20D%27Ambrosio | Paul D'Ambrosio | Paul D'Ambrosio is an American journalist and novelist. He is the former executive editor of the Asbury Park Press, and creator of DataUniverse.com, a public records site used by multiple Gannett newspapers.
Education
D'Ambrosio graduated from The George Washington University. In 2018, he received an M.A. in journalism and strategic communications from the University of Memphis.
Career
Journalism
In October 1981, D'Ambrosio joined the Asbury Park Press as a reporter responsible for covering Jackson Township, New Jersey. He was later promoted to an investigations editor, senior regional news strategist, and director of investigations and news director for the newspaper before becoming the executive editor in 2019.
D'Ambrosio works in a field of journalism called computer-assisted reporting, which uses various programs to analyze government data. An unnamed precursor to DataUniverse was launched in the Spring of 2005 by D'Ambrosio, and the full DataUniverse was launched on the Asbury Park Press's website, on December 1, 2006. The site is programmed and maintained by D'Ambrosio. DataUniverse contains more than two dozen databases from crime records to property sale information, and garners about 1 million page views a week. The DataUniverse model has been widely duplicated throughout the Gannett newspaper chain and other news outlets.
As both editor and writer, he has won and shared in the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, the Farfel Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting, the National Headliner awards for Public Service and Series Writing, two Associated Press Managing Editors' awards for Public Service, the Clark Mollenhoff Memorial Award for Investigative Reporting, three National Press Club awards for consumer journalism, and three Brechner Freedom of Information awards.
"Fighting New Jersey's Tax Crush" (2009), which D'Ambrosio edited and co-wrote, was named a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He was named executive editor of the Press in February 2019 and departed the company in November 2022.
Fiction writing
D'Ambrosio's debut novel, Cold Rolled Dead, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in 2008, and was a best-seller for several weeks on Amazon.com's Techno-thriller list. His work has been compared to Tom Clancy by The SandPaper news magazine. The Asbury Park Press, D'Ambrosio's employer, called the novel "... a page-turner with hefty detail on police procedure ... and human nature at its darkest....
Selected works
News articles
Vital Signs (1996) (D'Ambrosio, Linsk, McEnry, Becker)
House of Cards (1997–98) (Asbury Park Press Staff)
Right to Know Nothing (1999) (D'Ambrosio)
Profiting from Public Service (2003–2004) (D'Ambrosio and Gannett New Jersey staff)
Pay to Play and The Power Brokers (2004) (D'Ambrosio, Prado Roberts, and Gannett Staff)
Fighting New Jersey's Tax Crush (2009) (D'Ambrosio, Mikle, Clurfeld, Bates, Mullen)
Novels
Cold Rolled Dead (2007), Down the Shore Publishing Inc.
Easy Squeezy (2013), Down the Shore Publishing Inc.
References
20th-century American novelists
American thriller writers
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences alumni
American investigative journalists
Living people
Writers from Philadelphia
Syracuse University faculty
21st-century American novelists
American expatriates in Thailand
American male novelists
Novelists from Pennsylvania
Novelists from New York (state)
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers |
23574164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%9B%C4%8Dice | Pěčice | Pěčice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse%20on%20Pisa | Discourse on Pisa | Discourse on Pisa () is a 1499 work by Italian Renaissance historian and political scientist Niccolò Machiavelli about the history of Pisa.
References
1499 books
Works by Niccolò Machiavelli |
23574176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%9Btikozly | Pětikozly | Pětikozly is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 80 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petkovy | Petkovy | Petkovy is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Čížovky is an administrative part of Petkovy.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolumnia%20guttata | Tolumnia guttata | Tolumnia guttata is a species of orchid found from Mexico, Belize to Colombia and the Caribbean.
References
guttata
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
23574194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitorious | Gitorious | Gitorious was a free and open source web application for hosting collaborative free and open-source software development projects using Git revision control. Although it was freely available to be downloaded and installed, it was written primarily as the basis for the Gitorious shared web hosting service at gitorious.org, until it was acquired by GitLab in 2015.
According to the Git User's Survey, Gitorious was the second most popular hosting service for Git in 2011, with 11.7% of respondents indicating they used it, behind 87.5% using GitHub. On 3 March 2015, Gitorious was acquired by GitLab, who announced service through gitorious.org would be discontinued on 1 June 2015 and encouraged Gitorious users to make use of its import tools to migrate projects to GitLab.
Features and constraints
In addition to source code hosting, Gitorious provided projects with wikis, a web interface for merge requests and code reviews, and activity timelines for projects and developers.
According to the terms of service, if bandwidth usage for an account, project or repository exceeded 500 MB/month, or significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage of other Gitorious.org users or customers, Gitorious.org reserved the right to immediately disable or throttle the account, project or repository until the account owner can reduce the bandwidth consumption.
Gitorious AS released the Gitorious software under the AGPLv3 as free software.
Acquisitions
In August 2013, Gitorious AS was acquired by Powow AS, a Norwegian-Polish consulting company.
Gitorious was then acquired by GitLab as of 3 March 2015. GitLab kept gitorious.org online through May 2015 and added an automatic migration function for project to move to GitLab.com which offers both paid and free hosting services and maintains an open source "community" edition for self-hosting.
At the time of the GitLab acquisition, there were four Powow employees behind Gitorious. GitLab CEO Sytse Sijbrandij, responding to comments about the acquisition on Hacker News, wrote that "[Powow] wanted to shut the company down without a bankruptcy". So, GitLab, as a way to bolster their user base, bought Gitorious even though they were not hiring the employees or using the Gitorious software. In addition to providing optional migration to GitLab.com, GitLab opened discussions with Archive.org about preserving the Gitorious repositories for historical reference. As of mid-2016, as a result of efforts by GitLab, ex-Gitorious staff, and Archive Team, Gitorious.org existed as a read-only mirror of its former self, containing some 120,000 repositories comprising 5TB of data.
See also
Comparison of open source software hosting facilities
References
External links
Gitorious source code (GitHub mirror, last updated in 2015)
Open-source hosted development tools
Open-source software hosting facilities
Project management software
Version control
Software using the GNU AGPL license
Discontinued open-source software hosting facilities |
44500145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1stup%20%28film%29 | Nástup (film) | Nástup is a 1953 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra.
Cast
Ladislav Chudík as Bagar
Jaroslav Mareš as Antos
Karel Höger as Trnec
Jaroslav Průcha as Dejmek
Vlasta Fabianová as Dejmkova
References
External links
1953 films
1953 drama films
1950s Czech-language films
Films directed by Otakar Vávra
Czechoslovak drama films
1950s Czech films |
44500178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan%20Aurescu | Bogdan Aurescu | Bogdan Lucian Aurescu (born 9 September 1973) is a Romanian diplomat serving as the minister of foreign affairs in the Ciucă Cabinet since 25 November 2021.
He was Presidential Advisor for Foreign Policy to the President of Romania from May 2016 to November 2019 and Foreign Affairs Minister from November 2014 to November 2015. Previously, he held the position of Secretary of State in the Romanian MFA – Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs (2009–2010, 2012–2014), Secretary of State for European Affairs (2004–2005, 2010–2012) and Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2012).
Between 2004 and 2009, Aurescu was his country's chief counsel (Agent of Romania) in the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case, a boundary dispute with Ukraine that Romania brought before the International Court of Justice.
Between 2010 and 2011, he was the head of the Romanian delegation for the negotiations on the Romanian-American Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement, and of the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century between Romania and USA.
In November 2016, he was elected by the United Nations General Assembly as member of the UN International Law Commission for a five years’ mandate (2017–2021).
He is also Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, having started his teaching activity in 1998.
Controversies
Adrian Năstase promoted Bogdan Aurescu to the post of Undersecretary of State and later, to the Secretary of State. Aurescu was Năstase's assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest for the Public International Law discipline and they wrote together several legal treaties. In 2004, the Aurescu candidature was delegated by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in Dâmbovița County for the Parliament elections but he did not win.
In November 2014, Adrian Năstase attended an event called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Minister Bogdan Aurescu. Recently released from prison, where he was imprisoned being sentenced twice for the corruption offenses, Năstase was next to Aurescu, who had just been appointed Foreign Minister, at a book launch event. In April 2015, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Adrian Năstase, who was twice sentenced for prison, returned to the Government, more precisely to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the invitation of the acting minister Bogdan Aurescu to the meeting of an advisory council. The ministry led by Aurescu then argued that the invitation was made "because of his rich institutional and professional expertise".
In June 2015, Prime Minister Victor Ponta was charged by the National Anticorruption Directorate for several corruption offenses. At that time, Bogdan Aurescu was a member of the Ponta Government and remained in office until November 2015, when Victor Ponta resigned.
References
External links
Bogdan Lucian Aurescu at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site
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1973 births
Living people
Romanian Ministers of Foreign Affairs
University of Bucharest faculty |
44500179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort%20%28disambiguation%29 | Oort (disambiguation) | Oort is a Dutch toponymic surname most commonly referring to the astronomer Jan Oort. Oort was one spelling of a Middle Dutch word for "edge" or "end", as in "the edge of town". Variant forms are Oord, Oordt and Ort, as well as Van Oort, Van den Oord etc. ("from (the) edge of town"). People with these surnames include:
Oort
Abraham H. Oort (born 1934), Dutch-American climatologist, son of Jan Oort
Frans Oort (born 1935), Dutch mathematician
André–Oort conjecture, a number theory conjecture by Yves André and Frans Oort
(1836–1927), Dutch theologist and philologist
Jan Oort (1900–1992), Dutch astronomer. Named after him:
Oort cloud, a cloud of solid objects surrounding the solar system
Oort constants, characterizing the rotational properties of the Milky Way
Oort (crater), a crater on Pluto
Oort limit, theoretical edge of the Oort cloud
1691 Oort (1956 RB), a main-belt asteroid
Van Oort
Adam van Oort (1561/62–1641), Flemish painter
Bart van Oort (born 1959), Dutch classical pianist
Eduard Daniel van Oort (1876–1933), Dutch ornithologist
Jan van Oort (1921–2006), Dutch writer, working under the pseudonym of Jean Dulieu
Johannes (Hans) van Oort (born 1949), Dutch patristic and gnostic scholar
Hendrik van Oort (1775–1847), Dutch painter
(1804–1834), Dutch painter and illustrator, son of Hendrik
Named after him: Vanoort's crow, an Indonesian butterfly
Oord
Thomas Jay Oord (born 1965), American theologian and philosopher
Pieter van Oord (born 1961), CEO of the Dutch dredging company "Van Oord"
Willem van der Oord (born 1919), Dutch hydraulic engineer and diplomat
Oordt
Darwin Oordt (born 1944), American newspaper publisher and horse breeder
Schuylar Oordt (born 1987), American football tight end
Adri Bleuland van Oordt (1862–1944), Dutch artist and draftswoman
(1757–1836), Dutch theologian
Ort
Bastiaan Ort (1854–1927), Dutch lawyer, judge and politician, Minister of Justice 1914–18
See also
Ort (disambiguation)
Noort, Dutch surname (including "Van Noort")
References
Dutch-language surnames
Toponymic surnames |
44500185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer%20Clock | Barometer Clock | Barometer Clock (Boulle) by André-Charles Boulle is a late seventeenth-century French clock created out of ebony, turtle shell, brass, gilt bronze, and enamel. The clock case is decorated on all sides and was intended as either a centerpiece or for display on a mantel in front of a mirror. The centerpiece of the clock is a relief of "Father Time Carrying Off Truth."
This late seventeenth-century clock also functions as a barometer; the "two doors on the rear of the clock open to reveal a glass tube containing mercury and a float to which thread is attached." The semicircular barometer dial indicates five weather conditions from one extreme, beaucoup de pluye (rainy), to the other, beau fixe (fine).
Boulle, who gave his name to the type of veneering on this clock, is listed in the French Archives Nationales as a cabinet maker, maker of marquetry, and gilder and chaser of bronzes.
The clock movement design is by either Isaac Thuret or his son Jacques Thuret. The dial and backplate of the movement are both signed "I. Thuret...", the character I and J being interchangeable during the period.
Acquisition
The Barometer Clock was acquired by The Frick Collection through the bequest of New York collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey in 1999. Edey's bequest included twenty-five clocks and fourteen watches as well as his library and archives.
Exhibition
"Magnificent Timekeepers: An Exhibition of Northern European Clocks in New York Collections,” 1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"French Clocks in North American Collections," November 2, 1982 - January 30, 1983, The Frick Collection.
"The Art of the Timekeeper: Masterpieces from the Winthrop Edey Bequest," November 14, 2001 - February 24, 2002, The Frick Collection.
See also
André-Charles Boulle
Thuret family
References
External links
Barometer Clock, ca. 1690-1700 The Frick Collection Online.
“Tick Talks” Frick Collection education interns discuss their research on 4 clocks, including the Barometer Clock.
Objects of the Frick Collection
Clocks in the United States |
20469418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.%20Ritchie%20Hut | R.J. Ritchie Hut | The R.J. Ritchie Hut (Balfour Hut) is an alpine hut located at an altitude of between the southern tip of the Wapta Icefield and the northern tip of the Waputik Icefield in Banff National Park. The hut is at the half-way mark for the Wapta traverse and is usually used in conjunction with the other huts in this chain while attempting a cross-glacier ski trip. The hut is maintained by the Alpine Club of Canada.
The hut sleeps 18 in the summer and 16 in the winter. It is equipped with propane-powered lamps and stovetop.
The hut requires approximately three to five hours of glacier travel to get to from the Bow Hut, or six to eight hours from the Scott Duncan Hut.
Location
The hut is found on low, rocky hills at the toe of the Vulture Glacier. It is east of Balfour Pass and the continental divide, just inside the boundary of Banff National Park.
History
The original Balfour Hut, a fibreglass igloo built in 1965 at Balfour Pass in Banff National Park, was the first hut on the Wapta Icefield. Construction was undertaken by the Alpine Club of Canada and the Calgary Ski Club. It survived until 1971, having been disassembled and reassembled entirely with Swiss Army Knives, airlifted by helicopter, and inadvertently dropped onto a glacial moraine. Eventually, marauding bands of wolverines destroyed it.
The second Balfour Hut was constructed in 1971 of cedar logs on the south side of Mount Olive to the west of the continental divide in Yoho National Park. It lasted for 18 years.
In 1989, the current metal hut was built at a new location in Banff National Park: the toe of the Vulture Glacier.
Nearby
Wapta Icefield
Waputik Icefield
Bow Hut
Scott Duncan Hut
References
Mountain huts in Canada
Buildings and structures in Banff National Park |
20469477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano%20Ciano | Ivano Ciano | Ivano Ciano (born 3 May 1983 in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy) is an Italian footballer. He plays as a defender. He is currently playing for Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione team Catanzaro.
External links
Career statistics
Italian footballers
Vastese Calcio 1902 players
U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players
Living people
1983 births
Association football defenders |
6902671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Glasser | Dick Glasser | Richard Eugene Glasser (December 8, 1933 – July 10, 2000) was a singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Biography
Glasser was born in Canton, Ohio, the third of eleven children and the oldest of five boys: subsequent to graduating Minerva High School he served in the navy. His biggest hit as a songwriter was "Angels in the Sky," which he recorded and released on Jack Gale's Triple-A label in early 1954. RCA Records subsequently made an offer to Gale for the song and gave it to their singer Tony Martin that same year. The deal also involved Gale pulling the Glasser original off the market. The following year, the song was revived by The Crew-Cuts on Mercury and their version sold a million copies.
Glasser went on to release many excellent recordings during the mid to late 50s on Dot, Argo, then Columbia, before moving to Liberty in 1960 where he was appointed head of Metric Music—Liberty's song publishing arm. In January 1961 Gene Vincent recorded the Glasser song "Teardrops," and released it on Capitol. Aside from running Metric, Glasser also released eight singles for the label, the pick being "Handsome Guy," a 1962 recording produced by Snuff Garrett and written by P.J. Proby under his real name, James Marcus Smith. The record was a top 10 hit for him that year in Australia. He also did session work for the label as a guitarist.
Also in 1962, Glasser produced a record by an instrumental band called The Fencemen, composed of Oklahoma expatriates Chuck Blackwell, David Gates, and Leon Russell. Although the musicians went on to individual fame and success,"Swingin' Gates" (written by David Gates and Cliff Crofford) b/w "Bach n' Roll" (written by Leon Russell [as Russell Bridges]) failed to chart. The Fencemen released a second single in early 1963, "Sunday Stranger" (written by Billy Strange) b/w "Sour Grapes" (written by David Gates), which also went nowhere.
From January 1964 Glasser was general manager of Liberty's Dolton label where he produced recordings for such acts as Vic Dana, the Fleetwoods, and the Ventures, including Dana's original version of "I Will" a much-recorded Glasser composition.
In June 1965 Glasser assumed A&R directorship at Warner Bros. Records, producing a number of recordings by the Everly Brothers, including their Two Yanks in England album, as well as Freddy Cannon. March 1968 saw the launch of Dick Glasser Productions whose output included successful recordings by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, the Vogues, and Andy Williams. Glasser also established his own music publishing company: Richbare Music, in 1968.
During the mid-1970s Glasser was director of MGM Records' country music division in Nashville, producing C. W. McCall's worldwide 1975 hit "Convoy," and also Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams Jr.
Among artists who recorded his songs were Bobby Vee, PJ Proby, Chet Atkins ("I Will"), Walter Brennan, Glen Campbell, Billy Fury, Johnny Cash ("That's All Over"), Dean Martin ("I Will"), Buddy Greco, The Kingston Trio, The Ventures ("Bluer Than Blue"), and Ruby Winters ("I Will"). Deana Martin recorded her own version of her father, Dean Martin's, recording on her 2009 album “Volare.”
Glasser died of lung cancer in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 66.
References
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1933 births
2000 deaths
Musicians from Canton, Ohio
Songwriters from Ohio
Record producers from Ohio
RCA Victor artists
Deaths from lung cancer
20th-century American singers
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American male singers
American male songwriters |
6902673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yours%20truly | Yours truly | Yours truly is a form of valediction, especially at the end of a written communication.
Yours truly may also refer to:
Yours truly, a humorous alternative to the pronoun 'I' or 'me' – referring to oneself
Yours Truly (band), an Australian pop-punk band formed in 2016
Yours Truly (2018 film), an Indian romantic drama film
Yours Truly (2019 film), a documentary about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei
Yours Truly (Snow Crash), a character in the novel Snow Crash
"Yours Truly" (song), by Blindspott
See also
Yours Truly Theatre, Bangalore, a theatre group in India
Albums
Yours Truly (Air Supply album), 2001
Yours Truly (Ariana Grande album), 2013
Yours Truly (Rick Braun album), 2005
Yours Truly (Sick of It All album), 2000
Yours Truly (Sublime with Rome album), 2011
Yours Truly, a 1991 album by Earl Thomas Conley |
6902690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEN | CEN | Cen or CEN may refer to:
People and language
Cen language
Cen (rune) (ᚳ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc
Cen (surname) (岑), a Chinese second name
Acronym
Certified Emergency Nurse
Childhood emotional neglect
Cambridge Evening News, former name for the Cambridge News
Center for Electron Nanoscopy, an institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Central European News, a news distributor
European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
SCK•CEN, Belgian nuclear research institute (Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire)
Abbreviation or code
Centaurus, the constellation
Centaur (minor planet)
Centralia, Illinois (Amtrak station)
Central Region, Scotland, Chapman code
Central station (MTR), Hong Kong
Ciudad Obregón International Airport (IATA code: CEN) in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico
See also |
23574199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ADskov%C3%A1%20Lhota%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Písková Lhota (Mladá Boleslav District) | Písková Lhota is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Zámostí is an administrative part of Písková Lhota.
Geography
Písková Lhota is located about south of Mladá Boleslav and northeast of Prague. It lies in the Jizera Table. The municipality is situated on the left bank of the Jizera River, which forms the western municipal border. There is a pond in the centre of the village.
History
The first written mention of Písková Lhota is from 1398, Zámostí was first mentioned in 1361. Starý Stránov Castle was first documented in 1297. Písková Lhota as a typical agricultural village, Zámostí was probably mainly home of craftsmen.
Demographics
Transport
The D10 motorway passes through the municipality.
Sights
The most important monument is the ruin of the Starý Stránov Castle. Several houses were built into the ruins, for the construction of which building material from the castle was used.
Among the other monuments in Písková Lhota are a small Jewish cemetery and a Baroque building of a former inn from the mid-18th century.
References
External links
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Blankfort | Michael Blankfort | Michael Seymour Blankfort (December 10, 1907 – July 13, 1982) was an American screenwriter, writer of books and playwright. He served as a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz on the Academy Award-nominated screenplay of Broken Arrow (1950). He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles.
Film career
The Writers Guild of America, West, in its 1991 restoration of credit for the Broken Arrow screenplay to Maltz, expressed "a strong statement of appreciation for the courage of screenwriter Michael Blankfort" for his action in fronting for Maltz, in which Blankfort "risked being blacklisted himself to help his friend". Among his own screenplays were The Juggler (1953) and The Caine Mutiny. He was president of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1967 to 1969 and won the Guild's Valentine Davies Award (along with Norman Corwin) in 1972. He also served on the Board of Governors of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1969 to 1971.
Art collection
Michael Blankfort and his wife Dorothy Stiles Blankfort were among the founding members of the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Council, a group of prominent local art collectors connected to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Blankforts donated over 400 pieces of art to the museum, including works by Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky.
Bibliography
"Battle hymn; a play in three acts, prologues and an epilogue". (with Michael Gold) New York, Los Angeles, London: S. French, 1936.
"The crime". New York: New York Theatre League, 1936.
"The brave and the blind : a one-act drama". New York: S. French, 1937.
"A Time to Live". New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943.
"The Big Yankee: The Life of Carlson of the Raiders". Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947.
"Monique: A Drama in Two Acts". (with wife Dorothy Stiles Blankfort) New York: S. French, 1957.
"An Exceptional Man – A Novel of Incest". New York: Antheneum, 1980.
Filmography
As screenwriter:
Blind Alley (1939)
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
Texas (1941)
Flight Lieutenant (1942)
An Act of Murder (1948)
The Dark Past (1948)
Broken Arrow (1950) (as front for Albert Maltz)
Halls of Montezuma (1951)
My Six Convicts (1952)
Lydia Bailey (1952)
The Juggler (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) (additional dialogue)
Untamed (1955)
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
The Vintage (1957)
See How They Run (1964)
The Plainsman (1966)
A Fire in the Sky (1978)
As associate producer:
The Juggler (1953)
Awards
1953: National Jewish Book Award for The Juggler
External links
Michael Blankfort papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
References
1907 births
1982 deaths
Jewish American writers
Writers from New York City
20th-century American Jews |
20469504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20P.%20Freeman | Snow P. Freeman | Snow Parker Freeman (1805–1862) was a lawyer and political figure from Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He represented Queen's County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1843 to 1855. He married Annie Head Mitchell in Halifax on March 24, 1846. She was the daughter of George Mitchell, Esq., of Halifax, a former merchant.
He was the son of Joseph Freeman. Freeman served as a judge in the probate court and also as consular agent for the United States. He died in Liverpool.
References
More, James F The History of Queens County, N.S (1972)
1805 births
1862 deaths
Nova Scotia pre-Confederation MLAs |
44500187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suraj%20Bhan%20%28archaeologist%29 | Suraj Bhan (archaeologist) | Suraj Bhan (1931–2010) was an Indian archaeologist and professor of archaeology. He was part of a panel of academics which contested the Vishva Hindu Parishad's claim that the Babri Masjid was built on top of a Râm temple.
Life and career
Suraj Bhan was born in March 1931 in Montgomery (now in Pakistan) to a peasant family of Haryana.
He studied Economics and Sanskrit for a B.A. and M.A. at the Delhi University. Subsequently, he joined the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in 1956 as a technical assistant. He studied Archaeology and Culture for a second M.A. degree in 1960 and, in 1972 also received a Ph.D. degree from the M. S. University, Baroda. He went on to a teaching career first at the Punjab University and then in at Kurukshetra University, carrying out archaeology of prehistoric sites in Haryana. He rose to become the Dean of the Faculty of Indic Studies before retiring in 1991.
Archaeological work
Bhan's early research was on the archaeology of prehistoric sites along the old river channels of Sarsuti–Ghaggar and Chautang rivers in Haryana. In 1968, he excavated the Indus culture site of Mitathal. His thesis on the "Historic Archaeology of Saraswati and Drishadavati Valleys" earned him a PhD in 1972. In 1975, Bhan published his major report, Excavations at Mitathal and Other Explorations in the Sutlej-Yamuna Divide, which became a fundamental reference for the study of Indus and post-Indus cultures.
In 1987, Bhan was invited to give the presidential address to the Archaeology section of the Indian History Congress, where he came out strongly against the tendency among some archaeologists to identify the Indus Valley Civilisation with the Vedic cultures. His paper in The Making of History volume (2002) countered arguments made by archaeologists, B. B. Lal, S. P. Gupta et al. for an Aryan link to the Indus Valley Civilization.
In 1996, he was awarded a senior fellowship by the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and a year later, he was appointed as a member of the ICHR council. Irfan Habib, in his obituary of Bhan, believed him to be a man of "impeccable personal ethics, which matched well with his professional probity."
His academic work was said to bear a deep imprint of Marxism. He was also involved with the work of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Haryana and took particular interest in the People's Science movement.
Ayodhya dispute
Suraj Bhan played a significant role during the Ayodhya dispute, supporting the case for the Babri Masjid. He along with historians, Ram Sharan Sharma, Dwijendra Narayan Jha and M. Athar Ali, were a group of four academics who submitted a document titled Babari Mosque or Rama's Birth Place? Historians Report to the Nation to the Minister of Home Affairs in May 1991. Bhan contributed towards the archaeological component of the report. The authors claimed to have scrutinised the evidence provided by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) and rejected outright the idea of the mosque being the site of Rama's birth or of the possibility of it having been built atop a pre-existing temple. The authors dismissed the claim by B. B. Lal, a former director of the ASI, that he had discovered pillar bases next to the Babri Masjid during his excavation in the 1970s. However, they did so while noting that they were not given access to Lal's excavation notes. Bhan would later testify in the Allahabad High Court that the report had been hurriedly compiled "under pressure" from BMAC.
In October 1992, the four historians wrote in the CPI(M)'s weekly newspaper, People's Democracy, reacting to the booklet Ram Janmabhumi Ayodhya: New Archaeological Discoveries stating that the VHP protagonists had indulged in "indiscriminate PWD-like excavation." Bhan had earlier also contested statements by S. P. Gupta that the black basalt pillars in the Babri Masjid were once part of a Hindu temple.
The Babri Masjid was demolished on 6 December 1992.
Suraj Bhan deposed as an expert witness in the Allahabad High Court on behalf of the pro-mosque parties in 2000, 2002, and again in 2006. He was the only one of the four authors of the Historians Report to the Nation to do so. On 5 March 2003, the Allahabad High Court ordered the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to excavate the site of the Babri Masjid in order to determine whether a temple-like structure had been demolished before the construction of the mosque. Suraj Bhan joined Irfan Habib and others in issuing a press statement denouncing the move. The ASI proceeded with its excavations and submitted its findings to the court in September 2003. Its report revealed the presence of a circular shrine, dateable to 7–10th century and a "massive structure", 50 metres by 30 metres, built in three structural phases during the 11–12th century.
Bhan who had visited the digs in June 2003 criticised the ASI for conducting extensive horizontal diggings which destroyed all the Mughal period remains at the site when limited vertical trenching was all that was required. Questioning the methodologies employed to date the underground structure, he accused the ASI report of being an attempt to push back the antiquity of Ayodhya and thereby the Ramayana to . He proclaimed with certainty, that the "massive structure" found by the ASI was not a temple and that it was likely a Sultanate period mosque.
Bhan appeared in the Allahabad High Court to state his professional opinion that the conclusion of the ASI report regarding the existence of any temple beneath the Babri mosque was baseless. While he was present at the excavation for only three days, he claimed that the ASI did not properly record the glazed ware, glazed tiles and bones found at the site. He made other observations such as on the use of lime mortar which he believed dated the underground structure to the Sultanate period. He also claimed that the shortcomings of the report could not be made good and alleged that the ASI lacked objectivity, professional integrity, and scientific rigour. Under examination, Bhan clarified that he was only an archaeologist and not an art-historian or medieval historian.
In its 2010 verdict on the Ayodhya dispute, the Allahabad High Court criticised the professionalism of the expert witnesses who had appeared on behalf of the pro-mosque parties. On Suraj Bhan, the court felt that he had made vague statements and had failed to provide a proper reason to challenge the conclusions of the ASI. It dismissed as baseless his technical observations on matters such as the use of lime mortar which had been established to have been in use in India from at least 600 BCE, well before the Sultanate period. The court noted that Bhan had a predetermined attitude against the ASI and noted that rather than being condemned, the Survey deserved commendation and appreciation.
Works
"Excavations at Mitathal (Hissar), 1968." Journal of Haryana Studies 1.1 (1969): 1–15.
"Changes in the course of Yamuna and their bearing on the protohistoric cultures of Haryana." Archaeological congress and seminar papers. 1972.
"Siswal, a pre-Harappan site in Drishadvati valley." (1972): 44–46.
"The sequence and spread of prehistoric cultures in the upper Sarasvati Basin." Radiocarbon and Indian Archaeology (1973): 252–263.
Excavation at Mitathal (1968) and Other explorations in the Sutlej-Yamuna divide. Kurukshetra University, 1975.
(with Jim G. Shaffer) "New discoveries in northern Haryana." Man and Environment 2 (1978): 59-68.
"Recent trends in Indian archaeology." Social Scientist (1997): 3–15. .
"Aryanization of the Indus Civilisation." The Making of History: Essays presented to Irfan Habib, pp. 41–55. Anthem Press, 2002. .
See also
Archaeology of Ayodhya
Ram Janmabhoomi
Siswal
References
Sources
20th-century Indian archaeologists
Scientists from Haryana
Delhi University alumni
Kurukshetra University faculty
1931 births
2010 deaths
Analysts of Ayodhya dispute
People from Sahiwal District
Punjabi people
Historians of India
Indian social sciences writers
Indian scientific authors |
23574201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plazy | Plazy | Plazy is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Valy is an administrative part of Plazy.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plu%C5%BEn%C3%A1 | Plužná | Plužná is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44500189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Geller | Joe Geller | Joseph Scott Geller (born March 7, 1954) is a Democratic politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 100th District, which includes most of Hollywood in southern Broward County and parts of Miami-Dade County, since 2014.
History
Geller was born in The Bronx in New York City in 1954, and moved to the state of Florida in 1965. He attended Northwestern University, but did not graduate, instead receiving his bachelor's degree in history from the Florida State University in 1975. After graduation, Geller then attended the Florida State University College of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor in 1979.
In 1989, he was elected the Chairman of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party, serving in that capacity in 2000. During the 2000 presidential election, he played a prominent role as an attorney for the Al Gore presidential campaign. During the recount, Geller, seeking to confirm a theory that some Gore voters had accidentally punched the wrong hole in their ballots, requested a sample ballot from the Supervisor of Elections' office. After receiving the ballot from a clerk, Geller was accused of stealing a ballot, was mobbed by protesters, and had to be escorted to safety by police. "I requested [the sample ballot], which I'm entitled to do," Geller said. "It was clearly marked 'sample ballot for use by Democratic Party.' The whole transaction was out in the open and all very calmly done. This Republican observer — a woman with blond hair, a suit and clipboard — was watching the whole thing. But the moment I started to walk away, she sicced the crowd on me. She said I was stealing a ballot and they surrounded me. It was all orchestrated."
Geller ran for Mayor of North Bay Village, a small city in northeastern Miami-Dade County, in 2004. He faced Frank DiMaggio and was able to win narrowly, receiving 54% of the vote to DiMaggio's 46%.
Florida House of Representatives
When incumbent State Representative Dan Gelber was unable to seek re-election due to term limits in 2008, Geller ran to succeed him in the 106th District, which stretched from Fisher Island to Golden Beach in eastern Miami-Dade County. He faced Richard L. Steinberg in the Democratic primary, and he lost to Steinberg handily, receiving only 31% of the vote to Steinberg's 69%.
In 2014, incumbent State Representative Joseph Gibbons was unable to seek re-election in the 100th District, so Geller ran in the Democratic primary to replace him, declaring, "My style is to be a consensus builder to build bridges between people. I’m a progressive. And I make no bones about being a progressive. But I have also lived in other parts of the state. I think I can do some good up there. I think I can make a difference. I think I can make this a better state." He faced teacher John Paul Alvarez and pastor Ben Sorenson in the Democratic primary, and earned the endorsement of the Miami Herald, which praised him as a candidate who "knows this bi-county district well," and noted that the district "stands to benefit from his legislative priorities." Ultimately, Geller defeated his opponents handily, receiving 62% of the vote to Sorensen's 20% and Alvarez's 18%. In the general election, Geller faced fellow attorney Marty Feigenbaum and once again earned the endorsement of the Herald, which said that he was "thoroughly familiar with the issues."
In April 2022, Geller argued that the effort to repeal the Reedy Creek Improvement Act was "disrespectful of the legislative process."
References
External links
Florida House of Representatives - Joe Geller
Joseph S. Geller
Florida State University College of Law alumni
Democratic Party members of the Florida House of Representatives
1954 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians |
23574206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proda%C5%A1ice | Prodašice | Prodašice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 90 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattillo%20Higgins | Pattillo Higgins | Pattillo Higgins (December 5, 1863 – June 5, 1955) was an American businessman and a self-taught geologist. He earned the nickname the "Prophet of Spindletop" for his endeavors in the Texas oil business, which accrued a fortune for many. He partnered to form the Gladys City Oil Gas and Manufacturing Company, and later established the Higgins Standard Oil Company.
Early life
Pattillo Higgins was born to Roberto James and Sarah (Raye) Higgins on December 5, 1863, in Sabine Pass, Texas. His family moved to Beaumont when he was six years old. He attended school until he reached the fourth grade, after which he apprenticed as a gunsmith under his father’s direction. In his youth, he was a violent troublemaker, pulling pranks and harassing African Americans.
When he was seventeen, he pulled a prank on a black Baptist church that got the attention of a sheriff's deputy. The deputy fired a warning shot over Higgins' head, after which Higgins fired back and delivered what would later turn out to be a fatal hit. The wounded deputy managed to fire again, striking Higgins in his lower left arm. Higgins' arm would later become severely infected, requiring amputation from the elbow down. Higgins was put on trial for the murder of the deputy, but he would be found not guilty by a jury that perceived his act as self-defense. After his acquittal, he worked as a logger along the Texas-Louisiana border, apparently unhindered by his lack of an arm.
It was in 1885 that he attended a Baptist revival meeting where he made the decision to become a Christian. Realizing that the lumber camps were not the ideal place to maintain a good morality, he decided to return to Beaumont, Texas to establish himself as a businessman.
Venture into business
Higgins ventured into real estate at first, and with the money that he saved as a logger, he started the Higgins Manufacturing Company to manufacture bricks. The business sparked his interest in oil and gas, as he used it for his kilns to burn the bricks evenly. He decided to travel to Pennsylvania to learn about these fuels and study the geographical features that give signs to the presence of underground oil. Studying geology on his own, he dedicated himself to finding these clues by reading all the United States Geological Survey reports and books that he could find. The details he learned reminded him of what some Beaumont locals back home referred to as "Sour Hill Mound", a place where he frequently brought his Sunday school students for outings. This mound was described as "sour" due to the unpleasant sulfur smell that came out of the springs around it. Convinced that this salt dome mound had oil below it, Higgins first partnered with George O'Brien, George Carroll, Emma John, and J.F. Lanier to form the Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company in 1892. It was during this time that other formally trained geologists dismissed the idea of finding oil along the gulf coast region of the United States. Higgins' personal integrity was even challenged by the local newspaper. However, his informal training in geology influenced his belief that the Spindletop field contained oil below due to the presence of mineral water and gas seepage, and he managed to convince the partners to proceed with the venture. Work began the following year, but all three of the shallow drilling attempts failed to locate oil due to the shifting sands and unstable clay under the hill. Higgins resigned from the company, sold his stock, and purchased 33 acres compromising the summit of Sour Spring Mound.
Partnership with Anthony Lucas
Unwilling to give up hope of striking oil, Higgins placed numerous ads in industrial magazines and trade journals in an effort to spark others' interests in the prospect of hitting a successful well at the site. Only one man responded to the ads, a Croatian-American named Anthony Francis Lucas. Lucas signed agreements with the Gladys City Company and also with Higgins in 1899, and in June of the following year, he began to drill. The first well Lucas made with his light equipment collapsed after reaching . This failure exhausted the partners' finances, so Lucas turned to John H. Galey and James M. Guffey in Pittsburgh for backing. The terms set forth by Guffey (who held and controlled the funds) limited Lucas’ percentage cut to a small amount, and eliminated Higgins and cut him completely from the deal.
The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop
In late October 1900, with the help of the experienced crew of Al and Curt Hamill from Corsicana, drilling began again. This time, the drilling would be done using a newer, heavier, and more efficient rotary type bit. Over the next several months, work was difficult maintaining the drilling through the underground sands. On January 10, 1901, the six tons of four-inch (102 mm) drilling pipe began to shoot up out of the hole, sending the roughnecks fleeing for safety. The geyser shot oil over high and flowed an estimated .
The well was at a depth of , and as it turns out, was at the precise location as initially predicted by Higgins. The well would not have struck oil if it had been drilled just 50 feet (15 m) to the south. The well, which was dubbed "Lucas 1", had an initial flow rate greater than all of the oil wells in the United States combined in that day. The Spindletop oilfield churned out over the first year of operation, and over the following year. This effectively brought an end to John D. Rockefeller’s world monopoly.
Lawsuit against Lucas and the Gladys City Company
Higgins sued Lucas and Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company for royalties, using the basis that the second lease was invalid because the first lease had not yet expired when the second was enacted. After the parties settled out of court, Higgins formed the Higgins Oil and Fuel Company located at the center of Spindletop. This company was vulnerable to takeover bids due to Higgins' over-zealous land prospecting, which enabled the lumber baron and businessman John Henry Kirby to overtake his ownership in 1902 by purchasing his shares of the company for $3 million. Higgins maintained his leasing rights to his land, and would establish the Higgins Standard Oil Company. He later established other wells with various investors, with an eccentric habit of pulling his interests out, leaving the majority of the profits for others.
Later life and death
Higgins' lifestyle was varied in interests and occupations. Along with working as a wildcatter, his diverse activities involved drafting, work as an inventor, an artist, as well as an engineer to name a few. His religious beliefs kept him away from public entertainment and resorts, as well as maintaining a strong belief against the selling of alcohol. In addition to residing in Beaumont, he owned estates in Houston and San Antonio. He remained a bachelor until the age of 45. In 1905, he adopted a young woman named Annie Jahn, who at the time was fifteen. Three years later Higgins married her, and later had three children with her, despite the scandal. Higgins died in San Antonio on June 5, 1955.
On December 4, 1955, six months after Higgins' death, he was dramatized by the actor Robert Bray in the CBS history series You Are There in the episode entitled "Spindletop - The First Great Texas Oil Strike (January 10, 1901)". Mike Ragan was cast as Marion Fletcher; Parley Baer as Captain Lucas, Jean Byron as Caroline Lucas, DeForest Kelley as Al Hammill, Tyler McVey as Mayor Wheat, and William Fawcett as a farmer.
Higgins World's Oil Company
From the Prescott Evening Courier – Dec 23, 1905:
Articles of Incorporation for the "Higgins World's Oil Company"
References
Further reading
East Texas Historical Association, "A self-taught Texas wildcatter: Pattillo Higgins and the Hockley Oil Field", by Ronald H. Limbaugh, East Texas Historical Journal, Vol 34 No. 1, 1996, Nacogdoches, Tx 75962
External links
Spindletop History and Biographies
1863 births
1955 deaths
American geologists
American businesspeople in the oil industry
Wildcatters
Businesspeople from Texas
Texas Oil Boom people
People from Port Arthur, Texas
People born in the Confederate States |
6902698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly%20Martha | Mostly Martha | Mostly Martha can refer to:
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha), a 2001 German film
"Mostly Martha", a popular version of Friedrich von Flotow's aria M’apparì tutt’amor, recorded by The Crew-Cuts |
23574208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolohan | Bolohan | Bolohan is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
Notable people
Igor Moroz, a protester in the post-election riots in Chișinău who died while in police custody
References
Villages of Orhei District |
44500193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facundo%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20Miranda | Facundo González Miranda | Facundo González Miranda (born 16 October 1953) is a Mexican politician from the Party of the Democratic Revolution. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
References
1953 births
Living people
Politicians from the State of Mexico
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for the State of Mexico |
44500220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20River%20Times | Rock River Times | The Rock River Times is an independently owned alternative newspaper based in Rockford, Illinois having a circulation of around 17,000 free newspapers.
The weekly newspaper, distributed every Wednesday, has been in publication since 1987. Daily headlines are offered on the paper's website.
History
The Rock River Times began as the monthly The North End Times in 1987. The paper was acquired by Frank Schier in 1992 and rebranded with its current name in 1993. Weekly publication began in December 1993.
Schier, who served as editor and publisher of the newspaper for more than 24 years, died in January 2017. The paper continued under publisher Josh Johnson, a former legals editor under Schier, who purchased the publication from his estate.
Format
The Rock River Times weekly edition comes in a tabloid format typically of 32-56 pages. Topics include local, state and national news and commentary, sports news, business news, and arts and entertainment news.
External links
Rock River Times website
Archived print issues at issuu.com
Newspapers published in Illinois
Rockford, Illinois
Companies based in Winnebago County, Illinois
Newspapers established in 1987 |
44500221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot%20Transportation | Patriot Transportation | Patriot Transportation is an American trucking and real estate holding company based in Jacksonville, Florida. Through its affiliates, Patriot specializes in moving freight consisting mainly of petroleum products and other liquids and also dry bulk commodities. FRP Development Corp, the companies real estate division, acquires, constructs, leases and manages land and commercial buildings. As of September 30, 2013, Patriot Transportation had approximately $287.1 million in total assets.
See also
Florida Rock Industries
Vulcan Materials
References
External links
Patriot Transportation Official Web Site.
Companies based in Jacksonville, Florida
American companies established in 1988
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
1988 establishments in Florida
Publicly traded companies based in Jacksonville, Florida |
23574209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99epe%C5%99e%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Přepeře (Mladá Boleslav District) | Přepeře is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennies%20from%20Heaven%20%281981%20film%29 | Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) | Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 American musical romantic drama film directed by Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama of the same name. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean to Depression-era Chicago and rural Illinois.
The film stars Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken and Jessica Harper. Choreographed by Danny Daniels, the film includes musical numbers consisting of actors lip-syncing and dancing to popular songs of the 1920s–30s, such as "Let's Misbehave", "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and the title song.
While positively received by critics, it was a box office bomb, grossing just a fraction of its budget. Potter received a nomination for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to On Golden Pond.
Plot
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker (Steve Martin) is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan. His business and marriage are failing, and Joan (Jessica Harper) refuses to give him the money she inherited from her father to start his own business.
Arthur's dream is to live in a world that is like the songs he tries to sell. He is refused a bank loan, although he fantasizes that he gets it. In his travels, Arthur meets schoolteacher Eileen (Bernadette Peters) and falls in love with her instantly. They embark on a short affair, but Arthur leaves her and returns to Joan, who is desperate to keep him and agrees to give him the money he wanted. Arthur denies having an affair, though Joan is sure he is lying.
Eileen gets pregnant by Arthur and is fired. With nowhere to go, she takes up with stylish pimp Tom (Christopher Walken). Eileen is attracted to Tom's "badness", and he arranges for her to have an abortion.
When Arthur meets Eileen again, she is now a prostitute calling herself "Lulu". They resume their romance, and Eileen leaves Tom and her sordid life. Impulsively, Arthur convinces her to run away with him. Having failed to sell his business, Arthur and Eileen break into the store one night and trash it, smashing its phonograph records (except for "Pennies from Heaven"). To supplement their income, Eileen keeps prostituting in spite of Arthur's objections.
A blind girl whom Arthur knew superficially is raped and murdered by an accordion-playing hobo to whom Arthur had given a ride earlier in the film. The police's suspicions are confirmed by Joan, who reveals to them Arthur's sexual predilections to get back at him for cheating on her. The police find Arthur trying to leave town with Eileen, and arrest him for murder; he is soon convicted and sentenced to death. At the gallows, he recites the lyrics from the song "Pennies from Heaven". In one final fantasy, Arthur and Eileen are reunited, with Arthur saying, "We couldn't have gone through all that without a happy ending. Songs ain't like that, are they?"
Cast
Steve Martin as Arthur Parker
Bernadette Peters as Eileen ("Lulu")
Jessica Harper as Joan Parker
Vernel Bagneris as Accordion man
John McMartin as Mr. Warner
John Karlen as Detective
Jay Garner as Banker
Robert Fitch as Al
Tommy Rall as Ed
Eliska Krupka as blind girl
Christopher Walken as Tom
Raleigh Bond as Mr. Barrett
Nancy Parsons as The Old Whore
Duke Stroud as Counterman
Will Hare as Father Everson
Production
Pennies from Heaven was Martin's first dramatic role in a film. He had watched the original miniseries and considered it "the greatest thing [he'd] ever seen." He trained for six months learning to tap dance, while Christopher Walken, who had trained as a dancer as a young man, was able to use his dancing skills in the film.
According to a 1990 article in The Times, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had Potter rewrite the script 13 times and required him to buy back his copyright from the BBC, for which he paid the BBC "something over $100,000". In addition, MGM prohibited broadcast of the BBC's original production for 10 years. Around 1989, at the prompting of Alan Yentob, the controller of BBC2, producer Kenith Trodd was able to buy back the rights from MGM for "a very inconsiderable sum." In February 1990, the BBC rebroadcast the original Pennies from Heaven serial for the first time since 1978.
In the same Times article, Trodd stated that Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell, the stars of the original series, "were terribly upset that they weren't considered for the film. I think they still blame Dennis and me in some way, but there was no way to argue the point with MGM."
The style of the movie balances the drab despair of the Depression era and the characters' sad lives with brightly colored dream-fantasy lavish musical sequences. The characters break into song and dance to express their emotions. For example, Eileen turns into a silver-gowned torch singer in her school-room, with her students lip-synching and dancing ("Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You"). Tom seduces Eileen with a tap dance/striptease routine on top of a bar ("Let's Misbehave"). Arthur and Eileen go to a film (Follow the Fleet) and wind up dancing in formal wear, first with, then in, a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical number from the film, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". All the songs are lip-synched, except Martin singing/speaking the title song at the end, but Arthur, Tom, and Eileen dance.
Four paintings are recreated as tableaux vivants in the film: Hudson Bay Fur Company and 20 Cent Movie by Reginald Marsh, and New York Movie and Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. Three of the four were painted after 1934, when the movie takes place, and all depict scenes in New York City rather than the Chicago setting of the movie.
Reception and legacy
Box office
The film was a commercial failure, grossing slightly more than $9 million at the box office against a budget of $22 million.
When asked in Rolling Stone about the film's box office failure, Martin said: "I'm disappointed that it didn't open as a blockbuster and I don't know what's to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy. I must say that the people who get the movie, in general, have been wise and intelligent; the people who don't get it are ignorant scum."
David Begelman head of MGM called it "the most daring film we made. It took all these different textures and molded them... I didn't make that picture because I enjoy walking a tightrope. I made that picture because with every honest conviction you can bring to bear, I believed that film could become a film of such incredible celebrity it would enjoy very wide success. I was wrong. I was completely wrong."
It was Martin's second starring role in a film, following 1979's comedy hit The Jerk, and fans were confused to see Martin in a serious role. "You just can't do a movie like Pennies from Heaven after you have done The Jerk," Martin said in a BBC interview.
"Everything I had done until that time had been wildly successful," he recalled in 1987, "so that the commercial failure of the film caught me by surprise. I still think artistically it's a very good film. I've rarely seen a role that showed that kind of vulnerability in a man. It's a special film to me, and if I had to find fault, it would be that I think some of the music could have included more popular songs of the period."
Critical response
The film was given a rapturous review by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, writing "Pennies from Heaven is the most emotional movie musical I've ever seen. It's a stylized mythology of the Depression which uses the popular songs of the period as expressions of people's deepest longings—for sex, for romance, for money, for a high good time...there was never a second when I wasn't fascinated by what was happening on the screen." Kael further noted that "The dance numbers are funny, amazing, and beautiful all at once; several of them are just about perfection." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "a rejuvenating, landmark achievement in the evolution of Hollywood musicals, and certainly the finest American movie of 1981. A brilliantly enhanced distillation of a 1978 British television play, 'Pennies' blends the astringent with the poignant and the fanciful. It appears as a belated Hollywood counterpart to Brecht and Weill's 'Three Penny Opera.'"
Other contemporary reviews were less positive. Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and called it "all flash and style and no heart." Vincent Canby of The New York Times reported that he watched the film "with what might best be described as baffled interest." He wrote that "All of the musical numbers are good, and a couple are great...The movie, though, is not easy to respond to. It's chilly without being provocative in any intellectual way." Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote "'Pennies From Heaven' is one of the most hopelessly esoteric big-budget Hollywood pictures ever made, a lugubrious, neo-Brechtian musical exercise of notable pretension and virtually no artistic payoff...In short, it's 'Penny Gate.'" Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader wrote that "ironic, alienating musicals have been tried before, but never with such lofty contempt for the form. [The film] drips with a sense of anger and betrayal that seems wildly out of scale to its cause - the discovery (less than original) that musicals don't reproduce social reality." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that "Martin ruins what could have been one of the year's freshest and most innovative films. With Martin hamming it up, 'Pennies From Heaven' is full of socko moments, but the entire film doesn't hold together." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "it is like no other period musical. It is so far out, so unexpected, that it might well be described as experimental...As such, it's likely to elicit deeply divided reactions: Audiences will either love it or hate it."
Peters won the Golden Globe as Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her role as Eileen Everson, a schoolteacher turned prostitute. A review of the DVD reissue asserted, "Peters brought a cocky attitude and a sexy exuberance to the musical numbers."
Fred Astaire, who was powerless to prevent the reuse of the footage from his film Follow the Fleet, detested Pennies from Heaven: "I have never spent two more miserable hours in my life. Every scene was cheap and vulgar. They don't realize that the '30s were a very innocent age, and that [the film] should have been set in the '80s – it was just froth; it makes you cry it's so distasteful."
The film was nominated by the American Film Institute for its 2006 list of Greatest Movie Musicals.
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium – Dennis Potter (nominated)
Best Costume Design – Bob Mackie (nominated)
Best Sound - Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler and Al Overton Jr. (nominated)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Motion Picture Actress, Comedy/Musical – Bernadette Peters (won)
Best Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical (nominated)
Best Motion Picture Actor, Comedy/Musical – Steve Martin (nominated)
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
References
External links
Turner Classic Movies article
1981 films
1980s English-language films
1980s musical drama films
1981 romantic drama films
American musical drama films
American romantic drama films
American romantic musical films
Adultery in films
Films about banking
Films about prostitution in the United States
Films based on television series
Films directed by Herbert Ross
Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance
Films produced by Rick McCallum
Films set in Chicago
Films set in Illinois
Films set in the 1930s
Films set in 1934
Great Depression films
Jukebox musical films
Films with screenplays by Dennis Potter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
United Artists films
1980s American films |
44500223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Gurri%C3%B3n%20Mat%C3%ADas | Daniel Gurrión Matías | Daniel Gurrión Matías (born 30 January 1958) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. FIn 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Oaxaca.
References
1958 births
Living people
People from Oaxaca
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Oaxaca |
23574211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pt%C3%BDrov | Ptýrov | Ptýrov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Čihátka, Maníkovice and Ptýrovec are administrative parts of Ptýrov.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%83viceni | Brăviceni | Brăviceni is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District |
6902707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao%20Hongmiao | Gao Hongmiao | Gao Hongmiao (born 17 March 1974) is a Chinese race walker.
International competitions
References
1974 births
Living people
Chinese female racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for China
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade gold medalists for China
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade |
23574214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabakov | Rabakov | Rabakov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 60 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44500225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Archives%20of%20Medicine | International Archives of Medicine | The International Archives of Medicine is an open access medical journal covering all aspects of medicine. It was established in 2008 and published by BioMed Central until the end of 2014. Starting in 2015, the journal is being published by iMed.pub, the official publisher of the Internet Medical Society, and restructured as a megajournal on all areas of medicine. The journal was abstracted and indexed from 2009 until its delisting in 2015 in Scopus. The editor-in-chief is .
In 2015, as part of a sting operation, science journalist John Bohannon submitted an intentionally flawed study that claimed that eating chocolate aided weight-loss to the International Archives of Medicine. The article was accepted without peer review by the journal's CEO, Carlos Vasquez, who called the manuscript "outstanding" and published it without any change for a fee of . The journal editors later said that the article hadn't been accepted and was posted on the journal website only "for some hours", while Bohannon produced previous correspondence from the editors that said otherwise.
The journal's publishers, Internet Medical Publishing (and now iMed.pub), are both listed as potentially predatory publishers on "Beall's list" compiled by librarian Jeffrey Beall.
References
External links
Journal page at iMed.pub
Open access journals
General medical journals
Publications established in 2008
English-language journals |
23574218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohatsko | Rohatsko | Rohatsko is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44500249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20%C3%81ngel%20Guti%C3%A9rrez%20Aguilar | Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Aguilar | Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Aguilar (born 21 July 1978) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2008 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Jalisco.
References
1978 births
Living people
Politicians from Jalisco
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Jalisco |
23574222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bul%C4%83ie%C8%99ti | Bulăiești | Bulăiești is a commune and village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Communes of Orhei District |
23574223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokyt%C3%A1 | Rokytá | Rokytá is a municipality in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The municipality is made up of villages of Dolní Rokytá and Horní Rokytá.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokytovec | Rokytovec | Rokytovec is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Malé Horky is an administrative part of Rokytovec.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolumnia%20pulchella | Tolumnia pulchella | Tolumnia pulchella is a species of orchid endemic to Jamaica. It is the type species of the genus Tolumnia.
References
pulchella
Orchids of Jamaica
Endemic flora of Jamaica
Endemic orchids of North America
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
6902725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effie%20Waller%20Smith | Effie Waller Smith | Effie Waller Smith (January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1960) was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: Songs of the Month (1904), Rhymes From the Cumberland (1904), and Rosemary and Pansies (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication Harper's Weekly and various regional newspapers.
Early life and education
Effie Waller was born to former slaves in the rural mountain community of Chloe Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, on a farm located a few miles from Pikeville. Her father, Frank Waller, migrated to the East Kentucky mountains sometime after the Civil War, having spent most of his early life as a laborer on a Virginia plantation. Her mother, Sibbie Ratliff, was born and raised in East Kentucky and met the former Virginia slave in the early 1870s. Effie was the third of their four children.
Frank Waller established himself as both a blacksmith and a real estate speculator soon after his arrival in the Chloe Creek community. This mountain community was unique in comparison to other communities of the time in that it was racially integrated. This condition, coupled with Waller's early training as a blacksmith while still a slave, helped him to become financially successful and to win the respect of his neighbors, both white and black. The Wallers, realizing the hardships caused by their own limited education, decided that their children would receive the best quality education available to them at the time.
Effie completed eighth grade at a local school, as her older siblings Alfred and Rosa had done, then attended Kentucky Normal School for Colored Persons in Frankfort, and from 1900 to 1902 trained to be a teacher, after which she is known to have taught school off and on for several years, in Kentucky and in Tennessee. That same year she married a man called Lyss Cockrell but the marriage did not last long, ending in her divorcing him. In 1908 she married again, to Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith, but this union was also short-lived. He was killed in 1911 while serving a warrant.
Career
Some of her verse appeared in local papers, and she published her first collection, Songs of the Months, containing 110 poems, in 1904. In 1909 Effie Smith had published two further collections, Rhymes From the Cumberland and Rosemary and Pansies, and in 1917, her sonnet "Autumn Winds" was published in Harper's Magazine, but she appears to have stopped writing that year, when she was 38.
Effie Smith left Kentucky for Wisconsin in 1918. She died on January 2, 1960 and is buried in the city of Neenah.
Bibliography
Songs of the Month (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1904)
Rhymes From the Cumberland (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1909)
Rosemary and Pansies (1909)
References
External links
Works by Effie Waller Smith at the Internet Archive
Effie Waller Smith, "Preparation", Academy of American Poets.
"Effie Waller Smith" at PoemHunter.com.
1879 births
1960 deaths
African-American poets
American poets
Writers from Kentucky
Kentucky State University alumni
American women poets
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American writers
African-American women writers |
23574228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98epov | Řepov | Řepov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
History
Řepov was founded in 1787.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cli%C8%99ova | Clișova | Clișova is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District |
23574232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98itonice | Řitonice | Řitonice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 80 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Sedlec (Mladá Boleslav District) | Sedlec is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isacova | Isacova | Isacova is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
History
Isacova is an old village in Orhei County, inhabited mostly by descendants of small land owners from medieval times ("razesi" (razashi) and "mazili").
According to one of the earliest documents mentioning Isacova, in 1645 is set the limit between Isacova and Orhei.
Notable people
Teodor Uncu
Gavril Buciușcan
References
Documente privitoare la târgul și ținutul Orheiului, publicate cu un studiu introductiv de Sava Aurel, Institutul de Istorie Națională din București, București,1944, LV+561p, B.A.R.: II 234647+; B.C.U. Page 84.
Villages of Orhei District
Orgeyevsky Uyezd |
23574238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sezemice%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Sezemice (Mladá Boleslav District) | Sezemice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The hamlet of Jirsko 1.díl is an administrative part of Sezemice.
Notable people
Stanislav Libenský (1921–2002), contemporary artist
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skalsko%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Skalsko (Mladá Boleslav District) | Skalsko is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
History
The first written mention of Skalsko is from 1352.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44500262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalist%20Foundation%20of%20India | Environmentalist Foundation of India | The Environmentalist Foundation of India (E.F.I) is an environmental conservation group based out of Chennai, Hyderabad, Puducherry, Bangalore, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Coimbatore which focuses on wildlife conservation and habitat restoration. Started in 2007 and registered in 2011, the organisation is known for its work in cleaning and scientific restoration of lakes in India for biodiversity. The organisation and its efforts grew from one pond in Chennai to include over 167 water bodies in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal in the last 14 years (2007 to 2021).
Activities
E.F.I focuses on restoration of lakes, flora, care of stray animals and a village development programme. Most of the organisation's work is carried out through volunteer support. E.F.I organises lake clean ups every Sunday and as of 2014 had cleaned 39 lakes across India. This includes Madambakkam, Keezhkattalai, Narayanapuram, Karasangal and Arasankazhani lakes in Chennai; the Selvachintamani Kulam in Coimbatore; and the Kapra, Alwal, Gurunadham Cheruvu lakes in Hyderabad.
In the cases of Arasankazhani lake and the Selvachintamani Kulam, the projects were executed through public funding in the first and government support for the second. The lakes now have "G" shaped central islands for the birds to nest and fish to spawn. These geometric central islands are a first of its kind, with wind barrier capabilities and roosting facilities. The lakes also have percolation trenches and parallel bunds which ensure water retention and trapping of garbage.
E.F.I is also involved in the setting up of herbal biodiversity gardens at schools and special interest zones. The idea behind the herbal gardens are to increase people's interest in green cover and live healthy with native Indian herbs. E.F.I's "Clean for Olive Green" is a beach clean up project that is organised every year in the months of December to May to keep Chennai's beaches clean for the nesting Sea Turtle Mothers.
E.F.I is active in Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Delhi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram. The organisation is known for cleaning the beach stretch between Veli and Vizhinjiam in Thiruvananthapuram part of the Beach Habitat Restoration.
Ramanujar Pond Restoration in Kanchipuram. An ancient waterbody, located in front of the Sri Ramanujar Sannadhi at Sevilimedu in Kancheepuram taluk, was revived by the Environmentalist Foundation of India (E.F.I). The work coincided with the 1,000th birth anniversary of Sri Ramanuja.
Narendra Modi- Xi Jinping summit and E.F.I Lake Restoration
To commemorate the historic Indo-China summit 2019 at Mamallapuram, E.F.I took on the task of reviving the Konneri Tank. A lake adjacent to the monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage town. The tank named so owing to its shape of a sitting cow was restored in time for the summit. Deepening of the water body, clearing invasive weeds, planting native saplings, establishing 'G' shaped nesting islands were all part of the restoration effort.
EFI Chidambaram
With the administrative support from the then District Sub Collector Mr. Vishu Mahajan IAS, E.F.I signed an MOU with administration to revive 9 water bodies in the temple town of Chidambaram over 2 years. These include the historic Omakulam, Nagachery kulam, Gnanaprakasam pond, Ayee Kulam and other water bodies such as Thatchan Kulam, Periya Anna Kulam, Chinna Anna Kulam, Kumaran Kulam, Palaman Kulam. As of 2020 October work was completed in the first four and the remaining 5 to be worked on in 2021. This effort was further supported by Mr. Madhu Balan IAS who took over from Mr. Vishu. Active participation from community volunteers strengthened this effort by E.F.I.
EFI Trivandrum
Environmentalist Foundation of India started operations in Trivandrum by cleaning the Veli lake front. The efforts extended to cleaning of the Karimadom Colony pond. The organization is working towards the eco-restoration of the pond located in the heart of Trivandrum. In addition to this the organization runs awareness drives around the Thettiyaar, Parvathy Puthanar and Aakulam water reserves. These are done through Lake Safaris and other EFI outreach programs.
E.F.I Hyderabad
E.F.I volunteers at 9 lakes across Hyderabad. This includes the Kapra Lake, Madinaguda Lake, Gangaram Cheruvu, Gurunadham Cheruvu, Alwal lake and others. Several volunteers come together over the weekends to voluntarily clean up the lakes of physical garbage.
E.F.I Bangalore
E.F.I volunteers removed close to 3 tonnes of garbage from the Hebbal lake on the 18th of June. Several like minded citizens continue to volunteer over the weekend to clean up the Hebbal Lake. Efforts are also on to volunteer for lakes in South and North East Bangalore.
E.F.I Coimbatore
E.F.I volunteers across several lakes in Coimbatore ranging from the Selvachintamani Kulam, Kumarasamy Kulam and others. The organization has a dedicated rural program covering areas of Thondamuthur, Karamadai and Madukkarai. E.F.I recruits volunteers through several school programs and students actively participate in supporting E.F.I's efforts. E.F.I released a documentary titled 'Coimbatore's Last Drop' in 2017. Aimed at increasing public awareness on water conservation. E.F.I also organizes regular Lake Safaris in Coimbatore to sensitize the public on the depleting state of lakes in the city.
In 2021, the organization had taken on the restoration of four water bodies close to the Kalapatti region in Coimbatore, namely the Kaliaperumal Koil Kulam, Kalam Park Kuttai, Kalapatti Lake and the Thottipalayam Lake. The restorations were inaugurated and flagged off by the Coimbatore Collector Thiru Sameeran GS IAS and Coimbatoe Municipal Corporation Commissioner Thiru Raja Gopal Sunakara IAS on September 1, 2021.
E.F.I Chennai
The Environmentalist Foundation of India's weekend voluntary clean ups are a regular in lakes such as Keezhkattalai, Madambakkam, Tiruneermalai, Adambakkam, Perumbakkam, Sithalapakkam, Mudichur lakes. These clean ups see several volunteers such as students, working class and senior citizen participating.
An eco-park named Kanagam was established in Anna Nagar to ensure sustainability and move away from the idea of ecologically damaging construction in any way. The project is being executed in collaboration with the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Greater Chennai Corporation under the Namakku Naame scheme.
2016 lake restorations in Chennai
Post the 2015 floods, E.F.I's role in mobilizing volunteers and restoring freshwater bodies in Chennai became furthermore important. Immediately post the monsoons, the organization started working on restoration of three ponds within the Perungalathur Town Panchayat. Following which scientific restoration efforts were undertaken at the Arasankazhani Lake, Karasangal Lake, Mudichur Ponds, Karasangal Pond and West Mambalam Pond.
2017 lake restorations
E.F.I worked on the restoration of 29 water bodies in 2017. This included the restoration of the Thumbikairayen pond near Thondamuthur in the district as part of its water-body rejuvenation initiative.
One pond in Nagapattinam and one in Chellaperumal Nagar at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu were restored by E.F.I with support from the Better India group. The Omakulam at Madhavaram in Chennai was restored by E.F.I in partnership with the Greater Chennai Corporation and Chennai City Connect. Noted Carnatic Singer Smt. Sudhaa Ragunathan through her social group Samudhaaya Foundation supported E.F.I in restoring two ponds at Thiruvaiyaaru in Tamil Nadu E.F.I worked on the restoration of 7 rural ponds in the Tirunelveli district. This included water bodies in Ambasamudram Taluk
2018 lake restoration
E.F.I worked on restoring nearly 37 water bodies in the year 2018. This included the Malliankaranai Pond establishment project in Uthiramerur. Following which E.F.I started work on the ecological restoration of the Gerugambakkam Pond in West Chennai. The once garbage filled and weed infested water body was cleaned and restored through E.F.I's community based conservation efforts. Following the Gerugambakkam Pond Restoration E.F.I and the Greater Chennai Corporation got into an agreement to restore nearly 20 different water bodies spread across Chennai. This included the Ramachandra Nagar Pond, Theeyambakkam Pond, Vinayagapuram Pond and others. The organization also took on the scientific restoration of the Sholinganallur Lake located on the arterial IT Corridor of O.M.R in South Chennai.
The Minjur pond restoration in North Chennai, Vinayagapuram pond restoration in North West Chennai near Puzhal Lake were also completed in 2018. Arresting the inflow of sewage, clearing the water bodies of non-degradable trash, construction debris and invasive weeds was part of the eco restoration efforts. These water bodies are today important ground water recharge sites.
2019 lake/pond restorations
The year started early and on a positive note for E.F.I with the first restoration project kick starting at Thazhambur in Chennai. The abandoned Thazhambur pond was taken up for ecological restoration and through scientific means. The restoration at Thazhambur received overwhelming public support through active citizen volunteering.
3 Ponds in the Kinathukadavu suburb of Coimbatore were restored by E.F.I between January and March 2019. A total of 7 ponds in the region have been adopted out of which 3 were completed by March. These ponds part of a system are important for local agriculture and drinking water.
The Sam Nagar pond near Manali in North West Chennai was restored by E.F.I in March 2019. The pond located within the burial ground was to be slowly converted into a dumping site, however is now revived and ecologically restored.
Water bodies in the periphery of the Palliakranai Marsh were given priority in 2019 part of E.F.I's efforts. This includes the Mandapam Kuttai, Puliyakeni and Nattar Street ponds of Velachery, the Pillayar Koil Kulam at Pallikaranai, The Nehru Nagar Pond at Karappakam on OMR, the Kannan Kulam and Kattabomman Pond at Thoraipakkam.
2020 Lakes/Pond restorations
The entire world was gripped by the COVID Pandemic, this brought to a temporary halt the lake/pond restoration efforts at E.F.I. Big projects such as the 257 acres Madambakkam Lake Restoration The 73 acres Koladi Lake Restoration The Ayapakkam Lake part restoration at Aparna Nagar, The Thirumulaivoyal Pond Restoration, The Mittanamalli Lake Restoration, The Vandalur ORR Lake Restoration, The Nedunkundram Samiyar Pond and Gandhi Road Pond, The Anaikeni Pond Restoration were all completed in Chennai. Aurangabad Shenpunji Lake Restoration, Vijaywada Pedda Cheruvu ,Konai Cheruvu and Vura Cheruvu, Visakapatnam Vura Cheruvu, Hubli Rayanal Kere, Ahmedabad Makarba Lake, Indore Kanadiya Lake, Tuticorin Puthupatti Lake etc were also worked on in 2020 A pan India Lake/pond restoration effort.
Revival of tributaries
E.F.I worked on the restoration of the Seekana Channel which leads from Mudichur's Seekana Lake to the Adyar River in South West Chennai. The channel which had an overgrowth of weed, garbage dumping and other issues was worked upon over 3 months and completely revived. This included the deepening of the channel, elevating the bunds and regulating the water flow. The restoration of the channel ensured prevention of flooding in areas such as Madhanapuram and Parvathy Nagar of Mudichur.
Dal Lake
E.F.I in association with a local group called Arastha in Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir is involved in a multi-phase community based conservation of the Dal Lake. The two year long effort is voluntary with involvement from local citizens, shikaras, houseboat owners and the students in Srinagar. The efforts are aimed at cleaning the Dal Lake and maintaining it as an ecologically sensitive habitat.
Water security mission
The Government of Tamil Nadu launched a water security mission in the year 2015. The project is to focus on 15 lakes around Chennai which would be cleaned and scientifically restored. The Chennai Metro water is the nodal agency and Environmentalist Foundation of India is the executing NGO partner. 15 lakes chosen included the Madambakkam, Perumbakkam, Mudichur, Thiruverkadu, Keezhkattalai, Medavakkam, Adambakkam, Arasankazhani, Madipakkam, Puzhithivakkam lakes and more. This is seen as an effort to improve Chennai's water table and conserve these ecological habitats.
E.F.I's documentaries on water
E.F.I at a regular interval produces environmental documentary films. These films are used for public outreach efforts at schools, colleges, work environments. The organization has made three documentaries "Chennai's Lakes" "Chennai's Rivers" and "Coimbatore's Last Drop". It is working on similar documentaries on Pondicherry's Lakes and Bengaluru's Last Drop.
Lake Savaari
In an effort to connect people with environment, Environmentalist Foundation of India is organising a weekly Lake Savaari. Lake Savaari is an ecological safari aimed at increasing public awareness on freshwater habitats in Chennai. The safari is a free guided trip in which participants are taken to six lakes in Chennai where the Geology-Hydrology and Biodiversity are briefly explained. The lake safari is a 3-hour guided tour starting and ending at Thiruvanmiyur covering the Sholinganallur Pond, Arasankazhani Lake, Perumbakkam Lake, Medavakkam Lake and Narayanapuram Lake. E.F.I's lake safari in Coimbatore are scheduled over weekends and is a guided ecological tour with Sanjay Prasad E.F.I's Coimbatore coordinator.
Cyclakes
To enthuse the public on the need for conservation of freshwater bodies, E.F.I has initiated Cyclakes. A campaign aimed at encouraging people to cycle to their neighborhood lakes to learn more about their freshwater bodies. The effort rolled out in Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Pondicherry and Hyderabad is a weekend activity where participants are taken on a guided ecological tour to series of lakes. Every stopover is one of the city's lakes where stories related to the lakes ecology, revival etc. are shared.
E.F.I's Hydrostan
'Hydrostan' a video series launched by the Environmental Film Association (E.F.A) which is part of E.F.I. Through the series several documentaries on rivers of Tamil Nadu and other inspiring water stories are documented and made available for the general public. Aimed at increasing public awareness on water conservation, the screenings happen every weekend in Chennai and the videos are available on YouTube for public viewing.
E.F.I's public awareness wall paintings
Part of its outreach efforts, E.F.I has teamed up with the Southern Railway, Chennai Metro Rail Corporation and Greater Chennai Corporation to paint public walls with environment outreach information. Named "Wall.E" the effort has spread to 8 cities in 2017.
Founding
E.F.I was founded by Arun Krishnamurthy when initiated the cleaning of a pond in Mudichur and a lake in Hyderabad. The organisation's approach to recruit volunteers through school and college orientation programmes received support with many students joining them. E.F.I's team received support from like minded people across the spectrum who joined them as volunteers in their Sunday clean ups.
Recognition
British Council International Climate Champion Excellence Award in 2010.
Google Alumni Impact Award in 2011.
Rolex Awards for Enterprise award in 2012 for cleaning Lake Kilkattalai in Chennai.
Jane Goodall Institute Global Youth Leadership Award, 2010.
Youth Action Net Fellow.
The E.F.I has received voluntary support from celebrities of film industry as well, including Kamal Hasan and Trisha Krishnan.
In 2022, the Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had acknowledged E.F.I's conservation efforts in restoring over 170 water bodies across the country.
References
External links
E.F.I
Volunteer in Environmentalist Foundation of India
Non-profit organisations based in India
Environmental organisations based in India |
23574244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peresecina | Peresecina | Peresecina is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
Notable people
Sergiu Niță
Radu Sîrbu
Alexandra Remenco
References
Villages of Orhei District
Ulichs |
23574247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skorkov%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Skorkov (Mladá Boleslav District) | Skorkov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Otradovice and Podbrahy are administrative parts of Skorkov.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20defunct%20NASCAR%20teams | List of defunct NASCAR teams | The following is a list of notable NASCAR teams that have officially closed down, with their last team name and driver. The list does not contain teams that have temporarily suspended operations. For those, see List of NASCAR teams. Some teams that are listed here no longer run that particular series, but may still be active in another series.
NASCAR Cup Series
Xfinity Series
AP Performance Racing
A.J. Foyt Racing
Alumni Motorsports
Andy Petree Racing
BACE Motorsports
Bang! Racing
BLV Motorsports
Bost Motorsports
Carroll Racing
Chance 2 Motorsports
Chip Ganassi Racing
Clay Andrews Racing
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
DF2 Motorsports
Doug Taylor Motorsports
Emerald Performance Group
FILMAR Racing
Ginn Racing
Glynn Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports
Hensley Motorsports
Hillin Racing
Herzog Motorsports
Hispanic Racing Team
Innovative Motorsports
J&J Racing
JG Motorsports
Jim & Judie Motorsports
Joe Bessey Racing
Keith Coleman Racing
Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Labonte Motorsports
Larry Hedrick Motorsports
Lockamy Racing
Marsh Racing
Michael Waltrip Racing
Moy Racing
NorthStar Motorsports
Parker Racing
Precision Performance Motorsports
Roush Fenway Racing
Second Chance Motorsports
Shoemaker Racing
Spencer Motor Ventures
Team Bristol Motorsports
Washington-Erving Motorsports
Whitaker Racing
Xpress Motorsports
Gander Outdoors Truck Series
Addington Racing
Andy Petree Racing
Bang! Racing
BKR Racing
Brad Keselowski Racing
Clean Line Racing
CJ Racing
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
Faith Motorsports
Fiddleback Racing
Germain Racing
Glynn Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports
Joe Gibbs Racing
Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Impact Motorsports
Innovative Motorsports
Joe Gibbs Racing
JR Motorsports
MacDonald Motorsports
Mansion Motorsports
McGlynn Racing
Petty Enterprises
Phelon Racing
Red Horse Racing
Richard Childress Racing
Richardson Motorsports
Roadrunner Motorsports
Roehig Racing
Roush Fenway Racing
South Point Racing
Spears Motorsports
Sutton Motorsports
Tagsby Racing
Team EJP Racing
Team Rensi Motorsports
TKO Motorsports
Ultra Motorsports
Ware Racing Enterprises
Woodard Racing
Victory in Jesus Racing
Other series
Brad Jones Racing
Garry Rogers Motorsport
NASCAR teams, defunct
NASCAR teams |
44500270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie%20Blackmore%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ritchie Blackmore (disambiguation) | Ritchie Blackmore may refer to:
Ritchie Blackmore, an English guitarist and songwriter. Also part of Rainbow and of the music duo Blackmore's Night
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, first album by British rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's solo band Rainbow
Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster, an alternative known name for the electric guitar Fender Stratocaster
See also
Richie Blackmore (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league player and coach |
44500283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20Cover%20of%20Night | Under Cover of Night | Under Cover of Night is a 1937 American action film directed by George B. Seitz, written by Bertram Millhauser, and starring Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, Nat Pendleton, Henry Daniell, Sara Haden and Dean Jagger. It was released on January 8, 1937, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Plot
A professor, Janet Griswald (Sara Haden), is about to announce a great discovery in physics when her jealous husband (Henry Daniell), who collaborated with her, causes her to have a heart attack by throwing her dog out a window. To cover up his heinous deed, he throws a ball the dog was playing with out the window also to make it seem the dog chased after it.
When he can't find her notebook containing the discovery details, he ends up killing several other people. Detective Cross (Edmund Lowe) solves what might have been a perfect crime when he realizes the dog was thrown out the window before the ball.
Cast
Edmund Lowe as Christopher Cross
Florence Rice as Deb
Nat Pendleton as Sergeant Lucks
Henry Daniell as Marvin Griswald
Sara Haden as Janet Griswald
Dean Jagger as Alan
Frank Reicher as Rudolph Brehmer
Zeffie Tilbury as Mrs. Nash
Henry Kolker as District Attorney Prichard
Marla Shelton as Tonya Van Horne
Theodore von Eltz as John Lamont
Dorothy Peterson as Susan
Harry Davenport as Dr. Reed
Larry Steers as Factually Member (uncredited)
References
External links
1937 films
American action films
1930s action films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films directed by George B. Seitz
American black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films |
44500285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio%20Klimek%20Alcaraz | Octavio Klimek Alcaraz | Octavio Adolfo Klimek Alcaraz (born 30 December 1962) is a Mexican politician from the Party of the Democratic Revolution. From 2008 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Guerrero.
References
1962 births
Living people
Politicians from Guerrero
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Guerrero
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana alumni
TU Dresden alumni |
17334025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy%20Arnold%20discography | Eddy Arnold discography | The following is a complete discography of all albums released by the late American country music artist Eddy Arnold from 1955 to 2005.
Studio albums
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s–2000s
Gospel albums
Holiday albums
Compilation albums
Singles
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s–2000s
Other singles
Collaborations
Gospel singles
Christmas singles
Guest singles
Charted B-sides
Music videos
Notes
A^ "Soul Deep" also peaked at number 28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and at number 23 on the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in Canada.
References
External links
Official Website
Country music discographies
Discographies of American artists |
23574248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohorniceni | Pohorniceni | Pohorniceni is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District |
44500313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%20Years%20of%20Mau5 | 5 Years of Mau5 | 5 Years of Mau5 is a greatest hits and remix album by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5. It was released on November 24, 2014, in celebration of the five-year anniversary of his label, Mau5trap. Like his previous studio album, While(1<2) the retrospective was released in double disc format. The first disc acts as a greatest hits album encompassing highlights from the past five years of his back catalog, while the second disc serves as a remix album featuring exclusive and new remixes from various artists. The album artwork features a combination of the 'Mau5heads' used in the cover art of his first four studio albums released through the label: Random Album Title, For Lack of a Better Name, 4×4=12 and Album Title Goes Here.
Track listing
Notes
The original track listing was meant to feature the Wolfgang Gartner collaboration "Animal Rights" instead of "Not Exactly", as well as a remix of "Word Problems" by Friend Within (which was not finished in time for the album's release) in place of Wax Motif's Remix of "Raise Your Weapon".
NERO's remix of "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" and Madeon's remix of "Raise Your Weapon" were originally released in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
The deadmau5 vs Eric Prydz remix for "The Veldt" and the Michael Cassette remix for "Raise Your Weapon" were both initially recorded around 2012 and originally released around 2013, but neither were officially released before the album.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
External links
Deadmau5 albums
2014 compilation albums
2014 greatest hits albums
2014 remix albums
Mau5trap albums
Ultra Records albums
Virgin Records albums |
23574249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilovice%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Smilovice (Mladá Boleslav District) | Smilovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Bratronice, Rejšice, Újezd and Újezdec are administrative parts of Smilovice.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%83m%C4%83nanca | Sămănanca | Sămănanca is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District |
6902741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Son | European Son | "European Son" is a song written and performed by the American experimental rock band The Velvet Underground. It appears as the final track on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It is also the album's longest track at more than seven and a half minutes.
The song could be seen as a precursor to the band's next album White Light/White Heat and to the song "Sister Ray", a seventeen-minute-long rock improvisation.
Composition
"European Son" is dedicated by the band to Delmore Schwartz, the poet who had been literary mentor of singer Lou Reed at Syracuse University. Wanting to dedicate a song to Schwartz, "European Son" was chosen because it had the fewest lyrics (rock-and-roll lyrics being something Schwartz abhorred). The first pressing of The Velvet Underground & Nico referred to the song as "European Son (to Delmore Schwartz)".
The song was recorded in April 1966, and Schwartz died alone in Manhattan three months later on July 14. According to musicologist Richard Witts, the song "reads like little more than a song of loathing" to Schwartz, who refused to see Reed while living out his last days in seclusion at a rundown midtown New York hotel. Witts highlighted obscure personal details in lyrics such as "You made your wallpapers green" and found the Dylanesque "hey, hey, bye bye bye" lyric to bid "a malicious farewell to its subject".
Recording
The song begins with two stanzas of lyrics sung by Lou Reed over a D major chord and walking bass line, then after the first minute or so a loud crash is heard (caused by John Cale hitting a stack of plates with a metal chair). There follows a six-minute instrumental improvisation, making use of distortion and feedback.
Personnel
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, sound effects
John Cale – bass, sound effects
Sterling Morrison – guitar
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Covers
Half Japanese on their 1984 album Our Solar System.
Thurston Moore on the 1988 compilation album The End of Music as We Know It.
Gary Lucas on his 2000 album Street of Lost Brothers.
Iggy Pop and Matt Sweeney on the 2021 compilation tribute album I’ll Be Your Mirror
Other information
The song inspired the German experimental rock band Can. Its influence can especially be heard in the song "Father Cannot Yell", the lead track of Can's 1969 album Monster Movie, in which Holger Czukay plays a similar bassline.
A slowed-down version of the song's bassline (originally played by John Cale) appears on "Moby Octopad" by Yo La Tengo.
Simple Minds recorded a song entitled "European Son" on a demo tape, which was released on CD on The Early Years: 1977-1978. The band Japan also recorded a song with the title "European Son". Both these bands titled the song in tribute to the Velvet Underground song, and have covered other songs by the band (both covering "All Tomorrow's Parties", for one), but neither "European Son" is a cover of the Velvet Underground song.
References
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
Experimental rock songs
Songs written by John Cale
1966 songs |
17334033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical%20victory | Tactical victory | In military tactics, a tactical victory may refer to a victory that results in the completion of a tactical objective as part of an operation or a result in which the losses of the "defeated" outweigh those of the "victor" although the victorious force failed to meet its original objectives.
Concepts
Large-scale planning of goals may be called "strategy" and are conducted at the "strategic level of war." Lower-level operations that fulfil the strategic planning are conducted at the "operational level of war." The lowest level of planning which fulfills operational goals and strategy is called the "tactical level of war".
Based on planning
A tactical mission is one in which the operational area that aims to complete the goals of the assigned mission or task given by "tactical control." Therefore, a tactical victory is the successful completion of that mission. Tactical missions contribute to the success or failure of the whole operation. Tactics include the handling of assets such as soldiers, vehicles, weapons, and munitions and tactics might be as simple as the combat maneuvering of an individual soldier in a skirmish with an enemy soldier. The definition of tactical victory may become blurred in large-scale tactical maneuvering of troops in division-sized formations or the operational goals of company-sized units to exercise control of important positions, as they contribute in different ways to the success or the failure of operations and strategy.
Nations may have differing strategic objectives for a conflict, and their individual combat units may be made to believe in still-different objectives. Survival, on an individual or a unit level, may become an important objective in battle, and the different objectives allow both sides to maintain morale by declarations of victory to justify the costs of combat. Many battles involving multiple units include elements of tactical success by both opposing forces. The individual tactical victories may not cause the force to be successful in that battle or in the larger goals of the conflict.
Based on losses
The term is then applied to a simple tally of the numbers of losses of each side, but that may be complicated by the value attached to certain assets lost. An example of a naval tactical victory dependent on losses would be the Battle of the Coral Sea. The battle was considered a strategic victory for the Allies because they stopped a Japanese invasion. However, the latter lost fewer valuable ships; the Allies lost one aircraft carrier, one destroyer, and one oil tanker, but the Japanese lost one light carrier and one destroyer and so are considered to have won a tactical victory.
Another example of a tactical victory is the Battle off Samar in which American escort carriers, destroyers, and destroyer escorts prevented the Japanese Center Force (of 23 ships, including the battleship Yamato) from destroying the offloading of American transports in Leyte Gulf. During the battle, American ships sank 3 heavy cruisers (combined tonnage of 44,894 tons), damaged 3 heavy cruisers and 1 destroyer; shot down 52 aircraft, and killed more than 2,000 Japanese sailors (more than half of the rescued sailors were lost in the following days after they had been rescued from ships that would later sink from air strikes and surface action). Their American counterparts, however, had 2 escort carriers, 2 destroyers, 1 destroyer escort all sunk (with a combined tonnage of 22,350 tons); 6 escort carriers, 1 destroyer, and 2 destroyer escorts damaged; lost 23 aircraft; and 1,583 sailors killed.
See also
Decisive victory
Strategic victory
Pyrrhic victory
Notes
References
Military strategy |
23574253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojovice | Sojovice | Sojovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. It lies on the left bank of the Jizera River.
History
The first written mention of Sojovice is from 1360. From 1986 to 1999, it was merged with Skorkov. Since 2000, it has been a separate municipality.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll%20Be%20Your%20Mirror | I'll Be Your Mirror | "I'll Be Your Mirror" is a song by the Velvet Underground and Nico. It appeared on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It also surfaced as a single a year earlier with "All Tomorrow's Parties" in 1966.
Lou Reed wrote the song for Nico, who provides lead vocals. According to biographer Victor Bockris, inspiration for the song came about after Nico approached Reed after a show in 1965 saying, "Oh Lou, I'll be your mirror." The song was a favorite of Reed's and The Velvet Underground & Nico engineer, Norman Dolph.
Mark Deming of AllMusic described "I'll Be Your Mirror" as an "understated love song."
Recording
"I'll Be Your Mirror" was the most difficult for Nico to record, as the band wanted her to provide slender, delicate vocals for the song, yet she would sing louder, more aggressive vocals take after take. Sterling Morrison described the ordeal in an interview:
The members of the band enjoyed her particular performance on the song so much that after she left the band in late 1967, live vocals for the song were done imitating Nico's accent.
Mentor and manager Andy Warhol suggested that the album have a built-in scratch in it so the line "I'll be your mirror" would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listener moved the needle themself, but nothing ever came of this idea.
Personnel
Nico – lead vocals
Lou Reed – lead guitar
John Cale – bass guitar
Sterling Morrison – lead guitar
Maureen Tucker – tambourine
Alternate versions
Scepter Studios, April 1966
A different mix of the song appears on the acetate cut of the Scepter Studios session, with an alternate track of more aggressive lead vocals by Nico. She also sings "to show that you're home" at the end of the second verse rather than "so you won't be afraid". The backing vocals that sing "reflect what you are" also are almost inaudible on this version of the song, and the guitar is louder.
Single version, July 1966
A 45 rpm single version of the song was released in July 1966 with "All Tomorrow's Parties". The single is identical to the album cut except that it does not fade out at the end. Instead, it goes on for about five seconds ending with a guitar chord. This version of the song later became available in 2002 on the "Deluxe Edition" of The Velvet Underground & Nico.
References
1966 songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Nico songs
Psychedelic songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
1966 singles
Verve Records singles |
23574255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C5%A1nov | Strašnov | Strašnov is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
History
The name Strašnov was derived from the old personal Czech name Strah or Straš.
Geography
Strašnov is located about south of Mladá Boleslav and northeast of Prague. It lies in a flat landscape of the Jizera Table.
History
The first written mention of Strašnov is from 1297. There used to be a fortress, which protected a trade route leading through Strašnov. Most of the territory of Strašnov belonged to the Stránov estate.
Transport
The D10 motorway runs along the western municipal border.
References
External links
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%20She%20Goes%20Again | There She Goes Again | "There She Goes Again" is a song by The Velvet Underground. It first appeared on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The syncopated guitar riff is taken from the 1962 Marvin Gaye song "Hitch Hike". Guitarist Sterling Morrison has stated:
Metronomically, we were a pretty accurate band. If we were speeding up or slowing down, it was by design. If you listen to the solo break on "There She Goes Again," it slows down—slower and slower and slower. And then when it comes back into the "bye-bye-byes" it's double the original tempo, a tremendous leap to twice the speed.
Other artists have recorded the song, including R.E.M., who recorded it as a B-side on their 1983 single "Radio Free Europe" (and appeared on their B-side compilation Dead Letter Office in 1987). It was also included as a bonus track on the 1993 re-release of R.E.M.'s 1983 album Murmur.
Personnel
Lou Reed – lead vocals, lead guitar
John Cale – bass, backing vocals
Sterling Morrison – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Maureen Tucker – percussion
References
1966 songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
R.E.M. songs
Jangle pop songs |
23574256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susleni | Susleni | Susleni, Orhei district, Moldova is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Orhei District
Orgeyevsky Uyezd |
23574257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A1%C5%BEi%C5%A1t%C4%9B | Strážiště | Strážiště is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Kozmice is an administrative part of Strážiště.
History
The first written mention of Strážiště is from 1400.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20East%20Coast%20153 | Florida East Coast 153 | Florida East Coast 153 is a historic Florida East Coast Railway 4-6-2 ALCO steam locomotive located in Miami, Florida, USA.
History
The locomotive served on the Florida East Coast Railway from 1922 to 1938, and pulled a train carrying President Calvin Coolidge to Miami in 1928. In 1935, when she was in use on the run between Miami and Key West, #153 was one of the last engines to reach Miami before the hurricane that year destroyed the bridges to the Florida Keys.
After 1938, #153 was used as an industrial switcher by the United States Sugar Corporation of Clewiston, Florida. In 1956, she was donated to the University of Miami.
From March 1957 until November 1966, she operated a train called Gold Coast Special in Miami every Sunday. In 1966, she received a major overhaul, after which she was inspected and subsequently certified by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
For pulling the "rescue train" out of Marathon before the Labor Day Hurricane, #153 was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 1985. Due to age and damage by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, she's been out of service since. It is located at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum, 12400 Southwest 152nd Street, Miami, FL.
See also
U.S. Sugar 148
References
Miami-Dade County listings at National Register of Historic Places
Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
Dade County listings
Florida East Coast Railway Locomotive #153
How to Boot a Steam Locomotive, Phil Jern 1990.
External links
National Register of Historic Places in Miami
Individual locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives on the National Register of Historic Places
ALCO locomotives
4-6-2 locomotives
Locomotive 153
Rail infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1922
Preserved steam locomotives of Florida |
44500332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Pablo%20Su%C3%A1rez%20%28journalist%29 | Juan Pablo Suárez (journalist) | Juan Pablo Suárez is an Argentinian journalist who is the editor of the news website Última Hora.
His wife, Sandra Wede, is the owner of Ultima Hora. He was arrested while covering a public protest on 9 December 2013 and charged with sedition under an anti-terrorism law.
Suárez was 45 years old at the time of the arrest.
Career
He began working in 2007 for Última Hora, which is based in the city of Santiago del Estero, the capital of the province of the same name.
Arrest and detention
At shortly after 9 p.m. on the night of 9 December 2013, Suárez, who was at the newspaper's offices, became aware that a protest for higher wages for police officers was taking place in Leopoldo Lugones Square. There were no reporters available at the offices at that hour to cover the story, so Suárez took a microphone and went out into the streets with a cameraman. They filmed the arrest and the aggressive police treatment of a protesting police officer, Norberto Villagrán, who was taken into custody in the presence of his wife and their daughters, aged 8 and 11.
According to Perfil, policemen were protesting across the country for higher salaries on that day, but Villagran was the only police officer who decided to demonstrate in the city of Santiago del Estero. Sandra Wede later said that Villagrán had been peacefully protesting when he was “attacked” by a group of policemen who arrested him and pushed him into a police car. Villagrán had reportedly spent a week in prison the previous year for saying that there were irregularities in police funds.
After filming Villagrán's arrest, Suárez returned directly to the offices of Última Hora, where he posted a video of the arrest on the newspaper's website. Only minutes later, at about 10 p.m., approximately 30 police officers wearing hoods entered the newspaper's offices and handled him brutally. They took him into custody without having any arrest warrant or detention order, although they told him they had oral permission from Judge Rosa Falco to arrest him. He did not resist arrest.
The police seized two computers and a cell phone. “They did not respect the chain of custody of seized items,” Suárez later maintained. “They took my notebook, a CPU and a cellphone with all my sources," Suárez said, accusing them of “violating professional confidentiality.” Wede later said that Falco had ordered her to hand over the video taken by Suárez in the square. Falco had also told Wede that she had the right to verbally authorise a raid and that she did not want the video of Villagrán to be used politically.
Última Hora condemned the arrest and detention of Suárez and stated “that the real reason behind the raid and the arrest is to cover up violent police behaviour.” Víctor Daniel Nazar, Suárez's lawyer, called the accusation against his client “extremely grave....In all my years in this profession I have never seen such a serious violation of legal rights.”
On 18 December 2013, the Committee to Protect Journalists called on Argentinian authorities to immediately release Suárez, who at that point had been detained for over a week. “It is ludicrous that a journalist be accused of sedition and spend nine days in jail solely for filming a protest and arrest,” said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior Americas program coordinator. “We urge Argentine authorities to drop the absurd accusations against Juan Pablo Suárez and release him immediately.” Gabriel Levinas, a reporter with Radio Mitre and editor of the news website Plazademayo, told CPJ that he had seen Suárez's file and that there was no evidence to support allegations of sedition.
Suárez was held in custody for ten days. It was reported on 19 December that Suárez had been released. Wede went to Buenos Aires to try to get national coverage for the case. She met with the head of the LED Foundation, Silvana Giudici, and with opposition representatives. The Argentinian Journalists Forum (FOPEA) expressed concern about the “legal technical framework” employed by the judge. The Association of Argentinian Journalism Entities (ADEPA) also expressed “deep concern” about the case. On 19 December, opposition MPs gathered to demand free-speech guarantees. Judge Falco called Suárez in for questioning but later declined jurisdiction and sent the case to the federal courts.
He was released, but on 13 May 2014 faced federal Judge Guillermo Molinari and prosecutor Pedro Simón, the latter of whom called for him to be tried for sedition under the anti-terrorism act, a crime for which he could be imprisoned for 12 years. Other charges included “inciting collective violence” and “terrorizing the population.” La Nación compared the “labyrinthine judicial process” to which he was subjected to the trial of Joseph K. in Kafka's The Trial.
On 14 May 2014, Reporters Without Borders condemned the charges against Suárez. “We call for the immediate withdrawal of these absurd charges against Suárez,” said Camille Soulier, the head of the ROB Americas desk. “How can filming an arrest be construed as a terrorist activity? By using the anti-terrorism law against a journalist for the first time, the Santiago del Estero authorities are sending a clear message that they will tolerate no criticism.” Suárez's lawyer, Víctor Nazar, told Reporters Without Borders: “There are no legal grounds for the sedition charge and still less for applying the anti-terrorism law because the only thing Suárez did was cover a protest for more pay. The reasons are political. He is the only journalist who firmly criticizes the government’s policies and the only one to cover all the pay demands.”
On 20 May 2014, Suárez met with members of the national legislature at an open hearing about his case. At the meeting, Suárez said “I do not believe in justice.” He noted that the prosecutor in his case, Simón, was allegedly guilty of an “illegal land grab.” He said it was better to go to jail “than to live on your knees.” Deputy Omar Duclós stated that it was undemocratic to persecute journalist in this way. “We are facing a clear attack on the freedom of expression of a media worker performing his duties by an ally of the Kirchner provincial government.” Deputy Laura Alonso said that the parliamentary Committee on Freedom of Expression had traditionally defended journalists in such situations, but that this was no longer the case because such committees had been “captured” and were now “owned.”
At the meeting with national legislators, Suárez said of the charges against him: “This is not a message for me, but for all of independent journalism.” He maintained that his arrest and prosecution were connected to the fact that he had questioned the conduct of the provincial governor Zamora and Zamora's wife, Claudia Ledesma Abdala, provisional president of the Senate. Suárez described the news media in Santiago del Estero as being divided between those who fear the government and those that have deals with the government. He was detained with five criminals in a cell barely more than one square meter in size. He was in detention for ten days, during which was hospitalized for dehydration after beginning a hunger strike to protest his treatment.
On 23 May, Guillermo Molinari stated he would prosecute Suárez not for terrorism and sedition but for incitement to commit a crime. According to one report, Molinari “decided to keep this accusation based on evidence allegedly found in the mobile phones of Suárez and Nelson Villagrán.” Molinari officially ruled on 28 May that Suárez and Villagran should be prosecuted for inciting violence, but he dismissed the request of prosecutor Pedro Simón that they be tied for sedition under the Terrorism Act.
References
Argentine journalists
Male journalists
1960s births
Living people |
23574261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele%C8%99eu | Teleșeu | Teleșeu is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.
Notable people
Vladimir Cristi
References
Villages of Orhei District |
6902779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entering%20a%20New%20Ride | Entering a New Ride | Entering a New Ride is the ninth and final album by Big Audio Dynamite (aka BAD), recorded in 1999. Radioactive Records declined to release the album, so in 2001 the band decided to post the tracks on its website. In this way, the album is one of the earliest internet-distributed albums. To support this self-release by the band many fans and media creators became involved centered upon a discussion board on the BAD website. Among these was filmmaker and interactive media producer Krishna Stott, who created the interactive film NTR, a noir-ish story written by Tim Birch, starring actor Wayne Simmonds, and featuring three of the albums tracks. This guerrilla film was distributed using the then new technology of CD-ROM.
Track listing
Disc one
"Man That Is Dynamite" – 6:23
"BAD and the Night Time Ride" – 4:55
"Sunday Best" – 4:20
"Must Be the Music" – 6:08
"Taking You to Another Dimension" – 6:49
"Sound of the BAD" – 6:20
"Cozy Ten Minutes" – 8:11
"Get High" – 5:01
"Bang Ice Geezer" – 4:33
"On the Ones and Twos" – 4:59
"Nice and Easy" – 6:53
Disc two
"Go with the Flow" – 11:12
"Sound of the Joe" – 6:21
"Man That Is Dynamite" (mix) – 5:21
"Sunday Best" (Christmas 99 mix) – 6:01
"Sunday Best" (extended mix) – 7:27
"Sunday Best" (remix) – 7:12
"BAD And The Night Time Ride " (Remix) – 7:54
Personnel
Big Audio Dynamite
Mick Jones - vocals, guitar, producer
Ranking Roger - vocals
Nick Hawkins - guitar
André Shapps - keyboards, drum programming, producer
Daryl Fulstow - bass
Bob Wond - drums
Michael Custance/Lord Zonka - vocals, DJ, songwriter, producer
DJ Joe Attard - vocals, MC , songwriter, producer
NTR interactive film (2001)
The album was released online during the early days of the internet on the Big Audio Dynamite website, with fans and media creators becoming actively involved in promoting the self-release. Activities centred upon the BAD website discussion board, with fans, creators, and band-members cooking up plans. The most significant outcome of these activities was initiated by filmmaker and interactive media producer Krishna Stott who created the interactive film NTR (2001). Written by Tim Birch and starring the actor Wayne Simmonds, it was a film noir-ish story of Rude Boy - a character created by Simmonds, and the film used a collage of clips from Simmonds’ own video art projects to create the narrative. The film featured three tracks from the album: 'Man, That Is Dynamite!', 'Taking You To Another Dimension', and 'Get High'. Burnt onto the then new but increasing popular technology of CD-ROM, this guerrilla film was distributed to promote the album amongst fans and the media.
References
External links
YouTube stream
1999 albums
Big Audio Dynamite albums
Albums free for download by copyright owner |
6902781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Patrick%27s%20Grammar%20School | St. Patrick's Grammar School | St. Patrick's Grammar School may refer to:
St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh, Armagh, Northern Ireland
St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland |
6902794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu%20Guohui | Yu Guohui | Yu Guohui (; born April 30, 1977 in Qingdao) is a retired male Chinese race walker.
Achievements
References
1977 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Chinese male racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
Athletes from Qingdao
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games |
6902795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Cogan | Sara Cogan | Sara Cogan is a British television and theatre actress, based in London.
She graduated from The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in 2003, after a three-year acting course.
She went on to appear in 2003's sixth run of The Newsrevue, the longest-running theatrical comedy show in the United Kingdom, appearing alongside James Shakeshaft, Paul Millard and Sarah Mae.
She has had television roles in Doctors, playing Gemma Bullock, The Walk, playing Beverley and Footballers' Wives, playing a hotel receptionist.
Her most recent role was as a midwife named Cheryl in EastEnders, alongside Emma Barton (Honey Mitchell) and Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell), in a storyline about Down syndrome.
References
External links
British television actresses
British stage actresses
British soap opera actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
6902800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo%20Andr%C3%A9%20Beach | Santo André Beach | Santo André Beach (Praia de Santo André in Portuguese, lit. "Saint Andrew Beach") is an extensive and wide maritime beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located in Santo André, between the A Ver-o-Mar and Aguçadoura. It borders Cape Santo André to the south.
This beach is very beautiful. It has flowers and pretty skies and an ocean.
Beaches of Póvoa de Varzim |
6902815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEAN | CLEAN | CLEAN may refer to:
Component Validator for Environmentally Friendly Aero Engine
CLEAN (algorithm), a computational algorithm used in astronomy to perform a deconvolution on dirty images
Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network, a system used by law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies in Pennsylvania which interfaces NCIC, Penndot and other sources beneficial to law enforcement personnel. Operated by the Pennsylvania State Police.
Cryogenic Low-Energy Astrophysics with Noble gases, a liquid argon dark matter detector under construction at SNOLAB. |
6902833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego%20de%20Villalba%20y%20Toledo | Diego de Villalba y Toledo | Diego de Villalba y Toledo, marqués de Campo, señor de la Villa de Santacruz de Pinares was a Spanish general of artillery and colonial governor in America. From 1667 to 1671 he was governor of New Kingdom of Granada – Nuevo Reino de Granada – (greater Colombia), then part of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
Villalba y Toledo was a knight of the Order of Santiago and majordomo of Juan José of Austria, son of Spanish King Philip IV. From 1647 to 1653 Villalba was governor of Cuba.
In 1667 he became governor of Nuevo Reino de Granada (New Granada). During his administration the Grand Bridge over the Bogotá River was completed, and also a bridge over the Río Gualí at Honda. These were constructed by Indigenous labor. He traveled to Cartagena de Indias to inspect its defenses after the English pirate Henry Morgan attacked the Castle of San Felipe in 1668. At the same time, there were reports that the French also planned a landing in New Granada.
Because of a shortage of coinage in New Granada, Villalba ordered the silver bars be melted down to make coins of one quarter and one half real.
There was a variety of complaints to the Crown against Villalba's administration, and Bishop Melchor Liñán y Cisneros was appointed visitador (inspector) to investigate them. The bishop ordered that Villalba be arrested and confined in Villa de Leiva. There were 70 charges against him, and he was convicted of robbing the dead. On 2 June 1671, Liñán y Cisneros replaced him on a temporary basis as governor and captain general of New Granada. Liñán y Cisneros later became viceroy of Peru.
Villalba y Toledo died in Seville.
References
Text loosely translated from the Spanish Wikipedia article.
Villalba y Toledo
Villalba y Toledo
Villalba
Villalba
Villalba
Villalba
Villalba
Villalba
Villalba
Villalba
Villalba |
44500338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against%20All | Against All | Against All () is a 1956 Czechoslovak historical drama film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is based on the novel Proti všem by Alois Jirásek. The film's budget was 25 million KČs which made it the most expensive Czech film of the time. Itis the third part of Vávra's cinematic Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy. The plot is set after Jan Žižka and concludes the entire trilogy. It takes place in 1420. The central motif of the film is the fight between the Hussites and the troops of the First anti-Hussite crusade led by the heir to the Bohemian throne, the Hungarian King and Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg. We also follow the development of Tábor and the disputes between the moderate party of Jan Žižka and the radical Picarts of Petr Kániš.
Cast
Zdeněk Štěpánek as Jan Žižka z Trocnova
Gustav Hilmar as Ctibor z Hvozdna
Vlasta Matulová as Zdena
as Provost
Jan Pivec as Zikmund Lucemburský
as Jan Bydlinsky
Václav Voska as
Jana Rybářová as Marta
Petr Hanicinec as Ondrej z Hvozdna
Stanislav Neumann as Sakristian
Jaroslav Vojta as Simon
as Oldrich Rozmberk
as
František Horák as Jan Želivský
Josef Kotapiš as Pippo Spano
Rudolf Hrušínský as Christian of Prachatice
Plot
In the beginning, the Provost of the Louňovice monastery along with the local sacristan and young novice Marta are fleeing from a mob of looting Taborites. They find refuge in the fortress of the yeoman Ctibor of Hvozdno, who protects them from their pursuers. The trio escapes and manages to hide in Příběnice castle with the powerful lord Oldřich of Rožmberk. Most of the inhabitants of the village and also the Yeoman's daughter Zdena join the Táborites as they pass through Hvozdno. Villagers reach Tábor and are received there. Zdena is enchanted by one of the Tábor priests, Jan Bydlinský.
The provost of Louňovice persuades the Lord Rožmberk to side with King Sigismund of Luxembourg, who was just about to invade Bohemia at the head of a crusade. For the promised financial reward, young Rožmberk agrees to attack the weakened town of Tábor. With this news, the Provost goes to Kutná Hora, where Sigismund and his army are located planning to attacki Prague. Provost meets Ctibor of Hvozdno who heads to Tábor to see his daughter. Dispute begins to grow between the priests of Tábor who demand to defend themselves in the Tábor and the hejtman Žižka, who recommends coming to the aid of Prague threatened by Sigismund's army. A group of listeners begins to gather around fanatical priests Petr Kániš and Jan Bydlinský, including the Ctibor's daughter Zdena who listens to priests against her father's will.
The Provost of Louňovice arrives in Kutná Hora, where the Germans throw the Hussites into the empty shafts of the local silver mines. Here, the provost informs King Sigismund about the position of Oldřich of Rožmberk. A delegation from Prague arrives tonegotiate with Sigismun, desperately trying to beg for mercy from Sigismund. Sigismund declines to negotiate with the Hussite envoys and thus force them to ask for help from the rural Hussites and especially the South Bohemian camps. In Tábor Žižka's side prevails after hearing news from Prague and most of the local Hussites are getting ready to leave for the threatened Prague. The yeoman Ctibor and his nephew Ondřej also leave against their father's will. Zdena decides to stay in the city together with Bydlinský, Kániš and their people.
The lord of Rožmberk marches against the weakened Tábor with his army supported by the troops of the Austrian Duke Albrecht. In Rožmberk's army there is also novice Marta, the Provost and sacristan of Louňovice. The camp is besieged and barely resists the odds. Žižka sends cavalry from Prague to the aid of the besieged Tábor. With an unexpected attack, the Hussites manage to defeat the besiegers and save Tábor. AProvost and Sacristan of Louňovice are captured and executed by Hussites. Novice Marta and her maid are saved from death by young Ondřej of Hvozdno.
After the primary danger has been extinguished, there is a definitive split in Tábor. Radicals led by Kániš leave the city for the foothills of the conquered Příběnice castle. Zdena and Jan Bydlinský also leave together as they fall in love. In Příběnice, Kániš seduces his listeners, and these fanatics burn the Zeman's daughter Zdena and Kániš's son Bydlinský alive. Not even Ctibor can save his daughter.
In the finale of the entire film, Prague, where Hussites have already arrived, is preparing for an attack by the Crusader troops, who are besieging the capital from three sides. The only supply route to Prague is the path from Poříčská brána, which leads around Vítkov Hill. Žižka therefore fortifies this strategic point with very small group. Larrge crusader army attacks Vítkov Hill. Žižka's group defends it but is vastly outnumbered. Crusaders are eventually defeated when reinforcements from Prague arrive. King Sigismund is defeated and the crusade falls apart. The Hussites celebrate this great victory at the end of film.
Production
The film Against All was shot in 1956 in studios in Barrandov. Exteriors were shot in Radotín. Historians Jan Durdík and Eduard Wagner participated in the production as historical and military advisors. The music was conducted by Jiří Srnka and arranged by the Film Symphony Orchestra and Aus-Vít Nejedlý Choir conducted by František Belfín. Jiří Trnka also participated in the film as head of the costume section. Filming took place with the participation of units of the Czechoslovak army and clubs of Svazarm, which supplied horses for the filming, and the Institute of Military History. The budget of 25 million Czechoslovak crowns made the film Against All the most expensive film in the history of Czechoslovak film at the time.
Reception
Like other parts of Vávra's Hussite trilogy the film is valued to this day for its monumentality, set, costumes and successful battle scenes. Nevertheless, this film is often criticized for its excessive use of the regime of the 1950s, its schematicity, its constructive enthusiasm and its distortion of history.
References
External links
1956 films
1956 drama films
1950s historical drama films
Czechoslovak drama films
1950s Czech-language films
Czech historical drama films
Czech sequel films
Films directed by Otakar Vávra
Films about Hussite Wars
Films based on works by Alois Jirásek
Biographical films about military leaders
Cultural depictions of Jan Žižka
1950s Czech films |
6902857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiyo%20District | Keiyo District | Keiyo District (also known as Elgeyo district or Elgeiyo) is a defunct administrative district in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. The district was formed in 1994, when Elgeyo/Marakwet-District was split into two - the other half was Marakwet District. Keiyo District had a population of 143.865 . Its capital was located in the Iten/Tambach town. In 2010, the districts were re-joined as Elgeyo-Marakwet County.
Local people are mostly of the Keiyo Tribe. Many famous Kenyan runners come from the district, including Saif Saaeed Shaheen (born Stephen Cherono), Vivian Cheruiyot and Lornah Kiplagat. The area is used by local and foreign athletes for high-altitude training.
Mining of fluorite by the Kenya Fluorspar Company is the largest industry in the former district.
Local authorities
Keiyo District has two local authorities:
Iten/Tambach town (population: 31,813; urban population: 3,968)
Keiyo county council (population: 112,052; urban population: 1,868)
Administrative divisions
Constituencies
The district had two constituencies:
Keiyo North Constituency
Keiyo South Constituency
See also
Kaptarakwa, a village in the Chapkorio division of Keiyo District
Kimwarer, a town in the Soy Division of Keiyo district
References
External links
Kalenjin Online - Keiyo District
Keiyo Heritage - Keiyo District
Former districts of Kenya |
23574262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strenice | Strenice | Strenice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23574266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudom%C4%9B%C5%99 | Sudoměř | Sudoměř is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44500341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermina%20L%C3%B3pez%20Balbuena | Guillermina López Balbuena | Guillermina López Balbuena (born 25 June 1973) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2007 to 2009 she served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.
References
1973 births
Living people
Politicians from Puebla
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican women politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Puebla |
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