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26719857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Phineas%20Gordon | George Phineas Gordon | George Phineas Gordon (April 21, 1810 – January 27, 1878) was an American inventor, printer and businessman who developed the basic design of the most common printing press ever, the Gordon Letterpress.
Born in Salem, New Hampshire, where his family had lived for more than one hundred years, he was educated there and at Boston before deciding to become an actor. Failing to achieve a livelihood at this, he moved to New York where he became an apprentice printer. Upon learning the trade, he opened a job printing shop of his own. Around 1835 he began to experiment in press design. His first patent for a job-press was granted in 1851. While this press had many flaws, he began to manufacture it as the "Yankee" job press. Subsequently he introduced the "Turnover" and the "Firefly," which could produce 10,000 printed cards an hour. About 1858 he produced the "Franklin" press, which has ever since been known as the Gordon Jobber. (Gordon claimed that Benjamin Franklin had revealed the basic design of the press to him in a dream.) It was strong, well built, and easy to operate. The Gordon Press solved the problem of clam-shell presses (which previously had "snapped" and endangered pressmen's fingers) by having the platen open on cams, so that it was flat and lagged for the pressman as he fed the sheet, before closing parallel to the type bed.
Gordon began manufacturing presses in Rhode Island but in 1872 established his factory in Rahway, New Jersey. He secured over fifty patents for presses and accumulated a large fortune.
References
"Dictionary of American biography, under the auspices of the American council of learned societies," C. Scribner's sons, New York City, 1928.
19th-century American inventors
American printers
1878 deaths
1821 births
19th-century American businesspeople |
17336319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burntheath | Burntheath | Burntheath is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England. It is located 1 mile north of Hilton, and adjacent to the A50 road.
Hamlets in Derbyshire
South Derbyshire District |
26719860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYER | DYER | DYER (828 AM) was a radio station owned and operated by DCG Radio-TV Network. It was formerly known as Environment Radio under the management of then-mayor Edward Hagedorn until 2008, when it transferred to 1062 AM. Since then, the frequency has been off the air.
References
Radio stations in Puerto Princesa
Radio stations established in 1978
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
23576604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20Los%20Angeles%20Lakers%20season | 2004–05 Los Angeles Lakers season | The 2004–05 Los Angeles Lakers season was the 57th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and 45th in the city of Los Angeles. The previous season had ended with a crushing defeat in five games to the Detroit Pistons in the 2004 NBA Finals, despite the Lakers being heavily favored. The 2004–05 season is best remembered as a tough one for the Lakers, winning only 34 games and missing the playoffs for the first time in 11 years. It was also the Lakers first season since 1995-96 without either center Shaquille O'Neal, who was traded to the Miami Heat for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Brian Grant, and future draft picks, or point guard Derek Fisher (who had signed a six year free agent contract with the Golden State Warriors), two instrumental players to the Lakers' previous three championship victories. The Lakers had the worst team defensive rating in the NBA.
Phil Jackson was also fired in the offseason and replaced by former Houston Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovich. However, in February 2005, Tomjanovich's struggle with bladder cancer has been diagnosed since 2003 and forced him to resign after an 24–19 start into the season and be replaced by Jackson's assistant coach Frank Hamblen for the rest of the season. Following the season, Butler was traded to the Washington Wizards, Hamblen was fired as head coach and Vlade Divac retired.
For this season, the Lakers slightly changed their uniforms added the secondary logo to their shorts they remained in used until 2018.
The Lakers would not miss the playoffs again until 2014. This was the first team since the 1998–99 Chicago Bulls and last until the 2014–15 Miami Heat to miss the playoffs after making a Finals appearance as well as the last until the 2014–15 Heat to miss the playoffs after losing the previous year's Finals.
Draft picks
Roster
Player Salaries
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Game log
Player statistics
Awards and records
Kobe Bryant, All-NBA Third Team
Transactions
Kareem Rush was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats on December 6, 2004, for a 2005 2nd round draft pick and a 2009 2nd round draft pick.
References
Los Angeles Lakers seasons
Los Angle
Los Angle
Los Angle |
26719869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Bari | Omar Bari | Oumar Barry (born July 18, 1986) is a Guinean-born Qatari footballer who is a goalkeeper.
External links
QSL.com.qa profile
Goalzz.com profile
1986 births
Living people
Al-Rayyan SC players
Association football goalkeepers
Qatari footballers
Qatar international footballers
Qatari people of Guinean descent
Guinean footballers
El Jaish SC players
Qatar Stars League players
Qatari Second Division players
Naturalised citizens of Qatar |
20473487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas%20Hatzichristos | Kostas Hatzichristos | Kostas Hatzichristos or Costas Hajihristos (; 1921 – October 3, 2001) was a Greek actor.
Biography
He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, to a large family of thirteen members, he was the eleventh child. His parents were from Constantinople (today Istanbul), and they were initially relocated to Kavala, moved to Thessaloniki thereafter, and later moved to the northern Athens suburb of Pagkrati.
The young Kostas studied initially at the Sergeants Major Military School of Syros and finished his studies in the Kavala. He worked in the variety theatre Missouri in Piraeus and with the Nitsa Gaitanaki company where he played in The Grouch () by Dimitris Psathas. From 1945 until 1948, he worked in an operetta company owned by Paraskevas Oikonomou and appeared in the Pefka variety with Oikonomidis and Oasia with Mimis Traiforos. In 1949‒50, he participated in Koula Nikolaidou's musical company at the Verdun theatre () at Alexandras Avenue.
At the Verdun theatre, Hatzichristos acted for his first time in his successful run in the role of a villager character called Thymios, a role inspired by Kostas Nikolaidis, brother of his wife Mary Nikolaidou. Hatzichristos first screen appearance was in the movie The Knights' Castle in 1952 with Giorgos Asimakopoulos and Nikos Tsiforos. At the same time, he was successful at the theatre founded in 1952 his own theatrical troupe and in 1960 became theatrical entrepreneur founded his own theatre Hatzichristos Theatre () premiered on 18 February 1960, later renamed as the Treatre Orfeas, at Panepistimiou Avenue in the Athens neighborhood of Akadimia. One of the greatest successes in his career was in the movie What a Mess () in 1963, and also in the movie Τhe Man Who Returned from the Plates () in 1969 with Anna Fonsou and Dionysis Papagiannopoulos. He also produced three movies and directed eight.
His theatrical work continued until 1983. After a long period of absence he returned into the theatre in 1994‒95 era and played in the local Hatzichristos Theatre. His difficult years begun when his third wife, Eleni Pantazi died at the age of 42.
Kostas Hatzichristos died by cancer on 3 October 2001, suffering from economic problems. He was interred at public expense at First Cemetery of Athens on 5 October 2001.
Personal life
He was engaged with the actress Ntina Trianti with whom they had starred in several movies together. His first marriage was done during the Axis occupation of Greece with a woman named Nitsa who was from Naousa, Imathia. They were living together for many years. In 1949 he married Mary Nikolaidou with whom he had one daughter, Teta Hatzichristou who was married actor Petros Fyssoun with whom he had one daughter, actress Ania Fyssoum. In 1955 he married actress Ketty Diridaoua and divorced in 1975, with whom he had one daughter Marialena Hatzichristou. His third wife was Eleni Pantazi. His last wife was Voula Arvanitaki-Hatzichristou.
Filmography
Selected theatrical plays
References
External links
at Discogs
at Retrodb
1921 births
2001 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Greece
Greek male film actors
Greek comedians
Male actors from Athens
Actors from Thessaloniki
20th-century comedians |
17336327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krimson%20Creek | Krimson Creek | Krimson Creek is the second studio album and third solo release overall by Boondox. It was released on May 13, 2008 on Psychopathic Records. The liner notes included with the album contained excerpts from all 15 tracks on the album, also included was a foldout poster featuring a larger, complete depiction of the cover art.
Music and lyrics
Krimson Creek is a more personal work than The Harvest, with songs inspired by events from Boondox' life, including an incident in which his uncle tried to kill him by drowning him in a swimming pool, getting into fights at his school and experiments with drugs. The final track, "Death of a Hater", was inspired by negative reactions to his music. "I’ve read things where I’ve had people say, 'I hate him. I hope he dies. I hope his kids die' [...] I pretty much wrote a song about what I would do to those people."
Reception
Allrovi wrote, "For lovers of gore-drenched rap-rock, KRIMSON CREEK will satisfy."
The album peaked at number 1 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers, number 13 on the magazine's Top Independent Albums chart, and number 113 on the Billboard 200.
Track listing
Personnel
Vocals, Lyrics
Boondox
Violent J - (5)
Insane Clown Posse - (7)
Monoxide Child - (14)
Blaze Ya Dead Homie - (14)
Jamie Madrox - (15)
Production (music by)
Boondox - (1)
Kuma - (1, 3, 6, 9, 14, 15)
Mike E. Clark - (2, 4, 8, 13)
Tino Grosse - (2, 13)
Darkeonz - (5)
Eric Davie - (7)
Violent J - (10)
Scott Sumner - (11)
Underrated - (12)
Other Production (Engineered by)
Eric Davie - (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
Dr. Punch - (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
Charts
References
External links
2008 albums
Albums produced by Joseph Bruce
Albums produced by Mike E. Clark
Boondox albums
Psychopathic Records albums |
20473494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Poulou | Daniel Poulou | Daniel Poulou (born July 28, 1943 in Biarritz) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Pyrénées-Atlantiques's 6th constituency, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1943 births
Living people
People from Biarritz
Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
17336355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Black%20%28judge%29 | Michael Black (judge) | Michael Eric John Black (born 22 March 1940) is a former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
Background and career
Black was born in the Kingdom of Egypt, where his father was serving as an officer in the Royal Air Force. He attended schools in Egypt, England, and Australia (Wesley College, Melbourne). He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne in 1963.
In 1964, Black commenced practice at the Victorian Bar. His practice included civil jury actions as well as commercial and public law cases.
Black was appointed Queen's Counsel for Victoria in 1980 and for Tasmania in 1984. As Queen's Counsel, he specialised in appellate work, including cases in constitutional, commercial and industrial law. One of the constitutional cases was the Tasmanian Dam Case in 1983, where he represented the Tasmanian Wilderness Society.
Upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II, his title changed to King's Counsel (K.C.) automatically.
Judicial and later career
He was appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia on 1 January 1991. As Chief Justice, he had, as well as his judicial duties, statutory responsibility for the administration of the Court.
In 1981, he was appointed the Foundation Chairman of the Victorian Bar's Readers Course, the Bar's pioneering course of instruction for new barristers, and later served as the representative of the Victorian Bar on the Board of the Leo Cussen Institute for Continuing Legal Education. As Chief Justice, he actively supported the Federal Court's work in the field of judicial education. He was also Chair of the Advisory Committee for introduction of the Juris Doctor degree at Melbourne Law School. He retired as Chief Justice on 21 March 2010 and was succeeded by Patrick Keane.
Honours
On Australia Day, 1998, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for service to the law, to the legal profession and to the judiciary.
Personal life
His interests outside the law include architecture, history, and maritime matters.
References
External links
Transcripts of Federal Court farewell sittings
Former Justices of the Federal Court of Australia
1940 births
Living people
Chief Justices of the Federal Court of Australia
Judges of the Federal Court of Australia
20th-century King's Counsel
Australian King's Counsel
Australian barristers
Companions of the Order of Australia
People educated at Wesley College (Victoria)
Melbourne Law School alumni
British expatriates in Australia
British emigrants to Australia |
20473497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana%20Bel%C3%A9n%20Guti%C3%A9rrez%20de%20Mendoza | Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza | Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (27 January 187513 July 1942) was a Mexican anarchist and feminist activist, typographer, journalist and poet.
Biography
She was born to a poor family in the town of San Juan del Río, Durango, on 27 January 1875. While many women contributed to the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920 by fighting alongside their husbands, others wrote against the injustices of the Díaz regime. In May 1901, she founded an anti-Díaz newspaper called Vésper. She attacked the clergy in Guanajuato and wrote against foreign domination in Mexico. She also wrote against the Díaz regime and criticized Díaz for not carrying out the requests and needs of the people. As a result, her newspaper was confiscated and she was also put in jail several times by Díaz between 1904 and 1920. She established a new newspaper called El Desmonte (1900-1919) and continued her writings. She encouraged workers and peasants to vote as she wrote “not to integrate power, but to disintegrate it, as a means of forming, not a new oligarchy but of transforming the oligarchies into truly public administrations.” She argued that the Mexican Population could not count on the leadership of political parties given that they wanted to obtain office in order to protect their own interests. To propagate liberation ideology throughout Mexico, Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza translated the works of Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre Joseph Proudhon to Spanish. Even though she was intimidated throughout her life, she continued writing and educating the public on the injustices the different governments brought upon Mexico. She is one of the many intellectuals who contributed with her writings to the Mexican Revolution.
She was also a Caxcan Indian from the state of Durango.
References
Sources
Macias, Anna. “Women and the Mexican Revolution.”: Academy of American Franciscan History Vol. 37, No.1 (1980): 53-82.12.
Ana Lau Jaiven, LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE LAS MUJERES EN LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA: Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (1875-1942), UAM-Xochimilco
1875 births
1942 deaths
Indigenous Mexicans
Mexican feminists
Mexican feminist writers
Mexican women journalists
Mexican women poets
People of the Mexican Revolution
Mexican anarchists
Anarcha-feminists
Writers from Durango
Mexican translators
Translators to Spanish
Indigenous Mexican women |
6904597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20discharger | Static discharger | Static dischargers, also called static wicks or static discharge wicks, are devices used to remove static electricity from aircraft in flight. They take the form of small sticks pointing backwards from the wings, and are fitted on almost all civilian aircraft.
Function
Precipitation static is an electrical charge on an airplane caused by flying through rain, snow, ice, or dust particles. Charge also accumulates through friction between the aircraft hull and the air. When the aircraft charge is great enough, it discharges into the surrounding air. Without static dischargers, the charge discharges in large batches through pointed aircraft extremities, such as antennas, wing tips, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, and other protrusions. The discharge creates a broad-band radio frequency noise from DC to 1000 MHz, which can affect aircraft communication.
To control this discharge, so as to allow the continuous operation of navigation and radio communication systems, static dischargers are installed on the trailing edges of aircraft. These include (electrically grounded) ailerons, elevators, rudder, wing, horizontal and vertical stabilizer tips. Static dischargers are high electrical resistance (6-200 megaohm) devices with a lower corona voltage and sharper points than the surrounding aircraft structure. This means that the corona discharge into the atmosphere flows through them, and occurs gradually.
Static dischargers are not lightning arrestors and do not affect the likelihood of an aircraft being struck by lightning. They will not function if they are not properly bonded to the aircraft. There must be a conductive path from all parts of the airplane to the dischargers, otherwise they will be useless. Access panels, doors, cowls, navigation lights, antenna mounting hardware, control surfaces, etc., can create static noise if they cannot discharge through the static wick.
History
The first static dischargers were developed by a joint Army-Navy team led by Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory and fitted onto military aircraft during World War II. They were shown to be effective even in extreme weather conditions in 1946 by a United States Army Air Corps team led by Capt. Ernest Lynn Cleveland.
Dayton Granger, an inventor from Florida, received a patent on static wicks in 1950.
See also
Pan Am Flight 214
Precipitation (meteorology)
Electrostatic discharge
Triboelectric effect
Ground loop (electricity)
References
Electrical engineering
Electrodes |
44503964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Prayer%20%28denomination%29 | House of Prayer (denomination) | House of Prayer is a Christian denomination aligned with the conservative holiness movement. It has roots in Christian communalism, restorationism, and the Wesleyan-Holiness movement.
Background
House of Prayer founder Edward Wayne Runyan (1864–1945) followed the example of the "Holy Jumpers" of the Metropolitan Church Association, a Holiness Methodist denomination that taught that Christians should live communally in accordance with the teachings in , the teaching referred to as "All Things Common"
In 1917, several converts were made among the Churches of Christ in Christian Union (CCCU), including one of the denomination's founders, Henry C. Leeth (died 1967). Leeth started a Christian commune with Runyan. The commune consisted of a farm and a store near Urbana, Ohio.
The CCCU expelled Leeth and 13 other ministers in 1918 for holding to Runyan's teachings, which denominational leaders found to be too humanistic. At first inclined to participate in Runyan's plan for a fully integrated church community, once the leadership became fully aware of the implications of the teaching—the scrapping of tithing, along with the complete community pooling of all members' income—the annual council of the CCCU speedily resolved that those promoting the "All Things Common" movement have their recognition as CCCU ministers revoked. Leeth became the House of Prayer's first bishop (or elder) in 1919. The movement and churches went by many names over the years in addition to House of Prayer (HP for short): All Things Common, God's Non-Sectarian Tabernacle, and simply "The Church."
Though the commune failed, the House of Prayer set up many churches and an annual camp meeting which at its peak attracted a thousand visitors per year. It published the periodicals the Herald of Perfect Christianity and Repairer of the Breach, of which no copies are extant or locatable. Its headquarters were in Washington Court House, Ohio—where a church still met .
In 1999, the denomination reported two churches and around 200 members, as well as the annual camp meeting.
House of Prayer pastors and congregants have attended the Interchurch Holiness Convention (IHC).
See also
Holiness movement
Communitarianism
References
External links
Clip of congregational singing
Local church web site
Christian denominations established in the 20th century
Evangelical denominations in North America
Holiness denominations |
44504010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear%20Mother%20and%20All | Dear Mother and All | Dear Mother and All is a play written by American playwright Sandra Perlman. It is based on letters between 18-year-old American Charles Vernon Brown, his family, friends, and other members of his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, dating from his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps in March 1918 during World War I to the return of his body from France in 1921. The play was produced through a grant from the Ohio Arts Council/Ohio Humanities Council Joint Program in 1988 through a commission from the Massillon Museum and was first performed at the Lincoln Theater in Massillon in 1989.
Synopsis
The play takes place between March 1918 and January 1921 and is based on actual letters written by 18-year old Charles Vernon Brown, members of the immediate and extended Brown family, and other friends and acquaintances from the Northeast Ohio city of Massillon. When US President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany in 1918 during World War I, Charles Vernon Brown was an 18-year-old high school graduate. He and his friend Chester Potts joined the United States Marine Corps on April 21, 1918 and, after completing training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and Marine Corps Base Quantico, were assigned to France.
The family and friends he left behind wrote to him throughout his brief military life. The title of the play comes from how he would address each of his letters home: "Dear Mother and all". Charles Vernon's mother Lena Brown was the chief correspondent for the letters, which was typical for many families. Charles's father, also named Charles, never wrote his son and appeared to never fully recover from his departure. The Brown family also had three daughters: Dorothy, Ethel, and Helen.
Charles Vernon saw action in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel in mid September 1918. He was wounded October 4, 1918 in the Forest of Argonne during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He died from his wounds on October 24. Because of the length of time it took to send and receive letters, Lena Brown received the letter from her son letting her know he was wounded but alive around the date he actually died. She became increasingly anxious as time passed on without any update on his condition, and did not receive the telegram of his death until November 19, eight days after the Armistice. Charles was initially buried in France.
Lena held out hope that their son had, in fact, not been killed when a photo of the grave in France showed the name of "Charles B. Brown" instead of "Charles V. Brown". Three months later, however, uncle Mortimer Duffield, a doctor with the American Expeditionary Forces, was able to confirm that the grave was that of Charles V. Brown when the Browns' home address was listed as the address for dead soldier in question. Charles's body was returned to Massillon on January 12, 1921 and his funeral was held in his home and at the Wesley Methodist Church on January 13.
Publication and performances
Dear Mother and All was commissioned by the Massillon Museum in 1988 and is based on their collection of letters related to Charles Vernon Brown. The collection includes over 200 letters written by over 60 people covering a period of approximately three years. The play was funded by a $9,000 grant from the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Humanities Council and written by Sandra Perlman of Kent, Ohio. Dear Mother and All debuted in Massillon July 28–30, 1989 at the Lions Lincoln Theater. It was selected as a second-place entry in the first Playwright's Forum at Youngstown State University in 1993 and performed at the university's Spotlight Theater. A monologue from the play was published by Meriwether Publishing in 2001 as part of their Audition Monologs for Student Actors II collection. In December 2013, it was performed in a staged reading at the Erdmann–Zucchero (EZ) Black Box Theatre at Kent State University.
The show is divided into two acts with 31 total scenes and a performance time of approximately 120 minutes. Action takes place at the Brown home in Massillon and wherever Charles Vernon is writing from at the time. The cast has 22 roles, 11 male and 11 female. While it is not a musical, period background music is suggested as an element, and the script is written to accommodate music.
References
External links
Official website
Plays about World War I
American plays
1989 plays |
20473503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Spagnou | Daniel Spagnou | Daniel Spagnou (born 22 September 1940 in Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the second constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Biography
Daniel Spagnou worked as a savings bank manager, he is now retired.
He entered politics by becoming mayor of Sisteron on March 14, 1983. He still holds this position, his list having obtained 57% of the votes cast in 2020.
From April 15, 1985 to March 18, 2001, he was a member of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence General Council. He was vice-president from 1988 to 2001.
For ten years, from March 23, 1992 to July 1, 2002, he was also a member of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Council, of which he was vice-president from 1992 to 1998.
On June 16, 2002, he was elected deputy for the 2nd constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence for the 12th legislature (2002-2007). He beat outgoing MP Robert Honde, former PRG mayor of Manosque in the second round, collecting 59.91% of the vote in the second round.
He was re-elected deputy on June 17, 2007, for the 13th legislature (2007-2012), beating, in the second round, Christophe Castaner, the PS mayor of Forcalquier, with 53.97% of the vote. He sits in the UMP group. He belongs to the Committee on Cultural Affairs and is a member of the National Assembly delegation on women's rights and equal opportunities between men and women.
He is a member of the National Assembly's Tibet Study Group.
In January 2011, he announced on his site that he would not be a candidate in the 2012 legislative elections.
At the end of 2017, he joined Agir, the constructive right.
Titles
Officer of the Legion of Honour July 14, 2019.
Knight of the Legion of Honour, 1999.
References
1940 births
Living people
People from Barcelonnette
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
26719902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Palmer | Albert Palmer | Albert Palmer may refer to:
Albert Palmer (American politician)
Albert Palmer (Australian politician)
Albert Palmer (Canadian politician)
Sir Albert Palmer (judge), Chief Justice of the Solomon Islands
Albert Marshman Palmer, American theatrical manager |
20473516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle%20Bousquet | Danielle Bousquet | Danielle Bousquet (born 10 May 1945) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the 1st constituency of the Côtes-d'Armor department as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. She was a member of parliament from 1997 to 2012.
References
1945 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
People from Côtes-d'Armor
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Politicians from Brittany |
26719906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Alexander%20Brown | David Alexander Brown | David Alexander Brown (8 February 1916 – 3 November 2009) was a geologist who played an important role in developing the study of Geology in Australia.
He was born on 8 February 1916 in Scotland. His father fought and died at Gallipoli in World War I. His mother took him to New Zealand when he was four years old.
He studied at the University of New Zealand and graduated in 1937 with a Master of Science degree. In 1936 he started work in a field geologist job at the New Zealand Geological Survey. In 1938 he changed jobs, working for the New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Group.
When World War II broke out he first joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and then later the Royal Navy. He took up flying aircraft from aircraft carriers, in the Fleet Air Arm. He was posted to the Barents Sea and North Sea. His highlight was to bomb the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944 in Altenfjord a Norwegian fjord while flying a Fairey Barracuda torpedo bomber in Operation Tungsten.
He found his wife Patrica in the Women's Royal Naval Service. After the war they lived in London.
Brown was given a post graduate scholarship to study Bryozoa (or Polyzoans) from the Tertiary period in New Zealand. His jobs were at the Imperial College of Science and Technology and the British Museum of Natural History. In 1948 he graduated with a PhD and a DIC, and an award of the Lyell Fund from the Geological Society of London in 1953. He became a world expert on polyzoa, and a good taxonomist.
After this he migrated back to New Zealand and rejoined the New Zealand Geological Survey. The Otago University recruited him as a lecturer in 1950. In 1959 he accepted at job at the Canberra University College as the chair of geology. He set up the geology department, not specialising but employing people with a range of specialities. At various times he was the dean of science, dean of students, and he ensured the library had a good range of journals.
Brown was the president of the Geological Society of Australia. He was skilled at translating Russian to English and wrote a Russian to English dictionary for geoscience.
A bryozoan species from the Schizoporellidae was named after him, Dakaria dabrowni. A mollusc Mauidrillia browni is named after him.
He had three children and nine grandchildren. He died 3 November 2009 in Sydney.
Publications
The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand published Rudolph William Sabbot January 1952,
Ore Deposits Of Ussr, Vol. 3
The geological evolution of Australia & New Zealand 1968
Fossil Bryozoa from drill holes on Eniwetok Atoll 1964
On the polyzoan genus Crepidacantha Levinsen 1954
Proceedings of Specialists' Meeting held at Canberra, 25–31 May 1968
The Facies of regional metamorphism at high pressures 1975
Dannevirke Subdivision maps and bulletin 1953, Montague Ongley, Albert Mathieson Quennell, David Alexander Brown and Arnold Robert Lillie (mapping from 1936 to 1941)
Te Aute Subdivision, central Hawkes Bay maps and bulletin Jacobus Theodorus Kingma and David Alexander Brown pub 1971
Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria Melbourne Department of Mines, 1957
Deep-seated inclusions in kimberlites and the problem of the composition of the upper mantle / by N. V. Sobolev, translation
A Russian – English Geosciences Dictionary РУССКО – АНГЛИЙСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ: НАУК О ЗЕМЛЕ 2001 Canberra
References
1916 births
2009 deaths
20th-century Australian geologists
20th-century New Zealand geologists
British emigrants to New Zealand
Paleozoologists
20th-century British zoologists
New Zealand military personnel of World War II
Fleet Air Arm personnel of World War II
Fleet Air Arm aviators
British World War II bomber pilots
New Zealand emigrants to Australia |
26719921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arash%20Afshin | Arash Afshin | Arash Afshin (, born January 21, 1990) is an Iranian footballer. He is a former player of Iran national team and under-23 team.
Club career
Afshin started his senior career at Foolad. In winter 2012, he was linked to Lille but move was not done. On 1 July 2013, he joined Sepahan on a one-year contract. In December 2013, he terminated his contract with Sepahan to join Foolad again.
Malavan
After facing conscription problems, he was forced to move a military-owned club. On November 12, 2014, he signed a 2-years contract with Iranian Navy's Malavan.
On 31 July 2015 on his debut for Malavan, Afshin scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Zob Ahan.
International career
After good performance with Iran U23 in 2010 Asian Games and also in Foolad he convinced Afshin Ghotbi to invite him to Team Melli
On 2 January 2011, Afshin was called up to the Iran for the team's friendly match against Angola and made his debut.
He was also one of Iran players in 2011 AFC Asian Cup.
International goals
Scores and results list Iran's goal tally first.
Honours
Foolad
Iran Pro League (1): 2013–14
Personal life
He is currently Student of Civil Engineering at Islamic Azad University Ramhormoz Branch.
References
Arash Afshin at Navad
External links
Arash Afshin at PersianLeague.com
1990 births
Living people
Foolad FC players
Iranian footballers
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
Iran international footballers
Sportspeople from Khuzestan province
Association football forwards
Association football wingers
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Sepahan S.C. footballers
Malavan players
Esteghlal F.C. players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Asian Games competitors for Iran
21st-century Iranian people |
26719926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy%20Day | Blasphemy Day | Blasphemy Day, also known as International Blasphemy Day or International Blasphemy Rights Day, educates individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom of expression, especially the open criticism of religion which is criminalized in many countries. Blasphemy Day was introduced as a worldwide celebration by the Center for Inquiry in 2009.
Events worldwide on the first annual Blasphemy Day in 2009 included an art exhibit in Washington, D.C., and a free speech festival in Los Angeles.
Origins
Blasphemy Day is celebrated on September 30 to coincide with the anniversary of the 2005 publication of satirical drawings of Muhammad in one of Denmark's newspapers, resulting in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. Although the caricatures of Muhammad caused some controversy within Denmark, especially among Muslims, it became a widespread furor after Muslim imams in several countries stirred up violent protests in which Danish embassies were firebombed and over 100 people killed (counting the deaths from police opening fire on protesters). The idea to observe an International Blasphemy Rights Day originated in 2009. A student contacted the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York, to present the idea, which CFI then supported.
Intent
During the first celebration of Blasphemy Day in 2009, Center for Inquiry President and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay stated in an interview with CNN: "[W]e think religious beliefs should be subject to examination and criticism just as political beliefs are, but we have a taboo on religion." According to USA Todays interview with Justin Trottier, a Toronto coordinator of Blasphemy Day, "We're not seeking to offend, but if in the course of dialogue and debate, people become offended, that's not an issue for us. There is no human right not to be offended."
Criminal punishment for blasphemy
In some countries, blasphemy is punishable by death, such as in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Nine member states of the European Union have laws against blasphemy or religious insult: Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. In addition, blasphemy has recently been repealed in a number of other countries: Denmark (repealed 2017), France (Alsace-Moselle region only, repealed in January 2017), Iceland (repealed 2015), Ireland (ended January 2020), and Malta (ended 2016).
In 2009 six US states still had anti-blasphemy laws on their books: Massachusetts, Michigan, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming, but law professor Sarah Barringer Gordon states that they are "rarely enforced".
See also
Avijit Roy
Charlie Hebdo
Civil disobedience
Narendra Dabholkar
Worldwide Protests for Free Expression in Bangladesh
The Satanic Verses
References
External links
Pictures for Everybody Draw Mohammed Day: 1 , 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Blasphemy Day Facebook page
The Center for Inquiry's Campaign for Free Expression
Articles containing video clips
Atheism
Atheism activism
Awareness days
Blasphemy
Censorship
Civil awareness days
Criticism of religion
Disengagement from religion
Freedom of expression
Irreligion
New Atheism
Nontheism
Public awareness campaigns
Public holidays in the United States
Recurring events established in 2009
Religion and society
Religion and atheism
Secularism
Separation of church and state
September observances
Unofficial observances |
23576605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias-Marie%20Duval | Mathias-Marie Duval | Mathias-Marie Duval (7 February 1844 – 28 February 1907) was a French professor of anatomy and histology born in Grasse. He was the son of botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810–1883).
Biography
He studied medicine in Paris, and later served as prosector in Strassburg. In 1873 he became agrégé, subsequently becoming director of the anthropological laboratory at the École des Hautes Etudes and an anatomy professor at the École Supérieur des Beaux-Arts. In 1885 he replaced Charles-Philippe Robin (1821–1895) as professor of histology at the medical faculty in Paris. In 1892 he became a member of the Académie de Médecine. He was also a member of the International Society for the History of Medicine.
Duval is remembered for research involving placental development in mice and rats, and was the first to identify trophoblast invasion in rodents. With Austrian-American gynecologist Walter Schiller (1887–1960), Schiller Duval bodies are named, which are structures found in endodermal sinus tumors.
Selected writings
Sur la structure et usages de la rétine. Thesis for agrégé- 1873
Manuel du microscopie. 1873, second edition- 1877.
Précis de technique microscopique et histologique, ou introduction pratique à l’anatomie générale. (with an introduction by Charles-Philippe Robin). Paris, J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1878. 315 pages.
Précis de l'anatomie à l'usage des artistes, 1881.
Leçons sur la physiologie du système nerveux, 1883.
Le placenta des rongeurs. Journal de l'anatomie et de la physiologie normales et pathologiques de l'homme et des animaux, Paris, 1891, 27: 24–73, 344–395, 513–612.
Le placenta des rongeurs. Paris, Felix Alcan, 1892.
Précis d'histologie, Paris, 1897, 1900.
Histoire d'anatomie plastique: les maîtres, les livres et les échorchès, (With Edouard Coyer). Paris: Picard & Kann, 1898.
See also
A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière
References
Mathias-Marie Duval @ Who Named It
1844 births
1907 deaths
People from Grasse
University of Paris faculty
French anatomists
French histologists |
23576609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Donovan | Leslie Donovan | Leslie D. "Les" Donovan, Sr. (May 5, 1936) was a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 27th district from 1997 to 2017. He was the Assistant Majority Leader in 2001 and was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 2000. He was a Kansas Representative from 1992 to 1997.
He is an auto dealer from Wichita.
Committee assignments
Donovan served on these legislative committees:
Assessment and Taxation (chair)
Judiciary
Transportation
Sponsored legislation
Legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Donovan includes:
An amendment to have supreme court justices' appointments subject to consent of the senate.
A resolution to create a budget stabilization fund
A bill regarding campaign finance reform
Major donors
Some of the top contributors to Les Donovan's 2008 campaign, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics:
Kansas Republican Senatorial Committee, Koch Industries, Kansas Contractors Association, Kansas Association of Realtors, Kansas Medical Society, Kansas Bankers Association
Financial, insurance and real estate companies were his largest donor group.
Elections
2012
Donovan was unopposed in the 2012 Republican primary. He defeated Democratic nominee Diana Cubbage in the general election, by a margin of 20,773 to 10,922 — 65.5 percent to 34.5 percent. In their primaries, Donovan had won 7,455 votes; Cubbage 1,044 votes.
Cubbage, a Wichita educator, had been unopposed in the 2012 Democratic Primary.
She had been endorsed by the Kansas Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers-Kansas and the AFL-CIO.
References
External links
Kansas Senate
Project Vote Smart profile
Follow the Money campaign contributions
1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008
Republican Party Kansas state senators
Living people
1936 births
21st-century American politicians
Conservatism in the United States
20th-century American politicians |
6904608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Douglas | Sandra Douglas | Sandra Marie Douglas (born 22 April 1967) is a female English former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Career
Douglas was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. She competed for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain, where she ran her lifetime best of 51.41 secs to reach the semifinals of the 400 metres, before going on to win a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay, with her teammates Phyllis Smith, Jennifer Stoute and Sally Gunnell. Douglas also competed for England at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
International competitions
National titles
UK Championships 400 metres (1992)
AAA Indoor Championships 400 metres (1991)
References
1967 births
Living people
People from Chipping Campden
Sportspeople from Gloucestershire
English female sprinters
Olympic athletes of Great Britain
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Commonwealth Games competitors for England
Olympic female sprinters |
6904614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6teborgs%20IF | Göteborgs IF | Göteborgs IF (full name Göteborgs Idrottsförbund) is a now defunct Swedish football club which was located in Gothenburg. They won the Swedish Championship in 1903. The club was founded in 1900 when the three clubs Göteborgs Velocipedklubb, Skridskosällskapet Norden and Idrottssällskapet Lyckans Soldater merged.
Achievements
Swedish Champions
Winners (1): 1903
Cups
Svenska Mästerskapet:
Winners (1): 1903
Footnotes
A. The title of "Swedish Champions" has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. Between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.
References
Defunct football clubs in Sweden
Football clubs in Gothenburg
Association football clubs established in 1900
1900 establishments in Sweden
Football clubs in Västra Götaland County |
6904621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20and%20Unity | Freedom and Unity | "Freedom and Unity" is the official motto of the U.S. state of Vermont. The motto was first adopted in 1788 for use on the Great Seal of the Vermont Republic. Ira Allen designed the Vermont seal and is often credited as its author. Allen's 1798 book The Natural and Political History of the State of Vermont cites many contributions by him to Vermont's founding but does not claim credit for the motto. Following Vermont's admission to the federal union in 1791, the legislature once more approved the use of the motto for the new state seal. Vermont's first governor, Thomas Chittenden, cited the state motto in his epitaph: "Out of storm and manifold perils rose an enduring state, the home of freedom and unity."
Meaning
There is general agreement that Vermont's motto is about the idea of balancing two seemingly opposite ideals: the personal freedom and independence of the individual citizen, with the common good of the larger community. Writer and Vermont resident Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) wrote the following about her adopted state: "the Vermont idea grapples energetically with the basic problem of human conduct – how to reconcile the needs of the group, of which every man or woman is a member, with the craving for individual freedom to be what he really is."
These two forces have mostly endured in Vermont's history, both freedom, and unity, expressing distinct parts of the Vermont identity. Vermont's motto is believed to have been the inspiration for Daniel Webster's famous Liberty and Union speech before the United States Senate. Use of the exact motto is found in two quite different political groups. The left-center Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) used the motto Freedom and Unity before World War II. In the United Kingdom, a right-center party, the English Democratic Party (not to be confused with the similarly named English Democrats Party) which seeks protection of English culture and opposing European unity, also uses the exact motto. The current national motto of Germany, adopted by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952, is also quite similar Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit translating as Unity and Justice and Freedom. The coat of arms of the Swiss canton of Vaud reads "Liberté et Patrie" - freedom and fatherland.
Uses and applications
By Vermont statute the motto Freedom and Unity is applied to the Great Seal of Vermont, the coat of arms of Vermont, and the flag of Vermont. The motto can be found above the central doors of the Vermont Supreme Court, and above the rostrum in Representatives Hall at the Vermont State House.
Tanzania
Tanzania's official motto is the Swahili phrase Uhuru na Umoja, which translates as "Freedom and Unity".
See also
"Stella quarta decima fulgeat", the state's official Latin motto
References
Crampton, William G. Webster's Concise Encyclopedia of Flags & Coats of Arms. Crescent Books: 1985. .
Duffy, John J., et al. Vermont: An Illustrated History. American Historical Press: 2000. .
Duffy, John J., et al. The Vermont Encyclopedia. University Press of New England: 2003. .
Potash, P. Jeffrey, et al. Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont. Vermont Historical Society: 2004. .
Zieber, Eugene, Heraldry in America: The Civic Armorial Bearings of American States. Greenwich House: 1974.
External links
Vermont Historical Society exhibition ''Freedom and Unity: One ideal, Many Stories
Vermont State Statutes describing application of the state motto
State mottos of the United States
Symbols of Vermont
New England
1791 establishments in Vermont
National symbols of Tanzania |
44504016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vida%20Lahey | Vida Lahey | Frances Vida Lahey MBE (1882—1968) was a prominent artist in Queensland, Australia. She exhibited widely from 1902 until 1965.
Early life
Frances Vida Lahey was born on 26 August 1882 at Pimpama, Queensland, the daughter of David Lahey and his wife, Jane Jemima, (née Walmsley). She had eleven siblings including conservationist Romeo Lahey. She attended Goytelea School at Southport. She studied painting at the Brisbane Central Technical College under Godfrey Rivers. Her uncle financed a trip to New Zealand in 1902 which inspired some of her earliest exhibited works, as well as helping to set her up to study in Melbourne. She studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin in 1905 and again in 1909.
During World War I, she travelled to London to be in proximity to her brothers and cousins who were serving with the AIF, as well as to study art when she could. She assisted with the volunteer war effort. Following the War, she studied with Frances Hodgkins, in the Colarossi in Paris and in Italy before returning to Australia in 1921.
Career
Vida Lahey was one of the first female artists in Queensland and Australia, who regarded themselves as professionals and who sought to earn a living from practising their art. Vida pioneered art classes for both children and adults in Queensland; and she and Daphne Mayo were responsible for the foundation of the Queensland Art Fund in 1929, which helped to establish an art library and acquire works of art for the state. She travelled to Europe in 1927 for further opportunities to study art. In 1937 Lahey became a foundation member of, and exhibited with, Robert Menzies' anti-modernist organisation, the Australian Academy of Art. Vida was awarded the Society of Artists (NSW) Medal in 1945, in appreciation of good services for the advancement of Australian art, the Coronation Medal in 1953 and in 1958 honoured with an MBE for services to art.
Later life
Vida Lahey's house Wonga Wallen was originally built for her brother Romeo Lahey in Canungra, on a spur of the Darlington Range and was completed in 1920. Later the house was moved from the outskirts to the Canungra township on the hill above the present Catholic Church and occupied by her parents David and Jane Jemima Lahey, and then moved again by Vida and her sister Jayne Lahey in 1946 to its present block in Sir Fred Schonell Drive, St Lucia in Brisbane.
Vida remained at the house Wonga Wallen at St Lucia until her death on 29 August 1968 and was cremated. Wonga Wallen was transferred to the sole ownership of her sister Jayne who remained there until a few years before her death in 1982 during which time another sister, Mavis Denholm née Lahey lived in the house. The house was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Works
Vida is known to have painted at least two paintings of the heritage-listed Lahey house, Wonga Wallen, Canungra in the late 1930s and Wonga Wallen Loggia at Canungra in the 1940s both in the collection of Ms Shirley Lahey. Another painting, Bedroom at St Lucia with Dobell portrait, c.1961, was painted by Vida in her St Lucia bedroom.
Collections
Vida Lahey is represented in major Australian art galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia. Her painting, Monday Morning is part of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Collection.
Exhibitions
'Songs of Colour: The Art of Vida Lahey', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1989.
References
Attribution
1882 births
1968 deaths
People from the Gold Coast, Queensland
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register
20th-century Australian women artists
20th-century Australian artists
19th-century Australian women artists
National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni |
20473528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath%20School | Bath School | Bath School may refer to:
Bath Consolidated School, the Michigan school location
Bath School disaster, three bombing attacks in Michigan in 1927
Bath School (Bath, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in Beaufort County, North Carolina
Bath Local School District, Ohio |
20473555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani%C3%A8le%20Hoffman-Rispal | Danièle Hoffman-Rispal | Danièle Hoffman-Rispal (22 June 1951 – 16 April 2020) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the city of Paris, and was a member of the parliamentary group Socialist, Republican, and Citizen Group (SRC). She died on 16 April 2020, aged 68.
References
1951 births
2020 deaths
Politicians from Paris
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Councillors of Paris
Deaths from cancer in France |
20473565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Habib | David Habib | David Habib (born 16 March 1961) is French politician who has served as a member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Atlantiques's 3rd constituency since 2002. A member of the Socialist Party, Habib was the vice-president of the National Assembly from October of 2019 to June of 2022. He also served as mayor of Mourenx from 1995 to 2014 and general councillor of Pyrénées-Atlantiques from 1992 to 2002.
Early life and education
David Habib was born to a family of Tunisian Jews in Paris, France on 16 March 1961. When he was six months old, his father moved the family to Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques for career-related reasons. Habib attended Sciences Po Bordeaux, graduating in 1983.
Political career
Habib began his political career on the municipal council of Mourenx, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, to which he was elected in the 1989 French municipal elections. He was then appointed deputy mayor by the town's Communist mayor André Cazetien. In March of 1992, Habib was elected to the General Council of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, representing the Canton of Lagord. This was followed by his election as mayor of Mourenx in the 1995 municipal elections. Habib was re-elected as general councillor in the 2001 municipal elections and became president of the community of communes of Lacq in 2002.
Habib entered national politics in the 2002 French legislative elections, where he was elected member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Atlantiques's 3rd constituency. As a deputy, he joined the Socialist group. Habib then resigned from the general council of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in accordance with the law on the accumulation of political mandates.
Habib was re-elected to the National Assembly in the 2007 and 2012 legislative elections as well as the mayoralty of Mourenx in the 2008 municipal elections. In March of 2014, he announced his candidacy for mayor of Pau at the head of a united electoral list of major left-wing parties. Habib was defeated in the second round of the 2014 municipal elections, winning 37% of the vote against François Bayrou's 63%. Nevertheless, the Socialist did gain a seat on city's municipal council, but resigned several months later to run in a municipal by-election in Sarpourenx on 21 June 2015. He was successfully elected to the city's municipal council and has served there since.
On 1 January 2015, Habib succeeded Christophe Sirugue as second vice-president of the National Assembly. He endorsed Manuel Valls in the 2017 Socialist presidential primary and was one of his eight campaign spokespersons. Habib was again re-elected in the 2017 legislative elections and was one of three deputies from the Socialist group to vote yes on a motion of confidence in the Second Philippe government.
During the 2022 legislative elections, Habib opposed the NUPES electoral alliance between the Socialists and La France Insoumise and instead called for his party to unite behind President Emmanuel Macron of La République En Marche. As a result, the governing Ensemble! coalition did not run a candidate against him in his re-election race and Hadid returned to the National Assembly with 66.55% of the vote in the second round against Jean-François Baby of NUPES, who won 33.45%.
Habib sits on the National Defence and Armed Forces Committee, for which he served as vice-president from 2 October 2020 to 8 July 2021. He has previously been a member of the Social Affairs Committee, the Economic Affairs Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Monitoring Committee, the Constitutional Acts, Legislation and General Administration Committee and the now-defunct Economic, Environmental and Territorial Affairs Committee. In addition to his committee assignments, Habib is part of the Tibet Study Group and was formerly part of the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). He is also vice-president of the Israel Friendship Group and was one of the only Socialist signatories of a letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy opposing potential French recognition of the State of Palestine.
References
1961 births
Living people
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
20th-century French Jews
Jewish French politicians
Politicians from Paris
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of Parliament for Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
44504023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20Castles%20%28film%29 | Sand Castles (film) | Sand Castles is a 2014 American drama film directed by Clenét Verdi-Rose and starring Jordon Hodges and Anne Winters. It co-stars Randy Spence, Saxon Trainor, Daniella Grace, Scott Jemison, and Clint Howard.
Filming took place in Goshen, Indiana and St. Joseph, Michigan in October 2012. The film had its world premiere on March 21, 2014 at the Gasparilla Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the festival's New Visions Competition. The film had its North America release by MarVista Entertainment on February 16, 2016.
Premise
In rural Indiana, Noah Daly (Jordon Hodges) and his impoverished family wrestle with the mysterious return of his now mute sister Lauren (Anne Winters), who was kidnapped and held captive for over a decade.
Cast
Jordon Hodges as Noah Daly
Anne Winters as Lauren Daly
Randy Spence as Tommy Daly
Saxon Trainor as Marie Daly
Daniella Grace as Alison Paige
Scott Jemison as Detective Cloud
Clint Howard as Todd Carlson
Joe Cipriano as Young Noah Daly
Reception
Sand Castles received widespread critical acclaim while playing on the film festival circuit. Critic David Appleford of Valley Screen and Stage gave the film a glowing review, writing: "Backed by an outstanding, atmospheric score from musician Todd Maki and solid performances from Hodges, Trainor and Spence, plus an effective appearance from Clint Howard whose somewhat creepy presence only adds to the overall mystery of Lauren's kidnapper, director Clenét Verdi-Rose has delivered a feature that needs to venture further than the confines of the festival circuit."
Views on Film gave a "thumbs up" rating the film 3 out of 4 stars and calling it "powerful" while singling out praise for the performances of Jordon Hodges, Randy Spence and Clint Howard. The review site placed Sand Castles on its "Top Ten Movie Picks for 2014". Film Pulse gave an overall good review of the film saying "the film has been well-received at numerous festivals including the winning of several awards, and I admit that I can understand why." The Reading Eagle gave a mixed review for Sand Castles, criticizing it for its "gratuitous, insufficiently established romance" while also writing that the film "deserves credit for sustaining its empathy for ordinary people blindsided by fate" and praising the performances of Saxon Trainor and Clint Howard. rCritic Herbert Paine of BroadwayWorld.com gave a completely positive review for Sand Castles, labeling it a "haunting and powerful film", while calling the performance of Anne Winters "stunning". Bradley Smith of Red Carpet Crash says, "Sand Castles is an interesting, emotional roller coaster."
Awards
Feature Film Award of Merit at the Catalina Film Festival (2014, won)
Best Feature Film at the Cincinnati Film Festival (2014, won)
Best Feature Film at the Gasparilla International Film Festival (2014, won)
Best Feature at the Grand Rapids Film Festival (2014, won)
Leonardo's Horse for Best Ensemble Cast at the Milano International Film Festival Awards (2014, won)
Best Actor at the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival (2014, won – Randy Spence)
Best Feature Film at the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival (2014, won)
Domani Vision Award for Best Lead Actor at the New York Visionfest (2014, won – Jordon Hodges)
Abe Schrager Cinematography Award at the New York Visionfest (2014, won – Chris Faulisi)
Best Feature Film at the Rainier Independent Film Festival (2014, won)
Audience Choice at the River Bend Film Festival (2014, won)
Best Feature at the River Bend Film Festival (2014, won)
Best Narrative Feature at the Hoosierdance International Film Festival (2015, won)
References
External links
Review at Valley Screen and Stage
Review at Broadway World
Review at Film Pulse
Clenet Verdi-Rose Emerges As A Film Director at IO Cape Cod
2014 drama films
2014 films
2014 independent films
American drama films
American independent films
Films shot in Indiana
Films shot in Michigan
Films set in Indiana
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
20473578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine%20Batho | Delphine Batho | Delphine Batho (born 23 March 1973 in Paris) is a French politician of Ecology Generation who has been serving as member of the National Assembly. She is a former Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.
Early life and education
Batho is the daughter of French photographers Claude Batho and John Batho. She attended the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.
Early activism
President of the FIDL
Batho began her militant activity in the high-school students' union FIDL (Fédération indépendante et démocratique lycéenne) while attending the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. She was elected president of the union in 1990 and became well known for her activism on behalf of students' rights and for the means to study. Following nearly two months of strikes the movement obtained from Lionel Jospin, the Minister for Education, a pledge to spend 4.5 million francs on renovating high schools and to protect certain student rights. In 1992 she left high school, and thus the FIDL, to study history.
Vice-President of SOS Racisme
Batho joined the anti-racist movement SOS Racisme and when its leadership was renewed in September 1992 Fodé Sylla, aged 29, became president and Batho, a representative of the "second generation SOS" in the words of Le Monde, was elected vice-president.
Political career
Career in the Socialist Party
Batho joined the French Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste – PS) in the mid-1990s as a militant in the Grigny (Essonne) section. She participated, together with Julien Dray, in the party's Socialist Left tendency. At the party's Grenoble Congress she was elected to the national executive committee of the PS. In 2003, during the breakup of the socialist left, she remained loyal to Dray, who employed her at the Île-de-France Regional Council, where she was responsible for security matters. In 2004 she became National Secretary of the PS in charge of security, where she defended the policy of preventative sanctions.
Her thoughts on security matters were taken into account by Ségolène Royal, the PS's candidate in the French Presidential Election of 2007, who incorporated them into her "just order".
Batho declared her intention to be a candidate for the leadership of the Socialist Party at the Aubervilliers Congress in 2018, but her application was ultimately rejected due to a lack of support. Batho announced in an interview published on 2 May 2018 that she was quitting the Socialist Party to become president of Ecology Generation, and would also quit the New Left group in the National Assembly.
Member of the National Assembly, 2007–2012
In the parliamentary elections of 2007, Batho was the PS's candidate in the 2nd constituency of Deux-Sèvres, which Ségolène Royal had represented before running in the presidential election of that year. In the PS internal nomination contest, she received 54.75% of the vote as against 45.25% for Éric Gauthier, Royal's former substitute.
In the first round of the elections, held on 10 June, she received 20,690 votes (a 44.55% share), ahead of the second-placed Jean-Pierre Griffault, who received 16,131 votes (34.73%) for the UMP. In the second, run-off round, Griffault gained a 42.58% share (19,669 votes), and Batho was elected with 57.42% of the total ballot (26,524 votes).
Batho served as Royal's spokesperson in 2009 for the 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary, alongside Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.
In the legislative elections of 2012, Batho was re-elected in the first round with 53.18% of the votes cast in the 2nd constituency of Deux-Sèvres, modified following the redistribution of the French legislative constituencies in 2010. After her election as president of Ecology Generation, she left the New Left group in the National Assembly and joined the non-registered.
Career in government, 2012–2013
On 16 May 2012, Batho was appointed Minister Delegate for Justice. During the legislative elections, she was re-elected as a deputy in the first round. Without sufficiently precise attributions within the Ayrault I government, and after a month of difficult relations with her supervising minister, she obtained the full-service portfolio of Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy on 21 June 2012 in the Ayrault government composed after the legislative elections.
Under Batho's leadership, a law was revised to revise the mining lawon the exploitation of conventional hydrocarbons, as well as another giving the State, like EDF, the power to decide the closure of nuclear power plants, the first to be that of Fessenheim. She supports the decision to continue building an airport at Notre-Dame-des Landes.
On 2 July 2013 the President of the Republic announced that he was terminating Batho's duties as Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy following an interview in which she described as "bad "The 2014 budget of his ministry and admitted" [his] disappointment with the government ".
On 4 July 2013, at a press conference, she said: I did not make a mistake or a mistake. The government, she adds, marks a turning point in terms of the desire to complete the ecological transition. It is the turning point of rigor which does not say its name and which prepares the march to power for the extreme right in our country. [...] Certain economic forces [...] did not accept the level of ambition set for the energy transition. [...] Is it normal that the CEO of Vallourec, Philippe Crouzet, announced my upcoming fall weeks ago in the United States.
Member of the National Assembly, 2017–present
During the 2017 French legislative election, Batho was re-elected with 56.94% of the vote against the LREM's candidate, Christine Heintz (43.06%), who had preceded her during the first round and had received the support of Ségolène Royal. In parliament, she serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs.
In 2018, Batho initiated the amendment to ban glyphosate with a term in 2021; his proposal is massively rejected, and she denounces the acts of lobbyists in the National Assembly.Indeed, Agrochemical interests were able to obtain the Batho's amendment before the members of the National Assembly.
In November 2019, Batho's amendment to the anti-waste bill, aimed at banning Black Friday promotions by including them as "aggressive commercial practices", was adopted in committee.
President of Generation ecology
On 2 May 2018 Batho announced that she is leaving the Socialist Party and that she will take over the helm of Ecology Generation in September, succeeding Yves Piétrasanta. She also left the New Left group in the National Assembly and joined the non-registered. She is elected new president of Ecology Generation on 10 September 2018.
In May 2020, Batho joined and became vice-president of the new group Ecology Democracy Solidarity, essentially composed of former members of the group La République en Marche; however, the group was dissolved later that year.
Batho pleads for an alliance of environmentalists for the 2022 presidential election.
References
1973 births
Living people
Lycée Henri-IV alumni
Politicians from Paris
Socialist Party (France) politicians
French Ministers of the Environment
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Women government ministers of France
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
23576611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Schwartz | Milton Schwartz | Milton Schwartz may refer to:
Milton Schwartz (spy), American
Milton Lewis Schwartz (1920–2005), U.S. federal judge
A character in Marjorie Morningstar (novel) |
26719946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srivariki%20Premalekha | Srivariki Premalekha | Srivariki Premalekha () is a 1984 Telugu-language romantic comedy film written, and directed by Jandhyala; and produced by Cherukuri Ramoji Rao. The story is based on a Novel titled Premalekha, published in "Chatura" magazine, written by Potturi Vijayalakshmi.
It is also commercial hit during that period, with many actors subsequently established in the cinema field. The film won a Filmfare Award South and a Nandi Award. The film was remade in Tamil as Porutham with Naresh and Poornima reprising their roles.
Plot
This comedy film revolves around a blind Love letter (Prema Lekha) written by Swarna (Poornima) to Ananda Rao (Naresh), because in a bet with her friends, she writes a blind love letter to an unknown person if the reply will come early from that boy, it will proves Swarna's theory that a boy can be easily wooed by a girl. While posting the letter she forgot to mention the from address then unknowingly her friend randomly chooses a name called Sony from a 'Sony' TV advertisement in a newspaper instead of Swarna's name in the letter and she randomly chooses a name called Ananda Rao from her brother's friends' names and sent the address to Hindustan Shipping Board after getting address from the same newspaper in another advertisement.
The destiny turns out Ananda Rao works in Hindustan shipping board Visakhapatnam. After the reading the letter he pledges to marry the girl who wrote the letter. The from address is missing is at the beginning itself he tries in various ways to find her with the help of his Maternal Uncle Suryam(Vidya Sagar) which leads to several comical circumstances and he became a joke in his backyard.
His father Parandhamayya (Suthi Veerabhadra Rao) is highly abusive and openly scolds him. He needs to gets him married soon so he arranges a match to him then Wantedly Anand Rao makes his matchmaking disastrous. Later His office colleague Margaret tries to exploit his innocence and introduces Sony (Mucherla Aruna) as that girl.
Meanwhile, after losing the bet and it was proved that her theory was wrong, she comes to Vizag for a vacation in her sister's house. Coincidentally, Ananda Rao becomes her neighbour and they become good friends, but Swarna had started to have feelings for Anand Rao. After that, she decides to propose him for the marriage, but before that, he expresses his feelings to Sony and he says he was trying to convince his parents. Feeling dejected, Swarna went back to her village and accepts the marriage proposal on the condition that her parents give no dowry.
Anandrao's brother Bhaskaram (Nutan Prasad) meets Sony and suspects her identity. Then he finds out the truth, as a beggar. Later he escapes from the beggars' association members who thought a new beggar came into their territory without any permission of their association.
Then after knowing all facts Bhaskaram reveals the truth in front of Ananda Rao. Actually Sony's real name is Rita, she loves a boy called Robert and her sister Margaret doesn't like their relationship, then when he is in out of station, she lies her that he died in an accident. Feeling dejected she decided to move on. After that, Margaret encourages her to love Ananda Rao. When Bhaskaram came to her house as a beggar, Robert came back home. The argument goes on with Rita and her sister. After hearing this story, Ananda Rao goes to meet her and sees her with Robert, then Rita apologies for her acts to Ananda Rao. Feeling dejected and convinced by their brother's words, he decides to marry, which his father has arranged unknown to him and the real reason for the Bhaskaram's arrival.
Here the bride is none other than Swarna. Meanwhile, Swarna decides to commit suicide because of love failure and she consumes a diamond ring which her father had given to her for marriage. Then she saw Ananda Rao as bridegroom and misunderstands him as a fraud and angrily conveyed it to him. Then Anand Rao confesses his story to her and decides to call off the marriage. Then she tells him her story and reveals that she was Sony. Then she tells him that she consumed the diamond ring to commit suicide, because she had feelings on Anand Rao.
The tension arose, then Swarna's father says coolly that it's not a diamond ring, it's an ordinary stone shaped as a diamond, he want to manage with those stones to the bridegrooms family. After a lot of chaos, Anand Rao and Swarna finally marry and live happily ever after.
Cast
Naresh as Ananda Rao
Poornima as Swarna
Suthi Veerabhadra Rao as Parandhamayya
Nutan Prasad as Bhaskaram
Vidyasagar as Suryam
Sangeetha as Kamakshi
Sri Lakshmi (actress) as Poorna
Dubbing Janaki as Parandhamayya's wife [Ananda Rao's mother]
S. K. Misro as Bhimudu (Parandhamayya'a gumastha)
Melkote as Ananda Rao's Boss
Jit Mohan Mitra as Hanumaanlu
Mucherla Aruna as Sony/Rita
Potti Prasad as Harmonium
Rallapalli as Sarangaramudu "Saraa"
Suthivelu as Ananda Rao (cameo appearance)
Viswanatham as Marichembu
Subbaraya Sharma as Purohitudu
P. L. Narayana
B. Chakravarthy (Jr ANR)
Pavala Syamala
Soundtrack
"Lipileni Kanti Baasa" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S. Janaki)
"Manasa Thullipadake" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singer: S. Janaki)
"Pelladu Pelladu" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S. P. Sailaja)
"Raghuvamsa Sudha" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singers: S. P. Sailaja and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam)
"Sarigamapadani" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singer: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam)
"Tholisaari Mimmalni" (Lyrics: Veturi; Singer: S. Janaki)
Awards
Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu: Jandhyala
Nandi Award for Best Editor: Gautam Raju
References
External links
1980s Telugu-language films
1984 films
1984 romantic comedy films
Films directed by Jandhyala
Films scored by Ramesh Naidu
Indian romantic comedy films
Telugu films remade in other languages |
26719969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeve%20coupling | Sleeve coupling | A Sleeve coupling is a basic type of coupling. This consists of a pipe whose bore is finished to the required tolerance based on the shaft size. Based on the usage of the coupling a keyway is made in the bore in order to transmit the torque by means of the key. Two threaded holes are provided in order to lock the coupling in position.
Sleeve couplings are also known as Box Couplings. In this case shaft ends are coupled together and abutted against each other which are enveloped by muff or sleeve. A gib head sunk keys hold the two shafts and sleeve together
Rotating shaft couplings |
6904627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrift%20Drug | Thrift Drug | Thrift Drug was a U.S. pharmacy chain founded in 1935 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The company was purchased by JCPenney in 1968, and was expanded greatly thereafter, serving as the flagship chain of JCPenney's pharmacy group. The chain did not hide its affiliation with JCPenney, as it had JCPenney catalog merchandise pickup centers inside many of its locations, as well as signs advertising "JCPenney Catalog Center". Stores also accepted the JCPenney credit card for purchases.
In 1996, JCPenney purchased Eckerd, another pharmacy chain. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) objected to the purchase on antitrust grounds, stating that ownership of Eckerd would give JCPenney a dominant position in the drug store business in the states of North Carolina and South Carolina through its ownership of Thrift Drug, Rite Aids in the Carolinas, and Eckerd. The FTC ultimately approved the transaction, but as a condition of approval, in 1997 JCPenney and Thrift were required to divest 14 Thrift drug stores in Charlotte and 20 Thrift stores in Raleigh-Durham, as well as all 110 Rite Aid locations in the state of North Carolina and that chain's 17 locations in Charleston. As a result, JCPenney divested 164 stores in the Carolinas. The divested stores were purchased by an investment group led by former Thrift Drug executives who left JCPenney after the Eckerd transaction. These stores became the Kerr Drug chain, using the name of a former Carolinas chain acquired by JCPenney in 1995.
After acquiring Eckerd, in 1997 JCPenney merged Thrift Drug and all other pharmacy chains into the larger Eckerd chain (now CVS Pharmacy and Rite Aid).
One enduring legacy of Thrift Drug was in the 1977 movie Slap Shot, when a Thrift Drug located in downtown Johnstown, Pennsylvania was shown in the background during a shot of downtown Charlestown (the town that Johnstown portrayed in the film), alongside other now-defunct retailers such as Woolworth (which still exists today as Foot Locker but closed their namesake chain in 1997) and competitor Revco (which was later acquired by CVS Pharmacy). Also shown was a location of Thrift Drug's nominal successor (through Eckerd) and fellow Pennsylvania pharmacy, Rite Aid. Due to Rite Aid's connection to Thrift Drug through Eckerd, Rite Aid, as well as CVS which also purchased many Eckerd stores, accept JCPenney credit cards despite having otherwise had no corporate affiliation with JCPenney.
References
Defunct pharmacies of the United States
Retail companies disestablished in 1997
Rite Aid
JCPenney
Retail companies established in 1935
Health care companies based in Pennsylvania |
26719980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongyipao | Hongyipao | Hongyipao (; ) was the Chinese name for European-style muzzle-loading culverins introduced to China and Korea from the Portuguese colony of Macau and by the Hendrick Hamel expedition to Joseon in the early 17th century.
Name
The term "red barbarian cannon" derives from the weapons' supposed Dutch origins, as the Dutch were called "red haired barbarians" in southern China. However, the cannons were originally produced by the Portuguese at Macau, with the exception of two cannons dredged up from a Dutch ship in 1621. The Dutch ship may have been in fact an English ship and the cannons had English coats of arms. The English ship Unicorn sank near Macau.
The Jurchens renamed the "red barbarian cannon" to "red coat cannon" () when it entered their arsenal because they found the term "barbarian" to be insulting, and were known as such in the Manchu Eight Banners.
History
Breech loading swivel cannons from Portugal entered the Chinese weaponry after a Ming fleet defeated the Portuguese at the Battle of Xicaowan in 1521 and captured their guns as war booty. However it's possible that individuals in China had been able to purchase Portuguese style cannons even earlier from pirates.
After the Ming dynasty suffered a series of defeats against the Later Jin, they contacted the Portuguese in Macau to have iron cannons made for them. Attempts were made to bring Portuguese gunners to the north as well, but they were repeatedly turned away because Chinese officials harbored suspicions against them. Yu Zigao, commander of Zhejiang and Fujian, ordered several "red-barbarian cannon" in 1624 prior to his expedition against the Dutch outpost on Penghu Island in the Pescadores.
The Ming dynasty used Fujianese to reverse engineer salvaged British and Dutch cannons they recovered from the sea. At the Siege of Fort Zeelandia, Koxinga deployed powerful cannon his uncle had dredged up years earlier from the sea.
Several Ming officials who supported the use of the new technology were Christian converts of the Jesuit mission, such as the influential minister Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua in Shandong. The Tianqi Emperor asked a German Jesuit, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, to establish a foundry in Beijing to cast the new cannons. The first pieces produced there could throw a forty-pound shot. In 1623 some hongyipao were deployed to China's northern frontier at Sun's request under generals such as Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan. They were used to repel Nurhaci at the Battle of Ningyuan in 1626. After the Later Jin captured a Ming artillery unit at Yongping in 1629, they too began production of the . The manufacture and use of the hongyipao within the Later Jin Banner armies were carried out by Han Chinese defectors called (heavy troops). The Jurchen forces did not manufacture nor wield the guns themselves. The Later Jin army under Nurhaci's son Hong Taiji used these cannons along with the "generalissimo" cannons (also of European design) to great effect at the Battle of Dalinghe in 1631. Even after the later Jin became the Qing and Jurchens and Han defectors were reorganized into the Manchu Eight Banners, cannons and gunpowder weapons were still restricted exclusively to the Han Banners while the Manchu Banners avoided them. Han Bannermen specializing in artillery and muskets played a major role during Qing sieges of Ming fortifications.
By the 1680s, the Hongyipao had lost their place as the strongest weapons in the Qing arsenal, and were superseded by another type of cannon called the "miraculous-power general cannon."
Chinese improvements
Chinese gunsmiths continued to modify "red barbarian" cannons after they entered the Ming arsenal, and eventually improved upon them by applying native casting techniques to their design. In 1642, Ming foundries merged their own casting technology with European cannon designs to create a distinctive cannon known as the "Dingliao grand general." Through combining the advanced cast-iron technique of southern China and the iron-bronze composite barrels invented in northern China, the Dingliao grand general cannons exemplified the best of both iron and bronze cannon designs. Unlike traditional iron and bronze cannons, the Dingliao grand general's inner barrel was made of iron, while the exterior of brass.
The resulting bronze-iron composite cannons were superior to iron or bronze cannons in many respects. They were lighter, stronger, longer lasting, and able to withstand more intensive explosive pressure. Chinese artisans also experimented with other variants such as cannons featuring wrought iron cores with cast iron exteriors. While inferior to their bronze-iron counterparts, these were considerably cheaper and more durable than standard iron cannons. Both types were met with success and were considered "among the best in the world" during the 17th century. The Chinese composite metal casting technique was effective enough that Portuguese imperial officials sought to employ Chinese gunsmiths for their cannon foundries in Goa, so that they could impart their methods for Portuguese weapons manufacturing. According to the soldier Albrecht Herport, who fought for the Dutch at the Siege of Fort Zeelandia, the Chinese "know how to make very effective guns and cannons, so that it’s scarcely possible to find their equal elsewhere."
Soon after the Ming started producing the composite metal Dingliao grand generals in 1642, Beijing was captured by the Manchu Qing dynasty and along with it all of northern China. The Manchu elite did not concern themselves directly with guns and their production, preferring instead to delegate the task to Chinese craftsmen, who produced for the Qing a similar composite metal cannon known as the "Shenwei grand general." However, after the Qing gained hegemony over East Asia in the mid-1700s, the practice of casting composite metal cannons fell into disuse until the dynasty faced external threats once again in the Opium War of 1840, at which point smoothbore cannons were already starting to become obsolete as a result of rifled barrels. After the Battle of Taku Forts (1860), the British reported with surprise that some of the Chinese cannons were of composite structure with similar features to the Armstrong Whitworth guns. Many of the Qing cannons deployed along the coast were forged in the 17th or early 18th century.
Although the southern Chinese started making cannons with iron cores and bronze outer shells as early as the 1530s, they were followed soon after by the Gujarats, who experimented with it in 1545, the English at least by 1580, and Hollanders in 1629. However the effort required to produce these weapons prevented them from mass production. The Europeans essentially treated them as experimental products, resulting in very few surviving pieces today. Of the currently known extant composite metal cannons, there are 2 English, 2 Dutch, 12 Gujarati, and 48 from the Ming-Qing period.
See also
Korean cannon
List of muzzle-loading guns
References
Citations
Bibliography
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Cannon
Artillery of China |
23576614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigby%20Swift | Rigby Swift | Sir Rigby Philip Watson Swift (7 June 1874 – 19 October 1937) was a British barrister, Member of Parliament and judge. Born into a legal family, Swift was educated at Parkfield School before taking up a place in his father's chambers and at the same time studying for his LLB at the University of London. After completing his degree in January 1895 he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn on 26 June. He took up a place in his father's chambers, and his work steadily increased. After the death of his father on 26 September 1899 he took over the chambers, and by 1904 he was earning 3,000 guineas a year.
By 1909 he was considered the most prestigious junior barrister in Liverpool, and in 1910 he became the Conservative Member of Parliament for St Helens. He moved to London in 1911, and was made a King's Counsel in 1912. His work continued to increase, and by 1916 he was earning 10,000 guineas a year. In the same year he became Recorder of Wigan and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. In 1917 he defended Frederick Handel Booth in Gruban v Booth, and in 1918 he represented the Air Ministry in front of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Women's Royal Air Force.
On 21 June 1920 he was made a judge of the High Court of Justice by the Lord Chancellor Lord Birkenhead, and became the youngest High Court judge at the time. In 1921 he heard the "Sinn Féin case", an application of the controversial Treason Felony Act 1848, and his decision in Nunan v Southern Railway Company [1923] 2 K.B. 703 was an important one in relation to exclusion clauses and liability, and was referenced by Lord Hanworth in the later case Thompson v LMS Railway. Swift died on 19 October 1937 while still a High Court judge, and was buried in Rotherfield.
Early life and education
Swift was born on 7 June 1874 at Hardshaw Hall, Lancashire to Thomas Swift and his second wife Emily. The male members of the family were mostly lawyers - Thomas Swift was a solicitor, three of his sons also became solicitors, his brother was a registrar and his cousin, Sir John Rigby was a barrister and later judge. After John Rigby became a King's Counsel in 1880, Thomas Swift switched paths and became a barrister. He specialised in criminal work, and served as counsel in the trial of Florence Maybrick. His career change had a great impact on the family - they moved from Lancashire to Liverpool (where Thomas Swift's chambers were) and Rigby Swift was undoubtedly influenced by his father's career when it came to choosing one of his own.
After some time spent with a governess, Swift began formal education at the age of 10 when he attended a small preparatory school. The school was not a good one - Swift later wrote that "I was immoderately bullied... during the whole time I was there I think I learnt nothing." In May 1886 he moved to Parkfield School, where he became head boy and held a "kindly, easy authority". In 1892 he began studying to become a barrister in a way completely unique - by working at his father's set of chambers from the age of 17. Standard practice was for a student to do a law degree and study the legal theory, before moving to a set of chambers as a pupil to learn the practical application of the law. Swift instead studied both simultaneously, and became noticed by the solicitors of Liverpool before he was even called to the Bar. At this time he became a friend of Arthur Greer, later Baron Fairfield.
As well as the practical work in his father's chambers, Swift also studied at the University of London, gaining an LLB in January 1895 before he was 21, and frequently spoke at the Liverpool Law Students Society, where he debated with Henry McCardie. On 26 June 1895 he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn by Joseph Chitty, and became qualified to practice as a barrister.
At the Bar
Swift's first proper case took place in November 1895 at the High Court of Justice in front of Mr Justice Cave - a case he won, although he felt that he had worked "horribly". His work increased over the next two years, and in 1897 he acted as a junior for John Bigham QC, later a High Court Judge. Swift would occasionally appear in court against his father, and the two were noted for deliberately baiting each other. By 1899 he was earning 462 guineas in a year, over twelve times what he was earning when he was first called to the Bar. His first murder case was in 1899, and although he lost he was commended by the judge (Mr Justice Wills) for the "great taste and propriety" of his final argument.
On 26 September 1899 his father, Thomas Swift, fell ill on the way home from chambers and died on the bus. With Thomas Swift dead, Rigby Swift had to decide what to do with his father's chambers. Although it would cause significant financial hardship for Swift and his clerk, he decided to run the chambers himself. This soon turned out to be a wise move - many of Thomas Swift's clients chose to stay on with Rigby, and in 1899 he defended the United Alkali Company from a lawsuit resulting from a large explosion at their chemical plant in St Helens. In the same year another two barristers joined the chambers, one of whom later became a High Court judge. By the end of 1900 Swift had earned over 1000 guineas. In 1902 he was earning 2,000 guineas a year, and by 1904 he was earning 3,000. By 1909 he was considered the most prestigious junior barrister (a barrister who isn't a Queen's Counsel) in Liverpool.
Politics and King's Counsel
In January 1910, Swift ran for Member of Parliament for St Helens on the Conservative Party ticket. The seat had previously been Conservative-held, but since 1906 had been controlled by the Labour Party with a safe majority of 1,411 votes. Swift campaigned hard, but despite his work and a "brilliant incursion" by F. E. Smith, Swift was defeated 6,512 votes to 5,717, leaving the sitting Labour member (Thomas Glover) with a majority of 795. Swift ran for the same seat again in the December election, the previous government having lasted only 11 months. The campaign was more hard-fought than the previous one, and was described as "one of the fiercest elections ever contested in a red-hot constituency". When the results were announced, Swift had won with 6,016 votes to Glover's 5,752, a narrow majority of 264.
Now that he was a Member of Parliament, Swift applied to become a King's Counsel (KC). The Lord Chancellor (Lord Loreburn) rejected his application because of the custom that a prospective KC should first open a practice in London. In 1911 he moved to London, something which initially cut into his income as solicitors were not aware of him. When the new Lord Chancellor Lord Haldane promoted a new set of KCs in 1912, Swift was among them. From this point onwards his share of cases began to improve.
In 1913 he defended Cecil Chesterton in the libel trial over his coverage of the Marconi scandal, along with Ernest Wild KC. In opposition was "as formidable a team as ever conducted a prosecution" – Edward Carson, later Baron Carson, F. E. Smith, later the Earl of Birkenhead, and Richard Muir. The allegations by Chesterton were so extreme that a criminal libel case was launched. Chesterton lost, but the case brought Swift's name to the attention of London solicitors.
In 1916 he became Recorder of Wigan. The same year he was made a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and by this point was earning 10,000 guineas a year. He disliked going out of London, and doubled his fees to a minimum of 200 guineas for cases outside London. Despite this the more money he charged, the more cases he got. He also followed a rule that meant he would only deal with one case at a time - again this failed to cut down the number of solicitors looking to employ him, because they appreciated a barrister who would dedicate all his working hours to their particular case. In 1917 he defended Frederick Handel Booth in Gruban v Booth, and in 1918 he represented the Air Ministry in front of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Women's Royal Air Force.
Judge
In June 1920 he received an invitation from Lord Birkenhead, the Lord Chancellor, to become a judge of the High Court of Justice. He was formally appointed on 21 June, along with Edward Acton, and was knighted on 12 August. When appointed he was 46, and was the youngest High Court judge at that time. His appointment was considered a good one by the press; The Times wrote that "no appointment could be met with greater approval - we might even say enthusiasm - in the legal profession and among the public than that of Mr. Rigby Swift", while the Daily Mail wrote that "Mr. Rigby Swift has long been marked out for judgeship". After 1934 he occasionally sat as an additional judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
In 1934 in court during a libel action brought by Aleister Crowley (after a statement that Crowley practised black magic), black and white magic were solemnly discussed in court before Mr Justice Swift. The plaintiff said that he had founded a community in Sicily for the purpose of studying white magic.
Sinn Féin case
In 1921 Swift heard a case (known at the time as the Sinn Féin case) in which the controversial Treason Felony Act 1848 was applied. From 1920 to 1921 Manchester had been targeted by IRA forces who mounted an incendiary campaign against the city, setting fire to over 40 buildings between November 1920 and April 1921. On 2 April the police raided the local IRA headquarters, and in the ensuing fight one IRA member was killed and another wounded. A further nineteen were captured, and they went on trial at the next Assize Court. They were charged under the Treason Felony Act based on their membership of the IRA and of Sinn Féin. This was the first time that anyone had been charged simply for being a member of Sinn Féin, and was seen by the British government as a landmark case, with the Attorney General Sir Gordon Hewart acting as the prosecution.
The trial began on 4 July and lasted for six days. The proceedings were heavily guarded - Swift was escorted into court by armed police, the court itself was surrounded by armed patrols and the public were not allowed to watch the proceedings. Witnesses were brought over from Ireland under armed guard and given complete anonymity. The argument of the defence was a weak one, and was not accepted by the defendants themselves, who argued that they were prisoners of war and that their actions were therefore not covered by normal criminal law. Neither Swift or the jury were convinced, however, and after being found guilty the men were sentenced to between three and fifteen years of penal servitude.
A case of Swift's with important implications for the common law was Nunan v Southern Railway Company [1923] 2 K.B. 703. Nunan was a workman who was killed in an accident caused by the negligence of railway employees. Under the Fatal Accidents Act his widow could claim compensation from the railway company, but the case was complicated because of an exclusion clause on the ticket he was using which limited the company's liability to £100. The widow argued that the exclusion clause was only binding on her husband when he was alive, and that it did not affect parliamentary statute such as the Fatal Accidents Act.
Swift decided that while the ticket bound Nunan, his widow was right in saying that the clause did not affect parliamentary statute, and he awarded her £800. His judgment played an important part in and was referenced in the later decision of Lord Hanworth in Thompson v LMS Railway.
Divorce
During the 1920s the Divorce Court was massively backlogged, with even the Lord Chancellor Lord Birkenhead helping deal with cases. Despite this the backlog continued to grow, and in 1920 Swift was seconded to the Divorce Court to deal with cases. Many of them were deliberately arranged divorces, with one party sending the other a letter reading along the lines of "Please divorce me. Here is a bill from - Hotel, I was there with a man who wishes to throw his lot in with mine". In 1925 Swift was again seconded to the Divorce Court, and began to get frustrated with the arranged divorces. On 22 April, while hearing a case, he exclaimed that the arranged divorces were "a perfect farce", included elements of collusion and that he had half a mind to send the cases to the Director of Public Prosecutions. His comments were widely reported by the press, and he apologised the next day, saying that he was simply disgusted by a system in which one party had to pretend to commit adultery to get a divorce.
Frederick Nodder
Shortly before his death, in March 1937 Swift presided at the trial at Warwick Winter Assizes of Frederick Nodder, who was charged with abducting Mona Tinsley, aged 10, who had not been seen since leaving school on 5 January 1937. His conduct of the trial was marked by bad-tempered interruption, sarcastic comments (chiefly directed at defence counsel Maurice Healy), and unjustified complaints that documents had been withheld. When the jury convicted, Swift in passing sentence referred to the continued mystery about Mona Tinsley's fate: "What you did with that little girl, what became of her, only you know. It may be that time will reveal the dreadful secret which you carry in your breast." Three months later Mona Tinsley's body was recovered from a nearby river, and Nodder was subsequently convicted of murder and hanged.
Death
On 15 April 1937 his wife, Lady Swift, had a large heart attack. She survived for four days before finally dying on 19 April. Swift returned to work and his life continued, but it was "continuation from mere momentum" rather than any desire to live. On 15 October he had a heart attack, and on 19 October, exactly six months after his wife's death, he died at home and was buried in a graveyard in Rotherfield.
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20473586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Jacquat | Denis Jacquat | Denis Jacquat (born May 29, 1944 in Thiaucourt-Regniéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Moselle department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
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1944 births
Living people
People from Meurthe-et-Moselle
Union for French Democracy politicians
Republican Party (France) politicians
Liberal Democracy (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
6904628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omealca%2C%20Veracruz | Omealca, Veracruz | Omealca Municipality is a municipality of the state of Veracruz in Mexico. The municipal seat is Omealca.
Etymology
Omealca means place between two rivers in nahuatl, due to it being next to Blanco river and above a subterranean one.
Climate
Omealca's has a very diverse range of climates, as it is next to the state of Puebla and Oaxaca, meaning that besides having Veracruz's tropical climate, it also has Puebla's mountainous climate and Oaxaca's arid climate.
Municipalities of Veracruz |
20473599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Gonzales | Didier Gonzales | Didier Gonzales (born September 14, 1960 in Sidi Bel Abbès) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Val-de-Marne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1960 births
Living people
People from Sidi Bel Abbès
Pieds-Noirs
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
French people of Portuguese descent |
20473611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Mathus | Didier Mathus | Didier Mathus (born May 25, 1952 in Montceau-les-Mines) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Saône-et-Loire department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
References
1952 births
Living people
People from Montceau-les-Mines
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
6904629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Auderset | Alain Auderset | Alain Auderset is a Swiss Christian author of bandes dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) and is best known for his comics albums Willy Grunch, Marcel, and ROBI.
Biography
Born on 27 October 1968 in Grenchen, Switzerland, Auderset was converted to Christianity after reading the French comic magazine Tournesol as a child. Later, passionate for drawing, he studied graphic arts and began to draw comic strips. In 2001 he released his first book, Conventional Wisdom, which has been translated into six additional languages (German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Danish) since it was originally published in French.
His books ROBI (2005) and Willy Grunch (2008) have both won the International Prize for French Language Christian Comics at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Currently Auderset is self-publishing and claims he has sold approximately 110,000 copies of all his books.
Auderset is also a performance artist as well as a guitarist for the band Saahsal in which his wife Eliane is the lead singer. Since 2010 Auderset has been doing a stand-up comedy routine entitled "The Non-practicing Atheist," touring both in Europe and the Canadian province of Québec. During his last Québec tour in 2013 he was interviewed during a service at a church in Drummondville, QC, which was broadcast live through their website. He was also interviewed on CKZW radio in Montreal.
In 2012 Moondog Animation Studio in Charleston, South Carolina, raised US$117,534.00 through a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter to produce five pilot episodes of The life and trials of Willy Grunch, based on Auderset's stories and art. The five pilots were completed and released in early 2013, and further episodes are slated to begin production in late 2016 as part of an additional Kickstarter project.
Currently Auderset lives in Saint-Imier with his wife and their four children.
Bibliography
Alain Auderset, Idées reçues (Conventional Wisdom), Atelier Auderset, 2001
Alain Auderset, Marcel Book 1, Atelier Auderset, 2004
Alain Auderset, ROBI, Atelier Auderset, 2005
Alain Auderset, Idées reçues II (Conventional Wisdom 2), Atelier Auderset, 2006
Alain Auderset, Willy Grunch, Atelier Auderset, 2008
Alain Auderset, Les vacances de Marcel (Marcel’s vacations – Marcel Book 2), Atelier Auderset, 2010
Alain Auderset, Idées reçues III (Conventional Wisdom 3), Atelier Auderset, 2012
Alain Auderset, Marcel Book 3, Atelier Auderset, 2014
Prizes
Angoulême 2006: Special jury distinction for Idées reçues
Angoulême 2007: International Prize for French Language Christian Comics for ROBI pour les intimes
Albuquerque 2007 : ICCC2 People's Choice Awards – 1st, 3rd and 4th places
Angoulême 2009: International Prize for French Language Christian Comics for Willy Grunch
References
External links
Alain Auderset's website
Migros Magazine (Switzerland) Alain Auderset: la foi qui déplace les bulles
L'Est Républicain (France) La foi et l’optimisme
1968 births
Living people
Converts to Christianity
Swiss-French people
Swiss comics artists
Swiss Christians |
20473619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Migaud | Didier Migaud | Didier Migaud (born 6 June 1952) was president of the French Court of Audit from 2010 to 2020, and member of the National Assembly of France from 1988 to 2010.
Migaud represented Isère's 4th constituency in the National Assembly of France from 1988 to 2010 as a member of the New Left group.
In February 2010, he was nominated as the Chief Baron (premier président) of the Court of Audit which was left vacant after the death of Philippe Séguin.
Anecdotes
On October 7, 2010, Didier Migaud answered "76" to the question; "how much is 7 times 9?" , posed by a journalist of BFM TV, before beginning again to give the correct answer.
References
1952 births
Living people
Politicians from Tours, France
Politicians from Centre-Val de Loire
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 9th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur |
20473632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Robert | Didier Robert | Didier Robert (born 26 April 1964) is a French politician who is a member of the Republicans party. He represents the island of Réunion, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Robert has served as President of the Regional Council of Réunion since 26 March 2010, succeeding Paul Vergès.
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1964 births
Living people
Presidents of the Regional Council of Réunion
Members of the Regional Council of Réunion
Politicians of Réunion
Sciences Po Aix alumni
The Republicans (France) politicians
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Senators of Réunion
People from Saint-Pierre, Réunion
Members of Parliament for Réunion |
17336370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308%20Belarusian%20Cup | 2007–08 Belarusian Cup | 2007–08 Belarusian Cup was the 17th edition of the football knock-out competition in Belarus.
First round
12 teams from the First League (out of 14, excluding Belshina Bobruisk and Lokomotiv Minsk who relegated from the Premier League after 2006 season), 13 teams from the Second League (out of 16, excluding three teams which were reverve squads for Premier and First League teams) and 7 amateur clubs started in this round. The games were played on 28 and 30 July 2007.
Round of 32
16 winners of previous round were joined by 14 clubs from Premier League and two First League clubs which relegated from the Premier League after 2006 season. The games were played in August and September 2007.
Round of 16
The first legs were played on 15 and 16 March 2008. The second legs were played on 21 and 22 March 2008.
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First leg
Second leg
Quarterfinals
The first legs were played on 29 March 2008. The second legs were played on 2 April 2008.
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First leg
Second leg
Semifinals
The first legs were played on 16 April 2008. The second legs were played on 30 April 2008.
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First leg
Second leg
Final
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Belarusian Cup seasons
Belarus
Cup, 2007-08
Cup, 2007-08 |
6904630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajay%20River | Ajay River | Ajay (/ˈədʒɑɪ/) is a river which flows through the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The catchment area of Ajay River is .
See also
List of rivers of India
References
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/mbErel.aspx?relid=147477
Rivers of Bihar
Rivers of Jharkhand
Rivers of West Bengal
Rivers of India |
20473643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino%20Cinieri | Dino Cinieri | Dino Cinieri (born 9 July 1955 in Firminy, Loire) is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who serves as a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Loire department.
Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, Cinieri publicly declared his support for Michel Barnier as the Republicans’ candidate.
References
1955 births
Living people
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The Social Right
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Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Regional councillors of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
20473654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Baert | Dominique Baert | Dominique Baert (born 24 October 1959) is a French politician who currently serves as a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Nord department. He is a member of the Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste) and works in association with the SRC parliamentary group.
In 2019, Baert publicly declared his support for incumbent President Emmanuel Macron.
References
1959 births
Living people
People from Tourcoing
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
Lille University of Science and Technology alumni
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Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
20473669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Caillaud | Dominique Caillaud | Dominique Caillaud (born 20 May 1946, in L'Herbergement, Vendée) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Vendée department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1946 births
Living people
People from Vendée
Politicians from Pays de la Loire
Centre of Social Democrats politicians
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
44504044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajamika%20Paxton | Tajamika Paxton | Tajamika Paxton or Taj Paxton is an American writer, director and producer. Her credits include writing, directing and producing A Fat Girl's Guide to Yoga, written and developed from her interest in yoga and a winner of NBCUniversal's Second Annual “Comedy Short Cuts” Diverse City Festival in 2007. She produced the films Green Dragon—which starred Forest Whitaker and Patrick Swayze and won a Humanitas Award—and Chasing Papi, with Sofía Vergara. She sat on Outfest's board of directors and served as GLAAD's liaison to Hollywood.
Early life
Paxton was born in Los Angeles, California. Paxton's mother is Mablean Ephriam, who is known for the reality courtroom series Justice with Mablean Ephriam and who was a judge on Divorce Court.
Education
Paxton is a graduate of Georgetown University's school of business.
Career
Paxton appeared with her mother on TV One's Life After. She served as vice president of production of Forest Whitaker's Spirit Dance Entertainment production company and as an MTV Films creative executive and was on the development team for Election, 200 Cigarettes, Varsity Blues and The Wood.
She was a board member of the Outfest L.A. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and was director of programming for Outfest Fusion as well as GLAAD's director of entertainment media. She is an advocate of yoga and serves on the board of the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers.
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1972 births
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20473675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Dord | Dominique Dord | Dominique Dord (born 1 September 1959 in Chambéry, Savoie) is a French politician of the French Republican Party who served as a member of the National Assembly of France between 1997 and 2017. He represented the Savoie department, He is also the mayor of Aix-les-Bains since 2001.
In the Republicans’ 2016 presidential primaries, Dort endorsed François Fillon as the party's candidate for the office of President of France.
References
1959 births
Living people
Politicians from Chambéry
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Liberal Democracy (France) politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Mayors of places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
HEC Paris alumni |
26719982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parunthu | Parunthu | Parunthu (English:Eagle) is a 2008 Malayalam film by M. Padmakumar starring Mammootty and Jayasurya. The screenplay written by T.A. Rasaq.
Plot
Blade Purushottaman, nicknamed Parunthu Purushu for the way he preys on his targets, is a heartless financier. His rude and insulting ways of talking to people who owe him money have hurt many people.
Vinayan a young youth joins Parunthu Purushu to fight against Kallayi Azeez, who is Purushu's rival from childhood for his family needs.
Once Parunthu spoils the betrothal ceremony of Rakhi, the daughter of a Gujarati businessman Hemanth Bhai, who owes Parunthu a large sum. After the death of Hemanth Bhai, Rakhi takes money from Azeez. But for Azeez it was a trap and he wants more than money in return.
Later, Azeez sends a gunda to attack Purushu and brings him close to death. He is saved by Rekha and Vinayan. This changes Purushu and he decides to be a good man from then. The rest of the movie is about whether the people can accept him in his new character.
Cast
Mammootty as Parunthu Purushothaman
Jayasurya as Vinayan
Cochin Haneefa as Kunjachan
Suraj Venjaramoodu as Mahendran
Jayan Cherthala as Kallayi Azeez
Jagathy Sreekumar as Hemanth Bhai
Saiju Kurup as Vineeth
Lakshmi Rai as Rakhi
Poornitha as Bhuvana
Devan as Mahesh, Vineeth's brother
Manka Mahesh as Vineeth's mother
K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Narayaniamma
Sabitha Anand as Kumariyamma, Purushu's Mother
Augustine as Kumaran
Mamukkoya as Kunjikka
Jayakrishnan as CI Soman
Balachandran Chullikkadu as Abraham
Abu Salim as Prabhakaran
Sreelatha Namboothiri as Seetha's Grand mother
Anil Murali as Sanjay, Seetha's husband
Saju Kodiyan as Panicker
Ambika Mohan as Vinayan's mother
Songs
The film score was composed by Ouseppachan while the songs were by Alex Paul with lyrics penned by Kanesh Punoor, Anil Panachooran and Sharath Vayalar.
References
External links
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/preview/10408.html
http://www.nowrunning.com/movie/5443/malayalam/parunthu/index.htm
2008 films
2000s Malayalam-language films
Films shot in Kozhikode
Films directed by M. Padmakumar
Films scored by Alex Paul |
44504048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blom%C3%B8yna | Blomøyna | Blomøyna, or Blomøy, is an island in the municipality of Øygarden in Vestland county, Norway. The island is the second largest island in the municipality. The island lies north of the island of Rongøyna and south of the island of Ona. The southern part of the island is split into two parts by the Blomvågen fjord which cuts northward for into the island. The village of Blomvåg surrounds the inner part of the Blomvågen fjord. Nearly all of the island's residents live in Blomvåg. Blomvåg Church is located in the village, serving the whole southern part of the municipality.
See also
List of islands of Norway
References
Islands of Vestland
Øygarden |
23576616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Precious%20Prize%20of%20Gravity | The Precious Prize of Gravity | The Precious Prize of Gravity is the third studio album by international indie rock band Bellini.
Track listing
"Wake Up Under a Truck" – 3:34
"Numbers" – 3:04
"Daughter Leaving" – 3:08
"Susie" – 3:50
"Tiger's Milk" – 3:03
"The Man Who Lost His Wings" – 4:26
"Save The Greyhounds"- 2:41
"The Thin Line"-4:18
"The Painter"-2:44
"A Deep Wound"-3:14
References
Bellini (band) albums
2009 albums |
17336372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI%20Nammer | IAI Nammer | The IAI Nammer (נמר "Leopard") was a fighter aircraft developed in the Israeli aerospace manufacturing Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The programme was pursued as a private venture and the resultant aircraft was intended for the export market.
During the 1980s, IAI decided to embark upon the independent development of a modernised version of the IAI Kfir; reusing its airframe and pairing it with a modernised cockpit, engine, and avionics, the latter of which was to have taken advantage of the earlier work undertaken for the cancelled IAI Lavi programme. These changes were to result in greater performance, range, and air-to-air combat capabilities than the preceding Kfir. Named Nammer, the aircraft was to be offered under various different configurations, including alternative engines and radars, as well as prospective licensed production arrangements, to customers. IAI stated that they were willing to be highly flexible with the Nammer's launch customers, being open to giving them great leeway over modifying the design and incorporating their own systems as to their preferences.
Development of the Nammer proceeded to the prototype stage; a single aircraft was constructed to function as a proof-of-concept prototype, demonstrating IAI's capability to successfully install and operate advanced avionics in existing airframes, in this case the Mirage III/Kfir. On 21 March 1991, the prototype performed its maiden flight. Following on from its first flight, it continued to be used for test flights for some time, demonstrating both the maturity of the concept and of the new IAI-integrated systems. While the proven delta canard configuration of the airframe had been retained, testing was focused upon the new avionics installed, which were said by IAI to make for a relatively modern fighter aircraft. However, despite the company's lengthy efforts to seek both partner companies and export customers for the Nammer, neither participants in the programme nor buyers of the finished proved to be forthcoming; as such, development of the Nammer was ultimately ceased by IAI during the early 1990s without any further examples having been constructed.
Development
During the 1980s, Israeli aerospace company Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), decided to embark upon the development of a private-venture fighter aircraft; as envisaged, this programme was to be principally based around the airframe of the IAI Kfir and the advanced avionics that had been developed for the cancelled IAI Lavi. Speaking on the Nammer, Moshe Scharf, IAI's director of international military aircraft marketing stated of the reasoning behind the initiative: "Upgrading the existing Kfir platform will not be as cheap as building a new airframe based on the proven delta canard concept". By early 1988, the company had completed the preliminary design and system definition stages of the Nammer's development and had progressed onto the detail design phase. Additionally, the company had conducted early discussions with prospective customers in respect to the type. In particular, IAI was keen to form a partnership with another entity with which to carry out further development work and subsequent production on the Nammer programme.
During the late 1980s, IAI had originally announced and marketed the Nammer as being an upgrade package for existing Mirage III and Mirage 5 airframes. Customers were to have been offered a choice of two basic configurations of the type, one based around re-engining the aircraft with a General Electric F404, while the other was to have retained the Mirage's SNECMA Atar engine but integrated either the Elta EL/M-2011 or EL/M-2032 fire-control radar. The first of these options was envisioned to maximise the aircraft's performance and range while the second was to have served to increase the air-to-air targeting capabilities of the Nammer.
As development progressed, the Nammer came to be advertised by the company as being a new-build aircraft, featuring the EL/M-2032 radar as an integral part of the package. Reportedly, customers were able to choose their preferred engine, ranging from the General Electric F404 (or its Volvo Aero-built derivative, the RM12), the SNECMA M53, and the Pratt & Whitney PW1120, all of which being within the 18,0001b-20,0001b-thrust class. The company has claimed that the proven delta canard configuration of the airframe, when paired with new avionics and a more modern engine design, would result in a relatively modern fighter aircraft, comparable to the General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon or Dassault Mirage 2000, but at a cost of approximately half of the price of the latter aircraft.
For development and demonstration purposes, a single prototype was constructed by the company. On 21 March 1991, this prototype perform its maiden flight. According to IAI, the concept was presented to a number of foreign air forces while seeking to secure sales of the aircraft; the company also stated that it had no intentions to proceed with production of the aircraft until orders for a minimum of 80 aircraft had been secured. It is known that in the course of these negotiations, IAI offered a high degree of customisability to prospective operators, essentially allowing for them to make a significant impact upon the Nammer's design. The company also offered various manufacturing arrangements, from constructing the Nammer at the company's existing facilities in Israel to the potential establishment of a final assembly line within a client customer's country. During 1990, as part of a renewed sales effort, IAI offered to effectively entirely transfer production of the Nammer, along with the onboard systems and software, overseas to customers.
Design
The IAI Nammer was a proposed fighter aircraft, the airframe of which being derived from the earlier IAI Kfir (which was, in turn, based upon the Dassault Mirage 5). Externally, the design bore a strong resemblance to the C7 model of the Kfir; however, it could be easily distinguished by the presence of a longer nose and the lack of a dorsal airscoop at the base of the leading edge of the tailfin. Other areas of the aircraft also featured major differences from the Kfir, including in its cockpit, radar and engine. According to IAI, Nammer was to possess a maximum speed of Mach 2.2 and a 58,000ft (19,300m) stabilised ceiling. The company intended to offer the Nammer with a choice of engines — either the Mirage Ill's original Snecma Atar 9K50, or a variety of more modern powerplants, which would typically possess greater fuel-efficiency and reduced weight than the original engine.
The cockpit of the Nammer was extensively modernised, includes a new overall layout which, amongst other benefits, would have permitted its pilot to maintain effective control of the aircraft via hands-on-throttle-and-stick (HOTAS) operation of all of the key systems under the majority of anticipated operational circumstances. A total of four displays, comprising a head-up display, a pair of multi-function displays, and a radar warning/electronic countermeasures display, were intended to supply the pilot with all necessary information. The various displays and the solid-state instrumentation for the engine was to be based upon reused Lavi technology. The avionics were a major focus area of the Nammer's development.
According to IAI, the Nammer was to be equipped with an advanced weapon management system that was directly integrated with a multimode pulse-Doppler radar, while its electronic warfare suite included features originally designed for the cancelled Lavi would also have been potentially used. The maximum take-off weight of the aircraft was approximately 15,450kg, while the maximum payload was 6,270kg. It could internally contain a total of 3,000kg of fuel, along with an additional 3,720kg in external tanks. In addition, it was to be provided with an aerial refueling capability. According to repeated statements by IAI, serial production of the Nammer fighter would have had been available at a unit cost of less than $20 million.
Specifications (as designed)
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
Copley, Gregory R. Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, Volume 16. Copley & Associates, 1988.
Golan, John W. Lavi: The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet. University of Nebraska Press, 2016. .
International Aeronautic Federation. "Joining the Big League." Interavia: Volume 43, 1988.
External links
1980s Israeli fighter aircraft
IAI aircraft
Cancelled military aircraft projects of Israel
Aircraft first flown in 1991 |
23576624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Top%2050%20Index | Russell Top 50 Index | The Russell Top 50 Index measures the performance of the largest companies in the Russell 3000 Index. It includes approximately 50 of the largest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership and represents approximately 40% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000.
The index, which was launched on January 1, 2005, is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. Its ticker symbol is ^RU50.
Investing
Prior to January 27, 2016, the index was tracked by an exchange-traded fund, the Guggenheim Russell Top 50 Mega Cap ETF (). The ETF switched to the S&P 500 Top 50 Index.
Top 10 holdings
Apple Inc. ()
Microsoft Corp ()
Amazon.com ()
Meta Platforms ()
Alphabet Inc Cl A ()
Alphabet Inc Cl C ()
Berkshire Hathaway Inc ()
Johnson & Johnson ()
Procter & Gamble ()
Visa Inc. ()
(as of October 31, 2020)
Top sectors by weight
Technology
Consumer Discretionary
Health Care
Industrials
Financials
See also
S&P 100
Russell Investments
Russell 2000 Index
Russell 1000 Index
Russell Top 200 Index
References
External links
Russell Indexes
Russell Investment Group
Index Construction and Methodology
Yahoo! Finance page for ^RU50
American stock market indices |
23576626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20and%20Harrisburg%20Railway | Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway | The Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway was a railroad that operated in Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The 59 miles (95 km) main line ran from Emory Grove, Maryland to Orrtanna, Pennsylvania, with a 6 miles (9.7 km) branch from Valley Junction, Pennsylvania (east of Hanover) to Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania; and later extensions to Highfield, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania.
The railroad was formed from a merger of the Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad, the Bachman Valley Railroad and the Baltimore and Hanover Railroad in 1886. It was acquired by the Western Maryland Railway in 1917.
History
The railroad was chartered by the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1886. In 1889 the railroad constructed a western extension from Orrtanna to Highfield, Maryland, where it connected with the Western Maryland Railway. In 1893 it completed a eastern extension from Porters Sideling, Pennsylvania (east of Hanover) to York.
At its formation, the company was controlled by the Western Maryland Railway by means of a 99-year lease, and the Western Maryland bought the company in 1917. The original Hanover Branch Railroad portion of track between Hanover Junction and Valley Junction was abandoned and removed circa 1930.
See also
List of defunct Maryland railroads
List of defunct Pennsylvania railroads
References
Bibliography
Defunct Maryland railroads
Defunct Pennsylvania railroads
Predecessors of the Western Maryland Railway
Railway companies established in 1886
Railway companies disestablished in 1917
American companies established in 1886
American companies disestablished in 1917 |
6904656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu-class%20destroyer%20escort | Isuzu-class destroyer escort | The Isuzu class destroyer escort was a destroyer escort (or frigate) class built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in the early 1960s. The latter batch (Kitakami and Ōi) were quite different from the earlier two vessels in their propulsion and weaponry, so sometimes they were classified as the "Kitakami class".
This class was the first JMSDF surface combatant adopted shelter-deck design. Propulsion systems varied in each vessels because the JMSDF tried to find the best way in the propulsion systems of future DEs. The design concept of this class and the CODAD propulsion system of the Kitakami class became prototype of them of the latter DEs and DDKs such as and .
The gun system was a scale-down version of the , four 3"/50 caliber Mark 22 guns with two Mark 33 dual mounts controlled by a Mark 63 GFCS. Main air-search radar was a OPS-2, Japanese variant of the American AN/SPS-12.
In the earlier batch, the main Anti-submarine armament was a Mk.108 Weapon Alpha. The JMSDF desired this American brand-new ASW rocket launcher earnestly, but then, it became clear that it was not as good as it was supposed to be. So in the latter batch, it was changed with a M/50, Swedish 375mm quadruple ASW rocket launcher. And later, Weapon Alpha of the earlier batch was also replaced by a Type 71, Japanese version of the M/50.
Ships
References
See also
Frigate classes
Frigates of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force |
6904662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made%20to%20Love%20Magic | Made to Love Magic | Made to Love Magic is a 2004 compilation album of outtakes and remixes by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. It features a previously unreleased solo acoustic version of "River Man", dating from early 1968, and the song "Tow the Line", a previously unheard song from Drake's final session in July 1974. The compilation reached #27 on the UK Albums Chart.
Track listing
All songs are written by Nick Drake.
"Rider on the Wheel" – 2:38
"Magic – Orchestrated Version 2" – 2:45
"River Man – Cambridge Version" – 4:02
"Joey" – 3:04
"Thoughts of Mary Jane" – 3:39
"Mayfair – Cambridge Version" – 2:12
"Hanging on a Star" – 3:24
"Three Hours – Alternate Version" – 5:12
"Clothes of Sand" – 2:31
"Voices" – 3:45
"Time of No Reply – Orchestrated Version" – 2:47
"Black Eyed Dog" – 3:28
"Tow the Line" – 2:20
Notes
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 9 & 12 are stereo remasters from Time of No Reply; track 5 is usually titled "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" on other releases.
Track 2 is "I Was Made to Love Magic" from Time of No Reply, sped-up, with a posthumously added string arrangement by Robert Kirby
Tracks 3 and 6 are Cambridge-era dorm demos (spring 1968)
Track 7 is a different take than the version originally released on Time of No Reply (February 1974)
Track 8 is a different take than the version originally released on Five Leaves Left, and features Rebop Kwaku Baah on congas (March 1969)
Track 10 is a remastered version of "Voice from the Mountain" from Time of No Reply
Track 11 has a posthumously added string arrangement by Robert Kirby
Track 13 is possibly the last song Drake ever committed to tape (July 1974)
Personnel
Nick Drake performs vocals and Steel-string guitar on all songs, except where indicated otherwise.
References
Nick Drake compilation albums
Albums produced by Joe Boyd
2004 compilation albums
Island Records compilation albums |
17336397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanocyma | Melanocyma | Melanocyma is a monotypic butterfly genus in the subfamily Morphinae of the family Nymphalidae. Its one species Melanocyma faunula, the pallid faun, is restricted to Burma, Malaya, Thailand and Indochina in the Indomalayan realm.
The wingspan of M. faunula is at around 90 millimetres. Individuals found in lowland forests are often smaller than specimens of M. faunula found on hills.
There are two subspecies, M. f. kimurai and M. f. faunula
Life History
M. faunula individuals are known to breed in primary rainforest. They are often seen in flight in the mid-story of primary rainforest. Individuals are often known to be baited with rotting fruit. They are known to be commonly found in hill stations.
The Pallid Faun's larvae feed on Orania sylvicola. Their eggs hatch after 11 days, hatching within 12 hours. The eggs are 1.1 millimeters in diameter, and are yellow in colour changing to black with time. The Pallid Faun exhibits similar egg laying and feeding behaviour with Taenaris onolaus.
Gallery
References
External links
Images representing Melanocyma at Bold
TOL
Amathusiini
Butterflies of Indochina
Monotypic butterfly genera
Taxa named by John O. Westwood
Nymphalidae genera |
20473685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Le%20M%C3%A8ner | Dominique Le Mèner | Dominique Le Mèner (born 12 November 1958) is a French politician. He has been the president of the Sarthe departmental council since 2 April 2015.
He was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing Sarthe's 5th constituency from 2002 to 2017, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, then The Republicans.
References
1958 births
Living people
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
20473692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Casco%20%28ID-1957%29 | USS Casco (ID-1957) | The second USS Casco (ID-1957) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.
Casco was built in 1910 by Flensburger Schiffbauges, Flensburg, Germany as SS Elmshorn. Elmshorn was seized by the United States upon the American entry into World War I. Renamed SS Casco, she came under the control of the United States Shipping Board. The U.S. Navy's 12th Naval District inspected her for possible naval service on 8 November 1917, and she was converted for naval use at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, prior to formal acquisition. The U.S. Navy acquired her on 7 January 1918 for World War I service on a bareboat charter from the Shipping Board. She was assigned the Identification Number (Id. No.) 1957 and commissioned as USS Casco on 8 January 1918.
Casco was assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service. Operated first for United States Army account, and later for United States Shipping Board account, Casco carried U.S. Army cargo in four voyages from New York City to France between 20 January 1918 and 4 December 1918. This support of the American Expeditionary Force and the Army of Occupation continued with her last voyage in January 1919, from New York City to Lisbon, Portugal, carrying general cargo and Red Cross supplies. She returned to New York on 3 March 1919
Casco was decommissioned on 22 March 1919 and returned to the United States Shipping Board.
References
Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: S.S. Casco (American Freighter, 1910). Originally the German steamship Elmshorn. Served as USS Casco (ID # 1957) in 1918-1919
Ships built in Flensburg
Cargo ships of the United States Navy
World War I cargo ships of the United States
1910 ships |
6904668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%3A%20You%20Get%20What%20You%20Play%20For | Live: You Get What You Play For | Live: You Get What You Play For is a live album by rock band REO Speedwagon, released as a double-LP in 1977 (and years later as a single CD omitting "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie"). It was recorded at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in Kansas City, Kansas, the Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiel Auditorium in Saint Louis, Missouri and Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. It peaked at number #72 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1977. The song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, but has since become a classic rock radio staple. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.
The Japanese CD reissue, released in 2011, restores the album and songs to its original full length by including both "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie", which were omitted in the original single CD release due to time constraints. Sony Music also released the unedited double LP Epic master on its Legacy Label for Compact Disc in 2011 as well.
Track listing
All songs written by Gary Richrath, except where noted.
Side one
"Like You Do" – 6:43
"Lay Me Down" (Neal Doughty, Alan Gratzer, Terry Luttrell, Gregg Philbin, Richrath) – 3:34
"Any Kind of Love" – 3:33
"Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)" (Kevin Cronin) – 6:27
Side two
"Keep Pushin'" (Cronin) – 3:59
"(Only A) Summer Love" – 6:06
"Son of a Poor Man" – 5:25
"(I Believe) Our Time Is Gonna Come" (Cronin) – 4:46
Side three
"Flying Turkey Trot" – 2:34
"Gary's Guitar Solo"+ – 6:10
"157 Riverside Avenue (Doughty, Gratzer, Luttrell, Philbin, Richrath) – 7:35
"Ridin' the Storm Out" – 5:34
Side four Encores
"Music Man" (Cronin) – 2:29
"Little Queenie"+ (Chuck Berry) – 4:45
"Golden Country" – 8:12
Total length – 77:18
(+) Appeared on the original double-LP release of the album, but omitted from the original single CD release. They are included on the 2011 Japanese "remaster" two-CD release.
Personnel
Kevin Cronin – lead vocals (except on "Only a Summer Love"), rhythm guitar
Gary Richrath – lead guitar, lead vocals on "Any Kind of Love" and "Only a Summer Love"
Neal Doughty – keyboards
Gregg Philbin – bass, backing vocals
Alan Gratzer – drums, backing vocals
Production
Production as listed in album liner notes.
John Stronach - production, engineering
John Henning - production, engineering, mixing
Gary Richrath - production, mixing
Bruce Hensal - engineering
Pete Carlson - engineering
Jack Crymes - engineering
Kelly Kotera - engineering
Rick Sanchez - engineering
Mike Klink - engineering
Vartán Kurjian - illustration
Justin Carroll - illustration
Tom Steele - design
Lorrie Sullivan - photography
Charts
Album
Singles
Certifications
Release history
Notes
References
REO Speedwagon albums
1977 live albums
Epic Records live albums
Albums produced by Gary Richrath |
20473704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Orliac | Dominique Orliac | Dominique Orliac (born March 15, 1952 in Palaiseau, Essonne) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the constituency of the Lot Département, and is a member of the Radical Party of the Left. She lost her seat in the 2017 Parliamentary Elections.
References
1952 births
Living people
People from Palaiseau
Radical Party of the Left politicians
Politicians from Occitania (administrative region)
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
French ophthalmologists |
44504065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gordon%20Baker | David Gordon Baker | David Gordon Baker (February 17, 1884 – March 25, 1958) was an associate justice and chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
He served on the Florence City Council from 1910 to 1912 and in the South Carolina Senate from 1919 to 1922. From 1923 to 1931, he was the county attorney for Florence County, South Carolina.
Baker died on March 24, 1958, and is buried in Florence, South Carolina at the Mount Hope Cemetery.
References
Chief Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
1884 births
People from Florence, South Carolina
1958 deaths
Place of death missing
20th-century American judges |
20473715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Raimbourg | Dominique Raimbourg | Dominique Raimbourg (born 28 April 1950) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Loire-Atlantique's 4th constituency from 2001 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2017, as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
References
1950 births
Living people
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
6904674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina%20Jesionowska | Celina Jesionowska | Celina Jesionowska (later names Gerwin and Orzechowska, born 3 November 1933 in Łomża) is a Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 and 200 metres and, during the last part of her career, in the 400 metres. She competed for Poland in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Teresa Wieczorek, Barbara Janiszewska and Halina Richter.
Jesionowska also competed in three European Championships:
1954 in Bern, where she was eliminated in the 100 metres semi-finals, and took fifth place in the 4 x 100 metres relay with her team mates Marią Ilwicką, Barbarą Lerczak and Marią Kusion.
1958 in Stockholm, where she won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay with the same team, and reached the semi-finals in the 200 and 100 metres.
1966 in Budapest, where she was eliminated in the first round qualifiers for the 100 metres.
Throughout her career, Jesionowska was a competitor with the Central Military Sports Club "Legia" Warsaw (CWKS "Legia" Warsaw), through which she attained seven Polish championships:
400 metres - 1964, 1965 and 1966.
4 × 100 metres relay - 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960.
Cultural influence
In 1976, Jesionowska appeared in an episode of the TV series The Way It Was which showcased the 1960 Summer Olympics, in which she gained her bronze medal.
Personal bests
Jesionowska's published personal bests include:
100 metres - 11.8 seconds
200 metres - 23.8 seconds
400 metres - 55.4 seconds
80 meters hurdles - 11.0 seconds
Long jump - 5.85 metres
References
1933 births
Polish female sprinters
Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Poland
Living people
People from Łomża
European Athletics Championships medalists
People from Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Sportspeople from Podlaskie Voivodeship
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Legia Warsaw athletes
20th-century Polish women
Olympic female sprinters |
6904684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Helmet | Golden Helmet | Golden Helmet may refer to:
Golden Helmet (Poland), an annual Polish speedway event
Golden Helmet (People's Republic of China), an annual Chinese military aviation competition
Golden Helmet of Pardubice, an annual Czech speedway event
Kultainen kypärä, a Finnish ice hockey award given to the best player in Liiga.
Guldhjälmen, a Swedish ice hockey award
Casque d'Or (English: Golden Helmet), a 1952 French film |
20473723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womensforum | Womensforum | Womensforum is a United States-based online community website for women.
History
Based in Chicago, Illinois, it was co-created by Jodi Turek and Mark Kaufman in 1996. The network of sites aggregated and promoted content from partner websites aimed at their demographic. Womensforum.com offered content from a wide range of topics such as health, family, home, fashion, career, pop culture, and relationships. In 2000, the website obtained $17 million in financing from venture capital firm VantagePoint Venture Partners. As of April 2008, Womensforum was ranked in the top 10 U.S. gaining properties based on unique visitors. As of July 2008, Womensforum had over 40 sites in its network and received more than 6.7 million visitors each month. As of October 2009, WomensForum partner sites had grown to more than 50. Some of their partners included Babynames.com, and CopyKat.com.
See also
Pink Petro
References
External links
Official Website
How To Be A Better Girlfriend
1996 establishments in the United States
American social networking websites
Internet properties established in 1996
American women's websites |
20473730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Souchet | Dominique Souchet | Dominique Souchet (born July 9, 1946 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime) was a member of the National Assembly of France between 2008 and 2012. He represented the Vendée department, is a member of the Movement for France and does not align himself with any parliamentary group.
References
1946 births
Living people
People from La Rochelle
Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Movement for France politicians
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Movement for France MEPs
MEPs for France 1999–2004 |
6904692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%20%26%20Company | Hakluyt & Company | Hakluyt & Company is a British strategic advisory firm. The company is headquartered in London and has subsidiary offices in New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Singapore, Mumbai, Chicago and Sydney.
Hakluyt avoids publicity, but is regarded as having a reputation for discretion and effectiveness among its client base. Hakluyt was founded by former officials of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The company has recruited several former British spies and journalists from The Financial Times.
The firm is chaired by Paul Deighton, and the other members of the board include managing partner Varun Chandra, Les Fagen, and Jean Tomlin.
Corporate governance
Hakluyt's international advisory board comprises senior figures with backgrounds in business and government. It is chaired by Niall FitzGerald, KBE, former CEO and chairman of Unilever, and its current members are:
M. S. Banga – partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and former chairman and managing director, Hindustan Unilever
John Bell – Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford
Douglas Flint – chairman, Standard Life Aberdeen
Jurgen Grossmann – founder and shareholder, Georgsmarienhutte Holding GmbH
Muhtar Kent – former CEO and chairman, The Coca-Cola Company
Irene Lee – chairman, Hysan Development Co. Limited
Iain Lobban – former director, UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
Trevor Manuel – former minister of finance, South Africa
Lubna Olayan – CEO and deputy chairperson, Olayan Financing Company
Sandi Peterson – former group worldwide chairman, Johnson & Johnson and independent director, Microsoft Corporation
Alfonso Prat-Gay – former minister of the economy and President of the Central Bank of Argentina
John Rose – former chairman, Hakluyt & Company
Shuzo Sumi – former president and chairman, Tokio Marine Holdings and chairman of the board, Sony Corporation
Ambassador Louis Susman – former US ambassador to the UK
Ratan Tata – chairman emeritus, Tata Sons
The former president and chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation, Minoru (Ben) Makihara, served on the advisory board of the firm from 2004 to 2020.
References
External links
Companies based in the City of Westminster
Consulting firms established in 1995
Management consulting firms |
23576643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koras%E2%80%93Russell%20cubic%20threefold | Koras–Russell cubic threefold | In algebraic geometry, the Koras–Russell cubic threefolds are smooth affine complex threefolds diffeomorphic to studied by . They have a hyperbolic action of a one-dimensional torus with a unique fixed point, such that the quotients of the threefold and the tangent space of the fixed point by this action are isomorphic. They were discovered in the process of proving the Linearization Conjecture in dimension 3. A linear action of on the affine space is one of the form , where and . The Linearization Conjecture in dimension says that every algebraic action of on the complex affine space is linear in some algebraic coordinates on . M. Koras and P. Russell made a key step towards the solution in dimension 3, providing a list of threefolds (now called Koras-Russell threefolds) and proving that the Linearization Conjecture for n=3 holds if all those threefolds are exotic affine 3-spaces, that is, none of them is isomorphic to . This was later shown by Kaliman and Makar-Limanov using the ML-invariant of an affine variety, which has in fact been invented exactly for this purpose.
Earlier than the above referred paper, Russell noticed that the hypersurface has properties very similar to the affine 3-space like contractibility and was interested in distinguishing them as algebraic varieties. This now follows from the computation that and .
References
3-folds |
23576651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%202500%20Index | Russell 2500 Index | The Russell 2500 Index measures the performance of the 2,500 smallest companies (19% of total capitalization) in the Russell 3000 Index, with a weighted average market capitalization of approximately $4.3 billion, median capitalization of $1.2 billion and market capitalization of the largest company of $18.7 billion.
The index, which was launched on June 1, 1990, is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. Its ticker symbol is ^R25I.
Top 10 holdings
Huntington Bancshares ()
Hologic ()
Mid-America Apartments ()
Quintiles IMS Holdings ()
Alaska Air Group ()
Idexx Laboratories ()
Snap-on ()
Arch Capital Group ()
Lear Corporation ()
E-Trade Financial ()
(as of December 31, 2016)
Top sectors by weight
Financial Services
Producer Durables
Consumer Discretionary
Technology
Health Care
See also
Russell Investments
Russell 2000 Index
Russell 1000 Index
References
External links
Russell page for Russell 2500 index
Russell Indexes
Russell Investment Group
Index Construction and Methodology
Yahoo! Finance page for ^R25I
American stock market indices |
20473741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Tian | Dominique Tian | Dominique Tian (born 14 December 1959) is a French businessman and retired politician who represented the 2nd constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2017. He has been member of The Republicans (LR) since the party was founded in 2015 as the successor to the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). In the 2017 legislative election, Tian lost his seat in a "surprise" upset by Claire Pitollat of La République En Marche! (LREM), who was a first-time candidate.
Tian also held offices at the municipal and departmental level. He first served the member of the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône for the canton of Marseille-Saint-Giniez from 1988 to 2002 as the successor of Jean-Claude Gaudin, before holding the mayorship of the 4th sector of Marseille, which encompasses the 6th and 8th arrondissements, from 1995 to 2013. Tian was later appointed First Deputy Mayor of Marseille under Mayor Gaudin from 2014 until 2020, succeeding Roland Blum. He retired from politics when he was succeeded by Socialist Benoît Payan as First Deputy Mayor under Mayor Michèle Rubirola following the 2020 municipal election.
Tax evasion conviction
In 2018, Dominique Tian was found guilty by a Paris court in a tax evasion lawsuit. He was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence. Tian filed an appeal and a new trial was ordered. In 2019, he was found guilty again and sentenced to a suspended prison sentence of 18 months.
References
1959 births
Living people
20th-century French politicians
21st-century French politicians
Sciences Po Aix alumni
French city councillors
Politicians from Marseille
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
The Republicans (France) politicians
Departmental councillors (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Mayors of places in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
French politicians convicted of crimes |
20473756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabienne%20Labrette-M%C3%A9nager | Fabienne Labrette-Ménager | Fabienne Labrette-Ménager (born 8 January 1961) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented Sarthe's 1st constituency from 2007 to 2012, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Biography
She made her entry into politics in 2001 while jointly becoming adjunct to the mayor of Fresnay-sur-Sarthe and counselor-general for the canton of Fresnay-sur-Sarthe.
At the time of the regional elections in 2004, she appeared on the list of UDF-UMP led by François Fillon. Although this list was beaten in the 2nd round, she was elected to the district council of the Pays de la Loire. At that time, she relinquished her appointment as counselor for Fresnay-sur-Sarthe.
Fabienne Labrette-Domestic was elected deputy on 17 June 2007 for the XIIIe legislature (2007–2012), in the 1st district of the Sarthe by defeating, in the second round, Françoise Dubois (PS) with 56.55% of the vote. She thereby succeeded Pierre Hellier (UMP) who did not seek re-election. She was a member of the commissions for economic affairs, for the environment and for the region.
References
External links
Official web site
1961 births
Living people
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians |
6904717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Ludwig | Bob Ludwig | Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Bryan Ferry, Paul McCartney, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen and Daft Punk
resulting in over 3,000 credits. He is the recipient of numerous Grammy and TEC Awards.
Biography
At the age of eight in South Salem, New York, Ludwig was so fascinated with his first tape recorder, that he used to make recordings of whatever was on the radio. Ludwig is a classical musician by training, having obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in New York. He was also involved in the sound department at Eastman, as well as being principal trumpet of the Utica Symphony Orchestra. Inspired by Phil Ramone when he came to Eastman to teach a summer recording workshop, Ludwig ended up working as his assistant. Afterwards, he was contacted and offered work with Ramone at A&R Recording. Together, they did sessions on projects with The Band, Peter, Paul & Mary, Neil Diamond and Frank Sinatra.
After a few years at A&R, Ludwig received an offer from Sterling Sound, where he eventually became a vice president. After seven years at Sterling, he moved to its competitor, Masterdisk, where he was vice president and chief engineer. In December 1992, Ludwig left Masterdisk to start his own record mastering facility in Portland, Maine, named Gateway Mastering Studios, Inc. He, along with Adam Ayan are the two mastering engineers who work at Gateway Mastering.
Work
Ludwig's mastering credits include albums for many major classic artists, such as the Kronos Quartet, and rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Phish, Rush, Mötley Crüe, Megadeth, Metallica, Gloria Estefan, Nirvana, The Strokes, Queen, U2, Sting, The Police, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Beck, Guns N' Roses, Richie Sambora, Tool, Simple Minds, Bryan Ferry, Tori Amos, Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, the Bee Gees, Madonna, Richard Wood, Supertramp, Will Ackerman, Pet Shop Boys, Radiohead, Elton John, Daft Punk and Alabama Shakes.
He has occasionally undertaken larger projects, such as remastering the entire back catalogues of Rush, Dire Straits, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Rolling Stones.
Ludwig cites his most musically satisfying projects as: the CD reissue of Music From Big Pink (The Band), There's a Riot Goin' On (Sly and the Family Stone), Led Zeppelin II, Painted from Memory (Bacharach & Costello), Spirit (Jewel), Loreena McKennitt, and Ancient Voices of Children (George Crumb).
Ludwig remains an active influence in the music industry. As a judge for the 8th and 10th-14th annual Independent Music Awards, his contributions helped assist the careers of upcoming independent artists. Ludwig is active in the Audio Engineering Society and is a past chairman of the New York AES section. He was Co-Chair of the Producers and Engineers Wing for 5 years and is presently on the Advisory Council of the P&E Wing of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Awards and recognition
Grammy Awards
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|Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
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|In Rainbows
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|Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)
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|G I R L
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APRS
2012: Association of Professional Recording Services Sound Fellowship - received 27 October 2012
Audio Engineering Society
2015: AES Gold Medal
References
External links
SoundStage! interview
1940s births
Living people
American audio engineers
Engineers from New York (state)
Grammy Award winners
Latin Grammy Award winners
Mastering engineers
People from South Salem, New York
University of Rochester alumni |
23576657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%20the%20Drift | Mind the Drift | Mind the Drift is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Big Business.
Track listing
"Found Art" - 3:34
"Gold and Final" - 3:32
"Cats, Mice." - 3:52
"I Got It Online" - 3:59
"The Drift" - 3:40
"Ayes Have It" - 4:17
"Cold Lunch" - 3:33
"Theme From Big Business II" - 8:43
"Cold Lunch (Demo)" (Bonus Track) - 3:40
"The Drift (Demo)" (Bonus Track) - 3:48
"Send Me A Postcard" (Bonus Track) - 2:45
Personnel
Big Business
Jared Warren - bass, lead vocals
Coady Willis - drums
Toshi Kasai - guitar, backing vocals, keyboards
Technical personnel
Phil Elk and Big Business – recording
Cameron Nicklaus - second engineer
Sadaharu Yagi - second engineer
JJ Golden - mastering
James O'Mara - layout and execution
References
2009 albums
Hydra Head Records albums
Big Business (band) albums |
20473766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Hillmeyer | Francis Hillmeyer | Francis Hillmeyer (born September 9, 1946 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haut-Rhin department, and is a member of the New Centre.
References
1946 births
Living people
Politicians from Mulhouse
Union for French Democracy politicians
The Centrists politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians |
23576672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Microcap%20Index | Russell Microcap Index | The Russell Microcap Index measures the performance of the microcap segment of the U.S. equity market. It makes up less than 3% of the U.S. equity market. It includes 1,000 of the smallest securities in the Russell 2000 Index based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership and it also includes up to the next 1,000 stocks. , the weighted average market capitalization for a company in the index was $535 million; the median market cap was $228 million. The market cap of the largest company in the index was $3.6 billion.
The index, which was launched on June 1, 2005, is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. Its ticker symbol is ^RUMIC.
Records
In February 2021, during the everything bubble, a record 14 members of the index exceeded the market capitalization of the smallest member of the S&P 500 Index.
Investing
The Russell Microcap Index is tracked by the iShares Micro-Cap ETF ().
Top 10 holdings
Mercury Systems ()
Centerstate Banks ()
Lakeland Financial ()
Merit Medical Systems ()
Team Inc ()
Patrick Industries ()
Synergy Pharmaceuticals ()
Hanmi Financial ()
Aerie Pharmaceuticals ()
Stewart Information Services ()
(as of December 31, 2016)
Top sectors by weight
Financial Services
Health Care
Consumer Discretionary
Technology
Producer Durables
See also
Russell Investments
Russell 2000 Index
Russell 1000 Index
References
External links
FTSE Russell Index Fact Sheet
FTSE Russell Indexes
FTSE Russell Investment Group
Index Construction and Methodology
Yahoo! Finance page for ^RUMIC
American stock market indices
Financial services companies established in 1981
1981 establishments in the United States |
6904730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace%20Fiennes | Eustace Fiennes | Sir Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 1st Baronet (29 February 1864 – 9 February 1943), known as Sir Eustace Fiennes, was a British soldier, Liberal politician and colonial administrator.
Background
Fiennes was born in Reading, Berkshire, the second son of John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 17th Baron Saye and Sele and his wife, Lady Augusta Hay-Drummond, a daughter of the 11th Earl of Kinnoull. He was educated at Malvern College,
In 1894, Fiennes married Florence Agnes Fletcher née Rathfelder (from Constantia, Cape Town). They lived in Windlesham and Sunningdale and had two children: John Eustace (1895–1917, Battle of Arras) and Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 2nd Baronet (1902–1943).
Military career
Fiennes fought in the North-West Rebellion in 1885, was stationed in Egypt from 1888 to 1889, and took part in the expedition to Mashonaland in 1890. He was commissioned into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in 1895, and promoted Lieutenant on 29 April 1899. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Fiennes volunteered for service in South Africa, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 3 February 1900, serving in the 40th (Oxfordshire) company of the 10th Battalion. He left London the same day on board the SS Montfort. He was promoted captain in 1901, major in 1905, and lieutenant-colonel in 1918. He fought in Flanders and the Dardanelles during World War I.
Political career
At the 1906 general election, Fiennes was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury and with a brief interruption in 1910, held the seat until the 1918 general election. He was also Parliamentary Private Secretary to Winston Churchill (then First Lord of the Admiralty) from 1912 to 1914. Created a baronet in 1916, Fiennes left the Commons two years later to become Governor of the Seychelles and was then Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1921 to 1929.
Fiennes died in 1943 aged 78 and his title was inherited by his son who died the same year. His grandson, the famous explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, inherited the title on his birth in 1944. Through his grandfather the 16th Baron Saye and Sele, Fiennes is also related to the actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.
Notes
References
External links
Fiennes, Hon Eustace, Captain Oxfordshire Yeomanry. www.angloboerwar.com.
Fiennes Family, 1100 – 2004
1864 births
1943 deaths
Military personnel from Reading, Berkshire
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
British Army personnel of World War I
Governors of the Leeward Islands
Eustace Fiennes
Governors of British Seychelles
Imperial Yeomanry officers
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
People of the North-West Rebellion
People educated at Malvern College
People from Reading, Berkshire
People from Sunningdale
People from Surrey Heath (district)
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars officers
UK MPs 1906–1910
UK MPs 1910–1918
Younger sons of barons |
17336410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burley%20Hill | Burley Hill | Burley Hill is a hamlet in the Erewash district, in the county if Derbyshire, England. It is located one mile north of Allestree. Burley Hill was the location of a pottery in the 13th and 14th centuries and some of those pots are preserved in Derby Museum.
References
Hamlets in Derbyshire
Borough of Erewash |
6904737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachitomi | Rachitomi | The Rachitomi were a group of extinct Palaeozoic labyrinthodont amphibians, according to an earlier classification system. They are defined by the structure of the vertebrae, having large semi-circular intercentra below the notochord and smaller paired though prominent pleurocentra on each side above and behind, forming anchoring points for the ribs.
This form of complex backbone was found in some crossopterygian fish, the Ichthyostegalia, most Temnospondyli and some Reptiliomorpha. Primitive reptiles kept the complex rachitomous vertebrae, but with the pleurocentra being the more dominant. As a phylogenetic unit, the Rachitomi thus are a paraphyletic unit.
References
Prehistoric amphibians |
17336439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Percy%20Bargery | George Percy Bargery | George Percy Bargery (1 October 1876 – 2 August 1966) was an English missionary and linguist from Exeter, Devon.
Bargery was born in Exeter, where he was educated at Hele's School and Islington College. After attending the University of London, Bargery was ordained with the Church Missionary Society in 1899.
Bargery joined the Colonial Education Service and was sent to Northern Nigeria, serving until 1910. He published a Hausa-English Dictionary in 1934 that remains widely referenced and is available in several online versions. The dictionary was recognised as a tremendous achievement, and his alma mater, the University of London, rewarded him with a Doctorate in Literature in 1937. He also worked as a lecturer in the professor of Hausa at the university for several years while working in London on his dictionary.
He was married to Eliza Minnie "Nina" Turner from 1906 to her death in 1932. They had one son. He remarried in 1940 to Minnie Jane Martin, who died in 1952. In 1966, he died suddenly at his son's home in Tring, Hertfordshire, at age 90.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1957 Birthday Honours. He returned to England from Nigeria permanently in 1957.
According to the School of Oriental and African Studies Library in London, where Bargery's collected papers are on deposit, his Hausa-English dictionary contained "the first tonal analysis of the Hausa language".
Publications
References
External links
Bargery's Hausa-English Dictionary Online
Bargery's Hausa-English Dictionary Online
Archives in London and the M25 Area
1876 births
1966 deaths
Linguists from England
English Anglican missionaries
Clergy from Exeter
Anglican missionaries in Nigeria
Missionary linguists
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of the University of London
Colonial Education Service officers
People educated at Hele's School, Exeter
Linguists of Hausa |
20473777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Banknote%20Printing%20and%20Minting%20Corporation | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPMC), () is a state-owned corporation which carries out the minting of all renminbi coins and printing of renminbi banknotes for the People's Republic of China.
CBPMC uses a network of printing and engraving and minting facilities around the country to produce banknotes and coins for subsequent distribution. Banknote printing facilities are located in
Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Xi'an, Shijiazhuang, and Nanchang.
The state-owned company, headquartered in Beijing's Xicheng District is the world's largest money printer by volume. With more than 18,000 employees, it runs more than 10 highly secure facilities for the production of banknotes and coins. Mints are located in Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, and Nanjing. The Shanghai Mint is the oldest and most important mint in China, having been founded in 1920 during the Beiyang era of the Republic of China. Shanghai, Shenyang, and Shenzhen primarily mint fiat coins for circulation. Nanjing primarily prints fiat banknotes, and also does coining of small quantities of non-fiat coins for coin collectors. High grade paper for the banknotes is produced at two facilities in Baoding and Kunshan. The Baoding facility is the largest facility in the world dedicated to developing banknote material
In addition, the People's Bank of China has its own printing technology research division which research new techniques for creating banknotes and making counterfeiting more difficult.
The CBPMC bases its production of currency on the macroeconomic planning of the People's Bank of China.
CBPMC reportedly produces currency for a number of other countries, including Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Brazil.
References
External links
Printing companies of China
Mints (currency)
Banknote printing companies
Government of China
Manufacturing companies based in Beijing
Banknotes of China
People's Bank of China
Bullion dealers |
6904740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Hermann%20Quincke | Georg Hermann Quincke | Georg Hermann Quincke FRSFor HFRSE (; November 19, 1834 – January 13, 1924) was a German physicist.
Biography
Born in Frankfurt-on-Oder, Quincke was the son of prominent physician Geheimer Medicinal-Rath Hermann Quincke and the older brother of physician Heinrich Quincke.
Quincke received his Ph. D. in 1858 at Berlin, having previously studied also at Königsberg and at Heidelberg. He became privatdocent at Berlin in 1859, professor at Berlin in 1865, professor at Würzburg in 1872, and in 1875 was called to be professor of physics at Heidelberg, where he remained until his retirement in 1907. His doctor's dissertation was on the subject of the capillary constant of mercury, and his investigations of all capillary phenomena are classical.
In September 1860, Quincke was one of the participants in the Karlsruhe Congress, the first international conference of chemistry worldwide. He and Adolf von Baeyer represented the University of Berlin in Congress.
Quincke also did important work in the experimental study of the reflection of light, especially from metallic surfaces, and carried on prolonged researches on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.
"Quincke's interference tube" is an apparatus used to demonstrate interference phenomena of sound waves.
Quincke received a D. C. L. from Oxford and an LL. D. from Cambridge and from Glasgow and was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 1885 he published Geschichte des physikalischen Instituts der Universität Heidelberg.
Quincke died in Heidelberg at age 89. It is believed that Quincke was the last living participant of the Karlsruhe Congress.
Notes
See also
History of cell membrane theory
References
"Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke". Who Named It? (Retrieved January 23, 2007).
1834 births
1924 deaths
19th-century German physicists
People from Frankfurt (Oder)
People from the Province of Brandenburg
University of Königsberg alumni
Heidelberg University alumni
Heidelberg University faculty
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin faculty
University of Würzburg faculty
Foreign Members of the Royal Society
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
17336463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpay | Alpay | Alpay is a masculine Turkish given name, and a surname. It derives from "alp". In Turkish, "alp" means "stouthearted", "brave", "chivalrous", "daredevil", "valorous", and/or "gallant".
Notable persons with that name include:
People with the given name
Alpay (singer), Turkish singer
Alpay Özalan (born 1973), Turkish footballer
Alpay Şalt, Turkish musician, member of the band Yüksek Sadakat
People with the surname
David Alpay (born 1980), Canadian actor
Turkish masculine given names
Turkish-language surnames |
6904746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20to%20Find | Hard to Find | Hard to Find may refer to:
"Hard to Find", a song by The American Analog Set from their 2003 album Promise of Love
"Hard to Find", a song by Codeine from the EP Barely Real
"Hard to Find", a song by The National from their album Trouble Will Find Me
"Hard to Find", a song by Skillet from their 2013 album Rise |
6904757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett%20Strommen | Garrett Strommen | Garrett Strommen is an American actor, entrepreneur, author, and visual artist born on October 8, 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Career
Before his big break in the movie I Dreamed of Africa with Daniel Craig and Kim Basinger in 2000, he got his start in Italy with school productions. He lived in Rome, for over 8 years where he attended St. Stephen's International School and went on to win the Reverend Wilbur C. Woodhams Medal for excellence in the arts. His father is Kim Strommen, who served as Dean of Temple University Rome's study abroad campus for 25 years and his mother is Genell Miller, a visual artist and art professor. In 2006 he graduated from the prestigious creative writing program at UCLA cum laude. He is currently the founder and president of Strommen Inc., a private language instruction and translation company and an angel investor in Rufus Labs. Acting roles include recurring roles in the TV drama 7th Heaven, an appearance as the victim in Cold Case and an appearance on Without a Trace. Recently, he was in an episode of CSI: NY, Heroes (TV series) and a cameo in "Dead of Night," a film based on the Italian comic book Dylan Dog.
He is fluent in English, Italian and Spanish. He likes painting and sculpting.
External links
Strommen
1982 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people |
44504101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy%20Hollow%20%28season%201%29 | Sleepy Hollow (season 1) | The first season of the Fox television series Sleepy Hollow premiered on September 16, 2013, and concluded January 20, 2014, consisting of 13 episodes.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane
Nicole Beharie as Lt. Abigail "Abbie" Mills
Orlando Jones as Captain Frank Irving
Katia Winter as Katrina Crane
Recurring cast
Lyndie Greenwood as Jennifer "Jenny" Mills
Nicholas Gonzalez as Detective Luke Morales
John Cho as Officer Andy Brooks
Richard Cetrone, Jeremy Owens, Craig Branham and Neil Jackson as the Headless Horseman / Abraham Van Brunt
D. J. Mifflin, George Ketsios, and Derek Mears as Moloch
Clancy Brown as Sheriff August Corbin
John Noble as Henry Parrish / Jeremy Crane
Jill Marie Jones as Cynthia Irving
Amandla Stenberg as Macey Irving
Jahnee Wallace as Young Abigail Mills
Guest cast
Michael Roark as Detective Devon Jones
Patrick Gorman as Reverend Alfred Knapp
David Fonteno as Reverend Boland
Onira Tares as Grace Dixon
Craig Trow as Lachlan Fredericks
India Scandrick as Young Jenny Mills
Braden Fitzgerald as Young Jeremy Crane
Judd Lormand and Karen Beyer as Ancitif
Laura Spencer as Caroline
Episodes
Ratings
References
2013 American television seasons
2014 American television seasons |
17336469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIDPoint | HIDPoint | HIDPoint is proprietary Linux software for USB Keyboards and Mice. Currently it supports most Logitech keyboards and mice. It runs on many Linux distributions such as RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora. HIDPoint has been designed to give users using USB Mice and Keyboards the same experience they get when using these devices on Microsoft Windows.
Features
Allows users to fully utilize the functionality provided by their hardware.
Allows full use of Multimedia buttons, “Office” keys, and Programmable keys.
Users have the same experience as in Windows.
Single binary distribution for all supported Operating systems.
GUI Installer and Uninstaller.
No run time dependencies to install.
Currently supported platforms
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Linux Mint 9 (Isadora)
Linux Mint 8 (Helena)
Linux Mint 7 (Gloria)
Linux Mint 6 (Felicia)
Debian 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
CentOS 5.0
Suse 10.2
Suse 10.1
Suse 10.0
Mandriva 2008 and 2010
Fedora Core 6.0
Fedora Core 4.0
SMP (multi-processor/multi-core) are not yet supported.
64bit drivers are available for selected Platforms.
Currently supported mice
Logitech Cordless Mouse for Notebooks
Logitech Cordless Click
Logitech MX 1000 Laser Mouse
Logitech Media Play Cordless
Logitech V500 Cordless Mouse
Logitech G3/MX518 Optical Mouse
Logitech Cordless Click Plus
Logitech V200 Cordless Mouse
Logitech Cordless Mini Optical Mouse
Logitech LX7 Cordless Optical Mouse
Logitech LX5 Cordless Optical Mouse
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
Logitech G7 Laser Mouse
Logitech MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse
Logitech MX610 Left Handed Laser Cordless Mouse
Logitech G1 Optical Mouse
Logitech MX400 Laser Mouse
Logitech G3 Laser Mouse
Logitech V450 Laser Mouse
Logitech VX Revolution
Logitech MX Air mouse
Logitech MX Revolution
Logitech MX 600 Cordless Laser
Logitech LX7 Cordless Laser Mouse
Logitech MX 620 Cordless Laser
Logitech V220 Cordless Optical
Logitech LX8 Cordless Optical Mouse
Logitech VX Nano
Logitech LX8 Cordless Optical Mouse
Logitech LX6 Cordless Optical Mouse
Logitech V450 Laser Mouse
Logitech MX 700 Cordless Optical Mouse
Logitech MX 900
Currently supported keyboards
Logitech LX 500 Cordless Keyboard
Logitech LX 501 Cordless Keyboard
Logitech LX 300 Cordless Keyboard
Logitech Numeric Keypad
Logitech Cordless Ultra Flat Keyboard
Logitech EX 110 Series Keyboard
Logitech Media Keyboard Elite
Logitech MX 3000 Keyboard
Logitech S510 Keyboard
Logitech Comfort Keyboard
Logitech LX 710 Keyboard
Logitech MX 3200 Keyboard
Logitech Easy Call Keyboard
Logitech Wave Cordless Keyboard
Logitech Wave Corded Keyboard
Other keyboard/mice software
Microsoft IntelliPoint
Logitech SetPoint
External links
HIDPoint download page
Linux software |
20473778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Saint-L%C3%A9ger | Francis Saint-Léger | Francis Saint-Léger (born February 22, 1957 in Mende, Lozère) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Lozère's 1st constituency as is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement until the 2012 election, when the two Lozère constituencies were combined into one.
References
1957 births
Living people
People from Mende, Lozère
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
6904767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky%20Walker | Nicky Walker | Joseph Nicol Walker (born 29 September 1962) is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for several clubs in Scotland and England. Walker was selected for many Scotland squads during the 1990s, earning two international caps.
Football career
Club
A product of Highland League club Elgin City, Walker signed for Leicester City aged 17. He didn't settle in the Midlands though, and returned to Scotland within the year, signing for Motherwell in 1981. Two years later he signed for Rangers, where he soon established himself as their first choice goalkeeper. The arrival of Chris Woods as part of the Souness revolution meant that Walker lost his place. Walker did play in the 1987 Scottish League Cup Final against Aberdeen, which Rangers won after a penalty shoot-out, while injuries to Woods the following season also meant Walker deputised in twelve games to earn a Scottish League title medal.
Walker joined Heart of Midlothian in a £125,000 deal in 1990. His time at Tynecastle developed into a see-saw battle with Henry Smith for the starting goalkeeping role, both men earning international recognition when in the Hearts first team but enduring significant spells on the sidelines. Smith eventually won the duel and, after a loan spell with Burnley, Walker moved to Partick Thistle in 1994 in a part-exchange deal for Craig Nelson.
Firhill proved a happy home for Walker, and he enjoyed his most consistent period in the West of Glasgow. When Thistle were relegated in 1996, his form was sufficient to earn a £60,000 move to high-flying Aberdeen. He left Pittodrie in 1999 after he was supplanted by Derek Stillie, winding down his career with short spells at Ross County and Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
International
Walker earned two international caps for Scotland, making his debut in a 1–0 defeat by Germany in 1993. His only other appearance was three years later, against the United States. Walker was selected as a reserve goalkeeper in the Scotland squad for UEFA Euro 1996.
Personal life
Walker's family company is Walkers Shortbread, based in the Speyside village of Aberlour, Morayshire, in north east Scotland. He joined the firm following his retirement from football, becoming a director.
References
External links
London Hearts Profile
1962 births
Living people
Footballers from Aberdeen
Scottish footballers
Scotland international footballers
Scotland B international footballers
UEFA Euro 1996 players
Elgin City F.C. players
Leicester City F.C. players
Motherwell F.C. players
Rangers F.C. players
Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Partick Thistle F.C. players
Aberdeen F.C. players
Ross County F.C. players
Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. players
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Association football goalkeepers
Highland Football League players |
44504102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apagomerella | Apagomerella | Apagomerella is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Apagomerella dissimilis Galileo & Martins, 2005
Apagomerella versicolor (Boheman, 1859)
References
Hemilophini |
23576687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Aleynikov | Sergey Aleynikov | Sergey Aleynikov (born 1970) is a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer. Between 2009 and 2016, he was prosecuted by NY Federal and State jurisdictions for the same conduct of allegedly copying proprietary computer source code from his employer, Goldman Sachs, before joining a competing firm. His first prosecution in federal court in New York ultimately resulted in acquittal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The outcome of his second prosecution and trial in New York state court was a split verdict dismissed by court, which acquitted him on all counts. One count in that order of dismissal was later overturned by New York Court of Appeals, which took a very broad interpretation of the statute, and on recommendation of prosecutors he was sentenced to time served without punishment. The same New York Court of Appeals denied his petition to appeal on double jeopardy grounds. His story inspired Michael Lewis's bestseller Flash Boys.
Career
Around 1990, Sergey Aleynikov emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States. From 1998 to 2007, he worked at IDT Corporation, writing software to better handle high volumes of phone calls.
He authored a telecommunications patent and contributed to a number of open-source Erlang and C++ projects. He also published several Perl modules on CPAN.
Aleynikov was employed for two years, from May 2007 to June 2009, at Goldman at an ultimate salary of $400,000. He left to join Misha Malyshev's Teza Technologies, a competing high-frequency trading firm which offered to triple his pay.
In May 2010, Aleynikov founded Omnibius, LLC, a consulting services firm for financial clients.
Federal prosecution and acquittal
On July 3, 2009, he was arrested by FBI agents at Newark Liberty International Airport after Goldman raised the alarm over a suspected policy violation reported by Goldman on July 1, 2009, two days prior to his arrest. He was accused by the FBI of improperly copying computer source code that performs "sophisticated, high-speed and high-volume trades on various stock and commodity markets", as described by Goldman. The events leading to his arrest are covered by Michael Lewis in his 2014 book Flash Boys. According to Assistant United States Attorney Joseph Facciponti, "the bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.". Facciponti's words in the courtroom contradicted to what David Viniar, Goldman's CFO, said a few days later on the earnings call that the sustained losses would be "very, very immaterial". Aleynikov acknowledged downloading some source code, but maintained that his intent was to collect exclusively open-source software that is not proprietary to his then-employer.
On February 10, 2010, a 3-count indictment was handed down by a federal grand jury in Manhattan. The counts included theft of trade secrets (count 1), transportation of stolen goods (count 2), and illicit obtainment of data from a protected computer (count 3).
On July 16, 2010, Aleynikov moved to dismiss the indictment for failure to state an offense under any of the three statutes invoked: the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, the National Stolen Property Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He argued that the acts he was accused of did not constitute a crime. On September 3, 2010, the federal judge, Denise Cote, dismissed the count 3 but denied the rest of the motion.
In December 2010, Aleynikov had a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Certain trial proceedings were not public. On December 10, he was convicted of the remaining two counts, including theft of trade secrets and transportation of stolen property. Later, he was sentenced to 97 months (8 years) in prison, three years of supervised release following his prison sentence, and a $12,500 fine, despite the recommendation of the Federal Probation Service of suggesting a 24 month (2 years) sentence.
Three weeks before sentencing, Aleynikov was incarcerated on request of the government, as he was judged to be more of a after separating from his wife.
In March 2011, Aleynikov appealed the conviction, asking the Second Circuit to review the District Court's decision denying his original motion to dismiss the indictment for failure to state a claim.
On February 16, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral argument on his appeal and, later that day, unanimously ordered his conviction reversed and a judgment of acquittal entered, with opinion to follow. Aleynikov was released from custody the next morning.
On April 11, 2012, Dennis Jacobs, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, published a unanimous decision in a written opinion stating:
In the course of these events, Aleynikov has spent a year in prison for crimes he did not commit, has divorced, has lost his savings, and, according to his lawyer, "[his] life has been all but ruined" as a result.
The government did not seek reconsideration of the Second Circuit's ruling, thus ending federal action against Aleynikov.
Later, on December 18, 2012, the Congress enhanced the 1996 Economic Espionage Act, in order to cover similar acts in future rulings, in a law referred to as the "Theft of trade secrets clarification act of 2012".
NY State prosecution
Arrest, trial, and acquittal
On August 9, 2012, Aleynikov was re-arrested and charged by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., on behalf of New York State, with "unlawful use of secret scientific material" (2 counts) and "unlawful duplication of computer-related material" (1 count) based on the same conduct. The state prosecution was initiated based on a complaint signed by the same federal agent, Michael McSwain, who led the investigation underlying the failed federal prosecution. Aleynikov's lawyer, Kevin Marino, accused Goldman Sachs of being behind the government's aggressive prosecution. Marino sharply criticized the Manhattan District Attorney's office for charging Aleynikov after his federal conviction had been overturned and he had already served a year in prison:
On September 27, 2012, Aleynikov pleaded not guilty to all state charges and rejected the prosecutors' plea offer of accepting a single count offense and serving no jail time. On April 5, 2013, Aleynikov lost his motion to dismiss based on double jeopardy. In rendering the decision, New York State Supreme Court Justice Ronald Zweibel stated that Aleynikov's acquittal in federal court only precluded the federal government from retrying Aleynikov. The state of New York, as a separate sovereign, could continue pursuing charges against him.
On June 20, 2014, upon reviewing the evidence, Justice Ronald Zweibel published a 71-page opinion in which the court ruled that the FBI "did not have probable cause to arrest defendant, let alone search him or his home." The arrest was "illegal", and Aleynikov's "Fourth Amendment rights were violated as a result of a mistake of law." Besides finding that he was arrested illegally without probable cause, the court excluded the majority of evidence passed by the FBI to state prosecutors, as that property was supposed to be returned to Mr. Aleynikov upon acquittal.
On May 1, 2015, following a trial before a New York state jury, he was cleared of the unlawful computer-related material duplication charge but found guilty of one count of unlawfully using secret scientific material. The jury deadlocked on the third count. On July 6, 2015, Justice Daniel P. Conviser dismissed the two remaining charges finding that, as a matter of law, Aleynikov did not violate the statute, and no rational jury could convict him of those charges. In his opinion, he wrote:
The statute criminalizing unlawful use of secret scientific material was enacted in 1967 but rarely utilized. The word "tangible" had never been defined by the New York Penal Law or in any reported court decision involving that statute. The one reported decision in which the statute did receive legal scrutiny — People v Russo (131 Misc 2d 677 [Suffolk County Ct 1986, Copertino, J.]) — was not informative with respect to the issues here.
NY State Appeal
On April 4, 2016, almost nine months after Aleynikov was acquitted by the NY Supreme Court, the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's office filed an appeal seeking to reinstate the guilty verdict, arguing that
Defense attorney Kevin Marino denounced Mr. Vance's actions:
On January 24, 2017, Aleynikov's conviction was reinstated by the First Department of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. The appellate court found the trial court's reasoning—that an electronic copy of the code was not a "tangible" reproduction—made "little sense," as a compact disc and a thumb drive are both "unquestionably tangible." The appellate court also found that the trial court erred in concluding that Aleynikov lacked "intent to appropriate," holding that the evidence "permits a rational inference that defendant intended to exercise permanent control over the use of Goldman's source code, as opposed to a short-term borrowing." Aleynikov's lawyer has stated that he will seek "immediate leave to appeal" the decision.
In the opinion on the 330.30 motion, the trial court's judge criticized decision of the appellate court:
On April 20, 2017 New York Court of Appeals granted Aleynikov's motion to appeal the reversal decision of the intermediate New York's appellate court. The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the Appellate Division on May 3, 2018, and he was sentenced to time served. Aleynikov's lawyer, Kevin Marino, criticized the conviction, and indicated that he will appeal the outcome:
Malicious prosecution lawsuit
Aleynikov sued the FBI agents who arrested him for malicious prosecution. The judge dismissed the case with respect to Aleynikov's federal prosecution, finding that the agents were warranted in believing that Aleynikov had violated the National Stolen Property Act and the Economic Espionage Act. Aleynikov's malicious prosecution claims in connection with his prosecution in New York state court were stayed pending the District Attorney's appeal of the New York trial court's decision to set aside his conviction.
See also
United States v. Agrawal
References
External links
United States of America v. Sergey Aleynikov Complaint
Reuters Special Coverage on Sergey Aleynikov
The Guardian
Former Goldman Sachs employee charged with stealing trade secrets
Goldman grabs hi-tech hacker
Bloomberg News
Goldman Sachs Loses Grip on Its Doomsday Machine by Jonathan Weil
Ex-Goldman Programmer Described Code Downloads to FBI
What's The Deal With That Goldman Sachs Programmer? by NPR Planet Money.
Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? by Michael Lewis, VanityFair
Conviction Overturned & Complete Acquittal
Acquittal Order
Ex-Goldman programmer's conviction overturned
Court overturns conviction of ex-Goldman's programmer
Goldman secrets
Computer programmers
Living people
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Soviet emigrants to the United States
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Russian businesspeople in the United States
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20473787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravensworth%20%28plantation%29 | Ravensworth (plantation) | Ravensworth was an 18th-century plantation house near Annandale in Fairfax County, Virginia. Ravensworth was the Northern Virginia residence of William Fitzhugh, William Henry Fitzhugh, Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee and George Washington Custis Lee. It was built in 1796.
Location
Ravensworth was located near Annandale, Virginia, south of Braddock Road, west of the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495).
History
Ravensworth was one of three mansions built on the large Ravensworth land grant; the other two were Ossian Hall and Oak Hill. William Fitzhugh, who owned significant estates in northern Virginia and also served in the Continental Congress and both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, was buried there in 1809. William Fitzhugh also had a townhouse in Alexandria at 607 Oronoco Street in 1799, which his family – in 1818 – lent to their cousin, Anne Hill Carter Lee, widow of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, and her eleven-year-old son, Robert Edward. Eleven years later, on 26 July 1829, Anne Hill Carter Lee died at Ravensworth.
Ravensworth then passed to Fitzhugh's son William Henry Fitzhugh, who died in 1830. William Henry Fitzhugh's childless widow, Anna Maria Sarah Goldsborough Fitzhugh, ran the estate until her death in 1874.
William Fitzhugh and Ann Bolling Randolph's daughter Mary Lee Fitzhugh married George Washington Parke Custis (Martha Washington's grandson) and became the mistress of Arlington House. Their grandson, Confederate general William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, inherited Ravensworth after the death of his great-aunt and lived there from 1874 until his death in 1891. In 1897 George Washington Custis Lee moved to Ravensworth after resigning as president of Washington and Lee University and lived there until his death in 1913.
When Mary Anna Custis Lee fled Arlington House in May 1861 after the outbreak of the Civil War, she stayed at Ravensworth briefly, but then moved further south for fear of inviting damage to the home. Both Union and Confederate forces took advantage of resources and location at Ravensworth; during 1863, in addition to Union forces foraging hay, partisan forces commanded by John S. Mosby once slept in a haystack there and at daybreak discovered they were in full view of a Union encampment. All three of the Fitzhugh estates were protected by orders from both sides throughout the war.
The house mysteriously burned on 1 August 1926.
In 1957, Dr. George Bolling Lee's widow sold the estate for development. That same year the remains from the Fitzhugh family cemetery, including those of William Fitzhugh and his wife, were removed and reinterred at the cemetery of Pohick Church in Lorton. The grounds later became the Ravensworth Farm subdivision, which today is a census-designated place also called Ravensworth. The locality's population as of the 2010 census was 2,466.
See also
Historic houses in Virginia
References
1796 establishments in Virginia
1926 disestablishments in Virginia
1926 fires in the United States
Annandale, Virginia
Buildings and structures demolished in 1926
Burned houses in the United States
Colonial architecture in Virginia
Custis family residences
Fitzhugh family residences
History of Virginia
Houses completed in 1796
Houses in Fairfax County, Virginia
Landmarks in Virginia
Lee family residences
Plantation houses in Virginia |
6904775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeling%20%28book%29 | Reeling (book) | Reeling is Pauline Kael's fifth collection of movie reviews, covering the years 1972 through 1975. First published in 1976 by Little Brown, the book is largely composed of movie reviews, ranging from her famous review of Last Tango in Paris to her review of A Woman Under the Influence, but it also contains a longer essay entitled "On the Future of Movies" as well as a book review of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, by fellow The New Yorker dance critic Arlene Croce. In 2010, four film critics polled by the British Film Institute listed Reeling among their favorite books related to cinema.
Reeling is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
References
1976 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
Little, Brown and Company books |
23576690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichocentrum%20microchilum | Trichocentrum microchilum | Trichocentrum microchilum is a species of orchid found from Mexico (Chiapas) to El Salvador.
References
External links
microchilum
Orchids of Chiapas
Orchids of El Salvador |
44504114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apagomerina | Apagomerina | Apagomerina is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Apagomerina apicalis Galileo & Martins, 2001
Apagomerina azurescens (Bates, 1881)
Apagomerina diadela Martins & Galileo, 1996
Apagomerina erythronota (Lane, 1970)
Apagomerina faceta Martins & Galileo, 2007
Apagomerina flava Galileo & Martins, 1989
Apagomerina gigas Martins & Galileo, 2007
Apagomerina ignea Martins & Galileo, 1996
Apagomerina jucunda Martins & Galileo, 1984
Apagomerina lampyroides Martins & Galileo, 2007
Apagomerina lepida Martins & Galileo, 1996
Apagomerina odettae Martins & Galileo, 2007
Apagomerina rubricollis Galileo & Martins, 1992
Apagomerina subtilis Martins & Galileo, 1996
Apagomerina unica Martins & Galileo, 1996
Apagomerina utiariti Galileo & Martins, 1989
References
Hemilophini |
20473788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Vercamer | Francis Vercamer | Francis Vercamer (born May 10, 1958, in Lille, Nord) is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (as part of the Centrists) who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2002 until 2020, representing the Nord department, He is also the mayor of Hem, Nord.
Political career
During his time in parliament, Vercamer served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs (2002-2010), the Committee on Social Affairs (2010-2020), and the Committee on European Affairs (2009-2012).
References
1958 births
Living people
Politicians from Lille
Union for French Democracy politicians
The Centrists politicians
Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians |
23576694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Small%20Cap%20Completeness%20Index | Russell Small Cap Completeness Index | The Russell Small Cap Completeness Index measures the performance of the companies in the Russell 3000 Index excluding the companies in the S&P 500. , the index contains 2,561 holdings. It provides a performance standard for active money managers seeking a liquid extended benchmark, and can be used for a passive investment strategy in the extended market. Weighted average market capitalization is approximately $15.4 billion.
The index, which was launched on April 1, 2000, is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. Its ticker symbol is ^RSCC.
Top 10 holdings
Square Inc. ()
Uber Technologies ()
Zoom Video Communications ()
Twilio Inc. ()
Moderna ()
Workday Inc. ()
DocuSign ()
Veeva Systems ()
Lululemon Athletica ()
Roku Inc. ()
()
Top sectors by weight
Financial Services
Consumer Discretionary
Technology
Producer Durables
Health Care
See also
Russell Indexes
Russell 2500 Index
Wilshire 4500
References
External links
Russell Index Fact Sheet
Yahoo! Finance page for ^RSCC
American stock market indices |
17336491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20history%20of%20the%20British%20Isles | Genetic history of the British Isles | The genetic history of the British Isles is the subject of research within the larger field of human population genetics. It has developed in parallel with DNA testing technologies capable of identifying genetic similarities and differences between both modern and ancient populations. The conclusions of population genetics regarding the British Isles in turn draw upon and contribute to the larger field of understanding the history of the human occupation of the area, complementing work in linguistics, archaeology, history and genealogy.
Research concerning the most important routes of migration into the British Isles is the subject of debate. Apart from the most obvious route across the narrowest point of the English Channel into Kent, other routes may have been important over the millennia, including a land bridge in the Mesolithic period, as well as maritime connections along the Atlantic coasts.
The periods of the most important migrations are contested. The Neolithic introduction of farming technologies from Europe is frequently proposed as a period of major change in the British Isles. Such technology could either have been learned by locals from a small number of immigrants or have been introduced by colonists who significantly changed the population.
Other potentially important historical periods of migration that have been subject to consideration in this field include the introduction of Celtic languages and technologies (during the Bronze and Iron Ages), the Roman era, the period of Anglo-Saxon influx, the Viking era, the Norman invasion of 1066, and the era of the European wars of religion.
History of research
Early studies by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza used polymorphisms from proteins found within human blood (such as the ABO blood groups, Rhesus blood antigens, HLA loci, immunoglobulins, G6PD isoenzymes, amongst others). One of the lasting proposals of this study with regards to Europe is that within most of the continent the majority of genetic diversity may best be explained by immigration coming from the southeast towards the northwest or in other words from the Middle East towards Britain and Ireland. Cavalli-Sforza proposed at the time that the invention of agriculture might be the best explanation for this.
With the advent of DNA analysis modern populations were sampled for mitochondrial DNA to study the female line of descent and Y chromosome DNA to study male descent. As opposed to large scale sampling within the autosomal DNA, Y DNA and mitochondrial DNA represent specific types of genetic descent and can therefore reflect only particular aspects of past human movement. Later projects began to use autosomal DNA to gather a more complete picture of an individual's genome. For Britain, major research projects aimed at collecting data include the Oxford Genetic Atlas Project (OGAP) and more recently the People of the British Isles, also associated with Oxford.
Owing to the difficulty of modelling the contributions of historical migration events to modern populations based purely on modern genetic data, such studies often varied significantly in their conclusions. One early Y DNA study estimated a complete genetic replacement by the Anglo-Saxons, whilst another argued that it was impossible to distinguish between the contributions of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings and that the contribution of the latter may even have been higher. A third study argued that there was no Viking influence on British populations at all outside Orkney. Stephen Oppenheimer and Bryan Sykes, meanwhile, claimed that the majority of the DNA in the British Isles had originated from a prehistoric migration from the Iberian peninsula and that subsequent invasions had had little genetic input.
In the last decade, improved technologies for extracting ancient DNA have allowed researchers to study the genetic impacts of these migrations in more detail. This led to Oppenheimer and Sykes' conclusions about the origins of the British being seriously challenged, since later research demonstrated that the majority of the DNA of much of continental Europe, including Britain and Ireland, is ultimately derived from Steppe invaders from the east rather than Iberia. This research has also suggested that subsequent migrations, such as that of the Anglo-Saxons, did have large genetic effects (though these effects varied from place to place).
Analyses of nuclear and ancient DNA
Paleolithic
After the Last Glacial Maximum, there is evidence of repopulation of Britain and Ireland during the late Upper Paleolithic from c. 13,500 BCE. Human skeletal remains from this period are rare. They include a female from Gough’s Cave, an individual who is genetically similar to the c. 15,000 year old individual ('Goyet-Q2') from Goyet Caves, Belgium. The female from Gough’s Cave carried mtDNA U8a, which is found in several individuals of the Magdalenian culture in Europe, but not in any other early ancient individuals from Britain. A second individual from Kendrick's Cave, a c. 12,000 BCE male, was found to be genetically similar to the Villabruna cluster, also known as Western Hunter-Gatherer ancestry. This ancestry is found in later British Mesolithic individuals. The Kendrick’s Cave individual's mtDNA U5a2 is also found in several British Mesolithic samples.
Mesolithic population
Mesolithic Britons were closely related to other Mesolithic people throughout Western Europe. This population probably had pale-coloured eyes, lactose intolerance, dark curly or wavy hair and dark to very dark skin.
Continental Neolithic farmers
The change to the Neolithic in the British Isles () went along with a significant population shift. Neolithic individuals were close to Iberian and Central European Early and Middle Neolithic populations, modelled as having about 75% ancestry from Anatolian farmers with the rest coming from Western Hunter-Gatherers (WHG) in continental Europe. This suggests that farming was brought to the British Isles by sea from north-west mainland Europe, by a population that was, or became in succeeding generations, relatively large. In some regions, British Neolithic individuals had a small amount (about 10%) of WHG excess ancestry when compared with Iberian Early Neolithic farmers, suggesting that there was an additional gene flow from British Mesolithic hunter-gatherers into the newly arrived farmer population: while Neolithic individuals from Wales have no detectable admixture of local Western hunter-gatherer genes, those from South East England and Scotland show the highest additional admixture of local WHG genes, and those from South-West and Central England are intermediate.
Bronze Age European Bell Beaker People
According to Olalde et al. (2018), the spread of the Bell Beaker culture to Britain from the lower Rhine area in the early Bronze Age introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry, resulting in a near-complete change of the local gene pool within a few centuries, replacing about 90% of the local Neolithic-derived lineages between 2,400 BC and 2,000 BC. These people exhibiting the Beaker culture were likely an offshoot of the Corded Ware culture, as they had little genetic affinity to the Iberian Beaker people. With the large steppe-derived component, they had a smaller proportion of continental Neolithic and Western Hunter Gatherer DNA. The Modern British and Irish likely derive most of their ancestry from this Beaker culture population. According to geneticist David Reich, southern Britain saw an increase in Neolithic DNA around the Iron Age to the Roman Period, which may be attributable to a resurgence of the native Neolithic-derived population or to Celtic Iron Age or Roman period migrations.
An earlier study had estimated that the modern English population derived somewhat just over half of their ancestry from a combination of Neolithic and Western Hunter Gatherer ancestry, with the steppe-derived (Yamnaya-like) element making up the remainder. Scotland was found to have both more Steppe and more Western Hunter Gatherer ancestry than England. These proportions are similar to other Northwest European populations.
Anglo-Saxons
Researchers have used ancient DNA to determine the nature of the Anglo-Saxon settlement, as well as its impact on modern populations in the British Isles.
One 2016 study, using Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon era DNA found at grave sites in Cambridgeshire, calculated that ten modern-day eastern English samples had 38% Anglo-Saxon ancestry on average whilst ten Welsh and Scottish samples each had 30% Anglo-Saxon ancestry, with a large statistical spread in all cases. However, the authors noted that the similarity observed between the various sample groups was possibly due to more recent internal migration.
Another 2016 study conducted using evidence from burials found in northern England found that a significant genetic difference was present in bodies from the Iron Age and the Roman period on the one hand and the Anglo-Saxon period on the other. Samples from modern-day Wales were found to be similar to those from the Iron Age and Roman burials whilst samples from much of modern England, East Anglia in particular, were closer to the Anglo-Saxon-era burial. This was found to demonstrate a "profound impact" from the Anglo-Saxon migrations on the modern English gene pool, though no specific percentages were given in the study.
A third study combined the ancient data from both of the preceding studies and compared it to a large number of modern samples from across Britain and Ireland. This study concluded that modern southern, central and eastern English populations were of "a predominantly Anglo-Saxon-like ancestry" whilst those from northern and southwestern England had a greater degree of indigenous origin.
A 2022 study focusing specifically on the question of the Anglo-Saxon settlement sampled 460 northwestern European individuals dated to the medieval period. The study concluded that in eastern England, large-scale immigration, including both men and women, occurred in the post-Roman era, with up to 76% of the ancestry of these individuals deriving from the North Sea coast area of continental Europe. The authors also noted that while a large proportion of the ancestry of the present-day English derives from the Anglo-Saxon migration event, it has been diluted by later migration from a population source similar to that of Iron Age France.
Vikings
Historical and toponymic evidence suggests a substantial Viking migration to many parts of northern Britain; however, particularly in the case of the Danish settlers, differentiating their genetic contribution to modern populations from that of the Anglo-Saxons has posed difficulties.
A study published in 2020, which used ancient DNA from across the Viking world in addition to modern data, noted that ancient samples from Denmark showed similarities to samples from both modern Denmark and modern England. Whilst most of this similarity was attributed to the earlier settlement of the Anglo-Saxons, the authors of the study noted that British populations also carried a small amount of "Swedish-like" ancestry that was present in the Danish Vikings but unlikely to have been associated with the Anglo-Saxons. From this, it was calculated that the modern English population has approximately 6% Danish Viking ancestry, with Scottish and Irish populations having up to 16%. Additionally, populations from all areas of Britain and Ireland were found to have 3–4% Norwegian Viking ancestry.
Irish populations
A 2015 study using data from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages showed a considerable genetic difference between individuals during the two periods, which was interpreted as being the result of a migration from the Pontic steppes. The individuals from the latter period, with significant steppe ancestry, showed strong similarities to modern Irish population groups. The study concluded that "these findings together suggest the establishment of central aspects of the Irish genome 4,000 years ago."
Another study, using modern autosomal data, found a large degree of genetic similarity between populations from northeastern Ireland, southern Scotland and Cumbria. This was interpreted as reflecting the legacy of the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century.
Haplogroups
Mitochondrial DNA
Bryan Sykes broke mitochondrial results into twelve haplogroups for various regions of the isles:
Haplogroup H
Haplogroup I
Haplogroup J
Haplogroup T
Haplogroup V
Haplogroup W
Haplogroup X
Haplogroup U
...and within U...
Haplogroup U2
Haplogroup U3
Haplogroup U4
Haplogroup U5
Sykes found that the maternal haplogroup pattern was similar throughout England but with a distinct trend from east and north to west and south. Minor haplogroups were mainly found in the east of England. Sykes found Haplogroup H to be dominant in Ireland and Wales, though a few differences were found between north, mid and south Wales—there was a closer link between north and mid-Wales than either had with the south.
Studies of ancient DNA have demonstrated that ancient Britons and Anglo-Saxon settlers carried a variety of mtDNA haplogroups, though type H was common in both.
Y chromosome DNA
Sykes also designated five main Y-DNA haplogroups for various regions of Britain and Ireland.
Haplogroup R1b
Haplogroup R1a
Haplogroup I
Haplogroup E1b1b
Haplogroup J
Haplogroup R1b is dominant throughout Western Europe. While it was once seen as a lineage connecting Britain and Ireland to Iberia, where it is also common, it is now believed that both R1b and R1a entered Europe with Indo-European migrants likely originating around the Black Sea; R1a and R1b are now the most common haplotypes in Europe.
One common R1b subclade in Britain is R1b-U106, which reaches its highest frequencies in North Sea areas such as southern and eastern England, the Netherlands and Denmark. Due to its distribution, this subclade is often associated with the Anglo-Saxon migrations. Ancient DNA has shown that it was also present in Roman Britain, possibly among descendants of Germanic mercenaries.
Ireland, Scotland, Wales and northwestern England are dominated by R1b-L21, which is also found in northwestern France (Brittany), the north coast of Spain (Galicia), and western Norway. This lineage is often associated with the historic Celts, as most of the regions where it is predominant have had a significant Celtic language presence into the modern period and associate with a Celtic cultural identity in the present day. It was also present among Celtic Britons in eastern England prior to the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions, as well as Roman soldiers in York who were of native descent.
There are various smaller and geographically well-defined Y-DNA Haplogroups under R1b in Western Europe.
Haplogroup R1a, a close cousin of R1b, is most common in Eastern Europe. In Britain, it has been linked to Scandinavian immigration during periods of Viking settlement. 25% of men in Norway belong to this haplogroup; it is much more common in Norway than in the rest of Scandinavia. Around 9% of all Scottish men belong to the Norwegian R1a subclade, which peaks at over 30% in Shetland and Orkney.
Haplogroup I is a grouping of several quite distantly related lineages. Within Britain, the most common subclade is I1, which also occurs frequently in northwestern continental Europe and southern Scandinavia, and has thus been associated with the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. An Anglo-Saxon male from northern England who died between the seventh and tenth centuries was determined to have belonged to haplogroup I1.
Haplogroups E1b1b and J in Europe are regarded as markers of Neolithic movements from the Middle East to Southern Europe and likely to Northern Europe from there. These haplogroups are found most often in Southern Europe and North Africa. Both are rare in Northern Europe; E1b1b is found in 1% of Norwegian men, 1.5% of Scottish, 2% of English, 2.5% of Danish, 3% of Swedish and 5.5% of German. It reaches its peak in Europe in Kosovo at 47.5% and Greece at 30%.
Uncommon Y haplogroups
Geneticists have found that seven men with the surname Revis, which originates in Yorkshire, carry a genetic signature previously found only in people of West African origin. All of the men belonged to Haplogroup A1a (M31), a subclade of Haplogroup A which geneticists believe originated in Eastern or Southern Africa. The men are not regarded as phenotypically African and there are no documents, anecdotal evidence or oral traditions suggesting that the Revis family has African ancestry. It has been conjectured that the presence of this haplogroup may date from the Roman era when both Africans and Romans of African descent are known to have settled in Britain. According to Bryan Sykes, "although the Romans ruled from AD 43 until 410, they left a tiny genetic footprint." The genetics of some visibly white (European) people in England suggests that they are "descended from north African, Middle Eastern and Roman clans".
Geneticists have shown that former American president Thomas Jefferson, who might have been of Welsh descent, along with two other British men out of 85 British men with the surname Jefferson, carry the rare Y chromosome marker T (formerly called K2). This is typically found in East Africa and the Middle East. Haplogroup T is extremely rare in Europe but phylogenetic network analysis of its Y-STR (short tandem repeat) haplotype shows that it is most closely related to an Egyptian T haplotype, but the presence of scattered and diverse European haplotypes within the network is nonetheless consistent with Jefferson's patrilineage belonging to an ancient and rare indigenous European type.
See also
Prehistoric Britain
Historical immigration to Great Britain
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
Nordic migration to Britain
List of haplogroups of historical and famous figures
Other locations:
Genetic history of the Middle East
Genetic history of indigenous peoples of the Americas
Genetic history of Europe
Genetic history of Italy
Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia
References
Bibliography
Further reading
Gretzinger, J., Sayer, D., Justeau, P. et al. "The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool". In: Nature (21 September 2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2
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Malmström et al. 2009
Mithen, Steven 2003. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC. Phoenix (Orion Books Ltd.), London.
Patterson, N., Isakov, M., Booth, T. et al. "Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age". Nature (2021). Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age
Stringer, Chris. 2006. Homo Britannicus. Penguin Books Ltd., London. .
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