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26721212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoglutamine | Isoglutamine | Isoglutamine or α-glutamine is a gamma amino acid derived from glutamic acid by substituting the carboxyl group in position 1 with an amide group. This is in contrast to the proteinogenic amino acid glutamine, which is the 5-amide of glutamic acid.
Isoglutamine can form the C-terminus of a peptide chain, as in muramyl dipeptide (MDP), a constituent of bacterial cell walls. It can also occur inside a peptide chain, in which case the chain is continued at the carboxyl group and isoglutamine behaves as a γ-amino acid, as in mifamurtide, a synthetic derivative of MDP used to treat osteosarcoma.
Stereochemistry
Substituting -glutamic acid, the proteinogenic enantiomer, gives -isoglutamine, which has S configuration. -Isoglutamine, the derivative of the nonproteinogenic -glutamic acid, has R configuration. The latter is the form occurring in MDP and mifamurtide.
References
Amino acids |
26721219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Powles | John Powles | John Powles (1948 – March 14, 2010) was the Canadian president of the Canada-Japan Society and an important figure within Canadian-Japanese relations for more than 25 years.
John Mark Powles was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but moved to Yokohama, Japan, early in life. His father and grandfather were Anglican missionaries in Japan during the early 20th century. He spent 18 years living in several different Japanese cities.
He returned to Canada for college and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. Powles took several positions while working for the government of Canada in Japan, beginning with the Canadian pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka. This led to a position with the Canadian Department of Expositions, in which Powles was responsible for all of Canada's international expositions.
Powles became the Director of Asia and Japan Operations for the Council of Forest Industries, based in Tokyo, in 1987. He also received the president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan. The Japanese Ministry of Construction awarded Powles its first honor to a non-Japanese citizen.
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell appointed Powles as the head of the Japan Market Advisory Group within the Asia Pacific Trade Council in 2005.
Japanese Emperor Akihito named Powles as a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun in 2008 for his contributions to bilateral relations between Japan and Canada.
John Powles died at Lions Gate Hospital in Vancouver on March 14, 2010, of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
References
1948 births
2010 deaths
University of British Columbia alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
Canada–Japan relations
Canadian Anglicans
People from Winnipeg
People from Yokohama
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Deaths from cancer in British Columbia |
26721226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Bryant | Edwin Bryant | Edwin Bryant may refer to:
Edwin Bryant (alcalde) (1805–1869), second alcalde of San Francisco, American newspaper editor and author of What I Saw in California
Edwin Bryant (author) (born 1957), American Indologist
Edwin Bryant (cricketer) (1886–1948), English cricketer
Edwin E. Bryant (1835–1903), American lawyer and politician
See also
Edward Bryant (1945–2017), American science fiction and horror writer |
26721237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockerston%20Hall | Stockerston Hall | Stockerston Hall is a late-18th-century English country house in Leicestershire, near the town of Uppingham, Rutland. It is a Grade II listed building.
The Manor of Stockerston was owned by the Boyville family in the 15th century and passed by marriage to Sothill and then to Drury. It was sold by Henry Drury in 1580 to John Burton of Braunston, whose son was the first of the Burton baronets of Stockerston. In 1633, Sir Thomas Burton Bt was High Sheriff of Leicestershire and in 1682 Sir Thomas Burton Bt had the same honour.
The Burtons were impoverished by the English Civil War and sold the estate to Sir Charles Dunscombe in about 1685. The Dunscombes demolished the old manor house in about 1797 and built the present Georgian style mansion upon its foundations in about 1800. The attractive red brick and stone dressed entrance front of five bays has a central Tuscan order porch.
The house was sold by Dunscombe in about 1807 and a number of owners and tenants followed including Walker, Bellairs, Fenwicke, Stevenson and from 1930 Whitgreave. By 1954 it was the residence of John A. F. March Phillipps de Lisle, High Sheriff of Leicestershire who was succeeded by his son Everard, also high sheriff in 1974. The house and estate were sold following the latter's death in 2003.
References
Grade II listed buildings in Leicestershire
Country houses in Leicestershire
History of Leicestershire |
26721246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Italian%20Senate%20election%20in%20Lombardy | 2001 Italian Senate election in Lombardy | Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on May 13, 2001. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2001 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.
The election was won by the centre-right coalition called House of Freedoms, as it happened at the national level. The House was a new alliance formed for Lombard regional election of 2000 between political giants Pole of Freedoms and Lega Nord. All provinces gave a majority or a plurality to the new Prime Minister of Italy.
Background
Silvio Berlusconi was the largely predicted winner of this election. He had a complete victory during the 1999 European election and, more, he strengthened his position with the alliance between his Pole of Freedoms and his former rivals of Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord, forming the House of Freedoms for the 2000 regional election which gave him a landslide victory. In this context, the majoritarian system was ensuring him a literal triumph in Lombardy.
On the other side, The Olive Tree was coming from five years of troubled government, with three different Prime Ministers, and divisions between member parties obliged to give a nomination to a fourth man, Francesco Rutelli.
Electoral system
The intricate electoral system introduced in 1993, called Mattarella Law, provided 75% of the seats in the Senate as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned by a special proportional method that actually assigned the remaining seats to minority parties.
Formally this was an example of Additional member system.
Results
|-
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9"
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Coalition
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|votes (%)
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|seats
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Party
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|seats
!rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top"|change
|-
!rowspan="5" align="left" valign="top"|House of Freedoms
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2,557,622
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|44.8
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|33
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|valign="top"|15
|valign="top"|+5
|-
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|valign="top"|9
|valign="top"|-2
|-
|align="left"|National Alliance
|valign="top"|7
|valign="top"|+2
|-
|align="left"|Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
|valign="top"|1
|valign="top"|+1
|-
|align="left"|Italian Republican Party
|valign="top"|1
|valign="top"|=
|-
!rowspan="4" align="left" valign="top"|The Olive Tree
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|1,924,113
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|33.7
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|11
|align="left"|Democrats of the Left
|valign="top"|4
|valign="top"|-8
|-
|align="left"|Democracy is Freedom
|valign="top"|4
|valign="top"|-1
|-
|align="left"|Federation of the Greens
|valign="top"|2
|valign="top"|=
|-
|align="left"|Party of Italian Communists
|valign="top"|1
|valign="top"|+1
|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|308,559
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|5.4
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|1
|align="left"|Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda
|valign="top"|1
|valign="top"|+1
|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Communist Refoundation Party
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|279,152
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|4.9
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|1
|align="left"|Communist Refoundation Party
|valign="top"|1
|valign="top"|=
|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Italy of Values
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|180,828
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|3.2
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|1
|align="left"|Italy of Values
|valign="top"|1
|valign="top"|+1
|-
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Others
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|459,023
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|8.0
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|-
|align="left"|Others
|valign="top"|-
|valign="top"|-
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9"
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Total coalitions
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|5,709,297
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|100.0
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|47
!rowspan="1" align="left" valign="top"|Total parties
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|47
!rowspan="1" align="right" valign="top"|=
|}
Sources: Italian Senate
Constituencies
|-
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9"
!align="left" valign="top"|N°
!align="center" valign="top"|Constituency
!align="center" valign="top"|Winner
!align="center" valign="top"|Alliance
!align="center" valign="top"|Party
!align="center" valign="top"|Votes %
!align="center" valign="top"|Losers
|-
|align="left"|1
|align="left"|Milan Central
|align="left"|Marcello Dell'Utri
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|46.1%
|align="left"|A. Onofrio (Ulivo) 30.1%
|-
|align="left"|2
|align="left"|Milan East
|align="left"|Gianpiero Cantoni
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|49.2%
|align="left"|G. Malagoli (Ulivo) 33.9%
|-
|align="left"|3
|align="left"|Milan West
|align="left"|Riccardo De Corato
|align="center"|
|align="left"|National Alliance
|align="left"|51.2%
|align="left"|F. Besostri (Ulivo) 33.2%
|-
|align="left"|4
|align="left"|Milan South
|align="left"|Raffaele Iannuzzi
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|46.3%
|align="left"|A. Duva (Ulivo) 34.0%
|-
|align="left"|5
|align="left"|Milan North
|align="left"|Sergio Travaglia
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|44.0%
|align="left"|Gianfranco Pagliarulo (Ulivo) 35.9% Luigi Malabarba (PRC) 6.8%
|-
|align="left"|6
|align="left"|Sesto San Giovanni
|align="left"|Antonio Del Pennino
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Italian Republican Party
|align="left"|42.9%
|align="left"|Antonio Pizzinato (Ulivo) 38.7%
|-
|align="left"|7
|align="left"|Lodi
|align="left"|Romano Comincioli
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|43.5%
|align="left"|Gianni Piatti (Ulivo) 36.2%
|-
|align="left"|8
|align="left"|Rozzano
|align="left"|Antonino Caruso
|align="center"|
|align="left"|National Alliance
|align="left"|46.2%
|align="left"|Ornella Piloni (Ulivo) 36.0%
|-
|align="left"|9
|align="left"|Abbiategrasso
|align="left"|Francesco Servello
|align="center"|
|align="left"|National Alliance
|align="left"|46.4%
|align="left"|G. Mainini (Ulivo) 33.0%
|-
|align="left"|10
|align="left"|Rho
|align="left"|Giuseppe Valditara
|align="center"|
|align="left"|National Alliance
|align="left"|44.2%
|align="left"|Roberto Biscardini (Ulivo) 35.3%
|-
|align="left"|11
|align="left"|Bollate
|align="left"|Cesarino Monti
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|44.5%
|align="left"|A. Pollio (Ulivo) 35.3%
|-
|align="left"|12
|align="left"|Cinisello Balsamo
|align="left"|Alberto Zorzoli
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|41.5%
|align="left"|Patrizia Toia (Ulivo) 40.6%
|-
|align="left"|13
|align="left"|Seregno
|align="left"|Enrico Rizzi
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|49.4%
|align="left"|L. Mariani (Ulivo) 29.6%
|-
|align="left"|14
|align="left"|Monza
|align="left"|Alfredo Mantica
|align="center"|
|align="left"|National Alliance
|align="left"|46.1%
|align="left"|Emanuela Baio (Ulivo) 35.4%
|-
|align="left"|15
|align="left"|Melzo
|align="left"|Luigi Scotti
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|41.5%
|align="left"|Loris Maconi (Ulivo) 38.4%
|-
|align="left"|16
|align="left"|Cologno Monzese
|align="left"|Enrico Pianetta
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|44.8%
|align="left"|Natale Ripamonti (Ulivo) 36.4%
|-
|align="left"|17
|align="left"|Varese
|align="left"|Piero Pellicini
|align="center"|
|align="left"|National Alliance
|align="left"|45.8%
|align="left"|M. Marzaro (Ulivo) 31.1%
|-
|align="left"|18
|align="left"|Gallarate
|align="left"|Luigi Peruzzotti
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|46.9%
|align="left"|M. Ampollini (Ulivo) 30.4%
|-
|align="left"|19
|align="left"|Busto Arsizio
|align="left"|Antonio Tomassini
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|46.6%
|align="left"|G. Canziani (Ulivo) 29.7%
|-
|align="left"|20
|align="left"|Como
|align="left"|Celestino Pedrazzini
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|48.4%
|align="left"|A. Rinaldi (Ulivo) 29.5%
|-
|align="left"|21
|align="left"|Cantù
|align="left"|Graziano Maffioli
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
|align="left"|45.7%
|align="left"|G. Ballabio (Ulivo) 31.0%
|-
|align="left"|22
|align="left"|Brescia
|align="left"|Paolo Guzzanti
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|42.8%
|align="left"|Pierluigi Petrini (Ulivo) 37.0%
|-
|align="left"|23
|align="left"|Lumezzane
|align="left"|Guglielmo Castagnetti
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|41.8%
|align="left"|A. Bonomelli (Ulivo) 33.6%
|-
|align="left"|24
|align="left"|Desenzano del Garda
|align="left"|Francesco Tirelli
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|44.8%
|align="left"|A. Zanelli (Ulivo) 32.5%
|-
|align="left"|25
|align="left"|Chiari
|align="left"|Sergio Agoni
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|45.7%
|align="left"|D. Buizza (Ulivo) 30.6%
|-
|align="left"|26
|align="left"|Suzzara
|align="left"|Franco Danieli
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Democracy is Freedom
|align="left"|38.6%
|align="left"|M. Pini (CdL) 37.5%
|-
|align="left"|27
|align="left"|Mantua
|align="left"|Anna Donati
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Federation of the Greens
|align="left"|42.1%
|align="left"|F. Scopelliti (CdL) 38.3%
|-
|align="left"|28
|align="left"|Cremona
|align="left"|Lamberto Grillotti
|align="center"|
|align="left"|National Alliance
|align="left"|41.8%
|align="left"|A. Rescaglio (Ulivo) 35.0%
|-
|align="left"|29
|align="left"|Pavia
|align="left"|Luigi Fabbri
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|44.8%
|align="left"|T. Montagna (Ulivo) 34.9%
|-
|align="left"|30
|align="left"|Vigevano
|align="left"|Domenico Contestabile
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|47.4%
|align="left"|M. Donato (Ulivo) 32.2%
|-
|align="left"|31
|align="left"|Bergamo
|align="left"|Vittorio Pessina
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Forza Italia
|align="left"|40.8%
|align="left"|G. Zilio (Ulivo) 33.7%
|-
|align="left"|32
|align="left"|Albino
|align="left"|Roberto Calderoli
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|44.2%
|align="left"|D. Carminati (Ulivo) 28.8% Elidio De Paoli (LAL) 11.5% Valerio Carrara (Italy of Values) 4.7%
|-
|align="left"|33
|align="left"|Treviglio
|align="left"|Ettore Pirovano
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|43.6%
|align="left"|C. Bonfichi (Ulivo) 28.4%
|-
|align="left"|34
|align="left"|Sondrio
|align="left"|Fiorello Provera
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|52.1%
|align="left"|E. Dioli (Ulivo) 28.0%
|-
|align="left"|35
|align="left"|Lecco
|align="left"|Roberto Castelli
|align="center"|
|align="left"|Lega Nord
|align="left"|41.7%
|align="left"|I. Bruseghini (Ulivo) 35.2%
|}
Additional senators
The Olive Tree Patrizia Toia (Democracy is Freedom, 40.6%)
Antonio Pizzinato (Democrats of the Left, 38.7%)
Loris Maconi (Democrats of the Left, 38.4%)
Pierluigi Petrini (Democracy is Freedom, 37.0%)
Natale Ripamonti (Federation of the Greens, 36.4%)
Gianni Piatti (Democrats of the Left, 36.2%)
Ornella Piloni (Democrats of the Left, 36.0%)
Gianfranco Pagliarulo (Party of Italian Communists, 35.9%)
Emanuela Baio (Democracy is Freedom, 35.4%)
Autonomous Lombard Alliance Elidio De Paoli (Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda, 11.5%)
Communist Refoundation Party Luigi Malabarba (Communist Refoundation Party, 6.8%)
Italy of Values'''
Valerio Carrara (Italy of Values, 4.7%)
Notes
Elections in Lombardy
2001 elections in Italy
May 2001 events in Europe |
26721251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Cameron | Lord Cameron | Lord Cameron may refer to:
John Cameron, Lord Cameron (1900–1996), Scottish judge
Kenneth Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom (born 1931), Scottish judge
Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington (born 1949), landowner and crossbench member of the House of Lords
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie (1920–1985), UK Chief of the Defence Staff 1977–79
See also
Lord Fairfax of Cameron
The White Heather, a 1919 film featuring a character Lord Angus Cameron |
17337377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madghacen | Madghacen | Madghacen (), also spelled Medracen or Medghassen or Medrassen or Madghis is a royal mausoleum-temple of the Berber Numidian Kings which stands near Batna city in Aurasius Mons in Numidia, Algeria.
History
Madghis was a king of independent kingdoms of the Numidia, between 300 and 200 BC Near the time of neighbor King Masinissa and their earliest Roman contacts.
Ibn Khaldun said: Madghis is an ancestor of the Berbers of the branch Botr Zenata, Banu Ifran, Maghrawa (Aimgharen), Marinid, Ziyyanid, and Wattasid.
Threats
As ICOMOS noted in their 2006/2007 Heritage at Risk report, the mausoleum has become "the victim of major 'repair work' without respect for the value of th[e] monument and its authenticity."
See also
List of cultural assets of Algeria
References
Further reading
Gabriel Camps, Nouvelles observations sur l'architecture et l'âge du Medracen, mausolée royal de Numidie, CRAI, 1973, 117–13, pp. 470–517.
Yvon Thébert & Filippo Coarelli, Architecture funéraire et pouvoir : réflexions sur l'hellénisme numide, MEFRA, Année 1988 * Serge Lancel, L'Algérie antique, édition Mengès, Paris 2003.
External Links
Images of Medracen in Manar al-Athar digital heritage photo archive
Batna, Algeria
Mausoleums in Algeria
Kingdom of Numidia
Berber mythology
Zenata
Buildings and structures in Batna Province
Berber architecture |
6905613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20districts%20of%20Pateros%E2%80%93Taguig | Legislative districts of Pateros–Taguig | The legislative district of Pateros–Taguig is the combined representation of the independent municipality of Pateros and eastern part of the highly urbanized city of Taguig in the Congress of the Philippines. The city and municipality are currently represented in the lower house of the Congress through their lone congressional district.
History
Areas now under the jurisdiction of Taguig and Pateros were initially represented as part of the at-large district of the province of Manila in the Malolos Congress from 1898 to 1899. Both towns were later incorporated to the province of Rizal, established in 1901, and were represented as part of the first district of Rizal from 1907 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1972. During World War II, both towns were represented as part of the at-large district of Rizal in the National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic from 1943 to 1944. Taguig and Pateros were separated from Rizal on November 7, 1975 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 824, and was represented in the Interim Batasang Pambansa along with other Metropolitan Manila municipalities and cities as part of Region IV from 1978 to 1984.
Taguig and Pateros were grouped with Muntinlupa to form a single parliamentary district which returned one representative to the Regular Batasang Pambansa in 1984. Taguig and Pateros formed one congressional district under the new Constitution proclaimed on February 11, 1987; it elected its member to the restored House of Representatives starting that same year.
The western area of Taguig, coterminous with the Second Councilor District of Taguig (for the purpose of electing municipal, now city, council members), was separated to form a separate congressional district by virtue of Republic Act No. 8487, the law which converted Taguig into a highly urbanized city. Despite being enacted by Congress on February 11, 1998, the said law only took effect on December 8, 2004 after the Commission on Elections issued a resolution confirming that the affirmative votes for cityhood prevailed in the ballot recount. This new district first elected its separate representative in the 2007 general elections.
There remains an unresolved dispute over which city has jurisdiction over lands encompassed within the former Fort McKinley U.S. Military Reservation (now Fort Bonifacio and its surrounding areas). Portions of four of Taguig's barangays (Fort Bonifacio, Pinagsama, Western Bicutan, and Ususan) are claimed by the neighboring city of Makati as part of its own two barangays (Post Proper Northside and Post Proper Southside). Residents of areas where Taguig exercise de facto control vote as part of its second congressional district except for areas under barangay Ususan, which is part of Taguig's 1st district, while residents of areas where Makati exercises de facto control vote as part of its second congressional district.
Current districts
Historical districts
See also
Legislative districts of Taguig
References
Pateros-Taguig
Pateros-Taguig
Politics of Taguig |
26721291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20%28company%29 | Dana (company) | Dana, proizvodnja in prodaja pijač (English: Dana, the manufacture and sale of drinks) is a major Slovenian manufacturer of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. It is located in the village of Mirna in southeastern Slovenia.
The company was established as a work organization in 1952. The brand Dana was registered in 1955. At first, the company produced only alcoholic beverages. After 1970, the program was expanded with the non-alcohol beverages. Since 2005, Dana has made the majority of profit with its high-quality natural mineral water Dana. In July 2012, the company was transformed from a joint-stock company to a limited liability company. It changed its name from Dana, tovarna rastlinskih specialitet in destilacija, d.d. (English: Dana, the plant specialties factory and distillation) to Dana, proizvodnja in prodaja pijač, d.o.o. (English: Dana, the manufacture and sale of drinks).
In 2000, Dana was ISO 9001 certified. In 2009, it obtained the International Food Standard (IFS) certificate.
References
External links
Dana Homepage
Drink companies of Slovenia
Bottled water brands
Slovenian brands
Distilleries
Alcoholic drink companies
Food and drink companies established in 1952
Mirna, Mirna
1952 establishments in Slovenia |
26721308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Students%20Against%20Poverty | Society of Students Against Poverty | Society of Students Against Poverty (Imam Ali's Popular Students Relief Society), (, Jameeat-e-Imam Ali) is the first nonpartisan, student NGO in Iran founded in 1999 and has its first official office in Sharif University in 2000.
The major activities are social problems, especially about children. Since 2010 the NGO is a member of United Nations Economic and Social Council.
The founder of the Imam Ali's Popular Students Relief Society Sharmin Meymandi Nejad, is the initiator of Intelligent Charity.
Intelligent Charity Organization means an organization in which all the members are like a body, they evaluate the circumstances especially in social problems and present solutions in every case. Solutions are given by the university students that have expert and knowledge in that case. The solutions are based on students’ theory and domain researches and make program and schedules.
Activity fields of this community mostly deal with children related topics, such as orphan children, runaway children, Juvenile delinquency, child labor, sick children and also with poor families (mostly because of their children)
Committees
Health Committee: both prevention and cure for the families under control.
Social Committee: dealing with family pathology like child harassment, selling children, family addiction...
Education Committee: educating and cheering children, and helping the best of them in their supplemental education.
Culture and art Committee: improving the cultural level of the children and families
Employment Committee: Finding job opportunities and making employment for family members
Major organization’s programs
Rahyaft-e-Darooni
Sharmin is the professor of organization's tutorial classes called “Rahyaft”. Syllabuses of this class are:
1. Theology
Bases and origins of all of world's live religions.
2. Linguistics
The origin of different languages, comparison of eastern and western languages, and the effect of the language on the way we think.
3. Symbols
Is it possible if we stop word-thinking and begin to concentrate our attention to the symbols and concepts?
4. Personal and collective unconscious
5. Healing methods
6. NLP (Neural Linguistic Planning)
7. Cosmology
Origin and initiation of the world in accordance to religions and science.
8. Meditation, TM and Relaxation
9. Yoga
10. Sum up and conclusion
In most of these syllabuses, the presented material include contents that are presented for the first time and most of the theoretical subjects are novel ones. That is why these classes have met great popularity and active participation from university students.
Koochegardan-e-Ashegh
Koochegardan is the most famous activity of the organization. This national-religious ceremony, runs every Ramadan.
In this program, students gather needful materials for the poor families from their universities. And on the 21st night of Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Power, or Decree) and the night of the martyrdom of Imam Ali, they give all the gathered materials to the needy people.
Koochegardan started in 1999 in Tehran and continued to this date. The latest Koochegardan took place in October 2006, in Tehran, Kermanshah, Zanjan, Zabol,...
The 2006 program gave away about 5000 packages of materials.
Each package contains objects like:
Rice, sugar, fish tuna, chicken or meat, tea, lentil, cheese, date, honey, macaroni...
Iran Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei at the speech of Eid ul-Fitr named this activity and praised their effort .
The 1st Cancer seminar (about children)
The seminar took place in Sharif University, Shahid Beheshti University and The Dialogue Between Civilizations Center, for 5 days in 1999.
Children of love festival (Jashnvare Farzandan-e-Mehr)
The festival consisted of three sections: short films, movie dramas and theater.
All of the performances dealt with social and humanitarian problems. There were also some groups of behzisti children performing alongside professional ones.
Sharif University, Amirkabir University of Technology, Allame Tabatabaie university, Jahad Daneshgahi and Alzahra University, were the hosts of the festival in 1999.
Birth of Jesus Christ ceremony (Jashn-e-Milad-e-Masih)
In January 2000, and 2001, the organization celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ with attendance of Christian members and with the purpose of respecting the love of Jesus Christ toward human being and also to emphasis on organization's view toward all religions’ objectives, which is to love people and make a better society.
On December 22, 2006, the ceremony took place again. Father Kishishian and Sharmin Meymandi Nejad gave speeches on Christianity and Islam and the religious part in helping people.
Iran 1130
Iran 1130, is a plan to make the candidates of Iranian presidential election, build a village in their election campaigns instead of heavily spending on paper ads and the like.
Some of the 2005 candidates showed their interest toward this plan but the complete version of it is yet to come.
Teflan-e-Moslem
According to the 2005 conference about the condition of Iranian children, held by the first big brother society, a seminar took place in Tehran Juvenile Correction & Rehabilitation Center in the holy month of Muharram in the year 2007, with the aim to free some of the children who were there because of money.
Other activities
Praying ceremonies - Street Children (The seminar in Alzahra University in March 1999) - Little teachers of love (Yadvare-e-Moalleman-e-Koochak-e-Eshgh) – Interpretation of Quran – Nurse day ceremony (in Ali Asghar Hospital) – Toy festival (one week program in Koohsangi park in Mashhad, with the assistance of Ferdowsi University of Mashad in September 2001) – Celebration of Love (Jashn-e-Mehr, in October 2001 in University of Tabriz) – Helping the people of Bam, following the earthquake - Protest against the condition of the Iraqi children during the war in April 2003, at UN center in Tehran.
External links
Website
Website of Koochegardan-e-Ashegh
Teflan-e-Moslem Weblog
An article in 40 cheragh Magazine
Koochegardan on Mizanews.com
Protest Against war's effect on Iraqi children before UN center in Tehran in Iran newspaper
Iran 1130 plan in Iran newspaper
Gathering toy for children in Iran newspaper
Koochegardan in Iran newspaper
Koochegardan in Iran newspaper
Koochegardan in Iran newspaper
Koochegardan in Iran newspaper
ISNA Photo Gallery about Koochegardan-part1
ISNA Photo Gallery about Koochegardan-part2
ISNA Photo Gallery about Koochegardan-part3
Child-related organisations in Iran
Student organisations based in Iran |
26721310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grennell | Grennell | Grennell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Airini Grennell (1910–1988), New Zealand singer, pianist, and broadcaster
Dean Grennell (1923–2004), American firearms expert and science fiction author
George Grennell Jr. (1786–1877), American politician
See also
Grinnell (surname) |
6905617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20for%20the%20Road%20%28April%20Wine%20album%29 | One for the Road (April Wine album) | One for the Road is a live album by Canadian rock band April Wine, recorded during their "One More for the Road" tour in 1984 in support of their Animal Grace (1984) album.
Track listing
All tracks written by Myles Goodwyn unless otherwise noted.
"Anything You Want, You Got It" – 4:05
"I Like to Rock" – 3:56
"All Over Town" – 3:06
"Just Between You and Me" – 3:43
"Enough is Enough" – 3:47
"This Could be the Right One" – 4:16
"Sign of the Gypsy Queen" (Lorence Hud) – 5:11
"Like a Lover, Like a Song" – 4:55
"Comin' Right Down on Top of Me"
"Rock n' Roll is a Vicious Game" – 4:56
"Roller" – 4:16
Personnel
Myles Goodwyn – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Gary Moffet – guitars, background vocals
Steve Lang – bass, background vocals
Brian Greenway – vocals, guitars
Jerry Mercer – drums
April Wine albums
Albums produced by Mike Stone (record producer)
Albums produced by Myles Goodwyn
1985 live albums
Aquarius Records (Canada) live albums
Capitol Records live albums
EMI Records live albums |
26721315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Welling | Albert Welling | Albert Welling (born 29 February 1952) is a British actor. He has appeared in a number of television series including The Line of Beauty, Cribb, Z-Cars, The Sweeney, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Bretts, Inspector Morse and A Touch of Frost.
He made his stage debut in Zigger Zagger in 1967 with the National Youth Theatre. His film credits include Backbeat, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's directorial debut Cemetery Junction and Wilde. He portrayed Adolf Hitler in an episode of Doctor Who entitled "Let's Kill Hitler". He played Max Pruss, in the documentary Hindenburg: The Untold Story.
In 2013, Albert wrote and starred in the play No Direction alongside Ronnie Toms, premiering at the Edinburgh Festival. No Direction was directed by Bob Golding and ran for the duration of the festival at Assembly Three, George Square.
References
External links
1952 births
Living people
British male television actors
British male film actors
British male stage actors
20th-century British male actors
21st-century British male actors
Male actors from London |
17337403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%3A%20Limited%20Edition%20%28Tim%20McGraw%20album%29 | Greatest Hits: Limited Edition (Tim McGraw album) | Greatest Hits: Limited Edition is a compilation of American country music artist Tim McGraw's first two greatest hits albums. Initially sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, it was released on April 29, 2008, and entered Billboard's Top Country Albums chart at #1, selling 29,000 copies in its first week of release. The album was made available at other retailers on August 26, 2008.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
2008 greatest hits albums
Tim McGraw albums
Albums produced by Byron Gallimore
Curb Records compilation albums
Albums produced by Tim McGraw |
26721361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postup | Postup | Postup is wine growing region on Croatia's Pelješac peninsula just to the east of Orebić. It takes its name from the small village that sits at the center of it.
The main grape harvested in Postup is Plavac Mali and, like the grapes from the region of nearby Dingač, the grapes grown here are held in high regard. Postup was the second Croatian wine region, after Dingač, to be registered for state protection (today Protected Geographical Status) in 1967.
Postup straddles the Adriatic Sea with views across the Pelješac Channel to the islands of Korčula and Badija as well as across the Mljet Channel to the islands of Mljet and Lastovo. The region can be accessed via the road leading from Orebić to Ston (the D414) on a smaller route leading to the villages of Borje and Podubuče.
The wines grown in Postup are typically crushed, bottled, and aged in nearby Potomje where most of the main wineries for Pelješac are located. While they don't approach the robust character typical of Plavac Mali-based wines from Dingač, they are still able to develop a fuller body than those grown in the interior due to the slope of the vineyards as well as the sunlight reflected from the Adriatic Sea. The grapes are also considerably easier to harvest than those of Dingač due to a more established infrastructure.
Notable producers of Postup region wines include: Vinarija Dingač, Bura-Mokalo, Indijan and Bartulović among others.
References
Croatian wine |
26721380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20George%20Thomas%2C%203rd%20Baronet | Sir George Thomas, 3rd Baronet | Sir George Thomas, 3rd Baronet (c. 1740 – 6 May 1815), was a British politician.
Life
Thomas was the son of Sir William Thomas, 2nd Baronet, and he succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1777.
In 1780 he create Dale Park near Madehurst by buying up separate pieces of land and joining them together into an estate. He married Sophia Montagu, daughter of Admiral John Montagu and Sophia Wroughton, on 20 December 1782. The lived in Madehurst Lodge during the 1780s whilst their new house was constructed by the architect Joseph Bonomi. The house is thought to have still been under construction in 1791.
He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain as the Member of Parliament for Arundel between 1790 and 1797.
References
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
British MPs 1790–1796
British MPs 1796–1800
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
1740s births
1815 deaths |
17337404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misari%20Regatta | Misari Regatta | Misa Regatta is a boat racing track and park located in the neighborhood of Misa-dong in Hanam City, Gyeonggi Province, in the vicinity of 20 km east of Seoul, South Korea. It was established for the rowing and canoeing competition during the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Olympics. The place has a 4.4 million square meters in total, the lake area of which covers 2,212 m in length, 140m in width and depth 3m. The area was originally a small island surrounded by sand which made its scenery as beautiful as if it were waving, so was named "Misa-ri" (sand waving) in Korean.
References
External links
Canoeing and canoodling by the waterfront at the JoongAng Daily
Sports venues in Gyeonggi Province
Sport in Gyeonggi Province
Venues of the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeing venues
Olympic rowing venues
Buildings and structures in Hanam
Venues of the 1986 Asian Games |
6905625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromore%20Central%20Primary%20School | Dromore Central Primary School | Dromore Central Primary School (colloquially referred to as "the Central") is a primary school located in Dromore, County Down, Northern Ireland. The original school building was built in 1938 and has approximately 600 pupils aged from 4–11 years in 29 classes. The schools aims "to promote the all-round development of every pupil". It is within the Southern Education and Library Board area.
The school is situated on the main Dromore to Banbridge road, only 300 yards from the Market Square.
Since 2001, the compulsory school uniform has consisted of a green pullover, a red polo-shirt and grey trousers, this replaced a brown-yellow uniform which had been worn since the 1970s.
History
The school, as it stands today and will hopefully be re used, was established in 1938 by the Down Education Authority, to replace the former Church of Ireland (Cathedral) School, which it neighboured, and the First Dromore Presbyterian Church School, as well as the Unitarian or Hunters' School. The school was extended to provide an extra block of classrooms and a dining hall with kitchen in 1979. Since, the school has seen the addition of mobile classrooms to help cope with the rising rolls. Prior to its present title, the school had been known as Dromore Public Elementary School, or simply the P.E. school.
New Building
In August 2006, the Southern Education and Library Board announced it was 'pursuing' the acquisition of a site at Mossvale Road in Dromore, for a replacement school for the over-stretched Dromore Central Primary School although for reasons rumoured to involve the site, no location has been officially selected to date. On 30 June 2007, the Tullymacarette Primary School sited 3 miles southwest of the town closed with all of its pupils being fed into Dromore Central, with the exception of those who desired to go to another school. The Dromore Town Centre Development Plan suggests that the existing site could be developed into a community centre or a hotel.
References
Dromore Central Primary School Official Website
GCS Dromore Pages
"New Home Agreed for School" - Lisburn Today
Schools Web Directory
House of Lords Hansard, November 2005
See also
List of primary schools in Northern Ireland
Primary schools in County Down
Educational institutions established in 1938
1938 establishments in Northern Ireland |
26721401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirinyaga%20Central%20Constituency | Kirinyaga Central Constituency | Kirinyaga Central Constituency, formerly known as Kerugoya/Kutus Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of four constituencies in Kirinyaga County. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections.
Members of Parliament
Wards
References
Constituencies in Kirinyaga County
Constituencies in Central Province (Kenya)
1997 establishments in Kenya
Constituencies established in 1997 |
20475657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoo%20Shoo%20Baby%20%28song%29 | Shoo Shoo Baby (song) | "Shoo Shoo Baby" is a popular song written by Phil Moore. The song was made famous by The Andrews Sisters, as they sang it in the 1943 film Three Cheers for the Boys. "Shoo, Shoo Baby" was a big hit for the trio in 1944, reaching No. 6 in the chart. Their version features a jazzy vocal pop arrangement typical of the time, with a key hook provided by the horns. It was and has appeared on many albums of 1940s music.
Other versions
Ella Mae Morse also recorded this song in 1943, with Dick Walters and His Orchestra. Released on Capitol Records, the single went to number four on the pop chart and number one on the R&B charts for 2 weeks in December 1943.
It was also recorded by Glenn Miller with vocals performed by the Crew Chiefs.
Frank Sinatra recorded the song in the 1940s.
In 1984, the Norwegian swing/pop duo Bobbysocks! covered the song on their self-titled debut LP.
The R&B girl group Mis-Teeq covered the song for the soundtrack to the Vanguard Animation film Valiant in 2005. It was the last track Mis-Teeq recorded before they split to pursue solo careers.
In popular culture
A version of the song by an uncredited male singer is played over a radio at the Heavenly trial of the airman in the 1946 film A Matter of Life and Death as a symbol of modern America.
This song was also the inspiration for the naming of the Shoo Shoo Baby, a B-17 Flying Fortress which served during World War II.
References
1943 songs
1944 singles |
20475693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderlei%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201982%29 | Vanderlei (footballer, born 1982) | Vanderlei Mascarenhas dos Santos or simply Vanderlei (born October 19, 1982) is a Brazilian footballer.
Vanderlei played for Clube Atlético Bragantino in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, scoring one goal in eight appearances.
Notes
1982 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Clube Atlético Bragantino players
C.F. Os Belenenses players
América Futebol Clube (RN) players
Association football defenders |
26721409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Baptist%20Churches%20in%20Northeast%20India | Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India | The Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India is a Baptist Christian denomination in North East India. It is a member of the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation.
It is also a member body of the North East India Christian Council, the regional council of the National Council of Churches in India. The Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India has six Baptist conventions, 1,431,417 members in 8,245 churches. Its presently led by Mr. Norbu Lama as President and Rev. Prof. Akheto Sema as General Secretary.
History
The first American Baptist missionaries reached North East India in 1836. Nathan Brown and O.T. Cutter, along with their wives, came to Assam hoping to find access to China through the Shans territory to Northern frontier of Burma and Assam. The group sailed up the Brahmaputra river and arrived in Sadiya on 23 March 1836, and there confronted them with dense jungles, hostile tribals and rugged hills. Yet, believing they had been led to a fruitful place they began to learn Assamese language, set up their printing press, and gave themselves to the task of translating, publishing and teaching. Thus began the work of the Baptist in the north-eastern corner of India-the beginning of CBCNEI.
Beginning from Sadiya, the work moved down the Brahmaputra river to the leading towns of Assam plains, for example, Sibsagar, Nowgong and Gauhati. Then the first Church in Garo Hills, was established at Rajasimla in 1867. The first thrust among the Nagas came from the small village of Namsang in Tirap.
Miles Bronson and family settled a short time in that village, but the work was abandoned due to illness in the family before the end of 1840. The next move in Nagaland was by Godhula Brown, an Assamese convert, and the Rev. Edwin W. Clark. The first Church among the Nagas was organized in 1872, at Dokhahaimong (Molungyimjen) village in Ao area. Rev. William Pettigrew started the Baptist Mission work in Manipur in 1896. The work among the (Mikirs) Karbis was started quite early but it did not gain much progress because of the influence of Hinduism among the people. So the work in this area has been restricted to the fringe areas adjoining the plains of Assam.
The field work in North-East India was largely the responsibility of the American Baptist Mission until 1950. In fact, the Mission could not handle the full obligation of the area and so in the 1940 the area on the North Bank of Brahmaputra river was handed over to the care of the Australian Baptist Mission (for Goalpara district) and to the General Baptist Conference (for Darrang and North Lakhimpur districts).
From the early days of the missions in North-East India there were joint meetings of missionaries and nationals to plan the work. In 1914, the National Churches formed themselves into Assam Baptist Convention (ABC). This organization grew in its stature, and finally in January 1950, the Council of Baptist Churches in Assam (CBCA) was formed by the amalgamation of Assam Baptist Missionary Conference under the leadership of its First General Secretary, Rev. A. F. Merrill. Later the name was changed to CBCAM, and finally, the Council of Baptist Churches in North-East India on geographical grounds. Almost all the Baptist Churches in Assam, Arunachal, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland were brought within the Council. So since the year 1950 the field works has been brought under the ministry of the Council of Baptist Churches in North East India (CBCNEI).
Over the years the CBCNEI has grown to now over 7000 Churches in 100 organized Associations. They are administered under six regional Conventions namely, Assam Baptist Convention, Arunachal Baptist Church Council (ABCC), Garo Baptist Convention (GBC), Karbi Anglong Baptist Convention (KABC), Manipur Baptist Convention (MBC), and Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC).
Member organizations
The Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India ("CBCNEI" or the "Council") is a conglomeration of Six Baptist Conventions, namely: Arunachal Baptist Churches Council, Assam Baptist Convention, Karbi Anglong Baptist Convention, Garo Baptist Convention, Manipur Baptist Convention, and Nagaland Baptist Churches Council and their Associations and Churches.
Conventions
Assam Baptist Convention
Arunachal Baptist Church Council
Garo Baptist Convention
Karbi Anglong Baptist Convention
Manipur Baptist Convention
Nagaland Baptist Church Council
Theological Colleges of CBCNEI
Eastern Theological College (ETC)
Founded in 1905 by the Rev. S.A.D. Boggs, sent by the American Baptist Mission Society now called the Board of International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches in the USA, Eastern Theological College, Jorhat, Assam celebrates 100 years of its ministry in Northeast India and hosts the Senate of Serampore Convocation on 12 February 2005. Eastern Theological College (ETC), the premier theological and training institute of the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India has been catering to the ever-growing and diverse needs of the region and even beyond in the field of leadership development for the last 100 years. Today ETC boasts of more than 2500 graduates working in various fields of Christian ministry, including more than 800 serving pastors in rural areas.
Affiliated seminaries
Baptist Theological College, Nagaland
Clark Theological College, Mokokchung, Nagaland
Harding Theological College, Tura, Garo Hills
Manipur Theological College, Kanggui, Manipur
Oriental Theological Seminary, Chümoukedima, Nagaland
Shalom Bible Seminary, Kohima, Nagaland
Trinity Theological College, Dimapur, Nagaland
Hospitals
The Council has Six hospitals which are providing healthcare to the sick and the suffering. They are located in four states in the region.
Babupara Christian Hospital, Garo Hills
Impur Christian Hospital, Nagaland
Jorhat Christian Medical Centre, Assam
Kanggui Christian Hospital, Manipur
Tura Christian Hospital, Garo Hills
Satribari Christian Hospital, Assam
Missions
Mission Desk coordinates mission activities not only of the evangelists from the conventions, but it also functions as a facilitator for mission partnerships between other mission agencies and the local church associations and conventions. The department also organizes community development works among the poor and needy areas of the Northeast region.
Conference centre
Located on the flush green cool campus of the CBCNEI, the Conference Center caters the needs of the Council’s program activities and other Christian Organization program.
Student ministry
The Council runs three hostels for college students. Through these institutions the boarders have the opportunities to attend Bible camps, vesper services, theological lectures, Bible studies, games and sports.
White Memorial Hostel Ministry
Lewis Memorial Hostel Ministry
Shillong Tyrannus Hall
Christian Literature Centre (CLC)
CLC is the literature wing, of the Council of Baptist Churches in North East India in order to cater to the needs of the churches in North East India having various languages and dialects. It was established in 1969.
CLC Guwahati
CLC Dimapur
CLC Imphal
CLC Senapati
CLC Ukhrul
Statistics
Churches and Membership figures as reported to the Baptist World Alliance as of 2016.
See also
Baptist World Alliance
Boro Baptist Church Association
Boro Baptist Convention
Rabha Baptist Church Union
List of Christian denominations in North East India
North East India Christian Council
References
External links
Site of the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India
Baptist denominations in India
Christianity in Manipur
Affiliated institutions of the National Council of Churches in India |
6905628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Metropolitan%20City%20of%20Reggio%20Calabria | List of municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria | The following is a list of the 97 municipalities (comuni) of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Reggio Calabria |
26721413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20L.%20Watson%20%28singer%29 | John L. Watson (singer) | "Mississippi" John L. Watson was an American singer who fronted English rock band The Web in the 1960s. He would later record solo in the 1970s and 80s.
History
Around 1963, Watson was a member of The Hummelflugs which later became John L. Watson & The Hummelflugs. Later on he formed the progressive rock group The Web. In their earlier days they were a soul outfit.
He left The Web after recording two albums with them, Fully Interlocking 1968 and Theraposa Blondi 1970. He was replaced by Dave Lawson.
He also recorded as a solo artist in the 1970s with the album White Hot Blue Black. Also backed by the group White Mouse, he recorded Let's Straighten It Out in 1975.
In the late 1990s Watson would go on to front The Odyssey Blues Band.
As of 2007 Watson was living in Bristol.
Watson died early in 2014.
Discography
Singles
7"
"A Mother's Love" / "Might As Well Be Gone" – Deram 285 – 1970
"Lonely For Your Love" /"Into My Life You Came" – EMI 2061 – 1973
"You're The Song" / "Let's Straighten It Out" – Spark SRL 1137 – 1975 (John L Watson & White Mouse)
12"
"Don't Blame It on Love" / "What We Need Is Truth" – Satril ST 9153 – 1985
LP
White Hot Blue Black – Deram SML-R 1061 – 1970
Let's Straighten It Out – Spark SRLP 119 – 1975
References
External links
http://www.discogs.com/artist/John+L.+Watson
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
American soul musicians
1941 births
2014 deaths
20th-century American singers
20th-century American musicians
20th-century American male singers |
20475791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20A.%20Litke | Raymond A. Litke | Raymond A. Litke (1920-1986) was an American electronic engineer, the inventor of a practical wireless microphone, and the first to patent the wireless microphone. He was born and raised on a farm near Alma, Kansas, but spent most of his adult life in San Jose, California.
Wireless microphone
Litke invented a wireless microphone in 1957 while employed as an electronics expert at San Jose State College. His supervisor challenged him to invent a microphone to use in educational presentations which would be free of wires.
Litke’s wireless mike resembled a silver tube with “a microphone at the top, a transmitter in the middle and its battery power supply at the bottom.” It was 6 inches long, 1 inch in diameter, and weighed 7 ounces; the device had a broadcast range of up to a half-mile. Two types of mikes were available: lavalier and hand-held. A companion receiver, weighing 17 pounds, completed the portable sound system.
Although Litke prototyped the wireless microphone in 1957, he did not file for a patent until May 8, 1961. U.S. Patent No. 3,134,074 was officially granted on May 19, 1964. His microphone is sometimes also called the “Vega-Mike” after the Vega Electronics Corporation which first manufactured it as a product. Vega sold other electronics items and tapes developed by Litke.
Litke's wireless microphone was first tested at the Olympic trials held at Stanford University in 1959. Next, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC television) tested the microphone at the Democratic and Republican Conventions in 1960. Candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were among the first celebrities to use the Vega-Mike. TV anchor John Daly praised Litke's invention on the ABC television news broadcast in July 1960. Daly introduced it to Americans with the words: "This is a Vega-Mike" and went on to explain it "is a wireless microphone, six inches long... without any wires of any kind...." Daly pointed out it could be used to broadcast "within the (convention) hall or outside... without the inconvenience of interconnecting microphone cables...." Even the Federal Communication Commission was impressed with it. The FCC gave him 12 frequencies instead of the one he was seeking.
Other accomplishments
In the 1960s Litke worked at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center as the chief engineer of Educational Television and as an electronics expert. By 1961 he had worked for the University of California system for ten years.
References
1920 births
1986 deaths
People from Wabaunsee County, Kansas
People from San Jose, California
20th-century American inventors |
23577341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397%20Libyan%20Premier%20League | 1996–97 Libyan Premier League | The 1996–97 Libyan Premier League was the 29th edition of the competition since its inception in 1963. The league featured 25 teams, split into two groups, one of 13 and another of 12. The top team in each of these groups went into a one-off playoff match to decide the championship.
Tahaddy won the league, defeating Mahalla 2–0 to secure their third title. They have not won the league since.
League table
Group A
Group B
Playoff
Played on August 8, 1997, at 28 March Stadium, Benghazi
Tahaddy 2–0 Mahalla
References
Libya – List of final tables (RSSSF)
Libyan Premier League seasons
1
Libya |
23577348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansdowne%20River | Lansdowne River | Lansdowne River, a watercourse of the Manning River catchment, is located in the Mid North Coast district of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Lansdowne River rises below Mount Gibraltar in the Gibraltar Range, north northwest of Upper Lansdowne, and flows generally southeast before reaching its confluence with the Northern Arm of the Manning River, near Coopernook. The river descends over its course.
The Pacific Highway crosses the Lansdowne River south-east of Coopernook.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L–Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Mid North Coast
City of Greater Taree |
20475803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BB%C4%80inap%C5%8D%20Trail | ʻĀinapō Trail | The Āinapō Trail was the primary route to the summit of Mauna Loa from prehistory to 1916. The trail began on the southeast flank at 2000 feet of elevation and reached Mokuaweoweo, the summit crater, at . It was sometimes called Menzies Trail after Archibald Menzies who was the first recorded outsider to climb the mountain in 1794.
The Ainapo Trail was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1974.
Early history
This 35-mile (55 km) route from the small community of Kapapala (near present-day Pahala) had been used in Ancient Hawaii to make offerings to Pele during eruptions. The name comes from āina pō in the Hawaiian language which means "darkened land", due to heavy clouds at the mid-elevation sections. At higher elevations above the clouds, the landscape is dry and barren lava rock. The climb is from about at Kapapala to above at the summit of Mokuaweoweo.
The trail was furnished with camps which provided rest areas and an opportunity to acclimate to the increasing altitude. The camps consisted of temporary huts, or rock shelters, one of which was in a lava tube. In areas where the trail was hard to discern, rock cairns marked the way, placed to be visible along the skyline as travelers moved upwards.
In 1794, Archibald Menzies, a naturalist on the Vancouver Expedition, used the trail and about 100 Hawaiian porters to reach the summit and measure its elevation with a barometer.
Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the 1840 United States Exploring Expedition first attempted to use a shorter route, but resorted to the Ainapo trail after making much slower progress than he planned in his trip to the summit.
The trail was widened in 1870 and again in 1913 when horses and mules started bringing more visitors to the summit.
Decline and revival
In 1915 the United States Army built a new trail directly from Kilauea Crater to Mokuaweoweo which was maintained by the National Park Service when the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was formed in 1916. The historic route fell into disuse since the lower elevations covered private land used for ranching and farming.
Today, only the section of about above remains in its original condition.
The on either side of the trail in this area was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1974, as site 74000290 and is state historic site 10-52-5501.
In the late 1990s a modern shelter was built at a historic camp site at an elevation of .
The lower area of Kapapala is now a private ranch, although hunting and camping can be arranged. Modern trails can now be taken from a trailhead on Ainapo road north of Hawaii Belt Road at coordinates , through the Kapapala State Forest Reserve, to the historic section of the Ainapo trail, all the way to the summit.
References
Mauna Loa
Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii
National Register of Historic Places in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Geography of Hawaii (island)
Hiking trails in Hawaii
Historic trails and roads in Hawaii
Transportation in Hawaii County, Hawaii |
23577349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Intelligencer%20%28Belleville%29 | The Intelligencer (Belleville) | The Intelligencer (locally nicknamed the Intell) is the daily (except on Sundays and certain holidays) newspaper of Belleville, Ontario, Canada. The paper is regarded mainly as a local paper, stressing local issues over issues of more national or international scope.
History
The Belleville Intelligencer was founded in 1834 by George Benjamin, who, after just arriving in the city, is said to have stopped in at a hotel and asked to purchase the local newspaper. He was then informed of the young city's lack of a local newspaper, as several attempted newspaper publications turned out to have been short lived and had failed. This innocent question eventually led to George Benjamin establishing the Intelligencer in 1834, although it was originally regarded as another attempt that was likely destined for failure in the long run.
Many newspapers predated the Intelligencer in Belleville, and all folded quickly. The first recorded paper was The Anglo-Canadian in 1829 which folded within a year. Other attempts included The Phoenix in 1831, The Hastings Times and Farmers' Journal in 1833, and finally The Standard of Moira which lasted only six weeks in 1834. These previous failed newspaper publications dampened the original public opinion of the Intelligencer, although the outlooks eventually lightened.
The Intelligencer originally consisted of only four small pages and was originally only a weekly publication. In 1897, D'Alton Corry Coleman became city editor for the Intelligencer at age 18. Later on it would be sold to a young Sir MacKenzie Bowell (a future Canadian Prime Minister), who had come to work for George Benjamin at the Intelligencer. It has also been stated that MacKenzie Bowell's political career started at the Intelligencer, with its then firm political views. After obtaining the Intelligencer MacKenzie Bowell would remain its owner until 1917 the year of his death at the age of 94.
The media group Sun Media purchased the newspaper in 2009. The purchase moved the paper's editorial policy significantly to the right.
In spring 2014, the Intelligencer and other Sun Media properties were sold to Postmedia, owner of The National Post in Toronto.
The Intelligencers current advertising director is Gerry Drage, its managing editor W. Brice McVicar.
In September 2017, PostMedia transferred the Intelligencers distribution to a private distribution company. Big Creek Services Corporation is based in Napanee Ontario and manages the distribution of 5 of PostMedia's newspapers and has a network of almost 500 on contract newspaper carriers.
See also
List of newspapers in Canada
Belleville, Ontario#Media
References
External links
ISSN 0839-1912
Mass media in Belleville, Ontario
Publications established in 1834
Daily newspapers published in Ontario
Postmedia Network publications
1834 establishments in Canada |
23577351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Creek%20%28New%20South%20Wales%29 | Lee Creek (New South Wales) | Lee Creek, a partly perennial river of the Hunter River catchment, is located in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Officially designated as a river, the Lee Creek rises on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, below Thompsons Hole, northeast of . The river flows generally north northwest then north reaching its confluence with the Bylong River near . The river descends over its course.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
List of rivers of New South Wales (A-K)
Rivers of New South Wales
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Central Tablelands |
23577353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leycester%20Creek | Leycester Creek | The Leycester Creek, a perennial stream of the Richmond River catchment, is located in Northern Rivers region in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Location and features
Leycester Creek rises below Lofts Pinnacle on the southern extremity of Tweed Range about east by north of Green Pigeon Mountain, in remote country, north northwest of Nimbin. The river flows generally south and then east, joined by three tributaries including Back Creek, before reaching its confluence with the Wilsons River at the town of Lismore. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Northern Rivers
Rivers of New South Wales
Richmond Valley Council |
20475808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Highway%2057%20%28India%2C%20old%20numbering%29 | National Highway 57 (India, old numbering) | Former National Highway 57 linked Muzaffarpur to Purnea in the Indian state of Bihar. It was long. In 2010 the national highway numbering system was rationalized and renumbered. The entire stretch of the old national highway 57 is now part of new National Highway 27.
Route
This former national highway passed through Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Muria, Supaul, Narahia, Narpatganj, Forbesganj, Araria, Jhanjharpur and Purnia.
See also
List of National Highways in India by old highway number
List of National Highways by new numbering
National Highways Development Project
Transport in Bihar
List of National Highways in Bihar
References
External links
Former NH 57 on OpenStreetMap
57
National highways in India (old numbering) |
6905634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egidius%20Braun | Egidius Braun | Egidius Braun (27 February 1925 – 16 March 2022) was a German sports administrator who served as the eighth president of the German Football Association (, DFB) from 1992 to 2001. Subsequently, he was appointed Honorary President. That same year, Braun founded the "DFB Foundation Egidius Braun", which takes care of distressed youth. Furthermore, the "Egidius-Braun Award" is awarded by the WDR. In 1985, he was awarded the Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
Life
Braun was born in Breinig. At the age of 13, he was playing for SV Breinig. After graduation in 1943 in Alsdorf, he became a soldier in World War II and was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1946. After returning, Braun studied law and philosophy and founded the company "Kartoffel-Braun" (Braun Potatoes). In addition he played football in the first team of SV Breinig. From 19 August 1956 to 20 February 1959, he was chairman of the club.
On 4 August 1973, Braun was elected president of the Middle Rhine Football Association and a member of the DFB Advisory Board. On 25 August of the same year he became Vice President of the Western German Football Association.
From 1983 to 1987, Braun was a member of the board of 1. FC Köln. On his 60th birthday, 27 February 1985, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class. He received the Federal Cross of Merit with Star in 1997. For his services to the country of North Rhine-Westphalia he was honored with the Order of Merit of the country in 1995.
From 1977 to 1992 he was treasurer of the DFB. On 24 October 1992, Braun was elected the eighth president of the DFB. That same year he also became a member of the board for the National Olympic Committee. Braun remained DFB president until 28 April 2001.
During the World Cup 1986 in Mexico, Braun visited with some international players, a Mexican orphanage and founded, in the wake of misery, Mexico Help of the Egidius Braun Foundation. Also due to his charitable commitment, Braun received many sympathies within the DFB, UEFA and from the whole environment of German football. Nonetheless, he was not spared of problematic situations. After the Germany national team was defeated at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Braun had to justify his solidarity with criticized German national coach Berti Vogts. The "Bild" newspaper urged Vogts to resign. Two years later, national coach Vogts, won the European Championship.
Braun was married; the couple had two sons. He was a hunter and nature lover. The supporter of Alemannia lived in Aachen. On 16 October 2006, he suffered a stroke.
He died in Aachen on 16 March 2022, at the age of 97.
Activities in UEFA
1980 to 2000 member of the UEFA European Championship Organizing Committee (from 24 June 1992 Chairman)
1988 to 2000 member of the UEFA Executive Committee
1992 to 2000 vice-president of UEFA
1995 to 1996 Acting treasurer of UEFA
1996 to 2000 UEFA Treasurer
References
External links
Egidius Braun at dfb.de
DFB-Stiftung Egidius Braun
Fußball-Verband Mittelrhein e.V.
Biografie Homepage of SV Breinig
1925 births
2022 deaths
Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin
Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
German football chairmen and investors
German prisoners of war in World War II
People from Stolberg (Rhineland) |
17337410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milang%2C%20South%20Australia | Milang, South Australia | Milang ( ) is a town and locality located in the Australian state of South Australia on the west coast of Lake Alexandrina about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat of Goolwa.
Milang is within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Hammond and the local government area of the Alexandrina Council.
At the 2016 census, the northern part of the locality had a population of 883, of which 761 lived in its town centre. The southern part of Milang shared a population of 69 people with the locality of Point Sturt.
The town was surveyed in December 1853; it became a significant port on the River Murray system between 1860 and 1880. Between December 1884 and June 1970, a branch line off the Mount Barker–Victor Harbor railway ran 13.1 km (8.1 mi) from a junction at Sandergrove to Milang, mainly for freight traffic but also as a minor passenger service. The line was dismantled after its closure in 1970.
Milang played a historic role as host to the first South Australian Boy Scout camp in the summer of 1909–1910; a bronze plaque marks the location.
Milang Football Club (the Milang Panthers) compete in the Hills Football League C Grade competition.
Milang is also home to professional poker player and actor Colin Birt, who amongst other victories won the SPT Super High Roller in Victor Harbor in 2021.
Heritage listings
Milang has many 19th century buildings and some heritage-listed sites including:
Coxe Street: 1867 Royal Salute cannon, Soldiers Memorial Park
46-50 Coxe Street: Milang School
22-23 Daranda Terrace: Milang Butter Factory
Lake front: Milang jetty and hand crane
5-7 Markland Street: Dwelling with pressed iron facade
Tourist attractions
Milang tourist attractions include fishing from the state heritage-listed jetty, the Milang Historical Society museum, the Milang Historical Walk, and boating and swimming on Lake Alexandrina.
The Milang Historical Railway Museum, opened in 1992 and located in the station building of the now-closed Milang railway line, features many old photos and railway memorabilia from the era when Milang was a significant port for the River Murray shipping trade. It has become one of Milang's major attractions with its displays of the railway-era history of the town and surrounding districts, its locomotive and carriages and, in the locomotive, a computer operated driving simulator that visitors over the age of 10 can operate.
Another railway-themed attraction is the South Australian Light Railway Centre, on the museum site, which tells the story of about 700 light railways that once operated in the state in mines, forests, wineries, munitions factories and quarries, and at jetties to transport goods from ships. It includes three historic locomotives and two section cars, displays, rolling stock models, and a model light railway that visitors can drive.
References
Notes
Citations
Towns in South Australia |
44505832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20Football%20NSW%20season | 2015 Football NSW season | The Football NSW 2015 season was the third season of football in New South Wales under the banner of the National Premier Leagues. The competition consisted of four divisions across the state of New South Wales, excluding those regions affiliated with the Northern NSW Football federation.
Blacktown City were Premiers of the 1st Division, and qualified for the National Premier Leagues finals series. Blacktown City won this competition, becoming the 2015 National Premier Leagues Champion, and additionally received a spot in the 2016 FFA Cup (entering at the Round of 32).
Pre-Season Changes
League Tables
2015 National Premier League NSW Men's 1
The National Premier League New South Wales 2015 season was played over 22 rounds, from March to August 2015.
Results
Finals
Personnel and kits
Top Scorers
2015 National Premier League NSW Men's 2
The 2015 National Premier League NSW Men's 2 was the third edition of the new NPL NSW 2 as the second level domestic association football competition in New South Wales. 12 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds, with the top team at the end of the year promoted to the NPL NSW Men's 1 competition. Hakoah Sydney City East FC were promoted into the division after finishing 1st in the 2014 State League Division 1, and St George FC were relegated from the 2014 National Premier League's Men's 1.
Finals
2015 NSW State League Division 1
The 2015 NSW State League Division 1 was the third edition of the State League to be incorporated under the National Premier Leagues banner. 12 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds.
Finals
2015 NSW State League Division 2
The 2015 NSW State League Division 2 was the third edition of the State League to be incorporated under the National Premier Leagues banner. 10 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 18 matches.
Finals
2015 National Premier League NSW Women's 1
The 2015 National Premier League NSW Women's 1 was the second edition of the NPL NSW Women's competition to be incorporated under the National Premier Leagues banner. 10 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 18 rounds.
Finals
2015 Waratah Cup
Football NSW soccer clubs competed in 2015 for the Waratah Cup. The tournament doubled as the NSW qualifier for the 2015 FFA Cup, with the top five clubs progressing to the Round of 32. 104 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format (with NPL and NPL 2 clubs seeded to a later round). The five winners then were randomly drawn in order to create a preliminary fixture, before the semi-finals of the competition.
The competition was won by Sydney United 58, their 5th title, defeating Blacktown City.
In addition to the A-League clubs Central Coast Mariners, Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers, the five qualifiers (Balmain Tigers, Blacktown City, Rockdale City Suns, Sydney Olympic and Sydney United 58 competed in the final rounds of the 2015 FFA Cup. Of these qualifying clubs, only Rockdale City Suns, Sydney Olympic and Sydney United 58 progressed to the Round of 16.
Awards
The NPL Gala Dinner was held on 11 September at Rosehill Gardens, acknowledging achievements from across all NPL teams from Men's 1, Men's 2, Women's 1, Women's 2 and their respective youth teams.
Notes
References
Football NSW |
23577354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Murray%20River%20%28New%20South%20Wales%29 | Little Murray River (New South Wales) | Little Murray River (New South Wales), an anabranch of the Murray River and part of the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises northwest of Barham in New South Wales and flows generally northwest before reaching its confluence with the Murray River near Gonn Crossing in Victoria. Little Murray River and the Murray River enclose Campbells Island, that forms part of the Campbells Island State Forest.
See also
List of rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin |
26721427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nata%C5%A1a%20Janji%C4%87 | Nataša Janjić | Nataša Janjić-Medančić (born 27 November 1981) is a Croatian film, stage and television actress.
Personal life
Nataša Janjić was born in Split on 27 November 1981. As a child, she studied at the Youth Theatre in Split. After finishing school in 2000, she went on to studying journalism and acting in Zagreb.
Janjić dated director Antonio Nuić before she began a relationship with Croatian actor and producer Joško Lokas in 2012, whom she married. The couple later divorced and Janjić married her second husband Nenad Medančić. Janjić and Medančić together have a son and a daughter.
Filmography
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Actors from Split, Croatia
Croatian film actresses
Croatian television actresses
Croatian stage actresses
Golden Arena winners
LGBT rights activists from Croatia
Croatian Theatre Award winners |
23577357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuyuki%20Masuchi | Katsuyuki Masuchi | is a Japanese judoka. His wife, Chiyori is bronze medalist of Olympic Games in 1992.
Masuchi is from Tsu, Mie. He began judo at the age of a 10 and after graduation from Tsukuba University, He belonged to Marunaka and Nippon Steel.
He became Asian champion of openweight category in 1994, 1997. He also participated All-Japan Judo Championships 13 times, and the record is the most in history.
As of 2009, Masuchi coaches judo at his alma mater, Tsukuba University, where he previously studied as an undergraduate.
References
Japanese male judoka
People from Mie Prefecture
1970 births
Living people
Asian Games medalists in judo
Judoka at the 1994 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in judo
Universiade gold medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
20th-century Japanese people |
23577358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Nymboida%20River | Little Nymboida River | Little Nymboida River, a perennial stream of the Clarence River catchment, is located in the Northern Rivers and Northern Tablelands districts of New South Wales, Australia. It flows through the village of Lowanna.
Course and features
Little Nymboida River rises on the western slopes of Bushmans Range, on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range, east of Ulong, near Lowanna. The river flows in a meandering course generally north then southwest then northwest, joined by two tributaries including the Bobo River, before reaching its confluence with the Nymboida River, west of Black Mountain, within the Nymboida National Park. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Rivers
Northern Tablelands |
20475813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus%20L.%20Mavretic | Josephus L. Mavretic | Josephus Lyman Mavretic (born July 29, 1934) is a former Democratic public official and military veteran from North Carolina. Born in Currituck County, he made his career as a Marine, graduating from the Naval War College and becoming a Marine fighter pilot, retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel. Mavretic had served 300 combat missions in Vietnam and recorded 3000 hours of flight time.
He retired from the Marines and returned to his home state. He came from a Democratic family and community, and he ran successfully for the North Carolina House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1980. He succeeded Jim Ezzell. In spite of his party label, he admired President Ronald Reagan and was willing to buck his party on several issues.
Mavretic became nationally known when he led a bipartisan coalition to remove Liston Ramsey from the position of Speaker of the House. He then served in that position from 1989 to 1990.
He left the legislature in 1995 and retired to private life. He is now a panelist on the television news talk show NC Spin.
References
External links
Our Campaigns – Representative Josephus Mavretic (NC) profile
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Living people
United States Marine Corps officers
1934 births
Naval War College alumni
20th-century American politicians
Speakers of the North Carolina House of Representatives
Democratic Party members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
People from Currituck County, North Carolina |
26721429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD%20Pt%C3%A1k | Jiří Pták | Jiří Pták (born 24 March 1946 in Děčín, Czechoslovakia), is a Czech rowing coxswain who competed for Czechoslovakia at six Olympic Games between 1968 and 1992 (except the 1984 Olympics, boycotted by the Eastern Bloc countries).
He was the first rower to compete at six Olympics. He was the third rower, after Briton Jack Beresford and Soviet Yuriy Lorentsson, to compete at five Olympics. (From 1896 to 2020, 26 rowers have competed at five Olympics and 8 at six Olympics.)
His best performance was fourth in the coxed eight at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when his team lost out on bronze by 1.09 seconds.
See also
List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
References
1946 births
Living people
Czech male rowers
Czechoslovak male rowers
Olympic rowers of Czechoslovakia
Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
People from Děčín
Coxswains (rowing)
World Rowing Championships medalists for Czechoslovakia
European Rowing Championships medalists
Sportspeople from the Ústí nad Labem Region |
26721445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterrheintal%20District | Unterrheintal District | Unterrheintal District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
20475814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20Island | Province Island | Province Island () is an island mostly in the Canadian province of Québec, but partly in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is situated in Lake Memphremagog. The island's area is . Although (9%) at its southern point is part of the United States (in the town of Derby, Vermont), the greater part belongs to the municipality of Ogden, Quebec, in Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, Quebec. At the end of the 18th century a pioneer named Martin Adams and his wife built a house on the island, where they grew flax and vegetables. It is under private ownership; a pheasant hunt is organized annually. The Canada–United States border is marked by a five-meter strip cut through the forest. The island has been noted for its shape's similarity to the island of Taiwan.
References
Landforms of Estrie
Landforms of Orleans County, Vermont
Lake islands of Quebec
Lake islands of Vermont
International islands
Derby, Vermont
Magog, Quebec |
20475858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRP%20%28disambiguation%29 | WKRP (disambiguation) | WKRP is a call sign that has been used by several broadcast stations. It was made famous in the American sitcoms WKRP in Cincinnati and The New WKRP in Cincinnati, which portray a fictional radio station with that call sign.
Radio stations
WKRP-LP, a low-power radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to serve Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
WJCP, a radio station (1460 AM) licensed to serve North Vernon, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WKRP from 1989 to 1997
WDPC 1500, Atlanta, Georgia, which was WKRP from its initial sign-on in 1979 until becoming WDPC in 1989
KMRI, Salt Lake City, Utah, branded "W KRPN Salt Lake City" in the 1980s
Television stations
WBQC-LD, Cincinnati, Ohio, branded "WKRP-TV Cincinnati" since 2008
WLPX-TV, Charleston, West Virginia, designated WKRP-TV from 1988 to 1998
WKWT-LD, Key West, Florida, which held the call sign WKRP-LP from 2009 to 2011
WRTN-LP, Nashville, Tennessee, which held the call sign WKRP-LP in 2005 to 2009
WDDN-LD, Washington, D.C., known as WKRP-LP from 1998 to 2005 |
23577360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Plains%20River | Little Plains River | The Little Plains River, a perennial river of the Snowy River catchment, is located in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
The Little Plains River is formed by the confluence of the Queensborough River and the Bendoc River near the locality of Bendoc Upper, south southeast of Delegate. The river flows generally north northeast and west northwest, joined by three minor tributaries before reaching its confluence with the Delegate River near Balgownie, between Delegate and Bombala. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Snowy Mountains |
26721468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Fonseca | Ray Fonseca | Rae (or Ray) Fonseca (November 17, 1953 – March 20, 2010) was an American hula dancer and hula master. Fonseca established the Halau Hula O Kahikilaulani in 1980, a Hilo-based halau.
Fonseca was a student of kumu hula master George Na'ope, who gave Fonseca the name, Kahikilaulani. Fonseca's halau, Halau Hula O Kahikilaulani, integrated Hawaiian culture, language and folklore into its hula instructions. The hulau had more than 100 students, who ranged in age from 4 up to 60 years old, as of March 2010.
He pleaded no contest to second-degree negligent homicide in 2006 for killing a moped driver in a traffic accident in 2003. Fonseca was driving 40 mph in a 25 mph speed zone when he struck the moped with his sports utility vehicle while trying to avoid potholes. The judge sentenced him to six months in prison, but allowed work release during the day for community service and to teach hula.
On March 20, 2010, Fonseca flew from Hilo to Oahu to perform at the Lei o Lanikuhonua Hula Festival in Ko Olina. He was a strong supporter of the festival, which was founded in 2006 and allows high school students to perform and study with hula masters. He collapsed back stage minutes after completing a hula performance. Fonseca, who suffered a heart attack, was 56 years old.
Fonseca's death came less than a day after the passing of another prominent hula figure, Auntie Dottie Thompson, who developed the Merrie Monarch Festival. He had visited her at her bedside before her death.
References
1953 births
2010 deaths
Hula dancers
People from Hilo, Hawaii |
23577368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Run%20Creek | Little Run Creek | The Little Run Creek is a river of the state of New South Wales in Australia.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales |
26721475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alttoggenburg%20District | Alttoggenburg District | Alttoggenburg District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
26721480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaster%20District | Gaster District | Gaster District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Gaster and See districts merged in 2003 to form the See-Gaster constituency.
References
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
6905638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Council%20%28Qing%20dynasty%29 | Grand Council (Qing dynasty) | The Grand Council or Junji Chu (; Manchu: coohai nashūn i ba; literally, "Office of Military Secrets"), officially the Banli Junji Shiwu Chu (; "Office for the Handling of Confidential Military Affairs"), was an important policy-making body of China during the Qing dynasty. It was established in 1733 by the Yongzheng Emperor. The council was originally in charge of military affairs, but gradually attained a more important role and eventually attained the role of a privy council, eclipsing the Grand Secretariat in function and importance, which is why it has become known as the "Grand Council" in English.
Despite its important role in the government, the Grand Council remained an informal policy making body in the inner court and its members held other concurrent posts in the Qing civil service. Originally, most of the officials serving in the Grand Council were Manchus, but gradually Han Chinese officials were admitted into the ranks of the council. One of the earliest Han Chinese officials to serve in the council was Zhang Tingyu. The chancellery was housed in an insignificant building just west of the gate to Palace of Heavenly Purity in the Forbidden City.
Origins of the Grand Council
Council of Princes and High Officials
In the early Qing dynasty, political power was held by the Council of Princes and High Officials (議政王大臣會議), which consisted of eight imperial princes who served as imperial advisers at the same time. It also included a few Manchu officials. Established in 1637, the council was responsible for deciding major policies of the Qing government. Decisions of the council had precedence over decisions of the Grant Secretariat, the imperial cabinet. Under rules set by Nurhaci, the Council even had the power to depose the Emperor. In 1643, the Shunzhi Emperor expanded the council's composition to Han Chinese officials, with its mandate expanded to all important decisions relating to the Qing Empire. The council's powers gradually waned after the establishment of the Southern Study and the Grand Council, and it was abolished in 1717.
Southern Study
The Southern Study (; Manchu: Julergi bithei boo) was an institution that held the highest policy-making power after its establishment in 1677. It was abolished in 1898. The Southern Study was built by the Kangxi Emperor in the southwestern corner of the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Members of the Hanlin Academy, selected based on literary merit, were posted to the Study so that the Emperor had easy access to them when he sought counsel or discussion. When posted to the Study, officials were known as "[having] access to the Southern Study" (南書房行走). Because of their proximity to the Emperor, official posted to the Study became highly influential to the Emperor. After the establishment of the Grand Council, the Southern Study remained an important institution but lost its policy advisory role. Officials regarded secondment to the Southern Study as an honourable recognition of their literary achievements. In Chinese, the term "access to the Southern Study" in modern usage indicates a person who, through channels other than formal government office, has significant influence over leaders of the government.
Establishment of the Grand Council
In 1729, the Yongzheng Emperor launched a military offensive against the Dzungar Khanate. Concerns were raised that the meeting location of the Grand Secretariat (outside the Gate of Supreme Harmony) did not ensure security for military secrets. The Junjichu was then established in the Inner Court of the Forbidden City. Trustworthy members of Cabinet staff were then seconded to work in the new Office. After defeating the Dzungars, the Yongzheng Emperor found that the streamlined operations of the Office of Military Secrets avoided problems with bureaucratic inefficiency. As a result, the Junjichu turned from a temporary institution into a "Grand Council" in 1732, quickly outstripping the powers of the Council of Advisor Princes, and the Southern Study, to become the chief policy-making body of the Qing Empire.
The Qing Grand Council (1738-1911)
The Interim Council and Reestablishing the Grand Council
In 1735, the Yongzheng Emperor died and was succeeded by his son, the Qianlong Emperor. Shortly before his death, the Yongzheng Emperor established an interim council to assist his son. The Interim Council soon consolidated many of the "Inner Court" agencies of the Yongzheng era, and expanded its power. Three years later, in 1738, the Interim Council disbanded and the Grand Council was reconstituted.
During the Qianlong Emperor's reign, the Grand Council had many duties. Some of them included more mundane duties such as keeping track of paperwork and planning events, such as entertainments for the imperial court and transportation of the Emperor. Other duties were more tied to state administration, such as drafting edicts, and advising the Emperor on various policies and problems. Its proximity to the Emperor and inner court, secrecy and unofficial status allowed it to expand and sustained its central role in state administration, and also freed it from some of the constraints of many of the outer-court agencies.
The Grand Council after the Qianlong era
In 1796, the Qianlong Emperor abdicated in favor of his son, the Jiaqing Emperor. Upon his father's death three years later, in 1799, the Jiaqing Emperor, along with purging his father's favorite, Heshen, who had served on the Grand Council since 1776, introduced numerous reforms to the Grand Council, including a reduction of the numbers of grand councilors, the introduction of administrative punishments for grand councilors, and the regulation of Grand Council clerk appointments by imperial audiences.
The Grand Council Under Empress Dowager Cixi
During the regencies of the empress dowagers Ci'an and Cixi, the Grand Council took on many of the decision-making duties, particularly as the two women were novices in affairs of state. Soon after the two women became regents for the Tongzhi Emperor in 1861, edicts went out detailing how state papers and affairs were to be dealt with, with many of the policies being decided by the Grand Council. Papers were to be first sent to the empress dowagers, who would refer them back to the Prince-Regent, Prince Gong, who oversaw the Grand Council. The Grand Council would then discuss the issue and seek the discretion of the empress dowagers and draft up orders accordingly, with edict drafts having to be approved by the empress dowagers. Such a configuration would lead Zeng Guofan to remark after an audience in 1869 that "the state of affairs hinged entirely on the Grand Councillors....whose power surpassed that of the imperial master." This configuration survived the regency for the Tongzhi Emperor and lasted into the regency of the Guangxu Emperor.
After the Guangxu Emperor formally took over the reins of power from his regent, Empress Dowager Cixi, both the Grand Council and the Emperor often sought the advice of the Empress Dowager, who was kept informed of state affairs. In fact, in 1894, with the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, copies of memoranda from the Grand Council were sent both to the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi, which was practiced until 1898, at which point the Empress Dowager resumed her "tutelage" of the Guangxu Emperor. From that time until the nearly simultaneous deaths of Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor a decade later, they jointly received the Grand Council at audiences.
Abolition
With the deaths of Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor in 1908, Puyi, Guangxu's nephew, succeeded to the throne. Eventually, in May 1911, Puyi's father, Prince Chun, who was Prince-Regent, abolished the Grand Council favoring an "Imperial Cabinet". Yikuang, the Prime Minister at the time, founded the first Imperial Cabinet in 1911. The Qing dynasty, despite this concession to those calling for reform, collapsed not long after.
Composition
The number of officials comprising the Council varied from time to time, from as few as three to as many as ten. Usually, the number of officials serving in the council was five, two Manchus, two Han Chinese and one Prince of the First Rank, who acted as the council's president. The most senior among them was called the Chief Councillor (), but this was simply a working designation and was not an official title.
Notable Grand Council members
Zhang Tingyu
Heshen
Sushun
Prince Gong
Prince Chun
Weng Tonghe
Ronglu
Prince Qing
Qu Hongji
Tan Sitong, executed for supporting the Hundred Days Reform
Yu Minzhong (Chief)
References
Citations
Sources
Further reading
Ho, Alfred Kuo-liang. "The Grand Council in the Ch'ing Dynasty." The Far Eastern Quarterly 11, no. 2 (1952): 167–82.
Government of the Qing dynasty
Government of Imperial China
1733 establishments in China |
17337419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Carmody | Jack Carmody | Jack Carmody (7 June 1911 – 28 March 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Carmody was member of Collingwood's back-to-back premierships in 1935 and 1936. He was used mostly on the wing and during the late 1930s often found himself on the sidelines due to the strength of the Collingwood side. As a result, he crossed to Hawthorn in 1940 where he played some games up forward and captained the club in 1942.
Honours and achievements
Collingwood
2× VFL premiership player: 1935, 1936
Individual
Hawthorn captain: 1942
Hawthorn life member
References
External links
1911 births
Collingwood Football Club players
Collingwood Football Club Premiership players
Hawthorn Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
1982 deaths
Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players
People from Richmond, Victoria |
26721481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Cameron%20%28bishop%29 | Douglas Cameron (bishop) | Douglas Maclean Cameron (born 23 March 1935) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century and the very start of the 21st.
Biography
Born on 23 March and educated at Edinburgh Theological College and the University of the South, he was ordained (after National Service in the RAF) in 1963. He began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Falkirk after which he was a Missionary in Papua New Guinea eventually rising to be its Archdeacon. Returning to the UK he was Priest in charge of St Fillan's, Edinburgh. Incumbencies at St Hilda's Edinburgh, St Mary's Dalkeith and St Leonard's Lasswade followed, before his appointment as Dean of Edinburgh in 1991. He was Bishop of Argyll and The Isles from 1993 to 2003.
His brother Bruce Cameron was Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1992 to 2006.
Notes
1935 births
Living people
Sewanee: The University of the South alumni
Anglican archdeacons in Oceania
Deans of Edinburgh
Bishops of Argyll and The Isles
20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops
21st-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops
Alumni of Edinburgh Theological College
Provosts of the Cathedral of The Isles |
6905643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prickett%27s%20Fort%20State%20Park | Prickett's Fort State Park | Prickett's Fort State Park is a West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River. The park features a reconstructed refuge fort and commemorates life on the Virginia frontier during the late 18th century.
Historic fort
Historic Prickett’s Fort was built to defend early European settlers of what today is West Virginia from raids by hostile Native Americans, a portion of whose territory the settlers appropriated after the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768). After a band of settlers led by Daniel Greathouse perpetrated the Yellow Creek massacre in 1774, initiating Lord Dunmore's War, all settlers in the Ohio River Valley were in peril from Native American attack.
Because there was safety in numbers, the settlers built a number of refuge forts, including one on the homestead of Jacob Prickett. Fairly simple in design, Prickett’s Fort was little more than a hundred-foot-square log palisade built around Prickett’s house. Native Americans tended to avoid such strong points, preferring to ambush small work parties.
When the frontiersmen believed they were in danger of Native American attack, families gathered at such a fortified area, a procedure called “forting up.” In 1774, there were at least a hundred such palisades, blockhouses, and “stations” in the Monongahela Valley, many within a thirty-mile radius of Prickett’s Fort. Perhaps as many as eighty families—several hundred people—gathered at Prickett’s Fort during crisis periods, where they stayed for days or even weeks. Prickett’s Fort was never attacked, although militiamen from the confluence area were killed by Native Americans elsewhere.
Reconstruction
The last written mention of Prickett’s Fort occurred in 1780. In 1916, the Sons of the American Revolution dedicated a monument in honor of settlers who built the fort. When, in 1973, the traditional site of the fort was threatened by a Department of Natural Resources parking lot, the Marion County Historical Society created the Prickett’s Fort Memorial Foundation and announced plans to reconstruct the historic structure. Discovering that the original fort site had probably been destroyed by the building of a railroad bridge in 1905, the Foundation decided to put the reconstruction on a small hill overlooking the river. Many old buildings donated to the project were torn down to provide timbers for the reconstruction. A Reconstruction Details Committee decided to design the fort reconstruction on the basis of a description by Stephen Morgan, the son of an early settler. The current reconstruction is 110 feet square with two-story blockhouses at each corner, fourteen small cabins lining internal walls, and a meeting house and store house in the common area. Unfortunately, the Morgan account was an inaccurate, perhaps even fraudulent, guide. The Prickett’s Fort Memorial Foundation describes the 1974 reconstruction as “much more elaborate” than the original but claims that every feature in the reconstruction might have been found at some refuge fort in the region.
Features
In the reconstructed fort, the Foundation presents third-person interpretation of such 18th-century crafts as carpentry, blacksmithing, and spinning. A visitor center—managed by the Foundation under long-term contract with the state—includes a research library, a gift shop, and a gallery with an orientation exhibit and video.
Immediately south of the fort reconstruction, the Job Prickett House, built in 1859 by a great-grandson of Jacob Prickett, displays original furnishings and tools. This typical 19th-century farmhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Recreational facilities at Pricketts Fort include a 400-seat outdoor amphitheater, picnic areas, nature trails, and a boat launch. The outdoor amphitheater is used by the Fairmont State University theatre department each summer for musicals and dramatic productions. Prickett’s Fort State Park provides access to both the MCPARC trail to Fairmont and the Mon River Trail to Morgantown. An accessibility study by West Virginia University determined that most park features were accessible to persons with disabilities.
See also
Jacob Prickett, Jr. Log House
List of West Virginia state parks
State park
References
External links
Colonial forts in West Virginia
Forts in West Virginia
Living museums in West Virginia
Museums in Marion County, West Virginia
Protected areas established in 1975
Protected areas of Marion County, West Virginia
State parks of West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, West Virginia
Military and war museums in West Virginia
Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Rebuilt buildings and structures in West Virginia
IUCN Category III |
17337439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Janus%20Man | The Janus Man | The Janus Man is a 1987 thriller novel by British novelist Raymond Harold Sawkins, written under the pseudonym of Colin Forbes. The book is set in the period it was written, and concerns Soviet infiltration into the Secret Intelligence Service during the Cold War. The book is the fourth of twenty-four books written by Sawkins under Colin Forbes in the "Tweed and Co." series. Forbes published one edition of the "Tweed and Co." series each year from 1982 until his death in 2006.
The story concerns treason and the rooting out of a traitor and double agent among members of the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as the SIS or MI6. The protagonist is a man known as Tweed, and the book follows his efforts to investigate the clumsily disguised murder of colleague Ian Fergusson, dubbed an "accident" by authorities, whilst in Hamburg, Germany, and the reasons for his killing. Circumstances lead him to believe that the only way the enemy (the Soviet Union) could have intercepted Ferguson on his mission would have been to have a double agent stationed within the SIS. As he attempts to discover the identity of "The Janus Man who faces both East and West", he tracks sources of information in Moscow, Lübeck, Copenhagen and Oslo to hunt down the killer of Ferguson.
The book confronts several issues facing both Britain and the Soviet Union at the time, such as treason and the inability to trust even friends in times of uncertainty and war. People living at the time were also mentioned in the book, such as former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
It was well received by critics, and was praised by publications such as the Sunday Mirror.
Notes
References
1987 British novels
Cold War spy novels
British thriller novels
Works published under a pseudonym
William Collins, Sons books |
26721486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossau%20District | Gossau District | Gossau District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
26721494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutoggenburg%20District | Neutoggenburg District | Neutoggenburg District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
It was detached from Obertoggenburg District in 1831, and merged into the single district of Toggenburg in 2002.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
6905651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlewood%20State%20Park | Castlewood State Park | Castlewood State Park is a public recreation area and Missouri state park occupying which straddle the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri. The most visited section of the state park lies on the north side of the Meramec; the park acreage on the south side of the river is accessed from Lone Elk County Park and includes the World Bird Sanctuary.
History
Lincoln Beach
In the early 20th century, the area of the park was a developed resort town, Lincoln Beach.
Lincoln Beach existed from about 1915 into the 1940s, with its highest popularity in the 1920s. The Missouri Pacific Railroad ran regular service from St Louis to Lincoln Beach, and the resort hosted around 10,000 visitors on summer weekends.
Venues included the popular Lincoln Lodge and the Lone Wolf Club, a private speakeasy serving liquor illegally (prohibition was in effect from 1920 to 1933).
After World War II, visitor numbers steadily declined, due to factors including the advent of air conditioning and the switch to automobile transport (which allowed people to choose spots alternative to the railroad-served Lincoln Beach.
By the 21st century, few traces remained of Lincoln Beach. All the buildings were destroyed over time, and the man-made beach itself was entirely washed away by regular flooding. A few foundations and ruins survive in the woods, and the concrete grand staircase which runs from the bottomlands up into the bluff remains in use by hikers, as does another, wooden, staircase.
State park
Castlewood State Park was established as a state park in 1974.
The park has a history of fatalities due to the Meramac River. Since June 30, 2004, there has been a total of 16 deaths along the river within the park. Of the 12 drowning deaths, only one was the result of intoxication. The most deadly incident occurred on July 9, 2006. Five children died in a mishap along the river during a church outing. Joseph Miller, 16, lost his footing on one of the river's unexpected dropoffs and was swept away by an undertow. Damon Johnson, 17, attempted to rescue Miller, but was also swept away. Damon's siblings, Dana Johnson (13), Ryan Mason (14) and Bryant Barnes (10), tried to rescue him. Deandre Sherman (16) also waded in to try to save their friends. All of the children, with the exception of Joseph Miller, drowned.
A comprehensive list of fatalities as of 2021 includes: 19-year-old unnamed male (2004), 13 year old Dana Johnson (2006), 10 year old Bryant James (2006), 16 year old Joseph Miller (2006), 14 year old Ryan Mason (2006), 16 year old Deandre Sherman (2006), 15-year-old Isaiah Green (2007), 18-year-old Luis Baez Gonzales (2011), 20 year old Salvatore Jasso (2011), 21 year old Philip Schwalm (2012), 18 year old Henry Manu (2016), 17 year old Samuel Neal (2016), 12 year old Deniya Johnson (2018), 35 year old Rose Shaw (2018), 16 year old Kara Wrice (2021), 19 year old Juan Sajbin (2022)
A retired hydrologist for the Army Corps Of Engineers, Gary Dyhouse, remarked that the slope of the Meramac River is steeper than all other rivers in the area. According to Metro West Fire Chief Mike Krause, these sudden dropoffs, combined with the river's swift currents, are what cause swimmers to drown.
Activities and amenities
The park offers fishing and boating on the Meramec River and more than 26 miles of trails for hiking, mountain biking and equestrian use.
References
External links
Castlewood State Park Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Castlewood State Park Map Missouri Department of Natural Resources
State parks of Missouri
Protected areas established in 1974
Protected areas of St. Louis County, Missouri
1974 establishments in Missouri
Tourist attractions in St. Louis |
6905655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric%20plexuses | Gastric plexuses | The superior gastric plexus (gastric or coronary plexus) accompanies the left gastric artery along the lesser curvature of the stomach, and joins with branches from the left vagus nerve.
The term "inferior gastric plexus" is sometimes used to describe a continuation of the hepatic plexus.
Additional images
References
External links
Nerve plexus
Nerves of the torso |
44505849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Rock%2C%20Indiana | Little Rock, Indiana | Little Rock is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Indiana, in the United States.
History
A post office called Littlerock was opened in 1901, and it remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1903.
References
Unincorporated communities in Knox County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Indiana |
44505854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming%20Hwa%20Yuan%20Arts%20and%20Culture%20Group | Ming Hwa Yuan Arts and Culture Group | Ming Hwa Yuan (；Taiwanese Hokkien：bîng-huâ-hn̂g) is one of the most famous and organized Taiwanese opera troupes, which revives the Taiwanese traditional art by combining technologies and intricate performance skills. It was established by Chen Ming-Ji (陳明吉) in 1929. In 1997, after Mr. Chen's death, his third son, Chen Sheng-Fu (陳勝福), took over this traditional industry.
History
Chen Ming-Jin, the founder of Ming Hwa Yuan, was born in , in Japanese Formosa (modern Checheng, Pingtung County, Taiwan). He started Ming Hwa troupe, the predecessor of Ming Hwa Yuan, with Tsai Bin-Hwa (蔡炳華), as proprietor of theater.
In the early stage, the Japanese rulers allowed the local customs to develop without much interference and Taiwanese opera continue to thrive. After the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese government implemented a Kōminka policy that encouraged Japanization. During this period (1937-1945), the Japanese government prohibited the public performance of Taiwanese opera. However, Ming Hwa troupe was one of the few groups that were allowed to perform. Taiwanese people were also strongly encouraged to speak the Japanese language, wear Japanese clothing, etc., which obstructed the development of Taiwanese opera.
In 1945, Taiwan was handed over to the Kuomintang-led Republic of China. Taiwanese opera was rejuvenated and became fashionable in Taiwan. In 1949, there were over 500 registered troupes. However, the American Westerns and Japanese Samurai movies blitzed the Taiwanese film market in the 1960s, which made the Taiwanese opera's box office flop.
After experiencing the rise and fall of Taiwanese opera, Ming Hwa Yuan has not only absorbed social trends, but has innovated the art by integrating the elements of modern theater and cinema. In 1982, they won the first prize of the National Theater Competition in Taiwan by the opera “Father and Son,” becoming an instant hit.
Organization
Ming Hwa Yuan is a family-owned troupe, managed by the family members. Under the general organization of Ming Hwa Yuan, there are eight sub groups, Tien, Di, Shuan, Hwang, Jer, Yue, Sin and Chan.
Feature
In spite of performing the traditional Taiwanese opera for almost a century, Ming Hwa Yuan is featured by the particularly contemporary stage design such as lightning and sound effects, which are similar to a large-scale live concert or contemporary theater performance. In other words, it emphasizes not only sound but also visual presentation, helping the audience understand the story.
Going through a series of reformation and innovation, Ming Hwa Yuan creates a unique and avant-garde performing style by mixing traditional heritage and modern technique. It has been praised as the “Broadway of the East” due to its distinctive presentation of Taiwanese opera, consisting by the folklore, poem-lyrics, theater, dancing, music, acrobatics, and fine art.
References cited
Further references
Lu, Yu Xiu. "Taiwanese Opera." In The Music History of Taiwan, 170-172. Taipei: Wu-Nan Culture Enterprise (五南文化廣場), 2003.
"Taiwanese Opera." Art Appreciation, Winter, 2012, December 15, 2012.
External links
Grand Immortal of Ponglai
Ming Hwa Yuan Arts & Culture Group
Taiwanese Opera
Taiwanese opera
Theatre companies in Taiwan |
20475905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20Rules%20%28novel%29 | Moscow Rules (novel) | Moscow Rules is a 2008 spy novel by Daniel Silva.
Featuring Gabriel Allon as a spy/assassin who works undercover as an art restorer, Moscow Rules explores the world of a rising Russia. The villain is a rich Russian oligarch who is a weapons dealer. The title is based on the Cold War rules in which CIA agents were trained when operating against the Soviet Union, known as the "Moscow Rules" — for example, "Don't look back, you are never alone".
Plot summary
New terror calls Gabriel Allon away from his wife Chiara and blissful honeymoon in Italy. Boris Ostrovsky, editor of the independent Moskovsky Gazeta, claims to have exclusive information about imminent terror threats to the West and Israel but only dares entrust his knowledge with the now-famous Gabriel Allon. However, Ostrovsky's sudden assassination cuts short his message and leaves intelligence officers within the Israeli-based Office to guess at the scope of the purported threat against their country. Ostrovsky's death, accompanied by the recent murders of two other journalists from the Gazeta, seems to indicate that his message was both urgent and true. Gabriel's drive to uncover this terror threat leads him to Russia, where he must play by a new set of rules that challenge even his abilities as Israel's top intelligence fieldworker.
His encounter with Olga Sukhova, also of the Gazeta, confirms his suspicions that a Russian arms dealer has begun trafficking with well-known terror groups. Olga reveals her source to be Elena Kharkov, the wife of alleged arms dealer Ivan Kharkov—an oligarch with strong ties to both the old and new Kremlin governments. Gabriel saves himself and Olga from an assassination attempt but, in so doing, arouses the suspicion of the FSB, Russia’s security department. Only the quick and heavy-handed negotiations of the Office secure Gabriel’s life and freedom.
Gabriel, however, cannot be dissuaded from continuing his investigation. Upon learning of Elena Kharkov’s fondness for Mary Cassatt’s paintings, Gabriel enlists the help of art specialist and CIA fieldworker Sarah Bancroft in arranging a meeting with Elena. He then forges a Cassatt painting and has Sarah represent it as a tender reflection of her childhood to Elena. After close inspection, Elena concludes that the painting is both a fraud and a pretence for meeting Sarah. The unexpected presence of Ivan prevents Elena from sharing her knowledge, and Gabriel’s team must then follow the Russian aristocrat to France.
When Sarah surprises Elena at a chic San Tropez restaurant, Elena realizes that she must seize this opportunity to assuage her conscience and potentially save thousands of lives. She entrusts herself to Gabriel’s team, informs them of Ivan’s underhanded dealings, offers to turn over his business records, and asks for help in ‘defecting’ from both her husband and her country's corruption. She then travels to Russia with Gabriel's entourage and gathers the sensitive financial information required to prove her husband's complicity to the arms trafficking. The task runs afoul, however, when Ivan's chief of personal security, Arkady Medvedev interrupts the operation and takes Elena, and later Gabriel, hostage. At a vast countryside warehouse filled with weapons, Arkady proudly demonstrates the breadth and shamelessness of Ivan's trafficking. Yet, he is frustrated in his ability to get either Elena or Gabriel to reveal the whereabouts of Ivan and Elena's twin children.
Arkady passes Gabriel on to Grigori Bulganov, an FSB intelligence director, with instructions for Gabriel's murder. Gabriel is surprised to discover that Grigori was his interrogator in his previous detention with the FSB, and his astonishment grows as Grigori reveals his duplicity as both an agent for and, secretly, against Ivan Kharkov and the corruption that he represents. Grigori arms and then returns a supposedly conciliatory Gabriel to Arkady. When Arkady lets down his guard, Grigori and Gabriel kill him and his guards and then free Elena. The three quickly return to Moscow to once again retrieve Ivan's financial documents and to rescue Olga; they then proceed to the Ukraine, freedom, and new lives.
Because of the efforts of these four people, governments worldwide avert imminent terror attacks and freeze Ivan Kharkov's business ventures. The U.S. government secrets away Elena and her children, while the UK shelters Olga Sukhova and Grigori Bulganov; the latter two collaborate upon and publish an exhaustive account of Ivan's dealings. Their work overtly implicates the collusion of Russia's government, which denies ties to Ivan while openly harboring him. Gabriel portends to his colleague Ari Shamron that Ivan's days are numbered. However, a serious eye injury (a battle scar from his most recent trip to Russia) prevents Gabriel from pursuing Ivan any further. Indeed, Gabriel fears that his profession as an art restorer is impossible. Yet, time and skilled medical attention allow Gabriel the promise of full recovery—and continued work both as an artist and as a secret agent.
International titles
Portuguese: As Regras de Moscovo. (The Moscow Rules). (2010).
References
External links
Daniel Silva - Official Website (Book: Moscow Rules)
Goodreads.com
Transcript of Hugh Hewitt interviewing Daniel Silva about Moscow Rules on the Hugh Hewitt Show on July 29, 2008
2008 American novels
American spy novels
Novels by Daniel Silva
Novels set in Russia
G. P. Putnam's Sons books |
20475962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20University%20of%20Technology%20in%20Oman | German University of Technology in Oman | The German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) is a private university in Halban, Oman. It was established in 2007 in Muscat in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University in Germany, one of the leading and top-ranked universities of technology in Europe. GUtech was one of the first universities in Oman to receive international accreditation for all its BSc and BEng programs. In the Academic Year 2019 more than 2200 students were enrolled in GUtech's programs. GUtech is now one of the best universities in Oman.
History
The history of the German University of Technology (GUtech) can be traced back to 2003.
RWTH Aachen University in Germany was approached with the intention of bringing German excellence in education to Oman. After a few years of discussion and negotiation, the founders were ready to begin a plan of action for establishing a university. In August 2006, Oman Educational Services L.L.C. (OES), a limited liability company under the laws of the Sultanate of Oman, was incorporated to establish a university on a formal footing. OES is the legal entity responsible for initiating education-related projects.
A Collaborative Agreement between RWTH Aachen University and OES was signed in December 2006, paving the way for the establishment of a private university in the Sultanate of Oman. This cemented the groundwork for everything the founder envisioned: a high-quality university of technology in of Oman. Specifically, the agreement laid the framework for collaboration between OES and RWTH Aachen University in terms of academic curricula, quality assurance and expertise, and setting up a technological university. All GUtech programmes have been developed in cooperation of GUtech with RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
In March 2007, The Ministry of Higher Education of the Sultanate of Oman issued a Ministerial Decision No. 9/2007 for the establishment of the Oman German University of Technology (OGTech). This was followed by the development of four Bachelor of Science programmes of study, namely: Sustainable Tourism and Regional Development, Urban Planning and Architectural Design, Applied Geosciences, Applied Information Technology.
In September 2007, the university opened its doors to students in rented premises in Athaibah. Initially, sixty (60) Omani male and female students joined the Foundation Year Programme (FYP). A preparatory study programme that acts as a bridge between high school and university education. In 2008, the name of the university was changed to the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech).
Shortly thereafter, in July 2009, GUtech received international accreditation by ACQUIN, a German-based accreditation agency, for its Bachelor of Science programs. With a continuously growing reputation, the university added new Bachelor of Engineering programmes, namely: Process Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
With the same expansionary spirit, the university opened a second campus in October 2010. Given its location beside Muscat International Airport, the campus was known as the Airport Campus where all bachelor's degree programmes were taught. In 2011, the Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering was introduced, along with the first Master programme, in Petroleum Geoscience.
An architecture office was commissioned to design a building for the university that would reflect Oman heritage and German precision. In 2011, construction work began to establish a campus in the Halban area.
In September 2012, GUtech moved into its permanent campus in Halban, the first-ever Green Campus in Oman. A campus in Halban that comprises a total area of . The building earned the 2013 award of the best commercial building of the year in Oman and in the Middle East.
Affiliation with RWTH Aachen University
GUtech is affiliated to RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
Academic programs
The university offers full-time Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) as well as part-time Master of Science programs. Additionally, the University offers a GUtech Foundation Programme.
The Foundation Programme has been designed to equip students with the skills required to succeed in the Bachelor programmes. Whereas the Core Studies Program mainly provides students with the necessary English language skills, the Academic Studies Program is made up of different modules including economics, mathematics, information technology, sciences and creative design.
Bachelor of science programs
BSc in Applied Geosciences
BSc in Computer Science
BSc in International Business and Service Management
BSc in Urban Planning and Architectural Design
BSc in Logistics
BSc in Cyber Security
BSc in Artificial Intelligence
Bachelor of engineering programs
BEng in Mechanical Engineering
BEng in Process Engineering
BEng in Environmental Engineering
Master of Science Programs
MSc in Applied Geoscience (part-time)
The language of tuition at GUtech is English, German is taught as an additional foreign language.
Students
In the summer semester 2019 approx. 2200 students were enrolled in different programs at GUtech, about 8 per cent of them were international students. Each year students receive financial aid and scholarships from different sources either from industry or government like Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Ministry of Higher Education, Oman International Fertilizer Company (OMIFCO), OMRAN and Oman Educational Services (OES).
The entry requirements depend on the program and the level of entrance. For example, to enter directly into one of the Bachelor programs, students need to submit IELTS results of at least 6.0, or equivalent TOEFL results. The applicant may also need to pass a GUtech entrance examination.
International accreditation
GUtech was the first private university in the Sultanate that received international accreditation for all Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering programs by the international Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute (ACQUIN) in June 2009. ACQUIN is a non-profit agency committed to supporting the enhancement of quality standards for teaching and learning in higher education worldwide. It is a full member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and operates in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Middle and Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Near and Middle East.
The international accreditation of GUtech is an assurance that students are receiving a world-class higher education in Oman. It also means that graduates have the possibility to continue their studies at RWTH Aachen University in Germany or at any other university of their choice - depending on the individual entry requirements of the respective university.
Organizational structure
GUtech is owned by private Omani shareholders (OES), who are represented by the Board of Directors (BoD). The managing board of GUtech is the Board of Governors (BoG). Members of the Board of Governors are representatives of the shareholders, of RWTH Aachen University as well as of the governmental sector of both Oman and Germany.
The rectorate, which is chaired by Rector Michael Modigell, manages the university. Armin Eberlein is Deputy-Rector for Academic Affairs, and Hussain Al Salmi is Deputy-Rector for Administration and Finances.
In 2018, a total of 180 academic and administrative employees were employed at GUtech. The majority of the academic staff – around 70% – comes from Europe.
In May 2017, GUtech comprised four faculties:
Faculty of Urban Planning and Architecture
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Business and Economics
Faculty of Science
See also
Education in Oman
List of universities and colleges in Oman
References
2007 establishments in Oman
Educational institutions established in 2007
Universities and colleges in Muscat, Oman
Universities in Oman |
17337448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMG-41 | AMG-41 | AMG-41 (part of the AM cannabinoid series) is an analgesic drug which is a cannabinoid agonist. It is a derivative of Δ8-THC substituted with a cyclopropyl group on the C1'-position of the C3-alkyl side chain. AMG-41 is a potent agonist at both CB1 and CB2, with a Ki of 0.44 nM at CB1 vs 0.86 nM at CB2.
See also
AMG-3
AMG-36
References
Cannabinoids
Benzochromenes
Phenols |
23577369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Weir%20River | Little Weir River | The Little Weir River, an anabranch of the Barwon River within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the South Downs district of Queensland and the Orana district of New South Wales, Australia.
The river leaves Barwon River, north of Mungindi, Queensland, and flows generally south-west, before reaching its confluence with the Barwon River, near Moyan, in New South Wales; descending over its course.
See also
List of rivers of New South Wales
Rivers of Queensland
Border Rivers
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin |
20475982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Jones%20%281890s%20pitcher%29 | Mike Jones (1890s pitcher) | Michael Jones (July 5, 1865 – March 24, 1894) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He made three starts for the American Association champion Louisville Colonels in , earning the win in two of them. He also had four hits and two walks in his eleven career plate appearances.
Sources
1865 births
1894 deaths
19th-century baseball players
Canadian expatriate baseball players in the United States
Major League Baseball pitchers
Louisville Colonels players
Guelph Maple Leafs players
Hamilton Primrose players
Hamilton Clippers players
Hamilton Hams players
London Tecumsehs (baseball) players
Major League Baseball players from Canada
Baseball players from Hamilton, Ontario |
17337461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi%20Cam%C3%AD | Jordi Camí | Jordi Camí (Terrassa, 1952) is Professor of Pharmacology (specialist in Clinical Pharmacology) at Pompeu Fabra University, General Director of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), and Vicepresident of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation.
He has been the promoter and first director of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation between 2008 and 2020. His scientific activity has been focused on the field of Neurosciences (drug dependence, cognition), having explored other fields such as Bibliometry, Evaluation and Scientific Policy. His academic activity has been carried out between the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), having held the positions of Delegate of the Rector, Dean and Director of the department. At the UPF, he promoted Biology studies and the creation and development of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences. He was the Director of the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) between 1985 and 2005. He has also participated in the creation of new research centers (CRG, CMRB) and, in particular, the PRBB, which he founded and runs since 2005. He founded the no longer edited journal Quark (1995-2007).
In 2017 he was elected a full member of the Biological Sciences section of the Institute for Catalan Studies (Institut d’Estudis Catalans -IEC).
Among the various awards won are the honorable mention of the Reina Sofia Research Award in 1990 and the award of the Narcís Monturiol medal by the Generalitat of Catalonia to scientific and technological merit in 2000. Among other institutions, from 2005 to 2012 he was a Member of the Health Advisory Council of the Social Ministry of Health of Spain and a member of its Executive Committee, and from 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the Bioethics Committee of Spain. He has also been the first President of CIR-CAT (Committee for the Integrity of Research in Catalonia).
References
External links
Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
Pasqual Maragall Foundation
Virtual Mind Laboratory
Jordi Camí personal web page
1952 births
Living people
People from Terrassa
Spanish non-fiction writers
Bioethics
Pompeu Fabra University faculty |
23577371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus%20disponendi | Jus disponendi | Jus disponendi, in the civil law, refers to the right of disposing (of a thing owned, i.e. it is an attribute of dominium, or ownership). An expression used either:
generally, to signify the right of alienation, as historically a married woman would be deprived of the jus disponendi over her separate estate;
specially, in the law relating to sales of goods, where it is often a question whether the vendor of goods has the intention of reserving to himself the jus disponendi; i. e., of preventing the ownership from passing to the purchaser, notwithstanding that he (the vendor) has parted with the possession of the goods.
See also
Ius
References
Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition 1910) (public domain)
Latin legal terminology |
26721499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obertoggenburg%20District | Obertoggenburg District | Obertoggenburg District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
44505869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Banks | Cape Banks | Cape Banks is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Carpenter Rocks at the south end of Bucks Bay and the north end of Bungaloo Bay on the state's south east coast about west south west of the city of Mount Gambier.
The cape is described by one source as being "a rocky point, high, SSE of Cape Buffon" while another source describes it as ‘a cuspate foreland protruding seaward in lee of calcarenite rocks and reefs’.
It was named by the Royal Navy officer, James Grant, on 3 December 1800.
The navigation aid known as the Cape Banks Lighthouse is not located on the cape but on an unnamed headland located at the northern end of Lighthouse Bay which is the next bay to the north-west of Bucks Bay.
Cape Banks, South Australia, should not be confused with the northern headland of Botany Bay, in New South Wales, which is also named Cape Banks.
References
B
B |
26721501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untertoggenburg%20District | Untertoggenburg District | Untertoggenburg District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
44505878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrville%2C%20Indiana | Orrville, Indiana | Orrville is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Indiana, in the United States.
History
A post office was established at Orrville in 1895, and it remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. Two members of the Orr family served as postmasters.
References
Unincorporated communities in Knox County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Indiana |
23577375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclaughlin%20River | Maclaughlin River | The Maclaughlin River, a perennial river of the Snowy River catchment, is located in the Monaro region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
The Maclaughlin River rises on the southern slopes of the Great Dividing Range approximately south southeast of Nimmitabel. The river flows generally west and then southwest, joined by two minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Snowy River approximately south by west of Mount Rix. The river descends over its course, flowing through Merriangaah Nature Reserve.
In its upper reaches, the Maclaughlin River is crossed by the Monaro Highway near Nimmitabel.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales |
6905697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilhac | Lilhac | Lilhac () is a commune in the Haute Garonne department in southwestern France.
Population
Local inhabitants are called Lilhacais.
Geography
Lilhac lies roughly 65 km southwest from Toulouse. Its altitude at the highest point is 380 metres, and covers an area of 730ha or 7.3 km².
The river Touch has its source in the commune.
History
Lilhac was registered as a commune in 1668. The local church, Eglise St-Quitterie, dedicated to Saint Quiteria, dates to before the 18th century.
See also
Communes of the Haute-Garonne department
References
Communes of Haute-Garonne
1668 establishments in France |
26721514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Rotten | Ian Rotten | John Benson Williams (born June 1, 1970) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Ian Rotten. He has wrestled in the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), the United States Wrestling Association (USWA), and his own wrestling promotion IWA: Mid-South.
Professional wrestling career
Early career
After becoming a fan of Dusty Rhodes and "Superstar" Billy Graham while growing up in Florida and Baltimore, Maryland, John Williams, began his career under the name Johnny Lawler, the storyline illegitimate son of Jerry "The King" Lawler. After a short stint as hockey gimmick Zach Blades, Williams went to wrestle in the Global Wrestling Federation.
The Bad Breed
In GWF, Williams formed The Bad Breed, a tag team with Brian Knighton as brothers Ian and Axl Rotten, respectively. They defeated the Texas Mustangs (Bobby Duncum, Jr. & Johnny Hawk) for the GWF Tag Team Championship in January 1993, losing the titles shortly thereafter. In June 1994 in Extreme Championship Wrestling, the Bad Breed started a feud with The Public Enemy over the ECW Tag Team Championship, but never won the title.
Later career
The Rotten brothers briefly feuded with each other prior to Williams' termination from ECW in late 1995. He moved to Kentucky, where he started a wrestling hotline followed by the IWA Mid-South promotion in early 1996. IWA was controversial for its use of violent and bloody hardcore wrestling. In 2008, IWA and Williams were investigated by Indiana State Police over the violence in their shows. In 2011, IWA shut down and was restarted by a third party, with Williams making occasional appearances.
Personal life
Williams is the father of John Calvin Glenn, known also by the ring name of J.C. Rotten.
Championships and accomplishments
ACW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Drake Younger
Global Wrestling Federation
GWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Axl Rotten
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship (8 times)
IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Axl Rotten (2), Cash Flo (1), Tarek the Great (1) and Mad Man Pondo (1)
IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatch (1997, 2001)
Juggalo Championship Wrestling
JCW Tag Team Championship (1 times) - with Lane Bloody
NWA New Jersey
NWA United States Tag Team Championship (New Jersey version) (1 time) - with Blaze
NWA Revolution
NWA Revolution Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Danny McKay
Westside Xtreme Wrestling
wXw World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
wXw Hardcore Championship (1 time)
References
External link
1970 births
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
Professional wrestling promoters
ECW Originals members
People from Baltimore
Professional wrestlers from Maryland
20th-century professional wrestlers
21st-century professional wrestlers
GWF Tag Team Champions |
6905703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Highway%20348 | Arkansas Highway 348 | Highway 348 (AR 348, Ark. 348, and Hwy. 348) is a designation for two east–west state highways in Crawford County. One segment of runs from Highway 59 at Figure Five east to Arkansas Highway 60 near Rudy. A second segment of runs from US Route 71 (US 71) at Cain east to National Forest Route 1007.
Route description
Figure Five to Rudy
AR 348 begins at US 71 at the unincorporated community of Cain south of Mountainburg. The route runs northeast, entering the Ozark National Forest and terminating at an intersection with National Forest Route 1007 and Hickory Street. The road is two–lane undivided for its entire length.
Cain to Ozark National Forest
The route begins at Highway 59 at the Figure Five community and runs east as a rural two-lane route. Winding through forested mountains, Highway 348 terminates at Highway 60 near Rudy.
History
Highway 348 was created by the Arkansas State Highway Commission on November 23, 1966. The second segment between Cain and the National Forest was designated on June 28, 1973 pursuant to Act 9 of 1973 by the Arkansas General Assembly. The act directed county judges and legislators to designate up to of county roads as state highways in each county.
Major intersections
See also
References
348
Transportation in Crawford County, Arkansas |
23577377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammy%20Johnsons%20River | Mammy Johnsons River | Mammy Johnsons River, a mostly perennial river of the Mid-Coast Council system, is located in the Mid North Coast and Upper Hunter regions of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Mammy Johnsons River rises on the southwestern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, below Winns Mountain, north northwest of Bulahdelah, and flows generally north, west and south, joined by four tributaries including Wards River, before reaching its confluence with the Karuah River north northwest of Stroud. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L–Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Mid-Coast Council
Rivers of the Hunter Region |
6905716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra%20Bir | Mitra Bir | Mitra Bir was a freedom fighter and educationist from Goa, who was sentenced to twelve years in jail at the age of 22 when the region was a Portuguese colony. She later opened schools for girls at Margao, Verem, Kakora and other locations in Goa, as well as centres for adult and vocational education for women. She was married to the late Madhav R. Bir, a former member of the Goa assembly and Gandhian.
She died in 1978.
References
1978 deaths
Women educators from Goa
Goa liberation activists
Year of birth missing
Women Indian independence activists
20th-century Indian women politicians
Indian human rights activists
Educators from Goa
20th-century Indian politicians
Indian women educational theorists
20th-century Indian educational theorists
20th-century women educators |
20476024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Depression%20Two-E%20%282006%29 | Tropical Depression Two-E (2006) | Tropical Depression Two-E was a short-lived tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall to southwestern Mexico. It was the only cyclone during the month in the eastern North Pacific Ocean, forming on June 3 from a tropical wave. The depression initially moved northeastward, threatening the Mexican states of Michoacán and Guerrero with a potential of it attaining tropical storm status. It remained a tropical depression, weakening due to land interaction and wind shear, and on June 5 it dissipated just off the coast. Rainfall from the depression peaked at 19.1 inches (486 mm) in Acapulco, which resulted in mudslides and flooding. A total of 42 houses were flooded, and 72 people were forced to leave their homes due to the storm; no deaths were reported.
Meteorological history
The tropical depression originated from a tropical wave off the southern coast of Mexico in late May 2006. An area of convection was associated with the wave, and forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) remarked that environmental conditions favored gradual development. The system, which was enhanced by the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), drifted northward with an anticyclone to its east and west. On June 1, the convection became more concentrated, and by early the next day it developed a low pressure area; by that time, it began a steady northwestward track.
An upper-level anticyclone north of the system provided a more favorable environment for organization, allowing the convection to organize into banding features. The system also developed good outflow, though initially the surface circulation was too elongated for it to be considered a tropical cyclone. Early on June 3, the nearby anticyclone moved northeastward, which increased wind shear over the system and caused it briefly to become less-organized. However, convection increased over the center, and at 1500 UTC on June 3 the NHC classified the system as Tropical Depression Two-E about 140 mi (240 km) southwest of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero; the upgrade was due to the system developing sufficiently organized convection, as well as a closed surface circulation.
Upon being classified as a tropical cyclone, the depression was in an area not favorable for significant strengthening, due to land interaction and wind shear. It was tracking steadily northeastward, and as it moved closer to the coastline, the center of the depression was difficult to locate. However, the overall organization briefly improved, and in one forecast the depression was predicted to attain tropical storm status. Early on June 4, convection weakened significantly, leaving the center partially exposed. Continued wind shear brought most of the associated thunderstorm activity onshore southwestern Mexico while the center of the depression remained just offshore. Late on June 4, the circulation accelerated away from the deep convection as it passed a short distance south of Acapulco. Early on June 5, the circulation dissipated, and later that night the remnants moved inland.
Preparations and impact
Due to uncertainty in whether the depression would attain tropical storm status or not, the government of Mexico issued a tropical storm warning from Punta San Telmo, Michoacán to Acapulco, Guerrero. Prior to affecting the coastline, the Mexican meteorological agency issued a heavy rainfall advisory, also mentioning the potential for flooding and mudslides, for the states of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, and Oaxaca. Officials prepared 21 shelters in the region.
The depression produced heavy rainfall along the coastline, including a total of 19.1 inches (486 mm) measured in a 48‑hour period in Acapulco. Totals of over 2 inches (50 mm) spread across much of Guerrero and Oaxaca, causing flash flooding and mudslides. The storm partially flooded about 40 houses, and a total of 72 people were forced to leave their homes. In Acapulco, floodwaters washed trash from street corners onto the beaches. Elsewhere in Guerrero, the flooding and mudslides blocked several highways, which stranded dozens of vehicles. The wall of a prison collapsed due to the rainfall. Also in Acapulco, the rainfall downed trees and power lines, causing power outages and sparking a fire when a transformer exploded. No deaths were reported.
References
External links
Advisory Archive
02E
02E
2006 Pacific hurricane season
2-E |
6905718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Cleveland | Electoral district of Cleveland | Cleveland was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1992 to 2017.
Based in the northern part of Redland City Council, the district included the suburbs of Wellington Point, Ormiston, Cleveland and Thornlands. It also covers the entirety of North Stradbroke Island.
In the 2017 electoral redistribution, the Electoral Commission of Queensland changed the name of the electorate to Oodgeroo.
Members for Cleveland
Election results
References
External links
Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)
Former electoral districts of Queensland
Constituencies established in 1992
Constituencies disestablished in 2017
1992 establishments in Australia
2017 disestablishments in Australia |
26721515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mwea%20Constituency | Mwea Constituency | Mwea Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of four constituencies in Kirinyaga County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections.
Members of Parliament
Locations and wards
References
Constituencies in Kirinyaga County
Constituencies in Central Province (Kenya)
1988 establishments in Kenya
Constituencies established in 1988 |
17337466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphium%20weiskei | Graphium weiskei | Graphium weiskei, the purple spotted swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the swallowtail family; Papilionidae. It is found only in the highlands of New Guinea. These swallowtails live in elevations of .
The name honours the collector Emil Weiske.
See also
Graphium stresemanni – visually similar species
References
Müller, C.J. and Tennent, W.J 1999 A New Species of Graphium Scopoli (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea 1999 Records of the Australian Museum 51: (161-168) pdf Presents a key to the closely related Graphium kosii, Graphium weiskei (Ribbe), G.stresemanni (Rothschild), G. batjanensis Okano, G. macleayanum (Leach) and G. gelon (Boisduval) all of which are confined to the Australasian region.
External links
Weiskei
Lepidoptera of New Guinea
Butterflies described in 1900 |
6905724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana%20Doronina | Tatiana Doronina | Tatiana (Tatyana) Vasilyevna Doronina (; born 12 September 1933) is a popular Soviet/Russian actress who has performed in movies and the theater. She is generally regarded as one of the most talented actresses of her generation and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.
Biography
Doronina was born in Leningrad, USSR (now present-day St. Petersburg Russia) After graduating the MKhAT school in Moscow, she returned to Leningrad and joined the Bolshoi Drama Theatre directed by Georgy Tovstonogov.
After moving to Moscow, Doronina worked at the Mayakovsky Theater and then at MKhAT. Her major roles were Arkadina in The Seagull by Chekhov, Dulcinea del Toboso in a play by , Queen Elizabeth of England and Mary Stuart in Vivat Regina.
The films she starred in, though few, are now considered Soviet classics. Many directors at the time believed she was too theatrical for film and refused to hire her. Georgy Natanson reversed that judgment by giving her the lead parts in Older Sister and Once More About Love. Both films had a significant success and made Doronina a noteworthy film star. Young women in the Soviet Union imitated her bouffant hair-do and her manner of speaking, and fans queued up for hours to get tickets. For her role for Once More about Love in which she played a flight attendant, she earned the Best Soviet Actress title in 1968 from the Soviet Screen. "Doronina's profoundly romantic heroines could sacrifice everything for love. She rendered the love theme the way no actress did. In almost every of her films she would sing a song, which in her presentation turned into a small drama", says Russian Cultural Navigator. In Three Poplars in Plyushcikha she plays a plain country woman who, although married, has never experienced love and puts the anguish tormenting her heart into a song called "Tenderness”.
At present Doronina is artistic director of the , a job she accepted when MKhAT split into two independent troupes.
Her former husbands include Edvard Radzinsky, a popular Russian writer and historian, and actors Oleg Basilashvili and Boris Khimichev.
Selected filmography
Movies
The First Echelon (1955) — Zoya
Soldiers Were Walking (1958) — Christia
Horizon (1961) — Klava, state farmer
An Uninvented Story (1964) — Klava Baidakova
Red Call (1965) — Nika
Working Village (1965) — Polina
Older Sister (1966) — Nadezhda, Lydia's older sister
Three Poplars in Plyushcikha (1968) — Nyura (Anna Grigoryevna)
Once More About Love (1968) — Natasha Alexandrova, flight attendant
Wonderful Character (1970) — Nadezhda Kazakova, singer from Siberia
Stepmom (1973) — Shura (Alexandra Nikolaevna) Olevantseva, Sveta's stepmother
To a Clear Fire (1975) — Anna Lavrentievna Kasyanova
Olga Sergeevna (1975) — Olga Sergeevna Vashkina, oceanologist
Capel (1981) — Maria, painter in the construction team, Vitka's mother
Valentin and Valentina (1985) — Mother of Valentina and Zhenya
Teleplays
The Enchanted Wanderer (1963) — Gypsy Pear
Twenty Years Later (1971) — Queen Anne
Dowry (1974) — Larisa Ogudalova
Well, the Audience! (1976) — Lady, Voldemar's fellow traveler
BDT Thirty Years Later (1986) — Cleopatra Lvovna Mamaeva
Live and Remember (1987) — Nastya (Based on the novel by V. Rasputin)
Documentaries
Today is the Premiere (1965)
Live, Think, Feel, Love... Georgy Tovstonogov (1988) (Made by"Lentelefilm")
The Face (1988)
Efim Kopelyan (1998) (From the series of TV programs of the ORT channel "To Remember")
Boris Livanov (2003) (From the series of TV programs of the ORT channel "To Remember")
The Appearance of the Master. Georgy Tovstonogov (2003) (TV channel “Russia-Culture”)
Leonid Kharitonov. Sunny Boy (2004) (From the author's cycle by S. V. Ursulyak about the heroes of Soviet cinema)
Boris Livanov (2005) (From the series of programs of the DTV channel "How the idols left")
Drama by Ivan Brovkin (2006)
Demiurge. Georgy Tovstonogov (2008) (TV channel “Russia. Culture”)
Innokenty Smoktunovsky Against Prince Myshkin (2008)
Georgy Natanson. In Love With Cinema (2010)
My Son — Andrei Krasko (2010)
The Main Role for Your Favorite Actress (2011)
Stepmother (2015) (From the cycle "Secrets of our cinema" on the TV Center TV channel)
Voicing
The Blue Bird (1970) — Fairy
Honours and awards
Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
1st class (29 April 2019)
2nd class (13 September 2013)
3rd class (11 June 2003) - for outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art
4th class (23 October 1998) - for many years of fruitful work in the field of theatrical art, and in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Moscow Art Theatre
Order of Honour (8 September 2008) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical and cinematic arts, many years of creative activity
Order of Friendship of Peoples (20 June 1994) - for great achievements in the field of theatrical arts
Tsarskoselskaya Art Prize (18 October 2011 - "For the grace and inspiration of the images in the theatre and film"
People's Artist of USSR
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Merited Artist of the RSFSR
References
External links
Tatyana Doronina
1933 births
Living people
Soviet film actresses
Soviet stage actresses
Russian film actresses
Russian stage actresses
Actresses from Saint Petersburg
Russian theatre directors
People's Artists of the USSR
Full Cavaliers of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
Moscow Art Theatre School alumni |
20476077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%20Dallas%20Cowboys%20season | 1976 Dallas Cowboys season | The 1976 Dallas Cowboys season was their 17th in the league. The team improved on their previous output of 10–4, winning eleven games. They qualified for the playoffs, but were stunned by the Los Angeles Rams in the Divisional round.
NFL Draft
Schedule
Division opponents are in bold text
Playoffs
Standings
Roster
Season recap
The Cowboys entered the year with high expectations, dominating the regular season by finishing with an 11-3 record, while capturing the NFC East title. But they came up short in the first round of the divisional playoffs, after being heavily favored at home against the Los Angeles Rams, but still losing 14-12.
Publications
The Football Encyclopedia
Total Football
Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes
References
Dallas Cowboys seasons
NFC East championship seasons
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys |
17337468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest%20Football%20Conference%20%28NJCAA%29 | Midwest Football Conference (NJCAA) | The Midwest Football Conference was a football conference for NJCAA teams located in the midwest United States. It was formed when the North Central Community College Conference merged with the Iowa Conference in 2005.
The conference dissolved following the 2013 season after almost of the East Division schools, except the College of DuPage, dropped football. The Iowa schools, Ellsworth Community College, Iowa Central Community College and Iowa Western Community College, formed a scheduling alliance with the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference. The two North Dakota schools joined the Minnesota Community College Conference in football only while DuPage became an independent.
Grand Rapids, Harper, Joliet, Rock Valley and North Iowa Area no longer field teams.
Former members
East division
West division
External links
Midwest Football Conference
NJCAA conferences
College football-only conferences in the United States
Sports in the Midwestern United States |
26721523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamogeton%20compressus | Potamogeton compressus | Potamogeton compressus is a species of aquatic plant known by the common names grass-wrack pondweed, flatstem pondweed and eel-grass pondweed.
Description
Potamogeton compressus produces a strongly flattened, robust, branching stem up to 90 cm in maximum length
. It grows annually from turions and seed, producing bushy plants branching near the surface with long, rather grass-like leaves that are 85–240 mm long and 3–6 mm wide and olive-green or dark green, sometimes with a reddish tinge near the surface. Each leaf has two veins either side of the midrib and is bluntly pointed. The leaves have a rather opaque appearance compared to the transparent leaves of most pondweeds, due of the presence of fibres called sclerenchymatous strands. There are no rhizomes or floating leaves.
The inflorescences are up to 6 mm long with 4-6 flowers with a short peduncle (5–20 mm long, occasionally more). The fruits are 3.1-4 x 2.1–3 mm.
Grass-wrack pondweed is relatively easily distinguished from most other pondweeds by its combination of strongly flattened stems and sclerenchymatous strands in the leaf . P. acutifolius is similar in Europe but can be distinguished by its sharply pointed leaves, less branched habit and flower spikes with only 2-6 flowers on peduncles up to 20 mm long. In the Far East, P. mandschuriensis is an altogether smaller plant, with leaves 1.5-2.3 mm wide and 8-14 sclerenchymatous strands, stem 0.8-1.5 mm wide, and fruit 2.8-3.8 mm diameter.
This is a diploid species, with 2n=28.
Hybrids with P. acutifolius (P. × bambergensis Fischer), P. oxyphyllus (P. × faurei Miki) and P. trichoides (P. × ripoides Baagøe) have been recorded. P. × bambergensis may be reasonably frequent where the two species coexist, but like many fine-leaved pondweed hybrids, is difficult to identify reliably without using genetic techniques.
Taxonomy
Potamogeton compressus was first named by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum (1753). For much of the 19th century, Potamogeton friesii was incorrectly known as P. compressus, which has led to considerable confusion.
Grass-wrack pondweed is one of a group of rather closely related species that also includes P. acutifolius and P. mandschuriensis. North American populations have been assigned to Potamogeton zosteriformis Fernald. Although this is not a currently accepted name, there is molecular evidence to suggest it is probably distinct from P. compressus.
Distribution
Potamogeton compressus is native to Europe (Austria, Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine), Asia (China (Yunnan), Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia).
In North America P. compressus / zosteriformis occurs in northern USA and Canada. There are isolated populations in the Balkans, Oregon and the Rockies. There is considerable uncertainty regarding the exact distribution of this species in Siberia and Canada.
Ecology and Conservation
Grass-wrack pondweed grows in still or slow-flowing, lowland, calcareous and often rather nutrient-rich water bodies such as backwaters in rivers, ponds and slow-moving streams, usually on fine substrates such as sand, silt, clay or peat, usually in less than 1.5 m water depth. However, Japanese populations have been reported growing in 5 m of water. It is also capable of colonising artificial habitats such as canals and drainage ditches, so long as these are not heavily boated. Grass-wrack pondweed is intolerant of turbid water and prefers some shade. Like its close relative Potamogeton acutifolius, it rarely grows in lakes; the shallow root system is intolerant of disturbance and is therefore vulnerable to wind action, boat disturbance and uprooting by fish.
Potamogeton compressus is a rather early succession species and tends to be outcompeted unless the habitat it grows in is regularly disturbed. As a result, populations are often transient. Most reproduction in the wild appears to be asexual via turions, which is likely to mean that populations have limited ability to recolonise if lost. However, turion production is not prolific, with wild plants typically producing only 4-5 turions. Flowering and fruiting seems to be more frequent in shallow water environments with fluctuating water levels, such as ditches.
Grass-wrack pondweed is threatened in many parts of its range especially in Europe: it is Extinct in the Czech Republic, Critically Endangered in Flanders, Endangered in Germany, England, Vulnerable in the Carpathian region, Wales, and Near Threatened in the Netherlands. In North America it is listed as Endangered in Maryland and New Jersey, Threatened in New Hampshire and Rare in Pennsylvania. In Britain P. compressus is a Biodiversity Action Plan priority species and is subject to conservation action including translocation efforts.
These declines probably reflect the widespread damage to riverine landscapes across lowland Europe, and in particular the loss of many features such as back channels, oxbow lakes and floodplain ponds as rivers are channelised and engineered for flood defence and agricultural purposes. The largest British populations are in disused or rarely boated canals, which cannot be the primary habitat for grass-wrack pondweed and are not a sustainable long-term habitat. However, in the short-term, canal populations are an important reservoir for this species. Competition with introduced Elodea canadensis (Canadian pondweed) and E. nuttallii (Nuttall's water-thyme) may also be problematic. It is possible that the widespread reintroduction of beaver across Europe may help to arrest or reverse the decline of grass-wrack pondweed, as beaver ponds may well be a suitable habitat for this species.
Cultivation
Potamogeton compressus is not in cultivation. It could probably be cultivated in rather silty ponds, so long as they are regularly cleaned out in order to prevent other more competitive plants from excluding it. Cultivation experiments for conservation purposes have successfully grown plants to maturity from turions planted in late winter, but adult plants are more difficult to establish due to their limited root system and fragile nature. High mortality was also observed due to snail predation in culture.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Flora of North America
compressus
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
17337494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful%20Life%20%28Doc%20Walker%20album%29 | Beautiful Life (Doc Walker album) | Beautiful Life is the fifth studio album by Canadian country music group Doc Walker. The album was named Album of the Year at the 2008 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. It also won the 2009 Juno Award for Country Recording of the Year.
Track listing
Chart performance
Singles
References
2008 albums
Doc Walker albums
Open Road Recordings albums
Canadian Country Music Association Album of the Year albums
Juno Award for Country Album of the Year albums |
6905730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette%20Vermeersch | Jeannette Vermeersch | Jeannette Vermeersch (born Julie Marie Vermeersch; 26 November 1910 – 5 November 2001) was a French politician.
She is principally known for having been the companion (1932–1947) and then the wife (1947–1964) of Maurice Thorez, general secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), with whom she had three children, born before their union was made official.
Biography
Born in La Madeleine, Nord as the seventh of nine children in a family of workers, Jeannette Vermeersch joined the workforce at the age of ten, despite the fact that at the time, children under the age of 13 were legally prohibited from working. Her first job was as a servant at a wine merchant's, then in a bourgeois family, before she entered a textile factory as a worker in 1921, all the while continuing to do chores after her hours of work at the factory.
Vermeersch began activity as a union activist in 1927. Through connections she formed in the union, she came to discover communism, whose growth as a movement was then in full swing in France, several years after the Tours Congress, and she founded a section of Young Communists. Her communist activity led her, in 1929, to be designated to take part in a delegation of textile workers who travelled to explore the Soviet Union. While her comrades returned to France, Jeannette Vermeersch chose to prolong her stay, remaining in Moscow for several months and working "for the cause". It is on this occasion that she would have heard the name of Maurice Thorez spoken for the first time in her presence, a little while before meeting him at the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1930.
Their relationship only became intimate in 1932. During the following seven years, Jeannette Vermeersch focused on Party missions; as an agent, she was zealous but a little withdrawn. For example, under the guidance of Jacques Duclos, she organised an extraordinary congress of Communist Youth in 1933, retaking control of a movement suspected of drifting in an "avant-gardist" direction. She was also one of the pivotal members of a new organisation that the Party had asked to be formed, the Union of Young French Women. After the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, she also focused very clearly on getting together a network of people in solidarity with the Second Spanish Republic, in addition to her other responsibilities. She headed the operation that sent food and various materials to the Republicans and organised the welcome of political refugees on French soil by the Communist networks present in small French towns.
On 2 October 1939, shortly after World War II began, she accompanied Mounette Dutilleul, who had come to Chauny to bring Maurice Thorez orders to desert, issued by the Third International. Escorted by Alphonse Pelayo, they left together toward the Nord , but crossed the Belgian border separately. Jeannette Vermeersch and her two young sons joined Maurice Thorez in Moscow. They remained in the USSR until November 1944. Jeannette gave birth to a third son in a clinic near Moscow.
In 1945, after her return to France, Jeannette Vermeersch was elected a deputy to the constituent assembly that met from 21 October 1945 to 5 May 1946, until the first proposal for a new French constitution was rejected by referendum. She was then elected, without interruption, to every sitting of the National Assembly until 1958, then moving up to the Senate, where she sat until 1968.
On 17 September 1947, Maurice Thorez and Jeannette Vermeersch made their union official at the city hall of Choisy-le-Roi (today in Val-de-Marne département). In 1950, when Maurice Thorez was stricken with hemiplegia and left to seek treatment in the USSR, Jeannette Vermeersch entered the Politburo of the French Communist Party, of which she was a member until 1968.
In 1956, Jeannette Vermeersch, speaking as vice president of the Union of French Women, took a stance against birth control: "Birth control, voluntary motherhood, is a bait for the great masses, but it is a weapon in the hands of the bourgeoisie against social laws". This position went against that of numerous activists, notably in the medical field. Thorez took Jeannette's side in condemning neo-Malthusian conjectures.
After Thorez died in 1964, she was often very critical of the new direction taken by general secretary Waldeck Rochet, and decided to resign from the Politburo in 1968 after Rochet expressed disapproval for the intervention of Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia to put an end to the Prague Spring. On the same occasion she ended her political career, nevertheless remaining an activist of the base, renewing her Communist Party membership until her death.
After her death and cremation, her ashes were transferred to Paris, to the Père Lachaise Cemetery, into the tomb of Maurice Thorez.
On the occasion of her death, the heads of the party, Robert Hue (party president) and Marie-George Buffet (national secretary and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports) underlined that, although they disagreed with the deceased on a number of points, they still saluted the unflappability of her convictions and the permanence of her involvement.
After 1950, Jeannette Vermeersch also used the name Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, but she is usually known by her historical pseudonym, notably within the Communist Party. She never used the name Jeannette Thorez.
She died in Callian, Var.
Union and party functions
1930–1931: member of the secretariat of Young Communists of the Nord
1931–1932: member of the national committee of young union members of the Unitary General Confederation of Labour
1932–1934: member of the national bureau of Young Communists
1934–1935: co-director of the Union of Young French Women
1945–1974: vice president of the Union of French Women
1950–1968: member of the Politburo of the French Communist Party
Elected political positions
1945–1946: deputy for Seine (first constituent assembly)
1946–1947: deputy for Seine (second constituent assembly)
1947–1951: deputy for Seine
1951–1956: deputy for Seine
1956–1958: deputy for Seine
1959–1964: senator for Seine
1964–1968: senator for Val-de-Marne
Works
Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, Vers quels lendemains ? : de l'internationalisme à l'eurocommunisme (Toward What Futures? From Internationalism to Eurocommunism), Hachette, « Hachette-Essais » collection, Paris, 1979. 204 p. .
Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, la Vie en rouge : mémoires (My Life in Red: Memoirs), Belfond, Paris, February 1998. 242 p. .
References
Philippe Robrieux, Histoire intérieure du parti communiste, Tome 4 (Internal History of the Communist Party, v. 4), Fayard, 1984
External links
Background on Thorez and Vermeersch, put online by the municipal archives of Ivry, 2006
1910 births
2001 deaths
People from La Madeleine, Nord
French Communist Party politicians
Textile workers
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French expatriates in the Soviet Union
People granted political asylum in the Soviet Union
20th-century French women politicians |
23577382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%20River%20%28New%20South%20Wales%29 | Mann River (New South Wales) | Mann River, a perennial stream of the Clarence River catchment, is located in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Mann River rises at Llangothlin Lake, on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Ben Lomond and flows generally north north east, east, north east and north, joined by four tributaries including the Nymboida River, Henry River and Yarrow River, before reaching its confluence with the Clarence River, southwest of Baryulgil. The river descends over its course; and flows through the Mann River Nature Reserve.
The river is believed to be named in honour of Samuel Furneaux Mann, who held a squatting licence for a short time in the region northwest of Glen Innes.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Rivers |
26721526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20dogs%20of%20war%20%28phrase%29 | The dogs of war (phrase) | The dogs of war is a phrase spoken by Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of English playwright William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."
Synopsis
In the scene, Mark Antony is alone with Julius Caesar's body, shortly after Caesar's assassination. In a soliloquy, he reveals his intention to incite the crowd at Caesar's funeral to rise up against the assassins. Foreseeing violence throughout Rome, Antony even imagines Caesar's spirit joining in the exhortations: "raging for revenge, with Ate by his side come hot from hell, shall in these confines with a Monarch's voice cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."
Interpretation
In a literal reading, "dogs" are the familiar animals, trained for warfare; "havoc" is a military order permitting the seizure of spoil after a victory and "let slip" is to release from the leash. Shakespeare's source for Julius Caesar was The Life of Marcus Brutus from Plutarch's Lives, and the concept of the war dog appears in that work, in the section devoted to the Greek warrior Aratus.
Apart from the literal meaning, a parallel can be drawn with the prologue to Henry V, where the warlike king is described as having at his heels, awaiting employment, like hounds "famine, sword and fire".
Along those lines, an alternative proposed meaning is that "the dogs of war" refers figuratively to the wild pack of soldiers "let slip" by war's breakdown of civilized behavior and/or their commanders' orders to wreak "havoc", i.e., rape, pillage, and plunder.
Based on the original meaning of "dog" in its mechanical sense ("any of various usually simple mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening that consist of a spike, bar, or hook"), the "dogs" are "let slip" as an act of releasing. Thus, the "dogs of war" are the political and societal restraints against war that operate during times of peace.
In popular culture
The phrase has entered so far into general usage that it is now regarded as a cliché.
Many books, films, video games, songs, and television episodes are titled using variations of the phrase “Dogs of War.”
Victor Hugo used "dogs of war" as a metaphor for cannon fire in chapter XIV of Les Misérables:
The phrase was used by Christopher Plummer's character General Chang in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in a scene which featured Chang's Klingon Bird of Prey attacking the USS Enterprise.
Jeremy Clarkson used the phrase during a Top Gear special, before attempting a speed run at the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1, adding "They probably think that's a Bon Jovi lyric here."
Sterling Archer misquotes the phrase before embarking on a rampage to find the chemotherapy drugs for his aforementioned breast cancer.
Kevin Spacey on his role as Frank Underwood in the Series House of Cards used the phrase as he began a political attack to undermine the power of the President of the United States and move forward on his silent plan to take control of the White House and the executive power.
In 2017, it was used on a tifo at the King Power Stadium during the Champions League last 16 match featuring Leicester City and Sevilla FC. The tifo displayed a person holding onto dogs via a chain, with the phrase "Let Slip the Dogs of War" underneath.
The term “Dogs of War” is used in the boardgame Warhammer as a colloquial for various mercenary groups selling their swords for loot, plunder, and adventure.
The title of the 2000 PlayStation 1 game, Hogs of War (a turn based 3D tactics game with similarities to Worms, but with pigs of many national stereotypes) was a direct reference.
The Troy University Marching Band announcer reads the passage as part of the band's pregame show at every home football game.
See also
List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases
References
Bibliography
Note: The "Notes" for "Julius Cæsar" chapter in the Cornwall edition close with the signature "SINGER.", apparently referring to contributions based on the work of Samuel Weller Singer.
External links
Julius Caesar (play)
Metaphors referring to dogs
Shakespearean phrases
16th-century neologisms |
23577383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20River | Maryland River | Maryland River is a watercourse of the Clarence River catchment in the Northern Tablelands district of New South Wales, Australia. Its upper reaches run close to the border between New South Wales and Queensland.
Course and features
Formed through the confluence of Maryland Creek and Ruby Creek, Maryland River rises on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Maryland, and flows generally northeast and then southeast, joined by four minor tributaries before reaching its confluence with the Boonoo Boonoo River to form the Clarence River, east of Rivertree. The river descends over its course; and flows through the Maryland National Park in its upper reaches.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Tablelands |
17337509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Williams%20%28rugby%20league%2C%20born%201986%29 | David Williams (rugby league, born 1986) | David Williams (born 4 August 1986) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played on the in the 2000s and 2010s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australia international representative, he played his entire professional career with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the NRL, winning the 2008 NRL Premiership with them.
Background
He is the younger brother of former Parramatta Eels, Sydney Roosters, North Queensland Cowboys and Cronulla Sharks winger, John Williams.
Professional playing career
2000s
Williams was a junior, playing for the Hills District Bulls based at Baulkham Hills, North-West Sydney.
In 2008, Williams developed a cult following and became known as the "Wolfman" for his shaggy locks and full beard. Williams scored a try in the 2008 NRL Grand Final victory over Melbourne Storm.
Following the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Grand Final victory, he had his beard removed by Manly teammates as he slept.
In October 2008, Williams was named in the Australia squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. He made his test debut against Papua New Guinea at Dairy Farmers Stadium, scoring 3 tries, becoming one of few players to score a hat-trick on debut in the green and gold, and making a long break which led to another. Due to a hip flexor injury to teammate Brent Tate, Williams was chosen to play in the World Cup Final against New Zealand on 22 November 2008.
He played on the wing in Manly's 28–20 win over the Leeds Rhinos at Elland Road in the 2009 World Club Challenge match on 1 March. Williams along with some Manly teammates dyed his beard pink for the Women of League Round to raise money for charity, in their match against the Penrith Panthers in round 13 2009.
He was selected for City in the City vs Country match on 8 May 2009.
He made his New South Wales debut on the wing in State of Origin 2 played on 24 June 2009. Unfortunately for Williams and his NSW teammates, Queensland won the game 24–14, and the series. Williams scored a try in each of the two games he played.
2010s
In round 25 of the 2011 NRL season, Williams broke his neck against Melbourne and was ruled out for the rest of season, missing out on Manly's 24–10 win over the New Zealand Warriors in the 2011 NRL Grand Final. He was given 3 to 4 months to recover.
Williams made his return to top flight football on 17 February 2012 for Manly-Warringah when they again traveled to England to face the Leeds Rhino's in the 2012 World Club Challenge match, this time at the Rhino's home ground Headingley Carnegie Stadium. The Wolfman came through the match without further neck problems but his return was spoiled by his opposite number Ryan Hall who scored 2 tries in a Man of the Match performance (including a 95m intercept try in the 27th minute when Williams looked set to score in the corner) that helped Leeds reverse the 2009 result with a 26–12 win.
The Wolfman enjoyed a stellar year in 2013 for Manly-Warringah club and finished the minor round as the seasons equal leading try scorer having crossed for 19 tries. Williams won the award along with David Simmons from Penrith and James McManus of the Newcastle Knights.
Williams played in the 2013 NRL Grand Final loss against Sydney Roosters in which the player endured a horror night. Firstly Williams was out jumped for the ball in the first half by Daniel Tupou which led to a try. In the second half, Williams failed to kick the ball dead as roosters player Michael Jennings raced past him to score the winning try.
On 10 July 2014, Williams was banned from playing in the NRL for the rest of the 2014 NRL season following revelations he had bet on matches.
Williams returned to the Manly-Warringah squad in 2015, scoring the winning try in Manly's ANZAC Day match against Melbourne. He was named captain of Manly's NSW Cup team where he played at . He retired at the end of the season.
Outside football
Williams made his acting debut in 2013 in Tropfest short film finalist Darkness Comes in which he plays a wolf man.
Apart from his work in the field Williams works as a part-time model. He has done modelling for Calvin Klein and the charity calendar, Gods of Football.
References
External links
NRL profile
1986 births
Australian rugby league players
Australia national rugby league team players
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles players
New South Wales Rugby League State of Origin players
New South Wales City Origin rugby league team players
Prime Minister's XIII players
Rugby league wingers
Australian male film actors
Australian male models
Male actors from Sydney
Rugby league players from Sydney
Living people |
23577384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398%20Libyan%20Premier%20League | 1997–98 Libyan Premier League | Statistics of Libyan Premier League for the 1997–98 season.
Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Al Tahaddy Benghazi won the championship.
League standings
References
Libya - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Libyan Premier League seasons
1
Libya |
23577386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medway%20Rivulet | Medway Rivulet | The Medway Rivulet is a river of the state of New South Wales in Australia. It is a tributary of the Wingecarribee River.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales |
23577388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroo%20River | Meroo River | Meroo River, also called Meroo Creek, a watercourse that is part of the Macquarie catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the central western district of New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises on the western slopes of the Capertee Valley, near Triangle Swamp, and flows generally north, west, and north-west, joined by three minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Cudgegong River, where it is impounded as Lake Burrendong; descending over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin |
6905751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovarian%20plexus | Ovarian plexus | The ovarian plexus arises from the renal plexus, and is distributed to the ovary, and fundus of the uterus.
It is carried in the suspensory ligament of the ovary.
References
External links
Nerve plexus
Nerves of the torso |
6905753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20Bowman | Elmer Bowman | Elmari Wilhelm Bowman (March 19, 1897 – December 17, 1985) was a Major League Baseball player for the Washington Senators in August 1920. The 23-year-old rookie made two pinch-hitting appearances for the Senators and did not play in the field, so his position is not known.
Both of Bowman's appearances took place on the road. His major league debut on August 3, 1920 was against the Cleveland Indians at League Park. His second and last appearance, six days later, was against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park. Bowman was 0-for-1 with a walk in his two games, giving him an on-base percentage of .500. He also scored one run.
Bowman died in Los Angeles at the age of 88.
External links
Baseball Reference
Retrosheet
1897 births
1985 deaths
Washington Senators (1901–1960) players
Major League Baseball first basemen
Baseball players from Vermont
Jersey City Skeeters players
Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players
Reading Marines players
Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players
Norfolk Tars players
Shreveport Gassers players
New Haven Indians players
New Haven Profs players
Seattle Indians players
Birmingham Barons players
Springfield Ponies players
Vermont Catamounts baseball players |
23577390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrica%20River | Merrica River | The Merrica River is an intermediate intermittently closed saline coastal lagoon or perennial river located in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Merrica River rises on the northern slopes of Mount Nadgee within the Nadgee Nature Reserve; located about southwest of Tumbledown Mountain. The river flows generally northeast before reaching its mouth with the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean, emptying into Disaster Bay. The river descends over its course.
The catchment area of the river is with a volume of over a surface area of , at an average depth of .
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of New South Wales (L–Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
South Coast (New South Wales)
Coastline of New South Wales |
17337527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%20Succession%20Act%2C%201956 | Hindu Succession Act, 1956 | The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to amend and codify the law relating to intestate or unwilled succession, among Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs. The Act lays down a uniform and comprehensive system of inheritance and succession into one Act. The Hindu woman's limited estate is abolished by the Act. Any property possessed by a Hindu female is to be held by her absolute property and she is given full power to deal with it and dispose it of by will as she likes. Parts of this Act was amended in December 2004 by the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005.
Applicability
As per religion
This Act applies to the following:
any person who is a Hindu by religion in any of its forms or developments including a Virashaiva, a Lingayat or follower of the Brahmo, Prarthana or Arya Samaj;
any person who is Buddhist, Sikh by religion; and
to any other person who is not a Muslim, Christian, Parsi, or Jew by religion unless it is proved that the concerned person would not have been governed by the Hindu Law or by any custom or usage as part of that law in respect of any of the matters dealt with herein if this Act had not been passed.
Explanation as to who shall be considered as Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, or Sikhs by religion has been provided in the section:
any child, legitimate or illegitimate, both of whose parents are Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, or Sikhs by religion;
any child, legitimate or illegitimate, one of whose parents is a Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or Sikh by religion and who is brought up as a member of the tribe, community, group or family to which such parent belongs or belonged;
any person who is converted or re-convert to the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, or Sikh religion.
A person shall be treated as a Hindu under the Act though he may not be a Hindu by religion but is, nevertheless, a person to whom this Act applies under the provisions contained in this section.
As per tribe
However it has been provided that notwithstanding the religion of any person as mentioned above, the Act shall not apply to the members of any Scheduled Tribe within the meaning of clause (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution of India unless the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, otherwise directs.
Surajmani Stella Kujur Vs. Durga Charan Hansdah-SC
In the case of males
The property of a Hindu male dying intestate, or without a will, would be given first to heirs within Class I. If there are no heirs categorized as Class I, the property will be given to heirs within Class II. If there are no heirs in Class II, the property will be given to the deceased's agnates or relatives through male lineage. If there are no agnates or relatives through the male's lineage, then the property is given to the cognates or any relative through the lineage of females.
There are two classes of heirs that are delineated by the Act.
Class I heirs are sons, daughters, widows, mother and grandchildren
If there is more than one widow, multiple surviving sons, or multiples of any of the other heirs listed above, each shall be granted one share of the deceased's property. Also if the widow of a pre-deceased son, the widow of a pre-deceased son of a pre-deceased son, or the widow of a brother has remarried, she is not entitled to receive the inheritance.
Class II heirs are categorized as follows and are given the property of the deceased in the following order:
Father
Son's/daughter's son
Son's/daughter's daughter
Brother
Sister
Daughter's/son's son
Daughter's/son's daughter
Daughter's/daughter's son
Daughter's/daughter's daughter
Brother's son
Sister's son
Brother's daughter
In the case of females
Under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, females are granted ownership of all property acquired either before or after the signing of the Act, abolishing their "limited owner" status. However, it was not until the 2005 Amendment that daughters were allowed equal receipt of property as with sons. This invariably grants females property rights.
The property of a Hindu female dying intestate, or without a will, shall devolve in the following order:
upon the sons and daughters (including the children of any pre-deceased son or daughter) and the husband,
upon the heirs of the husband,
upon the father and mother,
upon the heirs of the father, and
upon the heirs of the mother.
Certain exceptions
Any person who commits murder is disqualified from receiving any form of inheritance from the victim.
If a relative convert from Hinduism, he or she is still eligible for inheritance. The descendants of that converted relative, however, are disqualified from receiving an inheritance from their Hindu relatives, unless they have converted to Hinduism before the death of the relative.
Amendment
The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, amended Section 4, Section 6, Section 23, Section 24 and Section 30 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. It revised rules on coparcenary property, giving daughters of the deceased equal rights with sons, and subjecting them to the same liabilities and disabilities. The amendment essentially furthers equal rights between Hindu males and females in society through legislation.
References
Gender equality
Inheritance
Acts of the Parliament of India 1956
Indian family law
1956 in religion
Law about religion in India
20th-century Hinduism |
6905757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20systems | Generative systems | Generative systems are technologies with the overall capacity to produce unprompted change driven by large, varied, and uncoordinated audiences. When generative systems provide a common platform, changes may occur at varying layers (physical, network, application, content) and provide a means through which different firms and individuals may cooperate indirectly and contribute to innovation.
Depending on the rules, the patterns can be extremely varied and unpredictable. One of the better-known examples is Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton. Other examples include Boids and Wikipedia. More examples can be found in generative music, generative art, and, more recently, in video games such as Spore.
Theory
Jonathan Zittrain
In 2006, Jonathan Zittrain published The Generative Internet in Volume 119 of the Harvard Law Review. In this paper, Zittrain describes a technology's degree of generativity as being the function of four characteristics:
Capacity for leverage – the extent to which an object enables something to be accomplished that would not have otherwise be possible or worthwhile.
Adaptability – how widely a technology can be used without it needing to be modified.
Ease of mastery – how much effort and skill is required for people to take advantage of the technology's leverage.
Accessibility – how easily people are able to start using a technology.
See also
References
External links
A talk on generative systems by Will Wright and Brian Eno for the Long Now Foundation
The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it; Yale University Press (2008)
Early generative computer graphics by Herber W. Franke
Generative Systeme by Benedikt Groß and Julia Laub
Bugworld - a generative vermin installation by Philipp Sackl, Markus Jaritz & Thomas Gläser
Complex systems theory |
17337530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Tempsford | Battle of Tempsford | In 917, the group of Danes who had previously been based in Huntingdon relocated to Tempsford in Bedfordshire, together with other Danes from East Anglia. They built and fortified a new burh there, to serve as a forward base for attacks on English territory. Later that year, after launching an unsuccessful attack on Bedford, they were attacked by an English army from the territories of King Edward the Elder, as part of his widespread offensive which in that year overwhelmed the Danish territories in East Anglia and south-eastern Mercia. The burh was stormed and a Danish king, probably that of East Anglia, was killed, along with the Jarls Toglos and Manna and many of their followers, while the rest were captured.
References
910s conflicts
Battles involving the Anglo-Saxons
Battles involving the Vikings
Battles involving Denmark
917
10th century in England
Military history of Bedfordshire
Kingdom of East Anglia |
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