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20475330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undertow%20%281949%20film%29 | Undertow (1949 film) | Undertow is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by William Castle and starring Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart and Peggy Dow. It is the story of an ex-con, a former Chicago mobster, who is accused of the murder of a high-ranking Chicago boss. The movie marks the second film to feature a young Rock Hudson and the first in which he received a film credit for his work.
Plot
Tony Reagan (Scott Brady) was a low-level member of the Chicago syndicate; he was run out of town back then for being involved with the kingpin Big Jim's niece. Seven years later, Reagan has been vacationing in Reno, at a lodge in which he intends to invest with the father of an old army buddy. He bumps into an old friend/former colleague from Chicago named Danny Morgan (John Russell). It turns out they are both hoping to soon be married.
On his way home to Chicago to propose to his girl, Reagan shares the flight with a schoolteacher, Ann McKnight (Peggy Dow), someone he met at a Reno casino and helped win at the gambling table. At the airport, he is met by the police; it seems they have been tipped off that Reagan is looking to stir trouble with Big Jim.
The police put a tail on him, which he shakes on a Chicago elevated train. Reagan meets up with his bride-to-be, Sally Lee (Dorothy Hart). He tells her he will go to Big Jim to make peace. But when the uncle is murdered, Reagan is framed for it.
On the run from both the police and the unknown murderers, Reagan enlists the help of McKnight and an old buddy, Charles Reckling (Bruce Bennett), a detective. They discover the truth: Morgan is also engaged to Sally Lee, and together they are responsible for murdering her uncle and framing Reagan.
Reagan manages to clear himself, however, after which he and McKnight end up in each other's arms, bound for that lodge in Reno.
Cast
Scott Brady as Tony Reagan
John Russell as Danny Morgan
Dorothy Hart as Sally Lee
Peggy Dow as Ann McKnight
Bruce Bennett as Reckling
Gregg Martell as Frost
Robert Anderson as Stoner
Dan Ferniel as Gene (as Daniel Ferniel)
Rock Hudson as Detective (as Roc Hudson)
Charles Sherlock as Cooper
Anne P. Kramer as Clerk (as Ann Pearce)
Robert Easton as Fisher
References
External links
1949 films
1949 drama films
1940s crime thriller films
American crime thriller films
American black-and-white films
Film noir
Films directed by William Castle
Universal Pictures films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films |
26717594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Dumbo | SS Dumbo | Dumbo was a coaster which was built in 1944 by John Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen as
Empire Chelsea. She was built for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). In 1947 she was sold and renamed Humbergate. Another sale in 1955 saw her renamed Springwear. In 1959, she was sold and renamed Lynnwear. In 1962 she was sold to Panama and renamed Dumbo. In 1968 she was arrested in Spain and sold by Court Order. She then ran aground and the sale was cancelled after the ship was declared a constructive total loss. Another sale resulted in plans to turn her into a floating nightclub, but these failed to come to fruition and she was scrapped c1970.
Description
The ship was built by John Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen. She was launched on 18 December 1944 and completed in February 1945.
The ship was long, with a beam of and a depth of . She had a GRT of 1,051and a NRT of 586.
The ship was propelled by a triple expansion steam engine which had cylinders of inches (57 cm), and diameter by stroke.
History
Empire Chelsea was built for the MoWT She was placed under the management of Onesimus Dorey & Sons Ltd, Guernsey. The Code Letters GDTQ and United Kingdom Official Number 180987 were allocated. Her port of registry was Aberdeen.
In 1947, Empire Chelsea was sold to the Hull Gates Shipping Co Ltd, Hull and was renamed Humbergate. She was operated under the management of Craggs & Jenkins Ltd. In 1955, Humbergate was sold to Efford Shipping Co Ltd and was renamed Springwear She was operated under the management of Springwell Shipping Co Ltd, London. A further sale in 1959 to the Lynn Shipping Co Ltd, London saw her renamed Lynnwear.
In 1962, Lynnwear was sold to the South Star Corporation, Panama and renamed Dumbo. She was placed under the management of V & J A Ensenat, Spain. In October 1968, Dumbo was placed under arrest at Las Palmas. She was later sold at auction by Court Order. The winning bidder was Naviera del Odiel, SA. However, on 24 November 1968 she was driven ashore at Las Palmas. The ship was declared a constructive total loss and the offer for purchase of the ship was withdrawn by Naviera de Odiel. Ownership of the ship was assumed by the Port Authority at Las Palmas. Dumbo was refloated in May 1969 and beached. She was sold by auction on 10 December 1969. Her new owner intended to convert her to a floating nightclub but the plans were abandoned. The ship was eventually sold to Don Martin Juantey Malvarez and scrapped c1970.
References
External links
Photo of Humbergate
Photo of Lynnwear
1944 ships
Ships built in Aberdeen
Empire ships
Ministry of War Transport ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Steamships of Panama
Merchant ships of Panama
Maritime incidents in 1968 |
26717600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamogeton%20nodosus | Potamogeton nodosus | Potamogeton nodosus is a species of aquatic plant known by the common names longleaf pondweed and Loddon pondweed. It is native to Eurasia and the Americas, where it is widespread and can be found in water bodies such as ponds, lakes, ditches, and streams. This is a perennial herb producing a thin, branching stem easily exceeding a meter in maximum length. The leaves are linear to widely lance-shaped and up to 15 centimeters long by 4 wide. Both floating leaves and submerged leaves are borne on long petioles, a distinguishing characteristic. The inflorescence is a spike of many small flowers arising from the water on a peduncle.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Flora of North America
Photo gallery
nodosus
Flora of North America
Flora of South America
Flora of Europe
Flora of Asia
Plants described in 1816
Freshwater plants |
26717685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbergate | Humbergate | Humbergate may refer to a number of things.
Humbergate, Ontario, Canada
, a British cargo ship in service 1947-55 |
26717699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th%20Open%20Russian%20Festival%20of%20Animated%20Film | 15th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film | The 15th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film was held from Mar. 10-14 2010 in Suzdal, Russia. Animated works from the years 2009-2010 produced by citizens of Russia and Belarus were accepted, as well as works from 2008 that didn't make it into previous festivals.
This year, film screenings were separated into the categories "in competition" and "informational". Animated commercial reels, music clips and television bumpers were automatically accepted into the competition, while student or amateur works could be accepted into the competition based on the decisions of the Selection and Organizing Committees.
All films were shown in Betacam SP format (the standard format for festivals in Russia).
The jury prizes were handed out by profession. Also, any member or guest of the festival was able to vote for their favorite films.
List of Jury Members
Jury prizes
Jury diplomas & other prizes
Rating (by audience vote)
Each member of the audience was asked to list their top 5 five films of the festival. 5 points were given for a 1st place vote and so on, down to 1 point for a 5th place vote.
External links
Official website with the results
Results on animator.ru
Full list of competing films
Rules of the festival (MS Word document)
2010 film festivals
Anim
Open Russian Festival of Animated Film
2010 in animation |
26717710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington%20station%20%28British%20Columbia%29 | Wellington station (British Columbia) | The Wellington station located in the Wellington area of Nanaimo, British Columbia, was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which ended in 2011. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline. The station was named after the town of Wellington which formed around and next to the Wellington Colliery which was named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a leading British military and political figure in the 19th century.
History
Wellington station is one of the oldest and most historic stops on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island Mainline.
Wellington station before the E&N
Before the E&N railway was extended to Wellington, the Wellington stop was part of the Wellington Colliery Railway line joining Wellington's Departure Bay wharf operations with the Wellington Colliery operations scattered around Wellington. The current flagstop site and siding, still in use today, are where the Wellington Colliery's scale was located for weighing the coal the miner's produced. It was this scale and siding which was the unlikely catalyst for Wellington Colliery's first bitter miner strike which served to entrench a tone of mistrust and bitterness amongst workers which quickly escalated future confrontations in Wellington, and persisted for decades across Vancouver Island as Wellington miners moved to new towns being built up by the railway and coal industry.
Precursor and enabling the E&N
The Wellington Flag stop Station and siding are also the last remnant of the Wellington Colliery Railway which was both a precursor, catalyst and heavy user of the E&N, with the Wellington Colliery eventually being wholly replaced by the E&N. It was the Wellington Colliery Railway and mines which provided Robert Dunsmuir with the wealth, experience and infrastructure he needed to convince the government, under generous terms, to allow him to build an Island Railway.
E&N early years
In 1887, less than a year after completing the E&N railway, Robert Dunsmuir extended the E&N Railway north to Wellington, connecting up with the Wellington Colliery Railway lines. Wellington was changed from being Mile 77 to Mile 0, and remained the northern terminus of the E&N railway until 1910. Wellington Station was one of the busiest on the E&N route in the 1890s as the town's coal production surged in tandem with its population. With Wellington now connected to the E&N, Dunsmuir proceeded to move most of his shipping operations from Departure Bay to the deep water harbour of Oyster Bay, now known as Ladysmith. Dunsmuir died in 1889 and his family continued the coal and railway businesses until the E&N was sold to Canadian Pacific in 1905. By 1900 major coal mining operations had ceased around Wellington and coupled with the relocation of many of Dunsmuir's company buildings to Ladysmith followed by destructive town fire, traffic at the Wellington station dwindled. During the early 20th century Wellington Station was primarily used by the railway workers themselves as the station had a Roundhouse and a heavy mechanic shop for servicing the steam locomotives was based in Wellington as part of the Wellington Colliery Railway legacy. For many years a steam tower servicing the steam locomotives was also near the current flagstop. In the early-mid-20th century the heavy mechanics work was relocated to Victoria and Wellington become a minor stop on the E&N which had been expanded further North and West.
Modern
The old Wellington Station shut down in the late 1950s, and sat neglected for years. In 1966, the building was purchased by the Wellington Centennial Committee from the CPR, and moved to the southeast corner of Pioneer Park. Plans to restore the building and integrate it into the park were never completed, and the building was condemned and demolished, with salvageable material being incorporated into the Nanaimo Hornets Rugby Clubhouse, which was completed in 1979.
The current flagstop is a few hundred feet south of the original station and colliery weigh scale and is marked with a simple sign.
References
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1888
1888 establishments in British Columbia
2011 disestablishments in British Columbia
Railway stations closed in 2011
Disused railway stations in Canada |
44500332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Pablo%20Su%C3%A1rez%20%28journalist%29 | Juan Pablo Suárez (journalist) | Juan Pablo Suárez is an Argentinian journalist who is the editor of the news website Última Hora.
His wife, Sandra Wede, is the owner of Ultima Hora. He was arrested while covering a public protest on 9 December 2013 and charged with sedition under an anti-terrorism law.
Suárez was 45 years old at the time of the arrest.
Career
He began working in 2007 for Última Hora, which is based in the city of Santiago del Estero, the capital of the province of the same name.
Arrest and detention
At shortly after 9 p.m. on the night of 9 December 2013, Suárez, who was at the newspaper's offices, became aware that a protest for higher wages for police officers was taking place in Leopoldo Lugones Square. There were no reporters available at the offices at that hour to cover the story, so Suárez took a microphone and went out into the streets with a cameraman. They filmed the arrest and the aggressive police treatment of a protesting police officer, Norberto Villagrán, who was taken into custody in the presence of his wife and their daughters, aged 8 and 11.
According to Perfil, policemen were protesting across the country for higher salaries on that day, but Villagran was the only police officer who decided to demonstrate in the city of Santiago del Estero. Sandra Wede later said that Villagrán had been peacefully protesting when he was “attacked” by a group of policemen who arrested him and pushed him into a police car. Villagrán had reportedly spent a week in prison the previous year for saying that there were irregularities in police funds.
After filming Villagrán's arrest, Suárez returned directly to the offices of Última Hora, where he posted a video of the arrest on the newspaper's website. Only minutes later, at about 10 p.m., approximately 30 police officers wearing hoods entered the newspaper's offices and handled him brutally. They took him into custody without having any arrest warrant or detention order, although they told him they had oral permission from Judge Rosa Falco to arrest him. He did not resist arrest.
The police seized two computers and a cell phone. “They did not respect the chain of custody of seized items,” Suárez later maintained. “They took my notebook, a CPU and a cellphone with all my sources," Suárez said, accusing them of “violating professional confidentiality.” Wede later said that Falco had ordered her to hand over the video taken by Suárez in the square. Falco had also told Wede that she had the right to verbally authorise a raid and that she did not want the video of Villagrán to be used politically.
Última Hora condemned the arrest and detention of Suárez and stated “that the real reason behind the raid and the arrest is to cover up violent police behaviour.” Víctor Daniel Nazar, Suárez's lawyer, called the accusation against his client “extremely grave....In all my years in this profession I have never seen such a serious violation of legal rights.”
On 18 December 2013, the Committee to Protect Journalists called on Argentinian authorities to immediately release Suárez, who at that point had been detained for over a week. “It is ludicrous that a journalist be accused of sedition and spend nine days in jail solely for filming a protest and arrest,” said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior Americas program coordinator. “We urge Argentine authorities to drop the absurd accusations against Juan Pablo Suárez and release him immediately.” Gabriel Levinas, a reporter with Radio Mitre and editor of the news website Plazademayo, told CPJ that he had seen Suárez's file and that there was no evidence to support allegations of sedition.
Suárez was held in custody for ten days. It was reported on 19 December that Suárez had been released. Wede went to Buenos Aires to try to get national coverage for the case. She met with the head of the LED Foundation, Silvana Giudici, and with opposition representatives. The Argentinian Journalists Forum (FOPEA) expressed concern about the “legal technical framework” employed by the judge. The Association of Argentinian Journalism Entities (ADEPA) also expressed “deep concern” about the case. On 19 December, opposition MPs gathered to demand free-speech guarantees. Judge Falco called Suárez in for questioning but later declined jurisdiction and sent the case to the federal courts.
He was released, but on 13 May 2014 faced federal Judge Guillermo Molinari and prosecutor Pedro Simón, the latter of whom called for him to be tried for sedition under the anti-terrorism act, a crime for which he could be imprisoned for 12 years. Other charges included “inciting collective violence” and “terrorizing the population.” La Nación compared the “labyrinthine judicial process” to which he was subjected to the trial of Joseph K. in Kafka's The Trial.
On 14 May 2014, Reporters Without Borders condemned the charges against Suárez. “We call for the immediate withdrawal of these absurd charges against Suárez,” said Camille Soulier, the head of the ROB Americas desk. “How can filming an arrest be construed as a terrorist activity? By using the anti-terrorism law against a journalist for the first time, the Santiago del Estero authorities are sending a clear message that they will tolerate no criticism.” Suárez's lawyer, Víctor Nazar, told Reporters Without Borders: “There are no legal grounds for the sedition charge and still less for applying the anti-terrorism law because the only thing Suárez did was cover a protest for more pay. The reasons are political. He is the only journalist who firmly criticizes the government’s policies and the only one to cover all the pay demands.”
On 20 May 2014, Suárez met with members of the national legislature at an open hearing about his case. At the meeting, Suárez said “I do not believe in justice.” He noted that the prosecutor in his case, Simón, was allegedly guilty of an “illegal land grab.” He said it was better to go to jail “than to live on your knees.” Deputy Omar Duclós stated that it was undemocratic to persecute journalist in this way. “We are facing a clear attack on the freedom of expression of a media worker performing his duties by an ally of the Kirchner provincial government.” Deputy Laura Alonso said that the parliamentary Committee on Freedom of Expression had traditionally defended journalists in such situations, but that this was no longer the case because such committees had been “captured” and were now “owned.”
At the meeting with national legislators, Suárez said of the charges against him: “This is not a message for me, but for all of independent journalism.” He maintained that his arrest and prosecution were connected to the fact that he had questioned the conduct of the provincial governor Zamora and Zamora's wife, Claudia Ledesma Abdala, provisional president of the Senate. Suárez described the news media in Santiago del Estero as being divided between those who fear the government and those that have deals with the government. He was detained with five criminals in a cell barely more than one square meter in size. He was in detention for ten days, during which was hospitalized for dehydration after beginning a hunger strike to protest his treatment.
On 23 May, Guillermo Molinari stated he would prosecute Suárez not for terrorism and sedition but for incitement to commit a crime. According to one report, Molinari “decided to keep this accusation based on evidence allegedly found in the mobile phones of Suárez and Nelson Villagrán.” Molinari officially ruled on 28 May that Suárez and Villagran should be prosecuted for inciting violence, but he dismissed the request of prosecutor Pedro Simón that they be tied for sedition under the Terrorism Act.
References
Argentine journalists
Male journalists
1960s births
Living people |
26717734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro%20Jenkins | Alejandro Jenkins | Alejandro Jenkins (born 17 October 1979, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican theoretical physicist. He is currently a professor at the University of Costa Rica and a member of Costa Rica's National Academy of Sciences. He has worked on applications of quantum field theory to particle physics and cosmology, as well as on self-oscillating dynamical systems and quantum thermodynamics.
Education and employment
Jenkins entered the University of Costa Rica in 1997, studying mathematics. He later attended Harvard College, where he resided in Currier House. In 2001 he graduated from Harvard with an A.B. degree in physics and mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Caltech in 2006, working with Mark Wise on "Topics in particle physics and cosmology beyond the Standard Model". Some of the work in Jenkins's doctoral dissertation concerned models of dark energy in cosmology.
Jenkins was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech (2006), at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics (2006-09), and at Florida State University's high-energy physics group (2009-12). He became a professor of physics at the University of Costa Rica in 2013 and was elected as a member of Costa Rica's National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Research
Quark mass and congeniality to life
The anthropic principle
In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the collective name for several ways of asserting that the observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the life observed in it. The principle was formulated as a response to a series of observations that the laws of nature and its fundamental physical constants remarkably take on values that are consistent with conditions for life as we know it rather than a set of values that would not be consistent with life as observed on Earth. The anthropic principle states that this apparent coincidence is actually a necessity because living observers would not be able to exist, and hence, observe the universe, were these laws and constants not constituted in this way.
Jenkins's contributions
To test this hypothesis, Robert Jaffe, Jenkins, and Itamar Kimchi used models to "tweak" the values of the quark masses and examined how that would affect the ability of stable isotopes of carbon and hydrogen to form, making organic chemistry possible. They found that, within the various potential universes they examined, many had very different qualities from our own, but that nonetheless life could still develop. In some cases, where forms of carbon we find in our universe were unstable, other forms of stable carbon were identified as possible.
The work by Jaffe, Jenkins, and Kimchi on anthropic constraints on quark masses was highlighted by the American Physical Society's Physics magazine. That work, along with research by other theorists on the possibility of an anthropically-allowed "weakless universe", was summarized in Scientific American magazine's January 2010 cover story, which Jenkins co-authored with Israeli particle physicist Gilad Perez. Jenkins also explained his work in a 2015 appearance on the TV show Through the Wormhole.
Self-oscillation and thermodynamics
Jenkins's review of the physics of self-oscillators was published by Physics Reports in 2013. Jenkins has also collaborated with mathematical physicist Robert Alicki and theoretical chemist David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky on applying related ideas in order to arrive at a better understanding of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, with a particular application to the microscopic physics of solar cells and the triboelectric effect.
See also
Quantum physics
Inflation (cosmology)
Quark
Anthropic principle
Multiverse
Feynman sprinkler
Many-worlds interpretation
References
External links
Personal website
Costa Rican scientists
Living people
1979 births
Harvard University alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Costa Rica alumni |
6906542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abi%20Ofarim | Abi Ofarim | Abi Ofarim, born Avraham Reichstadt (; October 5, 1937 – May 4, 2018) was an Israeli musician and dancer. He is better known for his work in the 1960s as half of the duo Esther & Abi Ofarim with his then-wife Esther Ofarim.
Life and career
Early life
Abi Ofarim was born Avraham Reichstadt in Safed, Galilee, in what was then the British mandate of Palestine on October 5, 1937. Upon Israel's independence in 1948, he attended ballet school and made his stage debut in Haifa in 1952. By the age of 17, he was arranging his own choreography, and by 18 had his own dance studio. He was then recruited to serve in the Israeli army during the Suez crisis and the Sinai war.
Esther & Abi Ofarim
In December 1958, Reichstadt married Esther Zaied. He achieved international fame performing with her as a musical duo Esther & Abi Ofarim in the 1960s, playing the guitar and singing backing vocals. The couple relocated to Geneva, then eventually to Germany. In 1966, they had their first hit in Germany with "Noch einen Tanz". Their greatest success in Germany came the next year with "Morning of my Life", written by the Bee Gees. In 1968, "Cinderella Rockefella" hit the top of the charts in a number of countries including the UK. The duo played live concerts in New York City and London, and they toured Europe before separating in 1969.
Solo career
Abi Ofarim continued performing and recording in Europe. He also worked as a manager, composer, and arranger. In 1970, Ofarim launched his own record production and music publishing company Prom Music. He also worked with Liberty/United Artists Records in Munich. In 1972, he released an album with British singer Tom Winter. In 1975, Ofarim left Prom, selling his interest to ex-partner Yehuda Zwick.
His book, Der Preis der wilden Jahre ("The Price of the Wild Years") was first published in 1982. That year, Ofarim released the album Much Too Much on RCA Records in Germany. He released an album, Too Much Of Something, in 2009.
Beginning in April 2014, Ofarim ran a "Jugendzentrum für Senioren" ("Youth Center for Elderly People") in Munich, a social project against poverty and solitude of the elderly, together with his organization "Kinder von Gestern e. V." ("Children of Yesterday").
Personal life
Relationships and children
Ofarim married Esther Ofarim (née Zaied) on December 11, 1958. After their divorce in 1970, he accused her of "egotism and snobbery." He dated German singer Susan Avilés and actress Iris Berben, before remarrying twice. His third marriage was to Sandra (Sandy) Reichstadt, who he divorced in 2004. Their sons, Gil Ofarim and Tal Ofarim, are also musicians. Gil Ofarim is the front man of the band Zoo Army.
Drug addiction and legal issues
After his divorce from Esther Ofarim, Abi Ofarim developed a cocaine and alcohol addiction. In 1979, he was arrested for possession of narcotics and tax evasion. He spent a month in prison and a year on probation.
Health issues and death
In 2017, Abi Ofarim developed pneumonia. He made a recovery and was able to return to his home in Munich to celebrate his 80th birthday in October 2017.
Ofarim died aged 80 in Munich after a long illness on May 4, 2018.
Discography
Albums
1972: Ofarim & Winter – Ofarim & Winter (CBS)
1982: Much Too Much (RCA)
2009: Too Much Of Something (Sony Music Entertainment Germany)
Singles
1964: "Shake, Shake (Wenn Ich Dich Nicht Hätte)" (Philips)
1971: "Zeit Ist Geld" (Warner Bros. Records)
1973: Ofarim & Winter – "Slow Motion Man" (CBS)
1973: Ofarim And Winter – "Take Me Up To Heaven" (CBS)
1973: Ofarim & Winter – "Speak To Me" (CBS)
1973: Ofarim & Winter – "Why Red" (CBS)
1982: "Mama, O Mama" (RCA)
1982: "Heartaches" (RCA)
1989: Abi Ofarim & Sima – "In The Morning Of My Life" (Polydor)
2007: "Mama, Oh Mama" (White Records)
Esther & Abi Ofarim
References
External links
1937 births
2018 deaths
Mandatory Palestine people
20th-century Israeli male singers
German-language singers
Israeli male dancers
Israeli expatriates in Germany
Israeli military personnel
Israeli guitarists
RCA Records artists
Sony Music artists
Philips Records artists
Warner Records artists
Polydor Records artists
CBS Records artists
People from Safed |
26717763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary%20Society%20of%20Independent%20Filmmakers | Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers | The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers was formed in 1978 and is operated on a non-profit basis out of Calgary, Alberta in Canada. Four decades ago, twelve local filmmakers and artists collaborated to form the Society of Filmmakers in response to a growing interest in film production and need for equipment and resources. The organization is commonly known by its members as CSIF.
25th anniversary
In 2003, the Society celebrated its 25th anniversary. Many local filmmakers got their start in the 70s and 80s taking classes and are now working in the industry including producers Wendy Hill-Tout, Gary Burns and directors Mike Dowse, Robert Cuffley and David Winning.
References
External links
Official Website
Organizations based in Calgary
Film organizations in Canada |
20475363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tempest%20%282010%20film%29 | The Tempest (2010 film) | The Tempest is a 2010 American fantasy comedy-drama film based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. In this version, the gender of the main character, Prospero, is changed from male to female; the role was played by Helen Mirren. The film was written and directed by Julie Taymor and premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 11, 2010.
Although The Tempest received generally mixed reviews from critics, Sandy Powell received her ninth Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design.
Cast
Helen Mirren as Prospera – a sorceress and Miranda's mother
Ben Whishaw as Ariel – a spirit who aids Prospera
Djimon Hounsou as Caliban – Prospera's slave who, along with Stephano and Trinculo, plots against her
Felicity Jones as Miranda – Prospera's daughter who falls in love with Ferdinand
David Strathairn as Alonso, King of Naples – Ferdinand's father and Trinculo and Stephano's employer
Tom Conti as Gonzalo – a counsellor to Alonso, who gave aid to Prospera and Miranda
Reeve Carney as Ferdinand – Alonso's son, who falls in love with Miranda
Chris Cooper as Antonio – Prospera's brother and Miranda's uncle
Alan Cumming as Sebastian – Alonso's brother
Alfred Molina as Stephano – Alonso's butler who, along with Trinculo, joins forces with Caliban to plot against Prospera
Russell Brand as Trinculo – Alonso's jester who, along with Stephano, joins forces with Caliban to plot against Prospera
Plot
Prospera, the duchess of Milan, is secretly denounced as a sorceress and usurped by her brother Antonio, with aid from Alonso, the King of Naples, and is cast off in a small boat to die with her three-year-old daughter Miranda. They survive, finding themselves stranded on an island where the human beast Caliban is the sole inhabitant. Prospera enslaves Caliban, frees the captive spirit Ariel and claims the island. After 12 years, Alonso sails back to his kingdom from the marriage of his daughter to the prince of Tunisia, accompanied by his son Ferdinand, his brother Sebastian and Antonio. Prospera, seizing her chance for revenge, with Ariel's help causes a tempest, wrecking the ship and stranding those on board on her island.
Production
The film, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, is written and directed by Julie Taymor. The play's main character is Prospero, who is male in the original play. Taymor explained the casting decision, "I didn't really have a male actor that excited me in mind, and yet there had been a couple of phenomenal females – Helen Mirren being one of them – who [made me think]: 'My God, does this play change? What happens if you make that role into a female role?'" Taymor held a reading and found that the story could accommodate the change of gender without being gimmicky.
In Shakespeare's play, Prospero was the Duke of Milan. In the adaptation, Prospera is the wife of the Duke. She is "more overtly wronged" than Prospero; when the duke dies, Prospera's brother Antonio (played by Chris Cooper) accuses her of killing him with witchcraft. Antonio makes the accusation to be rid of Prospera and claim her royal title. Taymor said, "She had her whole life taken away from her because she was a woman." Prospera wants to prevent the same thing from happening to her daughter.
Principal photography took place around volcanic areas of the big island of Hawaii and Lanai.
Release
The Tempest premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 11, 2010, as the festival's closing film. When Disney sold Miramax Films to Filmyard Holdings, LLC, Disney took over distribution through its division Touchstone Pictures. The film was released on December 10, 2010.
Reception
The film has received mixed to negative reviews from critics; Rotten Tomatoes maintains that 30% of 89 reviewers gave a positive review with an average score of 4.69/10. The site's consensus states: "Director Julie Taymor's gender-swapping of roles and some frenzied special effects can't quite disguise an otherwise stagey, uninspired take on Shakespeare's classic." It also has a score of 43 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Entertainment Weekly said the film – "theatrically ambitious, musically busy, and in the end cinematically inert – clearly reflects the authorship of myth-loving director Julie Taymor." USA Today found that "Mirren keeps the film on track. But incomprehensible shouting and pointless shenanigans obscure subtle moments." In a similar vein, Newsweek said "the film's special effects, to a surprising extent, add little to the story", and that "next to the concise power of [Shakespeare's] language, the screen wizardry of even a resourceful director like Taymor seems like rough magic indeed". However, The New Yorker'''s David Denby pointed out the film's strengths, most particularly Helen Mirren's performance as Prospera: "Mirren has the range and power to play a woman with unprecedented control of the elements, and over men, too." Sandra Hall in The Sydney Morning Herald'' is more generous toward Taymor's vision, saying, "In the scene that explains the circumstances of mother and daughter's banishment from the dukedom of Milan, Taymor has skillfully tweaked Shakespeare's lines to take account of her new scenario", and praising the film's visual elements.
Accolades
See also
List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations
References
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Films based on The Tempest
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2010s romantic comedy films
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6906550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSFT | KSFT | KSFT may refer to:
KSFT-FM, a radio station (107.1 FM) licensed to South Sioux City, Nebraska, United States
KESJ, a radio station (1550 AM) licensed to St. Joseph, Missouri, United States, which held the call sign KSFT from March 1989 to August 2009 |
20475374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Armstrong%20%28baseball%29 | Charles Armstrong (baseball) | Charles (Pee Wee) Armstrong (December 13, 1914 – January 27, 1990) was an American professional baseball player and coach.
Early life
Armstrong was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He attended Central High School in Jackson before attending Mississippi State University from 1934 to 1937, where he lettered in football, baseball and basketball (1934–36). He was All-SEC in 1935 and named Best Athlete in 1937.
Professional career
Armstrong played professional baseball with the Jackson Senators in 1937–38 where he played catcher to future Boston Redsox pitcher and MLB Hall of Famer, Dave "Boo" Ferriss. He coached Mississippi State football in 1938 and was a coach and Athletics Director at Belzoni High School in 1939–40. Armstrong was also a Southeastern Conference football and basketball official in the 1950s and 1960s, and later officiated football and basketball at the junior college level before retiring. He was a lifelong resident of Meridian, Mississippi.
Armstrong is most famous for the 65-yard winning pass he threw to Fred Walters when Mississippi State beat undefeated national powerhouse Army in West Point, New York (13–7) in 1935. Armstrong was inducted into the Mississippi State University Sports Hall of Fame in 1972. In 1976, Armstrong was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.
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44500338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against%20All | Against All | Against All () is a 1956 Czechoslovak historical drama film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is based on the novel Proti všem by Alois Jirásek. The film's budget was 25 million KČs which made it the most expensive Czech film of the time. Itis the third part of Vávra's cinematic Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy. The plot is set after Jan Žižka and concludes the entire trilogy. It takes place in 1420. The central motif of the film is the fight between the Hussites and the troops of the First anti-Hussite crusade led by the heir to the Bohemian throne, the Hungarian King and Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg. We also follow the development of Tábor and the disputes between the moderate party of Jan Žižka and the radical Picarts of Petr Kániš.
Cast
Zdeněk Štěpánek as Jan Žižka z Trocnova
Gustav Hilmar as Ctibor z Hvozdna
Vlasta Matulová as Zdena
as Provost
Jan Pivec as Zikmund Lucemburský
as Jan Bydlinsky
Václav Voska as
Jana Rybářová as Marta
Petr Hanicinec as Ondrej z Hvozdna
Stanislav Neumann as Sakristian
Jaroslav Vojta as Simon
as Oldrich Rozmberk
as
František Horák as Jan Želivský
Josef Kotapiš as Pippo Spano
Rudolf Hrušínský as Christian of Prachatice
Plot
In the beginning, the Provost of the Louňovice monastery along with the local sacristan and young novice Marta are fleeing from a mob of looting Taborites. They find refuge in the fortress of the yeoman Ctibor from Hvozdno, who protects them from their pursuers. The trio escapes and manages to hide in Příběnice castle with the powerful lord Oldřich of Rožmberk. Most of the inhabitants of the village and also the Yeoman's daughter Zdena join the Táborites as they pass through Hvozdno. Villagers reach Tábor and are received there. Zdena is enchanted by one of the Tábor priests, Jan Bydlinský.
The provost of Louňovice persuades the Lord Rožmberk to side with King Sigismund of Luxembourg, who was just about to invade Bohemia at the head of a crusade. For the promised financial reward, young Rožmberk agrees to attack the weakened town of Tábor. With this news, the Provost goes to Kutná Hora, where Sigismund and his army are located planning to attacki Prague. Provost meets Ctibor of Hvozdno who heads to Tábor to see his daughter. Dispute begins to grow between the priests of Tábor who demand to defend themselves in the Tábor and the hejtman Žižka, who recommends coming to the aid of Prague threatened by Sigismund's army. A group of listeners begins to gather around fanatical priests Petr Kániš and Jan Bydlinský, including the Yeoman's daughter Zdena who listens to priests against her father's will.
The Provost of Louňovice arrives in Kutná Hora, where the Germans throw the Hussites into the empty shafts of the local silver mines. Here, the provost informs King Sigismund about the position of Oldřich of Rožmberk. A delegation from Prague arrives tonegotiate with Sigismun, desperately trying to beg for mercy from Sigismund. Sigismund declines to negotiate with the Hussite envoys and thus force them to ask for help from the rural Hussites and especially the South Bohemian camps. In Tábor Žižka's side prevails after hearing news from Prague and most of the local Hussites are getting ready to leave for the threatened Prague. The yeoman Ctibor and his nephew Ondřej also leave against their father's will. Zdena decides to stay in the city together with Bydlinský, Kániš and their people.
The lord of Rožmberk marches against the weakened Tábor with his army supported by the troops of the Austrian Duke Albrecht. In Rožmberk's army there is also novice Marta, the Provost and sacristan of Louňovice. The camp is besieged and barely resists the odds. Žižka sends cavalry from Prague to the aid of the besieged Tábor. With an unexpected attack, the Hussites manage to defeat the besiegers and save Tábor. AProvost and Sacristan of Louňovice are captured and executed by Hussites. Novice Marta and her maid are saved from death by young Ondřej of Hvozdno.
After the primary danger has been extinguished, there is a definitive split in Tábor. Radicals led by Kániš leave the city for the foothills of the conquered Příběnice castle. Zdena and Jan Bydlinský also leave together as they fall in love. In Příběnice, Kániš seduces his listeners, and these fanatics burn the Zeman's daughter Zdena and Kániš's son Bydlinský alive. Not even Ctibor the yeomancan save his daughter.
In the finale of the entire film, Prague, where Hussites have already arrived, is preparing for an attack by the Crusader troops, who are besieging the capital from three sides. The only supply route to Prague is the path from Poříčská brána, which leads around Vítkov Hill. Žižka therefore fortifies this strategic point with very small group. Larrge crusader army attacks Vítkov Hill. Žižka's group defends it but is vastly outnumbered. Crusaders are eventually defeated when reinforcements from Prague arrive. King Sigismund is defeated and the crusade falls apart. The Hussites celebrate this great victory at the end of film.
Production
The film Against All was shot in 1956 in studios in Barrandov. Exteriors were shot in Radotín. Historians Jan Durdík and Eduard Wagner participated in the production as historical and military advisors. The music was conducted by Jiří Srnka and arranged by the Film Symphony Orchestra and Aus-Vít Nejedlý Choir conducted by František Belfín. Jiří Trnka also participated in the film as head of the costume section. Filming took place with the participation of units of the Czechoslovak army and clubs of Svazarm, which supplied horses for the filming, and the Institute of Military History. The budget of 25 million Czechoslovak crowns made the film Against All the most expensive film in the history of Czechoslovak film at the time.
Reception
Like other parts of Vávra's Hussite trilogy the film is valued to this day for its monumentality, set, costumes and successful battle scenes. Nevertheless, this film is often criticized for its excessive use of the regime of the 1950s, its schematicity, its constructive enthusiasm and its distortion of history.
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External links
1956 films
1956 drama films
1950s historical drama films
Czechoslovak films
1950s Czech-language films
Czech historical drama films
Czech sequel films
Films directed by Otakar Vávra
Films about Hussite Wars
Films based on works by Alois Jirásek
Biographical films about military leaders
Cultural depictions of Jan Žižka
1950s Czech films |
20475421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blangkon | Blangkon | A blangkon (Javanese: ) or belangkon (in Indonesian) is a traditional Javanese headgear worn by men and made of batik fabric. There are four types of blangkons, distinguished by the shapes and regional Javanese origin: Ngayogyakarta, Surakarta, Kedu, and Banyumasan.
History
It is believed that blangkon may be as old as the Javanese script, and inspired from the legendary story of Aji Saka. In the story, Aji Saka defeated Dewata Cengkar, a giant who owned the land of Java, by spreading a giant piece of headdress that could cover the entire land of Java. Aji Saka was also believed to be the founder of the Javanese calendar.
There are another theory stating that the use of blangkon is absorbed by the Javanese due to the influence mixture of local Hindu and Islamic culture. The Muslims traders who entered Java were people from various places including mainland Arab and Gujarati regions, and the blangkon is believed to be adapted from turbans, but this theory is irrelevant because the story of Aji Saka itself predates the arrival of Islam in Java.
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Java Heritage - Blangkon
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Headgear
Javanese culture
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44500341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermina%20L%C3%B3pez%20Balbuena | Guillermina López Balbuena | Guillermina López Balbuena (born 25 June 1973) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2007 to 2009 she served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.
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Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
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21st-century Mexican women politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Puebla |
6906551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Celtiberian%20War | First Celtiberian War | The First Celtiberian (181–179 BC) was the first of three major rebellions by the Celtiberians against the Roman presence in Hispania. The other two were the Second Celtiberian War (154–151 BC) and the Numantine War (143–133 BC). Hispania was the name the Romans gave to the Iberian Peninsula. The peninsula was inhabited by various ethnic groups and numerous tribes. The Celtiberians were a confederation of five tribes, which lived in a large area of east central Hispania, to the west of Hispania Citerior. The eastern part of their territory shared a stretch of the border of this Roman province. The Celtiberian tribes were the Pellendones, the Arevaci, the Lusones, the Titti and the Belli.
The Romans took over the territories of the Carthaginians in southern Hispania when they defeated them at the Battle of Ilipa in 206 BC during the Second Punic War (218–201 BC). After the war they remained and in 197 BC they established two Roman colonies: Hispania Citerior (Nearer Spain) along most of the east coast, an area roughly corresponding to the modern autonomous communities of Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia, and Hispania Ulterior (Further Spain) in the south, roughly corresponding to modern Andalusia. There were numerous rebellions by many tribes of Hispania, including tribes both inside and outside Roman territory, in most years for a period of 98 years, until the end of the First Celtiberian War in 179 BC. For details of these rebellions see the Roman conquest of Hispania article.
The First Celtiberian War (181–179 BC)
The siege of Aebura (Carpetania) (181 BC)
The praetors Publius Manlius and Quintus Fulvius Flaccus were given military command for Hispania Ulterior and Citerior respectively in 182 BC and this was extended to 181 BC. They received reinforcements of 3,000 Roman and 6,000 allied infantry and 200 Roman and 300 allied cavalry. The Celtiberians gathered 35,000 men. Livy wrote: ‘hardly ever before had they raised so large a force’. Quintus Fulvius Flaccus drew as many auxiliary troops from the friendly tribes as he could, but his numbers were inferior. He went to Carpetania (in south central Hispania, to the south Celtiberia) and encamped near Aebura (Talavera de la Reina, in western part of the modern province of Toledo; it was at the edge of the territory of the Vettones). He sent a small detachment to occupy the town. A few days later the Celtiberians encamped at the foot of a hill two miles from the Romans. The praetor sent his brother, Marcus Fulvius, with two squadrons of native cavalry for reconnaissance with instructions to get as close to the enemy rampart as possible to get an idea of the size of the camp. If enemy's cavalry spotted him he was to withdraw. For a few days nothing happened. Then the Celtiberian army drew up midway between the two camps, but the Romans did not respond. For four days, this continued. After this both sides withdrew to their camps. Both cavalries went out on patrol and collected wood at the rear of their camps without interfering with each other.
When the praetor thought that the enemy would not expect action, he sent Lucius Acilius to go around the hill behind the enemy camp with a contingent of troops of Latin allies and 6,000 native auxiliaries with orders to assault the camp. They marched at night to elude detection. At dawn Lucius Acilius sent Gaius Scribonius, the commander of the allies, to the enemy rampart with his cavalry. When the Celtiberians saw them they sent out their cavalry and signaled their infantry to advance. Gaius Scribonius turned round and made for the Roman camp as per instructions. When Quintus Fulvius Flaccus thought that the Celtiberians were sufficiently drawn away from their camp he advanced with his army, which had been drawn up in three separate corps behind the rampart. Meanwhile, the cavalry on the hill charged down, as instructed, on the enemy camp, which had no more than 5,000 guarding it. The camp was taken with little resistance. Acilius set fire to that part of it which could be seen from the battlefield. Word spread through the Celtiberian line that the camp was lost, throwing them into indecision. They then resumed the fight, as it was their only hope. The Celtiberian centre was hard pressed by the Fifth Legion. However, they advanced against the Roman left flank, which had native auxiliaries, and would have overrun it had the Seventh Legion not come to its aid. The troops which were at Aebura turned up and, as Acilius was at the enemy's rear, the Celtiberians were sandwiched and cut to pieces; 23,000 died and 4,700 were captured. On the other side, 200 Romans, 800 allies and 2,400 native auxiliaries fell. Aebura was seized.
Flaccus campaigns in Celtiberia (180–179 BC)
Quintus Fulvius Flaccus then marched across Carpetania and went to Contrebia. The townsfolk sent for Celtiberian assistance, but it did not come and they surrendered. The Celtiberians had been delayed by incessant winter rain which caused floods and made the roads impassable and the rivers difficult to cross. Heavy storms forced Flaccus to move his army into the city. When the rain stopped the Celtiberians went on the march without knowing about the city's surrender. They saw no Roman camp and thought that it had been moved elsewhere or that the Romans had withdrawn. They approached the city without taking precautions and without proper formation. The Romans made a sortie from the two city gates. Caught by surprise the Celtiberians were routed. Not being in formation made resistance impossible, but it helped the majority to escape. Still, 12,000 men died and 5,000 men and 400 horses were captured. The fugitives bumped into another body of Celtiberians on its way to Contrebia which, on being told about the defeat, dispersed. Quintus Fulvius marched through Celtiberian territory, ravaged the countryside and stormed many forts until the Celtiberians surrendered.
In 180 BC the praetor Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was assigned the command of Hispania Citerior and the conduct of the war with the Celtiberians. Around this time, messengers arrived in Rome, bringing news of the Celtiberian surrender. They then told the senate that there was no need to send subsidies for the army, as Hispania Citerior was now able to sustain itself, and requested that Flaccus be allowed to bring back his army. Livy wrote that this was a must because the soldiers were determined to go back home and it seemed impossible to keep them in Hispania any longer, to the point where they might mutiny if not withdrawn. Tiberius Gracchus objected to this because he did not want to lose the veterans. A compromise was reached: Gracchus was ordered to levy two legions (5,200 infantry but only 400 cavalry instead of the usual 600) and an additional 1,000 infantry and 50 cavalry plus 7,000 Latin infantry and 300 cavalry (a total of 13,200 infantry and 750 cavalry); meanwhile, Flaccus was allowed to bring back home veterans who had been sent to Hispania before 186 BC, while those who arrived after that date were to remain. He could bring back any excess over Gracchus' assigned force of 14,000 infantry and 600 cavalry.
Since his successor was late, Flaccus started a third campaign against the Celtiberians who had not surrendered, ravaging the more distant parts of Celtiberia. The Celtiberians responded by secretly gathering an army to strike at the Manlian Pass, through which the Romans would have needed to pass. However, Gracchus told his colleague, Lucius Postumius, to inform Flaccus that he had nearly arrived from Rome, and that Flaccus was to bring his army to Tarraco (Tarragona), where Gracchus would disband the old army and incorporate the new troops. In the wake of this news, Flaccus abandoned his campaign and withdrew from Celtiberia. The Celtiberians thought that Flaccus was fleeing because he had become aware of their rebellion and continued to prepare their trap at the Manlian Pass. When the Romans entered the pass they were attacked on both sides. Quintus Fulvius ordered his men to hold their ground. The pack animals and the baggage were piled up in one place. The battle was desperate. The native auxiliaries could not hold their ground against men who were armed in the same way but were a better class of soldiers. Seeing that their regular order of battle was no match for the Roman legions, the Celtiberians bore down on them in wedge formation and almost broke their line. Flaccus ordered the Legion's cavalry to close ranks and charge the enemy wedge with loose reins, breaking the wedge and throwing the enemy into disarray. The apparent success of the tactic inspired the native auxiliary cavalry to also let their horses loose on the enemy. The enemy, now routed, scattered through the whole defile. The Celtiberians lost 17,000 men; 4,000 men and 600 horses were captured; 472 Romans, 1,019 Latin allies and 3,000 native auxiliaries died. The Romans encamped outside the pass and marched to Tarraco the next day. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus had landed two days earlier. The two commanders selected the soldiers who were to be discharged and those who were to remain. Flaccus returned to Rome with his veterans and Gracchus went to Celtiberia.
In his account of this war, Appian wrote that the rebellion was by the tribes which lived along the River Iberus (the Greek name for the Ebro), including the Lusones (a small Celtiberian tribe in the north of Celtiberia, in the high Tajuña River valley, northeast of Guadalajara). He held that the rebellion was caused by the tribes having insufficient land. Whether this was the actual cause of the war is uncertain. He wrote that Quintus Fulvius defeated these tribes. Most of them scattered but those which were destitute and nomadic fled to Complega, a newly built and fortified city which had grown rapidly. They sent messengers who demanded that Flaccus compensate them with a sagos (a Celtic word for cloak), a horse and a sword for every man who was killed in the battle and that the Romans leave Hispania or suffer the consequences. Flaccus said that he would give them plenty of cloaks, followed the messengers and encamped in front of the city. The inhabitants, feeling intimidated, fled and plundered the fields of the neighbouring tribes along their way.
Gracchus and Albinus campaigns in the Celtiberia (179 BC)
In 179 BC, Gracchus and Lucius Postumius Albinus, who was in charge of the other Roman province (Hispania Ulterior), had their commands extended. They were reinforced with 3,000 Roman and 5,000 Latin infantry and 300 Roman and 400 Latin cavalry. They planned a joint operation. Albinus, whose province had been quiet, was to march against the Vaccaei (a people who lived to the east of Celtiberia) via eastern Lusitania and return to Celtiberia if there was a greater war there, while Gracchus was to head into the furthest part of Celtiberia. He first took the city of Munda by storm with an unexpected attack at night. He took hostages, left a garrison and burned the countryside until he reached the powerful town which the Celtiberians called Certima. A delegation from the town arrived while he was preparing the siege machines. They did not disguise the fact that they would fight to the end if they had the strength, as they asked to be allowed to go to the Celtiberian camp at Alce to ask for help. If this was rejected they would consult among themselves. Gracchus gave them permission. After a few days they returned with ten other envoys. They asked for something to drink. Then they asked for a second cup. Livy wrote that this caused 'laughter at such uncultured ignorance of all etiquette’. Then the oldest man said that they had been sent to enquire what the Romans relied on to attack them. Gracchus replied that he relied on an excellent army and invited them to see it for themselves. He ordered the entire army to march in review under arms. The envoys left and discouraged their people from sending aid to the besieged city. The townsfolk surrendered. An indemnity was imposed on them and they had to give forty young nobles to serve in the Roman army as a pledge of loyalty.
After Certima, Tiberius Gracchus went to Alce, where the Celtiberian camp the envoys had come from was. For a few days he just harassed the enemy by sending larger and larger contingents of skirmishers against their outposts, hoping to draw the enemy out. When the enemy responded he ordered the native auxiliaries to offer only slight resistance and then retreat hastily to the camp, pretending that they had been overwhelmed. He placed his men behind the gates of the rampant of the camp. When the enemy pursued the retreating units in a disorderly manner and came to close range, the Romans came out from all the gates. Caught by surprise, the enemy was routed and lost 9,000 men and 320 men and 112 horses where captured; 109 Romans fell. Gracchus then marched further into Celtiberia, which he plundered. The tribes submitted. In a few days 103 towns surrendered. He then returned to Alce and begun to besiege the city. The townsfolk resisted the first assaults, but when the siege engines were deployed they withdrew to the citadel and then sent envoys to offer their surrender. Many nobles were taken, including the two sons and the daughter of Thurru, a Celtiberian chief. According to Livy he was by far the most powerful man in Hispania. Thurru asked for safe conduct to visit Tiberius Gracchus. He asked him whether he and his family would be allowed to live. When Gracchus replied affirmatively he asked if he was allowed to serve with the Romans. Gracchus granted this. From then on Thurru followed and helped the Romans in many places.
Ergavica, another powerful Celtiberian city, was alarmed about the defeats of its neighbours and opened its gates to the Romans. Livy noted that some of his sources held that these surrenders were in bad faith because whenever Gracchus left hostilities resumed and there was also a major battle near Mons Chaunus (probably Moncayo Massif), which lasted from dawn to midday with many casualties on both sides. His sources also claimed that three days later there was a bigger battle which cost the defeated Celtiberians 22,000 casualties and the capture of 300 men and 300 horses, a decisive defeat which ended the war in earnest. Livy also noted that according to these sources Lucius Postumius Albinus won a great battle against the Vaccaei, killing 35,000. Livy thought that ‘it would be nearer the truth to say that he arrived in his province too late in the summer to undertake a campaign’. Livy did not give any explanation for his doubts about this information about Lucius Postumius Albinus. He did not write anything about his campaigns on his own authority either. However, in an earlier passage, Livy wrote that he arrived in Hispania before Tiberius Gracchus, who gave him a message with instructions for his predecessor, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus.
Appian wrote about two more episodes about the campaign of Tiberius Gracchus. He wrote that the city of Caravis (Magallon, in north-western Aragon), an ally of Rome, was besieged by 20,000 Celtiberians. Gracchus was informed that it would fall soon. He hurried there, but he could not alert them that he was nearby. The commander of the cavalry, Cominius, had the idea of wearing a Hispanic sagum (a military cloak), mingling in the enemy camp and making his way to the town. He informed the townsfolk that Gracchus was nearby and told them to hold out a bit longer. Three days later Gracchus attacked the besiegers, who fled. At about the same time, the people of the town of Complega (location unknown) which, had 20,000 inhabitants, went to Gracchus’ camp pretending to be peace negotiators. They attacked unexpectedly, throwing the Romans into disarray. Gracchus quickly abandoned the camp in a feigned retreat, and then turned on them while they were plundering the camp, killing most of them. He went on to seize Complega. He then allocated land to the poor and made carefully defined treaties with the surrounding tribes and the surrounding country, binding them to be friends of Rome.
Gracchus founded the colony (settlement) of Gracchurris (Alfaro, in La Rioja, northern Hispania) in the Upper Ebro Valley. This marked the beginning of Roman influence in northern Hispania. It was thought that this was the only colony he founded. However, in the 1950s an inscription was found near Mangibar, on the banks of the River Baetis (Guadalquivir) which attests that he founded another one. It was Iliturgi, a mining town and a frontier outpost. Gracchus therefore established a colony outside his province as it was in Hispania Ulterior.
Aftermath
Appian wrote that Gracchus' ‘treaties were longed for in subsequent wars’. Unlike previous praetors he spent time negotiating and cultivating personal relations with tribal leaders. This was reminiscent of the friendly relations established by Scipio Africanus during the Second Punic War. Gracchus imposed the vicensima, the requisition of 5% of the grain harvest, a form of tax which was more efficient and less vulnerable to abuse than the usual Roman practice of delegating tax collection to private ‘tax farmers.’ Silva notes this is the first reference to a regulatory collection of revenue. His treaties stipulated that the allies were to provide the Romans with auxiliary troops. They also established that the natives could fortify existing cities, but not found new ones. There is some evidence that he introduced civilian administrative measures, such as the issuing of rights for mining to mint coins and the construction of roads. Gracchus is remembered for his administrative arrangements which ensured peace in the conquered territory for the next quarter of a century.
Apart from a few minor episodes, Hispania remained quiet until the outbreak of the Lusitanian War (155–150 BC) and the Second Celtiberian War (154–151 BC).
Notes
References
Primary sources
Appian, Roman History, The Foreign Wars, Book 6, The Wars in Spain, Loeb Classical Library, Vol I, Books 1-8.1., Loeb, 1989;
Livy, History of Rome from Its Foundation: Rome and the Mediterranean (Books 31–45), Penguin Classics, Reprint edition, 1976;
Secondary sources in English
Curchin, L.A. Romans Spain:Conquest and Assimilation, Routledge, 1991; 978-0415023658
Richardson, J.S., Hispaniae, Spain and the Development of Roman Imperialism,218-82 BC, Cambridge University Press, 2008;
Richardson, J.S., The Romans in Spain, John Wiley & Sons; Reprint edition, 1998;
Silva, L., Viriathus and the Lusitanian Resistance to Rome, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2013;
Wars involving Spain
180s BC conflicts
170s BC conflicts
2nd century BC in the Roman Republic
Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula
181 BC
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44500346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Baghdad%20International%20Airport | Battle of Baghdad International Airport | The Battle of Baghdad International Airport was a battle fought primarily between US Army truck drivers, Air Defense Artillery, Armor, Military Police, Engineers and miscellaneous logistics personnel and al Sadr's Mahdi Army on Easter Sunday, April 11, 2004, along the Southwest side of the Baghdad International Airport wall commonly referred to as Engineer Village. That section of Baghdad International Airport was home to numerous Engineer units, in particular the 389th Combat Engineers, a chow hall, and a convoy marshaling area.
History
On April 5, 2004, the radical young cleric Muqtada al Sadr called for a jihad against coalition forces and wanted to gain control of Al Kut, An Najaf and Sadr City. This led to widespread fighting throughout the Sunni Triangle. With his militia outmatched by the M1 Abrams tanks of the 1st Cavalry Division, they knew that the Abrams tanks were dependent on resupply trucks. On Thursday night, April 8, the militia dropped eight bridges and overpasses around Convoy Support Center Scania thus halting all northbound traffic into the Sunni Triangle.
The coalition forces was forced to survive on the few days of supply they had on hand in Iraq. That same evening, 2LT James L. McCormick's Humvee gun truck, Zebra, of the 1486th Transportation Company, fought off an enemy ambush at the turn into BIAP for about 20 minutes with him and SPC Brandon Lawson was seriously wounded. After medical treatment, both returned to their convoy. The next day, Good Friday and the anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, the Iraqis ambushed every convoy that tried to enter or leave Baghdad International Airport including the ambush of the 724th Transportation Company. The next day all roads were coded black meaning that any convoy expected imminent attack. With no more convoys venturing out, the militia decided to attack the trucks where they parked.
By Easter Sunday, April 11, several hundred trucks parked behind the southwest wall of BIAP defended by the C Battery, 4-5 Air Defense Artillery. By then the 1st Cavalry Division was 48 hours from mission failure and required emergency resupply of fuel and ammunition. A fuel convoy of the 706th Transportation Company ventured out of BIAP and was ambushed. Around lunch the Madhi Militia launched an attack near the south gate at BIAP. The attack began with suppressive fire on the guard tower closest to the gate while three sappers approached the wall just as the Zebra happened to be passing by. 2LT McCormick ordered his driver, CPL Bryan Noble, to drive on the ramp in time to engage the three sappers.
The five crew members then held off the rest of the Iraqi militants at the irrigation ditch 50 meters away for the next five to ten minutes while about a dozen more truck drivers came running to their assistance. For approximately 45 minutes, the enemy concentrated their attack on the section of wall occupied by the Zebra, and a handful of truck drivers fought back against intense small arms fire and repeated volleys of rocket propelled grenades. The M6 Linebacker outside the gate to their left and truck drivers crowded around a Humvee on the dirt ramp a hundred meters to their right provided flanking fire. Military police Soldiers of the 501st Military Police Company 1st Armored Division joined the truck drivers on the other ramp. Intermittent breaks in .50 Caliber M2HB fire mounted on a Humvee on the ramp to the right were halted to allow SGT Bryant, a 1AD 501st MP Sergeant, to fire three consecutive AT-4 rounds into the enemy location. Later four Humvees of F Battery, 202nd Air Defense Artillery returned to the gate and added their flanking fire to the fight. Late in the battle, a HET convoy hauling tanks from the 1st Armored Division arrived at the gate and a colonel climbed up in the guard tower.
He instructed McCormick to back the Zebra off the ramp and bring up SGT Christopher M. Lehman's Humvee gun truck with a Mk 19 grenade launcher because McCormick's M2 Browning .50 caliber machinegun could not hit the enemy mortar position. Finally, CPT Peter Glass’ C Troop, 3-8 Cavalry arrived and replaced the gun trucks on the ramps with his M-1 Abrams tanks which ended the enemy resistance after 45 minutes of fighting.
Aftermath
Thirty minutes after having defeated the enemy attack, the crew of the Zebra fought through three more ambushes to escort convoys with critical ammunition to the Green Zone for the 1st Cavalry Division. All but one of the five crew members was wounded that weekend, but all remained with their gun truck. With other emergency convoys of fuel and ammunition, the 1st Cavalry Division was able to beat back the al Sadr April Uprising.
Twelve Bronze Star Medals and four Army Commendation Medals were awarded to truck drivers for this battle. McCormick was finally awarded the Silver Star Medal in 2014 for his role in this battle and the three convoy ambushes immediately after it. The battle ranks as one of the great feats of heroism of the US Army Transportation Corps.
References
Further reading
Convoy Ambush Case Studies Vol. II, Iraq and Afghanistan Richard E. Killblane, US Army Transportation School, 2015
External links
Video: Attack at BIAP, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noi12Ji8nu8
Video: BIAP Warrior Ethos, https://web.archive.org/web/20141206193701/http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=N-4RQAzIPF0
Video: BIAP 2004 Easter, https://web.archive.org/web/20141201220836/http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=uHiZUSNLpUo
BIAP 2004
BIAP 2004
2000s in Baghdad
BIAP 2004
2004 in Iraq
April 2004 events in Iraq |
20475428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant%20Secretary%20of%20State%20for%20Population%2C%20Refugees%2C%20and%20Migration | Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration | The Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration is the head of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration within the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration reports to the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.
List of the Directors of the Bureau of Refugee Programs, 1979—1994
List of the Assistant Secretaries of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, 1994—Present
Note: officials named in italics served in an acting capacity.
External links
List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration at the State Department website
Website of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
References |
6906564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Harrison | Michael Harrison | Michael, Mike or Mick Harrison may refer to:
Michael Harrison (musician), American composer, pianist and creator of the “harmonic piano,” an extensively modified seven-foot grand piano
Mike Harrison (musician) (1945–2018), English musician, singer with Spooky Tooth
Mike Harrison (album), 1971
Michael A. Harrison, American computer scientist, pioneer in formal languages
Michael Allen Harrison, American New Age musician, songwriter and pianist
Michael Harrison (politician) (born 1958), member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
M. John Harrison (born 1945), British author of science fiction, fantasy and literary fiction
Michael R. Harrison (born 1943), director of pediatric surgery at UCSF
Michael Harrison (writer) (1907–1991), English detective fiction and fantasy author
Michael Harrison, early pseudonym for Sunset Carson, American actor
Mike Harrison (footballer, born 1940) (1940–2019), English footballer
Mike Harrison (footballer, born 1952), English footballer
Mike Harrison (rugby union) (born 1956), English rugby union player
Mick Harrison (rugby league), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s
Michael Harrison (cricketer) (born 1978), English cricketer
Michael Harrison (lawyer) (1823–1895), Irish lawyer and judge, Solicitor-General for Ireland
Mick Harrison (comic books), pseudonym of Randy Stradley
J. Michael Harrison (born 1944), American researcher in operations research
Mike Harrison (bishop) (born 1963), Church of England bishop
Michael Harrison (announcer), soldier and BBC radio presenter
Michael S. Harrison, American police officer |
26717821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20L.%20Narayana | P. L. Narayana | P. Lakshmi Narayana (10 September 1935 – 3 November 1998) was an Indian actor, dialogue writer, and playwright, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and a few Tamil films. He has received one National Film Award and five state Nandi Awards.
Awards
National Film Awards
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor - Yagnam (1991)
Nandi Awards
Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal in Kukka.
Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal in Neti Bharatam in 1983.
Special Jury Award for his performance in Mayuri in 1985.
Best Supporting Actor for his acting skills in Repati Pourulu in 1986.
Best Dialogue Writer for his writing skills in Dandora in 1993.
Selected filmography
References
Male actors in Tamil cinema
1935 births
1998 deaths
Telugu male actors
Best Supporting Actor National Film Award winners
Nandi Award winners
20th-century Indian male actors
Indian male film actors
Male actors in Telugu cinema
People from Guntur district |
6906571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodorovskaya%20Church | Fyodorovskaya Church | The Fyodorovskaya Church (Фёдоровская церковь) is a penticupolar parish Russian Orthodox church built by ordinary parishioners on the right bank of the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl between 1682 and 1687. It is dedicated to Theotokos Feodorovskaya, a miraculous icon from nearby Kostroma.
The building is notable as the first church in the region to be returned by the Soviets to the Russian Orthodox Church (in 1987). It served as the cathedral church of the ancient Yaroslavl-Rostov eparchy until the restored Dormition Cathedral was consecrated in 2010. During this period the relics of St. Theodore the Black and other local saints were kept there.
History
A parish chronicle from the 18th century survives. It indicates that it was the Mother of God who appeared to a paralyzed parishioner, Ivan, and commanded the building of a church in Her name. Ivan was instructed to sail down the Volga to Kostroma and ask Guriy Nikitin, a famous icon painter, to make a replica of the miraculous icon of the Theotokos. This new image eventually helped cure Ivan, among many others.
The parishioners decided to model the new church on that of the Ascension of Christ. Its exterior ornamentation is basic but proportions are graceful. The elongated drums and domes are considerably higher than the cuboid structure of the church that supports them. An enclosed gallery and a porch were added to the main cube in the first third of the 18th century.
The interior is of traditional design. It has four piers and is entirely covered in frescoes dating from 1716. The intricately carved icon screen was made in 1705. Some of the icons are noted for their complex calendar and cosmological codes.
The church compound is fenced and has a smaller church with a belfry on the north side. This single-dome Penskaya church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, a patron saint of merchants. There is also a baptistery of recent construction on the grounds.
References
Russian Orthodox churches in Yaroslavl
Russian Orthodox cathedrals in Russia
Shrines to the Virgin Mary
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1687
Eastern Orthodox church buildings dedicated to Theotokos
1687 establishments in Russia
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Yaroslavl Oblast |
26717833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo%20station%20%28Via%20Rail%29 | Nanaimo station (Via Rail) | Nanaimo station is a former railway station in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The station was a stop on the Via Rail Dayliner service, which closed indefinitely in 2011. The station is located at 336 Prideaux Street, Nanaimo.
History
The one/two-storey stucco and wood building station building featuring a central square tower, was built in 1920 to replace an earlier station building. The building is a more complex version of the CPR Standard Plan No. 9 design. The original design was intended to support commercial operations on the main floor with living quarters for railway employees on the second floor.
Closure
On March 19, 2011, Via Rail suspended service indefinitely due to poor track conditions on the line outside Nanaimo and replaced it with a bus service. Eventually, on August 12, 2011, the bus service ended and the station closed indefinitely.
References
External links
City of Nanaimo The city the station serviced.
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1920
Railway stations closed in 2011
Disused railway stations in Canada
Buildings and structures in Nanaimo
Transport in Nanaimo
Designated Heritage Railway Stations in British Columbia
1920 establishments in British Columbia
2011 disestablishments in British Columbia |
26717875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Caroline%20of%20Nassau-Usingen | Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen | Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (; 4 April 176217 August 1823) was the elder daughter of Karl Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, and wife of Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel.
Early life
Caroline was born at Biebrich, Nassau-Usingen the second child and first daughter of Karl Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1735–1803), and his wife, Countess Caroline Felizitas of Leiningen-Dagsburg (1734–1810), daughter of Christian Karl Reinhard, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim.
Caroline, via her mother's roots among the Alsace lords of Leiningen, was a cousin of the Danish aristocrat, the Duke of Augustenborg, they both being direct descendants of the important Danish and Sleswicker magnate and statesman , 1st HRR Reichsgraf zu Rixingen, 1st Lensgreve of Langeland (1623-1686). This Danish connection played a role in Caroline's marriage.
Marriage and family
Caroline married on 2 December 1786 in Biebrich to Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747–1837), youngest child of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Mary of Great Britain, daughter of George II of Great Britain.
The Landgrave and Prince Frederik was born a German (Hessian) aristocrat, a cadet son of a Landesfürstliche house, but had lived since his youth in Denmark, as had his two elder brothers. Frederik's two elder brothers married daughters of the deceased King of Norway and Denmark. However, there was no Danish royal daughter left to marry the youngest boy, Frederik, so he married a cousin of the Duke of Augustenborg, being Caroline of Nassau. Frederik was an infantry general in Danish service.
They had eight children:
William (24 December 1787 – 5 September 1867), married Louise Charlotte of Denmark (1789–1864) and was the father of Louise of Hesse-Kassel (wife of Christian IX of Denmark).
Karl Friedrich (9 March 1789 – 10 September 1802)
Friedrich Wilhelm (24 April 1790 – 25 October 1876)
Ludwig Karl (12 November 1791 – 12 May 1800)
Georg Karl (14 January 1793 – 4 March 1881)
Luise Karoline Marie Friederike (9 April 1794 – 16 March 1881)
Marie Wilhelmine Friederike (21 January 1796 – 30 December 1880), married Georg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779–1860)
Augusta Wilhelmine Luise (25 July 1797 – 6 April 1889), married Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774–1850) and was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck (wife of George V of the United Kingdom).
Ancestry
Notes and sources
L'Allemagne dynastique, Huberty, Giraud, Magdelaine, Reference: vol III page 427
The Royal House of Stuart, London, 1969, 1971, 1976, Addington, A. C.
Europäische Stammtafeln, Band I, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von
1762 births
1823 deaths
18th-century German people
18th-century German women
19th-century German people
19th-century German women
German princesses
House of Hesse-Kassel
House of Nassau
House of Nassau-Weilburg
Landgravines of Hesse-Kassel
Royal reburials |
20475441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/497th%20Combat%20Training%20Flight | 497th Combat Training Flight | The 497th Combat Training Flight is a United States Air Force unit. Its present station is Singapore's Paya Lebar Air Base, where its mission is to provide operational and logistical support to U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft deployed to Singapore for training exercises with the Republic of Singapore Air Force.
History
World War II
Operational training unit, June 1942 – October 1943; replacement training, October 1943 – April 1944.
Cold War
Air defense of West coast, 1953–1955.
Air Defense of Southwest Europe, 1958–1964. In the early 1960s Headquarters, United States Air Force (USAF) implemented Project Clearwater. Clearwater was designed to return overseas Convair F-102 Delta Dagger squadrons stationed overseas to the United States to reduce "gold flow" (adverse balance of payments). This resulted in the 497th being reduced to a paper unit and its planes dispersed to Air Defense Command interceptor squadrons in the US. Although it had originally been intended to inactivate the unit, it was instead transferred to Tactical Air Command as a paper unit.
Vietnam War
Combat in Southeast Asia, 1965–1974; Defense of South Korea, 1974–1988.
Current mission
Combat training in Southeast Asia, 1991–present
Approximately three deployments of USAF McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons from both active duty and Air National Guard units from around the world are made each year to Singapore under the auspices of Exercise Commando Sling. The squadron supports/participates in regional exercise and global contingencies, and provides housing; morale, recreation and welfare facilities and programs: medical services; force protection to resources and personnel; and legal, financial, communications, and contracting support to assigned and deployed personnel.
The 497th comprises the basic functional elements of a small-scale USAF fighter wing – fighter operations, flightline logistics, community and mission support, and medical services. With a permanently assigned staff of 37 personnel, the 497th represents the entire USAF presence in Singapore. However, six times a year for up to four weeks the unit grows to between 120 and 190 in strength, with the deployment of 6 to 12 F-15 and/or F-16 aircraft and the associated 75 to 150 support personnel. When so configured, the 497th "presence" is transformed into an operational role, to conduct an intense schedule of air-to-air combat training with the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF).
The 497th also supports USAF fighter rotations to Southwest Asia and several other regional exercises such as Cope Taufan, Cope Tiger, and Cope West. An example of the 497th's "expanding capability" occurred in May 1998 during COMMANDO SLING 98-4 when they also supported the ordered departure of U.S. personnel from Indonesia. Paya Lebar Air Base ramp at that time had 28 USAF F-15s, four USAF Lockheed C-130 Herculeses, four USAF Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers, one Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, one Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, plus all the permanently based RSAF aircraft and aircraft from other nations. All were supported by squadron and RSAF personnel. Additionally, COMMANDO SLING 98-4 was the first time the normally bilateral exercise was expanded to include the Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornets.
The 497th commander is also the designated commanding officer for legal jurisdiction over U.S. military personnel in nine Southeast Asian countries. It is a tenant command under Naval Region Singapore and shares space at the Sembawang Terminal with Task Force 73/Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific and a space at Paya Lebar Air Base.
Lineage
Constituted as the 302d Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 13 January 1942
Activated on 10 February 1942
Redesignated 302d Bombardment Squadron (Dive) on 27 July 1942
Redesignated 497th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 10 August 1943
Disbanded on 1 April 1944
Reconstituted on 3 February 1953 and redesignated 497th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
Activated on 18 February 1953
Redesignated 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 25 July 1964
Inactivated on 16 September 1974
Activated on 1 October 1978
Inactivated on 24 January 1989
Redesignated 497th Fighter Training Squadron on 28 October 1991
Activated on 31 October 1991
Redesignated 497th Combat Training Squadron on 1 August 1994
Redesignated 497th Combat Training Flight on 26 October 2006
Assignments
84th Bombardment Group (later 84th Fighter-Bomber Group), 10 February 1942 – 1 April 1944
503d Air Defense Group, 18 February 1953
84th Fighter Group, 18 August 1955
65th Air Division, 5 July 1958
United States Air Forces Europe (attached to 65th Air Division), 1 July 1960
32d Tactical Fighter Wing. 18 June 1964
8th Tactical Fighter Wing, 25 July 1964
831st Air Division, 6 December 1965 (attached to 479th Tactical Fighter Wing)
8th Tactical Fighter Wing, 8 December 1965 – 16 September 1974
8th Tactical Fighter Wing, 1 October 1978
51st Composite Wing (later 51st Tactical Fighter Wing), 1 January 1982 – 1 January 1988
Thirteenth Air Force, 31 October 1991
36th Air Base Wing, 30 June 2005
36th Operations Group, 15 March 2006 – present
Stations
Savannah Air Base, Georgia, 10 February 1942
Drew Field, Florida, 7 February 1943
Harding Army Air Field, Louisiana, 4 October 1943 – 1 April 1944
Portland Army Air Base, Oregon, 18 February 1953
Geiger Field, Washington, 18 August 1955
Torrejon Air Base, Spain, 21 June 1958
George Air Force Base, California, 18 June 1964
Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, 8 December 1965
Taegu Air Base, South Korea, 1 October 1978 – 24 January 1989
Paya Lebar Airbase, Singapore, 31 October 1991 – present
Aircraft
V-72 Vengeance, 1942
A-24 Banshee, 1942–1943
P-39 Airacobra, 1943
P-47 Thunderbolt, 1943–1944
F-94B Starfire, 1953–1954
F-89D Scorpion, 1954–1955
F-86D Sabre Interceptor, 1955–1960
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, 1960–1964
F-4 Phantom II, 1964–1988
References
Notes
Explanatory notes
Citations
Bibliography
McMullen, Richard F. (1964) "The Fighter Interceptor Force 1962–1964" ADC Historical Study No. 27, Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, CO (Confidential, declassified 22 March 2000)
External links
497th Combat Training Squadron on the NRCS website
497th Combat Training Squadron on the US Embassy in Singapore website
Flights of the United States Air Force
Combat Training 0497
Singapore–United States military relations |
20475451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foustown%2C%20Pennsylvania | Foustown, Pennsylvania | Foustown is an unincorporated community in West Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania,
United States.
Foustown is located at (39.9950974, -76.7716341). It lies 502 feet (153 m) above sea level.
References
Unincorporated communities in York County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania |
26717878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Szajner | Bob Szajner | Bob Szajner (12 September 1938 – 9 November 2019) was an American jazz pianist.
Early life
Born on September 12, 1938, Bob Szajner grew up listening to talented relatives playing various instruments. His mother taught him the basics of music and how to play piano at a very early age.
In 1948, he won first prize in the "Frankie Carle Piano Contest". This entitled him to one weeks performance at the Fox Theater in Detroit. He was one of the opening acts on the bill (a vaudeville theme) for Billie Holiday along with a comedian and an acrobatic duo. He enjoyed listening to Billie Holiday's style of music and accompaniment for her. This was the beginning of his quest for his own personal style.
Ten years later, for at least ten years, he started writing and performing "Modern Jazz" later known as "Bebop" and then later as "Hard Bop". He performed with many musicians from the "Detroit jazz" scene at various sessions, venues and jazz clubs throughout the Detroit metropolitan area. He often worked with Donald Byrd, Charlie McPherson, Lonnie Hillyer, Roy Brooks, Yusef Lateef, Pepper Adams, Frank Isola, and others as a back-up piano player.
Later career
For the next ten years, he wrote some tunes, but really became quite dismayed and disappointed with the business of music, especially, the lack of audience. Then on October 8, 1978 (his 18th wedding anniversary), he recorded material for an album with his old school friend, drummer Roy Brooks and Roy's bass man Ray McKinney. "The Bob Szajner Triad" was a three record set of his original compositions. A twenty-seven tune recording session performing original music never played before or rehearsed and without second takes. This was the "Triad" concept. This led to performances at "The Cafe Detroit", "The Detroit Jazz Center", and the "Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival 1981".
Later albums featuring Ed Pickens on bass and Frank Isola on drums (The Bob Szajner Triad II), were recorded in 1981 at "The Detroit Jazz Center World Stage".
References
1938 births
2019 deaths
American jazz pianists
American male pianists
21st-century American pianists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians |
20475453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carciano | Carciano | Carciano de Jesus Acácio, known as just Carciano, is a Brazilian football defender.
1981 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Villa Nova Atlético Clube players
Ceará Sporting Club players
Brazilian expatriate footballers
C.F. Os Belenenses players
Primeira Liga players
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Association football defenders
Sportspeople from Salvador, Bahia |
26717886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrod%20Kayler-Thomson | Jarrod Kayler-Thomson | Jarrod Kayler-Thomson (born 26 July 1985) is an Australian rules footballer. He had played in the Australian Football League with the Hawthorn Football Club. He currently plays with the Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League.
Kayler-Thomson was teammate of Jordan Lewis, when the two were underage players at the Geelong Falcons in 2003.
Kayler-Thomson joined the Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and played 88 games for them between 2005 and 2009. He won the Vince Pendal Award for best clubman in 2009. Kayler-Thomson was the leading goalkicker for Perth in 2007 with 41 goals.
In the 2008 Queensland versus WAFL match in Townsville, Kayler-Thomson was listed as best on ground.
Drafted to the Hawks with the 29th selection of the 2010 AFL Rookie Draft, Kayler-Thomson was elevated to the senior list prior to the opening round of the 2010 AFL season due to a spate of injuries to senior players.
He debuted against Melbourne in the opening game of the 2010 season collecting 6 marks and 17 disposals.
Hawthorn delisted him at the end of the 2010 season so he returned to Perth.
He reached his 100th game upon returning in 2011 before then missing all but two matches in 2012 due to a shoulder injury. That gave him a chance to reflect and realise he wanted a fresh start in the WAFL, and that's how he ended up at Subiaco.
Statistics
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| 3 || 1 || 2 || 30 || 24 || 54 || 18 || 5 || 0.3 || 0.7 || 10.0 || 8.0 || 18.0 || 6.0 || 1.7 || 0
|- class="sortbottom"
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References
External links
Hawthorn Football Club players
Perth Football Club players
Subiaco Football Club players
Box Hill Football Club players
1985 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Geelong Falcons players
Mansfield Football Club players |
20475465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhod%20Tadjiyev | Farhod Tadjiyev | Farhod Tadjiyev (Uzbek Cyrillic: Фарход Тожиев or Farhod Tojiyev; born 9 April 1986) is an Uzbekistani footballer who plays as a striker who plays for FC Dinamo Samarqand. His name means happiness in Persian. He is the younger brother of Kamoliddin Tajiev and Zaynitdin Tadjiyev.
Club career
He joined Tianjin Teda in February 2010, after Tianjin Teda released his elder brother Zaynitdin Tadjiyev. In 2011–12 he played in Pakhtakor Tashkent. In summer 2012 he moved to Shurtan Guzar.
On 27 January 2013 he signed a contract with Lokomotiv Tashkent. In 2013, he scored 17 goals in 13 first League matches, leading goalscorer list far ahead. After injury he could not play any match in the season. Tadjiyev scored 13 goals in 2014 League for Lokomotiv and became one of the League goalscorers. He was the best Lokomotiv goalscorer in 2013–14 seasons.
He signed a contract with Malaysian T-Team on 24 November 2014. On 28 February 2015 in Malaysia FA Cup Round of 32 match against ATM Tadjiev scored two goals in the 101st and 113rd minutes in a 3–0 victory.
On 28 September 2016, Farhod signed for Machine Sazi F.C. to begin a new chapter in his career in Iran's Persian Gulf Pro League.
International career
Tadjiyev made five appearances for the Uzbekistan national football team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying rounds.
He was called to Uzbekistan team to play in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Lebanon on 26 March 2013.
Farhod's hat-trick against Qatar in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification added to his popularity among Uzbek football fans and gained him much recognition on Asia's international stage.
Career statistics
Goals for Senior National Team
Honours
Club
Pakhtakor
Uzbek League (1): 2007
Uzbek League runner-up (2): 2008, 2009
Uzbek Cup (2): 2009, 2011
CIS Cup (1): 2007
Tianjin Teda
Chinese Super League runner-up (1): 2010
Lokomotiv
Uzbek League runner-up (2): 2013, 2014
Uzbek Cup (1): 2014
Individual
Lokomotiv best goalscorer: 2013, 2014
References
External links
Living people
1986 births
Uzbekistani footballers
Uzbekistani Muslims
Uzbekistan international footballers
Uzbekistani expatriate footballers
Pakhtakor Tashkent FK players
FC Taraz players
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. players
Chinese Super League players
Expatriate footballers in China
Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in China
Machine Sazi F.C. players
Association football forwards |
17341625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20Brothers%20Racing | Wood Brothers Racing | Wood Brothers Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Cup Series. The team was formed in 1950 by eponymous brothers Glen and Leonard Wood. From 2006 to 2008, the team was merged with Tad and Jodi Geschickter's JTG Racing. The Wood Brothers Racing Team holds the unique distinction of being the oldest active team in NASCAR, having fielded cars since 1950. They are known for their long relationship with Ford Motor Company, and the long-standing use of the number 21 on their main car. The team currently fields the No. 21 Ford Mustang full-time for Harrison Burton and has a technical alliance with Team Penske.
Cup Series
Car No. 21 history
The Wood Brothers Racing Team was formed in 1950 by brothers from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. Walter and Ada Wood owned a family farm between Woolwine and Stuart, Virginia. They had five sons (Glen, Leonard, Delano, Clay, and Ray Lee) and one daughter (Crystal). The sons worked with their father as mechanics, farmers, and lumbermen. Glen Wood cut timber and hauled lumber to local sawmills. The boys had a talent for auto mechanics and spent much time at their father's garage. With each brother serving as a mechanic, they formed a stock car racing team. Curtis Turner, a local sawmill operator from nearby Floyd, Virginia, inspired them. Turner became a champion racecar driver with a "win or crash" style and later was co-owner of Charlotte Motor Speedway. Coincidentally, Turner would later drive for the Wood Brothers.
In the early 1950s, none of the brothers wanted to drive, so they asked their friend John Conway, of nearby Stuart, to drive. Unfortunately, he declined the offer. Then they got fellow lumberman, Chris Williams, as their driver. In the early days of stock car racing, teams drove their cars to the track, raced them, and drove them home. Williams and the Wood Brothers bought their first car for $50, inspiring them to number their car No. 50, many years before they adopted their famous No. 21.
Chris Williams and Glen Wood each drove a few races. The team consisted of Williams, some of his brothers, and the Wood brothers. They became successful, winning races at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia.
Shortly after their early success, Chris Williams sold his share of the team to Glen Wood to focus on his lumber business. To fill team slots, the Wood Brothers enlisted help from Stuart area friends and neighbors including Ralph Edwards, a Wood cousin.
Over the early years, the Wood Brothers Racing Team evolved from a weekend hobby into a full-time business. Glen and Leonard worked full-time building and preparing cars, while the other brothers and crew worked nights and weekends apart from their regular jobs. Their first permanent racing shop was at the town limits of Stuart, Virginia.
The team adopted the No. 21 permanently and would become as notorious as any number in NASCAR history (along with the Petty No. 43 and Earnhardt No. 3). The Wood Brothers also found themselves lured to the big-ticket cash prizes offered by the growing Superspeedway races in cities such as Daytona, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Darlington, South Carolina. Glen Wood soon stepped out from behind the wheel of the No. 21 Ford and they began hiring drivers with reputations as winners at the different tracks.
The team soon began competing on the highest levels of the sport. Victories were won with the mechanical genius of the team of brothers, relatives, and friends. Leonard Wood's talent in the engine department soon brought the team acclaim and was second in the early years only to the fabled Holman-Moody engine juggernaut and the Petty racing dynasty of Lee Petty and son Richard Petty.
Innovation
The Wood Brothers invented the modern pit stop. In the early days of all types of motor racing (when service was needed during the race), it was common for drivers to pull into the pits, turn off the car, get out and even smoke a cigarette as the crew took their time changing tires and servicing the cars. The Wood Brothers recognized that limiting the time off the track could increase their position on the track. Thus, they created and perfected what is now known as the pit stop. It is as common to all types of racing as the checkered flag itself.
As other teams noticed that the Wood Brothers were winning races due to their efficient pit stops, these competitors soon copied the Wood method. Not content with being innovators, the Wood team practiced and perfected the pit stop as a form of acrobatic, mechanical, ballet which gave them still further advantage over their competitors.
Other racing organizations noticed the pit stop innovations of the Wood Brothers. In 1965, Ford brought the Wood Brothers team to the Indianapolis 500, to pit the Lotus-Ford team. Their speed and choreography helped Jim Clark win the 1965 500.
1960s international success
With the Indianapolis 500 win, Wood Brothers Racing began to enjoy international acclaim as pioneers and leaders in motorsports. They were featured in Sports Illustrated and many other media of the day. Their rosters of drivers soon became second to none, and their victories were only matched by Richard Petty.
The Wood Brothers signed a long-term sponsorship agreement with Purolator to be their primary sponsor on the No. 21 car. Their drivers before and during this era had included a "Who's Who" of the best in stock car racing. Among those driving for the Wood Brothers team through the mid-1960s were Curtis Turner, Marvin Panch, Fireball Roberts, Parnelli Jones, Tiny Lund, Junior Johnson, Speedy Thompson, Fred Lorenzen, and Cale Yarborough.
In those years, the Wood Brothers also entered a second car, the No. 121, in select events (they entered three cars in at least one race). Open-wheel star Dan Gurney, who enjoyed popular victories in Indy and Formula One racing, was hired by the Wood Brothers to drive in the No. 121 at road course events. The Gurney-Wood combination proved unbeatable, and they dominated the early road courses on the NASCAR circuit by winning every race in which Gurney drove for the Woods. This streak included the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside, California, in which Gurney won with the Wood No. 121 in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1968.
In the 1968 season, the Wood Brothers earned over $160,000 in winnings for the single-season, a staggering amount of winning for that period in any form of auto racing.
Dominance
In the early 1970s, the Wood Brothers continued their success. The lightning-quick pit stops and high-powered engines of the No. 21 car proved a formidable challenge to all on the NASCAR circuit. Legendary drivers such as Donnie Allison and open-wheel Indy 500 winner A. J. Foyt also took turns piloting the Wood car.
The team personnel in the Wood shop began to shift as the team raced in more events and traveled greater distances. Glen Wood emerged as the leader and patriarch of the team. Glen's young sons, Eddie and Len, also began working at the shop in menial labor jobs. His brother Delano Wood had evolved into one of the greatest pit crew members, and his skill as a jackman is incomparable even today. Other family friends soon joined the team, including Cecil Wilson from neighboring Lawsonville, North Carolina.
Modern era
List of drivers
David Pearson (1972–1979)
In 1972, David Pearson was hired to be the full-time driver of the No. 21 car. This choice would pave the way for one of the most successful strings of victory in motorsports history. Pearson continued driving the car from 1972 to 1979. In only seven years, the team entered 143 races and amassed a staggering 46 wins and 51 poles. Their race winnings surpassed $1.3 million during these seven years with Pearson as the driver.
In 1976, with Pearson still driving, the Wood Brothers won the coveted "Triple-Crown" of NASCAR racing. This feat was accomplished by winning the legendary Daytona 500, the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. All of this was accomplished throughout the 1976 season.
Due to their incredible success and their qualities as role models and ambassadors of the sport, the Wood Brothers were invited to the White House in the late 1970s at the request of President Jimmy Carter. The occasion made history for these brothers and friends from the small town of Stuart, Virginia.
As NASCAR gained prominence as an emerging sport, the Wood team was soon hailed as tops in their field. They were frequently toasted by and compared to their peers in other sports of the day, including baseball legend Reggie Jackson, football stars Terry Bradshaw and Franco Harris, and basketball greats Julius Erving and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Due to growth and demand, the No. 21 team vacated its former shop for a new home located at the junction of Dobyns Road and Mayo Court in the town of Stuart. This would be the team's home base shop for many years to come.
Neil Bonnett (1979–1982)
The decade of the 1980s saw changes in NASCAR and within the No. 21 team. Pearson parted ways with the team, and was replaced by an emerging talent named Neil Bonnett from Hueytown, Alabama. Bonnett was a member of the "Alabama Gang" which included driving stars Bobby and Donnie Allison, and this would later include Davey Allison and Hut Stricklin.
Bonnett and the Wood Brothers team had a successful relationship, lasting only three and a half seasons and 83 races. This included nine victories and over $700,000 in winnings. During what was known as the "Bonnett Years", Purolator's longtime president Paul Cameron retired and the Wood Brothers' long-term sponsorship with Purolator came to an end, marking one of the most enduring and synonymous sponsorships in the history of NASCAR.
The No. 21 car was then sponsored by National Engineer, a California-based company focused on research and development for multiple industries. This company was owned by flamboyant Warner Hodgdon, who proudly had his name placed on the No. 21 car as its main sponsor. This Hodgdon sponsorship was believed to have been one of the richest deals of its time in NASCAR racing, thus confirming Wood's status as a leader in the sport.
Within the team itself, many of the original members retired from racing. Original team members and brothers Clay and Ray Lee Wood had stepped down years earlier and focused more on their families and other jobs in Patrick County.
As the number of race events increased and the full-time work of running a team grew each season, the Wood Brothers hired younger team members to fill the gaps. Among these were the son of original crew member Jimmy Edwards and the Wood Brothers' cousin Ralph Edwards. Other new members were Curtis Quesinberry and Hylton Tatum of Stuart as well as another young Wood relative Butch Moricle. Other new personnel was drawn from surrounding cities such as the Virginia towns of Danville, and Roanoke.
Also gaining an important role during these years was young Kim Wood, the only daughter of Glen and Bernece Wood. While she was still in high school, Kim started handling administrative duties for the team and would assist her mom in juggling secretarial duties, travel arrangements, and the business side of running the team.
Buddy Baker (1983–1984)
In the mid-1980s, NASCAR entered what is now called the modern era of the sport. Growth in television coverage of the races had evolved from sporadic showings on ABC's Wide World of Sports to full-time coverage of the Daytona 500 by CBS and the full-time live broadcast of races by emerging cable networks such as ESPN and WTBS. NASCAR also obtained permanent corporate sponsorship for the series from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and the sport's top-level series was changed from Grand National Division to the Winston Cup Series. The company's founder, R. J. Reynolds, was born and raised in Patrick County, only a few miles from the Wood Brothers team's headquarters.
The Modern Era also marked the first-ever quest for points championships by most teams. Since the 1950s many teams only ran select races. Now, however, teams would be required to compete in all events in a scheduled season to compete for the series title and its large cash prize.
The Wood Brothers decided to make the leap to running a full-time schedule. This added enormous work to the team and required a further commitment of time, money, and manpower. This new commitment also saw the departure of Warner Hodgdon and National Engineering as the sponsor, and the Wood Brothers brought Valvoline on board as their chief patron.
In 1983, the legendary driver Buddy Baker was hired to replace a departing Neil Bonnett in the No. 21 car. He and the Woods struggled for the first time in so many years, lasting only two seasons together. This same year, they captured a win at the Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Baker and the Woods soon parted company, along with Valvoline as the sponsor and international star driver Bobby Rahal from the IndyCar series would briefly fill Baker's vacant seat for one race.
Kyle Petty (1985–1988)
The 1985 season made history to NASCAR as young Kyle Petty, the grandson of legendary Lee Petty and son of series-dominator Richard Petty, was hired to drive the No. 21 car full-time. This formed a unique union between the two most successful racing families in NASCAR history.
This also marked the first addition of a new sponsor to the Wood Brothers team. A trio of corporate sponsors—7-Eleven, Citgo, and Chief Auto Parts—were brought on board with the Petty and the Wood Brothers for 1985. As part of their marketing strategy, the Wood Brothers were required to relinquish their world-famous No. 21 car number and adopt the No. 7 in favor of the 7-Eleven sponsorship. This led to a major discourse with fans of the team, who knew the No. 21 synonymous with the legendary team from Virginia.
This also marked the emergence of the second generation of Wood Brothers, Eddie, and Len, who had increased their responsibilities with the team over the past years. They effectively were now calling the shots on race day for the team, and an "anything goes" attitude was welcomed within the team.
Many of the older team members had retired by this time, including the original member and brother Delano Wood, who retired so he could focus on his emerging importance in his highly successful business with lumber. He also sought more time at home with his family and his church, as most races were held on Sunday and it provided little time for regular worship and church attendance with his family.
With an increasingly young team, a young driver, and a new sponsor, the Wood Brothers were trying to recapture their past glory. As time marched on through the 1970s and 1980s, many of the cutting-edge innovations pioneered by the team were discovered or were outright copied by other teams. Thus, the Woods' competitive edge had been dulled by other teams taking advantage of the Wood innovations and therefore, the Wood Brothers were enjoying a unique time of rebirth for the fabled NASCAR legends.
Kyle Petty would find victory in their second season together at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. In 1987 the team returned to their traditional No. 21 and won the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Just as the Petty-Wood relationship was beginning to bear fruit, Kyle Petty found himself lured to a new team, SABCO Racing, owned by the wealthy Felix Sabates. Unable to refuse the lucrative offer, Petty left the Wood Brothers after four seasons and 115 races together. They won two races and winnings surpassed $1.3 million.
Neil Bonnett (1989–1990)
After Petty's departure, and a brief three-race stint with substitute driver Tommy Ellis, the Wood Brothers hired their former driver Neil Bonnett to once again pilot the No. 21 car. This reunion was hailed as the possible cure for the Woods' launch back to the top of the sport. Both Bonnett and the Wood Brother were optimistic about what would occur in the future, and the chemistry from an earlier success still seemed evident.
After only 31 races together in only one full season and the start of a second, Bonnett, unfortunately, suffered serious injuries in a crash at Darlington Raceway. This left Bonnett wondering if he was able to race again, and he left the Wood team with an empty seat to be filled by Dale Jarrett.
The sponsorship shuffle had become commonplace during this period in all NASCAR teams. As Fortune 500 companies and other top names took notice of the massive value of NASCAR sponsorship, names like Pepsi, Mello Yello, Ford Motorcraft, and Procter & Gamble had signed big-dollar sponsorship deals with the top teams in the sport.
The face of the sport itself was also changing. Along with the full schedule and championship points races, a new breed of drivers, such as Darrell Waltrip, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, Rusty Wallace, Ricky Rudd, Terry Labonte, and Geoff Bodine, had already become powerful stars and champions. This era saw young drivers, including Davey Allison, Ward and Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, and Bobby Labonte, were emerging as the future of the sport as they worked up through the lower-ranked Busch Grand National Series.
New technologies and innovations began to dominate the sport too. NASCAR teams were quickly being run like corporations and sports franchises, with names like Hendrick Motorsports, Penske Racing, Roush Fenway Racing, SABCO, Larry Hedrick Motorsports, and Robert Yates Racing taking the dominance from Junior Johnson, the Melling's and the Petty's.
In efforts to keep up with the growth of NASCAR, the Wood Brothers continued to add more employees and assigned some personnel as shop employees and others as race-day crew members. The additions of team members like Bennie Belcher, Butch Mitchell, and outside engine builder Tommy Turner were bringing the team online with others in NASCAR.
Dale Jarrett (1990–1991)
By 1990, the Wood Brothers were back in the No. 21 Ford with Citgo as a sponsor. The early-season loss of Neil Bonnett required a replacement driver. Eddie and Len Wood turned to their old-time friend Dale Jarrett to take his rightful shot at the Winston Cup Series. Dale Jarrett was the son of former NASCAR champion and broadcaster Ned Jarrett and had grown up in the sport with the Wood Brothers.
The choice of Jarrett proved brilliant. In their first full season together in 1991, Jarrett would bring the Wood Brothers No. 21 to victory lane at Michigan, narrowly edging out Davey Allison by inches in one of the closest finishes in NASCAR history. The Wood team proved it still had what it took to win. More importantly, it would provide Jarrett with his first win and as a launching pad into one of the most successful careers in the modern era.
The Michigan victory supported a unique record for the Wood team. Every rookie driver who had ever driven for them for at least a full season had at least scored one victory in the No. 21 car. More impressive was that every driver to have driven for the Wood Brothers for a full season from 1953 to 2002 had won at least one race behind their wheel (although in one case, the win did not come in a points-paying race).
The Wood-Jarrett combination was widely considered to be as bright a future as any team in NASCAR's future; however, Jarrett was soon lured away by Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, who formed a new team with the finances to entice Jarrett to leave the No. 21 car to drive the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Chevy. This new ride earned Jarrett his first Daytona 500 win.
Although Jarrett's time in the No. 21 was limited, lasting only for 53 races over two seasons, it produced one victory and over $600,000 in winnings. It also cemented how the Wood Brothers team was one of the best in NASCAR for breeding future superstars.
Morgan Shepherd (1992–1995)
With Jarrett's departure, the Woods sought out the veteran Morgan Shepherd to fill the seat in the 1992 season. Shepherd had been a solid, dependable finisher in the top series for most of his career and was a serious championship contender. With his consistent top finishes, Shepherd would provide strength as the team continued to adapt to the growing sport.
The new decade would seem unfathomable changes in NASCAR. A greater focus on new technology and sciences began to take hold. Engineers were now the norm, and the race-day teams often trained like professional athletes. Many teams even employed pro athletes to service their cars during pit stops.
The cost of racing grew exponentially, and its appeal doubled every year. NASCAR was now televised live internationally and was as popular as "stick and ball sports" with fans and advertisers.
Within the team itself, crew member turnover became frequent as Eddie and Len sought a perfect combination of chemistry to succeed. New members from nearby Mount Airy, North Carolina such as Rick Simmons and Mike "Andretti" Smith were added to the team. Paint and Body men Terry Hill and Chris Martin were hired, and longtime members Butch Moricle, Butch Mitchell, Hylton Tatum, and Cecil Wilson had become veterans on the team.
Glen Wood's daughter Kim had also emerged as a competent leader in her specialty with the team as well. In addition to running the business administrative aspects of the team, she was a "one-woman show" that handled all booking, reservations, accommodations, travel, and financial matters for the team. At a time when teams such as Richard Childress Racing employed a full-time staff of a dozen administrative workers, Kim proved as much a professional in this field as her brothers were in the mechanical and competitive aspects of the team.
Kim Wood had married crew member Terry Hall and became Kim Wood-Hall by this time. Terry Hall was a vital member of the team who served as a general mechanic and truck driver. He had replaced the legendary Delano Wood as jackman on the race day crew, after Delano's retirement several years earlier. Terry Hall was from Mount Airy and provided a gateway to recruiting many new members of the team from his ties to that area.
The No. 21 team continued many experiments and changes to again innovate the sport they helped build. They had been outsourcing much of their engine work, and during this period had contracted with Robert Yates Racing in an agreement to provide engine parts for the No. 21. They also began weight training routines for crew members and increased their application of technology in their race day competition.
Always the innovators in pit stops, the Wood team continued to practice and seek new improvements in their race day pit skills. The team also employed wide use of computers for the setup and timing of each car. Hiring race day specialists such as spotter Chuck Joyce; and part-time scorers/timers, the team was on the cutting edge of competition development.
It was in this period of the early 1990s that Eddie and Len Wood, and Kim Wood-Hall each took an ownership position in the team. For several years, the team had been owned by the Glen Wood Company, with patriarch Glen controlling the team's destiny. Longtime co-founder and crew chief Leonard Wood had stepped down as crew chief many years earlier, and Eddie Wood had become official crew chief of the No. 21 Ford.
Morgan Shepherd would do very well with the No. 21 Citgo-sponsored car, and would provide consistent finishes in all four seasons he ran for the Wood Brothers. They enjoyed 52 Top Ten finishes and over $4 million in earnings in their time together. Their only victory came at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March 1993, a race that was delayed six days because of a snowstorm in the Atlanta area the previous weekend, and provided a much-needed boost for the team who had suffered drought since Jarrett's victory at Michigan.
Michael Waltrip (1996–1998)
With the 1996 season upon them, the Woods sought a younger driver to fill the seat of the No. 21 Ford. As Shepherd was approaching retirement age, and a youth trend had risen with drivers like Jeff Gordon, the team was looking to ride a similar wave. They parted ways with Shepherd and welcomed Michael Waltrip, the younger brother of 3-time series champion and 1989 Daytona 500 winner Darrell Waltrip.
Although they produced no official regular-season victory, Waltrip and the Wood Brothers pulled off an amazing win at the 1996 The Winston Select All-Star race. In their first season with Waltrip, the team brought home the victory that night in a stunning display of team excellence that secured a $200,000 purse for the race.
In Waltrip's 3-season, 95-race tenure with the Woods, they would amass over $3.7 million in winnings.
Elliott Sadler (1999–2002)
With the dawn of the 1999 season, the Wood Brothers brought in Elliott Sadler to replace a departing Michael Waltrip. Like the Woods, Sadler is a Virginia native whose family had been involved in racing for many years. Sadler represented a young, talented Rookie looking to make a name for himself in the Winston Cup Series. With their reputation as prime developers of new talent, many held great things for this combination.
Changes inside the No. 21 team would become pivotal during this period as well. After decades at their old shop location at Dobyns Road in Stuart, the Wood Brothers constructed a massive, state-of-the-art new facility at the Industrial Park in that town. This new facility was modern and spacious and offered room for the expansion and development of their ever-growing team.
This new home also offered a museum of Wood Brothers memorabilia and history. Glen Wood's wife Bernice, who had served as de facto archivist for the family and team since the 1950s, presented a treasure trove of history for race fans to enjoy. She and Kim dedicated many long hours to perfecting the museum and offered guided tours of the entire facility to visitors from around the world. This delighted fans and quickly became known as one of the best and most visitor-friendly locations for any NASCAR fan to visit.
Additional changes emerged in personnel as some left, while others were hired. A full-time secretarial assistant, Annpaige Bowles, had been hired a few years earlier to assist in the demanding office work and take care of the museum. Previous hires such as William Fulp, John Ilowiecki, and Barry Sheppard had been brought in to expand the force to include parts managers, couriers, engineers, and shock specialists. A Chassis dyno, shock dyno, and other new equipment were added.
Also among the recent hires was legendary engine builder Danny Glad. Glad had worked on the 1992 Paul Andrews-led Alan Kulwicki team several years earlier, and came to the Woods after leaving Geoff Bodine. Along with notables such as Randy Dorton and Lou Larosa, Danny Glad was regarded as one of the best engine specialists in the sport.
Young Elliott Sadler cut his teeth in the No. 21 car and was soon performing on par with the best in the top NASCAR circuit. Eddie and Len had brought in Crew Chief Mike Beam, marking a historic first time that someone outside the Wood family had served as Crew Chief for the No. 21 team. Beam had seen success with Junior Johnson, Bud Moore, and others before arriving at the Woods. His pairing with Sadler would also allow Eddie and Len more time to manage the overall growth of their ever-expanding business operations.
2000 marked a historic period for Wood Brothers Racing. They celebrated their 50th anniversary in a special ceremony honoring their milestone achievements. For a team of brothers, relatives, and friends from the tiny town of Stuart (located in the Blue Ridge Mountains) they had achieved international acclaim as pioneers in motorsport competition. That same year, brothers Glen Wood and Leonard Wood were inducted into the prestigious Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.
On the track, the Sadler-Wood combination began to bear fruit in the 2001 season, with Sadler scoring his first win in the No. 21 Ford at Bristol Motor Speedway This win oddly was the first win for the Wood Brothers in their career at Bristol, and the first for them in eight years. For many years, Bristol was not raced by the team, mostly because their focus was on the superspeedways, and they did not race at short tracks.
This period also saw an increased relationship between Wood Brothers racing and Roush Fenway Racing, headed by engine master Jack Roush of Michigan. Roush fielded several top-notch teams including those driven by Jeff Burton and Mark Martin. This Wood-Roush relationship gave the Wood Brothers the depth of engineering and engine resources that most multi-car teams relied upon to dominate the sport. This limited arrangement allowed the Woods a wide array of specialists and research to aid in their quest for victory.
Elliott Sadler continued to improve with the No. 21 and his evolution was quickly making him a target for other teams. As proven in the past, the Woods were excellent breeders of talent and had invested massive amounts of time and dedication to bringing Sadler to the forefront. After the 2002 season, Sadler moved to the Robert Yates Racing stable. The Sadler period for the Wood team had lasted 139 races, which was the longest single stretch for a pilot of the No. 21 since David Pearson drove in the Wood's heyday. Sadler and the Woods earned one victory together at Bristol Motor Speedway, and over $9 million in only four seasons together.
During Sadler's time in the No. 21, the long-term sponsorship relationship between Wood Brothers Racing and Citgo Petroleum came to an end. This was the end of a historic run, as Citgo had been a sponsor on the Wood Brothers car for nearly 20 years. Citgo was replaced by Ford Motorcraft and the United States Air Force, which made the Wood Brothers team the de facto "factory team" for Ford Motor Company.
The next generation emerges
Eddie Wood and his wife Carol have two children, a daughter Jordan, and son Jonathan. Jordan was quickly gaining success as a rising beauty queen in local and regional pageants and an award-winning competitive dancer with the Patrick County Dancing Arts Center. Jordan also would spend free time at the Wood Brothers racing office, assisting with administrative duties and working to learn the team's business operations. Eddie and Carol's son Jonathan began following in the family's footsteps as a competitive racer.
Jon Wood was finding victory in his grandfather's footsteps as a driver, racing go-kart in the World Karting Series and other forms of racing. Many were already speculating on his future in NASCAR and with the Wood Brothers team. Currently, he serves as the company's Senior Vice President, overseeing the company's merchandise operations and actively participating in the day-to-day management of the team.
Ricky Rudd (2003–2005)
Veteran driver and Virginia native Ricky Rudd, formerly at Robert Yates Racing, moved to Sadler's old seat. His first season with the team in 2003 saw five impressive top-ten finishes and over $3 million in winnings. Rudd pulled off a second-place finish nearly winning in his first year behind the wheel of the No. 21 car.
Eddie and Len Wood continued to seek the right mix of crew members and chemistry, shuffling through personnel and crew chiefs to finally hire Michael "Fatback" McSwain as Crew Chief of the No. 21 Motorcraft-sponsored Ford. McSwain and Rudd had worked together while at Robert Yates Racing several years prior.
Meanwhile, the young Jon Wood continued blistering short tracks across the South and Mid-Atlantic in the Late Model Stock Series and Craftsman Truck Series. Wood raced for owner Jack Roush and was quickly earning a reputation as a "racer" and not just a "driver" with his hard-charging style and mature evolution into a competitive force.
Young Keven Wood, also began his racing career in this period. The son of Len and Nancy Wood, he had begun his academic studies in Motorsports Technology at Patrick & Henry Community College while also working at the family's race shop. Keven absorbed everything about racing, from car chassis set up to engine tuning, to add to his knowledge of racing. He began his tenure as a Driver in 2002 in the Legends Series and quickly burned up every track he drove upon. His talents proved formidable, and his victories were hard-won. In 2004, Keven began running in the Late Model Stock Series, a tough proving ground for emerging champions.
The 2004 Series was a success for the Wood Brothers, but times were again changing. R.J. Reynolds had been forced to withdraw the sponsorship from NASCAR several years earlier due to tobacco company lawsuits, and the top series was now known as the Nextel Cup Series. The expense of operating a team had reached all-time highs, requiring as much as $10 million per year from corporate sponsors just to field a car for a season.
In 2004, the Wood Brothers left their roots in Stuart to locate their main base of operations near Charlotte, North Carolina. As every competitive team is based in the area, the Woods knew it was a difficult yet necessary move if they hoped to achieve their quest for the Sprint Cup. Their re-location to Mooresville, North Carolina allowed them more resources and greater access to personnel and technology in the hub of NASCAR racing. As expected, many shifts in team composition occurred.
The Woods maintained their shop in Stuart although it is used primarily as a museum and as a secondary facility to their main operations in North Carolina.
Rudd and the Wood Brothers enjoyed a successful run in 2004, again nearly winning and taking home a second-place slot. They also won a pole position, the team's first since 1984 with Buddy Baker in the No. 21.
The 2005 season saw another second-place finish for Rudd in the No. 21 at Sonoma. They also enjoyed over $4 million in winnings. At the end of the 2005 season, Ricky Rudd announced his retirement. He stepped down after only three seasons with the Wood Brothers during a period of tremendous change for the team.
Ken Schrader (2006–2007)
The Woods announced that veteran Ken Schrader would drive the No. 21 in 2006, with new primary sponsorship from Little Debbie Snack Cakes supporting the team. The United States Air Force would remain as an associate sponsor along with Motorcraft, and all three rotated primary sponsorship duties throughout the season.
A tremendous shift towards the future in the Wood Brothers Racing Team was announced in 2005. The team had entered into a partnership agreement with JTG Racing based in NC to begin with the 2006 season.
JTG Motorsports was spawned from ST Racing, which fields entries in the Craftsman Truck Series and Busch Series. It is owned by Tad and Jodi Geschickter.
Among the changes to the No. 21 team was the elevation of Michael "Fatback" McSwain from crew chief to the manager of racing operations for the team. The crew chief hired for the 2006 campaign was David Hyder, who worked with Schrader at BAM Racing.
In addition to the No. 21 Nextel Cup entry driven by Ken Schrader, JTG Racing fielded the Busch Series No. 47 Clorox Ford Taurus driven by Jon Wood and the No. 59 Kingsford/Bush's Baked Beans Ford Taurus driven by Stacy Compton.
Bill Elliott (2007–2010)
In 2007, Schrader and young Jon Wood planned to split time in the No. 21 car. Wood made one of the two races he attempted before he was pulled from both the No. 21 and his No. 47 Busch car for medical issues. Meanwhile, 1988 champion Bill Elliott was brought on due to qualifying and sponsorship issues. The sponsors stayed the same from 2006, and the Wood Brothers entered a second car numbered 47 (JTG racing's car number) into two events, at Las Vegas with Schrader and Kansas with Jon. Both drivers failed to qualify for their respective events.
In 2008, Elliott, Marcos Ambrose, and Jon shared driving responsibilities of the No. 21. Ambrose, the driver of the JTG No. 59, had signed on to the partial schedule before the two teams ended their partnership. He had a best finish of third at Watkins Glen, and a strong run in his first race at Sonoma. He would begin running part-time the JTG No. 47 at Indy, and would leave the Wood Brothers once JTG switched to Toyota, taking sponsor Little Debbie with him. Jon Wood competed in two races, with Elliott doing 24, with a best finish of 12th.
In 2009, the Wood Brothers ran a partial schedule, competing in only 13 races due to Air Force and Little Debbie moving to other teams, leaving only Ford sponsoring with their Motorcraft brand. The season included four Top-10 qualifying efforts, including a season-best fourth at Indianapolis. The Motorcraft Ford Fusion driven by Bill Elliott also had four Top-16 finishes and the team accumulated over $1.3 million in earnings.
2010 returned the Wood Brothers to the racetrack as they celebrated 60 years in NASCAR. They returned to Daytona in February looking for their fifth Daytona 500 victory with Bill Elliott behind the wheel of the Motorcraft Ford Fusion. Quick Lane Tire and Auto Centers has also come on board for the 2010 season as a sponsor. Elliott competed in eleven races that season. Roush Fenway Racing development driver Trevor Bayne made his Sprint Cup debut with the Wood Brothers that year in the AAA Texas 500 on November 7.
Trevor Bayne (2011–2014)
In 2011, Bayne became the youngest driver in Wood Brothers history, taking over duties of piloting the No. 21 in at least 17 races including the first five races of the season. Bayne had a very strong debut in the Cup Series in 2010, with the No. 21 team finishing on the lead lap in 17th position at Texas Motor Speedway. Motorcraft/Quick Lane continued to sponsor the team through the 2011 season. On February 20, one day after his 20th birthday, Bayne won the 2011 Daytona 500. It was the first win for Wood Brothers Racing since Sadler at Bristol during the 2001 season. The win brought additional sponsorship for several races from Camping World/Good Sam, including the All-Star Race. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. replaced his Roush teammate at the Coca-Cola 600, when Bayne was diagnosed with what was thought to be Lyme disease, but later revealed to be multiple sclerosis.
The team lost the extra sponsorship for 2012, except for the All-Star Race in which Camping World/Good Sam returned to the car. For the rest of the season, the car ran a limited schedule with Bayne, carrying the Ford Motorcraft/Quick Lane sponsorship.
Bayne continued to run a limited schedule in both 2013 and 2014, but the team failed to return to victory lane. It was later announced that Bayne would compete in Roush Fenway Racing's No. 6 Cup car full-time in 2015.
Ryan Blaney (2015–2017)
Ryan Blaney was announced as the No. 21 driver in 2015, with an alliance between the Woods and Team Penske. The best result for the team was fourth at the Talladega spring race. The team's performance improved enough that, despite qualifying for just 16 races (in 19 attempts, an increase from their 12-race schedules in 2013 and 2014), they were able to finish 41st in owner points; this placed them ahead of the No. 32, No. 26 and No. 62, which all attempted the full schedule. Blaney returned to the team in 2016 for a full-time run, the team's first since 2008 and the first with one driver since 2006. He scored nine top 10s and finished 20th in points.
In December 2016, it was announced that Go Fas Racing leased their charter to Wood Brothers Racing, guaranteeing the No. 21 a starting spot in every race of the 2017 season. Blaney started the season with a runner-up in the 2017 Daytona 500 won by fellow Ford driver Kurt Busch. Blaney then nearly won the spring race in Texas, leading a race-high 148 laps until a pit road mishap kept him from winning the race. Blaney also led two of the three stages in the race, Blaney also came close to winning the spring race in Kansas after winning the pole, Blaney also won Stage 2 that race, but ended up finishing fourth. Blaney won his first career Cup race at the Axalta presents the Pocono 400, the Wood Brothers' first win since the 2011 Daytona 500, beating second-place driver Kevin Harvick. It was a very popular win, with competitors flanking the 21 in respect and joy on the cool-down lap. With 14 top 10s, Blaney reached the Round of 8 in the playoffs and finished 9th in points.
Paul Menard (2018–2019)
On July 26, 2017, it was announced that in 2018 Blaney would move over to a third Penske car and in exchange, Paul Menard would move from Richard Childress Racing to the No. 21 car with sponsor Menards as part of a deal with Penske. He scored seven top 10s, including a 5th finish at the Michigan June race, and ended up 19th in the drivers' classification.
Team co-founder Glen Wood passed away at the age of 93 on January 18, 2019. Menard scored just four top 10s and repeated a 19th place in points.
Matt DiBenedetto (2020–2021)
On July 12, 2019, Menard announced he had a contract for the 2020 season, indicating that he plans to stay with Wood Brothers. On September 10, Menard announced he will retire from full-time racing after the 2019 season. At the same time, Wood Brothers Racing announced Matt DiBenedetto as his replacement for the 2020 season. On July 15, 2020, DiBenedetto won the All-Star Open and qualified for the team’s third-ever All-Star Race. DiBenedetto placed 13th in the main event. In coordination with Penske, the team announced that DiBenedetto would drive the car in 2021 and would then be replaced by Austin Cindric in 2022. On December 30, 2020, Bob Pockrass reported that Wood Brothers Racing purchased the charter they had leased from Go Fas Racing since 2017.
Harrison Burton (2022–)
On July 15, 2021, it was confirmed that Matt DiBenedetto will not be returning to Wood Brothers Racing in 2022. That same day, Harrison Burton was announced as DiBenedetto's replacement.
Craftsman Truck Series
Truck No. 19 history
Note: Michael "Fatback" McSwain is listed as the owner in that race.
The team only ran one race with Kelly Bires driving the No. 19 truck at Atlanta in 2006. He started 29th and finished 19th.
Truck No. 20 history
The No. 20 truck debuted in 2006 with sponsorship from the United States Air Force, in a partnership with JTG Racing, Jon Wood started driving at Daytona and Fontana, finishing 16th and ninth. Bobby East drove one race at Atlanta where he finished 23rd. JTG Racing's development driver Marcos Ambrose drove for the remainder of the season. In 2007, the No. 20 was renumbered to No. 09 with Joey Clanton and Stacy Compton sharing the ride.
Truck No. 21 history
The No. 21 truck debuted with sponsorship from Edy's Ice Cream and State Fair Corn Dogs at Daytona in 2006 with Stacy Compton behind the wheel for the first two races. After Jon Wood handled driving duties at Atlanta, Bobby East drove the truck for the remainder of the season, posting a best finish of eleventh. East was not retained for the 2007 season, and the team planned to run development driver Kelly Bires in nineteen races, with Mark Martin driving the remaining six races. Late in the season, Bires moved up to the Busch Series, replacing Jon Wood, who took his spot in the 21 truck. Jon and Keven Wood shared the No. 21 truck in 2008 with sponsorship from the United States Air Force. In December 2008, Keven Wood said in an interview that the team had shut down its Truck operation due to lack of sponsorship.
Indianapolis 500
As the Wood Brothers Racing Team gained notoriety throughout NASCAR racing for their work in the pits, other racers in varying forms of motorsports took notice. Soon, the efficient pit stop was all the rage in other forms of auto racing contests.
In 1965, the IndyCar teams took heed. Lotus owner Colin Chapman hired the Wood Brothers to service his car, driven by his Scottish Formula One ace Jim Clark, during pit stops in the 1965 Indianapolis 500. This marked the first time a NASCAR stock car crew had ever provided such service for an IndyCar team. During the race, Clark was able to increase his track position and drove into victory lane as the winner of the 500, with the Wood Brothers as his crew.
Legacy
The Wood Brothers hold many records and historic achievements. Among these are the fact that they have fielded only Ford Motor Company products since 1950, which makes the second-longest association of any motorsports team with a single manufacturer, behind Scuderia Ferrari. The Wood Brothers also have won at least one race in every decade for the last six decades, an unmatched feat. They have 99 total points-paying victories and have won 119 pole positions in 1,606 starts. They have earned over $30 million in career winnings, and remain among the winningest racing teams in NASCAR history. Also, after Petty Enterprises merged with Gillett Evernham Motorsports to form Richard Petty Motorsports, the Wood Brothers became the oldest team in NASCAR.
The Wood Brothers were inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2000.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Car No. 21 results
Footnotes
References
Further reading
External links
American auto racing teams
Companies based in North Carolina
NASCAR teams
Auto racing teams established in 1950 |
17341628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20Brothers | Wood Brothers | Wood Brothers may refer to the following:
Wood Brothers Racing, an American auto racing team
The Wood Brothers, musical siblings Chris and Oliver Wood
Wood Brothers TV, TV presenter siblings Danny, Ben and Sam Wood |
17341636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounslow%20Chronicle | Hounslow Chronicle | The Hounslow Chronicle is a local weekly tabloid newspaper distributed in west London, England. It mainly covers stories from the London Borough of Hounslow. It was founded as The County of Middlesex Chronicle in 1859.
References
External links
Hounslow Chronicle
London newspapers
Media and communications in the London Borough of Hounslow
Newspapers established in 1859
1859 establishments in England |
26717933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghurajpur | Raghurajpur | Raghurajpur is a heritage crafts village out of Puri district, India, known for its master Pattachitra painters, an art form which dates back to 5 BC in the region and Gotipua dance troupes, the precursor to the Indian classical dance form of Odissi. It is also known as the birthplace of one of the finest and Legendary Odissi exponents Padma Vibhushan Guru, Kelucharan Mohapatra and Gotipua Dancer Padma Shri Guru, Maguni Charan Das. It is also the birth place of Shilp Guru
Dr. Jagannath Mahapatra who is a prominent Pattachitra Artist and has a huge contribution on the development of Pattachitra art and Raghurajpur village. Apart from that, the village is also home to crafts like Tussar paintings, Palm leaf Engravings, Stone carvings, Wood carvings, Cowdung toys and Papier mache toys, and masks.
In 2000, after a two-year research and documentation project by INTACH, starting 1998, the village was chosen to be developed as state's first heritage village and developed as a Crafts village, soon the village had an interpretation centre, commissioned artwork on the walls of the artists’ homes and a rest house.
It also has the distinction of the only place where the traditional decoration called Patas, used under the throne of Lord Jagannath and on the three chariots during the annual Rath Yatra festival, that takes place at pilgrimage town of Puri, some 14 km away, known for the Jagannath Temple.
Governmenet and other stakeholders should use online campaigns to promote Pattachitra art of Raghurajpur village.
Overview
Situated amidst groves of coconut, palm, mango and jack fruit, the main village has two streets with over 120 houses, most decorated with mural paintings, where the painters reside and practice their pattachitra craft, besides many other that practices throughout the village, including traditional masks, stone idols, papier mache, sculptures, wooden toys. The village also has a series of temples dedicated not only to Bhuasuni, the local deity but also to various Hindu gods including, Radha Mohan, Gopinath, Raghunath, Laxminarayan and Gouranga.
Around, 2000 it was developed as a heritage village by INTACH, and soon became a major rural tourist destination of the state, drawing tourist, both domestic and foreign to the village. Villagers were also trained to provide heritage walks to the visitors by the organisation, and has since become a template for heritage tourism in the region.
Today it is also the venue of the annual Basant Utsav – Parampara Raghurajpur (Spring Festival), which was first organised in 1993 under the aegis of State Tourism Department and Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata, held in the month of February/March and an important tourist draw.
Pattachitra
The pattachitra paintings are made over a piece of cloth known as Patta or a dried palm leaf, which is first painted with a mixture of chalk and gum. Over the prepared surface, colourful and intricate pictures of various Gods, Goddesses, and mythological scenes with ornamentation of flowers, trees and animals are then painted. The paintings on Tussar saris, especially the Sambalpuri Saree depicting Mathura Vijay, Raslila and Ayodhya Vijay owe their origin to ‘Raghurajpur Pattachitra paintings’.
Location
It is situated 14 km away from Hindu pilgrimage town of Puri, on the southern banks of river Bhargabi (Bhargavi). Visitors from Puri take the Bhubaneswar road, near Chandanpur, on NH-316, and upon reaching the Chandanpur Bazaar, they can take a right turn to reach Raghurajpur. The village is then around 1.5 km from Chandanpur.
Notes
References
External links
Raghurajpur Crafts village Orissa Review, Government of Orissa, November 2004.
Raghurajpur Crafts village Rural tourism, Govt. of India
Myths on a cloth at Mint
Villages in Puri district
Odia culture
Tourist attractions in Puri district
Indian painting
Articles containing video clips |
20475497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe%20Lawanti%20International%20Airport | Gombe Lawanti International Airport | Sani Abacha International Airport is an airport serving Gombe, the capital of Gombe State of Nigeria. It was built along the Bauchi to Gombe road by the village of Lawanti. Planning began in 2005 and was certified for flights in 2008, first International flight to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
In May 2019, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) announced the closure of the airport until further notice due to unpaid debts.
Airlines and destinations
References
External links
Airports in Nigeria
Gombe State |
26717942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starks%20station | Starks station | The Starks station was a railway station in Starks, British Columbia. It was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which ended in 2011. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
20475543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maykon | Maykon | Maykon Daniel Elias Araújo (born 20 April 1984 in Araranguá, Santa Catarina), known simply as Maykon, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left midfielder.
External links
1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Santa Catarina (state)
Brazilian footballers
Association football midfielders
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players
Paulista Futebol Clube players
América Futebol Clube (MG) players
Atlético Clube Goianiense players
Sociedade Esportiva do Gama players
Primeira Liga players
C.F. Os Belenenses players
F.C. Paços de Ferreira players
U.D. Leiria players
Cypriot First Division players
AEL Limassol players
North American Soccer League players
Ottawa Fury FC players
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Expatriate soccer players in Canada
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal |
26717996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Wellington%20station | South Wellington station | The South Wellington station is a former railway station in South Wellington, British Columbia. The station was a stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which ended in 2011. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
44500348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raasiku%20FC%20Joker | Raasiku FC Joker | Raasiku FC Joker are a football club based in Raasiku, Estonia, who play in the III liiga.
History
Players
Current squad
''As of 1 April 2018.
References
Football clubs in Estonia
Association football clubs established in 1993
1993 establishments in Estonia
Raasiku Parish |
44500379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefina%20L%C3%B3pez%20Espinosa | Josefina López Espinosa | Patricia Josefina López Espinosa (born 19 March 1958) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. In 2009 she served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
References
1958 births
Living people
Politicians from the State of Mexico
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican women politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for the State of Mexico |
26718004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shevchenko%20Transnistria%20State%20University | Shevchenko Transnistria State University | Two universities claim the succession of the Taras Shevchenko State University of Tiraspol: Pridnestrovian State University () located in Tiraspol, Transnistria, and Tiraspol State University () located in Chișinău, Moldova.
History
The original university in Tiraspol was founded in 1930 as the State Pedagogical Institute in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR), then being a constituent part of the Ukrainian SSR located in Transnistria region. The institution was renamed in 1939 to honor the Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, on his 125th birthday.
In 1940, after the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, part of the territory of the MASSR, including the city of Tiraspol, was allocated to the new Moldavian SSR formed by the Soviets.
In July 1992, as a result of the Transnistria War, the university was officially moved to Chișinău, where it continues to function under the name of Tiraspol State University (UST), while in Tiraspol it was reorganized as the Pridnestrovian State University (PSU). Thus the university was split in two, both claiming to be the original institution founded in 1930.
PSU
In Tiraspol, the university consists of 12 buildings. It offers internationally accredited courses in partnerships with universities in Russia. Students can study both internally and in absentia. Not only citizens of Transnistria can study there but also people from abroad. Education can be both free and paid. The university employs over 1,000 teaching staff including 36 Doctors and 220 Masters of Science. Among its publications, the Atlas of Pridnestrovie is often used as a source for data, specialized maps and statistics on Transnistria.
The university has 8 faculties and 84 chairs, offering 54 different majors. Classes are taught mainly in Russian, with only a few programs in Romanian (called "Moldavian in Cyrillic script") and Ukrainian.
Agrarian and Technological Faculty
Faculty of Natural Geography
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology
Faculty of Physical Education and Sports
Faculty of Physics and Mathematics
Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Economics
There are also four institutes and branches.
Institute of Public Administration, Law and Social Sciences and Humanities
Engineering and Technical Institute
Bender Polytechnic Branch
Rîbnița branch
UST
In Chișinău, the university has 5 faculties and 7 departments, offering studies in 42 specialties, 17 specializations, and 5 scientific specialties.
Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Information Technologies
Faculty of Biology and Chemistry
Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Geography
Faculty of Pedagogy
References
Shevchenko Transnistria State University
Educational institutions established in 1930
Tiraspol
Education in Chișinău
1930 establishments in the Soviet Union |
20475570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayniddin%20Tadjiyev | Zayniddin Tadjiyev | Zayniddin Tadjiyev () (born on 21 June 1977) is a retired Uzbek footballer.
Career
Pakhtakor
He started his playing career at Akademiya Tashkent. From 2002 to 2004 he played for Pakhtakor Tashkent. Playing for Pakhtakor he won several Uzbek League championships and the Uzbek Cup. In the 2008 Uzbek League season Tadjiyev scored 17 goals, following the top goalscorer of the season Server Djeparov with 19 goals. In 2009 Pakhtakor qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2009 AFC Champions League and Tadjiyev was the top goalscorer of the club, scoring 5 goals in the tournament. With 13 goals he is currently the best goalscorer of Pakhtakor in AFC Champions League and one of the all-time top goalscorers of the tournament.
Lokomotiv Tashkent
In 2011, he moved to Lokomotiv Tashkent to play in the Uzbekistan First League. In 2011 season he became the best top goalscorer of First League with 30 goals and gained promotion to the Uzbek League with Lokomotiv. Tadjiyev was also the top goal scorer of Lokomotiv in 2012 season, scoring 11 goals. In 2013, he played the first half of season for Lokomotiv, scoring 4 goals in 9 matches. During the Second half of the 2013 season he played for Neftchi Farg'ona.
Dinamo
In 2014, he moved to Dinamo Samarqand. In February 2015 he left Dinamo and signed a contract with FK Buxoro.
International
Tadjiyev has made 18 appearances for the Uzbekistan national football team, including seven FIFA World Cup qualifying matches, scoring a total of 3 goals.
He has scored a total of 100 goals in the Uzbek League and (as of 7 November 2014), 144 goals in all competitions. This gave him entry to the Gennadi Krasnitsky club of Uzbek top goalscorers.
Career statistics
Goals for National Team
Honours
Club
Pakhtakor
Uzbek League (4): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
Uzbek League runner-up (3): 2008, 2009, 2010
Uzbek Cup (4): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009
AFC Champions League semifinal (2): 2003, 2004
Individual
Uzbekistan First League Top Scorer: 2011 (30 goals)
References
External links
Living people
1977 births
Uzbekistani footballers
Expatriate footballers in Iran
Uzbekistani Muslims
Uzbekistan international footballers
Pakhtakor Tashkent FK players
FC Kyzylzhar players
Expatriate footballers in China
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. players
Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in China
Chinese Super League players
Association football forwards |
26718026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassidy%20station | Cassidy station | The Cassidy station is located in Cassidy, British Columbia. The station was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner which ended in 2011. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline.
The Cassidy railway station was established on March 31, 1924 being named after Thomas Cassidy, a local farmer who homesteaded in the area and delivered milk and supplies to the railway.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1924
Disused railway stations in Canada |
44500383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asif%20Durrani | Asif Durrani | Asif Ali Khan Durrani is the current Ambassador of Pakistan to Iran since 2016. Earlier in his career, he served as ambassador to the UAE until 2016.
Background
Durrani holds a Master's degree from the University of Balochistan in Quetta, and a Masters in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1986. He served in various diplomatic postings in New Delhi, Tehran, New York, Kabul and London.
References
Alumni of SOAS University of London
Ambassadors of Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates
Pakistani diplomats
Pashtun people
University of Balochistan alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
26718061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becharaji | Becharaji | Becharaji or Bahucharaji is a Hindu temple town and taluka capital in Mehsana district of Gujarat state, India. The temple of Hindu goddess Bahuchara Mata in the town is major pilgrimage centre.
History
The name of the town is derived from Bahuchar Mata or Bahucharaji, a Hindu goddess. The region around the town is known as Chunwal. The Bechar village is located 1 km south of the temple while Sankhalpur village is located 2 km north of the temple. The modern town developed around the temple between these two villages.
The ruler Sayajirao Gaekwad had extended the Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway (GBSR) to the town for its development.
Demographics
According to 2011 Census of India, Becharaji has a population of 12,574 including 6,540 males and 6,034 females.
Politics
The town is part of the Bechraji Assembly constituency.
Landmarks
Bahuchar Mata Temple
The nearby villages were taken over by the Baroda State and the annual allowance of Rs. 10,500 was paid. The temple is now managed by the state government.
The Kamalias, the Solanki Rajputs of Kalri and the Pavaiyas (eunuchs) claim themselves the hereditary worshipers of the deity. A major fair is held on the full moon day of Chaitra month of Hindu calendar.
Amenities and economy
There are large number of guesthouses, dharamshalas and other facilities for the devotees in the town. There is a post office and government hospital in the town. The Mandal Becharaji Special Investment Region has number of major automobile companies like Maruti Suzuki Gujarat plant which produces 10 lakh (one million) cars every year.
Transport
Bahucharaji is well connected by railways and state transport (ST) buses. There are many private vehicle operators as well. It is connected with Mehsana, Chanasma and Viramgam by state highways. It is located on Ahmedabad-Rantej-Patan metre gauge rail route. State highway no. 7 connects NH-14 from Deesa, Patan, and Chanasma to Becharaji, from where it further goes to Viramgam, Dhrangadhra, Halvad and Maliya. From Maliya, one can connect to NH-8A and reach Kutch. Whereas state highway no. 19 connects Mehsana, Kalri to Becharaji, from where it further goes to Dasada, Zainabad, Patdi, and Surendranagar. Another state highway, SH134, connects Mehsana, Modhera and Kalri to Becharaji.
See also
Patan, Gujarat
Sun Temple, Modhera
References
External links
Official Website of Gujarat Tourism
Hindu temples in Gujarat
Shakti temples
Cities and towns in Mehsana district
Devi temples in India |
26718086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%20on%20TV | Nothing on TV | Nothing on TV is the debut album by Australian band Cassette Kids.
Track listing
"Insomnia" - 4:04
"Spin" - 3:36
"Lying Around" - 3:25
"Coming Back" - 3:44
"Big Jerk" - 4:22
"Freaky Sweetie" - 3:34
"Game Player" - 3:34
"You Shot Me" - 3:43
"Nothing on TV" - 3:29
"Wherever You Are" - 3:57
"Hey Baby" - 3:34
"Fatal Attraction" - 3:41
"Outro" - 1:40
"By the Roadside" - 3:17
References
2010 debut albums |
6906579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Knights%20of%20the%20Fish | The Knights of the Fish | The Knights of the Fish (Spanish: "Los Caballeros del Pez") is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Fernán Caballero in Cuentos. Oraciones y Adivinas. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book. A translation was published in Golden Rod Fairy Book. Another version of the tale appears in A Book of Enchantments and Curses by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
It is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as type 303 ("The Twins or Blood Brothers"). Most tales of the sort begin with the father catching a talking fish thrice and, in the third time, the animal asks to be sacrificed and fed to the fisherman's wife and horses, and for his remains to be buried underneath a tree. By doing so, twins are born to him and his wife, as well as two foals and two trees.
It is also classified as ATU 300 ("The Dragon-Slayer"), a widespread tale.
Synopsis
An industrious but poor cobbler tried to fish until he was so hungry that he thought he would hang himself if he caught nothing. He caught a beautiful fish. It told him to cook it and then give two pieces to his wife, and bury two more in the garden. He did this. His wife gave birth to twin boys, and two plants sprang up, bearing shields, in the garden.
When the boys were grown, they decided to travel. At a crossroad, they parted ways. One found a city grieving, because every year a maiden had to be offered up to a dragon, and this year the lot had fallen on the princess. He went to see where the princess was, and then left her to fetch a mirror. He told her to cover it with her veil and hide behind it; when the dragon approached, she was to tear the veil off. She did, and the dragon stared at his rival, identical to him. He threatened it until he finally smashed it to pieces, but as every fragment reflected him, he thought he too had been smashed. While it was still baffled, the knight killed it. The king married him to his daughter.
The princess then showed him all over the country. He saw a castle of black marble, and was warned that whoever went to it never returned. He set out the next day. When he blew his horn and struck the gate, a woman finally opened the door. Echoes warned him off. He lifted his helmet, and the woman, who was an evil witch, let him in because he was so handsome. She told him that she would marry him, but he refused. The witch showed him over the castle and suddenly killed him by dropping him through a trapdoor.
His brother came to the city, and was taken for him. He kept quiet, so he could help his brother, and told the princess that he had to go back to the castle. He demanded to know what happened to his brother, and the echoes told him. With this knowledge, as soon as he met the witch, he stabbed her with his sword. The dying witch then pled to him to save her life with magical plants from the garden. He found the bodies of his brother and her previous victims, and restored them to life. He also found a cave full of maidens who had been killed by the dragon, reviving them too. After they all left, the witch died and the castle collapsed.
Motifs
The motif of the demand for sacrifice of youngsters of either sex happens in the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. However, a specific variant, where the dragon or serpent demands the sacrifice of young maidens or princesses is shared by many tales or legends all over the world: Japanese tale of Susanoo-no-Mikoto and the eight-headed serpent Orochi; Chinese folktale of Li Ji Slays the Great Serpent, attested in Soushen Ji, a 4th century compilation of stories, by Gan Bao.
The myth of Perseus and Andromeda is an archaic reflex of the princess and dragon theme: for disrespecting the Nereids, sea god Poseidon demands in sacrifice the life of the Ethiopian princess Andromeda to the sea monster Cetus. She is thus chained to a rock afloat in the sea, but is rescued by semi-divine hero Perseus. A similar event happens in the story of Trojan princess Hesione.
The many-headed serpent enemy shares similarities with Greek mythic creature Hydra, defeated by Heracles as part of his Twelve Labors. An episode of a battle with the dragon also occurs in several fairy tales: The Three Dogs, The Two Brothers, The Merchant (fairy tale), The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life, The Three Princes and their Beasts, The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin, Georgic and Merlin, the epic feats of Dobrynya Nikitich, the Polish legend of the Wawel Dragon.
The motif of the birth of twin boys by eating a magical fish shares similarities with a practice involving flower petals, as seen in the ATU 711, "The Beautiful and the Ugly Twin" (Tatterhood).
Variants
Origins
Greek folklorist listed several conflicting theories that different scholars have proposed for the origins of the tale type (ATU 303): some see a possible connection with the Ancient Egyptian story Tale of Two Brothers; suggested a origin in the Byzantine period (300-1500 CE); Wolfgang Hierse indicated the Eastern Mediterranean, during the Hellenistic period.
According to scholar Christine Goldberg, studies on both tale types ATU 300 and ATU 303 using the historic-geographic method concluded that type 300 has "old elements", but the "modern form" originated in medieval times, while type 303 is more recent because it included type 300 within its narrative. Kurt Ranke, for example, supposed that type 303 originated in Western Europe, in France, during medieval times.
Distribution
German scholar Kurt Ranke, who authored one of the definitive studies on the tale type ATU 303, analysed some 770 variants. As researcher Richard M. Dorson put it, the tale type "is well distributed throughout Europe and densely reported from Finland, Ireland, Germany, France, and Hungary.".
Variants are also found in Africa, such as The Twin Brothers from French Congo; Rombao, from Quelimane; and among indigenous peoples of the Americas, such as The Eight-Headed Windigo, from a Chippewan teller.
On a more global scale, Daniel J. Crowley, comparing tale indexes of Indonesia, Africa, Madagascar, British Islands, France, Spain and the Muslim Near East, concluded that the tale type appears "among the most popular and widespread tales on earth".
The birth of the twins (triplets)
Ingestion of fish or aquatic animal
The usual tale involves the birth of twins from the ingestion of the flesh of the fish - a motif that opens the tale type and, according to scholar Patrice Lajoye, with considerable antiquity. French historian François Delpech (fr) noted that the twins or triplets born of the fish show celestial birthmarks on the head - a similar appearance shared by the foals and hounds that are also born through the fish. From the remains of the fish a pair of swords and a bush sprout (which serve as their token of life).
Very rarely, there are born triplets, such as in a variant from Brittany, France, collected by folklorist Adolphe Orain: in Les chevaliers de la belle étoile, instead of the usual twins, three sons are born when their mother is given the flesh of the enchanted eel (which replaces the fish). Each of the brothers is born with a star on the forehead.
Other similar variant is , collected from Bélesta, Ariège, where there are also three sons born from the magical fish.
In Czech fairy tale The Twin Brothers, the enchanted fish is described as a princess cursed into piscian form. When a woman catches her (as fish) to eat, the princess says she will be delivered from her curse "as soon as [her] body has rotted".
The fish is also replaced by three eels in Serbian fairy tale "Три јегуље" ("The Three Eels"), by Vuk Karadzic.
In a Valencian tale collected by Enric Valor i Vives, La Mare dels Peixos ("The Mother of Fishes"), when the fisherman is sailing in the sea, he captures an eel-like, aquatic being with three heads that introduces itself at the "Mother of the Fishes". She tells the fisherman to kill it, and to give one of its heads to his wife, his dogs and his horses.
In an Asturian tale collected by Aurelio de Llano Roza de Ampudia, El pescador y la serena ("The Fisherman and the Mermaid"), the titular fisherman captures a mermaid who tells him to cut her apart in eight parts and give two to his wife. Thus, she will bear twins.
Ingestion of fruit
The aquatic animal is replaced altogether for a fruit in other variants, such as an apple in the Slavonic tale The Brothers; or a mango, which appears in the Indic form of the tale type (according to researcher Mary Brockington).
According to Armenian scholarship, the motif of the apple also appears in Armenian variants: a passing dervish gives the apple to the king's wife so that she may bear twins, but the dervish asks for one of the twins in payment. One of the boys is given to the dervish. After some time, he dips his hair in a magic golden pool, escapes from him with a horse and wears a disguise to work as a king's gardener (tale type ATU 314, "The Goldener", wherein a youth gains golden hair by magic and later works in a menial position). After the boy is petrified by a witch, his twin comes to his rescue (type ATU 303).
In a tale from Dagestan translated into Hungarian with the title Aranyhajú Arszlan ("Golden-Haired Arszlan"), a childless man is given a pair of beans as remedy for his plight by an old hermit, who asks for one of the twins in return. The beans work, and a pair of twins is born, named Arszlan and Batir. Arszlan is given to the hermit, who is in reality an evil creature. The youth escapes with a horse, dips his body in a river of a golden colour and works as gardener in another kingdom (tale type ATU 314).
In an Iranian tale collected by Emily Lorimer and David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer from Bakhtiari with the title The Gazelle Maiden and the Golden Brothers, a childless king with seven wives, named Malik Ahmad, receives a pomegranate from a dervish to give to his wife. She bears twins, and the elder twin, called Malik Mahmad, opts to accompany the dervish as part of his father's deal. On the way to a golden fountain, an old greybeard warns the youth that the dervish will kill him, so he should escape from him with his horse. He follows the man's instructions, bathes in the golden fountain and kills the dervish. He finds work in another kingdom, marries a girl and follows a gazelle to a cave. He enters the cave and sees a beautiful maiden, who reveals she is the gazelle. She challenges the golden twin to a physical battle. He loses and is put away with other prisoners. Far away, his younger twin, Sultan Mahmad, sees the brother's ring turn black and senses his twin is in danger. Sultan Mahmad meets his sister-in-law and puts a sword between them in bed. Later, Sultan Mahmad defeats the strong lady, marries her and releases his twin brother and the prisoners.
Imbibing of water
In an Afro-American variant from Antigua, Black Jack and White Jack, a White lady and a Black lady move to a strange land and walk about with a bottle of water. During three walks, as soon as their bottles are empty, they return home. On the fourth time, they see two ponds, one white and the other black. The White lady drinks from the white pond and gives birth to a White boy, and the Black lady from the black pond, and gives birth to a Black boy.
Birth of lookalike individuals
The ATU 303 type usually involves the birth of twins (or triplets), but in variants there are born two similar-looking individuals from a rich mother (queen, lady) and a poor one (maid, servant), who both ate the magical item that, according to some in-story superstition, is said to have pregnancy-inducing properties, such as a fruit or herb. Despite their different origins, both youths hold great affection and loyalty towards each other. One example is the Swedish folktale Silfver-hvit och Lill-vacker (English: "Silverwhite and Lillwacker").
In a Romanian fairy tale, Der Morgenstern und der Abendstern ("The Morning-Star and the Evening-Star"), a king and a queen have tried to conceive a child, but no such luck. One night, the empress dreams that God told her the method: the king must catch a fish, cook it and give it to the queen, who gives birth to a boy. A maid also tastes the queen's plate and gives birth to another boy. The prince is named Busujok and the maid's son Siminok.
In the Moravian tale Zkamenělí lidé ("The Petrified People"), a princess and her friend, a burgermeister's daughter, drink seawater and become pregnant at the same time. Seven years later, the king suspects foul play and plans execution of the maidens and their incredibly similar children, Petr and Karl. The king prepares a trial by ordeal: both boys should walk on water. Both pass the trial, since they did not sink in the sea.
In a Russian fairy tale, when the fisherman gives the fish for his wife to eat, she shares the food with the mare and the cow. Later, three individuals are born: three half-brothers, one of the human woman, the second of the mare and the third, Cow's Son, of the cow. The cow's son is the strongest and the hero of the tale.
In an Irish tale published by poet W. B. Yeats from an "old man" in Galway, Jack and Bill, the king's wife and a female cook eat a fish and give birth to identical individuals. They become very close friends, but depart to have their own adventures. Jack kills dragons and rescues a princess. He is later killed by a witch in the woods, but Bill saves him soon after. This tale was also published in Yeats's The Celtic Twilight with the name Dreams that have no Moral and in Lady Gregory's The Kiltartan Wonder Book, wherein the heroes are named Seamus and Shawneen.
The names of the heroes
If the characters are named in the tale, both brothers may have water-related names. For instance, in Swedish variant Wattuman und Wattusin (Wassermann und Wasserjunge), in the Brothers Grimm tale Johann Wassersprung und Kaspar Wassersprung ("Johannes Waterspring and Casper Waterspring"), in another German variant Wasserpaul and Wasserpeter, or in a Hungarian variant Vízi Péter és Vízi Pál (vízi means "water" in Hungarian).
In another German variant, The Two Foundlings of the Spring, or, The Story of Brunnenhold and Brunnenstark, an exiled princess finds two babies near a spring and decided that "they shall both take their names from the water": Brunnenhold, with "blue eyes and hair", and Brunnenstark, because he is stronger than his brother. The tale of brothers Brunnenhold and Brunnenstark was also given a somewhat abridged format by 19th century theologue Johann Andreas Christian Löhr, with the name Die Söhne der Quelle.
In a Russian-language Siberian variant titled "Федор Водович и Иван Водович" ("Fyodor Vodovich and Ivan Vodovich", or "Fyodor, Son of the Water, and Ivan, Son of the Water"), a queen gives birth to a daughter, much to her husband's chagrin. The king decides to lock her up in a dungeon with a companion, to protect her from the world. One day, she is allowed to leave the dungeon, and drinks a bit of water from a well. Nine months later, she gives birth to two boys, later baptized as Ivan Vodovich and Fyodor Vodovich (vodo/a means water in Russian).
The adventures of the twins (triplets)
The general narrative of the tale type separates the twins: one defeats the dragon and, after he marries the princess, goes to an illuminated castle (or tower) in the distance, where a witch resides. In Iberian variants, this castle is known as "Castle of No Return" (Spanish: Castillo de Irás y No Volverás) or "Tower of the Ill-Hour" (Portuguese: Torre da Má Hora). Later, his twin (or younger triplet) defeats the witch and rescues the older brother. Before the younger brother goes to rescue his sibling, he meets his sister-in-law, who mistakes him for her husband. To avoid any future complications, the brother lays down a sword between them in the royal bed. This motif is known as "The Sword of Chastity" and scholarship argues that it is "an integral part" of this tale type.
Some versions preserve the motif of the helping animals, attested in the pure form of ATU 300, "The Dragonslayer", where the sole hero is helped by four different animals or by three powerful dogs. One example of the latter type is the Romanian variant Măr și Păr: the prince Măr names his dogs "Florian, Cioban and Frunză de megheran", and the servant's son Păr gives his hounds the names of "Bujor, Rozor and Cetina brazilor".
The dragon of the tale, in Scandinavian variants, is sometimes replaced by a troll that lives in the sea.
In a tale collected from Wallonia, Le Garçon avec Ses Trois Chiens, triplets are born from the ingestion of the fish's flesh. This variant is peculiar in that it inverts the usual narrative: the brothers' petrification by the witch occurs before the episode of the dragon-slaying. The youngest triplet rescues his older brothers and later the princess demanded by the dragon.
A similar inversion of the twins' adventures occurs in Cossack (Ukrainian) tale The Two Princes: the younger twin rescues his older brother from the pagan witch that petrified him and his dog, and later the dragon-slaying episode happens.
In another tale, Die zwei Brüder ("The Two Brothers"), the heroes are born after the ingestion of the fish, one stays home and the other goes around the world. In this story, the episode of the petrification in the castle of the witch happens after the killing of the dragon, but before the revelation of the false hero.
In an unsourced tale published by Andrew Lang in his The Grey Fairy Book, The Twin Brothers, an old woman reveals that the infertility of a fisherman's wife can be cured by ingesting the flesh of a gold-fish, and after some should be given to her she-dogs and mares. Male twins are born, two foals and two puppies - each brother getting a hound and a horse. When the older twin leaves home, he arrives in a kingdom and tries to woo the princess Fairest in the Land, by performing her father's three tasks. Later, he arrives in another kingdom, where a giant has blocked the flow of waters and only releases it once a year when he is given a maiden to devour. A similar version was collected by scholar Giorgos A. Megas in his book Folktales of Greece. This tale was originally collected in German by Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn from Negades, with the title Die Zwillingsbrüder.
Some variants skip the birth implement altogether and begin with the twin (triplet) princes going their separates ways at the crossroads, after they gather their animal retinues.
Adaptations
The tale type was adapted into the story Los hermanos gemelos ("The Twin Brothers"), by Spanish writer Romualdo Nogués, with a moral at the end. A second adaptation was published in Spanish newspaper El Imparcial, in 1923, titled El pez y los tres rosales ("The Fish and the Three Rosebushes").
A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") (hu), with the title A kõvé vált királyfi ("The Prince who turned into Stone"). This version replaces the sacrifice of a maiden to a dragon for a fight against an invincible warrior of the enemy army.
See also
The Two Brothers (Grimm fairy tale)
The Gold-Children (Grimm fairy tale)
The Merchant (fairy tale)
The Enchanted Doe
The Twins (Albanian tale)
The Three Dogs
The Sea-Maiden
The Seven-headed Serpent
Princess and dragon and other tales of dragon- or serpent-slaying by a hero (ATU Index type 300, "The Dragonslayer")
Dragonslayer (a heroic archetype in fiction, fantasy and mythology)
Minotaur
References
Bibliography
Amores, Monstserrat. Catalogo de cuentos folcloricos reelaborados por escritores del siglo XIX. Madrid: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS, DEPARTAMENTO DE ANTROPOLOGÍA DE ESPAÑA Y AMÉRICA. 1997. pp. 69-71.
Boggs, Ralph Steele. Index of Spanish folktales, classified according to Antti Aarne's "Types of the folktale". Chicago: University of Chicago. 1930. pp. 40-41.
Further reading
Brockington, Mary (1999). "The relationship of the Râmâyaòa to the Indic form of “The Two Brothers” and to the Stepmother redaction". In: The Epic: oral and written. Ed. by Lauri Honko, John Miles Foley and Jawaharlal Handoo. Central Institute of Indian Languages: Mysore, 1999. pp. 139–150. .
Marc, Claudine. Le Fils du Roi des Poissons. Etude comparative du conte AT 303 et de récits médiévaux. Université de Grenoble, janvier 2000. Doctoral thesis (unpublished).
Ranke, Kurt. Die zwei Brüder: Eine Studie zur vergleichenden Märchenforschung. Helsinki: 1934 (Folklore Fellows Communications, 114).
Rubow, Mette. "Un essai d'interprétation du conte-type AaTh 303: Le roi des poissons ou La bête à sept têtes". Fabula 25, 1-2 (1984): 18-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.1984.25.1-2.18
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Reconstruction of the original form of ATU type 303, "The Blood Brothers" by D. L. Ashliman, based on various sources
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20475615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiano%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201987%29 | Baiano (footballer, born 1987) | Wanderson Souza Carneiro (born 23 February 1987), known as Baiano, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Portuguese club C.D. Nacional.
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Born in Correntina, Bahia, Baiano spent most of his career in his country in the lower leagues. His professional input consisted of six Série B games for Vila Nova Futebol Clube, who finished in 20th and last position.
In late July 2008, Baiano moved to Portugal where he would remain the following decade, starting with C.F. Os Belenenses. He appeared rarely for the Lisbon-based club in his only season, as the team suffered relegation from the Primeira Liga only to be reinstated due to C.F. Estrela da Amadora's financial irregularities.
Baiano signed with fellow league side F.C. Paços de Ferreira in summer 2009, where his performances were eventually noted. He scored his first goal in the Portuguese top division on 19 September 2010, helping to a 2–2 home draw against S.C. Braga.
In the 2011 off-season, Baiano joined Braga on a free transfer. He played 42 competitive matches in the 2015–16 campaign, including the final of the Taça de Portugal, won on penalties against FC Porto after a 2–2 draw in 120 minutes.
On 2 September 2017, free agent Baiano signed for Spanish Segunda División club Rayo Vallecano. He totalled more than 3,000 minutes of action during his only season, helping them return to La Liga after two years.
Baiano joined Alanyaspor of the Turkish Süper Lig on 28 June 2018, after his contract expired.
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Rayo Vallecano
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Established in 1965 as DYPR, it is the pioneer station in Palawan. It was formerly owned by Palawan Broadcasting Corporation until 2011, when it was acquired by ABS-CBN and rebranded as Radyo Patrol. Since then, the former staff of DYPR established DZIP.
On May 5, 2020, the station suspended its broadcasting activities, following the cease-and-desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission due to the expiration of ABS-CBN's legislative license to operate. On May 8, 2020, most of its programming resumed via online feed.
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17341639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%20Nath%20Dhakal | Ek Nath Dhakal | Ek Nath Dhakal (Nepali: एकनाथ ढकाल) (born 13 August 1974) is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Nepal Pariwar Dal, and served as Minister for the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction of the Government of Nepal. He is the head of the Nepal chapter of the Universal Peace Federation, a United Nations ECOSOC status international Peace organization.
Early life and education
Dhakal was born in 1974 in the Gorkha District. He received his formal education from the Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, where he studied political science for two years followed by three years of study in sociology and anthropology. His public life started as an independent student leader and social activist carrying out humanitarian service project. He has received honors from both Nepal and abroad including the “Youth of the Year” award with gold medal in 2007. He is married to Mrs. Blessie Gadon Dhakal who is from Philippines.
Political career
In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the Nepal Pariwar Dal won one seat through the Proportional Representation vote. The party selected Dhakal as its representative in the assembly.
Dhakal served on various parliamentary committees such as the Security Special Committee, International Relations and Human Rights Committee and Constitutional Committee during 2008–2012. Dhakal also serves as secretary general of the Youth Federation of World Peace Asia.
In 2009, Dhakal made a statement on the agenda entitled Towards Global Partnerships, at the Second Committee of the United Nations' 64th session of the General Assembly.
On October 31, 2010, the magazine Nepal Weekly published by Kantipur Publications criticized Dhakal for the arrangements surrounding Vice President Parmanand Jha's visit to South Korea on October 7, 2010. Dhakal brought Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea to Nepal to promote relations between Nepal and S Korea.
Nepali Times covered the detail story of South Korea's Unification Church is affiliated to a Nepali political party that has a minister in the cabinet
and "A religious group that mixes business and politics" on it April edition of 2016 reported by Reporter Seulki Lee.
Dhakal serves in the Constitutional Committee of the Constituent Assembly and was appointed as a cabinet Minister on May 16, 2012; he is the first Minister for Ministry of Co-operatives and Poverty Alleviation (Nepal) of the Government of Nepal. Dhakal is a convener of the South Asia Peace Initiatives (SAPI) and is involved in Nepal's ongoing peace process. In January 2013, Dhakal told the international community that Nepalese political leaders are capable to short out the political deadlock of the country.
On January 24, 2013, Dhakal met with the Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh in New Delhi, India. Dhakal has undertaken a poverty alleviation project in the Gorkha district, with the aim to improve conditions for the 25.2% poor people of the country.
Dhakal is a comparative new figure in Nepalese politics and in February 2013, his name was brought out by Nepalese media as a possible candidate for prime minister, to lead Nepal's consensus government for the purpose of holding elections.
Dhakal launches National Public Awareness Campaign with motto "Nation and People First" throughout the nation.
Dhakal's party "Nepal Pariwar Dal" announced candidates in all 240 constituency of Nepal for the election of the Constituent Assembly scheduled on November 19, 2013. On October 9, 2013, Dhakal claimed that Nepal Pariwar Dal is fourth political power in Nepal. Dhakal wishes to develop his party as alternative democratic forces in his country.
Dhakal was re-elected in the 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election for a four-year term. Dhakal serves in the most powerful parliamentary committee Public Accounts Committee. Dhakal serves as Global Vice President of Sun Moon University based in Korea. Dhakal also a Member of the Parliamentarians for Global Action based in United States of America. Dhakal advocates Universality and said at one of the religious function organized in his district Gorkha that representatives do not belong to a particular religion and ethnicity instead they represent the whole country and goodness of all faiths. Ek Nath Dhakal founded Parliamentary Peace Council (PPC Nepal) for building a culture of peace based on rule of law, democracy, service and universally shared values on November 6, 2014. The inaugural assembly was presided by Speaker of the Legislature Parliament of Nepal Subash Chandra Nembang and lawmakers from Nepal and India were in attendance. Peace advocate Dhakal is active in promoting multidimensional peace in South Asia.
Ek Nath Dhakal is a pro traditional family values activist. He organized a "Multicultural Family Educational Peace Festival 2015" at Dasarath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal on February 21, 2015 which attracted seventy thousand people. Dhakal urged India that its "unequivocal recognition" of Nepalese constitution would go a long way in reducing the current tensions and restoring cordial relations between the two countries during his meeting with Indian politicians in New Delhi on October 4, 2015. Ek Nath Dhakal is appointed as Minister for the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (Nepal) by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. Ek Nath Dhakal was also nominated as Chairman of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP), Asia. Dhakal shared his views with Republica on Feb. 17, 2018 and asked Nepali youth to seriously consider joining politics if they don't want to be ruled by those they don't like.
Ek Nath Dhakal was one of the key person organized Asia Pacific Summit 2018 - Nepal on November 30 to December 3, 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal.The Summit was aim to highlight Nepal's success in peace process and constitution-making according to Eknath Dhakal. The Summit was one of the biggest event of its kind organized in Nepal and was also most debated event. Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli presided and opened the Summit along with several current heads of state and government. Dhakal met with many world leaders, heads of state and government on his peace mission including Myanmar's democratic icon Aung San Suu Kyi. Eknath Dhakal's “Family Party” making forays in Nepal politics on lines of India's Aam Admi party (AAP), seeking to create “New Nepal”. Ek Nath Dhakal is named as “Special Global Envoy” of World Summit during the 7th Rally of Hope. On November 22, 2022, Dhakal is re-elected as President of Nepal Family Party from the 3rd General Convention of the Party conducted with theme‘Let us eliminate all sorts of discriminations: build a cultured, prosperous and inclusive Nepal’ .
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RAF Ringway, the name for Manchester Airport during the second world war
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MMX (instruction set), a single-instruction, multiple-data instruction set designed by Intel
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Michelson–Morley experiment, an 1887 physics experiment
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Malmö Airport, Sweden (IATA code)
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1 – 1974 Race scheduled for 750 km only
2 – 1981 Race stopped after 17 laps due to fatal accident of Herbert Müller which caused track damage
3 – 1986 Race was stopped due to torrential rain and only ran approximately 600 km.
4 – Time limit reached before 1,000 km distance was completed (six hours for the Le Mans Series and Blancpain Endurance Series races, the 2010 Oldtimers Festival race had a seven-hour time limit).
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Motorsport in Germany
Race results at motorsport venues |
26718456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cri%C8%99ana%20%28disambiguation%29 | Crișana (disambiguation) | Crişana may also refer to:
Crișana (newspaper), local newspaper based in Oradea
Crișana, historical region of Romania and Hungary
Crișana Oradea, football club based in Oradea, Romania
Stadionul Crișana, a multi-use stadium in Sebiș, Romania
Crișana dialect, one of the dialects of the Romanian language
See also
Criș (disambiguation)
Crișan (disambiguation)
Crișeni (disambiguation)
Crișuri (disambiguation) |
23581239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timor%20Avitan | Timor Avitan | Timor Avitan (; born 27 November 1991) is an Israeli professional association football player who plays for Ironi Tiberias.
Biography
Playing career
Avitan was born in Dimona and moved to Ashdod, when he was 11 years old. Avitan made his league debut in a Premier League match against Maccabi Tel Aviv on 30 May 2009 when he replaced Idan Sade in the 46th minute.
International career
Avitan represented Israel at the 2009 Maccabiah Games, winning a bronze medal.
Footnotes
References
1991 births
Living people
Israeli footballers
Israeli Mizrahi Jews
F.C. Ashdod players
Hapoel Ashkelon F.C. players
Maccabi Yavne F.C. players
Maccabi Kiryat Gat F.C. players
Hapoel Kfar Shalem F.C. players
Hapoel Marmorek F.C. players
Footballers from Dimona
Hapoel Ironi Baqa al-Gharbiyye F.C. players
Ironi Nesher F.C. players
Hapoel Umm al-Fahm F.C. players
Maccabi Herzliya F.C. players
Hapoel Iksal F.C. players
Ironi Tiberias F.C. players
Israeli Premier League players
Liga Leumit players
Footballers from Ashdod
Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
Maccabiah Games medalists in football
Maccabiah Games bronze medalists for Israel
Competitors at the 2009 Maccabiah Games
Association football forwards |
6906589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Province%20of%20Vibo%20Valentia | List of municipalities of the Province of Vibo Valentia | The following is a list of the 50 municipalities (comuni) of the Province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Vibo Valentia |
23581243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacherlfabrik | Zacherlfabrik | The Zacherl factory (Zacherlfabrik) is a former factory in the 19th district of Vienna, Döbling. It was built in an oriental style.
History
Johann Zacherl began importing insecticide made from pyrethrum from Tiflis in 1842. In 1870, he started to produce moth powder in Unterdöbling, which he sold under the name Zacherl’s insect-killing tincture (Zacherlin). By 1873, the four employees in his factory were already producing 600 tonnes of Zacherlin per year, which were sold in Zacherl’s shops in Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam, London, New York and Philadelphia.
In 1880, Zacherl left the company to his son John Evangelist. The factory in Unterdöbling was rebuilt between 1888 and 1892 to produce insecticide. The street-facing administrative wing of the building, which was designed by Karl Mayreder, is a rare example of commercially motivated Orientalism in European architecture. The Yenidze cigarette factory in Dresden is another example of this trend.
The ceramic tiles that were used in the facade and on the roof of the Zacherl factory were produced by the Wienerberger AG.
Johann Evangelist Zacherl expanded the Zacherl company’s activities from the production of insecticide to include the cleaning, repair and storage of fur and rugs. Between 1903 and 1905, he built the Zacherlhaus at the Wildpretmarkt.
Following World War I, sales of insecticide were stunted by expensive import taxes and the growth of chemical industries. After Johann Evangelist Zacherl’s death in 1936, his son Gregor Zacherl took control of the family factory, which from 1933 also produced ski bindings, but in 1949 Gregor Zacherl surrendered his merchant’s licence. He died in 1954 and the name Zacherl was removed from the register of companies in 1958.
The factory building and its gardens stood empty for several decades, until in 2006 Veronika and Peter Zacherl, in cooperation with the Jesuit art fund, opened the former factory up for artistic projects. Since then, exhibitions and music soirees have been held in the building every summer.
References
Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Döbling. Vom Gürtel zu den Weinbergen. Schmid, Wien 1988, .
Stefan Koppelkamm: Exotische Architekturen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Ausstellungskatalog Stuttgart 1987. Ernst, Berlin 1987, , .
Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien, volume 5. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Wien 1997, ,
External links
Offizielle Webseite der Zacherlfabrik
Text zur Zacherlfabrik
Buildings and structures in Döbling
Cultural venues in Vienna |
44500400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20Gaber | Harley Gaber | Harley Gaber (June 5, 1943 – June 16, 2011) was a visual artist and composer known for his minimalist and spectral approaches to time and sound. With his emphasis on quiet sustained sonorities and textures, Gaber is counted among the early American minimalist composers, and considered to be a forerunner of drone and spectralism. His best known recorded composition, The Winds Rise in the North, has been called by musician Keith Fullerton Whitman "one of the holy grails of minimalism in music in the 20th century."
In 1978, he stopped composing, moved from New York City to San Diego, California, and began creating photo-collages, mixed media collages, paintings, and pen-and-ink works he called graphic music. However, in 1993 he started work on Die Plage (The Plague), an art-historical narrative of Germany from the Weimar Republic to the end of World War II, completing it in 2002. It grew to become a massive work of approximately 4,200 photomontaged canvases measuring .
In the final three years of his life Gaber composed two works: I Saw My Mother Ascending Mt Fuji and In Memoriam 2010. The album of his last work was released two weeks before Gaber committed suicide in June 2011.
Artistic and musical influences
Artistic influences
German Expressionism and Dada are the artistic movements that most influenced him. The particular artists that critics cite as evident in Gaber's work are Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The photomontage works of John Heartfield and Hannah Höch influenced him greatly, as did their use of photographs to subvert and criticize their subject matter.
Musical influences
Horace Reisburg, Gaber's music teacher at New Trier High School from 1958 to 1961 in Winnetka, Illinois, encouraged him to continue his studies at the Aspen Institute with Darius Milhaud in the summer of 1961. Gaber enrolled that fall in the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he studied first with Lajaren Hiller. But the faculty member who influenced Gaber the most was Kenneth Gaburo. The two formed a life-long friendship in which they investigated and challenged each other's basic aesthetic assumptions. In 1963, he moved to Rome to pursue further studies in composition with Aldo Clementi, Franco Evangelisti, Boris Poorena and Giulio Rotoli. On concluding his studies in 1964, he returned to the U.S., settling in New York City. From 1964 to 1966, Gaber studied with William J. Sydeman, who was on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music. Gaber was influenced by the creative ferment among fellow composers in the minimalist music world of New York City, especially Morton Feldman.
Works
Artistic works
Gaber's visual art work took many forms, including photography, pen and ink, collage, photomontage and drawings. His pen-and-ink drawings of graphic music were first exhibited in a group show in Bern, Switzerland, in 1974. By April 1976, his graphic music work was featured in a solo exhibition at Gallery 219 in Buffalo, New York. In September 1976, the Alternative Center for International Arts, now known as the Alternative Museum, mounted a solo show of his drawings and graphic music.
After moving to San Diego in 1982, Gaber turned to photography as his favored medium. By 1985, his experiments with photomontage led to acquisition of one of his works and its inclusion in an exhibit by the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego's Balboa Park, California. In the late 1980s, he experimented with mixed media collage and wood constructions. Both the wood and mixed media works led to exhibits in San Diego, California and Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1990 and 1991.
In 1993, Gaber started work on what would become his magnum opus, Die Plage (The Plague). This work soon became the center of Gaber's efforts, displacing his work in all other media. When he completed it in 2002, it was composed of about 4,200 canvases, each measuring . Gaber used xerography to modify photographs, and then combined them on canvas using photomontage and charcoal. The work is ordered in chronological sequence, starting with Weimar Republic and ending at the conclusion of World War II. When exhibited in its entirety, with canvases arranged in rows five high, the work runs nearly in length.
In 1995, Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California, mounted an exhibit of the first 950 canvases—its first public showing. Art critic Jonathan Saville, writing for the San Diego Reader, wrote:
From September23 to October21, 2000, The Lab in Los Angeles, California exhibited roughly 700 canvases from all sections of the work done to date. Leah Ollman, an art critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote:
Selected exhibitions and awards
Group Show, Music Notation and Graphic Music, Bern, Switzerland (1974).
Solo Exhibition, Graphics and Graphic Music, Gallery 219, Buffalo, NY (April 1976).
Solo Exhibition, Graphics and Graphic Music, Alternative Center for International Arts, New York City, NY (September 1976).
Solo Exhibition, SX70 Polaroid, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, San Diego, CA (1983).
Group Show, 42 San Diego Artists, Photo-Collages, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (1985).
Solo Exhibition, Graphic Music, Graphics, Photo-Collages, SX70 Polaroid and 35MM Photography, Photography Gallery, San Diego, CA (1985).
Group Show, Photo-Collages, Museum of Photographic Arts Permanent Collection Show, San Diego, CA (1985).
Solo Exhibition, Paintings and Mixed-Media Collages, Gwydion Gallery, San Diego, CA (1989).
Solo Exhibition, Paintings, Wood Construction Pieces and Mixed-Media Collages, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA (1990).
Group Show, Mixed-Media Collages and Paper Cutouts, Hartman & Company Gallery, San Diego, CA (1994).
Die Plage (The Plague) Installation, Southwestern College, San Diego, CA (1995).
Die Plage (The Plague) Anne Frank Installation, Coastal Repertory Theater, to accompany a production of Diary of Anne Frank, Half Moon Bay, CA (1997).
Die Plage (The Plague) Anne Frank Installation, Newport, OR (2000, Grant: Collins Foundation).
Die Plage (The Plague) Installation, The Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA (2000).
Musical works
Gaber's first recorded composition, Ludus Primus: Two Flutes and Vibraphone, (1966) was followed by Chimyaku: Solo Alto Flute (1968), Kata: Solo Violin for (1969) and Michi: Solo Violin (1969). Composer Eric Richards described Gaber's minimalist music as an effort to "get inside the music." He notated minute directions for the attack, dynamic changes, and other physical characteristics of each and every note, in ways that, while they might have superficially resembled some of the serial music of that time, were really his attempt to get beyond appearances, and slow down the sense of time in the music through a deeper investigation of the sound itself.
His compositions in the 1970s were mainly for strings, and in these works, he strived to suspend time. The Winds Rise in the North: String Quintet (1974), Sovereign of the Centre (1972) and Indra's Net (1974) are considered to be his most significant compositions. These minimalist works reflected Gaber's study of Buddhism."
Harley Gaber resumed composing in 2008, after receiving a commission from William Hellerman of the Downtown Ensemble, resulting in Webern's Gambit, a multi-media work for film and cello. It associated film imagery, including old German footage and recordings, with a cello part derived from pitches in a movement of Anton Webern's Piano Variations. In 2009, Harley Gaber composed I Saw My Mother Ascending Mt. Fuji using GarageBand to assemble and rework existing acoustic sound sources, in a manner similar to his visual photomontage works. It was produced by Philip Blackburn, and released on Innova Recordings. In 2011, Innova Recordings also published In Memoriam 2010, a work commissioned by the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation in memory of his mother.
Gaber's contributions as a composer were described by Shane Mack, in the obituary which he wrote for the British music publication, The Wire: he and his music shared the same complex personality, uncompromised by marketing concerns or wanting to fit into any scene.... it is the high level of perfectly-realised thoughts in sound, that could only have sprung from his fragile life of outsider-dom, that ensures his stature as one of America's most important artists.
Major performances of his work were produced on May 13, 1977, by the New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Pierre Boulez; the Berlin Festival; the Tanglewood Music Festival; the Once Festival at the University of Michigan; the Kitchen in New York City; Evenings for New Music in Buffalo and New York City.
Selected compositions and recordings
Ludus Primus: Two Flutes and Vibraphone (1966), on Gaber/Hellerman/Zonn. New York: New World Records, NWCRL299. Reissue of 1972 LP on Composers Recordings Inc. Score published by Lingua Press.
Chimyaku: Solo Alto Flute (1968) Score published by Lingua Press.
Kata: Solo Violin (1969), On Gaber/Hellerman/Zonn. New York: New World Records, NWCRL299. Reissue of 1972 LP on Composers Recordings Inc. Score published by Lingua Press.
Koku: Solo Flute (1970)
Michi: Solo Violin (1972) Score published by Lingua Press.
Sovereign of the Centre: Four Violins (1972), Berlin: Edition RZ, ed. RZ 4008–9. Reissue with additional notes, of 1976 LP on Titanic Records.
The Winds Rise in the North: String Quintet (1974), Berlin: Edition RZ, ed. RZ 4008–9. Reissue with additional notes, of 1976 LP on Titanic Records. Reissue on CD in 2007 by Edition RZ.
The Realm of Indra's Net (1974), Berlin: Edition RZ, ed. RZ 1022. 2010
I Saw My Mother Ascending Mt. Fuji (2009), St. Paul, MN: Innova Recordings, 231. 2010.
In Memoriam 2010 (2011), Minneapolis: St. Paul, MN: Innova Recordings, 243. 2011.
Legacy
In recognition of his contributions, Gaber was the subject of a symposium at The Tectonics Festival, New York, on May 24, 2014. A panel on Gaber's life and works was moderated by composer Eric Richards, with discussants Paul Paccione, Ned Sublette and Bill Hellerman.
References
External links
Minimalist composers
1943 births
2011 deaths
Experimental composers
American contemporary artists
Artists from California
Suicides in New Mexico
Male classical composers
20th-century male musicians
Political artists
2011 suicides |
20475641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%20Boy%20Records | Oh Boy Records | Oh Boy Records is an independent American record label founded in 1981 by singer John Prine, his manager Al Bunetta, and their friend Dan Einstein. The label has released more than 40 audio and video recordings by singer-songwriters Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Daniel "Slick" Ballinger, Shawn Camp, Dan Reeder, and Todd Snider, along with a dozen reissues of classic country music artists. Oh Boy Records also manages two subsidiary labels, Steve Goodman's Red Pajamas Records and specialty label Blue Plate Music. Oh Boy is based in Nashville, Tennessee.
History
Al Bunetta was a talent manager with Paul Anka's management company CMA, working with artists such as Bette Midler, Al Green, and The Manhattan Transfer. When Anka signed John Prine and Steve Goodman to management contracts in 1971, Bunetta became the manager for both of them. In 1980, Prine finished his recording contract with Asylum and moved to Nashville. Rather than sign with another major label, he decided to start one of his own, and was joined by Bunetta and associate Dan Einstein. The new Oh Boy label's first release was a red vinyl Christmas single with Prine singing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" on the A-side and "Silver Bells" on the B-side. The first full-length release was Prine's Aimless Love in 1984. Around 1989, Sony offered to buy Oh Boy Records, but Prine decided to keep the label independent and turned down the offer.
Recent projects
In 2000, the label began reissuing a series of classic country music artists titled Oh Boy Classics Presents... These are remastered versions of the original recordings. The first three artists in this series were Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard. In 2007, Oh Boy released Standard Songs for Average People, an album of classic country duets by Prine and bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman. In February 2010, singer-songwriter Dan Reeder released his album This New Century, using instruments he made himself.
The release of a new Prine live album in 2010, In Person & On Stage, was followed by Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows, a tribute album of Prine songs performed by artists such as Sara Watkins and Old Crow Medicine Show. Both of these 2010 releases debuted at number one on the Billboard Folk Album charts.
In April 2018, John Prine released Tree of Forgiveness produced by Dave Cobb. This was Prine's first album of original works in 13 years. Guest artists on the album include Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, and Dan Auerbach.
In 2019, the label signed singer-songwriter Kelsey Waldon. The female outlaw country singer is Oh Boy's first artist signing in 15 years.
In December 2019, Oh Boy Records signed Sacramento, California-based indie folk-singer Tré Burt. Burt was introduced to the label by Jody Whelan, who had discovered the folk singer's album Caught It from the Rye.
In June 2020, Oh Boy Records signed Ohio-based country singer Arlo McKinley, marking him as the last signee by John Prine.
Discography
See also
List of record labels
References
External links
Official site
American independent record labels
Old Town School of Folk musicians
Record labels established in 1981 |
44500401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling%20Girl | Smiling Girl | The Smiling Girl, thought to be by Johannes Vermeer, was donated by collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937 to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Now widely considered to be a fake, the painting was claimed by the Vermeer expert Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. in a 1995 study to be by a 20th-century artist and forger, Theo van Wijngaarden, a friend of Han van Meegeren.
References
Painting forgeries
Collections of the National Gallery of Art |
6906611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gilgamesh (disambiguation) | Gilgamesh was a legendary king of Uruk.
Gilgamesh may also refer to:
Epic of Gilgamesh, a poem about a legendary king of Uruk
Fictional characters
Gilgamesh, the protagonist of the Babylonian Castle Saga video game franchise
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy), a character in the Final Fantasy video game series
Gilgamesh (Fate/stay night), a character in the Fate franchise
Gilgamesh (Marvel Comics) or Forgotten One, an Eternal in the Marvel Comics universe
Literature
Gilgamesh (novel), a 2001 novel by Joan London
Gilgamesh (manga) a manga and anime by Shotaro Ishinomori
Gilgamesh the King, 1984 historical novel by Robert Silverberg
Music
Gilgamesh (band), a jazz fusion band in the 1970s
Gilgamesh (Martinů) or The Epic of Gilgamesh, a 1955 choral work by Bohuslav Martinů
Operas
Gilgamesh (Kodallı opera) (1962–1964)
Gilgamesh (Saygun opera) (1964–1970)
Gilgamesh (Nørgård opera) (1971–72)
Gilgamesh (Brucci opera) (1986)
Gilgamesh, a 1992 opera by Franco Battiato
Albums
Gilgamesh (Acrassicauda album) (2015)
Gilgamesh (Gilgamesh album) (1975)
Gilgamesh, a 2010 album by Gypsy & The Cat
Other uses
Gilgamesh (restaurant), a restaurant in London
Gilgamesh, a crater on Ganymede
1812 Gilgamesh, an small asteroid
See also
Epic of Gilgamesh (disambiguation)
Gilgamesh flood myth
Gilgamesh in the arts and popular culture
Gilgamesh II, a miniseries published by DC Comics
Gilgamesh Night, a softcore porn Japanese variety TV show broadcast from 1991 to 1998
Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, a character in Girl Genius
Girugamesh, a Japanese rock/metal band |
23581247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Sk%C3%A1la | Viktor Skála | Viktor Skála is a Czech stage and television actor. He was born on 3 March 1968, Brno, Czechoslovakia. He is a member of the Brno City Theatre.
Theatre
City Theatre
Master and Margarita .... master
Manon Lescaut .... Tiberge
Smrt obchodního cestujícího .... Bernard
Peer Gynt .... Peer Gynt
Nevyléčitelní .... Bruce
The Picture of Dorian Gray .... Alan Campbell
Bez roucha .... Garry Lejeune
Romeo and Jana .... Lucien
Slaměný klobouk .... Beauerthuis
V jámě lvové .... Mr. Strassky
Marketa Lazarová .... Mr. Lazar
Fiddler on the Roof .... officer
Death of Paul I .... Tatarinov/Prince/Colonel
The Diary of King .... Cyril Abid/Narrator
Equus .... Martin Dysart
Patrik Kumšt .... Boris/Viktor
The Three Musketeers .... Daddy/King/Executioner
Twelfth Night .... Malvolio
Síla zvyku .... Juggler
Cyrano de Bergerac .... De Guiche
Love's Labour's Lost .... Kotrba
Mourning Becomes Electra .... Adam Brant
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .... Dale Harding
Cabaret .... Ernst Ludwig
Kamenný most aneb Prostopášník .... Arlecchino
Henry VIII .... First Man
Máj .... Poet
Arcadia .... Septimus Hodge
Znamení kříže .... Gil, village guy
Ginger and Fred .... Author
Amfitryon .... Mercur
The Importance of Being Earnest .... John Worthing
Hair .... Psychologist/Officer
Odysseia .... Hades
Not Now, Darling .... Arnold Crouch
Red and Black .... François-Marie Arouet Voltaire
The Magic Flute .... Spokesman
Filmography
Velkofilm (2007)
Já z toho budu mít smrt (2005)
Krev zmizelého (2003)
Elektrický nůž (1999)
"Četnické humoresky" (1997) TV series
Případ s černým vzadu (1992)
Svlékání kůže (1991)
Král lenochů (1989)
Třetí sudička (1986)
External links
City Theatre Website
ČSFD.cz
Czech male stage actors
Czech male television actors
Living people
1968 births |
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 |
6906613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsagkarada | Tsagkarada | Tsagkarada () is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Mouresi in the eastern part of Magnesia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Mouresi. It is situated at 408 m elevation, on the eastern slope of the forested Pelion mountains. Its population in 2011 was 525 for the village and 543 for the community which includes the village Mylopotamos. Tsagkarada is located 1.5 km southeast of Mouresi, 3 km north of Xorychti, 9 km southeast of Zagora and about 20 km east of the city of Volos (Magnesia's capital). At the main square, near Agia Paraskevi church, there is a big platanus. Perhaps the older of Greece. It is said it has at least one thousand years. It has a perimeter of nearly 20 meters.
Population
See also
List of settlements in the Magnesia regional unit
References
External links
Populated places in Pelion |
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 |
23581252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejan%20%C5%A0kolnik | Dejan Školnik | Dejan Školnik (born 1 January 1989) is a Croatian football midfielder who plays for USV Mettersdorf.
Club career
Školnik started his career in Maribor and then transferred to Železničar Maribor youth sides at the age of 14. He played there for three years before returning to his home club where he signed his first professional contract.
Školnik then played for Maribor in the Slovenian PrvaLiga for three seasons, earning 72 appearances and scoring 6 goals in the process. His talent was then spotted by Portuguese first division team Nacional, where he joined his teammate from Maribor Rene Mihelič, signing a five-year contract until 1 July 2015.
International career
Currently Školnik was a member of Croatia U21 team. Before his international debut for Croatia he was offered a place in Slovenia U21 but Školnik turned down the offer and decided in favour of his parents homeland.
Personal life
Školnik was born in Maribor, present day Slovenia and lived there his whole life. He is of Croatian ancestry as his parents originate from northeastern Croatia. According to him he started playing football on the streets of Maribor and only joined NK Maribor youth sides after he was convinced to join by his friends he played with after school and one of which was Rene Mihelič.
References
External links
Dejan Školnik at NZS
1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Maribor
Slovenian footballers
Croatian footballers
Association football midfielders
Croatian expatriate footballers
NK Maribor players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Primeira Liga players
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
C.D. Nacional players
NK Aluminij players
NK Drava Ptuj (2004) players
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Expatriate footballers in Slovakia
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Italy
FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce players
Slovak Super Liga players
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate footballers in Austria
Croatia youth international footballers
Croatia under-21 international footballers |
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 |
6906616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFOX%20%28AM%29 | KFOX (AM) | KFOX (1650 AM) is a Korean language radio station, licensed to Torrance, California and serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It shares a transmitter site with KWKW.
KFOX is one of three radio stations in the greater Los Angeles area broadcasting entirely in Korean, in addition to KMPC and KYPA.
History
KFOX began as the "expanded band" twin to a station on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with KNOB in Costa Mesa authorized to move from 540 kHz to 1650 kHz.
The FCC's initial policy was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. It was decided to eliminate the standard band station, and on August 15, 2000, the license for the original station on 540 kHz, now KKGO, was cancelled.
The new station on 1650 kHz was assigned the call letters KGXL on March 12, 1998, which was changed to KKTR on June 1, 1998, then back to KGXL on March 15, 1999. The station simulcast adult standards station KGIL, AM 1260 in Beverly Hills.
After several years, KGXL became "K-Traffic," providing constant news updates, and eight traffic updates each hour. On July 26, 2000, the call sign was changed to KFOX, a call sign previously used by two area stations dating back to 1928: 1280 AM (now KFRN) and 93.5 FM (now KDAY).
In 2001, KFOX switched from broadcasting in English to Korean, and adopted the slogan "Radio Seoul".
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Radio stations established in 1998
Korean-American culture in California
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FOX (AM)
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1998 establishments in California |
6906645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylopotamos | Mylopotamos | Mylopotamos () may refer to several places in Greece:
Mylopotamos, Crete, a municipality in the Rethymno regional unit in the island of Crete
Mylopotamos, Cyclades, a village on the island of Kea, Cyclades
Mylopotamos, Drama, a village in the Drama regional unit, part of the Drama municipality
Mylopotamos, Kythira, a village in the island of Kythira
Mylopotamos, Magnesia, a village in Magnesia, part of the Mouresi municipality
Mylopotamos, Mount Athos, a settlement in Mount Athos
Neos Mylotopos (), a village in the Pella regional unit
Palaios Mylotopos (), a village in the Pella regional unit |
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 |
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) |
44500403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Safety%2C%20Research%2C%20Demonstration%2C%20and%20Development%20Act%20of%201980 | Nuclear Safety, Research, Demonstration, and Development Act of 1980 | Nuclear Safety, Research, Demonstration, and Development Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 9701, established nuclear safety policy for nuclear power plants supplying electric energy and electricity generation within the United States. The Act authorized a five-year demonstration program simulating conditions with light water nuclear reactors for the observation of control monitoring and phases of operation for nuclear reactor cores. The U.S. Department of Energy was authorized by the Act of Congress to conduct the nuclear reactor demonstration study while establishing a reactor engineering simulator facility at a United States national laboratory. The nuclear safety demonstration program was to provide research data regarding reactor design and simplification improvements given thermal power station simulations subjecting nuclear reactors to hypothesized calamity and customary operating conditions.
The H.R. 7865 legislation was passed by the 96th U.S. Congressional session and enacted by the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter on December 22, 1980.
Proclamation of the Act
Congressional Objectives
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9701
(a) Congress finds that —
(1) Nuclear energy is one of the two major energy sources available for electric energy production in the United States during the balance of the 20th century.
(2) Continued development of nuclear power is dependent upon maintaining an extremely high level of safety in the operation of nuclear plants, and on public recognition that these facilities do not constitute a significant threat to human health or safety.
(3) It is the responsibility of utilities, as owners and operators of nuclear powerplants, to assure that such plants are designed and operated safely and reliably.
(4) A proper role of the Federal Government in assuring nuclear powerplant safety, in addition to its regulatory function, is the conduct of a research, development, and demonstration program to provide important scientific and technical information which can contribute to sound design and safe operation of these plants.
(b) It is declared to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to establish a research, development, and demonstration program for developing practical improvements in the generic safety of nuclear power plants during the next five years, beginning in the fiscal year 1981. The objectives of such program shall be —
(1) To reduce the likelihood and severity of potentially serious nuclear power plant accidents
(2) To reduce the likelihood of disrupting the population in the vicinity of nuclear power plants as the result of nuclear power plant accidents. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the Secretary from undertaking projects or activities, in addition to those specified in this Act, which appropriately further the purpose and objectives set forth in this Act. Nothing in this Act shall authorize the Secretary to assume responsibility for the management, cleanup or repair of any commercial nuclear power plant. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as limiting the authority of the Secretary under any other law.
Definitions
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9702
For the purposes of this Act —
(1) "Secretary" means the Secretary of U.S. Department of Energy
(2) "Government agency" means any department, agency, commission, or independent establishment in the United States federal executive departments, or any corporation, wholly or partly owned by the United States, which is an instrumentality of the United States, or any board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment in the executive branch of the Federal Government
(3) "Commission" means the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(4) "Advisory Committee" means the Advisory Committee on reactor safeguards established by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954
Establishment of Research, Development, and Demonstration Program for Improving the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9703
(a) The Secretary shall establish a research, development, and demonstration program to carry out the purpose of this Act. As part of such program, the Secretary shall at a minimum —
(1) Refine further the assessment of risk factors associated with the generic design and operation of nuclear power plants to determine the degree and consequences of propagation of failures of systems, subsystems, and components, including consideration of the interaction between the primary and secondary systems
(2) Develop potentially cost beneficial changes in the generic design and operation of nuclear power plants that can —
(A) Significantly reduce the risks from unintentional release of radioactive material from the various engineered barriers of nuclear power plants
(B) Reduce the radiation exposure to workers during plant operation and maintenance
(3) Develop potentially cost beneficial generic methods and designs that will significantly improve the performance of operators of nuclear power plants under routine, abnormal, and accident conditions
(4) Identify the effect of total or partial automation of generic plant systems on reactor safety, operation, reliability, economics, and operator performance
(5) Conduct further experimental investigations under abnormal operational and postulated accident conditions primarily for light water reactors to determine the consequences of such conditions. These investigations shall include, but not be limited to the following :
(A) Fuel element failure at higher than standard burn-up levels
(B) Fuel cladding interactions
(C) Fuel and cladding interactions with coolant under various temperatures and pressures
(D) Thermohydraulics behavior in the reactor core
(E) Mechanisms to suppress and control the generation of hydrogen gas
(F) Improved instrumentation for monitoring reactor cores
(G) Engineered barrier failure modes
(H) Nuclear fission product release and transport from failed fuel
(6) Provide for the examination and analysis of any nuclear power plant fuel, component, or system which the Secretary deems to offer significant benefit in safety analysis and which is made available to the Secretary for a nominal cost, such as $1: Provided, however. That the Secretary shall accept only the number of samples of such fuel, component, or system necessary to carry out such examination and analysis
(7) Identify the aptitudes, training, and manning levels which are necessary to assure reliable operator performance under normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions.
(b) In carrying out the generic safety research, development, and demonstration program established under this Act, the Secretary —
(1) Shall coordinate with the Commission and, to the extent necessary, enter into a new memorandum of understanding or revise existing memoranda for the purpose of eliminating unnecessary duplication and avoiding programmatic conflict with any reactor safety research program of the Commission, including the Improved Safety Systems Research program
(2) Shall, to the extent practical, coordinate his activities with such other Government agencies, foreign governments, and industry as the Secretary deems appropriate to utilize their expertise, to minimize duplication of effort, and to ensure that information useful for improved concepts applicable to nuclear power plant safety can be applied in a timely manner. The Secretary may enter into agreements and memoranda of understanding to accomplish these ends, but no such agreement shall have the effect of delaying the development and implementation of programs authorized under this Act
(3) Shall utilize, to the extent feasible, underutilized federally owned research reactors and facilities, along with the associated personnel, to maintain existing capabilities and to ensure that the research is generic in nature
(4) Shall make such recommendations as are practical to minimize the complexity of nuclear power plant systems, including secondary systems, and operations
National Reactor Engineering Simulator
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9704
(a) The Secretary, in consultation with the Commission and the Advisory Committee, shall initiate a study of the need for and feasibility of establishing a reactor engineering simulator facility at a national laboratory, for the primary purpose of fostering research in generic design improvements and simplifications through the simulation of the performance of various types of light water reactors under a wide variety of abnormal conditions and postulated accident conditions.
(b) In performing the study, the Secretary shall consider relevant factors including, but not limited to —
(1) The potential advantages that would accrue from the establishment of such a facility
(2) The extent to which such a facility would further the generic safety research and development program established by this Act
(3) The extent to which such a facility can be established by nongovernmental entities
(4) The opportunities for cost sharing by nongovernmental entities in the construction and operation of such a facility
(5) The importance of such a facility in emergencies to limit the extent of any future nuclear power plant excursions
(6) The potential for international cooperation in the establishment and operation of such a facility
(7) The appropriate national laboratory for siting such a facility
(c) The Secretary shall, by January 1, 1982, submit to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report characterizing the study and the resulting conclusions and recommendations.
Federal Nuclear Operations Corps
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9705
(a) The Secretary, in cooperation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, shall initiate a study as to the sufficiency of efforts in the United States to provide specially trained professionals to operate the controls of nuclear power plants and other facilities in the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle. In carrying out the study, the Secretary shall coordinate activities with the ongoing programs of the utility industry and other Federal governmental agencies for obtaining high standards of operator performance.
(b) For the purpose of this Act —
(1) In conducting the study the Secretary shall assess the desirability and feasibility of creating a Federal Corps of such professionals to inspect and supervise such operations
(2) The assessment shall consider the establishment of an academy to train Corps professionals in all aspects of nuclear technology, nuclear operations, nuclear regulatory and related law, and health science
(3) The assessment shall include the appropriate organizational approach for the establishment of a Federal Corps within the executive branch
(c) The Secretary shall complete the study within one year after the date of enactment of this Act and shall submit a report along with the Secretary's recommendations to the Congress.
Reports and Dissemination of Information
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9706
Secretary shall assure that full and complete safety related information resulting from any project or other activity conducted under this Act is made available in a timely manner to appropriate committees of Congress, Federal, State, and local authorities, relevant segments of private industry, the scientific community, and the public.
Comprehensive Program Management Plan
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9707
(a) The Secretary is authorized and directed to prepare a comprehensive program management plan for the conduct of research, development, and demonstration activities under this Act consistent with the provisions of the Program for Improving the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants. In the preparation of such plan, the Secretary shall consult with the Commission and the Advisory Committee and with the heads of such other Government agencies and such public and private organizations as the Secretary deems appropriate.
(b) The Secretary shall transmit the comprehensive program management plan along with any comments by the Commission on the plan to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate within twelve months after the date of the enactment of this Act. Revisions to the plan shall be transmitted to such committees whenever deemed appropriate by the Secretary.
(c) Concurrently with the submission of the President's annual budget to the Congress for each year after the year in which the comprehensive plan is initially transmitted under subsection (b), the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress a detailed description of the comprehensive plan as then in effect. The detailed description of the comprehensive plan under this subsection shall include, but need not be limited to, a statement setting forth any change in —
(1) The program strategies and plans, including detailed milestone goals to be achieved during the next fiscal year for all major activities and projects
(2) The economic, environmental, and societal significance which the program may have
(3) The total estimated cost of individual program items
(4) The estimated relative financial contributions of the Federal Government and non-Federal participants in the program.
Such description shall also include a detailed justification of any such changes, a description of the progress made toward achieving the goals of this Act, a statement on the status of interagency cooperation in meeting such goals, and any legislative or other recommendations which the Secretary may have to help attain such goal.
Authorization of Appropriations
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9708
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this Act such sums as may be authorized by legislation hereafter enacted.
Project 78-3-b, authorized by section 102 of Public Law 95-238, the fusion materials irradiation test facility, is hereby designated as the "Mike McCormack Fusion Materials Test Facility". Any reference in any law, regulation, map, record, or other document of the United States to the fusion materials irradiation test facility shall be considered a reference to the "Mike McCormack Fusion Materials Test Facility".
Nuclear Energy Safety History
There have been studies that indicate nuclear energy may be one of the safest methods of energy production, resulting in a net decrease in human deaths.
According to an article published by NASA,
See also
Boiling water reactor safety systems
Caesium-137
Chicago Pile-1
Control rod
High-level radioactive waste management
International Nuclear Event Scale
List of civilian nuclear accidents
Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
Nuclear licensing
Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States
Nuclear reactor safety systems
Nuclear safety in the United States
Passive nuclear safety
Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act
Reactor protection system
Three Mile Island accident
References
External links
1980 in American law
96th United States Congress
Nuclear history of the United States
Nuclear energy in the United States
Nuclear safety and security
Nuclear technology in the United States
United States federal energy legislation
Presidency of Jimmy Carter
1980 in the environment |
26718482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skafish | Skafish | Skafish is an American, Chicago-based punk band, fronted by Jim Skafish, cousin of Chicago area DJ Bobby Skafish. The band was formed in 1976 and had their first performance that November.
In 1977, Billboard magazine printed a review of the band's performance as the opening act for Sha Na Na at Chicago's Arie Crown Theater. Finding Skafish to be a "peculiar appetizer for the straight, conservative crowd" that Sha Na Na attracted, the reviewer stated that "[l]arge numbers retreated to the lobby halfway through Skafish's set, while others approached the stage, threatening with missiles, gestures and denunciations." Jim Skafish himself was described as "a 20-year-old musician from Gary, Ind., who appears to be in transition between man and woman ... dressed androgynously, hair in a pageboy," who at one point in the show "strips down to a woman's bathing suit and nervously applies lipstick to the face." While describing the band's music as "strange, inward-directed lyrics [set] to a repetitious and often dissonant accompaniment", the reviewer noted that Skafish "gave the impression that he had something to tell the audience about itself. ... Yet it remains to be seen whether Skafish has something to say and to whom."
First album
The band's first album on I.R.S. Records, Skafish, was recorded during the summer of 1979 in South Chicago's PS studios, a facility more widely known for soul, funk and pop music. Personnel on the album consisted of Jim Skafish on keys and vocals, Barbie Goodrich on vocals, Ken Bronowski on guitars and vocals, Larry Mysliwiec on drums, Larry Mazalan on bass guitar and Javier Cruz on keyboards. The sessions dragged on through the summer of 1979, eventually going wildly over the shoestring budget production style that was the I.R.S. founder Miles Copeland III's trademark, so successful for projects like early The Police and Wishbone Ash albums. Release of Skafish was delayed for many months under financial constraints, and the project was eventually mixed on low budget and released by IRS just before the band left for an extended European tour with The Police, XTC, English Beat, UB40, Steel Pulse and other post punk, ska and reggae bands. Public acceptance of the album was marginal, mostly due to the sub-standard mix that heavily diminished the album's power and originality.
In 1980, Rolling Stone magazine published a review of a concert where more column space was devoted to the opening act Skafish than to the headliner, The Stranglers.
While on this tour, the band filmed their segment for the Copeland/Lorimar production of Urgh! A Music War. The segment, shot at a Roman theater in Frejus France, featured the controversial song "Sign of the Cross". The band lineup for the movie was the same as the album, with the exception of Chicago bassist Lee Gatlin taking the place of Mazalan.
After Europe, the band did a few short U.S. tours, headlining and opening for acts such as Iggy Pop, The Stranglers and others. In 1983, they recorded a second IRS album, Conversation, at Pumpkin studios owned and operated by Gary Loizzo (two-time Grammy-nominated singer for The American Breed and producer for Chicago, Styx, Survivor and REO Speedwagon. Personnel were Skafish vocals and keys, Ken Bronowski guitar, Barbie Goodrich vocals, Javier Cruz keys, Lee Gatlin on bass and Larry Mysliwiec (who was currently touring drummer for Iggy Pop) on drums. Conversation, co-produced by Copeland, Skafish and Loizzo, broke from the post punk style of Skafish toward a beat-based dance style, and was not well accepted, commercially.
Following Conversation, the band did a few West Coast tours, and called it quits in 1985. Jim Skafish continued to perform as Skafish for a few years with a string of pickup musicians, eventually going solo.
Later activities
Jim Skafish still records and performs in the Midwest. He has recently produced a jazz style Christmas album (Tidings Of Comfort And Joy, 2006), and he promotes and distributes Skafish products, such as What's This? 1976-1979 (2007), to a small but loyal cult fan base. Mysliwiec is currently a Midwest policeman, Bronowski still performs, records and is currently a professor of AV production and art at Purdue University. Barbie Goodrich died on 10 June 1995 after a long battle with cancer. Javier Cruz currently works in the IT department of Jane Addams Elementary School in Chicago, and from time to time performs with the South Chicago cover band Life (of which Jim Skafish was a member for a time during the early 1980s). Additionally, Javier Cruz records from time to time.
Discography
Albums
Skafish IRS SP 008, I.R.S. Records (1980)
Conversation IRS SP 70038, I.R.S. Records (1983)
"Tidings Of Comfort And Joy: A Jazz Piano Trio Christmas," La Befana Records (2006)
"What's This? 1976-1979" 829 Records (2008) 829 Records (2008)
"Bootleg 21-35" 829 Records (2012; download only)
Singles
"Obsessions of You"/"Sink or Swim" IRS IR9011, I.R.S. Records (1980)
"Wild Night Tonight"/"Secret Lover & Lover In Masquerade" IRS SP 70967 (1983)
Compilations and soundtracks
IRS Greatest Hits Vols 2 & 3 (SP 70800): features "Disgracing The Family Name"
Urgh! A Music War (A&M SP6019): features "Sign Of The Cross (Live)"
These People Are Nuts (IRS 82010): also features "Sign Of The Cross (Live)"
References
Sources
External links
Punk rock groups from Illinois
Musical groups established in 1975
Musical groups from Chicago |
23581255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20St%20Mary%20the%20Blessed%20Virgin%2C%20Sompting | Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting | The Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, also known as St Mary the Virgin Church and St Mary's Church, is the Church of England parish church of Sompting in the Adur district of West Sussex. It stands on a rural lane north of the urban area that now surrounds the village, and retains much 11th- and 12th-century structure. Its most important architectural feature is the Saxon tower topped by a Rhenish helm, a four-sided pyramid-style gabled cap that is uncommon in England. English Heritage lists the church at Grade I for its architecture and history.
History
Settlement of the area now covered by Sompting began in the Bronze Age and continued through the Iron Age and into the Roman era. By the 11th century, two distinct villages had formed: Sompting, based on the main east–west trackway from the cathedral city of Chichester to Brighton, and Cokeham to the south (later subdivided into Upper Cokeham and Lower Cokeham). At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 they were separate manors, but were both held on behalf of William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber.
There was a church on the site of the present building by the early 11th century, and some structural elements remain from that era. William de Braose held the advowson at the time of the Domesday survey, but in 1154 his grandson William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber passed it to the Knights Templar, who made many structural changes. They widened the church by rebuilding the nave and chancel to the same width as the Saxon-era tower. In about 1180, they erected a large chapel—effectively a separate church in its own right until the 19th century, when an arch linked it to the nave and made it a de facto south transept. At the same time, they added a north transept with an aisle and two chapels. They also paid for a vicar and his accommodation.
After the Knights Templar were emasculated in 1307, Pope Clement V conveyed ownership of the church to the Knights Hospitaller, another religious order, in 1324. They extended the nave on the northwest side—forming a chapel which had openings into the nave and the tower— built a porch on the south side and carried out work on the nave walls. Although the advowson later passed out of the Knights' control, it was restored to the order in 1963 by Major G. H. Tristram. They had been dissolved in 1538 but were re-established in 1831 as the Venerable Order of Saint John and later founded the St. John Ambulance organisation.
The church fell into decay during the 18th century, when the living was poor and the villages of Sompting and Cokeham still supported only a small population. Repairs in the 1720s and 1760s were not enough, and two bells had to be sold to pay for proper repairs in 1791. Richard Cromwell Carpenter undertook more restoration in 1853: this included re-roofing the church and replacing the shinglework on the spire, rebuilding the Knights Templars' chapel into a south transept, improving the aisle in the north transept and cleaning the stonework.
The tower is the most important feature of the church and is known nationally and internationally as an exemplar of Saxon architecture—although recent analysis suggests that its upper stage may have been renewed in early Norman times to an identical design. The spire—a design known as the Rhenish helm because of its prevalence in the Rhineland area of Germany—is unique in England. The design comprises a cap of four shingled gables rising steeply in a pyramid formation.
Architecture
The church is a flint building with dressings of Caen stone and a slate roof. The tower, at the west end, incorporates some reused Roman-era brickwork, and was built in two parts; it assumed its current appearance by the end of the 11th century. The "elegant" structure has stone pilasters at each corner, but lacks buttresses. The tower arch dates from the Saxon period and is offset; an altar would originally have stood next to it. The base of the tower may have served as the original entrance porch.
The nave and chancel form a single entity: they are not demarcated by a chancel arch. They were widened in the 12th century (without the addition of aisles) to the same width as the tower. Masonry from the walls of the original nave is believed to have been incorporated in the rebuilt walls. The north transept has an aisle of two bays, intricate rib vaulting and small bosses. The aisle has circular piers with square abaci and delicate capitals. The south transept—formerly the separate chapel of the Knights Templar—is linked to the rest of the church by a 19th-century arch and doorway. The chapel, built at a lower level than the church, is rib-vaulted and has a series of foliated capitals in a style similar to the Corinthian.
Remnants of Saxon- and Norman-era sculpture can still be seen in the church. In the south transept, near the 12th-century font, is a carved abbot in good condition. A 13th-century Christ in Majesty incorporates older decorative stonework. Some frieze-work is visible on the chancel wall.
The church today
The Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin was listed at Grade I by English Heritage on 12 October 1954. Such buildings are defined as being of "exceptional interest" and greater than national importance. As of February 2001, it was one of seven Grade I listed buildings, and 119 listed buildings of all grades, in Adur district. The Sompting headmistress, Harriet Finlay-Johnson, who became known for her innovative education was buried in the churchyard in 1956.
The parish covers Sompting village and the surrounding urban area, as far as the boundaries with Lancing and Worthing; it also extends a long way to the north on to the southern slopes of the South Downs. The eastern boundary is formed by Boundstone Lane and Upper Boundstone Lane in Lancing, while the western boundary is Charmandean Lane on the edge of the Worthing built-up area. The parish covers . St Peter the Apostle's Church, a modern brick building in the Lower Cokeham area of Sompting, is within the parish. It was consecrated in 1966 and serves as a multi-purpose church hall as well as a place of worship.
There is a service at St. Mary's at 9am on the third Sunday of each month, as well as a 5pm Evensong on any fifth Sundays of the month. St. Mary's is open for visitors on Tuesday mornings each week. The Church also holds a festival in August of each year. One the first, second and fourth Sundays of the month there is a 9am service at the church of St. Peter's Sompting.
See also
List of places of worship in Adur
List of works by R. C. Carpenter
References
Notes
Bibliography
11th-century church buildings in England
Church of England church buildings in West Sussex
Grade I listed churches in West Sussex
Adur District
Standing Anglo-Saxon churches |
44500410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20and%20Darielle%20Linehan%20Concert%20Hall | Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall | The Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, previously known as the UMBC Concert Hall is the main theater of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus in Baltimore, Maryland. The theater is located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, the university's home for Ancient Studies, Dance, English, Music, Philosophy, and Theatre departments. The theater is the designated concert hall for the university's symphony orchestra and other ensembles.
Construction began in 2012 and was completed in the fall of 2014. The concert hall provides space for an orchestra, stage, and seating up to 375 individuals.
Awards
Along with the rest of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, the Concert Hall was issued LEED silver status by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
In addition, the building was giver the Higher Education Design Award by the American Institute of Architects Baltimore Chapter.
References
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Music venues in Baltimore
Tourist attractions in Baltimore |
23581260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C16H14O6 | C16H14O6 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C16H14O6}}
The molecular formula C16H14O6 may refer to:
Blumeatin, a flavanone
Dihydrokaempferide, a flavanonol
Haematoxylin, a natural dye
Hesperetin, a flavanone
Homoeriodictyol, a flavanone
Sterubin, a flavanone
Thunberginol E, an isocoumarin |
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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United States Marine Corps officers
1934 births
North Carolina Democrats
Naval War College alumni
20th-century American politicians
Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
Speakers of the North Carolina House of Representatives
People from Currituck County, North Carolina |
26718502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20station | Duncan station | The Duncan station in Duncan, British Columbia was a stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which has been indefinitely suspended since 2011. It is located on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline.
History
The station building was built in 1912 by the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway. "Duncan's Crossing Station" was established at Duncan's Crossing, named after William Chalmers Duncan, who farmed in the region. On March 4, 1912 the City of Duncan was incorporated.
The station was designated a Heritage Railway Stations in 1993.
Closing
Duncan Station closed on March 19, 2011, when Via Rail suspended service indefinitely due to poor track conditions and replaced it with a bus. On August 12, 2011, the bus service ended and the station closed.
The station is now used as the site of the Cowichan Valley Museum.
See also
List of designated heritage railway stations of Canada
References
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Designated Heritage Railway Stations in British Columbia
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1886
Railway stations closed in 2011
Duncan, British Columbia
1886 establishments in British Columbia
2011 disestablishments in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
44500415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prvn%C3%AD%20parta%20%28film%29 | První parta (film) | První parta is a 1959 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra.
Cast
Eduard Cupák as Stanislav Pulpán
Gustáv Valach as Adam
Jaroslav Vojta as Suchánek
Rudolf Deyl as Falta
Jaroslav Rozsíval as Martínek
Milan Kindl as Matula
Bohus Záhorský as Anders
Marie Tomášová as Adamová
Vladimír Ráž as Ing. Hansen
Miriam Kantorková as Hansenová
František Vnouček as Director of the mine
References
External links
1959 films
1959 drama films
Czechoslovak films
1950s Czech-language films
Films directed by Otakar Vávra
1950s Czech films |
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 |
44500419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Rodr%C3%ADguez%20Guevara | Carlos Rodríguez Guevara | Carlos Rodríguez Guevara (born 19 December 1969) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Guanajuato.
References
1969 births
Living people
Politicians from Guanajuato
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Guanajuato |
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 |
23581270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280%20mm%20mortar%20M1939%20%28Br-5%29 | 280 mm mortar M1939 (Br-5) | The 280 mm mortar M1939 (Br-5) () was a Soviet heavy artillery piece used during World War II, it was the Red Army's heaviest field piece during the war.
Design
The Br-5 mortar was a calibre towed mortar with a barrel 14.2 calibres long. The Br-5 mortar shared the same tracked, box trail carriage as the 152 mm gun M1935 (Br-2) and the 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4). The carriage allowed transportation of the weapon over short distances with the speed of , for longer distances the barrel was removed from the carriage and transported separately on a special wheeled cart, the Br-10, a speed of was possible with the barrel removed.
For transport the Voroshilovets artillery tractor was used to haul the Br-5 gun carriage, whilst the less powerful Komintern artillery tractor was employed to pull the Br-10 cart and barrel.
Development
By the 1930s the Red Army's siege artillery consisted of obsolete stocks of 280 mm Schneider M1914/15's (25 pieces) and 305 mm howitzer M1915's (31 pieces), both inherited from the Imperial Russian Army. The aging guns and their insufficient numbers (the M1914/15 at less than half of what was mandated in the 1941 mobilization plans, 66 pieces) meant that new models were required, including 280mm-caliber ones. The calibre was chosen as 280mm because of the available stocks of 280 mm Schneider M1914/15 ammunition. With the development the 203 mm B-4 already approved for service, and the design work for the 152 mm Br-2 underway, it was decided to adopt the very same carriage for the new siege mortar, creating a "triplex", simplifying production and operation.
Both the Bolshevik factory of Leningrad and the Barrikady factory of Stalingrad were tasked to submit competing designs, the Bolshevik design by Kurpchatnikov being named the B-33, the Barrikady design by Ilya Ivanov the Br-5.
The B-33 had its barrel built in 1935, and was sent for factory testing on February 1, 1936. The B-33 featured a fastened barrel, casing and breech, as well as a piston bolt from the Schneider mortar. The barrel was mounted directly atop the carriage without any counterweight balancing, as a loaded breech would suffice in balancing the weight. The B-33, having completed factory testing, was sent to field tests on April 17, 1936, which completed successfully. The B-33 was subsequently recommended to have its identified defects fixed before being sent to military tests.
The Br-5 went to factory testing in December, 1936, and field tests in April, 1937, which it failed. However, despite the B-33 showing better shell grouping, higher rate of fire and smaller dimensions, the Br-5 was accepted into service as the 280 mm mortar model 1939, with the first order for production being issued before field tests ended. The reason why the Br-5 was chosen instead of the B-33 was unknown, but may have emerged from the voluntarist nature of the Br-5. The prototype B-33 was sent to Barrikady for studying in March 1939.
Production
The first order for eight pieces was placed with the Barrikady factory in May 1937, although this was subsequently reduced to two in recognition of the immaturity of the system. Development of the system continued throughout 1938 and in 1939 the first 20 pieces were produced, with an additional 25 pieces following in 1940.
Service
In Red Army service the Br-5 mortars were intended for the destruction of particularly strong concrete, reinforced concrete or armoured structures.
The Br-5 mortar's combat debut occurred in Finland during the Winter War in November 1939. Four Br-5 mortars were deployed to Finland with the 40th Separate Artillery Battalion, where they were used to destroy heavily armoured bunkers and pillboxes during the battles along the Mannerheim Line. Br-5 mortars fired a total of 414 shells during the Winter War, the extraordinary defences faced can be seen in the assault on Pillbox #0031, which fell only after 116 Br-5 mortar shells as well as 1,043 203 mm B-4 howitzer shells were fired at it from point blank range. Pillbox #0011 continued to resist after a combined 203 mm and 280 mm onslaught of 1,322 shells were fired at it.
Information about the employment of the Br-5 mortar during the Great Patriotic War is scarce; their deployment was heavily classified as it was generally indicative of a major attack. In service they were organised into howitzer battalions of six mortars, each battalion consisting of three batteries each with two mortars. Between 1941 and 1945 the Red Army had eight such battalions, armed with both the Br-5 and the old 280 mm Schneider M1914/15. Nine pieces were lost in the fighting of 1941.
Reference has been made to the use of the Br-5 mortar by the 1st Belorussian Front in the Battle of Poznań in January and February 1945. It was employed during the storming of Küstrin in March and the Battle of Königsberg in April and it was the heaviest field artillery piece used by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin.
Like with the 152 mm gun M1935 (Br-2) and the 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4), the biggest drawback with the Br-5 mortar was the carriage. Intended to provide improved mobility, the tracked carriage was much too heavy and proved to be quite cumbersome, actually reducing mobility. Additionally the separate transportation of the barrel greatly increased the time taken to bring the weapon into action – it took between 45 minutes to two hours depending on the weather to bring to category combat from the travelling configuration. Further, the limited traverse of the ordnance on the mount, 8 degrees, could result in significant time delays, as it took at least 25 minutes to manoeuvre the weapon beyond the 8 degrees.
After World War II the Br-5 was to remain in Soviet service until the 1970s. In 1955 the Br-5 (along with the B-4 and Br-2) was modernised with a new wheeled carriage that greatly increased mobility, could transport the weapon in one piece and which allowed the weapons to be towed at up to , these upgraded pieces were designated Br-5M.
Ammunition
The Br-5 fired bag charge ammunition with three natures of high-explosive and one of anti-concrete. The high-explosive shells were all remaining pre-revolution stocks of 280 mm Schneider M1914/15 ammunition, whilst the anti-concrete was created for the Br-5.
The Br-5 mortar offered little improvement in ballistic performance over the 280 mm Schneider M1914/15.
Surviving examples
A Br-5 mortar on the original tracked carriage is kept at the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps in Saint Petersburg.
References
Artillery of the Soviet Union
280 mm artillery
World War II mortars of the Soviet Union
Military equipment introduced in the 1930s |
26718583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamogeton%20pusillus | Potamogeton pusillus | Potamogeton pusillus is a species of aquatic plant known by the common names small pondweed, lesser pondweed or least pondweed. It occurs in standing and slow-flowing freshwater habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Description
Lesser pondweed is a superficially grasslike herb producing a very slender, branching, somewhat compressed stem, usually less than 70 cm but occasionally up to one metre in length. Nodal glands, if present, are generally poorly developed. The leaves are narrow and linear, translucent, mid or olive green, usually 20–50 mm long × 0.8-1.4 mm wide, but rarely up to 100 mm long and 1.9 mm wide. The midrib often lacks lacunae (transparent areas either side of the midrib) either side of it, and if present, lacunae are restricted to the lower half of the leaf. There are no floating leaves. The stipules are tubular when young, but tend to split with age.
Turions are produced, often in large quantities. In early autumn the entire plant disintegrates into a mass of turions, which act as a means of propagation and as an overwintering mechanism.
The inflorescence is a spike of 3-6 flowers arranged in interrupted whorls.
Like most fine-leaved pondweeds, Potamogeton pusillus is diploid, with 2n=26.
Lesser pondweed can be difficult to distinguish reliably from other fine-leaved pondweeds, especially P. berchtoldii. Hybrids are recorded with Potamogeton octandrus (P. × apertus Miki), P. polygonus (P. × attenuatus Hagstr.), P. obtusifolius (P. × saxonicus Hagstr.), P. trichoides (P. × grovesii Dandy & G.Taylor), P. berchtoldii (P. × mucronulatus (G.Fisch.) Papch.), P. oxyphyllus (P. × orientalis Hagstr.).
Taxonomy
Lesser pondweed was one of several pondweeds first named by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753). The specific epithet pusillus means 'small'.
This is one of a group of rather similar fine-leaved species that also includes P. berchtoldii, P. hillii and P. ochreatus. These are quite morphologically variable plants, often with wide geographical and ecological ranges, which has resulted in a great deal of taxonomic confusion and an unusually large number of synonyms and invalid names (see the taxon box).
Distribution
Lesser pondweed is widely distributed globally, occurring across most of Europe (including Scandinavia) and North America. It is reported from scattered locations in Central and Southeast Asia and is widespread in China. It is also widespread in South America and Africa.
Ecology and conservation
Lesser pondweed grows in standing or slow-flowing water bodies such as ponds, lakes, ditches, slow-moving streams, and river backwaters. It is a lowland plant and requires calcareous water, with a marked preference for high nutrient levels, and may form extensive beds in favourable situations, growing with other nutrient-tolerant species such as Myriophyllum spicatum and Zannichellia palustris. It is tolerant of turbid water and is a good colonist, often exploiting temporary or disturbed habitats such as livestock drinking ponds, canals and ditches. In lakes it is very tolerant of eutrophication and the resulting competition from phytoplankton and periphyton, and is often one of the last submerged plants to disappear.
Globally, Potamogeton pusillus is listed as Least Concern.There is no evidence of local declines and in many areas it is probably increasing due to eutrophication of freshwater habitats. In many parts of its range it is the commonest fine-leaved pondweed.
Cultivation
Lesser pondweed should not be difficult to grow in a garden pond and its tolerance of poor water quality would be advantageous. However, it is not very ornamental.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Washington Burke Museum
Photo gallery
pusillus
Flora of North America
Flora of Europe
Flora of Asia |
23581274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C8H18N2O4S | C8H18N2O4S | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C8H18N2O4S}}
The molecular formula C8H18N2O4S (molar mass: 238.30 g/mol, exact mass: 238.0987 u) may refer to:
Burgess reagent
HEPES
Molecular formulas |
26718605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCU%20%28disambiguation%29 | VCU (disambiguation) | VCU is an acronym for Virginia Commonwealth University, a large public research university with two main campuses located in downtown Richmond, Virginia.
VCU may also refer to:
Value for Cultivation and Use (seed test)
Vantage Credit Union
VCU Rams, the intercollegiate athletic program of said university
Veridian Credit Union
Vessel Capacity Unit (Fishing Vessels within European Union)
Viscous coupling unit
Voluntary Carbon Unit
Vought Cinematic Universe
VyStar Credit Union
See also
VCUG
VCUKI |
6906647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson%20Brown%20%28American%20football%29 | Watson Brown (American football) | Lester Watson Brown (born April 19, 1950) is a retired American football coach and former player. He was most recently the head football coach at Tennessee Technological University, a position he held from 2007 to 2015. Previously, Brown served as the head coach at Austin Peay State University (1979–1980), the University of Cincinnati (1983), Rice University (1984–1985), Vanderbilt University (1986–1990), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1995–2006). He was also the athletic director at Rice from 1984 to 1985 and at UAB from 2002 to 2005. Brown played college football as a quarterback at Vanderbilt. He is the older brother of Mack Brown, the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Early years and playing career
A native of Cookeville, Tennessee, Brown was one of the top-rated quarterbacks in the nation coming out of high school. He was also recruited to play basketball and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team as a shortstop. He chose to stay in state and played as a quarterback at Vanderbilt University from 1969 to 1972. He started all four years at Vandy and led the Commodores to their best seasons in terms of wins since 1960. One of his victories was a 14–10 upset over the #13 Alabama Crimson Tide in 1969. It was Vanderbilt's first victory over Alabama in 13 seasons.
Coaching career
After graduating from Vanderbilt, Brown spent the 1973 season as a graduate assistant at his alma mater. From there, he went to East Carolina University, where he spent two seasons as an assistant to Pat Dye, coaching quarterbacks and wide receivers. In 1976 and 1977, he served as the offensive coordinator at Jacksonville State University. The Gamecocks played for the NCAA Division II Football Championship in 1977.
Brown spent the 1978 season as an assistant at Texas Tech University under Rex Dockery before landing his first head coaching position a year later. At age 29, he began a two-year stint as the head coach at Austin Peay State University. The Governors had a record of 14–8 under Brown.
In 1981, Brown returned to Vanderbilt to become the school's offensive coordinator. In the 1982 season, Vanderbilt finished 8-4 and appeared in the Hall of Fame Bowl in Birmingham that year. Following the 1982 season, he took his first major college head coaching job, taking over the program at the University of Cincinnati. In one season with the Bearcats, he had a record of 4–6–1.
In 1984, Brown was named head football coach and athletic director at Rice University. In two seasons with the Owls, he compiled a record of 4–18. From there he returned to his alma mater to take over as head coach of the Vanderbilt University football program. Brown's five-year stint with the Commodores from 1986 to 1990 produced a record of 10–45.
After leaving Vanderbilt, Brown spent the 1991 and 1992 seasons as the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State University under Jackie Sherrill, then the 1993 and 1994 seasons with the same responsibilities at the University of Oklahoma under Gary Gibbs.
In 1995, Brown was hired by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to lead the fledgling program as it prepared to move from NCAA Division I-AA to Division I-A. In 12 seasons as the head coach of the Blazers he compiled a record of 62–74 and led the team to its first bowl game appearance, in the 2004 Hawaii Bowl. Brown resigned from UAB to take over the head coaching responsibilities at Tennessee Technological University on December 9, 2006.
Brown is the first coach in NCAA football history to lose 200 games. With Tennessee Tech's 50–7 loss to Northern Iowa on September 27, 2014, Brown eclipsed Amos Alonzo Stagg's mark of 199 losses.
On December 2, 2015, Brown announced his retirement as coach at Tennessee Tech.
As of September, 2019, Brown is the co-host of The George Plaster Show on Nashville radio station WNSR weekdays from 2-4 pm.
Head coaching record
See also
List of college football coaches with 100 losses
References
External links
Tennessee Tech profile
1950 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
Austin Peay Governors football coaches
Cincinnati Bearcats football coaches
East Carolina Pirates football coaches
Jacksonville State Gamecocks football coaches
Mississippi State Bulldogs football coaches
Oklahoma Sooners football coaches
Rice Owls athletic directors
Rice Owls football coaches
Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football coaches
Texas Tech Red Raiders football coaches
UAB Blazers athletic directors
UAB Blazers football coaches
Vanderbilt Commodores football coaches
Vanderbilt Commodores football players
People from Cookeville, Tennessee
Players of American football from Tennessee |
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.
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 Professor Dr.-Ing. Michael Modigell – the Rector of GUtech – manages the university. Prof. Dr. Armin Eberlein is Deputy-Rector for Academic Affairs and Dr. 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.
At the moment, GUtech comprises 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 |
26718606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner%20Party%20%28disambiguation%29 | Donner Party (disambiguation) | The Donner Party was an ill-fated group of pioneers in 1846–1847.
Donner Party or The Donner Party may also refer to:
The Donner Party (1992 film), a documentary by Ric Burns
The Donner Party (2009 film), a film by T.J. Martin
The Donner Party (band), a San Francisco-based indie rock band
The Donner Party, an album by American Murder Song
"Donner Party (All Night)", a song by Alkaline Trio from Good Mourning
"The Donner Party", a song by Rasputina from Thanks for the Ether
See also
Donner (disambiguation)
"Throwing a Donner Party", a song by Giant Squid from Monster in the Creek
"Throwing a Donner Party at Sea", a song by Giant Squid from The Ichthyologist |
6906648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Brassey | Bill Brassey | Bill Brassey was an English bare-knuckle boxer.
On 26 October 1840 Ben Caunt defeated Bill Brassey at Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, in 101 rounds.
See also
List of bare-knuckle boxers
Bare-knuckle boxers
English male boxers
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing |
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 |
26718615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncaria%20rhynchophylla | Uncaria rhynchophylla | Uncaria rhynchophylla () or the cat's claw herb is a plant species used in traditional Chinese medicine.
(+)-Catechin and (-)-epicatechin are found in the plant as well as the alkaloid rhynchophylline.
References
External links
rhynchophylla
Plants used in traditional Chinese medicine |
26718654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Gendarmerie | British Gendarmerie | The British Gendarmerie was a British paramilitary police field force created by Winston Churchill in April 1922 to police Mandatory Palestine.
Concerned with the high cost of British Army units acting as police forces in Palestine, Winston Churchill decided that an elite police force similar to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or South African Constabulary be created for Mandatory Palestine.
The 43 officers and 700 other ranks force were mostly recruited from the recently disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary and its Auxiliary Division who had themselves been recruited from ex-officers of the Great War. Many of its original formations had been intended to be horse mounted but these plans were dropped in an economy measure.
The unit was intended more for riot control rather than crime solving.
The force was disbanded in June 1926 with its duties taken over by the Transjordan Frontier Force.
See also
Palestine Police Force
Arab Legion
United States Zone Constabulary (Similar body in some respects, based in the US occupation zone of Germany in the immediate post-World War II period.)
Notes
External links
Black and Tans in Palestine http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=305
The Formation, Composition and Conduct of the British Section of the Palestine Gendarmerie http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9059656&fileId=S0018246X13000253
History of the British Empire
Mandatory Palestine
Defunct law enforcement agencies of Mandatory Palestine
Auxiliary military units
Auxiliary police units
1922 establishments in Mandatory Palestine |
23581277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%20Seeta%20Katha | O Seeta Katha | O Seeta Katha () is a 1974 Indian Telugu-language film directed by K. Viswanath. The film won the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film (Silver), and the Filmfare Best Film Award (Telugu). The film was later remade both in Malayalam and Tamil languages as Mattoru Seetha and Moondru Mudichu, respectively. The film was screened at the Asian and African film Festival at Tashkent. C. Ashwani Dutt was Executive Producer for the film.
Plot
Seeta (Roja Ramani), a teenage girl, lives with her mother and elder sister (Subha), who runs the house with her harikatha performances. Seeta falls in love with Chandram (Chandramohan), but Gopalakrishna (Devadas Kanakala) has an eye on her and hires goons to bash Chandram, who dies on the spot. Seeta marries Madhava Rao (Kantha Rao), father of Gopalakrishna, and makes Gopalakrishna realize his mistakes.
Cast
Kanta Rao
Chandra Mohan
Roja Ramani
Devadas Kanakala
Allu Ramalingayya
Shubha
Ramaprabha
Pandari Bai
Awards
Nandi Awards – 1974
Second Best Feature Film – Silver – A.R.S. Sharma
Filmfare Awards South – 1974
Filmfare Best Director Award (Telugu) – K. Viswanath
Filmfare Best Film Award (Telugu) – A. R. S. Sarma
Songs
"Bhaaratanaarii Charitamu" (harikatha)
Lyrics: Veturi
Playback: P. Leela
"Malle Kannaa Tellana Maa Seeta Sogasu"
Lyrics: C. Narayana Reddy
Playback: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Suseela
"Puttadi Bomma Maa Pellikoduku"
Lyrics: C. Narayana Reddy
Playback: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Suseela
"Kallaakapatam Erugani Pillalu Allari Cheste Andam"
Lyrics: C. Narayana Reddy
Playback: P. Suseela
"Ninu Kanna Katha, Mee Amma Katha Vinipinchanaa"
Lyrics: Veturi
Playback: B. Vasanta, P. Suseela
"Chintachiguru Pulupani Cheekatante Nalupani"
Lyrics: Samudrala
Playback: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
References
External links
O Seeta Katha at IMDB.
1970s Telugu-language films
1974 films
Films directed by K. Viswanath
Telugu films remade in other languages
Films scored by K. V. Mahadevan |
26718668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaskaracharya%20Institute%20For%20Space%20Applications%20and%20Geo-Informatics | Bhaskaracharya Institute For Space Applications and Geo-Informatics | Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG) is a State level agency by Government of Gujarat to facilitate to provide services and solutions in implementing map-based GeoSpatial Information Systems. BISAG's SATCOM network is a satellite communication network service to provide distant interaction statewide. Currently BISAG is working to implement geo-spatial technologies for the planning and developmental activities pertaining to agriculture, land and water resource management, wasteland/watershed development, forestry, disaster management, infrastructure and education.
History
In June 1997, realizing the need to have satellite based communication for training at state level the "Remote Sensing and Communication Centre" RESECO was established under Science and Technology Cell, of Education Department of Gujarat Government.
RESECO was renamed to Bhaskaracharya Institute For Space Applications and Geo-Informatics after the great Indian Mathematician of the 12th century, Bhaskaracharya in December 2003.
College to career program
The SATCOM facility comprises an uplink earth station, control room, TV studio, and a network of receiving classrooms. These network is used to air practical training for .net and java teaching sessions conducted by Microsoft and TCS respectively.
Forestry
RESECO implemented India's first geographic information system (GIS) based computer system for the Forests & Environment Department of Gujarat. It is currently used as Coastal Zone Information System.
Software and Academic Research
BISAG Scientists provide GIS and Geoinformatics based software and web applications to government of Gujarat. In academic research section there are many research papers published by BISAG scientists. The major research areas are as follows.
1. Networking
2. Big Data Mining
3. GIS & Geoinformatics
4. Machine Learning & Neural Networks
5. Image Processing
6. Information Security
7. Image enhancement and retrieval
8. Image Registration and satellite image processing
References
State agencies of Gujarat
Communications in India
2003 establishments in Gujarat
Science and technology in Gujarat
Government agencies established in 2003 |
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