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Arturo del Castillo
Arturo Pérez Del Castillo (1925–1992) was a comic book artist.
Del Castillo was born in Concepcion, Chile, but moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948.
In the 1950s he worked for Aventuras, Intervalo, El Tony and Hora Cero, where he created Randall: the Killer series, scripted by Hector Oesterheld.
Del Castillo adapted the novels of Alexandre Dumas and drew Western strips for Fleetway and Cowboy Picture Library.
His works were reprinted in Argentina, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia etc.
Szihalom
Szihalom is a village in Heves County, Hungary.
Transit Areas Management Regiment
The Transit Areas Management Regiment () is a military logistics regiment of the Italian Army based in Bellinzago Novarese and Bari.
The regiment is operationally assigned to the Logistic Support Command and manages the reception, staging and onward movement of equipment, personnel, and materiel from Italy to Italian military operations abroad.
The unit was formed on 1 January 2015 by reorganizing and expanding the 1st Transport Regiment and together with the 6th General Logistic Support Regiment, and the Logistic Support Command's four medical battalions provides third line logistic support for the army's deployable divisions and Rapid Deployable Corps – Italy.
As of 2019 the Transit Areas Management Regiment consists of:
The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, and Commissariat Platoon.
José Aguilera Bernabé
José Aguilera Bernabé (unknown – unknown) was a Spanish chess player.
José Aguilera Bernabé was one of the strongest chess players in Spain at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1929, he participated in International Chess Tournament in Barcelona (tournament won José Raúl Capablanca).
José Aguilera Bernabé played for Spain in the Chess Olympiad:
Mount Afton
Mount Afton is a mountain summit located in Glacier National Park in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
It is situated near the north end of Asulkan Ridge, south of Rogers Pass, northeast of Revelstoke, and west of Golden.
The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1893 by Herbert Lambert, Miss MacLeod, Harold A. Perley, William H. Rau, and William Stables via the east buttress.
The mountain was climbed in 1895 via the south ridge by Philip Stanley Abbot, Charles Ernest Fay, and Charles S. Thompson who named the mountain after themselves using an amalgamation of letters from their surnames, ("A"bbot "F"ay "T"homps"on").
The mountain's name was officially adopted March 31, 1924, when approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Afton is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.
Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.
Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains north into the Illecillewaet River.
Aleksandar Dragaš
Aleksandar Dragaš (born 16 January 1967) is a Croatian rock critic and journalist.
He has been described as one of the most prominent and influential Croatian music critics.
Dragaš was born in 1967 in Zagreb, and graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb in 1991.
He wrote his first article for "Polet" in 1985, and had his pop and rock criticism, reports, essays, biographical articles and interviews also published in "Studentski list", "Studio", "Heroina", "Nedjeljna Dalmacija", "Gloria" and other magazines.
Since 2000, he works as a music critic and journalist for "Jutarnji list", a Zagreb-based daily newspaper.
Dragaš is the author of approximately 3,000 newspaper articles published between 1985 and 2014.
Dragaš started two independent record labels, Search & Enjoy in 1989 and T.R.I.P.
in 1992.
He worked as an editor in Croatia Records (1994–1996) and Dancing Bear (1996–2001).
Dragaš is the author of two monographs, "Trening za umiranje" (about Hladno pivo) and "Goran Bare - Budi ponosan".
List of legal awards
This list of legal awards is an index to articles related to notable awards for work related to the law, a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate conduct..
The list is organized by country, since contributions are typically to the law of a country rather than to international law, and are made by citizens of that country,
1929 Palestine riots
The 1929 Arab riots in Palestine, or the Buraq Uprising (, ), also known as the 1929 Massacres, (, , "lit."
Events of 5689 Anno Mundi) refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence.
The riots took the form, in the most part, of attacks by Arabs on Jews accompanied by destruction of Jewish property.
During the week of riots from 23 to 29 August, 133 Jews were killed and between 198–241 others were injured, a large majority of whom were unarmed and were murdered in their homes by Arabs, while at least 116 Arabs were killed and at least 232 were injured, mostly by the British police while trying to suppress the riots, although around 20 were killed by Jewish attacks or indiscriminate British gunfire.
On the first day of the riots, the British government had enlisted and armed 41 Jewish special constables, 18 Jewish ex-soldiers and a further 60 Jews were issued staves.
During the riots, 17 Jewish communities were evacuated.
The British-appointed Shaw Commission found that the fundamental cause of the violence "without which in our opinion disturbances either would not have occurred or would not have been little more than a local riot, is the Arab feeling of animosity and hostility towards the Jews consequent upon the disappointment of their political and national aspirations and fear for their economic future,” as well as Arab fears of Jewish immigrants "not only as a menace to their livelihood but as a possible overlord of the future."
With respect to the triggering of the riots, the Commission found that the incident which "contributed most to the outbreak was the Jewish demonstration at the Wailing Wall on 15 August 1929".
Avraham Sela described the riots as "unprecedented in the history of the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine, in duration, geographical scope and direct damage to life and property."
The Western Wall is one of the holiest of Jewish sites, considered by Jews to be a remnant of the ancient Second Temple compound destroyed in 70 CE.
The Jews, through the practice of centuries, had established a right of access to the Wailing Wall for the purposes of their devotions.
As part of the Temple Mount the Western Wall was under the control of the Muslim religious trust, the Waqf.
Muslims consider the wall to be part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, and according to Islamic tradition the place where Muhammad tied his horse, Buraq, before his night journey to heaven.
There had been a few serious incidents resulting from these differences.
As a result of an incident, which occurred in September 1925, a ruling was made which forbade the Jews to bring seats and benches to the Wall even though these were intended for worshippers who were aged and infirm.
The Muslims linked any adaptions to the site with "the Zionist project," and feared that they would be the first step in turning the site into a synagogue and taking it over.
Several months earlier Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin gave a speech demanding "a Jewish state without compromises and without concessions, from Dan to Be'er Sheva, from the great sea to the desert, including Transjordan."
He concluded, "Let us swear that the Jewish people will not rest and will not remain silent until its national home is built on our Mt Moriah," a reference to the Temple Mount.
In September 1928, Jews praying at the Wall on Yom Kippur placed chairs and a mechitza that looked like a simple room divider of cloth covering a few wooden frames to separate the men and women.
Jerusalem's British commissioner Edward Keith-Roach, while visiting a Muslim religious court building overlooking the prayer area, mentioned to a constable that he had never seen it at the wall before, although the constable had seen it earlier that day and had not given it any attention.
The sheikhs hosting the commissioner immediately protested the screen on the grounds that it violated the Ottoman "status quo" forbidding Jews from bringing physical structures, even temporary furniture, into the area due to Muslim fears of Zionist expropriation of the site.
The sheikhs disclaimed responsibility for what could happen if the screen was not taken down, and Keith-Roach told the Ashkenazic beadle to remove the screen because of the Arabs' demands.
The beadle requested that the screen remained standing until the end of the prayer service, to which Keith-Roach agreed.
While the commissioner was visiting a synagogue, Attorney General Norman Bentwich had his request to keep the screen until after the fast rejected by the commissioner, who ordered the constable to ensure it was removed by morning.
The constable feared the screen meant trouble, and had the commissioners order signed and officially stamped, speaking again with the beadle that evening.
When the screen remained in the morning, the constable sent ten armed policemen to remove it.
The policemen charged the small group near the screen and were urged by nearby Arab residents to attack the assembled Jews.
Jewish worshipers who had gathered began to attack the policemen.
The screen was eventually destroyed by the policemen.
The constable had infuriated his superiors due to his use of excessive force without good judgement, but the British government later issued a statement defending his actions.
Although screens had been set up temporarily at the site before, and other prohibitions were ignored or relaxed at times, the violent confrontation over the latest screen would engender further violence.
The internal politics of both sides were also willing to adopt extreme positions and make use of religious symbols to whip up popular support.
Zionist literature published throughout the world used the imagery of a domed structure on the Temple Mount to symbolize their national aspirations.
A Zionist flag was depicted atop of a building very reminiscent of the Dome of the Rock in one publication, which was later picked up and redistributed by Arab propagandists.
Haj Amin al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem distributed leaflets to Arabs in Palestine and throughout the Arab world which claimed that the Jews were planning to take over the al-Aqsa Mosque.
The leaflet stated that the Government was "responsible for any consequences of any measures which the Moslems may adopt for the purpose of defending the holy Burak themselves in the event of the failure of the Government...to prevent any such intrusion on the part of the Jews."
A memorandum issued by the Moslem Supreme Council stated, "Having realized by bitter experience the unlimited greedy aspirations of the Jews in this respect, Moslems believe that the Jews’ aim is to take possession of the Mosque of Al-Aqsa gradually on the pretence that it is the Temple," and it advised the Jews "to stop this hostile propaganda which will naturally engender a parallel action in the whole Moslem world, the responsibility for which will rest with the Jews."
The Shaw Commission stated that some sections of the Arabic Press had reproduced documents concerning the Wailing Wall which "were of a character likely to excite any susceptible readers."
In addition, it stated that "there appeared in the Arabic Press a number of articles, which, had they been published in England or in other western countries, would unquestionably have been regarded as provocative."
One consequence was that Jewish worshippers frequently were subjected to beatings and stoning.
In October 1928, the Grand Mufti organised new construction next to and above the Wall.
Mules were driven through the praying area often dropping excrement, and waste water was thrown on Jews.
A muezzin was appointed to perform the Islamic call to prayer directly next to the Wall, creating noise exactly when the Jews were conducting their prayers.
The Jews protested at these provocations and tensions increased.
Zionists began making demands for control over the wall; some went as far as to call openly for the rebuilding of the Temple, increasing Muslim fears over Zionist intentions.
Ben-Gurion said the wall should be “redeemed,” predicting it could be achieved in as little as “another half a year.” During the spring of 1929 the Revisionist newspaper edited by right-wing leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, ran a long campaign claiming Jewish rights over the wall and its pavement, going as far as calling for "insubordination and violence," and pleading that Jews not stop protesting and demonstrating until the Wall is "restored to us."
On 6 August the British Palestine Police Force established a police post beside the wall.
On 14 August the Haganah and Brit Trumpeldor held a meeting in Tel Aviv attended by 6,000 people objecting to 1928 Commission's conclusion that the Wall was Muslim property.
Joseph Klausner who formed the "Pro–Wailing Wall Committee" helped organize several demonstrations, beginning on 14 August 1929 when 6,000 youths marched around the wall of the old city of Jerusalem.
On Thursday, 15 August, during the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av, several hundred members of Klausner's right-wing group – described by Professor Michael J. Cohen as "brawny youths with staves" – marched to the Western Wall shouting "the Wall is ours," raised the Jewish national flag, sang Hatikvah (the Jewish anthem).
The group included members of Vladimir Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionism movement Betar youth organization, under the leadership of Jeremiah Halpern.
Rumors circulated among the Arabs that the procession attacked local residents and cursed the name of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Shaw report later concluded that the crowd was peaceful and allegations that the crowd were armed with iron bars were not correct, but that there may have been threatening cries made by some "undesirable elements" in the Jewish procession.
Leaders of the Palestine Zionist Executive were reportedly alarmed by the activities of the Revisionists as well as "embarrassed" and fearful of an "accident" and had notified the authorities of the march in advance, who provided a heavy police escort in a bid to prevent any incidents.
On Friday, 16 August after a sermon, a demonstration organized by the Supreme Muslim Council marched to the Wall.
The Acting High Commissioner summoned Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini and informed him that he had never heard of such a demonstration being held at the Wailing Wall, and that it would be a terrible shock to the Jews who regarded the Wall as a place of special sanctity to them.