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Price was selected as a "key player of the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses" by "The Des Moines Register", and has been featured in "The New York Times", "Politico", and NBC News. |
Italian submarine Santorre Santarosa |
Santorre Santarosa was one of four s built for the (Royal Italian Navy) during the late 1920s. |
Completed in 1929, she played a minor role in the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 supporting the Spanish Nationalists. |
The "Bandiera" class was an improved and enlarged version of the preceding s. They displaced surfaced and submerged. |
The submarines were long, had a beam of and a draft of . |
They had a operational diving depth of . |
Their crew numbered 53 officers and enlisted men. |
For surface running, the boats were powered by two diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. |
When submerged each propeller was driven by a electric motor. |
They could reach on the surface and underwater. |
On the surface, the "Bandiera" class had a range of at ; submerged, they had a range of at . |
The boats were armed with eight torpedo tubes, four each in the bow and stern for which they carried a total of 12 torpedoes. |
They were also armed with a single deck gun forward of the conning tower for combat on the surface. |
Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of two machine guns. |
"Santorre Santarosa" was laid down by Odero-Terni-Orlando at their Muggiano shipyard in 1928, launched on 22 October 1929 and completed later that year. |
During the Spanish Civil War, "Santorre Santarosa" was attempting to attack the tanker during nightfall on 11 August 1937 off Ras el Mustafa, French Tunisia, when the torpedoed and sank the tanker before the submarine could reach firing position. |
KBO League Golden Glove Award |
The KBO League Golden Glove Award is an award given out annually by the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) to the best overall player at each position in the KBO League. |
As such, the award is also commonly known as the KBO Golden Gloves. |
The award has been handed out since the KBO League's inaugural year in 1982. |
All outfielders are grouped for the award and designated hitters have been included since 1984. |
Source: Data from baseball-reference.com unless otherwise cited |
Most total awards: |
Most awarded pitcher: |
Most awarded catcher: |
Most awarded first baseman: |
Most awarded second baseman: |
Most awarded third baseman: |
Most awarded shortstop: |
Most awarded outfielder: |
Most awarded designated hitter: |
Each KBO team is allowed to sign up to three foreign-born players (two pitchers and one position player). |
From 2019, the total compensation for a foreign player was also capped at $1 million. |
The following is a list of foreign players that have won the KBO Golden Gloves over the years: |
Italian submarine Ciro Menotti |
Ciro Menotti was one of four s built for the (Royal Italian Navy) during the late 1920s. |
Completed in 1929, she played a minor role in the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 supporting the Spanish Nationalists. |
The "Bandiera" class was an improved and enlarged version of the preceding s. They displaced surfaced and submerged. |
The submarines were long, had a beam of and a draft of . |
They had a operational diving depth of . |
Their crew numbered 53 officers and enlisted men. |
For surface running, the boats were powered by two diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. |
When submerged each propeller was driven by a electric motor. |
They could reach on the surface and underwater. |
On the surface, the "Bandiera" class had a range of at ; submerged, they had a range of at . |
The boats were armed with eight torpedo tubes, four each in the bow and stern for which they carried a total of 12 torpedoes. |
They were also armed with a single deck gun forward of the conning tower for combat on the surface. |
Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of two machine guns. |
"Ciro Menotti" was laid down by Odero-Terni-Orlando at their Muggiano shipyard in 1928, launched on 29 December 1929 and completed later that year. |
During the Spanish Civil War, "Ciro Menotti" made a patrol off Málaga in early 1937 during which she sank the mail steamer off Torrox on the night of 31 January–1 February. |
The submarine bombarded Málaga over the next several days in support of the Nationalist attack on the city. |
Ransom H. Thomas |
Ransom Halloway Thomas (August 9, 1852 – October 19, 1922) was an American banker who served as president of the New York Stock Exchange during the Panic of 1907. |
Thomas was born on August 9, 1852 and named after Ransom Halloway, a former U.S. Representative from New York's 8th congressional district. |
In 1885, he was a member of the banking firm of Titus & Thomas located at 4 Broad Street. |
Thomas established the firm of R. H. Thomas & Son, which was located at 100 Broadway. |
Shortly before his death, he sold his seat as a board member of the Exchange after nearly fifty years of membership (having acquired his seat on November 5, 1874). |
Throughout his time with the Exchange, he was associated with the chief committees of the Exchange and was President of the Stock Exchange Building Company at the time of his death. |
In 1903, Thomas succeeded Rudolph Keppler as president of the New York Stock Exchange. |
He served as president of the Exchange during the Panic of 1907. |
Through Thomas' efforts, J. Pierpont Morgan and 14 bank presidents pledged $23.6 million to keep the stock exchange afloat. |
In addition to his banking career, Thomas was an avid golfer and served as president of the United States Golf Association from 1905 to 1906. |
He was a member of the Morris County Golf Club in Convent, New Jersey and was a former member of the Executive Committee of the United States Golf Association. |
In 1880, Thomas was married to Susan Reed "Susie" Herrick (1857–1942), a daughter of merchant John J. Herrick and Jane Eliza (née Van Buskerck) Herrick. |
Susie's father moved to Tarrytown, New York in 1859 where "he had built one of the largest and finest castellated residences in America." |
The house known as Ericstan, was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and demolished in 1944. |
Together, they were the parents of: |
In September 1901, Thomas purchased fellow enthusiast William K. Vanderbilt Jr.'s famous Daimler automobile known as the "White Ghost." |
Vanderbilt had purchased the 23-hp car, the first four-cylinder road car, in Germany in 1900. |
Thomas later sold the car to John B. Drake of Chicago. |
Following a three week illness, Thomas died of a throat ailment at the Memorial Hospital in New York City. |
He had been living at the Morristown Inn in Morristown, New Jersey for the last six years. |
After services at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown, he was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown. |
Speed skating at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed team sprint |
The mixed team sprint speed skating competition of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics was held at Lake St. Moritz on 15 January 2020. |
The races were held at 11:30. |
Al Anstey |
Al Anstey (born 22nd April 1966) is a media executive and strategic advisor on media and communications. |
He was CEO of Al Jazeera America in 2015, and Managing Director of Al Jazeera English (AJE) in 2010. |
He is the CEO of Collingwood Worldwide. |
Anstey was born in London and educated at Westminster School. |
He holds an MSc degree in Social Psychology from University of Bath. |
Anstey has worked in media for three decades. |
He was part of the start-up of Associated Press Television News, was Head of Foreign News at ITN (2000), was part launch team of Al Jazeera English as Deputy Director of News and then as Managing Director, and led the turnaround of Al Jazeera America as CEO from 2015 to 2016. |
Anstey was also Network Director of Media Development and Head of New Media at Al Jazeera Network and oversaw the digital properties and digital strategy at both AJAM and AJE. |
During Anstey's tenure as Managing Director of AJE, it grew from being a newly launched news channel to gaining a reputation for quality worldwide, winning a number of major TV awards, and building distribution to over 300 million homes in over 130 countries. |
During the unlawful detention of Al Jazeera English staff in Egypt in 2014, Anstey called for their release worldwide with the "FreeAJStaff campaign", and campaigned for a free media, and the right for people worldwide to be properly informed. |
Al Jazeera America was closed by Al Jazeera's parent company in 2016 as it was no longer sustainable given the economic challenges in US media marketplace, though it was recognised for the quality of its journalism and the progress made prior to closure. |
Since leaving Al Jazeera America, Anstey founded has been CEO of Collingwood Worldwide, advising international companies on media strategy and communications. |
Notable projects include advising the Global Commission on Adaptation chaired by former UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates, and Kristalina Georgieva to raise awareness of the need to build resilience to the impacts of climate change worldwide. |
Since 2016, Anstey has also conducted media "masterclasses" for the Thomson Foundation in both Morocco and Lebanon, and given speeches and lectures on integrity in journalism. |
Since 2016, Anstey has been Chair of the board of trustees of People Need Nature, a UK based charity which exists to highlight the benefits that nature focused on achieving long term positive change. |
Gertrud Spiess |
Gertrud Spiess (16 April 1914 in Basel – 14 July 1995 in Basel) was a Swiss politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party. |
She was a member of the National Council from 1975 to 1983. |
Spiess was born in Basel to a mechanic. |
She studied philology, German and history in Basel and Kiel. |
Then she made Islamic studies in Basel and Cairo, Egypt and earned a doctor's degree in 1946 with her thesis "Maḥmūd von Ġazna bei Farīdu’d-dīn ʿAṭṭār" which was first published in print in 1959. |
Spiess was a high school teacher of Latin and Ancient Greek. |
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