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2011 FA Cup Final | Manchester City | From there on, City kept consecutive clean sheets on the way to winning the cup. Manchester City's fifth round match was against Aston Villa at the City of Manchester Stadium. Villa manager Gérard Houllier rested several senior players, in contrast to a near full-strength Manchester City line-up. Manchester City took the lead after less than five minutes through Yaya Touré, and further goals from Mario Balotelli and David Silva resulted in a comfortable 3–0 win. In the sixth round, Manchester City were again at home, and faced Reading, the only non-Premier League team left in the competition. Micah Richards scored the only goal, a header from a corner in the 73rd minute. | wiki:701 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Manchester City | In the semi-final, at Wembley Stadium, City defeated rivals Manchester United 1–0 with a Yaya Touré goal, and continued their FA Cup semi-final record of nine victories out of 11, reaching the FA Cup Final for the first time since 1981. | wiki:702 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Stoke City | Stoke, also a Premier League side, entered the competition at the third round stage, where they were drawn at home to Welsh side Cardiff City. Stoke City made seven changes to the team that played their previous match. Michael Chopra gave Cardiff an early lead, but Stoke's Tuncay levelled the score just before half time. Stoke had a number of chances in the later stages of the match, but Cardiff held out for a replay. In the replay at the Cardiff City Stadium Stoke again used several reserves, changing all but one of the players from the previous league match. | wiki:703 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Stoke City | Few chances occurred during the game; the score was 0–0 after 90 minutes, prompting extra time. In the added period, Jonathan Walters scored twice to secure a 2–0 Stoke City win; the first goal was a header from a corner, the second a near-post rebound. Stoke City then travelled to fellow Midlands team Wolverhampton Wanderers for the fourth round, in one of five all-Premier League ties. Stoke defender Robert Huth was a central figure in the match. Ten minutes from time he gave Stoke a 1–0 lead with a header from a free-kick, but in the final minute he conceded a penalty for tripping Nenad Milijaš. | wiki:704 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Stoke City | Milijaš took the spot-kick himself, but his effort was saved by Thomas Sørensen. Stoke's fifth round match was at home against League One leaders Brighton & Hove Albion. Three first half goals by John Carew, Jonathan Walters, Ryan Shawcross led Stoke to a 3–0 win. Stoke then faced West Ham United in the sixth round. Stoke scored an early goal from a set-piece, when long throw-in specialist Rory Delap delivered the ball into the penalty area for Huth to score with a header. Controversial refereeing decisions then provoked the ire of both teams. When Frédéric Piquionne equalised for West Ham, the decision to award the goal infuriated Stoke; in controlling the ball Piquionne committed what Stoke manager Tony Pulis called a "stonewall" handball. | wiki:705 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Stoke City | West Ham themselves felt aggrieved in the first minute of the second half when Stoke were awarded a penalty. Matthew Etherington was adjudged to have been fouled by Scott Parker though, as the BBC correspondent wrote, "there appeared to be minimal contact". Robert Green saved Etherington's penalty to keep the score level. The winning goal also came from a set piece. Danny Higginbotham's free-kick was reached by Green but could not be stopped, and Stoke won 2–1 to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 1972. In the semi-final, Stoke beat Bolton Wanderers comfortably, winning 5–0. Stoke took a three-goal lead in less than half an hour after goals from Etherington, Huth and Kenwyne Jones. | wiki:706 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Stoke City | Walters scored twice in the second half to complete the win. The margin of victory was the biggest in an FA Cup semi-final since 1939, and secured Stoke's first ever FA Cup Final appearance. By reaching the final, Stoke qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League before the final, as Manchester City had beat Tottenham days before the final to secure fourth position in the Premier League and consequently Champions League qualification. | wiki:707 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Pre-match | Manchester City were appearing in the final for the ninth time. They had won the cup four times previously (in 1904, 1934, 1956 and 1969), and had been beaten in the final four times (in 1926, 1933, 1955 and 1981). Stoke City were making their first appearance in the final. Their previous best was participation in the semi-finals, which had occurred three times. The 2011 final faced scheduling problems and the match clashed with top flight League fixtures for the first time since 1934, which disappointed football traditionalists. The 2011 UEFA Champions League Final was being hosted at Wembley on 28 May 2011 and UEFA rules stipulate that the host stadium for the final must not have a fixture played two weeks prior to the final. | wiki:708 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Pre-match | Therefore, the FA Cup final had to be moved forward, and for the first time since 1989 was played before the English football domestic season ended. Many of the weekend's Premier League fixtures were rescheduled to avoid a clash with the final, with some kicking off at 12:45 on Saturday and others on Sunday. By coincidence, Manchester City and Stoke City were scheduled to meet in the league on cup final day. The league match was rearranged for the Wednesday after the final. This prompted criticism from Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp, whose team was challenging Manchester City for a place in the 2011–12 Champions League. | wiki:709 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Pre-match | Redknapp stated that if Manchester City won the final, it would then be in Stoke City's interest to lose against Manchester City in the league match, as it would make Europa League qualification for Stoke more likely. Stoke City refuted this accusation strongly, but ultimately this scenario was avoided. Champions League qualification was settled four days before the final, when Manchester City beat Tottenham Hotspur 1–0 in a league match. Both clubs received an allocation of approximately 25,000 tickets, fewer than the 32,000 received for the semi-finals. The allocation was enough for the 21,000 Stoke City season ticket holders, but not for Manchester City's 36,000 season ticket holders. | wiki:710 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Pre-match | Consequently, some supporters felt aggrieved at the lack of tickets, including Stoke City chairman Peter Coates who expressed his disappointment and suggested an allocation in the region of 30,000 for both clubs. Ticket prices for the final exceeded £100 for the first time. The most expensive tickets cost £115, an increase of 22 per cent on the previous season. The cheapest tickets available at £45, up £5 from 2010. | wiki:711 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Match | Stoke City went into their first FA Cup Final as underdogs according to their manager Tony Pulis, while Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini saw in-form Stoke's underdog tag as a risk for complacency from his side. There were fitness doubts over key players for both teams, Carlos Tevez for Manchester City, and Matthew Etherington for Stoke City, who suffered a hamstring tear only 17 days prior to the final, but both were able to start the match. However, Stoke City's underdog tag proved true as Mancini's Manchester City side had the better of the match, with a 59 per cent share of ball possession and 23 attempts on goal to Stoke City's nine, only one of which was on target. | wiki:712 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Match | Both teams were able to play in their respective home colours without any colour clash: Stoke City played in their red-and-white stripes, and Manchester City played in their sky blue colours with the Manchester coat of arms on their shirt numbers, keeping up a long-standing club tradition of wearing the city's coat of arms for cup finals. | wiki:713 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Report | Manchester City set up in a 4–2–3–1 formation, with Mario Balotelli, David Silva and Yaya Touré playing behind lone striker Carlos Tevez, and Nigel de Jong and Gareth Barry in defensive midfield roles. Stoke City set up in a rigid 4–4–2 formation, with two wingers in Jermaine Pennant and Matthew Etherington to support strikers Kenwyne Jones and Jonathan Walters. Manchester City started sprightly, managing to create some chances which forced saves from Stoke goalkeeper Thomas Sørensen and steady defending to keep Stoke City in the game in the first half. Yaya Touré unleashed a 30-yard strike in the 11th minute which went only inches wide of the top corner of the goal, while Mario Balotelli had a curling shot from the corner of the penalty area in the 24th minute which was destined for the goal but for a strong, one-handed save from Sørensen. | wiki:714 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Report | Stoke improved after the break, but Manchester City had a key opportunity in the 56th minute when a counter-attack led by Carlos Tevez, who drifted out to the right flank, allowed David Silva to find space outside the Stoke City penalty area as the Stoke defence vanished. Tevez managed to pass to Silva, but Silva was guilty of over-elaboration instead of shooting first-time, and the Stoke City defence managed to regroup, dispossessing Silva before he could adjust himself to shoot at goal. | wiki:715 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Post-match | Tony Pulis commented after the game that "Manchester City were the better team" and that "they deserved to win the game", while Roberto Mancini dedicated the victory to the Manchester City supporters. Pundits Graham Taylor and Mark Lawrenson agreed that Manchester City deserved to win but expressed disappointment at Stoke City's under-par performance in the final. As President of the FA since 2006, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge is a frequent guest of honour at the FA Cup final, attending the 2007 and 2010 finals, but his recent marriage to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge meant he could not attend. Instead, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron awarded the medals to individual players at Wembley Stadium. | wiki:716 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Post-match | Presenting the trophy was British Army Corporal Mark Ward, a lifelong Manchester City supporter who served in Afghanistan and whose bravery was rewarded with the Military Cross. Corporal Ward presented the trophy to the winning captain, Carlos Tevez, after the game. Manchester City's victory set up a Community Shield match against rivals Manchester United – who City had beaten in the semi-finals – after United clinched the Premier League shortly before kick-off in the Final. The FA Cup winners are usually awarded qualification for the UEFA Europa League, but because Manchester City qualified for the UEFA Champions League via their league position, the Europa League place was passed to Stoke City as runners-up. | wiki:717 |
2011 FA Cup Final | Post-match | In the 2011 FA Community Shield match in August, the FA Cup winners Manchester City lost 3–2 to Manchester United after creating a 2–0 lead at half time. | wiki:718 |
Carlos Aguilar | Introduction | Carlos Aguilar (born May 25, 1988) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Los Angeles Blues 23 in the USL Premier Development League. | wiki:719 |
Carlos Aguilar | College and amateur | Carlos attended Palmdale High School played two years of college soccer at Taft College, where he scored both goals as his team won the 2007 California Collegiate State Soccer Championship, before transferring to the University of California, Irvine in his junior year. He scored six goals and made seven assists UCI in his senior season, and was named to the All-Big West Conference First Team. During his college years Aguilar also played with the Lancaster Rattlers and Bakersfield Brigade in the USL Premier Development League. | wiki:720 |
Carlos Aguilar | Professional | Undrafted out of college, Aguilar signed with Rochester Rhinos in February 2010. He made his professional debut on April 10, 2010 in Rochester's season opening game against Miami FC, and went on to make two further appearances in his debut pro season. Aguilar was not listed on the 2011 Rochester roster released April 12, 2011, and subsequently returned to California to play for Los Angeles Blues 23 in the USL Premier Development League. | wiki:721 |
Andrés Flores (composer) | Introduction | Andrés Flores was one of four important criollo composers in baroque Bolivia trained by Juan de Araujo, during his tenure as choirmaster of the Cathedral of Sucre (then called La Plata) 1680-1712. The other three notable criollo composers were Sebastián de los Ríos, Roque Jacinto de Chavarría, and Blas Tardío y Guzmán. | wiki:722 |
Henry Babers | Introduction | Pastor Henry L. Babers, Sr. (born May 31, 1957 in Union Springs, Alabama) is an American Christian evangelist, bible teacher and scholar whose television program appears on both various television stations nationally, (namely on the Word Network), and internet streaming and podcasts. | wiki:723 |
Henry Babers | Early life and education | Pastor Babers was born to James and Thelma Babers. He has a B.A. from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina and M.A. from Florida Bible College in Kissimmee, Florida. | wiki:724 |
Henry Babers | Ministry | Parkview Christian Center In 1988 Babers and his wife of 28 years, Ernestine co-founded the Parkview Christian Center in Haines City, FL, (then called St. James Missionary Baptist Church) which they also organized. It was renamed twice, to the Parkview Christian Center (after only one week of existence), then to its present name in 2002. The present church has a congregation of approximately 650. The still growing church soon relocated to its present location in Haines City in 1992. P.C.C. Free Clinic | wiki:725 |
Henry Babers | Personal | The Babers, who reside in Haines City have three children: Daughter Tangie and sons Henry Jr. and Travis. They are also the grandparents of five boys: Jamorris, Dashwan, Isaac and Treyvon and Travis Jr. | wiki:726 |
WOBA | Introduction | In baseball, wOBA (, or weighted on-base average) is a statistic, based on linear weights, designed to measure a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. It is formed from taking the observed run values of various offensive events, dividing by a player's plate appearances, and scaling the result to be on the same scale as on-base percentage. Unlike statistics like OPS, wOBA attempts to assign the proper value for each type of hitting event. It was created by Tom Tango and his coauthors for "The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball". | wiki:727 |
WOBA | Usage | In 2008, sabermetrics website FanGraphs began listing the current and historical wOBA for all players in Major League Baseball. It forms the basis of the offensive component of their wins above replacement (WAR) metric. Sites such as The Hardball Times have studied wOBA and found it to perform comparably to or better than other similar tools (OPS, RC, etc.) used in sabermetrics to estimate runs. "The Book" uses wOBA in numerous studies to test the validity of many aspects of baseball conventional wisdom. The benefit of wOBA compared to other offensive value statistics is that it values not just "whether" the runner reached base but "how". | wiki:728 |
WOBA | Usage | Events like home runs, walks, singles, etc. are given their own weight (or coefficient) within the linear formula. The weighting is based on the increase in expected runs for the event type as compared to an out. The coefficients change each season based upon how often each event occurs. Because the coefficients are derived from expected run value, we can use wOBA to estimate a few more things about a player's production and baseball as a whole. When using the formula (shown below), the numerator side on its own will give us an estimate of how many runs a player is worth to his team. | wiki:729 |
WOBA | Usage | Similarly, a team's wOBA is a good estimator of team runs scored, and deviations from predicted runs scored indicate a combination of situational hitting and base running. | wiki:730 |
WOBA | 2019 Formula | Per Fangraphs, the formula for wOBA in the 2019 season was: formula_1 where: | wiki:731 |
WOBA | Ranges for elite, very good, etc | The following table serves as an aggregate summary of various wOBA scales available online. | wiki:732 |
WOBA | Original Formula | The formula below appeared in "The Book." formula_3 where: | wiki:733 |
Irenosaurus | Introduction | Irenosaurus is a genus of choristodere, a type of amphibious reptile. It is known from a single fragmentary postcranial skeleton (PIN 3386/2), discovered in the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Hühteeg Formation at Hüren Dukh, central Mongolia. The type species is "I. egloni", which was originally described as a new species of the related choristodere "Tchoiria" in 1983 by Efimov. Efimov transferred the species to the new genus "Irenosaurus" in 1988. Evans and Hecht (1993) questioned the separation of the taxon from "Tchoiria namsarai" from the same locality on the grounds that the differences between the two may not have been greater than those of various species of the choristodere "Champsosaurus". | wiki:734 |
Irenosaurus | Introduction | A later review by Efimov and Storrs (2000) retained the two as separate, noting that some characteristics of "Irenosaurus" are more like "Khurendukhosaurus", also known from the same site, at the same time recognizing the difficulties of distinguishing three genera from the same locality. "Irenosaurus" was a small choristodere, approximately long. It is known from what are interpreted as lake deposits. | wiki:735 |
Fort Jefferson (Ohio) | Introduction | Fort Jefferson was a fortification erected by soldiers of the United States Army in Oct. 1791 during the Northwest Indian War. Built to support a military campaign, it saw several years of active fighting. Today, the fort site is a historic site. | wiki:736 |
Fort Jefferson (Ohio) | Establishment | Located in present-day Darke County in far western Ohio, the fort was built under the direction of General Arthur St. Clair in October 1791 as an advance post for his campaign from Fort Washington against local Native Americans. A square of approximately on each side, the fort was built of wood and intended primarily as a supply depot; accordingly, it was originally named "Fort Deposit." Before St. Clair's army departed the fort, a court-martial was conducted for an unknown crime; the three soldiers who were convicted and hanged became the first whites to be executed in present-day Darke County. | wiki:737 |
Fort Jefferson (Ohio) | Siege of Fort Jefferson | One month later, after St. Clair's army was badly defeated in battle near modern-day Fort Recovery to the north, the scattered remnants of his force reconstituted at Fort Jefferson. Because it was not intended to house many soldiers, and because few supplies were actually stored at the fort, St. Clair found the fort insufficiently large for his men; consequently, he took most of his surviving soldiers and returned to Fort Washington, leaving only a small garrison to guard his many wounded. It is believed that the garrison was under the command of Captain Joseph Shaylor. The defeat of the American army left Fort Jefferson deep in enemy territory. | wiki:738 |
Fort Jefferson (Ohio) | Siege of Fort Jefferson | Determined to drive the American soldiers back to the Ohio River, a Native American force (possibly under the command of Simon Girty) raided the fort in the early summer of 1792. This raid began with an attack of one hundred warriors against a party gathering hay for the fort's supplies on June 25; sixteen soldiers were killed or left missing by the fight. It is possible that another raid was conducted a short while later with the intention of capturing or killing Captain Shaylor; if a story told by locals is accurate, Shaylor's love of hunting was exploited by some of the besiegers, who lured Shaylor and his son into the woods by imitating the call of the wild turkey. | wiki:739 |
Fort Jefferson (Ohio) | Siege of Fort Jefferson | While Shaylor escaped the ensuing pursuit, his son was killed. The siege continued intermittently for three years, as continued Native American attacks were made to neutralize the fort. | wiki:740 |
Fort Jefferson (Ohio) | Wayne's campaign | As the United States Army prepared to return to the offensive in the western Ohio country, Fort Jefferson became more than an isolated location outside of the control of the hostile Miamis: projections were created of using the fort as a base for the protection of local settlers and for raids on nearby Native Americans. When Anthony Wayne and his Legion of the United States, fresh from Legionville, began their expedition to avenge St. Clair in the fall of 1793, they erected a new supply fort at the site of Greenville, north of Fort Jefferson. Nevertheless, they relied heavily on the supplies of Fort Jefferson in their campaign during the following year. | wiki:741 |
Fort Jefferson (Ohio) | After the war | After the end of the war, white settlers began to take up residence in the vicinity of the abandoned fort. A blockhouse was built by one nearby resident in 1810; by 1820, more settlers had built houses, a mill, and a school near the fort site. The new community was named "Fort Jefferson." In the fall of 1907, the Greenville Historical Society dedicated a memorial on the site of the fort. Fort Jefferson was further recognized in 1970 when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The area designated as historic encompasses approximately . | wiki:742 |
Elayn Hunt Correctional Center | Introduction | Elayn Hunt Correctional Center (EHCC) located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, is a multi-security- level Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections institution for adult men. It is the second-largest prison in Louisiana and is located about 70 miles northwest of New Orleans. Elayn Hunt has about half the number of prisoners held at the larger Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Since 2010, male inmates from all parishes enter the DOC system through the Hunt Reception and Diagnostic Center (HRDC) at Hunt. | wiki:743 |
Elayn Hunt Correctional Center | History | EHCC was opened in 1979. In January 2002, a prison cemetery opened at Hunt. Some state prisoners unclaimed by families are buried here. Before that month all unclaimed state prisoners were buried at Point Lookout Cemetery in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Prior to 2010, Hunt served as the reception center only for male prisoners from southern parishes, while Forcht-Wade Correctional Center operated the reception center for male prisoners from northern parishes. In 2009 the state announced that Forcht-Wade would be redesignated as a substance abuse center. Hunt was designated to handle reception of males for all areas of the state. | wiki:744 |
Elayn Hunt Correctional Center | History | Hunt also expanded its nursing unit to accommodate prisoners from Forcht-Wade's nursing unit. | wiki:745 |
Ashley's Roachclip | Introduction | "Ashley's Roachclip" is an instrumental song by funk group the Soul Searchers from their 1974 album "Salt of the Earth" on Sussex Records. A portion of the song from 3:30 to 3:50 contains a widely recognized drum break that has been sampled countless times in songs across several genres. | wiki:746 |
Carrie Murray Nature Center | Introduction | Carrie Murray Nature Center (CMNC) is operated by Baltimore City Recreation and Parks. CMNC offers environmental education programs for children, families, and adults as Baltimore City's only nature center. A native live animal collection, outdoor bird aviary, and indoor exhibits support the center's environmental education programs. School field trips, nature camps, public programs, and community events take place at CMNC in the expansive and historic Gwynns Falls Leakin Park. It was named after Carrie Murray, mother of former Baltimore Orioles star and hall-of-famer Eddie Murray. Wild Haven forest immersion programs are offered for young children ages 3–5 in the Gwynns Falls Leakin Park, which is Wild Haven's pilot site within the Baltimore City Recreation and Parks. | wiki:747 |
Carrie Murray Nature Center | Introduction | Monica Wiedel-Lubinski, Monica French, and Mepi Neill are the founding directors of Wild Haven. | wiki:748 |
Carrie Murray Nature Center | Animal theft | During the weekend of November 13–14, 2010, some animals, including mostly exotic reptiles and a Madagascar hissing cockroach, were stolen from the nature center in a burglary. Security was beefed up following the attack. The animals were all recovered alive on November 16 from a house near the center. | wiki:749 |
Erie Air Park | Introduction | Erie Air Park is a public use ultralight airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the central business district of Erie, a village in Whiteside County, Illinois, United States. | wiki:750 |
Erie Air Park | Facilities and aircraft | Erie Air Park covers an area of at an elevation of 600 feet (183 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18U/36U with a turf surface measuring 2,000 by 200 feet (610 x 61 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 6,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 16 per day. At that time there were 27 single-engine aircraft based at this airport. | wiki:751 |
Mike Craver | Introduction | Mike Craver is an American composer and lyricist. He was born in North Carolina. | wiki:752 |
Mike Craver | Biography | Mike Craver graduated from the University of North Carolina. He was also, for 12 years, a member of the band, Red Clay Ramblers. He has appeared in Sam Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind". He has toured, with the Ramblers, all over the US, Canada, Scandinavia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He became a theatre composer and composed several off-Broadway musicals such as "Oil City Symphony" (1986), "Smoke on the Mountain" (1990) and "Radio Gals" (1995). He has composed different solo pieces for voice. In 2002, Craver released a solo album, "Shining Down", featuring songs he composed and including "Watson, come here I want you", a humorous song based on the first words transmitted by telephone by Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas A. | wiki:753 |
Mike Craver | Biography | Watson. | wiki:754 |
Jewish Historical Documentation Centre | Introduction | The Jewish Historical Documentation Centre (Zentrum für jüdische historische Dokumentation) was an office headed by Simon Wiesenthal in Linz. The centre collected and promulgated information about war crimes, specific mainly to crimes against the Jewish people as perpetrated by the Nazi Regime in Europe during the Second World War. The centre has been responsible for uncovering more than 1000 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann, sometimes referred to as "the architect of the Holocaust". The office was also interested in the whereabouts of alleged Nazi war criminals who may have escaped justice, including those individuals who escaped through the Nazi ratlines to havens in South America, particularly to Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, and Chile. | wiki:755 |
Jewish Historical Documentation Centre | Introduction | This Centre closed in 1954. | wiki:756 |
Jewish Historical Documentation Centre | History | Simon Wiesenthal was a Holocaust survivor who was noted for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals. After being liberated from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp by the U.S. Army, Wiesenthal began gathering and preparing evidence on Nazi atrocities for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army. When his association with the United States Army ended in 1947, Wiesenthal and thirty volunteers opened the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre in Linz, Austria, for the purpose of assembling evidence for future trials. However, as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union intensified, both sides lost interest in prosecuting Germans, and Wiesenthal's volunteers, succumbing to frustration, drifted away to more ordinary pursuits. | wiki:757 |
Jewish Historical Documentation Centre | History | In 1954, the office in Linz was closed, and its files were given to the Yad Vashem Archives in Israel, except for the dossier on Adolf Eichmann. | wiki:758 |
Jewish Historical Documentation Centre | Successor | In 1959, acting on information provided by Wiesenthal and other Nazi hunters, Eichmann was captured by Mossad agents in Argentina, transported to Israel where he was tried and executed. Encouraged, in 1961, Simon Wiesenthal founded the Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime () in Vienna, which concentrated exclusively on the hunting of war criminals. The centre in Vienna was housed in a nondescript, sparsely furnished three-room office in Vienna's old Jewish quarter with a staff of four, including Wiesenthal The centre had open files on about 2,000 cases, however, Wiesenthal estimated that about 150,000 Nazis were involved in war crimes and that his office's extensive archives were just "the tip of the iceberg". | wiki:759 |
Jewish Historical Documentation Centre | Successor | According to the centre, about 40,000 Nazis have been tried for war crimes since the end of the war, and most were found guilty. The centre developed a department to track anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism. Since 2003, the association has been indexing its holdings with the aid of an electronic database to increase its availability for users. The Centre is an integral, but independent part of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). | wiki:760 |
Reed G. Landis | Introduction | Colonel Reed Gresham Landis (July 17, 1896 – May 30, 1975) was an American military aviator and the only son of federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first Commissioner of Baseball. He served in the air services of the United States Army during World War I and World War II, and was credited as a flying ace during the former, with twelve aerial victories. | wiki:761 |
Reed G. Landis | Early life and World War I | In 1916 Landis enlisted in the 1st Illinois Cavalry of the National Guard and served as a private along the Mexican border. In 1917 he joined the Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps. He finished his training in England and was posted to No. 40 Squadron RAF. Flying the Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a he drove down a Pfalz D.III out of control on 8 May 1918 for his first victory. On 19 May, he destroyed another D.III. Between 14 July and 19 August, he claimed another ten victories. His final tally was an observation balloon and eight enemy airplanes destroyed, and three enemy planes driven 'down out of control'. | wiki:762 |
Reed G. Landis | Early life and World War I | During the war he flew missions with George McElroy and Stan Dallas. In late August 1918, Landis was transferred to command the 25th Aero Squadron, which never succeeded in getting into combat, only receiving its Austin-built S.E.5as in early November 1918. The present-day U.S. Air Force unit, the 25th Space Range Squadron, traces its linage back to the 25th Aero Squadron and recognizes Landis as their first operational squadron commander. | wiki:763 |
Reed G. Landis | Post World War I | During the 1920s, Landis became chairman of the American Legion. During World War II, he returned to service as a USAAC colonel stationed in Washington DC. | wiki:764 |
Reed G. Landis | Honors and awards | Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Reed Gresham Landis, Captain (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action west of Douai and south of Vitry, August 8, 1918; west of Brieve, August 12, 1918; and over Lens, August 13, 1918. During a general engagement west of Douai and south of Vitry on August 8, 1918, Captain Landis attacked and destroyed two enemy planes and one balloon in the course of a single flight. During a general engagement west of Brieve on August 12, 1918, he singled out an enemy plane and shot it down. | wiki:765 |
Reed G. Landis | Honors and awards | While on patrol over Lens on August 13, 1918, he engaged four enemy triplanes and one biplane in decisive combat, and, despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, he destroyed two of their planes and forced the others to withdraw. On August 19, 1918, while leading a patrol of five planes he encountered and unhesitatingly attacked eight enemy Fokker scouts, one of which he shot down. During the combat several other enemy planes joined the action from above and observing one of these attacking a member of his patrol, he climbed up under it, and firing at point-blank range shot it down. | wiki:766 |
Reed G. Landis | Honors and awards | General Orders No. 8, W.D., 1934 Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) | wiki:767 |
Reed G. Landis | Bibliography | "American Aces of World War 1" Harry Dempsey. Osprey Publishing, 2001. , . | wiki:768 |
East German rugby union championship | Introduction | The East German rugby union championship was a rugby union competition in the German Democratic Republic, commonly referred to as East Germany. The competition was first held in 1952 and had its last edition in 1990, being terminated by the events of the German reunion. | wiki:769 |
East German rugby union championship | Competition | The competition was carried out via the "DDR Rugby-Oberliga", which consisted of, for a large part of its live time, eight clubs. Below it sat the "2. Liga", the second division. The competition was carried out in a home-and-away season, a final was not played. | wiki:770 |
East German rugby union championship | Participating clubs | The number of rugby clubs in East Germany was never large and the "Rugby-Oberliga" had, at times, even first and reserve teams playing in it. The following clubs played in the league and championship and some stage: | wiki:771 |
East German rugby union championship | Winners | The East German championship was held from 1952 to 1990, with the Stahl Hennigsdorf Rugby as the most successful team, winning 27 championships:. | wiki:772 |
Giulio Salvadori | Introduction | Giulio Salvadori (; born 14 September 1862 in Monte San Savino, Tuscany – died 7 October 1928 in Rome, Lazio) was an Italian poet, literary critic and educator. | wiki:773 |
Giulio Salvadori | Life | Salvadori was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he became a friend of Gabriele d'Annunzio. In 1885, he converted to Roman Catholicism, leading to a parting of the ways from d'Annunzio. Salvadori first taught in high schools, then became an assistant professor at the University of Rome. He was never a full professor there, which was perhaps due to the fact that the state authorities made such appointments and were strongly anticlerical and reluctant to appoint intellectual Christians. In 1923, Father Agostino Gemelli, the new Chancellor of the Catholic University of Milan, persuaded Salvadori to join him there, where he was appointed Professor of Italian Language and Literature and went on to become Dean of the Humanities faculty. | wiki:774 |
Giulio Salvadori | Life | In 1928, he returned to Rome as chairman of the Final Examinations Committee, but died suddenly on 7 October. He was entombed in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline Hill. | wiki:775 |
Attilio Nicodemo | Introduction | Attilio Nicodemo (born 25 January 1974) is an Italian footballer who plays for Sorrento in Lega Pro Prima Divisione as a midfielder. | wiki:776 |
Attilio Nicodemo | Career | Born in Rome, Lazio region, Nicodemo started his senior career at Serie D side Termoli, located at Molise region. He then played 5 seasons at Serie C1, for Nola, then Juve Stabia and Foggia. He followed Foggia relegated to Serie C2 in 1999. In 2000, he was bought by Roma along with Giuseppe Di Masi and Franco Brienza, and joined sister club Palermo in co-ownership deal along with Luca Ferri, for 300 million Italian lire. Brienza and Roma player Daniele De Vezze also joined the Sicily side on loan. He then loaned to French Ligue 2 side Nice, where he played 17 times. | wiki:777 |
Attilio Nicodemo | Career | In June 2001, Palermo acquired the remained 50% registration rights for 5 billion lire. In 2001–02 season, he was loaned to Chieti. In August 2002, after Roma's president Franco Sensi sold Palermo to Maurizio Zamparini, Nicodemo and Riccardo Rimondini joined Roma. He went to Florence for newly re-found Florentia Viola, along with Roma's Raffaele Longo, Luigi Panarelli and Antonio Rizzo. In 2003–04 season, he was loaned to Serie C1 side Teramo. In mid season he deal became permanent. In summer 2006, he joined Serie C2 side Portogruaro. In July 2007 for Serie C1 side Sorrento. | wiki:778 |
Bill Robens | Introduction | Bill Robens is a Los Angeles-based playwright, screenwriter and actor, whose written works include "The Poseidon Adventure: the Musical" (co-written with Genemichael Barrera), "The Towering Inferno: the Musical" (co-written with Steve Marca), a comedy variety show, "A Fish Without His Flippers" and "A Mulholland Christmas Carol," which earned Bill an L.A. Weekly Theatre Award for Best Adaptation. | wiki:779 |
Bill Robens | Career | Bill Robens began writing for the theatre shortly after becoming a member of Theatre of NOTE, a Los Angeles theatre company specializing in new plays. His first satirical piece, "The Poseidon Adventure: the Musical" (co-written with Genemichael Barrera), was independently produced, drawing large crowds and excellent reviews. Robens then wrote a holiday play, "A Mulholland Christmas Carol," which was performed at Theatre of NOTE with great success during the Christmas season of 2002, ultimately becoming an annual holiday event. "The Towering Inferno: the Musical" (co-written with Steve Marca), and the comedy variety show "A Fish Without His Flippers" soon followed. | wiki:780 |
Bill Robens | Career | Bill Robens' critically acclaimed gumshoe satire "Kill Me Deadly" played to packed houses for the entirety of its thrice-extended 2009 inaugural run at Theatre of NOTE. In 2009, Bill Roben's first feature film as a writer, "Scream of the Bikini", directed by long-time collaborator Kiff Scholl, began playing the festival circuit. | wiki:781 |
Khurendukhosaurus | Introduction | Khurendukhosaurus is a genus of choristodere, a type of amphibious reptile. It is known from Lower Cretaceous rocks of Mongolia and Russia. Two species have been named. The type species, "K. orlovi", was named in 1984 by Sigogneau–Russell and Efimov for the fragmentary postcranial skeleton PIN 3386/3. This specimen was discovered in the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Hühteeg Svita Formation at Hüren Dukh, central Mongolia. The lake deposits at this site also contain fossils of the choristoderes "Irenosaurus" and "Tchoiria". Other postcranial bones of "K. orlovi" have been found at this site as well. Second species "K. bajkalensis" was named by Efimov in 1996 for PIN 2234/201, consisting of a scapulocoracoid and a rib. | wiki:782 |
Khurendukhosaurus | Introduction | These bones were found in the Lower Cretaceous Murtoi Formation at Lake Gusinoye, Buryatia, Russia. The first Russian choristodere, Efimov and Storrs (2000) found it difficult to distinguish from "K. orlovi" based on the small amount of material. Skutschas (2008) reported on additional material which supported the placement of the Russian taxon within "Khurendukhosaurus", but found the species "K. bajkalensis" to be dubious within the genus. An indeterminate species is known from the Batylykh Formation. "Khurendukhosaurus" was a small choristodere, approximately long at most. Efimov and Storrs regarded it as a basal member of Choristodera, but Skutschas was unable to confirm this in a phylogenetic analysis. | wiki:783 |
Khurendukhosaurus | Introduction | It may have been related to the hyphalosaurids, a group of long–necked choristoderes. The neural spines of the tail are elongate, suggesting that it swam by using a tall tail. | wiki:784 |
Can-Am United Floorball Club | Introduction | The Can-Am United Floorball Club, known simply as Can-Am United FC, is a floorball club consisting of players from both Canada and the United States. The club is one of the first ever joint Canada-U.S. floorball clubs, and will be a building block on which ties can be strengthened between both floorball in Canada and in the United States. As well, it will build a partnership between many players. The club is only the second joint team ever in the history of North American floorball, the previous being the North-American All-Star Team, which participated in the intermediate division of the 2007 Czech Open. | wiki:785 |
Can-Am United Floorball Club | History | The floorball club was created in 2010 by several North American free agent players looking for a team to participate with at the Canada Cup. After being in contact with each other and finding other players, the team registered for the tournament in the Intermediate Division. The club is a mix of three North American floorball clubs: Alaska's Arctic Floorball Monkeys, the Boston Bandyts Floorball Club, and the Edmonton Panthera Floorball Club. As well, the team has free agent players from Colorado, D.C., Massachusetts, and Vermont. | wiki:786 |
Can-Am United Floorball Club | Roster difficulties | Originally posed to send three players to the tournament, the Edmonton Panthera could only send one, but instead were able to pick up another free agent player from the Vaughan Sharks in the form of Paul Charbonneau. | wiki:787 |
Can-Am United Floorball Club | Tournament results | Can-Am FC played in the intermediate division, with their debut being on May 22, 2010 at York University, in Toronto, Ontario. They won their first match by a score of 3:2 over Innebandy Chicago. After steamrolling the St. James Floorball Club by a score of 9:1, the club was shut out in its next two matches against Toronto Floorball League clubs iMove Blue Collars and Striation Six Striators by scores of 2:0 and 3:0, respectively. Following the 4 round robin matches, Can-Am United found itself tied for 4th place in their division with the iMove Blue Collars. Due to tournament tiebreaker rules, the iMove Blue Collars advanced to the playoff round based on head-to-head statistics, eliminating Can-Am United from the tournament. | wiki:788 |
Can-Am United Floorball Club | Roster | "As of May 28, 2010" Note: Paul Charbonneau, Matthew Ellis, and Myles Hacking double as both defensemen and goalkeepers | wiki:789 |
Bersan | Introduction | Bersan (1882–1904) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. He was foaled in Kentucky and bred by Frank B. Harper, who also owned his sire Ten Broeck and dam, Sallie M. Green B. Morris purchased Bersan as a yearling for $10,000. Trained by Morris, as a three-year-old Bersan was one of the best Thoroughbreds racing in the United States. He ran second to Joe Cotton in the 1885 Kentucky Derby and won the Phoenix Hotel Stakes, Clark Handicap, Latonia Derby, and Travers Stakes, among others. His 1885 performances earned Bersan retrospective American Co-Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse honors. At age four at the Ivy City Racetrack in Washington, D.C., Bersan won the one and one eight mile National Hotel Handicap and Riggs Rouse Stakes. | wiki:790 |
Bersan | Introduction | Then, at the Maryland Jockey Club course in Baltimore, he won a mile and a quarter race for horses of all ages. On December 18, 1886, Morris sold Bersan at a Lexington, Kentucky sale to prominent breeder Daniel Swigert, who stood him at his Elmendorf Farm. In 1894, Berson was sold to Capt. Kidd. Bersan only produced a few offspring, the most successful of which was Sacket (b. 1895), who won the 1901 American Grand National Steeplechase. He died on July 9, 1904. | wiki:791 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | Introduction | Lieutenant Augusto Rodríguez (1841 – March 22, 1880), was a Puerto Rican who served as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Rodríguez served in the defenses of Washington, D.C. and led his men in the Battles of Fredericksburg and Wyse Fork. | wiki:792 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | Early years | Augusto Rodríguez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico when the island was still a Spanish possession. He emigrated with his family to the United States in the 1850s. The 1860 census of New Haven, Connecticut, shows there were 10 Puerto Ricans living there, amongst them Augusto Rodríguez, who resided in Columbus Ave. On August 20, 1862, Rodreques married Miss. Eliza Hickox in New Haven; they had a daughter, Clara A. | wiki:793 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | 19th century Puerto Rican diaspora | During the 19th century, commerce existed between the ports of the eastern coast of the United States and Puerto Rico. Ship records show that many Puerto Ricans traveled on ships that sailed from and to U.S. and Puerto Rico. Many of them settled in places such as New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, many Puerto Ricans joined the ranks of the military armed forces. However, since Puerto Ricans were still Spanish subjects, they were inscribed as Spaniards. | wiki:794 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | 15th Connecticut Regiment | On July 23, 1862, Rodríguez volunteered and joined the 15th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. For unknown reasons his name was misspelled and listed as "Augustus Rodereques". He originally held the rank of First Sergeant of Company I. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on April 12, 1864. The 15th Connecticut was organized on August 25, 1862 in New Haven, and was also known as the "Lyon Regiment" in honor of Nathaniel Lyon, the first general officer killed in the U.S. Civil War. The Regiment left Connecticut for Washington, D.C. on August 28, and was attached to Casey's Provisional Brigade, Military District of Washington, serving in the defenses of Washington until September 17, 1862. | wiki:795 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | Battles of Fredericksburg and Wyse Fork | In December 1 through 6, the 15th Connecticut Infantry marched to Fredericksburg, Virginia and was assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. Lieutenant Rodríguez led his men in the Battle of Fredericksburg which was fought against General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from December 12–15. The battle resulted in a disastrous defeat for General Burnside and the Union Army. Burnside attempted to make an offensive movement on January 20, 1863, in which Lt. Rodríguez and the men of the 15th Connecticut Regiment were involved. | wiki:796 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | Battles of Fredericksburg and Wyse Fork | However the offensive, which became known as the Mud March, was aborted because of constant rain. In March 1865, Rodríguez and the 15th Connecticut were assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Beaufort, North Carolina, Department of North Carolina. From March 8–10, Rodríguez once more led his men in combat in the Battle of Wyse Fork, a confrontation against a Confederate army being gathered under Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and Union troops under the command of Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield. On the first day of the battle, Lieutenant Rodriguez, along with most of the 15th Connecticut, was surrounded and compelled to surrender. | wiki:797 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | Battles of Fredericksburg and Wyse Fork | Rodriguez and his comrades were paroled on March 26. The final outcome of the battle resulted in a Union victory. | wiki:798 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | Later years | The regiment was mustered out on June 27, 1865 and Rodríguez was discharged in New Haven on July 12, 1865. After the war Rodríguez became the proprietor of a cigar store, a bartender and saloon keeper. He was also a firefighter in New Haven. On July 3, 1873, Rodríguez applied for a disability service connected pension. According to Rodríguez, he claimed to have developed Rheumatoid arthritis during his service in the U.S. Army. He was awarded a pension of $2.00 (two dollars) a month. He died in his home in New Haven on March 22, 1880, and was buried under the name of "Gustave Rodrique" in grave #2 in the Firefighters Pantheon at the Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven. | wiki:799 |
Augusto Rodríguez (soldier) | Later years | On Veterans Day, November 11, 2013, Rafael Cruz Miller and a group representing the Puerto Rican community in Connecticut placed a floral arrangement in a ceremony which recognized Rodriguez as Puerto Rico’s first known U.S. Armed Forces veteran. | wiki:800 |