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# Jonathan Strong (author)

Jonathan Strong (born 1944) is an American author of novels and short stories.

## Personal life

Jonathan Strong was born in 1944. He was raised in Winnetka, Illinois, where he attended North Shore Country Day School. He enrolled at Harvard University in 1962, but dropped out in the middle of his senior year as his writing career advanced. He returned to Harvard and earned his bachelor's degree in 1969. That year, he began his long career teaching fiction-writing at Tufts University. Strong lives in Rockport, Massachusetts, and West Corinth, Vermont.

## Written work

Strong's first short story, "Supperburger," was published in the Parisian Review (1966). The following year it won an O. Henry Award. It has since been analogized and, according to literary critic James Morrison, has become "a kind of classic in gay fiction." Strong's first novel, Tike and Five Short Stories (1968), won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Rosenthal Award. In 1970, Strong's short story "Patients," published in The Atlantic Monthly, won another O. Henry Award. Strong published his second novel, Ourselves, in 1971. Annie Gottlieb, a reviewer for The New York Times, called it "probably the best book yet to come out of my generation." After those early successes, it was fourteen years until Strong published another novel, although he continued to publish stories in periodicals including Esquire and Shenandoah.
His reappearance as a novelist begin with Elsewhere (1985). Strong's next six novels were published with Zoland Books; Secret Words (1993), Companion Pieces (1993), An Untold Tale (1993), Offspring (1995), The Old World (1997), and A Circle Around Her (2000). Zoland stopped publishing new books in 2001. His more recent works, all with small presses, include Drawn from Life (2008), Consolation (2010), More Light (2011), Hawkweed and Indian Paintbrush (2013), The Judge's House (2015), Quit the Race (2017), and Four Last Songs (2020). In a 2011 interview, Morrison said that Strong was "among the most underrated writers in the country."
# USS Menemsha

USS Menemsha (AG-39) was a cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was used as a weather-gathering ship, a patrol craft and convoy escort vessel in the North Atlantic Ocean. Although a Navy ship, she was operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, and eventually was transferred to that agency as USCGC Menemsha (WAG-274).

## Built in Duluth, Minnesota

Ordered as the Menemsha (AG-39) was built and launched as the Lake Orange by McDougall Duluth Shipbuilding Company, Duluth, Minnesota, in 1918; purchased as John Gehm by the Maritime Commission from her owners, Bison Steamship Corp., Buffalo, New York, in 1941; acquired by the Navy 19 September 1941; renamed Menemsha and classified AG-39 on 15 October 1941; converted from a lake cargo hauler to a weather patrol ship by Maryland Drydock Company. Baltimore, Maryland; and commissioned under loan to the U.S. Coast Guard 20 January 1942.

## World War II service

Assigned to duty with the North Atlantic Weather Patrol, Menemsha patrolled various at sea weather stations out of Boston, Massachusetts, and Argentia, Newfoundland. Averaging about 3 weeks a patrol, she braved the perils of the storm tossed North Atlantic Ocean and the menace of German U-boats to gather valuable weather data from her isolated positions.
In addition, Menemsha maintained a constant alert for the enemy undersea raiders as well as for survivors from torpedoed ships. While patrolling south of Newfoundland 20 August 1942, she rescued the only five survivors from the British merchant ship Arletta, torpedoed by U-458 on 4 August while a straggler from Convoy ON 115. Menemsha returned the survivors to Boston 25 August.
Almost 1 year later, Menemsha, on a weather patrol, sighted a German submarine. As she steamed about midway between the Virginia Capes and the Azores on the moonlit night of 11 August 1943, her lookout spotted a surfaced sub, U-760, about 6,000 yards off her starboard bow. She closed for attack and began shelling the U-boat with 4 inch gunfire. During the next half-hour she chased the enemy which responded with "incoherent recognition signals" rather than with torpedoes or return fire. The determined weather patrol ship fired 20 rounds, one of which struck close aboard the fleeing sub's conning tower.
Menemsha broke off attack after suspecting the presence of other enemy U-boats in the area. She rendezvoused with a hunter killer group, headed by USS Croatan, at noon the 12th; however, patrolling aircraft and escorting destroyers failed to flush U-760, who interned herself on the Spanish coast 8 September.

## Transfer to the U.S. Coast Guard

The Navy transferred Menemsha to the Coast Guard 22 October 1943 and she was commissioned as USCGC Menemsha (WAG 274). Her name was struck from the Navy List 30 October 1943. After long and valuable service in the Coast Guard, she was scrapped in 1951.
# Pico da Bandeira

Pico da Bandeira, or Bandeira Peak (Portuguese for Flag Peak, pronounced), is the third highest mountain in Brazil, situated on the border of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais states. It is the highest point in both states. It was considered the highest mountain in Brazil until 1965, when Pico da Neblina and Pico 31 de Março, next to the Venezuelan border, were explored, measured, and both found to be higher. The peak is said to have been so named after Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, ordered a flag to be flown on top of it. Pico da Bandeira is ranked 21st by topographic isolation.
Pico da Bandeira is remarkable for being the Brazilian mountain with the greatest topographic isolation: 2,344 km (1,457 miles). This means that at less than that distance, there is no other point on the surface of the Earth at equal or greater elevation. In the Americas, only Aconcagua, Denali, Pico de Orizaba and Mount Whitney are more topographically isolated than Pico da Bandeira, and in the entire world, there are only 20 more isolated mountains.
It is one of the major attractions of Caparaó National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional do Caparaó), accessible from the nearby town of Alto Caparaó. That town and the entrance to the park lie in Minas Gerais, but the summit of Pico da Bandeira lies in Espírito Santo.
The summit is accessible to hikers of most age groups, with only very limited fitness requirements. The track from the park entrance to the summit track [8 km (5.0 mi)] can be driven by most vehicles, and the summit track itself runs for approximately 9 km (5.6 mi), with a further 1,000 m (3,280 ft) climb.
# Departmental Council of Ariège

The Departmental Council of Ariège (French: Conseil départemental de l'Ariège, Occitan: Conselh departamental d'Arièja) is the deliberative assembly of the French department of Ariège. Its headquarters are in Foix.

## Composition

The departmental council of Ariège includes 26 departmental councilors elected from the 13 cantons of Ariège.
Composition by party (as of 2021) :
| Party | Acronym | Seats | Groups |
| Majority (21 seats) |||||
| Socialist Party | PS | 19 | Ariège notre avenir en commun |
| Miscellaneous left | DVG | 2 | Ariège notre avenir en commun |
| Opposition (5 seats) |||||
| Miscellaneous right | DVD | 1 | Ariège positive |
| Miscellaneous left | DVG | 2 | Un projet partagé |
| Miscellaneous right | DVD | 1 | Libres et solidaires |
| Miscellaneous left | DVG | 1 | Libres et solidaires |

## Executive
### President

Henri Nayrou succeeded Augustin Bonrepaux (PS), who had been in office since 2001 and had resigned, as the president of the general council of Ariège on November 3, 2014. Following the departmental elections of 2015, Henri Nayrou was elected president of the new departmental council with 17 votes against 7 for Benoît Alvarez (DVG). Nayrou subsequently resigned, and Christine Téqui was elected to replace him on November 8, 2019.

### Vice-presidents

In addition to the president, the executive has 6 vice-presidents.
Vice-presidents of the Departmental Council of Ariège (since 2021) :
| Order | Name | Party | Canton (constituency) | Delegation |
| 1st | Jean-Paul Ferré | PS | Val d'Ariège | Environmental and societal transition, economic development and integration |
| 2nd | Alain Naudy | PS | Haute-Ariège | Infrastructures |
| 3rd | Marie-France Vilaplana | PS | Pamiers-1 | Solidarity |
| 4th | Nicole Quillien | PS | Mirepoix | Education |
| 5th | Raymond Berdou | PS | Arize-Lèze | Culture, youth, sports and citizenship |
| 6th | Véronique Rumeau | PS | Foix | Administration and finance |
# Takhteh Duz

Takhteh Duz (Persian: تخته دوز, also Romanized as Takhteh Dūz; also known as Takhteh Dozī and Takhteh Dūzī) is a village in Qaleh Darrehsi Rural District, in the Central District of Maku County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 324, in 59 families.
# Popielżyn Górny

Popielżyn Górny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Joniec, within Płońsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) east of Płońsk and 51 km (32 mi) north-west of Warsaw.
# Christophe Richer

Christophe Richer de Thorigny (Italian: Christoforo Riccherio) (1514?–1552/53) was valet de chambre to Francis I, a secretary to Cardinal Antoine Duprat, and a French ambassador of the 16th century. He was born in Thorigny-sur-Oreuse (to day, Yonne departement) Thorigny. His father, and his brother Nicolas was notary. His oldest brother, Jean Richer (+1569), was president of the presidial of Sens (Yonne), friend of Joachim Du Bellay, and Andre, another brother, monk of the Vauluisant abbey, was bishop of Chalcedonia (+1555). He was ambassador to Scandinavia and Germany.
In the 1530s, Christophe Richer was sent by Francis I to Constantinople. In 1540 he published a study of the Ottoman civilization, De rebus Turcarum, also published in French that same year under the title Des Coustumes et manières de vivre des Turcs.
In 1541, Francis I sent Christophe Richer to Denmark and Sweden, the first official French embassy to a Protestant state. Richer was French ambassador to Denmark in 1547.

## Works

* De rebus Turcarum ad Franciscum Gallorum regem Christianiss by Christophe Richer
* Des Coustumes et manières de vivre des Turcs by Christophe Richer
Some authors had been considered his work about the Fall of Constantinople as an account of an eyewitness (certain unknown Riccherio), but it was later discovered that it was actually Christophe Richer who composed his testimony of this event based on the work of several historians, such as Egnatius Cipelli, Flavio Biondo, Bartolomeo Platina, Michele Ricci, Robert Gaugin, Paolo Giovio and Andrea Cambini.
# Fred Kurz

Frederick J. Kurz (3 September 1918 – 28 November 1978) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. He made 148 appearances in the English Football League for Crystal Palace and also played for Grimsby Town. He concluded his career in non-league football with Boston United.

## Playing career

Kurz began his youth career in local football with Grimsby YMCA. In 1938, he signed for Grimsby Town but made only three senior appearances before his career was interrupted by World War II. He made wartime football appearances for Crystal Palace before signing for the club on a regular basis on 26 December 1945. When League football resumed in 1946–47, Palace played in the Third Division South. Kurz made 36 appearances that season, scoring five times. Over the subsequent four seasons he made 33 (18 goals), 37 (12 goals), 25 (10 goals), and 17 (3 goals) appearances respectively.
In August 1951, Kurz moved on to Boston United.

## Personal life

Fred Kurz died on 28 November 1978, aged 60.
# Lagoa do Frio Municipal Nature Park

The Lagoa do Frio Municipal Nature Park (Portuguese: Parque Natural Municipal Lagoa do Frio) is a municipal nature park in the state of Sergipe, Brazil.

## Location

The Lagoa do Frio Municipal Nature Park is in the municipality of Canindé de São Francisco, Sergipe. It has an area of 278.99 hectares (689.4 acres). The park is in the extreme northwest of the state, near the border with Bahia. It is one of three conservation units in the caatinga biome, the others being the Grota do Angico Natural Monument and the Rio São Francisco Natural Monument. Operated at the municipal level, the park has not created any agreement for cooperation in developing studies. Little has been written about the park other than a study of fragmentation of the caatinga biome.

## History

The Lagoa do Frio Municipal Nature Park was created by decree 41 of 23 October 2001. The park became part of the Caatinga Ecological Corridor, created in May 2006. As of 2013 there was no management plan.
# Fred Mace (footballer)

Fred Mace (October quarter 1895 – 18 August 1938) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, he began his playing career in local-league football with Godley Athletic and Copley Celtic. In 1919, he joined Lancashire Combination side Stalybridge Celtic. The club was one of the founder members of the Football League Third Division North two years later, and Mace made one league appearance for them. Stalybridge left the Football League in 1923 to play in the Cheshire County League, where Mace was described as one of the best goalkeepers in the competition.
In May 1925, he was signed by Third Division North side Nelson, for a transfer fee of £100, as an understudy to Harry Abbott. He found it difficult to supplant Abbott and hence it was almost a year before he made his Nelson debut in the 3–3 draw with Chesterfield on 20 April 1926. It was another twelve months before Mace was selected for the team again, returning for the 6–2 win against Hartlepools United on 9 April 1927. He remained in goal for the following five matches, but the team suffered defeat in all five games and Mace was dropped following a 2–7 loss away at New Brighton. He made his final appearance for Nelson in the final match of the 1926–27 season, a 0–2 home defeat to Tranmere Rovers.
During his time with Nelson, Mace was a regular starter for the reserve team and missed only one match as the side won the Lancashire Combination in 1925–26. He was offered a contract by the club for the 1927–28 season, but he rejected it and opted instead to move into non-League football with Macclesfield Town, where he ended his career.
# Mika Sports Arena

Mika Sports Arena (Armenian: Միկա Մարզադահլիճ), is a multi-purpose sports arena located in the Shengavit District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It has a capacity of 1,200 spectators.
The arena was constructed in 2009 by the Mika Corporation Ltd., the owners of the currently-defunct football club Mika FC. It is located near the Mika Stadium.
Mika Sports Arena is currently home to the Armenia national basketball team. It was also home to the short-lived Urartu BC basketball team during 2016.

## History

The construction of the Mika Sports Complex was launched in 2006 on the grounds of the former Araks sports complex. The football stadium was completed in 2008, while the indoor sports arena was put in service by 2009.
The arena was owned by the Mika Corporation until 2014. However, on August 28, 2014, due to the accumulated debts of the owners, the ownership of the entire sport complex was transferred to the Government of Armenia for AMD 9.045 billion (US$22 million).
The arena is basically used for basketball matches, but it may also host handball, futsal and volleyball matches.
Mika Arena is among the regular venues of the Pan-Armenian Games.
# Fred Price (footballer)

Frederick Thomas Price (24 October 1901 – 16 November 1985) was an English footballer who played at outside left for various clubs in the 1920s.

## Football career

Price was born at Ibstock, Leicestershire, and played his youth football with Coalville Swifts and Whitwick Imperial before joining Leicester City in November 1920.
After four seasons at Filbert Street, where he was considered to be a "clever player", Price moved to the south coast to join Southampton in May 1924 along with half-back Dennis Jones as part of an exchange deal that saw full-back Harry Hooper move in the opposite direction. At The Dell, Price briefly formed a left-wing partnership with his uncle Cliff Price in the early part of the 1924–25 season, before the return of Jimmy Carr. Price was unable to break back into the side and in May 1925 he asked for a transfer.
In the 1925 close-season, Price moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of £250, where he remained for two seasons before joining Chesterfield in 1927.

## Family

Fred's brother Jack was also a footballer with Leicester City, Bristol Rovers, Swindon Town and Torquay United.
# Jack Watson (British Army officer)

Major John Bernard Robert Watson MC (14 January 1917 – 12 April 2011) was a British Army officer who was awarded a Military Cross for gallantry whilst serving with 13 Parachute Battalion in the Ardennes during the Second World War.

## Military career

John Watson was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, on 14 January 1917. He enlisted in the British Army in 1939 during World War II and served, initially, with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and the South Lancashire Regiment. He served with the 2/4th Battalion, South Lancashires which in 1943 was converted into the 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion.
Watson was a platoon commander on D-Day, 6 June 1944 and parachuted into Normandy and took part in the liberation of Ranville.
He served in the Ardennes as a company commander, and his company on 3 January 1945 led the assault into the village of Bure, Belgium. Watson's company from the launch of the attack came under heavy repeated attacks by enemy mortars, machine-guns and artillery, and there were immediate casualties. He led the company forward and when under attack organised the defences and drove the enemy from the part of the village his company had been tasked to clear. An extract from the citation for his Military Cross reads: " His conduct, energy and gallantry throughout were beyond praise, and without him the attack might well have failed. "
Watson served in Operation Varsity: the air assault landing over the Rhine on 24 March 1945 and took part in the advance across Germany to the Baltic Sea.
Following the Second World War he served in Palestine and was adjutant of the 1st Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment in Austria and the Canal Zone. He served with the 2nd Parachute Battalion before retiring from the Army in 1958.
He worked for J Lyons and Co to 1982. He was president of the Airborne Assault Normandy Trust. Watson was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur in 2005. He was made an honorary citizen of Bure and Tellin in the Ardennes and of Ranville, Normandy.
Watson had a leading role in organising the ceremonies which commemorate the anniversaries of the battle for Normandy, Ardennes campaign and the River Rhine crossing.
He married Laura Eyre in 1938 with whom he was to have one son and four daughters.
Major Jack Watson MC died on 12 April 2011, at the age of 94.
# Fred Roberts (footballer, born 1909)

Frederick Roberts (9 October 1909 – January 1979) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Birmingham and Luton Town.
Roberts was born in Greets Green, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. He signed for Birmingham in 1933, and in his first season, 1933–34, was the club's top scorer, though with only eight goals in a struggling side. The following season, he moved to Luton Town where he remained until 1945, making 180 appearances in the Football League and helping the club to the championship of the Third Division South in the 1936–37 season. During the Second World War Roberts remained at Luton, but played wartime guest football for other clubs, including Watford. After leaving Luton he had three seasons at Kettering Town. He died in Luton at the age of 69.

## Honours

Birmingham
* Top scorer: 1933–34
Luton Town
* Third Division South champions: 1936–37
# Uladzislau Litvinau

Uladzislau Litvinau (Belarusian: Уладзіслаў Літвінаў; born 7 January 2000) is a Belarusian canoeist. He competed in the men's K-4 500 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
# Fred Shaw (footballer)

Thomas Frederick Shaw (27 March 1909 – 1994) was an English professional footballer who scored 23 goals in 94 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Notts County, Mansfield Town and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic.
Shaw was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. He began his football career with Annesley Colliery and also played for Darlaston before turning professional with Birmingham in October 1932. Shaw made his debut in the First Division on 29 January 1934 in a 3–1 defeat at Blackburn Rovers. A mobile, lightweight inside forward, Shaw did not fit into Birmingham's style of play, and enjoyed greater success when he moved to Notts County. Put straight into the starting eleven for the Second Division match at home to Swansea Town, Shaw repaid his manager with a hat-trick, becoming only the second player in Notts County history to achieve the feat on his debut. After scoring 21 goals in 56 league games in two and a half seasons, Shaw spent a season with Mansfield Town and another with Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic before returning to his native Nottinghamshire on the outbreak of the Second World War.
# Fred Smith (footballer, born 1898)

Frederick Smith (26 November 1898 – 1971) was an English footballer who played at full back for Bury in the Football League in the 1920s and 1930s. He also played non-league football for Rossendale United, Ashton National and Hurst.
# Edward B. Cole

Edward Ball Cole (September 23, 1879 - June 18, 1918) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps during World War I. He was a leading expert on machine guns; he was killed in action during the Battle of Belleau Wood.

## Biography

Cole was born in on September 23, 1879, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Charles and Mary Lyon (Ball) Cole. He graduated from Harvard University in 1902, where he was a member of the Owl Club.
Cole was one of the United States' leading experts on machine guns and had published several articles and a book on the subject — Field Book for Machine Gunners (1917). He received a direct commission in the Marine Corps in World War I.
Cole received the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism during the Battle of Belleau Wood in which he was mortally wounded on June 10, 1918. On that day, while he was leading an attack on enemy machine guns a German hand grenade wounded him in the foot. When a second grenade landed in front of him, he grabbed it to throw it back and protect his men — it exploded in his hand. He crawled back to his men under rifle fire. He died from his wounds on June 18, 1918, in a field hospital near Coulommiers, France, with his brother, U.S. Army Brigadier General Charles H. Cole at his side. He is buried in the Aisne-Marne Cemetery, Belleau, France.
His decorations included the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross; as well as the French Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre.

## Citations

For his actions on June 10, 1918, during the Battle of Belleau Wood, Cole received both the Navy Cross and the Army Distinguished Service Cross.
Cole's Navy Cross citation reads:
    In the Bois de Belleau, France, on June 10, 1918, his unusual heroism in leading his company under heavy fire enabled it to fight with exceptional effectiveness. He personally worked fearlessly until he was mortally wounded.
His Distinguished Service Cross citation reads:
    In the Bois de Belleau, on June 10th 1918, displayed extraordinary heroism in organizing positions, rallying his men and disposing of his guns, continuing to expose himself fearlessly until he fell. He suffered the loss of his right hand and received wounds in upper arm and both thighs.”

## Namesake

The destroyer USS Cole (DD-155) was named for him. (The guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) was named for a different Cole: Darrell S. Cole.)