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# Richard Donovan (composer)

Richard Frank Donovan (1891–1970) was an American composer and organist. He was the Battell Professor of Music Theory at Yale University from 1947 to 1960.

## Biography

Donovan was born on 29 November 1891 in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied at the Yale School of Music and the Institute of Musical Art, the latter of which he graduated from in 1922. He also studied under Charles-Marie Widor in Paris.
In 1923, Donovan's was employed as a teacher at Smith College. He also taught at the Institute of Musical Art for a period. He joined the faculty of Yale in 1928 and was Battell Professor of Music Theory from 1947 to 1960. He was also acting dean of the school of music between 1940 and 1941.
Donovan was conductor of the Bach Cantata Club in New Haven from 1933 to 1944 and associate conductor of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra from 1936 to 1951.
Donovan began as a post-Impressionist. His style, according to H. Wiley Hitchcock, "developed to a lucid polyphony, despite closely woven textures, with frequent use of modal themes, sometimes of folktunes." He composed for a wide range of vocal and instrumental arrangements, sometimes calling for unexpected combinations. His chamber piece Soundings, for example, made use of trumpet, bassoon, and percussion. Among the materials Donovan used in his work were the poetry of Carl Sandburg and Frances Fenton Bernard Park, Elizabethan lyrics, and American folk hymns.
Donovan won the BMI Publication Award in 1945 for his Design for Radio.$^{:7}$
Donovan died on 22 August 1970 in Middletown, Connecticut. His paper are held by Yale University.

## Works
### Orchestral

* Wood-notes (for flute, strings, harp; 1924–5)
* Smoke and Steel (symphonic poem after Carl Sandburg; 1932)
* Symphony (for chamber orchestra; 1936)
* Ricercare (for oboe and strings; 1938)
* Suite (for oboe and strings; 1944–5)
* Design for Radio (1945)
* New England Chronicle (1947)
* Passacaglia on Vermont Folk Tunes (1949 )
* Symphony (1956)
* Epos (1963)

### Chamber

* Chamber sextet (for wind, piano; 1932)
* Piano suite (1932)
* Clarinet sonata (1937)
* Piano trio, in one movement (1937)
* Serenade (for oboe, strings trio; 1939)
* Terzetto (for 2 violins, viola, 1950)
* Soundings (bassoon, trumpet, percussion; 1953)
* Woodwind quarter (1953)
* Piano suite (1953)
* Music for six (for oboe, clarinet, string quartet; 1957)
* Fantasia (bassoon; 1960, revised 1961)
* Piano trio (1963)

### Choral

* How far is it to Bethlehem? (female voices, organ; 1927)
* Chanson of the Bells of Oseney (female voices, piano; 1930)
* To all you ladies now at hand (male voices, pian/orchestra; 1932)
* Fantasy on American Folk Ballads (male voices, piano/orchestra; 1940)
* Hymn to the Night (female voices; 1947)
* 4 Songs of Nature (female voices, 1953;
* Mass (unison voices, organ, 3 trumpets, timpani; 1955)
* Magnificat (male voices, organ; 1961)
# Craig Cumming

Craig Derek Cumming (born 31 August 1975) is a New Zealand former international cricketer. He played 11 Test matches and 13 One Day Internationals for the New Zealand national team. He played domestic cricket with Canterbury and Otago.

## Domestic career

Cumming, who was born at Timaru, played as a right-handed opening batsman. He played for Canterbury early in his career. He played for South Canterbury in the Hawke Cup and later moved to play for Otago in senior cricket.

## International career

Cumming had a largely unsuccessful international test career, playing only 11 tests before being dropped due to lack of batting ability. He only made one half-century – a top score of 74 – and failed to reach three figures in any of his test innings. On 5 March 2005 against Australia, he was the recipient of what is considered the fastest ever ball bowled in New Zealand, bowled by Brett Lee, in which he clocked 160.8 km/h (99.9 mph) at Napier as the fastest delivery of the over.

## After cricket

Cumming worked as a broadcaster for Newstalk ZB in Dunedin hosting local sports shows and producing 'The Country'. He was also one of the domestic Sky Sport commentator for domestic cricket and international home matches.
Cumming spent four years as head coach at Otago Sparks, before being appointed to the same role at English women's club of the The Blaze in December 2024.
# Luanda Municipality

8°50′49.49″S 13°16′17.33″E﻿ / ﻿8.8470806°S 13.2714806°E﻿ / -8.8470806; 13.2714806The Municipality of Luanda is one of the nine municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, Angola. It covers roughly 116 km$^2$ (45 sq mi) (second smallest in the province) and includes Ilha de Luanda. The population was 2,194,747 at the 2014 census and is projected to be 2,571,861 in 2019 per Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República de Angola.

## Administrative divisions

The municipality of Luanda is made up of six urban districts:
* Ingombota
* Rangel
* Maianga
* Angola Quiluanje
* Samba
* Sambizanga
# Bahamian pound

The pound was the currency of the Bahamas until 1966. It was equivalent to the pound sterling and was divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Standard sterling coinage circulated. Apart from a Bahamas penny coin struck in 1806, there were no special coin issues such as were found in Jamaica.

## History

In 1825, an imperial Order-in-Council was passed for the purposes of introducing sterling coinage into all the British colonies. It wasn't immediately very effective due to unrealistic ratings, and it required a further Order-in-Council to be passed in 1838. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Sterling coinage had replaced the Spanish dollar throughout all of the British West Indies. But it was only in the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Jamaica that the pound unit of account was used. In the Eastern Caribbean territories and in British Guiana, the dollar unit of account was retained in conjunction with the British coinage at a fixed rate of one dollar to four shillings and two pence. Unlike in Bermuda, the US dollar circulated freely alongside sterling coinage in the Bahamas.
The pound was replaced by the dollar in 1966, at a rate of 7/– = $1 (£1 = $2.86). This rate meant that the new Bahamas dollar was at a slight discount to the US dollar.
For a wider outline of the history of currency in the region, see currencies of the British West Indies.

## Coins

The only coin issued was a 1 penny coin struck in 1806. British coins circulated on the islands until 1966.

## Banknotes

The Bank of Nassau initially issued notes in denominations of 5/–, 10/–, and £1. 4/– notes were introduced in 1906. The bank failed in 1917, and the Bahamas government took over the issuance of banknotes on the islands.
The Public Treasury issued £1 notes in 1868, followed by government notes in 1869 for £1 and £5. In 1919, a new series of 4/–, 10/–, and £1 notes was introduced, with £5 notes reintroduced after 1936.
# James J. Gould

James J. Gould (September 1, 1823 – March 1, 1909) was a Michigan politician.

## Early life

Gould was born on September 1, 1823, in Hector, New York. James received a public school education. In 1854, James moved to Reading Township, Michigan.

## Career

In 1859, Gould served as the treasurer of Reading Township. In 1866, Gould moved to Kalamo Township, Michigan. In Kalamo, he worked as a farmer. In 1873, Gould served as justice of the peace in Kalamo alongside Joseph Gridley. On November 7, 1876, Gould was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, where he represented the Eaton County 2nd district from January 3, 1877, to December 31, 1878.

## Personal life

Gould was married to Adelia Fletcher. On February 28, 1890, Adelia died. In 1891, Gould remarried to Sarah J. Gridley. Sarah died on December 21, 1898.
Gould died on March 1, 1909, in Kalamo.
# Samuel Prescott Fairbanks

Samuel Prescott Fairbanks, QC (January 31, 1795 – December 7, 1882) was a lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Queen's County from 1836 to 1847 in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
He was born in Halifax, the son of Rufus Fairbanks and Ann Prescott, and was educated at King's College in Windsor. Fairbanks was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1818 and set up practice in Liverpool. In 1820, he married Charlotte Ann Newton. He served as registrar for the probate court from 1842 to 1847. Fairbanks was named Queen's Counsel in 1845. He served as provincial treasurer from 1845 to 1848. He was commissioner of crown lands from 1857 to 1872. Fairbanks died at home in Dartmouth at the age of 87.
His brother Charles Rufus Fairbanks, was also a lawyer and served in the provincial assembly.
# Stenopogon engelhardti

Stenopogon engelhardti is a species of robber flies, insects in the family Asilidae.
# Pityrogramma

Pityrogramma, the silverback ferns, or goldback ferns, is a fern genus in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae.

## Species

As of December 2019, Plants of the World Online recognized the following species and hybrids:
Phylogeny of Pityrogramma :
section
P. ebenea (von Linné) Proctor (Mountain silverback fern)
P. austroamericana Domin
P. sulphurea (Swartz) Maxon (Jamaican goldback fern)
Cerogramme
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P. trifoliata (von Linné) Tryon (Goldenrod Fern, threeleaf goldback fern)
P. calomelanos (von Linné) Link (Dixie silverback fern)
P. ochracea (Presl) Domin
Calomelanos :
Other species:
* P. aurantiaca (Hieron.) C.Chr.
* P. chrysoconia Maxon ex Domin
* P. chrysophylla Link (Island goldback fern)
* P. dealbata (C.Presl) Domin
* P. dukei Lellinger
* P. eggersii Maxon
* P. elongata (C.Chr.) Pic.Serm.
* P. euchrysa (Ekman ex Christensen) Ekman ex Testo
* P. ferruginea (Kunze) Maxon
* P. ×herzogii (Rosenst.) L.D.Gómez
* P. hirsuta Testo
* P. humbertii C.Chr.
* P. jamesonii (Baker) Domin
* P. lehmannii (Hieron.) R.M.Tryon
* P. ×mckenneyi W.H.Wagner
* P. opalescens Sundue
* P. pearcei Domin
* P. pulchella Domin
* P. rupicola Pic.Serm.
* P. schizophylla (Baker) Maxon
* P. triangulata Maxon
* P. ×watkinsii Testo
* P. williamsii Proctor
# Roald Muggerud

Roald Muggerud (12 December 1931 – 3 August 2024) was a Norwegian footballer. A native of Oslo, Muggerud spent most of his career at Lyn, where he won the Norwegian League championship in 1964. He was mostly used as a forward, but also played occasionally in defence. Muggerud played in four matches for the Norway national team from 1958 to 1960. Muggerud died in Oslo on 3 August 2024, at the age of 92.
# Alys Clare

Alys Clare is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Harris, author of English historical whodunnit novels primarily set in medieval times, featuring the characters of Abbess Helewise and Josse d'Acquin. Brought up in the countryside close to where the Hawkenlye Novels are set, she went to school in Tonbridge and later studied English at the University of Keele. She has also published books as Elizabeth Harris.

## Hawkenlye mysteries

Set in 12th-century England and featuring would-be detectives Josse d'Acquin and the Abbess of Hawkenlye, published by Hodder & Stoughton and Severn House.
* Fortune Like the Moon (1999)
* Ashes of the Elements (2000)
* The Tavern in the Morning (2000)
* The Chatter of the Maidens (2001)
* The Faithful Dead (2002)
* A Dark Night Hidden (2003)
* Whiter Than the Lily (2004)
* Girl in a Red Tunic (2005)
* Heart of Ice (2006)
* The Enchanter's Forest (2007)
* The Paths of the Air (2008)
* The Joys of My Life (2009)
* The Rose of the World (2011)
* The Song of the Nightingale (2012)
* The Winter King (2013)
* A Shadowed Evil (2015)
* The Devil's Cup (2017)

## Aelf Fen mysteries

Set in 11th-century England and featuring the healer Lassair, published by Severn House.
* Out of the Dawn Light (2009)
* Mist Over the Water (2009)
* Music of the Distant Stars (2010)
* The Way Between the Worlds (2011)
* Land of the Silver Dragon (2013)
* Blood of the South (2014)
* The Night Wanderer (2016)
* The Rufus Spy (2017)
* City of Pearl (2019)
* The Lammas Wild (2021)

## Gabriel Taverner mysteries

Set in Stuart England featuring physician Dr Gabriel Taverner
* A Rustle of Silk (2016)
* The Angel in the Glass (2018)
* The Indigo Ghosts (2020)
* Magic in the Weave (2021)
* The Cargo from Neira (2023)
* The Chrysanthemum Tiger (2024)

## World's End Bureau mysteries

Set in Victorian England
* The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits (2019)
* The Outcast Girls (2020)
* The Man in the Shadows (2022)
* The Stranger in the Asylum (2024)

## Other novels

* The Herb Gatherers (1991) (writing as Elizabeth Harris)
* The Egyptian Years (1992) (writing as Elizabeth Harris)
* The Sun Worshippers (1993) (writing as Elizabeth Harris)
* Time of the Wolf (1994) (writing as Elizabeth Harris)
* The Quiet Earth (1995) (writing as Elizabeth Harris)
* The Sacrifice Stone (1996) (writing as Elizabeth Harris)
* The Twilight Child (1997) (writing as Elizabeth Harris)
# Pamhagen

Pamhagen (Hungarian: Pomogy) is a town in the district of Neusiedl am See in the Austrian state of Burgenland.

## History

The first mention of Pamhagen was in 1268. A court day was documented in the city during 1547. In 1652, schools are mentioned for the first time.
During 1909, the Pamhagen Credit Union was founded. The SWIFT code is BIC RLBBAT2E071.
Like the rest of Burgenland, the town was part of Hungary under Austria-Hungary until 1920/1921.
# Expo This Week

Expo This Week was a Canadian news television series which aired on CBC Television in 1967.

## Premise

This series provided weekly reports during Expo 67, the World's Fair in Montreal. Besides news of the past week's activities, episodes featured interviews with visitors and celebrities and reports on Expo venues.
Peter Reilly hosted the series until he left and was replaced by Lloyd Robertson in September. Chantal Beauregard was added as co-host from July.

## Production

The CBC's international broadcast centre at Expo 67 was budgeted at $10 million. The series was produced in colour, using technologically advanced portable video equipment for location reports.
Jim Guthro initially produced the series with assistance from David Pears. From July, Guthro was replaced by Peter Elkington who was first assisted by Wilfred Haydon, then from September by Bill Bolt.
Series sponsor was Shell Canada, supplemented by Chrysler Canada during the first six weeks.

## Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 2 May to 17 October 1967.
# Gill German

Gill German is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for Clwyd North since 2024.

## Political career

She was elected as county councillor for Prestatyn North in 2022 and has been deputy leader of Denbighshire County Council, as well as lead member for Education, Children and Families.
She was selected in September 2023 as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the new constituency of Clwyd North. She won the seat in the 2024 general election, beating her Conservative opponent Darren Millar by 1,196 votes.
In November 2024, German voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.
# John VI of Vendôme

John VI de Vendôme (died 1365), Count of Vendôme and Castres (1354–1365) was a member of the House of Montoire and was the son of Bouchard VI (1290–1354) and Alix de Bretagne (1297–1377).
He lived mostly in Castres and fought at Poitiers (1356) where he was captured. In 1362, a troop of Gascon and English took the city and imprisoned Countess Jeanne de Ponthieu. Several attempts to deliver the city by force failed, and John VI had to be resolved to pay a ransom for the city.
In 1342, he married Jeanne de Ponthieu, they had two children:
* Bouchard VII, Count of Vendôme
* Catherine of Vendôme
# Siekbach (Werre)

Siekbach is a small river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is 4.6 km (2.9 mi) long and is a left tributary of the Werre near Bad Salzuflen.
# Ettingshall South and Spring Vale (ward)

Ettingshall South and Spring Vale is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council, West Midlands.

## Background

It was created in 2023 as a result of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England's recommendations that redrew the city's ward boundaries, with the new ward created from the former Spring Vale ward and part of Ettingshall ward. The new boundaries took effect from the May 2023 Council elections.
The ward borders the Blakenhall, Ettingshall North and Bilston South wards, as well as the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley to the south. It forms part of the Wolverhampton South East constituency.
# George Field

George Field or Fields may refer to:

## People

* George Field (chemist) (1777–1854), English chemist
* George Field (actor) (1877–1925), American silent film actor
* George Field (Kent cricketer) (1834–1901), English cricketer
* George Field (Oxford University cricketer) (1871–1942), English cricketer
* George Fields (baseball) (1852–1933), American professional baseball player
* George B. Field (born 1929), American astrophysicist
* George Wilton Field (1863–1938), American biologist
* George Fields (American football) (born 1935/36), American football player
* George Washington Fields (1854–1932), first Black graduate of Cornell Law School
* George Field (politician) (1904–2006), first executive director of Freedom House

## Transportation

* George Field, Illinois, a World War II United States Army Air Forces training base
# Katherine McGrath

Katherine McGrath was an American singer and stage and television actress, who appeared in several Broadway plays.

## Career

Katherine McGrath studied acting at The Boston Conservatory and later at the Royal Academy of London. McGrath acted almost exclusively in regional theatre during the 1970s and 1980s, receiving some press attention by 1977. She performed in Lake Charles, Louisiana at the Little Theater in a 1977 production called Katherine McGrath with a little help from her friends. McGrath performed at many of the great theaters in the United States: The Old Globe in San Diego, The Guthrie in Minneapolis, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, The Mark Taper Forum and The Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, The Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Hartford Stage Company, and as a member of The National Repertory Theatre, she performed at the historic re-opening of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. She focused on work in regional theatres around the country instead of New York, telling The New York Times "It would be nice to work at home... but it seems to me that the classical plays I want to do are in the regional theaters - and you are offered the opportunity to do two or three plays at once, in repertory. It alleviates the boredom of doing the same role night after night. The only place you can find that is in the regions."
From 1988 to 1994, McGrath appeared as a guest in several television shows. She appeared at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in numerous productions from 1982 to 2001. Roles included Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Goneril in King Lear, the title role in the one-woman show Shirley Valentine, and Emelia in Othello. McGrath was named an Associate Artist of The Old Globe, a designation reserved for artists who have had an extraordinary impact on The Old Globe through their work. During her run in The Music Man on Broadway, McGrath said "I did what I wanted all my life, working at the Globe. You don't make a lot of money, but your soul gets fed. The work is soul food.”

## Broadway

McGrath appeared in A Man of No Importance at the Lincoln Center Theater from September 12 to December 29, 2002 in the dual role of Mrs. Grace and Kitty Farrelly.
McGrath was cast as Miss Pross in the Broadway musical of A Tale of Two Cities, which opened for previews on August 19, 2008 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. The Broadway show closed on November 8, 2008.
She played Grandma in Billy Elliott at the Imperial Theatre from September 26, 2011 to January 8, 2012. McGrath played Mrs. Paroo in The Music Man from Apr 27, 2000 - Dec 30, 2001 in which Variety called her "a wonderful actress often seen at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater."

## Broadway credits

* Billy Elliott, Grandma
* A Tale of Two Cities (2008), Miss Pross
* The Music Man, Widow Paroo
* Night of the Tribades

## Television

* Frasier
* Cheers - Katherine played the part of Desiree Harrison (Sam's cleaning lady) in the episode titled 'The Book of Samuel'.
* Hill Street Blues
* General Hospital
* Trying Times
* Wonder Works
* Scandal in a Small Town
# Battle of Buwaib

Battle of Buwaib (Arabic: معركة البويب) was fought between the Sassanid Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate soon after the Battle of the Bridge.

## Prelude

Battle of the Bridge was a decisive Sasanian victory which gave them a huge boost to expel invading Arabs from Mesopotamia. Thus, they advanced with a huge army to fight the remnants of the Muslim army near Kufa on the Euphrates.
Caliph Umar sent reinforcements to the region which were mainly the people who were fighting Muslims during the Ridda wars.

## Battle

Al-Muthanna ibn Haritha managed to force the upcoming Persian army to cross the river to a place where his soldiers, who were divided into Brigades, could encircle their numerically superior opponents.
The war ended with a huge success for the Muslims, thanks in no small part to the help of local Christian Arab tribes who decided to help the Muslim army. According to Tabari, the Persian leader Mihran bin Badhan was killed by a slave, Jabir bin Abdullah, who belonged to the Taghlab tribe and two masters, Jarir and Ibn Hober (later, a dispute ensued between the masters regarding the sharing of Mehran's weapons and clothing which had to be resolved by Al-Muthanna). The Arabs gained the momentum to further expand their wars against the Sassanids and their allies.

## Historicity

Fred Donner, a scholar of Islam, considers the battle a fabrication as one of the major sources for the battle, Sayf ibn Umar, is known to have exaggerated at times.
# Kesher Israel

Kesher Israel is the name of various synagogues:
* Congregation Kesher Israel (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania
* Kesher Israel Congregation (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
* Kesher Israel (Washington, D.C.), also known as the Georgetown Synagogue
# Specialized System Consultants

Specialized System Consultants (SSC), is a private media company that publishes magazines and reference manuals. SSC properties have at various times included LinuxGazette.com, ITgarage.com, the monthly international print magazine Linux Journal, and the webzine Tux Magazine.

## Controversy

In 1996, the Linux magazine, Linux Gazette, which was at the time managed by creator John M. Fisk, was transferred to SSC (under Phil Hughes) on the understanding that the publication would continue to be open, free and non-commercial. Due to conflicts between SSC and Linux Gazette staff members, the magazine split into two competing groups which still remain separated.
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