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# George de la Warr

George Walter de la Warr (19 August 1904 – 31 March 1969) was an English civil engineer and a pioneer in the field of radionics. In 1953, he resigned from his engineering position with Oxfordshire County Council to work within the discredited field of radionics. His devices were denounced by medical experts.

## Career

According to Langston Day's 1956 book New Worlds Beyond the Atom, written in collaboration with de la Warr, de la Warr passed the Associate Membership examination of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers by the age of 20 and three years later, passed the examination for the Institution of Civil Engineers. He then held various engineering positions before becoming chief engineering assistant for the Oxfordshire County Council, a position he held for 16 years.
De la Warr was influenced by the devices of Ruth B. Drown and Albert Abrams. De la Warr invented devices that he said could identify symptoms such as "toxins", "fracture", and "secretion imbalance". He also claimed to have invented a camera that could detect and cure diseases by remote control. In June 1960, he was sued in the High Court by Catherine Phillips, a disgruntled former customer who said that her health had been ruined by using the Delawarr Diagnostic Instrument. In particular, she said that the box could not possibly have the benefits that de la Warr claimed for it. De la Warr said that his device operated above the physical plane, and the box was only used as a focus for thought. After ten days of argument, the judge eventually found for de la Warr, but considered the box to be bogus.
He founded Delawarr Laboratories in Oxford where he did his research and built many radionic devices. Delawarr Laboratories closed in 1987. Most of the radionic artifacts have unknown whereabouts. However, the radionic camera was given to Marcel J. Vogel, Psychic Research Inc. in San Jose, California. Vogel and Dan Willis did extensive tests and trials with the camera. Vogel died in 1992. The whereabouts of the camera since then is unknown.
Leslie Weatherhead, who had known de la Warr, had supported his devices.

## Criticism

De la Warr's radionic devices have been criticized by health experts as quackery. De la Warr was also notable for making unproven claims such using a photograph of insecticide on his machine to kill pests in a field miles away.

## Patents

* French patent number 1,084,318 – "Perfectionnements à la recherche d'une radiation fondamentale"
* UK patent number 741,651 – "Therapeutic apparatus"
* UK patent number 761,976 – "Therapeutic apparatus"

## Publications

* Experiments Relating to Increases in Crop Yield by Radionic Stimulation (1955)
* New Worlds Beyond the Atom (1956; written by Langston Day in collaboration with de la Warr)
* Matter in the Making (1966; written by Langston Day in collaboration with de la Warr)
# Mauro Carlesse

Mauro Carlesse (born 26 June 1960) is a Brazilian politician as well as a businessman. Although born in Paraná, he has spent his political career representing the state of Tocantins, having served as state governor from 2018 to 2022.

## Personal life

Carlesse was born in Terra Boa in the state of Paraná, but moved to Tocantins to pursue a career in entrepreneurship. Before becoming a politician Carlesse worked as a businessman in the farming and animal husbandry industries in Tocantins. In the mid-2000s Carlesse became the president of the rural union of Gurupi.

## Political career

Carlesse began his political career in 2011 and joined the Green Party. The following year, he ran for mayor of Gurupi, receiving 16,713 votes or 42.78% of the total ballot, but ultimately lost the election to Laurez Moreira of the Brazilian Socialist Party.
In 2013 Carlesse changed his membership to the Brazilian Labor Party and in 2014 ran for the state legislative assembly of Tocantins. He received 12,187 votes, managing to be elected to the 8th legislature in the Tocantins Legislative Assembly.
In 2016 Carlesse joined the Humanist Party of Solidarity. On 8 July 2016 Carlesse was elected president of the Legislative Assembly for the 2017/2019 biennium. After 2018 elections the Humanist Party of Solidarity dissolved after it did not meet the membership threshold, and Carlesse joined the Democrats and took over the party's national vice presidency.
Carlesse was elected governor of Tocantins during the 2018 Brazilian gubernatorial elections, after the incumbent Marcelo Miranda did not contest the governorship.
# Damião Feliciano

Damião Feliciano da Silva (born 28 April 1952) is a Brazilian politician who has been a federal deputy from the state of Paraíba since 2007, having also previously been a federal deputy from 1999 to 2004. He is currently affiliated with the Brazil Union party (UNIÃO). He was the state secretary of Science, Technology, and the Environment from 2005 to 2006. His wife is former vice-governor of Paraíba and fellow doctor Lígia Feliciano.

## Biography

Born in Campina Grande, he graduated with his medical degree from the Campina Grande School of Medicine. He founded several hospitals in the area, namely Hospital Mariana and Hospital de Urgência, where he had acted as director general and administrative and financial director from 1982 to 1998. He was a founding partner of Panorâmica FM de Campina Grande and a personality on 100.5FM de Santa Rita, where he presents the A Voz do Coração program daily, which highlights different cities in Paraíba. From 2005 to 2006, he was state Secretary of Science, Technology, and the Environment as part of the administration of governor Cássio Cunha Lima.
Feliciano began his political career in 1992 as a candidate for mayor in Campina Grande, as part of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB), but was not elected. He was first elected as a federal deputy in 1998, receiving 76,101 votes and becoming the second most voted for candidate in Paraíba. He lost reelection in 2002, but was elected as a substitute deputy. He assumed the position as a substitute deputy as part of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) in 2004 for five months. In 2006, as part of the Liberal Party (PL), he was reelected as deputy, and was reelected in 2010 as part of the Democratic Labour Party (PDT). He was the president of the state branch of the PDT. In the Chamber of Deputies, he has been a part of parliamentary groups, and is the president of the Parliamentary Front in Defense of Health Professionals. In 2023, he assumed the leadership of the recently created Black Bench of the Chamber of Deputies, made up of Black and racially mixed deputies of the chamber.
Feliciano voted against the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. He later voted for a similar inquiry towards the impeachment of Michel Temer. In the same term, he voted in favor of the New Fiscal Regime, but did not vote on the 2017 labor reforms. On 24 November 2020, the creation of an external commission from the Chamber of Deputies was authorized to monitor the investigation into the murder of João Alberto Silveira Freitas in Porto Alegre. The commission is coordinated by Feliciano, and is also composed of five other deputies: Benedita da Silva, Bira do Pindaré, Silvia Cristina, Áurea Carolina and Orlando Silva.
# Ary Kara

Ary Kara (26 March 1942 – 1 November 2019) was a Brazilian politician and sports executive. He served as a federal deputy from 1999 to 2003 and 2005 to 2007, a state deputy in São Paulo, and a councilor in Taubaté. He also was chairman of Esporte Clube Taubaté from 2009 to 2012.
He was a graduate of the Universidade de Taubaté. On 1 November 2019, Kara died of cancer in São Paulo.
# Márcio Matos

Márcio Artur de Matos (born March 29, 1946, in Mineiros do Tietê, São Paulo) is a Brazilian politician, current mayor of Telêmaco Borba, municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.
He is a physician trained at the Federal University of São Paulo. He is from the Democratic Labour Party (PDT). He was alderman and federal deputy.
# Oscar Noronha Filho

Oscar Noronha Filho (January 9, 1916 – April 2015) was a Brazilian lawyer, military and politician. He was the Federal Deputy who replaced Leonel Brizola during the first years of the Militar Dictatorship in Brazil.

## Biography

During the World War II, he fought in the Brazilian Expedicionary Force (FAB).
In the 1962 Legislative Elections, was unsuccessfully candidate for Federal Deputy for Guanabara. However, due to the 1964 Coup d'état, he took office on April 13, 1964, replacing Leonel Brizola (PTB).
In 1999, Noronha Filho became the president of the National Mobilization Party (PMN) after the exit of Celso Brant (AVANTE).
# Edir Oliveira

Edir Pedro de Oliveira (3 February 1950 – 4 August 2022) was a Brazilian politician. A member of the Brazilian Labour Party, he served as the mayor of Gravataí from 1993 to 1997.
Oliveira died of cardiac arrest in Gravataí on 4 August 2022, at the age of 72.
# Męcikał

Męcikał is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brusy, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) south-west of Brusy, 16 km (10 mi) north-east of Chojnice, and 88 km (55 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
# Armistead Burt

Armistead Burt (November 13, 1802 – October 30, 1883) was a planter, slaveholder and U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born at Clouds Creek, near Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina, Burt moved with his parents to Pendleton, South Carolina. One of his brothers was future Civil War officer Erasmus Burt. He completed preparatory studies. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced in Pendleton. He moved to Abbeville, South Carolina, in 1828 and continued the practice of law. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1834 to 1835, and 1838–1841.
Burt was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1853). He served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses). He served as Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives during the absence of Speaker Winthrop in 1848. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1852. He resumed the practice of law in Abbeville. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868. He died in 1883. He was interred in Episcopal Cemetery.

## Sources

* ↑ Weil, Julie Zauzmer (10 January 2022). "More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation". Washington Post. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Database at "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-13, retrieved 2024-04-29
* United States Congress. "Armistead Burt (id: B001145)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives :
| Preceded byFrancis W. Pickens | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 5th congressional district 1843–1853 | Succeeded byJames L. Orr |
# Mary Roman

Mary Barboza Roman (September 9, 1935 – March 23, 2020) was an American senior Olympics athlete and community leader.

## Early life

Born Mary Barboza in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of a nurse and a railroad construction worker. She was the eldest of three children. The family lived in the Berkshires, where some of their cousins, including Lynda Jean Gunn, occasionally modeled for illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Mary graduated from Williams High School and Springfield College.

## Athletic achievements

After contracting polio as a child, Roman was advised to do English-style horseback riding as it would strengthen her legs. "I guess it worked," she later said.
Beginning in 1989, encouraged by her husband's competitive swimming athleticism, Roman competed in senior track and field events. She competed in sprints and jumps, but excelled in throwing events such as javelin and shot put. A heart attack in 2003 did not stop her from continuing her athletic pursuits.
In 2009, she competed in the New England Regional Outdoor Track and Field Championships, winning four gold medals in the women's age 70-74 category; the Masters Outdoor Championships, where she won three gold medals, a silver and a bronze; and the Senior Olympics (Senior Games), where she won a silver. The Fairfield County Sports Commission named her Norwalk's Sports Person of the Year for 2009. In 2017 she received a donation from the Fairfield County Sports Commission to support her participation in the World Masters Games in Australia.
By 2014 Mary Roman had won more than 250 medals and was ranked first in the United States in the women's age 75-79 ultra-weight throw, super-weight throw, and weight throw; and eighth in the world in the latter. She also held the U.S. record in the shot put in the women's 65–69, 70–74, and 75-79 age groups.

## Community and family

Roman identified as African American, although her mother was Native American and her father was of Portuguese descent. She married Granville Roman in 1953 and moved to Stamford, Connecticut. They soon bought a house in Norwalk, where they raised five sons. Granville died in 1999.
Roman worked in banking, advancing from teller to an executive position before going to work for the City of Norwalk. There she served as Assistant City Clerk and City Clerk under three different mayors. She ran unsuccessfully for Town Clerk in 2009.
Her community volunteer activities included serving on many boards and commissions, including the Norwalk Senior Center, STAR, Rotary Club, and the city's Charter Revision Commission.
In recognition of her community service and athletic achievements, in November 2024, Norwalk renamed the track around Malmquist Field, located on the city hall campus, for Roman.

## Death

Roman died from complications of COVID-19 in Norwalk, Connecticut, on March 23, 2020, at age 84. After her death, Roman was featured in a COVID-19 memorial segment on PBS television.
# James Fisk (politician)

James Fisk (October 4, 1763 – November 17, 1844) was an American politician from Vermont. He served in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

## Early life

Fisk was born in Greenwich, in what was then the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the son of Stephen Fisk and Anna Bradish. His father died when Fisk was a year old, and he was largely self-educated. As a teenager, he worked on his family's farm.

## Start of career
### Military service

He served in the Revolutionary War from 1779 to 1782 as a private in Captain Willis' Company, Colonel Brooks' Regiment, a unit of the Massachusetts Militia.

### Post-American Revolution

After the war, he was a farmer in Greenwich. In 1785, Fisk served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court. Fisk was ordained as a Universalist minister, and preached occasionally. He married Priscilla West in 1786.

## Move to Vermont

In 1798, Fisk moved to what is now Barre City, Vermont, but was then a village in the Town of Barre. While owning and operating a farm, Fisk received his credentials as a Universalist minister and began to preach. He also studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law as the first attorney in Barre. In 1799 he was elected to the town's board of selectmen.
Fisk represented Barre in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1800 to 1805, 1809 to 1810 and in 1815. He was judge of the Orange County, Vermont Court from 1802 to 1809 and in 1816. In 1803, he was Orange County's member of the commission to choose a permanent site for the state capital, which selected Montpelier In 1804, he served as chairman of the commission that attempted to settle the question of the Vermont-Canada boundary.

## Congressman

In 1804, Fisk was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic-Republican. He was reelected in 1806, and served two terms, March 4, 1805, to March 3, 1809. He ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1808.
In 1810, Fiske was elected again to the House. He was reelected in 1812, and served from March 4, 1811, to March 3, 1815. He was chairman of the Committee on Elections.
Fisk was appointed United States Judge for the Territory of Indiana in 1812 by President James Madison, but declined the appointment. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1814, and served as judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont from 1815 to 1816.

## U.S. Senator

In 1817, Fisk was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dudley Chase. He served from November 4, 1817, until resigning on January 8, 1818 to become U.S. collector of customs for the district of Vermont. He served from 1818 until 1826, moved to Swanton, Vermont, in 1819 so that he could be closer to the border with Canada and the crossing points where customs were paid.

## Death

Fisk died in Swanton on November 17, 1844.

## Family

Following his Revolutionary War service, Fisk married Priscilla West (1763–1840).
Fisk's daughter Parma was the wife of Orlando Stevens, who served as Fisk's deputy collector, and was later a member of the legislatures of both Vermont and Minnesota.
# Winsome Evans

Winsome Joan Evans OAM BEM (born 26 October 1941), is one of Australia's premier early music specialists.

## Biography

She received a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree in composition from the University of Sydney, where her lecturers included Peter Sculthorpe. In addition to her activities as a professional harpsichordist, composer, and arranger, she is known for her role as director of the Renaissance Players, one of Australia's leading early music ensembles. She was an associate professor of music at the University of Sydney.
Evans has "re-composed" all of Johann Sebastian Bach's works for solo violin as works for clavicembalo, adding accompaniments as she believes Bach must have had in mind. Her recording of her recomposition of the 6 Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001–1006, was released in 2009.
In 2017 she donated a harpsichord made by Mars McMillan to Sancta Sabina College in Sydney.

## Awards and honours

In 1980 she was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and the NSW Jaycees' Award for services to music. In 1986 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to music.
She was featured, along with her colleague Australian composer and music professor Anne Boyd, in the documentary Facing the Music.
She uses the name Snave Pluckpayres in some contexts.
# Edward S. Brooks

Edward Schroeder Brooks (June 14, 1867 – July 12, 1957) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

## Early life

Edward S. Brooks was born in York, Pennsylvania. He attended the York County Academy and York Collegiate Institute.

## Career

He was engaged as a banker, manufacturer of steel forgings, and as a contractor. He served as a member of the city council from 1897 to 1902, and as treasurer of York County, Pennsylvania, from 1903 to 1905. He was a member of the Republican State committee in 1917 and 1918.
Brooks was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1922. After his time in Congress, he served as acting postmaster of York, Pennsylvania, from September 30, 1925, until February 23, 1926, and postmaster from 1926 to 1931. He was engaged in the clothing business from 1937 until his retirement.

## Personal life

He was a member of Knights of Pythias.

## Death

He died in York and is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Edward S. Brooks (id: B000876)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
* The Political Graveyard
# Hillman Howard Sersland

Hillman Howard Sersland (August 10, 1906 – October 21, 1985) was an American politician.
Hillman Sersland was born to parents Halvor and Malla Brown Sersland, and had eight younger siblings. He attended rural school in Winneshiek County and took courses at Luther College until 1926. Sersland began selling farming equipment in 1930, and was active in the Winneshiek County Farm Bureau and the local Lutheran church. He married Decorah native Irene W. Olson in 1929, with whom he raised three children: Howard, Walter, and Marilyn.
Sersland was first elected to the Iowa House of Representatives as a Republican in 1952, and served continuously for District 91 until 1965, when he was defeated by Urban Hageman.
Sersland died on October 21, 1985, at his son Howard's home in Decorah.
# Herman Rechberger

Herman Rechberger (14 February 1947 – 11 January 2022) was an Austrian-born Finnish composer, conductor and musician.

## Life and career

Born in Linz, Allied-occupied Austria, Rechberger studied classical guitar at the Bruckner-Konservatorium in his hometown and later continued his musical studies in Zürich and at the Brussels Conservatory. In 1970 he moved to Finland to attend the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, graduating in recorder, guitar and composition. He was granted citizenship in 1974, and after working for a few years as a music teacher he worked at the Finnish Broadcasting Company as a music journalist, a producer of contemporary music and as director of Yle Experimental Studio.
Rechberger's compositions spanned different genres, including operas, symphonies, happenings, sonic sculptures, electronic music, orchestral compositions as well as reconstructions of ancient music. He was also active as a recorder player, touring with Sonores Antiqui [fi] and The Poor Knights, and as a conductor.
He died on 11 January 2022, at the age of 74.
# Młynek, Chojnice County

Młynek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brusy, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) west of Brusy, 20 km (12 mi) north of Chojnice, and 89 km (55 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
# William F. Colcock

William Ferguson Colcock (November 5, 1804 – June 13, 1889) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, Colcock attended Hulburt's School, Charleston, South Carolina, and was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1823. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Coosawhatchie, South Carolina. He also engaged in planting. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1830–1847.
Colcock was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853). He was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1850–1853. He served as collector of the port of Charleston 1853–1865, serving first under the United States Government and subsequently under the Confederate States Government. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston in 1860. He resumed the practice of law. He died in McPhersonville, Hampton County, South Carolina, on June 13, 1889. He was interred in Stoney Creek Cemetery, South Carolina. 1860 census shows he owned 181 slaves in St. Luke’s Parish.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "William F. Colcock (id: C000603)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives :
| Preceded byRobert B. Rhett | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 7th congressional district 1849–1853 | Succeeded byDistrict eliminated in 1853 |