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# Benjamin W. Alling

Benjamin W. Alling (November 7, 1879 – February 24, 1950) was an American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from the New Britain district from 1922 to 1926 and as the Attorney General of Connecticut from 1927 to 1931.
# Grímur Skútuson

Grímur Skútuson (died 1321) was a Norwegian Roman Catholic clergyman, and monk, he was consecrated as bishop of Iceland in 1321, however he died before arriving in Iceland. He was scheduled to serve in the diocese of Skálholt.
# St. Barbara Bastion

Close to the Valletta Grand Harbour, St. Barbara Bastion is a flat-faced bastion with a low parapet overlooking the Grand Harbour Area, Valletta, Malta.

## History

St. Barbara Bastion was built during the 16th Century by the Knights of St. John. These bastions are part of the stone fortifications of Valletta City. Because this part of the bastion was strongly guarded by Fort St. Angelo, situated on the side of the Grand Harbour, St. Barbara bastion was not considered important enough to be assigned to the Knights of the Order of St. John. Instead it was managed by the Association of Bombardiers (Ghaqda tal-Bumbardieri). Since the Association had St. Barbara as their patron saint, it was considered customary to name the Bastion in her honour. St. Barbara's church in Strada Reale, Valletta also bears the same name as it too was managed by the Association of Bombardiers.

## Architecture

This fortification with historical and architectural value is listed as part of the National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands (NICPMI).
St. Barbara street on St. Barbara bastion presents a row of 19th Century Houses overlooking the grand harbour. This area is cited as one of the most sought after addresses in Valletta.
Late 19th Century photos show the Parapet without trees. This area may well have been the first parapet in Valletta to have been decorated with a row of trees.
St. Barbara Street follows the Orthogonal planning of Valletta by Military Engineer Francesco Laparelli, a plan for the city designed to have square street blocks with straight streets intersecting at right angles. After drawing the plans he left the work to his Maltese assistant Gerolamo Cassar. Various stories have cropped up during the years mentioning the existence of a number of pits excavated close to Saint Barbara bastion for the storage of ice, which was brought over from Sicily and used by the Knights at the nearby Sacra Infermeria ( now known as the Mediterranean Conference Centre).
St. Barbara bastions and the areas close to it including Victoria Gate (also known as Porta del Monte) and Ta' Liesse Church underwent various restoration efforts by the Valletta Rehabilitation Project in 2009. Dangerous structures in the church were replaced together with restoration of the dome, belfry and facade. Over 4,000 metres of facade of St. Barbara Bastion was also restored over a period of 15 months.

## Notable sites

The Honorary Consulate of Indonesia to Malta is situated here.
# William Lawrence (Ohio Democrat)

William Lawrence (September 2, 1814 – September 8, 1895) was a state legislator and one-term member of the United States House of Representatives from the 17th District of Ohio, serving from 1857 to 1859.
He also served as President of the board of directors of the Ohio Penitentiary.

## Biography

Lawrence was born in Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio. He graduated from Jefferson College (now Washington & Jefferson College) in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1835.

### Early political career

After farming for a few years, Lawrence was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1843. He was a Presidential elector in 1848 for Secretary of State Lewis Cass, and Congressman William Orlando Butler. He was a delegate to the Ohio State constitutional convention in 1851. From 1856 to 1857, he served in the Ohio Senate.

### Congress

On March 4, 1857, William Lawrence (D) was sworn-in as the Representative from the 17th Congressional District of Ohio to the 35th U.S. Congress. Lawrence served only in this Congress, as he was elected only to one term in office.

### Later career

Upon leaving Congress, Lawrence served again in the Ohio Senate (in 1867, 1885, and 1886).
He also served as president of the board of directors of the Ohio Penitentiary, a prison in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

### Death and burial

William Lawrence died in Old Washington, Ohio on September 8, 1895, and is interred at the Washington Cemetery.

### Family

Lawrence was father of Ohio Attorney General James Lawrence.
# Helen Haenke

Helen Haenke (1916–1978) was an Australian artist, poet and playwright whose work was part of an emerging literary community in southeast Queensland in the late 1960s and 1970s.

## Early life

Haenke was born Helen Joyce Petherbridge on 9 May 1916 at Wickham, New South Wales, the daughter of Dr. Walter Petherbridge and his wife, Lily. She was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College in Burwood. She trained as a commercial artist at East Sydney Technical College and studied painting under Max Meldrum in Melbourne. She was interested in many aspects of design. She married Willis Lynn Haenke, a Queensland industrial chemist, in 1937 in Petersham, Sydney. Her husband was involved with munitions production during World War II. They returned to Queensland in 1943 to help run the family's coal mining interests in Ipswich, including Rhondda Colliery. They moved into the Haenke family home, Rockton, in 1953. Rockton would become a popular venue for recitals, concerts and play readings. Haenke continued to work on her art, specialising in still life, portraiture and domestic scenes. An exhibition of her work was held in 2009 at the Redland Bay Art Gallery.

## Writing career

Haenke began contributing prose and poetry to newspaper and literary magazines from the 1930s. Many of her short stories were published in the Australian Women's Weekly in the 1950s. She also published under the pseudonym, 'Winkle' and 'Inglewick'. She won an award in an Ipswich drama competition for her unpublished play, Truth to tell in 1960. Many of her poems and short stories were published in the journal Southerly. Her first published poem won a Courier Mail competition in 1965. She wrote a number of one act plays in the late 1960s, including Black Out (1967), First Performance, In Memoriam, Late Warning and Return to the Fray. She also wrote the libretto for an opera, The Pied Piper, which was performed in Brisbane in 1971. Her one act play, Firebug was performed at the Brisbane Warana Festival in 1978. It was published in the collection, Three Queensland One-Act Plays for Festivals (1978). She wrote the full length plays, Summer Solstice (original title Under the bridge), which was performed by the Brisbane Arts Theatre in 1964, The Bottom of a Birdcage (original title Emoh Ruo) was performed in 1976. Her last play, The Passage was performed by the Ipswich Little Theatre in 1978.

## Publications

The Good Company (1977) – poetry anthology
The Bottom of a Birdcage (1978) – two-act play
Prophets and Honour (1979) – poetry anthology

## Memberships

Foundation member, Ipswich Forum Club
Ipswich Business and Professional Women's Association
Member, Australian Society of Authors
Board member, Ipswich Girls Grammar School

## Legacy

Haenke died on 7 December 1978 in Ipswich. She was survived by her husband and three daughters. Haenke's unpublished manuscripts, poems and other writings are held in the University of Queensland Fryer Library. A book celebrating Haenke's life was published in 2017, Helen Haenke at Rockton: a creative life.
# Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage

Henry Rainald Gage, 6th Viscount Gage, KCVO, (30 December 1895 – 27 February 1982) was Viscount Gage of Firle Place during much of the 20th century.
He was born to Henry Charles Gage and Leila Georgina Peel. His Gage family ancestry included extensive roots in British North America from the Schuyler family, the Delancey family, and the Van Cortlandt family.
Upon the death of his father in 1912, he succeeded him as Viscount Gage when he was only 16. Gage served in World War I as a Captain of the Coldstream Guards, seeing action in both France and Belgium. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 58th (Home Counties) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, on 17 June 1936. He held the office of Parliamentary Private Secretary between 1924 and 1929, to the Secretary of State, India. He held the office of Lord-in-Waiting between 1924 and 1929. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Sussex in 1927. He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Sussex. He held the office of Lord-in-Waiting between 1931 and 1939.
In 1931, Gage donated papers and letters written between 1758 and 1764 by his famous relative General Sir Thomas Gage to the William L. Clements Library of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gage later (between 1958 and 1965) donated letters and documents from ancestral in-law Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Warren to the Sussex Archaeological Society in Lewes.
At the beginning of World War II, the family moved to a smaller house, and nearby Southover girls' school in Lewes was evacuated for a short time to Gage's family home in Firle. After they had moved, Canadian soldiers were quartered at the family manor. In 1952, Gage's mother-in-law died, leaving artwork to his wife, Imogen. The couple decided to showcase the art in their home, opening Firle Place to public tours in 1954.
In 1968, Imogen died. Gage was remarried in 1971 to Diana Cavendish. He died in 1982 at the age of 86. A stained glass window by the artist John Piper was installed in St Peter's Church, Firle, and dedicated to his memory.
He was appointed Deputy President of Sussex Wildlife Trust on 13 January 1962 and retired at the AGM on 29 April 1967. He is listed as the Director of Over Timber (Fawley) Ltd. and of Firle Estate Co.Ltd

## Family

On 26 February 1931, Gage married Alexandra Imogen Clair Grenfell (Imogen), daughter of William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough; they had three children:
* George John St. Clere Gage, 7th Viscount Gage (8 July 1932 – 1993)
* (Henry) Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage (born 9 April 1934)
* The Hon. Camilla Jane Gage (born 12 July 1937), married Edward Cazalet
# John Durham Wing

John Durham Wing (November 19, 1882 – February 29, 1960) was the second bishop of the Diocese of South Florida in The Episcopal Church, serving from 1932 to 1950. He was elected bishop coadjutor in 1925.

## Early life and education

Wing was born on November 19, 1882, in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of John Durham Wing and Sallie Miller Peeples. He was educated at the Atlanta public schools, before studying at the University of Georgia, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1903. He also studied business at the College of William & Mary in 1907. In 1910, he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity from the Virginia Theological Seminary. Wing was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from the University of Georgia in 1918, from the University of the South in 1926, and from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1926. In 1932, he was also awarded a Doctor of Laws from Rollins College.

## Ordained ministry

Wing was ordained deacon on June 26, 1909, and priest on July 3, 1910, by Bishop Cleland Kinloch Nelson of Atlanta. Between 1910 and 1912, he served as rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter in Atlanta, Georgia, and from 1912 till 1913, he served as rector of the Church of the Incarnation in Atlanta, Georgia. On March 31, 1913, he married Mary Catherine Ammons, and together had a total of four children. That same year, he transferred to Anniston, Alabama, to take up the post of rector of Grace Church. In 1915, he returned to Georgia to serve as rector of Christ Church in Savannah, Georgia. Between 1923 and 1925, he was rector of St Paul's Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

## Episcopacy

On May 6, 1925, Wing was elected Coadjutor Bishop of South Florida. He was consecrated on September 29, 1925, at St Paul's Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by the Bishop of South Florida Cameron Mann. He succeeded as diocesan bishop on February 8, 1932, and retired in 1950. During his episcopacy, he eliminated the diocesan debt and increased support for diocesan programs in social services. He died at the Orange memorial Hospital in Orlando, Florida, on February 29, 1960.
# Ahmed Ismail Samatar

Ahmed Ismail Samatar (Somali: Axmed Ismaaciil Samatar, Arabic: أحمد إسماعيل سمتر) is a Somali writer, professor and former dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College. He is the editor of Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies, and brother of Abdi Ismail Samatar, chair of the geography department at the University of Minnesota. Samatar joined the Peace, Unity, and Development Party, the ruling party of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland in June 2016. Samatar is being widely touted as a possible candidate for Somaliland's 2022 presidential elections.

## Biography

Ahmed Ismail Samatar was born and raised in the Gabiley District, situated in Somaliland. He is the brother of scholar and politician Abdi Ismail Samatar. His father Ismail Samatar Mohamed (Dheere) was a businessman and traditional elder, and his mother Haliimo Abdilaahi Kahin is the sister of the late coffee tycoon Mohamed Abdillahi Ogsadey.
Samatar began his early traditional Islamic schooling (mal'amad qur'an) while he was young. His first Qur'an teacher was Ma'alin Hassan Fahiye. In 1952, he was the first student enrolled in the first Gabiley Primary/intermediate school, where he finished his lower education. His middle and high schools were in Amoud Intermediate and Agricultural secondary school.
After finishing high school, Samatar moved to Mogadishu, the capital city of the Somalia, where he was accepted as a radio broadcaster at Radio Mogadishu in the mid 60s. In the late 60s, Ahmed filled a vacancy at the BBC African service, although was still young. He served as a BBC broadcaster till the mid 70s when he made up his mind to get a higher education. He later moved from London to the United States.
Samatar has lectured at many universities and colleges, including Cornell, Harvard, Iowa, London School of Economics and Political Science, Somali National University, Toronto University, University of Amsterdam, York University, University of Otago, University of Hargeisa and Wellesley College. His expertise is in the areas of global political economy, political and social thought, and Somali affairs. He is the author/editor of five books and over thirty articles.
Additionally, Samatar is the founding editor-in-chief of Bildhaan, one of the international journals of Somali Studies. He is also the editor of eighteen volumes of Macalester International, a publication of undergraduate education and internationalism.
A Fulbright Fellow, Samatar has been awarded grants by the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the St. Paul Foundation.
His current research is on two tracks: a collaborative two volumes on leadership and the Somali experience; and globalization and the rise of Islamic consciousness. Since 1994, Samatar has been teaching at Macalester College, where he is the James Wallace Professor and retired Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship.
In mid-2012, Samatar ran for political office as one of the potential candidates in Somalia's 2012 presidential elections.
# Malvin Russell Goode

Malvin Russell "Mal" Goode Sr. (February 13, 1908 – September 12, 1995) was an African-American television journalist and news correspondent.

## Education and early work

Goode was born in White Plains, Virginia, educated in the public school system of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1931. Starting in high school, he was employed for twelve years as a laborer in steel mills, until five years after his graduation. Appointed to a position in the Juvenile Court as a boys work director at the Centre Avenue YMCA, he spearheaded the fight against discrimination in the Pittsburgh branches of the YMCA. Goode worked with the Pittsburgh Housing Authority for six years and joined the Pittsburgh Courier in 1948, where he remained for 14 years.

## Radio and television career

A year later he began a career in radio broadcasting with KQV radio, doing a 15-minute news show two nights a week. Soon, he had a five-minute daily news show on WHOD, where he was named that stations news director in 1952.
In 1962 he became the first Black network news correspondent for ABC television network as a United Nations (UN) reporter. He reportedly received this position after baseball player Jackie Robinson, who was the first Black player in the major leagues, complained to ABC executives about the lack of Black reporters. Goode's first assignment was covering the Cuban Missile Crisis. He distinguished himself with incisive TV and radio reports during the long hours of debate at the UN.
For two months in 1963 he joined three of his peers to conduct courses in journalism for over 100 African students in seminars in Lagos, Nigeria; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Goode was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and in April 1968 covered the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a fellow fraternity brother
in 1971, Goode became the first Black member of the Radio-Television News Directors Association.
In 1990, the National Association of Black Journalists inducted Mr. Goode into its hall of fame.
Malvin Goode died of a stroke on September 12, 1995, at the age of 87 in Pittsburgh.
In 1996 the T. Thomas Fortune Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred posthumously on Malvin R Goode, sponsored by Garden State Association of Black Journalists chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, funded by Miller Brewing Company and Philip Morris Inc.
In 2024 a biography by Liann Tsoukas and Rob Ruck entitled Mal Good Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer was published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
# Maggie Goes on a Diet

Maggie Goes on a Diet is a children's book by Paul Kramer about weight management in childhood aimed towards children aged 6–12. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 19 libraries as of May, 2015.

## Plot summary

The book is about Maggie Magee, a 14-year-old girl who goes from being obese to thin. At the beginning of the book Maggie is bullied for being obese and she eats much bread and cheese in order to feel good. As time goes on she learns that if she is fat she will be bullied and decides to take action by losing weight. After eating healthier food such as fruit and oatmeal, and exercising more, she loses weight, her bullies become friends and she becomes very popular. She starts playing sports and at the end of the book she becomes a star soccer player.

## Controversy

The book has been criticized for its portrayal of weight loss in a book aimed towards young children, with parents and critics claiming that it could be potentially harmful to the very people that the book seeks to help. Film director Darryl Roberts states "We have to protect our children. Everyone's looking at today's youth as advertising opportunities, and it's screwing them up. A 6-year-old shouldn't be reading a book about someone who lost weight, became popular and life became better." Some consumers have chosen to boycott the book on Amazon, claiming that its message can be harmful.
Author Paul Kramer has defended his book, stating, "Maggie is accepting that kids are mean and kids can be mean and she has decided to do something about it, to take things in her own hands, try to change her own life, try to make herself healthy by exercising. She does want to look better. She does want to feel better and she does not want to be teased." Physician William Sears defended the work in a 2012 discussion, as he liked the book's moral of Maggie recognizing and taking responsibility for her obesity.
# Zach Erdem

Zach Erdem (born July 17, 1982) is a Turkish television personality and entrepreneur. He is an owner and partner in several Long Island-based restaurants and nightclubs including 75 Main in Southampton, New York. Zach and his staff appear on American reality television show Serving the Hamptons which premiered April 7, 2022 on Discovery+. Seasons 2 and 3 of the show were picked up by HBO Max, its current streaming platform. The reality TV show features employees and patrons from his eateries and nightlife venues.

## Personal life

Zach was born and raised in Erzincan, Turkey to mother Seriban and father Gazi Erdem, he is the second youngest of six brothers. He attended middle school in Erzincan and completed high school education in Istanbul. Afterward, he pursued higher education at the University of Edirne and received a business finance degree in 2001. The following year, Zach moved to the USA, where he worked in various cities, including Miami, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, eventually returning to New York.

## Career

Erdem opened the 75 Main Restaurant and Lounge during 2010 in Southampton, New York. It became a fixture in the Southampton town, with features on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Real Housewives of New York, Serving the Hamptons and more. Tastemakers such as Kelsey Grammer, and Kendall have bartended and launched their alcoholic beverage brands at this location. Erdem subsequently opened the Blu Mar Restaurant and Harpoon House Hotel locations in 2016, then Main Room Nightclub in 2019 at the same venue. During 2023 these ventures were followed by expansion to the North Fork, where Erdem opened a Mediterranean restaurant ZErdem, and ZEY Hotel, along with a restaurant and lounge, Café 75, in Greenport, New York.