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# Douglas Ford (British Army officer)

Captain Douglas Ford, GC (18 September 1918 – 18 December 1943) was a British Army officer of the Royal Scots and a British prisoner of war in the Second World War, who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for conspicuous gallantry. His citation was published in the London Gazette on 18 March 1946.

## Early life

Ford was born in Galashiels on 18 September 1918. He was a son of Mrs and Mr Douglas Ford, of 25 Bryce Avenue, Portobello. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh. A keen sportsman, excelling in rugby and cricket, he rose to school captain in 1936. He was 20, and on part-time studies at the University of Edinburgh for chartered accountancy, when he joined the Royal Scots at the outbreak of war. A member of the University OTC, he was commissioned, and posted to Hong Kong. His brother, James Allan Ford, was also a captain in the Royal Scots. This was the first time that two brothers in the regiment had served together in Hong Kong.

## Second World War

Ford was still serving in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots, when he and his brother were taken prisoner by the invading Japanese upon the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941. During his captivity at Sham Shui Po POW camp he made contact with British agents and planned, in conjunction with other officers, a major break out. Before the plans could be put into operation the Japanese grew suspicious and interrogated him and others they suspected of involvement. Despite torture in Stanley Prison, starvation and a sentence of death he refused to betray his comrades. After being forced to dig his own grave, he was executed by Japanese firing squad, at Sham Shui on 18 December 1943, with two fellow prisoners, Colonel Lance Newnham of the Middlesex Regiment, and Flight Lieutenant Hector Gray of the Royal Air Force. He is buried in Stanley Prison cemetery.
The citation noted:
   Captain Ford was interrogated, tortured, starved, and finally met his death with Colonel Newnham. Throughout his terrible ordeal, the behaviour of Captain Ford was superb. He refused to implicate any others. He maintained his spirits and those of his fellow prisoners until the end. His self-control, superb heroism, and self-sacrifice in face of the most brutal torture cannot have been surpassed.
King George VI approved the award '"in recognition of the most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner".
Captain Ford is buried in Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong, grave reference 1.B.41.
His brother, James Allan Ford, survived the war and later wrote a novel based on the life and death of Douglas Ford, Season of Escape, which was awarded the Frederick Niven Award.
# Alan Jewell

Alan Jewell (19 February 1932 – 22 August 2017) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
# Shaun Mannagh

Shaun Mannagh (born 6 August 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Cats in the Australian Football League (AFL).

## Early career

Originally from Walla Walla in the Hume Football League, Mannagh represented the NSW / ACT Under 16 Rams at the National Championships in 2013, while playing with Walla Walla and winning their 2013 seniors best and fairest.
Mannagh then played with the Murray Bushrangers in 2014 and 2015 in the TAC Cup and also played with North Albury in the Ovens & Murray Football Netball League from 2014 to 2018. Mannagh also represented the Ovens & Murray Football Netball League in the senior interleague side in 2016 too.
Mannagh was then recruited to Richmond's VFL reserves team where he played with them from 2017 to 2019. While remaining on Richmond's VFL list, Mannagh returned to the Ovens & Murray League, this time playing for Lavington in 2019 and was best on ground in their 2019 premiership with five goals, winning the Did Simpson Medal.
Mannagh spent the summer of 2020/2021 playing in the Northern Territory Football League with the Wanderers Football Club, who lost the preliminary final to St Mary's Football Club (NTFL).
Mannagh then played for Werribee in the VFL from 2021 to 2023, where he was runner up in the club's 2021 and 2023 best and fairest and finished 3rd in Werribee's best and fairest award in 2022.
He then kicked six goals from 28 disposals in a losing Grand Final against the Gold Coast Suns in 2023, being rewarded with the Norm Goss Memorial Medal.
After a few years of attracting the attention of AFL clubs, his Grand Final performances were enough to enter the national draft as a mature-aged rookie. Mannagh had a medical with Fremantle, an interview with Port Adelaide, and even mid-season draft conversations with Western Bulldogs before finally being chosen by Geelong in the second round of that year's national draft.

## AFL career

Mannagh was drafted by Geelong in the 2023 AFL draft at pick 36 as a mature-aged recruit. He made his senior debut at 26 years of age against St Kilda at GMHBA Stadium in round 1 of 2024. He kicked his first career goal against Adelaide the next week at Adelaide Oval, before he was omitted from the team for Geelong's Easter Monday clash with rivals Hawthorn.
Mannagh played his first final in September of 2024 against Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval. He was one of the best players on the ground, involved in 13 scores and kicking three goals, two of which came in a dominant third quarter. Mannagh's forward craft set up a home preliminary final for the Cats.
# Roy Lyons

Roy Francis Lyons (28 March 1916 – 31 March 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
# Walter Byron (ice hockey)

Jacob Walter "Wally" Byron (Jacob Valdimar Björnsson; September 2, 1894 – December 22, 1971) was an Icelandic-Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was the goaltender for the Winnipeg Falcons, the Canadian team that won the gold medal. He was born and died in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was of Icelandic descent, son of Björn Bjarnarson Byron and his wife Margrét Kristmannsdóttir.

## Awards and achievements

* Allan Cup Championship (1920)
* Olympic Gold Medalist (1920)
* "Honoured Member" of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
# Mpumelelo Xulu

Mpumelelo Xulu (born 28 January 1999) is a South African cricketer. He made his List A debut for KwaZulu-Natal Inland in the 2018–19 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge on 17 March 2019.
# Laohua Mosque

The Laohua Mosque (Chinese: 清真老华寺; pinyin: Qīngzhēn Lǎohuá Sì) is a mosque in Linxia City, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China.

## History

The mosque was built in 1368 during the reign of Hongwu.

## Architecture

The mosque is built with Chinese-style architectural style for its roof.
# Hector Gray

Hector Bertram Gray, GC, AFM (6 June 1911 – 18 December 1943) was an officer of the Royal Air Force, and a member of the British Army Aid Group, who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for "most conspicuous gallantry" in resisting torture after the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941.

## Early life

Gray was born on 6 June 1911 in Gillingham, Kent, the son of Lionel and Adela (née Duff) Gray, his father was a musician. Gray joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an aircraft apprentice at RAF Halton.

## Long distance flight

In November 1938 Gray, then a sergeant pilot with the RAF Long Range Development Flight, was acting as a radio operator/mechanic in one of three Vickers Wellesley bombers that flew non-stop for two days from Ismailia, Egypt, to Darwin, Australia, (7,162 mi/11,525 km) setting a world distance record. The Wellesley's record remained unbroken until November 1945 but it remains the longest by a single engined aircraft. Gray was awarded the Air Force Medal in recognition of the services he rendered to crews of the two aircraft on the long-distance record flight.

## British Army Aid Group

Gray smuggled medicine into the prisoner of war camp to help the many seriously ill prisoners incarcerated there and was a conduit for news from the outside world. When the Japanese grew suspicious he was tortured and interrogated for six months but refused to divulge the names of fellow officers, such as Captain Douglas Ford of the Royal Scots, and Colonel Lanceray Arthur Newnham of the Middlesex Regiment. He was executed by firing squad, with fellow prisoners, on 18 December 1943 and buried in Stanley Military Cemetery in Hong Kong. Notice of his award was published in the London Gazette on 19 April 1946.
# Jim Roberts (Australian footballer)

James Vivian Roberts (19 November 1931 – 12 August 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
# Paul Hunter (Australian footballer)

Paul Hunter (born 9 February 1993) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who for played the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

## Early life

Hunter was raised in Redhead in New South Wales, near Newcastle. Hunter began playing football for Warners Bay Football club. In 2013, Hunter moved to Queensland to play with Redland in south east Brisbane who competed in the NEAFL. Hunter won the NEAFL Rising Star award in 2014 and was also awarded Redland's Best and Fairest, drawing the attention of AFL recruiters.

## AFL career
### Adelaide Crows

Hunter was drafted as a 22-year-old in the 2016 AFL Rookie Draft at pick number 13 overall. He spent three years on the Crows' rookie list, but was unable to break into the senior side with Sam Jacobs and Reilly O'Brien preferred by the Crows. He was redrafted by the Crows with pick 24 in the 2018 Rookie Draft, but again failed to earn senior selection. He was again delisted at the conclusion of the 2019 season.

### South Adelaide (SANFL)

Hunter signed with VFL side Williamstown in early 2020, but the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He quickly moved to South Australia where he joined South Australian National Football League (SANFL) side South Adelaide. Playing alongside future St Kilda teammate Tom Highmore, Hunter had a prolific season and was named in the SANFL Team of the Year.

### St Kilda

Hunter was given a second chance at AFL level by St Kilda, which selected him for the Pre-Season Supplemental Selection period in February 2021. He was invited to play in an intraclub game where he impressed in the absence of injured players Rowan Marshall, Paddy Ryder and Shaun McKernan. Hunter's performance earned him a contract at his second AFL club. He played in the Saints' two pre-season practice matches against North Melbourne and Carlton. With regular ruckmen Marshall and Ryder unavailable, he finally made his AFL debut at age 28 in the Saints' Round 1 game against the Greater Western Sydney Giants in Sydney.
In October 2021, Hunter was delisted by St Kilda.
# Col Spratling

Colin Bruce Spratling (23 April 1918 – 9 May 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
# Acate

Acate (Sicilian: Acati or Vischiri) is a small town and comune in the south of Sicily, Italy, part of the province of Ragusa. It is located in the Dirillo River valley, 34 kilometres (21 mi) from Ragusa.
Until 1938 it was called Biscari, and its history dates back until the 14th century. During World War II it was the location of the Biscari Massacre, in which American troops killed numerous unarmed German and Italian soldiers.

## Twin towns

* Chambly, France
# Wólka, Olsztyn County

Wólka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kolno, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Kolno and 40 km (25 mi) north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
# Anton Sushkevich

Anton Kazimirovich Sushkevich (Антон Казимирович Сушкевич) (23 January 1889, Borisoglebsk, Russia — 30 August 1961, Kharkiv, Ukraine) was a Russian mathematician and textbook author who expanded group theory to include semigroups and other magmas.
Sushkevich attended secondary school in Voronezh and studied in Berlin from 1906 to 1911. There he attended lectures of F. G. Frobenius, Issai Schur, and Hermann Schwarz. Sushkevich studied piano with L. V. Rostropovich, father of Mstislav Rostropovich. In 1906 he was a cello student at Stern Conservatory (now part of Berlin University of the Arts). In 1911 he moved to Saint Petersburg, graduating from the Imperial University in 1913.
Moving to Kharkiv, Suskevich taught in secondary education while he pursued a graduate degree at Kharkov State University. His dissertation was The theory of operations as the general theory of groups. Obtaining the degree, he became an assistant professor at the university in 1918, and adjunct professor in 1920. Voronezh State University employed Sushkevich in 1921 as professor of mathematics. He published the first edition of his Higher Algebra (1923). He published a generalization of Cayley's theorem for certain finite semigroups in 1926. The next year he was in Moscow for the Russian Mathematical Congress, and the following year in Bologna for the International Congress of Mathematicians.
In Kharkiv, the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics was established in 1929 with Sushkevich as a member. With a rising interest in abstract algebra, he wrote a second book on algebra: Foundations of Higher Algebra which was published both in Russian and Ukrainian. In 1933 he directed the Algebra & Number Theory section of Kharkov State University's department of mathematics. At that time Stalin caused a famine in Ukraine, the Holodomor, killing millions especially in rural areas. Suskevich survived to edit new editions of his textbook that included "new algebra": fields, integral domains, rings, ideals, and quaternions. His original work, The Theory of Generalized Groups (1937) opened up the area of semigroups. According to biographer Hollings, "He sought to describe his semigroups of interest in terms of certain of their subgroups: from Sushkevich's point of view, groups were objects of known structure."$^{:46}$

## Selected works

* 1928: "Über die endlichen Gruppen ohne das Gesetz der eindeutigen Umkehrbarkeit", Mathematische Annalen, 99 (1): 30–50, doi:10.1007/BF01459084, hdl:10338.dmlcz/100078, ISSN 0025-5831, MR 1512437.
* 1929: "On a generalization of the associative law", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 31(1):204–14 doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1929-1501476-0 MR1501476
* 1951: "Materials for the History of Algebra in Russia in the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries", MR00051749
* 1954: Theory of Numbers, second edition 1956 MR0091286
# Alexandra Kim

Alexandra Petrovna Kim (Russian: Александра Петровна Ким; born Kim Aerim; February 22, 1885 – September 16, 1918) was a revolutionary political activist of Korean descent. Having joined the Bolsheviks in 1916, she is recognized as the first Korean communist.

## Early life

Kim Aerim was born in Sinelnikovo, a Korean village in Siberia. At the time, the area was a hotbed of Korean nationalism. In 1869, her father, Kim Du Suh, had emigrated to Russia, adopting the name Piotr Kim and converting to Orthodox Christianity. He worked as a translator. Later he went to Manchuria to work as an interpreter on the railway. In 1895, Alexandra joined him in China. Soon after her arrival in China, Kim Du Suh died. Alexandra was adopted by Jozef Stankevich, a Russian friend of her father. She attended a girls school in Vladivostok, Siberia. After finishing her education, she began working as a teacher in a primary school. She married Stankevich's son.

## Political activism

Kim gave up teaching and moved back to Vladivostok, where she took part in political activities for the cause of Korean migrants.
Her marriage did not last long. She divorced her husband and shifted to the Urals region. In the Urals she began political activism. In 1916, she joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). In 1917, Lenin sent her back to Siberia to mobilize Koreans there against the counter-revolutionary forces and the Allied Expeditionary Forces.
In Khabarovsk she was in charge of external affairs at the Far-Eastern Department of the Party. There she met with Yi Dong-Wi, Kim Rip and other Korean independence fighters. Together they founded the Korean Socialist Party in Khabarovsk on April 28, 1918.

## Capture

Kim was captured, along with many other Korean communists, by White forces and Japanese troops on September 4, 1918. She was executed on September 16, 1918. Reportedly, her last words were "Freedom and Independence for Korea!"
# Bernie Crowe

Bernard John Crowe (28 November 1932 – 9 August 2022) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
# Klemme

Klemme is a German family name, and may refer to:

## People

* Dominic Klemme (born 1986), professional road bicycle racer
* Göran Klemme (born 1964), darts player
* Ralph Klemme (1939–2024), American politician
* Randy Klemme (born 1960), American professional wrestler (1998–2008)

## Places

* Klemme, Iowa, United States
* Klemmes Corner, Indiana, United States
# A Special Sesame Street Christmas

A Special Sesame Street Christmas is a 1978 CBS Christmas special, made the same year as the better-known Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. The special was first broadcast on Friday, December 8, 1978, at 8 PM ET on CBS, pre-empting Wonder Woman that week, starring Leslie Uggams.
The special features only three of the Sesame Street Muppets: Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, and Barkley the dog. Barkley is played by gymnast Toby Towson. The puppet used for the special was different from the one used for the series, making him five feet tall, or higher, at times in the special. Mr. Hooper, David, Bob, and Maria are the only humans from the regular cast to make appearances, while most of the regulars are replaced by a large, somewhat all-star cast.
The special features many plot elements that are very loosely tied together, the most important being Oscar as the "Ebenezer Scrooge" on Sesame Street, as a minor takeoff on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. They include Leslie Uggams thinking lemonade was hot chocolate, singer Anne Murray and a magic eggnog container, Oscar adopting a kitten with a broken leg, and Ethel Merman calling Imogene Coca an idiot. Also appearing are Dick Smothers (only one half of the Smothers Brothers was hired for the special), Henry Fonda and Michael Jackson of The Jacksons.
The special was mainly produced for CBS not by the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), but by Bob Banner Associates, notable for Perry Como's Christmas specials. The producers paid CTW for the use of the set, some of the adult characters, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, with everything else, including the script and the Barkley costume, provided by Banner staffers.
This program was nominated in the 31st Annual Emmy Awards (1979) under the category of Outstanding Children's Program, losing to Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Both specials are now available on DVD.
# Vin Casey

Vincent Anthony Casey (5 May 1918 – 16 September 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
# Liam Dawson (footballer)

Liam Dawson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He made his AFL debut in round 8, 2015 against Essendon at Etihad Stadium. Dawson was delisted by the Lions at the end of the 2018 season, having played 18 games.
Dawson was born in Australia to an English mother (and Australian rules umpire). He played in the Redcliffe juniors, then Aspley juniors at age 16, before debuting for the senior Hornets at age 17. He represented Queensland at under 18 level. Dawson was part of the Lions Academy and the AFL Academy and was part of the AIS-AFL Europe tour.
Freeman kicked 5 goals for Aspley in the club's winning 2023 QAFL Grand Final.
# Craig Thyssen

Craig Andre Thyssen (born 25 March 1984 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African first class cricketer for the Warriors. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler. He achieved his highest first class score of 200 against the Chevrolet Knights (formerly Eagles) in Kimberly.

## Career

Craig Thyssen first made his debut in franchise cricket for the Chevrolet Knights (formerly Eagles). He was noted to be a special talent with his big hitting, athletic fielding and a useful bowler. However, Thyssen never pushed on his ability and was struggled to find a regular spot in the team.
Thyssen then moved to Port Elizabeth; his place of birth, and signed a contract with the Warriors. Since then, Thyssen has established himself as a pure limited overs cricketer and was selected to play in the Champions League T20 series in 2010.
He also plays for Penicuik Cricket Club in ESCA Championship in Scotland as player-cum-coach.
# Iskander Taimanov

Iskander Asanovich Taimanov (born 20 December 1961, Искандер Асанович Тайманов) is a Russian mathematician whose research concerns geometry, calculus of variations, and soliton theory. He is the chair of the department of geometry and topology of Novosibirsk State University.
He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He was a Ph.D. student of Sergey Petrovich Novikov.
Some topics of his work are Morse–Novikov theory and Willmore surfaces.
He is the author of the textbook Lectures on Differential Geometry.
# John Worland

John Worland (17 January 1934 – 7 April 2012) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
From Winchelsea, Victoria, he was the younger cousin of Don Worland, who also played football for Geelong.