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# Two Arabesques

The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891.
Although quite an early work, the arabesques contain hints of Debussy's developing musical style. The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form. Debussy seems to wander through modes and keys, and achieves evocative scenes throughout both pieces. His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time. Of the arabesque in baroque music, he wrote:
   “That was the age of the ‘wonderful arabesque' when music was subject to the laws of beauty inscribed in the movements of Nature herself.”

## The arabesques

The two arabesques are given these tempo marks:
* Andantino con moto
* Allegretto scherzando

### Arabesque No. 1. Andantino con moto

This arabesque is in the key of E major. The piece begins with parallelism of triads in first inversion, a composition technique very much used by Debussy and other Impressionists which traces back to the tradition of fauxbourdon. It leads into a larger section which begins with a left hand arpeggio in E major and a descending right hand E major pentatonic progression.
The second quieter B section is in A major, starting with a gesture (E-D-E-C♯), briefly passing through E major, returning to A major and ending with a bold pronouncement of the E-D-E-C♯ gesture, but transposed to the key of C major and played forte.
In the middle of the recapitulation of the A section, the music moves to a higher register and descends, followed by a large pentatonic scale ascending and descending, and resolving back to E major.

### Arabesque No. 2. Allegretto scherzando

The second arabesque in G major is noticeably quicker and more lively in tempo. It opens with left hand chords and right hand trills. The piece makes several transpositions and explores a lower register of the piano. Again notable is a hint of the pentatonic scale. It closes in a similar fashion to the first arabesque.

## In other media

The first piece was used as the theme to Star Gazers. It is also featured in the 2001 Japanese film All About Lily Chou-Chou along with other works from Debussy.
# Ostroh Castle

The Ostroh Castle (Ukrainian: Острозький замок; Polish: Zamek w Ostrogu) is a castle in the city of Ostroh, located in the Rivne Oblast of western Ukraine. In the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the castle was the key stronghold of the powerful House of Ostroh. Today it is in ruins.

## Location

Ostroh Castle is a castle in the town of Ostroh, located in the Rivne Oblast, in western Ukraine.
The castle complex consists of four main structures: the Guard Tower (Vezha murovana) where the Ostroh Local History Museum [uk] is located, the Bohoiavlenska Church, the New Tower, and the Belltower, constructed in 1905. The castle is located in a relatively small elevated oval plaza. The area's natural geography helped to fortify the complex; the southern and eastern sides of the fortress raised upon a 20 metres (66 ft) high cliff, and the northern and western sides separate the city by series of moats that replaced the big ravine.

## History

The first wooden fortifications were built in the area before the 1241 Mongol invasion of Rus, during which they were subsequently destroyed.
During the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the castle was the key stronghold of the powerful House of Ostroh. From 1386, the town of Ostroh belonged to the Ostrogski family, who built the castle. Under the Ostrogski, the town grew in importance.
The ruins were later reconstructed by the founder of the family, Danylo Ostrozki, on the city's Sudovyi Hill. Since then, more additions and reconstructions have carried out, although the complex retains its medieval architecture.
Both towers were built in the second half of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries from sandstone. They are three-tiered structures, with a plan that combines an oval with a rectangle. Since 1985, the Lutsk Tower has housed a book museum. The Tatar Tower is worse preserved, with a significant portion of the elliptical part of the building lost.

## Legacy

The castle is a ruin. A small park sits right next to the castle, separated by a small moat. A monument was placed in the park in 1978, commemorating the 400 anniversary of the foundation of the Ostroh Academy. A building used to stand in the same location, in which the "Azbuka" (alphabet) and the Ostrog Bible were printed by Ivan Fedorov.
In 2007, the castle was awarded a "Significant Landmark of Spiritual Ukraine", as part of competition to find the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.
# Retribution (video game)

Retribution is a video game developed by British studio Astros Productions and published by Gremlin Interactive for DOS.

## Gameplay

Retribution is a game in which the player participates in missions on land and in the air using various vehicles.

## Development and release

Retribution was the first project attached to British game studio Gremlin Interactive after it changed its name from Gremlin Graphics and began focusing on PC games. Development began in early 1993. Gremlin partnered with Astros Productions, consisting of brothers Pete and George Karboulonis, who had previously programmed the PC conversions of Toyota Celica GT Rally and Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing. As such, Retribution was pitched as a racing game and Astros was given three months to flesh out the idea. The pair finished the prototype in only six weeks. Gremlin found their landscaping routine (known as Voxel Spacing) so impressive that the racing concept evolved into futuristic combat with added aerial missions to better accentuate the technology. Eight months were spent on its 3D engine alone and an additional four months to finish the game.
Gremlin's Paul Green conceived the plot and wrote its script. Proclaiming the synopsis to be completely original, Green stated, “I’ve not borrowed the ideas from anywhere else — I can’t remember seeing a film or reading a book with anything like this in it.” Composer Glyn R. Brown was allegedly brought in for a potential full-time position on Retribution when Gremlin's in-house musician Patrick Phelan was promoted to software manager. However, Brown suggested that Phelan was dissatisfied with his new role and subsequently returned to the music department. The Retribution soundtrack was ultimately created by Chris Adams. Traditionally a film composer, this was the first video game on which he worked. Adams was given storyboards for the animated introduction and cutscenes to aid him as he began writing the score while they were still being rendered.
Gremlin released Retribution in Europe in November 1994. Front Street Publishing, an arm of the UK publisher U.S. Gold, partnered with Gremlin to distribute the latter's games in North America in 1995. Front Street began offering demo disks of Retribution and other titles in the region early that year.

## Reception

Review scores :
| Publication | Score |
| Computer Game Review | 78/100 |
| Computer Gaming World | |
| Hyper | 67/100 |
| Joystick | 124/200 |
| Next Generation | |
| PC Zone | 45/100 |
| PC Games (DE) | 68% |
| PC Games (UK) | 80% |
| PC Joker | 69% |
| PC Player | 47/100 |
| Pelit | 63/100 |
| Play Time | 70% |
| Power Play | 65% |
| Score | 38% |
| Secret Service | 80% |
Retribution received mixed reviews. Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Mediocre graphics and a generally weak set of sound effects don't do much to generate excitement for what, in the end, is a yawner of a game."
# The Blues – ES

The Blues – ES (MES; Slovak: Modrí – ES), formerly called The Blues – European Slovakia (M; Slovak: Modrí – Európske Slovensko) and Modrí, Most–Híd (MM; lit. 'The Blue(s), Bridge'), is a Slovak centre-right political party, registered in May 2023. The initiator of its creation is ex-prime minister Mikuláš Dzurinda, who founded it after he decided to leave the Blue Coalition (now Democrats) project.
Around twenty people are involved in the founding team of the party, including Mikuláš Dzurinda's daughter, social anthropologist and international relations graduate Jana Šoková, entrepreneur Tomáš Halgaš or youth activist and Christian-democratic politician Milan Kabina. Politician Pál Csáky was also involved in the founding of the party. According to Dzurinda, they want to be a "center-right party of the conservative-liberal type".
At the founding congress of the party, on 14 May 2023 in Košice, the delegates elected the party chairman (Mikuláš Dzurinda as the only candidate) and four vice-chairmen - Ľuboš Schwarzbacher, Martin Hubinski, Jana Ambrošová and Michal Hort. Among the program priorities for the upcoming parliamentary election, they included strengthening economic growth, stopping the drastic increase in prices and inflation, reforming education and healthcare.
On 18 May 2023, the platform of the former Most–Híd party (under the name Most-Híd 2023) headed by László Sólymos announced cooperation with The Blues party after it announced its withdrawal from the Alliance project in response to the placement of György Gyimesi as a candidate. On 25 May 2023, the party was officially renamed to Modrí, Most–Híd. After the parliamentary election in 2023, the party was renamed to The Blues – ES.

## Election results
### National Council

| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Rank | Seats | +/– | Status |
| 2023 | Mikuláš Dzurinda | 7,935 | 0.3% | 15th | 0 / 150 | New | Extra-parliamentary |
# Derek Foster (cricketer)

Derek George Foster (19 March 1907 – 13 October 1980) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 52 matches for Warwickshire between 1928 and 1934 and in half a dozen other amateur matches, including four appearances for the Gentlemen. He was born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire and died at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.
Educated at Shrewsbury School, Foster was an amateur right-arm fast-medium bowler and a lower-order right-handed batsman. After appearing in three matches for Warwickshire towards the end of the 1928 season, he was given a regular place in 1929 and made an early impact in the match against Glamorgan at Cardiff Arms Park, taking six second-innings wickets for just 11 runs in 11.5 overs as Glamorgan, set 138 to win, were all out for just 40. His success in county matches attracted attention. He was picked for the Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval. And at the end of July he was in a strangely-uneven "England XI" which played Yorkshire in a rain-ruined match at Sheffield. In all first-class matches in 1929, he took 57 wickets but the cost of them, 28.80 runs per wicket, was high by the standards of the time.
In 1930, Foster played just one match for Warwickshire at the start of the season and then was absent for all but the final three games of the season; in that single early game, against Surrey, he took seven first-innings wickets for 42 runs and these were the best bowling figures of his career. He returned to Warwickshire for his second and final full season of cricket in 1931 with similar results to the 1929 season: 53 wickets at an average of 28.28. As in 1929, he was picked for the Gentlemen v Players match, and he also played for the "Gentlemen of England" against the New Zealanders in an end-of-season festival match at Eastbourne where play was possible on only one day out of the three. Against Kent, he took the last seven wickets of the first innings at a cost of 68 runs, his best bowling of the season; in the last county match, against Somerset, he revealed hitherto-hidden batting talent by hitting 70 in less than an hour with five sixes and six fours, though he was dropped before he had scored.
After 1931, however, Foster was pretty much lost to county cricket, playing a single match for Warwickshire in each of the next three seasons, and then not at all. In 1932, his one game was the fixture against Kent, and he took five for 81 and six for 82 to achieve a 10-wicket-match for the only time in his career. That same season he also played for a third time in the Gentlemen v Players fixture at The Oval, a batsmen's feast with 1074 runs scored for the loss of only 18 wickets.
# William Gallagher (baseball)

William Gallagher (1874–1950) was a Major League Baseball shortstop.

## Sources

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# Mike Anthony (singer)

Mike Anthony is a British lovers rock singer, who began his career in the late 1980s.

## History

He was born in Lewisham, London, England.
Anthony's early recordings were produced by Barry Boom, and he had a reggae top ten hit with "Crash Crash", which was followed by further successes with "Glide Gently", "Cruising in Love", and "Open Your Heart". He moved on to Fashion Records and had another hit with "Still Your Number One", before topping the reggae chart for several weeks with a cover of David Ruffin's "Walk Away From Love". Further hits in the UK reggae chart followed throughout the 1990s and 2000s with songs such as "No Halfway Love", "Spread Love", "Sexy Eyes", "How Long", "Don't Play Games", and "Call Me". Along with Peter Hunnigale, Anthony has achieved virtual superstar status among lovers rock followers, and has appeared at Jamaica's Reggae Sunsplash festival.

## Album discography

* The Album, Juggling
* Short of Nothing (1992), Merger
* Back 4 More (1996), Gussie P
* Natural (2000), Gussie P
# Nahr al-Bared, Syria

Nahr al-Bared (Arabic: نهر البارد) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located northwest of Hama. It is situated in the al-Ghab plain in the al-Suqaylabiyah District. Nearby localities include Tell Salhab to the south, al-Asharinah to the east, Hawrat Ammorin and al-Suqaylabiyah to the north and al-Mazhal and Ayn al-Kurum to the northwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Nahr al-Bared had a population of 4,016 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.

## Landscape

Although the village is considered modern, it still contains a number of ruins. The village is situated near the Nahr al Bārid river and during the winter regularly receives snow.

## Amenities

Nahr al-Bared has three hotels: Sahara Hotel, Abo Allosh and Abo Maher. There are three mosques in the village: al-Sheikh Abd al-Hadi Haidar, al-Sheikh Soliman Moaala and Ali Naser. The village has a large restaurant which can be accessed by using a micro bus. Nahr al-Bared also contains a large petrol station.
# 1945 USSR Chess Championship

The 1945 Soviet Chess Championship was the 14th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 1 June to 3 July 1945 in Moscow. The tournament was won by Mikhail Botvinnik.

## Tables and results

14th Soviet Chess Championship (1945) :
| | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Total |
| 1 | Mikhail Botvinnik | - | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| 2 | Isaac Boleslavsky | 0 | - | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 3 | David Bronstein | ½ | ½ | - | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| 4 | Alexander Kotov | ½ | 0 | 1 | - | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 9½ |
| 5 | Igor Bondarevsky | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 9½ |
| 6 | Alexander Konstantinopolsky | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | - | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 9½ |
| 7 | Andor Lilienthal | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 9 |
| 8 | Viacheslav Ragozin | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | - | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | Iosif Rudakovsky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 10 | Vitaly Chekhover | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | - | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 8½ |
| 11 | Vassily Smyslov | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8½ |
| 12 | Vladimir Alatortsev | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 7½ |
| 13 | Alexander Tolush | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7½ |
| 14 | Alexander Koblencs | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 7 |
| 15 | Peter Romanovsky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | ½ | 6½ |
| 16 | Boris Ratner | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | - | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 17 | Ilya Kan | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | - | 1 | 5 |
| 18 | Grigory Goldberg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | - | 4 |
# 1968 USSR Chess Championship

The 1968 Soviet Chess Championship was the 36th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 30 December 1968 to 1 February 1969 in Alma-Ata. The tournament was won by Lev Polugaevsky who defeats Alexander Zaitsev in a play-off match. The non-attendance of stars such as David Bronstein, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, all away at foreign tournaments made it not too strong an event, especially in conjunction with the absence of Paul Keres. Mikhail Tal was ill again, after a year in which he spent a lot of time in hospital under observation.

## Table and results

36th Soviet Chess Championship :
| | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Total |
| 1 | Alexander Zaitsev | - | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 12½ |
| 2 | Lev Polugaevsky | ½ | - | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 12½ |
| 3 | Anatoly Lutikov | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11½ |
| 4 | Vladimir Liberzon | ½ | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 11 |
| 5 | Vitaly Tseshkovsky | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | - | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | Ratmir Kholmov | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | - | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 10½ |
| 7 | Mikhail Podgaets | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | - | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 10½ |
| 8 | Mikhail Tal | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | - | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10½ |
| 9 | Janis Klovans | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10½ |
| 10 | Evgeni Vasiukov | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | - | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10½ |
| 11 | Anatoly Lein | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 10 |
| 12 | Yuri Averbakh | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | - | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 10 |
| 13 | Viatcheslav Osnos | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | - | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 10 |
| 14 | Yuri Sakharov | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 15 | Vladimir Bagirov | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | - | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 8½ |
| 16 | Bukhuti Gurgenidze | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | - | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 8½ |
| 17 | Igor Zaitsev | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | - | 1 | ½ | 1 | 8½ |
| 18 | Igor Platonov | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | - | ½ | 1 | 6½ |
| 19 | Alexander Cherepkov | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | - | 0 | 4½ |
| 20 | Yury Nikitin [ru] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | 3½ |

### Play-off

March 1969 :
| Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total |
| Lev Polugaevsky | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 3½ |
| Alexander Zaitsev | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 2½ |
# Mualani

Mualani (also called Muolani or simply Mua; lani = "heaven/sky" in Hawaiian) was a Hawaiian High Chiefess who lived on the island of Oahu and was a Princess of Koʻolau.
She was a daughter of Princess Hinakaimauliʻawa of Koʻolau, who was Chief Kalehenui's daughter. Mualani's father was called Kahiwakaʻapu.
Princess Mualani was of Tahitian ancestry as a descendant of the kahu (priest) Maweke who came to Oahu from Tahiti.
After her mother's death, Chiefess Mualani succeeded her.

## Marriage

Although some chiefs had many consorts in ancient Hawaii, the only known consort of Mualani was a man named Kaomealani, whose parents remain unknown to us today because their names are not recorded in ancient chants. (He is also known as Kaʻomea or Kaomealani I.)
Mualani and her husband produced a son and a daughter. The son was called Kua-o-Mua ("Kua, son of Mua"), and he succeeded his mother, whilst marrying his sister Kapua-a-Mua. Their union was considered sacred and their child was Kawalewaleoku, a chief considered a deity in Koʻolau. (His rank was called niau piʻo.) His wife was called Unaʻula and their son was chief called Kaulaulaokalani, father of Chiefess Kaimihauoku.
| Preceded byHinakaimauliʻawa | Princess of Koʻolau | Succeeded byKua-o-Mua |
# Victor Brown (musician)

Victor Brown (died 2016), known professionally as Vic Evans, was a Cuban-born, Jamaican-British variety performer, known for being one half of Harriott & Evans.

## Life

Victor Brown was born in Banes, Cuba, the son of Jamaican parents: John Brown, an engineer, and his wife Mirian, née Brown. He trained as an engine-room seaman and left Jamaica for Britain in 1939, before serving in World War II. He subsequently performed (eventually, with his brother Noel, as the Brown Brothers) for the Entertainments National Service Association and the League of Coloured Peoples, and then in nightclubs. He worked with Prince Zulamkah and then briefly joined forces with the pianist Winifred Atwell.
In 1947, he moved with his wife, Kameedea, née Packwood, to West Africa, where she was working as a nurse. While there, he joined Ghanaian music troupes (playing with E. T. Mensah and Guy Warren) and tried to establish a timber business. When that failed, he returned to Britain and began performing with his brother Noel, working their way to the Gateways, a pioneering lesbian club in Chelsea, where he met the pianist Chester Harriott. The pair formed a duo, with Harriott on the piano and Brown singing (he was a tenor), an arrangement that proved successful; they spent eight years playing and touring as a variety act, Harriott & Evans (for Victor Brown was then known on stage as Vic Evans), mixing with a booming jazz scene and travelling across the world. As support act for a Tommy Steele concert at the Blackpool Opera House in August 1961, they were described as "Europe's greatest coloured entertainers". Harriott and Evans went their separate ways in 1962.
In later life, Brown and his wife moved to Lancashire, settling in Morecambe. He died in 2016, aged 95.