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# Stan Boardman

Stanley Boardman (born 7 December 1937) is an English comedian.

## Early life and career

Boardman was evacuated with his family to Wrexham during the Second World War, and after the family returned to their Merseyside home mistakenly thinking the area had escaped the German bombs, his elder brother Tommy was killed in a bombing raid.
Boardman had been a keen footballer in his youth and was an apprentice at Liverpool F.C. He signed for Tranmere Rovers as a teenager.
Boardman ran a haulage firm before winning a holiday camp talent contest and breaking into television on Opportunity Knocks and The Comedians.
Boardman became known for his anti-German jokes, with his claim that "the Germans bombed our chippy" during the Second World War.
His later involvement in football includes being invited by Ron Atkinson to entertain his Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa players before the League Cup finals in 1991 and 1994.

## Controversies

An incident during a live edition of Des O'Connor Tonight on Thames in the mid-1980s gained publicity. A joke – about the Second World War reminiscences of a Polish pilot who flew in the Royal Air Force – made play on the word "focke", referring to the German Focke-Wulf aeroplanes.
Boardman's comedic style has led to controversy several times; after telling racist jokes at a Leeds United Player of the Year Award dinner in 2002 (months after two Leeds players had been arrested for assaulting an Asian student), the club withheld his fee, describing his act as "inappropriate and unacceptable", banning him from performing at the club in future. This led to a planned appearance at a Leicester City event being cancelled.

## Other appearances

Boardman took part in an episode of Through the Keyhole in 1987.
Boardman appeared in the 2000 gangster film set in Liverpool, Going Off Big Time.
In June 2006 he had a hit with "Stan's World Cup Song", which reached No. 15 in the UK Singles Chart.
Fellow comedian Peter Kay wrote about him in his second autobiography Saturday Night Peter; in it he describes his early days on the comedy circuit and being on the bill with Boardman who at the time had the nickname Stan "The German Fokker" Boardman.
In June 2009, Boardman appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap, and in October 2011 he appeared with his daughter, Andrea Boardman, on the celebrity version of Coach Trip.
# Vasiliki

The name Vasiliki is a Greek name meaning "royal" that may refer to:

## Places

* Vasiliki, Lasithi, a village and an archaeological site in Lasithi, Crete, Greece
* Vasiliki, Lefkada, a village on Lefkada, Greece
* Vasiliki, Trikala, a municipal unit in Trikala regional unit, Greece

## Other uses

* Vasiliki Ware, a type of Minoan pottery
* Vasiliki (film), a 1997 Greek film directed by Vangelis Serdaris
* Vasiliki, a song by Stamatis Spanoudakis and Yiannis Xanthoulis, originally sung by Alkistis Protopsalti
* Vasiliki Ridge, a landform in the United States
# Thomas Plößel

Thomas Plößel (also transliterated Plössel or Ploessel, born 29 April 1988) is a German sailor. Together with Erik Heil, he won bronze medals in the 49er events at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics.
# Matthias Hummel

Matthias Hummel (born 3 November 1984) is a German former footballer who played as a centre-back, and current assistant manager of TSV Bordesholm.

## Career

Hummel made his professional debut in the 3. Liga for Holstein Kiel on 2 October 2009, coming on as a substitute in the 70th minute for Kevin Schulz in the 2–0 home win against VfB Stuttgart II.
After retiring from playing football in 2016, Hummel became the technical director of ETSV Weiche Flensburg. In 2017, he was appointed as the assistant manager of TSV Bordesholm.
# Laura Crane

Laura E. Crane (born June 4, 1981) is an American lawyer who has served as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia since 2023. Previously she was an assistant United States attorney from 2014 to 2023.

## Education

Crane earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish from Duke University in 2003 and a Juris Doctor from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 2009.

## Career

From 2010 to 2012, Crane worked as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. From 2012 and 2013, she served as a law clerk for Judge James Boasberg of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was a senior associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in 2013 and 2014. Crane joined the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia as an assistant United States attorney, where she served from 2014 to 2023.

### D.C. Superior Court service

On July 14, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Crane to be a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Biden nominated Crane to the seat vacated by Judge Steven N. Berk, who retired on November 1, 2021. On September 21, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. On September 28, 2022, her nomination was favorably reported out of committee by voice vote en bloc, with Senators Rick Scott and Josh Hawley voting "no" on record. On December 15, 2022, her nomination was confirmed in the Senate by voice vote. She was sworn in on January 17, 2023.
# Nature et Paysages

Nature et Paysages, also known as the Jardin Carnivore, is a botanical garden specializing in carnivorous plants. It is located in Peyrusse-Massas, Gers, Midi-Pyrénées, France, and open daily except Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.
The garden was created in 1986 by Jean-Jacques Labat. In 1995 it was designated a national collection of carnivorous plants by the Conservatoire des Collections Végétales Spécialisées (CCVS), in 1999 was recognized by the Jardins botaniques de France et des pays francophones, and in 2003 opened to the public. Today the garden contains about 500 species of carnivorous plants, out of approximately 600 identified across the world, grown within a set of bogs and swamps. It describes itself as one of the largest such collections in the world.
# Jyotirmay Bhattacharya

Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya (born 25 September 1956) was the former Acting Chief Justice at the Calcutta High Court from October 2017 to April 2018 and was the Chief Justice of the High Court at Calcutta from 1 May 2018 to September 2018.

## Education

Bhattacharya was born in the Village Beliachandi of South 24 Parganas, where he was educated at Baruipur High School. Afterward, he went to St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and got his LL. B. degree from the University of Calcutta.

## Career

Bhattacharya enrolled at the Bar in March 1983. He started practising in the Civil and Writ Jurisdictions of the Calcutta High Court. In 2003, he was appointed a Permanent Judge at the court.

## Notable judgements

* A High Court bench presided by Bhattacharya held in September 2012 that land acquisition along certain stretches of Kolkata Metro stood lapsed on account of compensation not being awarded to the tenants within the stipulated period. This was in response to a writ petition filed by Central Calcutta Citizens' Welfare Association.
# Delio Ramírez

Delio Ramírez (born 17 February 1999), is a Colombian professional football player who plays as a midfielder for Deportivo Pereira.
# Carlo Ridolfi

Carlo Ridolfi (1594–1658) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the Baroque period.

## Biography

Ridolfi was born in Lonigo near Vicenza.
He was a pupil of the painter Antonio Vassilacchi (Aliense). He painted a Visitation for the Ognissanti and an Adoration of the Magi for San Giovanni Elemosinario in Venice. He copied Tintoretto's Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet in San Marcuola, before it came to the collection of King Charles I of England. Ridolfi's copy still remains in San Marcuola. He was certainly best known, in his own day and ever since, as an author on art. Carlo Ridolfi was also an important collector of drawings, such as Giorgio Vasari. Many of these drawings are conserved in the Christ Church Library (Oxford).
Ridolfi wrote a biography of the Venetian painters in 1648 titled Le maraviglie dell'Arte ovvero, Le vite degli Illustri Pittori Veneti e dello Stato. He also wrote La vita di Giacopo Robusti (a biography of Tintoretto) in 1642. He was awarded the knighthood of the Golden Cross by Pope Innocent X and a chain of gold and a medal of St. Mark by the Republic of Venice, essentially for his books rather than his painting. Subsequent Venetian chroniclers who have quoted Ridolfi include Marco Boschini, Antonio Maria Zanetti, and Luigi Lanzi.
As Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects was weaker on Venetian painters than Florentine ones, Ridolfi remains an important source for Venetian painting between the beginning of the Renaissance and his own day, although his accuracy is often doubted, and many of his numerous attributions, especially to Giorgione, are no longer accepted: according to Michael Hirst, "... the enormous number of paintings attributed to Giorgione by Ridolfi gravely weakens his authority".
One purpose of his work was to supply a corrective to Vasari, and just as Vasari ascribes all progress in art to Florentines, Ridolfi attempts something similar for the Venetian tradition, with its closer connection to Byzantine art. He was well educated in the classics, and his style is much given to rhetorical flourishes, classical comparisons and references to poetry, whilst rather lacking Vasari's talent for telling anecdote. He approached the larger lives in a scholarly fashion, and quoted many documents, often now vanished, that remain invaluable to art historians. His work gives great insight into the way art was seen in his own day, as well as during the lives of his subjects.
He died at Venice in 1658.

## Works

* Le maraviglie dell'arte: ovvero Le vite degli illustri pittori Veneti e dello Stato ..., Volume 1, By Carlo Ridolfi, Giuseppe Vedova, Second edition with corrections, Tipografia Cartellier, Padua, 1835. 1648 Edition.
* Vita di Giacopo Robusti (Tintoretto), 1642 (no preview).
# Barbara Boettcher

Barbara Boettcher (born 2 June 1955) is a Canadian rower. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
# Brazeau Creek

Brazeau Creek is a stream flowing through Perry County, Missouri and emptying into the Mississippi River.

## Name

Brazeau Creek was named for Joseph (Jean) Brazeau (also spelled Obrazo) a merchant from St. Louis, Missouri in the years 1791–1799, or a member of his family, who has settled in the Brazeau Bottoms in the Mississippi River floodplains.

## Physical geography

Brazeau Creek runs through the northern part of Brazeau Township and empties into the Mississippi River near Wittenberg, Missouri. The stream is 10.3 miles long and its watershed contains an area of 30 sq. miles. A number of tributaries flow into Brazeau Creek:

## Cultural geography

A number of bridges have crossed Brazeau Creek over the years. The Brazeau Creek CR 446 Bridge northeast of Altenburg, and Brazeau Creek Route C Bridge, CR 438 Bridge at Wittenberg, and the Wittenberg Railroad Bridge on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. The town of Brazeau and Brazeau Township were named after the creek.

## History

The first Europe settlers on Brazeau Creek was a group of American Catholics. These American Catholics from Kentucky - descended from Irish Roman Catholic families that settled in Maryland - were referred to as “Maryland Catholics” or “English Catholics” to distinguish them from the resident French-speaking Catholics in the area. The reference to Maryland was due to their having left Maryland in 1785 following the American Revolution, and seeking land elsewhere for a better life. The leader of this group, Joseph Fenwick, left New Bourbon village, possibly over issues of land-ownership or to relocate himself beyond easy reach of the colonial officials. He initially planned to settle on Apple Creek at the mouth of Indian Creek, in close proximity to the villages that the Shawnee were erecting at that time. The presence of so many Indians probably caused Fenwick to give up his plans and instead establish a settlement at the mouth of Brazeau Creek on the Mississippi River. This small settlement was named Fenwick Settlement after its founder. The settlement grew to about 20 families with the arrival of more Catholic families from Kentucky. However, the location of the settlement was not particularly adapt to farming and the settlement did not prosper. By 1807-1808 the Fenwick group began to drift away. The township of Brazeau was organized in 1821, named after Brazeau Creek. Soon after, Protestant English and Scots-Irish settlers arrived from North Carolina. In 1839, German Lutheran immigrants from the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg arrived and established a number of "colonies" in the vicinity of Brazeau Creek. Brazeau, Missouri was named after the creek.
# Little Stewart River

The Little Stewart River is an 8.9-mile-long (14.3 km) river in Lake County, Minnesota, United States. It is a tributary of the Stewart River.
# Katrina Forrester

Katrina Max Forrester (born 1986) is a British political theorist and historian, and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. Her research interests are in the history of liberalism and the left in the postwar US and Britain; Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis; climate politics; and theories of work and capitalism.

## Early life and education

Forrester was born in 1986 to parents Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester. Her mother is an author and her father was a professor in the department of history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge.

## Career

After completing her PhD at King's College, Cambridge, she held a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge. Upon completing her fellowship, Forrester accepted a permanent lectureship at Queen Mary University of London until 2017 when she joined the faculty at Harvard University. Forrester held a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress from 2019 to 2020 and delivered the Quentin Skinner Lecture at Cambridge in 2023.
Forrester's book In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy received the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award for Best Book in Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians the Society for US Intellectual History's Book Award, the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought's David and Elaine Spitz Prize, the Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award, and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize 2020.
Forrester has written on topics like pornography, sex work, surveillance, work, and capitalism for the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, Dissent, n+1, Jacobin, Harper's and The Guardian, amongst others. She is the co-editor of Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment with Sophie Smith, and of a special section of Dissent with Moira Weigel. Currently she is Consulting Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

## Personal life

Forrester married Jamie Martin in 2019. In the 2000s, she was an activist with the direct action group Plane Stupid and with the Camp for Climate Action, later writing about her experiences with police and corporate spying on climate activists for the London Review of Books.
# John Throop

John Throop (September 11, 1733 – January 25, 1802) was a political and military leader of the Vermont Republic and the state of Vermont. Among the offices he held, Throop served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1778 to 1780.

## Early life

John Throop was born in North Woodstock, Colony of Connecticut, on September 11, 1733, the son of Rev. Amos Throop and Frances (Davis) Throop. He was educated in Woodstock and in the early 1770s Throop relocated to Pomfret, Vermont.

## Military service

Throop commanded a company of militia with the rank of captain, and took part in the American Revolution, including several scouting parties and patrols dispatched to provide early warning if British Army soldiers attacked Vermont from Canada.

## Political career

After becoming a resident of Pomfret, Throop held several offices, to include: justice of the peace (beginning in 1773); town clerk (1778-1789); delegate to the 1777 constitutional convention; member of the Vermont House of Representatives (1778, 1787-1788); member of the Governor's Council (1779-1786); justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1778-1780); judge of the Vermont Court of Confiscation which seized and resold the property of Tories (1779); and probate judge for Windsor County (1783-1792).

## Death

Throop died in Pomfret on January 25, 1802.

## Family

On December 17, 1755 he married Frances Dana (1735-1813), known as Fanny. They were the parents of four sons: Nathaniel, Benjamin, Samuel, and John Winchester.
# Uruzgan wedding bombing

vteWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021) :
On 1 July 2002 in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, the United States Air Force carried out an airstrike on a wedding party in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.
An AC-130 attack plane and a B-52 bomber mistook the traditional nighttime wedding celebration as a gathering of Taliban. Weapons are often shot at weddings, and thus the presence of weapons and gunfire at a wedding is not unusual. The US planes thought they were being targeted by anti-aircraft fire and attacked. Four villages were attacked and 54 civilians were killed, with 50 more injured. The Afghan government backed up that it was a wedding, and that guests had fired bullets into the air in celebration. The attack is cited as one of many criminal negligence made by Coalition forces in the early days of the Afghan War, which increasingly drove more Afghans to fight for the Taliban. The killing of innocent family members demands severe revenge in the Pashtunwali tradition.
On July 3, 2002, President George W. Bush extended condolences to the families of the attack.
On September 8, 2002, the United States military concluded an investigation, and stated that no wrongdoing occurred with the bombing.
# Jan Brink

Jan Brink (born 1960) is a Swedish equestrian. He was born in Hörby. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he placed fourth in team dressage. He also competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
Jan Brink is a seven-time Swedish dressage champion who rides the number one horse Björsell's Briar, winner of the Aachen Championships in 2005, and Bronze medallist at the 2005 European Dressage Championships.
# Lockington rail accident

In Lockington, England on 26 July 1986, the 09:33 passenger train from Bridlington to Kingston upon Hull on the Hull to Scarborough Line struck a passenger van on a level crossing.
Eight passengers on the train and a passenger in the van died.

## Description

On 26 July 1986 the 09:33 Bridlington to Hull train, travelling at around 50 miles per hour (80 km/h), struck a van at Lockington Level Crossing at around 10:00, causing the train to derail. The train was made up of a two-car Class 105 DMU unit coupled to a two-car Class 114 unit. The derailed train ran down the railway embankment and the front vehicle jackknifed and fell onto its side. The van was torn into five pieces.
Eight train passengers and a passenger in the van were killed. 59 people were taken to hospital, of whom 10 required further treatment.
It is thought that the derailment was caused by one side of the bogie colliding with the van, followed by a wheel in the trailing bogie of the front carriage striking trackwork that had been damaged by the force of the initial derailment, causing the train to jump and the first carriage to separate from the trailing bogie. The front coach left the railway line and ran into a field, embedding itself, causing the rear of the coach to be pushed around by the rest of the train, causing it to fall on one side, and be turned around 180 degrees.
The level crossing was an automatic type using flashing warning lights (an AOCR – automatic open crossing, remotely monitored), which had been installed in 1985/86 replacing lifting barriers operated from the adjacent signal box.
There had been reported examples of the warning lights operating incorrectly before the accident, including the lights failing to activate or activating without enough warning time. The investigation concluded that the lights did operate correctly on the day of the accident. The driver of the van could not recall the incident; the evidence showed that the van was moving when struck, as the van was in gear. He was local to the area and a driver of over two decades experience, and was aware of the mode of operation of the crossing. The investigator concluded that on balance of probability the driver had been distracted before the crossing, causing him to miss the light signal.
The line re-opened on 29 July 1986.
An inquest held on 25 February 1987 recorded that the persons involved in the accident died of misadventure.

## Legacy

Following the accident, the UK Government commissioned a comprehensive review of safety at automatic open level crossings, which reported in 1987.
In 2009 a campaign was launched to have a permanent memorial erected. On 25 July 2010 a memorial was unveiled in Driffield Memorial Garden, with over 100 people attending the service.
A book about the disaster was published by Bridlington disaster author expert, Richard Jones, in September 2010.
A ceremony was held on 24 July 2011 at the memorial for the 25th anniversary of the crash.
# Brewster Creek

Brewster Creek is located in the Firestone Park area of Akron, Ohio and is a vital drainage waterway for the region.
The length of the creek is nearly 5.5 miles (8.9 kilometers) with an average width of 13 feet (4.0 meters). The creek originates near Arlington Road and ultimately drains in Nesmith Lake off Manchester Road. Brewster Creek is notorious for flooding at the crossing of Waterloo Road near the Brewster Creek Apartments during long periods of substantial rainfall. The flooding is mainly due to the highly graded hills on the western side of the creek that contribute to considerable amounts of runoff. The creek is also constricted near crossing roads due to drainage cylinders. Brewster Creek averages several floods a year with nearly all occurring in the summer months.
# Little Thornapple River (Coldwater River tributary)

Little Thornapple River is a 5.8-mile-long (9.3 km) river in Barry County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
The Little Thornapple rises from the outflow of Jordan Lake in north-central Woodland Township at 42°45′38″N 85°08′43″W﻿ / ﻿42.76056°N 85.14528°W﻿ / 42.76056; -85.14528﻿ (Little Thornapple River (source)).
The stream flows primarily to the southwest and empties into the Coldwater River in central Carlton Township at 42°42′50″N 85°13′41″W﻿ / ﻿42.71389°N 85.22806°W﻿ / 42.71389; -85.22806﻿ (Little Thornapple River (mouth)).
The Little Thornapple, with Jordan Lake tributaries, forms an important part of the upper Coldwater River watershed. The Little Thornapple is considered to form the headwaters of the Coldwater River.
Lake Jordan is fed primarily by the outflow of Tupper Lake, which in turn is fed by Tupper Creek all in Odessa and Sebewa townships in Ionia County.