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# Bernard Sobel

Bernard Sobel (1887–1964) was an American playwright, a drama critic for the New York Daily Mirror, an author of a number of books on theatre and theatre history, and a publicist.

## Career

Among his clients were Florenz Ziegfeld, Charles Dillingham, A. L. Erlanger, and Lee, Sam, and Jacob Shubert.
A collection of Bernard Sobel's papers from 1923-1962 is in the possession of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He was born in Attica, Indiana and died in New York City.

## Select works
### Plays

* Jennie Knows (1913)
* Mrs. Bompton's Dinner Party (1913)
* There's Always A Reason (1913)

### Articles

* Sobel, Bernard (1929), "The Language Of The Theatre", The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life, 69, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, OCLC 228771241

### Books

* Sobel, Bernard (1931), Burleycue; An Underground History of Burlesque Days, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, OCLC 1808911
* Sobel, Bernard (1933), The Indiscret Girl, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, OCLC 24040918
* Sobel, Bernard (1940), The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays, New York: Crown Publishers, OCLC 9596386
* Sobel, Bernard (1953), Broadway Heartbeat: Memoirs of a Press Agent, New York: Hermitage House, OCLC 1514676
* Sobel, Bernard (1956), A Pictorial History of Burlesque, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, OCLC 265486
* Sobel, Bernard (1961), A Pictorial History of Vaudeville, New York: Citadel Press, OCLC 300831
* Sobel, Bernard (1959), The New Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays, New York: Crown Publishers, OCLC 297270487
# The Sand Pebbles (novel)

The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, and was published in January 1963 by Harper & Row. In 1966 it was adapted into the same-named film starring Steve McQueen.

## Background

Richard McKenna served aboard a Yangtze River gunboat in 1936 but set the novel a decade earlier, during the Nationalist Northern Expedition of 1925-27, aboard the fictional USS San Pablo, a captured Spanish gunboat left over from the Spanish–American War. The phrase "sand pebble" is a pun on the boat's name; thus, the sailors who serve on her are the sand pebbles.

## Plot

The novel describes a life of boredom and sudden battle action, but the chief conflict is between the traditional western ideas, which saw China in racist and imperialist terms, and emerging nationalism. The protagonist, Motor Machinist Mate First Class Jake Holman, the San Pablo's first assistant (PO3) engineer, teaches his Chinese workers—he refuses to call them "coolies"—to master the ship's machinery by understanding it, not just "monkey see, monkey do". The ship is sent to save the China Light Mission from anti-foreign mobs, setting off a debate: "No man who favors the unequal treaties has the right to call himself a Christian!" Others reply "It is time for the Society for Propagation of the Gospel to step aside. It is time for the Society for Propagation of Cannonballs to bring them to their senses." After the crew burn and destroy a war junk, Holman takes a landing party to rescue the missionaries, including teacher Shirley Eckert whom Jake has met several times and come to love. Holman is pinned down and killed, but Eckert is saved.

## Reception and review

It was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post for the three issues from November 17, 1962, through December 1, 1962. The author had completed it in May 1962, just in time to enter it in the 1963 Harper Prize Novel Contest. Not only was it picked over 544 other entries for the $10,000 first prize and accepted for publication by Harper & Row, but also it was chosen as the following January's Book-of-the-Month Club selection.

## References in popular culture

In the TV series For All Mankind, the character Ed Baldwin reads to his grandson Alex from The Sand Pebbles in the episode named "Legacy" (season 4 episode 8).

## Editions

* Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles: A Novel (New York: Harper & Row, 1962). Reprinted: Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2000. ISBN 1-55750-446-6.
# Chycza

Chycza is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radków, within Włoszczowa County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) east of Radków, 19 km (12 mi) south of Włoszczowa, and 45 km (28 mi) south-west of the regional capital Kielce.
# William Chase

William Chase may refer to:
* William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), American painter
* William Calvin Chase (1854–1921), African-American lawyer and newspaper editor
* William Martin Chase (1837–1918), justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire
* William C. Chase (1895–1986), American general
* William Henry Chase (1798–1870), Florida militia colonel
* William J.J. Chase, American architect of Atlanta, Georgia
* William St Lucien Chase (1856–1908), recipient of the Victoria Cross
* William Chase (entrepreneur) (born 1960), founder of the Tyrrells crisp brand
* William Henry Chase (Canadian entrepreneur) (1851–1933), entrepreneur and philanthropist in Nova Scotia, Canada
* Robert William Chase (1852–1927), British ornithologist
# William Charlie Horton

William Charlie Horton (July 21, 1876 – February 14, 1969) was a United States Marine and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Boxer Rebellion.
Horton served in the American Chinese Relief Expedition during the Boxer Rebellion as a private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Peking, China.
His Medal was issued on July 19, 1901. He is buried at Evergreen-Washelli Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.

## Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Private, U.S. Marine Corps. Place and date: Peking, China, July 21, to August 17, 1900. Entered service at: Pennsylvania. Born: July 21, 1876, Chicago, Ill. G.O. No.: 55, July 19, 1901.
Citation:
   In action against the enemy at Peking, China, July 21, to August 17, 1900. Although under heavy fire from the enemy, Horton assisted in the erection of barricades.
# Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen

Bernice Marilla McIlhenny Wintersteen (June 16, 1903 – April 24, 1986) was an American arts patron and arts administrator. She was president of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1964 to 1968.

## Early life and education

Bernice "Bonnie" McIlhenny was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of John Dexter McIlhenny and Frances Galbraith Plumer McIlhenny. Her father was an executive in the utilities industry. Her younger brother Henry Plumer McIhenny was a noted art collector, curator, and philanthropist. She studied art with Arthur Beecher Carles, and graduated from Smith College in 1925. In 1981 she was awarded the Smith College Medal, as an outstanding alumna.

## Career

Wintersteen was a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1937 to 1964, chair of the Board of Governors from 1959 to 1964, and president of the museum from 1964 to 1968. In 1969, the Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen Student Center opened at the museum. She sold much of her art collections in the 1970s, but donated some paintings to the museum, and to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, including paintings, pastels, and statues from Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, O'Keeffe, Nevelson, Rothko, and Bronzino.
Wintersteen was named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania in 1964. She received the Gimbel Philadelphia Award in 1967. She chaired the Philadelphia Art Festival in 1967, and was president of the Friends of the Wissahickon from 1953 to 1956. She served on the advisory council of the Princeton University Museum of Art, chaired the visitors' committee of the Smith College Art Museum. She was also "the first woman elected an honorary fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians." She was a trustee of Drexel University, and served on the Bicentennial Committee of the city of Philadelphia. Illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith painted a portrait of Bonnie McIlhenny as a girl; Andy Warhol photographed her in her seventies.

## Personal life

Bernice McIlhenny married lawyer John S. Wintersteen in 1929. They had four sons. Her husband died in 1952, and she died in 1986, at the age of 82, in Philadelphia. Her papers are in the archives of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
# William Conley

William, Willy or Will Conley may refer to:
* William G. Conley (1866–1940), American politician who served as Governor of West Virginia
* William Conley Jr. (born 1953), American state legislator in Rhode Island
* William Henry Conley (1840–1897), American industrialist and philanthropist
* William M. Conley (born 1956), American federal judge
* Willy Conley (born 1958), American photographer
# Willem Aarnoud van Citters

Willem Aarnoud or Aarnout van Citters (28 January 1741 – 22 September 1811) was a Dutch politician who served as the last Grand Pensionary of Zeeland. He was appointed to the role in 1788 (succeeding Laurens van de Spiegel) and held it until 1795, when the Dutch Republic was overthrown and replaced by the Batavian Republic.

## Life

He was born in Middelburg to Aarnout van Citters and Sara Jacoba Ockerse, making him a nephew of Wilhem van Citters, grand pensionary of Zeeland from 1760 to 1766. He served several roles in the government of Middelburg – councillor (1761–1793), schepen (1762–1786), treasurer (1769–1781) and mayor (1779, 1782, 1785 and 1788). He played a dominant role in Zeeland's Orange Party and was one of the authors of the 1787 Act of Obligation which aimed to organise the Orangists and suppress the Patriots. He was also involved in the negotiations at Nijmegen which aimed to put stadhouder William V, Prince of Orange back in power. He died in Arnemuiden in 1811.

## Sources

* Biografisch woordenboek der Nederlanden – van der Aa
* L.P. van de Spiegel (1737–1800) deel I & II – F.B. Schotanus
* Mr Johan van der Perre (1738–1790) – Dr H.J. Zuidervaart
# Bertram Engel

Bertram Lutz Wilhelm Passmann, better known by his stage name Bertram Engel (born 27 November 1957 in Burgsteinfurt), is a German rock drummer.
Engel is best known for his work within Udo Lindenberg's Panikorchester, where he replaced Keith Forsey in 1976. Other musical collaborations include among others Eric Burdon, The Pretty Things, Jimmy Barnes and Robert Palmer. He has a guest appearance on drums in the Bruce Springsteen video "Hungry Heart" and can be heard playing drums on the Springsteen bootleg-album "Secret Berlin Night".

## Biography

Engel began playing the piano at the age of seven. Later in his teenage years he attended the Music Academy in Münster where drums became his main skill.
Along with his eight-year-older brother Thomas Engel, the 1970s became the year where they released an album under the name Gebrüder Engel. He later came to meet Udo Lindenberg who pledged him as a drummer of his Panikorchester. Besides he also worked with Peter Maffay over four decades.
In the bands of these two musicians, Bertram Engel has been a member for years and he has been involved in studio recordings and on stage as drummer, composer and producer for decades.
# Wuling Town

Wuling Town (Chinese: 武陵镇; pinyin: Wǔlíng Zhèn) was a historic town of Dingcheng District (the former Changde County) in Changde Prefecture-level City, Hunan, China. It was established on March 12, 1981, named after Wuling (Chinese: 武陵) of local ancient name; Guojiapu Township (Chinese: 郭家铺乡) was merge to the town. As a township-level division, Wuling Town ceased to be a separate town, It was divided into 3 subdistricts of Guojiapu, Hongyun and Yuxia in 2013.
Wuling Town was located on the southern bank of the Yuan River, It was surrounded by Wuling District across the Yuan river to the west, north and east, Doumuhu Town to the south.
In 2013, the town had an area of 37.67 km$^2$ (14.54 sq mi) with a population of 152,000, it was divided into 21 commities and four villages, its seat was Yuxia Community (Chinese: 玉霞社区; the seat of the present of Yuxia Subdistrict).

## Communities and villages

Dividing Wuling Town, establishment of 3 subdistricts in 2013 :
| Yuxia Subdistrict | Yuxia Subdistrict | Guojiapu Subdistrict | Guojiapu Subdistrict | Hongyun Subdistrict | Hongyun Subdistrict |
| English | Chinese | English | Chinese | English | Chinese |
| Changyuan Community | 常沅社区 | Guojiapu Community | 郭家铺社区 （郭家铺村） | De'an Community | 德安社区 |
| Dingcheng Community | 鼎城社区 | Jinxia Community | 金霞社区 | Fuguang Community | 福广社区 （福广村） |
| Dukou Community | 渡口社区 | Kongjiarong Community | 孔家榕社区 （孔家榕村） | Hongyun Community | 红云社区 （红云村） |
| Lingjiang Community | 临江社区 | Sandishui Community | 三滴水社区 （三滴水村） | Huachanmiao Community | 花船庙社区 |
| Qiaotou Community | 桥头社区 | Wangjiapu Community | 王家铺社区 | Shanchi Community | 善池社区 |
| Shanjuan Community | 善卷社区 | Baoguo Village | 报国村 | Tingchechang Community | 停车场社区 |
| Yingbin Community | 迎宾社区 | Dahechang Village | 大禾场村 | Xizhan Community | 西站社区 （西站村） |
| Yong'an Community | 永安社区 | Sanchahu Village | 三岔湖村 | | |
| Yuxia Community | 玉霞社区 | Yaoti Village | 腰堤村 | | |
# The Ship of Ishtar

The Ship of Ishtar is a fantasy novel by American writer A. Merritt. Originally published as a magazine serial in 1924, it has appeared in book form innumerable times. The novel depicts a modern archaeologist who has to intervene in an eternal conflict between the deities Ishtar and Nergal. In the novel, the deities have possessed the bodies of their human priests.

## Plot introduction

The archaeologist hero, Kenton, receives a mysterious ancient Babylonian artifact, which he discovers contains an incredibly detailed model of a ship. A dizzy spell casts Kenton onto the deck of the ship, which becomes a full-sized vessel sailing an eternal sea. At one end is Sharane the assistant priestess of Ishtar and her female minions, and at the other is Klaneth the assistant priest of Nergal and his male minions, representatives of two opposed deities. None of them can cross an invisible barrier at the midline of the ship, but Kenton can. His arrival destabilizes a situation that had been frozen for 6,000 years, and fantastic adventures ensue.
The novel is not only a rousing fantasy adventure story, but a philosophical exploration of the relationship between material reality and the abstract concepts through which humans struggle to understand it. The reason the ship has been frozen in time is that Zarpanit the head priestess of Ishtar and Alusar the head priest of Nergal fell in love, and were in the midst of making love when their deities possessed them. This placed the hostile deities in an untenable position, especially as they represented cosmic forces that must be kept separate. The result was an imbalance between stability and instability in the universe, freezing the ship in time and rendering unstable its connection to the reality inhabited by the reader. In a study of fantasy and science fiction literature, William Sims Bainbridge (1986: 136) explained:
"The author uses evocative language and intense images to convey a sense of the marvelous and mysterious. It is Kenton's fate to intervene in the frozen cosmic struggle between Ishtar and Nergal, to fall in love with Sharane, and to gain Klaneth as his mortal enemy. The book builds tension through the device of letting Kenton's tie to the ship periodically become so weak that he falls back, unwilling, to his New York home. Kenton's tenuous psychic connection to the ship represents the reader's involvement in the fantasy. At any moment the ship may fade from reality, and both Kenton and the reader will be imprisoned in the mundane world of the everyday."

## Publication history

* Six installments in Argosy All-Story magazine, November 8 - December 13, 1924.
* 1926, US, G. P. Putnam's Sons
* 1949, US, Borden OCLC 543508
* 1975, France, J'ai lu OCLC 77463966, French translation
* 1977, Germany, Pabel OCLC 74362695, German translation
* 1991, Spain, Valdemar OCLC 433813856, Spanish translation
* 1993, Russia, Severo-zapad OCLC 31706100, Russian translation
# The Self Starter

The Self Starter is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Mildred Harris and Sheldon Lewis. It was distributed by the independent Rayart Pictures.

## Synopsis

Returning from service in World War I Jerry Neale invents a new self starting ignition system that can power tanks and tractors. He falls in love with young actress Ruth Atkin, but faces a rival in Dan Hicks who also tries to steal his invention.

## Cast

* Reed Howes as Jerry Neale
* Mildred Harris as Ruth Atkin
* Sheldon Lewis as Buddy
* John Sinclair as Soly
* Harry Tenbrook as Dan Hicks
* Lionel Belmore as Crane
# Chūō-ku, Kumamoto

Chūō-ku (中央区) is one of the five wards of Kumamoto City, Japan. The ward is located in the center of the city.
As of 2012, it has a population of 183,497 people and an area of 25.33 km$^2$.
# Wushu at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's sanshou 60 kg

The men's sanshou 60 kilograms at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand was held from 16 to 19 December at the Thammasat Gymnasium 6.

## Schedule

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
| Wednesday, 16 December 1998 | 14:00 | Quarterfinals |
| Thursday, 17 December 1998 | 14:00 | Quarterfinals |
| Friday, 18 December 1998 | 14:00 | Semifinals |
| Saturday, 19 December 1998 | 14:00 | Final |

## Results

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Sun Xunchang (CHN) | 2 | | | | |
| Diệp Bảo Minh (VIE) | 0 | Sun Xunchang (CHN) | 2 | | |
| Nurlan Zhunuspekov (KAZ) | 2 | Nurlan Zhunuspekov (KAZ) | 0 | | |
| Ali Khodaei (IRI) | 1 | | | Sun Xunchang (CHN) | 2 |
| Wang Yeh-hao (TPE) | 2 | | | Komsan Thongtup (THA) | 0 |
| Narayan Shrestha (NEP) | 0 | Wang Yeh-hao (TPE) | 0 | | |
| Vanxay Oudomphon (LAO) | 0 | Komsan Thongtup (THA) | 2 | | |
| Komsan Thongtup (THA) | 2 | | | | |
# Château La Tour du Pin Figeac (Giraud-Bélivier)

Château La Tour du Pin Figeac is a Bordeaux wine estate in the appellation Saint-Émilion, and is currently owned by the Giraud family.

## History

Until 1879, this property was a part of the Figeac estate, acquired to form Château La Tour Figeac, which was further sold and divided into two parts, this property and that of Château La Tour du Pin Figeac (Moueix).
Bought in 1923 by M. G. Bélivier, the Giraud family acquired the property in 1972. The Moueix property of the same name was sold to Château Cheval Blanc in 2006, who renamed it and later absorbed it, so the Giraud property is now the only Château La Tour du Pin Figeac.
The estate was rated Grand Cru Classé in the original Classification of Saint-Émilion wine, but lost this status in 2006, only to have the verdict reversed in 2008. Château La Tour du Pin Figeac was excluded from the 2012 classification, and its appeal failed.

## Production

The vineyards extend to 11 hectares (27 acres).
The Grand vin is typically a blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc.
# Bess Taffel

Bess Taffel Boyle (December 10, 1913 – July 21, 2000) was an American screenwriter, whose career was effectively ended after she was identified as a member of the Communist Party during the McCarthy period.
Taffel is known for writing such films as Elopement.
She wrote only a few television scripts from 1969 to 1974, before she ended her career entirely. She had worked in the Yiddish theatre before becoming a writer in Hollywood.

## Family

She was married to Robert F. Boyle, an Academy Award-winning film production designer and art director, until her death from a stroke in 2000 at age 86. They had two children. Her widower died at the age of 100 on August 1, 2010. His career was not impacted by his wife's blacklisting.

## Writing work

* Needles and Pins (TV series; 1 episode, 1974)
       "With Such Enemies"
* Marcus Welby, M.D." (TV series)
       "Please Don't Send Flowers" (1 episode, 1972)
* Bracken's World (TV series; 2 episodes, 1969–1970)
       "A Perfect Piece of Casting" (1 episode, 1970)
       "Closed Set" (1 episode, 1969)
* Elopement (1951; writer)
* A Likely Story (1947; writer)
* Badman's Territory (1946; writer)
# William Fielding (architect)

William Fielding (1875 – 26 July 1946) was a New Zealand architect who practised in Wellington. He was also a bowls player, winning two medals at the 1930 British Empire Games.

## Early life and family

Born in 1875 at Lower Darwen, Lancashire, England, Fielding was the son of Mary (née Turnbull) and Robert Fielding, and was educated at Kilgrimol School in Lancashire. In 1900, Fielding married Lily Midgley, and the couple went on to have two children.

## Architectural practice

Fielding trained as an architect under John Whitaker, and later became a junior partner with Manchester architect, John Dent Harker. Fielding is known to have worked on the St Annes-on-the-Sea Carnegie Library designed by Harker. Moving to New Zealand around 1908, Fielding established his own practice in Wellington in 1909, and designed nearly 300 buildings in the city and elsewhere. SIgnificant examples of his work include:
* Assembly Hall for the Vogeltown and Mornington Public Hall Society, Vennell Street, Brooklyn.
* Capitol Theatre, Miramar.
* Congregational Church, 45 Cambridge Terrace, Te Aro.
* Evening Post Building, 82 Willis Street, Te Aro.
* Flats for Mrs Turner-Cottier, 83 Kent Terrace, Te Aro.
* Kilbirnie Wesleyan Church, Waitoa Road, Hataitai.
* Lampard Flats, 284–286 Cuba Street, Te Aro.
* Plumbers Building, 122–124 Wakefield Street, Te Aro.
* Rosco Tearooms, 2–6 Coleman Place, Palmerston North.
* St Christopher's Church, 27 Ventnor Street, Seatoun.
* Ward Memorial Methodist Church and Hall, 69 Northland Road, Northland.
* Wellington Trades' Hall Building, 124–128 Vivian Street, Te Aro.
He also supervised the restoration of Antrim House in Wellington following a fire in 1940.
Fielding was admitted LRIBA in 1913, and elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 1915. He served as chairman of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.

## Lawn bowls

A member of the Hataitai Bowling Club, Fielding represented New Zealand at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, and competed in the singles, pairs, and fours. He won the silver medal with his partner Peter McWhannell in the pairs event, and In the singles competition he won the bronze medal. The foursome of Fielding, McWhannell, Edward Leach, and Harold Frost finished fifth.

## Death

Fielding died on 26 July 1946, and his funeral was held at the Congregational Church in Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, which he had designed. He was buried at Karori Cemetery, Wellington.