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# The Fort Moxie Branch

"The Fort Moxie Branch" is a 1988 science fiction short story by Jack McDevitt. It was first published in the 1988 edition of the Full Spectrum anthology series from Bantam Spectra.

## Synopsis

A self-published author discovers a transdimensional library that collects the lost works of great authors.

## Reception

"The Fort Moxie Branch" was a finalist for the 1988 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Paul J. Nahin has described the librarians' mission as "one that [Ray] Bradbury would surely applaud", while Tom Easton has compared the library to "an Isher weapons shop".
# Molly Ladd-Taylor

Molly Madeleine Ladd-Taylor FRSC (born June 27, 1955) is a Canadian historian. Having moved to Canada during the 1990s, she is a professor of history at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research focuses on the histories of women's health, maternal and child welfare policy, and eugenics in the United States.

## Early life and education

Ladd-Taylor was born on June 27, 1955. She attended Oberlin College for her Bachelor of Arts degree and enrolled at Case Western Reserve University for her Master's degree in American studies. She remained in the United States until she finished her PhD from Yale University. As a young adult in the 1980s, her mother suffered from Granulomatosis with polyangiitis and was treated by Anthony Fauci, who had just become the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

## Career

Upon completing her PhD, Ladd-Taylor joined the history faculty at York University. While there, she published her first book titled Raising a Baby the Government Way: Mothers' Letters to the Children's Bureau, 1915–1932 through the Rutgers University Press in 1986. The book was a collection of letters from women around the United States detailing motherhood difficulties, including death and diet, between World War I and the end of the 1920s. A few years later, she published another book titled Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930 through the University of Illinois Press.
In 2017, Ladd-Taylor published Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century through the Johns Hopkins University Press. The book focused on the history of Eugenics in the United States as depicted in institutional and medical records, court cases, newspapers and professional journals. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Book Award as an "outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history." During this time, she was also promoted to Full Professor in York University's Department of History.
During the 2019–20 academic year, Ladd-Taylor won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant to fund her research project "Damaged Children, Innocence, Inequality and the Politics of Poverty in the Postwar United States, 1950-90." As a result of her accomplishments, Ladd-Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020.

## Selected publications

* Raising a Baby the Government Way: Mothers' Letters to the Children's Bureau, 1915-1932 (1986)
* Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930 (1994)
* Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women (1996)
* 'Bad' Mothers: The Politics of Blame in 20th-Century America (1998)
* Women, Health and Nation: Canada and the United States Since 1945 (2003)
* Becoming a Historian: A Canadian Manual (2008)
* Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century (2017)
# Barringer (lunar crater)

Barringer is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the Far side of the Moon, named after geologist Daniel Barringer. It is attached to the north-northeastern rim of the walled basin named Apollo, and lies to the southeast of Plummer. South of Barringer, on the floor of the Apollo basin, is the crater Scobee.
This crater is generally circular in form, with a slight outward bulge along the western rim. The outer rampart of ejecta spills over slightly into the Apollo basin floor, but the remainder of the rim lies in rugged irregular ground. At the midpoint is a central peak formation with a pair of tiny craters to either side: east and southwest. The remaining floor is relatively flat to the north and somewhat more irregular to the south.

## Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Barringer.
| Barringer | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
| C | 26.5° S | 148.8° W | 19 km |
| Z | 25.0° S | 150.3° W | 24 km |
The following craters have been renamed by the IAU.
* Barringer L — See Scobee (crater).
* Barringer M — See Smith (lunar crater).
# V with diagonal stroke

V with diagonal stroke (Ꝟ, ꝟ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from V with the addition of a bar through the left stroke.

## Usage

This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for vir, ver, and vere, as in Latin virgo, a maiden, or Portuguese ver, to see, conversa, conversation, or vereador, member of a town council.

## Computer encodings

Capital and small V with diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A75E and U+A75F.
# Fusidomiporta suturata

Fusidomiporta suturata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
# Vitalien Laurent

Vitalien Laurent (born Louis Philippe Olivier Laurent; Séné, 26 May 1896 – Paris, 21 November 1973) was a French priest and Byzantinist. He was editor of the journal Échos d'Orient (predecessor of the Revue des études byzantines).
He published nearly 700 works in the fields of Greek hagiography, Byzantine history, Byzantine sigillography and Byzantine ecclesiastical history. Most notably, he edited Sylvester Syropoulos' account of the Council of Florence, the registers of the Constantinopolitan Patriarchy (years 1204–1309) and a synodal tome from the age of Patriarch Matthew the 1st.
He was a researcher of the French CNRS from 1958; before that, he had spent several years in Poland, Romania and Germany, affiliated to the universities of Poznan, Warsaw, Bucharest – where he co-founded the French Institute of Byzantine Studies –, and Munich. In 1952, he had become conservator of the Vatican medal collection. He was member of several scientific academies and exclusive orders around Europe, most notably the German Archaeological Institute (correspondent member, 1931), the Société d'Études Byzantines in Athens (1940) and the Order of the British Empire (honorary member, 1944).

## Sources

* AA., VV. (1974). "Bibliographie du Père Vitalien Laurent". Revue des études byzantines (in French). 32: 343–379 – via Persée.fr.
* Darrouzès, Jean (1974). "Le Père Vitalien Laurent (1896-1973)". Revue des études byzantines (in French). 32: 3–14 – via Persée.fr.
# Bernhard Ziehn

Bernhard Ziehn (January 20, 1845 – September 8, 1912) was a German-American music theorist and music teacher.

## Biography

Ziehn was born in Erfurt, Germany. As he was trained to be a schoolteacher, music education played only a small part in his upbringing. Initially he taught briefly at Mühlhausen before emigrating.
He arrived in Chicago in 1868, teaching mathematics, German, history, and music at the German Lutheran School from 1868 through 1871. After a stint as an organist for a synagogue, he became a private teacher, publishing an extensive number of musical and theoretical articles. His first theoretical works were published in 1881.
His students included John Alden Carpenter, Wilhelm Middelschulte, Hugo Kaun, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Eleanor Everest Freer, Glenn Dillard Gunn, Julius Gold, Grace Chadbourne, Regina Watson, and Otto Wolf. See: List of music students by teacher: T to Z#Bernhard Ziehn.
Ziehn died in Chicago, Illinois.

## Theories

Ziehn refused to use Helmholtz's theory of harmonic structure based on physical phenomena. Rather, his ideas were based not on natural science, but on music itself. This was in contradistinction to Hugo Riemann who sought to base his rationales on "scientific" reasoning (not entirely consistently).
He praised Anton Bruckner while condemning Hugo Riemann, Eduard Hanslick and Phillipp Spitta. His ideas were admired by Hans von Bülow, Hugo Kaun, Leopold Godowsky, Ferruccio Busoni, George P. Upton and others. Theodore Thomas reportedly changed details of his interpretations based on discussions with Ziehn. Kyle Gann, a fan of Ziehn's music and theories, says both that he, "had a considerable influence on the pre-war Chicago scene," and that, "his obsessive musical mind has been forgotten because he lived in Chicago, wrote in German, and was just too far ahead of his time."

## Writings

* System der Uebungen für Clavierspieler und ein Lehrgang für den ersten Unterricht/System of Exercises for Pianoforte and a New Method of Instruction for Beginners (Hamburg, 1881) [bilingual edn]
* Harmonie- und Modulationslehre (Berlin, 1887; rev. 2/1907 as Manual of Harmony)
* Five- and Six-part Harmonies/Fünf- und Sechsstimmige Harmonien (Milwaukee and Berlin, 1911) [bilingual edn]
* Canonical Studies: a New Technic in Composition/Canonische Studien: eine neue Compositions-Technik (Milwaukee and Berlin, 1912 [bilingual edn]; abridged in Eng. as Canonic Studies, London, 1976);
* ed. J. Goebel: 'Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geschichte und Theorie der Musik von Bernhard Ziehn', Jahrbuch der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois, xxvi–xxvii (1926–7) [double issue devoted chiefly to a collection of Ziehn's articles, with introduction by J. Goebel and 2 essays by T. Otterstrom
# James of Avesnes

James of Avesnes (also Jacques or Jacob; 1152 – 7 September 1191) was a son of Nicholas d'Oisy, Lord of Avesnes and Matilda de la Roche. He was the lord of Avesnes, Condé, and Leuze from 1171. In November 1187, James joined the Third Crusade as leader of a detachment of French, Flemish, and Frisian crusaders arriving by ship on the Palestinian coast near Acre around 10 September 1189. James and his men came as military reinforcements for the Siege of Acre.$^{:403}$ While leading his contingent of soldiers, the other main leaders of the siege were Guy of Lusignan and Henry of Champagne, neither of them gaining a dominant position in leading the siege.
At the Battle of Arsuf, James was thrown from his saddle and, after slaying fifteen enemy warriors, was himself cut down. The next day, a search party of Hospitallers and Templars found his body on the battlefield. It was taken back to Arsuf and buried there in a ceremony attended by Richard the Lionheart and Guy of Lusignan.$^{:474}$
He married Adela (died 1185), daughter of Bouchard of Guise, and was the father of:
* Walter II of Avesnes
* James, lord of Landrecies
* William (died 1219)
* Bouchard IV of Avesnes
* Matilda, married (1) Nicholas IV of Rumigny and (2) Louis IV of Chiny
* Adelaide, married Rogier of Rosoy (died 1246)
* Ida (1180–1216), married Engelbert IV of Edingen
* Adela, married (1) Henry III of Grandpré and (2) Ralph, Count of Soissons
# Willke

Willke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Helmut Willke (born 1945), German sociologist
* John C. Willke (1925–2015), American physician, author, and anti-abortion activist
# Bashaw

Bashaw may refer to:

## Places
### Canada

* Bashaw, Alberta
** Bashaw Airport

### United States

* Bashaw, Wisconsin, a town
* Bashaw, Burnett County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
* Bashaw Township, Brown County, Minnesota

## Others

* Mose Bashaw (1889–1933), an American football tackle
* Bashaw, another name for the Flathead catfish
** USS Bashaw (SS-241), a Gato-class submarine named for the fish
* Bashaw (Matthew Cotes Wyatt), a marble sculpture by Matthew Cotes Wyatt
* Pasha or bashaw, a rank in the Ottoman Empire
# Blood Pressure (film)

Blood Pressure is a 2012 Canadian film co-written, directed and produced by Sean Garrity. The film stars Michelle Giroux as a pharmacist who is unhappy with her life and marriage, who starts to receive letters from an anonymous admirer, asking her to undertake increasingly risky activities.

## Production

The idea for the film originated in a writer's group in the Neighbourhood Bookstore and Cafe in Wolseley, Winnipeg, and is based on a story by the film's cowriter Bill Fugler. Garrity then added narrative elements to bring the idea to the big screen. The director had planned to shoot the film in Winnipeg when a sudden career opportunity for his wife led to them relocating to Toronto. Garrity found the expense of shooting in a big city to be financially and physically draining, compared to his experiences in his native Winnipeg. In an effort to find a big enough house for the film's middle-class main characters, who would not be able to afford such a large residence in Toronto, Garrity ended up filming in suburban Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Giroux, better known as a stage actress and friend of cast member Jonas Chernick, was originally brought in simply to read with the male actors during pre-production. But she so impressed Garrity that she was chosen for lead role over other actresses with more film experience.

## Release

Blood Pressure premiered in Winnipeg on February 22, 2013 with sold out screenings at the city's Cinematheque, followed by a run at the Empire Theatres 8 in Grant Park, Winnipeg starting Mar. 8. The film opened in Toronto at The Royal Theatre on March 15, and was moved to the Carlton Theatre on March 22, where it was held over. The film reportedly averaged $3000 per screen in Toronto and Winnipeg, according to distributor Flying Horsie Films.
# Hyde County

Hyde County is the name of two counties in the United States:
* Hyde County, North Carolina
* Hyde County, South Dakota
# Vitalie Zubac

Vitalie Zubac (born 1894, date of death unknown) was a Bessarabian politician. He was born in Necrasovca-Nouă.

## Biography

He served as Member of the Moldovan Parliament (1917–1918).

## Gallery

* Moldovan stamp, 1998
# Harold E. Moore

Harold Emery Moore, Jr. (July 7, 1917 – October 27, 1980) was an American botanist especially known for his work on the systematics of the palm family. He served as Director of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University, and was appointed Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Botany in 1978. He was an important contributor to Hortus Third and was editor of Principes (now Palms), the journal of the International Palm Society. He also edited Gentes Herbarum and provided the foundation for the first edition of Genera Palmarum, a seminal work on palm taxonomy which was later completed by Natalie Uhl and John Dransfield.

## Early life and education

Moore was born in Massachusetts in 1917. He received his B.S. from Massachusetts State College in 1939. He then moved to Harvard University where he obtained his M.S. in 1940 and Ph.D. in 1942. After graduating, he served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946.

## Career

In 1947, he joined the staff of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard. In 1948 he moved to the L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell as an Assistant Professor of Botany. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1951 and full Professor in 1960. Between 1960 and 1969 he served as director of the herbarium, and was elected Bailey Professor of Botany in 1978. Although best known for his work on palms, Moore also made notable contributions to the study of the Gesneriaceae, the Geraniaceae, the Amaryllidaceae, the Cucurbitaceae and the Commelinaceae.
Moore began his work on palms in 1948 with the encouragement of Bailey himself, who was then 90 years old. Bailey had wanted to create a Genera Palmarum, a proper delineation of the palm family and all the genera within it. When Bailey died in 1954, the job was left to Moore. Moore visited the major historic collections of palms in United States and Europe and learned that existing collections often lacked the features that were needed to understand the evolutionary relationships among the genera. This led to a worldwide effort on his part to see and collect as many palm genera as he could. By the time of his death in 1980 he had traveled to many remote locations and had collected all but 18 of the approximately 200 genera of palms. These exploits earned him membership in The Explorers Club.
In 1973 Moore wrote a paper, The Major Groups of Palms and Their Distribution, which presented the outline of his classification of the family. He continued to build on this, and in 1980 was finally ready to devote three years to the production of Genera Palmarum. He died the same year, leaving the work of completing the work to Natalie Uhl and John Dransfield.
Moore was the author of nearly 300 publications. He scientifically described and named the genus Dandya (in honor of James Edgar Dandy).

## Awards and fellowships

Moore received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1946–47 and 1955–56. He also received the Founder's Medal of the Fairchild Tropical Garden in 1954.
He was made an Honorary Life Member of the American Gloxinia and Gesneriad Society in 1958.
# Bernhard Kamnitzer

Bernhard Kamnitzer (25 October 1890 – 15 July 1959) was a German jurist and Senator of the Free City of Danzig.

## Biography

Kamnitzer was born in Dirschau (modern Tczew, Poland), he studied law at the Universities of Danzig (modern Gdansk) and Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad). Kamnitzer served in World War I and was severely wounded, he later worked as a lawyer and a judge in Danzig. He was a member of the executive board of the Centralverein Danziger Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (CV; Central Association of Danzig Citizens of Jewish faith), of the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig and the Danzig parliament in 1924-28. He was Senator (minister) for Finances of the Free City of Danzig between 1928 and 1931. In 1938 Kamnitzer emigrated to Great Britain and later to the United States, where he became President of the American Danzig Association.
Kamnitzer died in New York City.
# Francis G. Brink

Francis Gerard Brink (22 August 1893 – 24 June 1952) was a brigadier general in the United States Army who served in World War II. He was the first commander of MAAG Indo-China and was found dead of gunshot wounds in the Pentagon on 24 June 1952.

## Early life and education

Francis Gerard Brink was born on 22 August 1893 in Marathon, New York. He graduated from Cornell University.

## Military career

At the beginning of the Pacific War Brink was serving with the U.S. Army liaison mission in Singapore. He served in the China Burma India Theater and from 1944 to 1945 was chief of operations for South East Asia Command. From 1948 to 1949 he served as chief of the Army Advisory Staff in China and saw the defeat of the Nationalist forces.$^{:116}$ In October 1950 he was appointed as the first commander of MAAG Indo-China.

## Death

In early June 1952, Brink returned to the U.S. for two weeks of consultation on the situation in Indochina. On the afternoon of 24 June 1952 he was found dead in his office at the Pentagon in an apparent suicide. He had three bullet wounds in his chest and an automatic pistol was found beside him. Brink was reported to have been suffering from depression, diabetes and arteriosclerosis.$^{:157}$
Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General J. Lawton Collins said that, having noted Brink's tired appearance, he had ordered his staff to ensure that Brink rested before returning to Indochina. Acting Secretary of State David K. E. Bruce said that Brink had made a "major contribution" to fighting "Communist aggression" in Indochina. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

## Decorations

Brink's decorations include Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit and Purple Heart.
# The Glory of Christmas

The Glory of Christmas was an annual musical performance of the story of the birth of Jesus performed between 1981 and 2009 at Christmastime in the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. The show was cancelled from 2010 on after the church filed for bankruptcy, following the cancellation earlier that year of a related show, The Glory of Easter.

## History

In 1980 the Crystal Cathedral was dedicated. In 1981, The Glory of Christmas premiered at the cathedral. The cathedral seated 2,736 for church services, but only seated 2,508 when holding the large Glory of Christmas set. Installing the production set took a month of preparation, including lighting load-in, angel track installation and rigging, as well as set construction.
The cathedral's pipe organ has 287 ranks of pipes, 16,000 individual, 549 horizontal trumpet pipes in the east and west balconies and 5,000 additional pipes in the south balcony division, making it the largest collection of such pipes in the world.
More than 300 volunteers dedicated over 160 hours each to The Glory of Christmas as both cast members and volunteer ushers.

## Performance style

The performance was in the style of traditional Christmas pageants but on a grand scale with the feel of a Broadway show. Costumes, such as those of Roman centurions or the Three Wise Men, were professionally designed and produced. The musical numbers included Christmas songs such as "O Holy Night", "Silent Night", and "Mary, Did You Know?", and featured orchestral accompaniment. The vocal style of the performances ranged from operatic to gospel.

## Special effects

Animals played an integral role in the production's recreation of the ancient land. Camels, horses, a yak, a llama, a baby water buffalo and many sheep and goats took part in the performance.
Angels, as many as seven at once, "flew" on a high-speed flying gantry. Some flew as high as 80 feet (24 m) and were able to travel as fast as 25 miles per hour (40 km/h). In each scene involving angels, they rapidly exited to the farthest and highest points in the Crystal Cathedral, some 150 feet (46 m) from the center of the audience and roughly 90 feet (27 m) above the floor.
A high-volume smoke machine was used to generate a storm cloud 20 feet (6.1 m) above the audience.

## Ballet

Throughout the performance, dancers performed ballet-type movements and various interpretive dance choreography.

## Recordings

The 1993 production, directed by Paul David Dunn, was recorded and exists in tape and disc form.