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# Martin Connell (Royal Navy officer)

Vice Admiral Sir Martin John Connell KCB CBE (born 18 December 1968), is a senior Royal Navy officer, serving since 2022 as Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff.

## Career

Connell was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1987 as a Lynx Observer. He went on to become a Qualified Observer Instructor (QOI) at 702 Naval Air Squadron then becoming a Flight Commander on HMS Coventry and HMS Manchester, before instructing observers at 815 Naval Air Squadron. He was given command of the offshore patrol vessel HMS Severn in 2003. As the commanding officer of HMS Chatham, Connell led maritime operations in support of Operation Telic; his frigate became known for successfully protecting Iraqi offshore oil platforms, anti-piracy actions in the Arabian Sea and for interdicting a large shipment of illegal drugs.
Promoted captain on 5 September 2011, taking command of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in 2012, and Commodore on 10 February 2015, Connell was appointed Commander Amphibious Task Group in 2015, then naval attaché to Washington D.C. in 2016. Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Aviation, Amphibious Capability & Carriers) as well as head of the Fleet Air Arm from 2019, Connell served also as Director Force Generation under the Fleet Commander, Vice Admiral Andrew Burns, being succeeded by newly-promoted Rear Admiral Steve Moorhouse on 14 January 2022, upon his appointment as Second Sea Lord in succession to Vice Admiral Sir Nick Hine.
As Second Sea Lord, Connell is responsible for delivering the Royal Navy’s future capabilities, including SSN-AUKUS submarines. Connell is reported to be an advocate for increasing the UK's shipbuilding, surface vehicles and subsurface, crewed and un-crewed, prioritising "offensive strike capability over all else."
A graduate of the US Naval War College where he took the Naval Command College Course in 2004/05 (being elected International Fellow), Connell completed the Higher Command and Staff Course at Shrivenham in 2011, the US National Defense University CAPSTONE Course in 2017 and UK Pinnacle at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 2021.
Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2020, and advanced Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 2025, Connell has received the Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with one clasp.
Admitted in 2012 as a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, Connell is also a Younger Brother of Trinity House.
# Nathaniel Portlock

Nathaniel Portlock (c. 1748 – 12 September 1817) was a British ship's captain, maritime fur trader, and author.
He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St Albans. In 1776 he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of James Cook. During the expedition, in August 1779, he was transferred to HMS Resolution.
He passed his lieutenant's examination on 7 September 1780, then served on HMS Firebrand in the Channel fleet.
On Cook's third voyage, furs obtained in present-day British Columbia and Alaska sold for good prices when the expedition called at Macao. In 1785 Richard Cadman Etches and partners, including Portlock and George Dixon formed a partnership, commonly called the King George's Sound Company, to develop the fur trade. Dixon had also served on Resolution in the Pacific Ocean under Cook. In September 1785 Portlock and Dixon sailed from England. Portlock was in command of the larger vessel, the 320-ton (bm) King George, with a crew of 59. Dixon's was in command of the 200-ton (bm) Queen Charlotte, with a crew of 33. Dixon and Portlock sailed together for most of their three-year voyage. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Falkland Islands in January 1786, and transited Cape Horn to enter the Pacific Ocean. They reached the Hawaiian Islands on 24 May and anchored in Kealakekua Bay (where Cook had been killed in 1779), but did not go ashore. They took on fresh food at other Hawaiian Islands and proceeded on to what is now Alaska. After two years of plying the waters, Portlock and Dixon departed North America, reaching Macao in November 1788.
On their return Portlock and Dixon published an account of the voyage, based in part on letters written by William Beresford, the trader on the expedition.
Returning to the Royal Navy in 1791, Portlock was appointed to command the brig HMS Assistant, which accompanied Bligh on his second voyage to transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. Following his return to England in 1793, Portlock was promoted to commander and later commanded the sloop HMS Arrow. In 1799 he was promoted to captain, and served as a Sea Fencibles commander at Poole in 1803, and at Dartmouth from 1805 to 1807. He died on 12 September 1817 in Greenwich Hospital.
His son, Major-General Joseph Ellison Portlock, was a British geologist and soldier.
Portlock Harbor, a bay on the west coast of Alaska's Chichagof Island, was named by Portlock in 1789, following a visit there in August 1787. Portlock, a cannery settlement active in the early and middle 20th century, and Portlock Glacier, both on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, were named in his honor.
# Thomas F. Daughton

Thomas Frederick Daughton (born March 1961) is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service currently serving as Deputy Commandant and International Affairs Advisor at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. From 2014 through 2017, he was the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia.

## Early life and education

Daughton was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Amherst College in 1983 and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1987.

## Career

Daughton joined the United States Foreign Service in 1989 after working as an associate at the New York office of the Chicago-based law firm Sidley & Austin. His 30 years as an American diplomat have included overseas assignments at the U.S. embassies in Kingston, Jamaica (1989–1991); Rabat, Morocco (1991–1993); and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2003–2006); and at the U.S. consulate general in Thessaloniki, Greece (1997–2000).
Daughton held the first of his three assignments as a deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libreville, Gabon from 2000 to 2003, where he served as chargé d'affaires, ad interim, (2001–2002) during a yearlong gap between ambassadors. He also served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassies in Algiers, Algeria (2006–2009) and Beirut, Lebanon (2009–2011).
From 2011 to 2013, Daughton was the senior advisor for security negotiations and agreements in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. For his work in that position negotiating international agreements in support of U.S. military activities in Afghanistan, he received the Secretary's Award for Excellence in International Security Affairs in 2012.
Daughton was nominated by Barack Obama to be U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia on July 31, 2013. Because of a dispute in the Senate over filibusters and confirmations, he became one of ten ambassadorial nominees who waited more than 400 days for confirmation. Daughton was confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote on September 17, 2014. He presented his credentials on November 26, 2014, and he served until December 21, 2017.
# Leslie C. Smith

Leslie C. Smith is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who last served as the 66th Inspector General of the United States Army. Since 2002, he has served as the vice president for leadership and education at the Association of the United States Army

## Military career

From 1981 to 1985, Smith earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Georgia Southern University, then went on to study for a Master of Science in Accounting from Central Michigan University and then a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the National Defense University.
During attendance at Georgia Southern University, Smith was commissioned as a Field Artillery Officer, serving with the Georgia Army National Guard. Following graduation, he was assigned as a Chemical Officer. Smith has Chemical Officer Basic and Advanced Courses and is a graduate of the Airborne School, United States Army Jumpmaster School, Command and General Staff College and National War College.
His retirement ceremony was held on August 27, 2021, though he remained The Inspector General until September 1. LTG Donna W. Martin became the 67th Inspector General of the United States Army on September 2, 2021.

## Honors and awards

Smith's honors and awards include:
* Army Distinguished Service Medal with one bronze oak leaf cluster
* Legion of Merit with one bronze oak leaf cluster
* Bronze Star Medal with one bronze oak leaf cluster
* Defense Meritorious Service Medal
* Meritorious Service Medal with two bronze oak leaf clusters
* Army Commendation Medal with one bronze oak leaf cluster
* Joint Service Achievement Medal
* National Defense Service Medal with one bronze service star
* Armed Force Expeditionary Medal
* Southwest Asia Service Medal with two service stars
* Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
* Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
* Korea Defense Service Medal
* Armed Forces Reserve Medal
* Army Service Ribbon
* Army Overseas Service Ribbon
* Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia)
* Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
* Army Meritorious Unit Commendation
* Senior Parachutist Badge
* Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
* Army Staff Identification Badge
* College of Business Administration Alumni Award
# Marianne M. Myles

Marianne Matuzic Myles (born 1953, Lackawanna, New York) is an American diplomat, formerly serving as the ambassador to Cape Verde (2008-2011).

## Education

Myles earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the State University of New York at Oswego (1975), a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Masters of Science in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University.

## Career

She served as dean of the State Department's School of Language Studies in Washington, D.C.

## Personal life

Myles is married to retired Foreign Service Officer Stan Myles.
# Brian T. Kelly

Brian Thomas Kelly is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. He served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services (A1), a position he held from September 2018 to May 2022. Kelly was commissioned through the ROTC program at University of Notre Dame in 1988.
Raised in Piscataway, New Jersey, Kelly earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering. He later received a master's degree in Military Operational Art and Science from the Air Command and Staff College in 2001 and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University in 2006.

## Effective dates of promotions

| Rank | Date |
| Second Lieutenant | November 11, 1988 |
| First Lieutenant | November 11, 1990 |
| Captain | November 11, 1992 |
| Major | August 1, 1998 |
| Lieutenant Colonel | February 1, 2003 |
| Colonel | September 1, 2007 |
| Brigadier General | June 2, 2014 |
| Major General | August 2, 2017 |
| Lieutenant General | September 4, 2018 |
# Words I Never Said

"Words I Never Said" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Lupe Fiasco, released February 8, 2011, as the second single from his third studio album Lasers. The song was produced by British music producer Alex da Kid and features vocals from American singer-songwriter Skylar Grey. The song contains references to controversial political and socioeconomic topics, including the September 11 attacks, government fiscal policy, and the Gaza War. The song's message of standing up for the people and being against the government has been used as a theme song for Internet group Anonymous. It was named the 41st best song of 2011 by XXL magazine.

## Background

A teaser video was uploaded on YouTube on January 18, 2011, featuring only samples of lyrics and audio from the song. 'Words I Never Said' officially premiered on Lupe Fiasco's website on February 1, 2011, along with its single cover. When the full audio was released, #wordsineversaid was a trending topic on Twitter. It became available to stores and iTunes on February 8, 2011.
On February 18, 2011, in an interview with DJ Semtex on BBC 1Xtra, Lupe revealed that the record was given to him by Atlantic, but he cut out a bridge sung by Skylar Grey, who meant for it to be a song about relationships. This is the second time Fiasco and Grey have been featured on a track together, the first being "Be Somebody" from Fort Minor's album The Rising Tied, with Grey performing under the name Holly Brook.
The song, which was one of the last written for the album, can also be interpreted as a thinly disguised message aimed at Atlantic Records producer, who in Fiasco's opinion forced a lot of material on the album that did not sit right with him.

## Music video

On April 29, 2011, the official music video for "Words I Never Said" was premiered by MTV and later onto YouTube. It was directed by Sanaa Hamri, who was previously directing Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass".

## Use in popular media

British rapper Lowkey sampled the lyric "Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist, Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit" from the first verse of "Words I Never Said", for the chorus in his song "Obama Nation (Pt. 2)", featuring M-1 and Black the Ripper, from Lowkey's second studio album Soundtrack to the Struggle (2011).

## Charts

| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 89 |
| US R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs (Billboard) | 26 |

## Skylar Grey version

Grey's solo record of Words I Never Said under the title of Words was first released in 2012, and included on her extended play The Buried Sessions of Skylar Grey, released on January 17, 2012. After that, the song was also included on the Step Up Revolution film soundtrack, along with another track by the singer, called "Dance Without You" and songs by other artists like Fergie, Jennifer Lopez, Yelawolf, and many more. On March 10, 2015, Skylar Grey officially released the song on iTunes.

### Background

This song was dedicated to her grandfather who has died. She never really spent time with her grandfather because of her music career.
# Frank Hall (broadcaster)

Frank Hall (24 February 1921 – 21 September 1995) was an Irish broadcaster, journalist, satirist and film censor. He is best remembered for his satirical revue programme Hall's Pictorial Weekly.

## Early life

Born in Newry, County Down, Hall received little more than a primary education as he left school at the age of twelve to work in a local shop. He later worked as a waiter in London before moving to Dublin. On his return he joined the art department of the Irish Independent. Hall subsequently worked with the Evening Herald where he wrote a column on dance bands.

## Television

After that, he moved to RTÉ where he worked in the newsroom. From 1964 to 1971 he presented Newsbeat , a regional news programme. He also presented The Late Late Show for the opening of the 1964 season, but his lack of success in that seat led to the return of the previous presenter, Gay Byrne. When Newsbeat ended, Hall started writing and presenting Hall's Pictorial Weekly, a political satire show that ran for over 250 episodes until 1980. A successor show, Hall and Company, ran from 1980 until Hall's retirement from television in 1986. He served as spokesperson for the Irish jury in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 and 1966.
Hall won two Jacob's Awards, in 1966 and 1975, for his work on Newsbeat and Hall's Pictorial Weekly respectively.

## Film censor

In 1978, Hall was appointed Ireland's national film censor. During his period as censor he was known for his strict application of Irish censorship and his defence of family values. Among the films banned by him was Monty Python's Life of Brian, which he described as "offensive to Christians and to Jews as well, because it made them appear a terrible load of gobshites".

## Family controversy

Hall had a long running affair with the well known agony aunt, Frankie Byrne, with whom he had a daughter, who was given up for adoption shortly after her birth in 1956. In the 2006 RTE screening of Mint Production's documentary Dear Frankie, Frank was named as the father of Frankie's daughter though this was disputed at the time by Hall family members. In 2010, a play written by Niamh Gleeson, also entitled Dear Frankie, opened in the Liberty Hall theatre. Later in 2012, it opened again in the Gaiety Theatre, going on to play in theatres across the country.

## Death

Hall died of a heart attack in Dublin in 1995. He is buried in Dardistown Cemetery in North Dublin.
# SF-kanalen

SF-kanalen is a Scandinavian television channel, which shows movies from the library of Svensk Filmindustri. It is broadcast to Sweden as a part of the TV4 Play+ package.
The channel launched on 1 October 2009 and would broadcast 24 hours per day from the start. From 1 November 2009, it will broadcast terrestrially in Sweden between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Weekdays and between 6 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Weekends, sharing its channel space with Canal+ Sport 1.
The SF brand had previously been used by a pay channel called SF Succé, which operated between 1989 and 1991.
# Action of 27 March 1942

The action of 27 March 1942 was a naval encounter between the United States and Germany during World War II in the Atlantic Ocean. While patrolling 300 nmi (560 km; 350 mi) off Norfolk, Virginia, an American Q-ship encountered a U-boat and a short surface engagement ensued.

## USS Atik

USS Atik (Lieutenant Commander Harry Lynnwood Hicks), was originally a merchantman named SS Carolyn which was converted to a Q-ship after America's entry into World War II. Atik displaced 6,610 tons with a crew of 141 men and an armament of four 4 in (100 mm) naval guns, eight machine guns and six K-guns.

## Action

It was about 5:00 pm on 27 March when U-123 detected Atik. At 19:37, on the surface, Kapitänleutnant Reinhard Hardegen fired a spread of G7e torpedoes and one of them struck Atik's bow on the port side. The Q-ship caught fire and took on a slight list. Hicks apparently decided that the only way to lure the U-boat within range of his guns was by ordering a lifeboat to be lowered on the starboard side. The trick worked and when U-123 was maneuvering to starboard, around Atik's stern, she opened fire with all of her weapons, including depth charges. The first shots fell short of the U-boat and the others deflected. The American machine gunners were successful, the U-boat's conning tower was slightly damaged and a German midshipman was mortally wounded.
Immediately after the Americans opened fire, Hardegen ordered his deck gun into action and fled out of Atik's range before diving but at 21:29 U-123 attacked again to finish the Q-ship off. After hitting the ship with another torpedo, Atik remained afloat with her bow slowly settling. The remainder of the American crew appeared to be evacuating their ship at this point and U-123 surfaced at 10:27 pm to watch Atik sink. At 10:50 pm Atik exploded. A gale blew in and all of the 141 American sailors were lost. The one German casualty was buried at sea ten minutes later and then U-123 departed. An SOS had been received by three nearby American warships, Clemson-class destroyer USS Noa, Q-ship USS Asterion and fleet tug USS Sagamore but when they arrived there were no survivors, only wreckage. American aircraft searched for several days, finding nothing but debris and five empty lifeboats.
# Mark Opzoomer

Mark Opzoomer was the CEO of Rambler Media from March 2007 till February 2009, having been non-executive director from 16 March 2005. Before joining Rambler, Mark served as the Regional Vice President & Managing Director, YAHOO! Europe from July 2001 to December 2003.
Opzoomer graduated with an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. He qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC in 1981.
He married Rosemary Leith, later a founding director of the World Wide Web Foundation; the couple had three children, after which she left the financial sector, co-founding a start-up during the dot-com bubble.
# Matthias Quad

Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne. He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders.

## Life

Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone, Quad collaborated with the Cologne publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592. This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus (1608).

## Works

* Europea totius orbis terrarum praestantissimae..., 1592 (1596 edition on Internet Archive)
* Globi terrestris compendium, 1598 (On Google Books)
* Enchiridion Cosmographicum, 1599 (On Google Books)
* Geographisches Handtbuch, 1599/1600 (On Google Books)
* Deliciae Germaniae sive totius Germaniae itinerarium, 1600 (On Google Books)
* Itinerarium Universae Germaniae, 1602 (On Google Books)
* Deliciae Hispaniae et index viatorius indicans itinera, 1604 (On Google Books)
* Fasciculus Geographicus, 1608 (On Google Books)
# Anders Sparrman

Anders Sparrman (27 February 1748 – 9 August 1820) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

## Biography

Born in Tensta, Uppland, Sparrman was the son of a clergyman. At the age of nine he enrolled at Uppsala University, beginning medical studies at fourteen and becoming one of the outstanding pupils of Linnaeus. In 1765 he went on a voyage to China as ship's doctor, returning two years later and describing the animals and plants he had encountered. On this voyage he met Carl Gustaf Ekeberg.
He sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in January 1772 to do natural history research, supporting himself by tutoring children. When James Cook arrived there later in the year at the start of his second voyage, Sparrman was taken on as assistant naturalist to Johann and Georg Forster. After the voyage he returned to Cape Town in July 1775 and practiced medicine, earning enough to finance a journey into the interior. He was guided by Daniel Ferdinand Immelman, the young frontiersman who had previously guided the Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. Daniel and Sparrman reached the Great Fish River and returned in April 1776.
In 1776 Sparrman returned to Sweden, where he had been awarded an honorary doctorate in his absence. He was also elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1777. He was appointed keeper of the natural historical collections of the Academy of Sciences in 1780, Professor of natural history and pharmacology in 1781 and assessor of the Collegium Medicum in 1790. In 1790 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. In 1787 he took part in an expedition to West Africa, but this was not successful.
Sparrman published several works, the best known of which is his account of his travels in South Africa and with Cook, published in English as A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: But chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772 to 1776 (1789). He also published a Catalogue of the Museum Carlsonianum (1786–89), in which he described many of the specimens he had collected in South Africa and the South Pacific, some of which were new to science. He published an Ornithology of Sweden in 1806.
The asteroid 16646 Sparrman bears his name. In New Zealand, he is commemorated by Mount Sparrman. The Swedish novelist Per Wästberg has written a biographical novel about Sparrman which was published in English in 2010, under the title as The Journey of Anders Sparrman. Anders Erikson Sparrman is denoted by the author abbreviation Sparrm. when citing a botanical name.