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# Murray R. Ballou

Murray Roberts Ballou (July 21, 1840 – April 28, 1914) was an American financier who led the Boston Stock Exchange from 1870 to 1900.

## Early life

Ballou was born on July 21, 1840, in Boston. He was the son of publisher Maturin Murray Ballou and grandson of clergyman Hosea Ballou. Ballou attended the school of Epes Sargent Dixwell from the ages of 12 to 14 then was tutored by Luther Farnham and Sidney Willard successively. Ballou graduated from Harvard College in 1862. On December 1, 1863, he married Lucretia B. Howland of New Bedford, Massachusetts. They had four children (Maturin Howland Ballou, Elise Murray Ballou, Franklin Burgess Ballou, and Mabel Ballou). Their eldest son, Maturin Howland Ballou, died on May 15, 1898. Lucretia Ballou died on July 27, 1899.

## Career

In 1865, Ballou founded a stock brokerage with classmate Benjamin Crowninshield Mifflin. Ballou was elected vice president of the Boston Stock Exchange in 1869 and became its president the following year. The exchange underwent a number of changes under Ballou's leadership. In 1879 the membership cap was expanded to 150. In 1885 it adopted a continuous session. The BSE also began using a stock ticker during Ballou's tenure as president.
In 1888 the office of president was made an honorary position and Ballou was elected to the newly created position of chairman. He continued to preside over the exchange until his retirement in 1900.

## Death

Ballou died on April 28, 1914, at his home in Boston. He was survived by three of his children. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
# Murray Polner

Murray Polner (March 15, 1928 – May 30, 2019) was an American editor and author. He was the founding editor of Present Tense, a liberal current affairs magazine published by the American Jewish Committee, a job he held for the entire two decades that the magazine was published. He was an anti-Vietnam War activist and a committed pacifist.

## Background and education

The child of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Polner grew up in the Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn. He graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School, City College of New York (1950), earned an M.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania (1976), and a Ph.D. from Union Institute & University in Russian history (1972). He taught for 10 years in a high school in Brooklyn, worked as an adjunct professor at several area colleges in the New York area, and served as executive assistant to Harvey B. Scribner, the first chancellor of the New York City Public Schools.
He served in the military in Japan during the Korean War. He remained a vegetarian since his military service during the Korean War.
He moved to Great Neck, New York, in 1961 with his wife Louise (Greenwald) Polner, and lived there for the rest of his life. The Polners had three children, Beth Polner Abrahams, Robert Polner and Alex Polner.

## Career

Polner was the editor of the magazine Present Tense a liberal current affairs magazine published by the American Jewish Committee, from the time of its founding in 1973 until it ceased publication in 1990.
He was the book review editor of History News Network until 2017.

## Political views

Polner was a pacifist, although he allowed that the Holocaust was a difficult case, "It's the hardest question of all," he said, "and I'm not sure there's an answer."

## Books

* No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran (1970)
* When Can I Come Home? a Debate on Amnesty for Exiles, Antiwar Prisoners, and Others (1972)
* Rabbi: The American Experience, (1977).
* Branch Rickey: A Biography, (1982)
* Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan, the militant anti-war priests, (2007). with co-author Jim O'Grady
* We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, (2008) with Thomas E. Woods Jr.

## Edited books

* The Challenge of Shalom: The Jewish Tradition of Peace & Justice, (1994) co-edited with Naomi Goodman
* Peace, Justice, and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition, (2007) co-edited with Stefan Merken
# William Best

William Best may refer to:
* William Best (cricketer) (1865–1942), English cricketer
* William Thomas Best (1826–1897), English organist
* William Best, 1st Baron Wynford (1767–1845), British politician and judge
* William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford (1798–1869), British peer
* William Best (Nova Scotia politician) (1707–1782), Nova Scotia politician, one of the founders of Halifax
* William Best, composed the music for the song "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons"
* Willie Best (1916–1962), American television and film actor
# Gordon Kerr (footballer)

Gordon Kerr was a Scottish professional football goalkeeper who played in the Scottish League for Ayr United, Queen's Park, Albion Rovers and Bathgate.

## Personal life

Kerr served as a second lieutenant in the British Army during the First World War. He was admitted to hospital in France in December 1917.

## Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition :
| Club | Season | League | League | League | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Other | Other | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Queen's Park | 1912–13 | Scottish First Division | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Queen's Park | 1913–14 | Scottish First Division | 36 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 0 |
| Queen's Park | 1914–15 | Scottish First Division | 36 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 0 | 39 | 0 |
| Queen's Park | Total | Total | 77 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 87 | 0 |
| Ayr United | 1915–16 | Scottish First Division | 38 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 38 | 0 |
| Ayr United | 1916–17 | Scottish First Division | 19 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 19 | 0 |
| Ayr United | 1918–19 | Scottish First Division | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 11 | 0 |
| Ayr United | 1919–20 | Scottish First Division | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 |
| Ayr United | Total | Total | 93 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 96 | 0 |
| Albion Rovers | 1920–21 | Scottish First Division | 39 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | — | 46 | 0 |
| Albion Rovers | 1921–22 | Scottish First Division | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 0 |
| Albion Rovers | Total | Total | 64 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | — | 71 | 0 |
| Bathgate (loan) | 1922–23 | Scottish Second Division | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 0 |
| Career total | Career total | Career total | 237 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 257 | 0 |
* ↑ 1 appearance in Glasgow Cup, 1 appearance in Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup
* ↑ 2 appearances in Glasgow Cup, 1 appearance in Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup
# William Cubitt (politician)

William Cubitt (1791 – 28 October 1863), lord mayor of London, was an English engineering contractor and Conservative Party politician.

## Career

William was a partner in the building firm established by his elder brother, Thomas Cubitt, at Gray's Inn Road but in about 1827 the partnership was dissolved leaving William solely in charge of the business.
William built Covent Garden completed in 1830 and Fishmongers' Hall completed in 1834. He also built the portico and the original station buildings at Euston completed in 1837. He was also responsible for the reclaiming and development of Cubitt Town in southern Poplar on the Isle of Dogs completed in 1850. He retired completely from the business in 1851. In 1883 the business was acquired by Holland & Hannen, a leading competitor, and the combined business became known as Holland & Hannen and Cubitts and subsequently as Holland, Hannen & Cubitts.
William also had a younger brother, Lewis, a leading designer of his day.
William sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Andover from 1847 until 1861. He then resigned his seat on 23 July 1861 by accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Hempholme so that he could contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost. He was re-elected for Andover on 17 December 1862 and served until his death on 28 October 1863.
William became active in the politics of the City of London. He was Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1847, an Alderman of the City in 1851, represented the city on the Metropolitan Board of Works from 1856, served as Lord Mayor of London in 1860–61 and was re-elected in 1861–62. He was the most recent Lord Mayor to serve more than a single term until William Russell in 2020.
He died in Andover aged 72.

## Family

In 1814 he married Elizabeth Scarlett; they had a son and four daughters.
# Gornja Letina

Gornja Letina is a village in Croatia.
# William Baziotes

William Baziotes (June 11, 1912 – June 6, 1963) was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism.

## Life and career

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Greek parents Angelos and Stella, Baziotes was raised in Reading, Pennsylvania and began his formal art training in 1933 at the National Academy of Design in New York City where he graduated in 1936. He studied with Charles Curran, Ivan Olinsky, Gifford Beal, and Leon Kroll. Baziotes taught through the Federal Art Project in from 1936-1938 and worked on their WPA Easel Project from 1938–1940.
In the 1940s he became friends with many artists in the emerging Abstract Expressionist group. Although he shared the groups' interest in primitive art and automatism, his work was more in line with European surrealism. Later in his career he taught extensively. His first solo exhibition was at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery in 1944.
In 1948, Baziotes, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman and David Hare founded the Subjects of the Artist School at 35 East 8th Street. Well attended lectures there were open to the public, with speakers such as Jean Arp, John Cage and Ad Reinhardt, but the art school failed financially and closed in the spring of 1949. He later taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, People's Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and at the City University of New York, Hunter College and New York University in Manhattan during the last ten years of his life.
Baziotes and his wife Ethel, whom he married in 1941, lived in the Morningside Heights area of northern Manhattan until his death from lung cancer in June 1963, five days before his 51st birthday. During his lifetime, he and his wife shared a love of ancient Greek art and sculpture as well as the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. Many of his paintings are inspired by the latter's poetry as well as by ancient art.
Some of his famous works are Aquatic, Dusk, and The Room, all of which are in the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

## Notable awards

* Art Institute of Chicago

## Notable exhibitions

William Baziotes, Paintings and Drawings, 1934–1962. Guggenheim Collection Venice, 2003–2004. Curated by Michael Preble, editor, William Baziotes Catalogue Raisonne. William Baziotes, A Retrospective. Newport Harbor Art Museum/Orange County Museum of Art. 1978. Curated by Michael Preble.

## Notable collections

* Guggenheim Museum
* Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Museum of Modern Art
* Smithsonian American Art Museum
* Whitney Museum of American Art
* Reading Public Museum
# William Beach (British politician)

William Beach (24 July 1783 – 22 November 1856), of Oakley Hall, Hampshire and Keevil, Wiltshire, was a British politician. From 1790 to 1833 he was known as William Hicks Beach.

## Biography

He was born William Hicks, second son of Michael Hicks of Beverston Castle and Williamstrip Park, Gloucestershire, and his wife Henrietta Maria, only daughter of William Beach of Netheravon, Wiltshire. On 23 June 1790 his father adopted the additional name and arms of Beach. Hicks Beach sat in Parliament for Malmesbury from 1812 to 1817; his father was MP for Cirencester at the same time. On 24 June 1838 Hicks Beach assumed the name of Beach only, by Royal Licence.
Hicks Beach was married on 1 February 1826 to Jane Henrietta, daughter of John Browne of Salperton, Gloucestershire. They had three children: William Wither Bramston Beach (1826–1901), also an MP; Mary Jane (died 4 November 1903), who married Sir Wyndham Spencer Portal, 1st Baronet; and Henrietta Maria (died 26 October 1905), who married Colonel Sir John Williams Wallington KCB. His wife died on 11 August 1831.
# William Deacon (politician)

William Arthur Deacon (4 February 1872 – 25 December 1943) was a farmer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

## Biography

Deacon was born at Allora, Queensland, to parents William Deacon and his wife Ann Amelia (née Bray) and educated at the Allora State School. He became a farmer and in 1910 took over his father's farm in Allora. He also liked to breed Clydesdale horses and grow grapes.
7 Jun 1922, Deacon married Ada Florence Dougall (died 1977) and together had one son and one daughter. He died at his Allora home in 1943 and was buried in the Allora Cemetery.

## Political career

Replacing the retiring Francis Grayson, Deacon won the seat of Cunningham at the 1920 state elections for the CPNP. He was Secretary for Public Lands 1929–1932 in the Moore Ministry. He remained the member until his death on Christmas Day in 1943.
# Murders in the Greenstreet

Murders in the Greenstreet (German:Der Mord in der Greenstreet) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Johannes Guter and starring Lil Dagover.
The film's art direction was by Franz Seemann.

## Cast

In alphabetical order
* Erwin Baron
* Lil Dagover
* Hugo Flink
* Emil Heyse
* Sophie Pagay
* Vasilij Vronski
* Yuri Yurovsky
# Murray Hantman

Murray Hantman (1904–1999) was a painter, muralist, and teacher. Over the course of his career Hantman's work progressed from realism to abstraction. Based in New York City, Hantman spent summers on Monhegan Island.
Like many of his generation, Hantman ultimately rejected explicit narrative in his paintings for a more primal expression of experience.
# Murray Handwerker

Murray Handwerker (July 25, 1921 – May 14, 2011) was an American businessman who expanded Nathan's Famous, a fast food restaurant specializing in hot dogs, from a family-owned hot dog stand to a nationally franchised chain. The original Nathan's Famous hot dog stand was opened in Coney Island, Brooklyn, by Handwerker's father, Nathan Handwerker, in 1916.
Murray Handwerker was born on July 25, 1921, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, Nathan and Ida Handwerker, in New York City. He often visited and worked at his father's hot dog stand as a child. Handwerker served in the United States Army during World War II. In 1947, he received a bachelor's degree in French from New York University.
Handwerker initially took over and renovated the Roadside Rest, a roadside restaurant in Oceanside, New York, during the 1950s. However, he soon returned to his family's hot dog business.
Handwerker expanded Nathan's Famous in the decades following World War II. In 1968, Murray Handwerker became the president of the Nathan's Famous chain. The company reached ten franchises, with 43 restaurants directly owned by the company, by 1977. Additionally, Handwerker wrote a cookbook, Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Cookbook, which was published in 1968. He sold the company to a group of investors in 1987.
Murray Handwerker died of complications from dementia on May 14, 2011, at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, at age 89. He was survived by his sons, Steven, Kenneth and William. His wife, Dorothy, died in 2009.
# Nightmare 2003–2005 Single Collection

Nightmare 2003–2005 is Nightmare's re-release of their earlier works under Nippon Crown. This collection includes a DVD with their past promotional videos.
# Museo d'Arte Antica

The Museo d'Arte Antica ('Museum of Ancient Art') is an art museum in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has a large collection of sculpture from late antiquity and the medieval and Renaissance periods. The various frescoed rooms of the museum house an armoury, a tapestry room, some funerary monuments, Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà and two medieval portals.
The Sala Verde ('green room') displays 15th- and 16th-century sculptures, the collection of arms of the Castello Sforzesco and the Portale del Banco Mediceo, a gate removed from Via Bossi. The collection of arms, in the second part of the room, displays sculptures, armour, swords and firearms in chronological sequence from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.
The Sala delle Asse, designed and frescoed by Leonardo da Vinci at the request of Lodovico il Moro, represents the Sforza period of Milan.

## Sources

* [various authors] (2003). Milano e provincia (in Italian). Milano: Touring Club Italiano.
* [various authors] (2008). Le città d'arte: Milano (in Italian). Milano: Skira.
# Museo d'Arte Moderna Vittoria Colonna

Museo d'Arte Moderna Vittoria Colonna (Italian for Museum of modern art Vittoria Colonna) is a modern art museum in Pescara, Abruzzo.

## History

Located in the central area of the city, overlooking Lungomare Matteotti and Via Gramsci (where the historic Tennis Club building used to stand, destroyed in 1943), the Museo d'Arte Moderna Vittoria Colonna has been active since 2002. It is housed in the building that once accommodated some faculties of the Università degli Studi "Gabriele D'Annunzio," which were later relocated to Viale Pindaro. The headquarters was built in the 1950s according to the design by architect Eugenio Montuori. After the interior spaces were refurbished by architect Gaetano Colleluori, the museum was inaugurated in 2002 with an exhibition dedicated to Marc Chagall. It is named after Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara, and Don Fernando Francesco d'Avalos, Marquess of Vasto, who was a friend of Michelangelo.

## Collection

The museum hosts a small permanent collection featuring works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Renato Guttuso, Basilio Cascella, Mario Tozzi, Giuseppe Misticoni, Gigino Falconi, Gaston Orellana, Claudio Bonichi, and Arturo Carmassi. Additionally, it is frequently used for temporary exhibitions.
# Museum Center

Museum Center may refer to:
* Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, an institution for several museums in Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio
* Museum Center at Five Points, a history museum in Cleveland, Tennessee, with exhibits on the history of the local region
# Museum Center at Five Points

The Museum Center at 5ive Points is a history museum in Cleveland, Tennessee which features exhibits on the history of the local region.

## Exhibits

The Museum Center is a history museum, art museum, and cultural center and houses exhibits and artifacts relating to the history of the Ocoee Region of Tennessee, which includes Bradley and Polk Counties and the Chattanooga region and surrounding areas. The museum features one permanent exhibit, The River of Time, which traces the history of Bradley County, Polk County, and East Hamilton County. In addition, five to six changing exhibitions are held each year. The museum contains a store which has a gallery showcasing arts and crafts of the region and of the South. The facility is often used for private and community events.

## History

The museum was first proposed in 1992. A committee was created on March 9, 1992 to study the feasibility of establishing a museum which would be "an organized and permanent non-profit institution, essentially educational or aesthetic in purpose, with professional staff, which owns and utilizes tangible objects, cares for them and exhibits them to the public on some regular schedule." Their mission statement was "to preserve and interpret the history and culture of the Ocoee District of Southeast Tennessee by highlighting the adventures of its people." Construction began on the museum center on May 28, 1998, and the museum opened to the public on September 11, 1999. The museum center was chosen as the 2011 recipient of the MainStreet Cleveland award. The new mission statement of "telling the story of the Ocoee Region" was adopted on June 18, 2013.
# Government Arts College for Women, Krishnagiri

Government Arts College for Women, Krishnagiri, is a general degree college located in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. It was established in the year 1992. The college is affiliated with Periyar University. This college offers different courses in arts, commerce and science.

## Departments
### Science

* Chemistry
* Mathematics
* Biochemistry
* Computer Science

### Arts and Commerce

* Tamil
* English
* Corporate Secretaryship

## Accreditation

The college is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
# Gracilibacillus ureilyticus

Gracilibacillus ureilyticus is a Gram-positive, halotolerant, neutrophilic, rod-shaped bacterium. MF38$^T$ (=CGMCC 1.7727$^T$ =JCM 15711$^T$) is its type strain.
# William G. Johnsson

William G. Johnsson (20 June 1934 – 11 March 2023) was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist theologian, author, and editor of the Adventist Review.

## Early life and education

Born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 20 June 1934, Johnsson earned a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in chemical technology from the University of Adelaide (1954) before attending Avondale University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in theology (1959) and met his wife Noelene. His graduate education included: Master of Arts (MA) in Systematic Theology from Andrews University (1966); Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree from the University of London (1969); and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Biblical Studies from Vanderbilt University (1973). His PhD dissertation, written under the direction of Leander Keck, was entitled "Defilement and Purgation in the Book of Hebrews."

## Career

Johnsson was a missionary to India at Vincent Hill School and Spicer Memorial College (1960–1975). He served at Andrews University as Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Theology in the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary (1975–1980) and associate seminary dean (1978–1980). In 1979 he was elected as the first president of the Adventist Society for Religious Studies.
Johnsson served as editor of the Adventist Review, the weekly, flagship magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1982–2006) and founding editor of Adventist World (2005–2006). For most of this time, he was also a trustee of the Ellen G. White Estate. After retiring in 2006, he served for seven years as part-time assistant to the General Conference President for Interfaith Relations.
Johnsson, who wrote more than forty books and 1,000 articles, received the following honorary degrees: Doctor of Divinity from Andrews University (2007) and Doctor of Humane Letters from Loma Linda University (2016).

## Death

Johnsson died in Loma Linda, California on 11 March 2023, at the age of 88.

## Books

* Living in Love: Snapshots of a Happy Life (2022)
* Experiencing Romans (2021)
* Defilement and Purgation in the Book of Hebrews (2020)
* Authentic Adventism (2018)
* Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, His Message, His Passion (2018)
* Where Are We Headed? Adventism after San Antonio (2017)
# My Life and Hard Times

My Life and Hard Times is the 1933 autobiography of James Thurber. It is considered his greatest work as he relates in bewildered deadpan prose the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyond (Columbus, Ohio).
Characters include the maid who lives in constant fear of being hypnotised; a grandfather who believes that the American Civil War is still going on; a mother who fears electricity is leaking all over the house and Muggs, "The Dog That Bit People", an Airedale Terrier that had a penchant for biting certain people, including the author.
The book was a best seller and also achieved high critical praise. Russell Baker writing in the New York Times said it was "possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever". Ogden Nash said it was "just about the best thing I ever read"', and Dorothy Parker said "Mad, I don't say. Genius I grant you."