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# Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Wilson Jeremiah Moses (1942-2024) was an African-American historian. He was Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University.

## Career

Wilson J. Moses earned his A.B. and M.A. in British Literature at Wayne State University, and his Ph.D. in American Civilization at Brown University. He held the Walter L. Ferree professorship in the middle period of American History at Pennsylvania State University before that, and he currently is Professor Emeritus at Penn State. He has in the past held a series of posts at other American Universities:
* Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa;
* Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University;
* Professor of Afro-American Studies and American Civilization at Brown University and
* Professor of English and History and Director of African American Studies at Boston University.
He also has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, and given lectures at several European and African universities.

## Works

* The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850–1925, 1978; repr., Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-19-520639-5
* Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth, 1982; Revised edition: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-271-00933-9
* Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent, Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-505096-7
* The Wings of Ethiopia, Iowa State Univ. Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-8138-0019-6
* Afrotopia: Roots of African-American Popular History, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-47941-7 (or hardback: ISBN 978-0-521-47408-5)
* Creative Conflict in African American Thought, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-53537-3 (or hardback: ISBN 978-0-521-82826-0)
* Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Cambridge University Press, 2019
# Nadvorna

Nadvorna may refer to:
* Nadvirna (also spelled Nadvorna), a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in southwestern Ukraine
* Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty), a Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within Orthodox Judaism
# Kadappuram

Kadappuram is a village in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala, India. Although in the Malayalam language, 'Kadappuram' may refer to any sea side beach usually with a fishing community, this article specifically refers to the area in Thrissur District where the village as well as the panchayat by the name of 'Kadappuram'. The name "Kadappuram" is originated from the Malayalam word "Kadalppuram". The panchayat was part of Ponnani Taluk, Malabar district in Madras state at the time of British rule. The Kadappuram Panchayat was founded in the year 1968. And the panchayat consists of 16 wards.

## Demographics

As of 2011 India census, Kadappuram had a population of 26980 with 13517 males and 13463 females.
# William Grant (seigneur)

William Grant (June 15, 1744 – October 5, 1805) was a Scottish-born businessman, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He is frequently referred to as William Grant of St. Roch to differentiate him from his many cousins.

## Life

Grant was born at Blairfindy, Scotland in 1744, the son of William Grant (d.1762), Laird of Blairfindy, and Jean Tyrie. In 1759, he was hired by a relative, Robert Grant, who was supplying the Royal Navy at Quebec and sent there as an agent of the company. While there, he became involved in other business on his own, including trade in the seal and salmon fisheries, grain and furs. He also acquired property in the province, including land holdings at Saint-Roch, which he was able to have designated a fief; he also purchased the sub-fief of La Mistanguienne (also known as Montplaisir) and the seigneury of Aubert-Gallion. In 1779, he purchased the seigneury of Beaulac and part of Chambly; he later acquired part of Île-d'Anticosti.
He secretly married Marie-Anne-Catherine Fleury Deschambault, widow of Charles-Jacques Le Moyne de Longueuil, 3rd Baron de Longueuil, in the Catholic Church, marrying her publicly in 1770 at the Anglican church in Montreal. Through this marriage, he became associated with the seigneuries of Mingan and Jolliet and property on Île Sainte-Hélène. Mrs Grant's daughter by her first marriage inherited her father's title, becoming the 4th Baroness de Longueuil. Grant arranged a marriage between the Baroness and his nephew, Captain David Alexander Grant (1753-1806) of the 94th Regiment of Foot (1780). The couple were wed in 1781 and their eldest son became the fifth Baron de Longueuil in 1841.
Grant took part in the defence of the town of Quebec during the American invasion of 1775-6 and some of his property was damaged during this period. He was a member of the historical Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec from 1777 to 1791 and served as deputy receiver general from 1777 to 1784. In 1792, he was elected to the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada for the Upper Town of Quebec; he was re-elected in 1796 and 1804. He tended to support the British party in the assembly. In 1805, he was named deputy master of Trinity House at Quebec. He died at Quebec City later that year.
# 1935 Irish 2d coil stamp

The Rare 2d Coil was an experimental vertical coil stamp, denominated 2d, issued by the Irish Post Office in 1935 and is one of the scarcest, and most valuable, Irish stamps. It is often referred to by stamp collectors simply as "Scott 68b" or "SG 74b", being the Scott and Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue numbers respectively.

## Design

Philatelists refer to the configuration as '"perf 15 x imperf", or in the US as "perf 15 horizontal", because the stamp is perforated 15 gauge (holes per 2 cm) on the horizontal and imperforate on the vertical edges. Because of the shared design it appears identical to the first 2d value definitive stamp issued on 6 December 1922 with the Map of Ireland except for the imperforate vertical edges. It uses the first Irish watermark that was a stylised design of the two overlapping letters 's' and 'e' making an 'se' watermark representing the name of the country Saorstát Éireann (Irish Free State).

## History

It was first recognised in 1937 but not acknowledged by the philatelic catalogues until the Scott stamp catalogue listed it in 1952. Over the years 20 copies have been identified in mint condition, but the quantity of used stamps is not known. Even though several have been recorded, they are nevertheless scarce. A few copies of the stamp are known to exist on cover, but Dulin points out that all Irish coil stamps are scarce on cover. Some debate as to the genuineness of this stamp took place in the Irish philatelic literature during the mid-1990s with a suggestion the stamp had been fabricated from a normal fully perforated stamp with a press. This hypothesis was debunked by Foley and Ian Whyte, a Dublin stamp dealer, who both claimed such a process would damage the stamp and be scientifically impossible. Archived documents were also found that confirm the stamp was ordered and issued by the Irish postal administration.
* 2d Map of Ireland definitive stamp perforated on all sides from a regular sheet of stamps; 1st letter rate stamp
* Gerard Brady example 1 sold in Dublin in May 2016 for €10,000 by Whyte's
* Mint 68b that received a Philatelic Foundation Certificate in 2010 was sold in an April 2011 Kelleher auction for $12,500.00 (plus 15% buyer fee)
A detailed survey of the then twenty known unused examples was carried out by Gerard Brady and published in the Irish Stamp News in 1981.

## Forgery

In 2004 a forgery of this stamp was reported in The Revealer, the journal of the Éire Philatelic Association, that had been found in the "Maryland forgeries" and offered for sale by a noted collector Roger West of Phoenix International. The forgery is paler than the genuine stamp and the print is coarser, on a white ungummed paper and perforated 10.75 x imperf. The printed stamp area is 18.0mm x 22.5mm compared to 18.5mm x 22.0mm on the original.
# Ole Wanscher

Ole Wanscher (16 September 1903 – 27 December 1985) was a Danish furniture designer. He was one of the leading figures in the Scandinavian Design movement (a part of Mid-Century Modernism), at a time when Scandinavian Design achieved worldwide popularity.

## Early life and education

Wanscher was born on 16 September 1903 in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, the son of art historian Vilhelm Wanscher (1875-1961) and painter Laura K. Baagøe Zeuthen (1877-1974). He studied at the Danish School of Art and Design, and was particularly influenced by Prof. Kaare Klint.

## Design career

After completing his studies, Wanscher worked with Klint from 1924 to 1927, at which time he set up his own office, specializing in furniture design.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Wanscher, working with master joiner A. J. Iversen, produced dozens of designs that are now seen as modern classics. In the 1950s, Wanscher left his private firm and began an association with P. Jeppesens Møbelfabrik A/S that would last for the rest of his professional life.
Like his mentor Kaare Klint, Wanscher was influenced by a variety of sources, from 18th century British design through the furniture design of Ancient Egypt. One of Wanscher's most famous pieces was his so-called "Egyptian Stool" of 1960. He was also influenced by Greek and Chinese design.
While many of Wanscher best known designs were built with master joiner A.J. Iversen, Wanscher also showed a particular interest in the mass production of furniture, and several of his pieces were designed with mass production in mind. One of Wanscher's best known designs is the teak easy chair designed for France & Son in 1951.

## Academia

Upon the death of Kaare Klint in 1955, Wanscher replaced Klint as professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, a post he held until his retirement in 1973. Taking a cue from his father, an art historian, Wanscher published several histories of furniture design during his time at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, including The History of the Art of Furniture and Five Thousand Years of Furniture.

## Reputation

Wanscher's work has remained popular with furniture collectors. It has been called "delicate", "elegant", and "orderly".
In 2003, Vance Trimble, a furniture dealer and collector, staged a retrospective of Wanscher's work in New York City, which was well received.

## Personal life

Wanscher married twice. His first wife was Hilda Dorothea Pestalozzi (2 March 1906 - 9 July 1992), a daughter of consul Wilhelm Pestalozzi (1861) and Ellen Nicoline Karberg (1871-1944). They married on 22 September 1932 but they were divorced in 1954. His second wife was architect Edith Weinreich (27 March 1918 - 15 January 1990), a daughter of director and later alderman of the Wood Carvers' Guild Gustav Weinreich (1886-1980) and Hertha Jørgensen (1885-1956). They were married on 29 March 1967 at Søllerød Town Hall.
He designed his own house at Gotfred Rodes Vej 5 in Charlottenlund in 1933. It was altered in 1943 and again in 1965.
# Jessica Treadway

Jessica Treadway (born 1961 Albany, New York) is an American short story writer.

## Life

She was raised in Albany, New York. She graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, and from Boston University, with an MA. She worked as a reporter for United Press International. She held a fellowship at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and taught at Tufts University. She teaches at Emerson College.
Her fiction has been published in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, Glimmer Train, AGNI, Five Points.
She wrote the libretto for composer Ellen Bender’s opera after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun, and served as literary co-translator of “A Crowning Experience” by Kostiantyn Moskalets in From Three Worlds: New Writing From the Ukraine. She is on the Board of Directors of PEN-New England.
She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with her husband, Philip Holland.

## Awards

* National Endowment for the Arts
* Massachusetts Cultural Council.
* 1993 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
* 2009 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

## Works

* Please Come Back To Me, short stories, University of Georgia Press, October 2010
* Absent Without Leave, a collection of stories. Delphinium Books/Simon & Schuster. 1992. ISBN 978-0-671-79213-8.
* And Give You Peace, a novel. Graywolf Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-55597-315-5.

### Anthologies

* The Best American Short Stories
* The O. Henry Prize Stories
* Bill Henderson, ed. (December 2003). The Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-37-6.
# Myrtle Anderson

Myrtle Anderson (1901-1978) was a Jamaican actress, singer, and radio performer active in Hollywood in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

## Biography

Myrtle was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Charles Anderson and Cecilia Tyrell. She later moved to Manhattan with her sisters and her mother — who seems to have remarried — when she was just 5 years old. A talented student and a gifted singer, she eventually graduated from Columbia University.
She was married for a time to a police officer named Henry Simms; as it turned out, Simms was already married to someone else at the time they said "I do" in 1930; he was charged with bigamy in 1935. During their marriage, Myrtle briefly considered becoming a policewoman.
After performing with the Johnson Singers, appearing on Broadway, and getting her own radio show in NYC, Myrtle began winning small roles in films around 1936, when she played Eve in The Green Pastures, a retelling of biblical stories with an all-black cast. Later on in her career, she split her time between taking on film roles and working at the post office in Los Angeles, California.
Of her prospects in Hollywood, she said she preferred comedic roles: "I'm too skinny to play mammy roles and too unglamourous to become a Lena Horne," she explained.
During World War II, she served in the WAC.

## Selected filmography

* Jeanne Eagels (1957)
* Something of Value (1957)
* White Witch Doctor (1953)
* The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
* Follow the Sun (1951)
* Whirlpool (1949)
* Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949)
* The Perils of Pauline (1947)
* The Sea of Grass (1947)
* The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
* Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945)
* Double Up (1943)
* The Lady Is Willing (1942)
* The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
* Sullivan's Travels (1941)
* The Toy Wife (1938)
* The Green Pastures (1936)
# List of lighthouses in Jamaica

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This is a list of lighthouses in Jamaica. There are nine onshore lighthouses in operation and two offshore. They are maintained by the Port Authority of Jamaica, an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Works.

## Cornwall

* Lover’s Leap Lighthouse, Southfield * 17°52′08.7″N 77°39′38.0″W﻿ / ﻿17.869083°N 77.660556°W﻿ / 17.869083; -77.660556﻿ (Lover’s Leap Lighthouse)
* Negril Lighthouse, Negril * 18°14′55.0″N 78°21′38.2″W﻿ / ﻿18.248611°N 78.360611°W﻿ / 18.248611; -78.360611﻿ (Negril Lighthouse)
* Rose Hall Lighthouse, St James * 18°31′24.6″N 77°48′47.5″W﻿ / ﻿18.523500°N 77.813194°W﻿ / 18.523500; -77.813194﻿ (Rose Hall Lighthouse)

## Middlesex

* Galina Lighthouse, Galina * 18°24′36.13″N 76°53′33.32″W﻿ / ﻿18.4100361°N 76.8925889°W﻿ / 18.4100361; -76.8925889﻿ (Galina Lighthouse)
* Lazaretto Cairn Lighthouse, St Catherine Parish * 18°14′54.35″N 77°21′37.84″W﻿ / ﻿18.2484306°N 77.3605111°W﻿ / 18.2484306; -77.3605111﻿ (Lazaretto Cairn Lighthouse)
* Portland Lighthouse, Portland Point * 17°44′32.43″N 77°9′27.38″W﻿ / ﻿17.7423417°N 77.1576056°W﻿ / 17.7423417; -77.1576056﻿ (Portland Lighthouse)

## Surrey

* Folly Lighthouse, Port Antonio * 18°11′19.9″N 76°26′35.17″W﻿ / ﻿18.188861°N 76.4431028°W﻿ / 18.188861; -76.4431028﻿ (Folly Lighthouse)
* Morant Point Lighthouse, Morant Point * 17°55′6.43″N 76°11′3.47″W﻿ / ﻿17.9184528°N 76.1842972°W﻿ / 17.9184528; -76.1842972﻿ (Morant Point Lighthouse)
* Plumb Point Lighthouse, Palisadoes * 17°55′43.2″N 76°46′41.58″W﻿ / ﻿17.928667°N 76.7782167°W﻿ / 17.928667; -76.7782167﻿ (Plumb Point Lighthouse)

## Offshore

* Morant Cays Lighthouse, Morant Cays * 17°55′6.43″N 76°11′3.47″W﻿ / ﻿17.9184528°N 76.1842972°W﻿ / 17.9184528; -76.1842972﻿ (Morant Cays Lighthouse)
* Pedro Cays Lighthouse, Pedro Bank * 17°3′0.2″N 77°46′0.82″W﻿ / ﻿17.050056°N 77.7668944°W﻿ / 17.050056; -77.7668944﻿ (Pedro Cays Lighthouse)
# 1850 in Ireland

Events from the year 1850 in Ireland.

## Events

* Ongoing – Great Famine subsides.
* 31 March – the paddle steamer RMS Royal Adelaide (1838), bound from Cork to London, sinks in the English Channel with the loss of all 250 on board.
* October – Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum for Ireland opened in Dundrum, Dublin, the first secure hospital in Europe.
* 19 November – the barque Edmond sinks off Kilkee with the loss of 98 of the 216 aboard.
* Improved navigation of River Shannon throughout from Killaloe to Lough Key is completed.
* The Encumbered Estates Commissioners sell off remaining Donegall estate properties in Belfast to the tenants.
* Crumlin Road Courthouse in Belfast is completed.

## Arts and literature

* Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre's poem Cúirt An Mheán Oíche is first published from the oral tradition in an edition by the scholar John O'Daly.
* Tara Brooch (c.700 AD) found near Laytown, County Meath.

## Sport

* 27 February – Abd El Kader wins the Aintree Grand National in England, having been trained at Dardistown Castle by his owner, Joe Osborne.

## Deaths

* 10 January – William Reid Clanny, physician and inventor of the Clanny safety lamp for miners (born 1770).
* 6 August – Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (born 1782).
* 13 August – Martin Archer Shee, painter (born 1769).
* 18 August – Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council (born 1767).
* 10 October – Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (born 1805).
* 29 December – William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (born 1792).

## Births

* 25 April – William Melville, police officer and first chief of the British Secret Service (died 1918).
* 9 June – Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (died 1930).
* 24 June – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British Field Marshal and statesman (drowned 1916).
* 17 July – Edmond Holmes, educationalist, writer on religion and poet (died 1936).
* 12 September – James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, Deputy Lieutenant in Ireland (died 1924).
* 8 October – Matthias McDonnell Bodkin, Nationalist politician, barrister and journalist (died 1933).
* 22 December – Thomas O'Shaughnessy, lawyer and judge (died 1933).

### Full date unknown

*   * Thomas Lough, Liberal politician in Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Cavan (died 1922).
*   * Samuel Shumack, farmer and author in Australia (died 1940 in Australia).
# The End Is Nigh

The end is nigh is a phrase frequently used in relation to potential apocalyptical and eschatological events or the Biblical Apocalypse.
It can also refer to the following:

## Film

* "The End is Nigh", a chapter title in the Malcolm X documentary Seven Songs for Malcolm X
* Kiamat Sudah Dekat (The End is Nigh), a 2003 Indonesian film by Deddy Mizwar

## Games and video games

* Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, an episodic video game series
* The End Is Nigh (video game), a 2017 video game

## Literature

* The End Is Nigh (fanzine), defunct British fanzine
* The End is Nigh, the first book in the apocalyptic anthology trilogy The Apocalypse Triptych

## Music

* The End Is Nigh, a 2013 parody of the Lady Gaga song "You and I" by YouTube Internet personality VenetianPrincess
* The End is Nigh, a song by Irish rock band Bell X1 on their 2013 album Chop Chop
* Wake (The End Is Nigh), a song by American metal band Trivium on their 2013 album Vengeance Falls
* The End is Nigh, a song by Dutch doom metal band Officium Triste on their 2019 album The Death of Gaia

## Other uses

* The End is Nigh, the last solo show before the semi-retirement of Tony Allen
# Thomas Shorthalls

Thomas Shortalls, or Shorthals (c.1370–1445) was an Irish municipal official and judge of the fifteenth century.
He was probably born in Kilkenny city, where the Shorthalls were a leading local family, but seems to have spent most of his adult life in Dublin. Robert Shorthalls, who was High Sheriff of County Kilkenny in 1421, was probably a relative. Robert, like Thomas, seems to have been a Crown servant of some importance: in 1425 the Privy Council ordered that he be paid 100 shillings for his services in the "wars and treaties".
Thomas is first heard of as clerk to the city of Dublin, and then became Sheriff of Dublin City (the title then was Bailiff) in 1406. He served two further terms as Sheriff, in 1414 and 1424. In 1410 "for his services" the English Crown granted him an allowance of 28 shillings a year for the next seven years to be paid out of the fee farm rents of Dublin. In the same year he was made Constable of the Dublin wool staple (the centralised system in the port of Dublin for regulation of the wool trade), jointly with Richard Bone. He was Mayor of Dublin in 1420–21. In 1426 he was named as one of the founders of the Dublin Shoemakers Guild.
In 1431 he was appointed a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), at a salary of 20 marks per annum. At the time this office did not necessarily require legal qualifications, and Irish Barons of the Exchequer in the fifteenth century were often criticised for their lack of learning. However Shorthalls had acted as attorney for his future colleague on the Court of Exchequer, Francis Toppesfeld (appointed a Baron in 1425) and his wife Alice during their stay in England in 1410, which suggests that he had at the least more legal knowledge than most Barons. He became second Baron in 1435. He stepped down briefly in 1438 when he was referred to as the "former Baron", and was replaced by Peter Clynton (or Clayton), but he was sitting as a Baron again by 1442. Clynton is known to have spent his later career as Collector of Customs for Dublin and Drogheda.
He was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland and was present at an important Council meeting in August 1442 where very serious accusations were made against the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Richard Wogan, who was accordingly deemed to have vacated office, and was replaced by Sir Richard FitzEustace.
He apparently retired in 1443, when John Gough became second Baron of the Exchequer, and died two years later.

## Sources

* Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray 1926
* Graves, James and Prim, J.G.A. The History, Architecture and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny Dublin Hodges Figgis 1857
* Haydn, Joseph The Book of Dignities London Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1851
* Smyth, Constantine Joseph Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland London Butterworths 1839
# William Grant (fur trader)

William Grant (1743 – November 20, 1810) was a Scottish-born fur trader and businessman in Lower Canada.
He was born in Kirkmichael, Scotland in 1743 and came to Quebec shortly after 1759, and became involved in the fur trade in the regions near Michilimackinac, Lake Superior and Lake Nipigon. Grant became partners with Gabriel Cotté and Alexander Shaw. In 1791, he formed Grant, Campion and Company with Étienne-Charles Campion and Samuel Gerrard; the firm played an important role in the development of the fur trade in the region, becoming share-holders in the North West Company and coming to an agreement with that company regarding access to trading territories. In 1787, he married Marguerite Fafard, dit Laframboise, at Trois-Rivières. He was named justice of the peace for Trois-Rivières district in 1792. Grant was also involved in importing goods from Britain. In 1795, he retired from the fur trade.
He died at William-Henry (later Sorel) in 1810.