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# 1996 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

The Women's Individual Road Race at the 1996 UCI Road World Championships was held in October 1996 in Lugano, Switzerland, over a total distance of 100.8 kilometres.

## Final classification

| Rank | Rider | Time |
| | Barbara Heeb (SUI) | 02:53:05 |
| | Rasa Polikevičiūtė (LTU) | + 00.17 |
| | Linda Jackson (CAN) | + 00.37 |
| 4 | Laura Charameda (USA) | + 01:51 |
| 5 | Jolanta Polikevičiūtė (LTU) | — |
| 6 | Alessandra Cappellotto (ITA) | — |
| 7 | Jeannie Longo (FRA) | — |
| 8 | Edita Pučinskaitė (LTU) | — |
| 9 | Alexandra Koliasseva (RUS) | — |
| 10 | Catherine Marsal (FRA) | — |
| 11 | Zulfiya Zabirova (RUS) | + 01:56 |
| 12 | Hanka Kupfernagel (GER) | + 03:10 |
| 13 | Sigrid Corneo (SLO) | + 05:18 |
| 14 | Yvonne Schnorf (SUI) | + 05:30 |
| 15 | Heidi Van De Vijver (BEL) | + 06:29 |
| 16 | Valeria Cappellotto (ITA) | + 06:36 |
| 17 | Diana Rast (SUI) | + 06:49 |
| 18 | Lenka Ilavská (SVK) | + 09:00 |
| 19 | Kerstin Scheitle (GER) | + 09:01 |
| 20 | Marcia Vouets (SUI) | — |
# 1996 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The men's road race at the 1996 UCI Road World Championships was the 63rd edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 13 October 1996 in Lugano, Switzerland. The race was won by Johan Museeuw of Belgium.

## Final classification

| Rank | Rider | Time |
| | Johan Museeuw (BEL) | 6h 23' 50" |
| | Mauro Gianetti (SUI) | + 1" |
| | Michele Bartoli (ITA) | + 29" |
| 4 | Axel Merckx (BEL) | + 29" |
| 5 | Richard Virenque (FRA) | + 30" |
| 6 | Andrea Tafi (ITA) | + 30" |
| 7 | Laurent Jalabert (FRA) | + 1' 26" |
| 8 | Davide Rebellin (ITA) | + 1' 26" |
| 9 | Tony Rominger (SUI) | + 1' 26" |
| 10 | Bjarne Riis (DEN) | + 1' 26" |
# Ken Mary

Ken K. Mary is an American musician who has worked as a drummer, producer, engineer, and record executive on over thirty-five albums. He has worked in genres from heavy rock to choral music. Mary is best known for his work with acts such as Accept, Fifth Angel, Chastain, TKO, Impellitteri, House of Lords, Bonfire and Alice Cooper, and is currently the drummer of Flotsam and Jetsam and Jack Russell's Great White.

## Discography
### Fifth Angel

* 1986 – Fifth Angel
* 1989 – Time Will Tell
* 2018 – The Third Secret
* 2023 – When Angels Kill

### TKO

* 1984 – In Your Face
* 1985 – Below the Belt

### Chastain

* 1986 – Ruler of the Wasteland
* 1987 – The 7th of Never
* 1987 – Instrumental Variations
* 1988 – The Voice of the Cult
* 1989 – Within the Heat

### Alice Cooper

* 1987 – Raise Your Fist and Yell

### Impellitteri

* 1992 – Grin and Bear It
* 1993 – Victim of the System
* 1994 – Answer to the Master
* 1996 – Screaming Symphony
* 1997 – Fuel for the Fire
* 1997 – Eye of the Hurricane

### House of Lords

* 1988 – House of Lords
* 1990 – Sahara
* 2004 – The Power and the Myth
* 2007 – Live in the UK

### Flotsam and Jetsam

* 2019 – The End of Chaos
* 2021 – Blood in the Water
* 2024 — I Am the Weapon

### Collaborations

* 1991 – Bad Moon Rising – Bad Moon Rising
* 1993 – Bad Moon Rising – Blood
* 1991 – Tuff – What Comes Around Goes Around
* 1987 – Bonfire – Fireworks
* 1995 – Pata – Raised on Rock
* 2004 – Robin Beck – Wonderland
* 2001 – David Glen Eisley – The Lost Tapes
* 2009 – Northern Light Orchestra: The Spirit of Christmas, Live at the Orpheum Theater (Phoenix, Arizona)
* 2010 – Northern Light Orchestra: Celebrate Christmas
* 2020 – Them Fuzzy Monsters: Them Fuzzy Monsters
# Keith Kintigh

Keith W. Kintigh is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at Arizona State University. He specialises in quantitative archaeology and the archaeology of the Southwestern United States, conducting field research on Ancestral Pueblo sites in the Cibola region of New Mexico. He was one of the founders of Digital Antiquity, an organization supporting the long-term preservation of archaeological data, and its data repository the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR).

## Education and career

Kintigh studied sociology and computer science at Stanford University, graduating in 1974, and received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1982. He worked joined the Department of Anthropology (later School of Human Evolution and Social Change) at Arizona State University in 1987 and served as the head of its Center for Archaeology and Society.
Kintight was the president of the Society for American Archaeology from 1999 to 2001, where he worked on implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). He was a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin in 2011.

## Selected publications

* Kintigh, Keith W. (1985). Settlement, Subsistence, and Society in Late Zuni Prehistory. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816508310.
* Kintigh, Keith W.; et al. (2014-01-21). "Grand challenges for archaeology". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (3): 879–880. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111..879K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1324000111. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3903258. PMID 24449827.
# 1998 NC State Wolfpack football team

The 1998 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season with Mike O'Cain as its head coach. NC State has been a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) since the league's inception in 1953. The Wolfpack played its home games in 1998 at Carter–Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, which has been NC State football's home stadium since 1966.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 3 | 7:30 pm | Ohio* | | Carter–Finley StadiumRaleigh, NC | | W 34–31 | 35,500 |
| September 12 | 3:30 pm | No. 2 Florida State | | Carter–Finley StadiumRaleigh, NC | ABC | W 24–7 | 50,800 |
| September 19 | 12:30 pm | at Baylor* | No. 20 | Floyd Casey StadiumWaco, TX | FSN | L 30–33 | 28,734 |
| October 1 | 8:00 pm | No. 11 Syracuse* | | Carter–Finley StadiumRaleigh, NC | ESPN | W 38–17 | 51,200 |
| October 10 | 3:30 pm | Georgia Tech | No. 23 | Carter–Finley StadiumRaleigh, NC | ABC | L 24–47 | 48,600 |
| October 17 | 12:00 pm | Duke | | Carter–Finley StadiumRaleigh, NC (rivalry) | JPS | W 27–24 | 50,200 |
| October 24 | 3:30 pm | at No. 16 Virginia | | Scott StadiumCharlottesville, VA | ABC | L 13–23 | 45,900 |
| October 31 | 12:00 pm | at Clemson | | Memorial StadiumClemson, SC (Textile Bowl) | JPS | W 46–39 | 63,624 |
| November 7 | 12:00 pm | Wake Forest | | Carter–Finley StadiumRaleigh, NC (rivalry) | JPS | W 32–14 | 51,500 |
| November 21 | 1:00 pm | at Maryland | | Byrd StadiumCollege Park, MD | | W 35–21 | 21,589 |
| November 28 | 1:00 pm | vs. North Carolina | | Ericsson StadiumCharlotte, NC (rivalry) | ABC | L 34–37 $^{OT}$ | 68,797 |
| December 29 | 7:30 pm | vs. No. 24 Miami (FL)* | | Pro Player StadiumMiami Gardens, FL (MicronPC Bowl) | TBS | L 23–46 | 44,387 |
| *Non-conference gameRankings from AP Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time |||||||||

## Rankings

Ranking movements Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking — = Not ranked RV = Received votes :
| | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week |
| Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Final |
| AP | — | — | 20 | RV | RV | 23 | RV | RV | — | — | — | RV | RV | — | RV | — |
| Coaches | — | — | 24 | RV | RV | 23 | RV | RV | — | — | — | — | RV | — | RV | — |
| BCS | Not released | Not released | Not released | Not released | Not released | Not released | Not released | Not released | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Not released |
# 1998 NCAA Rifle Championships

The 1997 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 18th annual competition to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States. The championship was hosted by Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.
Three-time defending champions West Virginia once again topped the team standings, finishing a mere three points (6,214–6,211) ahead of Alaska. This was the Mountaineers' thirteenth team title.
The individual champions were, for the smallbore rifle, Karyn Juziuk (Xavier), and Emily Caruso (Norwich), for the air rifle.

## Qualification

Since there is only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of seven teams ultimately contested this championship (an increase of one team from 1996).

## Results

* Scoring: The championship consisted of 120 shots by each competitor in smallbore and 40 shots per competitor in air rifle.

### Team title

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | West Virginia | 6,214 |
| | Alaska | 6,211 |
| | Kentucky | 6,161 |
| 4 | Murray State (H) | 6,112 |
| 5 | Jacksonville State | 6,110 |
| 6 | Navy | 6,105 |
| 7 | Air Force | 6,090 |

### Individual events

| Event | Winner | Score |
| Smallbore | Karyn Juziuk, Xavier | 1,169 |
| Air rifle | Emily Caruso, Norwich | 393 |
# Rose Garden Center (Tyler, Texas)

The Rose Garden Center, or the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden, is a historic, municipal garden of roses in Tyler, Texas. It is the largest collection of roses in the United States. It is one of the largest tourist attractions in Tyler, it is the location of the Tyler Rose Museum, and is part of the annual Texas Rose Festival.
The Rose Garden Center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 22, 2019, for its role in regional and state tourism.

## History

The Rose Garden Center was a 1938 Works Progress Administration (WPA) park project, and was mostly completed in 1941; but due to World War II, the center did not open to the public until 1952. In 1956, the lawn at the Rose Garden Center started hosting the Queen's Tea event, a part of the annual Texas Rose Festival. In 1992, they rebuilt the associated building and expanded its size, in order to home the Tyler Rose Museum.
It is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) rose garden with more than 38,000 bushes and at least 500 varieties, including 50 types of heritage roses. It is the largest public collection of roses in the United States. It is also an All-America Rose Selections (AARS) test garden.
It is one of the largest tourist attractions in Tyler, it is the location of the Tyler Rose Museum, and is part of the annual Texas Rose Festival in October. In 2022, the center added QR codes near the plants in order to facilitate the identification of rose varieties.
# Fred Gabourie

Fred Gabourie (September 19, 1881 - March 1, 1951) was a technical director and department head.
Gabourie was born in Tweed, Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Seneca Indian tribe. He served in the Spanish–American War.
He worked primarily for Buster Keaton, figuring out how to make Keaton's innovative stunts work. As one author put it, "Fred Gabourie had the most interesting job in the world: He solved problems for Buster Keaton." As technical director, he was responsible for set design, construction, props management, and location scouting. During this time, he designed the electric house in The Electric House, which featured an automated staircase, library, swimming pool, and dining room. He located and purchased the ship for The Navigator. Only after Gabourie found the ship and suggested to Keaton that it would be a great prop to build a movie around did Keaton and his staff come up with a script. Gabourie also worked out how to accomplish the famous stunt in Steamboat Bill, Jr. in which the front of a house (weighing two tons) falls on Keaton without harming him.
Keaton and Gabourie, working with an architect, co-designed Keaton's lavish Beverly Hills mansion, eventually called the Italian Villa.
Gabourie was also responsible for the ships in the silent version of The Sea Hawk.
Gabourie went to MGM with Keaton but worked on just one picture with him (The Cameraman) before MGM promoted him to construction superintendent, a position he held until he died.
Gabourie's son, Fred Gabourie Jr., played some small parts in film and on TV, but eventually became a judge.
# François IV de Beauharnais

François IV de Beauharnais (2 August 1636 in Orléans – 17 April 1694 in Orléans), squire, sieur de la Grillère (at Vouzon, Loir-et-Cher), de la Boische, de La Chaussée, de Beaumont and de Beauville, was a French nobleman. His father was Jean de Beauharnais (1606–1661), maître d'Hôtel ordinaire du roi (one of the seven children of Anne Brachet and her husband François II de Beauharnais). His mother was Marie Mallet, and he had 2 siblings.
In 1663 he married Marguerite Françoise de Pyvart de Chastullé - among their 14 children was the politician Claude de Beauharnais (1680–1738), Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois and François de Beauharnois de la Chaussaye, Baron de Beauville. Francis IV of Beauharnais was one of the great-grandfathers of the family Eslandoost de Beauville.
# Frederick Deacon

Frederick Horace Deacon (January 1829 – 20 November 1875, in Brixton, London) was a British chess master. He is mainly notable for spurious claims to have drawn against Paul Morphy, making himself both notorious and unpopular.
He won a match against W. Gilby (2–1) and lost a match to Charles Edward Ranken (0–2) at London 1851 (Provincial, Samuel Boden won). Deacon won matches against Edward Löwe (7½–2½) in 1851, and Carl Mayet (5–2) in 1852. He claimed to have drawn against Paul Morphy (1–1) in 1858.
He took 2nd, behind George Henry Mackenzie, at London 1862 (handicap), shared 11th at London 1862 (the 5th BCA Congress, Adolf Anderssen won), and lost a match to Wilhelm Steinitz (1½–5½) at London 1863.
# Ken Chapman (footballer, born 1948)

Kenneth Freeman Raymond Chapman (born 16 November 1948) is an English former footballer who played as a winger.
# 1997 Internazionali di Carisbo – Doubles

Brent Haygarth and Christo van Rensburg were defending champions, but van Rensburg did not compete this year. Haygarth teamed up with Greg Van Emburgh and lost in the first round to Patrik Fredriksson and Tom Vanhoudt.
Gustavo Kuerten and Fernando Meligeni won the title by defeating Dave Randall and Jack Waite 6–2, 7–5 in the final.

## Seeds

* Donald Johnson / Francisco Montana (semifinals)
* Menno Oosting / Libor Pimek (semifinals)
* Dave Randall / Jack Waite (final)
* Gustavo Kuerten / Fernando Meligeni (champions)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking

### Draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | D Johnson F Montana | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | F Mordegan D Scala | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | D Johnson F Montana | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | B Haygarth G Van Emburgh | 6 | 2 | 3 | | P Fredriksson T Vanhoudt | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | |
| | P Fredriksson T Vanhoudt | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | | 1 | D Johnson F Montana | 4 | 4 | | | | |
| 4 | G Kuerten F Meligeni | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 4 | G Kuerten F Meligeni | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| Q | M Charpentier D Roditi | 3 | 4 | | 4 | G Kuerten F Meligeni | w/o | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Alonso G Köves | 6 | 6 | | | J Alonso G Köves | | | | | | | | | | |
| | D DiLucia R Smith | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | 4 | G Kuerten F Meligeni | 6 | 7 |
| | A Berasategui J Burillo | 7 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | | 3 | D Randall J Waite | 2 | 5 |
| | A Gaudenzi N Lapentti | 5 | 6 | 6 | | A Gaudenzi N Lapentti | 4 | 3 | | | | | | | | |
| WC | J Díaz F Mantilla | 2 | 1 | | 3 | D Randall J Waite | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | D Randall J Waite | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 3 | D Randall J Waite | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | D Bowen K Kinnear | 6 | 5 | 6 | | | | | 2 | M Oosting L Pimek | 0 | 1 | | | | |
| WC | K Alami H Arazi | 4 | 7 | 3 | | D Bowen K Kinnear | 5 | 2 | | | | | | | | |
| | J Cunha e Silva JL de Jager | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | M Oosting L Pimek | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | M Oosting L Pimek | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
# Fred Lasher

Frederick Walter Lasher (August 19, 1941 – February 27, 2022) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played six seasons with the Minnesota Twins (1963), Detroit Tigers (1967–1970), Cleveland Indians (1970), and California Angels (1971). A sidewinder, Lasher was listed as 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and 190 pounds (86 kg).
Lasher signed with the Twins' forebears, the American League's first Washington Senators franchise, in 1960 and debuted in the major leagues at age 21 in 1963. Over six major league seasons, he appeared in 151 games (all but one as a relief pitcher) and had a won–lost record of 11–13 with 22 saves and a 3.88 earned run average; in 202 innings pitched, he permitted 179 hits and 110 bases on balls; he struck out 148.
In 1968, Lasher appeared in 34 games for the pennant-winning and world champion Tigers, finishing with a 5–1 record and a 3.33 earned run average. He also pitched two scoreless innings in the 1968 World Series to help the Tigers beat the St. Louis Cardinals, four games to three. In 1970, Lasher appeared in a career-high 55 games for the Tigers and Indians. His major league career ended in 1971, when he worked in two games for the Angels and gave up four earned runs in 1+1⁄3 innings for a 27.00 earned run average.
In his only MLB starting pitcher assignment, on July 12, 1970, at Cleveland Stadium against the Boston Red Sox, Lasher recorded two outs in the first inning before permitting a single to Carl Yastrzemski. Lasher then threw a pitch that hit the next Boston batter, Tony Conigliaro, on his left forearm. An enraged Conigliaro charged Lasher on the mound, and, in the ensuing melee, he kicked Lasher in the hip (inflicting a spike wound), and punched him in the nose. Conigliaro was ejected from the game, but Lasher was allowed to continue on the mound. In the second inning, however, he surrendered back-to-back home runs to Conigliaro's brother and teammate, Billy, and Boston catcher Tom Satriano, and was removed from the game for a relief pitcher. Lasher then required a tetanus shot from a local hospital because of the spike wound he suffered in the first-inning brawl. Lasher was also charged with the 8–2 loss.
Lasher died on February 27, 2022, at the age of 80.
# Kenneth Durham

Kenneth Durham (died 6 August 2016) was a British schoolteacher, educationalist, and headmaster of University College School (1996-2013).
Durham was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead and studied at Brasenose College, Oxford. He taught economics at St. Albans School, before becoming Director of Studies and Head of Economics at King's College School, Wimbledon. In 1996 he was appointed Headmaster of University College School, which is part of the Eton Group of independent schools.
He was the brother of Geoffrey Durham, the British comedy magician and actor who was married to writer and comedian Victoria Wood.
He wrote several books on Economics education.
He died after a long illness on 6 August 2016 at the age of 62.

## Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

He was a member of the GSA/HMC Professional Development Sub-Committee and Chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). He was also a co-opted member of the HMC committee in 2006-7, being HMC Head of Professional Development.

## Selected publications

* Durham, K. (1992). The New City. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan.
# Fred Cone

Fred Cone may refer to:
* Fred Cone (baseball) (1848–1909), American baseball player
* Fred Cone (American football) (1926–2021), American football player
* Fred P. Cone (1871–1948), American politician
# 1998 IPB Czech Indoor – Doubles

The 1998 IPB Czech Indoor was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet in Ostrava, Czech Republic that was part of the International Series of the 1998 ATP Tour. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from 19 October – 25 October.

## Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
* Sandon Stolle / Cyril Suk (quarterfinals)
* Unknown (withdrew)
* Donald Johnson / Francisco Montana (quarterfinals)
* Yevgeny Kafelnikov / Daniel Vacek (semifinals)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking

### Finals

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | S Stolle C Suk | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Hiršzon G Ivanišević | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | S Stolle C Suk | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | |
| | N Kiefer D Prinosil | 6 | 6 | | | N Kiefer D Prinosil | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | A Medvedev M Safin | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | N Kiefer D Prinosil | 7 | 6 | | | |
| 4 | Y Kafelnikov D Vacek | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 4 | Y Kafelnikov D Vacek | 5 | 0 | | | |
| | J Novák D Rikl | 1 | 3 | | 4 | Y Kafelnikov D Vacek | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | |
| | B Black P Norval | 4 | 6 | 6 | | B Black P Norval | 3 | 5 | | | | | | | | |
| | M Barnard A Olhovskiy | 6 | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | N Kiefer D Prinosil | 6 | 6 |
| | J Johansson M Tillström | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | D Adams P Vízner | 4 | 3 |
| | W Black F Wibier | 6 | 2 | | | J Johansson M Tillström | 5 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | |
| 3 | D Johnson F Montana | 6 | 6 | | 3 | D Johnson F Montana | 7 | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | |
| | T Ketola T Anzari | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | J Johansson M Tillström | 2 | 1 | | | |
| | N Kulti D Macpherson | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | D Adams P Vízner | 6 | 6 | | | |
| | A Kitinov P Rosner | 2 | 4 | | | N Kulti D Macpherson | 1 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | D Adams P Vízner | 6 | 6 | | | D Adams P Vízner | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | |
| | M Damm J Grabb | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
# Kenjirō Tokutomi

Kenjirō Tokutomi (徳富 健次郎, Tokutomi Kenjirō) (December 8, 1868 – September 18, 1927) was a Japanese writer and philosopher. He wrote novels under the pseudonym of Roka Tokutomi (徳冨 蘆花, Tokutomi Roka), and his best-known work was his 1899 novel The Cuckoo.

## Biography

Tokutomi was born on December 8, 1868, in Minamata, Japan, to a samurai family. He was the younger brother of journalist and historian Tokutomi Sohō. He converted to Christianity in 1885, and moved to Imabari, Ehime, where he lived with Shiro Sokabe and was a student of Tokio Yokoi. This is also where he received the nickname "Roka". He later attended Doshisha University.
He wrote for newspapers owned by his brother, Sohō, until his novel The Cuckoo, was published and became successful enough that Tokutomi could make a living as a writer on his own. It was translated 15 times between 1904 and 1918, and is one of the first Japanese works to be widely translated and distributed internationally.
After meeting Leo Tolstoy, Tokutomi became inspired to move to the countryside. Their correspondence is on display in the small museum located in the Roka Kōshun-en Park, along with belongings.
From February 27, 1907, until his death, he lived in a house in Musashino (Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan). After his wife's death, the property was donated to the city of Tokyo to be used as a park. It was named Roka Kōshun-en in his honor.
Tokutomi died on September 18, 1927, in Ikaho, Gunma, one day after reconciling with Sohō.

## Selected bibliography

* Tokutomi, Kenjiro (1899). Hototogisu 不如帰 [The Cuckoo or Namiko].
* Tokutomi, Roka (1913). Mimizu no tawagoto みみずのたはこと [Ramblings of an earthworm].
* Tokutomi, Kenjiro (1920). Shizen to Jinsei 自然と人生 [Nature and man]. Tokyo: Kogakukan.
# Rover Creek

Rover Creek is a creek in the West Kootenay Region of British Columbia. The creek is located west of Forty Nine Creek and flows into the Kootenay River. The creek has been mined for gold.