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# Victor Hubert Tait

Air Vice Marshal Sir Victor Hubert Tait, KBE, CB (8 July 1892 – 27 November 1988) was a Canadian-born soldier and airman who served with the Royal Canadian Engineers, the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Air Force, and the Egyptian Air Force. He represented Great Britain at ice hockey in the 1928 Winter Olympics. In later life, he was an executive of BOAC.

## Early life

Tait was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of Samuel Tait, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba.

## Military career

With the outbreak of the First World War, Tait joined the Royal Canadian Engineers as a sapper before being commissioned into the London Regiment of the British Army in 1916. He was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, where he focussed on radio and aerial navigation. Transferring to the new Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1918, he was an instructor at the RAF's Electrical and Wireless School in 1919. After a period of illness Tait served with No. 4 Squadron in Constantinople from 1922 to 1924 as a pilot and wireless specialist. On his return to the United Kingdom, Tait was appointed to signals staff officer duties.
By 1930 Tait was back in the Middle East where he continued his work in RAF signals. In 1932 Tait was made the Senior Air Advisor on the British Military Mission in Egypt. At the same time or not long afterward he was seconded to the Egyptian Army Air Force which he effectively founded, flying eight aircraft to Cario. The Egyptian monarch, King Fuad, was impressed with Tait and granted him the rank of kaimachan (lieutenant colonel) and, in 1937, King Farouk made him a Commander of the Order of the Nile. In 1937 the Egyptian Army Air Force was transferred from British to Egyptian control and the last British Sirdar, Major General Sir Charlton Spinks instructed Tait to relinquish his position. Tait responded by stating that he now only took orders from the Egyptian minister of war and after a meeting with the minister was convened, Tait was made air advisor to the EAAF (a position created especially for him) and promoted to group captain.
Returning to the RAF during the Second World War, Tait transferred to the RAF's Technical Branch in 1940 and was promoted to air commodore. After a spell as deputy director of signals, he was appointed the director of radio in 1941, the director of RDF in 1942, when he was promoted to air vice marshal. In August 1942 Tait was made Director-General of Signals, a post he until he retired from the Air Force in 1946. During the preparations for the D-Day landing and the invasion of Normandy, Tait was responsible for planning the attack on German radar stations and spoofing other radar.
After the war Tait joined the British Overseas Airways Corporation, working as its operations director from 1945 to 1956.

## Sportsman

Tait represented Great Britain at ice hockey and competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics, the British team finishing fourth in the Olympic ice hockey tournament of 1928.
Tait was president of the British Ice Hockey Association from 1958 to 1971.
# Colson

Colson is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

## Surname

* Audrey Butt Colson (born 1926), British social anthropologist
* Bonzie Colson (born 1996), American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Charles Colson (1931–2012), U.S. counsel for Richard Nixon and (later) evangelical Christian leader; father of Emily Colson
* Christian Colson (born 1968), British film producer
* Clément Colson (1853–1939), French economist
* David Grant Colson (1861–1904), U.S. politician from Kentucky
* Elizabeth Colson (1917–2016), U.S. social anthropologist
* Eugène Colson (fl. during World War II), Belgian resistance fighter
* Ethalinda Colson (stage name, Kathryn Adams; 1893–1959), U.S. silent film actress
* F. D. Colson (died 1958), U.S. rower, rowing coach, and lawyer
* Gail Colson (born ?), British music manager
* Gary Colson (born 1934), U.S. basketball coach
* Greg Colson (born 1956), U.S. artist known for wall sculptures ("stickmaps", "piecharts", etc.)
* Guillaume-François Colson (1785–1860), French historical painter
* Henri Colson (1819–1900), Belgian engineer, industrialist, professor, and politician
* Jaime Colson (1901–1975), modernist painter of the Dominican Republic
* Jean Claude Gilles Colson (stage name, Bellecour; 1725–1778), French actor
* Jean-François Gilles Colson (1733–1803), French painter
* Jeff Colson (born 1957), U.S. painter and sculptor
* John Colson (1680–1760), British clergyman and mathematician
* Kevin Colson (1937–2018), Australian actor
* Loyd Colson (born 1947), U.S. baseball pitcher
* Ms Von Colson (fl. 1984), German European Court of Justice plaintiff [see: Von Colson v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen]
* Osborne Colson (1916–2006), Canadian figure skater and coach
* Sam Colson (born 1951), U.S. javelin thrower and Olympic competitor
* Sean Colson (born 1975), U.S. basketball player
* Sydney Colson (born 1989), U.S. basketball player
* Ted Colson (1881–1950), Australian bushman, pastoralist, and pioneer

### Fictional characters

* Zachary Colson, character from Wing Commander II
* Colson, son of Wulfgar, character from The Icewind Dale Trilogy [see: Wulfgar (Forgotten Realms)]

## Given name

* Colson Baker (born 1990; known professionally as Machine Gun Kelly), American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor known as
* Colson Whitehead (born 1969), American novelist
* Colson Yankoff (born 2000), American football player
# William Aiton (sheriff)

William Aiton (9 January 1760 – 8 July 1847) was a Scottish law agent, agriculturalist and sheriff-substitute of the county of Lanark. He was an authority on all matters bearing on Scottish husbandry.
He was born at Silverwood, Kilmarnock, in 1760, a neighbourhood which he left in 1785 to go to Strathaven, Lanarkshire, where he practised for many years as a law agent. He next went to Hamilton, where he held office as one of the sheriff-substitutes of the county from 1816 up to 1822. He died in 1847. At no period did his income exceed a hundred a year, and yet out of this, with a family of twelve children, he educated four sons for liberal professions, often sending them his last guinea when they were students at college.

## Works

Aiton's works are:
* A Treatise on Moss-earth, Ayr, 1811.
* General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr, Glasgow, 1811.
* General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bute, Glasgow, 1816.
* A History of the Rencounter at Drumclog and Battle at Bothwell Bridge, Hamilton, 1821.
* An Inquiry into the Pedigree of the Hamilton Family, Glasgow, 1827.
* Inquiry into the House of Aiton in Scotland, Hamilton, 1830.
# John Wilkinson (sound engineer)

John Keen "Doc" Wilkinson (April 13, 1920 – April 28, 2002) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category. He worked on more than 140 films between 1958 and 1992.

## Selected filmography

Wilkinson won an Academy Award for Best Sound following his work on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in 1945. He was later nominated for another two in the same category, but this time regarding the effort he put into his work in Vietnam.

### Won

* Platoon (1986) (Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing)

### Nominated

* Days of Heaven (1978) (Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing)
* Outland (1981) (Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing)
# Francesco Maria Biordi

Francesco Maria Biordi (7 October 1764 – 7 October 1817) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an apostolic administrator of Anagni and the titular bishop of Duvno from 1816 to his death in 1817.
Biordi was ordained to the priesthood on 7 October 1787. Before his episcopate, Biordi was a vicar general of the Diocese of Porto–Santa Rufina. On 25 August 1817, he administered confirmation to Gioacchino Pecci, the future Pope Leo XIII in the Church of St. Nicholas in Carpineto Romano.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Catholic Hierarchy.
* ↑ Gazzeta di Milano 1816, p. 4.
* ↑ Pietrobono 2012, p. 144.
# Urophycis

Urophycis is a genus of phycid hakes.

## Species

There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:
* Urophycis brasiliensis (Kaup, 1858) (Brazilian codling)
* Urophycis chuss (Walbaum, 1792) (Red hake)
* Urophycis cirrata (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896) (Gulf hake)
* Urophycis earllii (T. H. Bean, 1880) (Carolina hake)
* Urophycis floridana (T. H. Bean & Dresel, 1884) (Southern codling)
* Urophycis mystacea A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1903
* Urophycis regia (Walbaum, 1792) (Spotted codling)
* Urophycis tenuis (Mitchill, 1814) (White hake)
# Victoria Davia-Montecuculi

Donna Anna Victoria Davia-Montecuculi (20 June 1655 – 13 April 1703), known as the Countess of Almond from 1689, was a Modenese noblewoman, courtier and companion of Mary of Modena during her time as Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, and later during her exile in France.

## Early life

Born Maria Vittoria Luigia Sigismonda Montecuccoli-Laderchi, she was the daughter of Giovanni Battista Montecuccoli-Laderchi, 2nd Marquis of Guiglia. As a child she was chosen by Duchess consort Laura Martinozzi as her lady-in-waiting, and then as a lady in waiting to her daughter, Maria d'Este (Mary of Modena), the future wife of James, Duke of York. In 1672 Victoria married Virgilio Giuseppe Davia, a Senator of Bologna, and moved with him to that city.

## Courtier in England

In September 1673, Victoria and her husband travelled to Modena to "attest obsequious affection" to Mary prior to her departure to England.
During the Exclusion Crisis, Victoria and Virgilio moved to Brussels to attend on Mary during James' temporary exile from England. Victoria was also with the royal couple in Edinburgh in 1684 while James was serving as Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland, but she had returned to Modena by the time of James' accession to the throne in February 1685.
The new Queen recalled Victoria to her service and she travelled to the royal court in London later in 1685 with her brother, Raimondo, 3rd Marquis of Guiglia.

## Courtier in France

On 9 December 1688 she accompanied Queen Mary and the infant Prince of Wales in their escape from London during the Glorious Revolution. Under the arrangements of Antoine Nompar de Caumont, Victoria disguised herself to avoid recognition and escaped to France, joining the exiled Stuart court at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She was rewarded for her loyalty to the Queen when James II created her Countess of Almond in the Jacobite peerage on 13 January 1689.
Victoria's presence at the French court was disliked by many of Louis XIV's courtiers, owing to her family's loyalty to France's rivals, the Habsburg monarchy. Queen Mary, however, insisted that Victoria remain in her household. The French diplomat François Pidou de Saint Olon was charged with keeping Victoria under observation whenever she was visited by Italians.
In 1692, her son, Giovanni Battista Davia, had left to serve as adjutant-general to his uncle, the Austrian field marshal Aeneas de Caprara. He was captured by the forces of Mustafa II and imprisoned in Constantinople. Victoria attempted to secure French support for his release through Madame de Maintenon, but this did not come to fruition. Eventually, Victoria appealed directly to the Sultan, who released Giovanni after four years imprisonment. However, he died in December 1696.
On 12 April 1698, Victoria's husband was made Earl of Almond, Viscount of Moneydie and Lord Davia in the Jacobite peerage of Scotland, in recognition of Victoria's continued service. Victoria was a witness to the death of James II on 16 September 1701 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She died after a brief illness in 1703, after which the Queen entered a period of prolonged mourning.
# Colston Warne

Colston Estey Warne (August 14, 1900 – May 20, 1987) was an American professor of economics and one of the founders of Consumers Union (along with Arthur Kallet), in 1936. He served as president of the board of directors from 1936 to 1979. He also served as President of the International Organization of Consumers Unions (IOCU) from 1960 to 1970, which later became Consumers International under Rhoda Karpatkin. He was the father of Barbara Newell.

## Early life

Warne was born in 1900 in the Finger Lakes region of New York. His father managed a country store, farmed, and participated in the local Presbyterian church. Warne attended nearby Cornell University where in 1921 he graduated with a master's degrees in economics. While there he met his future wife, Frances Lee Corbett, who was studying home economics. He also began studying the writings of Thorstein Veblen. In 1925 Warne earned a doctorate in political economy from the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and later became professor of economics at Amherst College from 1930 until his retirement in 1969.
At Amherst, his courses on labor history were highly popular during the 1930s. After World War II, he participated in the required sophomore American Studies course, where he edited several of the "Problems in American Civilization" anthologies produced in that course and widely imitated. After his retirement, under President John William Ward, Amherst awarded him an honorary doctorate.

## Un-American Activities

He testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, when it investigated charges of Communism in the consumer movement. Speaking in 1954 to have Consumers Union removed from the list of subversive organizations, Warne said, "I am an upstate New York Yankee... I am not a Communist."

## Recognition

He is an Ordo Honoris brother of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, having initiated into the Beta chapter at Cornell University.

## Death

Warne died May 20, 1987, in Bedford, Massachusetts.
# Bessancourt station

Bessancourt is a railway station in the commune of Bessancourt (Val-d'Oise department), France. The station is served by Transilien H trains from Paris to Persan-Beaumont via Saint-Leu-la-Forêt. The daily number of passengers was between 500 and 2,500 in 2002. Bessancourt is located on the line from Ermont-Eaubonne to Valmondois, that was opened in 1876. The line was electrified in 1970.

## Bus connections

* Busval d'Oise: 95.03A and B
* Valoise: 30.04A and B and 30.18
# Josuah Turner

Josuah Turner (1884–1960) was an English footballer who played for Stoke.

## Career

Turner was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire and played amateur football with Tunstall before joining Stoke in 1908. He played in one first team match which came in a 4–1 defeat to Aston Villa Reserves during the 1908–09 season before returning to Tunstall.

## Career statistics

| Club | Season | League | League | FA Cup | FA Cup | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Stoke | 1908–09 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Career Total | Career Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
# Santiam National Forest

The Santiam National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon on July 1, 1911 with 710,170 acres (2,874.0 km$^2$) from portions of Cascade National Forest and Oregon National Forest. On July 1, 1933 the entire forest was combined with Cascade to establish Willamette National Forest.
# William Blood Smyth

William Augustine Blood Smyth MA was Archdeacon of Killaloe from 1927 until 1938.
Smyth was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1878. He served at Kenmare, Oldham and Lisson Grove (curacies); Kilgarvan, Dromod, Ballingarry and Kilfieragh (incumbencies). He was Canon of Killaloe from 1902 until 1913; and Treasurer from 1913 to 1927. He was a Prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1920 and 1927. He was Rural Dean of O'Mullod from 1922; and the incumbent at Kilnasoolagh from 1922.
# Jonathan Stanton

Jonathan Stanton (1834–1918) was an ornithologist and longtime professor of Greek and Latin at Bates College, a librarian and a supporter of the debate program.

## Career

A native of Lebanon, Maine, USA, and an 1856 graduate of Bowdoin College, Stanton studied law from 1856 to 1857 and became a teacher at the New Hampton School in New Hampshire from 1857 to 1858. He studied at Andover Theological Seminary from 1858 to 1861. He was the principal of the Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, from 1861 to 1863. He then went to Bates College where his brother, Levi, had been teaching.
Stanton taught at Bates from 1863 until his death in 1918. He taught Greek and Latin, led debates and taught a popular class in ornithology. Stanton maintained a correspondence with Charles Darwin and some of Darwin's letters have survived. The local Stanton Bird Club is still active and owns the Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary. The "Stanton Ride", where Stanton paid to have horses and carriages take the freshman class on a picnic where he would tell them the history of the college, continued as a tradition for over 100 years. Referred to by students as "Uncle Johnny" and by college president George C. Chase as "the spirit of Bates", Stanton refused to leave Bates for any other colleges and remains one of the school's most influential professors to this day. Stanton was influential in creating a strong debate tradition at Bates with the creation of debate prizes and supporting the literary and debate societies, such as the Polymnian and Eurosophian Societies in the early years of the school. Stanton's large collection of bird specimens was mainly sent from Bates to the Maine State Museum in 1980, but several specimens remain on campus.
# Sweyhat

Tell es-Sweyhat is the name of a large archaeological site on the Euphrates River in northern Syria. It is located in Raqqa Governorate roughly 95 km northeast of Aleppo and 60 km south of Carchemish. Also, a Uruk site of Jebel Aruda and a Bronze Age site Tell Hadidi (Azu) are located just across the river.

## History

Sweyhat dates from 3100–1900 BC, or the Early Bronze Age and the very beginning of the Middle Bronze Age. The site covers approximately 45 hectares and consists of a central, high mound standing 15 meters above the surrounding plain and an extensive low mound surrounded by the remains of an earthen rampart. In the time of the Ur III Empire at the end of the 2nd millennium BC it was destroyed by fire and abandoned until the Hellenistic Period. The site is located within Mesopotamia in a very marginal environment for agriculture, yet in antiquity it was a prosperous city.

## Archaeology

Sweyhat is best known for its intact fortifications of the mid-to-late 3rd millennium BC and its late-3rd-millennium temple located at the summit of the high mound. In 1993, the Penn excavators discovered a large cemetery of shaft-and-chamber tombs in the Low Mound dating to the mid 3rd millennium BC. Sweyhat is a classic example of a Kranzhugel (German, "crown-mound") — a form of ruin mound typical of the Bronze Age in northwestern Mesopotamia consists of a high mound surrounded by a lower ring mound.
Sweyhat was excavated by Thomas Holland for the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University in 1973–75. These excavations were part of the Tabqa Dam Salvage Project, initiated to save sites threatened by the formation of the impound lake, Lake Assad, behind a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River near the town of Tabqa. These excavations were renewed by Holland from the Oriental Institute of Chicago and Richard L. Zettler from the University of Pennsylvania Museum in 1989. This joint project excavated the site in 1989 and 1991. The Oriental Institute excavated again in 1992 and then halted operations at the site. Zettler carried out field seasons for the UPM in 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, and 2007. The project, which ended in 2010, was directed by Michael D. Danti of Boston University's Department of Archaeology. Among their finds were three Early Bronze Age tombs, one of which had not been robbed.
Tell Hajji Ibrahim is another important Uruk site in the area.
# Francis Mostyn

Francis Mostyn may refer to:
* Francis Mostyn (archbishop of Cardiff) (1860–1939), Roman Catholic prelate
* Francis Mostyn (vicar apostolic of the Northern District) (1800–1847), Roman Catholic prelate
# Uthman ibn Hunayf

ʿUthmān ibn Ḥunayf (Arabic: عثمان بن حنيف) was one of the companions of Muhammad. According to Shia belief, he did not give allegiance to Abu Bakr, until Ali supposedly did so. He narrated the Hadith of the blind man.
Qadi Yusuf says that Uthman ibn Hunayf was an authority in all Arabia on taxation, assessment of land revenue and land reclamation. He was employed by Umar as a land revenue expert.
He was appointed governor of Basra by Ali.
# Vicuña Mackenna, Argentina

Vicuña Mackenna is a town located within the Río Cuarto Department, Córdoba Province, Argentina.

## Location

Vicuña Mackenna geographically belongs to the Pampas plains with topographical features of the pampas. The town is located south of the province of Cordoba, in the Department of Río Cuarto some 300 km. of the city of Córdoba, the provincial capital, in a crossing of the National Roads No. 7 and 35.

## Economy

It is one of the most dynamic economies in the area, among the main activities include agriculture, whose main crops are soybean, peanut and corn. It also highlights the dairy production and rural tourism. There are several industrial establishments in town that are dedicated especially to the processing of agricultural products and livestock.

## History

In 1885 a main railway started to pass for Vicuña Mackenna joining Buenos Aires and Mendoza. The fields where now stay Vicuña Mackenna was provincial fiscals and were known as "Bebe Vino". These was bought in 1874 by Nicolás Avellaneda to Córdoba Province.
After Avellaneda's death and his wife, his fields were donated to two of his sons, who sold to Clodomiro Torres. In May 1904, Clodomiro Torres requested to Provincial Government will benefit him according to Provincial law to establish an Agricultural Village in these fields. On 6 June the province governor Vicente Olmos ordered the creation of "Pueblo Torres".
Since 1885 the station railway was named Vicuña Mackenna, name acquired for a Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s request in honor to Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, a Chilean writer and historian, Sarmiento's friend.
In May 1911, the Córdoba governor Félix Tomás Garzón, solved for decree that Pueblo Torres got the name of station railway Vicuña Mackenna. After that date the name of Pueblo Torres disappeared of all state documents.
In 2023 large investments to its sewer network were made.
Its local Day is 19 March.
# Berringer Lake

Berringer Lake is a locality in New South Wales, Australia in the City of Shoalhaven.
# Lord Palumbo

Lord Palumbo may refer to:
* Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (born 1935), a British property developer, art collector, and former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is the father of James Palumbo.
* James Palumbo, Baron Palumbo of Southwark (born 1963), a British entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of the Ministry of Sound nightclub. He is the son of Peter Palumbo.