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# 2nd Tank Destroyer Brigade

The 2nd Tank Destroyer Brigade was a United States Army brigade of World War II. It was formed in November 1942 and undertook training in several locations across the United States. Due to the lack of a need for tank destroyer brigade headquarters the unit was disbanded in March 1944.

## History
### Role

The 2nd Tank Destroyer Brigade was formed at Camp Hood in Texas as part of the Tank Destroyer Center on 24 November 1942, and was one of the two tank destroyer brigades established by the Army (the other being the 1st Tank Destroyer Brigade, which was also established at Camp Hood on 18 November 1942). The initial role of both brigades was to oversee the training of the large number of tank destroyer battalions that had been formed.
At this time, US Army doctrine called for tank destroyers to primarily operate as concentrated battalions during combat. These battalions were to be concentrated in regiment-sized groups and brigades when needed to combat large forces of enemy tanks. Combat experience in Europe demonstrated that tank destroyer brigades were not needed. Tank destroyers were usually parcelled out to other units, and were rarely concentrated in battalions. The thirteen tank destroyer group headquarters dispatched to Europe and North Africa never led massed units of tank destroyers, and nor did the 1st Tank Brigade after it was also sent there.

### Deployments

The brigade was transferred to Camp Forrest in Tennessee on 11 April 1943, where it was assigned to the Second Army. From 19 April to 26 August it was at the Tennessee Maneuver Area. The 1st Tank Destroyer Brigade returned to Camp Forrest, and remained there until 20 November 1943 when it was sent to Camp Breckinridge in Kentucky. It formed part of XX Corps. The brigade was disbanded at Camp Breckinridge on 8 March 1944 as it was not needed.
# Uropterygius macrocephalus

Uropterygius macrocephalus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the needle-tooth moray, large-headed snake moray, largehead snake moray, largehead moray, longhead moray, or the snowflake eel. It is used sometimes in aquariums.
# Gugel

A gugel was a type of hood with a trailing point, popularly worn in medieval Germany.

## Description

It was tailored to fit the head and shoulders and was usually made from wool or loden. Originally worn by commoners, it became fashionable with the nobility from the 14th century. In the fashionable style, the gugel was worn on top of the head like a hat, with the head part inverted inside the collar, which then hung over the ears.

## Distribution

From about 1360, this style of gugel was also worn outside Germany, being called a chaperon in France and a cappucio in Italy. By about 1400 the trailing point was sometimes of enormous proportions.
# 5th Rifle Division

5th Rifle Division may refer to:
* 5th Rifle Division (Poland)
* 5th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
* 5th Siberian Rifle Division
# Guido Barbarisi

Guido Barbarisi (1889–1960) was an Italian stage and film actor.

## Selected filmography

* Golden Arrow (1935)
* The Former Mattia Pascal (1937)
* Who Are You? (1939)
* Two Million for a Smile (1939)
* Annabella's Adventure (1943)
* Adam and Eve (1949)
* Passionate Song (1953)
* Beatrice Cenci (1956)
# Honeycreeper (disambiguation)

Honeycreeper is a term for several sorts of songbirds:
* The "true honeycreepers" are three genera in the tanager family.
** Cyanerpes, four species of typical honeycreepers
** Chlorophanes, the green honeycreeper
** Iridophanes, the golden-collared honeycreeper
* Hawaiian honeycreepers, a group of birds in the finch family
Honeycreeper may also refer to:
# Cercospora solani-tuberosi

Cercospora solani-tuberosi is a fungal plant pathogen.
# Stephanie de Montalk

Stephanie de Montalk (born 1945) is a poet and biographer from New Zealand.

## Background

Born in 1945, in New Zealand, de Montalk grew up in the Far North and Wellington. She trained at Wellington Hospital School of Nursing and received and MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington. She has worked as a nurse, documentary filmmaker, and from 1996–2002 member of the New Zealand Film and Literature Board of Review.

## Works

Published works by de Montalk include:
* Five Poems (1989, chapbook), poetry
* Animals Indoors (2000, Victoria University Press), poetry
* The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang (2002, Victoria University Press), poetry
* Cover Stories (2005, Victoria University Press), poetry
* The Fountain of Tears (2006, Victoria University Press), historical novel
* Vivid Familiar (2009, Victoria University Press), poetry
de Montalk has also published in various literary journals including Landfall, Southerly, London Magazine, and New Zealand Listener. Her poems have also been published in the 2005 the Best New Zealand Poems series.
In 2001, she published a biography of her second-cousin Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk entitled, Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk.
Following an accident in 2003, de Montalk's writing has often explored concepts of isolation and exile. In her 2014 creative nonfiction work, How Does It Hurt? she explores ideas around chronic pain, both her own and the experiences of other writers.
In 2007, an engraving of her poem, Violinist at the Edge of an Ice Field was erected at the Franz Josef Glacier visitor centre.

## Awards

In 1997, while studying at the Victoria University of Wellington de Montalk was a joint winner of the Original Composition prize. Also in 1997, her short story 'The Waiting' was a joint winner of the Novice Writers' Award in the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Awards.
In 2001 her collection Animals Indoors won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
In 2006 she was the Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence.
How Does It Hurt? won the Nigel Cox Award from Unity Books in 2015.
# The Voice of the Heart (1943 film)

The Voice of the Heart (Greek: Η φωνή της καρδιάς) is a 1943 Greek drama film directed by Dimitris Ioannopoulos and starring Aimilios Veakis, Dimitris Horn and Ketty Panou. It was one of only of a handful of Greek films produced during the Occupation of Greece during the Second World War. Location shooting took place around Kifissia in Athens. It enjoyed great success with audiences and critics.

## Synopsis

After many years in prison a man returns to his old house, hoping to meet the daughter he has never known while she has been growing up.

## Cast

* Aimilios Veakis as Spyros
* Dimitris Horn as Petros
* Ketty Panou as Lila
* Labros Konstadaras as Tzortzis
* Alekos Livaditis as Alexis
* Nitsa Tsaganea as Stella
* Pantelis Zervos
* Nikos Matthaios
* Smaroula Giouli
* Vana Filippidou
* Stelios Vokovich
* Sotiria Iatridou
* Smaro Veaki
* Giannis Kondoulis
* Eleni Halkousi
* Vana Theohary
# Late-inning pressure situation

A late-inning pressure situation is a baseball statistic developed by the Elias Sports Bureau in their annual book The 1985 Elias Baseball Analyst to determine if "clutch hitters" exist. This question was first posed by Richard D. Cramer in his article "Do Clutch Hitters Exist?" published in the 1977 edition of The Baseball Research Journal. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, a Late Inning Pressure Situation is "any at-bat in the seventh inning or later, with the batter's team trailing by three runs or less (or four runs if the bases were loaded)." Development of the late inning pressure situation coincides with an increased attempt to reflect an individual's accomplishments in baseball statistics. In the case of the late inning pressure situation, it attempts to quantify the subjective term "clutch".
# 1996 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 76 kg

The 1996 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from 3 May to 11 May. The women's competition in the 76 kilograms division was staged on 9 May 1996.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Snatch | Li Yan (CHN) | 97.5 kg | Mária Takács (HUN) | 95.0 kg | Theresa Brick (CAN) | 95.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Li Yan (CHN) | 127.5 kg | Mária Takács (HUN) | 120.0 kg | Panagiota Antonopoulou (GRE) | 120.0 kg |
| Total | Li Yan (CHN) | 225.0 kg | Mária Takács (HUN) | 215.0 kg | Panagiota Antonopoulou (GRE) | 210.0 kg |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Hua Ju (CHN) | 105.5 kg | Hiroshima, Japan | 5 October 1994 |
| World Record | Clean & Jerk | Zhang Guimei (CHN) | 140.0 kg | Shilong, China | 18 December 1993 |
| World Record | Total | Zhang Guimei (CHN) | 235.0 kg | Shilong, China | 18 December 1993 |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total |
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | Total |
| | Li Yan (CHN) | 74.95 | 95.0 | 97.5 | 106.5 | | 122.5 | 127.5 | — | | 225.0 |
| | Mária Takács (HUN) | 74.55 | 95.0 | 97.5 | 97.5 | | 120.0 | 122.5 | 122.5 | | 215.0 |
| | Panagiota Antonopoulou (GRE) | 75.50 | 90.0 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 7 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 125.0 | | 210.0 |
| 4 | Theresa Brick (CAN) | 75.90 | 95.0 | 97.5 | 97.5 | | 115.0 | 120.0 | 120.0 | 6 | 210.0 |
| 5 | Olga Glaz (RUS) | 71.80 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 95.0 | 6 | 110.0 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 4 | 205.0 |
| 6 | Sumita Laha (IND) | 75.80 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 90.0 | 8 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 122.5 | 5 | 205.0 |
| 7 | Stacey Ketchum (USA) | 75.85 | 85.0 | 87.5 | 90.0 | 10 | 110.0 | 112.5 | 115.0 | 7 | 200.0 |
| 8 | Mónica Carrió (ESP) | 71.05 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 92.5 | 5 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 107.5 | 10 | 195.0 |
| 9 | Filippia Kochliaridou (GRE) | 75.10 | 82.5 | 87.5 | 90.0 | 9 | 102.5 | 107.5 | 110.0 | 8 | 195.0 |
| 10 | Arlys Johnson (USA) | 75.90 | 82.5 | 87.5 | 87.5 | 11 | 102.5 | 107.5 | 110.0 | 9 | 195.0 |
| 11 | Margarita Rojas (COL) | 75.15 | 75.0 | 80.0 | 85.0 | 12 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 11 | 180.0 |
| — | Derya Açikgöz (TUR) | 75.35 | 92.5 | 92.5 | 97.5 | 4 | 122.5 | 122.5 | 122.5 | — | — |
# Tenasserim Island

Tenasserim Island is an island in the Mergui Archipelago, Burma (Myanmar). It is located at the northwestern end of the archipelago 15 km to the south of Kabosa Island. 494 m high, Tenasserim Peak is the highest peak of this steep and thickly wooded island. It is a 10 km long and irregularly shaped island.
# 1995 Drake Bulldogs football team

The 1995 Drake Bulldogs football team represented Drake University as a member of the Pioneer Football League (PFL) during the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by third-year head coach Rob Ash, the Bulldogs compiled an overall record of 8–1–1 with a mark of 5–0 in conference play, winning the PFL title. The team played its home games at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
| September 2 | 1:00 p.m. | Missouri Western* | Drake StadiumDes Moines, IA | T 19–19 | 3,015 |
| September 9 | 1:00 p.m. | St. Ambrose* | Drake StadiumDes Moines, IA | W 23–0 | 2,306 |
| September 16 | 1:00 p.m. | at Wisconsin–LaCrosse* | Veterans Memorial StadiumLa Crosse, WI | L 7–14 | 4,167 |
| September 23 | 1:00 p.m. | at Aurora* | Vago FieldAurora, IL | W 37–7 | 5,850 |
| September 30 | 1:00 p.m. | at Butler | Butler BowlIndianapolis, IN | W 29–8 | 4,912 |
| October 7 | 1:00 p.m. | Evansville | Drake StadiumDes Moines, IA | W 23–6 | 4,170 |
| October 14 | 1:00 p.m. | at Valparaiso | Brown FieldValparaiso, IN | W 28–21 | 1,713 |
| October 21 | 1:00 p.m. | Dayton | Drake StadiumDes Moines, IA (rivalry) | W 34–23 | 5,105 |
| October 28 | 1:00 p.m. | at San Diego | Torero StadiumSan Diego, CA | W 9–0 | 2,871 |
| November 11 | 1:00 p.m. | Northwestern (IA)* | Drake StadiumDes Moines, IA | W 28–6 | 2,320 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingAll times are in Central time ||||||
# Tschingel Pass

The Tschingel Pass (2,787 m) is a high mountain pass of the Bernese Alps, connecting Kandersteg with Stechelberg in the Bernese Oberland. It is the lowest pass between the upper Kandertal and the valley of Lauterbrunnen. The pass is glaciated and separated the Kander Glacier from the Tschingel Glacier. It lies between the Blüemlisalp and the Tschingelhorn and is overlooked by the Mutthorn.
# Trox antiquus

Trox antiquus is an extinct species of hide beetle in the subfamily Troginae.
# Vinberg's algorithm

In mathematics, Vinberg's algorithm is an algorithm, introduced by Ernest Borisovich Vinberg, for finding a fundamental domain of a hyperbolic reflection group.
Conway (1983) used Vinberg's algorithm to describe the automorphism group of the 26-dimensional even unimodular Lorentzian lattice II$_{25,1}$ in terms of the Leech lattice.

## Description of the algorithm

Let $\Gamma <\mathrm {Isom} (\mathbb {H} ^{n})$ be a hyperbolic reflection group. Choose any point $v_{0}\in \mathbb {H} ^{n}$; we shall call it the basic (or initial) point. The fundamental domain $P_{0}$ of its stabilizer $\Gamma _{v_{0}}$ is a polyhedral cone in $\mathbb {H} ^{n}$. Let $H_{1},...,H_{m}$ be the faces of this cone, and let $a_{1},...,a_{m}$ be outer normal vectors to it. Consider the half-spaces $H_{k}^{-}=\{x\in \mathbb {R} ^{n,1}|(x,a_{k})\leq 0\}.$
There exists a unique fundamental polyhedron $P$ of $\Gamma$ contained in $P_{0}$ and containing the point $v_{0}$. Its faces containing $v_{0}$ are formed by faces $H_{1},...,H_{m}$ of the cone $P_{0}$. The other faces $H_{m+1},...$ and the corresponding outward normals $a_{m+1},...$ are constructed by induction. Namely, for $H_{j}$ we take a mirror such that the root $a_{j}$ orthogonal to it satisfies the conditions
(1) $(v_{0},a_{j})<0$;
(2) $(a_{i},a_{j})\leq 0$ for all $i<j$;
(3) the distance $(v_{0},H_{j})$ is minimum subject to constraints (1) and (2).
# How Ace Are Buildings

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How Ace Are Buildings is the debut album by British alternative rock band A, released in 1997.
The album was re-released in 1998, in cassette and Limited Edition 12" formats. Whereas the cassette featured the same tracks, the 12" album also included a bonus disc, featuring A remixes and live tracks.
The vinyl edition was limited to 500 copies.

## Track listing

* "Turn It Up" – 1:33
* "Foghorn" – 3:04
* "Cheeky Monkey" – 3:36
* "Number One" – 3:50
* "Bad Idea" – 2:21
* "Sing-A-Long" – 4:20
* "Winter of '96" – 5:28
* "Out of Tune" – 4:19
* "Fistral" – 3:59
* "House Under the Ground" – 4:01
* "Five in the Morning" – 3:14
* "Ender" – 18:07
* Contains a hidden track at 14:49
"Number One" features a portion of lyrics taken from Billy Joel's 1978 track "My Life". Joel was name-checked in the credits as a result. The "borrowed" lyrics are:
       "Got a call from an old friend, used to be real close
       Said he couldn't go on the American way
       Sold his house, sold his car
       Bought a ticket to the West Coast
       Now he gives 'em a stand-up routine in L.A."
"Cheeky Monkey" features a sample of the actor/comedian John Thomson using the phrase "oh, you cheeky monkey" - this is taken from Thomson's appearance on Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge in character as Joe Beesley, an inept ventriloquist with a puppet monkey.

## Bonus vinyl Track listing

* "Turn It Down"
* "Number One (Happy Valley Ranch Mix)"
* "Alright (Live)"
* "Bad Idea (Live)"
* "Sing-A-Long (Post Term Audit Mix)"
* "Five in the Morning (DJ Mental Visuals Mix)"
* "Foghorn (Live)"
* "Barnyard"
* "Demolished House" (b-side to foghorn, also remix of House Under The Ground)
* "Callhimin"
* "Cheeky Monkey (Live)"
* "Fistral (Major Threat Mix)"
* "Out of Tune" (Live)

## Singles

Five in the Morning (TYCD 1)
* "Five in the Morning" - 3:13
* "8 Fingers" - 2:26
* "Almost Everything Is Great" - 5:29
House Under The Ground (TYCD 2)
* "House Under The Ground" - 4:01
* "40" - 2:30
* "Demolished House" - 5:22
Bad Idea (TYCD 3)
* "Bad Idea" – 2:16
* "Look What You Made Me Do" – 3:12
* "40" – 2:30
Number One (TYCD 4)
* "Number One (Radio Edit)" - 3:22
* "Alright" - 2:41
* "Ouch!" - 4:00
* "Number One" - 3:50
Foghorn (TYCD 5)
* "Foghorn" – 3:07
* "Last Girl" – 4:24
* "A Demolished House" – 5:22
Number One
* CD1　(TYCD 6):
* "Number One" – 3:21
* "Good Idea" – 2:18
* "Alright" – 2:41
* "Sasquatch" – 2:52
* CD2 (TYCDP 6):
* "Number One" – 3:51 (+30)
* "Ouch" – 4:02
* "Number One" – 6:15 (Happy Valley Ranch Mix)
* "Foghorn" – 3:06
* "Foghorn" (Video)
Sing-A-Long
* CD1 (TYCD 7):
* "Sing-A-Long (Radio Edit)" - 3:41
* "I'm Over It" - 1:47
* "Callhimin" - 5:02
* "Photo Finger" - 3:58
* CD2 (TYCDP 7):
* "Sing-A-Long" – 4:19
* "Sing-A-Long" – 4:22 (Post Team Audit Mix)
* "Singing Out of Tune" – 3:49 (In A Castle)
* "Number One" – 3:22 (Radio Edit)
* "Number One" (Video)
# Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games – Women's shot put

The final of the Women's Shot Put event at the 2003 Pan American Games took place on Thursday August 7, 2003. Cuba's winner, Yumileidi Cumbá, was the only woman to cross the 19-metres barrier.

## Medalists

| Gold | Yumileidi Cumbá Cuba |
| Silver | Elisângela Adriano Brazil |
| Bronze | Fior Vásquez Dominican Republic |

## Records

| World Record | Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 22.63 m | June 7, 1987 | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Pan Am Record | María Elena Sarría (CUB) | 19.34 m | August 28, 1983 | Caracas, Venezuela |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Result |
| Rank | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Result |
| 1 | Yumileidi Cumbá (CUB) | 18.30 | 19.14 | 18.98 | X | 18.96 | 19.31 | 19.31 m |
| 2 | Elisângela Adriano (BRA) | 18.48 | X | 18.27 | X | X | X | 18.48 m |
| 3 | Fior Vásquez (DOM) | 17.73 | 17.76 | 18.00 | 16.63 | 15.76 | 18.14 | 18.14 m |
| 4 | Misleydis González (CUB) | 17.90 | X | 17.99 | X | 17.75 | 17.52 | 17.99 m |
| 5 | Laura Gerraughty (USA) | 17.24 | 17.09 | X | X | 17.33 | X | 17.33 m |
| 6 | Cleopatra Borel (TRI) | 16.18 | 17.23 | 17.11 | X | X | X | 17.23 m |
| 7 | Kristin Heaston (USA) | 15.94 | 16.55 | 16.30 | X | X | X | 16.55 m |
| 8 | Marianne Berndt (CHI) | 15.16 | X | 15.37 | X | X | X | 15.37 m |
| 9 | Luz Dary Castro (COL) | X | 14.92 | 14.67 | | | | 14.92 m |
# Blue Fin

Blue Fin is a 1978 Australian family film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne. It is based on a 1969 Australian novel written by Colin Thiele.

## Plot

Based on the children's novel by South Australian author Colin Thiele, this is a father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident-prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile his past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Twelve-year-old Steve Pascoe is nicknamed 'Snook' by everyone in Port Lincoln. He's thin and long-faced, like the fish he's named after. At school he's no good at sport and, at home, his father scorns him. Snook joins his father and fellow crewmen on a tuna-fishing expedition, when disaster strikes. It is up to Snook to save himself and his father from a desperate situation.

## Cast

* Hardy Krüger as Bill Pascoe
* Greg Rowe as Steve "Snook" Pascoe
* Liddy Clark as Ruth Pascoe
* Elspeth Ballantyne as Mrs. Pascoe
* John Jarratt as Sam Snell
* Hugh Keays-Byrne as Stan
* George Spartels as Con
* John Frawley
* Terry Camilleri as Truckie

## Production

The film is an unofficial follow up to Storm Boy (1976) with the same writer and star, also adapted from a Colin Thiele novel. The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) did not want to use Henri Safran as director, though, so employed another director from the ABC, Carl Schultz.
The film was shot in Streaky Bay in mid 1978.

### Reshoots

During post production editor Rod Adamson claimed the film would not cut together. Five weeks after filming had completed, Schultz had to leave the film to take up a directing job at the ABC. Accordingly, Matt Carroll of the SAFC called in Bruce Beresford, who was under contract to them, to re-shoot some sequences. Some of these had to be done using a body double for Hardy Kruger since he had returned to Europe. Schultz was supportive of Beresford stepping in but was unhappy with the fact he supervised the final re-cut.

## Proposed Remake

In 2017 it was announced the movie would be remade.

## DVD release

A DVD was released on 1 January 2003.
# Trox capillaris

Trox capillaris is a beetle of the family Trogidae.
# Last Spike (Grand Trunk Pacific Railway)

The Last Spike of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was driven one mile east of Fort Fraser, British Columbia, Canada on April 7, 1914.

## History

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway commenced construction in British Columbia in 1908. This was one of the most difficult sections of track ever to be laid in North America and would cost approximately $112,000 per mile. There were two ends of construction, one being built from Prince Rupert, east and one from Winnipeg, Manitoba, west. In British Columbia, the railway had to cope with incredibly difficult terrain, extreme weather conditions and a shortage of workers. For example, the 186-mile (299 km) section of track from Prince Rupert to Hazelton took four years to complete (1908–1912), in part because the construction of the 80-mile (130 km) section from Prince Rupert to the Kitselas Canyon required 12 million pounds (5,400 t) of explosives that were used in the creation of three tunnels that had to be blasted through solid rock.
The costs of building the railway through the Northern Interior of British Columbia were much higher than the company had projected and disputes with rival town-site holders, especially at Hazelton and Fort George cut even deeper into the company's profits.
Then, in 1912, the Grand Trunk Pacific was dealt another blow when its general manager Charles Melville Hays died in the sinking of the Titanic. Despite these obstacles and tragedies, the railway was completed and the vision of Charles Hays was finally realized.

## Ceremony

On April 7, 1914, the Grand Trunk Pacific Last Spike ceremony was held 1.5 kilometres east of Fort Fraser, BC, approximately 135 kilometres west of what is now Prince George.
The president of the Grand Trunk Pacific, Edson J. Chamberlain and Alfred Waldron Smithers, chairman of the board of directors, and other officers of the company all arrived by train from Winnipeg and Montreal, while from Prince Rupert, more dignitaries came for the ceremony, among these, General Superintendent W.C.C. Mehan, Superintendent G.A. McNichol, Division Engineer C.C. Vanarsdol and Assistant Engineer W.H. Tobey.
The ceremony began with a race between the track-layers and crews from the eastern and western ends of construction. The last mile had been left unfinished and each crew was timed to see who could complete their last half mile the fastest. The eastern crew won by a margin of only a few minutes and then the western crew placed the last rail.
Edson Chamberlain drove the last spike, (not a golden one but a standard black iron one), and once he completed that task, he gave gold watches to the men in charge of each crew. Painted on the last tie was "Point of Completion April 7th, 1914". After the ceremony, that last 11-foot (3.4 m) section of rail was removed and sliced into sections and then polished and engraved. The pieces were given to railway officials as paper-weights. One of these is in the possession of the Prince George Railway and Forestry Museum.