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Lawrence Somerville Martin Miller (31 March 1923 – 17 December 1996) was a cricketer who played 13 matches of Test cricket for New Zealand between 1953 and 1958, and played Plunket Shield cricket for Central Districts and Wellington.

Cricket career
A tall left-handed batsman, Miller was a late developer who made his first class debut at 27 when Central Districts entered the Plunket Shield for the 1950–51 season. Batting in the middle order he top-scored in the first match with 46, and again in the second match with 64, when Central Districts had their first victory. He did not play in 1951–52, but returned in force in 1952–53: 103 not out against Wellington, 128 not out and 89 not out against Canterbury, 77 and 31 against Otago, and 43 against Auckland, amassing 471 runs at 157.00.

He played in the two Tests later that season against South Africa, making 17, 13 and 44, and was selected to tour South Africa in 1953–54. He failed there though, making only 47 runs in four Tests including four successive ducks. In the Second Test at Johannesburg he was felled by a sharply rising ball from Neil Adcock that struck him over the heart, and was taken to hospital. Although he was not expected to bat again in the innings, he returned to the crease straight from hospital at the fall of the fifth wicket and resisted the bowling for another half-hour. After the tour he found belated form in Australia on the way home, scoring 142 against South Australia and 60 against Victoria.

Miller's highest Test score was 47 (followed by 25 in the second innings) when he opened the batting in a low-scoring game against West Indies at Auckland in 1955–56, and New Zealand finally won a Test match after 26 years of trying. He had hit his highest first-class score earlier that season, 144 against Auckland, as well as scoring 114 for Wellington against the West Indians, having begun playing for Wellington the previous season.

Although he played 13 Tests over five years, Miller made little impact, never passing 50 in an innings, and averaging less than 14 runs per innings. His Test career ended after the damp series in England in 1958, when he completed 1148 runs in first-class matches but again failed in the Tests. Wisden said that "at the age of 35, [he] came too late on his first tour of England ... he knew how to punish the loose ball, but he was not happy against bowling of the highest class."

Miller was one of the leading batsmen in the Plunket Shield in the 1950s: he scored 661 runs at an average of 66.10 for Central Districts, and 1708 runs at 47.44 for Wellington. He won the Redpath Cup for New Zealand batsman of the season in 1952–53, 1956–57 and 1957–58.

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1923 births
1996 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
New Zealand Test cricketers
Central Districts cricketers
Wellington cricketers
Cricketers from New Plymouth
North Island cricketers
John Keenan (1840s–March 18, 1906) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States involving "bravery in scouts and actions against Indians.

Biography
Keenan was born in Ireland, probably in the 1840s, and immigrated to the United States. During the American Civil War, he served with the 38th Ohio Infantry. He then traveled to San Francisco, California, and re-enlisted in the Army in 1866.

By August 1868, Keenan was serving as a private in Company B of the 8th Cavalry Regiment. Over the next two months, his company was constantly engaged in fights against the Hualapai in northwestern Arizona Territory. For his actions during these engagements, Keenan was awarded the Medal of Honor the next year, on July 24, 1869.

Keenan continued to fight in the Indian Wars until 1871. Afterward, he was sent to Fort Stanton, New Mexico, to recover from a wound received in battle. While there, he worked as a groundskeeper and carried out various chores around the fort. During one of these chores, a burning ember hit him in the eyes, leaving him nearly blind. He left the military and lived in Minnesota and Iowa. His exact burial place is uncertain, but is believed to be in or near McIntire, Iowa.

Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Private, Company B, 8th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: Arizona, August to October 1868. Entered service at:------. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 24 July 1869.

Citation:

Bravery in scouts and actions against Indians.

See also

List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars

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1840s births
1906 deaths
Irish emigrants to the United States
United States Army soldiers
American people of the Indian Wars
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
Irish-born Medal of Honor recipients
Irish soldiers in the United States Army
American Indian Wars recipients of the Medal of Honor
USS Chase County (LST-532) was an  built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after counties in Kansas and Nebraska, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

LST-532 was laid down on 24 September 1943 at Evansville, Indiana, by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company; launched on 28 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Fred M. Wyatt; and commissioned on 20 January 1944.

Service history
During World War II, LST-532 was assigned to the European Theater and participated in the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. She loaded troops and equipment including vehicles at Trebah Beach (called Polgwidden in US sources), Helford River, near Falmouth, Cornwall, on 1 June 1944. This location was the most westerly embarkation site for this operation and the distance that they had to travel to rendezvous with the rest of the Operation Neptune fleet meant that these personnel then spent the next 5 days aboard this flat bottomed vessel in the terrible weather conditions that delayed the Overlord landings until 6 June.

Footage taken by a US Army Film Unit on 1 June 1944 shows her together with LSTs 533 and 27 loading at Trebah.

Following the War, she operated with the Service Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. The ship was decommissioned on 8 June 1955 and renamed USS Chase County (LST-532) on 1 July 1955.

On 15 April 1967 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) and served as USNS Chase County (T-LST-532) until struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 10 June 1973. Transferred to the Republic of Singapore in 1973, she was later sold into commercial service as MS Constructors. Her final fate is unknown.
 
LST-532 earned one battle star for World War II service.

References

See also
 Chase County, Kansas
 Chase County, Nebraska

LST-491-class tank landing ships
World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Ships built in Evansville, Indiana
1943 ships
Cornelis Cels (10 June 1778 – 3 March 1859) was a Flemish painter of portraits and religious subjects. He was a professor and director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai (Academy of Fine Arts, Tournai). He was patronized as a portrait painter by the court of The Hague.

Life
Cels was born in Lier in the Duchy of Brabant in 1778. His family was one of the prominent families in Lier.  He initially studied under the sculptor Pompe and then under P.-J. Denis.  He later went to study under the Antwerp painter Andries Cornelis Lens who had settled in Brussels and was then very successful. He studied under Lens from 1795 to 1800.

He travelled to Paris in September 1800 where he worked for a while under fellow Flemish painter Joseph-Benoît Suvée, a Classicist painter.  He then travelled on to Italy where he visited Florence and Naples and then settled in Rome where he remained for seven years. While in Rome, he sent his painting Cincinnatus (current location unknown) to the competition of the Academy of Ghent in 1802 where it won the golden prize. One of his works - a Descent from the Cross (St. Paul's Church, Antwerp) - in the Pantheon in Rome. He had been commissioned to paint the work as replacement for works by Rubens, which had been confiscated by the French occupiers. This work was so admired that he was immediately admitted as member and professor of the prestigious Accademia di San Luca in Rome. During his residence in Rome, he painted many other commissions from Catholic institutions in Flanders and the Netherlands for religious works to replace paintings that had been lost to the French plunder.

He returned to Flanders and lived and worked in Antwerp until 1815. That year he moved to The Hague, the administrative centre of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands of which the Southern Netherlands had become a part in 1815.  Here he enjoyed the patronage of the royal court and was frequently commissioned to paint portraits of the royal family as well as other prominent sitters. He was admitted as a member of the Academy of Antwerp, the Academy of Amsterdam and correspondent of the Institut Néerlandais.

He was appointed in 1820 to the professorship of drawing and director at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai (Academy of Fine Arts, Tournai), positions he held until he resigned in 1827. He subsequently settled in Brussels, where he resided until his death except for a trip to England in 1836.

He was the father of Jean-Michel Cels, a landscape painter, and Josse Cels, an architect, who were trained by their father.

Work
Cornelis was a painter of religious subjects as well as portraits. He also produced a few genre paintings. His work was influenced by the Neo-Classicist style becoming prevalent at the end of the 18th century. His masters Lens and Suvée were both representatives of this style in Flanders.

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1778 births
1859 deaths
Flemish portrait painters
Flemish history painters
People from Lier, Belgium
Belgian painters
Nataša Mihailović Vacić (; born 1972) is a journalist and politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS).

Private career
Mihailović Vacić lives in Belgrade. Before entering political life, she was the editor of the program Šta radite, bre (English: What are you doing?) on Radio Television of Serbia.

Politician
The SDPS has been aligned with the Serbian Progressive Party since 2012 and contested the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list. Mihailović Vacić received the ninetieth position on the list and was elected when it won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.

During the 2016–20 parliament, Mihailović Vacić was a member of the assembly's culture and information committee and the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee, the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, and the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Albania, Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

She received the fiftieth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 parliamentary election and was elected to a second term when the list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates. After the election, she was selected as deputy leader of the SDPS parliamentary group. She is also a member of the defence and internal affairs committee and the culture and information committee, a deputy member of the foreign assembly committee, a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Mauritius, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Albania, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Uzbekistan.

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1972 births
Living people
21st-century journalists
21st-century Serbian women politicians
21st-century Serbian politicians
Serbian women journalists
Serbian television journalists
Women television journalists
Politicians from Belgrade
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean
Social Democratic Party of Serbia politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
The Ravenswood City School District is a public school district headquartered in East Palo Alto, California, US.  The district, in the San Francisco Bay Area, serves the communities of East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park.  Students from this school district who continue on with public schooling matriculate to the Sequoia Union High School District. In 2008-09 it served over 4,500 students.
In 2019-20 student enrollment declined to approximately 3,200 with further enrollment declines projected. In the 2021-22 school year, student enrollment is reported as approximately 2,800.

Schools

Elementary schools
 Belle Haven Elementary (TK, Kindergarten - 5th)
 Costaño School of the Arts (TK, Kindergarten - 5th)
 Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy (TK, Kindergarten - 5th)

Middle school
 Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School (6th - 8th)

References

External links

 
 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation
 Ravenswood Education Foundation
 Ravenswood High School Alumni Network Website

School districts in San Mateo County, California
Ad van 't Veer (24 February 1941 – 21 June 2021) was a Dutch music director and music group co-founder.

Van 't Veer was a main person from 1976 behind "Festival Nieuwe Muziek", a main music festival in Middelburg. He was co-founder of the music group Xenakis Ensemble. From 1984 he was director of the "Stichting Nieuwe Muziek Zeeland" (translated: New Music Zeeland Foundation), for which he remained active until his retirement.

Van 't Veer died on 21 June 2021, aged 80.

References

External links
Van 't Veer at encyclopedievanzeeland.nl

1941 births
2021 deaths
People from Goes
Date of birth missing
Place of death missing
Howard Jacob Goorney (11 May 1921 – 29 March 2007) was a British actor who starred in such programmes as Only Fools and Horses.

He was one of the founder members of Joan Littlewood's 'Theatre Workshop', and wrote The Theatre Workshop Story, published by Methuen - a definitive account of the company's early years, including their move to the Theatre Royal in Stratford East.

He is also known for numerous theatre roles, including Bill Bryden's The Mysteries and Lark Rise to Candleford at the National Theatre in the 1970s and 1980s.

Filmography

References

External links
 

 Obituary in The Guardian
 Obituary in The Independent
 Obituary in The Telegraph
 Obituary in The Times

1921 births
2007 deaths
English male stage actors
English male film actors
English male television actors
Male actors from Manchester
Ronald van der Kemp (born 24 September 1964 in Wijchen, Netherlands) is a Dutch fashion designer and founder of demi-couture fashion house RVDK Ronald van der Kemp, his namesake label.

Early career
Van der Kemp graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art and Design in Amsterdam in 1989 with a BA in fashion design. His early career took him to major fashion cities Paris, Milan and New York, working as creative director, consultant and chief designer for brands including Bill Blass, Barneys New York and Guy Laroche, where he succeeded Elbar Albaz. He also worked alongside Michael Kors as chief designer of ready-to-wear at Celine. It was in these years as a consultant that van der Kemp honed his technical expertise.

Own label
In August 2014 van der Kemp launched his demi-couture label, RVDK Ronald van der Kemp, presenting his first ‘wardrobe’ during the Paris haute couture calendar in 2015. Shunning the fashion system’s way of doing things, van der Kemp’s proposed ‘wardrobe’ consisted of a selection of limited-edition items that were seasonless and timeless, ethically made with existing fabrics, and crafted by hand in small ateliers in Amsterdam.

Net-a-Porter, the luxury ecommerce group, was the first retailer to buy van der Kemp’s demi-couture collection, which has since been worn by celebrities including Selena Gomez, Kate Moss, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Dakota Johnson, Adriana Lima and Karlie Kloss.

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1964 births
Living people
Brand founders
Dutch fashion designers
Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni
People from Wijchen
Greniera is a genus of flies in the family Simuliidae.

Greniera may also refer to:

 Greniera (plant), a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae; synonym of Arenaria
 Greniera, a small village located in Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The siege of Sélestat was a siege, extending from 20 to 24 October 1870, of the French Alsatian fortress of Sélestat, during the Franco-Prussian War. After artillery bombardment by the Germans, the siege ended when the French army surrendered, mainly because the French garrison was demoralized. The Germans suffered only minor losses, while this victory brought them many spoils.

History

Background 
The task of capturing Sélestat and Neu-Breisach was assigned to the newly formed 4th Reserve Division under the command of General . At Sélestat, the French army garrison of troops consisted mainly of soldiers of the Garde Mobile. When the Germans were unable to quickly force the surrender of the French forces at Neu-Breisach, Von Schmeling focused on besieging Sélestat.

Siege 
During the siege, De Reinach de Foussemagne was in charge of defending Sélestat. The resistance there was modest when the German army's 4th Reserve Division, under Von Schmeling, which consisted of forces of the Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Bavaria, and the Grand Duchy of Baden.

After De Reinach de Foussemagne declined to surrender, the German Army gradually brought in the materiel needed for a siege (e.g. artillery) and strengthened its positions. German shelling began during the night of 19 October and continued the following day. During the night of 21 October 1870, the infantry advanced about 400 paces up the gentle slope in front of the fortress. The German army then began construction of its first trench, located opposite the Colmar gate, placing several dozen cannon to the rear. The resistance of the French garrison during the following night diminished.

French surrender 
On 22 October a fierce artillery battle broke out. The town was in ruins in several places, and eventually the French artillery exhausted its ammunition. That night, the German batteries continued their artillery attack. In addition, German forces built a second trench. On the morning of 24 October, the French raised a white flag. That afternoon, the French surrender was arranged, and De Reinach de Foussemagne asked the Germans to move in and take over the town, which was in turmoil because of drunken French soldiers. The German forces restored order, and the French garrison became German prisoners of war. Von Schmeling entered the town the next day, amid the ringing of church bells.

Aftermath 
The German victory in the Siege of Strasbourg enabled them to capture fortresses such as Sélestat, Neu-Breisach, Mortier, Belfort as well as Lower Alsace. The fall of Sélestat (a few days before Metz), along with Soissons, Verdun, Neu-Breisach, was part of a series of victories by German forces over a few weeks' time.

Von Schmeling carried out a vigorous siege of Breisach, which surrendered in early November 1870.

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1870 in France
Conflicts in 1870
Sélestat
Battles involving Prussia
Battles involving Bavaria
Battles involving the Grand Duchy of Baden
Battles involving France
October 1870 events
The cuisine of Gascony is one of the pillars of French cuisine. Its originality stems from its use of regional products and from an age-old tradition, typical of the Aquitane and the Midi-Pyrenees, of cooking in fat, in particular goose and duck fat, whereas the cuisine of the south of France favours frying in oil and the cuisine of Normandy contains more dishes that are simmered or cooked in butter. The long life expectancy of Gascons, despite a rich diet, is a classic example of the French paradox.

Main elements

The cuisine of Gascony is characterised by the use of regional products such as duck fat and duck foie gras, salted ham, and the famous mild chilli of Gascony.  Common condiments are Bezolles mustard, garlic, persillade, and onion.  The cèpe mushroom is frequently eaten; Tricholoma equestre was traditionally eaten but is now considered poisonous after several cases of rhabdomyolysis were linked to its consumption.  Larks and the common wood pigeon are commonly eaten game birds; the ortolan, previously commonly eaten, has been a protected species since 1999.  Coastal seafood includes oysters, peppery furrowshells, eel elvers, lampreys, and shad.

Commonly consumed wine includes clarets (rosés) and tannic reds, the most important being Bordeaux wine (cabernets and merlot), but also Madiran wines (tannat and cabernets), the most tannic and well suited to the local food.  Dessert wines, ideal with brioche, chestnuts and foie gras, are usually those local to Bordeaux (Sauternes and Béarn (Jurançon AOC et Pacherenc). Côtes de Gascogne and Armagnac are used in cooking, and to flavour tourtières.

Rural family gatherings will often include grilled chestnuts with a glass of vin bourru (sweet and in the process of fermentation, sold with no cork), as well as roste, grilled bread, rubbed with garlic or with tjonque (a sauce made from the leftover juices of pan-fried duck).

Soups

 Garbure

Entrées

 Foie gras, either candied or fried fresh in cutlet form
 Landaise salad, which is characterised by its use of duck breast and gizzards
 Smoked duck breast
 Bayonne ham
 Crépinettes of Bordeaux
 Baby eels
 Sanquette, a fried dish made from lamb blood, garlic, sweet onions, parsley and pancetta

Main course 

 Chalosse beef
 Duck confit
 Duck breast
 Pigeon stew
 Stew made from Gascon pig
 Omelette using sweet Gascon chillies 
 Omelette using cep mushrooms (Boletus edulis)
 Lampreys "à la Bordelaise" (cooked in a dark sauce, made from Lamprey blood)
 "Tricandilles" (boiled porc tripe, grilled on a barbecue)
 "Millas" a tart made from corn flour with a savoury accompaniment

Cheese
 "Amou", a sheep's cheese, made in the Amou region

Desserts

 "Pastis landais", a cake flavoured with orange blossom, vanilla and rum
 Canelés
 Tourtière, a tart with apples or prunes
 Croustade, decorated with puff pastry
 "Cruchades", fried corn cakes
 "Millas" with sweet accompaniments

See also 

 Occitan cuisine
 Basque cuisine

Bibliography 
 Rémy Constans, Gastronomie gasconne à la Belle Époque, Association de livres en livres, Bon-Encontre, 1998
 Jean-Claude Ulian, Gascons à table, Art-Média, 2004

Notes 

French cuisine by region
Gascony