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Victor Noble Rainbird (12 December 1887 – 8 March 1936) was a painter, stained glass artist and illustrator.

Early life and education 
Rainbird was born on 12 December 1887 in North Shields, United Kingdom, son of James William Rainbird (b. Ireland 1856, m. 1884) and Rosabella Foubister (b. 1859). Victor had an elder brother William Stewart Rainbird, born in early 1886 in North Shields.

Rainbird attended King's College (now Newcastle University), Newcastle upon Tyne, where he distinguished himself and won several prizes. His pictures were included in a government exhibition which toured Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He later attended the Royal Academy Schools where he twice won Silver Medals as well as the Landseer Scholarship.

Career 

On 15 July 1916, Rainbird married Elizabeth Kirkley at York Registry Office, whilst he was a Lance Corporal (38539) in the 6th Northumberland Fusiliers. After the war he left as Corporal in the Durham Light Infantry (46585) and practised as a professional artist in North Shields and exhibited works at the Artists of the Northern Counties exhibitions at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and also at the Royal Academy.

Rainbird's work often depicts sights of North Shields (captioned 'In Old Shields' or 'Old Ropery Stairs') and the seafront and sea around North Shields and other Tyne harbours. He made several trips to France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and a large proportion of his work is of continental subjects, impressions of Rouen, Amiens, Dieppe or Dutch fisherfolk. Rarer subjects include stained glass window images, portraits and still life (flowers).

It appears that Rainbird used his paintings to pay his way through life and often seemed to have done paintings to 'pay for his supper'. His work often appears at auctions worldwide, but most commonly at the Newcastle upon Tyne auction house Anderson and Garland, where an average watercolour work of 10 x 14 inches would make around GBP 85.00 (2015) in their quarterly auctions of Fine Art.

It was thought that the only surviving example of stained glass work by the artist can be found in Papa Stour Kirk, on the island of Papa Stour in Shetland. It was commissioned to commemorate six Papa men who were lost in World War I and was fitted in 1921. The window depicts Jesus calming a storm. However, in 2014 a fan of Rainbird found two of his missing stained glass windows in Trinity Methodist Church in Allendale, Northumberland. They depicts an image of Jesus and a soldier. After being lost for over 94 years, Rainbird's stained glass windows had been found again.

Between 1917 and 1933, Rainbird lived at 71 West Percy Street, North Shields. The house has a commemorative blue plaque marking his residence.

Rainbird died on 8 March 1936 in Sunderland.

References

People from North Shields
19th-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English painters
1887 births
1936 deaths
British Impressionist painters
20th-century English male artists
19th-century English male artists
I12 or I-12 may refer to:
 I12 engine
 Interstate 12, a highway in the U.S. state of Louisiana
 
Jönköping Regiment (1816–1927), a Swedish infantry regiment
Småland Regiment (1928–1974), a Swedish infantry regiment

See also
 112 (disambiguation)
HMS Kelvin was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 5 October 1937, launched on 19 January 1939 and commissioned on 27 November 1939 with the pennant number F37.

Service history

Kelvin fought in several theatres during the Second World War. In September 1940, as part of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla she scuttled , which had struck a mine off Texel during the Texel Disaster. In October, she was part of the escort for the battleship  when she shelled Cherbourg.

Under Admiral James Somerville, she was involved at the action off Cape Spartivento on 27 November 1940, and for the next two years she was busy in the Mediterranean Sea, being involved in many engagements.

In May 1941, she bombarded Benghazi in company with the destroyers , ,  and  before heading to Crete on 20 May 1941. She survived the withdrawal with comparatively light casualties, but required repairs and was sent to Bombay during which time her crew had sufficient time to tour India as far north as the Khyber Pass. By March 1942 she was back in the Mediterranean escorting convoy MW10 which took part in the Second Battle of Sirte. Later in the year she was involved in diversionary attacks in support of Operation Pedestal and bombarded Rhodes.

On 16 April 1942, Kelvin landed troops from the 11th Battalion of the Royal Marines at Koufonisi near Crete to destroy a W/T station (Operation Lighter). In December, in company with ,  and , she sank the  off Kerkennah Bank, Tunisia.

In January 1943, she bombarded Zuwara and in company with   was responsible for sinking a variety of Italian supply ships and minesweepers. Then along with Javelin, Kelvin destroyed an Italian convoy on the night of 19 January 1943. Several members of her crew were decorated for their part in destroying enemy ships and aircraft in the Mediterranean.

She returned to the UK for refit in Chatham in July 1943, recommissioning in March 1944. In June 1944 she carried Winston Churchill and various other dignitaries across the English Channel during Operation Overlord. She returned to the Mediterranean and took part in operations to liberate the Dodecanese. She bombarded Tilos and landed a party of Special Boat Service troops in November 1944.

Post-war fate
Unlike many of the other J-, K- and N-class destroyers, Kelvin survived the war and was sold for scrap on 6 April 1949 and broken up at Troon in Scotland.

Battle honours
Atlantic (1940)
Spartivento (1940)
Crete (1941)
Mediterranean (1941–43)
Sirte (1942)
Malta Convoys (1942)
Normandy (1944)
Aegean (1944)

Notes

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J, K and N-class destroyers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Govan
1939 ships
World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom
Edmund Lionel Penning-Rowsell (1913–2002) was a British journalist considered  the doyen of Britain's writers on wine, and possibly the world's longest-serving wine correspondent.

Biography
Rowsell came from an upper middle class London family. Canon Thomas Rowsell was his second great uncle by blood and the architect Sir Charles Barry was his second great uncle through marriage. During the Depression years, his father's printing business went bankrupt, his education at Marlborough was cut short. He joined The Morning Post of London in 1930, and in 1935 he moved into publishing.

His interest in wine was stimulated by a wedding gift in 1937 of membership of the Wine Society, his love for wine sparked by a tasting of the 1923 Château Talbot. He later became the Wine Society's longest-serving chairman, from 1964 to 1987. Aided by those in the trade he gradually built up his knowledge and wine came to dominate his life.

In 1954, he started writing a column about wine for Country Life, the first of many such enterprises. For 23 years, he was a wine columnist for Financial Times, and also wrote wine articles for Marxism Today.  His speciality was the wines of Bordeaux, where his expertise was recognised, and which provided the subject of his magnum opus The Wines of Bordeaux, considered a masterpiece of research.

Michael Broadbent noted that Penning-Rowsell had one of the best private wine collections in England. Working with Broadbent, he became an adviser on wine to auctioneers Christie's, and regularly reported on wine auction results.

Penning-Rowsell was awarded by the French government the Ordre National du Mérite Agricole in 1971 and the Ordre du Mérite National in 1981. He was known for using the phrase, "Speaking as a man of the Left"

Bibliography
 Red, White and Rosé (1967)
 The Wines of Bordeaux (1969)
 Château Latour: The History of a Great Vineyard 1331-1992 (1993)

See also
List of wine personalities

References

1913 births
2002 deaths
British male journalists
Wine critics
People educated at Marlborough College
Recipients of the Order of Agricultural Merit
Levi Murray Curren (December 16, 1873 – December 11, 1945) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a member of the Liberal party, representing Saint John County.

References

20th-century Canadian legislators
1873 births
1945 deaths
New Brunswick Liberal Association MLAs
Doin' My Thang refers to:

"Doin' My Thang", a song by Zion I from True & Livin'
"Doin' My Thang", a song by Shanice from her self-titled album
Ponta Moreia is the northernmost point of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is about 2 km north of the nearest village, Fazenda, and around 5 km north of Tarrafal.

There is a lighthouse near the headland, Farol de Ponta Moreia. It is an 8 metres high tower, with a focal plane of 97 meters above sea level.

References

Headlands of Cape Verde
Geography of Santiago, Cape Verde
Tarrafal Municipality
Brookfield Township is located in LaSalle County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,060 and it contained 433 housing units.

Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which  (or 93.05%) is land and  (or 6.95%) is water.

Demographics

References

External links 
US Census
City-data.com
Illinois State Archives

Townships in LaSalle County, Illinois
Populated places established in 1849
Townships in Illinois
1849 establishments in Illinois
Partners of the Plains is a 1938 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Harrison Jacobs. The film stars William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Harvey Clark, Gwen Gaze, Hilda Plowright and John Warburton. The film was released on January 28, 1938, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

Lorna Drake (Gwen Gaze), is an aristocratic British girl and Hoppy's (William Boyd) new employer. When Cassidy refuses to be ordered, Lorna has him arrested for horse stealing. The dumbfounded sheriff (Earle Hodgins) is even more puzzled when Miss Drake turns right around and demands that Hoppy be released into her custody.

Cast
 William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy
 Russell Hayden as Lucky Jenkins
 Harvey Clark as Baldy Morton
 Gwen Gaze as Lorna Drake
 Hilda Plowright as Aunt Martha
 John Warburton as Ronald Harwood
 Al Bridge as Scar Lewis
 Al Hill as Doc Galer
 Earle Hodgins as Sheriff 
 John Beach as Mr. Benson

References

External links 
 
 
 
 

1938 films
1930s English-language films
American Western (genre) films
1938 Western (genre) films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by Lesley Selander
Hopalong Cassidy films
American black-and-white films
1930s American films
Chafing fuel is a fuel used for heating food, typically placed under a chafing dish. It is usually sold in a small canister and burned directly within that canister, with or without a wick.

The fuel often contains methanol, ethanol, or diethylene glycol, as these may be burned safely indoors, and produce minimal soot or odour.  These fuels are also used for emergency heating, outdoor cooking, and fondue.

Types of fuel

The first two fuels are similar with regard to consistency (both having a gel form though viscosities can vary with brand), operating procedures, and product design. The common gel methanol or ethanol chafing fuel is contained in a steel can with a resealable plug lid in sizes based on burn times. Two-, four-, and six-hour burn times are the most common sizes of methanol and ethanol chafing fuels available. The colour of the fuel being used can also vary among manufacturers.

Both ethanol and methanol have low flash points, 11–17 °C, making them highly flammable; diethylene glycol, with a flash point of 154 °C, is considered safer because spilled DEG fuel will not combust; it needs a wick to burn. The fuel is in a liquid form and thus the canister in which it is contained usually differs by having a more leak resistant screw cap rather than a plug.

Comparison of energy yield
Ethanol has a heat of combustion of 22.28 kJ/mL, similar to the 22.7 kJ/mL energy yield of diethylene glycol. Methanol is slightly less energetic, yielding 17.94 kJ/mL.

See also
Sterno

References

Alcohols
Liquid fuels
Mark Fell may refer to:
 Mark Fell (cricketer)
 Mark Fell (artist)
The High Commission of Canada in Australia is the diplomatic mission of Canada to Australia. It is located on Commonwealth Avenue, near State Circle, in the Australian capital city of Canberra. In addition to responsibility for bilateral relations between Canada and Australia, it is also responsible for relations with several Pacific Island nations, including the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

History

Diplomatic relations between Canada and Australia were formally established in 1939, just as World War II broke out, with the appointment of high commissioners between the two nations. The three-storey chancery was officially opened January 30, 1964 by the Prime Minister of Australia, the Right Honourable Sir Robert Menzies. In 1994, the chancery was expanded to include a two-storey wing at the rear of the building. The new extension was opened by the Honourable Raymond Chan, Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific), on August 4, 1994. The High Commission currently has a complement of about 40-45 personnel, including Canada-based staff and locally engaged employees.

Since 1950 the High Commissioner's Official Residence has been an elegant mansion on Mugga Way in Canberra's historic Red Hill Conservation Area. The current High Commissioner is His Excellency Mr. Mark Glauser who was appointed on August 28, 2019.

The primary services offered at the High Commission in Canberra relate to helping companies do business with Canada, helping Canadian companies do business with Australia, furthering defence relations, and providing assistance to Canadians in the following Australian states: Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. It also provides development cooperation services for the Pacific Islands.

Canada also maintains a Consulate General in Sydney, NSW currently headed by Miss Angela Bogdan, with six Canada-based staff and 34 local employees. It is chiefly concerned with providing visa, immigration, and consular services for Canadians in the following states: New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory. The mission has a much greater focus on cultural events given Sydney's national prominence in that sector.  Canada also has Honorary Consuls in Perth, WA, and Melbourne, VIC.

References

External links 
 Official site
 Canada-Pacific Islands bilateral relations

See also 
 Canadian-Australian relations
 Canada-New Zealand relations
 High Commission of Australia in Ottawa
 

1939 establishments in Australia
Australia–Canada relations
Canada
Canberra
Australia and the Commonwealth of Nations
Canada and the Commonwealth of Nations
Bruce Craig Threadgill (born May 7, 1956 in Nocona, Texas) was a quarterback for the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and the United States Football League.  He played safety (and briefly in one game at quarterback) for the San Francisco 49ers in 1978 and was claimed off waivers by the New York Giants in 1979, but was released before the season began. He played quarterback for the Calgary Stampeders from 1979-1982 and the Houston Gamblers from 1984-1985.

References

External links
Houston Gamblers bio

1956 births
American football quarterbacks
Canadian football quarterbacks
San Francisco 49ers players
Calgary Stampeders players
People from Nocona, Texas
Mississippi State Bulldogs football players
Houston Gamblers players
Living people
The Truth About Diamonds is a 2005 novel written by Nicole Richie.

Plot
The novel tells the story of Chloe Parker, a woman in her early 20s who had been adopted at the age of seven by a music superstar and his wife, and who now associates with Hollywood celebrities. What had followed was a wild childhood distinguished by parties with movie stars and rock idols, run-ins with the press and the police, and a subsequent stint in rehab.

When Chloe shoots to instant fame as a spokesmodel for a national ad campaign, her long-lost birth father appears out of nowhere, her best friend betrays her, and she has to struggle to keep it all together—her sobriety, her friendships, and her integrity—despite the betrayals of those around her. Ultimately, Chloe comes spectacularly into her own, achieving stardom in her own right and finding true love.

See also
Bright Lights, Big City
Junkie (novel)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater

External links
Sample and audio excerpt (Official publisher web page)

2005 American novels
American autobiographical novels
Maxime Le Flaguais is the stage name of Maxime Côté (born 1982), a Canadian actor known for his leading television role as Alexis Labranche in the 2016-21 drama series Les Pays d'en haut and his performance in the 2022 film Rodeo (Rodéo).

The son of actors Michel Côté and Véronique Le Flaguais, he had a number of early acting roles as Maxime Côté before opting in 2010 to use his mother's surname professionally, in a bid to establish his career on his own without the baggage of being judged against his father's status as one of Quebec's most famous actors. His first role credited as Maxime Le Flaguais was in the film Piché: The Landing of a Man (Piché, entre ciel et terre) as the young Robert Piché, with his father playing Piché as an adult.

He received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for his performance in Rodeo.

He has also been an occasional songwriting collaborator with singer-songwriter Beyries, including on the songs "J'aurai cent ans" and "Nous sommes". They received a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination in 2017 for "J'aurai cent ans", and Le Flaguais codirected the music video for "Nous sommes".

In 2022 he directed his first narrative short film, Ourobouros.

Personal life
He is in a relationship with actress Caroline Dhavernas. Their first daughter, Françoise, was born in 2018.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male stage actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
French Quebecers
Male actors from Quebec City
Film directors from Quebec
21st-century Canadian male actors
Practical joke is a mischievous trick played on someone.

Practical Joke may also refer to:

 Practical Joke (1977 film), a romantic drama
 Practical Joke (2008 film), a Russian romantic drama
 Practical Joke (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
 Practical Jokers, a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film

See also
 Practical joker (disambiguation)
Douglas Robert Halward (born November 1, 1955) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 663 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks, Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers. He helped the Bruins reach the 1977 Stanley Cup Finals and the Canucks reach the 1982 Stanley Cup Finals.

Halward was born in Toronto, Ontario. He played junior hockey for the Peterborough Petes. As a youth, he played in the 1968 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Young Nationals minor ice hockey team.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1955 births
Living people
Adirondack Red Wings players
Boston Bruins draft picks
Boston Bruins players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Dallas Black Hawks players
Detroit Red Wings players
Edmonton Oilers players
Ice hockey people from Toronto
Los Angeles Kings players
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
Peterborough Petes (ice hockey) players
Quebec Nordiques (WHA) draft picks
Rochester Americans players
Springfield Indians players
Vancouver Canucks players
Zoltan Hecht (1890–1969) was a Hungarian-born American artist.

Biography
Zoltan Hecht came to the United States with his family when he was 12 years old, and the family settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Hecht studied at the Cleveland School of Art. He moved to New York in 1913. He and his wife, Rosa Hecht (American, born 1890), lived in New York, and together established the New Age Association. The Association included their School for the New Age (1924–1931), established in Saluda, North Carolina. The purpose of the school was to train students in the crafts. An article in Nature Magazine is dedicated to the New Age project and establishes the year of school's beginning as 1924. By 1928, the Hechts were gaining recognition for their New Age hooked rugs. The rugs were fabricated by the School for the New Age, but designed by the Hechts and other artists and designers, including Pola Hoffmann, Hugo Gellert, Ilonka Karasz, Herman Rosse and Herman Trunk. An exhibition of their rugs, along with hooked rugs designed by American artist Ralph Pearson's Design Workshop, was held at the Art Center in 1928. The Hechts also established the New Age Gallery, one of the first co-op galleries in New York City.

Hecht was among the group of avant-garde artists living in New York in the first half of the twentieth century.  He was good friends with the well known artists William and Marguerite Zorach, demonstrated by several portraits of him created by Marguerite.

During his lifetime, Hecht's work was well received.  Art critic Walter Rendall Story took note of his New Age designs in an article for the New York Times.  Two solo exhibitions of his work are noteworthy.  In 1943, his watercolors were on view at the Nicholas M. Acquavella Galleries in New York. In 1981, a retrospective of Hecht's work was held at the Passaic County Community College in New Jersey.

References

1890 births
1969 deaths
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
American textile artists
The Brucknerhaus () is a festival and congress centre in Linz, Austria named after the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. The building was designed by Finnish architects Heikki and Kaija Siren. Its construction took place from 1969 to 1973. It opened on 23 March 1974.

It holds about 200 performances per year, with about 180,000 of total audience. It is home to the International Brucknerfest Linz and the Linzer Klangwolke, two annual musical events.

Brucknerhaus has three main halls:
 Large or Brucknersaal (named after Anton Bruckner): 1,420 seats, standing room for 150
 Middle or Stiftersaal (named after Adalbert Stifter): 352 seats, standing room for 40
 Small or Keplersaal (named after Johannes Kepler): 100–150 seats

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Concert halls in Austria
Anton Bruckner
Music venues completed in 1974
Buildings and structures in Linz
Tourist attractions in Linz
Heikki and Kaija Siren buildings