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Tijesna zemlja: roman iz istarskog narodnog života ("Narrow Land," or "Tight Country: A Story from Istrian Folk Life") is a novel by Croatian author Mijo Mirković. Mirković is best known as Mate Balota, and he published this novel under that pen name.

The novel tells the story of the life of people on a small piece of Istrian land. Through 20 chapters "the seasons change, people, births, deaths, changes happen, life happens." The action takes place in the area of the village of Rakalj, in southeastern Istria. Described as "an economic and social study of the Istrian villages in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century," and "an indirect autobiography," the novel follows the history of an Istrian family through three generations, from 1870 to 1941. Although it wasn't well received in the 1940s, the book later became a cult among Istrian Croats.

Analysis
With this novel Mirković sought to portray those people "who were not recorded in historical annals," people who nevertheless did play their roles, some of them taking an active part in shaping history, and some doing so passively. These are "little people who, in the whirlwind of time and the changes it brings, try to find their place under the sun." The people are plagued by the dramas of their country and their own family. The characters of the novel strike a chord in the reader. The reader's bond to the characters grows as the plot unfolds. It has been said of Mirković that "older Istrians can find [in his poems] their youth or the youth of their parents and grandparents as they described it in [their anecdotes transmitted orally]."

The story of the "little men" quietly wins the sympathy of the reader. There are "processions, joy, but also the saddest moments" that alternate in their lives, with each character in the novel portrayed on several levels. The narrator speaks in Croatian, but the characters use the dialect of southeastern Istria.

The novels echoes folk songs and rural conversations, as well as "solitary reflections on man, labor, God, justice and the changes to come." The novel portrays the socioeconomic situation and rural life of old Istria.

References

External links
 Tijesna zemlja at Lektire

1946 Croatian novels
Croatian fiction
Realist novels
The Empire Theatre was a live music venue in Sydney for a few years before 1929 when it became a cinema. Around 1940 it had a dual role and by 1950 it was hosting various kinds of stage shows, increasingly musicals, and was finally destroyed by fire.

History

The theatre was designed by Kaberry and Chard, and built by R. P. Blundell as a music hall for a syndicate led by leading bookmaker Rafe Naylor. The site was a  block on the Bijou Lane corner of Quay Street ("Saunders' Corner"), Railway Square, near the side entrance to Central Station.
It opened on 1 May 1927 with the new Jerome Kern musical Sunny, followed by The Student Prince.

By this time stage musicals as public entertainment had been largely usurped by "talkies" and the theatre was reconfigured as a talking picture house around June 1929. It was one of the few Sydney cinemas independent of the General Theatres Corporation / Fullers' Theatres combination, so showing few "first release" films, until management signed up with RKO, and with Paramount Pictures, who already had an arrangement with Prince Edward Theatre.

During World War II, the Empire again hosted live performances, mounted by the A.I.F. Entertainment Unit interspersed with regular movie programmes.

From 1950 the Empire was used by "The Firm" of  J. C. Williamson's for minor attractions: "The Great Franquin" (a stage hypnotist), a season of Gilbert and Sullivan favorites, — and ballet performances, hosting a three-week season of the National Ballet Company of Melbourne, which included the world premiere of Corroboree, with its composer John Antill conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Other ballet companies followed, culminating in the Borovansky Ballet in 1952.

In 1953 "The Firm" announced a major refit and facelift for the old theatre, leading to calls (around the time of the Coronation of Elizabeth II) for it to be renamed "Her Majesty's Theatre".
The suggestion was taken up much later, when the musical My Fair Lady was being staged there.

The building was destroyed by fire in the early 1960s.

References 

1927 establishments in Australia
Cinemas in Sydney
Former theatres in Sydney
Burned theatres
Former cinemas
Francesco Colasuonno (2 January 1925 – 31 May 2003) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as a Vatican diplomat for more than two decades. He had the personal title of archbishop and at the end of his service became a cardinal.

Biography
Colasuonno was born in Grumo Appula, Bari, Italy. He was ordained a priest 1947 and then taught for more than a decade in the seminary in Bari while earning doctorates in theology and canon law.

He served in the office of the Holy See's Secretariat of State beginning in 1958 and then in the Vatican diplomatic corps. After working in the United States from 1962 to 1967 and then in India and Republic of China (also known as Taiwan nowadays), his assignments included apostolic delegate to Mozambique from 1974 to 1981; pro-nuncio to Zimbabwe from 1981 to 1985; pro-nuncio to Yugoslavia from 1985 to 1986; papal envoy for Eastern Europe from 1986 to 1990; nuncio to the Soviet Union (and its successor, the Russian Federation) from 1990 to 1994, and nuncio to Italy from 1994 to 1998.He was the first Apostolic Delegate to Mozambique and the first papal nuncio to the Soviet Union. His work in Eastern Europe coincided with the special interest the Vatican took in the region under John Paul II and the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. Much of his work involved locating communities of Catholics that had survived under communism and in persuading governments to permit the Vatican to reestablish churches and especially to appoint bishops. After years of negotiation, he consecrated three bishops in Czechoslovakia in 1988. To locate Catholics in Vladivostok, he walked around the city in his cassock to make himself known.

He was named Titular Archbishop of Truentum in 1975 and consecrated in February. Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal at a consistory on 21 February 1998. He retired that year.

He died in his birthplace, Grumo Appula, on 31 May 2003. He was entombed in the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Bari.

References

External links
Vatican Biography, 31 May 2003

20th-century Italian cardinals
People from the Province of Bari
1925 births
2003 deaths
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II
Pontifical Gregorian University alumni
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni
Apostolic Nuncios to Poland
Apostolic Nuncios to Italy
Apostolic Nuncios to Mozambique
Apostolic Nuncios to Yugoslavia
Apostolic Nuncios to Zimbabwe
21st-century Italian cardinals
The TR GSL  class was a class of  gauge  geared steam locomotives built by Sentinel Waggon Works in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, for the Tanganyika Railway (TR).

The eight members of the GSL class entered service on the TR between 1929 and 1931.  They were operated by the TR until it was succeeded by the East African Railways (EAR) in 1948.  They then served with the EAR until the mid 1950s.

See also

History of rail transport in Tanzania

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

East African Railways locomotives
Metre gauge steam locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1929
Sentinel locomotives
Steam locomotives of Tanzania
GSL
0-4-0T locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Mitchell Jackson or variant, may refer to:

 Mitchell Jackson (1816–1900), diarist and second owner of the Mitchell Jackson Farmhouse
 E. Belle Mitchell Jackson (1848–1942; surnamed Mitchell Jackson), American abolitionist and educator
 Mitchell S. Jackson, American writer

See also

 Juanita Jackson Mitchell (1913-1992; surnamed Jackson Mitchell), American lawyer
 Michael Jackson (disambiguation)
 Mitchell (disambiguation)
 Jackson (disambiguation)
Ingleside is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Nebraska, United States.

History
A post office was established at Ingleside in 1905, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1972. Ingleside is a name meaning "fireside". It was also listed as the location of the Ingleside Hospital for the Insane (later named the Hastings State Hospital).

References

Unincorporated communities in Adams County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska
Levi Casey may refer to:

 Levi Casey (politician) (1752–1807), General, United States Representative from South Carolina
 Levi Casey (athlete) (1904–1983), American triple jumper
Rick Brewer (born in Stanley, New Brunswick) is a New Brunswick businessman and politician, and a former assistant pastor.

Early life
Brewer was the son of Richard C. Brewer and Emma Hanson. He was an assistant pastor in the Pentecostal Church. Brewer has been involved in business for most of his life, largely in the grocery industry. He has been involved in the grocery industry for the past 33 years, beginning with the wholesale business at Willett Foods and The Food Group Inc. He then entered the retail market as the manager and supervisor of five convenience stores.

Political career
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2003 election to represent the riding of Southwest Miramichi, defeating cabinet minister Norman Betts.  A Liberal, he has been the critic of the Department of Supply and Services since the election.  On July 6, 2006 he was named chair of the Opposition's Petroleum Products Pricing Task Force, established in the wake of gas price regulation taking effect in New Brunswick on July 1.

He was re-elected in the 2006 election despite a strong challenge from former MLA Brent Taylor.  Following the election, on November 7, 2006, he was named whip for the government caucus.  On November 12, 2008, he was added to the cabinet. He served as Minister of Human Resources and Minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs until September 2010.
Presently (fall of 2010) Rick & Ruth are involved in building a school in Iquitos, Peru.
Rick recently received his Clergy license with Faith Christian Fellowship of Canada.

Personal life
Brewer is married with two children and operates a convenience store in Boiestown.

Notes

References

External links
The New Brunswick Liberal Association/L'Association libérale du Nouveau-Brunswick

Living people
Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick
New Brunswick Liberal Association MLAs
21st-century Canadian politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Choqyurt (, also Romanized as Choqyūrt; also known as Chūghrūt) is a village in Cheshmeh Langan Rural District, in the Central District of Fereydunshahr County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 610, in 143 families.

References 

Populated places in Fereydunshahr County
Charles-Hippolyte Pouthas (19 July 1886 – 2 May 1974) was a French historian specialist of political and religious history of contemporary France.

Pouthas was honorary headmaster of the lycée Malherbe de Caen. He was a professor of contemporary history at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly then at the University of Paris and director of the Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine.

His work on the Second Empire participated to a reassessment from the "black legend" spread by the Republican and liberal historiography of the last third of the nineteenth century, and introduced a more moderate reading of the regime.

Among his students were , who succeeded him in the Sorbonne, Louis Chevalier and Rene Remond.

With Jules Isaac and André Alba, he was the author of history textbooks on France.

His research notes are kept at the Archives nationales under the symbols AB/XIX/3754 to AB/XIX/3782.

Publications 
(see Complete list of publications)
1911: La Constituante et la classe ouvrière, Annales révolutionnaires
1911: Les Collèges de Caen au XVIIIe, Caen, L. Jouan
1918–1920 Les Élections de Guizot dans le Calvados, Mémoires de l'Académie nationale des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Caen
1923: Essai critique sur les sources et la bibliographie de Guizot pendant la Restauration
1923: Guizot pendant la Restauration, : préparation de l'homme d'État (1814–1830)
1934: Une famille de bourgeoisie française de Louis XIV à Napoléon
1936: La Jeunesse de Guizot : 1787-1814
1943: L'Église et les questions religieuses sous la Monarchie constitutionnelle 1814–1848, Centre de Documentation Universitaire
1943: L'Église et les questions Religieuses depuis 1848, Centre de Documentation Universitaire
1945: L'Église catholique de l'avènement de Pie VII à l'avènement de Pie IX
1946: Le Mouvement des nationalités en Europe dans la première moitié du XIXe
1948: Histoire de l'Égypte
1948: Démocraties et capitalisme (1848–1860)
1952: La Révolution de 1848 en France et la Seconde république
1952: Le Pontificat de Pie IX
1953: Documents diplomatiques du Gouvernement provisoire et de la Commission du pouvoir exécutif...
1956: La Population française pendant la première moitié du XIX, Institut national d'études démographique, cahier n° 25, Paris, Presses universitaires de France
1956: Histoire politique du Second Empire
1956: L'Europe occidentale de 1815 à 1848

References

External links 
 Charles-Hippolyte Pouthas on data.bnf.fr
 Notice on Prosopo
 Biography on Jstor

20th-century French historians
French historians of religion
1886 births
Writers from Caen
1974 deaths
Manns Beach is a small community based near Port Albert, Victoria, Australia. It contains lavatory facilities, jetty and boat ramp that provides boating access to the water body. The waterbody mouths into offshore waters of Bass Strait. At the 2006 census, Manns Beach had a population of 135.

Notes and references

Beaches of Victoria (state)
Towns in Victoria (state)
Shire of Wellington
Bowdertown, Pennsylvania is a populated place in Indiana County, with an elevation of 1,610 feet (491 m).

References

Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
The Tharros Punic inscriptions are a group of Punic inscriptions found at the archeological site of Tharros in Sardinia.

In the nineteenth century, a few funerary inscriptions engraved on cippi were discovered (CIS I 154-161). In 1901 an important 3rd century BC inscription dedicated to Melqart was found, but the surface was very damaged, currently the longest Punic inscription outside of North Africa.

Many short texts are engraved on small objects: a hemisphere in dolomitic stone, an amulet, and two silver plates.

Neopunic graffiti on ceramic fragments has also been found.

Concordande

Bibliography
 
 ICO: 
  CIS: Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum; the first section is focused on Phoenician-Punic inscriptions (176 "Phoenician" inscriptions and 5982 "Punic" inscriptions)

References

Punic inscriptions
Phoenician colonies in Sardinia
The Potato Factory is a 1995 fictionalised historical novel by Bryce Courtenay, which was made into a four-part miniseries in Australia in 2000. The book is the first in a three-part series, followed by Tommo & Hawk and Solomon's Song. The Potato Factory has been the subject of some controversy regarding its historical accuracy and its portrayal of Jewish characters.

The book is based on Ikey Solomon, known as the "Prince of Fences" and the basis of the Fagin character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Courtenay states that it is a fictional historical novel based on extensive research, but it depicts fictionalised versions of the characters. Author Judith Sackville-O'Donnell, who wrote another book on Solomon, claimed that the book was inaccurate and anti-Semitic.

The book's other main characters are Solomon's wife, Hannah, and his (fictional) mistress, Mary Abacus. Abacus goes from serving girl, to prostitute, to high-class madam, to prisoner transported to Tasmania, to successful businesswoman. She gets her name for her outstanding ability to use an abacus.

The story starts in London in the early 19th century. Abacus and Ikey Solomon start working together as business partners. It follows them as they are separately sent to Tasmania, a penal colony at the time.

Abacus takes up the art of brewing and establishes a pub called The Potato Factory while raising her children by Solomon.  Meanwhile, Hannah, who also has children, views Abacus as her bitter rival.  The book tells of Hannah's attempts to destroy Abacus.

References

External links
The Potato Factory at the National Film and Sound Archive

1995 Australian novels
1990s Australian television miniseries
1995 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
1995 television films
1995 films
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Australian historical novels
Novels by Bryce Courtenay
Novels set in London
Novels set in Tasmania
Heinemann (publisher) books
Novels set in the 19th century
Zoom! The Best of 1995–2016 is a compilation album by the Welsh alternative rock band Super Furry Animals, released on 4 November 2016. It is the band's third compilation album, after the B-sides/rarities collection Out Spaced (1998), and Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 (2004).

Background
The release collects all of the band's singles as well as some 'deep cuts' from their studio albums. "Organ Yn Dy Geg" is originally from the Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (in space) E.P.. "The Citizen's Band" was originally a hidden track found in the pregap of Guerrilla. Presented as an individually advertised track for the first time, it had not been released with copies of Guerrilla via digital methods. "Patience" was originally on the DVD version of Rings Around the World and was only previously released on CD on the bonus disc for the U.S. release of Rings Around the World.

The title of the album is named after "Zoom!", the opening track from the band's 2005 album Love Kraft. It appears in a previously unreleased edit on this compilation in which the sample of guitarist Huw Bunford jumping into a swimming pool at the start of the track is removed.

Packaging
The album's artwork was designed by longtime collaborator Pete Fowler and the sleeve notes were written by noted Welsh music journalist and author Simon Price.

Track listing

References

Super Furry Animals albums
2016 compilation albums
BMG Rights Management albums
Albums with cover art by Pete Fowler
Francisco Fernández Marugán (born 6 October 1946, in Cáceres, Spain) is a Spanish economist and politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and a long serving member of the Spanish Congress.

Married with two children, he belongs to the State Bodies of Senior Tax Inspectors and Senior State Administrators

Marugán entered national politics at the 1982 General Election when he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Seville Province. He changed districts for the 1986 election, returning to his native region of Extremadura and was elected for Badajoz Province being re-elected in all subsequent General elections in 1989, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.

Marugán has usually been identified with the "Guerrista" sector of the PSOE (which takes its name from the veteran deputy Alfonso Guerra) and in a 2005 article supported Guerra in criticising the actions of the PSOE such as entering into a tripartite Government in Catalonia. He is also considered a close associate of former president of Extremadura Juan Carlos Rodriguez Ibarra, also identified with the Guerrista sector. Within the PSOE he served as Secretary for Economic issues and he coordinated the PSOE campaigns for both the 1986 and 1993 General Elections. Following the narrow PSOE victory at the 1993 election he served as Secretary of State for Economic and Social issues in the last PSOE government of Felipe Gonzalez which lasted until the 1996 election.

In 1999 Marugán became involved in a shouting match with the Partido Popular minister Josep Piqué in the Spanish Congress chamber which ended with Piqué calling Marugán a "hijo de puta" (son of a bitch). Since 21 July 2017, he has been the acting Ombudsman of Spain.

References

1946 births
Living people
People from Cáceres, Spain
Ombudsmen in Spain
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
Members of the 2nd Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 3rd Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 4th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 5th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 6th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 7th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 8th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 9th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Bhimkanta Buragohain (aliases Mama, Sir), also called the Father of ULFA, was the political advisor and ideologue of the revolutionary organisation ULFA in Assam. He was also one of the founder leaders of the organisation.

Arrest
He was arrested by the Bhutanese Royal Army during Operation All Clear in December 2003 and was handed over to the Indian Army in January 2004. He was released from jail after seven years on 5 December 2010.

Rumours of death
The ULFA claimed that Buragohain had been captured and killed during Operation All Clear by the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) while he was leading a group of women and children who were attempting to surrender and waving a white flag. Arabinda Rajkhowa, the chairman of the outfit, also appealed to the Bhutan King to return the dead body to his family. It also called a 48-hour Assam Bandh on 20–21 December 2003. The RBA claimed that Buragohain was neither captured nor killed, whereas the Indian Army asserted that he had been killed. The Guwahati High Court on 23 December 2003, directed the Army authority to hand over the body, if in possession, to the nearest police station so that his family could perform the last rites.

On 26 December 2003, Lt. Gen. Mohinder Singh, General Officer Commanding 4 Corps, in Tezpur, disproving the rumours and claims made by ULFA and other organizations, produced Buragohain to the media. On 27 December 2003,. He was accompanied by self-styled Major Robin Handique, SS Major Amarjit Gogoi and Bolin Das. Buragohain was imprisoned in Tezpur Jail. and then in Guwahati Central jail.

Charges
Cases registered against Buragohain in various Police Stations of Assam are:

Death
He died of cardiac arrest at his own residence at Dhala Ahomgaon, Tinsukia district, Assam on 19 December 2011.

See also
List of top leaders of ULFA
Sanjukta Mukti Fouj
People's Consultative Group
Operation All Clear

References

People from Tinsukia district
Prisoners and detainees from Assam
Prisoners and detainees of Bhutan
1931 births
ULFA members
2011 deaths
In 2010, the GCC Volleyball Club Championship was staged in Oman. The championship was won by the Al Arabi Qatar team.

League standings

Source: koora.com (Arabic)

References

GCC Volleyball Club Championship