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No Comebacks is a 1982 collection of ten short stories by English writer Frederick Forsyth. Each story takes place in a different setting and ends with a plot twist. Several of them involve a central male character without any apparent strength who is put under pressure, but who does not give in.

Penthouse Magazine reviewed the collection by saying: "Quite possibly the most entertaining collection of short stories currently making the rounds."

List of stories and plots
The stories in the collection are:

 No Comebacks

A wealthy Englishman, who can have anything he wants, finally encounters a woman he wants but cannot have. The desired Spaniard is married to a husband who needs her so long as he's alive. But for a man with money and no scruples, there's an obvious fix for that. He hires a foreign hit-man to travel to Southern Spain and overcome the obstacle with an unforeseen outcome.
 There are no Snakes in Ireland
 An Indian student takes a job on a tough Irish wrecking crew for money, and is mistreated by a racist boss. His revenge is so complex that something is bound to go wrong with it.
 The Emperor
 In this homage to Hemingway, an ineffectual tourist named Murgatroyd (instead of Macomber) battles a monster blue marlin, and finds something besides pain.
 There Are Some Days...
 A hapless crew of Irish trucking hijackers finds themselves with an odiferous load of rose fertilizer instead of fine brandy. But their troubles have only begun.
 Money with Menaces
 A meek senior insurance company officer finds himself being neatly blackmailed regarding the first sexual misadventure of his life. Surely he has no choice but to pay...
 Used in Evidence
 A man's fight against eviction from the condemned house where he has lived alone since his wife disappeared 15 years before, becomes more understandable when the mummified cadaver of a woman is found bricked up between the wall and chimney breast of his fireplace. In such an open-and-shut case, why will he not even say a word?
 Privilege
 When a businessman finds himself libeled by a careless journalist, it seems there is little he can do about it that will not bankrupt him. If only the law in such matters had any part that was equitable to all.
 Duty
 A couple vacationing in France in the 1950s finds a ghost of Irish history.
 A Careful Man
 Mr. Timothy Hanson is a self-made man with a terminal cancer. If he hates his sister, his only surviving relative, as much as he hates the death tax, why does his last will specify that the woman and her husband get his entire estate, if only both of them will personally push the lead coffin containing Hanson's body, off a boat into the deep waters of the English Channel?
 Sharp Practice
 In the unsophisticated world of 1938, a deck of marked cards used in a game of poker on a train might be just what it seems, or not.

Other short stories by the same author 

Forsyth has written another collection of short stories, The Veteran.

References

1982 short story collections
Short story collections by Frederick Forsyth
Thriller short story collections
Hutchinson (publisher) books
Roy Campbell Smith (1858 – April 11, 1940) was an American naval officer and the Governor of Guam from 1916 to 1918.

Early life 
On July 16, 1858, Smith was born in Fort Mason, Texas. Smith's father was Charles Henry Smith, an assistant surgeon general of the United States and later of the Confederate States of America. Smith's mother was Maria McGregor Campbell Smith.

Education 
In 1878, Smith graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Career 
Smith was the commanding officer of the  from 17 September 1912 to 13 October 1914.

In 1916, Smith became the Naval Governor of Guam, until 1918.

Smith retired as a U.S. Navy Captain.

Awards 
  Navy Cross

Personal life 
On October 11, 1887, in Annapolis, Maryland, Smith married Margaret Aldrich Sampson, daughter of Rear admiral William Thomas Sampson. They had three children, Roy, Marjorie, and William.

Smith's daughter Marjorie Sampson Smith became a sponsor of USS Sampson (DD-63) on March 4, 1916. It was named for Rear admiral William Thomas Sampson, Smith's father-in-law. In 1918, Smith's daughter Marjorie Sampson Smith married Spotswood Dandridge Bowers, a lawyer.

On May 21, 1929, Smith's wife Margaret Smith died in Newport, Rhode Island. She is interred at Lakewood Cemetery in Cooperstown, New York.

On April 11, 1940, Smith died in Somerville, South Carolina.

References

External links 
 Roy Campbell Smith at findagrave.com
 Roy Campbell Smith st militarytimes.com
 Capt. Roy Campbell Smith, USN at geni.com

1858 births
1940 deaths
Governors of Guam
20th-century American naval officers
Bulmershe School is a coeducational comprehensive school located in Woodley, Berkshire.

History
Building work completed in 2016 on the construction of a new school building housing a 392-seat auditorium, six classrooms with computer workstations and a new sixth form area. The Bulmershe Auditorium includes a 392-seat theatre (equipped with professional audio-visual equipment), a sixth-form centre, meeting rooms, a reception area, and administrative offices.

The Bulmershe School was rated as a good school by the Office for Standards in Education OFSTED, following an inspection in November 2017.

The head teacher is Amanda Woodfin, who became Acting Headteacher on 1 September 2017 and joined the school in January 2013.

In 2018 work started on a new sports centre and swimming pool.

There were 1,215 students on roll at the time of the 2019 CENSUS. The majority of the students come from Woodley and Earley.

References

External links
The Bulmershe School website
The Bulmershe Community Association website
School overview from Schoolsfinder
DFES statistics
Record of success at Bulmershe School
BBC News profile of The Bulmershe School
2004 OFSTED report
2008 OFSTED report
2017 OFSTED report
Bulmershe Gym Club
Bulmershe BBC report 2017

Secondary schools in the Borough of Wokingham
Community schools in the Borough of Wokingham
Educational institutions established in 1964
1964 establishments in England
"Jeanie Deans" is a song which celebrates Jeanie Deans, the heroine of Sir Walter Scott's 1818 novel, The Heart of Midlothian. It was probably performed in music halls around the end of the 19th century as it is found in a 'broadsheet' of that period. Its musical accompaniment is not given.

Music at JAS. S. KERR'S, 314 Paisley Rd., Glasgow,

Far awa' frae bonnie Scotland,
I have often spent my time,
By the mountains, lakes, and valleys,
In some distant foreign clime.
There I'd sit and sometimes ponder.
'Midst their bright and varied scenes;
But my thoughts would always wander
To the hame o' Jeanie Deans.

CHORUS.

Here's to Auld Reekie, and its glorious Princes Street,
Here's to Auld Reekie, and its famous Arthur Seat;
Here's to Auld Reekie, and its grand Historic Scenes—
The hame of Scotland's bravest lass, my bonnie Jeanie Deans.

Oft I see her sad and dreary,
Wi' tartan plaid and hame-spun gown;
Broken-hearted, worn and weary,
Tramping on to London town.
Leaving those behind who missed her—
Those who know what true love means—
Seeking pardon for her sister,
Brave, true hearted, Jeanie Deans.

Fancy ofttimes brings before me,
Jeanie's simple, winsome style,
As she told me her sad, sad story,
When she met the great Argyle.
Hear her pleading in the garden,
Asking mercy from the Queen;
See her joy, she's got the pardon,
Brave, Victorious, Jeanie Deans.

"Jeanie woman" though departed,
We will keep the honoured name
Of one so true and loyal-hearted,
Written on the scroll of fame.
Sir Walter Scott immortalised you—
"Thou wer't one of nature's queens"—.
And in our hearts we'll ever praise you,
Gallant, Scottish, Jeanie Deans.

References 

Scottish songs
Adaptations of works by Walter Scott
Songs from musicals
Gérald Godin (November 13, 1938 – October 12, 1994) was a Canadian poet and politician from Quebec.

Born in Trois-Rivières, he worked as a journalist at La Presse and other newspapers and magazines. His most important poetry collection, Les cantouques: poèmes en langue verte, populaire et quelquefois française, was published in 1967. He was among those arrested under the War Measures Act during the October Crisis in 1970.

In the 1976 Quebec provincial election, he won a seat as a candidate for the Parti Québécois, heavily defeating incumbent Premier Robert Bourassa in his own riding of Mercier. He served in various cabinet posts in the governments of René Lévesque and Pierre-Marc Johnson. His life companion was the Québécois singer Pauline Julien.

As a poet, he won the Prix Québec-Paris for his 1987 work Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler.

Godin died from brain cancer in October 1994.

The area surrounding the Mont-Royal metro station has been named Place Gérald-Godin in his honour. One of his poems, Tango de Montréal, is displayed as a mural overlooking the square.

Cégep Gérald-Godin (college), in Sainte-Geneviève, Montreal, is named after him.

See also

List of Mauriciens
Politics of Quebec
Quebec general elections
History of Quebec
Quebec sovereigntism

Electoral record

References

External links
Gérald Godin's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

1938 births
1994 deaths
French Quebecers
Parti Québécois MNAs
Journalists from Quebec
Writers from Quebec
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male poets
People from Trois-Rivières
Canadian poets in French
October Crisis
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Deaths from cancer in Quebec
Neurological disease deaths in Quebec
Deaths from brain tumor
The Unfaithful Eckehart () is a 1940 German comedy film directed by Hubert Marischka and starring Hans Moser, Hedwig Bleibtreu and Lucie Englisch. It is based on Hans Stürm's play of the same title, which had previously been made into a 1928 film and a 1931 film.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gabriel Pellon and Heinrich Richter.

Cast
Hans Moser as Arthur Fellner
Hedwig Bleibtreu as Valerie, his wife
Lucie Englisch as Traute
Ethel Reschke as Agathe
Theo Lingen as Eckehart, Schwiegerson
Rudi Godden as Fritz Flotter
Else Elster as Susi Moor
Victor Janson as Cnortez
Lotte Spira
Hans Stiebner
Walter Bechmann
Egon Brosig
Franz Fiedler
Irmgard Hoesch
Wolfgang Klein
Ruth Lommel
Josef Reithofer
Walter Schramm-Duncker
Hanns Waschatko
Ewald Wenck
Hilde Wittke
Kurt Zehe
Norman Revels

References

External links

Films of Nazi Germany
German comedy films
1940 comedy films
Films directed by Hubert Marischka
German black-and-white films
Remakes of German films
German films based on plays
Films scored by Ludwig Schmidseder
1940s German-language films
1940s German films
Thomas Edward Penard (7 May 1878 – 27 October 1936) was an American engineer and ornithologist who, along with his brothers studied the birds of Surinam. Along with his brothers, he also took and interest in folklore and linguistics in the Caribbean.

Penard was the second child of Dutch merchant Frederik and Philippina Salomons, then settled in Paramaribo, Surinam, a Dutch colony. His older brother Frederik Paul (26 January 1876 – 4 September 1909) and a younger brother Arthur Philip (6 April 1880 – 12 September 1932) who were affected by leprosy from a young age were forced out of school and educated at home. To avoid infection, Thomas and the youngest son William were sent off to the United States of America at the age of thirteen and grew up in Everett, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in electrical engineering in 1900 and joined the Edison Electric Illuminating Company in Boston. He later helped establish evening education at the Northeastern University, Boston where he also taught.

Frederik and Arthur who stayed on at home were well known for their ornithological work which they began in 1896, with collections made for them by natives and deposited at their home in Waterkant. The collections and information collation resulted finally in the publication of De Vogels van Guyana (in two volumes published 1908 and 1910). A part of the Surinam collections was sold off to Lord Rothschild and it was used to fund the publication of the first volume. It was their mother who handled correspondence and it was through her that support for the second volume of their book came from the Leiden Museum. They also interacted with Philip Lutley Sclater. Thomas also took an interest in birds from 1918 and his brother Arthur helped him with a collection of nearly 2000 bird skins between 1912 and 1914 which were held by Thomas in Arlington. Thomas collaborated with Outram Bangs to study the birds of Surinam and published several notes. Frederik died before the second volume was made and Arthur later went blind but continued to have notes dictated. Unable in later life to spare enough time from engineering work, Thomas sold off his collections of birds to the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1930.

Penard married Sabrina Grant in 1905 and they had a son. The subspecies Jacamerops aureus penardi was named in his honour by Bangs.

Publications

References

External links 
 De vogels van Guyana

1878 births
1936 deaths
American ornithologists
Emigrants from Dutch Guiana to the United States
The Speaker of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly.

The speaker is selected through ballot in the first session of a new legislative assembly.

List of speakers

Source:

References 

Selangor State Legislative Assembly
Politics of Selangor
Government of Selangor
Verduno is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about  southeast of Turin and about  northeast of Cuneo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 523 and an area of .

Verduno borders the following municipalities: Bra, La Morra, Roddi, and Santa Vittoria d'Alba.

Demographic evolution

References

Cities and towns in Piedmont
Gnanou Diagou (1877–1959) was a lawyer and professor of law in Pondicherry, India. He is known for translating the Tirukkural into French.

Biography
Gnanou Diagou hailed from a Catholic family from Pondicherry. He obtained his law degree from the Faculty of Aix in 1902. He served as president of the Pondicherry Bar Association from 1934. He was also a professor of Law at Pondicherry Law School. In 1911, he founded the Historical Society of Pondicherry. He was also known as historian of French India. He translated Tamil texts into French. In 1942, he translated the Tirukkural, an ancient Tamil classic, into French.

Works
Note: Years indicated are dates of editions.
 Le droit civil applicable aux Musulmans de l'Inde (1984)
 Koural by Tiruvaḷḷuvar (1942, 1968)
 Arrêts du Conseil supérieur de Pondichéry (1935)
 Assara Kovai: Traduit du tamoul (1950, 1963, 1971)
 Arà néry sarom: L'Essence du chemin de la vertu (1965)
 Histoire détaillée des rois du Carnatic (1939)
 Principes de droit hindou (1929)
 Ramayana de Kambar: Sundara kandam (livre de la beaute) (1972)
 Principes de Droit hindou (1929)
Naladiyar (1946)
Nanmanikkadikai (1954)

See also

 Tirukkural translations
 Tirukkural translations into French
 List of translators

References

Tamil–French translators
Translators of the Tirukkural into French
1877 births
1959 deaths
Tirukkural translators
Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, also known as the Purple Pamphlet, was an anti-homosexual propaganda pamphlet published in January 1964 by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (FLIC) of the Florida Legislature led by State Senator Charley Johns. The booklet contained several pornographic images and a glossary of terminology used in the gay community.  It was sold for 25 cents a copy, with a discount for bulk orders of 100 copies or more.

The Johns Committee had for several years conducted a witch hunt for homosexuals in public schools, universities, and state government agencies, believing they were part of a Communist strategy to "subvert the American way of life by controlling academic institutions and by corrupting the nation's moral fiber."  By publishing its findings, the Committee hoped to persuade the Legislature to enact comprehensive anti-homosexual legislation, and to "shock Floridians into accepting its program."

[The report] viewed homosexuals as the carriers of a degenerative disease that posed a greater menace to society than child molesters. [...]  The committee expected readers to select a theory conforming to its own views, and the pamphlet portrayed gays as sex fiends who spent every free moment searching for anonymous partners, recruiting youth, or transmitting venereal diseases.

Instead of becoming a best-seller as its authors hoped, the Purple Pamphlet provoked a backlash of criticism for its explicit photographs of gay men involved in sexual activities.  A Dade County official threatened to bring legal action against the committee, and the Florida Attorney General  "warned the FLIC to cease distribution of this 'obscene and pornographic' material."  A gay book club in Washington, D.C., sold reprints of the pamphlet for two dollars apiece.

The backlash from the pamphlet controversy destroyed the committee, which disbanded on July 1, 1965, after the Legislature refused to continue to fund its activities.  The records of the FLIC's investigations were sealed by the Legislature until 2028, although in the early 1990s, redacted copies were placed in the Florida state archives for public inspection.

See also

 Lavender scare
 LGBT rights in Florida

References

External links
 Full text at the Internet Archive.
 
 The Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, James T. Sears, 1997 (Internet Archives)
 Behind Closed Doors: The Dark Legacy of the Johns Committee, 1999. Documentary film.
 

1964 in LGBT history
1964 non-fiction books
LGBT history in Florida
Pamphlets
Propaganda in the United States
Persecution of LGBT people in the United States
1964 in Florida
David Joseph Marks  (15 December 1952 – 6 October 2017) was a British architect, and the designer of the London Eye, the British Airways i360 observation tower in Brighton, and the Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens, London.

David Marks was born on 15 December 1952 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Gunilla (née Lovén) and Melville Marks, a journalist and film producer. Marks, a Jew, grew up in Geneva, where he attended the International School of Geneva. He moved to London in 1972, at first to study at the Kingston Polytechnic before moving to Architectural Association School of Architecture.

Marks was married to fellow architect Julia Barfield and they formed the architecture firm Marks Barfield.

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours "for services to the British Airways London Eye."

References

1952 births
2017 deaths
Architects from London
Architects from Stockholm
British Jews
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture
Thurston County Courthouse in Pender, Nebraska is a Late Victorian style building.  It has also been known as 2nd Thurston County Courthouse and Pender School.  It was built as a school in 1895 and was converted to a courthouse in 1927.  Architect J.F. Reynolds of Sioux City, Iowa designed the conversion.

The 1927 conversion created permanent courthouse space adequate for the court, which was desirable to settle dispute within the county about the county seat's proper location.  Pender, established in 1884, has always been the county seat of Thurston County, established in 1889, but during the early 1900s the town of Walthill struggled to obtain the seat instead.  The First Thurston County Courthouse (also NRHP-listed) had inadequate space and the county leased additional space from the nearby Palace Hotel.  As part of promoting a county seat change, Walthill proponents sued the county commissioners to dispute the leasing arrangement in a case that won in a lower court and then went up to the Nebraska Supreme Court, which upheld the leasing arrangement and reversed the lower court decision.  Walthill also pursued a petition drive which failed after Pender advocates established that there was fraud in obtaining signatures.  The controversy included other charges back and forth, and went on during 1909 and 1910.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1990.

See also
First Thurston County Courthouse, Pender, Nebraska, also listed on the NRHP

References

External links
Thurston County Courthouse, with several photos

Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska
Buildings and structures in Thurston County, Nebraska
County courthouses in Nebraska
National Register of Historic Places in Thurston County, Nebraska
The 1991 James Hardie 12 Hour was an endurance race for production cars staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, on 31 March 1991. It was the first "Bathurst 12 Hour". Of the 24 starters, 20 were classified as finishers.

The race was won by Allan Grice, Peter Fitzgerald and  Nigel Arkell driving a Toyota Supra.

Classes
The race was open to "Group E" cars (officially Group 3E Series Production Cars) and other production cars.

Cars competed in the following classes:
Class A : Touring cars under 1600 cc
Class B : Touring cars 1601 - 2500 cc
Class C : Touring cars 2501 - 4000 cc
Class D : Touring cars over 4000 cc
Class S : Sports cars under 2200 cc
Class T : Turbocharged cars

Results

 Fastest lap: Peter Fitzgerald (Toyota Supra Turbo), 2:42.83 (137.36 km/h) on lap 225.

References

Further reading
 Australian Motor Racing Year, 1991/1992
 Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April 1991

External links
 1991 BATHURST 12 HOUR RACE '2 Hours To Go', www.youtube.com

Motorsport in Bathurst, New South Wales
James Hardie 12 Hour
Bathurst
Eye of the Cat () is a 1975 Italian comedy film written and directed by Alberto Bevilacqua.

Cast
Nino Manfredi as Marcello Ferrari
 Mariangela Melato as Giulia
 Eli Wallach as Cesare (voice of Sergio Fiorentini)
 Enzo Cannavale as Lolo
 Francisco Rabal as the priest (voice of Luciano De Ambrosis)
 Mario Scaccia as Salomone 
 Adriana Innocenti as Jolanda
 Franco Scandurra as The Butler (voice of Giorgio Piazza)
 Ettore Manni as Cesare's friend
 Erika Blanc as Margot
 Cristina Gaioni as a prostitute
 Loredana Bertè as a prostitute

Plot

Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.

Awards
David di Donatello 1976 - Best Screenplay

References

Further reading
 Alberto Bevilacqua. Attenti al buffone: il racconto del film, saggi, altri racconti tematici. Garzanti, 1975.

External links

Italian comedy-drama films
1975 comedy-drama films
1975 films
Films directed by Alberto Bevilacqua
Films scored by Ennio Morricone
1970s Italian films
1970s Italian-language films
The Inner Sydney Montessori School (abbreviated as ISMS)  is a dual-campus independent nonsectarian Montessori coeducational early learning and primary day school, with campuses located in Balmain and Lilyfield, inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The school was founded in  in 1981.

See also 

 List of non-government schools in New South Wales
 List of Montessori schools

References

External links 
 School website

Private primary schools in Sydney
Montessori schools in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1981
1981 establishments in Australia
Balmain, New South Wales
Lilyfield, New South Wales
Deh-e Rahm (, also Romanized as Deh-e Raḩm and Deh Raḩīm) is a village in Yusefvand Rural District, in the Central District of Selseleh County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 475, in 97 families.

References 

Populated places in Selseleh County