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Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon.

Plot summary

Mary Ashley, a professor at Kansas State University, is offered an ambassadorship by Paul Ellison, the US president. She rejects the offer because her husband, Dr. Edward Ashley, does not want to leave his medical practice, and she is not willing to be separated from him. She also feels that it is harder to find a good physician for a small Kansas town than an ambassador to a foreign country. When her husband suddenly dies in a traffic accident, Ashley accepts the President's offer in order to fill the void in her life. She is sent to Romania, behind the Iron Curtain, and adapts to the role of ambassador. 

She takes an instant distaste to her second in command, Mike Slade, but is unable to remove him due to his appointment being a presidential order. Her success as an ambassador turns her into a public face for understanding between the United States and Romania. She begins a relationship with Louis Desforges, a widowed French physician that saves her from attempts to kidnap and poison her, until he gets killed by Slade.

Interspersed with that narration, the novel shows gatherings of members of the Patriots for Freedom, a secret society of powerful men that orchestrate political events trying to divide the Eastern and Western Blocs. They hire an international assassin nicknamed Angel to kill her, but the information is leaked and the attempt foiled. 

In the climax of the novel, it is revealed that Mike Slade is an agent who infiltrated the Patriots for Freedom and foiled their plans, while Desforges was an agent of the Patriots who saved her only so she could be publicly killed by Angel. The members of the Patriots are arrested and their chairman (revealed to be the Vice President of the United States) is killed by Angel after refusing to pay for the failed assassination.

Once this threat is neutralized, Mary attempts to resign her post, believing that her success was created to be used as a political tool, but the president convinces her to remain in the position under the protection of Slade. In the final scene, another cell of the Patriots for Freedom composed only of women (presumably led by the dead Veep's widow) is shown deliberating about their next course of action.

TV version

A TV miniseries, starring Jaclyn Smith, was released in 1988.

References

 SidneySheldon.com | Bookshelf

1987 American novels
American thriller novels
Novels by Sidney Sheldon
Novels set in Kansas
Novels set in Romania
Kansas State University
American novels adapted into television shows
Astor Mansions is an Art Deco style building that was designed by architects Obel & Obel in 1931 and completed in 1932. The building was residential with street level retail and first floor professional office space. It was built to the maximum height of 140 feet permitted by the City Council. The building had a short lived stint as the tallest building in Johannesburg until the completion of the Ansteys Building in 1935.
 
It is situated on stand 1094 on the corner of Jeppe and von Brandis Streets in Johannesburg. It is probably one of the city’s finest examples of New York Art Deco architecture. The building forms part of a collection of notable Art Deco corner buildings found along Jeppe Street, namely, Castle Mansions, Manner’s Mansions, and Anstey’s. Astor Mansions displays clear references to the Chrysler Building in New York, particularly the iconic curved zigzag. The name was inspired by the Waldorf Astoria New York, named for the "Astors", a wealthy American family who made their fortune through real estate, which was completed in the same year.

Design
The form of the building is predominantly tall and angular except for the curved fascia over the corner entrance and the curved arch forms adorning the elevations at the top of the building. The angular form is accentuated by low relief horizontal banding and stepping in the facade, creating depth and shadows. Geometric friezes, stylized capitals, wrought iron balconies and fluted vertical elements provide further interest. 
The verticality and symmetry of the building are its defining characteristics, with the angular towers typifying skyscraper architecture of the period, with a clear reference to Manhattan, New York, where the Astor family lived.

Construction
The building is constructed in brick with a concrete roof. The elevations are plastered and painted with sculptural detailing.
Steel window frames were used, all of which were originally painted using ‘Gnudek’ high gloss paint.

Heritage Status
The Astor Mansions building is historically and culturally significant for the following reasons:
 The Astor Mansions is associated with the architectural firm of Obel & Obel
 The building is of high architectural quality
 Astor Mansions is a landmark Art Deco building, which was once the tallest building in Johannesburg
 Astor Mansions is a good example of a building where Art Deco ornamentation as well as decorative panels have been used. The tower is unique in the Johannesburg architectural scene

References

Buildings and structures in Johannesburg
Nilufar Mamadalieva is a biochemist from Uzbekistan.

Biography 
Mamadalieva completed a Master's in science at Fergana State University and a PhD at the Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances in Tashkent. She is a scientific researcher at the institute. Her work focuses on the phytochemical and biological investigation of active compounds in the local medicinal plants of Central Asia. 

In 2011 Mamadalieva received the UNESCO-L’Oreal Award for Young Women in Life Sciences. In 2014 she received the Elsevier Foundation Award for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World.

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Uzbekistani scientists
Uzbekistani women scientists
Women biochemists
Tirukkoyilur division is a revenue division in the Kallakurichi district of Tamil Nadu, India. Of the 22 revenue blocks in the viluppuram district, 4 blocks comes under this revenue division. They are, Kalrayanhills block, Chinnasalem block, Kallakurichi block and Sankarapuram block.

References 

 

Viluppuram district
Maria Sole Tognazzi (born 2 May 1971) is an Italian film director.

Biography
She is the daughter of actor and director Ugo Tognazzi and actress Franca Bettoia. She has a brother, actor Gianmarco, and two half-brothers, actor and director Ricky Tognazzi and Norwegian film director and film producer Thomas Robsahm.

Following years as an apprentice director, she made her directorial debut with the 1997 live action short film Non finisce qui. This was followed by two more short films, C'ero anch'io (1999) and Sempre a tempo (2000). Her first feature-length film was Past Perfect (Italian: Passato prossimo, 2003), for which she also co-wrote the screenplay with Daniele Prato and for which the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists awarded her the 2003 Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. It was also entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.

Her second feature film, The Man Who Loves (Italian: L'uomo che ama, 2008), was written with Ivan Cotroneo and filmed at Lake Orta and Turin. The cast included Pierfrancesco Favino and Monica Bellucci. In 2010, her documentary Ritratto di mio padre (Portrait of My Father) was screened at the Rome Film Festival. Her third feature film, A Five Star Life (Italian: Viaggio sola, 2013), starring Margherita Buy, was written with Ivan Cotroneo and Francesca Marciano. Me, Myself and Her is the first feature-length Italian romantic comedy  about a lesbian relationship.

Filmography
 Past Perfect (2003)
 The Man Who Loves (2008)
 A Five Star Life (2013)
 Me, Myself and Her (2015)
 Petra (2020, Italian TV series)

See also
 List of female film and television directors
 List of LGBT-related films directed by women

Notes

References

External links

Italian women film directors
Italian screenwriters
Film directors from Rome
Writers from Rome
Living people
1971 births
Nastro d'Argento winners
Zecchino d'Oro singers
Abdul Wasi (born 6 July 2002) is an Afghan cricketer. He made his international debut for the Afghanistan cricket team in March 2021.

He made his first-class debut for Amo Region in the 2018 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament on 1 March 2018 and was named the man of the match. He was the leading wicket-taker for Amo Region in the tournament, with 54 dismissals in ten matches, and he was also named as the player of the series.

He made his List A debut for Amo Region in the 2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament on 10 July 2018. He made his Twenty20 debut on 13 October 2019, for Speen Ghar Tigers in the 2019 Shpageeza Cricket League.

In November 2019, he was named in Afghanistan's squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh. In February 2021, he was named as a reserve player in Afghanistan's Test squad for their series against Zimbabwe. He made his Test debut for Afghanistan, against Zimbabwe, on 2 March 2021.

References

External links
 

2002 births
Living people
Afghan cricketers
Afghanistan Test cricketers
Amo Sharks cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Feliks Undusk (born 23 December 1948 in Kärdla, Hiiu County) is an Estonian journalist and politician. He was a member of VIII Riigikogu.

References

Living people
1948 births
Estonian journalists
Estonian Reform Party politicians
Members of the Riigikogu, 1995–1999
Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 4th Class
Tallinn University of Technology alumni
People from Kärdla
David Bailey (born 1938) is an English photographer.

David Bailey may also refer to:

In arts and media
 David Bailey (actor) (1933–2004), American actor
 David M. Bailey (1966–2010), Christian singer-songwriter
 Dave Bailey (musician) (born 1926), American jazz drummer
 David A. Bailey (born 1961), British Afro-Caribbean curator, photographer and writer
 David Bailey (writer), British editor and science fiction author
 Dave Hullfish Bailey, American sculptor

In sport
 David Bailey (motorcyclist) (born 1961), American racer
 Homer Bailey (David Dewitt Bailey, Jr., born 1986), baseball player
 David Bailey (rugby league) (born 1969), New Zealand rugby league footballer
 David Bailey (cricketer, born 1943), English cricketer
 David Bailey (cricketer, born 1944), English cricketer
 David Bailey (basketball) (born 1981), American basketball player

In other fields
 David Bailey (economist) (born 1966), British academic and commentator
 David H. Bailey (mathematician) (born 1948), mathematician and computer scientist
 David Bailey (diplomat) (1830–1896), US Consul and Consul General in China
 David Jackson Bailey (1812–1897), American politician
 David Bailey (militia officer) (1801–1854), American militia officer in the Illinois Militia
 David Bailey (priest) (born 1952), Archdeacon of Bolton
 David Bailey (pharmacologist) (1945–2022), Canadian distance runner and medical researcher
 David Earle Bailey (born 1940), bishop in the Episcopal Church

Fictional characters
 Lieutenant Dave Bailey, a character in the Star Trek episode "The Corbomite Maneuver"

See also  
 David Bailly (1584–1657), Dutch Golden Age painter
 David Baillie (disambiguation)
Rodgers Flat (formerly, Camp Rodgers) is an unincorporated community in Plumas County, California. It lies at an elevation of 2096 feet (639 m). Rodgers Flat is located on the Western Pacific Railroad,  northeast of Storrie.

The Camp Rodgers post office operated from 1916 to 1936.

References

Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Plumas County, California
Chris Keane (born 25 October 1978 in Drogheda) is a former Irish rugby union player. Keane began his provincial career with Connacht where he received 90 caps (65 Celtic/Magners League, 24 ERC Challenge Cup), the first coming against Cardiff Blues in a 6–3 victory. Keane made his Leinster debut on 5 October 2007 against Llanelli Scarlets in a 23–52 Celtic League defeat. On 15 December he made his first Heineken Cup appearance against Edinburgh at Murrayfield. Again it was a match that Leinster lost (29–10). He was released at the end of the 2010 season and subsequently retired from Rugby. Keane has been recognised by his country at sevens, colleges, and 'A' levels.

He is currently co-manager of Skerries Rugby Club with John Murphy.

References

External links
Leinster profile
Connacht Profile

1978 births
Living people
Irish rugby union players
Connacht Rugby players
Leinster Rugby players
Rugby union scrum-halves
Rugby union players from County Louth
People educated at Belvedere College
Otto W. Kanturek (27 July 1897, Vienna – 26 June 1941, Cawston, Norfolk) was an Austrian, later Czechoslovak cameraman, cinematographer and film director.

Life
Having trained at the Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and, after a voluntary internship for Gaumont Newsreels, he became an assistant film cameraman with them in 1912 and the following year received a post with producer Erich Pommer in Paris, filming newsreels for Pathé, Gaumont and Éclair. In 1914 he went to Milan to work for Milano-Film, then in 1915 to work with Sascha-Film in Vienna and with Alexander Korda in Budapest. During the First World War, he made his debut as chief cameraman and in 1916 he was conscripted and was seconded to the special photographic services in the military.

In 1920 he moved to Berlin and spent the 1920s working on several films, including Fritz Lang's Frau im Mond. After the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, he left Germany for Vienna and Prague, where he directed the film Das Glück von Grinzing. In 1933, by then a Czechoslovak citizen, he came to London, where he finally settled and continued his work as a cameraman, including on Blossom Time (known in German as Du bist mein Herz) with Richard Tauber. He also worked as a director on the romantic comedy The Student's Romance. 

He died at Cawston, Norfolk, during the Second World War whilst filming the aerial shots for A Yank in the RAF from an Avro Anson, when it collided with a Hawker Hurricane. He left a widow, Edith Maria Lucia Beatrix, who was then living at St John's Wood, London.

Filmography

References

External links

1897 births
1941 deaths
Austrian film directors
Austrian cinematographers
Austrian civilians killed in World War II
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in England
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1941
Raymond Robert Williams (born 25 October 1927) is an English former professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He made appearances in the English Football League for Wrexham and Shrewsbury Town.

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1927 births
Possibly living people
Liverpool F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
English Football League players
Footballers from Liverpool
Weird Wars is a series of horror role-playing games set during past and future wars and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. The original release, Weird War II: Blood on the Rhine was set during World War II, and utilized the D20 System. The second release, Tour of Darkness was set during the Vietnam War and employed the Savage Worlds rules set. 
A third release, also for Savage Worlds, Necropolis was set in the future on a war-torn planet.

Setting
In the original Weird War II, players play as Allied soldiers during the Second World War. The setting presents a supernatural element, and characters face (and drive) haunted vehicles, fight mutant Nazi soldiers and investigate the supernatural. Heroes who face the supernatural can be offered membership in the Office of Supernatural Investigations (OSI), which then allows them to take the OSI Chaplain and OSI Adept Prestige Classes (which grant access to Divine and Arcane Magic respectively). Magic is handled differently in this setting than in other d20 settings, being cast by means of Runes and causing Fatigue to the caster.

Hitler and his Nazis have their own magic-users: Blood Mages, who can be amongst the toughest foes the players later face.

Blood Mages are essentially Adepts of Evil Alignment, which grants them the power to draw upon the 'innate evil' of places such as Death Camps and battlefields. Because the only difference between a Blood Mage and an Adept is Alignment, it is possible to play an Allied Blood Mage, though not recommended, as both the OSI and the Sons of Solomon (a secret organization devoted to hiding the supernatural) will come after them if they are discovered.

Magic is low-powered in this setting; Mages only receive spells up to the 5th level, and the only offensive powers in their arsenal are Magic Missile and Cloudkill, which blend in better with the chaos of the battlefield, mimicking bullets and clouds of poison gas respectively.

The books in the setting are:
Blood on the Rhine - the Core rulebook
Afrika Korpse - Sourcebook for Africa and Egypt 
Dead From Above - Sourcebook for aircraft and several flying monsters 
Horrors of Weird War Two - Beastiary, expanding the list of monsters from Blood on the Rhine and the various Sourcebooks
Land of the Rising Dead - Sourcebook for the Pacific Theatre
Hell in the Hedgerows - Adventure book, containing three adventures 
Hell Freezes Over - Sourcebook for the Russian Front

References

External links
Weird Wars Fansite

Historical role-playing games
Horror role-playing games
D20 System
Pinnacle Entertainment Group games
Role-playing games introduced in 2001
Zosimas of Solovki (, died 1478) was one of the founders of the Solovetsky Monastery established on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea of northern Russia.

The origin of Zosima is not exactly clear. By 1436 his parents were both dead, and he decided to live as a hermit. In the mouth of the Suma River he met Herman, a monk, who previously spent several years with Savvatiy on Bolshoy Solovetsky Island. Savvatiy died in 1435, and Herman returned to the continent. Zosima and Herman traveled again to Solovetsky Islands, and soon monks started to arrive there. These monks considered themselves the disciples of Zosima. Soon he had to build a wooden church and to organize the monks into a monastery. The monastery was subordinate to Eparchy of Novgorod. The bishop of Novgorod, Iona, twice appointed hegumens to the monastery, but these hegumens left without being able to bear the conditions of life in a Northern island. Then he appointed Zosima as a hegumen.

In 1465, Zosima built a new church and transferred the relics of Savvatiy to this church. He died in 1478. Already during his tenure, Solovetsky Monastery obtained big investments from Novgorod Republic and established itself as one of the richest monasteries in Russia.

Since 1547, Zosima is venerated as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church.

References 

1478 deaths
Russian Orthodox monks
Russian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
White Sea
15th-century Christian saints
Year of birth unknown
Hubert Edgar "Buddy" Bates (March 16, 1912 – April 29, 1987) was an American professional baseball player whose 18-year active career took place over a quarter century — between 1931 and 1955. All but 15 of Bates' games played occurred in the minor leagues, however. In his only trial in Major League Baseball, the outfielder spent September 1939 with the Philadelphia Phillies, where he collected 15 hits in 58 at bats; he scored eight runs.

Included among those 15 safeties was one big-league home run, struck September 29, 1939, at Shibe Park against Hal Schumacher of the New York Giants. Despite Bates' three hits in that game, the Phillies lost, 8–3 — one of 106 losses they would suffer during that season.

Born in Los Angeles, Bates batted and threw right-handed. He stood  tall and weighed . His long minor league career was interrupted by United States Navy service during World War II.  After the war, Bates became a player-manager and logged 11 seasons as a skipper, including 2 years with the Double-A Atlanta Crackers; his 1957 Crackers won the Southern Association championship. He last managed in the Baltimore Orioles' organization in 1961.

Bud Bates died in Long Beach, California, at age 75.

References

External links

1912 births
1987 deaths
Atlanta Crackers managers
Atlanta Crackers players
Baseball players from Los Angeles
Beaumont Exporters players
Burlington Bees players
Durham Bulls players
Greensboro Patriots players
Greenwood Chiefs players
Indianapolis Indians players
Lakeland Pilots players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Memphis Chickasaws players
Minor league baseball managers
Montreal Royals players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Shreveport Sports players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players
Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players
Wichita Indians players
Los Angeles High School alumni
Achmad Iqbal Bachtiar (born 2 May 1998) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga 2 club Semen Padang.

Club career

Semen Padang
He was signed for Semen Padang to play in Liga 2 in the 2018 season.

Honours

Club 
Semen Padang
 Liga 2 runner-up: 2018

References

External links
 Achmad Iqbal Bachtiar at Soccerway
 Achmad Iqbal Bachtiar at Liga Indonesia

1998 births
Living people
People from Sidoarjo Regency
Indonesian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Madura F.C. players
Semen Padang F.C. players
Liga 2 (Indonesia) players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Footballers from East Java
Indonesia men's youth international footballers
The Grand Ried is an Alsatian natural region which is part of the Ried. It shows landscapes typical of the Ried. To the west, it is delimited by the Ill, and by the Rhine to the east. It stretches between Strasbourg and Colmar. It was formed by the meandering Rhine (and Ill), before it was canalised. The Rhine used to spread its sediments when inundations occurred. Today the Rhine is corseted between embankments.

The Erstein polder is used to regulate the flow of the Rhine, thus avoiding inundations.
It has been listed as a national nature reserve since 1989. As a matter of fact, it is still
possible to discover in the reserve the biodiversity which used to exist when the  Grand Ried
was wild and the Rhine was not canalised.

The commune of Rhinau presents a unique feature: it possesses an area of almost 1000 ha
directly at the border, however on German soil. This is Rheinau. 
The landscape is characterised by numerous Baggersee (German word used in Alsace and meaning lakes
forming once sand and gravel pits have been shut down) and sand pits which are still being operated.

Nature reserves 
There are national nature reserves:
 Île de Rhinau
 Île du Rohrschollen
 Massif forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden

as well as a regional nature reserve:
 Forêt de l'Illwald (next to Sélestat)

Let us mention that there is a nature reserve in Rheinau:
 Taubergießen
on German soil.

Renewable energy 
In Marckolsheim, Rhinau, Gerstheim as well as Strasbourg hydro-electricity is produced by
France.

See also 
 Petit Ried

External links 
 Tourism Office of the Grand Ried

References 

Geography of Grand Est
France–Germany border
Murad Agayev (born 9 February 1993) is an Azerbaijani former football player.

Career
In June 2013, Agayev signed for AZAL from Sumgayit. After one season at AZAL he returned to Sumgayit.

On 17 June 2016, Agayev signed a two-year contract with Neftchi Baku
Agayev was released by Sabail FK at the end of the 2017–18 season.

Career statistics

Club

International

Statistics accurate as of match played 24 February 2012

References

1993 births
Living people
Azerbaijani men's footballers
Azerbaijan men's international footballers
Russian men's footballers
Russian sportspeople of Azerbaijani descent
Footballers from Stavropol
Shuvalan FK players
Sumgayit FK players
Neftçi PFK players
Sabail FK players
Shamakhi FK players
Azerbaijan Premier League players
Men's association football midfielders