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A Halloween card is a greeting card associated with Halloween. The concept originated in the 1890s United States, experiencing a peak of popularity there in the early 1900s. Until the advent of the common home telephone, Halloween cards occupied a role similar to Christmas cards and birthday cards. Today, many cards from the popular designers of the period are sought after as memorabilia.

History

An early reference to a Halloween card is made in volume 4 of Ingall's Home and Art Magazine published in 1891, in which a sample design is depicted in the article Domestic Helps for the Home by Laura Willis Lathrop. Early Halloween cards typically depicted the same themes as Easter cards and Christmas cards, as publishers reused images for various holidays, with the caption signifying the specific holiday. From about 1900 to 1915, the United States experienced a Halloween "postcard craze" that continued the commercialization of the holiday that began in the 1800s. By 1909, the Souvenir Post Card Company of New York City produced 12 Halloween card designs.

The popularity of Halloween cards rivaled that of Christmas cards until about 1930, by which time telephones were common household items and began supplanting the use of greeting cards. Halloween-themed postal cards were sold in post offices and by private printers with displays in general stores. Their popularity and the holiday's commercial success was "ultimately determined" by women, particularly those in the middle class.

Of the over 3,000 cards produced in the United States during this period, many depicted themes common to the modern tradition, including witches, pumpkins, and goblins. Other Halloween postcard themes included fortune-telling and romance or courtship. Designs also reflected the racism in the United States of the era: of the postcards produced by the Rust Craft Greeting Card Company from 1927 to 1959 catalogued by Wendy Morris, twelve categories of ethnic imagery were identified. The most common theme being black children, appearing on 42% of cards depicting an ethnic or racial difference from the white majority.

Designers

Well-known early postcard printers include Winsch and Raphael Tuck & Sons. Both printers employed artists whose postcard designs are collectables sought by Halloween memorabilia collectors. Winsch works by Samuel Schmucker (described as "small masterpieces of art nouveau" by Lisa Morton in her book The Halloween Encyclopedia) and Jason Freixas are highly prized. Among the artists employed by Tuck were Francis Brundage, and the "queen of postcard artists", Ellen Clapsaddle.

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Fântânele (; ) is a commune in Arad County, Romania. The commune is situated on the Vingăi Plateau, on the left bank of the Mureș River. It is composed of two villages: Fântânele (situated 10 km from Arad) and Tisa Nouă (Wiesenheid; Réthát). It also included Aluniș and Frumușeni villages until 2004, when they were split off.

Population
According to the 2002 census, the population of the commune is 5692 (4975 Romanians, 378 Hungarians, 159 Slovaks, 112 Germans, 31 Romani and 29 others.

History
The first documentary record of Fântânele dates back to 1457, while Tisa Nouă to 1135.

Economy
Although the economy of the commune is prevalent agricultural, grain, technical crops and fodder-plant growing are widespread, vegetable growing and cattle raising are also practised, and the secondary and tertiary economic sectors have also developed recently.

Tourism
The locality is included in the area with cultural value of national interest.
In Fântânele village one can visit the Roman Catholic church called "Îngerul Păzitor" (1780) and the Kover-Appel castle dating
back to the 19th century with its surrounding park and architectural complex.

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Communes in Arad County
Localities in Romanian Banat
Former Danube Swabian communities in Romania
Lake Templene is a  artificial lake in St. Joseph County, Michigan. It was created in the early 1970s by damming the Prairie River.

History
In the late 1960s Floyd Templin pursued the idea to dam the Prairie River to create a lake to build houses around. He gathered some investors and proceeded to build a dam.

The lake became popular for fishing tournaments, and this caused a conflict between residents and non-resident fishermen. The Nottawa Township Board of Trustees brokered a compromise. The compromise called for a limit of 25 fishing tournaments per year and the creation of an official public boat launch.

See also
List of lakes in Michigan

References

External links
 Lake Templene Property Owners Association

Templene
Templene
A community development corporation (CDC) is a not-for-profit organization incorporated to provide programs, offer services and engage in other activities that promote and support community development. CDCs usually serve a geographic location such as a neighborhood or a town. They often focus on serving lower-income residents or struggling neighborhoods. They can be involved in a variety of activities including economic development, education, community organizing and real estate development. These organizations are often associated with the development of affordable housing.

The first community development corporation in the United States was the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.

Activities
Real estate development
Affordable housing
Economic development
Small business lending
Small business technical assistance
Small business incubation (i.e. provision of space at low or no cost to start-up businesses)
Education
Early childhood education
Workforce training
Nonprofit incubation
Fundraising for local causes as a corporate donor, public charity, or foundation
Financing Housing cooperatives or other cooperatives
Fiscal sponsorship of community-based associations
Youth and leadership development
Advocacy
Sustainable development advocacy
Locally-owned business advocacy
Environmental justice and brownfields redevelopment
Community planning
Master planning for retail and community development
Community organizing
Lessening neighborhood tensions
Facilitating community and stakeholder participation in local programs and activities
Facilitating community access to targeted grants

In some jurisdictions in the United States, a CDC is by definition targeted towards direct investment in the community, while a "community development advocacy organization" is a category eligible for recognition as a tax-exempt charity or service organization.

Notable examples 
Abyssinian Development Corporation
Accion USA
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Community Development Corporation of Oregon
Chicanos Por La Causa
Mexicantown Community Development Corporation
Coalfield Development Corporation
Sunshine State Economic Development Corporation
Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation

References

Bibliography

External links
 http://community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/cdcs/index.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20150417001825/http://www.southfloridacdc.org/who/development/

Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Community development organizations
Voorting is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Adrie Voorting (1931–1961), Dutch cyclist, brother of Gerrit
Gerrit Voorting (1923–2015), Dutch cyclist

Dutch-language surnames
Cousins Island is an island in Casco Bay within the town of Yarmouth in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. It is listed as a census-designated place, with a population of 490 as of the 2010 census. The CDP is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The island is connected to mainland Yarmouth by the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge (colloquially known as the Cousins Island Bridge), built in 1955. It is also connected to Chebeague Island by a 15-minute ferry ride on the Chebeague Transportation Company's ferry, the Islander. The island's southwestern peninsula is the site of the Wyman Power Station, an oil-fired electric power plant capable of producing up to 823 megawatts of electricity. Wyman is a peaking power plant, which means it is fired up to operate only during times of high electricity demand in the region, such as hot summer days.  The Wyman Energy Center also includes a lithium-ion battery grid energy storage system which was the largest and the first of its kind in New England at the time of commissioning.  The battery is designed to provide ISO-New England an option for handling the continual changes in electricity supply and demand.

The island, Cousins River and Littlejohn Island (collectively known at the time as the Hogg Islands) are named after Englishman John Cousins (–1682), who emigrated from Marlborough, Wiltshire. He became the owner of Cousins Island in 1645 after purchasing it from Richard Vines, Steward General and councillor for Sir Ferdinando Gorges.  Two years later, he sold approximately half of it to Richard Bray, who settled there with William Wise.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which  is land and , or 46.51%, is water.

See also 
 List of islands of Maine

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Landforms of Yarmouth, Maine
Census-designated places in Maine
Portland metropolitan area, Maine
Census-designated places in Cumberland County, Maine
Islands of Cumberland County, Maine
Islands of Casco Bay
Islands of Maine
Geoffery S. Loomis (born December 22, 1970) is an American college baseball coach and former infielder. Loomis is the head coach of the Portland Pilots baseball team.

Amateur career
Loomis attended Oregon City High School in Oregon City, Oregon. Loomis played for the school's varsity baseball team. Loomis then enrolled at the University of Portland, to play college baseball for the Portland Pilots baseball team.

As a freshman at the University of Portland in 1990, Loomis had a .397 batting average, a .303 on-base percentage (OBP) and a .329 SLG.

As a sophomore in 1991, Loomis batted .397 with a .668 SLG, 10 home runs, and 53 RBIs.

In the 1992 season as a junior, Loomis hit 11 home runs, 22 doubles, 1 triple and 56 RBIs. He was named First Team All-Pac-10 Conference and the Pac-10 Player of the Year.

Professional career
Loomis was drafted in the 31st round by the Oakland Athletics in the 1992 Major League Baseball draft.

Loomis began his professional career with the Southern Oregon A's of the Class A Northwest League, where he batted .254 with five home runs. He returned to the Southern Oregon A's in 1993. He hit .247 with three home runs for Southern Oregon.

Coaching career
On June 10, 2015, Loomis was hired as the head coach of Portland.

Head coaching record

See also
 List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches

References

External links

Pacific Lutheran Lutes bio
Portland Pilots bio

Living people
1970 births
Baseball second basemen
Baseball third basemen
Portland Pilots baseball players
Southern Oregon A's players
George Fox Bruins baseball coaches
High school baseball coaches in the United States
Pacific Lutheran Lutes baseball coaches
Portland Pilots baseball coaches
Sportspeople from Oregon City, Oregon
Pacific University alumni
Christoph August Gersting (also known as Christian Gersting and August Christian Gersting; September 30, 1802 in Hanover – March 31, 1872 in Hanover) was a German mason, senator, and architect. He is best remembered for his classicist style of architecture. He was an instructor of Conrad Wilhelm Hase.

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1802 births
1872 deaths
German architects
John Martin (November 12, 1833September 3, 1913) was an American lawyer and politician from Hartsville, Tennessee. He represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1893 until 1895.

Martin was born near Hartsville, Trousdale County, Tennessee on November 12, 1833. He attended the common schools and clerked in stores and the post office, before moving to Tecumseh, Shawnee County, Kansas in 1855. He was elected assistant clerk of the first house of representatives in the Territory in 1855; county clerk and register of deeds 1855-1857; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Tecumseh; justice of the peace 1857; county attorney of Shawnee County 1858-1860; postmaster of Tecumseh 1858-1859; deputy United States attorney 1859-1861; reporter of the State supreme court 1860; moved to Topeka and practiced law in 1861; member, State house of representatives 1871-1875; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in 1876 and for the United States Senate in 1877; district judge 1883-1885; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fiftieth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1888; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on January 25, 1893, to fill the remainder of the term left vacant by the death of Preston B. Plumb; served from March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1895; chairman, Committee on Railroads (Fifty-third Congress); clerk of the Supreme Court of Kansas 1897-1899.

Martin died in Topeka, Kansas on September 3, 1913, and was interred in Topeka Cemetery.

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1913 deaths
Kansas state court judges
Democratic Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Democratic Party United States senators from Kansas
People from Hartsville, Tennessee
People from Shawnee County, Kansas
Politicians from Topeka, Kansas
19th-century American judges
People buried in Topeka Cemetery
Dame Sister Mary Leo Niccol  (3 April 18955 May 1989) was a New Zealand religious sister who is best known for training some of the world's finest sopranos, including Dames Malvina Major, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Heather Begg.

She was born as Kathleen Agnes Niccol in Auckland and educated by the Sisters of Mercy. She had a talent for music and eventually adopted the vocation of a teacher of music. She took private classes in dancing, elocution, and singing.

She joined the Sisters of Mercy at the age of 28, taking the religious name Sister Mary Leo. She occupied herself in the work of her religious institute in tending to the sick and needy. Sister Mary Leo initially began her teaching career as a violin teacher. She never received formal training in vocal technique. It was in the late 1930s, after she heard a recording of Deanna Durbin and was so taken with Durbin's natural tone, flexible technique, vocal range, and repertoire that included both opera and light music, that she decided to devote her time to teaching singing.

She developed the already strong musical tradition of St Mary's College in Auckland, with its orchestra, choirs, and individual tuition, and also conducted the Sisters' Choir. From 1934, the college offered private tuition, and her reputation as a vocal coach flourished.

From 1950 on, honours and plaudits followed the success of such students as Dame Malvina Major, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Heather Begg, Mina Foley, Judith Edwards, Elisabeth Hellawell, Patricia Price, Mona Ross and Elaine Dow; Leo's influence extended into the rock music world with student Jan Hellriegel.

In 1980 the Grand Opera Society of Auckland established the Dame Sister Mary Leo Scholarship in her honour. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to music, in the 1963 New Year Honours, and elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1973 Queen's Birthday Honours. She died in 1989, aged 94.

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1895 births
1989 deaths
New Zealand music teachers
Voice teachers
New Zealand Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Musicians awarded knighthoods
New Zealand schoolteachers
People from Auckland
Sisters of Mercy
20th-century New Zealand Roman Catholic nuns
New Zealand women music educators
Imran Butt (born 16 July 1988) is Pakistani field hockey player who plays as a goalkeeper for the Pakistan national team. He is the brother of former Pakistani Hockey player Rehan Butt.

International career
Butt started his career in 2012. He was one of two goalkeepers in the squad at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, UK but he didn't play any games because he was one of the reserves. His first call-up for the national team was the 2011 Asian Champions Trophy, but he played his first game for the national team at the 2012 Champions Trophy. He was also a part of the 2018 World Cup squad. He played 156 international matches for Pakistan team and he declared his retirement in Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, India.

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1988 births
Living people
Pakistani male field hockey players
Male field hockey goalkeepers
Field hockey players from Lahore
Asian Games medalists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 2014 Asian Games
Field hockey players at the 2018 Asian Games
2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Asian Games silver medalists for Pakistan
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent
South Asian Games gold medalists for Pakistan
South Asian Games medalists in field hockey
Foxtel Box Office is one of Foxtel's Pay Per View systems, which shows movies. It has 14 channels. Films currently come to Foxtel Box Office same day as DVD or 1–3 months after DVD release

External links
Official website

Television channels and stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Movie channels in Australia
Pietrzyków may refer to the following places in Poland:
Pietrzyków, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
Pietrzyków, Kalisz County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Pietrzyków, Września County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Pietrzyków, Lubusz Voivodeship (west Poland)
Serket  () is the goddess of healing venomous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology, originally the deification of the scorpion. Her family life is unknown, but she is sometimes credited as the daughter of Neith and Khnum, making her a sister to Sobek and Apep.

Scorpion stings lead to paralysis and Serket's name describes this, as it means "(she who) tightens the throat"; however, Serket's name also can be read as meaning "(she who) causes the throat to breathe" and so, as well as being seen as stinging the unrighteous, Serket was seen as one who could cure scorpion stings and the effects of other venoms such as snakebites.

In the art of ancient Egypt, Serket was depicted as a scorpion (a symbol found on the earliest artifacts of the culture, such as from Naqada III) or to have the body of a scorpion but the head of a woman or as a woman with a scorpion on her head. Although Serket does not appear to have had any temples, she had a sizable number of priests in many communities.

One of the most dangerous species of scorpion, the deathstalker (Leiurus quinquestriatus) resides in North Africa and its sting may kill, so Serket was considered a highly important goddess and sometimes she was considered by pharaohs to be their patron. Her close association with the early rulers implies that she was their protector, notably Scorpion I and Scorpion II.

As the protector against venom and snakebite, Serket often was said to protect the deities from Apep, the great snake-demon of evil, sometimes being depicted as the guard when Apep was captured.

As many of the venomous creatures of Egypt could prove fatal, Serket also was considered a protector of the dead, particularly being associated with venoms and fluids causing stiffening. She was thus said to be the protector of the tents of embalmers and of the canopic jar associated with venom—the jar of the intestine—which was deified later as Qebehsenuef, one of the four sons of Horus.

As the guard of one of the canopic jars and a protector, Serket gained a strong association with Neith, Isis, and Nephthys, who also performed similar functions. Eventually, Serket began to be identified with Isis, sharing imagery and parentage, until finally, Serket was said to be merely an aspect of Isis, whose cult had become dominant.

It has been suggested that Serket's identification with a scorpion may be a misinterpretation of the determinative of her name and animal associated with her and that could refer not to a scorpion, but rather to a water scorpion (Nepidae). According to this hypothesis, Serket is referred to as "she who gives breath" because of the way water scorpions seem to breathe underwater. The appearance of a waterscorpion must have made it be associated with the scorpion, therefore the use of the goddess for curing scorpion stings and other venomous creatures or maybe exactly because she "causes to breathe", not for the physical similarities of the creatures.

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Animal goddesses
Egyptian death goddesses
Egyptian goddesses
Health goddesses
Mythological arthropods
Naqada III
Scorpions in culture
John Brewster (1753–1842) was an English author and clergyman.

Life
Brewster was the son of the Rev. Richard Brewster, M.A., vicar of Heighington in County Durham. He received his education at the grammar school of Newcastle upon Tyne under Hugh Moises, and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1775, and M.A. in 1778. He was appointed curate of Stockton-on-Tees in 1776, and lecturer there in 1777. In 1791 he was presented to the vicarage of Greatham, benefice he held until 1799, when he became vicar of Stockton through the patronage of Bishop Shute Barrington. Barrington later preferred him to the rectories of Redmarshall in 1805, Boldon in 1809, and Egglescliffe in 1814.

He died at Egglescliffe 28 November 1842, aged 89.

Works
His chief work was his
Parochial History and Antiquities of Stockton-upon-Tees  published at Stockton in 1796. A second and enlarged edition was printed in 1829.

His other works include:
 Sermons for Prisons &c (1790).
 On the Prevention of Crimes and the Advantages of Solitary Confinement (1790).
 Meditations of a Recluse, chiefly on Religious Subjects (1800).
 A Thanksgiving Sermon for the Peace (1802).
 A Secular Essay, containing a View of Events connected with the Ecclesiastical History of England during the 18th Century (1802).
 The Restoration of Family Worship recommended, in Discourses selected, with alterations, from Dr. Doddridge (1804) .
 Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles(1806, 2 vols)..
 Of the Religious Improvement of Prisons, an Assize Sermon (1808).
 Meditations for the Aged, adapted to the Progress of Human Life (1810 four editions).
 Meditations for Penitents (1813).
 Reflections adapted to the Holy Seasons of the Christian and Ecclesiastical Year.
 Reflections upon the Ordination Service.
 Contemplations on the Last Discourses of our Blessed Saviour with His Disciples as recorded in the Gospel of St. John, (1822).
 A Sketch of the History of Churches in England, applied to the purposes of the Society for Promoting the Building and Enlargement of Churches and Chapels (1818).
 An Abridgment of Cave's Primitive Christianity.
 Memoir of the Rev. Hugh Moises, A.M; privately printed in 1823, and reprinted in Nichols's Illustrations of Literature, vol. v.

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1753 births
1842 deaths
English male writers
People from Heighington, County Durham
People from Greatham, County Durham