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Dick Wantz

Richard Carter Wantz (April 11, 1940 – May 13, 1965) was an American professional baseball player whose life and Major League career were cut short when he was felled by a fatal brain tumor. A right-handed relief pitcher and a rookie member of the Los Angeles Angels in 1965, he died mere days after his April 13 MLB debut, the only appearance he would be able to make in the majors.

Background

Wantz was a native of South Gate, California, and attended Artesia High School in Lakewood. After graduation from high school, Wantz attended Cerritos College and helped lead his team to the league championship in 1959 and again in 1960. He was an all-league selection both years and voted the team's most valuable player in 1960. Tall and lanky—Wantz stood  tall and weighed —he signed with the Angels in 1961 while attending California State University, Los Angeles. Then he worked his way through the minor leagues, beginning in Class D ball in 1961; by the end of the 1964 season, he was a member of the Angels' Triple-A affiliate, the Hawaii Islanders. That fall, he appeared in 11 games and won two of three decisions for the Angels' team in the Arizona Instructional League.

In , Wantz pitched well during spring training and became a member of the Angels' early-season roster. He made his debut during the team's home opener in its final season as tenants at Chavez Ravine on April 13. With the opposition Cleveland Indians leading 5–0, Wantz relieved Don Lee at the start of the eighth inning. He struck out the first batter he faced, Max Alvis, but then surrendered back-to-back doubles to Vic Davalillo and Larry Brown and an RBI single to Joe Azcue. He then fanned opposing pitcher Ralph Terry and retired Dick Howser to escape further scoring. Wantz exited the game for a pinch hitter with Cleveland leading, 7–0. His pitching line: one inning pitched, in which he allowed three hits and two earned runs, with no bases on balls and two strikeouts. It would be Wantz' only appearance in the majors before his illness struck.

Death

A week later, during a road trip to New York City, Wantz began to experience severe headaches. He was hospitalized in Detroit, then was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor when he returned to California. He died in Inglewood after undergoing surgery, exactly one month after his debut against the Indians. He was 25.

See also
 List of baseball players who died during their careers

References

External links

Salon.com

1940 births
1965 deaths
Artesia High School (California) alumni
Baseball players from Lakewood, California
Deaths from brain cancer in the United States
Hawaii Islanders players
Los Angeles Angels players
Major League Baseball pitchers
People from South Gate, California
Quad Cities Angels players
San Jose Bees players
Statesville Owls players
Tri-City Angels players
Takeshi Caesar

(born August 17, 1955), better known by his ring name , is a Japanese actor, retired kickboxer and the founder of shoot boxing.

Career 
Murata started competing in kickboxing at age of 16, being trained in the Nishio Gym. He adopted the name of Takeshi Caesar and won the Asia Pacific Kickboxing Federation Welterweight Championship, making a name for himself. In 1984, he became interested in professional wrestling and was introduced to Satoru Sayama, who trained him in shoot-style at his Super Tiger Gym. Caesar then was contacted by Karl Gotch and Akira Maeda and was part of the Universal Wrestling Federation. After the fall of UWF, his experiences with its wrestling style induced him to creating a similarly mixed style of kickboxing, which he called shootboxing. His company had his first event in 1985, and had working agreements with Newborn UWF and later with Fighting Network RINGS and Pancrase.

Championships and accomplishments 
Asia Pacific Kickboxing Federation
APKF Welterweight Championship (1 time) 
APKF Middleweight championship (1 time) 
Japan Shootboxing Association
JSBA Hawkweight 1st champion (1986) 
World Shootboxing Association
WSBA Hawkweight 1st champion (1988)

Kickboxing record

Filmography

See also
Shoot boxing

References 

Japanese male kickboxers
Welterweight kickboxers
Middleweight kickboxers
Shoot boxing
Sportspeople from Yamaguchi Prefecture
1955 births
Living people
Navy diver

Navy diver is a general term to describe members of a country's naval forces who specialize in underwater diving and military diving.

 Australia: Royal Australian Navy clearance diver
 Canada: Canadian clearance diver
 Germany: German Navy clearance diver
 Ireland: Naval Service Diving Section (NSDS)
 Norway: Norwegian Navy mine diver command
 United Kingdom: Royal Navy ships diver
 United States: Navy diver (United States Navy)

Armed forces diving
Master Diver

Master Diver usually refers to an experienced person in underwater diving or scuba diving.  In more formal settings, this may refer to someone who has completed a qualification program to receive the designation.

United States military
 Master diver (United States Navy)
 United States Army Master Diver, a qualification of United States Army engineer diver

Recreational diving
 Master Scuba Diver, a non-professional certification
 Divemaster, a professional certification
Diego de Acebo

Diego de Acebo (also known as Diaz de Osma, Alphonsus Didacus, Didacus Acebes) was bishop of Osma (Castile, Spain) from 1201 to 1207.

Life
Diego de Acebo was prior of the cathedral chapter of the Catedral de Santa María de la Asunción in El Burgo de Osma, where Dominic of Osma became a canon. De Acebo was named Bishop of Osma in 1201. As bishop, he reformed the canonry according to the Rule of St. Augustine.  

Accompanied by the future Saint Dominic, Diego travelled ad Marchias Daciae (to Denmark) in 1203 or 1204 to secure a bride for crown prince Ferdinand, son of Alfonso VIII of Castile. They made a second journey in 1204 or 1205 intending to bring the girl back with them, but found that she had meanwhile died. They returned by way of Rome, where Diego unsuccessfully petitioned Pope Innocent III to be entrusted with a mission to the northern pagans. Instead, continuing their journey via Cîteaux, Diego and Dominic began the work of conversion of the Cathars. In 1206 Bishop de Acebo became the unofficial leader of a papal mission to Languedoc, in southern France. 

Diego was instrumental in the foundation of Prouille and took part in the early Cathar-Catholic debates at Verfeil, and Montréal, In 1207 he participated in a religious conference with Durand of Huesca and other Waldenses at Pamiers which resulted in Durand and his group returning to the Catholic Church. Soon afterwards Acebo was ordered by the Pope to return to his diocese, where he died on 30 December 1207.

Notes

Bibliography 

 M.-H. Vicaire, "Une ambassade dans les Marches" in Pierre Mandonnet, Saint Dominique: l'idée, l'homme et l'oeuvre (Paris: Desclée De Brouwer, 1938) vol. 1 pp. 89–98.

1207 deaths
Bishops of Osma
Catharism
13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Castile
Year of birth unknown
Weymouth Marina

Weymouth Marina occupies most of the inner backwater of Weymouth Harbour, Dorset, England. The marina was refurbished to accommodate more vessels in the 1990s, and today houses hundreds of pleasure cruisers, fishing boats, yachts, dinghies and speedboats. Access to the marina is via a lifting road bridge across the harbour between Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.

External links

Marina
Marina
Marinas in England
Swedish national road 11

National Road 11 (), is a Swedish national road in Skåne in southern Sweden between Malmö and Simrishamn. The length of the road is 88 km (55 mi).

Earlier the road had the road number 12, but in conjunction with the renumbering of the European routes in 1992 the Swedish National Road Administration changed the number of the national roads that would have the number in common with any European routes in Sweden, in this case E12.

References

Transport in Skåne County
National road 11
¿Quién es el señor López?

¿Quién es el señor López? (Spanish for "Who is Mr. Lopez?")  is a 2006 film made by film director Luis Mandoki. It is a political non-fiction film about the  2006 and  2012 Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the 2006 Mexican general election.

The five-DVD documentary includes interviews with López Obrador and with journalists and academics, including Denise Dresser (ITAM), Lorenzo Meyer (COLMEX); the lawyers Néstor de Buen, Javier Quijano and Juventino Castro y Castro, all of them sympathizers with the Revolutionary Democratic Party of the candidate.

The film author has given his work a copyleft licence. It can be distributed at no cost.

References

External links
 

2006 films
Documentary films about politics
2000s Spanish-language films
Mexican documentary films
2006 documentary films
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
2000s Mexican films
Sonlez

Sonlez (, ) is a village in Luxembourg.

Location and population
It is situated in the commune of Winseler, in north-western Luxembourg.  , the village has a population of 47.
It is situated between Tarchamps (West) and Doncols (East)

Linguistic features
Sonlez is known as an historically Walloon-speaking village, similarly to Doncols. Unlike neighbouring Doncols, however, its German and Luxembourgish spellings are identical.

See also
 Doncols#Historical and linguistic backgrounds

Villages in Luxembourg
Wiltz (canton)
Philippe Labro

Philippe Labro (born 27 August 1936) is a French author, journalist and film director.  He has worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1 and Antenne 2.  He received the Prix Interallié for his autobiography L'Étudiant étranger in 1986.

At the age of eighteen, he left France to study at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He then travelled across the United States. On his return to Europe, he became a reporter. From 1960 to 1962, during the Algerian war, Labro was a member of the military. He then returned to his journalistic activities. While covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy for French newspaper France-Soir, he met Jack Ruby in Dallas days before he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald; he was thus subsequently officially auditioned by the Warren Commission.
He has written and directed many films and was a close friend of Jean-Pierre Melville, as he recalls in the 2008 documentary Code Name Melville. From 1985 to 2000, he was director of programmes at RTL becoming the vice president of the station in 1992.

In April 2010, he became Commander of the Légion d'honneur.

Selected filmography
 Sans mobile apparent (Without Apparent Motive) - with Jean-Louis Trintignant (1971)
 L'Héritier - with Jean-Paul Belmondo (1973)
 Le hasard et la violence (Chance and Violence) - with Yves Montand and Katharine Ross (1974)
 L'Alpagueur (The Hunter Will Get You) - with Jean-Paul Belmondo (1976)
  (Cover Up) - with Claude Brasseur, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jean-Claude Brialy (1983)
 Rive droite, rive gauche - with Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye and Carole Bouquet (1984)

References

External links
 

1936 births
Living people
People from Montauban
20th-century French journalists
21st-century French journalists
French autobiographers
French film directors
French television executives
French television presenters
Commanders of the Legion of Honour
Prix Interallié winners
Washington and Lee University alumni
Paris Match writers
Alexandra Park, Ipswich

Alexandra Park is situated between Grove Lane, Kings Avenue and Back Hamlet, Ipswich.

History
In 1903, the Ipswich Corporation purchased one of six packages of land which was formerly part of the Hill House Estate and home of the Byles family.  The land became parkland and was named Alexandra Park after the wife of Edward VII.

In June 1904, the park was officially opened to the public.

Features

The park is mainly gently sloped grass area.  It includes a children's play area and public toilets.

It also is host to the May Day Festival in Ipswich, held usually on the closest Sunday to May 1.

The park has a natural slope from Grove Lane down to Kings Avenue. This permits views of the surrounding areas, including the Orwell Bridge, the docks area and many of the town's ancient churches such as St Mary le Tower and its  prominent spire.

Memorial Fountain
The fountain was presented to the town by Alderman Charles Henry Cowell as a memorial to his mother, Marianne Byles Cowell.

External links
 Government website

Parks and open spaces in Ipswich
Garrett Lowney

Steven Garrett Lowney (born October 3, 1979 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American former Greco-Roman Olympic wrestler.

Lowney wrestled for the University of Minnesota under coach J Robinson. While at the University of Minnesota, he received his B.A. in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and ran a youth instruction company to support his way through college. After graduation, he became a member of the 2004 Summer Olympic team in Athens. He attended Freedom High School which is in the small town of Freedom, Wisconsin.

References

External links
 Garrett Lowney's U.S. Olympic Team bio 

1979 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Appleton, Wisconsin
Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
American male sport wrestlers
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in wrestling
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Zekuhl

Atna Jean Emmanuel (Manu) Njock, aka Zekuhl, is a singer, guitarist, percussionist and a songwriter of world music. He presents a Bolbo-Jazz style. He sings in Bàsàa (a Cameroon language), French and English.

Early life
Njock was born in Quebec City and raised in Cameroon. His initiation to Cameroonian and Bantu musical traditions, as well as those of the Baka Pygmies who lived near his village of Kaya, began at age four. He studied many Cameroonian musical styles, including the Assiko, the Bolbo, the Bikutsi, the Ndin, the Mangambeu, the Bol, the Makossa, the Mbalè, the Mpeya of the Baka Pygmies. He also learned to play the Nkuu (a wooden, cylinder-shaped drum with hollowed-out slits) also known as the African telephone, since it reproduces the sound of spoken language.

Career

Njock arrived in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) in 1991. Joining the Quebec music scene as Zekuhl, he at first played the guitar, and later developed a style which included his diverse African influences. In 1992 he released a self-titled album.  He performed at a number of cultural and music festivals in Quebec.

Zekuhl's third album, I Bolo, released in 2011, combined jazz funk guitar and bantu rhythms; eight years later he released Tòòdana ("Awake"), with lyrics in the Baasa language.

Discography 
1992: Zekuhl
1997: Amon
2011: I Bolo

Awards 
 2011: nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards «World Solo Artist of the Year»
 2010: Jean Bikoko Aladin Award (delivered by Cameroonian community figures in Canada)
 1991: nominated L'Empire des futures stars

References

External links
Zekuhl Official website
Club Culture: Zekuhl
African Recording Reviews #5 (several reviews, includes Amon)

Date of birth missing (living people)
Musicians from Montreal
Canadian world music musicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Joanne Bonnar

Joanne Bonnar is a reporter, presenter and producer for STV News in Central Scotland.

Bonnar primarily works as a presenter on the STV News on STV Glasgow, and on the late bulletins on STV. Joanne also reports on a variety of stories across the West region.

References

External links

Living people
Scottish television presenters
STV News newsreaders and journalists
Scottish women television presenters
Scottish women journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Actual notice

Actual notice is a law term, used most frequently in civil procedure.  It is notice (usually to a defendant in a civil proceeding) delivered in such a way as to give legally sufficient assurance that actual knowledge of the matter has been conveyed to the recipient. Personal service, that is, physically handing something to an individual, is usually considered the least-disputable method of giving actual notice.

Actual notice may be contrasted with constructive notice, which is a way of giving notice that may not immediately bring the matter to the attention of the individual that is intended to receive the notice.  Constructive notice includes, among other methods, service on an agent or family member, service by posting (on the front door), and service by publication (as in a newspaper).

References

Legal terminology
Civil procedure
A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization

A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization was a UK film released in 1912, directed and written by Cherry Kearton. Shot on 35mm film in silent black and white, it was distributed by WTC.

The film was produced in 1911 by the Ethnographic Society of London, who had previously commissioned Kearton to film a traditional Kenyan dance performed to honour Theodore Roosevelt when he visited the country in 1909.

References

External links

1912 films
British black-and-white films
British silent short films
Films directed by Cherry Kearton
Thomas Hardesty Campbell

Thomas Hardesty Campbell (1907 – 1989) was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, a former president and dean of Memphis Theological Seminary, and a former director of the Historical Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Campbell retired from the seminary in 1974 and served seven years as pastor of the Harrison, Arkansas, Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was moderator of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1973, and was a member of White River Presbytery, in Arkansas, for many years.

Campbell wrote several books relating to the history of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination, and contributed to A People Called Cumberland Presbyterians, the definitive history of that denomination. His last work was Winds of Doctrine (1986), detailing his experience with a variety of theological movements which have influenced the church in the sixty years of his ministry.

1907 births
1989 deaths
20th-century American Presbyterian ministers
Memphis Theological Seminary faculty
Cumberland Presbyterian Church ministers
Religious leaders from Tennessee
Roosevelt in Africa

Roosevelt in Africa is a film by Cherry Kearton, released in 1910. It is a documentary about the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition, featuring Theodore Roosevelt in Africa. It is shot in silent black and white.

One of the biggest headline-grabbing stories of 1910 was former president Theodore Roosevelt's safari into Africa.  Landing in Mombasa in 1909, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda.

For some of this journey, he was accompanied by famed British bird-and-animal photographer Cherry Kearton, who shot wildlife and native scenes with a hand-cranked motion picture camera.  Among the scenes captured by Kearton's camera were a number of Maasai gatherings and dances – although the Maasai were incorrectly identified in the film's slates as "Zulus."

Quick to cash in on the media frenzy, the Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago released a fake documentary that it had shot at its own California game preserve, using a lookalike actor as a stand-in for Roosevelt when necessary.

Motion Picture Patents Company, using Pathé as its distribution arm, responded by releasing the authentic Kearton footage under the title Roosevelt in Africa.

Kearton had dreamed of filming an African lion, but was unable to do so during the Roosevelt voyage.  The fake Selig film did feature a lion – a tamed aged lion.

External links
 

1910 films
Films about Theodore Roosevelt
American silent short films
Films directed by Cherry Kearton
Black-and-white documentary films
Documentary films about presidents of the United States
American documentary films
1910 documentary films
Films shot in Africa
American black-and-white films
1910s American films
Topaz Lake

Topaz Lake is a reservoir located on the California-Nevada border, about  south of Reno. The census-designated place of Topaz Lake, Nevada, is located along its northwest shore.

The modern reservoir was formed by diverting waters from the West Walker River into a nearby basin that had previously contained a smaller, natural lake. That lake had historical significance since it lay on the route taken by American explorer Jedediah Smith in late spring of 1827 when leaving California at the end of his first journey, the first crossing ever of the Sierra Nevada by a non-native. Smith came southeast through Monitor Pass, then east past Topaz Lake into Nevada.

The initial dam construction took place in 1922, resulting in a reservoir with a capacity of . In 1937, a new levee raised the capacity to its current . Topaz Lake is a relatively large reservoir, with a maximum pool of , with  surface, a length of , a width of , and a maximum depth of . The levee and reservoir have been owned and operated by the Walker River Irrigation District since its construction.

Topaz Lake is popular for boaters, water-skiers, campers, and fishermen. Fishing season runs year-round, and the lake is stocked with trout by the Nevada Department of Wildlife and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The lake is easily reachable by U.S. Route 395. On the northwest shore of the lake is the Topaz Lodge and a residential area. There is also a volunteer fire station in the area.

U.S. Route 395 passes by the west side of the lake at the California-Nevada state line. The southeastern terminus of California State Route 89 is  south of the state line. The western terminus of Nevada State Route 208 is  north of the state line.

See also
 List of lakes in California
 U.S. Route 395 in California
 U.S. Route 395 in Nevada
 Coleville, California
 Topaz, California
 Walker, Mono County, California

References

External links
 Area map

Reservoirs in Nevada
Lakes of Douglas County, Nevada
Reservoirs in Mono County, California
Buildings and structures in Douglas County, Nevada
Lakes of the Great Basin
Tourist attractions in Douglas County, Nevada
Reservoirs in California
Reservoirs in Northern California
Cuff (disambiguation)

A cuff is the lower edge of a sleeve or pant leg.

Cuff may also refer to:

Objects
 Epimanikia, often called "cuffs", a liturgical vestment used in the Eastern Churches
 Cuff, an inflatable balloon that can hold a catheter in place
 Cuff, a slang term for handcuffs
 Cuff microscope, a form of microscope

Organizations
Canadian Unihockey/Floorball Federation
Cuffs (Iowa State University), an Iowa State University BDSM student group

Other uses
 Cuff (surname), a list of people with the surname
 City University Film Festival, or CUFF, at CUNY
 Cuff Cape, a headland in Victoria Land, Antarctica
 Cuffs (TV series), a 2015 police drama series set in Brighton, England
 Cuff, NATO reporting name for the Russian Beriev Be-30 airliner and transport aircraft
 Cuff, a slang term meaning metaphorically attaching oneself to another, as in cuffing season

See also
 Rotator cuff, a group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder
 Kuffs, a 1992 film starring Christian Slater and Milla Jovovich
Weekly Dearest My Brother

is a series of six bishōjo-centered manga booklets that were released weekly for a short time in Japan. The manga would come packaged with a limited edition plastic-figure assembly kit, designed by Ohshima Yuki, of the featured character of the week. These figures of small-breasted prepubescent girls helped to expand the niche market of lolicon and also placed Ohshima in high esteem among figure collectors in Japan due to the high level of detail and clever portrayals. Some of Ohshima's figurines are reproduced by Takashi Murakami (Murakami, 2005).

Featured artists included Ohshima, YUG, Barasui, Kunihiko Tanaka, Shinichi Yūki, Hanaharu Naruko, Yuuno, Izumi Kazuto, Humikane Shimada, Hiro Kanzaki, Tony, and Kashmir.

References

 Murakami, Takashi (editor). Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture. New York: Japan Society, 2005. pp. 54–55

External links
 Review of volume 1 with pictures (Archived)
 Use of Weekly Dearest My Brother figures in digital art 
 Otaku Talk 

2003 manga
MediaWorks (publisher)
Seinen manga
Karen Greenshields

Karen Greenshields is a reporter for STV News in Central Scotland.

Before joining STV as a researcher in 1995, Greenshields lived overseas for many years, including 12 months in Brazil, and had various stints as a researcher with independent production companies. Her degree in languages led to various jobs as an interpreter and translator.

Greenshields first worked for regional travel show Scottish Passport before becoming a weather presenter. She later joined the Scotland Today newsroom and specialises in arts and features, including the Edinburgh Fringe festival.

References

External links 

Living people
Scottish television presenters
Scottish women television presenters
STV News newsreaders and journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Religion in Ireland

This a list of articles about religion in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
 Religion in the Republic of Ireland
 Religion in Northern Ireland
 Irreligion in the Republic of Ireland
 Christianity in Ireland
 History of Christianity in Ireland
 Roman Catholicism in Ireland
 Protestantism in Ireland
 Reformation in Ireland
 Islam in Ireland
 Islam in Northern Ireland
 Hinduism in Ireland
 Hinduism in the Republic of Ireland
 Hinduism in Northern Ireland
 History of the Jews in Ireland
 History of the Jews in Northern Ireland
Neo-paganism in the Republic of Ireland
 See Neopaganism in the United Kingdom for Neopaganism in Northern Ireland.
Joe McCluskey

Joseph Paul McCluskey (June 2, 1911 – August 31, 2002) was an American track and field athlete. During his running career, he won 27 national titles in various distance events and captured the steeplechase title a record nine times in a 13-year period.

Biography
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, McCluskey won the bronze medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase event. However, his medal could have been a silver. A substitute lap counter failed to hold up the number of the laps remaining the first time the runners went past, and the athletes wound up running an extra lap. McCluskey was second at what should have been the end of the regular race but dropped back to third during the extra lap. When offered the opportunity to rerun the race the next day, McCluskey said, "A race has only one finish line" and chose to let the results stand making it the only 3,460-meter steeplechase event ever held in Olympic history.

McCluskey, born in South Manchester, Connecticut, was also a 1936 Olympian and coached the New York Athletic Club for fourteen years. He graduated from Manchester High School in 1929. A 1933 graduate of Fordham University, McCluskey was inducted into the Fordham University Hall of Fame, the NYAC Hall of Fame, the USATF Hall of Fame in 1996 as well as the Penn Relays Wall of Fame posthumously in 2010.

He served as Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy during World War II, then later married having eight children and employed as a stockbroker in New York City.

McCluskey died in Madison, Connecticut at the age of 91. He was survived by his wife Anne Conger, and his eight children, Joseph Jr., Mary Cotard, Kathleen McElroy, James, Robert, Richard, Susan Jaeger, and Martin van Buren. He also had 12 grandchildren, with his last grandchild born in 2003. His grandchildren are Julian and Antoine Cotard, Daniel and Emily McElroy, Andrew and Richard Jr. McCluskey, Joanna and Laura Jaeger, and Gabrielle, Liam, Lucas, and Aidan McCluskey. Two of his grandchildren, Daniel McElroy and Laura Jaeger, followed in his footsteps and attended Fordham University, where Laura competed, like her grandfather, on the track and field team running the 4x400 relay race.

References

External links
 
 Joe McCluskey, "Manchester's Greatest Runner" at the Manchester Historical Society
 Joseph McCluskey at the Fordham University Athletics Hall of Fame
 
 
 

1911 births
2002 deaths
American male steeplechase runners
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field
Track and field athletes from Connecticut
Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Fordham University alumni
Sportspeople from Manchester, Connecticut
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
 American Masters Athlete that competed in Olympics
Eliahu I. Jury

Eliahu Ibrahim Jury (May 23, 1923 – September 20, 2020) was an Iraqi-born American engineer. He received his the E.E. degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (now, Israel), in 1947, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1949, and the Sc.D. degree degree from Columbia University of New York City in 1953. He was professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Miami.

He developed the advanced Z-transform, used in digital control systems and signal processing. He was the creator of the Jury stability criterion, which is named after him.

He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the ASME, the First Education Award of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the IEEE Millennium Medal. In 1993 he received the AACC's Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.

Bibliography 
Theory and Application of the z-Transform Method, John Wiley and Sons, 1964.
Inners and stability of dynamic systems, John Wiley & Sons, 1974

References

1923 births
2020 deaths
21st-century American engineers
Academics from Baghdad
Iraqi emigrants to the United States
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Control theorists
Iraqi engineers
People of Iraqi-Jewish descent
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
University of Miami faculty
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Koningshooikt

Koningshooikt is a village that since 1977 forms a municipality with Lier in the Belgian province of Antwerp. In the local dialect Koningshooikt is often called Jut or Koningsjut. Koningshooikt was founded on 1 January 1822, when the village Koningsbossen (also known as Koningsbos or 's-Herenbos) were united with quarters Hooikt and Hazendonk, the latter separated from the village Berlaar.

The village is known because of the bus manufacturer Van Hool, the sound recording studio Motormusic Studios and the motorhome constructor Motorhomes Konings.

Gallery

See also
K-W Line, a defense line between Koningshooikt and Wavre during World War II

References 

Populated places in Antwerp Province
Lier, Belgium
Tanglewood Park Arboretum and Rose Garden

Tanglewood Park Arboretum and Rose Garden is an arboretum and garden located within Tanglewood Park at 4201 Clemmons Road, Clemmons, North Carolina.

The park was laid out from 1921 onwards by Mr. and Mrs. William Neal Reynolds, brother of tobacco entrepreneur R. J. Reynolds, and in 1951 willed to the citizens of Forsyth County. It is now maintained by Cooperative Extension Service, Forsyth County Center, and includes an arboretum, rose garden, and various other gardens, with displays as follows:

 Arboretum - small trees, dwarf conifers.
 Rose garden - approximately 800 rose bushes, of which some 400 are American Rose Society winners.
 Other gardens - annuals, butterfly garden, children's garden, cottage garden, daylily, fragrance garden, groundcover, herb, hosta, hydrangea, perennials, rhododendrons, rock garden, viburnum, vines, wildflowers, winter interest garden, and xeriscape.

See also 
 List of botanical gardens in the United States

External links 
 Tanglewood Park Arboretum and Rose Garden

Arboreta in North Carolina
Botanical gardens in North Carolina
Protected areas of Forsyth County, North Carolina
Nichola Kane

Nichola Kane is a broadcast journalist and producer for STV News in Central Scotland.

Kane joined Scotland Today around 1998 after completing a degree in media studies and politics at Stirling University and a diploma in journalism at Strathclyde University. After working in STV's Glasgow newsroom for six months, Kane was seconded to the station's Edinburgh studios and has since covered the Eastern area for the programme.

She is currently the producer of the East edition of STV News at Six.

References

External links

Living people
STV News newsreaders and journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Stirling
Place of birth missing (living people)
Market if touched

In financial markets, market if touched or MIT is a type of order that will be executed when the price is touched (when a predetermined value has been reached and the futures contract will trade or bid at the price).

This type of order triggers a market order only when the security reaches a specified sell price. Stock buyers can place an MIT order to buy or to sell.

References

Financial markets
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Ranald Leask

Ranald Leask is the international public relations and media manager of the University of Edinburgh,  Previously, he was a public relations and media manager for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. a position he was appointed to in May 2009.

Leask earlier spent ten years as a journalist in Scottish television, working as a reporter, producer, and presenter for STV News in Central Scotland.

Whilst studying for a Master of Arts degree in history at Aberdeen University, Leask worked for student radio and the campus newspaper.

References

Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Scottish radio personalities
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sterling Furniture

Sterling Furniture is Scotland's largest furniture retail development based in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. It was founded in 1974 by Stirling-based furniture retailer George Knowles, who based its concept on the out-of-town retail developments which had been successful in the United States.  He bought and converted a disused mill in Tillicoultry, making it the largest furniture showroom in Scotland.

Knowles later expanded the complex to include a 'Homestore Outlet' and garden centre, and was involved in the development of the "Sterling Mills outlet centre" on land opposite the original furniture warehouse, which was formerly the base of Marshall Construction.

Their television advertisements, starring football commentator Dougie Donnelly have become part of popular culture, together with the phrase "Tillicoultry, near Stirling" (even though Tillicoultry is 10 miles east of Stirling).

Sterling have stores throughout Scotland in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh (this store was branded as ‘Martin & Frost’ from 2015-2021, but was reverted to a Sterling Home store), Falkirk, Inverness and Uddingston but the Tillicoultry HQ is by far the largest with a Homestore as well as two restaurants and a garden centre.

After the death of George Knowles' son in 2003, Gordon Mearns took over the running of the company. He has expanded the company's stores and profits.

BoConcept store opened in Sterling Furniture in November 2021.

References

External links
 Sterling Furniture website
 Sterling Mills website

Retail companies established in 1974
Companies based in Clackmannanshire
Organisations based in Clackmannanshire
Buildings and structures in Clackmannanshire
Service companies of Scotland
Shopping centres in Scotland
1974 establishments in Scotland
Economy of Clackmannanshire
Vereen

Vereen is both a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:

 Vereen Bell (1911–1944), American novelist and naval officer
 Ben Vereen (born 1946), American actor, dancer, and singer
 Brock Vereen (born 1992), American football safety
 Carl Vereen (born 1936), American football offensive tackle
 Corey Vereen (born 1995), American football player
 Shane Vereen (born 1989), American football running back
 Wendy Vereen (born 1966), American track and field sprinter
Louisville Falls Fountain

The Louisville Falls Fountain was a fountain that floated in the Ohio River off the shore of downtown Louisville, intended to be a major tourist attraction for Louisville, Kentucky. It operated from 1988 to 1998.

The fountain was dedicated August 19, 1988, four days after the death of its benefactor, Barry Bingham Sr. who, along with his wife, Mary Caperton Bingham, had donated $2.6 million towards the project and future upkeep.  The octagonally-shaped, computer-controlled fountain was located near the mooring of the steamboat Belle of Louisville, just west of the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. It was purported to be the tallest floating fountain in the world, and spewed 15,800 gallons of water per minute in the shape of a fleur-de-lis. The Binghams were inspired by the Jet d'Eau fountain in Geneva, Switzerland, and they, along with then-Governor of Kentucky Wallace Wilkinson, hoped a fountain in Louisville would become a symbol for the city on par with the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

The fountain, lit by colored lights, was to be operated from Memorial Day through Thanksgiving every day from morning through midnight, and stored during the winter in Utica, Indiana. When operating, it was visible from Belle of Louisville cruises, the Belvedere and nearby parts of downtown Louisville, as well as the Southern Indiana riverfront at Jeffersonville and Clarksville.

Costs were higher than expected, and the fountain malfunctioned several times, quickly depleting the maintenance fund. Maintenance was eventually taken over by the Louisville Water Company. It initially shot water to a height of 420 feet, though to lower operation costs this was eventually lowered by the water company to 375 feet.

On September 27, 1998, the fountain's central pump exploded leading to a total breakdown, as reported by then-Mayor Jerry Abramson a few days later. Due to the expenses involved in repairing the fountain, the city decided to keep it shut down and subsequently sold it for scrap. , the fountain was still floating and tethered to a barge on the Ohio River adjacent to New Albany, Indiana, yet to be dismantled.

See also
Louisville Waterfront Park
List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
History of Louisville, Kentucky

References

External links
"Fountain on Film", LEO Weekly, August 13, 2008.
Satellite image of the Louisville Falls Fountain's current location on Google Maps

Buildings and structures completed in 1988
Fountains in Kentucky
Landmarks in Kentucky
Ohio River
1988 establishments in Kentucky
1998 disestablishments in Kentucky
Relocated buildings and structures in Indiana
Bingham family
Gerard la Pucelle

Gerard la Pucelle (sometimes Gerard Pucelle;  1117 – 13 January 1184) was a peripatetic Anglo-French scholar of canon law, clerk, and Bishop of Coventry.

Life

Gerard was possibly born in England, taught canon law at the University of Paris in the 1150s, when the study of the discipline of the Church was first differentiated from theology, spurred by the collections of church decretals that began with the Decretum Gratiani assembled by a monk at the University of Bologna. Among his surviving texts are glosses on the Decretum manuscripts to be found among the manuscripts of Durham Cathedral and glosses in the Summa Lipsiensis, in the Summa Parisiensis, and elsewhere. Gerard added to the standard collection from which he taught. Among his pupils were Lucas of Hungary, Ralph Niger, master Richard, a certain Gervase who retired to Durham, and the English scholar Walter Map.

Gerard was a member of Thomas Becket's entourage, his extended familia, and a close friend of John of Salisbury. After Becket went into exile, Gerard taught for a while in Paris before he undertook a mission to the Empire in 1165/66 even though Frederick Barbarossa was under a ban of excommunication. Between 1165 and 1168 he taught at Cologne, and held a prebend at that city. In 1168 Gerard returned to England and took the oath of fealty to Henry II, which  Becket had rejected.

From about 1174 Gerard was once again in England, serving as a principal clerk to Becket's successor as Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard of Dover. He was also with Peter of Blois for a time in Rome, where he represented Archbishop Richard before the Curia. In 1179, Gerard attended the Third Lateran Council as the archbishop's representative. From there, he may have returned to Cologne to teach for a bit, but by 1181 Gerard had returned to England.

Perhaps already a canon, in January 1183, Gerard was appointed Bishop of Coventry, which made him the vassal of Henry II of England, but he died the following year on 13 January 1184 at Coventry. Some suspected that Gerard was poisoned. He was buried in Coventry Cathedral.

Notes

Citations

References

Further reading
 
 S. Kuttner and E. Rathbone, "Anglo-Norman canonists of the twelfth century" Traditio 7 1949–51 p. 279–358
 Pennington, Dr. Ken "d.-glosses, appear in a strata of Bolognese glosses composed during the 1180s" Bibliography.
 Weiler, Dr. Bjorn review of Joseph P. Huffman, Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Immigrants, c.1000-c.1300 (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Joseph P. Huffman's response (on-line )

12th-century births
1184 deaths
Bishops of Lichfield
Academic staff of the University of Paris
12th-century writers in Latin
12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
12th-century English jurists
12th-century French Roman Catholic bishops
Benoit, Wisconsin

Benoit is an unincorporated community in the towns of Keystone and Mason, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. It is along County Highway F.  Benoit is 13 miles southwest of the city of Ashland. Nearby is the junction of U.S. Highway 2 and U.S. Highway 63.

History
The community was named for Antoine Benoit, a pioneer French settler. Other names before Benoit included Thirty Miles Siding, Peckville, Peck and Benoitville.

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Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Decoding the Past

Decoding the Past (2005–2008) is a History Channel paranormal television series that "decodes" the past by looking for unusual, and mysterious things written throughout history that may give clues as to what will happen in the future.

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

References

External links
 A&E Store – Decoding the Past
 IMDb – Decoding the Past
 TV.com – Decoding the Past
 TV Guide – Decoding the Past
 Official discussion forum on The History Channel's website

History (American TV channel) original programming
Conspiracy
Paranormal television
Gagliano family

It has since been researched that Alessandro was never in Cremona at all. All folklore. As he learned locally from lute/violin makers, possibly 2 of them. So the Romance of him learning from Amati and Strad. is just a story. Perhaps his quality of varnish and workmanship led some to believe he learned in Cremona. 

Gagliano is the name of a famous family of Italian luthiers from Naples, dating back to the early 18th century. The Gagliano dynasty –  particularly Alessandro, Nicolò I and Gennaro – are considered the high point of Neapolitan violin making. There are as many as eighteen  Gagliano violin makers known worldwide today. Below is a family tree of a few of its most recognizable luthiers.

Alessandro Gagliano
( 1700 –  1735) Naples, Italy. As a youth, Alessandro worked in the shops of famed luthiers Nicolo Amati and Antonio Stradivari. After returning to Naples from Cremona, he became the founder of the Neapolitan school. Authentic examples of his instruments in good condition are scarce. A few violas, cellos, one double bass, and several violins have survived.

Typical label:
Alexandri [or Alessandro] Gagliano
Alumnus Antonio Stradivarius
fecit Anno 1722

Nicolò Gagliano I
(active  1730 –  1780) Naples, Italy. Nicolò Gagliano (also known as Nicolo,  Nicola or the Latinised Nicolaus) was the eldest son of Alessandro and is generally considered the most famous luthier of the Gagliano family (he is known as Nicolò I to differentiate him from his grandson Nicolò II). He made many admirable instruments in his long life. His instruments have often been copied or imitated, and were occasionally even mistaken for those of Antonio Stradivari.

Typical labels:
Nicolaii Gagliano fecit
in Napoli 1711

or

Nicolaus Gagliano filius
Alexandri fecit Neap. 1752

Gennaro Gagliano
(active  1740 –  1780) Naples, Italy. The second son of Alessandro, Gennaro (also known by his Latinised name Januarius) created some well-made instruments and had a prominent position in the family.

Ferdinando Gagliano

(born 1724, active  1770 –  1795) Naples, Italy. Ferdinando was the eldest son of Nicolò I although probably taught by his uncle Gennaro. He made some magnificent as well as nondescript instruments. However, he had a prodigious output of instruments. Occasionally, instruments with his label were actually made by his father or his brother.

Labels: 
Ferdinandus Gagliano Filius / Nicolai, Fecit Neap. 17..

Ferdinando Gagliano, me fecit / Neapoli, anno 17..

References

" Ferdinand Gagliano Violin and Viola" by John Dilworth on the Amati website.

Further reading

Italian luthiers
Neapolitan families
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Eleanour Sophie Sinclair Rohde (1881–1950) was a British gardener, garden designer, and horticultural writer. She authored thirty books on gardening between 1913 and 1948, and is best known for her book, The Scented Garden, published in 1931.

Biography
Eleanor Sophie Sinclair Rohde was born in Alleppey, Travancore, India, on 9 August 1881. She was the daughter of John Rohde, a civil servant in India, and his wife, Isabel Crawford. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and St Hilda's College, Oxford. After Oxford, she began her writing career with articles on gardening in magazines, including The Field, The Queen, The Cornhill Magazine and The Garden. 

During her long career, Rhode authored thirty publications on gardening and gardening history. For much of her life, she lived at Cranham Lodge, in  Reigate, Surrey. Rohde grew and collected uncommon herb and vegetable varieties in her large garden 

Rohde also worked as a garden designer. One of the most visited gardens that she designed was the herb garden for Lullingstone Castle in west Kent, England. Her work did much to encourage the modern popularity of herb gardens. The work that she is most known for is The Scented Garden, published in 1931. Her other popular books include, A Garden of Herbs (1921), Rose Recipes from Olden Times (1939), and The Wartime Vegetable Garden.  The Wartime Vegetable Garden was published in 1940 to promote increased food production by the general public during World War II.

In her personal life, Rohde was shy, solitary and a strict vegetarian.

Selected publications
1921: A Garden of Herbs
1922: The Old English Herbals
1924: The Old English Gardening Books
1925: The Old-World Pleasaunce: An Anthology, of extracts in prose and verse relating to gardening
1929: A Chaplet of Flowers: An Anthology
1931: The Scented Garden
1938: Vegetable: Cultivation and Cookery
1939: Rose Recipes from Olden Times 
1940: Culinary and Salad Herbs: their cultivation and food values
1940: The Wartime Vegetable Garden, Medici Society (reprinted 1941, twice, & 1942)
1943: Uncommon Vegetables, London: Country Life (1943)

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1881 births
1950 deaths
British garden writers
British gardeners
Women horticulturists and gardeners
Place of death missing
Date of death missing