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Anna Porter

Anna Maria Porter  is a Canadian publisher and novelist.

Life and career
Born Anna Szigethy in Budapest, Hungary, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1956. She received a bachelor's degree and Master of Arts degree from the University of Canterbury. She started at McClelland & Stewart in 1969 and became president and publisher of Seal Books. In 1979, she founded Key Porter Books and in 1986 she purchased a majority stake in Doubleday Canada.

In 2004, she was appointed to the Board of Governors of York University.

In 1991, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being "instrumental in bringing Canadian titles to the attention of the international market place". In 2003, she was awarded the Order of Ontario. She has been awarded honorary degrees from Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), St. Mary's University, and the Law Society of Upper Canada.

In 2004, Porter sold her interest in Key Porter Books to focus on writing. She has published three mystery novels and three books on Middle European history. Her most recent book is The Ghosts of Europe, published in September, 2010.

She is married to the lawyer Julian Porter.

Selected works
 Farewell to the 70's: a Canadian salute to a confusing decade (1979)
 Hidden Agenda (1985)
 Mortal Sins (1987)
 The Bookfair Murders (1997)
 The Storyteller: memory, secrets, magic and lies (2000)
 Kasztner's Train: the true story of an unknown hero of the Holocaust (2007)
 The Ghosts of Europe: journeys through central Europe's troubled past and uncertain future (2010)
 Buying a Better World: George Soros and billionaire philanthropy  (2015, Dundurn Press)
 The Appraisal (2017)
 In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time (2018)

Awards and honours

2010: Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, winner, The Ghosts of Europe
2008: Charles Taylor Literary Prize for Non-Fiction, short-list, Kasztner's Train
2007: Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, winner, Kasztner's Train

References

External links

 Anna Porter's official website
 Canadians of Hungarian ancestry
 
 

1940s births 
20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian women writers
Canadian book publishers (people)
Canadian women novelists
Hungarian emigrants to New Zealand
Living people
Members of the Order of Ontario
New Zealand emigrants to Canada
Officers of the Order of Canada
University of Canterbury alumni
Women book publishers (people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Richard II of Capua

Richard II (died 1105/06), called the Bald, was the count of Aversa and the prince of Capua from 1090 or 1091. He was under the guardianship of Count Robert of Caiazzo until he came of age in 1093.

The eldest son and successor of Jordan I of Capua and Gaitelgrima, daughter of Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno, he was named after his grandfather, Richard I of Capua.  While digressing on this impressive lineage, the chronicler William of Apulia in his The Deeds of Robert Guiscard says that he "though now only a young man, already shows courage worthy of an adult."

He succeeded to his father's dominions at a very young age and immediately he and his family were thrown out of their city by the capricious Capuans. The counts of Aquino rose in rebellion and attacked Soria, defended by Richard's uncle, Jonathan, Count of Carinola.

Richard was an exile for the next seven years (during which a Lombard named Lando IV reigned) until, upon reaching his majority, he requested the aid of his great uncle, the count of Sicily, Roger I, and his first cousin once removed, the duke of Apulia, Roger Borsa. The two Rogers came, the former in exchange for the city of Naples and the latter for Richard's recognition of Apulian suzerainty, in May 1098 and besieged Capua for forty days.

It was an interesting siege, for Pope Urban II, embroiled in a controversy with Count Roger, came down to discuss the legatine power in Sicily with him and Anselm of Aosta, the archbishop of Canterbury in self-exile from King William II of England, came to meet the pope.  With the aid of Sicilian Saracens, the city fell and the prince was reinstated, Apulian suzerainty acknowledged, and the pope and the count withdrew to Salerno.

The final eight years of his reign were uneventful and he left no heir and was succeeded by his younger brother Robert when he died (in 1105 or, more probably, 1106).  Though he had accepted doing homage to the Hauteville duke of Apulia, his successors did not and Capua returned to de facto independence under them. Richard's confessor was Bishop Bernard of Carinola.

Sources
William of Apulia, The Deeds of Robert Guiscard Books One (pdf)
Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016-1130. Longmans: London, 1967.

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1106 deaths
Italo-Normans
Norman warriors
Counts of Aversa
Princes of Capua
Year of birth unknown
Wake Up Wal-Mart

Wake  Up Wal-Mart was a campaign founded by United Food and Commercial Workers Union. It was  based in Washington, D.C., and was often critical of the business practices of Walmart, the world's largest retailer, and the largest private employer in the United States. The group claimed Walmart was offering its employees substandard wages and health care benefits, and called on the retailer to improve both. Wake Up Wal-Mart was founded April 5, 2005, and maintained the web site WakeupWalMart.com, the centerpiece of the organization. The organization is now defunct. Its website is no longer active and the url wakeupwalmart.com now redirects to another UFCW-funded group, Making Change At Walmart.

Purpose

The group argued that Wal-Mart paid "poverty wages", relied on public health care rather than providing its employees with healthcare, and was, in general, harmful to communities.

Wal-Mart Workers of America
In 2005, the group formed an organization called "Wal-Mart Workers of America". The group said that the purpose of the new organization was to assist past and present Wal-Mart employees, but that it was not a formal labor union.

See also

Buffy Wicks
Criticism of Walmart
Walmart Watch
Whirl-Mart
Working Families for Wal-Mart

References

External links
 

Walmart labor relations
Change to Win Federation
Labor disputes in the United States
United Food and Commercial Workers
Wilmorite Properties

Wilmorite Properties, Inc is a commercial real estate company based in Chili, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York.

A subsidiary of the company owes significant back taxes and fees to the City of Rochester resulting from a loan and tax agreement surrounding the failed development of the Sibley Building.

The company manages Eastview Mall, The Mall at Greece Ridge, The Marketplace Mall, and Pittsford Plaza, all of which are in Rochester.

History
James P. Wilmot founded the company in the 1940s and since then, Wilmorite has developed retail, office, hotel, and residential real estate.

In 1967, Wilmorite built Greece Towne Mall (now The Mall at Greece Ridge), one of the first enclosed regional malls in New York State. In 1969, Wilmorite opened Long Ridge Mall and combined Greece Towne Mall and Long Ridge Mall in 1994, renaming it The Mall at Greece Ridge Center, dropping "Center" in 2006.

In 2005, the majority of the assets of the company were acquired by Macerich.

Notable former properties
 Camillus Mall
 Charlestowne Mall
 Danbury Fair Mall
 Fairmount Fair
 Fayetteville Mall
 Freehold Raceway Mall
 Great Northern Mall
 Irondequoit Mall
 Mohawk Mall
 Penn-Can Mall
 Rotterdam Square
 Shoppingtown Mall
 Sibley Building
 Tysons Corner Center
 Westshore Mall
 Wilton Mall at Saratoga
 Park Point at RIT

References

External links
Official Website

Real estate companies of the United States
Companies based in Monroe County, New York
Macerich
1940s establishments in New York (state)
2005 mergers and acquisitions
Mambai language

Mambai may be:

Mambai language (Cameroon)
Mambai language (Timor)
Hàn Mặc Tử

Francis Nguyễn Trọng Trí, penname Hàn Mặc Tử (September 22, 1912 – November 11, 1940), was a Vietnamese poet. He was the most celebrated Vietnamese Catholic literary figure during the colonial era.

He was born Nguyễn Trọng Trí, at Lệ Mỹ Village, Đồng Hới District, Quảng Bình Province.  His pen names included Minh Duệ, Phong Trần, Lệ Thanh, and finally Hàn Mặc Tử, by which name is known today. He grew up in a poor family, his father having died when he was young. He showed poetic talent at a young age. When he met Phan Bội Châu, he received encouragement and praise that made him well known. He contracted leprosy in 1937, and was finally hospitalized at Quy Hòa Hospital in September 1940, where he died two months later.

His many poems addressed to real or fictive women—in the manner of Giacomo Leopardi in the West, for example—remain popular, and he is known as a love poet in Vietnam. His poems on folk subjects are also well known.

Poetry
Hàn Mặc Tử's early poems—praised by Phan Bội Châu—are famous for their purity of diction and form, and show him to be a fluent Classicist with a strong interest in realistic subjects. Subsequently, his poetry showed the influence of French Symbolism, and after he fell sick, became increasingly violent and despondent. Personal despair combined with the search for poetic novelty led him to found the short-lived "Chaos" (Loạn) or "Mad" (Ðiên) school of poetry. More than a love poet, Hàn Mặc Tử was a Modernist, who sought to fuse, in a new poetic language, disparate traditions and experiences. Beginning with poems that refreshed the Classical tradition, he went on to absorb the French influence, which he directed toward the turbulence of his own painful history. His language, increasingly tortured, remained both Classical and innovative throughout; and though a Catholic, he made frequent use of Buddhist ideas and imagery.

Collections
Gái Quê (Country Girls) 1936, the only collection published during his lifetime
Chơi Giữa Mùa Trăng (Playing in the Moon Season)
Xuân Như Ý (Ideal Spring)
Ðau Thương (Suffering)
Thượng Thanh Khí (Fresh Air Above)
Cẩm Châu Duyên (Cẩm Châu Coast).
Đây thôn Vĩ dạ (Here is Vĩ Dạ hamlet).

Poetry in English
Hàn Mặc Tử's poetry has not appeared in credible English translations. His complex late style compounds the problems related to translating Vietnamese poetry into English; while the purity of his early style presents another set of challenges. A bilingual Vietnamese–French choice of his poetry was published in 2001 by French scholar Hélène Péras (Le Hameau des roseaux, Aryufen).

See also
 Hạc San

References

1912 births
1940 deaths
Vietnamese male poets
Vietnamese Roman Catholics
Deaths from leprosy
People from Quảng Bình province
Infectious disease deaths in Vietnam
20th-century Vietnamese poets
20th-century male writers
Hidden Camera Jihad

Hidden Camera Jihad also known as Jihad Hidden Camera is a propaganda film widely available on the internet. The film features clips of American & British soldiers being killed by IEDs and snipers and is overdubbed with slapstick style sound effects and an applause/laugh track.

It is often aired on Al-Zawraa TV, a TV channel that frequently airs footage of attacks on coalition forces.

In an interview with NPR Phil Alden Robinson (director of Sneakers and Field of Dreams) said he suspects the film is of American origin due to a number of pop culture references (including Tarzan and Fox News) and the software used to manufacture the film.

References

2006 films
2000s war films
Jihadist works
2006 independent films
Monk Dawson

Monk Dawson is a film that was released in 1998, directed and produced by Tom Waller and starring John Michie, Benedict Taylor, Martin Kemp, Rhona Mitra, and Paula Hamilton. It was based on the 1969 novel of the same name written by Piers Paul Read.

The film is about Eddie Dawson, a monk who has led a sheltered existence at a Benedictine monastery, but when he is expelled from his order he has to learn to deal with the harsh realities of everyday life in 1970s London, finding work as a journalist. He falls in love with a beautiful widow then discovers she has been having an affair with his best friend.

Eddie later marries a young girl who he first met whilst a priest in the parish,  however he decides to return to live as a monk on a remote island.

Despite being well received by film critics, the lack of a well-known cast led to a short box office run in the United Kingdom with a gross of just £7,210, and a straight to video release for the United States market. The film was chosen as the closer for the Leeds International Film Festival, and in 1999 it was also nominated for Best Film at the UK Creative Freedom Awards.

In Canada and the United States the film was re-released in 2004 as Passion of the Priest.

References

External links 

De Warrenne Pictures: Monk Dawson
FilmThreat.com: Monk Dawson

1998 films
1998 drama films
British drama films
Films based on British novels
Films set in London
Films set in the 1970s
1990s English-language films
1990s British films
Tino Rodríguez

Tino Rodríguez is a Mexican-American painter.  Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, Rodriguez was influenced by the symbolism and themes evident in the Catholic churches of his youth.  His work was also influenced by his absorption of fairy tales.

His work incorporates fantastical imagery combining animal and human forms, as well as dream-like backgrounds and settings.

His work has been exhibited at numerous venues in San Francisco.

The exhibition Tino Rodríguez: The Darkening Garden/El Jardin al Anochecer was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2003.

Rodriguez studied at the Sorbonne in 1990.  He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico.

External links
Official Site
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Arts Scene California

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Mexican painters
Mexican male painters
Mexican emigrants to the United States
University of Paris alumni
University of New Mexico alumni
American artists of Mexican descent
Artists from Guadalajara, Jalisco
21st-century Mexican male artists
Love Is Hell

Love Is Hell may refer to:

Love Is Hell, a Life in Hell anthology by cartoonist Matt Groening
Love Is Hell (Kitchens of Distinction album), 1989
Love Is Hell (Ryan Adams album), 2004
Love Is Hell (Phora album), 2018
Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 metre rapid fire pistol

The men's 20 metre rapid fire (or military) pistol was one of the competitions in the 1900 Summer Olympics shooting events in Paris. It was held from August 1 to August 4, 1900. Six athletes from 2 nations competed. This event was contested for prize money by professionals. It is no longer included in the International Olympic Committee website's database of Olympic medal events. Five of the six shooters were from France; the host nation swept the medals as Maurice Larrouy won with Léon Moreaux second and Eugène Balme third.

Background

This was the second appearance of what would become standardised as the men's ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol event, the only event on the 2020 programme that traces back to 1896. The event has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1904 and 1928 (when no shooting events were held) and 1908; it was nominally open to women from 1968 to 1980, although very few women participated these years. There is no women's equivalent on the Olympic programme, as of 2021. The 1900 event was very different from the 1896 event; it was open to professionals, shot at a distance of 20 metres instead of 25 metres, used 6 shots instead of 30, had targets with 10 points rather than 6 points, dropped the multiplicative scoring method, and had completely different requirements for the pistols used.

Competition format

The competition had each shooter fire 6 shots at 20 metres. The targets had 10 scoring rings. The maximum score was 60 points. Tie-breaking procedures are unknown.

Schedule

Results

The format was one series of six shots for a possible 60 points. It is not known how the five-way tie at 57 points was broken.

References

 De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Shooting 1900". Accessed 3 March 2006. Available electronically at .

Men's pistol rapid fire
Men's 1896
Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D

The Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D is a small turbofan engine built by Pratt & Whitney Canada. It was introduced in 1971 at  thrust, and has since undergone a series of upgrades to just over  thrust in the latest versions. It is the primary powerplant for a wide variety of smaller jet aircraft, notably business jets.

Design and development
When it first ran in 1967 the JT15D was rare among turbofan engines in that it uses a centrifugal compressor as its high-pressure stage.

About 70% of the air passing through the fan goes down the bypass duct. The  JT15D-4 and later variants use a "booster" axial stage behind the fan which runs at the same speed as the fan and directs the remaining 30% of the air into the high-pressure compressor, after which it passes into a reverse-flow annular combustor. The hot gases flow through a high-pressure turbine that drives the centrifugal compressor, and a low-pressure turbine that drives the fan and booster.

The engine was first run in August 1967 before being test flown on an Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck in an underslung external test pod.

Variants

JT15D-1The first model was introduced to power the  Cessna Citation I, then known as the Fanjet 500. Deliveries started in 1972, and eventually on 1,417 -1s were delivered.
JT15D-1A
JT15D-1B
JT15D-4Introduced in 1973, improving thrust to . The -4 was the primary engine for the Cessna Citation II, and went on to find use on the Mitsubishi Diamond 1A, Aerospatiale Corvette and SIAI-Marchetti S.211. Eventually 2,195 engines of the -4 series were delivered.
JT15D-4A
JT15D-4B
JT15D-4C
JT15D-4D
JT15D-5 Certified in 1983. The first versions delivered  and were used on the Beechjet 400A and Cessna T-47A. Several minor versions were introduced, the -5A for the Cessna Citation V, while the -5B powered the Beechcraft T-1A Jayhawk, the -5C the DASA Ranger 2000 and S-211A.
JT15D-5A
JT15D-5B
JT15D-5C
JT15D-5D Certified in 1993, increased thrust again, this time to . The -5D is used on the Cessna UC-35A and Cessna Citation Ultra.
JT15D-5F

Applications

 Aérospatiale Corvette
 Alenia Aermacchi M-311
 Boeing Bird of Prey
 Beechcraft Beechjet 400
 Cessna Citation I
 Cessna Citation II
 Cessna Citation V/Ultra
EADS Barracuda
 Hawker 400
 Honda MH02
 Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond
 Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus
 Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk
 Rockwell Ranger 2000
 Scaled Composites 401
 Scaled Composites ARES
 SIAI-Marchetti S.211/Aermacchi S-211
 Sport Jet II
 Stratos 716X

Specifications (JT15D-5D)

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.

External links

 PWC JT15D Product Overview page

1960s turbofan engines
JT15D
Medium-bypass turbofan engines
Centrifugal-flow turbojet engines
L. O. Hartman

Lewis Oliver Hartman (May 3, 1876 – June 30, 1955) was an American bishop of The Methodist Church, elected in 1944.

Biography
He was born in LaGrange, Indiana. Lewis married Helen Marion Nutter December 21, 1922, in Newton, Massachusetts.  She was born November 2, 1894.

Lewis entered the traveling ministry of the Cincinnati Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1903.  Prior to his election to the episcopacy in 1944, he served as a pastor, secretary for Sunday schools, and an editor.  He was editor of Zion's Herald for twenty-four years.

He was for a time the chairman of the General Conference Commission on Central Conferences.  He was president of the Methodist Federation for Social Service.  He also participated in ecumenical Methodist conferences.

As bishop he was assigned the Boston episcopal area, 1944–1948.

Hartman died June 30, 1955, at a hospital in Boston.

Selected writings
Louis O. Hartman to Rev. Soon Hyun (1917)
Popular Aspects of Oriental Religions (1917)

See also
List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

References
 Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops,  Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
 Obituary in The LaGrange Standard, LaGrange, Indiana, July 7, 1955.

External links
 Genealogical information about Mrs. Hartman 

1876 births
American Methodist bishops
Bishops of The Methodist Church (USA)
1955 deaths
People from LaGrange, Indiana
DR Movie

DR Movie Co., Ltd. is a South Korean animation studio that was established in Seoul in 1990 and frequently works with Japanese companies on anime titles. Since 1991, the studio has been in an exclusive partnership with the Japanese animation studio Madhouse, and in 2001, Madhouse became a partial owner/investor. In 2006, Madhouse's parent company at the time, Index Holdings, invested 600 million yen. DR Movie has been responsible for the animation production end of several Madhouse anime, starting with Tenjho Tenge in 2004 and continuing notably with Claymore in 2007. DR Movie has also been looking to make partnerships with Chinese animation companies for future productions, and as of March 2007 entered into a joint venture studio in Qingdao, China.

Besides Madhouse, DR Movie also has worked extensively with Nickelodeon, Sunrise, Warner Bros Animation, Gonzo, and Studio Ghibli. DR Movie is the only Korean contract studio with which Ghibli has worked.

Additionally, DR Movie maintains a production facility in Busan, known as Busan DR.

Works

Original productions
 Elsword: El Lady 
 Flowering Heart (2016–2017; co-production with Bridge and Busan DR) 
 Guardian Fairy Michel
 Metal Fighter T-Boys
 Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
 Paboo Infinity Force
 The Rising of the Shield Hero (Season 2; co-produced with Kinema Citrus)
 Terror Man

As an outsource studio for American production
 Avatar: The Last Airbender - (19 episodes)
 The Batman
 Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
 Batman and Harley Quinn
 Batman vs. Two-Face
 Godzilla: The Series (Seasons 1 and 2)
 Hellboy: Sword of Storms
 Hellboy: Blood and Iron
 High Guardian Spice
 Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
 Hulk Vs
 Justice League
 Justice League Action
 Justice League Dark
 Loonatics Unleashed (Main Title Production)
 Masters of the Universe: Revelation
 Men in Black: The Series
 Onyx Equinox
 The Simpsons (Season 34 episode "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" "Death Tome" segment)
 Todd McFarlane's Spawn
 Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
 Teen Titans ("Switched")
 Young Justice (Season 3)

Notes

References

External links
 DR Movie official site
 
 
 

DR Movie
South Korean animation studios
Entertainment companies of South Korea
Mass media in Seoul
Anime companies
Mass media companies established in 1990
Entertainment companies established in 1990
South Korean companies established in 1990
Suri

Suri may refer to:

Places
 Suri, Birbhum, a town in West Bengal, India
 Suri I, community development block in West Bengal, India
 Suri II, community development block in West Bengal, India
 Suri Sadar subdivision, administrative subdivision in West Bengal, India
 Suri (Vidhan Sabha constituency), an assembly constituency in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal
 Suri dynasty, a former South Asian empire
 Şuri, a commune in Drochia District, Moldova
 Suri, Hamadan, a village in Hamadan province, Iran
 Suri, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan province, Iran
 Suri District, an administrative division of Rumeshkan County, Lorestan province, Iran
 Suri Rural District, an administrative division of Rumeshkan County, Lorestan province, Iran
 Suri, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan province, Iran
 Suri, West Azerbaijan, a village in West Azerbaijan province, Iran
 Suri, Dolakha, Gaurishankar Rural Municipality, Dolakha District, Nepal
 Sori, Kenya or Suri

People
 Suri (name)
 Sur (Pashtun tribe) or Suri, a Pashtun tribe
 Suri (Ethiopia) or Surma people
 Suri language, a Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic language spoken by Suri people
 Suri (Khukhrain), one of the ten clans of the Khukhrain

Other meanings
 Śuri, Etruscan god
 Suri (Peru), a mountain in Peru
 Suri (flower)
 Suri alpaca, a breed of alpaca
 Darwin's rhea, a large flightless bird in South America
 Suri, edible larva of the palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum
 Suri, a lemur in the 2000 Disney animated film Dinosaur

See also
 Siri (disambiguation)
 Suri Sadar Hospital, West Bengal, India
 Surry (disambiguation)
 Unsuri (died 1039), Persian poet

Language and nationality disambiguation pages
Sur (Pashtun tribe)

Sur, are a historical Pashtun tribe from among the Kakar living primarily in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan. They claim descendance from Arab general Khalid ibn al-Walid. The founder of the Suri Empire in India, Sher Shah Suri, belonged to the Sur tribe. They ruled the Suri Empire from 1540 until they were removed from power in 1555 after the Battle of Sirhind by Humayun and the Persian army, who re-established the Mughal Empire.

History

The Suri tribe of the Afghans inhabited the mountains of Ghor east of Furrah and their principal cities were Ghore, Feruzi and Bamian.

See also
 Sur Empire
 Suri (name)
 Pashtun tribes
 Mandesh
 Qais Abdur Rashid
 Amir Kror Suri

Notes

References

External links 
 GHURIDS – Encyclopaedia Iranica

Pashtun tribes
Pashto-language surnames
Pakistani names
Paul Costello

Paul Vincent Costello (December 27, 1894 – April 17, 1986) was an American triple Olympic Gold Medal winner in rowing. He was the first rower to win a gold medal in the same event, double sculls, at three consecutive Olympics. He also won numerous national titles in both the single and double scull in the 1920s.

Costello won the double sculls race with his cousin John B. Kelly Sr., also known as Jack Kelly at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, and the 1924 Olympics in Paris, France. Costello repeated his winning ways at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with new partner Charles McIlvaine.

Historically, Costello has been overshadowed somewhat by Kelly who was also a triple Olympic gold medalist, having won both the single and double scull at the 1920 games, along with the double sculls at the 1924 games. Kelly gained additional fame as the father of both Grace Kelly, actress and Princess of Monaco, and John B. Kelly Jr., an accomplished oarsman in his own right. Costello and Kelly both rowed for the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia.

Achievements and awards
 Gold Medal, Double Scull, 1920 Olympic Games
 Gold Medal, Double Scull, 1924 Olympic Games
 Gold Medal, Double Scull, 1928 Olympic Games
 Member, United States Rowing Hall of Fame, Double Scull, (elected 1956)

References

Sources
 
 Hickok Sports
 

Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing
1894 births
1986 deaths
American male rowers
Rowers from Philadelphia
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Aria (region)

Aria ( Ar(e)ía, آريا; Latin Aria, representing Old Persian. 𐏃𐎼𐎡𐎺 Haraiva, Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬋𐬌𐬬𐬀‎ Harōiva) was an Achaemenid region centered on the city of Herat in present-day western Afghanistan. In classical sources, Aria has been several times confused with the greater region of ancient Ariana, of which Aria formed a part.

Geography
Aria was an Old Persian satrapy, which enclosed chiefly the valley of the Hari River (Greek , this being eponymous to the whole land according to Arrian) and which in antiquity was considered as particularly fertile and, above all, rich in wine. The region of Aria was separated by mountain ranges from the Paropamisadae in the east, Parthia in the west and Margiana and Hyrcania in the north, while a desert separated it from Carmania and Drangiana in the south. It is described in a very detailed manner by Ptolemy and Strabo and corresponds, according to that, almost to the Herat Province of today's Afghanistan. In this sense the term is used correctly by some writers, e.g. Herodotus (3.93.3, where the Areioi are mentioned together with the Parthians, Chorasmians, and Sogdians); Diodorus (17.105.7; 18.39.6); Strabo (2.1.14; 11.10.1, cf. also 11.8.1 and 8; 15.2.8 and 9); Arrian (Anabasis 3.25.1); Pomponius Mela (1.12, where we read that “nearest to India is Ariane, then Aria”).

Its original capital was Artacoana () or Articaudna () according to Ptolemy. In its vicinity, a new capital was built, either by Alexander the Great himself or by his successors, Alexandria Ariana (), modern Herat in northwest Afghanistan. Ptolemy lists several other cities, an indication of the province's wealth and fertility. The most important, according to Ptolemy and Arrian were:

History
The Persian Achaemenid district of Aria is mentioned in the provincial lists that are included in various royal inscriptions, for instance, in the Behistun inscription of Darius I (c. 520 BC). Representatives from the district are depicted in reliefs, e.g., at the royal Achaemenid tombs of Naqsh-e Rustam and Persepolis. They are wearing Scythian-style dress (with a tunic and trousers tucked into high boots) and a twisted turban around the head.

At the time of Alexander the Great, Aria was obviously an important district. It was administered by a satrap, called Satibarzanes, who was one of the three main Persian officials in the East of the Empire, together with the satrap Bessus of Bactria and Barsaentes of Arachosia. In late 330 BC, Alexander the Great, captured the Arian capital Artacoana. The province was part of the Seleucid Empire but was captured by others on various occasions and became part of the Parthian Empire in 167 BC. Aria was sometime between the late 2nd- and early 3rd-century conquered by the Kushan Empire, who would later in ca. 230 lose the province to the Sasanian Empire, where it became known as Harev.

See also
Arii (disambiguation)
Arianus (disambiguation)
Alexandria in Ariana
Arian (disambiguation)
Ariana (disambiguation)
Artacoana
Herat

References

Sources

 
 
 

Geographic history of Afghanistan
Achaemenid satrapies
History of Herat Province
Ancient history of Afghanistan
Siege of Capua

The siege of Capua was a military operation involving the states of medieval southern Italy, beginning in May 1098 and lasting forty days.  It was an interesting siege historically for the assemblage of great persons it saw and militarily for the cooperation of Norman and Saracen forces which it necessitated.

The siege
The siege was instigated by Richard II, prince of Capua, who had been exiled from his own capital for seven years (1091–1098) by Lando IV until, reaching his majority, he requested the aid of his great uncle, the count of Sicily, Roger I, and his first cousin once removed, the duke of Apulia, Roger Borsa. The two Rogers came, the former in exchange for the city of Naples and the latter for Richard's recognition of Apulian suzerainty.

Roger of Sicily had lately arrested Robert, bishop of Troina and Messina, whom Pope Urban II had given the legateship of Sicily, though Roger himself was holding it.  Embroiled in such controversy, the pope came down to discuss it with Roger, who released Robert.  The pope's presence caused the saintly archbishop of Canterbury, a Lombard, Anselm of Aosta, then in self-exile from King William II of England, to go to meet the pope.  According to Eadmer, Anselm's biographer, "the Lord Pope and Anselm were neighbours at the siege."

Eadmer also gives us an interesting portrait of the Arabs, whose brown tents Anselm found "innumerable." According to Eadmer, many Arabs, impressed by tales of Anselm's holiness, visited his tent for food and other gifts.  The biographer goes on to say that the count, whose soldiers the Saracens were, would not allow them, though many would readily have done so, to convert to the Roman Catholic faith. "With what policy—if one can use that word—he did this, is no concern of mine: that is between God and himself."  The policy, so inconceivable to Eadmer, is probably explained in this way: by maintaining a third religious and cultural party (other than Latin or Greek Christian) on the island, he assured that he could always have an ally, should either Muslim or Greek oppose him, a Latin.  It also assured the presence of an "outlet for the military instincts and talents of his Muslim subjects," according to historian John Julius Norwich.

Aftermath
When the city surrendered, Richard was reinstated, Roger Borsa accepted his homage, and the pope and Roger of Sicily retired to Salerno.

Sources
Southern, R. W. Saint Anselm and His Biographer. Cambridge, 1963.
Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016-1130. Longmans: London, 1967.

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Lu Li

Lu Li (; born August 30, 1976) is a Chinese gymnast.

Lu made the Chinese national team in late 1991.  However, liver illness almost prevented her from competing in the Olympic Games.  In April 1992, just a few months before the Barcelona Games, she made her international debut at the World Championships in Paris, where her highly innovative uneven bars routine caught the attention of the gymnastics world.  She only placed 4th because of a large step on the dismount, (although she was the leading gymnast in qualifying for the final).

Lu is best known for her gold medal on the uneven bars in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.  She won this with a perfect 10, which she achieved the same night as Lavinia Miloșovici also scored a perfect 10. Lu Li and Lavinia Miloșovici remain the last two people to score perfect 10s in Olympic competition to date. Lu Li also won a silver on the beam in the same games (tied with American Shannon Miller with a score of 9.912). This makes Lu Li China's second most successful female Olympic gymnast after Liu Xuan. Lu had troubles on her beam performance in the all-round competition, and placed a disappointing 34th.

Lu competed in the 1993 Chinese National Games and won the uneven bars title (tied with Luo Li, who would go on to win the 1994 World Championships in Brisbane).  She retired shortly thereafter.

In 2000, Lu Li moved to California and was a coach there.  She married Kim David Gussenhoven and has a son named JD.  She moved to North Carolina in 2007, still as a coach. In 2009, Lu Li moved to Stockton, California and coached at Champion Gymnastics Academy. On September 1, 2009, Li, Kim, and JD moved to Washington and she was hired to coach at Emerald City Gymnastics in Redmond. Recently, she has started coaching gymnasts in Gig Harbor.  Li then coached at Tech Gymnastics (formerly Eastside Gymnastics Academy) in Woodinville, WA. Currently Li coaches at Black Hills Gymnastics in Lacey, WA. They divorced in 2021.

References

1976 births
Living people
Chinese female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic silver medalists for China
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
People from Ningxiang
Sportspeople from Changsha
Gymnasts from Hunan
20th-century Chinese women
Strange Free World

Strange Free World is the second album by British alternative rock band Kitchens of Distinction, released on 19 February 1991 in the US by A&M Records and on 18 March 1991 in the UK by One Little Indian Records. It is the follow-up to their 1989 debut Love Is Hell. Noted producer Hugh Jones, who worked with Echo & the Bunnymen (on their 1981 album Heaven Up Here), among many others, helped KOD to sound more at ease in the studio.

Reviewer Ned Raggett of AllMusic notes that "Musically, the tunes sound quite ambitious in many ways, often steering away from conventional verse-chorus-verse formulas," and calling the album an overall excellent effort. It is often considered one of the group's best works, as well as possibly its most popular and commercially successful, peaking at number 45 on the UK Albums Chart. The album also includes their first UK charting single "Drive That Fast," which peaked at number 93 on the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing

Singles
"Quick as Rainbows" (March 1990)
 UK single:
 "Quick as Rainbows"
 "Mainly Mornings" (Live)
 "In a Cave" (Live)
 "Shiver" (Live)
 US promo 12" single:
 "Quick as Rainbows"
 "These Drinkers"
 "Elephantiny" [acoustic version of "Elephantine"]
 "Three to Beam Up"
"Drive That Fast" (January 1991)
 UK single:
 "Drive That Fast" (7" Edit)
 "These Drinkers"
 "Elephantiny"
 "Three to Beam Up"
 US promo 12" single:
 "Drive That Fast"
 "Railwayed"

Personnel
Kitchens of Distinction 
 Patrick Fitzgerald – vocals, bass
 Julian Swales – guitar
 Dan Goodwin – drums
with:
 Roddy Lorimer – trumpet on "Under the Sky, Inside the Sea"
Technical
 Hugh Jones – producer, engineer
 Michael Ade – assistant engineer
 Helen Woodward – mixing engineer
 Richard Norris – assistant mixing engineer
 Ken Perry – mastering
 Colin Bell – photography
 Art direction and design by Two Guys and Kitchens of Distinction
 Mixed at Master Rock
 Mastered at A&M Mastering

References

Kitchens of Distinction albums
1990 albums
Albums produced by Hugh Jones (producer)
One Little Independent Records albums
Christine Sefolosha

Christine Sefolosha (born 1955) is a Swiss painter, born in Montreux.

Work and exhibitions
Her works have been shown at numerous one person and group exhibitions, including at the Cavin Morris Gallery in New York City, American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and the Galerie Polad-Hardouin in Paris. and the Halle Saint-Pierre
 
She regularly shows her work at the Judy Saslow Gallery in Chicago. In 2009 she was introduced to Bruxelles's J. Bastien Art Gallery. She founded the studio Quai 1-L'Atelier in 2000 within Montreux' train-station waiting room.

Personal life

Sefolosha is the mother of Thabo Sefolosha, former NBA player who played for the Houston Rockets, Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Chicago Bulls.

Sefolosha lived in South Africa for nine years.

References

External links
 Cavin Morris Gallery
 Arbre de lune (short bio and picture, French-language source)
 http://www.rawvision.com/articles/66/sefolosha/sefolosha.html

1955 births
Living people
20th-century Swiss painters
21st-century Swiss painters
Swiss women painters
20th-century Swiss women artists
21st-century Swiss women artists
Swiss contemporary artists
People from Montreux
A. A. Watts

A. A. Watts may refer to:

Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), British poet and journalist
Alaric Alfred Watts (1825–1901), British clerk and spiritualist
Alf Watts (1862–1928), British socialist

See also 
Watts (surname)
Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

The men's individual competition with free revolver event was one of the competitions in the Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics events in Paris. It was held on 1 August 1900. 20 shooters from 4 nations competed, with five shooters per nation. Medals were given for individual high scores, and the scores of the five shooters were summed to give a team score for the team event. The target designed for this competition is still being used today. The event was won by Karl Röderer of Switzerland, with his countryman Konrad Stäheli taking bronze. Between them was Achille Paroche of France with silver.

Background

This was the second appearance of what would become standardised as the men's ISSF 50 meter pistol event. The event was held at every Summer Olympics from 1896 to 1920 (except 1904, when no shooting events were held) and from 1936 to 2016; it was open to women from 1968 to 1980.

All four of the competing nations were making their debut; none had a shooter in this event in 1896. The event doubled as the first World Championship in free pistol.

Röderer used a Waffenfabrik Bern 1882 Swiss Ordnance Revolver.

Competition format

The competition had each shooter fire 60 shots at a distance of 50 metres. The target was round, 50 centimetres in diameter, with 10 scoring rings. Scoring for each shot was up to 10 points, in increments of 1 point. The maximum score possible was 600 points.

Revolver must have a barrel of 11 cm in length. Ties were broken by greatest number of shots on target (1 or better), then greatest number in the black (7 or better), then by ring (10, 9, 8, etc.).

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Karl Röderer set the initial Olympic record with 503 points.

Schedule

Results

References

 International Olympic Committee medal winners database
 De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Shooting 1900". Accessed 3 March 2006. Available electronically at .
 

Men's pistol military
Men's 1900
Harry Woods (footballer)

Harry Woods (12 March 1890 – 1956) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He initially trained as a glass worker whilst playing as an amateur for St Helens Recreation, and then Ashton Town and St Helens Town. In 1911, he joined Norwich City, then in the Southern League, where he played until the outbreak of World War I, making 151 appearances and scoring 37 goals in all competitions.

Woods served in the Tank Corps in France during the war, and finally began his Football League career with South Shields, then in the Second Division, in August 1919. After two seasons with the club, during which he scored 24 times in 95 games, which earned him a £2600 move to Newcastle United in January 1922. Woods failed to settle at St James' Park, however, managing just two goals in 16 appearances before he joined Arsenal on 25 August 1923. He scored ten goals in his first season, helping the Gunners to narrowly avoid relegation, but after Jimmy Brain made his first-team debut in October 1924 and established himself in the side, Woods' opportunities were limited. The team's form improved dramatically after Herbert Chapman was appointed manager in 1925, but Woods played only three times under him, and left for Luton Town in August 1926, where he scored 27 goals in 105 games. He moved back into non-league football with North Shields in 1930.

Woods died in 1956.

References

Sources
 

1890 births
1956 deaths
Footballers from St Helens, Merseyside
English men's footballers
Men's association football inside forwards
Ashton Town F.C. players
St Helens Town A.F.C. players
Norwich City F.C. players
Gateshead A.F.C. players
Newcastle United F.C. players
Arsenal F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
North Shields F.C. players
Southern Football League players
English Football League players
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Tank Regiment soldiers
Military personnel from Merseyside
Military personnel from Lancashire
Harry Woods

Harry Woods may refer to:

 Harry M. Woods (1896–1970), musician and songwriter
 Harry Woods (actor) (1889–1968), American actor
 Harry Woods (footballer) (1894–?), English footballer
 Harry Woods (Illinois politician) (1863–1914), American politician
 Harry Woods (Australian politician) (born 1947), Australian politician
 Harry Woods (rugby league), English rugby league footballer of the 1930s
 Harry Woods (rugby union) (1903–1972), Australian rugby union player

See also
 Harry Wood (disambiguation)
 Henry Woods (disambiguation)
Ketel

Ketel is a legendary Magyar tribal chieftain of perhaps Kabar origin, who lived at the end of the 9th century. He was the father of Alaptolma, and the first known ancestor of the Koppán clan.

According to the medieval Gesta Hungarorum, the leader of the Magyars, Árpád, donated a large estate to Ketel along the Danube and Váh (Vág) rivers where he settled with his people. Today, Ketel is honoured as the legendary founder of the city of Komárom with his son, Alaptolma.

References

Magyar tribal chieftains
Gesta Hungarorum
Koppán (genus)
Viridomarus

Viridomarus (or Britomartus as translations vary; died 222 BC) was a Gaulish military leader who led an army against an army of the Roman Republic at the Battle of Clastidium. The Romans won the battle, and in the process, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the Roman leader, earned the spolia opima by killing Viridomarus in single combat.

References

Celtic warriors
3rd-century BC Gaulish tribal chiefs
Year of birth unknown
222 BC deaths
Francis Storrs

Francis Edmund Storrs (1883 – 10/11 November 1918) was a British academic and intelligence agent. He was the younger brother of Arabist and colonial administrator Sir Ronald Storrs.

He was educated at Radley College from 1897 to 1902, and then at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he received a BA; he won scholarships at both institutions He was a professor at Elphinstone College in Bombay in 1908, and then at Rangoon College in 1912.

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1911. On 28 November 1912, he married Catherine Josephine Schiff (d. 1956 Dec. quarter, Westminster).

During the First World War, he initially worked for the civil service in matters concerned with supplying Russia; he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne for this service. In 1916-17 he served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in Greece with the rank of Lieutenant, then in 1917 with the Secret Intelligence Service in the Aegean. At the time, large areas of Greece were effectively under Allied military occupation, nominally controlled by the Venizelist government. Storrs was responsible for the passport control and port control of some thirty islands in the Cyclades, and in effect for all counter-espionage work in this area.

He suffered the unusual indignity, in May 1917, of losing his front teeth to his own gunfire; whilst test-firing a surplus three-pounder gun they had mounted to a yacht, he ignored a warning to remove his pipe, and the recoil knocked out two teeth.

He worked under Compton Mackenzie, who left a favourable portrait of him in Ægean Memories (p. 25):

...without [Storrs], whatever fruits our work in the Cyclades bore could never have been achieved. Virgil and Horace spoke at his summons, and he commanded all the elegance of light verse that is the Cambridge man's prerogative.
His conscientiousness was almost excessive. Night after night he would be working on the files of his office until two or three in the morning after a hard day's work of almost incessant worrying interviews. He was a martyr to bad headaches, but I never heard him give way to more than a weary groan of expostulation when human folly or vice was seeming unendurable any longer. I can never repay Francis Storrs in this world for his personal loyalty and devoted service.

In the autumn of 1917 he left Athens, and moved back to London, where he was in residence in May 1918. He died in Chelsea, of the Spanish flu, on the 10th or 11 November 1918. Sources vary; it is likely he died at some point in the night, and did not live to see the Armistice. A bell at Rochester Cathedral, where his father was Dean, was dedicated in his memory in 1921, as was a French prize at Radley College.

References
Radley College Register 1847-1962, 1965.
Rochester Cathedral
Ægean Memories, Compton Mackenzie, 1940.

1883 births
1918 deaths
Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
Deaths from Spanish flu
People educated at Radley College
MI6 personnel
Royal Navy officers of World War I
Academic staff of the University of Yangon
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War I
Alaptolma

Alaptolma (or Tolma) is a legendary Magyar tribal chieftain who lived in the first part of the 10th century.

According to the medieval Gesta Hungarorum, Alaptolma, son of Ketel, built a castle on the estate of his father, at the confluence of the Danube and Váh () rivers. This ancient castle became the core of the town of Komárom. Today Ketel and Alaptolma are honoured as the legendary founders of the city.

References

10th-century Hungarian people
Magyar tribal chieftains
Gesta Hungarorum
Koppán (genus)