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Detroit Free Press Marathon

The Detroit Free Press Marathon is a  race run every third Sunday in October in Detroit, Michigan, United States and Windsor, Ontario, Canada since 1978.  Major General Stan Connelly and Jerry Coyle organized the first international marathon.  MaryJane Hatton, recorded the times as the runners crossed the finish line.  After each marathon Stan Connelly and his daughter MaryJane Hatton would compile a booklet entitled, “We’re All Winners” of every runner and their times. The marathon course is international and has featured the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel for all but two years of its existence.  The current course crosses the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. Due to its use of the tunnel, the race is able to boast that it has the only official underwater international mile in the world, as the tunnel runs underneath the Detroit River. The race is a USATF-certified, Boston-qualifier course.

The race weekend also features an international half-marathon, a U.S.-Only half-marathon, a relay, a 5K, a 1-mile and a Kids fun run.

History 
The predecessor to this race was the Motor City Marathon which started in 1963 and featured multiple laps on Belle Isle.

The marathon was first held in 1978.

From 1978 to 1998 the race started in Windsor and finished in Detroit. The race has had several other sponsors, changing the name slightly each time.

2009's field was a record 19,326 runners who participated.

The 2020 in-person edition of the race was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Registrants were given the option of running the race on their own courses, transferring their entry to 2021 or 2022, or obtaining a 50 percent refund.

Winners

References

External links 
Detroit Free Press Marathon
Findamarathon.com – Detroit Marathon

Marathons in the United States
Marathons in Canada
Sports competitions in Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Sport in Windsor, Ontario
Spotty (fish)

The spotty or paketi, Notolabrus celidotus, is a species of wrasse endemic to the waters around New Zealand, including Stewart Island and the surrounding areas.  It can be found on reefs at depths from , though most common in shallower parts of that range.  This species can reach  in standard length. Like other wrasses, spotties begin life as females. Once they reach a length of 13–19 cm at the age of 3–4 years, some of the largest fish may turn into males. Male spotties stake out territories in which they maintain a harem of roughly 20 females that they aggressively defend from other males. When a male dies, the dominant female in the harem will change sex over a few days and take over control of both the harem and territory. This social structure keeps the sex ratio strongly biased towards females. Spawning usually occurs from late July to the end of October.

References

Spotty (fish)
Endemic marine fish of New Zealand
Fish described in 1801
Labridae
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation

The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is a charitable organization  headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, dedicated to finding treatments and cures for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other neurological disorders.

The organization's mission statement states, "The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy." Since 1982, it has distributed over $138 million to spinal cord researchers, and $28 million to nonprofits that aim to support better quality-of-life for people with disabilities.

History 
The foundation was started in 1982 by Henry Stifel, whose son had been injured in a motor vehicle accident. Its original name was the Stifel Paralysis Research Foundation, and it was later renamed the American Paralysis Association (APA). In 1995, the actor Christopher Reeve became quadriplegic as a result of a horse riding accident. Reeve sought out the help of the APA and raised funds for it. In 1996, the foundation was renamed the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation and then the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

After Reeve's death in October 2004, his widow, Dana Reeve, assumed the chairmanship of the Foundation. Dana Reeve herself died 17 months later, in March 2006, of lung cancer.

On March 11, 2007, the Foundation announced that it had changed its name to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation on the first anniversary of Dana Reeve's death. As of 2020, all three of Christopher and Dana Reeve's children serve on the foundation's board of directors.

See also 
 Spinal cord injury research
 Rehabilitation in spinal cord injury

References

External links
 Official website

Neurology organizations
Organizations established in 1982
Health charities in the United States
Superman
1982 establishments in New Jersey
Charities based in New Jersey
Disability organizations based in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in New Jersey
List of oil spills

This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons, 256 Imperial gallons, 7.33 barrels, or 1165 litres. This calculation uses a median value of 0.858 for the specific gravity of light crude oil; actual values can range from 0.816 to 0.893, so the amounts shown below are inexact.  They are also estimates, because the actual volume of an oil spill is difficult to measure exactly.

Confirmed spills

Investigation underway

Note:  The "flow rate" column applies to leaking wells, pipelines, etc., and is often used to estimate the total amount of oil spilled.  The "full cargo" column applies to vessels, vehicles, etc., and represents the maximum amount of oil that could be spilled.  The "spilled" columns indicate the total amount of oil that has been released to the environment so far, and should be based on official estimates found in referenced sources whenever possible.  When official estimates vary, use the "min tonnes" and "max tonnes" columns to show the range of estimates (minimum and maximum) in metric tonnes (i.e. 1 tonne = 1,000 kg).

Oil spills in the United States 
This graphic is limited to oil spills that occurred between 1969 and 2015 (graphic has not been updated for newer spills) and that affected US waters (land-based spills are not depicted).  Unlike the units of tonnes used on the rest of this page, the graphic's numbers are presented in millions of US gallons (abbreviated as "MG" in the graphic), where 1 MG is roughly equal to 3,250 tonnes of crude oil.

See also
 Lists
 Largest oil spills
 Natural gas and oil production accidents in the United States
 Pipeline accidents
 United States offshore drilling debate

Notes

References

External links

 
 
 Tanker Incidents at Maritime Connector
 WorldSpills.com  View World Oil spill on a map, Images, descriptions, and references of more than 300 major oil spills
 11 Major Oil Spills Of The Maritime World
 NOAA oil spills incidents map

Oil spills

Oil spills
Oil spills
Pollution events by year
Twang

Twang is an onomatopoeia originally used to describe the sound of a vibrating bow string after the arrow is released. By extension it applies to the similar vibration produced when the string of a musical instrument is plucked, and similar sounds. The term came to be applied to a nasal vocal resonation, and was historically used to describe "a disagreeable resonance". Later, however, the term came to be more broadly associated with regional dialects, to the extent that in some locations, "a twang is a desirable commodity".

Specific uses of the term include:
 A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of some electric guitars.
 A high frequency singing sound especially affected by country singers. It allows for a higher vocal reach than would be possible using the standard guttural technique and can be used as an alternative to falsetto singing. Willie Nelson almost always sings with a twang voice.

See also
 Jangle

References

Nasalization
Extended techniques
Country music
Cles

Cles (; Nones: Clés or Cliès) is a town and comune in Trentino, in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of northern Italy. It is the main town of Val di Non.
 
It is the main town of and is located in Val di Non. Monte di Cles and Monte Peller ( above sea level) are located to the west of the residential area, while Lake Santa Giustina is on the east.

History
Prior to World War I, Cles was part of the Austrian Empire. After the war, the region was ceded to Italy with the dissolution of the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy.

Lake Santa Giustina
Lake Santa Giustina is an artificial lake which was created by the dike on the creek Noce. The dam was completed in 1950, is 152 metres high and it was the highest dam in Europe at the time. The lake can contain up to about 180 million cubic metres water, which feeds the turbines of the hydroelectric plant in Taio.
The lake is named after the location where the dam is placed, which in turn is named after an ancient hermitage of which only ruins are left, covered by a natural hollow of the rock.

Tabula clesiana
The Tabula clesiana is a bronze plate measuring  that was discovered in 1869 at Campi Neri in Cles. It contains the edict of Caesar Claudius of 46 AD, which granted Roman citizenship to the Alpine peoples of the Anauni, Sinduni and Tulliasses. It is kept at the Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum in Trento.

The Tabula is an important evidence of the rapid assimilation by the Roman world of the Alpine peoples of farmers-hunters; but also from the point of view of the Roman law the first evidence of the introduction of delatores in the fiscal controversy.

Notable people
Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, (1721 – 1782) painter
Bernardo Clesio, (1484 – 1539) cardinal and diplomat
Vladimir Barbu, competitive diver (b. 1998)
Letizia Paternoster, road and track cyclist (b. 1999)
Andrea Pinamonti, footballer (b. 1999)
Luca de Aliprandini, alpine skier (b. 1990)

Gallery

References

External links

 Official website 

Cles
Communist Project

The Revolutionary Marxist Association – Communist Project (Associazione Marxista Rivoluzionaria – Progetto Comunista), more frequently referred simply as Communist Project, was a Trotskyist faction within the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), a political party in Italy. Its leaders were Marco Ferrando and Franco Grisolia.

The faction was largely, though not entirely, a continuation of AMR Proposta, which was the largest section in the International Trotskyist Opposition, and was the second largest section in the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International.

In January 2006 Ferrando was chosen as one of the candidates of the PRC for the 2006 general election. This caused a division within Communist Project, as a minority led by Francesco Ricci opposed the candidacy of Ferrando, who was eventually excluded from the lists shortly after, when some of his remarks against Israel caused outrage within and outside the party.

In June 2006, after the entry of the PRC into Prodi II Cabinet and disagreements not only with the party majority, at the time led by the Bertinottiani, but also with the other minority factions, The Ernesto and Critical Left, over Italian military involvement in Afghanistan, the leaders of the faction decided to leave the party and launched the Workers' Communist Party (Italy) (PCL). Two months before the group led by Ricci had already left the party in order to launch the Communist Alternative Party (PdAC).

External links
Official website

Defunct communist parties in Italy
Communist Refoundation Party factions
Trotskyist organisations in Italy
Liam Ó Maonlaí

Liam Ó Maonlaí (born 7 November 1964 in Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician best known as a member of Hothouse Flowers.  Ó Maonlaí formed the band in 1985 with his schoolmate Fiachna Ó Braonáin.

Biography
He attended Scoil Lorcáin, Monkstown and Coláiste Eoin, which is a Gaelscoil on Dublin's southside, although he credits his father as being the main influence for his love of the Irish language, of which he is a fluent speaker. He won an under-18 all-Ireland award for his skills on the bodhrán. Ó Maonlai first formed a band called The Complex with childhood friend Kevin Shields and drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig.  After Liam left to form the Hothouse Flowers in 1984, Shields and Ó Cíosóig were joined by vocalist Dave Conway and keyboardist Tina (who used no surname), and renamed themselves My Bloody Valentine, taking their name from a low-budget horror film.

Ó Maonlaí is also an active member of the Nuclear Free Future movement and contributed to the hosting of events in Carnsore and in Wexford Town in 2001. In 2004 he was a guest at the Barefoot College, located at Rajasthan, India. In 2005 he released a solo album entitled Rían which is a collection of tunes and songs in Irish. He performed in the 2009 Dublin to Gaza benefit concert.

The 2008 documentary Dambé: The Mali Project tells the story of his 3,000 mile cross-cultural musical adventure with Paddy Keenan and friends, and features performances from the Festival au Désert.

Acting 
 I Could Read the Sky (1999) – Joe
 Timbuktu (2004) – Conor
 The Busker (2006) – Patrick O'Mallie
 Dambé: The Mali Project (2008), (documentary)

Discography
 Rian (2005)
 To Be Touched (2009)

Guest singles

References

External links 
Liam Ó Maonlaí website
Hothouse Flowers website
Liam Ó Maonlaí information
Biography
 
 

1964 births
Living people
ALT (band) members
Bodhrán players
Hothouse Flowers members
Irish male singer-songwriters
Irish singer-songwriters
Irish rock singers
Irish-language singers
Musicians from County Dublin
People educated at Coláiste Eoin
Sean-nós singers
The Complex (band) members
Lee Redmond

Lee Redmond (born February 2, 1941) is an American woman who held the record in the Guinness World Records for longest fingernails on both hands.

Guinness World Records

The Enquirer featured her every few years and kept track of the progress of her nails.

Redmond started growing her nails in late 1978 to early 1979 and although she had originally planned to have them cut off on November 22, 2006 (as she said on her guest appearances on a couple of talk shows), she chose to keep her nails after all. In the past few years, she made appearances on CBS News and at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum. One of her last appearances was at a fundraiser for the Salt Lake City fire department, where it was reported her nails were an average of 86-89 centimetres (34–35 in) in length. 

During the time when she had her long nails, she enjoyed activities such as riding bikes with her younger sister Sierra, who had normal nails.  She stated that, while certain activities such as putting on a heavy coat were troublesome, she managed her daily life without much difficulty. On the Guinness TV feature, she was shown driving a car, vacuuming, doing dishes, and giving haircuts to her grandchildren.

On February 10, 2009, her record-setting nails were broken off when she was ejected from a car in a four-car pile-up in Holladay, Utah. Her injuries were serious, but not life-threatening.

In a Huffington Post story published on September 3, 2009, it was stated that: 
"Lee Redmond, who lost the fingernails in February, says it's now much easier to do things and her hands seem to fly with the weight of the nails gone. The 68-year-old won't grow her nails out again, saying it took 30 years the first time, and she may not live for another 30." Her nails are currently about 10 centimetres (4 in) long, however.

Personal life
Lee currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has two sons and a daughter; two granddaughters, two grandsons, and two great-grandchildren.

She added that her long nails did not even interfere with her care of her husband, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

Filmography

Television

See also 
 Shridhar Chillal, who holds the world record for the longest fingernails ever reached on a single hand.

References

Living people
People from Salt Lake City
1941 births
World record holders
Papekop

Papekop is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Oudewater, and lies about 3 km northwest of the city of Oudewater.

Papekop was a separate municipality between 1818 and 1964, when it merged with Driebruggen. Between 1821 and 1989, when it became part of Oudewater, the village was located in the province of South Holland.

The village was first mentioned around 1307 as Papencoip, and means "(peat) concession of Pape (probably a clergy)". In 1840, it was home to 284 people. Between 1858 and 1936, there was a railway station in Papekop.

Gallery

References

Former municipalities of South Holland
Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Oudewater
Lange Linschoten

Lange Linschoten is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Oudewater, and lies about 2 km northeast of the city of Oudewater.

The hamlet was first mentioned in 1555 as Lange Lynschoten, and means "the long part of the Linschoten (river)". It is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Snelrewaard. In 1840, Lange Linschoten was home to 144 people. Nowadays, it consists of about 120 houses.

Gallery

References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Oudewater
Fior di latte

Fior di latte may refer to:

 Mozzarella made from cow rather than buffalo milk
 A popular gelato type with no flavor added
 Fior di Latte (song), a 2017 song by Phoenix off the album Ti Amo
 "Fior Di Latte", a chapter of the serialized Japanese manga comic Agravity Boys

See also

 Latte (disambiguation)
 Fior (disambiguation)
Snelrewaard

Snelrewaard is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Oudewater, and lies about 2 km east of the city of Oudewater. A small part of the hamlet is in Montfoort.

Snelrewaard was a separate municipality from 1817 to 1989, when it was merged with Oudewater.

It was first mentioned around 1307 as Snoyelrewaert, and means "land near water belonging to Snel (polder)". Snelrewaard has place name signs. In 1840, it was home to 140 people.

Gallery

References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Former municipalities of Utrecht (province)
Oudewater
Montfoort
Ruigeweide

Ruigeweide is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Oudewater, and lies about 2 km northwest of the city of Oudewater.

It was first mentioned in 1371 as "in de ruwer weyde, ende op ter langher weyde", and means meadow with rough vegetation. Also to distinguish it from Langeweide. The postal authorities have placed it under Oudewater. The hamlet has no place name signs. In 1840, Ruigeweide was home to 84 people.

References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Oudewater
Cromínia

Cromínia is a municipality in south Goiás state, Brazil.  It is famous for its chrome mines.

Geographical Information

Cromínia is located in the Meia Ponte Microregion, which includes the  cities in the Meia Ponte River basin.  It is approximately 87 kilometers south of the state capital, Goiânia and is 17 kilometers west of the important BR-153 highway, which links Goiânia to Minas Gerais.

Highway connections from Goiânia are made by BR-153 / Aparecida de Goiânia / Professor Jamil / GO-217. For the complete list of all distances in Goiás see Sepin 
Neighboring municipalities are:
north:  Aragoiânia
east:  Professor Jamil
west and south:  Mairipotaba

Demographics

Population density: 9.78 inhabitants/km2 (2007) 
Population growth rate 1996/2007: -0.21.%
Total population: 3,618  (2007)
Total population: 3,362  (1980)
Urban population: 2,861 (2007)
Rural population: 879 (2007)

Economic Activities

Chrome mining gave the city its name but cattle raising and agriculture have taken over from mining.  Of the 298 rural proprietors 70% raise cattle and the others plant rice and corn.

Economic Indicators
Industrial units: 05
Retail units: 53
Banking institutions: none
Cooperatives: Coop.Mista dos Produtores Rurais de Cromínia-COOMPOR-C
Automobiles: 443 (Sepin/IBGE 2007)
Cattle: 34,020 (2006)´
Corn: 1,150 ha. 
Modest production of soybeans, rice, manioc, and watermelon

Farm Data (2006)in ha.
Number of farms:                298
Total area:                  22,213 
Area of permanent crops:        88
Area of perennial crops:     893
Area of natural pasture:     18,242 
Persons dependent on farming: 940
Farms with tractors:            52
Number of tractors:             64 IBG

Education and Health
Literacy rate: 85.8%
Infant mortality rate: 18.23 in 1,000 live births
Schools:  6
Students: 1,325
Hospitals: 2
Hospital beds:  31
Health centers: 2

History
The town began in 1940 when three landowners give land to install a town which would be called Planura Verde (Green Plain).  The settlement began to grow around a football field where locals came on Sunday to watch the games and pray at the foot of a cross.  Soon the first houses were built.  In 1943 the Arraial (village) was elevated to the category of district of Piracanjuba.  It received the name "Cromínia" due to the great quantity of chrome in the region.  In 1954 the district became a municipality.

Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index
MHDI:  0.769
State ranking:  40 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
National ranking:  1,347 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000)
For the complete list see Frigoletto

References

Frigoletto

Municipalities in Goiás
Vitamin Records

Vitamin Records is a Los Angeles-based record label founded in 1999 as a subsidiary of CMH Records. The label was formerly home to the Vitamin String Quartet, who are best known for performing string quartet tributes to popular rock and metal acts such as Tool, Nine Inch Nails, and Radiohead. Vitamin Records has also produced tribute albums in several other styles including lounge, electronica, industrial, and dub music.

The label's first release was The String Quartet Tribute to Led Zeppelin in 1999. Since then, Vitamin Records has released over 185 albums in a variety of genres.

Vitamin Records has also released an album honoring songs from the popular video game series Guitar Hero.

Media
 The Vitamin String Quartet contributed a recording of "Jack and Sally Montage" to Nightmare Revisited, which was released on September 30, 2008 by Walt Disney Records and also included tracks by Marilyn Manson, Korn and Shiny Toy Guns.
 Three songs from Vitamin Records have been featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance, including "Control", from Vitamin String Quartet's tribute to Janet Jackson in July 2008, "Hallelujah" from Vitamin String Quartet's tribute to Paramore (July 2008), and "Yellow" from Vitamin String Quartet's tribute to Coldplay (December 2009).

Releases
 Partial discography

References 

Tribute albums
American record labels
Record labels established in 1999
1999 establishments in California
Ballencrieff, East Lothian

Ballencrieff (Scottish Gaelic: Baile na Craoibhe) is a rural community in East Lothian, Scotland. It is located between the towns of Aberlady, Drem, Haddington and Longniddry and is approximately 20 miles from Edinburgh. The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Baile na Craoibhe meaning "Town of the green".

There is a prehistoric enclosure at Ballencrieff Mains which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

The village comprises typical rural housing, and there was some industry in the past. There is a farm and farm shop which breeds rare breed pigs. Nearby Ballencrieff Castle was built in 1507. This was the seat of the Murray family, the Lords Elibank, and James Murray, who was the governor of Quebec was born here in 1721. There is a 16th Century granary located  south south west of the castle.

There was a brickworks in Ballencrieff which was shown on a 1799 map and in 1837 a George Reid was recorded as a brick and tile maker. In 1838 the Marquess of Tweeddale tested a tile making machine at this site. It was still recorded on a map in 1853 and in 1867 William Brodie was recorded as a brick and tile manufacturer. It was last recorded in 1915 when the Edinburgh Evening News reported that the farmer G. Sinclair, who had been farming the land, bought the site from Lord Elibank.

In 1846–1847 there was a railway station at Ballencrieff on the North British Railway, the East Coast Main Line still passes to the north of the settlement. The roundabout and whereabouts are also known for being something of a black spot for road traffic accidents, for example a fire engine crashed there in 2015 and an unconscious driver crashed into one of the roadside houses pictured above.

See also
 List of places in East Lothian

References

External links

 Ballencrieff Rare Breed Pigs
 Ballencrieff Castle for sale in 2006

Villages in East Lothian
Samite (musician)

Samite is the stage name for African musician Samite Mulondo. Originally from Uganda, Samite now lives in Tully, New York. He plays the flute and kalimba, a type of thumb piano. Samite is currently married to Sandra Mulondo, who is a teacher in the Tully Central School District in Tully, New York.

Samite likes to attribute his music inspiration to both Ugandan folklore and as an expression of the life he had experienced in Uganda.

Samite grew up in the more wealthy of Ugandan families, yet he still shared the feelings and concerns of all Ugandans with his music. Samite's music is well-loved in Uganda, among both the regime and the commoners. With his music, Samite hopes not only to reach Ugandans, but to speak to non-native people of Uganda and draw their attention to the Ugandan culture.

Samite is also a co-founder of Musicians for World Harmony, a nonprofit organization that introduces music to African orphans. Samite co-founded the charity with his late wife, Joan. Samite also shares and educates about his experiences in Uganda and as a political refugee.

His seventh album, Embalasasa, was released in 2005 by Triloka Records.

References

External links 
 
[ Samite on AllMusic.com]
Biography and discography at World Music Central

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American people of Ugandan descent
Ugandan musicians
American folk musicians
American flautists
Windham Hill Records artists
Théophile Voirol

Théophile Voirol September 3, 1781, Tavannes, Canton of Bern – September 15, 1853) was a Swiss general in the French Republican Army, who later became a French nobleman and Governor of Algeria.

He was born into a rich family in Tavannes in the Jura region of the Canton of Bern, the son of Justice David Voirol and Marianne Ruedolf. At 12, he was sent to Basel to enter an apprenticeship as a merchant, but he disliked that occupation.

When the French Revolution erupted in 1789, the French Republic sent its army into the territory of the Bishop of Basel in 1792. The country was annexed to France, and many young men were conscripted to fill the ranks, among them Théophile's older brother. His family was in despair, but 18-year-old Théophile quickly offered himself as a substitute. This was the beginning of a long and brilliant career in the French Army, serving under all the subsequent regimes, including the Consulate, the Napoleonic Empire, the Restoration, and the July Monarchy.

He retired to Besançon in 1848, where he died.

Biogrqphy
https://www.diju.ch/f/notices/detail/3040

1781 births
1853 deaths
People from the Bernese Jura
French generals
Steinacleit

Steinacleit is a prehistoric archeological site on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

The site consists of an array of boulders which marks what is left of a chambered cairn, and possibly shows a huge hall overlay the site. There are ten large stone slabs surrounding the central mound. Folk legend of the Outer Hebrides states there was probably a battlefield nearby. The site is  in diameter and oval in shape. The age of the site is debatable and according to different sources ranges from 1800–1500 BC or 3000–1500 BC.

The standing stone Clach an Trushal is visible to the south west from the stone circle.

External links
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/properties_sites_detail.htm?propertyID=PL_274

2nd-millennium BC architecture in Scotland
Archaeological sites in the Outer Hebrides
Historic Environment Scotland properties
Prehistoric sites in Scotland
Chambered cairns in Scotland
Scheduled monuments in Scotland
Buildings and structures in the Isle of Lewis
Fornells

Fornells may refer to:

Fornells, Menorca
Fornells de Mar, beach and bay in the Costa Brava (zipcode 17255) 
Fornells de la Selva, suburb of Girona, 17458 
Fornells de Muntanya, hamlet near Planoles west of the Serra Cavallera, 17536
Helland Brothers

Helland Brothers was a fiddle makers' shop in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States, 19051927.

The workshop was founded in 1905 by the brothers Knut Gunnarsson Helland and Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland from Bø in Telemark. They emigrated to America in 1901 and made both Hardanger fiddles and violins. Knut died, supposedly of typhoid fever in 1920. Gunnar Gunnarson Helland ran the workshop alone until 1927, when it was closed due to the failure of the fiddle market.

See also 
 The Helland fiddle maker family
Knute Helland did not die of typhoid fever. He died following appendectomy surgery.
Note his death certificate -

Knute Helland's death certificate from the original..

PLACE OF DEATH						STATE OF WISCONSIN
									
County Chippewa,						Department of health – Bureau of Vital Statistics
Township___				ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
	or								
Village_					            Registered No. 84
	or
City	Chippewa Falls  (No St. Joseph's Hospital Ward)
	2 FULL NAME Knute Helland

PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS

3 SEX		4 COLOR OR RACE 5
   Male			White	Married	
6 Date of birth

   Nov. 6th  1881  (Error)(1880)
	Month Day Year
7 AGE
38 yrs 6  mon 21 day 
 
8 OCCUPTION (Not given)
9 BIRTHPLACE
     Norway
10 Name of Father
	Gunnar Helland
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER
	Norway
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
	Gunhild
13 BIRTH PLACE OF MOTHER
	Norway
14 THE ABOVE IS TRUE TO THE BEST OF MY
KNOWLEDGE Nellie Helland 			
Chippewa Falls
 15  July 1919  F. J. McHugh
	      1919 F.J. McHugh

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
	JUNE 27,           1919
	Month	  Day	       Year
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from June 22, 1919 to June 27, 1919
That I last saw him alive on June 27, 1919
And that death occurred on the date stated above, at 4 p.m.

THE CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows:
Paralysis of the bowls following
Acute appendicitis open 3 wks
before, & second open 2 days ago (.......) yrs __wk ___dys.
Contributory ptomaine poisoning from Ice cream (....)___yrs ___wks 3 days
(Signed) H. William ___191__(Address) Chippewa. Falls, Wis

18 LENGTH OF RESIDENCE
	(Not given)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL	DATE OF BURIAL
        Forest Hill	June 29, 1919

20 UNDERTAKER
Mr. P. Hogseth	Chipp. Falls

Lew Holt
Salem, Oregon

External links
The Helland fiddle maker family

Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United States
Fiddle makers
William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven

William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven may refer to:
William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608–1697), 1st Baron Craven, created Earl in 1664
William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1770–1825), 7th Baron Craven, created Earl in 1801

See also
William Craven (disambiguation)
Johann Hommel

Johann Hommel (also Johannes Homelius, Hummelius, Homilius, Hummel; 2 February 1518, Memmingen – 4 July 1562, Leipzig) was a German astronomer and mathematician.

Work
Hommel was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Leipzig in 1551.

In 1552 or 1553, Richard Cantzlar introduced transversal dot lines in graduations.  It was a variant of the zigzag line system introduced by Hommel.  Tycho Brahe obtained the zigzag line system from Hommel.

The lunar crater Hommel is named after him.

Sources
 Johann Daniel Schulze, Abriß einer Geschichte der Leipziger Universität, Hinrichs, 1810, p. 48.
 Kevin Krisciunas (1999), "Observatories"
 Torsten Woitkowitz: Der Landvermesser, Kartograph, Astronom und Mechaniker Johannes Humelius (1518–1562) und die Leipziger Universität um die Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts, in: Sudhoffs Archiv 92 (2008), S. 65–97.
 Marion Gindhart and Alexander Hubert: Art. „Mathematische Wissenschaften (CamLex)“, in: Opera Camerarii Online, http://wiki.camerarius.de/Mathematische_Wissenschaften_(CamLex), section „Camerarius und Johann Hommel“.

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16th-century German astronomers
16th-century German mathematicians
1518 births
1562 deaths
16th-century German writers
16th-century German male writers
MTV Unplugged 2.0

MTV Unplugged 2.0 is a live album released by American emo band Dashboard Confessional on 17 December 2002 through Vagrant. This CD/DVD package is the band's first live album. The band is also the first non-Platinum selling artist to be on MTV Unplugged. "Screaming Infidelities" was released as a single.

Songs
The songs featured on this album are slightly changed and are more up-beat versions of the songs from Dashboard Confessional's previous albums, The Swiss Army Romance and The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most and their So Impossible EP.

This is the first time Dashboard Confessional performs the tracks "Remember to Breathe", "The Sharp Hint of New Tears, "So Impossible", "Turpentine Chaser", "Living in Your Letters", "For You to Notice" and "Hands Down" as a full band unlike the ones on their original albums which featured only Chris Carrabba, who is sometimes accompanied by John Lefler.

Reception

MTV Unplugged 2.0 sold 34,000 copies in its first week, and 149,000 copies by August 2003. After a few months, RIAA certified the album Platinum, indicating shipment of between 100,000 and 200,000 units, as it is considered a long-form video. The album is the first one to have peaked at #1 on the Top Heatseekers chart and the Top Independent Albums chart. The album peaked at #111 on the Billboard 200.

Track listing
All songs written by Chris Carrabba.

"The Swiss Army Romance" – 3:08
"The Best Deceptions" – 4:31
"Remember to Breathe" – 3:48
"The Good Fight" – 2:30
"The Sharp Hint of New Tears" – 2:54
"So Impossible" – 3:03
"The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most" – 3:11
"Turpentine Chaser" – 3:46
"Living in Your Letters" – 4:31
"For You to Notice" – 4:53
"The Brilliant Dance" – 3:18
"Screaming Infidelities" – 3:44
"Saints and Sailors" – 2:33
"Again I Go Unnoticed" – 2:43
"Hands Down" – 3:56

Personnel
Personnel per booklet.

Dashboard Confessional
 Chris Carrabba – vocals, guitar
 Johnny Lefler – guitar, piano
 Dan Bonebrake – bass
 Mike Marsh – drums

DVD credits
 Alex Coletti – producer, surround sound mixing
 Adam Blackburn – recording
 John Harris – mixing
 Max Feldman – mixing
 Chris Shaw – remixing

CD credits
 Chris Shaw – mixing
 Steve Sisco – assistant
 Alex Coletti –  additional production
 Scott Gries – photography
 Keath Moon – design

Chart performance

References

External links
Listen to samples of the album

Dashboard Confessional live albums
MTV Unplugged albums
2002 live albums
Vagrant Records live albums
Northwest Junior Hockey League (Manitoba)

The Northwest Junior Hockey League is a defunct Junior "B" ice hockey league in Manitoba, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada. The league's only provincial rival, the Manitoba Junior B Hockey League, still exists as the Keystone Junior Hockey League.

In the 13-season history of the league NJHL teams would go on to win the Baldy Northcott Trophy three times: Norway House North Stars (2001, 2004) and NCN Flames (2002).

Teams

Champions

External links
Cross Lake Islanders
NCN Flames
Norway House North Stars
OCN Storm

Defunct ice hockey leagues in Manitoba
Hockey Manitoba
Uspallata Pass

The Uspallata Pass, Bermejo Pass or Cumbre Pass, is an Andean pass which provides a route between the wine-growing region around the Argentine city of Mendoza, the Chilean city Los Andes and Santiago, the Chilean capital situated in the central Chilean valley.

Overview
The pass has been used since colonial times as the most direct link between the Pacific seaport of Valparaiso and the Atlantic port of Buenos Aires, avoiding the 11-day,  journey by sea, via Cape Horn, between the two ports.  In 1817 it was used by the Army of the Andes to cross the Andes, in the campaign to free Chile from the Spanish Empire.

Reaching a maximum elevation of about , the pass runs between the peaks of the  Aconcagua to the north and the  Tupungato to the south.

A railroad tunnel built by the now defunct Transandine Railway (1910–1982) runs underneath. The Pan-American Highway runs through the nearby Cristo Redentor Tunnel (in Spanish: Paso Internacional Cristo Redentor) and a monument, Christ the Redeemer of the Andes ("Cristo Redentor de los Andes" in Spanish) is located at the pass.

See also

 Paso Libertadores

External links

Argentina–Chile border crossings
Landforms of Mendoza Province
Landforms of Valparaíso Region
Mountain passes of the Andes
Mountain passes of Argentina
Mountain passes of Chile
Principal Cordillera
Benjamin Franklin Howey

Benjamin Franklin Howey (March 17, 1828 – February 6, 1893) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1883 to 1885.

Early life and career
Howey was born in Pleasant Meadows, near Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

He engaged in business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a flour and grain commission merchant in 1847 and later in quarrying and manufacturing slate. He served as captain of Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, from September 3, 1862, to June 26, 1863 and as sheriff of Warren County, New Jersey, from November 13, 1878, to November 15, 1881.

Congress
Howey was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885.

Death
He died in Columbia, New Jersey, and is interred in Trinity Church Cemetery in Swedesboro.

External links

 Retrieved on 2009-03-25
Benjamin Franklin Howey at The Political Graveyard

1828 births
1895 deaths
People from Swedesboro, New Jersey
People of New Jersey in the American Civil War
Burials in New Jersey
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
19th-century American politicians
Matthew Taylor (musician)

Matthew Taylor (born 1968, Miami, Florida, United States) is an American musician and artist.

Taylor was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there he studied music composition and improvisation under John Corbett.

He is a founding member of the Sicilian American indie rock band Bellini. Taylor is also a member of the band Vertical Scratchers. He has performed in the Glenn Branca 100 Guitars symphony, Don Caballero, Girls Against Boys, Paramount Styles, Rhys Chatham's "A Crimson Grail" for 200 guitars and 16 basses performance at Lincoln Center, "A Crimson Grail" for 100 guitars and 8 basses performance at Liverpool Cathedral as part of the 2012 Liverpool Biennial, and "A Secret Rose" for 100 electric guitars in Richmond, California, Oktober People, backing vocals with A Hawk and a Hacksaw and collaborates in the improv Cobra//group and Death Convention Singers with Raven Chacon.

Taylor also served as producer and music supervisor for the award-winning documentary Torey's Distraction, whose soundtrack was composed by Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf.

He has also worked as the art director for the seminal and independent record label Touch and Go Records in the early 1990s, designing album covers for such bands as Slint, the Jesus Lizard, Shellac, Nirvana, Tortoise, Don Caballero, Palace Brothers, Big Black, Laughing Hyenas, Pavement, Didjits, Rodan, Scratch Acid, Big Boys, Negative Approach, Killdozer, and Girls Against Boys.

He currently resides in Dallas, Texas, where he is a casting director and owner of Buffalo Casting.

References

1968 births
Living people
American artists
American rock bass guitarists
American casting directors
Musicians from Miami
Grammy Award winners
James Chalmers McRuer

James Chalmers McRuer  (August 23, 1890 – October 6, 1985) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, commissioner and author in Ontario.

Biography 
Born in Ayr, Oxford County, Ontario, he received his law education from the Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1913. During World War I, he served in the Canadian Field Artillery as a lieutenant. After the war, from 1921 to 1925 he was an Assistant Crown Attorney for Toronto and County of York. From 1930 to 1935, he was a lecturer at Osgoode Hall Law School. He ran unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in High Park in the 1935 federal election losing to Alexander James Anderson.

McRuer was active in the Canadian Bar Association, and served first as President of the Ontario Bar Association from 1943 to 1944, and then as national President of the Canadian Bar Association from 1946 to 1947.

In 1944, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario and in 1945 was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Justice for the Province of Ontario. He resigned in 1964. As Chief Justice he served on various Royal Commissions and was Chairman of the Ontario Law Reform Commission from 1964 to 1966 and Vice-Chairman until 1977. He also served as President of the Canadian Bar Association while on the bench. Beginning in 1964, McRuer headed the Royal Commission Inquiry into Civil Rights (known as the McRuer commission).

He wrote the books The Evolution of the Judicial Process (1957) and The Trial of Jesus (1978).

In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his services in the profession of law and as a member of many Royal Commissions".

Works

References

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1890 births
1985 deaths
Judges in Ontario
Lawyers in Ontario
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Members of the United Church of Canada
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Osgoode Hall Law School alumni
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People from Oxford County, Ontario
Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery personnel
Liberal Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
Canadian military personnel of World War I
Canadian Militia officers
Canadian Expeditionary Force officers
Reaper (comics)

Reaper, in comics, may refer to:
 Reaper (Marvel Comics):
 Reaper (Pantu Hurageb), a Marvel Comics character who has appeared in X-Force
 Reaper (Gunther Strauss), a Marvel Comics fictional Nazi spy
 Reaper (DC Comics), a number of DC Comics characters

See also 
 Grim Reaper (comics)
 Reaper (disambiguation)

References
Fátima Lopes

Fátima Lopes, ComIH (born 8 March 1965) is a Portuguese fashion designer.

Early life 
Fátima comes from the Portuguese island of Madeira. She was born and grew up in its capital city, Funchal. Since an early age she showed an interest in fashion and during her adolescence, unhappy with what the shops had to offer in terms of clothing, started to design her own clothes. Being fluent in English, French and German, she worked as a tourist guide for a local travel agency.

In 1990 Fátima moved to Lisbon, where she believed she could better pursue a career as a fashion designer. With a friend she opened a boutique named "Versos", which sold mainly clothes from international designers. In 1992 the boutique changed its name to "Fátima Lopes" and in that year the Fátima Lopes brand was born. In September of the same year, she participated in a fashion show made in an old convent in Lisbon (Convento do Beato), where her work was widely applauded.

In 1994 she exhibited her collection in Paris at the "Salon du Prêt-à-Porter Feminin". Two years later she opened her first international store in Paris, located in the famous rue de Grenelle. At the same time she began to diversify her collections by creating bags and shoes for both men and women.

In December 1998, she started the management of the model agency "FACE MODELS" in Lisbon.

In the year 2000 she caused a media sensation by appearing on a catwalk herself in Paris wearing the world's most expensive bikini, made out of gold and diamonds, with an estimated value of one million dollars. In 2003 she opened her first brand store in the United States, located in Melrose Avenue in the city of Los Angeles.

She worked on the design of the official suit of the 2006 Portuguese football World Cup team.

External links
Official website 

Her model agency official site "FACE MODELS" 
FashionWindows
 

Portuguese fashion designers
Portuguese businesspeople in fashion
1965 births
Living people
People from Funchal
Madeiran fashion designers
Golden Globes (Portugal) winners
Henry Gene Skeen

Major Gen. Henry Gene "Hank" Skeen (May 26, 1933 – January 12, 2006) was a general of the United States Army.

A native of Dale County, Alabama, Skeen entered the Air Force in 1949 and transferred to the United States Army in 1953. Upon completion of Officer Candidate School that year, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry. After serving as platoon leader in various Infantry and Airborne companies, he was awarded a Regular Army commission as a quartermaster first lieutenant in 1958.

During most of his career, Skeen held important quartermaster mission-related command and staff positions, including Director, Supply and Maintenance in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Secretary of General Staff, U.S. Army Computer Systems Command; and Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army; and Secretary to the General Staff, U.S. Army Computer Systems Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His important commands included Commander, U.S. Army Troop Support Command in St. Louis, Missouri; Commander, Defense Industrial Support Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Commander, Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service in Battle Creek, Michigan; Commander, 88th Supply and Service Battalion in Vietnam; Commander, Regional Support Activity, Military Region II, Vietnam; Commander, U.S. Army Logistic Evaluation Agency at New Cumberland Army Depot; and Commander, Burtonwood Army Depot in England.

Skeen played a pivotal role in launching the Quartermaster Corps into the automation era in the 1960s and 1970s, and later lent major support to the establishment of the Army Supply Excellence Award and the Army Supply Master Plan. In 1997, he was inducted into the Quartermaster Hall of Fame.

Skeen was married to Pauline; and to Nancy Johnson Skeen at the time of his death. Amongst his grandchildren is Ryan Seacrest. Skeen was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on February 24, 2006, with full military honors.

References

External links
 Entry in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Hall of Fame
 Family obituary
 Genealogy (free registration required)

United States Army generals
Quartermasters
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
1933 births
2006 deaths
The Best of Fad Gadget

The Best of Fad Gadget is a double compilation album of singles and 12" mixes released by Fad Gadget (the stage name of Frank Tovey).  The album is split between singles and B-sides on disc one, and 12" mixes and song reworkings on disc two. Mute Records released the album in December 2001, a few months before Frank Tovey's sudden death.

Track listing

Disc one 
 "Back to Nature"
 "The Box" B-side of "Back to Nature"
 "Ricky's Hand"
 "Handshake" B-side of "Ricky's Hand"
 "Fireside Favourite"
 "Insecticide" B-side of "Fireside Favourite"
 "Make Room"
 "Lady Shave" Double A-side with "Make Room"
 "Saturday Night Special"
 "King of the Flies"
 "Life on the Line"
 "4M" B-side of "Life on the Line"
 "For Whom the Bells Toll"
 "Love Parasite" B-side of "For Whom the Bells Toll"
 "I Discover Love"
 "Collapsing New People"
 "One Man's Meat"
 "Luxury" Released as Frank Tovey

Disc two 
 "Collapsing New People" (Berlin Mix)
 "Fireside Favourite" (Toasted Crumpet Mix)
 "Swallow It" (Regurgitated)
 "Love Parasite 2"
 "Luxury" (Remix)
 "For Whom The Bells Toll 3"
 "I Discover Love" (Extended)
 "Sleep" (Electro-induced Original)
 "Life on the Line" (Version 2)
 "One Mans Meat" (Remix)
 "Immobilise" (Foot Binding Trot Mix)
 "Collapsing New People" (London Mix)

Notes 

Fad Gadget albums
Albums produced by Daniel Miller (music producer)
Albums produced by Gareth Jones (music producer)
2001 greatest hits albums
Mute Records compilation albums