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Karen Morris-Gowdy

Karen Morris-Gowdy (born January 20, 1956 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is an American actress, best known for her role as Dr. Faith Coleridge Desmond #4 on Ryan's Hope, a role she played from 1978 to 1984 and again in 1989.

Morris-Gowdy was crowned America's Junior Miss in 1974. She served as emcee of the preliminary finals in 1979 and 1992 and served as a judge in 1980 and 1983. She served on the Board of Directors from 1981 until 1990.

Morris-Gowdy appeared in a Ban Roll-On deodorant tv commercial in 1987.

Morris-Gowdy has been married to Curt Gowdy Jr., son of hall of fame sportscaster Curt Gowdy, since 1979. Together they have three children.

External links

American soap opera actresses
Living people
1956 births
Actresses from Wyoming
21st-century American women
Sissel Rønbeck

Sissel Marie Rønbeck (born 24 May 1950 in Hammerfest, Finnmark) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Biography 
She was Minister of Administration and Consumer Affairs 1979–1981, Minister of Environmental Affairs 1986–1989, and Minister of Transport and Communications 1996–1997. Between 1981 and 1993 she was a parliamentary representative for Oslo in the Norwegian legislature, Storting. She is currently deputy director of the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren), and a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Rønbeck attended Oslo Cathedral School, but did not complete her examen artium.

References

1950 births
Living people
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Ministers of Climate and the Environment of Norway
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Norway
People educated at Oslo Cathedral School
People from Hammerfest
Women government ministers of Norway
20th-century Norwegian women politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Women members of the Storting
Foul

Foul may refer to:


In sports
 Foul (sports), an unfair or illegal act during a sports competition, including:
 Foul (association football), in football (soccer)
 Professional foul, in football (soccer) or rugby
 Foul (basketball)
 Foul ball, in baseball, a batted ball that lands in foul territory
 Foul (fanzine), a 1970s British football fanzine

Other uses
 Foul (nautical), to entangle or entwine
 Lord Foul, the villain of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a fantasy novel series by Stephen R. Donaldson
 Ful medames, a fava bean stew

See also
 Foul Bay (disambiguation)
 Foul Point, Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands
 Foul play (disambiguation)
 Fouling, in engineering, accumulation of unwanted deposits on solid surfaces
 Fowl (disambiguation)
Douglas Everett

Douglas Donald Everett (August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2018) was a Canadian automobile dealer, lawyer, and retired Senator.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he attended the Royal Canadian Naval College in Royal Roads, British Columbia from 1943 to 1945 and served as a Sub-Lieutenant from 1943 to 1947. After his military service, he received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1950 and from the University of Manitoba in 1951. He was called to Bar of Ontario in 1950 and the Bar of Manitoba in 1951.

In 1966, he was appointed to the Senate representing the senatorial division of Fort Rouge, Manitoba. In 1969, he promoted a bill addressing the production and conservation of oil and gas in Canada's north.

He sat as a Liberal until 1990 when he resigned from the Liberal Party over his support of the introduction of the GST. He then sat as an Independent Liberal. He resigned from the Senate in 1994. Everett died in March 2018 at the age of 90.

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1927 births
2018 deaths
Canadian military personnel of World War II
Canadian Anglicans
Lawyers in Manitoba
Lawyers in Ontario
Canadian senators from Manitoba
Independent Canadian senators
Liberal Party of Canada senators
Politicians from Vancouver
Heidi Grande Røys

Heidi Grande Røys (born 6 May 1967) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. She became Minister of Modernisation in 2005, renamed to Minister of Government Administration and Reform since 2006 in the second cabinet Stoltenberg. She was replaced by Rigmor Aasrud in 2009.

References

1967 births
Living people
Government ministers of Norway
Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Women government ministers of Norway
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians
Women members of the Storting
Facial (disambiguation)

Facial is a personal care treatment which involves cleaning and moisturizing of the human face.

Facial may also refer to:
Facial (sexual act), a sexual act where an individual ejaculates semen onto another person's face
Facial challenge, in American law, a challenge to a statute on grounds that it is unconstitutional
Viqueque

Viqueque (, ) is a city in the south-east of East Timor, 183 km from Dili, the national capital. Viqueque is the capital of Viqueque Municipality and Viqueque Administrative Post, and has five sucos under its control. They are: Uatu-Lari, Uatu-Carbau, Viqueque, Lacluta and Ossu. The city has a population of 6,859 (2015), the administrative post has 20,640 (2004), the municipality 65,245 inhabitants (2004).

References 

Populated places in East Timor
Viqueque Municipality
Iaora Tahiti

Iaora Tahiti is the second studio album by German electronica duo Mouse on Mars. It was released in 1995.

Critical reception

In 2003, Pitchfork placed Iaora Tahiti at number 67 on its list of "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s". Critic Mark Richardson said, "This is sunny electronic music operating in accordance with the pleasure principle."

Track listing

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.

Mouse on Mars
 Jan St. Werner – composition, arrangement, production
 Andi Toma – composition, arrangement, production

Additional personnel
 Nobuko Sugai – vocals (1)
 Wolfgang Flür – drums (1)
 Dono Nkishi – drums (1, 4, 6, 7)
 Bodo Staiger – pedal steel guitar (10)
 Harald Ziegler – lyrics (13), vocals (13)

References

External links
 
 

1995 albums
Mouse on Mars albums
Too Pure albums
Rough Trade Records albums
Kızkumu

Kızkumu is an area of 600 metre shallow water that divides this bay of Turkey into two and is part of Orhaniye District of the city Muğla in Turkey. According to the legend, a girl who wants to reach her lover fills her skirt with sand and start moving ahead in the sea by filling the sea with her sand. But she was drowned when she ran out of sand. Just at the beginning point of the shallow water area, there is a sculpture of this girl.

External links
 Kızkumu Photographs
 Photographs of Kızkumu, Turkey guide

Bays of Turkey
Sugar Mama (confectionery)

Sugar Mama was originally produced by the James O. Welch Company in 1965, as a companion candy to the already-produced Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddy.  

A Sugar Mama was a chocolate-covered caramel sucker, essentially a Sugar Daddy covered in chocolate. It had a distinctive red and yellow wrapper, the opposite of Sugar Daddy's yellow and red wrapper.

It has not been produced since the 1980s.

Tootsie Roll Industries brands
Products introduced in 1965
Sugar Family candy
Platinum Technology

Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of database management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and to render related services. Over its 12-year history, it was known for its acquisition of other companies, having bought more than 50 companies between 1994 and 1999 and growing to become the eighth largest global software company with revenue of a billion dollars per year. Acquisitions included Altai, Inc. (1995), AutoSystems Corporation, Brownstone Solutions, ICON Computing, Intervista Software, Software Interfaces, Locus Computing Corporation, LBMS (1998), Logic Works (1998), Protosoft, RELTECH Group, Memco Software, Softool, SQL TOOLS, Inc., Trinzic, Viatech and VREAM (1996). The company was a member of the UML Partners consortium.

Acquisition by Computer Associates 
In March 1999, Platinum was itself acquired by Computer Associates (CA) for 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, at that time the largest transaction in the history of the software industry. CA offered $29.25 per share, almost a three-to-one premium over Platinum's stock price of $9.875.

Transition 
In 2001, CA was sued by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging that the two companies prematurely reduced competition between each other. The DOJ claimed that this was achieved by agreeing to limit discounts offered to customers before the deal was completed.

Acquisitions

Protosoft 

In November 1995, Protosoft was acquired by Platinum Technology for 40 million U.S. dollars. Protosoft was founded by Dr. Anthony Lekkos and Erick Rivas in 1990 to develop and market Paradigm Plus, an object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) modeling product and associated code generation and reverse engineering tools.

Memco Software 

In September 1998, Platinum Technology acquired Israeli company Memco Software  (Nasdaq: MEMCF). The acquisition was accounted for as a stock-for-stock pooling of interests valued at just more than $400 million. The combined offering of both companies was aimed at providing a complete software security solution for protecting enterprise networks, databases, and systems across multiple platforms.

With this merger; Platinum was hoping to become a major security software provider in areas such as access control, single sign-on, user and database security administration, authentication, intrusion detection, secure communications, and policy audit.

Memco Software was founded in 1990 in Tel Aviv, Israel; in 1996 it had an initial public offering on NASDAQ, raising $50 million. Following the acquisition of Platinum by Computer Associates, Memco Software became the basis for CA’s research and development center in Israel.

References

External links
 Press release following acquisition

Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies based in Illinois
Companies based in DuPage County, Illinois
Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
Software companies established in 1987
Software companies disestablished in 1999
Defunct companies based in Illinois
CA Technologies
1999 mergers and acquisitions
Thuja sutchuenensis

Thuja sutchuenensis, the Sichuan thuja, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae. It is native to China, where it is an endangered local endemic in Chengkou County (Chongqing Municipality, formerly part of Sichuan province), on the southern slope of the Daba Mountains.

Description
It is a small or medium-sized tree, reaching possibly 20 m tall, though no trees of this size are currently known. The foliage forms in flat sprays with scale-like leaves 1.5–4 mm long, green above, and with narrow white stomatal bands below. The cones are oval, green ripening brown, 5–8 mm long and 3-4.2 mm broad (opening to 7 mm broad), with 8-10 overlapping scales.

Discovery and rediscovery
It was first described in 1899 from specimens collected by the French botanist Paul Guillaume Farges in 1892 and 1900, but was not seen again thereafter, despite many searches, for almost 100 years and was presumed to be extinct due to over-cutting for its valuable scented wood. A small number of specimens were however rediscovered in 1999, growing on very inaccessible steep ridges close to (or at the same site) where Farges had first found it. The area of its occurrence has now been designated a Special Protection Area in order to protect the species.

References

External links
 

sutchuenensis
Endemic flora of China
Flora of Sichuan
Trees of China
Endangered flora of Asia
Georgetown Law Weekly

Georgetown Law Weekly is a weekly newspaper published by students at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., United States.

The Law Weekly has a circulation of 1,500 and is printed each Tuesday of the school year. In total, twenty-two issues are printed over the course of the Fall and Spring semesters. It is composed on Quark XPress 6.1 and is printed by Southern Maryland Publishing. The newspaper accepts letters to the editor via email that do not exceed 700 words. A version of the Law Weekly is available online.

The Law Weekly won the American Bar Association Law Student Division's best newspaper award three years in a row, from 2002 to 2004. The late Reverend Father Robert F. Drinan served as Faculty Adviser.

Notable alumni

Greta Van Susteren (JD 1979), now a television news anchor on Fox News, wrote for the Law Weekly.

Mark Grabowski (JD 2007), now a syndicated columnist and internet law professor at Adelphi University, wrote for the Law Weekly.

History of Georgetown law newspapers 

The first newspaper at the Law Center was The Hoya, Law School Edition (1933–36). This was followed by Res Ipsa Loquitur, which started publishing in 1936. Res Ipsa Loquitur served as the student newspaper and alumni magazine until 1994, when it was replaced by the all-alumni publication Georgetown Law.

The Law Weekly began in 1966, and was originally part of the legal writing requirement program. Archives of these publications are available at the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library.

References

Georgetown University publications
Weekly newspapers published in the United States
Georgetown University Law Center
Fritz Hommel

Fritz Hommel (31 July 1854 – 17 April 1936) was a German Orientalist.

Biography 
Hommel was born on 31 July 1854 in Ansbach. He studied in Leipzig and was habilitated in 1877 in Munich, where in 1885, he became an extraordinary professor of Semitic languages. He became a full professor in 1892, and after his retirement in 1925, continued to give lectures at the University of Munich. He was the doctoral supervisor of Muhammad Iqbal, who wrote the thesis The Development of Metaphysics in Persia under his supervision.

He was intrigued by linguistical problems, and also interested in the history of the Middle East and its connection with culture and intellectual life. He excelled in studies of cuneiform literature, ancient Arabic poetry, old Turkic inscriptions and Egyptian pyramid texts.

He died on 17 April 1936 aged 81 in Munich.

Works
Among his better written efforts were a history of Babylonia and Assyria, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens (1885) and a highly regarded work on the geography and history of the ancient Near East, titled: Grundriss der Geographie und Geschichte des Alten Orients (1904). Other significant writings by Hommel include:
Die äthiopische Übersetzung des Physiologus (1877) – Ethiopian translation of the Physiologus
Die Namen der Säugetiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern (1879).
Zwei Jagdinschriften Asurbanipals (1879).
Die semitischen Völker und Sprachen. Bd. 1 (1883) – Semitic peoples and languages.
Die älteste arabische Baarlam-Version (1887) – The oldest Arabic version of Barlaam. 
Abriß der Geschichte des alten Orients (1887) – Outline on the history of the ancient Orient.
Der babylonische Ursprung der ägyptischen Kultur (1892) – The Babylonian origin of Egyptian culture.
Aufsätze und Abhandlungen arabistisch-Semitologischen Inhalts Bd. I-III (1892–1901) – Essays and treatises of Arabic-Semitological content.
Südarabische Chrestomathie (1893) – South Arabian anthology.
Sumerische Lesestücke (1894) – Sumerian readings.
Geschichte des alten Morgenlandes (1904).
Die altisraelische Überlieferung in inschriftlicher Beleuchtung (1896).
Der Gestirndienst der alten Araber und die altisraelische Überlieferung (1900).
Vier neue arabische Landschaftsnamen im Alten Testament (1901) – Four new Arab landscape names in the Old Testament.
Zwei hundert sumero-türkische Wortvergleichungen (1915) – 200 Sumerian-Turkish word comparisons.

References

Citations

Bibliography
 .

Further reading 
 List of published works copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia, whose sources are listed as:
 
  Catalog of the German National Library
 Estate of Fritz Hommel at the Bavarian State Library

German orientalists
German scholars
People from Ansbach
People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
Leipzig University alumni
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1854 births
1936 deaths
German male non-fiction writers
Paleolinguists
Linguists of Sumerian
Seal Island, South Africa

Seal Island is a small land mass located  off the northern beaches of False Bay, near Cape Town in South Africa. The island is so named because of the great number of Cape fur seals that occupy it. It is  in area and home to 64,000 cape fur seals. It is also home to seabirds, and it is likely that non-marine species  fly there to breed as well . The island is an outcrop of Cape granite and rises no more than about  above the high tide mark. The island is long and narrow – . There is no vegetation, soil of any significance, or beach.

A radar mast was built on the island during World War II by a crew who lived in prefabricated huts for the duration of the construction but this tower gradually succumbed to corrosion and was blown over in a winter storm in 1970. All that remains of it is rusty, twisted metal. The ruins of a few huts and other structures from the sealing and guano-collection era (first half of the 20th century) have remained on the island. Some rock inscriptions made by sealers in the 1930s are still evident.

Fauna 
Besides the Cape fur seal, the Brown fur seal, occurs here and the dense population of seals at certain times of the year attracts the seal's main predator, the great white shark. Seal Island and the adjacent waters provide rare opportunities for those who wish to witness attacks by great whites on the Cape fur seal and to observe social interactions amongst creatures of both species. The island has become famous for the size of the sharks, and for their favoured way of catching their prey – a shark launching an attack will come up from underneath and hurl itself out of the water with the seal in its mouth. It has been shown that if the seals enter the "Ring of Death" (where the sharks circle the island) on the surface instead of at the murky bottom, they are more likely to be picked off by the faster and more aggressive great white.

Since 2001, Seal Island, False Bay has been popularized by the Discovery Channel series Air Jaws, which features the breaching behavior of Great Whites near the island. A 2019 sequel, "Air Jaws Strikes Back" names a "second Seal Island", this time located in Mossel Bay on the southeast coast of South Africa.

References

External links 
 Surface Pursuit of a Cape Fur Seal by a White Shark at Seal Island.
 "White Shark Predatory Behavior at Seal Island"
 University of Cape Town Avian Demography Unit
 Photographing Africa's "Flying Sharks" from National Geographic's website

Uninhabited islands of South Africa
Geography of Cape Town
Atlantic islands of South Africa
Max Hess (musician)

Max Hess (March 1, 1878 - January 25, 1975) was a noted German horn player.

Born in Klingenthal, Saxony, Hess studied with Friedrich Gumpert in Germany from 1896-99.  He first played the hand horn before switching to the valved horn.  From 1899-1905, he played with the Frankfurt Philharmonic, the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne (where he played in the premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony in 1904), and with the Liszt Society.

In 1905, Hess moved to the United States to play with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he remained until 1925.  He then joined the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, retiring in 1937.  He spent the final years of his life in a nursing home near Boston, Massachusetts.

References
 The Horn Society biography
 Hornplayer.net item
Mahler-list item

1878 births
1975 deaths
German classical horn players
Gary Ballman

Gary John Ballman (July 6, 1940 – May 20, 2004) was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL).  Ballman starred at Michigan State before playing halfback and wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1962 to 1966, making the Pro Bowl the final two seasons.  He is among the team’s career leaders in kickoffs (64 returns for 1,711 yards), with the second-best average of 26.7. His 93-yard return against Washington on November 17, 1963, is tied for seventh-longest in team history. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1967 to 1972, then split his final season between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings. Ballman later worked for the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) until 1979 and as a building products salesman in Colorado before retiring in 2003.

External links
Gary Ballman article

1940 births
2004 deaths
American football wide receivers
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Minnesota Vikings players
New York Giants players
Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players
Michigan State Spartans football players
Players of American football from Detroit
Ivan Blatný

Ivan Blatný (; 21 December 1919 in Brno, Czechoslovakia – 5 August 1990 in Colchester, United Kingdom) was a Czech poet and a member of Skupina 42 (Group 42).

Life
Blatný, the son of the writer Lev Blatný, was a member of the Skupina 42 (Group 42 - association of Czech modern artists).

In March 1948, after the communist seizure of power in his native country, Blatný left his country - just one of many figures in Czech Literature who chose to emigrate rather than go underground. However, he found life in exile difficult, as did many other émigré Czech writers such as Ivan Diviš. During his subsequent life in the United Kingdom, he spent time in various mental hospitals, suffering from paranoid fear that StB agents will kidnap him back to Czechoslovakia.

From 1984 until shortly before his death, he lived in a retirement home in Clacton-on-Sea. A plaque commemorating his stay can be seen on the wall of the Edensor Care Home in Orwell Road. His ashes were taken to the Central Cemetery in Brno.

In 2017 a new road on the site of the old St Clements Hospital in Ipswich was named Ivan Blatny Close in memory of the one time resident.

Works
At the beginning of his career, Blatný mostly wrote using conventional rhyming and rhythmic forms such as alexandrine quatrains, most notably in the Brno Elegies (Czech, Melancholické procházky; Prague: Melantrich, 1941). The correct translation of the Czech title is 'Melancholic Walks', but Blatný's original title Brněnské elegie was forbidden by the war-time censor for its suggestion that the poet might have been regretful about the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. The poems themselves make no reference whatsoever to contemporary events, but concentrate on Brno and its hinterland, with a beautiful hypnotic lyricism.

Publications
 Melancholické procházky (Prague: Melantrich, 1941)
 Tento večer (1945)
 Hledání přítomného času (1947)
 Stará bydliště (1979)
 Pomocná škola Bixley (1979; Praha: KDM 1982)
 Ivan Blatný: The Drug of Art. Selected Poems, ed. Veronika Tuckerová (New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007). Translations by Anna Moschovakis, Matthew Sweney, Justin Quinn, Veronika Tuckerová, Alex Zucker.

Criticism
 Nenik, Francis, The Marvel of Biographical Bookkeeping. Translated from German by Katy Derbyshire, Readux Books 2013, Sample.
 Hejda, Zbyněk, 'Passer-By: The Poetry of Ivan Blatný'. Metre 12 (Autumn 2002): 171-84.
 See also, Ivan Blatný: The Drug of Art (2007) for essays by Josef Škvorecký, Veronika Tuckerová and Antonín Petruželka.
 Review of The Drug of Art, by Benjamin Paloff, The Nation (December 24, 2007)
 Review of The Drug of Art, by David Wheatley, Contemporary Poetry Review'' (October 2008)

See also

 List of Czech writers

References

External links
 Edensor Care Home and location of plaque

1919 births
1990 deaths
Czech poets
Czech male poets
Group 42
Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
Masaryk University alumni
20th-century Czech poets
20th-century male writers
Writers from Brno
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom
Czechoslovak defectors
Czechoslovak exiles
My Best Friend

My Best Friend may refer to:

 My Best Friend (2001 film), Greek film
 My Best Friend (2006 film) (Mon Meilleur Ami), French film
 My Best Friend (2018 film) (Mi mejor amigo), Argentine film
 "My Best Friend" (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo), episode of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
 "My Best Friend" (song), by Tim McGraw, released in 1999
 "My Best Friend" (Jefferson Airplane song), released in 1966
 "My Best Friend", song by Annie from Anniemal
 "My Best Friend", song by Weezer from Make Believe
 "my best friend", a song by Yui Horie

Paragraph about best friends
Government House, Orange Free State

A Neo-Dutch style mansion was designed in 1935. Completed in 1941, this mansion located on Grant's Hill served as residence for the Governor General of the Union of South Africa from 1942.

In 1972, the building was officially named Oliewenhuis, the name derived from the abundance of wild olive trees growing on the hills nearby. In 1985 the building became an art museum.

See also
Government Houses of South Africa
Government Houses of the British Empire

References

Houses completed in 1941
Official residences in South Africa
Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth
Orange Free State
20th-century architecture in South Africa
High Spen

High Spen is an old mining village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, historically  part of County Durham. There is an entrance to Chopwell Wood, whose Christmas Trees  sales attract many visitors to the village every year. High Spen has one pub, called The Bute Arms, and one Working Men's Club. There is also a micro pub called Wigs. There is also a primary school, called High Spen Primary School. High Spen also is home to St Patrick's C of E Church.

Transport
High Spen used to have a bus depot (located off Strothers Road) that was home to the Venture Bus Company. Venture used to run services around Derwent Valley, mainly between Shotley Bridge and Newcastle. Venture, and the bus depot at High Spen, eventually passed into the hands of Northern General Transport Company, where it stayed operational until the late 1980s when it was eventually closed down.

Notable people
During the First World War, two soldiers from High Spen were awarded the Victoria Cross: Lance Corporal Frederick William Dobson of the Coldstream Guards, and Private Thomas Young of the Durham Light Infantry. Other members of the village during World War Two were taken as Prisoner of War during the events of Saint-Valery-en-Caux where they were originally used to keep German soldiers back from Dunkirk to evacuate other members of the British forces.

Category D village
High Spen was categorised as a "Category D village" by Durham County Council, one of many scheduled for destruction and demolition following the decline of mining in the west of the county in the 1950s and 1960s.

Later development
The D-village policy was cancelled in 1977, since when the village has gradually grown and developed, serving as a commuter village accessible to the centres of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and Durham City.

Education 
High Spen used to have a coeducational comprehensive school, Hookergate School, located in the village. The school was closed down in 2011 and pupils from the village moved to neighbouring villages for their secondary education. Most pupils in High Spen attend Thorp Academy in Ryton.

References

External links 

HIGH SPEN A HUNDRED YEARS
 High Spen Traditional Rapper Sword Dancers

Villages in Tyne and Wear
Ewery

A ewery was the office in a wealthy medieval English household responsible for water and the vessels for drinking or washing of the person. The word derives from "ewer", a type of pitcher. This office was not responsible for laundry, which was handled by the offices of laundry and napery (table linen). The three offices did work closely together, however, and could be concurrent in smaller households.

References

Medieval occupations
Neptune Grotto

The Neptune Grotto (German: Neptungrotte) close to the Obelisk entrance in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, was created by Frederick the Great between 1751 and 1757 to beautify the park.

Built following plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff it arose as a representation of the revived interest in garden architecture. The grotto ought to have been a component of the numerous fountains of the park, which did not function at that time, owing to a lack of technical knowledge.

The trident wielding god of the sea, Neptune, establishes a relationship to water. The conches on the sides, arranged into the shape of waterfalls and the great shell inside, made from many real shells, are a characteristic theme of Rococo.

References

 The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent

Buildings and structures in Potsdam
Grottoes
Rococo architecture in Germany
Tourist attractions in Potsdam
Sanssouci Park
Baroque architecture in Potsdam
FreePCB

FreePCB is a printed circuit board design program for Microsoft Windows, written by Allan Wright.

Functionality 
The program allows for up to 16 copper layers, both metric and customary units, and export of designs in RS-274X Gerber format. Boards can be partially or fully autorouted with the FreeRouting autorouter by using the FpcROUTE Specctra DSN design file translator.

Other operating systems 
FreePCB can run under Linux by using Wine and on Macintosh computers using Parallels Desktop for Mac, Virtual Box, or Wine via MacPorts.

See also 

 Comparison of EDA software
 List of free electronics circuit simulators

References

External links 
 
 There is a wonderful development branch of the program on this site
 PCB Systems Design Community
 fpcconvert - a HPGL and G-code conversion tool for FreePCB

Windows software
Free electronic design automation software
Elisabetta Gnone

Elisabetta Gnone (born 13 April 1965) is an Italian writer.

Biography
Gnone became a journalist for Topolino Weekly in 1992. This was only the beginning of a career that would take her to Walt Disney Italia, where she collaborated in the series of monthly publications of Bambi, Minnie & Comp. and the Small Series, and created, in 1997, the publication of Winnie the Pooh. As the director responsible for Disney publications, she created a series which would become a worldwide success: W.I.T.C.H. She then published The Secret of the Twins in 2005. The book was developed into a trilogy focused around the magical world Fairy Oak.

In April 2001, she co-created the Italian comic/magazine W.I.T.C.H. with Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa. The publication was later made into the television series of the same name. Gnone also wrote the children's trilogy Fairy Oak: Il segreto delle gemelle (The Secret of the Twins), L'incanto del buio (The Spell of Darkness), and Il potere della luce (The Power of Light). She expanded the Fairy Oak Universe with four more books, "The four mysteries": "Captain Grisam's love", "Shirley's wizarding days", "Flox smiles in autumn", and "Good-bye Fairy Oak".

References

Italian women writers
W.I.T.C.H.
1965 births
Living people
Traquero

A traquero is a railroad track worker, or "section hand", especially a Mexican or Mexican American railroad track worker ("gandy dancer" in American English usage). The word derives from "traque", Spanglish for "track".

Background
While the U.S. railroad track force in the Southwest and Midwest had always included some Mexican and Mexican American workers, their numbers were greatly increased following the exclusion of the Chinese and the recruitment and training of Mexican rail workers in Mexico as part of the construction of railroads in Mexico, financed largely by U.S. railroad companies, in particular, the Santa Fe, the Denver & Rio Grande Western and the Southern Pacific. The peak of traquero employment programs took place between 1880 and 1915, right before the Mexican Revolution and federal restrictions placed on Mexican immigration by the 1930s.

The Pacific Electric interurban system in the Los Angeles area was constructed and maintained by a workforce which was largely made up of traqueros.

Many traqueros lived in characteristic shanty towns of old boxcars which could be seen throughout the U.S. Southwest and Midwest, as far north as Chicago.  Some of these could still be seen during the middle of the 20th century. Other communities of traqueros were founded as mobile tent camps, subsequently improved by the construction of more permanent dwellings, sometimes with the assistance of the railroad companies, but more often not.

The Watts section of Los Angeles originated as a traquero settlement at the intersection of the two major lines of the Pacific Electric.     Another known community sprouted from its traquero origins was Perris, California, about 30 miles south of Riverside, California. The twin cities of Coachella and Indio in Southern California were founded by traqueros in the early 1900s.

Black historian and journalist Thomas Fleming began his career as a bellhop and then spent five years as a cook for the Southern Pacific Railroad. In a weekly series of articles, he wrote of his memories of the Mexican section hands in the 1920s and 1930s. He recalled that the  Southern Pacific gave them a place to sleep: old boxcars converted into two-room cabins.   The company would take old boxcars, remove the wheels, and lay them alongside the tracks. He remembers that the workers had a lot of children who attended the public schools, but the ones he met during his childhood were "kind of meek, and took a lot of abuse from the other kids".  Fleming says that "you found them right outside of all towns in California; that was part of the landscape."  He suggests that they may have been the only ones who wanted to do the job because they got the lowest pay of any railroad workers, only about $40 a month.

See also
 Chicano
 Gandy dancer
 Mexican Repatriation
 Chinese railroad workers

References

Further reading
 Garcilazo, Jeffrey Marcos. Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870-1930 ( University of North Texas Press, 2016) excerpt

Railway occupations
Rail transportation in Mexico
Rail transportation in California
Mexican people in rail transportation
Perris, California
Indio, California
Bedřich Bridel

Bedřich Bridel, or Fridrich Bridelius (; 1619, Vysoké Mýto – October 15, 1680, Kutná Hora) was a Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary.

Biography 
He studied at the Jesuit gymnasium in Prague. In 1637 he entered the Jesuit order, he was ordained as a priest around 1650. From 1656 to 1660 he led the printing office of the Jesuits in the Prague Clementinum. Following the 1660 he devoted himself exclusively to the missionary and predicatory activities in Bohemia. He died of plague.

Work 
Bridel's literary output is varied, he used more forms and genres. The majority of his works are catechetic books. He also translated the German and Latin texts into Czech.

List of selected works 
 Co Bůh? Člověk? (What God? Man?) – a long meditative poem that is regarded today as one of the most important works of the Bohemian baroque poetry
 Život svatého Ivana, 1656 (The life of the saint Ivan)
 Stůl Páně (The table of the Lord)
 František svatý Xaver (Saint Francis of Xavier)
 Sláva Svatoprokopská, 1662 (The glory of the saint Prokop)
 Katechismus katolický (Catholic catechism)

See also

 List of Czech writers

References 

1619 births
1680 deaths
17th-century people from Bohemia
17th-century Bohemian writers
17th-century Bohemian poets
Catholic poets
Czech Catholic poets
Czech-language writers
Czech male poets
People from Vysoké Mýto
People from Kutná Hora
17th-century deaths from plague (disease)
Czech Jesuits
Jesuit missionaries
Czech Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic missionaries in the Czech Republic
17th-century male writers
Baroque writers
Government House, Natal

The Old Government House in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, was the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Benjamin Pine, who arrived in Natal in 1851. The building was completed in the late 1860s. The Natal Government later bought it from Pine and established it as the Government House.

According to a 19th-century visitor: "Driving up to Government House one is struck by its very homely English appearance: in its outward form there has been not striving after giving it the resemblance of a palace: it is after a cottage type, and reminds me of many a vicarage at home."

References

See also
Government Houses of South Africa
Government Houses of the British Empire

Houses completed in the 19th century
Official residences in South Africa
Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth
19th-century architecture in South Africa
Odysseus Unbound

Odysseus Unbound is a 2005 book by Robert Bittlestone, with appendices by the philologist James Diggle and the geologist John Underhill.  The book investigates the location of Homer's Ithaca, arguing that Paliki, a peninsula of Kefalonia, was an island at the time of the Trojan War, and that it was the island referred to as Ithaca in the Odyssey.

The accuracy of Homer's geography has been disputed since antiquity, and Bittlestone's book is one of several published by non-academic authors in the 1990s and 2000s that attempts to identify Homer's Ithaca based on the geographical evidence given in the Odyssey.  Bittlestone's argument that Paliki should be identified with Homer's Ithaca has received favourable reviews, with Mary Beard considering that there is "a very fair chance indeed" that he is correct, and Peter Green calling it "almost certainly correct".

However, reviewers criticised the hyperbolic claims made for the book.  G. L. Huxley and Christina Haywood both criticised Odysseus Unbound for not taking the argument that Homer's Ithaca was the same island as modern Ithaca seriously enough, and Huxley argues that even if Bittlestone's case that Paliki was once a separate island from Kefalonia is accepted, the book does not prove that it is the location of Homer's Ithaca.  Haywood concludes that Bittlestone "was carried too far by his enthusiasm", while Beard, though convinced by the argument that Paliki was an island in the Mycenaean period, concludes that "the end of the book descends into fantasy", and criticises Bittlestone for his excessive concern with speculatively identifying every geographical feature of Ithaca mentioned in the Odyssey with a real location on Paliki.

References

Works cited

External links 
Odysseus Unbound website; Odysseus Unbound discussion forum
James Diggle, Emeritus Professor of Greek and Latin, Cambridge University
Professor John Underhill, Chair of Exploration Geoscience and Chief Scientist, Shell Centre for Exploration Geoscience, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Odyssey
Ithaca
Cephalonia
Hypotheses
2005 non-fiction books
Ancient Greek geography
Homeric scholarship
Makasae language

Makasae (also known as Makassai, Macassai, Ma'asae, Makasai) is a Papuan language spoken by about 100,000 people in the eastern part of East Timor, in the districts of Baucau and Viqueque, just to the west of Fataluku. It is the most widely spoken Papuan language west of New Guinea.

Phonology

The data in this section are from Huber (2017).

Consonants

Native consonant phonemes are shown in the chart below for the Ossu dialect. Borrowed consonants are enclosed in parentheses.

Vowels

Monophthongs
Makasae has five vowel phonemes.

References

Further reading
 Huber, Juliette (2008). First steps towards a grammar of Makasae: a language of East Timor. LINCOM

External links
 Makasai at The Language Archive

Oirata–Makasai languages
Languages of East Timor
Judd Holdren

Judd Clifton Holdren (October 16, 1915 – March 11, 1974) was an American film actor best known for his starring roles in the serials Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951), Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952), The Lost Planet (1953), and the semi-serial Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953). He committed suicide in 1974.

Early life 
He was born near Villisca, Iowa, the fifth of 10 children in a farming family, and showed early interest in an acting career. He dropped out of high school to travel to Omaha, Nebraska, where he studied at the Omaha Playhouse.

During World War II, he served in the United States Coast Guard on the USS General H. B. Freeman (AP-143), then moved to Hollywood. While in the Coast Guard, he rose to the rank of commander. His first regular employment there was as a male model.

Career 
Most of his early film parts were uncredited bits, including All the King's Men (1949) and Francis the Talking Mule (1950). However, he got lead roles in Purple Heart Diary (1951) co-starring Frances Langford, and Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951) the serial version of the adventures of Captain Video, becoming the third actor (after Richard Coogan and Al Hodge) to assume the role of the heroic Captain. Holdren portrayed Aramis in the Three Musketeers adventure film Lady in the Iron Mask (1952) starring Louis Hayward as D'Artagnan and Patricia Medina in the titular role. After The Lost Planet (1953), Holdren tried to maintain a foothold in feature films and TV, but with limited success.

He appeared in a number of ongoing TV series, such as Dragnet and The Lone Ranger, but usually in bit parts, often uncredited. His last significant film appearances were in very minor roles in feature films like Jeanne Eagels (1957), Ice Palace (1960), and The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960). The rapidity of his descent is indicated by the fact that in Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953) he plays the lead role and Richard Crane plays his (semi-comical) sidekick, whereas in the TV series Rocky Jones Space Ranger (1953–54) Richard Crane plays the lead role and Holdren has a walk-on part in two episodes as "Ranger Higgins".

After 1960, Holdren became a full-time insurance salesman. During his Hollywood years, he was seen in public as the escort of many different Hollywood beauties, but he never married.

Death 
Holdren committed suicide on March 11, 1974, by a gunshot to the head.

He is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood.

Filmography

References

External links
 
 Des Moines Register article on Judd Holdren
 

1915 births
1974 deaths
20th-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Male film serial actors
People from Montgomery County, Iowa
United States Coast Guard officers
Suicides by firearm in California
United States Coast Guard personnel of World War II
1974 suicides
Military personnel from Iowa
No Doy

No Doy is the first commercial release by the American jam band moe. through a major label, Sony Music Entertainment. "Spine of a Dog" is a re-recording of a song that originally appeared on the first moe. album, Fatboy (with an a cappella intro) and "St. Augustine" is a re-recording of the song from Headseed (with much more prominent slide guitar). Several of the songs on this album, including "Buster", "Rebubula", "Moth", and "32 Things" have gone on to become cornerstones of the band's live-set rotation.

Track listing
"She Sends Me" (Schnier) – 3:56
"32 Things" (Schnier) – 6:26
"St. Augustine" (Derhak) – 3:44
"Bring You Down" (Schnier) – 3:49
"Rebubula" (Derhak) – 11:27
"Spine of a Dog" (Derhak, Garvey) – 3:48
"Moth" (Schnier) – 5:40
"Buster" (Derhak) – 8:34
"Four" (Garvey) – 10:50

Personnel 
moe.
Rob Derhak – electric bass, vocals
Chuck Garvey – guitar, vocals
Chris Mazur – drums, vocals
Al Schnier – guitar, vocals

Production
Nadine Hemy – coordination
Jesse Henderson – assistant engineer
Joe McGrath – engineer, mixing
Vladimir Meller – mastering
Brendan O'Neil – engineer
John Porter – producer, mixing
Jim Porto – photography
John Wells – cover model
Kelly Wholford, Jen Wyler – assistant engineers
Colin Young – illustrations

External links 
Official moe. website

1996 albums
Christa Johnson

Christa Johnson (born April 25, 1958) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won nine LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career.

Amateur career
Born in Arcata, California, Johnson won the 1975 Northern California Junior Girls Championship and was honored as a member of the Northern California International Junior Cup Team. She attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she was an All-American from 1979–80 for the Wildcats.

Professional career
Johnson joined the LPGA Tour in 1980. She won nine tournaments on the LPGA Tour, the first of them in 1984 and the last in 1997. Her one major championship title came at the 1997 McDonald's LPGA Championship. Her best money list finish was fourth, also in 1997. She won four tournaments on the Legends Tour, the official senior tour of the LPGA. She was a member of the USA Team during the 2006 through 2014 Handa Cups (USA winning in all years except 2013), official world team challenge of the senior tour.

Johnson resides in Arizona with husband, Duane A. Bernard, CEO of Phoenix Health Services, and former CEO of Specialty Health and St. Catherine Healthcare, whom she married in March 2007. Johnson also played under the name Chris Johnson from 1980 to 1985.

Professional wins

LPGA Tour wins (9)

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–1)

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (1)
1985 Yamaha Cup Ladies Open

Legends Tour wins (5)
2006 (1) BJ's Charity Championship (with Nancy Scranton)
2007 (1) BJ's Charity Championship (with Nancy Scranton)
2009 (1) Wendy's Charity Challenge
2011 (1) Patty Sheehan & Friends Legends Tour Event
2019 (1) Janesville LPGA Senior Pro-Am

Major championships

Wins (1)

1 Won in a sudden death playoff.

Team appearances
Professional
Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 1998 (winners)
Handa Cup (representing the United States): 2006 (winners), 2007 (winners), 2008 (winners), 2009 (winners), 2010 (winners), 2011 (winners), 2012 (tie, Cup retained), 2013, 2014 (winners), 2015 (winners)

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American female golfers
Arizona Wildcats women's golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Winners of LPGA major golf championships
Solheim Cup competitors for the United States
Golfers from California
Golfers from Arizona
Sportspeople from Humboldt County, California
People from Arcata, California
1958 births
Living people