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NGC 3766

NGC 3766 (also known as Caldwell 97) is an open star cluster in the southern constellation Centaurus. It is located in the vast star-forming region known as the Carina molecular cloud, and was discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille during his astrometric survey in 1751–1752. At a distance of about 1745 pc, the cluster subtends a diameter of about 12 minutes of arc.

There are 137 listed stars, but many are likely non-members, with only 36 having accurate photometric data. It has a total apparent magnitude of 5.3 and integrated spectral type of B1.7. NGC 3766 is relatively young, with an estimated age of log (7.160) or 14.4 million years, and is approaching us at 14.8 km/s. This cluster contains eleven Be stars, two red supergiants and four Ap stars.

36 examples of an unusual type of variable star were discovered in the cluster. These fast-rotating pulsating B-type stars vary by only a few hundredths of a magnitude with periods less than half a day. They are main sequence stars, hotter than δ Scuti variables and cooler than slowly pulsating B stars.

See also
 New General Catalogue

References

External links
 
 NGC 3766 at SEDS
 Astrophotograph Link
 WEBDA Data on NGC 3766 by Lynga
 

Open clusters
3766
Centaurus
097b
Nidau District

Nidau District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital, while having administrative power, was the municipality of Nidau. 

From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the Biel/Bienne (administrative district), whose administrative centre is Biel/Bienne.

Since 2010, it remains therefore a fully recognised district under the law and the Constitution (Art.3 al.2) of the Canton of Berne.

Although the district is officially German speaking, a small French-speaking minority lives in the area. The district has an area of 113 km2 and consisted of 25 municipalities:

References

Former districts of the canton of Bern
Antioch Cantemir

Antioch Cantemir may refer to either of:

 Antioch Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia (d. 1726)
 Antioch Cantemir, Prince of Russia (d. 1744), his nephew
NGC 6231

NGC 6231 (also known as Caldwell 76) is an open cluster in the southern sky located half a degrees north of Zeta Scorpii. NGC 6231 is part of a swath of young, bluish stars in the constellation Scorpius known as the Scorpius OB1 association. The star Zeta1 (HR 6262) is a member of this association, while its brighter apparent partner, Zeta2 (HR 6271), is only 150 ly from Earth and so is not a member.

This cluster is estimated to be about 2–7 million years old, and is approaching the Solar System at 22 km/s. The cluster and association lie in the neighboring Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.  Zeta1 Scorpii (spectral type O8 and magnitude 4.71.) is the brightest star in the association, and one of the most radiant stars known in the galaxy. NGC 6231 was used to measure the binary fraction of B-type stars: 52 ± 8%, indicating that B-type stars are commonly found in binary systems, but not as commonly as in O-type stars.

NGC 6231 also includes three Wolf-Rayet stars: HD 151932, HD 152270, and HD 152408.

Discovery  
The cluster was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654. Hodierna listed it as Luminosae in his catalogue of deep sky observations. This catalogue was included in his book De Admirandis Coeli Characteribuse published in 1654 at Palermo. It was independently observed by other astronomers after Hodierna, including Edmond Halley (1678), Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux (1745–46), and Abbe Lacaille (1751–52).

Common names 
The cluster forms the head of the False Comet, a wider collection of stars from Scorpius OB1 running northward from Zeta Scorpii and NGC 6231 roughly halfway toward Mu Scorpii. The tail is formed by two clusters, Collinder 316 and Trumpler 24. Trumpler 24 is surrounded by the emission nebula IC 4628, also known as the Prawn Nebula, where the tail appears to fan out.

The cluster is also sometimes known as The Northern Jewel Box, due to its similar appearance to the NGC 4755, the Jewel Box cluster, which is further south in the sky.

See also
 New General Catalogue

Notes

External links

 SEDS
 NGC 6231 at DOCdb (Deep Sky Observer's Companion)
 

Open clusters
6231
076b
Scorpius
NGC 4833



NGC 4833 (also known as Caldwell 105) is a globular cluster discovered by Abbe Lacaille during his 1751-1752 journey to South Africa, and catalogued in 1755. It was subsequently observed and catalogued by James Dunlop and Sir John Herschel whose instruments could resolve it into individual stars.

The globular cluster is situated in the very southerly constellation Musca at a distance of 21,200 light years from Earth. It is partially obscured by a dusty region of the galactic plane. After corrections for the reddening by dust, evidence was obtained that it is in the order of 2 billion years older than globular clusters M5 or M92.

See also
 New General Catalogue

References

 CCD Photometry of the Globular Cluster NGC 4833 and Extinction Near the Galactic Plane, Melbourne et al., 25 September 2000, Astrophysical Journal

External links

 Basic information and data
 Photographed by the Antilhue amateur astronomical observatory
 CCD Photometry of the Globular Cluster NGC 4833 and Extinction Near the Galactic Plane
 Position relative to nearby cluster NGC 4372
 

Globular clusters
4833
Musca
105b
John Livingston (naturalist)

John Allen Livingston (November 10, 1923 – January 17, 2006) was a Canadian naturalist, broadcaster, author, and teacher. He was most known as the voice-over of the Hinterland Who's Who series of television zoological shorts in the 1960s.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy at the beginning of World War II and earned a degree in English literature in 1943 while on active service. He joined the Audubon Society of Canada in 1955 as managing director and editor of its newsletter. He later became head of the science unit at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), most notably serving as the first executive producer of the long-running documentary series The Nature of Things. He left the CBC in 1968, but remained an occasional contributor of documentary films to The Nature of Things, most notably the Canadian Film Award-winning Wild Africa in 1970. He then formed LDL: Environmental Research Associates, an environmental consulting company, with Aird Lewis and Bill Gunn of the Nature Conservancy of Canada; the firm became most noted for their work on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.

Livingston was the author of several books, including The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation (1981) and the Governor General's Award-winning Rogue Primate (1994). In his later years, he was a professor emeritus of environmental studies at York University.

Selected bibliography
Darwin and the Galapagos (1966) (with Lister Sinclair)
Birds of the Northern Forest (1966) (with J. F. Lansdowne)
Arctic Oil (1981)
The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation (1981)
Canada: A Natural History (1988)
Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication (1994)
One Cosmic Instant (1968)

References

1923 births
2006 deaths
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian television personalities
Canadian television producers
Canadian nature writers
Canadian naturalists
Canadian environmentalists
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Canadian people of British descent
Writers from Hamilton, Ontario
Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers
Canadian Screen Award winners
Canadian documentary film directors
Film directors from Ontario
Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Documentary Film
Academic staff of York University
Royal Canadian Navy personnel of World War II
Nieuwebrug, North Holland

Nieuwebrug is a hamlet in the western Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, about 11 km west of Amsterdam.

Nieuwebrug has a population of around 360.

References

Populated places in North Holland
Haarlemmermeer
Datsun 280 ZZZAP

Datsun 280 ZZZAP, also known as Midnight Racer or 280 ZZZAP, is a 1976 arcade racing video game released by Midway Manufacturing, designed by Jamie Fenton. Based on Nissan's Datsun 280Z, it is one of the earliest games with authorized branding. An unbranded version was released as Midnight Racer, originally in November 1976. The branded version Datsun 280 ZZZAP was then released in Japan by Taito in February 1977, and then in North America by Midway in March.

Gameplay
The title was named after the US advertising campaign for Nissan's Datsun 280Z. Players can drive up to  while navigating a tricky road course at night. Players must watch out for treacherous turns, nasty competitors, and the ever-present time limit.

Release
Midway demonstrated Midnight Racer at the AMOA show in November 1976. It drew comparisons to Night Driver, demonstrated at the same show by Atari, Inc. In turn, both games drew comparisons to an earlier German night driving video game (Nürburgring 1) demonstrated at the German IMA show in Spring 1976. The branded version Datsun 280 ZZZAP was later released in Japan by Taito in February 1977, and then in North America by Midway in March.

Reception
On the US Play Meter arcade chart, 280 ZZZAP was the year's ninth highest-grossing arcade game of 1977. On the US RePlay arcade chart, it was the tenth highest-grossing arcade video game of 1977. On Japan's Game Machine arcade chart, it was among the top 20 highest-grossing arcade video games of 1977.

References

1976 video games
Advergames
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Midway video games
North America-exclusive video games
Racing video games
Video games developed in the United States
280 ZZZAP
Foxes' Oven

Foxes' Oven is a novel by the English writer Michael de Larrabeiti. It is set in the village of Offham near Arundel in West Sussex in 1940. It was published by Robert Hale in 2003.

External links
 Free PDF of the first chapter of Foxes' Oven

References

2003 British novels
Novels by Michael de Larrabeiti
Fiction set in 1940
Novels set in Sussex
Novels set during World War II
Robert Hale books
Cowles Foundation

The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics is an economic research institute at Yale University. It was created as the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at Colorado Springs in 1932 by businessman and economist Alfred Cowles. In 1939, the Cowles Commission moved to the University of Chicago under Theodore O. Yntema. Jacob Marschak directed it from 1943 until 1948, when Tjalling C. Koopmans assumed leadership. Increasing opposition to the Cowles Commission from the department of economics of the University of Chicago during the 1950s impelled Koopmans to persuade the Cowles family to move the commission to Yale University in 1955 where it became the Cowles Foundation.

As its motto Theory and Measurement implies, the Cowles Commission focuses on linking economic theory to mathematics and statistics. Its advances in economics involved the creation and integration of general equilibrium theory and econometrics.

The thrust of the Cowles approach was a specific, probabilistic framework in estimating simultaneous equations to model an economy.  Its ultimate goal in doing so was to gain policy insight.  The Cowles approach structured its models from a priori economic theory.  One of its main contributions was in exposing the bias of ordinary least squares regression in identifying coefficient estimates.  Consequently, Cowles researchers developed new methods such as the indirect least squares, instrumental variable methods, the full information maximum likelihood method, and the limited information maximum likelihood method.  All of these methods used theoretical, a priori restrictions. According to an article by Carl F. Christ, the Cowles approach was grounded on certain assumptions: 
1. simultaneous economic behavior; 
2. linear or logarithmic equations and disturbances; 
3. systematic, observable variables without error; 
4. discrete variable changes as opposed to continuous; 
5. a priori determination of exogeneity and endogeneity; 
6. the existence of a reduced form; 
7. independence of the explanatory variables; 
8. a priori identified structural equations; 
9. normally distributed disturbances with zero means, finite and constant covariances, a nonsingular covariance matrix, and serial independence; 
10. a dynamically stable system of equations.
Several Cowles associates have won a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for research done while at the Cowles Commission. These include Tjalling Koopmans, Kenneth Arrow, Gérard Debreu, James Tobin, Franco Modigliani, Herbert A. Simon, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Lawrence Klein, Trygve Haavelmo, Leonid Hurwicz and Harry Markowitz.

The Cowles Foundation is located at 30 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut.

References

External links
Cowles Foundation at Yale
Source HET

Research institutes in Connecticut
Economic research institutes
Yale University
Research institutes of the University of Chicago
Research institutes established in 1932
Dan III

Dan III is one of the legendary Danish kings described in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum.

Text

See also
 Dan (king)

Notes

References
 Davidson, Hilda Ellis (ed.) and Peter Fisher (tr.) (1999). Saxo Grammaticus : The History of the Danes : Books I-IX. Bury St Edmunds: St Edmundsbury Press. . First published 1979-1980.
 Elton, Oliver (tr.) (1905). The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus. New York: Norroena Society. Available online
 Olrik, J. and H. Ræder (1931). Saxo Grammaticus : Gesta Danorum. Available online

Mythological kings of Denmark
John Parkinson

John Parkinson is the name of:
John Parkinson (botanist) (1567–1650), English herbalist
John B. Parkinson (1861–1935), English architect in Los Angeles
John Parkinson (politician) (1870–1941), British Labour Party MP for Wigan, 1918–1941
John Parkinson (cardiologist) (1885–1976), English cardiologist, a namesake of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
John Edward Parkinson (1955–2004), British academic in UK company law
John Parkinson (footballer) (born 1944), Australian rules footballer

See also
Jack Parkinson (disambiguation)
Buckingham Mountain

Buckingham Mountain (Lenape: Pepacating ) is located in Buckingham Township in Central Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the second most elevated land in all of Bucks County at 520 feet.

History 
On top of Buckingham Mountain stands the Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1835, and rebuilt in 1852 out of stone. It was founded by runaway slaves and was considered to be one of the more prominent refuges for runaway slaves in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

References

External links
 
 

Mountains of Pennsylvania
Gravity hills
Landforms of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Garlieston

Garlieston (, IPA:[ˈpaləʝeaːᵲʎis̪]) is a small planned coastal village in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. It was founded in the mid 18th century by Lord Garlies, later 6th Earl of Galloway.

Location and history
The village lies  northwest of Whithorn and a few miles north of Cruggleton Castle which was abandoned in the 17th century. The former seat of the Earls of Galloway, Galloway House, is situated on the edge of the village, with the settlement being planned along Georgian lines.

The port became an important import point for goods being brought into the Machars throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1876 the Wigtownshire Railway was extended to the settlement and goods flowed regularly through the port, with the maritime industries of shipbuilding and associated activities taking place in the village.

Second World War
During the Second World War the village became part of the secret Mulberry Harbour project in preparation for D-Day. The profile of the beach and sea bed at Garlieston was similar to that of the proposed harbour sites in Normandy and that, coupled with the remote nature of the locality, led to Garlieston and the surrounding area being selected as the development region for the artificial harbours. Prototypes of three designs were trialled in Garlieston Harbour and at nearby Rigg Bay and Portyerrock. A concrete caisson (code-named Hippo) from the harbours could be seen in Cruggleton (or Rigg) Bay until it was destroyed by a storm on Sunday 12 March 2006. Remnants of the prototypes, in particular concrete Beetles that supported the floating roadways, can be seen at Eggerness, Portyerrock and Rigg Bay. The remains are now scheduled as national monuments by Historic Scotland.

Currently
Today the village is in general a quiet sleepy place, with much of the local industry and port activity having ceased over the past 50 years. A bowling green sits on the waterfront and the village caravan site attracts tourists, with the harbour providing berthing facilities for those who are touring by boat. Although Galloway House is privately owned, the gardens, managed separately by the Galloway House Gardens Trust are open to the public and pay and display parking provides easy access to the gardens and Rigg Bay.

Notable natives

 Charles Gordon McClure (1885–1933), also known as Dyke White, cartoonist
Earls of Galloway at Galloway House.

Gallery

External links

 Garlieston community website Garlieston
 Garlieston's Secret War The story of the Mulberry Harbours and the men who made it happen
 Combined-ops Information on the Mulberry Harbours & the role Garlieston played in their development

Ports and harbours of Scotland
Villages in Dumfries and Galloway
Beek en Donk

Beek en Donk is a town in the province North Brabant, Netherlands. There are 10,028 inhabitants. The spoken language is Peellands (an East Brabantian dialect, which is very similar to colloquial Dutch).

History
The area of nowadays Beek en Donk has been inhabited for a long time. Tools of Stone Age nomadic people have been found. The first permanent inhabitants come around 700 AD.
In the Middle Ages, the basis was made for the current towns. First Beek grew around the Oude Toren, and Heereind. In the 13th century, the role of Heereind was taken over by the expanding Donk. Heereind is noted in a document in 1314, where it was given the same importance as Aarle, Rixtel and Beek.
On Saint Barbara day (December 4) in 1300, duke Jan II of Brabant gave the inhabitants of 'Rikestele, Arle ende Beke' (Rixtel, Aarle and Beek) the right to use common lands around the towns. In the 14th century, Beek en Donk got its first church. In 1809, it was demolished, but the tower remains, like the Oude Toren (old tower)

During the reign of Johanna van Brabant, Beek was together with Aarle and Stiphout, was sold to Dirk de Roovere, for 1.700 gulden. In later ages, the area changed owners a few times, until in 1798 the feudal system was abolished, inspired by the French revolution.

During the 80-year war, the town suffered from passing enemy armies. After the war, Beek en Donk remained poor. Only in the late 18th century, when there was more land cultivated, the situation slowly got better. In the 19th century, the town started to develop more. In 1836 the Zuid-Willemsvaart was dug by hand, and in 1880-1881, the steam tram between Den Bosch and Helmond was built, having a stop in Beek en Donk. The tram was broken up later; the canal still remains.

In 1997, Beek en Donk, Lieshout, Aarle-Rixtel and Mariahout formed the municipality Laarbeek. The town hall of Beek en Donk serves as the town hall of the new municipality.

In 2020, at a future construction site in Beek en Donk, phosphor was found in the ground at the site, dating back to explosives used by Germans during World War II. The construction was postponed.

Gallery

References 

Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997
Populated places in North Brabant
Former municipalities of North Brabant
Laarbeek
J. C. Thom

James Crawford Thom (March 22, 1835 – February 16, 1898) was an American painter. Born in New York City, he studied at an artist colony in Perth Amboy, New Jersey along with Louis Comfort Tiffany of stained glass fame. He also studied with Edouard Frere, among others. He painted "By the River-Side" "Returning from the Wood", "Tired of Waiting", "Going to School", and "The Monk's Walk". Thom died in 1898 and is buried at the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in the Old Bridge section of East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Career

Thom studied at the National Academy in 1853. In 1859, he went to France with Corot and Frere in Ecouen. He was the first American painter joining the School of Ecouen created by Pierre edouard Frere. In the local census of 1861, he is registered as living in Ecouen, 13 "rue de Paris" under the name of Croquefort Tom. From 1864 to 1873, he worked in England, often exhibiting at the Royal Academy. His landscapes showed the influence of the second-generation Hudson River school painters. His genre paintings such as "Feeding the Ducks" and "Circus Scene".

Personal life
Thom was born March 22, 1835, in New York City, New York, the son of sculptor James Thom (April 19, 1802 - April 17, 1850 ) and Jessie Thom (d. December 5, 1868). James married Louise Giles and had a son Salvatore Thom (b. 1865) born in France and Ada (b. 1866), James (b. 1867), Blanche and Jessie all born in England. Louise Giles Thom died in 1881. Thom then married Sarah Bloodgood, in 1884, the daughter of a carriage maker. 
They lived at 10 Willow St (now Kossman St) Old Bridge (now East Brunswick). According to the 1861 Map of Middlesex, NJ, this house belonged to J.H. Bloodgood, Sarah's father. He had a carriage building shop next store to his house.

And through Salvatore (1867-1946), his son Salvatore Jr. (1894-1976) and his son Francis Crawford Thom (1931-2012) the Thoms have remained sculptors and painters.

Ada married Frank Hoffman of New Jersey and had four sons; the future Governor of New Jersey Harold G. Hoffman, Donald Hoffman, Fletcher Hoffman and Peter Hoffman. Harold G. Hoffman became known as the "most crooked governor New Jersey ever had." James Crawford Thom is buried in the Thom family plot in the Old Bridge Cemetery, Old Bridge, NJ.

From 1884 to his death, Thom lived in Old Bridge. He died of pneumonia in Atlantic Highlands.

Works
Works : Returning from the Wood (1864); Love in the Kitchen; Return of the Conscript; Going to Church, Christmas Eve (1876); Le jour de la Toussaint (1878); Watering his Horse, Morning Ride (1880); Rustic Sport, Summer Afternoon (1882); Old Farm House, South River, River Bank (1884); The Pets (1885)

References

External links
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.thom/58.67.69/mb.ashx

1835 births
1898 deaths
American people of Scottish descent
19th-century American painters
American male painters
People from East Brunswick, New Jersey
Painters from New York City
19th-century American male artists
Fred Harris (presenter)

Fred Harris is a British comedian and children's television presenter. Formerly a schoolteacher, he began his television career as a presenter of the BBC children's programme Play School, on which he appeared regularly between 1973 and 1988. During this time he was also a presenter on Ragtime and Chock-A-Block.

During the rise of the microcomputer in the early 1980s he fronted several home computing BBC programmes, including Micro Live (which formed part of BBC's ongoing Computer Literacy Project). He also presented a number of educational and schools programmes on the subject of maths, including ATV's Figure it Out (memorable for having a set which included a giant pocket calculator), Central Television's Basic Maths and Channel 4's Make It Count. In 1980 Harris appeared as a contestant on the first episode of The Adventure Game.

His career in comedy involved regular appearances in radio shows such as Huddwinks, The Half-Open University, The Burkiss Way and Star Terk II and in the television show End of Part One.

In the 1990s, he presented the Radio 4 programme The Litmus Test.

From the late 1990s to the present day he has worked on the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) children's programme Room 785. On this show he presents the "Broom Cupboard" slot introducing the forthcoming programmes.

References

British television presenters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
BBC television presenters
David Zaffiro

David Zaffiro is an American record producer and guitarist.

Career
Zaffiro began his musical pursuits with friends he met in Seattle, Washington, assisting the formation of the band Topaz and later the Crystal City Rockers. His professional career began as guitarist for the metal band Bloodgood. Though he officially left the band following their third album, he did play various parts on later albums. He then began producing records independently and for others. Artists with whom he has worked include Acquire the Fire, Andy Chrisman, A Worship House, Brett Williams, Broken Silence, Eli, End Time Warriors, Holy Soldier, Julie Miller, Kate Miner, Kim Hill, Little Big Town, The Passion Worship Band, Paul Q-Pek, Point of Grace, Whitecross and Zion.

Discography

Studio albums
 The Other Side (1989)
 In Scarlet Storm (1990)
 Surrender Absolute (1992)
 Yesterday's Left Behind (1994)

with Bloodgood
 Bloodgood (1986)
 Detonation (1987)
 Rock In a Hard Place (1988)

References

External links
Interview @ Hard Music Magazine from 2002

Living people
American performers of Christian music
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ivo Lill

Ivo Lill (24 June 1953 – 4 August 2019) was an Estonian glass artist.

Early life and education
Ivo Lill was born in Tallinn to Felix Lill and Asta Lill (née Multer). His father was arrested by Soviet authorities and spent several years sentenced to forced labor in the gulag system in Siberia, but was able to later return to the family. Lill was the youngest child of three siblings; he had two older sisters, Kadri, and actress Mari Lill. Lill grew up and attended schools in the district of Nõmme and spent time visiting his grandmother on the island of Saaremaa. His niece is actress Elisabet Reinsalu.

Lill was a 1985 graduate of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn and worked almost exclusively in the medium of glass sculpting and design. He was a member of the Estonian Artists' Association, G.A.S. (The Glass Art Society) of Seattle, U.S.A., and the Centro Studio Vetro, of Murano-Venice, Italy.

Works in public collections
 Art Museum of Estonia - Tallinn, Estonia
 Estonian Art Fund - Tallinn, Estonia
 Tallinn Art Hall - Tallinn, Estonia
 Tallinn Museum of Applied Art - Tallinn, Estonia
 Tartu Art Museum - Tartu, Estonia
 Tallinn Business Center - Tallinn, Estonia
 The Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, New York, U.S.A.
 Glasmuseet Ebeltoft - Ebeltoft, Denmark
 Glasmuseum Frauenau - Frauenau, Germany
 Centre del Vidre de Barcelona -  Barcelona, Spain
 Gus-Khrustalny Glass Museum - Gus-Khrustalny, Russia
 Bohemia Hall - Novy Bor, Czech Republic
 Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania - Vilnius, Lithuania
 Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Commissioned works
 since 2006 – Estonian Annual Theatre Awards "Theodori silm" trophies
 2002 – Trophies for the Eurovision Song Contest
 since 1999 – Annual Prizes for The Black Nights Film festival
 since 1999 – Annual Prizes for Estonian Drama Theatre
 1994 – Glass sculpture "The Right To Hope", (47×20×20 cm), "One World Art" programme, travelling exhibition
 1993 – Glass sculpture "The Trinity", (28×28×27 cm), a gift to the Catholic Pope John Paul II from the Union of Estonian Churches, Pope's Artistic Collection, Vatican City
 1986 – Glass sculpture “Seven Cubed”, (30×30×30 cm), Ministry of Culture of Russia (Moscow)
 1985 – Glass sculpture “Monster", (100×50×70 cm), Estonian Embassy in Moscow, Russia

Awards
 2014 – Tallinn Order of Merit
 2001 – The Silver Prize of the International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa, Japan
 1999 – Kristjan Raud Annual Arts Award 
 1995 - Kristjan Raud Annual Arts Award 
 1988 – The prize on the Baltic Applied Art Triennial IV
 1986 – The Annual Estonian Artists' Union award

Personal life and death
Ivo Lill was married to Irene Lill. The couple had two daughters. He died unexpectedly at age 66 in Haapsalu on 4 August 2019.

References

External links
 Ivo Lill homepage
 Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design 
 Internet Art Resources
 Gallery Viviann Napp

1953 births
2019 deaths
Glass artists
Artists from Tallinn
Estonian Academy of Arts alumni
20th-century Estonian male artists
21st-century Estonian male artists
Frédéric Vitoux (writer)

Frédéric Vitoux (born 19 August 1944) is a French writer and journalist.

He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist. His father was a journalist. He was elected at the Académie Française in 2001. In 2010, he won the Édouard Drumont literary prize for his novel Grand Hotel Nelson.

Bibliography
1973  Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Misère et parole  (Éditions Gallimard)
1973  Cartes postales  (Gallimard)
1976  Les Cercles de l'orage  (Grasset)
1976  Bébert, le chat de Louis-Ferdinand Céline  (Grasset)
1978  Yedda jusqu'à la fin  (Grasset)
1978  Céline  (Belfond) 
1979  Un amour de chat  (Balland)
1981  Mes îles Saint-Louis  (Le Chêne)
1982  Gioacchino Rossini  (Le Seuil)
1983  Fin de saison au Palazzo Pedrotti  (Le Seuil)
1985  La Nartelle  (Le Seuil)
1986  Il me semble désormais que Roger est en Italie  (Actes-Sud)
1987  Riviera  (Le Seuil)
1988  La Vie de Céline  (Grasset)
1990  Sérénissime  (Le Seuil)
1990  L'Art de vivre à Venise  (Flammarion)
1992  Charles et Camille  (Le Seuil)
1993  Paris vu du Louvre  (A. Biro)
1994  La Comédie de Terracina  (Le Seuil)
1996  Deux femmes  (Le Seuil)
1998  Esther et le diplomate  (Le Seuil)
2000  L'ami de mon père  (Le Seuil)
2001  Le Var pluriel et singulier  (Équinoxe)
2003  Des dahlias rouge et mauve  (Le Seuil)
2004  Villa Sémiramis  (Le Seuil)
2005  Le roman de Figaro  (Fayard)

References

External links
  L'Académie française

1944 births
Living people
People from Loiret
20th-century French novelists
21st-century French novelists
French literary critics
French biographers
Members of the Académie Française
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
French male novelists
20th-century biographers
Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Officers of the Order of Cultural Merit (Monaco)
Prix Goncourt de la Biographie winners
20th-century French male writers
21st-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers
Male biographers
Peace at Last (The Blue Nile album)

Peace at Last is the third studio album by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released on 10 June 1996 via Warner Bros. Records.

Following the reissue of their first two albums in 2012 as 2-CD deluxe editions, Peace at Last was also reissued in a similar 2-CD version on 3 March 2014.

Background
Peace at Last was a considerable musical departure for the band, marking a shift towards a more acoustic sound. Unlike their prior two albums A Walk Across the Rooftops and Hats, which featured electronic instrumentation almost exclusively, Peace at Last was primarily driven by Paul Buchanan's acoustic guitar. A gospel choir made a brief appearance on the lead single, "Happiness".

Critical reception

Critical reaction to Peace at Last was mixed. Despite some initial high praise, including a five-star review from Q, in the years following the album's release it remained largely overshadowed by A Walk Across the Rooftops and Hats.

Track listing
All songs written by Paul Buchanan, except where noted.

"Happiness" – 4:39
"Tomorrow Morning" – 4:15
"Sentimental Man" – 5:05
"Love Came Down" – 3:35
"Body and Soul" – 5:16
"Holy Love" – 2:42
"Family Life" – 5:21
"War Is Love" – 3:33
"God Bless You Kid" (Robert Bell, Buchanan) – 4:56
"Soon" – 5:27

2014 Remastered Collector's Edition CD bonus disc
"Soon" (Laurel Canyon Mix) – 5:30
"War Is Love" (New Vocal Mix) – 4:46
"Turn Yourself Around" (Bell, Buchanan) – 4:46
"Holy Love" (Picture Mix) – 4:03
"A Certain Kind of Angel" (Bell, Buchanan) (unreleased demo) – 5:06
"There Was a Girl" – 5:28

Personnel
The Blue Nile:
Robert Bell – bass, synthesizer
Paul Buchanan – vocals, guitar, synthesizer
Paul Joseph Moore – keyboards, synthesizer

Additional musicians:
Craig Armstrong – string orchestration ("Family Life")
Calum Malcolm – keyboard
Eddie Tate & Friends – gospel choir ("Happiness")
Nigel Thomas – drums

Technical:
The Blue Nile – producer
Calum Malcolm – engineer

Charts

Release history

References

External links
The Blue Nile Official Web site
The Blue Nile Fan pages Web site
The Blue Nile's Altsounds.com Profile

The Blue Nile albums
1996 albums
Warner Records albums
Sainte-Marie, Martinique

Sainte-Marie (; ) is a town and the fifth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Martinique. It is located on the northeast (Atlantic Ocean) side of the island of Martinique.

Geography

Climate

Sainte-Marie has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af). The average annual temperature in Sainte-Marie is . The average annual rainfall is  with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Sainte-Marie was  on 23 September 2005; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 8 March 1987.

Population

See also
Communes of Martinique

References

External links
 Official website (in French)

Communes of Martinique
Populated places in Martinique
Municipal District of Acadia No. 34

The Municipal District of Acadia No. 34 is a municipal district (MD) in southern Alberta, Canada, east of  Calgary, close to the Saskatchewan border, in Census Division No. 4.

It is located on Highway 41 on the north side of the Red Deer River and bordered on the east by Saskatchewan. Highway 41 is a main route between Medicine Hat and Cold Lake.

Geography

Communities and localities 
 
The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the MD of Acadia No. 34.
Cities
none
Towns
none
Villages
none
Summer villages
none

The following hamlets are located within the MD of Acadia No. 34.
Hamlets
Acadia Valley (also recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada)

The following localities are located within the MD of Acadia No. 34.
Localities 
Acadia
Arneson
Haven

Demographics 

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the MD of Acadia No. 34 had a population of 494 living in 159 of its 196 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 493. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the MD of Acadia No. 34 had a population of 493 living in 159 of its 184 total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of 495. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

Attractions 
 Prairie Elevator Museum in the Hamlet of Acadia Valley
 Acadia Municipal Recreation Dam - trout fishing

See also 
List of communities in Alberta
List of municipal districts in Alberta

References

External links 

 
Acadia
Krzeszów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship

Krzeszów  is a village in Nisko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Krzeszów. It lies on the San River, approximately  south-east of Nisko and  north-east of the regional capital Rzeszów.

References

External links
 Official website of Krzeszów

Villages in Nisko County
Kholm Governorate
Suai Church massacre

The Suai Church massacre occurred on 6 September 1999, in Suai, Cova Lima District in southwestern East Timor, two days after the results of the independence referendum were announced.

Massacre
According to the International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor's report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, several hundred persons had sought refuge in the Ave Maria church from attacks of the pro-Indonesia Laksaur militia in the city. Then the militia, with the support of the military of Indonesia, killed up to 200 people. Twenty-six bodies were identified that had been buried across the border in West Timor, but eyewitnesses claim many more were killed.

Five Indonesian officials—Lieutenant Colonel Liliek Kusardiyanto, Captain Ahmad Syamsudin, Lieutenant Sugito, police Colonel Gatot Subiaktoro, and District Head Herman Sedyono—were tried in Indonesia for these crimes but were acquitted. The UN named them and eleven other men in an indictment filed by the UN Serious Crimes Unit in Dili, accusing them of 27 counts of crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, enforced disappearance, torture, and deportation.

See also
 List of massacres in East Timor

External links
 ETAN (East Timor and Indonesia Action Network) page, including excerpts from the UN report and eyewitness accounts
 Human Rights Watch page discussing acquittal of the five implicated Indonesian officials
 Suai Church Massacre drawing by Suai youth & Photograph of Church
 Drawings of Massacre by Suai Youth 2000
 Short Documentary about Suai Church Massacre

1999 in East Timor
Indonesian occupation of East Timor
Massacres in 1999
Massacres in Indonesia
Massacres in religious buildings and structures
September 1999 events in Asia
Massacres in East Timor

Persecution of Catholics
Massacres of Christians
General I. Zaragoza metro station

General I. Zaragoza ( or Terminal Zaragoza) is a station on Lines 2 and 3 of the Monterrey Metro. It is located in Monterrey, on the heart of the Macroplaza. The station was opened on 30 November 1994 as the eastern terminus of the inaugural section of Line 2, between General Anaya and Zaragoza.

This station serves the heart of the Monterrey shopping district. It is one block away from Morelos Street, and Monterrey's Zona Rosa, MARCO museum and the Monterrey City Hall.  It is accessible for people with disabilities.

It is named after General Ignacio Zaragoza and the nearby Avenida Ignacio Zaragoza.  The station logo depicts this Mexican military genius – the hero of the Battle of Puebla – astride his horse.

See also
List of Monterrey metro stations

References

Metrorrey stations
Railway stations opened in 1994
Railway stations located underground in Mexico
Alfred Cowles

Alfred Cowles III (September 15, 1891 – December 28, 1984) was an American economist, businessman and founder of the Cowles Commission. He graduated from Yale in 1913, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.

He was the grandson of Alfred Cowles, Sr., who was a founder of the Chicago Tribune. His father, Alfred Cowles, Jr. (1865–1939) managed and directed the Chicago Tribune from 1898 to 1901 and the American Radiator Company. His mother was Elizabeth Cheney (1865–1898). His parents lived at 1130 N. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois. Alfred Cowles III had three siblings: Knight Cheney Cowles (born 1892); John Cheney Cowles (born 1894); and Thomas Hooker Cowles (born June 6, 1895) who married Barbara Granger, daughter of architect Alfred Hoyt Granger.

Alfred Cowles was a fellow and treasurer of the Econometric Society.

Selected works

References 

American chief executives
Economists from Illinois
Cowles family
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Businesspeople from Chicago
People from Colorado
Yale University alumni
1891 births
1984 deaths
20th-century American economists
Grand River Academy alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
Members of Skull and Bones
Connecticut Route 16

Route 16 is a primary state route connecting Middletown and Colchester via Route 66. It begins in East Hampton at Route 66 then has an interchange with Route 2 in Colchester. It then runs through Colchester center, then goes to the outskirts of Lebanon town as a rural collector road. Route 16 ends at Route 207 in Lebanon.

Route description
Route 16 begins at a junction with Route 66 in the Cobalt section of East Hampton. It proceeds easterly through the town, intersecting Route 196 before entering the town of Colchester.  In the village of Westchester, it intersects Route 149.  It then meets Route 2 at Exit 18 before reaching Colchester center.  Here it duplexes with Connecticut Route 85 for 0.07 miles, then continues northeasterly toward Lebanon, where it end at a junction with Route 207.

The portion between Route 66 and Route 85 is known as the "Henry Champion Highway".

History

 1933-34: Commissioned between Route 66 (then known as Route 14) in East Hampton and Route 85 in Colchester
 1963: Extended to Lebanon

Junction list

References

External links

016
Transportation in Middlesex County, Connecticut
Transportation in New London County, Connecticut
William Beatty (Ontario politician)

William Beatty (January 19, 1835 – December 2, 1898) was an Ontario businessman and political figure.

He was born in Stonyford, Ireland in 1835 and came to Thorold in Upper Canada with his family the same year. He attended Victoria College in Cobourg, receiving an LLB in 1864. He was elected to the university's senate in the following year. He also worked with his father and brother in the timber trade. Their company operated a sawmill on the Seguin River at Parry Sound, primarily managed by William, and a steamship service between Collingwood, Parry Sound and Port Arthur/Fort William (Thunder Bay), mainly operated by his brother James Hughes. The firm set up a town at Parry Sound and William also served as a lay Methodist minister for the community.

In 1867, he was unsuccessful in a bid to represent Algoma in the House of Commons of Canada, losing by 9 votes; he was elected to represent Welland in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario later that same year. He was not reelected in the next general election in 1871. Later that year, the operation in Parry Sound was sold and Beatty settled there. He bought out his brother and father's share in the town site and set up a general store there. With Beatty's support, a vote was taken to keep the township free of alcohol under the terms of the Dunkin Act. Up until 1950, anyone who bought land in the town had to sign an agreement not to sell alcohol on their premises.

Over the years, Beatty operated a number of mills at Parry Sound. He also retained a share in the shipping operation. He operated a hotel located on the waterfront and helped establish a railway line to Parry Sound, which was later taken over by John Rudolphus Booth's Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway.

He died at Parry Sound in 1898.

Electoral record

External links 
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

1835 births
1898 deaths
Canadian Methodists
Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople
Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
Immigrants to Upper Canada
Businesspeople from County Kilkenny
Politicians from County Kilkenny
Oshu

Oshu or Ōshū may refer to:
Another name for Mutsu Province, a former Japanese province
Ōshū, Iwate, Japan, a city
Northern Fujiwara (Ōshū Fujiwara-shi), a Japanese noble family
Ōshū Corporation
Squidoo

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Squidoo was a revenue-sharing article-writing site.  Articles were called "lenses".  In 2010, the site consisted of 1.5 million lenses . On August 15, 2014, founder Seth Godin announced that HubPages had acquired Squidoo.

History
Development started in 2005. The launch team consisted of Seth Godin, his book editor Megan Casey, former Fast Company employee Heath Row, Corey Brown, and Gil Hildebrand, Jr. The first version was developed by Viget Labs.

Site structure
Squidoo was a user-generated Web site which allowed users to create multimedia pages without an understanding of HTML. Godin called articles "lenses", because he saw them as  "[focusing] light and [showing] us what we need to see." Writers were called "lensmasters". In Squidoo's early stages, Godin noted that Martha Stewart and Jane Goodall's lenses did not receive large amounts of traffic, whereas lenses on myspace and the online game Line Rider were among the site's most successful.

Godin announced in January 2006 that the company would start a profit-sharing system whereby lensmasters would receive affiliate income from ads they placed in their lenses.

Reception
After its debut, Squidoo was profiled in CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, and The Washington Post. The site was given top prize in South by Southwest's community/wiki category in 2007. Squidoo challenged established information Web sites like About.com and eHow for traffic, while it remained similar in unique visitor numbers to other revenue-sharing sites like  Mahalo.com and HubPages.

HubPages acquisition
On August 15, 2014, Godin announced that Squidoo had been acquired by HubPages in a friendly takeover. In common with many revenue-sharing sites, Squidoo's traffic and income had been declining for some time and if it had not been sold to HubPages, it would not have been financially viable to maintain the site.

In the announcement on the Squidoo site, Godin explained:

They’re [HubPages] the industry leader, continually pushing the envelope in terms of their content, its presentation, and the traffic and traction they get online. The best way we know to serve our users is to give them an even better place for their content, and when I talked with Paul Edmondson at HubPages, it became clear to both of us that combining these platforms leads to a stronger, more efficient, more generous way to share great stuff online.

Users were warned to save their pages, as only the top-performing Squidoo lenses would be transferred to HubPages.

References

Online publishing companies of the United States
Internet properties established in 2005
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Dadanawa Ranch

Dadanawa Ranch is located on the Rupununi River in the Rupununi savannah in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana. It is the largest and one of the most isolated cattle ranches in Guyana.

Location
Dadanawa Ranch is one of the most remote ranches in the world containing about 6,000 cattle. The ranch area is said to be . It is located on the Rupununi River in the South Rupununi savannahs, in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana. The habitat of the area is diverse, "ranging from riparian forest/scrub along the Rupununi River to savanna with few scattered trees".

The preferred means of travel to Dadanawa is by jeep. It takes about 3.5 hours to drive from Lethem to Dadanawa in the dry season, and as much as three days in the wet season. Tourists often stay at Dadanawa and use the ranch as a base for further journeys throughout the South Rupununi.

History
The name "Dadanawa" is a distortion of the local Wapishana Amerindian name of Dadinauwau, or "macaw spirit creek hill".

Dadanawa started out as a trading post by a man of the name DeRooie about 1865 and was sold with 300 head of cattle in the late 1880s to H.P.C. Melville, a gold prospector from Barbados who found himself lost and near-dead of malaria in the area several years before. The ranch was sold to investors and established as the Rupununi Development Company in 1919.

Workers
Ranch cowboys are called "vaqueros", most of whom are Wapishana Amerindians who operate barefoot and are responsible for managing ranch livestock. The ranch supports over 40 people in the main compound including the direct and extended families of the manager and staff, some of which extend for three generations.

The ranch is now run by Duane de Freitas, his wife Sandie and son Justin along with his Irish partner, Erin Earl. They run an ecotourism business from the ranch and visitors from all over the world come to birdwatch or go on river trips in the savannahs and Amazon rainforest. Duane and Justin have set up the Rupununi Conservation Society to protect the highly endangered siskins and other bird and river turtle species.

Harry E Turner
Harry E Turner was an English ex-cavalry officer who said that he had ridden in the last British army cavalry charge in the Middle East during the First World War. He was the manager of Dadanawa up to 1965, and retired to England that year.

References

 The Rupununi Development Company Limited -The Early History, 1972, *Turner, Harry E.

Populated places in Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo
Ranches
Agriculture in Guyana