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George Burnham

George Burnham (December 28, 1868 – June 28, 1939) was a banker and Republican politician from San Diego, California. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1937.

Biography
Burnham was born 1868 in London, England, to James and Maria Ann Burnham.
He immigrated in 1881 to the United States with his parents, who settled in Spring Valley, Minnesota.
He attended public schools in London and Minnesota.
Burnham worked as a clerk 1884–1886, then moved to Jackson, Minnesota, in 1887 where he entered the retail shoe business.
In 1901 he moved to Spokane, Washington, and worked in real estate and ranching.

Burnham moved to San Diego in 1903 and continued to work in real estate with his brother John, until 1917 when he took up banking.
Burnham was active in public affairs.

Burnham was one of the organizers of the Panama-California Exposition in 1909, serving as vice president from 1909 to 1916.

He was also member of the Honorary Commercial Commission to China in 1910, member of the San Diego Library Commission 1926–1932, a member of the San Diego Scientific Library 1926–1932, and vice president of the California-Pacific International Exposition 1935–1936.

Burnham married Neva May Ashley on October 1, 1890, and they had six children, Harold, Percy, Helen, Laurence, Virginia, and Ben. After she died, he married Florence Kennett Dupee.

Congress 
Burnham was elected to the 73rd Congress in 1932, and reelected in 1934, serving as Representative for Imperial and San Diego counties.
He worked to expand Navy presence in San Diego.
In 1936, he drew up bills to add 365,000 acres (1460 km2) of federal land in the Carrizo and Vallecito areas to the newly created Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Later career and death 
In 1936 he did not run again and retired in San Diego, where he lived until his death in 1939.
Burnham is interred in the Greenwood Cathedral Mausoleum, in Greenwood Memorial Park.

Further reading
  Biography, pp. 221–222; includes portrait.

External links
 Biography (San Diego Historical Society). Based on biography in Heilbron (above)
  (U.S. Congress)

1868 births
1939 deaths
Businesspeople from San Diego
Politicians from San Diego
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California
English emigrants to the United States
Burials at Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego)
People from Spring Valley, Minnesota
People from Jackson, Minnesota
People from Spokane, Washington
Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's slalom

The women's slalom was contested on Wednesday, 22 February. Janica Kostelić led in the slalom World Cup with 460 points, and was also defending World and Olympic champion, but she finished  0.15 seconds behind Marlies Schild for the 4th place. Anja Pärson got her first Olympic gold medal.

Results
Complete results for the Women's Slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

References

External links
Official Olympic Report

Slalom
InterActual Player

InterActual Player, known originally as PC Friendly, was a media player for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, included on some DVDs with movie files. In addition to providing DVD playback control it makes available extra material on some DVDs, including commentaries, pop-up notes, synchronized screenplays and games. It requires existing DVD player software, which it embeds in the interface for playing the actual DVDs.

Details 
InterActual Player software automatically displays an installation dialog when a user inserts a DVD containing it into the DVD-ROM Drive. If the user chooses to install InterActual Player it becomes the default DVD player and creates a shortcut on the desktop and a link to the InterActual website. It also asks the user to supply information voluntarily and allow usage data to be sent over the Internet. InterActual Player can also be accessed by the internet.

As of January 2017, the service has been permanently shut down.

References

External links 
 Official site
 Analysis of data Interactual sends when it calls home
 Allegations of bundling spyware
 Old versions of InterActual Player on Wayback Machine
 Last version of InterActual Player for Windows

Windows media players
Software DVD players
German Skurygin

German Anatolyevich Skurygin (; September 15, 1963 – November 28, 2008) was a Russian race walker. He was born in Vutno.

He originally won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships, but later lost it due to doping. He was suspended from 1999 to 2001. Like dozens of other elite Russian race walkers suspended for doping, he was coached by Viktor Chegin. He died of a heart attack at 45.

International competitions

See also
List of doping cases in athletics

References

1963 births
2008 deaths
Russian male racewalkers
World Athletics Championships medalists
Athletes stripped of World Athletics Championships medals
Russian Athletics Championships winners
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in athletics
Kamp-Lintfort

Kamp-Lintfort () is a town in Wesel District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located  north-west of Moers.

Notable people
Jacob Wiener (1815-1899), medallist and engraver.
Adolf Storms (1919–2010), member of the Waffen-SS and war criminal
Brigitte Asdonk (born 1947), founding member of the Red Army Faction

Twin towns – sister cities

Kamp-Lintfort is twinned with:

 Edremit, Turkey
 Żory, Poland
 Chester-Le-Street, England
 Cambrai, France

Climate
Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as oceanic (Cfb). It lies within the Rhine-Ruhr area which is characterized by having the warmest winters in Germany.

References

Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
Wesel (district)
Portrait of the Goddess

Portrait of the Goddess is the second studio album by American metalcore band Bleeding Through. The album was released on April 30, 2002 through Indecision Records.

Tracks "Just Another Pretty Face", "Turns Cold to the Touch", "III Part 2" and "I Dream of July" first appeared on their debut album Dust to Ashes and the band decided to re-record the tracks for this album.

Track listing

Personnel
Scott Danough – guitar
Brian Leppke – guitar   
Brandan Schieppati – vocals
Mick Morris - Bass
Molly Street – keyboard
Derek Youngsma – drums
Greg Koller – producer, engineer, mastering  
Dave Mandel – layout design  
Mike Milford – layout design

References

Bleeding Through albums
Indecision Records albums
2002 albums
Ivano Brugnetti

Ivano Brugnetti (born 1 September 1976 in Milan) is an Italian former race walker.

Biography
Brugnetti won five medals, at individual level, in international athletics competitions. He participated at three editions of the Summer Olympics (2000, 2004, and 2008) and earned 22 caps in the national team from 1997 to 2008.

Achievements

National titles
Brugnetti is a seven-time winner at the Italian Athletics Championships.
4 wins in the 10,000 m walk (1999, 2006, 2008, 2009)
2 wins in the 20 km walk (2003, 2004)
1 win in the 5000 metres walk indoor (2001)

See also
 FIDAL Hall of Fame
 Italy at the European Race Walking Cup - Multiple medalists
 Italian all-time lists - 20 km walk
 Italian all-time lists - 50 km walk

References

External links
 
 

1976 births
Living people
Athletes from Milan
Italian male racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Italy
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
World Athletics Championships medalists
Athletics competitors of Fiamme Gialle
Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
World Athletics Championships winners
21st-century Italian people
Bathimpact

Bathimpact (stylised as "bathimpact") is the student newspaper for the University of Bath Students' Union, England.

History and format 

Student Impact was created from the merger of two former publications at the University of Bath, Spike and Sponge.  Sponge was the University of Bath Students' Union paper which had been running for the previous 30 years, while Spike was a student-run magazine concentrating mainly on film, music and book reviews.  In December 1999, following controversy over an article in Sponge entitled "How to stuff your bird at Christmas", the Students' Union took the decision to stop the publication of Sponge.  Spike had been struggling from a lack of contributors and funding for some time.  The Students' Union Media and Communications Officer, Peter Secchi, together with founding Editor Arthur Lewis, put out the first issue of Student Impact on February 14, 2000.

On February 22, 2010, just over a decade after the paper was created, it was relaunched and rebranded as "Bathimpact".

The paper runs on a fortnightly basis, with a print run of 2,000.

The newspaper was originally split into seven sections, News, Opinion, Features, International, Science, Entertainments and Sport. It is produced on a voluntary basis by the 10 editors and over 100 contributors. In November 2010 the Bathimpact team decided to alter the newspaper by combining the Features and Entertainment section into a 16-page magazine-style insert called 'bite' (Bathimpact lite). 'bite' covers features, food, fashion, film, literature, theatre, music, technology and puzzles.

Student Media awards 
The online site for Student Impact, impact Online (created by Ben Braine), was shortlisted in 2003 for the Student Website of the year award at the Guardian Student Media Awards. In the same year the Impact team scooped the "Student Activity of the Year Award" at their own University of Bath Students' Union's Societies Awards.

University awards 
Since 1994, the University of Bath has been awarding The Chancellor's Prize to the best final year student at the university. In 2004, this was awarded to Tom Vincent, a previous editor in chief.  The following year, Heather Mackenzie, a former sports editor for the paper, took the award.

In 2008, it was awarded to Jack Mitchell, the editor in chief at the time. Part of the information released by the university stated "As Editor-in-Chief of the Students' Union newspaper Impact and contributor to the general management of the Students' Union, he was acknowledged to have played an important part in the general life of the University."

References

External links 

Student newspapers published in the United Kingdom
University of Bath
Newspapers established in 1999
Biweekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Free newspapers
Newspapers published in Somerset
1999 establishments in England
Darrow School

Darrow School is a co-educational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9-12 and PG. It is located in New Lebanon, New York.

History
Darrow opened in the fall of 1932 as the Lebanon School for Boys. In 1938 the president Charles S. Haight died, and C. Lambert Heyniger purchased the school, becoming its headmaster and treasurer. Heyniger was a Princeton alumnus who had taught as a missionary in China and then pursued graduate study at Columbia University before joining General Motors. After buying the school he renamed it in the Shaker tradition, after a family prominent among the religious colony. Heyniger redesigned parts of the campus and reorganized personnel and policy.

In 1963, three Darrow students set a fire and destroyed the century-old dining hall and fire leveled the 156-year-old gymnasium. Both fires threatened dormitories housing 175 pupils. The boys had hoped school officials would send all the pupils home until repairs were made.

Campus

The campus is situated on the original site of the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, a National Historic Landmark. It spans over 365 acres of land, with 26 buildings, tennis courts, playing fields, ponds, orchards, pastures, marshlands, and a vast forest.

Student body
The school currently enrolls 110 students from across the United States and countries such as Dominica, China, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and South Korea.

Athletics
Student participate in a number of competitive and non-competitive sports:

Fall
Cross-country
Soccer
Outdoor education
Mixed martial arts
Winter
Girls varsity basketball
Boys varsity basketball
Boys prep basketball
Alpine 
Spring
Lacrosse
Softball
Outdoor education
Esports

Traditions

The strong visual traces of Shaker austerity stand in contrast with the modern and less conventional morés of some affluent students raised in such different moral settings. In an interview, teacher Ed Noggle stated that a fascination with ghosts resulted. "These young people," Noggle says, "are very much of this world, very sensual, sexual beings. It has always been a matter of 'Ha, ha, what would the Shakers do if they could see all this? They'd roll over in their graves.'"

Notable alumni

Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr., Apollo 12 commander and third man to walk on the moon, Class of 1949
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, radio personality, Class of 1978
Sam Harper, screenwriter of Cheaper by the Dozen and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Class of 1974
August François von Finck, German businessman
Christopher Lloyd, actor 
William H. Hudnut III, mayor of Indianapolis
Donald Cushing McGraw, Jr., businessman, Class of 1943

References

External links

 

Private high schools in New York (state)
Schools in Columbia County, New York
Educational institutions established in 1932
1932 establishments in New York (state)
Mount Lebanon Shaker Society
Voerde

Voerde ([]) is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approximately  south-east of Wesel, and 20 km north of Duisburg.

City structure
According to art. 1(3) of the Main Charter of the town, the municipal area is divided into the 11 quarters of Götterswickerhamm, Löhnen, Mehrum, Möllen, Voerde, Stockum, Holthausen, Friedrichsfeld, Emmelsum, Spellen and Ork. These quarters are, however, not localities in the sense of article 39 of the North Rhine-Westphalian Municipal Code (GO NW).

History
Voerde owes its name to a ford crossing of a branch of the River Rhine, which existed there during Roman and Frankish times (the old spelling for Furt was Fuerdt). In 1244, the town was mentioned in records for the first time as a fiefdom and castle of the abbey of Werden. In 1804, during the time of the French occupation, Voerde was integrated into the Amt Götterswickerhamm, which was renamed to Voerde in 1911.
During World War II, the 9th US-Army crossed the Rhine in the night of 23 to 24 March 1945 in the area of Voerde and reached the right Rhine-bank for the first time (Operation Plunder).
Since 1975 Voerde is part of the district of Wesel.

Buildings and constructions
 Pylons of Voerde
 Haus Voerde: Moated castle
 Haus Wohnung: Moated castle

Politics
At the last communal-election in Voerde the SPD became the strongest party. The incumbent mayor is Dirk Haarmann (SPD).

Twin towns – sister cities

Voerde is twinned with:
 Alnwick, England, United Kingdom
 Handlová, Slovakia

Transport
Voerde Main Station is located in the town centre at the railway track Oberhausen-Arnhem. A second station, Voerde-Friedrichsfeld, is located 4 km northern.
Important waterways, the Rhine and the Wesel-Datteln-channel, cross Voerde's area.

Sports
There are 11 shooting clubs, 2 Tennis clubs and a riding club in Voerde.
The most important sport club is the TV Voerde.

Education
There are 7 elementary schools, one gymnasium, one comprehensive school, one secondary school and one school for mentally handicapped pupils.

Notable people
Karl Topp (1895–1981), naval officer in World Wars I and II
Heike Schulte-Mattler (born 1958), athlete, Olympic medalist

References

Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
Wesel (district)
Freistadt (disambiguation)

Freistadt is a town in Upper Austria.

Freistadt may also refer to:

Freistadt, Wisconsin, a community in Wisconsin, USA
Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig), Poland
Fryštát, a town in the Czech Republic (German: Freistadt)
Frysztak, Poland (German: Freistadt)
Hlohovec, town in Slovakia (Freistadt an der Waag)

See also
Freistatt
Freistaat
Freiburg (disambiguation)
Freiberg (disambiguation)
Daniel Plaza

Daniel Plaza Montero (born 3 July 1966) is a Spanish former race walker who competed in the 20 km event at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1992 in his native Barcelona, becoming the first Spanish track & field athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal.

Overturned drugs ban 

In 2006 Plaza was cleared of a Nandrolone related drug ban by Spain's Supreme Court

References 

1966 births
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Spanish male racewalkers
Athletes from Catalonia
Olympic athletes for Spain
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Athletes from Barcelona
European Athletics Championships medalists
Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 Mediterranean Games
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Itchen Valley

Itchen Valley is a civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. Forming part of the City of Winchester district, it comprises the villages of Avington, Easton, Itchen Abbas and Martyr Worthy, with a population of 1,267 at the time of the 2001 Census. increasing at the 2011 Census to a population of 1,459.

It is to the northeast of Winchester and takes its name from the River Itchen. The parish is crossed by the M3 motorway, and contains Winchester services. The main West–east route through the parish is the B3047. East bound from Winchester the B3047 enters the parish at Worthy Park and exits it at a point approx. 300m East of Rectory Lane, Itchen Abbas. It is located near to the civil parishes of Itchen Stoke and Ovington and New and Old Alresford.

Largely rural in character, much of the parish is in both the South Downs National Park and the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is crossed by several designated walking paths and riding routes including the Itchen Way, King's Way, Pilgrims' Way, St. Swithun's Way, South Downs Way, Three Castles Path and Oxdrove Way.

Governance 
Itchen Valley Parish Council has eleven councillors who hold various portfolios concerning the local area. Itchen Valley is part of the Hampshire County Council Ward of the same name, which has larger borders and also includes settlements such as Alresford. The ward has been represented by Jackie Porter since 2005, who was most recently reelected in 2017. As part of Winchester City Council is forms part of Alresford and Itchen Valley ward, which since 2016 has had three councillors. As of the 2019 election, these are:

References

External links 
Parish website
Map of parish boundaries

Civil parishes in Winchester
Villages in Hampshire
Montoro

Montoro is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Córdoba, Andalusia. Housing lies on a bend of the river Guadalquivir, which envelopes from West, North, and East.

Overview
It is located about  east-northeast of the capital of the province, Córdoba. In 2008, the city had an estimated population of 9,895, with 4,897 men and 4,998 women.

Montoro is identified with Roman Epora, a civitas foederata belonging to the Conventus Cordubensis in the early Republican era, which became a municipium in the time of Augustus. It is mentioned as the seat of an Islamic fortress (Ḥiṣn Muntur) belonging to the Kūra of Córdoba in the 10th century.

Twin towns
 Antigua Guatemala (Guatemala)
 Rambouillet (France)

See also
List of municipalities in Córdoba

References

External links

Economic and population data 

Municipalities in the Province of Córdoba (Spain)
Roman towns and cities in Spain
Iskut

Iskut is a small, mostly Indigenous community in the Stikine Country of northwestern British Columbia. It is located on Highway 37, at the north end of Eddontenajon Lake just south of Dease Lake and the crossing of the Stikine River.

Community 
Iskut is the home of Iskut First Nation, a group of the Tahltan people, which also includes the communities of Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek. Two bands comprise the Tahltan Nation, the Iskut First Nation and the Tahltan First Nation or Tahltan Indian Band. Iskut Indian Reserve No. 6 and Kluachon Lake Indian Reserve No. 1 are the two formal Indian reserves in the vicinity.

Klappan Independent Day School, the Iskut First Nation Band Office and the Iskut Valley Health Services building are the primary public service amenities. Shopping and gas can be purchased at Kluachon Center.

Location 
Iskut is located at the 407 km mark on Highway 37 and is approximately 6–7 hours from both Terrace and Smithers and within 9 hours drive from Whitehorse, Yukon.

Recreation 

Recreational activities in the area include fishing at any of the lakes of the Iskut Chain Lakes, which include, moving south to north, Nadatadasleen Lake, Kinaskan Lake, Tattoga Lake, Eddontenajon Lake and Kluachon Lake. Snowmobiling and ATVing are very popular activities for locals of the area.

Resource Development
The opening of Highway 37 through the Iskut area has supported new resource development. Ongoing mining and energy projects include the Red Chris copper and gold mine, and the Volcano Creek hydroelectric project.

Coal-bed methane conflict 

Iskut is well known for the protracted disagreement over the use of the area for resource extraction. The rapid expansion of mining throughout the area has given rise to much controversy over the level of consultation given to local First Nations' people. Of particular public interest has been Royal Dutch Shell's plans for coalbed methane extraction on the Klappan Plateau, the Tahltan people's traditional hunting and trapping territory.

Klappan has been named the Sacred Headwaters because it forms the headwaters of several significant salmon rivers, including the Skeena, Spatsizi and Stikine rivers. The Spatsizi Plateau region has occasionally called the "Serengeti of the North"  due to the diversity and number of different species that call the area home. The controversy over  Sacred Headwaters is also further complicated by the different levels of Tahltan government.

The Tahltan Central Council (TCC) speaks for the entire Tahltan First Nation but between the three significant communities, some people feel that TCC does not fairly represent the feelings of all communities equally. At the forefront of the battle over the Sacred Headwaters is a group of Iskut First Nation members called the "Klabona Keepers".

See also
Todagin Wildlife Management Area

References

Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Populated places in the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine
Tahltan
Stikine Country
Joseph James Cheeseman

Joseph James Cheeseman (March 7, 1843 – November 12, 1896) was the 12th president of Liberia.  Born at Edina in Grand Bassa County, he was elected three times on the True Whig ticket. Cheeseman was educated at Liberia College (now University of Liberia).

Presidency (1892–1896)

Economy
In the decades after 1868, escalating economic difficulties weakened the state's dominance over the coastal indigenous population. Conditions worsened, as the cost of imports was far greater than the income generated by exports of coffee, rice, palm oil, sugarcane, and timber. Liberia tried desperately to modernize its largely agricultural economy.

Territorial conflicts
In 1892, the French forced Liberia to cede to the Ivory Coast the area beyond Cape Palmas which Liberia had long controlled.  President Johnson (1884–92) was responsible for this negotiation but retired before the treaty was signed. 
The boundaries of Liberia were beginning to be officially established from this year onwards.
Whenever the British and French seemed intent on enlarging at Liberia's expense the neighboring territories they already controlled, periodic appearances by U.S. warships helped discourage encroachment, even though successive American administrations rejected appeals from Monrovia for more forceful support.

Ethnic uprisings
Some tribal people living in the hinterland of Montserrado County and further north were at war since the mid-1880s and would stay at war until the late 1890s. On the one hand there was a war between Gola and Mandingo over trading routes in the region, while various factions of the Gola were fighting with each other too.  

Ethnic struggles with the Kru, Gola, and Grebo tribe who resented incursions into their territory occurred several times during Cheeseman's reign. Cheeseman initially attempted to settle tribal conflicts by peaceful negotiations. One notable uprising occurred in 1893 when the Grebo tribe attacked the settlement of Harper. Troops and the gunboat Gorronomah were sent to defeat the tribesmen.

Death
President Cheeseman died in office on November 12, 1896, and vice president William David Coleman served the remainder of the term and well as another four years until 1900. Cheeseman was interred at the City Cemetery of Monrovia.

See also
History of Liberia

References

External links
see History of Liberia, external links
 

Americo-Liberian people
Presidents of Liberia
1843 births
1896 deaths
Burials in Liberia
University of Liberia alumni
True Whig Party politicians
People from Grand Bassa County
19th-century Liberian politicians
Freistadt

Freistadt (, literally "Freetown") is a small Austrian town in the state of Upper Austria in the region Mühlviertel. With a population of approximately 7,500 residents, it is a trade centre for local villages. Freistadt is the economic centre of a district of the same name District Freistadt. The nearest sizeable cities are Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, about 40 km in the south, and České Budějovice, the capital of Southern Bohemia, about 60 km in the north.

History
The area surrounding Freistadt came under the dominion of the Bavarian Duchy in the seventh century.

Freistadt was founded before 1220. The Babenberg Duke Leopold VI passed through the area in 1225. The earliest mention of Frienstat is in a document from 1241, but in 1277, Rudolf von Habsburg referred to Vreinstat in another document. Its position separated the Habsburg and Bohemian lands, and it stood at crossroads of the valuable salt and iron trade route, which had operated from prehistoric times through the Middle Ages. The outer and inner walls, towers and gates of the old city, built mainly between 1363 and 1393, still exist today.

Freistadt suffered French incursions in 1805 and 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars. Since 1918, Freistadt has been part of Bundesland Upper Austria. Following the Anschluss with Germany on 13 March 1938, the locality was part of Gau Oberdonau but in 1945 was restored to Bundesland Upper Austria.

Notgeld
Like many municipalities of Upper Austria, Freistadt issued Notgeld for collectors in 1920.

Population

Tourism
The main entrance to the Old Town is through the Linzer Tor (Linz Gate). The spacious Hauptplatz (main square) is surrounded by painted fronts of renovated burghers' houses. On the highest point of Freistadt stands the parish church of St Catherine (14th-15th century, remodelled in Baroque style in 1690 and rebuilt in Gothic style in 1967); note in particular the interlaced ribbed vaulting in the roof of the choir. At the northeastern corner of the square a gateway leads to the 14th century Schloss Freistadt, with a 50m/165 ft high keep which now houses the Mühlviertler Schlossmuseum, a local museum with a large collection of verre églomisé (glass decorated with a layer of engraved gold). Outside the Böhmertor (Bohemian Gate) stands the little 15th century Liebfrauenkirche with beautiful "pillars of light" of 1484.

References

External links 

 Official Webpage of Freistadt (German only)
 Tourist Information 

Cities and towns in Freistadt District
Hünxe

Hünxe () is a municipality in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is part of the Rhine-Waal euroregion

Geography

Hünxe is located approximately 10 km east of Wesel and 9 km north of Dinslaken. The neighbouring municipalities are: Schermbeck, Dorsten, Bottrop, Dinslaken, Voerde, Wesel und Hamminkeln.
The most part of the municipality belongs to the natural park Hohe Mark. The river Lippe and the Wesel–Datteln Canal cross the municipality.

Area 
The municipality of Hünxe spans over an area of 106,80 km². It is divided into the six subdivisions of Hünxe, Bruckhausen, Bucholtwelmen, Drevenack, Gartrop-Bühl and Krudenburg.

People 
 Rainer Keller (1965-2022), German politician (SPD)
 Alfred Grimm (born 1943), German artist

References

External links 

Wesel (district)
Tocuyo de la Costa

Tocuyo de la Costa is a town located in Falcón State, Venezuela, near the beaches of Parque National Morrocoy. Located on the banks of Tocuyo River, about 4.64 miles from its mouth in the Caribbean Sea, in the Autonomous Municipality Monsignor Iturriza on the east coast of Falcón State, Venezuela, near the Cuare Wildlife Refuge and Morrocoy National Park.

First Settlers

It is thought that the first settlers were the indigenous tribe of Mapubares because the Mission Indians Mapubares were established on the hills near the towns of El Alto and Santa Rosa. Until a few years ago the ruins of the settlements could have been seen. There may have also been Aboriginal settlements on the small hills near the town of La Villa, San Juan de los Cayos. As time passed, the aboriginal people mixed with the Spanish colonists and slaves brought from Africa. Subsequently, European immigrants, primarily from Spain and Italy, established themselves in the area.

In Raíces de Pueblo, written by Professor Jose Antonio Zabala Zambrano, it is noted that the population of San Miguel River Tocuyo (as it was called) started in 1560, based on the following facts. When the cathedral was constructed in Coro (1583-1637), the wood that was used for this purpose was taken from the surrounding mountains. The wood was thrown to the river, then later, with the ocean currents, carried around de la Vela de Coro or the dunes. In the year 1561, the Captaincy organized a small army that left in pursuit of Coro Tirano Aguirre. When they were quartered in the town of San Miguel de Rio Tocuyo, they were informed that Lope de Aguirre had been settled in the area Barquisimeto. Then, from this same population, those government troops returned to the city of Coro. Ramon Rivero, chronicler of the municipality concerned stated: "Just one year after the discovery of the coast of the new world strong in 1498, comes another expedition of Spaniards commanded by Don Alonso de Ojeda. Supporting among others Juan de la Cosa and Amerigo Vespucci. This expedition began its journey from east to west on our shores starting in the Sea of Pearls from the Paria peninsula and the island of Hawaii. After crossing the Gulf Sad, the climbers arrive at a beautiful bay that called attention to poderosamente the security offered by their calm waters.

Populated places in Falcón
Chumming

Chumming (American English from Powhatan) is the blue water fishing practice of throwing meat-based groundbait called "chum" into the water in order to lure various marine animals (usually large game fish) to a designated fishing ground, so the target animals are more easily caught by hooking or spearing.  Chums typically consist of fresh chunks of fish meat with bone and blood, the scent of which attracts predatory fish, particularly sharks, billfishes, tunas and groupers. In the past, the chum contents have also been made from "offal", the otherwise rejected or unwanted parts of slaughtered animals such as internal organs.

In Australia and New Zealand, chum is referred to as burley, berley or berleying.  In the United Kingdom, it is also known as rubby dubby (West Country and Yorkshire), shirvey or chirvey (Guernsey, Channel Islands), and bait balls.

Chumming is a common practice seen as effective by fishermen all over the world, typically in open oceans. Multiple forms of chum are available and used by anglers. Bunker consists of fish parts with a fish-enticing aroma. Stink bait contains oily fish parts and blood that releases the scent of dead fish into the water. Sour grain is a commonly used form of chum bait when fishing for catfish in inland waters of the Southern United States.

Native Americans used two methods of chumming.  First, they would lie alongside a grasshopper and encourage it to jump into a flowing stream where the fish would consume the grasshopper. The Native Americans would then bait their hook with a grasshopper and hence catch the fish.  Additionally, indigenous people would tie a dead animal from a tree above a stream encouraging flies to lay eggs. After weeks, the eggs became maggots and fell into the water, bringing a concentration of fish into the area.

Chumming is illegal in some parts of the world (such as in the U.S. state of Alabama) because of the danger it can pose by conditioning sharks to associate feeding with human presence.  Floridan restrictions for chumming include local laws in saltwater areas. Due to the vast barren sandy bottom structure around most of the state using chum is a necessity and common practice. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved changes to shark fishing regulations, including prohibiting chumming when fishing for any species from the beach. The new ruling went into effect July 1, 2019.

See also
Chum box, a form of internet advertising whose name is derived from the term.
Groundbait, a means of "appetizer" baiting used in freshwater or coarse fishing.

References

Hunting methods
Recreational fishing
Mangitli

The term Mangitli can refer to:
A member of the Uzbek Manġit dynasty.
Ulaş Mangıtlı, a Turkish cartoonist and illustrator
Good Hope Lake

Good Hope Lake is a First Nations community in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on Highway 37 not far south of the border with the Yukon and located east of the semi-abandoned mining town of Cassiar, British Columbia. As of the 2006 Census, there are 41 people living in Good Hope Lake, down from 75 in 2001.  The band government of the Dease River First Nation is located in Good Hope Lake, and is a member government of the Kaska Tribal Council.

See also
McDames Creek IR No.2 (Liard First Nation)

References

Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Cassiar Country
Kaska Dena
Schermbeck

Schermbeck is a municipality in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography
Schermbeck is situated near the river Lippe, approximately 20 km east of Wesel, and 8 km north-west of Dorsten.  Its maximum dilatation from north to south is about 12.90 km, from west to east it's about 17.80 km. Thanks to its proximity to the Ruhr area and thus to many big cities, Schermbeck is becoming a popular place for people who want to escape the urban life but still be closely connected to it.

Gallery

General information
Schermbeck has 3 schools. Locally it is famous for its traditional annual "Volksfest" Kilian, at which many people from the surrounding areas attend. Recently it is becoming a popular location for various events like cooking and art exhibitions.

Division of the municipality
Schermbeck is divided into 8 districts:
 Altschermbeck
 Bricht
 Damm
 Dämmerwald
 Gahlen
 Overbeck
 Schermbeck
 Weselerwald

Transport

Roads
Schermbeck is connected to the highways A 3 and A 31 and also to the federal road B 58.

Through Schermbeck run 3,10 km highway, 17,40 km federal roads, 22,10 km ordinary highways, 165,20 km rural roads and 2,30 km are in privat property.

Religion
Out of ancient background Schermbeck is almost half catholic and half evangelic. The proportion of Catholics is about 45,3%, and 39,2% confess themselves as Protestants. There are only a few followers of other religions or denominations.

References

External links
  
 Private website about Üfte 
 Holocaust survivor testimony of the Kristallnacht pogrom in Schermbeck on the Yad Vashem website

Wesel (district)
Cakaudrove East (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji)

Cakaudrove East Fijian Provincial Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. (Of the remaining 48 seats, 23 were reserved for other ethnic communities, and 25, called Open Constituencies, were elected by universal suffrage). The electorate covered eastern areas of Cakaudrove Province; it included south-eastern Vanua Levu and the nearby islands of Taveuni, Rabi, and Kioa.

The 2013 Constitution promulgated by the Military-backed interim government abolished all constituencies and established a form of proportional representation, with the entire country voting as a single electorate.

Election results 
In the following tables, the primary vote refers to first-preference votes cast.  The final vote refers to the final tally after votes for low-polling candidates have been progressively redistributed to other candidates according to pre-arranged electoral agreements (see electoral fusion), which may be customized by the voters (see instant run-off voting).

1999

2001

2006

Sources 
 Psephos - Adam Carr's electoral archive
 Fiji Facts
Charles K. Fletcher

Charles Kimball Fletcher (December 15, 1902 – September 29, 1985) was an American banker and Republican politician from San Diego, California.

Early life
Fletcher was born 1902 to "Colonel" Ed Fletcher and Mary C. Fletcher in San Diego and graduated from San Diego High School where he set several swimming records, including an unofficial world record time in the 220 yard breaststroke. Fletcher went on to Stanford University, where he was captain of the school's water polo team, which won the national championship in 1924, the year he graduated. He is a member of both the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame and the San Diego Hall of Champions.

Fletcher also attended Pembroke College, Oxford University, England, in 1934.

Business career
After graduation, he went into the savings and loan business. He founded Home Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1934, serving as its president until 1959 when he became chairman of the board of directors.

During World War II, Fletcher served as a lieutenant with the United States Naval Reserve from 1943 to 1945. He served as a member of California Commission on Correctional Facilities and Services from 1955 to 1957.

Political career
Fletcher was elected to the 80th United States Congress, serving one term from 1947–1949. He lost his bid for reelection in 1948.

Personal life
Fletcher married Jeannette Toberman, the daughter of "Mr. Hollywood" Charles E. Toberman in 1926. The couple's son, Charles K. "Kim" Jr., was chair of Home Federal. They also had another son and daughter: Peter and Dale. They lived in San Diego until his death from cancer in 1985.
He was cremated and the ashes were scattered off the coast of Del Mar, California.

References

External links
 Biography of Father, Col. Ed Fletcher (San Diego Historical Society). Based on biography in Carl Heilbron's History of San Diego County (1936). Archive.org URL.

1902 births
1985 deaths
Politicians from San Diego
American male breaststroke swimmers
American Congregationalists
Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
Stanford Cardinal men's water polo players
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California
20th-century American politicians
San Diego High School alumni
Jade City

Jade City is a settlement in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, near the Yukon, located on Highway 37, west of Good Hope Lake and close to Cassiar, in the Cassiar Highlands. The region around Jade City is rich with serpentinite (a jade precursor), greenstone (jade look-a-likes), and Nephrite jade. Jade City is by road about 19 hours north of Greater Vancouver, and 1 hour south of the Yukon border. As of 2015, it had a population of about 30 people.

During the summer a church opens up to the public offering Sunday services. There are no gas stations or restaurants.

The reality TV series Jade Fever documents the mining efforts of the Cassiar Mountain Jade Store, and the Bunce family. They mine hard rock deposits and placer deposits left by glaciers. The Bunce family has mined the area for jade for about 35 years, starting with Claudia Bunce's father, Steve Simonovic in 1985.

References

External links
 Discovery Channel Canada, Jade Fever: "Jade City gallery" 
 Discovery Channel Canada, Jade Fever

Cassiar Country
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Mining communities in British Columbia
Jade
Sonsbeck

Sonsbeck is a municipality in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km west of Wesel, and 25 km south-east of Cleves as well as 8 km from the historic city of Xanten.

It is one of North Rhine-Westphalia's wealthiest municipalities.

History

Antiquity 
A watchtower was constructed on the Balberg by the Romans for protection of the road between Castra Vetera (near modern Xanten) and Blerick (Netherlands). The area around Sonsbeck was settled by the Germanic Cugernii tribe.

Middle Ages 
The watchtower of the Romans was later reconstructed as a keep for the Dukes of Cleves. The remaining round tower (c. 1417) is called "Römerturm" (Roman tower) today, in reference to its early history.

In close proximity to the watchtower, the first settlement Suangochesboch emerged. The name of the settlement has two possible origins; the first from Latin "sus" (= pig) and the second from the Low German word "soneman" (= arbiter), so the name means either "Schweinebach" ("pig stream") or the stream where the arbiter resides.

Sonsbeck became a place of pilgrimage, when a chapel was constructed to preserve the relics of the martyr Gerebernus. Gerebernus is said to have been an Irish priest of the 6th or 7th century, who was the tutor of Dymphna, the daughter of an Irish tribal king. After the death of her mother, the king wanted to marry his daughter, wo fled to Geel (Belgium) with her tutor Gerebernus, where they were captured and beheaded. The remains were later stolen by "bandits from Xanten" and arrived in Sonsbeck.

The Sonsbeck chapel was elevated to parish status in 1203. Close to the chapel, a second settlement developed, which took the name of the already existing settlement and received town privileges in 1320 from Count Dietrich IX. of Cleves. In the following years, the construction of walls around the city began, they were finished in 1420 and included a keep for the Counts/Dukes of Cleves. The keep was destroyed in 1641.

The most important remaining monument from that time is the St.-Mary-Magdalene-Church that was finished in 1431.

Twin towns
Sonsbeck is twinned with the town of Sandwich in Kent (UK).

Noted residents
 Adolph Althoff, (1913-1998), circus owner who rescued Jews during the Holocaust

References

External links 

Wesel (district)
Luketz Swartbooi

Luketz Swartbooi (born 7 February 1966) is a retired Namibian long-distance runner.

Career
In 1992 Swartbooi won the Rössing Marathon with a time of 2:11:23 min, a record that  stands. At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart he won silver in the marathon. Swartbooi set his personal best in Boston 1994 in 2:09:08 min, finishing 3rd. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he finished 48th.

In 2005 Swartbooi received a public warning from the IAAF for testing positive for prednisolone/prednisone.

Achievements

References

External links

1966 births
Living people
Olympic athletes for Namibia
Namibian male marathon runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Namibia
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships athletes for Namibia
Namibian male long-distance runners
20th-century Namibian people
21st-century Namibian people
KAUR

KAUR (89.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting programming from Minnesota Public Radio's News & Information service. Licensed to Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, the station serves the greater Sioux Falls area and can reliably broadcast up to approximately 30 miles in any direction.  The station is currently owned by Augustana University and operated by MPR. All programming originates from the Twin Cities, but the station has inserts at least once an hour for local underwriting and weather. MPR also maintains a small office space on the Augustana campus.

History
Up until 2009, KAUR specialized in independent or college rock and also broadcast regular Alternative, Blues/Jazz, Folk, Spanish Traditional, Hip-Hop, and Hardcore/Metal shows. KAUR was founded in 1972 and Augustana University also once managed a self-constructed AM station, which, itself, was founded in 1945.
  
By 2009, KAUR had begun to experience a number of problems. Amongst the most troublesome of KAUR's woes was a major staffing issue. Owing to a lack of official support, and a decrease in student interest in traditional media, KAUR spent its last year as a student-run station under the direction of only six students during the first semester and five throughout the second, spring semester. Although understaffed, the station continued to develop new ideas for operating in the "new media" era. Plans had been made to begin streaming the station over the internet or to regularly "podcast" student shows by offering down-loadable content on the, now inaccessible, student website. Other plans in development early in the spring of 2009 included adding broadcasts of the Augustana University men's baseball team to the station's sports programming which already featured women's basketball.

In the spring of 2009, administrators at Augustana University decided to discontinue KAUR's student operations in favor of outsourcing the station's operations to MPR (in lieu of alternative suggestions).  The station left the air for a week before returning on September 15, 2009 as part of MPR's all-news network.  Augustana University continues to own the station while MPR provides programming, maintenance, and funding for the regular operation of the station. The students assigned to operate KAUR for the 2009-2010 academic year, as part of the federal work-study program, were forcibly reassigned to other departments. The college had also received proposals from a number of other parties, including religious and ethnic interests, as well as a non-profit proposal which would have continued the student-run scheme.

References

External links
Minnesota Public Radio homepage
MPR's station info re KAUR
 
Last.fm Charts
Coverage map

Augustana University
AUR
AUR
Minnesota Public Radio
NPR member stations
1972 establishments in South Dakota
Radio stations established in 1972