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James Cossar Ewart

James Cossar Ewart FRS FRSE (26 November 1851 – 31 December 1933) was a Scottish zoologist. He performed breeding experiments with horses and zebras which disproved earlier theories of heredity.

Life
Ewart was born in Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland, the son of Jean Cossar and John Ewart, a joiner. He studied medicine from 1871 to 1874 at the University of Edinburgh where he graduated with an MB ChB. After graduation, he became an anatomy demonstrator under William Turner and then held the position of Curator of the Zoological Museum at University College, London, where he assisted Ray Lankester (later director of the Natural History Museum) by making zoological preparations for the museum and providing teaching support for Lankester's course in practical zoology. In 1878 he returned to Scotland to take a post of Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen from where he moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1882, staying in the post until 1927. In Aberdeen he encountered James Duncan Matthews, a mature student (older than himself) and they became friends until Matthew's premature death in 1890.

In 1879 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Turner, William Rutherford, William Rutherford Sanders and John Chiene. He won the Society's Neill Prize for 1895-98  and served as their Vice-President 1907 to 1912.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1893, having jointly delivered their Croonian Lecture in 1881.

Among various other studies, he performed breeding experiments with horses and zebras. He carried out these experiments at "The Bungalow", now the Navaar House in Penicuik, well before the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's works. Ewart crossed a male zebra with a female pony to show that the theory of telegony inherited from the Greeks was unsound. Telegony held that a female with a history of mating with multiple males would pass on genetic qualities of all previous partners to her offspring. Ewart later bred the mare which had produced zebra-horse hybrids with a pony, and the offspring showed no zebra qualities in either markings or temperament. Ewart's goal was also to produce a draught animal for South African conditions, resistant to African diseases and more tractable than a mule.

In 1883 he commissioned George Washington Browne to design a grand new house in Penicuik, finished in 1885, which is where he died on New Year's Eve 1933/34. It is now the Craigiebield House Hotel.

Family

He married three times, his first wife being the sister of Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.

Publications

The Penycuik Experiments (1899)

References

External links 

 Blog created by the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection.
 
 Index at NAHSTE
 Biography

1851 births
1933 deaths
People from Penicuik
Scottish zoologists
Science teachers
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish curators
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Scottish geneticists
Driving the Last Spike

"Driving the Last Spike" is the third track on the Genesis album We Can't Dance, released in 1991.

The song's lyrics by Phil Collins are about the Navvies: railway workers of the 19th century, many of whom died constructing Britain's railways. The song narrates the thoughts and feelings of an unnamed railway worker in the form of a soliloquy or internal monologue. The title is a phrase meaning the completion of a major railway project—placing the "last spike" is often a momentous occasion. The original idea came from a book that actor Dennis Waterman gave to Collins.

Despite not being released as a single, "Driving the Last Spike" charted in Canada and the United States, peaking at number 51 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart and number 25 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.

Live performances
"Driving the Last Spike" was performed live only on the band's 1992 The Way We Walk Tour. The second half of the song (starting at 5:41) 
was transposed to a lower key starting after the first nine shows of the tour. This was done to accommodate Collins' deepening voice without straining. (A recording of an early performance of "Driving the Last Spike" was released as an Atlantic Records promo CD featuring the second half of the song in the album key.)

"Driving the Last Spike" was featured on the live album The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs, and the live DVD The Way We Walk - Live in Concert.

Charts

See also
 List of train songs

References

Genesis (band) songs
1991 songs
Songs about labor
Songs written by Tony Banks (musician)
Songs written by Phil Collins
Songs written by Mike Rutherford
MV Hotspur IV

The MV Hotspur IV is a historic passenger ferry, which previously operated on the Hythe Ferry service. This service connects the town of Hythe and the city of Southampton, across Southampton Water in England.

The Hotspur IV was built by Rowhedge Ironworks in 1946. She was the last, and slightly larger, of three half-sisters built for use on the Hythe Ferry, alongside the Hotspur II and Hotspur III. The use of the name Hotspur for several generations of Hythe ferries derives from the involvement, and later ownership, of the ferry service by the Percy family, whose member Hotspur was immortalised by William Shakespeare.

Hotspur II was sold in 1978 and continued in service on the Firth of Clyde under the name Kenilworth until 2007. The Hotspur III was broken up in 1981.

In 2012, the Hotspur IV received a new livery of green, following a re-branding of the Hythe Ferry.

In 2014 however, her life on the Hythe Ferry run came to an end, as the Hotspur IV  was forced out of service, after the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) ruled that it was unsafe for passenger use due to a corroding hull. Her future currently remains unclear.

References

External links 
 
Hythe Ferry website

Ferries of the United Kingdom
1946 ships
Verónica Romero

Verónica Romero Sotoca (born 18 July 1978 in Elche, Spain), simply known as Veronica Romero, is a Spanish singer who rose to fame in 2001 after appearing on the reality singing contest Operación Triunfo, in which she finished in sixth place. Among the songs she performed on the program were "You'd Better Stop", "Un-break My Heart" ("Regresa a mí") and "One Day I'll Fly Away".

Serotonina
Serotonina was released 2 October 2006. This is Romero's first album with her own label, VK48 Music. She has moved from R&B, pop and jazz influences to pop-punk pop rock music, although she still performs her old hits in her live performances. The first single released from Serotonina was "Sería Imposible". Romero composed the song herself, and the video is scheduled to be recorded live at one of her performances in Madrid. The second single was a song about MSN Messenger entitled "Conectado a Mi". The music video for this single features Antonio López, a soccer player with Atlético Madrid.

Discography

Albums
2002 La Fuerza Del Sol
2003 Lluvia
2004 El Amor Brujo
2006 Serotonina
2009 EP Limited Edition

Singles
 2002: "Bésame"
 2002: "No Por él"
 2004: "No hay otro amor (No Other Love)"
 2004: "Tal Vez (So Long)"
 2004: "Magnético (Magnetic)"
 2006: "A 4 Ruedas" (promo)
 2006: "Sería Imposible"
 2007: "Conectado A Mi"
 2009: "Latidos"
 2009: "Hola Mundo"
 2010: "Un Corazón Más Roto"
 2011: "Contigo O Sin Ti" with Anand Bhatt

Filmography
 2003: "OT: La Película"
 2005: "Fín De Curso"
 2005: "Las Palabras De Vero"
 2006: "La Abuela"
 2008: "PUIU"
 2009: "El Excesivo Consumo de Estrógenos de Ludoviko Graham"

References

External links 
 Official website 

Living people
People from Elche
Spanish film actresses
Spanish women guitarists
Spanish rock singers
Singers from the Valencian Community
Spanish women pop singers
1978 births
Rock en Español musicians
Operación Triunfo contestants
21st-century Spanish singers
21st-century Spanish women singers
21st-century guitarists
21st-century women guitarists
Dunfermline RFC

Dunfermline Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The men's team currently plays in , the women's team currently plays in .

History

Established in 1893, home games are played at McKane Park.

Their strip is royal blue and white.

Honours

Men's

 Edinburgh Charity Sevens
 Champions (2): 1931, 1938
 Lanarkshire Sevens
 Champions (2): 1969, 1974
 Glasgow HSFP Sevens
 Champions (1): 1929
 St. Andrews University Sevens
 Champions (1): 1970
 Crieff Sevens
 Champions (1): 1994
 Hillfoots Sevens
 Champions (1): 1979
 Alloa Sevens
 Champions (1): 1938
 Glenrothes Sevens
 Champions (3): 1986, 1987, 1988
 Midlands District Sevens
 Champions (11): 1925, 1928, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1986
 Musselburgh Sevens
 Champions (2): 1967, 1975
 Kirkcaldy Sevens
 Champions (7): 1967, 1969, 1973, 1986, 1987, 1991, 2019

Notable players

Scotland internationalists

The following former Dunfermline players have represented Scotland at full international level.

Notable non-Scottish players

The following is a list of notable non-Scottish international representative former Glasgow players:

North and Midlands

The following former Dunfermline players have represented North and Midlands at provincial level.

Glasgow Warriors

The following former Dunfermline players have represented Glasgow Warriors at professional level.

Edinburgh Rugby

 Murray McCallum - Edinburgh Rugby
 Fraser McKenzie - Edinburgh Rugby, Sale Sharks, Newcastle Falcons

Notable outside of rugby

 Michael Woodhouse, New Zealand Member of Parliament and Deputy Leader of the House

See also
 Glenrothes RFC
 Howe of Fife RFC
 Kirkcaldy RFC

References

Sources

 Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987,  )
 Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 )
 Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; )

Rugby clubs established in 1893
Rugby union teams in Scotland
Sport in Dunfermline
1893 establishments in Scotland
Rugby union in Fife
Säben Abbey

Säben Abbey (; ; ) was a Benedictine nunnery located near Klausen in South Tyrol, northern Italy. It was established in 1687, when it was first settled by the nuns of Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg. The last nuns left the abbey in 2021.

History
Säben (from ), situated on the "holy mountain", was for centuries a centre of pilgrimage and controlled an extensive religious precinct. Situated above the town of Klausen, the hill it is built on was already settled during the New Stone Age. On the site of the present nunnery there was an earlier Roman settlement.

Between the 6th century and about 960 there was a bishopric (episcopatus Sabiona) seated here. The church "im Weinberg" dates from that time and its remains have been excavated along with a large burial ground in recent times. Bishop Ingenuin is documented as a participant in the Synod of Grado in 579.

On 13 September 901 King Louis the Child granted Bishop Zacharias the farm of Prichsna, later to become Brixen, to which the bishops had moved under Bishop Richbert (around 960).

Säben later became a fortress of the bishops. In the 14th and 15th centuries Säben Castle (Burg Säben) was the seat of the judges of Klausen and the centre of administration of the southern territories of the Diocese of Brixen.

A community of Benedictine nuns was established here in 1686 by the local priest, in premises at the foot of the mountain. The abbey church was dedicated by Johann Franz, Count Khuen von Belasi, then Bishop of Brixen.

Although the nunnery was repeatedly looted during the Napoleonic wars and stripped of its assets during the secularization in 1803, the community survived although in an impoverished state through the 19th century until it gradually revived from about 1880, when, during the period of the Kulturkampf in Germany (1871–1878), the monks of Beuron Abbey were in exile in the county of Tyrol and were in contact with the nuns at Säben. At this time new premises were built in the ruins of the castle on the mountain. The nuns of Säben adopted the Beuronese mode of life, although the abbey was formally accepted into the Beuronese Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation only in 1974.

In 2021, the last three nuns left the abbey.

External links
 Website of the town of Klausen

1687 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
Religious organizations established in the 1680s
Benedictine monasteries in Italy
Monasteries in South Tyrol
Christian monasteries established in the 17th century
Saeben
17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Košice-Juh

Košice-Juh (literally: Košice-South; ) is a borough (city ward) of the city of Košice, Slovakia. Located in the Košice IV district, in the southern area of the city, it lies at an altitude of roughly  above sea level.

Historical landmarks
The oldest building in the borough is the Holy Spirit Church, erected in 1733.

Statistics
 Area: 
 Population: 23,030 (31 December 2017) 
 Density of population: 2,400/km² (31 December 2017) 
 District: Košice IV
 Mayor: Jaroslav Hlinka (as of 2018 elections)

Gallery

Climate

References

External links

 Official website of the Košice-Juh borough
 Article on the Košice-Juh borough at Cassovia.sk
Official website of Košice

Boroughs of Košice
Leith Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Leith Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. The constituency represented the parliamentary burghs of Leith, Musselburgh and Portobello.

In 1918 Leith was included in Leith, while Musselburgh and Portobello were merged into Edinburgh East.

Members of Parliament

Election results

See also

 District of burghs

References

Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1832
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918
East Kilbride RFC

East Kilbride RFC are a rugby union side who are based in East Kilbride.

History

Established in 1968, their home games are played at Torrance House. The team currently compete in the  and play all their home games at the Magnificent Torrance House Arena, up at Calderglen.

EKRFC moved to the Torrance Arena in 1971, which led to steady progress through the divisions, which finally saw them spend 3 seasons in Premier 2 and winning the BT shield.

East Kilbride Sevens

The club run the East Kilbride Sevens.

New Town Sevens

This Sevens tournament was peripatetic around the new towns of Scotland:- East Kilbride, Glenrothes, Cumbernauld, Livingston and Irvine. The town's rugby clubs of East Kilbride RFC, Glenrothes RFC, Cumbernauld RFC, Livingston RFC and Irvine RFC would play in a Sevens tournament to become the New Town Sevens Champions and the Scottish New Towns Cup.

Notable players

Glasgow Warriors

The following former East Kilbride players have represented Glasgow Warriors at professional level.

Honours

 West Region Shield
 Champions (1): 2019
 Glasgow City Sevens
 Champions (1): 1998
 New Towns Sevens
 Champions (1): 1975, 1982
 East Kilbride Sevens
 Champions (1): 1985
 Lanarkshire Sevens
 Champions (1): 1987
 Helensburgh Sevens
 Champions: 1976, 1978, 1980, 1985
 Hamilton Sevens
 Champions: 1986
 Cambuslang Sevens
 Champions: 1989

References

External links
Official Website

Rugby union teams in Scotland
East Kilbride
Rugby union in South Lanarkshire
Bruce Ellis

Bruce Ellis (born 1960, nicknamed Brucee) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs during the 1980s and 90s. He was educated at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he earned First Class Honours with the University Medal. He worked there on the Basser branch of UNIX/32V.

This work continued at Bell Labs where he was involved in the development of the later research versions of Unix, software for the Blit terminal, the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as ventures into network processing (the Froggie).

Recreationally he has also dabbled with computer go, computational linguistics, and with Rob Pike was responsible for the infamous Mark V Shaney in the early 1980s.

After leaving Bell Labs he has been consulting and lecturing around the world while working on the OzInferno operating system as a continuation of the work he had done on the research version of Inferno. He is currently living in Sydney.

Other works of his include the mash shell, 64 bit support for the Plan 9 cross compilers suite, Plan9 Emulation Environment (9ee) for disparate platforms, and various PostScript interpreters currently used by commercial printer manufacturers.

External links
Home page
Froggie
The 1984 Usenix Computer Go Tournament
IWP9 2006
Invited Talk
Using Inferno to Execute Java on Small Devices by Bruce Ellis et al.
9ee

Computer programmers
Unix people
Plan 9 people
Inferno (operating system) people
Scientists at Bell Labs
Living people
1960 births
Bernie Winters

Bernie Winters (born Bernie Weinstein; 6 September 1930 – 4 May 1991), was an English comedian, actor, musician & TV presenter, and the comic foil of the double act Mike and Bernie Winters with his older brother, Mike. Winters later performed solo, often with the aid of his St Bernard dog, Schnorbitz.

Biography
Bernie Winters was born Bernard Weinstein, at the City of London Maternity Hospital, 102 City Road, Holborn, on 6 September 1930. His father was a bookmaker. Bernie served in the merchant navy and performed as a musician at dances and weddings before forming the double act Mike & Bernie Winters with his brother Mike, whom he called "Choochie-Face" on stage. In October 1957 the duo appeared on Six-Five Special and were described in the Daily Mirror as top comics for Britain's teenage TV audience. They had been recommended to the show's presenter Josephine Douglas by Tommy Steele with whom they had been on a stage tour. They both left the show the same day that she did, on 10 May 1958.

The two brothers split up in 1978, and Bernie hosted his own comedy show, Bernie (1978–1980) for ITV. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Bernie also presented The Big Top Variety Show, a television series of variety shows from a circus ring. In 1984 he presented the second series of the game show Whose Baby? He also became a regular on shows such as Punchlines and Give Us A Clue and gave an impression of Bud Flanagan on television and later on stage, with Leslie Crowther as Flanagan's partner Chesney Allen.

Winters was a member of the show business fraternity, the Grand Order of Water Rats.

Winters appeared as himself in London Weekend Television sitcom Bottle Boys in 1985.

On 14 August 1990, after several months of discomfort and stomach pains, he had a nine-hour operation on his stomach. Cancer was removed. However, though he was never told, Winters' condition was already terminal, and he died on 4 May 1991, at The London Clinic at the age of 60.

Bernie was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London on 8 May, and his ashes interred in the Garden of Remembrance. A memorial plaque was erected in the West Memorial Court there.

Partial filmography
 Six-Five Special (1958) – Himself 
 Idol on Parade (1959) – Joseph Jackson
 Jazz Boat (1960) – The Jinx
 Let's Get Married (1960) – Bernie
 In the Nick (1960) – Jinx Shortbottom
 Johnny Nobody (1961) – Photographer
 Play it Cool (1962) – Sydney Norman
 The Cool Mikado (1963) – Bernie
 Simon, Simon (1970) – Man on roof with book
 Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979) – Mr. Pringle
 Mary Millington's World Striptease Extravaganza (1981) – Blue comedian

References

External links

The 1967 album Mike and Bernie Winters In Toyland

1929 births
1991 deaths
English male television actors
English male comedians
Jewish English male actors
Jewish English comedians
Male actors from London
Deaths from stomach cancer
Actors from Islington (district)
Golders Green Crematorium
20th-century British male actors
20th-century English comedians
Deaths from cancer in England
Comedians from London
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António de Sousa Franco

António Luciano Pacheco de Sousa Franco, GCC, GCSE (Lisbon, September 21, 1942 – Matosinhos, June 9, 2004) was a Portuguese economist and politician.

Background
He was a son of António de Sousa Franco and wife Maria de Jesus Pacheco, in turn sister of Óscar Pacheco (Setúbal, São Julião, August 10, 1904 – February 17, 1970), Isabel Pacheco and Clóvis Pacheco and daughter of Joaquim Pacheco, born in Setúbal, and wife Deolinda Baptista.

Career
He was a Licentiate, Doctorate and Full Professor of Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

He joined the Popular Democratic Party, who adopted the name of Social Democratic Party, in 1976. In 1978, he was the interim leader of the party, due to Francisco Sá Carneiro absence. He latter left the party and was Minister of Finance at Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo government, in 1979.

He was the President of Portuguese Court of Auditors (Tribunal de Contas) and come close to the Socialist Party, during Aníbal Cavaco Silva governments. He was Finance Minister in the first socialist government led by António Guterres, from 1995 to 1999. In that year he returned to his academic career and became the new President of the Directive Council of his Faculty.

He was critical of the socialists in the following years, but accepted to be the top candidate the Socialist Party list for the 2004 European Parliament election.

Death

During a campaign event for the 2004 European elections in a fishing facility in Matosinhos, Sousa Franco and his entourage were engulfed by a violent clash between members of two local factions of the Socialist Party. During the incident, Sousa Franco suffered a heart attack. He was rushed to the nearby Pedro Hispano Hospital, being pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

He was succeeded as socialist top candidate by António Costa.

Decorations
He was awarded with the Grand Crosses of the Order of Christ and the Order of Saint James of the Sword.

Family
He married in Coimbra at the Old Cathedral Maria Matilde Pessoa de Magalhães Figueiredo, born at São Domingos de Benfica, Lisbon, on July 8, 1943, a Licentiate in History, daughter of João Correia de Magalhães de Figueiredo (Vouzela, Vouzela, March 2, 1908), a decorated Portuguese Army Officer, and wife (m. Lisbon, Benfica, July 27, 1935) Carlota Matilde Sérgio Pessoa (Lisbon, São Jorge de Arroios, November 19, 1912 – Lisbon, February 11, 2006), a maternal niece of António Sérgio, without issue. She was previously married in Lisbon, São Domingos de Benfica, on May 8, 1971, marriage later annulled by the Holy See, to António Manuel Delgado Tamagnini (b. Tomar, Santa Maria dos Olivais, December 5, 1942), a lawyer, by whom she had an only daughter, Inês Pessoa de Figueiredo Tamagnini (b. Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, December 4, 1973), unmarried and without issue. She is the sister of Eduardo Sérgio Pessoa de Magalhães Figueiredo, 2nd Baron of a Costeira.

1942 births
2004 deaths
Finance ministers of Portugal
Portuguese Roman Catholics
Social Democratic Party (Portugal) politicians
Government ministers of Portugal
Politicians from Lisbon
Combined marriage

Combined marriage is a form of polyandry that existed in the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian peninsula.

Definition
This form of marriage, according to a Hadith narration attributed to Aisha:

This form of marriage was outlawed by Islam, which requires that any man and woman be married prior to sexual intercourse. In addition, Islam requires that the identity of the father be known, in turn prohibiting a woman from having sexual intercourse with more than one man, her husband. See Islamic marital jurisprudence for more information.

See also
Polyandry
Pre-Islamic Arabia

References

Polyandry
Yabuki

Yabuki (矢吹 "blow arrow") is a Japanese surname and place name. It may refer to:

People
Haruna Yabuki (born 1984), Japanese gravure idol
Kentaro Yabuki (born 1980), Japanese manga artist
Kimio Yabuki, Japanese animator
Sen Katayama (1859–1933), born Yabuki Sugataro, early member of the American Communist Party and co-founder of the Japan Communist Party
Nako Yabuki (born 2001), Japanese singer and actress

Characters
Joe Yabuki, the main character from the manga/anime series Ashita no Joe
Jun Yabuki, a character from the Tokusatsu TV series Choudenshi Bioman
Mika and Takeshi Yabuki, characters from the manga series Futari Ecchi
Shingo Yabuki, a character from the video game series, King of Fighters

Other
Yabuki, Fukushima, Nishishirakawa District, Fukushima, Japan
5192 Yabuki, an outer main-belt asteroid
Kirkcaldy RFC

Kirkcaldy Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The men's side currently plays in  and the women's side currently plays in .

History

The team was established in 1873  Home games are played at Beveridge Park.

The club hold a community sevens tournament annually, with 22 teams taking part in 2014.

Their head coach, former Samoan internationalist Quintan Sanft, has been with the club since 2006.

Kirkcaldy Sevens

The club host the Kirkcaldy Sevens tournament. Entrants play for the Heggie Cup.

Honours

Men

 Scottish National League Division One
 Runners-Up: 1999–00
 Scottish National League Division Two
 Champions (4): 1988–89, 1996–97, 2008–09, 2017–18
 Scottish Rugby Shield
 Winners: 2001–02
 Runners-Up: 2007–08
 Kirkcaldy Sevens
 Champions: 1989, 1990
 Dundee HSFP Sevens
 Champions: 1924
 Crieff Sevens
 Champions: 2012, 2017
 Waid Academy F.P. Sevens
 Champions: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1998
 Glenrothes Sevens
 Champions: 1989, 1990, 1994
 Midlands District Sevens
 Champions: 1927, 1956, 1970, 1993, 1995, 1996
 Howe of Fife Sevens
 Champions: 1966
 Stirling Sevens
 Champions: 1966

Women

 Scottish National League Division One
 Champions: 2013–14
 Scottish National Bowl
 Runners-up: 2016–17
 Mull Sevens
 Champions: 2003, 2007

Notable players

Scotland internationalists

  Bob Howie
  Dave Howie
  John Hunter

See also
 Dunfermline RFC
 Glenrothes RFC
 Howe of Fife RFC

References

External links
 Club website

Rugby clubs established in 1873
Rugby union teams in Scotland
Kirkcaldy
1873 establishments in Scotland
Rugby union in Fife
Jason Ryznar

Jason R. Ryznar (born February 19, 1983) is an American former professional ice hockey player.

Playing career
Typically playing as a left winger, Ryznar was selected by the New Jersey Devils as the 64th choice (third round) of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.

Rynzar played for the United States Junior National Team in 2000 and 2001 before heading to the University of Michigan where he would play for four seasons, growing in stature as a checking line player.

In 2005–06, Ryznar played with the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League, the Devils minor-league affiliate.

In January 2005, he was called up by the Devils - due to injuries and suspensions - and played sparingly as a fourth-liner. His call-up as a first-year pro was a rarity for the normally deep and methodical New Jersey Devils.

After the 2007–08 season, Ryznar wasn't offered a contract by the Devils and was invited to the Minnesota Wild training camp on September 18, 2008. Ryznar was then sent on a try-out to affiliate,  Houston Aeros, on September 28, 2008. Ryznar made the Aeros opening night roster for the 2008–09 season.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1983 births
Living people
Albany River Rats players
American men's ice hockey left wingers
Houston Aeros (1994–2013) players
Ice hockey people from Anchorage, Alaska
Lowell Devils players
Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey players
New Jersey Devils draft picks
New Jersey Devils players
Robert Sissons

Robert Michael James Sissons (born 29 September 1988) is former English professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

He made his professional debut in his only appearance for Bolton Wanderers on 7 January 2006. He came on as an 84th-minute substitute for Bruno Ngotty in a 3–0 win away to Watford. 

On 15 June 2009 it was confirmed that Sissons would be leaving Bolton at the end of his contract, alongside Nathan Woolfe, Blerim Džemaili and James Sinclair. From here he accepted a place at the  University of Manchester to read Law where he captained the University's men's football team.

In 2012, he joined Droylsden of the Conference North. He played 29 games for the Bloods in his only season, scoring in a 5–2 win over Vauxhall Motors on 27 August, a 4–2 home loss to Solihull Moors on 8 September, and a 2–2 draw at Hinckley United on 18 April 2013.

Career statistics

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1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Stockport
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
Droylsden F.C. players
National League (English football) players
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Thos Foley

Thos Foley (born 9 November 1979) from Kenmare in County Kerry, Ireland, is a man's slalom skier.  He currently lives and trains in the village of Verbier in Switzerland.

Career 
He represented Ireland in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy in the men's giant slalom events, placing 31st.

His first international race was a downhill at the '99 British Championships, which were held in France, due to there being no suitable venue available in Great Britain.

His best result was in 2004 when he finished in 2nd place at the Scottish Championships giant slalom in Méribel, France. He represented Ireland at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where he finished 31st in the men's giant slalom.

References

1979 births
Living people
Irish male alpine skiers
People from Kenmare
Olympic alpine skiers for Ireland
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from County Kerry
Edmundo Valenzuela

Archbishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid SDB (born 19 November 1944) is a Roman Catholic missionary currently serving in Paraguay as the sixth Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Asunción. On February 13, 2006, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Vicar to Chaco Paraguayo, an area with a population of 18,000 but only 5 ordained priests. As a result of this appointment, he was consecrated to the episcopate 22 April 2006. Prior to this appointment, Valenzuela served as a high-profile missionary in Angola. Valenzuela was ordained a priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1977.

Upon the resignation of Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Asunción Pastor Cuquejo due to age, Valenzuela, as Coadjutor, became the new Metropolitan Archbishop of Asunción on 6 November 2014, as the 44th bishop of Asunción and the 6th metropolitan archbishop.   He received the archiepiscopal pallium from Pope Francis on 29 June 2015 at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

On 6 March 2022 he was succeeded by Adalberto Martínez Flores who became the VII Archbishop of Asunción and Valenzuela, after his resignation, became Archbishop Emeritus.

References

External links

1944 births
Living people
Paraguayan Roman Catholic archbishops
Roman Catholic missionaries in Paraguay
20th-century Roman Catholic priests
21st-century Roman Catholic priests
Salesian bishops
People from Villarrica, Paraguay
Roman Catholic missionaries in Angola
Roman Catholic archbishops of Asunción
Australian Indian Ocean Territories

The Australian Indian Ocean Territories is the name since 1995 of an administrative unit under the Australian Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, consisting of two island groups in the Indian Ocean under Australian sovereignty:

 Christmas Island (), where the administrator resides
 Cocos (Keeling) Islands (), where the same officer also has jurisdiction as administrator but does not reside

Each of these island components has its own shire council: the Shire of Christmas Island and the Shire of Cocos.

The administrative unit does not have jurisdiction over the uninhabited Ashmore and Cartier Islands and Heard Island and McDonald Islands, despite these territories lying within the Indian Ocean.

Administration

Reviews
In 2004 a review of the territories was made.

In 2012 the administration was reviewed by Australian parliamentary visits and enquiry.

Farzian Zainal is a community representative for, and the Treasurer of, the Indian Ocean Territories Regional Development Organisation, which is administered by the Australian government.

Administrators

References

External links

 WorldStatesmen: Australia – Christmas Island
 WorldStatesmen: Australia – Cocos (Keeling) Islands

 
Island countries of the Indian Ocean
Dependent territories in Asia
Government of Australia
States and territories of Australia
Sunshine Superman: The Very Best of Donovan

Sunshine Superman: The Very Best of Donovan is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on 8 October 2002 (EMI 540777).

History
In 2002, EMI assembled a compilation of Donovan's recordings from the 1960s and titled it Sunshine Superman: The Very Best of Donovan.  This compilation has little in common with any of Donovan's other albums titled Sunshine Superman and little in common with any of Donovan's other albums titled The Best of Donovan and The Very Best of Donovan.

Track listing
All tracks by Donovan Leitch.
"Sunshine Superman" – 4:33
"Mellow Yellow" – 3:39
"Catch the Wind" – 2:55
"There Is a Mountain" – 2:35
"Colours" – 2:45
"Jennifer Juniper" – 2:42
"The Trip" – 4:34
"Sunny Goodge Street" – 2:55
"Happiness Runs" – 3:25
"Poor Cow" – 2:57
"Preachin' Love" – 2:40
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" – 3:13
"Superlungs My Supergirl" – 2:40
"Season of the Witch" – 4:55
"Turquoise" – 3:30
"Epistle to Dippy" – 3:10
"Sand and Foam" – 3:19
"Atlantis" – 4:59
"Guinevere" – 3:40
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" – 2:24
"Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)" – 3:21
"Laleña" – 2:54

References

External links
  Sunshine Superman: The Very Best Of Donovan – Donovan Unofficial Site

2002 greatest hits albums
Donovan compilation albums
Tommy Houston

Tommy Houston (born January 29, 1945) is a retired NASCAR Busch Series driver. Over his career, Houston and Jack Ingram became known as the pair of journeymen drivers that helped that series grow throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

Houston was born in Hickory, North Carolina, and was in the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman division, winning nearly 150 races before the series was formed into the Busch Series.

Busch Series career 
Houston made the inaugural race of the Busch Series at the 1982 Daytona race. Driving the No. 27 Kings Inn Chevy for Mike Day, Houston started 23rd and finished the race in ninth position. The next week, Houston started 15th at the series' first ever short track race, at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway. From there, Houston moved solidly through the field and held off Bubba Nissen for the win. After problems at Bristol, Houston put together a run of five top-10 finishes. However, inconsistency through the year cost him. He did not finish the last three races as well as seven others. That cost him any shot at the title. At Hickory Speedway in August, however, Houston held off Tommy Ellis for his second career win, after starting fourth. All told, he finished fourth in the 1982 Busch Series points.

In 1983, Houston began running his No. 6 full-time. He was able to reduce his DNF count from 10 to 6. He had four more top-10 finishes. He won two races at Orange County Speedway, and one each at Indianapolis Raceway Park and Hickory. He also finished second three times. His sponsors over the years included Southern Biscuit Flour, Roses Stores, and, later, Red Devil Paints.

Houston snapped a 50 race winless streak at his home track on Easter Sunday in 1992 after the death of his father the day before. Houston came from three laps down to overtake Bobby Labonte for the win. The USA Today headline read "Divine Intervention".

His family was very involved in his efforts. He was inducted into the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame in 2008.

Personal life 
Houston's son, Andy Houston, raced in all of the three major NASCAR series. Additionally, he is the uncle of Teresa Earnhardt, wife of Dale Earnhardt.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Winston Cup Series

Busch Series

Craftsman Truck Series

Busch North Series

ARCA Talladega SuperCar Series
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

References

External links
 
 

1945 births
Living people
NASCAR drivers
People from Hickory, North Carolina
Racing drivers from North Carolina
Perranwell railway station

Perranwell station () is on the Maritime Line between Truro and Falmouth Docks in south-west England. The station is managed by, and the services are operated by, Great Western Railway.

History

The station was opened as Perran on 24 August 1863 when the Cornwall Railway opened the line from Truro to Falmouth, it was renamed Perranwell on 19 February 1864 to avoid confusion with nearby .  

It originally had 2 platforms either side of a passing loop, a goods shed with several sidings to south, one of which was equipped with a 2-ton crane, the yard was able to accommodate live stock and most types of goods. The signal box here was very distinctive, being sited on girders above the track alongside the goods shed.

The station was host to a GWR camp coach from 1936 to 1939. A camping coach was also positioned here by the Western Region from 1952 to 1964.

The Cornwall Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 July 1889. The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways from 1 January 1948 but was then privatised in the 1990s.

The goods shed still stands in the forecourt despite goods traffic ceasing on 4 January 1965. A dry drinking fountain can be seen on the platform, a reminder of more important days. 

A short distance on either side of the station, valleys had to be crossed on lofty timber viaducts. To the north, Carnon viaduct crossed 96 feet above the Carnon River valley and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway. In the other direction, trains crossed the smaller Perran Viaduct (56 feet high, 339 feet long).

In the 1980s the station had become run down with only a small aluminium shelter with polycarbonate panels offering protection for passengers.  However, during the late 1990s a new brick waiting shelter was built as part of a refurbishment programme at all the "Maritime Line" stations.

Facilities
There is just one platform with level access from the car park. There are information boards on the platform, as well as a waiting shelter. There are no ticket buying facilities, so passengers have to buy a ticket in advance or from the guard on the train.

Services
The new loop at Penryn allowed services on the Maritime Line to be doubled in frequency from 17 May 2009 to give up to a half-hourly service, however when two trains are operating only alternate services call at Perranwell.

Community Rail 
The railway from Truro to Falmouth is designated as a community rail line and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. The line is promoted under the "Maritime Line" name.

References

Further reading
The Great Western Railway in Mid Cornwall, Alan Bennett, Kingfisher Railway Publications, Southampton 1988.

External links

Railway stations in Cornwall
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863
Railway stations served by Great Western Railway
DfT Category F2 stations
Padanaram (disambiguation)

Padanaram is a village in Massachusetts, United States.

Padanaram may also refer to:
 Padanaram, Indiana, an intentional community in Indiana, United States
 Padan-aram or Paddan Aram, the part of Aram that lay in the Euphrates River valley in the Bible
 Padanaram, Angus, a location in Scotland, U.K.

See also
 Paadasaram, a 1978 Indian Malayalam-language film
Livingston RFC

Livingston Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. The men's side currently compete in , the women's side currently compete in .

History

Established in 1968, as Livingston and District RFC, the team was founded through a local appeal for players by Jack Nixon, a native of Langholm, who in the 1960s was the Youth Officer of the West Lothian County Council. Among his responsibilities was to assistance in setting up clubs and organisations for the newcomers to Livingston. At the meeting, players from Bathgate RFC decided that amalgamating with the new Livingston side would allow them better opportunities for success and also give them a better chance of gaining a home ground, they had played previous games in Airdrie.

The team play their home games at Almond Park, located in the south-east of the town at Craigshill beside the River Almond and close to Mid Calder.

In 2013, Livingston reached the RBS National Shield final and played against Marr RFC at Murrayfield, the national stadium. They lost the match 30–15.

Livingston has an extensive youth section with teams ranging from Primary 1 all the way up to under-18 level.

In 2019, The development Livingston Ladies team reached the National Bowl Final and played against Greenock Wanderers at Murrayfield. They lost the match 72-12. Also in 2019 the ladies team application to compete in competitive fixtures got accepted and placed in the east region league.

Livingston Sevens

The club run the Livingston Sevens tournament.

New Town Sevens

This Sevens tournament was peripatetic around the new towns of Scotland:- East Kilbride, Glenrothes, Cumbernauld, Livingston and Irvine. The town's rugby clubs of East Kilbride RFC, Glenrothes RFC, Cumbernauld RFC, Livingston RFC and Irvine RFC would play in a Sevens tournament to become the New Town Sevens Champions and win the Scottish New Towns Cup.

Honours

Men's

 Livingston Sevens
 Champions (4): 1976, 1977, 1986, 1987
 New Towns Sevens
 Champions (2): 1977, 1981
 Penicuik Sevens
 Champions (1): 1988
 Edinburgh Northern Sevens
 Champions (4): 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998
 Edinburgh District Sevens
 Champions (1): 1978
 Grangemouth Cup
 Champions: 1978

Women 
National Bowl finalist 2019

References

External links
Official site.

Rugby union teams in Scotland
Livingston, West Lothian
Rugby union in West Lothian
Friedrich Engel (SS officer)

Friedrich Wilhelm Konrad Siegfried Engel (January 3, 1909 – February 4, 2006) was a German SS officer who was convicted in absentia of 246 murder charges by an Italian military court in 1999 for his role in the 1944 execution of Italian captives in retaliation for a partisan attack against German soldiers, which as a result earned him the nickname "Butcher of Genoa". 

Subsequently brought before a German court in Hamburg in 2002, Engel was tried and likewise convicted on 59 counts of murder, being sentenced to seven years in prison, although because of his advanced age, he was given a stay of that ruling and was able to leave the court effectively a free man.

In 2004, Germany's highest court, the Bundesgerichtshof, overturned the previous ruling on the grounds that, despite acknowledging that Engel ordered the executions, the case of criminal murder had not been proven.  The court would not permit a new trial to establish murder charges given the age and health state of the then 95-year-old Engel.

Prior to this, he had been investigated by German authorities in 1969, but no charges were laid and the case ended in 1970.

Literature 
 Münch I.: Geschichte vor Gericht. Der Fall Engel. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2004, . 175 S.
 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20.08.2004.
 Il processo Engel : un percorso lungo i confini tra ricostruzione giudiziale e memoria storica / Associazione Memoria della Benedicta. Pier Paolo Rivello. Recco (Ge) : Mani, 2005. 191 p. .
 Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. 2. Auflage. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 136. .
 Case Nr.920: Eng., Friedrich Wilhelm Konrad Siegfried // Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Vol. XLIX.

External links
'Butcher of Genoa' dies aged 97

1909 births
2006 deaths
Military personnel from the Province of Brandenburg
SS-Obersturmbannführer
Reich Security Main Office personnel
Germans convicted of war crimes committed in Italy during World War II
German mass murderers
Nazis convicted in absentia